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Speaker 1: Boom my first ever paper pop to start the show,

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Speaker 1: I allow me to share some touching lyrics with you

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Speaker 1: little lies, Tell me lies, tell me tell me Lies.

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Speaker 1: Those are pretty complex lyrics from Fleetwood Mac's Little Lies,

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Speaker 1: and it also describes exactly what a lot of our

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Speaker 1: comrades out there are doing to college football. We're here

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Speaker 1: to get to the bottom of it. I'm Josh. This

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Speaker 1: is Late Kick Live. We're jam packed it this Thursday,

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Speaker 1: June twenty second, twenty twenty third high at top a

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Speaker 1: very anxious downtown Nashville, Tennessee why calls its playoff softball

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Speaker 1: time up here? More on that later. They lie about

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Speaker 1: our sport, do you know that? Not about it holistically,

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Speaker 1: but they lie about parts of our sport. They tell

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Speaker 1: lies about our sport. Who are they not important? What

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Speaker 1: get to it. I've got so many lies that I

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Speaker 1: actually had to have Jesse take the extraordinary measure of

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Speaker 1: printing them off. You hear that those are lies. That's

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Speaker 1: not a paper pop. Those are lies popping in your face.

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Speaker 1: Don't worry though, We're gonna parse out what's what tonight. Also,

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Speaker 1: state stuff tonight. I've also got a hose pipe of hatred.

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Speaker 1: And you know how rarely I put that combination of

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Speaker 1: I always am threw it out earlier today. What is

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Speaker 1: back on the show tonight. Recruitings on Fire from the

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Speaker 1: most unlikely of sources anyone paid attention to. So I

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Speaker 1: it's happening. It's happening right now, and we're locked in.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you being with us here live or if

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Speaker 1: evening Friday night. We'll take you. However we can get you. Topeka,

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Speaker 1: June for. As Mema would say, they tell some lies

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Speaker 1: I cannot possibly get to all these biggest lies in

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Speaker 1: college football. Playing more conference games matters. This is a

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Speaker 1: a lie. But it's a hot button issue. Now. This

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Speaker 1: up in the playoff era. Largely you can probably remember

427
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Speaker 1: back before the playoffs, but you've come of age like

428
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Speaker 1: your childhood you'll look back on as overlapping with the

429
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Speaker 1: initial playoff era, the fourteen playoff era, and so you

430
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Speaker 1: will also have come up in a world where phrases

431
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Speaker 1: like meaningless Bowl game, phrases like meaningless November game, concepts

432
00:22:27,720 --> 00:22:32,919
Speaker 1: like opting out of bowl games really materialized. And I'm sorry,

433
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Speaker 1: Actually I take no I take no blame. It's not

434
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Speaker 1: my fault. I just want the credit. I don't want

435
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Speaker 1: to blame. But you are familiar with that. What you

436
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Speaker 1: guys aren't so familiar with is there was this time

437
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Speaker 1: in like two thousand and three, two thousand and seven,

438
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Speaker 1: as recently as two thousand and nine or ten, where

439
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Speaker 1: if North Carolina were randomly playing Wake Forest second week

440
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Speaker 1: in November and they're both five and five, the game

441
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Speaker 1: men everything. It didn't have a worldwide television audience necessarily,

442
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Speaker 1: but if you were to be around the programs the

443
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Speaker 1: week of the game, if you were to be around

444
00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:09,040
Speaker 1: the fan bases the week of the game, it just

445
00:23:09,119 --> 00:23:13,760
Speaker 1: meant everything. And it wasn't even necessarily tied to this

446
00:23:13,920 --> 00:23:18,240
Speaker 1: greater overarching post season vision. If you were to ask

447
00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:21,399
Speaker 1: those folks, why is your face painted, why is your

448
00:23:21,520 --> 00:23:24,359
Speaker 1: chest painted? Why didn't you sleep last night? Why have

449
00:23:24,400 --> 00:23:27,240
Speaker 1: you been up since four am? Why are you already

450
00:23:27,280 --> 00:23:29,720
Speaker 1: a little inebriated as you're walking into the stadium for

451
00:23:29,760 --> 00:23:33,320
Speaker 1: a noon kickoff, they'd tell you. Well, they'd look at

452
00:23:33,400 --> 00:23:35,240
Speaker 1: you as if you were insane, and they would say,

453
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Speaker 1: what do you mean why we're North Carolina, We're playing

454
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Speaker 1: a wake Forest today? What other reason do you need?

455
00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:43,639
Speaker 1: It used to just be that simple, didn't matter if

456
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Speaker 1: you were in the playoff race. It would be great

457
00:23:47,119 --> 00:23:49,400
Speaker 1: to be in it. But a lot of fan bases

458
00:23:49,520 --> 00:23:53,320
Speaker 1: were logically very realistic about their place in the sport.

459
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Speaker 1: And so you know, to like a wake Forest that

460
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Speaker 1: given year them challenging to go to a bowl game

461
00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:02,359
Speaker 1: or to get to seven or eight wins, that was

462
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Speaker 1: tantamount to LSU competing for a national championship. Why because

463
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Speaker 1: relative to the programs stature, one achievement would have been

464
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Speaker 1: equal to the other achievement. Then we got in the

465
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Speaker 1: playoff era and somebody came in and said, no, it's

466
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Speaker 1: all about the playoff and if you're not in the

467
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Speaker 1: playoff rais, then your games are meaningless. So you know

468
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Speaker 1: that Wake Forest North Carolina five and five versus five

469
00:24:22,440 --> 00:24:25,720
Speaker 1: and five game meaningless. Yeah, that was great. That was

470
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Speaker 1: wonderfully healthy for the sport. It was garbage, just what

471
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Speaker 1: it was. I never participated, but some people did. I

472
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Speaker 1: don't think many people on this show actually participated. Those

473
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Speaker 1: are some of the big lies in college football. I mean,

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Speaker 1: there was another one on here. I can't even finish

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Speaker 1: this list. The twenty twenty season didn't count. This has

476
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Speaker 1: become popularized lately. It's used it's used when advantageous. I've

477
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Speaker 1: noticed if anyone wants to discount someone's recent successes and

478
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Speaker 1: they were successful in twenty twenty, they just say, well, yeah,

479
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Speaker 1: that was the COVID year. Or if you were bad

480
00:25:02,680 --> 00:25:04,840
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty, yeah, but that was the COVID year.

481
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Speaker 1: I've been guilty of this, but I've never said it

482
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Speaker 1: didn't count. But I have when advantageous. To a point

483
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Speaker 1: I'm trying to make, I've dismissed twenty twenty a little bit.

484
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Speaker 1: It was a weird year, but it counted. It counted because,

485
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Speaker 1: at least from the surface viewpoint, everyone was dealing with

486
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Speaker 1: the same thing. As I've said, COVID disproportionately affected one

487
00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:27,800
Speaker 1: locker room to the other a whole lot more than

488
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Speaker 1: any other given years external factors would. But the twenty

489
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Speaker 1: twenty season does count. They're not taking those records away,

490
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Speaker 1: they're not taking those trophies away. So those are some

491
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Speaker 1: of the big lies that we came up with. I

492
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Speaker 1: think the comment section will be very, very entertaining when

493
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Speaker 1: I look at it at the end of this video.

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Speaker 1: Fun times, though, you got to call those liars out

495
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Speaker 1: when you see them. Remember, if someone saying a lie

496
00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:51,399
Speaker 1: doesn't automatically equal them being a liar, unless they just

497
00:25:51,880 --> 00:25:55,680
Speaker 1: rattle off everyone on that list, in which case, but

498
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Speaker 1: the X on their forearm, they're a liar. We got

499
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Speaker 1: to get them out of here, all right, Let's move along.

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Speaker 1: Long segment, Jesse ooh long Second's okay, though we have

501
00:26:05,320 --> 00:26:09,679
Speaker 1: no we have no heart out on this show, but

502
00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:13,320
Speaker 1: we do have a chalice of supremacy with an unnamed

503
00:26:13,359 --> 00:26:17,679
Speaker 1: red liquid in it. College Football's what ifs. It's an

504
00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:20,280
Speaker 1: endless list. It's like a It's like a scroll that

505
00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:22,800
Speaker 1: I could just unroll and it goes all the way

506
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Speaker 1: down Broadway here in Nashville of things that could happen

507
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Speaker 1: this year and what would what would stem from those

508
00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:32,399
Speaker 1: things happening? And we've got four of them that I

509
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Speaker 1: just want you to entertain tonight to varying degrees of likelihood.

510
00:26:36,640 --> 00:26:38,760
Speaker 1: But let's just let's just have fun for a second.

511
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Speaker 1: We've got a hierarchy in every conference. The SEC is

512
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Speaker 1: no different. George's got the highest win total down there,

513
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Speaker 1: you got Bama is up there, LSU's got nine and

514
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Speaker 1: a half, Tennessee nine over under wind totals is what

515
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Speaker 1: I'm talking about. But Chad came up and the Twitter

516
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Speaker 1: mentions today and said, what if Bama, Georgia, LSU, and

517
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Speaker 1: Tennessee are all ten and two in the regular season,

518
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Speaker 1: does the SEC champ still make the playoffs? So what

519
00:27:05,160 --> 00:27:07,199
Speaker 1: if we have the car wreck scenario? What if we

520
00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:10,280
Speaker 1: just have the total cannibalism scenario down in the SEC?

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Speaker 1: Is it likely? No? But think about the what if

522
00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:18,720
Speaker 1: factor here? If everyone was no better than ten and two,

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Speaker 1: you would have, well, you would have a test of

524
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Speaker 1: history because we've never had a college football playoff without

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Speaker 1: at least one SEC team. But we've also never had

526
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Speaker 1: a two lost team in the college football playoff. So

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00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:35,399
Speaker 1: something would have to give there. Now, I imagine if this

528
00:27:35,480 --> 00:27:37,800
Speaker 1: were to go down, it would be really chaotic. It

529
00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:41,320
Speaker 1: would be like two thousand and seven levels of chaotic.

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Speaker 1: Come selection Sunday. You don't believe it's possible. Really, I

531
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Speaker 1: don't truly believe it's possible either. I guess technically it's possible,

532
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Speaker 1: But this is fantasy land. This is pure hypothetical land

533
00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:56,399
Speaker 1: over here. So you know, put your unicorn horn in

534
00:27:56,440 --> 00:27:59,359
Speaker 1: your forehead and just just guess along it to what

535
00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:04,760
Speaker 1: that world would feel like. Conference Championship Saturday. Everyone's already

536
00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:08,480
Speaker 1: got two losses in the SEC. Their highest ranked team

537
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Speaker 1: is like number five. How wild would that be? You're

538
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Speaker 1: used to the second or sometimes the third SEC team

539
00:28:14,320 --> 00:28:16,480
Speaker 1: being ranked in the top ten. What if just one

540
00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:19,360
Speaker 1: of them is struggling to be up there? And then

541
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Speaker 1: think about the strength of schedule argument that would stem

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Speaker 1: Nick Saban was just talking about this. We've talked about

543
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Speaker 1: it a lot on the show. It would be a

544
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Speaker 1: lot of what is ten and two in the SEC

545
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Speaker 1: equal to in the PAC twelve or in the ACC.

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Speaker 1: It would be ugly. The knives would be out. Here's

547
00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:41,440
Speaker 1: another good one. What if kid club Nick underperforms for Clemson.

548
00:28:41,960 --> 00:28:46,120
Speaker 1: That's from Andrew. What if Kaid club Nick is more

549
00:28:46,520 --> 00:28:51,120
Speaker 1: the Tennessee version of himself and not the unc version

550
00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:54,920
Speaker 1: of himself? Those are just games that he started last year. Well,

551
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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what would happen. Potentially some early acc

552
00:28:59,080 --> 00:29:02,880
Speaker 1: chaos would happen. There's a lot of attention on that

553
00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:08,000
Speaker 1: FSU LSU game to start the year. There's it's not

554
00:29:08,040 --> 00:29:10,800
Speaker 1: the most loaded Week one schedule, but there's at tension

555
00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:14,720
Speaker 1: on Florida Utah and that's a Thursday night game. I

556
00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:18,640
Speaker 1: think there's not a lot of attention on the Monday

557
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Speaker 1: night game, which is Clemson at Duke. Those of you

558
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Speaker 1: out there who don't regularly pay attention to point spreads,

559
00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:30,920
Speaker 1: but you know how good Clemson usually is, you know

560
00:29:30,960 --> 00:29:34,480
Speaker 1: how good you think Duke is. Factory in home field advantage.

561
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Speaker 1: What do you think the spread? What do you think

562
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Speaker 1: the spread on that game? Is Clemson at Duke to

563
00:29:40,320 --> 00:29:45,840
Speaker 1: start the season? Three touchdowns, four touchdowns, Clemson's favored by twelve,

564
00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:50,160
Speaker 1: very losable game, and if kay club Nick does not

565
00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:54,920
Speaker 1: perform up to expectation, they can lose. To put a

566
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Speaker 1: finer point on it, they can lose outright to Duke

567
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Speaker 1: in Week one. That's the what if. That's the big

568
00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:04,800
Speaker 1: kind of needle embedded within that. What if it's not

569
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Speaker 1: that they could get caught against FSU, No if he's not,

570
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Speaker 1: If Kay Clubnick at quarterback and Garrett Riley the new

571
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Speaker 1: OC there, if they just don't click, if it's like

572
00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:18,400
Speaker 1: Josh Gattison Tyler Van Dyke at Miami last year, they

573
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Speaker 1: can get beat by Duke. And that's number one, because

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00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:24,840
Speaker 1: Duke is a good football team. And number two, if

575
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Speaker 1: that were to be the case, Duke could have the

576
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Speaker 1: edgic quarterback with Riley Leonard. Some would argue they do anyway.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, though, I go that far, because I

578
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Speaker 1: know the upside of k Clubnick. But yet Duke is

579
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Speaker 1: not to be trifled with. In week one, don't go

580
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Speaker 1: in there and trifle. I tell Bradley that all the time.

581
00:30:39,720 --> 00:30:42,320
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell Clemson that, don't go in there and trifle.

582
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Speaker 1: Next up, this one's kind of nebulous. But Dylan hit

583
00:30:47,520 --> 00:30:50,040
Speaker 1: us and said, what if we have the greatest season

584
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Speaker 1: ever only to watch it and then just blow the

585
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Speaker 1: whole thing up. I was disgusted the other day when

586
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Speaker 1: I saw someone who shan't be named and pop in

587
00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:06,840
Speaker 1: someone else's mentions on that platform and they were asking

588
00:31:07,960 --> 00:31:11,080
Speaker 1: possibly the most ridiculous question in the history of humanity.

589
00:31:11,840 --> 00:31:15,760
Speaker 1: Think about that, the question was do you just feel like,

590
00:31:16,040 --> 00:31:20,320
Speaker 1: looking over twenty twenty three, is it a lame duck year?

591
00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:22,800
Speaker 1: You know, because we've got the new playoff format in

592
00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:26,040
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four. That is a full on go sit

593
00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:28,360
Speaker 1: by the garbage and think about things for a little while.

594
00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:33,240
Speaker 1: Standpoint To come at anyone from that is horrific. Tire's

595
00:31:33,280 --> 00:31:37,960
Speaker 1: one of the worst takes imaginable. No is the answer. No,

596
00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:41,120
Speaker 1: it's not a lame duck anything. In fact, twenty twenty

597
00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:43,200
Speaker 1: four could be lamber than twenty twenty three depending on

598
00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:47,400
Speaker 1: your perspective. But regardless of your perspective, twenty twenty three

599
00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:49,960
Speaker 1: is going to be everybody as good as any other year.

600
00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:52,360
Speaker 1: But Dylan's saying, what if it's a great year? So

601
00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:54,600
Speaker 1: what if it has all kind of twist and turns.

602
00:31:54,760 --> 00:31:56,440
Speaker 1: What if it has a lot of late season drama?

603
00:31:57,160 --> 00:32:02,600
Speaker 1: You got your usual upsets baked into the cake. I

604
00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:05,280
Speaker 1: imagine myself in November. I'm not in a hurry to

605
00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:09,160
Speaker 1: get there, but I imagine myself in November, and I imagine

606
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:14,760
Speaker 1: seeing a lot of the following phrases. Take a given scenario,

607
00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:18,720
Speaker 1: take a given game, someone wins, someone loses. There'll be

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00:32:18,760 --> 00:32:21,080
Speaker 1: a lot of well, if this were twenty twenty four,

609
00:32:21,320 --> 00:32:23,200
Speaker 1: fill in the blank. So there's gonna be a lot

610
00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:25,720
Speaker 1: of the same thing you saw last year. When they

611
00:32:25,760 --> 00:32:28,000
Speaker 1: announced they were going to expand the playoff, the first

612
00:32:28,000 --> 00:32:30,840
Speaker 1: thing every media company out there, including ours, did, was

613
00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:34,800
Speaker 1: release a graphic what this year's field would have looked

614
00:32:34,880 --> 00:32:38,040
Speaker 1: like if the expanded playoff were already here. Well, you'll

615
00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:41,160
Speaker 1: have the same logic thrown at you week after week.

616
00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:43,720
Speaker 1: Not on this show necessarily, but week after week you're

617
00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:46,960
Speaker 1: gonna be told, all right, Texas just lost to Alabama,

618
00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:50,320
Speaker 1: Alabama just lost to Texas, Ohio State beat Wisconsin or

619
00:32:50,320 --> 00:32:52,680
Speaker 1: loss of Wisconsin. Here's what it would mean next year,

620
00:32:52,920 --> 00:32:56,440
Speaker 1: but here's what it means this year. Instead. Don't care

621
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Speaker 1: because next year doesn't matter until next year. But what

622
00:33:00,840 --> 00:33:03,080
Speaker 1: if we do have a great season. I don't think

623
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Speaker 1: it's going to make anyone feel any different, And it

624
00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:06,640
Speaker 1: doesn't matter if you feel different, because the sport's headed

625
00:33:06,640 --> 00:33:08,400
Speaker 1: where it's headed, regardless whether you and I like it

626
00:33:08,480 --> 00:33:11,200
Speaker 1: or not. But I also I told you I think

627
00:33:11,200 --> 00:33:15,240
Speaker 1: about myself this November. Imagine yourself in November of twenty forty,

628
00:33:16,360 --> 00:33:17,959
Speaker 1: and at that point you're talking to a ten year

629
00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:20,360
Speaker 1: old or a fifteen year old, and you're telling them

630
00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:23,120
Speaker 1: about what college football used to be like. And there's

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00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:28,240
Speaker 1: some three loss team squeaking by in week eleven, and

632
00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:31,240
Speaker 1: they're saying, Oh, it's okay, dad. They're still in the playoff.

633
00:33:31,720 --> 00:33:34,360
Speaker 1: They got twenty teams, twenty four teams in this thing.

634
00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:36,960
Speaker 1: They're still in the playoff. And you look at little

635
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:39,440
Speaker 1: Johnny and you say, little Johnny, you know, once upon

636
00:33:39,480 --> 00:33:43,240
Speaker 1: a Saturday, it wasn't like that. Once upon a Saturday,

637
00:33:43,560 --> 00:33:47,720
Speaker 1: you couldn't afford to lose games, and especially a second

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Speaker 1: or a third game would be unconscionable. You're headed to

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Speaker 1: the Outback Bowl, and you're happy to be in the

640
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Speaker 1: Outback Bowl, but you're not going to a playoff. Once

641
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Speaker 1: upon a Saturday, that's the way it was. You get

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Speaker 1: one more year of that. And lastly, in the what

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Speaker 1: if category, what if a team outside the top ten

644
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Speaker 1: wins it all? That's what Blake wants to know. By

645
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Speaker 1: our estimation, the longest shot to ever win the national

646
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Speaker 1: championship in the playoff era was Ohio State twenty fourteen,

647
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Speaker 1: and that was it looks like roughly the thirteenth or

648
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Speaker 1: fourteenth best odds in the preseason. That surprises me a

649
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Speaker 1: little bit, but be that as it may. Every other

650
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Speaker 1: one of these teams was top ten. Most of them

651
00:34:31,520 --> 00:34:36,160
Speaker 1: were top five preseason, which is basically to say, this

652
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Speaker 1: rarely happens outside the top ten and the preseason odds. Colin,

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Speaker 1: can you show me the current preseason odds to win

654
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Speaker 1: the national Championship? Okay, so actually freeze on this. So

655
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Speaker 1: if you're listening on podcasts, Colin did one better. He

656
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Speaker 1: didn't put up the top ten. He put up eleven

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Speaker 1: through twenty two. So this is the group you would

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Speaker 1: have to choose from if you are to have this

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Speaker 1: prediction verify. You would need Notre Dame or Oregon or

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Speaker 1: Utah or Wisconsin, Auburn, A, and M. I should have

661
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Speaker 1: just gone in an order. Tennessee is there, Kansas State's there,

662
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Speaker 1: Ole Miss Oregon State. You'll need one of them not

663
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:19,760
Speaker 1: to make the playoff to win the national championship. It certainly,

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Speaker 1: if it happened, would provide fuel to both the expansionist

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Speaker 1: crowd and the non expansionist crowd. Here's what it would

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Speaker 1: sound like if Utah goes and wins the National Championship.

667
00:35:30,239 --> 00:35:33,400
Speaker 1: The expansionist crowd would say, see, we always told you

668
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Speaker 1: one of these underdogs was capable of it. Now in

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Speaker 1: this new world, this will happen more and more. The

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Speaker 1: non expansionist me, who will be right if Utah wins

671
00:35:42,560 --> 00:35:46,839
Speaker 1: the national championship, will say, you're watching the last year

672
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Speaker 1: where this will ever be possible, because it is possible

673
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Speaker 1: for Utah to win the Pac twelve and then they

674
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Speaker 1: go to the playoff and they do exactly what TCU

675
00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:59,320
Speaker 1: did to Michigan last year, only George is not waiting

676
00:35:59,360 --> 00:36:02,239
Speaker 1: for them, just a better matchup as waiting for him.

677
00:36:02,239 --> 00:36:05,320
Speaker 1: Because it's a small field, so who knows what happened

678
00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:09,000
Speaker 1: in the regular season, No three lost teams in the playoff,

679
00:36:09,520 --> 00:36:11,600
Speaker 1: so there is a needle that they could thread and

680
00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:14,920
Speaker 1: they could win it. A smaller field, a smaller playoff

681
00:36:15,239 --> 00:36:19,160
Speaker 1: actually gives your proverbial underdog a better statistical shot at

682
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Speaker 1: winning a title. In the future era, Utah will go

683
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Speaker 1: and have to win one, two, three, maybe four games,

684
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Speaker 1: at least three games, and it's less likely to happen.

685
00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:31,920
Speaker 1: It's because law of averages and what talent does in

686
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Speaker 1: the playoff. And so that's what those respective arguments would

687
00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:37,880
Speaker 1: sound like, and it would be it would be bitter

688
00:36:38,239 --> 00:36:40,399
Speaker 1: and it would be inconclusive at the end of the day,

689
00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:45,319
Speaker 1: totally unlike driving by an academy sports and outdoors. I ask,

690
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Speaker 1: what are you doing driving by academy? Why aren't you

691
00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:53,560
Speaker 1: driving too academy? I had, Well, we actually had some

692
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Speaker 1: that we showed you on air the other night. I

693
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Speaker 1: had someone who did not want their They didn't want

694
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Speaker 1: their information shared, and I respect that, but they did

695
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Speaker 1: want to tell me their story. And they told a

696
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Speaker 1: story of looking really bad because they promised their kid

697
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Speaker 1: that they could get a certain something at a certain

698
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Speaker 1: store and it wasn't there, and then head hung last resort.

699
00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:21,960
Speaker 1: They walk into academy and not only is that thing there,

700
00:37:22,160 --> 00:37:24,759
Speaker 1: it's there in like three or four different variations. And

701
00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:26,279
Speaker 1: the dad really just wanted to tell me. At the

702
00:37:26,320 --> 00:37:29,000
Speaker 1: end of the day, he felt like an idiot, but

703
00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:31,960
Speaker 1: then also he thanked academy for saving him. This all happened,

704
00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:34,200
Speaker 1: by the way, and I didn't get any comment from

705
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Speaker 1: the kid. I don't think the kid has email yet.

706
00:37:37,360 --> 00:37:41,120
Speaker 1: So what a lifeline academy can throw you. But it

707
00:37:41,120 --> 00:37:42,480
Speaker 1: doesn't have to be that way. It doesn't have to

708
00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:44,239
Speaker 1: be a last resort. You can just flat out go

709
00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:47,239
Speaker 1: there ahead of time, Academy dot com if you can't

710
00:37:47,239 --> 00:37:49,440
Speaker 1: get there in person. And why am I so passionate

711
00:37:49,480 --> 00:37:52,400
Speaker 1: about this, Well, because they make our show free because

712
00:37:52,440 --> 00:37:54,880
Speaker 1: I've well, I've been a customer there long before we

713
00:37:54,920 --> 00:37:57,719
Speaker 1: ever did this show, so I know about Academy. We

714
00:37:57,760 --> 00:37:59,600
Speaker 1: don't really bring sponsors on the show that I don't

715
00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:03,080
Speaker 1: know about, as you can tell, because we've been rolling

716
00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:06,239
Speaker 1: with Academy exclusively for a while. But Academy's got all

717
00:38:06,280 --> 00:38:08,200
Speaker 1: your outdoor sporting goods needs. But they've also got a

718
00:38:08,239 --> 00:38:12,239
Speaker 1: whole lot more than just traditional sporting goods. So hit

719
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Speaker 1: them up. Do me a favor and do yourself a

720
00:38:14,239 --> 00:38:15,880
Speaker 1: favor in the process. And if you can't get there

721
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Speaker 1: in person, Academy dot com. We've been doing this thing lately.

722
00:38:22,840 --> 00:38:24,319
Speaker 1: And if you're watching, by the way, could you do

723
00:38:24,360 --> 00:38:26,440
Speaker 1: me a favor like the video and subscribe to the channel.

724
00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:29,799
Speaker 1: The consultants tell me that never works, but I ask

725
00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:33,160
Speaker 1: you anyway, Colin, here's your endpoint. You know, let me

726
00:38:33,160 --> 00:38:34,759
Speaker 1: take a shit from the challis first, because this could

727
00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:40,320
Speaker 1: get a little messy. I don't want to stress to

728
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Speaker 1: anyone watching. In some cases, these are going to be

729
00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:47,600
Speaker 1: the viewers thoughts, not my thoughts. So we've been doing

730
00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:50,480
Speaker 1: this thing lately where I ask you what's your opinion

731
00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:54,080
Speaker 1: on certain head coaches. We did Dabbo, we did Jimbo Fisher.

732
00:38:54,600 --> 00:38:57,520
Speaker 1: I figured, let's keep heading west tonight and let's do

733
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Speaker 1: Lincoln Riley. I asked you on Twitter earlier day at

734
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Speaker 1: late kick, Josh follow if you're not already, what is

735
00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:06,640
Speaker 1: your opinion of Lincoln Riley? And then I just left.

736
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Speaker 1: I just went to the gym, and boy, when I

737
00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:14,360
Speaker 1: came back, it was waiting for me. I had like

738
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Speaker 1: fifteen hundred comments. I did want to get to this

739
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Speaker 1: one first, though. This is the kind of stuff I

740
00:39:18,880 --> 00:39:21,799
Speaker 1: come out of the gym too, So I ask, what

741
00:39:21,960 --> 00:39:24,040
Speaker 1: is your opinion of Lincoln Riley? Now, I know, if

742
00:39:24,040 --> 00:39:26,239
Speaker 1: you're listening on podcast, you're gonna think maybe there's more

743
00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:28,200
Speaker 1: to this story. There's not. And if you're watching on

744
00:39:28,239 --> 00:39:30,680
Speaker 1: YouTube you can see it on your screen. I ask,

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Speaker 1: what is your opinion of Lincoln Riley? Question mark end

746
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:39,319
Speaker 1: of tweet? Or so I thought. Grateful Trojan hits me

747
00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:42,600
Speaker 1: back and says, you're getting scared, Josh, You're trying to

748
00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:46,359
Speaker 1: cook up some negativity towards Lincoln. Like you've said, when

749
00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:49,520
Speaker 1: sc is rolling, it's unstoppable. You're trying to prevent that.

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Speaker 1: Allow me to share my thoughts on Lincoln Riley. I

751
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Speaker 1: think he's a phenomenal offensive mine. I think he's very

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Speaker 1: good at acquiring talent. Six of his seven classes have

753
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Speaker 1: landed in the top ten in the combined recruiting rankings.

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Speaker 1: That means portal plush recruiting. He has coached three of

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00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:11,759
Speaker 1: the last six Heisman Trophy winners. No, what's ever done

756
00:40:11,840 --> 00:40:14,799
Speaker 1: that before? Notice how negative I am towards Lincoln Riley.

757
00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:19,160
Speaker 1: So far? Grateful Trojan ungrateful viewers. What grateful Trojan is?

758
00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:21,359
Speaker 1: Something tells me he doesn't watch the show, by the way,

759
00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:24,680
Speaker 1: something tells me that was a Twitter special. He's got

760
00:40:24,719 --> 00:40:29,520
Speaker 1: the third most college football playoff appearances period Saban and Dabbo,

761
00:40:29,680 --> 00:40:31,200
Speaker 1: those are the only ones who have been there more.

762
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Speaker 1: Of course, there is the downside, there's the glass half

763
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Speaker 1: empty of what he's done once he's gotten there. But

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna get to that in a second. So anyway,

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Speaker 1: I'm parsing through all the replies, were still not through

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Speaker 1: all of them. So I got a lot of people

767
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Speaker 1: who who were willing to say he's a great offensive mind.

768
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Speaker 1: Don't think he's necessarily arrived as an elite, elite coach

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Speaker 1: because of the defensive issues. That's totally fair. He's also young,

770
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Speaker 1: it's also very young still as a head coach. There

771
00:41:00,440 --> 00:41:04,799
Speaker 1: was the crowd that said he's overrated. I think we've

772
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Speaker 1: had this conversation before, but we haven't had it recently.

773
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Speaker 1: So let's just talk about this because I know a

774
00:41:09,640 --> 00:41:12,080
Speaker 1: lot of you feel this way about Lincoln Riley. Just

775
00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:14,400
Speaker 1: off the cuff. What do you think about him? Boom,

776
00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:19,400
Speaker 1: oh he's overrated? Okay, Well, I humbly disagree, but I

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Speaker 1: don't even think this is opinion. I think this is

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Speaker 1: just kind of it can be factually nailed down. So

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Speaker 1: you say Lincoln Riley's overrated. Humph, Well, my first question

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Speaker 1: to anyone who says that to me is always what

781
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Speaker 1: is he rated? For him to be overrated, you first

782
00:41:33,520 --> 00:41:36,040
Speaker 1: need to tell me what is he rated? Cause people

783
00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:38,279
Speaker 1: come to me and say, oh, he's no Nick Saban, Well,

784
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Speaker 1: no one's got him rated above Nick Saban, Or he's

785
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Speaker 1: not Kirby Smart, Well, no one has him rated above Kirby.

786
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Speaker 1: Who is he rated above? That is better? Than him,

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Speaker 1: because I look at all these lists and if we

788
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Speaker 1: were to internalize one, I'd put him in like the

789
00:41:53,480 --> 00:41:56,080
Speaker 1: five or six positions somewhere like that. We would have

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Speaker 1: him perfectly rated. From my minds, I would have him

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Speaker 1: perfectly rated. Yeah, but that's where it goes next. Yeah,

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00:42:03,239 --> 00:42:05,960
Speaker 1: but go ahead. Continue. One of the one of the

793
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Speaker 1: most valuable weapons you have against people who say Lincoln

794
00:42:08,719 --> 00:42:11,360
Speaker 1: Riley is overrated is ask him, well, what is he rated?

795
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Speaker 1: And then once you start seeing they don't really have

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Speaker 1: a logical foundation to stand on, then you say continue,

797
00:42:19,360 --> 00:42:22,360
Speaker 1: just let him talk, let him dig that grave. And

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Speaker 1: they're gonna say something like, yeah, but he hasn't won

799
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Speaker 1: playoff games, and you just sit there and nod your head.

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Speaker 1: I know, yeah, but his defenses have not been good.

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Speaker 1: Mm hmm. Continue. They think that's a gotcha moment, like

802
00:42:39,320 --> 00:42:41,839
Speaker 1: they think, are you gonna aren't you gonna say something? No,

803
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Speaker 1: I'm not already knew all that about him, believe it

804
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Speaker 1: or not. I watched the game too. I know all

805
00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:47,400
Speaker 1: that about him. I know his defenses have left a

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Speaker 1: lot to be desired. I know that he's gotten either

807
00:42:50,040 --> 00:42:53,760
Speaker 1: beaten or in some cases humbled and beaten. In playoff games?

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Speaker 1: Did you miss the part at the beginning though? Did

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Speaker 1: you miss the part where he's in the playoff Do

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Speaker 1: you miss the part where the dude has literally won

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Speaker 1: double digit games every year he's been a head coach

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Speaker 1: except for the COVID year. Won nine that year and

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Speaker 1: they played fewer in the league that he was in.

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Speaker 1: You're warping standards. Just what you're doing because you don't

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Speaker 1: like him. Most people who are making this argument about him,

816
00:43:19,160 --> 00:43:21,120
Speaker 1: really in their core they don't like him, which you're

817
00:43:21,120 --> 00:43:23,960
Speaker 1: totally free to feel about him. But there are coaches

818
00:43:23,960 --> 00:43:26,359
Speaker 1: out there I don't like. Lincoln Riley's not necessarily one

819
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Speaker 1: of them. I got no problem with him, But there

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00:43:28,480 --> 00:43:30,520
Speaker 1: are coaches out there I don't like. But at the

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Speaker 1: same time, if you want to be logical and smart

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Speaker 1: about them, you put your own personal emotion to the

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Speaker 1: side and you apply the same standard. You use the

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Speaker 1: same scale. I use the same scale for all of

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Speaker 1: them who have roughly equal resources. So if you coach

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Speaker 1: at Southern cal or Oklahoma, or Georgia or Florida, you're

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Speaker 1: in the top level. You know, you're in the top

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Speaker 1: five or so percent of resources in college football. I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna judge you on the same scale, and on that scale,

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Speaker 1: it looks a little something like this. Saban's up there

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Speaker 1: in the league of his own smart, rapidlynding right near

832
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Speaker 1: the top. Right now, Dabo Swiney has carved out himself

833
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Speaker 1: spot right near the top. Do you start listing those

834
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Speaker 1: guys just purely in terms of result, and then you

835
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Speaker 1: get down to a next tier, And in that next tier,

836
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Speaker 1: you're not gonna have perfection. You're gonna have plenty of

837
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Speaker 1: room for someone to not be great, not have great

838
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Speaker 1: defensive teams, for someone to not have won in the playoff.

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Speaker 1: That's why they're not one, two or three. That's the

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Speaker 1: whole point. But really what it comes down to in

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Speaker 1: a lot of cases is you're warping the logic because

842
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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, you really just don't

843
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Speaker 1: like him, And if you don't like him, just say

844
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Speaker 1: you don't like him, which leads me to my next point.

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Speaker 1: A ton of you just flat out said you don't

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Speaker 1: like him today. Now, given recent events, I'm not gonna

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Speaker 1: read the most popular response in my tweets, but it

848
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Speaker 1: involved a certain hot current issue that's happening about two

849
00:44:54,120 --> 00:44:57,880
Speaker 1: some odd miles beneath the Atlantic Ocean, and that's as

850
00:44:57,880 --> 00:45:01,080
Speaker 1: far as I'm gonna go there. But you know who

851
00:45:01,120 --> 00:45:02,799
Speaker 1: you are, and you know what you've said, and it

852
00:45:02,800 --> 00:45:08,279
Speaker 1: won't be repeated here. Most people I have found that

853
00:45:08,360 --> 00:45:11,000
Speaker 1: have a personal issue with him or Oklahoma fans, this

854
00:45:11,080 --> 00:45:13,719
Speaker 1: is not a mystery. That is not surprising. I don't

855
00:45:13,760 --> 00:45:17,040
Speaker 1: blame you, guys one bit. It's your program. He bailed

856
00:45:17,080 --> 00:45:21,440
Speaker 1: on you, he abandoned you. He himself has taken some

857
00:45:21,600 --> 00:45:23,879
Speaker 1: blame for how he handled it, although I don't think

858
00:45:23,880 --> 00:45:27,040
Speaker 1: he regrets the decision period, maybe just the way the

859
00:45:27,080 --> 00:45:30,400
Speaker 1: exit was handled. Do you, guys, feel however you want to.

860
00:45:30,440 --> 00:45:32,040
Speaker 1: I'd probably feel the same way if I were you,

861
00:45:32,080 --> 00:45:33,719
Speaker 1: I could never fault you for feeling the way you do.

862
00:45:34,239 --> 00:45:38,000
Speaker 1: But outside of Oklahoma circles, what I've noticed, or what

863
00:45:38,040 --> 00:45:40,480
Speaker 1: I have found, is there may be some people who

864
00:45:40,520 --> 00:45:43,040
Speaker 1: don't care for Lincoln Riley, there may be some people

865
00:45:43,040 --> 00:45:44,920
Speaker 1: who love him. But by and large, I think he

866
00:45:44,960 --> 00:45:49,560
Speaker 1: gets I think he gets graded more for his results

867
00:45:49,680 --> 00:45:53,160
Speaker 1: or lack thereof, in you know, big leverage moments, postseason

868
00:45:53,200 --> 00:45:56,799
Speaker 1: moments than he does for leaving Oklahoma. That was a

869
00:45:56,920 --> 00:45:59,399
Speaker 1: huge story this time last year, obviously, but I think

870
00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:02,480
Speaker 1: it's it's sunk kind of back into the back of

871
00:46:02,480 --> 00:46:06,080
Speaker 1: the room for most non Oklahoma fans. I think Lincoln

872
00:46:06,160 --> 00:46:08,160
Speaker 1: Riley becomes a victim of what I call the hype

873
00:46:08,160 --> 00:46:11,120
Speaker 1: cycle in college football. See it all the time. It's

874
00:46:11,160 --> 00:46:14,719
Speaker 1: happened with him. Here's what that looks like. Hype someone up,

875
00:46:14,880 --> 00:46:18,680
Speaker 1: or hype a team up, and then that team achieves,

876
00:46:19,120 --> 00:46:22,040
Speaker 1: but they don't achieve quite at the level that you

877
00:46:22,120 --> 00:46:24,759
Speaker 1: hyped him up to achieve at. And then instead of

878
00:46:24,800 --> 00:46:28,279
Speaker 1: doing the right thing and blaming yourself because you were

879
00:46:28,320 --> 00:46:31,680
Speaker 1: the genesis of the hype, you blame the person or

880
00:46:31,719 --> 00:46:34,560
Speaker 1: the team, or, in this case, Lincoln Riley, the coach

881
00:46:35,160 --> 00:46:38,480
Speaker 1: who didn't make you look good. So if I were

882
00:46:38,520 --> 00:46:41,120
Speaker 1: to pick sc to win the national title this year

883
00:46:41,440 --> 00:46:45,080
Speaker 1: and they flame out in the semi finals, it's their fault.

884
00:46:45,320 --> 00:46:48,680
Speaker 1: Lincoln Riley choked, No, you made a bad pick. Maybe

885
00:46:48,719 --> 00:46:50,680
Speaker 1: that's the way it went down. But there aren't very

886
00:46:50,680 --> 00:46:54,960
Speaker 1: many articles out there that start with, boy, I was wrong.

887
00:46:55,160 --> 00:46:57,200
Speaker 1: I was an idiot when it came to Lincoln Riley.

888
00:46:57,360 --> 00:46:59,960
Speaker 1: It's a lot of Lincoln Riley choked. Lincoln Riley's overrated,

889
00:47:00,800 --> 00:47:05,360
Speaker 1: never bothering to mention who rated him in the first place. Also,

890
00:47:05,800 --> 00:47:07,759
Speaker 1: what I'm learning the more and more as I go

891
00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:11,560
Speaker 1: through these replies is a solid sixty to sixty five

892
00:47:11,560 --> 00:47:13,600
Speaker 1: percent of college football is about to be really shook

893
00:47:13,840 --> 00:47:17,360
Speaker 1: whenever his teams finally do figure out defense. I say whenever,

894
00:47:17,440 --> 00:47:19,440
Speaker 1: because I do believe that will happen. I've been on

895
00:47:19,520 --> 00:47:21,439
Speaker 1: record ever since he was at OU is thinking he'll

896
00:47:21,480 --> 00:47:23,920
Speaker 1: eventually win a national title. Maybe more than one, but

897
00:47:23,960 --> 00:47:28,560
Speaker 1: at least one I think is in his future. Let

898
00:47:28,560 --> 00:47:33,280
Speaker 1: me be delicate with this community. It's not a foregone

899
00:47:33,320 --> 00:47:36,040
Speaker 1: conclusion they'll ever get defense figured out, though, is what

900
00:47:36,080 --> 00:47:38,880
Speaker 1: I want to say. I was talking to a pretty

901
00:47:38,960 --> 00:47:43,480
Speaker 1: high profile defensive coordinator recently, and we were talking about

902
00:47:43,560 --> 00:47:48,560
Speaker 1: several coaches, several programs. This is not a West Coast guy.

903
00:47:48,600 --> 00:47:50,279
Speaker 1: It's not someone that you guys will face this year

904
00:47:50,320 --> 00:47:53,200
Speaker 1: at USC, But what he said kind of struck me.

905
00:47:53,239 --> 00:47:56,719
Speaker 1: He said, when you're looking at these places where they're

906
00:47:56,760 --> 00:48:00,680
Speaker 1: not performing well defensively, the mistake college football fans make

907
00:48:00,800 --> 00:48:04,200
Speaker 1: or media folks make sometimes is you think that the

908
00:48:04,320 --> 00:48:08,200
Speaker 1: hire of a new coordinator is the solution to the problem.

909
00:48:08,440 --> 00:48:10,759
Speaker 1: And he said, nine times out of ten, you're going

910
00:48:10,840 --> 00:48:12,719
Speaker 1: to get the same results even when a new coordinator

911
00:48:12,760 --> 00:48:15,319
Speaker 1: comes in, because sometimes it's not a coordinator problem, it's

912
00:48:15,320 --> 00:48:17,719
Speaker 1: a culture problem. And when you think culture, most of

913
00:48:17,800 --> 00:48:19,480
Speaker 1: the time you think, oh, guys getting in a lot

914
00:48:19,520 --> 00:48:24,319
Speaker 1: of trouble, guys getting arrested, a fifteen yard unsportsmanlike penalties

915
00:48:24,640 --> 00:48:28,520
Speaker 1: play after play. It's not always that. Sometimes it's a

916
00:48:28,520 --> 00:48:31,440
Speaker 1: lot more subtle. There is a certain way that you

917
00:48:31,560 --> 00:48:34,640
Speaker 1: have to build your organization, there's a certain way you

918
00:48:34,640 --> 00:48:36,359
Speaker 1: have to go about your business, there's a certain way

919
00:48:36,400 --> 00:48:39,360
Speaker 1: you have to practice, and there's a certain athlete that

920
00:48:39,400 --> 00:48:42,239
Speaker 1: you have to recruit to play high caliber defense. But

921
00:48:42,320 --> 00:48:46,200
Speaker 1: it all gets embedded in an overall culture. You've got

922
00:48:46,239 --> 00:48:49,279
Speaker 1: to have a culture that lends itself to you playing

923
00:48:49,360 --> 00:48:53,120
Speaker 1: high level defense. This coach I'm talking about is is

924
00:48:53,160 --> 00:48:55,919
Speaker 1: a very very good defensive coach. He said, I don't

925
00:48:55,920 --> 00:48:57,319
Speaker 1: know that I could go in there and make any

926
00:48:57,320 --> 00:49:00,399
Speaker 1: difference right now, because from where I sit, it looks

927
00:49:00,440 --> 00:49:05,080
Speaker 1: like Lincoln Riley's overall culture may be the issue. He

928
00:49:05,160 --> 00:49:07,600
Speaker 1: may be dead right and me be right as well.

929
00:49:08,239 --> 00:49:11,360
Speaker 1: For all I know, Lincoln Riley has assessed himself and

930
00:49:11,440 --> 00:49:15,640
Speaker 1: has assessed his program or his modus operandi, and arrived

931
00:49:15,680 --> 00:49:18,960
Speaker 1: at the same conclusion. We don't know that, and if

932
00:49:19,000 --> 00:49:20,480
Speaker 1: I were him, I wouldn't tell you even if I

933
00:49:20,520 --> 00:49:24,320
Speaker 1: did figure that out. That's the easy part, though, relatively speaking,

934
00:49:24,480 --> 00:49:27,799
Speaker 1: figuring out that you may have a little tweak in

935
00:49:27,800 --> 00:49:29,759
Speaker 1: the culture you need to make, or maybe a thirty

936
00:49:29,760 --> 00:49:32,680
Speaker 1: percent overhaul in the culture to lend itself to you

937
00:49:32,719 --> 00:49:36,320
Speaker 1: playing more physical football, being a better tackling team, and

938
00:49:36,360 --> 00:49:39,560
Speaker 1: ultimately playing better defense. They're not there. They never have

939
00:49:39,680 --> 00:49:41,879
Speaker 1: been there under him. Will they be there one day?

940
00:49:42,280 --> 00:49:44,719
Speaker 1: I still believe Yes. A lot of you don't believe that,

941
00:49:45,200 --> 00:49:49,520
Speaker 1: But I will tell you the college football public seems

942
00:49:49,520 --> 00:49:52,399
Speaker 1: to be ill equipped for when Lincoln Riley does get

943
00:49:52,400 --> 00:49:54,720
Speaker 1: defense figured out. They don't have to play top five defense.

944
00:49:54,960 --> 00:49:57,680
Speaker 1: It has to be opportunistic enough, just good enough, take

945
00:49:57,719 --> 00:49:59,359
Speaker 1: the ball away like they did last year, and also

946
00:49:59,400 --> 00:50:01,440
Speaker 1: mix in some st I don't know, a tackle every

947
00:50:01,440 --> 00:50:05,440
Speaker 1: now and then. It'll be nice. He's really good. Lincoln

948
00:50:05,480 --> 00:50:08,520
Speaker 1: Riley's really really good. He's not the best in the sport.

949
00:50:08,800 --> 00:50:10,960
Speaker 1: No one's ever said he is. If they say that,

950
00:50:11,000 --> 00:50:13,319
Speaker 1: he is overrated, But until then, I don't think he's

951
00:50:13,360 --> 00:50:18,800
Speaker 1: really overrated, all right, Jesse, I think this is a

952
00:50:18,840 --> 00:50:21,960
Speaker 1: good ast time as any, A good a time, a

953
00:50:21,960 --> 00:50:25,040
Speaker 1: good of time as any. What is correct, It's a

954
00:50:25,040 --> 00:50:27,080
Speaker 1: good a time as any. Just say it real fast.

955
00:50:27,120 --> 00:50:29,680
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. One of the best pieces of advice

956
00:50:29,760 --> 00:50:32,120
Speaker 1: memo I ever gave me win in doubt, just speak faster.

957
00:50:32,480 --> 00:50:34,760
Speaker 1: Jimbo told me that too. All right, here's a post

958
00:50:34,760 --> 00:50:38,120
Speaker 1: it pop Jimbo and memo what a tack team. So

959
00:50:38,440 --> 00:50:40,640
Speaker 1: a post it pop. There you go in the microphone.

960
00:50:40,640 --> 00:50:43,359
Speaker 1: If you can't hear it on podcast, I have to

961
00:50:43,520 --> 00:50:47,360
Speaker 1: inform you, nay, ask you to do me a favor.

962
00:50:47,680 --> 00:50:49,480
Speaker 1: And it doesn't have anything to do with our channel.

963
00:50:50,719 --> 00:50:53,000
Speaker 1: Tomorrow night's a really big night. It's a big night

964
00:50:53,040 --> 00:50:56,400
Speaker 1: for me. It's a big night for our team. Softball

965
00:50:56,400 --> 00:51:00,200
Speaker 1: playoffs start tomorrow night. Bradley the associate, it's also big

966
00:51:00,239 --> 00:51:05,000
Speaker 1: night for him for different reasons. Or multimedia department. But look,

967
00:51:05,080 --> 00:51:07,960
Speaker 1: I play better when we have fans in the stands.

968
00:51:09,239 --> 00:51:13,799
Speaker 1: But our staff here, these are people who are who

969
00:51:13,880 --> 00:51:17,640
Speaker 1: are very hard to convince to do anything with us socially. Okay,

970
00:51:17,680 --> 00:51:21,080
Speaker 1: there these are more hermit types. If you will, I

971
00:51:21,120 --> 00:51:23,520
Speaker 1: respect it because I am too. I get out of here.

972
00:51:23,520 --> 00:51:26,360
Speaker 1: I like to go home. But it's playoff season, okay,

973
00:51:26,400 --> 00:51:28,719
Speaker 1: so they should be there supporting us. Well, their hearts

974
00:51:28,719 --> 00:51:32,360
Speaker 1: aren't quite that big. However, I was able to bribe

975
00:51:32,360 --> 00:51:35,799
Speaker 1: them and it's something I do very well, and they

976
00:51:35,840 --> 00:51:38,799
Speaker 1: agreed to it. So I need you to do me

977
00:51:39,360 --> 00:51:42,120
Speaker 1: one solid and it's going to serve you in the

978
00:51:42,120 --> 00:51:44,279
Speaker 1: long run. Anyway, I need you to go to the

979
00:51:44,280 --> 00:51:47,040
Speaker 1: twenty four to seven sports YouTube channel and just subscribe

980
00:51:47,040 --> 00:51:49,520
Speaker 1: to that thing. They're about to hit one hundred k. Colin,

981
00:51:49,560 --> 00:51:52,320
Speaker 1: could you show me one a over here whatever camera

982
00:51:52,400 --> 00:51:54,440
Speaker 1: we call that, You see this thing back here if

983
00:51:54,480 --> 00:51:58,160
Speaker 1: you're listening on podcasts. I'm pointing to our bright, shiny,

984
00:51:59,160 --> 00:52:03,840
Speaker 1: solid silver, worth thousands of dollars solid silver YouTube plaque

985
00:52:03,840 --> 00:52:07,200
Speaker 1: that they sent us when we hit one hundred thousand subs. Well,

986
00:52:07,239 --> 00:52:10,319
Speaker 1: our friends who also reside in this studio when we're

987
00:52:10,320 --> 00:52:12,319
Speaker 1: not here, they're about hit one hundred thousand subs and

988
00:52:13,080 --> 00:52:16,920
Speaker 1: they told me point blank, Grishie told me. Another employee

989
00:52:16,920 --> 00:52:20,040
Speaker 1: who shan't be named, told me that if I gave

990
00:52:20,160 --> 00:52:23,359
Speaker 1: him a shout out, if I extended the Olive branch

991
00:52:23,440 --> 00:52:25,560
Speaker 1: to you guys to sub to the channel, they would

992
00:52:25,600 --> 00:52:27,360
Speaker 1: show up to our softball game tomorrow night. I'm not

993
00:52:27,360 --> 00:52:29,480
Speaker 1: above it. I'm not too proud to beg for fans

994
00:52:29,480 --> 00:52:33,080
Speaker 1: to show up. Crowd noise is instrumental in winning playoff

995
00:52:33,120 --> 00:52:36,080
Speaker 1: softball games. We all know that. That's just a proven fact.

996
00:52:36,440 --> 00:52:39,200
Speaker 1: So sub to the twenty four to seven channel and

997
00:52:39,280 --> 00:52:41,680
Speaker 1: ours doesn't have to be in that order, but please

998
00:52:41,719 --> 00:52:45,840
Speaker 1: do that. They are rapidly growing over there, nice little outfit,

999
00:52:46,160 --> 00:52:49,720
Speaker 1: good for management. Maybe management will go on his show

1000
00:52:49,960 --> 00:52:53,040
Speaker 1: and ask you to sub as well. But if management

1001
00:52:53,120 --> 00:52:56,160
Speaker 1: asks you to sub, if a tree falls in the woods,

1002
00:52:56,160 --> 00:52:58,120
Speaker 1: in other words, and no one's there to hear the

1003
00:52:58,160 --> 00:53:02,520
Speaker 1: tree fall, did it really fall? If you sub because

1004
00:53:02,560 --> 00:53:04,480
Speaker 1: someone asked you to want a show that no one watches,

1005
00:53:05,000 --> 00:53:08,280
Speaker 1: does the sub even count hoops? Just to say bold

1006
00:53:08,280 --> 00:53:11,680
Speaker 1: prediction time, Chapter eleven already, what do you believe is

1007
00:53:11,719 --> 00:53:13,600
Speaker 1: going to happen this season? What are you so confident

1008
00:53:13,680 --> 00:53:15,920
Speaker 1: in that you would bet your own money on it? Well,

1009
00:53:15,960 --> 00:53:19,280
Speaker 1: one of you thinks Bama's going undefeated this year? Hmmm,

1010
00:53:19,640 --> 00:53:22,520
Speaker 1: how often does this happen? If you're in Phoenix City,

1011
00:53:22,600 --> 00:53:25,720
Speaker 1: if you're in Demopolis, Mobile, Huntsville, how often does Bama

1012
00:53:25,719 --> 00:53:29,000
Speaker 1: go undefeated regular season? It's what I mean because This

1013
00:53:29,120 --> 00:53:32,000
Speaker 1: was Jim all the way up in Hayden, Idaho. Bama's

1014
00:53:32,040 --> 00:53:35,640
Speaker 1: going undefeated this season, well, it happened in eight, happened

1015
00:53:35,640 --> 00:53:39,160
Speaker 1: in oh nine, it happened in twenty sixteen, twenty eighteen,

1016
00:53:39,400 --> 00:53:42,160
Speaker 1: and twenty twenty. They've done it five times in the

1017
00:53:42,200 --> 00:53:46,359
Speaker 1: regular season. Under Sabing, I think this is an eight

1018
00:53:46,400 --> 00:53:50,600
Speaker 1: and a half. I don't think it's likely, although possible,

1019
00:53:50,840 --> 00:53:52,880
Speaker 1: they're over. Under is ten and a half right now.

1020
00:53:53,080 --> 00:53:55,600
Speaker 1: It should be noted it is heavily juiced to the under.

1021
00:53:56,400 --> 00:53:58,919
Speaker 1: So the odds makers or the odds market right now

1022
00:53:59,400 --> 00:54:01,799
Speaker 1: currently is Bama to win ten games more than it

1023
00:54:01,800 --> 00:54:04,200
Speaker 1: does for them to win eleven games, much less go undefeated.

1024
00:54:04,600 --> 00:54:06,880
Speaker 1: Will they be favored in every game? Yes, they will,

1025
00:54:07,560 --> 00:54:10,320
Speaker 1: so it's not about that they will technically be favored

1026
00:54:10,320 --> 00:54:13,520
Speaker 1: to win every game. The problem as it relates to

1027
00:54:13,520 --> 00:54:17,359
Speaker 1: this prediction is they number one, don't have a clue

1028
00:54:17,400 --> 00:54:19,239
Speaker 1: who their quarterback is going to be yet, and number two,

1029
00:54:19,800 --> 00:54:23,240
Speaker 1: all nine of their Power five matchups are against teams

1030
00:54:23,640 --> 00:54:26,600
Speaker 1: with win totals of six and a half or higher.

1031
00:54:27,360 --> 00:54:29,280
Speaker 1: So if you were to look at the odds market,

1032
00:54:30,320 --> 00:54:32,560
Speaker 1: all nine of the Power five teams they play are

1033
00:54:32,600 --> 00:54:35,960
Speaker 1: expected to be winning record teams, and then mixed within that,

1034
00:54:36,520 --> 00:54:40,960
Speaker 1: You've got your trip that Texas makes into your backyard.

1035
00:54:41,200 --> 00:54:43,799
Speaker 1: You've got back to back road trips at Mississippi State,

1036
00:54:43,840 --> 00:54:46,440
Speaker 1: at A and M, you got Tennessee, you got LSU,

1037
00:54:46,600 --> 00:54:48,600
Speaker 1: you go to Auburn really late in the year. Who

1038
00:54:48,600 --> 00:54:50,760
Speaker 1: knows what Hugh Freeze has down there by that point.

1039
00:54:51,040 --> 00:54:53,600
Speaker 1: This is an eight and a half for me. Pretty bold,

1040
00:54:53,880 --> 00:54:55,680
Speaker 1: but not the boldest prediction that we've had, Not the

1041
00:54:55,680 --> 00:54:58,880
Speaker 1: boldest prediction we even have on tonight's show. This next one,

1042
00:54:58,960 --> 00:55:05,240
Speaker 1: I think is even bolder, only because it's pretty nuanced. Nebraska,

1043
00:55:05,320 --> 00:55:08,839
Speaker 1: according to Daniel, will have the best record among all

1044
00:55:08,880 --> 00:55:12,520
Speaker 1: teams with first year head coaches. Nebraska. Now, I don't

1045
00:55:12,520 --> 00:55:14,200
Speaker 1: expect you to know what this list is off the

1046
00:55:14,239 --> 00:55:17,480
Speaker 1: top of your head. Don't worry. Producer Jesse has compiled

1047
00:55:17,480 --> 00:55:19,719
Speaker 1: it for you. So of course, you got Matt Ruhle

1048
00:55:19,719 --> 00:55:24,040
Speaker 1: at Nebraska. We got Luke Fickele, We got Jeff Brahm

1049
00:55:24,080 --> 00:55:26,840
Speaker 1: at Louisville, we got Hugh Freeze at Auburn, Zach Garnet

1050
00:55:26,920 --> 00:55:29,960
Speaker 1: at Mississippi State. You got Saderfield at Cincy. Dillingham's out

1051
00:55:29,960 --> 00:55:33,360
Speaker 1: of Arizona State, Ryan Walters at Purdue get used to

1052
00:55:33,400 --> 00:55:35,440
Speaker 1: the name. Brent Key is down at Georgia Tech. You

1053
00:55:35,520 --> 00:55:37,920
Speaker 1: got Dion at Colorado, and Troy Taylor tearing it up

1054
00:55:37,920 --> 00:55:42,279
Speaker 1: and recruiting out at Stanford. There are five teams here, well,

1055
00:55:42,320 --> 00:55:45,800
Speaker 1: there are four teams I guess with win totals higher

1056
00:55:45,840 --> 00:55:49,840
Speaker 1: than Nebraska. Nebraska's is six, Fickle and Wisconsin are all

1057
00:55:49,880 --> 00:55:51,399
Speaker 1: the way up at eight and a half. I don't

1058
00:55:51,400 --> 00:55:53,399
Speaker 1: think this is gonna pan out. I don't think Matt

1059
00:55:53,480 --> 00:55:54,960
Speaker 1: Ruhle's going to have the best year out of any

1060
00:55:55,000 --> 00:55:56,959
Speaker 1: of these guys. So I'm gonna call this a nine

1061
00:55:57,000 --> 00:56:00,600
Speaker 1: point twenty five on the boldness scale only because I

1062
00:56:00,640 --> 00:56:03,680
Speaker 1: just think Wisconsin at least will be better record wise.

1063
00:56:03,920 --> 00:56:07,000
Speaker 1: And remember there's that trend of Matt rule in year

1064
00:56:07,080 --> 00:56:10,120
Speaker 1: one at new programs, where it takes a year for

1065
00:56:10,160 --> 00:56:12,560
Speaker 1: him to really get going. There is a thought out there,

1066
00:56:12,840 --> 00:56:16,080
Speaker 1: there is a hope in Lincoln that with the transfer

1067
00:56:16,200 --> 00:56:19,080
Speaker 1: portal what used to take two years now may be

1068
00:56:19,239 --> 00:56:22,680
Speaker 1: able to happen instantaneously. We'll have to wait and see

1069
00:56:22,680 --> 00:56:25,319
Speaker 1: on that, but that's pretty bold for me. Next up,

1070
00:56:26,040 --> 00:56:28,800
Speaker 1: this is the boldest prediction of the night. At least

1071
00:56:29,160 --> 00:56:34,400
Speaker 1: Mike in Coral Springs, Florida. Two Florida Power five schools

1072
00:56:34,960 --> 00:56:38,920
Speaker 1: will play for their conference title. Well, we only got

1073
00:56:38,960 --> 00:56:41,879
Speaker 1: four of them. So we're talking about Florida State, we're

1074
00:56:41,880 --> 00:56:44,520
Speaker 1: talking about Miami, We're talking about Florida, and we're talking

1075
00:56:44,520 --> 00:56:49,680
Speaker 1: about Welcome to the party, UCF, Big twelve member Institution, UCF.

1076
00:56:51,200 --> 00:56:53,880
Speaker 1: This is a nine point five. I think this is

1077
00:56:53,920 --> 00:56:57,520
Speaker 1: incredibly bold. None of these teams are favored to win

1078
00:56:57,560 --> 00:57:01,080
Speaker 1: their conference. Florida State is faith I guess, to play

1079
00:57:01,120 --> 00:57:03,799
Speaker 1: in the conference title game. They have the second best

1080
00:57:03,800 --> 00:57:07,360
Speaker 1: odds in the ACC, Miami has the fifth best odds

1081
00:57:07,520 --> 00:57:12,000
Speaker 1: in the ACC. Florida, it just gets worse, has the

1082
00:57:12,080 --> 00:57:16,200
Speaker 1: eighth best odds in the SEC, and UCF has the

1083
00:57:16,240 --> 00:57:19,360
Speaker 1: eighth best odds in the Big twelve. So if we

1084
00:57:19,520 --> 00:57:22,240
Speaker 1: have two out of these four teams playing for a

1085
00:57:22,280 --> 00:57:26,680
Speaker 1: conference title, who would it be? Obviously Florida State would

1086
00:57:26,680 --> 00:57:30,680
Speaker 1: be one of them. I think that's obvious. I actually

1087
00:57:30,680 --> 00:57:33,720
Speaker 1: think the other most likely candidate in this scenario would

1088
00:57:33,720 --> 00:57:38,160
Speaker 1: be UCF because Florida State plays Miami, so they may

1089
00:57:38,280 --> 00:57:40,680
Speaker 1: very well have beaten the Canes in route to playing

1090
00:57:40,720 --> 00:57:43,120
Speaker 1: for the conference title and Miami's got a really tough

1091
00:57:43,200 --> 00:57:46,840
Speaker 1: road even outside of Florida State UCF. Who knows. Man,

1092
00:57:46,880 --> 00:57:50,360
Speaker 1: the Big twelve's crazy. Wow, Like last last two years,

1093
00:57:50,760 --> 00:57:54,160
Speaker 1: we've had teams playing for and winning that conference that

1094
00:57:54,200 --> 00:57:56,840
Speaker 1: were middle of the pack in terms of preseason odds.

1095
00:57:56,920 --> 00:58:00,440
Speaker 1: So maybe that just happens again, who knows, especially if

1096
00:58:00,440 --> 00:58:02,760
Speaker 1: they get that offensive line figured out. They lost four

1097
00:58:02,800 --> 00:58:05,400
Speaker 1: of them. But if Gus Malson gets that figured out,

1098
00:58:06,000 --> 00:58:11,080
Speaker 1: watch out Big Twelve. Lastly, this one's from at we

1099
00:58:11,200 --> 00:58:15,160
Speaker 1: are recruit There will only be one undefeated team at

1100
00:58:15,200 --> 00:58:17,040
Speaker 1: the end of the regular season. I put an eight

1101
00:58:17,080 --> 00:58:19,920
Speaker 1: and a quarter on the boldness scale here. This has

1102
00:58:19,960 --> 00:58:24,480
Speaker 1: happened one time in the past ten years that we

1103
00:58:24,520 --> 00:58:28,760
Speaker 1: had exactly one undefeated team, and that was twenty fourteen.

1104
00:58:29,760 --> 00:58:32,840
Speaker 1: Every other year we've had at least two. Many years

1105
00:58:32,880 --> 00:58:35,960
Speaker 1: we've had three or four in that twenty twenty season.

1106
00:58:36,720 --> 00:58:39,400
Speaker 1: Excuse me, in that twenty twenty COVID season, we had

1107
00:58:39,440 --> 00:58:42,120
Speaker 1: eight because they played less games, so more teams could

1108
00:58:42,120 --> 00:58:44,800
Speaker 1: go undefeeding. But how would this happen? Well, maybe we

1109
00:58:44,840 --> 00:58:47,840
Speaker 1: don't have any elite quarterbacks out there. Maybe outside of

1110
00:58:47,880 --> 00:58:51,680
Speaker 1: Caleb Williams, maybe no quarterback really turns out to be elite.

1111
00:58:51,680 --> 00:58:54,720
Speaker 1: And maybe maybe on that team, Caleb Williams team, they

1112
00:58:54,720 --> 00:58:57,720
Speaker 1: don't play defense, so they don't go undefeated either, and

1113
00:58:57,760 --> 00:58:59,959
Speaker 1: maybe we just have like a two thousand and seven season.

1114
00:59:00,480 --> 00:59:05,520
Speaker 1: But outside of that possibility someone's going undefeated. We're just

1115
00:59:05,560 --> 00:59:08,440
Speaker 1: talking regular season here, not talking conference title games. So

1116
00:59:08,440 --> 00:59:10,560
Speaker 1: I'm putting an eight and a quarter on that one.

1117
00:59:10,800 --> 00:59:14,560
Speaker 1: I love bold predictions. I could do that singular topic

1118
00:59:15,480 --> 00:59:17,560
Speaker 1: for the entire hour or hour and a half of

1119
00:59:17,600 --> 00:59:20,760
Speaker 1: our shows, but that would be irresponsible of me. So

1120
00:59:20,800 --> 00:59:23,800
Speaker 1: we stack the papers and we move on, and I say,

1121
00:59:24,120 --> 00:59:25,800
Speaker 1: thank you. We're not done with the show, not by

1122
00:59:25,800 --> 00:59:28,240
Speaker 1: a long shot. We still have three more things to

1123
00:59:28,280 --> 00:59:33,640
Speaker 1: talk about. Let me take a sip with the challice.

1124
00:59:34,200 --> 00:59:38,320
Speaker 1: Let's do this. Let's do the spotlight next. Yeah, let's

1125
00:59:38,320 --> 00:59:41,240
Speaker 1: do it. Okay, as if there's not a preordained order,

1126
00:59:42,480 --> 00:59:45,720
Speaker 1: we've been doing spotlights on teams, you know, preview magazines

1127
00:59:45,720 --> 00:59:48,040
Speaker 1: are out. I want kind of an audible version of that.

1128
00:59:48,160 --> 00:59:50,280
Speaker 1: I want you to know in about five minutes or less,

1129
00:59:50,320 --> 00:59:53,320
Speaker 1: what you would need to know about these teams, biggest questions,

1130
00:59:53,360 --> 00:59:57,120
Speaker 1: best player, position, group, breakout player. What do you need

1131
00:59:57,120 --> 00:59:59,760
Speaker 1: to know about their schedule. Let's talk about Ohio State

1132
00:59:59,760 --> 01:00:01,600
Speaker 1: for a sust and we're gonna make our way around

1133
01:00:01,600 --> 01:00:04,560
Speaker 1: the country eventually. But the question that I think is

1134
01:00:04,600 --> 01:00:07,760
Speaker 1: first and foremost on everyone's mind up there is did

1135
01:00:07,800 --> 01:00:10,840
Speaker 1: we just address offensive tackle as much as we needed to?

1136
01:00:11,760 --> 01:00:15,040
Speaker 1: So to give you an idea, Dwan Jones went in

1137
01:00:15,040 --> 01:00:16,840
Speaker 1: the fourth round of the draft. That's one of their tackles.

1138
01:00:16,880 --> 01:00:19,800
Speaker 1: Last year, Paris Johnson first rounder, that was another one

1139
01:00:19,800 --> 01:00:24,160
Speaker 1: of their tackles. Obviously, that leaves voids. They went through

1140
01:00:24,200 --> 01:00:28,280
Speaker 1: spring with three guys that were rotational and none of

1141
01:00:28,320 --> 01:00:30,240
Speaker 1: them really stood out a whole lot. So they went

1142
01:00:30,280 --> 01:00:33,840
Speaker 1: and got Josh Simmons. He is a San Diego State transfer.

1143
01:00:34,680 --> 01:00:38,040
Speaker 1: I cannot stress enough the importance of him staying healthy

1144
01:00:38,600 --> 01:00:41,960
Speaker 1: and him working out big time. He's got seven hundred

1145
01:00:42,000 --> 01:00:44,520
Speaker 1: and ninety nine snaps over the last two years at

1146
01:00:44,560 --> 01:00:47,680
Speaker 1: right tackle. He he has to come through. That's not

1147
01:00:47,800 --> 01:00:51,600
Speaker 1: optional for them, especially with their quarterback situation. Them breaking

1148
01:00:51,640 --> 01:00:53,400
Speaker 1: in someone new, no matter who it's going to be,

1149
01:00:54,480 --> 01:00:56,640
Speaker 1: he's got to come through that. There are a lot

1150
01:00:56,680 --> 01:00:59,280
Speaker 1: of variables in that team. That's got to be a

1151
01:00:59,360 --> 01:01:03,280
Speaker 1: definite guy that comes through for them. Question Number two.

1152
01:01:03,720 --> 01:01:07,200
Speaker 1: Can their defense actually win them games early? Because I

1153
01:01:07,240 --> 01:01:11,000
Speaker 1: think they may need to just think about Ohio State.

1154
01:01:11,080 --> 01:01:12,720
Speaker 1: What you think the profile of that team is. You

1155
01:01:12,720 --> 01:01:16,120
Speaker 1: don't think about defense winning games, But you also don't

1156
01:01:16,120 --> 01:01:19,040
Speaker 1: think about them being as uncertain at tackle and or

1157
01:01:19,120 --> 01:01:22,760
Speaker 1: quarterback in years past as they are right now. That's

1158
01:01:22,760 --> 01:01:26,760
Speaker 1: why it's a complimentary game. Guys. They brought Jim Knowles in.

1159
01:01:26,960 --> 01:01:31,560
Speaker 1: This is his third year as defensive coordinator. Overall improvement

1160
01:01:31,680 --> 01:01:34,000
Speaker 1: last year they went from thirty eighth in points per

1161
01:01:34,000 --> 01:01:38,680
Speaker 1: game to twenty fourth. That's improvement statistically, But what's the

1162
01:01:38,720 --> 01:01:40,800
Speaker 1: rest of the story. The rest of the story is

1163
01:01:40,800 --> 01:01:43,680
Speaker 1: in their two losses, the Michigan game the Ohio State game,

1164
01:01:44,440 --> 01:01:46,840
Speaker 1: gave up an average of forty three point five points

1165
01:01:47,040 --> 01:01:51,960
Speaker 1: and eight point nine yards per play. So a Buckeye

1166
01:01:52,000 --> 01:01:54,000
Speaker 1: fan would look and say, it really doesn't matter what

1167
01:01:54,040 --> 01:01:55,680
Speaker 1: our stats say if that's what we do in the

1168
01:01:55,680 --> 01:01:58,600
Speaker 1: big moments, which is a fair assumption. That's a fair take.

1169
01:01:59,480 --> 01:02:01,960
Speaker 1: And so front seven is going to be pretty incredible

1170
01:02:01,960 --> 01:02:04,760
Speaker 1: this year. I think you got JT. T. I'm gonna

1171
01:02:04,760 --> 01:02:06,720
Speaker 1: talk about Jack Sawyer in a second. Got a lot

1172
01:02:06,720 --> 01:02:10,240
Speaker 1: of good players there. Secondary will ultimately tell the tale

1173
01:02:10,240 --> 01:02:14,320
Speaker 1: there question number three, You got a quarterback? You got

1174
01:02:14,320 --> 01:02:17,600
Speaker 1: a real QB one. They lie to you sometimes when

1175
01:02:17,600 --> 01:02:19,560
Speaker 1: they say if you got two quarterbacks, you don't have any,

1176
01:02:19,920 --> 01:02:22,440
Speaker 1: but then other times it ends up being exactly the case.

1177
01:02:22,760 --> 01:02:25,400
Speaker 1: So you got Kyle McCorry, you got Devin Brown. Doesn't

1178
01:02:25,440 --> 01:02:27,920
Speaker 1: seem like one grabbed the job by the throat at

1179
01:02:27,960 --> 01:02:31,080
Speaker 1: the end of spring, although Ohio State didn't have to

1180
01:02:31,120 --> 01:02:35,920
Speaker 1: go and get Tyler Buckner. So I guess that's good news. C. J. Stroud,

1181
01:02:36,440 --> 01:02:40,760
Speaker 1: Justin Field's j T. Haskins. Those are the last three

1182
01:02:40,800 --> 01:02:44,080
Speaker 1: that came through there, Dwayne, what I say, JT? I'm

1183
01:02:44,120 --> 01:02:46,320
Speaker 1: all the way back at J T. Barrett. So Dwayne Haskins,

1184
01:02:46,520 --> 01:02:48,280
Speaker 1: those are the last three that came through. They're all

1185
01:02:48,320 --> 01:02:51,800
Speaker 1: of them first round draft picks. Do we have a

1186
01:02:51,840 --> 01:02:54,640
Speaker 1: first round draft pick on the graphic Collin just showed you,

1187
01:02:54,720 --> 01:02:57,880
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. Do we need to have one for

1188
01:02:57,960 --> 01:03:00,960
Speaker 1: Ohio State to win this year? So not sure of that.

1189
01:03:01,360 --> 01:03:05,640
Speaker 1: But here's the danger. The danger that some fans have

1190
01:03:05,640 --> 01:03:08,040
Speaker 1: gotten into with Ohio State is just assuming you're gonna

1191
01:03:08,080 --> 01:03:10,200
Speaker 1: have a certain level of quarterback play. I was listening

1192
01:03:10,240 --> 01:03:13,680
Speaker 1: to Ryan Day Talk with McElroy the other day, and

1193
01:03:13,720 --> 01:03:17,160
Speaker 1: he said, you cannot assume that stuff. There's a lot

1194
01:03:17,160 --> 01:03:19,200
Speaker 1: of hard work, a lot of good recruiting and hard

1195
01:03:19,200 --> 01:03:22,680
Speaker 1: work and development that goes into maintaining that standard of play.

1196
01:03:23,440 --> 01:03:25,600
Speaker 1: You don't just get to say, well, if you're starting

1197
01:03:25,600 --> 01:03:27,320
Speaker 1: a quarterback at Ohio State, you're going to be a

1198
01:03:27,320 --> 01:03:30,240
Speaker 1: certain level of good are you? That's not an automatic

1199
01:03:30,680 --> 01:03:32,360
Speaker 1: and you can't assume it's going to be this year.

1200
01:03:32,520 --> 01:03:35,760
Speaker 1: That's why I asked you, can they win games defensively?

1201
01:03:36,480 --> 01:03:38,680
Speaker 1: Same thing with Alabama. You may need to ask that

1202
01:03:38,760 --> 01:03:42,080
Speaker 1: about them this year. Maybe you'll ask it about Georgia.

1203
01:03:42,200 --> 01:03:44,240
Speaker 1: We don't a lot of these big programs breaking in

1204
01:03:44,320 --> 01:03:47,320
Speaker 1: new quarterbacks. It's not a guarantee that just cause of

1205
01:03:47,320 --> 01:03:49,760
Speaker 1: the sticker on the side of the helmet is something

1206
01:03:49,800 --> 01:03:52,000
Speaker 1: that's been impressive for a long time that there's gonna

1207
01:03:52,040 --> 01:03:54,760
Speaker 1: be a certain level of play. It's that way most

1208
01:03:54,800 --> 01:03:57,240
Speaker 1: of the time because by and lawge they recruit better

1209
01:03:57,240 --> 01:03:59,120
Speaker 1: athletes so they're more likely to play at a high level.

1210
01:03:59,160 --> 01:04:02,200
Speaker 1: It's not a guarantee who is or what is the

1211
01:04:02,200 --> 01:04:04,400
Speaker 1: best position group on this team. Don't need to waste

1212
01:04:04,440 --> 01:04:07,280
Speaker 1: much time here. It's wide receiver it's wide receiver by

1213
01:04:07,280 --> 01:04:09,920
Speaker 1: a wide margin. They had two of them transfer out

1214
01:04:09,960 --> 01:04:11,920
Speaker 1: of there that are probably gonna end up starting in

1215
01:04:11,960 --> 01:04:16,320
Speaker 1: Iowa and Auburn. They're just loaded Marvin Harrison and Mecca Agbuka.

1216
01:04:16,680 --> 01:04:19,000
Speaker 1: Both of them are thousand yard receivers, one of only

1217
01:04:19,000 --> 01:04:21,520
Speaker 1: two teams to have that in the country. Washington is

1218
01:04:21,560 --> 01:04:24,600
Speaker 1: the other one. By the way. They've got Julian Fleming there,

1219
01:04:25,320 --> 01:04:28,520
Speaker 1: Carnial Tates coming in, true freshman, Brandon Ennis is there.

1220
01:04:28,560 --> 01:04:32,360
Speaker 1: They're loaded, absolutely loaded. So I think we all know

1221
01:04:33,120 --> 01:04:36,440
Speaker 1: wide receiver Ohio State pretty synonymous at this point. But

1222
01:04:36,520 --> 01:04:39,800
Speaker 1: the breakout player potentially on this team is Jack Sawyer.

1223
01:04:40,160 --> 01:04:42,320
Speaker 1: He was their top overall rated recruit a couple of

1224
01:04:42,360 --> 01:04:45,320
Speaker 1: cycles ago. Everyone's waiting for him to break out. I

1225
01:04:45,400 --> 01:04:48,200
Speaker 1: expect him to break out this year. Now. He's played

1226
01:04:48,240 --> 01:04:51,640
Speaker 1: in twenty six games, but he hasn't emerged as like

1227
01:04:51,680 --> 01:04:54,560
Speaker 1: a stalwart on that team yet. I think he will.

1228
01:04:54,600 --> 01:04:56,960
Speaker 1: He was the number six overall player in twenty twenty one.

1229
01:04:57,200 --> 01:04:58,880
Speaker 1: Sometimes it takes a couple of years for these dudes

1230
01:04:58,880 --> 01:05:01,160
Speaker 1: to really shine through. I think he will this year,

1231
01:05:01,320 --> 01:05:04,080
Speaker 1: and he'll solely I think what they're doing up there

1232
01:05:04,080 --> 01:05:06,520
Speaker 1: with him is just solely working him at defensive end

1233
01:05:07,440 --> 01:05:09,560
Speaker 1: as opposed to that kind of hybrid position off or

1234
01:05:09,600 --> 01:05:12,160
Speaker 1: outside linebacker defensive end. They've worked him out in the past,

1235
01:05:12,320 --> 01:05:14,240
Speaker 1: but that's a loaded group. It's a good time to

1236
01:05:14,240 --> 01:05:16,560
Speaker 1: be playing the position he plays at Ohio State. Okay,

1237
01:05:16,640 --> 01:05:20,680
Speaker 1: the schedule they play this year, it's very interesting because

1238
01:05:20,680 --> 01:05:22,920
Speaker 1: you got to dive into it a little bit. Schedule

1239
01:05:22,960 --> 01:05:25,960
Speaker 1: by schedule up there, there's a big difference. For instance,

1240
01:05:26,480 --> 01:05:29,600
Speaker 1: they play three teams within the top fifteen of the

1241
01:05:29,720 --> 01:05:33,400
Speaker 1: National Championship Ods this year, they play at Notre Dame,

1242
01:05:33,600 --> 01:05:35,680
Speaker 1: they play Penn State, and they play at Michigan. So

1243
01:05:35,760 --> 01:05:37,280
Speaker 1: not only do they play three in the top fifteen,

1244
01:05:37,360 --> 01:05:40,040
Speaker 1: two and three on the road, they play five teams

1245
01:05:40,720 --> 01:05:43,960
Speaker 1: with win totals of eight or more, and that doesn't

1246
01:05:43,960 --> 01:05:46,920
Speaker 1: include Western Kentucky, who also has a win total of

1247
01:05:46,920 --> 01:05:50,760
Speaker 1: eight or more. They travel to Wisconsin right after the

1248
01:05:50,800 --> 01:05:55,240
Speaker 1: Penn State game. They've probably got the worst draw out

1249
01:05:55,240 --> 01:05:57,320
Speaker 1: of that big three in the East. They probably got

1250
01:05:57,320 --> 01:06:00,200
Speaker 1: the toughest schedule draw of any team up there. So

1251
01:06:01,520 --> 01:06:02,840
Speaker 1: it's going to be a tendency of a lot of

1252
01:06:02,880 --> 01:06:05,520
Speaker 1: people to look at that schedule and say, ah, that's

1253
01:06:05,560 --> 01:06:09,000
Speaker 1: soft that's not a soft schedule. That's now what you're

1254
01:06:09,000 --> 01:06:11,080
Speaker 1: talking about. That's not a soft schedule. It's not a

1255
01:06:11,160 --> 01:06:14,720
Speaker 1: murderer's row. It's not like vintage Arkansas schedules of years past.

1256
01:06:14,760 --> 01:06:17,919
Speaker 1: But no, that's not an easy stretch Ohio State. Man,

1257
01:06:18,040 --> 01:06:23,400
Speaker 1: they are very, very intriguing. So much potential drama surrounding

1258
01:06:23,400 --> 01:06:25,920
Speaker 1: that team this year. We could have had drama, you

1259
01:06:25,920 --> 01:06:28,120
Speaker 1: know where, We could have had drama When we went

1260
01:06:28,160 --> 01:06:30,160
Speaker 1: down to Miami a couple of weeks ago, we could

1261
01:06:30,200 --> 01:06:34,400
Speaker 1: have had drama. I was not worried about access. I

1262
01:06:34,440 --> 01:06:37,320
Speaker 1: was not worried about getting workouts in. I wasn't worried

1263
01:06:37,320 --> 01:06:40,200
Speaker 1: about whether Mario Christoval would be good to deal with. No, oh,

1264
01:06:40,200 --> 01:06:42,480
Speaker 1: that was a slam dunk. I was worried about how

1265
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Speaker 1: we were going to get our equipment down there. And

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Speaker 1: then Good Greek Moving came in and I didn't have

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Speaker 1: to worry about equipment anymore? Am I thankful? Well, I'm

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Speaker 1: still talking about him two and a half weeks later.

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Speaker 1: Good Greek Moving Relocation Services, they took care of us,

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Speaker 1: and not for the next couple of shows. At least,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to contin and you to encourage you to

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Speaker 1: look into them taking care of you total relocation services.

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Speaker 1: It sounds so much more fancy than just moving relocation

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Speaker 1: services and having that entire relocation effort ensured. That's a wonderful,

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Speaker 1: wonderful concept. And I can personally attest to this because

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Speaker 1: we have used them and we will happily do it again.

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Speaker 1: We're just looking for an excuse at this point to

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Speaker 1: go where we can use Good Greek. But you guys

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Speaker 1: have use for them every day, and so hit them

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Speaker 1: up good Greek dot com. You see it right there

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Speaker 1: on the side of that truck. If you're watching on YouTube. Trust, Trust,

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Speaker 1: that's what you got in them. Okay, before we end

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Speaker 1: the show tonight, there is something very important to talk about.

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Speaker 1: As I rub my hands together here, all right, they're

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01:07:45,200 --> 01:07:48,960
Speaker 1: hot enough, let's talk about recruiting. Recruiting is on fire.

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Speaker 1: This is June, lock in, this is the new hot time.

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Speaker 1: This is like what January used to be. Like Colin,

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Speaker 1: Let's take a look at what the top ten teams

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Speaker 1: rankings look like right now, because they've been in a wild,

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Speaker 1: wild state of flux. So George's number one right now,

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Speaker 1: Michigan's too. Florida has vaulted all the way up to

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Speaker 1: number three. Florida is rolling. They are on a recruiting

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Speaker 1: heat or the last week, the likes of which we

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Speaker 1: have not seen from that program in a long time.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how long we would go back, but

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Speaker 1: in a long time. But there are some names you

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Speaker 1: don't see there that you will end up seeing there.

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Speaker 1: Texas is nowhere near the top ten or twenty, or

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Speaker 1: thirty or forty or fifty. Texas is sixty second right now.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna make a bet with you. I think they'll

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Speaker 1: finish top ten, and I think they've got some of

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Speaker 1: their own heat coming in the way of commitments very soon.

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Speaker 1: But in the meantime, just let Uncle Josh tell you here.

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Speaker 1: I think Texas will be okay. I don't think they're

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Speaker 1: freaking out or anything. But maybe if you don't follow

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Speaker 1: recruiting and you're a Texas fan and you see this,

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01:08:52,760 --> 01:08:55,599
Speaker 1: you think what happened? Did the NCAA drop the hammer

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Speaker 1: on us? No, you guys will be fine. Also, Alabama

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Speaker 1: know where to be found. They're at twenty five right now.

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Speaker 1: Alabama's got the highest average player grade of any program

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Speaker 1: in the country. Their average commit is rated ninety four

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Speaker 1: zero point thirty six. It's just that they've not taken

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Speaker 1: many guys. Obviously that will change. It's a very very

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Speaker 1: fine selection process for them at this point, and so

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Speaker 1: they're sitting at actually twenty seven. I think they'll be

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Speaker 1: easily top five when all of a sudden done. However, Colin,

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Speaker 1: if you could do me a favorite and throw that

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Speaker 1: top ten back up, there are some other programs out

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Speaker 1: there who maybe we never talk about, then all of

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Speaker 1: a sudden have just appeared out of nowhere. Do you

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Speaker 1: understand Stanford has a top ten class right now. Stanford,

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Speaker 1: new coaching staff and everything. Stanford. They landed the number

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Speaker 1: three quarterback in the country in Elijah Brown. We talked

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Speaker 1: to him last week out there. I talked to him

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Speaker 1: a couple of times out there. It was UCLA or Stanford,

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Speaker 1: and he goes Stanford, and it was the quote he

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Speaker 1: gave me was it was so common sensical, but he said,

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Speaker 1: you can find starting quarterback positions all over the place,

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Speaker 1: you can only find a Stanford degree one place. And

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Speaker 1: he's going there. And so they got a good one there.

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Speaker 1: That new coaching staff out there going about things in

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Speaker 1: a really aggressive way, as aggressive as you can be

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Speaker 1: at Stanford, So good for them. Now some other programs

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Speaker 1: that we don't normally talk a lot about, but every

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Speaker 1: recruiting cycle has its own story. Mississippi State's hot right now.

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Speaker 1: Mississippi State's really hot right now. Are net over there

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Speaker 1: also a new head coach, totally different circumstances. Obviously number

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Speaker 1: twenty class in the country. Yes, and they just landed

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Speaker 1: a trio of four star kids from in state. Most

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Speaker 1: of their players so far are from inside the state

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Speaker 1: of Mississippi. JJ Harrell's a receiver committed Mississippi State. Braylan

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Speaker 1: burnside wide receiver committed Mississippi State. PJ. Woodland corner committed

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Speaker 1: Mississippi State. Good on that staff, really good on that staff. Also,

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Speaker 1: Texas Tech is on a roll. Texas Tech under Joey

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Speaker 1: maguire taking a really unique reproach in recruiting. Get this,

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Speaker 1: They're just being honest and upfront, but also not trying

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Speaker 1: to pressure anyone. If you want to come here, that's cool.

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Speaker 1: If you don't, that's cool as well. But do you

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Speaker 1: want to come here? That's working? What a radical concept,

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Speaker 1: just being upfront and honest for folks. If it works,

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Speaker 1: I think it may be applied more broadly, we'll see

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Speaker 1: five star wide receiver Micah Hudson. I want you to

1353
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Speaker 1: pay attention to that name because he has been crystal

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Speaker 1: balld to Texas Tech. It looks like they're going to

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Speaker 1: land him, and they're already ranked fairly highly without him,

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Speaker 1: so if they do land him, it's going to be

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Speaker 1: a really big deal. Keep an eye on him. Six foot,

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Speaker 1: one hundred ninety punds from Temple, Texas. Could be a

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Speaker 1: situation where Texas Tech just flats out beats Texas for

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Speaker 1: a recruit that everyone wants, so keep an eye on that. Also,

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Speaker 1: you'll notice Tennessee was at number ten. Keep an eye

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Speaker 1: on them because they got a big visit weekend coming up.

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Speaker 1: A lot of folks have big visit weekends happening right now,

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Speaker 1: this is visit season. But I was looking at Steve

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Speaker 1: Wolfong's crystal Ball activity, and Will Fong has Crystal balld

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Speaker 1: a couple of four star receivers to them for next week.

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Speaker 1: Those commitments are happening next week, So Tennessee's number ten

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Speaker 1: in the country right now and could be rising this

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Speaker 1: upcoming week. Will Fong, I got two things out of

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Speaker 1: him today. First thing, he did was call me to

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Speaker 1: let me know that he thinks anytime there is a

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Speaker 1: day Major League Baseball game, it's braves versus phillies. That's

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Speaker 1: a theory of his. And the other thing we got

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Speaker 1: out of him is a couple of crystal balls for

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Speaker 1: Tennessee landing four star receivers. Make of both of those

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Speaker 1: bits of information, what you will jam pack show again tonight?

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Speaker 1: I mean, when's last time we went under an hour?

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Make sure you subscribe to the channel

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Speaker 1: and get ten of your friends to do the same, goes.

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Speaker 1: We badly, badly want to hit two hundred k by

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Speaker 1: kickoff or earlier. You don't have to take that long

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Speaker 1: if you don't want to. We gotta get in bed. Busy,

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Speaker 1: busy playoff day tomorrow. So thank you so much for

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Speaker 1: watching and listening. For direct Colin, for producer Jesse, for

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Speaker 1: Bradley the associate, I'm Josh Bate. Take care, have a

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Speaker 1: good rest of your night. Than God was