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Speaker 1: in week four. But outside of that trip to LSU,

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Speaker 1: there's probably only one underdog spot through seven weeks here

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Speaker 1: on their schedule. Then they have a game at Alabama

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Speaker 1: and that's the first time outside of the trip to LSU.

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Speaker 1: That's the only other time here before November. They'll definitively

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Speaker 1: be an underdog. But the reason they got to start fast,

433
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Speaker 1: and especially if you could clip LSU, you put yourself

434
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Speaker 1: in prime position because after that, by there it's at

435
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Speaker 1: South Carolina. You guys can laugh at all you want

436
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Speaker 1: to going in there is a little bit different at

437
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Speaker 1: South Carolina, but then Tennessee at Oklahoma and Texas just

438
00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:17,480
Speaker 1: boom boom, boom boom to end the year. And they're

439
00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:20,399
Speaker 1: replacing two coordinators. So it's probably a good thing that

440
00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:22,960
Speaker 1: A and M doesn't have a front loaded schedule LSU.

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Speaker 1: Speak of Lane Kiffin and the Tigers there, I think

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Speaker 1: LSU's got a chance to be one of those teams

443
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Speaker 1: that feels like they have two seasons. This year, they

444
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Speaker 1: kind of got what Jesse called a sandwich schedule, But

445
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Speaker 1: I think that sounds really weird, so I'm not using

446
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Speaker 1: that term. That's Jesse's term. What he meant by that is,

447
00:23:42,600 --> 00:23:45,480
Speaker 1: if you look at it, they play Clemson and at

448
00:23:45,560 --> 00:23:47,880
Speaker 1: Ole Miss and Texas A and M in the first

449
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Speaker 1: month of the season, and then they're going to disappear

450
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Speaker 1: for a little while because they play McNeice, and they

451
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Speaker 1: play Kentucky, and they play Mississippi State and they play Auburn,

452
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Speaker 1: and so you're just gonna kind of lose track of LSU.

453
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Speaker 1: You'll watch them gets Clemson'll that game at Ole Miss

454
00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:05,280
Speaker 1: will be the biggest game that Saturday. A and M

455
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Speaker 1: comes in there the week after that. That's huge stuff,

456
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Speaker 1: and you could end up burying yourself early. They could

457
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Speaker 1: be two and two entering October, but hey, they could

458
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Speaker 1: be four and oh entering October. So point being, you'll

459
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Speaker 1: get that version of them and they won't be out

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Speaker 1: of the playoff picture because you know, it's twelve teams

461
00:24:22,119 --> 00:24:23,639
Speaker 1: and you can afford to lose three games. Now, and

462
00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:26,520
Speaker 1: still be in it, but they'll disappear and then they'll

463
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Speaker 1: come out of that. And I think if they stay healthy,

464
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Speaker 1: of course, ls use a prime candidate to just be

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Speaker 1: surgeon by the time late October early November rolls around,

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Speaker 1: and that's when they got Bama Texas at Tennessee back

467
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Speaker 1: to back to back, and then they go to Arkansas

468
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Speaker 1: to end the year, which again is not going to

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Speaker 1: scare anyone. But out of all these SEC teams, LSU

470
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Speaker 1: is the only one to finish the season with back

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Speaker 1: to back road games. No one else has back to

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Speaker 1: back roads that late in the year, So I've got

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Speaker 1: an eye on that. I think Texas that road schedules

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Speaker 1: tough for them. Again. They had a really really tough

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Speaker 1: road slate last year. It is just insane that they

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Speaker 1: play Ohio State and an SEC schedule this year Texas.

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Speaker 1: I mean, essentially, if you think about it, so they play,

478
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Speaker 1: they play a tough SEC slate and you add Ohio

479
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Speaker 1: State to it. So you got to Ohio State at

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Speaker 1: home in week two. Good for them, Good for them.

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Speaker 1: We'll see if the committee keeps that in mind. But

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Speaker 1: then they go to Tennessee. They got Oklahoma in Dallas,

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Speaker 1: so that's away from home. They go to Missouri, they

484
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Speaker 1: go to LSU, they go to Texas, A and M.

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Speaker 1: Three of their four November games are on the road,

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Speaker 1: and I'd go up the road to Norman, and I'd

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Speaker 1: say a lot of the same stuff about Oklahoma, because

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Speaker 1: you take the Oklahoma schedule and you're just adding Michigan

489
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Speaker 1: to the Oklahoma schedule. They gotta go to Michigan. Michigan

490
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Speaker 1: came there last year, We were there, by the way,

491
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Speaker 1: phenomenal atmosphere, what a spectacle got. You gotta pay the

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Speaker 1: return trip this year. So you put a trip to

493
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Speaker 1: Michigan plus at Georgia, Texas away from home, and then

494
00:26:01,680 --> 00:26:03,359
Speaker 1: they got Ole, miss and A and M at home

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Speaker 1: and they go to Missouri late and they play half

496
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Speaker 1: a dozen games away from Norman. And if you're wondering

497
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Speaker 1: how that happens, they play Texas neutral every year, and

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00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:18,280
Speaker 1: this is a year where they're five road, four home.

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Speaker 1: If you're playing nine conference games, half of you're going

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Speaker 1: to get to play five at home, four on the road.

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00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:25,960
Speaker 1: Half of you got to play four at home, five

502
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Speaker 1: on the road. So Oklahoma's got the five road plus

503
00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:31,720
Speaker 1: Texas neutral this year and they go to our houses

504
00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:34,879
Speaker 1: that work Jesse fuzzy math anyway, at six and six

505
00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:39,359
Speaker 1: not great, not great because there are many Power four

506
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Speaker 1: teams that play eight to four. It used to be

507
00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:46,359
Speaker 1: the norm that you had eight home games and four

508
00:26:46,480 --> 00:26:48,680
Speaker 1: road games. That kind of used to be the norm.

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Speaker 1: It's not anymore decent draw, I think for Alabama here,

510
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Speaker 1: so they've technically got a marque out of conference opponent,

511
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Speaker 1: but it's Florida State, which we thought had trended down

512
00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:03,240
Speaker 1: last year and they smoked him in Tallahassee. But you've

513
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Speaker 1: got to like Alabama's odds with a clearly down trending

514
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Speaker 1: Florida State team coming into Tuscaloosa Week three, revenge game there,

515
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Speaker 1: so they've got FSU down trending. And also to open

516
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Speaker 1: league play, they play at Kentucky week two, new staff there,

517
00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:22,399
Speaker 1: they play South Carolina at home. Week four, they go

518
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Speaker 1: to Mississippi State week five. No one's saying that these

519
00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:27,919
Speaker 1: are easy games, per se, but if you look at

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00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:30,119
Speaker 1: the odds, those are three of the bottom five teams

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00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:33,720
Speaker 1: in the SEC to open conference play. Then you get

522
00:27:33,760 --> 00:27:37,120
Speaker 1: Georgia coming into Tuscaloosa. Then you go to Knoxville, then

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00:27:37,160 --> 00:27:38,679
Speaker 1: you got A and M at home, so yeah, it

524
00:27:38,680 --> 00:27:42,000
Speaker 1: gets real. But if you're starting a new quarterback like

525
00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:46,320
Speaker 1: Alabama will be, that's about as good as you're gonna

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Speaker 1: get an opening month to an opening half of your schedule.

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Speaker 1: I will say this, as far as I can tell,

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Speaker 1: no one really got the Northwestern treatment. Northwestern, you've got

529
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Speaker 1: thrown in boiling water and left to fend for themselves

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Speaker 1: by the Big Ten schedule makers. The other day when

531
00:28:03,640 --> 00:28:05,840
Speaker 1: we were looking at that, no one really has that. Like,

532
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Speaker 1: there are a couple of red dots on the SEC schedule.

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Speaker 1: For example, Georgia welcomes Auburn. That's Georgia's seventh straight game.

534
00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:18,080
Speaker 1: Auburn's off a bye, so that's a tough scene. But

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00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:22,960
Speaker 1: that's got to happen somewhere. And also South Carolina hosts

536
00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:28,040
Speaker 1: Tennessee and that is Tennessee's eighth straight game, and South

537
00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:31,679
Speaker 1: Carolina is off a bye. So yes, those are not

538
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Speaker 1: ideal situations. I just want to know how the committee's

539
00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:36,960
Speaker 1: going to view your random nine to three SEC teams

540
00:28:37,160 --> 00:28:40,840
Speaker 1: because we found out last year we saw Texas get

541
00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:44,160
Speaker 1: left out, which I thought was justified. I'm not arguing

542
00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:46,200
Speaker 1: they should have been in, but I'm also going to

543
00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:49,240
Speaker 1: tell you if Texas is nine and three after this year,

544
00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:53,200
Speaker 1: if Vanderbilt, you know, it's floating out there again, and

545
00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:56,560
Speaker 1: you're collectively looking at saying, hold up, these teams got

546
00:28:56,600 --> 00:28:59,840
Speaker 1: left out again. It could make the league look really bad.

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00:29:00,080 --> 00:29:02,080
Speaker 1: It could make the league look like they got suckered

548
00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:05,320
Speaker 1: because for a long time I rooted for the SEC

549
00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:07,560
Speaker 1: to play nine league games. But see, I also sat

550
00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:12,320
Speaker 1: here and I said, if I didn't have assurances from

551
00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:15,720
Speaker 1: the playoff committee that they were going to properly take

552
00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:20,640
Speaker 1: into context what a nine game SEC league slate means

553
00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:23,240
Speaker 1: plus at least one power for out of conference opponent,

554
00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:26,719
Speaker 1: then I wouldn't do it. Well, the SEC has done it.

555
00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:30,520
Speaker 1: They've gone to nine league games. We're gonna find out

556
00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:32,840
Speaker 1: if you are what your record says you are. A

557
00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:36,960
Speaker 1: crowd is on board with it. Let's continue. You gotta

558
00:29:37,880 --> 00:29:42,600
Speaker 1: get some lip bomb, very very dry around here, extremely dry.

559
00:29:45,120 --> 00:29:46,800
Speaker 1: I figured this is as good a time as any

560
00:29:46,840 --> 00:29:53,400
Speaker 1: to broach this. Alan from Talmadge, Ohio hit me and said,

561
00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:55,360
Speaker 1: how'd the movie theater trip go? You want to tell

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00:29:55,440 --> 00:29:58,120
Speaker 1: us why it was a quiet ride home? Did you

563
00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:01,640
Speaker 1: do something wrong? I don't think I did anything wrong.

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00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:05,880
Speaker 1: So the other night I find out we're going to

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Speaker 1: the movies. It's a fun time. Used to do it

566
00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:10,000
Speaker 1: all the time as a kid. Don't do it so

567
00:30:10,080 --> 00:30:13,400
Speaker 1: much anymore. Wish I had more reasons to. Well, I

568
00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:15,680
Speaker 1: was informed by Savannah State that we had a reason

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Speaker 1: to So I find out we're going to the movies,

570
00:30:18,680 --> 00:30:22,480
Speaker 1: and I said, great, go out to eat, we'll go

571
00:30:22,520 --> 00:30:25,000
Speaker 1: to the movies. What are we going to see? She

572
00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:30,040
Speaker 1: says the housemaid, and I say, sounds like fun. Give

573
00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:33,880
Speaker 1: me some information, and she says, well, Amanda Seafried is

574
00:30:33,920 --> 00:30:36,360
Speaker 1: in it. President that how you said her last name? Yep,

575
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Speaker 1: Amanda Seyfried and and a young lady by the name

576
00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:45,160
Speaker 1: of Sidney Sweeny. Some people seem to be into her,

577
00:30:45,640 --> 00:30:48,360
Speaker 1: me not so much. But nevertheless, I watched you for

578
00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:51,600
Speaker 1: you she's in it now. This was one of those

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Speaker 1: situations where I got informed at like three o'clock in

580
00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:57,080
Speaker 1: the afternoon we're going. It's not till like nine point fifty.

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00:30:57,080 --> 00:30:59,320
Speaker 1: I think it showed time. So I had some time

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Speaker 1: to think. And the more I thought about it, the

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00:31:02,040 --> 00:31:06,560
Speaker 1: more I thought, I think I heard something about this.

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00:31:07,000 --> 00:31:10,720
Speaker 1: I think I heard something about certain subject matter in

585
00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:14,800
Speaker 1: this picture and the subject matter, I don't know. I

586
00:31:14,800 --> 00:31:18,320
Speaker 1: don't want to spoil it for anyone. Pretty edgy, you know.

587
00:31:18,520 --> 00:31:21,479
Speaker 1: And so I had it confirmed because I did a

588
00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:24,720
Speaker 1: little due diligence. Asked around a couple of people. I said, Hey,

589
00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:27,040
Speaker 1: I heard this happens in this movie? Does it? And

590
00:31:27,080 --> 00:31:29,760
Speaker 1: they said I think their words were oh yeah in

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00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:32,440
Speaker 1: all caps, and they said, yeah, it happens. And at

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00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:36,360
Speaker 1: that point I realized this could be bad for me,

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00:31:36,880 --> 00:31:39,600
Speaker 1: This could be a trap. So I did the only

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00:31:39,640 --> 00:31:41,800
Speaker 1: thing that I can do. We've built a massive audience

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00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:44,240
Speaker 1: around here. What good is a massive audience if I

596
00:31:44,280 --> 00:31:46,400
Speaker 1: don't turn to you guys for help? So what the

597
00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:49,520
Speaker 1: question is talking about is I head up Twitter and

598
00:31:49,560 --> 00:31:52,080
Speaker 1: I said, the wife has us going to see this

599
00:31:52,200 --> 00:31:55,160
Speaker 1: movie tonight? I need some intel? Am I walking into

600
00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:58,640
Speaker 1: a trap? The replies were swift, and the replies were

601
00:31:58,640 --> 00:32:03,640
Speaker 1: definitive and pretty unanimous that I was in trouble. And

602
00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:07,360
Speaker 1: I realized what was going to happen was largely up

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00:32:07,360 --> 00:32:10,840
Speaker 1: to me. Okay, the movie is the My attitude is

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00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:13,040
Speaker 1: the variable. That's what's really going to determine how the

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00:32:13,120 --> 00:32:16,160
Speaker 1: evening goes. So the first thing that I thought that

606
00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:18,960
Speaker 1: was smart to do is to go in with the

607
00:32:19,000 --> 00:32:22,160
Speaker 1: attitude of limiting the damage, because you're not going to

608
00:32:22,200 --> 00:32:24,040
Speaker 1: get out of there without bleeding. You're going to get hurt.

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00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:29,160
Speaker 1: You just don't want to die. And I didn't die.

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00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:32,160
Speaker 1: And if you'll look at the follow up, this was

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00:32:32,200 --> 00:32:34,480
Speaker 1: the next morning. I was silent the rest of the night.

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00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:38,800
Speaker 1: The next morning, January thirty, first Saturday morning, I woke

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Speaker 1: up and I just said, that was a quiet ride home. Boys,

614
00:32:42,520 --> 00:32:44,760
Speaker 1: that was a quiet ride home. But you know what,

615
00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:49,320
Speaker 1: we made it home, same car. No one stormed out,

616
00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:52,560
Speaker 1: no one ubered. This is one of those theaters, as

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00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:55,560
Speaker 1: most are now, with the reclining seats, So I think

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00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:57,400
Speaker 1: one of the things that you have to guard against

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Speaker 1: is you have to make sure that you're more reclined

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00:33:00,280 --> 00:33:03,760
Speaker 1: than she is, you know, especially for certain scenes, because

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Speaker 1: what you don't want is you don't want to not

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00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:08,240
Speaker 1: be able to read your peripheral. So I was able

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00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:10,880
Speaker 1: to read my peripheral. I knew when I was being

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00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:13,200
Speaker 1: looked at. I knew when I was being stared at,

625
00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:17,640
Speaker 1: and look I already had a heads up. And one

626
00:33:17,680 --> 00:33:20,400
Speaker 1: of the best pieces of advice that I got on

627
00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:22,840
Speaker 1: this movie again not to spoil it for anyone, But

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Speaker 1: I don't think this gives anything away. One of the

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00:33:25,640 --> 00:33:28,960
Speaker 1: best pieces of feedback I got was when they go

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Speaker 1: to the hotel, go somewhere else in your mind. And

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00:33:33,840 --> 00:33:36,360
Speaker 1: so they went to that hotel and I went, I

632
00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:38,840
Speaker 1: don't know, I went to Montana or Pizza Hut or

633
00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:41,040
Speaker 1: me MOS's house. I went somewhere else in my mind.

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00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:43,520
Speaker 1: And I don't even think I cracked a smile. I

635
00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:46,800
Speaker 1: really I sat there stone faced as it just happened

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00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:49,480
Speaker 1: to me, and it happened to Sydney, but mainly it

637
00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:52,880
Speaker 1: happened to me. But I think I handled myself as

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00:33:52,920 --> 00:33:57,600
Speaker 1: professionally and maturely as I possibly could. I learned a lot,

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00:33:57,640 --> 00:33:59,840
Speaker 1: and the first thing I learned is look at movie reviews.

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00:33:59,840 --> 00:34:02,760
Speaker 1: The second thing I learned is that trick works. You

641
00:34:02,840 --> 00:34:05,080
Speaker 1: got somewhere else in your mind probably works more than

642
00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:09,040
Speaker 1: just movie theater. So look, Savannah State's a very secure person,

643
00:34:09,200 --> 00:34:11,960
Speaker 1: very secure young lady. So I imagine this could have gone

644
00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:15,480
Speaker 1: drastically worse for many of you than it went for me.

645
00:34:16,200 --> 00:34:17,719
Speaker 1: But I do want to give you guys a fair

646
00:34:17,760 --> 00:34:20,279
Speaker 1: heads up. Some of you have already come across this

647
00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:24,040
Speaker 1: little dilemma. Others of you, judging by the subject matter,

648
00:34:24,160 --> 00:34:27,480
Speaker 1: are going to actively seek out coming across this dilemma.

649
00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:30,440
Speaker 1: And I just I don't want anyone to get hurt.

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Speaker 1: Okay it we don't have college football every Saturday right now,

651
00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:37,439
Speaker 1: and I know you guys are looking to fill the void,

652
00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:39,279
Speaker 1: and you're looking to fill your time and fill your

653
00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:45,040
Speaker 1: schedules and calendars. And if this pops up on the agenda,

654
00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:48,960
Speaker 1: don't shy away from it, but just prepare, prepare properly,

655
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:55,960
Speaker 1: you'll be Okay. It is February and I let's see

656
00:34:56,120 --> 00:34:59,640
Speaker 1: fourteen thirty, about twelve days awake. I do want to

657
00:34:59,640 --> 00:35:02,680
Speaker 1: say it's a big year for the Broyles Award. The

658
00:35:02,719 --> 00:35:06,360
Speaker 1: Broyles Award goes out to the top assistant coach in

659
00:35:06,400 --> 00:35:09,759
Speaker 1: the country, like this year. Mike Bobo's a finalist, Brian

660
00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:13,640
Speaker 1: Haynes is a finalist, Corey Heatherman, Matt Patricius shield Wood

661
00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:15,720
Speaker 1: and those guys will all be in Hot Springs, Arkansas

662
00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:17,600
Speaker 1: in a couple of weeks. I'll be in Hot Springs,

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Speaker 1: Arkansas in a couple of weeks. So first bit, congrats

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Speaker 1: to the finalists. It's the thirtieth anniversary of the Broyles Award.

665
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Speaker 1: I call it the premiere event of Valentine's Week, maybe

666
00:35:27,719 --> 00:35:30,840
Speaker 1: even above and beyond Valentine's Day itself. So congrats to

667
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Speaker 1: those guys. We're looking forward to that. We'll be over

668
00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:35,200
Speaker 1: there at Oaklawn in a couple of weeks. I watch

669
00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:38,959
Speaker 1: horses race one time a year, and that's the week,

670
00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:44,759
Speaker 1: weather permitting, that is a very very happy evening. And

671
00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:46,439
Speaker 1: I tried to put as many smiles on as many

672
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Speaker 1: faces as I could in those portions of the shows,

673
00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:51,359
Speaker 1: because this right here is not gonna be fun. This

674
00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:54,480
Speaker 1: next segment is not gonna be fun at all. But

675
00:35:54,560 --> 00:35:59,440
Speaker 1: I think it's a necessary segment. I don't know how

676
00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:02,200
Speaker 1: else to stay this. I think I'm holding in my

677
00:36:02,239 --> 00:36:04,040
Speaker 1: hand the worst college football take I've seen in a

678
00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:06,960
Speaker 1: long long time. Bradley put it up on the screen there.

679
00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:10,520
Speaker 1: This is Curtis from Charlotte, North Carolina, and he said,

680
00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:13,160
Speaker 1: why do people like you who claim to love college

681
00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:17,320
Speaker 1: football fight against it doing what works for other sports.

682
00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:20,920
Speaker 1: You talk about the twenty four team playoff proposal like

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00:36:20,960 --> 00:36:23,799
Speaker 1: it was the worst idea in the world. Imagine having

684
00:36:23,840 --> 00:36:26,799
Speaker 1: something like March Madness in college football. It would be

685
00:36:26,960 --> 00:36:38,640
Speaker 1: must see, and I'm supposed to respond to that. Curtis, Curtis, Curtis,

686
00:36:39,360 --> 00:36:41,480
Speaker 1: we do have a rule around here about things of

687
00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:44,960
Speaker 1: this nature. Now, if you're watching the show, I love you, Curtis,

688
00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:50,240
Speaker 1: but watching the show doesn't make you immune from casual takes.

689
00:36:50,520 --> 00:36:52,799
Speaker 1: You may not be a casual person. Smart people do

690
00:36:52,840 --> 00:36:56,160
Speaker 1: say casual things. Sometimes. Casual people never say smart things.

691
00:36:56,560 --> 00:36:59,320
Speaker 1: We're going to hope, Curtis, that you're a smart person.

692
00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:01,640
Speaker 1: That is some upon a very very casual take. But

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00:37:01,719 --> 00:37:04,160
Speaker 1: this is a horrible take. It is a terrible way

694
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Speaker 1: to view college football. So Bradley, keep it in your

695
00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:10,640
Speaker 1: holster there because I'm gonna have you probably put that

696
00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:12,640
Speaker 1: up a few times. So I just want to walk

697
00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:15,239
Speaker 1: you guys through this because I know many people in

698
00:37:15,280 --> 00:37:17,839
Speaker 1: your social circles once upon a time have probably said

699
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Speaker 1: something about this. Firstly, when it comes to other sports

700
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Speaker 1: college basketball, Major League Baseball, NFL, I can't state this

701
00:37:28,080 --> 00:37:32,359
Speaker 1: clearly enough, all right. I could not care less how

702
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Speaker 1: college football compares to any other sport out there, because

703
00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:40,759
Speaker 1: I believe college football is one of one. Therefore, it

704
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Speaker 1: is always an apples to orangees comparison, no matter if

705
00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:47,560
Speaker 1: it's even the NFL. You're comparing college football too. But

706
00:37:47,719 --> 00:37:52,040
Speaker 1: if you are, for lack of a better term, in

707
00:37:52,160 --> 00:37:55,520
Speaker 1: the headspace, to make an argument as dumb as comparing

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00:37:55,560 --> 00:37:58,839
Speaker 1: college basketball to college football, well then I want to ask,

709
00:37:58,920 --> 00:38:02,520
Speaker 1: what do you mean, what works? What works? Probably throw

710
00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:04,880
Speaker 1: it up one more time. Did you notice what he

711
00:38:04,960 --> 00:38:10,160
Speaker 1: said here? He said, why are you fighting against college

712
00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:12,760
Speaker 1: football doing what works for other sports?

713
00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:12,960
Speaker 2: Well?

714
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Speaker 1: What works for him? What works for other sports? He said,

715
00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:19,040
Speaker 1: what works for other sports? Now I need to ask you, Curtis,

716
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Speaker 1: because all you're talking about is my playoff thoughts here.

717
00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:24,840
Speaker 1: So are you talking about comparing the college football playoff

718
00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:29,040
Speaker 1: to March Madness just heads up as products? Or are

719
00:38:29,080 --> 00:38:31,560
Speaker 1: you talking about what's good for other sports? Because if

720
00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:34,480
Speaker 1: you're talking about what's good for a sport, March Madness

721
00:38:34,520 --> 00:38:38,720
Speaker 1: is terrible for the overall state of college basketball. March

722
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Speaker 1: Madness has a product's amazing. So when I say what's

723
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Speaker 1: good for a sport, I mean what makes me watch

724
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Speaker 1: the regular season? That's what's best for a sport to me, Like,

725
00:38:49,040 --> 00:38:51,359
Speaker 1: that's my personal feel. But college football is a little

726
00:38:51,360 --> 00:38:54,520
Speaker 1: bit differ than everything else. So in college football, the

727
00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:58,120
Speaker 1: best postseason format is the kind of postseason format that

728
00:38:58,239 --> 00:39:02,359
Speaker 1: has you glued to your TV and we one, three, seven, ten,

729
00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:06,640
Speaker 1: and thirteen because those games are vital and must see.

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00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:11,320
Speaker 1: There's urgency on them, there's maximum importance on them. College

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Speaker 1: basketball makes me feel like I couldn't care less about

732
00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:18,439
Speaker 1: it's regular season. It's a one month sport. I had Jesse, go, look,

733
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Speaker 1: did you know Illinois and Nebraska play today? That's a

734
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Speaker 1: top ten matchup. I cannot wait to get those viewership numbers. Now.

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Speaker 1: I know a lot of you are saying, Josh, you

736
00:39:27,320 --> 00:39:29,560
Speaker 1: always say ratings don't matter. No, no, no, no, they

737
00:39:29,600 --> 00:39:32,440
Speaker 1: don't matter in a sense of you enjoying what you enjoy.

738
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Speaker 1: But when it comes to measuring the kind of urgency

739
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Speaker 1: that's placed on a regular season, they give a crystal

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Speaker 1: clear indication of what a postseason format does to that

741
00:39:43,480 --> 00:39:47,160
Speaker 1: sports regular season. So comparing postseasons is a little bit

742
00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:49,919
Speaker 1: different here. But even if you want to compare postseasons,

743
00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:53,120
Speaker 1: you're not gonna get any pushback from me that the

744
00:39:53,239 --> 00:39:57,319
Speaker 1: NCAA Tournament is amazing. I'm right there, glued right along

745
00:39:57,320 --> 00:40:00,359
Speaker 1: with you, guys. Now also right along with you, I'm

746
00:40:00,360 --> 00:40:03,200
Speaker 1: trying to learn everything I can about Creighton in the

747
00:40:03,680 --> 00:40:06,080
Speaker 1: twenty four hours leading up to tip off of the

748
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Speaker 1: first round, because I haven't watched a game of Theirs

749
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Speaker 1: all year, because the postseason has led me to realize

750
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Speaker 1: I don't need to watch them in the regular season.

751
00:40:15,160 --> 00:40:17,720
Speaker 1: I don't ever want college football to be like that.

752
00:40:17,719 --> 00:40:20,840
Speaker 1: That's the first thing. The second thing is the expansionist

753
00:40:20,960 --> 00:40:24,479
Speaker 1: truthers out there always loves starting the book on chapter nine.

754
00:40:24,719 --> 00:40:28,200
Speaker 1: They always love saying, Man, a twenty fourteen playoff would

755
00:40:28,239 --> 00:40:31,120
Speaker 1: be awesome? Why would you be against a twenty fourteen playoff?

756
00:40:31,200 --> 00:40:33,760
Speaker 1: Or they'll say something like this, how can you deny

757
00:40:34,360 --> 00:40:37,000
Speaker 1: that a twenty fourteen playoff would be amazing to watch?

758
00:40:37,080 --> 00:40:41,120
Speaker 1: And the answer is I don't deny that, But that's

759
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Speaker 1: chapter nine of the book. The playoff itself would be

760
00:40:45,520 --> 00:40:49,600
Speaker 1: a must see television product, just like the NCAA Tournament

761
00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:53,120
Speaker 1: March and April. That's a must see television product. The

762
00:40:53,280 --> 00:40:57,440
Speaker 1: question is how did it render the four or five

763
00:40:57,480 --> 00:41:01,800
Speaker 1: months leading up to it? I either regular season college

764
00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:06,480
Speaker 1: basketball's postseason tournament formatt renders its regular season irrelevant. Now,

765
00:41:06,520 --> 00:41:09,560
Speaker 1: if you're a hardcore basketball fan, you're watching those games,

766
00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:12,200
Speaker 1: but you're not watching those games. You didn't watch Alabama

767
00:41:12,239 --> 00:41:15,360
Speaker 1: and Florida earlier today because you knew there was maximum

768
00:41:15,360 --> 00:41:19,279
Speaker 1: postseason implications on the line. You didn't watch that game knowing, Man,

769
00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:22,080
Speaker 1: if someone loses this thing, they are out of wiggle room.

770
00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:25,200
Speaker 1: There is so much urgency on this thing. You watched

771
00:41:25,200 --> 00:41:28,120
Speaker 1: it because you love basketball, which is cool, and I'd

772
00:41:28,120 --> 00:41:31,000
Speaker 1: probably always watch college football. But if you're talking about

773
00:41:31,040 --> 00:41:36,400
Speaker 1: feeling that urgency, if you're talking about that unmistakable puckering

774
00:41:36,440 --> 00:41:39,400
Speaker 1: that you get early on Saturday morning, leading in a

775
00:41:39,440 --> 00:41:41,759
Speaker 1: Saturday afternoon because you know your game kicks off tonight

776
00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:43,879
Speaker 1: and you've already got one loss, and if you guys

777
00:41:43,920 --> 00:41:46,960
Speaker 1: lose again, you may be out of it. Notre Dame

778
00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:49,960
Speaker 1: felt that as early as Week three last year, their

779
00:41:50,080 --> 00:41:53,080
Speaker 1: second game of the season. They felt it that early.

780
00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:56,360
Speaker 1: There's no other sport in America that offers that feeling.

781
00:41:57,040 --> 00:42:00,160
Speaker 1: That's a good feeling. You want more of that in

782
00:42:00,160 --> 00:42:02,719
Speaker 1: college football, not less of that. So when I look

783
00:42:02,760 --> 00:42:05,600
Speaker 1: at how awesome a twenty fourteen playoff would be, Yeah,

784
00:42:05,640 --> 00:42:09,160
Speaker 1: in isolation, it would be must see. I don't ever

785
00:42:09,239 --> 00:42:13,120
Speaker 1: disagree with that. But the playoff expansionists, the expansion truthers,

786
00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:15,960
Speaker 1: don't ever like to start the book on chapter one,

787
00:42:16,080 --> 00:42:18,719
Speaker 1: because if you start the book on chapter one, Notre

788
00:42:18,840 --> 00:42:21,480
Speaker 1: Dame goes and plays Miami and they lose, and then

789
00:42:21,520 --> 00:42:22,880
Speaker 1: they come home and they play A and m and

790
00:42:22,920 --> 00:42:25,480
Speaker 1: they lose. And you know what you say after that, Well, man,

791
00:42:25,480 --> 00:42:27,279
Speaker 1: we got to get our act together. Can't afford to

792
00:42:27,320 --> 00:42:28,640
Speaker 1: lose too many more of these. We'll be out of

793
00:42:28,640 --> 00:42:31,399
Speaker 1: the twenty fourteen playoff? Is that really what you want

794
00:42:31,400 --> 00:42:34,600
Speaker 1: college football to be? I can answer definitively. I don't

795
00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:37,360
Speaker 1: want college football to be that. And I think it

796
00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:40,319
Speaker 1: helps to hear debates on this because I think if

797
00:42:40,360 --> 00:42:42,120
Speaker 1: you just hear someone say it, probably throw it up

798
00:42:42,160 --> 00:42:44,680
Speaker 1: one more time. If you hear someone just say that

799
00:42:44,680 --> 00:42:48,279
Speaker 1: that last part, especially man, a twenty fourteen playoff in

800
00:42:48,320 --> 00:42:52,400
Speaker 1: college football, imagine having something like March Madness in college football.

801
00:42:52,520 --> 00:42:55,120
Speaker 1: It would be must see. That's the kind of bumper

802
00:42:55,160 --> 00:42:59,000
Speaker 1: sticker logic that if it's not held up to tighter scrutiny,

803
00:42:59,320 --> 00:43:01,040
Speaker 1: if you don't have to walk it through to its

804
00:43:01,080 --> 00:43:04,839
Speaker 1: logical conclusion, sort of makes you go, man, that kind

805
00:43:04,840 --> 00:43:08,279
Speaker 1: of sounds okay. It does? It does? Ice cream for

806
00:43:08,320 --> 00:43:13,120
Speaker 1: dinner every night? Sounds good? Sounds good? Now upon further inspection,

807
00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:16,239
Speaker 1: you will be the face of type two diabetes within

808
00:43:16,280 --> 00:43:19,400
Speaker 1: the month. So it really it sounds good, but it

809
00:43:19,440 --> 00:43:23,440
Speaker 1: doesn't work. And in college football that may sound good,

810
00:43:23,840 --> 00:43:25,799
Speaker 1: but then the adults have to walk in the room

811
00:43:26,160 --> 00:43:29,040
Speaker 1: and say no, no, no, that's not gonna work. But

812
00:43:29,040 --> 00:43:31,000
Speaker 1: here's the problem in college football, some of the adults

813
00:43:31,000 --> 00:43:32,959
Speaker 1: in the room are actually the ones pushing the twenty

814
00:43:32,960 --> 00:43:36,239
Speaker 1: fourteen playoff. And that is why we cannot cut this

815
00:43:36,320 --> 00:43:42,360
Speaker 1: microphone off anytime soon. They're watching us in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Columbia, Missouri, Temple, Texas.

816
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Speaker 1: Thank you guys so much for being tuned in. And

817
00:43:45,239 --> 00:43:49,359
Speaker 1: there's a quick smiley face for the live chat just

818
00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:52,839
Speaker 1: in case they doubted we were live. I've got more

819
00:43:52,880 --> 00:43:58,120
Speaker 1: breaking news, big breaking news night. It turns out that

820
00:43:58,160 --> 00:44:01,520
Speaker 1: the dabbo haters have not gone anywhere. Jacob from Kenner,

821
00:44:01,520 --> 00:44:04,319
Speaker 1: Louisiana hit me. I told you there was a little

822
00:44:04,360 --> 00:44:06,680
Speaker 1: sauce to the mailbag tonight. He said, why are you

823
00:44:06,800 --> 00:44:12,040
Speaker 1: defending the moaning and whining of Deabo Swinny. Maybe don't

824
00:44:12,040 --> 00:44:15,040
Speaker 1: be ignorant about the way the transfer portal works. When

825
00:44:15,080 --> 00:44:18,440
Speaker 1: you're making millions of dollars. I would trade my job

826
00:44:18,520 --> 00:44:23,400
Speaker 1: with him in a heartbeat. Honestly, I thought it was

827
00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:27,359
Speaker 1: way too aggressive, given that we've talked about this one time, Jesse,

828
00:44:27,520 --> 00:44:29,600
Speaker 1: Is that right, We've really talked about it one time.

829
00:44:29,840 --> 00:44:32,840
Speaker 1: So quick backstory, just in case some of you have

830
00:44:33,640 --> 00:44:35,520
Speaker 1: missed what happened. There was a kid by the name

831
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Speaker 1: of Luke Farelli, really good player, and transfers to Clemson.

832
00:44:41,120 --> 00:44:46,040
Speaker 1: Not verbally, he transfers there. He signs with Clemson. He enrolls.

833
00:44:46,160 --> 00:44:50,680
Speaker 1: Remember we've got one transfer portal window allegedly in this sport.

834
00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:56,400
Speaker 1: So Luke Forarelli transfers to Clemson, signs in rolls, he's

835
00:44:56,440 --> 00:45:00,880
Speaker 1: in classes, he's attending tim functions, the portal. No clothes

836
00:45:00,880 --> 00:45:04,640
Speaker 1: is so what would any logical person think? They're okay,

837
00:45:04,680 --> 00:45:07,960
Speaker 1: he's on our team this year. We're good, all right?

838
00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:11,680
Speaker 1: And then ole Miss decides they want Luke Farelli. And

839
00:45:11,960 --> 00:45:14,080
Speaker 1: ole Mess looks at the sign that says sixty five

840
00:45:14,120 --> 00:45:16,400
Speaker 1: miles per hour and they cruise pass it doing a

841
00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:19,880
Speaker 1: solid one twenty, knowing that the NCAA cop car there

842
00:45:19,920 --> 00:45:22,480
Speaker 1: has got four flat tires, their sirens don't work anyway,

843
00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:25,000
Speaker 1: who cares, and they just say we want you. How

844
00:45:25,080 --> 00:45:27,080
Speaker 1: much does it take and they pay him enough, and

845
00:45:27,160 --> 00:45:31,560
Speaker 1: Luke Forrelli's out. That basically is the long and short

846
00:45:31,600 --> 00:45:34,120
Speaker 1: of what happened. Ole Miss is not the only team

847
00:45:34,160 --> 00:45:36,360
Speaker 1: doing this. They'll be the first ones in the comment

848
00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:38,880
Speaker 1: section saying LSU did that to us. It's happened in

849
00:45:38,920 --> 00:45:41,440
Speaker 1: a lot of places. Happening in a lot of places.

850
00:45:41,560 --> 00:45:45,920
Speaker 1: This was the most high profile. Okay, so that happened,

851
00:45:46,520 --> 00:45:49,000
Speaker 1: and I don't know. Allegedly I went on some tirade

852
00:45:49,040 --> 00:45:51,960
Speaker 1: about this. So I had producer Jesse and pres and

853
00:45:52,520 --> 00:45:55,560
Speaker 1: Bradley go back in the archives, Oh, I don't know,

854
00:45:55,640 --> 00:45:58,040
Speaker 1: a week and a half ago, and we found what

855
00:45:58,160 --> 00:46:02,400
Speaker 1: I said. Because if I did what the question claimed

856
00:46:02,440 --> 00:46:05,240
Speaker 1: I did, we've got to hold me to account tonight.

857
00:46:05,360 --> 00:46:09,360
Speaker 1: So in the interest of fairness, here's what I said

858
00:46:09,360 --> 00:46:12,920
Speaker 1: about Debos winning. The second option he had was the

859
00:46:12,960 --> 00:46:15,879
Speaker 1: option he took, and that has called people out by name.

860
00:46:16,560 --> 00:46:18,359
Speaker 1: I've got all the respect in the world for it.

861
00:46:18,719 --> 00:46:21,640
Speaker 1: I think most of us understand. In the past, my

862
00:46:21,880 --> 00:46:25,120
Speaker 1: coaches have whined and complained about tampering, but they've stopped

863
00:46:25,120 --> 00:46:27,520
Speaker 1: short of calling another coach out by name. And the

864
00:46:27,560 --> 00:46:30,240
Speaker 1: pretty simple answer there is because they know they're probably

865
00:46:30,239 --> 00:46:32,479
Speaker 1: guilty of it at some point too, So it would

866
00:46:32,480 --> 00:46:36,720
Speaker 1: be a massive pile of hypocrisy shoved in your face

867
00:46:36,840 --> 00:46:39,759
Speaker 1: via a microphone if most of them did it. But see,

868
00:46:39,840 --> 00:46:43,040
Speaker 1: I believe Patnrdoozi when he says, we don't really do

869
00:46:43,120 --> 00:46:45,960
Speaker 1: that here, we don't do it. Therefore, I'm going to

870
00:46:46,000 --> 00:46:49,240
Speaker 1: call someone out when they do do it. I believe Dabo.

871
00:46:49,960 --> 00:46:51,960
Speaker 1: I believe Dabo calls it. If I don't believe him,

872
00:46:51,960 --> 00:46:53,640
Speaker 1: it doesn't really matter if I don't believe him, if

873
00:46:54,160 --> 00:46:56,960
Speaker 1: if he's lying, or if he really is being a hypocrite,

874
00:46:57,080 --> 00:47:02,120
Speaker 1: in due time, that evidence will surface. Where's the rest

875
00:47:02,160 --> 00:47:05,960
Speaker 1: of it, Bradley, That's all I said. That's it. That's

876
00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:08,640
Speaker 1: all I said. All right, Bradley, throw the question back up.

877
00:47:10,239 --> 00:47:13,680
Speaker 1: So that's what I'm guilty of saying. And to read

878
00:47:13,719 --> 00:47:17,799
Speaker 1: the question again, why are you defending the moaning and

879
00:47:17,840 --> 00:47:21,880
Speaker 1: whining of dabos Sweeney, Maybe don't be so ignorant about

880
00:47:21,960 --> 00:47:24,920
Speaker 1: the way the portal works when you're making millions of dollars.

881
00:47:25,520 --> 00:47:28,520
Speaker 1: I would trade my job with him in a heartbeat. Okay,

882
00:47:28,600 --> 00:47:34,960
Speaker 1: moaning and whining. I watched the entire Dabo Swinny press conference.

883
00:47:35,080 --> 00:47:37,280
Speaker 1: By the way, he had a very lengthy press conference

884
00:47:37,320 --> 00:47:40,960
Speaker 1: where he made an allegation. He said, we had a

885
00:47:41,040 --> 00:47:44,160
Speaker 1: kid on our roster enrolled in classes, and ole Miss

886
00:47:44,200 --> 00:47:47,640
Speaker 1: tampered with him and took him from us. And then

887
00:47:47,680 --> 00:47:51,799
Speaker 1: he laid out exact dates and times he had documented

888
00:47:51,840 --> 00:47:56,239
Speaker 1: text messages and he gave specifics. So my question would be,

889
00:47:58,160 --> 00:48:02,520
Speaker 1: if that's moaning and whining in your world, is there

890
00:48:02,719 --> 00:48:08,000
Speaker 1: any valid way to highlight wrongdoing? If that's not the way,

891
00:48:08,400 --> 00:48:10,640
Speaker 1: is there any valid way or are you just saying

892
00:48:10,719 --> 00:48:13,719
Speaker 1: no matter how you bring it up, if you bring

893
00:48:13,760 --> 00:48:17,279
Speaker 1: it up, you're whining and complaining. I guess we disagree there.

894
00:48:17,360 --> 00:48:21,040
Speaker 1: That's okay that I think you're wrong, because you are.

895
00:48:21,360 --> 00:48:24,240
Speaker 1: But that's okay there. But the way the portal works, Bradley,

896
00:48:24,280 --> 00:48:26,239
Speaker 1: throw the question up yet yet again. I know this

897
00:48:26,320 --> 00:48:27,920
Speaker 1: is two segments in a row where I've done this,

898
00:48:28,200 --> 00:48:29,960
Speaker 1: But there are a lot of layers, a lot of

899
00:48:30,040 --> 00:48:33,120
Speaker 1: layers to this cake. Not that one, Bradley, the other

900
00:48:33,120 --> 00:48:34,560
Speaker 1: one that was the other bad take? No, give me

901
00:48:34,600 --> 00:48:41,800
Speaker 1: the latest bad take? Uh oh, Jacob, He said, maybe

902
00:48:41,840 --> 00:48:44,440
Speaker 1: don't be so ignorant about the way the transfer portal

903
00:48:44,440 --> 00:48:46,480
Speaker 1: works when you're making millions of dollars number one. The

904
00:48:46,520 --> 00:48:49,839
Speaker 1: guy's salary is irrelevant whether he's a volunteer or a billionaire.

905
00:48:50,719 --> 00:48:53,759
Speaker 1: Maybe don't be so ignorant about the way the transfer

906
00:48:53,880 --> 00:48:57,399
Speaker 1: portal works. That's what Daboswenty was doing. He was being

907
00:48:57,520 --> 00:49:00,400
Speaker 1: ignorant about the way the portal works. Hey, Jacob, what

908
00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:01,480
Speaker 1: if I told you this is in the way the

909
00:49:01,480 --> 00:49:04,279
Speaker 1: transfer portals is supposed to work. What if I told

910
00:49:04,360 --> 00:49:06,600
Speaker 1: you this is a mockery of the way the transfer

911
00:49:06,680 --> 00:49:12,120
Speaker 1: portal is supposed to work. And imagine that logic applied elsewhere. Imagine, Jacob,

912
00:49:12,520 --> 00:49:15,799
Speaker 1: you have a front lawn and someone walks by and

913
00:49:15,840 --> 00:49:18,480
Speaker 1: just keeps throwing dog crap in it every single morning,

914
00:49:18,960 --> 00:49:21,640
Speaker 1: and you get mad at it, you know, because it's

915
00:49:21,680 --> 00:49:25,719
Speaker 1: against all kind of homeowners association ordinances, not to mention,

916
00:49:25,920 --> 00:49:31,040
Speaker 1: just common civil society framework. And you get mad, and

917
00:49:31,400 --> 00:49:33,239
Speaker 1: you know, you do like Cublic Dust because he really

918
00:49:33,239 --> 00:49:35,040
Speaker 1: deals with this issue, and you make a whole bunch

919
00:49:35,080 --> 00:49:36,920
Speaker 1: of angry Twitter videos. But they just keep throwing it

920
00:49:36,960 --> 00:49:39,080
Speaker 1: over there every morning, and then you complain about it.

921
00:49:39,200 --> 00:49:41,279
Speaker 1: Someone looks at you and says, hey, Bud, you just

922
00:49:41,360 --> 00:49:44,680
Speaker 1: need to learn the way this neighborhood works. Look would

923
00:49:44,719 --> 00:49:46,960
Speaker 1: that logic make any sense if they put a twenty

924
00:49:46,960 --> 00:49:49,560
Speaker 1: five mile per hour speed limit sign out on your

925
00:49:49,560 --> 00:49:53,440
Speaker 1: street and Bradley keeps speeding by at sixty every morning,

926
00:49:54,000 --> 00:49:56,560
Speaker 1: and then his mom comes over because you called her complain,

927
00:49:56,640 --> 00:49:59,960
Speaker 1: and imagine the audacity of her to look you in

928
00:50:00,280 --> 00:50:03,719
Speaker 1: say you just need to learn the way the street works. You.

929
00:50:03,719 --> 00:50:06,360
Speaker 1: You would never even apply this logic, much less accept

930
00:50:06,400 --> 00:50:08,839
Speaker 1: this logic because there is no logic behind it in

931
00:50:08,880 --> 00:50:11,880
Speaker 1: any other venture. It's like, you don't like Dabo for

932
00:50:11,960 --> 00:50:13,720
Speaker 1: whatever reason. I don't know if you guys have history,

933
00:50:13,840 --> 00:50:16,880
Speaker 1: he didn't recruit you or something, but you don't like Dabo,

934
00:50:17,280 --> 00:50:20,080
Speaker 1: so anything coming out of his mouth is automatically a

935
00:50:20,120 --> 00:50:25,880
Speaker 1: pinata and you're blindly swinging away. Thirdly, why does anyone's

936
00:50:25,960 --> 00:50:29,759
Speaker 1: salary matter when they're pointing out right wrong, when they're

937
00:50:29,800 --> 00:50:33,640
Speaker 1: pointing out inefficiencies. Does it take a guy off the

938
00:50:33,680 --> 00:50:36,680
Speaker 1: street walking up to you and making this point for

939
00:50:36,760 --> 00:50:39,319
Speaker 1: you to say, well, you know what, he has a

940
00:50:39,360 --> 00:50:42,719
Speaker 1: good point. Now, if he's got a seven or eight

941
00:50:42,800 --> 00:50:45,879
Speaker 1: figure net worth, no, he's got a bad point there.

942
00:50:46,120 --> 00:50:49,359
Speaker 1: But if he's just running a soup kitchen over here,

943
00:50:49,440 --> 00:50:52,480
Speaker 1: he's got a good point. A good Point's a good point.

944
00:50:52,800 --> 00:50:58,200
Speaker 1: And lastly, I would trade my job with his. It

945
00:50:58,280 --> 00:51:02,360
Speaker 1: sounds kind of personal. It sounds kind of personal, Jacob.

946
00:51:03,000 --> 00:51:08,120
Speaker 1: It almost sounds like someone made a good point to

947
00:51:08,239 --> 00:51:11,279
Speaker 1: someone as Daboswinny. But because the guy makes a lot

948
00:51:11,280 --> 00:51:15,560
Speaker 1: of money, you think it kind of immunizes him from

949
00:51:15,600 --> 00:51:18,920
Speaker 1: being able to point out or make valid criticism. And

950
00:51:19,000 --> 00:51:21,560
Speaker 1: this is a kind of an ideology that exists that

951
00:51:21,600 --> 00:51:24,080
Speaker 1: I think is really stupid. And by the way it

952
00:51:24,120 --> 00:51:26,360
Speaker 1: should be, it should be noted Jacob's kind of a

953
00:51:26,360 --> 00:51:28,160
Speaker 1: friend of the program. That's why I'm speaking to him

954
00:51:28,160 --> 00:51:30,840
Speaker 1: a little more forcefully than I do a random stranger,

955
00:51:30,880 --> 00:51:34,359
Speaker 1: because we don't have random strangers on this campus. So

956
00:51:35,080 --> 00:51:38,319
Speaker 1: Jacob says here, Daboswinny's just a whiner. I trade my

957
00:51:38,560 --> 00:51:41,239
Speaker 1: job with him, and a heartbeat, well do it. Do it.

958
00:51:41,320 --> 00:51:43,520
Speaker 1: You're probably not talented enough to You'll never get the

959
00:51:43,560 --> 00:51:46,719
Speaker 1: opportunity to. But let's say you did. How Dabbo get

960
00:51:46,760 --> 00:51:50,760
Speaker 1: that opportunity? You want his job? Hit rewind to nineteen

961
00:51:50,880 --> 00:51:56,959
Speaker 1: ninety three and apply for a grad assistant position in Alabama. Oh,

962
00:51:57,040 --> 00:52:00,880
Speaker 1: you thought that trading jobs with Dabbo meant you started

963
00:52:00,920 --> 00:52:03,520
Speaker 1: making ten million a year. No, that's not how that works. No,

964
00:52:03,560 --> 00:52:05,839
Speaker 1: you gotta go back to nineteen ninety three, and then

965
00:52:05,840 --> 00:52:09,320
Speaker 1: you get a grad assistant position. You're probably borroing money

966
00:52:09,560 --> 00:52:12,239
Speaker 1: to make ends meet, and you go ninety three, ninety four,

967
00:52:12,320 --> 00:52:14,600
Speaker 1: ninety five, ninety six, ninety seven, ninety eight, ninety nine,

968
00:52:14,680 --> 00:52:17,439
Speaker 1: two thousand, I'm a pause to breathe two thousand and one,

969
00:52:17,600 --> 00:52:19,720
Speaker 1: two thousand and two, two thousand and three, two thousand

970
00:52:19,719 --> 00:52:21,560
Speaker 1: and four, two thousand and five, two thousand and six,

971
00:52:21,600 --> 00:52:24,280
Speaker 1: two thousand and seven, and then in two thousand and eight, Jacob,

972
00:52:25,040 --> 00:52:28,279
Speaker 1: you'll be making two hundred grand a year. So put

973
00:52:28,280 --> 00:52:31,239
Speaker 1: in fifteen years for me before you ever get a

974
00:52:31,280 --> 00:52:36,040
Speaker 1: look as a head coach, and then resurrect Clemson. Build

975
00:52:36,120 --> 00:52:39,440
Speaker 1: Clemson into something that it's never been before in the

976
00:52:39,560 --> 00:52:43,200
Speaker 1: era of Nick Saban, the greatest of all time at

977
00:52:43,239 --> 00:52:45,799
Speaker 1: his peak. Go head to head with him and beat

978
00:52:45,880 --> 00:52:49,400
Speaker 1: him twice in national championship games. You do all that,

979
00:52:50,200 --> 00:52:53,280
Speaker 1: You trade jobs with deboswiney. Go for it. It sounds

980
00:52:53,320 --> 00:52:56,320
Speaker 1: hard to do, but go for it. But here's my guess.

981
00:52:56,680 --> 00:53:01,120
Speaker 1: My guess would be if you did all that, and

982
00:53:01,239 --> 00:53:04,759
Speaker 1: if you were passionate enough to invest a large chunk

983
00:53:04,800 --> 00:53:07,840
Speaker 1: of your life into that work. You'd probably care a

984
00:53:07,840 --> 00:53:11,359
Speaker 1: lot about it. You'd probably care a lot about the surroundings.

985
00:53:11,400 --> 00:53:13,319
Speaker 1: You'd probably care a lot about the world you're in.

986
00:53:13,360 --> 00:53:17,400
Speaker 1: It'd probably piss you off to see poor leadership allowing

987
00:53:17,400 --> 00:53:19,080
Speaker 1: it to go off the rails. And you know what,

988
00:53:19,120 --> 00:53:22,640
Speaker 1: you may even do, Jacob, You may you may even

989
00:53:22,680 --> 00:53:25,960
Speaker 1: get angry enough to what are the words there, moan

990
00:53:26,200 --> 00:53:31,480
Speaker 1: and whine a little bit, just maybe. So moving on

991
00:53:31,640 --> 00:53:34,440
Speaker 1: from that, the question is is anything going to come

992
00:53:34,440 --> 00:53:40,560
Speaker 1: of this? That's what I've been asked everywhere Jim Restaurants, Like,

993
00:53:40,640 --> 00:53:44,520
Speaker 1: anytime someone's asked me about this lately, it's always is

994
00:53:44,520 --> 00:53:47,200
Speaker 1: anything going to happen to old mess? Buddy? I got

995
00:53:47,239 --> 00:53:51,799
Speaker 1: no idea. I got no idea. I just think it's

996
00:53:51,920 --> 00:53:56,200
Speaker 1: very funny, how I in my personal life. Jacob's not

997
00:53:56,239 --> 00:53:59,359
Speaker 1: the only one who said something like that. I am

998
00:53:59,440 --> 00:54:03,400
Speaker 1: my personal life, swear to you. I have this Venn diagram,

999
00:54:03,760 --> 00:54:07,560
Speaker 1: and on one circle over here, it's the crowd that says, man,

1000
00:54:07,640 --> 00:54:09,799
Speaker 1: I hate the way college football is right now. And

1001
00:54:09,840 --> 00:54:12,400
Speaker 1: then on the other circle over here, it's man, Dabbo

1002
00:54:12,400 --> 00:54:16,480
Speaker 1: needs to quit whineing and complaining. There is a strange

1003
00:54:16,520 --> 00:54:20,160
Speaker 1: amount of overlap between those two circles. That makes me

1004
00:54:20,280 --> 00:54:22,680
Speaker 1: look at the overlap portion and go, what are you

1005
00:54:22,760 --> 00:54:26,080
Speaker 1: people doing? What he's He's making the same points you

1006
00:54:26,120 --> 00:54:28,200
Speaker 1: are you telling me? Because of his salary. He can't

1007
00:54:28,480 --> 00:54:30,759
Speaker 1: what point? What sense does that make? It makes no sense?

1008
00:54:30,800 --> 00:54:33,840
Speaker 1: We move on, We move on. I got good news.

1009
00:54:34,160 --> 00:54:36,640
Speaker 1: It was one of those days. And I don't know

1010
00:54:36,640 --> 00:54:38,399
Speaker 1: if you guys run your own store and you ever

1011
00:54:38,440 --> 00:54:40,399
Speaker 1: do this, but it was one of those days where

1012
00:54:40,400 --> 00:54:44,400
Speaker 1: I went to our store, peytstatematerial dot Com and I

1013
00:54:44,480 --> 00:54:47,839
Speaker 1: was just browsing, mainly to make sure the store is up,

1014
00:54:47,880 --> 00:54:49,799
Speaker 1: and it always is Alex and the folks that are

1015
00:54:49,840 --> 00:54:53,399
Speaker 1: doing a great job. And I realized, oh snap, Jesse,

1016
00:54:53,520 --> 00:54:55,960
Speaker 1: we got new merch because I had forgotten that we

1017
00:54:56,040 --> 00:54:59,359
Speaker 1: approved several new T shirt designs and one of them

1018
00:54:59,640 --> 00:55:03,440
Speaker 1: is the one that I'm getting shipped to me expedited, Jesse.

1019
00:55:03,440 --> 00:55:06,319
Speaker 1: I can get you one to It's the Advanced Pluralization Tea.

1020
00:55:06,840 --> 00:55:08,680
Speaker 1: And I know if you're listening to podcasts, you can't

1021
00:55:08,719 --> 00:55:10,959
Speaker 1: see any of this. Just trust me. It looks good.

1022
00:55:11,239 --> 00:55:14,399
Speaker 1: But if you're watching, I know you could probably zoom

1023
00:55:14,440 --> 00:55:17,000
Speaker 1: in a little bit there but it's a nice little

1024
00:55:17,080 --> 00:55:20,040
Speaker 1: crest and it says chatli till we die, because we

1025
00:55:20,120 --> 00:55:22,880
Speaker 1: have a different way of pluralizing words on this show.

1026
00:55:23,640 --> 00:55:24,920
Speaker 1: Probably I don't know if you can hear that, but

1027
00:55:24,960 --> 00:55:27,520
Speaker 1: it sounds like a carpenter bee is trying to drill

1028
00:55:27,560 --> 00:55:30,360
Speaker 1: his way into the studio. I don't know if you

1029
00:55:30,360 --> 00:55:32,360
Speaker 1: can't hear it on the mic. It doesn't matter anyway.

1030
00:55:32,719 --> 00:55:36,359
Speaker 1: That shirt, among several others, are brand new and now

1031
00:55:36,400 --> 00:55:41,080
Speaker 1: available at petstatemterial dot com. So I thought it my

1032
00:55:41,239 --> 00:55:43,080
Speaker 1: job to pass that on to you because it is

1033
00:55:43,120 --> 00:55:45,880
Speaker 1: seventeen degrees outside right now, but eventually it will be

1034
00:55:45,920 --> 00:55:48,279
Speaker 1: shortsleeve weather again, and I want you to guys to

1035
00:55:48,320 --> 00:55:56,359
Speaker 1: be ready proactively. Kind of a sad question that got

1036
00:55:56,440 --> 00:55:59,960
Speaker 1: dropped in the mail bag here David from Chanto Arizona,

1037
00:56:00,360 --> 00:56:02,640
Speaker 1: which I assume is beautiful this time of year. He said,

1038
00:56:04,200 --> 00:56:06,600
Speaker 1: is it time to declare the end of the Big

1039
00:56:06,640 --> 00:56:10,680
Speaker 1: Twelve's reign? As America's Conference? It feels like Texas Tech

1040
00:56:10,800 --> 00:56:13,440
Speaker 1: is one A and everyone else is far and away

1041
00:56:13,520 --> 00:56:19,000
Speaker 1: one B. Well, America's Conference was what we started calling

1042
00:56:19,000 --> 00:56:22,200
Speaker 1: the Big Twelve because we thought everything about the spirit

1043
00:56:22,239 --> 00:56:25,200
Speaker 1: of college football a bunch of what people claim they

1044
00:56:25,239 --> 00:56:28,000
Speaker 1: love about college football. It was most readily found in

1045
00:56:28,040 --> 00:56:30,640
Speaker 1: the Big Twelve. It wasn't that they had a bunch

1046
00:56:30,680 --> 00:56:33,759
Speaker 1: of national championship contenders, but it was the most competitively

1047
00:56:33,760 --> 00:56:38,359
Speaker 1: balanced conference. It was, relatively speaking, the conference that had

1048
00:56:38,400 --> 00:56:41,480
Speaker 1: the least amount of transfer portal churn, and it just

1049
00:56:41,719 --> 00:56:45,520
Speaker 1: it's so fun and it's random ever given Saturday. So

1050
00:56:47,840 --> 00:56:51,000
Speaker 1: I said, because of that, I think the Big Twelve

1051
00:56:51,080 --> 00:56:55,320
Speaker 1: is America's college football conference. And then Joey maguire, shame

1052
00:56:55,400 --> 00:56:58,440
Speaker 1: on him. Friend of the program came along and he

1053
00:56:58,560 --> 00:57:01,680
Speaker 1: ruined it because they had the audacity at Texas Tech

1054
00:57:02,000 --> 00:57:05,399
Speaker 1: to build a monster. And so now we don't have

1055
00:57:05,440 --> 00:57:07,880
Speaker 1: a world where any given week you just kind of

1056
00:57:07,920 --> 00:57:10,080
Speaker 1: throw the dice out there and then you're racking back

1057
00:57:10,160 --> 00:57:11,520
Speaker 1: up and throw them out again the next week and

1058
00:57:11,560 --> 00:57:13,279
Speaker 1: there's no telling who's going to be the best team

1059
00:57:13,320 --> 00:57:15,920
Speaker 1: in the league this week. Yes, it does look like

1060
00:57:15,960 --> 00:57:19,000
Speaker 1: Texas Tech is ascended, at least now we'll see if

1061
00:57:19,040 --> 00:57:22,640
Speaker 1: it's permanently to the top spot, to the pole position.

1062
00:57:23,040 --> 00:57:24,720
Speaker 1: And then there is a little bit of a gap

1063
00:57:25,000 --> 00:57:29,000
Speaker 1: between Texas Tech and Hoopsteverett may be any given year,

1064
00:57:29,760 --> 00:57:33,000
Speaker 1: I think the final version of the college football landscape

1065
00:57:33,040 --> 00:57:36,280
Speaker 1: is still forming. By that, I mean I don't know

1066
00:57:36,320 --> 00:57:38,040
Speaker 1: what the conferences are going to look like five years

1067
00:57:38,040 --> 00:57:39,720
Speaker 1: from now. I don't know what the NCAA rules are

1068
00:57:39,720 --> 00:57:41,200
Speaker 1: going to look like five years from now. Are we

1069
00:57:41,240 --> 00:57:45,400
Speaker 1: even still attached to the NCAA? Are we collectively bargaining

1070
00:57:45,440 --> 00:57:49,000
Speaker 1: with players? Do we have a more firm grasp on

1071
00:57:49,040 --> 00:57:53,200
Speaker 1: how NIO works and revshare? So the big, big big spenders,

1072
00:57:53,200 --> 00:57:54,880
Speaker 1: have they been brought back to worth a little bit?

1073
00:57:54,920 --> 00:57:59,320
Speaker 1: I don't know so in the interrum yet, does look

1074
00:57:59,400 --> 00:58:02,040
Speaker 1: like there's far less competitive balance at the very top

1075
00:58:02,320 --> 00:58:06,400
Speaker 1: of the Big twelve? Will Texas Tech continue operating this

1076
00:58:06,600 --> 00:58:10,400
Speaker 1: far ahead of the pack? Right now, at FanDuel the

1077
00:58:10,440 --> 00:58:13,800
Speaker 1: Big twelve teams odds to win the playoff, Texas Tech

1078
00:58:13,880 --> 00:58:16,960
Speaker 1: has I think the eighth best odds next year, and

1079
00:58:17,000 --> 00:58:19,280
Speaker 1: then the next closest Big twelve team is Brigham Young

1080
00:58:19,280 --> 00:58:22,200
Speaker 1: and they're at twentieth. Just to give you a comparison,

1081
00:58:22,240 --> 00:58:26,640
Speaker 1: there are eleven SEC teams ahead of or tied with

1082
00:58:26,720 --> 00:58:30,320
Speaker 1: Brigham Young for odds to win it all. Texas Tech

1083
00:58:30,400 --> 00:58:34,240
Speaker 1: is way ahead of the pack. Here's my question. Since

1084
00:58:34,280 --> 00:58:36,880
Speaker 1: my answer is I think this may be the norm

1085
00:58:36,960 --> 00:58:40,560
Speaker 1: for a little while. Question one, this is kind of

1086
00:58:40,560 --> 00:58:43,720
Speaker 1: a side question. Is anyone else gonna match what Texas

1087
00:58:43,800 --> 00:58:46,880
Speaker 1: Tech is doing? Because if you'll remember, it didn't take

1088
00:58:46,920 --> 00:58:49,720
Speaker 1: five years to build this. They decided what they were

1089
00:58:49,720 --> 00:58:52,640
Speaker 1: gonna do and they did it. So my question is,

1090
00:58:52,920 --> 00:58:56,440
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna use Oklahoma State. Oklahoma State's got some money.

1091
00:58:56,800 --> 00:58:59,240
Speaker 1: There are several places actually in the Big twelve that

1092
00:58:59,600 --> 00:59:03,720
Speaker 1: has so money. Have some money. Take Oklahoma State randomly.

1093
00:59:04,120 --> 00:59:06,360
Speaker 1: What if Oklahoma State looked and said, we're tired of

1094
00:59:06,400 --> 00:59:08,680
Speaker 1: Mike Gundhy, We're not giving you another cent until he

1095
00:59:08,720 --> 00:59:11,280
Speaker 1: gets out of here. Okay, he's out of here. Oh,

1096
00:59:11,600 --> 00:59:14,479
Speaker 1: let's go hire that cat from North Texas and we'll

1097
00:59:14,480 --> 00:59:18,200
Speaker 1: start giving. We'll open the pocketbook. Not to mention, if

1098
00:59:18,200 --> 00:59:21,760
Speaker 1: you know anything about these people, if you watched Pony

1099
00:59:21,800 --> 00:59:26,560
Speaker 1: Excess and you understood the mechanations of the Southwest Conference

1100
00:59:26,560 --> 00:59:29,080
Speaker 1: once upon a time, these people are very competitive in

1101
00:59:29,120 --> 00:59:32,600
Speaker 1: their spending. So Texas Tech is doing what they do.

1102
00:59:33,520 --> 00:59:36,080
Speaker 1: You don't think at least one other Big twelve program

1103
00:59:36,320 --> 00:59:38,760
Speaker 1: is gonna try and go dollar for dollar. I'm just

1104
00:59:38,880 --> 00:59:41,120
Speaker 1: using Oklahoma State, but I mean Baylor, you could be

1105
00:59:41,160 --> 00:59:42,960
Speaker 1: on the clock, TCU, you could be on the clock.

1106
00:59:45,440 --> 00:59:48,320
Speaker 1: I just wonder if that's gonna happen to be continued

1107
00:59:48,320 --> 00:59:50,040
Speaker 1: on that. Okay, so push that to the side. That

1108
00:59:50,120 --> 00:59:54,080
Speaker 1: was a side question. Here's the other question. This sounds

1109
00:59:54,080 --> 00:59:56,480
Speaker 1: like a hot take, it's not. It's a legit question.

1110
00:59:57,400 --> 00:59:59,800
Speaker 1: Is Texas Tech surging like this good for the Big

1111
00:59:59,840 --> 01:00:02,680
Speaker 1: Time twelve overall? So we know it's really good for

1112
01:00:02,720 --> 01:00:05,960
Speaker 1: Texas Tech, And when it comes to the Big Twelve

1113
01:00:06,040 --> 01:00:10,439
Speaker 1: having a legitimate national title contending type program, it's good

1114
01:00:10,440 --> 01:00:13,360
Speaker 1: for them, and it brings more attention to the conference.

1115
01:00:13,840 --> 01:00:16,640
Speaker 1: It potentially brings more money into the conference the further

1116
01:00:16,680 --> 01:00:19,520
Speaker 1: they go in the playoffs. So by those metrics, it's

1117
01:00:19,520 --> 01:00:22,200
Speaker 1: a good thing. But if the Big twelves bread and

1118
01:00:22,240 --> 01:00:25,840
Speaker 1: butter was we are such a random conference. It's in

1119
01:00:25,920 --> 01:00:29,120
Speaker 1: any given Saturday league, you could be next to last

1120
01:00:29,160 --> 01:00:31,080
Speaker 1: one year and you can go win the league the

1121
01:00:31,120 --> 01:00:35,640
Speaker 1: year after that. That happened several times recently. If that's

1122
01:00:36,040 --> 01:00:39,480
Speaker 1: the Big twelve's mo is what Texas Tech is doing

1123
01:00:39,480 --> 01:00:41,600
Speaker 1: good or bad for the conference? I don't know. I

1124
01:00:41,640 --> 01:00:44,840
Speaker 1: don't know. Now there's another thing that a dominant program

1125
01:00:44,920 --> 01:00:47,960
Speaker 1: sometimes does an effect. If you will that it has

1126
01:00:48,040 --> 01:00:51,680
Speaker 1: on the ecosystem, and that is it forces everyone to

1127
01:00:51,800 --> 01:00:54,360
Speaker 1: raise their game. So maybe it's a moot point here.

1128
01:00:54,520 --> 01:00:58,360
Speaker 1: Maybe the Big twelve collectively raises its game, but you

1129
01:00:58,440 --> 01:01:00,680
Speaker 1: got to raise funds to raise your game if you're

1130
01:01:00,680 --> 01:01:04,360
Speaker 1: going to match Texas Texas Tech. Right now, you saw

1131
01:01:04,400 --> 01:01:07,680
Speaker 1: those odds, we showed you. Well, unfortunately that's for the

1132
01:01:07,720 --> 01:01:12,200
Speaker 1: twenty twenty sixth season, which is still a little ways away. However,

1133
01:01:12,360 --> 01:01:14,400
Speaker 1: I do have it on good authority. In fact, a

1134
01:01:14,440 --> 01:01:19,400
Speaker 1: sad story here. The super Bowl's next Sunday. And look,

1135
01:01:20,040 --> 01:01:25,440
Speaker 1: we tried again and we talked to our contacts in

1136
01:01:25,480 --> 01:01:29,280
Speaker 1: the NFL league office because we want to have our

1137
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Speaker 1: Sunday show as normal every Sunday. To do that, we

1138
01:01:33,200 --> 01:01:36,680
Speaker 1: need the NFL to move the Super Bowl up to

1139
01:01:36,880 --> 01:01:41,000
Speaker 1: like maybe a one o'clock kickoff, two o'clock kickoff, and

1140
01:01:41,040 --> 01:01:44,520
Speaker 1: they said no. They said no again this year. So

1141
01:01:44,640 --> 01:01:48,960
Speaker 1: we won't have a Sunday show next Sunday because they're

1142
01:01:48,960 --> 01:01:51,800
Speaker 1: going to play the Super Bowl, which whatever, that's their right.

1143
01:01:52,200 --> 01:01:54,440
Speaker 1: I don't think it's smart, but that's their right. But

1144
01:01:55,120 --> 01:01:57,200
Speaker 1: at Fanduels, since the game is going to go on

1145
01:01:57,400 --> 01:01:59,800
Speaker 1: as scheduled, it is kind of the last call for

1146
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Speaker 1: football guys, unless some of you are sick enough to

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Speaker 1: have bet the Pro Bowl games. And I don't even

1148
01:02:04,640 --> 01:02:06,400
Speaker 1: know if you could do that. Maybe you could, but

1149
01:02:06,560 --> 01:02:10,280
Speaker 1: that was early. Was that today? Jesse, rest in peace?

1150
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Speaker 1: Pro Bowl? You know what, My mug's empty, or I

1151
01:02:13,720 --> 01:02:16,800
Speaker 1: would pour one out for the Pro Bowl. Sad, sad

1152
01:02:16,840 --> 01:02:19,240
Speaker 1: what they did to the Pro Bowl. But the Super Bowl, Yeah,

1153
01:02:19,280 --> 01:02:21,440
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Speaker 1: Who what a dismal way to end the show here,

1182
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Speaker 1: Not Fandel, We have one more, We have one more

1183
01:03:45,560 --> 01:03:47,919
Speaker 1: thing to discuss. This is tough right here, man. People

1184
01:03:47,920 --> 01:03:51,680
Speaker 1: are gritting their teeth in the control room already, so

1185
01:03:51,720 --> 01:03:53,760
Speaker 1: you know we do the mood Tracker this time of

1186
01:03:53,840 --> 01:03:56,040
Speaker 1: year where we kind of put a thermometer in the

1187
01:03:56,280 --> 01:03:58,200
Speaker 1: in the fanbase and we try and figure out what's

1188
01:03:58,200 --> 01:04:01,120
Speaker 1: the vibe right now, how you guys feeling. And we've

1189
01:04:01,160 --> 01:04:04,760
Speaker 1: done some teams that are expected to compete for various

1190
01:04:04,800 --> 01:04:08,280
Speaker 1: postseason accolades this upcoming year. Maybe they're a conference title contender,

1191
01:04:08,280 --> 01:04:11,400
Speaker 1: maybe they're a playoff contender. Well, then there's Florida State.

1192
01:04:12,480 --> 01:04:15,360
Speaker 1: And the mood at Florida State does not feel like

1193
01:04:15,440 --> 01:04:19,840
Speaker 1: the mood at Ohio State or Michigan or Georgia. So

1194
01:04:19,880 --> 01:04:22,000
Speaker 1: the best way I could describe the mood of the

1195
01:04:22,040 --> 01:04:24,640
Speaker 1: fan base at Florida State is they feel like they're

1196
01:04:24,720 --> 01:04:29,080
Speaker 1: kind of just delaying the inevitable. Now miracles happen. He

1197
01:04:29,200 --> 01:04:33,360
Speaker 1: still does miracles By he, I mean God, because I'm

1198
01:04:33,360 --> 01:04:35,520
Speaker 1: not referring to Mike Norvel because this kind of all

1199
01:04:35,600 --> 01:04:38,240
Speaker 1: due respect, maybe out of Mike Norvel's hands at this point.

1200
01:04:38,720 --> 01:04:43,400
Speaker 1: So short of a miracle this year, the feeling, not

1201
01:04:43,600 --> 01:04:46,840
Speaker 1: from me, we're talking about Florida State fans is they

1202
01:04:46,840 --> 01:04:51,200
Speaker 1: feel like, hey, it's kind of obvious our administration retained

1203
01:04:51,240 --> 01:04:54,160
Speaker 1: Mike Norvel only because they either couldn't afford or didn't

1204
01:04:54,200 --> 01:04:56,600
Speaker 1: want to pay the amount of money it would take

1205
01:04:56,600 --> 01:05:00,360
Speaker 1: to buy him out. It even kind of got leaked

1206
01:05:00,360 --> 01:05:03,000
Speaker 1: out that they targeted Lane Kiffin and if they could

1207
01:05:03,000 --> 01:05:04,920
Speaker 1: have gotten Laye, they were going to bite the bullet

1208
01:05:04,960 --> 01:05:07,720
Speaker 1: on the buyout. Like everybody knows that down there. Mike

1209
01:05:07,760 --> 01:05:12,600
Speaker 1: Norvel knows that, which is Look, he gets compensated very handsomely. Obviously,

1210
01:05:13,040 --> 01:05:15,320
Speaker 1: that's the large reason why he's still the head coach there.

1211
01:05:15,640 --> 01:05:18,240
Speaker 1: But everybody kind of knows that dynamic, which makes it

1212
01:05:18,320 --> 01:05:20,760
Speaker 1: really hard to recruit, and it makes it really hard

1213
01:05:20,760 --> 01:05:23,640
Speaker 1: to hire. And they've already been prone to not so

1214
01:05:23,720 --> 01:05:27,360
Speaker 1: great recruiting efforts down there. So look, the general feel is,

1215
01:05:28,560 --> 01:05:31,000
Speaker 1: but we're just gonna, i don't know, delay it one

1216
01:05:31,040 --> 01:05:34,880
Speaker 1: more year and then maybe we fire him next year.

1217
01:05:35,000 --> 01:05:36,920
Speaker 1: He's still gonna have a big buyout. I think it

1218
01:05:36,960 --> 01:05:40,360
Speaker 1: was Andy Staples though, a couple of months ago that

1219
01:05:40,480 --> 01:05:43,760
Speaker 1: wrote an article on on three dot com, and he

1220
01:05:43,920 --> 01:05:46,560
Speaker 1: was explaining a point that I've tried to make before,

1221
01:05:46,760 --> 01:05:49,360
Speaker 1: only he wrote it way better because he's a professional

1222
01:05:49,360 --> 01:05:53,720
Speaker 1: writer and I'm an unprofessional talker. He said, you know,

1223
01:05:54,880 --> 01:05:58,480
Speaker 1: it's really penny wise pound foolish to not fire a

1224
01:05:58,520 --> 01:06:00,919
Speaker 1: coach in the name of saving money, because everyone knows

1225
01:06:00,960 --> 01:06:03,240
Speaker 1: the only reason you didn't fire him is to save money,

1226
01:06:03,520 --> 01:06:07,520
Speaker 1: and in the aggregate, your ticket sales lag and interest

1227
01:06:07,560 --> 01:06:10,920
Speaker 1: wanes and apathy sets them, and you end up costing

1228
01:06:10,960 --> 01:06:15,280
Speaker 1: yourself more by saving money than you would have if

1229
01:06:15,320 --> 01:06:17,800
Speaker 1: you just fired the coach paid the buy out. That's

1230
01:06:17,880 --> 01:06:20,680
Speaker 1: kind of the vibe potentially around FSU this year. So

1231
01:06:20,840 --> 01:06:23,320
Speaker 1: I don't like being negative like that. Plus, I like

1232
01:06:23,400 --> 01:06:25,680
Speaker 1: Mike Norvel. I like him a lot. We went down

1233
01:06:25,720 --> 01:06:28,439
Speaker 1: their last spring, hung out with him, had a wonderful time,

1234
01:06:28,480 --> 01:06:30,880
Speaker 1: and then we went storm chasing later that day. Not

1235
01:06:31,280 --> 01:06:33,080
Speaker 1: Mike didn't go, he had stuff to do, but we

1236
01:06:33,120 --> 01:06:36,000
Speaker 1: went storm chasing later that day. So here's my attitude

1237
01:06:36,000 --> 01:06:39,240
Speaker 1: on this kind of thing. All right, everyone's zigging. I

1238
01:06:39,320 --> 01:06:41,760
Speaker 1: want a zag So everyone's negative on this. I want

1239
01:06:41,760 --> 01:06:43,600
Speaker 1: to try and find a silver lining. I'm just looking

1240
01:06:43,640 --> 01:06:47,439
Speaker 1: for a signal. I'm looking. I'm looking, guys, I can't

1241
01:06:47,440 --> 01:06:50,720
Speaker 1: really find one right now. I'll keep looking. It's only February.

1242
01:06:51,080 --> 01:06:53,600
Speaker 1: But they have recruited outside of the top ten four

1243
01:06:53,640 --> 01:06:56,160
Speaker 1: straight years, Jesse, didn't you tell me they've averaged a

1244
01:06:56,200 --> 01:06:59,480
Speaker 1: class ranked around seventeen or so the last four years

1245
01:06:59,840 --> 01:07:04,200
Speaker 1: they been burned by portal reliance, and that twenty twenty

1246
01:07:04,200 --> 01:07:06,160
Speaker 1: three year ended up being a total mirage, and then

1247
01:07:06,200 --> 01:07:08,680
Speaker 1: they went all in again and it was bad, and

1248
01:07:08,760 --> 01:07:11,280
Speaker 1: they're thirty ninth in the portal this year. Now. Look

1249
01:07:11,680 --> 01:07:15,479
Speaker 1: teams like Bama and USC and Georgia, they're ranked sort

1250
01:07:15,520 --> 01:07:18,280
Speaker 1: of around where Florida State is. The difference is if

1251
01:07:18,320 --> 01:07:20,920
Speaker 1: you look at the average rating of the player leaving

1252
01:07:21,480 --> 01:07:24,640
Speaker 1: versus the average rating of the player coming in, a

1253
01:07:24,640 --> 01:07:28,320
Speaker 1: lot of those places are just filtering out the guys

1254
01:07:28,360 --> 01:07:30,920
Speaker 1: that really weren't going to contribute a whole lot, and

1255
01:07:30,960 --> 01:07:35,360
Speaker 1: they're adding guys that are. At Florida State, the caliber

1256
01:07:35,400 --> 01:07:38,320
Speaker 1: of player that left is rated higher than the caliber

1257
01:07:38,360 --> 01:07:41,360
Speaker 1: of player that came in. So there's really no massive

1258
01:07:41,440 --> 01:07:46,080
Speaker 1: roster upgrades, probably no massive staff upgrades. They've had back

1259
01:07:46,120 --> 01:07:49,720
Speaker 1: to back losing seasons. They totally wasted that big Alabama

1260
01:07:49,760 --> 01:07:52,080
Speaker 1: win last year. I mean, it felt like they were back.

1261
01:07:52,120 --> 01:07:53,840
Speaker 1: It felt like they were off to the races, and

1262
01:07:53,880 --> 01:07:58,200
Speaker 1: it was just a complete and total non starter, which

1263
01:07:58,240 --> 01:08:01,080
Speaker 1: is really crazy when you think about for a short

1264
01:08:01,120 --> 01:08:05,920
Speaker 1: period of time, how fooled some people were, me included,

1265
01:08:06,400 --> 01:08:08,520
Speaker 1: I didn't put them top ten or I didn't think

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Speaker 1: they were topped in caliber team yet, but like you

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Speaker 1: never knew. They beat Alabama and then they beat East

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Speaker 1: Texas A and M. Remember when we said we said

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Speaker 1: Florida State was gonna do bad things to East Texas

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Speaker 1: A and M in week two and someone from the

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Speaker 1: staff reached out to us said, hey, I'm not saying

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Speaker 1: we're gonna go in there and beat them, but keep

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Speaker 1: an eye, keep an eye. So yeah, and then there

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Speaker 1: were three and oh after they they did to Kent

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Speaker 1: State what everyone did last year, But did they cover

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Speaker 1: That's the only question we had with Kent State. And

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Speaker 1: then they go to Virginia and lose, and then they

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Speaker 1: lose to Miami, and then they lose to pitt and

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Speaker 1: they lost to Stanford. They did beat wake for UT,

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Speaker 1: they lost to Clemson, they did beat Virginia Tech, They

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Speaker 1: lost to NC State, they lost to Florida. They went

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Speaker 1: five and seven, They beat Alabama to start the year,

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Speaker 1: still didn't make a bowl game. So suffice it to

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Speaker 1: say that twenty twenty three season might as well have

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Speaker 1: been a decade ag there's no carryover, There is no

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Speaker 1: leftover equity. That's long since been burned, So delaying the inevitable.

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Speaker 1: I mean, what's needed down there this year? What kind

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Speaker 1: of record do they have to have to have a

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Speaker 1: stay of professional execution? I don't know, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Sad times. All right, that's our show. I appreciate you

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Speaker 1: guys a lot. We'll be here, Jesse. We doing a

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Speaker 1: Tuesday show. Now we're gonna do pod. Probably gonna do

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Speaker 1: a little pod. You remember the late Kick extra we

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Speaker 1: used to do, but the show's not called Late Kick anymore.

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Speaker 1: Pate stayed extra extra credit. Who knows, just workshopping names

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Speaker 1: on air. Probably do something on the podcast feed on Tuesday.

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Speaker 1: It's been a long time since Mitch had a podcast

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Speaker 1: to edit that none of the rest of the video

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Speaker 1: folks had to touch. So keep an eye on that.

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Speaker 1: Then we'll do our regular show Thursday. So there you go.

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Speaker 1: That's what the week's going to consist of. Until then,

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Speaker 1: let's have a great, hopefully a warmer start of the

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Speaker 1: week for director Bradley, Producer Jesse, m Josh Bate, Take

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