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Speaker 1: could do any of a number of finger gestures. If

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Speaker 1: that's what he needs pregame, We'll be there. We'll be Daniel.

429
00:22:19,960 --> 00:22:22,840
Speaker 1: If you need it, we'll be there for you. Courtesy

430
00:22:22,840 --> 00:22:25,199
Speaker 1: of Quick Trip. Quick Trip fueling us. They have fueled

431
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Speaker 1: our tour the entire year, and we will be in

432
00:22:30,040 --> 00:22:34,040
Speaker 1: Atlanta that is the Friday night game. And we've had

433
00:22:34,080 --> 00:22:35,760
Speaker 1: fun this year. Man, I don't know how many miles

434
00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:38,920
Speaker 1: we've logged, but Quick Trip has fueled us every step

435
00:22:38,960 --> 00:22:40,960
Speaker 1: of the way. The Fall Don't Lie Tour has been

436
00:22:41,119 --> 00:22:44,359
Speaker 1: a phenomenal success. I don't know who judges such things,

437
00:22:44,520 --> 00:22:46,080
Speaker 1: so I'm just going to say it was a success.

438
00:22:46,640 --> 00:22:49,480
Speaker 1: And we will be in the Peach Bowl and that's

439
00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:53,000
Speaker 1: a Mercedes been stadium in my home state of Georgia.

440
00:22:53,080 --> 00:22:56,520
Speaker 1: But that's not all because the night before we will

441
00:22:56,520 --> 00:23:00,520
Speaker 1: be in Glendale, Arizona at the Fiesta Bowl and guess

442
00:23:00,520 --> 00:23:05,280
Speaker 1: who's playing there, Miami and Ole miss. We are guaranteed,

443
00:23:05,480 --> 00:23:09,760
Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, to have a first time national championship

444
00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:14,760
Speaker 1: winning head coach. And we are still like sixteen days

445
00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:17,199
Speaker 1: away from the National Title game, but we already know

446
00:23:17,720 --> 00:23:20,480
Speaker 1: because all four of these guys are going to be

447
00:23:21,160 --> 00:23:24,159
Speaker 1: Jesse they're all they would be playing for a national

448
00:23:24,200 --> 00:23:26,639
Speaker 1: title for the first time, right, I'm not missing anything.

449
00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:28,240
Speaker 1: I think they would all be playing for it, and

450
00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:30,280
Speaker 1: certainly they would be winning one for the first time.

451
00:23:30,680 --> 00:23:33,640
Speaker 1: So a lot of miles that we're gonna log later

452
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Speaker 1: this week. Thankfully, quick Trip is there every step of

453
00:23:35,840 --> 00:23:42,360
Speaker 1: the way. With that in mind, let's just roll right

454
00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:48,280
Speaker 1: into it. Ole Miss Miami Thursday night, seven thirty Eastern kick, ESPN.

455
00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:52,159
Speaker 1: It's the Fiesta Bowl. It is part one of the

456
00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:56,600
Speaker 1: semi final matchups. It's it's kind of like the Cannop

457
00:23:56,640 --> 00:23:59,480
Speaker 1: Bowl if you really think about it. I don't know

458
00:23:59,480 --> 00:24:02,320
Speaker 1: how many times times the college football public will have

459
00:24:02,400 --> 00:24:06,720
Speaker 1: looked at this matchup and said can't. Certainly when the

460
00:24:06,760 --> 00:24:10,160
Speaker 1: playoffs started, when you found out Lane was leaving, maybe

461
00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:12,359
Speaker 1: even if you knew Lane was staying, but especially when

462
00:24:12,359 --> 00:24:15,480
Speaker 1: you knew he was leaving anyone and everyone said, oh,

463
00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:17,920
Speaker 1: Miss can't win this thing. And I've listened to people

464
00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:21,080
Speaker 1: say Mario Christoval can't at Miami since he got there,

465
00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:24,080
Speaker 1: And now one of them is guaranteed to go play

466
00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:26,720
Speaker 1: for a national championship and we get to be there

467
00:24:26,760 --> 00:24:29,439
Speaker 1: for it all. Also, you know what really makes me

468
00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:33,720
Speaker 1: nervous about this is we've got I mean, we got

469
00:24:33,720 --> 00:24:37,480
Speaker 1: a fireball that's loose right now in Trinidad Chambliss. You

470
00:24:37,560 --> 00:24:39,639
Speaker 1: don't know, Like I equated it the other night to

471
00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:42,280
Speaker 1: a runaway hose pipe where you know you've had that

472
00:24:42,359 --> 00:24:44,679
Speaker 1: thing pinched and then all of a sudden you let

473
00:24:44,760 --> 00:24:46,840
Speaker 1: it go and the hose pipe is just going all

474
00:24:46,880 --> 00:24:49,600
Speaker 1: over the place, wildly, water going all over and you

475
00:24:49,840 --> 00:24:53,040
Speaker 1: hope that after a couple of seconds the water pressure

476
00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:56,640
Speaker 1: lessons and then it's just a normal flow coming out

477
00:24:56,680 --> 00:24:58,679
Speaker 1: and you can pick it up and it's fine. You

478
00:24:58,720 --> 00:25:01,640
Speaker 1: don't know how much water pressures. I have no idea

479
00:25:02,040 --> 00:25:04,160
Speaker 1: how long that the hose is just gonna fly all

480
00:25:04,200 --> 00:25:06,359
Speaker 1: over the place, And it really makes you nervous because

481
00:25:06,359 --> 00:25:09,600
Speaker 1: that's hard to predict. Actually, it's impossible to predict. And

482
00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:11,959
Speaker 1: so the way my mind works is I always think

483
00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:16,680
Speaker 1: in terms of future documentaries, there will certainly be a documentary,

484
00:25:16,880 --> 00:25:22,359
Speaker 1: maybe multiple documentaries document HI made about this Old Miss team.

485
00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:25,520
Speaker 1: What I'm trying to figure out in the moment is

486
00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:28,640
Speaker 1: how will the documentary ten years down the road about

487
00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:31,480
Speaker 1: the Old Miss twenty twenty five season be talking about

488
00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:35,159
Speaker 1: this game? Because we could be talking about it, you know,

489
00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:38,800
Speaker 1: with revisionist history goggles on, saying, oh man, yeah, people

490
00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:42,440
Speaker 1: just knew. Once Trinidad Shambliss an Old Miss beat Georgia,

491
00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:45,560
Speaker 1: they knew, man, there was no stopping them, and they

492
00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:48,200
Speaker 1: went and beat Miami and they won the national title.

493
00:25:48,520 --> 00:25:51,159
Speaker 1: People could be saying that, or people could be saying,

494
00:25:51,760 --> 00:25:55,040
Speaker 1: you know, no one thought that this team could do anything,

495
00:25:55,320 --> 00:25:57,520
Speaker 1: and wouldn't you know it, they went down to the

496
00:25:57,560 --> 00:26:00,919
Speaker 1: Sugar Bowl, them against the world, against the wall. They

497
00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:03,000
Speaker 1: beat Kirby Smart in Georgia. What a year it was.

498
00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:05,280
Speaker 1: And they don't even mention the Fiesta Bowl because they

499
00:26:05,280 --> 00:26:07,680
Speaker 1: get run out of the building. I don't know how

500
00:26:07,680 --> 00:26:09,800
Speaker 1: the documentary is going to go because it hasn't been

501
00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:13,000
Speaker 1: made yet. So can Old Miss function without a running game,

502
00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:16,920
Speaker 1: That's my question. I thought that they ran the ball

503
00:26:17,080 --> 00:26:20,440
Speaker 1: very admirably against Georgia. Miami's gotten number five run defense

504
00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:23,240
Speaker 1: in the country. At this point. There probably were not

505
00:26:23,359 --> 00:26:26,520
Speaker 1: five run defenses playing at a higher level than Miami.

506
00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:29,640
Speaker 1: They held Ohio State to twenty four carries for forty

507
00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:32,040
Speaker 1: five yards. They held A and M thirty five carries

508
00:26:32,080 --> 00:26:35,560
Speaker 1: eighty nine yards. Miami also has been excellent against mobile

509
00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:39,480
Speaker 1: quarterbacks all year. Now with Trinidad Chambliss, he's not a guy,

510
00:26:39,680 --> 00:26:41,600
Speaker 1: even at his best, that you're going to count on

511
00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:44,560
Speaker 1: a run for like eighty yards. What he is doing

512
00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:48,560
Speaker 1: is he is buying time and improvising and making off

513
00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:53,800
Speaker 1: platform throws and out of structure throws. But Keiwan Lacy

514
00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:56,760
Speaker 1: twenty two carries for about one hundred yards and two

515
00:26:56,800 --> 00:27:00,119
Speaker 1: touchdowns against Georgia, that was a big deal, really big

516
00:27:00,160 --> 00:27:04,160
Speaker 1: deal at least kept Georgia. Honest, I don't know that

517
00:27:04,160 --> 00:27:06,600
Speaker 1: that number is going to be there against Miami. Doesn't

518
00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:08,399
Speaker 1: mean you can't beat them, but I don't know that

519
00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:10,360
Speaker 1: number is going to be there, which just means there

520
00:27:10,480 --> 00:27:16,520
Speaker 1: is all the more workload on Trinidad Chambliss's shoulders. I

521
00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:20,240
Speaker 1: kind of think if this game is played in structure

522
00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:22,320
Speaker 1: just a term I use, you can call it whatever

523
00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:25,040
Speaker 1: you want to, like a typical game. If it's played

524
00:27:25,040 --> 00:27:27,880
Speaker 1: in structure, Miami probably wins the thing by two scores.

525
00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:32,879
Speaker 1: By that, I mean, if you just let their offensive

526
00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:35,159
Speaker 1: line lean on you all day and they eat and

527
00:27:35,200 --> 00:27:38,680
Speaker 1: it's five and a half yards per carry edge Miami,

528
00:27:39,119 --> 00:27:42,560
Speaker 1: then they're gonna completely choke the game away in a

529
00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:45,160
Speaker 1: good way for Miami, and their defensive line will get

530
00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:47,600
Speaker 1: after you. This is another game where Miami's got a

531
00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:49,840
Speaker 1: two way edge on the line of scrimmage. Y'all can

532
00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:51,320
Speaker 1: put it in your video if you want to. I

533
00:27:51,320 --> 00:27:54,120
Speaker 1: don't care. It was true against Ohio State, it will

534
00:27:54,160 --> 00:27:56,280
Speaker 1: be true. It can stole a miss and if they

535
00:27:56,320 --> 00:28:00,240
Speaker 1: are somehow able to keep Trinidad Chambliss somewhat contain in

536
00:28:00,280 --> 00:28:03,280
Speaker 1: the pocket, you count on the fact that he's not

537
00:28:03,320 --> 00:28:04,760
Speaker 1: going to be able to just pick you apart with

538
00:28:04,840 --> 00:28:07,840
Speaker 1: his arm. Again, if he does, you tip your cap.

539
00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:10,960
Speaker 1: But the way he killed Georgia with his arm was

540
00:28:11,119 --> 00:28:14,159
Speaker 1: running all over the place and then utilizing his arm.

541
00:28:14,280 --> 00:28:15,879
Speaker 1: So if you take the first part of that away,

542
00:28:16,119 --> 00:28:17,600
Speaker 1: you just count on the fact that the second part

543
00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:19,680
Speaker 1: is not going to happen. That would be a game

544
00:28:19,920 --> 00:28:22,960
Speaker 1: played in structure. If the game is played in structure,

545
00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:25,880
Speaker 1: that's how I think it would go edge Miami, which

546
00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:29,080
Speaker 1: means there's very little incentive for Pete Golding and his

547
00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:32,160
Speaker 1: team to allow the game to be played in structure.

548
00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:36,280
Speaker 1: There's a lot about the way that team's playing right

549
00:28:36,320 --> 00:28:40,720
Speaker 1: now that is completely impossible to predict. The way the

550
00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:45,160
Speaker 1: Georgia game went the other night, the way that Deshaun

551
00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:50,000
Speaker 1: Watson played for Clemson, the way Johnny Manziel played for

552
00:28:50,160 --> 00:28:54,000
Speaker 1: Texas A and M. There were moments in games I

553
00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:57,760
Speaker 1: would even say, I'm not comparing this player to these players.

554
00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:03,280
Speaker 1: But from a pure elemental standpoint, there have been moments

555
00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:07,000
Speaker 1: in Diego Pavia's career where there are things he does,

556
00:29:07,120 --> 00:29:09,960
Speaker 1: there are things all those guys do that are completely

557
00:29:10,040 --> 00:29:13,320
Speaker 1: out of the realm of in some cases believability, but

558
00:29:13,560 --> 00:29:16,840
Speaker 1: absolutely out of the realm of predictability. And you look

559
00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:18,640
Speaker 1: at it and you just say, I don't even know.

560
00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:21,480
Speaker 1: They are players that make you throw your hands up

561
00:29:21,760 --> 00:29:24,280
Speaker 1: at a rate that hardly any other player has made

562
00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:28,000
Speaker 1: you throw your hands up, And it just matters how

563
00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:30,640
Speaker 1: the plays turn out. The entire outcome of the game

564
00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:32,800
Speaker 1: depends on how those plays turn out. That was the

565
00:29:32,840 --> 00:29:34,760
Speaker 1: way that the ole Miss Georgia game was. I got

566
00:29:34,760 --> 00:29:36,120
Speaker 1: a I grew up in Georgia, so I got a

567
00:29:36,120 --> 00:29:39,520
Speaker 1: ton of Georgia buddies who had like fifty different gripes

568
00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:43,160
Speaker 1: about the game. And I looked at it and I said, guys,

569
00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:46,360
Speaker 1: you just got beat by a transcendent quarterback performance. Talk

570
00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:49,400
Speaker 1: about Mike Bobo all you want to Mike Bobo's game,

571
00:29:49,800 --> 00:29:53,680
Speaker 1: if Trinidad Shambliss is held somewhat in check, would have

572
00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:56,880
Speaker 1: been good enough to win it. Just you you were

573
00:29:56,880 --> 00:30:00,920
Speaker 1: on the wrong side of a historic performance, and if

574
00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:02,880
Speaker 1: that happens again, Old Miss will win the game again.

575
00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:05,520
Speaker 1: There's really nothing you can do. There are only so

576
00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:07,360
Speaker 1: many things the rules allow you to do. Like you

577
00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:09,080
Speaker 1: can't go put the guy in a sleeper hole. You

578
00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:13,240
Speaker 1: don't get to drop kick him. Just it's football. You

579
00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:15,600
Speaker 1: can get violent. Miami's as violent as any team in

580
00:30:15,640 --> 00:30:18,280
Speaker 1: the country, but there are limits to what you're allowed

581
00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:24,880
Speaker 1: to do. So again, Miami running the ball. This is

582
00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:27,000
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you a little blueprint here for Ole Miss.

583
00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:29,040
Speaker 1: It sounds like they're a two touchdown underdog. They're not.

584
00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:32,480
Speaker 1: I'm talking about a game playing instructure versus out of structure.

585
00:30:32,920 --> 00:30:36,760
Speaker 1: Miami running the football. They're gonna be effective in this

586
00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:39,360
Speaker 1: game doing it. I don't see any way, just based

587
00:30:39,360 --> 00:30:42,440
Speaker 1: on laws of physics that Miami doesn't have a good

588
00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:46,560
Speaker 1: day running the ball. Twenty eight carries for one to

589
00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:48,560
Speaker 1: seventy five against A and M so that was the

590
00:30:48,600 --> 00:30:51,320
Speaker 1: top forty run defense they have thirty seven carries for

591
00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:53,360
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty three against Ohio State. That was

592
00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:56,920
Speaker 1: a top ten run defense. Ole Miss has got a

593
00:30:57,000 --> 00:31:01,720
Speaker 1: run defense in the sixties. So Miami's gonna have success here. Now.

594
00:31:03,080 --> 00:31:05,720
Speaker 1: That sounds great, and it is great. Okay, I don't

595
00:31:05,760 --> 00:31:08,600
Speaker 1: try to overthink the room on this. The one thing

596
00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:13,400
Speaker 1: I will say, there is a trapdoor aspect here from Miami.

597
00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:16,960
Speaker 1: Here's what it would look like. There could be a

598
00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:20,000
Speaker 1: game that unfolds here where you feel great, you feel

599
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:22,680
Speaker 1: like you're dominating, the stat sheet says you're dominating, and

600
00:31:23,240 --> 00:31:26,600
Speaker 1: somehow the scoreboard still doesn't look as comfortable as you

601
00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:29,160
Speaker 1: want it to. And the way it would probably go

602
00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:33,200
Speaker 1: from a script standpoint is you get after Trinidad Chambliss early.

603
00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:37,720
Speaker 1: He's shaky early, so you weather the early storm, sort

604
00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:40,120
Speaker 1: of settle into the game. It starts the way you

605
00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:42,040
Speaker 1: want it to, and then you realize, we could just

606
00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:45,160
Speaker 1: choke this game to death and we slow it to

607
00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:48,680
Speaker 1: a snail's pace and we play the most cave man

608
00:31:48,800 --> 00:31:52,360
Speaker 1: brutal form of football that we can because they can't

609
00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:56,880
Speaker 1: withstand it and you're doing it and you're leaning on

610
00:31:56,960 --> 00:32:00,000
Speaker 1: them and you're moving the chains. First and ten, second, five, third,

611
00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:04,160
Speaker 1: rinch repeat, But you just leave some points on the

612
00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:06,880
Speaker 1: board or some points on the field. You settle for

613
00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:09,480
Speaker 1: a three instead of a seven, maybe you put the

614
00:32:09,520 --> 00:32:13,160
Speaker 1: ball on the ground, maybe you don't convert a fourth down,

615
00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:16,600
Speaker 1: and so you're dominating the stat sheet, but you look

616
00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:19,200
Speaker 1: up and it's still less a one possession game. And

617
00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:22,800
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, ole Miss being the number

618
00:32:22,800 --> 00:32:25,960
Speaker 1: four explosive play offense in the country and ole Miss

619
00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:28,120
Speaker 1: being the number three cap buster play team in the

620
00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:32,240
Speaker 1: country happens. And I was in the Miami FSU game

621
00:32:32,240 --> 00:32:35,040
Speaker 1: earlier this year. Now Miami got out to a pretty

622
00:32:35,040 --> 00:32:37,479
Speaker 1: big lead, they took their foot off the offensive gas,

623
00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:41,120
Speaker 1: and then FSU just hung around and they could not

624
00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:43,840
Speaker 1: rev the engine again. So the final score looked closer

625
00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:47,200
Speaker 1: than the game really felt like. It was that element.

626
00:32:48,320 --> 00:32:50,960
Speaker 1: There is a world where that creeps in here and

627
00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:54,800
Speaker 1: ole Miss, somehow, some way, is grabbing a lead midway

628
00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:56,800
Speaker 1: through the fourth quarter, and you're looking at the stat

629
00:32:56,840 --> 00:33:01,280
Speaker 1: sheet saying, how is that possible. That's a way that

630
00:33:01,320 --> 00:33:04,240
Speaker 1: the trapdoor theory could be in play from Miami here,

631
00:33:04,480 --> 00:33:08,400
Speaker 1: which just means you ought to be aggressive no matter what.

632
00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:11,400
Speaker 1: Carson Beck should be a weapon for you in this game.

633
00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:13,720
Speaker 1: Now you may think to yourself, Oh, we want to

634
00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:16,440
Speaker 1: go more risk averse. You know, we think we've got

635
00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:18,640
Speaker 1: this thing from a physical standpoint, and we don't want

636
00:33:18,640 --> 00:33:22,560
Speaker 1: to throw the game away. You're not winning the next

637
00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:25,320
Speaker 1: game with that mentality. Even if you do adopt it

638
00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:29,800
Speaker 1: successfully in this game. You can't hide your quarterback. Two games.

639
00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:31,320
Speaker 1: You may be able to hide them in this one.

640
00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:33,560
Speaker 1: I think it would serve to your detriment the next game.

641
00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:36,600
Speaker 1: So you got to roll with the horses that got

642
00:33:36,640 --> 00:33:40,480
Speaker 1: you here. Otherwise there is a little sliver of light

643
00:33:40,520 --> 00:33:43,200
Speaker 1: through that door that you leave open for ole Miss. Now, look,

644
00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:45,880
Speaker 1: there's also a world where you're down fourteen to oh

645
00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:48,400
Speaker 1: to them and you're having to play catch up. I'm

646
00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:50,560
Speaker 1: just talking about a world where a Miami style of

647
00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:57,000
Speaker 1: game could even work against Miami. Also, if you're trying

648
00:33:57,000 --> 00:33:59,760
Speaker 1: to find like a comparable matchup earlier in the season.

649
00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:03,960
Speaker 1: I was thinking about the SMU game earlier. Now I'm

650
00:34:03,960 --> 00:34:06,000
Speaker 1: going to render this entire point that I'm about to

651
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:08,360
Speaker 1: make moot. But I am going to make the point

652
00:34:09,040 --> 00:34:11,160
Speaker 1: because I was at the SMU Miami game that was

653
00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:13,280
Speaker 1: an eleven am kickoff. It was in Dallas. It feels

654
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:15,879
Speaker 1: like five years ago, but Miami lost the game. At

655
00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:19,720
Speaker 1: that point, many people thought their season was over. Kevin

656
00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:22,200
Speaker 1: Jennings was twenty nine to forty four that day, three

657
00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:24,520
Speaker 1: hundred and sixty five yards and a touchdown. He was

658
00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:26,680
Speaker 1: hurting most of the day too, so really good effort

659
00:34:26,680 --> 00:34:31,240
Speaker 1: from him. Carson Beck had two interceptions that day. Miami

660
00:34:31,280 --> 00:34:36,600
Speaker 1: had four hundred and thirty yards and twenty points. That formula,

661
00:34:36,920 --> 00:34:39,560
Speaker 1: if duplicated, could work out and Ole Miss could win

662
00:34:39,640 --> 00:34:44,560
Speaker 1: the game. Here's the problem. Miami woke up since then. Miami.

663
00:34:45,320 --> 00:34:47,680
Speaker 1: I am a believer in the fact that they played

664
00:34:47,680 --> 00:34:50,480
Speaker 1: down to competition at times, and they've done that at

665
00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:53,480
Speaker 1: times over Mario's tenure. But when they need to be up.

666
00:34:53,560 --> 00:34:56,520
Speaker 1: See at Notre Dame game right there. You will never

667
00:34:56,600 --> 00:34:58,960
Speaker 1: convince me. The level of play we got against Notre

668
00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:01,279
Speaker 1: Dame was the same level of play we were seeing

669
00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:05,160
Speaker 1: from them mid season. They just dipped mid season. They

670
00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:08,080
Speaker 1: are not dipping right now, and so the level of

671
00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:09,719
Speaker 1: play that you got from them against A and M

672
00:35:09,800 --> 00:35:12,680
Speaker 1: and against Ohio State, you're gonna get that from them again,

673
00:35:13,000 --> 00:35:15,120
Speaker 1: which is why I don't think that result is gonna

674
00:35:15,120 --> 00:35:18,120
Speaker 1: be duplicable. Let's take a look with model thinks, and

675
00:35:18,400 --> 00:35:20,680
Speaker 1: it's a very surprising number. I'm gonna be real with you.

676
00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:23,360
Speaker 1: Miami's a three and a half point favorite at FanDuel.

677
00:35:25,239 --> 00:35:27,080
Speaker 1: What would you do if I told you the model

678
00:35:27,080 --> 00:35:29,120
Speaker 1: thinks ole Miss is gonna win this game? Out right,

679
00:35:29,200 --> 00:35:35,239
Speaker 1: it's got ole Miss minus one. Would you believe it? Yep? No,

680
00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:39,360
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't believe it. I think Miami is

681
00:35:39,360 --> 00:35:41,040
Speaker 1: gonna win the game. I think they're gonna win it

682
00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:45,440
Speaker 1: by seven or more. I am diametrically opposed to the

683
00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:48,120
Speaker 1: model here because what I think is gonna happen is

684
00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:50,879
Speaker 1: a little blend of both worlds from Miami. They're gonna

685
00:35:50,880 --> 00:35:52,719
Speaker 1: have a two way edge on the line of scrimmage.

686
00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:56,200
Speaker 1: They are going to get theirs on the ground. Carson

687
00:35:56,239 --> 00:35:58,800
Speaker 1: Beck is gonna have a good decision making type game.

688
00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:02,960
Speaker 1: It'd be really hard he game. But I also don't

689
00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:05,319
Speaker 1: think that Trinidad Shambliss and I just got to go

690
00:36:05,400 --> 00:36:07,920
Speaker 1: on basic instinct here. I don't think you're gonna have

691
00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:11,640
Speaker 1: a copy paste of the magic we saw last game.

692
00:36:12,040 --> 00:36:14,920
Speaker 1: If we do, and that's the way they win this game.

693
00:36:15,280 --> 00:36:17,040
Speaker 1: Just like I said, about Georgia. You just tip your

694
00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:20,759
Speaker 1: cap to them. I think that stuff's really transcendent. I mean,

695
00:36:20,800 --> 00:36:23,640
Speaker 1: I think that's generational type stuff for a school. And

696
00:36:23,719 --> 00:36:26,600
Speaker 1: to get two of those performances in a row, I

697
00:36:27,280 --> 00:36:30,520
Speaker 1: will be proven wrong by it happening rather than expecting

698
00:36:30,600 --> 00:36:32,239
Speaker 1: it to happen. So I'm gonna take Miami to win.

699
00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:35,000
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take Miami to cover. If you're going to

700
00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:37,640
Speaker 1: either of these games, or if you're just going to

701
00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:39,840
Speaker 1: a concert because your team season has ended and you

702
00:36:39,880 --> 00:36:42,359
Speaker 1: can't bear to watch it, whatever the case may be,

703
00:36:42,520 --> 00:36:44,840
Speaker 1: you will need a ticket. If they're not going to

704
00:36:44,880 --> 00:36:47,560
Speaker 1: credential you for this stuff, you will need a ticket

705
00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:51,240
Speaker 1: or tickets if you are not a loaner. And look,

706
00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:53,520
Speaker 1: people go to movies alone all the time. Why not

707
00:36:53,520 --> 00:36:56,719
Speaker 1: go to a football game alone. But if you want

708
00:36:56,760 --> 00:36:58,759
Speaker 1: to go, if you need that social element, you want

709
00:36:58,760 --> 00:37:01,440
Speaker 1: to take friends, you need to gets go to seat Geek,

710
00:37:02,560 --> 00:37:05,120
Speaker 1: not just because they are on my preferred vendor, because

711
00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:07,640
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get you a discount, so you go there. Again,

712
00:37:07,680 --> 00:37:10,279
Speaker 1: this works for any event, not just football. Go to

713
00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:12,560
Speaker 1: check out. Right before you check out, in that little

714
00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:17,640
Speaker 1: promo code box, enter paate ten pat E one zero. Why, well,

715
00:37:17,640 --> 00:37:19,799
Speaker 1: it's gonna get you ten percent off your order of

716
00:37:19,840 --> 00:37:22,560
Speaker 1: anything two hundred dollars or less, and anything two hundred

717
00:37:22,640 --> 00:37:24,719
Speaker 1: or more, I'm gonna get you twenty dollars off. Can't

718
00:37:24,719 --> 00:37:27,399
Speaker 1: get it to you for free. I'm told that that's

719
00:37:27,440 --> 00:37:30,799
Speaker 1: not a good business model for seat geek. However, they

720
00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:32,799
Speaker 1: will get you a discount as long as you put

721
00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:34,799
Speaker 1: pay ten in there. A lot of you have taken

722
00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:38,200
Speaker 1: advantage of that during the playoff season, many more, no

723
00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:43,560
Speaker 1: doubt will this time around. The portal is on fire.

724
00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:47,480
Speaker 1: The transfer portal's gone insane. Like if you're if you're

725
00:37:47,480 --> 00:37:49,239
Speaker 1: a college football player, there's like a one to three

726
00:37:49,360 --> 00:37:52,160
Speaker 1: chance you're in the portal right now. Once I'm commissioner,

727
00:37:52,239 --> 00:37:53,640
Speaker 1: will get a hold of this thing. But I'm not

728
00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:55,920
Speaker 1: commissioner yet, so it's a free for all. There are

729
00:37:56,000 --> 00:38:00,000
Speaker 1: heavy hitting names you gotta be following Pete and Achol

730
00:38:00,080 --> 00:38:02,359
Speaker 1: on Twitter. More on that in a second. But Cam

731
00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:04,959
Speaker 1: Coleman number one player in the portal right now, wide

732
00:38:05,040 --> 00:38:08,319
Speaker 1: receiver from Auburn. I got to be real with you.

733
00:38:08,360 --> 00:38:10,560
Speaker 1: I heard Texas A and M with Cam Coleman like

734
00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:13,480
Speaker 1: weeks and weeks and weeks ago, so they're still being mentioned.

735
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:17,040
Speaker 1: Texas is being mentioned. Isaac Brown is the number one

736
00:38:17,080 --> 00:38:22,040
Speaker 1: tailback in the portal and from Louisville, Texas is being

737
00:38:22,080 --> 00:38:25,400
Speaker 1: mentioned there. And you've seen some attrition, like you've seen

738
00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:29,799
Speaker 1: guys leaving Texas a lot of times. You'll see positions

739
00:38:29,840 --> 00:38:33,320
Speaker 1: being vacated in advance of a guy from the portal

740
00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:35,400
Speaker 1: joining that roster, and it kind of works the opposite

741
00:38:35,440 --> 00:38:37,800
Speaker 1: way it should work. But that's the way the portal spends.

742
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:41,080
Speaker 1: That's the way the portal turns, if you will. Chas Coleman,

743
00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:44,479
Speaker 1: Penn State kid, really good player, number five overall player

744
00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:47,480
Speaker 1: in the portal, an edge guy got an LSU visit.

745
00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:54,600
Speaker 1: According to brother Nacos, Oklahoma State pulled something off and

746
00:38:54,640 --> 00:38:57,080
Speaker 1: it shouldn't be a surprise because Eric Morris was the

747
00:38:57,120 --> 00:39:00,000
Speaker 1: head coach at North Texas he took the Oklahoma State job.

748
00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:04,360
Speaker 1: Caleb Hawkins was there, his tailback, number six overall player

749
00:39:04,360 --> 00:39:07,439
Speaker 1: in the portal. Drew Mestemaker was his quarterback, number eight

750
00:39:07,560 --> 00:39:10,719
Speaker 1: overall player in the portal. They're both going to Oklahoma State,

751
00:39:10,840 --> 00:39:14,520
Speaker 1: which is great news for them. I just wondered where

752
00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:16,920
Speaker 1: they gonna follow, you know, because it's not like he

753
00:39:16,960 --> 00:39:20,000
Speaker 1: took the Michigan job. He took Oklahoma State, which meant

754
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:23,799
Speaker 1: Oklahoma State, it's gonna need to step up. Jesse, tell

755
00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:26,120
Speaker 1: me something now. It could just be a glitch in

756
00:39:26,160 --> 00:39:30,399
Speaker 1: the system. Did John Tes William's status just change live

757
00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:36,240
Speaker 1: on air or was that just me? It did change? Okay,

758
00:39:36,239 --> 00:39:39,200
Speaker 1: so you're telling me Johontas Williams has committed to Southern

759
00:39:39,239 --> 00:39:41,799
Speaker 1: cal even as I'm talking right now. Again, It's why

760
00:39:41,800 --> 00:39:44,400
Speaker 1: it's so scary to talk about the portal live. I

761
00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:46,960
Speaker 1: wish Nakos was in here. There's a chair right over

762
00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:50,440
Speaker 1: here and he could just sit there. Hey, truthfully, he

763
00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:52,640
Speaker 1: could live in here. Look at this is It's not

764
00:39:52,719 --> 00:39:54,799
Speaker 1: real brick. I won't lie, but it's a very very

765
00:39:54,840 --> 00:39:59,600
Speaker 1: cozy home we have here. All right. Indiana is swinging wildly,

766
00:40:00,160 --> 00:40:03,400
Speaker 1: and it will probably shock approximately none of you to

767
00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:06,800
Speaker 1: learn that they are landing every punch that they swing

768
00:40:06,840 --> 00:40:11,640
Speaker 1: with Josh Hoover TCU quarterback. That's who Kurt Signetti has circled,

769
00:40:12,160 --> 00:40:14,680
Speaker 1: and so he is next in line to be a

770
00:40:14,719 --> 00:40:19,000
Speaker 1: future Heisman finalist at Indiana. I haven't seen the script.

771
00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:21,359
Speaker 1: I just assume that's what's going to happen next year

772
00:40:21,640 --> 00:40:25,000
Speaker 1: multi year starters, seventy four hundred yards and fifty six

773
00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:28,360
Speaker 1: touchdowns in his last two seasons. So he's headed to Bloomington.

774
00:40:28,480 --> 00:40:31,080
Speaker 1: Nick Marsh, who I was really high on this past

775
00:40:31,120 --> 00:40:34,680
Speaker 1: year and then Michigan State was terrible. He's headed to

776
00:40:35,080 --> 00:40:38,000
Speaker 1: Indiana too, and I'm just banking on him being a

777
00:40:38,040 --> 00:40:40,840
Speaker 1: thousand plus yard guy next year. There're gonna be a

778
00:40:40,840 --> 00:40:42,279
Speaker 1: lot of passes. I'm going to say a lot of

779
00:40:42,320 --> 00:40:44,520
Speaker 1: balls to go around, but I didn't want to immunity myself,

780
00:40:45,080 --> 00:40:48,440
Speaker 1: but they're gonna lose some guys in the NFL. They'll backfill.

781
00:40:49,120 --> 00:40:52,200
Speaker 1: Just totally confident. They got four other kids. So Indiana

782
00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:56,799
Speaker 1: is making some big moves here. The quarterback dominoes fascinating

783
00:40:57,080 --> 00:41:01,440
Speaker 1: to watch. Think about the current college football player semi finals.

784
00:41:01,480 --> 00:41:07,080
Speaker 1: Carson Beck at Miami transfer, Trinidad Chambliss at Ole Miss transfer,

785
00:41:07,560 --> 00:41:11,520
Speaker 1: Dante More at Oregon. Once was committed to Oregon, then

786
00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:14,360
Speaker 1: went back on that commitment and hung out at UCLA

787
00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:16,640
Speaker 1: for a little while, then transferred back to Oregon. Counts

788
00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:20,799
Speaker 1: as a transfer. Yeah, who did I miss? Jesse? Oh yeah,

789
00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:24,920
Speaker 1: Fernanda Mendoza Indiana transfer. We're going four to four on

790
00:41:25,000 --> 00:41:27,680
Speaker 1: the teams that are left having transfer quarterbacks, which is

791
00:41:27,719 --> 00:41:30,439
Speaker 1: why you need to lock in when we're talking about

792
00:41:30,480 --> 00:41:37,000
Speaker 1: the portal dominoes at quarterback. Brennan soarsby fascinating situation right now.

793
00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:41,840
Speaker 1: So Brennan soarsby Cincinnati quarterback, really good player, Texas Texman

794
00:41:41,920 --> 00:41:44,480
Speaker 1: in the mix. I believe he just wrapped up a

795
00:41:44,560 --> 00:41:47,880
Speaker 1: visit at LSU. Jesse, check me on that. That was

796
00:41:47,960 --> 00:41:52,560
Speaker 1: this weekend. He was at LSU. Yes, Okay, it's It

797
00:41:52,680 --> 00:41:55,600
Speaker 1: looks like it's come down to those two as of

798
00:41:55,640 --> 00:41:58,760
Speaker 1: the past hour, and it's seven forty two pm Central

799
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:01,839
Speaker 1: on Sunday night. I've looked at Pete Nakos and Steve

800
00:42:01,840 --> 00:42:05,080
Speaker 1: wilt Fong putting crystal balls for Brendan Soursbe to land

801
00:42:05,160 --> 00:42:09,520
Speaker 1: at Texas Tech. Not done yet, but I trust those

802
00:42:09,560 --> 00:42:12,600
Speaker 1: two with my life as it relates to portal Juice.

803
00:42:12,719 --> 00:42:15,799
Speaker 1: At least, I trust those two with my life. Sam

804
00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:20,800
Speaker 1: Levitt Arizona State looks like he's scheduled to visit to LSU.

805
00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:24,239
Speaker 1: So again, maybe Lane ends up with one or the other.

806
00:42:24,360 --> 00:42:26,839
Speaker 1: Maybe that's the situation we're looking at here. I told

807
00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:30,520
Speaker 1: you Josh Hoover is going to Indiana mess to makers

808
00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:33,640
Speaker 1: headed to Oklahoma State, all right. Kenny Minshe who was

809
00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:38,160
Speaker 1: the backup at Notre Dame, He's headed to Nebraska. Cutter Bowley,

810
00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:41,840
Speaker 1: who was at Kentucky, that's who's headed to Arizona State

811
00:42:42,040 --> 00:42:45,200
Speaker 1: to take over for Sam Levitt. You got a flash

812
00:42:45,280 --> 00:42:47,560
Speaker 1: card this stuff. You just got a flashcard. I don't

813
00:42:47,560 --> 00:42:49,880
Speaker 1: know what else tell you. Lincoln Kinholtz, who was the

814
00:42:49,920 --> 00:42:54,440
Speaker 1: backup to Julian Saying at Ohio State, headed to Louisville.

815
00:42:55,400 --> 00:42:58,080
Speaker 1: There's a great news for him because Jeff Brahm has

816
00:42:58,120 --> 00:43:02,000
Speaker 1: failed approximately never to develop a quarterback. So he's in

817
00:43:02,040 --> 00:43:05,880
Speaker 1: good hands there. Now. The name still remaining big names.

818
00:43:07,239 --> 00:43:12,120
Speaker 1: DJ Lagway visited Florida State. Yeah, that's the hot rumor.

819
00:43:12,520 --> 00:43:16,760
Speaker 1: Byron Brown from USF still looking at Auburn until further

820
00:43:16,880 --> 00:43:19,840
Speaker 1: notice with him. Deuce Knight, who was at Auburn is

821
00:43:19,880 --> 00:43:23,080
Speaker 1: in the portal. Don't know with him yet. Ethan Grunkmeyer

822
00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:29,120
Speaker 1: was it Penn State obviously, and I think Virginia Tech

823
00:43:29,160 --> 00:43:32,120
Speaker 1: would make sense. Those are the hoof beats we hear

824
00:43:32,440 --> 00:43:34,600
Speaker 1: when we put our ear to the portal streets. Right now,

825
00:43:34,880 --> 00:43:38,080
Speaker 1: Dylan Ryola is still in the portal. So again, remember

826
00:43:38,920 --> 00:43:42,440
Speaker 1: like Miami's gonna be a player in this market. Just

827
00:43:43,719 --> 00:43:46,680
Speaker 1: teams like that are gonna be players in this market. So,

828
00:43:46,960 --> 00:43:49,279
Speaker 1: I mean there's some big hammers that are still yet

829
00:43:49,280 --> 00:43:53,680
Speaker 1: to be swung. In the quarterback sort of portal pool

830
00:43:53,719 --> 00:43:58,440
Speaker 1: over here. Penn State has imported Iowa State. It's the

831
00:43:58,440 --> 00:44:01,680
Speaker 1: best way I could explain it. State has now taken

832
00:44:01,760 --> 00:44:04,799
Speaker 1: Rock Obec, who is the quarterback at Iowa State. They've

833
00:44:04,840 --> 00:44:09,920
Speaker 1: taken his backup. They've taken Marcus Neil, the safety. They've

834
00:44:09,960 --> 00:44:15,080
Speaker 1: taken Jesse. They took two tight ends, right, Yeah, they

835
00:44:15,080 --> 00:44:17,680
Speaker 1: took Brahmer, they took Berkele. So they took a couple

836
00:44:17,760 --> 00:44:21,400
Speaker 1: of tight ends. They took RB one, they took wide

837
00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:24,960
Speaker 1: receiver one. They took three offensive linemen, they took two linebackers.

838
00:44:26,840 --> 00:44:30,640
Speaker 1: I detest that this is how college football works at

839
00:44:30,640 --> 00:44:33,040
Speaker 1: the moment, but it's the way it works at the moment,

840
00:44:33,120 --> 00:44:36,520
Speaker 1: and that is when you take a head coach. Part

841
00:44:36,560 --> 00:44:39,319
Speaker 1: of the thinking behind hiring the head coach is who

842
00:44:39,360 --> 00:44:41,839
Speaker 1: he can bring with him, and in Matt Campbell's case,

843
00:44:41,880 --> 00:44:45,719
Speaker 1: it was basically whoever he wants from Iowa State. So

844
00:44:46,440 --> 00:44:48,680
Speaker 1: that's what's happening there. There have been some movement at

845
00:44:48,680 --> 00:44:52,160
Speaker 1: Alabama today too, and a lot of them did not

846
00:44:52,280 --> 00:44:55,280
Speaker 1: surprise me. Multiple offensive linemen have gone in the portal

847
00:44:55,440 --> 00:44:57,920
Speaker 1: form B winning the portal. He started a lot for

848
00:44:57,960 --> 00:45:03,440
Speaker 1: them this year. Olaus Elena went in the portal. Like

849
00:45:03,440 --> 00:45:06,280
Speaker 1: like Rico Scott, who's a spot player at wide receiver,

850
00:45:06,320 --> 00:45:08,080
Speaker 1: I think he can be a good player. He's in

851
00:45:08,120 --> 00:45:11,960
Speaker 1: the portal. Richard Young a backup tailback. But Kean Keeley,

852
00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:16,239
Speaker 1: who came on big time for them at the back

853
00:45:16,280 --> 00:45:19,960
Speaker 1: half of the season as a pass rusher, he entered

854
00:45:19,960 --> 00:45:23,279
Speaker 1: the portal, and I think Alabama may work to keep

855
00:45:23,360 --> 00:45:25,400
Speaker 1: ke On Keeley. A lot of these other guys is

856
00:45:25,440 --> 00:45:27,560
Speaker 1: kind of a mutual parting of ways. I think they

857
00:45:27,600 --> 00:45:29,399
Speaker 1: may work to keep ke On Keeley. I'm just gonna

858
00:45:29,440 --> 00:45:33,759
Speaker 1: tell you that one surprised me a little bit, only

859
00:45:33,760 --> 00:45:36,960
Speaker 1: because I know his backstory, because I know ke On Keeley,

860
00:45:37,239 --> 00:45:40,200
Speaker 1: and so that's a kid who came in as a

861
00:45:40,200 --> 00:45:43,320
Speaker 1: five star head was swimming for a couple of years,

862
00:45:43,880 --> 00:45:45,920
Speaker 1: and there was really sort of a come to Jesus

863
00:45:46,040 --> 00:45:50,480
Speaker 1: moment between he and that staff, and he proved with

864
00:45:52,640 --> 00:45:55,360
Speaker 1: what he was willing to give up this pass cycle

865
00:45:55,400 --> 00:45:58,480
Speaker 1: that he badly wanted to be at Alabama and so

866
00:45:59,040 --> 00:46:02,239
Speaker 1: finally the light clicked on for him this year. And

867
00:46:02,360 --> 00:46:05,879
Speaker 1: obviously guys who look like him that can get after

868
00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:08,400
Speaker 1: the quarterback are very few and far between, so of

869
00:46:08,440 --> 00:46:10,279
Speaker 1: course there was going to be a huge market for him,

870
00:46:10,520 --> 00:46:12,960
Speaker 1: and maybe he's testing that market. Maybe he does leave.

871
00:46:13,560 --> 00:46:15,440
Speaker 1: I am very curious about that one. Like that's the

872
00:46:15,440 --> 00:46:17,840
Speaker 1: only name on this whole list here that kind of

873
00:46:17,920 --> 00:46:21,239
Speaker 1: caught me by surprise. Texas Tech is going to be

874
00:46:21,320 --> 00:46:23,720
Speaker 1: a big player here. Not with key Lee per Se,

875
00:46:23,760 --> 00:46:26,399
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe with him, but Texas Tech has

876
00:46:27,400 --> 00:46:31,759
Speaker 1: a lot of additions already. They're gonna be big players.

877
00:46:32,320 --> 00:46:35,000
Speaker 1: The one thing I'm curious about, Like I was talking

878
00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:38,239
Speaker 1: to Joey maguire after their Oregon game the other day.

879
00:46:38,400 --> 00:46:42,040
Speaker 1: Obviously like really disappointed, but then they got to dive

880
00:46:42,120 --> 00:46:46,480
Speaker 1: right into the portal and like he's not seeking my

881
00:46:46,560 --> 00:46:48,759
Speaker 1: advice as to how he builds his roster. But the

882
00:46:48,800 --> 00:46:51,080
Speaker 1: one thing that I just think about Texas Tech, and

883
00:46:51,120 --> 00:46:53,799
Speaker 1: the one thing I told him is it was a

884
00:46:53,800 --> 00:46:57,520
Speaker 1: great year, but you were limited at quarterback. Okay, so

885
00:46:57,600 --> 00:47:00,439
Speaker 1: maybe they're going to answer that with Brendan Sores be again,

886
00:47:00,480 --> 00:47:02,440
Speaker 1: we're waiting for official word there that would be a

887
00:47:02,480 --> 00:47:05,359
Speaker 1: big upgraded quarterback. But it felt like with Texas Tech,

888
00:47:05,400 --> 00:47:08,600
Speaker 1: there was a giant glob of peanut butter that was

889
00:47:08,640 --> 00:47:12,000
Speaker 1: put on the bread defensive line basically, but they just

890
00:47:12,080 --> 00:47:15,239
Speaker 1: spread it out nearly enough, like they had tons of

891
00:47:15,280 --> 00:47:18,520
Speaker 1: difference makers along the defensive front, but there weren't difference

892
00:47:18,560 --> 00:47:21,600
Speaker 1: makers like all over the roster. And I think it's

893
00:47:21,600 --> 00:47:24,720
Speaker 1: a live and learn type situation to where you apply

894
00:47:24,840 --> 00:47:28,320
Speaker 1: the lessons you learned this year and now maybe you

895
00:47:28,320 --> 00:47:30,839
Speaker 1: you spread those resources out over that toast a little

896
00:47:30,880 --> 00:47:33,680
Speaker 1: bit more. Trust me, with the resources they have or

897
00:47:33,800 --> 00:47:36,560
Speaker 1: with the peanut butter they have to spread at Texas Tech,

898
00:47:36,840 --> 00:47:38,799
Speaker 1: you can spread it as far as you want to

899
00:47:39,440 --> 00:47:43,200
Speaker 1: and it'll still be plenty deep enough. You won't have

900
00:47:43,280 --> 00:47:47,960
Speaker 1: to have some sparse like Toast is even showing right

901
00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:51,040
Speaker 1: here we didn't even have enough peanut butter to spread. No, no, no,

902
00:47:51,040 --> 00:47:54,719
Speaker 1: no barren toast at Texas Tech. But that's not the

903
00:47:54,719 --> 00:47:59,520
Speaker 1: biggest news. That's not the biggest portal news. The biggest

904
00:47:59,560 --> 00:48:07,440
Speaker 1: portal news is friend of the program, Shannon Terry, who

905
00:48:07,560 --> 00:48:11,279
Speaker 1: gave me my shot back in twenty nineteen. I got

906
00:48:11,320 --> 00:48:13,640
Speaker 1: a call from Shannon Terry, who at the time was

907
00:48:13,719 --> 00:48:16,920
Speaker 1: running twenty four to seven Sports. He called me cold.

908
00:48:17,320 --> 00:48:19,960
Speaker 1: He offered me a job. I took the job. I

909
00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:23,600
Speaker 1: came to Nashville in January of twenty twenty, and he

910
00:48:24,080 --> 00:48:27,360
Speaker 1: gave me a studio. He gave me resources and believed

911
00:48:27,400 --> 00:48:30,480
Speaker 1: in us. So we're forever in debt to Shannon. The

912
00:48:30,520 --> 00:48:35,600
Speaker 1: only thing that's changed now is Shannon Terry runs on three.

913
00:48:35,800 --> 00:48:38,120
Speaker 1: I am sitting in his building right now. His office

914
00:48:38,160 --> 00:48:41,319
Speaker 1: is like twenty feet away. I would say he's not

915
00:48:41,360 --> 00:48:45,480
Speaker 1: here tonight, not a Sunday night guy. But shanit Terry's

916
00:48:45,480 --> 00:48:49,400
Speaker 1: done very well for himself financially obviously, and so he

917
00:48:49,520 --> 00:48:52,120
Speaker 1: got a little loose with the Twitter fingers the other

918
00:48:52,200 --> 00:48:54,799
Speaker 1: day and he takes to Twitter and he says, if

919
00:48:54,840 --> 00:48:58,240
Speaker 1: you guys get portal Pete Akapete Nikos to one hundred

920
00:48:58,239 --> 00:49:00,840
Speaker 1: thousand Twitter followers by the end of the day Friday,

921
00:49:00,920 --> 00:49:03,759
Speaker 1: January ninth, I'll give him a huge raise. Now, look,

922
00:49:04,680 --> 00:49:08,040
Speaker 1: it's not hard or it's not easy. Rather to gain

923
00:49:09,080 --> 00:49:12,600
Speaker 1: basically nine thousand followers. Pete needed nine thousand. He was

924
00:49:12,640 --> 00:49:15,560
Speaker 1: at ninety one seven, so he needed eighty three hundred.

925
00:49:16,120 --> 00:49:22,360
Speaker 1: That's tough, but not impossible, and so myself and many

926
00:49:22,400 --> 00:49:26,799
Speaker 1: other people out there mobilized. However, many armies we could mobilize,

927
00:49:26,880 --> 00:49:29,640
Speaker 1: and wouldn't you know it, Young Peter is sitting here

928
00:49:29,640 --> 00:49:33,000
Speaker 1: with like one hundred and five thousand followers as we speak.

929
00:49:33,280 --> 00:49:35,879
Speaker 1: So it took him one day less than one day.

930
00:49:36,719 --> 00:49:40,759
Speaker 1: And so tomorrow morning, apparently we won't be here, but

931
00:49:41,480 --> 00:49:43,120
Speaker 1: young Pete's going to walk in the door here and

932
00:49:43,120 --> 00:49:48,000
Speaker 1: get a huge raise. Basically, what's occurred here is from

933
00:49:48,200 --> 00:49:52,520
Speaker 1: reporting on kids chasing the bag. Pete and Nakos may

934
00:49:52,560 --> 00:49:55,680
Speaker 1: have secured a bigger bag than any of the kids

935
00:49:55,760 --> 00:49:58,439
Speaker 1: chasing the bag. And that's what America is really all about,

936
00:49:58,480 --> 00:50:00,680
Speaker 1: if you think about it. So off to Pete, I

937
00:50:00,719 --> 00:50:02,520
Speaker 1: don't even know how big the rays is. I just

938
00:50:02,880 --> 00:50:06,759
Speaker 1: I trust that it's substantial, and frankly, it better be substantial.

939
00:50:07,880 --> 00:50:12,080
Speaker 1: We hold truth to power on this show. Uh, let's

940
00:50:12,080 --> 00:50:15,160
Speaker 1: continue speaking Speaking of which, boy, what a what an

941
00:50:15,160 --> 00:50:19,280
Speaker 1: opportune time to drop that line? Brian from Deston, Florida,

942
00:50:19,800 --> 00:50:22,719
Speaker 1: after watching that Rose bull splattering, how can anyone think

943
00:50:22,800 --> 00:50:25,080
Speaker 1: Kaylen de Boor is getting Alabama back to where Saban

944
00:50:25,160 --> 00:50:28,680
Speaker 1: had it? I don't know, Brian, I don't know how

945
00:50:28,719 --> 00:50:32,719
Speaker 1: anyone could expect Kaylen de bor to get Alabama back

946
00:50:32,719 --> 00:50:34,799
Speaker 1: to where Nick Saban had it, because he's not going to.

947
00:50:36,680 --> 00:50:38,439
Speaker 1: I would say it's a waste of time to think

948
00:50:38,440 --> 00:50:40,120
Speaker 1: that he was. I would say it's a waste of

949
00:50:40,120 --> 00:50:42,960
Speaker 1: time for Kaylin de Boor to focus on getting Alabama

950
00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:45,400
Speaker 1: back to where Nick Saban was, because I would suggest

951
00:50:45,440 --> 00:50:48,239
Speaker 1: to you that had Nick Saban stuck around at Alabama,

952
00:50:48,440 --> 00:50:50,960
Speaker 1: he wasn't getting Alabama back to where Nick Saban had

953
00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:55,880
Speaker 1: it a decade prior. And that's Nick literal Saban. I

954
00:50:55,880 --> 00:50:58,080
Speaker 1: don't think Kirby Smart's getting Georgia back to what Kurt

955
00:50:58,320 --> 00:51:00,680
Speaker 1: to what Georgia was a few years ago. Dabo's not

956
00:51:00,719 --> 00:51:03,200
Speaker 1: going to get Cleansing back to what Clemson was. It's

957
00:51:03,200 --> 00:51:05,920
Speaker 1: almost like the entire world has changed. So that's going

958
00:51:05,960 --> 00:51:08,759
Speaker 1: to be called excuse making. It's not. I got a

959
00:51:08,800 --> 00:51:11,600
Speaker 1: ton of criticism for Alabama, and I will dole it

960
00:51:11,640 --> 00:51:14,600
Speaker 1: out in just a moment. Mario Christabaal is the one

961
00:51:14,600 --> 00:51:17,239
Speaker 1: you guys need to listen to on this. Mario Christabaal,

962
00:51:17,600 --> 00:51:20,560
Speaker 1: I remember being down there for like spring practice three

963
00:51:20,680 --> 00:51:23,640
Speaker 1: years ago, and I was sitting in his office and

964
00:51:23,760 --> 00:51:27,040
Speaker 1: someone had asked him for the umpteenth time about getting

965
00:51:27,080 --> 00:51:28,960
Speaker 1: the U back. When are you going to get the

966
00:51:29,080 --> 00:51:32,120
Speaker 1: U backed? And he answered the question diplomatically. And then

967
00:51:32,760 --> 00:51:35,879
Speaker 1: when he wasn't on camera, I didn't ask him. Someone

968
00:51:35,920 --> 00:51:37,680
Speaker 1: asked him. And when he wasn't on camera, he just

969
00:51:37,880 --> 00:51:41,040
Speaker 1: let loose and he said, I'm so tired of people

970
00:51:41,120 --> 00:51:43,040
Speaker 1: asking me when is the U going to be back?

971
00:51:43,360 --> 00:51:44,680
Speaker 1: And he looked at me dead in the eye and

972
00:51:44,760 --> 00:51:47,480
Speaker 1: said to you, is never going to be back, because

973
00:51:47,480 --> 00:51:50,880
Speaker 1: they're asking for something to re emerge. That's impossible to

974
00:51:50,880 --> 00:51:53,600
Speaker 1: re emerge. That was another generation, that was another time

975
00:51:53,640 --> 00:51:57,280
Speaker 1: in college football that's coming gone. It's impossible to replicate

976
00:51:57,360 --> 00:52:00,000
Speaker 1: what we did here in the late eighties early nineties.

977
00:52:00,120 --> 00:52:02,480
Speaker 1: I'm not focused on bringing the you back. I'm focused

978
00:52:02,520 --> 00:52:05,360
Speaker 1: on building what the U will be. That's what he said.

979
00:52:05,800 --> 00:52:07,800
Speaker 1: And then three years later, wohden't you know it? They're

980
00:52:07,800 --> 00:52:10,560
Speaker 1: playing for a shot at the national championship later this week.

981
00:52:10,880 --> 00:52:13,480
Speaker 1: That is exactly how Calen de Bor should be thinking

982
00:52:13,480 --> 00:52:15,640
Speaker 1: of Alabama. It's not how do we get Bama back

983
00:52:15,719 --> 00:52:17,960
Speaker 1: to the way Saban had it. You're not going to

984
00:52:18,600 --> 00:52:20,359
Speaker 1: so you can waste your time. You can have all

985
00:52:20,360 --> 00:52:22,640
Speaker 1: the expectations in the world. You could pay a guy

986
00:52:22,680 --> 00:52:25,640
Speaker 1: ten million dollars fifteen million dollars, you could pay him

987
00:52:25,640 --> 00:52:28,560
Speaker 1: fifteen billion dollars. They're not going to be what Saban was.

988
00:52:29,280 --> 00:52:31,000
Speaker 1: Saban could leave the game day set, come back to

989
00:52:31,000 --> 00:52:33,800
Speaker 1: Tuscaloosa and he would never in a million years recreate

990
00:52:34,040 --> 00:52:36,960
Speaker 1: what he created. They'd be good, but they wouldn't be

991
00:52:37,000 --> 00:52:40,600
Speaker 1: insurmountably deep. Their twos wouldn't be better than your ones

992
00:52:40,680 --> 00:52:43,080
Speaker 1: because their twos would be playing for you, because that's

993
00:52:43,080 --> 00:52:48,680
Speaker 1: how college football works now. So having said that, I

994
00:52:48,680 --> 00:52:52,160
Speaker 1: think Alabama will be fine under Kaylen Debor. I haven't

995
00:52:52,239 --> 00:52:54,520
Speaker 1: changed my mind on that. Maybe some people have. That's fine.

996
00:52:54,800 --> 00:52:58,040
Speaker 1: Certainly after a thirty eight three drubbing in a playoff game,

997
00:52:58,120 --> 00:52:59,840
Speaker 1: that's the time to change your mind, or that's the

998
00:52:59,840 --> 00:53:01,719
Speaker 1: time that you would expect people to change their mind.

999
00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:05,040
Speaker 1: So I think Alabama will be fine. I'm basing all

1000
00:53:05,080 --> 00:53:09,440
Speaker 1: that on expecting Klin de Bor to address what are major, glaring,

1001
00:53:09,800 --> 00:53:14,640
Speaker 1: obvious issues. I do storm chasing a lot. So in

1002
00:53:14,719 --> 00:53:17,680
Speaker 1: storm chasing, we have something called STP. We have significant

1003
00:53:17,719 --> 00:53:22,359
Speaker 1: tornado parameters, and you need a certain combination of those

1004
00:53:22,360 --> 00:53:24,680
Speaker 1: things to be in place. And there's a very very

1005
00:53:24,719 --> 00:53:28,000
Speaker 1: fine line between having a big tornado outbreak and just

1006
00:53:28,120 --> 00:53:30,440
Speaker 1: nothing happens that day. It's a total bust from a

1007
00:53:30,480 --> 00:53:33,960
Speaker 1: forecasting perspective, and when the day is a total bust,

1008
00:53:34,320 --> 00:53:36,799
Speaker 1: you can get fooled into thinking, oh, those forecasters have

1009
00:53:36,840 --> 00:53:39,560
Speaker 1: no clue what they're talking about. No, they do. It's

1010
00:53:39,680 --> 00:53:43,200
Speaker 1: just a very fine line, and they're very very volatile ingredients,

1011
00:53:43,239 --> 00:53:45,600
Speaker 1: and you could have four of them in place, but

1012
00:53:45,640 --> 00:53:47,919
Speaker 1: then the fifth one is lacking and the other four

1013
00:53:48,000 --> 00:53:50,600
Speaker 1: don't matter. And football teams are kind of the same way.

1014
00:53:50,800 --> 00:53:53,319
Speaker 1: Because there's a lot of good about this Alabama team.

1015
00:53:53,560 --> 00:53:55,560
Speaker 1: I thought there was a lot of progress made with

1016
00:53:55,640 --> 00:53:58,520
Speaker 1: this Alabama team this year. But when you can't run

1017
00:53:58,560 --> 00:54:01,640
Speaker 1: the football and when you lack toughness to go head

1018
00:54:01,680 --> 00:54:04,680
Speaker 1: to head with teams that are playoff caliber, those have

1019
00:54:04,719 --> 00:54:07,520
Speaker 1: to be non negotiables. And that's something I fully expect

1020
00:54:07,600 --> 00:54:11,040
Speaker 1: him to address, and I expect him to address it.

1021
00:54:11,160 --> 00:54:16,239
Speaker 1: Twofold Number one top down questioning the mental approach that

1022
00:54:16,239 --> 00:54:21,120
Speaker 1: that program takes, and number two addressing staffing issues because

1023
00:54:21,200 --> 00:54:22,960
Speaker 1: I think there's some really good people in that building

1024
00:54:23,120 --> 00:54:24,879
Speaker 1: and there are probably some other people that don't belong

1025
00:54:24,920 --> 00:54:27,959
Speaker 1: in that building, and there are no perfect staffs out there,

1026
00:54:28,080 --> 00:54:31,160
Speaker 1: Indiana notwithstanding, at the moment. But it's up to the

1027
00:54:31,160 --> 00:54:35,120
Speaker 1: headman to address that. I'm basing my belief that Alabama's

1028
00:54:35,120 --> 00:54:37,800
Speaker 1: going to be better down the road on the concept

1029
00:54:37,800 --> 00:54:40,919
Speaker 1: that he will address that. I mean, I'm very, very

1030
00:54:40,960 --> 00:54:43,160
Speaker 1: confident that you'll see staff moves there in the not

1031
00:54:43,200 --> 00:54:46,000
Speaker 1: too distant future. And then the third thing I would ask,

1032
00:54:46,440 --> 00:54:49,040
Speaker 1: and this is a big problem, but it's one that

1033
00:54:49,080 --> 00:54:51,440
Speaker 1: you can't really answer externally. So I'm just asking it

1034
00:54:51,480 --> 00:54:54,440
Speaker 1: open endedly. Anyone want to circle to me the alpha

1035
00:54:54,480 --> 00:54:57,000
Speaker 1: leaders on that Alabama team this year? Who would that

1036
00:54:57,040 --> 00:54:59,480
Speaker 1: have been? Who would that have been? You know him

1037
00:54:59,480 --> 00:55:01,920
Speaker 1: in the past, Jonathan Allen's in the past, Guys like that,

1038
00:55:02,320 --> 00:55:06,480
Speaker 1: Who was that on this team? Who is that? Out

1039
00:55:06,520 --> 00:55:10,720
Speaker 1: of the players who may return, who is that? Because

1040
00:55:10,760 --> 00:55:15,239
Speaker 1: you guys know, at Alabama or at Georgia or at Texas,

1041
00:55:15,280 --> 00:55:18,600
Speaker 1: any of these big time programs on your good teams.

1042
00:55:19,200 --> 00:55:22,240
Speaker 1: When I ask you that question, two or three names

1043
00:55:22,320 --> 00:55:25,320
Speaker 1: just rattled off. I don't know that you just rattle

1044
00:55:25,360 --> 00:55:29,680
Speaker 1: off names with this Alabama team. So again, that sounds

1045
00:55:29,680 --> 00:55:32,360
Speaker 1: like excuse making. It's not. It's kind of doing a

1046
00:55:32,360 --> 00:55:34,759
Speaker 1: post mortem on the team. I thought they'd win the

1047
00:55:34,840 --> 00:55:37,840
Speaker 1: Rose Bowl, so certainly I swung and missed, so certainly

1048
00:55:37,880 --> 00:55:40,000
Speaker 1: I'm looking at that thing with a magnifying glass. But

1049
00:55:40,040 --> 00:55:42,240
Speaker 1: those are three things that I think he would address.

1050
00:55:42,280 --> 00:55:44,600
Speaker 1: It's just a non negotiable. You've got to be able

1051
00:55:44,640 --> 00:55:47,640
Speaker 1: to run the ball. It's a non negotiable anywhere, much

1052
00:55:47,680 --> 00:55:51,680
Speaker 1: less at Alabama. You've got to have toughness. I've seen

1053
00:55:51,680 --> 00:55:55,040
Speaker 1: a lot of people questioning strength and conditioning there. You

1054
00:55:55,080 --> 00:55:57,560
Speaker 1: don't know what you're talking about. I'm just telling you

1055
00:55:57,560 --> 00:56:00,640
Speaker 1: you don't. There are five million layers to that and

1056
00:56:00,719 --> 00:56:04,400
Speaker 1: five million variables and moving parts, and there's some words

1057
00:56:04,400 --> 00:56:08,600
Speaker 1: that scientifically you've never pronounced in your life. And my

1058
00:56:08,719 --> 00:56:13,120
Speaker 1: point is, I think the strength and conditioning a component

1059
00:56:14,320 --> 00:56:18,799
Speaker 1: paired with the mental component, paired with the developmental component,

1060
00:56:19,360 --> 00:56:22,759
Speaker 1: and then paired with the coaching component. All of those

1061
00:56:22,760 --> 00:56:25,359
Speaker 1: things have to work together in unison. If they're not,

1062
00:56:25,560 --> 00:56:27,680
Speaker 1: it doesn't matter if you have the strongest team in

1063
00:56:27,680 --> 00:56:30,080
Speaker 1: college football, nor does it matter if you have the

1064
00:56:30,160 --> 00:56:32,879
Speaker 1: fastest team in college football. They're going to get put

1065
00:56:32,920 --> 00:56:36,160
Speaker 1: on skates and made to look sharm and soft if

1066
00:56:36,200 --> 00:56:39,080
Speaker 1: they don't have the execution and the toughness and the

1067
00:56:39,120 --> 00:56:43,400
Speaker 1: proper development and coaching. But you can't know all of

1068
00:56:43,440 --> 00:56:48,400
Speaker 1: those things. So the layperson's eye turns on a game

1069
00:56:48,840 --> 00:56:51,000
Speaker 1: and you watch Alabama not having punch at the line

1070
00:56:51,000 --> 00:56:53,360
Speaker 1: of scrimmage, and you watch them not being able to

1071
00:56:53,400 --> 00:56:56,359
Speaker 1: fire off the ball offensive line, You watch them not

1072
00:56:56,400 --> 00:56:58,160
Speaker 1: being able to stand up against the run like you

1073
00:56:58,200 --> 00:57:00,319
Speaker 1: want them to any of a number of thing, And

1074
00:57:00,360 --> 00:57:03,000
Speaker 1: the first thing you think about is all strength and conditioning.

1075
00:57:03,120 --> 00:57:06,400
Speaker 1: You have no clue, you have no idea that that's

1076
00:57:06,520 --> 00:57:10,160
Speaker 1: the culprit. There major lesson to be learned from Indiana.

1077
00:57:10,480 --> 00:57:13,040
Speaker 1: This is one more thing I'll say about them. There's

1078
00:57:13,080 --> 00:57:16,280
Speaker 1: a major lesson to be learned from Indiana if you're Alabama.

1079
00:57:17,160 --> 00:57:20,480
Speaker 1: But it's not just the execution part. It's not the toughness,

1080
00:57:21,040 --> 00:57:24,560
Speaker 1: it's not the balanced approach offensively. All those are givens

1081
00:57:24,600 --> 00:57:30,439
Speaker 1: to me. What I respect supremely about Indiana is they

1082
00:57:30,520 --> 00:57:33,360
Speaker 1: act like Alabama used to act, in a sense that

1083
00:57:33,440 --> 00:57:37,600
Speaker 1: they don't rely on external stuff from motivation. No one

1084
00:57:37,640 --> 00:57:41,880
Speaker 1: should Alabama slipped into this mode. You hear them talk

1085
00:57:41,880 --> 00:57:44,120
Speaker 1: about it all the time. Man, I'd be around the

1086
00:57:44,120 --> 00:57:47,000
Speaker 1: team sometimes, like in postgame and they be talking about

1087
00:57:47,000 --> 00:57:50,919
Speaker 1: folks doubt folks, disrespecting them, Like, what are you talking about?

1088
00:57:50,960 --> 00:57:52,600
Speaker 1: You know, it sounds like it sounds like Clemson and

1089
00:57:52,680 --> 00:57:55,280
Speaker 1: Dabbo back in the day when they were first beginning

1090
00:57:55,320 --> 00:57:59,360
Speaker 1: their assent, the little old Clemson thing, the stuff Dabbo

1091
00:57:59,480 --> 00:58:01,120
Speaker 1: used to always reach. And I had a problem with

1092
00:58:01,200 --> 00:58:03,080
Speaker 1: it then, and I spoke out about it then, and

1093
00:58:03,120 --> 00:58:06,000
Speaker 1: I said, this works right now because people are doubting you.

1094
00:58:06,080 --> 00:58:08,440
Speaker 1: The problem is, the better you get, the less they

1095
00:58:08,480 --> 00:58:12,000
Speaker 1: doubt you. And you've built your entire foundation on your

1096
00:58:12,080 --> 00:58:15,360
Speaker 1: primary fuel source being doubt. Well, when it runs out,

1097
00:58:16,120 --> 00:58:20,360
Speaker 1: what sustains you? And as it turns out, due to

1098
00:58:20,360 --> 00:58:22,240
Speaker 1: that and the number of other issues, it clemes And

1099
00:58:22,280 --> 00:58:25,800
Speaker 1: they didn't sustain it. And so at Alabama, I just

1100
00:58:25,880 --> 00:58:29,240
Speaker 1: watched them play in Indiana team, and that Indiana team

1101
00:58:29,360 --> 00:58:32,760
Speaker 1: actually has reason to use disrespect and doubt. It's fuel

1102
00:58:32,800 --> 00:58:35,280
Speaker 1: because people did doubt them all year long. They don't

1103
00:58:35,840 --> 00:58:38,640
Speaker 1: listen to their leadership. Now, that guy may coach with

1104
00:58:38,680 --> 00:58:42,840
Speaker 1: a chip on his shoulder, but that's an entire ethos,

1105
00:58:43,120 --> 00:58:46,880
Speaker 1: that's an entire worldview. I can promise you Indiana didn't

1106
00:58:47,320 --> 00:58:50,000
Speaker 1: didn't perform at the level they did against you cause

1107
00:58:50,040 --> 00:58:53,520
Speaker 1: you doubted them. They performed at that level calls. That's

1108
00:58:53,560 --> 00:58:56,560
Speaker 1: the standard they work too, that's the standard they hold

1109
00:58:56,600 --> 00:59:00,880
Speaker 1: themselves to. And if there's one criticism that I've had

1110
00:59:00,920 --> 00:59:03,920
Speaker 1: with Kaylin do borso far at Alabama, you look at

1111
00:59:03,960 --> 00:59:06,920
Speaker 1: some of the losses they've lost as big favorites. You

1112
00:59:06,960 --> 00:59:09,000
Speaker 1: look at some of their wins Georgia. It's when they're

1113
00:59:09,000 --> 00:59:11,200
Speaker 1: an underdog. They go on to Row thirteen of nineteen

1114
00:59:11,320 --> 00:59:14,960
Speaker 1: Razor sharp efficiency on third down. It should just be

1115
00:59:15,120 --> 00:59:18,160
Speaker 1: consistent every week, or it should be a lot more

1116
00:59:18,240 --> 00:59:21,280
Speaker 1: consistent than it has been. And that's the lesson I

1117
00:59:21,320 --> 00:59:23,680
Speaker 1: take away from Indiana. All the other stuff's obvious. You

1118
00:59:24,000 --> 00:59:25,880
Speaker 1: need to be doing that. That goes without saying. But

1119
00:59:26,640 --> 00:59:31,360
Speaker 1: just the proper source of fuel, like the proper focus,

1120
00:59:30,960 --> 00:59:34,480
Speaker 1: is one that just focuses on a standard and couldn't

1121
00:59:34,480 --> 00:59:37,360
Speaker 1: care less what anyone's saying outside. You should never be

1122
00:59:37,440 --> 00:59:40,160
Speaker 1: at your best when people are doubting you. You should

1123
00:59:40,160 --> 00:59:42,840
Speaker 1: be at your best when it's Saturday and there's a

1124
00:59:42,880 --> 00:59:44,640
Speaker 1: game to be played. That's when you should beat your best.

1125
00:59:44,640 --> 00:59:46,960
Speaker 1: You should beat your best just because it's Tuesday and

1126
00:59:47,000 --> 00:59:49,840
Speaker 1: you've got an opportunity and God given ability, and it's

1127
00:59:49,880 --> 00:59:52,000
Speaker 1: there to be had, so you're going to take it.

1128
00:59:52,240 --> 00:59:55,520
Speaker 1: That's when you should be at your best. Academy Sports

1129
00:59:55,520 --> 00:59:58,360
Speaker 1: and Outdoors, you could be at your best by hanging

1130
00:59:58,400 --> 01:00:01,200
Speaker 1: out there. No one's ever got worse by going to

1131
01:00:01,200 --> 01:00:02,920
Speaker 1: Academy Sports and out Doors. A ton of people have

1132
01:00:02,960 --> 01:00:05,479
Speaker 1: gotten better. At least you look better and you feel

1133
01:00:05,520 --> 01:00:11,920
Speaker 1: better because you're better equipped. I watched at least two

1134
01:00:12,440 --> 01:00:17,440
Speaker 1: of the four quarterfinal games with a full left cheek,

1135
01:00:17,560 --> 01:00:21,480
Speaker 1: this one right here of groundball grape big lead chew,

1136
01:00:21,920 --> 01:00:24,200
Speaker 1: because we got it from Academy. We got the whole.

1137
01:00:25,000 --> 01:00:27,480
Speaker 1: I don't know what it was like, a starter pack

1138
01:00:27,520 --> 01:00:31,240
Speaker 1: of big lead chew, and so I choose to just

1139
01:00:31,320 --> 01:00:35,160
Speaker 1: obnoxiously take the entire pouch of big lead chew and

1140
01:00:35,160 --> 01:00:38,520
Speaker 1: put it in. Makes me feel great, makes me feel mature.

1141
01:00:38,800 --> 01:00:41,680
Speaker 1: I have a spit cup even though it's gum. So

1142
01:00:41,840 --> 01:00:46,640
Speaker 1: the entire ensemble is recreated, and you can acquire big

1143
01:00:46,680 --> 01:00:50,800
Speaker 1: lead chew at Academy. Now there are like ninety nine

1144
01:00:50,880 --> 01:00:52,760
Speaker 1: million other things you could get there. You can get

1145
01:00:52,760 --> 01:00:54,800
Speaker 1: a kayak there if you wanted to. You just can't

1146
01:00:54,840 --> 01:00:57,360
Speaker 1: chew it while you're watching football. You get a glove,

1147
01:00:57,600 --> 01:00:59,600
Speaker 1: you know, because it is it is about to be

1148
01:00:59,680 --> 01:01:03,320
Speaker 1: spree because that always follows winter. It's happened every year.

1149
01:01:03,800 --> 01:01:06,200
Speaker 1: It's really easy to predict. You can get all your

1150
01:01:06,240 --> 01:01:08,960
Speaker 1: camping gear, you can get all your spring sports stuff,

1151
01:01:08,960 --> 01:01:10,800
Speaker 1: you can get it all at Academy Sports and Outdoors.

1152
01:01:10,800 --> 01:01:12,480
Speaker 1: And if you can't get there in person, that's okay

1153
01:01:13,120 --> 01:01:21,440
Speaker 1: Academy dot Com. Let's move on. Got plenty more to

1154
01:01:21,480 --> 01:01:25,680
Speaker 1: talk about some of these questions. Hold on, let me

1155
01:01:25,680 --> 01:01:31,520
Speaker 1: get some lipbomb for this one. Okay, we're good. The

1156
01:01:31,600 --> 01:01:37,920
Speaker 1: Ohio State one man knows. It's just Howie from Pittsburgh. Howie, Howie, Howie.

1157
01:01:37,960 --> 01:01:40,720
Speaker 1: He said, how was everyone so wrong on Ohio State

1158
01:01:40,760 --> 01:01:41,200
Speaker 1: this year?

1159
01:01:41,880 --> 01:01:41,960
Speaker 2: Like?

1160
01:01:42,240 --> 01:01:46,440
Speaker 1: Was it wild to you? How wrong everyone was a

1161
01:01:46,440 --> 01:01:49,160
Speaker 1: little bit? Yeah, a little bit. I just think the

1162
01:01:49,160 --> 01:01:52,080
Speaker 1: bubble kept getting bigger and bigger once they got past

1163
01:01:52,120 --> 01:01:55,320
Speaker 1: the Texas game. And I use the analogy of the

1164
01:01:55,400 --> 01:01:57,120
Speaker 1: dam all the time, and I think it fits with

1165
01:01:57,200 --> 01:02:01,600
Speaker 1: Ohio State. Here. What Howe's taught talking about is once

1166
01:02:01,640 --> 01:02:04,320
Speaker 1: Ohio State got past Texas, they were the number one

1167
01:02:04,360 --> 01:02:06,440
Speaker 1: team in the country. And they were pretty much just

1168
01:02:06,560 --> 01:02:08,720
Speaker 1: number one the whole year. I had them number one.

1169
01:02:09,160 --> 01:02:11,480
Speaker 1: The model had them number one. Everyone had them number one,

1170
01:02:12,760 --> 01:02:17,600
Speaker 1: and then perceptionally the gap started to grow between Ohio

1171
01:02:17,680 --> 01:02:20,960
Speaker 1: State and the pack. I fell victim to this too.

1172
01:02:21,040 --> 01:02:24,040
Speaker 1: The model fell victim to this. So I'm not saying

1173
01:02:24,080 --> 01:02:26,120
Speaker 1: it was a them problem. It was a Wei it

1174
01:02:26,160 --> 01:02:29,320
Speaker 1: was a we thing. And it's so easy to talk

1175
01:02:29,360 --> 01:02:31,440
Speaker 1: about this stuff in retrospect, but man, they went through

1176
01:02:31,440 --> 01:02:34,280
Speaker 1: the whole regular season. I'm going back to the analogy

1177
01:02:34,320 --> 01:02:38,600
Speaker 1: of the dam here. All football teams are dams. Some

1178
01:02:38,680 --> 01:02:40,640
Speaker 1: of them have a ton of cracks. Some of them

1179
01:02:40,680 --> 01:02:43,280
Speaker 1: have a few cracks, But it's not about whether they're cracked.

1180
01:02:43,320 --> 01:02:45,840
Speaker 1: They all got cracks. There is no perfect team. It's

1181
01:02:45,880 --> 01:02:50,160
Speaker 1: all about who faces enough water pressure from their schedule

1182
01:02:50,360 --> 01:02:53,280
Speaker 1: to expose the cracks. Most of the time, when you're

1183
01:02:53,280 --> 01:02:55,720
Speaker 1: playing in the big ten of the SEC, you're gonna

1184
01:02:55,760 --> 01:02:59,320
Speaker 1: face several tests that will expose your cracks. I don't

1185
01:02:59,320 --> 01:03:02,320
Speaker 1: think Ohio's they did this year. They faced Texas early

1186
01:03:02,360 --> 01:03:04,720
Speaker 1: in the year and then they were able to just

1187
01:03:05,400 --> 01:03:08,400
Speaker 1: suffocate their way through the rest of the regular season

1188
01:03:09,320 --> 01:03:13,800
Speaker 1: and they just never faced enough pressure to expose the cracks. Now,

1189
01:03:13,880 --> 01:03:17,760
Speaker 1: it was my theory that Ohio State was calling games

1190
01:03:17,800 --> 01:03:20,600
Speaker 1: the way they were offensively this year because they were

1191
01:03:20,720 --> 01:03:23,760
Speaker 1: well aware internally of who they were, who they weren't,

1192
01:03:24,160 --> 01:03:27,640
Speaker 1: what their limitations were. The outside world didn't care because

1193
01:03:27,680 --> 01:03:31,400
Speaker 1: they just kept winning. Methodically, they kept winning. Matt Patricia

1194
01:03:31,440 --> 01:03:33,880
Speaker 1: comes in there as defensive coordinator, and they don't give

1195
01:03:33,960 --> 01:03:36,120
Speaker 1: up what more than like sixteen points in the regular season.

1196
01:03:37,680 --> 01:03:39,680
Speaker 1: So then they go and they face Indiana and they lose,

1197
01:03:39,680 --> 01:03:41,600
Speaker 1: and then they face Miami and they lose, and it's over.

1198
01:03:42,440 --> 01:03:44,920
Speaker 1: And of course, because the last two games you saw

1199
01:03:45,040 --> 01:03:48,880
Speaker 1: were losses, people view the season as a failure. I

1200
01:03:48,960 --> 01:03:52,400
Speaker 1: thought they did an excellent job coaching. I always feel

1201
01:03:52,440 --> 01:03:54,200
Speaker 1: this way, though, if you make the playoffs, no one

1202
01:03:54,640 --> 01:03:56,560
Speaker 1: makes the playoffs and has a failure of a season.

1203
01:03:56,960 --> 01:04:00,240
Speaker 1: I know what the expectation is there. Expectations is a

1204
01:04:00,240 --> 01:04:02,720
Speaker 1: funny thing. I've been thinking about this a lot more lately.

1205
01:04:03,040 --> 01:04:06,560
Speaker 1: Expectations just don't matter. They never have. But I've just

1206
01:04:06,600 --> 01:04:08,960
Speaker 1: been thinking about it a lot more Like people think somehow,

1207
01:04:09,360 --> 01:04:12,760
Speaker 1: if you just raise your expectation level, it forces the

1208
01:04:12,800 --> 01:04:17,560
Speaker 1: production to increase. It doesn't. Production and expectation, well, let

1209
01:04:17,600 --> 01:04:21,440
Speaker 1: me rephrase, the production of the football program relative to

1210
01:04:21,480 --> 01:04:25,960
Speaker 1: outside expectation is totally detached. Sometimes they match, sometimes they don't.

1211
01:04:26,200 --> 01:04:27,840
Speaker 1: But if your team wins a national title, it's not

1212
01:04:27,840 --> 01:04:30,160
Speaker 1: because you expected them to. It's because they recruited and

1213
01:04:30,200 --> 01:04:32,680
Speaker 1: developed and executed. That's why they won the national title.

1214
01:04:33,240 --> 01:04:35,280
Speaker 1: And if ole Miss wins the national title this year

1215
01:04:35,320 --> 01:04:37,800
Speaker 1: and no one expected them to, it also won't matter.

1216
01:04:38,200 --> 01:04:41,360
Speaker 1: So to me, this was an excellent coaching job because

1217
01:04:41,440 --> 01:04:43,800
Speaker 1: if I said it out loud to myself in August,

1218
01:04:44,160 --> 01:04:48,080
Speaker 1: it would have been phenomenal. Remember remember in August, Yes,

1219
01:04:48,200 --> 01:04:50,520
Speaker 1: this was going to be a highly ranked team. I

1220
01:04:50,560 --> 01:04:52,440
Speaker 1: think there were number two or three enter in the season.

1221
01:04:53,280 --> 01:04:58,280
Speaker 1: But in August, when they're coming off losing an offensive

1222
01:04:58,320 --> 01:05:01,640
Speaker 1: coordinator and a defensive coordinator and the quarterback, and they

1223
01:05:01,720 --> 01:05:03,720
Speaker 1: just won a national title, so there's the risk of

1224
01:05:03,720 --> 01:05:08,360
Speaker 1: the hangover factor. They lost a ton of production. If

1225
01:05:08,400 --> 01:05:10,320
Speaker 1: you were to tell me they're gonna go undefeated in

1226
01:05:10,360 --> 01:05:12,960
Speaker 1: the regular season and go play for the Big Ten championship,

1227
01:05:13,360 --> 01:05:17,440
Speaker 1: it's a success period, point blank. I don't do the

1228
01:05:17,440 --> 01:05:21,640
Speaker 1: recalibration of expectation thing. I change my expectation level of

1229
01:05:21,640 --> 01:05:23,920
Speaker 1: you as the season goes on, but I am not

1230
01:05:24,120 --> 01:05:27,200
Speaker 1: gonna all of a sudden expect you to win nine

1231
01:05:27,240 --> 01:05:29,880
Speaker 1: games in the preseason. But then you start off eight

1232
01:05:29,880 --> 01:05:31,920
Speaker 1: to oh so then I say, oh, anything less than

1233
01:05:31,960 --> 01:05:34,479
Speaker 1: elevens of failure. I don't do that. I'm not saying

1234
01:05:34,480 --> 01:05:36,400
Speaker 1: I called Ohio State to go nine to three, but

1235
01:05:36,520 --> 01:05:39,760
Speaker 1: there was a world where they fell off pretty significantly

1236
01:05:39,800 --> 01:05:43,360
Speaker 1: this year, but they didn't. So if I tell myself

1237
01:05:43,440 --> 01:05:47,440
Speaker 1: undefeated regular season in August, mind you, that means beating

1238
01:05:47,480 --> 01:05:50,360
Speaker 1: Michigan for the first time in half a decade. That's

1239
01:05:50,400 --> 01:05:52,680
Speaker 1: a success to me. All right, So that's the fifty

1240
01:05:52,720 --> 01:05:56,840
Speaker 1: thousand foot August view. I'm gonna make some excuses here.

1241
01:05:57,160 --> 01:05:59,960
Speaker 1: This will be labeled excuse making. That's fine. I'm just

1242
01:06:00,400 --> 01:06:02,960
Speaker 1: sharing to you how I think this season ended for

1243
01:06:03,000 --> 01:06:06,920
Speaker 1: Ohio State. I think the Michigan game one thousand percent

1244
01:06:07,000 --> 01:06:09,640
Speaker 1: impacted the Indiana game, all right. Part one of the

1245
01:06:09,640 --> 01:06:12,880
Speaker 1: problem was Indiana is extremely good, so they're hard to beat,

1246
01:06:13,800 --> 01:06:16,280
Speaker 1: and that's even if Ohio State plays them off of bye.

1247
01:06:16,800 --> 01:06:20,160
Speaker 1: But then compounding matters for Ohio State was they were

1248
01:06:20,280 --> 01:06:22,360
Speaker 1: way more banged up as a team coming out of

1249
01:06:22,360 --> 01:06:25,320
Speaker 1: the Michigan game than they led on. And number two,

1250
01:06:25,720 --> 01:06:31,520
Speaker 1: the Brian heartline stuff had to detrimentally impact them. Heartline,

1251
01:06:31,560 --> 01:06:34,200
Speaker 1: and you've got the distraction of Heartline taking the USF job.

1252
01:06:34,480 --> 01:06:36,240
Speaker 1: And that's like in the middle of that week, if

1253
01:06:36,240 --> 01:06:39,960
Speaker 1: I remember correctly, I just think that mattered. And then

1254
01:06:40,520 --> 01:06:43,160
Speaker 1: again to just circle back around to the first point,

1255
01:06:43,240 --> 01:06:45,920
Speaker 1: Indiana's really good. So you had to get back up

1256
01:06:45,920 --> 01:06:49,160
Speaker 1: after that Michigan game and they weren't ready for it.

1257
01:06:49,600 --> 01:06:51,320
Speaker 1: I don't know how else to put it, but I

1258
01:06:51,400 --> 01:06:54,360
Speaker 1: do think that played a part. So if that's excuse making,

1259
01:06:54,520 --> 01:06:57,720
Speaker 1: it's excuse making. The Miami game just is boy, it

1260
01:06:57,720 --> 01:07:01,040
Speaker 1: boils down to the pick six to me because you're

1261
01:07:01,160 --> 01:07:05,480
Speaker 1: lacking explosiveness. So once you get down fourteen to oh,

1262
01:07:06,120 --> 01:07:10,840
Speaker 1: you don't really possess the ability to know, hey, any

1263
01:07:10,960 --> 01:07:14,280
Speaker 1: second now, we could pop an eighty yard run. That's

1264
01:07:14,320 --> 01:07:17,280
Speaker 1: just not Ohio State this year. Any second now, man,

1265
01:07:17,280 --> 01:07:19,480
Speaker 1: we could have a one or two play drive and boom,

1266
01:07:19,640 --> 01:07:21,720
Speaker 1: we're right back in it. I guess that could have

1267
01:07:21,760 --> 01:07:24,360
Speaker 1: happened because they have aliens, at least one of them

1268
01:07:24,360 --> 01:07:26,520
Speaker 1: on the field at wide receiver. But that wasn't them

1269
01:07:26,560 --> 01:07:29,680
Speaker 1: all year. Really, in these kind of games, it wasn't them,

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01:07:30,160 --> 01:07:31,960
Speaker 1: And so they knew we were gonna need ten play

1271
01:07:32,040 --> 01:07:34,520
Speaker 1: drives to get back in this game, and they put

1272
01:07:34,560 --> 01:07:37,680
Speaker 1: a couple of them together, but that picks six. I mean,

1273
01:07:37,680 --> 01:07:40,280
Speaker 1: that's what it's all about. So that's full of your fault.

1274
01:07:40,880 --> 01:07:43,600
Speaker 1: It's not excuse making, but that's how the season ended.

1275
01:07:44,880 --> 01:07:47,320
Speaker 1: I don't view that as a failure. I do think,

1276
01:07:47,400 --> 01:07:50,000
Speaker 1: to go back to the spirit of the question, Yes,

1277
01:07:50,400 --> 01:07:52,800
Speaker 1: the bubble kept getting bigger despite the fact that they

1278
01:07:52,840 --> 01:07:55,880
Speaker 1: weren't really being tested, and I dealt with it on

1279
01:07:55,880 --> 01:08:00,520
Speaker 1: this show. The mere mention of the possibility of Miami

1280
01:08:00,560 --> 01:08:04,240
Speaker 1: beating Ohio State drew some of the most hateful comments

1281
01:08:04,240 --> 01:08:09,720
Speaker 1: we've ever gotten, and those people consequently have disappeared. But

1282
01:08:09,960 --> 01:08:11,520
Speaker 1: you know, there are a lot of folks whose opinions

1283
01:08:11,520 --> 01:08:15,920
Speaker 1: I supremely respect, who just worked themselves into the concept

1284
01:08:16,000 --> 01:08:19,559
Speaker 1: or the idea that Ohio State not invincible. But Ohio

1285
01:08:19,560 --> 01:08:22,880
Speaker 1: State's just a definitive like runaway train front runner in

1286
01:08:22,880 --> 01:08:26,640
Speaker 1: this tournament, and losing the Indiana game will end up

1287
01:08:26,680 --> 01:08:30,360
Speaker 1: paying off. It'll, you know, springboard us just like the

1288
01:08:30,400 --> 01:08:34,680
Speaker 1: Michigan game did last year. It just didn't happen that way.

1289
01:08:36,160 --> 01:08:37,840
Speaker 1: I don't know what else to say. Man, you had

1290
01:08:37,840 --> 01:08:41,000
Speaker 1: an undefeated regular season a year after a historic level

1291
01:08:41,040 --> 01:08:45,240
Speaker 1: of attrition. Worse things have happened, bigger tragedies in life.

1292
01:08:46,840 --> 01:08:50,920
Speaker 1: Moving on, more doubters. It's a doubt fest here tonight.

1293
01:08:52,360 --> 01:08:54,680
Speaker 1: Kennedy's checking in from Salt Lake City. Here's what he

1294
01:08:54,720 --> 01:08:57,519
Speaker 1: had to say. Oh no, not Salt Lake City. Bradley

1295
01:08:57,560 --> 01:09:00,240
Speaker 1: can cut all that out. Kennedy's checking in from Lakes City,

1296
01:09:00,280 --> 01:09:03,679
Speaker 1: South Carolina, and he said, I no bold prediction. Season

1297
01:09:03,720 --> 01:09:05,920
Speaker 1: is over, but I got a fun one. Kirby smart

1298
01:09:06,000 --> 01:09:10,920
Speaker 1: never wins another national title. Thoughts he may not, He

1299
01:09:10,960 --> 01:09:13,240
Speaker 1: may not. Now I'm gonna have to assume some things here.

1300
01:09:13,760 --> 01:09:19,240
Speaker 1: I'm assuming Kennedy is saying this in a very very pejorative, negative,

1301
01:09:19,320 --> 01:09:21,479
Speaker 1: gleeful manner, because I don't take him to be a

1302
01:09:21,479 --> 01:09:27,720
Speaker 1: Georgia fan. Kirby may not win another national title. I

1303
01:09:27,720 --> 01:09:30,040
Speaker 1: think he's the best head coach in college football right now.

1304
01:09:30,800 --> 01:09:33,720
Speaker 1: So it sounds kind of like an oxy moron. It's not.

1305
01:09:34,040 --> 01:09:37,040
Speaker 1: It's just possible that the best in the game currently.

1306
01:09:37,280 --> 01:09:39,599
Speaker 1: What's possible I'm wrong that he's the best. But even

1307
01:09:39,640 --> 01:09:41,559
Speaker 1: if I'm right that he is the best, Yeah, it's

1308
01:09:41,560 --> 01:09:44,559
Speaker 1: possible that he won two of them back to back years.

1309
01:09:44,600 --> 01:09:48,559
Speaker 1: And that's it. Dabo did. That's what Dabo Swinny did.

1310
01:09:49,040 --> 01:09:52,240
Speaker 1: He won a couple and then I don't think Dabo

1311
01:09:52,280 --> 01:09:54,679
Speaker 1: will ever win another national title. What does that mean.

1312
01:09:54,760 --> 01:09:56,160
Speaker 1: It means he's one of the best to ever do it,

1313
01:09:56,160 --> 01:09:57,880
Speaker 1: and he's a Hall of famer. That's what it means

1314
01:09:57,920 --> 01:10:00,519
Speaker 1: for dabos Wwinny. Kirby Smart, if he never wins another

1315
01:10:00,600 --> 01:10:02,599
Speaker 1: national title, will be one of the best to ever

1316
01:10:02,640 --> 01:10:04,439
Speaker 1: do it, and he'll be a Hall of Famer, and

1317
01:10:04,479 --> 01:10:08,240
Speaker 1: he will have totally redefined what Georgia football is. That's

1318
01:10:08,280 --> 01:10:11,680
Speaker 1: worst case scenario. I guess the playoff is a crapshoot.

1319
01:10:12,720 --> 01:10:16,720
Speaker 1: So Georgia made the playoff this year, total crapshoot. They

1320
01:10:16,760 --> 01:10:18,840
Speaker 1: could have won the thing, or they could have been

1321
01:10:18,880 --> 01:10:22,360
Speaker 1: eliminated in their first game, which they were, and neither

1322
01:10:22,720 --> 01:10:24,960
Speaker 1: was like a total shock. Neither would have been a

1323
01:10:24,960 --> 01:10:28,719
Speaker 1: total shock. I don't think that's the skill. The skill

1324
01:10:28,760 --> 01:10:30,519
Speaker 1: is not in winning it. Yes, there is skill in

1325
01:10:30,560 --> 01:10:33,200
Speaker 1: wing a national title, but there's a lot of luck

1326
01:10:33,400 --> 01:10:36,160
Speaker 1: that's going to go into that. The skill as a

1327
01:10:36,160 --> 01:10:40,200
Speaker 1: head coach is in having your program within reaching distance

1328
01:10:40,280 --> 01:10:43,240
Speaker 1: every year, and Kirby Smart has continued to do that,

1329
01:10:43,800 --> 01:10:46,280
Speaker 1: and I think Kirby smart will continue to do that,

1330
01:10:46,600 --> 01:10:48,439
Speaker 1: and as long as he does that, he's one of

1331
01:10:48,479 --> 01:10:51,040
Speaker 1: the very best that there is doing it. It is

1332
01:10:51,120 --> 01:10:54,720
Speaker 1: extremely hard to beat them. Think about the effort it

1333
01:10:54,760 --> 01:10:57,000
Speaker 1: takes to beat Georgia. How hard it is to cut

1334
01:10:57,000 --> 01:10:59,640
Speaker 1: the head off the snake. You saw Ole Miss do

1335
01:10:59,720 --> 01:11:02,200
Speaker 1: it night. How many times have you ever seen a

1336
01:11:02,280 --> 01:11:06,679
Speaker 1: quarterback performance like that? A handful? And so, yeah, it's

1337
01:11:06,760 --> 01:11:10,559
Speaker 1: true that they're struggling to a certain degree at Georgia

1338
01:11:10,600 --> 01:11:13,240
Speaker 1: with the new realities of college football. You can't stack

1339
01:11:13,280 --> 01:11:15,479
Speaker 1: a roster the way you used to. But here's the thing.

1340
01:11:17,320 --> 01:11:20,320
Speaker 1: Once that started happening to Nick Saban, he just retired.

1341
01:11:20,360 --> 01:11:22,920
Speaker 1: His career was done. I mean, it's etched in stone

1342
01:11:22,920 --> 01:11:25,519
Speaker 1: greatest of all time. But Saban was also in his

1343
01:11:25,560 --> 01:11:29,439
Speaker 1: early seventies. Kirby's not, so he could retire today for

1344
01:11:29,520 --> 01:11:32,559
Speaker 1: all I know. He's going to retire tomorrow and rides

1345
01:11:32,600 --> 01:11:35,639
Speaker 1: off into the sunset and he's good. Probably not though,

1346
01:11:36,120 --> 01:11:40,000
Speaker 1: so like that wasn't in the cards for Kirby. Kirby

1347
01:11:40,040 --> 01:11:42,599
Speaker 1: had to deal with the new reality. I'd say they're

1348
01:11:42,640 --> 01:11:44,519
Speaker 1: dealing with it a whole lot better than Dabbo is it.

1349
01:11:44,600 --> 01:11:47,040
Speaker 1: Clemson and it sounds like I'm taking shots there. I'm not.

1350
01:11:47,520 --> 01:11:50,600
Speaker 1: I just view two of those careers running kind of

1351
01:11:51,000 --> 01:11:54,400
Speaker 1: sort of parallel a little bit, and one of them

1352
01:11:54,439 --> 01:11:58,000
Speaker 1: still has his program within swinging distance, within reach of

1353
01:11:58,040 --> 01:12:01,200
Speaker 1: the national championship every year, and the other one, So

1354
01:12:01,640 --> 01:12:03,759
Speaker 1: if he doesn't win another one, or if he wins

1355
01:12:03,800 --> 01:12:07,080
Speaker 1: three more, I don't really think that much different about

1356
01:12:07,120 --> 01:12:09,759
Speaker 1: him as a head coach. I will also say about

1357
01:12:09,760 --> 01:12:12,559
Speaker 1: this year's Georgia team, I thought they did another really

1358
01:12:12,560 --> 01:12:15,320
Speaker 1: good job. Left a lot to be desired at the end.

1359
01:12:15,400 --> 01:12:18,000
Speaker 1: I know that, but the offensive line on that team

1360
01:12:18,120 --> 01:12:20,880
Speaker 1: was a wreck at times this year, and yet they

1361
01:12:20,920 --> 01:12:25,519
Speaker 1: still resurrected their ground game the pass rush emerged. I

1362
01:12:25,600 --> 01:12:27,920
Speaker 1: think that defensive staff did a heck of a job

1363
01:12:28,280 --> 01:12:32,320
Speaker 1: of continuing to just squeeze the sponge and squeeze the sponge,

1364
01:12:32,400 --> 01:12:35,040
Speaker 1: and you thought that you had gotten all the water

1365
01:12:35,120 --> 01:12:36,360
Speaker 1: out of it early in the year, and then they

1366
01:12:36,400 --> 01:12:38,400
Speaker 1: squeezed harder and they got a few more drops out

1367
01:12:38,400 --> 01:12:40,280
Speaker 1: of it. And that pass rush came on late in

1368
01:12:40,320 --> 01:12:41,960
Speaker 1: the year, and I didn't know that that was going

1369
01:12:42,040 --> 01:12:44,439
Speaker 1: to be there, and it was there. They actually hit

1370
01:12:44,920 --> 01:12:48,479
Speaker 1: on portal wide receiver to the degree that if they

1371
01:12:48,520 --> 01:12:50,040
Speaker 1: I mean, if they didn't have Branch, what would they

1372
01:12:50,080 --> 01:12:53,920
Speaker 1: have had. Now, you may have lacked the downfield consistent threat.

1373
01:12:53,960 --> 01:12:56,080
Speaker 1: I think that's more tied to the quarterback position and

1374
01:12:56,120 --> 01:12:58,040
Speaker 1: what you do and don't have there than it was

1375
01:12:58,120 --> 01:13:02,040
Speaker 1: that you just didn't have any capable receivers. I let

1376
01:13:02,080 --> 01:13:05,760
Speaker 1: me tell you this. I know a lot of people

1377
01:13:05,800 --> 01:13:08,960
Speaker 1: around this league, the league expected Georgia to be down

1378
01:13:09,560 --> 01:13:15,639
Speaker 1: this year, down historically down by Georgia standards. If you're

1379
01:13:16,160 --> 01:13:18,680
Speaker 1: picking up when I'm putting down and what they do.

1380
01:13:18,720 --> 01:13:22,680
Speaker 1: They won the SEC again. In my opinion, Georgia has

1381
01:13:22,680 --> 01:13:25,439
Speaker 1: won the SEC in back to back years in what

1382
01:13:25,560 --> 01:13:29,960
Speaker 1: I would consider very off the pace Georgia teams. Now,

1383
01:13:30,000 --> 01:13:33,920
Speaker 1: it may be that I haven't properly recalibrated my prism

1384
01:13:33,960 --> 01:13:36,400
Speaker 1: on Georgia and I'm I'm still thinking about that twenty

1385
01:13:36,439 --> 01:13:40,080
Speaker 1: twenty one team, and the reality is no Georgia team's

1386
01:13:40,120 --> 01:13:43,559
Speaker 1: ever going to look like that. I get that. I mean,

1387
01:13:43,760 --> 01:13:48,439
Speaker 1: even using the new landscape and using that as the barometer,

1388
01:13:49,320 --> 01:13:51,680
Speaker 1: I don't think these past two Georgia teams were like

1389
01:13:52,000 --> 01:13:55,360
Speaker 1: remarkably special and they've won the league back to back years. Now,

1390
01:13:55,479 --> 01:13:58,599
Speaker 1: is that an indictment on the SEC. Partly, yes it is,

1391
01:13:59,640 --> 01:14:02,360
Speaker 1: but that's it's not their fault and ay George's fault.

1392
01:14:02,520 --> 01:14:05,160
Speaker 1: And so they've still been the best of the league

1393
01:14:05,360 --> 01:14:09,400
Speaker 1: two years in a row. And that surprises me, or

1394
01:14:09,479 --> 01:14:12,800
Speaker 1: it doesn't surprise me at all. It just kind of

1395
01:14:13,000 --> 01:14:16,200
Speaker 1: it makes me back away from the table when a

1396
01:14:16,200 --> 01:14:18,960
Speaker 1: lot of people are criticizing what Georgia is and isn't

1397
01:14:19,040 --> 01:14:20,479
Speaker 1: right now, I don't know. I mean, I may be

1398
01:14:20,600 --> 01:14:23,360
Speaker 1: too nice to them. As for the teams that are

1399
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Speaker 1: easy to see. So profit boost on all the college

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01:14:51,680 --> 01:14:54,799
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01:14:54,920 --> 01:14:58,120
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Speaker 1: Let's finish with this question about Lane. I'm not you know,

1429
01:15:58,520 --> 01:16:01,120
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna do it. I was good. Maybe if

1430
01:16:01,160 --> 01:16:04,080
Speaker 1: you guys stay tuned in once the season ends. It

1431
01:16:04,160 --> 01:16:07,040
Speaker 1: pays to stay tuned in to the show because I

1432
01:16:07,080 --> 01:16:09,600
Speaker 1: tell a lot of stories that I have time to

1433
01:16:09,640 --> 01:16:13,920
Speaker 1: share once the season is over. And this dude texting

1434
01:16:14,000 --> 01:16:18,559
Speaker 1: me something the other day, Lane Kiffen, I it made

1435
01:16:18,560 --> 01:16:22,560
Speaker 1: me rethink life. Maybe else if we have Lane on

1436
01:16:22,600 --> 01:16:25,240
Speaker 1: the Speaker series in the spring, if we go down there,

1437
01:16:26,120 --> 01:16:29,599
Speaker 1: I will reveal the text down there. It's not something

1438
01:16:29,600 --> 01:16:31,360
Speaker 1: you should sit on the edge of your seat for like,

1439
01:16:31,360 --> 01:16:33,719
Speaker 1: it's not going to change your life, but it will

1440
01:16:33,760 --> 01:16:35,720
Speaker 1: make you sit back. It made me sit back and

1441
01:16:35,800 --> 01:16:38,680
Speaker 1: question my life. Coming from Lane Kiffin, it made me

1442
01:16:38,760 --> 01:16:42,960
Speaker 1: question my life. Okay, James hit us up from Tubelow, Mississippi.

1443
01:16:42,960 --> 01:16:45,519
Speaker 1: He said, did Lane Kiffin just throw his best chance

1444
01:16:45,760 --> 01:16:50,000
Speaker 1: to ever win a national championship down the drain? James,

1445
01:16:50,040 --> 01:16:52,360
Speaker 1: I will answer the question, but you need to agree

1446
01:16:52,360 --> 01:16:54,599
Speaker 1: to something with me. We have to be adults here.

1447
01:16:55,560 --> 01:16:59,760
Speaker 1: We cannot answer this with a childlike lens on this.

1448
01:17:00,479 --> 01:17:04,200
Speaker 1: We have to be adults. Do you agree? Does everyone agree?

1449
01:17:04,600 --> 01:17:08,240
Speaker 1: I'm taking your silence to be a yes. Okay, We've

1450
01:17:08,280 --> 01:17:13,439
Speaker 1: got to separate this into two parts. Part one, there's

1451
01:17:13,520 --> 01:17:16,599
Speaker 1: the decision that Lane Kiffen made to leave Ole Miss

1452
01:17:16,600 --> 01:17:19,240
Speaker 1: and go to LSU. The other part is how he's

1453
01:17:19,240 --> 01:17:22,200
Speaker 1: handled it. I'm going to ask you, for the sake

1454
01:17:22,240 --> 01:17:27,519
Speaker 1: of this question, to completely forget about number two. Just

1455
01:17:27,720 --> 01:17:30,439
Speaker 1: pay attention to the decision he made, because you guys

1456
01:17:30,479 --> 01:17:32,600
Speaker 1: can have a million different thoughts about him and his

1457
01:17:32,640 --> 01:17:35,960
Speaker 1: personality and a way's handled it and all that. That's

1458
01:17:36,000 --> 01:17:39,839
Speaker 1: a side note for the next five minutes. I'm only

1459
01:17:39,920 --> 01:17:43,200
Speaker 1: answering this question on the basis of did he throw

1460
01:17:43,240 --> 01:17:46,160
Speaker 1: away his best chance ever to win a national championship?

1461
01:17:46,600 --> 01:17:50,800
Speaker 1: And my answer is it's impossible to know this. How

1462
01:17:50,840 --> 01:17:56,519
Speaker 1: can anyone know what's coming? How Look, respectfully, James, maybe

1463
01:17:56,520 --> 01:17:59,320
Speaker 1: you predicted all this to happen. All I know is

1464
01:17:59,320 --> 01:18:02,040
Speaker 1: I got the question from you today or yesterday, whenever

1465
01:18:02,080 --> 01:18:06,800
Speaker 1: you send it in. Even your question is coming to

1466
01:18:06,840 --> 01:18:10,559
Speaker 1: me after Ole Miss beat Georgia. But see, when Lane left,

1467
01:18:10,960 --> 01:18:12,760
Speaker 1: he had no way of knowing how the Sugar Bowl

1468
01:18:12,760 --> 01:18:16,720
Speaker 1: game was gonna go. Again, don't pay attention to the

1469
01:18:16,720 --> 01:18:19,519
Speaker 1: way he's handled it. We agreed to that. Just that

1470
01:18:19,560 --> 01:18:23,800
Speaker 1: he left, that's all we're focused on. So yes, of course, statistically,

1471
01:18:23,880 --> 01:18:26,559
Speaker 1: now his Ole Miss team is in the semi final,

1472
01:18:27,040 --> 01:18:29,559
Speaker 1: and it's really hard to get this deep in the playoff.

1473
01:18:29,840 --> 01:18:31,880
Speaker 1: So maybe if he was the head coach and they

1474
01:18:31,880 --> 01:18:33,880
Speaker 1: were in the semi finals, maybe this ends up being

1475
01:18:33,920 --> 01:18:36,080
Speaker 1: his best shot at the title. There was no way

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01:18:36,080 --> 01:18:38,960
Speaker 1: to know that was going to happen. A competitor would

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01:18:38,960 --> 01:18:41,000
Speaker 1: expect it to happen. Yes, I'll grant you all that.

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01:18:41,720 --> 01:18:43,840
Speaker 1: I also don't know what he's gonna end up doing

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01:18:43,840 --> 01:18:47,320
Speaker 1: at LSU, Like maybe he'll be here four times, maybe

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01:18:47,320 --> 01:18:49,479
Speaker 1: he'll be here no times. I don't know. And the

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01:18:49,520 --> 01:18:51,200
Speaker 1: third part of that is how am I supposed to

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01:18:51,200 --> 01:18:52,960
Speaker 1: know what the landscape of college football is gonna do.

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01:18:53,479 --> 01:18:55,679
Speaker 1: It could be that five years down the road, there's

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01:18:55,760 --> 01:18:59,800
Speaker 1: no difference in LSU and any of these places, Like

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01:19:00,520 --> 01:19:03,880
Speaker 1: that's the I will entertain this, James, that's the road

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01:19:03,920 --> 01:19:07,519
Speaker 1: I could see this going down. I am granting before

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01:19:07,560 --> 01:19:09,640
Speaker 1: I even utter these sentences that are about to come

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01:19:09,640 --> 01:19:13,640
Speaker 1: out of my mouth that it's impossible to know. But

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01:19:13,720 --> 01:19:15,840
Speaker 1: if you want me to go glass half empty, or

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01:19:16,160 --> 01:19:19,440
Speaker 1: if you want me to go, like, let's go glass

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01:19:19,520 --> 01:19:21,719
Speaker 1: three quarters of the way empty. On the lane Kiffin

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01:19:21,840 --> 01:19:25,200
Speaker 1: move he goes from Ole Miss to LSU. Yes, I

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01:19:25,240 --> 01:19:28,280
Speaker 1: will grant you there is a world where the playing

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01:19:28,320 --> 01:19:31,400
Speaker 1: field in college football just levels and levels and levels,

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01:19:31,400 --> 01:19:33,880
Speaker 1: to where a couple more years down the road, there's

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01:19:33,960 --> 01:19:37,880
Speaker 1: no tangible difference between LSU and Ole Miss. There's really

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01:19:38,080 --> 01:19:41,760
Speaker 1: no difference between Indiana and Ohio State. Everything that used

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01:19:41,800 --> 01:19:44,160
Speaker 1: to be an edge in college football has been wiped out.

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01:19:44,520 --> 01:19:48,320
Speaker 1: Everyone's working with the same resources, everyone's working on the

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01:19:48,360 --> 01:19:54,280
Speaker 1: same revsher blueprint, and in the aggregate, all that you

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01:19:54,479 --> 01:19:57,200
Speaker 1: have at LSU that you don't have it in Ole Miss,

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01:19:57,600 --> 01:19:59,679
Speaker 1: all that you have at Ohio State that you don't

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01:19:59,680 --> 01:20:03,240
Speaker 1: have it Indiana is way way way higher expectations and

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01:20:03,360 --> 01:20:07,120
Speaker 1: way way more pressure. And in that world, believe it

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01:20:07,240 --> 01:20:11,000
Speaker 1: or not, it would be bizarre you would actually be

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01:20:11,760 --> 01:20:16,040
Speaker 1: at an LSU, to your detriment, relative to being at

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01:20:16,040 --> 01:20:19,160
Speaker 1: ole Mess. It would be more desirable to be at

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01:20:19,200 --> 01:20:23,360
Speaker 1: Indiana than Ohio State. It would be more desirable to

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01:20:23,439 --> 01:20:29,320
Speaker 1: be at Washington than USC. Because if everything's equal, you

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01:20:29,400 --> 01:20:31,360
Speaker 1: want to be at the places where your quality of

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01:20:31,400 --> 01:20:34,200
Speaker 1: life's better. If everything's equal, you want to be at

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01:20:34,200 --> 01:20:37,920
Speaker 1: the places where they don't have sky high expectations based

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01:20:37,960 --> 01:20:41,759
Speaker 1: on a long ago era and a generation and a

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01:20:42,000 --> 01:20:45,479
Speaker 1: form of college football that is no more because I

1515
01:20:45,560 --> 01:20:48,240
Speaker 1: think one thing we do understand is if we are

1516
01:20:48,280 --> 01:20:51,679
Speaker 1: headed towards a world where the landscape is totally evened out,

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01:20:52,360 --> 01:20:57,880
Speaker 1: the expectations are not following suit. Okay, At LSU, they're

1518
01:20:57,920 --> 01:20:59,920
Speaker 1: always going to expect to be better than Ole Miss

1519
01:21:00,200 --> 01:21:05,719
Speaker 1: why calls their LSU. At Michigan, they will always expect

1520
01:21:05,800 --> 01:21:09,200
Speaker 1: to be better than Iowa. Why because they're Michigan, you know.

1521
01:21:09,280 --> 01:21:14,200
Speaker 1: So yes, I have to grant in admitting that there's

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01:21:14,240 --> 01:21:16,880
Speaker 1: so much unknown about the future of college football, I

1523
01:21:16,920 --> 01:21:19,439
Speaker 1: do have to grant that there's a possibility that we

1524
01:21:19,479 --> 01:21:22,280
Speaker 1: get five years further down the road and people are

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01:21:22,360 --> 01:21:25,479
Speaker 1: resisting being a head coach at Georgia or being a

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01:21:25,479 --> 01:21:28,519
Speaker 1: head coach at Texas, and they're seeking out being the

1527
01:21:28,520 --> 01:21:30,680
Speaker 1: head coach at Oklahoma State and the head coach at

1528
01:21:30,720 --> 01:21:34,840
Speaker 1: Louisville because everything's equal, accept the expectations, and we don't

1529
01:21:34,840 --> 01:21:38,280
Speaker 1: want to go where there are bigger expectations. So, yes,

1530
01:21:39,080 --> 01:21:42,479
Speaker 1: there is a possibility that Lane regrets it down the

1531
01:21:42,520 --> 01:21:46,599
Speaker 1: road because he should have stayed at Old Miss because

1532
01:21:47,120 --> 01:21:49,040
Speaker 1: there was going to be no discernible advantage down the

1533
01:21:49,080 --> 01:21:51,960
Speaker 1: road to being at LSU. Yeah, that could be. There's

1534
01:21:51,960 --> 01:21:54,519
Speaker 1: no one to know. No one knows what the courts

1535
01:21:54,520 --> 01:21:56,800
Speaker 1: are going to do. No one knows what the NCAA

1536
01:21:56,880 --> 01:21:58,479
Speaker 1: can and can't do. No one even knows that they

1537
01:21:58,479 --> 01:22:03,559
Speaker 1: exist anymore. But I can only tell you where I

1538
01:22:03,560 --> 01:22:06,760
Speaker 1: think Lane Kiffin's head is at on this my answer

1539
01:22:06,800 --> 01:22:08,280
Speaker 1: to the question before I get too far away from

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01:22:08,280 --> 01:22:11,280
Speaker 1: the question. I think he'll have good shots to win

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01:22:11,360 --> 01:22:15,200
Speaker 1: national titles at LSU, So I think he'll have at

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01:22:15,280 --> 01:22:18,840
Speaker 1: least one chance. I think he'll have at least one

1543
01:22:18,920 --> 01:22:21,280
Speaker 1: team that gives him a better shot to win the

1544
01:22:21,360 --> 01:22:24,719
Speaker 1: national title than he will have had with this year's

1545
01:22:24,760 --> 01:22:27,519
Speaker 1: Old Miss team. So my answer to the question is, no,

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01:22:27,960 --> 01:22:29,840
Speaker 1: he didn't just throw his best shot at a national

1547
01:22:29,920 --> 01:22:34,400
Speaker 1: title down the drain. Remember our agreement. That's independent of

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01:22:34,439 --> 01:22:37,960
Speaker 1: how you feel he handled the situation. I'm just answering

1549
01:22:37,960 --> 01:22:42,040
Speaker 1: the question. Where I think Lane Kiffin's head is at

1550
01:22:42,880 --> 01:22:45,200
Speaker 1: is he looks at ole Miss, and he looks at himself.

1551
01:22:45,560 --> 01:22:47,320
Speaker 1: And you can agree with this or disagree with this.

1552
01:22:47,400 --> 01:22:49,360
Speaker 1: I'm just giving you my take on it. I think

1553
01:22:49,439 --> 01:22:53,160
Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin looks in the mirror and says, I had

1554
01:22:53,400 --> 01:22:55,559
Speaker 1: way more to do with the success we had here

1555
01:22:56,200 --> 01:22:58,879
Speaker 1: than just Ole Miss had to do with the success.

1556
01:22:59,360 --> 01:23:01,960
Speaker 1: Whether that's right or wrong. I think that's the way

1557
01:23:02,200 --> 01:23:06,080
Speaker 1: his mind works. He's not alone there. I think many

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01:23:06,240 --> 01:23:10,720
Speaker 1: many alpha competitor type head coaches feel that way. All

1559
01:23:10,800 --> 01:23:13,400
Speaker 1: due respect to the tradition and the pageantry and the

1560
01:23:13,439 --> 01:23:16,960
Speaker 1: fan base and whatnot. I'm the straw that stirs the

1561
01:23:17,040 --> 01:23:20,160
Speaker 1: drink here. It's a very arrogant way of thinking. Some

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01:23:20,200 --> 01:23:23,120
Speaker 1: guys happen to be right about it, though maybe Lane

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01:23:23,160 --> 01:23:29,200
Speaker 1: Kiffin's right about that. I can just tell you it's

1564
01:23:29,280 --> 01:23:33,160
Speaker 1: going to be from an outsider's perspective, very entertaining to watch.

1565
01:23:33,920 --> 01:23:36,400
Speaker 1: From the perspective of the players and the coaches that

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01:23:36,400 --> 01:23:38,160
Speaker 1: have been caught up in it. It's a joke that

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01:23:38,240 --> 01:23:43,240
Speaker 1: this is even a situation and it's no one person's blame,

1568
01:23:43,600 --> 01:23:48,719
Speaker 1: like just Howard Jones mode. No one is to blame, well,

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01:23:48,880 --> 01:23:52,519
Speaker 1: many people are to blame. Like I saw someone earlier today,

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01:23:52,600 --> 01:23:55,320
Speaker 1: I can't remember who it was. They were asking, Hey,

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01:23:55,320 --> 01:23:59,520
Speaker 1: why doesn't Greg Sanky step in and make it impossible

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01:23:59,560 --> 01:24:03,280
Speaker 1: for Lane to give an ultimatum to coaches following him

1573
01:24:03,320 --> 01:24:07,920
Speaker 1: from Ole Miss Because they're adults, they're making decisions like

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01:24:08,400 --> 01:24:10,240
Speaker 1: I don't really know that that's where the commissioner of

1575
01:24:10,280 --> 01:24:13,920
Speaker 1: the league would step in so million issues right now

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01:24:13,920 --> 01:24:17,559
Speaker 1: in college football. Yeah, good show tonight, though, really good

1577
01:24:17,600 --> 01:24:21,600
Speaker 1: show Tuesday's show. So we're not doing US show Tuesday,

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01:24:21,720 --> 01:24:25,599
Speaker 1: but we may do something on Tuesday. So just follow

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Speaker 1: me on socials at Josh pat CFB. I'll let you

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Speaker 1: know what we're doing, and then we're going to be

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01:24:30,439 --> 01:24:33,360
Speaker 1: We're gonna be in Arizona on Thursday for the Fiesta Bowl.

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01:24:33,640 --> 01:24:36,160
Speaker 1: We'll be in Atlanta Friday for the Peach Bowl. I'll

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01:24:36,160 --> 01:24:38,200
Speaker 1: do rapid reactions for each of those games, so you

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01:24:38,200 --> 01:24:41,200
Speaker 1: won't have to wait until Sunday. But a lot's going on.

1585
01:24:41,439 --> 01:24:44,519
Speaker 1: Lots going on in college football. Transfer port probably changed

1586
01:24:44,560 --> 01:24:46,960
Speaker 1: since I talked about it an hour ago. All Right,

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Speaker 1: we got to get home and get some food for

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Speaker 1: director Bradley, producer Jesse. I'm Josh Pate. Take care, have

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