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Speaker 1: championship this year? Because it has Ohio State way up there?

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Speaker 1: And anyone who's asking me this question from dearborn Michigan

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Speaker 1: has to be just beside themselves. They have to be

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Speaker 1: floored to see that Ohio State has odds that are

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Speaker 1: right in line with Michigan. They have virtually the same

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Speaker 1: odds as Michigan to win the national title. For the record,

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Speaker 1: as of tonight, you realize Ohio State is a one

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Speaker 1: point dog against Michigan in the game. That's several months

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Speaker 1: down the road. That is telling you that the odds makers,

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Speaker 1: for example, view them as as pretty equal. They may

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Speaker 1: even slightly favor Ohio State neutral field. Anyway, that's irrelevant

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Speaker 1: because as you could tell me, Ohio State was favored

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Speaker 1: the last two years. What did it mean? I get you?

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Speaker 1: My point is, let's part that you ran Caesar's sports

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Speaker 1: book instead of the folks at Caesar's. Mister Caesar, where

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Speaker 1: would you put Ohio State? If you forget about splitting money,

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Speaker 1: forget about monitoring the action. If you just wanted to

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Speaker 1: put true to life odds on Ohio State on your board,

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Speaker 1: where would you put them? You putting them behind USC?

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Speaker 1: You may put them behind LSU. Many of you may

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Speaker 1: like LSU more than Ohio State this year. That's okay,

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Speaker 1: But how far down are you putting them? You're gonna

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Speaker 1: put them behind Notre Dame, behind Texas A and m

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Speaker 1: are you putting them behind Tennessee? Where would you put them?

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Speaker 1: I don't think people remember last year properly because everyone

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Speaker 1: thinks negatively about Ohio State right now, and usually if

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Speaker 1: they think negatively, they follow it up with y echause Ryan,

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Speaker 1: they can't win the big one. And I just I

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Speaker 1: wonder where you were in twenty twenty two. I wonder

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Speaker 1: what you were watching, because I know I was in Atlanta, Georgia,

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Speaker 1: after being in Columbus, Ohio the month before and seeing

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Speaker 1: them lose to Michigan. I was in Atlanta, Georgia. I

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Speaker 1: think it was New Year's Eve. I was standing right

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Speaker 1: under that upright. You can see it if you watch

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Speaker 1: the replay. I'm in a blue shirt. I'm standing right

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Speaker 1: under that upright as that potential game winning field goal

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Speaker 1: goes wide, very wide, and Buckeyes lose forty one to forty.

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Speaker 1: I think it was forty two to forty one. That's

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Speaker 1: the gap that a ball coming off a foot the

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Speaker 1: right way. Is the difference between Ohio State and Ryan

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Speaker 1: de not being able to win the Big One and

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Speaker 1: them entering this year preseason co favorite with Georgia to

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Speaker 1: repeat like that. That's the gap. That's what we're talking about.

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Speaker 1: That is not how people remember last year. I told you,

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Speaker 1: guys the next night, I told you they just lost

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Speaker 1: this game. It was an incredible game. Six or seven

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Speaker 1: times out of ten they probably win it, but they

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Speaker 1: lost it the way they lost it. I said, it

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Speaker 1: doesn't matter. People are not even gonna remember this game.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna remember the Michigan game, and they're gonna combine

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Speaker 1: that with and they've lost two years in a row,

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Speaker 1: and we're gonna go into next year and it's gonna

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Speaker 1: be the most uncomfortable several months for Ryan Day ever

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Speaker 1: because his entire future is gonna be decided based on

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Speaker 1: the Michigan game. And here we are. Here we are,

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Speaker 1: so I don't look at the situation that way. Is

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Speaker 1: why I'm teeing it. Up like that. So why I

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Speaker 1: think about them as a national title contender is because

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Speaker 1: I compare their players to other teams players. That's why

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Speaker 1: I do it. I don't compare them to pass Ohio

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Speaker 1: State teams or anything like that. There are several points

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Speaker 1: of vulnerability here, not the least of which is the

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Speaker 1: quarterback position. Sure it is the fact they had to

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Speaker 1: rely on a transfer from San Diego State to shore

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Speaker 1: up the offensive tackle spot. If they short it up, absolutely, yeah,

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Speaker 1: several points of several points of concern, potentially defensively, especially

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Speaker 1: if you get in a playoff for national title situation,

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Speaker 1: because it would greatly help if you didn't let Georgia

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Speaker 1: hang forty plus on you. You're playing a team the

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Speaker 1: caliber of Georgia, and if it's not Georgia, that's the

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Speaker 1: breaks of being in the playoff. But if you're gonna

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Speaker 1: come at me and say a team of that caliber

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Speaker 1: is not even in consideration to win the title, I

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Speaker 1: don't know about that. I don't know about that so

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Speaker 1: Ohio State until further notice, especially if they're playing this

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Speaker 1: slate right here, their first truly losable game, all respect

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Speaker 1: due to Indiana. If they lose to Indiana, you wad

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Speaker 1: this entire segment up and throw it in the garbage.

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Speaker 1: It is a different conversation up there. They go to

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Speaker 1: Notre Dame in week four, They've got Penn State at home.

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Speaker 1: They're favored by about ten and a half. That is

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Speaker 1: in late October. They go to Wisconsin the very next week.

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Speaker 1: That is a tough one to two back to back stretch.

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Speaker 1: And then they've got Minnesota eleven eighteen, and they go

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Speaker 1: to Michigan eleven twenty five. Not a murderer's row, not

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Speaker 1: the easiest of draws, but not a murderer's row. But

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Speaker 1: if I'm looking at that, I'm asking like, where are

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Speaker 1: the sure losses? And the answer is there is no

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Speaker 1: sure loss anywhere on that schedule. In fact, it'll be

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Speaker 1: favored in every game on here but one, I would imagine.

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Speaker 1: So why would I consider them a national title contender?

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Speaker 1: it is, well, it's May, but it's also a Bold

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Speaker 1: Prediction season. Now. I've been perusing the comments on this

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Speaker 1: I thought in retrospect, because we went like thirty chapters deep,

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Speaker 1: I said, Colin and Jesse, might we have started it

571
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Speaker 1: to it. People have been asking, hey, when does Bold

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Speaker 1: Predictions start again? Well, the answer is it started. What

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Speaker 1: four shows ago plus tonight is chapter four. So here

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Speaker 1: we go, Colin, here's your here's your endpoint. Bold Predictions

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Speaker 1: Chapter four. Simple question, what would you bet your own

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Speaker 1: money on? What is the boldest thing you believe will

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Speaker 1: happen in this upcoming college football season. We got some

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Speaker 1: boldness on the piece of paper tonight. The first one

583
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Speaker 1: has to do with the Georgia Bulldogs. Brian is checking

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Speaker 1: in from Alexandria, Virginia. Brian doesn't think George is going

585
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Speaker 1: to make the playoff this year? How how Brian? That's

586
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Speaker 1: in fact, my own staff responded that way today, Brian.

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Speaker 1: They questioned you, and in a much lower case fashion,

588
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Speaker 1: how I question you? Crazier things have happened. I will

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Speaker 1: grant you this. George has got a really good shot

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Speaker 1: to make the playoff this year. I'm putting this at

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Speaker 1: an eight point seven to five on the boldness scale.

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Speaker 1: Can you imagine that if this is a combination of

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Speaker 1: being really good and having a really trashy schedule, Let's

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Speaker 1: be real, Georgia can do nothing about the latter. They

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Speaker 1: have everything to do with the former. How would this happen? Though,

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Speaker 1: So let's just entertain the thought. I mean, it's not crazy.

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Speaker 1: It's not a crazy scenario. They lose to Tennessee and

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Speaker 1: lose the SEC championship game. They're about a seven and

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Speaker 1: a half point favorite on the road at Kneeland right now.

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Speaker 1: That game doesn't happen until November eighteenth, though, so Hoomst

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Speaker 1: knows what they'll be by then, And you know, maybe

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Speaker 1: maybe Hugh Freeze just catches lightning in a bottle. They

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Speaker 1: are Georgia's first conference game. They're well, they're not their

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Speaker 1: first conference game. They're their first road game this year,

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Speaker 1: they go to Auburn. New quarterback hasn't been on the

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Speaker 1: road yet. Think about it is you always build that

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Speaker 1: stuff up for Georgia, and any time that you use

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Speaker 1: what would classically be a weakness for a normal team,

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Speaker 1: you see Georgia just chew it up and spit it out.

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Speaker 1: So we'll see about that. But how would it happen?

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Speaker 1: Easy they drop one game and then lose the SEC

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Speaker 1: championship game. That's how it would happen. Will it happen?

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Speaker 1: It's tough. They're the favorite to win the national title,

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Speaker 1: they're the favorite to win the SEC obviously. So I'm

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Speaker 1: putting this at an eight point seventy five. And that

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Speaker 1: is an insanely high rating of boldness just because someone

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Speaker 1: said you won't make the playoff. It's really hard to

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Speaker 1: make the playoff, and yet the mere possibility that Georgia

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Speaker 1: won't make it brings an eight point seventy five. That's

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Speaker 1: that's really really up there. Next up, this happened last year. Okay,

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Speaker 1: So Jess in Maryville, Missouri said, despite being odds on favorites,

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Speaker 1: the Big Twelve championship game will not feature Texas and

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Speaker 1: it will not feature Oklahoma for a third consecutive year.

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Speaker 1: That's right. It's been back to back years where they

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Speaker 1: haven't been in there. I had Stats and Info do

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Speaker 1: a little research. The last time that they didn't make

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Speaker 1: it in the Big Twelve Championship Game in back to

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Speaker 1: back years was ninety seven and ninety eight, and it's

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Speaker 1: never happened three times in a row. Ohe you in Texas,

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Speaker 1: either one or the other has been in the Big

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Speaker 1: Twelve Championship Game seventeen of twenty one years. So they're

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Speaker 1: gonna miss out for the third consecutive year. Both of

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Speaker 1: them gonna be sitting at home on Conference Championship Saturday.

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Speaker 1: I happened to disagree with this. I made it an

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Speaker 1: eight on the boldness scale. An eight. So, as usual,

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Speaker 1: Texas and OU are the odds on favorites to win

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Speaker 1: the Big Twelve. Texas is number one, OEU is number two. Yes, kids,

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Speaker 1: for those who are unfamiliar with how the odds making

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00:33:48,200 --> 00:33:52,040
Speaker 1: process works, that Oklahoma the one who barely made a

640
00:33:52,040 --> 00:33:56,440
Speaker 1: bowl game last year, that's right. They're above Kansas State,

641
00:33:56,640 --> 00:34:01,640
Speaker 1: They're above TCU, they're even above Iowa State. Yes, yes,

642
00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:05,920
Speaker 1: And if you disagree, go bet your money accordingly. Look,

643
00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:09,719
Speaker 1: you could sell me on Oklahoma not being there. I

644
00:34:09,800 --> 00:34:11,919
Speaker 1: really think Texas is gonna be there. That's as close

645
00:34:11,960 --> 00:34:13,719
Speaker 1: as I've come to a prediction on them this year,

646
00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:15,719
Speaker 1: and I reserve the right to change my mind. And

647
00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:18,560
Speaker 1: it's not because they got a soft schedule. I'm not

648
00:34:18,560 --> 00:34:20,640
Speaker 1: even counting the game at Bama that's out of conference.

649
00:34:20,680 --> 00:34:22,960
Speaker 1: We're just talking about Big twelve play. They don't have

650
00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:27,080
Speaker 1: it easy. I know some people disagree, like ole Miss

651
00:34:27,120 --> 00:34:29,720
Speaker 1: may disagree given the schedule they have to play. Yeah, okay,

652
00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:32,120
Speaker 1: but most people don't have to play a schedule like

653
00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:35,000
Speaker 1: ole Miss has to play this year. Texas has not

654
00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:38,480
Speaker 1: so easy time of it. Back to back road games

655
00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:41,399
Speaker 1: in late November is not easy, especially when the latter

656
00:34:41,520 --> 00:34:45,320
Speaker 1: takes you to Ames, Iowa for a November eighteenth game,

657
00:34:45,640 --> 00:34:47,840
Speaker 1: and then you close against Texas Tech, which could be

658
00:34:47,840 --> 00:34:51,440
Speaker 1: the sleeper in the conference. And also, let's not overlook

659
00:34:51,719 --> 00:34:54,480
Speaker 1: how thin the air will get for Texas if they're

660
00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:59,280
Speaker 1: going into November and they're in the conference championship picture

661
00:34:59,320 --> 00:35:04,080
Speaker 1: and therefore possibly the playoff picture. Think about the pressure

662
00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:07,160
Speaker 1: that I always heard I always heard people talk about

663
00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:10,400
Speaker 1: tightrope walking and they talked about how difficult it is

664
00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:14,239
Speaker 1: to train to walk a tightrope because you think to yourself, Hey,

665
00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:17,080
Speaker 1: a tightrope's a tight rope. So whether it's five feet

666
00:35:17,120 --> 00:35:19,439
Speaker 1: off the ground or five hundred feet off the ground,

667
00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:22,840
Speaker 1: it's the same, right, No, it's not the same. The

668
00:35:22,960 --> 00:35:25,920
Speaker 1: rope is the same, your foot is the same. But

669
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:29,560
Speaker 1: there is a much bigger difference psychologically between looking down

670
00:35:29,640 --> 00:35:31,920
Speaker 1: and knowing five foot fall. I can land on my

671
00:35:31,960 --> 00:35:36,360
Speaker 1: feet five hundred footfall street pizza. There's a big difference.

672
00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:39,080
Speaker 1: And so Texas, it's one thing if they start hot.

673
00:35:39,920 --> 00:35:42,720
Speaker 1: It's another thing if they're a one lost team headed

674
00:35:42,760 --> 00:35:45,160
Speaker 1: up to Ames, Iowa in late November, headed home to

675
00:35:45,160 --> 00:35:48,919
Speaker 1: play Texas Tech. Everything's on the line, Oh thin air

676
00:35:49,920 --> 00:35:52,360
Speaker 1: practice that box breathing, like I talked about earlier. I

677
00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:55,359
Speaker 1: am fascinated with the concept of box breathing this week.

678
00:35:56,640 --> 00:35:58,399
Speaker 1: The Internet's not a good thing for me to have

679
00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:02,239
Speaker 1: for all the reasons that you normally wouldn't side like.

680
00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:04,239
Speaker 1: It's totally different than the reason that I don't want

681
00:36:04,280 --> 00:36:07,760
Speaker 1: Bradley have in the Internet. My Internet research, my search

682
00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:12,160
Speaker 1: history is all over the place, and breathing techniques was

683
00:36:12,200 --> 00:36:13,560
Speaker 1: what I was looking at this week, mainly because I

684
00:36:13,600 --> 00:36:15,920
Speaker 1: think I strained my back because of combination of bad

685
00:36:15,960 --> 00:36:19,640
Speaker 1: breathing and sneezing. I'll tell you that story later. Texas,

686
00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:21,399
Speaker 1: I think is gonna be in the Big Twelve Championship Game.

687
00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:24,279
Speaker 1: I think that I don't know that, So I'm gonna

688
00:36:24,320 --> 00:36:26,279
Speaker 1: say this is an eight claiming that neither one of

689
00:36:26,320 --> 00:36:28,520
Speaker 1: them will be in the Big Twelve Championship Game. This

690
00:36:28,560 --> 00:36:33,120
Speaker 1: one is even more bold, though by a long shot. Huh.

691
00:36:33,320 --> 00:36:36,960
Speaker 1: Preston not so surprisingly hails from Birmingham, Alabama, and you

692
00:36:37,040 --> 00:36:39,239
Speaker 1: better hail from somewhere close to Tuscal loose if you're

693
00:36:39,239 --> 00:36:41,960
Speaker 1: saying this, an Alabama quarterback is going to be a

694
00:36:42,000 --> 00:36:48,080
Speaker 1: Heisman finalist this year? A what? Oh? Who is it?

695
00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:51,080
Speaker 1: He didn't even know who it's gonna be. Do you know?

696
00:36:51,320 --> 00:36:53,800
Speaker 1: I don't know, does Nick Saban know? Does Tommy Reese know?

697
00:36:53,920 --> 00:36:59,160
Speaker 1: I don't think anyone knows. This prediction from fifty thousand

698
00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:01,799
Speaker 1: feet is not crazy. It's just when you get on

699
00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:04,879
Speaker 1: the ground level you realize how insane it is. Alabama

700
00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:08,880
Speaker 1: has had a quarterback end up a Heisman finalist or

701
00:37:08,920 --> 00:37:11,879
Speaker 1: better three out of the last five years, So yeah,

702
00:37:11,920 --> 00:37:16,120
Speaker 1: Bama quarterbacks have littered the Heisman Trophy picture. That's the

703
00:37:16,160 --> 00:37:19,280
Speaker 1: good news. The bad news is they've been named Bryce

704
00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:21,440
Speaker 1: Young and too a tongue of I Loo and mac Jones.

705
00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:26,239
Speaker 1: So of course they have this year's crop is well.

706
00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:29,120
Speaker 1: Not that the name ty Simpson is bad or Jalen

707
00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:33,320
Speaker 1: Milroe ty Buckner is just far less is expected production

708
00:37:33,400 --> 00:37:36,400
Speaker 1: wise from them. And also if you think about the

709
00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:39,560
Speaker 1: style of play that Bama's probably going to incorporate this year,

710
00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:43,040
Speaker 1: will it even call on that kind of production, Like

711
00:37:43,080 --> 00:37:44,960
Speaker 1: if a quarterback, I don't care who it is, if

712
00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:47,279
Speaker 1: a quarterback at Alabama has put up the kind of

713
00:37:47,320 --> 00:37:49,919
Speaker 1: production that you need to be going toe to toe

714
00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:56,680
Speaker 1: with Caleb Williams for Heisman finalist consideration, what it's likely

715
00:37:56,719 --> 00:37:59,280
Speaker 1: they've been playing catch up in multiple games, that Bama

716
00:37:59,280 --> 00:38:00,680
Speaker 1: may be a three long team if they got a

717
00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:03,560
Speaker 1: quarterback thing for four thousand yards. So no, this is

718
00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:06,160
Speaker 1: not gonna happen this year. This is a nine and

719
00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:09,439
Speaker 1: a half on the boldness scale. Look, I'd put half

720
00:38:09,520 --> 00:38:11,440
Speaker 1: decent odds that you can't even guess who the starter's

721
00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:14,000
Speaker 1: going to be right now, much less who that starter

722
00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:15,879
Speaker 1: is going to be as a Heisman finalist, So that's

723
00:38:15,880 --> 00:38:19,440
Speaker 1: all there is to say about that. Lastly, boy, this

724
00:38:19,480 --> 00:38:23,520
Speaker 1: would be catastrophic. Nicholas from Bloomington, Illinois said, Ohio State

725
00:38:23,560 --> 00:38:27,359
Speaker 1: loses two games against Michigan and Penn State. Oh and

726
00:38:27,400 --> 00:38:29,640
Speaker 1: they lose a New Year's six game, so there's no

727
00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:31,279
Speaker 1: real way to know what bowl game they would be in.

728
00:38:31,520 --> 00:38:33,719
Speaker 1: I'm just going with the first two parts of this.

729
00:38:34,800 --> 00:38:38,840
Speaker 1: Ohio State loses to Penn State and loses to Michigan.

730
00:38:39,360 --> 00:38:43,440
Speaker 1: I made this a seven point twenty five. It's pretty low. Actually,

731
00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:47,120
Speaker 1: seven point twenty five. This is not the boldest prediction

732
00:38:47,200 --> 00:38:50,719
Speaker 1: in the world. It's statistically unlikely to happen. It's not

733
00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:52,799
Speaker 1: the boldest prediction in the world. As much as I

734
00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:54,759
Speaker 1: was defending Ohio State a second ago, I didn't tell

735
00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:57,399
Speaker 1: you I didn't have questions about him. I just said

736
00:38:57,480 --> 00:39:00,719
Speaker 1: I've got questions about everyone. And look at Jerry, look

737
00:39:00,760 --> 00:39:02,440
Speaker 1: at him keeping up a Ryan Day. Good for him.

738
00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:05,680
Speaker 1: I just said that, out of all these teams, if

739
00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:08,279
Speaker 1: I got questions about all of them, the team with

740
00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:10,080
Speaker 1: a whole lot of talent is the one that I

741
00:39:10,160 --> 00:39:13,120
Speaker 1: don't I don't shy away from. But with Ohio State,

742
00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:15,480
Speaker 1: we can already give you numbers on these games. So

743
00:39:15,520 --> 00:39:18,040
Speaker 1: Penn State comes in there and Penn State is a

744
00:39:18,040 --> 00:39:20,600
Speaker 1: ten and a half point dog. So Ohio State as

745
00:39:20,600 --> 00:39:24,759
Speaker 1: it stands now double digit favorite against Penn State. Plenty

746
00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:27,719
Speaker 1: of time for that to move and Penn State is

747
00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:29,880
Speaker 1: one thing. When you go to the Michigan game at

748
00:39:29,920 --> 00:39:32,040
Speaker 1: the end of the year, Ohio State is a one

749
00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:35,759
Speaker 1: point dog in that game right now. I don't know

750
00:39:35,760 --> 00:39:38,080
Speaker 1: if that point spread surprises you. Guys, it's at Michigan.

751
00:39:38,200 --> 00:39:40,480
Speaker 1: I don't know if that surprises you that that game is.

752
00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:43,799
Speaker 1: It's the second to it's the last week of the year,

753
00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:46,080
Speaker 1: of the regular season, so all kinds of things can

754
00:39:46,160 --> 00:39:48,120
Speaker 1: change that. I'm just giving you a read on what

755
00:39:48,120 --> 00:39:50,200
Speaker 1: people think about it right now. This is a seven

756
00:39:50,200 --> 00:39:53,520
Speaker 1: and a quarter in terms of boldness of prediction. And

757
00:39:53,560 --> 00:39:55,239
Speaker 1: I already talked about Ohio State a lot tonight, so

758
00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:58,839
Speaker 1: I'm not going down this road again. But man, just

759
00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:01,040
Speaker 1: just a follow up on that. Like I didn't grow

760
00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:02,880
Speaker 1: up an Ohio State fan or anything like that, But

761
00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:10,480
Speaker 1: for those of you who did, what does that do?

762
00:40:10,280 --> 00:40:14,560
Speaker 1: What does that do to Ohio State football? Because you're

763
00:40:14,560 --> 00:40:17,480
Speaker 1: looking at that saying Josh did It's still a ten

764
00:40:17,520 --> 00:40:21,040
Speaker 1: win season doesn't matter for them. It won't matter. You

765
00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:25,120
Speaker 1: guys know that's true. It won't matter. You beat Purdue,

766
00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:28,879
Speaker 1: you beat Maryland, you beat Indiana, you beat Youngstown State,

767
00:40:29,160 --> 00:40:34,320
Speaker 1: big deal. That's what they'll say. In Manford, Ohio, Mansfield, Ohio,

768
00:40:34,400 --> 00:40:36,880
Speaker 1: is there a Manford, I don't know. In Akron, Ohio.

769
00:40:37,080 --> 00:40:40,319
Speaker 1: In Dayton, Ohio, that's what they'll say. They'll say, Yeah,

770
00:40:40,360 --> 00:40:42,600
Speaker 1: of course you beat them. If you didn't beat them,

771
00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:44,040
Speaker 1: we would have run you out of here before the

772
00:40:44,040 --> 00:40:46,759
Speaker 1: season was even over. But you lost to Penn State

773
00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:49,239
Speaker 1: at home, and you lost to Michigan for the third

774
00:40:49,320 --> 00:40:51,040
Speaker 1: year in a row, and then you did whatever you

775
00:40:51,080 --> 00:40:53,520
Speaker 1: did in a bowl game. It's not good enough. I

776
00:40:53,520 --> 00:40:55,759
Speaker 1: don't know what would follow that sentence, but I do

777
00:40:55,880 --> 00:40:57,120
Speaker 1: know that's what they would say, and it would be

778
00:40:57,120 --> 00:41:00,480
Speaker 1: extremely uncomfortable. And it's already kind of uncomfortable up there.

779
00:41:00,840 --> 00:41:05,879
Speaker 1: So selfishly living vicariously through Ohio State fans. I hope

780
00:41:05,880 --> 00:41:08,120
Speaker 1: you guys can avoid that. But we'll see they're watching

781
00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:14,320
Speaker 1: us in Provo, Utah, Cherokee Falls, South Carolina, and High Lakes, Florida.

782
00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:18,200
Speaker 1: I payper pop because maybe we've got some Florida Panther

783
00:41:18,360 --> 00:41:21,520
Speaker 1: fans in High Lakes, Florida. Now, anyone who knows me

784
00:41:22,480 --> 00:41:26,040
Speaker 1: knows that I am just born and bred diehard NHL

785
00:41:26,160 --> 00:41:28,960
Speaker 1: till I die Florida Panthers all the way. Colin, you

786
00:41:29,040 --> 00:41:31,160
Speaker 1: know this about me, right, I love Florida Panthers. So

787
00:41:31,560 --> 00:41:35,839
Speaker 1: we are headed to the Stanley Cup Finals. Good for us.

788
00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:40,319
Speaker 1: Now I can't name a player, so yeah, I'm already

789
00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:44,000
Speaker 1: screwed on that front, but yeah, Andrew Ivans goes to

790
00:41:44,080 --> 00:41:46,959
Speaker 1: those games. I got a shout out Ivans for real.

791
00:41:47,239 --> 00:41:52,239
Speaker 1: So Ivans is a legit Florida Panther hockey fan. The

792
00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:55,399
Speaker 1: Florida Panthers. I think, up until like five minutes ago,

793
00:41:55,680 --> 00:41:59,279
Speaker 1: Florida Panthers always struck me as the most anonymous professional

794
00:41:59,320 --> 00:42:03,160
Speaker 1: sports team in America, meaning if you follow NBA, Major

795
00:42:03,239 --> 00:42:07,359
Speaker 1: League Baseball, NFL, NHL, even if you don't watch them,

796
00:42:07,480 --> 00:42:09,200
Speaker 1: you could name all the teams. I can name all

797
00:42:09,200 --> 00:42:11,600
Speaker 1: the teams in all those leagues, and I could. I

798
00:42:11,600 --> 00:42:13,680
Speaker 1: could name the Florida Panthers. But I think if you're

799
00:42:13,680 --> 00:42:16,560
Speaker 1: trying to name the NHL teams normally, what happens if

800
00:42:16,600 --> 00:42:19,359
Speaker 1: you don't watch hockey you get to where you're you're

801
00:42:19,360 --> 00:42:21,759
Speaker 1: about five or six short, and then you realize, oh,

802
00:42:21,800 --> 00:42:25,080
Speaker 1: I forgot Winnipeg has a team. Now, oh I forgot

803
00:42:25,280 --> 00:42:27,399
Speaker 1: Seattle has a team. Oh I forgot Vegas has a team.

804
00:42:28,239 --> 00:42:31,160
Speaker 1: Florida is usually the last one. Like there is an

805
00:42:31,280 --> 00:42:34,640
Speaker 1: NHL team in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. You usually forget about that.

806
00:42:34,680 --> 00:42:37,879
Speaker 1: You remember Tampa, but you you forget Florida, don't you

807
00:42:37,960 --> 00:42:40,320
Speaker 1: no longer? So Ivans, when I was down doing the

808
00:42:40,320 --> 00:42:42,480
Speaker 1: signing day show a couple of well, it was it

809
00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:45,160
Speaker 1: last year, this year, it was this year, this past December.

810
00:42:46,400 --> 00:42:50,400
Speaker 1: Ivans was checking like the Panther score on his phone,

811
00:42:50,760 --> 00:42:53,560
Speaker 1: and I gained so much respect for him because on

812
00:42:53,760 --> 00:42:56,360
Speaker 1: his screen he has multiple updates and one of the

813
00:42:56,440 --> 00:42:59,440
Speaker 1: updates is a text about the whims of an eleventh

814
00:42:59,480 --> 00:43:03,399
Speaker 1: grader's mentality towards Michigan State. And then the next update is, oh,

815
00:43:03,640 --> 00:43:06,400
Speaker 1: Panthers scored three to one lead over the Maple Leafs.

816
00:43:07,120 --> 00:43:10,760
Speaker 1: Good for Ivans, congrats. Like half of the HQ office

817
00:43:10,760 --> 00:43:13,200
Speaker 1: in Fort Lauderdale apparently is a Panther season ticket holder.

818
00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:18,720
Speaker 1: So speaking of the state of Florida, although not NHL,

819
00:43:18,920 --> 00:43:24,200
Speaker 1: this has concluded Hockey Night in Nashville. I got asked

820
00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:26,320
Speaker 1: about this a lot, so I chose one of the questions.

821
00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:29,640
Speaker 1: I'll talk about it for a second here. Foster asked

822
00:43:29,920 --> 00:43:32,960
Speaker 1: if Foster's from Alpharetta, Georgia, and Foster asked, do you

823
00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:36,480
Speaker 1: think this Georgia Florida game should stay in Jacksonville. This

824
00:43:36,640 --> 00:43:38,720
Speaker 1: is a conundrum for me. It has been for a while.

825
00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:40,760
Speaker 1: I get asked about it all the time. I've spoken

826
00:43:40,800 --> 00:43:43,359
Speaker 1: about it on the show a couple of times. You know,

827
00:43:43,719 --> 00:43:47,920
Speaker 1: I love tradition, love it. I think that when you

828
00:43:47,920 --> 00:43:52,680
Speaker 1: cut college football open, it bleeds tradition. And be careful

829
00:43:52,760 --> 00:43:54,880
Speaker 1: with sharp objects around our sport, please, But if you

830
00:43:54,920 --> 00:43:58,000
Speaker 1: did cut it open, tradition is what it bleeds. So

831
00:43:58,040 --> 00:44:01,160
Speaker 1: Georgia and Florida have played in Jacksonville for a long time.

832
00:44:01,440 --> 00:44:03,880
Speaker 1: There was, like I think one time in the nineties

833
00:44:03,960 --> 00:44:05,920
Speaker 1: because of construction, they did the home at home. But

834
00:44:06,440 --> 00:44:08,520
Speaker 1: by and large, this has been a neutral site game

835
00:44:08,840 --> 00:44:12,080
Speaker 1: in Jacksonville, Florida, so much so that Corey Smith even

836
00:44:12,080 --> 00:44:17,759
Speaker 1: wrote a song about it. Well, there's a situation, two situations.

837
00:44:17,760 --> 00:44:20,200
Speaker 1: In fact, one of the situations is Kirby Smart hates it.

838
00:44:20,239 --> 00:44:23,720
Speaker 1: He didn't want it there some Georgia fans have always

839
00:44:23,719 --> 00:44:27,759
Speaker 1: thought the location is unfair. Whatever one of them gets

840
00:44:27,760 --> 00:44:29,279
Speaker 1: on a plane, one of them gets on a bus,

841
00:44:29,320 --> 00:44:31,000
Speaker 1: is the way they've always put it. And I get that.

842
00:44:31,400 --> 00:44:33,480
Speaker 1: I have always countered that you guys should just play

843
00:44:33,480 --> 00:44:36,080
Speaker 1: at Memorial Stadium in Columbus, Georgia and be done with it.

844
00:44:36,520 --> 00:44:43,080
Speaker 1: But it always gets shot down. So Jacksonville Kirby looks

845
00:44:43,120 --> 00:44:46,480
Speaker 1: at it, and some people of Kirby's ilk look at

846
00:44:46,520 --> 00:44:49,560
Speaker 1: it and say, we can't use it as a recruiting weekend.

847
00:44:50,080 --> 00:44:53,400
Speaker 1: Alabama and Auburn play it at home, and their biggest

848
00:44:53,400 --> 00:44:55,719
Speaker 1: recruiting weekend. Guess what they get to do. They get

849
00:44:55,760 --> 00:44:58,440
Speaker 1: to bring recruits because their biggest games are on campus.

850
00:44:58,560 --> 00:45:01,479
Speaker 1: We play Florida and I I can't bring five star

851
00:45:01,560 --> 00:45:04,880
Speaker 1: players there because it's not eligible to be an official

852
00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:07,560
Speaker 1: visit because it's not on campus. And I get that,

853
00:45:07,680 --> 00:45:10,040
Speaker 1: and I think, selfishly, if I were a coach, that's

854
00:45:10,040 --> 00:45:13,520
Speaker 1: how I think. Now. Billy Napier and the Florida contingent,

855
00:45:13,520 --> 00:45:15,560
Speaker 1: they've gone on the record and they've said, yeah, but

856
00:45:15,600 --> 00:45:18,960
Speaker 1: we make a lot more money having the game neutral site,

857
00:45:19,880 --> 00:45:24,200
Speaker 1: and you know, good for these cash strapped SEC programs

858
00:45:24,239 --> 00:45:27,719
Speaker 1: find in a way to make an extra buck sarcasm intended,

859
00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:31,319
Speaker 1: but I get the appeal. Look, if you're napier or

860
00:45:31,320 --> 00:45:33,320
Speaker 1: if you're not napier, you don't need to mention money.

861
00:45:33,480 --> 00:45:36,560
Speaker 1: You can just mention tradition. That's fine. I think the

862
00:45:36,600 --> 00:45:39,359
Speaker 1: best argument for Jacksonville is not money. No one cares

863
00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:42,440
Speaker 1: how much money you're making. They care about the tradition maybe.

864
00:45:42,840 --> 00:45:44,800
Speaker 1: And so I've always been torn on this. I have

865
00:45:45,080 --> 00:45:47,880
Speaker 1: never come down on a side on this argument because

866
00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:52,480
Speaker 1: I get both of them. So I love the traditional

867
00:45:52,480 --> 00:45:57,239
Speaker 1: aspect of it. I also really respect Kirby's motivation of

868
00:45:57,320 --> 00:45:59,520
Speaker 1: I could not care less about tradition if it impacts

869
00:45:59,560 --> 00:46:02,160
Speaker 1: my recruit in a negative way. I want the recruiting weekend.

870
00:46:03,400 --> 00:46:06,480
Speaker 1: The other thing I think about is, and I normally

871
00:46:06,560 --> 00:46:08,600
Speaker 1: use this logic in a lot of different ways. If

872
00:46:08,640 --> 00:46:11,840
Speaker 1: I were to reinvent the sport today, where would I

873
00:46:11,880 --> 00:46:14,680
Speaker 1: put Georgia Florida? And I know that that's a little

874
00:46:14,719 --> 00:46:17,080
Speaker 1: bit of a backwards way of supporting the home and

875
00:46:17,120 --> 00:46:19,479
Speaker 1: home argument, because there are a lot of things about

876
00:46:19,480 --> 00:46:22,680
Speaker 1: tradition that are grandfathered in simply because of tradition, and

877
00:46:22,719 --> 00:46:24,960
Speaker 1: you're not allowed to just hit the reset button. I

878
00:46:25,040 --> 00:46:26,840
Speaker 1: just made your argument for you if you didn't like that,

879
00:46:26,880 --> 00:46:30,560
Speaker 1: by the way, But there's this other thing that's coming

880
00:46:30,600 --> 00:46:33,960
Speaker 1: down the road. It looks like there's a construction project

881
00:46:33,960 --> 00:46:36,359
Speaker 1: coming up down there. I think it doesn't happen until

882
00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:38,279
Speaker 1: after twenty twenty five, so we got a little time.

883
00:46:38,280 --> 00:46:42,360
Speaker 1: But that construction project is coming and it looks like

884
00:46:42,440 --> 00:46:44,680
Speaker 1: I can't remember if this is official, it looks like

885
00:46:45,280 --> 00:46:46,920
Speaker 1: they're going to have to take that game home and

886
00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:50,879
Speaker 1: home for a couple of years. I don't think it's

887
00:46:50,880 --> 00:46:53,920
Speaker 1: ever going back to Jacksonville if they go home and home.

888
00:46:54,400 --> 00:46:57,000
Speaker 1: That's what I think, because I think if those folks

889
00:46:57,080 --> 00:47:00,000
Speaker 1: get a taste of what it feels like for Florida

890
00:47:00,120 --> 00:47:02,719
Speaker 1: to play between the hedges, and those folks get a

891
00:47:02,760 --> 00:47:05,040
Speaker 1: taste of what it's like for Georgia to play in

892
00:47:05,040 --> 00:47:10,360
Speaker 1: the swamp, game over for Jacksonville, and I have a

893
00:47:10,360 --> 00:47:14,200
Speaker 1: sneaking suspicion if I personally got to be at those games,

894
00:47:14,239 --> 00:47:16,839
Speaker 1: i'd probably say the same thing, Like I envision US

895
00:47:17,680 --> 00:47:20,359
Speaker 1: ten point fifty to go in the first quarter, and

896
00:47:20,440 --> 00:47:24,640
Speaker 1: we've already seen the spectacle that is Sanford Stadium and

897
00:47:24,640 --> 00:47:27,480
Speaker 1: Ben Hill Griffin Stadium on fire. And I just picture

898
00:47:27,560 --> 00:47:29,640
Speaker 1: us collectively looking to the left, looking at the right, saying,

899
00:47:30,440 --> 00:47:32,640
Speaker 1: are we really letting this go back to Jacksonville? Like

900
00:47:32,680 --> 00:47:35,960
Speaker 1: they were right? This is crazy, this is nuts. I

901
00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:38,200
Speaker 1: think that's what would happen. I think that's what will happen.

902
00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:40,360
Speaker 1: So whether I like it or not, whether I support

903
00:47:40,400 --> 00:47:42,120
Speaker 1: it or not, I think Kirby Smart's going to end

904
00:47:42,160 --> 00:47:44,600
Speaker 1: up getting his way on this, and I think both

905
00:47:44,600 --> 00:47:47,640
Speaker 1: schools are going to benefit from it, because what is

906
00:47:47,680 --> 00:47:50,359
Speaker 1: the age old rule around here? Games never get worse

907
00:47:50,360 --> 00:47:52,359
Speaker 1: when you play them on campus. They can only get

908
00:47:52,360 --> 00:47:54,680
Speaker 1: worse when you move them off campus. And that even

909
00:47:54,719 --> 00:47:58,359
Speaker 1: goes for this game. There is only one game in

910
00:47:58,400 --> 00:48:01,200
Speaker 1: this sport outside of Army. There's only one game in

911
00:48:01,239 --> 00:48:03,600
Speaker 1: the sport where you would get a big time fight

912
00:48:03,680 --> 00:48:05,600
Speaker 1: from me if you tried to move it from its

913
00:48:05,640 --> 00:48:08,840
Speaker 1: neutral location, and that is OEU Texas. And that includes

914
00:48:08,880 --> 00:48:11,080
Speaker 1: you fools out there who want to move that game

915
00:48:11,120 --> 00:48:14,880
Speaker 1: to Jerry World. No, no, we're hauling oats on that front.

916
00:48:15,120 --> 00:48:19,440
Speaker 1: We can't go for that. No, can't do. As for Jacksonville, Florida,

917
00:48:20,600 --> 00:48:22,319
Speaker 1: I know the game's been played there for four hundred

918
00:48:22,320 --> 00:48:25,279
Speaker 1: and fifty years. It will not break my heart. Let

919
00:48:25,280 --> 00:48:27,360
Speaker 1: me put it that way. If you move Georgia, Florida

920
00:48:27,440 --> 00:48:30,919
Speaker 1: on campus the n All right, let's move it along.

921
00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:32,919
Speaker 1: Got two more things to talk to you about. Yes,

922
00:48:32,960 --> 00:48:39,440
Speaker 1: we're unloading the barrel. Are really grown to dislike the

923
00:48:39,520 --> 00:48:43,080
Speaker 1: orange liquid? This used to be our go to out

924
00:48:43,120 --> 00:48:47,280
Speaker 1: of the chalice? Uh? And the other thing is this company,

925
00:48:47,680 --> 00:48:50,400
Speaker 1: it's a very popular company, still has not decided to

926
00:48:50,400 --> 00:48:52,520
Speaker 1: sponsor us, so I still don't give them shout outs.

927
00:48:52,520 --> 00:48:56,600
Speaker 1: What a missed opportunity. I cannot believe that we're talking

928
00:48:56,600 --> 00:48:59,239
Speaker 1: about this tonight. I did not. I just want to

929
00:48:59,280 --> 00:49:01,080
Speaker 1: tell you of you who are getting tired of this

930
00:49:01,120 --> 00:49:04,160
Speaker 1: particular subject coming up. I didn't want to do it,

931
00:49:04,719 --> 00:49:07,480
Speaker 1: but you're making me do it, so we're gonna do it.

932
00:49:08,920 --> 00:49:12,920
Speaker 1: Matt from Fort Worth, Texas. Folks like you were fine

933
00:49:12,960 --> 00:49:15,840
Speaker 1: when other coaches were doing it, but now since it's Dion,

934
00:49:15,960 --> 00:49:21,279
Speaker 1: it's wrong. Nah. That's Matt's sign off there, Nah, Matt,

935
00:49:21,320 --> 00:49:23,480
Speaker 1: what are you talking about? I know what Matt was

936
00:49:23,480 --> 00:49:25,520
Speaker 1: responding to, so I do know what he's talking about.

937
00:49:25,600 --> 00:49:28,920
Speaker 1: Kind of in a way. I chose this not because

938
00:49:29,040 --> 00:49:32,440
Speaker 1: Matt himself said it. I chose this because I've been

939
00:49:32,480 --> 00:49:34,880
Speaker 1: getting this NonStop, and I've been hearing a lot of

940
00:49:34,880 --> 00:49:37,920
Speaker 1: people say it NonStop. There's this thought out there in

941
00:49:37,960 --> 00:49:41,839
Speaker 1: the college football public that people are outspoken about Dion

942
00:49:41,960 --> 00:49:46,400
Speaker 1: Sanders because Dion's just a different cat and he's not

943
00:49:46,480 --> 00:49:49,120
Speaker 1: doing anything that anyone else isn't doing, and they're going

944
00:49:49,160 --> 00:49:51,440
Speaker 1: after him, and when in reality, it's the system you

945
00:49:51,440 --> 00:49:54,479
Speaker 1: should be mad at, not Deon Sanders. And the back

946
00:49:54,520 --> 00:49:57,360
Speaker 1: part of that, I agree with Deon's not doing anything illegal,

947
00:49:57,560 --> 00:50:00,000
Speaker 1: So Dion's doing exactly what the system allows him to.

948
00:50:00,600 --> 00:50:02,719
Speaker 1: I've said it before, I'll say it again. I don't

949
00:50:02,760 --> 00:50:06,719
Speaker 1: have an ounce of disdain for Dion Sanders. Quite the opposite.

950
00:50:06,840 --> 00:50:09,760
Speaker 1: I like Dion Sanders. I liked it he's in college football,

951
00:50:10,120 --> 00:50:12,319
Speaker 1: and I'm not mad at him for doing anything that

952
00:50:12,400 --> 00:50:13,920
Speaker 1: half of y'all wouldn't do if you just took the

953
00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:16,600
Speaker 1: job he took. And that's what I've told some coaches

954
00:50:16,600 --> 00:50:19,520
Speaker 1: I've talked to, because as I told you last show,

955
00:50:20,080 --> 00:50:22,120
Speaker 1: a couple of shows ago, I told you a couple

956
00:50:22,200 --> 00:50:24,719
Speaker 1: of shows ago, several coaches have reached out to me

957
00:50:25,239 --> 00:50:28,360
Speaker 1: and they have spoken their mind on Dion Sanders. Only

958
00:50:28,440 --> 00:50:31,319
Speaker 1: Paton Ardoozi has done it. Publicly. The rest of them

959
00:50:31,360 --> 00:50:34,200
Speaker 1: are off the record on it, and their reasons are

960
00:50:34,239 --> 00:50:37,200
Speaker 1: their reasons. But when they vented to me, I've told

961
00:50:37,320 --> 00:50:39,239
Speaker 1: every one of them the same thing. You ought to

962
00:50:39,280 --> 00:50:42,319
Speaker 1: go public with it or else you're just venting. If

963
00:50:42,360 --> 00:50:46,000
Speaker 1: you want something to change, then lobby the proper authorities,

964
00:50:46,120 --> 00:50:48,560
Speaker 1: or just speak out like Nardouzi did. I got all

965
00:50:48,600 --> 00:50:50,399
Speaker 1: the respect in the world for Patton Ardozy. I don't

966
00:50:50,400 --> 00:50:52,920
Speaker 1: even care if I disagree with him. He spoke and

967
00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:55,719
Speaker 1: put his name behind his words. A lot of the

968
00:50:55,760 --> 00:51:01,160
Speaker 1: other ones won't. I've been echoing that sentiment. Okay, So

969
00:51:01,280 --> 00:51:06,160
Speaker 1: where this response was born from is our great social team.

970
00:51:06,719 --> 00:51:08,640
Speaker 1: Took a clip I did, or took a clip from

971
00:51:08,640 --> 00:51:10,479
Speaker 1: a segment I did a couple of weeks ago where

972
00:51:10,520 --> 00:51:12,719
Speaker 1: I said a lot of coaches have been reaching out

973
00:51:12,719 --> 00:51:15,280
Speaker 1: to me talking about Dion and the portal and overturning

974
00:51:15,280 --> 00:51:16,960
Speaker 1: an entire roster, and how they don't think that's what

975
00:51:17,000 --> 00:51:20,240
Speaker 1: college football should be and they just really don't like Dion,

976
00:51:20,600 --> 00:51:25,160
Speaker 1: which a lot of them don't candidly, And I said,

977
00:51:25,680 --> 00:51:28,040
Speaker 1: I think some of them are jealous of them. I

978
00:51:28,080 --> 00:51:31,359
Speaker 1: think some of them legitimately have concerns. I think some

979
00:51:31,440 --> 00:51:34,719
Speaker 1: of them don't like him personally, and I think some

980
00:51:34,840 --> 00:51:38,759
Speaker 1: other ones just are upset with the system and they

981
00:51:38,800 --> 00:51:43,360
Speaker 1: are kind of misplacing their anger on Dion Sanders. Well,

982
00:51:43,400 --> 00:51:46,560
Speaker 1: here's what happened. People didn't actually listen to the video.

983
00:51:46,800 --> 00:51:50,240
Speaker 1: They just they saw a video. They assumed I'm hating

984
00:51:50,280 --> 00:51:52,360
Speaker 1: on the dude, and so they come into comment section

985
00:51:52,440 --> 00:51:55,920
Speaker 1: with comments like Matt's. Because if you've actually listened to

986
00:51:55,920 --> 00:51:58,360
Speaker 1: what I've said, I dare you, Matt. I'll give you

987
00:51:58,400 --> 00:52:01,960
Speaker 1: a paycheck if you go find me criticizing Dion Sanders

988
00:52:01,960 --> 00:52:04,960
Speaker 1: period much less disproportionate than any other coach. You won't

989
00:52:04,960 --> 00:52:07,560
Speaker 1: find it, brother, But I challenge you to go try.

990
00:52:08,120 --> 00:52:12,600
Speaker 1: I'm not criticizing him. You want to criticize something, you

991
00:52:12,640 --> 00:52:16,600
Speaker 1: can criticize the system. But until the system is fixed, Like,

992
00:52:18,560 --> 00:52:20,560
Speaker 1: what would you do, Matt? You go and you're the

993
00:52:20,560 --> 00:52:24,120
Speaker 1: head coach at Colorado and this is afforded to you,

994
00:52:24,440 --> 00:52:27,520
Speaker 1: this opportunity is afforded to you. What would you do?

995
00:52:28,640 --> 00:52:30,360
Speaker 1: You would look at a room full of kids that

996
00:52:30,440 --> 00:52:34,080
Speaker 1: just went one and eleven, have the opportunity to replace

997
00:52:34,120 --> 00:52:37,280
Speaker 1: them with better pieces, and you would say, I'll pass.

998
00:52:37,680 --> 00:52:39,880
Speaker 1: This is not a charity they're paying you to do

999
00:52:39,960 --> 00:52:43,680
Speaker 1: a job, and the job is to do everything within

1000
00:52:43,760 --> 00:52:47,080
Speaker 1: the rules to put the best team possible on the field.

1001
00:52:47,600 --> 00:52:50,800
Speaker 1: So if you're telling me that rules are no rules,

1002
00:52:51,160 --> 00:52:53,880
Speaker 1: out of the kindness of my heart, I would opt

1003
00:52:54,120 --> 00:52:57,399
Speaker 1: not to overhaul the roster. You're either lying or you're

1004
00:52:57,400 --> 00:52:59,200
Speaker 1: about to be sitting right back up in the stands

1005
00:52:59,280 --> 00:53:01,880
Speaker 1: buying a ticket because you're not gonna be employed for

1006
00:53:01,960 --> 00:53:04,600
Speaker 1: very long with that mentality. Now, Matt, if you wanted

1007
00:53:04,600 --> 00:53:06,399
Speaker 1: to come to me and you wanted to say I

1008
00:53:06,480 --> 00:53:10,520
Speaker 1: hate that the rules allow Dion or anyone to do

1009
00:53:10,600 --> 00:53:13,520
Speaker 1: what he's doing, then we're gonna have a conversation and

1010
00:53:13,560 --> 00:53:18,399
Speaker 1: you may even find I agree with you. People come

1011
00:53:18,440 --> 00:53:21,560
Speaker 1: at me and they colin. You know this from the

1012
00:53:21,600 --> 00:53:23,880
Speaker 1: time you and I started this show here. They have

1013
00:53:23,960 --> 00:53:26,719
Speaker 1: come at me whenever there's been a change in the

1014
00:53:26,719 --> 00:53:29,600
Speaker 1: portal or nil or both, usually at the same time.

1015
00:53:29,960 --> 00:53:32,000
Speaker 1: And the NC DOUBLEA has no idea how they're gonna

1016
00:53:32,000 --> 00:53:35,040
Speaker 1: police it. They just throw it out there. Oops, we

1017
00:53:35,120 --> 00:53:37,439
Speaker 1: spilled this bucket of blood in the water. I hope

1018
00:53:37,440 --> 00:53:39,560
Speaker 1: no sharks show up. Let's go back to shore. That's

1019
00:53:39,600 --> 00:53:44,840
Speaker 1: the NC doublea's modus operandi. Well, you know, some people

1020
00:53:44,880 --> 00:53:47,359
Speaker 1: don't call it out and some people do. We call

1021
00:53:47,400 --> 00:53:51,040
Speaker 1: it out on this show, and we get labeled sometimes

1022
00:53:51,120 --> 00:53:55,800
Speaker 1: as once again being alarmist or just complaining or being negative.

1023
00:53:56,239 --> 00:53:59,160
Speaker 1: It's not that. So in twenty twenty and twenty one,

1024
00:53:59,200 --> 00:54:01,279
Speaker 1: when this was happening, and I'm not gonna tell this

1025
00:54:01,320 --> 00:54:03,840
Speaker 1: story again at length, but I'm not gonna play a

1026
00:54:03,840 --> 00:54:06,520
Speaker 1: clip again because that just feels like patting yourself on

1027
00:54:06,520 --> 00:54:08,040
Speaker 1: the back and my back hurts too bad right now

1028
00:54:08,040 --> 00:54:11,759
Speaker 1: to do that. But in twenty and twenty one, when

1029
00:54:11,760 --> 00:54:14,800
Speaker 1: this was happening, I came on the show and I said,

1030
00:54:14,960 --> 00:54:17,359
Speaker 1: this is about to do something that you think you're

1031
00:54:17,400 --> 00:54:19,440
Speaker 1: gonna like, and you're not gonna like it, just like

1032
00:54:19,480 --> 00:54:23,560
Speaker 1: playoff expansion, same principle. You think you're gonna like what

1033
00:54:23,680 --> 00:54:26,239
Speaker 1: Nil and the Portal do and you're not gonna like

1034
00:54:26,280 --> 00:54:28,200
Speaker 1: it. It's not gonna give you what you think, and that

1035
00:54:28,320 --> 00:54:30,160
Speaker 1: is a level playing field. It's never gonna do that.

1036
00:54:30,560 --> 00:54:34,680
Speaker 1: And what it's gonna do is you're giving players freedom

1037
00:54:34,719 --> 00:54:36,799
Speaker 1: to move about the country like it's a Southwest flight.

1038
00:54:37,239 --> 00:54:42,880
Speaker 1: You're giving players money, and you don't realize that coaches

1039
00:54:42,920 --> 00:54:44,880
Speaker 1: are then going to look at that and say, well,

1040
00:54:45,360 --> 00:54:48,279
Speaker 1: you're no longer a student athlete in my eyes. If

1041
00:54:48,360 --> 00:54:50,279
Speaker 1: you got all that, I'm gonna treat you a lot

1042
00:54:50,280 --> 00:54:52,480
Speaker 1: more like an employee. I can't call you one legally,

1043
00:54:52,520 --> 00:54:54,239
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna treat you like one. We were doing

1044
00:54:54,239 --> 00:54:56,319
Speaker 1: the segment in twenty twenty. I remember it vividly. We

1045
00:54:56,320 --> 00:54:58,759
Speaker 1: pulled up a clip from it the other day. Well,

1046
00:54:58,800 --> 00:55:02,040
Speaker 1: we're here, now, we're here. So what I don't have

1047
00:55:02,080 --> 00:55:04,160
Speaker 1: time for is a lot of people who bang the

1048
00:55:04,239 --> 00:55:07,239
Speaker 1: drum in il portal, Yes, portal for all, and I

1049
00:55:07,320 --> 00:55:10,239
Speaker 1: of for all, and then listen to me say what

1050
00:55:10,320 --> 00:55:14,520
Speaker 1: I said. It said, upshoo. But then we fast forward

1051
00:55:14,600 --> 00:55:17,120
Speaker 1: three years and then they want to claim I'm hating

1052
00:55:17,120 --> 00:55:19,799
Speaker 1: on Dion Sanders. I'm not hating on Dion Sanders, nor

1053
00:55:19,880 --> 00:55:22,600
Speaker 1: are a lot of people who are mistakenly hating on him.

1054
00:55:22,640 --> 00:55:25,120
Speaker 1: They're hating on the system that was allowed to be

1055
00:55:25,160 --> 00:55:28,880
Speaker 1: put in place without any ability to properly police it.

1056
00:55:29,120 --> 00:55:31,840
Speaker 1: That's what's got him angry that just the transfer portal

1057
00:55:31,840 --> 00:55:34,160
Speaker 1: doesn't have a face. Ni Ale doesn't have a face.

1058
00:55:34,360 --> 00:55:37,160
Speaker 1: Dion's got a face, and he talks out of it

1059
00:55:37,200 --> 00:55:39,000
Speaker 1: a lot, and that's what rubs a lot of him

1060
00:55:39,000 --> 00:55:41,520
Speaker 1: the wrong way. Let me address one other thing, and

1061
00:55:41,640 --> 00:55:44,160
Speaker 1: this is kind of it's kind of a sidebar, if

1062
00:55:44,200 --> 00:55:48,080
Speaker 1: you will, So in the comments on that video, let

1063
00:55:48,120 --> 00:55:50,440
Speaker 1: me set you straight on something. A lot of you

1064
00:55:50,520 --> 00:55:52,879
Speaker 1: came in there and said, Oh, all these coaches who

1065
00:55:52,880 --> 00:55:55,200
Speaker 1: don't like Deon Sanders, it's a race thing. It's cause

1066
00:55:55,239 --> 00:55:57,920
Speaker 1: he's black. More than half the coaches I talked to

1067
00:55:58,000 --> 00:56:01,560
Speaker 1: about that were black, So it wasn't that. I'm not

1068
00:56:01,600 --> 00:56:03,160
Speaker 1: doubting there may be someone out here that doesn't like

1069
00:56:03,239 --> 00:56:05,160
Speaker 1: him because of his skin color. There's a lot of

1070
00:56:05,200 --> 00:56:07,160
Speaker 1: folks in this country. I'm telling you, the folks I

1071
00:56:07,239 --> 00:56:09,640
Speaker 1: talked to, there was not an ounce of that that

1072
00:56:09,719 --> 00:56:12,880
Speaker 1: I detected. In fact, a lot of them looked just

1073
00:56:12,960 --> 00:56:16,160
Speaker 1: like Dion. It wasn't that, and it wasn't even Dion,

1074
00:56:16,400 --> 00:56:18,720
Speaker 1: is the point I keep going back to. They're upset

1075
00:56:18,719 --> 00:56:21,440
Speaker 1: at the system. Deon just happens to be the one

1076
00:56:21,440 --> 00:56:26,440
Speaker 1: taking advantage of it. So the Dion hate. There's this

1077
00:56:26,880 --> 00:56:30,280
Speaker 1: group of people. They're kind of cultish. They just roam

1078
00:56:30,320 --> 00:56:32,960
Speaker 1: the internet and anyone who says anything about him, they

1079
00:56:32,960 --> 00:56:35,520
Speaker 1: don't actually listen to what is said. They just say, hater,

1080
00:56:36,280 --> 00:56:38,480
Speaker 1: Am I really really is that what we're doing. I

1081
00:56:38,520 --> 00:56:42,480
Speaker 1: don't think so. All right, we got one more thing

1082
00:56:42,520 --> 00:56:46,680
Speaker 1: to touch on here, and it's it's an interesting program.

1083
00:56:46,840 --> 00:56:49,680
Speaker 1: The way we do the mood trackers is I'll normally

1084
00:56:49,840 --> 00:56:52,360
Speaker 1: pull up the globe and we'll spin it like Carmen

1085
00:56:52,480 --> 00:56:55,160
Speaker 1: san Diego, and all right, is our finger gonna land

1086
00:56:55,160 --> 00:56:58,160
Speaker 1: on the SEC with the big ten, Pack twelve acc

1087
00:56:58,400 --> 00:57:03,399
Speaker 1: big twelve. No, it never lands on Independent And as

1088
00:57:03,440 --> 00:57:06,640
Speaker 1: a result, sometimes we can forget about Notre Dame. That's

1089
00:57:06,640 --> 00:57:09,280
Speaker 1: one of the prices you pay for being an independent

1090
00:57:09,360 --> 00:57:12,759
Speaker 1: sometimes if people are checking off boxes by conference and

1091
00:57:12,800 --> 00:57:14,440
Speaker 1: you're not in one of them, there you go and

1092
00:57:14,480 --> 00:57:16,200
Speaker 1: I'm sure that keeps them up at night up there

1093
00:57:16,360 --> 00:57:19,120
Speaker 1: knowing we may miss a Notre Dame mood tracker. But

1094
00:57:19,200 --> 00:57:21,560
Speaker 1: alas one of you pointed it out to me, so

1095
00:57:22,400 --> 00:57:25,760
Speaker 1: Notre Dame mood tracker. Time thermometer goes in the fan base,

1096
00:57:26,760 --> 00:57:28,680
Speaker 1: raise the tongue, let's pull it out. What are you

1097
00:57:28,720 --> 00:57:32,320
Speaker 1: guys feeling about Notre Dame? What is the middle eighty

1098
00:57:32,360 --> 00:57:35,760
Speaker 1: percent of the fan base feeling this time last year

1099
00:57:36,480 --> 00:57:40,040
Speaker 1: I talked at length as everyone else was clowning themselves

1100
00:57:40,080 --> 00:57:43,760
Speaker 1: about Brian Kelly's accent and is dancing in his recruiting videos,

1101
00:57:43,800 --> 00:57:45,760
Speaker 1: and I was sitting here talking about how I forget

1102
00:57:45,760 --> 00:57:48,600
Speaker 1: all that did we just see a win win. Notre

1103
00:57:48,680 --> 00:57:52,160
Speaker 1: Dame fans were e static with Marcus Freeman. LSU fans

1104
00:57:52,160 --> 00:57:54,680
Speaker 1: were ecstatic with Brian Kelly. We fast forward a year.

1105
00:57:54,800 --> 00:57:58,720
Speaker 1: Has anything changed? Not really? In fact, I think a

1106
00:57:58,720 --> 00:58:01,360
Speaker 1: lot of people feel validated in that. Ls you certainly

1107
00:58:01,400 --> 00:58:03,880
Speaker 1: loves where they're at Notre Dame. After they got off

1108
00:58:03,920 --> 00:58:06,280
Speaker 1: to a rocky start, they ended up with a nine

1109
00:58:06,360 --> 00:58:10,320
Speaker 1: win season, and they went into the transfer portal and

1110
00:58:10,360 --> 00:58:14,000
Speaker 1: got the best quarterback in the transfer portal. Afterwards, they're

1111
00:58:14,040 --> 00:58:17,640
Speaker 1: recruiting very well, and they're recruiting well again this class.

1112
00:58:19,160 --> 00:58:21,120
Speaker 1: I think their mood right now is we got ours.

1113
00:58:22,240 --> 00:58:25,520
Speaker 1: LSU feels the same way. It is again a reflection

1114
00:58:25,640 --> 00:58:31,840
Speaker 1: of one of the most rare occurrences in the coaching market,

1115
00:58:31,960 --> 00:58:35,800
Speaker 1: and that is the win win. Everybody wins. Coach moves

1116
00:58:35,840 --> 00:58:39,120
Speaker 1: on a really good one, and yet you already had

1117
00:58:39,120 --> 00:58:41,480
Speaker 1: the replacement in house. That's the other thing. Notre Dame

1118
00:58:41,480 --> 00:58:44,200
Speaker 1: didn't have to do this massive coaching search. They had

1119
00:58:44,240 --> 00:58:46,600
Speaker 1: their head coach right there. He was on the same

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00:58:46,600 --> 00:58:51,320
Speaker 1: staff as it turns out, so Marcus Freeman's elevated. Here's

1121
00:58:51,360 --> 00:58:54,920
Speaker 1: the added benefit. Freeman could go be a solid B

1122
00:58:55,040 --> 00:58:58,040
Speaker 1: list actor, if not eventually an A list actor, because

1123
00:58:58,080 --> 00:59:01,280
Speaker 1: I've seen those commercials, We've seen those hype pieces Notre

1124
00:59:01,320 --> 00:59:04,240
Speaker 1: Dame put together last year. He's got the looks, he's

1125
00:59:04,240 --> 00:59:08,080
Speaker 1: got the chops, he's got the charisma. And Marcus Freeman

1126
00:59:08,280 --> 00:59:11,280
Speaker 1: chooses to grace us with his presence as a head coach.

1127
00:59:11,320 --> 00:59:13,520
Speaker 1: And if you don't know me better, you think I'm

1128
00:59:13,520 --> 00:59:17,160
Speaker 1: saying that sarcastically. I'm not, man. I appreciate him hanging around.

1129
00:59:17,280 --> 00:59:19,920
Speaker 1: Some coaches look like meatballs with arms extended out of

1130
00:59:19,920 --> 00:59:22,680
Speaker 1: the meatball. Marcus Freeman's a good looking dude, and we

1131
00:59:22,720 --> 00:59:24,840
Speaker 1: are comfortable enough around here to say it. And he's

1132
00:59:24,880 --> 00:59:27,160
Speaker 1: the head coach at Notre Dame right now, and he

1133
00:59:27,440 --> 00:59:30,360
Speaker 1: is theirs. That's the attitude amongst Notre Dame fans. We

1134
00:59:30,440 --> 00:59:33,360
Speaker 1: got ours. They can keep Brian Kelly down there. We

1135
00:59:33,440 --> 00:59:35,200
Speaker 1: got ours, We got the dude we want. And I

1136
00:59:35,240 --> 00:59:37,000
Speaker 1: told you at the time, and I'll remind you, if

1137
00:59:37,040 --> 00:59:38,840
Speaker 1: you're not a Notre Dame fan, you don't think about

1138
00:59:38,840 --> 00:59:42,160
Speaker 1: this a lot. Notre Dame folks had a very interesting

1139
00:59:42,200 --> 00:59:45,320
Speaker 1: relationship with Brian Kelly because I've heard Lou Holtz talk

1140
00:59:45,320 --> 00:59:47,480
Speaker 1: about it before, and he's right, and he would know.

1141
00:59:47,880 --> 00:59:49,720
Speaker 1: He said, there's a certain attitude you have to have

1142
00:59:49,880 --> 00:59:54,040
Speaker 1: towards the brand of Notre Dame to be an effective

1143
00:59:54,080 --> 00:59:56,400
Speaker 1: head coach at Notre Dame. Well, they didn't feel Kelly

1144
00:59:56,440 --> 00:59:59,520
Speaker 1: necessarily had that, and I don't think they're wrong. I

1145
00:59:59,560 --> 01:00:01,240
Speaker 1: think Brian and Kelly looked at it a lot more

1146
01:00:01,280 --> 01:00:04,880
Speaker 1: transactional than in a pour your heart out and love

1147
01:00:04,920 --> 01:00:06,640
Speaker 1: it sort of deal. I think that he looked at

1148
01:00:06,680 --> 01:00:10,240
Speaker 1: as a major job. And I'm a football coach at

1149
01:00:10,320 --> 01:00:13,400
Speaker 1: Notre Dame, but maybe I'm not Notre Dame and then

1150
01:00:13,480 --> 01:00:16,360
Speaker 1: football coach in that order. And the Notre Dame folks

1151
01:00:16,560 --> 01:00:19,840
Speaker 1: they just want a certain kind of mentality. They want

1152
01:00:19,840 --> 01:00:23,240
Speaker 1: a guy who embraces all of what Notre Dame is,

1153
01:00:23,280 --> 01:00:25,120
Speaker 1: and Brian Kelly just said, I want to go play football.

1154
01:00:25,160 --> 01:00:28,400
Speaker 1: That's what I want to do. Marcus Freeman's all love it.

1155
01:00:28,600 --> 01:00:33,040
Speaker 1: Marcus Freeman is what they want. And Marcus Freeman had options,

1156
01:00:33,080 --> 01:00:35,120
Speaker 1: he has options. He chose Notre Dame. A lot of

1157
01:00:35,120 --> 01:00:37,800
Speaker 1: that staff stuck around. They chose Notre Dame. They're really

1158
01:00:37,840 --> 01:00:40,440
Speaker 1: into that up there, as they should be, as everyone

1159
01:00:40,440 --> 01:00:42,160
Speaker 1: should be. Notre Dame just takes it a little more

1160
01:00:42,200 --> 01:00:44,200
Speaker 1: serious than most and that's not a bad thing. That's

1161
01:00:44,240 --> 01:00:47,320
Speaker 1: a good thing. So they're coming into this season. They

1162
01:00:47,320 --> 01:00:49,880
Speaker 1: got another shot at Ohio State this year. At home,

1163
01:00:50,160 --> 01:00:52,919
Speaker 1: they go to Clemson. You know, they play USC every year,

1164
01:00:53,200 --> 01:00:55,360
Speaker 1: So one way or another, Notre Dame is going to

1165
01:00:55,440 --> 01:00:58,479
Speaker 1: have a massive impact on the playoff picture this year.

1166
01:00:59,360 --> 01:01:02,919
Speaker 1: And then within the walls of Notre Dame they listen

1167
01:01:02,960 --> 01:01:05,800
Speaker 1: to someone say that and they say, yeah, we're gonna

1168
01:01:05,840 --> 01:01:08,720
Speaker 1: have an impact on the playoff picture, and we may

1169
01:01:08,880 --> 01:01:12,320
Speaker 1: be in the playoff picture. And then everyone goes, what,

1170
01:01:12,920 --> 01:01:16,720
Speaker 1: well wait a second, Wow, Yeah, let me pay attention

1171
01:01:16,760 --> 01:01:18,760
Speaker 1: to them. Now. They're win totals eight and a half.

1172
01:01:19,640 --> 01:01:21,760
Speaker 1: There are odds to win the title or plus twenty

1173
01:01:21,760 --> 01:01:25,080
Speaker 1: five hundred. They got a shot. They got. You don't

1174
01:01:25,080 --> 01:01:26,919
Speaker 1: know who Marcus Freeman is as the head coach, yet,

1175
01:01:27,600 --> 01:01:30,200
Speaker 1: how could you He's one year in. You don't know

1176
01:01:30,240 --> 01:01:32,520
Speaker 1: what lessons he's learning. We don't even fully know what

1177
01:01:32,560 --> 01:01:35,439
Speaker 1: his profile is. And so you bring in the best

1178
01:01:35,520 --> 01:01:37,880
Speaker 1: quarterback in the transfer portal and you pair him up

1179
01:01:37,880 --> 01:01:40,080
Speaker 1: with an already really good roster that's not going anywhere

1180
01:01:40,080 --> 01:01:42,720
Speaker 1: because they're recruiting at a very high level. Let's see

1181
01:01:42,720 --> 01:01:46,560
Speaker 1: what they do this year. Sam Hartman first in completions

1182
01:01:46,760 --> 01:01:51,560
Speaker 1: career at wake Forest, pass touchdowns most all time, passing

1183
01:01:51,600 --> 01:01:57,200
Speaker 1: efficiency most all time, total touchdowns most all time wake Forest.

1184
01:01:57,280 --> 01:02:02,040
Speaker 1: Was that a former president, right, President Forest? Kidding? My

1185
01:02:02,600 --> 01:02:05,600
Speaker 1: humor hits ninety percent of you, but there's ten percent

1186
01:02:05,640 --> 01:02:09,760
Speaker 1: of you that like the other day, I made the

1187
01:02:09,760 --> 01:02:12,960
Speaker 1: middleman joke. I used the office quote. You wouldn't arrest

1188
01:02:12,960 --> 01:02:15,360
Speaker 1: a man for just delivering drugs from one person to another,

1189
01:02:15,400 --> 01:02:18,360
Speaker 1: would you? A cop came in the comment section. An

1190
01:02:18,480 --> 01:02:23,280
Speaker 1: actual police officer came in our comment section and kindly

1191
01:02:23,360 --> 01:02:25,680
Speaker 1: but firmly pointed out, it's not a joke to some

1192
01:02:25,720 --> 01:02:31,920
Speaker 1: of us. My apologies, So instead of just making veiled

1193
01:02:32,080 --> 01:02:34,600
Speaker 1: drug references, let me just put it to you like this,

1194
01:02:35,120 --> 01:02:37,680
Speaker 1: Marcus Freeman is a really good fitted Notre Dame. They

1195
01:02:37,720 --> 01:02:39,760
Speaker 1: know it, he knows it, the fan base loves it.

1196
01:02:39,960 --> 01:02:43,880
Speaker 1: That's the mood we got ours Bam kickoff twenty twenty three,

1197
01:02:44,000 --> 01:02:47,080
Speaker 1: about one hundred days away. Really good show tonight about

1198
01:02:47,120 --> 01:02:50,280
Speaker 1: an hour there was talk around the office that we

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01:02:50,320 --> 01:02:52,840
Speaker 1: may not even go forty minutes, and shame on whoever

1200
01:02:52,880 --> 01:02:55,680
Speaker 1: said it was me. I said it right, I did

1201
01:02:55,760 --> 01:03:00,520
Speaker 1: promise you. One thing. I hate that I got to

1202
01:03:00,520 --> 01:03:03,800
Speaker 1: tell this story. Those of you who don't want to

1203
01:03:03,800 --> 01:03:06,320
Speaker 1: see me embarrassed. Just log out now, please, I'll give

1204
01:03:06,360 --> 01:03:12,520
Speaker 1: you two seconds. Yeah you're still here, Okay. Well, the

1205
01:03:12,600 --> 01:03:18,520
Speaker 1: thing of it is, I was a really big baseball

1206
01:03:18,560 --> 01:03:22,160
Speaker 1: fan when I was a child, and I remember the

1207
01:03:22,200 --> 01:03:25,520
Speaker 1: home run race between Mark maguire and Sammy Sosa. I

1208
01:03:25,560 --> 01:03:28,120
Speaker 1: don't think royds run baseball. I think it made it great.

1209
01:03:28,120 --> 01:03:31,880
Speaker 1: It blended pro wrestling in baseball. Well, anyway, I remember

1210
01:03:32,000 --> 01:03:35,840
Speaker 1: still one day there was news on Sports Center yet

1211
01:03:35,880 --> 01:03:38,880
Speaker 1: Sammy Sosa had been scratched from the Cubs starting lineup

1212
01:03:39,480 --> 01:03:42,040
Speaker 1: because of a back injury. I think, oh, that's a shame.

1213
01:03:42,200 --> 01:03:47,000
Speaker 1: Get well soon, Sammy. And then more details emerged. How

1214
01:03:47,040 --> 01:03:51,960
Speaker 1: did he injure his back? Sneezing? And I thought to myself,

1215
01:03:52,480 --> 01:03:55,280
Speaker 1: that is pathetic. That is one of the softest things

1216
01:03:55,280 --> 01:03:59,000
Speaker 1: I've ever heard from a pro athlete or otherwise. We

1217
01:03:59,080 --> 01:04:02,200
Speaker 1: fast forward all these years later, and I now have

1218
01:04:02,400 --> 01:04:08,560
Speaker 1: a strained upper back muscle from sneezing, and I told

1219
01:04:08,640 --> 01:04:11,280
Speaker 1: Gay Biker this the other day. I told Cublic this

1220
01:04:11,360 --> 01:04:16,600
Speaker 1: earlier today. It's not the strain that is hurting me

1221
01:04:16,680 --> 01:04:19,600
Speaker 1: the most. It's the fact that I think if I

1222
01:04:19,680 --> 01:04:23,040
Speaker 1: were a starting linebacker on an NFL team or a

1223
01:04:23,040 --> 01:04:27,040
Speaker 1: college football team right now, this particular injury, because of

1224
01:04:27,080 --> 01:04:30,200
Speaker 1: where it is, and because of the movement that it limits,

1225
01:04:30,280 --> 01:04:33,200
Speaker 1: and because of the difficulty I have breathing, I truly

1226
01:04:33,240 --> 01:04:35,120
Speaker 1: don't think I could play in a football game tomorrow

1227
01:04:36,240 --> 01:04:38,800
Speaker 1: and I would be Sammy Sosa and that would be

1228
01:04:38,880 --> 01:04:43,720
Speaker 1: so humiliating. You got guys dragging around torn Patella's This

1229
01:04:43,800 --> 01:04:46,560
Speaker 1: dude over here, he has got bone on bone. He's

1230
01:04:46,600 --> 01:04:48,560
Speaker 1: thirty six years old. He's just trying to hang in

1231
01:04:48,560 --> 01:04:50,880
Speaker 1: there and make one more paycheck. I got to do

1232
01:04:50,920 --> 01:04:52,960
Speaker 1: it over here that it's been sporting a fracture in

1233
01:04:52,960 --> 01:04:55,440
Speaker 1: his forearm for six weeks. It's just taped up every week.

1234
01:04:56,320 --> 01:04:59,720
Speaker 1: You guys have fun out there today. I have fully

1235
01:04:59,720 --> 01:05:04,280
Speaker 1: funk legs, shoulders feel great. However, there is a little

1236
01:05:04,360 --> 01:05:07,440
Speaker 1: twinge in my upper back. Would I would stuff my

1237
01:05:07,520 --> 01:05:11,480
Speaker 1: own self in a locker? And yet here I am Now.

1238
01:05:11,520 --> 01:05:13,919
Speaker 1: I guess the one saving grace is. I really thought

1239
01:05:13,960 --> 01:05:17,680
Speaker 1: we had softball tomorrow night and we don't. That's God

1240
01:05:17,760 --> 01:05:21,080
Speaker 1: looking out for you. Injuries have to happen. At least

1241
01:05:21,080 --> 01:05:23,920
Speaker 1: it happened in my bye week in softball. So yes,

1242
01:05:24,120 --> 01:05:26,480
Speaker 1: if anyone has a more ridiculous injury than that you're

1243
01:05:26,480 --> 01:05:30,120
Speaker 1: dealing with right now, believe me. I need to be comforted.

1244
01:05:30,320 --> 01:05:32,600
Speaker 1: I just want you to feel sorry for me. That's

1245
01:05:32,640 --> 01:05:35,760
Speaker 1: all I want. So anyone out there suffering some freak

1246
01:05:35,800 --> 01:05:39,200
Speaker 1: injury right now, please hot glue gun burned your cheek.

1247
01:05:39,320 --> 01:05:42,000
Speaker 1: I don't care how it happened. I just care that

1248
01:05:42,080 --> 01:05:44,520
Speaker 1: it happened. Please make me feel better. And if you

1249
01:05:44,560 --> 01:05:47,400
Speaker 1: can't do that, just subscribe to the channel and that

1250
01:05:47,440 --> 01:05:51,200
Speaker 1: will suffice. So for producer Belchie filling in for Jesse,

1251
01:05:51,960 --> 01:05:55,000
Speaker 1: for director Colin, for Bradley the Associated, I'm Josh, Babe,

1252
01:05:55,080 --> 01:05:58,600
Speaker 1: take care. Great conversation with Cubulic gonna be posted on

1253
01:05:58,640 --> 01:06:01,840
Speaker 1: the channel sometimes Sunday until they take care and God

1254
01:06:01,840 --> 01:06:02,200
Speaker 1: bless