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Speaker 1: And welcome to LAKEGS Live. It is Tuesday night, January seventeenth.

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Speaker 1: You remember Lord twenty twenty three. I cannot grade you

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Speaker 1: on what you think you may become. I simply grade

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Speaker 1: you on what you are being right now. That is

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Speaker 1: the nature of a job approval rating, and we are

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Speaker 1: continuing that jam pack I atap A Tranquil downtown Nashville, Tennessee.

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Speaker 2: Yes, friends, we were so successful. You enjoyed so much

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Speaker 2: the aspect of head coaching job approval ratings the other night. Well,

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Speaker 2: we're just throwing four more at you tonight. And unlike

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Speaker 2: the other night when it was it was kind of

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Speaker 2: steady as you go, things were happy. We didn't get

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Speaker 2: below I think a B. We got a C on

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Speaker 2: the board tonight. We've got a guy in the D

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Speaker 2: range on the board tonight. Not good. So we're gonna

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Speaker 2: talk about that locker room audio leaks. Since it wasn't times,

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Speaker 2: I have not shared my thoughts with you on this,

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Speaker 2: this whole thing with Kirby smart in pregame audio and whatnot.

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Speaker 2: But tonight I feel is an appropriate night to comment

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Speaker 2: on such things. And because I know that you may

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Speaker 2: have a little Jimmy or Teddy in the car and

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Speaker 2: you couldn't let them listen to the unfiltered version. Director

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Speaker 2: Colin has been working for the better part of forty

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Speaker 2: eight hours on censoring it to the point where we

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Speaker 2: can play it on the show. And Colin, even though

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Speaker 2: it's like a minute long, it did take you that

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Speaker 2: long to a paper pop city. We're going that route tonight.

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Speaker 2: Jim Harbass staying staying like he never left because he

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Speaker 2: didn't head coach at Michigan secured for another year. Got

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Speaker 2: some thoughts there. Just because it feels like nothing's gonna

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Speaker 2: change doesn't always mean nothing's gonna change. Also, there will

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Speaker 2: be a shout out tonight to some of the more

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Speaker 2: underappreciated aspects of what it takes to win in college

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Speaker 2: football and football in general. We have got a Jam

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Speaker 2: Pat show. Thank you so much for being tuned in.

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Speaker 2: They are tuned in across Lanes, West Virginia, Redford, Virginia,

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Speaker 2: and Athens, Georgia. Why not Athens Georgia, Clemson, South Carolina.

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Speaker 2: I saw them tuned in too, so thank you guys

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Speaker 2: so much for that. So I it's one of those

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Speaker 2: shows you know, sometimes it's very very clear what you

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Speaker 2: should lead with, and other times it's like you could

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Speaker 2: go any direction. So we rolled the dice, and you

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Speaker 2: know what it came up on. It came up on

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Speaker 2: Jim Harbaugh. None of these segments are going to be

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Speaker 2: like fifteen minutes long tonight. But I got to talk

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Speaker 2: to you for a second about the head coach at

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Speaker 2: Michigan coming back, Colin, here's a better endpoint for you.

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Speaker 2: Jim Harbaugh not going to the Broncos. Jim Harbaugh not

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Speaker 2: going to be coaching on Sundays unless there's a weather

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Speaker 2: situation with a Michigan game that postpones the game twenty

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Speaker 2: four hours. He's staying in Ann Arbor. In just a second,

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Speaker 2: I'm going to show you a couple of statements, but

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Speaker 2: before we talk about that. Obviously, this is huge from

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Speaker 2: Michigan now, aside from just on the surface, keeping your

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Speaker 2: head coach being a big deal. They are obviously cruising

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Speaker 2: in an altitude they haven't cruised at under him. I mean,

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Speaker 2: they're very, very lofty right now. Twenty five or three

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Speaker 2: over the past two years, a couple of Big Ten

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Speaker 2: championships in a row. Remember what too long ago? I

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Speaker 2: mean it was thirty months ago, maybe where you thought

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Speaker 2: or certainly maybe outside of the fan base, outsiders thought, oh,

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Speaker 2: he's never gonna get it done. Well he got it done,

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Speaker 2: then he got it done again. Well, they're never going

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Speaker 2: to go to the playoff. Well he got it done,

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Speaker 2: then he got it done again. Now there's a group

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Speaker 2: you're a failure. And so that group probably still not

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Speaker 2: impressed with Jim Harball. Outside of that group, I would

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Speaker 2: more realistic with your expectations. Outside of that, I think

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Speaker 2: people realize Jim Harbaugh has done a great job up there.

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Speaker 2: Is the flirtation done. That's the question that a lot

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Speaker 2: But number two, I think it has a lot to

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Speaker 2: You know, there were rumors of Harbaugh in the NFL,

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Speaker 2: and now he didn't go, and he's coming back, and

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Speaker 2: because that's how you announce such things these days. You

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Speaker 2: on Twitter, and Jim Harbaugh's statement said, I love the

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Speaker 2: relationships I have in Michigan. Coaches, staff, families, administration. Pay

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Speaker 2: attention here, President Santa oh No, and especially the players

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Speaker 2: and their families. My heart is at the University of Michigan.

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Speaker 2: I once heard a wise man say, don't try to

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Speaker 2: out happy Happy, go Blue, and then President Santa, as

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Speaker 2: I call him. President Santa, put out a statement as well,

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Speaker 2: It's not what was said there, it's what wasn't said.

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Speaker 2: It's not the names who were mentioned, it's not the coaches,

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Speaker 2: it's not the staff and the families and the admin.

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Speaker 2: It's not the president, does it. Anyone who understands the

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Speaker 2: structure of a college athletic department, does anyone notice peculiarly

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Speaker 2: a name left out there? Ward Manual? Maybe I don't

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Speaker 2: know the athletic director at Michigan. Now, if you follow

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Speaker 2: the day to day around this program, you've known it

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Speaker 2: doesn't seem like there's been a whole lot of love

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Speaker 2: lost between those two parties. It's felt sort of icy

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Speaker 2: thus far that had remained sort of inside Michigan circles.

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Speaker 2: I hadn't even spoken about it on this show because

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Speaker 2: But to quote hul Kogan brother, when you put that

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Speaker 2: meant for you to read between the lines, and certainly,

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Speaker 2: oh good for Jim. It's meant to look at and say,

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Speaker 2: we're in the world's Ward Manual. Did he quit? Did

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Speaker 2: type type type type. Yeah, Wikipedia says he's still there. Well,

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Speaker 2: he's certainly not on Harbaugh's Pokemon card or Santa's Pokemon card.

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Speaker 2: Out of context late kick. So what's happening up there?

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Speaker 2: they're actively working on a new contract up there. That's

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Speaker 2: not any breaking news. But why do they have to

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Speaker 2: it looked like he may be fired. Wasn't that long

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Speaker 2: ago there was a movement to fire Jim Harbaugh. We

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Speaker 2: behind it. It's only got fired and he instead accepted

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Speaker 2: a restructured contract. And restructured is a vague term. How

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Speaker 2: much did he restructure himself voluntarily? Well, he is the

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Speaker 2: And for a guy that's won the conference back to

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Speaker 2: he will not be the sixth highest paid coach in

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Speaker 2: And then the follow up from people like me who

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Speaker 2: hunch is certain people war Manual probably included. I have

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Speaker 2: gotten pretty tired of watching Jim Harbaugh flirt with the

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Speaker 2: NFL every year. I say every year. It's happened two years,

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Speaker 2: but it feels like it's it's become a constant now,

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Speaker 2: and if you don't restructure a deal to guard against that,

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Speaker 2: it may always be a constant. Because it's obvious the

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Speaker 2: guy wants to coach on Sundays. I don't fault him

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Speaker 2: it's not my business. If I'm the athletic director of

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Speaker 2: if I give my time and my money to that program.

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Speaker 2: It is my business, and so I want to take

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Speaker 2: countermeasures against that. I don't mind paying and we already

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Speaker 2: paid him once. I don't mind us paying him again,

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Speaker 2: especially on the back end of him delivering results for us.

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Speaker 2: But you know what I want. I want some assurances

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Speaker 2: him all this money. And on the streets that would

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Speaker 2: sound something like this, you want us to invest fully

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Speaker 2: That could be the hang up there. We'll see. But

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Speaker 2: management has been worked around Jesse Colin. Should we try this?

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Speaker 2: Should I work around management and just go straight to

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Speaker 2: the president. Should let's work shot this affair? But that's

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Speaker 2: essentially what Jim Harbad did. You know, Jim Harbad's got

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Speaker 2: someone he's supposed to answer to if you look at

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Speaker 2: much as mentioned that superior'or on the flow chart, and

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Speaker 2: that's a new president up there. And you know how

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Speaker 2: cool it makes you feel Number one if your name

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Speaker 2: is Santa and number two if the head coach is

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Speaker 2: shouting you out instead of his direct superior. Santa. Ono's

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Speaker 2: and you know what else is going on. Michigan has

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Speaker 2: the one, two three for they got the fifth best

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Speaker 2: odds to when the twenty twenty three National Championship, which

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Speaker 2: will be played in twenty four. But you get the point,

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Speaker 2: Jesse tells me, And Jesse get my ear and tell

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Speaker 2: me if I'm wrong, because it's been three hours since

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Speaker 2: we had this convo. Jesse tells me, of all like

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Speaker 2: the top fifteen odds to win the national title, Michigan

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Speaker 2: it's not quite good enough. It's not way not good enough.

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00:21:06,400 --> 00:21:10,199
Speaker 2: It's just not quite good enough. Beat Michigan, win the

427
00:21:10,200 --> 00:21:13,679
Speaker 2: Big Ten, and compete for a championship at the very

428
00:21:13,720 --> 00:21:16,280
Speaker 2: least are the three dominoes you're wanting to knock down

429
00:21:16,320 --> 00:21:20,000
Speaker 2: every year if you're Ohio State. Having said that, it

430
00:21:20,240 --> 00:21:22,280
Speaker 2: sounds like I've made both arguments. There's a price you

431
00:21:22,320 --> 00:21:25,359
Speaker 2: pay for having this job. It doesn't sound like it.

432
00:21:25,480 --> 00:21:27,520
Speaker 2: You make a bunch of money, you get put on

433
00:21:27,520 --> 00:21:29,840
Speaker 2: the biggest stage the sport has to offer, one of

434
00:21:29,880 --> 00:21:33,359
Speaker 2: which the sport has to offer, and you did not

435
00:21:33,520 --> 00:21:36,080
Speaker 2: have to work your way up the head coaching ladder

436
00:21:36,400 --> 00:21:38,720
Speaker 2: to get It. Doesn't sound like there's a price to pay,

437
00:21:38,800 --> 00:21:42,040
Speaker 2: but there is. There's not many coaches out there under

438
00:21:42,080 --> 00:21:45,000
Speaker 2: more pressure right now than Ryan Day. This past month

439
00:21:45,520 --> 00:21:47,840
Speaker 2: I think probably was pretty hilatious up there for that

440
00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:50,440
Speaker 2: coaching staff, and it's because of the price you pay.

441
00:21:50,800 --> 00:21:54,080
Speaker 2: It's the kind of pressure it's a privilege to be under.

442
00:21:54,600 --> 00:21:57,359
Speaker 2: But that doesn't mean it's any less pressure packed. So

443
00:21:57,400 --> 00:22:00,560
Speaker 2: I'm giving Ryan Day a B plus. I still believe him,

444
00:22:00,840 --> 00:22:02,840
Speaker 2: still believe in him. I saw a lot of you

445
00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:06,360
Speaker 2: calling him Ryan one day in the chat the other night,

446
00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:08,720
Speaker 2: and I think that that was a little bit hurtful,

447
00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:10,280
Speaker 2: and I think some of you should think about where

448
00:22:10,320 --> 00:22:11,920
Speaker 2: your heart is when you type that sort of thing.

449
00:22:12,200 --> 00:22:18,040
Speaker 2: Shame on you could I direct your attention to Columbia

450
00:22:18,080 --> 00:22:22,480
Speaker 2: South Carolina. This one out of the four we're doing tonight,

451
00:22:22,520 --> 00:22:26,080
Speaker 2: I think we'll get the widest range of grades. Remember

452
00:22:26,080 --> 00:22:28,960
Speaker 2: it's a letter grade system here, and you can go minus,

453
00:22:29,000 --> 00:22:34,480
Speaker 2: equal or plus. Shane Beemer, South Carolina, what job approval

454
00:22:34,520 --> 00:22:38,320
Speaker 2: grade are you giving him? Because I could not go

455
00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:42,199
Speaker 2: any lower than an A minus. There were some games

456
00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:46,000
Speaker 2: this past year where I watched and I said, whoof

457
00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:49,920
Speaker 2: the Florida game among them? But if I'm going to

458
00:22:50,000 --> 00:22:52,800
Speaker 2: go back to past years when he's only been there too,

459
00:22:52,840 --> 00:22:54,480
Speaker 2: if I'm going to go back to these past two years,

460
00:22:54,520 --> 00:22:55,880
Speaker 2: I'm not going to grade him on a single game.

461
00:22:55,880 --> 00:22:58,520
Speaker 2: I got to grade him in totality, right, And all

462
00:22:58,560 --> 00:23:01,040
Speaker 2: I know about the guy this is pretty straightforward, is

463
00:23:01,080 --> 00:23:03,800
Speaker 2: he's had two shots at it there. He did not

464
00:23:03,920 --> 00:23:06,960
Speaker 2: inherit a loaded program by any stretch of the imagination.

465
00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:10,000
Speaker 2: He was hired for a reason. In other words, the

466
00:23:10,119 --> 00:23:12,040
Speaker 2: job was open for a reason. It's not called someone

467
00:23:12,080 --> 00:23:16,360
Speaker 2: went to the NFL, so he inherited a situation. The

468
00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:18,720
Speaker 2: over has hit two years in a row his two

469
00:23:18,760 --> 00:23:20,520
Speaker 2: years there. When it comes to the win total, He's

470
00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:22,959
Speaker 2: overachieved two years in a row. In this past season.

471
00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:26,080
Speaker 2: It wasn't loading up on a bunch of inferior competition.

472
00:23:26,760 --> 00:23:31,840
Speaker 2: They beat Tennessee soundly. They beat Clemson. I did not

473
00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:34,280
Speaker 2: think his first two years were going to include a

474
00:23:34,320 --> 00:23:36,760
Speaker 2: win over Clemson because of how big a head start

475
00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:40,159
Speaker 2: Clemson has a program had over what Shane Beemer inherited.

476
00:23:40,520 --> 00:23:43,360
Speaker 2: This is not the University of Georgia right now. It's

477
00:23:43,359 --> 00:23:46,240
Speaker 2: not Ohio State, it's not Alabama. I'm not sitting here

478
00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:48,440
Speaker 2: looking at eight wins the same way I would have

479
00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:51,399
Speaker 2: Nick Saban put up an eight win season. Eight wins

480
00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:54,680
Speaker 2: is a huge deal considering where they were twenty four

481
00:23:54,720 --> 00:23:57,120
Speaker 2: months ago, and you're looking at some things that he's

482
00:23:57,119 --> 00:23:59,560
Speaker 2: accomplishing right now that you would have to go back

483
00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:02,040
Speaker 2: to the latter portion of the Steve Spurrier era to

484
00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:04,520
Speaker 2: remember back to back, well not back to back, but

485
00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:07,560
Speaker 2: two wins over top ten teams in the same season.

486
00:24:07,560 --> 00:24:10,600
Speaker 2: I hadn't done that since twenty thirteen. That's Steve Spurrier.

487
00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:15,439
Speaker 2: That's a while back. And also there's an energy the

488
00:24:15,480 --> 00:24:17,560
Speaker 2: fan base has now. I felt this is the day

489
00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:20,000
Speaker 2: he was hired because he was their guy and It's

490
00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:23,280
Speaker 2: one of those situations where the fans want someone, they

491
00:24:23,359 --> 00:24:26,639
Speaker 2: get him, and early on it's working out. And the

492
00:24:26,680 --> 00:24:29,560
Speaker 2: good news when you're watching South Carolina is not only

493
00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:33,160
Speaker 2: is it working out, but there's still obviously so much

494
00:24:33,200 --> 00:24:37,040
Speaker 2: room for improvement. So it's not like they're peaking the scale.

495
00:24:37,119 --> 00:24:39,080
Speaker 2: It's not like they've got the pedal all the way

496
00:24:39,119 --> 00:24:40,959
Speaker 2: down to the floor and Shane Beemer's leaning his head

497
00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:43,359
Speaker 2: out in the window saying, hope you're enjoying it. This

498
00:24:43,480 --> 00:24:45,320
Speaker 2: is as good as we expect it to ever get.

499
00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:48,440
Speaker 2: They could get They could get better. They certainly could.

500
00:24:48,560 --> 00:24:50,760
Speaker 2: I think there's a different gear in recruiting. They're still

501
00:24:50,760 --> 00:24:53,760
Speaker 2: capable of hitting a proof of performance, like a proof

502
00:24:53,800 --> 00:24:57,160
Speaker 2: of product is important in the media business. That's when

503
00:24:57,200 --> 00:25:00,120
Speaker 2: advertisers say, you want us to spend that money with you,

504
00:25:00,119 --> 00:25:03,480
Speaker 2: You show us why we should. Where are the numbers,

505
00:25:03,520 --> 00:25:05,439
Speaker 2: where is the data? We don't care about your feelings

506
00:25:05,520 --> 00:25:08,639
Speaker 2: or opinion. Well, in college football recruiting and transfer portal

507
00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:13,560
Speaker 2: recruitings the same way, and now they're finally starting to

508
00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:16,160
Speaker 2: get on a piece of paper. The ability to walk

509
00:25:16,160 --> 00:25:18,120
Speaker 2: into a living room, sit down on a sofa, eat

510
00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:21,399
Speaker 2: some casts a roll, and say, we've done this, We've

511
00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:24,880
Speaker 2: done this, and they haven't done this in this since then,

512
00:25:25,040 --> 00:25:27,080
Speaker 2: and we're doing it. Come be a part of it

513
00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:30,919
Speaker 2: instead of previously when it was you just gotta believe.

514
00:25:31,440 --> 00:25:33,120
Speaker 2: I can't show you anything. I haven't been a head

515
00:25:33,160 --> 00:25:36,520
Speaker 2: coaching where you just gotta believe. Well, finally they're starting

516
00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:39,159
Speaker 2: to get some they're starting to get some ammunition to

517
00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:41,520
Speaker 2: take out there. And the thing about it is, it's

518
00:25:41,560 --> 00:25:43,359
Speaker 2: great that it's happened two years in a row. But

519
00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:46,240
Speaker 2: you don't load a roster up in two years. You

520
00:25:46,280 --> 00:25:48,440
Speaker 2: certainly do not. And so I think there's still little

521
00:25:48,440 --> 00:25:50,040
Speaker 2: ways to go. But I'm giving them an A minus

522
00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:54,560
Speaker 2: as of this moment. I can't go that high on

523
00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:58,920
Speaker 2: the next one. West Virginia isn't a bad place, bad

524
00:25:58,960 --> 00:26:03,240
Speaker 2: bad place. Brown. I hate to do it, but this

525
00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:05,639
Speaker 2: is a D minus. This is about as bad a

526
00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:10,760
Speaker 2: current Power five performance as we're seeing out there. And

527
00:26:10,840 --> 00:26:14,280
Speaker 2: so I asked producer Jesse, I know what I feel.

528
00:26:14,680 --> 00:26:17,359
Speaker 2: Do the numbers back it up? And he said, you

529
00:26:17,440 --> 00:26:20,560
Speaker 2: may want to go lower than D minus. Jesse's cutthroat man,

530
00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:22,600
Speaker 2: cut throat ever since he almost beat me in ping

531
00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:24,199
Speaker 2: pong the other night. I got a little different attitude

532
00:26:24,200 --> 00:26:27,359
Speaker 2: around the office seeing about an hour Jesse, So listen

533
00:26:27,400 --> 00:26:31,080
Speaker 2: to this. We always want to set a baseline, right.

534
00:26:31,080 --> 00:26:34,440
Speaker 2: We always want to define what the expectation should be

535
00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:38,000
Speaker 2: at a program. And sometimes fans are getting mad and

536
00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:41,199
Speaker 2: the reality is their expectation levels too high. That is

537
00:26:41,359 --> 00:26:43,760
Speaker 2: not the case. If you're a West Virginia fan and

538
00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:47,800
Speaker 2: you're mad, you should be mad. Neil Brown arrives in

539
00:26:47,840 --> 00:26:52,959
Speaker 2: twenty nineteen. Okay, the previous sixteen years, twenty two to

540
00:26:53,000 --> 00:26:56,720
Speaker 2: twenty eighteen, West Virginia appeared in the AP Top twenty

541
00:26:56,760 --> 00:27:00,720
Speaker 2: five sixteen of those seventeen years. They have not been

542
00:27:00,760 --> 00:27:03,399
Speaker 2: there since. They have not appeared in the top twenty

543
00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:07,520
Speaker 2: five a week since then. That's nowhere near good enough.

544
00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:10,800
Speaker 2: They were next to last in scoring, offense and defense

545
00:27:10,840 --> 00:27:13,119
Speaker 2: this past year. They were lasting the Big twelve and

546
00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:16,320
Speaker 2: turnover margin and points off turnovers. They're three to twelve

547
00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:19,080
Speaker 2: under Brown versus top twenty five teams. They got one

548
00:27:19,119 --> 00:27:21,520
Speaker 2: winning season in his tenure, and that was the COVID

549
00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:25,840
Speaker 2: year in twenty twenty. That's D minus level performance. I

550
00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:27,840
Speaker 2: don't know what else to say. I would love to

551
00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:30,399
Speaker 2: say something different. Neil Brown was at Troy when I

552
00:27:30,400 --> 00:27:33,800
Speaker 2: was still down in Columbus, Georgia. Everyone spoke glowingly of him.

553
00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:36,800
Speaker 2: Everyone loved him. He was a hot name in coaching

554
00:27:36,840 --> 00:27:39,879
Speaker 2: circles even then, and so if anything, I kind of

555
00:27:40,000 --> 00:27:42,280
Speaker 2: default over to the side of pulling for him. But

556
00:27:42,320 --> 00:27:44,879
Speaker 2: that's not how job approval ratings work. It's not whether

557
00:27:44,920 --> 00:27:47,120
Speaker 2: I like you. It's not whether I think maybe one

558
00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:50,200
Speaker 2: day you'll you'll pull your program out of it. Frankly,

559
00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:55,120
Speaker 2: I thought he was gonna be gone. It's not necessarily

560
00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:56,639
Speaker 2: the kind of segment I do on the show. I

561
00:27:56,640 --> 00:27:58,680
Speaker 2: talk about it when it's happened. I don't really call

562
00:27:58,760 --> 00:28:03,159
Speaker 2: for many coaches jobs. But I thought he was going

563
00:28:03,240 --> 00:28:05,719
Speaker 2: to be gone. Most people in the industry did. And

564
00:28:05,920 --> 00:28:09,000
Speaker 2: he's not. He's there for at least another year. I mean,

565
00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:12,880
Speaker 2: unless something happens really late in the cycle. So d minus.

566
00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:15,280
Speaker 2: If anyone wants to talk me off that ledge, feel free.

567
00:28:15,320 --> 00:28:19,800
Speaker 2: But man, there were voices in the building that wanted

568
00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:22,800
Speaker 2: me to go lower than that. So tough, I have

569
00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:26,199
Speaker 2: something so delicious planned for you. In just a second.

570
00:28:26,320 --> 00:28:31,040
Speaker 2: They're watching us in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, which also made up

571
00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:33,280
Speaker 2: a majority of my wardrobe when I was a youth.

572
00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:36,600
Speaker 2: They're watching us in Montgomery, Alabama. Shout out Bradley. They're

573
00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:39,440
Speaker 2: watching us in Seattle, Washington, shout out heart, thank you

574
00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:43,200
Speaker 2: wherever you're watching us tonight. Okay, we got a tweet,

575
00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:44,960
Speaker 2: Yeah we do. Sorry, Colin, it's been it's been a

576
00:28:44,960 --> 00:28:48,120
Speaker 2: little while since we prepared this. All right, someone hit

577
00:28:48,200 --> 00:28:50,920
Speaker 2: us up on Twitter, and by someone, I mean hundreds

578
00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:54,000
Speaker 2: and hundreds of you. Emory just happened to have his selected.

579
00:28:54,200 --> 00:28:56,920
Speaker 2: Here's the tweet, late kick for Life. I agree so far,

580
00:28:57,280 --> 00:29:00,160
Speaker 2: he continues, I never miss a live show. Thank you, Emory,

581
00:29:00,880 --> 00:29:03,640
Speaker 2: and then he continues even further. I'm sure you heard

582
00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:07,760
Speaker 2: the leaked audio from Kirby Smart's pregame speech. I've been

583
00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:10,160
Speaker 2: wondering what your thoughts are on that. Keep up the

584
00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:14,320
Speaker 2: great work. In twenty twenty three from Calhoun, Georgia. I

585
00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:18,360
Speaker 2: soften the g sometimes just for added effect. What are

586
00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:21,560
Speaker 2: we talking about here? Most of you, I think know

587
00:29:21,640 --> 00:29:25,160
Speaker 2: what I'm talking about. But there's this thing that happens.

588
00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:28,200
Speaker 2: There are things in our lives that happen sometimes that

589
00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:31,760
Speaker 2: are triggers, not negative triggers. No trigger warning on the

590
00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:34,400
Speaker 2: show tonight. These are all positive triggers. These are the

591
00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:37,440
Speaker 2: kinds of triggers that happen and a smile pops on

592
00:29:37,480 --> 00:29:41,400
Speaker 2: your face. For example, growing up in Harris County, someone

593
00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:44,400
Speaker 2: call it some people call it Harassment County. I call

594
00:29:44,480 --> 00:29:47,640
Speaker 2: it Harris County. Back home in Harris County, we did

595
00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:50,480
Speaker 2: not have the ice cream truck, so you would have

596
00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:52,800
Speaker 2: to go down the road to Columbus to hear the

597
00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:56,800
Speaker 2: ice cream truck. And hearing the music from the ice

598
00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:59,880
Speaker 2: cream truck is a really big posit trigger for a kid.

599
00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:02,480
Speaker 2: The thing about it is, I noticed when I became

600
00:30:02,600 --> 00:30:06,600
Speaker 2: twenty three years old, eh, I still like to hear it,

601
00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:08,680
Speaker 2: but it did not impact me like it did when

602
00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:11,560
Speaker 2: I was seven. So some of the positive triggers in

603
00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:15,720
Speaker 2: life you grew out of. However, being in this particular business,

604
00:30:15,760 --> 00:30:18,479
Speaker 2: I have learned there are a couple of positive triggers

605
00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:22,040
Speaker 2: with grown men that never go away. One of them

606
00:30:22,160 --> 00:30:25,040
Speaker 2: is locker room access. If we can ever give you

607
00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:28,120
Speaker 2: locker room access, you eat it up. Doesn't matter whether

608
00:30:28,120 --> 00:30:30,560
Speaker 2: you're twelve or ninety two, you'll eat it up. And

609
00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:34,360
Speaker 2: the other one is coaches using swear words. If we

610
00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:37,640
Speaker 2: could play that for you people, you might as well

611
00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:40,680
Speaker 2: blur their midsection man, they can't stand up for ten minutes.

612
00:30:41,040 --> 00:30:43,120
Speaker 2: And I know I'm getting a little graphic here, but

613
00:30:43,200 --> 00:30:45,960
Speaker 2: not nearly as graphic as Kirby Smart got. There is

614
00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:49,880
Speaker 2: some conjecture as to when this audio happened. Kirby Smart

615
00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:52,760
Speaker 2: himself says, this is not before the National Championship game.

616
00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:56,400
Speaker 2: I happened to think this is before the Tennessee game.

617
00:30:56,720 --> 00:30:59,880
Speaker 2: But no matter which game it's before, get ready for

618
00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:06,360
Speaker 2: os tv M A warning, let's play the leaked audio.

619
00:31:06,640 --> 00:31:10,400
Speaker 3: YO been prepared for this for a three hundred sixty

620
00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:12,920
Speaker 3: five days. I think about the that locker room. You

621
00:31:13,000 --> 00:31:16,120
Speaker 3: think about getting our opportunity. I went through this week

622
00:31:16,240 --> 00:31:18,479
Speaker 3: to get back through this game. Now it's when you

623
00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:21,720
Speaker 3: play the price. You go out there with energy, enthusiasms.

624
00:31:21,720 --> 00:31:24,040
Speaker 4: Take out. Ain't nobody who's room should be cautious. Ain't

625
00:31:24,040 --> 00:31:26,520
Speaker 4: nobody whose room should be nervous about? Go out of

626
00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:30,680
Speaker 4: here and don't think about store warning, don't think about

627
00:31:30,840 --> 00:31:33,280
Speaker 4: you think about knocking shad up? Did you hear what

628
00:31:33,320 --> 00:31:33,800
Speaker 4: box out?

629
00:31:33,840 --> 00:31:35,200
Speaker 2: On? One day? Let's set up.

630
00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:40,320
Speaker 5: I would like right there, do come out here. Two

631
00:31:40,400 --> 00:31:45,280
Speaker 5: years ago, shut up, Brian Joy tells me, you guys up,

632
00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:46,760
Speaker 5: You're gonna play the right way.

633
00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:48,000
Speaker 4: You play the right way.

634
00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:53,200
Speaker 5: You knocked there, you stay up to tackle the ball, easy,

635
00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:58,560
Speaker 5: play the rights, waters the offs and kick their special teams. Guys,

636
00:31:58,640 --> 00:32:02,240
Speaker 5: it's about who I believe in you. Let's don't care.

637
00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:11,040
Speaker 2: Is it over there? Is it done? It's okay, it's done.

638
00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:14,840
Speaker 2: All right, Well we're back. So that's the leaked audio,

639
00:32:15,640 --> 00:32:18,880
Speaker 2: and predictably, grown men had a field day with it.

640
00:32:19,200 --> 00:32:22,400
Speaker 2: I mean ear to ear smiles. It's the same way

641
00:32:22,840 --> 00:32:25,640
Speaker 2: as when you figured out when you were ten years

642
00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:28,640
Speaker 2: old that your parents cable plan had come with three

643
00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:31,520
Speaker 2: three months of cinemax and you were up at eleven

644
00:32:31,560 --> 00:32:34,800
Speaker 2: forty five PM, and what happened on cinemax at eleven

645
00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:37,280
Speaker 2: forty five was made clear to you for the first time.

646
00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:42,080
Speaker 2: That is how Georgia fans from Clayton to Valdosta felt

647
00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:44,080
Speaker 2: when they heard that. And I don't know what the

648
00:32:44,080 --> 00:32:47,000
Speaker 2: science says behind it. I can't necessarily explain it. But

649
00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:50,040
Speaker 2: grown men go crazy when they hear other grown men,

650
00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:54,239
Speaker 2: particularly authoritative grown men, use bad language. So that's what

651
00:32:54,320 --> 00:32:57,160
Speaker 2: Kirby Smart did. Now I had some others in our

652
00:32:57,280 --> 00:33:01,840
Speaker 2: midst say, well, no wonder Georgia won the game. My goodness,

653
00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:05,480
Speaker 2: how could you lose with that? And I asked them

654
00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:08,440
Speaker 2: in response, what did the speech have to do with

655
00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:12,080
Speaker 2: a game? And that's when I realized there was a

656
00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:15,880
Speaker 2: little more to this. I don't want to raid on

657
00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:18,880
Speaker 2: anyone's parade, okay, because I've been in locker rooms before,

658
00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:21,000
Speaker 2: just like you have. I've heard speeches like that in

659
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:24,400
Speaker 2: which are contrary to popular belief, very routine, and I've

660
00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:27,120
Speaker 2: heard them before we win games, and I've heard them

661
00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:30,200
Speaker 2: before we lose games. And I always wondered, how in

662
00:33:30,240 --> 00:33:32,560
Speaker 2: the world do people think a speech impacts play on

663
00:33:32,560 --> 00:33:36,320
Speaker 2: the field. There are two variables, at least when I

664
00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:41,840
Speaker 2: have participated in athletic competition, there are two variables that

665
00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:44,280
Speaker 2: that close to a game you can still impact. And

666
00:33:44,360 --> 00:33:47,320
Speaker 2: number one is intensity level and number two is focus.

667
00:33:48,000 --> 00:33:51,680
Speaker 2: Game plans already done, okay, Preparation is not being impacted

668
00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:54,600
Speaker 2: in a pregame speech. Execution is not being impacted in

669
00:33:54,640 --> 00:33:57,320
Speaker 2: a pregame speech, has nothing upon, nothing upon, nothing to

670
00:33:57,320 --> 00:34:00,280
Speaker 2: do with it. It can help if the audio leaks

671
00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:03,240
Speaker 2: in recruiting, it can help in marketing at the audio leaks,

672
00:34:03,240 --> 00:34:05,200
Speaker 2: which is why your boy here is very skeptical that

673
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:08,400
Speaker 2: those are leaks to begin with, I would never accuse

674
00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:11,960
Speaker 2: them of such things, but I will say this focus

675
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:15,600
Speaker 2: and intensity are things that you can still grab someone

676
00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:17,719
Speaker 2: by the shirt collar fifteen minutes for a game and

677
00:34:17,800 --> 00:34:22,399
Speaker 2: slightly alter, you know, because the preparation is contingent upon

678
00:34:22,440 --> 00:34:25,480
Speaker 2: those two variables being in place. There's an intensity level,

679
00:34:25,680 --> 00:34:28,400
Speaker 2: especially when you play level Georgia does. There's this place

680
00:34:28,480 --> 00:34:31,120
Speaker 2: you have to get in your head. There's a place

681
00:34:31,160 --> 00:34:34,880
Speaker 2: where high level competitors get. It's just this perfect fuel

682
00:34:35,239 --> 00:34:39,200
Speaker 2: of the moment and adrenaline and athletic skill that when

683
00:34:39,200 --> 00:34:41,960
Speaker 2: you combine it and you pour it out, you can

684
00:34:42,040 --> 00:34:44,120
Speaker 2: do things that very very few other humans on the

685
00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:46,000
Speaker 2: planet can do, and you can operate at a level

686
00:34:46,040 --> 00:34:47,920
Speaker 2: that very very few other humans on the planet can

687
00:34:47,960 --> 00:34:50,920
Speaker 2: operate at. And when you combine that with elite preparation

688
00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:54,200
Speaker 2: and game planning that that coaching staff has done to

689
00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:57,719
Speaker 2: put you in a position to perform, and you're focused

690
00:34:57,840 --> 00:35:01,480
Speaker 2: and you have the proper a level intensity, well, that's

691
00:35:01,520 --> 00:35:04,160
Speaker 2: how you splatter people sixty five to seven. That's how

692
00:35:04,160 --> 00:35:06,480
Speaker 2: you suffocate people that they did against Tennessee. I don't

693
00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:09,799
Speaker 2: really particularly know where the audio came from. My guess

694
00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:14,080
Speaker 2: is the Tennessee game. But make no mistake what Georgia

695
00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:16,000
Speaker 2: did on the field that afternoon or what they did

696
00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:18,000
Speaker 2: last Monday night. I had nothing to do with the speech.

697
00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:20,440
Speaker 2: It has to do with all the stuff that's happening

698
00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:22,759
Speaker 2: on Tuesday you don't see, and Wednesday you don't see,

699
00:35:22,760 --> 00:35:25,080
Speaker 2: And on a random Thursday afternoon in the middle of

700
00:35:25,120 --> 00:35:28,000
Speaker 2: August that you don't see, that's when they beat Tennessee.

701
00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:31,000
Speaker 2: That's when they beat TCU. It didn't a speech that stuff.

702
00:35:31,719 --> 00:35:35,040
Speaker 2: In my mind, that stuff is halfway more geared towards

703
00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:38,280
Speaker 2: coaches getting their own head right as opposed to players.

704
00:35:38,320 --> 00:35:41,200
Speaker 2: But if you can grab a player mentally, and if

705
00:35:41,239 --> 00:35:43,560
Speaker 2: you can up the level of intensity someone's about to

706
00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:48,360
Speaker 2: play at by six percent seven percent, then great pregame speech.

707
00:35:48,400 --> 00:35:51,839
Speaker 2: Accomplished everything it's supposed to accomplish. But what I sometimes

708
00:35:51,880 --> 00:35:54,360
Speaker 2: do not take into account. This is certainly not a

709
00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:58,160
Speaker 2: knock on anyone. Most people did not play college football,

710
00:35:58,160 --> 00:36:01,279
Speaker 2: most people will never play in the NFL, and most

711
00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:06,600
Speaker 2: people really never played collegiate or pro sports period. And

712
00:36:06,640 --> 00:36:09,000
Speaker 2: maybe you're just not aware that's what goes on, But

713
00:36:09,120 --> 00:36:13,200
Speaker 2: that goes on pretty much everywhere. Guys. Maybe the phrasing

714
00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:16,719
Speaker 2: is a little bit different. There are some guys out

715
00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:18,920
Speaker 2: there that you see sitting next to you on the

716
00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:21,919
Speaker 2: church pew on Sunday mornings who operate in a very

717
00:36:21,960 --> 00:36:25,000
Speaker 2: similar fashion, because there is just a way that you

718
00:36:25,080 --> 00:36:27,440
Speaker 2: have to go about getting seventeen to twenty two year

719
00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:30,480
Speaker 2: old kids into the proper mind space. And it's not

720
00:36:30,560 --> 00:36:35,640
Speaker 2: always by reading inspirational quotes, shall I say? And so

721
00:36:36,160 --> 00:36:39,399
Speaker 2: Kirby Smart has won back to back national championships that much,

722
00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:42,359
Speaker 2: we know there's something else. I think. I know it's

723
00:36:42,480 --> 00:36:45,440
Speaker 2: not necessarily because of its pregame speeches. Now, that is

724
00:36:45,480 --> 00:36:48,279
Speaker 2: a theory that I'm going to have to operate on.

725
00:36:49,960 --> 00:36:54,080
Speaker 2: But there's one more thing that I know. Me maw

726
00:36:54,120 --> 00:36:57,279
Speaker 2: would not approve of that, And I don't think Mema

727
00:36:57,400 --> 00:36:59,080
Speaker 2: is the only one who wouldn't approve of it, you know,

728
00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:01,640
Speaker 2: So herb be smart. Look, he can look his players

729
00:37:01,640 --> 00:37:04,399
Speaker 2: in the eyes. But there is coming a day where

730
00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:08,120
Speaker 2: he walks into a convenience store in like Delannaga, Georgia,

731
00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:12,280
Speaker 2: and there's this old lady that's standing behind him in line,

732
00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:16,080
Speaker 2: and he pays for his phone charger and his diet coke,

733
00:37:16,120 --> 00:37:17,880
Speaker 2: and he turns around and he sees her and she

734
00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:23,840
Speaker 2: looks at him and she just goes quote Hulk Cogan

735
00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:25,799
Speaker 2: for a second time in the show. Then, what you're

736
00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:28,040
Speaker 2: gonna do, brother, What you're gonna do when those old

737
00:37:28,080 --> 00:37:30,319
Speaker 2: ladies up and down I seventy five or shaking their

738
00:37:30,320 --> 00:37:33,439
Speaker 2: head at you. Hey, another, that's another cost of doing

739
00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:36,000
Speaker 2: business in college football. Ryan Day, we just talked about

740
00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:38,080
Speaker 2: it with him. That's a cost of doing business in

741
00:37:38,120 --> 00:37:41,359
Speaker 2: college football. Let's move on, shall we. Colin, thank you

742
00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:44,120
Speaker 2: again for the blood, sweat and tears that you put

743
00:37:44,160 --> 00:37:50,239
Speaker 2: into editing that sound bite. I've got four mystery programs here.

744
00:37:50,239 --> 00:37:52,880
Speaker 2: We did this the other night, and I come to

745
00:37:52,880 --> 00:37:54,480
Speaker 2: find out I got four more of them that I

746
00:37:54,520 --> 00:37:56,520
Speaker 2: really don't know what to expect. Now. This is not

747
00:37:56,600 --> 00:37:59,200
Speaker 2: a negative segment. It's not a positive segment. It's kind

748
00:37:59,200 --> 00:38:01,759
Speaker 2: of an either or. When I'm throwing these programs at you,

749
00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:03,840
Speaker 2: it means I really don't know what to expect in

750
00:38:03,880 --> 00:38:07,279
Speaker 2: the immediate future. And one of them is Auburn. The

751
00:38:07,320 --> 00:38:10,080
Speaker 2: Auburn Tigers killing it kind of in the transfer portal

752
00:38:10,160 --> 00:38:13,600
Speaker 2: right now, and got a new head coach in Hugh Freeze,

753
00:38:14,080 --> 00:38:16,160
Speaker 2: and it's the fourth head coach in the past ten

754
00:38:16,239 --> 00:38:19,279
Speaker 2: years there certainly that's not the model of stability. And

755
00:38:19,320 --> 00:38:21,359
Speaker 2: so there are plenty of reasons why you can look

756
00:38:21,400 --> 00:38:23,400
Speaker 2: at Auburn and you can say, oh, I don't expect

757
00:38:23,440 --> 00:38:26,640
Speaker 2: anything in the immediate future. But then there's this other

758
00:38:26,760 --> 00:38:29,839
Speaker 2: side of the proverbial coin where you can look around

759
00:38:29,880 --> 00:38:33,239
Speaker 2: and you can say, well, if Hugh Freeze won, it

760
00:38:33,239 --> 00:38:34,880
Speaker 2: wouldn't be the first time he's done it in the

761
00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:37,000
Speaker 2: sec And if you Freeze one, it wouldn't be the

762
00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:39,440
Speaker 2: first time a head coach has taken over a program

763
00:38:39,560 --> 00:38:43,520
Speaker 2: and just out of nowhere, think Sonny Dykes, for example,

764
00:38:43,800 --> 00:38:47,319
Speaker 2: has taken them to all kinds of unforeseen heights. So

765
00:38:48,120 --> 00:38:51,000
Speaker 2: there's a lot potentially in the cards. I have no

766
00:38:51,160 --> 00:38:55,560
Speaker 2: clue like Robbie Ashford. Robby Ashford has not exactly dented

767
00:38:55,600 --> 00:38:58,360
Speaker 2: the college football record books to this point in his career.

768
00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:02,160
Speaker 2: And yet if you were to show me a fast

769
00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:04,680
Speaker 2: forward to November and Robbie asher was putting in all

770
00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:07,880
Speaker 2: kinds of ridiculous numbers, you never expected. It wo shot me.

771
00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:10,880
Speaker 2: It shocked me because he's a really good athlete and

772
00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:13,480
Speaker 2: he's playing for a guy who has made stars out

773
00:39:13,480 --> 00:39:16,680
Speaker 2: of those kinds of players before You're also in a

774
00:39:16,680 --> 00:39:21,800
Speaker 2: situation right now where Alabama, at least over the past season,

775
00:39:22,080 --> 00:39:24,880
Speaker 2: did not exactly perform at the level we thought they would.

776
00:39:25,440 --> 00:39:28,359
Speaker 2: LSU is your most recent Western Division champ. So there's

777
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:32,360
Speaker 2: not necessarily a stranglehold that any one program has on

778
00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:34,920
Speaker 2: the division. There's certainly still a pole position, and that

779
00:39:35,040 --> 00:39:39,160
Speaker 2: is still the University of Alabama. But all that, there's

780
00:39:39,160 --> 00:39:41,400
Speaker 2: some good, there's some bad. Hey, really, all I have

781
00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:44,040
Speaker 2: to tell you is it's Auburn. Volatility is the name

782
00:39:44,040 --> 00:39:46,719
Speaker 2: of the game down there. But they are doing, be

783
00:39:46,719 --> 00:39:48,400
Speaker 2: it the transfer portal, what they need to do to

784
00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:50,880
Speaker 2: get ready for this year, you know, because really no

785
00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:53,319
Speaker 2: one wants to hear just wait to twenty twenty five.

786
00:39:53,600 --> 00:39:57,239
Speaker 2: Just wait till twenty twenty five. What about twenty twenty three,

787
00:39:57,400 --> 00:40:00,400
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four, that's what we're interested in. We have

788
00:40:00,480 --> 00:40:05,960
Speaker 2: to go to Des Moines, Iowa, Chris Hassel Country, if

789
00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:10,200
Speaker 2: you will. I knew Kirk Ferrence had been at Iowa

790
00:40:10,280 --> 00:40:14,319
Speaker 2: a long time. Anyone who watches college football, you know,

791
00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:18,719
Speaker 2: basically like death taxes, Kirk ferencele that whole mantra. He's

792
00:40:18,719 --> 00:40:22,760
Speaker 2: been there a long time. I didn't realize how long

793
00:40:22,840 --> 00:40:25,759
Speaker 2: he's been at Iowa. If you were to just have

794
00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:30,759
Speaker 2: to guess, minus the benefit of Wikipedia, how long do

795
00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:34,200
Speaker 2: you think Kirk Ferrence has been at Iowa? What would

796
00:40:34,200 --> 00:40:36,000
Speaker 2: your guest be? Ten years, twenty years, what would your

797
00:40:36,000 --> 00:40:40,399
Speaker 2: guests be? Here's the answer. Nineteen ninety nine is when

798
00:40:40,400 --> 00:40:44,359
Speaker 2: he got there. Kirk Ferrence was preparing for Y two

799
00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:48,160
Speaker 2: k at the same job he's still at today. That

800
00:40:48,200 --> 00:40:52,919
Speaker 2: guy's been there since nineteen ninety nine. That's a long time.

801
00:40:53,040 --> 00:40:55,080
Speaker 2: It's a long time to just be a live period.

802
00:40:55,239 --> 00:40:57,719
Speaker 2: It's a very long time to hold a major head

803
00:40:57,719 --> 00:41:00,880
Speaker 2: coaching position. And yet I've always looked the program and

804
00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:03,560
Speaker 2: I felt it's one of the models of stability in

805
00:41:03,600 --> 00:41:06,520
Speaker 2: college football. So why in the world is it? In

806
00:41:06,560 --> 00:41:08,600
Speaker 2: a segment on Late Kick in the Year of Our

807
00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:13,320
Speaker 2: Lower twenty twenty three about mystery programs, Well, this program's

808
00:41:13,400 --> 00:41:16,239
Speaker 2: kind of a mystery right now, because I don't think

809
00:41:16,239 --> 00:41:18,440
Speaker 2: you could suck water through a garden hose offensively, like

810
00:41:18,480 --> 00:41:23,440
Speaker 2: they just did, make no coordinator change and look at

811
00:41:23,440 --> 00:41:26,480
Speaker 2: me and say I We'll be fine. No you won't, No,

812
00:41:26,600 --> 00:41:31,800
Speaker 2: you won't. This is historic ineptitude. Offensively seven to seven.

813
00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:34,319
Speaker 2: What does that sound like? Well, it sounds like it

814
00:41:34,360 --> 00:41:36,640
Speaker 2: sounds like a Mets versus Phillies game in the middle

815
00:41:36,640 --> 00:41:40,200
Speaker 2: of the eighth inning. Seven to seven was the touchdown

816
00:41:40,239 --> 00:41:45,680
Speaker 2: to interception ratio for Iowa quarterbacks. Not in November, not

817
00:41:45,840 --> 00:41:49,880
Speaker 2: in a game. In the entire season. They threw seven

818
00:41:49,960 --> 00:41:53,520
Speaker 2: touchdown passes and seven interceptions. You may think that's just

819
00:41:53,600 --> 00:41:57,080
Speaker 2: cause Iowa runs the ball, Josh, No, Iowa doesn't run

820
00:41:57,120 --> 00:41:59,640
Speaker 2: the ball. They ran it two point nine to two

821
00:41:59,760 --> 00:42:03,080
Speaker 2: yards per carry this year, So basically, if defense wasn't

822
00:42:03,080 --> 00:42:05,960
Speaker 2: scoring Iowa wuldn't score him. Now, that wouldn't be the

823
00:42:05,960 --> 00:42:11,440
Speaker 2: first time that an offense has sucked. It is pretty rare, though,

824
00:42:11,600 --> 00:42:14,479
Speaker 2: that you perform like that, and then the same guy

825
00:42:14,520 --> 00:42:16,879
Speaker 2: who was at the helm comes back, and it's even

826
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:20,000
Speaker 2: more rare that it happens to be the head coach's son.

827
00:42:20,920 --> 00:42:23,360
Speaker 2: And so I don't want to cry nepotism. Far be

828
00:42:23,440 --> 00:42:26,239
Speaker 2: it from me to cry that. But there is an

829
00:42:26,280 --> 00:42:31,319
Speaker 2: episode of The Office titled Nepotism, and what happens there

830
00:42:31,520 --> 00:42:35,080
Speaker 2: is Michael hires his nephew and it's a slippery slope

831
00:42:35,239 --> 00:42:38,399
Speaker 2: to him physically spanking him and getting reprimanded by HR.

832
00:42:39,400 --> 00:42:41,480
Speaker 2: So I'm not telling Kurt Ferris to do anything that's

833
00:42:41,520 --> 00:42:43,560
Speaker 2: going to get him in hot water with HR. I'm

834
00:42:43,600 --> 00:42:46,160
Speaker 2: just saying that's not good enough in Iowa. As a result,

835
00:42:46,520 --> 00:42:49,520
Speaker 2: has slipped into the realm of mystery programs for the

836
00:42:49,560 --> 00:42:53,080
Speaker 2: time being. I don't want to do the next part either.

837
00:42:53,160 --> 00:42:56,239
Speaker 2: It's another program I like, But Arkansas is kind of

838
00:42:56,239 --> 00:42:59,080
Speaker 2: a mystery to me at the moment. They went nine

839
00:42:59,120 --> 00:43:01,560
Speaker 2: to four in two t there's no mystery about that.

840
00:43:01,560 --> 00:43:04,560
Speaker 2: That's a really really good season. Three of the four

841
00:43:04,640 --> 00:43:08,400
Speaker 2: losses were to rank teams really really good season. Okay,

842
00:43:08,480 --> 00:43:12,080
Speaker 2: you draw Georgia, you draw Bama, and you are in

843
00:43:12,120 --> 00:43:14,759
Speaker 2: the position they were in. I don't expect much from you.

844
00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:17,040
Speaker 2: Just win the other games, and they pretty much did.

845
00:43:17,440 --> 00:43:19,560
Speaker 2: And so they were coming into this past year and

846
00:43:19,640 --> 00:43:21,400
Speaker 2: there was a lot of hype around the program, as

847
00:43:21,480 --> 00:43:24,560
Speaker 2: there should have been. I felt it. I contributed to it,

848
00:43:24,719 --> 00:43:27,400
Speaker 2: and they went seven and six. Devil is always in

849
00:43:27,440 --> 00:43:30,680
Speaker 2: the details. kJ Jefferson was either out or not one

850
00:43:30,760 --> 00:43:32,880
Speaker 2: hundred percent for most of the year. I thought it.

851
00:43:33,200 --> 00:43:36,440
Speaker 2: Obviously it cost them when they lost that game to

852
00:43:36,520 --> 00:43:40,440
Speaker 2: Texas A and M, a game that they very much,

853
00:43:40,560 --> 00:43:44,800
Speaker 2: in my mind, should have won, because they put themselves

854
00:43:44,840 --> 00:43:47,840
Speaker 2: in the position they should have executed at a better level.

855
00:43:47,880 --> 00:43:51,000
Speaker 2: I know they didn't. I rarely use the phrase should

856
00:43:51,080 --> 00:43:53,920
Speaker 2: have won, because the follow up naturally is, well, if

857
00:43:53,960 --> 00:43:55,879
Speaker 2: they should have won, they would have won. And you're

858
00:43:55,880 --> 00:43:58,120
Speaker 2: not wrong when you say that. I'm just saying, if

859
00:43:58,120 --> 00:44:02,000
Speaker 2: I play that game ten times, they're winning it more

860
00:44:02,040 --> 00:44:03,839
Speaker 2: than five of them. But be that as it may.

861
00:44:03,920 --> 00:44:07,279
Speaker 2: They lost that day and things were never right since then.

862
00:44:07,880 --> 00:44:10,600
Speaker 2: There were issues internally up there this year. I didn't

863
00:44:10,600 --> 00:44:13,240
Speaker 2: speak about them during the season. It's not the season anymore.

864
00:44:13,640 --> 00:44:15,840
Speaker 2: I don't think internally the locker room was handled in

865
00:44:15,880 --> 00:44:18,840
Speaker 2: the best way imaginable. I think they had some issues

866
00:44:18,960 --> 00:44:22,680
Speaker 2: internally that probably caused a lot of dissension, and it's

867
00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:25,040
Speaker 2: not all on players. Some of it was on staff.

868
00:44:25,360 --> 00:44:27,400
Speaker 2: Part of that is not there anymore because some of

869
00:44:27,400 --> 00:44:30,080
Speaker 2: those players and staff have either moved on or been

870
00:44:30,560 --> 00:44:34,680
Speaker 2: unceremoniously let go. There were a lot of things going

871
00:44:34,680 --> 00:44:36,719
Speaker 2: on up there, not the least of which were injuries.

872
00:44:36,840 --> 00:44:39,839
Speaker 2: And so they ended seven and six. Now I could

873
00:44:39,840 --> 00:44:41,960
Speaker 2: sell you both ways. I can sell you that nine

874
00:44:41,960 --> 00:44:44,480
Speaker 2: and four. Maybe you should have enjoyed that, because that's

875
00:44:44,480 --> 00:44:46,319
Speaker 2: the best You're gonna see. I could also sell you

876
00:44:46,360 --> 00:44:48,279
Speaker 2: that this was a blip on the radar screen and

877
00:44:48,320 --> 00:44:51,320
Speaker 2: they'll be right back. And the reason I am doing

878
00:44:51,320 --> 00:44:55,120
Speaker 2: this segment right now is because I am conflicted and

879
00:44:55,160 --> 00:44:57,600
Speaker 2: I don't know which way I go on this. There's

880
00:44:57,600 --> 00:45:01,480
Speaker 2: some staff churn happening there. Odam defensive coordinator. He went

881
00:45:01,480 --> 00:45:05,040
Speaker 2: to UNLV. The Travis Williams came in. It's an interesting hire.

882
00:45:05,600 --> 00:45:08,000
Speaker 2: It's a higher that raised some eyebrows for good reasons

883
00:45:08,160 --> 00:45:13,080
Speaker 2: around the SEC. Kendall Brow's name is still in the

884
00:45:13,400 --> 00:45:16,879
Speaker 2: rumor mill at places like TCU. I don't know what's

885
00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:18,680
Speaker 2: going to happen there. I owe him a PAYT State

886
00:45:18,680 --> 00:45:20,319
Speaker 2: T shirt. I know that, but I don't know what's

887
00:45:20,320 --> 00:45:24,399
Speaker 2: going to happen there. And Strength the Conditioning is being

888
00:45:24,440 --> 00:45:27,120
Speaker 2: overhauled there. They're bringing in a new strengthy conditioning coach.

889
00:45:27,160 --> 00:45:32,440
Speaker 2: That's a very very underreported but very important aspect of

890
00:45:32,480 --> 00:45:36,440
Speaker 2: your program. So at least two of those facets, if

891
00:45:36,480 --> 00:45:38,879
Speaker 2: not all three, will see what happens with brows are

892
00:45:38,960 --> 00:45:39,719
Speaker 2: changing up there.

893
00:45:39,800 --> 00:45:39,920
Speaker 3: Now.

894
00:45:39,960 --> 00:45:42,839
Speaker 2: The good news is your quarterbacks coming back. I keep

895
00:45:42,840 --> 00:45:44,879
Speaker 2: doing that because I have an itch on the top

896
00:45:44,880 --> 00:45:47,799
Speaker 2: of my lip. The quarterbacks coming back kJ Jefferson's coming

897
00:45:47,800 --> 00:45:54,719
Speaker 2: back hopefully with full health. It's a mystery program. And lastly,

898
00:45:55,239 --> 00:45:57,839
Speaker 2: I have to do like an extended two or three

899
00:45:57,960 --> 00:46:03,560
Speaker 2: year mystery period on this one. Virginia Tech. That's a

900
00:46:03,600 --> 00:46:08,200
Speaker 2: cool looking plain Virginia Tech. There's the Virginia Tech young

901
00:46:08,360 --> 00:46:12,320
Speaker 2: JP remembers, and then there's the Virginia Tech that exists today.

902
00:46:12,719 --> 00:46:14,760
Speaker 2: We got a really big high school and college audience.

903
00:46:15,200 --> 00:46:17,520
Speaker 2: So let me talk to you guys for a second.

904
00:46:18,520 --> 00:46:20,759
Speaker 2: Take care of business and spring semester is my first

905
00:46:20,840 --> 00:46:24,480
Speaker 2: message to you. And my second message is there was

906
00:46:24,520 --> 00:46:27,680
Speaker 2: a time when this VT logo meant a whole lot

907
00:46:27,760 --> 00:46:30,040
Speaker 2: more in the college football world than it does right now.

908
00:46:30,760 --> 00:46:33,960
Speaker 2: They were a national power, that team right there was

909
00:46:33,960 --> 00:46:36,439
Speaker 2: in the national championship conversation. They were in the national

910
00:46:36,520 --> 00:46:40,600
Speaker 2: championship game one year, an ugly one, a thirteen to

911
00:46:40,640 --> 00:46:42,399
Speaker 2: two game I believe was the final, but they were

912
00:46:42,400 --> 00:46:46,520
Speaker 2: in one and not so much anymore. Hey, Jesse, checked

913
00:46:46,560 --> 00:46:48,680
Speaker 2: that for me, because if I got that score wrong,

914
00:46:48,800 --> 00:46:51,360
Speaker 2: if I got my years wrong, someone's gonna jump on me.

915
00:46:51,480 --> 00:46:53,759
Speaker 2: So the year that VIC and Virginia Tech were in

916
00:46:53,800 --> 00:46:56,120
Speaker 2: the title game, just go check the score for me,

917
00:46:56,200 --> 00:46:58,280
Speaker 2: because I think Oklahoma FSU may have been that thirteen

918
00:46:58,280 --> 00:47:00,880
Speaker 2: to two game. Anyway, it's true they were in the

919
00:47:00,880 --> 00:47:03,719
Speaker 2: title game. They are nowhere remotely close to being in

920
00:47:03,719 --> 00:47:06,839
Speaker 2: the same galaxy. They're light years away from that kind

921
00:47:06,880 --> 00:47:10,319
Speaker 2: of conversation right now. But I don't know what to

922
00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:12,839
Speaker 2: make of them because they just made a staff change.

923
00:47:12,880 --> 00:47:14,759
Speaker 2: Brent Price has been there one year. They just went

924
00:47:14,800 --> 00:47:16,799
Speaker 2: three and eight. That is the worst record they put

925
00:47:16,880 --> 00:47:21,239
Speaker 2: up since nineteen ninety two. So they got that going

926
00:47:21,280 --> 00:47:23,920
Speaker 2: against them. I guess you do have the good old fashion.

927
00:47:23,920 --> 00:47:27,399
Speaker 2: There's nowhere to go but up going for them. Two

928
00:47:27,480 --> 00:47:31,600
Speaker 2: thousand title game, what was the score? Forty six twenty?

929
00:47:31,600 --> 00:47:35,160
Speaker 2: I was FSU, right, FSU? Okay, so they scored more

930
00:47:35,200 --> 00:47:39,719
Speaker 2: than two. Congrats are they still lost? Also, children, if

931
00:47:39,760 --> 00:47:41,680
Speaker 2: you never watched Michael Vick and College, do yourself a

932
00:47:41,719 --> 00:47:44,719
Speaker 2: favor and go watch that as well. So it is

933
00:47:44,800 --> 00:47:49,040
Speaker 2: always the darkest before the dawn, Well scratch that. Sometimes

934
00:47:49,040 --> 00:47:51,680
Speaker 2: it's the darkest before the dawn. Other times it's dark

935
00:47:51,800 --> 00:47:54,600
Speaker 2: just because you've been buried. You're not coming back. And

936
00:47:54,680 --> 00:47:57,320
Speaker 2: I hope that's not the case for the Virginia Tech program.

937
00:47:57,680 --> 00:48:01,080
Speaker 2: But man, it feels like there is a ways to

938
00:48:01,160 --> 00:48:03,360
Speaker 2: go there right now. It's a mystery. It is a

939
00:48:03,360 --> 00:48:07,000
Speaker 2: great mystery. Do me a favor as we roll on

940
00:48:07,040 --> 00:48:09,719
Speaker 2: the show tonight, Please remember, if you're watching live, and

941
00:48:09,760 --> 00:48:13,040
Speaker 2: I appreciate you guys for doing so, remember to like

942
00:48:13,080 --> 00:48:16,239
Speaker 2: the video or about a quarter of you have liked

943
00:48:16,280 --> 00:48:18,719
Speaker 2: the video. Right now, I think personally we can do

944
00:48:18,760 --> 00:48:20,759
Speaker 2: a lot better. So that little thumbs up button, just

945
00:48:20,800 --> 00:48:23,080
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946
00:48:23,120 --> 00:48:24,680
Speaker 2: I haven't asked you to do this in a while,

947
00:48:25,120 --> 00:48:27,000
Speaker 2: so there's a fresh batch of you that are in

948
00:48:27,040 --> 00:48:29,960
Speaker 2: here as new listeners and viewers. We are not above

949
00:48:31,200 --> 00:48:35,359
Speaker 2: not stealing, but commandeering the phones of loved ones when

950
00:48:35,400 --> 00:48:39,200
Speaker 2: they are least suspecting, i e. When they're asleep, and

951
00:48:39,239 --> 00:48:41,480
Speaker 2: subscribing to the channel. You know why, because it's not

952
00:48:41,520 --> 00:48:43,840
Speaker 2: spending any of their money, doesn't hurt them, It just

953
00:48:43,880 --> 00:48:47,160
Speaker 2: benefits us. It is a victimless not even a crime

954
00:48:47,239 --> 00:48:51,719
Speaker 2: per se, a victimless action. All right, let's move on.

955
00:48:51,920 --> 00:48:54,879
Speaker 2: We have another question here, don't we. We've got two

956
00:48:54,920 --> 00:48:58,640
Speaker 2: things left to talk about, so there's no way I'm

957
00:48:58,760 --> 00:49:02,640
Speaker 2: saying this handle on air. Mike hit us up, he said,

958
00:49:02,840 --> 00:49:05,680
Speaker 2: watching you since twenty twenty. What would you say are

959
00:49:05,719 --> 00:49:08,920
Speaker 2: the things most overlooked when it comes to winning in

960
00:49:08,960 --> 00:49:13,640
Speaker 2: college football? From Hopkinsville, Kentucky. Good question. I got a

961
00:49:13,719 --> 00:49:16,520
Speaker 2: couple answers for you. One of them we were just

962
00:49:16,560 --> 00:49:18,319
Speaker 2: talking about Kirby Smart a little while ago. One of

963
00:49:18,360 --> 00:49:21,240
Speaker 2: them Kirby talked about in his postgame at the National championship,

964
00:49:21,280 --> 00:49:23,279
Speaker 2: and the other one is just right there in your

965
00:49:23,320 --> 00:49:26,000
Speaker 2: face every Saturday, but it doesn't get talked about for

966
00:49:26,000 --> 00:49:30,239
Speaker 2: some reason. The first one is the depth that is

967
00:49:30,280 --> 00:49:34,040
Speaker 2: required to have really, really good scout teams. So after

968
00:49:34,080 --> 00:49:37,440
Speaker 2: the championship game, Kirby Smart, I think it was right

969
00:49:37,480 --> 00:49:39,000
Speaker 2: at the end of his press conference, and he said,

970
00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:41,680
Speaker 2: hold up, hold up, hold up, and he just goes

971
00:49:41,719 --> 00:49:46,280
Speaker 2: on this lenky explanation about how he thinks their scout

972
00:49:46,320 --> 00:49:50,359
Speaker 2: team gave them as good a look of TCU as

973
00:49:50,440 --> 00:49:54,719
Speaker 2: TCU themselves. And that's not easy and that's rare. And

974
00:49:54,760 --> 00:49:57,920
Speaker 2: it's because most of the time you don't have the

975
00:49:58,040 --> 00:50:01,480
Speaker 2: kind of number one support staff to where you have

976
00:50:01,560 --> 00:50:04,520
Speaker 2: quality enough coaches to get your scout team ready. You

977
00:50:04,560 --> 00:50:07,040
Speaker 2: also probably don't have good enough players on your scout team.

978
00:50:07,080 --> 00:50:09,160
Speaker 2: In most cases, in ninety five percent of the cases,

979
00:50:09,239 --> 00:50:11,160
Speaker 2: you just don't have good enough players over there, so

980
00:50:11,520 --> 00:50:15,000
Speaker 2: it's more like moving punching bags. That was not the

981
00:50:15,040 --> 00:50:18,200
Speaker 2: case at places like Georgia. They're so good, they're so deep,

982
00:50:18,440 --> 00:50:20,239
Speaker 2: they can afford to put a really, really good look

983
00:50:20,239 --> 00:50:22,880
Speaker 2: on scout team and you never know that that's happening

984
00:50:23,160 --> 00:50:26,640
Speaker 2: in closed practice sessions. You wouldn't know those guys' names

985
00:50:26,640 --> 00:50:29,720
Speaker 2: even if it was open to the public. But that's real.

986
00:50:29,960 --> 00:50:32,719
Speaker 2: That gets you ready. Quality looks on scout teams get

987
00:50:32,760 --> 00:50:35,560
Speaker 2: you ready. And when you watch these teams that execute

988
00:50:35,600 --> 00:50:37,960
Speaker 2: at a higher level and they just they happen to

989
00:50:37,960 --> 00:50:40,480
Speaker 2: be a fraction ahead of where you would think they

990
00:50:40,480 --> 00:50:42,640
Speaker 2: should be filling that hole, or they happen to set

991
00:50:42,640 --> 00:50:44,520
Speaker 2: the edge over there, or they happen to play a

992
00:50:44,560 --> 00:50:46,719
Speaker 2: ball in the air and they just get a fingertip

993
00:50:46,760 --> 00:50:49,799
Speaker 2: on it. Sometimes it's luck, Sometimes it's a good read.

994
00:50:49,920 --> 00:50:53,239
Speaker 2: Sometimes it's instinct. Sometimes it's called scout team, got them

995
00:50:53,280 --> 00:50:55,839
Speaker 2: ready for it. In many cases it's just all of

996
00:50:55,840 --> 00:50:58,759
Speaker 2: the above. That's one of them. The other one is

997
00:50:58,800 --> 00:51:04,239
Speaker 2: special teams in general. Quick drill here for you. When

998
00:51:04,239 --> 00:51:06,319
Speaker 2: I say special teams, what do you think about. What's

999
00:51:06,320 --> 00:51:07,960
Speaker 2: the first thing that just pops in your mind. Someone

1000
00:51:08,000 --> 00:51:12,279
Speaker 2: says special teams, you think what my opinion, We have

1001
00:51:12,320 --> 00:51:14,239
Speaker 2: not run this poll, but my opinion is, if I

1002
00:51:14,280 --> 00:51:16,399
Speaker 2: were to say special teams, most of you would think

1003
00:51:16,400 --> 00:51:19,280
Speaker 2: of a field goal. You would think of someone kicking

1004
00:51:19,320 --> 00:51:23,000
Speaker 2: a football, either via extra point or via field goal,

1005
00:51:23,040 --> 00:51:24,600
Speaker 2: trying to kick a ball through an upright, which is

1006
00:51:24,600 --> 00:51:27,319
Speaker 2: part of special teams, but it's certainly not all of

1007
00:51:27,360 --> 00:51:31,560
Speaker 2: special teams. A lot of folks say you have to

1008
00:51:31,600 --> 00:51:34,120
Speaker 2: win in all three phases, and a lot of folks

1009
00:51:34,160 --> 00:51:38,040
Speaker 2: say there are three phases to football. Offense, defense, special teams.

1010
00:51:38,080 --> 00:51:41,440
Speaker 2: They rattle it off, and far fewer people believe that.

1011
00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:45,480
Speaker 2: Many people tell you they're three phases, and then they

1012
00:51:45,520 --> 00:51:47,839
Speaker 2: spend ninety nine percent of their oxys' been talking about

1013
00:51:47,880 --> 00:51:51,400
Speaker 2: offense and defense and special teams just kind of eh, Well,

1014
00:51:51,640 --> 00:51:53,960
Speaker 2: if that's your attitude, you really don't believe there are

1015
00:51:54,040 --> 00:51:57,080
Speaker 2: three phases, You certainly don't believe there are three equal phases.

1016
00:51:57,600 --> 00:52:01,080
Speaker 2: And when you're around college staffs and NFL staffs, the

1017
00:52:01,160 --> 00:52:05,239
Speaker 2: difference between maybe casual fans and them is they do

1018
00:52:05,320 --> 00:52:08,040
Speaker 2: believe in it. They full well understand and they know

1019
00:52:08,120 --> 00:52:10,319
Speaker 2: this about special teams as well. It's not just kicking

1020
00:52:10,320 --> 00:52:15,360
Speaker 2: a football. Coverage units are instrumental. You're punting team instrumental

1021
00:52:15,440 --> 00:52:18,600
Speaker 2: field positions the name of the game. You know, you score,

1022
00:52:19,000 --> 00:52:22,759
Speaker 2: and you ultimately win college football games by scoring in

1023
00:52:22,800 --> 00:52:25,720
Speaker 2: sevens and preventing the other guy from scoring in sevens.

1024
00:52:25,840 --> 00:52:28,520
Speaker 2: We talk about special teams, and you think about kicking

1025
00:52:28,560 --> 00:52:31,319
Speaker 2: field goals. You don't win this game by threes. They

1026
00:52:31,400 --> 00:52:34,560
Speaker 2: assist you, they may supplement you, but you win by

1027
00:52:34,600 --> 00:52:37,840
Speaker 2: scoring sevens and preventing the other guy from scoring sevens.

1028
00:52:37,920 --> 00:52:41,040
Speaker 2: And the way you do that is partially through special teams.

1029
00:52:41,600 --> 00:52:44,160
Speaker 2: It's just field position. You know, you could go three

1030
00:52:44,200 --> 00:52:47,160
Speaker 2: for three kicking field goals and get drug forty nine

1031
00:52:47,200 --> 00:52:49,440
Speaker 2: to twenty one. Well, you probably wouldn't score twenty one

1032
00:52:49,480 --> 00:52:52,160
Speaker 2: if you kick three field goals, but it could be

1033
00:52:52,280 --> 00:52:55,960
Speaker 2: that elsewhere in the game you got penned deep. You

1034
00:52:56,000 --> 00:52:59,000
Speaker 2: don't possess the ability to cough in corner a kick

1035
00:52:59,040 --> 00:53:00,919
Speaker 2: down there. You just kicking it out of the back

1036
00:53:00,920 --> 00:53:03,440
Speaker 2: of the end zone. Your coverage units are terrible, so

1037
00:53:03,480 --> 00:53:06,319
Speaker 2: they give up plus field position virtually every time the

1038
00:53:06,320 --> 00:53:08,480
Speaker 2: opponents on the field. They got plus twenty yards on

1039
00:53:08,520 --> 00:53:11,120
Speaker 2: you in average starting field position and Those are called

1040
00:53:11,160 --> 00:53:13,560
Speaker 2: hidden yards because they're not in the box score, but

1041
00:53:13,680 --> 00:53:16,760
Speaker 2: on the score board when it looks a little wonky

1042
00:53:17,040 --> 00:53:19,440
Speaker 2: and the spread was three and that team lost by

1043
00:53:19,440 --> 00:53:22,600
Speaker 2: three touchdowns. Sometimes it's caused the special teams, and you

1044
00:53:22,719 --> 00:53:25,520
Speaker 2: don't even know it unless you really really take a

1045
00:53:25,600 --> 00:53:28,160
Speaker 2: dive into the box score, the advanced box score, or

1046
00:53:28,239 --> 00:53:31,880
Speaker 2: you watch the whole thing with an observed and informed eye.

1047
00:53:32,320 --> 00:53:35,120
Speaker 2: Special teams. That's a huge deal, and it's so much

1048
00:53:35,160 --> 00:53:37,800
Speaker 2: deeper than kicking. So to answer the question, I guess

1049
00:53:37,960 --> 00:53:41,400
Speaker 2: I answer special teams and then quality looks on scout

1050
00:53:41,440 --> 00:53:44,359
Speaker 2: team during the week. Good question, though probably a lot

1051
00:53:44,360 --> 00:53:46,279
Speaker 2: better question when we get coaches on here in the

1052
00:53:46,320 --> 00:53:49,040
Speaker 2: next couple of months. We are lining that up as

1053
00:53:49,080 --> 00:53:52,440
Speaker 2: we speak. All right, lastly, you know what we have

1054
00:53:52,520 --> 00:53:54,719
Speaker 2: to do. We cannot get out of here in good

1055
00:53:54,760 --> 00:53:58,319
Speaker 2: conscience without looking at some of the predictions you made

1056
00:53:58,320 --> 00:54:02,359
Speaker 2: from August. August was prediction season. But it's boring when

1057
00:54:02,440 --> 00:54:04,400
Speaker 2: I do it. I asked you to do it, and

1058
00:54:04,440 --> 00:54:09,080
Speaker 2: I said, pretend your life, well, your life savings are

1059
00:54:09,120 --> 00:54:11,959
Speaker 2: on the line. What is the boldest thing you would

1060
00:54:11,960 --> 00:54:14,440
Speaker 2: bet your money on? And someone hit it out of

1061
00:54:14,480 --> 00:54:17,920
Speaker 2: the park, right out of the gate. Here this prediction.

1062
00:54:18,360 --> 00:54:21,359
Speaker 2: Tennessee finally beats Alabama after sixteen years, and I get

1063
00:54:21,400 --> 00:54:24,160
Speaker 2: to remove the suffering part out of my name that

1064
00:54:24,280 --> 00:54:27,880
Speaker 2: was submitted by suffering Tennessee fan who has since just

1065
00:54:27,920 --> 00:54:31,040
Speaker 2: become garden variety of Tennessee fan. I'm told, congratulations there.

1066
00:54:31,160 --> 00:54:34,080
Speaker 2: This was surreal. We were there, We were on the field.

1067
00:54:34,320 --> 00:54:37,719
Speaker 2: Director Colin was there. Yes, I couldn't tell you at

1068
00:54:37,719 --> 00:54:39,960
Speaker 2: the time because frankly, I don't want you to know

1069
00:54:40,000 --> 00:54:43,520
Speaker 2: he exists. But he existed. Colin was very real that day,

1070
00:54:43,800 --> 00:54:47,840
Speaker 2: as was Vall Nation, as was those Well, the upright

1071
00:54:47,920 --> 00:54:50,719
Speaker 2: just ended up in the river and yours truly ended

1072
00:54:50,760 --> 00:54:53,560
Speaker 2: up totting another one and got video of it. There

1073
00:54:53,680 --> 00:54:57,920
Speaker 2: was priceless video, and there were countless memes and gifts

1074
00:54:57,920 --> 00:55:01,120
Speaker 2: that came out of this occurrence. And so when we're

1075
00:55:01,120 --> 00:55:03,120
Speaker 2: showing you b role of the Tennessee Bama game, you'll

1076
00:55:03,160 --> 00:55:05,359
Speaker 2: notice sometimes it ends up being cell phone video. Well

1077
00:55:05,360 --> 00:55:07,959
Speaker 2: that's because Director Colin and I had our phones out.

1078
00:55:08,320 --> 00:55:10,320
Speaker 2: I think Dennis Dodd got some footage and sent it

1079
00:55:10,360 --> 00:55:13,319
Speaker 2: to us as well. But this was a this was really,

1080
00:55:13,360 --> 00:55:15,279
Speaker 2: really wild. So I don't know if I told you

1081
00:55:15,320 --> 00:55:18,160
Speaker 2: this story. There were a lot of people who had

1082
00:55:18,160 --> 00:55:21,560
Speaker 2: to be treated for smoke inhalation. This will just send

1083
00:55:21,640 --> 00:55:26,399
Speaker 2: Tennessee fans over the top, just exuberance six months later

1084
00:55:26,560 --> 00:55:30,520
Speaker 2: or however long it's been. We're in an outdoor facility,

1085
00:55:30,640 --> 00:55:33,640
Speaker 2: mind you, and the cigar smoke is so thick on

1086
00:55:33,680 --> 00:55:36,680
Speaker 2: the field, and people are compacted so tightly on the field.

1087
00:55:36,680 --> 00:55:38,600
Speaker 2: This is eye josh footage, by the way. People are

1088
00:55:38,640 --> 00:55:42,000
Speaker 2: compacted so tightly that they had to treat people for

1089
00:55:42,160 --> 00:55:46,239
Speaker 2: smoke inhalation. Who would have seen that coming in August? Well,

1090
00:55:46,239 --> 00:55:49,319
Speaker 2: I'll tell you, suffering Tennessee fan on Twitter saw it coming.

1091
00:55:49,640 --> 00:55:52,799
Speaker 2: Maybe not to that degree, but he slash she saw

1092
00:55:52,800 --> 00:55:55,480
Speaker 2: it coming. Congratulations for the record. I called that an eight.

1093
00:55:55,800 --> 00:55:58,040
Speaker 2: I didn't think it was gonna happen, and it happened.

1094
00:55:59,000 --> 00:56:01,359
Speaker 2: I was wrong, hopefully for the last time. I was wrong.

1095
00:56:01,400 --> 00:56:06,320
Speaker 2: Next up, the National Championship Game, according to Grayson, was

1096
00:56:06,360 --> 00:56:08,880
Speaker 2: going to feature two teams that had never been in

1097
00:56:08,920 --> 00:56:11,600
Speaker 2: the playoff. Now you may look at it and say, oh,

1098
00:56:11,680 --> 00:56:15,120
Speaker 2: he almost got it. No he didn't. No, one out

1099
00:56:15,120 --> 00:56:17,759
Speaker 2: of two versus two out of two is a very

1100
00:56:18,000 --> 00:56:21,880
Speaker 2: very big difference. And the fact of the matter is

1101
00:56:22,200 --> 00:56:24,680
Speaker 2: it's hard to get one of them in there historically

1102
00:56:24,880 --> 00:56:27,759
Speaker 2: that's never been in the playoff. You're asking someone who's

1103
00:56:27,760 --> 00:56:30,040
Speaker 2: never been in the playoff to get in and win

1104
00:56:30,120 --> 00:56:32,319
Speaker 2: a game and make the title. Well, TCU did it,

1105
00:56:33,160 --> 00:56:35,600
Speaker 2: you know, Michigan, for example, is still trying to do this.

1106
00:56:36,040 --> 00:56:39,319
Speaker 2: Michigan did it or TCU rather did it, and they

1107
00:56:39,320 --> 00:56:41,040
Speaker 2: did it on the first time around. Problem is they

1108
00:56:41,080 --> 00:56:44,920
Speaker 2: ran into something called Georgia. Who's been there, Done that

1109
00:56:45,280 --> 00:56:49,480
Speaker 2: and just did it again? Did you hear what I

1110
00:56:49,600 --> 00:56:53,640
Speaker 2: just said? Jesse Colin, Been there, Done that, Did it again?

1111
00:56:55,200 --> 00:56:57,239
Speaker 2: Is better than the T shirt stets and Bennett was

1112
00:56:57,280 --> 00:56:59,120
Speaker 2: wearing the other day. People made such a big deal

1113
00:56:59,120 --> 00:57:00,920
Speaker 2: about the T shirt he was. We're in the celebration.

1114
00:57:01,960 --> 00:57:06,040
Speaker 2: Been there, Done that? Did it again? TM trademark, that's mine,

1115
00:57:06,360 --> 00:57:11,040
Speaker 2: that's that's legally binding, that's ours. So this didn't almost happen. Okay,

1116
00:57:11,080 --> 00:57:14,120
Speaker 2: to get back to the prediction, this did not almost happen.

1117
00:57:14,360 --> 00:57:17,680
Speaker 2: Good for Grayson, really bold, little bit too bold making

1118
00:57:17,720 --> 00:57:20,880
Speaker 2: the playoff and being in the title game. There's a

1119
00:57:21,000 --> 00:57:23,760
Speaker 2: wide expanse between doing one versus doing the other. All right,

1120
00:57:23,840 --> 00:57:27,320
Speaker 2: next up, this one missed or no, this one did

1121
00:57:27,400 --> 00:57:31,240
Speaker 2: not miss. The prediction from Jamison was Clemson going to

1122
00:57:31,320 --> 00:57:33,760
Speaker 2: have the same disappointing years last year, they will not

1123
00:57:34,320 --> 00:57:39,320
Speaker 2: make the ACC Championship Game. Well, Clemson made the ACC

1124
00:57:39,520 --> 00:57:43,760
Speaker 2: Championship Game, and frankly, they weren't all that special as

1125
00:57:43,760 --> 00:57:48,520
Speaker 2: a team this year. Frankly they had quarterback situations all year,

1126
00:57:49,160 --> 00:57:52,360
Speaker 2: and frankly it still didn't matter cause the ACC is

1127
00:57:52,480 --> 00:57:56,439
Speaker 2: a landfill until further notice. And it was again this year.

1128
00:57:57,000 --> 00:58:00,280
Speaker 2: Pretty inexplicable, but it is what it is. Clemson's been

1129
00:58:00,280 --> 00:58:03,439
Speaker 2: to that game every year since twenty fifteen except one.

1130
00:58:04,560 --> 00:58:09,120
Speaker 2: They've won it. One two, three, four, five six, seven

1131
00:58:09,160 --> 00:58:11,160
Speaker 2: out of the last eight years, including this past year,

1132
00:58:11,200 --> 00:58:14,640
Speaker 2: they won it. So even if Florida State would have

1133
00:58:14,680 --> 00:58:17,560
Speaker 2: beaten them, I think mathematically they still go. So it

1134
00:58:17,640 --> 00:58:20,400
Speaker 2: was never even in doubt. So this one was. This

1135
00:58:20,440 --> 00:58:22,560
Speaker 2: one was dead on the vine, as me Mal would say.

1136
00:58:22,800 --> 00:58:26,439
Speaker 2: Next up, this one didn't come close either. I put

1137
00:58:26,480 --> 00:58:28,320
Speaker 2: a nine point three on this next one on the

1138
00:58:28,320 --> 00:58:32,880
Speaker 2: boldness scale for a reason. Minnesota. Here's the prediction. Minnesota

1139
00:58:32,920 --> 00:58:35,160
Speaker 2: goes eleven and one. They win the Big Ten West,

1140
00:58:35,400 --> 00:58:37,720
Speaker 2: They take Ohio State to the wire in the Big

1141
00:58:37,760 --> 00:58:41,720
Speaker 2: Ten champion Eights, whatever, No, and they had a good year,

1142
00:58:42,200 --> 00:58:45,040
Speaker 2: but eleven and one was not happening. They were nine

1143
00:58:45,080 --> 00:58:48,560
Speaker 2: and four. Bradley walks in earlier today. You don't know Bradley.

1144
00:58:48,880 --> 00:58:54,160
Speaker 2: I'm trying to slowly introduce him to you. Frankly, he's

1145
00:58:54,160 --> 00:58:56,680
Speaker 2: not a producer, so he doesn't even deserve the right

1146
00:58:56,720 --> 00:59:00,720
Speaker 2: to have his name mentioned on the show. So anonymous

1147
00:59:00,880 --> 00:59:05,280
Speaker 2: employee who hails from Montgomery, Alabama, walks into the office

1148
00:59:05,320 --> 00:59:08,320
Speaker 2: earlier today. He says, you know who Minnesota was this year?

1149
00:59:09,720 --> 00:59:12,200
Speaker 2: They were the Oregon State of the Big ten. And

1150
00:59:12,240 --> 00:59:15,560
Speaker 2: it was the most profound thing he's ever said. Because

1151
00:59:15,600 --> 00:59:19,160
Speaker 2: we sat there and we thought about it. He said, yeah, yeah,

1152
00:59:19,240 --> 00:59:21,560
Speaker 2: you get it. He couldn't leave well enough alone. He

1153
00:59:21,600 --> 00:59:25,240
Speaker 2: had to explain himself. And he made a good point though,

1154
00:59:25,280 --> 00:59:27,840
Speaker 2: he said, yeah, Oregon State, you know, good team, but

1155
00:59:27,920 --> 00:59:30,680
Speaker 2: pretty anonymous. Like not many people knew much about him

1156
00:59:30,720 --> 00:59:34,640
Speaker 2: even after the season was over. And likewise with Minnesota,

1157
00:59:34,760 --> 00:59:37,440
Speaker 2: did you know they went nine and four? Most of

1158
00:59:37,480 --> 00:59:41,200
Speaker 2: you didn't. They won the pin Stripe Bowl, coveted, very coveted.

1159
00:59:41,320 --> 00:59:43,720
Speaker 2: They won the Pinstripe Bowl, and so at the end,

1160
00:59:43,840 --> 00:59:45,440
Speaker 2: boom boom boom, they were knocking on the door of

1161
00:59:45,440 --> 00:59:48,920
Speaker 2: double digit wins. What they were not doing is knocking

1162
00:59:48,960 --> 00:59:51,479
Speaker 2: on the door of pushing Ohio State to the wire

1163
00:59:51,520 --> 00:59:53,880
Speaker 2: in the Big Ten title game for a couple of reasons.

1164
00:59:53,920 --> 00:59:56,640
Speaker 2: As it turns out. How about this last one. I

1165
00:59:56,640 --> 00:59:58,360
Speaker 2: don't really know what to make of this one because

1166
00:59:58,400 --> 01:00:03,120
Speaker 2: it technically did not hit, but it kind of should

1167
01:00:03,200 --> 01:00:06,400
Speaker 2: still count. I think this is about LSU. Michael seven,

1168
01:00:06,920 --> 01:00:10,520
Speaker 2: LSU will make a New Year's six Bowl game. We've

1169
01:00:10,560 --> 01:00:13,760
Speaker 2: never lacked talent except the coaching level. Now we have that.

1170
01:00:14,520 --> 01:00:18,520
Speaker 2: So much of this is accurate. Michael deserves so much

1171
01:00:18,600 --> 01:00:21,200
Speaker 2: credit because, mind you, we had someone else predict they

1172
01:00:21,200 --> 01:00:23,800
Speaker 2: were gonna finish last in the West, which means we

1173
01:00:23,920 --> 01:00:27,720
Speaker 2: just ran the gamut of wild LSU predictions in August.

1174
01:00:28,720 --> 01:00:30,600
Speaker 2: They didn't make it. They didn't make a New Year

1175
01:00:30,720 --> 01:00:33,520
Speaker 2: Six game. But here's the thing. They went to the

1176
01:00:33,560 --> 01:00:37,760
Speaker 2: SEC Championship. They beat Alabama, who did make a New

1177
01:00:37,840 --> 01:00:41,520
Speaker 2: Year Six game, and so even though they went to

1178
01:00:41,560 --> 01:00:45,320
Speaker 2: the Citrus Bowl, I think it was they kind of

1179
01:00:45,360 --> 01:00:47,160
Speaker 2: were a New Year six team. Oh and by the

1180
01:00:47,160 --> 01:00:50,640
Speaker 2: way they went and they just committed an outright felony

1181
01:00:50,640 --> 01:00:53,840
Speaker 2: against Purdue in the bowl game. Sixty three to seven.

1182
01:00:54,160 --> 01:00:56,440
Speaker 2: Drew Brees thought he wanted a part of that, and

1183
01:00:56,520 --> 01:00:59,680
Speaker 2: Drew Brees realized about midway through the first quarter, this

1184
01:00:59,720 --> 01:01:01,680
Speaker 2: is not for me. I need to go find a

1185
01:01:01,760 --> 01:01:03,560
Speaker 2: sideline in the pro game. I need to go find

1186
01:01:03,600 --> 01:01:05,560
Speaker 2: a broadcast booth. I do not need to be over

1187
01:01:05,600 --> 01:01:10,520
Speaker 2: here right now. Ouch ouch ouch, and Lsu didn't even apologize,

1188
01:01:10,560 --> 01:01:14,600
Speaker 2: So technically this is a loss. Technically he didn't get

1189
01:01:14,640 --> 01:01:18,080
Speaker 2: it right. But I think we need to executive override this.

1190
01:01:18,240 --> 01:01:21,040
Speaker 2: I think Michael just needs he needs to get a

1191
01:01:21,040 --> 01:01:23,000
Speaker 2: gold star. Anyway, I think he got it right. Anyway,

1192
01:01:23,640 --> 01:01:26,960
Speaker 2: Good show tonight, over an hour yet again. Two pieces

1193
01:01:26,960 --> 01:01:28,720
Speaker 2: of news. Jesse tells me, all right, hold on just

1194
01:01:28,760 --> 01:01:31,560
Speaker 2: a second, let me fix my ear piece, all right,

1195
01:01:31,640 --> 01:01:36,240
Speaker 2: from Jesse's lips into my ear to your ears. Here

1196
01:01:36,280 --> 01:01:45,560
Speaker 2: we go go ahead, Jesse, Okay, per Brandon Huffman, Jade,

1197
01:01:45,560 --> 01:01:49,360
Speaker 2: and Roshada. This is big news. Jaden Rashada has officially

1198
01:01:50,040 --> 01:01:53,760
Speaker 2: filed a request to be released from his letter of

1199
01:01:53,800 --> 01:01:57,560
Speaker 2: intent with the University of Florida. Now, Jesse, let me

1200
01:01:57,600 --> 01:02:00,760
Speaker 2: ask you this. For someone who doesn't exist, I'm leaning

1201
01:02:00,800 --> 01:02:03,560
Speaker 2: on you pretty heavily right now. Do we know if

1202
01:02:03,600 --> 01:02:09,520
Speaker 2: Florida has granted it yet Jesse, this is called dead air.

1203
01:02:10,440 --> 01:02:13,120
Speaker 2: Jesse does not believe. So okay, so what we know

1204
01:02:13,840 --> 01:02:17,880
Speaker 2: is Jade Rashada has done what it was rumored he

1205
01:02:17,960 --> 01:02:21,440
Speaker 2: did this past week, and that is officially request his release.

1206
01:02:21,800 --> 01:02:26,160
Speaker 2: You'll remember Zach Evans found himself in a predicament kind

1207
01:02:26,160 --> 01:02:28,200
Speaker 2: of sort of on the surface similar to this. You know,

1208
01:02:28,320 --> 01:02:31,040
Speaker 2: Zach Evans, he just played for old mess because he

1209
01:02:31,080 --> 01:02:34,960
Speaker 2: transferred there from TCU were once upon a time Evans

1210
01:02:35,040 --> 01:02:39,800
Speaker 2: committed to Georgia, remember that, and signed with Georgia. The

1211
01:02:39,880 --> 01:02:42,600
Speaker 2: reason you don't remember that in all likelihood is because

1212
01:02:42,640 --> 01:02:46,920
Speaker 2: he immediately requested a release and was granted a release,

1213
01:02:47,160 --> 01:02:50,360
Speaker 2: and Georgia basically said goodbye, but we're done with that.

1214
01:02:51,200 --> 01:02:55,200
Speaker 2: So Jaye Rashada signed letter of intent with Florida now

1215
01:02:55,280 --> 01:02:59,280
Speaker 2: wants out. I have a prediction for you. I think

1216
01:02:59,320 --> 01:03:01,880
Speaker 2: we'll be talking about this on the Thursday show. Now, Jesse,

1217
01:03:01,960 --> 01:03:05,200
Speaker 2: didn't you have two pieces of breaking news? Okay, the

1218
01:03:05,240 --> 01:03:07,240
Speaker 2: other piece of breaking news. Hold on, I'll let you

1219
01:03:07,280 --> 01:03:16,080
Speaker 2: know what he says in a second. Wait a second,

1220
01:03:16,080 --> 01:03:18,280
Speaker 2: Wait a second. So this hits very close to home

1221
01:03:18,320 --> 01:03:19,600
Speaker 2: for now. You know what I'm not going to say

1222
01:03:19,640 --> 01:03:21,960
Speaker 2: that on air. Matt Weiss, Is that who it is?

1223
01:03:22,560 --> 01:03:26,640
Speaker 2: Coach at Michigan, co offensive coordinator at Michigan. Matt Weiss

1224
01:03:26,880 --> 01:03:34,560
Speaker 2: placed on administrative leave. Yeah, for computer related crimes. Computer

1225
01:03:34,920 --> 01:03:40,640
Speaker 2: access crimes at scham Beckler Hall. Two thoughts. Number One,

1226
01:03:41,960 --> 01:03:46,600
Speaker 2: that is the least informed aspect of society that I

1227
01:03:46,320 --> 01:03:49,200
Speaker 2: have knowledge of. So I'm going to rely on some

1228
01:03:49,280 --> 01:03:52,160
Speaker 2: of our crack hacking experts in the Lake Kid community

1229
01:03:52,200 --> 01:03:54,040
Speaker 2: to inform you as to what that means. Number Two,

1230
01:03:54,240 --> 01:03:57,080
Speaker 2: if there's ever any doubt that we air this show live,

1231
01:03:57,320 --> 01:04:01,840
Speaker 2: we just disapproved. There you go, Central Standard Time. Two

1232
01:04:01,840 --> 01:04:04,720
Speaker 2: pieces of breaking news. Thank you, guys. I don't know

1233
01:04:04,720 --> 01:04:07,439
Speaker 2: what to say. A computer access crime at Shambeckler Hall.

1234
01:04:08,160 --> 01:04:12,080
Speaker 2: What an eventful week for the University of Michigan. Harball's gone,

1235
01:04:12,480 --> 01:04:16,400
Speaker 2: He's staying he won't acknowledge the ad. Someone's hacking inside

1236
01:04:16,400 --> 01:04:20,120
Speaker 2: Shambeckler Hall. Maybe and he happens to be your coffensive coordinator.

1237
01:04:20,920 --> 01:04:24,520
Speaker 2: Go Blue, Go Blue, and go us right to the

1238
01:04:24,520 --> 01:04:26,720
Speaker 2: ping pong table, because that's what we do after shows. Now,

1239
01:04:26,960 --> 01:04:30,680
Speaker 2: for director Colin, for producer Jesse, for our entire crew. Here,

1240
01:04:30,720 --> 01:04:32,360
Speaker 2: I'm Josh PAP, we'll see you back your same time

1241
01:04:32,360 --> 01:04:34,920
Speaker 2: Thursday night. Until then, take care, godless,