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Speaker 1: All right, welcome in Late Kick is Live. I want

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Speaker 1: to stress the word live. We are back here in

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Speaker 1: the home studio. It is Tuesday night, January twelfth, the

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Speaker 1: year of our Lord, twenty twenty one, which is first

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Speaker 1: time I said twenty twenty one in this studio. We

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Speaker 1: are jam packed as jam packed as it could possibly

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Speaker 1: be tonight. Obviously, we've got wall to wall reaction to

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Speaker 1: the National Championship game. Alabama went full hate crime on

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Speaker 1: Ohio State and Miami. So we are certainly going to

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Speaker 1: talk about that. We are going to do a show

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Speaker 1: as we always do. I just kind of feel like

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Speaker 1: I need to reset the table for those of you

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Speaker 1: who love college football, and we're not going to shame

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Speaker 1: And we're not going to talk about everything that's wrong

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Speaker 1: with the game. And so you know, if you just

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Speaker 1: want to suspend all that and just spend some time

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Speaker 1: like you would sitting there eating barbecue at home or

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Speaker 1: sitting out on the front porch and talking with your grandpa,

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Speaker 1: that's kind of the way that we format this show.

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Speaker 1: So we're going to have some fun tonight. We're happy

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Speaker 1: to be back. Do we need to fix anything about

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Speaker 1: college football. I will discuss. I think there are some

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Speaker 1: grade A hot trash ideas being thrown around that I

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Speaker 1: don't buy into. But yet I do think there are

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Speaker 1: some maybe not fixes, but maybe tweaks that we can

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Speaker 1: I certainly don't think you'll disagree with my suggestions. You

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Speaker 1: going to talk about the game last night and in

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Speaker 1: the broader context, this Alabama team. I got a lot

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Speaker 1: both things you have seen and some behind the scenes

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Speaker 1: feedback that I've gotten from Alabama this entire year that

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Speaker 1: we can start to we start to unpack. Now you know,

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Speaker 1: now that all's on the table, don't have to hold

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Speaker 1: But you know, you're a lot of times you're told

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Speaker 1: stuff and you're said, hey, keep that between us at

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Speaker 1: least until January west January so we can start talking

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Speaker 1: about that. So we will not all tonight, but we will.

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Speaker 1: Things will be busy. So things are also going to

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Speaker 1: be busy in the coming weeks. And I want to

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Speaker 1: so most of you you don't need to hear this,

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Speaker 1: but I want to stress you know, if you are

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Speaker 1: transitioning from a casual college football fan two on every

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Speaker 1: day twenty four seven, three sixty five college football fan,

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Speaker 1: make sure you're hanging out on this channel because now,

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Speaker 1: more than ever, I think this off season, more than ever,

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Speaker 1: jockeying for the better part of a year now in

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Speaker 1: A lot of you remember this, well, chronicled, He verbally agrees.

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Speaker 1: So they went after Nick Saban. They got Nick Saban

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Speaker 1: that now. Colin Let's dive in. Alabama splattered Ohio State

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Speaker 1: So they outgained in all three of those key metrics.

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Speaker 1: final coaches poll. That's getting it done. I know a

430
00:20:33,440 --> 00:20:37,040
Speaker 1: lot of folks out there falsely, very falsely. I would

431
00:20:37,160 --> 00:20:39,719
Speaker 1: even dare to say ignorantly look and say, well, you know,

432
00:20:40,400 --> 00:20:43,000
Speaker 1: the SEC was kind of down a little bit this year. No,

433
00:20:43,160 --> 00:20:46,159
Speaker 1: they weren't down, Like, what are you talking about? You know,

434
00:20:46,280 --> 00:20:49,440
Speaker 1: it's only down until you watch Mississippi State go beat

435
00:20:49,480 --> 00:20:52,040
Speaker 1: Tulsa in a bowl game. Like it's only down until

436
00:20:52,040 --> 00:20:55,399
Speaker 1: you watch Kentucky go beat Indiana in a bowl game.

437
00:20:55,720 --> 00:20:58,240
Speaker 1: I know it may seem down just cause this team's

438
00:20:58,320 --> 00:21:01,680
Speaker 1: laying waste to everybody. Now, it's still the SEC. And

439
00:21:01,720 --> 00:21:04,040
Speaker 1: they didn't have any Kent States thrown in there this year.

440
00:21:04,320 --> 00:21:07,040
Speaker 1: I got told the other day and I didn't realize this.

441
00:21:07,280 --> 00:21:09,160
Speaker 1: I got told at any time I need to make

442
00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:13,359
Speaker 1: a pejorative G five comparison, I always bring up Kent State,

443
00:21:13,960 --> 00:21:15,879
Speaker 1: and maybe that's a habit that I don't realize I have.

444
00:21:16,040 --> 00:21:18,919
Speaker 1: So I apologize to the folks at Kent State. I

445
00:21:18,920 --> 00:21:22,320
Speaker 1: don't mean to do that. So let's pick a new team, Toledo.

446
00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:25,119
Speaker 1: There you go. You guys love them, so be that

447
00:21:25,160 --> 00:21:28,639
Speaker 1: as mate. There were no FCS teams G five teams

448
00:21:28,640 --> 00:21:30,720
Speaker 1: on the schedule this year. Man, they were just good

449
00:21:30,760 --> 00:21:33,240
Speaker 1: they're just really really good this year. But I want

450
00:21:33,280 --> 00:21:35,800
Speaker 1: to remind you of something. Over the last seven to

451
00:21:35,800 --> 00:21:39,640
Speaker 1: eight years, they have not always had elite culture there. Well,

452
00:21:40,040 --> 00:21:42,280
Speaker 1: let me scratch that they've had elite culture, they have

453
00:21:42,359 --> 00:21:46,160
Speaker 1: not always had elite internal dynamics. There are many statistical

454
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Speaker 1: reasons that you could use to argue this is the

455
00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:50,760
Speaker 1: best team that they've had there, But when you ask them,

456
00:21:50,880 --> 00:21:52,920
Speaker 1: when you talk to folks at Bama, they don't mention

457
00:21:52,960 --> 00:21:57,320
Speaker 1: any stats. They don't mention any final scores, average points

458
00:21:57,320 --> 00:21:59,439
Speaker 1: in conference play, they don't mention any of that. They

459
00:21:59,560 --> 00:22:03,520
Speaker 1: just talked about the people inside the organization. They hardly

460
00:22:03,560 --> 00:22:08,280
Speaker 1: ever miss on talent evaluations, but famously, internally down there,

461
00:22:08,720 --> 00:22:11,359
Speaker 1: over the last seven to eight years, they made some

462
00:22:11,520 --> 00:22:16,600
Speaker 1: bad character evaluations. And Nick Saban made a major shift

463
00:22:16,760 --> 00:22:19,560
Speaker 1: internally a few years back to sort of gut his

464
00:22:19,680 --> 00:22:23,560
Speaker 1: program and redefine the kind of player and the kind

465
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Speaker 1: of coach that they were going to bring into Alabama.

466
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Speaker 1: This was not some public spectacle as far as you knew,

467
00:22:29,359 --> 00:22:31,840
Speaker 1: it was just business as usual at Alabama. They had

468
00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:35,320
Speaker 1: some bad internal dynamics. They were still winning, but they

469
00:22:35,359 --> 00:22:38,760
Speaker 1: had some very very poor internal dynamics. I'll tell you

470
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Speaker 1: one that was really famous was the year. It's only

471
00:22:41,520 --> 00:22:43,480
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago. That year they went out

472
00:22:43,520 --> 00:22:45,840
Speaker 1: and got spanked by Clemson. That was a terrible year

473
00:22:45,880 --> 00:22:48,720
Speaker 1: internally for them. It sounded like excuse making, like it

474
00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:52,520
Speaker 1: is what it is. So they put such a premium

475
00:22:52,760 --> 00:22:57,240
Speaker 1: on character development and character identification in the recruiting process.

476
00:22:57,600 --> 00:23:00,800
Speaker 1: You're seeing the fruit born out. Now they rebuilt the

477
00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:04,320
Speaker 1: culture from the inside out. How well oiled is that machine?

478
00:23:04,359 --> 00:23:07,119
Speaker 1: Now consider this. You just watched DeVante Smith catch one

479
00:23:07,160 --> 00:23:09,560
Speaker 1: of like a million touchdown passes he caught this year.

480
00:23:09,680 --> 00:23:13,320
Speaker 1: You know, Smith comes in in that famous twenty seventeen class, right,

481
00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:15,640
Speaker 1: and he catches the touchdown to win the title game.

482
00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:18,320
Speaker 1: And now last night he toasted Ohio State on his

483
00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:20,119
Speaker 1: way out the door as a senior, and rewrote a

484
00:23:20,160 --> 00:23:22,920
Speaker 1: lot of the record books. So in his time there,

485
00:23:23,000 --> 00:23:26,600
Speaker 1: you know, that's twenty seventeen, eighteen, nineteen twenty, from the

486
00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:28,720
Speaker 1: time that Davante Smith was a freshman and they won

487
00:23:28,760 --> 00:23:30,720
Speaker 1: a title to the time he was a senior and

488
00:23:30,760 --> 00:23:33,360
Speaker 1: won a title. Do you realize there's not a single

489
00:23:33,440 --> 00:23:36,960
Speaker 1: assistant coach on that roster last night that was there

490
00:23:37,000 --> 00:23:40,280
Speaker 1: when he was a true freshman. They have overturned everything,

491
00:23:40,720 --> 00:23:45,320
Speaker 1: the entire organization internally overturned. The only thing that stayed

492
00:23:45,359 --> 00:23:49,400
Speaker 1: the same was the head coach. How defined is that culture.

493
00:23:50,119 --> 00:23:51,919
Speaker 1: He didn't even have to run the team this year,

494
00:23:52,000 --> 00:23:54,560
Speaker 1: Nick Saban didn't even run the team. When you watched

495
00:23:54,560 --> 00:23:57,280
Speaker 1: how how teary eyed he was last night, when you

496
00:23:57,280 --> 00:23:59,719
Speaker 1: watched how happy he was, and how effusive he was

497
00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:03,399
Speaker 1: in his praise, and how often he found the nearest

498
00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:06,040
Speaker 1: microphone to make sure and remind you that his best

499
00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:09,840
Speaker 1: players are also his best people. It's because it makes

500
00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:12,800
Speaker 1: you hard, if not impossible, to stop when you've got

501
00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:15,520
Speaker 1: an organization rolling like that. But think about being a

502
00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:18,840
Speaker 1: head coach and getting out of the way because your

503
00:24:18,880 --> 00:24:21,560
Speaker 1: players have taken over ownership of the team in a

504
00:24:21,600 --> 00:24:24,680
Speaker 1: way that most coaches could only dream of happening. And

505
00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:26,920
Speaker 1: that's with a team that's you know, eight win nine

506
00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:29,800
Speaker 1: win caliber. Man, this is the best players in the world.

507
00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:32,160
Speaker 1: He's got the best players in the world. A lot

508
00:24:32,200 --> 00:24:34,439
Speaker 1: of them should be millionaires right now, but yet they

509
00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:38,240
Speaker 1: decided collectively to come back and play college football. Also,

510
00:24:38,280 --> 00:24:42,120
Speaker 1: imagine having a culture where you have you got guys

511
00:24:42,119 --> 00:24:45,080
Speaker 1: who are injured You got Jalen Waddell on the field

512
00:24:45,200 --> 00:24:49,480
Speaker 1: last night with a scar still very visible on his leg.

513
00:24:49,520 --> 00:24:52,040
Speaker 1: You got Landon Dickerson who just hopped up off the

514
00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:55,119
Speaker 1: operating table like five minutes ago, and I don't know

515
00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:56,960
Speaker 1: what he probably had to get shot up with last

516
00:24:57,000 --> 00:24:58,679
Speaker 1: night to even be able to walk out on the field.

517
00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:02,600
Speaker 1: You got folks five fighting against their own injured bodies

518
00:25:02,600 --> 00:25:05,000
Speaker 1: to get on the field just because they want to participate,

519
00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:07,680
Speaker 1: just because that's the kind of culture that's been ingrained there.

520
00:25:08,119 --> 00:25:10,560
Speaker 1: Can you imagine building that kind of culture. See, a

521
00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:14,960
Speaker 1: lot of coaches can build a culture during the climb

522
00:25:15,160 --> 00:25:17,199
Speaker 1: that gets guys fired up and ready to play. A

523
00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:20,400
Speaker 1: lot of coaches can do that. Far fewer coaches can

524
00:25:20,440 --> 00:25:23,080
Speaker 1: be favored all the time and be expected to win

525
00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:25,879
Speaker 1: all the time and still have guys that hungry, Like

526
00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:28,199
Speaker 1: those guys are ready to fight each other if they

527
00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:31,760
Speaker 1: can't get on the field with millions to lose. I

528
00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:33,840
Speaker 1: saw a lot of people talking about that today, and

529
00:25:33,880 --> 00:25:36,760
Speaker 1: that's fine. Like you can have your opinion of should

530
00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:39,560
Speaker 1: Jalen waddle have been out there? I'm just telling you

531
00:25:39,640 --> 00:25:42,600
Speaker 1: it's not even a thought in those guys' minds. It's

532
00:25:42,640 --> 00:25:44,880
Speaker 1: not even a thought, like you may have an uncle

533
00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:47,440
Speaker 1: or a mom get in your way and physically keep

534
00:25:47,440 --> 00:25:49,960
Speaker 1: you from playing, but if it's left up to those players,

535
00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:52,439
Speaker 1: and it was, it wasn't even a thought to not

536
00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:54,480
Speaker 1: go play Like this is what I came back for.

537
00:25:54,760 --> 00:25:56,280
Speaker 1: When I talked to folks in the off season at

538
00:25:56,320 --> 00:25:59,600
Speaker 1: Alabama before the season started, they wanted a piece of

539
00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:02,200
Speaker 1: ls You. They came back for a piece of Auburn.

540
00:26:02,480 --> 00:26:04,840
Speaker 1: They came back to win the SEC championship, and they

541
00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:07,200
Speaker 1: came back to win a national championship, all of which

542
00:26:07,200 --> 00:26:09,040
Speaker 1: they thought they should have done last year and they

543
00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:11,720
Speaker 1: weren't able to do. And they checked them off one

544
00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:14,480
Speaker 1: by one. When we talked like we did about the

545
00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:17,920
Speaker 1: LSU game when it initially got postponed and they were

546
00:26:17,960 --> 00:26:20,840
Speaker 1: fighting so hard internally to go play that game, and

547
00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:23,399
Speaker 1: then when it got rescheduled, the language I used for

548
00:26:23,480 --> 00:26:26,200
Speaker 1: what I expected to happen when Alabama played LSU. It's

549
00:26:26,200 --> 00:26:29,119
Speaker 1: because I knew how important the game was to all

550
00:26:29,160 --> 00:26:31,800
Speaker 1: those kids who came back. It didn't matter if they

551
00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:34,680
Speaker 1: were favored by seven touchdowns. They were going to go

552
00:26:34,960 --> 00:26:38,080
Speaker 1: execute LSU on live TV. And they did so. They

553
00:26:38,119 --> 00:26:41,840
Speaker 1: accomplished all their goals last night. But see, there's a big,

554
00:26:41,880 --> 00:26:44,480
Speaker 1: big difference, like when you're on the climb, so you

555
00:26:44,560 --> 00:26:47,439
Speaker 1: still got something to prove versus when you've proven everything

556
00:26:47,480 --> 00:26:50,200
Speaker 1: you can prove, and yet you're still playing like you're

557
00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:52,800
Speaker 1: starving and you hadn't taken a bite of food in

558
00:26:52,840 --> 00:26:54,720
Speaker 1: like three weeks. And I'll tell you something else that

559
00:26:54,800 --> 00:26:56,920
Speaker 1: a lot of coaches can do. A lot of coaches,

560
00:26:57,359 --> 00:26:58,960
Speaker 1: You know, a lot of coaches are willing to change

561
00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:01,800
Speaker 1: the program when it looks broken, when they're losing games.

562
00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:04,080
Speaker 1: You know, when they're hovering right out or just blow

563
00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:07,080
Speaker 1: five hundred, everyone knows it's time to change them. Nick

564
00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:10,120
Speaker 1: Saban was on top of the world. Nick Saban. At

565
00:27:10,119 --> 00:27:14,280
Speaker 1: no point did Alabama ever drop from being perceived as

566
00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:16,720
Speaker 1: the number one or at worst the number two program

567
00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:19,440
Speaker 1: in America. And yet he changed everything. He hit the

568
00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:22,920
Speaker 1: dump button. He realized several years ago, this sport's changing.

569
00:27:23,240 --> 00:27:25,399
Speaker 1: And whereas a lot of people who had won, in

570
00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:29,160
Speaker 1: other words, had their philosophy validated on the national stage,

571
00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:32,520
Speaker 1: would have been prideful and just you know, said all right, well,

572
00:27:32,640 --> 00:27:34,440
Speaker 1: I just got a tough en up and we got

573
00:27:34,440 --> 00:27:36,480
Speaker 1: to figure out a way to beat these teams. We

574
00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:37,960
Speaker 1: got to figure out a way to keep winning well.

575
00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:39,920
Speaker 1: Nick Saban looked around and said, hey, man, my way's

576
00:27:39,920 --> 00:27:41,680
Speaker 1: probably not going to work anymore. So I'm going to

577
00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:45,320
Speaker 1: change everything. Even though we're on top, we haven't even lost, like,

578
00:27:45,359 --> 00:27:48,040
Speaker 1: we've not even had anything worse than a ten win

579
00:27:48,119 --> 00:27:51,119
Speaker 1: season around here. I'm going to change anyway. Far fewer

580
00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:54,320
Speaker 1: coaches would ever do that. That's why I think that

581
00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:57,240
Speaker 1: was one of the most legendary tactical moves that you'll

582
00:27:57,280 --> 00:27:59,680
Speaker 1: ever see in college football history. I think it's led

583
00:27:59,720 --> 00:28:02,480
Speaker 1: to this team this year being the best he's ever had.

584
00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:05,359
Speaker 1: I'm not so sure you may not have better teams

585
00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:08,000
Speaker 1: to come down the road, because this recruiting class they've

586
00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:10,160
Speaker 1: got coming in I think's the best he's ever had.

587
00:28:10,520 --> 00:28:13,679
Speaker 1: And that's off the heels of that twenty seventeen class,

588
00:28:13,720 --> 00:28:16,359
Speaker 1: which is just absurd. It's like rolling out a dead

589
00:28:16,400 --> 00:28:19,160
Speaker 1: Sea scroll worth the first round draft picks. But man,

590
00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:21,520
Speaker 1: they're operating at a level that he warned you about

591
00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:23,560
Speaker 1: a few years ago when he now famously made that

592
00:28:23,760 --> 00:28:25,840
Speaker 1: saying made that quote, it's just what you want college

593
00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:28,520
Speaker 1: football to be. You know, now, no one's laughing at it.

594
00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:30,959
Speaker 1: Back then, it was like, listen to him whining. It

595
00:28:31,080 --> 00:28:33,560
Speaker 1: wasn't that. It was much more warning than it was

596
00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:36,160
Speaker 1: whining started with a W. You just had the wrong word.

597
00:28:36,400 --> 00:28:39,440
Speaker 1: But there is a big difference between coaches who are

598
00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:43,640
Speaker 1: capable of tasting greatness versus coaches who are greatness, cause

599
00:28:43,680 --> 00:28:46,520
Speaker 1: the coaches who are greatness, they don't motivate their team

600
00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:49,960
Speaker 1: based on doubt. They don't use a fuel source motivation

601
00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:53,920
Speaker 1: of doubters and disrespect and chips on shoulders. You don't

602
00:28:54,000 --> 00:28:56,360
Speaker 1: ever hear that kind of language come from Alabama. That's

603
00:28:56,400 --> 00:28:58,680
Speaker 1: not their fuel source. That's not what that process he

604
00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:01,160
Speaker 1: talks about all the time is about. And that's why

605
00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:03,400
Speaker 1: when they get on top of the world, they keep

606
00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:08,640
Speaker 1: operating at razors sharp efficiency. They're like the proverbial death star.

607
00:29:08,800 --> 00:29:11,520
Speaker 1: They just are. They just continue to dominate you and

608
00:29:11,680 --> 00:29:14,840
Speaker 1: pound your face into submission because that's the way they're wired.

609
00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:17,000
Speaker 1: They don't need you to disrespect them. They just operate

610
00:29:17,000 --> 00:29:20,120
Speaker 1: at a standard instead of you know, based on how

611
00:29:20,200 --> 00:29:22,080
Speaker 1: hyped up am I this week? How much did you

612
00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:23,800
Speaker 1: doubt me? What kind of locker room or bulletin board

613
00:29:23,840 --> 00:29:26,960
Speaker 1: material do I have this week? That's how you taste greatness.

614
00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:32,120
Speaker 1: That's not how you are greatness. Moving on, So, you know,

615
00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:34,520
Speaker 1: we got a season in the books. Every time we

616
00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:36,080
Speaker 1: have a season in the books. Now, it seems more

617
00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:38,600
Speaker 1: and more it's very popular to see a lot of

618
00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:41,160
Speaker 1: the national websites and a lot of the national media

619
00:29:41,200 --> 00:29:42,720
Speaker 1: types talk about all the things that are wrong with

620
00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:44,680
Speaker 1: college football and everything that we need to fix with

621
00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:48,040
Speaker 1: college football. And I am of a little bit different mentality.

622
00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:50,040
Speaker 1: I like to celebrate what's good about the sport. That

623
00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:52,040
Speaker 1: doesn't mean occasionally you don't have something that needs to

624
00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:55,280
Speaker 1: be fixed. Okay, I'm not above fixing what's wrong with

625
00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:57,360
Speaker 1: the sport. It's just that some of the things that

626
00:29:57,440 --> 00:30:00,520
Speaker 1: are being pointed out as flaws with the I don't

627
00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:03,320
Speaker 1: view as flaws, or if I do, I don't share

628
00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:06,440
Speaker 1: what popular opinion is on how to fix them. So

629
00:30:06,840 --> 00:30:08,920
Speaker 1: I also tell you all the time, I am not

630
00:30:08,960 --> 00:30:11,800
Speaker 1: a believer that just calls someone's upset it means something's wrong.

631
00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:15,080
Speaker 1: I'm not a believer that just because you're not getting

632
00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:17,160
Speaker 1: the outcome you want or I'm not getting the outcome

633
00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:19,640
Speaker 1: I want, it means that something needs to be changed.

634
00:30:20,320 --> 00:30:22,960
Speaker 1: Like people being upset is not an automatic reason to

635
00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:26,840
Speaker 1: change anything, But that is not the overwhelming sentiment right now.

636
00:30:26,920 --> 00:30:30,000
Speaker 1: So the overwhelming sentiment is once we expand the college

637
00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:32,800
Speaker 1: football playoff, then we'll be good. I've done many a

638
00:30:32,800 --> 00:30:35,040
Speaker 1: segment on this. I'm not going to focus solely on

639
00:30:35,120 --> 00:30:38,120
Speaker 1: expanding the playoff, but I know a lot of you,

640
00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:40,840
Speaker 1: even in this audience, you believe that would solve a lot.

641
00:30:41,000 --> 00:30:44,560
Speaker 1: So most of the sentiment that I get on this is, well,

642
00:30:44,600 --> 00:30:48,440
Speaker 1: if we expand the playoff, it'll give more teams a shot. Okay,

643
00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:51,280
Speaker 1: if we expand the playoff, it'll give more teams a shot.

644
00:30:51,320 --> 00:30:54,760
Speaker 1: And then because more teams make the playoff, than recruiting

645
00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:58,680
Speaker 1: will even out. You won't have such a monopolistic stranglehold

646
00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:01,720
Speaker 1: of just a few teams getting all the best recruits,

647
00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:04,200
Speaker 1: because now recruits will see that I can go to

648
00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:07,360
Speaker 1: more places and make the playoff. Hey, I talk to

649
00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:09,720
Speaker 1: a lot of recruits. I talk to the big boys.

650
00:31:10,040 --> 00:31:12,080
Speaker 1: I have yet to have one of them tell me

651
00:31:12,280 --> 00:31:15,600
Speaker 1: on their list of priorities is making the playoff. That's

652
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:17,760
Speaker 1: not what they talk about. I haven't talked about this

653
00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:21,040
Speaker 1: a whole lot live. There is this huge detachment in

654
00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:25,360
Speaker 1: what recruits value versus what you think they value. But

655
00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:28,520
Speaker 1: I'll leave it alone. I'll play devil's advocate. I'll pretend

656
00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:31,520
Speaker 1: that you're dead on the money with that, Let's move on. Also,

657
00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:35,360
Speaker 1: some of you guys think that if we expand the

658
00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:39,000
Speaker 1: playoff then we'll have more meaningful games, and that means

659
00:31:39,160 --> 00:31:42,800
Speaker 1: less opt outs late in the season, and again that

660
00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:46,600
Speaker 1: loosens the stranglehold on just the few elites having a

661
00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:50,360
Speaker 1: death grip on college football. I am telling you unequivocally,

662
00:31:50,640 --> 00:31:53,920
Speaker 1: recruiting is not evening out if you expand the playoff.

663
00:31:54,200 --> 00:31:56,320
Speaker 1: I am telling you that I know a lot of

664
00:31:56,320 --> 00:31:57,960
Speaker 1: you don't believe that. You are going to have to

665
00:31:58,040 --> 00:32:00,800
Speaker 1: learn it the hard way. What aggravates me is the

666
00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:03,680
Speaker 1: retort sometimes that I get on someone that can't put

667
00:32:03,720 --> 00:32:07,120
Speaker 1: a well fashioned argument together to counter that, they say, well,

668
00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:10,680
Speaker 1: it wouldn't hurt to try. Yeah, here's the problem. Expanding

669
00:32:10,800 --> 00:32:13,640
Speaker 1: a playoff is like squeezing toothpaste out of the tube. Okay,

670
00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:16,320
Speaker 1: you say, well, let's just try it. It isn't trying.

671
00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:19,680
Speaker 1: It's like expanding government. Once it expands, it never contracts.

672
00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:22,680
Speaker 1: Once you expand the college football playoff, I know it's

673
00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:25,360
Speaker 1: not going back. Okay, you can't put the toothpaste back

674
00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:28,160
Speaker 1: in the tube. So you're going to have to excuse

675
00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:30,880
Speaker 1: me if I value the regular season in this sport,

676
00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:33,000
Speaker 1: and I think it's the most precious and in some

677
00:32:33,040 --> 00:32:36,520
Speaker 1: cases priceless commodity in this sport. And you want to

678
00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:40,000
Speaker 1: devalue it because you want to run experiments with the

679
00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:41,640
Speaker 1: end of the season. I'm not a fan of that.

680
00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:43,120
Speaker 1: That's why I get a little worked up about it.

681
00:32:43,640 --> 00:32:48,200
Speaker 1: But you will see expand that playoff to four teams

682
00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:52,040
Speaker 1: or forty teams. The same programs are going to dominate recruiting.

683
00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:54,000
Speaker 1: I had a guy last night come at me on

684
00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:57,400
Speaker 1: Twitter and tell me, how do you expect Boise State

685
00:32:58,080 --> 00:33:01,600
Speaker 1: and Houston to compete with Alabama and Ohio State and

686
00:33:01,640 --> 00:33:04,240
Speaker 1: recruiting if they can't have a shot at the playoff?

687
00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:06,560
Speaker 1: And I told him I don't expect him to compete

688
00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:09,360
Speaker 1: with him period. Like I can guarantee you in this

689
00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:13,040
Speaker 1: upcoming recruiting cycle, Alabama and Ohio State, I don't care

690
00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:15,960
Speaker 1: how big your playoff is, will sign twenty five kids

691
00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:18,240
Speaker 1: rated higher than the highest rated kid that signs with

692
00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:21,120
Speaker 1: Boise And it'll happen the next cycle and the next

693
00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:23,840
Speaker 1: cycle and the next cycle. I don't care if Boise

694
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:26,520
Speaker 1: makes the playoff. It's going to happen the next cycle,

695
00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:28,840
Speaker 1: and the next cycle and the next cycle. What you

696
00:33:28,920 --> 00:33:31,760
Speaker 1: think recruits are looking for versus what they are looking

697
00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:34,520
Speaker 1: for are two different things, and that's a good program

698
00:33:34,520 --> 00:33:37,400
Speaker 1: at Bois. Like, I'm not knocking Bois, you know my belief.

699
00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:39,280
Speaker 1: My belief is there should be a separate playoff for

700
00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:43,240
Speaker 1: the G five and then we could have two distinct

701
00:33:43,560 --> 00:33:48,280
Speaker 1: entertaining products instead of trying to shoehorn two entities that

702
00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:51,440
Speaker 1: don't belong in the same conversation into the same conversation.

703
00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:53,680
Speaker 1: It's not about quality of team. I mean, the G

704
00:33:53,800 --> 00:33:56,480
Speaker 1: five is big. It's not one conference. There's several teams

705
00:33:56,800 --> 00:34:00,720
Speaker 1: that have that proverbial G five sticker on their helmet. Inevitably,

706
00:34:01,040 --> 00:34:03,440
Speaker 1: any given year, they are going to be at the

707
00:34:03,560 --> 00:34:05,400
Speaker 1: very top of the G five. They're going to be

708
00:34:05,720 --> 00:34:08,440
Speaker 1: probably two or three teams that could really compete at

709
00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:12,160
Speaker 1: the highest levels of power five. That's never been my argument.

710
00:34:12,239 --> 00:34:14,879
Speaker 1: I've never said and never will I say. I don't

711
00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:18,120
Speaker 1: even think UCF could compete on a field with Ohio

712
00:34:18,320 --> 00:34:21,360
Speaker 1: State or Alabama. I mean, they'd probably get beat, But

713
00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:24,560
Speaker 1: I don't focus on that I didn't say this year, Well,

714
00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:27,239
Speaker 1: I doubt Cincinnati could compete with the best teams. It's

715
00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:30,680
Speaker 1: not that they could compete with them. The problem is,

716
00:34:30,920 --> 00:34:34,440
Speaker 1: and always will be, there is a gulf in strength

717
00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:36,719
Speaker 1: of schedule between what you go through in the G

718
00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:39,120
Speaker 1: five to make it to the top versus what you

719
00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:41,080
Speaker 1: go through at the power five level to make it

720
00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:44,399
Speaker 1: to the top. Always will be. So I've never even

721
00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:47,040
Speaker 1: viewed these as belonging in the same conversation. But let

722
00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:49,200
Speaker 1: me continue, because I've made that point several times. Let

723
00:34:49,280 --> 00:34:52,719
Speaker 1: me continue, because here's the right strategy. If you want

724
00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:57,319
Speaker 1: to even out the juice and recruiting head of clearer throat. Sorry,

725
00:34:57,360 --> 00:35:00,040
Speaker 1: if you want to even out things in recruiting, you

726
00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:03,640
Speaker 1: need to position yourself for what's coming in the department

727
00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:07,000
Speaker 1: of name, image and likeness. I know it just got delayed.

728
00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:10,480
Speaker 1: It's coming. The programs out there, you mark my words,

729
00:35:10,640 --> 00:35:14,120
Speaker 1: not the top dogs, they're already there. But programs like

730
00:35:14,400 --> 00:35:19,000
Speaker 1: Arkansas or Arizona State or Michigan State, programs that we

731
00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:20,960
Speaker 1: don't talk a lot about as being there in the

732
00:35:20,960 --> 00:35:23,719
Speaker 1: top ten on National Signing Day. And you could talk

733
00:35:23,719 --> 00:35:27,239
Speaker 1: about Cincinnati, Houston, Memphis, the G five types. The programs

734
00:35:27,239 --> 00:35:30,439
Speaker 1: out there that learn to properly leverage and harness name

735
00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:33,439
Speaker 1: image and likeness legislation when things become legal that aren't

736
00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:36,400
Speaker 1: legal right now, and the programs that are able to

737
00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:40,120
Speaker 1: do that and own the transfer portal, Those are going

738
00:35:40,160 --> 00:35:43,479
Speaker 1: to be programs that even it out a lot more

739
00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:46,520
Speaker 1: than teams that, if we ever expand the playoff, find

740
00:35:46,560 --> 00:35:49,080
Speaker 1: their way into being the seven seed one year. It's

741
00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:52,440
Speaker 1: not gonna make a bit of difference. I'm telling you

742
00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:53,880
Speaker 1: that you're gonna have to find out the hard way.

743
00:35:53,920 --> 00:35:56,080
Speaker 1: If you disagree with me, I know the way it's

744
00:35:56,080 --> 00:35:57,560
Speaker 1: gonna have. It's not gonna have the impact you think

745
00:35:57,560 --> 00:35:59,879
Speaker 1: it's gonna have. But if you're able to put together

746
00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:02,840
Speaker 1: very unique packages in the name, Image and Likeness department,

747
00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:05,520
Speaker 1: if you're able to have partnerships between your university and

748
00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:07,920
Speaker 1: some big time brands in the name, image and likeness department,

749
00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:10,520
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden, you got stuff kids actually

750
00:36:10,520 --> 00:36:12,480
Speaker 1: do care about. They don't care that you had the

751
00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:15,080
Speaker 1: six seed last year locked up, or you were the

752
00:36:15,160 --> 00:36:17,200
Speaker 1: number eight and you played the number one and got

753
00:36:17,280 --> 00:36:19,600
Speaker 1: run by thirty five points, but hey, at least we

754
00:36:19,680 --> 00:36:23,080
Speaker 1: made the playoff. They don't care. They don't care about it.

755
00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:25,839
Speaker 1: What they care about is what kind of value can

756
00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:27,920
Speaker 1: you offer them? That's what they care about. So if

757
00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:30,160
Speaker 1: you own those two avenues, you put yourself in a

758
00:36:30,200 --> 00:36:35,279
Speaker 1: lot more advantageous position. Oh but we won't have opt outs,

759
00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:38,600
Speaker 1: will we. That's listen, you may be somewhat right about this.

760
00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:41,240
Speaker 1: You know if you obviously, if you expand the playoff,

761
00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:45,160
Speaker 1: then they're gonna be a few more meaningful games later

762
00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:49,160
Speaker 1: in the year. Meaningful meaning having playoff ramifications tied to them,

763
00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:51,720
Speaker 1: then there would have been otherwise. I don't use that language.

764
00:36:51,719 --> 00:36:53,719
Speaker 1: I don't call games meaningless. I don't do that because

765
00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:55,839
Speaker 1: I love the sport, but a lot of people do.

766
00:36:56,840 --> 00:37:00,239
Speaker 1: I got a question for you, though, who promised that

767
00:37:00,280 --> 00:37:02,160
Speaker 1: a kid will never opt out of a playoff game?

768
00:37:03,520 --> 00:37:06,000
Speaker 1: I know your logic tells you they wouldn't, But see,

769
00:37:06,480 --> 00:37:10,160
Speaker 1: logic's a funny thing. Logic evolves based on new realities.

770
00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:12,480
Speaker 1: Ten years ago, we didn't have playoff in the sport,

771
00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:16,040
Speaker 1: did we? And no one in their right mind would

772
00:37:16,040 --> 00:37:18,640
Speaker 1: ever even talk about the words opt out. No one

773
00:37:18,640 --> 00:37:20,920
Speaker 1: would even say that in college football, much less if

774
00:37:20,960 --> 00:37:22,759
Speaker 1: you were in what is now known as a new

775
00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:26,120
Speaker 1: Year's six game or a BCS game, like you're going

776
00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:28,600
Speaker 1: to the Fiesta Bowl, you're going to the Orange Bowl.

777
00:37:28,760 --> 00:37:31,279
Speaker 1: Yet it's not the BCS title game, but those are

778
00:37:31,520 --> 00:37:34,759
Speaker 1: huge games. No one would ever opt out of those. Well,

779
00:37:34,800 --> 00:37:37,120
Speaker 1: then here's what's ironic, and here's why I don't think

780
00:37:37,120 --> 00:37:39,719
Speaker 1: expanding the playoffs the answer to any of this. We

781
00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:42,439
Speaker 1: had a pre playoff world where only two teams made

782
00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:45,640
Speaker 1: the title game, and yet no one was ever opting out.

783
00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:49,080
Speaker 1: Then we expand and we go to a four team playoff,

784
00:37:49,400 --> 00:37:52,680
Speaker 1: and then after a couple of years, players start opting out.

785
00:37:53,080 --> 00:37:57,480
Speaker 1: And now the answer that the answer to solving what

786
00:37:57,520 --> 00:38:00,319
Speaker 1: the playoff brought with it is to expand the playoff more. Okay,

787
00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:03,719
Speaker 1: so some playoff led to opt outs cause you know,

788
00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:05,279
Speaker 1: the teams that didn't make the playoff got told their

789
00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:08,200
Speaker 1: games were meaningless. So let's expand the playoff more. More

790
00:38:08,239 --> 00:38:11,400
Speaker 1: playoff will mean less opt outs. No won't, No, it won't.

791
00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:14,920
Speaker 1: You're going to render the other bowl games totally meaningless,

792
00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:18,160
Speaker 1: even more so than you have already. But I don't

793
00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:20,040
Speaker 1: know who told you A kid would never opt out

794
00:38:20,239 --> 00:38:22,239
Speaker 1: of a playoff game. But if you've got a team

795
00:38:22,280 --> 00:38:24,600
Speaker 1: that's a seventh seed that is a twenty four and

796
00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:27,520
Speaker 1: a half point underdog. All it takes is one All

797
00:38:27,560 --> 00:38:30,239
Speaker 1: it takes is one instance of a big time kid

798
00:38:30,280 --> 00:38:32,600
Speaker 1: opting out of a playoff game. Then you have a

799
00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:35,560
Speaker 1: trend on your hands. This is not how you stop

800
00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:37,480
Speaker 1: opt outs. It's not how you do it at all.

801
00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:39,960
Speaker 1: Do you want to know an actual fix? An actual

802
00:38:40,040 --> 00:38:43,919
Speaker 1: fix is to convince the NCAA or do it without them,

803
00:38:44,160 --> 00:38:48,000
Speaker 1: that there should be actual compensation packages and revenue sharing

804
00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:51,960
Speaker 1: packages tied to these bowl games to incentivize the bowl game.

805
00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:54,360
Speaker 1: And I'm not just talking about paying both teams the

806
00:38:54,400 --> 00:38:57,600
Speaker 1: same amount, like if you make the Mini Key Carcare Bowl,

807
00:38:57,600 --> 00:38:59,680
Speaker 1: which I don't I don't think exist anymore. We're not

808
00:38:59,680 --> 00:39:02,640
Speaker 1: just going to give every kid on every team seventy

809
00:39:02,640 --> 00:39:05,160
Speaker 1: five hundred dollars do it like the XFL used to

810
00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:07,680
Speaker 1: do with their paychecks. Now, the winner is going to

811
00:39:07,719 --> 00:39:09,920
Speaker 1: take seventy five percent of the pot to divvy up

812
00:39:09,920 --> 00:39:12,080
Speaker 1: amongst their roster, and the loser is going to take

813
00:39:12,080 --> 00:39:15,240
Speaker 1: twenty five percent. You're not getting paid until you play

814
00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:17,960
Speaker 1: in the game, though, If you want to actually make

815
00:39:18,000 --> 00:39:21,000
Speaker 1: bowl games meaningful again, after the damage that you've done,

816
00:39:21,040 --> 00:39:23,720
Speaker 1: to them by calling a meaningless That's an actual fix,

817
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:26,720
Speaker 1: not this garbage that people are talking about. Expanding the playoff.

818
00:39:26,880 --> 00:39:29,520
Speaker 1: That's not fixing anything. What that's doing is looking at

819
00:39:29,520 --> 00:39:31,880
Speaker 1: the front yard saying Colin, we got a weed in

820
00:39:31,880 --> 00:39:34,440
Speaker 1: the front yard. And then Colin says, I'll fix it,

821
00:39:34,719 --> 00:39:37,080
Speaker 1: and then he runs a lawnmower over the weed and says, look,

822
00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:39,400
Speaker 1: the weed's gone. No, it's not. The weed's going to

823
00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:40,840
Speaker 1: be back in two days. If you grew up in

824
00:39:40,840 --> 00:39:42,680
Speaker 1: the South, you know exactly what I'm talking about. You

825
00:39:42,840 --> 00:39:45,400
Speaker 1: just had a temporary fix. You put lipstick on the pig,

826
00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:47,279
Speaker 1: and then you feel good about yourself. You got your

827
00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:51,280
Speaker 1: expanded playoff. You're not fixing anything. How about having actual fixes.

828
00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:54,400
Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong, there are things that need to

829
00:39:54,400 --> 00:39:56,960
Speaker 1: be fixed about this sport. But I want to tell

830
00:39:57,000 --> 00:40:00,239
Speaker 1: you one of the very detrimental aspects that you have

831
00:40:00,280 --> 00:40:03,440
Speaker 1: the power to fix. And you know it sounds kind

832
00:40:03,440 --> 00:40:05,520
Speaker 1: of like I'm hopping point to point right here. It's

833
00:40:05,560 --> 00:40:08,319
Speaker 1: all connected. There are a lot of voices in this

834
00:40:08,400 --> 00:40:10,920
Speaker 1: sport right now that have no business in this sport.

835
00:40:11,280 --> 00:40:13,759
Speaker 1: You know exactly who I'm talking about. You can look

836
00:40:13,800 --> 00:40:16,160
Speaker 1: around on Twitter and know the clowns who are not

837
00:40:16,320 --> 00:40:19,600
Speaker 1: passionate about this sport. They don't have this sport's best

838
00:40:19,640 --> 00:40:22,240
Speaker 1: interest at the forefront of their work. They don't seem

839
00:40:22,280 --> 00:40:24,560
Speaker 1: to love what they're doing. They view it as a

840
00:40:24,640 --> 00:40:27,600
Speaker 1: job or a chore. They were on the career interstate

841
00:40:27,640 --> 00:40:31,520
Speaker 1: headed one direction, and fate made them get off at

842
00:40:31,560 --> 00:40:33,839
Speaker 1: the exit ramp. They didn't really want to get off

843
00:40:33,840 --> 00:40:37,000
Speaker 1: on and it said sports media. And so, for whatever reason,

844
00:40:37,239 --> 00:40:41,080
Speaker 1: here they are. Those people do not need to have

845
00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:44,480
Speaker 1: a valued voice at this table. But I'm not advocating

846
00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:46,319
Speaker 1: for anyone to lose their job. Far be it from

847
00:40:46,320 --> 00:40:48,279
Speaker 1: me to say that. What I'm telling you is you

848
00:40:48,400 --> 00:40:53,160
Speaker 1: got the power your clicks, your readership, your subscription, whatever

849
00:40:53,200 --> 00:40:55,680
Speaker 1: the case may be. Where your eyeballs go and where

850
00:40:55,719 --> 00:40:59,560
Speaker 1: your attention goes, energy will then flow in this industry.

851
00:41:00,000 --> 00:41:02,839
Speaker 1: That's what's given someone like me the opportunity to go

852
00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:05,560
Speaker 1: from running some independent YouTube channel out of a news

853
00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:08,360
Speaker 1: studio in Columbus, Georgia two years ago to working for

854
00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:10,719
Speaker 1: the biggest media company on planet or two years later.

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Speaker 1: You did that, and so if you did it with me,

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Speaker 1: I'm watching our dude, R J Young go from doing

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Speaker 1: an independent channel of his own to being hired by

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Speaker 1: Fox Sports the other day, and congratulations to him. By

859
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Speaker 1: the way, it's not about whether you agree with folks

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Speaker 1: all the time. It's about getting people who are passionate

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Speaker 1: about the game and love the game and giving them

862
00:41:29,680 --> 00:41:33,880
Speaker 1: your attention and looking away from these clowns on national

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00:41:33,920 --> 00:41:37,760
Speaker 1: platforms who do nothing but trash this sport in really

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00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:40,840
Speaker 1: fancy terminology sometimes so they're able to dress it up enough.

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Speaker 1: You have that power, And there's one more thing you

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Speaker 1: have the power to do. You have the power as

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Speaker 1: a fan, as a collective, as a monolith. College football

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Speaker 1: fans have the power to hold their athletic departments accountable

869
00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:55,880
Speaker 1: because really, at the forefront of what it's going to

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Speaker 1: take to fix college football is not expanding the playoff,

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Speaker 1: it's not lowering the scholarship cap limit. If you did

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Speaker 1: nothing more than made better hiring decisions on the front end,

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Speaker 1: you would reap the benefits on the back end. There

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Speaker 1: is no exclusivity that insures only a few teams are

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Speaker 1: going to win in this sport. There isn't. If there was,

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Speaker 1: LSU would never have made it to the table last year.

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Speaker 1: They went from having not made the Playoff to making

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Speaker 1: it and winning. Why Because they got the right coaches

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Speaker 1: in there, they had the right transfer mix in there,

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Speaker 1: they had the right culture, they had the right players.

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Speaker 1: Like they did it. Okay, Texas is capable of that,

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Speaker 1: Southern Col's capable of that. Tennessee is capable of that.

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Speaker 1: Clemson has shown you how to do it. They've only

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Speaker 1: become a national program at national powerhouse in the last

885
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Speaker 1: few years. It's not the system keeping you down. Some

886
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Speaker 1: people make crappy hires, you get crappy results, and then

887
00:42:47,440 --> 00:42:51,359
Speaker 1: you say, well, this college football, this complex out here,

888
00:42:51,520 --> 00:42:54,200
Speaker 1: this system, it's keeping us down. You are keeping you down.

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Speaker 1: In a lot of cases, the mirror is what's keeping

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Speaker 1: you down, not the system. So these are some actual

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Speaker 1: fixes that I think could take place in college football

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Speaker 1: that would actually yield positive results to where five years

893
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Speaker 1: from now you got several more folks at the table

894
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Speaker 1: because they've done what they need to do on the

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Speaker 1: front end, and they've rewired programs and they've changed their

896
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Speaker 1: way of thinking. That's how you get positive results, not

897
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Speaker 1: running the lawnmower over the weed, which is what a

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Speaker 1: lot of people are suggesting, whether they know it or not.

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Speaker 1: I think we've talked enough tonight, Colin. That's forty five minutes.

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Speaker 1: So again we are back as long as we're going

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Speaker 1: to be allowed to be back here live in the studio.

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Speaker 1: We have got a lot coming up in January. I

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Speaker 1: mean I didn't even talk about new coaches and coaches

904
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Speaker 1: on the move. What's Tennessee doing with Kevin Steele. South

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Speaker 1: Carolina had a big time de commitment today from quarterback

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Speaker 1: Gunner Stockton as he headed to Auburn. I think he

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Speaker 1: will be Brian Harson. We got a lot more to

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00:43:45,280 --> 00:43:47,839
Speaker 1: talk about with him at Auburn Sarks at Texas Now.

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Speaker 1: Last night, twenty four hours ago, he was busy coaching

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Speaker 1: in the National Championship tam Today he was taking a

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Speaker 1: picture with a cal on the field in Austin. I

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00:43:55,320 --> 00:43:57,040
Speaker 1: know what his name is, but it just sounds better

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Speaker 1: when I just say at cow. So we've got a

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Speaker 1: lot to look to appreciate you being here. Make sure

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00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:04,400
Speaker 1: you subscribe to the twenty four to seven Sports YouTube channel.

916
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Speaker 1: I cannot, in strong enough words encourage that we've got

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Speaker 1: some subtle changes. I guess coming to the show. It's

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Speaker 1: going to slowly evolve over the off season to where

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Speaker 1: when we get to the next college football season, and

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Speaker 1: probably before that, probably the spring, if we have a spring.

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Speaker 1: We're excited about the product we're gonna be bringing you.

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Speaker 1: I'll just say that there is a lot of energy

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Speaker 1: being invested around these parts in Late Kick. I'm very

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Speaker 1: happy about that. I appreciate it. And so you know, again,

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Speaker 1: nothing's happening without you guys making it possible. So I

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Speaker 1: thank you every show, and I'll continue to thank you

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Speaker 1: for that until next time, which will be Thursday night.

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Speaker 1: For director Colin, for producer Jordan. On the podcast side

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Speaker 1: of things, I'm Josh Paton. Happy to be back live.

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Speaker 1: In case you haven't noticed, take care of have a

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Speaker 1: great rest of your evening, and God bless you.