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Speaker 1: but also Trel Harris Parker Livingstone, which, by the way,

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Speaker 1: are a couple of really really important wide receiver portal additions.

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Speaker 1: I would be interested to see how the depth E

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Speaker 1: merges at wide receiver beyond that. But anyway, you start

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Speaker 1: putting together the formula for Oklahoma football this year, and

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Speaker 1: I keep going back to PJ PJA because if he

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Speaker 1: pans out and becomes the pass rush presence that they

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Speaker 1: hope he can be and with fingers crossed that I

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Speaker 1: think he can be, then they're going to be a

439
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Speaker 1: really really hard out again this year. You may remember him.

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Speaker 1: He was in the portal for like two nanoseconds and

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Speaker 1: then he was out, and that caused a day's worth

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Speaker 1: of freak out on the message boards. But Oklahoma is

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Speaker 1: a team that paid very close attention to I know

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Speaker 1: that they made the playoff last year, and because they

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Speaker 1: couldn't run the ball, and because they gave up a

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Speaker 1: big lead at home. People kind of look at him

447
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Speaker 1: and they dismiss him. Don't dismiss them. Over Under at

448
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Speaker 1: FanDuel seven and a half wins again. I think that's

449
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Speaker 1: low for the second consecutive year. I have already put

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Speaker 1: my money where my mouth is on that particular matter.

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Speaker 1: Virginia Tech, James Franklin Country, It's Franklin time. Ethan Grunkmeyer

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Speaker 1: came with him from Penn State to Blacksburg to presumably

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Speaker 1: take over the QB one role. Now that's not sorted

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Speaker 1: out just yet. I mean they started spring practice a

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Speaker 1: couple of days ago, Grunkmeyer leading drills. We assumed he would.

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Speaker 1: Now my question here is kind of the opposite of

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Speaker 1: the way it normally works at the quarterback position. Normally,

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Speaker 1: you start spring ball and there's a quarterback battle, then

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Speaker 1: it works itself out. Now, these are not James Franklin's.

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Speaker 1: What I'm about to say are my words and my

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Speaker 1: words alone. I think the competition has to create itself there,

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Speaker 1: not in practice. I don't mean there isn't competition in practice.

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Speaker 1: I mean until further notice, I'm just gonna assume grunk

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Speaker 1: Meyer's the starting quarterback there again, these are my words,

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Speaker 1: not theirs. And then if Bryce Baker's North Carolina transfer

466
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Speaker 1: wants to challenge him, then you'll start to pick up

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Speaker 1: a little bit of that vibe as springball goes on

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Speaker 1: and you get a couple of scrimmages under your belt,

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Speaker 1: and it'll sound like this, Hey man, this quarterback battle

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Speaker 1: is not quite as decided as we thought it was

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Speaker 1: going to be. Boy, Bryce Baker third or fourth consecutive

472
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Speaker 1: day really really looked good in seven on seven and

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Speaker 1: the observation periods we had. You know what those headlines

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Speaker 1: start to feel like when you got a legit quarterback

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Speaker 1: battle on your hands. I just want to see if

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Speaker 1: one forms there. And until further notice, my personal stance

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Speaker 1: is Ethan Grunckmeyer's the guy at Oregon. I feel like

478
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Speaker 1: we hadn't zoomed don on this wide receiver situation enough.

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Speaker 1: At Oregon we've talked about the wide receiver situation, but

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Speaker 1: thus far when I have talked about wide receiver at Organ,

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Speaker 1: it's been Man, They're gonna get Evan Stewart back. That's wonderful.

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Speaker 1: Aud Corey Moore, Man, he's a monster. Yes, yes, true

483
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Speaker 1: and true. Those are two players normally you got more

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Speaker 1: than two on the field, and past those names, Jeremiah

485
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Speaker 1: McClellan is one that we should be talking about more.

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Speaker 1: They're talking about him a lot out of spring practice

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Speaker 1: up there, but past him, and this is why this

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Speaker 1: could end up being one of the best receiver rooms

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Speaker 1: in the country because past those players, Iverson Hooks, Gatlin Blair,

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Speaker 1: couple of potential impact freshmen. They really could if they

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Speaker 1: shake that receiver room and all the little marbles fall

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Speaker 1: into their respective slots, that could be a really, really

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Speaker 1: potent receiver room. Past just a couple of names, the

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Speaker 1: wide receiver room there, and of course the dB room

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Speaker 1: specifically the cornerback position on the perimeter. No matter if

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Speaker 1: it's offense or defense on the field, Oregon will be

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Speaker 1: tough to match this upcoming year. Now. The follow up

498
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Speaker 1: to that is, of course, as is the case every year,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna have something to circle here with them. It's

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Speaker 1: offensive line. It's early in spring ball. Not a ton

501
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Speaker 1: of buzz one way or the other on offensive line.

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Speaker 1: That's what we're listening for. Rumor on the street is

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Speaker 1: we'll even head up there later in the spring. That's

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Speaker 1: rumor on the street. We'll see. What about Michigan. Of course,

505
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Speaker 1: headline's pretty clear at Michigan. How's Bryce Underwood looking? Well?

506
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Speaker 1: They made him an offensive team captain, So there's that

507
00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:43,879
Speaker 1: had some healthy intel. It's not privileged, it's kind of public.

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Speaker 1: Everyone knows about it. Look at his wide receiver corps.

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Speaker 1: All right, So Andrew marsh is there. Yes, but also

510
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Speaker 1: Jamie French former Texas player, is there. JJ Buchanan is there.

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Speaker 1: It's a new offense. So he's two systems in two years.

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Speaker 1: Talking about Underwood, the world was expected of him the

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Speaker 1: moment he got on campus, and so that's something to

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Speaker 1: keep an eye on. Again, it's kind of early. But

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Speaker 1: the other thing that I'm watching with Michigan is linebacker.

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Speaker 1: I trust Trey Bowles beyond him, I am very interested

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Speaker 1: to see how that whole room shakes out. When you

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Speaker 1: think about a Kyle Whittingham team and just Michigan football

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Speaker 1: in general. I mean, that's a position room that just

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Speaker 1: stands out. Usually it's not one with a giant negative

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Speaker 1: a red minus sign next to it, which is not

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Speaker 1: what I'm saying. It is. See a question marks not

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Speaker 1: negative or positive. It's a question And they got a

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Speaker 1: little bit of a portal infusion in that room, so

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Speaker 1: interested to see how that turns out. But the general

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Speaker 1: scope of things, the general vibe of things that I

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Speaker 1: have around Michigan is this is not a place that

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Speaker 1: has to wait to win. This is not a place

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Speaker 1: that you get your new head coach in there. Let's

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Speaker 1: get a nice, solid eight win campaign under our belt.

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Speaker 1: Maybe nine if we're lucky. Maybe the way it works out,

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Speaker 1: but it doesn't have to work out that way. Michigan

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Speaker 1: could win the Big Ten this year. Michigan can make

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Speaker 1: the playoff this year, whether or not winning the Big Ten.

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Speaker 1: They could. They could go six and six too. I'm

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Speaker 1: just saying that the ceiling on this thing doesn't have

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Speaker 1: to be nine wins because they got plenty good enough

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Speaker 1: players up there. What about Arizona State, They got two

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Speaker 1: wide receivers out of the porl portal portal. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: say this again because you may want to clip this

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Speaker 1: later press. Arizona State got a couple of receivers out

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Speaker 1: of the portal, Reed Harris and Marion Miller. Those guys

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Speaker 1: came from Boston College in Colorado, respectively. It would not

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Speaker 1: surprise me by Halloween if we're looking at that combo

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Speaker 1: as sort of setting the pace in the Big twelve

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Speaker 1: as a wide receiver duo. They could be really, really good.

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Speaker 1: Now outside of just the receiver duo. There, we're looking

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Speaker 1: at the quarterback battle. Cutter bowl Lee out of Kentucky,

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Speaker 1: Mikey Keene there out of Michigan. I know you got

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Speaker 1: to go through your flash cards, your portal quarterback transfer

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Speaker 1: flash cards, and they're running in that order so far,

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Speaker 1: Cutter Bowley until I see otherwise, I'm gonna assume he

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Speaker 1: wins that job. Sounds like size and length are something

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Speaker 1: that well everyone focuses on. They focused on it, and

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00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:21,720
Speaker 1: it's noticeable talking to some people around their practice. So

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Speaker 1: far Circle Martel Hughes at linebacker. That's just a name.

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Speaker 1: It's always fun when we have a Big twelve team

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Speaker 1: in the middle of October and some guy's playing out

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Speaker 1: of his mind and we just randomly pull a clip

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Speaker 1: from March because they're about half a dozen I told

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Speaker 1: you sos per year that are more than erased by

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Speaker 1: the whiffs we have see DJ Lagway quarterback ranking last year,

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Speaker 1: but still makes me feel good. You know what would

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Speaker 1: make you feel good A T shirt from peytstatematerial dot com.

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Speaker 1: I guarantee you it would. Someone this morning showed us

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Speaker 1: their Little Freight, which is Peate State nomenclature for their

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Speaker 1: know when we show the monitor here, it's just stuff

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Speaker 1: that full grown normal adults would wear. Man the Little

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Speaker 1: Freight's collection, we moved some of those shirts. I wish

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Speaker 1: we actually made him an adult sizes because if you

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Speaker 1: don't think I'd wear one of those one of those

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Speaker 1: Little Freight shirts, you're you don't know me well enough.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, we got something over there for everyone. Pet

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Speaker 1: statemateial dot com. As you may have heard, now that

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Speaker 1: we're into the show a little bit, I can talk

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Speaker 1: about this as you may have heard of one of

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Speaker 1: our one of our loved ones, one of our close

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Speaker 1: dear friends of the program, has fallen. Now he's still alive.

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Speaker 1: I think as of six point thirty tonight he was

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Speaker 1: still alive. Cublic first named Cole went to Disney World

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Speaker 1: and apparently got a kidney stone. Now we have confirmed

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Speaker 1: this through sore close to the situation. In this case,

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Speaker 1: that means his wife co host of Tuesday Date Night podcast,

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Speaker 1: and there were pictures of him in the hospital room.

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Speaker 1: So look, if he was faking it, he went to

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Speaker 1: great links to fake it, so we're assuming he's not

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Speaker 1: faking it. He wouldn't do that sort of thing. And

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Speaker 1: let me tell you what we wouldn't do. We would

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Speaker 1: never cast aspersions. I have seen someone get a kidney

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Speaker 1: stone before. My high school baseball coach was Tommy Parks.

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Speaker 1: A lot of folks in the state of Georgia knew him.

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Speaker 1: He's passed away since then. Tommy Park's got a kidney

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Speaker 1: stone in the middle of class one day and hit

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Speaker 1: the floor and had to crawl to the bathroom. Tommy

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Speaker 1: Parks was a full grown Tommy Parks was a dude.

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Speaker 1: And so when I saw that as a sophomore in

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Speaker 1: high school, I said, I don't know much about life,

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Speaker 1: but I know I don't want one of those. And

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Speaker 1: so we fast forward all these years so far I

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Speaker 1: haven't had one. Kublic is not knocking on the same

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Speaker 1: wood immunity that I am. Because Kublic fell victim to

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Speaker 1: kidney stone. We think just one. We have not confirmed

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Speaker 1: the final tally at Disney World. And the only thing

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Speaker 1: I'm saying is condolence is sent. But The other thing

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Speaker 1: I'm saying, and I just want to put this out there,

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Speaker 1: and I don't want to make any allegations, and I

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Speaker 1: just want it said, is I think it's convenient a

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Speaker 1: little bit that this happens in March. You don't see

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Speaker 1: him getting them in November. That's all I'm saying. This

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Speaker 1: is the time of year. It's a dead season. Okay.

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Speaker 1: The SEO landscape is pretty barren this time of year.

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Speaker 1: Everything is still in the headlines from college football, and

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Speaker 1: there's a fight out there in the content creator space.

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Speaker 1: There is to make sure that you're still in the headlines. Now.

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Speaker 1: Our approach is to put out fresh, new content, but

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Speaker 1: you could also get a kidney stone that puts you

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Speaker 1: in the headlines as well. Because I log on Twitter

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Speaker 1: earlier today, it wasn't our show as one of the

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Speaker 1: breaking news headlines. It was Cole Kublic hit with kidney

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Speaker 1: Like there's someone on the loose tossing kidney stones left

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Speaker 1: know more, you'll know more. For some reason, Kublic doesn't

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Speaker 1: want to return my text right now. Your guess is

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Speaker 1: as good as mine. Let's continue. You know, schedules are public,

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Speaker 1: so we can talk about the following the following topic

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Speaker 1: without violating any hippolaws. We were talking about conference games

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Speaker 1: of the year the other day and it occurred to

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Speaker 1: me we didn't even look at non conference games, and

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Speaker 1: some of these are insane. So I just I had

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Speaker 1: a question about these, and I accumulated like half a

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Speaker 1: dozen of them. You got to start in Week two.

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Speaker 1: That's Ohio State at Texas. That's that return trip from

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Speaker 1: last year that we were at. And you know, if

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Speaker 1: you think about that game last year, it foretold a lot,

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Speaker 1: even though it was a Week one game. You think

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Speaker 1: about the result, and man, Texas has offense struggled today? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Texas has offense struggled a lot last year. Boy, Ohio

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Speaker 1: State's defense replacing all those departing starters they look nasty today. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they did all year. So there was a lot that,

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Speaker 1: as it turns out, we could figure out in Week

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Speaker 1: one from that game. And I just wonder if it's

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Speaker 1: a repeat this year, doesn't even have to be the

645
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Speaker 1: same teams winning or the same themes. I think the

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Speaker 1: kickoff time maybe a little later for this one since

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00:35:29,680 --> 00:35:31,920
Speaker 1: it's in Austin, then it would have been in Columbus

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Speaker 1: last year. But man, I'm ready. I am ready. I

649
00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:38,560
Speaker 1: know we only got a short five or six months

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Speaker 1: ahead of us, but I'm ready for that one. I think.

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Speaker 1: Also that week is Oklahoma at Michigan, so there are

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Speaker 1: a couple of I mean, these two rivals. You got

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Speaker 1: the Red River, you got the game, and you got

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Speaker 1: all four participants per year from those games sort of

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Speaker 1: playing a little. It's not a round robin, although we

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00:35:56,719 --> 00:35:59,000
Speaker 1: eventually will be a round robin because everyone will pretty

657
00:35:59,040 --> 00:36:01,520
Speaker 1: much play everyone. It won't but you know, you know

658
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Speaker 1: what I mean. Oklahoma and Michigan last year in Norman

659
00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:08,640
Speaker 1: was an amazing atmosphere. We were there for it, and

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Speaker 1: we'll see if we can get to this one this year.

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Speaker 1: But this is a massive test for Bryce Underwood. And

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00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:17,440
Speaker 1: this one's in Ann Arbor this year, and you've got

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Speaker 1: a new coaching staff and you've got a new offensive

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Speaker 1: system you're in and it's the first really big spot

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Speaker 1: for Kyle Whittingham as the head coach at Michigan. But

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Speaker 1: you know what else it is, it's a real test

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Speaker 1: for Oklahoma's offense because they couldn't run the ball last year,

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Speaker 1: and John Matteer's back now, so we got to see

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Speaker 1: at what level is he going to play this year?

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Speaker 1: Can Oklahoma go into someone else's building known for stopping

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00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:44,520
Speaker 1: to run and run the ball effectively? How deep and

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Speaker 1: effective does that Oklahoma receiver room really look? Does Brent

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00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:51,000
Speaker 1: Vennables just trot out an elite defense of his own

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Speaker 1: right out of the gate? Again? I mean, do they

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Speaker 1: go up there and make seventeen points good enough to

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00:36:55,560 --> 00:36:59,080
Speaker 1: beat Michigan in their home building? Or does Michigan hang

677
00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:01,319
Speaker 1: thirty all of a sudden makes say, wow, they look

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00:37:01,360 --> 00:37:03,759
Speaker 1: better today than they did at any point last year offensively.

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Speaker 1: That's why we play the games next up week one.

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Speaker 1: It feels like I skipped over Week one. No, I

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Speaker 1: just kind of listed these in somewhat of an order

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Speaker 1: that I'm looking forward to. Clemson at LSU no neutral site, no,

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00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:22,360
Speaker 1: no neutral site. Foolishness here. Clemson is going to play

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Speaker 1: in Death Valley, the one on the road, just like

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Speaker 1: LSU did last year. Consider the variance in potential outcomes

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Speaker 1: in this game, because this could be a roller coaster

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Speaker 1: one way. The only way they wouldn't be a roller coaster. Actually,

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00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:41,359
Speaker 1: is LSU wins a competitive game, LSU favorite body about

689
00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:43,279
Speaker 1: ten and a half or so over at FANDUL right now.

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00:37:43,320 --> 00:37:45,000
Speaker 1: I hadn't checked that number in a couple of weeks.

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00:37:45,200 --> 00:37:48,000
Speaker 1: I just keep reciting it. But LSU is going to

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Speaker 1: be a comfortable favorite in this game. So if LSU

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Speaker 1: wins this game by a touchdown, kind of not that

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Speaker 1: big a deal. Go ahead eleven and a half al right,

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00:37:55,680 --> 00:37:57,400
Speaker 1: So LSU eleven and a half point favorite. So if

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Speaker 1: LSU wins this thing twenty seven to twenty, it's not

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Speaker 1: really a shocking outcome for anyone. Even Clemson fans will

698
00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:06,279
Speaker 1: look at it and say, yeah, this isn't fun, but

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00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:09,360
Speaker 1: you know what, we hung in there. This was a

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00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:12,279
Speaker 1: prime spot for us. We'll look our wounds, we'll come home,

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00:38:12,320 --> 00:38:14,520
Speaker 1: it's not a conference game. We'll gear up and we'll

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Speaker 1: go to work. However, there are two other outcomes that

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Speaker 1: I think are really really wild in variance of reaction,

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Speaker 1: and one of them is an LSU blowout. So if

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Speaker 1: LSU wins this thing thirty eight to ten, LSU's off

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Speaker 1: to the races. The hype machines out of control. Think

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Speaker 1: about what that does for Dabo Swinny and think about

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Speaker 1: what that does for Clemson because there is not a

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00:38:38,960 --> 00:38:42,000
Speaker 1: ton of rope there right now, and if they get

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Speaker 1: blown out in week one and the perception already is

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Speaker 1: maybe the program's continuing to trend down and down and down.

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Speaker 1: You know, Dabo's whole attitude is or I'll show you,

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Speaker 1: which it should be, by the way, but his whole

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00:38:55,640 --> 00:38:58,040
Speaker 1: attitude is I'll show you. But the thing about it is,

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Speaker 1: you say that March, think that in April or May,

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00:39:01,680 --> 00:39:04,040
Speaker 1: but when the games show up, that's when you actually

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Speaker 1: prove it. And if there's a blowout outcome here favor

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Speaker 1: home team, that's a bad deal for Clemson. But then

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Speaker 1: think about the other side of that coin. What if

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Speaker 1: Clemson goes down there wins twenty three seventeen. What if

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Speaker 1: Clemson pulls an outright upset. Think about the talk around

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Speaker 1: the potential resurrection of the entire Clemson brand and program,

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Speaker 1: And now that could be fool's gold. We know that

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Speaker 1: because LSU kind of fell victim to that last year,

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00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:34,239
Speaker 1: so it's not the end all be all. But if

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Speaker 1: Clemson goes down there's a double digit underdog and wins outright,

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Speaker 1: think about what it does for the Clemson hype balloon,

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Speaker 1: and then just the complete out of whack insane headlines

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Speaker 1: around Lane Kiffen and his first go round as the

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Speaker 1: LSU head coach. The one that I'm going to talk

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Speaker 1: to next to talk about next is week ten, so

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Speaker 1: it's a little bit later in the year. I want

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Speaker 1: you to close your eyes for a second unless you're driving,

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Speaker 1: of course, when you close your eyes for a second,

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Speaker 1: all right, Bradley, you can go ahead and roll because

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Speaker 1: I want the lower third here for this one. So

737
00:40:12,920 --> 00:40:17,279
Speaker 1: it's it's not September anymore. It's not hot outside. Still

738
00:40:17,280 --> 00:40:21,680
Speaker 1: got your eyes closed. It's cool. There's a christness in

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00:40:21,719 --> 00:40:24,520
Speaker 1: the air. The low was thirty eight degrees when you

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00:40:24,560 --> 00:40:29,440
Speaker 1: woke up this morning. The leaves are changing colors. Family

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00:40:29,920 --> 00:40:33,799
Speaker 1: is making Thanksgiving plans. You live in South Bend, Indiana,

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Speaker 1: and it's week ten and Miami comes to town this afternoon.

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00:40:40,160 --> 00:40:42,640
Speaker 1: Now that right there is what college football is all about.

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00:40:42,880 --> 00:40:46,759
Speaker 1: That is to me greater than the hype around a

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Speaker 1: playoff game, because Saturdays in the fall are what this

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00:40:50,520 --> 00:40:53,480
Speaker 1: sport is all about at its core to me. And

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00:40:53,520 --> 00:40:56,919
Speaker 1: the fact that Miami plays at Notre Dame and it's

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00:40:57,040 --> 00:41:03,160
Speaker 1: later in the year, old school rival classic environment, like

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00:41:04,160 --> 00:41:07,799
Speaker 1: the energy in that building will be better than any

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Speaker 1: neutral site playoff game or national title game you go to.

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00:41:10,680 --> 00:41:13,840
Speaker 1: We witness that every year. That's why college stadiums in

752
00:41:13,880 --> 00:41:19,680
Speaker 1: the fall are incredible unmatched. But also just think about

753
00:41:19,680 --> 00:41:23,719
Speaker 1: the matchup and think about by then us finding out.

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00:41:24,160 --> 00:41:28,080
Speaker 1: I mean, how Notre Dame backfill at running back with

755
00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:30,680
Speaker 1: love and Price gone, because I think they'll be really good,

756
00:41:30,760 --> 00:41:32,480
Speaker 1: but you know what, they got to prove it still?

757
00:41:33,320 --> 00:41:35,520
Speaker 1: Am I right when I think Notre Dame may have

758
00:41:35,560 --> 00:41:38,560
Speaker 1: the most underrated receiver room in the country. How Darien

759
00:41:38,640 --> 00:41:42,640
Speaker 1: Mensa work out? How the receiver room behind Malachaitni at

760
00:41:42,680 --> 00:41:47,440
Speaker 1: Miami workout about? What about defensively? Is Miami able to

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00:41:47,880 --> 00:41:50,880
Speaker 1: affect the pass or affect the quarterback nearly to the

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Speaker 1: degree they were a year ago. These are two national

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Speaker 1: championship contenders and they're going to play in Week ten.

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Speaker 1: It's every game is now the conference game for Notre Dame.

765
00:41:59,680 --> 00:42:02,239
Speaker 1: But this is a huge deal. But you know what,

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Speaker 1: I got a Notre Dame game before that one. It's

767
00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:07,920
Speaker 1: just not going to be on many radars. And that

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00:42:08,040 --> 00:42:11,200
Speaker 1: is Notre Dame at Brigham Young four weeks earlier. I

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Speaker 1: think because there's a bye week baked in here, Notre

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00:42:14,000 --> 00:42:16,360
Speaker 1: Dame at Miami's going to get all the headlines. Notre

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00:42:16,480 --> 00:42:19,640
Speaker 1: Dame at BYU is absolutely one of the top out

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Speaker 1: of conference games of the year because it's Notre dame

773
00:42:21,640 --> 00:42:26,680
Speaker 1: seventh straight game to start the year, and Brigham Young's

774
00:42:26,719 --> 00:42:29,600
Speaker 1: going to be sitting there, probably ranked top ten. No

775
00:42:29,640 --> 00:42:32,600
Speaker 1: one will have talked about this game. Everyone and their

776
00:42:32,600 --> 00:42:34,600
Speaker 1: mother is going to talk about how soft Notre Dame

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00:42:34,640 --> 00:42:37,480
Speaker 1: schedule is and how it's a one or a two

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Speaker 1: game season, and Brigham Young will not be one of

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Speaker 1: the games they're talking about. It'll probably be Miami, And

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00:42:43,200 --> 00:42:45,400
Speaker 1: like maybe SMU who comes in there a little bit later,

781
00:42:46,640 --> 00:42:49,239
Speaker 1: and you got an ultra physical team here, you got

782
00:42:49,239 --> 00:42:52,839
Speaker 1: an ultra experienced team. Kalanas Taki could have left there

783
00:42:53,160 --> 00:42:56,799
Speaker 1: and chose to stay, and the lasting taste in their

784
00:42:56,840 --> 00:43:00,640
Speaker 1: mouths were two big losses on the biggest stages last

785
00:43:00,680 --> 00:43:02,319
Speaker 1: year when they got to play Texas Tech and they

786
00:43:02,360 --> 00:43:09,160
Speaker 1: get Notre Dame in provo. So everyone can just paper

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Speaker 1: that thing as a gimme w if you want to.

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Speaker 1: I do not personally, and I'm looking forward to that

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Speaker 1: when that one's in week seven. And lastly, and I

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00:43:19,280 --> 00:43:22,640
Speaker 1: look biggrudgingly, I'm gonna put a neutral site game on here.

791
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Speaker 1: I have a morbid curiosity about Auburn Baylor in week one.

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00:43:28,840 --> 00:43:35,839
Speaker 1: This is in Atlanta. Dave Randa, I firmly believe would

793
00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:38,680
Speaker 1: have lost his job last year had his athletic director

794
00:43:38,719 --> 00:43:41,480
Speaker 1: and not lost his job first. So it was kind

795
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Speaker 1: of like, I've got all my boxes packed in my office,

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Speaker 1: and I've got the for sale sign in my garage

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Speaker 1: ready to put out in my front yard. And then

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Speaker 1: I wake up one morning and my phone's going crazy

799
00:43:54,680 --> 00:43:56,520
Speaker 1: and it's a bunch of tech saying did you see

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Speaker 1: the news? Be more specific, by the way, when something happens,

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00:44:00,080 --> 00:44:02,160
Speaker 1: and then I see the news that, oh my boss

802
00:44:02,200 --> 00:44:05,000
Speaker 1: got fired, there's no one here to fire me, and

803
00:44:05,120 --> 00:44:07,000
Speaker 1: certainly the new guy is not going to do it.

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Speaker 1: This is basically a recap of Baylor football twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 1: So Dave Randa, who we love, Dave Randa, sticks around

806
00:44:14,040 --> 00:44:16,880
Speaker 1: another year now. This time. Last year, there were some

807
00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:21,200
Speaker 1: coaches that got the proverbial professional stay of execution, and

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00:44:21,239 --> 00:44:23,680
Speaker 1: then they all just proceeded to get fired during the

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00:44:23,719 --> 00:44:29,080
Speaker 1: following year. So if Baylor goes down at the hands

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Speaker 1: of Alex Golish in his first go around the merry

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Speaker 1: go around as the head coach at Auburn, that doesn't

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Speaker 1: set him up for success. It does set Alex Golish

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Speaker 1: up for success, obviously. But the other thing that I

814
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Speaker 1: need to remind everyone about is, while you're busy making

815
00:44:44,400 --> 00:44:47,520
Speaker 1: fun of Byron Brown's throwing motion at Auburn, do you

816
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Speaker 1: know who the starting quarterback is going to be at Baylor?

817
00:44:50,400 --> 00:44:54,520
Speaker 1: It's Dj Lagway. Now you always thought, hey man, I

818
00:44:54,560 --> 00:44:57,759
Speaker 1: may see Dj Lagway playing Mercedes been steadium one day.

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Speaker 1: You are. It's just not in the SEC championship game

820
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Speaker 1: as the quarterback of the Florida Gators. It is against Baylor.

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Speaker 1: Hoops amongst us, Hoopstead have seen that coming. So those

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00:45:08,840 --> 00:45:11,719
Speaker 1: are some ount of conference games I got circled. Winston's

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Speaker 1: are Winston Salem, North Carolina tuned in, Bandera, Texas and Augusta,

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Speaker 1: Georgia all tuned in. Appreciate you guys so much. Make

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Speaker 1: sure hold on, hold on, hold on, all right, there

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Speaker 1: we go. Make sure you subscribe to the channel if

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Speaker 1: you have not already. And you know I never ask

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Speaker 1: for this but it doesn't hurt if you just click

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Speaker 2: Two.

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Speaker 1: You know, we don't live and die by likes around here.

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Speaker 1: We don't need to be liked. We like to be liked.

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Speaker 1: It's good to be liked. We need to be loved,

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Speaker 1: but we don't need to be liked. But we appreciate

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Speaker 1: it when you click the thumbs up there. So Winston

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Speaker 1: from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma hit me up and said, if

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Speaker 1: the SEC misses out on the National Title Game again,

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Speaker 1: how much longer are we gonna label them a power

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Speaker 1: to conference? Winston, it is a power to world for

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Speaker 1: the foreseeable future. And I don't care if the SEC

841
00:46:06,680 --> 00:46:09,040
Speaker 1: doesn't even make the Final four this year. That's kind

842
00:46:09,080 --> 00:46:10,759
Speaker 1: of the way it is now. You don't have to

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Speaker 1: like it. By the sounds of it, Winston, I would

844
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Speaker 1: guess you don't like it, and newsflash, I don't particularly

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00:46:16,719 --> 00:46:19,719
Speaker 1: love it either. But that is the way it is.

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Speaker 1: And it's for a million different reasons, most notably the

847
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Speaker 1: entire concept of haves and have nots. They are the

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Speaker 1: haves even if they don't have a spot in the

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Speaker 1: National Title Game any given year or any several group

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Speaker 1: of years, they are still one of the two major

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Speaker 1: havelves in this sport. Now, why why are we really

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Speaker 1: asking this? We're probably asking this because we don't like

853
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Speaker 1: the SEC, Winston, that would be my guess, which is

854
00:46:48,040 --> 00:46:52,520
Speaker 1: totally fine, A lot of folks don't. But what are

855
00:46:52,560 --> 00:46:55,439
Speaker 1: we really asking? Bradley? Did me fair? Put the question

856
00:46:55,520 --> 00:46:59,960
Speaker 1: up again? Just just notice the wording here that wentz

857
00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:03,400
Speaker 1: Than from Oklahoma City provided us if they don't make so,

858
00:47:03,440 --> 00:47:06,320
Speaker 1: if the SEC misses out on the national title game again,

859
00:47:06,560 --> 00:47:08,400
Speaker 1: how much longer are we going to label them a

860
00:47:08,440 --> 00:47:12,759
Speaker 1: power to conference? Well? Are we asking to bump the

861
00:47:12,840 --> 00:47:16,480
Speaker 1: SEC down and bump someone else ahead of them as

862
00:47:16,520 --> 00:47:20,200
Speaker 1: one of the power too, because certainly the ACC and

863
00:47:20,239 --> 00:47:24,160
Speaker 1: the Big twelve aren't prepared to assume that. Mantle or Winston,

864
00:47:24,239 --> 00:47:28,000
Speaker 1: are you asking for us to remove the SEC from

865
00:47:28,040 --> 00:47:31,400
Speaker 1: that descriptor? And basically it's just the Big ten, then GAP,

866
00:47:31,760 --> 00:47:35,399
Speaker 1: then SEC, then maybe a gap and then everyone else.

867
00:47:35,440 --> 00:47:38,040
Speaker 1: So basically the Big ten is just power one? Is

868
00:47:38,040 --> 00:47:41,440
Speaker 1: that what we're asking? The entire thinking, I think is

869
00:47:41,520 --> 00:47:44,880
Speaker 1: kind of lazy. Winston, You are not lazy. You were hardworking.

870
00:47:44,920 --> 00:47:49,760
Speaker 1: People sometimes say lazy things and do lazy things. Lazy

871
00:47:49,760 --> 00:47:53,000
Speaker 1: people rarely do hardworking things. Memal always used to say that,

872
00:47:53,080 --> 00:47:56,360
Speaker 1: so there is a difference there. I think the mentality

873
00:47:56,440 --> 00:48:00,600
Speaker 1: is lazy, and I stand by that. I stand by

874
00:48:00,640 --> 00:48:03,120
Speaker 1: that no matter what the circumstances of this particular year are.

875
00:48:03,760 --> 00:48:06,400
Speaker 1: If you were watching last year, I think it was

876
00:48:06,440 --> 00:48:10,799
Speaker 1: the morning after the Fiesta Bowl. Yeah, yeah, yeah, because

877
00:48:10,800 --> 00:48:13,160
Speaker 1: this is when I told Compton and Will I had

878
00:48:13,200 --> 00:48:15,560
Speaker 1: to or Compton and Will of the same person. I

879
00:48:15,560 --> 00:48:17,839
Speaker 1: told him I had to get to Atlanta for a

880
00:48:17,840 --> 00:48:19,600
Speaker 1: sports center hit the next morning and a get up

881
00:48:19,640 --> 00:48:20,960
Speaker 1: hit the next morning, and I just did it from

882
00:48:20,960 --> 00:48:25,040
Speaker 1: my hotel room. Production lines got crossed. Anyway. It was

883
00:48:25,080 --> 00:48:29,279
Speaker 1: the morning after ole Miss got eliminated by Miami and

884
00:48:29,640 --> 00:48:31,680
Speaker 1: it became clear, for the third straight year, the SEC

885
00:48:31,719 --> 00:48:33,439
Speaker 1: wasn't going to have a team in the National Title Game.

886
00:48:34,440 --> 00:48:36,719
Speaker 1: And I was doing get up and Greeney asked, me,

887
00:48:36,840 --> 00:48:40,200
Speaker 1: all right, now that ole Miss is out, it's guaranteed

888
00:48:40,239 --> 00:48:41,560
Speaker 1: that the SEC is not going to be in the

889
00:48:41,640 --> 00:48:45,160
Speaker 1: National Title Game. Does that mean the conference has I

890
00:48:45,160 --> 00:48:46,880
Speaker 1: can't remember what the rest of the question is, but

891
00:48:46,920 --> 00:48:49,680
Speaker 1: I remember saying I wouldn't feel any different about the

892
00:48:49,719 --> 00:48:52,160
Speaker 1: SEC if ole Miss had won last night. So one

893
00:48:52,200 --> 00:48:54,960
Speaker 1: possession game. It's a close game, you're telling me, like

894
00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:58,279
Speaker 1: a couple of bounces of ball in one football game

895
00:48:59,040 --> 00:49:02,480
Speaker 1: with one team from your conference participating. That's a reflection

896
00:49:02,560 --> 00:49:04,759
Speaker 1: of your entire league. Of course it's not. But if

897
00:49:04,760 --> 00:49:08,239
Speaker 1: you want to play that game, Winston, let's walk it

898
00:49:08,280 --> 00:49:11,760
Speaker 1: through to its illogical conclusion. Let me pinch you a scenario.

899
00:49:12,040 --> 00:49:13,640
Speaker 1: All right, follow along here. You don't have to close

900
00:49:13,680 --> 00:49:15,959
Speaker 1: your eyes. We already did that earlier. But just follow

901
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:20,960
Speaker 1: along here, Winston, Since making the national title game or

902
00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:23,080
Speaker 1: winning a national title is the end all, be all

903
00:49:23,080 --> 00:49:27,560
Speaker 1: indicator of the strength of a conference. Let's take Texas,

904
00:49:27,880 --> 00:49:32,120
Speaker 1: but you could take any team. Let's say Steve Sarkjan

905
00:49:32,239 --> 00:49:36,720
Speaker 1: and Texas go undefeated this year, just scorched to earth,

906
00:49:36,880 --> 00:49:39,239
Speaker 1: wired to wire, twelve and zero regular season, They win

907
00:49:39,320 --> 00:49:43,239
Speaker 1: the conference, they got a first round by they go boom, boom, boom,

908
00:49:43,719 --> 00:49:47,920
Speaker 1: and they win the national championship. What does that mean

909
00:49:47,960 --> 00:49:51,319
Speaker 1: about the SEC? Hold on, Hold on, because I haven't

910
00:49:51,360 --> 00:49:55,480
Speaker 1: finished the scenario, but so far, based on that logic,

911
00:49:55,760 --> 00:49:58,359
Speaker 1: what does that say about the SEC? Hey, they won

912
00:49:58,400 --> 00:50:01,120
Speaker 1: a national championship? Right, do they make the title game?

913
00:50:01,160 --> 00:50:03,160
Speaker 1: They won it? That means they're back, right, it means

914
00:50:03,239 --> 00:50:05,600
Speaker 1: power to conference, right, all Right, So the reason I

915
00:50:05,600 --> 00:50:07,560
Speaker 1: say I'm not done is because here's the rest of

916
00:50:07,600 --> 00:50:11,320
Speaker 1: the scenario. Texas goes undefeated, they win the national title.

917
00:50:12,360 --> 00:50:14,520
Speaker 1: No other team in the league is better than eight

918
00:50:14,560 --> 00:50:18,800
Speaker 1: and four. Did the SEC have a good year or

919
00:50:18,840 --> 00:50:21,239
Speaker 1: a bad year? Because I'd say the SEC had a

920
00:50:21,440 --> 00:50:27,200
Speaker 1: historically terrible year under that scenario. But according to your logic,

921
00:50:27,400 --> 00:50:30,680
Speaker 1: it's a phenomenal year because one of their member institutions

922
00:50:30,719 --> 00:50:33,960
Speaker 1: won the national title. Right, So what else matters? Now?

923
00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:38,319
Speaker 1: This understandably all comes down to personal preference, or it

924
00:50:38,320 --> 00:50:41,840
Speaker 1: comes down to the college football prism you choose to

925
00:50:41,920 --> 00:50:44,560
Speaker 1: view this world through. Some of you look around and

926
00:50:44,600 --> 00:50:47,440
Speaker 1: you say I judge a conference by the top of

927
00:50:47,480 --> 00:50:50,480
Speaker 1: the conference, and then others if you say, no, I

928
00:50:50,600 --> 00:50:55,040
Speaker 1: judge a conference by the overall collective depth of the conference. Frankly,

929
00:50:55,080 --> 00:50:58,000
Speaker 1: I don't really care either way. I tend maybe to

930
00:50:58,120 --> 00:51:00,640
Speaker 1: lean a little more towards the latter than the form.

931
00:51:00,800 --> 00:51:03,680
Speaker 1: Like I've got no problem saying I think the Big

932
00:51:03,719 --> 00:51:06,040
Speaker 1: ten's better at the top than the SEC. Right now,

933
00:51:06,440 --> 00:51:08,840
Speaker 1: I think if you go five through ten, the SEC

934
00:51:09,000 --> 00:51:12,160
Speaker 1: is probably better in terms of quality in that grouping.

935
00:51:12,680 --> 00:51:17,680
Speaker 1: So depth wise, edge SEC overall, top of the mountain,

936
00:51:17,880 --> 00:51:20,080
Speaker 1: edge Big Ten. It's kind of the way I see

937
00:51:20,080 --> 00:51:22,560
Speaker 1: the sport right now. It's all fluid. But here's what

938
00:51:22,600 --> 00:51:25,640
Speaker 1: I don't have room for. What I don't have room for, Winston,

939
00:51:26,040 --> 00:51:27,960
Speaker 1: and I appreciate you hitting this up, But what I

940
00:51:28,000 --> 00:51:31,120
Speaker 1: don't have room for is the third rail there, which

941
00:51:31,200 --> 00:51:34,920
Speaker 1: is I'm gonna judge a conference by unevenly applied criteria

942
00:51:36,080 --> 00:51:39,200
Speaker 1: because that's really what we're doing there. That's really what

943
00:51:39,239 --> 00:51:45,440
Speaker 1: we're doing because applied to any other conference outside of

944
00:51:45,480 --> 00:51:48,880
Speaker 1: the Big Ten, currently applied to any other conference, like, okay,

945
00:51:48,880 --> 00:51:53,320
Speaker 1: the SEC is missing out on a fourth straight national

946
00:51:53,440 --> 00:51:58,920
Speaker 1: championship game, Well who else is filling the bucket? Now?

947
00:51:58,960 --> 00:52:03,400
Speaker 1: The acc recently just had Miamigo, But before that, what

948
00:52:03,440 --> 00:52:06,520
Speaker 1: were we talking about? And for that matter, prior to

949
00:52:06,560 --> 00:52:10,600
Speaker 1: Miami last year, you take Clemson away from the ACCU

950
00:52:10,719 --> 00:52:13,279
Speaker 1: throughout the entirety of the twenty teams, and what did

951
00:52:13,280 --> 00:52:17,560
Speaker 1: we have? So I look at it like I just said,

952
00:52:18,120 --> 00:52:20,960
Speaker 1: as figure out what you value. But I'm telling you

953
00:52:21,120 --> 00:52:23,520
Speaker 1: right now, there's a world where the SEC has a

954
00:52:23,560 --> 00:52:27,040
Speaker 1: team win the national title this year and the league regresses.

955
00:52:27,520 --> 00:52:30,399
Speaker 1: That could very well happen. So I choose to look

956
00:52:30,400 --> 00:52:33,239
Speaker 1: at top to bottom. Well, probably not the bottom, but

957
00:52:33,360 --> 00:52:35,480
Speaker 1: I look at the top in the middle, and I'd

958
00:52:35,480 --> 00:52:37,760
Speaker 1: say the SEC is a really strong conference right now,

959
00:52:38,280 --> 00:52:41,399
Speaker 1: while you also grant that at the top they're getting

960
00:52:41,480 --> 00:52:46,000
Speaker 1: worked by Ohio State or Oregon or Indiana for that matter,

961
00:52:46,320 --> 00:52:49,160
Speaker 1: no problem admitting all that. I don't know why anyone

962
00:52:49,160 --> 00:52:50,600
Speaker 1: would have a problem with that, cause it's kind of

963
00:52:50,680 --> 00:53:00,239
Speaker 1: super obvious. Right now, we move on. This was a

964
00:53:00,280 --> 00:53:02,400
Speaker 1: really good question coming up, not that the others weren't.

965
00:53:02,440 --> 00:53:04,800
Speaker 1: I love you Winston, not that the other questions weren't,

966
00:53:04,960 --> 00:53:07,240
Speaker 1: but this one got me thinking a little bit. Earlier today,

967
00:53:08,239 --> 00:53:10,520
Speaker 1: Gordon up in Champagne, Illinois hit me and said, I

968
00:53:10,560 --> 00:53:12,960
Speaker 1: got two questions. First off, what's the better product the

969
00:53:13,000 --> 00:53:16,920
Speaker 1: college football Playoff or March Madness? And secondly, could we

970
00:53:17,000 --> 00:53:20,200
Speaker 1: see a lack of upsets in the NCAA tournament because

971
00:53:20,200 --> 00:53:24,560
Speaker 1: of Portland nil bleed into football? Just a really good

972
00:53:24,600 --> 00:53:27,839
Speaker 1: two parter got the gear spinning earlier today. All right,

973
00:53:27,880 --> 00:53:31,799
Speaker 1: First things first, there's no doubt in my mind, not

974
00:53:31,920 --> 00:53:35,480
Speaker 1: a moment's hesitation, March Madness is a way better product

975
00:53:35,719 --> 00:53:38,840
Speaker 1: than the college football Playoff. Just if we're judging post

976
00:53:38,960 --> 00:53:41,920
Speaker 1: season products. I didn't say the sport of basketball. I

977
00:53:41,960 --> 00:53:44,960
Speaker 1: prefer the sport of football or anything like that. The

978
00:53:45,040 --> 00:53:49,920
Speaker 1: NCAA Tournament in college basketball, as a standalone product is unmatched.

979
00:53:50,000 --> 00:53:52,440
Speaker 1: The college football Playoff doesn't come close to touch in

980
00:53:52,480 --> 00:53:56,319
Speaker 1: March Madness. Now here's the follow up to that. I

981
00:53:56,360 --> 00:53:59,399
Speaker 1: hope I never say anything other than that, because if

982
00:53:59,400 --> 00:54:03,360
Speaker 1: the college football Playoff ever becomes anything that remotely compares

983
00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:07,799
Speaker 1: to March Madness in the NCAA Tournament college basketball, that

984
00:54:07,840 --> 00:54:11,080
Speaker 1: means college football's regular season has gone up in smoke

985
00:54:12,080 --> 00:54:15,520
Speaker 1: in terms of value. And so I never I never

986
00:54:15,560 --> 00:54:17,560
Speaker 1: want to live in a world where the college football

987
00:54:17,560 --> 00:54:21,240
Speaker 1: Playoff even comes close to comparing to the NCAA Tournament

988
00:54:21,280 --> 00:54:25,040
Speaker 1: in basketball. When I mention the two sports, what comes

989
00:54:25,080 --> 00:54:27,799
Speaker 1: to mind? Or let me I guess. Before I answer

990
00:54:27,840 --> 00:54:30,719
Speaker 1: the second question, I should give you a little bit

991
00:54:30,760 --> 00:54:35,000
Speaker 1: of the logic there. This again comes down to your worldview,

992
00:54:35,040 --> 00:54:37,960
Speaker 1: like what do you enjoy? What do you value? There

993
00:54:37,960 --> 00:54:39,640
Speaker 1: are a lot of folks out there, there are a

994
00:54:39,640 --> 00:54:42,239
Speaker 1: lot of college football fans out there who value the

995
00:54:42,280 --> 00:54:45,160
Speaker 1: playoff first and foremost. A lot of you probably feel

996
00:54:45,160 --> 00:54:46,480
Speaker 1: that way. I don't happen to feel that way. I

997
00:54:46,520 --> 00:54:48,480
Speaker 1: didn't grow up that way. I don't feel that way now.

998
00:54:49,200 --> 00:54:51,080
Speaker 1: I think the regular season is the best part of

999
00:54:51,120 --> 00:54:54,320
Speaker 1: our sport. The postseason is a thing we do after

1000
00:54:54,440 --> 00:54:56,680
Speaker 1: the best part of our sport. I don't look at

1001
00:54:56,719 --> 00:54:59,160
Speaker 1: pro sports that way. I don't look at the NFL

1002
00:54:59,200 --> 00:55:01,960
Speaker 1: that way. The NFL playoffs and then the Super Bowl

1003
00:55:02,080 --> 00:55:06,160
Speaker 1: like those are the pinnacle of the NFL. College basketball,

1004
00:55:07,120 --> 00:55:10,359
Speaker 1: I largely don't watch college basketball during the regular season,

1005
00:55:10,400 --> 00:55:12,960
Speaker 1: but then when the NCAA Tournament starts, I'm glued to it.

1006
00:55:14,120 --> 00:55:17,920
Speaker 1: So my view on college football is that it's unique

1007
00:55:17,960 --> 00:55:21,080
Speaker 1: unto any sport in the world, and unique unto any

1008
00:55:21,080 --> 00:55:27,120
Speaker 1: sport in the American sporting scene. But what do you

1009
00:55:27,160 --> 00:55:31,880
Speaker 1: think about When I mentioned the sports college basketball, college football,

1010
00:55:32,000 --> 00:55:33,560
Speaker 1: and I snapped my finger, what's the first thing that

1011
00:55:33,600 --> 00:55:36,359
Speaker 1: comes to mind? I'll tell you for me. What comes

1012
00:55:36,400 --> 00:55:39,759
Speaker 1: to mind with college basketball is the first weekend of

1013
00:55:39,760 --> 00:55:42,920
Speaker 1: the NCAA tournament. What comes to mind when I think

1014
00:55:42,960 --> 00:55:46,600
Speaker 1: of college football is a Saturday in the fall. Here's

1015
00:55:46,640 --> 00:55:49,400
Speaker 1: the key difference there. The first weekend of the NCAA

1016
00:55:49,480 --> 00:55:53,360
Speaker 1: tournament last ninety six hours. Saturdays in the fall go

1017
00:55:53,440 --> 00:55:56,160
Speaker 1: on for thirteen weeks. We get like four months of it,

1018
00:55:57,560 --> 00:56:02,680
Speaker 1: So I want to extend whatever the pinnacle of my

1019
00:56:02,760 --> 00:56:05,120
Speaker 1: support is as long as possible. So that's why I

1020
00:56:05,120 --> 00:56:09,600
Speaker 1: always have preferred the construct of college football over college basketball.

1021
00:56:09,680 --> 00:56:12,000
Speaker 1: But the trade off there is that means the postseason

1022
00:56:12,040 --> 00:56:14,719
Speaker 1: product of college basketball it's gonna be far and away

1023
00:56:14,760 --> 00:56:18,480
Speaker 1: superior to college football. But the second part, do me

1024
00:56:18,480 --> 00:56:21,360
Speaker 1: a favor again. Bradley, throw that question up again. The

1025
00:56:21,440 --> 00:56:24,560
Speaker 1: second question here, that's what really got the Gears turning.

1026
00:56:25,160 --> 00:56:28,839
Speaker 1: He said, could we see lack of upsets in March

1027
00:56:28,960 --> 00:56:35,359
Speaker 1: madness because of Portland and il bleed into football and

1028
00:56:36,120 --> 00:56:40,160
Speaker 1: it already has? Is the answer? It already has. Jeff

1029
00:56:40,200 --> 00:56:43,200
Speaker 1: Goodman had a tweet the other day this was I

1030
00:56:43,280 --> 00:56:45,720
Speaker 1: believe present. This was Saturday morning? Is that what we said?

1031
00:56:45,840 --> 00:56:49,440
Speaker 1: I think it was Saturday morning. Jeff Goodman does a way, way,

1032
00:56:49,560 --> 00:56:52,120
Speaker 1: way better job covering college basketball than I even do

1033
00:56:52,160 --> 00:56:56,000
Speaker 1: it watching college basketball. But he said, Favorites went sixteen

1034
00:56:56,040 --> 00:56:58,440
Speaker 1: and oh yesterday, So this is Saturday. He's talking about Friday.

1035
00:56:58,640 --> 00:57:02,840
Speaker 1: Favorites went sixteen straight up yesterday. This year's first round

1036
00:57:02,880 --> 00:57:06,440
Speaker 1: had thirteen of thirty two games decided by twenty plus points.

1037
00:57:06,960 --> 00:57:09,920
Speaker 1: High Point was the only true mid major still alive,

1038
00:57:10,320 --> 00:57:13,080
Speaker 1: and it's nil. It's probably the most of any team

1039
00:57:13,120 --> 00:57:15,520
Speaker 1: in a one bid league. I hate to admit it,

1040
00:57:15,880 --> 00:57:19,120
Speaker 1: but due to nil in the portal, Cinderellas may be dead,

1041
00:57:20,680 --> 00:57:22,680
Speaker 1: which is not a good thing, man, because that's kind

1042
00:57:22,720 --> 00:57:25,280
Speaker 1: of what college basketball is built on. Now, college football,

1043
00:57:25,560 --> 00:57:27,560
Speaker 1: we've talked about this theme for a long time. The

1044
00:57:27,600 --> 00:57:30,720
Speaker 1: concept of a Cinderella has been dead and buried in

1045
00:57:30,760 --> 00:57:34,400
Speaker 1: college football, and by that I mean the concept of

1046
00:57:34,440 --> 00:57:37,040
Speaker 1: a G five team ever even being able to sniff

1047
00:57:37,040 --> 00:57:41,600
Speaker 1: a national championship. Those days probably never existed, but if

1048
00:57:41,640 --> 00:57:45,440
Speaker 1: they did exist, they are long gone. The Cinderella story

1049
00:57:45,680 --> 00:57:49,160
Speaker 1: in college football is Indiana. That's the Cinderella story. And

1050
00:57:49,320 --> 00:57:52,480
Speaker 1: really what makes that possible is a whole lot of

1051
00:57:52,560 --> 00:57:54,720
Speaker 1: money comes in and then it gets put in the

1052
00:57:54,720 --> 00:57:57,440
Speaker 1: hands of people who know how to spend it. But

1053
00:57:57,520 --> 00:58:00,600
Speaker 1: they also know how to evaluate and develop, so they

1054
00:58:00,600 --> 00:58:02,840
Speaker 1: know to get the right talent and then develop it

1055
00:58:02,880 --> 00:58:04,480
Speaker 1: and put it in the right place once they have

1056
00:58:04,560 --> 00:58:08,640
Speaker 1: the talent. But there are no have notts that are

1057
00:58:08,680 --> 00:58:13,840
Speaker 1: making runs in college football. But relatively speaking, the point

1058
00:58:13,880 --> 00:58:17,720
Speaker 1: stands because what he's saying there is in college basketball.

1059
00:58:18,600 --> 00:58:23,760
Speaker 1: Once upon a time you could out evaluate other programs,

1060
00:58:23,800 --> 00:58:26,560
Speaker 1: other major programs, and then you can get guys on

1061
00:58:26,600 --> 00:58:28,720
Speaker 1: campus and you could afford to develop them for a

1062
00:58:28,760 --> 00:58:31,440
Speaker 1: couple of years, and then you may get this veteran

1063
00:58:31,600 --> 00:58:34,680
Speaker 1: laden group at a mid major that makes a run

1064
00:58:34,680 --> 00:58:37,440
Speaker 1: in the NCAA tournament. Also, basketball is just a different

1065
00:58:37,480 --> 00:58:41,320
Speaker 1: sport functionally than football, and so that stuff could happen. Well,

1066
00:58:41,320 --> 00:58:44,360
Speaker 1: what he's saying is nowadays, if you do that, if

1067
00:58:44,400 --> 00:58:47,400
Speaker 1: Winthrop starts to get a freshman or a freshman turning

1068
00:58:47,440 --> 00:58:50,160
Speaker 1: into a sophomore that starts to really blossom, Michigan State

1069
00:58:50,240 --> 00:58:52,960
Speaker 1: just goes and gets him. And it's not that that

1070
00:58:53,120 --> 00:58:56,400
Speaker 1: never happened in the past, but not happens all over

1071
00:58:56,440 --> 00:58:58,880
Speaker 1: the place to where you just kind of become a

1072
00:58:59,000 --> 00:59:02,760
Speaker 1: lab for the premiere programs in the big conferences, and

1073
00:59:02,840 --> 00:59:05,320
Speaker 1: as a result, you don't really see the results in

1074
00:59:05,320 --> 00:59:06,840
Speaker 1: the first couple of rounds of the tournament that you

1075
00:59:06,920 --> 00:59:10,120
Speaker 1: used to when college football. That's happened as well. That's

1076
00:59:10,160 --> 00:59:12,440
Speaker 1: why I always talk about the concept of a G

1077
00:59:12,560 --> 00:59:14,840
Speaker 1: five playoff on this show. It's not because I want

1078
00:59:14,840 --> 00:59:17,960
Speaker 1: to rip opportunity away from G five teams quite the opposite.

1079
00:59:18,120 --> 00:59:20,600
Speaker 1: I wish I could re engineer the sport where the

1080
00:59:20,640 --> 00:59:25,080
Speaker 1: financial structure made it such that the G five didn't

1081
00:59:25,120 --> 00:59:30,680
Speaker 1: have to long for participation in the Power for Conferences

1082
00:59:30,840 --> 00:59:34,480
Speaker 1: Playoff tournament because they need to be subsidized financially. I

1083
00:59:34,520 --> 00:59:37,560
Speaker 1: wish that didn't exist as a problem, because if it

1084
00:59:37,600 --> 00:59:40,520
Speaker 1: didn't exist as a problem, then we wouldn't have to

1085
00:59:40,520 --> 00:59:42,960
Speaker 1: pretend one hundred and thirty eight or whatever teams are

1086
00:59:42,960 --> 00:59:45,680
Speaker 1: playing the same level of sport, and we could have

1087
00:59:45,840 --> 00:59:51,840
Speaker 1: tiers of playoff that loosely reflected teams of comparable resources

1088
00:59:51,880 --> 00:59:54,800
Speaker 1: competing against each other. As it stands right now, I'm

1089
00:59:54,840 --> 00:59:57,680
Speaker 1: supposed to believe LSU and U al Monroe are playing

1090
00:59:57,760 --> 01:00:00,760
Speaker 1: the same sport, and they're not. We have to pretend

1091
01:00:00,760 --> 01:00:04,320
Speaker 1: that they are so. In college football, once upon a

1092
01:00:04,360 --> 01:00:07,800
Speaker 1: time you had the Boise States of the world, and

1093
01:00:07,880 --> 01:00:11,000
Speaker 1: Chris Peterson at Boise State could go and he could

1094
01:00:11,960 --> 01:00:15,520
Speaker 1: find some players that had no offer from USC or

1095
01:00:15,560 --> 01:00:18,880
Speaker 1: Texas and he could get them on campus and you'd

1096
01:00:18,920 --> 01:00:21,560
Speaker 1: never even heard of some of them, and he would

1097
01:00:21,560 --> 01:00:26,240
Speaker 1: develop them and then they become a really, really culture rich,

1098
01:00:26,840 --> 01:00:31,880
Speaker 1: veteran senior laden team that can theoretically make a run

1099
01:00:32,080 --> 01:00:34,680
Speaker 1: pull up sets. They didn't have an expanded playoff back then,

1100
01:00:34,720 --> 01:00:37,080
Speaker 1: but if they did, Boise would be one of those teams.

1101
01:00:37,120 --> 01:00:40,280
Speaker 1: Central Florida had a couple of teams like that. That

1102
01:00:40,520 --> 01:00:45,640
Speaker 1: possibility is long gone. That's not happening anymore. The way

1103
01:00:45,680 --> 01:00:50,240
Speaker 1: it works now is those guys as freshmen and eventually

1104
01:00:50,320 --> 01:00:54,400
Speaker 1: sophomorores maybe a junior at those schools become what they

1105
01:00:54,400 --> 01:00:56,760
Speaker 1: were ultimately going to become, and then they're just at

1106
01:00:56,800 --> 01:01:00,760
Speaker 1: Texas the next year. Not just the players, the coaches too.

1107
01:01:01,120 --> 01:01:03,000
Speaker 1: We had two G five teams make the playoff this

1108
01:01:03,040 --> 01:01:05,800
Speaker 1: past year, Tulane and JMU. You know what they had

1109
01:01:05,800 --> 01:01:08,320
Speaker 1: in common, Their head coaches had to go back and

1110
01:01:08,360 --> 01:01:11,440
Speaker 1: forth to coach in the playoff because they had already

1111
01:01:11,520 --> 01:01:16,360
Speaker 1: taken other jobs. So basically, whether you call them a

1112
01:01:16,360 --> 01:01:18,919
Speaker 1: mid major or you call them a G five, what

1113
01:01:19,040 --> 01:01:22,640
Speaker 1: that's become is just a laboratory. It's just like an

1114
01:01:22,760 --> 01:01:27,320
Speaker 1: experimental lab for LSU to no longer need to roll

1115
01:01:27,360 --> 01:01:30,080
Speaker 1: the dice on offering a kid out of Thibodeau's scholarship

1116
01:01:30,080 --> 01:01:32,439
Speaker 1: who's a three star. You just go play for UL

1117
01:01:32,520 --> 01:01:35,800
Speaker 1: Lafayette and then if he ends up becoming anything, we'll

1118
01:01:35,840 --> 01:01:37,840
Speaker 1: just go get them a couple of years later. And

1119
01:01:37,960 --> 01:01:42,360
Speaker 1: what that does is it completely strips the possibility of

1120
01:01:42,400 --> 01:01:47,840
Speaker 1: any of those vintage Boise esque teams existing in major

1121
01:01:47,880 --> 01:01:53,160
Speaker 1: college football today. Depending on how you view the sport

1122
01:01:53,240 --> 01:01:56,280
Speaker 1: of basketball or football will determine whether you think that's

1123
01:01:56,280 --> 01:01:58,640
Speaker 1: a good or bad thing. Because when Jeff made that

1124
01:01:58,640 --> 01:02:02,840
Speaker 1: point about college basketball, well, some folks like me looked

1125
01:02:02,840 --> 01:02:05,520
Speaker 1: at it and said, that sucks, man, because I really

1126
01:02:05,560 --> 01:02:09,240
Speaker 1: miss the days where I could tune in and I

1127
01:02:09,240 --> 01:02:13,200
Speaker 1: could see a double digit underdog pull an upset a

1128
01:02:13,280 --> 01:02:16,720
Speaker 1: thirteen over a four on Thursday, and then forty eight

1129
01:02:16,760 --> 01:02:20,160
Speaker 1: hours later on Saturday, they pull another upset man at

1130
01:02:20,200 --> 01:02:23,960
Speaker 1: thirteen season sweet sixteen. That's awesome, and it's not that

1131
01:02:23,960 --> 01:02:27,200
Speaker 1: that couldn't happen, but the percentage chances of it are

1132
01:02:27,240 --> 01:02:29,960
Speaker 1: greatly reduced. But then other people look at it and say,

1133
01:02:30,240 --> 01:02:32,520
Speaker 1: this is not a bad thing at all. We want

1134
01:02:32,520 --> 01:02:36,520
Speaker 1: to see the best teams advancing in the tournament. That's great,

1135
01:02:36,800 --> 01:02:39,880
Speaker 1: that's all well and good, but you see, you've cooked

1136
01:02:39,880 --> 01:02:44,400
Speaker 1: yourself if you've got a playoff that's the size of

1137
01:02:44,440 --> 01:02:49,280
Speaker 1: college basketball. And then you want to make the argument that, well,

1138
01:02:49,320 --> 01:02:52,400
Speaker 1: we also we also want to load the tournament up

1139
01:02:52,400 --> 01:02:55,480
Speaker 1: on the back end with all the premiere brands. Well

1140
01:02:56,720 --> 01:02:59,560
Speaker 1: that kind of doesn't compute. Like to me, you kind

1141
01:02:59,560 --> 01:03:01,960
Speaker 1: of need one or the other. You kind of need

1142
01:03:02,000 --> 01:03:06,520
Speaker 1: a very, very meaningful regular season where they're gonna battle

1143
01:03:06,520 --> 01:03:08,320
Speaker 1: it out and then there are a finite amount of

1144
01:03:08,320 --> 01:03:13,040
Speaker 1: postseason spots, or you need baked into your expanded postseason

1145
01:03:13,080 --> 01:03:16,000
Speaker 1: the real shot of Cinderella runs. This is one of

1146
01:03:16,080 --> 01:03:20,080
Speaker 1: many reasons I'm against postseason expansion in college football. But

1147
01:03:20,200 --> 01:03:25,840
Speaker 1: the other thing is it is funny. While we got

1148
01:03:25,880 --> 01:03:28,080
Speaker 1: our own issues over on the college football side of

1149
01:03:28,120 --> 01:03:30,520
Speaker 1: the fence with playoff expansion, and you're either for it

1150
01:03:30,600 --> 01:03:33,360
Speaker 1: or you're against it. Even the people who are for

1151
01:03:33,480 --> 01:03:37,280
Speaker 1: playoff expansion in college football have to be listening to

1152
01:03:37,320 --> 01:03:39,760
Speaker 1: college basketball shaking their head in disbelief that these people

1153
01:03:39,800 --> 01:03:44,600
Speaker 1: are talking about expanding that tournament even further. Hey, look, newsflash,

1154
01:03:44,720 --> 01:03:48,200
Speaker 1: you may be a fan sitting in Chattanooga, Tennessee who

1155
01:03:48,240 --> 01:03:52,480
Speaker 1: really does want expansion because you want to see more ball.

1156
01:03:53,000 --> 01:03:56,000
Speaker 1: You and I may fundamentally disagree on the concept of

1157
01:03:56,000 --> 01:03:58,040
Speaker 1: scarcity and how it relates to the size that the

1158
01:03:58,080 --> 01:04:01,480
Speaker 1: playoff should be. But whatever disagreed before, we'll disagree again.

1159
01:04:01,520 --> 01:04:04,080
Speaker 1: But I got a news flash for you. Those people

1160
01:04:04,120 --> 01:04:06,800
Speaker 1: don't want expansion for the same reason you want expansion.

1161
01:04:07,120 --> 01:04:10,280
Speaker 1: It's no coincidence that they're all of a sudden shouting

1162
01:04:10,320 --> 01:04:14,920
Speaker 1: about expansion now that the construct of the sports, relatively speaking,

1163
01:04:16,080 --> 01:04:18,520
Speaker 1: have worked themselves into such a manner where it's all

1164
01:04:18,560 --> 01:04:21,120
Speaker 1: but impossible that the little guy can make a run.

1165
01:04:21,600 --> 01:04:24,120
Speaker 1: You expand the NCAA tournament. It's just more Big ten

1166
01:04:24,160 --> 01:04:26,840
Speaker 1: and SEC teams at the table, or ACC teams or whatever.

1167
01:04:27,520 --> 01:04:31,280
Speaker 1: And that's why, shockingly, they're all on board with it,

1168
01:04:31,400 --> 01:04:34,840
Speaker 1: just like in college football. Like you may think twenty

1169
01:04:34,880 --> 01:04:39,120
Speaker 1: four teams is great because your personal college football worldview

1170
01:04:39,160 --> 01:04:41,280
Speaker 1: is that that would be a better thing. You and

1171
01:04:41,360 --> 01:04:44,680
Speaker 1: I disagree on that, but reasonable minds can disagree on that.

1172
01:04:45,240 --> 01:04:47,600
Speaker 1: They don't want expansion for the same reasons you do.

1173
01:04:49,240 --> 01:04:52,240
Speaker 1: So yeah, I think there's a lot of connective tissue there.

1174
01:04:52,440 --> 01:04:55,840
Speaker 1: That was a really good question. Let's move along. Who

1175
01:04:55,960 --> 01:04:58,320
Speaker 1: already over an hour. I told you we were jam packed.

1176
01:04:58,360 --> 01:05:01,960
Speaker 1: I tried to warn you hit us up in Munthsy, Indiana.

1177
01:05:02,040 --> 01:05:03,880
Speaker 1: He said, what if I told you I'm from the future.

1178
01:05:04,320 --> 01:05:06,320
Speaker 1: And came back to tell you Notre Dame's winning at

1179
01:05:06,360 --> 01:05:09,280
Speaker 1: all this season. What would that mean for you and

1180
01:05:09,320 --> 01:05:12,080
Speaker 1: the sport? Well, for me, it would just mean wow,

1181
01:05:12,160 --> 01:05:14,480
Speaker 1: Notre Dame won the national championship. They got close couple

1182
01:05:14,520 --> 01:05:16,919
Speaker 1: of years ago. Now they won one. It would also

1183
01:05:17,160 --> 01:05:21,840
Speaker 1: mean yet another cannot was exposed, as it has not,

1184
01:05:22,240 --> 01:05:24,280
Speaker 1: because there are a lot of people who have bought

1185
01:05:24,280 --> 01:05:27,240
Speaker 1: into the idea that Notre Dame cannot win a national

1186
01:05:27,280 --> 01:05:31,360
Speaker 1: title in the modern era of college football, whatever that means.

1187
01:05:31,960 --> 01:05:35,760
Speaker 1: And if they win it, then we would yet again

1188
01:05:35,840 --> 01:05:38,760
Speaker 1: have another one of those dominoes knocked down. The more

1189
01:05:38,800 --> 01:05:41,520
Speaker 1: the better, in my opinion, there's several of them out

1190
01:05:41,520 --> 01:05:45,080
Speaker 1: there right now. I don't want to overlook how rare

1191
01:05:45,160 --> 01:05:48,280
Speaker 1: this is. I don't want to overlook how special what

1192
01:05:48,360 --> 01:05:51,440
Speaker 1: Marcus Freeman has done is, and it especially would be

1193
01:05:51,480 --> 01:05:53,400
Speaker 1: it would be taken into another galaxy if they won

1194
01:05:53,440 --> 01:05:56,640
Speaker 1: a national title. But just think about where they are.

1195
01:05:57,600 --> 01:05:59,400
Speaker 1: This is way beyond just Notre Dame fans, and you

1196
01:05:59,400 --> 01:06:01,760
Speaker 1: could be a Washington fan for all I care. Think

1197
01:06:01,760 --> 01:06:04,720
Speaker 1: about this for a second. Okay, So Notre Dame football

1198
01:06:05,280 --> 01:06:08,400
Speaker 1: from nineteen ninety four to two thousand and nine they

1199
01:06:08,440 --> 01:06:12,360
Speaker 1: have two to ten win seasons. That's it. That's it.

1200
01:06:12,720 --> 01:06:17,080
Speaker 1: There was a blip under Willingham, there was a blip

1201
01:06:17,280 --> 01:06:20,960
Speaker 1: under Charlie Weiss, but otherwise like they're not at the

1202
01:06:21,000 --> 01:06:25,480
Speaker 1: head table at all largely during those years. And then

1203
01:06:25,520 --> 01:06:30,000
Speaker 1: Brian Kelly takes the Notre Dame job and he wins

1204
01:06:30,200 --> 01:06:36,080
Speaker 1: double digit games seven times in twelve years, which is

1205
01:06:36,120 --> 01:06:39,640
Speaker 1: the pinnacle of your program for a long time. It's

1206
01:06:39,640 --> 01:06:41,960
Speaker 1: been a long time since Notre Dame had sustained that

1207
01:06:42,040 --> 01:06:46,960
Speaker 1: kind of run. And then he chose to leave. He

1208
01:06:47,080 --> 01:06:51,000
Speaker 1: left voluntarily to take what he described as a better opportunity.

1209
01:06:51,800 --> 01:06:55,360
Speaker 1: So you've got a guy, perceptionally, I fell for this,

1210
01:06:55,400 --> 01:06:58,760
Speaker 1: by the way, so I'm a victim here. Perceptionally, you've

1211
01:06:58,800 --> 01:07:02,840
Speaker 1: got a guy that's total maxing out your potential. And

1212
01:07:02,880 --> 01:07:06,240
Speaker 1: then he says, I can't get it done here. I'm

1213
01:07:06,280 --> 01:07:09,920
Speaker 1: going somewhere where I can do there what I can't

1214
01:07:09,960 --> 01:07:14,160
Speaker 1: do here, And by can't, he's not talking about self reflection.

1215
01:07:14,520 --> 01:07:19,640
Speaker 1: He means this place doesn't allow me to do that thing. Now,

1216
01:07:19,760 --> 01:07:23,640
Speaker 1: since then, we've learned otherwise. But in real time, think

1217
01:07:23,680 --> 01:07:27,280
Speaker 1: about what the logic tells you there. The logic tells you.

1218
01:07:27,320 --> 01:07:29,200
Speaker 1: This guy came here and did things at Notre Dame

1219
01:07:29,240 --> 01:07:31,520
Speaker 1: that no one's done in a long time, and then

1220
01:07:31,560 --> 01:07:33,880
Speaker 1: he chose to leave. He must know a lot more

1221
01:07:33,880 --> 01:07:36,720
Speaker 1: about the situation than you or I. He's telling me

1222
01:07:36,760 --> 01:07:39,160
Speaker 1: there's a ceiling on Notre Dame football. I think there's

1223
01:07:39,200 --> 01:07:43,400
Speaker 1: a ceiling on Notre Dame football. What should logic indicate happens? Next?

1224
01:07:43,480 --> 01:07:49,600
Speaker 1: Logic indicates steady downward trajectory, and the landscape of college

1225
01:07:49,640 --> 01:07:52,240
Speaker 1: football in the modern era has just passed Notre Dame by,

1226
01:07:52,520 --> 01:07:55,120
Speaker 1: And the exact opposite happened. And there was a dude

1227
01:07:55,160 --> 01:07:57,240
Speaker 1: already in house ready to prove it. His name was

1228
01:07:57,240 --> 01:08:01,600
Speaker 1: Marcus Freeman. His name is Marcus Freeman. And I don't

1229
01:08:01,600 --> 01:08:04,320
Speaker 1: really think there's an appreciation for how special that is,

1230
01:08:04,400 --> 01:08:07,080
Speaker 1: because of how much an exception to the general rule

1231
01:08:07,120 --> 01:08:13,200
Speaker 1: of logic it is. And I remember a few people

1232
01:08:13,320 --> 01:08:16,120
Speaker 1: close to the Notre Dame program, not many of them,

1233
01:08:16,560 --> 01:08:19,040
Speaker 1: a few people close to the Notre Dame program. They

1234
01:08:19,160 --> 01:08:23,960
Speaker 1: shouted this when Brian Kelly left. Brian Driscoll was a guy,

1235
01:08:24,240 --> 01:08:29,880
Speaker 1: really really loud in shouting when Brian Kelly left. Good good.

1236
01:08:29,920 --> 01:08:31,400
Speaker 1: I remember this clear as day. We went back and

1237
01:08:31,479 --> 01:08:34,280
Speaker 1: forth on Twitter about it, and he's day to day man,

1238
01:08:34,320 --> 01:08:36,599
Speaker 1: he's in the weeds with Notre Dame. I'm just watching

1239
01:08:36,640 --> 01:08:39,160
Speaker 1: it from afar and I'm thinking, I think this guy

1240
01:08:39,200 --> 01:08:42,080
Speaker 1: may be too close to the situation. I think he

1241
01:08:42,160 --> 01:08:44,760
Speaker 1: may be too drunk on the kool aid there to

1242
01:08:44,880 --> 01:08:47,520
Speaker 1: really understand what's happening. But it was the exact opposite,

1243
01:08:48,000 --> 01:08:51,439
Speaker 1: and what he was shouting was, Brian Kelly has fooled

1244
01:08:51,439 --> 01:08:54,880
Speaker 1: you people into thinking there's this ceiling on the program. No,

1245
01:08:54,960 --> 01:08:58,679
Speaker 1: there was a ceiling on Brian Kelly and Marcus Freeman's

1246
01:08:58,720 --> 01:09:01,840
Speaker 1: the real deal. And watch and see. There will be

1247
01:09:01,920 --> 01:09:05,640
Speaker 1: an elevation here and you will find out there was

1248
01:09:05,680 --> 01:09:07,880
Speaker 1: not a ceiling that you were led to believe is

1249
01:09:07,920 --> 01:09:10,960
Speaker 1: on Notre Dame. And sure enough it's true. I just

1250
01:09:11,120 --> 01:09:13,040
Speaker 1: had to see it to believe it. I guess call

1251
01:09:13,120 --> 01:09:16,200
Speaker 1: me Thomas if you want to, but I'm a believer now.

1252
01:09:16,400 --> 01:09:18,439
Speaker 1: And if he were to win a national title this year,

1253
01:09:18,920 --> 01:09:20,800
Speaker 1: then I mean, you would have had Michigan in the

1254
01:09:20,880 --> 01:09:23,360
Speaker 1: last few years, you would have had Ohio State in

1255
01:09:23,400 --> 01:09:25,960
Speaker 1: the last few years. Then you just had Indiana. Then

1256
01:09:26,000 --> 01:09:30,040
Speaker 1: you just had Notre Dame. And I would say exclude

1257
01:09:30,080 --> 01:09:33,720
Speaker 1: Ohio State three out of those four. If I hit

1258
01:09:33,760 --> 01:09:36,759
Speaker 1: the rewind button five years and I told you within

1259
01:09:36,800 --> 01:09:39,680
Speaker 1: the next six or seven years, those three teams are

1260
01:09:39,680 --> 01:09:41,599
Speaker 1: going to win a national title, you would have laughed.

1261
01:09:42,160 --> 01:09:43,800
Speaker 1: You would have said, dude, Michigan can't get out of

1262
01:09:43,800 --> 01:09:45,120
Speaker 1: its own way. There's no way they're going to win

1263
01:09:45,120 --> 01:09:49,720
Speaker 1: a national title. Well they did. And then surely Indiana

1264
01:09:50,200 --> 01:09:52,880
Speaker 1: you would have like hit restart. You would have pulled

1265
01:09:52,880 --> 01:09:56,240
Speaker 1: out the cartridge, blowing it, put it back in. This

1266
01:09:56,280 --> 01:09:58,200
Speaker 1: thing's acting up. And then if I tell you a

1267
01:09:58,200 --> 01:10:01,799
Speaker 1: Notre Dame, maybe that would have been more believable than Indiana.

1268
01:10:01,840 --> 01:10:04,040
Speaker 1: But like, think about what the sport will have produced

1269
01:10:04,320 --> 01:10:06,000
Speaker 1: if that were to happen. Hey, think about what it's

1270
01:10:06,000 --> 01:10:09,519
Speaker 1: produced anyway, even if it doesn't happen. For what it's worth,

1271
01:10:09,600 --> 01:10:12,120
Speaker 1: I had Notre Dame rank number one going into spring,

1272
01:10:12,680 --> 01:10:15,720
Speaker 1: so this is halfway done already. Like they're basically in

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Speaker 1: the championship game. All they got to do is win it.

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Speaker 1: Perception is a funny thing. The perception for a long

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Speaker 1: time about Notre Dame was total bs. I was part

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Speaker 1: of it, so I got exposed on it. But perception

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Speaker 1: is just people. People speak things. People believe things, but

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Speaker 1: people also change things. So people said stuff about Notre Dame.

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Speaker 1: People believe stuff about Notre Dame, and it was as

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Speaker 1: simple as people proving you wrong. People changed perception at

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Speaker 1: Notre Dame. Marcus Freeman's the face of it. It's not

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Speaker 1: just Freeman, but he's the face of it, and he's

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Speaker 1: doing stuff there that his predecessor wasn't doing. That program

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Speaker 1: is just like emanating a vibe that it wasn't emanating.

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Speaker 1: And that's before they've won on a national title. Imagine

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Speaker 1: if they do win a national title, win total eleven

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Speaker 1: and a half. If they lose a game, the under hits.

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Speaker 1: That's what FanDuel's telling you. This is Herman Boone. Remember

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Speaker 1: the Titans, Breezy, you lose a game, they're not gonna

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Speaker 1: fire you, but you lose a game the under hits.

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Speaker 1: Just remember the Titans. Two. Let's move on. Let us

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Speaker 1: move merrily along. You know, I would move one of

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Speaker 1: these segments to Thursday, but I already teased it, so

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Speaker 1: I can't do that. We've been doing the Truth Teller

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Speaker 1: series where we're just randomly picking stuff in college football

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Speaker 1: and telling the truth about it as best we see

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Speaker 1: it a lot of times it's a player or a coach.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna do College Game Day tonight, the actual show itself,

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Speaker 1: College Game Day, which I think is the best thing

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Speaker 1: ESPN has ever done. I'm biased because I'm diehard college football.

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Speaker 1: The College Game Day is revolutionary, has been for most

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Speaker 1: of my life, certainly all of my adult life. What

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01:12:01,439 --> 01:12:05,280
Speaker 1: college football fan under the age of forty five does

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01:12:05,320 --> 01:12:09,760
Speaker 1: not have this hardwired into your mind as synonymous with

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Speaker 1: a college football Saturday. I don't even care if you

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Speaker 1: love the show. Most of you do. The numbers bear

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01:12:16,160 --> 01:12:17,519
Speaker 1: out a lot of you are watching. You may be

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Speaker 1: rage watching, but a lot of you are watching. But

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Speaker 1: even if you're not like in love with the show,

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Speaker 1: think if you're thirty eight years old, if you're twenty

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Speaker 1: seven years old, if you're forty four years old, if

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Speaker 1: you're fifteen years old, how do you even think college

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Speaker 1: football Saturday in your mind? And you don't like feel

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Speaker 1: game Day or see it or hear game Day somewhere

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Speaker 1: on a Saturday morning just kind of lay in the

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Speaker 1: foundation for it all. The genius is taken for granted

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01:12:46,720 --> 01:12:50,160
Speaker 1: on this show. So I'm not even talking about the commentary.

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01:12:50,600 --> 01:12:53,880
Speaker 1: The genius in the concept of the show. You take

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Speaker 1: for granted that it just happens on a campus every Saturday,

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Speaker 1: But think about before they put it on a campus,

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01:13:02,880 --> 01:13:06,599
Speaker 1: everything was done in studio. People were just doing shows

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01:13:06,680 --> 01:13:09,799
Speaker 1: in studios. It would have been so easy for ESPN

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01:13:09,880 --> 01:13:11,640
Speaker 1: to just say, naw, this show is going to be

1324
01:13:11,640 --> 01:13:13,920
Speaker 1: in a studio forever. For the first few years it was,

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01:13:14,640 --> 01:13:17,599
Speaker 1: they just broadcast it from a studio. There was nothing

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01:13:17,640 --> 01:13:21,720
Speaker 1: wrong with it, but it wasn't transcendent, life changing programming.

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01:13:22,240 --> 01:13:26,120
Speaker 1: It wasn't revolutionary programming. And then they took it to

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Speaker 1: campus because they realized, well, if you go to a

1329
01:13:29,439 --> 01:13:34,280
Speaker 1: college football game, the tailgating scenes half the experience. The

1330
01:13:34,320 --> 01:13:38,520
Speaker 1: pregame is half the experience. That's what makes college football unique.

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01:13:38,600 --> 01:13:41,840
Speaker 1: How are we going to have a pregame show and

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Speaker 1: not broadcast it from the epicenter of what people associate

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Speaker 1: pregame college football with. So let's park it on a

1334
01:13:50,360 --> 01:13:54,280
Speaker 1: campus every Saturday. Will It took off like wildfire for

1335
01:13:54,400 --> 01:13:58,320
Speaker 1: obvious reasons. And if you're at a tailgate on Saturday morning,

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Speaker 1: you're already experiencing that most of America is not at

1337
01:14:01,520 --> 01:14:04,479
Speaker 1: a tailgate. Most of America is on a couch or

1338
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Speaker 1: in bed, or at the gym or wherever they are,

1339
01:14:08,320 --> 01:14:12,519
Speaker 1: and they're joining vicariously via a television screen, and then

1340
01:14:12,560 --> 01:14:14,840
Speaker 1: college game Day just comes along and takes you there

1341
01:14:16,840 --> 01:14:21,120
Speaker 1: an it's taken for granted. It's an unbelievable concept that

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01:14:21,160 --> 01:14:23,920
Speaker 1: would suck if you couldn't execute it, But they execute it.

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01:14:24,240 --> 01:14:26,200
Speaker 1: That's what a really big production budget and the right

1344
01:14:26,240 --> 01:14:29,120
Speaker 1: people will do. They execute it. But what they pulled

1345
01:14:29,160 --> 01:14:31,799
Speaker 1: off the last few years is what I think about

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01:14:32,040 --> 01:14:33,960
Speaker 1: first and foremost when I think about college game Day,

1347
01:14:33,960 --> 01:14:37,920
Speaker 1: because for my entire life, Lee Corso was the face

1348
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Speaker 1: of college game Day. The headgear pick at about a

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01:14:41,800 --> 01:14:45,360
Speaker 1: ten fifty eight Central or eleven fifty eight Eastern on

1350
01:14:45,400 --> 01:14:48,240
Speaker 1: a Saturday morning, that's what's building up. If you've ever

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Speaker 1: been on a campus or ever been in one of

1352
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Speaker 1: those crowds, the excitement starts to build towards this moment.

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01:14:54,640 --> 01:14:57,400
Speaker 1: It's like watching the ball drop in Times Square on

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01:14:57,439 --> 01:15:01,200
Speaker 1: New Year's Eve. Instead of you know, ball hitting zero

1355
01:15:01,400 --> 01:15:03,400
Speaker 1: and then confetti all over the place, it's just a

1356
01:15:03,479 --> 01:15:06,800
Speaker 1: dude putting on a mascotthead. I can't imagine how Europeans

1357
01:15:06,880 --> 01:15:09,080
Speaker 1: view that. I can't imagine how the aliens would view it.

1358
01:15:09,160 --> 01:15:11,639
Speaker 1: But it made perfect sense to us, and that became

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01:15:11,680 --> 01:15:15,360
Speaker 1: a staple. It was iconic. It was an institution. And

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01:15:15,400 --> 01:15:18,080
Speaker 1: then Lee Corso gets up there in years and for

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01:15:18,200 --> 01:15:20,920
Speaker 1: several years, kind of it's inevitable, like you know, the

1362
01:15:21,040 --> 01:15:24,320
Speaker 1: end is eventually going to come. And when you have

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01:15:24,439 --> 01:15:29,679
Speaker 1: something that large, like that's synonymous with the brand itself

1364
01:15:29,720 --> 01:15:33,240
Speaker 1: baked in and there's a personality to go along with it. Man,

1365
01:15:33,280 --> 01:15:38,240
Speaker 1: that's a tough baton transition. That's a tough handoff. And

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Speaker 1: then you look right now and the show's better than

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01:15:40,800 --> 01:15:44,439
Speaker 1: it's ever been. That's the other thing that I think

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01:15:44,520 --> 01:15:49,559
Speaker 1: is taken for granted. Pat McAfee's been totally transcendent for

1369
01:15:49,640 --> 01:15:52,759
Speaker 1: that show. Nick Saban's edition. You look at that lineup

1370
01:15:52,800 --> 01:15:54,679
Speaker 1: right now, like that's as good as it gets. Man,

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01:15:54,960 --> 01:15:58,120
Speaker 1: in broadcasting, that's as good as it gets. But it'd

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Speaker 1: be one thing if they just put that crew together.

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Speaker 1: They're from scratch. You just go pay a lot of

1374
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Speaker 1: folks money and do that. You already had a legacy

1375
01:16:08,400 --> 01:16:14,559
Speaker 1: institution in place for decades, and then that institution is

1376
01:16:15,040 --> 01:16:20,240
Speaker 1: leaving the show and somehow the show's enhanced in the aggregate.

1377
01:16:20,920 --> 01:16:22,599
Speaker 1: I don't know how they pulled it off, but they

1378
01:16:22,600 --> 01:16:26,040
Speaker 1: did it. And the irony of it all is I

1379
01:16:26,040 --> 01:16:28,519
Speaker 1: don't get to watch it normally because the other truth

1380
01:16:28,560 --> 01:16:31,240
Speaker 1: of it is I'm either normally where they are, or

1381
01:16:31,280 --> 01:16:33,840
Speaker 1: I'm at some other game and I'm traveling, or I'm

1382
01:16:33,880 --> 01:16:36,120
Speaker 1: in a hotel room on a Saturday morning about to leave,

1383
01:16:36,160 --> 01:16:37,680
Speaker 1: so I don't get to see a whole lot of

1384
01:16:37,720 --> 01:16:39,960
Speaker 1: game Day. I get to see clips and stuff like

1385
01:16:40,040 --> 01:16:44,000
Speaker 1: I probably consume game Day more on their social feeds

1386
01:16:44,080 --> 01:16:46,360
Speaker 1: than I do just standing there being able to watch

1387
01:16:46,479 --> 01:16:49,080
Speaker 1: on a TV screen, which is a good thing because

1388
01:16:49,080 --> 01:16:50,599
Speaker 1: it means I'm doing what I love for a living.

1389
01:16:50,960 --> 01:16:52,519
Speaker 1: But what I do get to see that a lot

1390
01:16:52,520 --> 01:16:53,920
Speaker 1: of you guys don't get to see unless you're just

1391
01:16:53,960 --> 01:16:58,080
Speaker 1: there in person, is the logistics operation of college game day.

1392
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Speaker 1: Because a lot of times I'm in town the Friday

1393
01:17:01,640 --> 01:17:03,600
Speaker 1: before a game. Most of the time i'm at the

1394
01:17:03,600 --> 01:17:05,599
Speaker 1: game the game day is going to be at, so

1395
01:17:05,640 --> 01:17:09,080
Speaker 1: you'll see the setup happening, or you'll see the setup

1396
01:17:09,120 --> 01:17:11,960
Speaker 1: that's already happened. You'll see the temporary workers, you see

1397
01:17:12,000 --> 01:17:14,040
Speaker 1: what it takes to take that operation on the road,

1398
01:17:14,479 --> 01:17:20,760
Speaker 1: which is an unbelievable undertaking. Logistically, Here's what's funny. So

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Speaker 1: there have been a couple of times this past year

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Speaker 1: the Brigham Young Texas Tech game comes to mind. Where

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Speaker 1: game day is at a game that kicks off at

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01:17:30,280 --> 01:17:35,160
Speaker 1: noon Eastern. So anytime that happens, what they'll do is

1403
01:17:35,200 --> 01:17:38,679
Speaker 1: they'll obviously stage the show out in the tailgate area,

1404
01:17:39,520 --> 01:17:41,720
Speaker 1: but then they'll also have a desk in the stadium.

1405
01:17:42,160 --> 01:17:45,040
Speaker 1: Because what they'll do is they will bring the talent

1406
01:17:45,240 --> 01:17:47,880
Speaker 1: inside the stadium for the last few segments because if

1407
01:17:47,880 --> 01:17:49,439
Speaker 1: they didn't, it to be a ghost town out there

1408
01:17:49,479 --> 01:17:51,120
Speaker 1: when they're doing the end of the show, cause the

1409
01:17:51,160 --> 01:17:53,519
Speaker 1: crowd's all in the stadium because kickofs happening right when

1410
01:17:53,520 --> 01:17:58,120
Speaker 1: the show goes off the air. Here's what's funny. At

1411
01:17:58,160 --> 01:17:59,880
Speaker 1: the Texas Tech bringing Me Young game, I had meet

1412
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Speaker 1: obligations right at the end of that game, and since

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Speaker 1: it was a blowout, I left the stadium pre It's

1414
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Speaker 1: what we just said, about five seven minutes to go,

1415
01:18:10,040 --> 01:18:13,799
Speaker 1: we left the stadium and we had to walk straight

1416
01:18:13,880 --> 01:18:17,040
Speaker 1: by where the game day setup had been. So these

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Speaker 1: people are like racing against time to tear as much

1418
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Speaker 1: don't get done before this game ends, we're gonna have

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01:18:33,960 --> 01:18:37,160
Speaker 1: be an army of people come back out here. And

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Speaker 1: with if those conditions were in place. But yeah, college

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Speaker 1: Lastly, and then we're gonna get out of here. The

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Speaker 1: Alabama tonight. There's no fancy way to say this. It

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Speaker 1: fans look at Alabama football that way right now, they're

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Speaker 1: like like, who are we? What are we? What is

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Speaker 1: our identity as a football program? And this year as

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01:21:30,360 --> 01:21:34,080
Speaker 1: a football team, they've had patients. Man, I don't think

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Speaker 1: anybody needs to be knocking Alabama fans. You remember the

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01:21:37,160 --> 01:21:40,599
Speaker 1: old MO when Sabin retired was boy, I wouldn't want

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01:21:40,600 --> 01:21:42,800
Speaker 1: to be whoever the next guy is. It takes over, dude.

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Speaker 1: They've had patients as much as a high level, high

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Speaker 1: achieving programs fan base would have patients. It's not that

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01:21:49,680 --> 01:21:53,160
Speaker 1: they're happy when you lose games, but they hadn't freaked out.

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01:21:53,200 --> 01:21:56,519
Speaker 1: They're not throwing couches off buildings or anything. They've been

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Speaker 1: pretty measured. But I'll tell you this, in no way

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Speaker 1: world can you be the head coach at Alabama or

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Speaker 1: anything at Alabama and be okay with your rushing numbers

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01:22:07,280 --> 01:22:10,559
Speaker 1: being in the one twenties. That's not okay. In the

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01:22:10,600 --> 01:22:13,960
Speaker 1: worst of circumstances. You could be in the depths of

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01:22:14,080 --> 01:22:17,960
Speaker 1: NCAA probation with scholarship restrictions, and you can't be in

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Speaker 1: the one hundreds in total rushing. I went and looked

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Speaker 1: at the four teams that finished ahead of Alabama in

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01:22:25,479 --> 01:22:28,280
Speaker 1: total rushing last year. Their records were four and eight,

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01:22:28,400 --> 01:22:30,320
Speaker 1: four and eight, three and nine and four and eight.

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01:22:30,479 --> 01:22:32,360
Speaker 1: Bama is in the one twenties and makes the playoffs

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01:22:32,360 --> 01:22:35,400
Speaker 1: somehow against another team that was equally as bad running

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01:22:35,400 --> 01:22:40,120
Speaker 1: the ball, by the way, So that's not Alabama football.

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01:22:40,120 --> 01:22:42,519
Speaker 1: It never has been, even when they're bad. That's not

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01:22:42,600 --> 01:22:45,479
Speaker 1: Alabama football. So the fan base looks and rightfully says,

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01:22:46,600 --> 01:22:50,400
Speaker 1: what is that who we are? Because because we weren't

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01:22:50,520 --> 01:22:53,360
Speaker 1: terrible running the ball? The year before weren't great, but

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01:22:53,360 --> 01:22:56,840
Speaker 1: we certain certainly weren't that bad. We just got rid

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01:22:56,880 --> 01:23:00,360
Speaker 1: of an offensive line coach. We're overhauling the entire offensive line.

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01:23:01,200 --> 01:23:04,000
Speaker 1: We got a really really good freshman running back coming in.

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01:23:04,240 --> 01:23:06,000
Speaker 1: Are we just gonna suck running the ball? Or are

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01:23:06,000 --> 01:23:09,240
Speaker 1: we gonna get this thing fixed? Are we going to

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01:23:09,439 --> 01:23:13,320
Speaker 1: ever be dominant defensively? Again? They were not bad defensively

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01:23:13,400 --> 01:23:16,240
Speaker 1: last year, but they were off the pace of being

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01:23:16,240 --> 01:23:20,680
Speaker 1: a dominant unit. Are we gonna look physically different than

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01:23:20,720 --> 01:23:24,440
Speaker 1: the premiere teams we play? Are we gonna enter seasons

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01:23:24,439 --> 01:23:26,639
Speaker 1: and have this be the norm? Right here on the screen,

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01:23:26,680 --> 01:23:29,840
Speaker 1: Bradley has a slider up and it says over under

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01:23:29,960 --> 01:23:32,639
Speaker 1: eight and a half now, to a certain extent, that's

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01:23:32,640 --> 01:23:35,040
Speaker 1: a reflection of the new landscape of the SEC. Like

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01:23:35,040 --> 01:23:38,000
Speaker 1: even Texas over unders only nine and a half, Georgia's

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01:23:38,080 --> 01:23:41,120
Speaker 1: nine and a half, No one's over ten wins for

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01:23:41,200 --> 01:23:43,479
Speaker 1: preseason win total in the SEC because they're playing nine

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01:23:43,520 --> 01:23:46,120
Speaker 1: league games plus a really tough out of conference game

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01:23:46,120 --> 01:23:49,280
Speaker 1: in most cases. So to a certain extent, yeah, that's

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01:23:49,280 --> 01:23:53,240
Speaker 1: a reflection of the league now. But Bama folks are

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01:23:53,320 --> 01:23:57,040
Speaker 1: used to their win total being atop the SEC teams

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01:23:57,080 --> 01:23:59,040
Speaker 1: at the very least, and it's just not right now.

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01:23:59,280 --> 01:24:02,320
Speaker 1: So is that temp or is that the new norm?

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01:24:03,840 --> 01:24:07,200
Speaker 1: We watched Ty Simpson leave and now we've got a

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01:24:07,280 --> 01:24:11,000
Speaker 1: quarterback battle on our hands. What is that going to

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01:24:11,040 --> 01:24:14,599
Speaker 1: look like? Here? That all ties back into offensive line

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01:24:14,640 --> 01:24:20,640
Speaker 1: play and running game and just overall complementary approach to

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01:24:20,800 --> 01:24:25,240
Speaker 1: playing football. What does it look like now? It sounds

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01:24:25,320 --> 01:24:27,360
Speaker 1: like you're coming off a six and sixth year when

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01:24:27,400 --> 01:24:30,000
Speaker 1: you talk like that. You're not. But you're coming off

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01:24:30,000 --> 01:24:34,120
Speaker 1: a year where you made the playoff, but your flaws

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01:24:34,160 --> 01:24:37,120
Speaker 1: were so terminal you had no shot when you went

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01:24:37,200 --> 01:24:40,040
Speaker 1: up against an Indiana for example, or if you got

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01:24:40,080 --> 01:24:43,240
Speaker 1: past them, or if you would have gotten Miami instead

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01:24:43,280 --> 01:24:46,639
Speaker 1: of them, or if you had gotten like even Ohio

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01:24:46,720 --> 01:24:49,800
Speaker 1: State instead of them, it probably wouldn't have been pretty.

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01:24:50,000 --> 01:24:53,440
Speaker 1: So there was a there's a ceiling on the potential

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01:24:53,960 --> 01:24:56,559
Speaker 1: level that Alabama could achieve at last year. That's one year.

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01:24:57,400 --> 01:24:59,599
Speaker 1: The point here, with the mood of the fan base

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01:24:59,680 --> 01:25:02,720
Speaker 1: is okay, well moving forward? Is that the norm? Or

1546
01:25:02,760 --> 01:25:07,760
Speaker 1: was that just another step towards getting where Indiana is

1547
01:25:07,960 --> 01:25:11,800
Speaker 1: or getting where Georgia is or where Ohio State is.

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01:25:11,840 --> 01:25:14,920
Speaker 1: They're not a long way off. It's not like that. Again.

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01:25:15,080 --> 01:25:17,200
Speaker 1: They made the conference title game and made the playoff

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01:25:17,280 --> 01:25:22,679
Speaker 1: last year, so there's not freak out. There's no hot

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01:25:22,720 --> 01:25:26,320
Speaker 1: seat talk either. I have seen this, and here's the

1552
01:25:26,320 --> 01:25:30,040
Speaker 1: funny part about it. I haven't actually seen anyone talking

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01:25:30,120 --> 01:25:34,600
Speaker 1: about it, Like haven't seen Alabama fans whose identities we

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01:25:34,640 --> 01:25:38,000
Speaker 1: can prove exist instead of just like burner accounts on Twitter.

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01:25:38,200 --> 01:25:41,120
Speaker 1: I haven't seen anyone talk about hot seat talk with

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01:25:41,200 --> 01:25:45,200
Speaker 1: the boar. I've seen a billion people ask about what

1557
01:25:45,240 --> 01:25:47,479
Speaker 1: we think about the hot seat talk. It's kind of

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01:25:47,520 --> 01:25:50,640
Speaker 1: reminiscent of like if you watched a fire truck with

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01:25:50,760 --> 01:25:54,519
Speaker 1: its alarms and its lights on and it's road around

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01:25:54,560 --> 01:25:57,720
Speaker 1: town all day searching for a fire. That's kind of

1561
01:25:57,720 --> 01:26:00,839
Speaker 1: like the hot seat questions with the Boar. There's no fire.

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01:26:01,360 --> 01:26:04,120
Speaker 1: There is no actual hot seat talk. People have been

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01:26:04,160 --> 01:26:07,160
Speaker 1: pretty measured about their approach with him. But there is

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01:26:07,200 --> 01:26:09,280
Speaker 1: this group of folks out there who want hot seat

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01:26:09,320 --> 01:26:11,880
Speaker 1: talk and so they try and manufacture it. So I

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01:26:11,920 --> 01:26:14,400
Speaker 1: have seen that, but there is no real hot seat talk.

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01:26:14,640 --> 01:26:17,040
Speaker 1: There's a bunch of man, we got to do better.

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01:26:17,160 --> 01:26:18,679
Speaker 1: You got to figure out how to run the ball.

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01:26:18,920 --> 01:26:22,559
Speaker 1: There's that. There's a grand canyon between that and fire.

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01:26:22,600 --> 01:26:26,040
Speaker 1: This guy may total bum So gonna be an interesting

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01:26:26,120 --> 01:26:29,000
Speaker 1: year this year. We were doing a lot of conference

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01:26:29,080 --> 01:26:31,639
Speaker 1: games earlier. Earlier in the show, we were thinking about

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Speaker 1: putting the FSU Alabama on there. We didn't, but then

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01:26:34,760 --> 01:26:37,240
Speaker 1: again we didn't last year either, and we see how

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Speaker 1: that turned out. That's our show. That's it. That's all.

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Speaker 1: Appreciate you guys. We'll be on the road this week.

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