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Speaker 1: All right, welcome to Lake Cake Is Live. It is

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Speaker 1: Tuesday night, August seventeenth year of Our Lord, twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 1: Very excited. We've got a lot of wheels in motion

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Speaker 1: around here, but in the immediacyat we've got a jam

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Speaker 1: packed show tonight. I know right off the top of

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Speaker 1: the show that a lot of you are watching live.

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Speaker 1: I know several more of you are going to be

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Speaker 1: either watching or listening on tomorrow morning Wednesday morning. So

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Speaker 1: some things happen around fall camp time. Things happen, news

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Speaker 1: of injuries come out since we've been on air. But

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Speaker 1: before you listen to it, we're talking about what we

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Speaker 1: know to be true tonight and what we feel to

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Speaker 1: be true. For example, biggest mystery teams in college football

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Speaker 1: actually going to lead the show with that tonight. I

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Speaker 1: was doing a lot of talking. I've done some radio

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Speaker 1: hits that themed around this really had the wheels turning,

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Speaker 1: and that's sometimes a dangerous thing for me. So I

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Speaker 1: got to get it all out. So we're gonna discuss

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Speaker 1: I got five teams. You may have several more than that.

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Speaker 1: Just the biggest mystery could go either way type teams

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty one, Also, I did not address the

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Speaker 1: Alliance all Caps the Alliance the other night.

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Speaker 2: What is the Alliance? Is that a pro wrestling faction? No,

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Speaker 2: it is not.

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Speaker 1: It's actually a college football conference faction that could be

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Speaker 1: coming to a TV screen of football field near you.

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Speaker 1: What do we think about it?

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Speaker 2: Well, we'll discuss together momentarily.

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Speaker 1: Also, obviously, as we do every show in August, the

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Speaker 1: latest whispers and intel from fall camps. I'm going two

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Speaker 1: places tonight, at least one to yeah, two places tonight

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Speaker 1: that we have not been I don't think we've discussed

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Speaker 1: these programs to date this camp season on the show,

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Speaker 1: So we will break.

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Speaker 2: New ground tonight.

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Speaker 1: Also, I had a story on this morning's Late Kick

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Speaker 1: Extra podcast that got such great reviews, and I kind

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Speaker 1: I'm going to tell the whole story tonight. It's about

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Speaker 1: the best road trip college football related road trip, at

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Speaker 1: least that I've taken. Because every one of you have

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Speaker 1: a story about your best road trips, I'm gonna give

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Speaker 1: you mine. I would imagine the section is going to

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Speaker 1: be very lively on that video afterwards, So thank you

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Speaker 1: Thank you for that and win that in mind. Let's

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Speaker 1: dive into the show tonight. I want to know who

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Speaker 1: your mystery teams are for twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 2: I got count them five that I want to go

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Speaker 1: The first one I want to start with is Texas,

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Speaker 1: The question was, have you seen Texas's schedule? What if

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Speaker 1: they play Louisiana. We all know that that's a very

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Speaker 1: those are both tough games. They got Rice, so generally

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Speaker 2: Tech went to overtime with them last year.

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Speaker 1: They go to TCU, a team that just outright beat

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Speaker 1: Steve Sarkijan and his offensive staff started to divide reps.

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Speaker 2: Know it's Hudson card.

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Speaker 1: According to Horns twenty four to seven and our guys

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Speaker 1: I don't think no matter which quarterback gets picked here,

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Speaker 1: to be in what I call a trust but verify mood.

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Speaker 1: They don't doubt the coaching staff, they don't doubt the

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Speaker 1: You trust you got a quality team. You trust your

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Speaker 1: Makes all the sense in the world, right, McDonald's is

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00:19:21,320 --> 00:19:22,840
Speaker 1: the king out there, and so you got Burger King,

436
00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:26,520
Speaker 1: you got Wendy's together, they could take them down. Why

437
00:19:26,560 --> 00:19:29,200
Speaker 1: doesn't that work? It's to a fifth grader, it sounds

438
00:19:29,200 --> 00:19:30,160
Speaker 1: like it makes all the sense.

439
00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:30,600
Speaker 2: In the world.

440
00:19:30,760 --> 00:19:35,080
Speaker 1: Why wouldn't Delta and American team up take down United?

441
00:19:35,080 --> 00:19:37,480
Speaker 1: Why would they not do that? It makes all the

442
00:19:37,480 --> 00:19:39,520
Speaker 1: sense in the world. Right, And then once you've taken

443
00:19:39,720 --> 00:19:42,200
Speaker 1: once you've taken Delta down, and once you've taken American down, well,

444
00:19:42,240 --> 00:19:45,280
Speaker 1: then you can fight for it amongst yourselves. This was

445
00:19:45,320 --> 00:19:48,680
Speaker 1: illustrated perfectly leading into the WWF Breakdown pay per view

446
00:19:48,680 --> 00:19:51,320
Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety eight. Even Vince McMahon couldn't make it work.

447
00:19:51,359 --> 00:19:53,280
Speaker 1: You got Stone Cold as your champion, and you got

448
00:19:53,280 --> 00:19:54,159
Speaker 1: to get the belt off of him.

449
00:19:54,160 --> 00:19:55,120
Speaker 2: By any means possible.

450
00:19:55,240 --> 00:19:57,679
Speaker 1: So what do you do. Well, you take the Undertaker

451
00:19:57,720 --> 00:20:00,600
Speaker 1: and Cain, who are brothers in Cahoot by the way,

452
00:20:00,800 --> 00:20:02,800
Speaker 1: and you put them in a triple threat. What did

453
00:20:02,840 --> 00:20:03,080
Speaker 1: they do?

454
00:20:03,240 --> 00:20:04,960
Speaker 2: They both covered Austin at the same time.

455
00:20:05,200 --> 00:20:07,640
Speaker 1: So you couldn't even script an alliance to work out

456
00:20:07,640 --> 00:20:09,679
Speaker 1: the right way, much less have it work out in

457
00:20:09,720 --> 00:20:12,359
Speaker 1: real life. What are the particulars here? If you've not

458
00:20:12,480 --> 00:20:15,160
Speaker 1: been following this story because you've been following Camp, here's

459
00:20:15,160 --> 00:20:18,640
Speaker 1: what's going on. Essentially, what we have here is the

460
00:20:18,680 --> 00:20:21,040
Speaker 1: SEC threatening to suck all the air out of the room,

461
00:20:21,160 --> 00:20:23,680
Speaker 1: and that's been well documented by this point. But then

462
00:20:23,680 --> 00:20:28,600
Speaker 1: you have the fear that amongst ourselves, isolated in the

463
00:20:28,600 --> 00:20:31,600
Speaker 1: Big ten and the Pac twelve and the ACC, we

464
00:20:31,720 --> 00:20:34,680
Speaker 1: stand to lose everything and gain nothing and we really

465
00:20:34,720 --> 00:20:36,600
Speaker 1: can't push back, but together we can.

466
00:20:37,080 --> 00:20:38,760
Speaker 2: And so there is strengthened numbers.

467
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Speaker 1: Blah blah blah, YadA, YadA YadA, Big twelve. Sorry, grab

468
00:20:43,640 --> 00:20:45,240
Speaker 1: your gift bag at the door, you're out of here.

469
00:20:45,600 --> 00:20:48,119
Speaker 1: That's essentially the formula that's been laid out here. So

470
00:20:48,359 --> 00:20:50,720
Speaker 1: what is the leverage point? Because if you're going to

471
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Speaker 1: form an alliance, you got to have something that you

472
00:20:53,280 --> 00:20:56,760
Speaker 1: are working to keep from the adversary or the predator,

473
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Speaker 1: as the Washington State President has so aptly discribed, I

474
00:21:00,119 --> 00:21:03,760
Speaker 1: have the SEC. He's not wrong necessarily. Greg Sankye fired

475
00:21:03,800 --> 00:21:06,960
Speaker 1: back today, but he's not wrong. I think a lot

476
00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:09,480
Speaker 1: of folks have it at the very tip of their

477
00:21:09,520 --> 00:21:12,320
Speaker 1: tongue that well, they can get together and they can

478
00:21:12,440 --> 00:21:15,680
Speaker 1: keep this expanded playoff from the SEC. No friends, the

479
00:21:15,760 --> 00:21:18,040
Speaker 1: SEC would have about the same reaction I.

480
00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:19,840
Speaker 2: Just did if you pose that they don't care.

481
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Speaker 1: I don't think Greg Sankie's bs and you when he says,

482
00:21:22,640 --> 00:21:25,040
Speaker 1: now we'll stay at four, we're fine. You guys are

483
00:21:25,040 --> 00:21:26,840
Speaker 1: the ones who want to expand, not us, So they're

484
00:21:26,880 --> 00:21:30,439
Speaker 1: not keeping that. I don't think the Alliance all caps

485
00:21:30,480 --> 00:21:34,000
Speaker 1: henceforth is keeping anything from the SEC. I think they're

486
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Speaker 1: maintaining a seat for themselves, maybe to a little bit

487
00:21:37,040 --> 00:21:38,520
Speaker 1: bigger degree than they could individually.

488
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Speaker 2: And to that point, it may work out.

489
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Speaker 1: But what we're really talking about here, and it's boring

490
00:21:43,080 --> 00:21:45,240
Speaker 1: so I don't spend a whole lot of time on it,

491
00:21:45,280 --> 00:21:47,920
Speaker 1: is we're really talking about strengthen numbers when it comes

492
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Speaker 1: to scheduling. Now, this if you can work together. And

493
00:21:51,840 --> 00:21:54,439
Speaker 1: that's a big if it does pay off in the end,

494
00:21:54,720 --> 00:21:57,959
Speaker 1: because the Big ten or the ACC or the PAC

495
00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:00,760
Speaker 1: twelve looks down the road when they reap their TV deals,

496
00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:03,480
Speaker 1: which never happen congruently, they all happen at different times,

497
00:22:04,240 --> 00:22:06,680
Speaker 1: and they ask, well, what if we had at least

498
00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:08,000
Speaker 1: a scheduling alliance.

499
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Speaker 2: I'm all on board with that, and everyone else should

500
00:22:10,240 --> 00:22:10,560
Speaker 2: be too.

501
00:22:10,880 --> 00:22:13,240
Speaker 1: If you've got the ACC and the Big Ten working together,

502
00:22:13,560 --> 00:22:16,080
Speaker 1: and so instead of me having to watch UNLV go

503
00:22:16,119 --> 00:22:18,320
Speaker 1: to play Michigan any given year, I can watch North

504
00:22:18,320 --> 00:22:20,399
Speaker 1: Carolina go to play Michigan. Well, I'm on board with that.

505
00:22:20,880 --> 00:22:22,880
Speaker 1: I think a lot of TV networks will be on.

506
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Speaker 2: Board with that.

507
00:22:24,080 --> 00:22:27,359
Speaker 1: But it sounds great, It sounds very good. It's like

508
00:22:27,400 --> 00:22:30,120
Speaker 1: when you're drafting a team in your fantasy baseball league.

509
00:22:30,160 --> 00:22:32,920
Speaker 1: It's just as easy as click and you drafted the guy. Well,

510
00:22:32,920 --> 00:22:35,639
Speaker 1: that's not the real world. Nor is this the real world.

511
00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:38,080
Speaker 1: Nor is taking a pizza box, turning it upside down

512
00:22:38,560 --> 00:22:41,160
Speaker 1: and drawing schedules out on the back of it. That's

513
00:22:41,200 --> 00:22:43,840
Speaker 1: not really how it works. So let me ask you.

514
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Speaker 1: Your TV deals up in three years. Mine's up in

515
00:22:45,840 --> 00:22:47,280
Speaker 1: five years. How are we going to sink them up?

516
00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:50,360
Speaker 1: Are we going to even lead distribute revenue even though

517
00:22:50,359 --> 00:22:53,000
Speaker 1: my product is worth thirty five percent more than yours

518
00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:55,359
Speaker 1: according to what the market dictates. Am I just going

519
00:22:55,440 --> 00:22:58,960
Speaker 1: to voluntarily seed that money to you? If I'm running things?

520
00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:00,840
Speaker 1: I'm not, I'll just be on with you. I'm not.

521
00:23:01,520 --> 00:23:04,960
Speaker 1: And here's the other question. The other question, this is

522
00:23:05,000 --> 00:23:08,080
Speaker 1: the great unknown to me, is are we thinking in

523
00:23:08,119 --> 00:23:12,639
Speaker 1: an antiquated manner about future media rights deals? Are we

524
00:23:12,760 --> 00:23:15,800
Speaker 1: thinking in a manner of Fox is going to sign

525
00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:18,879
Speaker 1: this conference, CBS is going to sign that conference, ESPN

526
00:23:18,960 --> 00:23:21,800
Speaker 1: is going to get that conference. In other words, could

527
00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:26,480
Speaker 1: there be a revolutionary new age media framework on the horizon,

528
00:23:26,880 --> 00:23:29,280
Speaker 1: the likes of which we can't even describe. When you

529
00:23:29,680 --> 00:23:32,480
Speaker 1: first subscribe to Netflix, which I did when I was

530
00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:35,040
Speaker 1: like coming out of high school, and you went in

531
00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:37,680
Speaker 1: the queue and you ordered, and they sent you the

532
00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:40,440
Speaker 1: DVD and the little sleeve in the mail, if I

533
00:23:40,520 --> 00:23:42,600
Speaker 1: were to have explained to you what Netflix was going

534
00:23:42,680 --> 00:23:45,520
Speaker 1: to become, you would have dismissed me from the room.

535
00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:48,480
Speaker 1: But yet that's what it became. And so college football

536
00:23:48,520 --> 00:23:51,359
Speaker 1: TV deals now versus what they'll be ten years from now,

537
00:23:51,520 --> 00:23:54,320
Speaker 1: there could be something on the horizon. Every bit is

538
00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:57,320
Speaker 1: revolutionary relative to what we have now, as the current

539
00:23:57,400 --> 00:23:59,960
Speaker 1: Netflix is revolutionary relative to what it used to do

540
00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:03,960
Speaker 1: when it was first a mailing service. So who knows.

541
00:24:04,480 --> 00:24:07,960
Speaker 1: But I do think it is a good idea in principle,

542
00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:09,840
Speaker 1: But then you get in the nuts and bolts and

543
00:24:09,880 --> 00:24:11,560
Speaker 1: it's really tough to figure out. And all the while

544
00:24:11,920 --> 00:24:14,399
Speaker 1: you got the poor Big Twelve that's just kind of

545
00:24:14,400 --> 00:24:16,440
Speaker 1: out there on an island, even though they're not close

546
00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:18,600
Speaker 1: to water, in the middle of the country, and I

547
00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:21,520
Speaker 1: have no clue. I was doing radio in Big twelve

548
00:24:21,560 --> 00:24:24,480
Speaker 1: Country today and we put three of our heads together

549
00:24:24,520 --> 00:24:25,919
Speaker 1: to try and come up with an answer, and we

550
00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:27,240
Speaker 1: were no closer at the end of the call than

551
00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:30,000
Speaker 1: we were at the beginning. Good call, good fun, but

552
00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:32,800
Speaker 1: no closer were we. So that's where the alliance stands

553
00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:35,840
Speaker 1: right now. I guess I say that to say, you

554
00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:37,679
Speaker 1: see the reason I did not really go with it

555
00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:40,760
Speaker 1: on the Sunday Show. Sometimes I have a very firm

556
00:24:40,800 --> 00:24:43,560
Speaker 1: grasp before I lean, and sometimes I have, at least

557
00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:45,600
Speaker 1: I hope to have a very firm feel and where

558
00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:47,679
Speaker 1: things are headed, I don't know where that's headed. I

559
00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:50,280
Speaker 1: really don't. So those are my feelings. They're very fragmented

560
00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:55,000
Speaker 1: at the moment. I've got a little more grip on

561
00:24:55,040 --> 00:24:58,640
Speaker 1: this though, Camp Whispers and intel a lot going on.

562
00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:01,520
Speaker 1: Tennessee is where I want to start. Because you lambasted

563
00:25:01,520 --> 00:25:04,840
Speaker 1: me or basted me either or because we didn't talk

564
00:25:04,880 --> 00:25:07,479
Speaker 1: about the falls quarterback situation the other night, which I

565
00:25:07,520 --> 00:25:10,240
Speaker 1: apparently promised I talk about every show. Well, let's pick

566
00:25:10,240 --> 00:25:13,040
Speaker 1: it back up. When we last left off, we were

567
00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:15,399
Speaker 1: talking about smart money here, smart money there. Well, now

568
00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:17,560
Speaker 1: it looks like there is some real smart money in

569
00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:19,560
Speaker 1: the room. There has not been an announcement out of

570
00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:23,320
Speaker 1: Knoxville about the starting quarterback, but it's pretty safe to say,

571
00:25:23,359 --> 00:25:26,680
Speaker 1: based on multiple good sources there, Joe Milton is the

572
00:25:26,800 --> 00:25:29,080
Speaker 1: leader in the clubhouse for this job. Joe Milton the

573
00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:32,560
Speaker 1: Michigan transfer. This means something. I was listening to the

574
00:25:32,600 --> 00:25:35,600
Speaker 1: Govalls twenty four to seven pod today and those guys

575
00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:38,440
Speaker 1: were talking about probably the pecking order at quarterback. Again,

576
00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:40,680
Speaker 1: nothing's been announced, but they were talking about the pecking

577
00:25:40,720 --> 00:25:43,280
Speaker 1: order at quarterback right now. And not only is Joe

578
00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:46,359
Speaker 1: Milton the overwhelming favorite to take the starting job, but

579
00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:49,760
Speaker 1: then Hendon Hooker is in all likelihood the leader in

580
00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:52,240
Speaker 1: the clubhouse to take that number two spots. So think

581
00:25:52,240 --> 00:25:56,000
Speaker 1: about what I just said. Harrison Bailey was the guy

582
00:25:56,000 --> 00:25:58,520
Speaker 1: who's been on campus for a couple of years now.

583
00:25:58,600 --> 00:26:00,480
Speaker 2: Mauer is not really figured into this all that much.

584
00:26:00,640 --> 00:26:04,600
Speaker 1: But Harrison Bailey's been there and Hendon Hooker got there

585
00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:06,800
Speaker 1: in the spring. Joe Milton didn't even get spring. And

586
00:26:06,880 --> 00:26:09,480
Speaker 1: yet those are the two guys, which goes to show

587
00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:13,080
Speaker 1: you the job really was so wide open that a

588
00:26:13,080 --> 00:26:15,360
Speaker 1: guy could come in after you two have already had

589
00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:17,199
Speaker 1: spring with a new staff, and I'm going to come

590
00:26:17,240 --> 00:26:18,720
Speaker 1: in cold and I'm still going to take the job.

591
00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:21,439
Speaker 1: It looks like that's what we're on the precipice of

592
00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:23,680
Speaker 1: seeing happen, and so that's exciting.

593
00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:25,160
Speaker 2: Now here's the second part.

594
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Speaker 1: The other thing that they were talking about on the

595
00:26:26,640 --> 00:26:29,560
Speaker 1: Govalls pod today is do we know how to interpret

596
00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:32,480
Speaker 1: Josh Hipel yet, head coach at Tennessee. Do we really

597
00:26:32,520 --> 00:26:35,360
Speaker 1: know how to interpret him? Because he sounds pretty positive.

598
00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:39,480
Speaker 1: Some coaches out there, brutally honest, some of them could

599
00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:42,720
Speaker 1: be three and seven and make the team sound like

600
00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:46,399
Speaker 1: they've just been micro inches away here in fractions of

601
00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:49,280
Speaker 1: an inch away there. No one really knows how to

602
00:26:49,800 --> 00:26:54,040
Speaker 1: judge Josh Hypel yet says good things, claims good things

603
00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:56,439
Speaker 1: are happening, and he likes this, he likes that. And

604
00:26:56,520 --> 00:26:59,160
Speaker 1: yet you know your expectations are very low for Tennessee,

605
00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:01,600
Speaker 1: and so someone wrong there? Who is it? Are you

606
00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:03,440
Speaker 1: being misled? Time will tell?

607
00:27:03,800 --> 00:27:06,000
Speaker 2: How about Florida? Stay in the SEC East for a second.

608
00:27:07,119 --> 00:27:11,679
Speaker 1: Dan Mullen speaking about the latest scrimmage in Gainesville, A

609
00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:12,400
Speaker 1: few things.

610
00:27:12,200 --> 00:27:12,760
Speaker 2: Caught my ear.

611
00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:14,720
Speaker 1: Some of them were the actual words that came out

612
00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:16,000
Speaker 1: of his mouth, but a lot of it's just the

613
00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:19,960
Speaker 1: tone and tenor Emory Jones at quarterback. One of the

614
00:27:19,960 --> 00:27:22,040
Speaker 1: biggest talking points down in our neck of the woods

615
00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:25,199
Speaker 1: in the SEC Emory Jones at quarterback, and what to expect.

616
00:27:25,240 --> 00:27:27,199
Speaker 1: And it's not just that in a vacuum, it's what

617
00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:31,119
Speaker 1: to expect from an offense that loses generational talent like

618
00:27:31,200 --> 00:27:33,960
Speaker 1: Kyle Pitts, for example. Losing Tony's a big deal, but

619
00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:36,439
Speaker 1: losing Kyle Pitts is a massive deal. But it's not

620
00:27:36,560 --> 00:27:38,479
Speaker 1: always the end of the world if you have someone

621
00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:41,520
Speaker 1: or if you have production that can fill that spot.

622
00:27:41,560 --> 00:27:45,119
Speaker 1: So the assembled media down in Gainesville, they've been asking

623
00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:47,919
Speaker 1: Dan Mullen not so much do you have a replacement

624
00:27:47,920 --> 00:27:50,320
Speaker 1: for Kyle Pitts, but do you have a way to

625
00:27:50,440 --> 00:27:54,320
Speaker 1: replace that production. So if you take just what Dan

626
00:27:54,440 --> 00:27:56,920
Speaker 1: Mullin said, you don't go off any rumor or speculation.

627
00:27:57,000 --> 00:27:59,359
Speaker 1: You just take what Dan Mullin said, you start to

628
00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:01,280
Speaker 1: paint yourself a picture of what this team's going to

629
00:28:01,320 --> 00:28:04,600
Speaker 1: be like. And when you listen to him, dan Mullen

630
00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:06,840
Speaker 1: being him, when you listen to Dan Mullen talk about

631
00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:09,320
Speaker 1: the skill set of Emory Jones and he talks about

632
00:28:09,359 --> 00:28:12,439
Speaker 1: how tied in and wide receiver. No, it may not

633
00:28:12,560 --> 00:28:14,800
Speaker 1: be at the level we had last year, but our

634
00:28:14,880 --> 00:28:17,680
Speaker 1: running back position we feel way better than we did

635
00:28:17,920 --> 00:28:20,320
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty and we know that we have a

636
00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:22,679
Speaker 1: different skill set at quarterback with Emery Jones, We're going

637
00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:26,520
Speaker 1: to use his full allotment of skills. Basically, what that

638
00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:29,199
Speaker 1: translates to is obviously a really different looking offense. But

639
00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:32,720
Speaker 1: it sounds to me like they believe it's a framework

640
00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:34,520
Speaker 1: they can win with. Now, if we were to hit

641
00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:37,080
Speaker 1: the rewine button fifteen years and we were going into

642
00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:40,080
Speaker 1: let's say the two thousand and six season, that's the

643
00:28:40,160 --> 00:28:43,200
Speaker 1: kind of framework that a lot of eventual BCS and

644
00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:48,200
Speaker 1: National Championship contending teams went with today doesn't sound like

645
00:28:48,240 --> 00:28:50,280
Speaker 1: that so much. You want a guy that can stretch

646
00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:53,680
Speaker 1: the defense vertically. You want two or three stud receivers

647
00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:57,200
Speaker 1: at least, and it's just wide open. Well, Florida's offense

648
00:28:57,400 --> 00:28:59,840
Speaker 1: not going to be wide open this year, but still,

649
00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:02,160
Speaker 1: I'm willing to meet you in the middle. If you're

650
00:29:02,200 --> 00:29:03,800
Speaker 1: Dan Mullen, you're telling me all that I'm willing to

651
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Speaker 1: meet you in the middle. But if we're going to

652
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Speaker 1: lean heavily on the run game, then you have to

653
00:29:08,880 --> 00:29:11,640
Speaker 1: answer this question for me. Is your offensive line up

654
00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:14,360
Speaker 1: to it? And I know my friends over on the

655
00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:16,840
Speaker 1: swamp twenty four to seven message board who fill my

656
00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:19,760
Speaker 1: dms with such lovely messages day in and day out,

657
00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:23,200
Speaker 1: I know this shudder when I mentioned the offensive line,

658
00:29:23,280 --> 00:29:23,880
Speaker 1: and you should.

659
00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:26,240
Speaker 2: Dan Mullen himself gave about the.

660
00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:29,400
Speaker 1: Biggest non answer answer I've ever heard when asked about

661
00:29:29,440 --> 00:29:32,880
Speaker 1: offensive line development and recruiting, and he him hauled his

662
00:29:32,920 --> 00:29:35,080
Speaker 1: way around it. I don't know, man, that's a giant

663
00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:38,360
Speaker 1: question mark. And so the Florida offensive line, if someone

664
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Speaker 1: out there could reasonably lead me to expect that unit's

665
00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:44,800
Speaker 1: going to perform above expectation level. I'd feel good. I

666
00:29:44,800 --> 00:29:48,280
Speaker 1: think Florida could be competitive. I don't feel that yet,

667
00:29:48,400 --> 00:29:51,080
Speaker 1: and therefore I'm not sure how competitive Florida can be

668
00:29:51,120 --> 00:29:53,080
Speaker 1: on the national scene is what I'm talking about. I mean,

669
00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:55,480
Speaker 1: that's the standard at Florida. Now, I want to go

670
00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:58,240
Speaker 1: to a place I'm not sure. We've spoken about a lot.

671
00:29:58,240 --> 00:30:02,480
Speaker 1: Salt Lake City, Utah. Ye, they believe they have two

672
00:30:02,560 --> 00:30:06,240
Speaker 1: quarterbacks they can win with. I'm gonna pause because we

673
00:30:06,280 --> 00:30:13,160
Speaker 1: don't say that a lot. Ohio State probably believes this, definitely,

674
00:30:13,160 --> 00:30:19,280
Speaker 1: Oklahoma believes that. Utah believes genuinely. Now this offense has

675
00:30:19,320 --> 00:30:21,720
Speaker 1: two quarterbacks they can win with. Cam Rising was the

676
00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:24,360
Speaker 1: guy who was already there last year. And then Charlie

677
00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:27,960
Speaker 1: Brewer famously transfers in from Baylor and goes fifteen for

678
00:30:28,000 --> 00:30:31,080
Speaker 1: fifteen in the spring game. It's the most quoted spring

679
00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:33,960
Speaker 1: game stat line of all time any program. Can you

680
00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:36,280
Speaker 1: ever tell me any other quarterbacks stat line from a

681
00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:39,400
Speaker 1: spring game that you remember? Charlie Brewer fifteen for fifteen

682
00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:42,400
Speaker 1: live in infamy in Salt Lake City, especially if he

683
00:30:42,440 --> 00:30:43,959
Speaker 1: locks down the starting job and they win the PAC

684
00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:47,280
Speaker 1: twelve South, which I'm very close to predicting, both of

685
00:30:47,280 --> 00:30:51,000
Speaker 1: which to happen. So I was reading Blake Brockermeer's camp

686
00:30:51,040 --> 00:30:54,240
Speaker 1: notes on twenty four to seven sports dot Com today

687
00:30:54,320 --> 00:30:56,480
Speaker 1: and it was very timely because I wanted to talk

688
00:30:56,480 --> 00:30:58,880
Speaker 1: about Utah. So here's what he was talking about. He

689
00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:00,959
Speaker 1: kind of waited till today to to soak in some

690
00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:04,080
Speaker 1: information from different sources around the country, and he was

691
00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:08,680
Speaker 1: speaking about the overall expectation level at Utah. They are very,

692
00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:11,200
Speaker 1: very experienced, and the reason I mentioned that's not to

693
00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:13,480
Speaker 1: automatically tell you that means you're gonna win X number

694
00:31:13,480 --> 00:31:17,840
Speaker 1: of games. They're not in this rapid frenetic pace of

695
00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:21,560
Speaker 1: installing new concepts and trying to get true freshmen up

696
00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:25,240
Speaker 1: to speed. They got the concepts, they've got the guys

697
00:31:25,280 --> 00:31:26,680
Speaker 1: that they know they're going to go into battle with.

698
00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:28,920
Speaker 1: It's largely the same crew they played with last year.

699
00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:32,440
Speaker 1: What they've been able to do because of that is

700
00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:35,360
Speaker 1: they've been able to split more rep time, but they've

701
00:31:35,360 --> 00:31:37,560
Speaker 1: also been able to fine tune parts of this team

702
00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:40,880
Speaker 1: and they've been able to add layers onto the offense.

703
00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:43,880
Speaker 1: Their passing game at Utah this year is going to

704
00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:46,080
Speaker 1: look unlike anything you've probably seen at Utah in quite

705
00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:48,840
Speaker 1: a while. Now, what does that mean, Well, it probably

706
00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:51,680
Speaker 1: means that when you watch Utah play some games and

707
00:31:51,720 --> 00:31:54,080
Speaker 1: they're competitive, but they can't get over the hump enough,

708
00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:56,480
Speaker 1: they don't have enough skill. In other words, when the

709
00:31:57,120 --> 00:31:59,880
Speaker 1: games that are one possession or single digit spread starts

710
00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:02,280
Speaker 1: backing up one after the other after the other, Utah

711
00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:04,600
Speaker 1: can win any one of those games, but they can't

712
00:32:04,640 --> 00:32:06,520
Speaker 1: go on a run, they can't go on a tear,

713
00:32:06,560 --> 00:32:09,560
Speaker 1: they can't stretch a win streak because they don't have

714
00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:12,040
Speaker 1: the passing element. Well, they have that. I think they're

715
00:32:12,040 --> 00:32:12,960
Speaker 1: gonna have that, and they think.

716
00:32:12,800 --> 00:32:13,880
Speaker 2: They're gonna have that this year.

717
00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:17,600
Speaker 1: If they do that, to me, is the team to

718
00:32:17,640 --> 00:32:20,680
Speaker 1: beat in the PAC twelve South, above and beyond even USC,

719
00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:23,520
Speaker 1: above and beyond Arizona State. That's what stands in the

720
00:32:23,520 --> 00:32:26,760
Speaker 1: way with them. And remember, for all the scheduling dynamic

721
00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:30,360
Speaker 1: advantage that Southern cal has in the South, they got Utah.

722
00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:32,800
Speaker 1: As Utah comes off of by it's the toughest spot

723
00:32:32,840 --> 00:32:35,760
Speaker 1: of the season for USC. So I just be careful

724
00:32:35,800 --> 00:32:36,920
Speaker 1: with Utah. I really like them.

725
00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:38,760
Speaker 2: I mean, they were ranked twenty fourth yesterday in the AP.

726
00:32:40,240 --> 00:32:42,240
Speaker 1: There are not twenty four better teams in the country

727
00:32:42,240 --> 00:32:45,760
Speaker 1: to start the year than Utah. And lastly, you guys

728
00:32:45,760 --> 00:32:48,600
Speaker 1: better spread this segment all over the place. You asked

729
00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:49,880
Speaker 1: me all the time, why don't you talk about the

730
00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:52,040
Speaker 1: G five more? I want to talk about G five teams.

731
00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:55,040
Speaker 1: Let's talk about a G five team. The Cincinnati Bearcats

732
00:32:55,080 --> 00:32:57,760
Speaker 1: are in a unique position, the likes of which no

733
00:32:57,840 --> 00:33:00,480
Speaker 1: other G five team has really ever found off him

734
00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:04,600
Speaker 1: because they have sky high expectation level to start the year.

735
00:33:04,840 --> 00:33:07,080
Speaker 1: They're already in the top ten to start the year.

736
00:33:07,120 --> 00:33:10,080
Speaker 1: I think they debuted number seven. And you can tell

737
00:33:10,080 --> 00:33:12,640
Speaker 1: me all you want to the AP doesn't matter. It matters,

738
00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:16,440
Speaker 1: it shapes perspective. It matters. The overall depth on this

739
00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:20,920
Speaker 1: team is paramount this year because it's as good as

740
00:33:21,080 --> 00:33:23,320
Speaker 1: pretty much any G five team you're going to find

741
00:33:23,360 --> 00:33:23,680
Speaker 1: out there.

742
00:33:23,720 --> 00:33:25,320
Speaker 2: They got really, really good depth.

743
00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:27,400
Speaker 1: I was reading Blake's stuff about he had a lot

744
00:33:27,400 --> 00:33:29,840
Speaker 1: of good stuff about Cincinnati and his report today too,

745
00:33:29,920 --> 00:33:32,440
Speaker 1: and he was talking about their last scrimmage and how

746
00:33:32,480 --> 00:33:35,720
Speaker 1: they feel very good. They've been able to rotate offensive

747
00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:38,680
Speaker 1: lineman wide receivers, got some extra dB some work the

748
00:33:38,720 --> 00:33:42,000
Speaker 1: other day. They've got an established quarterback, they have got

749
00:33:42,040 --> 00:33:45,800
Speaker 1: an established pedigree. This is not new territory for any

750
00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:47,520
Speaker 1: of those folks. I mean, they were already right on

751
00:33:47,560 --> 00:33:50,960
Speaker 1: the brink last year, so they felt the heat. The

752
00:33:51,040 --> 00:33:54,320
Speaker 1: question becomes with them having the kind of target on

753
00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:56,840
Speaker 1: their back that they never have and also being the

754
00:33:56,920 --> 00:33:59,840
Speaker 1: kind of team that played some close games last year. Anyway,

755
00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:02,200
Speaker 1: can they go wire to wire if they do it

756
00:34:02,360 --> 00:34:04,920
Speaker 1: including wins as you see on the schedule right here,

757
00:34:05,120 --> 00:34:08,239
Speaker 1: back to back, Indiana and Notre Dame on the road,

758
00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:10,600
Speaker 1: both of them back to back, you beat them and

759
00:34:10,640 --> 00:34:13,640
Speaker 1: you win that conference. This team's going to the playoff.

760
00:34:13,960 --> 00:34:16,000
Speaker 1: I have very little doubt about that. The rest of

761
00:34:16,040 --> 00:34:18,240
Speaker 1: the country, you ask, well, what if this team's undefeated.

762
00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:21,920
Speaker 1: That team's undefeated, it'll work itself out. Cincinnati's undefeated, that

763
00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:24,280
Speaker 1: team's going to the playoff. That's the latest camp whispers

764
00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:27,239
Speaker 1: and intel. Remember we got second scrimmages coming up for

765
00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:29,440
Speaker 1: a lot of programs, so you're gonna want to keep

766
00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:31,919
Speaker 1: it locked in here Thursday and then especially that Sunday show.

767
00:34:31,920 --> 00:34:34,479
Speaker 1: We're gonna have a mountain of information on that Sunday Show.

768
00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:36,160
Speaker 1: I think that Sunday show is going over an hour.

769
00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:37,319
Speaker 1: If I had to bet right now, I think it's

770
00:34:37,360 --> 00:34:40,160
Speaker 1: going over an hour. You know, now that I think

771
00:34:40,200 --> 00:34:44,960
Speaker 1: about it, can't make the announcement. I think we have

772
00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:48,120
Speaker 1: some special things coming for you Sunday, some very unusual

773
00:34:48,200 --> 00:34:51,120
Speaker 1: things for our show possibly coming Sunday. And if it

774
00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:52,920
Speaker 1: doesn't work out, I'll let you know what it was

775
00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:56,520
Speaker 1: going to be. Okay, So I'm stacking the Late Kick

776
00:34:56,520 --> 00:34:59,080
Speaker 1: Extra podcast. I was in here recording it late last

777
00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:02,359
Speaker 1: night and I saw a question come across the feed,

778
00:35:02,440 --> 00:35:04,600
Speaker 1: and it was what is your favorite college road trip

779
00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:06,840
Speaker 1: of all time? Now? I got some good ones because

780
00:35:06,840 --> 00:35:09,040
Speaker 1: I've traveled to cover the sport for a little while,

781
00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:11,880
Speaker 1: and I got a real good one from twenty seventeen.

782
00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:13,600
Speaker 2: Some of you were sharing yours. I'm going to share

783
00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:14,120
Speaker 2: mine with you.

784
00:35:15,120 --> 00:35:18,080
Speaker 1: I was working in the local news world down in Columbus, Georgia.

785
00:35:18,080 --> 00:35:21,960
Speaker 1: It was twenty seventeen, and I was doing high school

786
00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:24,719
Speaker 1: sports on Fridays. I was a news anchor down there,

787
00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:27,439
Speaker 1: was the sports director at WLTZ, and so I'm doing

788
00:35:27,560 --> 00:35:28,920
Speaker 1: high school football on Fridays.

789
00:35:28,920 --> 00:35:30,560
Speaker 2: I cover college football on Saturdays.

790
00:35:30,560 --> 00:35:33,120
Speaker 1: Then we do what would become Late Kick at the time,

791
00:35:33,160 --> 00:35:35,239
Speaker 1: we called it Football Nightly down South, and we're doing

792
00:35:35,239 --> 00:35:37,560
Speaker 1: that on Sundays, same time we do this show now,

793
00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:40,520
Speaker 1: eight eastern, seventh Central. So let me hit you with

794
00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:42,879
Speaker 1: this little itinerary. I want you to think this one

795
00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:43,560
Speaker 1: out loud with me.

796
00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:45,000
Speaker 2: September.

797
00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:46,680
Speaker 1: What was it colin the twenty year At the twenty

798
00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:49,640
Speaker 1: first it was week three of the twenty seventeen season.

799
00:35:50,360 --> 00:35:53,080
Speaker 2: Georgia has a road trip to Notre Dame.

800
00:35:53,120 --> 00:35:56,399
Speaker 1: Now we're lucky in Columbus because we could reasonably get

801
00:35:56,440 --> 00:35:59,960
Speaker 1: credentialed to Georgia games, Auburn games and Alabama games, Florida's

802
00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:02,560
Speaker 1: state games in Florida games, and Clemson games and South

803
00:36:02,600 --> 00:36:05,960
Speaker 1: Carolina games. We're just right there where we could justifiably

804
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:07,880
Speaker 1: apply to all of them, and we got credential to

805
00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:09,680
Speaker 1: all those. So it is a perfect spot to be.

806
00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:13,760
Speaker 1: So we get approved for the Notre Dame game. Georgia

807
00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:16,000
Speaker 1: atte Notre Dame once in a lifetime trip. It hardly

808
00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:19,400
Speaker 1: ever happens those out of conference games. Remember everyone's scheduling

809
00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:21,799
Speaker 1: big out of conference now, they hadn't been doing it

810
00:36:21,840 --> 00:36:26,120
Speaker 1: for a long time down South, and so we get credential.

811
00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:29,400
Speaker 1: Here's the problem. The problem is I have to be

812
00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:32,120
Speaker 1: back by Sunday. I mean that game's a seven thirty

813
00:36:32,200 --> 00:36:35,880
Speaker 1: pm Eastern time kickoff in South Bend, Indiana. Got to

814
00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:38,800
Speaker 1: be back twenty four hours later. It's a twelve hour

815
00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:40,960
Speaker 1: trip each way. How are we going to pull it off?

816
00:36:41,560 --> 00:36:45,160
Speaker 1: So I ask one of the meteorologists there, henceforth to

817
00:36:45,160 --> 00:36:50,400
Speaker 1: be named There, and another PA, henceforth to be named Menyon.

818
00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:53,040
Speaker 1: I ask them, if you can come and help split

819
00:36:53,040 --> 00:36:55,799
Speaker 1: the driving duties. I'll get you credentialed. So they say yes,

820
00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:56,880
Speaker 1: and I get incredentialed.

821
00:36:56,920 --> 00:36:57,480
Speaker 2: So here we go.

822
00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:01,879
Speaker 1: We are doing high school football and Friday night we

823
00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:04,640
Speaker 1: anchor it. We get off air at eleven thirty four

824
00:37:04,680 --> 00:37:07,239
Speaker 1: and thirty seconds that's the exact time we got off.

825
00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:08,960
Speaker 2: Air when we were doing high school football.

826
00:37:09,560 --> 00:37:11,399
Speaker 1: Go home, get about one or two hours of sleep,

827
00:37:11,600 --> 00:37:14,799
Speaker 1: maybe max, and then we load up the equipment. And

828
00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:17,200
Speaker 1: here we are taken off from Columbus, Georgia, which for

829
00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:19,960
Speaker 1: those unfamiliar, is about an hour south of Atlanta. And

830
00:37:20,000 --> 00:37:22,880
Speaker 1: we're taken off to go to South Bend, Indiana. No rest,

831
00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:27,800
Speaker 1: no stops, no hotel, no nothing. It's twelve hour roughly

832
00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:30,719
Speaker 1: a twelve hour straight shot. And that's going from Columbus

833
00:37:31,040 --> 00:37:36,319
Speaker 1: through Birmingham, through Nashville, through Louisville, through Indianapolis to South Bend.

834
00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:38,160
Speaker 1: It's like sixty five most of the way until you

835
00:37:38,200 --> 00:37:40,480
Speaker 1: get to Indiana, and so you got some game day

836
00:37:40,480 --> 00:37:42,520
Speaker 1: traffic that stretch it. So let's call it a thirteen

837
00:37:42,560 --> 00:37:46,359
Speaker 1: hour trip. We got there at about five pm. Game

838
00:37:46,480 --> 00:37:49,080
Speaker 1: kicks off in two and a half hours, and so

839
00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:51,640
Speaker 1: we get in Notre Dame Stadium, which in and of

840
00:37:51,680 --> 00:37:53,919
Speaker 1: itself is just an experience. You get to go see

841
00:37:53,960 --> 00:37:55,719
Speaker 1: touchdown Jesus. You get to go and see all the

842
00:37:55,719 --> 00:37:57,680
Speaker 1: things that you've only seen on TV if you grew

843
00:37:57,760 --> 00:38:01,080
Speaker 1: up in rural Georgia. So that was awesome. So then

844
00:38:01,200 --> 00:38:02,960
Speaker 1: I pull out the Eye, Josh, not this one, this

845
00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:05,439
Speaker 1: one's new, but the old eye, Josh. I'm in Notre

846
00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:08,600
Speaker 1: Dame Stadium. If you don't remember this, half of the

847
00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:10,880
Speaker 1: state of Georgia made this trip, every one of them

848
00:38:10,920 --> 00:38:15,000
Speaker 1: wearing red. So I told Jesse this morning, Welcome back Jesse,

849
00:38:15,080 --> 00:38:17,120
Speaker 1: by the way, not to be confused with Welcome Back Cotter.

850
00:38:17,200 --> 00:38:19,359
Speaker 1: That would probably be a better show. Welcome Back Jesse

851
00:38:19,440 --> 00:38:21,600
Speaker 1: would be an even better movie. And I said Jesse

852
00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:23,719
Speaker 1: I got some Eyejosh footage. Can you roll it? He said,

853
00:38:23,760 --> 00:38:26,160
Speaker 1: you send it, I'll roll it. So he's got some.

854
00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:28,000
Speaker 1: So the first piece of footage I want to show

855
00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:30,080
Speaker 1: you I sneak up in Notre Dame Stadium. I go

856
00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:33,040
Speaker 1: up into the second level and the scene was crazy.

857
00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:35,880
Speaker 1: There was like a mob scene outside. As Georgia's team arrives,

858
00:38:36,920 --> 00:38:40,000
Speaker 1: there's wall to wall red. This is not a home

859
00:38:40,040 --> 00:38:42,239
Speaker 1: game in Athens, mind you. And this is not some

860
00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:46,160
Speaker 1: rando side entrance for the visiting team. This is just

861
00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:48,520
Speaker 1: the main entrance at Notre Dame Stadium. And you can

862
00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:51,719
Speaker 1: see a splattering of green and maybe a splattering of

863
00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:54,040
Speaker 1: blue out there, but by and large it was just red.

864
00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:56,440
Speaker 2: And it was a crazy scene outside.

865
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Speaker 1: So what I wanted to do is get there early

866
00:38:59,000 --> 00:39:01,280
Speaker 1: soak as much of it in his possible. But remember

867
00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:04,400
Speaker 1: how this game went so again, once in a lifetime

868
00:39:04,440 --> 00:39:07,360
Speaker 1: opportunity for us, and you hope to see a close game.

869
00:39:07,800 --> 00:39:11,359
Speaker 1: This is Jake From's first start quarterback for Georgia. Goes

870
00:39:11,360 --> 00:39:14,160
Speaker 1: down week before Jake From inserted as a true freshman.

871
00:39:14,280 --> 00:39:15,920
Speaker 1: His first start is on the road at Notre Dame.

872
00:39:15,960 --> 00:39:18,480
Speaker 1: Georgia ends up winning the thing twenty to nineteen, and

873
00:39:18,560 --> 00:39:21,480
Speaker 1: every time there's a commercial break, you do what I'm

874
00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:24,080
Speaker 1: doing right now. If you're watching on YouTube, you try

875
00:39:24,120 --> 00:39:27,120
Speaker 1: and capture as much of the scene as you can. Postgame,

876
00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:28,680
Speaker 1: you're trying to capture as much of the scene as

877
00:39:28,680 --> 00:39:30,680
Speaker 1: you can. No one was in a hurry to leave

878
00:39:30,680 --> 00:39:32,480
Speaker 1: this field after this game, as you can see again

879
00:39:32,520 --> 00:39:36,960
Speaker 1: if you're watching on YouTube, dudes standing outside just walking

880
00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:39,239
Speaker 1: around the end zone, going down to the student section,

881
00:39:39,400 --> 00:39:42,880
Speaker 1: going down of their visitors section. But you know what

882
00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:45,120
Speaker 1: it was like. And I thought about this several times.

883
00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:48,279
Speaker 1: I remember some of my thoughts during the game. When

884
00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:51,520
Speaker 1: I was a kid and I was growing up, there

885
00:39:51,520 --> 00:39:55,080
Speaker 1: were like really old VHS tapes of like old Georgia

886
00:39:55,080 --> 00:39:58,520
Speaker 1: games or old Bama games, several of Bryant's games in

887
00:39:58,560 --> 00:40:01,839
Speaker 1: the sixties and the seventies, and you'd watch them and

888
00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:04,080
Speaker 1: these are people who in some cases have long since

889
00:40:04,120 --> 00:40:06,960
Speaker 1: passed away before I've been born. Obviously the games are

890
00:40:06,960 --> 00:40:10,120
Speaker 1: in another era. But I watched it like if USC

891
00:40:10,239 --> 00:40:13,600
Speaker 1: were to come into Legion Field and Birmingham Sam Cunningham

892
00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:16,440
Speaker 1: in tow and you're watching that game that doesn't even

893
00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:17,880
Speaker 1: feel like it's the same reality.

894
00:40:17,920 --> 00:40:19,919
Speaker 2: You're living. This is another world.

895
00:40:20,600 --> 00:40:24,040
Speaker 1: I felt during that game like I was kind of

896
00:40:24,040 --> 00:40:27,040
Speaker 1: in a VHS. Not in a literal sense, but I

897
00:40:27,080 --> 00:40:30,280
Speaker 1: felt like I'm part of something right in this moment.

898
00:40:30,480 --> 00:40:32,120
Speaker 2: There I am on TV in the orange shirt.

899
00:40:32,360 --> 00:40:36,240
Speaker 1: I'm on the field taking part in something this moment

900
00:40:36,600 --> 00:40:38,839
Speaker 1: that people who are my age at the moment will

901
00:40:38,880 --> 00:40:41,279
Speaker 1: show kids thirty forty years from now. Hey, this is

902
00:40:41,280 --> 00:40:44,080
Speaker 1: when Georgia went to Notre Dame. This was a rare thing,

903
00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:46,080
Speaker 1: and so I felt that. So we were in no

904
00:40:46,160 --> 00:40:48,560
Speaker 1: hurry to leave. So after the game, we go to

905
00:40:48,640 --> 00:40:51,640
Speaker 1: Brian Kelly's press conference, we go to Kirby Smart's press conference.

906
00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:54,239
Speaker 1: But then when we get done, as is usually the case,

907
00:40:54,280 --> 00:40:55,799
Speaker 1: I'm never in a hurry to leave the stadium because

908
00:40:55,800 --> 00:40:58,400
Speaker 1: I don't like sitting in gridlock traffic. So what I

909
00:40:58,520 --> 00:41:01,280
Speaker 1: like to do a lot, and this is a pattern

910
00:41:01,320 --> 00:41:03,799
Speaker 1: I do every time, but especially at Notre Dame. What

911
00:41:03,840 --> 00:41:05,760
Speaker 1: I did is I just go back out in the crowd.

912
00:41:06,520 --> 00:41:08,719
Speaker 1: I go up in the bleachers. I take a couple

913
00:41:08,760 --> 00:41:11,040
Speaker 1: of laptops with me and the eye Josh in this case,

914
00:41:11,640 --> 00:41:14,160
Speaker 1: and I just sit. And that's exactly what I did.

915
00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:17,200
Speaker 1: This shot right here is an empty Notre Dame Stadium.

916
00:41:18,560 --> 00:41:21,120
Speaker 1: What other walk of life could you find yourself in

917
00:41:21,160 --> 00:41:22,879
Speaker 1: this very position at that very moment. That's what I'm

918
00:41:22,880 --> 00:41:25,720
Speaker 1: thinking as I'm shooting this. And so sit there watch

919
00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:29,200
Speaker 1: some games wrap up. You're watching highlight footage from the day,

920
00:41:29,719 --> 00:41:31,759
Speaker 1: trying to start to get your show put together for

921
00:41:31,800 --> 00:41:33,600
Speaker 1: the next night because of what comes next.

922
00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:35,839
Speaker 2: So you mose your way back to your car.

923
00:41:35,880 --> 00:41:37,800
Speaker 1: We got out of there about one or one thirty

924
00:41:38,520 --> 00:41:42,319
Speaker 1: straight shot all the way back. The meteorologist and I

925
00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:47,680
Speaker 1: bear and I we switch places. Menyon, who is probably

926
00:41:47,760 --> 00:41:49,440
Speaker 1: not out of high school at this point, sleeps the

927
00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:52,560
Speaker 1: whole way twelve hours, sleeps the whole way, curled up

928
00:41:52,920 --> 00:41:56,359
Speaker 1: like I'm not gonna use that terminology. He's curled up

929
00:41:56,400 --> 00:41:58,279
Speaker 1: like something in the back, and he just sleeps the

930
00:41:58,280 --> 00:42:01,200
Speaker 1: whole way. So we get back about lunchtime, little after

931
00:42:01,280 --> 00:42:04,439
Speaker 1: lunchtime in Columbus, and there is no time to sleep

932
00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:05,920
Speaker 1: because we got to stack the show. We've got to

933
00:42:05,920 --> 00:42:06,160
Speaker 1: have a.

934
00:42:06,080 --> 00:42:08,240
Speaker 2: Certain standard mat too, So we stack that show.

935
00:42:08,320 --> 00:42:10,960
Speaker 1: We do the show on Sunday night, and then I

936
00:42:11,080 --> 00:42:12,680
Speaker 1: go into complete recluse mode.

937
00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:14,120
Speaker 2: I hibernate all a Monday.

938
00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:18,720
Speaker 1: It was like Sunday happened, Tuesday happened Monday just a rumor.

939
00:42:19,239 --> 00:42:21,920
Speaker 1: Don't really even know that anything occurred that day. But

940
00:42:21,960 --> 00:42:24,920
Speaker 1: it was a very fun trip. And so like I'm thinking,

941
00:42:24,920 --> 00:42:27,319
Speaker 1: it's only three or four years ago now, but I

942
00:42:27,360 --> 00:42:29,279
Speaker 1: still look back on it, still talk about it all

943
00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:32,160
Speaker 1: the time. I mean, the buddies I'm discussing right now

944
00:42:32,160 --> 00:42:34,120
Speaker 1: will probably light up my phone before I even get

945
00:42:34,120 --> 00:42:36,520
Speaker 1: off air. But I would encourage you guys. So now

946
00:42:36,560 --> 00:42:39,239
Speaker 1: that obviously we've got things opening back up a little bit,

947
00:42:40,680 --> 00:42:43,080
Speaker 1: I have a lot of folks ask me, should I

948
00:42:43,120 --> 00:42:45,479
Speaker 1: take this trip, should I take that trip? I don't

949
00:42:45,480 --> 00:42:47,080
Speaker 1: know what your finances are, I don't know what your

950
00:42:47,080 --> 00:42:50,960
Speaker 1: schedule is. I'm saying, if you could even reasonably swing

951
00:42:51,080 --> 00:42:55,520
Speaker 1: some of this stuff, always buy the memory. The memory

952
00:42:55,680 --> 00:42:59,080
Speaker 1: is what's worth its weight in gold. Because we had

953
00:42:59,120 --> 00:43:01,080
Speaker 1: to fit the bill for some of this stuff, even

954
00:43:01,120 --> 00:43:03,600
Speaker 1: though I was working in media, that was not exactly

955
00:43:03,760 --> 00:43:06,440
Speaker 1: a trip that the station was ready to fund. Fully.

956
00:43:07,040 --> 00:43:08,839
Speaker 1: Now it's its own separate story that we can't tell

957
00:43:08,840 --> 00:43:13,080
Speaker 1: on air, statute of limitations and all. But I don't

958
00:43:13,200 --> 00:43:15,239
Speaker 1: regret for a second paying for any of it. What

959
00:43:15,320 --> 00:43:18,319
Speaker 1: I very very much am happy we did is you

960
00:43:18,400 --> 00:43:20,279
Speaker 1: got the memory to take home with you. So if

961
00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:22,040
Speaker 1: you are a fan of a program this year, if

962
00:43:22,040 --> 00:43:24,839
Speaker 1: you're an LSU fan and you guys are playing at UCLA,

963
00:43:25,480 --> 00:43:28,160
Speaker 1: go if you can go, go, I mean, if local

964
00:43:28,239 --> 00:43:29,920
Speaker 1: ordinances allow you to go.

965
00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:32,200
Speaker 2: I mean, if you're one of these teams.

966
00:43:31,880 --> 00:43:35,440
Speaker 1: That gets to play like Oregon, go into Ohio Stadium,

967
00:43:35,440 --> 00:43:38,520
Speaker 1: Go into Ohio State, Go, go see the horseshoe. You

968
00:43:38,520 --> 00:43:40,200
Speaker 1: don't ever know if you're gonna be able to do that. Again,

969
00:43:40,320 --> 00:43:42,880
Speaker 1: I always encourage it. And if you can find a

970
00:43:42,880 --> 00:43:45,240
Speaker 1: couple of quarters to rub together to pay for gas,

971
00:43:45,480 --> 00:43:49,239
Speaker 1: make it happen. And I would also tell you this,

972
00:43:49,600 --> 00:43:52,440
Speaker 1: you never know what kind of benevolent souls may be

973
00:43:52,560 --> 00:43:55,480
Speaker 1: out there in your immediate social circle, who are well

974
00:43:55,640 --> 00:43:59,600
Speaker 1: enough off financially, who themselves regret not taking more trips

975
00:43:59,600 --> 00:44:02,000
Speaker 1: when they were younger, and they may step up and

976
00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:05,640
Speaker 1: they may say, handshake. It's not because you're a four

977
00:44:05,640 --> 00:44:07,440
Speaker 1: star recruit. That's because I want you to be able

978
00:44:07,480 --> 00:44:10,520
Speaker 1: to take this trip, spend that money wisely. You never know,

979
00:44:11,040 --> 00:44:12,840
Speaker 1: never hearst to ask. It's all long, Sam, So I

980
00:44:12,840 --> 00:44:16,600
Speaker 1: would very much look forward to your own stories about

981
00:44:16,680 --> 00:44:19,239
Speaker 1: your own road trips and when this video goes up

982
00:44:19,239 --> 00:44:21,759
Speaker 1: as an individual video tomorrow on the YouTube channel, I'll

983
00:44:21,760 --> 00:44:23,600
Speaker 1: be looking forward to it. We are out of time

984
00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:26,719
Speaker 1: for tonight at the very least for director Colin for

985
00:44:26,760 --> 00:44:28,640
Speaker 1: our entire crew in Fort Lauderdale.

986
00:44:28,640 --> 00:44:30,680
Speaker 2: I'm Josh Payton. Thanks so much for watching.

987
00:44:30,760 --> 00:44:33,279
Speaker 1: Make sure you're following on Instagram and Twitter at late

988
00:44:33,360 --> 00:44:42,960
Speaker 1: Kick Josh. Have a great night and God bless