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Speaker 1: would happen if they were, as the AJC says, rallying

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Speaker 1: around players accused of abusing women. Because here's the other thing.

428
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Speaker 1: The other thing is they didn't run from the other

429
00:22:46,160 --> 00:22:50,119
Speaker 1: allegations because they're not allegations Like the street racing stuff

430
00:22:50,119 --> 00:22:53,479
Speaker 1: over there is really serious, and Kirby Smart spoke about it.

431
00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:55,720
Speaker 1: They didn't run away from that. They didn't deny it

432
00:22:55,760 --> 00:22:58,760
Speaker 1: at all. In fact, they spoke about it. He spoke

433
00:22:58,840 --> 00:23:01,879
Speaker 1: as straightforward as he had about it, saying I'm doing

434
00:23:01,920 --> 00:23:04,080
Speaker 1: the best I can. We're doing the best we can.

435
00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:07,679
Speaker 1: We don't know exactly what the answer is. It's not

436
00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:09,760
Speaker 1: for a lack of trying. I've talked to some folks

437
00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:12,240
Speaker 1: over there, and they bring every kind of speaker, every

438
00:23:12,320 --> 00:23:14,919
Speaker 1: kind of insurance adjuster in there. Every kind of scare

439
00:23:14,960 --> 00:23:17,800
Speaker 1: you straight tactic, every kind of run someone till two

440
00:23:17,880 --> 00:23:21,439
Speaker 1: inches from death tactic you can employ. They've done it.

441
00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:24,440
Speaker 1: It's just not a switch you flip. And you also

442
00:23:25,280 --> 00:23:29,080
Speaker 1: you also are outside and maybe have the benefit of saying, oh,

443
00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:32,439
Speaker 1: just kick everyone off the team. It's not that simple.

444
00:23:32,880 --> 00:23:34,840
Speaker 1: It's not that simple cause it's always case by case,

445
00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:37,760
Speaker 1: and it also lends me. It leads me back to

446
00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:39,639
Speaker 1: thinking about what I would do if I were a

447
00:23:39,680 --> 00:23:43,040
Speaker 1: head coach, Like, how many folks do you know that

448
00:23:43,119 --> 00:23:47,040
Speaker 1: get dismissed from a major college football program over speeding tickets?

449
00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:50,800
Speaker 1: Not the kind of stuff that happened in January. That's

450
00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:53,520
Speaker 1: not what I'm talking about. That's a different galaxy. But

451
00:23:53,560 --> 00:23:56,440
Speaker 1: I'm talking about the spotlight that's on that university now

452
00:23:56,480 --> 00:23:59,520
Speaker 1: because of what happened in January. And so, if I'm

453
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Speaker 1: a Georgia football player and I'm I'm clock doing eighty

454
00:24:03,160 --> 00:24:05,280
Speaker 1: four and a sixty five, I'm gonna get popped in

455
00:24:05,320 --> 00:24:08,000
Speaker 1: the state of george especially, I'm gonna get popped. That's

456
00:24:08,040 --> 00:24:10,560
Speaker 1: gonna be front page news. Is the answer really to

457
00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:13,080
Speaker 1: kick me off the team? Or is the answer to

458
00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:16,040
Speaker 1: try and employ other tactics as best I can if

459
00:24:16,040 --> 00:24:17,920
Speaker 1: I'm Kirby smart, and try to address the problem. The

460
00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:21,240
Speaker 1: point is they didn't run from any of that. There

461
00:24:21,280 --> 00:24:24,679
Speaker 1: is a big gulf between that stuff and what the

462
00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:29,200
Speaker 1: AJAC chose to accuse them of. And frankly, if you're

463
00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:31,879
Speaker 1: not guilty of it, come out swinging. That's exactly what

464
00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:34,720
Speaker 1: they did. So I don't think you've seen nearly the

465
00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:37,080
Speaker 1: end of that, and I think it'll be a central

466
00:24:37,080 --> 00:24:40,399
Speaker 1: focus as off the field matters usually are at media

467
00:24:40,480 --> 00:24:43,919
Speaker 1: days next week, and so everyone else will talk about it,

468
00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:48,000
Speaker 1: so maybe we won't have to talk about it. I

469
00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:51,760
Speaker 1: got a special helmet for you, not the Lake kick helmet,

470
00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:53,960
Speaker 1: not the payte State helmet. And there's the fluid of

471
00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:57,440
Speaker 1: supremacy just for good measure. No, not those I got

472
00:24:57,440 --> 00:25:00,159
Speaker 1: to talk to you about something our buddies at a cat

473
00:25:00,160 --> 00:25:02,560
Speaker 1: Me emailed me about today. Now, if you're at a

474
00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:05,760
Speaker 1: football practice, you see Guardian caps all the time, but

475
00:25:05,840 --> 00:25:09,720
Speaker 1: if you're not, you may hear about this for the

476
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Speaker 1: first time. Right now, Guardian caps everyone practices in them.

477
00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:15,960
Speaker 1: Now half the teams out there play spring games in them,

478
00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:19,120
Speaker 1: and if you're watching on YouTube, right now you see

479
00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:21,920
Speaker 1: a picture of it. So those things are essentially something

480
00:25:21,920 --> 00:25:23,960
Speaker 1: you put around the shell of a helmet and it

481
00:25:24,000 --> 00:25:28,160
Speaker 1: greatly reduces impact. But it also it's lightweight, it's water resistant.

482
00:25:28,800 --> 00:25:33,520
Speaker 1: There is a fifteen to twenty degree reduction in static

483
00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:36,920
Speaker 1: heat build up, so it actually keeps you climate controlled

484
00:25:37,400 --> 00:25:40,720
Speaker 1: and it also reduces impact. And why I'm mentioning this

485
00:25:41,119 --> 00:25:44,400
Speaker 1: is because they're only available at Academy for a limited time.

486
00:25:44,520 --> 00:25:47,359
Speaker 1: That's an exclusive at Academy Sports and Outdoors. Now, those things,

487
00:25:47,359 --> 00:25:49,400
Speaker 1: obviously because of what time of year it is, are

488
00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:52,920
Speaker 1: going to sell really fast. But don't worry. Academy dot

489
00:25:52,920 --> 00:25:55,440
Speaker 1: Com will have them stopped, and so you can get

490
00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:58,360
Speaker 1: anything and everything under the sun at Academy Sports and Outdoors.

491
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Speaker 1: But I would encourage you guys. You know, some of

492
00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:02,679
Speaker 1: you may be on the fence, so some of some

493
00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:04,560
Speaker 1: of the parents who watch or listen to the show,

494
00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:07,960
Speaker 1: you may be on the fence about whether you want

495
00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:13,520
Speaker 1: your kid enrolling in playing tackle football. And I think

496
00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:16,199
Speaker 1: I don't think, frankly, I don't think football does a

497
00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:20,680
Speaker 1: great job of demonstrating how much safer they have made

498
00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:23,879
Speaker 1: the game. All you hear about are horror stories from

499
00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:26,720
Speaker 1: people who played a generation and go, well, a generation

500
00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:29,960
Speaker 1: to go, they weren't wearing Guardian hats in practice, a

501
00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:33,159
Speaker 1: generation to go, they didn't have mechanisms around the helmet

502
00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:35,720
Speaker 1: that could reduce twenty to twenty five percent of an impact.

503
00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:39,040
Speaker 1: And the point is, there's never any kind of tool

504
00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:41,600
Speaker 1: that can make football one hundred percent safe. But if

505
00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:43,520
Speaker 1: I'm on the fence and then all of a sudden

506
00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:44,720
Speaker 1: I see that, or if I'm a coach of a

507
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Speaker 1: football team and I see that at Academy Sports and Outdoors,

508
00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:50,879
Speaker 1: I probably should have already been an academy. But if

509
00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:54,439
Speaker 1: I wasn't already, I will be now. So if you

510
00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:56,639
Speaker 1: are not watching the YouTube channel right now and you

511
00:26:56,640 --> 00:26:59,119
Speaker 1: want to know what those look like, just google Guardian

512
00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:01,840
Speaker 1: caps and then, since you're already online, go to academy

513
00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:05,440
Speaker 1: dot com and buy a few next up second sip

514
00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:07,159
Speaker 1: from the chalice. We're getting ever closer to four and

515
00:27:07,200 --> 00:27:12,800
Speaker 1: a half. And yes, for those wondering, Cole Kublick has

516
00:27:12,840 --> 00:27:16,280
Speaker 1: already texted me in the show it's okay. Got a

517
00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:18,160
Speaker 1: little more blackmail on him today than I did twenty

518
00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:21,320
Speaker 1: four hours ago. And it is a video, and it

519
00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:25,359
Speaker 1: does involve a vibration plate. But that's all I'm gonna say.

520
00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:29,080
Speaker 1: My balls are in his court. Let's do some what

521
00:27:29,119 --> 00:27:31,080
Speaker 1: ifs I meant to say it that way? For those

522
00:27:31,119 --> 00:27:34,400
Speaker 1: of you who are new out there, what if it's

523
00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:36,520
Speaker 1: one of the most fun segments that we've been doing

524
00:27:36,520 --> 00:27:38,440
Speaker 1: on the show lately. How about this one? What if

525
00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:44,480
Speaker 1: Alabama beat Georgia in the SEC title game. That's what

526
00:27:44,560 --> 00:27:48,359
Speaker 1: our buddy XANDERALI wanted me to lead off with tonight.

527
00:27:49,640 --> 00:27:51,760
Speaker 1: You know what this would do for the overall head

528
00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:54,000
Speaker 1: to head between Saban and Smart that would be one

529
00:27:54,119 --> 00:27:57,000
Speaker 1: and five. That's what Kirby Smart's record would be against

530
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Speaker 1: Nick Saban if this were to happen. And what's interesting

531
00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:04,399
Speaker 1: is if this were to happen, out of those six games,

532
00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:07,480
Speaker 1: only one of them would have been scheduled, the twenty

533
00:28:07,560 --> 00:28:10,919
Speaker 1: twenty matchup between those two teams. Since Kirby's been at

534
00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:13,200
Speaker 1: Georgia and Saban's been at Alabama, that's the only time

535
00:28:13,240 --> 00:28:15,560
Speaker 1: they've played where it was actually on the schedule. Every

536
00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:18,800
Speaker 1: other time it's been in postseason play. Here'd be my question,

537
00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:20,680
Speaker 1: if you want to know what if? So what if

538
00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:22,919
Speaker 1: Bama beats Georgia in the SEC title game. Well, I

539
00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:26,040
Speaker 1: want to know are they going to play again, because

540
00:28:26,040 --> 00:28:28,880
Speaker 1: I've seen that before. I've seen Bama take them down

541
00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:32,679
Speaker 1: in Atlanta before, only to have the trick turned on

542
00:28:32,760 --> 00:28:36,560
Speaker 1: them a month later in Indianapolis. So that's the first

543
00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:38,640
Speaker 1: thing I would want to know. The second thing that

544
00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:43,320
Speaker 1: I would suggest is that's that's I think that's the

545
00:28:43,360 --> 00:28:47,160
Speaker 1: SEC's premier rivalry right now. I've said this before. Some

546
00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:50,520
Speaker 1: people like totally agree with it, some people hardcore disagree

547
00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:54,440
Speaker 1: with it, and the disagreeers would say that that's not

548
00:28:54,520 --> 00:28:57,880
Speaker 1: even a natural rivalry, like obviously the Iron bowls bigger

549
00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:01,920
Speaker 1: than that are or Georgia Florida is bigger than that historically. Yes,

550
00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:04,800
Speaker 1: But if I were to go to Saint Paul, Minnesota

551
00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:08,760
Speaker 1: and ask them which matchup they think about right now

552
00:29:08,760 --> 00:29:12,520
Speaker 1: in the SEC for control of the conference supremacy, or

553
00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:15,400
Speaker 1: which one has the most storylines baked into it, which

554
00:29:15,400 --> 00:29:18,640
Speaker 1: one's the most intense, which fan base is paying attention

555
00:29:18,720 --> 00:29:21,120
Speaker 1: to the other fan base most, and vice versa, it's

556
00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:24,720
Speaker 1: Georgia and Alabama. No, they're not natural rivals. They're hardly

557
00:29:24,720 --> 00:29:27,040
Speaker 1: ever scheduled to play, although that will soon change, and

558
00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:30,200
Speaker 1: they are scheduled to play next year in Tuscaloosa. Doesn't

559
00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:34,480
Speaker 1: matter that they are each other's recruiting equal on the field.

560
00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:38,760
Speaker 1: They are each other's rough equal every year, and so

561
00:29:39,760 --> 00:29:41,520
Speaker 1: that's what I would think. That's my answer to the

562
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Speaker 1: what if that happened? Next up? I hope this is true. Oh,

563
00:29:45,200 --> 00:29:47,560
Speaker 1: I hope this is true. Eric hit us up and said,

564
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Speaker 1: what if Virginia Tech makes a year two leap under

565
00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:53,960
Speaker 1: Brent Pry? Eric, I wish you would have defined what

566
00:29:54,120 --> 00:29:55,840
Speaker 1: leap means, but I'm going to define it for you.

567
00:29:55,880 --> 00:29:57,640
Speaker 1: So there were three and eight last year. Let's say

568
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Speaker 1: they're Bowl eligible. So let's say you're predicting them to

569
00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:03,680
Speaker 1: go six and six. Well, that would be the first

570
00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:07,360
Speaker 1: time in three seasons they've been above five hundred. Yeah,

571
00:30:07,560 --> 00:30:09,840
Speaker 1: they've had three losing seasons in a row up there.

572
00:30:10,120 --> 00:30:13,760
Speaker 1: It's tough. They were three and eight last year. Remember

573
00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:16,080
Speaker 1: they didn't play the Virginia game. They had the shooting

574
00:30:16,120 --> 00:30:18,160
Speaker 1: up there, so they didn't play the game. So that's

575
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Speaker 1: why the eleven totals there. Speaking of totals, five and

576
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Speaker 1: a half, that's the over underwin total. So I'm just

577
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Speaker 1: by half a game. I'm asking for the over to hit.

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Speaker 1: Here as schedules go, they've got a pretty workable one.

579
00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:36,080
Speaker 1: Now here's the problem. Them being on your schedule also

580
00:30:36,160 --> 00:30:38,560
Speaker 1: indicates it's workable for you because Virginia Tech's and the

581
00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:41,160
Speaker 1: bottom half of the conference. But if they're gonna be

582
00:30:41,320 --> 00:30:45,320
Speaker 1: above and beyond expectation level this year, they avoid Clemson,

583
00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:48,720
Speaker 1: that's a good thing. They avoid UNC, they avoid Miami

584
00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:53,360
Speaker 1: if they're winning a bunch of one possession games and

585
00:30:53,680 --> 00:30:55,440
Speaker 1: you know they have a little quantum leap of their

586
00:30:55,480 --> 00:30:58,320
Speaker 1: own in terms of quality of team. It helps to

587
00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:00,320
Speaker 1: play four of the bottom five teams in terms of

588
00:31:00,320 --> 00:31:04,320
Speaker 1: preseason odds. That helps, yes, but it's still going to

589
00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:06,240
Speaker 1: be still going to be quite an effort. Now they

590
00:31:06,280 --> 00:31:08,959
Speaker 1: are recruiting inside the top forty. So there's that. Producer

591
00:31:09,040 --> 00:31:11,280
Speaker 1: Jesse tells me, they are recruiting inside the top forty.

592
00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:18,200
Speaker 1: What about another program that enjoyed wild success two years ago,

593
00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:23,000
Speaker 1: crippling disappointment last year, and no one knows what to

594
00:31:23,080 --> 00:31:27,360
Speaker 1: expect from them this year. That would be are Michigan State.

595
00:31:27,400 --> 00:31:29,920
Speaker 1: Spartans and Smith hit us up and said, what if

596
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:33,680
Speaker 1: Michigan State has another losing season? Now this gets really dicey.

597
00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:38,680
Speaker 1: This is thin ice hot blades or is it so

598
00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:41,400
Speaker 1: naturally everyone looks at this and says, oh, well, if

599
00:31:41,400 --> 00:31:43,760
Speaker 1: they go sub five hundred, mel Tucker's out of there,

600
00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:48,320
Speaker 1: is he? Though? Is he really out of there? And

601
00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:50,840
Speaker 1: what I'm asking you is, are you really about to

602
00:31:50,840 --> 00:31:55,040
Speaker 1: pay that man seventy six million dollars not to coach football?

603
00:31:55,400 --> 00:31:59,040
Speaker 1: It's fully guaranteed if they fire him without calls and

604
00:31:59,080 --> 00:32:02,959
Speaker 1: they can't say we have cause it is because he's losing.

605
00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:05,840
Speaker 1: That's not cause, it's not how that works. And so

606
00:32:06,120 --> 00:32:08,680
Speaker 1: if they fire him because he's five and seven this year,

607
00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:11,880
Speaker 1: they're paying him seventy six mil. Now I talk to

608
00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:14,360
Speaker 1: some administrative types about this sort of thing in the

609
00:32:14,360 --> 00:32:16,800
Speaker 1: past week. Two things that are going to be standing

610
00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:19,640
Speaker 1: in the way in the future that haven't stood in

611
00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:21,200
Speaker 1: the way in the past when it comes to paying

612
00:32:21,400 --> 00:32:27,640
Speaker 1: ridiculous buyouts. Buyouts are normally privately funded, or at least

613
00:32:27,960 --> 00:32:30,840
Speaker 1: the majority of them are, And that just means it's

614
00:32:30,840 --> 00:32:34,400
Speaker 1: not coming from the university's checkbook. That there are some

615
00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:37,480
Speaker 1: rich donors who don't like the coach enough to where

616
00:32:37,480 --> 00:32:39,560
Speaker 1: they're willing to come off their own hip pocket and

617
00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:44,720
Speaker 1: they'll pay the buyout and when that happens, don't it

618
00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:47,640
Speaker 1: doesn't fall on the taxpayer. And it's one of those

619
00:32:47,680 --> 00:32:49,640
Speaker 1: situations where you look at that person and say, hey,

620
00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:52,200
Speaker 1: that's how you want to spend your millions, go for it,

621
00:32:52,480 --> 00:32:55,240
Speaker 1: and you may even cheer it on. Well, that's happened

622
00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:57,960
Speaker 1: in the past. Here is the problem that money's not

623
00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:00,480
Speaker 1: going anywhere. So a lot of these universities still have

624
00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:03,680
Speaker 1: the same donor class. They still have the same pool

625
00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:06,680
Speaker 1: of resources that theoretically they could get their hands on

626
00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:10,560
Speaker 1: if they needed. Problem is those resources are being redirected,

627
00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:15,400
Speaker 1: and they're being redirected to nil. So if I am

628
00:33:15,520 --> 00:33:20,360
Speaker 1: running pat State and director Colin is a very philanthropic,

629
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Speaker 1: multi multi million Colin, you want to be a billionaire, Yeah,

630
00:33:23,280 --> 00:33:26,880
Speaker 1: Collin's billionaire, don't ask cow it so none of your business.

631
00:33:26,880 --> 00:33:30,760
Speaker 1: But he's a billionaire several several different businesses. And so

632
00:33:30,920 --> 00:33:32,520
Speaker 1: I can go to Colin and I need to buy

633
00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:34,840
Speaker 1: out a coach and he is my phil Knight, He'll

634
00:33:34,840 --> 00:33:38,000
Speaker 1: help me buy it out. Well, Colin, unbeknownst to me,

635
00:33:38,200 --> 00:33:41,040
Speaker 1: only earmarks a certain portion of his wealth towards Paate

636
00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:44,520
Speaker 1: State Athletics. Doesn't matter that he's worth more. He has decided,

637
00:33:44,800 --> 00:33:47,840
Speaker 1: being the wise money manager that he has been, he's

638
00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:51,160
Speaker 1: only going to spend this much and gear it towards

639
00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:54,280
Speaker 1: payt state athletics. Well, Colin has heard about this thing

640
00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:58,400
Speaker 1: called nil, and Colin has decided, I'm taking this money

641
00:33:58,720 --> 00:34:01,960
Speaker 1: and I want it to be put into acquiring athletes.

642
00:34:02,640 --> 00:34:04,760
Speaker 1: I'm tired of paying coaches not to coach. I want

643
00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:06,400
Speaker 1: to go get the proper athletes so they win so

644
00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:08,759
Speaker 1: we don't have to fire them. So I have that

645
00:34:08,800 --> 00:34:10,120
Speaker 1: in the back of my mind as an ad and

646
00:34:10,160 --> 00:34:12,560
Speaker 1: a university president, I can no longer go to Colin

647
00:34:12,640 --> 00:34:14,239
Speaker 1: if I want to fire Meltucker, and I got to

648
00:34:14,239 --> 00:34:16,960
Speaker 1: pay him seventy six mil. Colin's not just there for

649
00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:19,359
Speaker 1: me to blindly write a check as he has been

650
00:34:19,400 --> 00:34:21,640
Speaker 1: in the past. And here is the other problem, and

651
00:34:21,680 --> 00:34:25,359
Speaker 1: it's more perceptional in nature. There's this fight going on

652
00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:28,480
Speaker 1: behind the scenes in college athletics right now where a

653
00:34:28,520 --> 00:34:31,600
Speaker 1: lot of people do not want to grant employment status

654
00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:35,719
Speaker 1: to football players, and there are many reasons why they

655
00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:38,600
Speaker 1: don't want to do that. Here is the problem. A

656
00:34:38,640 --> 00:34:41,399
Speaker 1: lot of that battle is going to end up being

657
00:34:41,440 --> 00:34:44,319
Speaker 1: fought in the court of public opinion. And I want

658
00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:46,440
Speaker 1: you to just picture with me for a second what

659
00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:50,520
Speaker 1: it does to public opinion when you tell football players

660
00:34:51,160 --> 00:34:55,439
Speaker 1: we can't afford to pay you. We can't forget about

661
00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:57,520
Speaker 1: whether we want to, we can't afford to do that,

662
00:34:58,760 --> 00:35:01,160
Speaker 1: but we're gonna pay this guy seventy six million dollars

663
00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:04,160
Speaker 1: not to coach. You can have all sorts of rebuttals.

664
00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:06,480
Speaker 1: You can come back at him and say, yeah, but

665
00:35:06,520 --> 00:35:09,160
Speaker 1: that's private money. The money you would get paid would

666
00:35:09,160 --> 00:35:11,359
Speaker 1: come from totally different places. They've already tuned you out.

667
00:35:11,800 --> 00:35:15,799
Speaker 1: It is not about facts. It's about screenshots, it's about headlines,

668
00:35:15,960 --> 00:35:18,920
Speaker 1: it's about snippets, and it's about perception. And the perception

669
00:35:19,040 --> 00:35:22,040
Speaker 1: would be absolutely not If you can afford to pay

670
00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:25,640
Speaker 1: astronomical buyouts, you can afford to pay us employment wise.

671
00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:28,600
Speaker 1: That's how that would go. I'm telling you that's how

672
00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:30,000
Speaker 1: that would go. And that's how a lot of the

673
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:32,319
Speaker 1: administrative types in college football know that would go. And

674
00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:36,160
Speaker 1: so for that reason, I don't think mel Tucker would

675
00:35:36,160 --> 00:35:38,600
Speaker 1: be fired if he went sub five hundred again. I

676
00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:40,400
Speaker 1: think they would have to bite the bullet and they

677
00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:44,560
Speaker 1: would probably they would probably demand staff changes again, they

678
00:35:44,640 --> 00:35:47,440
Speaker 1: just had some. They would probably demand a lot of

679
00:35:47,440 --> 00:35:49,959
Speaker 1: reshuffling on the deck, but that ship's not going down,

680
00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:55,640
Speaker 1: at least not this year, I don't think. Lastly, this

681
00:35:55,680 --> 00:36:00,239
Speaker 1: one would be interesting too. We have a little situation

682
00:36:00,280 --> 00:36:04,000
Speaker 1: in college football right now where we may be contracting

683
00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:06,880
Speaker 1: into sort of a power to model, but a lot

684
00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:09,160
Speaker 1: of us don't want to see that happen. So Grant asked,

685
00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:11,640
Speaker 1: what if the ACC and the Pac twelve get left

686
00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:14,080
Speaker 1: out of the college football playoff this year? Well, Grant,

687
00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:16,319
Speaker 1: this would not be good for those of us who

688
00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:19,959
Speaker 1: want to want to see the figurative wealth spread around

689
00:36:19,960 --> 00:36:21,439
Speaker 1: the sport a little bit more. And that just means

690
00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:25,080
Speaker 1: success in more corners of the country, which brings bigger paydays,

691
00:36:25,120 --> 00:36:28,160
Speaker 1: which gets reinvested, which hopefully leads to you understand how

692
00:36:28,160 --> 00:36:31,279
Speaker 1: that works. This would not be good. This would be

693
00:36:31,320 --> 00:36:34,279
Speaker 1: the antithesis of that. If the ACC is out, that

694
00:36:34,320 --> 00:36:37,480
Speaker 1: would be the third straight miss for the conference. If

695
00:36:37,480 --> 00:36:39,680
Speaker 1: the Pac twelve is out, that would be the seventh

696
00:36:39,719 --> 00:36:43,319
Speaker 1: straight miss for the conference. And forget about what that

697
00:36:43,400 --> 00:36:45,520
Speaker 1: does on the surface, and forget about how much that

698
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:49,480
Speaker 1: potentially allows the SEC and the Big Ten to load

699
00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:52,279
Speaker 1: up multiple teams depending on what the Big twelve did,

700
00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:56,520
Speaker 1: and Notre Dame and the G five. Aside from all that,

701
00:36:57,520 --> 00:37:01,279
Speaker 1: what happened to Clemson in this scenario, what happened to

702
00:37:01,520 --> 00:37:05,759
Speaker 1: fsu usc, what happened the rest of the PAC twelve?

703
00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:08,480
Speaker 1: I just assume you cannibalize yourself. Is that what happened?

704
00:37:08,840 --> 00:37:11,400
Speaker 1: And there's a lot of what here. I want to

705
00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:14,640
Speaker 1: know the why, like how did that happen? Wouldn't be

706
00:37:14,680 --> 00:37:16,520
Speaker 1: a good time for those of you who do not

707
00:37:16,719 --> 00:37:20,520
Speaker 1: like the consolidation of playoff spots for a few conferences.

708
00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:23,520
Speaker 1: It would not be a good late December and January

709
00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:27,560
Speaker 1: for you there. So if you love the sport, I

710
00:37:27,560 --> 00:37:33,160
Speaker 1: would root against that. Next up, so many different places

711
00:37:33,200 --> 00:37:36,440
Speaker 1: to go, and irresponsibly, I have sort of drugged my

712
00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:38,319
Speaker 1: feet a little bit so far throughout the show. So

713
00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:41,160
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna pick up tempo a

714
00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:44,200
Speaker 1: little bit here, third sit from the chalice notwithstanding, I'm

715
00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:48,399
Speaker 1: gonna pick up tempo. And I'm not sure why, because

716
00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:49,759
Speaker 1: we could stay here all night if we want to,

717
00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:53,880
Speaker 1: but Jesse's got a bedtime, and even I respect that.

718
00:37:54,840 --> 00:37:56,880
Speaker 1: The other night we did the whole sec balance of

719
00:37:56,920 --> 00:37:59,279
Speaker 1: Power thing and it was a wild hit. Shockingly not

720
00:37:59,320 --> 00:38:02,359
Speaker 1: everyone agreed, but it was a wild hit. So here's

721
00:38:02,360 --> 00:38:04,560
Speaker 1: what I want to talk to you about tonight, the

722
00:38:04,600 --> 00:38:08,120
Speaker 1: Big Ten balance of power. How does this shake out?

723
00:38:08,480 --> 00:38:13,040
Speaker 1: Unlike some divisions in the SEC, it's not so cut

724
00:38:13,080 --> 00:38:14,960
Speaker 1: and dry at the top. It used to be used

725
00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:17,719
Speaker 1: to be Ohio State. Then how far behind is everyone else? Well,

726
00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:20,879
Speaker 1: that has changed, friends. I know we'll have a lot

727
00:38:20,920 --> 00:38:22,960
Speaker 1: of spirited debate about what I'm about to say in

728
00:38:23,000 --> 00:38:25,479
Speaker 1: the comment section, but I have Michigan as the number

729
00:38:25,480 --> 00:38:28,520
Speaker 1: one program in the Big Ten right now. However, the

730
00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:31,160
Speaker 1: way I would classify it is basically a one A

731
00:38:31,280 --> 00:38:34,560
Speaker 1: and a one B. Now you know, we define program

732
00:38:34,680 --> 00:38:37,760
Speaker 1: is like a rolling three year snapshot of multiple things.

733
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:40,120
Speaker 1: But if when you play each other every year, yeah,

734
00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:42,040
Speaker 1: head to head matters a whole heck of a lot,

735
00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:45,360
Speaker 1: especially when the margin has been double digits both times.

736
00:38:46,680 --> 00:38:50,920
Speaker 1: And we get to see it again this year, and

737
00:38:50,960 --> 00:38:53,480
Speaker 1: it'll be fun again this year. But in the meantime,

738
00:38:54,040 --> 00:38:55,920
Speaker 1: what I want to tell you is, I'm not normally

739
00:38:55,920 --> 00:38:58,520
Speaker 1: a person who has knee jerk reactions to the outcomes

740
00:38:58,520 --> 00:39:03,040
Speaker 1: of one game, but the status of the program Michigan

741
00:39:03,239 --> 00:39:05,600
Speaker 1: and the program Ohio State in the Big ten right

742
00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:08,920
Speaker 1: now is such that it's either or fifty two forty eight,

743
00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:12,879
Speaker 1: fifty three forty seven. You could see wild fluctuation year

744
00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:14,359
Speaker 1: to year. If they were to just go back and

745
00:39:14,400 --> 00:39:18,240
Speaker 1: forth the next five years trading wins, I would probably

746
00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:20,520
Speaker 1: go back and forth, Who's one A, Who's one B,

747
00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:23,440
Speaker 1: because that's kind of how close I think there are

748
00:39:23,239 --> 00:39:25,640
Speaker 1: there are they are in terms of comparability of program

749
00:39:25,760 --> 00:39:28,240
Speaker 1: right now? But what if I didn't show you recruiting

750
00:39:28,320 --> 00:39:31,160
Speaker 1: so right now? I think anyone who would argue Ohio State,

751
00:39:31,160 --> 00:39:34,560
Speaker 1: they would argue longevity. And it doesn't matter that I

752
00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:37,280
Speaker 1: specified no, no, no, I'm zooming in last three years.

753
00:39:37,680 --> 00:39:39,440
Speaker 1: That's why I would say Michigan maybe a little bit

754
00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:41,319
Speaker 1: ahead of you as a program. I don't care what

755
00:39:41,320 --> 00:39:44,279
Speaker 1: you did the previous seventeen years, because I'm not talking

756
00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:46,000
Speaker 1: about your trophy case. I'm just talking about right here

757
00:39:46,040 --> 00:39:50,360
Speaker 1: and now. That notwithstanding, if you still argue to Ohio State,

758
00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:52,680
Speaker 1: there's plenty of argument for it. I think a lot

759
00:39:52,760 --> 00:39:56,040
Speaker 1: of it would come down to talent acquisition, overall construction

760
00:39:56,120 --> 00:40:01,000
Speaker 1: of roster, and supremacy of overall talent on that roster.

761
00:40:02,239 --> 00:40:05,279
Speaker 1: That means something. Ultimately, who has the bigger number on

762
00:40:05,320 --> 00:40:08,000
Speaker 1: the scoreboard. It's what matters. But if you're arguing health

763
00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:10,760
Speaker 1: of program, I get where you're going with that. Here's

764
00:40:10,800 --> 00:40:13,760
Speaker 1: what I would say about that. I would say, ignore

765
00:40:13,800 --> 00:40:16,879
Speaker 1: recruiting for just a second for me, and just watch

766
00:40:16,960 --> 00:40:19,560
Speaker 1: the teams play the last two years, and then I

767
00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:21,439
Speaker 1: want you to tell me what do you see from

768
00:40:21,440 --> 00:40:23,680
Speaker 1: each of them? And I'm talking about them playing each other,

769
00:40:23,880 --> 00:40:26,560
Speaker 1: what do you see from each of them? Because recruiting

770
00:40:26,600 --> 00:40:29,799
Speaker 1: does matter, and I factor it in on this and

771
00:40:29,960 --> 00:40:34,239
Speaker 1: overall talent roster and our roster talent love, it does matter.

772
00:40:34,280 --> 00:40:41,200
Speaker 1: All that matters to me. Process matters, development matters, mindset matters,

773
00:40:41,320 --> 00:40:44,719
Speaker 1: identity matters. Michigan's just checking all those boxes right now.

774
00:40:44,719 --> 00:40:46,440
Speaker 1: Maybe it changes this year. If it does, I'll be

775
00:40:46,480 --> 00:40:50,279
Speaker 1: happy to revisit this. But that's why I put in

776
00:40:50,280 --> 00:40:54,040
Speaker 1: Michigan one A, Ohio State one B fractions of a

777
00:40:54,080 --> 00:40:56,560
Speaker 1: difference right now. That's why when they take the field

778
00:40:56,920 --> 00:40:59,360
Speaker 1: this fall, if they were to do it right now,

779
00:40:59,840 --> 00:41:01,400
Speaker 1: they I guess has a number on that game and

780
00:41:01,560 --> 00:41:04,440
Speaker 1: it's pretty much even maybe favored one way here or there,

781
00:41:04,440 --> 00:41:06,960
Speaker 1: and that line will move throughout the season. The odds

782
00:41:06,960 --> 00:41:10,240
Speaker 1: to win the Big Ten. It's basically just pick whoever

783
00:41:10,280 --> 00:41:12,800
Speaker 1: wins the Ohio State Michigan game. And that's why it

784
00:41:12,880 --> 00:41:15,080
Speaker 1: must be so fun down in Tier two, because there

785
00:41:15,200 --> 00:41:17,239
Speaker 1: is no depth in Tier two of the Big Ten.

786
00:41:17,480 --> 00:41:20,799
Speaker 1: It's just Penn State, that's it. And Penn State gets

787
00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:23,600
Speaker 1: to listen to things like what I just said come

788
00:41:23,640 --> 00:41:26,720
Speaker 1: out of everyone's mouth. Big Ten Media Days. In two weeks,

789
00:41:26,760 --> 00:41:28,920
Speaker 1: I'll be up there, a lot of us will be

790
00:41:29,000 --> 00:41:31,320
Speaker 1: up there, and that's exactly what they'll talk about. And

791
00:41:31,440 --> 00:41:33,880
Speaker 1: James Franklin and Penn Stated will roll in, they'll do

792
00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:36,480
Speaker 1: their thing, and they'll get out of there. Do you

793
00:41:36,560 --> 00:41:39,640
Speaker 1: realize now that Pat Fitzgerald is out at Northwestern, James

794
00:41:39,719 --> 00:41:42,799
Speaker 1: Franklin is the second most tenured head coach in the

795
00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:46,920
Speaker 1: Big Ten behind Kirk Ference. He's been there a while.

796
00:41:46,960 --> 00:41:50,239
Speaker 1: He's not new anymore. He's been there a while. We

797
00:41:50,280 --> 00:41:52,359
Speaker 1: did our show up there a couple of months ago

798
00:41:53,160 --> 00:41:54,839
Speaker 1: and had fun up there. May go up there again

799
00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:56,719
Speaker 1: this fall before the season kicks off. We'll see if

800
00:41:56,760 --> 00:41:59,680
Speaker 1: schedules can work out. But I told you then and

801
00:41:59,719 --> 00:42:03,640
Speaker 1: I'll tell you now, there's no doubt the direction, There's

802
00:42:03,640 --> 00:42:06,320
Speaker 1: no doubt the vision. There's no doubt about the intensity

803
00:42:06,360 --> 00:42:08,680
Speaker 1: when you step on campus. A lot of programs are

804
00:42:08,760 --> 00:42:10,600
Speaker 1: like that. I'm not saying Penn State has the market

805
00:42:10,600 --> 00:42:14,200
Speaker 1: cornered on that. What I am saying is the attitude

806
00:42:14,200 --> 00:42:17,560
Speaker 1: there is the exact attitude you would have if you

807
00:42:17,600 --> 00:42:21,040
Speaker 1: weren't rebuilding. The attitude there is exactly what you would

808
00:42:21,080 --> 00:42:23,239
Speaker 1: think you would have if you weren't miles away. The

809
00:42:23,280 --> 00:42:26,600
Speaker 1: attitude there is the kind of attitude you get when

810
00:42:26,640 --> 00:42:28,560
Speaker 1: you walk in a building and they know they're close,

811
00:42:29,080 --> 00:42:31,759
Speaker 1: and they know they're just tweaks here, tweaks there, one

812
00:42:31,800 --> 00:42:35,280
Speaker 1: addition here, you know, one coaching philosophy adjustment over there.

813
00:42:35,440 --> 00:42:38,400
Speaker 1: That's the difference. And then of course it's all culminating

814
00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:40,919
Speaker 1: and having Drew Aller start at quarterback for you this year.

815
00:42:41,719 --> 00:42:44,600
Speaker 1: Tier two that's Penn State. Don't really need to say

816
00:42:44,640 --> 00:42:46,799
Speaker 1: much more on that. But Tier three that's where the

817
00:42:46,840 --> 00:42:48,719
Speaker 1: fun is in the big ten. Like, if you want

818
00:42:48,719 --> 00:42:51,560
Speaker 1: to get in debates, is Michigan State in Tier three

819
00:42:51,719 --> 00:42:55,239
Speaker 1: or are they in Tier four? Because I do a

820
00:42:55,320 --> 00:42:58,279
Speaker 1: rolling three year snapshot, and baked into that three year

821
00:42:58,280 --> 00:43:01,719
Speaker 1: snapshot is the best and worst of Michigan State. And

822
00:43:01,760 --> 00:43:05,200
Speaker 1: I'm not so sure that averaging it out would give

823
00:43:05,280 --> 00:43:07,839
Speaker 1: us the truest version of what that program is right now,

824
00:43:08,000 --> 00:43:13,440
Speaker 1: even though logic would tell you to do it that way.

825
00:43:12,680 --> 00:43:15,279
Speaker 1: I know I just paused there, and it sounds like

826
00:43:15,280 --> 00:43:16,840
Speaker 1: I lost my train. I thought I didn't. I'm just

827
00:43:16,920 --> 00:43:20,319
Speaker 1: looking at the screen and looking at eleven and two

828
00:43:20,960 --> 00:43:23,200
Speaker 1: to five and seven, and then there's a big question

829
00:43:23,239 --> 00:43:25,160
Speaker 1: mark this year because I hadn't played it yet. So

830
00:43:25,360 --> 00:43:28,080
Speaker 1: Meltucker's eighteen and fourteen overall at Michigan State right now.

831
00:43:28,239 --> 00:43:31,239
Speaker 1: Luke Fickle, he's at Wisconsin, but he just walked in

832
00:43:31,320 --> 00:43:34,320
Speaker 1: the door. Wisconsin's been a fairly solid program. Luke Fickle

833
00:43:34,400 --> 00:43:37,120
Speaker 1: just walked in the door. I could say to you, boy,

834
00:43:37,160 --> 00:43:39,360
Speaker 1: I think that injects a ton of life in that program.

835
00:43:39,400 --> 00:43:41,640
Speaker 1: But if I'm sitting here telling you, I also value

836
00:43:41,640 --> 00:43:44,319
Speaker 1: the rolling three year snapshot. I'm looking at four and three,

837
00:43:44,440 --> 00:43:48,799
Speaker 1: nine and four, seven and six. Question mark Tier three?

838
00:43:49,000 --> 00:43:51,320
Speaker 1: Is that Tier three worthy? I think it is. Iowa

839
00:43:51,360 --> 00:43:53,839
Speaker 1: has got to be there. Iowa with any kind of

840
00:43:53,840 --> 00:43:58,080
Speaker 1: offensive pulse would be in tier two their last three years,

841
00:43:58,239 --> 00:44:01,000
Speaker 1: six and two in the COVID year four in twenty

842
00:44:01,040 --> 00:44:04,760
Speaker 1: twenty one, eight and five, last year, and for the record.

843
00:44:05,040 --> 00:44:07,399
Speaker 1: We go back to twenty fifteen. Here are their win

844
00:44:07,480 --> 00:44:12,680
Speaker 1: totals twelve eight, eight, nine, ten, six, ten eight and

845
00:44:12,719 --> 00:44:15,880
Speaker 1: the six was in a COVID year. It's really solid,

846
00:44:16,280 --> 00:44:19,000
Speaker 1: which makes you wonder, man, if they could move the

847
00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:22,759
Speaker 1: ball offensively at all. In fact, I think Iowa would

848
00:44:22,760 --> 00:44:25,880
Speaker 1: be at the very top of Tier three. Minnesota. I

849
00:44:25,920 --> 00:44:29,000
Speaker 1: think they're the sneakiest team in the Big ten because

850
00:44:29,560 --> 00:44:32,680
Speaker 1: eleven and two, three and four, nine and four, and

851
00:44:32,800 --> 00:44:35,360
Speaker 1: nine and four those are their last four years. That

852
00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:38,719
Speaker 1: three and fours the COVID year. PJ Flex's quietly done

853
00:44:38,760 --> 00:44:40,839
Speaker 1: a really good job up there. Now. The argument, of course,

854
00:44:40,920 --> 00:44:43,760
Speaker 1: could be, well, that's just a byproduct of the West

855
00:44:43,800 --> 00:44:46,000
Speaker 1: being really jumbled. What if Minnesota played in the East.

856
00:44:46,040 --> 00:44:50,680
Speaker 1: What if Minnesota played the Big Three every year? Point taking,

857
00:44:51,920 --> 00:44:54,239
Speaker 1: I just think that Tier three is very interesting. Then

858
00:44:54,239 --> 00:44:57,000
Speaker 1: you get down to Tier four, Illinois and Perdue. New

859
00:44:57,000 --> 00:44:59,520
Speaker 1: staff at Perdue gonna be really fun to watch. Illinois

860
00:44:59,520 --> 00:45:01,600
Speaker 1: and Brett Bea made a lot of noise last year.

861
00:45:02,440 --> 00:45:04,160
Speaker 1: If we get that noise again this year, we're changing

862
00:45:04,200 --> 00:45:07,719
Speaker 1: their tier. Maryland Mike Loxley best team maybe he's had

863
00:45:07,719 --> 00:45:10,440
Speaker 1: there coming up this year. There is there is a team.

864
00:45:10,800 --> 00:45:12,879
Speaker 1: They're in College Park, Maryland. They're gonna benefit a whole

865
00:45:12,920 --> 00:45:15,080
Speaker 1: heck of a lot when they do away with divisions

866
00:45:15,120 --> 00:45:17,560
Speaker 1: here because no one talks about Maryland because you know

867
00:45:17,560 --> 00:45:19,440
Speaker 1: who they have to play every year. And if I

868
00:45:19,480 --> 00:45:22,560
Speaker 1: parked Maryland in the West, they'd probably just be thrown

869
00:45:22,600 --> 00:45:24,920
Speaker 1: in that drum with everyone else and everyone's got a

870
00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:29,160
Speaker 1: shot because it's all a bunch of mediocrity. Indiana Northwestern

871
00:45:29,480 --> 00:45:34,480
Speaker 1: at Northwestern situation. I've been watching that elevating interim and

872
00:45:34,520 --> 00:45:36,400
Speaker 1: they went one and eleven last year? What are they

873
00:45:36,440 --> 00:45:39,600
Speaker 1: going to be this year? And that's tough. Rutgers also

874
00:45:39,800 --> 00:45:41,239
Speaker 1: is in the Big ten. It's about as much as

875
00:45:41,239 --> 00:45:44,640
Speaker 1: I can say right now. We did a little opinion

876
00:45:44,719 --> 00:45:47,759
Speaker 1: gauging today. That's a change of segment, Colin, Sorry about that.

877
00:45:47,800 --> 00:45:53,440
Speaker 1: It was a little hasty fourth step. We did a

878
00:45:53,440 --> 00:46:00,440
Speaker 1: little opinion gauging today. I asked you, here's what I

879
00:46:00,480 --> 00:46:01,800
Speaker 1: would love to ask you. I would love to ask you.

880
00:46:01,840 --> 00:46:03,880
Speaker 1: Can you see how much this might keep shaking? Because

881
00:46:04,360 --> 00:46:07,279
Speaker 1: I really think the building shifted today because if I

882
00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:10,000
Speaker 1: just let go of the table, you see me rolling backwards.

883
00:46:10,120 --> 00:46:12,600
Speaker 1: So I keep having to roll forwards and it shakes

884
00:46:12,640 --> 00:46:16,439
Speaker 1: the mic looks like it looks like the Northridge quake

885
00:46:16,520 --> 00:46:19,120
Speaker 1: out here, as PAC twelve, paate, I'm familiar with my

886
00:46:19,160 --> 00:46:23,919
Speaker 1: West Coast California earthquake history, so don't be freaked out.

887
00:46:24,160 --> 00:46:27,520
Speaker 1: No seismic activity here today is just uneven flooring in

888
00:46:27,560 --> 00:46:31,320
Speaker 1: this place, I think. So. I asked you guys today,

889
00:46:31,320 --> 00:46:35,799
Speaker 1: what is your opinion of Brenton Venables, head coach at Oklahoma.

890
00:46:36,320 --> 00:46:38,960
Speaker 1: We got more responses on this, I kid you not

891
00:46:39,120 --> 00:46:41,960
Speaker 1: than any other head coach I've asked you about. And

892
00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:44,160
Speaker 1: I was a little surprised. Maybe it's because they were

893
00:46:44,160 --> 00:46:46,440
Speaker 1: at Big twelve media days today. Maybe it's cause you

894
00:46:46,440 --> 00:46:48,160
Speaker 1: guys had a whole lot to say about Brenton Venables.

895
00:46:49,920 --> 00:46:52,279
Speaker 1: I think back to last year. I think back to

896
00:46:52,360 --> 00:46:54,920
Speaker 1: him taking that job, and it was the stunner of

897
00:46:54,960 --> 00:46:58,000
Speaker 1: all stunners that Lincoln Riley left there, so Brent Venables

898
00:46:58,080 --> 00:47:03,879
Speaker 1: comes in. I do not think the average person has

899
00:47:03,920 --> 00:47:08,719
Speaker 1: appreciation for what a new head coach faces today in

900
00:47:08,760 --> 00:47:11,480
Speaker 1: college football. It's always been hard to be a new

901
00:47:11,520 --> 00:47:15,799
Speaker 1: head coach. I think it's never been more difficult to

902
00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:18,560
Speaker 1: be a new head coach. You've always had to deal

903
00:47:18,640 --> 00:47:21,120
Speaker 1: with learning how to manage people you've always had to

904
00:47:21,120 --> 00:47:25,879
Speaker 1: deal with implementing not only your preferred schemes, but your philosophy.

905
00:47:26,840 --> 00:47:30,000
Speaker 1: You're taking your thumb and you're just pressing it against

906
00:47:30,200 --> 00:47:34,160
Speaker 1: an organization of hundreds of people, and hopefully when you

907
00:47:34,200 --> 00:47:37,799
Speaker 1: pull that thumb away, whichever print you just put on

908
00:47:37,920 --> 00:47:42,960
Speaker 1: that program leads to success. That's nerve racking, especially if

909
00:47:43,000 --> 00:47:45,799
Speaker 1: you've never led an organization before. You've always had that

910
00:47:45,840 --> 00:47:49,719
Speaker 1: stuff you've always had. Can you adjust personally? How does

911
00:47:49,760 --> 00:47:52,279
Speaker 1: your family deal with being in the spotlight? And I

912
00:47:52,280 --> 00:47:55,120
Speaker 1: know some people dismiss that stuff. That's real, that's real stuff,

913
00:47:55,719 --> 00:47:59,600
Speaker 1: but everyone's always dealt with that. Imagine being a new

914
00:47:59,640 --> 00:48:03,160
Speaker 1: head coach coach at a major program that's not used

915
00:48:03,200 --> 00:48:06,080
Speaker 1: to losing at all. There is no rebuild year at Oklahoma,

916
00:48:06,440 --> 00:48:09,200
Speaker 1: at least in most of our lifetimes there hasn't been.

917
00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:13,440
Speaker 1: And you're being thrown right into the middle of an

918
00:48:13,480 --> 00:48:17,880
Speaker 1: era where nil is now a thing, the transfer portal

919
00:48:17,960 --> 00:48:19,680
Speaker 1: is now a thing. Oh and by the way, you

920
00:48:19,760 --> 00:48:24,640
Speaker 1: had extremely unique roster circumstances with the way Riley left

921
00:48:25,080 --> 00:48:28,440
Speaker 1: in conjunction with those things being in place, and it

922
00:48:28,480 --> 00:48:30,240
Speaker 1: was like being dropped in the middle of a hurricane,

923
00:48:30,760 --> 00:48:32,880
Speaker 1: and I don't think odds makers did him any favors

924
00:48:32,920 --> 00:48:36,319
Speaker 1: last year when Oklahoma, odds wise was right up there

925
00:48:36,400 --> 00:48:38,120
Speaker 1: near the top of the board. And as it turns out,

926
00:48:38,200 --> 00:48:41,360
Speaker 1: that was just it was always foolish. They whiffed on

927
00:48:41,400 --> 00:48:43,600
Speaker 1: that one. A lot of us did. I'm not blaming Vegas.

928
00:48:43,640 --> 00:48:45,320
Speaker 1: I mean, it's not like I picked Oklahoma to go

929
00:48:45,400 --> 00:48:49,200
Speaker 1: six and seven last year, but was last year really

930
00:48:49,239 --> 00:48:51,880
Speaker 1: as it appears, that's what a lot of you were asking.

931
00:48:51,880 --> 00:48:53,200
Speaker 1: That was a lot of the opinion that you were

932
00:48:53,200 --> 00:48:56,120
Speaker 1: giving me because a lot of you were talking about

933
00:48:56,160 --> 00:48:58,880
Speaker 1: how man I believed in him, but last year really

934
00:48:58,920 --> 00:49:02,800
Speaker 1: shook my confidence. Well, Brent Vennables was at Big twelve

935
00:49:02,800 --> 00:49:06,480
Speaker 1: media Days today and he was talking about how dire

936
00:49:06,560 --> 00:49:09,560
Speaker 1: the situation was from a roster standpoint last year, and

937
00:49:09,719 --> 00:49:12,040
Speaker 1: also a lot of us have talked about that. We've

938
00:49:12,080 --> 00:49:14,279
Speaker 1: looked at that on this show. I just don't think

939
00:49:14,320 --> 00:49:16,480
Speaker 1: it was appreciated at the time. But let's go down

940
00:49:16,520 --> 00:49:20,439
Speaker 1: that road a little bit. So in retrospect, you look

941
00:49:20,480 --> 00:49:23,279
Speaker 1: at it and he had to pretty much tear it

942
00:49:23,320 --> 00:49:25,279
Speaker 1: down to the studs and start to rebuild, which is

943
00:49:26,280 --> 00:49:29,240
Speaker 1: rare at a program like Oklahoma unless there are NCAA

944
00:49:29,280 --> 00:49:33,319
Speaker 1: sanctions involved, that's pretty rare. That's outside the norm. Is

945
00:49:33,360 --> 00:49:37,200
Speaker 1: that really what happened? If that's really what happened, theoretically

946
00:49:38,280 --> 00:49:40,880
Speaker 1: or figuratively, if they really did tear it down and

947
00:49:40,920 --> 00:49:42,879
Speaker 1: start from as close to scratch as you could start

948
00:49:42,880 --> 00:49:47,560
Speaker 1: at Oklahoma, everything else is explainable if if that's really

949
00:49:47,560 --> 00:49:51,160
Speaker 1: what they did, Because if that's what you did, there

950
00:49:51,239 --> 00:49:53,799
Speaker 1: is no there's no basement to how bad it can be.

951
00:49:54,239 --> 00:49:57,160
Speaker 1: Like some people watched Oklahoma last year and said, well,

952
00:49:57,400 --> 00:49:59,959
Speaker 1: you know, first year struggles one thing, but you can't

953
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:02,600
Speaker 1: can lose forty nine to nothing at Oklahoma. Yeah you can,

954
00:50:03,160 --> 00:50:05,440
Speaker 1: Well you can't go six and seven? Yeah you can.

955
00:50:05,480 --> 00:50:08,800
Speaker 1: Of course you can. Who said you couldn't just because

956
00:50:08,840 --> 00:50:10,879
Speaker 1: you haven't seen it in a long time happen there?

957
00:50:11,160 --> 00:50:14,760
Speaker 1: It's always been possible. That's why we have such immense

958
00:50:14,800 --> 00:50:17,520
Speaker 1: respect for the places where it doesn't happen. Because you

959
00:50:17,520 --> 00:50:19,600
Speaker 1: don't have to let your foot off the gas very

960
00:50:19,760 --> 00:50:22,959
Speaker 1: long in a NASCAR race before you're off the pace

961
00:50:23,000 --> 00:50:26,879
Speaker 1: totally and the entire pack has passed you by. It's

962
00:50:26,960 --> 00:50:29,880
Speaker 1: hard to keep winning. It's really hard to do it.

963
00:50:30,719 --> 00:50:34,000
Speaker 1: So if that's really what happened last year. Everything's explainable.

964
00:50:34,239 --> 00:50:37,360
Speaker 1: The horrific defensive numbers, if they really did tear it

965
00:50:37,360 --> 00:50:39,640
Speaker 1: down and build it back from scratch, that's all explainable

966
00:50:40,239 --> 00:50:43,640
Speaker 1: as long as that's what's happened. And internally a lot

967
00:50:43,680 --> 00:50:45,640
Speaker 1: of that you can't know. You can know what you

968
00:50:45,680 --> 00:50:48,320
Speaker 1: watch on the field on Saturday, you can read practice reports,

969
00:50:48,560 --> 00:50:51,200
Speaker 1: but a lot of what's happening internally culture wise, if

970
00:50:51,200 --> 00:50:53,359
Speaker 1: they really are tearing it down to build it back up,

971
00:50:54,560 --> 00:50:56,439
Speaker 1: and that's a bitter pill to swallow in year one,

972
00:50:56,880 --> 00:51:00,920
Speaker 1: but it's explainable. I'm most fascinated with people who have

973
00:51:01,080 --> 00:51:03,400
Speaker 1: given up on him now. I always wish that I

974
00:51:03,400 --> 00:51:05,239
Speaker 1: could just get a focus group of one hundred of

975
00:51:05,280 --> 00:51:09,840
Speaker 1: you and myself included, and we could all wager really

976
00:51:09,880 --> 00:51:13,320
Speaker 1: substantial money, like money that we can't afford to lose

977
00:51:14,560 --> 00:51:17,880
Speaker 1: on our opinion of any given topic. So in this case,

978
00:51:18,680 --> 00:51:22,399
Speaker 1: if you're giving up on Brent Venables, you're saying he's

979
00:51:22,440 --> 00:51:25,319
Speaker 1: not gonna win at Oklahoma, you've seen everything you think

980
00:51:25,360 --> 00:51:27,719
Speaker 1: you need to see after one football season, and it

981
00:51:27,760 --> 00:51:29,200
Speaker 1: happens to be the guy's first year ever as a

982
00:51:29,239 --> 00:51:32,920
Speaker 1: head coach. That fascinates me. Maybe you end up being right.

983
00:51:33,800 --> 00:51:37,040
Speaker 1: That fascinates me. I would never tell you. I think

984
00:51:37,080 --> 00:51:41,000
Speaker 1: I've seen enough of that guy after year one. I'm

985
00:51:41,000 --> 00:51:44,840
Speaker 1: also not telling you slam dunk watch and see you'll

986
00:51:44,840 --> 00:51:48,319
Speaker 1: eat those words. He will take o you to the mountaintop.

987
00:51:48,360 --> 00:51:52,040
Speaker 1: I'm not talking like that. Very reserved about it, still

988
00:51:52,239 --> 00:51:55,360
Speaker 1: very much on the fence. I do notice two things.

989
00:51:55,920 --> 00:51:58,560
Speaker 1: The first thing I notice is they are having no

990
00:51:58,680 --> 00:52:03,200
Speaker 1: problem whatsoever acquire ring talent. You may say Oklahoma's always recruited, well,

991
00:52:03,520 --> 00:52:07,160
Speaker 1: not quite this well, not quite this, Well, they are

992
00:52:07,320 --> 00:52:09,840
Speaker 1: way up there. And in the portal they've been a

993
00:52:09,920 --> 00:52:12,000
Speaker 1: top ten portal team. They've been a top ten recruiting

994
00:52:12,040 --> 00:52:15,319
Speaker 1: team both cycles since he's been there. I know you

995
00:52:15,400 --> 00:52:17,600
Speaker 1: got to do stuff with it once it gets on campus,

996
00:52:17,640 --> 00:52:20,880
Speaker 1: but that's one great, big sigh of relief for me personally,

997
00:52:21,680 --> 00:52:23,680
Speaker 1: because I didn't know what kind of recruiter he was

998
00:52:23,719 --> 00:52:25,280
Speaker 1: going to be. I didn't know what kind of recruiter

999
00:52:25,280 --> 00:52:27,600
Speaker 1: that staff was going to be. So that's the first

1000
00:52:27,640 --> 00:52:29,960
Speaker 1: thing I've noticed. The second thing I've noticed is he

1001
00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:32,799
Speaker 1: hadn't lost any of his own fan base. Well, it's

1002
00:52:32,800 --> 00:52:36,319
Speaker 1: normally the other way around, the folks closest to the

1003
00:52:36,360 --> 00:52:40,760
Speaker 1: situation normally sniff out a loser long before the general

1004
00:52:40,800 --> 00:52:45,640
Speaker 1: public does. At Oklahoma, the folks closest to the situation

1005
00:52:45,840 --> 00:52:48,640
Speaker 1: are fully bought in on Brenton Venables, and they make

1006
00:52:48,680 --> 00:52:50,800
Speaker 1: no bones about the fact that last year wasn't good enough.

1007
00:52:50,960 --> 00:52:53,799
Speaker 1: The difference is they've got a pretty good sense that

1008
00:52:54,040 --> 00:52:56,680
Speaker 1: in retrospect it was probably necessary to get where we

1009
00:52:56,719 --> 00:53:01,080
Speaker 1: think he's taking us, whereas people outside of that Crimson

1010
00:53:01,120 --> 00:53:03,160
Speaker 1: and Cream circle, they're looking at it and saying, never

1011
00:53:03,200 --> 00:53:07,480
Speaker 1: gonna happen. Dudes, a fraud, dudes a defensive coordinator at best.

1012
00:53:08,640 --> 00:53:12,120
Speaker 1: I'm gonna lean towards Oklahoma folks. I'm a leaning towards

1013
00:53:12,160 --> 00:53:14,400
Speaker 1: them because I've watched fan base his punt after one

1014
00:53:14,480 --> 00:53:16,319
Speaker 1: year on a coach and after two years on a coach,

1015
00:53:16,360 --> 00:53:18,239
Speaker 1: and sometimes they're right and sometimes there wrong, but at

1016
00:53:18,320 --> 00:53:20,880
Speaker 1: least their opinions are a little more guided because they

1017
00:53:20,880 --> 00:53:23,240
Speaker 1: follow the program day to day. The folks who follow

1018
00:53:23,280 --> 00:53:26,440
Speaker 1: this program day to day just watched their coach lose

1019
00:53:26,960 --> 00:53:30,359
Speaker 1: in horrific fashion. In some cases they got shut out,

1020
00:53:30,400 --> 00:53:34,440
Speaker 1: like half one hundred to nothing against Texas, and oh

1021
00:53:34,520 --> 00:53:37,040
Speaker 1: you fans are still all in on that guy. I

1022
00:53:37,120 --> 00:53:39,879
Speaker 1: don't make nothing out of that. I make something out

1023
00:53:39,880 --> 00:53:42,239
Speaker 1: of that. And that's the general attitude I got. I

1024
00:53:42,280 --> 00:53:45,120
Speaker 1: would probably say if I were to take a straw

1025
00:53:45,160 --> 00:53:47,880
Speaker 1: poll of the thousands of comments we gone on this today,

1026
00:53:48,280 --> 00:53:50,880
Speaker 1: I would say more than fifty percent of you who

1027
00:53:50,960 --> 00:53:54,440
Speaker 1: were agnostic to the program don't believe in Brenton Venables.

1028
00:53:54,560 --> 00:53:57,040
Speaker 1: So there is a sizeable portion of what we call

1029
00:53:57,080 --> 00:53:59,480
Speaker 1: the college football public, the public that doesn't think he's

1030
00:53:59,520 --> 00:54:03,879
Speaker 1: gonna win. I am not down that road yet. I'm

1031
00:54:03,960 --> 00:54:06,280
Speaker 1: kind of standing at the intersection. I am Tom Hanks

1032
00:54:06,440 --> 00:54:10,279
Speaker 1: at the very end of Castaway. There's that intersection out

1033
00:54:10,280 --> 00:54:12,680
Speaker 1: in the middle of nowhere, and he just parks the jeep.

1034
00:54:13,280 --> 00:54:15,840
Speaker 1: He gets out, and he's got that big old plastic

1035
00:54:15,840 --> 00:54:18,680
Speaker 1: bottle of water, and he's just standing there. And that

1036
00:54:18,719 --> 00:54:21,719
Speaker 1: girl pulls up and says, you can go that way, Canada,

1037
00:54:21,960 --> 00:54:25,600
Speaker 1: that way, Mexico, California, Virginia. Which way do you want

1038
00:54:25,600 --> 00:54:27,200
Speaker 1: to go? I'm just gonna stand here for a second.

1039
00:54:27,760 --> 00:54:30,719
Speaker 1: So here I am at the intersection of Brenton Venables

1040
00:54:30,920 --> 00:54:33,520
Speaker 1: year one to year two. He could either be playing

1041
00:54:33,719 --> 00:54:36,480
Speaker 1: in the playoff in twenty twenty four, or they could

1042
00:54:36,520 --> 00:54:39,040
Speaker 1: be running a coaching search in twenty twenty. I don't know.

1043
00:54:39,200 --> 00:54:42,520
Speaker 1: I have no clue. He's a heck of a defensive coordinator,

1044
00:54:42,520 --> 00:54:47,719
Speaker 1: though heck of a defensive mind. Hopefully, hopefully that expertise

1045
00:54:48,239 --> 00:54:51,080
Speaker 1: is surrounded by the right people there. Hopefully he got

1046
00:54:51,120 --> 00:54:53,440
Speaker 1: the right people in there. They got Jackson Arnold, one

1047
00:54:53,440 --> 00:54:56,240
Speaker 1: of the best quarterbacks in the country. That is waiting

1048
00:54:56,320 --> 00:54:58,160
Speaker 1: in the wings, or who is waiting in the wings,

1049
00:54:58,520 --> 00:55:00,799
Speaker 1: and that's with Dylan Gabriel start and form this year.

1050
00:55:00,840 --> 00:55:04,239
Speaker 1: So I am not sold. I have not sold, and

1051
00:55:04,280 --> 00:55:07,480
Speaker 1: also am not sold. That is called riding the fence,

1052
00:55:07,960 --> 00:55:09,479
Speaker 1: and the key to that is to keep the post

1053
00:55:09,480 --> 00:55:12,960
Speaker 1: in your mouth. All right, Houston, Texas tuned in Jacksonville Beach, Florida,

1054
00:55:12,960 --> 00:55:17,680
Speaker 1: tuned in Olympia. Washington is tuned in Jesse. Probably thinks

1055
00:55:17,719 --> 00:55:21,839
Speaker 1: the capital is Seattle, but it's not. Let us move

1056
00:55:21,880 --> 00:55:26,800
Speaker 1: to bold predictions. Fifth a record, fifth sip from the chalice.

1057
00:55:28,440 --> 00:55:31,920
Speaker 1: It always occurs to me, and trust me, I'm going

1058
00:55:31,960 --> 00:55:35,080
Speaker 1: to address this. Actually the next segment, I'm going to

1059
00:55:35,080 --> 00:55:38,560
Speaker 1: address some of the criticisms towards this show. One of

1060
00:55:38,560 --> 00:55:42,160
Speaker 1: them is there's some inside jokes on this show that

1061
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Speaker 1: we don't explain, and you're right about that. Candidly, we

1062
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Speaker 1: probably need to do one of those inside nomenclature refreshers

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Speaker 1: because it's been a while. Don't worry. That's coming up

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Speaker 1: in like eight minutes. Bold Prediction time. What are you

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00:55:55,920 --> 00:55:58,239
Speaker 1: thinking about this year? What are you predicting this year?

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Speaker 1: Do you guys actually believe some of this stuff? Because

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Speaker 1: I'm telling you we've got our first ten on the

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Speaker 1: Bold Prediction one to ten scale tonight, and I got

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Speaker 1: two more of them rated nine or higher. I'm not

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Speaker 1: calling you a liar, but I am at the very

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Speaker 1: least questioning whether you guys believe this. Okay, first Bold

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Speaker 1: Prediction Florida beats Utah again, this is acceptable, right, They

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Speaker 1: were going to play in Salt Lake City. It is

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Speaker 1: a Thursday night game in Week one. Florida is a

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Speaker 1: nine and a half point underdog. Right now. Last year

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Speaker 1: this was a classic down in Gainsville. Looked like Utah

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Speaker 1: had it and then they didn't because that's how college

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Speaker 1: football works. And Utah loses twenty nine to twenty six.

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Speaker 1: Cam Rising, who on one hand produces this show, but

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Speaker 1: in a much more real sense, is the starting quarterback

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Speaker 1: for Utah. You guys want to know what producer Jesse

1082
00:56:49,440 --> 00:56:51,200
Speaker 1: looks like. You want to know if he's real or not.

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00:56:51,680 --> 00:56:54,040
Speaker 1: You don't need to have a picture of him. Just

1084
00:56:54,239 --> 00:56:59,920
Speaker 1: look at Cam Rising's picture, indistinguishable identical twins, Cam Rising

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00:57:00,120 --> 00:57:05,480
Speaker 1: and Producer Jesse. So Cam Rising health wise, is he

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00:57:05,560 --> 00:57:07,600
Speaker 1: gonna be good to go in week one? Because I

1087
00:57:07,600 --> 00:57:09,560
Speaker 1: don't go a long way in deciding this one. And

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Speaker 1: then Graham Mertz, we don't think there's any injury concerned

1089
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Speaker 1: with him. I just have no clue what caliber quarterback

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Speaker 1: he's gonna be. What should I expect? I expect Florida

1091
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Speaker 1: to have a really, really good ground game, and they

1092
00:57:19,240 --> 00:57:21,880
Speaker 1: need it because if they're going to duplicate last year's result,

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00:57:21,960 --> 00:57:24,200
Speaker 1: if they're pulling the upset here, it sure would help

1094
00:57:24,200 --> 00:57:25,800
Speaker 1: to have two hundred and eighty three on the ground.

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00:57:26,240 --> 00:57:28,800
Speaker 1: A lot of that was Anthony Richardson last year. You

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00:57:28,840 --> 00:57:30,920
Speaker 1: get me the yards, however, you get them, you're popping

1097
00:57:30,920 --> 00:57:33,080
Speaker 1: off about six or seven yards per carry against Utah

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00:57:33,320 --> 00:57:36,600
Speaker 1: on the road. You've quieted a crowd and you've given

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Speaker 1: yourself a shot to win it in the fourth quarter. However,

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Speaker 1: because of the nine and a half points spread, on

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Speaker 1: this game. Florida beating Utah is an eight. Yeah, just

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Speaker 1: an eight. I'm not gonna go eight in a quarter.

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00:57:47,600 --> 00:57:49,960
Speaker 1: It's an eight on the boldness scale. I don't think

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00:57:50,000 --> 00:57:51,440
Speaker 1: it's the craziest thing in the world. And one of

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00:57:51,480 --> 00:57:54,320
Speaker 1: our Florida viewers sent me a very long email the

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Speaker 1: other day early julys why I Love you guys, where

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00:57:57,880 --> 00:58:00,640
Speaker 1: he spelled out all the reasons Lord is gonna win

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Speaker 1: this game. And it was intriguing. It was intriguing. I

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Speaker 1: would be lying if I said I didn't raise my

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Speaker 1: eyebrow time or two. All right, next up, this is

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Speaker 1: where we really get in the weeds. We why not?

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna payper pop for this one. Rob from Celebration

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Speaker 1: Florida something they should probably need. I hope they can

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Speaker 1: do more of that down there in Florida this year.

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Speaker 1: But Rob from Celebration Florida says Notre Dame will make

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Speaker 1: the playoff and win a semi final game. Okay, so

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00:58:33,000 --> 00:58:34,840
Speaker 1: they're going to the national title game. That's what he's

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Speaker 1: telling me. Rob, this is a nine point five. That's harsh, right, Well,

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Speaker 1: here's my take on this. The odds to make the

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Speaker 1: college football playoff Notre Dame is fourteenth in those odds.

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Speaker 1: Not astronomical over underwent total eight and a half, fourteenth

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00:58:51,400 --> 00:58:54,120
Speaker 1: best odds to make the playoffs. So you know plus

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Speaker 1: seven fifty if you're interested in the money line, that's

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Speaker 1: where we are. That's to win the title, not to

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Speaker 1: make the playoff. So they're fourteenth in line to win

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Speaker 1: the title. Okay, but we've seen teams come from deeper

1127
00:59:03,600 --> 00:59:05,600
Speaker 1: than that. I mean, TCU was nowhere on the radar

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Speaker 1: last year. It's that time of year. I have started

1129
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Speaker 1: to be told that Notre Dame plays a week schedule.

1130
00:59:14,960 --> 00:59:17,760
Speaker 1: So producer Jesse got fed up today and he walks

1131
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Speaker 1: in and he says, hey, I said, excuse me. He said, sir,

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Speaker 1: what if I told you that there is one team

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Speaker 1: out there in all of FBS that plays at least

1134
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Speaker 1: three opponents with a preseason win total of ten or higher.

1135
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Speaker 1: I said, I would be intrigued. Boomst is it? He said,

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Speaker 1: it's Notre Dame. They play seven teams with a win

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Speaker 1: total of six and a half or higher. They play

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Speaker 1: three with a win total of ten or higher. They

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Speaker 1: go to NC State this year, they go to Louisville.

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Speaker 1: They go to Duke, they go to Clemson, they got

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Speaker 1: Ohio State and USC at home. It is not an

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Speaker 1: easy schedule. It never is a soft schedule. Here's what

1143
00:59:58,200 --> 01:00:01,560
Speaker 1: you guys are looking for. What you're looking for is

1144
01:00:01,880 --> 01:00:04,960
Speaker 1: Notre Dame doesn't play the literal toughest schedule in the country.

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01:00:05,240 --> 01:00:10,040
Speaker 1: They play a pretty difficult to moderately difficult schedule. That

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01:00:10,120 --> 01:00:14,440
Speaker 1: would be fine. There's this one to ten knob and

1147
01:00:15,040 --> 01:00:17,120
Speaker 1: some of you need to learn to turn it to six.

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01:00:17,960 --> 01:00:20,760
Speaker 1: It doesn't always have to be zero or ten. Sometimes

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01:00:20,880 --> 01:00:25,000
Speaker 1: Notre Dame plays pretty tough schedule. Instead, if it's not

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Speaker 1: the hardest one in the country, cream puffs, it be better.

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Speaker 1: Let's just all be better. I'm gonna make this one

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Speaker 1: a nine point five. Making it versus winning it two

1153
01:00:34,760 --> 01:00:37,000
Speaker 1: different things. Now. Rob just predicted they're gonna make the

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Speaker 1: title game, but I still make that a nine point

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Speaker 1: five Notre Dame in the National championship game. Say it

1156
01:00:42,760 --> 01:00:46,360
Speaker 1: out loud wherever you are, including Irish fans. How bold

1157
01:00:46,400 --> 01:00:47,800
Speaker 1: do you think that is? I think it's a nine

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01:00:47,800 --> 01:00:54,120
Speaker 1: point five. Next up, this one is from Andre in

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Speaker 1: Grove City, Ohio. He said the Big twelve championship game

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Speaker 1: will not be a rematch from the regular season. Well,

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Speaker 1: that requires some pate state mathematics. So this used to

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Speaker 1: be nearly impossible. They just expanded the conference like five

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Speaker 1: minutes ago. So it used to be you played nine

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Speaker 1: conference games in a league with ten or whatever it was,

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Speaker 1: so you only missed one team every year. I think

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Speaker 1: it was for a little while. Well now they play

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Speaker 1: nine conference games and they've got fourteen teams out there,

1168
01:01:27,760 --> 01:01:29,720
Speaker 1: so they're thirteen of them you could possibly play, so

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Speaker 1: you miss four of them every year. So we do

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Speaker 1: have some windows here. Now, who's the most likely to

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Speaker 1: make the conference championship game? We can only go off

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Speaker 1: odds and Oklahoma it should be noted they don't play

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Speaker 1: Kansas State in the regular season, so that's one oh

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Speaker 1: U Kansas State would work here. They don't play Texas Tech,

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Speaker 1: they don't play Baylor, Oklahoma State, they missed Texas Texas Tech, TCU,

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Speaker 1: and Baylor and Texas Will Tech plays like all the

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Speaker 1: top teams. So you're probably if you want this to happen,

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Speaker 1: if you want for there to be a unique matchup

1179
01:02:06,280 --> 01:02:09,760
Speaker 1: that's not a rematch in the conference title game, chances

1180
01:02:09,800 --> 01:02:11,040
Speaker 1: are someone's going to have to come out of the

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01:02:11,040 --> 01:02:14,480
Speaker 1: state of Oklahoma. I am going to make this a

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Speaker 1: nine on the boldness scale only because Oklahoma, Oklahoma, and

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Speaker 1: Kansas State are number two and number three in the

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Speaker 1: preseason nods. Oklahoma and Texas Tech are number two and

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Speaker 1: number four in the preseason odds. Oklahoma and Baylor are

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Speaker 1: two and six in the preseason ods. These are feasible.

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Speaker 1: It's just really hard to pick a specific matchup. It's

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01:02:34,840 --> 01:02:36,720
Speaker 1: hard to nail that, especially when we have so many,

1189
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Speaker 1: so many potential rematches happening. Lastly, this is what we

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Speaker 1: call a classic direct column. Producer Jesse special in the

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Speaker 1: business Russell said, Tennessee versus Penn State for the National Championship.

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Speaker 1: It's that time, friends. We have not had one all year,

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Speaker 1: but Russell, you found a way. This is a ten

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Speaker 1: on the boldness scale. Penn State versus Tennessee in the

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01:03:01,920 --> 01:03:05,680
Speaker 1: National Championship game is a ten on the boldness scale.

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01:03:06,760 --> 01:03:09,880
Speaker 1: Neither one of them have ever made the playoff, neither

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Speaker 1: one of them are inside the top nine in the

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Speaker 1: preseason odds, and so not only are we asking to

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Speaker 1: overcome those hurdles, we're asking for things to shake out

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Speaker 1: where they play each other for the title, so they

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01:03:21,240 --> 01:03:23,560
Speaker 1: don't face each other in the semi final. They've both

1202
01:03:23,640 --> 01:03:26,000
Speaker 1: got to make it, they've both got to win semi

1203
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Speaker 1: final games and a playoff. Neither has ever even been to.

1204
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Speaker 1: There is no skill in predicting this, obviously. Also, if

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Speaker 1: you pick some of the big boys, If you pick

1206
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Speaker 1: Georgia versus Ohio State for the national title game, I'd

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Speaker 1: still make it like a seven point seventy five on

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01:03:40,440 --> 01:03:44,480
Speaker 1: the boldness scale, just because it's that statistically unlikely you're

1209
01:03:44,520 --> 01:03:48,240
Speaker 1: gonna pick the exact matchup. But when it's Tennessee, all

1210
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Speaker 1: due respect versus Penn State, all due respect, Nah, that's

1211
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Speaker 1: a ten. That's our first ten. I don't know if

1212
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Speaker 1: congratulations are in order, but Russell, paper, Pop and everything

1213
01:03:58,960 --> 01:04:02,520
Speaker 1: in between. A ten. Now, that doesn't mean it's not

1214
01:04:02,560 --> 01:04:05,840
Speaker 1: gonna happen. It just means if it does, I probably

1215
01:04:05,840 --> 01:04:08,080
Speaker 1: send you a chaalice of supremacy or probably something in

1216
01:04:08,120 --> 01:04:10,800
Speaker 1: the peyt State store. Because if I say that your

1217
01:04:10,800 --> 01:04:14,280
Speaker 1: prediction is a ten and your prediction pans out, that

1218
01:04:14,400 --> 01:04:17,320
Speaker 1: makes me pretty much a liar, or as close to

1219
01:04:17,360 --> 01:04:19,240
Speaker 1: it as we'll ever get to accusing ourselves of being

1220
01:04:19,240 --> 01:04:22,240
Speaker 1: a liar on this show. Now, I would not accuse

1221
01:04:22,280 --> 01:04:25,120
Speaker 1: myself of that, but boy, some of you would do

1222
01:04:25,240 --> 01:04:28,760
Speaker 1: me a favor before I enter into a JP bashfest.

1223
01:04:28,840 --> 01:04:31,200
Speaker 1: Here for a couple of minutes. If you're watching live,

1224
01:04:31,280 --> 01:04:33,240
Speaker 1: we have four hundred and twenty likes on this thing,

1225
01:04:33,280 --> 01:04:35,919
Speaker 1: and we have like five times that many people watching live.

1226
01:04:36,480 --> 01:04:39,000
Speaker 1: Just click the thumbs up button. Producer Jesse tells me

1227
01:04:39,080 --> 01:04:41,800
Speaker 1: that's harder to do if you're watching on TV. Just

1228
01:04:41,840 --> 01:04:45,360
Speaker 1: find a way. Life finds a way. Why can't you

1229
01:04:45,400 --> 01:04:47,600
Speaker 1: find a way to like the video? It helps us,

1230
01:04:47,680 --> 01:04:55,600
Speaker 1: greatly helps us. So they say that you should never

1231
01:04:55,640 --> 01:04:59,360
Speaker 1: meet your heroes in person. They say that you should

1232
01:04:59,360 --> 01:05:02,960
Speaker 1: never wear why after Labor Day, certainly a rule that

1233
01:05:03,000 --> 01:05:05,640
Speaker 1: doesn't fly on this show. They also say you should

1234
01:05:05,640 --> 01:05:10,320
Speaker 1: never google your name, and that's usually for good reason. Well,

1235
01:05:10,600 --> 01:05:14,480
Speaker 1: here's the problem. Producer Jesse did it anyway, and producer

1236
01:05:15,160 --> 01:05:17,600
Speaker 1: Producer Jesse alerted me the other day to Colin, I

1237
01:05:17,640 --> 01:05:20,400
Speaker 1: actually don't like that at all. Here's your endpoint. Producer

1238
01:05:20,480 --> 01:05:22,760
Speaker 1: Jesse alerted me the other day that there was a

1239
01:05:22,880 --> 01:05:26,920
Speaker 1: very very lengthy thread over on the Reddit college football

1240
01:05:27,160 --> 01:05:31,240
Speaker 1: page where people were comparing us versus Joel Clap. I

1241
01:05:31,280 --> 01:05:34,280
Speaker 1: love Clatt show. So my recommendation to you if you're

1242
01:05:34,280 --> 01:05:37,360
Speaker 1: trying to choose either or is listen to both because

1243
01:05:37,440 --> 01:05:39,840
Speaker 1: it's an on demand world now and so you get

1244
01:05:39,840 --> 01:05:43,080
Speaker 1: to listen at your convenience. I really actually don't get

1245
01:05:43,080 --> 01:05:46,280
Speaker 1: that part of the debate. However, we went through this

1246
01:05:46,360 --> 01:05:49,320
Speaker 1: thing which I normally don't do, and I got some

1247
01:05:49,360 --> 01:05:51,560
Speaker 1: pretty good feedback from you guys. Now, some of you

1248
01:05:51,640 --> 01:05:54,880
Speaker 1: were mean, and some of you went to personal attacks,

1249
01:05:54,920 --> 01:05:58,000
Speaker 1: but that's okay. It is the internet, after all. However,

1250
01:05:58,200 --> 01:06:00,919
Speaker 1: some of you had some constructive feedback, and I wanted

1251
01:06:00,960 --> 01:06:02,960
Speaker 1: you to know I read it, and I wanted you

1252
01:06:03,000 --> 01:06:04,960
Speaker 1: to know. When you said things like you think the

1253
01:06:05,000 --> 01:06:08,800
Speaker 1: show's been too repetitive with specific themes over the past

1254
01:06:08,800 --> 01:06:12,880
Speaker 1: couple of months, I agree with you. Unbeknownst to you,

1255
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Speaker 1: that was already written in my own grades for myself

1256
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Speaker 1: and was something that we were already aiming to address,

1257
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Speaker 1: because when I go back and I look, yeah, we

1258
01:06:22,600 --> 01:06:26,439
Speaker 1: have been too repetitive on some things. Also, you guys said,

1259
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Speaker 1: some of you, not all of you. Some of you

1260
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Speaker 1: said too many teams are mentioned over and over and

1261
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Speaker 1: over again. Now, obviously there is a reason for that,

1262
01:06:33,120 --> 01:06:35,840
Speaker 1: somewhat if I talk about Ohio State, it does us

1263
01:06:36,000 --> 01:06:39,920
Speaker 1: a whole lot more favor than talking about filling the blank.

1264
01:06:40,000 --> 01:06:41,400
Speaker 1: I don't want to throw anyone under the bus. I

1265
01:06:41,520 --> 01:06:43,680
Speaker 1: used to use Akron all the time, but the people

1266
01:06:43,720 --> 01:06:46,000
Speaker 1: at Acron got mad because they said, why do you

1267
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Speaker 1: keep picking on us or like five hundred other programs

1268
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Speaker 1: out there. So I'm not going to do it, but yeah,

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Speaker 1: business wise, it makes more sense. However, Look, if you're

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Speaker 1: running a high level operation, which we fancy this show

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01:06:58,720 --> 01:07:00,959
Speaker 1: as being one, we should be able to talk about

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01:07:01,000 --> 01:07:03,760
Speaker 1: anything and keep someone's attention. And also I should be

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01:07:03,840 --> 01:07:06,240
Speaker 1: able to present Virginia football for a minute and a

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01:07:06,280 --> 01:07:08,400
Speaker 1: half to you in a way that doesn't make you

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01:07:08,440 --> 01:07:11,080
Speaker 1: go to sleep. It's tough, but it's a challenge I'm

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01:07:11,120 --> 01:07:13,520
Speaker 1: willing to take on. So those two bits of feedback

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01:07:13,600 --> 01:07:16,680
Speaker 1: two repetitive at times and talking about the same few

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01:07:16,720 --> 01:07:19,720
Speaker 1: teams over and over again. Although the second alley to

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01:07:19,760 --> 01:07:22,840
Speaker 1: get allegation is not entirely true, there is some truth

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Speaker 1: to it. So I listened, and so we're going to

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01:07:25,360 --> 01:07:28,760
Speaker 1: address that. I did want to address some of the

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01:07:28,800 --> 01:07:31,680
Speaker 1: other allegations and some of the other complaints some of

1283
01:07:31,720 --> 01:07:33,880
Speaker 1: you said the show is not enough X's and O's.

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01:07:33,960 --> 01:07:36,440
Speaker 1: It never will be. That's not my forte. It's not

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01:07:36,560 --> 01:07:39,000
Speaker 1: my strong suit. If you want me to, I'll be

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01:07:39,080 --> 01:07:41,440
Speaker 1: happy to direct you to some folks who do that.

1287
01:07:41,880 --> 01:07:44,040
Speaker 1: I had Cublic on the other day. He texted me

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01:07:44,120 --> 01:07:48,200
Speaker 1: every show, and I talked to him frequently because candidly,

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01:07:48,880 --> 01:07:50,600
Speaker 1: I think he's one of the best out there at

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01:07:50,600 --> 01:07:53,080
Speaker 1: that he's got a mixture of personality and x as

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01:07:53,080 --> 01:07:55,160
Speaker 1: and O's knowledge Cube show. By the way, if you

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01:07:55,200 --> 01:07:57,800
Speaker 1: want to go check out the YouTube channel. In a

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01:07:57,800 --> 01:08:02,600
Speaker 1: perfect world, we have a group of pods or shows

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01:08:02,640 --> 01:08:07,240
Speaker 1: that you're probably watching, and ours is a lot more conversational.

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01:08:07,560 --> 01:08:09,600
Speaker 1: Ours is a lot more water cooler. Now, I'll dive

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01:08:09,640 --> 01:08:13,120
Speaker 1: deep occasionally on stuff will We're well sourced. We get

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01:08:13,120 --> 01:08:15,480
Speaker 1: a lot of really good intel and information on the show.

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01:08:15,880 --> 01:08:17,960
Speaker 1: But it's never gonna be Ex's nose. There's no grease

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01:08:18,000 --> 01:08:20,160
Speaker 1: born in here. I didn't play or coach the game

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01:08:20,200 --> 01:08:22,400
Speaker 1: at a high level. How stupid would I be to

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01:08:22,479 --> 01:08:25,040
Speaker 1: try and X's and Owes you to death? It would

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01:08:25,080 --> 01:08:26,920
Speaker 1: be the death of me if I've tried to do that.

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01:08:27,000 --> 01:08:28,720
Speaker 1: So no, that's not the kind of show that you're

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01:08:28,760 --> 01:08:32,680
Speaker 1: watching here. You said, some of you said a lot

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01:08:32,720 --> 01:08:34,960
Speaker 1: of opinion, but not a whole lot of analysis. Now

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01:08:35,000 --> 01:08:37,160
Speaker 1: I can tell that's just folks who haven't watched the

1307
01:08:37,200 --> 01:08:40,000
Speaker 1: show during the season. There's plenty of analysis during the season.

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01:08:40,000 --> 01:08:42,240
Speaker 1: There are no games happening right now. I'm not sure

1309
01:08:42,240 --> 01:08:44,280
Speaker 1: what you think is going to get analyzed in July.

1310
01:08:45,560 --> 01:08:48,760
Speaker 1: Paid is never negative. I can also tell that those

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01:08:48,760 --> 01:08:51,080
Speaker 1: are folks who haven't watched during the season. I do

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01:08:51,120 --> 01:08:53,240
Speaker 1: have a general philosophy. There is not a lot of

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01:08:53,280 --> 01:08:57,080
Speaker 1: negativity on the show, but especially in the spring and summer.

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01:08:58,640 --> 01:09:02,240
Speaker 1: Why would you be negative? And in summer nothing's happened,

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01:09:02,400 --> 01:09:05,800
Speaker 1: no games have happened, and so yeah, guilty is charged.

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01:09:05,800 --> 01:09:08,679
Speaker 1: I guess depending on the time of the year. Sec Homer,

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01:09:08,800 --> 01:09:12,240
Speaker 1: We've addressed this a million times. You would probably structure

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01:09:12,280 --> 01:09:15,000
Speaker 1: your show no different than I structure mine if you

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01:09:15,040 --> 01:09:18,000
Speaker 1: did a national show, once you got the data that

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Speaker 1: we get. That's all I'll say on that I said

1321
01:09:22,320 --> 01:09:24,719
Speaker 1: the word earlier. I got an itch on my nose.

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01:09:24,840 --> 01:09:27,080
Speaker 1: Oh that that's not the word I said. I said

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01:09:27,080 --> 01:09:31,960
Speaker 1: this word earlier. Condescending. There were some accusations of being condescending,

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01:09:32,520 --> 01:09:37,040
Speaker 1: and I'll address those in a second. Someone did get

1325
01:09:37,040 --> 01:09:39,400
Speaker 1: a laugh out of this. Someone said, I choose peate

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01:09:39,439 --> 01:09:41,719
Speaker 1: and it's not close. And then one of our viewers

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01:09:41,760 --> 01:09:43,200
Speaker 1: came in in the comment section and said, you know,

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01:09:43,240 --> 01:09:46,840
Speaker 1: he doesn't like that, right, Beautiful laughed until I cried

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01:09:46,840 --> 01:09:49,800
Speaker 1: when I read that. Okay, So for the folks who

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01:09:49,920 --> 01:09:53,639
Speaker 1: use condescending or for those of you who just complained

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01:09:53,680 --> 01:09:57,960
Speaker 1: about some of the other ins and outs and inside

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01:09:57,960 --> 01:10:01,240
Speaker 1: nomenclature of the show, here's here's the balance I try

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01:10:01,280 --> 01:10:04,639
Speaker 1: and strike. So this show's blown up really really big.

1334
01:10:04,720 --> 01:10:09,360
Speaker 1: We got bonkers numbers, and there's a really really communal

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01:10:09,400 --> 01:10:11,960
Speaker 1: feel to it, and I know that we build it

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01:10:12,000 --> 01:10:14,000
Speaker 1: that way intentionally. As you start to build a product,

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01:10:14,080 --> 01:10:15,599
Speaker 1: as you start to build a show that's got a

1338
01:10:15,640 --> 01:10:18,439
Speaker 1: really really community based feel to it, the risk you

1339
01:10:18,560 --> 01:10:22,840
Speaker 1: run is the further you get into that and the

1340
01:10:22,960 --> 01:10:27,400
Speaker 1: bigger that the community becomes, you never take time to

1341
01:10:27,520 --> 01:10:31,000
Speaker 1: introduce new people to the community because it's so big

1342
01:10:31,040 --> 01:10:32,760
Speaker 1: at that point you don't have time to do that

1343
01:10:32,800 --> 01:10:36,720
Speaker 1: every show. And so the bigger the community gets, the

1344
01:10:36,720 --> 01:10:40,840
Speaker 1: more layered it becomes, and the more inside references there are,

1345
01:10:41,240 --> 01:10:44,280
Speaker 1: and the more unique layering there is, and the more

1346
01:10:44,640 --> 01:10:47,240
Speaker 1: unique culture there is even within that show, and it

1347
01:10:47,280 --> 01:10:50,880
Speaker 1: looks weird. It looks strange to an outsider because they

1348
01:10:50,920 --> 01:10:53,960
Speaker 1: haven't been baked into it yet. So I think this

1349
01:10:54,000 --> 01:10:55,800
Speaker 1: is a valid criticism too, that we'll try and do

1350
01:10:55,840 --> 01:10:59,280
Speaker 1: a better job of. I can't literally explain everything to

1351
01:10:59,320 --> 01:11:01,680
Speaker 1: you every show. I do think that there are some

1352
01:11:01,760 --> 01:11:04,040
Speaker 1: people who may be turned off by certain aspects of

1353
01:11:04,040 --> 01:11:06,479
Speaker 1: what we do or confused by certain aspects of what

1354
01:11:06,520 --> 01:11:09,519
Speaker 1: we do. If you watch one or two shows that

1355
01:11:09,640 --> 01:11:12,519
Speaker 1: would be hardcore into what we do. If you watched

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01:11:12,600 --> 01:11:15,240
Speaker 1: one or two dozen shows or listened to one or

1357
01:11:15,240 --> 01:11:18,320
Speaker 1: two dozen shows, I'll also say this, it's a way

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01:11:18,320 --> 01:11:20,040
Speaker 1: different show in the season than it is out of

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01:11:20,040 --> 01:11:23,680
Speaker 1: the season. And that's probably the case everywhere. But I

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01:11:23,720 --> 01:11:27,759
Speaker 1: read it. I read the reddit thread. I did not comment,

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01:11:28,120 --> 01:11:32,120
Speaker 1: not even with a burner yet that may change, but

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01:11:33,120 --> 01:11:36,720
Speaker 1: appreciate the feedback. It did help. I did take it

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01:11:36,800 --> 01:11:39,599
Speaker 1: under advisement, and I will continue to do so. Can

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01:11:39,640 --> 01:11:46,840
Speaker 1: you believe that Jesse condescending? Not I not I. It's

1365
01:11:47,040 --> 01:11:52,000
Speaker 1: just fun. It's just fun. It's a joke. That's what

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01:11:52,040 --> 01:11:54,240
Speaker 1: it is most of the time. So when I talked

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01:11:54,320 --> 01:11:57,479
Speaker 1: that way, if you've watched four hundred of our shows,

1368
01:11:57,560 --> 01:12:01,040
Speaker 1: you get it. If you've watched forty minutes of one show,

1369
01:12:01,840 --> 01:12:05,439
Speaker 1: maybe you don't get it. But I am very humbled

1370
01:12:05,479 --> 01:12:08,400
Speaker 1: and privileged to be able to do this. No one

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01:12:08,560 --> 01:12:11,160
Speaker 1: gets how big a privilege this is more than me.

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01:12:11,880 --> 01:12:14,160
Speaker 1: If you know my story, you know why I feel

1373
01:12:14,160 --> 01:12:16,680
Speaker 1: that way. The last thing that I'm about to do

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01:12:16,800 --> 01:12:20,360
Speaker 1: is be intentionally condescending. I may have a strong opinion

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01:12:20,400 --> 01:12:22,960
Speaker 1: every now and then, or if I seem like I

1376
01:12:23,040 --> 01:12:26,679
Speaker 1: actually am speaking with condescension dripping out of the mouth,

1377
01:12:26,760 --> 01:12:29,439
Speaker 1: it's cause I'm joking with you. That's what that is,

1378
01:12:29,479 --> 01:12:32,559
Speaker 1: one way or the other. Lastly, on the show tonight,

1379
01:12:34,400 --> 01:12:37,200
Speaker 1: Big Twelve Media Days wrapping up, and I was checking

1380
01:12:37,200 --> 01:12:39,800
Speaker 1: out some of the coverage and Uncle Dennis is out there,

1381
01:12:39,840 --> 01:12:42,559
Speaker 1: Dennis Dodd, who will also we will welcome him to

1382
01:12:42,640 --> 01:12:45,519
Speaker 1: Nashville next week for SEC Media Days. I think that

1383
01:12:45,680 --> 01:12:48,960
Speaker 1: right there, the Big Twelve may be the most fun

1384
01:12:49,000 --> 01:12:51,360
Speaker 1: group of coaches to cover out of any conference in

1385
01:12:51,400 --> 01:12:53,960
Speaker 1: America right now. I was thinking about this earlier. I

1386
01:12:54,000 --> 01:12:57,120
Speaker 1: bounced it off some people, so Venables is out there.

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01:12:57,160 --> 01:12:59,000
Speaker 1: We just talked about him a lot earlier in the show,

1388
01:12:59,600 --> 01:13:03,439
Speaker 1: and you got that whole orbit of conversation around Brenton Venables.

1389
01:13:03,880 --> 01:13:07,360
Speaker 1: Sark is out there and any head coach at Texas

1390
01:13:07,400 --> 01:13:10,040
Speaker 1: always generates a lot of conversation. But think about like

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01:13:10,160 --> 01:13:14,599
Speaker 1: Joey McGuire from Texas Tech. People find out he's already

1392
01:13:14,600 --> 01:13:17,559
Speaker 1: officiated two weddings, he's got a third coming up next spring.

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01:13:17,920 --> 01:13:22,280
Speaker 1: That dude is like a very very hyper high school

1394
01:13:22,280 --> 01:13:24,040
Speaker 1: football coach, cause that's what he was, and all of

1395
01:13:24,040 --> 01:13:26,400
Speaker 1: a sudden, he's running a major college football program but

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01:13:26,479 --> 01:13:29,680
Speaker 1: with that same high school kind of energy, and everyone

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01:13:29,800 --> 01:13:32,200
Speaker 1: loves him, and they're recruiting well out there, and they

1398
01:13:32,280 --> 01:13:33,800
Speaker 1: got a really good culture. They got the fourth best

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01:13:33,800 --> 01:13:36,599
Speaker 1: os and win the conference this year. Dave Randa, on

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01:13:36,640 --> 01:13:39,000
Speaker 1: the other side of the state, is as stoic as

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01:13:39,040 --> 01:13:43,240
Speaker 1: they come, as brutally honest as they come. Randa, let

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01:13:43,240 --> 01:13:45,960
Speaker 1: me tell you something. I'll talk about Randa right now.

1403
01:13:46,320 --> 01:13:48,200
Speaker 1: Dave Randa is one of my favorite coaches I've ever

1404
01:13:48,200 --> 01:13:50,840
Speaker 1: been around, and I've only been around him once, but

1405
01:13:50,920 --> 01:13:55,240
Speaker 1: that was an interaction that left a lasting impression on me.

1406
01:13:56,600 --> 01:14:01,400
Speaker 1: And Dave Randa he is very measured. He's the opposite

1407
01:14:01,439 --> 01:14:03,160
Speaker 1: of what I've been for the past thirty seconds. He

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01:14:03,200 --> 01:14:08,920
Speaker 1: talks very slow, he's very measured, but he is not

1409
01:14:09,160 --> 01:14:12,800
Speaker 1: scared to critique himself publicly. And he did it again

1410
01:14:12,920 --> 01:14:16,760
Speaker 1: at Big Twelve media days, and he said, there are

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01:14:17,120 --> 01:14:19,280
Speaker 1: three things that I really wish I could do different

1412
01:14:19,280 --> 01:14:22,519
Speaker 1: about last year. He said, I did not embrace the

1413
01:14:22,520 --> 01:14:24,920
Speaker 1: transfer portal, and I should have and now we got

1414
01:14:24,960 --> 01:14:27,439
Speaker 1: an uphill battle on our hands as a result of that.

1415
01:14:27,760 --> 01:14:31,720
Speaker 1: He said, I tried to save some people instead of

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01:14:31,760 --> 01:14:34,080
Speaker 1: having boundaries, and really that bled into the third thing

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01:14:34,120 --> 01:14:37,559
Speaker 1: he talked about, where it was I cared too much

1418
01:14:37,560 --> 01:14:41,400
Speaker 1: about saving maybe some individuals, and I didn't value what

1419
01:14:41,439 --> 01:14:44,360
Speaker 1: was best for the team. That's tough. It's one of

1420
01:14:44,400 --> 01:14:49,200
Speaker 1: a million different difficult things that are coming along with

1421
01:14:49,280 --> 01:14:53,160
Speaker 1: being a head coach or running an organization. Hey, pretty

1422
01:14:53,240 --> 01:14:55,840
Speaker 1: much every head coach deals with that. He'll talk about

1423
01:14:55,880 --> 01:14:58,519
Speaker 1: it publicly. I've always appreciated that about him. Now, as

1424
01:14:58,560 --> 01:15:02,759
Speaker 1: for Texas, Texas is favored to win the Big Twelve

1425
01:15:02,760 --> 01:15:04,880
Speaker 1: this year. For all I know, Texas is going to

1426
01:15:04,920 --> 01:15:06,559
Speaker 1: go to the playoff. But I'm telling you right now,

1427
01:15:06,880 --> 01:15:09,920
Speaker 1: when I heard Quinn Ewers say quote, we got kind

1428
01:15:09,920 --> 01:15:13,840
Speaker 1: of addicted to doing abs, hitting biceps and triceps, you know,

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01:15:13,960 --> 01:15:18,160
Speaker 1: all that stuff. It was just fun red flag, red

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01:15:18,160 --> 01:15:23,760
Speaker 1: flag popcorn muscle workouts, red flag. Now. Fortunately, I know

1431
01:15:24,120 --> 01:15:26,680
Speaker 1: the strength and conditioning set up out there at Texas,

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01:15:26,760 --> 01:15:28,880
Speaker 1: and so I know they're working more than buys and

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01:15:28,920 --> 01:15:32,479
Speaker 1: tries and abs. It is not a beach body workout

1434
01:15:32,600 --> 01:15:38,200
Speaker 1: in Austin, Texas. But it's a big one. Actually it's

1435
01:15:38,200 --> 01:15:40,200
Speaker 1: not because they're not working glutes. As it turns out,

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01:15:40,600 --> 01:15:46,120
Speaker 1: buys and tries and abs get you knocked off the ball.

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01:15:46,280 --> 01:15:48,599
Speaker 1: That's what happens. I know a lot of you out there,

1438
01:15:48,680 --> 01:15:50,479
Speaker 1: not at Texas. I know a lot of you out

1439
01:15:50,479 --> 01:15:53,320
Speaker 1: there playing high school football right now. And you got

1440
01:15:53,320 --> 01:15:57,240
Speaker 1: camp coming up, and you know what awaits you very

1441
01:15:57,360 --> 01:15:59,880
Speaker 1: very soon, and a lot of you are going to

1442
01:16:00,000 --> 01:16:02,200
Speaker 1: fall into the trap of thinking you need to look

1443
01:16:02,400 --> 01:16:05,080
Speaker 1: good when you go to camp. And so you go.

1444
01:16:05,160 --> 01:16:08,320
Speaker 1: You're hitting buys, you're hitting tries, and you're hitting abs,

1445
01:16:08,600 --> 01:16:11,519
Speaker 1: and all you're gonna hit is the dirt. That's what

1446
01:16:11,560 --> 01:16:15,479
Speaker 1: you're gonna hit. Because like Endomakan Sue, for example, is

1447
01:16:15,520 --> 01:16:17,800
Speaker 1: one of the most dominant football players I've ever seen.

1448
01:16:19,360 --> 01:16:23,080
Speaker 1: Could not count a single abdominal muscle on him. I

1449
01:16:23,160 --> 01:16:25,640
Speaker 1: don't know how much he could curl. I don't know

1450
01:16:25,720 --> 01:16:28,120
Speaker 1: how much he could try press. I just know that

1451
01:16:28,280 --> 01:16:32,479
Speaker 1: it was like an automobile wearing a Nebraska jersey lined

1452
01:16:32,560 --> 01:16:35,879
Speaker 1: up over a center or over an offensive guard. Pure violence.

1453
01:16:36,880 --> 01:16:39,719
Speaker 1: Not many popcorn muscle workouts for endomakan Soux. Now, granted,

1454
01:16:39,760 --> 01:16:42,160
Speaker 1: this is a quarterback room we're talking about, uh, but

1455
01:16:42,200 --> 01:16:46,120
Speaker 1: still no. Just say no to popcorn muscle workouts. Kids. Plus,

1456
01:16:46,400 --> 01:16:48,519
Speaker 1: if you're doing the other muscle groups the right way,

1457
01:16:49,200 --> 01:16:52,280
Speaker 1: your biceps get developed. Anyway, it's one of the big

1458
01:16:52,360 --> 01:16:56,720
Speaker 1: myths out there. You gotta constantly work biceps to develop biceps. No, no, no,

1459
01:16:57,280 --> 01:16:58,880
Speaker 1: that has nothing to do with the Big twelve, though.

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Speaker 1: You know what does Brett? You or Mark conference commissioner.

1461
01:17:05,200 --> 01:17:07,920
Speaker 1: I don't want to mention any names, but sometimes I've

1462
01:17:07,960 --> 01:17:10,240
Speaker 1: been listening to some of these conference commissioners over the

1463
01:17:10,280 --> 01:17:12,200
Speaker 1: past few years, and it seems like they're a step

1464
01:17:12,280 --> 01:17:15,400
Speaker 1: behind Brett. Your Mark's different. Brett, Your Mark sounds like

1465
01:17:15,439 --> 01:17:18,680
Speaker 1: he's a step ahead of the game. Doesn't sound like

1466
01:17:19,000 --> 01:17:22,240
Speaker 1: very many things have taken him by surprise. Conversely, it

1467
01:17:22,280 --> 01:17:24,920
Speaker 1: does sound like some of his decisions have taken his

1468
01:17:25,040 --> 01:17:28,200
Speaker 1: peers and the general college football public by surprise lately.

1469
01:17:28,720 --> 01:17:30,960
Speaker 1: That's a good thing. That doesn't mean the Big twelve's

1470
01:17:31,000 --> 01:17:33,040
Speaker 1: about to pull alongside the SEC and the Big Ten

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01:17:33,080 --> 01:17:36,320
Speaker 1: at the next stoplight, but it does mean that at

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01:17:36,400 --> 01:17:38,960
Speaker 1: least they're in a position where they're not constantly on

1473
01:17:39,040 --> 01:17:41,800
Speaker 1: the defensive. No one's talking about people rating the Big

1474
01:17:41,840 --> 01:17:44,400
Speaker 1: twelve right now. No one's talking about the shaky Big

1475
01:17:44,439 --> 01:17:47,120
Speaker 1: twelve media rights deal because no one is rating them

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Speaker 1: and they do have a secure media rights deal. You

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01:17:50,240 --> 01:17:52,439
Speaker 1: can't say the same for every other conference, can you.

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01:17:52,479 --> 01:17:54,800
Speaker 1: So at the very least you know Texas and know

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01:17:54,920 --> 01:17:57,080
Speaker 1: you were on their way out. No one out there

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01:17:57,080 --> 01:18:02,760
Speaker 1: seems to be particularly terrified at that perspective. And also, yes,

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01:18:02,840 --> 01:18:05,000
Speaker 1: pretty good coaches walking in the door too. I'm very

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Speaker 1: excited to see what Gus Malson does in time or

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01:18:08,360 --> 01:18:11,960
Speaker 1: immediately whatever. Gus Maleson, man, that's its own story, that

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01:18:12,040 --> 01:18:14,639
Speaker 1: is its own thirty for thirty. I always tell the story.

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Speaker 1: I guess I can wrap it up tonight with it

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Speaker 1: one day down the road. If you are currently eighteen

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01:18:22,320 --> 01:18:26,280
Speaker 1: years old, let's just go to thirty six. So let's

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01:18:26,320 --> 01:18:29,479
Speaker 1: double your life spam. And by thirty six, let's say

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01:18:29,520 --> 01:18:32,120
Speaker 1: you're married, and you've got a couple of kids and

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01:18:32,160 --> 01:18:34,479
Speaker 1: a third on the way, and the oldest is a boy,

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01:18:34,520 --> 01:18:38,640
Speaker 1: and you're explaining to him about this guy gus Malson

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01:18:39,240 --> 01:18:42,040
Speaker 1: that maybe he's still there, maybe he's not, But this

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01:18:42,080 --> 01:18:45,519
Speaker 1: guy gus Malson is at Auburn, which at the time

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01:18:45,840 --> 01:18:48,519
Speaker 1: was the most pressure cooker job imaginable, and maybe it

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01:18:48,560 --> 01:18:53,000
Speaker 1: still is. And Malzon goes to LSU and they lose,

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01:18:53,040 --> 01:18:54,880
Speaker 1: and everyone's calling for his job. And then in the

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01:18:54,920 --> 01:18:58,280
Speaker 1: same year he goes and beats Georgia when they're number one.

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01:18:58,320 --> 01:19:01,040
Speaker 1: Then he beats Alabama when they're number one. Then his agent,

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01:19:01,080 --> 01:19:03,320
Speaker 1: his name was Jimmy Sexton. Pay attention. This is where

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Speaker 1: it gets really good. They push Auburn up against a

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01:19:05,320 --> 01:19:07,599
Speaker 1: wall the week of the SEC Championship game, no less,

1502
01:19:07,600 --> 01:19:09,519
Speaker 1: and they say we want a new deal, and Auburn

1503
01:19:09,520 --> 01:19:12,120
Speaker 1: gives them a new deal, massive buyout. A couple of

1504
01:19:12,160 --> 01:19:17,960
Speaker 1: years later, same university fires him. Gus Malson both pockets full,

1505
01:19:18,840 --> 01:19:21,280
Speaker 1: decides he wants to get back into coaching, and he

1506
01:19:21,360 --> 01:19:24,880
Speaker 1: goes to UCF. So gus Malson is being paid tens

1507
01:19:24,880 --> 01:19:27,479
Speaker 1: of millions of dollars by Auburn not to coach. He

1508
01:19:27,520 --> 01:19:31,519
Speaker 1: moves to Florida, and about five minutes later, someone knocks

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01:19:31,560 --> 01:19:34,639
Speaker 1: on the door. Hey you having fun, Gus, Yeah, man,

1510
01:19:34,680 --> 01:19:36,400
Speaker 1: I love it down here. Palm trees all over the place.

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01:19:36,400 --> 01:19:39,040
Speaker 1: We didn't have those in Lee County, Alabama. What if

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01:19:39,080 --> 01:19:42,080
Speaker 1: I told you this program's going to the Power five

1513
01:19:42,120 --> 01:19:46,280
Speaker 1: a couple of years from now. Oh really, So let's rewind.

1514
01:19:46,920 --> 01:19:48,960
Speaker 1: He was the head coach at Auburn, then they paid

1515
01:19:49,040 --> 01:19:51,599
Speaker 1: him a ton of money not to be there. Then

1516
01:19:51,600 --> 01:19:55,120
Speaker 1: he went to a really good fit down in Central Florida.

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01:19:55,479 --> 01:19:58,479
Speaker 1: Then they rose in the ranks to Power five status,

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01:19:59,000 --> 01:20:03,280
Speaker 1: and Gus Mauson ended up being like Warren Buffett of

1519
01:20:03,360 --> 01:20:07,880
Speaker 1: college football coaches, and also got right back in the mix,

1520
01:20:08,040 --> 01:20:09,679
Speaker 1: cause he's going to be right back in the mix.

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01:20:09,960 --> 01:20:12,639
Speaker 1: I always wondered what Central Florida would do if put

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01:20:12,680 --> 01:20:15,120
Speaker 1: on the premiere stage, the Power five stage, whatever you

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01:20:15,120 --> 01:20:17,439
Speaker 1: want to call that, in the future. I wondered the

1524
01:20:17,439 --> 01:20:20,480
Speaker 1: same thing about Houston. Now, Houston won't do it immediately,

1525
01:20:20,560 --> 01:20:23,680
Speaker 1: but I'm talking about over the next ten years. Houston's

1526
01:20:23,720 --> 01:20:26,120
Speaker 1: been ready to do this. Central Florida has been ready,

1527
01:20:26,120 --> 01:20:29,880
Speaker 1: Cincinnati has been ready. They've been ready, and so now

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01:20:29,880 --> 01:20:31,880
Speaker 1: they're going to get to compete against the big boys.

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01:20:31,920 --> 01:20:35,520
Speaker 1: More specifically, they're going to get to play a schedule

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01:20:35,960 --> 01:20:38,400
Speaker 1: to where if they have one or zero losses, no

1531
01:20:38,439 --> 01:20:41,160
Speaker 1: one will be able to question their strength of schedule anymore.

1532
01:20:41,360 --> 01:20:44,240
Speaker 1: They'll be in that playoff picture. So I'm looking forward

1533
01:20:44,280 --> 01:20:46,360
Speaker 1: to it. We had a loaded show tonight. I appreciate

1534
01:20:46,360 --> 01:20:48,479
Speaker 1: you guys watching again. On your way out, make sure

1535
01:20:48,520 --> 01:20:50,439
Speaker 1: you click the thumb up button subscribe to the channel.

1536
01:20:51,040 --> 01:20:54,519
Speaker 1: We will be back here same time Sunday night, and

1537
01:20:54,600 --> 01:20:57,679
Speaker 1: then we got a full week three shows next week.

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Speaker 1: By the way, I don't know if I told you

1539
01:20:58,920 --> 01:21:02,880
Speaker 1: that Sunday night night Thursday night because SEC Media Days

1540
01:21:02,920 --> 01:21:04,200
Speaker 1: is in town, so we got a lot to talk about.

1541
01:21:04,240 --> 01:21:06,600
Speaker 1: We'll have multiple coaches on the show. Should be a

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01:21:06,600 --> 01:21:09,800
Speaker 1: fun and unpredictable time for all, so producer Jesse for

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01:21:09,840 --> 01:21:12,479
Speaker 1: director Colin for Bradley the associate, I'm Josh Pate. Take care,

1544
01:21:12,560 --> 01:21:15,679
Speaker 1: have a great start to your weekend. Thank god, Bliss