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Speaker 1: And welcome to Lake Kig is live.

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Speaker 2: It is Thursday night, December ninth, year of Our Lord,

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty one. Jam Packball to Wall High Top, Downtown Nashville, Tennessee.

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Speaker 2: Gordon Gecko once famously said in the eighties, greed is good,

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Speaker 2: greed is right.

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Speaker 1: I don't know how you feel about that. But how

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Speaker 1: do you feel about bias?

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Speaker 2: Because there's a lot of it allegedly in our sport

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Speaker 2: right now?

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Speaker 1: Is it good? Is it right? Is it accurate? Has

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Speaker 1: it poisoned the playoff? Well? Entirely?

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Speaker 2: Well, we will discuss because there's a very popular video

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Speaker 2: floating are out there and the Ether and I have

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Speaker 2: gotten my hands on it.

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Speaker 1: And we will discuss it tonight. We're also going.

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Speaker 2: To present, as I told you we would, the perfect

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Speaker 2: college football calendar. We've been hard at work on it,

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Speaker 2: been chiseling away here and I crowdsourced some ideas from you,

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Speaker 2: and so we've got it for you tonight. We'll do

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Speaker 2: that in just a few minutes. The transfer portal is

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Speaker 2: still on fire, still burning. You see that smoke in

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Speaker 2: the distance. Maybe it's getting closer and closer to your program,

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Speaker 2: depending on where you live. I got some new guys

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Speaker 2: even within the last few hours that have gone in there.

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Speaker 2: Florida is really hot right now, at least in terms

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Speaker 2: of a program to watch LSU program to watch. Obviously,

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Speaker 2: something big eventually going to happen with Quinn Yewers maybe Texas,

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Speaker 2: maybe as early as this weekend. Texas Tech not out

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Speaker 2: of this. We will discuss and Kirby Smart under fire.

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Speaker 2: I put in the promotional tweet the Kirby Smart conundrum.

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Speaker 2: A lot of I won't say haters, a lot of

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Speaker 2: criticism out there though, is it warranted? Here's what's warranted.

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Speaker 2: Make sure you're following on Twitter at Late Kick Josh.

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Speaker 2: So some of you have noted I've been doing a

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Speaker 2: lot of appearances over the past week or so, which

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Speaker 2: was planned. That's kind of the way that I worked

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Speaker 2: the schedule. Once we get out of the regular season

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Speaker 2: and through conference championship Saturday, there's some time to do

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Speaker 2: those things, so I'm doing those. We're not done with that.

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Speaker 2: There are some really interesting potential partnerships slash collaborations still

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Speaker 2: to come. Who knows, College Jesse. Maybe you'll even see

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Speaker 2: one or two on this show. We'll see So make

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Speaker 2: sure you're following on Twitter at late Kick, Josh, I

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Speaker 2: can't believe some of you. I thought I knew you

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Speaker 2: guys better than this. I cannot believe that I was

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Speaker 2: looking in the live chap and I'm looking on the

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Speaker 2: eye Josh, and some of you are actually watching the

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Speaker 2: College Football Awards show. That's the first thing. And the

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Speaker 2: second thing is you're upset by it. And I've told you.

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Speaker 2: If I've told you once, I've told you a thousand times,

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Speaker 2: the key to college football Awards is have no expectation.

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Speaker 2: Not low, no expectation. That's the only way you'll never

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Speaker 2: be disappointed. I have no expectation for this stuff, and

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Speaker 2: so I'm never disappointed by it. You saw me go

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Speaker 2: off the rails about the Heisman the other day. But

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Speaker 2: when it comes to the general awards, No, no, no,

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Speaker 2: that is my expectation level. No, no, and no. So

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Speaker 2: I'm good tonight. I don't know about you, but I'm fine.

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Speaker 2: I am unaffected by this. Let's dive into the show.

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Speaker 2: I'm ready to show you this calendar, but we're not

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Speaker 2: leading with it. The calendar. I mean, listen, I think

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Speaker 2: it's going to do now less than revolutionize the entire sport.

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Speaker 1: But We're doing that in a few minutes.

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Speaker 2: Kirby Smart and Georgia which think now and what did

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Speaker 2: you think this time last week?

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Speaker 1: Has it changed if you're a Georgia fan. Has it changed?

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Speaker 2: If you were a Wichita State fan and you don't

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Speaker 2: even I don't know. If you guys have a football program,

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Speaker 2: but you watch Georgia football, do you care? And has

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Speaker 2: it changed your opinion? A lot of people's opinion has

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Speaker 2: changed right now. This is not a message, to be

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Speaker 2: clear to all Georgia fans. It sounds like I'm going

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Speaker 2: to get a little aggressive here, but I'm not.

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Speaker 1: You know I am.

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Speaker 2: I'm just not directing it at all of you in

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Speaker 2: callin to be clear. I you know what, We'll just

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Speaker 2: go with it. The Georgia fan base right now is

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Speaker 2: in a very very tough spot. I call it the

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Speaker 2: Kirby Smart conundrum. You're looking at this team if you're

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Speaker 2: watching on YouTube right now and Crimson, and you keep

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Speaker 2: and so I mean, what are you supposed to think?

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Speaker 2: On one hand, you know the level you recruit at.

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Speaker 2: expect maximum return on that investment. I understand all that

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Speaker 2: I've told you before. I have no problem with that.

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Speaker 2: But you don't get it until you beat that team,

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Speaker 2: And I understand, nor do I have any problem. I

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Speaker 2: it said, paraphrasing, here, at what point does Josh Brooks

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Speaker 2: have to start having a serious conversation with Kirby Smart?

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Speaker 2: That's the ADM there, at what point does he have

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Speaker 2: because I think it's funny, not the situation you're in,

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Speaker 2: but the suggestion that is entailed in an email like this.

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Speaker 2: So let's just talk this through, shall we. Let's just

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Speaker 2: final preface. This is not directed at all Georgia fans. However,

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Speaker 2: at least having a serious conversation with Kirby translation, you

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Speaker 2: better tell him you lose again, going to have to

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Speaker 2: maybe it's time to have a conversation with Kirby Smart.

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Speaker 2: To have a conversation with you if you think it's

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Speaker 2: time to have a conversation with Kirby Smart about his

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Speaker 2: job status. Kirby Smart, according to Wikipedia, forty five years

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Speaker 2: old Nick Saban when he got to Alabama. Take a

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Speaker 2: guess at how old he was. He's seventy or seventy

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Speaker 2: one right now. He was fifty five years old when

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Speaker 1: That's a decade and a half ago.

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Speaker 2: He at that time when he first got to Alabama

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Speaker 2: was ten years older than Kirby is right now, What

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Speaker 2: are we saying to get down to the crux of things?

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Speaker 1: What are we saying?

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Speaker 2: Are we telling this guy right here who's averaging like

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Speaker 2: ten and a half or eleven wins a year? Are

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Speaker 2: we telling him because you can't beat the greatest of

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Speaker 2: all time in your early to mid forties, that's it.

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Speaker 2: You know, we've seen you try enough times. We got

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Speaker 2: to move on, We got to find someone else. Is

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Speaker 2: That's the knock though, Like that's the knock on Kirby Smart.

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Speaker 2: He can't beat the greatest of all time. Hey, news flash,

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Speaker 2: Look in the SEC West, the entire things in turmoil.

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Speaker 2: Look at the SEC over the past fifteen years, the

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Speaker 2: Gus Malzon did it about as good as anyone, and

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Speaker 2: And so then you get all the usual criticisms. Well, Josh,

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Speaker 2: he needs to adjust offensively.

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Speaker 1: He did.

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Speaker 2: He hired Todd Monk a couple of years in now

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Speaker 2: his offensive coordinator. Well, but Josh, he hasn't adjusted his

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Speaker 2: offensive approach. Where's our good quarterbacks? Well, he went and

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Speaker 2: got JT. Daniels, he's been hurt.

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Speaker 1: Well, yeah, but where's his five star quarterbacks from high school?

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Speaker 2: We got brought Vandergriff last cycle. He's a true freshman. Okay,

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Speaker 2: but we need more speed at receiver. You got Arian Smith,

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Speaker 2: There are a lot of criticisms that have been lobbed

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Speaker 2: Kirby Smart's way. Some of them have layers of validity

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Speaker 2: to them, But when you come down to an honest

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Speaker 2: evaluation of anything, it's not just an A or an F.

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Speaker 2: Imagine if that's the way you got handled in school,

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Speaker 2: you either get an A or you get an F. Well,

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Speaker 2: I'm not here. Chances are you're probably not here. You

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Speaker 2: have layers of evaluation, just like you have layers of

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Speaker 2: any kind of evaluation in any walk of life. So

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Speaker 2: should you be happy that you lost against Alabama? Hag No,

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Speaker 2: you used to be enraged by it. I'm from Georgia.

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Speaker 2: I know how you guys feel, and you're justified in

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Speaker 2: of the table and understand how we're supposed to evaluate

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Speaker 2: anything here. Kirby Smart is doing a lot of really

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Speaker 2: good things at Georgia. If I were to ask you,

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Speaker 2: what if he never beat Saban? Saban coaches another five years.

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Speaker 2: Let's say what if Kirby Smart never beats Nick Saban.

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Speaker 2: Let's say he goes up against him three more times,

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Speaker 2: the dude ends up and seven against Nick Saban. If

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Speaker 2: Sabin retires in five years, Kirby Smart will be fifty

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Speaker 2: years old. You'll have a program that has recruited at

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Speaker 2: an elite level for over a decade at that point,

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Speaker 2: and Kirby will be five years younger than Saban was

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Speaker 2: in a sabanless SEC and a sabanless a post Saban

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Speaker 2: Georgie football be answer? Probably positioned as good as anyone

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Speaker 2: I think the simple law of mathematics as eventually he'll

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Speaker 2: get one or two. But even if he doesn't, like

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Speaker 2: here Nick Saban.

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Speaker 1: Again, if you're just tuning in.

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Speaker 2: Fifty five when he got to Alabama, I mean's ten

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Speaker 2: years younger than that right now. So Nick Saban has

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Speaker 2: screwed the sport up for everyone else. Like everyone, including

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Speaker 2: the playoff expansionists out there, are trying to adjust everything

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Speaker 2: about themselves because of one guy. If I did nothing

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Speaker 2: much lower the volume would be on a lot of

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Speaker 2: the playoff expansion talk is Keep in mind, this really

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Speaker 2: all started in earnest when you got the rematch in

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Speaker 2: twenty eleven, and then you've had Alabama in the conversation,

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Speaker 2: and that's really been the main If you'll look around,

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Speaker 2: everyone talks about how it's the same teams.

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Speaker 1: No, it's not.

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Speaker 2: It's the same team that's normally there, with the exception

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Speaker 2: of I think one season, Clemson's been there, but they've

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Speaker 2: also not been there. Ohio State's been there, but they've

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Speaker 2: also not been there. And in Kirby Smart's case, dude's

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Speaker 2: beating everyone else. There's one guy. If I were to

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Speaker 2: would be now. It is my personal and humble opinion

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Speaker 2: that we shouldn't take the sport and look at it

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Speaker 2: and turn everything about every entity in the sport upside

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Speaker 1: Now. I want you to listen very very closely.

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Speaker 1: We just owned spring.

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Speaker 2: where the other portal windows will be, but this is

437
00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:28,920
Speaker 2: a big portal window. And obviously, because I'm about to

438
00:19:28,960 --> 00:19:31,640
Speaker 2: move early Signing Day, when you get to May and June,

439
00:19:31,720 --> 00:19:34,280
Speaker 2: this is critical recruiting time. It really already is, but

440
00:19:34,359 --> 00:19:36,760
Speaker 2: now it's going to be even more so critical because

441
00:19:36,760 --> 00:19:37,680
Speaker 2: of what I'm about to say.

442
00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:39,040
Speaker 1: When we get to July.

443
00:19:39,520 --> 00:19:42,359
Speaker 2: We're already almost of the season, by the way, and

444
00:19:42,400 --> 00:19:44,680
Speaker 2: we haven't taken a breath. When we get to July,

445
00:19:45,080 --> 00:19:48,040
Speaker 2: we're gonna have media days at the beginning to middle

446
00:19:48,080 --> 00:19:52,120
Speaker 2: portion of July, and then it is the home stretch run.

447
00:19:52,359 --> 00:19:54,879
Speaker 2: You've got camp coming up opening in August. But before that,

448
00:19:55,320 --> 00:19:58,480
Speaker 2: the early signing Day moves from the middle of December

449
00:19:58,840 --> 00:20:01,480
Speaker 2: to the end of July. Two things this is going

450
00:20:01,520 --> 00:20:05,480
Speaker 2: to accomplish. It greatly alleviates this hodgepodge of coaches moving

451
00:20:05,520 --> 00:20:07,400
Speaker 2: all over the place, and we're trying to get hires

452
00:20:07,400 --> 00:20:09,200
Speaker 2: here and we don't know if we can take kids,

453
00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:12,159
Speaker 2: causing the transfer portal in December and so much mess

454
00:20:12,400 --> 00:20:14,639
Speaker 2: we're about to clean up because we're moving early signing

455
00:20:14,720 --> 00:20:17,680
Speaker 2: Day till late July. Here's the second thing it does.

456
00:20:18,200 --> 00:20:21,320
Speaker 2: It lets you know very early on whether you have

457
00:20:21,359 --> 00:20:23,800
Speaker 2: a committable offer or not. Some kids go through their

458
00:20:23,920 --> 00:20:26,320
Speaker 2: entire senior year and then to get right up to

459
00:20:26,400 --> 00:20:28,520
Speaker 2: that deadline. We're gonna come up on it next week,

460
00:20:28,680 --> 00:20:30,520
Speaker 2: and you don't know your entire senior year whether your

461
00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:32,960
Speaker 2: offer is committable or not because coaches are slow playing,

462
00:20:33,000 --> 00:20:35,080
Speaker 2: you wait until the last minute. Nope, you're gonna find

463
00:20:35,080 --> 00:20:37,520
Speaker 2: out before your senior year. So if you're a can't

464
00:20:37,560 --> 00:20:40,800
Speaker 2: miss and I'm Texas and I feel comfortable enough offering

465
00:20:40,880 --> 00:20:43,119
Speaker 2: before I've seen your senior film, which is the kind

466
00:20:43,160 --> 00:20:45,240
Speaker 2: of guy who should be going on early signing Day anyway,

467
00:20:45,320 --> 00:20:46,720
Speaker 2: and you just want to get the process out of

468
00:20:46,720 --> 00:20:47,840
Speaker 2: the way, you do it.

469
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Speaker 1: I would imagine we.

470
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Speaker 2: Are greatly going to reduce the amount of kids who

471
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Speaker 2: are actually signing on early signing Day, thus rendering that

472
00:20:55,400 --> 00:20:58,080
Speaker 2: February signing day all the more important.

473
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Speaker 1: So then we get to August.

474
00:21:00,040 --> 00:21:02,880
Speaker 2: Those coaches breathe a giant sigh of relief on one hand,

475
00:21:03,040 --> 00:21:05,920
Speaker 2: because they already have Early Signing Day out of the way,

476
00:21:06,240 --> 00:21:09,080
Speaker 2: and they have February signing day like the old days.

477
00:21:09,080 --> 00:21:12,959
Speaker 2: In the distant horizon. August camp's open. You know what

478
00:21:12,960 --> 00:21:17,120
Speaker 2: this is about. September, October, November. You have the schedule

479
00:21:17,200 --> 00:21:20,880
Speaker 2: that we announced mere months ago instead of decades ago.

480
00:21:21,320 --> 00:21:24,680
Speaker 2: Then we get to December, we have conference championship Saturday,

481
00:21:25,320 --> 00:21:28,280
Speaker 2: we have the playoff reveal, and then we instead of

482
00:21:28,920 --> 00:21:31,439
Speaker 2: going crazy and having the early signing date coming up

483
00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:33,719
Speaker 2: and having coaches moving all over the place, here's what

484
00:21:33,760 --> 00:21:35,120
Speaker 2: I would love to institute.

485
00:21:35,240 --> 00:21:37,040
Speaker 1: I don't know if I'm going to have the authority yet.

486
00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:41,320
Speaker 2: I would love to institute a total dead period, a

487
00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:43,359
Speaker 2: non tampering period, if you will, kind of like the

488
00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:47,120
Speaker 2: NFL does, where you do not go after coaches, whether

489
00:21:47,160 --> 00:21:49,879
Speaker 2: it's gentlemen agreement which doesn't exist in this game, or

490
00:21:49,960 --> 00:21:53,000
Speaker 2: more than likely, whether it is actual legislation that my

491
00:21:53,160 --> 00:21:56,520
Speaker 2: office passes, of course as the commissioner, where you cannot

492
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Speaker 2: go higher coaches until after the national champion game happens.

493
00:22:01,800 --> 00:22:04,120
Speaker 2: And so that is how I would like this new

494
00:22:04,119 --> 00:22:06,760
Speaker 2: college football calendar to work. I think we just took

495
00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:10,120
Speaker 2: over spring. I think we greatly alleviated the recruiting problems

496
00:22:10,119 --> 00:22:12,360
Speaker 2: and early signing Day in December. I think a lot

497
00:22:12,359 --> 00:22:13,679
Speaker 2: of coaches are going to be on board with the

498
00:22:13,720 --> 00:22:15,920
Speaker 2: recruiting side of it. Think a ton of staffs would

499
00:22:15,960 --> 00:22:19,119
Speaker 2: be against not knowing their opponents until they're going into spring,

500
00:22:19,240 --> 00:22:22,119
Speaker 2: because their argument would be, we need to know our

501
00:22:22,160 --> 00:22:25,800
Speaker 2: opponents because we like to dedicate portions of spring practice

502
00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:27,720
Speaker 2: to working on those opponents.

503
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Speaker 1: This is not final. I am going to meet with

504
00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:31,399
Speaker 1: all of you guys.

505
00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:33,200
Speaker 2: You will be able to voice your concerns to me,

506
00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:36,080
Speaker 2: and if I need to move that scheduling around, maybe

507
00:22:36,119 --> 00:22:38,440
Speaker 2: I announced the conference schedule at the beginning of spring,

508
00:22:38,440 --> 00:22:40,359
Speaker 2: and we announced non conference in the end of spring.

509
00:22:41,080 --> 00:22:41,520
Speaker 1: Whatever.

510
00:22:41,840 --> 00:22:45,000
Speaker 2: I'm tired of this being a seasonal sport. People using

511
00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:47,679
Speaker 2: the word off season to talk about this sport. No more, no,

512
00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:49,679
Speaker 2: not when we're in charge. So that is our new

513
00:22:49,680 --> 00:22:51,840
Speaker 2: college football calendar. I'm going to release this on Twitter

514
00:22:51,880 --> 00:22:53,560
Speaker 2: at the end of the show. I'll be very interested

515
00:22:53,560 --> 00:22:56,000
Speaker 2: to get your feedback. A lot of you contributed to this.

516
00:22:56,359 --> 00:22:59,040
Speaker 2: A lot of you had varying degrees of takes. There's

517
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Speaker 2: some things, for example, that I'm still work shopping that

518
00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:04,960
Speaker 2: I couldn't put in there. For example, the ways maybe

519
00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:07,639
Speaker 2: that certain things happen like. For example, some of you

520
00:23:07,840 --> 00:23:10,240
Speaker 2: liked the idea of taking the first round of the

521
00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:14,639
Speaker 2: playoffs and playing them before Christmas instead of waiting the

522
00:23:14,680 --> 00:23:17,240
Speaker 2: whole time and then playing the playoff semi final and

523
00:23:17,280 --> 00:23:18,400
Speaker 2: then having the title game like.

524
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Speaker 1: A week later.

525
00:23:19,840 --> 00:23:23,040
Speaker 2: I'm okay with that. I don't mind that I'm not

526
00:23:23,119 --> 00:23:25,080
Speaker 2: married to it. But that's the kind of back and

527
00:23:25,119 --> 00:23:27,960
Speaker 2: forth that I'd love to have. So that is our calendar.

528
00:23:28,640 --> 00:23:34,280
Speaker 2: I welcome any and all feedback. The transfer portal is

529
00:23:34,359 --> 00:23:36,480
Speaker 2: on fire, has been for a little while. I don't

530
00:23:36,480 --> 00:23:38,760
Speaker 2: think this is going to subside anytime soon. I wanted

531
00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:40,359
Speaker 2: to get you updated on the very latest.

532
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Speaker 1: This is big.

533
00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:44,880
Speaker 2: If it hasn't already impacted your program, check your watch.

534
00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:45,480
Speaker 1: It's about to.

535
00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:48,800
Speaker 2: Jacob Copeland has entered the transfer portal as of a

536
00:23:48,800 --> 00:23:51,320
Speaker 2: few hours ago. He is out of Florida. Well, he's

537
00:23:51,320 --> 00:23:54,400
Speaker 2: from Florida. He was their leading receiver, the Gators leading

538
00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:56,879
Speaker 2: receiver from this past year, hops in the portal. He's

539
00:23:56,920 --> 00:23:59,480
Speaker 2: a fifth year player. Well, no, he's a fourth year player.

540
00:23:59,520 --> 00:24:02,760
Speaker 2: He's the fifth Florida player to enter the portal so

541
00:24:02,880 --> 00:24:06,560
Speaker 2: far after the season ended. Now I told you he's

542
00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:09,960
Speaker 2: their leading receiver, and so you might think, oh, they're

543
00:24:09,960 --> 00:24:11,320
Speaker 2: probably going crazy and Gazeville.

544
00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:12,720
Speaker 1: They're panic down there. They're not.

545
00:24:13,280 --> 00:24:15,879
Speaker 2: This is a very unique time, this portal season of ours.

546
00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:18,720
Speaker 2: It's a very unique time because sometimes when you lose

547
00:24:18,760 --> 00:24:21,560
Speaker 2: a guy, there is a lot of freak out. Other times,

548
00:24:21,560 --> 00:24:24,719
Speaker 2: when you lose a guy, even if the production looks

549
00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:26,600
Speaker 2: impressive and it looks like it's going to leave a

550
00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:29,440
Speaker 2: major void, you get on the ground and you talk

551
00:24:29,480 --> 00:24:32,280
Speaker 2: to the fans and they say, nah, no, well, I mean,

552
00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:34,680
Speaker 2: you know, I wish him well, oh well, that's kind

553
00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:38,480
Speaker 2: of the collective way that Florida Gator fans have received

554
00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:41,160
Speaker 2: this news. The net is that they're a lot more

555
00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:43,680
Speaker 2: excited about what's to come with their program than they

556
00:24:43,680 --> 00:24:46,200
Speaker 2: are upset that Jacob Copeland is going to leave. That's

557
00:24:46,200 --> 00:24:49,720
Speaker 2: not to knock him. I'm just giving you the absolute, brutal,

558
00:24:49,760 --> 00:24:52,520
Speaker 2: honest takeaway from Florida fans. Now, what could be the

559
00:24:52,560 --> 00:24:55,080
Speaker 2: case here is Jacob Copeland could go find a new

560
00:24:55,119 --> 00:24:58,160
Speaker 2: home and he could absolutely pan out and fulfill his

561
00:24:58,560 --> 00:25:00,560
Speaker 2: immense potential out of high school. And he's not been

562
00:25:00,560 --> 00:25:02,760
Speaker 2: a bad player by any stretch. He doesn't believe he's

563
00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:05,280
Speaker 2: maximized his potential at Florida. For the record, I don't either.

564
00:25:06,160 --> 00:25:09,199
Speaker 2: Whose fault that is is a matter of opinion, but

565
00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:11,400
Speaker 2: it could be that both parties are better off for this.

566
00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:13,440
Speaker 2: This is a name to keep an eye on, though

567
00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:15,720
Speaker 2: there will be no shortage of suitors, I would imagine

568
00:25:15,760 --> 00:25:18,560
Speaker 2: for Jacob Copeland because everyone now wants their Jamison Williams.

569
00:25:18,640 --> 00:25:20,480
Speaker 2: Everyone wants to be able to do what Bama did.

570
00:25:20,560 --> 00:25:22,840
Speaker 2: That's not a comparison, to be clear, I'm not comparing

571
00:25:22,880 --> 00:25:25,680
Speaker 2: one to the other. Everyone wants to strike gold. Everyone

572
00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:28,760
Speaker 2: wants to hit that wide receiver lottery. Now, which brings

573
00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:32,159
Speaker 2: me to Corey Raymond. Corey Raymond's not a player, but

574
00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:34,760
Speaker 2: he has tied to many of them. Corey Raymond has

575
00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:38,720
Speaker 2: long been one of LSU's staples in their recruiting machine

576
00:25:38,720 --> 00:25:41,800
Speaker 2: down there under Edwar's arm he was their star recruiter.

577
00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:43,640
Speaker 2: And the reason I'm talking about him in the past

578
00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:46,520
Speaker 2: tense is because Billy Napier walks in. What did we

579
00:25:46,560 --> 00:25:49,040
Speaker 2: say when Napier was hired at Florida. We do not

580
00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:51,919
Speaker 2: have an opinion on him yet because we're waiting to

581
00:25:52,040 --> 00:25:55,240
Speaker 2: see the staff he puts together. It's always my philosophy

582
00:25:55,320 --> 00:25:57,800
Speaker 2: when you hire a coordinator or a coach from the

583
00:25:57,840 --> 00:26:00,720
Speaker 2: lower level, the G five level or whatnot. Well, he

584
00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:03,680
Speaker 2: went and got Corey Raymond, and this sent shockwaves through

585
00:26:03,800 --> 00:26:06,199
Speaker 2: Gainesville and Baton Rouge and really the entire SEC. There

586
00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:09,560
Speaker 2: were a lot of folks surprised at this move. And

587
00:26:09,680 --> 00:26:14,600
Speaker 2: so then the logical next question is if we've got

588
00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:18,520
Speaker 2: a new coaching staff at LSU, so maybe Orjeron recruited

589
00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:20,760
Speaker 2: a lot of those guys with the help of guys

590
00:26:20,760 --> 00:26:23,800
Speaker 2: like Corey Raymond. And since none of those folks are

591
00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:26,719
Speaker 2: there anymore, and the portal's wide open, and we've already

592
00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:30,000
Speaker 2: seen several players just in the last forty eight hours

593
00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:31,159
Speaker 2: from LSU enter the portal.

594
00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:34,000
Speaker 1: Are they done? Is the exit door closed?

595
00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:36,720
Speaker 2: Could at Kishon Boutet, for example, enter the portal, know

596
00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:39,560
Speaker 2: there's a lot of smoke about him. I think this

597
00:26:39,600 --> 00:26:42,800
Speaker 2: bears close watching because this is one where he didn't

598
00:26:42,880 --> 00:26:46,560
Speaker 2: leave the conference. He just merely hopped over the division line.

599
00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:49,199
Speaker 2: And these are teams obviously that play every year, and

600
00:26:49,280 --> 00:26:51,960
Speaker 2: Billy Napier, you know, it's almost like the guy knows

601
00:26:52,000 --> 00:26:54,440
Speaker 2: what he's doing. And so I would keep a close

602
00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:57,679
Speaker 2: eye on LSU this, it's a natural process. It's a

603
00:26:57,720 --> 00:27:00,879
Speaker 2: natural side effect of changing coaching staff. But keep an

604
00:27:00,920 --> 00:27:03,119
Speaker 2: eye on both those rosters. Another thing to keep an

605
00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:05,880
Speaker 2: eye on for different reasons. Kevin Falk is not going

606
00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:08,880
Speaker 2: to return as the running backs coach at LSU. Now,

607
00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:11,360
Speaker 2: this dude has been through a lot. He's had personal

608
00:27:11,400 --> 00:27:14,439
Speaker 2: tragedy in his life. So make let me make it

609
00:27:14,520 --> 00:27:18,120
Speaker 2: very clear, everybody on this program wishes Kevin Falk nothing

610
00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:21,080
Speaker 2: but the best. He's a staple at LSU, great dude

611
00:27:21,119 --> 00:27:23,800
Speaker 2: and someone who's dealt with a lot of non football

612
00:27:23,880 --> 00:27:27,120
Speaker 2: related issues, and so we wish him the best. Don't

613
00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:29,000
Speaker 2: know if he's going to be retaining an offield role

614
00:27:29,080 --> 00:27:30,399
Speaker 2: or not. We just know he's not going to be

615
00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:33,320
Speaker 2: an on field coach there anymore. He's also heavily involved

616
00:27:33,320 --> 00:27:36,320
Speaker 2: in the recruiting infrastructure down there. He single handedly is

617
00:27:36,359 --> 00:27:38,399
Speaker 2: responsible for a couple of really big guys they just

618
00:27:38,400 --> 00:27:40,000
Speaker 2: got in the last recruiting cycle.

619
00:27:40,720 --> 00:27:41,679
Speaker 1: Also, quinn Ewers.

620
00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:44,040
Speaker 2: We're probably going to update this every time we talk

621
00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:47,040
Speaker 2: about the transfer portal until he commits somewhere, which could

622
00:27:47,119 --> 00:27:51,000
Speaker 2: be as soon as next seven days or so. Quinn Ewers,

623
00:27:51,040 --> 00:27:53,000
Speaker 2: of course, comes out of Texas he's the number one

624
00:27:53,000 --> 00:27:55,879
Speaker 2: player in the country, and he leaves in his senior

625
00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:58,000
Speaker 2: year of high school. So four goes a senior year,

626
00:27:58,160 --> 00:28:00,640
Speaker 2: goes to Ohio State for a hot minute, doesn't pan

627
00:28:00,680 --> 00:28:01,120
Speaker 2: out there.

628
00:28:01,240 --> 00:28:02,680
Speaker 1: He's in the portal already again.

629
00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:05,639
Speaker 2: So Quinn, you weres should be a high school senior

630
00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:07,679
Speaker 2: right now, and it's that he's already been in the

631
00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:12,000
Speaker 2: transfer portal. Ah, God bless America. And so he was

632
00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:14,199
Speaker 2: in Lubbock, Texas this past week, not because he has

633
00:28:14,240 --> 00:28:19,160
Speaker 2: family there. He actually visited Texas Tech. If that sounded disrespectful,

634
00:28:19,240 --> 00:28:21,520
Speaker 2: it's just because a lot of people are surprised by it.

635
00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:23,479
Speaker 2: Maybe you shouldn't be, but a lot of people are

636
00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:26,159
Speaker 2: surprised by it. Now he's got a visit to Austin

637
00:28:26,280 --> 00:28:29,760
Speaker 2: this Saturday. So Mike Roach and all the dudes over on.

638
00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:31,680
Speaker 1: And Taylor, I'm sorry about that.

639
00:28:31,720 --> 00:28:33,800
Speaker 2: All the folks over on Horns twenty four to seven

640
00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:36,639
Speaker 2: are keeping a close eye on that, and everyone is,

641
00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:39,920
Speaker 2: so you'll know. If he sneezes wrong, you'll know. But

642
00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:41,680
Speaker 2: here's what I do want you to pay attention to.

643
00:28:41,760 --> 00:28:44,800
Speaker 2: I was perusing, as I'm one to do, and I

644
00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:47,960
Speaker 2: did notice that Brady Boyd entered his name into the

645
00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:50,760
Speaker 2: transfer portal. Now, Brady Boyd means nothing to you in

646
00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:54,680
Speaker 2: all likelihood, But Brady Boyd is a receiver who went

647
00:28:54,720 --> 00:28:58,360
Speaker 2: to Minnesota and he's in the portal now. And the

648
00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:01,520
Speaker 2: reason his name matters is because he played at South

649
00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:05,000
Speaker 2: Lake Carroll with quinn Ewers. Now, there is some hot

650
00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:08,320
Speaker 2: speculation this evening out there that maybe the two could

651
00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:11,200
Speaker 2: be attached at to him, and maybe if Brady Boyd

652
00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:12,880
Speaker 2: goes to Texas Tech, it's a package to deal with

653
00:29:12,960 --> 00:29:16,760
Speaker 2: quin Ewers. I don't mean to baselessly speculate here, but

654
00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:19,840
Speaker 2: I'm going to maybe that's the case. Who knows, at

655
00:29:19,880 --> 00:29:22,560
Speaker 2: the very least there are acquaintances, the very least they

656
00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:24,000
Speaker 2: know each other, and at the very least we know

657
00:29:24,120 --> 00:29:26,600
Speaker 2: the smoke about quinn Ewers and Texas Tech is real.

658
00:29:26,840 --> 00:29:29,080
Speaker 2: So let's keep an eye because even the folks close

659
00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:33,240
Speaker 2: to Texas have guarded optimism. Here's what guarded optimism means.

660
00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:35,280
Speaker 2: I'm telling you what you want to hear.

661
00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:37,800
Speaker 1: But dude, anything could happen at this point. That's really

662
00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:38,560
Speaker 1: where I think we are.

663
00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:41,040
Speaker 2: That's I think the best information there is to go on,

664
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Speaker 2: because I don't think Quinn Ewers knows where he's going yet.

665
00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:43,880
Speaker 1: That's what I'm trying to tell you.

666
00:29:44,320 --> 00:29:46,160
Speaker 2: Last, but not least, just keep an eye on all

667
00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:48,440
Speaker 2: these new staffs, but also keep an eye on Meltucker

668
00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:51,840
Speaker 2: and Michigan State. They're probably doing it again. I think

669
00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:53,560
Speaker 2: they've already picked up two or three. They picked up

670
00:29:53,560 --> 00:29:56,800
Speaker 2: another guy linebackerund in Mississippi State in the transfer portal today.

671
00:29:57,160 --> 00:29:59,400
Speaker 2: Let's just keep an eye on Meltucker and Michigan State

672
00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:01,920
Speaker 2: because you know they're ranked number one right now in

673
00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:03,000
Speaker 2: our Transfer Portal rankings.

674
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Speaker 1: For what that's worth. There was talk this year.

675
00:30:06,440 --> 00:30:09,160
Speaker 2: Amongst some when mel Tucker got his extension that I

676
00:30:09,200 --> 00:30:12,400
Speaker 2: can't believe you extended a guy just because he won

677
00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:15,160
Speaker 2: some games one year. Well, he won six more games

678
00:30:15,200 --> 00:30:17,880
Speaker 2: than the Vegas win total, so let's not just classified

679
00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:21,360
Speaker 2: as some games. The guy won more than double what

680
00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:24,640
Speaker 2: he was supposed to win. But also there was talk

681
00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:26,920
Speaker 2: that all he did was just go get a bunch

682
00:30:26,960 --> 00:30:27,800
Speaker 2: of kids out of the portal.

683
00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:29,240
Speaker 1: He didn't even put that team together.

684
00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:33,280
Speaker 2: This is the new age of college football guys that counts.

685
00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:37,000
Speaker 2: What Meltucker did last year is the nineteen ninety seven

686
00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:40,640
Speaker 2: equivalent of putting together a stellar recruiting class and developing

687
00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:43,160
Speaker 2: it for two years and then popping it on everyone.

688
00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:44,840
Speaker 1: I don't care if you like it.

689
00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:47,560
Speaker 2: I'm not here to I'm not here to judge the

690
00:30:47,600 --> 00:30:49,520
Speaker 2: merits of one way versus the other way. I've got

691
00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:52,480
Speaker 2: my personal preferences, but they don't matter because reality is

692
00:30:52,520 --> 00:30:52,840
Speaker 2: what it is.

693
00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:57,200
Speaker 1: Right now, watch Mel Tucker because he's kind of put

694
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Speaker 1: his stamp on this approach to roster construction.

695
00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:04,200
Speaker 2: And if you look right now, as we are six

696
00:31:04,280 --> 00:31:07,480
Speaker 2: days away from early signing day, and how many guys

697
00:31:07,520 --> 00:31:10,320
Speaker 2: there are in these signing classes, you just start doing

698
00:31:10,320 --> 00:31:12,520
Speaker 2: the math. Use your fingers, not that high account, just

699
00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:15,240
Speaker 2: start using your fingers and count how many guys your

700
00:31:15,320 --> 00:31:18,280
Speaker 2: program has committed, and how many they plan on taking

701
00:31:18,400 --> 00:31:22,080
Speaker 2: next week, and then theoretically how many they may take

702
00:31:22,120 --> 00:31:22,840
Speaker 2: in February.

703
00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:25,200
Speaker 1: You're not going to get to twenty five in all likelihood.

704
00:31:25,800 --> 00:31:28,840
Speaker 2: And that's because everybody has a portal plan, the old

705
00:31:28,840 --> 00:31:31,200
Speaker 2: PP the portal plan. Some of them are going to

706
00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:32,800
Speaker 2: pan out better than others. Some of them are going

707
00:31:32,880 --> 00:31:35,400
Speaker 2: to be roster deficient because they swung and missed in

708
00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:39,760
Speaker 2: the portal. Everyone's leaving wiggle room in our production based world.

709
00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:41,080
Speaker 1: We call it accordion content.

710
00:31:41,480 --> 00:31:43,960
Speaker 2: We put a segment on the beginning and endings of

711
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:45,880
Speaker 2: shows that we could go five minutes on or fifteen

712
00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:48,840
Speaker 2: minutes on. Well, everyone has got some accordion room now

713
00:31:49,000 --> 00:31:53,160
Speaker 2: in those signing classes because of the transfer portal. Fascinating theater,

714
00:31:53,400 --> 00:31:55,840
Speaker 2: because someone's going to get burned and someone's going to

715
00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:56,520
Speaker 2: strike it rich.

716
00:31:56,720 --> 00:31:58,600
Speaker 1: And sure enough they will be in the thick of.

717
00:31:58,600 --> 00:32:00,960
Speaker 2: The college football playoff dicussion and know November, and you'll

718
00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:04,280
Speaker 2: say all they did was use the portal, yep, And

719
00:32:04,320 --> 00:32:07,200
Speaker 2: therefore all they're doing is winning games because of the portal.

720
00:32:07,560 --> 00:32:09,840
Speaker 2: When you look at those incentives on the contract, it

721
00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:12,720
Speaker 2: doesn't have an asterisk next to the win total that

722
00:32:12,760 --> 00:32:14,920
Speaker 2: you have to eclipse based.

723
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Speaker 1: On how you got those wins. Just matters that you won.

724
00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:21,960
Speaker 2: And with that in mind, we arrive really at the

725
00:32:21,960 --> 00:32:24,560
Speaker 2: main event for the evening. I think we served up

726
00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:27,560
Speaker 2: a lot of appetizers, but I want to serve you

727
00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:30,680
Speaker 2: the entree. Now, a lot of you know the name

728
00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:33,880
Speaker 2: Emmanuel Lacho. A Manuel Lacho works over at Fox and

729
00:32:33,920 --> 00:32:36,360
Speaker 2: he covers college football. He's played the game. So I'm

730
00:32:36,400 --> 00:32:37,760
Speaker 2: not going to sit here and say he doesn't know

731
00:32:37,800 --> 00:32:39,320
Speaker 2: the game. I'm not going to say he doesn't watch

732
00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:40,760
Speaker 2: the game. I'm not going to call him a clown.

733
00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:43,280
Speaker 2: I'm not going to question his integrity or anything like that.

734
00:32:43,760 --> 00:32:45,920
Speaker 2: I am going to say that he said some things

735
00:32:45,920 --> 00:32:48,080
Speaker 2: I disagreed with this week, and he got a lot

736
00:32:48,160 --> 00:32:49,680
Speaker 2: of you very very hot, a lot of you were

737
00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:52,200
Speaker 2: mad on the internet this week. And I normally don't

738
00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:54,240
Speaker 2: do this, but I figured, you know, I got some

739
00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:56,680
Speaker 2: stuff to say about this anyway. So what a manual

740
00:32:56,760 --> 00:32:58,400
Speaker 2: Lacho did. I'm about to play it for you if

741
00:32:58,440 --> 00:33:02,520
Speaker 2: you missed it. He does off the most time tested,

742
00:33:02,840 --> 00:33:07,240
Speaker 2: go to break glass and push button if necessary content

743
00:33:07,360 --> 00:33:10,960
Speaker 2: creator in our industry, and that is screaming at the

744
00:33:10,960 --> 00:33:15,080
Speaker 2: top of your lungs SEC bias, cause that brings them

745
00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:17,880
Speaker 2: far and wide all over the countryside. They come in

746
00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:20,959
Speaker 2: when you scream SEC bias. No one is indifferent on

747
00:33:21,000 --> 00:33:25,360
Speaker 2: this topic. They are strong in their opinion, either agreeing

748
00:33:25,520 --> 00:33:28,160
Speaker 2: or disagreeing. So I'm gonna let you make up your

749
00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:30,440
Speaker 2: own mind. We are about to play the sound. This

750
00:33:30,520 --> 00:33:33,240
Speaker 2: is Ammanuallacho a few days ago, and the context here

751
00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:36,800
Speaker 2: is the college football playoff seedings and rankings and whatnot,

752
00:33:36,960 --> 00:33:40,480
Speaker 2: and the matchups had been released, and I guess out

753
00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:43,120
Speaker 2: of boredom because I thought it was pretty clear cut.

754
00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:46,120
Speaker 2: Some people decided that they wanted to argue Georgia shouldn't

755
00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:49,280
Speaker 2: have been third. Use whatever you want to in your

756
00:33:49,320 --> 00:33:51,960
Speaker 2: defense of that. Some people decided Georgia shouldn't be third,

757
00:33:52,600 --> 00:33:54,760
Speaker 2: and and other people just wanted to kind of say anything.

758
00:33:54,800 --> 00:33:56,400
Speaker 2: But then when they got pushed back on it, I'm

759
00:33:56,400 --> 00:33:58,000
Speaker 2: not saying they shouldn't be the third I'm just I want

760
00:33:58,000 --> 00:33:59,960
Speaker 2: to make an argument. What argument are you making? Anyway,

761
00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:03,280
Speaker 2: that's the context. Here's what Emmanuel Acho posted, and we

762
00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:04,600
Speaker 2: will react on the other side.

763
00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:08,680
Speaker 3: See, the reason that Georgia made the playoffs is because

764
00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:11,160
Speaker 3: we thought Georgia was great. But why did we think

765
00:34:11,160 --> 00:34:14,440
Speaker 3: Georgia was great? Because of sec bias. You see, Georgia

766
00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:17,359
Speaker 3: beat Arkansas when Arkansas was ranked number eight, but by

767
00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:19,719
Speaker 3: the end of the season, Arkansas had four losses at

768
00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:21,560
Speaker 3: eight and four, they're not in the top twenty. Georgia

769
00:34:21,600 --> 00:34:24,200
Speaker 3: beat Kentucky when Kentucky was ranked number eleven, but by

770
00:34:24,200 --> 00:34:26,640
Speaker 3: the end of the season Kentucky had three losses. They're

771
00:34:26,640 --> 00:34:29,800
Speaker 3: not in the top twenty. Georgia beat Auburn when auburna

772
00:34:29,840 --> 00:34:32,280
Speaker 3: was ranked number eighteen, but by the end of the season,

773
00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:34,759
Speaker 3: Auburn had six losses six and six.

774
00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:36,040
Speaker 1: They not even ranked.

775
00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:38,160
Speaker 3: So is Georgia one of the four best teams in

776
00:34:38,160 --> 00:34:39,000
Speaker 3: college football?

777
00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:40,840
Speaker 1: Maybe, well, we were.

778
00:34:40,680 --> 00:34:44,480
Speaker 3: Gonna believe so either way, college football is based off

779
00:34:44,520 --> 00:34:47,400
Speaker 3: of a false premise. The premise every year is that

780
00:34:47,520 --> 00:34:50,520
Speaker 3: the SEC, from top to bottom, is better than every

781
00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:53,839
Speaker 3: other conference by a long shot. The SEC usually has

782
00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:56,440
Speaker 3: two great teams. It'll be bam in LSU, but it'll

783
00:34:56,480 --> 00:34:59,120
Speaker 3: be bamming Georgia this year. But we start college football

784
00:34:59,160 --> 00:35:01,200
Speaker 3: with the false premis and so when you lose to

785
00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:03,520
Speaker 3: an SEC opponent, that lost don't mean that much.

786
00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:04,760
Speaker 1: When you beat an.

787
00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:09,680
Speaker 3: SEC opponent that lost, that win means everything. Alabama, they

788
00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:13,040
Speaker 3: have one win, not counting that went over Georgia versus

789
00:35:13,040 --> 00:35:15,160
Speaker 3: a top ranked team that's Old Miss at number eight.

790
00:35:15,320 --> 00:35:18,520
Speaker 3: Then you move to Michigan, well, they have two wins

791
00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:21,839
Speaker 3: versus number six Ohio State. That's a top ranked team.

792
00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:25,040
Speaker 3: And again Iowa number fifteen, that's the top ranked team.

793
00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:29,600
Speaker 3: Then you get to Georgia. Georgia's best win was against

794
00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:35,399
Speaker 3: number nineteen Clemson. However, Cincinnati's best win was against number

795
00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:38,319
Speaker 3: five Notre Dame and they won their championship game versus

796
00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:39,400
Speaker 3: number twenty Houston.

797
00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:44,600
Speaker 1: YEP.

798
00:35:45,160 --> 00:35:47,239
Speaker 2: So that was real life what you just experienced there

799
00:35:47,239 --> 00:35:50,880
Speaker 2: all ninety second seven. I want to reiterate, Emanuel Lacho

800
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:53,160
Speaker 2: is not a bad casual. I don't even know if

801
00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:55,200
Speaker 2: he's a casual at all. He is very dialed in.

802
00:35:55,239 --> 00:35:57,359
Speaker 2: He watches the sport, he played the game. Sorry about

803
00:35:57,360 --> 00:35:59,440
Speaker 2: that column. He played the game, So we're we're not

804
00:35:59,560 --> 00:36:03,440
Speaker 2: questioning is integrity. You can dislike the opinion without disliking

805
00:36:03,480 --> 00:36:06,440
Speaker 2: the opinion maker. What I want to do, though, is

806
00:36:06,480 --> 00:36:09,960
Speaker 2: I want to remind you, if you understand the principles

807
00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:13,080
Speaker 2: of this sport, you don't fall into this nonsensical trap

808
00:36:13,120 --> 00:36:15,440
Speaker 2: because what he just did, to be clear, is he

809
00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:18,839
Speaker 2: started with a falsely based opinion and then he tried

810
00:36:18,840 --> 00:36:22,640
Speaker 2: to reverse engineer some logic for it, started with the conclusion,

811
00:36:22,960 --> 00:36:25,000
Speaker 2: and then just tried to haphazardly throw some things in

812
00:36:25,040 --> 00:36:27,680
Speaker 2: there that sounded cool, and they may have if you're

813
00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:29,919
Speaker 2: a casual. But if you eat, sleep, and breede the sport,

814
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:31,960
Speaker 2: I don't care if you live in Spokane, Washington. If

815
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:34,920
Speaker 2: you watch this sport with an honest eye, you know

816
00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:37,399
Speaker 2: that was nonsense. But if you don't already know, let

817
00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:39,319
Speaker 2: me humbly make the argument for you.

818
00:36:39,400 --> 00:36:39,560
Speaker 1: Here.

819
00:36:39,960 --> 00:36:42,040
Speaker 2: This goes back to one of the big three lives

820
00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:44,200
Speaker 2: in this sport, and that is you are what your

821
00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:47,400
Speaker 2: record says you are. You are not in college football

822
00:36:47,640 --> 00:36:50,960
Speaker 2: what your record says you are. That's on Sunday on Saturday.

823
00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:54,200
Speaker 2: There are gulfs between strength of schedules in this game.

824
00:36:54,440 --> 00:36:57,520
Speaker 2: Case in point, he mentioned Georgia played Arkansas and Arkansas

825
00:36:57,600 --> 00:36:59,759
Speaker 2: was ranked eighth when they played him. But somehow it's

826
00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:03,160
Speaker 2: a negative for Georgia that Arkansas finished with four losses. Well,

827
00:37:03,160 --> 00:37:06,600
Speaker 2: it's only a negative if you believe that very very

828
00:37:06,640 --> 00:37:07,600
Speaker 2: tired lie in.

829
00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:09,239
Speaker 1: Our sport that you are what your record says you are.

830
00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:10,280
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you an idea.

831
00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:14,279
Speaker 2: Three of Arkansas's four losses friends were to Alabama, the

832
00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:16,680
Speaker 2: current number one team in the country, Georgia, the current

833
00:37:16,760 --> 00:37:18,600
Speaker 2: number three team in the country, and Ole, miss by

834
00:37:18,600 --> 00:37:20,560
Speaker 2: one point by the way, the current number eight team

835
00:37:20,560 --> 00:37:23,879
Speaker 2: in the country. Theoretically, you could be the ninth best

836
00:37:23,880 --> 00:37:26,279
Speaker 2: team in the country and lose all three of those

837
00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:28,640
Speaker 2: games if everything played out how it should. So are

838
00:37:28,680 --> 00:37:30,879
Speaker 2: you a three loss team or are you a top

839
00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:31,319
Speaker 2: ten team?

840
00:37:31,360 --> 00:37:33,560
Speaker 1: You see how that works? You say, how very very quickly?

841
00:37:34,040 --> 00:37:37,440
Speaker 2: If you lose to Eastern, Central and Western Michigan and

842
00:37:37,520 --> 00:37:40,399
Speaker 2: I lose to Alabama, Georgia and Ole Miss, well we're

843
00:37:40,400 --> 00:37:42,920
Speaker 2: both nine and three. You are not always what your

844
00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:46,560
Speaker 2: record says you are. Arkansas body bagging them thirty seven

845
00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:49,880
Speaker 2: to nothing was a heck of a statement win for Georgia.

846
00:37:49,920 --> 00:37:54,840
Speaker 2: Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Secondly, I want to

847
00:37:54,880 --> 00:37:57,040
Speaker 2: talk about the other teams that were in contention for

848
00:37:57,080 --> 00:37:59,359
Speaker 2: this thing, because this is all comparative.

849
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:01,680
Speaker 1: It's all relative to who else is around you.

850
00:38:01,920 --> 00:38:04,200
Speaker 2: So we're talking about Georgia there, and I've got to

851
00:38:04,400 --> 00:38:08,640
Speaker 2: assume in criticizing Georgia you disagree with where they're ranked,

852
00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:10,719
Speaker 2: and at the very least you have suspicion about it.

853
00:38:10,800 --> 00:38:12,520
Speaker 2: So who else could it have been? Could it have

854
00:38:12,560 --> 00:38:15,920
Speaker 2: been Cincinnati in that spot? Maybe just switch three and four? Okay,

855
00:38:16,160 --> 00:38:18,520
Speaker 2: I don't disagree. I don't agree with that, but I'll

856
00:38:18,560 --> 00:38:21,320
Speaker 2: listen to you. Is it Notre Dame? Notre Dame's outside

857
00:38:21,440 --> 00:38:23,880
Speaker 2: the top four there at number five? Well, here's what

858
00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:27,000
Speaker 2: I did. What I did to show you how ridiculous

859
00:38:27,040 --> 00:38:29,439
Speaker 2: it is to judge teams solely based off what their

860
00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:29,960
Speaker 2: record is.

861
00:38:30,000 --> 00:38:32,799
Speaker 1: In this part, instead of understanding the power rating.

862
00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:35,800
Speaker 2: Process is, I asked a couple of guys whose opinions

863
00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:38,080
Speaker 2: I respect, and I also used our own odds making,

864
00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:40,960
Speaker 2: and I just wanted to note what would Notre.

865
00:38:40,800 --> 00:38:42,880
Speaker 1: Dame be against Ole Miss?

866
00:38:42,920 --> 00:38:45,319
Speaker 2: You know, what would Notre Dame be against Alabama and

867
00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:48,319
Speaker 2: against Georgia. In other words, what if Notre Dame or

868
00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:51,520
Speaker 2: Cincinnati had to play just those three teams that Arkansas

869
00:38:51,520 --> 00:38:55,640
Speaker 2: had to play. Notre Dame, according to those three opinions

870
00:38:55,640 --> 00:38:58,279
Speaker 2: I sought, would be a small favorite over Ole Miss.

871
00:38:58,280 --> 00:38:58,759
Speaker 1: They would of.

872
00:38:58,680 --> 00:39:02,840
Speaker 2: Course be big fav big underdogs against Bama and Georgia. Likewise,

873
00:39:02,880 --> 00:39:05,839
Speaker 2: this is where it gets really interesting. Cincinnati is a

874
00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:08,880
Speaker 2: dog against all three of these teams according to most

875
00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:11,680
Speaker 2: opinions out there. They are obviously a fourteen point dog

876
00:39:11,800 --> 00:39:15,440
Speaker 2: against Alabama. So the point is you are not always

877
00:39:15,440 --> 00:39:16,520
Speaker 2: what your record says you are.

878
00:39:16,560 --> 00:39:17,520
Speaker 1: Now that's just to.

879
00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:21,040
Speaker 2: Attack people who claim, well, bad record must not have

880
00:39:21,040 --> 00:39:24,400
Speaker 2: been a quality opponent. But I also I want to

881
00:39:24,520 --> 00:39:27,600
Speaker 2: go to a specific quote there, because this one is

882
00:39:27,680 --> 00:39:32,720
Speaker 2: one that always really tickles me. Quote according to Emmanuelacho,

883
00:39:33,000 --> 00:39:35,680
Speaker 2: we start college football each year with a false premise

884
00:39:35,719 --> 00:39:38,520
Speaker 2: the SEC is better than every other conference. I don't

885
00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:40,440
Speaker 2: know where that thought comes from. By the way, the

886
00:39:40,480 --> 00:39:43,640
Speaker 2: SEC normally has two great teams, he says that part.

887
00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:46,279
Speaker 1: I agree with. What's the follow up?

888
00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:48,279
Speaker 2: Because it seems to me the follow up is the

889
00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:50,400
Speaker 2: SEC has two great teams, but then the rest of

890
00:39:50,440 --> 00:39:53,279
Speaker 2: it's no different than any other conference. Well, let's put

891
00:39:53,320 --> 00:39:55,759
Speaker 2: that to the test, because see here's the flaw. Same

892
00:39:55,760 --> 00:39:57,960
Speaker 2: thing happens in bowlseason. The flaw when you're trying to

893
00:39:57,960 --> 00:40:01,240
Speaker 2: do a comparative analysis of one conference and another conference.

894
00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:03,480
Speaker 2: When we're looking for conference supremacy as straighten the conference,

895
00:40:04,080 --> 00:40:06,440
Speaker 2: everyone always wants to remove the very top of the SEC.

896
00:40:06,480 --> 00:40:08,440
Speaker 2: They want to shave the top of it off, but

897
00:40:08,520 --> 00:40:10,640
Speaker 2: they don't want to apply the same standard to anyone else.

898
00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:13,080
Speaker 2: In other words, if you're gonna take Bama or Georgia

899
00:40:13,120 --> 00:40:15,400
Speaker 2: out of the SEC, well you got to take the

900
00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:17,600
Speaker 2: best two teams out of any other conference too, So

901
00:40:17,719 --> 00:40:20,839
Speaker 2: then we can accurately compare strength of conferences. I can

902
00:40:20,880 --> 00:40:23,520
Speaker 2: take the third best team in the SEC, I e

903
00:40:23,520 --> 00:40:26,120
Speaker 2: Ole Miss, and I can compare them against the third

904
00:40:26,160 --> 00:40:28,120
Speaker 2: best team in the ACC which would be like in

905
00:40:28,320 --> 00:40:30,920
Speaker 2: C State, or I could take the third best team

906
00:40:31,080 --> 00:40:33,120
Speaker 2: in the Big ten, which would be Iowa or someone

907
00:40:33,160 --> 00:40:36,040
Speaker 2: like that. You can see quickly how that works, and

908
00:40:36,080 --> 00:40:37,759
Speaker 2: I don't really think you want to go deeper than that,

909
00:40:37,880 --> 00:40:40,280
Speaker 2: because the best shot that a lot of those programs

910
00:40:40,320 --> 00:40:43,200
Speaker 2: have is they're three versus the SEC's three. You get

911
00:40:43,200 --> 00:40:46,120
Speaker 2: down to the secs five and six versus the big

912
00:40:46,160 --> 00:40:48,799
Speaker 2: twelves five and six, it gets even uglier. If you

913
00:40:48,840 --> 00:40:51,439
Speaker 2: were too hypothetically odds make all of this, you would

914
00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:54,120
Speaker 2: have SEC favorites up and down the board. So the

915
00:40:54,239 --> 00:40:57,560
Speaker 2: reason the perception is out there about the SEC is

916
00:40:57,600 --> 00:41:00,919
Speaker 2: because it's true. But I want to go further think

917
00:41:00,960 --> 00:41:04,520
Speaker 2: about the concept of SEC bias, not just this year,

918
00:41:04,719 --> 00:41:05,279
Speaker 2: but in general.

919
00:41:05,320 --> 00:41:07,920
Speaker 1: Let's just zoom it out any given year. Where does

920
00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:08,600
Speaker 1: this come from?

921
00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:11,360
Speaker 2: And consider if this is real, if the SEC is

922
00:41:11,400 --> 00:41:13,640
Speaker 2: not all it's cracked up to be, and it's overrated.

923
00:41:13,920 --> 00:41:16,200
Speaker 2: I want you to consider how many parties have to

924
00:41:16,280 --> 00:41:19,160
Speaker 2: be involved in this sham and this charade of SEC

925
00:41:19,239 --> 00:41:21,520
Speaker 2: bias for it to really play out the way it

926
00:41:21,560 --> 00:41:26,040
Speaker 2: has to. You obviously have to have the NFL in

927
00:41:26,120 --> 00:41:29,600
Speaker 2: on this. The NFL for the record has sind fit

928
00:41:29,719 --> 00:41:33,920
Speaker 2: to make the SEC the most drafted conference. However, many

929
00:41:34,000 --> 00:41:35,799
Speaker 2: years in a row, Jesse, look at the graphic. This

930
00:41:35,880 --> 00:41:38,359
Speaker 2: isn't even a joke. The last fourteen or fifteen years

931
00:41:38,360 --> 00:41:41,000
Speaker 2: in a row, the SEC's had more players drafted than

932
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:44,160
Speaker 2: any other conference. So the NFL's in on this for

933
00:41:44,200 --> 00:41:47,680
Speaker 2: whatever reason, they are perpetuating this notion that the SEC

934
00:41:47,719 --> 00:41:50,319
Speaker 2: is superior, even though allegedly they're not. You've got to

935
00:41:50,400 --> 00:41:53,839
Speaker 2: have TV networks involved. I mean, TV networks have got

936
00:41:53,880 --> 00:41:56,400
Speaker 2: to prop the SEC up, even though anyone in this

937
00:41:56,480 --> 00:41:58,799
Speaker 2: industry understands that if anyone were to get propped up,

938
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:01,399
Speaker 2: it would be the Northeastern corridor in the eastern major

939
00:42:01,480 --> 00:42:04,000
Speaker 2: market and some in the Midwest. And then we would

940
00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:08,080
Speaker 2: really want the West coast involved, the last place geographically

941
00:42:08,120 --> 00:42:11,480
Speaker 2: you would go as the South. And then, thirdly, you

942
00:42:11,520 --> 00:42:13,160
Speaker 2: know who else has to really be in on it.

943
00:42:13,520 --> 00:42:16,680
Speaker 2: The College Football Playoff Committee, right, don't they have.

944
00:42:16,640 --> 00:42:18,719
Speaker 1: To be in on the SEC bias? And so I

945
00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:19,880
Speaker 1: told Jesse told.

946
00:42:19,680 --> 00:42:22,960
Speaker 2: Our team today, do me a favor, show me the committee,

947
00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:24,920
Speaker 2: show us the committee.

948
00:42:25,000 --> 00:42:26,640
Speaker 1: You spot the SEC bias.

949
00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:31,400
Speaker 2: We've got affiliation with Kentucky and that's where it ends Iowa,

950
00:42:31,560 --> 00:42:36,560
Speaker 2: Arizona State, Wyoming, Georgia State, NC State, Nebraska's on here.

951
00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:38,960
Speaker 1: So far we are one for seven.

952
00:42:39,080 --> 00:42:43,200
Speaker 2: There's Colorado, Kansas State, Virginia, Union, Penn State, whatever Energy

953
00:42:43,239 --> 00:42:46,239
Speaker 2: Corp Is, and then we've got a directional school from

954
00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:51,160
Speaker 2: Notre Dame, Washington, Tiger Willingham. There is one person with

955
00:42:51,280 --> 00:42:54,680
Speaker 2: SEC affiliation on that committee. So you've got to find

956
00:42:54,680 --> 00:42:57,160
Speaker 2: me the motivation for these people to have the SEC

957
00:42:57,239 --> 00:43:01,000
Speaker 2: bias on the committee when there's only one SEC representative there.

958
00:43:01,080 --> 00:43:04,080
Speaker 2: You got to find me, where is the motivation to

959
00:43:04,160 --> 00:43:07,240
Speaker 2: have that bias in the NFL. Where's that motivation amongst

960
00:43:07,239 --> 00:43:10,880
Speaker 2: TV executives to have that bias. The motivation is opening

961
00:43:10,920 --> 00:43:13,359
Speaker 2: their eyes and seeing what's right in front of them

962
00:43:13,400 --> 00:43:17,960
Speaker 2: every single Saturday. You've got to try to not understand

963
00:43:18,200 --> 00:43:21,239
Speaker 2: SEC bias. We've got it on this show because the

964
00:43:21,239 --> 00:43:24,759
Speaker 2: conference is normally offering a better product on average than

965
00:43:24,800 --> 00:43:29,400
Speaker 2: any other conferences. Therefore, sometimes you do get benefit of

966
00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:29,800
Speaker 2: the doubt.

967
00:43:30,520 --> 00:43:31,239
Speaker 1: I don't mind it.

968
00:43:31,280 --> 00:43:33,880
Speaker 2: Next next Wednesday, we're gonna have National Signing Day and

969
00:43:33,920 --> 00:43:36,040
Speaker 2: we're going to watch like five or six SEC programs

970
00:43:36,120 --> 00:43:37,160
Speaker 2: be parked inside the top ten.

971
00:43:37,760 --> 00:43:39,399
Speaker 1: It's that way every.

972
00:43:39,160 --> 00:43:41,480
Speaker 2: Single year, and so you watch all the talent come

973
00:43:41,520 --> 00:43:43,560
Speaker 2: in the door in the South, and you watch the

974
00:43:43,600 --> 00:43:44,480
Speaker 2: talent go out of the.

975
00:43:44,400 --> 00:43:45,520
Speaker 1: Door to the NFL.

976
00:43:45,840 --> 00:43:48,440
Speaker 2: But it just boggles your mind how anyone could assume

977
00:43:48,760 --> 00:43:51,120
Speaker 2: that that product in between the time the talent comes

978
00:43:51,160 --> 00:43:52,960
Speaker 2: in and the talent leaves maybe a little bit better

979
00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:54,320
Speaker 2: on average than the rest of the country.

980
00:43:55,520 --> 00:43:56,040
Speaker 1: I just don't.

981
00:43:56,080 --> 00:43:59,839
Speaker 2: I've never found it that hard to understand. So that's

982
00:43:59,840 --> 00:44:03,520
Speaker 2: a SEC bias for you. SEC bias is real. Yes,

983
00:44:04,120 --> 00:44:08,600
Speaker 2: I just think it has a honest foundation under with

984
00:44:08,760 --> 00:44:11,200
Speaker 2: which well, it's built on a solid foundation.

985
00:44:11,120 --> 00:44:13,520
Speaker 1: And I think we just pretty well articulated that.

986
00:44:13,840 --> 00:44:17,439
Speaker 2: So I am very interested, probably more so than any

987
00:44:17,440 --> 00:44:19,920
Speaker 2: show we've done in the last few weeks, to get

988
00:44:19,960 --> 00:44:22,680
Speaker 2: comments on this show because we got the SEC buyas

989
00:44:22,680 --> 00:44:24,600
Speaker 2: of course, we've got our college football calendar, We've got

990
00:44:24,600 --> 00:44:26,759
Speaker 2: the transfer portal turn a NonStop, so there's a.

991
00:44:26,760 --> 00:44:27,600
Speaker 1: Lot to say here.

992
00:44:27,920 --> 00:44:30,200
Speaker 2: So I always flip through the comments, I respond to

993
00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:31,520
Speaker 2: some of them, I see all of them, so I

994
00:44:31,520 --> 00:44:34,080
Speaker 2: appreciate it. I also appreciate you guys subscribing to the

995
00:44:34,120 --> 00:44:36,319
Speaker 2: channel if you haven't already. That's really what we need

996
00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:37,960
Speaker 2: you to do. We just need you to subscribe to

997
00:44:38,000 --> 00:44:40,239
Speaker 2: the channel. Also, go find the podcast. Had a really

998
00:44:40,280 --> 00:44:42,799
Speaker 2: good talk with Rusty Manziel on the podcast today. I

999
00:44:42,880 --> 00:44:45,399
Speaker 2: rarely do that, not talking to Rusty. I really talked

1000
00:44:45,400 --> 00:44:49,920
Speaker 2: to Rusty in a public form for several reasons, none

1001
00:44:49,960 --> 00:44:51,400
Speaker 2: of which I need to get into here. But that

1002
00:44:51,480 --> 00:44:53,200
Speaker 2: was a really good talk. Find the podcast and give

1003
00:44:53,280 --> 00:44:54,160
Speaker 2: us a five star review.

1004
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Speaker 1: There. That's it, Gunbaggot. We're at gun Beggot.

1005
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Speaker 2: So thank you so much to producer Jordan, director Colin,

1006
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Speaker 2: our entire career. Pate, have yourselves a great rest of

1007
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Speaker 2: your evening, and God bless