1 00:00:01,320 --> 00:00:19,720 Speaker 1: The volume. What is going on? Everybody happy College football 2 00:00:19,880 --> 00:00:24,480 Speaker 1: Week one. Like many people, I've been anticipating. I've been 3 00:00:24,520 --> 00:00:27,520 Speaker 1: fired up for this game for months. I was laying 4 00:00:27,560 --> 00:00:30,160 Speaker 1: in bed this morning at like five am, just staring 5 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:34,479 Speaker 1: at the ceiling, so excited, pacing around the house. And 6 00:00:34,520 --> 00:00:37,640 Speaker 1: then the game happened and we can just start. Let's 7 00:00:37,720 --> 00:00:40,120 Speaker 1: not even waste any time. Let's just dive right in 8 00:00:40,159 --> 00:00:43,640 Speaker 1: to the arch Manning experience. I mean that was leading 9 00:00:43,720 --> 00:00:50,760 Speaker 1: my I would say, excitement, anticipation, and just overall juice 10 00:00:51,320 --> 00:00:54,840 Speaker 1: leading into this game was to watch this guy play. 11 00:00:55,360 --> 00:00:57,480 Speaker 1: And I've been saying it over and over and listen, 12 00:00:57,560 --> 00:00:59,360 Speaker 1: I'm not trying to pat myself on the back. He's 13 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:01,600 Speaker 1: got a long way to go. Your career is not 14 00:01:01,680 --> 00:01:06,039 Speaker 1: defined by one game. But the hype has been insane. Honestly, 15 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:09,040 Speaker 1: it's been beyond over the top. I say this about 16 00:01:09,080 --> 00:01:12,680 Speaker 1: all these quarterbacks right in basketball. Sometimes the hype, Hey, 17 00:01:12,720 --> 00:01:14,280 Speaker 1: this guy's gonna be the number one pick. He's an 18 00:01:14,319 --> 00:01:17,160 Speaker 1: incredible player for the most part. It just that's what happens. 19 00:01:17,480 --> 00:01:19,480 Speaker 1: Right He's in college for six months and he's the 20 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:21,520 Speaker 1: number one pick or he's the number two pick. Happens 21 00:01:21,520 --> 00:01:23,920 Speaker 1: all the time. So honestly, a lot of hype when 22 00:01:23,920 --> 00:01:25,920 Speaker 1: it comes to that sport, like kind of know when 23 00:01:25,959 --> 00:01:29,400 Speaker 1: you're fifteen, sixteen years old. Football's kind of the opposite. 24 00:01:29,520 --> 00:01:32,640 Speaker 1: We see all the time. These guys like camp Miss 25 00:01:32,680 --> 00:01:36,199 Speaker 1: quarterback prospect end up on three schools in two years. 26 00:01:36,840 --> 00:01:39,440 Speaker 1: Camp Miss quarterback prospect never lives up to the hype 27 00:01:39,440 --> 00:01:43,200 Speaker 1: in his bench by year two, never ends up starting. 28 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:47,039 Speaker 1: How many five stars in the NFL? How any position 29 00:01:47,440 --> 00:01:50,320 Speaker 1: or guys that were top ten, top twenty recruits go 30 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:52,920 Speaker 1: on when Draft day comes, like, I can't believe this 31 00:01:52,960 --> 00:01:56,040 Speaker 1: guy's an undrafted free agent. He was the most hyped 32 00:01:56,080 --> 00:02:01,400 Speaker 1: recruit of all time. Now sometimes Julio Jones, Jadevion, you know, 33 00:02:03,120 --> 00:02:06,960 Speaker 1: Caleb Williams. Like obviously we see it with guys hype 34 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:08,880 Speaker 1: out of colle or out of high school, go on 35 00:02:08,960 --> 00:02:12,800 Speaker 1: to college, dominate, win the Heisman, be top picks. But 36 00:02:12,880 --> 00:02:16,120 Speaker 1: I've said this for a long time, the hype on 37 00:02:16,280 --> 00:02:20,680 Speaker 1: arch Manning was fucking insane. He is and I don't 38 00:02:21,280 --> 00:02:23,200 Speaker 1: I mean, I know what you're doing, Like you're in 39 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:26,280 Speaker 1: the business. I always hate the word like it's for clicks. Well, yeah, 40 00:02:26,320 --> 00:02:28,840 Speaker 1: that's the business they're in. Like the business Ryan days 41 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:31,360 Speaker 1: in is to win games. If you do something for 42 00:02:31,440 --> 00:02:33,560 Speaker 1: the Internet, in terms of writing, your job is to 43 00:02:33,560 --> 00:02:35,600 Speaker 1: get people to click on it and look right. It's 44 00:02:35,639 --> 00:02:37,760 Speaker 1: why Bronnie James a couple of years ago was mocked 45 00:02:37,760 --> 00:02:40,360 Speaker 1: as a top ten pick. It's why Arch Manning this 46 00:02:40,440 --> 00:02:42,840 Speaker 1: year is being I mean, most people are talking about it, 47 00:02:42,720 --> 00:02:45,520 Speaker 1: and it's not just one person's universal. I hope the 48 00:02:45,600 --> 00:02:48,639 Speaker 1: Saints suck so they can get arch Manning with the 49 00:02:48,760 --> 00:02:52,360 Speaker 1: number one overall pick where his granddaddy Archie played the 50 00:02:52,440 --> 00:02:56,280 Speaker 1: Cowboys trade Michael Parsons. Maybe this is to suck and 51 00:02:56,360 --> 00:02:58,440 Speaker 1: to get arch Manning to come play for the Cowboys. 52 00:02:58,440 --> 00:03:00,800 Speaker 1: And who knows if Brian Schottenheimer sucks, take Sark two. 53 00:03:00,840 --> 00:03:04,120 Speaker 1: It's like, guys, can he just play a game? Because, 54 00:03:04,400 --> 00:03:07,880 Speaker 1: unlike most sports, baseball guys are drafted out of high 55 00:03:07,880 --> 00:03:11,160 Speaker 1: school on pure hype and potential. Basketball it happens all 56 00:03:11,160 --> 00:03:14,040 Speaker 1: the time in football. To get drafted number one overall, 57 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:17,720 Speaker 1: you gotta be pretty freaking good, Like you gotta be 58 00:03:17,840 --> 00:03:20,640 Speaker 1: like this guy is a can't missplayer on the field. 59 00:03:21,440 --> 00:03:23,840 Speaker 1: You obviously have to have the physical characteristics, but you 60 00:03:23,960 --> 00:03:26,800 Speaker 1: gotta do it on the field. You can't fake it 61 00:03:26,840 --> 00:03:30,359 Speaker 1: in football, those twelve games those two years, they speak 62 00:03:30,400 --> 00:03:33,160 Speaker 1: for themselves, and it's like, can arc just like I 63 00:03:33,160 --> 00:03:35,960 Speaker 1: don't know, throw some touchdowns in the SEC play some 64 00:03:36,040 --> 00:03:39,280 Speaker 1: real opponents, and there's no way around it. Today was 65 00:03:39,720 --> 00:03:42,760 Speaker 1: not great, not great at all, And up until a 66 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:45,560 Speaker 1: couple throws at the end, the touchdown pass was nice. 67 00:03:46,360 --> 00:03:49,800 Speaker 1: The ball on the last drive down the sideline was nice, 68 00:03:50,320 --> 00:03:53,680 Speaker 1: But overall I thought today was really bad. He missed 69 00:03:53,800 --> 00:03:58,800 Speaker 1: countless throws that should be considered layups. And to be 70 00:03:58,880 --> 00:04:01,880 Speaker 1: a can't misplay. To be a high level quarterback in 71 00:04:01,960 --> 00:04:04,880 Speaker 1: high school, college or the pros, you have to hit 72 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:09,160 Speaker 1: basic passes. So on that final drive, when the dude 73 00:04:09,240 --> 00:04:12,440 Speaker 1: streaking across the field five or six yards away from you, 74 00:04:12,440 --> 00:04:14,400 Speaker 1: you don't need to throw a ninety mile an hour 75 00:04:14,440 --> 00:04:17,479 Speaker 1: fastball behind him. You just lob it right there. And listen, 76 00:04:18,839 --> 00:04:24,000 Speaker 1: I can't even imagine how the nerves, the excitement, just 77 00:04:24,320 --> 00:04:27,760 Speaker 1: the intensity on him as an individual leading into the game. 78 00:04:27,960 --> 00:04:30,280 Speaker 1: I wasn't gonna judge him for the first several drives. 79 00:04:30,320 --> 00:04:33,159 Speaker 1: Like listen, I can't even imagine how hyped up he 80 00:04:33,279 --> 00:04:36,800 Speaker 1: is right how hard it is to calm himself down. 81 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:39,080 Speaker 1: And you thought as the game went on he would 82 00:04:39,160 --> 00:04:41,159 Speaker 1: kind of settle down. And I watched the guy that 83 00:04:41,240 --> 00:04:44,640 Speaker 1: missed easy throw after easy throw after easy throw. This 84 00:04:44,720 --> 00:04:47,440 Speaker 1: game does not define his career, So two things can 85 00:04:47,480 --> 00:04:51,160 Speaker 1: be true. I thought he was mostly atrocious today. And 86 00:04:51,200 --> 00:04:54,360 Speaker 1: the reason we're reacting to this, it's one game. If 87 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:57,039 Speaker 1: this was Joe Blow starting for if this was Quinn 88 00:04:57,040 --> 00:04:59,520 Speaker 1: Yours a couple of years ago, we wouldn't have these takes. 89 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:03,120 Speaker 1: But these people, over and over, these people that covered 90 00:05:03,160 --> 00:05:05,320 Speaker 1: the NFL draft, these people that covered the NFL have 91 00:05:05,400 --> 00:05:07,960 Speaker 1: been telling me he's the greatest fucking thing since l Spread. 92 00:05:07,960 --> 00:05:09,960 Speaker 1: It's like I've been watching football for thirty years. I 93 00:05:10,120 --> 00:05:14,640 Speaker 1: worked in college football. I've scouted guys at these major universities. 94 00:05:14,720 --> 00:05:17,320 Speaker 1: You gotta be very careful about hype because hype in 95 00:05:17,400 --> 00:05:20,000 Speaker 1: football doesn't last long because eventually you got to play 96 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:22,680 Speaker 1: the game. So whether you're a five star, whether you're 97 00:05:22,720 --> 00:05:24,640 Speaker 1: a two star. You know who had no stars next 98 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:27,720 Speaker 1: to his name, Ashton Genty. Then what happened? He gets 99 00:05:27,760 --> 00:05:30,599 Speaker 1: drafted six overall and almost breaks Berry Sanders record, And 100 00:05:30,600 --> 00:05:32,320 Speaker 1: we'll get into boys. He stayed here in a second, 101 00:05:32,600 --> 00:05:35,000 Speaker 1: But like you gotta do it, and you watched him 102 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:38,280 Speaker 1: playing Ohio State kind of getting manhandled. Now you can say, 103 00:05:38,279 --> 00:05:43,000 Speaker 1: Matt Patricia, you know you overqualified defensive coordinator when it 104 00:05:43,040 --> 00:05:45,479 Speaker 1: comes to college, and give him credit. He's taken that 105 00:05:45,560 --> 00:05:48,479 Speaker 1: jab and he's lost probably one hundred pounds. Looks good physically, 106 00:05:49,000 --> 00:05:50,440 Speaker 1: and they had a bunch of new players. But I 107 00:05:50,480 --> 00:05:52,919 Speaker 1: thought they punked them. And one thing I saw on 108 00:05:52,920 --> 00:05:56,840 Speaker 1: the internet was that Sark was not doing a good job. 109 00:05:57,520 --> 00:06:00,200 Speaker 1: I think it's very hard as a play caller when 110 00:06:00,279 --> 00:06:04,880 Speaker 1: your quarterback can't make easy throws. Two call plays, and 111 00:06:04,920 --> 00:06:07,560 Speaker 1: you could tell throughout the game he was very hesitant 112 00:06:07,640 --> 00:06:10,320 Speaker 1: to call back to back passes. He only had thirty 113 00:06:10,320 --> 00:06:12,600 Speaker 1: attempts and they were down the whole game. Now, granted 114 00:06:12,640 --> 00:06:15,080 Speaker 1: they were down seven points, fourteen points, it's not like 115 00:06:15,360 --> 00:06:18,320 Speaker 1: they had a huge lead. But the play caller, like 116 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:21,280 Speaker 1: starts established he's a good play caller. He knows what 117 00:06:21,320 --> 00:06:24,799 Speaker 1: he's doing. As a play caller. We can nitpick individual plays, 118 00:06:25,200 --> 00:06:27,680 Speaker 1: but overall the course of the game, like he's done 119 00:06:27,800 --> 00:06:30,560 Speaker 1: enough to get the benefit of doubt, Like he knows 120 00:06:30,560 --> 00:06:32,080 Speaker 1: what he's doing and he knows the evan flow of 121 00:06:32,120 --> 00:06:35,479 Speaker 1: a game. We've seen enough guys that have no skills 122 00:06:35,480 --> 00:06:38,200 Speaker 1: when it comes to calling plays. And today I saw 123 00:06:38,240 --> 00:06:41,320 Speaker 1: a guy who early on could tell his quarterback was 124 00:06:41,440 --> 00:06:45,240 Speaker 1: pretty rattled for whatever reason, could not get comfortable was 125 00:06:45,279 --> 00:06:48,200 Speaker 1: holding onto the ball. Listen, we crushed Caleb Williams for 126 00:06:48,240 --> 00:06:50,280 Speaker 1: holding onto the ball too long, not even us Hell, 127 00:06:50,320 --> 00:06:53,520 Speaker 1: his own coach does get rid of the football countless 128 00:06:53,560 --> 00:06:56,480 Speaker 1: times today. Arch held held held. It's one thing if 129 00:06:56,520 --> 00:06:59,440 Speaker 1: it's you know, a roll out play where you're holding, holding, 130 00:06:59,440 --> 00:07:01,400 Speaker 1: and then you can tell off. Some of these plays 131 00:07:01,400 --> 00:07:04,440 Speaker 1: are clearly pocket passes where you got a couple seconds. 132 00:07:04,480 --> 00:07:06,080 Speaker 1: You're playing a bunch of guys that are gonna get 133 00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:08,840 Speaker 1: drafted high. You got to get rid of the rock. 134 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:10,800 Speaker 1: And he held, he Hell, he held, and then he 135 00:07:10,840 --> 00:07:12,840 Speaker 1: would kind of run into a sack or like run 136 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:14,679 Speaker 1: in for a couple of yards. It's like, you can't 137 00:07:14,680 --> 00:07:16,800 Speaker 1: really function like that. And it's not gonna matter when 138 00:07:16,840 --> 00:07:20,360 Speaker 1: you're playing Sam Houston State or San Jose. But when 139 00:07:20,400 --> 00:07:23,080 Speaker 1: you're playing Florida, when you're playing Georgia, when you're playing 140 00:07:23,120 --> 00:07:26,160 Speaker 1: Texas A and M, it's going to really matter. They're 141 00:07:26,160 --> 00:07:29,640 Speaker 1: gonna be so much more talented than I would say 142 00:07:29,760 --> 00:07:31,800 Speaker 1: eight of their opponents, but they are gonna be a 143 00:07:31,840 --> 00:07:35,280 Speaker 1: couple more games. For the talent is semi even today. 144 00:07:35,320 --> 00:07:37,960 Speaker 1: The talent, like you remove the quarterbacks, that's an even game. 145 00:07:38,240 --> 00:07:42,040 Speaker 1: These are elite players everywhere. This has become like that's 146 00:07:42,080 --> 00:07:44,960 Speaker 1: Target and that's Walmart. These teams have unlimited money. They 147 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:48,080 Speaker 1: can buy any fucking player they want, which I'm all for, Like, 148 00:07:48,720 --> 00:07:50,360 Speaker 1: have at it now. You could argue they've been doing 149 00:07:50,400 --> 00:07:53,000 Speaker 1: that forever, but now the numbers are so big, huge 150 00:07:53,000 --> 00:07:55,880 Speaker 1: advantage to programs like Ohio State and Texas. So the 151 00:07:56,080 --> 00:07:59,440 Speaker 1: separating factors now, to me are two things more than ever. 152 00:07:59,640 --> 00:08:04,000 Speaker 1: It's a lot like the NFL coaches and quarterback Well, listen, 153 00:08:04,080 --> 00:08:07,640 Speaker 1: I've been critical actually of both guys. Hell, I'm probably 154 00:08:07,720 --> 00:08:09,920 Speaker 1: one of the last guys who's very critical of Sark. 155 00:08:10,320 --> 00:08:13,920 Speaker 1: He's done a really good job at Texas, unlike Ryan Day, 156 00:08:14,160 --> 00:08:16,760 Speaker 1: and this is just a reality. When he took over Texas, 157 00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:19,240 Speaker 1: it was a joke. It was a dumpster farm, and 158 00:08:19,280 --> 00:08:21,120 Speaker 1: he's turned that program around. They've been in the Final 159 00:08:21,160 --> 00:08:24,600 Speaker 1: four the last two years. Right, Ryan Day win the 160 00:08:24,680 --> 00:08:27,480 Speaker 1: national championship last year, no one can take that away 161 00:08:27,480 --> 00:08:30,800 Speaker 1: from that was really really impressive, especially after the embarrassing 162 00:08:30,880 --> 00:08:33,240 Speaker 1: lost to Michigan. They're both really good coaches, they're both 163 00:08:33,320 --> 00:08:37,120 Speaker 1: great recruiters. The talent on their rosters speak for themselves. 164 00:08:37,200 --> 00:08:40,600 Speaker 1: It's elite. But if their quarterback's good, they're gonna be excellent. 165 00:08:40,840 --> 00:08:44,640 Speaker 1: Their quarterbacks meant they're gonna again when they're playing equal opponents, 166 00:08:44,679 --> 00:08:47,720 Speaker 1: they're gonna have issues. And today we saw Julian saying 167 00:08:47,800 --> 00:08:49,360 Speaker 1: who I didn't know that much about. When you see 168 00:08:49,400 --> 00:08:50,720 Speaker 1: him interviewed at the end of the game, he looks 169 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:54,240 Speaker 1: like he's ten years old. Obviously hype guy from southern 170 00:08:54,240 --> 00:08:57,800 Speaker 1: California goes to Bama, Saban retires, he goes to Ohio State. 171 00:08:57,840 --> 00:09:00,679 Speaker 1: I'm sure making a ton of coin, like this guy's 172 00:09:00,760 --> 00:09:04,040 Speaker 1: really talented player as well. But unlike the you know, 173 00:09:04,720 --> 00:09:06,839 Speaker 1: the outside, like not everyone has given the kid to 174 00:09:06,880 --> 00:09:09,840 Speaker 1: reach around. Hell, the narrative coming out of Ohio State 175 00:09:09,920 --> 00:09:11,840 Speaker 1: is like, listen, he won the job, but it was 176 00:09:11,920 --> 00:09:14,880 Speaker 1: not easy. Whoever the other kid isn't I don't even 177 00:09:15,080 --> 00:09:17,280 Speaker 1: forget his name, But like Urban Meyer when I was 178 00:09:17,320 --> 00:09:19,760 Speaker 1: on Coward Show, was like this, This was a little 179 00:09:19,800 --> 00:09:22,160 Speaker 1: closer than you think. And clearly everybody knows Ryan Days's 180 00:09:22,160 --> 00:09:25,160 Speaker 1: guy where everyone's like arch Manning, arch Manning, arch Manning. 181 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:28,120 Speaker 1: I bought into the hype. How could you not? Sometimes 182 00:09:28,120 --> 00:09:30,400 Speaker 1: you say stuff enough, it's like, Eah, it's gotta be true. 183 00:09:30,400 --> 00:09:33,199 Speaker 1: This guy's gonna be really good, because I, like most people, 184 00:09:33,280 --> 00:09:35,760 Speaker 1: was like, hey, how could he not just at minimum 185 00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:38,439 Speaker 1: be a really good player, maybe not like the best 186 00:09:38,440 --> 00:09:41,520 Speaker 1: player we've ever seen, maybe not John Elway or Andrew 187 00:09:41,600 --> 00:09:44,800 Speaker 1: Locker's uncle Peyton, but just be a really good college player. 188 00:09:44,840 --> 00:09:47,000 Speaker 1: And you saw a guy today who was swimming, who 189 00:09:47,080 --> 00:09:51,000 Speaker 1: was honestly over his head beside a couple of plays late, 190 00:09:51,280 --> 00:09:55,120 Speaker 1: was mostly atrocious. And if that guy was named quinn Ewers, 191 00:09:55,760 --> 00:09:57,520 Speaker 1: if that was not arch Manning, if that was quinn 192 00:09:57,559 --> 00:10:00,640 Speaker 1: Ewers who just played that game, everyone would be like, 193 00:10:00,679 --> 00:10:03,120 Speaker 1: this guy sucks. Why don't they bench him for arch Manning. 194 00:10:03,360 --> 00:10:07,880 Speaker 1: That would have been one hundred percent the conversation. And listen, 195 00:10:07,920 --> 00:10:10,000 Speaker 1: they get a couple layup games before going on the 196 00:10:10,040 --> 00:10:11,640 Speaker 1: road to the swamp here in a couple of weeks. 197 00:10:11,679 --> 00:10:14,480 Speaker 1: But they got to figure out a way to calm 198 00:10:14,559 --> 00:10:17,160 Speaker 1: him down. When you're throwing a wheel route or a 199 00:10:17,240 --> 00:10:20,360 Speaker 1: quick out route, or just something a basic route that 200 00:10:20,559 --> 00:10:24,280 Speaker 1: essentially runs or operates like a run in the passing game, 201 00:10:24,400 --> 00:10:27,600 Speaker 1: which gets you five yards seven yards, might not get 202 00:10:27,600 --> 00:10:30,439 Speaker 1: you an explosive play and might not even get you 203 00:10:30,480 --> 00:10:32,720 Speaker 1: a first down, but goes from first and ten to 204 00:10:33,360 --> 00:10:37,440 Speaker 1: second and four or second and eight to third and 205 00:10:37,480 --> 00:10:39,640 Speaker 1: two right and just helps you breathe. They could not 206 00:10:39,720 --> 00:10:43,720 Speaker 1: do that today, and nothing was more Uh. That sums 207 00:10:43,720 --> 00:10:47,480 Speaker 1: that up more and symbolizes his day than that final 208 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:51,720 Speaker 1: second to last row when their star receivers coming across 209 00:10:51,760 --> 00:10:55,160 Speaker 1: that's not very far away from any slink shots a 210 00:10:55,160 --> 00:10:57,920 Speaker 1: fastball where all he needs, Like if you got a 211 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:03,079 Speaker 1: high level NFL quarterback, Lamar Jackson, you got Josh Allen, 212 00:11:03,120 --> 00:11:06,959 Speaker 1: you got any top fifteen quarterback in the NFL, that's 213 00:11:07,040 --> 00:11:09,840 Speaker 1: just a lob pass. That's a lob pass to the guy. 214 00:11:10,280 --> 00:11:13,280 Speaker 1: That's a touch pass where you throw them even if 215 00:11:13,280 --> 00:11:15,360 Speaker 1: it's not perfect, right in front of him, hits them 216 00:11:15,360 --> 00:11:17,920 Speaker 1: in the bread basket, heaps going arts, throws this high 217 00:11:18,000 --> 00:11:21,079 Speaker 1: rocket behind him where this guy's such a good athlete, 218 00:11:21,320 --> 00:11:23,680 Speaker 1: puts his hand behind him, hits the ball, still almost 219 00:11:23,679 --> 00:11:25,880 Speaker 1: catches it, but it was like that that can't happen, 220 00:11:26,360 --> 00:11:30,520 Speaker 1: And that pass consistently happened throughout the day. And if 221 00:11:30,559 --> 00:11:33,959 Speaker 1: I would have told Sark and the Texas fans and 222 00:11:34,040 --> 00:11:37,960 Speaker 1: the Texas administration that Ohio State would score fourteen points 223 00:11:38,440 --> 00:11:42,760 Speaker 1: and you would you control Jeremiah Smith again in him 224 00:11:42,760 --> 00:11:47,600 Speaker 1: of forty three yards no touchdowns. Every single person Matthew 225 00:11:47,760 --> 00:11:49,960 Speaker 1: led by Matthew McConaughey, would have signed up for that. Wait, 226 00:11:49,960 --> 00:11:52,920 Speaker 1: they're gonna score fourteen points and Jeremiah Smith is gonna 227 00:11:52,920 --> 00:11:56,520 Speaker 1: have forty three yards total and no touchdowns, we're in. 228 00:11:57,480 --> 00:12:00,800 Speaker 1: You would have to take that first case scenario. We 229 00:12:00,840 --> 00:12:04,080 Speaker 1: play like shit, TI game, We're going overtime. But even 230 00:12:04,080 --> 00:12:06,320 Speaker 1: if I'm confident in hey, there's a good team, we 231 00:12:06,360 --> 00:12:09,880 Speaker 1: win twenty four to fourteen, It's like no. Honestly, it 232 00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:12,560 Speaker 1: took a crazy second to last drive to even make 233 00:12:12,600 --> 00:12:18,080 Speaker 1: it fourteen to seven. So Ohio State, like, I'm pro SEC, 234 00:12:18,600 --> 00:12:21,240 Speaker 1: and I think the SEC has proven over the last 235 00:12:21,679 --> 00:12:25,040 Speaker 1: Sabing era they were clearly the best conference. Their top 236 00:12:25,120 --> 00:12:27,760 Speaker 1: four or five teams were better than every other conference. 237 00:12:28,200 --> 00:12:31,600 Speaker 1: Ohio State, once Urban got there, turned into an SEC program. 238 00:12:31,960 --> 00:12:34,360 Speaker 1: He's talked about this. Their big thing was to cruit everyone. 239 00:12:34,360 --> 00:12:36,760 Speaker 1: We're gonna go into Florida and we're gonna get elite players. 240 00:12:37,000 --> 00:12:39,360 Speaker 1: We will get whoever we want, wherever we want. That's 241 00:12:39,360 --> 00:12:42,120 Speaker 1: how we'll offerate. And they've morphed into an SEC team 242 00:12:42,520 --> 00:12:45,400 Speaker 1: now they are like listen, is Texas the best team 243 00:12:45,400 --> 00:12:48,679 Speaker 1: in the SEC? Well, they were right there last year, right, 244 00:12:48,800 --> 00:12:51,800 Speaker 1: only Georgia was better. They lost to him twice. But 245 00:12:52,559 --> 00:12:54,719 Speaker 1: like Ohio State, I thought the gap today, if that's 246 00:12:54,720 --> 00:12:57,280 Speaker 1: how art is gonna play, was pretty wide. You know, 247 00:12:58,160 --> 00:13:00,720 Speaker 1: Texas got really good players, so they can control Jeremiah Smith. 248 00:13:00,720 --> 00:13:03,560 Speaker 1: Most teams do not, like I'll have big Day for 249 00:13:03,600 --> 00:13:06,440 Speaker 1: the Big ten. That that was a big moment, in 250 00:13:06,520 --> 00:13:09,680 Speaker 1: a big moment for Ryan Day because I was thinking 251 00:13:09,720 --> 00:13:12,440 Speaker 1: about this watching. You know, you got urban Meyer with Fox, 252 00:13:12,480 --> 00:13:15,040 Speaker 1: you got Nick Saban with ESPN. And the reason these 253 00:13:15,040 --> 00:13:17,480 Speaker 1: two coaches, the reason Ryan Day is at Ohio State 254 00:13:17,480 --> 00:13:20,200 Speaker 1: is because urban Meyer gave him the job. Essentially the 255 00:13:20,280 --> 00:13:23,840 Speaker 1: reason Steve Sarkisian is at Texas because Nick Saban changed 256 00:13:23,880 --> 00:13:26,800 Speaker 1: his life, changed his career. Like, those two guys are 257 00:13:26,800 --> 00:13:29,240 Speaker 1: in those positions because of urban Meyer and Nick Saban, 258 00:13:29,440 --> 00:13:31,559 Speaker 1: who are obviously way better than those two guys. And 259 00:13:31,640 --> 00:13:33,599 Speaker 1: that's no slight of those two guys. Nick Saban's the 260 00:13:33,600 --> 00:13:35,920 Speaker 1: greatest college coach of all time, and Urban Meyer is 261 00:13:35,960 --> 00:13:39,400 Speaker 1: one of them. I mean, they're both all time greats, right, 262 00:13:39,640 --> 00:13:42,600 Speaker 1: but like these are two guys. Ryan Day now has 263 00:13:42,640 --> 00:13:44,880 Speaker 1: a championship. A lot of people like myself think Sark 264 00:13:44,920 --> 00:13:48,600 Speaker 1: can get one when you're coaching at Texas, But it's 265 00:13:48,679 --> 00:13:50,840 Speaker 1: it all comes down to, like how good your quarterback. 266 00:13:50,920 --> 00:13:53,120 Speaker 1: Like the reason that Ryan Day and that team got 267 00:13:53,120 --> 00:13:56,400 Speaker 1: hot those last four games. Will Howard turned into Peyton Manning. 268 00:13:56,640 --> 00:14:01,079 Speaker 1: He dominated, He was elite. This is not the days 269 00:14:01,400 --> 00:14:04,720 Speaker 1: of ten, fifteen, twenty, definitely when I was a kid, 270 00:14:05,040 --> 00:14:07,560 Speaker 1: where you could have some complete scrub and your roster 271 00:14:07,600 --> 00:14:10,520 Speaker 1: would be so good and you win the Natty. Because 272 00:14:10,640 --> 00:14:13,760 Speaker 1: now to win the Natty you gotta win countless playoff games. 273 00:14:13,800 --> 00:14:15,439 Speaker 1: Even if you get a bye, you gotta win three. 274 00:14:16,040 --> 00:14:19,840 Speaker 1: That's really really hard. And they got a long way 275 00:14:19,880 --> 00:14:22,320 Speaker 1: to go for arch I mean a long way to go. 276 00:14:22,840 --> 00:14:26,520 Speaker 1: And I'm not going to correct and change my opinion 277 00:14:26,640 --> 00:14:29,560 Speaker 1: these next couple days. But what we learned today is 278 00:14:29,640 --> 00:14:33,120 Speaker 1: hype is just that doesn't mean a goddamn thing. I 279 00:14:33,120 --> 00:14:35,600 Speaker 1: can tell you it's the greatest restaurant of all time. 280 00:14:36,160 --> 00:14:38,520 Speaker 1: I can tell you she's the most beautiful girl I've 281 00:14:38,560 --> 00:14:40,760 Speaker 1: ever seen, but if she walks through that door and 282 00:14:40,760 --> 00:14:43,160 Speaker 1: she's a four, he'n be like middle cough, what are 283 00:14:43,200 --> 00:14:45,800 Speaker 1: you talking about? If you walk into that restaurant and 284 00:14:45,800 --> 00:14:48,960 Speaker 1: there's hair in your rice and your steak is overcooked, 285 00:14:48,960 --> 00:14:51,360 Speaker 1: you're gonna be like, this place sucks. Like we can 286 00:14:51,400 --> 00:14:54,440 Speaker 1: only go off what we see. We're just reacting to this, 287 00:14:54,840 --> 00:14:56,800 Speaker 1: which is one of the most hype games of all time. 288 00:14:56,840 --> 00:15:00,320 Speaker 1: And he's easily, easily to me, the most hype college 289 00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:04,160 Speaker 1: football player of my lifetime. Now, there have been guys 290 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:08,920 Speaker 1: who became more famous as they played t Bow, Reggie Bush, 291 00:15:09,280 --> 00:15:13,160 Speaker 1: Cam whoever, Joe Burrow, Caleb Williams. They had to do 292 00:15:13,200 --> 00:15:16,640 Speaker 1: it by games. So like Joe Burrow's hype became when 293 00:15:16,680 --> 00:15:19,640 Speaker 1: we watched him play, Cam Newton became this legend when 294 00:15:19,640 --> 00:15:22,920 Speaker 1: he dragged a team of randoms to the Natty, Reggie Bush, 295 00:15:22,960 --> 00:15:25,960 Speaker 1: when he dominated everyone he played, they did it. There 296 00:15:25,960 --> 00:15:29,400 Speaker 1: has never been a guy ever with this much hype 297 00:15:29,560 --> 00:15:32,840 Speaker 1: who has not played and then does play and everyone's like, 298 00:15:32,880 --> 00:15:36,360 Speaker 1: wait what, and I want him to be good. It's interesting, 299 00:15:36,400 --> 00:15:40,760 Speaker 1: it's a fascinating story, it's it's exciting, it's entertaining. But 300 00:15:40,840 --> 00:15:43,320 Speaker 1: that was not I mean that that was rough to 301 00:15:43,360 --> 00:15:46,200 Speaker 1: watch as a lover of football, as a level lover 302 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:50,320 Speaker 1: of high level quarterback play. That was rough. And I 303 00:15:50,640 --> 00:15:53,120 Speaker 1: think now, and this is why these guys get paid 304 00:15:53,120 --> 00:15:55,640 Speaker 1: so much money, because how could you, if you were Arch, 305 00:15:56,280 --> 00:15:59,920 Speaker 1: not be head down a little bit? Right? And I understand, 306 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:03,440 Speaker 1: And he's high level cat and you know, doesn't like 307 00:16:03,560 --> 00:16:06,120 Speaker 1: let the press clippings go to his head and not 308 00:16:06,520 --> 00:16:08,720 Speaker 1: dialed in on social media twenty four to seven, three 309 00:16:08,840 --> 00:16:12,000 Speaker 1: sixty five. We're all human beings. How could he not 310 00:16:12,080 --> 00:16:14,120 Speaker 1: have his tail between his legs a little bit? And 311 00:16:14,120 --> 00:16:16,000 Speaker 1: this is on sark Over these next couple of weeks 312 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:18,320 Speaker 1: to kind of build him back up, because there are 313 00:16:18,320 --> 00:16:20,080 Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of people around the program, a 314 00:16:20,080 --> 00:16:21,760 Speaker 1: lot of people in Austin, Texas, a lot of people 315 00:16:21,840 --> 00:16:24,520 Speaker 1: in the SEC. You're no longer in the Big twelve. 316 00:16:24,560 --> 00:16:28,640 Speaker 1: You're in the SEC who like are gonna be like 317 00:16:29,240 --> 00:16:32,480 Speaker 1: the fuck is this? What the hell's going on? There? 318 00:16:33,200 --> 00:16:38,800 Speaker 1: So props Ohio State, massive, massive win, big win for 319 00:16:38,880 --> 00:16:42,040 Speaker 1: Ryan Days. What a lot of big games recently? Right, 320 00:16:42,240 --> 00:16:46,360 Speaker 1: just has Texas Notre Dame beat the shit out of Tennessee, 321 00:16:47,960 --> 00:16:52,360 Speaker 1: beat Texas again? Gotta be feeling good. You know, he's 322 00:16:52,360 --> 00:16:54,720 Speaker 1: gotta be feeling good. My band portinoay from coming in 323 00:16:54,760 --> 00:16:58,800 Speaker 1: the stadium, but wins a lot of games. And last 324 00:16:58,800 --> 00:17:01,280 Speaker 1: but not least, you know, you look at Ohio State schedule. 325 00:17:02,080 --> 00:17:04,320 Speaker 1: Their team is just gonna be so good on defense 326 00:17:04,720 --> 00:17:08,800 Speaker 1: and offensively. Most people are not gonna have the athletes 327 00:17:09,920 --> 00:17:12,439 Speaker 1: to do what Texas just did to them. They are 328 00:17:12,440 --> 00:17:14,840 Speaker 1: gonna dominate. Now, are they the best team in the 329 00:17:14,840 --> 00:17:16,560 Speaker 1: Big Ten? I don't know. We'll see how Penn State 330 00:17:16,560 --> 00:17:18,000 Speaker 1: and some of these teams look as time goes on, 331 00:17:18,040 --> 00:17:19,960 Speaker 1: but they're gonna be really, really good, like they're gonna 332 00:17:19,960 --> 00:17:23,120 Speaker 1: be in the playoffs. You look at Texas like they're 333 00:17:23,119 --> 00:17:25,440 Speaker 1: gonna need a lot more at arch if they're gonna 334 00:17:25,480 --> 00:17:27,800 Speaker 1: beat A and M, if they're gonna beat Florida, if 335 00:17:27,840 --> 00:17:31,280 Speaker 1: they're gonna beat Georgia. Maybe you know, we saw last 336 00:17:31,359 --> 00:17:33,480 Speaker 1: year with a twelve team playoff, you're no lock if 337 00:17:33,480 --> 00:17:35,520 Speaker 1: you go nine and three. I think you've got to 338 00:17:35,520 --> 00:17:38,480 Speaker 1: feel pretty good about yourself going ten and two so 339 00:17:38,760 --> 00:17:41,240 Speaker 1: you can afford more losses. And people love saying this 340 00:17:41,320 --> 00:17:43,800 Speaker 1: like your season is not over after one game. That 341 00:17:44,040 --> 00:17:47,879 Speaker 1: is true, but your margin ferreer gets really really slim 342 00:17:48,040 --> 00:17:51,800 Speaker 1: really really fast when you have big time opponents. Now, 343 00:17:51,800 --> 00:17:53,640 Speaker 1: when you're playing something like if you play in the ACC, 344 00:17:54,160 --> 00:17:56,880 Speaker 1: if Clemson were to lose to Night little less unfazed. 345 00:17:57,320 --> 00:18:00,840 Speaker 1: But their schedule is a lot easier than playing SEC opponents. 346 00:18:01,000 --> 00:18:03,520 Speaker 1: It just is. That's where to me, I stand by 347 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:08,880 Speaker 1: when it comes to supporting the SEC, like, it's way 348 00:18:08,920 --> 00:18:11,000 Speaker 1: harder to play their average teams than it is to 349 00:18:11,040 --> 00:18:13,680 Speaker 1: play a lot of these conference average teams not want 350 00:18:13,680 --> 00:18:16,600 Speaker 1: a given year. Maybe the Big Ten has a more 351 00:18:17,200 --> 00:18:20,480 Speaker 1: room for argument there, but these other conferences simply do not. 352 00:18:21,440 --> 00:18:26,160 Speaker 1: They just don't. 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I mean, their quarterback's not very good, and 377 00:19:56,960 --> 00:19:58,879 Speaker 2: I would guess over the course of the next couple 378 00:19:58,920 --> 00:20:05,159 Speaker 2: weeks they transitioned their young, highly touted guy definitely split 379 00:20:05,240 --> 00:20:08,240 Speaker 2: snaps in regular season games and potentially. 380 00:20:07,840 --> 00:20:10,040 Speaker 1: Just go with the other guy. And I get, you know, 381 00:20:10,080 --> 00:20:12,159 Speaker 1: Dion's old school. You have a guy who's been in 382 00:20:12,200 --> 00:20:14,840 Speaker 1: your program, who probably does things the right way. You 383 00:20:14,840 --> 00:20:16,320 Speaker 1: want to give the benefit of deutrity. It's not how 384 00:20:16,359 --> 00:20:18,360 Speaker 1: I'm wired. I would just go with the more talented guy. 385 00:20:18,720 --> 00:20:21,159 Speaker 1: But like old school people, especially people that you know 386 00:20:21,240 --> 00:20:23,640 Speaker 1: grew up with football in the eighties and nineties when 387 00:20:23,680 --> 00:20:26,960 Speaker 1: he played kind of the way it worked. But that guy, 388 00:20:27,040 --> 00:20:29,600 Speaker 1: your team is actually pretty solid. You're not gonna win 389 00:20:29,640 --> 00:20:32,320 Speaker 1: games with that guy what he has done at Colorado. 390 00:20:32,400 --> 00:20:35,080 Speaker 1: Like I was thinking this last night, over the course 391 00:20:35,080 --> 00:20:38,119 Speaker 1: of the last ten to fifteen years, pre Dion, you 392 00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:41,439 Speaker 1: couldn't have paid me to give my Friday night to 393 00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:45,439 Speaker 1: Colorado Georgia Tech and I have worked in football and 394 00:20:45,440 --> 00:20:48,800 Speaker 1: now talked about football for a living for almost two decades. 395 00:20:48,920 --> 00:20:51,320 Speaker 1: And there's not enough money you could have paid me 396 00:20:51,600 --> 00:20:54,160 Speaker 1: to made me care about that game, knowing that no 397 00:20:54,160 --> 00:20:57,400 Speaker 1: one else gives a shit. I didn't budge for three 398 00:20:57,400 --> 00:21:00,800 Speaker 1: plus hours. I was glued. Now. Part of it is 399 00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:02,720 Speaker 1: like I like the Georgia Tech coach Haynes King's a 400 00:21:02,720 --> 00:21:07,240 Speaker 1: fun player, But that was like the atmosphere in Boulder 401 00:21:07,880 --> 00:21:12,399 Speaker 1: was awesome. That place was rocking. Deon Sanders took a 402 00:21:12,560 --> 00:21:18,240 Speaker 1: dogshit dead dead football brand irrelevant didn't matter and made 403 00:21:18,240 --> 00:21:21,439 Speaker 1: them matter again. So whatever they're paying Deon, he'd be like, well, 404 00:21:21,520 --> 00:21:24,760 Speaker 1: as he's only twelve and thirteen, his value to that 405 00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:28,600 Speaker 1: program making them not only relevant, brought on the Heisman Trophy. 406 00:21:28,520 --> 00:21:31,040 Speaker 1: They're gonna be I don't know, you know, they depending 407 00:21:31,040 --> 00:21:33,280 Speaker 1: on their quarterback play, they could probably win anywhere from 408 00:21:33,359 --> 00:21:36,480 Speaker 1: six to nine games this year. I think Georgia Tech, 409 00:21:36,520 --> 00:21:38,760 Speaker 1: most people think, are gonna be It's gonna be pretty solid. 410 00:21:39,320 --> 00:21:41,960 Speaker 1: Like that was a real football team they played and 411 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:43,600 Speaker 1: they were going to to toe with them as their 412 00:21:43,640 --> 00:21:46,680 Speaker 1: quarterback a little like arch Manning throwing balls over guys heads, 413 00:21:46,680 --> 00:21:51,119 Speaker 1: skipping balls, but their physicality. They're just well coached and 414 00:21:51,160 --> 00:21:55,040 Speaker 1: that city and area knows it, and that place was 415 00:21:55,160 --> 00:21:59,800 Speaker 1: sold out rocking Foxes there. It just felt big. It 416 00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:04,080 Speaker 1: really did. So we can argue like should should Door's 417 00:22:04,160 --> 00:22:06,840 Speaker 1: number have been retired immediately? Like I get people to 418 00:22:06,880 --> 00:22:09,000 Speaker 1: be like, it's kind of ridiculous, because it is kind 419 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:12,400 Speaker 1: of crazy when you see shaud Door Sanders and Travis Hunter. 420 00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:14,639 Speaker 1: I'd have no Travis Hunter just won the Heisman, you 421 00:22:14,680 --> 00:22:17,000 Speaker 1: want to retire. I get where people are like, this 422 00:22:17,040 --> 00:22:19,879 Speaker 1: is pretty nuts, But just in terms of Dion's impact 423 00:22:19,960 --> 00:22:25,399 Speaker 1: to that program, again irrelevant, did not matter at all 424 00:22:25,800 --> 00:22:28,320 Speaker 1: in a sport that really matters. That's the number two 425 00:22:28,320 --> 00:22:31,520 Speaker 1: sport in America. I bet that game this morning had 426 00:22:31,600 --> 00:22:34,640 Speaker 1: well over ten million people watching. Up until Game seven 427 00:22:34,680 --> 00:22:38,080 Speaker 1: of this NBA Finals, they weren't sniffing nine million. If 428 00:22:38,119 --> 00:22:40,200 Speaker 1: you told me fifteen million people in the peak were 429 00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:42,960 Speaker 1: watching Ohio State texts. I believe twenty's on the table. 430 00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:47,000 Speaker 1: Who knows the number's gonna be huge. College football really matters. 431 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:49,240 Speaker 1: I bet last night Dion will get five or six 432 00:22:49,280 --> 00:22:52,440 Speaker 1: million people watching Friday Night on Fox. But they wouldn't 433 00:22:52,440 --> 00:22:54,040 Speaker 1: have four or five years ago, not with that program, 434 00:22:54,080 --> 00:22:56,640 Speaker 1: because they would have been unwatchable. They would have been terrible. 435 00:22:57,280 --> 00:22:59,680 Speaker 1: And I just think what Dion's done from a business 436 00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:02,280 Speaker 1: stand point. Football will see how many games he wins. 437 00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:04,919 Speaker 1: I already think he's proven watching him last night, like 438 00:23:05,160 --> 00:23:07,400 Speaker 1: good coach, like he's solid, like knows what he's doing. 439 00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:10,520 Speaker 1: He's not gonna be a Colorado along, but he resurrected 440 00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:13,119 Speaker 1: and saved that program because it was better than a 441 00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:18,199 Speaker 1: door nail. I got my start in football. Many of 442 00:23:18,240 --> 00:23:21,200 Speaker 1: you know this, but at Fresno State. You know when 443 00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:22,800 Speaker 1: I go on with coward. I think he thinks I 444 00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:25,280 Speaker 1: went to Fresno State. I techically went to cal Poly. 445 00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:27,680 Speaker 1: I got. I was a GA at Presno State. I 446 00:23:27,760 --> 00:23:29,920 Speaker 1: got a you know, master's degree. No big deal, pretty 447 00:23:29,920 --> 00:23:32,160 Speaker 1: meaningless and irrelevant, and I don't even remember really going 448 00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:33,880 Speaker 1: to class. But I did get it. I got it 449 00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:37,280 Speaker 1: framed in my closet. But I take a lot of 450 00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:40,320 Speaker 1: pride in Coach Hill. I love the guy and people 451 00:23:40,359 --> 00:23:43,119 Speaker 1: I worked with there, the players that were basically the 452 00:23:43,160 --> 00:23:45,119 Speaker 1: same age as me when I went there right after college. 453 00:23:45,160 --> 00:23:47,320 Speaker 1: Still friends with a bunch, friends with a lot of 454 00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:50,280 Speaker 1: people from the Fresno area. I love Fresno State football. 455 00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:53,240 Speaker 1: My cousin played there before I went to work there. 456 00:23:53,359 --> 00:23:55,960 Speaker 1: I've rooted for the program for a long time, and 457 00:23:56,160 --> 00:23:58,679 Speaker 1: going to work for that program then I got. I 458 00:23:58,680 --> 00:24:02,080 Speaker 1: saw Boise State in their heyday had a front row seat. 459 00:24:02,119 --> 00:24:06,040 Speaker 1: So I have a lot of respect for smaller non 460 00:24:06,240 --> 00:24:10,160 Speaker 1: I get power Power five forever, but Power four programs 461 00:24:10,200 --> 00:24:13,640 Speaker 1: that aren't at that level but consistently beat those teams 462 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:16,240 Speaker 1: in a really good year in year out. It's hard 463 00:24:16,480 --> 00:24:19,640 Speaker 1: because you don't have the budgets Ohio State and Texas 464 00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:23,280 Speaker 1: of just like random Power four programs. You have no 465 00:24:23,440 --> 00:24:26,800 Speaker 1: business competing with them. And for a long time, Boise 466 00:24:27,119 --> 00:24:29,600 Speaker 1: could beat anybody, And there were years where I thought, 467 00:24:29,640 --> 00:24:33,119 Speaker 1: legitimately they could compete for a national championship. The one 468 00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:36,359 Speaker 1: year Kaepernick beat him in Nevada at night when I 469 00:24:36,400 --> 00:24:39,560 Speaker 1: think Boise missed a couple field goals, I thought, that's 470 00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:41,239 Speaker 1: Boise's best team ever. I thought they could have won 471 00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:44,359 Speaker 1: the national championship. And fres though I don't think we 472 00:24:44,359 --> 00:24:47,040 Speaker 1: were ever quite good enough on defense, but NFL players 473 00:24:47,200 --> 00:24:50,600 Speaker 1: constantly guys drafted in the first, second round, guys drafted 474 00:24:50,680 --> 00:24:52,639 Speaker 1: in a bunch of different rounds. It was a legitimate 475 00:24:52,760 --> 00:24:56,399 Speaker 1: NFL program. It pains me to say this. The days 476 00:24:56,440 --> 00:25:01,240 Speaker 1: of those type programs are done. It's over. Nil killed 477 00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:03,560 Speaker 1: them a couple weeks ago, when I was flying to 478 00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:06,640 Speaker 1: Hawaii Week zero, Fresno State got their teeth kicked in 479 00:25:07,080 --> 00:25:12,320 Speaker 1: by Kansas. Twenty four hours ago, Boise got worked by 480 00:25:12,320 --> 00:25:16,840 Speaker 1: the University of South Florida got destroyed. And last year 481 00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:21,080 Speaker 1: you saw Boise in the playoffs. And obviously an enormous 482 00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:24,040 Speaker 1: reason that they made it that far and had an 483 00:25:24,080 --> 00:25:27,320 Speaker 1: excellent team was their star running back, who had a 484 00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:31,840 Speaker 1: season that paralleled Barry Sanders Well, I didn't know this, 485 00:25:32,000 --> 00:25:33,800 Speaker 1: but right at the beginning of the year last year 486 00:25:33,840 --> 00:25:37,440 Speaker 1: there was an athletic article on it, and coach Dickert, 487 00:25:37,440 --> 00:25:39,359 Speaker 1: who actually is at Wake Forest now it came on 488 00:25:39,359 --> 00:25:47,159 Speaker 1: this podcast, had given interviews as well the Boise program 489 00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:49,280 Speaker 1: and the boosters in the NAL. The most money they 490 00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:52,399 Speaker 1: could pay the kid was three hundred thousand dollars, which 491 00:25:52,480 --> 00:25:56,120 Speaker 1: was by far the most money given to a guy 492 00:25:56,160 --> 00:25:58,359 Speaker 1: in the Mountain West. I think it's called the Pac twelve. 493 00:25:58,440 --> 00:25:59,880 Speaker 1: None of us know, none of us give a shit. 494 00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:03,320 Speaker 1: Bottom line, that group of teams right the San Diego States, 495 00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:07,000 Speaker 1: the New Mexico's, Oregon State, Washington State. Highest paid guy 496 00:26:07,280 --> 00:26:11,000 Speaker 1: was three hundred thousand dollars. Ashton genty Well, he turned 497 00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:13,320 Speaker 1: down to stay at Boise because he was very loyal. 498 00:26:13,359 --> 00:26:18,000 Speaker 1: He's like a military brat. He was offered seven figures 499 00:26:18,040 --> 00:26:20,359 Speaker 1: by multiple programs and he turned him down because he 500 00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:23,399 Speaker 1: had loyalty to Boise and then had this historic season. 501 00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:27,480 Speaker 1: That is an outlier situation. The equivalent of Austin genty 502 00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:31,320 Speaker 1: at those type programs are gone one hundred percent of 503 00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:33,440 Speaker 1: the time. Moving forward, when I was at Fresleo State. 504 00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:37,240 Speaker 1: We had Ryan Matthews who was drafted I think twelfth overall. 505 00:26:37,480 --> 00:26:41,000 Speaker 1: Who's our running back? He replaced led Dani and Thomlinson 506 00:26:41,080 --> 00:26:43,639 Speaker 1: with the Chargers. They literally cut him and drafted Ryan 507 00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:46,520 Speaker 1: to replace him. Didn't go well. He got injured a lot, 508 00:26:46,560 --> 00:26:49,080 Speaker 1: but Ryan was like a freak down. There is no 509 00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:52,440 Speaker 1: way on God's green Earth if the nil existed, Ryan 510 00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:54,480 Speaker 1: would have been on the Fresleo State team his junior 511 00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:57,360 Speaker 1: year that we couldn't afford it to keep him despite 512 00:26:57,400 --> 00:27:01,320 Speaker 1: his loyalty. Because there gets dual points like Texas or 513 00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:04,800 Speaker 1: USC or whoever is offering me one point four million 514 00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:06,879 Speaker 1: dollars and the most you can pay me is one 515 00:27:06,960 --> 00:27:09,720 Speaker 1: hundred and seventy five thousand dollars in free sandwiches. These 516 00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:12,639 Speaker 1: teams cannot compete. And listen, you could argue that's the 517 00:27:12,680 --> 00:27:17,200 Speaker 1: way the world works in a capitalistic society with the economics. 518 00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:19,879 Speaker 1: The way this world operates from Target to Walmart has 519 00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:23,080 Speaker 1: been knocking out the little guy forever. That's the way 520 00:27:23,359 --> 00:27:26,600 Speaker 1: we operate in the business world. Why is football any different? 521 00:27:27,240 --> 00:27:30,760 Speaker 1: And it's not. And I'm not saying that that's wrong 522 00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:32,760 Speaker 1: because if I was one of these kids. And I 523 00:27:32,920 --> 00:27:35,800 Speaker 1: was at San Diego State and Ohio State got on 524 00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:38,640 Speaker 1: the horn and said, this happened to Josh Simmons. The dude, 525 00:27:38,640 --> 00:27:44,080 Speaker 1: the Chiefs just drafted thirty first. I didn't know this. 526 00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:46,240 Speaker 1: I assumed, like, oh, this is a five star left tackle. 527 00:27:46,560 --> 00:27:50,160 Speaker 1: He started his career at San Diego State. So when 528 00:27:50,200 --> 00:27:52,040 Speaker 1: you have an elite talent, when you have a blue 529 00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:55,200 Speaker 1: chip guy that for whatever reason, maybe his grades, maybe 530 00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:57,439 Speaker 1: he was an underachiever in high school, maybe he was 531 00:27:57,480 --> 00:28:01,959 Speaker 1: just a late bloomer. The moment you become bloom like, 532 00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:05,680 Speaker 1: you become good like, it's clear, like there's no denying 533 00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:09,119 Speaker 1: how talented a guy is. He's gonna go to Oregon, 534 00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:11,360 Speaker 1: he's gonna go to Ohio State, he's gonna go to Alabama, 535 00:28:11,359 --> 00:28:13,280 Speaker 1: he's gonna go to LSU. And I don't blame any 536 00:28:13,320 --> 00:28:16,200 Speaker 1: of these guys, because those guys out of high school 537 00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:18,200 Speaker 1: would have gone to those places if they were offered 538 00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:21,640 Speaker 1: a scholarship. But it's over the little guy. And this 539 00:28:21,680 --> 00:28:24,560 Speaker 1: we saw this in college basketball last year. The reason 540 00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:27,360 Speaker 1: that the number one seeds are all gonna consistently be 541 00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:30,000 Speaker 1: making huge runs the number one and two seeds is 542 00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:33,160 Speaker 1: because the butlers of the world had a chance back 543 00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:36,560 Speaker 1: in the day Vcus. They will never have those players 544 00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:39,320 Speaker 1: on the team their senior year. Why because they would 545 00:28:39,320 --> 00:28:42,040 Speaker 1: be bought and paid for by their sophomore year. And 546 00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:45,280 Speaker 1: that's definitely happening in college football. So the top brands 547 00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:47,800 Speaker 1: in college football have always had a big advantage. The 548 00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:50,760 Speaker 1: same teams have been winning most of my life. In 549 00:28:50,800 --> 00:28:53,920 Speaker 1: the nineties, it was like Nebraska, Florida State, Miami. Over 550 00:28:53,960 --> 00:28:59,960 Speaker 1: the last twenty five years in Florida, it's been Ohio State, Alabama, Georgia, 551 00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:03,840 Speaker 1: right those teams the top. The cream of the crop 552 00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:05,920 Speaker 1: has been the cream of the crop, give or take 553 00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:08,480 Speaker 1: a team or two for a long period of time. 554 00:29:09,080 --> 00:29:11,960 Speaker 1: But it is never going to be less fair moving 555 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:14,080 Speaker 1: forward for the little guy. And this is what I 556 00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:19,720 Speaker 1: said when they created the playoffs, I didn't understand why 557 00:29:20,720 --> 00:29:23,640 Speaker 1: they gave an automatic bid to the non power for conference. 558 00:29:23,680 --> 00:29:25,800 Speaker 1: Then a bunch of people in the college football world said, well, 559 00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:28,600 Speaker 1: it's because of like litigation. They don't want to get sued. 560 00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:30,400 Speaker 1: I get it, but I don't think they deserve a 561 00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:33,040 Speaker 1: spot like last year. If you want to give Boise 562 00:29:33,120 --> 00:29:35,240 Speaker 1: State because they have this great player, but for the 563 00:29:35,240 --> 00:29:38,080 Speaker 1: most part, like just give James Madison a spot because 564 00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:40,400 Speaker 1: they went twelve and zero, Like I'm sorry that they shouldn't. 565 00:29:40,920 --> 00:29:43,800 Speaker 1: And hopefully as time goes on that changes and we 566 00:29:43,840 --> 00:29:46,640 Speaker 1: stop worried about getting sued in terms of like we 567 00:29:46,680 --> 00:29:51,200 Speaker 1: just want the best teams in the dance. But when 568 00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:52,920 Speaker 1: it comes, if you're a fan of those programs, if 569 00:29:52,920 --> 00:29:54,960 Speaker 1: you went to school those programs and it was always 570 00:29:54,960 --> 00:29:57,240 Speaker 1: cool knowing like we could take on the big dog, 571 00:29:57,320 --> 00:30:00,560 Speaker 1: you can't anymore, and you won't even have the players 572 00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:03,240 Speaker 1: on your team by the time they come into their 573 00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:05,760 Speaker 1: own as star players, because they will be picked off, 574 00:30:06,520 --> 00:30:08,920 Speaker 1: they will be bought, and they will be stolen to 575 00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:14,240 Speaker 1: other players. My wife was like, what's the transfer portal? 576 00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:16,560 Speaker 1: And I started to explain it. She's like, so kind 577 00:30:16,560 --> 00:30:19,520 Speaker 1: of like a dating app. I'm like, kind of like 578 00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:22,240 Speaker 1: a dating app where you put in your information, but 579 00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:25,880 Speaker 1: then whoever would quote unquote be on you know, the 580 00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:28,640 Speaker 1: other side, who wanted to date you, basically has to 581 00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:30,960 Speaker 1: buy you. So if you're a good player and you 582 00:30:31,040 --> 00:30:33,880 Speaker 1: throw your name in the transfer portal, you get bought. 583 00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:36,840 Speaker 1: And the reason typically you put your name in there, 584 00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:39,760 Speaker 1: obviously some people's like I'm not playing, but a lot 585 00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:43,400 Speaker 1: of people go like Minnesota. I think today they were saying, 586 00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:48,080 Speaker 1: Ohio State's one of their offensive linemen is from Minnesota. Well, 587 00:30:48,200 --> 00:30:51,800 Speaker 1: clearly what happened. Ohio State's watching this kid in Minnesota, going, God, 588 00:30:51,840 --> 00:30:54,800 Speaker 1: this guy's really good. He would start for us. So 589 00:30:55,080 --> 00:30:58,120 Speaker 1: whether he will the back channel or hell they maybe 590 00:30:58,120 --> 00:31:00,680 Speaker 1: they just text them or DM directly. You want to 591 00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:02,240 Speaker 1: start at for a house state and the answer is 592 00:31:02,240 --> 00:31:04,920 Speaker 1: gonna be this guy's at Minnesota. This is a powerful program, 593 00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:07,560 Speaker 1: like a good year in the Big Ten, But fuck you, 594 00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:08,880 Speaker 1: I'd like to play at a host state. Would you 595 00:31:08,880 --> 00:31:11,480 Speaker 1: would you rather throw a party for winning eight games 596 00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:13,320 Speaker 1: or try to win a national championship. I don't even 597 00:31:13,400 --> 00:31:15,680 Speaker 1: I don't blame any of these guys. Hell you could 598 00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:18,960 Speaker 1: argue it's the money is secondary. Like who's turned down 599 00:31:19,000 --> 00:31:21,160 Speaker 1: going to Oregon, going to Texas, going to Ohio State 600 00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:23,520 Speaker 1: if they had the opportunity from a smaller program. But 601 00:31:23,560 --> 00:31:26,080 Speaker 1: that opportunity didn't really used to exist because like no 602 00:31:26,120 --> 00:31:27,720 Speaker 1: one was gonna sit out a year. It's like I'll 603 00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:28,960 Speaker 1: just play all ball out here and I'll be a 604 00:31:28,960 --> 00:31:31,520 Speaker 1: second round pick. Well now it's like I'll just ball 605 00:31:31,560 --> 00:31:33,400 Speaker 1: out here until they call me, and then I'll go 606 00:31:33,440 --> 00:31:35,840 Speaker 1: there and I'll ball out even more with more people 607 00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:37,720 Speaker 1: watching and make more money and then be a second 608 00:31:37,760 --> 00:31:40,760 Speaker 1: round pick. So that's clearly what's happening right now, and 609 00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:47,600 Speaker 1: in a weird way, it saddens me a little. The 610 00:31:47,720 --> 00:31:48,200 Speaker 1: volume