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Visit 0:00:40.440 --> 0:00:42.959 Navy Federal dot org for more information. 0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:48.440 Welcome to the solid verbal Come that for me. 0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:51.080 I'm a man, I'm forty. 0:00:51.159 --> 0:00:53.000 I've heard so many players say, well, I want to 0:00:53.040 --> 0:00:53.559 be happy. 0:00:53.680 --> 0:00:55.880 You want to be happy? For day A to state? 0:00:56.240 --> 0:00:56.480 Is that? 0:00:56.600 --> 0:00:57.000 Whoom? 0:00:57.000 --> 0:01:00.760 Whoom? And now down and tie. 0:01:01.400 --> 0:01:04.280 Welcome back to the solid verbal boys and girls. 0:01:04.360 --> 0:01:05.720 My name is Ty Hildebrandt. 0:01:05.760 --> 0:01:11.160 Joining me is always over there in Springy. 0:01:09.640 --> 0:01:12.440 New York City. Dan rubistein, sir, how are you, Ty? 0:01:12.600 --> 0:01:16.040 I have a business proposition for you and for us 0:01:16.120 --> 0:01:19.760 and for solid verbal media. Ooh ooh, now hold on pause, Yeah, 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:25.560 is this my long running, greatest idea ever of starting 0:01:25.560 --> 0:01:29.440 an Ottoman only department s or titled the Ottoman Empire. Now, 0:01:29.520 --> 0:01:33.200 we can't build businesses solely to satisfy you're telling you 0:01:33.959 --> 0:01:38.880 this would work, but it's not fully far off from that. Okay, 0:01:39.360 --> 0:01:42.240 So you saw the news story that dominated the headlines, 0:01:42.440 --> 0:01:46.720 tangentially related to college football but not really with college 0:01:46.760 --> 0:01:51.639 coaches and administrators in on a scheme with sat people 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:53.920 and wealthy parents who are trying to get their kids 0:01:54.000 --> 0:01:58.600 into USC or Yale or Stanford. These these bigger, more interesting, 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:00.800 I don't know if they're more interesting, but more prestigious 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:02.200 in certain ways schools. 0:02:01.920 --> 0:02:04.600 Right, Aunt Becky ensnared in that one. 0:02:04.720 --> 0:02:09.200 Yes, and Felicity Huffman, and part of the scheme involved 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:15.320 using college sports teams as ways for these kids to 0:02:15.400 --> 0:02:18.320 oh their prospects, their recruits. We're not going through the 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:22.360 normal student avenue to apply to get into USC or 0:02:22.400 --> 0:02:25.000 Stanford or Yale or Georgetown or any of these schools. 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:28.840 We're going to try and apply as a prospective student 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:33.560 athlete and therefore bypass the normal channels and have a 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:36.960 coach say yes, except this person. They are somebody I'm 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:41.600 interested in. And because these sports are not necessarily scholarship sports, 0:02:41.600 --> 0:02:43.800 and you know it's more difficult with a sport like 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:44.760 football or basketball. 0:02:44.800 --> 0:02:47.640 Sure, sure, I got you until. 0:02:47.320 --> 0:02:53.119 The solid verbal comes around and gives credibility to whoever 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:57.400 needs it as a college football recruit on whatever level. 0:02:58.280 --> 0:03:02.120 Just very casually saying, hey, Ty, did you see uh 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:09.080 Ian uh Ian Fingelson is a pretty interesting h back 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:11.880 out of luth min is sod? 0:03:12.040 --> 0:03:15.080 Did you realize that this will be exhibit A in 0:03:15.160 --> 0:03:16.400 our conspiracy trial? 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:20.040 What I will say is it was all a joke. Okay, 0:03:20.200 --> 0:03:23.160 it was all a timely joke that works. And so 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:26.880 because people know we are largely full of nonsense on 0:03:26.960 --> 0:03:30.959 this show, sure they will ignore this very seriousness wink 0:03:31.000 --> 0:03:35.840 wink of this, this scheme that I've devised. So the 0:03:35.920 --> 0:03:40.120 problem with football is that, especially at big schools, everybody 0:03:40.120 --> 0:03:44.600 knows the recruits. Everybody knows the pretty substantial You have. 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:47.360 Thought an all star for about this, haven't you? I'm 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:49.760 picking this up here. You've really spent some time thinking 0:03:49.760 --> 0:03:50.480 this through. 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:53.400 Ty, I've got a kid now. College isn't getting any cheaper. 0:03:53.840 --> 0:03:57.760 Diapers aren't cheap. Sports media isn't what he used to 0:03:57.920 --> 0:04:00.720 It is not, It really isn't. So what I am 0:04:00.760 --> 0:04:03.960 proposing Ty, you're not We're not recording this right, Well 0:04:04.720 --> 0:04:07.840 we are, actually, Yes, what I am always play a 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:11.840 long time. What I am proposing is we give that 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:16.919 very organic casual credibility to anybody who wants to be 0:04:17.000 --> 0:04:20.280 thought of as a serious football recruit. We have this 0:04:20.360 --> 0:04:24.360 is we have had our DM slid into by coaches 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:25.200 and administrator. 0:04:25.279 --> 0:04:26.960 This is this is one hundred percent true. 0:04:27.320 --> 0:04:31.560 We have ears tie. I'm just it's probably too late. 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:33.200 It is now, it is too late. 0:04:33.240 --> 0:04:35.719 Steam theme is taking on a whole new meaning in 0:04:35.760 --> 0:04:36.520 twenty nineteen. 0:04:36.600 --> 0:04:39.280 Yes, I think the jig maybe up, the maybe up. 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:43.760 Maybe this is the second Remember Napster tried to go again. Yeah, 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:47.440 after everything went awry, after Metallica got there their two 0:04:47.440 --> 0:04:50.520 to three cents. Maybe this is our second wave of 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:51.040 the jig. 0:04:51.279 --> 0:04:55.520 Anyway, welcome back to the show fight on I'm tie. 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:56.120 He is Dan. 0:04:56.600 --> 0:04:59.760 You can always write in solid verbal at gmail dot com. 0:05:00.880 --> 0:05:04.040 Where else, Well, we're on Twitter, We're on Facebook. We've 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:07.080 been a little bit more active on Instagram as of late, 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:10.240 posting some of the trials and tribulations here of the 0:05:10.279 --> 0:05:11.440 college football off season. 0:05:12.120 --> 0:05:14.320 Slide into our DMS. There, Yeah, we're. 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:18.599 Av man wherever We've also got a subreddit started, Buyverballers 0:05:18.880 --> 0:05:21.760 four of her Ballers at reddit dot com slash r 0:05:22.200 --> 0:05:24.800 slash Solid Verbal. Of course, you could download the show 0:05:25.240 --> 0:05:26.800 wherever you get your podcasts. 0:05:27.400 --> 0:05:29.520 And I wanted to ask you before we go much. 0:05:29.400 --> 0:05:30.680 Further, because I know we got to talk about the 0:05:30.720 --> 0:05:33.159 PAC twelve and you did an interview with Bruce that 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:36.279 we want to get to. But the college basketball tournament 0:05:36.720 --> 0:05:39.520 is set to start next week. I have not watched 0:05:40.360 --> 0:05:45.800 a second of college basketball all year, okay all year, 0:05:46.440 --> 0:05:50.600 but typically we do our pool here for a free 0:05:50.640 --> 0:05:51.080 T shirt. 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:51.600 Yes, we do. 0:05:51.760 --> 0:05:53.760 Just wanted to verify that you were still gaming to 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:55.320 do that ready, Yes, of course. 0:05:55.440 --> 0:05:55.640 Yeah. 0:05:55.720 --> 0:05:58.400 Okay, we have Mama h and there, we have solid 0:05:58.400 --> 0:06:00.360 wife Kate, we have Jody with and I we might 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:02.560 have the solid baby fit out of bracket. Somehow, I'll 0:06:02.600 --> 0:06:05.680 figure out a way. Mama and Papa Rubinstein. Sure, this 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:08.719 is a it's a family affair, and you haven't watched it. 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:10.960 I've watched some college basketball because I do a show 0:06:11.360 --> 0:06:14.560 on ESPN Plus for our friends at the Action Networks 0:06:14.640 --> 0:06:17.320 with some college basketball and gambling during the spring. So 0:06:17.680 --> 0:06:18.160 I've watched. 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:20.799 We are in the presence yeah royalty. 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:25.040 Okay, yeah, cool, well all right, now stay tuned on 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:27.360 the Twitter, the Facebook, we'll post it on Instagram. 0:06:27.600 --> 0:06:29.440 It'll be on ESPN, right, so if you go to 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:32.400 that ESPN it's called generally like the Bracket Challenge, Yeah, 0:06:32.400 --> 0:06:33.760 the Tournament Challenge. 0:06:33.760 --> 0:06:34.320 It'll be there. 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:37.000 If you the solid verbal, it will be easily found. 0:06:37.040 --> 0:06:38.640 It's the same group that it's always been. 0:06:38.720 --> 0:06:41.400 But we'll send out notice as best we can through 0:06:41.440 --> 0:06:44.600 all the social channels and jump on in a couple 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:47.400 of times if you want, we don't care, and if 0:06:47.400 --> 0:06:48.440 you win, you get a free shirt. 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:51.000 Oh it's great, so soft. 0:06:50.920 --> 0:06:53.680 Okay With that being said, Dan, what are we talking 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:54.240 about today? 0:06:54.720 --> 0:06:57.280 So we're talking? I mean you've seen the title. It's 0:06:57.279 --> 0:07:00.320 the PAC twelve Autopsy Show. We've done sec AC in 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:02.760 Big twelve, so now we just have the Big ten. 0:07:03.000 --> 0:07:06.160 In terms of Power five conferences, I'd like to do 0:07:06.240 --> 0:07:09.600 some group of five as well, but today's PAC twelve. 0:07:09.600 --> 0:07:11.720 We have Bruce Feldman, who has been on this show 0:07:11.800 --> 0:07:14.400 for basically as long as the show has existed. Yep, 0:07:14.640 --> 0:07:17.160 a good friend of the show. And before we get 0:07:17.160 --> 0:07:19.840 into that though, I just want to bounce things off 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:22.760 of each other, please, with regard to where the PAC 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:25.560 twelve not as much. I talked about this with Bruce 0:07:25.600 --> 0:07:27.600 a little bit. The end of it, the perception of 0:07:27.640 --> 0:07:30.280 the conference and all of the like, everything is crumbling, 0:07:30.440 --> 0:07:35.440 it's falling apart, the Roman Empire. Now to you off 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:38.440 season stories, the way that you look back on how 0:07:38.480 --> 0:07:41.360 the PAC twelve season ended, the way you feel about 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:43.760 things as you look way into the future about the 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:47.400 twenty nineteen season for the PAC twelve. Is it just 0:07:47.840 --> 0:07:52.240 USC and upheaval there that's defining the moment? What else 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:53.000 stands out to you? 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:55.000 I think in light of what we saw on the 0:07:55.040 --> 0:08:01.120 recruiting trail, I'm very intrigued for the next chapter of 0:08:01.160 --> 0:08:04.520 the Chip Kelly era at UCLA. Ucla did not set 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:07.960 the world on fire, had moments from a recruiting standpoint, 0:08:07.960 --> 0:08:10.000 I'm talking correct, Yes, yeah, did not set the world 0:08:10.040 --> 0:08:14.200 on fire there. I am way more interested, I think 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:19.320 in what I see as turmoil with a few teams 0:08:19.440 --> 0:08:22.960 in the South. Not that I'm not interested in where 0:08:23.040 --> 0:08:26.240 Washington State goes now, and certainly Washington and Oregon, who 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:28.280 I think could have a really good year, But you know, 0:08:28.320 --> 0:08:31.320 I'm interested in USC that next chapter. As you mentioned, 0:08:31.520 --> 0:08:35.400 what happens at usc UCLA, What is the next chapter 0:08:35.480 --> 0:08:38.440 for them? Colorado's got a new coach in mel Tucker. 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:42.679 We talked about mel Tucker a couple shows ago. Brandon 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:44.960 Huffman talked about how he thought that was actually a 0:08:44.960 --> 0:08:47.320 really good fit. It looked like it was working out well. 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:49.600 And then you know, at the end of the day, 0:08:49.600 --> 0:08:52.360 I'm just real curious to know how Utah is going 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:56.640 to manage to win nine games again, sure, and defy 0:08:56.720 --> 0:08:59.520 the odds despite I know, come August, we're going to 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:01.720 look at you on say yeah they're seven and five team. 0:09:01.800 --> 0:09:03.880 Yeah, yeah, we'll be wrong like we are every every 0:09:03.960 --> 0:09:07.839 year they win nine games. I in my mind, UCLA 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:13.080 is incredibly intriguing, not necessarily in the short term, but like, 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:15.240 and you're you are in this business. You're quite literally 0:09:15.240 --> 0:09:17.840 in the business of when when a website gets redesigned, 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:21.760 an app gets redesigned. Sorry excuse me, you are in 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:23.800 the information technology business. 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:24.880 You said that was better? 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:29.080 That was better? Yes, when a website gets completely overhauled 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:32.240 and redesigned, or a new operating system comes out, what happens. 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:34.920 Everybody hates it, right, I was like, oh, this, where's 0:09:34.920 --> 0:09:37.800 Where's the menu, where's the and then a week later, 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:41.120 two weeks later, it's either real still really bad, or 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:43.280 people just get used to it, people just move on. 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:46.440 I'm curious both as it relates to Chip Kelly and 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:49.080 his career and his legacy as a college coach. And 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:52.440 for UCLA what this whatever it is two point oh 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:57.480 three point oh four point zero, redesign, reboot, refresh, What 0:09:57.559 --> 0:09:59.560 we end up thinking about at the end of twenty 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:02.480 nineteen with it isn't that is incredibly intriguing to me. 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:07.200 The USC turmoil upheaval, that's all well documented. I'm genuinely 0:10:07.200 --> 0:10:09.920 excited to see what their offense evolves into. With Graham 0:10:09.920 --> 0:10:14.960 Harrell the Arizona Schools. Is Kalil tap good again? What 0:10:15.000 --> 0:10:17.440 does ASU look like in your two of herm without 0:10:17.480 --> 0:10:21.240 Todd Graham? Guys, how deep are they really? Even though 0:10:21.280 --> 0:10:23.240 he has recruited pretty well. The melt Tucker thing is 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:26.199 interesting to me, and you mentioned Brandon Huffman. Melt Tucker, 0:10:26.240 --> 0:10:29.520 I believe is the one new PAC twelve coach, and 0:10:30.120 --> 0:10:33.800 I think I am more excited than I am skeptical 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:38.000 of him. But I'd like to see what they look 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:40.960 like on the recruiting trail and how much they go 0:10:41.000 --> 0:10:43.800 about doing things in an even slightly unorthodox way. I 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:46.840 would have loved for Colorado to have hired the Princeton 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:49.400 offensive coordinator who ended up at Oklahoma State. Like I 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:51.760 felt like that out of the box hire would have 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:54.400 been really nice at Colorado because there it really doesn't 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:55.920 seem like they're gonna be able to pull in top 0:10:55.960 --> 0:10:59.840 twenty classes, but it's a great place to go to school, 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:03.760 and it's a picturesque experience in Boulder. I'm curious about 0:11:03.800 --> 0:11:06.520 that Utah. I don't think there's anything new to wonder 0:11:06.520 --> 0:11:08.920 about with Utah. The Utah's Utah under Kyle Winningham. 0:11:09.160 --> 0:11:11.199 I just look at this and I see a tale 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:15.400 of two cities, with the North being the sim city 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:19.640 with the cool arcologies, you know, and things are bright 0:11:19.679 --> 0:11:23.160 and sunny and looking up, and the South being just 0:11:23.280 --> 0:11:25.640 maybe that side that's going to have a tornado. 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:28.960 Or the disasters are turned up to ten. A high 0:11:29.000 --> 0:11:31.520 crime rate in that area, it's just a rioting. 0:11:32.000 --> 0:11:33.880 Yeah, A lot going on in the South that I 0:11:33.880 --> 0:11:36.640 think makes it more interesting on the surface. 0:11:36.559 --> 0:11:38.800 With Utah, just like Yep, they have a rent controlled 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:42.160 building and things are going pretty well. Ye people are 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:46.240 paying the rent. It's a nice little courtyard up north. Though. 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:49.560 I'm in for sure optimistic about Oregon, but I am 0:11:49.600 --> 0:11:53.200 also very much in prove it mode. You tell me 0:11:53.559 --> 0:11:56.360 Justin Herbert's a top five pick. You tell me they've 0:11:56.400 --> 0:11:58.640 recruited super well. I saw what they looked like on 0:11:58.679 --> 0:12:01.600 the road last year. I am show me, prove it. 0:12:01.800 --> 0:12:05.160 Let's see it. Washington should once again be very good. 0:12:05.240 --> 0:12:08.840 Wazoo is the most fun wild card in the conference. 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:13.800 And I'm worried Stanford is trending downward a little bit. 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:17.839 I have some worry about that, But otherwise, I think 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:23.480 in terms of variability, in terms of storylines, as we've 0:12:23.520 --> 0:12:25.120 seen year in and year out when we had the 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:27.960 Big Twelve, sky is falling. They're going down to ten teams. 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:30.280 They can't attract anybody to join the conference, and the 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:33.360 only teams they can attract are from the AAC or 0:12:33.400 --> 0:12:36.199 from whatever conference that really isn't a huge market or 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:41.080 a huge athletic program. 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We could do it. 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:28.320 Done all right. 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:31.000 On that note, Daniel did an interview with our good 0:15:31.000 --> 0:15:34.280 friend Bruce Felman from The Athletic in Fox Sports. 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:35.920 Have a listen. 0:15:36.120 --> 0:15:42.040 We'll pick it up on the flip side. 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:46.160 And with that we now bring in our long, long time, 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:49.840 dear dear friend Bruce Feldman from the Athletic and from 0:15:49.920 --> 0:15:53.480 Fox Sports on a sideline near you. He's a TV star, 0:15:53.720 --> 0:15:56.800 he's a podcasting star, he's an on the page star. 0:15:57.080 --> 0:15:58.840 Are you in any other mediums right now? 0:15:59.280 --> 0:15:59.440 No? 0:15:59.800 --> 0:16:00.520 That is it. 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:03.960 You've covered my whole profile so great. 0:16:04.480 --> 0:16:06.680 I am glad to have done it. Here's my question 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:09.280 before we start in with the PAC twelve teams. In 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:12.640 our PAC twelve autopsy, a story came out that Larry 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:15.680 Scott is staying in a seventy five, one hundred dollars 0:16:15.760 --> 0:16:18.720 a night suite in Las Vegas for the PAC twelve tournament. 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:21.160 I have no idea how true any of these numbers are. 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:25.520 What is the nicest hotel room you have ever stayed in? 0:16:25.640 --> 0:16:28.800 As somebody who is constantly in hotel rooms. 0:16:29.080 --> 0:16:32.800 You know, it's actually in the Vegas area. Okay, I 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:36.760 had some buddies who had a hookup in like a 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:39.920 Green Valley Ranch or Green Valley. 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:41.640 Yeah, it's like Henderson, Nevada. 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:45.560 It is in Henderson, Nevada. And you know, I think 0:16:45.560 --> 0:16:48.120 we had like eight flat screen TVs in the in 0:16:48.160 --> 0:16:51.600 the place it was. We got a deal and we 0:16:51.640 --> 0:16:54.760 got a deal for like five ninety nine at night, 0:16:55.400 --> 0:16:57.120 and that was a deal. I was like, wait, and 0:16:57.160 --> 0:17:00.680 this was I don't know, this is fifteen years ago 0:17:01.120 --> 0:17:05.879 or so, but it was an outrageously nice setup we 0:17:05.960 --> 0:17:09.520 had at that point that would be the nicest in 0:17:09.600 --> 0:17:13.119 terms of in terms of on the road with Fox. 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:15.840 A couple of years ago, we did a big, big, 0:17:16.119 --> 0:17:20.120 Big twelve title game. We stayed at the Four Seasons 0:17:20.160 --> 0:17:23.119 maybe in Las Colinas, And when we were there, it 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:25.440 was the same time the Redskins were playing the Cowboys 0:17:25.440 --> 0:17:27.600 on a Thursday night game and they were the Redskins 0:17:27.640 --> 0:17:29.360 were staying it hotel. It was a pretty awesome set 0:17:29.440 --> 0:17:33.320 up there, But again I would go with the one 0:17:33.440 --> 0:17:35.400 in Vegas that really really popped. 0:17:36.160 --> 0:17:39.600 What's the number one amenity you need? Is it a gym? 0:17:39.720 --> 0:17:41.760 Is it you know high water pressure? Is it a 0:17:41.800 --> 0:17:44.440 super comfortable bed, dependable Wi Fi? What is the one 0:17:44.520 --> 0:17:48.080 atop all amenity mountains? 0:17:48.480 --> 0:17:52.120 Oh? That's good. I would say a great gym really 0:17:52.160 --> 0:17:54.480 stands out. Our TV crew last year we would we 0:17:54.480 --> 0:17:57.600 would joke with the fittest crew in college football show. 0:17:58.480 --> 0:18:01.240 We would we love a couple of places we had 0:18:01.240 --> 0:18:05.240 that had like real big gyms and and set ups 0:18:05.240 --> 0:18:09.600 as the postig. Remember we had the Apple Cup and 0:18:09.640 --> 0:18:12.119 there were three of us in the in the workout room, 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:16.560 which was like literally like a closet any place else, 0:18:17.440 --> 0:18:20.399 and so where you'd have to like stretch outside in 0:18:20.480 --> 0:18:23.960 the hall or outside literally while other people were like 0:18:24.119 --> 0:18:28.400 on the one elliptical. So I would say, probably Jim, 0:18:28.480 --> 0:18:30.120 that's that's the number one thing. 0:18:30.840 --> 0:18:34.880 This is you Joe Davis and Brady Quinn. Yes, Okay, 0:18:35.080 --> 0:18:36.919 now I can see that. I don't know who which 0:18:37.560 --> 0:18:40.040 crew would rival that. I'm trying to think of, like 0:18:40.240 --> 0:18:44.080 former linebackers that are in crazy shape. Chris Pielman is not. No, 0:18:44.440 --> 0:18:47.440 I think that's probably herb Street and Fowler is not bad. 0:18:47.640 --> 0:18:51.119 No, But I mean, like right now, Brady's still in 0:18:51.160 --> 0:18:53.640 pretty ridiculous shape. He looks like an NFL tight end. 0:18:54.080 --> 0:18:57.400 Mar'ting that many any analysts who are in that shape. 0:18:57.880 --> 0:19:00.760 Joe is young. I mean, Joe is like. I don't 0:19:00.760 --> 0:19:02.600 say it's half the age of Chris, because Chris is 0:19:02.600 --> 0:19:05.399 in really good shape, whether he's you know, thirty five 0:19:05.760 --> 0:19:09.399 or you know, fifty, but you know, Joe is like 0:19:09.480 --> 0:19:14.119 thirty one years old. So you know, I think we 0:19:14.240 --> 0:19:16.680 all are like huge workout people. So I think that's 0:19:16.760 --> 0:19:20.200 part of it. I'm probably dragging the dragging down that curve. 0:19:20.240 --> 0:19:22.720 But I did want to play basketball against Maria Taylor 0:19:22.760 --> 0:19:24.760 at TCU one day. She's there sideline. 0:19:25.000 --> 0:19:26.440 How'd you do Marie? 0:19:26.480 --> 0:19:29.919 It was a college athlete, she was sports there. I 0:19:30.160 --> 0:19:32.639 do remember, like, you know, her trying to post us. 0:19:32.680 --> 0:19:33.840 It's like, you need to get out of here. This 0:19:33.920 --> 0:19:34.480 is embarrassed. 0:19:34.640 --> 0:19:36.120 Wow. I like it. 0:19:36.600 --> 0:19:39.560 All right, let's go to football before you talk about 0:19:39.560 --> 0:19:43.119 embarrassing basketball stories. Give me a number between one and twelve. 0:19:43.119 --> 0:19:45.960 We will attack this randomly, and so I don't select teams. 0:19:46.000 --> 0:19:47.600 I want to talk about more than others and you 0:19:47.640 --> 0:19:49.439 do the same number between one and twelve. 0:19:50.080 --> 0:19:51.720 First number is eight. 0:19:51.840 --> 0:19:54.960 Okay, we're talking Stanford. Stanford, they have a lot to 0:19:55.000 --> 0:19:58.840 replace both with their offensive skill. I think the top 0:19:58.880 --> 0:20:02.240 three or four pass catchers gone new offensive coordinator that 0:20:02.320 --> 0:20:05.320 makes us all feel very old and Tavita Prichard, and 0:20:05.520 --> 0:20:07.120 I think they're replacing a lot on the back half 0:20:07.160 --> 0:20:11.120 of their defense. Question to you is, do you think 0:20:11.200 --> 0:20:15.520 kJ Costello is good enough to will this offense forward? 0:20:15.600 --> 0:20:16.840 I think I do? Do you? 0:20:18.080 --> 0:20:20.720 I do? We We did have done a couple of 0:20:20.760 --> 0:20:23.920 kJ Costello games. I'm a believer in him. You're right, 0:20:23.960 --> 0:20:26.359 they did lose some really good skill guys. The offensive line, 0:20:26.400 --> 0:20:29.160 which has some talent. You know, is the first year 0:20:29.400 --> 0:20:31.679 in the post Mike won Boom gern Era. I know 0:20:31.720 --> 0:20:35.320 a lot of people like Kevin Carberry. He's a Bill 0:20:35.440 --> 0:20:37.840 Callahan disciple that worked with in the NFL. He's the 0:20:37.880 --> 0:20:41.960 a line coach. I think they have talent there. I'm 0:20:42.000 --> 0:20:45.400