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Speaker 1: in Gainesville, Yawn, Academy Sports and Outdoors is your one

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Speaker 1: the Academy ad read always has one word on the

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Speaker 1: piece of paper, and that is academy. And that's just

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Speaker 1: to remind me to do the ad read. They've been

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Speaker 1: with us almost from the beginning. Yesterday was our three

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Speaker 1: year anniversary, which I just realized in real time. So

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Speaker 1: Colin will put some balloon emojis on some of the

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Speaker 1: thumbnails that conclude this year's celebration of our anniversary. Academy

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Speaker 1: Sports and Outdoors that have been there for a long time.

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Speaker 1: And the thing about it is they weren't here that like,

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Speaker 1: this company didn't have a relationship with Academy before lake

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Speaker 1: Kick got here. Little backstory, how it worked, and it's

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Speaker 1: gonna take like twenty seconds. Don't worry. A lot of

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Speaker 1: their reps watch the show. This is how most of

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Speaker 1: our partnerships with advertisers form. And my email inbox is

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Speaker 1: always open for this reason. Josh paid seven zero six

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Speaker 1: at gmail dot com. Academy reached out and we formed

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Speaker 1: a relationship with Academy. I have since met their guys

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Speaker 1: in person several times. I think they'll be in town

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Speaker 1: actually next week. Remember that, Jesse, I need you shaking

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Speaker 1: hands with the right people. And so they got on board.

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Speaker 1: They eventually became our presenting sponsor, and they have single

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Speaker 1: handedly made this show financially float there's a reason we

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Speaker 1: get to go on the road every single week of

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Speaker 1: the fall, and we don't have to worry about it.

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Speaker 1: The company doesn't even ask us about call because we

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Speaker 1: bring cats like this them. And so Academy Sports and

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Speaker 1: to pay a dime for the show, they make it

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Speaker 1: to where we don't have to pay a dime as

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Speaker 1: a staff to do anything. And they also have this

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Speaker 1: other benefit just in their back pocket, and that is

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Speaker 1: anything you need in terms of outdoor sporting good supplies

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Speaker 1: they've got in their store. Part two, if you can't

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Speaker 1: get there in person, Academy dot com. That's the hookup.

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Speaker 1: They are our friends. That's what a partnership means around here.

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Speaker 1: Have we have what is called write a first refusal.

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Speaker 1: So you know a lot of companies come and it

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Speaker 1: doesn't make sense for us to do business with them.

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Speaker 1: Some of you would call that financially unsound, because yes,

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Speaker 1: we do turn money away, but I want to partner

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Speaker 1: with folks that make sense and companies I actually believe in.

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Speaker 1: I believe in Academy. That's why we're partnering with them

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Speaker 1: and have been for a long time. And will for

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Speaker 1: a long time to come, and I would humbly suggest

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Speaker 1: that you pay them a visit in person or Atacademy

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Speaker 1: dot com. Let's uh, Colin, I think we're talking about

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Speaker 1: Big Ten here for a second, right, Yes, sir Colin's

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Speaker 1: laughing for no apparent reason. We got some situations arising

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Speaker 1: in the Big Ten right now. It's spring football. No

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Speaker 1: one has all the answers, but I did want to

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Speaker 1: look around the conference for just a couple of minutes,

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Speaker 1: right quick, because some of you thought I was only

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Speaker 1: going to do this for the SEC. No, no, no,

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Speaker 1: I want to talk to you about Michigan, and I

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Speaker 1: want to talk to you about the transfer Portal class

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Speaker 1: they just brought in. I know a lot of folks

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Speaker 1: have been paying attention to other programs that go to

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Speaker 1: the portal out of desperation. Well, Michigan not desperate. They

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Speaker 1: have very first world desperation problems. Like they lost Mazzie Smith,

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Speaker 1: Mike Morris out the door. So yeah, we've got some

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Speaker 1: we've got some holes to fill. They need a number

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Speaker 1: two corner. I think they lost two corners two dbs,

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Speaker 1: so they've they've got some relative holes to fill. They're

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Speaker 1: not glaring. They've got a lot of really, really good

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Speaker 1: offensive firepower coming back. But what I mentioned in is

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Speaker 1: they went to the portal a lot. They brought in one, two, three, four.

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Speaker 1: They brought in seven guys I think, and a lot

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Speaker 1: of those are going to be counted on to contribute immediately.

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Speaker 1: I gotta be honest, I didn't know until right now.

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Speaker 1: Jack Tuttle played for Michigan. I did not know that.

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Speaker 1: So that's news even to me. That's a quarterback. So

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Speaker 1: watch this spring. Once Harbaugh's done with his community service

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Speaker 1: clear in roadways up there, and God bless him for it,

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Speaker 1: how many of you would have done that, by the way,

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Speaker 1: which is exactly what he wants me to say. Once

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Speaker 1: that's wrapped up and springs wrapped up and we start

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Speaker 1: getting a sense of how those portal pieces are falling

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Speaker 1: into place, it's it's very very much a margin of

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Speaker 1: inches here and there, because this is a team that

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Speaker 1: was best in the Big Ten two years in a row,

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Speaker 1: but got to the playoff and couldn't get it done.

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Speaker 1: And so you're not talking about wholesale changes the next

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Speaker 1: program I'm talking about, they're not talking about wholesale changes either.

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Speaker 1: That's Ohio State. You got two of the lead dogs

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Speaker 1: in the Big Ten, and you're just you're looking for very,

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Speaker 1: very slight course corrections that get them where they want

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Speaker 1: to be. At Ohio State, it's clear as day, it's

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Speaker 1: like Bama and Georgia. The biggest questions that these three

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Speaker 1: programs are about the quarterback competition. Ryan Day has been

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Speaker 1: on record and will continue to be on record as saying,

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Speaker 1: we got an open quarterback competition here. Kyle McCord's been

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Speaker 1: there for a while, but Devin Brown's also in there.

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Speaker 1: And while you know far less about Devin Brown, I

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Speaker 1: firmly believe what they're saying when they say that's gonna

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Speaker 1: be an open quarterback competition. They've also you know, they've

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Speaker 1: got a situation where nationally and especially regionally, you're gonna

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Speaker 1: hear a whole lot of people irresponsibly saying, oh, there's

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Speaker 1: a gap. Now there's a gap between Michigan and Ohio State.

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Speaker 1: There's not. There have been two years in a row

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Speaker 1: where Michigan won a football game. There were several years

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Speaker 1: in a row where Ohio State won a football game.

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Speaker 1: I know I'm diminishing the value of the game. I

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Speaker 1: would never do that the week of You guys know,

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Speaker 1: I've been there two years in a row, life changing experiences.

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Speaker 1: I'm just saying, for the sake of logical argument, there's

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Speaker 1: not a big gap. It's just course correction that has

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Speaker 1: to happen. And one of those is if I were

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Speaker 1: to have seen CJ. Stroud play the Michigan game like

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Speaker 1: he played the Georgia game, who's to say that outcome

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Speaker 1: wouldn't have been different. That's in the past. The spring

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Speaker 1: is now. The past has passed. The spring is now.

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Speaker 1: What a quote T shirt idea? And so that open competition.

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Speaker 1: Keep an eye on that at Penn State. Get ready, Jesse.

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Speaker 1: Jesse's got to sit down when I talk about Penn State.

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Speaker 1: Very simple question here. It's not who's going to start

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Speaker 1: at quarterback, but the simple question with Penn State is

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Speaker 1: what caliber of player do we get and Drew Ahler

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Speaker 1: at quarterback? Is he a guy, for example, that walks

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Speaker 1: around and turns turns water into white claw. Is he

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Speaker 1: able to heal the sick and the blind? Or is

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Speaker 1: he merely a really good college quarterback? Because if he

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Speaker 1: is the latter, a lot of the Jesse's of the

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Speaker 1: world are going to be disappointed because there's a lot

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Speaker 1: of stock being placed in mister Aller. I'm putting it

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Speaker 1: in there too. I'm just saying, if he fails to

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Speaker 1: live up to expectation, Jesse is my safety. Jesse is

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Speaker 1: like a shield in the Drew Aller hype category that

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Speaker 1: I hold in front of me until he succeeds. And

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Speaker 1: then I toss Jesse to the side, and I accept

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Speaker 1: the praise. I just as I've told you before, and

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you once more. All I ask for in

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Speaker 1: life is a pack full of white T shirts and

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00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:13,560
Speaker 1: all the praise and none of the blame. All that

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Speaker 1: is free. And subscribe to the channel. Please. Those four

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00:29:16,240 --> 00:29:18,760
Speaker 1: things are free. Like the video. That's the fifth free thing.

568
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Speaker 1: Also slightly lesser headline clickbaitish thing here, pj mustaff in

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Speaker 1: the middle of that defensive line. He's gone, so let's

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Speaker 1: see what they do there. Also correct me if I'm wrong, Jesse. No,

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Speaker 1: don't just pretend I'm right. Dante cephas. I don't think

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Speaker 1: is in for the spring, so we won't be looking

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Speaker 1: at the absolute full allotment of wide receiver and skill talent,

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Speaker 1: but most of them are there. This is not a

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Speaker 1: Penn State team that elsewhere has massive holes to fill,

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Speaker 1: which is different, much different actually than we've said in

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Speaker 1: years past. That's gonna be. That's a team that had

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Speaker 1: me and Brandon Walker agreen the other day. That's the

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Speaker 1: potential the Penn State has. Michigan State. Two questions for you, No,

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Speaker 1: I would be willing to bet you cannot answer these

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Speaker 1: and totality in the spring. Are you going to play

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Speaker 1: defense this year? Are you going to be able to

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Speaker 1: run the ball this year? These are some awful numbers

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Speaker 1: in front of me. They were seventy fifth defensively in

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Speaker 1: points per game last year. They were one hundred third

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Speaker 1: defensively in defensive yards per game. They cannot run the ball.

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Speaker 1: It's been the most glaring standout inefficiency of Michigan State football.

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Speaker 1: They were one hundred and tenth in rush yards per

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Speaker 1: game last year. Kenneth Walker came through there, I guess

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Speaker 1: two years ago now and was great, should have been

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Speaker 1: a Heisman finalist in my opinion. And then he leaves

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Speaker 1: and you think to yourself, well, it's like Gary Bertier.

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Speaker 1: You cannot replace a Gary Bertier. You cannot replace a

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Speaker 1: Kenneth Walker. They might as well not have had one

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Speaker 1: in the backfield, air would have done better than what

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Speaker 1: Michigan State did at running back a majority of last year.

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Speaker 1: And it's just it's so hard to fath when you

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Speaker 1: watch that because I think of mel Tucker normally, the

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Speaker 1: program reflects the head coach, and the two things if

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Speaker 1: I had to guess of what Michigan State would do

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Speaker 1: under Meltucker would be pound the rock, play good defense,

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Speaker 1: and they did neither of them last year. So have

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Speaker 1: fun in spring with that. Lastly, two programs here to watch,

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Speaker 1: obviously for the same reasons. Nebraska and Wisconsin new head coaches.

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Speaker 1: We got Matt Ruhle up there and Lincoln he's got

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Speaker 1: Jeff Simms to work with at quarterback. I am a

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Speaker 1: little excited to watch the competition between he and Casey

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Speaker 1: Thompson there, but also Wisconsin Luke Fickle. I know this

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Speaker 1: isn't breaking news anymore, but I still really don't think

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Speaker 1: it has settled in how massive that hire was. And

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Speaker 1: we were going back for some research purposes that we

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Speaker 1: do this time of year, and we were reviewing some

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Speaker 1: of what we said this time last year. It is

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Speaker 1: not a pretty picture sometimes, so please don't take it

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Speaker 1: upon yourself to go back and watch some of our

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Speaker 1: old videos. Counterintuitive business strategy, but it's for the best

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Speaker 1: this time last year. You know what I was saying

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Speaker 1: about Luke Fickle. Actually, I shouldn't spoil this because we're

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Speaker 1: going to talk about it later in the show. But

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Speaker 1: I'll just tell you that Cincinnati team that he had

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Speaker 1: two years ago sent nine guys to the NFL Draft.

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Speaker 1: That was the third most out of all of college football. Cincinnati,

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Speaker 1: in the G five ranks, sent the third most amount

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Speaker 1: of NFL draft picks as anyone did in college football.

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Speaker 1: So he got Phil Longo as his offensive coordinator. He's

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Speaker 1: at Wisconsin. Now, Oh, you can't overstate how huge that is.

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Speaker 1: I think media rights money, by the way, is reflected

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Speaker 1: in those two hires. I'm not sure that Nebraska and

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Speaker 1: Wisconsin would have not been serious enough. I don't question

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Speaker 1: whether you guys are serious. I don't know that that

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Speaker 1: kind of commitment and that kind of aggressive on the

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Speaker 1: hunt mentality kind of all the prow mentality in the

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Speaker 1: hiring market would have existed if there wasn't a little

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Speaker 1: nudge in the ribs from the folks who were signing

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Speaker 1: over those massive media rights deals. Saying, Hey, that stuff

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Speaker 1: you're doing at Wisconsin or Iowa or Nebraska, it's not

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Speaker 1: good enough. These networks are not paying. Just from Michigan

638
00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:22,080
Speaker 1: and Ohio State and Penn State. We got to be

639
00:33:22,080 --> 00:33:24,080
Speaker 1: better as a conference, as a league, and that starts

640
00:33:24,080 --> 00:33:27,880
Speaker 1: with hiring better coaches. And we're all the beneficiary because, yeah,

641
00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:29,640
Speaker 1: the Big Ten, there's no excuse for it not to

642
00:33:29,680 --> 00:33:32,840
Speaker 1: be better. It's not quite the acc but behind those

643
00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:34,880
Speaker 1: two or three lead dogs, there's no excuse for it

644
00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:37,000
Speaker 1: not to be better. So that's what I'm watching this spring.

645
00:33:37,240 --> 00:33:41,680
Speaker 1: They are watching us. Sorry about that. On the graphic there, Colin,

646
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:45,880
Speaker 1: there are the Big Ten title odds college football playoff

647
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Speaker 1: ad odds. Actually in the Big Ten Ohio State. I

648
00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:51,720
Speaker 1: know that you guys are not comfortable with this, but

649
00:33:51,760 --> 00:33:54,920
Speaker 1: I just want to let you know again, those odds makers,

650
00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:57,960
Speaker 1: they're added again. Ohio State's going to be favored to

651
00:33:58,000 --> 00:34:00,920
Speaker 1: win the conference. Ohio State's going to be favored out

652
00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:03,080
Speaker 1: of all the teams in the Big Tent to go

653
00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:05,240
Speaker 1: to the playoff and win the national championship. And you're

654
00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:07,960
Speaker 1: gonna say that's crazy. They've got to go to ann

655
00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:10,760
Speaker 1: Arbor this year and the odds makers are saying, believe

656
00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:12,520
Speaker 1: it or not, we know that we have access to

657
00:34:12,560 --> 00:34:16,280
Speaker 1: the schedules too. If you disagree with us, place your bets,

658
00:34:16,640 --> 00:34:18,000
Speaker 1: and some of you have made a lot of money

659
00:34:18,040 --> 00:34:19,520
Speaker 1: doing that the past two years. It's not like they're

660
00:34:19,560 --> 00:34:22,480
Speaker 1: always right. I mean, and then that gets into the

661
00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:25,120
Speaker 1: whole philosophical Well, what are odds really meant to do?

662
00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:28,279
Speaker 1: Reflect the true opinion of Vegas or to split the

663
00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:30,839
Speaker 1: action in the market. I would suggest a little both.

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Speaker 1: That's what I would suggest. They're watching us in Wheeling,

665
00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:38,800
Speaker 1: West Virginia, Demopolis, Alabama, and Cincinnati, Ohio. Thank you so much,

666
00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:44,000
Speaker 1: fruitful and fun filled exercise here that continues in this

667
00:34:44,080 --> 00:34:47,560
Speaker 1: show tonight. How well do you remember two thousand and nine?

668
00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:50,080
Speaker 1: Some of you were challenged by me last week change

669
00:34:50,080 --> 00:34:52,760
Speaker 1: one thing in history, to change all of college football,

670
00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:54,440
Speaker 1: and we've had some really good ones. You can go

671
00:34:54,480 --> 00:34:57,759
Speaker 1: back on the YouTube channel. It's all archive there. Two

672
00:34:57,760 --> 00:35:00,759
Speaker 1: thousand and nine. What was happening there? Saban had yet

673
00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:04,080
Speaker 1: to win a single championship at Alabama, not a conference title,

674
00:35:04,520 --> 00:35:07,920
Speaker 1: not a national title, didn't have a single Heisman winner.

675
00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:10,799
Speaker 1: He was still just in his third year at Alabama.

676
00:35:11,040 --> 00:35:14,959
Speaker 1: Lane Kiffen was at Tennessee, and I want to ask

677
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:18,160
Speaker 1: you today, how well do you remember what they would

678
00:35:18,160 --> 00:35:22,360
Speaker 1: call rocky block in the SEC? But outside of the SEC,

679
00:35:22,480 --> 00:35:25,280
Speaker 1: if you live in Omaha, Nebraska, you probably don't remember

680
00:35:25,760 --> 00:35:29,560
Speaker 1: the SEC league schedule from nine where here's the sitch.

681
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:33,399
Speaker 1: Alabama's number two in the country. I think Tennessee's got

682
00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:35,920
Speaker 1: some losses on their resume. Kiffen again, as I said,

683
00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:38,239
Speaker 1: as the head coach there, and they go to Tuscaloose,

684
00:35:38,239 --> 00:35:41,319
Speaker 1: Obama's a big favorite, They're undefeed him. We get deep

685
00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:45,920
Speaker 1: into the fourth quarter, so deep in fact immunity that

686
00:35:45,960 --> 00:35:49,120
Speaker 1: Tennessee's lining up for a potential game winning field goal.

687
00:35:49,160 --> 00:35:52,759
Speaker 1: It's twelve to ten. That's the score. Part of the

688
00:35:52,840 --> 00:35:55,520
Speaker 1: end zone at Bryant Denny Stadium that was being constructed.

689
00:35:55,560 --> 00:35:58,240
Speaker 1: It's not even finished yet. That's how long ago Alabama

690
00:35:58,239 --> 00:36:01,200
Speaker 1: didn't even have a full bowl of a stadium, and

691
00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:04,680
Speaker 1: they blocked the kick. Terrence Cody, his second blocked field

692
00:36:04,719 --> 00:36:07,960
Speaker 1: goal of the day, throws his helmet off. Some sticks

693
00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:09,960
Speaker 1: in the mud out there say should have been penalized,

694
00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:12,279
Speaker 1: should have had to play it again on timed down

695
00:36:12,640 --> 00:36:16,880
Speaker 1: to that, I say, I spit on the suggestion, But

696
00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:19,160
Speaker 1: I do want to ask you a question. What if

697
00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:22,080
Speaker 1: I changed this? That's one moment. What if I just

698
00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:24,399
Speaker 1: what if I? First off, I need to just cut

699
00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:27,000
Speaker 1: Julio Jones' legs off back there, because if Cody didn't

700
00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:29,120
Speaker 1: block it, he would have. But what if that is

701
00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:33,240
Speaker 1: a made field goal? Tennessee beats Alabama thirteen to twelve.

702
00:36:34,520 --> 00:36:36,920
Speaker 1: The Atlanta Braves will win a game or two in

703
00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:40,960
Speaker 1: a more high scoring fashion than that this year. But baseball, notwithstanding,

704
00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:44,600
Speaker 1: what would have changed here? We had to rack our

705
00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:47,920
Speaker 1: brains today and ask ourselves what would have happened. The

706
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:51,040
Speaker 1: first and obvious question is what happens to Bama? You

707
00:36:51,080 --> 00:36:54,680
Speaker 1: see elsewhere when we've done these little exercises, everyone has

708
00:36:54,800 --> 00:36:57,399
Speaker 1: just said, along with me, well, if they didn't win

709
00:36:57,440 --> 00:36:59,640
Speaker 1: it that year, they would have won it several more years.

710
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Speaker 1: And I still believe even if Bama wouldn't have ended

711
00:37:03,080 --> 00:37:05,160
Speaker 1: up winning the title this year, they would have won

712
00:37:05,200 --> 00:37:08,719
Speaker 1: it in several other years. But they may have still

713
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Speaker 1: won it in this year. Now. Remember we're not in

714
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:14,960
Speaker 1: the playoff era here, We're in the BCS era. Following

715
00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:18,439
Speaker 1: this loss, if Bama were to have lost, they would

716
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Speaker 1: have fallen out of the top four. As it stood

717
00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:24,239
Speaker 1: coming out of that game, it was Florida number one,

718
00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:28,919
Speaker 1: Bama number two, Texas number three. That's who they would

719
00:37:28,920 --> 00:37:32,919
Speaker 1: eventually play in the national title game. Iowa still led

720
00:37:32,960 --> 00:37:35,439
Speaker 1: by Kirk Ference, who was already like a decade into

721
00:37:35,520 --> 00:37:38,440
Speaker 1: his tenure at that point, Iowa was number four. You

722
00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:42,520
Speaker 1: had Southern cal with one loss at five, TCU one

723
00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:46,400
Speaker 1: loss at six, LSU, who Bama still had to play

724
00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:51,879
Speaker 1: one loss at number seven. So there's the first theory

725
00:37:51,960 --> 00:37:54,000
Speaker 1: that the loss may have just knocked Obama out of

726
00:37:54,000 --> 00:37:57,360
Speaker 1: the national title picture, even if you played out the

727
00:37:57,400 --> 00:37:59,839
Speaker 1: rest of the season as it did, which is impossible,

728
00:38:00,120 --> 00:38:02,839
Speaker 1: just assume for a second. I ultimately think it still

729
00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:05,800
Speaker 1: would have come down to that matchup in Atlanta against Florida,

730
00:38:06,680 --> 00:38:10,640
Speaker 1: and Bama handled Florida pretty convincingly that year, had handed

731
00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:13,160
Speaker 1: Florida their first and only lost that year. That's the

732
00:38:13,160 --> 00:38:15,440
Speaker 1: one where Tim Tebow cried, that's the one that really

733
00:38:15,760 --> 00:38:18,319
Speaker 1: signified a changing of the guard in the SEC. It

734
00:38:18,360 --> 00:38:20,560
Speaker 1: was the beginning of the end of the Urban Meyer

735
00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:24,520
Speaker 1: era at Florida. But even if that were to happen,

736
00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:28,360
Speaker 1: think about what could have happened because the results of

737
00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:32,520
Speaker 1: this game reverberate far beyond just Alabama. What happens to

738
00:38:32,600 --> 00:38:35,520
Speaker 1: Tennessee I think this is more fascinating than what happens

739
00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:38,640
Speaker 1: to Bama. Bama is going to be Bama eventually, even

740
00:38:38,680 --> 00:38:40,360
Speaker 1: if they're not that year, because they got Nick Saban

741
00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:44,759
Speaker 1: in a long time ahead of them. I was thinking

742
00:38:44,760 --> 00:38:47,720
Speaker 1: about what happens to Tennessee Kiffin stayed there one year?

743
00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:52,640
Speaker 1: Could there have been something that happened because of this

744
00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:58,040
Speaker 1: win that convinced Lane Kiffin to stay at Tennessee? And

745
00:38:58,120 --> 00:39:01,560
Speaker 1: if he stayed at Tennessee, granted there would have been

746
00:39:01,600 --> 00:39:04,520
Speaker 1: a maturation process that was required. I think we all

747
00:39:04,560 --> 00:39:08,080
Speaker 1: acknowledged that by this point, including him. But if he stays,

748
00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:10,920
Speaker 1: do you have any idea what would have happened to

749
00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:16,279
Speaker 1: Tennessee recruiting if they stayed sanction free, which knock on

750
00:39:16,320 --> 00:39:18,680
Speaker 1: a mic stand, If they would have stayed sanctioned free,

751
00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:24,120
Speaker 1: they were going to kill it in recruiting. They already

752
00:39:24,160 --> 00:39:26,640
Speaker 1: had done a good job in one cycle, and Kiffin

753
00:39:26,680 --> 00:39:30,319
Speaker 1: had made recruiting just to like an entertainment spectacle. He

754
00:39:30,640 --> 00:39:33,799
Speaker 1: just openly went at Urban Meyer. There was no love lost.

755
00:39:33,840 --> 00:39:37,359
Speaker 1: I don't know if you remember this, Kiffen and urban

756
00:39:37,400 --> 00:39:40,520
Speaker 1: Meyer genuinely didn't like each other. And I remember when

757
00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:43,440
Speaker 1: he got to the SEC, Kiffen made it a point

758
00:39:43,480 --> 00:39:46,919
Speaker 1: to really be reverent towards Nick Saban and really respectful.

759
00:39:47,280 --> 00:39:50,440
Speaker 1: He did none of that towards urban Meyer. Not only

760
00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:52,560
Speaker 1: what was behind all that. I'm just saying that was

761
00:39:52,600 --> 00:39:54,920
Speaker 1: the case, and that would have probably not been the

762
00:39:54,920 --> 00:39:56,600
Speaker 1: case that much longer, because I think Meyer would have

763
00:39:56,600 --> 00:40:00,480
Speaker 1: been gone a short time later. Anyway, that was a

764
00:40:00,560 --> 00:40:02,840
Speaker 1: candle that was burning at both ends at Florida. It

765
00:40:02,920 --> 00:40:04,640
Speaker 1: burned hot for a little while, but it was a

766
00:40:04,640 --> 00:40:07,040
Speaker 1: candle burning at both ends. But if Kiffin is convinced

767
00:40:07,120 --> 00:40:10,280
Speaker 1: to stay, if he convinces himself to stay at Tennessee,

768
00:40:10,280 --> 00:40:14,120
Speaker 1: if he doesn't go to Southern Calm, that is really

769
00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:18,360
Speaker 1: interesting because they would have had a ton of talent.

770
00:40:18,640 --> 00:40:22,000
Speaker 1: We were reading some articles and remembering or refreshing our

771
00:40:22,040 --> 00:40:25,680
Speaker 1: memory rather about all these kids who came along afterwards,

772
00:40:26,200 --> 00:40:29,480
Speaker 1: who ironically majority of which ended up going to Clemson.

773
00:40:30,360 --> 00:40:32,400
Speaker 1: A lot of their top talent that ended up going

774
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Speaker 1: to Clemson. They're on record one after the other of saying,

775
00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:38,760
Speaker 1: at one time Tennessee was my dream school. Here's the problem.

776
00:40:39,280 --> 00:40:41,240
Speaker 1: I got to turn the paper sideways for this stat

777
00:40:41,920 --> 00:40:45,920
Speaker 1: paper pop. After Kiffen did leave Tennessee, seven of the

778
00:40:45,960 --> 00:40:49,320
Speaker 1: next twelve seasons were sub five hundred. Woo, just gross.

779
00:40:49,560 --> 00:40:54,759
Speaker 1: That's Tennessee, not Tennessee State. The University of Seven of

780
00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:57,719
Speaker 1: the next twelve, more than every other season, was sub

781
00:40:57,760 --> 00:40:59,560
Speaker 1: five hundred. It's not supposed to be that hard to

782
00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:02,600
Speaker 1: make a bowl game at Tennessee, but it was. You

783
00:41:02,640 --> 00:41:05,399
Speaker 1: had a coach wearing orange pants, you had another coach

784
00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:07,840
Speaker 1: that insisted on having trash cans on the sideline. It

785
00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:10,600
Speaker 1: was just a five alarm mushroom cloud orange disaster for

786
00:41:10,640 --> 00:41:14,480
Speaker 1: a long time. They've got things fixed, but like I said,

787
00:41:14,760 --> 00:41:17,399
Speaker 1: only now have they gotten things fixed. And by the way,

788
00:41:17,440 --> 00:41:20,160
Speaker 1: if you're young, if you're ten years old, welcome to

789
00:41:20,239 --> 00:41:23,320
Speaker 1: the family. And you watched the Alabama Tennessee game this

790
00:41:23,360 --> 00:41:24,839
Speaker 1: past year, and you want to know why those people

791
00:41:24,920 --> 00:41:27,279
Speaker 1: went crazy and tore down the goal post and threw

792
00:41:27,320 --> 00:41:30,520
Speaker 1: them out into the river. It's because of that. It's

793
00:41:30,560 --> 00:41:32,880
Speaker 1: because of that stat I just read to you. Can

794
00:41:32,920 --> 00:41:36,640
Speaker 1: you imagined seven out of twelve seasons below five hundred

795
00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:39,239
Speaker 1: and they kept showing up credit to him, So I

796
00:41:39,239 --> 00:41:40,920
Speaker 1: don't know what would have happened to Tennessee if they

797
00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:42,839
Speaker 1: kept kiffing. At the very least, it would have been

798
00:41:42,840 --> 00:41:47,839
Speaker 1: more interesting. And Thirdly, mark Ingram won the Heisman this year,

799
00:41:47,880 --> 00:41:50,720
Speaker 1: did he not? Yes, he did, and it was very close.

800
00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:54,480
Speaker 1: And even at the time with an undefeated Bama, a

801
00:41:54,480 --> 00:41:59,000
Speaker 1: lot of people thought in Dominican Sue maybe was most

802
00:41:59,080 --> 00:42:01,839
Speaker 1: qualified to win that you're looking at one of them

803
00:42:01,880 --> 00:42:07,400
Speaker 1: right here. Sue finished third, Toby Gerhart finished second. That

804
00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:09,120
Speaker 1: would have been a good trivia question to ask you,

805
00:42:09,160 --> 00:42:11,680
Speaker 1: because I remembered Sue finishing second. I did not remember

806
00:42:11,719 --> 00:42:14,800
Speaker 1: Toby Gerhart being in the mix. He was, he was second,

807
00:42:14,920 --> 00:42:17,080
Speaker 1: mark Ingram's first, but it wasn't a runaway by any

808
00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:20,800
Speaker 1: stretch of the imagination. So I could have changed the

809
00:42:21,239 --> 00:42:24,320
Speaker 1: Alabama trajectory. I could have maybe changed the Florida trajectory,

810
00:42:24,360 --> 00:42:26,640
Speaker 1: could have changed the National Championship matchup, could have changed

811
00:42:26,640 --> 00:42:29,120
Speaker 1: the future of Tennessee football, could have had a new

812
00:42:29,120 --> 00:42:32,319
Speaker 1: Heisman Trophy winner. There. It all comes down to one

813
00:42:32,360 --> 00:42:35,280
Speaker 1: block kick. And that's why if you go on YouTube,

814
00:42:35,280 --> 00:42:37,840
Speaker 1: that thing has millions of views because even today people

815
00:42:37,840 --> 00:42:41,480
Speaker 1: remember how impactful that was. Boom Let's move it on

816
00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:44,160
Speaker 1: Very Crisp Show tonight. We're not done. I'm just saying

817
00:42:44,200 --> 00:42:49,719
Speaker 1: we're moving along at a very very quick pace. Main

818
00:42:49,840 --> 00:42:52,239
Speaker 1: reason we got this new microphone is so when I

819
00:42:52,280 --> 00:42:54,600
Speaker 1: take a sip out of the chalice, the audio is

820
00:42:54,640 --> 00:42:57,719
Speaker 1: picked up on the mic because on podcasts otherwise you

821
00:42:57,760 --> 00:42:59,759
Speaker 1: may just hear a bunch of silence and think the

822
00:42:59,760 --> 00:43:03,520
Speaker 1: show is done. So I had a bunch of questions

823
00:43:03,520 --> 00:43:06,480
Speaker 1: over the past month, and Davis asked a version of it.

824
00:43:06,520 --> 00:43:08,480
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna let Davis speak for a lot of you.

825
00:43:08,960 --> 00:43:12,560
Speaker 1: He said, what is your take on college coaches suddenly

826
00:43:12,600 --> 00:43:16,360
Speaker 1: going to the NFL? Is it because of Nil? Davis?

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Speaker 1: I think the answer is yes, ellipses, which is just

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00:43:20,080 --> 00:43:23,240
Speaker 1: a bunch of dots, So it's yes, dot dot dot.

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Speaker 1: Nil is partly to blame. I don't think there's any

830
00:43:27,480 --> 00:43:30,800
Speaker 1: one reason, but I think there's an accumulation of reasons

831
00:43:31,560 --> 00:43:34,960
Speaker 1: that really spell a shift in college football, and I

832
00:43:35,000 --> 00:43:37,319
Speaker 1: don't think it's a good one. But I also don't

833
00:43:37,320 --> 00:43:40,960
Speaker 1: think it has to be forever. It's very interesting that

834
00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:43,040
Speaker 1: we just showed some Georgia b roll I tell this

835
00:43:43,080 --> 00:43:45,360
Speaker 1: story a lot, although it's not my story. It's just

836
00:43:45,440 --> 00:43:48,239
Speaker 1: I remember it happening, but I'll tell you once more.

837
00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:52,080
Speaker 1: Two years ago, Kirby wins his first title at Georgia.

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00:43:52,840 --> 00:43:55,359
Speaker 1: Next day, you know, they do the interview with the coach,

839
00:43:55,400 --> 00:43:58,359
Speaker 1: think Rhys Davis was doing it, and you can talk

840
00:43:58,400 --> 00:44:00,680
Speaker 1: about whatever you want to. You can use that time

841
00:44:01,160 --> 00:44:03,319
Speaker 1: to market your program, to recruit, to do whatever you

842
00:44:03,320 --> 00:44:08,399
Speaker 1: want to. And I remember pretty vividly we were in Indianapolis,

843
00:44:08,480 --> 00:44:12,160
Speaker 1: where I'll be this week, and Kirby said, we got

844
00:44:12,200 --> 00:44:14,880
Speaker 1: a problem in the sport. Hope a lot of people

845
00:44:14,880 --> 00:44:18,040
Speaker 1: are paying attention. We got good coaches who are leaving.

846
00:44:18,320 --> 00:44:20,839
Speaker 1: We got good men who do not want any part

847
00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:25,439
Speaker 1: of this anymore because the ask, the requirement of them

848
00:44:26,239 --> 00:44:33,160
Speaker 1: is either undoable or it's technically doable, but not with

849
00:44:33,280 --> 00:44:36,440
Speaker 1: a proper life balance, not with a proper mental health balance.

850
00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:39,440
Speaker 1: They're getting burned out way too quickly. And for the

851
00:44:39,480 --> 00:44:42,680
Speaker 1: first time in a very long time, coaches are looking

852
00:44:42,680 --> 00:44:46,120
Speaker 1: at the NFL and saying, I'm gonna go take it

853
00:44:46,160 --> 00:44:48,799
Speaker 1: easy on myself and go coach pro ball, which makes

854
00:44:48,840 --> 00:44:53,680
Speaker 1: no sense if you are a very very agnostic sports

855
00:44:53,719 --> 00:44:57,360
Speaker 1: fan and you just like football in general, but you

856
00:44:57,400 --> 00:44:59,759
Speaker 1: know you watch the Eagles one day and you may

857
00:45:00,239 --> 00:45:02,680
Speaker 1: Oklahoma the next week, but it's just kind of casual

858
00:45:02,719 --> 00:45:07,279
Speaker 1: to you. That's fine. We are in the process of

859
00:45:07,719 --> 00:45:10,440
Speaker 1: converting a lot of casuals to more hardcore fans around here.

860
00:45:10,440 --> 00:45:12,920
Speaker 1: But that's okay. You got to start somewhere. That sounds

861
00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:14,880
Speaker 1: ludicrous to you, doesn't it for me to say the

862
00:45:15,000 --> 00:45:18,319
Speaker 1: NFL is somewhere coaches go to have it easier, But

863
00:45:18,400 --> 00:45:21,839
Speaker 1: it's not. It's a running joke. It's just an accepted

864
00:45:21,920 --> 00:45:25,400
Speaker 1: fact of life in coaching circles right now, Now, Davis,

865
00:45:25,880 --> 00:45:30,080
Speaker 1: here's the I think the problem, and this is where

866
00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:32,400
Speaker 1: NIL partly comes into it. I think it's where the

867
00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:35,000
Speaker 1: portal partly comes into it. So the number one thing

868
00:45:35,160 --> 00:45:39,200
Speaker 1: with NIL is how much it's changed the landscape of

869
00:45:39,239 --> 00:45:42,400
Speaker 1: talent acquisition. I don't think a lot of coaches have

870
00:45:42,440 --> 00:45:48,200
Speaker 1: a problem with the idea that players can profit off

871
00:45:48,239 --> 00:45:51,200
Speaker 1: their NIL. In fact, most of them don't. They're telling

872
00:45:51,239 --> 00:45:53,600
Speaker 1: you the truth because I talk to them behind the scenes.

873
00:45:53,640 --> 00:45:55,719
Speaker 1: They don't have a problem with that. They have a

874
00:45:55,760 --> 00:45:58,800
Speaker 1: problem when it is used as an inducement in recruiting,

875
00:45:59,040 --> 00:46:02,520
Speaker 1: and they have a problem that relationships don't matter anymore.

876
00:46:02,560 --> 00:46:07,360
Speaker 1: It used to be the best recruiters were eventually rewarded

877
00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:10,480
Speaker 1: with acquiring the most talent because they did their due diligence,

878
00:46:10,520 --> 00:46:12,960
Speaker 1: They evaluated properly. They got ahead of the curve, but

879
00:46:13,040 --> 00:46:15,920
Speaker 1: they beat the pavement to death, and they got in

880
00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:18,480
Speaker 1: the homes and they knew everything they needed to know

881
00:46:18,480 --> 00:46:20,680
Speaker 1: about the parents and the grandparents and the moms and

882
00:46:20,680 --> 00:46:22,840
Speaker 1: the aunts and the uncles and the high school coaches.

883
00:46:23,520 --> 00:46:25,960
Speaker 1: Imagine that the high school coach playing a pivotal role.

884
00:46:26,680 --> 00:46:29,040
Speaker 1: And Lane Kiffin talked about it this past cycle. Now

885
00:46:29,040 --> 00:46:31,319
Speaker 1: it's just you come in two weeks before signing day,

886
00:46:31,719 --> 00:46:35,240
Speaker 1: put your best offer on the table, and it's transactional.

887
00:46:35,520 --> 00:46:38,120
Speaker 1: It's not really relationship driven anymore. Well, a lot of

888
00:46:38,160 --> 00:46:41,680
Speaker 1: coaches look at that spectacle and say, wait a second.

889
00:46:42,080 --> 00:46:45,160
Speaker 1: One of my best tools was recruiting. One of my

890
00:46:45,320 --> 00:46:50,440
Speaker 1: strengths was I was a relationship guy. I really connected

891
00:46:50,480 --> 00:46:52,239
Speaker 1: with players. If you're cutting that out from under me,

892
00:46:52,239 --> 00:46:54,640
Speaker 1: if you're telling me that's been deemed irrelevant, I might

893
00:46:54,640 --> 00:46:56,640
Speaker 1: as well go coach pro ball. Then the other side

894
00:46:56,680 --> 00:46:59,640
Speaker 1: of it is with the portal, what happens is not

895
00:46:59,680 --> 00:47:03,319
Speaker 1: only you still have to recruit as you always did,

896
00:47:03,840 --> 00:47:07,520
Speaker 1: and also you know, hopefully hold your position group together,

897
00:47:07,800 --> 00:47:10,680
Speaker 1: you know, coach your room, coach your guys, recruit your

898
00:47:10,760 --> 00:47:13,640
Speaker 1: territory and your guys. But also now you have to

899
00:47:14,080 --> 00:47:17,120
Speaker 1: you have to recruit the guys already on campus and

900
00:47:17,160 --> 00:47:19,799
Speaker 1: make sure they're good, and make sure you're balancing all

901
00:47:19,840 --> 00:47:23,239
Speaker 1: that and everyone's getting just enough playing time, everyone's appeased,

902
00:47:23,600 --> 00:47:25,160
Speaker 1: and you're making sure you're keeping up to date on

903
00:47:25,200 --> 00:47:27,759
Speaker 1: every room or out there about which guy you may

904
00:47:27,760 --> 00:47:31,520
Speaker 1: be in danger of losing. And then also because the

905
00:47:31,600 --> 00:47:35,440
Speaker 1: calendar has been expedited with the early signing day, now,

906
00:47:35,520 --> 00:47:39,640
Speaker 1: also you're having to start the recruiting process of tenth

907
00:47:39,640 --> 00:47:42,719
Speaker 1: graders and ninth graders way earlier than you used to.

908
00:47:42,800 --> 00:47:48,360
Speaker 1: So imagine this. Imagine being a wide receivers coach at Kentucky.

909
00:47:48,520 --> 00:47:51,120
Speaker 1: You're having to recruit three or four high school classes

910
00:47:51,760 --> 00:47:55,840
Speaker 1: simultaneous to recruiting your own current college class to stay

911
00:47:55,920 --> 00:47:59,239
Speaker 1: on campus. And then you're also having to master the

912
00:47:59,360 --> 00:48:03,960
Speaker 1: nil game, which is the slipperiest of slopes, and you're

913
00:48:03,960 --> 00:48:06,760
Speaker 1: having to do all that and also fulfill your coaching duties.

914
00:48:07,200 --> 00:48:09,279
Speaker 1: And it's like at a certain point you look and

915
00:48:09,320 --> 00:48:13,880
Speaker 1: you say, huh, it looks like they haven't given me

916
00:48:13,920 --> 00:48:16,279
Speaker 1: more than twenty four hours in the day like I

917
00:48:16,320 --> 00:48:18,440
Speaker 1: always had, but they're asking me to do all this.

918
00:48:18,880 --> 00:48:21,880
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go to the NFL, and that's what's happened.

919
00:48:22,320 --> 00:48:25,839
Speaker 1: So case by case, you never know whether a guy

920
00:48:25,880 --> 00:48:27,520
Speaker 1: just always wanted to be in the NFL or not.

921
00:48:27,560 --> 00:48:30,400
Speaker 1: But in totality, it's very easy to see that a

922
00:48:30,400 --> 00:48:33,799
Speaker 1: lot of guys are leaving college football because it's an

923
00:48:33,880 --> 00:48:37,560
Speaker 1: unworkable situation. They look at it and they say, enough

924
00:48:37,560 --> 00:48:39,920
Speaker 1: of this, maybe I'll come back in a few years.

925
00:48:39,960 --> 00:48:42,640
Speaker 1: A lot of them even love college more than the NFL,

926
00:48:43,680 --> 00:48:45,880
Speaker 1: but a lot of what they have to do in

927
00:48:45,920 --> 00:48:49,239
Speaker 1: their day to day they don't consider college football. And

928
00:48:49,320 --> 00:48:52,719
Speaker 1: I get it. I love covering it, but I get it.

929
00:48:54,400 --> 00:48:57,920
Speaker 1: Let's delve into the world, the exciting world of bold

930
00:48:57,920 --> 00:49:00,400
Speaker 1: predictions and do me a favor if you will. Oh

931
00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:03,719
Speaker 1: my computer froze over here, so let me just take

932
00:49:03,719 --> 00:49:06,759
Speaker 1: a look. Yes, thank you, guys, I got a good,

933
00:49:06,760 --> 00:49:10,719
Speaker 1: good audience tonight. Thank you guys for watching live the

934
00:49:10,760 --> 00:49:13,799
Speaker 1: good news. As you're watching the bad news is a

935
00:49:13,880 --> 00:49:17,000
Speaker 1: vast majority of you have not liked the video? Am

936
00:49:17,080 --> 00:49:20,160
Speaker 1: I begging? Absolutely? I am? So what I do best?

937
00:49:20,520 --> 00:49:23,279
Speaker 1: Please click the thumbs up button. I do have some

938
00:49:23,400 --> 00:49:25,840
Speaker 1: exciting news, Jesse. I haven't even told you this. For

939
00:49:25,880 --> 00:49:29,440
Speaker 1: the first time in the history of Late Kick, more

940
00:49:29,520 --> 00:49:34,920
Speaker 1: than fifty percent of our audience is subscribed to the channel. However,

941
00:49:35,200 --> 00:49:38,879
Speaker 1: it's like fifty one percent, so half of you who

942
00:49:38,920 --> 00:49:42,320
Speaker 1: watch our videos still aren't subscribed. And there's no fee,

943
00:49:42,719 --> 00:49:45,640
Speaker 1: there's no string attached. There's a little red button on

944
00:49:45,680 --> 00:49:48,480
Speaker 1: your screen and you click it and you're done forever.

945
00:49:49,120 --> 00:49:52,000
Speaker 1: And from that point we just encourage you to go

946
00:49:52,200 --> 00:49:54,560
Speaker 1: swipe you the devices of your family and then subscribe

947
00:49:54,560 --> 00:49:56,960
Speaker 1: on theirs. But that's down the road. Okay, this is

948
00:49:57,040 --> 00:49:59,480
Speaker 1: the gateway. We just need you to do it first

949
00:49:59,520 --> 00:50:02,879
Speaker 1: and foremost do we thank you for that. Okay, Back

950
00:50:02,880 --> 00:50:04,840
Speaker 1: in the summer of last year, just like we'll do

951
00:50:04,920 --> 00:50:06,719
Speaker 1: the summer of this year. I took a lot of

952
00:50:06,719 --> 00:50:09,239
Speaker 1: your predictions. I said, pick the most serious one, the

953
00:50:09,239 --> 00:50:11,239
Speaker 1: one you would bet money on, and I'm gonna tell

954
00:50:11,239 --> 00:50:12,560
Speaker 1: you what I think about it. Then we're gonna lock

955
00:50:12,600 --> 00:50:14,200
Speaker 1: it up and we're not gonna break it back out

956
00:50:14,280 --> 00:50:17,759
Speaker 1: till the season's over. Season's over, and so it's go

957
00:50:17,840 --> 00:50:22,279
Speaker 1: time start with the prediction we had about Yeah, this

958
00:50:22,719 --> 00:50:26,200
Speaker 1: is I had problems with this one. So the prediction

959
00:50:26,320 --> 00:50:30,520
Speaker 1: that we'll start with is Bama has at minimum six

960
00:50:30,600 --> 00:50:33,960
Speaker 1: guys with at least five hundred plus receiving yards. I

961
00:50:34,080 --> 00:50:37,279
Speaker 1: made this a nine, and I was right and you

962
00:50:37,360 --> 00:50:39,719
Speaker 1: were wrong. It feels good to say, because I don't

963
00:50:39,719 --> 00:50:43,600
Speaker 1: get said a lot. Jermaine Burton was over six hundred

964
00:50:43,640 --> 00:50:47,760
Speaker 1: yards receiving. Jacorey Brooks was over six hundred yards receiving

965
00:50:48,080 --> 00:50:51,400
Speaker 1: the end. Next closest was Jamier Gibbs, and he's a

966
00:50:51,480 --> 00:50:55,200
Speaker 1: running back. And they had two a grand total of two.

967
00:50:56,120 --> 00:50:58,239
Speaker 1: I think that will change this year, but who cares?

968
00:50:58,280 --> 00:50:59,960
Speaker 1: Because I thought it would look a whole lot prettier

969
00:51:00,160 --> 00:51:02,000
Speaker 1: that last year. I mean, you did have Bryce Young

970
00:51:02,040 --> 00:51:05,440
Speaker 1: after all, so even he could not make a legitimate

971
00:51:05,560 --> 00:51:10,600
Speaker 1: receiving room out of that. Crew Stats and Info aka

972
00:51:10,719 --> 00:51:15,640
Speaker 1: producer Jesse has provided me with the following information. Bama's

973
00:51:15,719 --> 00:51:18,400
Speaker 1: leading receiver had six hundred and seventy seven yards. That's

974
00:51:18,480 --> 00:51:22,759
Speaker 1: Jermaine Burton. That is the least amount of receiving yardage

975
00:51:22,800 --> 00:51:27,040
Speaker 1: for a number one receiver at Alabama. Since hello, anyone,

976
00:51:27,120 --> 00:51:29,840
Speaker 1: no Bama fans, how far back would you have to

977
00:51:29,880 --> 00:51:34,320
Speaker 1: go before you found a year where your leading receiver

978
00:51:34,400 --> 00:51:39,360
Speaker 1: didn't even top seven hundred yards twenty eleven, and that

979
00:51:39,480 --> 00:51:42,680
Speaker 1: was Marquise Mays. That's a little while ago. Next up,

980
00:51:43,080 --> 00:51:45,719
Speaker 1: stay in the SEC for a second. We're about to

981
00:51:45,800 --> 00:51:50,520
Speaker 1: venture out of the sec. Spacegator said, UGA will not

982
00:51:50,680 --> 00:51:52,840
Speaker 1: repeat because they're not even going to make the playoff.

983
00:51:53,840 --> 00:51:57,239
Speaker 1: Bad news here. Bad news part one is I only

984
00:51:57,239 --> 00:52:00,560
Speaker 1: called that a five. I will defend myself vigorously in

985
00:52:00,600 --> 00:52:03,960
Speaker 1: a second. But secondly, the bad news for you, Space

986
00:52:04,040 --> 00:52:07,239
Speaker 1: Gator is I don't know if you've seen the end

987
00:52:07,239 --> 00:52:09,840
Speaker 1: of the season, So spoiler alert if you haven't. Georgia

988
00:52:09,880 --> 00:52:15,200
Speaker 1: wins it all again. Yeah, and it is a total

989
00:52:15,600 --> 00:52:20,080
Speaker 1: and complete annihilation. They so thoroughly splatter TCU in the

990
00:52:20,160 --> 00:52:24,280
Speaker 1: National Championship game, they play it indoors, and TCUs fans

991
00:52:24,520 --> 00:52:28,839
Speaker 1: still get rained on. How does this happen? That's when

992
00:52:28,840 --> 00:52:32,160
Speaker 1: you have your program going good, when you are slaughtering

993
00:52:32,160 --> 00:52:34,359
Speaker 1: people to the point where they play with a roof

994
00:52:34,400 --> 00:52:36,520
Speaker 1: over your head, and you still manage to find a

995
00:52:36,560 --> 00:52:38,600
Speaker 1: way for the opposing fans to get rained on. That's

996
00:52:38,600 --> 00:52:43,799
Speaker 1: a true story that happened. Sofi Stadium, beautiful facility. WrestleMania

997
00:52:43,840 --> 00:52:46,560
Speaker 1: is about to be there in like six weeks. Belchie's going.

998
00:52:47,520 --> 00:52:51,320
Speaker 1: It's constructed in southern California because those people thought it

999
00:52:51,360 --> 00:52:54,640
Speaker 1: would only rain straight down and it did not. It

1000
00:52:54,760 --> 00:52:58,399
Speaker 1: rained sideways, good old fashioned sideways rain like they used

1001
00:52:58,400 --> 00:53:01,560
Speaker 1: to have in Vietnam when Forrest Gump over there, fat

1002
00:53:01,760 --> 00:53:05,759
Speaker 1: sideways rain. So you're getting drug by fifty and you're

1003
00:53:05,760 --> 00:53:08,920
Speaker 1: getting soaked, and no one dressed, no one brought a poncho.

1004
00:53:10,320 --> 00:53:15,520
Speaker 1: It was a sad, sad sight. I you know, there

1005
00:53:15,600 --> 00:53:18,520
Speaker 1: was someone by my side that night who made certain

1006
00:53:18,560 --> 00:53:22,280
Speaker 1: disparaging comments about certain TCU fans and a certain portion

1007
00:53:22,360 --> 00:53:24,640
Speaker 1: of that building. But I will not throw that certain

1008
00:53:24,680 --> 00:53:29,400
Speaker 1: person under the bus. But it's it's someone's daughter. It

1009
00:53:29,480 --> 00:53:34,320
Speaker 1: is someone's daughter. Let's move on Maryland. Yes, we always

1010
00:53:34,360 --> 00:53:36,279
Speaker 1: find an excuse to talk about Maryland on the show,

1011
00:53:36,680 --> 00:53:38,840
Speaker 1: or so I said, apparently in this segment when we

1012
00:53:38,840 --> 00:53:42,960
Speaker 1: did it. Maryland will be next year's pit. That's the prediction.

1013
00:53:43,000 --> 00:53:45,800
Speaker 1: In August, Maryland will be next year's Pit. A top

1014
00:53:45,880 --> 00:53:50,520
Speaker 1: fifteen team with Taulia Tongue of Iiloa being a Heisman finalist.

1015
00:53:50,600 --> 00:53:53,920
Speaker 1: Jesse I forgot about this second part, so that didn't happen.

1016
00:53:54,560 --> 00:53:58,680
Speaker 1: Here's the thing. Maryland wasn't bad. They had an eight

1017
00:53:58,719 --> 00:54:01,959
Speaker 1: win season. It's just it's just that we went ten

1018
00:54:01,960 --> 00:54:04,920
Speaker 1: steps beyond where we needed to in the prediction. But

1019
00:54:05,040 --> 00:54:07,160
Speaker 1: it was bold. I'll give you that. I put a

1020
00:54:07,280 --> 00:54:11,160
Speaker 1: nine on this, and I said at the time, and

1021
00:54:11,239 --> 00:54:15,319
Speaker 1: I'll reiterate now, I think people forget Maryland is in

1022
00:54:15,400 --> 00:54:18,480
Speaker 1: the Big Ten, the Big Ten East. It's one of

1023
00:54:18,520 --> 00:54:22,759
Speaker 1: the toughest divisions in football. Pitt is not. There is

1024
00:54:22,800 --> 00:54:26,279
Speaker 1: a long way between the Big Ten East and the

1025
00:54:26,320 --> 00:54:30,880
Speaker 1: ACC Coastal and we found that out with this prediction Pitt.

1026
00:54:31,400 --> 00:54:34,080
Speaker 1: They had won the conference, they had a first round

1027
00:54:34,120 --> 00:54:36,120
Speaker 1: draft pick at quarterback, they had the bolitnikof Winner and

1028
00:54:36,160 --> 00:54:38,359
Speaker 1: Jordan Addison at wide receiver. That's what we were calling

1029
00:54:38,400 --> 00:54:40,880
Speaker 1: on Maryland to do, and it was just never gonna happen.

1030
00:54:41,080 --> 00:54:43,080
Speaker 1: And they had a good year eight and five. They

1031
00:54:43,120 --> 00:54:45,279
Speaker 1: had a pretty good year, but it was not to

1032
00:54:45,320 --> 00:54:48,800
Speaker 1: be next up. This one got me a little mad.

1033
00:54:48,960 --> 00:54:51,319
Speaker 1: It got a lot of us mad at the end

1034
00:54:51,320 --> 00:54:56,360
Speaker 1: of the season. So the prediction from Dorina was Hooker

1035
00:54:56,440 --> 00:55:00,000
Speaker 1: for Heisman will actually be a thing, and it was,

1036
00:55:00,840 --> 00:55:03,279
Speaker 1: and it should have been a bigger thing. Immunity, but

1037
00:55:03,640 --> 00:55:06,759
Speaker 1: the Heisman voters found a way to rip that from

1038
00:55:06,800 --> 00:55:10,880
Speaker 1: our clutches, so instead we were left watching Hendon Hooker

1039
00:55:10,880 --> 00:55:14,480
Speaker 1: have a great season, a season that, in my humble opinion,

1040
00:55:14,840 --> 00:55:17,560
Speaker 1: should have warranted him a trip to New York City

1041
00:55:17,640 --> 00:55:21,440
Speaker 1: as a finalist at least, but that didn't happen. However,

1042
00:55:21,600 --> 00:55:24,600
Speaker 1: this prediction was not bold. I thought I put a

1043
00:55:24,640 --> 00:55:28,080
Speaker 1: four on it because I had remembered the year we

1044
00:55:28,080 --> 00:55:31,560
Speaker 1: were coming off of. I remember that he was seventh

1045
00:55:31,560 --> 00:55:33,560
Speaker 1: in the country in completion percentage. If he was healthy,

1046
00:55:33,600 --> 00:55:35,960
Speaker 1: the whole year would have been higher. Only played eleven games,

1047
00:55:36,480 --> 00:55:38,520
Speaker 1: and he was well on his way to doing all

1048
00:55:38,560 --> 00:55:41,000
Speaker 1: this stuff in twenty twenty one. So twenty twenty two

1049
00:55:41,120 --> 00:55:43,279
Speaker 1: I just thought was going to be a continuation. It

1050
00:55:43,520 --> 00:55:47,839
Speaker 1: was and then some. And I think what cost him

1051
00:55:47,920 --> 00:55:51,560
Speaker 1: ultimately was he had to play Georgia and the other

1052
00:55:51,600 --> 00:55:55,000
Speaker 1: guys didn't. Kayleb Williams didn't have to play Georgia, Hendon

1053
00:55:55,040 --> 00:55:58,040
Speaker 1: Hooker did. And I also think the South Carolina game,

1054
00:55:58,719 --> 00:56:01,480
Speaker 1: which kind of derailed ten as a team. I think

1055
00:56:01,600 --> 00:56:05,040
Speaker 1: that cost him to because otherwise I think his numbers

1056
00:56:05,040 --> 00:56:08,400
Speaker 1: and I just think his profile, his play matched up

1057
00:56:08,440 --> 00:56:10,200
Speaker 1: favorably enough to get him sent to New York, but

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Speaker 1: instead he got screwed. We all got screwed out of it.

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Speaker 1: It is what it is. However, I'm still gonna count

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Speaker 1: this as a good prediction. And also this last one.

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Speaker 1: I kind of mentioned this earlier. Michael said, Cincinnati goes

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Speaker 1: undefeated this season. I called the prediction a nine because

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Speaker 1: it was out of this world bold and it didn't

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Speaker 1: seem bold like a lot of I remember people pushing

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Speaker 1: back on me on this. They were saying, how can

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Speaker 1: you say, since he going undefeated is a nine on

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Speaker 1: the boldness goal? They just went undefeated, didn't they. They

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Speaker 1: went to the playoff. I think they were undefeated. I

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Speaker 1: can't remember anyway they had come off a playoff appearance.

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Speaker 1: And I said, that's why they weren't sending nine guys

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Speaker 1: to the draft. That's the stat I told you earlier.

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Speaker 1: Only two programs in all of college football sent more

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Speaker 1: guys to the draft than the University of Cincinnati did.

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Speaker 1: After the twenty twin one season. They weren't about to

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Speaker 1: go undefeated again. Plus they had a game at Arkansas

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Speaker 1: in Week one where they were gonna be a dog,

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Speaker 1: so it was derailed after Week one. That was as

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Speaker 1: cut and dr as it was to me. I looked

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Speaker 1: at just the Week one game. You're gonna be about

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Speaker 1: to touch down underdog in Week one on the road,

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Speaker 1: so this could be done by then, and it was

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Speaker 1: done by then. Famously, that's the week where yours truly

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Speaker 1: was suffering from good old fashioned caffeine overdose. So I

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Speaker 1: just had to had to feel my way around. Oh

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Speaker 1: I drink too much cole brew. I can't see. So

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Speaker 1: that's that's how Bold Predictions concludes tonight. Now I have

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Speaker 1: good news, and I've waited until the end of the

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Speaker 1: show because this is this is the kind of information

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Speaker 1: that is reserved only for the most p one of

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Speaker 1: audience members. That's the most hardcore sector. I asked Jesse

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Speaker 1: about forty some odd minutes ago. Frankly, I don't even

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Speaker 1: remember what I was talking about anymore, but I asked him,

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Speaker 1: what is a group of alligators called? And wouldn't you

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Speaker 1: know it? A group of alligators is not called a pack,

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Speaker 1: It is not called a herd. It is called a congregation.

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Speaker 1: A congregation of alligators. Jesse, I don't believe you. I

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Speaker 1: appreciate you guys watching tonight for director Colin, for producer Jesse.

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Speaker 1: I'm Josh Pat. We got a really really loaded late

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Speaker 1: kick Extra podcast dropping on Tuesday. The only way to

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Speaker 1: look at the bottom of your screen if you're already listening.

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Speaker 1: It's a moot point the bottom of your screen, all

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Speaker 1: those little icons. We're on every platform you can possibly imagine.

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Speaker 1: Find it at your convenience. Make sure you're following otherwise

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Speaker 1: I'll see you live from Indianapolis, Indiana, this Thursday. Until then,

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Speaker 1: take care of a great start to your week, and

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Speaker 1: God bless