WEBVTT - Sizzling for Saturday with Michael Felder 0:00:02.160 --> 0:00:05.040 Welcome to the solid verbal hull. 0:00:05.080 --> 0:00:08.600 That for me, I'm a man, I'm forty. I've heard 0:00:08.680 --> 0:00:10.639 so many players say, well, I want to be happy. 0:00:10.800 --> 0:00:13.000 You want to be happy for a day? Edith Steak 0:00:13.360 --> 0:00:14.800 is that woo woom? 0:00:14.920 --> 0:00:20.800 And Dan and Tye, welcome back to the solid Verbo 0:00:20.880 --> 0:00:24.640 Boys and girls. My name is ty hilden Brand, joining 0:00:24.640 --> 0:00:29.640 me as always on this magnificent Friday, the one and 0:00:29.680 --> 0:00:31.280 only Dan Rubertstein. Sir, how you doing. 0:00:32.240 --> 0:00:34.800 I'm pretty good, Ty, I can't complain. I just had 0:00:35.040 --> 0:00:38.080 a nice mug of coffee. We're recording earlier than usual, 0:00:38.240 --> 0:00:41.440 so I imagine both of us have more energy than people 0:00:41.520 --> 0:00:44.479 may be used to, So I can't complain, Tie. And 0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:47.800 the only thing I will say, and I'm about to 0:00:47.800 --> 0:00:51.280 say it now please, is I can't guarantee anything in 0:00:51.320 --> 0:00:55.280 the way of staying in this room behind this mic 0:00:55.320 --> 0:00:58.240 after drinking two bucks of coffee to take a break 0:00:58.240 --> 0:01:01.240 here and I don't know from eighteen to twenty three 0:01:01.280 --> 0:01:01.920 minutes if. 0:01:01.760 --> 0:01:04.679 We hear dead air, We're just going to assume that 0:01:04.760 --> 0:01:08.080 your teeth are floating. You needed to step out, take 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:11.319 care of some business, and then in Thista here. 0:01:11.200 --> 0:01:12.600 Welcome back to the show. I'm ty. 0:01:13.640 --> 0:01:17.200 He is Dan. Happy Fridays. Hope everyone is excited for 0:01:17.240 --> 0:01:20.919 the weekend. We are recording a little bit earlier than usual. 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:24.360 As Dan said, this is a Thursday morning tea time 0:01:24.440 --> 0:01:26.760 for us, as we're going to talk through the news 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:28.680 and do an interview with the gentlemen. We haven't had 0:01:28.680 --> 0:01:30.400 on the program in quite some time, which I don't 0:01:30.400 --> 0:01:33.240 know why, I have no reason for it, but Michael Felder, 0:01:33.319 --> 0:01:36.080 longtime friend of the show, it's going to stop by 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:39.120 and speak with Dan here in just a little bit. 0:01:39.160 --> 0:01:41.080 We're going to go through that news. 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Let's talk about what's going on. 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:41.280 We have breaking news. I'm not gonna yell. I'm trying 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:44.079 to maintain my voice for tomorrow. I'm in a big 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:44.760 golf tournament. 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:47.680 I'll do an NPR boot boot boop. 0:02:47.760 --> 0:02:51.280 A boop boop, which begs the question why do I 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:55.440 need my voice for a golf tournament? But nonetheless, the 0:02:55.480 --> 0:03:02.280 Big Ten says it won't revisit decision to postpone fallse sports. 0:03:02.320 --> 0:03:05.000 That is, according to Kevin Warren, as you know, Dan, 0:03:05.040 --> 0:03:07.720 because this is kind of like a weird time, a 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:11.000 lot of stuff going on. You check Twitter, fifteen minutes, 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:14.760 you check it again, and pretty much the whole world changes. Yep, 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:19.919 we've now firmly entered into that territory of fans who 0:03:19.960 --> 0:03:24.920 have sources. There's always the worst time as it relates 0:03:24.919 --> 0:03:28.519 to sports content, but we're there now. And so amid 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:31.400 all of this backlash with the Big Ten pulling the 0:03:31.440 --> 0:03:37.000 plug on its fall season, first Kevin Warren, new Commissioner, 0:03:37.040 --> 0:03:39.680 felt the need to speak out. He said on Wednesday 0:03:39.960 --> 0:03:44.400 via an open letter to the conference community that the 0:03:44.600 --> 0:03:48.560 vote by Big ten's Council of Presidents and Chancellors was 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:52.960 quote overwhelmingly in support of postponing fall sports and will 0:03:52.960 --> 0:03:57.840 not be revisited case closed. Quote. The decision was thorough 0:03:57.880 --> 0:04:01.560 and deliberative and based on sound feedback, guidance and advice 0:04:01.600 --> 0:04:05.920 for medical experts. Despite the decision to postpone fall sports, 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:09.640 we continue our work to find a path forward that 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:11.880 creates a healthy and safe environment for all Big ten 0:04:11.960 --> 0:04:15.640 student athletes. Blah blah, blah blah blah. Okay, a number 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:17.839 of headlines I guess that you could unpack from that, 0:04:18.040 --> 0:04:20.919 but chief among them is the fact that they're not 0:04:20.960 --> 0:04:24.200 going to be revisiting this plan to postpone fall sports. 0:04:24.200 --> 0:04:25.520 Stand Does that surprise you at all? 0:04:26.839 --> 0:04:29.440 No? I think the surprising thing was the initial thing 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:33.600 where there wasn't too much clarity. The messaging seem pretty 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:37.919 muddled by the Big Ten in terms of who decided, 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:41.520 how they decided, what factors went into deciding what the 0:04:41.560 --> 0:04:44.320 plan is moving forward, what the plan is for the fall, 0:04:44.400 --> 0:04:47.640 what the plan is for the winter or spring eligibility 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:51.640 testing as it stands now testing goals as it relates 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:54.480 to what they didn't feel like they could meet, what 0:04:54.640 --> 0:04:59.160 unknowns they we were concerned with, Why they were concerned 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:02.000 with it. I don't think they were hitting those specific 0:05:02.040 --> 0:05:05.640 messaging targets, and so now they seem to have done 0:05:05.680 --> 0:05:09.560 a better job of communicating the bullet points of their thinking. 0:05:10.080 --> 0:05:13.080 So I think it's if you make a decision, if 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:16.480 it's based on what you consider to be sound reasons, 0:05:16.800 --> 0:05:20.920 I can always appreciate sticking to that decision. It's the 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:24.240 clarity thing to me, and the Big Ten is now 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:27.320 at least taking a step forward for that, and I 0:05:27.320 --> 0:05:30.159 don't think they wanted to take a step of Okay, 0:05:30.200 --> 0:05:32.839 we decided this, but now there's saliva tests that we 0:05:32.880 --> 0:05:35.040 can get back further after. I think they send them 0:05:35.080 --> 0:05:36.600 to a lab. Don't quote me on that. It's not 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:39.039 on site. We can get the saliva test back, so 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:42.760 maybe that's encouraging. The thing is, though people are not 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:45.240 fully on campus, some schools are. I think you sent 0:05:45.320 --> 0:05:48.760 me a Penn State video that wasn't not great. No, 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:53.440 it's not great, So I think it would have been 0:05:53.480 --> 0:05:55.760 even worse to say, you know what, maybe we'll do 0:05:55.800 --> 0:05:58.240 a five game season and just keep flip flopping. I 0:05:58.279 --> 0:05:59.960 think you got to stick to a plan and then 0:06:00.200 --> 0:06:04.760 do right by that plan instead of saying, well, make it, 0:06:04.960 --> 0:06:06.880 might change something next week and then the week after that. 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:09.600 I think you just got to go with with what 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:12.359 the consensus seems to be. And that's what Kevin Warren 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:12.839 pointed to. 0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:18.400 Yeah, and to that frustration James Franklin. I think this 0:06:18.560 --> 0:06:24.200 was actually before Kevin Warren released the open letter. Franklin 0:06:24.600 --> 0:06:28.680 expressed frustration by the lack of communication from the Big 0:06:28.720 --> 0:06:31.560 Ten in canceling Fall Sports. I have the quote here 0:06:31.600 --> 0:06:34.960 from him. I am extremely frustrated because we still have 0:06:35.120 --> 0:06:37.880 very few answers to communicate to our young men and 0:06:37.920 --> 0:06:41.599 their families about their futures, and very little understanding of 0:06:41.640 --> 0:06:46.280 the factors contributing to the decision. So, as we said 0:06:46.320 --> 0:06:48.880 on our Wednesday show, the interview we did with Ross 0:06:48.880 --> 0:06:53.359 Dellinger from SI part of the problem here, of course, 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:55.680 the virus is what it all stems from, but the 0:06:55.760 --> 0:07:00.280 communications effort on behalf of the Big Ten especially has 0:07:00.320 --> 0:07:05.000 been sorely lacking. Hopefully this open letter from Kevin Warren 0:07:04.600 --> 0:07:08.080 can do something to make that better. I did see 0:07:08.160 --> 0:07:12.040 Gene Smith offered a letter of his own, talked a 0:07:12.080 --> 0:07:14.880 little bit more about actively planning out how they might 0:07:14.920 --> 0:07:17.640 go about a season in the winter or the springtime. 0:07:18.360 --> 0:07:21.560 They're starting to think about those things now. Sandy Barber 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:24.000 from Penn State had mentioned earlier in the week that 0:07:24.520 --> 0:07:26.760 she was starting to see plans for what she called 0:07:26.760 --> 0:07:30.440 a compelling plan for a spring or winter season. My 0:07:30.520 --> 0:07:32.880 guess is, now that the Big Ten is here, we're 0:07:32.920 --> 0:07:35.960 going to find out more and more information regarding what 0:07:36.040 --> 0:07:38.400 that plan looks like. At least that's what I would 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:43.240 hope for. But I understand the frustration, frankly, if you're 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:44.840 a player on one of these teams, if you're a 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:47.840 coach on one of these teams. Again, it's unfortunately, this 0:07:47.880 --> 0:07:51.960 is not a problem isolated to anyone program. Within those programs, 0:07:52.040 --> 0:07:54.920 the little bubbles that they've created for themselves, by and large, 0:07:54.920 --> 0:07:56.120 they're all doing a pretty good job. 0:07:57.560 --> 0:07:59.680 Yeah, oh yeah, absolutely, And I don't think that was 0:07:59.720 --> 0:08:01.920 ever really too much of a concern. On the Big 0:08:01.960 --> 0:08:04.840 ten level. We saw some you know, the Florida State 0:08:04.880 --> 0:08:08.679 thing popped up, and then the receiver Warren Thompson said Okay, 0:08:08.760 --> 0:08:11.120 I think I miscommunicated and I spoke too quickly, and 0:08:11.120 --> 0:08:13.520 then there were you know, Syracuse stoppage, and they weren't 0:08:13.640 --> 0:08:15.880 happy with how often they were being tested. But now 0:08:15.880 --> 0:08:18.119 the ACC is I think, did you see three times 0:08:18.120 --> 0:08:18.480 a week? 0:08:19.120 --> 0:08:19.280 Yeah? 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:19.960 I think that's right. 0:08:20.080 --> 0:08:22.440 Yeah, yeah, three times a week. So they're really ramping 0:08:22.560 --> 0:08:24.800 up efforts despite you know, I'm sure we're going to 0:08:24.880 --> 0:08:26.920 get to it in a second. Here some issues on 0:08:26.960 --> 0:08:30.760 campuses in terms of clusters, but yeah, I didn't see 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:34.200 a specific Big Ten school that wasn't taking things seriously. 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:36.120 I mean, even as it relates to James Franklin. If 0:08:36.120 --> 0:08:38.760 you remember the story that I think he was separating 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:41.880 from his family because of health issues within his family. 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:45.840 So James Franklin was sacrificing and taking this very seriously 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:48.920 to have a season. So just for him personally, the 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:51.360 lack of clarity, the lack of communications, it had to 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:55.480 be infuriating, especially as he is the one that has 0:08:55.559 --> 0:08:58.200 to explain it to his staff and everybody within the 0:08:58.240 --> 0:09:01.559 program and every single player, and when he isn't armed 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:03.840 with the information, it's got to be maddening. 0:09:03.920 --> 0:09:07.079 I get it, No, I do completely, So all right, 0:09:07.120 --> 0:09:10.000 We'll find out more on the Big ten front, but 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:13.760 at least for the time being, let's put aside the 0:09:13.760 --> 0:09:15.840 fan rumors that I know are out there on Twitter 0:09:15.920 --> 0:09:17.520 and imors. 0:09:17.520 --> 0:09:17.679 Though. 0:09:17.720 --> 0:09:21.440 Did you see there? What was it the Biden VP pick? 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:24.920 There were certain people were paying attention to tail numbers. 0:09:25.559 --> 0:09:27.840 I was like, oh, private plane tail numbers, and they've 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:28.360 done that. 0:09:28.440 --> 0:09:32.640 Y'all takes the back all right. You mentioned some of 0:09:32.679 --> 0:09:36.720 the on campus issues that are out there. We're seeing 0:09:36.760 --> 0:09:41.840 it at both North Carolina and Notre Dame. In both 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:48.920 cases they have paused temporarily their athletics programs amid some 0:09:49.600 --> 0:09:53.760 rising case numbers on their respective campuses. On the Notre 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:57.320 Dame front, this is a quote from Father John Jenkins. 0:09:57.400 --> 0:10:01.560 He says, our contact tracing analysis indicates that most infections 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:05.320 are coming from off campus gatherings. Good going, guys, way 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:08.320 to go, great, Thank you. 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:12.680 I wish you had got more specific. Most of most 0:10:12.679 --> 0:10:17.640 of the cases are coming from Brandan, Brandan, we see 0:10:17.679 --> 0:10:18.840 you on Orchard Street. 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:19.480 We see you. 0:10:19.760 --> 0:10:19.960 Yeah. 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:24.400 Here is the thing, Okay. As Ross alluded to on 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:28.880 the Wednesday show, there is a divide not just within 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:30.719 the sport but around the country. We all know it 0:10:31.480 --> 0:10:36.199 regardless of how serious you take the virus, and there 0:10:36.280 --> 0:10:40.439 is a spectrum. I think we could all agree that 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:47.199 the sheer optics of a large gathering among unmasked students 0:10:47.960 --> 0:10:50.200 is not going to bode well for college football. 0:10:52.080 --> 0:10:54.000 No, not necessarily, it's not going to bode well. 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:58.240 It makes it harder for these institutions to move forward 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:00.679 with any degree of normalcy. Consider the fact that they 0:11:00.679 --> 0:11:05.280 are coming at this almost entirely from a liability standpoint. 0:11:05.559 --> 0:11:07.679 You may not like to hear that, but that is reality. 0:11:07.720 --> 0:11:08.760 That's where we're at right now. 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:10.640 It's at least a large portion for sure. 0:11:11.000 --> 0:11:13.439 That is where we're at right now. So to see 0:11:13.480 --> 0:11:16.480 pictures like that on Twitter and social media and in 0:11:16.520 --> 0:11:20.120 the news, it does not help our cause here, guys, 0:11:20.720 --> 0:11:25.000 that's all I'm saying. Please keep that in mind before 0:11:25.000 --> 0:11:26.480 you go out you're part of one of these off 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:28.840 campus gatherings. I know a lot of people in the 0:11:28.880 --> 0:11:31.640 Notre Dame world were tweeting about some of these off 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:36.040 campus gatherings, in particular two parties that some seniors through 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:39.760 as students got back to campus. So, look, this is 0:11:39.800 --> 0:11:40.480 going to be recurring. 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:42.800 If you even tried to reason with a seventeen or 0:11:42.800 --> 0:11:45.840 eighteen year old tie, I don't. I don't fault them. 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:47.079 No, I get it. 0:11:47.240 --> 0:11:47.760 I get it. 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:50.160 I you know how old are we. We're much older 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:51.000 than that at this point. 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:54.640 I'm in my early to mid twenties, and I just 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:57.840 I get it. I mean, being young and virile and 0:11:57.880 --> 0:12:05.040 all those things tight. You put hundreds thousands of frankly 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:07.400 horny eighteen year olds, and I'm not saying horny for 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:10.080 each other's bodies. I'm just saying horny for being eighteen, 0:12:10.320 --> 0:12:12.760 for doing just going out and having fun and being 0:12:12.760 --> 0:12:15.360 in college and getting away from mom and dad. Like 0:12:16.000 --> 0:12:18.200 what do you throw a bunch of beef into a 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:20.160 lion pit? Like the lions ate it? 0:12:20.320 --> 0:12:20.520 What? 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:23.440 Come on, guys, respect the beef. 0:12:24.120 --> 0:12:28.400 Yeah, it's hard to it's hard to in earnest get 0:12:28.440 --> 0:12:34.040 angry at seeing eighteen year old college freshman nights, you know, sophomores, 0:12:34.120 --> 0:12:38.319 junior whatever, acting like college kids. It's on the schools 0:12:38.360 --> 0:12:39.840 for expecting anything different. 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:43.760 I would say I would, I would. Can't you agree 0:12:43.800 --> 0:12:44.040 with you? 0:12:44.880 --> 0:12:45.120 Yeah? 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:48.000 I mean you've talked multiple times on this show. You're 0:12:48.040 --> 0:12:52.000 talking dozens and dozens, if not hundreds, of lucky Penn 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:54.560 State freshmen coming into and out of your dorm room. 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:55.079 I get it. 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:58.000 It's sure this is something that you stick to and 0:12:57.720 --> 0:13:01.559 you stop talking about it recently, but you know, nobody 0:13:01.600 --> 0:13:02.560 forgets on this show. 0:13:03.880 --> 0:13:06.280 We'll see what happens. I don't get down it, but 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:08.720 I think we all understand that this is what's going 0:13:08.760 --> 0:13:11.920 to happen on college campuses, right, And look, we hope 0:13:11.920 --> 0:13:14.800 everyone's healthy. I don't know, I'm not rooting for this, 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:18.400 but we hope everyone's healthy in that. Surely we can 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:22.560 continue on with the sport that we love. But you know, 0:13:22.600 --> 0:13:24.120 as Ross said, well we'll have to give it a 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:27.040 few weeks to find out where things end up on 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:30.400 the case front. By the way, on other Notre Dame fronts, 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:33.040 they did announce that they're going to host South Florida 0:13:33.520 --> 0:13:36.440 on September the nineteenth. That's going to be their non 0:13:36.480 --> 0:13:40.360 conference game in place of was it Western? It was 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:43.120 Western Michigan because the mac carceled so they needed to 0:13:43.120 --> 0:13:45.640 fill that spot. And looks like it's going to be 0:13:45.720 --> 0:13:47.319 USF on the nineteenth. 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:50.000 Bowls on a winning streak against Notre Dame. This is true, yes, 0:13:50.480 --> 0:13:52.800 very true. I don't remember if they've played since they 0:13:52.840 --> 0:13:54.679 beat Notre Dame. I can look that up, but I'm 0:13:54.720 --> 0:13:57.439 just going to decide not to. They did lose. Charlie 0:13:57.440 --> 0:13:59.440 Weiss was the coach or was that early? I might 0:13:59.440 --> 0:14:00.920 have been early, Kelly. 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:03.120 I don't even remember. I think I blacked out. 0:14:03.960 --> 0:14:06.319 I just hope that you're sweating just a little bit. 0:14:06.640 --> 0:14:09.720 I am a little bit, a little bit clammy underneath 0:14:09.760 --> 0:14:14.559 the arms right now. Okay, Florida State's gonna allow tailgating. 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:20.960 Uh okay. Parking lots are going to open three hours 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:26.240 before kickoff. Patrons must tailgate at their own spaces, and 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:29.640 everyone should maintain a six foot social distancing standard between 0:14:29.680 --> 0:14:33.520 families and between tailgating areas. Face coverings are also encouraged 0:14:33.560 --> 0:14:37.400 while walking through parking lots and socializing. Dan, you used 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:41.680 to do digital series for a little website some may 0:14:41.680 --> 0:14:44.800 have heard of called Sports Illustrated dot Com SI dot 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:45.720 com for short. 0:14:46.440 --> 0:14:48.400 Yeah, SI tour Guy. 0:14:47.880 --> 0:14:51.120 SI tour Guy. Can you elaborate a little bit on 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:54.760 how you feel this plan will or won't work Once 0:14:54.800 --> 0:14:56.600 out in the wild. 0:14:58.480 --> 0:15:02.440 I've seen every color of jello shot tie. I've seen 0:15:02.520 --> 0:15:05.560 shades of jello shot that would blow your mind. I've 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:08.600 seen gradient jello shots. Bottom of the shot cup. It's 0:15:08.640 --> 0:15:11.480 green maybe, then a lime green, then a blue, and 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:14.400 then an indigo. I've seen it all tie and what 0:15:14.480 --> 0:15:20.920 it leads to is social non distancing. Social cuddling is 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:25.200 the word in the term I would use. It doesn't 0:15:25.200 --> 0:15:29.800 seem like a smart idea. It doesn't seem like we 0:15:30.040 --> 0:15:33.480 need this now. If the idea is we should all 0:15:33.560 --> 0:15:36.480 really be taking care of ourselves to prevent both infection 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:40.320 and perhaps unknowingly spreading infection, we should limit all of 0:15:40.360 --> 0:15:43.720 the things that are not fully essential around college football. 0:15:43.720 --> 0:15:46.600 And I get it because this show is about food. 0:15:47.920 --> 0:15:50.120 I mean this specific episode, if not the show at large, 0:15:50.160 --> 0:15:52.800 is about food and community and yelling about college football. 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:55.760 And I think it can be argued that tailgating is 0:15:55.800 --> 0:15:59.400 the single best part of college football culture. But we 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:01.320 can take a far off. I think we can take 0:16:01.360 --> 0:16:03.040 a fall off and just do things at home and 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:06.400 then show up to the game and practice safe procedures. 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:09.760 You know, it's just it's not going to end well. 0:16:10.000 --> 0:16:12.320 Tailgating is a community thing. 0:16:12.480 --> 0:16:16.760 That's the key point. There are probably a million people, 0:16:17.160 --> 0:16:20.480 not a million people, A lot of people who will 0:16:20.520 --> 0:16:24.600 go will tailgate responsibly and will enjoy themselves, and they'll say, well, 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:28.320 I'm keeping to myself, I'm not interacting with anybody. I 0:16:28.320 --> 0:16:31.240 think this is safe, and in those cases it is safe, 0:16:31.360 --> 0:16:33.960 I would agree with you. There are a lot of 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:36.320 cases where people will not abide by the rules, and 0:16:36.360 --> 0:16:40.040 that's where I think the whole ending badly thing is 0:16:40.040 --> 0:16:44.680 is a more realistic possibility. But I don't know. We'll 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:46.720 see how it goes, see how it goes that. I 0:16:46.720 --> 0:16:49.840 haven't heard of many other schools addressing the tailgating thing. 0:16:50.520 --> 0:16:53.160 My guess is that we'll probably hear more about this 0:16:53.720 --> 0:16:56.440 the closer we get to our purported kickoff of this 0:16:57.240 --> 0:17:01.240 twenty twenty weird fall season. We've got power three if 0:17:01.240 --> 0:17:01.560 you will. 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:05.280 But let me tell you something tight about what it's 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:10.000 like at eight forty eight am at ten oh four am, 0:17:10.040 --> 0:17:14.119 at nine to twenty six am at West Virginia, at Washington, 0:17:14.680 --> 0:17:19.919 at Oklahoma State, at Tennessee, at Ohio State. We're talking 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:24.600 about twenty two year old women, twenty seven year old dudes, 0:17:24.880 --> 0:17:28.040 nineteen year old dudes, sixty three year old women, fifty 0:17:28.160 --> 0:17:31.960 seven year old dudes, all putting their arms around me 0:17:32.080 --> 0:17:37.840 and saying, let me tell you about azyzy football. Let 0:17:37.840 --> 0:17:42.480 me tell you of Loma State so overrated. 0:17:42.760 --> 0:17:44.399 You have the video footage you prove it. 0:17:44.760 --> 0:17:48.840 I do, I absolutely do. So that's my own personal 0:17:48.920 --> 0:17:52.639 experience that those gradient colored jello shots lead to a 0:17:52.680 --> 0:17:54.200 lot of social cuddling. 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:58.320 So with strangers like me, with strangers like you, Yeah, 0:17:58.359 --> 0:17:59.320 total strangers. 0:17:59.640 --> 0:18:03.840 They were very quick to say you need to put 0:18:03.880 --> 0:18:07.200 me on. Let me tell you about Clint. 0:18:06.960 --> 0:18:10.480 Shelfeah at North Dakota State. They do it intense with 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:14.480 like jet engine heaters to keep themselves warm. 0:18:14.720 --> 0:18:17.720 Incredible a site to be hauling. Believe, peable bacon everywhere. 0:18:17.720 --> 0:18:18.320 I loved it. 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:21.000 But it's tough, throws our asses off, but incredible. 0:18:21.680 --> 0:18:22.120 Yeah. 0:18:22.520 --> 0:18:25.080 Final tidbit here that I have on the list before 0:18:25.080 --> 0:18:29.680 I interview, and this is actually very significant. This goes 0:18:29.760 --> 0:18:32.600 to one of the points I think that James Franklin 0:18:32.640 --> 0:18:35.879 had expressed some frustration with, and that was a whole 0:18:36.320 --> 0:18:41.320 thing around eligibility. The NCAA Council is now recommending that 0:18:41.920 --> 0:18:47.639 twenty twenty fall sports athletes retain the year of eligibility. 0:18:47.760 --> 0:18:52.280 The Division one Council is recommending to the NCAA's Board 0:18:52.280 --> 0:18:55.760 of Governors that all college athletes whose sports are traditionally 0:18:55.800 --> 0:18:57.840 played in the Fall be allowed to keep their year 0:18:57.880 --> 0:19:01.640 of eligibility that is Yahoo and twenty four to seven 0:19:01.680 --> 0:19:04.680 sports as of Wednesday, naturally, after we hit the stop 0:19:04.720 --> 0:19:09.320 button on our podcast. This is a measure of potential 0:19:09.400 --> 0:19:12.720 eligibility relief that could ease the burden for schools and 0:19:12.760 --> 0:19:15.760 players amid the ongoing pandemic. This is a big deal, Dan, 0:19:15.800 --> 0:19:18.240 This is something that I think we've addressed a little 0:19:18.240 --> 0:19:20.959 bit here and there in our conversations with Richard Johnson 0:19:20.960 --> 0:19:25.399 and Nicole Auerback. The whole idea of eligibility to some 0:19:25.560 --> 0:19:28.480 extent goes out the window in what could effectively be 0:19:28.560 --> 0:19:31.960 a lost cause for all fall sports in twenty twenty. 0:19:32.560 --> 0:19:35.760 Sure, yeah, I know this is just good sense. And 0:19:35.960 --> 0:19:38.120 I know schools are going to have to figure out 0:19:38.160 --> 0:19:41.439 how to juggle because we have incoming freshmen and not 0:19:41.520 --> 0:19:45.840 necessarily outgoing underclassmen or seniors if they're maintaining eligibility, So 0:19:45.920 --> 0:19:48.800 scholarship juggling will become a thing. And they're not cheap. 0:19:49.000 --> 0:19:51.840 These are They're not just in class for free. Are 0:19:51.960 --> 0:19:56.520 There are checks being written by athletic departments. And I 0:19:56.720 --> 0:20:00.800 commend the schools and the NCAA and the conferences for 0:20:01.320 --> 0:20:04.760 honoring scholarships, honoring eligibility. Because you're right, don't you know? 0:20:04.760 --> 0:20:08.199 We've already seen two major programs in North Carolina I 0:20:08.200 --> 0:20:10.840 think Michigan State and they're not playing, but North Carolina, 0:20:10.880 --> 0:20:13.919 Michigan State and now North Carolina as well Notre Dame. 0:20:14.000 --> 0:20:18.680 Excuse me pausing, already pausing things to get a sense 0:20:18.720 --> 0:20:21.600 of what's going on because of clusters and positive tests. 0:20:21.640 --> 0:20:24.119 I saw the test. The positivity test right at Notre 0:20:24.200 --> 0:20:27.159 Dame was around twenty percent after three or four days, 0:20:27.560 --> 0:20:31.040 which not ideal in terms of spreading, especially to older people. 0:20:31.440 --> 0:20:36.600 So I do appreciate that the kids will not be 0:20:36.680 --> 0:20:42.399 affected in pursuing their dreams and completing eligibility and maximizing 0:20:42.720 --> 0:20:46.520 their NFL potential. So tip of the cap there, all right. 0:20:46.920 --> 0:20:50.479 As always, if you have any further commentary, please do 0:20:50.720 --> 0:20:54.000 hit us up. We are Solidverbal at gmail dot com. 0:20:54.040 --> 0:20:57.200 You can also find us on Twitter, on Instagram, on Facebook. 0:20:57.640 --> 0:21:00.400 We love to keep the conversation going. I know, by 0:21:00.440 --> 0:21:03.000 the way, we still do have a reverblind open. I 0:21:03.080 --> 0:21:05.480 lied when I said last week we'd keep it open 0:21:05.520 --> 0:21:08.320 till Wednesday. We'll keep it open until this coming Wednesday. 0:21:08.520 --> 0:21:10.760 That's sound okay with you, Dan, that's great by me. 0:21:11.359 --> 0:21:13.320 Four toh eight verbal one. That's four eight eight three 0:21:13.359 --> 0:21:15.680 seven two two five one. Call in if you've got 0:21:16.200 --> 0:21:19.919 any hot takes or thoughts about what we're seeing around 0:21:19.920 --> 0:21:22.560 the world of college football as it relates to postponements 0:21:22.560 --> 0:21:25.240 and delays and cancellations and all that. We'd love to 0:21:25.240 --> 0:21:27.199 hear from you, We really would. We'll mix it together. 0:21:27.840 --> 0:21:30.680 We'll get our boy Ryan to cut up a off 0:21:30.720 --> 0:21:33.080 season reverb segment. 0:21:34.119 --> 0:21:37.920