1
00:00:16,480 --> 00:00:21,000
Speaker 1: Truth telling. Try and do that this time of year forever.

2
00:00:21,880 --> 00:00:27,320
Speaker 1: But also what if season, which is preceding bold prediction season.

3
00:00:27,560 --> 00:00:30,480
Speaker 1: We've got a lot of seasonal stuff around here here

4
00:00:30,520 --> 00:00:33,279
Speaker 1: at Payton State, on this particular campus. I don't care

5
00:00:33,320 --> 00:00:35,320
Speaker 1: what they do on other camp I on this campus,

6
00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:38,000
Speaker 1: we believe in tradition we do the same things the

7
00:00:38,040 --> 00:00:41,000
Speaker 1: same time every year. For instance, tonight we're jam pagged

8
00:00:41,040 --> 00:00:43,839
Speaker 1: high top what are we calling it today? Sun drenched

9
00:00:44,320 --> 00:00:47,720
Speaker 1: downtown Nashville, Tennessee, on this Tuesday, April eighth, the year

10
00:00:47,720 --> 00:00:50,440
Speaker 1: of our Alert, twenty twenty five, proudly brought to you

11
00:00:50,800 --> 00:00:53,480
Speaker 1: by Academy Sports and Outdoors. Around this time every year,

12
00:00:53,960 --> 00:00:56,640
Speaker 1: I put out the question, just as I did earlier. Today,

13
00:00:56,640 --> 00:00:59,120
Speaker 1: I put it out there. I ask you, guys, what

14
00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:01,880
Speaker 1: are the biggest what if in college football this year?

15
00:01:02,120 --> 00:01:03,920
Speaker 1: In other words, the kind of things that if it

16
00:01:03,960 --> 00:01:06,000
Speaker 1: goes one way versus if it goes the other way,

17
00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:09,679
Speaker 1: could totally change the trajectory of the season, not just

18
00:01:09,720 --> 00:01:12,440
Speaker 1: for one team, but maybe as a whole. We're gonna

19
00:01:12,480 --> 00:01:14,720
Speaker 1: start with arch Manning in just a second, like, think

20
00:01:14,760 --> 00:01:18,360
Speaker 1: about the difference in how the entire season could go

21
00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:21,600
Speaker 1: for everyone if Arch is great versus if he's terrible.

22
00:01:22,240 --> 00:01:24,600
Speaker 1: Could probably be somewhere in between. But you get the drift.

23
00:01:24,800 --> 00:01:28,240
Speaker 1: All the spring game debate, which we talked about a

24
00:01:28,240 --> 00:01:30,520
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago. I'm not gonna, you know, do

25
00:01:30,640 --> 00:01:33,039
Speaker 1: that whole thing again. Should we have real spring games

26
00:01:33,120 --> 00:01:35,679
Speaker 1: or not. But somebody, and you're not gonna believe this,

27
00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:40,279
Speaker 1: but sarcastically started to show themselves in the inbox today

28
00:01:41,280 --> 00:01:44,240
Speaker 1: and they started to they started to kind of poke

29
00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:47,039
Speaker 1: at those of us who do enjoy the concept of

30
00:01:47,080 --> 00:01:50,440
Speaker 1: spring games. And they did it in what I find

31
00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:54,120
Speaker 1: to be a growingly common or or growingly common way,

32
00:01:54,160 --> 00:01:57,560
Speaker 1: whatever combination of wards I try to use there. And

33
00:01:57,600 --> 00:02:00,520
Speaker 1: it's one of those Well you're still gonna watch. It's

34
00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:02,760
Speaker 1: not the end of the world hearing that a lot.

35
00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:04,800
Speaker 1: I'm hearing that a lot in college football right now.

36
00:02:04,960 --> 00:02:07,800
Speaker 1: So I'll address it as best I can. As I said,

37
00:02:07,840 --> 00:02:10,399
Speaker 1: We're gonna continue to tell the truth tonight, this time

38
00:02:10,400 --> 00:02:15,359
Speaker 1: about Ryan Day, head coach at Ohio State. I will

39
00:02:15,360 --> 00:02:17,480
Speaker 1: talk about that. I've got a few thoughts on the

40
00:02:17,480 --> 00:02:20,680
Speaker 1: old college football calendar. We were jam packed. We wouldn't

41
00:02:20,720 --> 00:02:23,079
Speaker 1: be on air if we weren't. They're watching us in

42
00:02:23,160 --> 00:02:28,000
Speaker 1: Junction City, Kentucky. There is also a Junction City, Georgia,

43
00:02:28,520 --> 00:02:31,359
Speaker 1: which I'm quite familiar with. For reasons I cannot get

44
00:02:31,360 --> 00:02:34,480
Speaker 1: into tonight, they're watching us in Tampa, Florida, Des Moines, Iowa,

45
00:02:34,520 --> 00:02:38,079
Speaker 1: where I'll be tomorrow by the way, and Lakewood, Washington.

46
00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:40,200
Speaker 1: I always do that, Jesse and Colin. I always say

47
00:02:40,200 --> 00:02:42,880
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be at this place. I give no context,

48
00:02:43,800 --> 00:02:46,280
Speaker 1: and I'm going to see some friends at Iowa State.

49
00:02:46,320 --> 00:02:47,920
Speaker 1: I don't know what else to say. This is our

50
00:02:47,960 --> 00:02:50,880
Speaker 1: last show until Sunday, so I'm just going up to Ames, Iowa.

51
00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:53,520
Speaker 1: Whoms to amongst us doesn't do that this time of spring.

52
00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:56,680
Speaker 1: It's a beautiful time of year up there. Let's go.

53
00:02:57,120 --> 00:02:59,720
Speaker 1: There's no huge breaking story on the show tonight, which

54
00:02:59,720 --> 00:03:02,960
Speaker 1: means that's a great time to enter one of our

55
00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:05,760
Speaker 1: favorite seasons. That isn't the actual college football season, that

56
00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:08,920
Speaker 1: is what if season? Because why settle for real games

57
00:03:09,240 --> 00:03:11,720
Speaker 1: when you can settle for hypotheticals this time of year,

58
00:03:11,919 --> 00:03:15,560
Speaker 1: Because everybody's an idiot and a genius simultaneously. This time

59
00:03:15,560 --> 00:03:18,160
Speaker 1: of year, it's that kind of chaos in which I thrive.

60
00:03:18,240 --> 00:03:21,320
Speaker 1: By the way, so we cranked up what If Season

61
00:03:21,400 --> 00:03:25,760
Speaker 1: today and Colton and the Point. After two different accounts

62
00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:27,640
Speaker 1: there on Twitter, they hit us up. One of them said,

63
00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:30,960
Speaker 1: what if arch Manning is as good or better than

64
00:03:30,960 --> 00:03:33,040
Speaker 1: most people think he is? And then the other one said,

65
00:03:33,080 --> 00:03:36,400
Speaker 1: what if arch just isn't the guy? See this is

66
00:03:36,440 --> 00:03:40,000
Speaker 1: the spirit of what If Season. That's beautiful, well done, guys.

67
00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:44,800
Speaker 1: We didn't have to orchestrate that or anything. So arch

68
00:03:44,840 --> 00:03:46,640
Speaker 1: Manny could be the most important player in the country

69
00:03:46,640 --> 00:03:50,400
Speaker 1: this year. If you think about the scalability of Texas

70
00:03:50,440 --> 00:03:52,760
Speaker 1: if he's great, if you think about what kind of

71
00:03:52,840 --> 00:03:55,960
Speaker 1: crash and burns story Texas would be if he's not great,

72
00:03:56,360 --> 00:04:00,720
Speaker 1: Because national championship contention is expected from Texas, so it's

73
00:04:00,760 --> 00:04:02,760
Speaker 1: not a middle of the road team. It's not like

74
00:04:02,760 --> 00:04:04,600
Speaker 1: we're talking about a team you expect seven and five

75
00:04:04,640 --> 00:04:06,560
Speaker 1: from and if the quarterback's bad, oh well we didn't

76
00:04:06,560 --> 00:04:08,960
Speaker 1: expect much from him anyway. You expect Texas to be

77
00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:10,680
Speaker 1: in it. They are I think in the top three

78
00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:14,800
Speaker 1: of the FANDUELOGE right now. So everything was intentional with

79
00:04:14,920 --> 00:04:16,960
Speaker 1: arch Manning. This is the way I think about him

80
00:04:17,040 --> 00:04:19,080
Speaker 1: right now. How I think the story will be told

81
00:04:19,080 --> 00:04:21,920
Speaker 1: about him if he's successful let's go with glass half full.

82
00:04:22,320 --> 00:04:25,760
Speaker 1: If he's successful, think about how the story's played out.

83
00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:28,600
Speaker 1: He was intentional with everything that he did. Now he

84
00:04:28,640 --> 00:04:31,960
Speaker 1: can be arch Manning doesn't have to fill in the blank.

85
00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:34,080
Speaker 1: He doesn't have to start right away, he doesn't have

86
00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:36,640
Speaker 1: to make a ton of money in nil. He didn't

87
00:04:36,680 --> 00:04:39,120
Speaker 1: have to do anything, so he could afford to be intentional.

88
00:04:39,400 --> 00:04:41,400
Speaker 1: He could afford to go sit behind quinn yours for

89
00:04:41,520 --> 00:04:44,359
Speaker 1: maybe one year, as it turns out, two years, but

90
00:04:44,480 --> 00:04:47,239
Speaker 1: still be ready when his numbers called. And it's already

91
00:04:47,240 --> 00:04:50,680
Speaker 1: been called. He's played a little bit, but he's been

92
00:04:50,760 --> 00:04:54,400
Speaker 1: ready and he'll be ready presumably. Okay, so the baseline,

93
00:04:54,480 --> 00:04:57,520
Speaker 1: because the question there in the what if was what

94
00:04:57,560 --> 00:05:01,120
Speaker 1: if he's as good or better than people think he'll be? Well,

95
00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:03,200
Speaker 1: what do people think? That's kind of like saying what

96
00:05:03,240 --> 00:05:07,360
Speaker 1: if he's underrated? Well, what's he rated? FanDuel's got him

97
00:05:07,400 --> 00:05:10,719
Speaker 1: number one in the Heisman ods right now? No big deal,

98
00:05:10,880 --> 00:05:15,320
Speaker 1: right Texas Hoops. He'll be the quarterback of is in

99
00:05:15,520 --> 00:05:18,400
Speaker 1: top three in the overall team odds to win the

100
00:05:18,440 --> 00:05:21,120
Speaker 1: national title. Depending on where you look, we use FanDuel

101
00:05:21,480 --> 00:05:23,560
Speaker 1: in these parts. I think they're tied for second right. Now,

102
00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:28,320
Speaker 1: So if that's the expectation, Heisman favorite favorite to make

103
00:05:28,360 --> 00:05:31,760
Speaker 1: the Final four slash national title game, and he's better

104
00:05:31,800 --> 00:05:34,200
Speaker 1: than that, well, they're gonna win a national championship in

105
00:05:34,240 --> 00:05:36,840
Speaker 1: all likelihood, And if they don't, what you're probably looking

106
00:05:36,880 --> 00:05:39,040
Speaker 1: at is you're probably looking at kind of a Georgia

107
00:05:39,480 --> 00:05:44,320
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four vibe where the quarterback is not necessarily

108
00:05:44,360 --> 00:05:48,080
Speaker 1: surrounded with highly functioning parts. Maybe the defense falls off

109
00:05:48,080 --> 00:05:51,240
Speaker 1: a little bit, maybe they're running games not great, but

110
00:05:51,279 --> 00:05:54,440
Speaker 1: there's still plenty good enough in totality, just CAUs the

111
00:05:54,520 --> 00:05:57,760
Speaker 1: quarterbacks good. Now, in this scenario, Arch would be better

112
00:05:57,800 --> 00:05:59,599
Speaker 1: than Carson Beck was last year. But you get my

113
00:05:59,600 --> 00:06:02,440
Speaker 1: point there. But I would imagine Texas just wins the

114
00:06:02,480 --> 00:06:06,560
Speaker 1: national title if he's better than people expect. However, in

115
00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:09,520
Speaker 1: the true spirit of what if there's a negative side,

116
00:06:09,560 --> 00:06:12,480
Speaker 1: there's a side where everything crashes and burns, And that

117
00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:15,120
Speaker 1: is the second one, which was what if Arch just

118
00:06:15,320 --> 00:06:19,360
Speaker 1: isn't the guy? Well, if he's not the guy, remember

119
00:06:19,400 --> 00:06:22,039
Speaker 1: what Texas needs him to be. Remember the guy Texas

120
00:06:22,040 --> 00:06:24,480
Speaker 1: needs him to be. They don't need Jaden Daniels two

121
00:06:24,520 --> 00:06:26,919
Speaker 1: point zero from a few years ago. They don't need

122
00:06:27,560 --> 00:06:30,200
Speaker 1: even him to be like cam Ward was for Miami

123
00:06:30,279 --> 00:06:32,880
Speaker 1: last Year's just not the way they've built the program.

124
00:06:32,920 --> 00:06:37,520
Speaker 1: They're gonna recruit and start really high profile quarterbacks, just

125
00:06:37,520 --> 00:06:40,320
Speaker 1: like Ohio State tries to, but these places are not

126
00:06:40,440 --> 00:06:44,880
Speaker 1: quarterback centric. And so if he's not even that guy,

127
00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:46,799
Speaker 1: like if he's not even able to do what JJ

128
00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:49,279
Speaker 1: McCarthy was a couple of years ago, what Will Howard

129
00:06:49,600 --> 00:06:51,800
Speaker 1: did last year, what Stetson Bennett did for Georgia. If

130
00:06:51,839 --> 00:06:54,280
Speaker 1: he's not even able to play at that level, it's

131
00:06:54,320 --> 00:06:58,920
Speaker 1: either cause he was hurt or cause truly it's one

132
00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:01,840
Speaker 1: of the bigger busts in the modern era. And remember

133
00:07:01,839 --> 00:07:04,719
Speaker 1: when we talk about bust around here, that's on us

134
00:07:05,320 --> 00:07:07,960
Speaker 1: more than it is on the player. Because if he's

135
00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:10,360
Speaker 1: not hurt and he just flat out isn't that good,

136
00:07:10,680 --> 00:07:12,880
Speaker 1: it's hard to imagine that. But if he's just flat

137
00:07:12,960 --> 00:07:16,920
Speaker 1: out not that good, well that means he was overrated, right, well?

138
00:07:16,920 --> 00:07:19,840
Speaker 1: What was he rated? And who raided him? People other

139
00:07:19,880 --> 00:07:23,440
Speaker 1: than arch Manning rated him. So that would mean a

140
00:07:23,480 --> 00:07:25,360
Speaker 1: cold hard look in the mirror for a lot of

141
00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:28,440
Speaker 1: people out here. Most likely, I think fall somewhere in

142
00:07:28,440 --> 00:07:32,240
Speaker 1: between there. Most likely he flashes, but he's inconsistent. If

143
00:07:32,240 --> 00:07:34,600
Speaker 1: he falls short of expectation, let's just say we go

144
00:07:34,600 --> 00:07:37,559
Speaker 1: glass half empty or all the way empty. In this case,

145
00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:40,920
Speaker 1: I have a hard time believing he's just terrible. That's

146
00:07:40,960 --> 00:07:44,120
Speaker 1: not going to happen. So if it is the case

147
00:07:44,520 --> 00:07:47,600
Speaker 1: that Texas underachieves this year, in arch Manning underachieves, what

148
00:07:47,680 --> 00:07:51,280
Speaker 1: you've probably seen is you've probably seen a few wow moments,

149
00:07:51,800 --> 00:07:55,800
Speaker 1: but with too much inconsistency and mistakes and mistake prone

150
00:07:56,160 --> 00:07:59,680
Speaker 1: play mixed in there. And Texas loses a few games,

151
00:07:59,720 --> 00:08:02,760
Speaker 1: losing three or four games even because of poor decision

152
00:08:02,840 --> 00:08:08,880
Speaker 1: making and inconsistent play and turnovers. And I could see that.

153
00:08:09,760 --> 00:08:14,080
Speaker 1: But again, it's it's his third year there, you know,

154
00:08:14,240 --> 00:08:16,760
Speaker 1: so I don't even expect. I think he's gonna be

155
00:08:16,840 --> 00:08:18,920
Speaker 1: really good. I think Texas will be really good this year,

156
00:08:19,320 --> 00:08:22,000
Speaker 1: and if they're not, it'll probably be because of that.

157
00:08:22,080 --> 00:08:25,080
Speaker 1: But that is it's good. What if what's next? We

158
00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:27,320
Speaker 1: had we got unloaded on with what ifs today, so

159
00:08:27,720 --> 00:08:31,239
Speaker 1: I have no shortage here. One chance hit us and said,

160
00:08:31,320 --> 00:08:36,520
Speaker 1: what if Clemson gets back to the standard they once had? Now, kids,

161
00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:39,320
Speaker 1: if you're eight years old, we make the show Family

162
00:08:39,360 --> 00:08:42,800
Speaker 1: friendly enough where you can listen. So little Teddy riding

163
00:08:42,840 --> 00:08:45,480
Speaker 1: around out there in Prescott, Arizona. Thank you for tuning in.

164
00:08:47,760 --> 00:08:53,040
Speaker 1: What is Clemson? What was Clemson? You're young, you're young. Welcome,

165
00:08:53,360 --> 00:08:55,959
Speaker 1: Welcome to your life. There's no turning back, as Tears

166
00:08:56,000 --> 00:08:59,199
Speaker 1: for Fears would say, But what was the Clemson standard

167
00:08:59,760 --> 00:09:03,480
Speaker 1: for or people like you who are unfamiliar being right

168
00:09:03,480 --> 00:09:05,719
Speaker 1: there is the best program in the country right there

169
00:09:05,760 --> 00:09:09,959
Speaker 1: alongside Alabama ten years ago, give or take a few years,

170
00:09:10,040 --> 00:09:12,720
Speaker 1: as being a one A, one B best programs in

171
00:09:12,720 --> 00:09:15,920
Speaker 1: the country. And that was what they were. Now they

172
00:09:15,920 --> 00:09:17,959
Speaker 1: haven't fallen off a cliff. They've just fallen off a

173
00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:19,640
Speaker 1: little bit. You know, they've come back to the pack

174
00:09:19,679 --> 00:09:21,360
Speaker 1: a little bit. But this what if says what if

175
00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:25,560
Speaker 1: they return to that standard? You know, I'm really feeling this.

176
00:09:26,240 --> 00:09:28,640
Speaker 1: I'm not ready to make predictions yet, but I am

177
00:09:28,760 --> 00:09:31,600
Speaker 1: feeling and have been feeling for a while. Clemson could

178
00:09:31,640 --> 00:09:33,760
Speaker 1: be bottling up something special for this year. Now here's

179
00:09:33,800 --> 00:09:36,520
Speaker 1: the bonus, and this is worth the paper pop. I

180
00:09:36,520 --> 00:09:39,520
Speaker 1: think if you're still eight years old listening, don't worry

181
00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:42,440
Speaker 1: about all that. The bonus, as I wrote on this

182
00:09:42,480 --> 00:09:45,160
Speaker 1: piece of paper, here is maybe B plus is good

183
00:09:45,280 --> 00:09:47,240
Speaker 1: enough to win at all this year. So, in other words,

184
00:09:47,440 --> 00:09:51,640
Speaker 1: maybe Clemson's not right there on par with the twenty fifteen,

185
00:09:51,720 --> 00:09:55,160
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, twenty what was an eighteen version of themselves.

186
00:09:55,400 --> 00:09:59,320
Speaker 1: But maybe they're like a B plus in relation to that. Well,

187
00:09:59,320 --> 00:10:02,960
Speaker 1: look around the country this year. Maybe there's not a

188
00:10:03,040 --> 00:10:07,200
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen Alabama, or maybe there's not a twenty eighteen Alabama.

189
00:10:07,240 --> 00:10:09,439
Speaker 1: They have to be better than Maybe there's just like

190
00:10:09,480 --> 00:10:12,559
Speaker 1: a pretty good Alabama or a pretty good Oregon or

191
00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:15,800
Speaker 1: a pretty good fill in the blank Notre Dame. Maybe

192
00:10:15,920 --> 00:10:18,480
Speaker 1: like a B plus version of Clemson relative to the

193
00:10:18,520 --> 00:10:21,840
Speaker 1: standard is good enough. They are number one in returning

194
00:10:21,840 --> 00:10:26,320
Speaker 1: production in the ACC non America. They return a ton.

195
00:10:26,600 --> 00:10:29,160
Speaker 1: It's not a guarantee of anything. It is a guarantee

196
00:10:29,160 --> 00:10:32,240
Speaker 1: that you've got a lot of consistency and continuity. You

197
00:10:32,280 --> 00:10:34,360
Speaker 1: got a lot of guys who speak your language already.

198
00:10:34,360 --> 00:10:38,040
Speaker 1: Club that year three as a starter, there same offensive coordinator.

199
00:10:38,040 --> 00:10:40,800
Speaker 1: That's a blessing. Oh, it's a blessing to have returning

200
00:10:40,840 --> 00:10:44,920
Speaker 1: production and experience at quarterback with the same coordinator. Rare

201
00:10:45,040 --> 00:10:49,679
Speaker 1: commodity this day and age. Wide receiver is the not

202
00:10:49,840 --> 00:10:51,959
Speaker 1: so hidden story of this team because all the clums

203
00:10:52,040 --> 00:10:53,959
Speaker 1: and folks are talking about it. But I'm not quite

204
00:10:54,000 --> 00:10:56,880
Speaker 1: sure if you live in Amarillo, Texas, if you're aware,

205
00:10:57,280 --> 00:10:59,559
Speaker 1: Clemson once again has a top five receiver room in

206
00:10:59,600 --> 00:11:03,560
Speaker 1: the country. And I saw certain friends of the program

207
00:11:04,120 --> 00:11:07,360
Speaker 1: who shall remain nameless because they've been deadlifting too much

208
00:11:07,400 --> 00:11:11,560
Speaker 1: on Instagram lately, claim that Clemson may have the best

209
00:11:11,559 --> 00:11:14,040
Speaker 1: wide receiver room in the country this year. And even

210
00:11:14,080 --> 00:11:17,319
Speaker 1: if he's wrong, they're up there. And that has been

211
00:11:17,360 --> 00:11:20,320
Speaker 1: a drought. That room's been in drought for quite a while.

212
00:11:20,480 --> 00:11:23,520
Speaker 1: And that right there, that room was dominant when they

213
00:11:23,520 --> 00:11:26,679
Speaker 1: were at their best. But think about the defensive talent here,

214
00:11:26,920 --> 00:11:29,320
Speaker 1: this depth chart in front of me. TJ Parker at edge,

215
00:11:29,320 --> 00:11:33,520
Speaker 1: Peter Woods got Brown, and wood asset linebacker Avion Terrell

216
00:11:33,559 --> 00:11:36,760
Speaker 1: at corner could very well be one of the best

217
00:11:36,800 --> 00:11:39,640
Speaker 1: teams in the country. Staff and organization. I don't think

218
00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:42,080
Speaker 1: if you've been paying attention, you can deny that they've

219
00:11:42,160 --> 00:11:46,520
Speaker 1: leveled up there. You could watch running back during spring,

220
00:11:46,720 --> 00:11:50,120
Speaker 1: watched like the second corner position during spring. It's not

221
00:11:50,160 --> 00:11:52,200
Speaker 1: a it's not a complete team. It's not a perfect team.

222
00:11:52,480 --> 00:11:55,040
Speaker 1: But again, we're not looking at a superpower team anywhere

223
00:11:55,280 --> 00:11:59,079
Speaker 1: entering this year. They do have, by our by our

224
00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:02,199
Speaker 1: internal numbers, of the tough schedule in the ACC. They

225
00:12:02,200 --> 00:12:06,160
Speaker 1: play LSU in South Carolina to begin and end the season,

226
00:12:06,240 --> 00:12:08,760
Speaker 1: but they could fly out when the national title this year.

227
00:12:09,960 --> 00:12:11,920
Speaker 1: Any kind of doubt I've had about Clemson has been

228
00:12:11,920 --> 00:12:14,840
Speaker 1: beyond twenty five because twenty five is set up for him.

229
00:12:15,200 --> 00:12:17,840
Speaker 1: And you look at Klubnick. The way he played to

230
00:12:18,120 --> 00:12:20,640
Speaker 1: end the year last year, the way he played it

231
00:12:20,679 --> 00:12:22,800
Speaker 1: gives you a lot of hope. The way he played

232
00:12:22,800 --> 00:12:24,719
Speaker 1: against SMU, the way he played in the Texas game,

233
00:12:24,760 --> 00:12:27,240
Speaker 1: even though they lost, gives me a lot of hope

234
00:12:27,760 --> 00:12:29,760
Speaker 1: knowing what he's going to have around him this year

235
00:12:30,600 --> 00:12:33,440
Speaker 1: that yeah, maybe they will. Maybe that what if does

236
00:12:34,000 --> 00:12:37,000
Speaker 1: come to fruition, We've got one more what if this

237
00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:38,600
Speaker 1: is just kind of getting us back into the swing

238
00:12:38,640 --> 00:12:43,240
Speaker 1: of things. How about the wording here, what if the

239
00:12:43,320 --> 00:12:49,839
Speaker 1: SEC's national championship drought continues? I remember playing Little League

240
00:12:50,200 --> 00:12:52,240
Speaker 1: way back in the day up in Hamilton, Georgia or

241
00:12:52,240 --> 00:12:54,760
Speaker 1: down in Hamilton, Georgia for most of you. I had

242
00:12:54,800 --> 00:12:58,040
Speaker 1: a buddy who got a hit, and then the guy

243
00:12:58,120 --> 00:13:01,360
Speaker 1: behind him got a hit and a kid in our

244
00:13:01,440 --> 00:13:04,160
Speaker 1: dugout started down, look at that. It's a pattern. And

245
00:13:05,040 --> 00:13:06,800
Speaker 1: one of my other buddies, Trey lived in the next

246
00:13:06,800 --> 00:13:08,920
Speaker 1: neighborhood over, said, hey, you know it has to happen

247
00:13:08,960 --> 00:13:11,640
Speaker 1: more than two times for it to be a pattern,

248
00:13:11,760 --> 00:13:15,040
Speaker 1: like three, four or five. Then you start to establish

249
00:13:15,120 --> 00:13:16,960
Speaker 1: a pattern. Right now, just a couple of things happened

250
00:13:16,960 --> 00:13:19,440
Speaker 1: back to back and it was the craziest thing, like

251
00:13:19,480 --> 00:13:22,320
Speaker 1: dawned on my friend for the first time. Well, similarly,

252
00:13:23,440 --> 00:13:26,959
Speaker 1: is the SEC in a drought? A national championship? Is

253
00:13:27,000 --> 00:13:30,240
Speaker 1: that even a thing in college football? So they haven't

254
00:13:30,280 --> 00:13:33,840
Speaker 1: won one in two years? Is that right? And then Georgia,

255
00:13:34,200 --> 00:13:37,240
Speaker 1: So Georgia won the two and then Michigan one one,

256
00:13:37,320 --> 00:13:41,199
Speaker 1: Ohio State one to one. So yes, we've got a drought.

257
00:13:41,440 --> 00:13:45,040
Speaker 1: Allegedly your words, not mine. Of two years now, you

258
00:13:45,040 --> 00:13:48,400
Speaker 1: could either call that SEC homersm or basic common sense.

259
00:13:48,760 --> 00:13:51,840
Speaker 1: But we did flip through the old rolodex today and

260
00:13:51,880 --> 00:13:55,520
Speaker 1: look back in the annals of college football. Make sure

261
00:13:55,520 --> 00:13:58,320
Speaker 1: you go long on the a there. You know, the

262
00:13:58,440 --> 00:14:02,880
Speaker 1: last time that the SEC went three or more years

263
00:14:03,320 --> 00:14:06,560
Speaker 1: without winning a national championship was ninety nine through two.

264
00:14:07,400 --> 00:14:10,839
Speaker 1: So it has been a long time. Are they in

265
00:14:10,880 --> 00:14:16,040
Speaker 1: a drought? Well by that standard, yeah, but not really.

266
00:14:17,160 --> 00:14:21,840
Speaker 1: Having said that for fun, for fun, in the interest

267
00:14:21,920 --> 00:14:24,640
Speaker 1: of fairness, in what if season went over to FanDuel

268
00:14:25,160 --> 00:14:28,680
Speaker 1: I looked at the top eighteen. It's a nice round number.

269
00:14:29,280 --> 00:14:31,560
Speaker 1: The SEC has eleven of the top eighteen in the

270
00:14:31,600 --> 00:14:34,880
Speaker 1: odds to win the national championship. Now that could be valid.

271
00:14:35,640 --> 00:14:38,160
Speaker 1: Let's just assume for a second, fan duel nailed it.

272
00:14:38,640 --> 00:14:42,400
Speaker 1: They nailed the exact right. Power ratings, not rankings. Power ratings.

273
00:14:42,560 --> 00:14:44,600
Speaker 1: There is a difference for this upcoming season, and the

274
00:14:44,640 --> 00:14:47,560
Speaker 1: SEC really does have eleven of the top eighteen teams

275
00:14:47,600 --> 00:14:49,280
Speaker 1: in the country. Well, that could be true and they

276
00:14:49,320 --> 00:14:52,360
Speaker 1: still not win the national title. Is what if Ohio

277
00:14:52,440 --> 00:14:54,680
Speaker 1: State is the best team in the country again at

278
00:14:54,680 --> 00:14:56,000
Speaker 1: the end of the year. What if Oregon is? What

279
00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:58,040
Speaker 1: if Penn State is? What if Notre Dame is? What

280
00:14:58,080 --> 00:15:01,360
Speaker 1: if Clemson is? If if usc is I said it

281
00:15:01,400 --> 00:15:03,440
Speaker 1: just to make sure you're paying attention, but you get

282
00:15:03,440 --> 00:15:06,040
Speaker 1: my point. You could have seventeen to the top eighteen

283
00:15:06,080 --> 00:15:08,000
Speaker 1: teams in the country. You got a big conference there.

284
00:15:08,360 --> 00:15:10,320
Speaker 1: But if you don't have number one, it doesn't really matter.

285
00:15:10,360 --> 00:15:14,040
Speaker 1: As it relates to the drought. Here's what will happen.

286
00:15:15,360 --> 00:15:17,800
Speaker 1: The the Danny Canals of the world are hurting right

287
00:15:17,840 --> 00:15:20,840
Speaker 1: now because of what just happened in basketball. So you

288
00:15:21,360 --> 00:15:24,480
Speaker 1: throw your enemy out the window and they're just down

289
00:15:24,560 --> 00:15:27,760
Speaker 1: in the parking lot doing push ups. So as the

290
00:15:27,800 --> 00:15:31,400
Speaker 1: season draws closer, and as the pressure builds for the

291
00:15:31,440 --> 00:15:35,000
Speaker 1: SEC to hashtag in the drought the Canals of the world,

292
00:15:35,200 --> 00:15:37,480
Speaker 1: you'll hear this right here, And that's not a knock.

293
00:15:37,520 --> 00:15:39,680
Speaker 1: That's him coming back up the stairs, and he will

294
00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:44,440
Speaker 1: be ready. They will be ready. I just it's not

295
00:15:44,720 --> 00:15:46,920
Speaker 1: it's not that they're out in full force. It's that

296
00:15:47,040 --> 00:15:49,760
Speaker 1: so many of you fall for it. So many of

297
00:15:49,800 --> 00:15:53,040
Speaker 1: you fall for it. I've got thoughts on anyone who

298
00:15:53,120 --> 00:15:55,320
Speaker 1: chants the name of a conference. I've always thought it

299
00:15:55,360 --> 00:15:58,240
Speaker 1: was a little weird, But it happens, you know, so

300
00:15:58,360 --> 00:16:01,160
Speaker 1: don't stop. Don't let me stop. Hey, I love freight trains.

301
00:16:01,200 --> 00:16:03,680
Speaker 1: People think that's weird. Who cares if people think you're weird.

302
00:16:03,800 --> 00:16:06,840
Speaker 1: If you want to chant SEC, chant it. Hey. If

303
00:16:06,840 --> 00:16:09,520
Speaker 1: I was around back in the Southwest Conference days, I

304
00:16:09,560 --> 00:16:14,320
Speaker 1: would probably chant SWC. I'd certainly chant Surewood Blunt. At

305
00:16:14,320 --> 00:16:17,000
Speaker 1: the very least I would chant, trans A and M.

306
00:16:17,440 --> 00:16:21,040
Speaker 1: So it's so many references, so many pony excess references.

307
00:16:21,560 --> 00:16:25,240
Speaker 1: But there's no drought. It's my point. There there's no drought.

308
00:16:25,400 --> 00:16:27,120
Speaker 1: And I would even say three years in a row

309
00:16:27,320 --> 00:16:29,480
Speaker 1: is no drought. Now if the sec I didn't have

310
00:16:29,480 --> 00:16:33,240
Speaker 1: a team in the final four, then we could start

311
00:16:33,240 --> 00:16:35,320
Speaker 1: throwing around a D word. Then we could start throwing

312
00:16:35,360 --> 00:16:39,880
Speaker 1: around drought. Academy Sports and Outdoors the A word, if

313
00:16:39,880 --> 00:16:41,480
Speaker 1: you will, if they ever need to shorten the name

314
00:16:41,520 --> 00:16:45,080
Speaker 1: of the store, the A word, I think would you know,

315
00:16:45,240 --> 00:16:48,720
Speaker 1: probably not pass the shareholder smell test per se, but

316
00:16:48,760 --> 00:16:52,360
Speaker 1: I still think it's catchy. So hit Alex up Jesse.

317
00:16:52,400 --> 00:16:54,520
Speaker 1: You just see what they think about it. In the meantime,

318
00:16:55,360 --> 00:16:57,920
Speaker 1: As far as we know, they are still called Academy.

319
00:16:57,920 --> 00:16:59,480
Speaker 1: That's what it says on the front of every store.

320
00:16:59,680 --> 00:17:01,160
Speaker 1: But for about what it says on the front, go

321
00:17:01,240 --> 00:17:04,280
Speaker 1: inside and find out what they have inside, because they

322
00:17:04,320 --> 00:17:06,960
Speaker 1: got everything you need to enjoy outdoors this time of year,

323
00:17:08,000 --> 00:17:12,240
Speaker 1: given that it stopped training. No even if it's raining, umbrellas, canopies,

324
00:17:12,280 --> 00:17:14,919
Speaker 1: and tents, they got it all in there. Not to

325
00:17:14,960 --> 00:17:19,399
Speaker 1: mention copious amounts of rain gear, but fishing gear, camping, gear,

326
00:17:19,560 --> 00:17:24,119
Speaker 1: grilling equipment, baseball, football, soccer, basketball. I know most of

327
00:17:24,119 --> 00:17:26,399
Speaker 1: you need this anyway, so check out Academy. They make

328
00:17:26,440 --> 00:17:29,400
Speaker 1: the show free of charge for you to enjoy, which

329
00:17:29,480 --> 00:17:30,760
Speaker 1: is a good thing because who in the world wants

330
00:17:30,800 --> 00:17:34,440
Speaker 1: to pay for this. Academy did also academy dot com.

331
00:17:34,480 --> 00:17:36,879
Speaker 1: If you cannot get there in person, let's move on.

332
00:17:37,800 --> 00:17:40,520
Speaker 1: It's not just what if season around here. There's a

333
00:17:40,560 --> 00:17:42,840
Speaker 1: lot going on. Got all kinds of stuff in the

334
00:17:42,840 --> 00:17:45,360
Speaker 1: stack of papers in front of me. So I think

335
00:17:45,359 --> 00:17:47,040
Speaker 1: we had a question about this, but honestly, I was

336
00:17:47,080 --> 00:17:49,480
Speaker 1: going to talk about it either way. We had a

337
00:17:49,560 --> 00:17:51,800
Speaker 1: question from a viewer. He said, when your commissioner, will

338
00:17:51,840 --> 00:17:54,280
Speaker 1: you move the college football season so we can have

339
00:17:54,320 --> 00:17:58,840
Speaker 1: football year round? Well, we've got football year round. They're

340
00:17:58,880 --> 00:18:01,920
Speaker 1: playing football now. I think the UFL is playing football

341
00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:04,280
Speaker 1: right now. It's there. If you want it, it's there.

342
00:18:05,520 --> 00:18:08,200
Speaker 1: I'm not so sure you want college football year round. Now,

343
00:18:08,200 --> 00:18:11,520
Speaker 1: I can meet you halfway. I definitely got proposals for

344
00:18:12,200 --> 00:18:14,879
Speaker 1: making college football year round in a way. I just

345
00:18:14,880 --> 00:18:18,480
Speaker 1: don't necessarily know that we're going to be watching a

346
00:18:18,640 --> 00:18:21,000
Speaker 1: real life college football game in March. Now. I did

347
00:18:21,040 --> 00:18:24,840
Speaker 1: say a long time ago that I had a bold

348
00:18:24,920 --> 00:18:27,359
Speaker 1: take that is so bold I wasn't ever ready to

349
00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:29,280
Speaker 1: share it on air. And it has to do with this.

350
00:18:30,160 --> 00:18:32,000
Speaker 1: Maybe I'll share it at the end of the segment.

351
00:18:32,040 --> 00:18:34,720
Speaker 1: Maybe I'll share it. I still don't think it's ready

352
00:18:34,720 --> 00:18:37,760
Speaker 1: for public consumption. But it's a Thursday, or it's a

353
00:18:37,760 --> 00:18:41,200
Speaker 1: Tuesday night in early April, so I may I may

354
00:18:41,359 --> 00:18:45,800
Speaker 1: toss you guys a carot here for tuning in. There's

355
00:18:45,880 --> 00:18:49,040
Speaker 1: nothing wrong with a little scarcity. There's nothing wrong. It

356
00:18:49,040 --> 00:18:51,080
Speaker 1: doesn't have to be year round. College football don't have

357
00:18:51,119 --> 00:18:54,280
Speaker 1: to be year round. I've heard plans before of maybe

358
00:18:54,280 --> 00:18:58,840
Speaker 1: moving the SCS to the spring, and there's pros and

359
00:18:58,880 --> 00:19:01,639
Speaker 1: cons there, or maybe even moving G five seasons to

360
00:19:01,680 --> 00:19:05,080
Speaker 1: the spring. Here's the problem with that. Think about it. Logically,

361
00:19:05,240 --> 00:19:07,200
Speaker 1: if we had the G five playing in the spring,

362
00:19:07,240 --> 00:19:10,000
Speaker 1: I'd watch. I'm not saying I wouldn't watch. But we're

363
00:19:10,040 --> 00:19:13,399
Speaker 1: watching TWU Lane here. Okay. So if Tulane was gearing

364
00:19:13,480 --> 00:19:17,119
Speaker 1: up to start the season of the first week of February,

365
00:19:17,960 --> 00:19:20,000
Speaker 1: I guess that is when we started. Well, that would

366
00:19:20,000 --> 00:19:23,960
Speaker 1: mean their preseason camp is January, right, they come out

367
00:19:23,960 --> 00:19:26,800
Speaker 1: of Christmas break and they start what we would call

368
00:19:26,840 --> 00:19:29,919
Speaker 1: fall camp, they would call winter camp. I guess. But

369
00:19:29,960 --> 00:19:34,159
Speaker 1: the problem is about that time, South Carolina season is ending,

370
00:19:34,960 --> 00:19:37,879
Speaker 1: Texas A and M season's ending, Arizona State's wrapping up. Well,

371
00:19:37,920 --> 00:19:41,000
Speaker 1: where do you think they're going for portal editions? They're

372
00:19:41,040 --> 00:19:44,120
Speaker 1: still going to the G five, And so Tulane could

373
00:19:44,160 --> 00:19:47,520
Speaker 1: be sitting there week two of preseason camp and all

374
00:19:47,520 --> 00:19:49,640
Speaker 1: of a sudden, their tailback says, I'm gone. Now. It's

375
00:19:49,640 --> 00:19:52,960
Speaker 1: already bad enough that people bail on you after spring

376
00:19:53,080 --> 00:19:58,280
Speaker 1: ball in the current landscape, but these would be people

377
00:19:58,320 --> 00:20:01,040
Speaker 1: bailing on you in preseason. So I'm not sure I

378
00:20:01,040 --> 00:20:03,520
Speaker 1: would want that. Here's what I can do, though, I

379
00:20:03,600 --> 00:20:08,480
Speaker 1: can fill the calendar with college football related events. For example,

380
00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:11,840
Speaker 1: I have been a proponent and am continuing to be

381
00:20:11,880 --> 00:20:15,399
Speaker 1: a proponent of delaying the schedule release for the upcoming

382
00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:19,960
Speaker 1: season until late February of that year. And I used

383
00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:21,879
Speaker 1: to think we'd get pushed back from coaches on this,

384
00:20:22,000 --> 00:20:24,399
Speaker 1: But when we were at Georgia two weeks ago, I

385
00:20:24,520 --> 00:20:28,560
Speaker 1: tossed this to Kirby. I said, pretend hypothetically that you

386
00:20:28,560 --> 00:20:31,080
Speaker 1: didn't get your schedule for that upcoming year until right

387
00:20:31,119 --> 00:20:34,119
Speaker 1: before you open spring camp. Would that hurt you, he said, no,

388
00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:37,080
Speaker 1: I don't care. The only thing it would affect is logistics,

389
00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:39,919
Speaker 1: like we've got to plan travel and people have to

390
00:20:39,920 --> 00:20:42,720
Speaker 1: plan travel, and you got to book blocks and hotels

391
00:20:42,720 --> 00:20:46,359
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. So yet that may be tough operationally,

392
00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:49,159
Speaker 1: but coaching wise, I couldn't care less. We could get

393
00:20:49,200 --> 00:20:52,320
Speaker 1: our schedule after spring ball and I'd be okay. So

394
00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:55,480
Speaker 1: we got that endorsement, So the coaching complaint part is

395
00:20:55,480 --> 00:20:57,359
Speaker 1: out of the way. Here's what I'd love to do.

396
00:20:58,280 --> 00:21:00,440
Speaker 1: I think it's stupid we don't do this. I'd love

397
00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:04,080
Speaker 1: to have the NFL playoffs conclude, super Bowls wrapped up,

398
00:21:04,400 --> 00:21:07,560
Speaker 1: go about another week in late February, right before most

399
00:21:07,560 --> 00:21:11,439
Speaker 1: people are open in spring camp, release the schedule for

400
00:21:11,480 --> 00:21:14,359
Speaker 1: the upcoming year. It could be a multi day event.

401
00:21:14,520 --> 00:21:18,000
Speaker 1: Imagine that. Imagine you don't know anything. You probably know

402
00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:20,600
Speaker 1: you're out of conference games, but I would argue you

403
00:21:20,640 --> 00:21:24,679
Speaker 1: could have inter conference partnerships where even you're out of

404
00:21:24,720 --> 00:21:28,240
Speaker 1: conference schedule is not set in stone. I know there's

405
00:21:28,240 --> 00:21:31,120
Speaker 1: a lot of future schedules that are already planned out.

406
00:21:31,280 --> 00:21:34,240
Speaker 1: Just scrap them, I guess, is my best answer to that.

407
00:21:34,280 --> 00:21:36,040
Speaker 1: Because I mean some of you have scheduled games into

408
00:21:36,040 --> 00:21:39,320
Speaker 1: the twenty thirties, which probably won't happen anyway, judging by

409
00:21:39,359 --> 00:21:41,399
Speaker 1: what history is taught us to scrap them all. And

410
00:21:41,480 --> 00:21:44,320
Speaker 1: I just tell you what your schedule is in late

411
00:21:44,320 --> 00:21:47,840
Speaker 1: February early March. I'd love that. I would also love

412
00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:49,479
Speaker 1: to do what we've been talking about. I would love

413
00:21:49,480 --> 00:21:52,600
Speaker 1: to give you the option to play a real spring game,

414
00:21:53,080 --> 00:21:56,320
Speaker 1: so that gives me two really big events in the

415
00:21:56,880 --> 00:22:00,800
Speaker 1: late winter early spring portion of the year. But I'll

416
00:22:00,800 --> 00:22:03,960
Speaker 1: tell you I don't think I would try and artificially

417
00:22:04,560 --> 00:22:08,120
Speaker 1: manufacture any big events in May or June. Like, once

418
00:22:08,160 --> 00:22:10,840
Speaker 1: you get out of April and everyone's wrapped up for spring,

419
00:22:11,119 --> 00:22:13,480
Speaker 1: you know that your media day season's kind of coming

420
00:22:13,520 --> 00:22:19,639
Speaker 1: in July and shortly thereafter Fall camp opens May in June, Look,

421
00:22:19,800 --> 00:22:21,960
Speaker 1: you need to have a wedding, I'm doing it. Have

422
00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:24,760
Speaker 1: it in May. You need to have a baby. You

423
00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:27,280
Speaker 1: guys know how that stuff happens. If you don't DM me,

424
00:22:27,359 --> 00:22:29,159
Speaker 1: I'll talk to you more about it off air. But

425
00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:31,159
Speaker 1: you can time it up. You can subtract nine months

426
00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:33,440
Speaker 1: from May and June. You pretty well know how that works.

427
00:22:33,560 --> 00:22:35,919
Speaker 1: If you need to take a vacation May and June

428
00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:38,679
Speaker 1: wonderful if you need to do home repair, if you

429
00:22:38,760 --> 00:22:41,600
Speaker 1: need to move, that's what May and June is for.

430
00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:44,840
Speaker 1: And then you lock in mid July if the media

431
00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:47,520
Speaker 1: day circuit is for you. If you don't enjoy talking,

432
00:22:48,080 --> 00:22:50,879
Speaker 1: stay on the beach through July. But August you know,

433
00:22:51,080 --> 00:22:53,480
Speaker 1: we're dialed in. We do this show year round, so

434
00:22:53,520 --> 00:22:55,800
Speaker 1: we don't ever really take a vacation. But I would

435
00:22:55,920 --> 00:22:58,680
Speaker 1: the schedule release event. I would love to do that.

436
00:22:59,080 --> 00:23:01,280
Speaker 1: I don't know why we don't don't do it that way.

437
00:23:01,480 --> 00:23:03,400
Speaker 1: The NFL gets it, I don't know why we don't

438
00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:06,720
Speaker 1: get that. And then also just allowing real spring games,

439
00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:10,240
Speaker 1: allowing the option for it, that alone would sort of

440
00:23:10,240 --> 00:23:13,159
Speaker 1: overhaul spring because right now what you have in the

441
00:23:13,160 --> 00:23:16,080
Speaker 1: aggregate is you have people losing interest in spring because

442
00:23:16,080 --> 00:23:19,440
Speaker 1: they know there's not that real spring game at the

443
00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:22,639
Speaker 1: end of the tunnel, So why even get excited about spring?

444
00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:27,720
Speaker 1: And also the SEC where people disproportionately are more passionate

445
00:23:27,720 --> 00:23:30,399
Speaker 1: about spring football, they had the audacity to go get

446
00:23:30,440 --> 00:23:34,399
Speaker 1: good in basketball. So the attention has been fractured and

447
00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:38,359
Speaker 1: it's been splintered in the SEC. It's aggravated. Me is

448
00:23:38,359 --> 00:23:41,080
Speaker 1: not a basketball show. So I just assume BAM and

449
00:23:41,119 --> 00:23:45,520
Speaker 1: Auburn not being the Elite eight. We can block that

450
00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:48,280
Speaker 1: out of the Birmingham and Montgomery market so they don't

451
00:23:48,280 --> 00:23:51,159
Speaker 1: get mad. But I want to talk about spring football,

452
00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:52,639
Speaker 1: and there hasn't been as big a market for it

453
00:23:52,680 --> 00:23:55,440
Speaker 1: this spring. What do you know? They're watching us in Huntsville, Alabama,

454
00:23:55,520 --> 00:23:59,919
Speaker 1: also New Glasgow, Nova, Scotia, and Flagstaff, Arizona. We appreciate

455
00:23:59,960 --> 00:24:03,840
Speaker 1: you guys being tuned in. Check this out. How beautiful

456
00:24:03,960 --> 00:24:08,399
Speaker 1: is that can of Zvia? We have not ever, to

457
00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:13,640
Speaker 1: my knowledge, cracked a vanilla cola flavored zvia on air

458
00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:19,840
Speaker 1: zero sugar as always, that's really good. Though I don't

459
00:24:19,840 --> 00:24:21,680
Speaker 1: know that I've tried vanilla cola. I may have one

460
00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:25,879
Speaker 1: other time. That stuff's really good. A couple of you

461
00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:28,360
Speaker 1: had touted the vanilla cola to me and I had

462
00:24:28,359 --> 00:24:30,800
Speaker 1: not tasted it. We did ginger Ale last week. We're

463
00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:33,440
Speaker 1: on a roll. We are not cheating on cream soda.

464
00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:36,080
Speaker 1: Cream soda will always be our ride or die. But

465
00:24:37,160 --> 00:24:40,359
Speaker 1: vanilla cola not a bad substitute here, not a bad

466
00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:42,119
Speaker 1: We've got depth is what I'm trying to tell you.

467
00:24:42,160 --> 00:24:45,840
Speaker 1: ZEV has got really good depth hopefully Notre Dame does too.

468
00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:50,879
Speaker 1: Segue alert, Segue alert. Larry from Pacific Beach, Califournia hit us.

469
00:24:50,920 --> 00:24:53,240
Speaker 1: He said, what are the chances that Notre Dame is

470
00:24:53,280 --> 00:24:56,720
Speaker 1: a perennial national title contender after they made it to

471
00:24:56,760 --> 00:24:59,119
Speaker 1: the game last year? It feels like a switch has

472
00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:02,119
Speaker 1: been flipped to some degree with Marcus Freeman. Well, I

473
00:25:02,160 --> 00:25:05,480
Speaker 1: will agree it did feel like a switch got flipped.

474
00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:09,080
Speaker 1: Let's just be careful here, think about what we're asking.

475
00:25:09,640 --> 00:25:12,040
Speaker 1: What we're asking is something that up until about five

476
00:25:12,080 --> 00:25:15,320
Speaker 1: minutes ago, a vast majority of the college football public

477
00:25:15,359 --> 00:25:17,920
Speaker 1: had said was impossible, and that is for Notre Dame

478
00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:21,600
Speaker 1: to perennially compete for the national championship in the modern

479
00:25:21,680 --> 00:25:24,360
Speaker 1: era of college football. Now, if you're a Notre Dame fan,

480
00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:28,080
Speaker 1: of course you hope Larry's right. Of course, you hope

481
00:25:28,119 --> 00:25:31,720
Speaker 1: a switch got flipped. And I do not doubt that

482
00:25:31,800 --> 00:25:35,080
Speaker 1: there's serious, serious, positive momentum with the program. But you know,

483
00:25:35,840 --> 00:25:38,800
Speaker 1: you can have positive momentum and still throw an eight

484
00:25:38,840 --> 00:25:40,919
Speaker 1: and four season in there every now and then, and

485
00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:44,000
Speaker 1: I think that goes for pretty much every program, the

486
00:25:44,040 --> 00:25:49,160
Speaker 1: best of the best out there in this point moving

487
00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:52,760
Speaker 1: forward era of college football because of how much thinner

488
00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:56,640
Speaker 1: the rosters are depth wise. I don't know that anyone's

489
00:25:56,680 --> 00:25:58,080
Speaker 1: just gonna fly at the ten and a half or

490
00:25:58,119 --> 00:26:01,440
Speaker 1: eleven wins on average per year level anymore. I don't

491
00:26:01,480 --> 00:26:04,679
Speaker 1: think that's reality. So that goes for Notre Dame, but

492
00:26:04,760 --> 00:26:07,080
Speaker 1: that goes for Georgia, that goes for Notre Dame, but

493
00:26:07,160 --> 00:26:11,280
Speaker 1: that goes for Ohio State, that goes for everybody. However,

494
00:26:13,000 --> 00:26:16,680
Speaker 1: I will confidently tell you that a couple of weeks ago,

495
00:26:17,160 --> 00:26:18,879
Speaker 1: we were doing a quarterback segment on the show and

496
00:26:18,920 --> 00:26:23,760
Speaker 1: I mentioned Steve Angeli. Now I did it pretty haphazardly,

497
00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:26,919
Speaker 1: wouldn't you say, Jesse and Colin? I said Steve Angelly,

498
00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:30,000
Speaker 1: And I mean, look, we got feedback from Notre Dame

499
00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:31,840
Speaker 1: that he's not even the favorite to be the starter.

500
00:26:31,920 --> 00:26:33,600
Speaker 1: And I said, well, I mean I didn't lock it in.

501
00:26:33,680 --> 00:26:35,680
Speaker 1: I just said that's kind of a guy we've got

502
00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:38,680
Speaker 1: our eye on. And that was the extent of it

503
00:26:38,760 --> 00:26:44,159
Speaker 1: for me. McElroy took it fourteen steps further. If Steve

504
00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:48,320
Speaker 1: Angelly is a drug our boy, Greg McElroy is on it.

505
00:26:48,400 --> 00:26:49,000
Speaker 1: Listen to this.

506
00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:54,480
Speaker 2: I've seen Steve Vangelly thrust into action against a ferocious

507
00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:56,880
Speaker 2: pass rush in Penn State and one of the best

508
00:26:56,920 --> 00:26:59,880
Speaker 2: defenses in the country. I saw Steve Vangelly go into

509
00:26:59,920 --> 00:27:03,080
Speaker 2: the lineup and just methodically right down the field, accurately

510
00:27:03,280 --> 00:27:07,119
Speaker 2: carving up a defense. Who's to say that Steve Vanngelly's

511
00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:11,440
Speaker 2: ceiling when the real lights are on isn't outrageously high.

512
00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:14,080
Speaker 2: We've seen him make one start and it was a

513
00:27:14,080 --> 00:27:16,520
Speaker 2: couple of years ago. What if when we fast forward

514
00:27:16,560 --> 00:27:20,080
Speaker 2: to this year, Steve Vangelly has some awakening and all

515
00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:22,200
Speaker 2: of a sudden he's the second coming of Joe Burrow.

516
00:27:22,280 --> 00:27:25,600
Speaker 3: You remember, now, Joe Burrow at Ohio State was just

517
00:27:25,640 --> 00:27:28,840
Speaker 3: a guy. In his first year at LSU, he was

518
00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:31,240
Speaker 3: just a guy. Well, Steve Angeli, up to this point

519
00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:33,760
Speaker 3: of his career solid just a guy. But maybe there's

520
00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:35,560
Speaker 3: another level in there that we just don't know about.

521
00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:38,879
Speaker 3: Because when the game flipped in Joe Burrow's final season,

522
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:41,159
Speaker 3: when he got a chance to run an offense that

523
00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:42,879
Speaker 3: was built for him, look what happened.

524
00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:47,800
Speaker 1: Maybe that's in there for Steve angel If you had

525
00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:51,720
Speaker 1: trouble here in McElroy, just I believe guaranteed Notre Dame

526
00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:55,200
Speaker 1: win the national title this year, he did say. I

527
00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:58,640
Speaker 1: think it's a direct quote. Angelly is Joe Burrow two

528
00:27:58,640 --> 00:28:01,399
Speaker 1: point zero. Think I over heard him say arch Manning.

529
00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:06,560
Speaker 1: Who Angelly will make us say arch Manning? Who? His words,

530
00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:10,120
Speaker 1: not mine? It's crazy. So let's just say that Angelly

531
00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:12,600
Speaker 1: is a fraction of that, just a mere fraction of

532
00:28:12,760 --> 00:28:16,000
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow reincarnated. Hey, things could be really interesting up

533
00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:18,400
Speaker 1: there this year. They've got to improve wide receiver corps.

534
00:28:19,880 --> 00:28:22,280
Speaker 1: Got me got a really old line. Yeah, do I

535
00:28:22,280 --> 00:28:24,399
Speaker 1: want to? Yeah, I'll use the word gotta reload on

536
00:28:24,440 --> 00:28:27,320
Speaker 1: the line of scrimmage. Don't we all elite at running back?

537
00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:30,600
Speaker 1: But you know we're talking. I think more about, uh,

538
00:28:30,680 --> 00:28:34,240
Speaker 1: the the overall construct of the program. Here's what I'm thinking. So,

539
00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:37,120
Speaker 1: so my stance on this is I'm okay on Notre Dame.

540
00:28:37,200 --> 00:28:40,120
Speaker 1: Like I'm I'm fairly high on him. I'm not gonna

541
00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:42,600
Speaker 1: back him into the corner. If you guys better be

542
00:28:42,840 --> 00:28:45,520
Speaker 1: right back there in that National championship game, or you

543
00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:49,080
Speaker 1: have failed. Marcus Freeman. No I hadn't, No, he hadn't.

544
00:28:49,160 --> 00:28:52,440
Speaker 1: Just be in the hunt. Give yourself up a puncher's chance,

545
00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:57,160
Speaker 1: and by modern standards, you're running a really high level program.

546
00:28:57,280 --> 00:28:59,800
Speaker 1: Now here's what you don't want. You don't want to

547
00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:01,640
Speaker 1: fall all flat on your face. You don't want to

548
00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:04,440
Speaker 1: go eight and four, seven and five. And the reason's obvious.

549
00:29:04,680 --> 00:29:07,280
Speaker 1: First off, because it's not good to lose. But then secondly,

550
00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:10,600
Speaker 1: when people are great and Marcus Freeman, you know we are,

551
00:29:11,640 --> 00:29:15,160
Speaker 1: it feels like we're so far away from them losing

552
00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:17,040
Speaker 1: to who Jesse, Who in the world did they lose

553
00:29:17,080 --> 00:29:22,800
Speaker 1: to last year? Northern Illinois. Yeah, it feels like ancient history,

554
00:29:23,160 --> 00:29:26,120
Speaker 1: but it's not. It's the same team that allowed themselves

555
00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:28,680
Speaker 1: to lose to Northern Illinois last year. But what they

556
00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:31,320
Speaker 1: did is they turned a negative into a positive. Now

557
00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:33,600
Speaker 1: that's a hallmark of really solid culture. And that's great

558
00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:36,720
Speaker 1: if it never happens again. But you know what happens

559
00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:38,440
Speaker 1: if you go in this year and let's just say

560
00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:40,000
Speaker 1: you go eight and four, it's just a kind of

561
00:29:40,120 --> 00:29:43,480
Speaker 1: okay year, but nothing special. And that's how you follow

562
00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:47,440
Speaker 1: up playing for a national championship. Well, here's what happens.

563
00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:52,560
Speaker 1: If you're if you're like Kirby Smart, people just say, oh, well,

564
00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:55,440
Speaker 1: finally you had a down year. If you're Ryan Day,

565
00:29:55,680 --> 00:29:58,600
Speaker 1: well it sucks, but you won the national title last year.

566
00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:00,760
Speaker 1: But if you're Freeman, you hadn't done that, and you

567
00:30:00,840 --> 00:30:03,160
Speaker 1: don't you don't have the Kirby Smart level equity. So

568
00:30:03,200 --> 00:30:07,560
Speaker 1: what they do is they start saying, hmm, maybe Al

569
00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:09,640
Speaker 1: Golden did mean a little bit more to that team

570
00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:12,000
Speaker 1: than we thought. Well, he won the Broils Award for

571
00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:15,080
Speaker 1: the best Assistant coach in the country, so I think

572
00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:18,680
Speaker 1: most people realize he was a really valuable commodity as DC.

573
00:30:18,880 --> 00:30:20,880
Speaker 1: And then there will be a chorus as well of

574
00:30:20,960 --> 00:30:24,680
Speaker 1: oh Chad Bowden GM left. Maybe he was the secret

575
00:30:24,720 --> 00:30:28,720
Speaker 1: sauce and you know what you're you're much better off

576
00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:32,400
Speaker 1: not having to listen to that. So for many reasons,

577
00:30:32,840 --> 00:30:36,479
Speaker 1: and this is exclusive advice that I am delivering Marcus

578
00:30:36,520 --> 00:30:41,120
Speaker 1: Freeman on this show tonight, it is my advice that

579
00:30:41,280 --> 00:30:44,080
Speaker 1: Notre Dames should try and win this year. And if

580
00:30:44,120 --> 00:30:46,640
Speaker 1: I hear anyone copy that we're coming for you, because

581
00:30:46,680 --> 00:30:51,080
Speaker 1: that that is intellectual property exclusively provided on this show,

582
00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:54,040
Speaker 1: by this show, for this show and Marcus Freeman, and

583
00:30:55,080 --> 00:30:57,680
Speaker 1: he hasn't said thank you, but you're welcome in advance

584
00:30:57,720 --> 00:31:01,120
Speaker 1: coach quick Trip. I don't know if you've ever been there,

585
00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:05,080
Speaker 1: Marcus Freeman or anyone, but beautiful this time of year.

586
00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:10,800
Speaker 1: We had a viewer check in from New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. Yeah.

587
00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:13,040
Speaker 1: I don't know what the weather's like there. I mean,

588
00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:14,920
Speaker 1: it's snowed in Lubbock the other day, so I imagine

589
00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:16,840
Speaker 1: it's still pretty cold up there. And I don't know

590
00:31:16,840 --> 00:31:19,120
Speaker 1: if they have quick trip up there either, but I

591
00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:21,760
Speaker 1: can tell you it's beautiful at quick trip this time

592
00:31:21,760 --> 00:31:23,960
Speaker 1: of year. If you guys want a vaca, come down

593
00:31:23,960 --> 00:31:26,600
Speaker 1: towards where I am, and I assure you we've got

594
00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:28,440
Speaker 1: a lot of them down here. Now listen, the cold

595
00:31:28,480 --> 00:31:31,200
Speaker 1: Brew on Tap is taken off. It's not a secret anymore.

596
00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:33,880
Speaker 1: Everybody's finding out about the cold Brew on Tap so

597
00:31:33,960 --> 00:31:37,040
Speaker 1: much so that I'm getting mixed reports that some of

598
00:31:37,040 --> 00:31:39,760
Speaker 1: you are taking up parking spots at the gas pumps,

599
00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:42,360
Speaker 1: even though you're three quarters of the way full, just

600
00:31:42,400 --> 00:31:43,719
Speaker 1: so you can go in and try the cold Brew

601
00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:46,480
Speaker 1: on tap. And we welcome that. We just asked that

602
00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:50,320
Speaker 1: you use regular parking spots. You know, don't be a derelict.

603
00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:53,160
Speaker 1: We don't need that kind of activity. There are other

604
00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:57,680
Speaker 1: Sea stores, convenience store, it's just industry lingo. There are

605
00:31:57,720 --> 00:31:59,880
Speaker 1: other Sea stores for that ratchetness. We don't need that

606
00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:03,000
Speaker 1: at Quick Trip. We are a classy outfit at Quick

607
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:06,560
Speaker 1: Trip with plenty of great food on rollers once you

608
00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:10,160
Speaker 1: walk in. There's a strong rumor some of it could

609
00:32:10,200 --> 00:32:13,480
Speaker 1: appear at the Pate State wedding. First of it's kind,

610
00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:21,520
Speaker 1: Pate State Wedding. Let's move along. Debate debates still in

611
00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:24,640
Speaker 1: fashion these days and in sports media. There is a

612
00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:28,720
Speaker 1: debate that is raging out there on our streets. And

613
00:32:28,800 --> 00:32:33,920
Speaker 1: Sam hit me. Sam just trying to be antagonistic. He

614
00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:36,680
Speaker 1: hit us, and he said, not everything is a crisis.

615
00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:39,720
Speaker 1: Is college football really about to die if we lose

616
00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:42,800
Speaker 1: spring games? People think the sport changing is going to

617
00:32:42,920 --> 00:32:46,480
Speaker 1: kill it? But I'm not there yet. Well, Sam, guess

618
00:32:46,560 --> 00:32:51,440
Speaker 1: what you are right? Is that what you wanted to hear? Sam?

619
00:32:52,320 --> 00:32:55,520
Speaker 1: Because if it is, it's a good night for you.

620
00:32:55,520 --> 00:32:58,960
Speaker 1: You're right. We could take away every spring game and

621
00:32:59,000 --> 00:33:03,320
Speaker 1: it would not kill college football. And I get the

622
00:33:03,440 --> 00:33:07,040
Speaker 1: vibe from your perspective, Sam that once we admit that

623
00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:09,680
Speaker 1: dust off, our hands move on. But I would like

624
00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:11,760
Speaker 1: you to Sam, let me, let me grab the back

625
00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:14,360
Speaker 1: of your shirt, Let me pull you back over here. Sam,

626
00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:17,560
Speaker 1: could I could I take you two or three steps

627
00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:23,080
Speaker 1: further down the road of logic here. So this is

628
00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:26,600
Speaker 1: obviously in response to a lot of people debating about

629
00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:29,280
Speaker 1: spring games, and some programs are either canceling them outright,

630
00:33:29,280 --> 00:33:32,760
Speaker 1: they're not broadcasting them publicly. They're doing a water down version,

631
00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:34,800
Speaker 1: which isn't new. People have done that for a while.

632
00:33:35,240 --> 00:33:37,800
Speaker 1: I was at a scrimmage last week, and I assure

633
00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:39,760
Speaker 1: you a program got after it and tackled to the

634
00:33:39,760 --> 00:33:42,680
Speaker 1: ground all day and it was fairly physical and violent,

635
00:33:42,800 --> 00:33:45,760
Speaker 1: and none of that will be seen when they play

636
00:33:45,760 --> 00:33:48,040
Speaker 1: their spring game whenever they actually play their spring game,

637
00:33:48,640 --> 00:33:54,200
Speaker 1: So that's not a new concept. However, Steve, I want

638
00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:58,480
Speaker 1: to ask you, when you say canceling spring games won't

639
00:33:58,520 --> 00:34:01,680
Speaker 1: kill college football, what do you really saying? Are you

640
00:34:01,760 --> 00:34:05,360
Speaker 1: really suggesting that anyone ever thought that? I am a

641
00:34:05,360 --> 00:34:07,880
Speaker 1: big proponent of spring games. So let's use me as

642
00:34:07,880 --> 00:34:11,400
Speaker 1: an example. You're talking to me. Everyone else just happens

643
00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:14,000
Speaker 1: to be watching, but it's you and I, Steve. I

644
00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:17,360
Speaker 1: wish everyone played a legitimate spring game and it was

645
00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:20,319
Speaker 1: broadcast on national TV, and the fans could pack the

646
00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:23,279
Speaker 1: stands and it was either free or really really really

647
00:34:23,360 --> 00:34:26,000
Speaker 1: cheap to get in, and we could all just have

648
00:34:26,120 --> 00:34:28,160
Speaker 1: it our way in spring. I wish that that was

649
00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:30,319
Speaker 1: the case. It used to be that way. It's not

650
00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:33,520
Speaker 1: that way so much anymore. But I've never suggested it's

651
00:34:33,600 --> 00:34:37,160
Speaker 1: killing the sport. But I would also suggest it's not

652
00:34:37,239 --> 00:34:40,799
Speaker 1: helping the sport. What is the sport? The sport is

653
00:34:41,719 --> 00:34:44,760
Speaker 1: really big? And why is the sport big? The sport

654
00:34:44,800 --> 00:34:46,759
Speaker 1: is big because a ton of people care about it.

655
00:34:46,920 --> 00:34:50,919
Speaker 1: Those people are fans. The players could still play the game,

656
00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:53,600
Speaker 1: the coaches could still coach the game, but if no

657
00:34:53,640 --> 00:34:58,520
Speaker 1: one watched, there wouldn't be nearly as lucrative an opportunity

658
00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:01,080
Speaker 1: to play or coach the game as there is because

659
00:35:01,120 --> 00:35:04,240
Speaker 1: of fan engagement. So because a lot of us feel

660
00:35:04,280 --> 00:35:08,239
Speaker 1: the way we do about the game, it matters a

661
00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:10,440
Speaker 1: whole lot, and it's worth a whole lot if you're

662
00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:13,040
Speaker 1: good at it, coaching it or playing it. But the

663
00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:17,080
Speaker 1: whole it won't kill you. You ever heard someone say that

664
00:35:17,160 --> 00:35:19,480
Speaker 1: a lot of times. If you're on a diet and

665
00:35:19,480 --> 00:35:21,480
Speaker 1: there's junk food in front of you, someone in the

666
00:35:21,480 --> 00:35:24,400
Speaker 1: back of the room, I'll eat it. It won't kill you.

667
00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:26,920
Speaker 1: You're committed to getting in shape, you're thinking about skipping

668
00:35:26,960 --> 00:35:29,479
Speaker 1: the gym, oh, you can miss a workout. It won't

669
00:35:29,560 --> 00:35:32,799
Speaker 1: kill you. It won't kill you is almost always a

670
00:35:32,840 --> 00:35:38,359
Speaker 1: phrase that is used to excuse poor decision making right

671
00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:41,239
Speaker 1: before a poor decision is made. And that's kind of

672
00:35:41,239 --> 00:35:44,040
Speaker 1: happening a lot in college football. There's a lot going

673
00:35:44,080 --> 00:35:46,120
Speaker 1: on right now, a lot of decisions being made, a

674
00:35:46,160 --> 00:35:49,400
Speaker 1: lot of moves being made, and each individual move, there's

675
00:35:49,400 --> 00:35:53,480
Speaker 1: someone out there who got access to a microphone and

676
00:35:53,520 --> 00:35:56,239
Speaker 1: they want to sound like they're intellectually superior to the

677
00:35:56,320 --> 00:35:58,640
Speaker 1: rest of the room. And they're either telling you one

678
00:35:58,640 --> 00:36:02,279
Speaker 1: of two things, either it won't kill college football or well,

679
00:36:02,280 --> 00:36:06,200
Speaker 1: you're going to watch anyway? Yeah, yeah, I probably you

680
00:36:06,280 --> 00:36:09,640
Speaker 1: got me man, I probably am. But Steve, I want

681
00:36:09,680 --> 00:36:11,759
Speaker 1: to talk to you. I know a lot of people

682
00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:13,200
Speaker 1: feel this way, so I'm not just talking to Steve.

683
00:36:14,200 --> 00:36:16,560
Speaker 1: I want to ask you, honestly. I'll give you my answer.

684
00:36:17,040 --> 00:36:21,480
Speaker 1: What Why do you love college football? Why do you

685
00:36:21,560 --> 00:36:24,280
Speaker 1: love it? I don't doubt you love it. Most people,

686
00:36:24,400 --> 00:36:25,960
Speaker 1: even if you agree or disagree with me on this,

687
00:36:26,080 --> 00:36:28,000
Speaker 1: you love college football. You wouldn't be watching a college

688
00:36:28,040 --> 00:36:30,080
Speaker 1: football show in April if you didn't love college football.

689
00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:33,600
Speaker 1: So why do you love it? Why don't you feel

690
00:36:33,600 --> 00:36:37,400
Speaker 1: that way about other sports. My answer is because from

691
00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:40,520
Speaker 1: the time I was a kid, I realized that there

692
00:36:40,600 --> 00:36:44,200
Speaker 1: was more to a college football team than just the

693
00:36:44,239 --> 00:36:47,680
Speaker 1: twelve games on the field during the fall. There was

694
00:36:47,719 --> 00:36:50,200
Speaker 1: a lot culturally. There was a lot woven into the

695
00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:53,239
Speaker 1: DNA of the South where I grew up. But it's

696
00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:56,000
Speaker 1: not exclusive to the South, certainly not. There are people

697
00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:58,880
Speaker 1: in Pullman, Washington that feel the same way about Washington

698
00:36:58,920 --> 00:37:01,439
Speaker 1: State football as there are people in Gainesville that feel

699
00:37:01,440 --> 00:37:07,520
Speaker 1: about Florida football. So I realized there's a lot about

700
00:37:07,800 --> 00:37:12,719
Speaker 1: the emotional connectivity between person and college football as a

701
00:37:12,719 --> 00:37:18,840
Speaker 1: sport and college football programs individually that makes college football unique.

702
00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:22,359
Speaker 1: It's not that there aren't passionate NFL fans or Major

703
00:37:22,440 --> 00:37:25,520
Speaker 1: League Baseball fans, NBA whatnot. I just think college football

704
00:37:25,560 --> 00:37:29,160
Speaker 1: is one of one in that department. Because of that,

705
00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:32,600
Speaker 1: there are several layers that form that connectivity. And I'll

706
00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:36,239
Speaker 1: just speak from personal experience. I grew up, like I said,

707
00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:38,239
Speaker 1: in the South, so I watched this a lot every

708
00:37:38,239 --> 00:37:42,520
Speaker 1: spring I was around, and grew up with families that

709
00:37:42,640 --> 00:37:46,759
Speaker 1: could not afford season tickets to Auburn or Georgia or

710
00:37:46,800 --> 00:37:50,600
Speaker 1: Alabama or Florida. That's kind of the area that I'm

711
00:37:50,640 --> 00:37:54,120
Speaker 1: growing up that included us. But I'll tell you what

712
00:37:54,160 --> 00:37:57,120
Speaker 1: we could afford if they were going to open Sandford

713
00:37:57,200 --> 00:38:01,280
Speaker 1: Stadium or Bryant Denny Stadium or or Jordan Hare Stadium

714
00:38:01,840 --> 00:38:05,040
Speaker 1: for free for the spring game. We could afford gas

715
00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:08,239
Speaker 1: to go up there or over there and back. And

716
00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:11,120
Speaker 1: you're talking about I mean, you've ever been on the

717
00:38:11,160 --> 00:38:15,080
Speaker 1: campus of Auburn University in early April. Have you seen

718
00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:18,960
Speaker 1: what that place looks like? You have? You you understand

719
00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:22,680
Speaker 1: like when the trees start to bloom again and you,

720
00:38:22,760 --> 00:38:25,520
Speaker 1: as a little kid get to go experience. A lot

721
00:38:25,560 --> 00:38:27,279
Speaker 1: of you are with your dad, a lot of you're

722
00:38:27,320 --> 00:38:29,360
Speaker 1: with your mom, A lot of you are not just

723
00:38:29,400 --> 00:38:32,120
Speaker 1: there for a spring game. You probably don't even remember

724
00:38:32,120 --> 00:38:34,319
Speaker 1: the outcome of the spring game, but twenty years later

725
00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:38,160
Speaker 1: you remember walking around campus and they're they're showing you, Hey,

726
00:38:38,160 --> 00:38:41,319
Speaker 1: I went to class in this hall so and so

727
00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:44,160
Speaker 1: years ago. Hey you see that You see that name

728
00:38:44,200 --> 00:38:46,279
Speaker 1: there on the jumbo trone when I went here. He

729
00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:50,040
Speaker 1: was a classmate of mine. There is something being formed

730
00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:53,600
Speaker 1: between you, a kid in your formative years and that

731
00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:56,799
Speaker 1: university could be Auburn but it could be Ohio State,

732
00:38:56,920 --> 00:39:00,719
Speaker 1: but it could be Arizona. It's it's not the end

733
00:39:00,760 --> 00:39:03,560
Speaker 1: of the world if that experience is taken away. But

734
00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:06,839
Speaker 1: I remember when I was a kid. I remember it

735
00:39:06,920 --> 00:39:10,400
Speaker 1: was like at the tail end of when baseball was

736
00:39:10,440 --> 00:39:13,640
Speaker 1: playing playoff games and World Series games in the daytime.

737
00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:16,040
Speaker 1: I kind of I can't. I kind of came along

738
00:39:16,040 --> 00:39:18,600
Speaker 1: in the broadcast era where they were playing everything at

739
00:39:18,680 --> 00:39:24,000
Speaker 1: night to maximize television viewership and drive AD revenue. And

740
00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:27,919
Speaker 1: I remember hearing the older folks tell stories about how, yeah,

741
00:39:27,960 --> 00:39:30,160
Speaker 1: you're having to wait until eight thirty eight PM for

742
00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:32,000
Speaker 1: first pitch of Game two of the World Series, But

743
00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:34,560
Speaker 1: did you know they used to play World Series games

744
00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:37,560
Speaker 1: in the middle of the day. And I remember hearing

745
00:39:37,600 --> 00:39:40,359
Speaker 1: them say, you know, that's that's when kids could stay

746
00:39:40,440 --> 00:39:44,480
Speaker 1: up and they could watch the entire game. And it

747
00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:47,640
Speaker 1: even made if it made sense to me then because

748
00:39:47,680 --> 00:39:50,120
Speaker 1: I had to go to bed before the games were over.

749
00:39:50,360 --> 00:39:52,920
Speaker 1: And I thought, man, kids, kids in the previous generation

750
00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:54,799
Speaker 1: were lucky they got to watch World Series games during

751
00:39:54,800 --> 00:39:57,760
Speaker 1: the day. Did it kill baseball to move World Series

752
00:39:57,760 --> 00:40:00,399
Speaker 1: games to the night? Of course it didn't, But did

753
00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:02,520
Speaker 1: they lose a little bit of the connectivity of the

754
00:40:02,600 --> 00:40:07,160
Speaker 1: upcoming young generation and their product because they moved to primetime. Yes,

755
00:40:07,320 --> 00:40:11,160
Speaker 1: they did, they did. I would argue now my generation

756
00:40:11,360 --> 00:40:14,200
Speaker 1: and the generation younger than me, has far less an

757
00:40:14,239 --> 00:40:17,920
Speaker 1: emotional attachment to the sport of baseball in this country

758
00:40:18,719 --> 00:40:21,600
Speaker 1: because of moves like that that Major League Baseball made.

759
00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:24,799
Speaker 1: They made more money, they profited more in the short

760
00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:28,040
Speaker 1: term at the very least, but at what expense. I'd

761
00:40:28,040 --> 00:40:30,239
Speaker 1: ask the same thing about college football. You're making a

762
00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:33,440
Speaker 1: lot of decisions right now. No one of them is

763
00:40:33,480 --> 00:40:35,480
Speaker 1: going to be the death blow. I did a Cubott

764
00:40:35,520 --> 00:40:38,520
Speaker 1: show yesterday, not at the scheduled time, but I'll let

765
00:40:38,560 --> 00:40:42,120
Speaker 1: him explain why. But eventually we got around talking about this,

766
00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:45,600
Speaker 1: and it's so funny because the people who ask these

767
00:40:45,680 --> 00:40:49,560
Speaker 1: questions mockingly are the easiest to mock. No one out

768
00:40:49,560 --> 00:40:52,520
Speaker 1: here is suggesting any one of these things is a

769
00:40:52,560 --> 00:40:56,080
Speaker 1: death blow to college football. No one's threatening to stop watching.

770
00:40:56,280 --> 00:40:59,200
Speaker 1: If you're a hardcore fan, We're watching until the very end.

771
00:40:59,480 --> 00:41:02,480
Speaker 1: I'm watching until they literally rip me away from the

772
00:41:02,520 --> 00:41:05,200
Speaker 1: TV or the sport just dissolves and it is no more.

773
00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:09,200
Speaker 1: But not everyone's me, Not everyone's a p one viewer

774
00:41:09,640 --> 00:41:11,919
Speaker 1: or a P two viewer. Some of them are P three,

775
00:41:12,080 --> 00:41:13,799
Speaker 1: P four. There are a lot of people out there

776
00:41:13,800 --> 00:41:16,480
Speaker 1: who watch the national championship game, a couple of the

777
00:41:16,480 --> 00:41:19,080
Speaker 1: big games per year. Couldn't tell you who the head

778
00:41:19,080 --> 00:41:21,840
Speaker 1: coach at UNLV is. To save their lives, Dan Mullen,

779
00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:28,720
Speaker 1: by the way, those people that layer of public interest,

780
00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:32,000
Speaker 1: when that starts to erode away, then what And then

781
00:41:32,040 --> 00:41:34,480
Speaker 1: when the second layer? You know, it's like the earth.

782
00:41:34,520 --> 00:41:36,120
Speaker 1: You don't get to the core until you go through

783
00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:38,960
Speaker 1: several layers. But those layers are the first ones that

784
00:41:39,040 --> 00:41:42,239
Speaker 1: you start to lose, and once you get there, it's

785
00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:44,120
Speaker 1: too late. I don't mean for this to be doom

786
00:41:44,120 --> 00:41:46,000
Speaker 1: and gloomish or anything. We did that a couple of

787
00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:49,360
Speaker 1: weeks ago. But there is no one thing that's the

788
00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:53,200
Speaker 1: death blow to college football. Everybody knows that. But you know,

789
00:41:53,280 --> 00:41:56,640
Speaker 1: there is no one donut that you eat that completely

790
00:41:56,680 --> 00:42:01,480
Speaker 1: wrecks your diet. There is no one degrees change. If

791
00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:04,040
Speaker 1: it's seventy one in the room right now, that makes

792
00:42:04,080 --> 00:42:07,120
Speaker 1: the room freezing. But if I press that button one

793
00:42:07,160 --> 00:42:10,080
Speaker 1: time a day over a two week period and you've

794
00:42:10,080 --> 00:42:13,000
Speaker 1: been on vacation and you come back, it feels like

795
00:42:13,080 --> 00:42:15,839
Speaker 1: you could hang meat in the office. It's freezing in here.

796
00:42:15,920 --> 00:42:18,520
Speaker 1: What happened, Well, it got cold because we kept pressing

797
00:42:18,520 --> 00:42:20,720
Speaker 1: the same button the same way over and over again.

798
00:42:21,680 --> 00:42:23,920
Speaker 1: Twenty years from now, you look at college football, Well,

799
00:42:23,920 --> 00:42:27,240
Speaker 1: what happened at college football? Man, Well, people kept pressing

800
00:42:27,239 --> 00:42:30,880
Speaker 1: the same wrong buttons over and over again. So you know,

801
00:42:31,440 --> 00:42:34,440
Speaker 1: you can either be infantile and make fun of people

802
00:42:34,600 --> 00:42:36,719
Speaker 1: who make a big deal about losing a spring game,

803
00:42:36,960 --> 00:42:39,080
Speaker 1: or you can understand it's kind of one page in

804
00:42:39,120 --> 00:42:41,400
Speaker 1: a book. They really love that. They just assume not

805
00:42:41,440 --> 00:42:43,279
Speaker 1: see ripped out. That's the way I look at the

806
00:42:43,280 --> 00:42:47,880
Speaker 1: spring game debate. Let's move along, move along. Instead of

807
00:42:47,920 --> 00:42:51,120
Speaker 1: talking about spring games, we're debating spring games. Let me

808
00:42:51,160 --> 00:42:55,000
Speaker 1: get a chugg of water. We have to hydrate after

809
00:42:55,080 --> 00:43:03,000
Speaker 1: speaking about such things. Ryan Day, Colin, that's not a

810
00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:05,319
Speaker 1: great endpoint. Here's a great endpoint for you. What's the

811
00:43:05,360 --> 00:43:08,680
Speaker 1: truth about Ryan Day? The truth teller series continues around here.

812
00:43:09,000 --> 00:43:11,040
Speaker 1: We've been trying to tell the truth a lot. I

813
00:43:11,080 --> 00:43:13,279
Speaker 1: want to tell the truth about Ryan Day. I have

814
00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:15,640
Speaker 1: a sentence written on the piece of paper here in

815
00:43:15,640 --> 00:43:18,719
Speaker 1: front of me, and it says the truth about Ryan Day.

816
00:43:18,719 --> 00:43:24,040
Speaker 1: Hasn't changed whatsoever recently, which I know will draw disagreement

817
00:43:25,840 --> 00:43:28,160
Speaker 1: because it looks like a lot has changed about Ryan

818
00:43:28,239 --> 00:43:31,280
Speaker 1: Day recently, and I will grant you. His Wikipedia change

819
00:43:31,600 --> 00:43:35,200
Speaker 1: has been evident, his resume change has been evident. He

820
00:43:35,360 --> 00:43:38,920
Speaker 1: is a national championship winning head coach now. He wasn't

821
00:43:38,960 --> 00:43:42,439
Speaker 1: that this time eight months ago. So a lot's changed. Josh, Well,

822
00:43:42,480 --> 00:43:45,560
Speaker 1: that's true. However, I don't feel like he's any different

823
00:43:45,560 --> 00:43:49,399
Speaker 1: a coach today than he was five months ago, ten

824
00:43:49,440 --> 00:43:52,000
Speaker 1: months ago. Honestly, I feel about the same as I

825
00:43:52,040 --> 00:43:54,600
Speaker 1: did about him two years ago. But it is true

826
00:43:54,920 --> 00:43:58,800
Speaker 1: if your strictly results oriented, yes, the truth about Ryan

827
00:43:58,880 --> 00:44:02,440
Speaker 1: Day has changed. It'd be really fun if we were

828
00:44:02,480 --> 00:44:04,520
Speaker 1: in a debate class, which we have at paid State.

829
00:44:04,600 --> 00:44:07,319
Speaker 1: You can major in debate here, but if we were

830
00:44:07,880 --> 00:44:11,680
Speaker 1: presenting Ryan Day as the debate topic in class, it'd

831
00:44:11,719 --> 00:44:14,560
Speaker 1: be so fun because if you were halfway decent at debate,

832
00:44:15,440 --> 00:44:18,279
Speaker 1: you just choose whichever side. In fact, you could give

833
00:44:18,280 --> 00:44:20,760
Speaker 1: your opponent the option do you want to be pro

834
00:44:20,960 --> 00:44:23,799
Speaker 1: or anti Ryan Day? I'll just take the other side

835
00:44:23,840 --> 00:44:26,640
Speaker 1: because it's so easy. It's so easy. Here's how it

836
00:44:26,640 --> 00:44:31,239
Speaker 1: would sound. Someone would say Ryan Day's proven himself. Now

837
00:44:31,560 --> 00:44:34,600
Speaker 1: he's won the national championship. He's erased all doubt, and

838
00:44:34,719 --> 00:44:39,120
Speaker 1: I could say, well, yeah, but by the old standard

839
00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:41,200
Speaker 1: he would have fallen flat on his face again. Last

840
00:44:41,239 --> 00:44:43,480
Speaker 1: year they lost two games in the regular season. The

841
00:44:43,560 --> 00:44:45,319
Speaker 1: only thing that saved him was he got to back

842
00:44:45,400 --> 00:44:48,080
Speaker 1: end because of a new playoff format and then went

843
00:44:48,120 --> 00:44:50,000
Speaker 1: on a hot streak that they should have looked like

844
00:44:50,080 --> 00:44:53,080
Speaker 1: all year. And then you say, yeah, but that doesn't matter.

845
00:44:53,120 --> 00:44:56,680
Speaker 1: Everyone played by the same rules. He won a championship

846
00:44:56,719 --> 00:45:00,279
Speaker 1: that everyone had equal access to, and I would say, yea, yeah,

847
00:45:00,320 --> 00:45:02,760
Speaker 1: he sure did. But doesn't it feel a little hollow?

848
00:45:03,040 --> 00:45:05,480
Speaker 1: You still got that hole in your chest here that

849
00:45:05,560 --> 00:45:09,040
Speaker 1: can only be filled by beating your arrival, which he's

850
00:45:09,040 --> 00:45:11,120
Speaker 1: failed to do for the better part of half a decade,

851
00:45:11,280 --> 00:45:14,120
Speaker 1: which is a really really extreme way to say four

852
00:45:14,200 --> 00:45:18,520
Speaker 1: years better part of half a decade. That's like saying

853
00:45:19,360 --> 00:45:21,560
Speaker 1: a quarter of one thousand dollars, Well, it's two hundred

854
00:45:21,560 --> 00:45:24,160
Speaker 1: and fifty bucks man. A quarter one thousand, though, sounds

855
00:45:24,160 --> 00:45:26,719
Speaker 1: so much better anyway. You get the point there. We

856
00:45:26,760 --> 00:45:28,800
Speaker 1: could trash Ryan Day, we could praise Ryan Day, We

857
00:45:28,840 --> 00:45:32,080
Speaker 1: could be the same person. I remember a couple of

858
00:45:32,120 --> 00:45:35,000
Speaker 1: years ago, down there in the Peach Bowl New Year's Eve,

859
00:45:35,719 --> 00:45:38,160
Speaker 1: right there at the stroke of midnight. Still one of

860
00:45:38,200 --> 00:45:43,319
Speaker 1: the wildest things about that game was they missed that

861
00:45:43,360 --> 00:45:47,640
Speaker 1: field goal at twelve midnight. Twelve thirty one turns into

862
00:45:47,680 --> 00:45:50,520
Speaker 1: one to one and Ohio State misses that field goal.

863
00:45:50,840 --> 00:45:52,680
Speaker 1: If they hit the field goal, they go on to

864
00:45:53,400 --> 00:45:56,759
Speaker 1: I would guess, beat TCU and they win the national title.

865
00:45:56,800 --> 00:45:59,680
Speaker 1: A couple of years ago, and people are saying what

866
00:45:59,680 --> 00:46:03,800
Speaker 1: there's about him now? Two years ago? Point being, Ryan

867
00:46:03,880 --> 00:46:05,960
Speaker 1: Day's just been a stud for a long time to me,

868
00:46:06,560 --> 00:46:10,320
Speaker 1: and he's had people because you care about different things, maybe,

869
00:46:10,360 --> 00:46:13,560
Speaker 1: which is your prerogative. They've doubted him, they've called him

870
00:46:13,560 --> 00:46:16,600
Speaker 1: into question. Harbaugh said what he said about him. I

871
00:46:16,680 --> 00:46:20,360
Speaker 1: don't know. I've just believed in his process. I've believed

872
00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:22,440
Speaker 1: in the way they go about doing things. I don't

873
00:46:22,480 --> 00:46:25,759
Speaker 1: know how you deny it, of course, like the win

874
00:46:25,920 --> 00:46:28,880
Speaker 1: lost stuff. He's seventy and ten. He's entering year seven.

875
00:46:29,680 --> 00:46:33,960
Speaker 1: Speaking of the number seven, you know, in seven years

876
00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:36,600
Speaker 1: he'll still be younger than Nick Saban was when Saban

877
00:46:36,640 --> 00:46:40,080
Speaker 1: won his first title. He's forty six years old. Saban

878
00:46:40,200 --> 00:46:42,040
Speaker 1: was fifty three, I think, or fifty two to fifty

879
00:46:42,040 --> 00:46:45,640
Speaker 1: three when he won his first of seven national titles.

880
00:46:45,719 --> 00:46:47,799
Speaker 1: So just to give you an idea, I say that

881
00:46:47,840 --> 00:46:50,040
Speaker 1: about Landing a lot too. All these guys who were

882
00:46:50,040 --> 00:46:52,400
Speaker 1: in their late thirties, early forties, and people are already

883
00:46:52,440 --> 00:46:56,640
Speaker 1: calling them busts or labeling them like the greatest of

884
00:46:56,680 --> 00:47:00,000
Speaker 1: all time was fifty three when he won his first title.

885
00:47:00,360 --> 00:47:02,799
Speaker 1: And that's not a story from the forties. That's a

886
00:47:02,840 --> 00:47:06,719
Speaker 1: story from the two thousands and teens and twenties. I

887
00:47:06,800 --> 00:47:10,480
Speaker 1: do think, though, whatever you think about Ryan Day, whatever

888
00:47:10,520 --> 00:47:13,239
Speaker 1: you think about last season up to the Michigan game,

889
00:47:13,560 --> 00:47:16,799
Speaker 1: whatever you think about that, I think even his detractors

890
00:47:16,840 --> 00:47:19,840
Speaker 1: have to admit it's an all time gut check moment.

891
00:47:20,040 --> 00:47:22,880
Speaker 1: Whether you think it's pathetic they lost to Michigan or whatever,

892
00:47:22,920 --> 00:47:25,920
Speaker 1: I don't care. But from the time the clock hit Zeros,

893
00:47:25,960 --> 00:47:27,799
Speaker 1: you can't change anything about it. So they just lost

894
00:47:27,800 --> 00:47:31,080
Speaker 1: to Michigan. Their season's not over. They're gonna go to

895
00:47:31,080 --> 00:47:33,719
Speaker 1: the playoff. And to think about, no matter how much

896
00:47:33,760 --> 00:47:35,759
Speaker 1: talent you have in the room, how hard it was

897
00:47:35,840 --> 00:47:40,080
Speaker 1: to get that organization back up, knowing you just got

898
00:47:40,120 --> 00:47:42,360
Speaker 1: your heart ripped out, and to get them ready to

899
00:47:42,440 --> 00:47:45,080
Speaker 1: play like they did. They didn't just waltz into the

900
00:47:45,080 --> 00:47:49,880
Speaker 1: playoff and go like autopilot. They played, you know, like

901
00:47:50,000 --> 00:47:52,759
Speaker 1: their lives depended on it. That's how they played. They

902
00:47:52,800 --> 00:47:56,880
Speaker 1: played in a manner that made everyone say, where was

903
00:47:56,920 --> 00:47:59,839
Speaker 1: that against Michigan? Had you done this against Michigan, then

904
00:47:59,840 --> 00:48:02,279
Speaker 1: you and had a problem against them, That's a gut

905
00:48:02,360 --> 00:48:04,560
Speaker 1: check moment. And I would imagine it. In fact, I

906
00:48:04,600 --> 00:48:06,120
Speaker 1: don't have to imagine it. I know it was a

907
00:48:06,120 --> 00:48:08,279
Speaker 1: gut check for him personally. It was a gut check

908
00:48:08,320 --> 00:48:12,279
Speaker 1: for the family. Again, his haters have to admit that

909
00:48:12,760 --> 00:48:14,600
Speaker 1: I don't know what the haters are really saying right

910
00:48:14,600 --> 00:48:16,719
Speaker 1: now at this particular point in time. But the truth

911
00:48:16,760 --> 00:48:19,360
Speaker 1: about Ryan Day I may be a little different on

912
00:48:19,360 --> 00:48:21,160
Speaker 1: this is I don't really feel much different about him

913
00:48:21,160 --> 00:48:22,560
Speaker 1: than I have for a while, because I was really

914
00:48:22,560 --> 00:48:25,960
Speaker 1: not down on him. But then you get to this

915
00:48:26,120 --> 00:48:28,200
Speaker 1: point and so then you get to see him this

916
00:48:28,320 --> 00:48:30,600
Speaker 1: upcoming year and you get to see him deal for

917
00:48:30,640 --> 00:48:35,360
Speaker 1: the first time with fighting complacency. But the good news

918
00:48:35,360 --> 00:48:37,960
Speaker 1: for them is so much of that team left. As

919
00:48:37,960 --> 00:48:40,440
Speaker 1: we've talked about, you got a bunch of people who

920
00:48:40,480 --> 00:48:42,320
Speaker 1: are going to start or at the very least contribute

921
00:48:42,320 --> 00:48:45,120
Speaker 1: for them this year that did not play an instrumental

922
00:48:45,200 --> 00:48:47,920
Speaker 1: role in winning that national title last year, Which just

923
00:48:48,000 --> 00:48:51,600
Speaker 1: means you get to figuratively, it's twenty twenty five, so

924
00:48:51,680 --> 00:48:54,479
Speaker 1: figuratively you get to grab folks by the shirt sleeve

925
00:48:54,520 --> 00:48:55,960
Speaker 1: in the locker room and say, what do you think

926
00:48:56,000 --> 00:48:58,680
Speaker 1: you've accomplished? If you got a bunch of returning starters.

927
00:48:58,719 --> 00:49:02,359
Speaker 1: It's harder to do that now. As much as we

928
00:49:02,440 --> 00:49:05,719
Speaker 1: may believe that Ohio State has to hit reset in

929
00:49:05,800 --> 00:49:09,520
Speaker 1: many ways, our friends at FanDuel, as Colin is showing

930
00:49:09,560 --> 00:49:11,840
Speaker 1: you on the screen right now, got him as the

931
00:49:11,840 --> 00:49:15,239
Speaker 1: favorite to win a national championship this year. You heard

932
00:49:15,280 --> 00:49:18,440
Speaker 1: me right, the favorite to win the whole thing. And

933
00:49:18,480 --> 00:49:21,399
Speaker 1: that is not just for cosmetics. That's not just something

934
00:49:21,400 --> 00:49:22,800
Speaker 1: that looks cute on the screen. You guys can go

935
00:49:22,840 --> 00:49:25,719
Speaker 1: to FanDuel right now and you can wager that. You

936
00:49:25,760 --> 00:49:29,480
Speaker 1: wager on that. If you want to me personally, let

937
00:49:29,520 --> 00:49:31,480
Speaker 1: me tell you what I did last night. Congrats to

938
00:49:31,520 --> 00:49:35,799
Speaker 1: Florida for winning the national title last night. I did

939
00:49:35,840 --> 00:49:39,520
Speaker 1: not get a wager down before the game. I wanted

940
00:49:39,560 --> 00:49:43,759
Speaker 1: to live bet it. Jesse, do you remember tip off

941
00:49:44,080 --> 00:49:49,160
Speaker 1: was Florida a slight favorite? Do you remember? Believe so? Okay,

942
00:49:49,239 --> 00:49:54,160
Speaker 1: thank you Jessein, he believes so I believe so as well. Anyway, irregardless,

943
00:49:54,200 --> 00:49:57,239
Speaker 1: as me mom would say, about ten twelve minutes to

944
00:49:57,280 --> 00:49:59,439
Speaker 1: go in the game, Florida's plus five and a half live.

945
00:49:59,480 --> 00:50:01,879
Speaker 1: They were down ten, they're plus five and a half live.

946
00:50:02,040 --> 00:50:04,080
Speaker 1: You can just you know, goodwell, Houston's not winning that

947
00:50:04,120 --> 00:50:06,719
Speaker 1: thing by double digits. So you know there is a

948
00:50:06,920 --> 00:50:10,760
Speaker 1: last ten minute of the game Florida charge coming. And look,

949
00:50:11,120 --> 00:50:13,799
Speaker 1: if anyone knows college basketball, I do. That's really the

950
00:50:13,840 --> 00:50:16,960
Speaker 1: main reason people tune into this show late tip, as

951
00:50:17,000 --> 00:50:18,480
Speaker 1: we like to call the show back in the day.

952
00:50:19,000 --> 00:50:21,960
Speaker 1: So I got down on Florida plus five and a half,

953
00:50:22,640 --> 00:50:25,359
Speaker 1: and promptly they go on a run and they take

954
00:50:25,400 --> 00:50:27,640
Speaker 1: the lead and they win it, and I put out

955
00:50:27,680 --> 00:50:31,239
Speaker 1: what I feel is some of my best work afterwards.

956
00:50:31,680 --> 00:50:36,560
Speaker 1: It's on the twitters at Josh Pate CFB. It's Canal related.

957
00:50:36,960 --> 00:50:38,640
Speaker 1: You just have to go check it out. But FanDuel

958
00:50:39,000 --> 00:50:41,520
Speaker 1: was where I wagered. This is what I was trying

959
00:50:41,560 --> 00:50:43,200
Speaker 1: to tell you. I got them plus five and a

960
00:50:43,200 --> 00:50:46,120
Speaker 1: half live over there. Appreciate them now that college basketball

961
00:50:46,160 --> 00:50:50,720
Speaker 1: season's over. If you want action on a college sport,

962
00:50:50,840 --> 00:50:54,320
Speaker 1: most likely you're looking at football. They've got no shortage

963
00:50:54,480 --> 00:50:57,600
Speaker 1: of options over there for you. The exclusive odds provider

964
00:50:57,600 --> 00:51:00,160
Speaker 1: of the show, and we appreciate them. Sign up up

965
00:51:00,200 --> 00:51:04,680
Speaker 1: for FanDuel at FanDuel dot com backslash CFB promotion must

966
00:51:04,719 --> 00:51:07,480
Speaker 1: be twenty one plus and present in select states for

967
00:51:07,640 --> 00:51:11,600
Speaker 1: Kansas in affiliation with Kansas Star Casino, or eighteen plus

968
00:51:11,600 --> 00:51:15,520
Speaker 1: and present in Washington, DC. First online real money wager

969
00:51:15,600 --> 00:51:20,120
Speaker 1: only ten dollars first deposit required. Bonus issued is non

970
00:51:20,160 --> 00:51:24,120
Speaker 1: withdrawable bonus bet that expires seven days after receipt. Do

971
00:51:24,160 --> 00:51:26,880
Speaker 1: you have a gambling problem? If so, call one eight

972
00:51:26,960 --> 00:51:31,919
Speaker 1: hundred gambler or visitfanduel dot com backslash RG call one

973
00:51:32,000 --> 00:51:35,120
Speaker 1: eight eight eight seven eight nine seven seven seven seven

974
00:51:35,480 --> 00:51:39,880
Speaker 1: or visit CCPG dot org backslash chat in Connecticut, or

975
00:51:39,960 --> 00:51:43,759
Speaker 1: visit MD Gamblinghelp dot org. In Maryland. Hope is here,

976
00:51:44,200 --> 00:51:48,000
Speaker 1: visit Gambling Helplinema dot org or call eight hundred three

977
00:51:48,000 --> 00:51:50,880
Speaker 1: two seven fifty fifty for twenty four seven support in

978
00:51:50,920 --> 00:51:54,440
Speaker 1: Massachusetts or call one eight seven seven eight Hope n

979
00:51:54,640 --> 00:51:58,959
Speaker 1: Y or text h op E N y in New York.

980
00:51:59,560 --> 00:52:02,160
Speaker 1: So what we've been doing in spring, because it's spring,

981
00:52:02,760 --> 00:52:07,160
Speaker 1: is we've been taking questions that we get that aren't

982
00:52:07,200 --> 00:52:10,440
Speaker 1: necessarily college football related, and we try and balance them.

983
00:52:10,440 --> 00:52:11,960
Speaker 1: We put him in the very back of the show

984
00:52:12,200 --> 00:52:17,160
Speaker 1: because one of the most common request we get is

985
00:52:17,200 --> 00:52:21,080
Speaker 1: to talk about stuff that's not necessarily related to college football,

986
00:52:21,320 --> 00:52:23,359
Speaker 1: and it's a bunch of different stuff, and I think

987
00:52:23,400 --> 00:52:25,320
Speaker 1: to myself, well, if I listen to this show, I

988
00:52:25,360 --> 00:52:28,000
Speaker 1: would be listening for college football. However, I know we've

989
00:52:28,000 --> 00:52:32,160
Speaker 1: got a massive, like evergreen year round audience that fuels

990
00:52:32,160 --> 00:52:34,279
Speaker 1: ownership in the show. So sometimes we'll put stuff at

991
00:52:34,280 --> 00:52:35,880
Speaker 1: the very end. I do it at the very end

992
00:52:35,880 --> 00:52:37,200
Speaker 1: so that if you don't care about this stuff, you

993
00:52:37,239 --> 00:52:40,120
Speaker 1: can tune now. But we had a question from Ralph,

994
00:52:40,160 --> 00:52:42,200
Speaker 1: and he said, I've been watching since day one. I

995
00:52:42,239 --> 00:52:44,160
Speaker 1: want to congratulate you on what you've done with the show.

996
00:52:44,400 --> 00:52:46,600
Speaker 1: How do you balance keeping on track of what you've

997
00:52:46,600 --> 00:52:49,360
Speaker 1: done to get here versus innovating and looking to do

998
00:52:49,440 --> 00:52:51,960
Speaker 1: new things, both with the show and with your career.

999
00:52:52,760 --> 00:52:57,439
Speaker 1: Very appreciative, Ralph of what you said. I think it's

1000
00:52:57,560 --> 00:52:59,520
Speaker 1: very easy to balance when this is all you do

1001
00:52:59,600 --> 00:53:02,200
Speaker 1: all day, so we're in it. We immerse ourselves in

1002
00:53:02,239 --> 00:53:06,319
Speaker 1: college football and college football related matters. Got a really

1003
00:53:06,360 --> 00:53:08,840
Speaker 1: good staff, so they stay on top of stuff so

1004
00:53:08,960 --> 00:53:11,680
Speaker 1: you don't have to you don't have to be over

1005
00:53:11,800 --> 00:53:16,040
Speaker 1: everyone's shoulder. But also you just shut up and listen.

1006
00:53:16,440 --> 00:53:20,239
Speaker 1: You listen to your audience. I don't necessarily know that

1007
00:53:20,239 --> 00:53:23,040
Speaker 1: that's revolutionary, but that's what we do. So there are

1008
00:53:23,040 --> 00:53:25,279
Speaker 1: things we'll try out every now and then, and you

1009
00:53:25,280 --> 00:53:27,399
Speaker 1: guys give us feedback. You don't like it, we don't

1010
00:53:27,480 --> 00:53:29,560
Speaker 1: do it. And then there's other stuff. We'll do it

1011
00:53:29,600 --> 00:53:31,239
Speaker 1: every now and then and you'll say, give us more

1012
00:53:31,239 --> 00:53:32,759
Speaker 1: of that, so we'll give you more of that. It's

1013
00:53:32,880 --> 00:53:35,719
Speaker 1: very simple, but I think the core of it is

1014
00:53:35,960 --> 00:53:38,799
Speaker 1: you got to remain authentic and you got to keep

1015
00:53:38,840 --> 00:53:42,080
Speaker 1: doing what it is people want. One of the best

1016
00:53:42,520 --> 00:53:45,279
Speaker 1: early teaching points I got. I was doing local radio

1017
00:53:45,360 --> 00:53:47,879
Speaker 1: a long time ago, and I did a show one day,

1018
00:53:48,480 --> 00:53:50,200
Speaker 1: and you could just tell I did a bunch of

1019
00:53:50,200 --> 00:53:53,279
Speaker 1: stuff on the show I wanted to talk about. To me,

1020
00:53:53,400 --> 00:53:57,719
Speaker 1: it was a great show, but the program director hit

1021
00:53:57,800 --> 00:54:01,600
Speaker 1: me and said, you stacked the show for yourself today,

1022
00:54:02,200 --> 00:54:04,320
Speaker 1: and he was right. I didn't even know what stack meant,

1023
00:54:04,360 --> 00:54:08,680
Speaker 1: but he was right, and I said yeah. He said, well,

1024
00:54:08,840 --> 00:54:11,919
Speaker 1: you're not the audience, You're not the reason you're on air.

1025
00:54:12,040 --> 00:54:14,880
Speaker 1: They are. You got to stack the show for the audience.

1026
00:54:15,760 --> 00:54:18,400
Speaker 1: And ever since then, I've done that, a stack the

1027
00:54:18,400 --> 00:54:21,040
Speaker 1: show for the audience. So a lot of stuff I

1028
00:54:21,080 --> 00:54:23,680
Speaker 1: may care about that rarely makes it on the show

1029
00:54:23,800 --> 00:54:27,080
Speaker 1: because of that. But Ralph, to answer your question, we

1030
00:54:27,360 --> 00:54:29,160
Speaker 1: keep doing that. You don't try and overthink the room.

1031
00:54:29,160 --> 00:54:31,920
Speaker 1: When I think innovation, I think getting a lot smarter

1032
00:54:32,040 --> 00:54:34,840
Speaker 1: with some of the technical aspects and behind the scenes stuff.

1033
00:54:35,160 --> 00:54:38,040
Speaker 1: But as far as overhaul and show, I'll tell you

1034
00:54:38,080 --> 00:54:40,400
Speaker 1: what we do do now that we have the access

1035
00:54:40,440 --> 00:54:42,799
Speaker 1: to do it is we don't come off the road

1036
00:54:42,840 --> 00:54:45,440
Speaker 1: all year. I mean I'm on the road all spring.

1037
00:54:45,840 --> 00:54:49,360
Speaker 1: I'm talking to as many people as we can all spring,

1038
00:54:49,440 --> 00:54:52,040
Speaker 1: go into as many practices as we can all spring.

1039
00:54:52,080 --> 00:54:55,080
Speaker 1: I'll go to another couple this week. That's a huge blessing.

1040
00:54:55,800 --> 00:54:57,640
Speaker 1: And they don't have to do that for us. And

1041
00:54:58,040 --> 00:55:01,120
Speaker 1: yet we got plenty good enough relationships with most of

1042
00:55:01,160 --> 00:55:04,360
Speaker 1: these places where they welcome us in and there's a

1043
00:55:04,440 --> 00:55:06,800
Speaker 1: trust factor there obviously that we won't run our mouths

1044
00:55:06,800 --> 00:55:09,680
Speaker 1: about what we see, but it does inform the conversation

1045
00:55:10,239 --> 00:55:14,919
Speaker 1: to where hopefully we make egregious errors less and less

1046
00:55:14,920 --> 00:55:18,279
Speaker 1: in predictions. But outside of that, you just kind of

1047
00:55:18,360 --> 00:55:20,719
Speaker 1: keep doing what you're doing. That doesn't mean being complacent

1048
00:55:20,760 --> 00:55:23,040
Speaker 1: at all when we want to be the best college

1049
00:55:23,040 --> 00:55:28,360
Speaker 1: football show there is, but it does mean not getting

1050
00:55:28,400 --> 00:55:30,920
Speaker 1: your product to a point where a lot of folks

1051
00:55:30,960 --> 00:55:33,719
Speaker 1: love it and then changing everything about it, like why

1052
00:55:33,719 --> 00:55:36,200
Speaker 1: would we do that? I especially feel that way about

1053
00:55:36,239 --> 00:55:39,600
Speaker 1: the wardrobe obviously, so I appreciate that Ralph and we

1054
00:55:39,640 --> 00:55:42,279
Speaker 1: get a lot of that privately, but just wanted to

1055
00:55:42,320 --> 00:55:45,839
Speaker 1: share that one, all right. Next show is Sunday. I

1056
00:55:45,840 --> 00:55:48,400
Speaker 1: have been told by our friends over to Gusta National

1057
00:55:48,719 --> 00:55:51,480
Speaker 1: that they do plan on wrapping the Masters up in

1058
00:55:51,560 --> 00:55:54,120
Speaker 1: time for us to go on air. Now, they've never

1059
00:55:54,239 --> 00:55:58,279
Speaker 1: lied to us before. It would be a first if

1060
00:55:58,320 --> 00:56:00,440
Speaker 1: they did it this year. I'm told the sun is

1061
00:56:00,520 --> 00:56:03,440
Speaker 1: roughly going to set in Augusta this year, the same

1062
00:56:03,440 --> 00:56:05,680
Speaker 1: time it does every year around this time in April,

1063
00:56:05,719 --> 00:56:08,040
Speaker 1: so we will do a show pretty much at the

1064
00:56:08,080 --> 00:56:10,319
Speaker 1: normal time Sunday. I'm gonna be able to road the

1065
00:56:10,320 --> 00:56:13,640
Speaker 1: rest of the week. Josh Pate CFB Instagram especially the

1066
00:56:13,680 --> 00:56:15,600
Speaker 1: story is a really good place to follow us there.

1067
00:56:15,880 --> 00:56:17,480
Speaker 1: Not all of it makes it on the show, so

1068
00:56:17,800 --> 00:56:19,919
Speaker 1: appreciate you guys, have a great rest of your week.

1069
00:56:19,960 --> 00:56:23,120
Speaker 1: For director column producer Jesse, I'm Josh Pate, take care

1070
00:56:23,200 --> 00:56:40,319
Speaker 1: and Doublass. Sign up for FanDuel atfanduel dot com backslash

1071
00:56:40,440 --> 00:56:43,600
Speaker 1: CFB promotion must be twenty one plus and present in

1072
00:56:43,640 --> 00:56:47,360
Speaker 1: select states for Kansas in affiliation with Kansas Star Casino

1073
00:56:47,800 --> 00:56:51,880
Speaker 1: or eighteen plus and present in Washington, DC. First online

1074
00:56:51,920 --> 00:56:56,560
Speaker 1: real money wager only ten dollars first deposit required. Bonus

1075
00:56:56,640 --> 00:56:59,799
Speaker 1: issued is non withdrawable bonus bet that expires seven days

1076
00:56:59,840 --> 00:57:03,560
Speaker 1: out a receipt. Do you have a gambling problem? If so,

1077
00:57:03,640 --> 00:57:07,680
Speaker 1: call one eight hundred gambler or visitfanduel dot com backslash

1078
00:57:07,800 --> 00:57:11,279
Speaker 1: RG call one eight eight eight seven eight nine seven

1079
00:57:11,400 --> 00:57:15,880
Speaker 1: seven seven seven, or visit CCPG dot org backslash chat

1080
00:57:15,880 --> 00:57:19,880
Speaker 1: in Connecticut, or visit MD Gamblinghelp dot org in Maryland.

1081
00:57:20,280 --> 00:57:23,800
Speaker 1: Hope is here, visit gambling Heelpline m A dot org

1082
00:57:24,160 --> 00:57:26,800
Speaker 1: or call eight hundred three two seven fifty fifty for

1083
00:57:26,880 --> 00:57:30,120
Speaker 1: twenty four seven support in Massachusetts or call one eight

1084
00:57:30,120 --> 00:57:33,560
Speaker 1: seven seven eight hope n Y, or text h O

1085
00:57:33,680 --> 00:57:36,240
Speaker 1: p e n y in New York