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Speaker 1: to live my life. This is the Late Kick Extra podcast.

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Speaker 1: I'm Josh pat. This is wall to wall mail bag.

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Speaker 1: We do it once a week, and it is Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: We got a loaded mail bag here. We're going all

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Speaker 1: but I wouldn't call you crazy. Their over under win

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Speaker 1: total is ten and while that's really high, that's as

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Speaker 1: low as it's been for Bama in a while. You're

431
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Speaker 1: coming off a year where they looked vulnerable, right, but

432
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Speaker 1: then what is vulnerable? They lost two games on the

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Speaker 1: last play of the game or they would have been

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Speaker 1: undefeated in the regular season, and we would have had

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Speaker 1: Bama versus This is Georgia in Atlanta. As I say that,

436
00:22:03,920 --> 00:22:05,960
Speaker 1: it kind of boggles the mind to think about that.

437
00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:10,000
Speaker 1: So we're coming into this year and I talked I

438
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Speaker 1: talked to you about this the other night on Late

439
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Speaker 1: Kick Live, and I'm going to reiterate it or reiterate it.

440
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Speaker 1: There's no in there. You can think that if you

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Speaker 1: want to. It is your constitutional right to doubt Alabama.

442
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Speaker 1: It is my constitutional duty to inform you. Out of

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Speaker 1: the six highest rated recruiting classes in all of history,

444
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Speaker 1: three of them are on Bama's campus right now. Do

445
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Speaker 1: you hear what I just said, not Bama History. Out

446
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Speaker 1: of the six highest rated recruiting classes in twenty four

447
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Speaker 1: to seven sports history, three of them twenty twenty three,

448
00:22:45,359 --> 00:22:48,640
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, and twenty twenty two Bama are on

449
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Speaker 1: campus in Tuscaloosa right now. Certainly, maybe there have been

450
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Speaker 1: pieces that have transferred or pieces that have not worked out,

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Speaker 1: but by and large, the core of those classes are

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Speaker 1: on campus. Alabama is so loaded. The only reason that

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Speaker 1: people are talking about them in such poverished terms is

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Speaker 1: because you're not grading Alabama against the standard of the

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Speaker 1: other teams in the country. You're thinking to yourself, I

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Speaker 1: don't know if twenty twenty three Alabama measures up to

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty Alabama twenty seventeen Alabama. Well, that's not who

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Speaker 1: they'll play this year. That's not who would keep them

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Speaker 1: out of the playoff. Ohio State or Georgia or Florida

460
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Speaker 1: State or USC. These are the teams that would keep

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Speaker 1: them out of the playoffs, presumably, So let's look at it.

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Speaker 1: I asked you the other night. I'll ask you again.

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Speaker 1: Is Michigan definitively better than Bama, Penn State, Ohio State, Georgia.

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Speaker 1: I don't know, because I've never seen Carson Beck start

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Speaker 1: a game. I don't know who's starting at quarterback for

466
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Speaker 1: Ohio State. We've never seen Drew Allers start a game.

467
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Speaker 1: We haven't seen USC play competent enough defense. So quickly,

468
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Speaker 1: have I listed four teams that you are sure are

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Speaker 1: going to be better than Bama this year? I can't

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Speaker 1: find four that I'm sure will be better. Now I

471
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Speaker 1: could paint you a path where they don't make it.

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Speaker 1: It didn't happen last year. I thought they were the

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Speaker 1: best team in the country last year going into the season.

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Speaker 1: So it's not like it's foolproof or anything like that.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, I would be very careful doubting them now.

476
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Speaker 1: The one thing they have that flies in the face

477
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Speaker 1: of the dumbest argument on Twitter is they have a

478
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Speaker 1: tough schedule, and they most of the time do have

479
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Speaker 1: a tough schedule. And Twitter would convince you Obama doesn't

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Speaker 1: play anyone like, you're just wrong. It's not even opinion,

481
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Speaker 1: you're just wrong. The sky is purple. No it's not. Well,

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Speaker 1: that's your opinion, bro, No, it's blue. I can assure

483
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Speaker 1: you it's blue. They play Texas in week two, they

484
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Speaker 1: got Old Miss at home, they got back to backs

485
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Speaker 1: on the road Mississippi State, and then at A and M.

486
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Speaker 1: They play Arkansas Tennessee back to back. Then before the

487
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Speaker 1: bye week and after the buy LSU comes to town

488
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Speaker 1: before they finish up with road games at Kentuck at Auburn.

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Speaker 1: It's a tough schedule. You may listen to that and say, oh,

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Speaker 1: Auburn's not going to be good this year. You try

491
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Speaker 1: being a rival of Auburn and playing in Jurdenhair Stadium.

492
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Speaker 1: When do they ever get blown out? In that spot,

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Speaker 1: it far more likely is there'll be a double digit

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Speaker 1: underdog and take you to the wire. So Bama's got

495
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Speaker 1: a tough schedule, yet they still have the second best

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Speaker 1: odds to win the National Championship this year. So remember

497
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Speaker 1: what I just said. Bama's got three of the highest

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Speaker 1: rated recruiting classes in history on campus right now. They've

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Speaker 1: got the second best odds in the country to win

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Speaker 1: the National Championship. But we've got folks out there doubting them.

501
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Speaker 1: Here's the reality. The reality is if I took Alabama's

502
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Speaker 1: roster and I put Florida State uniforms on them, they

503
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Speaker 1: would be the popular pick to win the National Championship

504
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Speaker 1: coast to coast. And the reason is because your mind

505
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Speaker 1: would work differently. If it were Florida State, you would

506
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Speaker 1: accurately judge the roster just on how it compares to

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Speaker 1: the rest of the country. But when it's Bama, you

508
00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:06,280
Speaker 1: mistakenly start to compare it to past Bama teams, and

509
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Speaker 1: if it doesn't measure up to pass Bama teams, you think, uh,

510
00:26:09,280 --> 00:26:17,040
Speaker 1: oh weakness, oh wobbly tire. Not necessarily, not necessarily, Let's

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Speaker 1: move along. I know you can't see this, and I

512
00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:21,480
Speaker 1: don't have it in a chalice, but I do have

513
00:26:21,600 --> 00:26:25,960
Speaker 1: the choice liquid in just a regular old plastic cup here,

514
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Speaker 1: So for for old time's sake, even though it's something

515
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Speaker 1: we do every week, I'm gonna take a little sip

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Speaker 1: out of it, So hang tight with me. I tried

517
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Speaker 1: to slurp so that you could hear it. Immunity, let's

518
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Speaker 1: move on here. From Edmund, Oklahoma, CFB Community asked which

519
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Speaker 1: aspect of the sport do you think fans may take

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Speaker 1: most for granted. First off, I've got an issue an apology.

521
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Speaker 1: So I was watching the show the other night. I

522
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Speaker 1: was watching a replay of the show, because we're just sadistic,

523
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Speaker 1: that's what we do. And I said, take for granted,

524
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Speaker 1: clear as day I said it, And I know that

525
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Speaker 1: it's not granted like the rock granted. I know it's

526
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Speaker 1: not that, but I've always said it that way. I

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00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:11,280
Speaker 1: spell it the right way, but I've always said it

528
00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:14,800
Speaker 1: the right way. I'll tell you another one. Blessing in disguise.

529
00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:17,760
Speaker 1: I always say really fast, and it sounds like blessing

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Speaker 1: in these skies. And I know it's not that they're

531
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Speaker 1: called malapropisms. I've got a whole list of them in

532
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Speaker 1: the eye Josh, So my apologies for that. Good I

533
00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:31,960
Speaker 1: was checking a Google dot for something. All right, we're set.

534
00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:34,880
Speaker 1: So anyway back to the question, what do you take

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Speaker 1: for granted? Huh. I've got a theory, but you've really

536
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Speaker 1: got to tell me what it is, because I mean,

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Speaker 1: I don't know each and every one of you at

538
00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:47,280
Speaker 1: a cellular level, so I don't know your thoughts and feelings.

539
00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:49,639
Speaker 1: I know some of them, but I can't boil it

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Speaker 1: down like this. Here's what I think, and this is

541
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Speaker 1: a general sense. I actually think our audience may be

542
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Speaker 1: exempt from what I'm about to say, But in a

543
00:27:57,560 --> 00:28:02,119
Speaker 1: general sense, I think college football fans, the more casual fans,

544
00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:06,120
Speaker 1: they take Saturday for granted because college football just happens

545
00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:10,840
Speaker 1: on Saturday. So they've never they've never known Saturday not

546
00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:13,720
Speaker 1: being the center of the college football universe. This sounds

547
00:28:13,800 --> 00:28:15,760
Speaker 1: kind of dumb if you don't know where I'm going

548
00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:17,359
Speaker 1: with it, And if you're new around here, you don't

549
00:28:17,359 --> 00:28:19,320
Speaker 1: know where I'm going with this. If you have been

550
00:28:19,359 --> 00:28:21,399
Speaker 1: around for a while, you're probably yawning because you know

551
00:28:21,400 --> 00:28:24,040
Speaker 1: what I'm about to say. Thank you for sticking with me. Though,

552
00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:29,639
Speaker 1: Saturday is everything in college football, and it's not just

553
00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:34,800
Speaker 1: the day we play the sport Saturday meaning the regular season.

554
00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:38,160
Speaker 1: Really people can take the regular season for granted because

555
00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:42,240
Speaker 1: they've always known that college football Saturdays are just crazy,

556
00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:45,880
Speaker 1: and they think that that just is like college football

557
00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:48,520
Speaker 1: was born that way and it just always will be

558
00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:50,280
Speaker 1: that way, and you can make any kind of change

559
00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:52,840
Speaker 1: to the sport you want, but it doesn't matter, cause

560
00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:56,560
Speaker 1: Saturday will always be crystallized as what it has been

561
00:28:56,680 --> 00:28:59,440
Speaker 1: for you growing up. And I just have to tell

562
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Speaker 1: you that's not automatic. There's a reason Saturday feels like

563
00:29:04,160 --> 00:29:06,680
Speaker 1: it does. Even if you're an NFL fan, you'll admit

564
00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:12,080
Speaker 1: Saturday college football feels way different than anything you watch

565
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Speaker 1: on Sunday. Not because the level of play is higher,

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Speaker 1: not because more people are watching necessarily, but it's because

567
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Speaker 1: the stakes, It's because the urgency, it's because the atmosphere

568
00:29:25,720 --> 00:29:27,840
Speaker 1: is way different. It's like nothing else we have in

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Speaker 1: all of American sports. Why is that, Well, it's obviously

570
00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:33,080
Speaker 1: been tied to the fact that the structure of the

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Speaker 1: sport is different, and because of the sport's always been

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Speaker 1: that way. To some degree or another, we have in

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Speaker 1: some cases come to take that for granted, and we shouldn't.

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Speaker 1: And that's one of the big fears I've had forever

575
00:29:47,680 --> 00:29:51,080
Speaker 1: and always will is changes being made to the sport

576
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Speaker 1: that take the importance away from Saturdays in the fall,

577
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Speaker 1: and it restructures it to where Saturdays in the fall

578
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Speaker 1: are like an appetizer for whatever the main courses, because

579
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Speaker 1: there is no main course you're going to deliver me

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Speaker 1: that tops what Saturdays in the fall have come to

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Speaker 1: mean to me. There was another question. I didn't put

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Speaker 1: it in the show today, but there was another question

583
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Speaker 1: someone asked that went like this. It went, you love

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Speaker 1: college football? Is there anything out there that could make

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Speaker 1: you just throw your hands up and walk away from

586
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Speaker 1: the sport? And I thought about that. I couldn't really

587
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Speaker 1: come up with anything. I'm sure there's something, but realistically,

588
00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:28,600
Speaker 1: like what could happen to the sport to make me

589
00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:31,440
Speaker 1: just give up college football? But the thing that would

590
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Speaker 1: come closest to it, or the thing that would just

591
00:30:34,480 --> 00:30:36,840
Speaker 1: drive me up a wall and make me really not

592
00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:40,479
Speaker 1: passionate about it anymore, would be if we woke up

593
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Speaker 1: one day in twenty years and fall Saturdays were just,

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Speaker 1: you know, they were just there, like a regular season

595
00:30:48,040 --> 00:30:51,840
Speaker 1: NBA game. Yeah, people go to it. Yeah it's entertaining.

596
00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:53,560
Speaker 1: Yeah you can bet on it and have fun with it.

597
00:30:53,640 --> 00:30:55,240
Speaker 1: Yeah you can talk about it with your buddies. But

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Speaker 1: no one really cares about Sixers Magic in mid December. No,

599
00:31:00,000 --> 00:31:03,400
Speaker 1: no one talks about that game a month after it happens.

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Speaker 1: Doesn't matter if it is the greatest triple overtime thriller

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00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:11,280
Speaker 1: you see all year, it's irrelevant because it doesn't make

602
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Speaker 1: a difference like a regular season Major League Baseball game.

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00:31:14,200 --> 00:31:17,960
Speaker 1: It's entertaining. I watch most of the Braves games, but

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Speaker 1: that's me because I'm a Braves fan. To envision someone

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Speaker 1: making an appointment television in Laredo, Texas to watch Braves

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Speaker 1: Mariners in the middle of July the third leg of

607
00:31:30,640 --> 00:31:35,120
Speaker 1: a four game road stretch is insane. Of course, it's

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Speaker 1: not must see because it doesn't matter because they're going

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Speaker 1: to play one hundred and sixty one more of them.

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Speaker 1: In college football, if we were to ever get to

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Speaker 1: the point where you knew that the expanded postseason made

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Speaker 1: it such that there were many teams that can lose

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Speaker 1: three or if we expand further than twelve, they could

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Speaker 1: even lose four games and still make the playoff. Would

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Speaker 1: that would have watered down the regular season to the

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Speaker 1: point where Saturdays would really not mean anything close to

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Speaker 1: what they've meant in the past. I mean, I was

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Speaker 1: at the gym earlier, and the NBA is a different beast,

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Speaker 1: and I'm not about telling any sport how to run itself.

620
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Speaker 1: This is just an example. I saw stat on the

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Speaker 1: bottom line where Jesse, what is it like the Lakers

622
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Speaker 1: are one of very few teams to make the conference

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Speaker 1: finals after being seven games below five hundred in the

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Speaker 1: regular season or something like that. I want you to

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Speaker 1: think about that for a second. The group of people

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Speaker 1: pro sports fans that come to us regularly and lecture

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Speaker 1: us about how to best format our sport are glorifying

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Speaker 1: as we speak, a team being seven games below five

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Speaker 1: hundred in the regular season, but it's cool because they're

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Speaker 1: in their conference finals. Well, that's cool for the conference finals,

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Speaker 1: but it makes your regular season completely laughable, and that

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Speaker 1: would drive me away from college football. Now. Of course,

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Speaker 1: no sub five hundred team's going to win a national

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Speaker 1: champion in college football, but the equivalent of that would

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Speaker 1: be like a four loss team being put in a

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Speaker 1: position to make a run. You play twelve games, in

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Speaker 1: no way should you ever be able to lose a

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Speaker 1: third of them and have a shot to win a

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Speaker 1: national championship. That's just my take on the matter. Next up, Dublin, Georgia,

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00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:23,040
Speaker 1: is where Menas Pickens hails from, of course, and he

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Speaker 1: asks with the expanded playoff inevitably, oh man, inevitably Menas

642
00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:33,080
Speaker 1: asks with the expanded playoff inevitably arriving next year. Is

643
00:33:33,120 --> 00:33:38,120
Speaker 1: the SEC just guaranteed three teams every single year? No,

644
00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:44,200
Speaker 1: they're not, they are not. It increases the likelihood, of course, mathematically,

645
00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:46,760
Speaker 1: that you could have three SEC teams. This is a

646
00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:48,800
Speaker 1: fear that a lot of people nationally have, and I

647
00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:51,520
Speaker 1: understand why you should have this fear, by the way,

648
00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:55,239
Speaker 1: and the fear is we're gonna have twelve teams, right,

649
00:33:55,280 --> 00:33:58,240
Speaker 1: and you got six auto bids, so six of them

650
00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:00,479
Speaker 1: will be conference champs, one of them will be the

651
00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:04,240
Speaker 1: SEC champ, so there's one in every year. Then you

652
00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:07,240
Speaker 1: have another half dozen spots that are going to be

653
00:34:07,280 --> 00:34:10,920
Speaker 1: at larges, which means it just goes to the next

654
00:34:11,040 --> 00:34:14,880
Speaker 1: highest ranked teams. Right, And it is true that if

655
00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:17,200
Speaker 1: you go back in recent history and you look at

656
00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:21,160
Speaker 1: the final rankings before bowl selection. Yeah, there are a

657
00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:25,520
Speaker 1: lot of years where you're random Florida or LSU or

658
00:34:25,640 --> 00:34:29,000
Speaker 1: Arkansas or whoever. We'll just be hanging out up there

659
00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:32,200
Speaker 1: at like number ten with two losses, or in some

660
00:34:32,239 --> 00:34:35,440
Speaker 1: cases you could have three losses if they're to Georgia

661
00:34:35,480 --> 00:34:38,160
Speaker 1: and LSU and Bama and those are your only three losses.

662
00:34:38,400 --> 00:34:39,800
Speaker 1: You could be a three loss team and still be

663
00:34:39,840 --> 00:34:42,759
Speaker 1: ranked like eleven or twelve. And it's true that in

664
00:34:42,440 --> 00:34:46,200
Speaker 1: some past years you would have had three SEC teams

665
00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:49,880
Speaker 1: in the playoff and then what happens, Well, what happens

666
00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:52,560
Speaker 1: is it's not just SEC. See that's where I think

667
00:34:52,560 --> 00:34:56,360
Speaker 1: the question is only halfway written. The follow up should

668
00:34:56,360 --> 00:35:00,120
Speaker 1: be how many SEC and Big ten teams are are

669
00:35:00,120 --> 00:35:02,480
Speaker 1: you going to get in there? Because that should be

670
00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:06,080
Speaker 1: your bigger concern If you want a healthy balance for

671
00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:09,640
Speaker 1: the sport, your bigger concern should be, well, what if

672
00:35:09,960 --> 00:35:12,759
Speaker 1: the Big ten and the SEC champ are in and

673
00:35:12,800 --> 00:35:15,759
Speaker 1: then we get three teams from the Big ten any

674
00:35:15,800 --> 00:35:18,640
Speaker 1: given year? And then we get two or three teams

675
00:35:18,640 --> 00:35:22,120
Speaker 1: from the SEC any given year, and like the entire

676
00:35:22,239 --> 00:35:25,160
Speaker 1: at large pool is just a bunch of Big ten

677
00:35:25,200 --> 00:35:28,920
Speaker 1: in SEC and maybe you throw like an ACC or

678
00:35:28,920 --> 00:35:31,000
Speaker 1: a PAC twelve in there, but by and large the

679
00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:34,880
Speaker 1: majority will be from two conferences. Well, here's what's also

680
00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:38,800
Speaker 1: gonna happen. The first round games are going to start

681
00:35:38,800 --> 00:35:42,640
Speaker 1: to filter out the lesser teams, and so mathematically you

682
00:35:42,760 --> 00:35:47,440
Speaker 1: have a much larger chance of seeing quarterfinal semi final

683
00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:51,319
Speaker 1: championships with Big ten versus SEC, or Big ten versus

684
00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:56,080
Speaker 1: Big ten, or SEC versus SEC. And I don't mean

685
00:35:56,120 --> 00:35:58,720
Speaker 1: this to be an entire podcast that rails against playoff expansion.

686
00:35:58,719 --> 00:36:01,360
Speaker 1: It's coming. Can't do anything about it. I'm just saying

687
00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:03,439
Speaker 1: a lot of people who are excited about this thing.

688
00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:07,600
Speaker 1: I want to talk to you when you're watching Ohio

689
00:36:07,760 --> 00:36:10,160
Speaker 1: State versus Penn State in a semi final game, or

690
00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:14,960
Speaker 1: you're watching Bama versus Georgia. In some cases, these teams

691
00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:17,520
Speaker 1: could play three times in a year by the way

692
00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:21,799
Speaker 1: they could play regular season, they could play conference championship game,

693
00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:25,759
Speaker 1: and they could face off again in the playoff. Does

694
00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:29,960
Speaker 1: that feel like the college football you really want? I

695
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:32,839
Speaker 1: don't personally want it that way, but I will warn

696
00:36:32,920 --> 00:36:36,440
Speaker 1: you now we are headed towards that direction. You're probably

697
00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:39,600
Speaker 1: also looking at a situation where the first years of

698
00:36:39,640 --> 00:36:42,719
Speaker 1: the playoff are going to be the most balanced. This

699
00:36:42,760 --> 00:36:47,440
Speaker 1: is another uncomfortable truth. There's a theory out there, and candidly,

700
00:36:47,520 --> 00:36:49,560
Speaker 1: I hope you guys are right about this and I'm wrong,

701
00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:52,640
Speaker 1: but I think I'm right. There is this world out there.

702
00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:55,680
Speaker 1: There's this theory out there where we get to the

703
00:36:55,719 --> 00:36:59,560
Speaker 1: playoff right, and then more teams get access and more

704
00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:04,080
Speaker 1: conference is get represented, and therefore it distributes the money

705
00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:09,360
Speaker 1: more evenly, and then recruiting evens out cause more players

706
00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:11,960
Speaker 1: will go more places. Now I've told you that's not

707
00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:14,719
Speaker 1: the way it's going to work, because I talk to

708
00:37:14,840 --> 00:37:19,560
Speaker 1: kids constantly and they never mentioned playoff access as the

709
00:37:19,640 --> 00:37:23,120
Speaker 1: reason why they're picking a school. They just don't. I know,

710
00:37:23,160 --> 00:37:25,880
Speaker 1: it's something you want to be true, that doesn't make

711
00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:30,799
Speaker 1: it true. And the other thing is these conferences are

712
00:37:30,840 --> 00:37:33,960
Speaker 1: the ones that cash in when it comes to playoff revenue.

713
00:37:34,320 --> 00:37:36,719
Speaker 1: So Ohio State makes the playoff and the Big ten

714
00:37:36,760 --> 00:37:39,279
Speaker 1: gets a check, and then it gets distributed over the

715
00:37:39,360 --> 00:37:42,719
Speaker 1: fourteen or sixteen member institutions. So like, if the Pac

716
00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:46,880
Speaker 1: twelve gets Oregon in the playoff, that's wonderful. Do you

717
00:37:47,040 --> 00:37:49,840
Speaker 1: think it's less likely or more likely that while the

718
00:37:49,880 --> 00:37:52,839
Speaker 1: Pac twelve gets one, team in the SEC could get three,

719
00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:55,279
Speaker 1: or the Big ten could get three, and therefore they

720
00:37:55,360 --> 00:37:58,040
Speaker 1: triple their revenue. And that's stacked on top of an

721
00:37:58,040 --> 00:38:04,120
Speaker 1: already gargantually bigger media rights deal. The rich just get richer,

722
00:38:04,719 --> 00:38:07,919
Speaker 1: the haves just get heavier, the have nots just get

723
00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:11,680
Speaker 1: have naughtier. Do not look up websters to back me

724
00:38:11,800 --> 00:38:15,680
Speaker 1: up on those those pronunciations. But my point there is

725
00:38:16,400 --> 00:38:19,080
Speaker 1: it will only get worse, like the divide will only

726
00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:24,080
Speaker 1: get bigger. My theory is your best shot at having

727
00:38:24,200 --> 00:38:26,759
Speaker 1: some kind of equity in the playoff will be in

728
00:38:26,800 --> 00:38:30,080
Speaker 1: the early playoff versions, because the further we get down

729
00:38:30,080 --> 00:38:34,080
Speaker 1: that road, the more sharply the divide is gonna show,

730
00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:36,839
Speaker 1: and the more likely you will have super teams from

731
00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:39,520
Speaker 1: super conferences, and therefore they'll just swallow up all the

732
00:38:40,040 --> 00:38:43,240
Speaker 1: playoff food and you'll be left over there with crumbs.

733
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Speaker 1: I hate it, but this is the direction we chose

734
00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:51,200
Speaker 1: to go. It's a very it's not a negative podcast

735
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:56,000
Speaker 1: per se, but we've just had consecutive questions here that

736
00:38:56,080 --> 00:38:59,920
Speaker 1: have taken me down a negative road. And look, I apologize,

737
00:39:00,120 --> 00:39:02,680
Speaker 1: I really do. Look, here's the trade off and you're

738
00:39:02,680 --> 00:39:05,000
Speaker 1: gonna have to picture this, Okay. I'm going to do

739
00:39:05,000 --> 00:39:08,080
Speaker 1: a magic trick for you, an audible magic trick, and

740
00:39:08,120 --> 00:39:09,759
Speaker 1: it has nothing to do with the ad toss. I'm

741
00:39:09,760 --> 00:39:11,680
Speaker 1: not throwing that at you right now. So I'm doing

742
00:39:11,680 --> 00:39:14,279
Speaker 1: something with my hand right now, and it looks like

743
00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:18,000
Speaker 1: I'm taking one hand from behind the front hand and

744
00:39:18,040 --> 00:39:21,400
Speaker 1: then passing my backhand through my front hand, and it

745
00:39:21,480 --> 00:39:23,839
Speaker 1: is so crazy and I wish you guys could see

746
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:25,840
Speaker 1: it right now, but you can't. So I may do

747
00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:28,760
Speaker 1: it on air one day, but right now, the problem

748
00:39:28,840 --> 00:39:31,920
Speaker 1: is I have these nasty looking callouses because I've been

749
00:39:31,960 --> 00:39:36,560
Speaker 1: doing a lot of deadlifts and I'm frankly ashamed of

750
00:39:36,640 --> 00:39:39,680
Speaker 1: how my palms look at the moment. These are called

751
00:39:39,719 --> 00:39:42,640
Speaker 1: poverty palms, and I don't like it. It looks like

752
00:39:42,719 --> 00:39:44,680
Speaker 1: I've been doing some things that I wouldn't like to

753
00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:46,759
Speaker 1: tell Memo about on the street to make ends meet

754
00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:48,799
Speaker 1: right now. And it's not good. It's just not good

755
00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:51,680
Speaker 1: at all, all right. Zach is next up, Save Me. Zach.

756
00:39:53,040 --> 00:39:56,600
Speaker 1: Zach is from Ottawa, Canada, and he asks how would

757
00:39:56,680 --> 00:39:59,800
Speaker 1: you grow or expose the game of college football in Canada?

758
00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:02,239
Speaker 1: This goes right in line with that question we had

759
00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:06,080
Speaker 1: the other day about how should we feel about college

760
00:40:06,120 --> 00:40:11,080
Speaker 1: football teams playing games in international markets. Remember we were

761
00:40:11,120 --> 00:40:13,360
Speaker 1: talking about like Notre Dame is going to play in Dublin.

762
00:40:13,640 --> 00:40:16,319
Speaker 1: That's kind of an exemption, Like it makes perfect sense

763
00:40:16,360 --> 00:40:19,160
Speaker 1: that Notre Dame would play over there. But I did

764
00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:23,239
Speaker 1: not need to see Northwestern and Nebraska play wherever in

765
00:40:23,239 --> 00:40:25,960
Speaker 1: the world it is that they played last year. So anyway,

766
00:40:27,560 --> 00:40:30,280
Speaker 1: how would we grow the game in Canada? It's pretty simple,

767
00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:33,799
Speaker 1: show off the game in Canada. That doesn't mean take

768
00:40:33,840 --> 00:40:36,879
Speaker 1: college football games to Canada. So I was asking Jesse

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00:40:37,000 --> 00:40:39,879
Speaker 1: earlier if he knows what the Iditarod is. The Iditarod

770
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:43,520
Speaker 1: is that dog sled race. I've never attended it, always

771
00:40:43,520 --> 00:40:46,000
Speaker 1: been a little fascinated by it. But the point is,

772
00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:49,560
Speaker 1: I grew up in rural Georgia. How did I know

773
00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:52,160
Speaker 1: about the Iditarod. I don't even know if I'm pronouncing

774
00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:53,959
Speaker 1: it right, but I know what it is. I knew

775
00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:58,000
Speaker 1: about it because it got put in front of me somehow.

776
00:40:58,239 --> 00:41:00,480
Speaker 1: I either read about it or I saw it on TV,

777
00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:03,239
Speaker 1: or I saw it on the news. But they did

778
00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:07,239
Speaker 1: not run the Iditarod in central Georgia. That's what they

779
00:41:07,280 --> 00:41:10,560
Speaker 1: didn't do because that would make no sense because the

780
00:41:10,600 --> 00:41:13,920
Speaker 1: elements that are unique to the Iditarod you have to

781
00:41:13,960 --> 00:41:19,520
Speaker 1: find in Canada. So with college football, would it be

782
00:41:19,600 --> 00:41:23,560
Speaker 1: smart for me to take Texas versus Oklahoma and play

783
00:41:23,560 --> 00:41:26,920
Speaker 1: it in Saskatchewan one year or would it be smarter

784
00:41:27,400 --> 00:41:30,160
Speaker 1: for me to make sure we get the Texas OU

785
00:41:30,239 --> 00:41:34,480
Speaker 1: game in front of people in Saskatchewan as it's played

786
00:41:34,520 --> 00:41:37,600
Speaker 1: in Dallas. I think the latter is the much more

787
00:41:37,640 --> 00:41:41,440
Speaker 1: savvy marketing technique. Now here's the reality. You're not going

788
00:41:41,520 --> 00:41:45,600
Speaker 1: to catch a ton of Canadians in that marketing net.

789
00:41:45,680 --> 00:41:49,960
Speaker 1: But that's okay. That's okay. What you will do is

790
00:41:50,000 --> 00:41:53,160
Speaker 1: you will find pockets of people who really love it.

791
00:41:53,160 --> 00:41:56,760
Speaker 1: It's the same with EPL soccer, the English Premier League

792
00:41:57,040 --> 00:42:01,160
Speaker 1: in America. There are pockets of people who watch that stuff.

793
00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:03,080
Speaker 1: They're folks who wake up at like seven am on

794
00:42:03,120 --> 00:42:06,520
Speaker 1: Sunday morning and they're watching Manchester United. I'm not one

795
00:42:06,560 --> 00:42:09,319
Speaker 1: of them, but I will tell you this, I don't

796
00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:11,840
Speaker 1: think any of those folks are watching man you because

797
00:42:11,880 --> 00:42:14,480
Speaker 1: they came and played a friendly in Charlotte, North Carolina,

798
00:42:14,840 --> 00:42:17,600
Speaker 1: although I know they actually do that sometimes. That is

799
00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:22,840
Speaker 1: not what grabs an American audience. Okay, the Iditarod is

800
00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:25,239
Speaker 1: an Alaskan event, point being it somewhere in the north

801
00:42:25,239 --> 00:42:28,400
Speaker 1: where it's cold and it snows a lot. True. Yes, true.

802
00:42:29,719 --> 00:42:33,440
Speaker 1: So with college football, there are elements of college football

803
00:42:33,480 --> 00:42:36,560
Speaker 1: that would appeal to anyone if they were presented with

804
00:42:36,680 --> 00:42:39,040
Speaker 1: it in the right way. Now, I don't care if

805
00:42:39,080 --> 00:42:43,160
Speaker 1: you live in Alaska, or you live in Cariboo, Maine,

806
00:42:43,160 --> 00:42:44,719
Speaker 1: even though that's way up north it's not a college

807
00:42:44,719 --> 00:42:47,840
Speaker 1: football market, or you live in Toronto or Montreal, or

808
00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:51,640
Speaker 1: you live in Calgary. If you were to have properly

809
00:42:51,680 --> 00:42:54,720
Speaker 1: put in front of you the spectacle of an LSU

810
00:42:54,840 --> 00:42:59,680
Speaker 1: night game and all the pageantry and tradition and noise

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00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:04,000
Speaker 1: and colors and intensity, you don't have to know a

812
00:43:04,080 --> 00:43:07,600
Speaker 1: thing about Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and you don't have to

813
00:43:07,600 --> 00:43:09,759
Speaker 1: have ever been there for that to make you go

814
00:43:10,040 --> 00:43:13,400
Speaker 1: wow wow. Now you may not follow it as hardcore

815
00:43:13,440 --> 00:43:17,880
Speaker 1: as someone from Thibodaux, Louisiana, but man, next time it's on,

816
00:43:18,400 --> 00:43:20,080
Speaker 1: you may make it a point to go find it.

817
00:43:21,400 --> 00:43:23,919
Speaker 1: That's how I would do it. I wouldn't think. Here's

818
00:43:23,960 --> 00:43:26,279
Speaker 1: what I wouldn't do. I wouldn't go into it saying, Okay,

819
00:43:26,360 --> 00:43:28,680
Speaker 1: the only way we succeed here is if every Canadian

820
00:43:28,719 --> 00:43:31,680
Speaker 1: is watching college football. No, but you do you do.

821
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Speaker 1: Go find the hot leads as they call them in sales,

822
00:43:34,320 --> 00:43:36,680
Speaker 1: Go find the people who it would appeal to if

823
00:43:36,680 --> 00:43:38,440
Speaker 1: only it were put in front of them, and make

824
00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:40,560
Speaker 1: sure it gets put in front of them. How do

825
00:43:40,600 --> 00:43:44,360
Speaker 1: you do that? That's a question for marketers, for people

826
00:43:44,400 --> 00:43:47,719
Speaker 1: in that sphere to answer. That's no different than I

827
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Speaker 1: figure out how I do this bullseye on the ad

828
00:43:55,520 --> 00:43:59,759
Speaker 1: toss out of nowhere? Next up, got a good question here.

829
00:44:00,360 --> 00:44:05,560
Speaker 1: Question from associate Bradley's hometown of Montgomery, Alabama. Clint asks

830
00:44:06,120 --> 00:44:09,239
Speaker 1: Billy Napier and Britain Venables started at blue blood programs

831
00:44:09,320 --> 00:44:12,040
Speaker 1: the same year. They finished with the same record. In

832
00:44:12,120 --> 00:44:15,960
Speaker 1: year one, both had their sheriff struggles. Who achieves success

833
00:44:16,000 --> 00:44:19,719
Speaker 1: first at his current program and how is that success defined?

834
00:44:21,000 --> 00:44:24,160
Speaker 1: Pretty good question because I think that the expectation level

835
00:44:24,200 --> 00:44:28,320
Speaker 1: at Oklahoma and Florida is comparable. They have had comparable

836
00:44:28,440 --> 00:44:33,080
Speaker 1: levels of success. They've both contended for national championships. When

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00:44:33,120 --> 00:44:36,400
Speaker 1: they're operating at peak efficiency, they should both be competing

838
00:44:36,440 --> 00:44:39,200
Speaker 1: for conference championships. They should both be putting kids in

839
00:44:39,200 --> 00:44:41,640
Speaker 1: the NFL. They should both be recruiting in the top ten.

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00:44:43,320 --> 00:44:46,359
Speaker 1: So that's how I would define success. First off, You've

841
00:44:46,360 --> 00:44:48,399
Speaker 1: got to be in the mix. That's how I would

842
00:44:48,400 --> 00:44:51,959
Speaker 1: define success. And by the mix, I don't mean trying

843
00:44:52,000 --> 00:44:54,000
Speaker 1: to reach a bowl game. I mean be in the

844
00:44:54,040 --> 00:44:56,840
Speaker 1: mix in November when we're talking about that playoff picture

845
00:44:56,880 --> 00:44:59,600
Speaker 1: and that big twelve an SEC championship picture, your name

846
00:44:59,640 --> 00:45:02,520
Speaker 1: needs to be at forefront. Neither of them are there.

847
00:45:03,280 --> 00:45:05,919
Speaker 1: But it's only year two. We're going into year two

848
00:45:05,920 --> 00:45:09,120
Speaker 1: for each of these coaches. I think Oklahoma's closer, a

849
00:45:09,160 --> 00:45:12,800
Speaker 1: lot closer number one, because I don't think the rebuild

850
00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:17,399
Speaker 1: project was quite as extensive for Brenton Vinnables, although it

851
00:45:17,640 --> 00:45:20,400
Speaker 1: was a little more extensive than the public led you

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00:45:20,440 --> 00:45:24,960
Speaker 1: to believe. So balance that statement. He had a tougher

853
00:45:25,040 --> 00:45:29,000
Speaker 1: task at hand, in other words, than the preview magazine

854
00:45:29,000 --> 00:45:33,399
Speaker 1: cultures told you he did at Florida. Napier's just got

855
00:45:33,400 --> 00:45:37,160
Speaker 1: along road ho and it shows in the odds market

856
00:45:37,640 --> 00:45:40,520
Speaker 1: the preseason win total for Oklahoma's nine and a half

857
00:45:40,560 --> 00:45:43,200
Speaker 1: this year. Like Vegas expects them to be really good

858
00:45:43,239 --> 00:45:46,080
Speaker 1: this year. The preseason win total for Florida is five

859
00:45:46,120 --> 00:45:49,399
Speaker 1: and a half. Vegas doesn't think they're close this year.

860
00:45:49,840 --> 00:45:52,680
Speaker 1: The quarterback situation is much better at Oklahoma. Not only

861
00:45:52,680 --> 00:45:55,160
Speaker 1: do you have Dylan Gabriel coming back, you just got

862
00:45:55,200 --> 00:45:58,520
Speaker 1: the Elite eleven winner and Jackson Arnold, five star kid.

863
00:45:58,719 --> 00:46:01,879
Speaker 1: So the quarterback future is secure there. You cannot say

864
00:46:01,880 --> 00:46:05,439
Speaker 1: that about this year with Florida. Graham Mertz is kind

865
00:46:06,120 --> 00:46:09,200
Speaker 1: of the hope for them. The Wisconsin transfer and also

866
00:46:09,800 --> 00:46:13,600
Speaker 1: recruiting and portal have been better for Brenton Vnables in

867
00:46:13,640 --> 00:46:16,920
Speaker 1: the first call it two cycles at Oklahoma then it

868
00:46:16,960 --> 00:46:19,239
Speaker 1: has been for Florida. And it's not that Florida has

869
00:46:19,280 --> 00:46:21,160
Speaker 1: been terrible, I'm not trying to say that, but this

870
00:46:21,200 --> 00:46:25,920
Speaker 1: is a comparative analysis. Oklahoma's just been better for the record.

871
00:46:26,200 --> 00:46:29,920
Speaker 1: Florida is currently ranked ahead of Oklahoma when it comes

872
00:46:29,960 --> 00:46:32,080
Speaker 1: to the twenty twenty four cycle, but it's so early

873
00:46:32,520 --> 00:46:34,880
Speaker 1: that that's going to change so much that there's probably

874
00:46:34,880 --> 00:46:37,200
Speaker 1: not even a whole lot of skill in talking about that.

875
00:46:37,480 --> 00:46:40,080
Speaker 1: But here's the other thing. The other thing is this

876
00:46:40,120 --> 00:46:43,759
Speaker 1: could upend itself in like a month, because if we

877
00:46:43,800 --> 00:46:48,040
Speaker 1: get into September and Florida goes and they beat Utah

878
00:46:48,200 --> 00:46:51,280
Speaker 1: and they just upset a couple of people early. Meanwhile,

879
00:46:51,280 --> 00:46:54,479
Speaker 1: Oklahoma drops a couple of games early. It will sound

880
00:46:54,480 --> 00:46:58,000
Speaker 1: the exact opposite. People will be saying along with me, wow,

881
00:46:58,239 --> 00:47:02,120
Speaker 1: Billy Napier's really getting it together in year two. Billy Napier,

882
00:47:02,320 --> 00:47:05,759
Speaker 1: we should have known because he succeeded at Louisiana, so

883
00:47:05,840 --> 00:47:08,120
Speaker 1: he was not an unknown commodity as a head coach.

884
00:47:08,280 --> 00:47:11,160
Speaker 1: He just needed a little time. Meanwhile, with Brent Venables,

885
00:47:11,400 --> 00:47:13,319
Speaker 1: you'll be saying, maybe he's not cut out to be

886
00:47:13,320 --> 00:47:15,479
Speaker 1: a head coach, because this is two years in a row.

887
00:47:15,560 --> 00:47:17,279
Speaker 1: We were willing to give him benefit of the doubt,

888
00:47:17,280 --> 00:47:20,400
Speaker 1: and year one there was a lot of upended nature

889
00:47:20,400 --> 00:47:24,400
Speaker 1: of a roster and stuff. But year two, man, maybe

890
00:47:24,440 --> 00:47:27,120
Speaker 1: he's just not the guy. So I'm saying all that

891
00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:29,640
Speaker 1: right now. But you know as well as I do,

892
00:47:30,400 --> 00:47:34,360
Speaker 1: if things start rocky for Oklahoma and things start a

893
00:47:34,360 --> 00:47:37,480
Speaker 1: little bit better than expected for Florida, we are so

894
00:47:38,280 --> 00:47:41,520
Speaker 1: we are so new to the two eras in Norman

895
00:47:41,600 --> 00:47:46,360
Speaker 1: and Gainesville, respectively, that anything could happen, Anything could be said.

896
00:47:47,000 --> 00:47:49,520
Speaker 1: That's one of many reasons you have to watch the

897
00:47:49,600 --> 00:47:55,799
Speaker 1: games next up This is a good question from County Line, Oklahoma.

898
00:47:55,920 --> 00:48:00,440
Speaker 1: Roger said, is using Las Vegas preseason over on at

899
00:48:00,480 --> 00:48:03,840
Speaker 1: the end of the season. Is it a good litmus

900
00:48:03,880 --> 00:48:08,120
Speaker 1: test to determine whether a team over or underachieved in

901
00:48:08,160 --> 00:48:12,800
Speaker 1: that particular season. So basically it's pretty simple. If Peyton

902
00:48:12,840 --> 00:48:15,480
Speaker 1: State has an over under of eight and a half

903
00:48:16,239 --> 00:48:19,319
Speaker 1: and I win eight games versus nine games, is it

904
00:48:19,400 --> 00:48:21,680
Speaker 1: really that easy? Is it really saying well, if they

905
00:48:21,719 --> 00:48:24,520
Speaker 1: go over it was successful and if they go under

906
00:48:24,600 --> 00:48:28,000
Speaker 1: it's a failure. This is case by case. I think

907
00:48:28,040 --> 00:48:34,960
Speaker 1: for broad strokes purposes, it's a decent metric. Decent but

908
00:48:35,080 --> 00:48:38,839
Speaker 1: think about this. If Bama goes ten and two this year,

909
00:48:39,440 --> 00:48:41,480
Speaker 1: will they view it as a success because that's their

910
00:48:41,520 --> 00:48:44,560
Speaker 1: over under win total? But if Bama loses to LSU

911
00:48:44,600 --> 00:48:48,240
Speaker 1: and Tennessee again, they don't go to Atlanta. But someone

912
00:48:48,280 --> 00:48:52,719
Speaker 1: says it's okay though they pushed. Yeah, they're gonna push

913
00:48:52,719 --> 00:48:54,879
Speaker 1: you off a cliff. If that's what you're trying to tell.

914
00:48:54,920 --> 00:48:59,040
Speaker 1: Folks in Andalusia, Alabama home with Nico Johnson, they don't

915
00:48:59,040 --> 00:49:02,360
Speaker 1: want to hear that. They want to hear overachievement and

916
00:49:02,440 --> 00:49:06,360
Speaker 1: over achievement only. Also with the Florida Gators. We just

917
00:49:06,360 --> 00:49:08,439
Speaker 1: talked about them a second ago. They're over unders five

918
00:49:08,480 --> 00:49:13,600
Speaker 1: and a half. If they win six games they went over.

919
00:49:14,440 --> 00:49:17,200
Speaker 1: Is anyone calling that a success at Florida? I don't

920
00:49:17,239 --> 00:49:22,080
Speaker 1: think so. Conversely, you got some other teams out there,

921
00:49:22,120 --> 00:49:25,399
Speaker 1: like Oklahoma. Ironically, we just talked about them too. They're

922
00:49:25,480 --> 00:49:29,240
Speaker 1: nine and a half this year. Man was just choked,

923
00:49:30,000 --> 00:49:33,319
Speaker 1: But I'm not stopping continue to roll. If Oklahoma wins

924
00:49:33,440 --> 00:49:37,759
Speaker 1: nine games, I don't think they would be turning cartwheels,

925
00:49:37,920 --> 00:49:40,800
Speaker 1: but it would at the very least ease the concerns

926
00:49:40,800 --> 00:49:42,600
Speaker 1: that Brent Vinnibles is just in over his head and

927
00:49:42,880 --> 00:49:46,600
Speaker 1: Vinibles don't know what he's doing. So Oklahoma ironically could

928
00:49:46,640 --> 00:49:51,480
Speaker 1: go under and probably be happier than Florida if they

929
00:49:51,480 --> 00:49:55,839
Speaker 1: barely go over. So it's a case by case thing, man.

930
00:49:55,880 --> 00:49:58,279
Speaker 1: But if you're not, if you're indifferent, let's put it

931
00:49:58,360 --> 00:50:01,960
Speaker 1: this way. If you're indifferent and you're just an agnostic

932
00:50:02,040 --> 00:50:05,200
Speaker 1: fan that is just observing, then yeah, I think the

933
00:50:05,280 --> 00:50:08,480
Speaker 1: Vegas over under number, especially when you get later, like

934
00:50:08,520 --> 00:50:13,359
Speaker 1: in August, when both sides have been hammered down by

935
00:50:13,360 --> 00:50:16,600
Speaker 1: the sharpest of money out there, you're really getting a

936
00:50:16,640 --> 00:50:19,200
Speaker 1: true gauge on what the expectation should be for a

937
00:50:19,239 --> 00:50:21,960
Speaker 1: given team in a given year, and then if they

938
00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:25,640
Speaker 1: overachieve against that number, and you're not a fan of

939
00:50:25,680 --> 00:50:27,480
Speaker 1: that team, you're just kind of watching that team. Yeah,

940
00:50:27,560 --> 00:50:29,839
Speaker 1: I think that's a better it's a better metric than

941
00:50:29,920 --> 00:50:31,520
Speaker 1: using whatever else you would have out there. What do

942
00:50:31,520 --> 00:50:35,880
Speaker 1: you want to use? FPI? Absolutely not so, yeah, I

943
00:50:35,880 --> 00:50:38,759
Speaker 1: would use Vegas metrics before I would use a lot

944
00:50:38,760 --> 00:50:43,000
Speaker 1: of the other things out there. Quite frankly. Now, when

945
00:50:43,040 --> 00:50:46,759
Speaker 1: I say frankly sarcastically, it doesn't count. You know, I

946
00:50:46,800 --> 00:50:49,640
Speaker 1: am a reformed Franklinite, and so I am trying to

947
00:50:49,680 --> 00:50:53,720
Speaker 1: stop using frankly in every other sentence. But it doesn't

948
00:50:53,760 --> 00:50:58,160
Speaker 1: count if I admit with my tone that I know

949
00:50:58,280 --> 00:51:00,359
Speaker 1: I'm saying frankly. So so those of you out they're

950
00:51:00,360 --> 00:51:04,200
Speaker 1: policing me. It's like we have a frankly anonymous group

951
00:51:04,200 --> 00:51:07,000
Speaker 1: out here, and you've been policing me. Hey, you know

952
00:51:07,040 --> 00:51:09,600
Speaker 1: you said frankly right, and I appreciate it, but I

953
00:51:09,640 --> 00:51:11,960
Speaker 1: don't need you to be my accountabili buddy when I

954
00:51:11,960 --> 00:51:14,920
Speaker 1: say it sarcastically. Just wanted to float that out there,

955
00:51:15,560 --> 00:51:19,760
Speaker 1: all right, man, It's clear of throat. Geez. I almost

956
00:51:19,800 --> 00:51:21,600
Speaker 1: lost it there for a second. And it's not like

957
00:51:21,640 --> 00:51:23,560
Speaker 1: the cough that I've been doing the last few weeks.

958
00:51:23,920 --> 00:51:27,360
Speaker 1: This was like a a like spit goes down the

959
00:51:27,400 --> 00:51:30,680
Speaker 1: wrong pipe sort of cough. Who's to amongst us hasn't

960
00:51:30,680 --> 00:51:33,160
Speaker 1: been there before? And how brave of me, by the

961
00:51:33,160 --> 00:51:35,640
Speaker 1: way to continue rolling on. And I didn't even need

962
00:51:36,040 --> 00:51:39,399
Speaker 1: Bradley the Associated in there to stop recording. I'm sure

963
00:51:39,400 --> 00:51:40,959
Speaker 1: it may make it out into the ether a little

964
00:51:40,960 --> 00:51:44,719
Speaker 1: bit later on as a little blooper cut. All right,

965
00:51:45,000 --> 00:51:49,040
Speaker 1: Who's next up? Joe is next up from Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania,

966
00:51:49,160 --> 00:51:53,279
Speaker 1: and they are hot in mechanics Burg, not just in

967
00:51:53,360 --> 00:51:57,160
Speaker 1: terms of attractiveness, they are bent out of shape about

968
00:51:57,160 --> 00:51:59,520
Speaker 1: this whole wide out situation. So let me read the question.

969
00:52:00,160 --> 00:52:04,000
Speaker 1: Joe asked, how do you feel about the Iowa game

970
00:52:04,360 --> 00:52:06,520
Speaker 1: being the white out game? The new Big ten TV

971
00:52:06,680 --> 00:52:09,960
Speaker 1: contract is in full effect. Now, what is Joe talking about?

972
00:52:10,120 --> 00:52:13,160
Speaker 1: He is talking about September twenty third, That's when the

973
00:52:13,239 --> 00:52:16,319
Speaker 1: Iowa Hawkeys roll into town. And it's going to take

974
00:52:16,320 --> 00:52:19,319
Speaker 1: a while to get used to this. CBS has the

975
00:52:19,360 --> 00:52:24,359
Speaker 1: white out game. That's right, yours truly my employer has

976
00:52:24,360 --> 00:52:27,360
Speaker 1: the white out game because the Big ten is in

977
00:52:27,440 --> 00:52:30,840
Speaker 1: a contract with everyone now, so I don't it's truthfully,

978
00:52:30,880 --> 00:52:32,880
Speaker 1: it's just confusing. I'm not even going to try to

979
00:52:32,920 --> 00:52:35,359
Speaker 1: explain to you how it works. But here's the byproduct.

980
00:52:35,840 --> 00:52:37,680
Speaker 1: The end result, if you will, for Penn State is

981
00:52:37,800 --> 00:52:40,440
Speaker 1: yet again they have to watch a game that's not

982
00:52:40,520 --> 00:52:43,040
Speaker 1: the biggest game on their schedule get made into the

983
00:52:43,040 --> 00:52:46,960
Speaker 1: white out game because there's language and TV deals that

984
00:52:47,520 --> 00:52:51,919
Speaker 1: precludes the Michigan game or last year the Ohio State

985
00:52:51,920 --> 00:52:54,400
Speaker 1: game because Ohio State was the big noon kickoff game,

986
00:52:54,840 --> 00:52:57,480
Speaker 1: you know. And this year there's some rule with Michigan

987
00:52:57,480 --> 00:52:59,960
Speaker 1: where if it's past a certain date on the cam,

988
00:53:00,840 --> 00:53:03,640
Speaker 1: both parties have to agree to it being a night game,

989
00:53:03,760 --> 00:53:07,560
Speaker 1: and for obvious reasons, Michigan doesn't want that. I have

990
00:53:07,880 --> 00:53:10,440
Speaker 1: never understood the rules, but those are the rules. So

991
00:53:11,920 --> 00:53:14,360
Speaker 1: if I were a Penn State fan, yeah, I'd be

992
00:53:14,400 --> 00:53:17,280
Speaker 1: pissed about it. Of course I would. And that's coming

993
00:53:17,320 --> 00:53:21,400
Speaker 1: from me. I love the noon games. I am different

994
00:53:21,520 --> 00:53:24,440
Speaker 1: than everyone else because I am selfishly a fan of

995
00:53:24,480 --> 00:53:27,759
Speaker 1: noon games, as has been well documented, because that lets me,

996
00:53:27,880 --> 00:53:29,920
Speaker 1: if I'm at the game, get out of town and

997
00:53:29,920 --> 00:53:32,440
Speaker 1: get back to Nashville that night instead of traveling the

998
00:53:32,480 --> 00:53:34,880
Speaker 1: next day, which means traveling the same day. We have

999
00:53:34,920 --> 00:53:38,719
Speaker 1: a big show. But I am not you, okay, So

1000
00:53:39,040 --> 00:53:42,560
Speaker 1: the best interest of me should not circumvent the best

1001
00:53:42,560 --> 00:53:45,759
Speaker 1: interest of you. What did I talk about to you

1002
00:53:45,800 --> 00:53:48,399
Speaker 1: for like, oh, seemingly an hour a little while ago.

1003
00:53:49,040 --> 00:53:52,279
Speaker 1: I talked to you about how money runs this sport. Now,

1004
00:53:52,320 --> 00:53:54,640
Speaker 1: I'm not one of those people who thinks he's overthinking

1005
00:53:54,719 --> 00:53:58,520
Speaker 1: the room, and I figured out the secret formula. When

1006
00:53:58,560 --> 00:54:01,560
Speaker 1: I tell you that, everybody knows that. It's like when

1007
00:54:01,600 --> 00:54:03,880
Speaker 1: someone walks in and says, well, you know, money is

1008
00:54:03,920 --> 00:54:07,680
Speaker 1: running politics in this country. Like, buddy, anyone past the

1009
00:54:07,719 --> 00:54:10,879
Speaker 1: age of five knows that you're not breaking any news here,

1010
00:54:11,239 --> 00:54:14,440
Speaker 1: just like when I say, well, money runs college football. Now,

1011
00:54:14,440 --> 00:54:18,560
Speaker 1: I'm not breaking any news to you, but sometimes it

1012
00:54:18,640 --> 00:54:22,800
Speaker 1: helps to point out the specifics. So again I'm gonna

1013
00:54:22,800 --> 00:54:29,200
Speaker 1: ask you, did you ever notice how these scheduling quirks

1014
00:54:29,920 --> 00:54:32,120
Speaker 1: And in Penn State, for example, when when you get

1015
00:54:32,160 --> 00:54:35,920
Speaker 1: cost another opportunity to have a premiere game be your

1016
00:54:35,920 --> 00:54:39,160
Speaker 1: whiteout game, you ever notice it's not because Penn State

1017
00:54:39,239 --> 00:54:43,040
Speaker 1: did it. It's always because of some convoluted language and

1018
00:54:43,080 --> 00:54:48,040
Speaker 1: TV contracts. So I'll ask you, is the white out

1019
00:54:48,200 --> 00:54:50,600
Speaker 1: one of the best things that college football has? I

1020
00:54:50,600 --> 00:54:55,000
Speaker 1: would answer yes. Did anybody in the room care when

1021
00:54:55,000 --> 00:54:58,319
Speaker 1: they were negotiating these deals? The answer is no, They

1022
00:54:58,360 --> 00:55:02,640
Speaker 1: couldn't care less. Why because a lot of these people

1023
00:55:02,640 --> 00:55:07,160
Speaker 1: don't love college football. Once again, people with their hands

1024
00:55:07,200 --> 00:55:11,040
Speaker 1: on the wheel of college football don't always love college football.

1025
00:55:11,560 --> 00:55:15,520
Speaker 1: And Exhibit one hundred and one is the Penn State

1026
00:55:15,560 --> 00:55:19,400
Speaker 1: Whiteout Game. Anyone with a competent head on their shoulders

1027
00:55:19,640 --> 00:55:23,480
Speaker 1: would walk into a negotiation room with any TV partner

1028
00:55:23,920 --> 00:55:26,440
Speaker 1: and among the first things out of their mouth that say,

1029
00:55:26,600 --> 00:55:28,719
Speaker 1: we need to have a carve out to make sure

1030
00:55:28,719 --> 00:55:31,880
Speaker 1: the Penn State Whiteout Game is exempt from some of

1031
00:55:31,920 --> 00:55:34,960
Speaker 1: these rules. We make sure somehow that we get a

1032
00:55:34,960 --> 00:55:39,880
Speaker 1: premier game as the Whiteout Game. But they didn't do that. Why.

1033
00:55:40,040 --> 00:55:42,520
Speaker 1: You would be probably shocked to know half the folks

1034
00:55:42,520 --> 00:55:44,600
Speaker 1: in the room don't even know that it matters. I'm

1035
00:55:44,600 --> 00:55:46,799
Speaker 1: not kidding you about that. Half of them don't know

1036
00:55:46,840 --> 00:55:50,640
Speaker 1: it matters, and the other half really only care about

1037
00:55:50,640 --> 00:55:53,680
Speaker 1: the tradition of college football being upheld as long as

1038
00:55:53,719 --> 00:55:56,359
Speaker 1: it doesn't stand in the way of costing them a dime.

1039
00:55:57,200 --> 00:56:01,279
Speaker 1: They're very happy when it's convenient to tout how much

1040
00:56:01,320 --> 00:56:06,960
Speaker 1: they're crystallizing tradition in college football, and they're promoting tradition

1041
00:56:07,040 --> 00:56:10,600
Speaker 1: in college football. But that's only when it's convenient for them.

1042
00:56:10,960 --> 00:56:15,600
Speaker 1: It never supersedes profit. So if it were to cost

1043
00:56:15,600 --> 00:56:18,600
Speaker 1: them five or ten dollars to make another game the

1044
00:56:18,600 --> 00:56:22,399
Speaker 1: whiteout game, or carve out something in their media rights

1045
00:56:22,400 --> 00:56:24,240
Speaker 1: deal that makes sure the white out Game is whenever

1046
00:56:24,239 --> 00:56:26,920
Speaker 1: Penn State wants it, it's not going to happen. So

1047
00:56:26,960 --> 00:56:30,600
Speaker 1: they're very convenient, very dishonest when they talk about how, oh,

1048
00:56:30,680 --> 00:56:32,600
Speaker 1: we're looking out for the fan, they're not looking at

1049
00:56:32,640 --> 00:56:35,879
Speaker 1: for you at all. They take the opportunity when they

1050
00:56:35,960 --> 00:56:38,799
Speaker 1: do something you like because it was convenient for them

1051
00:56:39,320 --> 00:56:41,680
Speaker 1: to make sure you understand they did something that you like,

1052
00:56:42,080 --> 00:56:44,000
Speaker 1: But they do a ton of stuff you don't like,

1053
00:56:44,600 --> 00:56:47,560
Speaker 1: and they never go on record talking about why, because

1054
00:56:47,600 --> 00:56:50,600
Speaker 1: the why would really aggravate you, because the why is

1055
00:56:50,680 --> 00:56:52,520
Speaker 1: just so a lot of people that you'll never meet

1056
00:56:52,840 --> 00:56:55,080
Speaker 1: can make a lot of money that you'll never see.

1057
00:56:55,200 --> 00:56:57,120
Speaker 1: That's who's running your sport. In a lot of cases.

1058
00:56:58,040 --> 00:57:04,000
Speaker 1: Hopefully they don't silence us next up is Austin from Cartersville, GA.

1059
00:57:04,480 --> 00:57:07,440
Speaker 1: He said, do you expect this year's Big Twelve to

1060
00:57:07,560 --> 00:57:11,560
Speaker 1: be more or less chaotic than last year's with the

1061
00:57:11,600 --> 00:57:13,880
Speaker 1: addition of the four new teams? So we got Central

1062
00:57:13,880 --> 00:57:17,600
Speaker 1: Florida and Houston and Brigham Young and Cincinnati. They're all

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Speaker 1: added to the Big Twelve this year. It's the last

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Speaker 1: year that we have Texas and know you, last year

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Speaker 1: we had Kansas State and TCU in the conference championship game.

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Speaker 1: They were the fifth and sixth teams in the preseason

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Speaker 1: odds to win the Big Twelve. That's pretty crazy. And

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Speaker 1: there was that stretch last year where everyone was alive,

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Speaker 1: Kansas was alive. K State ended up winning the thing,

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Speaker 1: TCU ended up going to the championship game, and Oklahoma

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Speaker 1: State before they imploded, they looked like a very viable candidate.

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Speaker 1: Baylor for a little while, Iowa State for a little while.

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Speaker 1: Viable candidates all up and down the Big Twelve. Not

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Speaker 1: to mention, you got Texas and Oklahoma out there, although

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Speaker 1: Oklahoma kind of fai from sit a little bit earlier

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Speaker 1: than you would have expected. This year, I actually don't

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Speaker 1: think it's going to be as crazy now, make no mistake.

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Speaker 1: The Big Twelve will still be a must see product.

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Speaker 1: But the reason it was so crazy last year is

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Speaker 1: because of what I said, no clear favorite emerged. We

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Speaker 1: didn't know until the very very very end of the

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Speaker 1: season that Kansas State was going to win the thing.

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Speaker 1: This year, we look at Texas in the preseason, and

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Speaker 1: I could be wrong about this, certainly, people who believe

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Speaker 1: in Texas have been misled before. But with Texas this year,

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Speaker 1: I see a much greater chance that a team Texas

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Speaker 1: in this case ends up going wire to wire as

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Speaker 1: the favorite. Now, you could have an upset, of course,

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Speaker 1: and you could have a lot of chaos underneath Texas,

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Speaker 1: but to me, to have a chaotic year on par

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Speaker 1: with twenty twenty two, you can't have a favorite emerge.

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Speaker 1: We did not have a favorite at any point last year.

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Speaker 1: Even with TCU, even when they were went through the

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Speaker 1: regular season undefeated, they were winning all those close games.

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Speaker 1: They were coming from behind to win those close games

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Speaker 1: to where any given week you thought, oh, that's gonna

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Speaker 1: come to an end. And even when they played Kansas State,

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Speaker 1: you thought that's not gonna be easy game against Kansas State,

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Speaker 1: and it wasn't. They lost and still went to the

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Speaker 1: title game even having lost the conference title game. So

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Speaker 1: right now, Texas OU, Kansas State, Texas Tech, and TCU,

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Speaker 1: those are your five betting favorites to start the year.

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Speaker 1: I mean, like I said, last year, number five and

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Speaker 1: six played for the title. The year before, Baylor had

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Speaker 1: the second to worst odds and they ended up winning

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Speaker 1: the Big Twelve championship, So anything can happen in that conference.

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Speaker 1: But I'll tell you, I think the PAC twelve is

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Speaker 1: going to be this year's version of the Big twelve.

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Speaker 1: Ton of contenders out there. And even though you may

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Speaker 1: think you have a preseason favorite, if it's USC for example,

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Speaker 1: they got beat twice by Utah last year, including in

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Speaker 1: the conference championship game, so there is no unequivocal favorite

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Speaker 1: out there. And all those teams play each other like

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Speaker 1: almost round robin style. So I think the PAC twelve

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Speaker 1: maybe this year's Big Twelve. I appreciate so much you

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Speaker 1: guys listening. Do me one favor on the way out.

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Speaker 1: Subscribe to the feed and then make sure you're following

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Speaker 1: on the socials at late Kick Josh. Both of those

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Speaker 1: assignments are free. They don't cost you anything, And that

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Speaker 1: concludes what I need from you today. I hope we

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Speaker 1: gave you what you needed from us. Until next time.

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Speaker 1: For producer Jesse, director Colin and Bradley the associate slash director,

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Speaker 1: I'm Josh, babe, take care of have a great rest

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Speaker 1: of your day and God bless