1 00:00:11,039 --> 00:00:13,360 Speaker 1: And welcome to Lake Kick is Live. It is Thursday night, July, 2 00:00:13,520 --> 00:00:16,360 Speaker 1: seventh year of our Laura twenty twenty two. College football's 3 00:00:16,360 --> 00:00:19,360 Speaker 1: earthquake continues, and here we are huddled under the Late 4 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:23,639 Speaker 1: kickdor frame, ready to speculate wildly about what's next. We 5 00:00:23,760 --> 00:00:27,800 Speaker 1: are jam packed, of course, as always High Top anticipatory 6 00:00:27,840 --> 00:00:32,320 Speaker 1: downtown Nashville, Tennessee. Look, everything's changing. Maybe some things are 7 00:00:32,360 --> 00:00:34,440 Speaker 1: going to change that we don't like. Maybe some things 8 00:00:34,600 --> 00:00:37,240 Speaker 1: ironically changed and we do like them. But a lot's changing, 9 00:00:37,280 --> 00:00:40,839 Speaker 1: and we will discuss tonight, not so much blind speculation, 10 00:00:41,040 --> 00:00:43,960 Speaker 1: but maybe some informed speculation about what's around the corner 11 00:00:44,200 --> 00:00:46,159 Speaker 1: and what you don't like and why you're right to 12 00:00:46,200 --> 00:00:49,559 Speaker 1: feel that way. Bold Predictions, Chapter twenty two. On the 13 00:00:49,560 --> 00:00:53,880 Speaker 1: show tonight, also recruiting big day for Florida. Congrats to 14 00:00:53,880 --> 00:00:55,640 Speaker 1: the Gators. We're going to hit that. But also in 15 00:00:55,720 --> 00:00:59,120 Speaker 1: the much broader scheme of things, things changing in Florida, 16 00:00:59,280 --> 00:01:02,880 Speaker 1: things change in Texas, things changing in California. And if 17 00:01:02,920 --> 00:01:04,880 Speaker 1: you watch Late Kicker, you listen to it and have 18 00:01:04,959 --> 00:01:07,479 Speaker 1: for a while, you know how important we think those 19 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:11,040 Speaker 1: three regions are. They're watching us in Rapid City, South Dakota. 20 00:01:11,080 --> 00:01:14,360 Speaker 1: They're watching us in Newark, Ohio. Katie Texas is tuned 21 00:01:14,360 --> 00:01:18,039 Speaker 1: in Spartanburg, South Carolina, is tuned in. A lot is 22 00:01:18,120 --> 00:01:21,440 Speaker 1: about to change on this show Sunday Night. We've got 23 00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:25,480 Speaker 1: not one, not two, but several major announcements coming. You 24 00:01:25,520 --> 00:01:28,039 Speaker 1: know what I'm gonna do. At the behest of Producer Jesse, 25 00:01:28,080 --> 00:01:29,480 Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you what one of them is, 26 00:01:29,760 --> 00:01:32,120 Speaker 1: because it's probably the third or fourth biggest announcement we 27 00:01:32,160 --> 00:01:34,440 Speaker 1: have coming. We are going to release the name of 28 00:01:34,480 --> 00:01:37,080 Speaker 1: this year's Late Kick Tour this Sunday Night. Now. Producer 29 00:01:37,160 --> 00:01:39,920 Speaker 1: Jesse had a great idea. It's been workshopped over the 30 00:01:39,959 --> 00:01:42,520 Speaker 1: past seven minutes or so. If you want to try 31 00:01:42,520 --> 00:01:46,480 Speaker 1: and guess this thing and you actually arrive at the guests, 32 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:48,160 Speaker 1: because we've already arrived at what it's going to be, 33 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:49,520 Speaker 1: so I know what it's going to be. I have 34 00:01:49,600 --> 00:01:52,440 Speaker 1: it right here. If you're able to guess it, you 35 00:01:52,440 --> 00:01:54,160 Speaker 1: can hashtag at pet State if you want to guess 36 00:01:54,160 --> 00:01:56,160 Speaker 1: it on Twitter. If you're able to guess what the 37 00:01:56,240 --> 00:01:58,320 Speaker 1: name of the tour is going to be this fall, 38 00:01:58,400 --> 00:02:00,080 Speaker 1: I don't know what you're gonna get yet because this 39 00:02:00,160 --> 00:02:01,800 Speaker 1: idea is so fresh, but you're going to get something 40 00:02:01,840 --> 00:02:04,720 Speaker 1: new real talk though, Sunday night. I don't care if 41 00:02:04,720 --> 00:02:07,240 Speaker 1: you missed the rest of the shows until the season starts. 42 00:02:07,720 --> 00:02:09,520 Speaker 1: Be here Sunday night. That's all I'm going to say. 43 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:13,359 Speaker 1: Let's dive into the show tonight. Is it fair? I mean, 44 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:15,480 Speaker 1: do we want to call it a realignment earthquake, a 45 00:02:15,480 --> 00:02:18,760 Speaker 1: college football earthquake, because that's about maybe it's called. I 46 00:02:18,760 --> 00:02:20,639 Speaker 1: was in California last week, but that's about all I 47 00:02:20,680 --> 00:02:23,799 Speaker 1: could arrive at. So let's dive in here. College football 48 00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:27,079 Speaker 1: and seismic activity all over the sport. Let's just call 49 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:29,000 Speaker 1: it that. And a lot's going on. There's a lot 50 00:02:29,000 --> 00:02:30,880 Speaker 1: of speculation out there right now. I want to warn 51 00:02:30,919 --> 00:02:32,520 Speaker 1: you to be careful. But the first thing I want 52 00:02:32,520 --> 00:02:34,400 Speaker 1: to do is I want to ask you a little question, 53 00:02:34,639 --> 00:02:36,000 Speaker 1: and then I'm going to give you about five or 54 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:38,800 Speaker 1: six minutes just sort of marinate on it. What do 55 00:02:38,880 --> 00:02:42,079 Speaker 1: you think about Notre Dame? Not your prediction on where 56 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:45,640 Speaker 1: they're going to land. Everybody's got a guess, big ten, independent, 57 00:02:45,680 --> 00:02:48,119 Speaker 1: acc none of that. We'll talk about that in due time. 58 00:02:48,360 --> 00:02:50,920 Speaker 1: I want to ask you, very simply, what do you 59 00:02:50,960 --> 00:02:54,280 Speaker 1: think about Notre Dame If you're in your mid thirties, 60 00:02:54,320 --> 00:02:56,079 Speaker 1: or if you're in your mid fifties sixties, you've watched 61 00:02:56,080 --> 00:02:58,560 Speaker 1: college football your whole life. Oh, you've got an opinion 62 00:02:58,600 --> 00:03:00,640 Speaker 1: of them, you know you do. I was raised in 63 00:03:00,680 --> 00:03:04,080 Speaker 1: the South. I was raised to not exactly view that 64 00:03:04,200 --> 00:03:06,800 Speaker 1: Golden Dome in the most endearing of fashions. What do 65 00:03:06,880 --> 00:03:08,560 Speaker 1: you think about Notre Dame. I want you to think 66 00:03:08,600 --> 00:03:10,720 Speaker 1: about that for a second, and then let's circle it 67 00:03:10,800 --> 00:03:12,160 Speaker 1: right back around to where we are, and I'll tell 68 00:03:12,160 --> 00:03:14,480 Speaker 1: you why all that matters in just a second. You'll 69 00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:17,880 Speaker 1: notice on this show the other night and tonight, we 70 00:03:17,919 --> 00:03:20,480 Speaker 1: don't really have any fancy graphics for you where we 71 00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:22,839 Speaker 1: guess which teams are going to wind up where there's 72 00:03:22,840 --> 00:03:24,919 Speaker 1: a reason for that. It's a very very fluid situation, 73 00:03:25,320 --> 00:03:28,680 Speaker 1: and in fluid situations you just end up looking stupid 74 00:03:28,680 --> 00:03:30,680 Speaker 1: when you try and do that stuff. There's a tweet 75 00:03:30,720 --> 00:03:33,520 Speaker 1: flying around out there right now that's got millions upon 76 00:03:33,600 --> 00:03:36,320 Speaker 1: millions of impressions and tens of thousands of retweets. It's 77 00:03:36,360 --> 00:03:38,800 Speaker 1: just utter foolishness. I'll reference in a second. I think 78 00:03:38,880 --> 00:03:41,480 Speaker 1: a lot of you know what I'm talking about. So, yeah, 79 00:03:41,480 --> 00:03:43,120 Speaker 1: there's some speculation to be had. Let me tell you 80 00:03:43,200 --> 00:03:45,480 Speaker 1: two things I know. Okay, well, let's deal in the 81 00:03:45,560 --> 00:03:48,120 Speaker 1: definitives for just a second. Here. Two things I know, 82 00:03:48,200 --> 00:03:52,000 Speaker 1: at one of them is that we're in an information vacuum. 83 00:03:52,040 --> 00:03:54,880 Speaker 1: This happens in recruiting sometimes if a kid is really 84 00:03:54,920 --> 00:03:58,800 Speaker 1: really tight lipped in the absence of any tangible information 85 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:02,600 Speaker 1: on rumor gets out there on a message board or 86 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:05,840 Speaker 1: on talk radio or whatever, and it just spreads like 87 00:04:05,880 --> 00:04:08,360 Speaker 1: wildfire because there's no other information to be had. The 88 00:04:08,440 --> 00:04:12,040 Speaker 1: problem is that one bit of information is not information 89 00:04:12,160 --> 00:04:15,080 Speaker 1: at all. It in and of itself was false. But 90 00:04:15,120 --> 00:04:17,880 Speaker 1: because the kid's family's not talking and his uncle's not 91 00:04:17,920 --> 00:04:20,159 Speaker 1: talking and he's not talking, that's all you had to 92 00:04:20,200 --> 00:04:23,040 Speaker 1: go on. That's kind of what's happening here. And I 93 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:25,760 Speaker 1: just want you guys to be careful. I know everyone 94 00:04:25,839 --> 00:04:27,760 Speaker 1: wants to sound like they know what they're talking about. 95 00:04:27,760 --> 00:04:31,560 Speaker 1: Here we and I being the person who's behind the 96 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:35,120 Speaker 1: mic representing this entire operation, I've been willing to tell 97 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:37,400 Speaker 1: you I don't know when I don't know, and in 98 00:04:37,440 --> 00:04:39,080 Speaker 1: this case, I don't know. I don't know who's gonna 99 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:41,960 Speaker 1: land where. But I can tell you there are a 100 00:04:41,960 --> 00:04:44,120 Speaker 1: lot of things moving. You know, I actually do have 101 00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:45,880 Speaker 1: some people I can call about this. There are a 102 00:04:45,880 --> 00:04:48,760 Speaker 1: lot of things moving, obviously. Don't fall victim to this though. 103 00:04:49,200 --> 00:04:53,239 Speaker 1: Don't fall victim to speaking in definitive terms about things 104 00:04:53,240 --> 00:04:57,640 Speaker 1: that we really know nothing about. Consider this the actual 105 00:04:57,680 --> 00:05:01,400 Speaker 1: moves that have been made. I e. The Oklahoma Texas 106 00:05:01,440 --> 00:05:04,320 Speaker 1: coming to the SEC, IE, UCLA, U s C coming 107 00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:08,119 Speaker 1: to the Big ten. Who was talking about that until 108 00:05:08,200 --> 00:05:10,840 Speaker 1: the hour before the news broke? Who was talking about that? 109 00:05:11,279 --> 00:05:14,160 Speaker 1: You know how hard that is. Here's how tight lipped 110 00:05:14,200 --> 00:05:17,839 Speaker 1: and secretive that operation was. Bob Bowlsby the Big twelve 111 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:21,640 Speaker 1: commissioner last year did not know OU and Texas were leaving. 112 00:05:21,680 --> 00:05:25,520 Speaker 1: George Klakoff, the PAC twelfth commissioner, did not know USC 113 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:28,760 Speaker 1: and UCLA were leaving until the news broke. They literally 114 00:05:28,880 --> 00:05:31,080 Speaker 1: found out when you and I did. They had to 115 00:05:31,160 --> 00:05:33,400 Speaker 1: look at a phone to find out. So if that 116 00:05:34,000 --> 00:05:36,440 Speaker 1: gives you any indication as to how tight lipped all 117 00:05:36,480 --> 00:05:39,520 Speaker 1: this is, then it's probably wise to just sit back, 118 00:05:39,720 --> 00:05:42,480 Speaker 1: tosh your feet up, and when it happens, it'll happen. 119 00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:45,640 Speaker 1: The second thing I know, though, and this one's more 120 00:05:45,680 --> 00:05:48,440 Speaker 1: personal for me, but the more I talk to you, guys, 121 00:05:48,480 --> 00:05:49,800 Speaker 1: I think a lot of you feel the same way, 122 00:05:50,960 --> 00:05:53,800 Speaker 1: or maybe you don't. You can tell me. The more 123 00:05:53,839 --> 00:05:56,120 Speaker 1: I hear people tell me about how much money these 124 00:05:56,240 --> 00:05:58,120 Speaker 1: changes in college football are going to make, the more 125 00:05:58,160 --> 00:05:59,640 Speaker 1: I want to walk out this door and jump out 126 00:05:59,680 --> 00:06:01,840 Speaker 1: the window. I don't care. I'm going to tell you 127 00:06:01,960 --> 00:06:04,679 Speaker 1: I don't care about how much more money these media 128 00:06:04,760 --> 00:06:07,680 Speaker 1: rights deals are going to bring conferences. I don't care. 129 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:10,880 Speaker 1: And my humble opinion is you should not care. Not 130 00:06:11,040 --> 00:06:12,560 Speaker 1: only are you not going to see a dime of 131 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:15,839 Speaker 1: that money, not only are your ticket prices and parking 132 00:06:15,880 --> 00:06:18,320 Speaker 1: and concessions and everything's still going to go up magically 133 00:06:18,440 --> 00:06:20,520 Speaker 1: no matter how many hundreds of millions more dollars in 134 00:06:20,600 --> 00:06:25,200 Speaker 1: the coffers. Not only will these moves choke off a 135 00:06:25,360 --> 00:06:27,560 Speaker 1: large portion of the underbelly of the sport. And I 136 00:06:27,640 --> 00:06:30,880 Speaker 1: don't mean that pejoratively. Not only is all that true, 137 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:34,560 Speaker 1: but also think about this. Could I suggest to you 138 00:06:34,760 --> 00:06:40,560 Speaker 1: that growth and financial increase are not necessarily hied at 139 00:06:40,600 --> 00:06:43,839 Speaker 1: the hip here. You can add money and not necessarily 140 00:06:43,880 --> 00:06:46,480 Speaker 1: be growing the sport. Now, to some folks out there 141 00:06:47,320 --> 00:06:50,520 Speaker 1: who I have heard nationwide this week, that's not true. 142 00:06:50,839 --> 00:06:53,040 Speaker 1: Some out there would indicate to you that as long 143 00:06:53,080 --> 00:06:55,280 Speaker 1: as you're making more money, that means, by default the 144 00:06:55,320 --> 00:06:58,440 Speaker 1: sport is growing. Well. I don't particularly believe that. Allow 145 00:06:58,560 --> 00:07:02,040 Speaker 1: me to illustrate it for you. What if a network 146 00:07:02,120 --> 00:07:05,919 Speaker 1: came to me yesterday and offered me fifty million dollars 147 00:07:05,920 --> 00:07:07,800 Speaker 1: a year for Late Kick. They want to buy the 148 00:07:07,880 --> 00:07:10,360 Speaker 1: property of Late Kick, and I accepted it. One of 149 00:07:10,400 --> 00:07:13,560 Speaker 1: their conditions is I can only talk about the CFL, 150 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:15,680 Speaker 1: So we're going to talk Canadian football. This is going 151 00:07:15,760 --> 00:07:19,360 Speaker 1: to be a Canadian Football League show now. But we're 152 00:07:19,400 --> 00:07:22,080 Speaker 1: making fifty MILLI a year. So what did we do 153 00:07:22,280 --> 00:07:25,160 Speaker 1: with the show? Did we grow the show? I grew 154 00:07:25,280 --> 00:07:28,040 Speaker 1: my bank account? Did we grow the show? Would you 155 00:07:28,160 --> 00:07:30,440 Speaker 1: be in this chat right now? Would you be on Twitter? 156 00:07:30,480 --> 00:07:32,760 Speaker 1: Would you be in my dms? Would you be slapping 157 00:07:32,840 --> 00:07:34,680 Speaker 1: me on the back when you pass me on the 158 00:07:34,760 --> 00:07:37,320 Speaker 1: street saying good for you? You know you're going to 159 00:07:37,360 --> 00:07:39,240 Speaker 1: talk about stuff I hate. And I couldn't care less 160 00:07:39,240 --> 00:07:41,800 Speaker 1: about the show anymore because it was built on college football. 161 00:07:41,880 --> 00:07:43,880 Speaker 1: That's why I love it, and you're changing everything about 162 00:07:43,880 --> 00:07:46,040 Speaker 1: it so you'll never see me again. But good for you. 163 00:07:46,040 --> 00:07:47,960 Speaker 1: You grew the show. Of course you wouldn't say that. 164 00:07:48,040 --> 00:07:52,040 Speaker 1: That would be ignorant. You would say, in Chasing the 165 00:07:52,120 --> 00:07:55,400 Speaker 1: Almighty Dollar, you just completely ruined everything that was great 166 00:07:55,440 --> 00:07:58,480 Speaker 1: about your show. Now, I'm not going so far to 167 00:07:58,600 --> 00:08:01,160 Speaker 1: that extreme when it comes to college football. There'll still 168 00:08:01,200 --> 00:08:03,040 Speaker 1: be a lot that we love about college football. But 169 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:06,720 Speaker 1: I think that some amongst us are looking at this 170 00:08:07,000 --> 00:08:10,200 Speaker 1: from the wrong angle. Some are looking and saying, how 171 00:08:10,280 --> 00:08:12,240 Speaker 1: could this not be good for the sport if that 172 00:08:12,360 --> 00:08:14,600 Speaker 1: many millions more dollars are coming in? Well, I'll tell 173 00:08:14,600 --> 00:08:18,320 Speaker 1: you how it's if that many millions more dollars is 174 00:08:18,480 --> 00:08:21,800 Speaker 1: tied to changing things fundamentally about the sport that are 175 00:08:21,880 --> 00:08:23,440 Speaker 1: some of the key reasons you and I love it. 176 00:08:24,040 --> 00:08:25,880 Speaker 1: I don't think you and I are alone. That's the point. 177 00:08:25,960 --> 00:08:27,920 Speaker 1: So let me go back to the question that I 178 00:08:27,960 --> 00:08:30,520 Speaker 1: asked you about five minutes ago. What do you think 179 00:08:30,520 --> 00:08:34,160 Speaker 1: about Notre Dame? Think you may be guessing how this 180 00:08:34,320 --> 00:08:36,599 Speaker 1: ties in, but I think you're wrong. This is not 181 00:08:36,720 --> 00:08:39,480 Speaker 1: going to be a segment about me speculating where Notre 182 00:08:39,559 --> 00:08:41,400 Speaker 1: Dame is going to go. I think they may join 183 00:08:41,440 --> 00:08:43,360 Speaker 1: a conference, may not join a conference. Your guess is 184 00:08:43,400 --> 00:08:45,719 Speaker 1: as good as mine on Notre Dame. I'm pretty sure 185 00:08:45,800 --> 00:08:49,080 Speaker 1: those guys and the folks around that situation have been 186 00:08:49,160 --> 00:08:51,280 Speaker 1: tight lipped enough to where there's no good information on 187 00:08:51,360 --> 00:08:53,480 Speaker 1: that either. But I don't want to ask you that. 188 00:08:53,600 --> 00:08:55,559 Speaker 1: I want to ask you again, like I did to 189 00:08:55,600 --> 00:08:57,960 Speaker 1: start the show, what do you think about Notre Dame. 190 00:08:58,320 --> 00:09:01,280 Speaker 1: I grew up in west central Georgia. No one likes 191 00:09:01,320 --> 00:09:03,520 Speaker 1: Notre Dame down there, well, no one who is native 192 00:09:03,840 --> 00:09:08,199 Speaker 1: to Georgia likes Notre Dame, and so it was a 193 00:09:08,440 --> 00:09:11,720 Speaker 1: southern football mentality, and they were the Golden Domers. They 194 00:09:11,760 --> 00:09:14,360 Speaker 1: were up north, and you'd see documentaries and you'd hear 195 00:09:14,480 --> 00:09:17,920 Speaker 1: names like Newt Rockney and Era Parsisan and those were 196 00:09:17,960 --> 00:09:20,559 Speaker 1: ghosts to me. They were gone along before I came around. 197 00:09:20,679 --> 00:09:23,959 Speaker 1: But yet, because of my reverence for the history of 198 00:09:24,040 --> 00:09:26,599 Speaker 1: the sport, I did just that the root word. I 199 00:09:26,679 --> 00:09:28,480 Speaker 1: revered them, so I looked up to them. But at 200 00:09:28,520 --> 00:09:30,640 Speaker 1: the same time, I was taught not to like Notre Dame. 201 00:09:31,520 --> 00:09:33,079 Speaker 1: And as I got a little bit older, then I 202 00:09:33,120 --> 00:09:35,600 Speaker 1: started to understand the context of why I wasn't supposed 203 00:09:35,600 --> 00:09:37,440 Speaker 1: to like Notre Dame. I wasn't supposed to like him 204 00:09:37,480 --> 00:09:40,559 Speaker 1: because they think they're better than you. They think that 205 00:09:41,120 --> 00:09:43,040 Speaker 1: they should be able to operate under a different set 206 00:09:43,080 --> 00:09:44,840 Speaker 1: of rules. This is what was taught to me. Of course, 207 00:09:45,200 --> 00:09:48,000 Speaker 1: they're up there in South Bend, Indiana, and whereas you 208 00:09:48,080 --> 00:09:49,760 Speaker 1: have to plan a conference and you know, by the 209 00:09:49,800 --> 00:09:51,079 Speaker 1: time I'm growing up, you got to go win a 210 00:09:51,080 --> 00:09:53,959 Speaker 1: conference championship. They don't have to do any of that. 211 00:09:54,600 --> 00:09:56,439 Speaker 1: They can control their own schedule, they get their own 212 00:09:56,480 --> 00:09:59,480 Speaker 1: TV deal and oompster. They to be able to get 213 00:09:59,520 --> 00:10:02,200 Speaker 1: all that. So it turns out Notre Dame's who they 214 00:10:02,200 --> 00:10:04,199 Speaker 1: are and that's why they get to do that. Anyway, 215 00:10:05,240 --> 00:10:07,920 Speaker 1: I had a healthy amount of animosity for Notre Dame 216 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:12,120 Speaker 1: growing up, and over about the last ten years, I 217 00:10:12,160 --> 00:10:14,199 Speaker 1: would say that shifted. I've talked about this on the 218 00:10:14,200 --> 00:10:16,760 Speaker 1: show a few times. That shifted in my mind as 219 00:10:16,840 --> 00:10:21,839 Speaker 1: I observed the changes going on in college football, as 220 00:10:21,920 --> 00:10:25,520 Speaker 1: I watched the implementation of the playoff, as I watched 221 00:10:26,160 --> 00:10:28,599 Speaker 1: most recently NIL the portal, a lot of things that 222 00:10:28,679 --> 00:10:30,959 Speaker 1: are changing the sport, some for the better, some not 223 00:10:31,080 --> 00:10:33,720 Speaker 1: for the better. But I'll tell you where Notre Dame 224 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:38,520 Speaker 1: comes into this equation. There's this really interesting overlap right now. 225 00:10:38,520 --> 00:10:40,040 Speaker 1: I don't know if you've noticed this or not, but 226 00:10:40,160 --> 00:10:43,680 Speaker 1: there's this just a fascinating overlap. Right now in college football, 227 00:10:43,679 --> 00:10:46,440 Speaker 1: you got group A who has been perma mad at 228 00:10:46,520 --> 00:10:48,880 Speaker 1: Notre Dame. They've always screamed at Notre Dame, you need 229 00:10:48,920 --> 00:10:50,640 Speaker 1: to get with the times, you need to join a conference, 230 00:10:50,840 --> 00:10:52,920 Speaker 1: you don't deserve to operate under any different rules, and 231 00:10:52,960 --> 00:10:55,360 Speaker 1: the rest of us. Then you got that same group 232 00:10:55,480 --> 00:10:57,679 Speaker 1: over here on the other side of the fence, and 233 00:10:57,760 --> 00:11:00,560 Speaker 1: they're yelling at college football and the powers that how 234 00:11:00,640 --> 00:11:02,880 Speaker 1: could you rip away at the fabric of the traditions 235 00:11:02,920 --> 00:11:05,000 Speaker 1: of this sport that I love so much in the 236 00:11:05,080 --> 00:11:08,040 Speaker 1: name of money. And then Notre Dame's over in the corner, 237 00:11:08,160 --> 00:11:12,960 Speaker 1: saying which side are you on? Do you want change 238 00:11:13,400 --> 00:11:16,640 Speaker 1: for change's sake, chasing money or do you want to 239 00:11:16,720 --> 00:11:19,000 Speaker 1: cling to tradition, because that's all we were doing the 240 00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:21,680 Speaker 1: entire time. You don't think people put tons of money 241 00:11:21,720 --> 00:11:24,840 Speaker 1: in our face, including right now. We've told them no before. 242 00:11:25,240 --> 00:11:27,520 Speaker 1: We've actually been one of the only entities out there 243 00:11:27,559 --> 00:11:31,160 Speaker 1: who pass up big dollars to cling to what we 244 00:11:31,400 --> 00:11:35,880 Speaker 1: view as our foundational principles and traditions At Notre Dame. 245 00:11:36,280 --> 00:11:38,360 Speaker 1: Is it different than the rest of the country. Yet, 246 00:11:38,520 --> 00:11:40,960 Speaker 1: maybe do you have to like it. No you don't. 247 00:11:41,760 --> 00:11:44,280 Speaker 1: But at the very least, if you're claiming you don't 248 00:11:44,440 --> 00:11:46,640 Speaker 1: like the direction of college football because of the reasons, 249 00:11:46,760 --> 00:11:50,079 Speaker 1: you should respect us for clinging to ours. And that's 250 00:11:50,120 --> 00:11:52,040 Speaker 1: where I've been for quite a while. I've taken some 251 00:11:52,120 --> 00:11:53,920 Speaker 1: flag for it. I talk about the Rose Bowl the 252 00:11:53,960 --> 00:11:57,040 Speaker 1: same way. I've had a newer found respect for the 253 00:11:57,120 --> 00:11:59,319 Speaker 1: Rose Bowl. Whereas a lot of folks yell at them 254 00:11:59,400 --> 00:12:01,760 Speaker 1: and say you should get out of the way Rose Bowl. 255 00:12:01,800 --> 00:12:02,719 Speaker 1: You should get out of the way. 256 00:12:03,080 --> 00:12:07,760 Speaker 2: Don't be so steadfast and maintaining certain aspects of the 257 00:12:07,840 --> 00:12:11,040 Speaker 2: tradition that have been baked into that game for so long, 258 00:12:11,240 --> 00:12:13,840 Speaker 2: because you're standing in the way of us overturning the. 259 00:12:13,840 --> 00:12:16,640 Speaker 1: Rest of the sport. Blah blah blah. I'm all for 260 00:12:16,800 --> 00:12:19,959 Speaker 1: the Rose Bowl standing pat I'm all for Notre Dame 261 00:12:20,080 --> 00:12:23,559 Speaker 1: standing patent, as long as they want to clinging to 262 00:12:23,760 --> 00:12:25,640 Speaker 1: a lot of what the rest of this sport could 263 00:12:25,760 --> 00:12:28,240 Speaker 1: stand to learn a lesson or two from now. As 264 00:12:28,320 --> 00:12:32,000 Speaker 1: for the future, I know there's a lot of speculation. 265 00:12:32,080 --> 00:12:33,520 Speaker 1: I've used the word about ten times now. I know 266 00:12:33,559 --> 00:12:36,079 Speaker 1: there's a lot of speculation out there about what is next. 267 00:12:36,360 --> 00:12:38,800 Speaker 1: Is the Big ten going to go poach several teams 268 00:12:39,120 --> 00:12:42,160 Speaker 1: from the PAC twelve. Is the ACC going to enter 269 00:12:42,240 --> 00:12:46,280 Speaker 1: into one of those fabeled loose partnerships? What's your favorite 270 00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:48,120 Speaker 1: loose partnership in history? By the way, is there going 271 00:12:48,160 --> 00:12:50,959 Speaker 1: to be a loose partnership between the ACC and the 272 00:12:51,040 --> 00:12:55,640 Speaker 1: PAC twelve? I will tell you what isn't true. What 273 00:12:55,840 --> 00:12:57,920 Speaker 1: isn't true is what I saw floating around out there 274 00:12:58,120 --> 00:13:02,800 Speaker 1: way too high profile today, and that was a report, 275 00:13:04,200 --> 00:13:08,880 Speaker 1: according to a source, that ESPN was trying to void 276 00:13:09,200 --> 00:13:13,040 Speaker 1: their deal with the ACC so that four of the 277 00:13:13,120 --> 00:13:16,520 Speaker 1: ACC's teams could join the SEC. Yeah, I'll go ahead 278 00:13:16,520 --> 00:13:20,240 Speaker 1: and unequivocally tell you that's BS. So we'll shoot that 279 00:13:20,320 --> 00:13:23,520 Speaker 1: one down here now. As for what will happen, what 280 00:13:23,679 --> 00:13:27,400 Speaker 1: will happen is still undecided. Some of the very people 281 00:13:27,480 --> 00:13:29,240 Speaker 1: in the room who will make the decisions on this 282 00:13:29,840 --> 00:13:31,880 Speaker 1: would tell you if they had to tell you the truth. 283 00:13:31,920 --> 00:13:34,400 Speaker 1: I don't really know. That's where everyone should be at 284 00:13:34,440 --> 00:13:37,040 Speaker 1: the moment, because there is nothing to know. Some of 285 00:13:37,120 --> 00:13:41,200 Speaker 1: the motivation, though, I think I can somewhat explain, For instance, 286 00:13:41,280 --> 00:13:44,680 Speaker 1: if you were wondering why the ACC would ever even 287 00:13:44,920 --> 00:13:48,000 Speaker 1: venture into some partnership scheduling, partnership, whatever you want to 288 00:13:48,000 --> 00:13:50,440 Speaker 1: call it. With the Pack twelve, Well it really comes 289 00:13:50,520 --> 00:13:52,400 Speaker 1: down to and I know this is going to shock you, 290 00:13:52,840 --> 00:13:56,840 Speaker 1: money and survival in no particular order. What you need 291 00:13:56,960 --> 00:14:01,080 Speaker 1: to know right now is the biggest, the biggest elephant 292 00:14:01,120 --> 00:14:04,439 Speaker 1: in the room by ten miles is the upcoming big 293 00:14:04,520 --> 00:14:07,360 Speaker 1: ten media rights deal. Heard me talk about it on 294 00:14:07,400 --> 00:14:09,160 Speaker 1: the show a lot. We thought it was coming, and 295 00:14:09,280 --> 00:14:13,400 Speaker 1: now the usc UCLA monkey wrinch gets thrown into the 296 00:14:13,480 --> 00:14:15,400 Speaker 1: plans and now they go back to the drawing board, 297 00:14:15,400 --> 00:14:17,280 Speaker 1: and it's probably going to be August, maybe even the 298 00:14:17,320 --> 00:14:20,200 Speaker 1: start of the season before we see that media deal inked. 299 00:14:20,280 --> 00:14:22,280 Speaker 1: And that's not even knowing what Notre Dame is going 300 00:14:22,320 --> 00:14:27,200 Speaker 1: to do. Anyway, Someone multiple someones as it seems, are 301 00:14:27,280 --> 00:14:28,760 Speaker 1: going to give the Big ten a whole lot of 302 00:14:28,840 --> 00:14:31,000 Speaker 1: money that we know, we don't know the exact number, 303 00:14:31,040 --> 00:14:34,960 Speaker 1: but that we know now think beyond that. If you're 304 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:37,400 Speaker 1: the ACC, you're the Big twelve, if you're the Pac twelve, 305 00:14:38,000 --> 00:14:40,560 Speaker 1: you know not everyone who's bidding on that Big ten 306 00:14:40,680 --> 00:14:44,200 Speaker 1: media rights deal is going to win. And there's going 307 00:14:44,280 --> 00:14:46,120 Speaker 1: to be a lot of money, can be a lot 308 00:14:46,200 --> 00:14:49,240 Speaker 1: of funds that have been allocated towards purchasing big ten 309 00:14:49,320 --> 00:14:52,000 Speaker 1: media rights deals that are then just left on the table. 310 00:14:52,480 --> 00:14:54,640 Speaker 1: So the thinking whether it pans out this way or not, 311 00:14:54,640 --> 00:14:57,720 Speaker 1: it's another story. But the thinking is, well, if I'm 312 00:14:57,760 --> 00:15:00,840 Speaker 1: the Big twelve, I want to be as attractive as 313 00:15:00,920 --> 00:15:05,320 Speaker 1: possible because I want to be there for Apple, or 314 00:15:05,360 --> 00:15:07,080 Speaker 1: I want to be there for CBS, or I want 315 00:15:07,120 --> 00:15:09,400 Speaker 1: to be there for Amazon or whoever was in the 316 00:15:09,520 --> 00:15:11,440 Speaker 1: race for those big ten media deals and they missed 317 00:15:11,440 --> 00:15:13,480 Speaker 1: out because they're going to have a lot of money 318 00:15:13,520 --> 00:15:15,680 Speaker 1: to spend and there aren't really any other big media 319 00:15:15,760 --> 00:15:18,040 Speaker 1: rights deals that I see on the horizon. For college football, 320 00:15:18,400 --> 00:15:21,080 Speaker 1: I want to have a product that's desirable enough where 321 00:15:21,120 --> 00:15:24,360 Speaker 1: they pay me enough where it makes a difference long term. 322 00:15:24,560 --> 00:15:27,440 Speaker 1: And maybe I don't start out on equal footing when 323 00:15:27,440 --> 00:15:30,080 Speaker 1: the dust settles and it's US and the SEC and 324 00:15:30,120 --> 00:15:32,520 Speaker 1: the Big ten left is the real big boys on 325 00:15:32,560 --> 00:15:35,840 Speaker 1: the block. But I can grow myself because I'm making 326 00:15:36,040 --> 00:15:39,160 Speaker 1: enough in those media rights deals to grow myself. Well, 327 00:15:39,200 --> 00:15:42,000 Speaker 1: the ACC looks at that and says, I'm not interested 328 00:15:42,040 --> 00:15:45,320 Speaker 1: in that whatsoever, So why don't we enter into a 329 00:15:45,440 --> 00:15:47,960 Speaker 1: loose partnership with the PAC twelve and we can cut 330 00:15:48,400 --> 00:15:50,800 Speaker 1: that merger off at the pass, and we can really 331 00:15:50,880 --> 00:15:54,320 Speaker 1: choke off the Big twelve's ability to do that. Sounds convoluted, 332 00:15:54,360 --> 00:15:57,680 Speaker 1: doesn't it. It's really not. It's not even necessarily chess. 333 00:15:57,800 --> 00:16:01,880 Speaker 1: It's just a more advanced version of That's what's happening 334 00:16:01,960 --> 00:16:04,880 Speaker 1: right now. Here's the problem. You've got folks at Utah, 335 00:16:05,040 --> 00:16:06,680 Speaker 1: and you got folks that Clemson, and you got all 336 00:16:06,720 --> 00:16:09,440 Speaker 1: these folks who are on the phone with one entity 337 00:16:09,960 --> 00:16:12,560 Speaker 1: and then the other one they're just texting like I 338 00:16:12,680 --> 00:16:15,240 Speaker 1: don't even doubt that's pretty close to what the reality is. 339 00:16:15,640 --> 00:16:18,160 Speaker 1: No one knows who they can trust, no one knows 340 00:16:18,200 --> 00:16:21,800 Speaker 1: where the television partner really fits into this equation. There 341 00:16:21,880 --> 00:16:25,640 Speaker 1: are some trains of thought out there that ESPN or 342 00:16:25,760 --> 00:16:28,200 Speaker 1: Fox or CBS they're really kind of pulling the strings 343 00:16:28,240 --> 00:16:30,360 Speaker 1: behind the curtain. And then there are other schools of 344 00:16:30,400 --> 00:16:33,680 Speaker 1: thought that everyone is in a holding pattern until the 345 00:16:33,760 --> 00:16:35,640 Speaker 1: Big ten does what they do, and then we'll kind 346 00:16:35,680 --> 00:16:38,960 Speaker 1: of reassess it's convoluted. But I did want to tell 347 00:16:38,960 --> 00:16:41,160 Speaker 1: you this. We did have some scoop the other night, 348 00:16:41,480 --> 00:16:43,160 Speaker 1: and I know some of you saw it on Twitter, 349 00:16:43,240 --> 00:16:45,000 Speaker 1: but I haven't shown this to you on the show 350 00:16:46,640 --> 00:16:50,640 Speaker 1: Behind the Curtain is interesting because when you get behind 351 00:16:50,640 --> 00:16:54,000 Speaker 1: the curtain, you learn how things are really operating. You 352 00:16:54,160 --> 00:16:56,640 Speaker 1: learn how the operation is really going down. I know 353 00:16:56,720 --> 00:17:01,000 Speaker 1: in the SEC Greg Sanki is a pretty front facing commissioner. 354 00:17:01,080 --> 00:17:04,080 Speaker 1: Everyone knows he's driving the bus. Do we really know 355 00:17:04,320 --> 00:17:06,760 Speaker 1: who's driving the bus in the Big Ten? I know 356 00:17:06,840 --> 00:17:10,200 Speaker 1: the commissioner there is Kevin Warren. But therein lives of 357 00:17:10,240 --> 00:17:12,639 Speaker 1: the scoop that we had the other night, a buddy 358 00:17:12,680 --> 00:17:16,679 Speaker 1: of mine happens to live part of the year out 359 00:17:16,720 --> 00:17:18,359 Speaker 1: of the country, part of the year in the country, 360 00:17:18,440 --> 00:17:20,680 Speaker 1: well part of the year in the continental the United States. 361 00:17:21,080 --> 00:17:24,119 Speaker 1: He's not in the Cayman Islands the other day, and 362 00:17:24,280 --> 00:17:26,840 Speaker 1: he was not alone in the Cayman Islands. Keep in mind, 363 00:17:26,960 --> 00:17:29,840 Speaker 1: the Big Tens deal with USC and UCLA has just 364 00:17:30,080 --> 00:17:33,240 Speaker 1: broken a day before, I think maybe two days before. 365 00:17:33,760 --> 00:17:36,000 Speaker 1: And as I said on Twitter, a paid state source 366 00:17:36,119 --> 00:17:39,960 Speaker 1: spotted Kevin Warren, Big Ten Commissioner in the Cayman Islands, 367 00:17:41,160 --> 00:17:44,320 Speaker 1: in the Cayman Islands. So I ask you, friends, do 368 00:17:44,440 --> 00:17:46,800 Speaker 1: you really believe that Kevin has set up shop in 369 00:17:46,840 --> 00:17:50,080 Speaker 1: the Cayman Islands and he's running point on everything from 370 00:17:50,119 --> 00:17:54,439 Speaker 1: down there or alternate, do we believe that there may 371 00:17:54,520 --> 00:17:57,200 Speaker 1: be some other power players behind the scenes, perhaps with 372 00:17:57,320 --> 00:18:00,720 Speaker 1: the initials JD, that formerly held of very very front 373 00:18:00,760 --> 00:18:03,480 Speaker 1: facing position in that conference. I hope I've been clear enough. 374 00:18:04,280 --> 00:18:06,959 Speaker 1: I'm a believer that Jim Delaney is still heavily involved 375 00:18:07,000 --> 00:18:10,080 Speaker 1: in this, and that's not baseless. That has been said 376 00:18:10,080 --> 00:18:13,560 Speaker 1: to me by a few people. So it doesn't really matter. 377 00:18:13,640 --> 00:18:15,160 Speaker 1: At the end of the day. What's going to happen 378 00:18:15,280 --> 00:18:17,320 Speaker 1: is going to happen. It's just kind of interesting how 379 00:18:17,359 --> 00:18:19,840 Speaker 1: things are happening versus how you may perceive them to 380 00:18:19,880 --> 00:18:23,720 Speaker 1: be happening. So I do believe there are moves coming 381 00:18:23,760 --> 00:18:26,399 Speaker 1: from the Big twelve. I have no clue what happens 382 00:18:26,440 --> 00:18:29,440 Speaker 1: beyond that, nor does most anyone else out there, so 383 00:18:29,680 --> 00:18:32,120 Speaker 1: stay tuned. I think the Sunday Show could be full 384 00:18:32,160 --> 00:18:37,520 Speaker 1: of fireworks for multiple reasons. I've got something tonight that 385 00:18:37,600 --> 00:18:40,080 Speaker 1: Academy Sports and Outdoors does not know I'm going to read. 386 00:18:40,760 --> 00:18:42,920 Speaker 1: But I'm gonna be honest. I think that they should 387 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:45,560 Speaker 1: just press the record button right now, and they should 388 00:18:45,600 --> 00:18:47,800 Speaker 1: just run what I'm about to do as a national 389 00:18:47,880 --> 00:18:50,840 Speaker 1: ad campaign, because it gets no better than this. Late 390 00:18:50,920 --> 00:18:54,200 Speaker 1: kick viewer Al we're gonna omit the last name. He 391 00:18:54,320 --> 00:18:57,560 Speaker 1: hits me up in my Instagram dms at Lake Kick Josh. 392 00:18:57,640 --> 00:19:01,680 Speaker 1: There here was Al's conundrum, classic conundrum. He doesn't know 393 00:19:01,760 --> 00:19:05,240 Speaker 1: a whole lot about fishing, but his wife and daughters 394 00:19:05,280 --> 00:19:08,160 Speaker 1: are out of town, and so his little guy comes 395 00:19:08,200 --> 00:19:11,720 Speaker 1: to him and says, Dad, take me fishing. And Al 396 00:19:11,920 --> 00:19:15,320 Speaker 1: does what any father worth his salt does. He pretends 397 00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:18,080 Speaker 1: to know about fishing. He says, all right, buddy, come on, 398 00:19:18,680 --> 00:19:21,480 Speaker 1: and then he goes to Academy. We picked the story 399 00:19:21,560 --> 00:19:24,000 Speaker 1: up there. Al hits me up. I had no idea 400 00:19:24,080 --> 00:19:26,720 Speaker 1: where to buy fishing equipment, says Al, but because of 401 00:19:26,840 --> 00:19:29,879 Speaker 1: your promotions from Academy, I decided to start there. I 402 00:19:30,040 --> 00:19:32,359 Speaker 1: was blown away by the selection they had. I was 403 00:19:32,400 --> 00:19:34,920 Speaker 1: able to get his first fishing rod along with all 404 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:36,760 Speaker 1: the other needed gear, as you can see in the 405 00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:39,520 Speaker 1: attached pictures, which you're seeing right now if you're watching 406 00:19:39,560 --> 00:19:42,320 Speaker 1: on YouTube. He was very pleased with the purchase. We'll 407 00:19:42,359 --> 00:19:45,000 Speaker 1: be trying it out tonight. Pray for good results. I'm 408 00:19:45,040 --> 00:19:47,560 Speaker 1: thankful to you an Academy, for indirectly leading me to 409 00:19:47,680 --> 00:19:51,000 Speaker 1: this awesome experience with my son. Thank you, Al. A 410 00:19:51,160 --> 00:19:56,600 Speaker 1: regular listener from Lincolnton, Georgia hometown of Garrison Hurst, and 411 00:19:56,760 --> 00:19:58,840 Speaker 1: here we see the end result. It was a very 412 00:19:58,880 --> 00:20:02,080 Speaker 1: successful trip with top of the line equipment and a 413 00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:05,520 Speaker 1: memory brought to you by Al his son and Academy 414 00:20:05,520 --> 00:20:08,159 Speaker 1: Sports and Outdoors that will last a lifetime. As I 415 00:20:08,280 --> 00:20:09,960 Speaker 1: tell you, guys a lot. Sure you can get your 416 00:20:09,960 --> 00:20:12,640 Speaker 1: sporting goods equipment there, but there are also other things 417 00:20:12,680 --> 00:20:14,280 Speaker 1: that you can get there that maybe aren't on the 418 00:20:14,320 --> 00:20:16,280 Speaker 1: top of your mind when you think about a sporting 419 00:20:16,320 --> 00:20:19,879 Speaker 1: goods store. If among them for Al fishing equipment. So 420 00:20:20,280 --> 00:20:23,360 Speaker 1: Al walked in knowing nothing about fishing, and he walked out. 421 00:20:24,040 --> 00:20:25,480 Speaker 1: I might as well have his own TV show on 422 00:20:25,480 --> 00:20:28,359 Speaker 1: Saturday mornings now. So thank you to Academy Sports and 423 00:20:28,359 --> 00:20:31,480 Speaker 1: Outdoors for being our exclusive partner, and thanks to you guys, 424 00:20:31,600 --> 00:20:37,760 Speaker 1: courtesy of Al Bold Prediction. Time. Here we go Chapter 425 00:20:37,840 --> 00:20:40,000 Speaker 1: twenty two. They said we'd never make it this far, 426 00:20:40,359 --> 00:20:42,840 Speaker 1: but look at us thriving in the twenties. How far 427 00:20:42,960 --> 00:20:44,720 Speaker 1: do we make it? By the way, do the Bold 428 00:20:44,800 --> 00:20:47,920 Speaker 1: Predictions make it to chapter thirty? If your submissions today 429 00:20:47,920 --> 00:20:50,360 Speaker 1: were any indication, I think they will. These are things 430 00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:52,040 Speaker 1: that you claim you would bet your own money on 431 00:20:52,560 --> 00:20:54,200 Speaker 1: I just want to put that out there. Here. We go, 432 00:20:54,320 --> 00:20:58,840 Speaker 1: first up, Florida State, according to Chris, will go three 433 00:20:59,320 --> 00:21:03,400 Speaker 1: of four in games against LSU, Miami, Clemson, and Florida 434 00:21:04,400 --> 00:21:07,439 Speaker 1: Paper Pop. That is an eight on the boldness scale 435 00:21:07,440 --> 00:21:10,240 Speaker 1: of one to ten. I'm gonna do you guys a 436 00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:13,320 Speaker 1: favor here. I have not done this at all throughout 437 00:21:13,320 --> 00:21:16,720 Speaker 1: the entire summer. I'm gonna dust off the late kick model. 438 00:21:17,160 --> 00:21:19,800 Speaker 1: It's the first time that I've revealed any of our 439 00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:22,960 Speaker 1: hypothetical lines. These are not Vegas numbers. These are what 440 00:21:23,080 --> 00:21:27,560 Speaker 1: our model actually has to say about these numbers. FSU 441 00:21:27,640 --> 00:21:29,119 Speaker 1: is going to be a dog in all these games. 442 00:21:30,200 --> 00:21:34,040 Speaker 1: We in order chronologically, would have LSU by two and 443 00:21:34,080 --> 00:21:37,280 Speaker 1: a half over FSU right now. We would have Clemson 444 00:21:37,560 --> 00:21:40,159 Speaker 1: by eleven and a half over FSU, We would have 445 00:21:40,280 --> 00:21:43,400 Speaker 1: Miami by ten over FSU, and we would have Florida 446 00:21:43,480 --> 00:21:45,280 Speaker 1: by four and a half. That one's in doke, I 447 00:21:45,320 --> 00:21:48,800 Speaker 1: believe towards the end of the season. So as you heard, 448 00:21:48,840 --> 00:21:51,280 Speaker 1: there's no thirty points spread there, but they are a 449 00:21:51,359 --> 00:21:54,440 Speaker 1: dog there, So it would require three mile to moderate 450 00:21:54,560 --> 00:21:57,439 Speaker 1: outright upsets just standard. I'm going to go with an 451 00:21:57,480 --> 00:22:00,800 Speaker 1: eight there. Splitting those four games, I think would be 452 00:22:00,840 --> 00:22:02,359 Speaker 1: a pretty big deal. In fact, I think if I 453 00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:04,440 Speaker 1: offered you that right now, if you're a Florida State fan, 454 00:22:04,480 --> 00:22:06,359 Speaker 1: you get to pick two out of those four games 455 00:22:06,400 --> 00:22:08,600 Speaker 1: to win. Given that you're over. Under win total in 456 00:22:08,680 --> 00:22:11,680 Speaker 1: Vegas is seven right now, you split those, I think 457 00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:15,120 Speaker 1: you're going over unless you have devastating injury or several 458 00:22:15,160 --> 00:22:17,520 Speaker 1: big upsets elsewhere. So that one's an eight for me. 459 00:22:17,880 --> 00:22:20,600 Speaker 1: Next up kind of a version of a question that 460 00:22:20,760 --> 00:22:22,680 Speaker 1: or a prediction that we had a couple of weeks ago. 461 00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:25,480 Speaker 1: But this one from Dylan is a little more specific. 462 00:22:26,119 --> 00:22:29,040 Speaker 1: This year's college football playoff will be one hundred percent 463 00:22:29,240 --> 00:22:33,159 Speaker 1: Big ten and SEC. A foresight into the future of 464 00:22:33,280 --> 00:22:36,960 Speaker 1: the sport. I made this one an eight man. It 465 00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:40,000 Speaker 1: really shows the strength of the conferences that it's not 466 00:22:40,119 --> 00:22:42,120 Speaker 1: higher than that. So I'm going to read a list 467 00:22:42,160 --> 00:22:44,600 Speaker 1: of teams to you. As on YouTube you can see 468 00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:47,600 Speaker 1: the teams that have already made it throughout the entirety 469 00:22:47,600 --> 00:22:51,040 Speaker 1: of the playoffs so far. For this to pan out, 470 00:22:51,320 --> 00:22:54,480 Speaker 1: for it to only be SEC and Big ten teams 471 00:22:54,520 --> 00:22:59,920 Speaker 1: like Oklahoma, USC, Texas, Utah, Oregon, Clemson, Miami, Pit NC State, 472 00:23:00,200 --> 00:23:03,600 Speaker 1: Notre Dame. None of them can be in because you've 473 00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:07,080 Speaker 1: got Georgia and Ohio State and Michigan and A and 474 00:23:07,240 --> 00:23:11,600 Speaker 1: m or Alabama. Is if if you have just two 475 00:23:11,760 --> 00:23:14,600 Speaker 1: representatives here conference wide, of course it's gonna be the 476 00:23:14,640 --> 00:23:16,879 Speaker 1: Big Ten and the SEC. We also don't know what 477 00:23:17,040 --> 00:23:19,200 Speaker 1: Notre Dame is gonna do and fit into this whole equation. 478 00:23:19,359 --> 00:23:22,320 Speaker 1: So outside of that, I am saying this is an eight, 479 00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:25,560 Speaker 1: but it would be a brutal twist of irony right 480 00:23:25,600 --> 00:23:28,520 Speaker 1: into the ribs if before we even enter the quote 481 00:23:28,560 --> 00:23:31,640 Speaker 1: unquote new world of college football, we have a playoff 482 00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:35,520 Speaker 1: that features Big Ten and SEC exclusively. I also think 483 00:23:35,600 --> 00:23:38,680 Speaker 1: when you think about teams like Utah, just to pick 484 00:23:38,760 --> 00:23:41,159 Speaker 1: the Utes as an example, doesn't there have to be 485 00:23:41,200 --> 00:23:43,639 Speaker 1: a little more desperation than normal because you do not 486 00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:47,159 Speaker 1: know what twenty twenty four and five and beyond holds 487 00:23:47,200 --> 00:23:49,240 Speaker 1: for you. You quite literally at the moment, don't even 488 00:23:49,320 --> 00:23:51,680 Speaker 1: know what conference you're gonna be in, much less what 489 00:23:51,800 --> 00:23:53,879 Speaker 1: kind of shot you're gonna have at the playoff. But 490 00:23:54,040 --> 00:23:57,000 Speaker 1: you do know this. If you guys go, for instance, 491 00:23:57,400 --> 00:24:00,200 Speaker 1: into Gainesville and beat Florida week one or May, maybe 492 00:24:00,240 --> 00:24:02,200 Speaker 1: you lose thirty to twenty seven, but you run the 493 00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:03,399 Speaker 1: table the rest of the way and you win. The 494 00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:05,920 Speaker 1: PAC twelve got a pretty darn good shot of being 495 00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:09,440 Speaker 1: in the playoff. You don't know how much longer that lasts. 496 00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:12,120 Speaker 1: It's like driving into a thunderstorm down here. Like it's 497 00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:15,000 Speaker 1: it's the South, it's the summer. So you see those 498 00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:17,639 Speaker 1: rain shafts all over the place. In the afternoon, you 499 00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:20,280 Speaker 1: look down I sixty five and about a quarter mile 500 00:24:20,320 --> 00:24:22,120 Speaker 1: away that rain shafts in front of you. You can't 501 00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:25,160 Speaker 1: see through it. Utah and teams like that. They can't 502 00:24:25,200 --> 00:24:27,840 Speaker 1: see past twenty twenty four to twenty twenty five, but 503 00:24:28,359 --> 00:24:29,879 Speaker 1: they can see right in front of them right now 504 00:24:30,200 --> 00:24:34,480 Speaker 1: desperation time, because if it's ever gonna happen, the stuff 505 00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:37,240 Speaker 1: that you control is just right in front of you. 506 00:24:37,240 --> 00:24:38,960 Speaker 1: A couple of years you can't see past that. So 507 00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:40,879 Speaker 1: I'm gonna call that one an eight. I do believe 508 00:24:40,960 --> 00:24:44,080 Speaker 1: there will be representation outside the SEC and the Big ten. 509 00:24:44,520 --> 00:24:47,919 Speaker 1: Next up, this one gets really really saucy. Katie by 510 00:24:47,920 --> 00:24:49,760 Speaker 1: the way, he hit us up from Barstool, who would 511 00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:52,920 Speaker 1: probably be the single biggest name in that company if 512 00:24:52,960 --> 00:24:54,560 Speaker 1: she didn't have to be shackled to the likes of 513 00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:58,720 Speaker 1: Brandon Walker, I Digress cade Klubnick. According to Katie, will 514 00:24:58,840 --> 00:25:03,120 Speaker 1: start a game over DJ Luiangola Lay at least once 515 00:25:03,280 --> 00:25:06,600 Speaker 1: this year. Notice what she didn't say. She didn't say 516 00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:09,240 Speaker 1: that he's going to start because DJ's hurt. He just 517 00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:12,600 Speaker 1: said he's going to start. And I actually don't think 518 00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:15,240 Speaker 1: it's that bold. I think it's a five because I 519 00:25:15,359 --> 00:25:17,840 Speaker 1: happen to believe this is going to go down now. 520 00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:21,520 Speaker 1: It flies in the face of conventional wisdom. Conventional wisdom 521 00:25:21,560 --> 00:25:24,120 Speaker 1: tells you a five star quarterback with a year's worth 522 00:25:24,160 --> 00:25:26,479 Speaker 1: of starting experience under his belt is going to flourish 523 00:25:26,520 --> 00:25:30,720 Speaker 1: in year two. That's just what Preview magazine. Conventional wisdom 524 00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:33,639 Speaker 1: tells you. We know what to do with that. History 525 00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:36,320 Speaker 1: has taught us. The second thing it does is it 526 00:25:36,440 --> 00:25:39,240 Speaker 1: flies in the face of what Dabosweny, his head coach, 527 00:25:39,320 --> 00:25:42,240 Speaker 1: Derek Clemson said in the spring. He was adamant was 528 00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:45,680 Speaker 1: Dabosweny that we're behind Dj. We have every bit of 529 00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:48,119 Speaker 1: hope and confidence and trust that he's going to develop 530 00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:50,480 Speaker 1: into the quarterback we need him to be. I'm a 531 00:25:50,520 --> 00:25:54,000 Speaker 1: little less certain, but also I don't think it really 532 00:25:54,080 --> 00:25:57,439 Speaker 1: gets real in anyone's mind until you get into the season, 533 00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:00,400 Speaker 1: until it's live bullets time in Week one or two 534 00:26:00,520 --> 00:26:03,920 Speaker 1: or whenever you know. They open against Georgia Tech. My 535 00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:07,000 Speaker 1: point with Tech is not that that's an upset alert 536 00:26:07,080 --> 00:26:10,000 Speaker 1: game necessarily, But I think a lot of folks look 537 00:26:10,040 --> 00:26:13,240 Speaker 1: at Clemson schedule and they say Georgia Tech, Furman, Louisiana Tech, 538 00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:15,720 Speaker 1: at Wake Force. They start getting three or four weeks 539 00:26:15,760 --> 00:26:20,160 Speaker 1: down the road before they truly believe that Clemson will 540 00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:24,040 Speaker 1: be tested. I am trying to explain to some of 541 00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:27,480 Speaker 1: my Clemson brethren even as we speak, if you do 542 00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:30,160 Speaker 1: have the same problems you had last year, you will 543 00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:32,720 Speaker 1: not get through Week one before you know it. You 544 00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:35,320 Speaker 1: won't get through the first half of Week one before 545 00:26:35,359 --> 00:26:38,879 Speaker 1: you know it. Mark my words. If DJ Leang Lalay 546 00:26:39,119 --> 00:26:42,280 Speaker 1: is truly that improved, this is a moot point non issue. 547 00:26:42,560 --> 00:26:45,080 Speaker 1: If he's not, if they still have the same struggles 548 00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:48,000 Speaker 1: they had last year, you will have a very ugly 549 00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:51,560 Speaker 1: first half against Georgia Tech. Here's the difference. Last year, 550 00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:54,040 Speaker 1: it didn't matter, he was trotting right back out there. 551 00:26:54,080 --> 00:26:57,600 Speaker 1: If he was healthy. This year, you know in the 552 00:26:57,640 --> 00:26:59,960 Speaker 1: back of your mind what you didn't know last year, 553 00:27:00,280 --> 00:27:03,840 Speaker 1: and that is I got a healthy and very talented 554 00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:07,679 Speaker 1: backup on the bench in Kate Klubnick. And he had 555 00:27:07,720 --> 00:27:10,040 Speaker 1: five stars next to his name too, and he looked 556 00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:13,120 Speaker 1: really good in spring two. And we know we recruited 557 00:27:13,200 --> 00:27:15,879 Speaker 1: him and we evaluated him, and we love him just 558 00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:19,199 Speaker 1: like we love DJ out of high school. If it's 559 00:27:19,280 --> 00:27:21,879 Speaker 1: thirty eight to thirteen in week one against Clemson or 560 00:27:21,920 --> 00:27:24,800 Speaker 1: against Georgia Tech, you're good. But what if we get 561 00:27:25,119 --> 00:27:28,959 Speaker 1: midway through the third quarter and it's sixteen to twelve, 562 00:27:29,200 --> 00:27:33,480 Speaker 1: it's just a clunker of a game. How much leash 563 00:27:33,920 --> 00:27:38,320 Speaker 1: do we see DJ with? And then here's the follow up, 564 00:27:38,359 --> 00:27:41,200 Speaker 1: because it's one thing to replace your quarterback in a game. 565 00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:44,440 Speaker 1: Katie said, Kay, clubn, it's going to start a game. 566 00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:47,760 Speaker 1: So if we see the switch, of course, then you 567 00:27:48,280 --> 00:27:51,240 Speaker 1: just visualized the postgame presser. And then the postgame presser. 568 00:27:51,520 --> 00:27:54,760 Speaker 1: First question to Daboswiney and a Hickey sitting right there 569 00:27:55,119 --> 00:27:57,600 Speaker 1: representing twenty four to seven sports for the Clemson site, 570 00:27:57,600 --> 00:28:00,720 Speaker 1: and she says, what is the status of the quarterback 571 00:28:01,119 --> 00:28:04,240 Speaker 1: battle now moving forward? And Dad was gonna say, we're 572 00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:05,840 Speaker 1: gonna take it day to day, or maybe he even 573 00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:08,600 Speaker 1: says well, you know, DJ's our starter, still point being 574 00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:10,920 Speaker 1: all of a sudden it becomes a question and eventually, 575 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:12,840 Speaker 1: if that is the case, especially early in the year, 576 00:28:12,960 --> 00:28:14,399 Speaker 1: k club and it's gonna end up starting for you. 577 00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:18,119 Speaker 1: My point is, if it starts early, or if it 578 00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:21,000 Speaker 1: happens midway through the season, I think that time eventually 579 00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:23,960 Speaker 1: will come this year. So I don't think it's that 580 00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:27,080 Speaker 1: bold to suggest. Next up, let's go to the Big Twelve. 581 00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:31,680 Speaker 1: HECU plays in the Big Twelve championship game. Huh, Well, 582 00:28:32,560 --> 00:28:35,080 Speaker 1: in the Big Twelve. As you know, our philosophy here 583 00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:38,040 Speaker 1: is there is no ten. There isn't really even a 584 00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:41,280 Speaker 1: nine short of Kansas winning the whole thing. There isn't 585 00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:43,480 Speaker 1: really that bowld of prediction that could be made in 586 00:28:43,520 --> 00:28:45,080 Speaker 1: this conference. So I'm gonna call this one an eight, 587 00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:49,760 Speaker 1: and I may be too high there. TCU has the one, two, three, four, 588 00:28:50,560 --> 00:28:54,960 Speaker 1: the sixth longest odds right now to win the Big Twelve. 589 00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:57,040 Speaker 1: The prediction is they're going to play in the Big 590 00:28:57,080 --> 00:29:00,440 Speaker 1: Twelve championship game. Of course, it should be noted last 591 00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:03,600 Speaker 1: year the Baylor Bears won the conference. They played in 592 00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:05,640 Speaker 1: the game, they won the conference, they had the second 593 00:29:05,720 --> 00:29:08,280 Speaker 1: longest odds to win the thing in the entire conference 594 00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:11,480 Speaker 1: going into the season. So if TCU pulled this off, 595 00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:15,840 Speaker 1: it wouldn't be near the odds upset that Baylor pulling 596 00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:18,240 Speaker 1: that off was last year. Sonny Dikes is the head 597 00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:21,920 Speaker 1: coach at TCU. Now Gary Patterson is wearing a Longhorn 598 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:24,800 Speaker 1: pullo down in Austin. Not the head coach. Some people 599 00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:26,800 Speaker 1: will tell you not yet, He's not the head coach 600 00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:30,400 Speaker 1: there any longer. Sonny dikes is came over from SMU, 601 00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:34,400 Speaker 1: and I'll tell you what's really interesting there. People have 602 00:29:34,640 --> 00:29:36,960 Speaker 1: questions about them along the lines of scrimmage, but they 603 00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:39,680 Speaker 1: got two quarterbacks that if anyone's going to figure out 604 00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:42,680 Speaker 1: in year one, it's going to be Sonny Dikes, and 605 00:29:42,760 --> 00:29:45,000 Speaker 1: they just they kind of have like an interesting roster. 606 00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:48,520 Speaker 1: You get wide ranges of opinions from people out in 607 00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:51,160 Speaker 1: the Big twelve, but that's the way they talked about 608 00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:54,200 Speaker 1: Baylor last year, if you'll recall. So this is not 609 00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:57,440 Speaker 1: crazy to me, it's bold. You know what, I'm not 610 00:29:57,480 --> 00:29:59,000 Speaker 1: even going to call it an eight, it's a seven. 611 00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:04,680 Speaker 1: Why not they have at Texas and at Baylor mid November, 612 00:30:04,800 --> 00:30:07,000 Speaker 1: and that's not the easiest way to wrap up your schedule. 613 00:30:07,080 --> 00:30:10,160 Speaker 1: But I'm gonna call it a seven. There's TCU's schedule 614 00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:12,760 Speaker 1: here on the back half. I mean, it's a tough 615 00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:15,160 Speaker 1: three game stretch to end it. They go at Texas 616 00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:17,960 Speaker 1: at Baylor, Iowa State. You know, for all I know, 617 00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:21,960 Speaker 1: we could see them enter November in the race before 618 00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:25,280 Speaker 1: fading because of that back three game stretch to end 619 00:30:25,320 --> 00:30:27,640 Speaker 1: the season. But nevertheless, I'm gonna say that's a seven 620 00:30:27,760 --> 00:30:30,920 Speaker 1: on the boldness scale. Bold but not impossible. Last one here, 621 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:33,480 Speaker 1: it gets really personal, really quick, and a lot of 622 00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:35,040 Speaker 1: you don't know what this means, and I'll explain it 623 00:30:35,080 --> 00:30:37,920 Speaker 1: to you our friends there at College Football Unlimited, said 624 00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:42,240 Speaker 1: Raman Noudle. Express will exceed sixty percent against the spread 625 00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:45,440 Speaker 1: this year. Eyeball emoji, you know what this is. It's 626 00:30:45,480 --> 00:30:48,800 Speaker 1: a two on the boldness scale, least bold prediction we've 627 00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:51,640 Speaker 1: had so far out of twenty two chapters. We did 628 00:30:51,720 --> 00:30:54,800 Speaker 1: this just two years ago. Last year we were below 629 00:30:54,880 --> 00:30:58,160 Speaker 1: sixty percent. Still very profitable, but below sixty percent. It 630 00:30:58,360 --> 00:31:01,760 Speaker 1: is our mission in life and it has been since 631 00:31:01,880 --> 00:31:04,280 Speaker 1: the ending of last year to do two things. Number one, 632 00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:07,640 Speaker 1: get our YouTube channel to one hundred thousand subs, done 633 00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:10,800 Speaker 1: number two, be back above sixty percent with the Rama 634 00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:13,520 Speaker 1: Noodle Express. This year we have added tens of thousands 635 00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:16,600 Speaker 1: of new listeners and viewers who are no doubt asking themselves, 636 00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:19,320 Speaker 1: I miss something. What's the Rama Noodle Express? It makes 637 00:31:19,360 --> 00:31:21,640 Speaker 1: no sense to me. It shouldn't. Here's all it is. 638 00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:23,880 Speaker 1: When I used to do radio down in Columbus, Georgia, 639 00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:25,840 Speaker 1: we used to joke all the time. We had a 640 00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:28,120 Speaker 1: caller who used to joke about his bets that he 641 00:31:28,200 --> 00:31:30,320 Speaker 1: was placing for the weekend and he needed him to 642 00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:32,000 Speaker 1: hit or else his kids were going to have to 643 00:31:32,040 --> 00:31:35,320 Speaker 1: survive on ramen noodles. I took that. Years later, I 644 00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:37,640 Speaker 1: needed to name our betting segment, and so I just 645 00:31:37,720 --> 00:31:40,080 Speaker 1: named it the Rama Noodle Express. It is. It is 646 00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:42,840 Speaker 1: expressly met to keep you off a Rama noodle diet. 647 00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:45,240 Speaker 1: We have really cool logos with it too, Maybe some 648 00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:49,320 Speaker 1: cooler ones this year TBD. But the Rama Noodle Express 649 00:31:50,120 --> 00:31:52,160 Speaker 1: is our pack of picks that we give out on 650 00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:55,840 Speaker 1: the show. We have our own proprietary model. We don't 651 00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:58,120 Speaker 1: sell it. We don't sell the picks. It's nothing like that. 652 00:31:58,640 --> 00:32:00,719 Speaker 1: This show is where you come from. You take them 653 00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:03,160 Speaker 1: or leave them. Our advice is bet all of them 654 00:32:03,240 --> 00:32:05,760 Speaker 1: or don't bet any of them. More on how this 655 00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:09,200 Speaker 1: is gonna work functionally later on. But the Raman Noudile 656 00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:13,400 Speaker 1: express it is my mission, my h not quite promise 657 00:32:13,400 --> 00:32:15,840 Speaker 1: because that'll get me in legal trouble. My mission and 658 00:32:15,960 --> 00:32:17,840 Speaker 1: my vow for me to you is I will try 659 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:20,160 Speaker 1: my best to get that thing back over sixty percent 660 00:32:20,200 --> 00:32:23,680 Speaker 1: this year. Stay tuned on that they're watching us in Springville, Utah, 661 00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:26,200 Speaker 1: which I hear is lovely this time of year. Charlotte, 662 00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:30,600 Speaker 1: North Carolina is tuned in. DeWitt, Michigan, and Alexandria, Louisiana 663 00:32:30,880 --> 00:32:34,800 Speaker 1: all tuned in. Let's talk about football. There's been a 664 00:32:35,000 --> 00:32:38,320 Speaker 1: precious lack of actual football talk this week because of 665 00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:40,720 Speaker 1: all the other stuff sucking the ouction into oxygen out 666 00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:44,280 Speaker 1: of the room. So I was gonna do a segment 667 00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:47,080 Speaker 1: tonight on the biggest swing games of the year. Then 668 00:32:47,160 --> 00:32:48,760 Speaker 1: I was going to do a segment on the first 669 00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:50,480 Speaker 1: half of the season. Then I was going to do 670 00:32:50,520 --> 00:32:52,640 Speaker 1: a segment just on September. But at the end of 671 00:32:52,640 --> 00:32:54,440 Speaker 1: the day, I couldn't even get through weeks one and two. 672 00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:56,280 Speaker 1: So here's what we're gonna do. Here you go, Colum 673 00:32:56,880 --> 00:32:59,800 Speaker 1: biggest swing games first couple of weeks in September, because 674 00:32:59,800 --> 00:33:01,320 Speaker 1: there are a lot of them, as it turns out. 675 00:33:01,560 --> 00:33:03,640 Speaker 1: And I want to start in week one, and I 676 00:33:03,720 --> 00:33:06,960 Speaker 1: want to start in Fayetteville, Arkansas, because that is where 677 00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:11,920 Speaker 1: Cincinnati playoff bound Cincinnati from a year ago rolls into 678 00:33:12,240 --> 00:33:14,280 Speaker 1: face Arkansas. It's one of the toughest out of conference 679 00:33:14,320 --> 00:33:17,280 Speaker 1: schedules in the country Arkansas plays this year. This one's 680 00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:20,360 Speaker 1: a big swing game for both teams. For Cincinnati, it's 681 00:33:20,440 --> 00:33:22,720 Speaker 1: very obvious, you know, any of the G five teams, 682 00:33:23,080 --> 00:33:25,680 Speaker 1: they normally need to go undefeated to be in the conversation. 683 00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:28,560 Speaker 1: So if Cincinnati loses this and they're about a seven 684 00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:30,560 Speaker 1: or a seven and a half point dog according to 685 00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:33,480 Speaker 1: oddsmakers right now, then yeah, that would be the swing 686 00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:36,520 Speaker 1: for them winning and losing. It's a big swing for Cincinnati. 687 00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:40,360 Speaker 1: But I'm really more focused on Arkansas here because you see, 688 00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:44,080 Speaker 1: here's the thing about the perception around Arkansas. No one 689 00:33:44,200 --> 00:33:46,720 Speaker 1: takes this game for granted. No one looks at this 690 00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:48,840 Speaker 1: one and says, oh, that's a cake walk. There's another 691 00:33:48,920 --> 00:33:51,320 Speaker 1: cream puff for the SEC in Week one. No, it's 692 00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:53,720 Speaker 1: nothing like that, but no one's looking at it. Picking 693 00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:57,120 Speaker 1: Cincinnati to win either. So there's this there's this fine 694 00:33:57,160 --> 00:34:00,800 Speaker 1: line you walk. You view it as a nice if challenge. 695 00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:04,080 Speaker 1: It's a resume builder, but it's not a landmine. No 696 00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:08,000 Speaker 1: one's looking at it like that. But the obvious connotation 697 00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:11,120 Speaker 1: here in labeling it a swing game is we do 698 00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:15,120 Speaker 1: have to entertain the idea that Arkansas could lose. I 699 00:34:15,239 --> 00:34:17,879 Speaker 1: know that's foreign concept on this show, but Arkansas could 700 00:34:17,920 --> 00:34:19,879 Speaker 1: lose the game if they were to lose that game 701 00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:22,960 Speaker 1: after all of this immense hype in what a casual 702 00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:26,879 Speaker 1: would deem the offseason. What if Arkansas is welcoming South 703 00:34:26,960 --> 00:34:29,200 Speaker 1: Carolina into town week two and they're oho to one. 704 00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:32,279 Speaker 1: That's not something anyone in Preview magazine lands ready for. 705 00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:35,000 Speaker 1: So this is a big swing game because Arkansas has 706 00:34:35,040 --> 00:34:37,399 Speaker 1: got a bunch of big games down the road. Can't 707 00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:40,040 Speaker 1: have them start oh to one? Can we dot dot 708 00:34:40,640 --> 00:34:42,759 Speaker 1: second up? Which is a game that actually will take 709 00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:45,919 Speaker 1: place two days before this one. This one's off the radar, 710 00:34:46,040 --> 00:34:48,000 Speaker 1: but it will be on the radar pretty soon once 711 00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:51,040 Speaker 1: you guys realize this is the first big game you're 712 00:34:51,040 --> 00:34:54,080 Speaker 1: gonna see, unless you count the week zero game in Ireland. 713 00:34:55,320 --> 00:34:58,080 Speaker 1: Penn State goes to Purdue in Week one. It's a 714 00:34:58,160 --> 00:35:03,800 Speaker 1: Thursday night game. And interestingly enough, the way that Fox 715 00:35:03,960 --> 00:35:07,080 Speaker 1: was able to acquire this thing included Joe Buck going 716 00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:09,640 Speaker 1: to ESPN. It's one of those little footnotes of history 717 00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:12,560 Speaker 1: that a game was traded for an announcer. It wasn't 718 00:35:12,560 --> 00:35:14,400 Speaker 1: exactly a one for one swap, but you get the 719 00:35:14,440 --> 00:35:17,000 Speaker 1: picture there. So the line on this thing is three 720 00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:19,160 Speaker 1: and a half Penn State minus three and a half. 721 00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:22,080 Speaker 1: Make no mistake, this is not just a swing game 722 00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:24,560 Speaker 1: for Penn State. It's both of them. I know, on 723 00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:28,239 Speaker 1: the national radar, you here perdue and you think afterthought 724 00:35:28,320 --> 00:35:30,960 Speaker 1: in the Big Ten. Well they're not for two reasons. 725 00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:33,359 Speaker 1: Number one, they got a quarterback that's about thirty seven 726 00:35:33,400 --> 00:35:35,200 Speaker 1: years old. He's been there a long time. But number two, 727 00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:38,719 Speaker 1: they play in the Big Ten West, and this very 728 00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:40,600 Speaker 1: well could be the toughest game they play all year. 729 00:35:40,719 --> 00:35:44,080 Speaker 1: I would argue their game at Wisconsin is tougher, but 730 00:35:44,320 --> 00:35:47,000 Speaker 1: it's comparable at the very least. If they get by 731 00:35:47,120 --> 00:35:49,279 Speaker 1: Penn State in Week one, here's what's going to happen. 732 00:35:49,719 --> 00:35:52,360 Speaker 1: You know it happens every year. You have that prime 733 00:35:52,480 --> 00:35:56,320 Speaker 1: standalone game on the Thursday night. Think about for instance 734 00:35:56,719 --> 00:35:59,440 Speaker 1: when Texas A and M went into South Carolina and 735 00:35:59,520 --> 00:36:03,080 Speaker 1: they just shrug South Carolina. Several years ago, Kevin Sumlin, 736 00:36:03,160 --> 00:36:06,400 Speaker 1: Era and Kenny Hill got labeled a Heisman favorite for 737 00:36:06,440 --> 00:36:09,640 Speaker 1: about a week. When you have that Thursday night game, 738 00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:13,320 Speaker 1: especially the winner of that game, you get an inordinate 739 00:36:13,320 --> 00:36:16,160 Speaker 1: amount of praise because no one has calibrated how to 740 00:36:16,239 --> 00:36:18,400 Speaker 1: handle things because it's week one, it's the first thing 741 00:36:18,440 --> 00:36:21,480 Speaker 1: you're seeing, and everyone's bet on the game, probably an 742 00:36:21,520 --> 00:36:24,239 Speaker 1: irresponsible amount of money. You'll be betting on Perduer Penn State. 743 00:36:24,360 --> 00:36:26,960 Speaker 1: If Perdue wins that game, especially if quarterback Aid and 744 00:36:27,000 --> 00:36:29,759 Speaker 1: O'Connell shines, you will look at them and everyone all 745 00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:31,719 Speaker 1: of a sudden will be an expert on Purdue. But 746 00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:35,279 Speaker 1: the point is, even if they're a little overhyped, look 747 00:36:35,320 --> 00:36:38,280 Speaker 1: at the schedule. Indiana State the next week at Syracuse, 748 00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:41,040 Speaker 1: Florida Atlantic. They got back to back road games. Yes 749 00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:44,319 Speaker 1: they do, against Minnesota, which is in turmoil at the moment, 750 00:36:44,560 --> 00:36:49,560 Speaker 1: and Maryland Nebraska. They get down to October twenty second 751 00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:52,600 Speaker 1: before there's another game that makes you really go ooh man, 752 00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:56,239 Speaker 1: and that's at Wisconsin. They finish up with Iowa at 753 00:36:56,320 --> 00:37:00,280 Speaker 1: Illinois Northwestern at Indiana. You keep waiting for that Ohio 754 00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:02,800 Speaker 1: State bombshell, there's not one. You keep waiting for Michigan, 755 00:37:02,840 --> 00:37:05,120 Speaker 1: there's not one. So Purdue, if they get past that 756 00:37:05,160 --> 00:37:07,640 Speaker 1: first game against Penn State, this is not a meat 757 00:37:07,680 --> 00:37:09,759 Speaker 1: grinder of a schedule. But on the other side, with 758 00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:11,839 Speaker 1: Penn State feels the same as it did last year. 759 00:37:12,440 --> 00:37:14,600 Speaker 1: They knew that they were opening against Wisconsin. Last year, 760 00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:16,120 Speaker 1: they had Auburn in Week three. Those were going to 761 00:37:16,120 --> 00:37:18,400 Speaker 1: be coin flip games and it was going to determine 762 00:37:18,440 --> 00:37:20,719 Speaker 1: the trajectory of the season. As it turns out, they 763 00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:23,479 Speaker 1: won both of them and still underachieved because of injury 764 00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:25,839 Speaker 1: at the quarterback position. But it's the same way this year. 765 00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:29,080 Speaker 1: We don't predict injury. They got a very very tight 766 00:37:29,239 --> 00:37:32,440 Speaker 1: game there against Purdue. Two weeks later they go to Auburn, 767 00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:34,600 Speaker 1: and so what are they going to be when they 768 00:37:34,680 --> 00:37:38,480 Speaker 1: play Michigan on October fifteenth? One lost team, two lost team, 769 00:37:38,719 --> 00:37:41,440 Speaker 1: undefeated team. Think about how different that game looks. You 770 00:37:41,520 --> 00:37:44,080 Speaker 1: get undefeated Penn State going into Michigan all of a 771 00:37:44,080 --> 00:37:47,080 Speaker 1: sudden October fifteenth. That's not a game the nation is 772 00:37:47,160 --> 00:37:50,680 Speaker 1: talking about yet. That's how college football unfolds you got 773 00:37:50,800 --> 00:37:52,680 Speaker 1: to use the context that week by week you get 774 00:37:52,719 --> 00:37:56,040 Speaker 1: on Saturdays. So that's a big one. What a veteran 775 00:37:56,160 --> 00:38:01,920 Speaker 1: quarterback battle. I think Sean Clifford and Aidan O'Connell combined 776 00:38:02,080 --> 00:38:05,480 Speaker 1: age triple digits or very close to it. So it's 777 00:38:05,520 --> 00:38:09,200 Speaker 1: going to be fun to watch. FSU versus LSU is 778 00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:12,880 Speaker 1: the Sunday night standalone game the Labor Day weekend. It's 779 00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:15,800 Speaker 1: week one, so this is the Sunday night game. This 780 00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:17,680 Speaker 1: is the game that will make us start our show 781 00:38:17,719 --> 00:38:21,000 Speaker 1: early on Sunday night. Each of these teams, if you 782 00:38:21,080 --> 00:38:23,520 Speaker 1: think about it, each of them has that kind of 783 00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:27,480 Speaker 1: five percent scenario where everything goes right and they win 784 00:38:27,640 --> 00:38:31,160 Speaker 1: nine games. That is in the cards. It's not likely, 785 00:38:31,680 --> 00:38:33,880 Speaker 1: but there's a path where if everything went right for 786 00:38:34,040 --> 00:38:37,239 Speaker 1: FSU or LSU and they just hit home runs all year, 787 00:38:37,800 --> 00:38:41,480 Speaker 1: they go nine to three, that could happen. Point being, 788 00:38:41,520 --> 00:38:44,160 Speaker 1: that's out the window automatically for whichever one of them 789 00:38:44,239 --> 00:38:46,800 Speaker 1: loses this game, and it may not be likely for 790 00:38:46,840 --> 00:38:48,440 Speaker 1: the winner, but it's certainly out of the cards for 791 00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:51,759 Speaker 1: the loser. It's a bigger swing game for LSU though, 792 00:38:51,840 --> 00:38:54,160 Speaker 1: cause to me, I think about Florida State. Now, this 793 00:38:54,320 --> 00:38:57,200 Speaker 1: is the way I feel about Florida State. I look 794 00:38:57,239 --> 00:38:59,799 Speaker 1: at them, especially if they're competitive in this game, they 795 00:38:59,840 --> 00:39:03,000 Speaker 1: can dust themselves off. I mean, they came very close 796 00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:06,439 Speaker 1: against LSU and the Superdome, you know, nothing to write 797 00:39:06,440 --> 00:39:08,560 Speaker 1: home about. But that's also no great shame. They go 798 00:39:08,640 --> 00:39:10,480 Speaker 1: back home, they dust themselves off, they get ready for 799 00:39:10,560 --> 00:39:13,040 Speaker 1: conference play, and they still have a very good season. 800 00:39:13,239 --> 00:39:16,759 Speaker 1: If LSU loses this game, though. Number One, that's just 801 00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:19,799 Speaker 1: how you forever remember the Brian Kelly Eras starting. It's 802 00:39:19,800 --> 00:39:22,319 Speaker 1: a big recruiting game for him too. But the third 803 00:39:22,440 --> 00:39:26,880 Speaker 1: thing to remember is LSU's schedule is so backloaded. LSU 804 00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:31,280 Speaker 1: schedule it screams you better start fast, you better start 805 00:39:31,360 --> 00:39:33,880 Speaker 1: four and O five and oh, because eventually you get 806 00:39:33,920 --> 00:39:37,040 Speaker 1: to that kind of cliff and then all of a sudden, 807 00:39:37,239 --> 00:39:40,480 Speaker 1: it gets really really fast, downhill really quick on the 808 00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:42,719 Speaker 1: back half of it. And I'm looking at it right now, 809 00:39:43,320 --> 00:39:45,320 Speaker 1: just to give you an idea if you're listening on podcast, 810 00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:48,120 Speaker 1: they got Florida State, Hey, then they got Southern. Really 811 00:39:48,160 --> 00:39:50,319 Speaker 1: fun game for the locals down there. That halftime show 812 00:39:50,400 --> 00:39:53,279 Speaker 1: was Southern in town. I heard Jordi Killada the other 813 00:39:53,360 --> 00:39:56,000 Speaker 1: day had the ad on down there. What a good 814 00:39:56,040 --> 00:39:57,840 Speaker 1: get that was. And they were talking about that, So 815 00:39:58,239 --> 00:40:01,520 Speaker 1: Southern Mississippi State, New Mexican. I know you guys are 816 00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:03,160 Speaker 1: looking at that stretch and you're saying, we should be 817 00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:05,120 Speaker 1: four and o when we go to Auburn, we should 818 00:40:05,120 --> 00:40:07,920 Speaker 1: be four and o. Odds makers would agree with you. 819 00:40:08,239 --> 00:40:10,880 Speaker 1: I'm not arguing that either. But if there's a blemish 820 00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:16,440 Speaker 1: already and you've still got Auburn, Tennessee, Florida, Ole, miss Obama, Arkansas, Uaba, 821 00:40:16,560 --> 00:40:18,560 Speaker 1: and m just back to back to back, its body 822 00:40:18,640 --> 00:40:21,600 Speaker 1: blow after body blow after body blow, that's when you 823 00:40:21,680 --> 00:40:24,320 Speaker 1: start looking at the situation where you go from hoping 824 00:40:24,360 --> 00:40:26,799 Speaker 1: to win eight or nine to dah, let's just make 825 00:40:26,840 --> 00:40:28,719 Speaker 1: a bowl game. Please, let us make a bowl game. 826 00:40:29,080 --> 00:40:31,600 Speaker 1: So it's a big swing game there. That's week one. 827 00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:34,520 Speaker 1: Let's go to week two. This one's gonna be really fun. 828 00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:36,719 Speaker 1: It's gonna be played in an NFL stadium because that's 829 00:40:36,719 --> 00:40:39,840 Speaker 1: where Pitt plays their games. But Tennessee at Pitt in 830 00:40:39,960 --> 00:40:42,839 Speaker 1: week two. This one was fun. Last year. Pitt edged 831 00:40:42,880 --> 00:40:45,880 Speaker 1: them down at Nieland last year. So Tennessee goes up 832 00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:47,640 Speaker 1: there in week two. This is where you're gonna find 833 00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:50,279 Speaker 1: out one of two things. Okay, very clear. You're either 834 00:40:50,320 --> 00:40:54,719 Speaker 1: gonna find out that Pitt made the right moves and 835 00:40:54,920 --> 00:40:57,640 Speaker 1: they saw Kenny Pickett go to the NFL draft, but 836 00:40:57,680 --> 00:41:01,560 Speaker 1: they got Keten Slovas presumably he ends up starting at quarterback. 837 00:41:02,040 --> 00:41:04,319 Speaker 1: They brought in some receiver help and it was enough 838 00:41:04,320 --> 00:41:07,200 Speaker 1: to where their offense was potent enough to where they 839 00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:10,600 Speaker 1: absorbed the challenge from Tennessee and they responded and they 840 00:41:10,680 --> 00:41:13,839 Speaker 1: beat them again, which also probably indicates Pitt is going 841 00:41:13,880 --> 00:41:15,839 Speaker 1: to be a big player in the ACC race, even 842 00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:19,239 Speaker 1: though it's not a conference game. Either that happens or 843 00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:22,879 Speaker 1: Tennessee goes up there and wins, and however Tennessee wins. 844 00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:25,839 Speaker 1: I personally wouldn't care get the win on the road 845 00:41:25,880 --> 00:41:30,399 Speaker 1: by any means necessary, but that puts Tennessee on track 846 00:41:30,640 --> 00:41:34,480 Speaker 1: to be undefeated when Florida comes to town in Week four. 847 00:41:35,160 --> 00:41:36,839 Speaker 1: As you know, there are a few games I get 848 00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:40,040 Speaker 1: selfish on and one of them is I would kind 849 00:41:40,080 --> 00:41:43,680 Speaker 1: of prefer to see Florida versus Tennessee undefeated versus undefeated 850 00:41:43,760 --> 00:41:47,319 Speaker 1: week four. Part of that equation relies on Tennessee going 851 00:41:47,360 --> 00:41:49,880 Speaker 1: and beating Pitt. I don't like to play favorites but 852 00:41:49,880 --> 00:41:54,120 Speaker 1: I kind of am speaking of that hypothetical Week four matchup. 853 00:41:54,360 --> 00:41:57,520 Speaker 1: Another thing that we need to happen involves the following game, 854 00:41:57,719 --> 00:42:01,120 Speaker 1: Kentucky at Florida. I didn't put you taugh at Florida 855 00:42:01,200 --> 00:42:02,560 Speaker 1: on here week one because I was going to talk 856 00:42:02,560 --> 00:42:05,280 Speaker 1: about this one, so I could go either way. Kentucky 857 00:42:05,440 --> 00:42:08,600 Speaker 1: at Florida is in Week two. This one very much 858 00:42:08,680 --> 00:42:13,200 Speaker 1: qualifies as a swing game. So this outcome plays very 859 00:42:13,280 --> 00:42:15,640 Speaker 1: much into that Week four game. If you're gonna have 860 00:42:15,719 --> 00:42:18,120 Speaker 1: undefeated versus undefeated there, you need Florida to not only 861 00:42:18,160 --> 00:42:20,320 Speaker 1: take care of Utah, but to take care of Kentucky. 862 00:42:20,560 --> 00:42:23,759 Speaker 1: How about Kentucky? Though you know, Kentucky's looked at as 863 00:42:23,760 --> 00:42:25,320 Speaker 1: a lot of people sleep or pick. They do it 864 00:42:25,400 --> 00:42:27,960 Speaker 1: every year with good reason. It's a very solid program. 865 00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:32,239 Speaker 1: But Kentucky's schedule, if they win this game, all of 866 00:42:32,280 --> 00:42:35,239 Speaker 1: a sudden gets really interesting because I don't think people 867 00:42:35,320 --> 00:42:38,279 Speaker 1: have it memorized, and I don't think people have particularly 868 00:42:38,320 --> 00:42:39,719 Speaker 1: paid a lot of attention to it. But all of 869 00:42:39,719 --> 00:42:42,560 Speaker 1: a sudden, if Kentucky gets this win, which I don't 870 00:42:42,560 --> 00:42:45,520 Speaker 1: think people are chalking up in the preseason, then you'll 871 00:42:45,560 --> 00:42:48,560 Speaker 1: start looking and there are a lot of these kinds 872 00:42:48,600 --> 00:42:50,799 Speaker 1: of games. There are a lot of hmm, a lot 873 00:42:50,800 --> 00:42:53,160 Speaker 1: of those kinds of games on Kentucky's schedule, But there's 874 00:42:53,200 --> 00:42:56,920 Speaker 1: not another oh until they play Georgia. And you know 875 00:42:57,000 --> 00:42:59,800 Speaker 1: what I mean by that. If you're into perusing sec 876 00:42:59,880 --> 00:43:02,600 Speaker 1: S schedules, whenever you see someone playing Bama or Georgia, 877 00:43:03,120 --> 00:43:05,360 Speaker 1: that's the oh. Or maybe if you've got to go 878 00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:09,279 Speaker 1: to A and M, that's a oh. But Kentucky, after 879 00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:11,400 Speaker 1: they play Florida, they got a couple of out of 880 00:43:11,440 --> 00:43:13,880 Speaker 1: conference games they should win. They go to Old miss 881 00:43:14,400 --> 00:43:17,640 Speaker 1: that's a h They got South Carolina at home, that's 882 00:43:17,680 --> 00:43:24,120 Speaker 1: a Mississippi State, at Tennessee, at Missouri. It's not until 883 00:43:24,120 --> 00:43:25,520 Speaker 1: they get all the way down to the Georgia game, 884 00:43:25,560 --> 00:43:27,600 Speaker 1: which is the second the last week of the year, 885 00:43:28,040 --> 00:43:31,840 Speaker 1: where you go, whoo. But if they've already beaten Florida, 886 00:43:32,719 --> 00:43:35,040 Speaker 1: who's to say they hadn't beaten everyone else there, or 887 00:43:35,080 --> 00:43:37,160 Speaker 1: who's to say they may not be more than a 888 00:43:37,280 --> 00:43:40,080 Speaker 1: one lost team. Who knows what that Georgia game could mean. 889 00:43:40,320 --> 00:43:43,200 Speaker 1: And let's just not assume that the Georgia Bulldogs are 890 00:43:43,239 --> 00:43:45,600 Speaker 1: unscathed there in the second the last week of the year, 891 00:43:45,640 --> 00:43:48,600 Speaker 1: crazier things have happened. So that swing game in week two. 892 00:43:49,040 --> 00:43:51,600 Speaker 1: I know there's a wide gap between September tenth and 893 00:43:52,239 --> 00:43:55,799 Speaker 1: November nineteenth, but when you look at what's between one 894 00:43:55,880 --> 00:43:59,200 Speaker 1: and the other, Hey, Kentucky, especially if Will Levis is 895 00:43:59,280 --> 00:44:02,360 Speaker 1: fulfilling on that immense potential of visit quarterback, could be 896 00:44:02,440 --> 00:44:04,520 Speaker 1: a really interesting team because coming out of that game, 897 00:44:04,600 --> 00:44:06,600 Speaker 1: everyone's spotlight will be on them, whereas it won't be 898 00:44:06,680 --> 00:44:09,879 Speaker 1: I don't think going into that game. Let's move into 899 00:44:09,920 --> 00:44:11,920 Speaker 1: something that is very near and dear to my heart 900 00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:16,640 Speaker 1: on this show, and that is understanding what actually inserts 901 00:44:16,719 --> 00:44:19,920 Speaker 1: competitive balance in the college football. If you have watched 902 00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:22,080 Speaker 1: Lake Kick for a while, you know that I talk 903 00:44:22,120 --> 00:44:26,000 Speaker 1: about one theme about once every couple of months, and 904 00:44:26,120 --> 00:44:29,680 Speaker 1: that is recruiting in California, Texas and Florida. Because, as 905 00:44:29,719 --> 00:44:31,920 Speaker 1: everyone else tells you that you need to have a 906 00:44:32,080 --> 00:44:34,560 Speaker 1: playoff of a certain size, or you need to have 907 00:44:34,760 --> 00:44:38,920 Speaker 1: nil or the transfer portal to inject that fabled and 908 00:44:39,120 --> 00:44:43,120 Speaker 1: valued competitive balance and parody into the sport. The reality 909 00:44:43,160 --> 00:44:45,160 Speaker 1: is you don't need any of that. What you need 910 00:44:45,560 --> 00:44:49,400 Speaker 1: is teams in California and Texas and Florida to recruit 911 00:44:49,480 --> 00:44:52,600 Speaker 1: well enough to where teams like Ohio State and Alabama 912 00:44:52,680 --> 00:44:55,000 Speaker 1: and Clemson can't go into all of those states and 913 00:44:55,239 --> 00:44:58,480 Speaker 1: raid them of their in state talent. There are famous 914 00:44:58,560 --> 00:45:02,120 Speaker 1: stories now over the last few years of watching teams 915 00:45:02,160 --> 00:45:04,520 Speaker 1: like Bama go win championships with a bunch of out 916 00:45:04,520 --> 00:45:07,239 Speaker 1: of state talent, namely from South Florida. I think they 917 00:45:07,440 --> 00:45:09,839 Speaker 1: won a title in South Florida a couple of years 918 00:45:09,880 --> 00:45:13,719 Speaker 1: ago with a defensive backfield made up of all Florida kids. 919 00:45:14,040 --> 00:45:16,239 Speaker 1: So yeah, you can imagine how that makes them feel 920 00:45:16,239 --> 00:45:21,040 Speaker 1: in South Florida. Now, have you noticed what's happening? If 921 00:45:21,080 --> 00:45:23,239 Speaker 1: you don't follow recruiting hardcore, let me fill you in. 922 00:45:24,000 --> 00:45:26,080 Speaker 1: There are some big moves being made today. I'm going 923 00:45:26,160 --> 00:45:28,200 Speaker 1: to talk about this in a few minutes. Today the 924 00:45:28,320 --> 00:45:31,560 Speaker 1: University of Florida made big moves. But I actually want 925 00:45:31,600 --> 00:45:33,920 Speaker 1: to go out to California for a second. I want 926 00:45:33,960 --> 00:45:36,600 Speaker 1: you to just think about all of these places, and again, 927 00:45:36,719 --> 00:45:40,120 Speaker 1: to be clear, the theory here is that the major 928 00:45:40,239 --> 00:45:43,000 Speaker 1: programs right now, the ones that you claim are choking 929 00:45:43,080 --> 00:45:45,640 Speaker 1: the life out of the sport, they're not doing it 930 00:45:45,800 --> 00:45:48,920 Speaker 1: just with homegrown talent. In fact, a majority of the 931 00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:51,840 Speaker 1: reason they're able to dominate is because no one's taken 932 00:45:51,920 --> 00:45:55,000 Speaker 1: care of business and close the gates on places like 933 00:45:55,120 --> 00:45:59,359 Speaker 1: southern California, Texas and South Florida. Well with USC right 934 00:45:59,440 --> 00:46:02,640 Speaker 1: now and UCLA for that matter, about to head to 935 00:46:02,680 --> 00:46:06,080 Speaker 1: the Big ten. That's big for recruiting. But independent of that, 936 00:46:06,640 --> 00:46:09,400 Speaker 1: just Lincoln Riley coming into town is really big for 937 00:46:09,520 --> 00:46:11,400 Speaker 1: recruiting and them indicating they're going to be a big 938 00:46:11,520 --> 00:46:15,560 Speaker 1: NIL player, that's big for recruiting. It doesn't mean, I know, 939 00:46:15,680 --> 00:46:18,319 Speaker 1: I said gate. It doesn't literally mean you're fencing off 940 00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:21,279 Speaker 1: southern California and no one will ever come and get 941 00:46:21,280 --> 00:46:24,840 Speaker 1: a kid out of Calabasas anymore, Santa Monica anymore. What 942 00:46:25,000 --> 00:46:28,759 Speaker 1: it means is it'll be harder, and if you really 943 00:46:29,080 --> 00:46:32,040 Speaker 1: think about it, the difference sometimes and you winning a 944 00:46:32,160 --> 00:46:36,080 Speaker 1: championship and you lose in thirty eight to twenty seven 945 00:46:36,560 --> 00:46:39,719 Speaker 1: to be one or two players, maybe you lose them 946 00:46:39,760 --> 00:46:42,400 Speaker 1: to injury or maybe you just never got them because 947 00:46:42,440 --> 00:46:46,520 Speaker 1: you finished second the USC under Lincoln Riley, whereas you 948 00:46:46,520 --> 00:46:49,040 Speaker 1: would have beaten USC under Clay Helton for that same kid. 949 00:46:49,320 --> 00:46:52,120 Speaker 1: So that's happening in southern California. In Texas, it's the 950 00:46:52,160 --> 00:46:55,080 Speaker 1: most glaring because in Texas, you just watched Texas A 951 00:46:55,200 --> 00:46:58,200 Speaker 1: and M bring home the top rated class of all time. 952 00:46:59,280 --> 00:47:00,759 Speaker 1: I don't have any doubt about what Texas A and 953 00:47:00,840 --> 00:47:03,320 Speaker 1: M is going to be. There some people mildly concerned 954 00:47:03,320 --> 00:47:06,719 Speaker 1: about their start to this year's class. Bold prediction. I 955 00:47:06,760 --> 00:47:09,359 Speaker 1: think they'll be okay in the end. Has anyone paid 956 00:47:09,360 --> 00:47:12,080 Speaker 1: attention to what Sark and company are doing at Texas? 957 00:47:12,200 --> 00:47:15,319 Speaker 1: Though they got arch Manning a couple of weeks ago, 958 00:47:16,040 --> 00:47:19,520 Speaker 1: that's good. Then they got an entire tidal wave of 959 00:47:19,560 --> 00:47:22,920 Speaker 1: commits after arch Manning, and Texas is sitting there in 960 00:47:23,040 --> 00:47:26,080 Speaker 1: the top three right now, they're ranked number three. It's 961 00:47:26,120 --> 00:47:28,040 Speaker 1: not fool's gold. They're not going to fall off a 962 00:47:28,080 --> 00:47:30,399 Speaker 1: whole lot. They still have guys that they're going to add, 963 00:47:30,480 --> 00:47:35,239 Speaker 1: by the way, and so Texas is recruiting, not not 964 00:47:35,440 --> 00:47:38,000 Speaker 1: at an unprecedented level, but I want to be clear, 965 00:47:38,200 --> 00:47:40,680 Speaker 1: they are recruiting better than they have in the last 966 00:47:40,719 --> 00:47:43,840 Speaker 1: several years. There's this lazy talking point out there that 967 00:47:44,080 --> 00:47:47,399 Speaker 1: goes a little something like this, Texas always recruited, Well, 968 00:47:47,840 --> 00:47:50,239 Speaker 1: what's the difference now, Well, the difference is the way 969 00:47:50,320 --> 00:47:52,880 Speaker 1: they're recruiting. First off, this is better class than the 970 00:47:52,920 --> 00:47:56,480 Speaker 1: ones they've been recruiting, just higher ranked. But secondly, as 971 00:47:56,520 --> 00:47:59,080 Speaker 1: I've said many times, I could sign twenty five, four 972 00:47:59,120 --> 00:48:01,200 Speaker 1: and five star linebackers and have the number one class 973 00:48:01,200 --> 00:48:03,319 Speaker 1: in the country, my team would suck because I did 974 00:48:03,400 --> 00:48:06,440 Speaker 1: not evenly distribute the talent. It's all at one position. 975 00:48:06,920 --> 00:48:09,160 Speaker 1: Texas went and got a lot of cotton candy. They 976 00:48:09,200 --> 00:48:11,760 Speaker 1: got a lot of perimeter skill, they did good quarterback. 977 00:48:12,160 --> 00:48:14,759 Speaker 1: They didn't recruit the line of scrimmage anywhere remotely close 978 00:48:14,840 --> 00:48:16,799 Speaker 1: to the way they needed to. They're doing that now, 979 00:48:17,360 --> 00:48:19,279 Speaker 1: and they're still getting those other horses too, but they're 980 00:48:19,360 --> 00:48:22,280 Speaker 1: doing that now, and so the state of Texas doesn't 981 00:48:22,320 --> 00:48:24,680 Speaker 1: become impossible to recruit over there. If you're an outsider, 982 00:48:25,120 --> 00:48:28,120 Speaker 1: it becomes all the more difficult. And then, as we 983 00:48:28,200 --> 00:48:30,440 Speaker 1: talk about what's happened in the lone Star state, the 984 00:48:30,560 --> 00:48:33,440 Speaker 1: most interesting place is to go to the state of Florida. 985 00:48:34,200 --> 00:48:37,840 Speaker 1: We talked on Sunday night about how Mario Christbaul in Miami, 986 00:48:38,280 --> 00:48:40,960 Speaker 1: after what some called a slow start to this cycle, 987 00:48:41,239 --> 00:48:44,879 Speaker 1: had caught fire and there now any given day things 988 00:48:44,920 --> 00:48:48,000 Speaker 1: are moving a lot. They're sitting there anywhere between eleventh 989 00:48:48,080 --> 00:48:50,520 Speaker 1: and eighth ninth point is they were ranked like thirty 990 00:48:50,560 --> 00:48:52,640 Speaker 1: fifth a couple of weeks ago and that never mattered, 991 00:48:52,680 --> 00:48:56,240 Speaker 1: and this ranking doesn't matter in finality. But the difference 992 00:48:56,320 --> 00:48:58,080 Speaker 1: is their final ranking will look a lot more like 993 00:48:58,160 --> 00:49:00,520 Speaker 1: this than in the thirties. Second thing, they still got 994 00:49:00,520 --> 00:49:03,600 Speaker 1: a lot of big fish out there. Thirdly, Mario Christoval 995 00:49:03,640 --> 00:49:06,600 Speaker 1: has been a big disruptor in this whole thing. He 996 00:49:06,719 --> 00:49:09,719 Speaker 1: walked in the state of Florida, and I don't know why, 997 00:49:09,840 --> 00:49:11,680 Speaker 1: but some people doubted he was going to do this, 998 00:49:11,880 --> 00:49:15,520 Speaker 1: and he is doing every bit of what any reasonable 999 00:49:15,520 --> 00:49:17,920 Speaker 1: person who's watched his career expected him to do. And 1000 00:49:18,080 --> 00:49:21,080 Speaker 1: then some they're kind of just getting started there. Miami 1001 00:49:21,160 --> 00:49:24,319 Speaker 1: will be a total recruiting machine. If you answer them, 1002 00:49:24,360 --> 00:49:27,120 Speaker 1: that's fine. They are not going to be a variable, 1003 00:49:27,200 --> 00:49:29,759 Speaker 1: So Miami recruiting will be a constant down there. The 1004 00:49:29,840 --> 00:49:32,800 Speaker 1: big question, the million dollar question in the state of 1005 00:49:32,840 --> 00:49:36,080 Speaker 1: Florida is how are Mike Norvel and Billy Napier going 1006 00:49:36,160 --> 00:49:40,600 Speaker 1: to respond Norvel and Florida State. They still have a 1007 00:49:40,640 --> 00:49:42,440 Speaker 1: lot of moves to make. July is going to be 1008 00:49:42,480 --> 00:49:45,279 Speaker 1: a big month for them, so they've still got names 1009 00:49:45,320 --> 00:49:47,359 Speaker 1: on the board. It's kind of an incomplete class right now, 1010 00:49:47,360 --> 00:49:50,480 Speaker 1: the rank forty first. They haven't made their move. It's 1011 00:49:50,600 --> 00:49:52,880 Speaker 1: not promised that they will make a big move. But 1012 00:49:53,000 --> 00:49:54,840 Speaker 1: if they are going to, that move is still a 1013 00:49:54,880 --> 00:49:56,920 Speaker 1: little bit in the future. Florida's starting to move a 1014 00:49:56,960 --> 00:49:59,720 Speaker 1: little bit though. Just in the last twenty four hours. 1015 00:49:59,760 --> 00:50:02,239 Speaker 1: Just they picked up Marcus Stokes, who was a four 1016 00:50:02,280 --> 00:50:05,520 Speaker 1: star quarterback who we met at Elite eleven. He decommitted 1017 00:50:05,560 --> 00:50:08,480 Speaker 1: from Penn State. He commits to Billy Napier in Florida. 1018 00:50:08,800 --> 00:50:11,120 Speaker 1: They also got Trey on Webb, the four star running 1019 00:50:11,160 --> 00:50:13,640 Speaker 1: back today and that happened like within the span of 1020 00:50:13,719 --> 00:50:17,240 Speaker 1: an hour. Both kids are from Jacksonville in State. Products 1021 00:50:17,600 --> 00:50:19,560 Speaker 1: big moves there. What did we say a couple of 1022 00:50:19,600 --> 00:50:22,600 Speaker 1: weeks ago, we said Florida big question there was not 1023 00:50:22,680 --> 00:50:25,160 Speaker 1: Billy Napier. I almost have to do one of those. 1024 00:50:25,800 --> 00:50:27,759 Speaker 1: What I didn't say and what I did say. What 1025 00:50:27,880 --> 00:50:30,160 Speaker 1: I didn't say was I doubt Billy Napier. I said 1026 00:50:30,160 --> 00:50:32,359 Speaker 1: the exact opposite. What I did say is he's got 1027 00:50:32,480 --> 00:50:34,319 Speaker 1: to be on equal footing with these other schools. He's 1028 00:50:34,320 --> 00:50:35,480 Speaker 1: got to be on equal foot He's got to be 1029 00:50:35,520 --> 00:50:37,880 Speaker 1: given the resources, he's got to be given the latitude. 1030 00:50:38,640 --> 00:50:40,839 Speaker 1: I don't know that we've definitively learned that he has 1031 00:50:40,920 --> 00:50:44,439 Speaker 1: or hasn't. My point is they're getting up to speed. 1032 00:50:44,840 --> 00:50:47,160 Speaker 1: I don't know they'll finish top ten this cycle. In fact, 1033 00:50:47,239 --> 00:50:49,040 Speaker 1: I think it would be a mild surprise if they did. 1034 00:50:49,239 --> 00:50:52,839 Speaker 1: They're getting up to speed. Next cycle is the one 1035 00:50:52,880 --> 00:50:55,520 Speaker 1: where I'll fully judge Billy Napier. The twenty four cycle, 1036 00:50:55,800 --> 00:50:57,960 Speaker 1: that's the one where I'll fully judge him. I don't 1037 00:50:57,960 --> 00:51:00,600 Speaker 1: think it's the wildest thing in the world to suggest 1038 00:51:00,680 --> 00:51:03,120 Speaker 1: that it takes a cycle, at least for a newcomer, 1039 00:51:03,520 --> 00:51:07,000 Speaker 1: especially Billy Napier, who was not already a head coach 1040 00:51:07,040 --> 00:51:08,680 Speaker 1: too power five school, to get up to speed on 1041 00:51:08,719 --> 00:51:11,080 Speaker 1: the recruiting trail. That's not the wildest concept in the world. 1042 00:51:11,360 --> 00:51:12,960 Speaker 1: And you know what, if they can lock down a 1043 00:51:13,239 --> 00:51:16,360 Speaker 1: fourteenth rant class or a sixteenth rank class in the process, 1044 00:51:16,760 --> 00:51:18,520 Speaker 1: good because then you can make up for what you 1045 00:51:18,600 --> 00:51:20,840 Speaker 1: didn't land on the trail in the transfer portal to 1046 00:51:20,920 --> 00:51:23,080 Speaker 1: buy you time to do what you need to do 1047 00:51:23,160 --> 00:51:26,279 Speaker 1: in the twenty four cycle. But if you think about 1048 00:51:26,280 --> 00:51:30,040 Speaker 1: every program I just mentioned, Southern cal texas A and M, 1049 00:51:30,480 --> 00:51:35,759 Speaker 1: even Florida State, Florida Miami, who among them are not 1050 00:51:36,040 --> 00:51:38,560 Speaker 1: in better positions than they were three or four years ago. 1051 00:51:38,719 --> 00:51:41,320 Speaker 1: I think all of them have upgraded. And that's a 1052 00:51:41,360 --> 00:51:44,239 Speaker 1: really good sign if you're an Oklahoma State fan. It's 1053 00:51:44,280 --> 00:51:46,040 Speaker 1: a really good sign if you're a Michigan State fan, 1054 00:51:46,120 --> 00:51:47,719 Speaker 1: or a Penn State fan, or a West Virginia fan. 1055 00:51:48,080 --> 00:51:51,680 Speaker 1: Because if you want that competitive balance, the biggest key 1056 00:51:52,320 --> 00:51:57,000 Speaker 1: is cutting off the plentiful supply of talent from those 1057 00:51:57,120 --> 00:51:59,879 Speaker 1: areas to places like Columbus, Ohio and places like tusc 1058 00:52:00,080 --> 00:52:02,319 Speaker 1: loose in places like Clemson. They're still going to be good. 1059 00:52:02,480 --> 00:52:04,680 Speaker 1: Bama is still going to be very good. Georgia. I 1060 00:52:04,719 --> 00:52:08,520 Speaker 1: don't mention them enough. They've been surviving and thriving, not surviving. 1061 00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:11,160 Speaker 1: I understand how deep the state of Georgia is, but 1062 00:52:11,280 --> 00:52:14,560 Speaker 1: they've been thriving, not just on in state talent. They're 1063 00:52:14,600 --> 00:52:16,799 Speaker 1: always going to be good. You just want to make 1064 00:52:16,840 --> 00:52:19,080 Speaker 1: it more difficult on them. That's all you can do. 1065 00:52:19,200 --> 00:52:22,440 Speaker 1: You're not gonna stop Bama, Georgia, Ohio State. How difficult 1066 00:52:22,560 --> 00:52:24,520 Speaker 1: can you make it for them to go out of 1067 00:52:24,600 --> 00:52:26,600 Speaker 1: their state and pluck talent because right now it's not 1068 00:52:26,640 --> 00:52:28,920 Speaker 1: even hard. That been hard in a long time. So 1069 00:52:29,080 --> 00:52:32,600 Speaker 1: that's the key there, and that's changing. While everyone else 1070 00:52:32,680 --> 00:52:35,680 Speaker 1: is focused on realignment, obviously we are too, and then 1071 00:52:35,719 --> 00:52:38,000 Speaker 1: you're going to be focused on all these other things 1072 00:52:38,080 --> 00:52:41,040 Speaker 1: that you, in some cases believe will inject parity. This 1073 00:52:41,320 --> 00:52:44,520 Speaker 1: is the key to real competitive balance recruiting in Cali, 1074 00:52:45,040 --> 00:52:48,360 Speaker 1: Texas and Florida. Let's get a question in here. I 1075 00:52:48,440 --> 00:52:50,560 Speaker 1: appreciate you guys by the way, being tuned in live. 1076 00:52:51,040 --> 00:52:53,120 Speaker 1: Hey like the video if you're watching right now, because 1077 00:52:53,120 --> 00:52:55,960 Speaker 1: we've got like two thousand people watching live and less 1078 00:52:56,000 --> 00:53:00,120 Speaker 1: than four hundred likes. Blasphemy blasphemy the like button, the 1079 00:53:00,200 --> 00:53:03,439 Speaker 1: thumbs up button for those unfamiliar, another paper pop. Let's 1080 00:53:03,480 --> 00:53:07,640 Speaker 1: move on. I had a question from Jojo good friend 1081 00:53:07,680 --> 00:53:10,080 Speaker 1: of the show. Jojo said, do you think college football 1082 00:53:10,120 --> 00:53:12,279 Speaker 1: is finally going to get a commissioner? Now? I do? 1083 00:53:12,760 --> 00:53:15,279 Speaker 1: I really think this. Not tomorrow, but I really do 1084 00:53:15,440 --> 00:53:19,800 Speaker 1: think this. If you're professionalizing everything else about college football, 1085 00:53:20,360 --> 00:53:22,560 Speaker 1: why not that the NFL has got a commissioner, Major 1086 00:53:22,640 --> 00:53:25,879 Speaker 1: League Baseball's got one, NBA's got one. It's the only thing, 1087 00:53:25,960 --> 00:53:30,719 Speaker 1: actually that I haven't heard suggested lately. Everybody's talking about 1088 00:53:30,719 --> 00:53:33,799 Speaker 1: the professionalization of every other aspect of the sport. Are 1089 00:53:33,840 --> 00:53:36,840 Speaker 1: we going to get a commissioner? So the short answer 1090 00:53:37,000 --> 00:53:39,480 Speaker 1: is it should be me. Let's just be real, but 1091 00:53:39,640 --> 00:53:42,879 Speaker 1: let's not name names. Let's just talk about the concept here. 1092 00:53:43,960 --> 00:53:45,440 Speaker 1: This is going to come. I think this is going 1093 00:53:45,520 --> 00:53:48,080 Speaker 1: to come if you talk about the NFL, which, for 1094 00:53:48,200 --> 00:53:50,600 Speaker 1: better or for worse, we're allegedly modeling the entire game 1095 00:53:50,640 --> 00:53:53,440 Speaker 1: after now you talk about the NFL. Sure, you got 1096 00:53:53,480 --> 00:53:55,120 Speaker 1: the AFC, you got the NFC. But if I were 1097 00:53:55,160 --> 00:53:57,960 Speaker 1: to ask you this question, who runs the NFL? You 1098 00:53:58,160 --> 00:54:00,600 Speaker 1: very quickly tell me, well, you got Roger Goodell, who's 1099 00:54:00,600 --> 00:54:03,759 Speaker 1: the commissioner, and he answers to an executive committee. And 1100 00:54:03,880 --> 00:54:06,360 Speaker 1: that committee's made up of the thirty two team owners. 1101 00:54:07,000 --> 00:54:10,240 Speaker 1: That's who Roger Goodell answers to. That's the power structure. 1102 00:54:11,560 --> 00:54:13,480 Speaker 1: If I were to ask you who runs college football? 1103 00:54:14,640 --> 00:54:16,400 Speaker 1: I can't even get the sentence out. If I were 1104 00:54:16,440 --> 00:54:19,480 Speaker 1: to ask you who runs college football? What would you say? 1105 00:54:20,360 --> 00:54:23,160 Speaker 1: You just yell at each other for an hour, and 1106 00:54:23,280 --> 00:54:26,000 Speaker 1: then we would leave no closer to an answer than 1107 00:54:26,200 --> 00:54:28,440 Speaker 1: when we first got here. No one knows who runs 1108 00:54:28,480 --> 00:54:32,160 Speaker 1: college football. Some people say Greg Sank and the conference 1109 00:54:32,200 --> 00:54:35,640 Speaker 1: commissioners do. Some people say TV executives do. Some people 1110 00:54:35,680 --> 00:54:39,000 Speaker 1: say the college football Playoff does. Some people say bold 1111 00:54:39,080 --> 00:54:41,839 Speaker 1: executives do. No one knows you're all right and you're 1112 00:54:41,880 --> 00:54:44,239 Speaker 1: all wrong. No one knows. There is not a face 1113 00:54:44,280 --> 00:54:47,600 Speaker 1: of leadership on this sport. Dare I suggest that's the 1114 00:54:47,719 --> 00:54:50,239 Speaker 1: root of a lot of our issues. You know, yeah, 1115 00:54:50,480 --> 00:54:53,960 Speaker 1: leadership kind of an important thing. How will it be structured? Though? 1116 00:54:54,040 --> 00:54:55,840 Speaker 1: If we were to get a commissioner in this sport, 1117 00:54:56,600 --> 00:54:58,680 Speaker 1: forget about who it would be for a second. We 1118 00:54:58,760 --> 00:55:01,000 Speaker 1: can speculate on that all day. Man, that word has 1119 00:55:01,040 --> 00:55:03,960 Speaker 1: been used a lot tonight. I think the way it 1120 00:55:04,000 --> 00:55:06,520 Speaker 1: would be structured is you would have to figure out 1121 00:55:06,600 --> 00:55:09,720 Speaker 1: what your version in college football of your executive committee 1122 00:55:09,719 --> 00:55:12,840 Speaker 1: would be. So whereas in the NFL it's the team owners, 1123 00:55:13,120 --> 00:55:18,120 Speaker 1: in college football, would it be your ten conference commissioners, 1124 00:55:18,280 --> 00:55:21,400 Speaker 1: would it be university presidents? Would it be a combination 1125 00:55:21,520 --> 00:55:23,399 Speaker 1: of the two, Because if you had a commissioner, they're 1126 00:55:23,400 --> 00:55:26,000 Speaker 1: going to answer to a board somehow, some way. So 1127 00:55:26,120 --> 00:55:28,520 Speaker 1: I think that would probably be the way it's structured. 1128 00:55:28,680 --> 00:55:30,279 Speaker 1: But then you get around to who it would be 1129 00:55:30,920 --> 00:55:32,400 Speaker 1: and if it's not me, and to be clear, it 1130 00:55:32,440 --> 00:55:36,000 Speaker 1: should be, but if it wasn't me. I think the 1131 00:55:36,120 --> 00:55:38,520 Speaker 1: name could very much come out of left field. I 1132 00:55:38,600 --> 00:55:41,040 Speaker 1: think the popular choices are going to be like, of 1133 00:55:41,200 --> 00:55:44,080 Speaker 1: course the current commissioners. You could get Greg Sanki from 1134 00:55:44,120 --> 00:55:46,360 Speaker 1: the SEC. You'll have a lot of names, you know. 1135 00:55:46,760 --> 00:55:48,719 Speaker 1: But I also think there could be names that you've 1136 00:55:48,800 --> 00:55:53,120 Speaker 1: never heard of that don't really even need to be 1137 00:55:53,200 --> 00:55:56,240 Speaker 1: mentioned because they wouldn't mean anything to you. But they 1138 00:55:56,360 --> 00:55:59,040 Speaker 1: need people, or they need a person who can speak 1139 00:55:59,080 --> 00:56:01,720 Speaker 1: the language of NI and just really the current language 1140 00:56:01,760 --> 00:56:04,200 Speaker 1: of the game. They need someone, I think, who is 1141 00:56:04,360 --> 00:56:08,000 Speaker 1: fluent in the world of media, not just media rights, 1142 00:56:08,400 --> 00:56:11,520 Speaker 1: but the mechanisms in the world of media now. They 1143 00:56:11,600 --> 00:56:14,359 Speaker 1: need to understand how things are different today than they 1144 00:56:14,400 --> 00:56:17,760 Speaker 1: were ten years ago. They need to understand how valuable 1145 00:56:18,080 --> 00:56:21,360 Speaker 1: access to streaming is, but also maybe how that chokes 1146 00:56:21,400 --> 00:56:23,360 Speaker 1: off a little bit of the life blood of your conference. 1147 00:56:23,480 --> 00:56:25,799 Speaker 1: All of those things are very basic to people who 1148 00:56:25,880 --> 00:56:28,600 Speaker 1: speak that language, and it sounds like Portuguese to people 1149 00:56:28,600 --> 00:56:31,120 Speaker 1: who don't. You need someone who can dove into that. 1150 00:56:31,440 --> 00:56:34,680 Speaker 1: You need someone who is forward thinking regarding player rights, 1151 00:56:35,120 --> 00:56:38,360 Speaker 1: because what is going to be in the very near future, 1152 00:56:38,520 --> 00:56:41,600 Speaker 1: especially when you sign these lucrative media deals, is probably 1153 00:56:41,760 --> 00:56:44,440 Speaker 1: some form of revenue sharing. I don't know exactly how 1154 00:56:44,480 --> 00:56:46,480 Speaker 1: that structured. I don't know if you have collective bargaining. 1155 00:56:46,560 --> 00:56:48,200 Speaker 1: I don't know if you have the ability to unionize. 1156 00:56:48,200 --> 00:56:49,880 Speaker 1: I don't know if you're calling a player an employee. 1157 00:56:50,080 --> 00:56:52,080 Speaker 1: All this stuff has to be figured out. That is 1158 00:56:52,160 --> 00:56:54,800 Speaker 1: a commissioner's job, or at least part of it. So 1159 00:56:54,880 --> 00:56:57,040 Speaker 1: I think they need to be really, really well versed 1160 00:56:57,160 --> 00:57:00,560 Speaker 1: in that field. They also, though on top of it all, 1161 00:57:00,719 --> 00:57:04,600 Speaker 1: hopefully need to understand what the main thing is, and 1162 00:57:04,719 --> 00:57:09,360 Speaker 1: the main thing is you. You're the one, not players, 1163 00:57:09,960 --> 00:57:12,760 Speaker 1: not conference commissioners. You're the one that makes the product 1164 00:57:12,840 --> 00:57:15,239 Speaker 1: so valuable. We talk about this all the time here. 1165 00:57:15,800 --> 00:57:18,400 Speaker 1: You could have the most lucrative TV deal that you 1166 00:57:18,480 --> 00:57:20,840 Speaker 1: could ever want. You have the biggest stadiums, you have 1167 00:57:20,920 --> 00:57:23,880 Speaker 1: the shiniest helmets, you can have the best players. If 1168 00:57:23,920 --> 00:57:26,640 Speaker 1: the stands are empty, if the TV's not on, it 1169 00:57:26,800 --> 00:57:31,440 Speaker 1: doesn't matter. It's water polo. It could exist, but it's 1170 00:57:31,480 --> 00:57:35,160 Speaker 1: not a revenue generating sport. And so the one thing 1171 00:57:35,200 --> 00:57:38,280 Speaker 1: that's not being done nearly enough right now is people 1172 00:57:38,640 --> 00:57:42,640 Speaker 1: shutting their mouth and listening to what their audience says. 1173 00:57:43,680 --> 00:57:46,120 Speaker 1: One of the things that I pride myself on with 1174 00:57:46,240 --> 00:57:49,400 Speaker 1: this show is I constantly interact with you guys. Number 1175 00:57:49,440 --> 00:57:51,640 Speaker 1: one is because I'd much rather talk to you than management. 1176 00:57:51,920 --> 00:57:54,640 Speaker 1: But number two, I get that we're not here. If 1177 00:57:54,680 --> 00:57:57,200 Speaker 1: you're not here, I understand that look at the studio. 1178 00:57:57,560 --> 00:58:00,160 Speaker 1: All this would be irrelevant if you didn't watch. Do 1179 00:58:00,280 --> 00:58:03,480 Speaker 1: people who run college football understand that about you? Some 1180 00:58:03,680 --> 00:58:06,120 Speaker 1: of them, I would say yes, far more I would 1181 00:58:06,120 --> 00:58:08,680 Speaker 1: say no or either. They kind of would give you 1182 00:58:08,840 --> 00:58:11,520 Speaker 1: a they give you a talking point, focus grouped answer, 1183 00:58:11,800 --> 00:58:14,200 Speaker 1: but really behind closed doors, they say they'll show up 1184 00:58:14,240 --> 00:58:16,560 Speaker 1: no matter what. They're not going to leave at this point. 1185 00:58:17,240 --> 00:58:18,880 Speaker 1: Maybe they're right, maybe they're wrong. I hope at the 1186 00:58:18,960 --> 00:58:21,200 Speaker 1: very least someone understands the main thing. And then there's 1187 00:58:21,280 --> 00:58:28,520 Speaker 1: this other word that's dirty in nature politics. Do you 1188 00:58:28,680 --> 00:58:31,640 Speaker 1: understand how to keep politicians out of the game. Do 1189 00:58:31,720 --> 00:58:33,760 Speaker 1: you understand how to take care of your own business 1190 00:58:34,000 --> 00:58:36,160 Speaker 1: and keep your own house in order so that you 1191 00:58:36,240 --> 00:58:40,560 Speaker 1: don't have people with fourteen different alternate agendas in Washington 1192 00:58:40,680 --> 00:58:44,120 Speaker 1: looking down at you and saying we'll take that, thank you, 1193 00:58:44,560 --> 00:58:47,360 Speaker 1: Please keep that away from here. I know there's been 1194 00:58:47,480 --> 00:58:50,479 Speaker 1: swinging differences of opinion and philosophy out there about whether 1195 00:58:50,520 --> 00:58:53,120 Speaker 1: you need federal government intervention or not. We've gone back 1196 00:58:53,160 --> 00:58:57,440 Speaker 1: and forth on this show. My current my current modus 1197 00:58:57,480 --> 00:59:01,160 Speaker 1: operandi is let's just hiss it that and let's x 1198 00:59:01,200 --> 00:59:03,160 Speaker 1: our fingers in front of it. No, So get me 1199 00:59:03,240 --> 00:59:05,600 Speaker 1: a commissioner. If you do that, understands how to take 1200 00:59:05,600 --> 00:59:08,160 Speaker 1: care of business long before those folks ever have to 1201 00:59:08,200 --> 00:59:10,360 Speaker 1: get involved. I do think we're going to have a 1202 00:59:10,440 --> 00:59:13,400 Speaker 1: college football commissioner. I think it'll probably happen after this 1203 00:59:13,600 --> 00:59:17,360 Speaker 1: dust settles. But I certainly think that enough people look 1204 00:59:17,400 --> 00:59:19,240 Speaker 1: at the current mess we have and understand it's due 1205 00:59:19,240 --> 00:59:21,800 Speaker 1: to a lack of leadership. Someone's got a shoulder the burden. 1206 00:59:21,840 --> 00:59:24,480 Speaker 1: It's going to be a heat position. You better find 1207 00:59:24,520 --> 00:59:26,800 Speaker 1: someone who doesn't care if they're liked or not. Because 1208 00:59:26,880 --> 00:59:29,800 Speaker 1: Roger Goodell, I don't even think he's a real human. 1209 00:59:29,880 --> 00:59:32,280 Speaker 1: I think he's more just a robot. Better find someone 1210 00:59:32,440 --> 00:59:34,960 Speaker 1: like that, pay him a lot of money, and then 1211 00:59:35,600 --> 00:59:37,760 Speaker 1: it better be worth it to him. Because they can't 1212 00:59:37,840 --> 00:59:40,240 Speaker 1: have feelings. They just have to be void of emotion. 1213 00:59:41,560 --> 00:59:43,600 Speaker 1: And if you find them, hire them. Thank you so 1214 00:59:43,720 --> 00:59:46,640 Speaker 1: much for watching. Make sure you are here Sunday night, 1215 00:59:46,800 --> 00:59:49,520 Speaker 1: and make sure you are telling friends, family, and just 1216 00:59:49,720 --> 00:59:52,800 Speaker 1: mild acquaintances of yours. You got him a college football 1217 00:59:52,800 --> 00:59:55,520 Speaker 1: show to watch, and this is where it is. It's 1218 00:59:55,560 --> 00:59:57,439 Speaker 1: our channel, late KKE channel. You don't even have search 1219 00:59:57,480 --> 00:59:59,280 Speaker 1: twenty four to seven to search late Cake. Here we 1220 00:59:59,360 --> 01:00:03,160 Speaker 1: are our director Colin for producer Jesse. I'm Josh Bate. 1221 01:00:03,320 --> 01:00:05,480 Speaker 1: Thanks so much for watching, had yourselves a great rest 1222 01:00:05,520 --> 01:00:06,640 Speaker 1: of your evening, and God bless