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Speaker 1: that's the person's name. We're gonna send a childie to

426
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Speaker 1: redacted in Ridgewood, New Jersey. Redacted has an address. Now,

427
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Speaker 1: the ACC puts three teams in the playoff nine point

428
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Speaker 1: twenty five, almost a nine point five. I'm putting a

429
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Speaker 1: nine point twenty five on this. Clemson has the seventh

430
00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:33,800
Speaker 1: best odds to make or to win at all this year.

431
00:23:34,000 --> 00:23:36,720
Speaker 1: They've got the best odds to win the ACC. They've

432
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Speaker 1: got the seventh best odds to win the whole thing

433
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Speaker 1: this year. Miami's thirteenth to win it all. Louisville and

434
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Speaker 1: SMU are tied for nineteenth to win it all in

435
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Speaker 1: Georgia Tech's twenty fourth. Now, remember one them is gonna

436
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Speaker 1: get in. So you're predicting above and beyond the one

437
00:23:51,720 --> 00:23:55,080
Speaker 1: auto bid, they're gonna get two more teams in most

438
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Speaker 1: of them play each other. Most of the favorites play

439
00:23:57,600 --> 00:24:01,000
Speaker 1: each other, So you kind of to thread the needle here.

440
00:24:01,040 --> 00:24:03,600
Speaker 1: And you've also got to tell me what are the

441
00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:07,920
Speaker 1: big ten and SEC doing. Did a couple of teams separate,

442
00:24:07,960 --> 00:24:11,359
Speaker 1: like did Ohio State go undefeated and Georgia goes undefeated?

443
00:24:11,400 --> 00:24:14,760
Speaker 1: And then there's just a mess behind him, because then

444
00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:17,960
Speaker 1: maybe a ten and two ACC at large could be

445
00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:20,840
Speaker 1: getting in. Otherwise, I don't think the conference has the

446
00:24:20,920 --> 00:24:23,480
Speaker 1: reputation to get benefit of the doubt in the current

447
00:24:23,560 --> 00:24:26,160
Speaker 1: environment right now. So I'm gonna say that's a nine

448
00:24:26,160 --> 00:24:29,600
Speaker 1: point two five. But since I think there is a

449
00:24:29,680 --> 00:24:33,159
Speaker 1: supreme College Football playoff sleeper team that is not in

450
00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:35,720
Speaker 1: the top four in the odds for the ACC, I'm

451
00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:38,160
Speaker 1: not totally ruling it out. And then the last one

452
00:24:38,560 --> 00:24:41,320
Speaker 1: for this part is one of the most I would

453
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Speaker 1: say Jesse the most random bold prediction, like statistical anomalies

454
00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:51,280
Speaker 1: we've had ellipses. I'm just gonna assume it's his first name.

455
00:24:51,280 --> 00:24:55,240
Speaker 1: From Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He said Iowa and Florida State will

456
00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:59,879
Speaker 1: both be top fifty five in team points per g.

457
00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:05,400
Speaker 1: Now he said team points per game. Okay, I can

458
00:25:05,440 --> 00:25:08,000
Speaker 1: tell you last year Iowa was seventy second here and

459
00:25:08,160 --> 00:25:10,680
Speaker 1: FSU was one hundred and thirty first. Now I believe

460
00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:15,360
Speaker 1: that was offensive points per game. They're pretty similar statistically,

461
00:25:16,000 --> 00:25:21,000
Speaker 1: both of them portaled in quarterbacks. I'm gonna make this

462
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Speaker 1: an eight point five on the boldness scale. By the way,

463
00:25:24,040 --> 00:25:29,560
Speaker 1: Castianos came in from Boston College. Malzon is the offensive coordinator,

464
00:25:29,840 --> 00:25:36,359
Speaker 1: not FSU. The Granowski kid from South Dakota State is

465
00:25:36,480 --> 00:25:40,439
Speaker 1: the bigger unknown, but he's been a multi year starter

466
00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:43,320
Speaker 1: there at South Dakota State. He comes over to Iowa.

467
00:25:43,800 --> 00:25:46,240
Speaker 1: He threw for twenty seven hundred and for ten touchdowns

468
00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:50,960
Speaker 1: last year. I sneakily think this could hit. I don't

469
00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:53,760
Speaker 1: think it's as bold as most people would, and it

470
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Speaker 1: says a lot about how future these offenses have been.

471
00:25:56,600 --> 00:25:59,680
Speaker 1: That just saying they're gonna be top fifty five points

472
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Speaker 1: per game as bold. I'm gonna make it an eight

473
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Speaker 1: point five. I appreciate it. I see where your head's

474
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Speaker 1: at there, immunity, but I'm gonna make it an eight

475
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Speaker 1: point five. Oh, let me, I'll break it up for you.

476
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Speaker 1: Colin by popping the top on a ZVA. There have

477
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Speaker 1: been haters proliferating the comment section. Let me take a

478
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Speaker 1: sip right quick. It criticized me for only taking one

479
00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:28,840
Speaker 1: sip of the Zvia tonight. We're going creamy root beer.

480
00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:34,359
Speaker 1: I down this stuff religiously at home. Oh it's not

481
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Speaker 1: because I don't actually like the drink. It's because, if

482
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Speaker 1: you've ever been around me, which most of you haven't,

483
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Speaker 1: as I'm drinking carbonated drink, the carbonation just comes right

484
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Speaker 1: back up. And while that's not a problem at the

485
00:26:46,119 --> 00:26:49,120
Speaker 1: old apartment on a Tuesday afternoon, when you've got these

486
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Speaker 1: microphones as sensitive as they are in your face, pause

487
00:26:52,400 --> 00:26:56,679
Speaker 1: for a second, sip, it can be treacherous. Okay, ZBA

488
00:26:56,760 --> 00:27:00,480
Speaker 1: is zero sugar, but it's not zero carbonation, and so

489
00:27:00,640 --> 00:27:04,639
Speaker 1: zero sugar great. But it is carbonated, and therefore I

490
00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:08,640
Speaker 1: sound like an alien monster immediately into the microphone if

491
00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:11,280
Speaker 1: I were to chug that stuff. So I chug it,

492
00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:14,000
Speaker 1: I just don't do it on air. Don't be live

493
00:27:14,119 --> 00:27:16,960
Speaker 1: chat haters, and don't be Zvia haters. We dropped the

494
00:27:17,000 --> 00:27:20,040
Speaker 1: band hammer on behavior like that. All right, let's continue.

495
00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:21,879
Speaker 1: I told you we were going to double dip on

496
00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:25,560
Speaker 1: Bold Predictions tonight. What do we have? So we did

497
00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:27,439
Speaker 1: not have any nine and a half in that batch,

498
00:27:27,840 --> 00:27:29,840
Speaker 1: got two of them coming up here, So let's roll

499
00:27:29,920 --> 00:27:33,240
Speaker 1: right back into it. Bold predictions. What do you believe?

500
00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:36,040
Speaker 1: What are you predicting this year? It's bold enough to

501
00:27:36,080 --> 00:27:39,200
Speaker 1: make the show, but also realistic enough that you think

502
00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:42,840
Speaker 1: it could happen. What about Michigan Ohio State? What about

503
00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:45,800
Speaker 1: TV up in Bowling Green, Ohio? He said, we finally

504
00:27:45,840 --> 00:27:49,400
Speaker 1: get the long awaited Michigan Ohio State match up back

505
00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:51,639
Speaker 1: to back. Well, I hadn't been waiting on this because

506
00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:54,159
Speaker 1: I hate that it could happen. Now what he's talking

507
00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:58,480
Speaker 1: about is Michigan Ohio State playing rivalry weeks the last

508
00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:00,960
Speaker 1: week of the regular season. The way the Big Tens

509
00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:04,000
Speaker 1: set up now, there aren't divisions anymore, so they just

510
00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:06,560
Speaker 1: take the two best teams. So, yes, it is in

511
00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:09,240
Speaker 1: the cards. As of last year I think was the

512
00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:11,800
Speaker 1: first year they did this, it's in the cards that

513
00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:13,840
Speaker 1: they could play back to back weeks, which I think

514
00:28:13,880 --> 00:28:17,080
Speaker 1: would be very dumb, but it could happen. I'm gonna

515
00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:20,200
Speaker 1: make this an eight point seventy five. It eventually will

516
00:28:20,240 --> 00:28:22,880
Speaker 1: happen if they don't change the format. I'm not saying

517
00:28:22,920 --> 00:28:25,639
Speaker 1: it's gonna happen this year, but all you would have

518
00:28:25,720 --> 00:28:29,320
Speaker 1: to have happen here is Michigan remains a Tier one

519
00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:32,439
Speaker 1: team in the Big Ten Ohio State. We expect them

520
00:28:32,480 --> 00:28:35,720
Speaker 1: to be maybe Oregon and Penn State slip up because

521
00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:38,200
Speaker 1: that's been the nature of the Big Ten. You got

522
00:28:38,200 --> 00:28:40,840
Speaker 1: those top four and then you got everyone else, and

523
00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:42,480
Speaker 1: there's a little bit of gap between those four and

524
00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:46,640
Speaker 1: everyone else. So if Michigan's up there, it's not crazy

525
00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:50,000
Speaker 1: if they just pull their usual mild to moderate upset

526
00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:54,320
Speaker 1: in the game, which is tradition. Now, yeah, that could happen.

527
00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:55,920
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make it a eight point seven five. I

528
00:28:55,960 --> 00:28:59,160
Speaker 1: just hate that it could happen. I don't know how

529
00:28:59,160 --> 00:29:01,320
Speaker 1: it would feel, and especially what if you went into

530
00:29:01,320 --> 00:29:03,800
Speaker 1: that game knowing the rematch is going to happen no

531
00:29:03,840 --> 00:29:06,640
Speaker 1: matter what. I don't like it, but it is what

532
00:29:06,720 --> 00:29:14,480
Speaker 1: it is. Next up, oh boy, I do not think

533
00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:18,440
Speaker 1: that Josh Savannah is the name of a town. I

534
00:29:18,480 --> 00:29:20,320
Speaker 1: do think the second is the name of a town,

535
00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:22,240
Speaker 1: and also the name of just a sweet young lady

536
00:29:22,280 --> 00:29:25,400
Speaker 1: that's a big friend of the program. But anyway, the

537
00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:30,280
Speaker 1: prediction here is Brian Kelly has done at LSU before Thanksgiving?

538
00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:33,760
Speaker 1: Does he quit? Does he retire? Is he fired? Don't know.

539
00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:36,800
Speaker 1: The prediction is just that he's done there. This is

540
00:29:36,800 --> 00:29:42,680
Speaker 1: a nine point two five on the boldness scale. Okay,

541
00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:46,880
Speaker 1: this assumes that the season goes off the rails, and

542
00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:50,240
Speaker 1: as we've learned in major college football, when a season

543
00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:54,080
Speaker 1: goes off the rails, anything can happen. I think LSU

544
00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:56,280
Speaker 1: is going to be a player for the SEC title.

545
00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:59,560
Speaker 1: I don't think the season's going off the rails. However,

546
00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:02,360
Speaker 1: longtime viewers of the show will note that I have

547
00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:05,400
Speaker 1: been wrong a time or two. It has happened, believe

548
00:30:05,400 --> 00:30:08,560
Speaker 1: it or not. So if I'm wrong here, and they

549
00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:12,280
Speaker 1: do have plenty of losable games, so if they're you know,

550
00:30:12,280 --> 00:30:15,280
Speaker 1: if they're on the wrong side of the prediction machine here,

551
00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:20,640
Speaker 1: anything could happen. This would include it happening before the

552
00:30:20,680 --> 00:30:23,040
Speaker 1: season's over. So look at the schedule here, and if

553
00:30:23,040 --> 00:30:27,040
Speaker 1: you're listening on podcasts, just picture for a second that

554
00:30:27,160 --> 00:30:29,960
Speaker 1: all their portal editions don't pan out and the team

555
00:30:30,040 --> 00:30:34,200
Speaker 1: doesn't ever gel. And let's just say they play at

556
00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:37,320
Speaker 1: an average level instead of really good to great an

557
00:30:37,400 --> 00:30:41,120
Speaker 1: average team could be five and six going into the

558
00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:45,120
Speaker 1: last weekend because they play Clemson, they play Florida, Ole, Miss,

559
00:30:45,120 --> 00:30:47,720
Speaker 1: South Carolina A, and m Bama. There are a lot

560
00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:50,800
Speaker 1: of losable games here. If they're just an average team. Now,

561
00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:52,920
Speaker 1: I think they'll be better than that, So I think

562
00:30:52,920 --> 00:30:55,520
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a moot point. But if they are that,

563
00:30:56,200 --> 00:30:59,320
Speaker 1: then yeah, Brian Kelly seat would be red hot and

564
00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:02,400
Speaker 1: you could see going over the edge down there. So

565
00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:05,040
Speaker 1: emphatically I have to state I don't see it happen,

566
00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:06,920
Speaker 1: and that's why I made it a nine point twenty five,

567
00:31:08,400 --> 00:31:11,320
Speaker 1: not a nine point five though, But here are two

568
00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:13,920
Speaker 1: nine point fives in a row, so we're gonna get

569
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Speaker 1: in challis territory here. First up, out of Charleston, West Virginia.

570
00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:25,000
Speaker 1: West Virginia wins the Big Twelve. Rich Rod completes the

571
00:31:25,080 --> 00:31:29,120
Speaker 1: Redemption Tour as national Coach of the Year. Now, I'm

572
00:31:29,160 --> 00:31:31,400
Speaker 1: gonna do you a favor. I'm just gonna zoom in

573
00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:33,560
Speaker 1: on the first part, and if he wins Coach of

574
00:31:33,600 --> 00:31:36,720
Speaker 1: the Year, that's great. But it's bold enough to predict

575
00:31:36,720 --> 00:31:38,800
Speaker 1: the Mountaineers to win the Big Twelve. I'm gonna make

576
00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:40,920
Speaker 1: this a nine point five. This is our first nine

577
00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:44,600
Speaker 1: point five of the Young Bold prediction season. That means,

578
00:31:44,640 --> 00:31:48,600
Speaker 1: if this hits, then we're sending a Chalice's supremacy to Charleston,

579
00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:51,880
Speaker 1: West Virginia probably Morgantown too. If it hits, they are

580
00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:55,480
Speaker 1: the eleventh team in the Big twelve odds, which means

581
00:31:55,520 --> 00:32:00,520
Speaker 1: absolutely nothing because teams from Baylor to Arizona State have

582
00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:03,640
Speaker 1: been making it a habit of coming from outside the

583
00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:06,640
Speaker 1: top ten in the preseason odds market to win this conference.

584
00:32:06,680 --> 00:32:09,840
Speaker 1: Now you would think to yourself, Oh, rich Rod's taking

585
00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:11,720
Speaker 1: over a program. That means you got to have a

586
00:32:11,760 --> 00:32:14,640
Speaker 1: minimum of two or three years to overhaul the roster.

587
00:32:14,800 --> 00:32:18,760
Speaker 1: Right wrong. So I was up there last week. We

588
00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:22,280
Speaker 1: sat down with him. I talked about this specific thing

589
00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:26,080
Speaker 1: about how quickly you don't just turn over guys. I

590
00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:28,000
Speaker 1: don't know, if you know how the sport works these days,

591
00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:31,040
Speaker 1: you don't just turn over and get thirty new faces

592
00:32:31,680 --> 00:32:35,320
Speaker 1: or even forty new faces. They're gonna have like sixty

593
00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:38,080
Speaker 1: new kids on the team this year. If you don't

594
00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:40,200
Speaker 1: believe me, you don't have to take my word for it.

595
00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:43,440
Speaker 1: Here's Rich Rod last week. How do you set expectation

596
00:32:43,560 --> 00:32:47,960
Speaker 1: for yourself for what's possible year one. And what I'm

597
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:49,920
Speaker 1: trying to ask is, do you have to in some

598
00:32:49,960 --> 00:32:53,080
Speaker 1: cases resist trying to just go out and grab everything

599
00:32:53,120 --> 00:32:56,080
Speaker 1: you possibly can at the expense of doing it long

600
00:32:56,160 --> 00:32:57,800
Speaker 1: term the way you want to. Yeah, I think there's

601
00:32:57,800 --> 00:33:00,280
Speaker 1: no question. The goalpost of moved. You gotta move with it.

602
00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:02,360
Speaker 2: You know, last year, Jack to Day, we had sixty

603
00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:05,240
Speaker 2: new players, and we started off the season, you know,

604
00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:07,160
Speaker 2: losing a couple of games, but I thought we were

605
00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:08,640
Speaker 2: going to be better as the season went long.

606
00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:09,040
Speaker 1: We did.

607
00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:10,360
Speaker 2: We wind up winning the conference.

608
00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:12,040
Speaker 1: You know, this is the same way.

609
00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:15,560
Speaker 2: We're gonna have probably seventy seventy five new players.

610
00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:18,200
Speaker 1: That's insane, that number. Crazy to take two or three

611
00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:19,120
Speaker 1: years to do that. Yeah.

612
00:33:19,160 --> 00:33:22,400
Speaker 2: And so you, I mean, so you're you're you're you're

613
00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:25,160
Speaker 2: building the culture, You're building a System's got to happen

614
00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:27,920
Speaker 2: on speed now. You're speed dating now in recruiting. I mean,

615
00:33:27,920 --> 00:33:29,720
Speaker 2: it's not you know, I have two or three years

616
00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:32,239
Speaker 2: of build relationship. You might have two three days. You know,

617
00:33:32,320 --> 00:33:34,880
Speaker 2: that's what's so crazy about it now. But if you

618
00:33:34,920 --> 00:33:36,840
Speaker 2: want to win, you got to adapt to where it is.

619
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Speaker 1: Yeah, somehow, I said sixty nine was low. Seventy to

620
00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:49,520
Speaker 1: seventy five new kids on the team this year. Again,

621
00:33:49,600 --> 00:33:51,640
Speaker 1: that's where we are now, So I'm gonna make this

622
00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:54,960
Speaker 1: a nine point five on the boldness scale. Arizona State

623
00:33:55,080 --> 00:33:57,560
Speaker 1: is going to be really good this year. Texas Tech

624
00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:00,320
Speaker 1: could be really really good this year. They're the favorite

625
00:34:00,320 --> 00:34:02,880
Speaker 1: to win the conference right now, by the way, Kansas

626
00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:05,680
Speaker 1: State's gonna be good. Rock o'beck is back at Iowa

627
00:34:05,760 --> 00:34:08,560
Speaker 1: State Utah. You really think they're gonna be sub part

628
00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:12,440
Speaker 1: two years in a row. Ironically, For how much I

629
00:34:12,480 --> 00:34:15,239
Speaker 1: have touted this as America's college football conference because of

630
00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:18,520
Speaker 1: the competitive balance, I think this could be the year

631
00:34:19,520 --> 00:34:22,200
Speaker 1: we do see a little separation. Now. I don't know

632
00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:25,239
Speaker 1: where that line's gonna be. Is it below Kansas TCU?

633
00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:28,640
Speaker 1: Is there a sleeper down here at Houston? By the way,

634
00:34:28,920 --> 00:34:31,480
Speaker 1: is not gonna be as bad as these odds indicate

635
00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:33,480
Speaker 1: that they're gonna be. I just don't think Houston's gonna

636
00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:36,160
Speaker 1: win the conference. But West Virginia that's tough. That's tough

637
00:34:36,200 --> 00:34:39,840
Speaker 1: winning the conference. So nine point five challice of supremacy

638
00:34:39,880 --> 00:34:42,680
Speaker 1: to Charleston if it happens, and another nine point five

639
00:34:42,719 --> 00:34:45,040
Speaker 1: here let me put the pen down was one of

640
00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:48,520
Speaker 1: my new pet peeves in sports broadcasting. It's people holding

641
00:34:48,560 --> 00:34:51,360
Speaker 1: pins when they're not writing anything, which I was guilty

642
00:34:51,360 --> 00:34:55,239
Speaker 1: of for a long time. Uh, let's see Chucky's Cardinals

643
00:34:55,600 --> 00:34:59,480
Speaker 1: from Louisville, Kentucky. Louisville goes eleven and one wins the

644
00:34:59,520 --> 00:35:03,759
Speaker 1: ACC Championship. That's nine point five material right there. Their

645
00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:07,960
Speaker 1: win totals at eight and a half. We do have

646
00:35:08,120 --> 00:35:13,160
Speaker 1: them internally playing the fifty fourth toughest schedule out of

647
00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:17,120
Speaker 1: sixty eight P four teams, so not the toughest road

648
00:35:17,120 --> 00:35:20,400
Speaker 1: in the world. They've gotten Miami and Clemson, both on

649
00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:23,960
Speaker 1: Friday nights, So Louisville's biggest games are gonna start to

650
00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:26,480
Speaker 1: be standalone games. We're all going to watch them. They

651
00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:30,440
Speaker 1: do go to SMU as well. They basically need to

652
00:35:30,440 --> 00:35:33,799
Speaker 1: win two of those three for this to happen, and

653
00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:35,640
Speaker 1: then they need to run the table. But notice what

654
00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:39,440
Speaker 1: the prediction was. If Louisville goes undefeated, this prediction busts.

655
00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:42,440
Speaker 1: They have to go exactly eleven and one, then they

656
00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:45,399
Speaker 1: have to go win the ACC title. So they were

657
00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:48,440
Speaker 1: one hundredth in past d last year and they just

658
00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:51,279
Speaker 1: added half a dozen dbs out of the portal, and

659
00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:54,440
Speaker 1: it's not a ton of proven production. So I trust

660
00:35:54,520 --> 00:35:58,120
Speaker 1: Jeff Brahm implicitly with Miller Moss at quarterback. What I

661
00:35:58,160 --> 00:36:01,600
Speaker 1: don't trust is for them to be consistent enough defensively

662
00:36:01,680 --> 00:36:05,080
Speaker 1: this year to go eleven and one right on the

663
00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:06,759
Speaker 1: dot and then win the conference. So that's a nine

664
00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:09,600
Speaker 1: and a half on the Boldness scale for me, and that,

665
00:36:09,719 --> 00:36:13,799
Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, is a re welcoming, a reintroduction, if

666
00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:18,840
Speaker 1: you will, to bold prediction season. They're watching us in Manchester, Georgia, Norman, Oklahoma,

667
00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:23,640
Speaker 1: and San Jose, California. Thank you guys so much. We'll

668
00:36:23,680 --> 00:36:27,600
Speaker 1: just drop stuff all over the place, including my chapstick. Unfortunately.

669
00:36:28,120 --> 00:36:31,839
Speaker 1: All right, the other night we did basically a quick

670
00:36:31,920 --> 00:36:36,880
Speaker 1: run around the entire Southeastern Conference, mind us a few outposts. Tonight,

671
00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:38,680
Speaker 1: I wanted to do the same thing. Basically. What this

672
00:36:38,920 --> 00:36:42,960
Speaker 1: is is spring's done. Spring practice is pretty much over

673
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:45,840
Speaker 1: for everyone, So we're just doing like a thirty second

674
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:48,799
Speaker 1: hit for many many teams tonight in the Big ten.

675
00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:54,200
Speaker 1: Where's our head at right now? So Colin, here's a

676
00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:56,839
Speaker 1: good endpoint. Let's run around the Big ten right quick?

677
00:36:56,880 --> 00:37:00,000
Speaker 1: Spring ball's done. What are we thinking? Biggest questions? Where's

678
00:37:00,080 --> 00:37:02,520
Speaker 1: our head out? For these different teams? Ohio State that

679
00:37:02,640 --> 00:37:04,400
Speaker 1: quarterback battle is still a battle. I was up there

680
00:37:04,440 --> 00:37:06,359
Speaker 1: the other day and Ryan Day goes into a press

681
00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:08,760
Speaker 1: conference and they said, you're really telling us this quarterback

682
00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:12,640
Speaker 1: battle still undecided, and he was like, yeah, And here's

683
00:37:12,640 --> 00:37:15,319
Speaker 1: basically what he's saying. You may think you know who's

684
00:37:15,320 --> 00:37:17,879
Speaker 1: gonna win this job. They may think they know who

685
00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:20,399
Speaker 1: they expect to win the job. But like I can

686
00:37:20,440 --> 00:37:22,720
Speaker 1: think the bus is showing up at ten o'clock this morning,

687
00:37:22,920 --> 00:37:24,719
Speaker 1: if it's nine point fifty two, I can't board the

688
00:37:24,719 --> 00:37:27,640
Speaker 1: bus yet it hasn't pulled up. You may think Julian

689
00:37:27,719 --> 00:37:30,200
Speaker 1: Sayan's gonna win the job, but until he takes the job,

690
00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:33,359
Speaker 1: you can't name him the starting quarterback. So yeah, I,

691
00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:35,920
Speaker 1: like many of you, think he'll win the job, he

692
00:37:35,920 --> 00:37:38,480
Speaker 1: hadn't won the job yet. O line, D line. They

693
00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:41,040
Speaker 1: got to replace like eight of nine starters along the

694
00:37:41,080 --> 00:37:44,160
Speaker 1: lines of scrimmage. Can they do that new coordinators both

695
00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:46,160
Speaker 1: sides of the ball as well, And then just think

696
00:37:46,160 --> 00:37:50,080
Speaker 1: about the amount of leadership the intangible nature here aside

697
00:37:50,080 --> 00:37:52,120
Speaker 1: from all the tangibles that they have to replace. It's

698
00:37:52,120 --> 00:37:53,920
Speaker 1: gonna be a good team again this year. There's a

699
00:37:54,120 --> 00:37:56,520
Speaker 1: there's a healthy amount of question, especially for a team

700
00:37:56,560 --> 00:37:59,759
Speaker 1: coming off a national title. Next up, hop on the

701
00:37:59,760 --> 00:38:04,800
Speaker 1: plane all the way out west? Did we connect in Portland?

702
00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:07,440
Speaker 1: Did we fly direct into Eugene? Hoops to amongst us

703
00:38:07,480 --> 00:38:12,360
Speaker 1: knows Oregon? Is Oregon gonna have another seamless transition at quarterback?

704
00:38:12,560 --> 00:38:14,759
Speaker 1: You know how blessed they were to go from bow

705
00:38:14,840 --> 00:38:17,799
Speaker 1: Nick's right to Dylan Gabriel and kind of not miss

706
00:38:17,800 --> 00:38:20,120
Speaker 1: a beat. Well you take that for granted. Now you

707
00:38:20,200 --> 00:38:23,040
Speaker 1: expect it again. You just go from that to Dante Moore.

708
00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:25,640
Speaker 1: Is Dante Moore going to be ready to play at

709
00:38:25,680 --> 00:38:27,560
Speaker 1: that level? He'll be good? Is he going to be

710
00:38:27,600 --> 00:38:30,320
Speaker 1: ready to play at that level? Three of five offensive

711
00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:32,719
Speaker 1: linemen this year, that start for them will have come

712
00:38:32,760 --> 00:38:36,120
Speaker 1: from the transfer portal. We think they killed it. They

713
00:38:36,160 --> 00:38:39,520
Speaker 1: think they killed it. People have thought they nailed it

714
00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:42,759
Speaker 1: in the portal before and still found themselves shaking their

715
00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:46,680
Speaker 1: heads east west not north south come November. So Landing

716
00:38:46,719 --> 00:38:49,200
Speaker 1: and his staff, they know what they're doing, just kind

717
00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:52,279
Speaker 1: of want to see it validated. Montana State and Oklahoma

718
00:38:52,280 --> 00:38:55,040
Speaker 1: State first two weeks at home. Want to see it validated.

719
00:38:55,440 --> 00:38:57,560
Speaker 1: Let's move along. We got hot back on the jet.

720
00:38:58,640 --> 00:39:01,920
Speaker 1: We found our only direct flight in history outside of

721
00:39:01,920 --> 00:39:06,440
Speaker 1: the charter services from Eugene to State College. Somehow the

722
00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:10,719
Speaker 1: runway was big enough Penn State. Did they really elevated

723
00:39:10,800 --> 00:39:14,520
Speaker 1: wide receiver enough? Davonte Ross out of Troy, Kyroen Hudson

724
00:39:14,520 --> 00:39:17,680
Speaker 1: out of USC, Trevor Panna out of Syracuse. They added

725
00:39:17,719 --> 00:39:20,279
Speaker 1: those three. I was so proud of them. They've been

726
00:39:20,320 --> 00:39:23,239
Speaker 1: a good wide receiver room away for a few years.

727
00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:28,440
Speaker 1: Now we find out if they addressed it properly. Early

728
00:39:28,520 --> 00:39:31,920
Speaker 1: returns are good, but no one's played a game yet.

729
00:39:31,960 --> 00:39:35,080
Speaker 1: And then also, if they did well, it's Drew Doller's time,

730
00:39:35,320 --> 00:39:38,120
Speaker 1: because if they did, you got the ground game, You'll

731
00:39:38,120 --> 00:39:40,399
Speaker 1: have the defense, you'll have the line of scrimmage play,

732
00:39:41,320 --> 00:39:43,400
Speaker 1: if you got the wide receivers to throw two. No

733
00:39:43,480 --> 00:39:46,319
Speaker 1: more excuses up there. You gotta get the job done.

734
00:39:46,680 --> 00:39:49,080
Speaker 1: And that doesn't mean just contending. You got to win

735
00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:51,560
Speaker 1: the Big Ten this year. You got to go compete

736
00:39:51,560 --> 00:39:53,920
Speaker 1: for a national championship this year at the very least,

737
00:39:54,120 --> 00:39:57,399
Speaker 1: because the window, while it won't close after this year,

738
00:39:57,600 --> 00:40:00,399
Speaker 1: has never been more open. For Penn State and James

739
00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:03,480
Speaker 1: Franklin era. Then it will be this year. It'll be

740
00:40:03,480 --> 00:40:07,359
Speaker 1: a good YouTube short I think moving along ann Arbor

741
00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:09,680
Speaker 1: Michigan short flight, We're gonna hop over to ann Arbor

742
00:40:09,760 --> 00:40:16,640
Speaker 1: right quick. At Michigan, the Bryce Underwood era will happen.

743
00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:20,319
Speaker 1: Is it immediate or is it eventual? Meaning is he

744
00:40:20,400 --> 00:40:22,719
Speaker 1: just gonna be their day one starter this year? And

745
00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:25,439
Speaker 1: that's a question I don't think anybody's ready to answer yet.

746
00:40:25,960 --> 00:40:29,400
Speaker 1: But the wide receiver room, no matter who their starter is,

747
00:40:29,960 --> 00:40:33,279
Speaker 1: still looks underwhelming to me coming out of spring. It's

748
00:40:33,320 --> 00:40:36,800
Speaker 1: college football. It's a developmental level of the sport. Crazier

749
00:40:36,840 --> 00:40:39,520
Speaker 1: things have happened, but they have that. And then they

750
00:40:39,560 --> 00:40:42,920
Speaker 1: also lost their top six tacklers, so they got a

751
00:40:42,920 --> 00:40:46,240
Speaker 1: lot to replace, sort of both sides of the ball.

752
00:40:46,640 --> 00:40:50,799
Speaker 1: But yet the foundation of Michigan's roster I trust enough

753
00:40:50,800 --> 00:40:54,200
Speaker 1: to think that blindly, I'll buy them being a contender,

754
00:40:55,200 --> 00:40:57,399
Speaker 1: but being one of the big four in the Big Ten,

755
00:40:57,800 --> 00:41:01,880
Speaker 1: just sort of being up there. Sight on got to

756
00:41:01,920 --> 00:41:05,920
Speaker 1: find that out this year. Lincoln, we want to go

757
00:41:05,920 --> 00:41:08,000
Speaker 1: to Lincoln. Yeah, let's go to Lincoln. Let's go to Nebraska.

758
00:41:08,600 --> 00:41:12,440
Speaker 1: At Nebraska, how do these coordinators impact the team. You

759
00:41:12,560 --> 00:41:15,839
Speaker 1: got Dana Holgerson who is now the offensive coordinator there,

760
00:41:16,040 --> 00:41:18,359
Speaker 1: Dylan Ryola is in year two at quarterback, They're good

761
00:41:18,360 --> 00:41:21,759
Speaker 1: at receiver, love him at Johnson at running back, very

762
00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:25,360
Speaker 1: promising along the offensive line. But John Butler at DC,

763
00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:28,560
Speaker 1: they were seventieth or they are. They're in the seventies

764
00:41:28,680 --> 00:41:33,720
Speaker 1: in returning defensive production. And man, they got some really

765
00:41:33,719 --> 00:41:38,200
Speaker 1: really big shoes to fill there. I think they will

766
00:41:38,239 --> 00:41:43,480
Speaker 1: go as those coordinator hires go. Matt Rule. You know,

767
00:41:43,600 --> 00:41:47,640
Speaker 1: typically you get into this portion of his tenure from

768
00:41:47,680 --> 00:41:49,800
Speaker 1: year two to year three, this portion of his tenure

769
00:41:49,800 --> 00:41:53,040
Speaker 1: at a program, that's when the hockey stick effect happens, right,

770
00:41:53,239 --> 00:41:56,480
Speaker 1: That's when they really ramp up production. Okay, we got

771
00:41:56,480 --> 00:42:00,520
Speaker 1: to see if history repeats itself here this year. Turn page.

772
00:42:00,600 --> 00:42:03,719
Speaker 1: Great song by Bob Seger. Prefer the live version to

773
00:42:03,800 --> 00:42:06,040
Speaker 1: the studio version. But we turn the page here and

774
00:42:06,080 --> 00:42:11,520
Speaker 1: we look at USC so USC defense last year went

775
00:42:11,560 --> 00:42:13,880
Speaker 1: from one hundred and twenty first to fifty sixth in

776
00:42:13,920 --> 00:42:16,839
Speaker 1: points per game. I think they'll improve again this year.

777
00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:20,360
Speaker 1: How high do they climb? Is this truly a complimentary

778
00:42:20,360 --> 00:42:23,439
Speaker 1: team this year? And if it is, that probably means

779
00:42:23,440 --> 00:42:25,840
Speaker 1: a lot of close games again, and they were terrible

780
00:42:25,880 --> 00:42:29,400
Speaker 1: in those last year. Do they have the competitive maturity

781
00:42:29,960 --> 00:42:33,560
Speaker 1: to win one possession games? That's what kept them from

782
00:42:33,600 --> 00:42:36,120
Speaker 1: being a playoff caliber team last year. And you think

783
00:42:36,120 --> 00:42:38,960
Speaker 1: about a team that had a seven and five record

784
00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:40,919
Speaker 1: in the regular season, I think it was seven to five,

785
00:42:41,040 --> 00:42:44,200
Speaker 1: and you think playoff like Jim Moore senior man, not

786
00:42:44,239 --> 00:42:47,960
Speaker 1: even close. Well, you change one bounce here and there

787
00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:50,279
Speaker 1: in those games than they are. That's the point. They're

788
00:42:50,280 --> 00:42:53,239
Speaker 1: both so far away and really really close. But they

789
00:42:53,280 --> 00:42:55,839
Speaker 1: also need a run game. They were eighty second last

790
00:42:55,920 --> 00:42:57,960
Speaker 1: year in that category. So those are some of the

791
00:42:57,960 --> 00:42:59,759
Speaker 1: things coming out of spring. I still have questions about

792
00:42:59,760 --> 00:43:04,759
Speaker 1: with you. I'm shaking my paper here because I want

793
00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:07,800
Speaker 1: to talk to you about one of the sleeper playoff

794
00:43:07,840 --> 00:43:14,160
Speaker 1: candidates nationally. Illinois was five and one in one possession

795
00:43:14,160 --> 00:43:17,239
Speaker 1: games last year. They were the anti USC. So here's

796
00:43:17,280 --> 00:43:20,600
Speaker 1: the first question. Do they just carry that over because

797
00:43:20,600 --> 00:43:23,080
Speaker 1: they're way up there in returning production. Most of their

798
00:43:23,080 --> 00:43:26,400
Speaker 1: guys come back, including Altmeerk quarterback. So if they have

799
00:43:26,600 --> 00:43:29,360
Speaker 1: that in their DNA again, then the next question is

800
00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:34,279
Speaker 1: when they play USC and Indiana and Ohio State in

801
00:43:34,320 --> 00:43:37,120
Speaker 1: a four week stretch, can they win two out of

802
00:43:37,160 --> 00:43:39,919
Speaker 1: those three games? Because last year they were held under

803
00:43:39,920 --> 00:43:43,000
Speaker 1: ten points against Penn State and Oregon. So the big game,

804
00:43:43,040 --> 00:43:46,560
Speaker 1: like where they really ramped up level of competition, they

805
00:43:46,600 --> 00:43:50,759
Speaker 1: got stifled. So the mark of progress this year will

806
00:43:50,800 --> 00:43:52,680
Speaker 1: be do they still win the games they were winning

807
00:43:52,719 --> 00:43:54,600
Speaker 1: last year and then do they compete in a couple

808
00:43:54,600 --> 00:43:56,800
Speaker 1: of them that would not have been all that competitive

809
00:43:56,880 --> 00:44:01,560
Speaker 1: last year. And also they lost some production at receiver

810
00:44:01,600 --> 00:44:04,239
Speaker 1: one hundred and nine receptions over sixteen hundred yards and

811
00:44:04,280 --> 00:44:07,840
Speaker 1: fourteen touchdowns. If they backfilled there, that is a sleeper

812
00:44:07,880 --> 00:44:14,640
Speaker 1: playoff contender at Illinois Iowa. It's really it's not a

813
00:44:14,680 --> 00:44:18,840
Speaker 1: great mystery what the question is. It's an evergreen question.

814
00:44:19,040 --> 00:44:22,720
Speaker 1: Will they be worth anything offensively? Will they be decent?

815
00:44:22,880 --> 00:44:25,520
Speaker 1: Will they be average? Will they even be pedestrian? It

816
00:44:25,520 --> 00:44:28,280
Speaker 1: would be acceptable because of what they always are defensively.

817
00:44:28,320 --> 00:44:31,839
Speaker 1: They got Gronowski out of San Diego or South Dakota State.

818
00:44:31,880 --> 00:44:34,880
Speaker 1: That's why I don't ever, I don't ever suggest writing

819
00:44:35,120 --> 00:44:38,759
Speaker 1: SDST on your notes because that's San Diego State to

820
00:44:38,760 --> 00:44:41,279
Speaker 1: me first and foremost, but this is South Dakota State.

821
00:44:41,680 --> 00:44:46,320
Speaker 1: He was a three year starter there and the last

822
00:44:46,320 --> 00:44:49,360
Speaker 1: three years he was good for twenty five hundred to

823
00:44:49,360 --> 00:44:53,319
Speaker 1: three thousand passing yards, good touchdown to interception ratio guy,

824
00:44:53,360 --> 00:44:56,320
Speaker 1: and he's mobile, he can run the ball. So Iowa,

825
00:44:56,680 --> 00:44:58,719
Speaker 1: who knows, they may have their best quarterback they've had

826
00:44:58,800 --> 00:45:01,319
Speaker 1: up there in a while. What does it mean? What

827
00:45:01,360 --> 00:45:06,960
Speaker 1: does it all mean? Washington? Do I hear? Washington? Not

828
00:45:07,040 --> 00:45:09,880
Speaker 1: a last name, It's an actual university there in Seattle

829
00:45:10,840 --> 00:45:14,480
Speaker 1: at Washington. What level can Demond Williams take this offense too?

830
00:45:14,600 --> 00:45:16,640
Speaker 1: I'm really high on him now. I'm really high on

831
00:45:16,719 --> 00:45:20,920
Speaker 1: jedfish hear two anyway, So they probably have a very

832
00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:26,200
Speaker 1: underrated portal class, really underrated at quarterback relative to the

833
00:45:26,200 --> 00:45:30,160
Speaker 1: other big national names, a guy who I think, given

834
00:45:30,200 --> 00:45:33,479
Speaker 1: a year now, can really pop them as a sleeper team.

835
00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:36,120
Speaker 1: And you look at the way they start Colorado State,

836
00:45:36,200 --> 00:45:39,600
Speaker 1: UC Davis, Washington State. Ohio State just goes up there

837
00:45:39,640 --> 00:45:42,560
Speaker 1: Week four, one of the toughest places to play in

838
00:45:42,600 --> 00:45:47,160
Speaker 1: America that no one east of the Rockies really respects.

839
00:45:47,239 --> 00:45:50,600
Speaker 1: But should that would be the early candidate for upset

840
00:45:50,600 --> 00:45:52,560
Speaker 1: of the Year category. There you got it. Still an

841
00:45:52,600 --> 00:45:56,080
Speaker 1: inexperienced Ohio State team going on the road to Washington.

842
00:45:56,200 --> 00:45:59,240
Speaker 1: I'm not calling the shot. I'm just saying And lastly

843
00:45:59,719 --> 00:46:04,520
Speaker 1: was conson this is tough. Wisconsin did not get out

844
00:46:04,520 --> 00:46:07,399
Speaker 1: of the blocks right under Luke Fickle, and now we're

845
00:46:07,440 --> 00:46:09,640
Speaker 1: sitting here in year three and we're asking a question

846
00:46:09,719 --> 00:46:12,719
Speaker 1: we should never ask about Wisconsin, and that is what

847
00:46:12,920 --> 00:46:16,440
Speaker 1: is the identity of Wisconsin football? Now? You know what

848
00:46:16,480 --> 00:46:19,000
Speaker 1: it was for a thousand years and then they tried

849
00:46:19,040 --> 00:46:22,800
Speaker 1: to reinvent it and it didn't work. And so now

850
00:46:23,160 --> 00:46:27,240
Speaker 1: you've got changes coordinator and you're bringing a portal quarterback again,

851
00:46:27,880 --> 00:46:31,880
Speaker 1: and that also coincides with maybe trying to get different personnel.

852
00:46:32,800 --> 00:46:34,719
Speaker 1: I just I don't know. I don't really know what

853
00:46:34,760 --> 00:46:37,480
Speaker 1: to make of Wisconsin right now. And I think it's

854
00:46:37,520 --> 00:46:41,080
Speaker 1: an example of hiring the right head coach and that

855
00:46:41,200 --> 00:46:43,359
Speaker 1: head coach making the wrong call out of the gate.

856
00:46:43,880 --> 00:46:46,920
Speaker 1: Lincoln Riley did it offensively or defensively when he went

857
00:46:46,960 --> 00:46:49,439
Speaker 1: to USC. Lincoln Riley is a heck of a coach.

858
00:46:50,120 --> 00:46:53,960
Speaker 1: He made poor hiring decisions defensively. Fickle's a heck of

859
00:46:54,000 --> 00:46:58,839
Speaker 1: a coach. He made poor hiring decisions offensively. So it

860
00:46:58,880 --> 00:47:02,880
Speaker 1: doesn't make them any lesser of a coach. It just

861
00:47:02,920 --> 00:47:04,319
Speaker 1: means now you're gonna have to give them a little

862
00:47:04,320 --> 00:47:05,759
Speaker 1: more time than you wanted to to get it right.

863
00:47:06,280 --> 00:47:08,520
Speaker 1: That's why it's really important to hire right out of

864
00:47:08,560 --> 00:47:12,000
Speaker 1: the gate. Let's move it along. Got some more to

865
00:47:12,040 --> 00:47:13,480
Speaker 1: talk about. You need to take a sip of water

866
00:47:13,560 --> 00:47:23,280
Speaker 1: right quick. Oh there's a mess everywhere back here, sad.

867
00:47:24,239 --> 00:47:26,279
Speaker 1: I'm scheduled for two head colds a year, and this

868
00:47:26,320 --> 00:47:30,520
Speaker 1: is one of them. So make fun of me while

869
00:47:30,560 --> 00:47:33,280
Speaker 1: you can. I know how nasally and terrible my voice sounds,

870
00:47:33,360 --> 00:47:36,120
Speaker 1: right now, take your shots while you can. How many

871
00:47:36,160 --> 00:47:39,400
Speaker 1: SIPs of zvia he takes, how bad the voice sounds?

872
00:47:39,480 --> 00:47:41,120
Speaker 1: No one said he to one of those things. I'm

873
00:47:41,160 --> 00:47:44,680
Speaker 1: just I'm dabbo right now. I am creating my own

874
00:47:44,719 --> 00:47:48,960
Speaker 1: haters and doubters in absence of them really existing. We

875
00:47:49,040 --> 00:47:52,600
Speaker 1: had a question, did we not about portal quarterbacks Greg

876
00:47:52,640 --> 00:47:56,200
Speaker 1: from Coral Gables, Florida. He said, cam Ward changed the

877
00:47:56,400 --> 00:47:59,560
Speaker 1: entire direction of Miami's team last year. Are there transfer

878
00:47:59,680 --> 00:48:04,640
Speaker 1: cube who could have the same huge impact? No, in

879
00:48:04,719 --> 00:48:07,200
Speaker 1: a word, I don't think there's a cam Ward out there.

880
00:48:07,239 --> 00:48:09,800
Speaker 1: I don't think you may see those types of numbers

881
00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:14,799
Speaker 1: for several years. But Greg Gregory. If I may, there

882
00:48:14,840 --> 00:48:18,000
Speaker 1: are several transferred quarterbacks that could change the trajectory of

883
00:48:18,000 --> 00:48:20,520
Speaker 1: a team this year. You got one of them. Carson

884
00:48:20,560 --> 00:48:24,000
Speaker 1: Beck going from Georgia to Miami's one of them. They

885
00:48:24,160 --> 00:48:28,920
Speaker 1: need young wide receivers and portal wide receivers to step up. Well, firstly,

886
00:48:29,000 --> 00:48:32,120
Speaker 1: they need him healthy. He didn't participate in spring. He

887
00:48:32,239 --> 00:48:35,360
Speaker 1: just started throwing again, so like they need him to

888
00:48:35,360 --> 00:48:39,000
Speaker 1: be good, they need guys to catch the ball. But

889
00:48:39,040 --> 00:48:41,319
Speaker 1: they also need him to be the quarterback on a

890
00:48:41,440 --> 00:48:44,040
Speaker 1: different type of team because last year, cam Ward's out

891
00:48:44,080 --> 00:48:46,480
Speaker 1: there and knowing I got to score like forty five

892
00:48:46,560 --> 00:48:48,920
Speaker 1: for us to win some of these games. They may

893
00:48:49,040 --> 00:48:53,080
Speaker 1: change as defensively staff wise to and they've got good

894
00:48:53,160 --> 00:48:55,560
Speaker 1: enough players down there to where there's no excuse for

895
00:48:55,600 --> 00:48:58,120
Speaker 1: Carson Beck feeling that kind of heat this year. So

896
00:48:58,239 --> 00:49:04,400
Speaker 1: he's won obviously. Mateir John Matteir at Oklahoma is certainly

897
00:49:04,400 --> 00:49:09,959
Speaker 1: another one of these massive upgrade in situation from last year.

898
00:49:10,160 --> 00:49:12,840
Speaker 1: You may think, oh, I'm telling you Jackson Arnold was terrible. No,

899
00:49:12,960 --> 00:49:16,479
Speaker 1: I'm telling you the offensive situation was terrible last year.

900
00:49:16,920 --> 00:49:20,680
Speaker 1: So Matier comes in with our buckle, his offensive coordinator.

901
00:49:20,880 --> 00:49:24,680
Speaker 1: That's a three thousand yard passer eight twenty and fifteen

902
00:49:24,760 --> 00:49:29,560
Speaker 1: rushing last year. So true, dual threat. Do you realize

903
00:49:29,960 --> 00:49:32,040
Speaker 1: it's May? But hold on a second, let me peel

904
00:49:32,080 --> 00:49:36,440
Speaker 1: this paper. I got a paper popper of a stat

905
00:49:36,480 --> 00:49:39,319
Speaker 1: here in the middle of May. John Mattiir would have

906
00:49:39,400 --> 00:49:42,680
Speaker 1: been Oklahoma's leading rusher by over three hundred yards last year.

907
00:49:43,040 --> 00:49:47,960
Speaker 1: He's quarterback. So yeah, that's that's how rough it was

908
00:49:48,000 --> 00:49:50,279
Speaker 1: for Oklahoma offensively and how good he could be there

909
00:49:50,280 --> 00:49:56,080
Speaker 1: this year. Oklahoma's gonna be good this year. Schedule is too,

910
00:49:56,120 --> 00:49:59,239
Speaker 1: but Oklahoma's gonna be good. Now. Speaking of last year

911
00:49:59,239 --> 00:50:03,640
Speaker 1: for Oklahoma, Jackson Arnold transferred out. He went to Auburn.

912
00:50:04,000 --> 00:50:06,799
Speaker 1: He's in a much better situation. I was talking to

913
00:50:06,840 --> 00:50:09,520
Speaker 1: an SEC defensive coordinator the other day. One of the

914
00:50:09,560 --> 00:50:13,200
Speaker 1: first names out of his mouth was Jackson Arnold and

915
00:50:13,239 --> 00:50:15,799
Speaker 1: he said he was interested. He was saying, like, what

916
00:50:15,800 --> 00:50:18,400
Speaker 1: are people saying about him? And I said not much.

917
00:50:18,480 --> 00:50:20,960
Speaker 1: He said, you don't need to forget about him, Like

918
00:50:21,360 --> 00:50:25,680
Speaker 1: we have not forgotten about him. We think he's gonna

919
00:50:25,680 --> 00:50:27,680
Speaker 1: be good this year. We think he's in a way

920
00:50:27,719 --> 00:50:31,960
Speaker 1: better situation. Got an extremely underrated group of wide receivers

921
00:50:31,960 --> 00:50:34,879
Speaker 1: down there at Auburn. If that defensive coordinator is right

922
00:50:35,200 --> 00:50:38,000
Speaker 1: about this guy. So while fans may have written Jackson

923
00:50:38,080 --> 00:50:40,600
Speaker 1: Arnold off, the folks who are gonna play him haven't

924
00:50:40,600 --> 00:50:43,400
Speaker 1: written him off. I can tell you that confidently. And

925
00:50:43,560 --> 00:50:46,160
Speaker 1: elsewhere I think about what kind of story that would be.

926
00:50:47,320 --> 00:50:49,480
Speaker 1: This is a dude who's got a lot of talent

927
00:50:50,040 --> 00:50:53,239
Speaker 1: and just totally written off, and to go down there

928
00:50:53,400 --> 00:50:57,120
Speaker 1: at Auburn, where crazy stuff happens every year anyway, so

929
00:50:57,400 --> 00:51:00,840
Speaker 1: this would just be another in the chapter of crazy

930
00:51:00,880 --> 00:51:04,120
Speaker 1: things and even redemption stories that have happened at Auburn.

931
00:51:04,520 --> 00:51:06,960
Speaker 1: I'd keep an eye on him. I would look at

932
00:51:06,960 --> 00:51:11,080
Speaker 1: Indiana at Fernando Mendoza, which is a lesser known name,

933
00:51:11,400 --> 00:51:13,440
Speaker 1: but he was a three thousand yard passer at Cal

934
00:51:13,560 --> 00:51:17,520
Speaker 1: last year and he played his best ball late and

935
00:51:17,960 --> 00:51:20,400
Speaker 1: he goes to Indiana and just like Rourke, they had

936
00:51:20,520 --> 00:51:22,440
Speaker 1: Rourke up there last year that sort of all of

937
00:51:22,440 --> 00:51:25,680
Speaker 1: a sudden became a household name. And he's probably better

938
00:51:25,760 --> 00:51:28,320
Speaker 1: than Curtis Rorke, probably got a better skill set in

939
00:51:28,360 --> 00:51:31,680
Speaker 1: the higher upside than Curtis Rorke. And now Signetty kind

940
00:51:31,680 --> 00:51:35,759
Speaker 1: of just somehow again, when the dust settles, you look

941
00:51:35,800 --> 00:51:39,439
Speaker 1: and you say, wow, they did it again. Huh Yep,

942
00:51:39,480 --> 00:51:43,640
Speaker 1: they sure did and bo Pribula, Oh big hiccup. There

943
00:51:43,680 --> 00:51:47,840
Speaker 1: went from Penn State to Missouri. What do you remember

944
00:51:47,840 --> 00:51:50,520
Speaker 1: about him? You remember his moment last year he was

945
00:51:50,560 --> 00:51:53,719
Speaker 1: at Penn State. They go on the road to face Wisconsin.

946
00:51:54,080 --> 00:51:58,040
Speaker 1: Oler goes down and they're trailing I think at the half,

947
00:51:58,880 --> 00:52:01,360
Speaker 1: and they outscored with Wisconsin twenty one to three in

948
00:52:01,400 --> 00:52:03,520
Speaker 1: the second half, and he kind of controlled the offense.

949
00:52:03,560 --> 00:52:05,919
Speaker 1: And now he goes in places for a guy who's

950
00:52:06,120 --> 00:52:08,400
Speaker 1: really good at getting the most out of QB and

951
00:52:08,440 --> 00:52:11,799
Speaker 1: Eli Drinkwitz. So those are the ones Hoopsty would look

952
00:52:11,840 --> 00:52:16,440
Speaker 1: at this year. I'd suggest all of them stop by

953
00:52:16,520 --> 00:52:19,520
Speaker 1: Quick Trip just I mean, they're on the move anyway,

954
00:52:19,920 --> 00:52:23,920
Speaker 1: so why not stop by quick trip, Quick trip, Colebron

955
00:52:24,000 --> 00:52:28,359
Speaker 1: tap of course, all the snacks, roller grills in there,

956
00:52:28,840 --> 00:52:33,240
Speaker 1: some great delectable cuisine to be found in your nearby

957
00:52:33,320 --> 00:52:37,480
Speaker 1: quick trip, but also gas. You know gas, they've got

958
00:52:37,480 --> 00:52:40,560
Speaker 1: that as well. Quick Trip fueling the show every step

959
00:52:40,600 --> 00:52:42,319
Speaker 1: of the way. We'll be on the road again this

960
00:52:42,440 --> 00:52:44,880
Speaker 1: week and they'll be fueling us again this week, and

961
00:52:44,920 --> 00:52:54,920
Speaker 1: we really appreciate them. Okay, allegation time, allegation time. I

962
00:52:55,000 --> 00:52:57,680
Speaker 1: did want to hold on just a second. All right,

963
00:52:57,680 --> 00:53:02,279
Speaker 1: there we go, clear the throat, Collins, show me what

964
00:53:02,320 --> 00:53:06,240
Speaker 1: the Georgia fans said. Here we go. Mark from Jefferson, Georgia.

965
00:53:07,239 --> 00:53:09,960
Speaker 1: Am I wrong in thinking you're not very high on Georgia.

966
00:53:10,239 --> 00:53:13,279
Speaker 1: You kept crapping on them last season even though they

967
00:53:13,320 --> 00:53:16,759
Speaker 1: won the SEC. You sound like a whiner when you

968
00:53:16,920 --> 00:53:22,080
Speaker 1: make fun of winners. I will admit something to you. Mark,

969
00:53:22,640 --> 00:53:24,800
Speaker 1: to trash everything else you said, but I will admit

970
00:53:24,840 --> 00:53:29,640
Speaker 1: something to you. I'm from Georgia. People are aware of that,

971
00:53:30,120 --> 00:53:32,640
Speaker 1: and I am keenly aware that they are aware of that.

972
00:53:33,239 --> 00:53:37,120
Speaker 1: So I have found myself doing with Georgia over the

973
00:53:37,200 --> 00:53:41,040
Speaker 1: years what I used to watch Herbstreet do with Ohio State.

974
00:53:41,600 --> 00:53:45,680
Speaker 1: Herbstreet was so scared of being labeled an Ohio State homer,

975
00:53:46,040 --> 00:53:50,640
Speaker 1: he would preemptively be more critical of them anytime he

976
00:53:50,680 --> 00:53:54,040
Speaker 1: could be critical. Now it's not intentional, but I have

977
00:53:54,280 --> 00:53:58,279
Speaker 1: found myself doing that about Georgia because I know they're elite.

978
00:53:58,680 --> 00:54:01,520
Speaker 1: So like you know, you're gonna praised Georgia a lot

979
00:54:01,560 --> 00:54:04,360
Speaker 1: in any given year. So if there is this one

980
00:54:04,480 --> 00:54:06,480
Speaker 1: or two or three little things that you can nitpick.

981
00:54:07,480 --> 00:54:10,439
Speaker 1: Do I disproportionately choose to point those out? I do.

982
00:54:10,920 --> 00:54:14,040
Speaker 1: I am guilty of that. That's all I'm guilty of. Now,

983
00:54:14,280 --> 00:54:16,759
Speaker 1: let's address point by point what you just said. Mark.

984
00:54:16,840 --> 00:54:20,719
Speaker 1: I'm gonna break it into two parts. I kept crapping

985
00:54:20,760 --> 00:54:25,120
Speaker 1: on them last year. No, I didn't. I'll say exactly

986
00:54:25,160 --> 00:54:28,120
Speaker 1: again what I said throughout last year. I thought they

987
00:54:28,120 --> 00:54:30,879
Speaker 1: were down on both sides of the ball. They could

988
00:54:30,880 --> 00:54:35,360
Speaker 1: not run the ball worth anything relative to Georgia standards. Defensively,

989
00:54:35,680 --> 00:54:37,880
Speaker 1: I didn't think they had the personnel to measure up

990
00:54:37,920 --> 00:54:40,680
Speaker 1: to what they called the Georgia standard. I was right,

991
00:54:41,080 --> 00:54:44,680
Speaker 1: they didn't. This is no breaking news. The fact that

992
00:54:44,719 --> 00:54:48,040
Speaker 1: they won the SEC last year is a supreme testament

993
00:54:48,400 --> 00:54:50,319
Speaker 1: to that coaching staff. I said it the day they

994
00:54:50,320 --> 00:54:53,120
Speaker 1: won it. I said in August, I thought they'd lose

995
00:54:53,160 --> 00:54:56,440
Speaker 1: two games. I thought they'd miss out on going to Atlanta.

996
00:54:56,840 --> 00:54:59,400
Speaker 1: They did lose two games, but they made it to

997
00:54:59,440 --> 00:55:02,120
Speaker 1: Atlanta because the rest of the conference was down more

998
00:55:02,160 --> 00:55:03,680
Speaker 1: than I thought it would be. So I kind of

999
00:55:04,120 --> 00:55:07,279
Speaker 1: I pegged Georgia perfectly. I just didn't peg the rest

1000
00:55:07,280 --> 00:55:10,600
Speaker 1: of the conference. This is nothing I haven't said to

1001
00:55:10,800 --> 00:55:14,720
Speaker 1: Kirby Smart's face. I have the video evidence roll it, Colin,

1002
00:55:15,360 --> 00:55:17,960
Speaker 1: because I think back last year with Georgia, it feels

1003
00:55:17,960 --> 00:55:20,400
Speaker 1: so weird. You guys are in the hundreds and some

1004
00:55:20,440 --> 00:55:23,520
Speaker 1: of the rushing statistics. You guys are outside where I'm

1005
00:55:23,600 --> 00:55:26,880
Speaker 1: usually used to you being in total defense. And then

1006
00:55:26,920 --> 00:55:29,040
Speaker 1: you got a conference championship ring on your finger when

1007
00:55:29,040 --> 00:55:31,600
Speaker 1: the dust settles. Anyway, you know, when you're retired, you

1008
00:55:31,600 --> 00:55:33,640
Speaker 1: can look back on each individual year, and a year

1009
00:55:33,680 --> 00:55:36,120
Speaker 1: brings a thought to your mind. You're still pretty close

1010
00:55:36,160 --> 00:55:39,040
Speaker 1: to twenty four. But granted, when you look back on

1011
00:55:39,080 --> 00:55:41,880
Speaker 1: twenty four, like, how does that year strike you? What

1012
00:55:41,880 --> 00:55:42,759
Speaker 1: do you remember about that?

1013
00:55:42,840 --> 00:55:47,560
Speaker 3: Best coaching job we've done by far one hundred percent.

1014
00:55:48,040 --> 00:55:51,360
Speaker 3: We were not as good as some of the year's previous,

1015
00:55:51,800 --> 00:55:55,160
Speaker 3: and we had twice the schedule some of the year's previous.

1016
00:55:55,560 --> 00:55:58,440
Speaker 3: So to the naysayers, to the onlookers, to the people

1017
00:55:58,440 --> 00:56:01,840
Speaker 3: that don't know, I respect everybody's opinion. You can have opinion,

1018
00:56:01,880 --> 00:56:04,680
Speaker 3: you can do what you want with it. I know football,

1019
00:56:04,880 --> 00:56:07,480
Speaker 3: and I know the level of schedule we had to play,

1020
00:56:07,640 --> 00:56:09,160
Speaker 3: and I know the roster we did it with, and

1021
00:56:09,200 --> 00:56:11,440
Speaker 3: I know the injuries we had. By far and away

1022
00:56:11,480 --> 00:56:15,160
Speaker 3: the best job that our staff and organization has done easily.

1023
00:56:19,440 --> 00:56:22,480
Speaker 1: I took that to mean he agreed with my assessment.

1024
00:56:22,520 --> 00:56:24,680
Speaker 1: That's what I took that to mean. That's also why

1025
00:56:24,840 --> 00:56:27,439
Speaker 1: one of the big fights I have chosen to fight

1026
00:56:27,480 --> 00:56:30,440
Speaker 1: on this show is when people say George's culture sucks

1027
00:56:30,480 --> 00:56:34,040
Speaker 1: because they've had a disproportionate amount of off the field issues.

1028
00:56:34,520 --> 00:56:39,040
Speaker 1: I've said, you're insane, because a program whose culture sucks

1029
00:56:39,280 --> 00:56:41,279
Speaker 1: would not have had the competitive character to be able

1030
00:56:41,320 --> 00:56:43,399
Speaker 1: to win the SEC last year. So if you want

1031
00:56:43,400 --> 00:56:45,960
Speaker 1: to divide culture into two different things, that's okay. But

1032
00:56:46,000 --> 00:56:49,320
Speaker 1: if you're just blanketly saying their culture is terrible, Mark,

1033
00:56:49,400 --> 00:56:51,640
Speaker 1: that's when I'm gonna be with you, and I'm gonna say,

1034
00:56:51,840 --> 00:56:55,680
Speaker 1: how does a terrible culture still win games? The naysayers

1035
00:56:55,719 --> 00:56:58,880
Speaker 1: would say, oh, well, great football players are gonna win

1036
00:56:58,960 --> 00:57:01,719
Speaker 1: games regardless. No, No, they're not. No, they're not at all.

1037
00:57:02,680 --> 00:57:07,239
Speaker 1: Teams full of great athletes fail every year because the

1038
00:57:07,440 --> 00:57:10,719
Speaker 1: seeds are not planted in solid culture. So you can

1039
00:57:10,760 --> 00:57:12,719
Speaker 1: miss me with that all right. Then the second thing

1040
00:57:12,760 --> 00:57:16,000
Speaker 1: Mark said is he said, I sound like a whiner

1041
00:57:16,080 --> 00:57:18,680
Speaker 1: when I'm making fun of winners. I don't know that

1042
00:57:18,720 --> 00:57:21,640
Speaker 1: I've made fun of them. Jesse Colin, You'll have to

1043
00:57:21,680 --> 00:57:23,520
Speaker 1: help me out with that. I don't know that I've

1044
00:57:23,520 --> 00:57:26,120
Speaker 1: made fun of him a single time, even when I

1045
00:57:26,200 --> 00:57:29,160
Speaker 1: could have, which was when they lost to Notre Dame.

1046
00:57:29,720 --> 00:57:32,440
Speaker 1: I thought they had overachieved to get to that level,

1047
00:57:33,080 --> 00:57:35,360
Speaker 1: so I thought it was a testament. You remember a

1048
00:57:35,400 --> 00:57:39,000
Speaker 1: couple of years ago, when would that have been twenty one?

1049
00:57:39,080 --> 00:57:42,200
Speaker 1: The twenty one season, Kirby and Georgia won a national title.

1050
00:57:42,720 --> 00:57:46,920
Speaker 1: They beat Bama, and do you remember Kirby's press conference

1051
00:57:46,960 --> 00:57:50,680
Speaker 1: afterwards where they asked him about Bama and he said,

1052
00:57:51,320 --> 00:57:54,000
Speaker 1: it is such a testament to them and their coaching

1053
00:57:54,040 --> 00:57:56,920
Speaker 1: staff that they even had that team here. What he

1054
00:57:57,040 --> 00:58:00,040
Speaker 1: was saying was that team had no business making it

1055
00:58:00,080 --> 00:58:03,400
Speaker 1: this far, and somehow they got them here. Anyway. That

1056
00:58:03,640 --> 00:58:06,520
Speaker 1: was his team last year. That team had little business

1057
00:58:06,520 --> 00:58:11,920
Speaker 1: winning the SEC, just by normal SEC standards, normal Georgia standards.

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00:58:12,280 --> 00:58:17,160
Speaker 1: That is a non SEC title caliber team. They won

1059
00:58:17,240 --> 00:58:19,919
Speaker 1: it anyway, So I'm not making fun of my feel

1060
00:58:20,000 --> 00:58:23,120
Speaker 1: the opposite way on that. Now. The other thing that

1061
00:58:23,160 --> 00:58:26,480
Speaker 1: Mark said was it sounds like I'm down on Georgia.

1062
00:58:28,000 --> 00:58:30,880
Speaker 1: I haven't even come close to predicting anything for this year.

1063
00:58:31,240 --> 00:58:35,320
Speaker 1: My feel just right now is I think the odds

1064
00:58:35,320 --> 00:58:37,880
Speaker 1: for them are a little too high. I wouldn't call

1065
00:58:37,920 --> 00:58:40,960
Speaker 1: them the clear cut number one or two favorite to

1066
00:58:41,040 --> 00:58:43,880
Speaker 1: win the conference right now. But that is being down

1067
00:58:44,000 --> 00:58:49,240
Speaker 1: by Georgia standards, because by normal standards, they're way up

1068
00:58:49,760 --> 00:58:52,520
Speaker 1: Georgia standards be the best team in the country. So

1069
00:58:52,600 --> 00:58:55,200
Speaker 1: by that standard, yeah, I'm down on them a little

1070
00:58:55,240 --> 00:58:58,880
Speaker 1: bit this year. That run game, it's not as simple

1071
00:58:58,920 --> 00:59:02,840
Speaker 1: as it's back. That defensive standard, it's not as simple

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00:59:02,880 --> 00:59:05,520
Speaker 1: as it's back, especially when you just lost a lot

1073
00:59:05,560 --> 00:59:09,720
Speaker 1: more guys to the draft. So Gunner Stockton, it's not

1074
00:59:09,840 --> 00:59:13,120
Speaker 1: just we lost a guy who could sling it all

1075
00:59:13,160 --> 00:59:16,000
Speaker 1: over the yard, but will improve. It's not as simple

1076
00:59:16,040 --> 00:59:19,920
Speaker 1: as that. And it is not an SEC East schedule anymore.

1077
00:59:20,040 --> 00:59:21,840
Speaker 1: That's what he keeps trying to tell you. So what

1078
00:59:21,880 --> 00:59:24,400
Speaker 1: Kirby keeps trying to tell you in his own subtle way,

1079
00:59:24,840 --> 00:59:29,680
Speaker 1: he's tried to recalibrate people's expectations because he knew he

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00:59:29,800 --> 00:59:33,280
Speaker 1: knew the path they had every year where they got

1081
00:59:33,280 --> 00:59:37,280
Speaker 1: to play Vandy and Kentucky and for a vast majority

1082
00:59:37,320 --> 00:59:40,560
Speaker 1: of the time, a down Tennessee and a down South

1083
00:59:40,600 --> 00:59:43,680
Speaker 1: Carolina and Florida's been down. That is not the world

1084
00:59:43,760 --> 00:59:48,000
Speaker 1: they live in anymore. Tennessee is not bad anymore. Bama's

1085
00:59:48,040 --> 00:59:50,040
Speaker 1: on there and have been for the past couple of years.

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00:59:50,120 --> 00:59:53,040
Speaker 1: They got ol miss again, Florida's on the rebound, they

1087
00:59:53,040 --> 00:59:56,560
Speaker 1: got to go to Auburn, which is never easy. Texas

1088
00:59:56,880 --> 00:59:59,800
Speaker 1: is on the schedule, which they beat him twice last year.

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Speaker 1: But would you rather be playing Texas or you know what,

1090
01:00:02,840 --> 01:00:05,760
Speaker 1: would you rather slide Vandy in there? All due respect,

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01:00:05,960 --> 01:00:10,800
Speaker 1: all due respect. So yeah, if I'm down on them,

1092
01:00:10,800 --> 01:00:13,680
Speaker 1: it's just because I could see him going nine and three,

1093
01:00:14,080 --> 01:00:17,200
Speaker 1: like that's not some crazy concept. And in a former

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01:00:17,240 --> 01:00:19,880
Speaker 1: world it would have been crazy to think that Georgia

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01:00:19,880 --> 01:00:21,440
Speaker 1: could go nine and three. So I'm not down on

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01:00:21,520 --> 01:00:24,160
Speaker 1: them at all. I'm just I'm thinking they may still

1097
01:00:24,240 --> 01:00:27,000
Speaker 1: be a little off the pace of what those vintage

1098
01:00:27,000 --> 01:00:29,560
Speaker 1: Georgia teams were, but you know what they were last

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01:00:29,600 --> 01:00:33,640
Speaker 1: year and they still won the SEC. So I don't

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Speaker 1: think that's radical. I really don't. However, if you do,

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01:00:39,200 --> 01:00:41,720
Speaker 1: then director Colin showed you a couple of minutes ago.

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01:00:42,240 --> 01:00:44,600
Speaker 1: George's got the second best odds to win the conference.

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Speaker 1: This year, Go bet them, Go bet them. Maybe, just

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Speaker 1: we would do this, This is no promise, but we

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Speaker 1: could call it FanDuel and just create create sort of

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Speaker 1: internal prop based markets where and I say things that

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Speaker 1: you think are crazy and then I have to back

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Speaker 1: more I think about it, it's a better idea for

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Speaker 1: a screenplay than an actual market for FanDuel because they

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Speaker 1: want to stay in business. So I don't know that

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Speaker 1: that's a great idea. It is a great idea for

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Speaker 1: you to head over there, though, if you're interested in

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Speaker 1: dropping a couple of dimes on a game. NBA playoffs again,

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Speaker 1: there even if you don't bet. No one's encouraging you

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Speaker 1: to start, per se. You bet you can go over

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Speaker 1: there just out of curiosity, if you're just curious what

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Speaker 1: the odds are. I put these graphics up on the

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Speaker 1: screen all the time, or I'm talking about these odds

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Speaker 1: all the time. Well, that's where they come from. They

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Speaker 1: come from FanDuel, So if you're interested what the experts

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Speaker 1: n Y. In New York. Let's wrap it up tonight

1142
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Speaker 1: with I think this was a question that we had,

1143
01:02:55,280 --> 01:02:57,320
Speaker 1: and it's been asked a few times, so I thought

1144
01:02:57,360 --> 01:03:01,480
Speaker 1: we just needed to tackle it. John from Reyes, California,

1145
01:03:01,680 --> 01:03:03,880
Speaker 1: he said, a lot of teams lost their playoff card

1146
01:03:03,960 --> 01:03:06,240
Speaker 1: last Year's shame on you, John, when it came to

1147
01:03:06,280 --> 01:03:09,880
Speaker 1: the twelve teams. So who are some first time playoff

1148
01:03:09,920 --> 01:03:14,120
Speaker 1: teams that you're watching for this year? Okay, these are

1149
01:03:14,120 --> 01:03:18,080
Speaker 1: not predictions, these are merely possibilities. Texas, A and M

1150
01:03:18,360 --> 01:03:21,160
Speaker 1: never made the playoff, so we're talking about since twenty

1151
01:03:21,160 --> 01:03:24,320
Speaker 1: fourteen teams that have never made the playoff. They've got

1152
01:03:24,360 --> 01:03:27,160
Speaker 1: I think a more clear offensive identity this year. They

1153
01:03:27,200 --> 01:03:30,240
Speaker 1: will be able to run the ball. If Marcel Reid

1154
01:03:30,320 --> 01:03:33,760
Speaker 1: elevates his game at quarterback, they'll be good enough pass

1155
01:03:33,800 --> 01:03:37,200
Speaker 1: catchers around him, and Mike Elko will take that defense

1156
01:03:37,240 --> 01:03:39,880
Speaker 1: by the throat this year, so they will certainly not

1157
01:03:40,000 --> 01:03:42,479
Speaker 1: be as poor as they were in big moments last year.

1158
01:03:42,880 --> 01:03:45,560
Speaker 1: They've got the six best odds to win the SEC,

1159
01:03:45,640 --> 01:03:48,640
Speaker 1: which if you've got the sixth best odds in that conference,

1160
01:03:49,080 --> 01:03:51,520
Speaker 1: that means you're a fringe playoff contender. So I would

1161
01:03:51,520 --> 01:03:54,960
Speaker 1: say A and M. You know another one that I've

1162
01:03:54,960 --> 01:03:57,520
Speaker 1: got on my radar. I hinted it this earlier tonight.

1163
01:03:57,960 --> 01:04:00,880
Speaker 1: Is Georgia Tech. Like, I think Georgia Tech is a

1164
01:04:00,960 --> 01:04:05,360
Speaker 1: legitimate contender in the ACC. They've got the fifth best

1165
01:04:05,360 --> 01:04:08,520
Speaker 1: odds in the ACC. I've already bet on them, so

1166
01:04:10,040 --> 01:04:12,800
Speaker 1: I've backed this up with my own money. Haines King

1167
01:04:12,920 --> 01:04:16,920
Speaker 1: is there again. They've got excellent program identity. They are

1168
01:04:17,120 --> 01:04:20,160
Speaker 1: twenty sixth in returning production. And look at the schedule.

1169
01:04:20,320 --> 01:04:23,200
Speaker 1: They get Clemson at home early in the year, and

1170
01:04:23,240 --> 01:04:25,280
Speaker 1: they get Georgia at home late in the year. If

1171
01:04:25,280 --> 01:04:29,480
Speaker 1: they split those games, look at the rest of it.

1172
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Speaker 1: None of these are gimmes because Georgia Tech's talent roster

1173
01:04:33,800 --> 01:04:35,840
Speaker 1: is not going to be at a point where they

1174
01:04:35,840 --> 01:04:37,560
Speaker 1: can ever afford to throw the helmet out on the

1175
01:04:37,560 --> 01:04:41,320
Speaker 1: field and think they're gonna win a game. But they

1176
01:04:41,360 --> 01:04:46,160
Speaker 1: don't play Miami, they don't play Louisville, they don't play SMU.

1177
01:04:46,400 --> 01:04:48,720
Speaker 1: If they were to get that Clemson game early, then

1178
01:04:48,840 --> 01:04:52,080
Speaker 1: everyone would start buying this. I'm just trying to buy

1179
01:04:52,120 --> 01:04:53,840
Speaker 1: it before that because they could lose the Clemson game

1180
01:04:53,880 --> 01:04:56,080
Speaker 1: and still make it. Honestly, if they just went out,

1181
01:04:56,440 --> 01:04:59,120
Speaker 1: Texas Tech has got the best odds to win the

1182
01:04:59,120 --> 01:05:03,479
Speaker 1: big twelve. If Texas Tech does nothing more then do that,

1183
01:05:03,560 --> 01:05:06,760
Speaker 1: they're in the playoff automatically because the winner of the

1184
01:05:06,760 --> 01:05:09,600
Speaker 1: conference is going to go to the playoff. You just

1185
01:05:09,640 --> 01:05:12,439
Speaker 1: got to count on Portal Magic playing out here. Talked

1186
01:05:12,480 --> 01:05:16,640
Speaker 1: about this last show. I think about how much talent

1187
01:05:16,720 --> 01:05:20,640
Speaker 1: infusion they've had from the Portal and that's the long

1188
01:05:20,680 --> 01:05:22,280
Speaker 1: and short of it. There's still a lot of mystery

1189
01:05:22,280 --> 01:05:25,760
Speaker 1: and intrigue around that team because there's so many new

1190
01:05:25,760 --> 01:05:30,000
Speaker 1: pieces and they're not depth providers like they're bringing in

1191
01:05:30,040 --> 01:05:33,120
Speaker 1: their starters. That's pretty much what they've done. Ole Miss

1192
01:05:33,120 --> 01:05:36,080
Speaker 1: has still never made the playoff, and they should have

1193
01:05:36,200 --> 01:05:41,080
Speaker 1: last year. It was a big, big missed opportunity that

1194
01:05:41,160 --> 01:05:43,840
Speaker 1: ole Miss did not make the playoff last year, but

1195
01:05:43,880 --> 01:05:45,880
Speaker 1: they could do it again this year. It all comes

1196
01:05:45,880 --> 01:05:48,360
Speaker 1: down to how much you believe in Austin Simmons. They've

1197
01:05:48,360 --> 01:05:50,480
Speaker 1: got a lot of confidence in him there at quarterback.

1198
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Speaker 1: They've got the fourth best odds to win the SEC

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Speaker 1: really more so than any of that LSU at home,

1200
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Speaker 1: they go to Georgia, they go to oak Oklahoma. That's

1201
01:06:00,800 --> 01:06:03,560
Speaker 1: back to back weeks on the road. They got Florida

1202
01:06:03,600 --> 01:06:05,800
Speaker 1: at home late. I want to know what last year

1203
01:06:05,920 --> 01:06:10,000
Speaker 1: did to them organizationally. I want to know what kind

1204
01:06:10,080 --> 01:06:13,680
Speaker 1: of impact dropping the ball last year has on them.

1205
01:06:13,680 --> 01:06:16,440
Speaker 1: What kind of sense of urgency do they have as

1206
01:06:16,480 --> 01:06:19,280
Speaker 1: a program this year, because they could very well make

1207
01:06:19,320 --> 01:06:21,520
Speaker 1: the playoff this year. They'll still be that good and

1208
01:06:21,640 --> 01:06:24,000
Speaker 1: Illinois I mentioned them earlier in the show. Illinois got

1209
01:06:24,000 --> 01:06:27,600
Speaker 1: the fifth best odds to win the Big Ten. They

1210
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Speaker 1: are their top ten in returning production, they return a quarterback.

1211
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Speaker 1: I think they'll be really good defensively. They're at Indiana

1212
01:06:35,760 --> 01:06:39,920
Speaker 1: and then Ohio State and USC, not in that order,

1213
01:06:39,960 --> 01:06:42,880
Speaker 1: but they play those three teams in a four week stretch.

1214
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Speaker 1: You see it at Indiana, USC, Ohio State. They played

1215
01:06:48,040 --> 01:06:51,160
Speaker 1: those three games, two of them are at home in

1216
01:06:51,200 --> 01:06:54,320
Speaker 1: a four week stretch. That will define their season. Also,

1217
01:06:54,400 --> 01:06:56,320
Speaker 1: not a team that can mail it in and roll

1218
01:06:56,360 --> 01:06:58,360
Speaker 1: the helmet out there and win games. But if they

1219
01:06:58,400 --> 01:07:02,760
Speaker 1: get through that, that will only be early October. And

1220
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Speaker 1: if they get through that stretch, even if they just split,

1221
01:07:05,600 --> 01:07:07,960
Speaker 1: they just lose one of those games, they'll be on

1222
01:07:08,000 --> 01:07:10,800
Speaker 1: the playoff radar at that point, and that'll be new territory.

1223
01:07:10,880 --> 01:07:14,760
Speaker 1: No one's really lived in a world where we talked

1224
01:07:14,800 --> 01:07:17,600
Speaker 1: about Illinois and the playoff. But it could happen. It

1225
01:07:17,640 --> 01:07:20,520
Speaker 1: could very well happen. So those are the teams out

1226
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Speaker 1: of the ones who have never made the playoff that

1227
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Speaker 1: I would list. Okay, let's see on the menu the

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Speaker 1: rest of the evening. I'm gonna have a healthy dose

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Speaker 1: gonna go Nike Will and we'll see how it turns out.

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Speaker 1: But I appreciate you guys fighting through the show tonight

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Speaker 1: with me, Director Colin for your suggested we're gonna be

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