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Speaker 1: I have been dutifully informed that July fourth is going

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Speaker 1: about a couple of weeks ago who were committed at

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Speaker 1: that time, they're not committed anymore. And there's a quarterback

437
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Speaker 1: who's very loose in that class as well. So if

438
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Speaker 1: they don't backfill with quality candidates, then look, there'll be

439
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Speaker 1: a lot of earned criticism. I'm not trying to carry

440
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Speaker 1: water for Lincoln Riley. A lot of that will be earned.

441
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Speaker 1: Of course, this is entirely hypothetical. They could go eleven

442
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Speaker 1: and one and shut everyone up this year. But if

443
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Speaker 1: it doesn't just magically come together defensively, wouldn't be the

444
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Speaker 1: most shocking thing in the world. I actually don't expect

445
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Speaker 1: it to. And as a result, if they're sitting there seven, five,

446
00:21:54,040 --> 00:21:57,320
Speaker 1: eight and four, it doesn't mean he made the wrong moves.

447
00:21:57,440 --> 00:21:59,640
Speaker 1: It may just mean there was no move you could

448
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Speaker 1: make in their personnel situation and have a top twenty defense.

449
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Speaker 1: You know, the EA sportsifocation of USC's defense is pretty

450
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Speaker 1: unlikely to happen this year. Third, what if hop a

451
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Speaker 1: jet all the way across the country. What if Kyen

452
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Speaker 1: Drones it's quarterback of Virginia Tech. What if he leads

453
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Speaker 1: them to a top five rushing offense. Does anyone realize

454
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Speaker 1: what that would mean? What kind of tremor effect that

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Speaker 1: would have in the ACC. You're used to talking about

456
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Speaker 1: FSU as you should be, Clemson as you should be.

457
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Speaker 1: Miami sort of snaked their way into the conversation this year.

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Speaker 1: But if you look at the odds to win the ACC,

459
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Speaker 1: if you go over to FanDuel.

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Speaker 2: You get past those first three, you got Louisville in there.

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Speaker 1: You know you got NC State in there, but you

462
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Speaker 1: don't get too much further down the list before you

463
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Speaker 1: see Virginia Tech. And there's not this massive drop off

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Speaker 1: in the odds before you get to Virginia Tech. What

465
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Speaker 1: are odds makers seeing there? Well, if you were to

466
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Speaker 1: promise me Kien Drones a quarterback is part of a

467
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Speaker 1: top five rushing offense, you would see a contender to

468
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Speaker 1: win the ACC because you look elsewhere on this team

469
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Speaker 1: and they will not have to spend a whole lot

470
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Speaker 1: of September figuring themselves out. It's a veteran laden roster.

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Speaker 1: They return four offensive linemen. They're leading running back returns

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Speaker 1: on top of Kyrien Jones. They got a top ten

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Speaker 1: overall team in terms of returning production. It's a good defense,

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Speaker 1: it's a good pass rush. They should have potentially an

475
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Speaker 1: elite run game this year. Their schedule is very manageable,

476
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Speaker 1: and Virginia Tech's the kind of team who could sneak

477
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Speaker 1: up on you, but shouldn't be able to sneak up

478
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Speaker 1: on you because a lot of the indicators are there

479
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Speaker 1: with this team now. I know that they would prefer

480
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Speaker 1: the country not realize that, but part of being a

481
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Speaker 1: contender is being able to perform when expectation is there.

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Speaker 1: They've got a game at Miami the last week of September,

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Speaker 1: and they got a game with Rutgers the week before that.

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Speaker 2: I'm not overlooking, but that's not a conference game.

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Speaker 1: They open conference play at Miami, and I don't think

486
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Speaker 1: anyone in the ACC is really focused on that game

487
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Speaker 1: so much right now. Miami folks are focused on their

488
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Speaker 1: game at Florida. Clemson folks are talking about FSU and

489
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Speaker 1: vice versa, and FSU is talking about Miami, and there's

490
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Speaker 1: just not a whole lot of chatter right now outside

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Speaker 1: of certain confines about Virginia Tech. And you know what

492
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Speaker 1: I think there should be. This is a buzz up

493
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Speaker 1: there that's been pretty bottled up. We were up there

494
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Speaker 1: in the spring. I watched I went up there and

495
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Speaker 1: watched a practice, talked with most of the staff, no

496
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Speaker 1: cockiness whatsoever that they know, they know, they're still they're

497
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Speaker 1: still pretty thin in certain parts of the roster.

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Speaker 2: There was a There.

499
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Speaker 1: Was an effort by Brent Pry and his staff that

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Speaker 1: I need you to understand had to be started from scratch.

501
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Speaker 1: The concept of Virginia Tech keeping key talent in Virginia

502
00:24:49,040 --> 00:24:52,920
Speaker 1: home used to be taken for granted, and the previous

503
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Speaker 1: staff did not maximize that effort to put it lightly

504
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Speaker 1: to the point where not only you know, were your

505
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Speaker 1: Ohio State's able to come into Virginia and take elite talent.

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Speaker 2: That's Ohio State.

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Speaker 1: That's one thing, But dude, South Carolina or Penn State

508
00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:12,040
Speaker 1: coming in and just plucking guys as they saw fit

509
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Speaker 1: and Virginia Tech not even putting up a fight. That

510
00:25:15,359 --> 00:25:18,479
Speaker 1: hit the reset button essentially on in state recruiting. And

511
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Speaker 1: this is not Alabama, Okay, Virginia Tech's not a national

512
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Speaker 1: recruiting program. So in order to rebuild essentially the backbone

513
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Speaker 1: of the program, they've had to rebuild their in state

514
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Speaker 1: recruiting infrastructure, which is never a sentence that should have

515
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Speaker 1: to come out of my mouth, but it has.

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Speaker 2: Well.

517
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Speaker 1: They got the right cats up there to do it.

518
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Speaker 1: It's just not an overnight process. But now you get

519
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Speaker 1: another year in and think about what that would do.

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Speaker 1: Think about what kind of giant billboard that would be

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Speaker 1: if they end up being the surprise team in the

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Speaker 1: ACC this year.

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Speaker 2: So those are three what ifs for me.

524
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Speaker 1: Not done with what IFFs because we're doing them every show,

525
00:25:51,680 --> 00:25:57,440
Speaker 1: but those are some on my mind. Academy sports and outdoors,

526
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Speaker 1: I would argue should always.

527
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Speaker 2: Be on one one's mind. Me you, you.

528
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Speaker 1: Know, the combinations are endless. There should be on your mind.

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Speaker 1: Here's why this week and this month is sort of

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Speaker 1: the pinnacle for outdoor activity. I would say even for

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Speaker 1: people like us, you know, people like us, people who

532
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Speaker 1: talk for a living, or if you write for a living,

533
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Speaker 1: if you cover a sport, even for you, this is

534
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Speaker 1: the time of year where you can maximize your outdoors time.

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Speaker 1: for lame looking gear when you can get the legit

538
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Speaker 1: stuff probably for less in most cases at Academy Sports

539
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Speaker 1: and Outdoors. And here's the other kicker. If you're watching

540
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Speaker 1: or listening to the show, I trust that you enjoy

541
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Speaker 1: it at least to some degree, and I appreciate you

542
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Speaker 1: guys for watching.

543
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Speaker 2: They make it free for you.

544
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Speaker 1: There are a lot of shows out there who have

545
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Speaker 1: to ask you to subscribe with money.

546
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Speaker 2: I ask you to sub but it's free.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to pay anything here because if partners

548
00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:04,080
Speaker 1: like Academy, and we appreciate them, they've been with us

549
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Speaker 1: for a long time. If you can't get to an

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Speaker 1: Academy Sports Outdoors inperson, Academy dot com, they got your hookup.

551
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Speaker 2: I need to pause. Oh, get my public's jug over here.

552
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Speaker 1: Sometimes we have a chalice on set, sometimes we have

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Speaker 1: a cup on set, and sometimes we just go straight

554
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Speaker 1: hobo and we drink out of full water jugs. And

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00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:30,760
Speaker 1: tonight is Hobo Sunday. So I thank you for bearing

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Speaker 1: with me because I have something I think is very

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Speaker 1: important to talk to you about. Because I think we're

558
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Speaker 1: gonna end up clipping this one like this This is

559
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Speaker 1: highly likely to be a segment that I asked Colin

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Speaker 1: two years from now to pull up.

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Speaker 2: So I wanted to be.

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Speaker 1: Hydrated for it, and I don't want my nose to

563
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Speaker 1: itch and it does right now.

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Speaker 2: All right, there we go.

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Speaker 1: What do you think about Dan Lanning at Oregon? I've

566
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Speaker 1: been getting some weird comments on Dan Lanning. It kind

567
00:27:57,920 --> 00:28:00,359
Speaker 1: of hit a crescendo today, so I figured i'd toss

568
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Speaker 1: it in the show tonight. There's a weird thing happening

569
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Speaker 1: with him. It's sort of a weird modern thing that

570
00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:08,160
Speaker 1: happens in college football. This dude has been a head

571
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Speaker 1: coach all of two years, going into his third year

572
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Speaker 1: now at Oregon. He is twenty two and five as

573
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Speaker 1: a head coach, not a typo, got two top fifteen finishes.

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Speaker 1: They're recruiting at a top five level, maybe better this

575
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Speaker 1: point moving forward. They've been assassins in the transfer a

576
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Speaker 1: portal And so I say that to someone who doesn't

577
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Speaker 1: know any better, and they'd say, that sounds great. This

578
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Speaker 1: guy sounds like one of the best head coaches in

579
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Speaker 1: the game. That's good, right, Nope, Nope not. According to

580
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Speaker 1: trusted Internet sources, it's not. I put out a tweet

581
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Speaker 1: today and I said, uh, let me actually.

582
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Speaker 2: Get you the exact quote.

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Speaker 1: It was a classic filling the blank. What a revolutionary

584
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Speaker 1: concept I came up with. There, fill in the blank,

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Speaker 1: Dan Lannings next five years will blank. Got a ton

586
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Speaker 1: of comments, got a ton of attraction on this. Here

587
00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:05,920
Speaker 1: were some words. The word can't was involved a lot.

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Speaker 1: He can't win the big game. That won't change. He

589
00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:11,719
Speaker 1: never will. You know, O're gonall just be talented, but

590
00:29:11,760 --> 00:29:15,360
Speaker 1: they never will get over the hump. They'll choke against

591
00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:20,040
Speaker 1: better teams. What has he won? You know the age

592
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Speaker 1: old go to there? What is he won two years?

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Speaker 1: Dude's been a head coach two years. He can't, he won't,

594
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Speaker 1: he never will. These people are not joking. I saw

595
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Speaker 1: budd Ellie going back and forth with someone today and

596
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Speaker 1: the dude was just saying, well, Dan Lanning always always

597
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Speaker 1: what Dan.

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Speaker 2: Lanning doesn't always even park in the same spot.

599
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Speaker 1: At the football facility. He hasn't been there long enough.

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Speaker 1: So anyway, the book's apparently been written on Dan Lanning.

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Speaker 1: You remember how I explained wish casting to you the

602
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Speaker 1: other day.

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Speaker 2: It happens. It's happening with Dan Lanning. Here's some truth

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Speaker 2: serum for you.

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Speaker 1: I think a lot of the Big Ten, if they're

606
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Speaker 1: smart enough, should be fairly terrified with Whatan's doing right now.

607
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Speaker 2: But they don't want to be.

608
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Speaker 1: Just like me, growing up in Georgia, as a winter

609
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Speaker 1: weather fan, did not want to accept the fact that

610
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Speaker 1: it was going to be sixty eight degrees on Christmas Day.

611
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Speaker 2: I wanted a white Christmas. So what did I do?

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Speaker 1: Never mind the fact that it's the first week of

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Speaker 1: December and there is no dependable long term forecast out,

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Speaker 1: I just start blindly believing it's going to snow this Christmas.

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Speaker 1: This is the Christmas forts in Georgia. It's going to

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Speaker 1: snow this Christmas. December tenth, December fifteenth, December twentieth, The

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Speaker 1: fifteen ten five day forecast.

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Speaker 2: Not looking good.

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Speaker 1: But I just wish cast it, you know, because that's

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Speaker 1: how snow actually happens. Well, sure enough, Christmas morning, rooster crows,

621
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Speaker 1: sixty three degrees and sunny. What happened the same thing

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Speaker 1: that's happening to those foolish enough to think. Dan Landing,

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Speaker 1: all of two years in has taught you everything you

624
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Speaker 1: need to know about what he and Oregon will be

625
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Speaker 1: as both the head coach and a program moving forward.

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Speaker 1: So I am to believe that two years in, since

627
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Speaker 1: this dude has lost a couple of games to Washington,

628
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Speaker 1: since he got boat raced by Georgia in game one

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Speaker 1: of year one as.

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Speaker 2: A head coach, that's it. That's it.

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Speaker 1: We've learned everything we need to know, because the one

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Speaker 1: thing we know about Nick Saban, for example, is he

633
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:17,120
Speaker 1: never lost early in his career.

634
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Speaker 2: Did he getting word Nick Saban lost plenty?

635
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Speaker 1: In fact, I'm getting word Nick Saban wasn't remotely what

636
00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:26,440
Speaker 1: you know Nick Saban as until years into his coaching career.

637
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Speaker 1: We don't afford guys the time to do that anymore.

638
00:31:29,560 --> 00:31:33,160
Speaker 1: I guess I got a story for you. Once upon

639
00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:35,840
Speaker 1: a time, this is worth worth the paper.

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Speaker 2: Pop here.

641
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Speaker 1: Once upon a time there was a head coach that

642
00:31:39,120 --> 00:31:42,600
Speaker 1: got his shot, and he was a promising up and comer,

643
00:31:43,080 --> 00:31:46,080
Speaker 1: pretty big name in the assistant coaching world, a really

644
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Speaker 1: good recruiter, and he took this new job, high profile job,

645
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Speaker 1: and he won pretty quickly, and he recruited at a

646
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Speaker 1: very high level, and it had amazing intensity and energy,

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Speaker 1: and the program quickly came to adopt his energy and

648
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Speaker 1: his identity.

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Speaker 2: However, there were critics.

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Speaker 1: There were critics who, after a few chances in big

651
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Speaker 1: games where they came up short, said he just can't

652
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Speaker 1: win the big one.

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Speaker 2: He just can't get it. They just can't get over

654
00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:21,200
Speaker 2: the hump. And this dude's name was Kirby Smart.

655
00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:24,360
Speaker 1: And no one who was ignorant enough to say it

656
00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:27,320
Speaker 1: about him at the time is ever around to admit

657
00:32:27,360 --> 00:32:30,520
Speaker 1: they said it. But I promise you they said it

658
00:32:30,560 --> 00:32:33,480
Speaker 1: about this man. They said he can't get over the hump,

659
00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:37,600
Speaker 1: he can't win the big one. Georgia's just they compared

660
00:32:37,680 --> 00:32:40,840
Speaker 1: him to Mark Richt Jesse. You remember this right. Colin

661
00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:42,720
Speaker 1: was with me the first time we ever did this

662
00:32:42,800 --> 00:32:45,400
Speaker 1: show in Nashville at twenty four to seven and CBS

663
00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:48,840
Speaker 1: at the time, one of our first shows we did.

664
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Speaker 2: It was because people.

665
00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:54,160
Speaker 1: Were floating around one of these popular graphics that used

666
00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:56,560
Speaker 1: to circulate the internet for some reason, I don't see

667
00:32:56,600 --> 00:32:58,960
Speaker 1: him anymore, and it was this split screen and it

668
00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:01,200
Speaker 1: was Kirby Smart's first first fill in the blank years

669
00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:03,360
Speaker 1: and it was Mark Rick's first filling the blank years.

670
00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:05,720
Speaker 1: And they looked really similar. The numbers looked really similar,

671
00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:08,520
Speaker 1: and it was supposed to lead you to believe that

672
00:33:08,560 --> 00:33:11,440
Speaker 1: Georgia fired Mark Rickton just got Mark Rick two point zero.

673
00:33:12,120 --> 00:33:14,080
Speaker 2: By the way, that's not a terrible thing, because Rick

674
00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:15,000
Speaker 2: wasn't a terrible coach.

675
00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:18,800
Speaker 1: But the point was that graphic doesn't get circulated anymore

676
00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:22,000
Speaker 1: because the same people who use words like can't and

677
00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:24,800
Speaker 1: won't ever, they're the same people who make that graphic

678
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:28,520
Speaker 1: not understanding there's a big difference between have not and cannot.

679
00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:32,440
Speaker 1: Kirby Smart had not won a title at that point.

680
00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:37,080
Speaker 1: He has since won multiples and probably not done winning them.

681
00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:39,960
Speaker 1: Dan Lanning right now, there's a lot of things he

682
00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:45,240
Speaker 1: has not done yet that maybe cannot is the wrong

683
00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:50,760
Speaker 1: word for. They aren't stopping, is all I know at Oregon.

684
00:33:51,520 --> 00:33:55,560
Speaker 1: The effort right now, the stacking of elite recruiting classes

685
00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:58,400
Speaker 1: is not gonna stop. I don't even know if they'll

686
00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:00,520
Speaker 1: make the playoff this year. Will I'd be willing to

687
00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:02,280
Speaker 1: bet they are. I don't know if they'll win the

688
00:34:02,280 --> 00:34:04,760
Speaker 1: Big Ten in year one. I'd be willing to bet

689
00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:08,120
Speaker 1: they'll be a big factor in it. Even if they don't.

690
00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:09,960
Speaker 1: I don't care if they go nine and three and

691
00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:12,560
Speaker 1: miss out on the thing entirely. This year they'll be

692
00:34:12,719 --> 00:34:15,200
Speaker 1: right back in the conversation next year, and then the

693
00:34:15,280 --> 00:34:18,200
Speaker 1: year after that and the year after that, because they're

694
00:34:18,239 --> 00:34:19,840
Speaker 1: not a window program.

695
00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:24,279
Speaker 2: Oregon once upon a time was kind of fashioned as a.

696
00:34:24,200 --> 00:34:26,359
Speaker 1: Place where if you build, and you build, and you build,

697
00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:28,280
Speaker 1: you look two years down the road, you can circle

698
00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:29,879
Speaker 1: that year and say, all right, well we got this team.

699
00:34:29,920 --> 00:34:31,520
Speaker 1: If we can hold it together, and we may have

700
00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:35,520
Speaker 1: a puncher's chance that year. That's not organ anymore because

701
00:34:35,719 --> 00:34:38,880
Speaker 1: Dan Lanning did what I thought was impossible. He built

702
00:34:38,880 --> 00:34:41,960
Speaker 1: an SEC program on the West coast. The last one

703
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:44,200
Speaker 1: to remotely come close to doing something like that was

704
00:34:44,200 --> 00:34:46,960
Speaker 1: Pete Carroll in the early two thousands, and that's when

705
00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:50,440
Speaker 1: that term SEC program didn't even mean what it means now,

706
00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:53,920
Speaker 1: because the SEC is a conference was not then what

707
00:34:54,040 --> 00:34:56,160
Speaker 1: it ended up becoming and what it long since has

708
00:34:56,200 --> 00:35:01,080
Speaker 1: been now. Lanning's exposure to head coaches has included working

709
00:35:01,160 --> 00:35:04,120
Speaker 1: under Nick Saban and working under Kirby Smart, And if

710
00:35:04,160 --> 00:35:07,360
Speaker 1: you were to copy paste those guys and drop it

711
00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:11,640
Speaker 1: in Eugene, Oregon, you'd basically have Dan Lanning. So they

712
00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:15,400
Speaker 1: nailed their coaching higher. He is returned and returned and

713
00:35:15,480 --> 00:35:18,880
Speaker 1: returned on that investment in the way of building a

714
00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:21,840
Speaker 1: roster that's going to be a sustainable year over year contender.

715
00:35:22,120 --> 00:35:23,840
Speaker 1: And what you do is the same thing you do

716
00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:26,400
Speaker 1: it Bama, same thing you do it Georgia, same thing

717
00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:29,040
Speaker 1: you do at Ohio State. You get the best players.

718
00:35:29,360 --> 00:35:32,319
Speaker 1: You got to be relentless. You can never have too

719
00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:36,000
Speaker 1: many you can. It's like watching a squirrel store up

720
00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:38,120
Speaker 1: nuts for the winner. You feel those cheeks as much

721
00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:39,440
Speaker 1: as you can, or in this case, you feel that

722
00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:41,200
Speaker 1: roster as much as you can. You got to be

723
00:35:41,239 --> 00:35:45,640
Speaker 1: as selfish and as cutthroat as possible because injury happens.

724
00:35:45,960 --> 00:35:47,920
Speaker 2: But also you're eventually.

725
00:35:47,480 --> 00:35:49,239
Speaker 1: Going to go toe to toe with one of the

726
00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:52,640
Speaker 1: few other programs in America that recruit the same way

727
00:35:52,680 --> 00:35:56,120
Speaker 1: you do. All due respect, they're not stacking this roster

728
00:35:56,239 --> 00:35:58,680
Speaker 1: because they got to face Purdue. They're stacking that roster

729
00:35:58,719 --> 00:36:00,640
Speaker 1: because they gotta face Georgia one day. They got to

730
00:36:00,640 --> 00:36:02,920
Speaker 1: face Ohio State, they gotta face Texas, they got to

731
00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:05,080
Speaker 1: go through Alabama. They knew who they have to go through.

732
00:36:05,200 --> 00:36:08,400
Speaker 1: They'll be in that conversation every year. Anyone who suggests

733
00:36:08,440 --> 00:36:12,000
Speaker 1: otherwise is suggesting it a lot more out of wishing

734
00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:15,600
Speaker 1: than guided knowledge. So I took it upon myself to

735
00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:19,360
Speaker 1: bookmark a whole lot of this stuff today because a

736
00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:21,400
Speaker 1: lot of the things that I think they have not

737
00:36:21,520 --> 00:36:23,680
Speaker 1: done so far are about to get crossed off a

738
00:36:23,760 --> 00:36:26,600
Speaker 1: list in the not too distant future. And then what

739
00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:29,799
Speaker 1: do you say, let's talk about Phil Knight. I guess

740
00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:32,839
Speaker 1: talking about Nike, you know, as if that's not part

741
00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:34,040
Speaker 1: of the game these days.

742
00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:35,799
Speaker 2: I don't know.

743
00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:39,759
Speaker 1: Anyway, let's move on. Let us move on. I know

744
00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:42,800
Speaker 1: from certain corners of the industry. I'm gonna get some

745
00:36:42,800 --> 00:36:45,040
Speaker 1: feedback on that. When that's okay, though, make sure you

746
00:36:45,080 --> 00:36:48,600
Speaker 1: are subscribed though. If you're watching and you're not already,

747
00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:52,120
Speaker 1: you know, there were some big goings on today in

748
00:36:52,160 --> 00:36:52,960
Speaker 1: college football.

749
00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:54,520
Speaker 2: I don't know if you were paying attention.

750
00:36:55,160 --> 00:36:57,399
Speaker 1: I don't really, Jesse. I don't get the sense most

751
00:36:57,400 --> 00:37:00,239
Speaker 1: people knew. Today was the day, or maybe tomorrow borrow.

752
00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:04,319
Speaker 1: July first is the day officially that Texas and OU

753
00:37:04,560 --> 00:37:08,040
Speaker 1: joined the SEC. So we had a tweet right on

754
00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:11,000
Speaker 1: Q We had a tweet about Texas and OU, but

755
00:37:11,120 --> 00:37:14,400
Speaker 1: not about them joining the SEC per se. It was

756
00:37:14,640 --> 00:37:18,880
Speaker 1: it was about this perception that I think is real.

757
00:37:19,080 --> 00:37:22,040
Speaker 1: I think the perception at least is real about Texas

758
00:37:22,040 --> 00:37:25,200
Speaker 1: and OU. So one of you ask Colin, here's a

759
00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:28,400
Speaker 1: good endpoint for you. One of you asked as Texas

760
00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:32,840
Speaker 1: and O you enter the SEC Monday officially, Why is

761
00:37:32,880 --> 00:37:38,240
Speaker 1: there this perceived gap between Oklahoma and then several levels

762
00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:41,200
Speaker 1: and then Texas. Why is everyone treating it like it's

763
00:37:41,280 --> 00:37:48,680
Speaker 1: Texas end paragraph, start new paragraph and Oklahoma? I think

764
00:37:48,719 --> 00:37:51,719
Speaker 1: I have some reasons, but this is not invalid. If

765
00:37:51,760 --> 00:37:54,040
Speaker 1: you feel that way, if you live in Oklahoma, you're

766
00:37:54,040 --> 00:37:57,040
Speaker 1: an Oklahoma fan, that's valid. That absolutely is how it's

767
00:37:57,080 --> 00:37:59,719
Speaker 1: being presented. The over underwent total FanDuel this year for

768
00:37:59,719 --> 00:38:02,440
Speaker 1: Texas ten and a half. Oh you seven and a half.

769
00:38:02,560 --> 00:38:05,160
Speaker 1: So it's not just a media thing or a fan

770
00:38:05,360 --> 00:38:08,600
Speaker 1: thing or an Internet thing. It's a Vegas thing too.

771
00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:12,440
Speaker 1: This is in relation to this year's teams, of course

772
00:38:12,640 --> 00:38:16,000
Speaker 1: when it comes to Vegas. But the perception is Texas

773
00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:20,400
Speaker 1: as a program different level than Oklahoma. And what's crazy

774
00:38:20,600 --> 00:38:23,799
Speaker 1: is a lot of times, year over year we have

775
00:38:23,960 --> 00:38:26,640
Speaker 1: new people come to the sport, and I can see

776
00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:30,320
Speaker 1: in our audience metrics you've got different ways to detect

777
00:38:30,880 --> 00:38:32,879
Speaker 1: whether people have watched for a long time or whether

778
00:38:32,880 --> 00:38:35,920
Speaker 1: they're pretty new, and I picture someone new. I picture

779
00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:39,760
Speaker 1: someone from from good old ENID, Oklahoma, who You've always

780
00:38:39,960 --> 00:38:43,000
Speaker 1: rooted for Oklahoma, but you don't really immerse yourself. But

781
00:38:43,040 --> 00:38:46,200
Speaker 1: this year you've chosen to take the leap. Welcome, We're

782
00:38:46,200 --> 00:38:50,160
Speaker 1: happy to have you. You may be sensing this. Oh,

783
00:38:50,280 --> 00:38:52,719
Speaker 1: they think Texas is way better than us. It must

784
00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:56,320
Speaker 1: be because of on field results. Right No, Oklahoma is

785
00:38:56,360 --> 00:38:59,200
Speaker 1: seven and three in the last ten against Texas. They

786
00:38:59,239 --> 00:39:03,000
Speaker 1: are eleven and five four in their last fifteen against Texas. Well,

787
00:39:03,640 --> 00:39:06,239
Speaker 1: they must have won more titles at Texas then, Right No,

788
00:39:06,760 --> 00:39:10,680
Speaker 1: Oklahoma's got a fourteen to four lead in conference titles

789
00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:12,359
Speaker 1: since nineteen ninety six.

790
00:39:12,440 --> 00:39:14,440
Speaker 2: That was in the Big Twelve. Now they're coming to

791
00:39:14,520 --> 00:39:17,480
Speaker 2: the SEC. Okay, Josh, Well.

792
00:39:16,880 --> 00:39:21,920
Speaker 1: Certainly then, most recently, Texas must be just recruiting at

793
00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:25,520
Speaker 1: a different level than Oklahoma. The last five years, Texas

794
00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:29,600
Speaker 1: has averaged a class ranked seven point four. Oklahoma's has

795
00:39:29,680 --> 00:39:34,000
Speaker 1: averaged being ranked ninth. Not a huge gap in recruiting. Well,

796
00:39:34,000 --> 00:39:36,959
Speaker 1: what about the portal, Josh, Texas has done good there, Yeah,

797
00:39:37,040 --> 00:39:40,120
Speaker 1: Oklahoma's done better. So they've got the head to head,

798
00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:44,640
Speaker 1: They've got history on their side. Both recently and more

799
00:39:44,680 --> 00:39:48,080
Speaker 1: long term recruiting has been pretty comparable. Portal has been

800
00:39:48,160 --> 00:39:51,640
Speaker 1: edge Oklahoma. Where in the world is the perceived gap

801
00:39:51,680 --> 00:39:54,600
Speaker 1: coming from. I think three things are in play. There's

802
00:39:54,680 --> 00:40:00,160
Speaker 1: bias towards Texas that I think is undeniable. Number two,

803
00:40:00,520 --> 00:40:03,319
Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of recency bias. And what

804
00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:04,960
Speaker 1: they do is they don't think back to the Red

805
00:40:05,040 --> 00:40:07,360
Speaker 1: River shootout last year. If they did that, that, no,

806
00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:10,960
Speaker 1: Oklahoma won the game. More recent than that, what did

807
00:40:11,040 --> 00:40:13,120
Speaker 1: we see last year? We saw Texas make the playoff,

808
00:40:14,040 --> 00:40:16,480
Speaker 1: which fulfilled on a lot of predictions that people have

809
00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:18,680
Speaker 1: been making year over year over year over year, and

810
00:40:18,719 --> 00:40:22,520
Speaker 1: finally Texas made some folks look smart and they love

811
00:40:22,520 --> 00:40:25,200
Speaker 1: them for it. But the thing about it is Oklahoma

812
00:40:25,200 --> 00:40:27,520
Speaker 1: won double digit games last year as well, and there

813
00:40:27,520 --> 00:40:29,800
Speaker 1: were a couple of one possession losses that stood between

814
00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:32,600
Speaker 1: them and maybe doing a whole lot more than just

815
00:40:32,719 --> 00:40:36,319
Speaker 1: a nice solid Bowl game. But I think at the

816
00:40:36,320 --> 00:40:40,480
Speaker 1: core of all this, for some reason, the stink of

817
00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:43,360
Speaker 1: Brent Venables first year and his record being six and

818
00:40:43,480 --> 00:40:47,919
Speaker 1: seven still lingers, much more so than Start going five

819
00:40:47,960 --> 00:40:50,760
Speaker 1: and seven his first year. That was a year prior

820
00:40:51,280 --> 00:40:54,759
Speaker 1: than Brent Venables first year. But also Texas has a

821
00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:58,759
Speaker 1: playoff appearance, and that playoff appearance, whether it should or not,

822
00:40:58,840 --> 00:41:02,040
Speaker 1: it just washes every one's memory clean. Whereas Oklahoma had

823
00:41:02,040 --> 00:41:04,439
Speaker 1: a nice year last year, ten and three last year,

824
00:41:04,920 --> 00:41:08,680
Speaker 1: what in the playoff appearance? Though playoff appearances are magical.

825
00:41:09,719 --> 00:41:13,000
Speaker 1: How Having said that, though if I were Brenton Venables,

826
00:41:13,360 --> 00:41:16,719
Speaker 1: I wouldn't change a thing. Oklahoma thinks they have their

827
00:41:16,760 --> 00:41:19,000
Speaker 1: guy for the long haul. That's why they just locked

828
00:41:19,080 --> 00:41:22,520
Speaker 1: him up with an extended contract last week. Brent Venables

829
00:41:22,719 --> 00:41:26,120
Speaker 1: is not showing an ounce of doubt. They're totally resolute

830
00:41:26,120 --> 00:41:28,600
Speaker 1: in their approach. In fact, I would imagine the year

831
00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:30,759
Speaker 1: one to year two improvement from two years ago to

832
00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:35,120
Speaker 1: last year. He probably never doubted much, but I think

833
00:41:35,120 --> 00:41:37,440
Speaker 1: it may have reinforced that he's the right guy and

834
00:41:37,520 --> 00:41:39,640
Speaker 1: his way is the right way, and trust him when

835
00:41:39,680 --> 00:41:41,840
Speaker 1: it comes to the rest of the organization. Then it

836
00:41:41,840 --> 00:41:44,440
Speaker 1: becomes a whole lot easier to sell on the transfer

837
00:41:44,520 --> 00:41:47,600
Speaker 1: portal circuit. With guys like Dion Burk's coming in from Purdue,

838
00:41:47,600 --> 00:41:50,520
Speaker 1: who could be an instant game changer will be I

839
00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:54,040
Speaker 1: think if he's healthy this year at Oklahoma, they get

840
00:41:54,040 --> 00:41:57,600
Speaker 1: to play him every year. See, that's the thing about

841
00:41:57,719 --> 00:42:00,759
Speaker 1: rivalries in college football. When you don't have people in

842
00:42:00,840 --> 00:42:03,000
Speaker 1: suits get in the way, you get to play them

843
00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:06,960
Speaker 1: every year on the field. Oklahoma points spread underdog, they

844
00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:10,120
Speaker 1: will be won't matter, just like Michigan with Ohio State.

845
00:42:10,160 --> 00:42:12,120
Speaker 1: That matters long as long as they got to have

846
00:42:12,280 --> 00:42:14,600
Speaker 1: us for sixty. As long as we get our shot.

847
00:42:14,719 --> 00:42:18,680
Speaker 1: And October twelfth, that's when it happens. A three week stretch. There,

848
00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:21,280
Speaker 1: three game stretch. There's a bye week baked in here.

849
00:42:21,360 --> 00:42:24,680
Speaker 1: But how about this. Oklahoma opens conference play against Tennessee

850
00:42:24,719 --> 00:42:27,080
Speaker 1: at home. They go to Jordan Hare in Auburn the

851
00:42:27,200 --> 00:42:32,279
Speaker 1: very next week, bye week, Then they got Texas in Dallas. Yeah,

852
00:42:32,320 --> 00:42:36,600
Speaker 1: it's an SEC schedule, gonna be fun to watch. But yeah,

853
00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:40,040
Speaker 1: I don't think there's the massive gap. But I get

854
00:42:40,120 --> 00:42:43,239
Speaker 1: suckered into blindly believing in it a little bit as well.

855
00:42:43,320 --> 00:42:46,040
Speaker 1: So I won't say I'm immune to it. I just

856
00:42:46,120 --> 00:42:49,359
Speaker 1: think every good thing Texas does gets amplified a little

857
00:42:49,440 --> 00:42:51,600
Speaker 1: more than every good thing Oklahoma does.

858
00:42:51,920 --> 00:42:53,319
Speaker 2: There's no other way to explain it.

859
00:42:53,360 --> 00:42:55,800
Speaker 1: There is just a pro Texas bias that is baked

860
00:42:55,840 --> 00:42:59,120
Speaker 1: into the college football ether. But I'm telling you if

861
00:42:59,239 --> 00:43:00,640
Speaker 1: I'm not, I didn't go up a fan of either

862
00:43:00,680 --> 00:43:03,080
Speaker 1: one of these programs. If I had to choose a

863
00:43:03,160 --> 00:43:07,080
Speaker 1: side of that equation, I'd actually embrace the Oklahoma side.

864
00:43:07,440 --> 00:43:12,160
Speaker 1: I'd actually embrace folks doubting constantly and after every year

865
00:43:12,520 --> 00:43:15,480
Speaker 1: or an extended period of years, no matter how much

866
00:43:15,600 --> 00:43:19,120
Speaker 1: we prove ourselves. It's like people get amnesia every summer.

867
00:43:19,280 --> 00:43:21,319
Speaker 1: That just means you got to go reprove yourself year

868
00:43:21,360 --> 00:43:25,399
Speaker 1: over year. But hey, complacency never an issue when everyone

869
00:43:25,480 --> 00:43:29,400
Speaker 1: dowed you constantly. Complacency is never an issue. That's my

870
00:43:29,480 --> 00:43:31,960
Speaker 1: best guess. That's my best explainer as to why that

871
00:43:32,080 --> 00:43:36,120
Speaker 1: perceived gap is there. But hey, quick, quick note, as

872
00:43:36,200 --> 00:43:39,960
Speaker 1: long as the perception doesn't become reality, you'll be fine,

873
00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:42,319
Speaker 1: and it will even make the seasons more fun for you.

874
00:43:43,719 --> 00:43:46,960
Speaker 1: I need to in a very rare move. In fact,

875
00:43:47,040 --> 00:43:49,399
Speaker 1: I don't think I've ever said this sentence on the air.

876
00:43:50,160 --> 00:43:52,479
Speaker 1: I need to circle back to something I said about

877
00:43:52,480 --> 00:43:54,080
Speaker 1: the college football video.

878
00:43:53,840 --> 00:43:56,440
Speaker 2: Game the other day. Yeah, yeah, I know.

879
00:43:57,200 --> 00:43:59,399
Speaker 1: I did get good feedback from many of you who

880
00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:02,480
Speaker 1: never played deo games, who said that was actually a

881
00:44:02,520 --> 00:44:05,400
Speaker 1: really informative segment. Well, that's the only way I'm going

882
00:44:05,440 --> 00:44:07,560
Speaker 1: to talk about the EA Sports College Football twenty five

883
00:44:07,600 --> 00:44:09,680
Speaker 1: video game on this show. Is if I can make

884
00:44:09,719 --> 00:44:12,160
Speaker 1: it interesting to people who never pick up a controller,

885
00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:15,160
Speaker 1: because otherwise it's a niche conversation and a waste of time.

886
00:44:15,480 --> 00:44:19,440
Speaker 1: So believe me, friends, believe me, this will interest you,

887
00:44:19,520 --> 00:44:23,800
Speaker 1: whether you're a gamer or not. EA Sports College Football

888
00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:28,279
Speaker 1: twenty five. It launches in about twenty days, and it's

889
00:44:28,280 --> 00:44:30,080
Speaker 1: going to be It's going to be a holiday. There

890
00:44:30,080 --> 00:44:31,920
Speaker 1: are no two ways about it. It is the biggest thing

891
00:44:31,960 --> 00:44:34,239
Speaker 1: happening in the college football space. Whether you play or

892
00:44:34,320 --> 00:44:38,360
Speaker 1: not understand it's a huge deal. It's a tsunami in

893
00:44:38,480 --> 00:44:40,239
Speaker 1: terms of a lot of things. So I want to

894
00:44:40,239 --> 00:44:42,280
Speaker 1: touch on this for a second. But first, the power

895
00:44:42,360 --> 00:44:46,160
Speaker 1: rating shook you guys. Thursday I talked about the offensive

896
00:44:46,160 --> 00:44:49,120
Speaker 1: and defensive ratings they had released. Well, they released just

897
00:44:49,200 --> 00:44:52,719
Speaker 1: outright team power ratings. I think it was Friday. This

898
00:44:52,760 --> 00:44:54,479
Speaker 1: is the way teams will be ranked in the game.

899
00:44:55,400 --> 00:44:59,400
Speaker 1: And I am in Nashville, Tennessee. So for the next

900
00:44:59,440 --> 00:45:02,000
Speaker 1: couple of minutes, I just need to go full Rocky Top.

901
00:45:02,000 --> 00:45:04,400
Speaker 1: I need to be a Tennessee Homer. I don't know

902
00:45:04,440 --> 00:45:10,400
Speaker 1: what's happening. Honestly, don't know what's happening. Tennessee was not

903
00:45:10,719 --> 00:45:13,879
Speaker 1: a top twenty five offense, Tennessee's not a top twenty

904
00:45:13,920 --> 00:45:17,560
Speaker 1: five defense, Tennessee is not a top twenty five team

905
00:45:18,200 --> 00:45:22,839
Speaker 1: in the rankings? Or is there a probation in the game,

906
00:45:22,960 --> 00:45:24,839
Speaker 1: like is Tennessee legitimately on EA?

907
00:45:24,960 --> 00:45:26,439
Speaker 2: Probation? Is that a thing?

908
00:45:26,560 --> 00:45:28,560
Speaker 1: Jesse, I haven't played the game in a while. Is

909
00:45:28,600 --> 00:45:31,920
Speaker 1: that a thing? I don't know what other explanation there is.

910
00:45:32,840 --> 00:45:37,880
Speaker 1: So Tennessee has their own just barrel full of issues

911
00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:41,000
Speaker 1: to figure out between themselves in this game. Either the

912
00:45:41,040 --> 00:45:44,200
Speaker 1: folks at EA know something about this year's Tennessee team

913
00:45:44,200 --> 00:45:47,080
Speaker 1: that none of us know, or this is going to

914
00:45:47,160 --> 00:45:50,360
Speaker 1: be like an entire Denny's worth of egg on the

915
00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:54,399
Speaker 1: face of the fine folks who we love that are

916
00:45:54,560 --> 00:45:58,840
Speaker 1: responsible for such things at EA. Secondly, guess who is

917
00:45:58,880 --> 00:46:00,960
Speaker 1: in the top twenty five? Yes, who's in the top twenty?

918
00:46:01,080 --> 00:46:03,800
Speaker 2: Colorado's up there, Colorado number sixteen.

919
00:46:03,880 --> 00:46:07,080
Speaker 1: Josh, that's just a marketing ploy. Maybe it is, Like

920
00:46:07,160 --> 00:46:09,840
Speaker 1: I just said, I'm not sure. Perhaps the folks that

921
00:46:09,920 --> 00:46:12,480
Speaker 1: EA know something about Dion Sanders team that none of

922
00:46:12,480 --> 00:46:16,160
Speaker 1: the rest of us know if Colorado's a top twenty team.

923
00:46:16,160 --> 00:46:19,279
Speaker 1: I sure don't know that. So Colorado's up there, ole

924
00:46:19,400 --> 00:46:23,520
Speaker 1: Miss at fifteen. I mean, I am to believe that

925
00:46:23,600 --> 00:46:27,080
Speaker 1: if we were to take the neutral field implication here,

926
00:46:27,600 --> 00:46:30,200
Speaker 1: that Ole Miss in Colorado would be a virtual pick

927
00:46:30,200 --> 00:46:33,320
Speaker 1: them on a neutral field. We all know that's insanity,

928
00:46:33,719 --> 00:46:37,319
Speaker 1: but if EA Sports rankings hold up, that would be

929
00:46:37,360 --> 00:46:40,319
Speaker 1: the case. That would be a big headline. Clemson's at

930
00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:44,719
Speaker 1: number six. Clemson is the top ranked team in the ACC,

931
00:46:46,360 --> 00:46:48,759
Speaker 1: and I am trying to so Florida State's at twelve,

932
00:46:48,800 --> 00:46:53,480
Speaker 1: Miami's at thirteen. So Clemson a ninety overall right there

933
00:46:53,480 --> 00:46:57,839
Speaker 1: with Texas Notre Dame. Fascinating stuff, But that's not the

934
00:46:57,880 --> 00:47:00,239
Speaker 1: only reason I wanted to talk to you about this tonight.

935
00:47:00,600 --> 00:47:04,800
Speaker 1: I can't overstate the impact this has on the absolute

936
00:47:04,920 --> 00:47:09,080
Speaker 1: youngest of generations. So any given cycle in college football,

937
00:47:09,480 --> 00:47:12,799
Speaker 1: there is a group of people age ten to seventeen

938
00:47:13,120 --> 00:47:16,440
Speaker 1: or ten to twenty who are in their first generation

939
00:47:16,560 --> 00:47:19,399
Speaker 1: of really being a college football fan enough to where

940
00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:23,480
Speaker 1: they understand what's going on. Well, the past couple of generations,

941
00:47:23,560 --> 00:47:26,919
Speaker 1: past generation, really they didn't have the game, and video

942
00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:29,279
Speaker 1: games serve as a front door for a lot of

943
00:47:29,320 --> 00:47:32,640
Speaker 1: people who otherwise would just never find college football. And

944
00:47:32,680 --> 00:47:34,239
Speaker 1: I know if you don't play this stuff, you don't

945
00:47:34,320 --> 00:47:36,839
Speaker 1: understand that folks who play it know exactly what I'm

946
00:47:36,880 --> 00:47:37,440
Speaker 1: talking about.

947
00:47:38,040 --> 00:47:41,000
Speaker 2: You assume that if there's a thirteen year old kid out.

948
00:47:40,920 --> 00:47:43,759
Speaker 1: There who picks up this game this year and ends

949
00:47:43,840 --> 00:47:47,320
Speaker 1: up becoming a diehard college football fan because of exposure

950
00:47:47,360 --> 00:47:50,120
Speaker 1: to the game, you may assume, oh, he otherwise would

951
00:47:50,120 --> 00:47:54,120
Speaker 1: have found the game anyway, not necessarily. Not necessarily the

952
00:47:54,120 --> 00:47:58,000
Speaker 1: way media works in the modern age, even though there's

953
00:47:58,000 --> 00:48:00,000
Speaker 1: a lot more of it out there. Therefore, you would

954
00:48:00,000 --> 00:48:02,640
Speaker 1: I think there's more chance for you to be exposed

955
00:48:02,640 --> 00:48:04,760
Speaker 1: to or interact with. The thing is it actually creates

956
00:48:04,800 --> 00:48:10,320
Speaker 1: just bigger ISO chambers. So algorithmically, big tech platforms find

957
00:48:10,320 --> 00:48:12,480
Speaker 1: out what you like and they serve you a whole

958
00:48:12,520 --> 00:48:14,600
Speaker 1: bunch more of that. So you're getting more thrown in

959
00:48:14,640 --> 00:48:17,520
Speaker 1: your face. But it's just reinforcing more of the same thing.

960
00:48:17,880 --> 00:48:19,719
Speaker 1: And so I'm saying that to say there are a

961
00:48:19,719 --> 00:48:22,279
Speaker 1: lot of kids out there that if the algo doesn't

962
00:48:22,320 --> 00:48:24,360
Speaker 1: pick up on the idea that they want college football,

963
00:48:24,400 --> 00:48:27,160
Speaker 1: it'll never give it to them. They're not watching traditional

964
00:48:27,160 --> 00:48:30,839
Speaker 1: linear television, so they're not gonna see advertising the same

965
00:48:30,880 --> 00:48:32,719
Speaker 1: way that you would have seen it thirty years ago

966
00:48:32,840 --> 00:48:37,640
Speaker 1: via a commercial or a billboard or whatnot. Video games

967
00:48:38,080 --> 00:48:41,200
Speaker 1: are a door for a thirteen year old to find

968
00:48:41,239 --> 00:48:43,480
Speaker 1: his or her way into college football that otherwise wouldn't

969
00:48:43,480 --> 00:48:47,560
Speaker 1: have existed. Quantum impact on the sport and its watchability.

970
00:48:47,600 --> 00:48:50,560
Speaker 1: But also it comes with the downside, and I'm preparing

971
00:48:50,600 --> 00:48:54,440
Speaker 1: you for this now, it's gonna hurt us all we're

972
00:48:54,440 --> 00:48:57,680
Speaker 1: gonna have to cope because it is a necessary evil.

973
00:48:58,160 --> 00:49:01,480
Speaker 1: You will never have seen a flood of people questioning

974
00:49:01,560 --> 00:49:04,480
Speaker 1: play calling more than they will this year in college football,

975
00:49:04,520 --> 00:49:06,680
Speaker 1: and it will not matter that they cannot talk their

976
00:49:06,719 --> 00:49:08,319
Speaker 1: way out of a wet paper bag when it comes

977
00:49:08,320 --> 00:49:11,760
Speaker 1: to actual chalk talk exes and o's. These are people

978
00:49:12,239 --> 00:49:15,080
Speaker 1: who believe that because they just beat NC State twenty

979
00:49:15,120 --> 00:49:18,080
Speaker 1: seven to twenty plan is Virginia Tech on EA Sports

980
00:49:18,160 --> 00:49:22,240
Speaker 1: CFB twenty five that they called a game, they chose

981
00:49:22,280 --> 00:49:26,279
Speaker 1: the plays. Therefore, they did virtually the same thing that

982
00:49:26,320 --> 00:49:30,560
Speaker 1: an offensive coordinator does in Lane Stadium on Saturday. Some

983
00:49:30,640 --> 00:49:31,360
Speaker 1: of you are laughing.

984
00:49:31,400 --> 00:49:31,920
Speaker 2: You should be.

985
00:49:32,040 --> 00:49:35,160
Speaker 1: It is a joke, But I'm not joking it's coming

986
00:49:35,239 --> 00:49:38,080
Speaker 1: back now. People have always questioned play calling, but for

987
00:49:38,160 --> 00:49:40,120
Speaker 1: this game to have been out of the ether for

988
00:49:40,160 --> 00:49:46,000
Speaker 1: a while, it gave us several years where people questioning

989
00:49:46,120 --> 00:49:49,560
Speaker 1: play calling mainly just came from folks who think they

990
00:49:49,560 --> 00:49:52,200
Speaker 1: know more than they really do. But now you have

991
00:49:52,280 --> 00:49:55,839
Speaker 1: a mechanism that's going to reinforce the idea that they

992
00:49:55,880 --> 00:49:58,800
Speaker 1: know more than they really do. So questioning play calling

993
00:49:58,880 --> 00:50:01,120
Speaker 1: I think will increase three or four hundred percent this

994
00:50:01,239 --> 00:50:05,680
Speaker 1: year online. It'll mainly be online. And so I have

995
00:50:05,760 --> 00:50:09,640
Speaker 1: this entire concept and I'm just waiting. I got coordinators

996
00:50:09,680 --> 00:50:11,759
Speaker 1: that listen to the show. I'm just waiting for one

997
00:50:11,800 --> 00:50:14,160
Speaker 1: of you guys whose head coaches allow you to talk.

998
00:50:14,760 --> 00:50:17,279
Speaker 1: If you want extra money, not that you guys are

999
00:50:17,360 --> 00:50:19,840
Speaker 1: hurting for it, but if you want extra money, I

1000
00:50:19,920 --> 00:50:24,200
Speaker 1: have an idea for a show where you confront fans

1001
00:50:24,600 --> 00:50:27,360
Speaker 1: who legitimately are willing to question your play calling to

1002
00:50:27,520 --> 00:50:31,480
Speaker 1: your face, and it's no filter, it's no holds barred.

1003
00:50:31,560 --> 00:50:34,200
Speaker 1: I'll get the thing sold by tomorrow if any of

1004
00:50:34,239 --> 00:50:36,719
Speaker 1: you are willing to do this, But I want you

1005
00:50:36,800 --> 00:50:40,720
Speaker 1: to just school people are who are willing to be schooled.

1006
00:50:40,719 --> 00:50:43,160
Speaker 1: They're asking for it. This is like the old Pros

1007
00:50:43,239 --> 00:50:45,840
Speaker 1: Versus Joe's show that they did, where you just you

1008
00:50:45,920 --> 00:50:48,439
Speaker 1: found these folks who legitimately thought they could hit major

1009
00:50:48,520 --> 00:50:52,160
Speaker 1: league pitching, or they legitimately thought that they could tackle

1010
00:50:52,200 --> 00:50:54,799
Speaker 1: an NFL running back in the open field. Make them

1011
00:50:54,840 --> 00:50:58,479
Speaker 1: prove it. And so in this world you got folks

1012
00:50:58,480 --> 00:51:01,160
Speaker 1: who want to question your play calling. Make some extra

1013
00:51:01,239 --> 00:51:04,000
Speaker 1: money off Duncan on them. It's gonna be a fun year.

1014
00:51:04,040 --> 00:51:05,520
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a fun year for us. All All right,

1015
00:51:05,560 --> 00:51:08,280
Speaker 1: let's move on. There was a rule got a big

1016
00:51:08,360 --> 00:51:10,640
Speaker 1: rule change in college football that I did want to

1017
00:51:10,640 --> 00:51:10,920
Speaker 1: touch on.

1018
00:51:11,040 --> 00:51:12,120
Speaker 2: Some of you asked about it.

1019
00:51:12,320 --> 00:51:14,879
Speaker 1: I wasn't really going to discuss it, but the more

1020
00:51:14,920 --> 00:51:17,040
Speaker 1: I went through the latter part of last week, I

1021
00:51:17,080 --> 00:51:18,240
Speaker 1: had some people reach out.

1022
00:51:18,120 --> 00:51:18,839
Speaker 2: To me about this.

1023
00:51:20,440 --> 00:51:23,719
Speaker 1: In like all different walks of football, and this is

1024
00:51:23,719 --> 00:51:26,560
Speaker 1: a big deal. So there was a there was an

1025
00:51:26,600 --> 00:51:30,280
Speaker 1: NCAA rule change this past week that impacts coaching staffs.

1026
00:51:30,400 --> 00:51:32,719
Speaker 1: It's a really really big deal for me, for you,

1027
00:51:32,800 --> 00:51:36,600
Speaker 1: for everybody. Something really really big. A couple of things

1028
00:51:36,600 --> 00:51:37,960
Speaker 1: that are really big that are going to come off

1029
00:51:37,960 --> 00:51:41,600
Speaker 1: of this. So the NCAA rule change, it essentially removed

1030
00:51:41,640 --> 00:51:45,800
Speaker 1: the cap on how many staffers can coach on the field.

1031
00:51:46,239 --> 00:51:48,279
Speaker 1: So it used to be that you had your your ten,

1032
00:51:48,640 --> 00:51:52,560
Speaker 1: you know, allotted staff spots, and even in practice, like

1033
00:51:52,840 --> 00:51:55,360
Speaker 1: you can't have people who aren't quote unquote on the

1034
00:51:55,400 --> 00:51:59,960
Speaker 1: coaching staff participating in coaching on the field. It was

1035
00:52:00,000 --> 00:52:04,440
Speaker 1: a joke because most programs had staffers that were all

1036
00:52:04,480 --> 00:52:06,879
Speaker 1: over the place at practices. I've said at practice before

1037
00:52:06,880 --> 00:52:09,160
Speaker 1: and as soon as they close that gate to the

1038
00:52:09,320 --> 00:52:12,640
Speaker 1: local media an army like kicking over an ant hill,

1039
00:52:12,680 --> 00:52:14,200
Speaker 1: they come right out of the tunnel, right out of

1040
00:52:14,239 --> 00:52:17,880
Speaker 1: the complex. And so not everyone was going by this rule. However,

1041
00:52:18,480 --> 00:52:21,640
Speaker 1: there were certain things you absolutely couldn't do that you

1042
00:52:21,680 --> 00:52:24,520
Speaker 1: can do now. Now there's a downside to this. I'm

1043
00:52:24,520 --> 00:52:26,640
Speaker 1: gonna explain both things, both sides of the coin here.

1044
00:52:26,680 --> 00:52:31,040
Speaker 2: The downside is at someone who is really really involved

1045
00:52:31,080 --> 00:52:33,680
Speaker 2: in sort of the business end of coaching reach out

1046
00:52:33,719 --> 00:52:36,200
Speaker 2: and say FCS staffs are screwed.

1047
00:52:36,800 --> 00:52:40,239
Speaker 1: G five staffs are screwed. You guys never get good headlines.

1048
00:52:40,280 --> 00:52:44,080
Speaker 1: I know what this does is you're Clemsons of the world,

1049
00:52:44,160 --> 00:52:47,640
Speaker 1: your Florida's, you're LSU's folks with the biggest budgets. The

1050
00:52:47,760 --> 00:52:50,560
Speaker 1: NCAA just told them there's no limit to how many

1051
00:52:50,640 --> 00:52:53,480
Speaker 1: coaches you can have on your staff, many as you want,

1052
00:52:53,719 --> 00:52:56,520
Speaker 1: many as you want. And so what you can do

1053
00:52:56,600 --> 00:52:59,320
Speaker 1: now is you can go find the wide receiver coach

1054
00:52:59,600 --> 00:53:02,880
Speaker 1: at a G program. You could probably afford to give

1055
00:53:02,920 --> 00:53:05,520
Speaker 1: him one hundred percent raise to just come be an

1056
00:53:05,560 --> 00:53:09,640
Speaker 1: analyst or be a down the line coach on your staff,

1057
00:53:09,840 --> 00:53:11,880
Speaker 1: and he won't have that same title. But what he

1058
00:53:12,000 --> 00:53:15,400
Speaker 1: is getting is he's getting real world, on field, hands

1059
00:53:15,440 --> 00:53:20,719
Speaker 1: on resume building experience at a major program. I think

1060
00:53:20,760 --> 00:53:24,440
Speaker 1: there'll be a flood of that happening. Not right now,

1061
00:53:24,680 --> 00:53:26,920
Speaker 1: cause staffs are kind of set for this year, but

1062
00:53:26,960 --> 00:53:29,960
Speaker 1: come December and January, those programs are gonna get rated.

1063
00:53:30,040 --> 00:53:34,040
Speaker 1: That's not a good thing. However, be that as it may.

1064
00:53:34,160 --> 00:53:37,600
Speaker 1: If it's gonna happen, this will have I think, a

1065
00:53:37,880 --> 00:53:41,120
Speaker 1: very very huge benefit on a chronic problem that has

1066
00:53:41,200 --> 00:53:43,920
Speaker 1: been facing coaches, and it's burnout that a lot of

1067
00:53:43,960 --> 00:53:45,759
Speaker 1: people don't care about because a lot of them get

1068
00:53:45,760 --> 00:53:48,000
Speaker 1: paid a lot of money. And you also don't see

1069
00:53:48,040 --> 00:53:49,960
Speaker 1: the day to day. You see him coach on Saturdays,

1070
00:53:49,960 --> 00:53:52,680
Speaker 1: you see him talk to the media. But what college

1071
00:53:52,680 --> 00:53:55,920
Speaker 1: football had become was totally untenable. There were good people

1072
00:53:55,960 --> 00:53:58,239
Speaker 1: just outright leaving the sport. A lot of other ones

1073
00:53:58,280 --> 00:54:00,600
Speaker 1: trying to go to the NFL to get away from

1074
00:54:00,600 --> 00:54:03,880
Speaker 1: college because college was unworkable right now in the NFL

1075
00:54:04,000 --> 00:54:07,160
Speaker 1: was preferable. Pro football should not be easier to do

1076
00:54:07,320 --> 00:54:09,000
Speaker 1: than college for a coach, but yet that's the way

1077
00:54:09,040 --> 00:54:11,560
Speaker 1: it's been lately. Well, now, think about this huge win

1078
00:54:11,640 --> 00:54:16,399
Speaker 1: for staffers right now as it stands. If I'm Ryan Day,

1079
00:54:16,640 --> 00:54:20,000
Speaker 1: if I'm Kirby Smart, and I want my defensive line coach,

1080
00:54:20,520 --> 00:54:24,080
Speaker 1: I need a guy who can recruit my linebackers, coach,

1081
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Speaker 1: my wide receivers coach. By and large, I can't be

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00:54:28,080 --> 00:54:31,480
Speaker 1: working around their recruiting and inadequacy. I need them to

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Speaker 1: be able to recruit.

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Speaker 2: Now, there are.

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Speaker 1: Instances where you know guys are so good at their

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00:54:36,680 --> 00:54:38,960
Speaker 1: position coaching that you work around it.

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00:54:39,000 --> 00:54:42,000
Speaker 2: They're not good recruiters, you don't send them out, but

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Speaker 2: by and large you do. You don't have to do

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Speaker 2: it anymore.

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Speaker 1: Really, if you want to, and you're really ready to

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00:54:48,400 --> 00:54:51,400
Speaker 1: invest the money, you can go line up your coaching

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00:54:51,440 --> 00:54:54,399
Speaker 1: staff and you can have five or six of them.

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Speaker 1: Never hit the road recruiting if you don't really want

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Speaker 1: them to. You can just totally prioritize football. I have

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00:55:00,200 --> 00:55:03,520
Speaker 1: them totally prioritized football, and you can have an entire

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Speaker 1: roster full of all star recruiters. As long as they

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Speaker 1: consistently coach on the field, which is the rule, you

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Speaker 1: can send them out recruiting. I think it's going to

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Speaker 1: really really change the way that head coaches and general

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Speaker 1: managers with head coaches build these staffs, again to the

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00:55:20,800 --> 00:55:24,359
Speaker 1: detriment of SCS programs in G five programs, But I

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Speaker 1: also think it gets rid of disparity and enforcement. So

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Speaker 1: let me tell you now that this is not a

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00:55:31,160 --> 00:55:36,239
Speaker 1: rule anymore. Yeah, okay, it's not a rule anymore. So

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Speaker 1: I'll be a little more loose on this couple of things.

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Speaker 1: This was happening at practices. It's not a coincidence that

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00:55:43,800 --> 00:55:46,400
Speaker 1: practices became more closed off to the media in the

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Speaker 1: last decade or so.

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Speaker 2: COVID had a lot to do with that.

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Speaker 1: And then some places said we're just not going to

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00:55:51,200 --> 00:55:53,799
Speaker 1: open it back up. But really, there was another thing

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Speaker 1: that happens at college football practices that they didn't want

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00:55:56,960 --> 00:55:59,319
Speaker 1: local media seeing, and that is a lot of folks

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Speaker 1: who technically aren't allowed under NCAA rule to coach on

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Speaker 1: the field. We're coaching on the field because there was

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00:56:05,320 --> 00:56:07,160
Speaker 1: no way to get a team ready doing it the

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00:56:07,200 --> 00:56:09,160
Speaker 1: way the NCAA dictated you had to do it.

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00:56:09,200 --> 00:56:10,680
Speaker 2: Well, here was the problem.

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Speaker 1: It's it's like driving sixty three miles an hour in

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Speaker 1: a fifty five mile an hour zone in Atlanta, for example,

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00:56:19,000 --> 00:56:23,439
Speaker 1: or any major city where the speed limit is absurdly lower.

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00:56:23,120 --> 00:56:23,880
Speaker 2: Than it should be.

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Speaker 1: Most everyone just says, forget about that, we'll go a

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00:56:27,480 --> 00:56:30,000
Speaker 1: safe speed, but we're not going fifty five. Well, there

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Speaker 1: are a few cars that go fifty five, Just like

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Speaker 1: there were a few enforcement staffs out there with certain

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00:56:36,200 --> 00:56:39,879
Speaker 1: programs who would not bend on this, no matter how

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Speaker 1: much the head coach complained, no matter how much the

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00:56:42,480 --> 00:56:45,800
Speaker 1: assistants complained, no matter how much they brought in coaches

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00:56:45,800 --> 00:56:48,759
Speaker 1: from other staffs that told that enforcement staff, though, do

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00:56:48,880 --> 00:56:51,600
Speaker 1: everybody is doing this? That enforcement staff is that we're

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00:56:51,600 --> 00:56:56,200
Speaker 1: not doing it, no bend, no interpretation rules, We're not

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Speaker 1: doing it.

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00:56:56,880 --> 00:56:57,040
Speaker 2: Well.

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Speaker 1: It puts you behind a giant eight ball, And this

1136
00:57:00,280 --> 00:57:03,600
Speaker 1: was a reason why some staffs moved on, some coaches

1137
00:57:03,640 --> 00:57:06,600
Speaker 1: moved on from certain institutions because the enforcement staff was

1138
00:57:06,600 --> 00:57:09,080
Speaker 1: too rigid on this thing that already wasn't being ad

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00:57:09,120 --> 00:57:09,400
Speaker 1: here to.

1140
00:57:09,480 --> 00:57:10,520
Speaker 2: Well, now it's not.

1141
00:57:10,480 --> 00:57:13,759
Speaker 1: An issue because it's not a rule anymore. So I

1142
00:57:13,800 --> 00:57:17,360
Speaker 1: think the situation of burnout will be addressed in the

1143
00:57:17,400 --> 00:57:20,920
Speaker 1: positive here. I think G five and FCF staffs are

1144
00:57:20,960 --> 00:57:24,080
Speaker 1: going to drastically suffer because of this. But I also

1145
00:57:24,120 --> 00:57:25,960
Speaker 1: think at least you want to have the great disparity

1146
00:57:25,960 --> 00:57:32,000
Speaker 1: and enforcement because one place is much more stringent on

1147
00:57:32,040 --> 00:57:34,160
Speaker 1: such things than other places are. They're watching us in

1148
00:57:34,200 --> 00:57:37,720
Speaker 1: San Marcos, Texas, Jacksonville, Alabama, and Detroit, Michigan.

1149
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Speaker 2: Appreciate you, guys.

1150
00:57:38,720 --> 00:57:42,520
Speaker 1: We got some unpopular takes on the show tonight, paper

1151
00:57:42,560 --> 00:57:47,560
Speaker 1: Stack got some unpopular takes here. First unpopular takes My

1152
00:57:47,640 --> 00:57:51,680
Speaker 1: favorite time of year. The unpopular takes are great. First

1153
00:57:51,760 --> 00:57:55,760
Speaker 1: unpopular take tonight eleven am kickoffs provide better exposure for

1154
00:57:55,840 --> 00:57:59,200
Speaker 1: teams than later kickoffs. That means noon Eastern. I would

1155
00:57:59,240 --> 00:58:03,880
Speaker 1: assume there's no specification on which platform he was talking

1156
00:58:03,920 --> 00:58:07,120
Speaker 1: about here. He just said the noon eastern time kickoff

1157
00:58:07,120 --> 00:58:12,320
Speaker 1: that's better exposure for teams. Well, that's not really true,

1158
00:58:12,400 --> 00:58:14,480
Speaker 1: and no one loves a noon kickoff more than me.

1159
00:58:15,280 --> 00:58:17,200
Speaker 1: I'd kick off the entire sport at noon if I

1160
00:58:17,240 --> 00:58:20,480
Speaker 1: could no, not quite that drastic, but I love neon kickoffs.

1161
00:58:20,480 --> 00:58:23,400
Speaker 1: But if you're a pure Tier one team, like if

1162
00:58:23,440 --> 00:58:26,680
Speaker 1: you're Ohio State, if you're Oregon, if you're a usc

1163
00:58:27,280 --> 00:58:29,040
Speaker 1: you can play any time of the day you want.

1164
00:58:29,120 --> 00:58:32,000
Speaker 1: People are gonna find your game. The general rule of

1165
00:58:32,040 --> 00:58:36,600
Speaker 1: thumb to me is if you are a lesser known program,

1166
00:58:37,200 --> 00:58:39,880
Speaker 1: it helps you to play later in the day, because

1167
00:58:39,920 --> 00:58:43,280
Speaker 1: I'm a believer in looking at audience patterns, and audience

1168
00:58:43,320 --> 00:58:47,520
Speaker 1: patterns dictate that hardcore fans watch all day. The more

1169
00:58:47,560 --> 00:58:50,720
Speaker 1: casual like like P two and then casual P three

1170
00:58:50,800 --> 00:58:54,280
Speaker 1: fans industry terminology, but just means the less passionate they are,

1171
00:58:54,280 --> 00:58:56,520
Speaker 1: the less diehard they are, the more likely they are

1172
00:58:56,560 --> 00:58:58,919
Speaker 1: to not be watching early in the day. The noon

1173
00:58:59,000 --> 00:59:02,360
Speaker 1: kickoffs filter in for the three thirty kickoffs, and then

1174
00:59:02,360 --> 00:59:04,800
Speaker 1: they're there for the primetime kickoffs because in their mind,

1175
00:59:05,120 --> 00:59:08,160
Speaker 1: primetime equals bigger game, and it does equal that in

1176
00:59:08,160 --> 00:59:11,040
Speaker 1: pro sports. It doesn't always equal that in college sports,

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00:59:11,360 --> 00:59:12,880
Speaker 1: which to me is a good thing but to some

1178
00:59:12,920 --> 00:59:16,919
Speaker 1: people is not. So if I were a lesser known program,

1179
00:59:17,280 --> 00:59:19,560
Speaker 1: I'd want to be playing as late as I can

1180
00:59:20,040 --> 00:59:23,680
Speaker 1: because mathematically, just statistically, people are more likely to bump

1181
00:59:23,680 --> 00:59:26,560
Speaker 1: into my game. And I'm not a known commodity. If

1182
00:59:26,640 --> 00:59:32,280
Speaker 1: I am Florida State, I'm known. If I'm Tennessee, I'm

1183
00:59:32,360 --> 00:59:34,760
Speaker 1: pretty known. So it doesn't matter if I play at

1184
00:59:34,760 --> 00:59:38,360
Speaker 1: noon or seven thirty. People are gonna confind me. So

1185
00:59:38,520 --> 00:59:42,200
Speaker 1: the exposure thing, I don't even think is just broadly

1186
00:59:42,280 --> 00:59:46,320
Speaker 1: applicable across the sport. It means different things for different programs.

1187
00:59:46,320 --> 00:59:49,320
Speaker 1: Ohio State doesn't need any more exposure, so it doesn't

1188
00:59:49,320 --> 00:59:50,760
Speaker 1: really matter what time of day they play.

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Speaker 2: Penn State is known now.

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Speaker 1: At that point, those folks up there looking around and say, yeah,

1191
00:59:57,080 --> 01:00:00,440
Speaker 1: here's our other beef with the noon kickoffs. Can't be

1192
01:00:00,480 --> 01:00:02,560
Speaker 1: doing a wide out at noon, so get out of

1193
01:00:02,600 --> 01:00:04,480
Speaker 1: the way and give us our primetime kickoff. That's the

1194
01:00:04,520 --> 01:00:08,120
Speaker 1: exposure we want. And to that, I say, I did

1195
01:00:08,160 --> 01:00:10,040
Speaker 1: a segment on it two weeks ago. I agree with you, guys.

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01:00:10,240 --> 01:00:13,160
Speaker 1: I'm willing to when I am college football commissioner, I

1197
01:00:13,160 --> 01:00:15,800
Speaker 1: am willing to create special carve outs for that, but you.

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01:00:15,760 --> 01:00:16,840
Speaker 2: Got to elect me first.

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Speaker 1: Next up, Oh, this one would be dramatic if this

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Speaker 1: one were to come to pass, Ken, said Mark my words,

1201
01:00:24,600 --> 01:00:27,360
Speaker 1: LSU will be the most overrated Top twenty five team

1202
01:00:27,400 --> 01:00:29,720
Speaker 1: this season. And then he said full stop, so you

1203
01:00:29,720 --> 01:00:32,640
Speaker 1: know he really means it. Thank you for the emphasis, Ken,

1204
01:00:33,760 --> 01:00:35,880
Speaker 1: They're over underwent totals nine and a half. Right now,

1205
01:00:35,920 --> 01:00:39,000
Speaker 1: For those wondering at fanduels nine and a half, what

1206
01:00:39,040 --> 01:00:41,760
Speaker 1: would have to happen for FSU or for LSU to

1207
01:00:41,800 --> 01:00:44,439
Speaker 1: be the most overrated team in the entire top twenty five?

1208
01:00:44,680 --> 01:00:46,520
Speaker 1: So that means, take all the top twenty five teams,

1209
01:00:46,560 --> 01:00:47,960
Speaker 1: it looks like LSU is going to be in the

1210
01:00:47,960 --> 01:00:52,480
Speaker 1: ten to fifteen range judging by preview magazines. So if

1211
01:00:52,520 --> 01:00:55,840
Speaker 1: they're remembered as the most overrated team out of all

1212
01:00:55,880 --> 01:00:58,040
Speaker 1: of them, that means they went like five and seven

1213
01:00:58,120 --> 01:00:59,720
Speaker 1: or six and six, because you know, good and well,

1214
01:01:00,000 --> 01:01:02,200
Speaker 1: they're gonna be a couple of full on disaster years

1215
01:01:02,200 --> 01:01:04,480
Speaker 1: in the top twenty five. So for LSU to be

1216
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Speaker 1: the worst one, I think six and six or worse.

1217
01:01:09,040 --> 01:01:11,680
Speaker 1: What has to happen for LSU to go six and six? Well,

1218
01:01:13,080 --> 01:01:16,040
Speaker 1: I figure you got a bank on Garrett Nusmayer not

1219
01:01:16,120 --> 01:01:19,720
Speaker 1: being anywhere close to the answer. At quarterback, they never

1220
01:01:20,400 --> 01:01:23,080
Speaker 1: come close to matching the rushing numbers that they lost

1221
01:01:23,080 --> 01:01:25,760
Speaker 1: when Jayden Daniels went off to the NFL. Not only that,

1222
01:01:26,080 --> 01:01:29,200
Speaker 1: but you got the whole new offensive coordinator, new quarterback,

1223
01:01:29,400 --> 01:01:34,200
Speaker 1: unproven running back stable. You're replacing twenty seven hundred receiving

1224
01:01:34,280 --> 01:01:38,080
Speaker 1: yards and thirty one touchdowns, none of it backfills. So

1225
01:01:38,200 --> 01:01:41,560
Speaker 1: you've just got a middling offense that pales in comparison

1226
01:01:41,600 --> 01:01:42,680
Speaker 1: to what you had last year.

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01:01:43,160 --> 01:01:44,320
Speaker 2: That has to happen.

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01:01:44,720 --> 01:01:48,240
Speaker 1: And then I think also defensively, despite all these new

1229
01:01:48,240 --> 01:01:51,120
Speaker 1: staff moves, inability to make big moves in the portal

1230
01:01:51,120 --> 01:01:54,440
Speaker 1: at defensive line ends up costing you all year. I

1231
01:01:54,440 --> 01:01:57,400
Speaker 1: think lack of portal success has to bite them defensive

1232
01:01:57,400 --> 01:02:02,160
Speaker 1: line and DBS. They if not regress, they just don't progress.

1233
01:02:02,480 --> 01:02:06,080
Speaker 1: And then I think the schedule difficulty has to verify.

1234
01:02:06,360 --> 01:02:08,720
Speaker 1: So you look at the preseason FanDuel odds to just

1235
01:02:08,840 --> 01:02:12,880
Speaker 1: win it all. LSU plays five of the top twenty

1236
01:02:12,880 --> 01:02:15,800
Speaker 1: teams to win the whole thing, and they got USC

1237
01:02:15,920 --> 01:02:19,280
Speaker 1: to open the season. Their first conference games at South Carolina,

1238
01:02:19,560 --> 01:02:21,200
Speaker 1: they play Ole Miss, they go to A and M.

1239
01:02:21,240 --> 01:02:23,600
Speaker 1: They got Bama, they go to Florida, they got Oklahoma.

1240
01:02:23,960 --> 01:02:25,560
Speaker 1: All of those teams have to end up being good

1241
01:02:25,880 --> 01:02:27,800
Speaker 1: and all of them have to beat LSU. So if

1242
01:02:27,840 --> 01:02:30,320
Speaker 1: all of that transpires, you had to be a bad

1243
01:02:30,400 --> 01:02:32,920
Speaker 1: year for LSU, and then Brian Kelly would have all

1244
01:02:33,000 --> 01:02:37,480
Speaker 1: kinds of uncomfortable conversations surrounding him. I'm not sure all

1245
01:02:37,520 --> 01:02:41,440
Speaker 1: that's gonna happen. So this is a very unpopular take. Now,

1246
01:02:41,440 --> 01:02:44,800
Speaker 1: if I were to ask people over under on LSU,

1247
01:02:45,240 --> 01:02:47,360
Speaker 1: you'd get a fair amount of under action, but they'd

1248
01:02:47,400 --> 01:02:49,760
Speaker 1: be saying eight and four, nine and three, six and

1249
01:02:49,800 --> 01:02:52,440
Speaker 1: six are worse. Just falling out of the top twenty

1250
01:02:52,440 --> 01:02:55,320
Speaker 1: five entirely, people saying you were the most overrated team

1251
01:02:55,320 --> 01:02:58,920
Speaker 1: in the country. It's doubtful, but that's what makes it

1252
01:02:58,960 --> 01:03:01,600
Speaker 1: an unpopular take. Here's a good follow up. I don't

1253
01:03:01,640 --> 01:03:03,040
Speaker 1: really have an answer for this. You guys can give

1254
01:03:03,040 --> 01:03:05,720
Speaker 1: it to me the comment section. Let's say this is

1255
01:03:05,760 --> 01:03:07,760
Speaker 1: true for a second. We get to the end of

1256
01:03:07,760 --> 01:03:11,160
Speaker 1: the year, there's no bowl game. LSU's like five and seven.

1257
01:03:13,800 --> 01:03:17,280
Speaker 1: What do you do unless it was just injuries all

1258
01:03:17,320 --> 01:03:19,240
Speaker 1: over the place, the likes of which you've never seen.

1259
01:03:19,280 --> 01:03:22,680
Speaker 1: If their football team just isn't good enough to be

1260
01:03:22,920 --> 01:03:27,040
Speaker 1: five hundred or better, what would you do. It's off

1261
01:03:27,080 --> 01:03:30,200
Speaker 1: the edge of a cliff in terms of comparable data

1262
01:03:30,240 --> 01:03:35,120
Speaker 1: points like going back in history and finding some comparable situations.

1263
01:03:35,160 --> 01:03:35,880
Speaker 2: What do you do.

1264
01:03:37,280 --> 01:03:42,520
Speaker 1: Wolf, If, on the other hand, you think that that's

1265
01:03:42,720 --> 01:03:44,800
Speaker 1: out of the realm of possibility and LSU may be

1266
01:03:44,920 --> 01:03:47,680
Speaker 1: the most underrated team in the top twenty five, I

1267
01:03:47,720 --> 01:03:50,440
Speaker 1: have good news for you. They're over underwent totals nine

1268
01:03:50,440 --> 01:03:52,040
Speaker 1: and a half. And you can go bett at FanDuel

1269
01:03:52,120 --> 01:03:55,560
Speaker 1: right now. If you think Garrett Nusmeyer is going to

1270
01:03:55,600 --> 01:03:57,880
Speaker 1: be a revelation this year, go bet him to win

1271
01:03:57,920 --> 01:04:01,240
Speaker 1: the Heisman. He's not the favorite. Go bet them at

1272
01:04:01,320 --> 01:04:03,520
Speaker 1: serious plus money. You can do all that at FanDuel

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1274
01:04:06,880 --> 01:04:08,680
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1275
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Speaker 1: of doubt about this, don't be going and betting your

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1281
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Speaker 1: don't be betting your money on anything.

1282
01:04:27,840 --> 01:04:30,880
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Speaker 1: To just go over there, and look, you don't have

1284
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Speaker 1: to be betting, So if you have no interest in betting,

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Speaker 1: never beten, you never plan on betting, you'd still probably

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Speaker 1: here tonight. I promise you guys, bold predictions. I will

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Speaker 1: For example, the big rule around here this year, for

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Speaker 1: is nine point five or bolder, as determined by me

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Speaker 1: and your prediction hits, I am sending you a chalice

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Speaker 1: of supremacy. We've had a few nine point five's already.

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Speaker 1: Let's see what we can do tonight. All right, boldest

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Speaker 1: predictions this year the things that you claim you'd bet

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Speaker 1: your own money on first bold prediction after three consecutive losses.

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Speaker 1: Tyler in Maryville, Tennessee, says Ohio State beats Michigan by

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Speaker 1: two plus touchdowns this year. Well, we have two bits

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Speaker 1: last week of the year. They have a future number

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Speaker 1: on it Michigan at Ohio State Ohio State minus nine

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Speaker 1: and a half. They're a nine and a half point

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Speaker 1: favorite right now, but they also have an alternative.

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Speaker 2: Line on it, or an alternate line on.

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Speaker 1: It just so happens to coincide with this prediction. You

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Speaker 1: could go bet Ohio State minus fourteen right now at

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Speaker 1: plus one thirty, which is probably something I'd wait to

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Speaker 1: do a little bit later in the year, but it's

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Speaker 1: out there. In fact, Ohio State is more likely to

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Speaker 1: win by fourteen or more than they are to win

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Speaker 1: by one to seven points, so odds makers don't find

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Speaker 1: this bold. Odds makers find it somewhat likely. Four of

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Speaker 1: the last five games in this series have been decided

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Speaker 1: by fourteen plus, so even though it's very fierce there

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Speaker 1: have been Michigan forty two to twenty seven, Michigan forty

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Speaker 1: five to twenty three. Last year's game was close, but

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Speaker 1: several years before that, three years before that, Ohio State

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Speaker 1: a double digit winner in all the years, So double

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Speaker 1: digit wins are a norm in this series. Is the

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Speaker 1: Ohio State gonna do it this year? It's a seven

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Speaker 1: for me. This is not out of the Roman possibility

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Speaker 1: at all. Having said that, it's also not out of

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Speaker 1: the Roman possibility that everyone's predicting that and then Michigan

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Speaker 1: goes in there and wins outright. But I mean, if

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Speaker 1: odds makers are telling me it's plus one thirty juice

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Speaker 1: at minus fourteen, I'm gonna make it a seven on

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Speaker 1: the boldness Goale. Next up, we haven't talked about Arkansas

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Speaker 1: in a while. Mike up in Russellville. He said, Arkansas

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Speaker 1: wins eight games this year. Then he put a lot

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Speaker 1: of qualifiers in there that would probably happen if Arkansas

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Speaker 1: won eight games. So bad news, Mike, Well, actually good

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Speaker 1: news for you. I'm making this a nine point seventy five.

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Speaker 1: So if it happens, chalice of supremacy coming your way.

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Speaker 1: The over underwent totals four and a half right now,

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Speaker 1: and it's juiced to the under, so you got to

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Speaker 1: four and a half. There are reasons for optimism, deep breath, there,

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Speaker 1: the deepest breadth of the show. There are reasons for optimism.

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Speaker 1: Taylor Green is a quarterback transfer from Boise. Hopes and

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Speaker 1: dreams are riding on him this year. Bobby Petrino is

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Speaker 1: back as the offensive coordinator, so this pairing, it's not negotiable.

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Speaker 1: They have to mesh and they need it to explode.

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Speaker 1: It will be a very volatile offense. It could be

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Speaker 1: a really really up and down, hit and miss offense.

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Speaker 1: The weeks where they hit, they could randomly go to

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Speaker 1: Auburn and win a week after they lose against UAB.

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Speaker 1: I could easily see that kind of stuff happening this

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Speaker 1: year for them. They are definitely gonna be an underdog

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Speaker 1: in eight games this year. Definitely an underdog in eight,

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Speaker 1: could be nine or more, so they've got to pull

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Speaker 1: several upsets. Getting to eight is gonna be really, really tough.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna make that a nine point seventy five on

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Speaker 1: the boldness scale. Next up, a lot of creativity here,

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Speaker 1: it's pretty bold. Let's talk about the college football playoff.

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Speaker 1: Three teams from the state of Texas will make the playoff.

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Speaker 1: The way I figure this is both Texas and Texas

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Speaker 1: A and M have to make it because of what

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Speaker 1: I'm about to say. In the Big twelve you got

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Speaker 1: Texas Tech, Baylor TCU in Houston. Not impossible, but unlikely

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Speaker 1: that you see a playoff team come out of that group.

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Speaker 1: SMU is in the ACC now crazier things have happened,

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Speaker 1: but unlikely. And then you look at the G five.

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Speaker 1: So let's just say Texas and Texas A and M

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Speaker 1: made it, which is tough but not impossible. UTSA, they're

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Speaker 1: over under win totals eight and a half. Texas state

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Speaker 1: over under win total of eight and a half, so

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Speaker 1: maybe one of them gets in. The G five's got

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Speaker 1: to have at least one team M, so maybe they

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Speaker 1: get in, and maybe both the SEC teams get in.

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Speaker 1: This is a stretch, so this is a nine point

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Speaker 1: twenty five on the boldness scale, but not impossible. It

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Speaker 1: wouldn't be the biggest shock in the world. Hat tip

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Speaker 1: for Rice appearing there on a graphic did not know

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Speaker 1: what have food on the show tonight. And lastly, let's

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Speaker 1: wrap up with a nine point five. Here a Grand

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Speaker 1: Rapids Michigan checking in saying Riley Leonard is in New

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Speaker 1: York City for the Heisman ceremony. So not that he

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Speaker 1: wins it, but Riley Leonard transferred from Duke to Notre

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Speaker 1: Dame quarterback. He's going to be a Heisman finalist. Remember

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Speaker 1: last year he was hurt. Year before at Duke, he

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Speaker 1: was a three thousand yard passer, seven hundred yard rusher,

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Speaker 1: really good player, had a ton of hype last year

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Speaker 1: and then was banged up. Mike Denbrock, who coordinated the

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Speaker 1: offense at LSU that won the Heisman last year with

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Speaker 1: Jaden Daniels, he is the offensive coordinator at Notre Dame.

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Speaker 2: Now, so as you.

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Speaker 1: Come back to the college football watering hole, familiarize yourself

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Speaker 1: with the staff moves. That's a really big deal. So

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Speaker 1: you got a really really good talent at quarterback. You

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Speaker 1: a guy who knows what he's doing at offensive coordinator.

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Speaker 1: Is Notre Dame's offense going to be prolific enough though

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Speaker 1: to get him the kind of numbers you need to

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Speaker 1: go to New York City. Notre Dame is going to

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Speaker 1: be plenty good defensively where they don't need to play.

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Speaker 2: The way that Lsu played last year. Not even close

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Speaker 2: doesn't mean they can't.

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Speaker 1: He is the ninth player right now in the Heisman

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Speaker 1: odds board over at FanDuel. This is a nine point

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Speaker 1: five to me. It's not cause I doubt Leonard's skill

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Speaker 1: set so much, especially if he's healthy. It's just because

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Speaker 1: there's some things I try and picture in my mind,

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Speaker 1: and I have trouble picturing a Notre Dame quarterback throwing

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Speaker 1: for the kind of numbers that you would need over

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Speaker 1: the past several years. History says that you would need

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Speaker 1: to be in New York. Maybe I'm wrong, Maybe I'm wrong.

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Speaker 1: That's tough to see, and so I'm gonna make it

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Speaker 1: a nine point five on the boldness scale. There you go,

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Speaker 1: good bold predictions tonight. I appreciate you guys for watching.

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Speaker 1: Remember we're going to be back Tuesday Live Show five

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Speaker 1: Eastern fourth Central Special start time on Tuesday, and then,

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Speaker 1: the weekend.

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Speaker 2: to us maintaining our status as America's college football show,

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Speaker 2: as stated by us and no one else. So for

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Speaker 2: producer Jesse, for director Colin, I'm Josh Bait.

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