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Speaker 1: Sunday Night, December thirteenth, Year of Our Lord, twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: Live chats jam packed. We've got a jam packed show tonight.

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Speaker 1: Gus Malzon is out at Auburn. Tom Herman has survived

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Speaker 1: for the better part of four hours yesterday afternoon. We

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Speaker 1: got a lot of Week fifteen takeaways in general, so

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Speaker 1: many hit a number of games tonight, got so many

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Speaker 1: best day yesterday? Yes By and large, yesterday just kind

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Speaker 1: of we wish we could make it disappear. However, today

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Speaker 1: Tuesday Thursday night for you eightiest from seventh Central. We

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Speaker 1: can promise we're going to try and put together a

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Speaker 1: good show. But you know, I was looking around Twitter

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Speaker 1: There's no need to give any name by credibility on

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Speaker 1: to come in here and we're gonna have to change

428
00:20:09,680 --> 00:20:13,400
Speaker 1: the way they think. That was the mentality Alabama had

429
00:20:13,480 --> 00:20:16,120
Speaker 1: is a thirty point favorite. They were looking to come

430
00:20:16,119 --> 00:20:20,159
Speaker 1: in there and completely and utterly salt the earth and

431
00:20:20,240 --> 00:20:22,640
Speaker 1: everything in front of them. And that's what they did.

432
00:20:23,240 --> 00:20:27,360
Speaker 1: When you think like that and you have superior culture

433
00:20:27,440 --> 00:20:30,720
Speaker 1: and you have superior players, you can run over people

434
00:20:30,960 --> 00:20:34,480
Speaker 1: like a tractor combine. But here's the problem. Dan Mullen

435
00:20:34,520 --> 00:20:36,840
Speaker 1: did the opposite. Dan Mullen allowed his team to show

436
00:20:36,920 --> 00:20:40,159
Speaker 1: up last night assuming his opponent was already defeated and

437
00:20:40,200 --> 00:20:41,600
Speaker 1: they weren't going to have to do the work like

438
00:20:41,640 --> 00:20:43,960
Speaker 1: Alabama did. Alabama shows up knowing or we got to

439
00:20:44,040 --> 00:20:45,840
Speaker 1: change the way they think. And once they don't think

440
00:20:45,840 --> 00:20:48,680
Speaker 1: they can beat us anymore, then we've dominated them. Dan

441
00:20:48,760 --> 00:20:52,000
Speaker 1: Mullen apparently, and Florida right behind him, show up last

442
00:20:52,080 --> 00:20:55,640
Speaker 1: night and think lsh's gonna get dominated tonight. Well, there's

443
00:20:55,680 --> 00:20:58,160
Speaker 1: a crazy thing that has to happen. You actually have

444
00:20:58,240 --> 00:21:00,479
Speaker 1: to do it. You have to do the dominating. It's

445
00:21:00,480 --> 00:21:03,040
Speaker 1: a point spread doesn't do anything. The point spreads only

446
00:21:03,080 --> 00:21:05,280
Speaker 1: there because of the assumption that you can take care

447
00:21:05,320 --> 00:21:08,320
Speaker 1: of business by an odds maker. And so who is

448
00:21:08,359 --> 00:21:09,719
Speaker 1: this on? I know a lot of you have been

449
00:21:09,760 --> 00:21:12,280
Speaker 1: talking about Marco Wilson today, and I know a lot

450
00:21:12,320 --> 00:21:15,320
Speaker 1: of you talking about kickers and all this stuff. There's

451
00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:19,760
Speaker 1: Collins showing you the shoe throw defense, Todd Grantham, this

452
00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:23,359
Speaker 1: and that. Let me ask you something, do you really

453
00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:25,639
Speaker 1: think that that's where this game was lost? Is that

454
00:21:25,680 --> 00:21:29,399
Speaker 1: what you think? I don't think that. I've I've watched

455
00:21:29,400 --> 00:21:33,120
Speaker 1: it already again today, and I'm of the opinion that

456
00:21:33,560 --> 00:21:36,120
Speaker 1: a lot of this was decided before I even turned

457
00:21:36,119 --> 00:21:38,400
Speaker 1: the game on last night. When you show I don't

458
00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:39,879
Speaker 1: care what point spread is on a game. When you

459
00:21:39,920 --> 00:21:43,320
Speaker 1: show up and you haven't mentally prepared yourself, you can't

460
00:21:43,320 --> 00:21:45,680
Speaker 1: do it midway through the first quarter. There is no

461
00:21:46,040 --> 00:21:49,000
Speaker 1: fabled post game or well not postgame. There is no

462
00:21:49,080 --> 00:21:52,000
Speaker 1: fabled halftime adjustment you can make. Once you get yourself

463
00:21:52,040 --> 00:21:54,480
Speaker 1: in the soup. You're in the soup. And they weren't

464
00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:58,040
Speaker 1: playing UT Chattanooga, for example. They're playing a team in LSU.

465
00:21:58,160 --> 00:22:01,399
Speaker 1: It's got some athletes. They've under performed this year, but

466
00:22:01,520 --> 00:22:04,080
Speaker 1: the athletes are still there, and so it was pretty

467
00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:06,000
Speaker 1: obvious early on Florida probably in a little bit of

468
00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:08,040
Speaker 1: trouble here. I'm gonna get Florida in just a second,

469
00:22:08,040 --> 00:22:09,320
Speaker 1: because I got a lot more to say about them.

470
00:22:09,520 --> 00:22:11,640
Speaker 1: But I think you got to give well, I gotta

471
00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:13,959
Speaker 1: give a lot of credit to LSU because it's been

472
00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:16,800
Speaker 1: a bad week down there. It's been a really bad week.

473
00:22:17,359 --> 00:22:19,560
Speaker 1: There is still a lot to deal with at LSU.

474
00:22:19,920 --> 00:22:22,680
Speaker 1: But see, I had a guy come at me yesterday

475
00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:28,440
Speaker 1: and he was talking about meaningless games and folks opting out,

476
00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:31,600
Speaker 1: and he asked the question in a rhetorical manner, well,

477
00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:35,000
Speaker 1: why wouldn't you opt out for these meaningless games? Well,

478
00:22:35,400 --> 00:22:38,119
Speaker 1: some folks have opted out because they do view the

479
00:22:38,160 --> 00:22:41,160
Speaker 1: remaining games on the schedule as meaningless. But I want

480
00:22:41,160 --> 00:22:44,520
Speaker 1: to tell you something. There are enough folks out there

481
00:22:45,000 --> 00:22:46,760
Speaker 1: who are of the mentality that as long as they're

482
00:22:46,840 --> 00:22:50,439
Speaker 1: keeping score, then it means something because their competitors, and

483
00:22:50,440 --> 00:22:52,879
Speaker 1: that's how they're wired. Not everyone's wired that way, but

484
00:22:53,080 --> 00:22:55,720
Speaker 1: enough folks are wired like that to where not only

485
00:22:55,800 --> 00:22:57,840
Speaker 1: are they going to show up, and not only are

486
00:22:57,880 --> 00:23:00,359
Speaker 1: they going to pour it out on the life line

487
00:23:00,600 --> 00:23:02,680
Speaker 1: even if their record indicates, maybe to you at home

488
00:23:02,720 --> 00:23:05,920
Speaker 1: on your couch, that game's meaningless. Well, they think differently

489
00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:08,040
Speaker 1: than you, and they show up differently than you, and

490
00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:10,280
Speaker 1: they're on the field and you're on the couch because

491
00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:13,119
Speaker 1: they're different than you, and to them, they're ready to

492
00:23:13,119 --> 00:23:15,440
Speaker 1: go to war because it still means something. And here's

493
00:23:15,480 --> 00:23:18,680
Speaker 1: the funny thing. Once you remove some of the elements

494
00:23:18,680 --> 00:23:21,440
Speaker 1: from the locker room that are of the opposite mentality,

495
00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:24,600
Speaker 1: some of those folks who think it is meaningless, then

496
00:23:24,640 --> 00:23:28,439
Speaker 1: you can have one of those old addition by subtraction formulas.

497
00:23:28,760 --> 00:23:30,760
Speaker 1: And that's what happened with LSU last night. You got

498
00:23:30,760 --> 00:23:32,840
Speaker 1: a freshman most of you've never heard of him at quarterback.

499
00:23:33,040 --> 00:23:35,680
Speaker 1: They got a scholarship bordering on they got scholarship numbers

500
00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:38,399
Speaker 1: bordering on not even enough to play. And yet once

501
00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:41,320
Speaker 1: they had some folks walk out of there that you

502
00:23:41,359 --> 00:23:43,720
Speaker 1: think is going to be just detrimental to the odds

503
00:23:43,760 --> 00:23:46,040
Speaker 1: that they could even compete here. Not only do they compete,

504
00:23:46,440 --> 00:23:49,560
Speaker 1: they win now, make no mistake about it. As much

505
00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:52,040
Speaker 1: credit as is due to that team from last night,

506
00:23:52,160 --> 00:23:54,640
Speaker 1: well it doesn't change anything about the future for LSU.

507
00:23:54,960 --> 00:23:58,440
Speaker 1: It certainly changes things in terms of that staff understanding

508
00:23:58,840 --> 00:24:01,879
Speaker 1: who they can trust in a flyoxhle and more importantly,

509
00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:05,400
Speaker 1: perhaps who they can't trust in the foxhole. And that's

510
00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:09,680
Speaker 1: a future personnel decision thing. But also it doesn't necessarily

511
00:24:09,760 --> 00:24:12,200
Speaker 1: change a lot of what is messed up about LSU

512
00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:13,840
Speaker 1: behind the scenes. There are a lot of things that

513
00:24:13,920 --> 00:24:16,000
Speaker 1: still need fixing. They're going to need to overturn a

514
00:24:16,000 --> 00:24:17,920
Speaker 1: lot in and of themselves in order to be competitive

515
00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:21,080
Speaker 1: next year in years to come. All that's true, but

516
00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:23,440
Speaker 1: it certainly leaves a lot better taste in your mouth

517
00:24:23,440 --> 00:24:26,840
Speaker 1: on what the alternative is. And secondly, you know, I

518
00:24:26,880 --> 00:24:29,280
Speaker 1: think it probably sells a lot of people down there

519
00:24:29,320 --> 00:24:31,240
Speaker 1: that had been on the fence over the last week

520
00:24:31,280 --> 00:24:36,479
Speaker 1: about whether a vast majority, a large swath of that

521
00:24:36,560 --> 00:24:39,919
Speaker 1: program had tuned ed orz ron out. At the very least,

522
00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:42,840
Speaker 1: it has to confirm in your mind, well that's not true.

523
00:24:43,359 --> 00:24:48,040
Speaker 1: Maybe rumors of an entire mutiny, an entire uprising, maybe

524
00:24:48,080 --> 00:24:51,879
Speaker 1: those were greatly exaggerated. Maybe there were some isolated pockets,

525
00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:55,280
Speaker 1: maybe some of them walked away. Maybe there's some self

526
00:24:55,320 --> 00:24:58,080
Speaker 1: policing going on at that program and the best ones

527
00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:00,720
Speaker 1: we're able to do that, and maybe last night was

528
00:25:00,760 --> 00:25:04,240
Speaker 1: a small just a small result and hopefully an indication

529
00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:05,920
Speaker 1: of what you can have coming. So there was a

530
00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:09,440
Speaker 1: lot of college football playoff talk after this, obviously around Florida.

531
00:25:09,760 --> 00:25:11,399
Speaker 1: And as much as you guys were talking about the

532
00:25:11,400 --> 00:25:13,520
Speaker 1: Marco Wilson shoe throw last night and everything like that,

533
00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:15,639
Speaker 1: you know what was one of to me one of

534
00:25:15,640 --> 00:25:19,560
Speaker 1: the most inexplicable things that I heard in this broadcast.

535
00:25:20,040 --> 00:25:23,040
Speaker 1: It wasn't the postgame scene that Dan Mullen made, It

536
00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:26,600
Speaker 1: wasn't the shoe throw that stuff. Yeah, everyone heard that.

537
00:25:27,119 --> 00:25:28,639
Speaker 1: I heard something that not a lot of you were

538
00:25:28,640 --> 00:25:31,440
Speaker 1: talking about during this broadcast if you had the TV

539
00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:34,320
Speaker 1: feed up and you had the audio on. The broadcast

540
00:25:34,359 --> 00:25:38,040
Speaker 1: crew was openly talking about conversations they had had with

541
00:25:38,160 --> 00:25:42,520
Speaker 1: Dan Mullen and Todd Grantham during the week about playoff scenarios.

542
00:25:43,080 --> 00:25:47,040
Speaker 1: And I'm thinking, to myself, what in the world are

543
00:25:47,040 --> 00:25:49,520
Speaker 1: they talking about that for during a game week. They're

544
00:25:49,560 --> 00:25:52,520
Speaker 1: not guaranteeing anything. I can't remember the last time I

545
00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:56,040
Speaker 1: turned on an Alabama game and a broadcast team details

546
00:25:56,040 --> 00:25:59,160
Speaker 1: thirty minute conversations they had with Nick Saban about how

547
00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:02,040
Speaker 1: they think they're layoff seating is going to pan out,

548
00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:04,639
Speaker 1: in other words, taking your opponent for granted. I think

549
00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:06,640
Speaker 1: this was one of the most humbling nights of Dan

550
00:26:06,720 --> 00:26:09,520
Speaker 1: Mullen's career. He was in wounded animal mode. He was

551
00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:12,560
Speaker 1: in full defense or denial mode in his postgame press conference.

552
00:26:13,560 --> 00:26:15,639
Speaker 1: I didn't even bother to tell Colin to clip from it.

553
00:26:15,640 --> 00:26:17,359
Speaker 1: It's a waste of time. You can go find it

554
00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:20,400
Speaker 1: if you want to. It was fairly pathetic. I mean,

555
00:26:20,440 --> 00:26:22,840
Speaker 1: the thing about it is the guy made some accurate

556
00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:25,480
Speaker 1: points in his post game, but yet it was so

557
00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:28,880
Speaker 1: childish that no one really cares to hear it from him,

558
00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:31,280
Speaker 1: Like someone else can make those points, not you. This

559
00:26:31,400 --> 00:26:34,280
Speaker 1: is the same guy who complained about the size of

560
00:26:34,320 --> 00:26:36,080
Speaker 1: the crowd at Texas A and M after they lost,

561
00:26:36,119 --> 00:26:38,000
Speaker 1: and now it's well, maybe we shouldn't have been playing

562
00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:40,600
Speaker 1: this game, you know. Well, okay, Dan, let someone else

563
00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:42,639
Speaker 1: say that. Please just let someone else say that. But

564
00:26:42,720 --> 00:26:46,560
Speaker 1: this was very humbling because he knows, trust me, he's

565
00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:48,840
Speaker 1: keenly aware. He didn't have his team ready to play

566
00:26:48,920 --> 00:26:52,159
Speaker 1: last night. He had his team thinking that LSU was

567
00:26:52,200 --> 00:26:54,680
Speaker 1: going to come in. We're gonna put up a good,

568
00:26:54,840 --> 00:26:57,320
Speaker 1: solid pushback that we're gonna get some good work in

569
00:26:57,359 --> 00:26:59,199
Speaker 1: against him for about a quarter and a half and

570
00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:01,359
Speaker 1: then then run up the score, and then there'd be

571
00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:04,159
Speaker 1: a halftime decision about whether to leave his starter's in

572
00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:09,199
Speaker 1: or not. You're not Alabama. Florida's not Alabama, obviously in

573
00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:13,160
Speaker 1: terms of personnel or in terms of internal wiring. They

574
00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:15,560
Speaker 1: don't think like that, is my point. So if they

575
00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:18,040
Speaker 1: don't think like that, you certainly can't afford to think

576
00:27:18,119 --> 00:27:20,240
Speaker 1: like that. The entire reason they are who they are

577
00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:22,720
Speaker 1: is because they don't think like that. Like that's the

578
00:27:22,760 --> 00:27:27,600
Speaker 1: whole point. So then you have the college football playoff conversation,

579
00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:30,080
Speaker 1: and to me, I'm not all that focused on it

580
00:27:30,080 --> 00:27:31,639
Speaker 1: because I don't think it's gonna be relevant for more

581
00:27:31,680 --> 00:27:34,560
Speaker 1: than one week. The conversation essentially is, well, can Florida

582
00:27:34,600 --> 00:27:36,400
Speaker 1: still get in after they win? Or if they win

583
00:27:36,440 --> 00:27:38,320
Speaker 1: the SEC championship game? Can they still get in? Like?

584
00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:41,160
Speaker 1: What would have to happen? Friends? There are a few

585
00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:42,840
Speaker 1: truths in this world, but I really think one of

586
00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:44,040
Speaker 1: them is I don't think you're gonna have to worry

587
00:27:44,040 --> 00:27:47,000
Speaker 1: about that after Saturday. I really don't. Now. Having said that,

588
00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:48,679
Speaker 1: I think a lot of you are going about this

589
00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:51,200
Speaker 1: argument from the wrong perspective. A lot of you are

590
00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:55,280
Speaker 1: going at the ten games played versus five or six

591
00:27:55,359 --> 00:27:58,600
Speaker 1: games play thing with Ohio State. If we lose two

592
00:27:58,720 --> 00:28:01,440
Speaker 1: games and they're five, and you know, shouldn't we still

593
00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:04,080
Speaker 1: be in because we put ourselves out there more. That's

594
00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:06,240
Speaker 1: not the way to make the argument. I understand what

595
00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:07,800
Speaker 1: you're saying. I've told you I think there's merit on

596
00:28:07,800 --> 00:28:10,840
Speaker 1: both sides of this. Here's what you should do. You

597
00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:14,560
Speaker 1: should talk to the side that's defending the Ohio State stance,

598
00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:16,960
Speaker 1: and then look on your side at the side that's

599
00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:19,520
Speaker 1: defending the we played more games, therefore we should be

600
00:28:19,560 --> 00:28:21,880
Speaker 1: rewarded for that stance, and you should say, well, let's

601
00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:24,600
Speaker 1: find a compromise. Okay, you guys over there, Let's say

602
00:28:24,640 --> 00:28:26,919
Speaker 1: you're talking about Ohio State. You guys have played what

603
00:28:27,040 --> 00:28:30,080
Speaker 1: six games after the Big ten title game? Six games? Okay, Well,

604
00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:33,640
Speaker 1: here's the compromise. We'll just find our best six game

605
00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:36,600
Speaker 1: stretch from this year, and we'll let that be our

606
00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:40,440
Speaker 1: sample size versus your sample size, So games we played

607
00:28:40,560 --> 00:28:42,560
Speaker 1: versus games you played. Now, Florida has got a six

608
00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:45,400
Speaker 1: and oh stretch obviously, and their schedule, and then we

609
00:28:45,440 --> 00:28:47,480
Speaker 1: can compare resumes like that's the way you should go

610
00:28:47,520 --> 00:28:49,080
Speaker 1: at it, cause if they're gonna look back at you

611
00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:50,720
Speaker 1: would say no, you got to count all the games

612
00:28:50,760 --> 00:28:53,120
Speaker 1: you played. Well, then you enter into a little bit

613
00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:57,000
Speaker 1: different discussion. Having said that, though, like I said, I

614
00:28:57,040 --> 00:28:59,400
Speaker 1: don't think it's gonna be relevant. This is something that's

615
00:28:59,440 --> 00:29:02,080
Speaker 1: gonna steam. I gotta refresh the computer, this is something

616
00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:04,040
Speaker 1: that's going to sting for a long time. So I

617
00:29:04,080 --> 00:29:05,760
Speaker 1: want you to think as we close this and move on,

618
00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:07,960
Speaker 1: I want you to think about what your perception of

619
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:11,360
Speaker 1: Florida was just twenty four hours ago going into the

620
00:29:11,440 --> 00:29:14,440
Speaker 1: LSU game. You obviously expect them to win that, even

621
00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:18,240
Speaker 1: if they're just competitive against Alabama. They've got the SEC East.

622
00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:20,920
Speaker 1: They were in the playoff conversation right up to the

623
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:23,560
Speaker 1: very end, maybe even after the SEC title game, depending

624
00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:25,760
Speaker 1: on the way the rest of the country shook out.

625
00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:28,520
Speaker 1: Recruiting has been as good this year as it's been

626
00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:31,240
Speaker 1: at any point under Dan Mullen, and so you feel

627
00:29:31,320 --> 00:29:33,920
Speaker 1: like there are several rungs that you're about to climb

628
00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:36,680
Speaker 1: up on that ladder in years to come. Now you

629
00:29:36,720 --> 00:29:39,080
Speaker 1: imploded in the biggest moment of the year to date.

630
00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:42,840
Speaker 1: You are in all likelihood going to be run by

631
00:29:42,880 --> 00:29:44,960
Speaker 1: Alabama Saturday, and I think that was going to happen

632
00:29:44,960 --> 00:29:47,680
Speaker 1: either way. But in all likelihood you are never assume.

633
00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:49,600
Speaker 1: We saw last night what happens when you do that,

634
00:29:50,480 --> 00:29:52,520
Speaker 1: and Georgia has surged at the end of the year.

635
00:29:52,680 --> 00:29:54,960
Speaker 1: And so I was wondering, and I'm still wondering, like,

636
00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:57,880
Speaker 1: as we get out of this thing, what looked like

637
00:29:58,360 --> 00:30:01,960
Speaker 1: a quantum leap for Florida and maybe kind of a

638
00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:05,160
Speaker 1: reset button hit in the SEC East and a reassumption

639
00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:07,400
Speaker 1: of the top of the mantle for Florida, I wonder

640
00:30:07,400 --> 00:30:09,160
Speaker 1: if it's really even gonna feel like that, Like when

641
00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:11,360
Speaker 1: we get done with this, is it really even gonna

642
00:30:11,360 --> 00:30:13,000
Speaker 1: feel like Florida is the better team in the East?

643
00:30:13,040 --> 00:30:15,000
Speaker 1: At the end of the year, they still beat Georgia,

644
00:30:15,040 --> 00:30:17,080
Speaker 1: they still got the SEC East crown. I'm not taking

645
00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:18,760
Speaker 1: that away from them or anything like that. I'm just

646
00:30:18,800 --> 00:30:20,840
Speaker 1: saying the way you thought you were going to feel

647
00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:22,200
Speaker 1: at the end of the year as a Florida fan

648
00:30:22,400 --> 00:30:24,760
Speaker 1: versus the way you're in all likelihood going to end

649
00:30:24,840 --> 00:30:27,880
Speaker 1: up feeling could be night and day different. And it's

650
00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:30,880
Speaker 1: all because you allowed yourself not as a fan but

651
00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:35,360
Speaker 1: as a CEO of that organization and Dan Mullen, you

652
00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:37,800
Speaker 1: allowed yourself to show up thinking you already had an

653
00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:41,080
Speaker 1: opponent beat. You can never ever, ever let that happen.

654
00:30:41,680 --> 00:30:43,800
Speaker 1: The thing about it is a lot of coaches have

655
00:30:43,880 --> 00:30:46,719
Speaker 1: done that before. They have suffered at the hands of

656
00:30:47,000 --> 00:30:50,080
Speaker 1: assuming before and allowing complacency to set in. It's just

657
00:30:50,240 --> 00:30:54,160
Speaker 1: normally it happens way out of the spotlight, really early

658
00:30:54,200 --> 00:30:56,720
Speaker 1: in your career. Most of the time you're not coaching

659
00:30:56,760 --> 00:30:59,120
Speaker 1: a top ten program that's in playoff contention when you

660
00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:02,640
Speaker 1: allow that to happen. So that was a tough thing

661
00:31:02,640 --> 00:31:05,960
Speaker 1: to watch last night, really really tough. Let's shift right quick.

662
00:31:05,960 --> 00:31:07,600
Speaker 1: I guess several more games to talk about. Let's shift

663
00:31:07,680 --> 00:31:10,880
Speaker 1: right quick. Something that we thought may happen, and we

664
00:31:10,880 --> 00:31:13,480
Speaker 1: thought it may not happen. Well, it ended up not happening.

665
00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:17,800
Speaker 1: Texas has announced via athletic director Crystal Conte yesterday they're

666
00:31:17,840 --> 00:31:19,960
Speaker 1: going to keep Tom Herman. Got a lot to say

667
00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:23,120
Speaker 1: about this too. You know, we got what we expected.

668
00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:26,760
Speaker 1: At least we expected definitive word to come sometime during

669
00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:29,800
Speaker 1: the weekend, and it did so. Tom Herman still the

670
00:31:29,840 --> 00:31:33,080
Speaker 1: head coach at Texas. This doesn't make sense in the

671
00:31:33,080 --> 00:31:35,080
Speaker 1: normal world. I was talking to a buddy of mine

672
00:31:35,160 --> 00:31:38,320
Speaker 1: yesterday as the news broke. He follows college football, and

673
00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:41,880
Speaker 1: he said, wait a second, they made a statement. They

674
00:31:41,920 --> 00:31:43,160
Speaker 1: put out it. What do you mean they put out

675
00:31:43,160 --> 00:31:45,120
Speaker 1: a statement. I said, yeah, they put out a statement

676
00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:47,280
Speaker 1: Texas that Tom Herman is going to remain as the

677
00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:51,520
Speaker 1: head coach. He said, if my boss isn't going to

678
00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:53,960
Speaker 1: fire me, he just expects me to show up to

679
00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:56,240
Speaker 1: work Monday, Like he doesn't put out a statement saying

680
00:31:56,920 --> 00:32:00,800
Speaker 1: Billy still works here. Essentially, well, Billy does not have

681
00:32:00,880 --> 00:32:03,880
Speaker 1: to recruit. Tom Herman does, and so you have to

682
00:32:03,880 --> 00:32:06,200
Speaker 1: send the message because the message was already out there

683
00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:09,640
Speaker 1: that they were recording other potential candidates, i e. Urban Meyer.

684
00:32:10,320 --> 00:32:13,440
Speaker 1: So now we gotta pour water on the campfire, like

685
00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:14,920
Speaker 1: are you afraid of the dark. We got to put

686
00:32:14,920 --> 00:32:17,240
Speaker 1: it out and then let the smoke billow and you

687
00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:20,400
Speaker 1: get at least one more year here. Texas under Tom

688
00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:23,200
Speaker 1: Herman is not a one hundred percent lost cause I

689
00:32:23,200 --> 00:32:25,000
Speaker 1: know there's a lot of doom and gloom from folks

690
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:27,280
Speaker 1: who wanted to see a move made. I understand all

691
00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:30,040
Speaker 1: that this is not a one hundred percent guaranteed lost,

692
00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:32,520
Speaker 1: cause I want to take you back, since we were

693
00:32:32,560 --> 00:32:34,720
Speaker 1: talking about Auburn earlier, a lot of you know what

694
00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:36,959
Speaker 1: the term jetgate means in the world of college football.

695
00:32:36,960 --> 00:32:39,240
Speaker 1: For those of you who don't, there was once upon

696
00:32:39,320 --> 00:32:42,960
Speaker 1: a time a night wherein a lot of power players

697
00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:45,560
Speaker 1: hopped on a private jet and flew from Auburn to Kentucky.

698
00:32:45,560 --> 00:32:47,400
Speaker 1: I believe that's where they met with him, and they

699
00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:51,040
Speaker 1: tried to hire Bobby Petrino right out from under Louisville

700
00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:53,320
Speaker 1: and bring him back to Auburn, and it didn't work out.

701
00:32:53,440 --> 00:32:57,320
Speaker 1: It leaked, and Tommy Tuberville ended up really having a

702
00:32:57,320 --> 00:32:59,320
Speaker 1: lot of teflon wrapped around him for a little while.

703
00:32:59,320 --> 00:33:00,920
Speaker 1: He also went on to run off six in a

704
00:33:01,040 --> 00:33:04,240
Speaker 1: row against Alabama, and now he's a US senator. So

705
00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:07,560
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that Tom Herman couldn't turn this thing around.

706
00:33:07,720 --> 00:33:10,719
Speaker 1: I'm just saying it's insanely hard when not only you know,

707
00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:14,640
Speaker 1: but the whole world knows that, dude, they didn't really

708
00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:17,160
Speaker 1: even want you. It's just they couldn't get the other guy,

709
00:33:17,200 --> 00:33:19,920
Speaker 1: and that's the only reason you're there. The odds are

710
00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:21,760
Speaker 1: just too long for me to buy into. Like it

711
00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:24,640
Speaker 1: could happen. A lot of things could happen. The most

712
00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:28,280
Speaker 1: fundamental issue here, as I said, is the whole world

713
00:33:28,360 --> 00:33:32,720
Speaker 1: understands what went down. It's unfortunate that they couldn't target

714
00:33:32,960 --> 00:33:35,320
Speaker 1: Urban Meyer and then keep it under wraps. But I

715
00:33:35,400 --> 00:33:39,280
Speaker 1: understand why that's pretty impossible. Texas doesn't want Tom Herman.

716
00:33:40,000 --> 00:33:43,360
Speaker 1: That's the painful reality. We know it. He now knows it.

717
00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:45,520
Speaker 1: Every recruit in America knows it, and if they don't,

718
00:33:45,520 --> 00:33:49,040
Speaker 1: they'll be informed by rival staffs. And so you've got

719
00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:52,000
Speaker 1: every think about how many people are involved in this thing.

720
00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:54,920
Speaker 1: It's a giant operation. You've got your staff there, you've

721
00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:58,200
Speaker 1: got your current roster there. You've also got opposing teams

722
00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:01,360
Speaker 1: that recruit against you. You've got recruit you've got potential

723
00:34:01,440 --> 00:34:05,480
Speaker 1: staff hires and potential transfers, the latter two of which

724
00:34:05,640 --> 00:34:08,960
Speaker 1: you would hopefully use to write the ship if you

725
00:34:09,000 --> 00:34:12,520
Speaker 1: got to make coaching moves. How many elite coaches assistant

726
00:34:12,520 --> 00:34:14,400
Speaker 1: coaches out there are you going to convince to come

727
00:34:14,400 --> 00:34:17,399
Speaker 1: into a place where they know from the day they

728
00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:19,920
Speaker 1: arrive their bosses on shaky ground at best. And the

729
00:34:19,920 --> 00:34:21,800
Speaker 1: only reason he's there it's because they couldn't find anyone

730
00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:24,600
Speaker 1: better for the time being. If you're a transfer, you

731
00:34:24,600 --> 00:34:26,680
Speaker 1: want to come into that. Certainly, if you're a senior

732
00:34:26,680 --> 00:34:28,920
Speaker 1: in high school, is that where you want to go?

733
00:34:29,520 --> 00:34:31,600
Speaker 1: Is that the piece of paper that you want to sign.

734
00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:35,759
Speaker 1: It's not hard to figure out why this is not impossible,

735
00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:41,000
Speaker 1: but very difficult to see panning out. But I'm sure

736
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:43,080
Speaker 1: there's an exception out there. Like I had someone talk

737
00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:46,080
Speaker 1: to me today and that's where the Tubberville example came up.

738
00:34:46,200 --> 00:34:48,719
Speaker 1: And so there are exceptions. I'm just saying, you find

739
00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:51,320
Speaker 1: me one exception out there of someone who has weathered

740
00:34:51,640 --> 00:34:55,040
Speaker 1: that storm, that combination of factors and has come out clean.

741
00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:57,480
Speaker 1: On the other side, I'll show you fifty to one

742
00:34:57,560 --> 00:35:00,839
Speaker 1: hundred who have failed miserably, Like the the road of

743
00:35:00,840 --> 00:35:05,080
Speaker 1: college football is littered with the careers of guys who

744
00:35:05,600 --> 00:35:08,680
Speaker 1: almost got fired, and they got close enough to being

745
00:35:08,680 --> 00:35:11,200
Speaker 1: fired where the world knew how close they came, and

746
00:35:11,239 --> 00:35:14,359
Speaker 1: therefore they could never salvage things. So I don't know,

747
00:35:14,560 --> 00:35:20,040
Speaker 1: this seems pretty untenable at this point. But expectations being unrealistic,

748
00:35:20,320 --> 00:35:22,640
Speaker 1: that's not something that I buy into. At Texas, like

749
00:35:22,680 --> 00:35:25,600
Speaker 1: we were talking about expectations at Auburn, I hear this

750
00:35:25,600 --> 00:35:30,239
Speaker 1: stuff all the time about Texas having unrealistic expectations. I

751
00:35:30,320 --> 00:35:34,480
Speaker 1: dismiss it entirely. Just dismiss it entirely. As we again,

752
00:35:34,520 --> 00:35:36,399
Speaker 1: I've said this like five times already. As we said,

753
00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:40,600
Speaker 1: with Auburn, one hundred percent investment naturally gives you an

754
00:35:40,640 --> 00:35:44,080
Speaker 1: expectation of one hundred percent return on your investment. And

755
00:35:44,400 --> 00:35:47,800
Speaker 1: as far as Texas is concerned, they're different than Auburn

756
00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:50,400
Speaker 1: number one, because they're more established than Aarburn, they got

757
00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:53,800
Speaker 1: deeper pockets than Auburn. They're in an infinitely more winnable

758
00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:59,040
Speaker 1: annual position than Auburn is too. All those teams I mentioned, LSU, Georgia, Alabama,

759
00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:02,000
Speaker 1: they don't play any of them, and they're parked right

760
00:36:02,040 --> 00:36:04,120
Speaker 1: in the middle of the state that their competition that

761
00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:07,040
Speaker 1: they do have to play comes to recruit I was

762
00:36:07,080 --> 00:36:09,440
Speaker 1: talking to someone over the weekend. Never thought in a

763
00:36:09,520 --> 00:36:12,719
Speaker 1: million years that I hear someone say this, said to me,

764
00:36:13,760 --> 00:36:15,920
Speaker 1: you know, Oklahoma at this point views Texas, A and

765
00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:19,520
Speaker 1: M as their biggest recruiting rival. Can you imagine that

766
00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:22,680
Speaker 1: being the state of affairs. That's where we are right

767
00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:26,040
Speaker 1: now for Texas. But your expectations at Texas I don't

768
00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:29,959
Speaker 1: think that they're irrational whatsoever. Let's just lay it out, Okay,

769
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:32,200
Speaker 1: here are the demands for a Texas fan who's one

770
00:36:32,320 --> 00:36:36,040
Speaker 1: hundred percent emotionally and financially invested. What are the demands.

771
00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:38,560
Speaker 1: It's not a national title every year. They don't expect

772
00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:40,440
Speaker 1: their head coach to be Nick Sabe and I've never

773
00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:43,040
Speaker 1: heard of Texas fan say that. But here's what they expect.

774
00:36:43,120 --> 00:36:45,840
Speaker 1: Number One, they want to dominate the Big twelve in recruiting.

775
00:36:46,200 --> 00:36:48,839
Speaker 1: That should be the expectation at Texas. If even an

776
00:36:48,880 --> 00:36:52,440
Speaker 1: above average coach is there, who are you competing against?

777
00:36:52,719 --> 00:36:55,719
Speaker 1: Who could you explain away as being able to come

778
00:36:55,760 --> 00:36:57,319
Speaker 1: into your state which they're going to have to do

779
00:36:57,400 --> 00:37:00,600
Speaker 1: to dominate you and taking talent out of your state.

780
00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:02,480
Speaker 1: Because no one in the state of Texas is going

781
00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:04,720
Speaker 1: to dominate Texas and recruiting. It's not gonna be TCU

782
00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:07,239
Speaker 1: or Baylor, So it's going to be Oklahoma who comes

783
00:37:07,239 --> 00:37:09,680
Speaker 1: in your state and takes your talent Like that can't

784
00:37:09,680 --> 00:37:13,120
Speaker 1: be tolerated and it's not irrational to expect to recruit

785
00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:15,759
Speaker 1: the state of Texas better than Oklahoma does. That's not

786
00:37:15,800 --> 00:37:18,120
Speaker 1: irrational at all. Second thing is they want to contend

787
00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:20,960
Speaker 1: for the Big Twelve every year. That's not irrational. There

788
00:37:21,000 --> 00:37:24,040
Speaker 1: should be no two or three year rebuild. There should

789
00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:26,759
Speaker 1: be no dips at Texas. There should be at Kansas State.

790
00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:29,799
Speaker 1: There absolutely should be at Oklahoma State. There should never

791
00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:32,560
Speaker 1: be that. This is such, an, as I said, an

792
00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:37,560
Speaker 1: infinitely more winnable situation. This should be for the head

793
00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:40,680
Speaker 1: coach at Texas what Dabbo has turned the ACC into

794
00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:44,279
Speaker 1: it Clemson. You have one more big time rival in

795
00:37:44,320 --> 00:37:47,160
Speaker 1: Oklahoma than maybe Dabo currently does in the ACC. But

796
00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:51,239
Speaker 1: otherwise look around you think about how disadvantaged the rest

797
00:37:51,239 --> 00:37:54,480
Speaker 1: of that world in the Big twelve is, including Oklahoma,

798
00:37:54,600 --> 00:37:57,400
Speaker 1: really relative to all the resources at your disposal, and

799
00:37:57,440 --> 00:37:59,440
Speaker 1: you can't get out of your own way. That's not

800
00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:02,399
Speaker 1: an expect problem, I don't think so. The other things

801
00:38:02,440 --> 00:38:04,680
Speaker 1: that they want to do is they want to be

802
00:38:04,719 --> 00:38:07,839
Speaker 1: competitive in the college football playoff picture, which if you're

803
00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:09,520
Speaker 1: a contender in the Big Twelve year in year out,

804
00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:13,239
Speaker 1: you probably accomplished that by default. Again, not irrational at all.

805
00:38:13,640 --> 00:38:17,040
Speaker 1: And they want a head coach who can get the

806
00:38:17,120 --> 00:38:23,160
Speaker 1: appreciation and honor of the culture at Texas grasped. And

807
00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:26,000
Speaker 1: that's what they don't have right now, and it bothers them.

808
00:38:26,200 --> 00:38:29,440
Speaker 1: It bothers them to no end, And I completely understand it.

809
00:38:29,480 --> 00:38:31,520
Speaker 1: I think you have to be close to the program

810
00:38:31,640 --> 00:38:33,800
Speaker 1: or have grown up around that program and that culture

811
00:38:33,840 --> 00:38:36,160
Speaker 1: to fully understand it. But I understand it as much

812
00:38:36,200 --> 00:38:40,160
Speaker 1: as an outsider can. So I listen. I wish all

813
00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:42,480
Speaker 1: the best is Tom Herman. I think he's in a

814
00:38:42,560 --> 00:38:45,759
Speaker 1: pretty unwinnable position right now. So it would surprise me

815
00:38:45,840 --> 00:38:48,560
Speaker 1: if this time next year we're not talking about Texas

816
00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:51,360
Speaker 1: like we're talking about Auviron right now. How about some

817
00:38:51,360 --> 00:38:54,160
Speaker 1: Week fifteen reaction, Boy are there's some crazy stuff happened

818
00:38:54,239 --> 00:38:57,319
Speaker 1: yesterday easily, for my money, the most unpredictable week of

819
00:38:57,320 --> 00:38:59,960
Speaker 1: the year in college football, which is not shocking considering

820
00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:02,800
Speaker 1: how deep we are into the season, how many postgame

821
00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:05,719
Speaker 1: or how many preseason goals are out the window, how

822
00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:10,120
Speaker 1: many postseason goals are out the window. And so let's

823
00:39:10,120 --> 00:39:12,840
Speaker 1: start in Miami, because that was one that got sideways

824
00:39:12,840 --> 00:39:16,600
Speaker 1: in a hurry. North Carolina sixty two to twenty six.

825
00:39:17,040 --> 00:39:20,680
Speaker 1: This was a legal hate crime that happened right there

826
00:39:20,719 --> 00:39:24,040
Speaker 1: on National TV. Could not believe what I was watching now.

827
00:39:24,080 --> 00:39:26,480
Speaker 1: It was just a couple of weeks back. I think

828
00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:30,040
Speaker 1: it was around Thanksgiving week that North Carolina played Notre Dame,

829
00:39:30,480 --> 00:39:33,400
Speaker 1: and Notre Dame really limited North Carolina on the ground,

830
00:39:34,120 --> 00:39:37,000
Speaker 1: which led me to speculate about this game. I wonder

831
00:39:37,040 --> 00:39:39,440
Speaker 1: if Miami can do the same thing Notre Dame, did,

832
00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:42,720
Speaker 1: you know, really bottle up that Tar Heels run game

833
00:39:42,800 --> 00:39:45,200
Speaker 1: and force him to throw the ball to win. I

834
00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:47,440
Speaker 1: wonder if they could do that. Now, there was a

835
00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:49,799
Speaker 1: little subplot here. Those of you who are familiar with

836
00:39:49,880 --> 00:39:54,120
Speaker 1: mac Brown's career, you probably noticed that, Oh, he's playing

837
00:39:54,120 --> 00:39:56,200
Speaker 1: one of his former assistants this week. I think we

838
00:39:56,280 --> 00:39:59,040
Speaker 1: mentioned it in passing last week. Manny Diaz, once upon

839
00:39:59,080 --> 00:40:02,240
Speaker 1: a time was the defensive coordinator for Mac Brown at Texas.

840
00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:05,360
Speaker 1: Mandy ds currently the Miami head coach, Mac Brown currently

841
00:40:05,360 --> 00:40:07,880
Speaker 1: the North Carolina head coach. Well, there was a Brigham

842
00:40:07,920 --> 00:40:11,920
Speaker 1: Young game and b why you tough to say that?

843
00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:15,040
Speaker 1: Why ran for like half a mile against Texas, couldn't

844
00:40:15,040 --> 00:40:18,920
Speaker 1: stop him? Could not stop molasses in December Mandy Diaz

845
00:40:18,960 --> 00:40:21,480
Speaker 1: that day, and so mac Brown fires him, and a

846
00:40:21,520 --> 00:40:23,520
Speaker 1: lot of you probably forgot about that. Well, mac Brown

847
00:40:23,560 --> 00:40:26,080
Speaker 1: didn't forget about it. He did not. And so they

848
00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:29,399
Speaker 1: go in this game yesterday, and they run for five

849
00:40:29,520 --> 00:40:33,279
Speaker 1: hundred and fifty four total yards, which set all kinds

850
00:40:33,280 --> 00:40:36,200
Speaker 1: of records. You want, a padlock stat, possibly the padlock

851
00:40:36,280 --> 00:40:39,560
Speaker 1: stat of the year was hung by North Carolina on

852
00:40:39,640 --> 00:40:42,960
Speaker 1: Miami's forehead yesterday. Five hundred and fifty four rushing yards.

853
00:40:43,200 --> 00:40:48,280
Speaker 1: They averaged per carry ten point one yards. They averaged

854
00:40:48,320 --> 00:40:52,239
Speaker 1: a first down every time they ran the football for

855
00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:55,120
Speaker 1: the entirety of the football game, they averaged a first down.

856
00:40:55,440 --> 00:40:58,120
Speaker 1: They put up seven hundred and seventy eight total yards.

857
00:40:58,160 --> 00:41:00,319
Speaker 1: Some of you could not do that on XBO if

858
00:41:00,360 --> 00:41:04,279
Speaker 1: I gave you ten tries. So Number one, there's nothing

859
00:41:04,320 --> 00:41:06,799
Speaker 1: to say about Miami at this point. They had two

860
00:41:06,840 --> 00:41:08,600
Speaker 1: big chances this year and they got run out of

861
00:41:08,640 --> 00:41:12,040
Speaker 1: the building both times, once against Clemson, even more emphatically

862
00:41:12,160 --> 00:41:15,719
Speaker 1: against North Carolina. But as much as I don't really

863
00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:18,560
Speaker 1: think there's anything to say about Miami, I think a

864
00:41:18,560 --> 00:41:22,360
Speaker 1: lot of folks initially dismissed how well Notre Dame handled

865
00:41:22,360 --> 00:41:25,440
Speaker 1: this offense, this North Carolina offense when they played, And

866
00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:27,520
Speaker 1: I told you I thought it was an impressive win.

867
00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:30,560
Speaker 1: And I'm glad this happened yesterday because now you sort

868
00:41:30,600 --> 00:41:34,280
Speaker 1: of get to reframe that Notre Dame performance and say

869
00:41:34,840 --> 00:41:38,360
Speaker 1: that defense did what to North Carolina and now we

870
00:41:38,400 --> 00:41:40,240
Speaker 1: get to frame it within the context to what's coming

871
00:41:40,320 --> 00:41:45,080
Speaker 1: this Saturday, the ACC Championship game. Clemson's favored by ten.

872
00:41:45,320 --> 00:41:47,479
Speaker 1: We're going to break that game down on Tuesday Show.

873
00:41:47,680 --> 00:41:50,239
Speaker 1: Clemson may very well win the game. They should be

874
00:41:50,280 --> 00:41:53,799
Speaker 1: the favorite. They're the better overall team, I think. But

875
00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:57,120
Speaker 1: I think you are sorely mistaken if you believe that

876
00:41:57,719 --> 00:42:00,680
Speaker 1: the mere presence of Trevor Lawrence is going to enable

877
00:42:00,719 --> 00:42:03,200
Speaker 1: Clemson to run up and down the field at will

878
00:42:03,239 --> 00:42:05,880
Speaker 1: against Notre Dame. I don't think that there is a

879
00:42:05,880 --> 00:42:08,080
Speaker 1: team that they're going to play, at least until the playoffs.

880
00:42:08,120 --> 00:42:10,560
Speaker 1: Maybe that's going to do that, maybe not even in

881
00:42:10,560 --> 00:42:13,000
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Notre Dame is a very good team. They

882
00:42:13,000 --> 00:42:16,359
Speaker 1: are a very sound, veteran defensive team. So you may

883
00:42:16,400 --> 00:42:18,919
Speaker 1: beat them, but you're not going to do it rain

884
00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:21,200
Speaker 1: and all over them like you've seen Clemson do in

885
00:42:21,239 --> 00:42:23,240
Speaker 1: the past, and like you've watched Alabama do to teams

886
00:42:23,280 --> 00:42:25,600
Speaker 1: this year. I think a lot of folks believe, well,

887
00:42:25,640 --> 00:42:28,600
Speaker 1: now that Clemson has the quarterback, it's going to probably

888
00:42:28,719 --> 00:42:30,960
Speaker 1: them versus Notre Dame look a lot like Bama versus A,

889
00:42:31,040 --> 00:42:32,640
Speaker 1: and m It's not the way that's going to be.

890
00:42:32,920 --> 00:42:35,520
Speaker 1: I don't think. So congratulations to Mack Brown, because I'll

891
00:42:35,520 --> 00:42:37,880
Speaker 1: tell you the second point that I took away is

892
00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:41,840
Speaker 1: they can weaponize this game. They can weaponize it in

893
00:42:41,920 --> 00:42:45,600
Speaker 1: recruiting South Florida. They can weaponize it in establishing and

894
00:42:45,760 --> 00:42:47,560
Speaker 1: entrenching the culture that they want to win Trench there

895
00:42:47,560 --> 00:42:50,040
Speaker 1: because they needed their own big time win this year,

896
00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:53,560
Speaker 1: like they didn't have that program Definer and they kind

897
00:42:53,560 --> 00:42:55,520
Speaker 1: of got it here. And the other thing they can

898
00:42:55,560 --> 00:42:58,640
Speaker 1: do is it's the overall identity, Like that's what they

899
00:42:58,680 --> 00:43:01,600
Speaker 1: want North Carolina football. They want you to be scared

900
00:43:01,600 --> 00:43:03,799
Speaker 1: that they're going to embarrass you. Doesn't matter where you

901
00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:06,720
Speaker 1: reside South Florida, it doesn't matter if you're in Boston College.

902
00:43:06,880 --> 00:43:08,880
Speaker 1: They want you thinking that way. And they got you

903
00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:11,000
Speaker 1: thinking that way now, and now you got to build

904
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:12,880
Speaker 1: on it. They're recruiting very well. You got to continue

905
00:43:12,880 --> 00:43:15,480
Speaker 1: to build on it. Georgia, speaking of building towards next

906
00:43:15,520 --> 00:43:19,720
Speaker 1: year beating Missouri forty nine to fourteen. You know, Georgia,

907
00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:22,480
Speaker 1: you got to give some credit here too, I think

908
00:43:22,480 --> 00:43:25,400
Speaker 1: because they came out of that Florida game. All the

909
00:43:25,880 --> 00:43:29,000
Speaker 1: initial preseason goals are out the window, and they hit

910
00:43:29,040 --> 00:43:32,400
Speaker 1: the reset button, and now they're probably playing stronger football

911
00:43:32,440 --> 00:43:34,200
Speaker 1: at the end of the year than anyone expected them to.

912
00:43:34,560 --> 00:43:38,400
Speaker 1: Defense held Missouri to two hundred total yards yesterday, and

913
00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:41,839
Speaker 1: I told you so. North Carolina averaged ten point one

914
00:43:41,920 --> 00:43:46,439
Speaker 1: yards per rush against Miami. Missouri averaged one yard per

915
00:43:46,520 --> 00:43:52,399
Speaker 1: rush against Georgia pretty good Saturday offense through and ran

916
00:43:52,480 --> 00:43:55,160
Speaker 1: for nearly three hundred yards apiece. So Georgia's offense looks

917
00:43:55,200 --> 00:43:57,680
Speaker 1: really good right now. And as far as I'm concerned,

918
00:43:57,680 --> 00:43:59,440
Speaker 1: you know, you look at JT. Daniels day, so I

919
00:43:59,440 --> 00:44:03,080
Speaker 1: think he had had eighteen point seven yards per completion.

920
00:44:03,440 --> 00:44:05,600
Speaker 1: That'll get it done most times. That's kind of a

921
00:44:05,600 --> 00:44:08,200
Speaker 1: pad luck stat in and of itself. The potential for

922
00:44:08,239 --> 00:44:10,440
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one with this team is obvious, and I

923
00:44:10,480 --> 00:44:12,239
Speaker 1: don't think twenty twenty one is something you have to

924
00:44:12,239 --> 00:44:15,800
Speaker 1: wait until the spring to start establishing and instilling. Twenty

925
00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:17,880
Speaker 1: twenty taught us never to assume spring to begin with.

926
00:44:18,640 --> 00:44:20,839
Speaker 1: But if JT. Daniels is back, and we expect him

927
00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:23,400
Speaker 1: to be back, and you look at what the potential

928
00:44:23,480 --> 00:44:27,880
Speaker 1: is here. Now you start to realize why they're playing

929
00:44:27,920 --> 00:44:31,319
Speaker 1: the way they're playing, like they have convinced their locker room,

930
00:44:31,360 --> 00:44:34,680
Speaker 1: they convince their organization, Kirby Smart really being the they

931
00:44:35,160 --> 00:44:37,680
Speaker 1: they have convinced. Guys up there, your twenty twenty one

932
00:44:37,719 --> 00:44:39,960
Speaker 1: season has started. Now, Hey, if you want to be

933
00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:42,880
Speaker 1: in a position this time next year that Florida or

934
00:44:42,920 --> 00:44:45,400
Speaker 1: Alabama are in, we got to start it now. And

935
00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:48,120
Speaker 1: I think that's what they've done. And it's a lot

936
00:44:48,200 --> 00:44:50,400
Speaker 1: easier to say that than it is to do it,

937
00:44:50,440 --> 00:44:53,719
Speaker 1: because when you're in a pandemic year and you think

938
00:44:53,760 --> 00:44:56,160
Speaker 1: you're a national championship contender and you're out of it

939
00:44:56,280 --> 00:44:58,920
Speaker 1: midway through the year, it's really easy to pack it in.

940
00:44:58,920 --> 00:45:00,600
Speaker 1: A lot of other teams have done that. Georgia hadn't

941
00:45:00,600 --> 00:45:02,400
Speaker 1: done that, So hats off to Kirby Smart for getting

942
00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:06,840
Speaker 1: that done. Alabama skull drug Arkansas fifty two to three.

943
00:45:07,080 --> 00:45:09,960
Speaker 1: Now it may not look like it. In fact, it

944
00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:11,600
Speaker 1: doesn't look like it at all. And if you didn't

945
00:45:11,640 --> 00:45:13,680
Speaker 1: watch this game, what I'm about to tell you will

946
00:45:13,680 --> 00:45:17,239
Speaker 1: shock you. Alabama struggled a little bit early. Yeah, I

947
00:45:17,320 --> 00:45:19,280
Speaker 1: told you, it's going to shock you. If you're into

948
00:45:19,320 --> 00:45:23,640
Speaker 1: live betting, which I perused from time to time. You

949
00:45:23,640 --> 00:45:26,680
Speaker 1: could have gotten Alabama minus eighteen and a half at

950
00:45:26,680 --> 00:45:30,200
Speaker 1: one point in the live wagering section of your preferred

951
00:45:30,239 --> 00:45:33,000
Speaker 1: sports book. Now we were on Arkansas plus thirty two.

952
00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:34,960
Speaker 1: That didn't pan out, obviously, but bought me some of

953
00:45:34,960 --> 00:45:37,040
Speaker 1: Alabama minus eighteen and a half hope to hit a

954
00:45:37,080 --> 00:45:39,000
Speaker 1: middle there. As it turns out, it just bailed out

955
00:45:39,040 --> 00:45:41,560
Speaker 1: the original wager. Did you watch any of this game?

956
00:45:41,560 --> 00:45:44,880
Speaker 1: Most of you probably didn't, so you would think that

957
00:45:45,239 --> 00:45:47,279
Speaker 1: if they win a game fifty two to three, then

958
00:45:47,320 --> 00:45:49,640
Speaker 1: it must have been another one of those Mac Jones

959
00:45:49,719 --> 00:45:53,200
Speaker 1: bombing away DeVante Smith. Let's see how many touchdowns he scored.

960
00:45:53,320 --> 00:45:57,080
Speaker 1: Alabama didn't have a receiving touchdown in this whole game. Zero.

961
00:45:57,840 --> 00:46:00,400
Speaker 1: Mac Jones got his numbers here, twenty four for two

962
00:46:00,480 --> 00:46:04,880
Speaker 1: hundred and eight yards, zero touchdowns, DeVante Smith three catches

963
00:46:04,920 --> 00:46:08,799
Speaker 1: for twenty two yards, zero touchdowns. Now, receiving touchdowns, tell

964
00:46:08,840 --> 00:46:11,480
Speaker 1: you what they did have. They had six on the ground,

965
00:46:11,760 --> 00:46:14,440
Speaker 1: and they had DeVante Smith returning a punt for a touchdown.

966
00:46:14,640 --> 00:46:17,960
Speaker 1: And that's how they did it. And it was what

967
00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:19,640
Speaker 1: it was. I mean, it's just kind of like a

968
00:46:19,680 --> 00:46:22,879
Speaker 1: machine that shows up every week and it's programmed, it's

969
00:46:22,920 --> 00:46:25,680
Speaker 1: not even doesn't even appear to be made of humans,

970
00:46:25,719 --> 00:46:29,160
Speaker 1: but just parts at this point. And whereas they show

971
00:46:29,239 --> 00:46:33,319
Speaker 1: up and they methodically dissect an opponent, you had the

972
00:46:33,360 --> 00:46:36,840
Speaker 1: alternative on display in Gainesville. And that's why you continue

973
00:46:36,840 --> 00:46:39,400
Speaker 1: to get through results from Alabama, and it's why a

974
00:46:39,400 --> 00:46:41,759
Speaker 1: lot of other programs can't seem to duplicate it week

975
00:46:41,800 --> 00:46:45,440
Speaker 1: over week. It's just a different wiring. Having said that,

976
00:46:45,719 --> 00:46:47,520
Speaker 1: something we don't talk about a whole lot on the show,

977
00:46:48,160 --> 00:46:52,080
Speaker 1: Heisman odds shifted faster than an election after this game

978
00:46:52,320 --> 00:46:55,600
Speaker 1: and then the subsequent Florida game last night. Right now,

979
00:46:56,000 --> 00:46:58,120
Speaker 1: I'm looking at several sports books right before we went

980
00:46:58,120 --> 00:47:01,200
Speaker 1: on the air, the pretty widely held consensus is that

981
00:47:01,239 --> 00:47:03,720
Speaker 1: Mac Jones is now the favorite to win the Heisman Trophy,

982
00:47:03,960 --> 00:47:06,359
Speaker 1: sitting it around minus two hundred or two to one.

983
00:47:07,520 --> 00:47:11,359
Speaker 1: You know who's number two, Davonte Smith Alabama currently has

984
00:47:11,400 --> 00:47:14,680
Speaker 1: the number one and number two odds on favorites to

985
00:47:14,719 --> 00:47:17,920
Speaker 1: win the Heisman Trophy. Now, we have openly stumped and

986
00:47:17,960 --> 00:47:21,080
Speaker 1: will continue to stump for Devonte Smith on this show.

987
00:47:21,520 --> 00:47:24,880
Speaker 1: We believe he's the best player in college football. And

988
00:47:24,920 --> 00:47:28,040
Speaker 1: he should win this trophy. And right now Mac Jones

989
00:47:28,239 --> 00:47:32,080
Speaker 1: listen having a great season, but DeVante Smith is the

990
00:47:32,080 --> 00:47:33,680
Speaker 1: best player I've seen this year and I think he

991
00:47:33,719 --> 00:47:35,919
Speaker 1: should win the award for the record. You may wonder

992
00:47:35,960 --> 00:47:38,320
Speaker 1: who's next in line, Well, Kyle Trask is it plus

993
00:47:38,360 --> 00:47:41,160
Speaker 1: three point fifty, so Smith's plus two to fifty. Trask

994
00:47:41,280 --> 00:47:43,720
Speaker 1: is plus three fifty. He was the favorite going into yesterday.

995
00:47:43,960 --> 00:47:48,600
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence is plus one thousand, so Trevor significant ground

996
00:47:48,640 --> 00:47:50,360
Speaker 1: to make up in one game to do it in.

997
00:47:51,160 --> 00:47:53,080
Speaker 1: And as for the West Coast, I wanted to hit

998
00:47:53,120 --> 00:47:55,600
Speaker 1: this really, really quick because I know there's a certain

999
00:47:55,600 --> 00:47:57,840
Speaker 1: network out there telling you that the winner of this

1000
00:47:57,880 --> 00:48:00,160
Speaker 1: game has right at a fifty percent chance to make

1001
00:48:00,160 --> 00:48:02,759
Speaker 1: the playoff, which as we all know, is absurd. But

1002
00:48:02,800 --> 00:48:05,800
Speaker 1: we still need to congratulate Southern Cal. They beat UCLA

1003
00:48:05,880 --> 00:48:09,440
Speaker 1: forty three thirty eight. The Jerseys in this game, sometimes

1004
00:48:09,480 --> 00:48:13,000
Speaker 1: people start saying things and then other people start repeating it,

1005
00:48:13,080 --> 00:48:16,000
Speaker 1: you know, like a clapping seal, and I think it's ridiculous.

1006
00:48:16,320 --> 00:48:19,160
Speaker 1: But what everyone else thinks about this game, I think

1007
00:48:19,320 --> 00:48:23,200
Speaker 1: it's probably the best opponent on opponent color combo just

1008
00:48:23,239 --> 00:48:25,719
Speaker 1: when it comes to jerseys that you see. I'm a

1009
00:48:25,760 --> 00:48:28,960
Speaker 1: big fan. And so what about the game, Well, Southern

1010
00:48:28,960 --> 00:48:31,600
Speaker 1: Col's down thirty five to twenty three entering the fourth quarter.

1011
00:48:31,960 --> 00:48:34,479
Speaker 1: All hope appears to be lost, and then here they come.

1012
00:48:34,920 --> 00:48:36,360
Speaker 1: Not only do they comeback, they win it in the

1013
00:48:36,400 --> 00:48:38,480
Speaker 1: final seconds. They covered for those of you who care

1014
00:48:38,520 --> 00:48:40,719
Speaker 1: about that, because that's what great teams do. Good ones win,

1015
00:48:41,000 --> 00:48:44,000
Speaker 1: great ones cover. And here they are. They're undefeated. Now,

1016
00:48:44,040 --> 00:48:47,000
Speaker 1: as it turns out, in the Pac twelve, what feels

1017
00:48:47,040 --> 00:48:49,719
Speaker 1: like a season that's just started is now over and

1018
00:48:49,760 --> 00:48:51,440
Speaker 1: they are what are they? Four to oh five and zero?

1019
00:48:51,440 --> 00:48:54,000
Speaker 1: And so they are off to the Pac twelve Championship game.

1020
00:48:54,719 --> 00:48:58,000
Speaker 1: Now that's great. It's certainly unexpected. In fact, I've gotten

1021
00:48:58,040 --> 00:48:59,720
Speaker 1: more out of both of those teams than I expected

1022
00:48:59,719 --> 00:49:04,840
Speaker 1: this hyar. But let me please inform you the University

1023
00:49:04,880 --> 00:49:08,440
Speaker 1: of Southern California does not have better playoff odds than Clemson.

1024
00:49:08,760 --> 00:49:12,920
Speaker 1: There is nobody who would wager actual money on that nonsense.

1025
00:49:13,320 --> 00:49:16,080
Speaker 1: Southern Cal if they win the Pac twelve Championship Game,

1026
00:49:16,160 --> 00:49:19,680
Speaker 1: Saturday is not going to be in the College Football Playoff. Clemson,

1027
00:49:19,719 --> 00:49:21,480
Speaker 1: if they lose, Saturday's probably not going to be in.

1028
00:49:21,560 --> 00:49:24,160
Speaker 1: But if they win Saturday, I can certainly tell you

1029
00:49:24,239 --> 00:49:27,640
Speaker 1: they will be in. And to ever try and sell

1030
00:49:27,680 --> 00:49:30,600
Speaker 1: anyone on the idea that this team Southern Cal is

1031
00:49:30,640 --> 00:49:33,200
Speaker 1: sentting at fifty percent to make the playoff and Clumbson

1032
00:49:33,280 --> 00:49:37,120
Speaker 1: is under fifty percent, you know what, I'm not going

1033
00:49:37,160 --> 00:49:39,920
Speaker 1: to insult your intelligence trying to explain the math. It

1034
00:49:40,000 --> 00:49:44,120
Speaker 1: is absurd. So having said that, congratulations to Clay Helton

1035
00:49:44,120 --> 00:49:47,040
Speaker 1: in Southern Cal. Because this was a season that was

1036
00:49:47,080 --> 00:49:49,760
Speaker 1: going to be used against him as the final straw

1037
00:49:49,800 --> 00:49:52,080
Speaker 1: that breaks the camel's back out there. Well you can't

1038
00:49:52,160 --> 00:49:54,560
Speaker 1: do it now because he hasn't lost a game. He's

1039
00:49:54,560 --> 00:49:57,200
Speaker 1: gone full Herman boone. Someone walks up to him behind

1040
00:49:57,200 --> 00:49:59,960
Speaker 1: the stands pregame, Clay, lose a game and they'll fire you,

1041
00:50:00,320 --> 00:50:02,880
Speaker 1: and he pukes and then he goes and he runs

1042
00:50:02,880 --> 00:50:05,000
Speaker 1: the table. And now they got to play Groved and

1043
00:50:05,080 --> 00:50:09,000
Speaker 1: for the state championship. And so congratulations to Clay Helton.

1044
00:50:10,200 --> 00:50:13,879
Speaker 1: Now it is a truncated schedule this week. Obviously there

1045
00:50:13,880 --> 00:50:16,000
Speaker 1: are not as many games, and so we are probably

1046
00:50:16,000 --> 00:50:17,680
Speaker 1: not going to throw six or seven or eight bets

1047
00:50:17,680 --> 00:50:22,240
Speaker 1: out there. Even after yesterday's debacle, we are still cruising

1048
00:50:22,239 --> 00:50:25,239
Speaker 1: at fifty seven percent against the number. Really really good year,

1049
00:50:25,320 --> 00:50:27,640
Speaker 1: still one of our best years we've ever had, but

1050
00:50:27,719 --> 00:50:29,719
Speaker 1: we do have an early best bet. It's not going

1051
00:50:29,800 --> 00:50:32,399
Speaker 1: to be a conference championship game yet. We may move

1052
00:50:32,440 --> 00:50:34,360
Speaker 1: on some of those games, but we do want to

1053
00:50:34,400 --> 00:50:38,560
Speaker 1: grab Missouri minus one and a half at Mississippi State.

1054
00:50:39,320 --> 00:50:41,200
Speaker 1: Like that number. We got Missouri winning by six and

1055
00:50:41,239 --> 00:50:43,759
Speaker 1: a half, six and three quarter points, which would be

1056
00:50:43,760 --> 00:50:45,880
Speaker 1: a record if they did that's never happened before. But

1057
00:50:46,000 --> 00:50:48,319
Speaker 1: our model likes Missouri by close to a touchdown. So

1058
00:50:48,360 --> 00:50:50,040
Speaker 1: we will take the Tigers on the road to end

1059
00:50:50,040 --> 00:50:53,720
Speaker 1: the season at minus one and a half. Now, Colin

1060
00:50:53,800 --> 00:50:56,760
Speaker 1: has four other blank spaces there on the Rama Noudle express.

1061
00:50:56,760 --> 00:50:58,160
Speaker 1: I don't know that we're going to fill all of them,

1062
00:50:58,680 --> 00:51:00,920
Speaker 1: but we are going to have more plays than that.

1063
00:51:00,920 --> 00:51:03,080
Speaker 1: That's just our early best bet. And I also want

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Speaker 1: to remind you again, listen, there is a lot that's

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Speaker 1: gonna happen this week. Inevitably, there's a whole lot that's

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Speaker 1: gonna happen. Make sure now more than ever, you're following

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Speaker 1: me on Twitter at late Kick Josh, so be sure

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Speaker 1: to do that. I don't know if you guys have

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Speaker 1: realized it because it's conference championship weekend coming up. At

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Speaker 1: least early signing day is Wednesday. I'm looking at the

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Speaker 1: to be for several hours live on all kinds of

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Speaker 1: platforms Wednesday. Barton will be in here, Will Fong will

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Speaker 1: be in here. I haven't seen those guys since March

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Speaker 1: in person, by the way, just zoom, so I can't

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Speaker 1: confirm what they even look like at this point from

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Speaker 1: the chest down, which you know, the more I think

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Speaker 1: about it's probably not all that important. But anyway, we're

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Speaker 1: gonna have a lot of coverage Wednesday, so be looking

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Speaker 1: for that. We're still doing our normal schedule this week.

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Speaker 1: We'll still have shows this week and so on the

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Speaker 1: back half, over the back end of the show. Let

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Speaker 1: me remind you one more time, because I got a

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Speaker 1: lot of emails this week, and I wasn't taking spots

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Speaker 1: this week, but this upcoming week and the next week,

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Speaker 1: the next two weeks, I am booking spots right now.

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Speaker 1: Zoom sessions one on one, one hour apiece for those

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Speaker 1: of you who are interested in getting into this line

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Speaker 1: of work or anything congruent to this line of work

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Speaker 1: in sports media and you don't necessarily know how to

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Speaker 1: pull it off. You want advice, you want feedback, whatever

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Speaker 1: the case may be. Joshpat seven zero six at gmail

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Speaker 1: dot com or dm me on Twitter at late Kick Josh,

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Speaker 1: busiest week of the year coming up. Happy to have

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Speaker 1: you here. We had the best week of traffic that

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Speaker 1: we've had since we started this show on the YouTube

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Speaker 1: channel last week. If you haven't already, subscribed to the

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Speaker 1: twenty four to seven Sports YouTube channel and subscribe to

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Speaker 1: the Late Kick podcast because those sometimes are different things

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Speaker 1: in terms of content, And with that in mind, let's

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Speaker 1: dive into this week at its conference championship week. For

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Speaker 1: director Colin for producer Jordan. On the podcast side of things,

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Speaker 1: I'm Josh Pate. Thanks so much for joining us on

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Speaker 1: a very busy Sunday and i'd have a great start

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Speaker 1: to your week and God bless