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Speaker 1: All right, welcome to Lake Kick Is Live. It is

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Speaker 1: Sunday night, December sixth, the year of our Lord, twenty twenty.

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Speaker 1: Jam packed show every Sunday. It seems you get up

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Speaker 1: early enough in the morning where you think we're gonna

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Speaker 1: get the show put together're gonna get a stacked we're

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Speaker 1: gonna get ready to go, maygo, Jim, hit the park,

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Speaker 1: do whatever. And then the phone starts ringing, and then

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Speaker 1: information starts coming in, and then all of a sudden,

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Speaker 1: it's six point twenty three and Colin's asking, hey, where

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Speaker 1: my lord thirds where's the thumbnail? And it's right up

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Speaker 1: until showtime. But having said that, as a result of that,

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Speaker 1: we've got a jam packed show tonight. We've got reaction,

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Speaker 1: we got some coaching scoop on multiple fronts. They've hired

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Speaker 1: a guy at South Carolina. There haven't even been moves

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Speaker 1: made at places like Texas or certainly Michigan, but yet

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Speaker 1: that hasn't stopped people from talking, as you very well

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Speaker 1: known by this point. So we're going to discuss the

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Speaker 1: very latest tangible, fact based information that we're hearing from

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Speaker 1: those two places. We've got several games to react to tonight.

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Speaker 1: By my account. I think we're going to hit eight

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Speaker 1: games in some shape, form or fashion before we go

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Speaker 1: off the air early Best Bet Tonight, which we do

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Speaker 1: every Sunday night. There it was a rumor, really bad rumor,

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Speaker 1: floating around the Twitter sphere yesterday that the ra Ma

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Speaker 1: Noodle Express derailed. It didn't And if you stayed up

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Speaker 1: till about two am, not only did you realize it

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Speaker 1: didn't derail, we had a winning week. We went five

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Speaker 1: and four. So you don't know that if you only

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Speaker 1: watched the show, you'd better be following on Twitter because

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of information that comes out between the

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Speaker 1: last time we talked Thursday and the time that games

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Speaker 1: kick off Sunday. So I can't remember how many we added,

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Speaker 1: probably four more games. I think we added four more

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Speaker 1: games after the Thursday show. If you didn't catch those,

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Speaker 1: you didn't go above five hundred. If you did catch

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Speaker 1: them at late Kick Josh, by the way, then you

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Speaker 1: had another winning week. And we are fifty nine point

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Speaker 1: seven percent against the spread right now. Anyone want to

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Speaker 1: round up to sixty, be my guest. Sixty sounds a

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Speaker 1: lot better. I'm not necessarily going to go into this

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Speaker 1: as a segment In fact, I didn't even tell Colin

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Speaker 1: you who follow me on Twitter, by the way, probably

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Speaker 1: saw this earlier today, And about four hours after I

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Speaker 1: put it out there, I see some reports coming out.

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Speaker 1: Actually in the last couple of minutes, I was scrolling

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Speaker 1: and I see the guys at al dot com, a

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Speaker 1: very very good team to follow there XENIXINTALTI there at

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Speaker 1: al dot com. But they're reporting this. But I was

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Speaker 1: talking to someone earlier today. As I do every Sunday,

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Speaker 1: I try and get as much feedback from across the

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Speaker 1: landscape as I can, and you try and hit up

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Speaker 1: player personnel, people, coaches, if you can get a hold

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Speaker 1: of coaches. Well, the later you get in the season,

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Speaker 1: the more free the information is flowing. Two parts. Number

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Speaker 1: one cause people just don't think they have as much

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Speaker 1: therefore there's more to talk about. In three, some of

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Speaker 1: there's this exchange. There's free flow of information. Well, normally

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Speaker 1: you hear a lot of what you already suspected. Today. However,

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Speaker 1: I heard something right around lunchtime. Oh, I didn't suspect

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Speaker 1: from a couple of different members of coaching staffs in

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Speaker 1: the South. The Vanderbilt job is open, that much, you know.

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Speaker 1: And you may have heard some names out there, and

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Speaker 1: my surprise when I get told today Scott Cochrane, who

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Speaker 1: a strong push there. That was exactly what I heard. Now,

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Speaker 1: shall we. Alabama fifty five LSU seventeen yesterday really backed

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Speaker 1: the road, because that's about what's left of LSU after

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Speaker 1: last night. It reminded me of that scene from Office Space.

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Speaker 1: ball yesterday. I don't think there is another gear for

429
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Speaker 1: this team. They're very solid defensively. This team's very good

430
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Speaker 1: along the lines of scrimmage. It is the situation that

431
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Speaker 1: you don't see very often right now, and it's the

432
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Speaker 1: Tier two situation. So the Tier one teams are Alabama

433
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Speaker 1: and Clemson, Ohio State. A and m's not beating them.

434
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Speaker 1: They're not going to be competitive with those teams if

435
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Speaker 1: there does indeed come a day where they're matched up

436
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Speaker 1: with them on a neutral field. But they've played Florida

437
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Speaker 1: this year. As much as someone wants to talk about

438
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Speaker 1: how that game would turn out, today, they played them,

439
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Speaker 1: they beat them. I looked up our numbers today. If

440
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Speaker 1: they played Notre Dame, I'd have Notre Dame by three

441
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Speaker 1: on a neutral field. So they'd be very competitive in

442
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Speaker 1: my mind, at least with Notre Dame. That second tier

443
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Speaker 1: there not many teams. It's either Tier one or then

444
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Speaker 1: you're a distant Tier three or Tier four. That Tier

445
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Speaker 1: two A and M has firmly parked themselves there for now.

446
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Speaker 1: And what are you waiting for on Tier two? You're

447
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Speaker 1: waiting on quarterback. You cannot get yourself up into Tier one.

448
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Speaker 1: That's why Notre Dame, as good as I think their

449
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Speaker 1: story has been this year, and as good as ian

450
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Speaker 1: Book has played, you're not in tier one with Ian

451
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Speaker 1: Book when you got to goins Fields and mac Jones

452
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Speaker 1: and Kyle Trash like, you're not going to be able

453
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Speaker 1: to do that. College football playoff hopes are alive here.

454
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Speaker 1: There is a path. There's certainly a path. I wouldn't

455
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Speaker 1: call it a greater than fifty percent path, but there

456
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Speaker 1: is one. But on the other side, because that's all positive,

457
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Speaker 1: that's all well and good, and we enter the Christmas

458
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Speaker 1: season with hope in college station. What are we entering

459
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Speaker 1: the Christmas season thinking? On the planes in Auburn, Alabama.

460
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Speaker 1: I do not think that Gus Malzan is going anywhere,

461
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Speaker 1: or if he does, it would be voluntarily, and you

462
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Speaker 1: don't normally voluntarily walk away from seven plus million dollars

463
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Speaker 1: per year in salary. So that's not even a rumor.

464
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Speaker 1: I'm just saying it kind of theoretically. He I don't

465
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Speaker 1: think is going anywhere. A lot of people were asking me,

466
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Speaker 1: what now? You know after every game in college football, Now,

467
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Speaker 1: if you're a high profile coach and you lose, what next?

468
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Speaker 1: Where do you go from here? Well, I'll tell you

469
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Speaker 1: where Auburn's going to go immediately. They're going to go

470
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Speaker 1: to Starkville, Mississippi, I think, and they're going to play Saturday.

471
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Speaker 1: Then they're gonna go wherever they can get a bowl game.

472
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Speaker 1: They're gonna finish up their recruiting class, and then they're

473
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Speaker 1: going to head into spring football hopefully for twenty twenty one.

474
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Speaker 1: That's where they're going. What more are you looking for?

475
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Speaker 1: Because if you're looking for me to say, well, that's it,

476
00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:06,760
Speaker 1: end of the line, like Malson faced, the top ten

477
00:22:06,800 --> 00:22:09,000
Speaker 1: team lost to them by eleven at home, that's it.

478
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Speaker 1: Whereas I didn't think that before last week, all of

479
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Speaker 1: a sudden, this loss has pushed me over the edge.

480
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Speaker 1: Apparently a lot of you thought that more than I did.

481
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Speaker 1: I get this. This game didn't even particularly strike me.

482
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Speaker 1: If the Georgia and Alabama games didn't do it for you,

483
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Speaker 1: I don't know why this one was the one pushed

484
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Speaker 1: a lot of people over the edge, but apparently it was.

485
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Speaker 1: But the fact of the matter is, I sat on

486
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Speaker 1: Twitter earlier today and I'll reiterate here. The fact of

487
00:22:30,320 --> 00:22:33,720
Speaker 1: the matter is, it is a very barren coaching market

488
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Speaker 1: right now. There are going to be some programs that

489
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Speaker 1: want to make a move, and in an ideal world

490
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Speaker 1: maybe they would make a move, but can't make a move.

491
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Speaker 1: I'm not even saying Auburn would make a move in

492
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Speaker 1: a normal year, but if they wanted to remember our rule,

493
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Speaker 1: you got to have a definitive upgrade. You're paying this guy.

494
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Speaker 1: If you're buying Malsan and his staff out, you're paying

495
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Speaker 1: huge buyout money. And by the very nature of firing

496
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Speaker 1: this guy, you think to yourself, we need to upgrade

497
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Speaker 1: raid our head coach. Do you know what it costs

498
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Speaker 1: to upgrade from a dude that's the only one down

499
00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:09,240
Speaker 1: here currently in the SEC who's beaten Nick Saban multiple times?

500
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Speaker 1: Do you know what kind of assurances you have to

501
00:23:11,760 --> 00:23:15,000
Speaker 1: give for a guy to come in here, park himself

502
00:23:15,040 --> 00:23:19,200
Speaker 1: in Auburn Alabama go heads up against the greatest dynasty

503
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Speaker 1: in the history of college football that is showing no

504
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Speaker 1: signs of slowing down. Oh, by the way, you're also

505
00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:27,119
Speaker 1: the only program in America that's going to have to

506
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Speaker 1: face Alabama, Georgia, LSU, and Texas A and M annually.

507
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Speaker 1: Why do I mention those four? Well, those four are

508
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Speaker 1: about four of the top six or seven annual recruiting

509
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Speaker 1: programs in America. So there's a very distinct possibility that

510
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Speaker 1: one third of your scheduled games per year in conference

511
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Speaker 1: alone will feature you at a roster disadvantage. And it

512
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Speaker 1: doesn't even matter them if you sort of win a

513
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Speaker 1: few of those games. If you don't win, I mean,

514
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Speaker 1: if you're not fifty percent or better against those teams,

515
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Speaker 1: you are hot seat material. You got to find someone

516
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Speaker 1: who's will to come in and who's willing to assume

517
00:24:02,520 --> 00:24:06,919
Speaker 1: that responsibility, and who is ultimately far better than Gus Malson.

518
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Speaker 1: Do you have that guy out there? This is always

519
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Speaker 1: what I go to. If you do, I'd be happy

520
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Speaker 1: to listen to the candidate. I haven't heard the candidate.

521
00:24:13,119 --> 00:24:15,320
Speaker 1: I certainly haven't seen the candidate. If they're out there,

522
00:24:15,359 --> 00:24:17,159
Speaker 1: they're out there. But I don't think a move is

523
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Speaker 1: going to be made on Gus Malson. So when I

524
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Speaker 1: said that today, I got a lot of pushback. Did

525
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Speaker 1: you see us yesterday? Yeah? I saw you. Point remains well,

526
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Speaker 1: have you seen our record, especially on the road against

527
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Speaker 1: our biggest rival. Yeah, you hadn't won a single one.

528
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Speaker 1: It's zero to twelve. That's his current record on the

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Speaker 1: road against Georgia, Alabama, LSU. And yet my point remains,

530
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Speaker 1: you're trying to convince me that I'm claiming this dude

531
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Speaker 1: has Auburn right on the precipice of college football playoff consideration.

532
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Speaker 1: I don't. What I'm telling you is there's this middle ground. Okay,

533
00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:53,359
Speaker 1: you got greatness, you got terribleness over here, and you

534
00:24:53,440 --> 00:24:56,480
Speaker 1: got this middle ground to varying degrees. That's where Auburn's

535
00:24:56,520 --> 00:24:59,119
Speaker 1: hanging out right now. Auburn was ranked a couple of

536
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Speaker 1: weeks ago. Not that AP rankings are the end all

537
00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:04,960
Speaker 1: be all, but this is not can't state this is

538
00:25:05,000 --> 00:25:07,359
Speaker 1: not a team that's struggling to put a couple of

539
00:25:07,359 --> 00:25:10,720
Speaker 1: wins on the board per year. It better be disastrous,

540
00:25:11,160 --> 00:25:14,359
Speaker 1: especially in this climate, with this kind of coaching market.

541
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Speaker 1: It better be complete and flat out disaster. That's not

542
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Speaker 1: what it is there. It's just not good. There's a

543
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Speaker 1: difference in not good and disastrous. So I know a

544
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Speaker 1: lot of you disagree with that. I appreciate the passion,

545
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Speaker 1: But when you disagree with me, I'm just asking you

546
00:25:30,359 --> 00:25:34,560
Speaker 1: come at me with a realistic candidate, a realistic name.

547
00:25:35,560 --> 00:25:38,920
Speaker 1: Don't ask me, do you think Pete Carroll would entertain

548
00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:42,199
Speaker 1: leaving Seattle to take over Auburn. Don't bring me that,

549
00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:45,600
Speaker 1: bring me somebody realistic, and then we'll talk. Until then, No,

550
00:25:45,680 --> 00:25:49,399
Speaker 1: because no one's brought me someone realistic. So far. Let's

551
00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:51,200
Speaker 1: go around the rest of the country. We got a

552
00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:53,320
Speaker 1: lot to get to. Colin. I was sure that I

553
00:25:53,359 --> 00:25:54,600
Speaker 1: was going to get this out of order, but I'm

554
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Speaker 1: proud of myself. I didn't. So elsewhere in Week fourteen, yesterday,

555
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Speaker 1: let's hit a number of these games. Ohio State just

556
00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:04,200
Speaker 1: bounced Michigan State. I don't think I've said that word

557
00:26:04,240 --> 00:26:06,400
Speaker 1: all year on here, but fifty two to twelve, they

558
00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:09,640
Speaker 1: bounced them. They were down several players were the buck eyes.

559
00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:11,879
Speaker 1: Of course, Ryan Day, the head coach there, had to

560
00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:13,800
Speaker 1: sit at home. You know what I noticed the most

561
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Speaker 1: about this game, aside from Justin Field's playing one of

562
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Speaker 1: the best games I've seen played this year, all things considered,

563
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Speaker 1: Ohio State was out three offensive linemen, three starters, all

564
00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:26,560
Speaker 1: NFL guys, by the way, and they had guys step in.

565
00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:28,879
Speaker 1: They had another guy that had to move positions. Snaps

566
00:26:28,920 --> 00:26:32,880
Speaker 1: were an issue, so that's not ideal. There's some talk

567
00:26:32,920 --> 00:26:34,639
Speaker 1: about whether they get enough reps for those guys on

568
00:26:34,680 --> 00:26:40,080
Speaker 1: the second team. But overall, again, circumstances included really solid showing,

569
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Speaker 1: I thought from the Ohio State offensive line when you

570
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Speaker 1: consider again all the factors in play, and sometimes you'll

571
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Speaker 1: notice this on these big time programs that recruit like

572
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Speaker 1: they do. Sometimes it happens with Bama, occasionally, like it'll

573
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Speaker 1: happen with Ohio State and Georgia will see this happen.

574
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Speaker 1: You have guys go down and then someone steps in

575
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Speaker 1: their place, and the diehard fans know them because they

576
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Speaker 1: follow recruiting annual, but casual fans and certainly fans that

577
00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:04,439
Speaker 1: aren't of that team, they've never heard of him before.

578
00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:08,320
Speaker 1: So Dwan Jones just randomly has to step in yesterday.

579
00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:10,960
Speaker 1: He's only six eight, three hundred and seventy pounds and

580
00:27:11,000 --> 00:27:14,800
Speaker 1: he's just displacing people all afternoon on the line of scrimmage.

581
00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:17,080
Speaker 1: And you sit there and I was reading the butt

582
00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:18,800
Speaker 1: Nuts board today. I wanted to see if anyone was

583
00:27:18,840 --> 00:27:20,520
Speaker 1: talking about it. I think I saw Dave Biddle over

584
00:27:20,560 --> 00:27:23,080
Speaker 1: there say something about it. He said, hold up, hold up,

585
00:27:24,200 --> 00:27:26,480
Speaker 1: all due respect to the guys who were out, does

586
00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:28,680
Speaker 1: it not look like Jones here may actually be better

587
00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:31,200
Speaker 1: than the guy he replaced. Just putting it out there,

588
00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:34,200
Speaker 1: he was a bulldozer of a human being all afternoon.

589
00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:36,280
Speaker 1: Justin Fields carried a lot of the load. If you

590
00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:38,600
Speaker 1: didn't see this game, it was kind of weird the

591
00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:41,240
Speaker 1: way it played out, some of the bad snap issues,

592
00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:43,960
Speaker 1: some of the musical chairs on the offensive line early on.

593
00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:45,600
Speaker 1: It took him a little while to settle in. He

594
00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:48,800
Speaker 1: ended up having two hundred yards passing one hundred yards rushing.

595
00:27:49,560 --> 00:27:52,600
Speaker 1: He played a much better game than his statistics would

596
00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:55,480
Speaker 1: indicate there. I saw a big drop, there were a

597
00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:58,200
Speaker 1: couple of There were a couple of big plays called back.

598
00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:00,880
Speaker 1: I mean, that's why they throw the flag because probably

599
00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:02,879
Speaker 1: a hold allowed you to do what you did. But

600
00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:06,359
Speaker 1: their defense needed this. Ohio State's defense really needed this.

601
00:28:06,760 --> 00:28:09,160
Speaker 1: When you hear that we are gonna have some guys out,

602
00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:12,000
Speaker 1: including members of the secondary, and they've already been leaky

603
00:28:12,040 --> 00:28:15,119
Speaker 1: back there, you think, ooh, Michigan State's not good. But

604
00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:18,240
Speaker 1: could they even start moving the ball on US halftime

605
00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:22,480
Speaker 1: two hundred and seventy to eighty yards that was the advantage.

606
00:28:22,680 --> 00:28:25,040
Speaker 1: They also held the Spartans to of eight on third

607
00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:27,280
Speaker 1: down in the first half. That's padlock stat because when

608
00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:29,800
Speaker 1: you got a twenty eight zip leave if you're not

609
00:28:29,800 --> 00:28:32,800
Speaker 1: playing Indiana pretty safe at that point. So congratulations to

610
00:28:32,880 --> 00:28:35,879
Speaker 1: Larry Johnson got to win yesterday as head coach, and

611
00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:39,600
Speaker 1: now I guess all eyes are on Michigan. I have

612
00:28:39,680 --> 00:28:41,120
Speaker 1: my doubts as to whether that game is going to

613
00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:43,200
Speaker 1: be played. The buck Guy's open is a thirty and

614
00:28:43,280 --> 00:28:45,479
Speaker 1: a half point favorite, by the way, so it's kind

615
00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:48,040
Speaker 1: of got an Alabama LSU sort of vibe to it.

616
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Speaker 1: But really where all eyes turn are to the Big

617
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Speaker 1: Ten Commissioner League Office Athletic directors, you know, that kind

618
00:28:56,920 --> 00:29:01,120
Speaker 1: of group up there, if you will, that's ultimately decide

619
00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:03,480
Speaker 1: if the qualifications aren't met, are we going to change

620
00:29:03,520 --> 00:29:06,000
Speaker 1: the qualifications? I am on the record of saying I

621
00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:07,840
Speaker 1: think they will. I think you're gonna see that team

622
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Speaker 1: play for a Big Ten title game. Florida beat Tennessee

623
00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:13,720
Speaker 1: thirty one to nineteen. You know, this was pretty much

624
00:29:13,760 --> 00:29:17,560
Speaker 1: the game we expected. We had that thing sitting at eighteen,

625
00:29:17,640 --> 00:29:19,520
Speaker 1: and I think Tennessee scored kind of a garbage time

626
00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:22,520
Speaker 1: touchdown and they ended up covering. This was the kind

627
00:29:22,560 --> 00:29:24,800
Speaker 1: of game that we expected. I mean, I've talked about

628
00:29:24,800 --> 00:29:26,920
Speaker 1: this last week, picked Tennessee to cover, and a lot

629
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Speaker 1: of you said, Oh, there's no way, there's no way

630
00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:31,480
Speaker 1: they're holding us under thirty or thirty five. We're gonna

631
00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:34,880
Speaker 1: pull away from them. I Florida's just not that much

632
00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:37,400
Speaker 1: better than Tennessee. And when I say that much better,

633
00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:40,200
Speaker 1: I mean thirty points better. They're just not I don't

634
00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:42,720
Speaker 1: know what people have been watching. Florida's a great team.

635
00:29:43,160 --> 00:29:46,360
Speaker 1: Tennessee is not particularly great this year. But there I

636
00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:48,600
Speaker 1: guess later in the season there comes to be this

637
00:29:49,040 --> 00:29:51,600
Speaker 1: inflated sense of the gap between one and the other.

638
00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:53,320
Speaker 1: I mean, this was going to be a hard fought game,

639
00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:56,240
Speaker 1: and it was, and Florida was certainly the better team,

640
00:29:56,280 --> 00:29:58,680
Speaker 1: and they ended up proving that on the field. But

641
00:29:58,760 --> 00:30:01,640
Speaker 1: it was another big for Kyle Trask. It had to be.

642
00:30:01,880 --> 00:30:04,160
Speaker 1: He was thirty five of forty nine, four hundred and

643
00:30:04,160 --> 00:30:08,040
Speaker 1: thirty three yards, four touchdowns. Florida put up seventeen runs

644
00:30:08,280 --> 00:30:11,640
Speaker 1: forty nine passes. So that was what Dan Mullin thought

645
00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:14,360
Speaker 1: was necessary, and he was right. I mean, we're I

646
00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:16,320
Speaker 1: didn't even write down there. They didn't run the ball

647
00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:18,080
Speaker 1: very well. Let me just say that they didn't run

648
00:30:18,120 --> 00:30:21,760
Speaker 1: the ball worth anything last night. That's normally a stat line,

649
00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:24,040
Speaker 1: you know, when you run it seventeen times and you

650
00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:27,000
Speaker 1: pass it forty nine times. If I didn't give you

651
00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:28,600
Speaker 1: the resume, if I didn't tell you who that was,

652
00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:30,240
Speaker 1: what you would think is, oh, that must be a

653
00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:32,320
Speaker 1: team that got down twenty one to nothing early. They

654
00:30:32,320 --> 00:30:35,880
Speaker 1: had to abandon the run. Florida wasn't down for long anyway.

655
00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:37,840
Speaker 1: They weren't down. They just they can't run the ball

656
00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:40,360
Speaker 1: very well right now. And I think a lot of

657
00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:43,160
Speaker 1: Gator fans kind of view that as sort of a

658
00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:48,520
Speaker 1: terminally low ceiling on their overall opportunity this year. And

659
00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:50,720
Speaker 1: I don't think you're necessarily wrong about that. When you

660
00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:53,280
Speaker 1: consider the path you've seen your team right now, like

661
00:30:53,320 --> 00:30:56,760
Speaker 1: you've seen what Kyle Trask is doing. That's a team

662
00:30:56,800 --> 00:30:58,560
Speaker 1: you want to win the playoff with. I mean, you're

663
00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:01,200
Speaker 1: not just thinking about winning the division. You're thinking about

664
00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:04,959
Speaker 1: let's go be competitive against Alabama and let's take our

665
00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:07,880
Speaker 1: shot and maybe getting this playoff. When you consider that path,

666
00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:10,600
Speaker 1: and you've got Alabama in Atlanta, and if you were

667
00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:13,760
Speaker 1: to win that game, you've got two more to win

668
00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:18,600
Speaker 1: a championship. Two more of Alabama, Clemson, Ohio State, Notre Dame.

669
00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:21,880
Speaker 1: Like that group of likely playoff contenders. You got to

670
00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:24,480
Speaker 1: win three of those games, counting the SEC title game.

671
00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:26,560
Speaker 1: In all likelihood, how are you going to do that

672
00:31:26,600 --> 00:31:28,800
Speaker 1: with no run game. You may beat one of them,

673
00:31:28,800 --> 00:31:31,200
Speaker 1: you can beat three of them consecutively. You're gonna be

674
00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:33,480
Speaker 1: able to do that. I just don't know. That's really

675
00:31:33,520 --> 00:31:37,280
Speaker 1: tough to navigate with no offensive balance. So there's no

676
00:31:37,360 --> 00:31:39,920
Speaker 1: quarterback in the country doing more than Kyle Trask right now.

677
00:31:40,240 --> 00:31:45,440
Speaker 1: When you consider the fallback option of Naja Harris at Alabama.

678
00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:48,680
Speaker 1: Ohio State ran the ball three hundred plus yards yesterday.

679
00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:51,560
Speaker 1: Like these other teams, they got fallback options. You got

680
00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:54,400
Speaker 1: Travis etn at Clemson. They just don't have that at

681
00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:58,960
Speaker 1: Florida and it could be ultimately their undoing. Cal beat

682
00:31:59,000 --> 00:32:01,920
Speaker 1: Oregon yesterday and we didn't really have any action on

683
00:32:01,960 --> 00:32:03,680
Speaker 1: this game. I didn't talk about it a whole lot. Oregon,

684
00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:05,640
Speaker 1: I think was a nine and a half point favorite,

685
00:32:05,960 --> 00:32:08,360
Speaker 1: And I guess this is a good time to remind

686
00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:11,320
Speaker 1: everyone that pound for pound, Oregon has one of the

687
00:32:11,360 --> 00:32:13,840
Speaker 1: youngest teams in America. Now, they're not paying me to

688
00:32:13,840 --> 00:32:15,760
Speaker 1: say this Tonight, but they are one of the youngest

689
00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:18,240
Speaker 1: teams in America. It's been a really bad two week stretch.

690
00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:20,440
Speaker 1: There's no other way to state this. They lost to

691
00:32:20,640 --> 00:32:24,360
Speaker 1: Oregon State last week in the middle of a fog storm,

692
00:32:24,400 --> 00:32:27,160
Speaker 1: I guess you would call it. And then they are

693
00:32:27,200 --> 00:32:29,560
Speaker 1: in what should be a get right game as about

694
00:32:29,560 --> 00:32:31,920
Speaker 1: a double digit favorite against cal and just can't get

695
00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:34,400
Speaker 1: it done. And these are games you have to win.

696
00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:36,960
Speaker 1: There is no beating around the bush. You got a

697
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:39,200
Speaker 1: much better roster than both of these teams. These are

698
00:32:39,200 --> 00:32:41,600
Speaker 1: games you have to win. And yet if you think

699
00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:44,120
Speaker 1: total yardage tells the whole story of a football game,

700
00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:46,880
Speaker 1: it would really be confusing right now because they keep

701
00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:50,680
Speaker 1: out gaining teams. They keep on in some categories that

702
00:32:50,720 --> 00:32:54,600
Speaker 1: people would call critical, surpassing that of their opponent. But

703
00:32:54,720 --> 00:32:56,840
Speaker 1: yet then you look down the box score a little

704
00:32:56,840 --> 00:32:59,360
Speaker 1: bit and you see that yet again this week Oregon

705
00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:02,880
Speaker 1: in the turnover battle minus two. This week they had

706
00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:06,239
Speaker 1: nine more penalties for sixty yards. And these are just

707
00:33:06,280 --> 00:33:09,120
Speaker 1: the sorts of things you can't really quantify what they

708
00:33:09,160 --> 00:33:12,920
Speaker 1: were worth against you and for your opponent. But keeps

709
00:33:12,920 --> 00:33:15,880
Speaker 1: piling up, and it keeps turning into a loss, and

710
00:33:15,920 --> 00:33:18,280
Speaker 1: the worst thing about yesterday if your Oregon is the

711
00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:20,280
Speaker 1: script kind of flipped. You know, we were talking so

712
00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:22,800
Speaker 1: far this year about how, you know, we expected their

713
00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:24,960
Speaker 1: offense to be a problem, defense to be good. Yet

714
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:28,720
Speaker 1: so far this year, offense had been really clicking, even

715
00:33:28,760 --> 00:33:31,240
Speaker 1: with first year coordinator Joe moorehead like, things have been clicking.

716
00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:33,760
Speaker 1: It just the defense have been mia. All of a sudden,

717
00:33:33,800 --> 00:33:37,560
Speaker 1: defense shows up yesterday. Okay, they have a very very

718
00:33:37,600 --> 00:33:40,320
Speaker 1: good overall game. I would rate it like a B

719
00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:43,080
Speaker 1: B plus, and by Oregon standards, it would be an

720
00:33:43,080 --> 00:33:45,200
Speaker 1: A or an A plus relative to what they haven't

721
00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:48,080
Speaker 1: done defensively so far this year. But in the second

722
00:33:48,080 --> 00:33:50,280
Speaker 1: half of this game, they got shut out. First off,

723
00:33:50,320 --> 00:33:52,680
Speaker 1: Oregon got shut out. If I were to tell you,

724
00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:55,360
Speaker 1: let's just say Oregon leads at halftime, let me tell

725
00:33:55,360 --> 00:33:57,120
Speaker 1: you how badness was in the second half. I tell

726
00:33:57,120 --> 00:34:00,480
Speaker 1: you Oregon leads at the half, seventeen to fourteen is

727
00:34:00,520 --> 00:34:03,480
Speaker 1: your lead. And in the second half, you're gonna hold

728
00:34:03,520 --> 00:34:06,400
Speaker 1: Cow to one hundred and three total yards, and you're

729
00:34:06,440 --> 00:34:09,680
Speaker 1: gonna hold them to one of nine on third down

730
00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:12,319
Speaker 1: and you're still gonna lose. How in the world does

731
00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:15,880
Speaker 1: that happen. Like, think about the minimum baseline requirement at

732
00:34:15,880 --> 00:34:17,839
Speaker 1: that point, you're gonna hold them to one hundred yards

733
00:34:17,840 --> 00:34:19,560
Speaker 1: one of nine on third down? What do you need?

734
00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:21,440
Speaker 1: You need like a field goal or something like that.

735
00:34:21,960 --> 00:34:24,640
Speaker 1: They couldn't even get that, and so Oregon goes down

736
00:34:25,160 --> 00:34:27,279
Speaker 1: and they're looking for a complete game. Man, you know,

737
00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:29,600
Speaker 1: I'm not so sure. As bad as things look there

738
00:34:29,640 --> 00:34:31,640
Speaker 1: at the moment, I'm not so sure. This may not

739
00:34:31,640 --> 00:34:34,160
Speaker 1: be a team that we end up betting on, maybe

740
00:34:34,160 --> 00:34:36,600
Speaker 1: this week, but maybe down the stretch, because certainly there's

741
00:34:36,640 --> 00:34:39,160
Speaker 1: a lot of intrinsic value there, but it's also one

742
00:34:39,160 --> 00:34:41,759
Speaker 1: of those where at times you've seen both sides of

743
00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:45,720
Speaker 1: the ball for them put in really good performances. Normally,

744
00:34:45,800 --> 00:34:47,759
Speaker 1: a good team and a good roster does not go

745
00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:50,720
Speaker 1: a whole year without having at least one game where

746
00:34:50,719 --> 00:34:53,799
Speaker 1: those two jive and they click. Hadn't happened for Oregon yet.

747
00:34:54,400 --> 00:34:55,680
Speaker 1: Kind of want to have your money on them when

748
00:34:55,680 --> 00:35:02,440
Speaker 1: it does. Iowa State defeated not Western Well, it was

749
00:35:02,480 --> 00:35:05,719
Speaker 1: the western portion of Virginia West Virginia yesterday, forty two

750
00:35:06,120 --> 00:35:09,399
Speaker 1: to six. So I got some words written down here

751
00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:11,920
Speaker 1: and this is personal for me, So I just want

752
00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:19,799
Speaker 1: to read these words shame, embarrassment, humiliation, inferiority, unworthiness, and

753
00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:24,640
Speaker 1: ultimately regret. These are some of the emotions that were

754
00:35:24,680 --> 00:35:28,359
Speaker 1: in plentiful supply in my heart yesterday when I realized

755
00:35:28,520 --> 00:35:32,000
Speaker 1: that I had bet against the Iowa State Cyclones and

756
00:35:32,040 --> 00:35:34,360
Speaker 1: they were making me pay for it. A week after

757
00:35:34,640 --> 00:35:37,800
Speaker 1: the Texas win, a week after they pretty much clinched

758
00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:41,120
Speaker 1: a spot in the Big Twelve championship game, and yet

759
00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:44,439
Speaker 1: here I am thinking that, well, it wasn't my fault,

760
00:35:44,440 --> 00:35:46,880
Speaker 1: it was the model's fault. The Model thought that West

761
00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:48,960
Speaker 1: Virginia was going to walk in there and give them

762
00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:53,000
Speaker 1: a scare, and not so much. In fact, they were

763
00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:56,719
Speaker 1: so thoroughly in control of this. They were drawing up

764
00:35:56,920 --> 00:36:00,960
Speaker 1: specific touchdown plays to their seniors Senior Day yesterday. By

765
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:03,480
Speaker 1: the second quarter, guys who haven't caught a touchdown past

766
00:36:03,560 --> 00:36:06,200
Speaker 1: their entire career. It was like it was a spring game.

767
00:36:06,520 --> 00:36:09,279
Speaker 1: It was embarrassing. It was embarrassing for West Virginia, and

768
00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:12,880
Speaker 1: it was embarrassing for me. Important point number one Iowa

769
00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:15,080
Speaker 1: State control of the line of scrimmage. They have done

770
00:36:15,080 --> 00:36:17,200
Speaker 1: that at times all year. They really limited the run.

771
00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:19,879
Speaker 1: And important point number two that's going to matter when

772
00:36:19,880 --> 00:36:23,120
Speaker 1: it comes to the Big twelve Championship game is Brock Purdy,

773
00:36:23,560 --> 00:36:25,400
Speaker 1: who feels like he's been around twenty seven years at

774
00:36:25,400 --> 00:36:27,719
Speaker 1: this point. He's playing the best football I think over

775
00:36:27,760 --> 00:36:31,160
Speaker 1: the past few weeks of his entire career. You could

776
00:36:31,239 --> 00:36:33,279
Speaker 1: really say that. Think about this stat here. I saw

777
00:36:33,320 --> 00:36:35,920
Speaker 1: Michael Swain mention this on a cyclone alert, which is

778
00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:38,560
Speaker 1: our twenty four seven Sports Iowa State side, which I

779
00:36:38,560 --> 00:36:41,759
Speaker 1: would encourage you to peruse at your leisure. Listen to

780
00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:45,319
Speaker 1: these stats man over the past Since halftime of the

781
00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:50,040
Speaker 1: Baylor game, Brock Purdy is seventy of ninety one for

782
00:36:50,200 --> 00:36:55,560
Speaker 1: nine hundred and three yards, ten touchdowns, no interceptions. Can

783
00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:59,720
Speaker 1: we beat Oklahoma? I think we can? Will we stay tuned?

784
00:37:00,560 --> 00:37:04,919
Speaker 1: Indiana did beat Wisconsin fourteen to six. We sat here

785
00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:06,680
Speaker 1: and I would love to tell you we took flak

786
00:37:06,719 --> 00:37:08,960
Speaker 1: for it. We didn't, but we also didn't take credit

787
00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:12,320
Speaker 1: for it. We sat here last week on the set

788
00:37:13,200 --> 00:37:16,120
Speaker 1: and Colin and I were the brave souls that win

789
00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:19,359
Speaker 1: Aheadn't told you don't worry about Michael Pennox being out,

790
00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:22,080
Speaker 1: don't even worry about it. Like they had the freshest

791
00:37:22,080 --> 00:37:25,160
Speaker 1: image of Indiana football in your mind was, Oh, they

792
00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:27,040
Speaker 1: went into they went in the horseshoe. They had this

793
00:37:27,200 --> 00:37:30,479
Speaker 1: magical comeback almost beat Ohio State. They had the ball

794
00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:34,160
Speaker 1: with a chance to tie the game. But that quarterback,

795
00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:37,120
Speaker 1: that quarterback that orchestrated all that, well, he's out now,

796
00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:41,480
Speaker 1: and so too are the hopes and dreams of Indiana football.

797
00:37:41,680 --> 00:37:44,120
Speaker 1: And we told you, Colin, I remember it just like

798
00:37:44,200 --> 00:37:47,840
Speaker 1: it was five six days ago. Told you there's a

799
00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:50,560
Speaker 1: kid and his name's Jack Tuttle, and he's the backup

800
00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:54,080
Speaker 1: quarterback for Indiana. He's not your average backup quarterback for Indiana,

801
00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:57,600
Speaker 1: whatever that means. He's a really good football player. We

802
00:37:57,640 --> 00:37:59,480
Speaker 1: think they're going to be fine, like they were fourteen

803
00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:02,399
Speaker 1: point under. I went on Mark Ryan's show in ESPN

804
00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:04,120
Speaker 1: up State and just picked them and went outright. We

805
00:38:04,160 --> 00:38:06,319
Speaker 1: certainly had them as one of our best best gets

806
00:38:06,320 --> 00:38:09,239
Speaker 1: the number last week, and sure enough they won the

807
00:38:09,239 --> 00:38:12,160
Speaker 1: game out right, fourteen to six. The temperature was one

808
00:38:12,520 --> 00:38:15,080
Speaker 1: degree in this game. By the way, maybe the cold

809
00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:17,600
Speaker 1: weather snuck up on Wisconsin. Now, I'll tell you what

810
00:38:17,640 --> 00:38:20,759
Speaker 1: snuck up on Wisconsin is they're gutted. They are a

811
00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:23,320
Speaker 1: shell of the team that we expected in the preseason.

812
00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:26,000
Speaker 1: They got a lot of guys out, So this is

813
00:38:26,040 --> 00:38:28,319
Speaker 1: not a badger squad that's firing on all cylinders. That's

814
00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:31,040
Speaker 1: not the story, though, Indiana being six and one is

815
00:38:31,080 --> 00:38:34,640
Speaker 1: the story. It was, man, it was really fun to watch.

816
00:38:34,960 --> 00:38:37,200
Speaker 1: They got enough out of the run game, which was

817
00:38:37,239 --> 00:38:39,839
Speaker 1: a concern. You worried that they were gonna have one

818
00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:43,319
Speaker 1: of those thirteen rushiers for seventeen yards types of days.

819
00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:45,960
Speaker 1: Now they ran it for eighty seven. Tuttle was thirteen

820
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:48,440
Speaker 1: of twenty two, one hundred and thirty yards, two touchdowns,

821
00:38:48,560 --> 00:38:52,439
Speaker 1: zero zero goose egg in the interception column. And Tom

822
00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:54,200
Speaker 1: Allen after the game. I don't know if you guys

823
00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:58,160
Speaker 1: saw it, but boy, if you haven't, just go search

824
00:38:58,320 --> 00:39:02,080
Speaker 1: Tom Allen video on Google, searching on Twitter. Just Tom

825
00:39:02,120 --> 00:39:04,879
Speaker 1: Allen post game. He's right there on the field. He's

826
00:39:04,880 --> 00:39:07,759
Speaker 1: given his postgame re marks. And there is a lot

827
00:39:07,840 --> 00:39:10,640
Speaker 1: of money in recruiting budgets. One of the funnest columns

828
00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:13,280
Speaker 1: that we do here every year is which program spends

829
00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:16,320
Speaker 1: the most on its recruiting budget. And you're spending money

830
00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:19,920
Speaker 1: to put an idea in kids' minds. But here's the

831
00:39:19,960 --> 00:39:22,120
Speaker 1: best recruiting amo that you could ever have, and it

832
00:39:22,160 --> 00:39:24,600
Speaker 1: was free of charge. Yesterday it got delivered to Indiana.

833
00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:28,200
Speaker 1: Tom Allen's there on the field. This guy's universally adored

834
00:39:28,239 --> 00:39:31,480
Speaker 1: and respected by players and by people in the sport.

835
00:39:32,040 --> 00:39:34,960
Speaker 1: And he's doing his postgame press availability on the field

836
00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:38,080
Speaker 1: and his team is walking off the field right behind him,

837
00:39:38,360 --> 00:39:41,040
Speaker 1: and their tunnel's right there, microphone's right here, and he

838
00:39:41,080 --> 00:39:44,439
Speaker 1: can't even finish his interview because his players keep coming

839
00:39:44,520 --> 00:39:48,640
Speaker 1: up and recruiting, just real time into the microphone for

840
00:39:48,840 --> 00:39:52,359
Speaker 1: Tom Allen and Indiana telling them come here. We love

841
00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:55,799
Speaker 1: this dude, he loves us. Great environment, no better place,

842
00:39:55,880 --> 00:39:57,879
Speaker 1: no better coach to play for in America. And I'm

843
00:39:57,880 --> 00:40:00,279
Speaker 1: just sitting there thinking the whole time, how much was

844
00:40:00,320 --> 00:40:02,120
Speaker 1: that just worth? It feels like it was worth like

845
00:40:02,160 --> 00:40:05,640
Speaker 1: ten million dollars. And Tom Allen, Oh, the way he

846
00:40:05,640 --> 00:40:09,160
Speaker 1: accomplished it is just be yourself and being yourself with

847
00:40:09,239 --> 00:40:12,879
Speaker 1: Tom Allen sure has worked. They are the second best

848
00:40:12,880 --> 00:40:15,440
Speaker 1: team in the Big Ten. They you know, more and

849
00:40:15,520 --> 00:40:17,160
Speaker 1: more I heard some people start to make this point

850
00:40:17,239 --> 00:40:19,040
Speaker 1: yesterday and they're right. More and more. You look at

851
00:40:19,080 --> 00:40:21,799
Speaker 1: how solid Indiana is now with their backup quarterback, and

852
00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:24,920
Speaker 1: you say it seems like not too long ago we

853
00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:26,879
Speaker 1: were kind of chirping at Ohio State for almost giving

854
00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:29,040
Speaker 1: that game away. It turns out they were playing a

855
00:40:29,040 --> 00:40:31,759
Speaker 1: pretty darn good team in Indiana. Maybe you shouldn't have

856
00:40:31,800 --> 00:40:35,000
Speaker 1: taken that long to figure that out. As for other

857
00:40:35,719 --> 00:40:39,600
Speaker 1: goings on around the country, yesterday Coastal Carolina beat Brigham Young,

858
00:40:39,840 --> 00:40:43,799
Speaker 1: not be you, Brigham Young, twenty two to seventeen. The

859
00:40:43,800 --> 00:40:46,960
Speaker 1: inside story there is I cannot properly pronounce wise, so

860
00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:49,560
Speaker 1: I don't do it on the show. Brigham Young falls.

861
00:40:50,080 --> 00:40:52,400
Speaker 1: They get a game with about seventy two hours heads up.

862
00:40:52,440 --> 00:40:54,719
Speaker 1: They go on the road. Equipment truck made it, which

863
00:40:54,840 --> 00:40:57,520
Speaker 1: was number one mild upset for this game, and then

864
00:40:57,560 --> 00:40:59,799
Speaker 1: number two Coastal Carolina beats them, which was a little

865
00:40:59,800 --> 00:41:02,320
Speaker 1: bit ups ad is a ten point underdog. There was

866
00:41:02,360 --> 00:41:04,839
Speaker 1: a great ending to this game, Okay, a lot of greatness. Okay,

867
00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:06,600
Speaker 1: so let me tell you there was a great ending.

868
00:41:07,239 --> 00:41:09,760
Speaker 1: It was a great concept that this game came together

869
00:41:10,520 --> 00:41:14,560
Speaker 1: Coastal Carolina and Jamie Chadwell. It's a great story, great message,

870
00:41:14,719 --> 00:41:17,440
Speaker 1: great fortitude. And then I want to do something that

871
00:41:17,480 --> 00:41:19,120
Speaker 1: I wish more of you would do. I'm going to

872
00:41:19,160 --> 00:41:22,080
Speaker 1: take this pen and I am going to put a

873
00:41:22,120 --> 00:41:24,799
Speaker 1: period at the end of that summens and that's all

874
00:41:24,800 --> 00:41:27,320
Speaker 1: I have to say. I am not taking the added

875
00:41:27,320 --> 00:41:30,640
Speaker 1: step of saying and this team should be in the

876
00:41:30,680 --> 00:41:33,880
Speaker 1: playoff because they shouldn't. Shouldn't be in the playoff, shouldn't

877
00:41:33,880 --> 00:41:36,480
Speaker 1: be in the plaoff conversation. You know my feelings on this.

878
00:41:37,000 --> 00:41:40,160
Speaker 1: I think it is ludicrous to again, let me reiterate

879
00:41:40,160 --> 00:41:41,800
Speaker 1: what I said, A lot of greatness, A lot of greatness,

880
00:41:41,800 --> 00:41:44,640
Speaker 1: love the story. I've watched not every Coastal game, but

881
00:41:44,719 --> 00:41:47,719
Speaker 1: several of their games this year. I am all for it,

882
00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:49,440
Speaker 1: right down to the color of the field. Heeal is

883
00:41:49,480 --> 00:41:52,239
Speaker 1: one of my favorite colors, by the way, and so

884
00:41:52,320 --> 00:41:54,680
Speaker 1: I love everything about it. This is a much broader

885
00:41:54,680 --> 00:41:59,239
Speaker 1: point than Coastal. I have long considered the concept of

886
00:41:59,400 --> 00:42:01,720
Speaker 1: G five to ten teams and Power five teams competing

887
00:42:01,719 --> 00:42:04,640
Speaker 1: for the same playoff spots to be absurd. They're not

888
00:42:04,719 --> 00:42:07,640
Speaker 1: playing the same sport. The quality year in and year out,

889
00:42:07,719 --> 00:42:09,799
Speaker 1: and strength of schedule, and a G five team versus

890
00:42:09,840 --> 00:42:11,839
Speaker 1: a P five team schedule is night and day. They're

891
00:42:11,880 --> 00:42:14,200
Speaker 1: not playing the same sport. So let's not pretend they are.

892
00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:16,080
Speaker 1: Because Here's what would be really fun right now. What

893
00:42:16,120 --> 00:42:18,640
Speaker 1: would be really fun is if we were heading into

894
00:42:18,640 --> 00:42:21,759
Speaker 1: December and I knew that Coastal was about to be

895
00:42:22,000 --> 00:42:24,640
Speaker 1: the number one seed in the G five Playoff, and

896
00:42:24,680 --> 00:42:26,839
Speaker 1: then I was going to have Napier down at Louisiana,

897
00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:29,080
Speaker 1: and I I was going to get these teams that

898
00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:31,480
Speaker 1: you know, U seef in the past, Houston, Memphis in

899
00:42:31,520 --> 00:42:33,719
Speaker 1: the past, Cincinnati was going to be in this thing

900
00:42:34,160 --> 00:42:36,880
Speaker 1: that I would well, I wouldn't have to pay for it.

901
00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:39,000
Speaker 1: They'd probably put it on TV, but I would pay

902
00:42:39,040 --> 00:42:40,840
Speaker 1: a lot of money. I would invest a lot of

903
00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:43,680
Speaker 1: my energy in watching that. I'm not gonna sit here

904
00:42:43,920 --> 00:42:46,439
Speaker 1: and even pretend like I want to know what would

905
00:42:46,480 --> 00:42:49,920
Speaker 1: happen if the Coastal Carolina Shanta Clears drew the University

906
00:42:49,960 --> 00:42:52,120
Speaker 1: of Alabama in the first round of the playoff, Like,

907
00:42:52,760 --> 00:42:55,000
Speaker 1: you don't need to see that. I don't need to

908
00:42:55,040 --> 00:42:58,440
Speaker 1: see that. And please spare me this talk about how

909
00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:02,080
Speaker 1: college basketball makes it happened. Yeah, let me tell you

910
00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:05,560
Speaker 1: something else. College basketball makes happen. They make this happen too.

911
00:43:06,320 --> 00:43:08,920
Speaker 1: They make it possible for the number one team and

912
00:43:09,040 --> 00:43:11,400
Speaker 1: number two team in the country to be scheduled, have

913
00:43:11,520 --> 00:43:13,959
Speaker 1: the game canceled, and me not even realize it until

914
00:43:13,960 --> 00:43:17,440
Speaker 1: twenty four hours later. That happened yesterday. I forgot gonzag

915
00:43:17,480 --> 00:43:20,200
Speaker 1: and somebody they were supposed to play yesterday, Kentucky. I

916
00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:23,239
Speaker 1: just found out lost today to Colin who was at

917
00:43:23,239 --> 00:43:25,360
Speaker 1: Georgia Tech. Yeah, they lost in Georgia Tech today. I

918
00:43:25,400 --> 00:43:27,640
Speaker 1: wouldn't have even known if Colin told me. You know why,

919
00:43:28,680 --> 00:43:30,880
Speaker 1: because that tournament you all love so much and I

920
00:43:30,960 --> 00:43:34,560
Speaker 1: do too, has rendered the other eleven months worth of

921
00:43:34,600 --> 00:43:38,520
Speaker 1: college basketball talk, build up and play irrelevant to people

922
00:43:38,600 --> 00:43:41,200
Speaker 1: like me, and so I would prefer not to see

923
00:43:41,200 --> 00:43:43,440
Speaker 1: that happen in college football. It's why I'm not for expansion.

924
00:43:43,560 --> 00:43:47,400
Speaker 1: I'm not for inclusion of everybody from every corner of

925
00:43:47,400 --> 00:43:49,640
Speaker 1: the country. Now, you give me the best, You set

926
00:43:49,640 --> 00:43:52,239
Speaker 1: out the criteria, and then you decide, and there's gonna

927
00:43:52,239 --> 00:43:54,920
Speaker 1: be some subjectivity in there, and I understand that, but

928
00:43:55,000 --> 00:43:58,480
Speaker 1: I think pretty much every one of us is an agreement. No,

929
00:43:58,719 --> 00:44:01,000
Speaker 1: I don't think that team could come pete with Ohio State,

930
00:44:01,120 --> 00:44:02,560
Speaker 1: and now I don't think I need to see it

931
00:44:02,760 --> 00:44:05,520
Speaker 1: to have it proven. There's nothing magical about that. There's

932
00:44:05,560 --> 00:44:09,000
Speaker 1: nothing special about that, nothing at all. You are shaving

933
00:44:09,040 --> 00:44:11,960
Speaker 1: away at the overall value of the regular season, which

934
00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:15,360
Speaker 1: is the most priceless commodity in the college football inventory,

935
00:44:15,560 --> 00:44:19,239
Speaker 1: and you're doing it for what to appease? I don't

936
00:44:19,239 --> 00:44:21,880
Speaker 1: know what you're doing it for, because I am not

937
00:44:22,040 --> 00:44:24,720
Speaker 1: of the opinion that just because some folks are upset

938
00:44:24,719 --> 00:44:28,160
Speaker 1: about something, it means something's wrong. Folks can be upset.

939
00:44:28,280 --> 00:44:29,759
Speaker 1: It's not gonna kill them. It's not the worst thing

940
00:44:29,760 --> 00:44:32,279
Speaker 1: in the world. But no, I'm not for that, So

941
00:44:32,400 --> 00:44:34,759
Speaker 1: I know it makes me as everyone else wants to

942
00:44:34,800 --> 00:44:38,560
Speaker 1: be Santa Claus handing out, handing out playoff tickets. You

943
00:44:38,600 --> 00:44:40,960
Speaker 1: can call me the grinch if you want to. That

944
00:44:41,120 --> 00:44:43,360
Speaker 1: is not what college football needs. If you want to

945
00:44:43,440 --> 00:44:46,200
Speaker 1: argue G five playoff, I'll beat that drum with you

946
00:44:46,239 --> 00:44:49,600
Speaker 1: all day. But no, on the other side of the coin. No,

947
00:44:50,440 --> 00:44:53,120
Speaker 1: all right, let's talk about coaching intel. Now that everyone's

948
00:44:53,160 --> 00:44:55,840
Speaker 1: in a bad mood, let's talk about coaching intel, because

949
00:44:55,840 --> 00:45:00,799
Speaker 1: we got some yesterday. Texas went to Manhattan, Kansas blasted

950
00:45:00,880 --> 00:45:03,279
Speaker 1: Kansas State. A lot of you were dumbfounded by this,

951
00:45:04,040 --> 00:45:07,440
Speaker 1: myself chief among you. Sixty nine to thirty one was

952
00:45:07,480 --> 00:45:12,799
Speaker 1: the final, and so you look at that, and you say, hmm,

953
00:45:13,680 --> 00:45:16,560
Speaker 1: what do I make of this? Because Texas hasn't shown

954
00:45:16,719 --> 00:45:20,600
Speaker 1: this kind of explosive ability all year, and yet also

955
00:45:21,239 --> 00:45:23,319
Speaker 1: you probably have a great result there, and maybe it's

956
00:45:23,320 --> 00:45:27,359
Speaker 1: deemed irrelevant. So I get a text from someone who,

957
00:45:27,360 --> 00:45:30,799
Speaker 1: shall I say, is very close to Texas, and the

958
00:45:30,840 --> 00:45:33,520
Speaker 1: text during the game and after the game yesterday says, well,

959
00:45:33,560 --> 00:45:35,200
Speaker 1: I guess you can't fire a coach after that. Well,

960
00:45:35,280 --> 00:45:37,960
Speaker 1: of course you can, as long as you had already

961
00:45:38,480 --> 00:45:41,160
Speaker 1: cut the rope before the game happened. That goes back

962
00:45:41,200 --> 00:45:42,759
Speaker 1: to what I was talking about last week. And we're

963
00:45:42,760 --> 00:45:44,319
Speaker 1: gonna kind of get to the whole Urban Meyer deal

964
00:45:44,320 --> 00:45:45,920
Speaker 1: here in a second. This goes back to what I

965
00:45:45,960 --> 00:45:49,799
Speaker 1: was talking about before this game. Don't allow yourself to

966
00:45:49,880 --> 00:45:55,360
Speaker 1: get into this quicksand of letting opinion change and letting

967
00:45:55,400 --> 00:45:58,000
Speaker 1: the tide change week to week. Based on outcomes of

968
00:45:58,040 --> 00:46:01,920
Speaker 1: four quarter football games. Tom Herman is your guy. It

969
00:46:01,960 --> 00:46:04,799
Speaker 1: doesn't matter if he loses Saturday, because that one game

970
00:46:04,880 --> 00:46:06,960
Speaker 1: doesn't change who he is. And if Tom Herman's not

971
00:46:07,080 --> 00:46:10,040
Speaker 1: your guy, doesn't matter. If he wins by forty points

972
00:46:10,120 --> 00:46:12,279
Speaker 1: or a million points, that doesn't change the fact that

973
00:46:12,280 --> 00:46:15,239
Speaker 1: he's not your guy, So you could, of course make

974
00:46:15,320 --> 00:46:17,240
Speaker 1: a move. I don't care if he scored one hundred yesterday.

975
00:46:17,480 --> 00:46:19,760
Speaker 1: You could make a move. I don't know if they will.

976
00:46:20,680 --> 00:46:23,319
Speaker 1: So that is the question because we're kind of at

977
00:46:23,320 --> 00:46:25,080
Speaker 1: the same place with the whole urban Meyer deal. I

978
00:46:25,120 --> 00:46:26,799
Speaker 1: know there's some rumors out there tonight, but we're kind

979
00:46:26,840 --> 00:46:28,680
Speaker 1: of at the same place where the Urban Meyer deal

980
00:46:28,719 --> 00:46:31,560
Speaker 1: for Texas as we were entering the weekend, and my

981
00:46:31,680 --> 00:46:34,480
Speaker 1: biggest question was, Okay, if you can if you can

982
00:46:34,480 --> 00:46:36,880
Speaker 1: get urban well that's obviously the path you're going to go.

983
00:46:37,280 --> 00:46:41,360
Speaker 1: If you can't, then did yesterday's result actually mean anything

984
00:46:41,800 --> 00:46:45,279
Speaker 1: by me and anything I'm talking about if you have

985
00:46:45,440 --> 00:46:47,759
Speaker 1: the path B, the scenario B plan B that you

986
00:46:47,800 --> 00:46:49,680
Speaker 1: have to go down where you can't get urban Meyer.

987
00:46:50,080 --> 00:46:53,640
Speaker 1: My big question last week was is it Herman's out

988
00:46:53,640 --> 00:46:56,000
Speaker 1: regardless or is it hermans out if we can get

989
00:46:56,080 --> 00:46:58,560
Speaker 1: urban Meyer, or is it Herman's out if we can

990
00:46:58,560 --> 00:47:02,920
Speaker 1: get urban Meyer or candidate B or C. Are we

991
00:47:02,960 --> 00:47:04,560
Speaker 1: still moving on here? That's what I want to know.

992
00:47:04,600 --> 00:47:07,160
Speaker 1: Are we still making a move? And that I think

993
00:47:07,280 --> 00:47:09,040
Speaker 1: is very much up in the air. If you do

994
00:47:09,200 --> 00:47:11,320
Speaker 1: make a move, how many guys are you willing to

995
00:47:11,320 --> 00:47:14,280
Speaker 1: make a move for outside of the obvious and second question,

996
00:47:15,080 --> 00:47:18,200
Speaker 1: same as Friday, same as Thursday, is if you don't

997
00:47:18,239 --> 00:47:21,720
Speaker 1: make a move, how do you sell that to recruits?

998
00:47:21,760 --> 00:47:23,279
Speaker 1: How do you sell it to your current roster? And

999
00:47:23,320 --> 00:47:25,279
Speaker 1: how do you sell it to recruits? Because it's pretty

1000
00:47:25,320 --> 00:47:28,680
Speaker 1: public now what's happening. It's pretty public that you're looking

1001
00:47:28,719 --> 00:47:32,040
Speaker 1: for a replacement, and if you'd just because you can't

1002
00:47:32,080 --> 00:47:34,880
Speaker 1: get the replacement doesn't mean that I buy into the

1003
00:47:34,920 --> 00:47:37,000
Speaker 1: notion that this guy is still our head coach, whether

1004
00:47:37,040 --> 00:47:39,320
Speaker 1: you tell me he is or not. So Chip Brown

1005
00:47:39,360 --> 00:47:42,040
Speaker 1: over on Horns twenty four to seven put out some

1006
00:47:42,320 --> 00:47:45,840
Speaker 1: information earlier today. I strongly encourage you guys to be

1007
00:47:45,920 --> 00:47:48,160
Speaker 1: checking out the side over there. They're about as dialed

1008
00:47:48,200 --> 00:47:50,640
Speaker 1: in as anyone on this situation. And he had a quote,

1009
00:47:50,640 --> 00:47:52,160
Speaker 1: I'm not going to read the whole thing, but he

1010
00:47:52,320 --> 00:47:55,680
Speaker 1: was essentially relaying what he's been told by people close

1011
00:47:55,760 --> 00:47:58,480
Speaker 1: to the program. And there's a lot of great area here.

1012
00:47:58,520 --> 00:48:01,080
Speaker 1: I gotta be honest with you. The each Chip told

1013
00:48:01,320 --> 00:48:02,920
Speaker 1: the folks over there at hornch twenty four seven that

1014
00:48:02,960 --> 00:48:05,240
Speaker 1: someone had told him, you know, paying twenty five million

1015
00:48:05,280 --> 00:48:08,440
Speaker 1: dollars to buy out Tom Herman, a thirty one to

1016
00:48:08,520 --> 00:48:10,960
Speaker 1: nineteen head coach. If it means getting urban Meyer, that's

1017
00:48:10,960 --> 00:48:13,200
Speaker 1: one thing. But I don't know how many people are

1018
00:48:13,200 --> 00:48:16,200
Speaker 1: on board with paying twenty five million dollars to buy

1019
00:48:16,280 --> 00:48:20,560
Speaker 1: them out if it doesn't mean urban Meyer. Translation, don't

1020
00:48:20,560 --> 00:48:22,640
Speaker 1: know if they have the support over there to make

1021
00:48:22,680 --> 00:48:25,600
Speaker 1: a move. Regardless, do know that they have a support

1022
00:48:25,640 --> 00:48:27,799
Speaker 1: there to make a move if they can get Canadaday,

1023
00:48:28,160 --> 00:48:32,480
Speaker 1: and Canadaday seems waffully at best right now. There certainly

1024
00:48:32,520 --> 00:48:35,280
Speaker 1: has been no definitive movement from the urban Meyer camp

1025
00:48:35,719 --> 00:48:39,440
Speaker 1: as of a seven forty nine Central Standard time on

1026
00:48:39,600 --> 00:48:42,960
Speaker 1: Sunday night. That's where things stand now. I'm pretty sure

1027
00:48:42,960 --> 00:48:45,000
Speaker 1: we're going to talk about this Tuesday night. How about

1028
00:48:45,080 --> 00:48:47,880
Speaker 1: Jim Harball though, because this surprisingly I thought I was

1029
00:48:47,920 --> 00:48:49,520
Speaker 1: going to be talking about I thought I was going

1030
00:48:49,560 --> 00:48:50,840
Speaker 1: to be talking about Tom Herman a lot more than

1031
00:48:50,920 --> 00:48:53,280
Speaker 1: Jim Harball this weekend. But yet there was some reports.

1032
00:48:53,320 --> 00:48:56,319
Speaker 1: There were some rumors floating around over the course of

1033
00:48:56,360 --> 00:48:59,000
Speaker 1: the weekend and then the past twenty four hours. One

1034
00:48:59,040 --> 00:49:01,800
Speaker 1: of them was, well, Jim Harbaugh is close to signing

1035
00:49:01,880 --> 00:49:04,960
Speaker 1: an extension with Michigan. How about that? And then there

1036
00:49:05,000 --> 00:49:08,279
Speaker 1: was another one. Jim Harbaugh is seriously considering going back

1037
00:49:08,320 --> 00:49:12,000
Speaker 1: to the NFL. How about that? And so what do

1038
00:49:12,040 --> 00:49:15,719
Speaker 1: we make of this? Well, I talked to the same

1039
00:49:15,760 --> 00:49:17,840
Speaker 1: people that I have gone to and listened to the

1040
00:49:17,840 --> 00:49:20,040
Speaker 1: same people that I have learned to listen to on

1041
00:49:20,120 --> 00:49:23,319
Speaker 1: this The message is the same. The message is the same.

1042
00:49:23,400 --> 00:49:26,719
Speaker 1: The first part is Guy's not getting fired. Want to

1043
00:49:26,719 --> 00:49:29,200
Speaker 1: put that out there and make that crystal clear. Unlike

1044
00:49:29,239 --> 00:49:33,200
Speaker 1: Tom Herman, where there are conditions on the firing, doesn't

1045
00:49:33,239 --> 00:49:35,200
Speaker 1: look to be the case with Jim Harbaugh. So you

1046
00:49:35,280 --> 00:49:38,239
Speaker 1: got a couple of other options. Because as I told you,

1047
00:49:38,280 --> 00:49:40,520
Speaker 1: as much as I said, Michigan's not making a move

1048
00:49:40,560 --> 00:49:42,760
Speaker 1: to fire him. I did tell you last week Michigan's

1049
00:49:42,760 --> 00:49:44,440
Speaker 1: got to make a move. But the move they had

1050
00:49:44,640 --> 00:49:47,360
Speaker 1: they have to make is to the nearest microphone to

1051
00:49:47,840 --> 00:49:50,080
Speaker 1: make sure that people know where he stands. Because next

1052
00:49:50,160 --> 00:49:52,200
Speaker 1: year is the last year of his contract. And there

1053
00:49:52,200 --> 00:49:54,640
Speaker 1: are a few truths in an uncertain world, but one

1054
00:49:54,640 --> 00:49:57,040
Speaker 1: of them is that guy's not entering the last year

1055
00:49:57,040 --> 00:49:59,480
Speaker 1: of his deal. With everything up in the air, publicly

1056
00:49:59,719 --> 00:50:02,600
Speaker 1: will know something one way or the other. Well, maybe

1057
00:50:02,640 --> 00:50:05,560
Speaker 1: those wheels are in motion. Now. It's a very tenuous

1058
00:50:05,600 --> 00:50:08,480
Speaker 1: situation at Michigan right now. You've got some former players

1059
00:50:08,640 --> 00:50:11,080
Speaker 1: that are pretty organized behind the scenes. They don't like

1060
00:50:11,120 --> 00:50:13,319
Speaker 1: the direction of the program. They want them to make

1061
00:50:13,360 --> 00:50:16,480
Speaker 1: a move. You've got other folks that understand the financial

1062
00:50:16,480 --> 00:50:20,000
Speaker 1: hardships and realities within the athletic department, which is a

1063
00:50:20,560 --> 00:50:22,320
Speaker 1: kind of a vestige and a branch of the overall

1064
00:50:22,440 --> 00:50:26,520
Speaker 1: university system there, And it's not good financially. It's not good,

1065
00:50:26,840 --> 00:50:29,720
Speaker 1: no different than really a lot of other places. And thirdly,

1066
00:50:29,920 --> 00:50:33,920
Speaker 1: this is Michigan. Culture's different here. They pride themselves on

1067
00:50:34,080 --> 00:50:38,520
Speaker 1: not being quite as foam mouthed and rabbit as folks elsewhere.

1068
00:50:38,520 --> 00:50:40,200
Speaker 1: Football is not the end all be all here, And

1069
00:50:40,200 --> 00:50:42,239
Speaker 1: we're certainly not firing this guy in a pandemic, and

1070
00:50:42,280 --> 00:50:45,200
Speaker 1: we double certainly aren't firing him when we have all

1071
00:50:45,200 --> 00:50:48,239
Speaker 1: this other financial mess around us. So there are very

1072
00:50:48,320 --> 00:50:50,359
Speaker 1: schools of thought. There's what I'm telling you. So if

1073
00:50:50,400 --> 00:50:52,719
Speaker 1: he doesn't walk away to go to the NFL, and

1074
00:50:52,760 --> 00:50:54,279
Speaker 1: I don't know that there are any offers even on

1075
00:50:54,320 --> 00:50:58,120
Speaker 1: the table, he certainly has categorically denied those rumors. If

1076
00:50:58,160 --> 00:51:00,840
Speaker 1: that's not going to happen, I think he's going to

1077
00:51:00,840 --> 00:51:04,279
Speaker 1: get extended, and I don't necessarily know if it's going

1078
00:51:04,320 --> 00:51:07,120
Speaker 1: to include this huge fat buyout, So it may be

1079
00:51:07,760 --> 00:51:11,600
Speaker 1: window dressing more so than anything else. But I know

1080
00:51:11,719 --> 00:51:13,520
Speaker 1: a lot of you and other portions of the country

1081
00:51:13,520 --> 00:51:16,000
Speaker 1: are looking at this situation and you're saying, oh, man,

1082
00:51:16,040 --> 00:51:18,400
Speaker 1: my university would never do this, Then never put up

1083
00:51:18,400 --> 00:51:21,920
Speaker 1: with this. You're right. Your university is not Michigan. Michigan

1084
00:51:21,960 --> 00:51:24,759
Speaker 1: handles things a little bit differently there. So if I've

1085
00:51:24,760 --> 00:51:26,680
Speaker 1: had to put my money on something, I put my

1086
00:51:26,719 --> 00:51:29,319
Speaker 1: money on Jim Harbaugh being at Michigan next year, and

1087
00:51:29,400 --> 00:51:32,400
Speaker 1: I think that he will have signed a contract extension.

1088
00:51:32,680 --> 00:51:34,520
Speaker 1: I'm not going to bet on it, but if I

1089
00:51:34,560 --> 00:51:37,879
Speaker 1: had to, that's where I land right now. Now, that

1090
00:51:38,239 --> 00:51:41,360
Speaker 1: is all rumor and speculation in the window whatever you

1091
00:51:41,360 --> 00:51:44,719
Speaker 1: want to call it. In Columbia, South Carolina, they've made

1092
00:51:44,760 --> 00:51:47,120
Speaker 1: it official. Shane Beemer is going to be the new

1093
00:51:47,160 --> 00:51:49,680
Speaker 1: head coach of the South Carolina Game Cox who is

1094
00:51:49,719 --> 00:51:52,439
Speaker 1: he well short order right now. He's the tight ends

1095
00:51:52,440 --> 00:51:55,840
Speaker 1: coach out at Oklahoma. He's forty three years old. You

1096
00:51:55,880 --> 00:51:58,319
Speaker 1: could you got a lot of detractors out there who

1097
00:51:58,520 --> 00:52:00,839
Speaker 1: will be really quick to tell you got no head

1098
00:52:00,880 --> 00:52:04,680
Speaker 1: coaching experience, no coordinator experience. That's one way to look

1099
00:52:04,719 --> 00:52:06,719
Speaker 1: at it. Okay, those things are true. I don't know

1100
00:52:06,760 --> 00:52:10,520
Speaker 1: about the connotation, but those things are true. The other side,

1101
00:52:10,600 --> 00:52:13,000
Speaker 1: the optimist would tell you, well, he's a rising star

1102
00:52:13,040 --> 00:52:16,520
Speaker 1: in the business. He knows Southern recruiting. He certainly knows

1103
00:52:16,640 --> 00:52:19,000
Speaker 1: the state of South Carolina and the South Carolina program,

1104
00:52:19,320 --> 00:52:22,239
Speaker 1: and he loves this program. So they're going to sell

1105
00:52:22,280 --> 00:52:26,080
Speaker 1: you on it being a culture fit. He was introduced today,

1106
00:52:26,680 --> 00:52:28,919
Speaker 1: met with a lot of the staff. I saw where

1107
00:52:28,960 --> 00:52:31,680
Speaker 1: he was over there, even late into this evening. May

1108
00:52:31,680 --> 00:52:33,440
Speaker 1: have been gone by now, but late endo this evening

1109
00:52:33,480 --> 00:52:36,720
Speaker 1: kind of meeting with the team, meeting with staff. Probably

1110
00:52:36,719 --> 00:52:38,759
Speaker 1: won't keep most of them. Maybe he'll keep some of them.

1111
00:52:38,760 --> 00:52:42,080
Speaker 1: I don't know. But here's an important point. I was

1112
00:52:42,120 --> 00:52:43,880
Speaker 1: looking at John Whittell, I was looking at Sherbert and

1113
00:52:43,880 --> 00:52:46,480
Speaker 1: the guys over there on the big spur reporting that

1114
00:52:46,560 --> 00:52:48,719
Speaker 1: he's going to finish the season with Oklahoma. Now, I

1115
00:52:48,719 --> 00:52:51,719
Speaker 1: gotta be honest with you, five years from now, if

1116
00:52:51,719 --> 00:52:54,200
Speaker 1: this works out, you won't even remember that. Like Kirby

1117
00:52:54,280 --> 00:52:57,920
Speaker 1: did this with Alabama and Georgia. He stuck it out

1118
00:52:57,960 --> 00:52:59,720
Speaker 1: with Alabama. They were in the midst of a national

1119
00:52:59,760 --> 00:53:02,439
Speaker 1: tie run and Georgia folks didn't like it at the time.

1120
00:53:02,600 --> 00:53:04,279
Speaker 1: No one even talks about it now because I mean,

1121
00:53:04,280 --> 00:53:07,120
Speaker 1: it's it just he was able to stack recruiting classes

1122
00:53:07,120 --> 00:53:08,960
Speaker 1: on top of each other. George has been a monster.

1123
00:53:09,160 --> 00:53:11,680
Speaker 1: Like they don't care about it now. So if if

1124
00:53:11,760 --> 00:53:13,680
Speaker 1: Beemer is able to have success at Caroline, no one

1125
00:53:13,719 --> 00:53:16,560
Speaker 1: will care about it. However, we aren't five years down

1126
00:53:16,600 --> 00:53:19,560
Speaker 1: the road. We're right here in late twenty twenty. And

1127
00:53:20,080 --> 00:53:23,480
Speaker 1: I understand some frustration from some game Cog fans about this,

1128
00:53:23,520 --> 00:53:26,760
Speaker 1: because you're gonna sell me on how much you adore

1129
00:53:26,760 --> 00:53:28,840
Speaker 1: this program and how ready you are to get to work.

1130
00:53:29,280 --> 00:53:33,400
Speaker 1: I'll believe you show me and tell them thanks. But

1131
00:53:33,440 --> 00:53:36,399
Speaker 1: I got to go. You know, I appreciate it and

1132
00:53:36,760 --> 00:53:39,160
Speaker 1: the perfect world. I'd love to stay here, but I

1133
00:53:39,160 --> 00:53:41,120
Speaker 1: got business to take care of. I mean, I got

1134
00:53:41,120 --> 00:53:43,279
Speaker 1: a roster. I got to re recruit my roster over there.

1135
00:53:43,480 --> 00:53:45,719
Speaker 1: I got to figure out who's staying, who's going. We

1136
00:53:45,760 --> 00:53:48,880
Speaker 1: got eleven days and change until early signing day. We

1137
00:53:48,960 --> 00:53:51,600
Speaker 1: got to see what we can do about next year,

1138
00:53:51,920 --> 00:53:53,480
Speaker 1: not three or four years from now. We want to

1139
00:53:53,520 --> 00:53:55,879
Speaker 1: see what we can be next year. I would love

1140
00:53:55,880 --> 00:53:58,440
Speaker 1: for him to be starting tomorrow. Doesn't look like that's

1141
00:53:58,480 --> 00:53:59,799
Speaker 1: going to be the case. Now. I understand you can

1142
00:53:59,840 --> 00:54:01,319
Speaker 1: do a lot of this stuff virtually, so he can

1143
00:54:01,320 --> 00:54:04,120
Speaker 1: go back to Norman, he can split duties. I'm not

1144
00:54:04,200 --> 00:54:08,240
Speaker 1: ignorant enough to think otherwise. However, if you believe in symbolism,

1145
00:54:08,239 --> 00:54:09,560
Speaker 1: sure it would be nice to have him on the

1146
00:54:09,640 --> 00:54:13,239
Speaker 1: job now. As for Billy Napier, I was told his

1147
00:54:13,280 --> 00:54:17,560
Speaker 1: interview went really well. There were some complications which we

1148
00:54:17,600 --> 00:54:19,200
Speaker 1: don't need to get into here. There have been some

1149
00:54:19,280 --> 00:54:23,640
Speaker 1: complications behind the scenes that made his interview process kind

1150
00:54:23,640 --> 00:54:25,840
Speaker 1: of hard. Now, he had COVID and that's public, but

1151
00:54:25,880 --> 00:54:27,920
Speaker 1: there were some other hurdles that they had to overcome.

1152
00:54:28,360 --> 00:54:30,759
Speaker 1: His interview did not happen in person because of that.

1153
00:54:31,239 --> 00:54:33,160
Speaker 1: So that's what needs to be put out there. It's

1154
00:54:33,160 --> 00:54:35,759
Speaker 1: all that's really important because it's not football related. In

1155
00:54:35,800 --> 00:54:38,480
Speaker 1: other words, I think this needed to be a perfect

1156
00:54:38,560 --> 00:54:41,520
Speaker 1: fit kind of listening to some people close to him

1157
00:54:41,560 --> 00:54:44,960
Speaker 1: and listening to and reading between the lines. I don't

1158
00:54:44,960 --> 00:54:48,719
Speaker 1: think he's been dying to leave Louisiana. I don't think

1159
00:54:48,760 --> 00:54:51,319
Speaker 1: that South Carolina was dying to hire him. I think

1160
00:54:51,360 --> 00:54:53,840
Speaker 1: there was so much universal support behind the scenes for

1161
00:54:53,920 --> 00:54:56,160
Speaker 1: Shane Beemer that it was gonna have to be a

1162
00:54:56,160 --> 00:54:59,240
Speaker 1: grand slam on either side, and I just I don't

1163
00:54:59,239 --> 00:55:01,960
Speaker 1: get the scent that that's where it was, Especially on

1164
00:55:02,040 --> 00:55:04,040
Speaker 1: napier side. I don't get the sense that's where it was.

1165
00:55:04,320 --> 00:55:07,040
Speaker 1: So maybe it's a situation where you look back again

1166
00:55:07,040 --> 00:55:09,040
Speaker 1: five years down the road and both parties are better

1167
00:55:09,080 --> 00:55:11,160
Speaker 1: off for it. I don't know, but I do know.

1168
00:55:11,040 --> 00:55:13,080
Speaker 1: You know, it wasn't any kind of disaster interview. Things

1169
00:55:13,080 --> 00:55:15,120
Speaker 1: went really well for him, just didn't work out for

1170
00:55:15,440 --> 00:55:17,960
Speaker 1: a couple of different reasons. It didn't work out. Let's

1171
00:55:18,000 --> 00:55:20,480
Speaker 1: go back to the things that I wanted Carolina to hit.

1172
00:55:20,520 --> 00:55:22,480
Speaker 1: So everyone asked me today, what do you think about

1173
00:55:22,480 --> 00:55:25,120
Speaker 1: this higher So I told you when they fired Muscham

1174
00:55:25,280 --> 00:55:27,720
Speaker 1: Here's what I'm looking for when they hire a coach,

1175
00:55:28,440 --> 00:55:31,279
Speaker 1: whether it's the head coach or whether it's the philosophy

1176
00:55:31,320 --> 00:55:34,080
Speaker 1: he installs, it just needs to be radically different offensively

1177
00:55:34,280 --> 00:55:38,520
Speaker 1: than what they've been doing, based on words coming out

1178
00:55:38,560 --> 00:55:40,960
Speaker 1: of people's mouths, based on what they're going to draw

1179
00:55:40,960 --> 00:55:44,399
Speaker 1: on paper, I think we can check that box. They're

1180
00:55:44,400 --> 00:55:46,480
Speaker 1: gonna try. So they're committed to it. We'll see how

1181
00:55:46,520 --> 00:55:49,440
Speaker 1: it plays out on the field. I thought South Carolina

1182
00:55:49,520 --> 00:55:53,760
Speaker 1: needs a supreme evaluator of talent, maybe even more important

1183
00:55:53,760 --> 00:55:57,000
Speaker 1: than recruiting there. Although that's neck and Neck, I don't

1184
00:55:57,000 --> 00:55:59,400
Speaker 1: know about him as an evaluator. To be honest with you,

1185
00:55:59,760 --> 00:56:01,480
Speaker 1: I think I do know that we can check the

1186
00:56:01,520 --> 00:56:04,000
Speaker 1: box when it comes to recruiting, not only Beemer, but

1187
00:56:04,040 --> 00:56:06,680
Speaker 1: I think his staff there will be a premium placed

1188
00:56:06,719 --> 00:56:09,640
Speaker 1: on recruiting even over on field. To start, you got

1189
00:56:09,680 --> 00:56:11,319
Speaker 1: to build the roster before you can coach the roster.

1190
00:56:11,520 --> 00:56:13,719
Speaker 1: So I think we can check that box. I also

1191
00:56:13,760 --> 00:56:16,120
Speaker 1: told you, and a lot of you remember this, I

1192
00:56:16,160 --> 00:56:18,480
Speaker 1: wanted what I called the uh oh factor, which is

1193
00:56:18,719 --> 00:56:21,560
Speaker 1: when they hear who the hire is at Georgia or

1194
00:56:21,600 --> 00:56:25,600
Speaker 1: Florida or Tennessee, they go uh oh. And I don't

1195
00:56:25,640 --> 00:56:27,920
Speaker 1: think you accomplished that. Now, that's not the end all

1196
00:56:27,960 --> 00:56:30,040
Speaker 1: be all. Some of the greatest hires in the history

1197
00:56:30,040 --> 00:56:32,640
Speaker 1: of college football have been underappreciated at the time they

1198
00:56:32,640 --> 00:56:35,640
Speaker 1: were hired, and some of the most lauded hires have

1199
00:56:35,680 --> 00:56:38,640
Speaker 1: failed spectacularly. I mean, think about the conversation we're having

1200
00:56:38,719 --> 00:56:41,440
Speaker 1: with Jim harbaughn Michigan right now. You need go no

1201
00:56:41,560 --> 00:56:45,319
Speaker 1: further than that for evidence. But I did think you

1202
00:56:45,360 --> 00:56:47,480
Speaker 1: needed to accomplish that, and they didn't accomplish it. So

1203
00:56:47,520 --> 00:56:49,640
Speaker 1: what did we check? We checked one to three of

1204
00:56:49,680 --> 00:56:52,319
Speaker 1: those boxes, and the third one is the last one.

1205
00:56:52,320 --> 00:56:55,000
Speaker 1: And I think we checked this several times over. I

1206
00:56:55,040 --> 00:56:57,879
Speaker 1: told you I wanted someone there who does indeed view

1207
00:56:57,920 --> 00:57:00,360
Speaker 1: it as a destination job, or as you call it,

1208
00:57:00,400 --> 00:57:03,840
Speaker 1: a dream job. Now there's no question amongst anyone associated

1209
00:57:03,880 --> 00:57:06,799
Speaker 1: with this search, Shane Beemer certainly views this as his

1210
00:57:06,880 --> 00:57:11,840
Speaker 1: dream job and a destination job. So I was listening

1211
00:57:11,880 --> 00:57:14,120
Speaker 1: today to a lot of feedback. I normally like to

1212
00:57:14,160 --> 00:57:15,960
Speaker 1: shut up when a coaching hire is made. You can't

1213
00:57:15,960 --> 00:57:17,720
Speaker 1: tell that from watching this, I know, but I normally

1214
00:57:17,760 --> 00:57:19,440
Speaker 1: love to shut up when a coaching hires made. I

1215
00:57:19,480 --> 00:57:21,640
Speaker 1: just want to soak it in because there's always the

1216
00:57:21,680 --> 00:57:24,120
Speaker 1: reason to be optimistic. I know the reasons to be

1217
00:57:24,160 --> 00:57:28,480
Speaker 1: pessimistic here. I'm not blown away by the hire, but

1218
00:57:28,840 --> 00:57:31,120
Speaker 1: I also believe, like I told you, with Christopher Walkin

1219
00:57:31,200 --> 00:57:34,280
Speaker 1: and Wedding Crashers, when he's sitting there talking to whatever

1220
00:57:34,360 --> 00:57:36,880
Speaker 1: Rachel mcadam's character's name is, and he says, we have

1221
00:57:37,000 --> 00:57:39,280
Speaker 1: no way to know what the future holds. We just

1222
00:57:39,360 --> 00:57:42,360
Speaker 1: have to make the best decisions now with the information

1223
00:57:42,440 --> 00:57:45,320
Speaker 1: at hand. Carolina thinks they bade the best information. Well,

1224
00:57:45,360 --> 00:57:47,480
Speaker 1: they took the information at hand, and they think they

1225
00:57:47,520 --> 00:57:51,640
Speaker 1: made the best decision. He won this job, did Shane Beemer?

1226
00:57:51,800 --> 00:57:54,360
Speaker 1: Because he won the community. I don't think for a

1227
00:57:54,400 --> 00:57:58,040
Speaker 1: second that there weren't people behind the scenes, former players,

1228
00:57:58,320 --> 00:58:02,080
Speaker 1: administrators around that program vouching for him by the dozens

1229
00:58:02,080 --> 00:58:04,080
Speaker 1: and the hundreds. Don't think that didn't push this over

1230
00:58:04,120 --> 00:58:08,200
Speaker 1: the top, because it absolutely did so. Now South Carolina's sold,

1231
00:58:08,360 --> 00:58:10,760
Speaker 1: A lot of the fan base is sold. I'm in

1232
00:58:10,800 --> 00:58:13,200
Speaker 1: the remains to be seen camp. But hey, it'd be

1233
00:58:13,280 --> 00:58:15,200
Speaker 1: kind of hypocritical of me to bang on this hire

1234
00:58:15,240 --> 00:58:17,120
Speaker 1: too much because of what I told you at the

1235
00:58:17,120 --> 00:58:20,040
Speaker 1: outset of this hire. Sorry about that column, And what

1236
00:58:20,080 --> 00:58:22,400
Speaker 1: I told you was stop worrying about what anyone else

1237
00:58:22,440 --> 00:58:24,600
Speaker 1: thinks about your program. I mean, I could knock this

1238
00:58:24,600 --> 00:58:26,680
Speaker 1: thing all day, and yet on the other hand, I'd

1239
00:58:26,720 --> 00:58:29,120
Speaker 1: also tell you, don't listen to what I'm saying. Don't

1240
00:58:29,120 --> 00:58:30,800
Speaker 1: listen to what anyone else does. Do you love it

1241
00:58:30,800 --> 00:58:33,960
Speaker 1: because your program? Do you love the hire? If you do?

1242
00:58:34,320 --> 00:58:36,720
Speaker 1: Everything else is irrelevant. All right, let's wrap it up

1243
00:58:36,720 --> 00:58:39,800
Speaker 1: with Rominulu Express. Here we went five and four this weekend.

1244
00:58:40,120 --> 00:58:43,120
Speaker 1: We are fifty nine point seven percent against the number. Again,

1245
00:58:43,360 --> 00:58:46,920
Speaker 1: feel free to round up to sixty if you so choose. Boy,

1246
00:58:47,000 --> 00:58:49,400
Speaker 1: I got one we love. I put it out earlier today.

1247
00:58:49,520 --> 00:58:51,920
Speaker 1: I'm looking at it right hold on, I don't want

1248
00:58:51,960 --> 00:58:54,200
Speaker 1: to lie to you. Okay, I'm looking at it right now,

1249
00:58:54,640 --> 00:58:58,640
Speaker 1: and it has not moved. So right now the line

1250
00:58:58,720 --> 00:59:02,040
Speaker 1: is still what I released earlier today. Virginia is being

1251
00:59:02,120 --> 00:59:05,760
Speaker 1: given two and a half points against Virginia Tech. I

1252
00:59:05,800 --> 00:59:09,080
Speaker 1: don't normally give you score predictions because what we're looking

1253
00:59:09,120 --> 00:59:11,440
Speaker 1: for in our model, we're looking for a cover, probability,

1254
00:59:11,440 --> 00:59:14,680
Speaker 1: and a margin, and it does spit out score projections

1255
00:59:14,680 --> 00:59:16,840
Speaker 1: to us, but I don't think there's any skill in

1256
00:59:16,840 --> 00:59:22,880
Speaker 1: predicting score. However, just for just for full transparency, I

1257
00:59:22,960 --> 00:59:25,439
Speaker 1: will tell you our model has Virginia winning this game

1258
00:59:25,480 --> 00:59:27,960
Speaker 1: thirty six to twenty five. We have them winning the

1259
00:59:28,000 --> 00:59:29,960
Speaker 1: game by nine and they are a two and a

1260
00:59:30,000 --> 00:59:33,439
Speaker 1: half point dog. So if those of you who maybe

1261
00:59:33,560 --> 00:59:36,240
Speaker 1: see this later and the line is moved, if you

1262
00:59:36,240 --> 00:59:37,680
Speaker 1: feel like coming to me and saying, do you still

1263
00:59:37,720 --> 00:59:40,280
Speaker 1: like it at this number. That number. Yes, I like

1264
00:59:40,360 --> 00:59:41,800
Speaker 1: it at any number you're going to get it at.

1265
00:59:41,920 --> 00:59:44,600
Speaker 1: We're getting it at two and a half. For records purposes,

1266
00:59:44,600 --> 00:59:47,520
Speaker 1: We're getting it. I can also tell you I cannot,

1267
00:59:47,560 --> 00:59:50,040
Speaker 1: in strong enough terms encourage you follow me on Twitter

1268
00:59:50,280 --> 00:59:53,360
Speaker 1: at Late Kick Josh. We had four picks that I

1269
00:59:53,400 --> 00:59:55,760
Speaker 1: put out on Twitter last week after the Thursday show

1270
00:59:56,040 --> 00:59:59,160
Speaker 1: that weren't on the show or podcast that If you're

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Speaker 1: And I want to tell you this. We are probably

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Speaker 1: going to move on games this week a little bit early,

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Speaker 1: maybe even disproportionately early relative to a normal week. A

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Speaker 1: ton of reasons there that aren't important. The point is

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Speaker 1: make sure you follow me on Twitter at late Kick Josh.

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Speaker 1: All Right, we got to get out of here. For

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Speaker 1: director Colin. For producer on the podcast side of things, Jordan,

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Speaker 1: I'm Josh Pate. Have a great week. The games have

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Speaker 1: massive consequence at this point, looking forward to talking about it.

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Speaker 1: If anything breaks in the coaching world, you know where

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Speaker 1: to look. Subscribe to the twenty four to seven Sports

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Speaker 1: YouTube channel. While you're here, find the Late Kick podcast.

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Speaker 1: Subscribe there and leave a five star review. That is

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Speaker 1: enough of me begging for tonight. Thanks for watching, Thanks

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Speaker 1: for listening. Have a great week.