1 00:00:11,240 --> 00:00:14,200 Speaker 1: I am back from the combine. Some people do not 2 00:00:14,440 --> 00:00:16,880 Speaker 1: know how good and how easy they have it. They 3 00:00:17,040 --> 00:00:19,000 Speaker 1: they're supporting all of ours. Late kick is live at 4 00:00:19,000 --> 00:00:22,080 Speaker 1: a Sunday night, March fifth, The of Our Lord, twenty 5 00:00:22,160 --> 00:00:27,440 Speaker 1: twenty three, jam packed I atop a sunburn downtown Nashville, Tennessee. 6 00:00:27,960 --> 00:00:29,840 Speaker 1: It's a crime against humanity. We had to be in 7 00:00:29,880 --> 00:00:32,840 Speaker 1: the office today because it was glorious outside. They're telling 8 00:00:32,880 --> 00:00:35,879 Speaker 1: you the NFL Draft is hard right now. I am 9 00:00:35,920 --> 00:00:39,440 Speaker 1: going to suggest to you tonight it's not anywhere close 10 00:00:39,479 --> 00:00:43,120 Speaker 1: to being as hard. Immunity as college football recruiting is 11 00:00:43,440 --> 00:00:45,240 Speaker 1: what am I talking about. You won't have to wait long. 12 00:00:45,280 --> 00:00:47,920 Speaker 1: We'll talk about that in a second. The SEC schedule 13 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:50,640 Speaker 1: is about to be released and it's got some people 14 00:00:50,720 --> 00:00:54,240 Speaker 1: up in arms. One of the good friends of the program, 15 00:00:54,400 --> 00:00:57,320 Speaker 1: the head coach at Alabama is one of them. I've 16 00:00:57,320 --> 00:01:00,480 Speaker 1: got some thoughts on it. There are some conference realignment roundings. 17 00:01:00,480 --> 00:01:02,640 Speaker 1: Why because it's a day of the week that ends 18 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:05,960 Speaker 1: in Why. That's the thing about active volcanoes. They don't 19 00:01:05,959 --> 00:01:08,920 Speaker 1: shut up until they erupt. He show an idea for 20 00:01:08,959 --> 00:01:11,440 Speaker 1: the fall and also spring questions. Before we get to 21 00:01:11,480 --> 00:01:12,680 Speaker 1: the fall, we have to go through spring and we 22 00:01:12,680 --> 00:01:14,800 Speaker 1: will get to all that tonight Late in Alabama is 23 00:01:14,800 --> 00:01:19,640 Speaker 1: tuned in Alexandria, Virginia, Honolulu, Hawaii, and Piki Yun, Mississippi. 24 00:01:20,959 --> 00:01:23,399 Speaker 1: I left Nashville for three days to go to the 25 00:01:23,400 --> 00:01:27,240 Speaker 1: Combine and some stuff happened here while I was gone 26 00:01:27,240 --> 00:01:29,200 Speaker 1: that I'm not a fan of, but I'm not going 27 00:01:29,280 --> 00:01:31,240 Speaker 1: to lead the show with it. So if you want 28 00:01:31,280 --> 00:01:35,039 Speaker 1: to delve into my personal life and the mission, nay, 29 00:01:35,319 --> 00:01:38,160 Speaker 1: the crusade that I will be on this week at 30 00:01:38,160 --> 00:01:40,720 Speaker 1: the expense of my coworkers, who I thought were my friends, 31 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:44,440 Speaker 1: just stick around. We'll talk about it a little bit later. 32 00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:46,959 Speaker 1: Let's dive into this thing though. So I was in 33 00:01:46,959 --> 00:01:50,720 Speaker 1: Indianapolis all week. I don't normally cover NFL, but I did, 34 00:01:50,920 --> 00:01:52,800 Speaker 1: and we did it from a college slant. So I 35 00:01:52,840 --> 00:01:55,240 Speaker 1: was in Indianapolis to cover the Combine over the past 36 00:01:55,240 --> 00:01:56,680 Speaker 1: few days and I heard a lot of folks talking 37 00:01:56,680 --> 00:01:59,280 Speaker 1: about the NFL Draft, as we do every year. You 38 00:01:59,320 --> 00:02:01,800 Speaker 1: hear about the draft and how, oh what are the 39 00:02:01,840 --> 00:02:04,920 Speaker 1: old go tos. It's an inexact science. It's a crap shoot. 40 00:02:05,000 --> 00:02:09,160 Speaker 1: It's all about fit, which is true, but the draft 41 00:02:09,240 --> 00:02:13,000 Speaker 1: is not nearly the crap shoot that high school recruiting 42 00:02:13,040 --> 00:02:16,639 Speaker 1: and evaluation is. And so I'm up there and I'm 43 00:02:16,639 --> 00:02:18,360 Speaker 1: listening to a lot of these folks who cover the 44 00:02:18,360 --> 00:02:21,040 Speaker 1: pro game and talking to general managers. Yeah, that actually 45 00:02:21,040 --> 00:02:23,720 Speaker 1: happened this week, talk to a lot of front office personnel. Actually, 46 00:02:24,120 --> 00:02:26,800 Speaker 1: you know, lay kick is a lot more popular in 47 00:02:26,880 --> 00:02:30,280 Speaker 1: NFL circles than I ever imagined. And so thank you 48 00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:33,640 Speaker 1: guys for checking out the show. Anyway. Now let me 49 00:02:33,639 --> 00:02:35,840 Speaker 1: throw you under the bus. So I had a lot 50 00:02:35,840 --> 00:02:38,480 Speaker 1: of NFL types telling me this week how hard it 51 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:42,040 Speaker 1: is to scout players and how hard the NFL draft 52 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:44,840 Speaker 1: process is, and how inexact the science it is. And 53 00:02:44,880 --> 00:02:47,680 Speaker 1: I'm like, you get three to four or in some 54 00:02:47,720 --> 00:02:50,560 Speaker 1: cases five years of film on these guys, right, college film, 55 00:02:50,639 --> 00:02:52,600 Speaker 1: by the way. Yeah, yeah, we get that. You got 56 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:56,320 Speaker 1: full medical on them. Yeah, you get to individually and 57 00:02:56,400 --> 00:02:59,480 Speaker 1: privately interview any of them that you want for as 58 00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:01,920 Speaker 1: long as you want. Yeah, Yeah, we get that. You've 59 00:03:01,919 --> 00:03:07,760 Speaker 1: got full verified times in numbers, heights and weights, hand wingspan, etc. 60 00:03:08,080 --> 00:03:10,040 Speaker 1: You got all that on them. Yeah, we got that. 61 00:03:11,080 --> 00:03:13,919 Speaker 1: What's hard about it? And then I started to think 62 00:03:13,919 --> 00:03:17,160 Speaker 1: to myself, wait a second, there're gonna be busts in 63 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:20,400 Speaker 1: the draft like Anthony Richardson. Right now is the talk 64 00:03:20,680 --> 00:03:24,240 Speaker 1: of the NFL Draft and NFL Combine, And it's a 65 00:03:24,320 --> 00:03:27,440 Speaker 1: classic case of people who pretended to watch college football 66 00:03:27,440 --> 00:03:30,200 Speaker 1: this year but really didn't. So they're surprised at the 67 00:03:30,200 --> 00:03:32,920 Speaker 1: thing that approximately one hundred percent of us already knew, 68 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:36,640 Speaker 1: and that is, Anthony Richardson is an alien. We knew 69 00:03:36,680 --> 00:03:40,080 Speaker 1: that everybody knew that. You think you're watching something for 70 00:03:40,120 --> 00:03:42,800 Speaker 1: the first time. During the combine, you're watching him do 71 00:03:42,840 --> 00:03:45,080 Speaker 1: his backflips and throw the ball half a mile and 72 00:03:45,160 --> 00:03:48,240 Speaker 1: run faster than someone that size should really be able 73 00:03:48,280 --> 00:03:51,320 Speaker 1: to run. And I'm like, welcome to our summer of 74 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:54,680 Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. Welcome to fall camp in Gainesville twenty 75 00:03:54,680 --> 00:03:57,560 Speaker 1: twenty two. There's a reason why a lot of people 76 00:03:57,600 --> 00:03:59,960 Speaker 1: started to pick up on Florida Billy Napier year one. 77 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:02,840 Speaker 1: Could they be a dark horse? That guy's an alien. 78 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:05,920 Speaker 1: Now you're hearing them Cam Newton comparisons. He's not Cam Newton. 79 00:04:06,680 --> 00:04:10,480 Speaker 1: He's height, I got you there, weight, I got you there. 80 00:04:10,760 --> 00:04:13,640 Speaker 1: He's not Cam Newton. Cam Newton's a much better quarterback 81 00:04:13,640 --> 00:04:15,720 Speaker 1: coming out of college. And then Anthony Richardson is. But 82 00:04:15,760 --> 00:04:18,840 Speaker 1: my point there is not to break down the future prospects, 83 00:04:18,839 --> 00:04:21,160 Speaker 1: because once you leave college, we don't talk about you 84 00:04:21,160 --> 00:04:23,400 Speaker 1: too much on this show anymore. You come back to 85 00:04:23,400 --> 00:04:25,320 Speaker 1: pet State anytime you want to for homecoming, but we 86 00:04:25,320 --> 00:04:27,039 Speaker 1: don't really talk about you much anymore. But what I 87 00:04:27,080 --> 00:04:30,320 Speaker 1: want to say is a lot of people are getting 88 00:04:30,320 --> 00:04:33,240 Speaker 1: worked up now and talking about drafting this kit God 89 00:04:33,240 --> 00:04:34,960 Speaker 1: bless him, talking about drafting this kid in the top 90 00:04:35,000 --> 00:04:37,320 Speaker 1: ten in the NFL draft. And that's your game. You 91 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:41,359 Speaker 1: do you. But I'm a little surprised by that, and 92 00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:43,920 Speaker 1: I'm surprised by it because this is nothing we haven't 93 00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:47,320 Speaker 1: already talked about. You're watching the combine right now and 94 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:49,400 Speaker 1: you're seeing him go crazy. And then if he gets 95 00:04:49,480 --> 00:04:51,840 Speaker 1: drafted as high as he is projected to get drafted, 96 00:04:51,839 --> 00:04:55,039 Speaker 1: he'll be expected to start immediately, and he'll underachieve, and 97 00:04:55,120 --> 00:04:57,799 Speaker 1: he'll be label to bust because he's putting an untenable 98 00:04:57,839 --> 00:05:01,520 Speaker 1: situation well before he should be. And that's the word 99 00:05:01,560 --> 00:05:05,800 Speaker 1: I want to focus on tonight. Bust. Bust? How do 100 00:05:05,839 --> 00:05:08,240 Speaker 1: we how do we discern that? How do we determine 101 00:05:08,279 --> 00:05:10,640 Speaker 1: who's a bust and who's not. Here's the way it works. 102 00:05:11,720 --> 00:05:14,760 Speaker 1: The people who hold these in their hand it's a pen. 103 00:05:15,240 --> 00:05:18,080 Speaker 1: The people who hold these in their hand it is 104 00:05:18,120 --> 00:05:21,320 Speaker 1: a computer. They get to shape that old narrative. It's 105 00:05:21,360 --> 00:05:23,120 Speaker 1: not a word I like using a lot, but it 106 00:05:23,160 --> 00:05:24,919 Speaker 1: is what it is. They like to shape that old narrative. 107 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:27,040 Speaker 1: And they get to they are quite literally the ones, 108 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:30,200 Speaker 1: including myself, although I don't traffic in this particular thing. 109 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:32,279 Speaker 1: They get to shape the narrative and they get to 110 00:05:32,320 --> 00:05:34,760 Speaker 1: determine who's a bus. Now here's what you'll never hear 111 00:05:34,880 --> 00:05:38,920 Speaker 1: said in the future. If Anthony Richardson were to fail 112 00:05:39,000 --> 00:05:41,960 Speaker 1: in the NFL and he got hyped up and he 113 00:05:42,000 --> 00:05:44,039 Speaker 1: got put in on top five of all the moont drafts, 114 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:46,960 Speaker 1: and he gets taken top five, you would not hear 115 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:49,880 Speaker 1: many people say I was an idiot for putting him 116 00:05:49,880 --> 00:05:51,840 Speaker 1: in the top five. You would hear people call him 117 00:05:51,839 --> 00:05:56,000 Speaker 1: a bust. So it wasn't the people who overly inflated something. 118 00:05:56,200 --> 00:05:59,159 Speaker 1: Even though we've already got case study. Okay, what's happening 119 00:05:59,160 --> 00:06:03,000 Speaker 1: in the combine? Now? Now, we saw all spring, all summer, 120 00:06:03,080 --> 00:06:05,240 Speaker 1: all fall last year, you know as well as I do, 121 00:06:05,320 --> 00:06:08,320 Speaker 1: especially Florida fans, but even regionally and nationally a lot 122 00:06:08,320 --> 00:06:10,719 Speaker 1: of diehard college football fans. You heard folks talk about 123 00:06:10,760 --> 00:06:14,000 Speaker 1: Anthony Richardson. I talked about him. I remember just being 124 00:06:14,640 --> 00:06:19,120 Speaker 1: totally enamored with the physical skill set, total alien skill set, 125 00:06:19,320 --> 00:06:21,920 Speaker 1: just the physical traits off the charts. And then he 126 00:06:22,000 --> 00:06:24,440 Speaker 1: had what he had seven games under two hundred passing 127 00:06:24,520 --> 00:06:27,839 Speaker 1: yards this year, had nine games under a sixty percent 128 00:06:27,880 --> 00:06:30,760 Speaker 1: completion percentage. You could argue that Napier came in and 129 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:32,720 Speaker 1: didn't put him in the best situation to succeed. You 130 00:06:32,760 --> 00:06:35,440 Speaker 1: could argue you didn't have the weapons around him. I'm 131 00:06:35,480 --> 00:06:37,279 Speaker 1: telling you, if you drafted a guy top five, he 132 00:06:37,360 --> 00:06:39,400 Speaker 1: transcends some of that. That's what I'm telling you, or 133 00:06:39,440 --> 00:06:42,800 Speaker 1: at least he should. And it's not Anthony Richardson's fault. 134 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:44,440 Speaker 1: If you draft him too high, or if you mock 135 00:06:44,520 --> 00:06:46,599 Speaker 1: him too high, that's on you. He's not a bust. 136 00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:49,719 Speaker 1: Your projection was the bust. So anyway, that words what 137 00:06:49,720 --> 00:06:52,479 Speaker 1: I wanted to circle back to, bust. We hear it 138 00:06:52,480 --> 00:06:53,560 Speaker 1: in the draft all the time. We hear it in 139 00:06:53,600 --> 00:06:57,200 Speaker 1: college football recruiting all the time. What do we hear 140 00:06:57,520 --> 00:07:01,680 Speaker 1: every time National signing Day rolls around and you look 141 00:07:01,760 --> 00:07:05,240 Speaker 1: back at years past, or the National Championship Game comes 142 00:07:05,320 --> 00:07:07,840 Speaker 1: or NFL Draft day comes, and you're looking at how 143 00:07:07,839 --> 00:07:11,000 Speaker 1: many stars a guy used to have. Some folks have 144 00:07:11,080 --> 00:07:14,240 Speaker 1: the audacity to call anyone who makes it in the 145 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:16,320 Speaker 1: NFL when they were a three star back in the day, 146 00:07:16,360 --> 00:07:18,480 Speaker 1: or anyone who gets drafted first round when they were 147 00:07:18,520 --> 00:07:20,760 Speaker 1: a three or two star back in the day. They 148 00:07:20,760 --> 00:07:24,200 Speaker 1: call the recruiting ranking a bust. It's like the inverse 149 00:07:24,240 --> 00:07:26,480 Speaker 1: of a five star not panning out. You got the 150 00:07:26,480 --> 00:07:30,280 Speaker 1: two star who goes on to flourish in his college 151 00:07:30,320 --> 00:07:32,240 Speaker 1: life and goes off to the NFL. That was a 152 00:07:32,320 --> 00:07:35,320 Speaker 1: bust on the recruiting industry side. Now sometimes that's true, 153 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:40,440 Speaker 1: I would argue more often than not, it's not true. 154 00:07:40,680 --> 00:07:43,880 Speaker 1: So the reason I'm talking is kind of tongue in cheek, 155 00:07:44,200 --> 00:07:45,880 Speaker 1: but some of its serious. The reason I'm talking about 156 00:07:45,880 --> 00:07:49,000 Speaker 1: the NFL process is you get the three, four, or 157 00:07:49,000 --> 00:07:53,040 Speaker 1: in some cases five years of advanced film, college film 158 00:07:53,080 --> 00:07:55,720 Speaker 1: where the competition levels fairly high. You get that. If 159 00:07:55,760 --> 00:07:57,520 Speaker 1: you're trying to scout guys for the NFL draft, you 160 00:07:57,600 --> 00:08:00,800 Speaker 1: get full medical, you get interview process, get verified numbers 161 00:08:00,800 --> 00:08:03,840 Speaker 1: on guys. You don't get all that and You also 162 00:08:03,880 --> 00:08:05,680 Speaker 1: don't get that coming out of high school to go 163 00:08:05,760 --> 00:08:09,480 Speaker 1: along with advanced physical and mental maturation. Do you know 164 00:08:09,520 --> 00:08:11,960 Speaker 1: what happens to guys when they get in college. A 165 00:08:12,000 --> 00:08:15,320 Speaker 1: lot of stuff happens physically and mentally that hasn't happened 166 00:08:15,360 --> 00:08:16,880 Speaker 1: in a lot of cases coming out of high school. 167 00:08:17,160 --> 00:08:19,840 Speaker 1: Keon White, kid out of Georgia Tech, perfect example. We 168 00:08:19,880 --> 00:08:22,040 Speaker 1: sit down with him the other day, and he was 169 00:08:22,080 --> 00:08:23,920 Speaker 1: a two star coming out of high school. He was 170 00:08:23,960 --> 00:08:26,320 Speaker 1: a He was about a two hundred and twenty two 171 00:08:26,360 --> 00:08:29,160 Speaker 1: hundred and twenty five pound tight end. He's two star. 172 00:08:29,240 --> 00:08:33,080 Speaker 1: He goes to Old Dominion, he is being mocked in 173 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:35,559 Speaker 1: the first round of the draft as a two hundred 174 00:08:35,559 --> 00:08:38,800 Speaker 1: and eighty five pound edge rusher. You want to tell 175 00:08:38,880 --> 00:08:42,719 Speaker 1: me anyone out there will fong Singletary, Patagna Ivans, any 176 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:44,680 Speaker 1: of you guys. You want to tell me you got 177 00:08:44,679 --> 00:08:47,360 Speaker 1: a system in place that can project a guy putting 178 00:08:47,400 --> 00:08:50,680 Speaker 1: on sixty or seventy pounds and switching positions at the 179 00:08:50,679 --> 00:08:52,920 Speaker 1: college level. Of course you don't. There's no way to 180 00:08:52,960 --> 00:08:56,840 Speaker 1: project that that right. There is not an evaluation bust. 181 00:08:57,200 --> 00:09:01,280 Speaker 1: That's just biology getting the best of you. The evaluation 182 00:09:01,840 --> 00:09:05,400 Speaker 1: portion of the recruiting industry is way, way more inexact 183 00:09:05,480 --> 00:09:08,520 Speaker 1: even than the evaluation and scouting portion and projection portion 184 00:09:08,840 --> 00:09:12,280 Speaker 1: of the NFL draft, because man, at least in the 185 00:09:12,440 --> 00:09:14,960 Speaker 1: NFL side of things, you've got something tangible you can 186 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:17,280 Speaker 1: hold on to. Some of these guys are like trying 187 00:09:17,280 --> 00:09:19,280 Speaker 1: to nail jello to the wall. There's no way that 188 00:09:19,360 --> 00:09:22,319 Speaker 1: you can successfully evaluate and project a guy like that. 189 00:09:23,200 --> 00:09:26,920 Speaker 1: Factors beyond the evaluation process come into play. So I 190 00:09:26,960 --> 00:09:28,760 Speaker 1: know a lot of our recruiting guys. I tell them 191 00:09:28,800 --> 00:09:31,600 Speaker 1: all the time, you ought to go on the defensive more, 192 00:09:31,800 --> 00:09:34,720 Speaker 1: and they're nice about it, and they say, look, we're 193 00:09:34,720 --> 00:09:37,959 Speaker 1: in a front facing position and we're gonna get hated 194 00:09:38,000 --> 00:09:40,360 Speaker 1: on sometimes and that's okay. And I'm over here, like 195 00:09:40,440 --> 00:09:42,480 Speaker 1: I would pound my fist on the table every time 196 00:09:42,520 --> 00:09:44,920 Speaker 1: one of these fools went on a message board under 197 00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:48,440 Speaker 1: like NOL Fans seventy eight thirty three and criticize me 198 00:09:48,520 --> 00:09:50,960 Speaker 1: for something I couldn't possibly have known. If I just 199 00:09:51,000 --> 00:09:54,520 Speaker 1: whiff on an evaluation, that's one thing. But man, it 200 00:09:54,679 --> 00:09:57,280 Speaker 1: was never more evident than hanging out at the Combine 201 00:09:57,320 --> 00:09:59,559 Speaker 1: this past week that some of these guys made the 202 00:09:59,600 --> 00:10:02,800 Speaker 1: evol process coming out of high school impossible. Keon White's 203 00:10:02,840 --> 00:10:05,079 Speaker 1: one of them. He's not the only one, but hey, 204 00:10:05,160 --> 00:10:07,240 Speaker 1: I will tell you this. If you want to make 205 00:10:07,280 --> 00:10:11,040 Speaker 1: some money, present to me and then I will take 206 00:10:11,040 --> 00:10:15,440 Speaker 1: it to management. A system wherein you can project seventy 207 00:10:15,480 --> 00:10:19,079 Speaker 1: pound weight gains coming into college level. If you have that, 208 00:10:19,160 --> 00:10:21,000 Speaker 1: if you have the ability to do that, you can 209 00:10:21,040 --> 00:10:22,920 Speaker 1: make a lot of money. Because I know some people 210 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:25,240 Speaker 1: just down the hallway. Of course they're not here on 211 00:10:25,280 --> 00:10:28,040 Speaker 1: the weekend. We couldn't expect them to put in more 212 00:10:28,080 --> 00:10:30,120 Speaker 1: than more than forty hours a week. But I know 213 00:10:30,200 --> 00:10:32,640 Speaker 1: some people who would be interested in purchasing that from you, 214 00:10:33,640 --> 00:10:37,600 Speaker 1: all right, from draft to scheduling from the challice while 215 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:42,520 Speaker 1: we're at it. Very interesting tune that we played in 216 00:10:42,559 --> 00:10:45,800 Speaker 1: the studio tonight, A mood setter, if you will. I 217 00:10:45,800 --> 00:10:49,120 Speaker 1: think Bradley loves that I played the one I played tonight. 218 00:10:50,080 --> 00:10:53,360 Speaker 1: It's on the socials right now at Late Kick Josh, Instagram, Twitter, 219 00:10:53,559 --> 00:10:56,120 Speaker 1: you check it out and if you know that one 220 00:10:56,160 --> 00:10:57,600 Speaker 1: without having to look it up, If you know that 221 00:10:57,640 --> 00:11:01,040 Speaker 1: when I would be very very impressed. Good mood setter, 222 00:11:01,080 --> 00:11:06,560 Speaker 1: good tone setter. The SEC is changing their schedule. Not 223 00:11:06,720 --> 00:11:10,920 Speaker 1: everyone is pleased by it, but some people aren't pleased 224 00:11:10,960 --> 00:11:13,839 Speaker 1: and yet also in favor of it. So we've told 225 00:11:13,880 --> 00:11:16,040 Speaker 1: you that this has been a long time coming. The 226 00:11:16,120 --> 00:11:18,760 Speaker 1: SEC is adding OU in Texas, so of course they're 227 00:11:18,800 --> 00:11:21,839 Speaker 1: going to sixteen teams. They are going to it's all 228 00:11:21,920 --> 00:11:23,840 Speaker 1: but a certainty that they're going to add a ninth 229 00:11:23,880 --> 00:11:26,760 Speaker 1: conference game, which means they're going to go with a 230 00:11:26,800 --> 00:11:31,160 Speaker 1: three to six six format. And I'm pretty sure most 231 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:32,840 Speaker 1: of you understand what that means, but if you don't, 232 00:11:32,880 --> 00:11:36,199 Speaker 1: it's very simple. That means you have three the first number, 233 00:11:36,200 --> 00:11:39,280 Speaker 1: that means the teams you play every year, three fixed opponents. 234 00:11:39,320 --> 00:11:41,960 Speaker 1: That's the most important number to pay attention to. And 235 00:11:42,000 --> 00:11:45,400 Speaker 1: then the six and six just means the other teams 236 00:11:45,400 --> 00:11:47,240 Speaker 1: in the conference you play one year, and the teams 237 00:11:47,280 --> 00:11:49,200 Speaker 1: you don't play that year, you'll play them the next year. 238 00:11:49,440 --> 00:11:53,080 Speaker 1: That also means that you play every team in the 239 00:11:53,120 --> 00:11:55,600 Speaker 1: conference over a two year period, and you play in 240 00:11:55,720 --> 00:11:59,600 Speaker 1: every venue in the conference over any given four year period. 241 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:02,320 Speaker 1: It's a good thing for entertainment, right for you and I. 242 00:12:02,360 --> 00:12:05,520 Speaker 1: That's a good thing for coaches. Is it a good 243 00:12:05,559 --> 00:12:08,000 Speaker 1: thing for players? Is it a good thing? I would 244 00:12:08,120 --> 00:12:10,160 Speaker 1: argue also, what's good for us, is good for them. 245 00:12:10,480 --> 00:12:12,240 Speaker 1: This schedule is going to be a total knife fight 246 00:12:12,320 --> 00:12:14,079 Speaker 1: every year. I'm gonna come back to that in just 247 00:12:14,120 --> 00:12:17,079 Speaker 1: a second. But Ross Dellinger has been on top of this, 248 00:12:17,160 --> 00:12:20,560 Speaker 1: as he usually is. We probably need to work something 249 00:12:20,640 --> 00:12:24,040 Speaker 1: into our vernacular to describe when Ross drops his story. 250 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:27,200 Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw Ross bomb out there. If you don't 251 00:12:27,280 --> 00:12:28,640 Speaker 1: like it, you can throw it right back and we'll 252 00:12:28,679 --> 00:12:30,400 Speaker 1: come up with something else. But Ross has been on 253 00:12:30,440 --> 00:12:35,599 Speaker 1: top of this, and he reported the other day essentially 254 00:12:36,040 --> 00:12:38,920 Speaker 1: what the three fixed opponents will be. I know it 255 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:42,280 Speaker 1: was a projection from him. That guy's got a pretty 256 00:12:42,280 --> 00:12:45,199 Speaker 1: informed ability to project these things. Let me leave it 257 00:12:45,240 --> 00:12:49,640 Speaker 1: at that, LSU, Auburn, and Tennessee. Those were the three 258 00:12:49,640 --> 00:12:53,599 Speaker 1: fixed opponents that mister Dellinger said you can expect Alabama 259 00:12:53,640 --> 00:12:57,280 Speaker 1: to have. Nick Nick Saban apparently buys it, because not 260 00:12:57,320 --> 00:12:59,319 Speaker 1: only was Nick Saban quoted in the story, but Nick 261 00:12:59,320 --> 00:13:02,920 Speaker 1: Saban also came out and said, they've got us playing hoops. 262 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:06,360 Speaker 1: They got us playing Auburn, LSU, and Tennessee. How in 263 00:13:06,400 --> 00:13:08,760 Speaker 1: the world do they come to that? Now, you may 264 00:13:08,800 --> 00:13:11,760 Speaker 1: be thinking to yourself, Nick Saban sounds scared all of 265 00:13:11,760 --> 00:13:14,200 Speaker 1: a sudden. No, No, I've got some sound for you. 266 00:13:14,240 --> 00:13:16,360 Speaker 1: In a couple of minutes, I'm gonna play. I went 267 00:13:16,400 --> 00:13:18,880 Speaker 1: to the source, I went to Nick Saban and asked 268 00:13:18,920 --> 00:13:20,840 Speaker 1: him to his face, and we'll play that video in 269 00:13:20,880 --> 00:13:23,800 Speaker 1: a second. But the way the league is doing this 270 00:13:23,920 --> 00:13:26,600 Speaker 1: on the surface makes sense, so you can't knock the 271 00:13:26,640 --> 00:13:31,320 Speaker 1: process in theory. The league looked around like anyone would do. 272 00:13:31,360 --> 00:13:33,920 Speaker 1: If you were the commissioner and you had someone in 273 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:37,280 Speaker 1: charge of fixing a schedule, you would say, Okay, we can't. 274 00:13:37,640 --> 00:13:40,040 Speaker 1: We can't do like certain people do in ping pong 275 00:13:40,080 --> 00:13:43,040 Speaker 1: tournaments in this office and just randomly select teams, because 276 00:13:43,040 --> 00:13:45,360 Speaker 1: that is what fools do. So we can't do that. 277 00:13:45,880 --> 00:13:49,360 Speaker 1: So we have to we have to evenly distribute the 278 00:13:49,480 --> 00:13:53,400 Speaker 1: challenge of the three fixed opponents. So we can't have 279 00:13:53,480 --> 00:13:57,120 Speaker 1: someone playing Georgia and Alabama and Oklahoma every year. That 280 00:13:57,200 --> 00:14:00,360 Speaker 1: would be unfair, right, So they decided to go over 281 00:14:00,400 --> 00:14:04,400 Speaker 1: the past ten years and look at winning percentage, and 282 00:14:04,440 --> 00:14:06,520 Speaker 1: then you got teams in the top half of the league, 283 00:14:06,760 --> 00:14:09,880 Speaker 1: teams in the bottom half of the league. Sounds good, right, 284 00:14:10,240 --> 00:14:15,120 Speaker 1: carries a lot of weight. Here's the problem That model 285 00:14:15,400 --> 00:14:19,320 Speaker 1: thinks that Tennessee sucks. That model. Looks at Tennessee's winning 286 00:14:19,400 --> 00:14:22,640 Speaker 1: percentage over the past ten seasons, it's forty one point four. 287 00:14:22,840 --> 00:14:25,720 Speaker 1: Tennessee's not even a top ten team in the SEC, 288 00:14:25,960 --> 00:14:29,200 Speaker 1: which is woof gross. Tennessee's not even the top ten. 289 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:33,160 Speaker 1: Both of the Mississippi schools and Missouri are ahead of Tennessee. 290 00:14:33,640 --> 00:14:39,280 Speaker 1: So the SEC's nameless, faceless model is looking and saying, hey, 291 00:14:39,280 --> 00:14:42,360 Speaker 1: give Bama Tennessee. And Bama was always going to have 292 00:14:42,400 --> 00:14:44,320 Speaker 1: Tennessee because it's a big rival. But the point is 293 00:14:44,520 --> 00:14:47,560 Speaker 1: the model is saying, let's see, Bama's got Tennessee, so 294 00:14:47,600 --> 00:14:49,600 Speaker 1: it won't matter if they have to play LSU and 295 00:14:49,680 --> 00:14:52,520 Speaker 1: Auburn every year. It'll be fine. Everything's fine, And Nick 296 00:14:52,560 --> 00:14:55,120 Speaker 1: Saban is going it's not fine. Did you see us 297 00:14:55,200 --> 00:14:57,080 Speaker 1: go up there last year? It's not fine at all. 298 00:14:58,360 --> 00:15:01,000 Speaker 1: That is Nick Saban's beef. Now, I don't think a 299 00:15:01,040 --> 00:15:04,120 Speaker 1: lot of folks outside the SEC have followed this like 300 00:15:04,200 --> 00:15:07,120 Speaker 1: some of us that live down here have. I've followed 301 00:15:07,120 --> 00:15:09,720 Speaker 1: this thing for years because it's been a sticking point. 302 00:15:09,760 --> 00:15:11,880 Speaker 1: PAC twelve fans know this. You guys have looked at 303 00:15:11,920 --> 00:15:15,400 Speaker 1: the SEC for a long time and you said, how 304 00:15:15,480 --> 00:15:19,520 Speaker 1: in the world. Are you scheduling Katola Community College? How 305 00:15:20,200 --> 00:15:22,640 Speaker 1: is Auburn playing Roast Beef Tech on the second to 306 00:15:22,720 --> 00:15:25,280 Speaker 1: last week of the year. How do they have FCS 307 00:15:25,280 --> 00:15:28,960 Speaker 1: Creampuff City in November? You guys should be playing nine 308 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:32,680 Speaker 1: conference games, and some of us have advocated for that, 309 00:15:33,360 --> 00:15:37,040 Speaker 1: but I just talked into a microphone. I went to 310 00:15:37,200 --> 00:15:40,360 Speaker 1: the top dog in the conference back in July, and 311 00:15:40,440 --> 00:15:42,680 Speaker 1: I sat down in front of Nick Saban and I said, Hey, 312 00:15:42,880 --> 00:15:45,640 Speaker 1: a lot of folks love watching your team, but people 313 00:15:45,680 --> 00:15:48,680 Speaker 1: don't love watching you body bag some fcs no name. 314 00:15:49,120 --> 00:15:52,000 Speaker 1: And here's what Nick Saban had to say. I think 315 00:15:52,040 --> 00:15:55,440 Speaker 1: a lot of folks love watching Alabama football. People don't 316 00:15:55,480 --> 00:15:57,400 Speaker 1: get so stoked when they wake up on a Saturday 317 00:15:57,400 --> 00:16:00,280 Speaker 1: morning and Obama's favored by forty eight today. I heard 318 00:16:00,280 --> 00:16:03,240 Speaker 1: you talk a little bit lately about how you don't 319 00:16:03,280 --> 00:16:06,640 Speaker 1: prefer that either. You want games that people want to see, 320 00:16:06,880 --> 00:16:08,720 Speaker 1: but you can't just snap your fingers and make it happen. 321 00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:13,080 Speaker 2: So to play quality games is the most important thing, 322 00:16:13,720 --> 00:16:18,440 Speaker 2: all right, But our rules don't enhance us playing quality games. 323 00:16:18,760 --> 00:16:22,480 Speaker 2: How about the fans? Do they want to go see 324 00:16:22,520 --> 00:16:25,760 Speaker 2: these games? So you know it was I don't know 325 00:16:25,800 --> 00:16:28,040 Speaker 2: how many years ago, six eight years ago, I said, 326 00:16:28,120 --> 00:16:30,640 Speaker 2: why don't we play nine games in the SCC Right now, 327 00:16:30,640 --> 00:16:32,600 Speaker 2: they when they're talking about playing nine in the future, 328 00:16:32,600 --> 00:16:35,200 Speaker 2: I'm saying, why don't we play ten? We had one 329 00:16:35,240 --> 00:16:38,840 Speaker 2: season which was a great competitive season. We didn't play 330 00:16:38,880 --> 00:16:42,680 Speaker 2: one game that everybody wasn't interested in. So would you 331 00:16:42,720 --> 00:16:46,760 Speaker 2: lose more games if you played that? Probably would, but 332 00:16:47,280 --> 00:16:50,880 Speaker 2: there would be a lot more interest, which I think 333 00:16:51,880 --> 00:16:56,040 Speaker 2: is the most important thing. The stadium being filled, the 334 00:16:56,160 --> 00:16:59,440 Speaker 2: passion and the spirit of the fans makes college. 335 00:16:59,080 --> 00:17:04,400 Speaker 1: Football what it is, not to divert everyone's attention. But Jesse, 336 00:17:04,480 --> 00:17:06,400 Speaker 1: are you looking at the live chat? Someone in here 337 00:17:06,520 --> 00:17:09,240 Speaker 1: just said Roast Beef Tech has an nil deal with Rby's. 338 00:17:10,200 --> 00:17:11,800 Speaker 1: That's some of the best humor that I've seen in 339 00:17:11,800 --> 00:17:14,720 Speaker 1: the live chat in a long time. Okay, let's get 340 00:17:14,760 --> 00:17:16,760 Speaker 1: back to the matter at hand. So you heard what 341 00:17:16,840 --> 00:17:20,359 Speaker 1: Nick Saban said there. If you followed this story, you 342 00:17:20,400 --> 00:17:22,840 Speaker 1: know he's just banging that drum forever. So it's not 343 00:17:22,880 --> 00:17:24,600 Speaker 1: that he's upset. In fact, he's very much in favor. 344 00:17:24,640 --> 00:17:26,280 Speaker 1: He'd love to go to ten conference games. We're just 345 00:17:26,320 --> 00:17:28,520 Speaker 1: going to nine. He'd love to go to ten. Conference games. 346 00:17:28,640 --> 00:17:30,720 Speaker 1: I think he just wants to even it out. I 347 00:17:30,760 --> 00:17:33,960 Speaker 1: think he's looking down in the sandtrap and saying, someone 348 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:37,040 Speaker 1: get the rake over here. Can someone fill in where 349 00:17:37,080 --> 00:17:39,520 Speaker 1: it looks like a child was just left alone to 350 00:17:39,600 --> 00:17:42,560 Speaker 1: his own devices with his plastic shovel just digging around 351 00:17:42,600 --> 00:17:45,560 Speaker 1: in there? Can someone just run a rake through the 352 00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:49,360 Speaker 1: schedule even it out a little bit more. I think 353 00:17:49,400 --> 00:17:51,959 Speaker 1: it would come as a surprise to some people based 354 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:56,000 Speaker 1: on what I see as popular sentiment that these coaches 355 00:17:56,040 --> 00:17:57,960 Speaker 1: want to be more challenged. I don't think a lot 356 00:17:57,960 --> 00:17:59,760 Speaker 1: of people believe that. Some of you may not believe 357 00:17:59,800 --> 00:18:03,320 Speaker 1: that Kirby's gonna get challenged a whole lot more. Georgia's 358 00:18:03,320 --> 00:18:06,240 Speaker 1: schedule's gonna get beefed up per capita, I guess more 359 00:18:06,280 --> 00:18:09,119 Speaker 1: so than anyone else, because you don't get annuals with 360 00:18:09,240 --> 00:18:13,080 Speaker 1: Kentucky and Vandy and Missouri every year anymore. You'll still 361 00:18:13,119 --> 00:18:15,919 Speaker 1: play them, but you're gonna play Texas and Oklahoma and 362 00:18:15,960 --> 00:18:18,760 Speaker 1: Alabama every bit as often as you're gonna play those 363 00:18:18,800 --> 00:18:22,159 Speaker 1: other schools, depending on who your three permanents are. So 364 00:18:23,520 --> 00:18:26,160 Speaker 1: these coaches could I think Dabo's the same way a Clemson. 365 00:18:26,240 --> 00:18:29,800 Speaker 1: I don't think Dabos. Swinney has enjoyed the cakewalk relatively speaking, 366 00:18:29,840 --> 00:18:32,520 Speaker 1: of course, that their conference schedule has been It's like 367 00:18:32,560 --> 00:18:35,840 Speaker 1: in you know, in Jurassic Park when they first go 368 00:18:35,960 --> 00:18:38,400 Speaker 1: on the tour and they can't get the t Rex 369 00:18:38,480 --> 00:18:40,679 Speaker 1: to come out. So what do they do? Samuel L. 370 00:18:40,720 --> 00:18:42,480 Speaker 1: Jackson says, hold on, We're gonna try and draw the 371 00:18:42,480 --> 00:18:45,840 Speaker 1: t Rex out. They just bring a goat up out 372 00:18:45,880 --> 00:18:48,359 Speaker 1: of the ground. They had a goat waiting, a feeder 373 00:18:48,400 --> 00:18:50,000 Speaker 1: goat as me mom would call it. They had a 374 00:18:50,000 --> 00:18:53,560 Speaker 1: feeder goat waiting. And sam Neil's sitting in the Explorer 375 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:56,760 Speaker 1: and is pouring down rain, and he said, t Rex 376 00:18:56,800 --> 00:18:59,920 Speaker 1: doesn't want to be fat. He wants to hunt. These 377 00:19:00,080 --> 00:19:01,720 Speaker 1: guys don't want to be fed. They don't want to 378 00:19:01,720 --> 00:19:03,840 Speaker 1: be favored by fifty five and a half. They want 379 00:19:03,840 --> 00:19:07,480 Speaker 1: to hunt. They want to be challenged. That's how competitors feel. 380 00:19:07,640 --> 00:19:10,320 Speaker 1: I know, you know, Nick Saban not so different. He 381 00:19:10,400 --> 00:19:11,840 Speaker 1: and I. I feel the same way on the pong 382 00:19:11,920 --> 00:19:14,919 Speaker 1: table as Nick Saban does in the football field. And 383 00:19:14,960 --> 00:19:17,080 Speaker 1: credit me for saying that with a straight face. This 384 00:19:17,200 --> 00:19:19,760 Speaker 1: schedule that is gonna be brutality. Have you really thought 385 00:19:19,800 --> 00:19:23,160 Speaker 1: this through? Have you guys thought this through, because honestly, 386 00:19:23,200 --> 00:19:26,159 Speaker 1: I didn't really dive deep in my own mind until 387 00:19:26,160 --> 00:19:28,879 Speaker 1: today on it. It's pretty dangerous when I do that. 388 00:19:28,960 --> 00:19:32,520 Speaker 1: I don't try to do it that often. We are 389 00:19:32,560 --> 00:19:35,760 Speaker 1: approaching a world where we have an expanded playoff, right, 390 00:19:36,680 --> 00:19:40,240 Speaker 1: and the SEC is gonna play a nine game conference schedule. 391 00:19:40,640 --> 00:19:45,760 Speaker 1: They're adding O you in Texas and hoopstever else may join, 392 00:19:45,880 --> 00:19:50,200 Speaker 1: who knows what tomorrow may bring. And they're also gonna 393 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:52,840 Speaker 1: have an SEC championship game that's not going anywhere. It's 394 00:19:52,840 --> 00:19:56,840 Speaker 1: worth too much money. And then you're gonna do what 395 00:19:56,880 --> 00:20:00,840 Speaker 1: You're gonna ask them to play an expanded playoff. I 396 00:20:00,840 --> 00:20:03,840 Speaker 1: I know that you don't think this is a video game. 397 00:20:03,960 --> 00:20:08,160 Speaker 1: I know you guys understand that. But have we really 398 00:20:08,240 --> 00:20:12,199 Speaker 1: stopped to think about how brutal these schedules are going 399 00:20:12,240 --> 00:20:15,000 Speaker 1: to be. There are going to be years, for example, 400 00:20:15,320 --> 00:20:20,520 Speaker 1: where someone is playing half a dozen, if not more, 401 00:20:20,880 --> 00:20:24,639 Speaker 1: of the top fifteen talent rosters in college football. Depending 402 00:20:24,640 --> 00:20:27,720 Speaker 1: on your draw in any given year, you could legitimately 403 00:20:27,720 --> 00:20:30,960 Speaker 1: have a season without me even knowing who you play 404 00:20:31,000 --> 00:20:32,960 Speaker 1: out of conference. You could have a season where you 405 00:20:32,960 --> 00:20:35,760 Speaker 1: play half a dozen or more of the top fifteen 406 00:20:35,760 --> 00:20:41,360 Speaker 1: talent rosters in the sport. So that means bigger, faster, stronger. 407 00:20:41,840 --> 00:20:44,359 Speaker 1: That means the collisions matter more. That means the training 408 00:20:44,400 --> 00:20:46,520 Speaker 1: table starts to accumulate and get more and more crowded 409 00:20:46,520 --> 00:20:48,360 Speaker 1: week over week. That means you run out of athletic 410 00:20:48,359 --> 00:20:50,400 Speaker 1: tape in week eight and you got to reorder before 411 00:20:50,400 --> 00:20:53,800 Speaker 1: the season's even up. Aside from the toll that takes 412 00:20:54,080 --> 00:20:58,480 Speaker 1: just on the college football player's body, are we going 413 00:20:58,560 --> 00:21:01,160 Speaker 1: to properly adjust strength of schedule? You know? Nick Saban 414 00:21:01,200 --> 00:21:02,960 Speaker 1: said something else in that interview. I didn't have time 415 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:05,879 Speaker 1: to replay for you. He said, I kind of like 416 00:21:05,960 --> 00:21:09,399 Speaker 1: what college basketball does, Jesse. What's the ranking used to 417 00:21:09,400 --> 00:21:11,399 Speaker 1: be RPI? What's the ranking now they use at the 418 00:21:11,440 --> 00:21:13,879 Speaker 1: end of the year. Yeah, can palm just as an 419 00:21:13,880 --> 00:21:16,960 Speaker 1: example of understanding there's more to it than what your 420 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:19,720 Speaker 1: record is. You are not always what your record says 421 00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:22,720 Speaker 1: you are. It's one of our great truths in college sports. 422 00:21:22,760 --> 00:21:25,560 Speaker 1: It's not pro sports records can lie to you. They 423 00:21:25,600 --> 00:21:28,800 Speaker 1: do all the time. And I just wonder if Tennessee 424 00:21:28,840 --> 00:21:31,440 Speaker 1: sits there and they go nine and three and their 425 00:21:31,480 --> 00:21:34,800 Speaker 1: three losses are like to Georgia Bama and Texas or 426 00:21:34,840 --> 00:21:38,199 Speaker 1: someone like that. Do we possess the ability? Will the 427 00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:41,679 Speaker 1: Committee possessed the ability to say, yeah, they may not 428 00:21:41,760 --> 00:21:43,840 Speaker 1: be a top four seed, they didn't win the SEC, 429 00:21:43,880 --> 00:21:47,000 Speaker 1: they didn't win their conference, but that is clearly one 430 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:48,520 Speaker 1: of the best teams in the country. We need to 431 00:21:48,560 --> 00:21:51,760 Speaker 1: put them above some one loss teams. Do we possess 432 00:21:51,840 --> 00:21:55,560 Speaker 1: that ability? I'm saying we rhetorically, I know we do. 433 00:21:55,640 --> 00:21:58,120 Speaker 1: I'm asking if the committee does. And it's not even 434 00:21:58,119 --> 00:22:01,040 Speaker 1: an SEC thing. I'll say this thing if Ohio State 435 00:22:01,119 --> 00:22:03,280 Speaker 1: does this any given year. I not that the PAC 436 00:22:03,359 --> 00:22:05,920 Speaker 1: twelve may be around long enough for me to even 437 00:22:06,000 --> 00:22:08,399 Speaker 1: utter the sentence about them, but I would say the 438 00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:12,680 Speaker 1: same thing regardless. I'm all about fairly determining strength of schedule. 439 00:22:13,160 --> 00:22:14,919 Speaker 1: It's one thing I don't think we do in the sport, 440 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:16,879 Speaker 1: at least at a high enough level. But yeah, this 441 00:22:17,040 --> 00:22:20,960 Speaker 1: SEC schedule is going to be a war zone and 442 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:24,080 Speaker 1: it's going to be entertaining. We're winning, so I will 443 00:22:24,359 --> 00:22:27,240 Speaker 1: I will golf clap on that front. We are winning, 444 00:22:27,280 --> 00:22:31,879 Speaker 1: we are getting a more entertaining product. But wow, strength 445 00:22:31,920 --> 00:22:35,240 Speaker 1: of schedule. It matters, kids, It matters. Learn how to 446 00:22:35,280 --> 00:22:42,760 Speaker 1: calculate that thing. Academy Sports and Outdoors has been in 447 00:22:42,800 --> 00:22:45,800 Speaker 1: our back pocket so much so it's been like the 448 00:22:45,840 --> 00:22:47,800 Speaker 1: wind in our sales. We just get to go do 449 00:22:47,920 --> 00:22:50,240 Speaker 1: anything now. I mean, did you see them sending me 450 00:22:50,359 --> 00:22:53,560 Speaker 1: to the combine two years ago? Of course not. And 451 00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:55,920 Speaker 1: now not only do we get to do those sorts 452 00:22:55,960 --> 00:22:59,360 Speaker 1: of things, we got Big Game Day up there. Gelbi 453 00:22:59,480 --> 00:23:02,359 Speaker 1: was up there, Coach Quinn was up there, the entire crew. 454 00:23:02,520 --> 00:23:04,800 Speaker 1: Worked with some of our folks from CBS that I 455 00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:07,800 Speaker 1: never get to work with. Pete Prisco up there, Spielman, 456 00:23:07,920 --> 00:23:13,640 Speaker 1: Ryan Wilson, some dude named Canel, first named Daniel. They 457 00:23:13,640 --> 00:23:15,840 Speaker 1: say he played at Florida State. All those guys were 458 00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:19,000 Speaker 1: up there, had a blast. Academy Sports and Outdoors. Lets 459 00:23:19,040 --> 00:23:20,560 Speaker 1: us do that. We get to go on the road 460 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:24,720 Speaker 1: every week during the fall. Why you That's why, because 461 00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:27,720 Speaker 1: you visit their store far more often, because they're a 462 00:23:27,760 --> 00:23:30,240 Speaker 1: partner with our show, and you're invested in the show, 463 00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:32,720 Speaker 1: and you also candidly enjoy that we get to offer 464 00:23:32,760 --> 00:23:34,720 Speaker 1: it to you free of charge. That's the name of 465 00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:38,199 Speaker 1: the game. And so I just humbly ask that you 466 00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:40,920 Speaker 1: don't do anything more than you've already been doing. Continue 467 00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:43,600 Speaker 1: to visit the store, one stop shop for everything sporting 468 00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:47,160 Speaker 1: good related you'll ever need. Academy dot com is the website, 469 00:23:47,520 --> 00:23:50,240 Speaker 1: and Colin, I don't know if I've even told you this, Bradley, 470 00:23:50,480 --> 00:23:52,000 Speaker 1: I wouldn't have had a reason to tell you this. 471 00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:55,920 Speaker 1: The Academy reps are coming to the office this week, 472 00:23:56,680 --> 00:24:00,520 Speaker 1: so don't embarrass me, please. The SEC tournament is in town. 473 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:03,720 Speaker 1: Like we can see Bridgetown Arena out of our window. 474 00:24:03,760 --> 00:24:05,720 Speaker 1: It's like two blocks away. So it's gonna be a 475 00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:09,000 Speaker 1: busy week in Nashville and the Academy. Our friends from 476 00:24:09,080 --> 00:24:11,760 Speaker 1: Academy coming in studio. May even snap a picture or 477 00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:16,679 Speaker 1: two with them. We'll see. Alrighty, Let's first, thank you 478 00:24:16,720 --> 00:24:18,720 Speaker 1: for watching live, and if you are, please subscribe to 479 00:24:18,720 --> 00:24:21,399 Speaker 1: the video and like the video, or subscribe to the 480 00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:26,160 Speaker 1: channel and like the video. There are rumblings. You hear 481 00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:29,000 Speaker 1: them as well as I do on the conference front. 482 00:24:29,280 --> 00:24:32,440 Speaker 1: And I'm not trying to be repetitive on this. I'm 483 00:24:32,480 --> 00:24:34,600 Speaker 1: just telling you every time you and I talk, it 484 00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:37,080 Speaker 1: seems like a little bit more has changed and a 485 00:24:37,119 --> 00:24:39,840 Speaker 1: little bit more has come out. And so either the 486 00:24:39,880 --> 00:24:43,000 Speaker 1: PAC twelve is gonna be fine, or the PAC twelve 487 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:45,440 Speaker 1: is going to implode in on itself like a dying star. 488 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:49,440 Speaker 1: Something along those lines is gonna happen. And I think 489 00:24:49,480 --> 00:24:51,560 Speaker 1: effectively I have not spoiled the ending for you there, 490 00:24:51,840 --> 00:24:54,600 Speaker 1: but the status of the volcano is still very much active. 491 00:24:54,960 --> 00:24:56,520 Speaker 1: I don't think we're gonna have to wait very long. 492 00:24:56,560 --> 00:24:58,760 Speaker 1: And I know there's a mixed feeling on this front. 493 00:24:58,800 --> 00:25:01,320 Speaker 1: I know that some folks would tell you you the 494 00:25:01,359 --> 00:25:04,800 Speaker 1: PAC twelve is not nearly as up against a deadline 495 00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:08,640 Speaker 1: to sign a new media rights deal as the public believes. 496 00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:14,280 Speaker 1: And while technically that's true, I don't necessarily know that 497 00:25:14,400 --> 00:25:18,560 Speaker 1: the the stop dead What am I looking for? The 498 00:25:18,680 --> 00:25:21,200 Speaker 1: drop dead date? There? Here you go, That's that's That's 499 00:25:21,240 --> 00:25:22,600 Speaker 1: what I was worried about when I was in school, 500 00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:24,919 Speaker 1: the drop dead date to turn in the assignment. I 501 00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:26,320 Speaker 1: don't know that that's really what we need to be 502 00:25:26,359 --> 00:25:29,720 Speaker 1: focused on. I think I think Rubber is going to 503 00:25:29,760 --> 00:25:31,719 Speaker 1: meet Road a lot sooner, and by sooner, I mean 504 00:25:31,840 --> 00:25:33,399 Speaker 1: like over the next couple of months. I think it's 505 00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:35,600 Speaker 1: going to get real in a hurry. I think Max 506 00:25:35,640 --> 00:25:38,000 Speaker 1: Olsen and Stu Mandel had a really good article over 507 00:25:38,040 --> 00:25:40,760 Speaker 1: on The Athletic and I had Jesse clip out a 508 00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:45,200 Speaker 1: little portion of it. So to backstory you right now, 509 00:25:45,560 --> 00:25:48,280 Speaker 1: what we're looking at is the Big twelve got ahead 510 00:25:48,320 --> 00:25:50,320 Speaker 1: of the PAC twelve in line and they signed a 511 00:25:50,359 --> 00:25:54,000 Speaker 1: new media rights deal, so they've got themselves some financial security. 512 00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:57,560 Speaker 1: They added four new schools because O you and Texas 513 00:25:57,600 --> 00:25:59,679 Speaker 1: are headed out the door they secured I think it 514 00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:02,720 Speaker 1: was one one hundred million dollars from OU in Texas 515 00:26:02,760 --> 00:26:05,760 Speaker 1: for them to leave early. So credit Brettyormark. That's the 516 00:26:05,800 --> 00:26:08,479 Speaker 1: new Big twelve commissioner. Credit him on all those fronts. 517 00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:12,280 Speaker 1: This is an entertainment guy. He is not an administrative 518 00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:15,159 Speaker 1: like collegiate bureaucrat. He comes from a different world. He 519 00:26:15,240 --> 00:26:17,880 Speaker 1: gets how this stuff works, and I candidly think he's 520 00:26:17,880 --> 00:26:19,600 Speaker 1: got himself in as good a position as he could 521 00:26:19,600 --> 00:26:22,640 Speaker 1: be in right now to grow his conference more so. Anyway, 522 00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:26,120 Speaker 1: the Athletic article comes out this week. It's a couple 523 00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:27,959 Speaker 1: of days old. It's still up on the website if 524 00:26:27,960 --> 00:26:29,280 Speaker 1: you want to go look at it. This is a 525 00:26:29,359 --> 00:26:32,439 Speaker 1: quote from that article by Max Olson and Stuart Mandel 526 00:26:32,480 --> 00:26:36,320 Speaker 1: on the Athletic. Multiple people familiar with the PAC twelve's 527 00:26:36,359 --> 00:26:41,000 Speaker 1: board members express doubt that their schools PAC twelve schools 528 00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:45,760 Speaker 1: would switch conferences unless it's for a substantially better deal. 529 00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:52,479 Speaker 1: The article continues. School presidents not ads authorize realignment, and 530 00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:56,480 Speaker 1: the PAC twelve's priority on academic and cultural fits is 531 00:26:56,560 --> 00:27:01,240 Speaker 1: more than most conferences. Washington State's president and Oregon States 532 00:27:01,280 --> 00:27:05,919 Speaker 1: president have both attempted to diffuse the various rumors in 533 00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:08,920 Speaker 1: recent interviews that and that's the end of the quote. 534 00:27:08,920 --> 00:27:12,040 Speaker 1: This is me talking again. It's pretty clear what's happening there. 535 00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:15,399 Speaker 1: That's an attempt from the presidents of a couple of 536 00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:18,320 Speaker 1: universities that have every motivation to keep the PAC twelve 537 00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:23,240 Speaker 1: together in stabilizing things. Oregon State's not going anywhere, Washington 538 00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:25,879 Speaker 1: State's not going anywhere. They could just be sol So 539 00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:27,760 Speaker 1: it is in the best interest of those presidents to 540 00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:31,320 Speaker 1: tell you everything's fine, it's going to be fine. And 541 00:27:31,359 --> 00:27:34,439 Speaker 1: what they're indicating, knowing what the numbers are probably going 542 00:27:34,520 --> 00:27:37,200 Speaker 1: to be, they're saying, unless the Big twelve can offer 543 00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:40,560 Speaker 1: substantially more than our member institutions are going to get 544 00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:44,000 Speaker 1: from whatever deal we sign as the PAC twelve, these 545 00:27:44,000 --> 00:27:47,640 Speaker 1: schools aren't leaving because we've got arms locked and we're 546 00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:49,840 Speaker 1: in it for more than just the money. We're like 547 00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:53,120 Speaker 1: the Anti Jonas and Twister. We're in it for the month. 548 00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:55,919 Speaker 1: We're in for the science, not the money. They're literally 549 00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:59,960 Speaker 1: saying that research institutions and whatnot culture and it matters. 550 00:28:00,240 --> 00:28:02,560 Speaker 1: It matters a great deal to him. I think money's 551 00:28:02,600 --> 00:28:06,000 Speaker 1: gonna matter more. I think survival and security's gonna matter more. 552 00:28:06,240 --> 00:28:08,320 Speaker 1: And that's why, in the end, if I was a 553 00:28:08,359 --> 00:28:10,840 Speaker 1: betting man, and I don't know that there are prop 554 00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:12,199 Speaker 1: bets on such things out there, but if I were 555 00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:13,560 Speaker 1: a betting man, I don't think the PAC twelve is 556 00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:16,199 Speaker 1: gonna be together much longer. I think Brett Ormark understands that. 557 00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:17,840 Speaker 1: I think that guy's also got a really good eye 558 00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:20,280 Speaker 1: for what he can do with basketball in his conference. 559 00:28:20,600 --> 00:28:22,359 Speaker 1: It's not a new sport. I'm talking about it like 560 00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:26,520 Speaker 1: it's a new sport, but monetizing that sport the way 561 00:28:26,600 --> 00:28:30,200 Speaker 1: it could be done west of the Mississippi, I don't 562 00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:33,000 Speaker 1: think has been done. And I think he understands that. 563 00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:37,520 Speaker 1: But in the meantime, it's only gonna take one or 564 00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:42,640 Speaker 1: two of those schools, the Arizona Schools, Utah Hoopstever, it's 565 00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:44,400 Speaker 1: only gonna take one or two of them to defect, 566 00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:47,720 Speaker 1: and then the PAC twelve's response will probably be to 567 00:28:47,760 --> 00:28:50,400 Speaker 1: add San Diego State or SMU or someone. It's not 568 00:28:50,440 --> 00:28:52,760 Speaker 1: gonna be good enough. It will not be a legitimate 569 00:28:52,800 --> 00:28:54,960 Speaker 1: conference at the power five level as you know it 570 00:28:55,040 --> 00:28:57,360 Speaker 1: at this point, and so it'll be done. Now. I 571 00:28:57,440 --> 00:28:58,720 Speaker 1: just went through all that, and you know what I 572 00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:02,440 Speaker 1: didn't do. I did and even mention the ACC and 573 00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:05,040 Speaker 1: we still got We've still got the rumblings from over 574 00:29:05,120 --> 00:29:07,400 Speaker 1: there too. I don't know what Florida State's gonna do. 575 00:29:07,600 --> 00:29:09,880 Speaker 1: I don't know what Clemson's gonna do. I don't know 576 00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:12,040 Speaker 1: what those lawyers. I know they go back to work tomorrow, 577 00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:14,959 Speaker 1: so I know not much progress has been made over 578 00:29:15,000 --> 00:29:17,720 Speaker 1: the weekend. But I know first thing Monday morning, that's 579 00:29:17,720 --> 00:29:20,280 Speaker 1: when everyone schedules the meetings they wanted to put off 580 00:29:20,320 --> 00:29:23,479 Speaker 1: until the next week. So who knows. You and I 581 00:29:23,520 --> 00:29:25,440 Speaker 1: will speak again on Tuesday, at least on the Late 582 00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:28,040 Speaker 1: Kick Extra podcast. We could have some more to talk about, 583 00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:30,800 Speaker 1: even as soon as them the show's not over. If 584 00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:33,480 Speaker 1: it sounded that way, I'm sorry. It's just that portion 585 00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:40,000 Speaker 1: of the show is over. Where should we go? I 586 00:29:40,040 --> 00:29:42,280 Speaker 1: say that, like we don't have a rundown let's talk 587 00:29:42,320 --> 00:29:44,640 Speaker 1: about some spring questions for a second. And also, I 588 00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:47,400 Speaker 1: just want to remind you now that you've gotten a 589 00:29:47,440 --> 00:29:50,800 Speaker 1: little deeper in the show. I was done wrong this week, 590 00:29:51,040 --> 00:29:52,840 Speaker 1: but I'm gonna make it right all by myself. But 591 00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:54,960 Speaker 1: I was done wrong this week, and I'll tell you 592 00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:59,040 Speaker 1: what happened in a little while. I expect it from 593 00:29:59,120 --> 00:30:02,720 Speaker 1: some I'm so disappointed in some other people in the building. 594 00:30:03,320 --> 00:30:05,480 Speaker 1: It chaps me to the point that I have to 595 00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:10,400 Speaker 1: put on some chapstick right now. Bert's Beeswax has my back. 596 00:30:11,680 --> 00:30:15,520 Speaker 1: Not a sponsor of the show, though, unfortunately the ACC 597 00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:18,960 Speaker 1: is loaded with questions this spring. Clemson, are they going 598 00:30:19,040 --> 00:30:21,240 Speaker 1: to have pass catchers up there? Kay Klubnick's going to 599 00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:23,720 Speaker 1: be the guy whose name's on the Marquee the quarterback, 600 00:30:24,200 --> 00:30:26,440 Speaker 1: Garrett Riley, the new offensive coordinator. His name is going 601 00:30:26,480 --> 00:30:28,920 Speaker 1: to be on the Marquee, new offense. Good. It was 602 00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:33,000 Speaker 1: a needed change. Credit Deboswiney for finally pulling the trigger 603 00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:36,080 Speaker 1: on that front. Now I need to know you guys 604 00:30:36,080 --> 00:30:39,240 Speaker 1: got someone to catch the ball. I really miss the 605 00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:42,760 Speaker 1: days where I looked at Clemson's receiver corps and said 606 00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:45,320 Speaker 1: the things about them that now we say about Ohio 607 00:30:45,360 --> 00:30:48,680 Speaker 1: State Orbama. In most years I used to say that 608 00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:51,120 Speaker 1: about Clemson. I don't say it so much anymore. I 609 00:30:51,120 --> 00:30:53,800 Speaker 1: don't think it's any small coincidence that's coincided with them 610 00:30:53,880 --> 00:30:55,920 Speaker 1: not falling off a cliff, but sort of taking a 611 00:30:55,960 --> 00:30:59,480 Speaker 1: little step back. They're not on the front line anymore. There, 612 00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:02,560 Speaker 1: they're behind the front line. They're kind of trying to 613 00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:04,960 Speaker 1: make themselves tall enough to peek over the front line. 614 00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:08,040 Speaker 1: That's not where Cloonsing belongs. They belong on the front line. 615 00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:11,240 Speaker 1: They're top pass catchers last season. If you're listening on 616 00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:13,720 Speaker 1: podcasts and you can't see the fancy graphic here on 617 00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:16,880 Speaker 1: the screen, how many players do you think they had 618 00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:20,560 Speaker 1: go over six hundred yards receiving last year? And what 619 00:31:20,600 --> 00:31:22,480 Speaker 1: if I told you the answer was one? What if 620 00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:23,920 Speaker 1: I put the over under at one and a half 621 00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:26,760 Speaker 1: and said the under hits. In fact, they only had 622 00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:29,000 Speaker 1: two of them over four hundred. They only had three 623 00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:31,200 Speaker 1: of them are four hundred yards, and two of those 624 00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:34,200 Speaker 1: three departed for the NFL Draft. So yeah, we got 625 00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:36,600 Speaker 1: some work to do there. Now. Who knows. It could 626 00:31:36,680 --> 00:31:38,200 Speaker 1: very well be that a lot of those pieces are 627 00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:39,720 Speaker 1: good enough, they just need to be put in a 628 00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:43,000 Speaker 1: different system. We've seen it happen before, so I'm not 629 00:31:43,080 --> 00:31:46,960 Speaker 1: dismissing that possibility. When will we know about Florida State. 630 00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:49,760 Speaker 1: You know, they played Duke in Week one, and I 631 00:31:49,800 --> 00:31:52,560 Speaker 1: know people are going to overlook that game. I probably 632 00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:56,040 Speaker 1: will too. Sorry, Duke was a nine win team last year. 633 00:31:57,120 --> 00:31:59,840 Speaker 1: I just don't really think people remember that. And if 634 00:31:59,880 --> 00:32:04,720 Speaker 1: you do, just credit you, because I still have not 635 00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:08,600 Speaker 1: properly categorized Duke in the Mike Elko era. That was 636 00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:10,480 Speaker 1: one of the biggest surprises last year to me. But anyway, 637 00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:14,080 Speaker 1: they played Duke Charleston Southern Florida Atlantic, and then FSU 638 00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:18,320 Speaker 1: comes to town in week four. Speaking of the seminoles 639 00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:21,680 Speaker 1: down in tallahassee a lot of excitement with the offense, 640 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:25,160 Speaker 1: a lot of excitement With Jordan Travis coming back, there 641 00:32:25,160 --> 00:32:27,280 Speaker 1: should be a ton of excitement. I got a question 642 00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:30,280 Speaker 1: that will probably do on the Late Kick Extra pod 643 00:32:30,320 --> 00:32:33,480 Speaker 1: on Tuesday about that very thing I think I said 644 00:32:33,520 --> 00:32:37,320 Speaker 1: the other day. FSU has legs. They don't skip legs, 645 00:32:37,760 --> 00:32:40,160 Speaker 1: you know, like some folks do, especially this time of year. 646 00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:45,400 Speaker 1: The resolutionists in the gym Chest on Monday, Arms on Tuesday, 647 00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:48,920 Speaker 1: back to Chest on Wednesday, just popcorn muscles. Essentially, they 648 00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:51,360 Speaker 1: skip legs. Florida State didn't skip legs. I said that 649 00:32:51,400 --> 00:32:53,680 Speaker 1: on the show the other day. No one had a 650 00:32:53,680 --> 00:32:56,800 Speaker 1: clue what I was talking about. Metaphorical speaking at its finest. 651 00:32:57,040 --> 00:32:59,160 Speaker 1: I'll talk about that on Tuesday. But as for tonight 652 00:32:59,360 --> 00:33:04,760 Speaker 1: one fifty six point four yards per rush, well, not 653 00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:08,000 Speaker 1: yd that would be a record yards per game rushing. 654 00:33:08,840 --> 00:33:11,720 Speaker 1: That's what their run defense gave up last year. Not 655 00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:15,680 Speaker 1: too good. That's seventy fifth in FBS. We got to 656 00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:19,560 Speaker 1: improve and they lost Robert Cooper, who was one of 657 00:33:19,560 --> 00:33:23,360 Speaker 1: their better run stoppers. Now, as usual, Mike Norvel has 658 00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:25,960 Speaker 1: dipped himself into the transfer portal. They may not even 659 00:33:26,000 --> 00:33:28,040 Speaker 1: be done doing that, So there's gonna be a lot 660 00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:30,239 Speaker 1: of excitement there should I will be contributing to it. 661 00:33:30,720 --> 00:33:32,760 Speaker 1: But we can't have things like we're watching on the 662 00:33:32,760 --> 00:33:35,760 Speaker 1: screen now happen. We can't just have Will Shipley running free. 663 00:33:36,040 --> 00:33:37,920 Speaker 1: That was a close game, that was a competitive game. 664 00:33:38,120 --> 00:33:40,960 Speaker 1: They lost three games in a row in acc play 665 00:33:40,960 --> 00:33:42,560 Speaker 1: that sort of knocked them out of contention, and we're 666 00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:45,520 Speaker 1: watching chunk runs that happened in pretty much all of them. 667 00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:48,800 Speaker 1: So we'll be watching that in spring what about down 668 00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:54,520 Speaker 1: at Miami this offense period, not even a specific unit. 669 00:33:54,880 --> 00:33:56,880 Speaker 1: Sure we can talk about Tyler Van Dyke at quarterback, 670 00:33:56,920 --> 00:34:01,240 Speaker 1: but this entire offense. Shannon Dawson is the offensive coordinator there, 671 00:34:02,320 --> 00:34:03,800 Speaker 1: which I don't think a lot of people had in 672 00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:08,760 Speaker 1: their bingo sheet. Bring in Broyle's Award winner Josh Gaddis, 673 00:34:08,760 --> 00:34:11,359 Speaker 1: and it just is a tire fire. The offense never 674 00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:13,839 Speaker 1: got off the ground, and all of a sudden he's 675 00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:16,359 Speaker 1: out after one year. I know a lot of you 676 00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:19,200 Speaker 1: made fun of Mario Christobaul. It was a bad hire. 677 00:34:19,360 --> 00:34:23,799 Speaker 1: That's obvious. Now, to hit the dump button after one 678 00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:27,280 Speaker 1: year is not easy. It's easy to say he should 679 00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:29,480 Speaker 1: do it. It's not the easiest thing in the world 680 00:34:29,520 --> 00:34:32,359 Speaker 1: to do. They did it, so credit them. Now they 681 00:34:32,400 --> 00:34:35,160 Speaker 1: brought in Shannon Dawson, a's from Houston, by the way, 682 00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:38,439 Speaker 1: and now some of the same pieces are still there. 683 00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:41,319 Speaker 1: Tyler Van Dyke's still there. He had one thousand less 684 00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:44,400 Speaker 1: passing yards last year than he did the year before. 685 00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:48,000 Speaker 1: I think folks forgot he knows how to play football. 686 00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:50,359 Speaker 1: Tyler Van Dyke is still a very good player, and 687 00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:53,560 Speaker 1: there are some good players offensively. They have period that 688 00:34:53,680 --> 00:34:56,600 Speaker 1: we're just put in no win situations last year offense, 689 00:34:56,680 --> 00:34:58,680 Speaker 1: I don't now, you know, you can judge it on 690 00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:01,640 Speaker 1: one hand, But on the other hand, when you're asking 691 00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:05,160 Speaker 1: me how will Miami look moving forward, I'm not basing 692 00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:07,759 Speaker 1: a ton of my expectation on last year because there's 693 00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:11,440 Speaker 1: hardly anything from last year that this year's offense will resemble. 694 00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:13,040 Speaker 1: They're not trying to do the same thing. They're not 695 00:35:13,040 --> 00:35:16,040 Speaker 1: trying to read from the same playbook or operate from 696 00:35:16,040 --> 00:35:19,319 Speaker 1: the same playbook, none of that. North Carolina, I don't 697 00:35:19,360 --> 00:35:21,040 Speaker 1: think it's a big shock to you. There's not a 698 00:35:21,120 --> 00:35:23,920 Speaker 1: question at offense, or not a question at quarterback at least. 699 00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:27,719 Speaker 1: But defensively, they were one hundred and sixteenth last year 700 00:35:28,239 --> 00:35:32,320 Speaker 1: in pass defense. They lost two corners to the Portal. 701 00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:35,520 Speaker 1: They're replacing their defensive backs, coach dray blies off to 702 00:35:35,520 --> 00:35:39,319 Speaker 1: the NFL. They just need to be good. They don't 703 00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:42,399 Speaker 1: need to be great. They do have Drake May, they 704 00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:46,160 Speaker 1: do have a future first round caliber quarterback. They do 705 00:35:46,239 --> 00:35:49,120 Speaker 1: have the ability to score points offensively. But you got 706 00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:50,480 Speaker 1: to be better than one hundred and fourth in the 707 00:35:50,520 --> 00:35:53,520 Speaker 1: country in points per game given up. You got to 708 00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:58,400 Speaker 1: be better than all those stats. All the defensive stats 709 00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:01,560 Speaker 1: were in the hundreds. Not good. There's no excuse for it. 710 00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:06,680 Speaker 1: The entire acc minus a few exceptions, in any given year. 711 00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:12,319 Speaker 1: You look at where they are geographically and you think 712 00:36:12,320 --> 00:36:17,080 Speaker 1: to yourself, how is there this much collective averageness, average 713 00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:20,280 Speaker 1: affity if you will, up and down the Atlantic Coast. 714 00:36:20,560 --> 00:36:25,280 Speaker 1: It's just someone somewhere outside of Clemson, someone somewhere said 715 00:36:25,960 --> 00:36:28,360 Speaker 1: good enough is enough, and the rest of the conference 716 00:36:28,360 --> 00:36:31,480 Speaker 1: said we can get behind that. Good enough is enough. 717 00:36:31,680 --> 00:36:33,879 Speaker 1: Let's just make us a good old fashioned bowl game. 718 00:36:34,360 --> 00:36:37,560 Speaker 1: And you're not okay. We're not okay, but that's okay 719 00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:40,799 Speaker 1: because average is okay. It's no excuse for it. So 720 00:36:41,960 --> 00:36:43,839 Speaker 1: one of the places that the conference needs to get 721 00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:47,239 Speaker 1: better is North Carolina's got picked up on defense. Virginia Tech. 722 00:36:47,680 --> 00:36:51,239 Speaker 1: I would love I would love to exit Spring and 723 00:36:51,320 --> 00:36:55,200 Speaker 1: hear people in Blacksburg saying, you know what, this offense 724 00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:58,120 Speaker 1: looks a little different. Offense looks a lot more promising. 725 00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:01,640 Speaker 1: Brought in cairen drones from Bay Y is battling Grant Wells, 726 00:37:01,719 --> 00:37:04,840 Speaker 1: the incumbent at quarterback, which doesn't mean anything when you 727 00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:07,320 Speaker 1: were one hundred and eighteenth in the country in points 728 00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:10,839 Speaker 1: per game last year eighteen point five. By the way, 729 00:37:11,560 --> 00:37:16,520 Speaker 1: whatever was their points per game offensively abysmal. I greatly 730 00:37:16,880 --> 00:37:21,040 Speaker 1: missed the days when that VT logo meant something different 731 00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:23,959 Speaker 1: than it does now. Now it just means a little 732 00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:27,279 Speaker 1: breather in conference play. Could you believe I said that 733 00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:31,680 Speaker 1: it's accurate. It's not disrespectful, it's just accurate until further notice. 734 00:37:31,680 --> 00:37:33,719 Speaker 1: So I would just love to see signs of life 735 00:37:33,880 --> 00:37:37,919 Speaker 1: offensively three hundred and three point four yards per game, 736 00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:41,240 Speaker 1: Jesse tells me that's what they gave up on average 737 00:37:41,280 --> 00:37:45,080 Speaker 1: last year. That is one hundred and eighteenth. No, that's 738 00:37:45,120 --> 00:37:46,839 Speaker 1: what they got. That's what they gained last year. Yeah, 739 00:37:46,880 --> 00:37:51,560 Speaker 1: the defense, offense, whatever, they got to be a lot better. So, yeah, 740 00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:55,160 Speaker 1: there's a whole bunch of units that need vast amounts 741 00:37:55,160 --> 00:37:57,920 Speaker 1: of improvement. You won't get there fully in the spring, 742 00:37:57,960 --> 00:38:01,080 Speaker 1: but hopefully we can get a little ways there. They're 743 00:38:01,120 --> 00:38:04,560 Speaker 1: watching us in Cheyenne, Wyoming. If you're lucky, you can 744 00:38:04,560 --> 00:38:08,520 Speaker 1: still make it. Jackson, Georgia Henderson, Nevada. Thank you guys 745 00:38:08,600 --> 00:38:12,799 Speaker 1: wherever you are for tuning in. Uh, it's a little 746 00:38:12,800 --> 00:38:14,960 Speaker 1: bit later in the show. We got our diehards in 747 00:38:15,000 --> 00:38:18,080 Speaker 1: here now I want to take a sip and balance 748 00:38:18,160 --> 00:38:21,840 Speaker 1: myself for just a second. I want to tell you 749 00:38:21,880 --> 00:38:28,040 Speaker 1: a little story. Let me settle in. So I go 750 00:38:28,120 --> 00:38:30,680 Speaker 1: to Indianapolis this week to try and represent the company 751 00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:33,320 Speaker 1: and make management look like a genius, you know, shoulder 752 00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:37,120 Speaker 1: the load, if you will. And management waits for me 753 00:38:37,200 --> 00:38:40,560 Speaker 1: to leave town and then puts down his strawberry dackery 754 00:38:40,560 --> 00:38:42,279 Speaker 1: long enough to choose one of his cars and drive 755 00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:43,880 Speaker 1: into the office. And let me tell you what they 756 00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:47,160 Speaker 1: did to me, a guy who is overwhelmingly the number 757 00:38:47,160 --> 00:38:49,839 Speaker 1: one seed in pingpong in this office right now, they 758 00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:55,200 Speaker 1: scheduled and formatted and seeded an office tournament of twenty 759 00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:57,799 Speaker 1: people and didn't consult me on any of it. I 760 00:38:57,840 --> 00:38:59,839 Speaker 1: had to learn when the rest of the public learned. 761 00:39:00,200 --> 00:39:03,560 Speaker 1: They essentially send out a press release via company email. 762 00:39:04,719 --> 00:39:08,640 Speaker 1: And so I'm up there, just working and toiling so 763 00:39:08,719 --> 00:39:10,600 Speaker 1: that everyone here can live a better life and put 764 00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:12,279 Speaker 1: food on the table, and all of a sudden I 765 00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:15,560 Speaker 1: find out not only has this been scheduled behind my back, 766 00:39:15,640 --> 00:39:19,400 Speaker 1: So I've just been blindsided by treachery. I got hr 767 00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:22,880 Speaker 1: in the first round one of my nemesis nemosi if 768 00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:27,200 Speaker 1: you will plural guess what. Management drew a dude who's 769 00:39:27,200 --> 00:39:29,320 Speaker 1: played one game in his life. Now you may stop 770 00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:31,080 Speaker 1: me at this point and say, but Jesse was here, 771 00:39:31,200 --> 00:39:34,400 Speaker 1: wasn't he Like, surely producer Jesse will step in and 772 00:39:34,440 --> 00:39:38,880 Speaker 1: save you. Now. You think you've got allies until they 773 00:39:38,920 --> 00:39:42,440 Speaker 1: get coerced and they get handed someone who's played zero 774 00:39:42,600 --> 00:39:45,520 Speaker 1: games in their life as their first round opponent. So 775 00:39:45,680 --> 00:39:49,280 Speaker 1: I have been informed that we have a preliminary round 776 00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:51,759 Speaker 1: for seeding, and I'm playing a dude who can take 777 00:39:51,800 --> 00:39:54,480 Speaker 1: me right to the limit. So the moral of the 778 00:39:54,520 --> 00:39:59,640 Speaker 1: story is I won't have the one seed in an 779 00:39:59,640 --> 00:40:03,400 Speaker 1: office where I have pounded everyone into submission. But that's okay. 780 00:40:03,520 --> 00:40:06,160 Speaker 1: It just makes what I'm gonna do this week all 781 00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:07,960 Speaker 1: the more sweet. And if I don't make it over 782 00:40:08,000 --> 00:40:11,760 Speaker 1: to Bridgetom for any of the SEC basketball tournament matchups, 783 00:40:12,640 --> 00:40:16,080 Speaker 1: it'll be because I'm waging a much bigger war on 784 00:40:16,160 --> 00:40:19,480 Speaker 1: the home front here. But I will be victorious, and 785 00:40:19,719 --> 00:40:23,560 Speaker 1: I will appreciate in advance your support because I don't 786 00:40:23,560 --> 00:40:26,680 Speaker 1: have any here, that's for sure, except for Colin, who 787 00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:30,240 Speaker 1: has always had my back. You got some dark horse 788 00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:32,879 Speaker 1: teams in college football right now? Did you know that 789 00:40:33,200 --> 00:40:36,160 Speaker 1: Bryson hit me up and said, which teams that realistically 790 00:40:36,160 --> 00:40:39,799 Speaker 1: could make the playoff would shock people the most this year? 791 00:40:40,239 --> 00:40:42,640 Speaker 1: So we're not talking about food. This is no time 792 00:40:42,640 --> 00:40:46,320 Speaker 1: to talk about rice. We're talking about teams that somewhere 793 00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:49,360 Speaker 1: in one thousand simulations of the season could make the 794 00:40:49,400 --> 00:40:53,320 Speaker 1: playoff a few times, but it would be shocking. Texas 795 00:40:53,360 --> 00:40:55,560 Speaker 1: A and M's of that team at least one of 796 00:40:55,560 --> 00:40:59,960 Speaker 1: those teams. I want to make sure everyone say, everyone 797 00:41:00,239 --> 00:41:02,600 Speaker 1: needs to pause right now. I do too, because I 798 00:41:02,680 --> 00:41:06,120 Speaker 1: just stumbled over my words. Everyone needs to hear what 799 00:41:06,160 --> 00:41:09,560 Speaker 1: I'm saying very loudly. This is not a prediction segment. 800 00:41:10,120 --> 00:41:12,840 Speaker 1: I am, as of this moment, not predicting any of 801 00:41:12,880 --> 00:41:16,080 Speaker 1: these four teams to go to the playoff. I'm saying 802 00:41:16,160 --> 00:41:19,880 Speaker 1: there is a chance, there's a non zero chance that 803 00:41:19,920 --> 00:41:22,399 Speaker 1: this could happen, and you would be stunned by it. 804 00:41:23,080 --> 00:41:25,440 Speaker 1: Texas A and M, how about this? How about this? 805 00:41:25,520 --> 00:41:29,200 Speaker 1: For a stat of the evening, Texas A and M, 806 00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:33,320 Speaker 1: twenty six of the top one hundred all time recruits 807 00:41:33,360 --> 00:41:36,840 Speaker 1: they've landed are on the roster right now. A quarter 808 00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:40,399 Speaker 1: of their top one hundred all time recruits are on 809 00:41:40,440 --> 00:41:43,000 Speaker 1: their roster currently and that's after a lot of them defected. 810 00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:45,200 Speaker 1: That's after a lot of them got kicked off the team. 811 00:41:45,920 --> 00:41:49,359 Speaker 1: Five of their top ten rated all time recruits are 812 00:41:49,360 --> 00:41:51,040 Speaker 1: on the roster right now. All I'm trying to tell 813 00:41:51,080 --> 00:41:53,160 Speaker 1: you is they got good players, or at least they 814 00:41:53,160 --> 00:41:55,880 Speaker 1: got talented players. And all I'm trying to tell you 815 00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:59,200 Speaker 1: is Connor Wegman is I think paired with a lot 816 00:41:59,239 --> 00:42:03,320 Speaker 1: better offensive situation than he has been at any point 817 00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:06,600 Speaker 1: in really any quarterbacks tenure there in recent memory. So 818 00:42:07,760 --> 00:42:10,160 Speaker 1: what is the net result? The net result is they 819 00:42:10,160 --> 00:42:12,680 Speaker 1: missed a bowl game last year, and yet there is 820 00:42:12,719 --> 00:42:15,400 Speaker 1: still enough talent on this roster that if it is 821 00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:18,560 Speaker 1: put in the proper position and execution is at a 822 00:42:18,600 --> 00:42:22,120 Speaker 1: high enough level, that team is capable of doing that 823 00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:25,880 Speaker 1: non zero chance, that's what we call that. So if 824 00:42:25,920 --> 00:42:29,000 Speaker 1: you check your weather app and it says ten percent 825 00:42:29,120 --> 00:42:31,839 Speaker 1: chance of rain, it probably gives you a little sunshine 826 00:42:32,239 --> 00:42:35,719 Speaker 1: icon doesn't even put the rain drops on there. Likewise, 827 00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:39,120 Speaker 1: I'm not putting a CFP logo next to Amm's name. 828 00:42:39,360 --> 00:42:42,520 Speaker 1: But there is the slightest of chances that if everything 829 00:42:42,520 --> 00:42:46,400 Speaker 1: falls into place, then who knows, it would be shocking, 830 00:42:46,680 --> 00:42:49,520 Speaker 1: but it's not impossible. It's not impossible for Penn State 831 00:42:49,560 --> 00:42:52,239 Speaker 1: to make it. In fact, Penn State has got the 832 00:42:52,360 --> 00:42:56,240 Speaker 1: third best odds to win the title win the national 833 00:42:56,239 --> 00:42:59,759 Speaker 1: title out of big ten teams, Ohio State, Michigan, Penn 834 00:42:59,800 --> 00:43:03,000 Speaker 1: State in that order. By the way, it ain't Michigan 835 00:43:03,000 --> 00:43:07,480 Speaker 1: at number one profit off that accordingly, but they've got 836 00:43:07,560 --> 00:43:09,960 Speaker 1: six offensive lineman coming back with at least five games 837 00:43:10,040 --> 00:43:13,319 Speaker 1: starting experience. That's number one for Penn State. Number two. 838 00:43:13,920 --> 00:43:16,319 Speaker 1: Got a really good running back duo. Producer Jesse thinks 839 00:43:16,360 --> 00:43:18,879 Speaker 1: maybe the best in the country. Michigan fans always torch 840 00:43:18,960 --> 00:43:20,279 Speaker 1: me when I say that, so I make sure to 841 00:43:20,280 --> 00:43:23,120 Speaker 1: blame it on producer Jesse. It is Drew Aller time. 842 00:43:24,440 --> 00:43:27,520 Speaker 1: One of my premier lines on the last show was 843 00:43:28,120 --> 00:43:31,520 Speaker 1: if he does anything short of turning water into white claws, 844 00:43:31,640 --> 00:43:34,000 Speaker 1: some people would be disappointed because that's how much he's 845 00:43:34,040 --> 00:43:36,799 Speaker 1: been built up. And also seventy five percent of their 846 00:43:36,840 --> 00:43:40,080 Speaker 1: production returns on defense. That all sounds good. This should 847 00:43:40,120 --> 00:43:42,239 Speaker 1: not be a dark horse team, but they will be. 848 00:43:42,560 --> 00:43:44,720 Speaker 1: Some people have it in their minds that James Franklin 849 00:43:44,760 --> 00:43:48,320 Speaker 1: can't get over the hump. Whatever the hump is immunity 850 00:43:48,480 --> 00:43:52,160 Speaker 1: and likewise they think that Penn State. Oh, that's a 851 00:43:52,200 --> 00:43:54,200 Speaker 1: fancy graphic there, Colin, there was two of me all 852 00:43:54,239 --> 00:43:55,839 Speaker 1: of a sudden. A lot of people think Penn State 853 00:43:55,960 --> 00:43:58,960 Speaker 1: just can't. Of course, on this show, our old adage 854 00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:02,439 Speaker 1: is there's a difference between have not and cannot, and 855 00:44:02,680 --> 00:44:05,359 Speaker 1: I do not think that Penn State's playoff hopes fall 856 00:44:05,400 --> 00:44:08,400 Speaker 1: into the cannot category. I just think they have not. 857 00:44:09,640 --> 00:44:12,800 Speaker 1: But it would shock people some if they made the playoff. 858 00:44:13,120 --> 00:44:15,440 Speaker 1: It would shock people if Kansas State made the playoff. 859 00:44:15,800 --> 00:44:18,160 Speaker 1: Everyone is going to not everyone. I don't want to 860 00:44:18,160 --> 00:44:22,760 Speaker 1: paint with a broadbrush. Some out there, the more casual 861 00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:26,279 Speaker 1: amongst us, will have that one hit wonder stamp and 862 00:44:26,320 --> 00:44:29,560 Speaker 1: they'll try and plaster it on the forehead of that program, 863 00:44:29,719 --> 00:44:31,920 Speaker 1: and their entire offensive line comes back that was already 864 00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:35,479 Speaker 1: a top fifteen rushing outfit. This year, Will Howard gets 865 00:44:35,520 --> 00:44:38,520 Speaker 1: the offense to himself at quarterback this year. Their schedule 866 00:44:38,600 --> 00:44:42,440 Speaker 1: sets up nicely. They are currently the fourth odds on 867 00:44:42,520 --> 00:44:46,240 Speaker 1: favorite to win a title out of the big twelve teams, 868 00:44:47,840 --> 00:44:50,560 Speaker 1: and Texas is number one. There they are every year. 869 00:44:50,960 --> 00:44:53,600 Speaker 1: I think Vegas has the same model that we have internally, 870 00:44:54,120 --> 00:44:57,719 Speaker 1: just gets it, gets plastered on Texas every single year. 871 00:44:58,680 --> 00:45:01,880 Speaker 1: Let's keep an eye on Kansas State. I mean, we 872 00:45:02,280 --> 00:45:04,680 Speaker 1: need to look back no further than last year. Kansas 873 00:45:04,719 --> 00:45:08,080 Speaker 1: State beat the team from the Big Twelve that made 874 00:45:08,120 --> 00:45:11,920 Speaker 1: the title game. So yeah, that would shock people, certainly. 875 00:45:12,160 --> 00:45:14,200 Speaker 1: But they've got a really good system out there, and 876 00:45:14,200 --> 00:45:16,239 Speaker 1: they've got some really good players in that really good 877 00:45:16,280 --> 00:45:19,120 Speaker 1: system this year, so especially if they build up some steam, 878 00:45:19,280 --> 00:45:21,360 Speaker 1: which I think they will watch out for them. And 879 00:45:21,440 --> 00:45:25,000 Speaker 1: also Miami, this would shock people. Need to stop bumping 880 00:45:25,040 --> 00:45:28,200 Speaker 1: the table here. The mic goes crazy. Five of their 881 00:45:28,239 --> 00:45:30,160 Speaker 1: top six pass rushers return. I think they had a 882 00:45:30,160 --> 00:45:32,080 Speaker 1: top twenty pass rushing unit this year. There was a 883 00:45:32,080 --> 00:45:35,080 Speaker 1: lot of bad for Miami. None of this is likely. 884 00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:38,400 Speaker 1: I'm just saying there are some technical possibilities here that 885 00:45:38,440 --> 00:45:42,360 Speaker 1: would shock you. Maybe that new offensive coordinator is exactly 886 00:45:42,440 --> 00:45:45,240 Speaker 1: what they need there. Maybe him being paired with Tyler 887 00:45:45,320 --> 00:45:47,640 Speaker 1: van Dyke exactly what they need. Who knows. Maybe they 888 00:45:47,680 --> 00:45:49,640 Speaker 1: dip in the portal a time or two after spring 889 00:45:49,680 --> 00:45:52,080 Speaker 1: and get some some really key pieces. It's year two 890 00:45:52,400 --> 00:45:54,759 Speaker 1: under a new coaching staff, so that's always a big deal. 891 00:45:55,160 --> 00:45:59,520 Speaker 1: So yeah, I think it would shock the world if 892 00:45:59,560 --> 00:46:01,520 Speaker 1: Miami or Kansas State or Penn State or A and 893 00:46:01,640 --> 00:46:05,640 Speaker 1: M made the playoff. I think that would be pretty shocking. 894 00:46:06,440 --> 00:46:08,359 Speaker 1: It should not shock you at all if Penn State 895 00:46:08,440 --> 00:46:10,680 Speaker 1: makes it, but the rest of them, yeah, I could 896 00:46:10,680 --> 00:46:14,680 Speaker 1: see the shock factor to varying degrees. Again, this has 897 00:46:14,719 --> 00:46:20,000 Speaker 1: not been a prediction segment, merely a commentary on where 898 00:46:20,000 --> 00:46:22,520 Speaker 1: the sport sits in March of the year of our 899 00:46:22,560 --> 00:46:26,479 Speaker 1: low twenty twenty three. Now, if you rolled your eyes 900 00:46:26,520 --> 00:46:29,440 Speaker 1: at that, I know you, guys, So I know some 901 00:46:29,520 --> 00:46:32,120 Speaker 1: of you did because you think I'm just I'm just 902 00:46:32,320 --> 00:46:35,480 Speaker 1: patronizing some people, or you think I'm placating, I guess 903 00:46:35,520 --> 00:46:38,040 Speaker 1: would be the better word. You're really gonna love where 904 00:46:38,080 --> 00:46:40,719 Speaker 1: we're about to go. Colin, I think we have another question. Yeah, 905 00:46:40,719 --> 00:46:47,759 Speaker 1: it was a question. Okay, So then hit us up 906 00:46:48,560 --> 00:46:51,360 Speaker 1: and he said, do you see actual title contenders in 907 00:46:51,400 --> 00:46:53,080 Speaker 1: the PAC twelve this year? Are just a lot of 908 00:46:53,120 --> 00:46:57,560 Speaker 1: pretty good teams from Bellevue, Washington. Let me reiter rate 909 00:46:58,400 --> 00:47:04,520 Speaker 1: for added effect. What he just asked is, basically, are 910 00:47:04,560 --> 00:47:06,600 Speaker 1: there teams out on the West coast that, if things 911 00:47:06,640 --> 00:47:09,759 Speaker 1: came together this year, could win a title? And I 912 00:47:09,800 --> 00:47:13,160 Speaker 1: think there are. I just need one. So we're not 913 00:47:13,200 --> 00:47:16,759 Speaker 1: doing an entire PAC twelve preview video or anything. But 914 00:47:16,840 --> 00:47:22,720 Speaker 1: out of the Pac twelve, is there collectively a team 915 00:47:22,840 --> 00:47:25,400 Speaker 1: that conference could spit out that all of a sudden 916 00:47:25,560 --> 00:47:30,279 Speaker 1: just wins a title. I think there at least is 917 00:47:30,320 --> 00:47:33,560 Speaker 1: that in the cards, because I love the deck of 918 00:47:33,640 --> 00:47:37,200 Speaker 1: quarterbacks out there to use the card metaphor. Bo Nick's 919 00:47:37,239 --> 00:47:40,279 Speaker 1: coming back for that conference is a really big deal. 920 00:47:40,640 --> 00:47:43,000 Speaker 1: Really big deal for Oregon, really big deal for the conference. 921 00:47:43,040 --> 00:47:46,520 Speaker 1: Caleb Williams at USC has to play another year, obviously, 922 00:47:46,760 --> 00:47:50,440 Speaker 1: really big deal. Michael Pennix is back at Washington. One 923 00:47:50,480 --> 00:47:53,720 Speaker 1: of the best stories in college football last year, Cam Rising, 924 00:47:54,200 --> 00:47:58,719 Speaker 1: Jesse's doppelganger back at Utah again, for he is basically 925 00:47:58,960 --> 00:48:01,960 Speaker 1: the Sean Clifford of the Pac twelve. Now and dj 926 00:48:02,080 --> 00:48:04,840 Speaker 1: ouy Angola lay what he plays at Clemson. No, he doesn't, 927 00:48:04,960 --> 00:48:08,160 Speaker 1: he plays at Oregon State. Now, welcome back for those 928 00:48:08,200 --> 00:48:10,080 Speaker 1: of you who tuned out and they're just coming back 929 00:48:10,120 --> 00:48:13,239 Speaker 1: for spring football. Dju was on the move while you 930 00:48:13,280 --> 00:48:16,040 Speaker 1: were away, and he is in Corvallis now you also 931 00:48:16,160 --> 00:48:19,000 Speaker 1: have that. So quarterbacks the most important position in the sport. 932 00:48:19,200 --> 00:48:21,200 Speaker 1: There's some good ones out there. I'm not even mentioning 933 00:48:21,200 --> 00:48:25,040 Speaker 1: guys like Dante Moore at UCLA, cam Ward in year 934 00:48:25,040 --> 00:48:29,120 Speaker 1: two at Washington State, Delarea down at Arizona, because those 935 00:48:29,160 --> 00:48:33,440 Speaker 1: probably probably are not teams that would be capable of 936 00:48:33,440 --> 00:48:36,520 Speaker 1: making the playoff, even with good quarterback play. I reserve 937 00:48:36,600 --> 00:48:38,479 Speaker 1: the right to change my mind on that, because I 938 00:48:38,520 --> 00:48:41,479 Speaker 1: certainly didn't see TCU coming last year. But think about 939 00:48:41,480 --> 00:48:43,879 Speaker 1: the coaches out there that are entering year two three 940 00:48:43,880 --> 00:48:47,600 Speaker 1: of the Big Ones, three lead teams that are among 941 00:48:47,640 --> 00:48:50,560 Speaker 1: the favorites odds wise to win the conference. Kaylin Debor 942 00:48:50,880 --> 00:48:54,200 Speaker 1: at Washington's out there. He's still just really early into 943 00:48:54,200 --> 00:48:58,200 Speaker 1: his tenure. Dan Lanning at Oregon, Lincoln Riley down at 944 00:48:58,320 --> 00:49:00,840 Speaker 1: USC And you've also guys that have been there a 945 00:49:00,880 --> 00:49:03,080 Speaker 1: little bit longer. Jonathan Smith's got a really good thing 946 00:49:03,360 --> 00:49:06,160 Speaker 1: going on at Oregon State. Chip Kelly at UCLA. I've 947 00:49:06,160 --> 00:49:08,840 Speaker 1: spoken at length recently about how I just think the 948 00:49:08,840 --> 00:49:11,160 Speaker 1: sport's kind of coming to Chip Kelly, a guy who 949 00:49:11,320 --> 00:49:14,120 Speaker 1: was never known as a prolific recruiter, all of a 950 00:49:14,160 --> 00:49:16,960 Speaker 1: sudden lives in a world where you don't have to 951 00:49:17,000 --> 00:49:21,720 Speaker 1: tear it up in recruiting. You can work the nil game. Firstly, 952 00:49:21,960 --> 00:49:24,279 Speaker 1: and secondly, you can work the transfer portal. And that's 953 00:49:24,320 --> 00:49:26,160 Speaker 1: what they did last year, and that's what they've done 954 00:49:26,160 --> 00:49:28,040 Speaker 1: again this year, and that's what I think they'll continue 955 00:49:28,080 --> 00:49:31,400 Speaker 1: to do. And Chip Kelly's right place, right time here. Also, 956 00:49:31,920 --> 00:49:34,960 Speaker 1: you know Kyle Whittingham's still out there. I always save 957 00:49:35,040 --> 00:49:37,680 Speaker 1: him for last because I know how much he loves 958 00:49:37,960 --> 00:49:41,320 Speaker 1: being saved for last and how much he loves being overlooked. 959 00:49:41,320 --> 00:49:44,800 Speaker 1: So why not feed into it at this point, something 960 00:49:45,480 --> 00:49:48,720 Speaker 1: isn't something until it is something. And that's a quote, 961 00:49:49,040 --> 00:49:51,960 Speaker 1: especially for our younger audience, that I want you to 962 00:49:52,040 --> 00:49:54,719 Speaker 1: take and I want you to bottle it up. I 963 00:49:54,760 --> 00:49:56,880 Speaker 1: just want you to drop that on someone this week. 964 00:49:57,200 --> 00:50:00,839 Speaker 1: Something isn't something until it is something. Just blow someone's mind. 965 00:50:01,600 --> 00:50:04,600 Speaker 1: Alabama used to be bad. Did you know that? If 966 00:50:04,600 --> 00:50:06,640 Speaker 1: you're in our younger audience, you did not know that 967 00:50:06,719 --> 00:50:09,600 Speaker 1: they used to be bad? Then they weren't anymore. Clemson 968 00:50:09,640 --> 00:50:11,839 Speaker 1: once upon a time was not a national power than 969 00:50:11,920 --> 00:50:16,160 Speaker 1: they were. Georgia was incapable, according to some of winning 970 00:50:16,160 --> 00:50:18,040 Speaker 1: a title, then all of a sudden, they won two 971 00:50:18,040 --> 00:50:21,560 Speaker 1: of them in a row. Something's not happening until it's happening. 972 00:50:21,600 --> 00:50:24,400 Speaker 1: The Pac twelve not capable of winning a title. According 973 00:50:24,400 --> 00:50:26,279 Speaker 1: to many, there's a good reason for you to feel 974 00:50:26,280 --> 00:50:28,640 Speaker 1: that way. Well, they haven't come close, haven't had a 975 00:50:28,640 --> 00:50:32,279 Speaker 1: playoff team what since the Washington year, And it's just 976 00:50:32,400 --> 00:50:36,600 Speaker 1: it's it's been a very very barren landscape out there. 977 00:50:37,800 --> 00:50:41,560 Speaker 1: It will change, could change this year, hoopst knows. Now 978 00:50:41,560 --> 00:50:44,080 Speaker 1: we're asking if a team can win a title or 979 00:50:44,120 --> 00:50:45,719 Speaker 1: be a contender for a title instead of just being 980 00:50:45,719 --> 00:50:48,000 Speaker 1: a contender for the playoff. And when we expand the playoff, 981 00:50:48,040 --> 00:50:50,000 Speaker 1: of course they'll get more in. But I'm looking at 982 00:50:50,000 --> 00:50:52,919 Speaker 1: it through the lens of just that finer tuned four 983 00:50:53,000 --> 00:50:56,879 Speaker 1: team model while I can, and you just need one. 984 00:50:57,440 --> 00:50:59,399 Speaker 1: Lincoln Riley's gonna get there. I don't know if it's 985 00:50:59,440 --> 00:51:01,800 Speaker 1: this year, but he gonna get there. Landing and Oregon 986 00:51:01,840 --> 00:51:03,600 Speaker 1: are gonna get there. Don't know if it's this year, 987 00:51:03,640 --> 00:51:05,919 Speaker 1: but they're gonna get there. And then, as I use 988 00:51:06,040 --> 00:51:09,320 Speaker 1: those as the first two, sure enough in Utah you 989 00:51:09,360 --> 00:51:12,800 Speaker 1: could say, didn't we just beat both of those teams 990 00:51:12,800 --> 00:51:16,040 Speaker 1: in consecutive years in the PAC twelve championship game? And 991 00:51:16,080 --> 00:51:19,840 Speaker 1: then Washington could look and say, you know, we fared 992 00:51:19,880 --> 00:51:22,800 Speaker 1: pretty well this year too, are you You're forgetting about us. No, 993 00:51:22,880 --> 00:51:25,399 Speaker 1: I'm not forgetting about you. I just have to mention 994 00:51:25,480 --> 00:51:28,319 Speaker 1: someone first and someone second. So yeah, I think it 995 00:51:28,360 --> 00:51:31,400 Speaker 1: could happen. Also it could also it could also be 996 00:51:31,440 --> 00:51:34,680 Speaker 1: the case then no one makes it again. I have 997 00:51:35,560 --> 00:51:39,800 Speaker 1: some news for you, although I kind of have to 998 00:51:39,880 --> 00:51:44,160 Speaker 1: keep it shrouded in secrecy. So every every day a 999 00:51:44,200 --> 00:51:47,960 Speaker 1: couple of you ask me, Hey, whatever happened to us 1000 00:51:48,000 --> 00:51:51,240 Speaker 1: getting the channel to one hundred and fifty thousand subs? 1001 00:51:52,120 --> 00:51:54,160 Speaker 1: And you say, you telling us that you were gonna 1002 00:51:54,160 --> 00:51:57,360 Speaker 1: have a lot of guests on the show. What's happened 1003 00:51:57,400 --> 00:52:01,000 Speaker 1: to it is it's been shifted into sort of hyperdrive. 1004 00:52:01,719 --> 00:52:03,960 Speaker 1: So what we could have done is we could have 1005 00:52:04,040 --> 00:52:06,600 Speaker 1: just brought guests on via zoom. That's what we could 1006 00:52:06,600 --> 00:52:08,479 Speaker 1: have done, and we've done that from time to time. 1007 00:52:08,719 --> 00:52:11,239 Speaker 1: We had Cole Kublic on a couple of probably about 1008 00:52:11,239 --> 00:52:12,839 Speaker 1: a month ago at this point. It was really good, 1009 00:52:13,520 --> 00:52:17,439 Speaker 1: highly highly reviewed. But I want to go and sit 1010 00:52:17,520 --> 00:52:21,279 Speaker 1: down with you in person. And so there are like 1011 00:52:21,440 --> 00:52:23,440 Speaker 1: eight and what Jesse, you'd say about eight or nine 1012 00:52:23,480 --> 00:52:24,960 Speaker 1: people on that meeting the other day. We got a 1013 00:52:24,960 --> 00:52:28,440 Speaker 1: lot of folks at this company who are now invested 1014 00:52:28,760 --> 00:52:31,520 Speaker 1: in putting a very very high caliber product together. And 1015 00:52:31,560 --> 00:52:35,600 Speaker 1: so in short order, I will be presenting to you 1016 00:52:36,120 --> 00:52:38,640 Speaker 1: a new concept that we'll be executing here on the show, 1017 00:52:39,400 --> 00:52:41,719 Speaker 1: where we go and we sit down with some of 1018 00:52:41,719 --> 00:52:44,320 Speaker 1: the biggest names in the business coaching, media, et cetera. 1019 00:52:45,040 --> 00:52:47,920 Speaker 1: And I think you're gonna like it. I think you're 1020 00:52:47,920 --> 00:52:49,799 Speaker 1: gonna like it a lot. Because what we're not gonna 1021 00:52:49,840 --> 00:52:52,960 Speaker 1: do is the standard question and answer session. You can 1022 00:52:53,000 --> 00:52:57,080 Speaker 1: get that anywhere. To get these guys to be conversational 1023 00:52:57,320 --> 00:53:00,279 Speaker 1: and take you places and give you behind in the 1024 00:53:00,280 --> 00:53:04,000 Speaker 1: scenes access and give you stories you've never heard before. Well, 1025 00:53:04,040 --> 00:53:06,880 Speaker 1: if you're anywhere half decent at your job, which we 1026 00:53:06,920 --> 00:53:09,960 Speaker 1: sometimes claim I am around here, that is my job 1027 00:53:10,000 --> 00:53:11,920 Speaker 1: to pull out of them. And I think we will, 1028 00:53:12,200 --> 00:53:13,759 Speaker 1: and I think that you'll like it, and I think 1029 00:53:13,760 --> 00:53:16,160 Speaker 1: you'll love some of the names that we have lined up. 1030 00:53:16,880 --> 00:53:19,440 Speaker 1: Some of those names haven't even been informed. I just 1031 00:53:19,560 --> 00:53:22,160 Speaker 1: know they'll say yes when we ask. Others are already 1032 00:53:22,560 --> 00:53:25,120 Speaker 1: on tap for us, So look forward to that. Can't 1033 00:53:25,160 --> 00:53:27,399 Speaker 1: give you a definitive start date yet, but is coming 1034 00:53:27,400 --> 00:53:29,399 Speaker 1: in the very near future, So look forward to that. 1035 00:53:29,560 --> 00:53:31,879 Speaker 1: Appreciate you guys so much being tuned in it used 1036 00:53:31,880 --> 00:53:33,920 Speaker 1: to be not too long ago. Down in Columbus. We 1037 00:53:33,920 --> 00:53:36,120 Speaker 1: were happy in the middle of the season to have 1038 00:53:36,160 --> 00:53:39,560 Speaker 1: twenty viewers, and I got what like fifteen hundred of 1039 00:53:39,600 --> 00:53:43,040 Speaker 1: you here watching live if you have tuned in. The 1040 00:53:43,160 --> 00:53:46,319 Speaker 1: last thing I ask is click that thumbs up our 1041 00:53:46,320 --> 00:53:49,640 Speaker 1: button and click that subscribe button. That is how we 1042 00:53:49,719 --> 00:53:53,520 Speaker 1: keep everything flowing at an optimum level. No one has 1043 00:53:53,560 --> 00:53:56,200 Speaker 1: to pay for anything. No one gets told, hey, you 1044 00:53:56,280 --> 00:53:58,000 Speaker 1: got to do this, you got to do that. We 1045 00:53:58,160 --> 00:54:00,160 Speaker 1: just get left alone. As long as you'll like the 1046 00:54:00,239 --> 00:54:03,960 Speaker 1: videos and subscribe to the channel in the podcast until Tuesday, 1047 00:54:04,239 --> 00:54:06,160 Speaker 1: when I will see you in the podcast feed for 1048 00:54:06,200 --> 00:54:09,080 Speaker 1: the Late Kick Extra pod for producer Jesse, for director 1049 00:54:09,120 --> 00:54:11,040 Speaker 1: column I'm Josh, babe. Take care, have a great start 1050 00:54:11,080 --> 00:54:12,160 Speaker 1: to your week, and God bless