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Speaker 1: It's a miracle that Notre Dame had the thing close

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Speaker 1: It's amazing to watch, absolutely amazing to watch. They forced

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Speaker 1: The thing they've tried to build there, the thing they've

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Speaker 1: I don't need to come there and be a star.

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Speaker 1: like it's supermarket sweep, Like let's push our little college

430
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Speaker 1: football buggy through the grocery store and we want this,

431
00:22:07,400 --> 00:22:09,640
Speaker 1: we want this, we want that. Go try it, find

432
00:22:09,680 --> 00:22:11,880
Speaker 1: out how it feels in Tallahassee, Florida this past year.

433
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Speaker 1: You want to go play portal roulette, you asked Lane Kiff,

434
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Speaker 1: and how it worked out. I thought Ole Miss was

435
00:22:17,119 --> 00:22:20,720
Speaker 1: really good this year. But the problem was, there's this

436
00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:26,119
Speaker 1: intangible thing. It's like the mortar between the bricks. You know.

437
00:22:26,160 --> 00:22:29,119
Speaker 1: It's it's not always a former five star player. Sometimes

438
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Speaker 1: it's former three stars guys you don't know. But there

439
00:22:32,160 --> 00:22:36,359
Speaker 1: is a thing that exists in every locker room worth again,

440
00:22:36,640 --> 00:22:39,600
Speaker 1: you know what, that ends up doing anything worth a

441
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Speaker 1: you know what. And it's a whole lot more than

442
00:22:42,080 --> 00:22:44,280
Speaker 1: just the guys. It's a whole lot more than just

443
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Speaker 1: the pieces. It's a glue. It's a connectivity. It's the

444
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Speaker 1: difference between individuals and a team. And it all gets

445
00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:54,360
Speaker 1: born out of culture, and it all gets born out

446
00:22:54,359 --> 00:22:59,119
Speaker 1: of immersing those people in something, in some cases, out

447
00:22:59,119 --> 00:23:01,720
Speaker 1: of high school and through the portal. But if you

448
00:23:01,760 --> 00:23:03,920
Speaker 1: think it's as simple as ignoring all that and just

449
00:23:04,000 --> 00:23:06,879
Speaker 1: going and buying pieces, you'll continue to fail. If your

450
00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:11,000
Speaker 1: program ignores one philosophy because they think their shortcuts to it,

451
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Speaker 1: you'll continue to fail. The one thing this format will do,

452
00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:17,800
Speaker 1: this twelve team format will do is if you make

453
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Speaker 1: it to the format, that'd be one thing. But inevitably

454
00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:23,480
Speaker 1: there will be enough teams out there doing it the

455
00:23:23,520 --> 00:23:25,840
Speaker 1: right way that you're going to run into several of

456
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Speaker 1: them in an effort to get to this championship game,

457
00:23:29,160 --> 00:23:31,760
Speaker 1: and they will beat you. They'll beat you because they

458
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Speaker 1: possess something you don't and you can't manufacture it, and

459
00:23:34,480 --> 00:23:35,919
Speaker 1: you can't go buy it. You got to do it

460
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Speaker 1: the old fashioned way. No microwaves involved there. It is

461
00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:42,760
Speaker 1: old school oven mentality. I thought there was a master

462
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Speaker 1: class at quarterback by both these programs, not in the game,

463
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Speaker 1: not only in the game. I mean, both of them

464
00:23:48,560 --> 00:23:52,480
Speaker 1: played pretty well last night. Will Howard played maybe his

465
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Speaker 1: game of the year last night. But I thought the

466
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Speaker 1: master class from both of these programs at quarterback was

467
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Speaker 1: in that they both went to the portal to get

468
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Speaker 1: a quarterback. And yet if you were to just sit

469
00:24:02,560 --> 00:24:04,879
Speaker 1: there and listen to Riley Leonard or watch him interact

470
00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:06,560
Speaker 1: with his team, or if you sit there and listen

471
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Speaker 1: to Will Howard and watch him interact with his team.

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Speaker 1: Both of them with those Captain C's on their chest,

473
00:24:12,600 --> 00:24:14,920
Speaker 1: you'd think they've been around there five or six years.

474
00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:18,359
Speaker 1: And that's the beauty of it. These programs already go

475
00:24:18,440 --> 00:24:21,320
Speaker 1: to the portal pretty sparingly. But when they went and

476
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Speaker 1: got someone at the most important position in all of sports,

477
00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:27,400
Speaker 1: they went and got someone, and they didn't do what

478
00:24:27,480 --> 00:24:30,359
Speaker 1: Mario had to do with cam Ward. Mario had Miami

479
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Speaker 1: in a much different place than these coaches had their

480
00:24:33,359 --> 00:24:36,560
Speaker 1: programs in this point in time. This year, Mario had

481
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Speaker 1: to go get cam Ward and they had to rely

482
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Speaker 1: on cam Ward to be an instrumental tool in turning

483
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Speaker 1: the program, turning the culture of that locker room around.

484
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Speaker 1: He didn't do it single handedly, but they needed him

485
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Speaker 1: to be a lot more of the lift in Coral

486
00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:56,000
Speaker 1: Gables than Ryan Day needed Will Howard to be in Columbus,

487
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Speaker 1: or that Marcus Freeman needed Riley Leonard to be in

488
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Speaker 1: South Bend. Well, they needed those guys to do was

489
00:25:02,800 --> 00:25:05,840
Speaker 1: come in and they needed them to be implemented in

490
00:25:05,880 --> 00:25:09,159
Speaker 1: something that already works, and they did it pretty seamlessly,

491
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Speaker 1: not perfectly, but They did it pretty seamlessly, to the

492
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Speaker 1: point where you get to the end of the season

493
00:25:13,760 --> 00:25:16,120
Speaker 1: or even the midpoint of the season, and you can't

494
00:25:16,119 --> 00:25:18,720
Speaker 1: even tell those guys are portal additions, and you can't

495
00:25:18,760 --> 00:25:21,240
Speaker 1: tell that they're new. They just feel like they've always

496
00:25:21,320 --> 00:25:24,560
Speaker 1: been there. That's a really beautiful thing, you know, when

497
00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:28,200
Speaker 1: you have an existing product and then you add another

498
00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:30,760
Speaker 1: piece to it, and before too much longer, you can't

499
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Speaker 1: even tell where the added piece was. It just all

500
00:25:33,400 --> 00:25:36,520
Speaker 1: blends together and looks like it's just one piece, one

501
00:25:36,560 --> 00:25:40,800
Speaker 1: work of art. That is doing the portal the right way,

502
00:25:41,280 --> 00:25:43,800
Speaker 1: not the only way, but the right way. I use

503
00:25:43,880 --> 00:25:46,960
Speaker 1: the Miami example there. Miami had to do that, Mario

504
00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:50,840
Speaker 1: had to do that. These programs were at a different level,

505
00:25:50,920 --> 00:25:52,400
Speaker 1: you know, and their journey to the top, they didn't

506
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Speaker 1: have to do that. They had to go get help.

507
00:25:54,040 --> 00:25:55,920
Speaker 1: They had to go get a portal quarterback. But they

508
00:25:55,920 --> 00:25:57,240
Speaker 1: had to get one, and they had to get the

509
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Speaker 1: right one. So I'm gonna talk about day a little

510
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Speaker 1: bit more later in the show. But I thought these

511
00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:05,680
Speaker 1: were two of the best coaching staffs. I thought they

512
00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:09,480
Speaker 1: were the two best coaching staffs, especially head coach coordinators

513
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Speaker 1: against each other at the end of the road, and

514
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Speaker 1: so it made a lot of sense that they were

515
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Speaker 1: playing against each other in the title game. Real privileged

516
00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:18,240
Speaker 1: to be around both those groups. Man. I thought Rhys

517
00:26:18,359 --> 00:26:20,720
Speaker 1: Davis was Scott Van Pelt last night did a great

518
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Speaker 1: job of summarizing the theme of faith and how it's

519
00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:26,840
Speaker 1: been woven into the journey of both of these teams

520
00:26:27,200 --> 00:26:30,080
Speaker 1: to get where they were playing for a national championship

521
00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:31,840
Speaker 1: last night. I know a lot of you have a

522
00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:35,000
Speaker 1: lot of thoughts about when people vocalize any kind of

523
00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:39,480
Speaker 1: belief that they have, political, spiritual on air. It makes

524
00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:42,320
Speaker 1: some of you uncomfortable. Some of you love it. That's okay.

525
00:26:43,119 --> 00:26:44,760
Speaker 1: I'm not here to tell you how to feel about that.

526
00:26:45,680 --> 00:26:49,680
Speaker 1: Sometimes I feel strongly about it too when I watched it, though,

527
00:26:49,760 --> 00:26:51,760
Speaker 1: here's the most important part to me. We get to

528
00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:54,160
Speaker 1: see aspects of these teams that the public doesn't get

529
00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:57,320
Speaker 1: to see. All I want to tell you is anything

530
00:26:57,359 --> 00:26:59,959
Speaker 1: that was being said on a microphone or on a

531
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Speaker 1: stage or the press conference by those players on those teams,

532
00:27:03,600 --> 00:27:06,200
Speaker 1: both at Notre Dame and Ohio State, was one hundred

533
00:27:06,240 --> 00:27:10,480
Speaker 1: and fifty percent authentically being lived out on those campuses

534
00:27:10,800 --> 00:27:14,240
Speaker 1: in those dorm rooms in those facilities. I know because

535
00:27:14,280 --> 00:27:16,840
Speaker 1: I saw it all year, and so it got to

536
00:27:16,880 --> 00:27:19,679
Speaker 1: the point at the end where the platforms get bigger,

537
00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:23,240
Speaker 1: the stages get grander, the amplifier gets turned up in

538
00:27:23,280 --> 00:27:26,120
Speaker 1: the country, and in some cases the world got exposed

539
00:27:26,160 --> 00:27:29,879
Speaker 1: to it. But you got exposed to something publicly later

540
00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:32,920
Speaker 1: on down the road that sort of in a more

541
00:27:32,960 --> 00:27:36,600
Speaker 1: condensed fashion, had been put in practice months and years

542
00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:39,600
Speaker 1: ahead of time. Tip of the cap to both of them,

543
00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:41,800
Speaker 1: Tip of the cap to both of them carried themselves

544
00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:45,439
Speaker 1: first class phenomenal matchup last night. I mean, did we

545
00:27:45,480 --> 00:27:49,240
Speaker 1: even get a whiff of like chippiness personal foul penalties? Did?

546
00:27:49,320 --> 00:27:50,840
Speaker 1: I don't know if we even got anything like that.

547
00:27:51,119 --> 00:27:53,600
Speaker 1: So it was a real pleasure privileged to watch. And

548
00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:56,960
Speaker 1: I would probably put those two programs in the face

549
00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:00,159
Speaker 1: of anyone who argues that the sport is headed in

550
00:28:00,200 --> 00:28:02,760
Speaker 1: a really, really bad direction. You don't have to love

551
00:28:02,800 --> 00:28:06,840
Speaker 1: everything about it. But if this, if this right here,

552
00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:10,200
Speaker 1: if that matchup last night, if that's what the new

553
00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:12,359
Speaker 1: format is going to bear out, if that's what the

554
00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:15,280
Speaker 1: filter of the new format is going to serve to produce,

555
00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:18,280
Speaker 1: then maybe the new format's not so bad. After all,

556
00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:21,919
Speaker 1: Academy Sports and Outdoors I know, helped a lot of

557
00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:25,159
Speaker 1: you out in Atlanta over the weekend. I know a

558
00:28:25,160 --> 00:28:27,400
Speaker 1: lot of you have geared up at Academy Sports and Outdoors.

559
00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:28,920
Speaker 1: I know a lot more of you will probably be

560
00:28:28,960 --> 00:28:31,320
Speaker 1: gearing up in the coming days. There was a lot

561
00:28:31,359 --> 00:28:35,960
Speaker 1: of winter weather gear, apparel, et cetera that needed to

562
00:28:36,000 --> 00:28:38,600
Speaker 1: be purchased all over the South this week up to it,

563
00:28:38,640 --> 00:28:42,960
Speaker 1: including this very moment where snow is falling inches per

564
00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:45,880
Speaker 1: hour along the Gulf Coast, hasn't happened since I think

565
00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:48,400
Speaker 1: the late eighteen hundreds, and we all remember how that

566
00:28:48,440 --> 00:28:52,040
Speaker 1: one turned out. So if you need to gear up anyway,

567
00:28:52,040 --> 00:28:54,320
Speaker 1: Academy is your place now. It's not going to be

568
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Speaker 1: cold forever. I have it on good authority that after

569
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Speaker 1: winter comes spring, and with that comes spring sports includes

570
00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:03,840
Speaker 1: softball season for US Academy dot Com. If you can't

571
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Speaker 1: get their in person Academy Sports and Outdoors. If you can,

572
00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:08,239
Speaker 1: they've got you set. If you just want to go

573
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Speaker 1: get a pouch of big lead chew grape preferably, but

574
00:29:11,560 --> 00:29:13,240
Speaker 1: big lead chew for all I care, go to the

575
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Speaker 1: checkout line and get it, but do it Academy Sports

576
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Speaker 1: and Outdoors. Point being people like us, people of our ilk.

577
00:29:20,800 --> 00:29:24,200
Speaker 1: We need things, and the things that we need are

578
00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:27,600
Speaker 1: found at Academy Sports and Outdoors with very few exceptions.

579
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Speaker 1: So if you're gonna do it already, guys, I would

580
00:29:29,760 --> 00:29:34,080
Speaker 1: humbly ask that you do it while supporting the brand

581
00:29:34,400 --> 00:29:37,040
Speaker 1: that supports this brand. They've done it for a while

582
00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:38,920
Speaker 1: and they continue to do it, and we thank them.

583
00:29:39,480 --> 00:29:43,560
Speaker 1: Boy do we thank them. Oh look, I have some

584
00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:46,480
Speaker 1: management water down under the desk that I think I'll

585
00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:49,200
Speaker 1: take a sip of Management water. Of course, is the

586
00:29:49,280 --> 00:29:53,360
Speaker 1: kind of water whose brand coincides with a city in

587
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Speaker 1: the Philippines. Of course, it's got to be square instead

588
00:29:56,280 --> 00:30:00,719
Speaker 1: of rounded, you know the type. But it's not here though,

589
00:30:00,760 --> 00:30:05,320
Speaker 1: So I took this out of his office. It ain't

590
00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:08,959
Speaker 1: no Zevia. I'll tell you that it ain't no Zvia.

591
00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:14,320
Speaker 1: All right, let's move on. I waited responsibly. I waited

592
00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:16,080
Speaker 1: until the end of the year. Colin, here's a better

593
00:30:16,160 --> 00:30:18,920
Speaker 1: endpoint that doesn't include a cough. I waited until the

594
00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:21,400
Speaker 1: end of the year. Now, the twelve team playoff version

595
00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:24,520
Speaker 1: one is it's in the books. What did we think

596
00:30:24,560 --> 00:30:27,800
Speaker 1: about it? Did you like it. Did you not like it, well,

597
00:30:28,600 --> 00:30:31,800
Speaker 1: I hesitate to talk about this stuff because there is

598
00:30:31,840 --> 00:30:34,520
Speaker 1: no black and white answer to this. It's not zero sum.

599
00:30:34,560 --> 00:30:37,320
Speaker 1: It's not all good or all bad. Full disclosure. For

600
00:30:37,320 --> 00:30:39,920
Speaker 1: those of you who don't know me, Well, if you

601
00:30:39,920 --> 00:30:42,960
Speaker 1: don't know me, you're probably watching the individual video, which

602
00:30:43,040 --> 00:30:45,720
Speaker 1: means I would encourage you to subscribe to the channel

603
00:30:45,880 --> 00:30:48,720
Speaker 1: because it's just college football all year and we think

604
00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:51,240
Speaker 1: we do a half decent job on it, So help

605
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Speaker 1: us out. Join us. It's free, You don't have to

606
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:55,719
Speaker 1: actually register for anything, just subscribe to the channel. But

607
00:30:55,720 --> 00:30:58,880
Speaker 1: if you don't know me, I was never crazy about

608
00:30:58,880 --> 00:31:01,800
Speaker 1: expanding the playoff, But that means I just have a

609
00:31:01,800 --> 00:31:04,800
Speaker 1: different worldview for college football, and I never really I

610
00:31:04,800 --> 00:31:06,800
Speaker 1: don't care about national championships all that much in this

611
00:31:06,840 --> 00:31:09,480
Speaker 1: sport I do in every other sport. Every other sport's

612
00:31:09,520 --> 00:31:11,600
Speaker 1: about the playoff. To me, college football is not like

613
00:31:11,640 --> 00:31:14,480
Speaker 1: any other sport, So I don't care that every other

614
00:31:14,480 --> 00:31:17,720
Speaker 1: sport does this, and basketball does that, the NFL does this,

615
00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:20,240
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball does that. I don't care. College Football's

616
00:31:20,280 --> 00:31:22,640
Speaker 1: one of one for me, So I never needed playoff

617
00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:25,840
Speaker 1: implications to give games meaning to me. But many people

618
00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:27,640
Speaker 1: don't feel the way I do. So we got an

619
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Speaker 1: expanded playoff. Okay, so here's what I do want to do.

620
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Speaker 1: I do want to tell you some things I liked

621
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Speaker 1: about it. I think it's well documented what I don't

622
00:31:36,280 --> 00:31:38,400
Speaker 1: like about it, but I'll revisit that briefly and I'll

623
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Speaker 1: give you some new angles on it. But the first

624
00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:43,040
Speaker 1: thing I want to touch on is something that I

625
00:31:43,080 --> 00:31:46,640
Speaker 1: think most everyone agrees on. I haven't met a single

626
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Speaker 1: person who looked at the way the seeding format happened

627
00:31:50,400 --> 00:31:53,719
Speaker 1: this year and they said, oh, yeah, I loved it.

628
00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:56,480
Speaker 1: Makes total sense. Now, if you're a Boise State fan,

629
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Speaker 1: you are excluded from this conversation because, of course you

630
00:32:00,520 --> 00:32:03,760
Speaker 1: because your team benefited, you're biased. You should be. I

631
00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:06,600
Speaker 1: don't expect you. I don't expect the Arizona State fans

632
00:32:06,960 --> 00:32:08,800
Speaker 1: to say, oh, I hated that we got a first

633
00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:11,440
Speaker 1: round by just because we won the Big twelve. Of

634
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Speaker 1: course you loved it. Of course you don't want to

635
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Speaker 1: change anything. So respectfully, this is the only time I'm

636
00:32:17,240 --> 00:32:19,560
Speaker 1: gonna do this. Both of you guys got to go

637
00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:21,560
Speaker 1: over to the timeout corner, go sit out the garbage can.

638
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Speaker 1: You can still listen but you cannot talk, and I

639
00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:27,120
Speaker 1: will let you know who you can come back. That's

640
00:32:27,160 --> 00:32:29,120
Speaker 1: the fairest way I can go about this. So you

641
00:32:29,160 --> 00:32:31,719
Speaker 1: go sit out the garbage, and when we're done with this,

642
00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:34,360
Speaker 1: you can come back and sit in the circle with

643
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Speaker 1: the rest of us. Okay, And they're sit down, okay, Okay,

644
00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:40,120
Speaker 1: they're over there in the corner now, all right. As

645
00:32:40,160 --> 00:32:42,080
Speaker 1: for the rest of us, I don't know that I've

646
00:32:42,080 --> 00:32:45,000
Speaker 1: met many people that say, oh, I've got no problem

647
00:32:45,040 --> 00:32:47,240
Speaker 1: with the seating Formatt like. Even the people who liked

648
00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:50,480
Speaker 1: the expanded playoff by and large have said, I like

649
00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:53,720
Speaker 1: the expanded playoff, but we've got to fix the seating.

650
00:32:54,600 --> 00:32:58,520
Speaker 1: The seating was jacked up this year. I agree with you. Okay,

651
00:32:58,560 --> 00:33:02,480
Speaker 1: here's what's ironic about it. As is usually the case

652
00:33:02,520 --> 00:33:05,240
Speaker 1: in college football, common sense is not what we're chasing

653
00:33:05,480 --> 00:33:07,400
Speaker 1: because no one's really in charge of looking out for

654
00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:10,320
Speaker 1: the best interest of college football. Now, when I'm elected commissioner,

655
00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:12,560
Speaker 1: when I win in a landslide over Clatt, if this

656
00:33:12,640 --> 00:33:16,400
Speaker 1: election is operated fairly, then I will fix this. But

657
00:33:16,440 --> 00:33:20,240
Speaker 1: in the meantime, there is nobody like me, or even

658
00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:23,560
Speaker 1: like Clatt. There's no one whose job it is to

659
00:33:23,680 --> 00:33:26,120
Speaker 1: look out for the best interest of college football. Why

660
00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:28,160
Speaker 1: am I bringing this up? Well, I'm bringing this up

661
00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:31,080
Speaker 1: because as much as it seems like fixing the seating

662
00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:34,320
Speaker 1: is a no brainer. Did you read Marcelo's article on

663
00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:36,680
Speaker 1: twenty four to seven sports dot com over the weekend,

664
00:33:37,200 --> 00:33:39,520
Speaker 1: The article where he was quoting a lot of the

665
00:33:39,560 --> 00:33:41,760
Speaker 1: powers that be that are responsible for this decision, and

666
00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:45,240
Speaker 1: he was reminding you that even though most fans and

667
00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:48,040
Speaker 1: anyone with a brain looks at the seating format and

668
00:33:48,080 --> 00:33:51,320
Speaker 1: says this is kind of messed up, that's not how

669
00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:53,800
Speaker 1: you fix it. The ones who have to fix it

670
00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:59,200
Speaker 1: are the commissioners of the conferences plural and not all

671
00:33:59,280 --> 00:34:00,840
Speaker 1: of them have a problem with it. And you want

672
00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:02,640
Speaker 1: to know why, because none of them are looking at

673
00:34:02,680 --> 00:34:05,239
Speaker 1: for the best interest of college football. They're looking out

674
00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:08,000
Speaker 1: for their own best interests. So the Mountain West Conference

675
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:10,840
Speaker 1: commissioner has looked and said, honestly, I don't care that

676
00:34:10,880 --> 00:34:13,800
Speaker 1: everyone's concerned about this. One of our teams got a

677
00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:16,799
Speaker 1: first round by we like that. The Big Twelve commissioner,

678
00:34:16,880 --> 00:34:18,680
Speaker 1: one of our teams got a first round by we

679
00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:22,200
Speaker 1: like that. We're not for changing the seating format at all.

680
00:34:22,239 --> 00:34:24,840
Speaker 1: Why would we do that, Why would we do something

681
00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:27,680
Speaker 1: that cuts our legs out from under us? And hey,

682
00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:29,960
Speaker 1: you want to know something, I'd be the same way

683
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:32,439
Speaker 1: if I were them, because if I'm Brett your Mark,

684
00:34:32,640 --> 00:34:35,759
Speaker 1: if I'm the Mountain West Conference commissioner, my job is

685
00:34:35,800 --> 00:34:38,000
Speaker 1: not to look out for the best interest of college football.

686
00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:41,120
Speaker 1: My job's to look out for my teams. And if

687
00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:43,800
Speaker 1: I don't, they'll fire me and then they'll put someone

688
00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:46,000
Speaker 1: else in my place who does do it that way,

689
00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:50,480
Speaker 1: Which is why a college football commissioner should be brought

690
00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:53,440
Speaker 1: in to look at that and say, yeah, okay, your

691
00:34:53,480 --> 00:34:55,640
Speaker 1: opinion has been heard. We're going to do it anyway.

692
00:34:56,160 --> 00:35:01,000
Speaker 1: So anyone again with a fully functioning brain, I say that,

693
00:35:01,040 --> 00:35:03,120
Speaker 1: but it sounds a little disrespectful. So maybe some of

694
00:35:03,160 --> 00:35:05,640
Speaker 1: you out there did like the format. Let me just say,

695
00:35:05,960 --> 00:35:07,960
Speaker 1: if you don't think there's any problem with that format,

696
00:35:08,239 --> 00:35:11,880
Speaker 1: I strongly disagree with you. Again, doesn't mean you're you're dumb,

697
00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:14,120
Speaker 1: It just means I disagree with you. I would say.

698
00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:16,120
Speaker 1: A super majority of people looked and said Boise having

699
00:35:16,120 --> 00:35:19,040
Speaker 1: a first round Bysen saying and just because they locked

700
00:35:19,080 --> 00:35:22,400
Speaker 1: down a conference title, not all conferences are created equal welcome,

701
00:35:22,600 --> 00:35:24,880
Speaker 1: welcome to the message we've preached on this show forever.

702
00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:26,239
Speaker 1: And I'm gonna go ahead and let you in on

703
00:35:26,280 --> 00:35:29,400
Speaker 1: a little secret. Number two. You are not always what

704
00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:31,600
Speaker 1: your record says you are, which is a bridge too

705
00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:35,719
Speaker 1: far intellectually for some people. I understand baby steps around here.

706
00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:38,760
Speaker 1: So anyway, that's what I wanted to start with, because

707
00:35:38,760 --> 00:35:40,680
Speaker 1: that's the thing pretty much all of us agree on,

708
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:43,239
Speaker 1: and we can't even get action on that right now.

709
00:35:44,120 --> 00:35:46,440
Speaker 1: The Marcelo article, by the way, said, it's very unlikely.

710
00:35:46,600 --> 00:35:49,000
Speaker 1: I think Dellinger Ross Dellinger put out something on this too.

711
00:35:49,080 --> 00:35:52,239
Speaker 1: It's very unlikely that any kind of changes on that

712
00:35:52,239 --> 00:35:55,160
Speaker 1: front are made for the upcoming year because not everyone

713
00:35:55,200 --> 00:35:58,560
Speaker 1: agrees on it, and the reason they don't agree on it,

714
00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:01,680
Speaker 1: it's because of the most selfish reasons. So let me

715
00:36:01,719 --> 00:36:06,000
Speaker 1: talk about some pros, all right, mister anti expansion himself here,

716
00:36:06,440 --> 00:36:08,799
Speaker 1: let me give you some pro Some things I liked

717
00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:14,000
Speaker 1: about the expanded playoff, given the current dynamic, given the

718
00:36:14,040 --> 00:36:17,319
Speaker 1: way things are in college football today, given the fact

719
00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:19,480
Speaker 1: that I'm at Minting, I cannot go back in time

720
00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:25,160
Speaker 1: and rewrite history. Yes, this format kept many more fan

721
00:36:25,239 --> 00:36:31,240
Speaker 1: bases engaged. Yes, this format created many more meaningful games

722
00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:34,160
Speaker 1: air quotes for those of you listening on podcasts at

723
00:36:34,160 --> 00:36:35,759
Speaker 1: the end of the season. Now, the reason that I

724
00:36:35,920 --> 00:36:38,840
Speaker 1: make sure that I say that with a healthy dose

725
00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:43,200
Speaker 1: of sarcasm dripping from the statement is because we had

726
00:36:43,239 --> 00:36:46,040
Speaker 1: to start on chapter twelve of the book to make

727
00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:49,680
Speaker 1: that statement. Chapters one through eleven are the story of

728
00:36:49,719 --> 00:36:52,440
Speaker 1: college football. The story of college football. Of course, if

729
00:36:52,440 --> 00:36:54,640
Speaker 1: you go back a long time, go back enough time

730
00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:58,879
Speaker 1: is the playoff is a new concept. Once upon a time,

731
00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:02,080
Speaker 1: no one ever said the phrase meaningless game because no

732
00:37:02,080 --> 00:37:05,360
Speaker 1: one ever needed playoff implications or even title implications to

733
00:37:05,440 --> 00:37:08,080
Speaker 1: make a game meaningful. Because North Carolina could go play

734
00:37:08,160 --> 00:37:10,600
Speaker 1: Duke on a random Saturday in November and both of

735
00:37:10,640 --> 00:37:13,040
Speaker 1: them could be four lost teams, but it didn't matter,

736
00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:14,880
Speaker 1: because that game on that day is what mattered. A

737
00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:18,200
Speaker 1: Saturday in the fall, with the added caveat that it's

738
00:37:18,200 --> 00:37:21,520
Speaker 1: a rivalry game, that's what mattered. Like, the meaning was

739
00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:25,680
Speaker 1: already baked in. It didn't need any playoff implication sticker

740
00:37:25,920 --> 00:37:28,680
Speaker 1: attached to it by some network executive for it to

741
00:37:28,680 --> 00:37:32,719
Speaker 1: have meaning. Well, we're not there anymore, and I understand that.

742
00:37:33,320 --> 00:37:36,000
Speaker 1: So that's why I say, if we accept that that's

743
00:37:36,040 --> 00:37:38,359
Speaker 1: where we are now, and if we accept that there's

744
00:37:38,480 --> 00:37:41,400
Speaker 1: enough of the population that does need playoff implications on

745
00:37:41,440 --> 00:37:45,160
Speaker 1: their game for a November game to have meaning, then yes,

746
00:37:45,280 --> 00:37:48,839
Speaker 1: I will easily admit to you this format created more

747
00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:51,759
Speaker 1: of that. There's just a voice in my head that says, yeah,

748
00:37:51,800 --> 00:37:53,400
Speaker 1: but it never needed to be that way. But I

749
00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:55,160
Speaker 1: will meet you there, okay. So it can't go back

750
00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:57,560
Speaker 1: in time, can't change the past, blah blah blah. So

751
00:37:57,640 --> 00:38:01,239
Speaker 1: that's one pro. The second pro, very easily is home

752
00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:04,719
Speaker 1: playoff games were incredible, always would have been. You've never

753
00:38:04,760 --> 00:38:06,839
Speaker 1: gotten a fight from me on this. This is one

754
00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:08,920
Speaker 1: of the things that I love. It's one of the

755
00:38:08,920 --> 00:38:10,839
Speaker 1: things I would love more of. If we're just gonna

756
00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:13,640
Speaker 1: keep this format, or even if we're gonna expand and

757
00:38:13,719 --> 00:38:15,960
Speaker 1: go to fourteen teams or whatever we're gonna go to

758
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:19,000
Speaker 1: in the future, I want the home playoff games now.

759
00:38:19,040 --> 00:38:22,759
Speaker 1: I am encouraged on this front that it sounds like

760
00:38:23,920 --> 00:38:27,640
Speaker 1: it's not just a non starter. I had been kind

761
00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:30,080
Speaker 1: of calloused to this. As much as I love home

762
00:38:30,080 --> 00:38:35,640
Speaker 1: playoff games, what have we learned we have learned as

763
00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:38,600
Speaker 1: fans of this sport that the more we love something,

764
00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:40,160
Speaker 1: the less likely we already get it. So you try

765
00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:42,760
Speaker 1: and do the reverse psychology thing. You try to almost

766
00:38:42,760 --> 00:38:45,520
Speaker 1: fake the powers that be and say, h home playoff

767
00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:50,240
Speaker 1: games could take them, could leave them, please please, please please. Well,

768
00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:52,680
Speaker 1: I was listening to Rich Clark talk. He's the I

769
00:38:52,680 --> 00:38:55,319
Speaker 1: think the chair of the college Football Playoff Committee, and

770
00:38:55,360 --> 00:38:58,960
Speaker 1: he said, yeah, we're gonna take a look at that. Oh,

771
00:38:59,160 --> 00:39:01,719
Speaker 1: cross the fingers. I know what's coming. I know that

772
00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:06,000
Speaker 1: the hand that's offering me something is so I don't

773
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:08,759
Speaker 1: notice the fist being formed behind the back. I know

774
00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:11,400
Speaker 1: this is gonna have to come with more expansion. I

775
00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:13,319
Speaker 1: get it. I know what they're doing to me at

776
00:39:13,320 --> 00:39:17,239
Speaker 1: this point. They're not slick. I know what's happening. But

777
00:39:17,960 --> 00:39:19,360
Speaker 1: if that's what it takes for me to get some

778
00:39:19,400 --> 00:39:22,160
Speaker 1: home playoff games, okay, if it's gonna happen anyway, I

779
00:39:22,200 --> 00:39:23,839
Speaker 1: guess I want the playoff games to be at home.

780
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:26,960
Speaker 1: So I love that I'll get to more pros. In

781
00:39:26,960 --> 00:39:30,279
Speaker 1: a second, A con something I didn't like. I got

782
00:39:30,320 --> 00:39:34,719
Speaker 1: a nose itch. I don't like that either. I'm gonna

783
00:39:34,800 --> 00:39:37,160
Speaker 1: I'm gonna skip through this pretty quickly because I have

784
00:39:37,280 --> 00:39:40,560
Speaker 1: been over this before. But one of the cons to

785
00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:44,080
Speaker 1: the college football playoff structure as it is now is

786
00:39:45,080 --> 00:39:47,840
Speaker 1: it got a lot of support. And not all the

787
00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:50,440
Speaker 1: support was like this, but a lot of the general

788
00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:54,520
Speaker 1: fans support that fanned the flames of playoff expansion into

789
00:39:54,520 --> 00:39:57,400
Speaker 1: becoming a reality was based on a lie. Again, I

790
00:39:57,480 --> 00:39:59,880
Speaker 1: may not be describing you when I say this, but

791
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:01,960
Speaker 1: I know I'm describing many of you. Many of you

792
00:40:02,000 --> 00:40:05,279
Speaker 1: looked at the four team format and you said, this

793
00:40:05,400 --> 00:40:08,520
Speaker 1: is flawed. This does not give the little guy a shot.

794
00:40:09,000 --> 00:40:11,520
Speaker 1: This does not give lower tier Power five or Power

795
00:40:11,560 --> 00:40:13,960
Speaker 1: four teams a fair shot. It does not give G

796
00:40:14,120 --> 00:40:16,440
Speaker 1: five teams a shot, Like, no G five team is

797
00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:17,560
Speaker 1: ever going to have a shot to play for a

798
00:40:17,640 --> 00:40:20,279
Speaker 1: championship in this format. And so you got sold on

799
00:40:20,320 --> 00:40:23,680
Speaker 1: the idea that with more teams, with more seats at

800
00:40:23,680 --> 00:40:27,240
Speaker 1: the table, those kinds of programs will have a better shot.

801
00:40:27,320 --> 00:40:30,319
Speaker 1: But that was a lie. That was a lie when

802
00:40:30,320 --> 00:40:33,719
Speaker 1: it was told even back then, and it continues to

803
00:40:33,719 --> 00:40:37,839
Speaker 1: be exposed. Now here's the reality. You never really had

804
00:40:37,840 --> 00:40:40,120
Speaker 1: a shot to begin with. That's the first reality. But

805
00:40:40,160 --> 00:40:43,680
Speaker 1: the second reality is the best shot you had for

806
00:40:43,800 --> 00:40:47,879
Speaker 1: a TCU or for a Cincinnati or for a UCF

807
00:40:48,000 --> 00:40:51,080
Speaker 1: or a Boise to win a championship existed with the

808
00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:54,759
Speaker 1: four team format. Josh, how can that be? Well, I'll

809
00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:58,400
Speaker 1: tell you didn't have much of a shot then. But

810
00:40:58,440 --> 00:41:01,680
Speaker 1: Cincinnati made the playoff a few years ago. That meant

811
00:41:01,719 --> 00:41:06,879
Speaker 1: they were two wins from hoisting a trophy. UCF. They

812
00:41:06,920 --> 00:41:10,480
Speaker 1: did not make the playoff in twenty seventeen, but they

813
00:41:10,520 --> 00:41:14,520
Speaker 1: got very very close and they didn't make it. So

814
00:41:14,680 --> 00:41:16,760
Speaker 1: like your mind tells you, well, they would have made

815
00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:20,080
Speaker 1: it if we had a twelve team, they actually would

816
00:41:20,080 --> 00:41:23,359
Speaker 1: have been further away from winning a title. They would

817
00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:27,440
Speaker 1: have been further away from the ultimate Cinderella dream. And

818
00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:30,640
Speaker 1: then think about TCU. TCU, just a couple of years

819
00:41:30,640 --> 00:41:33,520
Speaker 1: ago they played for a national title. Well, Josh, they

820
00:41:33,520 --> 00:41:36,680
Speaker 1: got drug, they sure did, but they were technically four

821
00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:41,400
Speaker 1: quarters away from a championship. You know who TCU is

822
00:41:41,880 --> 00:41:46,360
Speaker 1: in the modern playoff format, SMU. SMU made the playoff,

823
00:41:46,640 --> 00:41:49,680
Speaker 1: they got bounced in the first round. There's zero times

824
00:41:49,680 --> 00:41:52,800
Speaker 1: out of one hundred that SMU wins this championship. Boise

825
00:41:53,160 --> 00:41:55,760
Speaker 1: was given a first round by that they probably won't

826
00:41:55,760 --> 00:41:58,520
Speaker 1: have in future formats, and they got taken care of

827
00:41:58,560 --> 00:42:02,160
Speaker 1: pretty handedly by State, and even if they pulled the

828
00:42:02,239 --> 00:42:04,520
Speaker 1: upset there, they need to go on and upset two

829
00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:07,120
Speaker 1: more teams to win a title. My point is, your

830
00:42:07,160 --> 00:42:10,120
Speaker 1: Cinderella is not and never will be a boys he

831
00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:13,239
Speaker 1: making a run. It won't be Cincinnati, it won't be TCU.

832
00:42:13,560 --> 00:42:17,640
Speaker 1: Your Cinderella unmasked itself last night and it's just a

833
00:42:17,680 --> 00:42:20,719
Speaker 1: goliath that tripped up a couple of times and was

834
00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:23,480
Speaker 1: given a third shot. And its name is Ohio State

835
00:42:23,840 --> 00:42:27,600
Speaker 1: as an eight seed. That's your Cinderella. That was always

836
00:42:27,640 --> 00:42:28,960
Speaker 1: going to be the case. And let me tell you

837
00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:33,080
Speaker 1: something right now, let's get you ready for this. Not

838
00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:36,480
Speaker 1: all of you who will end up being angry about

839
00:42:36,520 --> 00:42:38,880
Speaker 1: this are angry right now. And you want to know

840
00:42:38,920 --> 00:42:42,800
Speaker 1: why calls it? What in an SEC team that played

841
00:42:42,800 --> 00:42:46,879
Speaker 1: the role? It was Ohio State. But rest assured there

842
00:42:46,920 --> 00:42:49,479
Speaker 1: is coming a time not too far down the road,

843
00:42:49,920 --> 00:42:55,000
Speaker 1: where it's Alabama or LSU or Texas who trips up

844
00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:57,279
Speaker 1: a couple of times and is given a third shot

845
00:42:57,320 --> 00:43:00,160
Speaker 1: at life and ends up getting their act together. And

846
00:43:00,200 --> 00:43:03,640
Speaker 1: then they do what really deep talented teams do. They

847
00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:07,160
Speaker 1: win games and they win a title. What happens when

848
00:43:07,160 --> 00:43:10,920
Speaker 1: the SEC ends up being the one benefiting from that format.

849
00:43:11,160 --> 00:43:13,880
Speaker 1: Just think about it. Maybe you don't care, promise a

850
00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:16,799
Speaker 1: lot of you do. Here's what's funny to me. What's

851
00:43:16,840 --> 00:43:19,080
Speaker 1: funny to me is I do power ratings every week.

852
00:43:19,640 --> 00:43:21,920
Speaker 1: I'll actually do it later on the show tonight, I'll

853
00:43:21,920 --> 00:43:23,799
Speaker 1: show you the final JP pole. But what's funny is

854
00:43:24,560 --> 00:43:27,239
Speaker 1: I do my own power ratings once a week and

855
00:43:27,280 --> 00:43:31,759
Speaker 1: they are disassociated from rankings. Power ratings is just you know,

856
00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:34,520
Speaker 1: like neutral field favorability. Who do I think would be

857
00:43:34,560 --> 00:43:37,920
Speaker 1: favored against two if they play tomorrow. It's not merit based.

858
00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:41,359
Speaker 1: It's predictive in nature. And yet every time I put

859
00:43:41,360 --> 00:43:45,160
Speaker 1: it out, someone misinterprets it. And you know, they'll see,

860
00:43:45,200 --> 00:43:48,200
Speaker 1: like Georgia loses a game, but they don't drop out

861
00:43:48,200 --> 00:43:50,840
Speaker 1: of the top three, And they say, well, if this

862
00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:52,799
Speaker 1: is the way that we're going to slot teams, why

863
00:43:52,880 --> 00:43:55,200
Speaker 1: even play the games? Why don't we just go by

864
00:43:55,239 --> 00:44:00,759
Speaker 1: recruiting rankings. Well, they're misinterpreting the purpose of the power rating.

865
00:44:00,840 --> 00:44:05,279
Speaker 1: But here's what's really funny. The same person who would

866
00:44:05,280 --> 00:44:08,479
Speaker 1: look at maybe a power rating not dropping Ohio State

867
00:44:08,560 --> 00:44:11,959
Speaker 1: or Georgia for losing a game. I have found that's

868
00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:15,040
Speaker 1: the same person who watched Ohio State win a title

869
00:44:15,120 --> 00:44:20,319
Speaker 1: last night and yell, oh good, the best team won. Well,

870
00:44:20,320 --> 00:44:22,560
Speaker 1: what do you mean the best team one? Well, this

871
00:44:22,719 --> 00:44:25,920
Speaker 1: is evidence. I mean Ohio State was the eight seed,

872
00:44:26,360 --> 00:44:28,719
Speaker 1: but they ended up winning, which means they were the

873
00:44:28,719 --> 00:44:31,560
Speaker 1: best team all along. That means the playoff format succeeded.

874
00:44:33,600 --> 00:44:36,400
Speaker 1: I just pause, and I wonder they are they picking

875
00:44:36,400 --> 00:44:40,799
Speaker 1: it up? Are they noticing the hypocrisy there? Because what

876
00:44:40,880 --> 00:44:43,680
Speaker 1: you have done is you've devised the format. Okay, you've

877
00:44:43,680 --> 00:44:46,680
Speaker 1: devised the system that does what you claim the power

878
00:44:46,760 --> 00:44:49,680
Speaker 1: rating format is doing is just it looks a little different.

879
00:44:49,920 --> 00:44:52,640
Speaker 1: But see, in the power rating format, I'm not actually

880
00:44:52,640 --> 00:44:56,000
Speaker 1: trying to rank teams. If I were called myself ranking teams,

881
00:44:56,320 --> 00:44:58,640
Speaker 1: like if I were pretending to be a playoff committee

882
00:44:58,680 --> 00:45:00,799
Speaker 1: member and you look, I lost a couple of games

883
00:45:00,840 --> 00:45:03,880
Speaker 1: and I didn't really drop you out. That would be

884
00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:07,080
Speaker 1: me openly saying yeah, I know you lost, but I'm

885
00:45:07,080 --> 00:45:10,040
Speaker 1: gonna treat you different than Iowa when they lose, because

886
00:45:10,080 --> 00:45:12,080
Speaker 1: I know you got some really good players, and I

887
00:45:12,160 --> 00:45:14,399
Speaker 1: know it your best. You're capable of winning any game

888
00:45:14,440 --> 00:45:17,279
Speaker 1: you play, so you're not gonna get punished like Iowa does.

889
00:45:17,560 --> 00:45:20,359
Speaker 1: You would call that corrupt, and you'd be right. You'd

890
00:45:20,400 --> 00:45:22,839
Speaker 1: be absolutely right, because the result on the field are

891
00:45:22,920 --> 00:45:25,759
Speaker 1: ultimately what should be mattering. And what's funny is, in

892
00:45:25,800 --> 00:45:29,880
Speaker 1: this new expanded format, what you've done is you've given

893
00:45:29,960 --> 00:45:33,040
Speaker 1: second and in some cases third chances, because that will

894
00:45:33,080 --> 00:45:34,839
Speaker 1: happen down the road, a three lost team will make

895
00:45:34,840 --> 00:45:38,319
Speaker 1: a run. You've given second, third chances to teams who,

896
00:45:38,640 --> 00:45:42,919
Speaker 1: given more opportunity, end up doing exactly what a more

897
00:45:43,000 --> 00:45:45,440
Speaker 1: talented team than the field does, and that is get

898
00:45:45,440 --> 00:45:48,000
Speaker 1: its act together like Ohio State just did and make

899
00:45:48,000 --> 00:45:50,920
Speaker 1: a run. And I just find it really funny, the

900
00:45:50,960 --> 00:45:53,560
Speaker 1: dichotomy of the people who have a ton of problems

901
00:45:54,080 --> 00:45:58,319
Speaker 1: with the idea that a non merit based power rating

902
00:45:58,360 --> 00:46:01,439
Speaker 1: doesn't punish teams when they lose because of how good

903
00:46:01,480 --> 00:46:04,480
Speaker 1: their roster is. But you got no problem with this

904
00:46:04,600 --> 00:46:07,160
Speaker 1: format that doesn't punish a team when it loses two

905
00:46:07,160 --> 00:46:09,680
Speaker 1: times in the season, just plugging them in the playoff anyway,

906
00:46:09,800 --> 00:46:11,120
Speaker 1: and then they go on a run. Oh good, the

907
00:46:11,160 --> 00:46:14,560
Speaker 1: best team won. Well, here's the concept, the concept and

908
00:46:14,600 --> 00:46:16,920
Speaker 1: maybe the difference between the way you view a sport

909
00:46:16,960 --> 00:46:19,000
Speaker 1: and the way I view a sport being college football,

910
00:46:19,120 --> 00:46:24,200
Speaker 1: is I enjoy the maximum consequence on regular season games.

911
00:46:24,640 --> 00:46:28,200
Speaker 1: So Ohio State loses to Oregon, got no problem with it, man,

912
00:46:28,320 --> 00:46:30,680
Speaker 1: because that was a high level game. I was there

913
00:46:30,760 --> 00:46:32,799
Speaker 1: in Eugene, I stood on the sideline for that game.

914
00:46:32,960 --> 00:46:38,360
Speaker 1: Was amazing. But then they lose inexplicably to Michigan. It

915
00:46:38,480 --> 00:46:41,080
Speaker 1: is my humble opinion that that should count for a

916
00:46:41,120 --> 00:46:43,319
Speaker 1: lot more than it does in this new format. That

917
00:46:43,320 --> 00:46:46,000
Speaker 1: doesn't mean the game's meaningless, but it means it has

918
00:46:46,080 --> 00:46:49,040
Speaker 1: less meaning outside the fan bases. I mean, if I'm

919
00:46:49,080 --> 00:46:52,760
Speaker 1: watching from Tempe, Arizona, if I'm watching from Spokane, Washington,

920
00:46:53,200 --> 00:46:56,640
Speaker 1: that game has less significance because I watched the loser

921
00:46:57,280 --> 00:47:00,320
Speaker 1: not be punished nearly as much as they would have

922
00:47:00,360 --> 00:47:03,719
Speaker 1: been in previous formats. So they get in and they

923
00:47:03,760 --> 00:47:06,360
Speaker 1: go on a run and they win it. All that

924
00:47:06,480 --> 00:47:09,160
Speaker 1: is a con to me that has devalued a critical

925
00:47:09,200 --> 00:47:10,840
Speaker 1: part of the regular season. There's no way around that.

926
00:47:11,320 --> 00:47:13,880
Speaker 1: And if you disagree with me, that's okay. But that

927
00:47:13,960 --> 00:47:15,719
Speaker 1: just means we view the sport differently, all right, some

928
00:47:15,800 --> 00:47:23,480
Speaker 1: more pros. I think the added inventory, so the added

929
00:47:23,520 --> 00:47:28,360
Speaker 1: amounts of games will inevitably yield some memorable results, like

930
00:47:28,400 --> 00:47:31,000
Speaker 1: the Texas Ohio State game. I know it looks like

931
00:47:31,080 --> 00:47:34,000
Speaker 1: it was handled by Ohio State. It wasn't. It was

932
00:47:34,040 --> 00:47:36,560
Speaker 1: a dogfight. It was wire to wire. That's a great moment.

933
00:47:36,600 --> 00:47:39,360
Speaker 1: We would not have gotten in a condensed format. We

934
00:47:39,400 --> 00:47:42,400
Speaker 1: wouldn't have gotten Notre Dame Penn State in all likelihood

935
00:47:42,560 --> 00:47:44,800
Speaker 1: in a condensed format. That one came down to the wire.

936
00:47:45,880 --> 00:47:49,000
Speaker 1: Texas Arizona State, we absolutely would not have gotten in

937
00:47:49,040 --> 00:47:52,320
Speaker 1: a condensed format. And that one was an instant overtime classic.

938
00:47:52,480 --> 00:47:55,960
Speaker 1: So that's inevitable. The more games you have featuring good

939
00:47:56,000 --> 00:47:59,640
Speaker 1: teams playing each other, the more inventory you have, the

940
00:47:59,640 --> 00:48:03,120
Speaker 1: more moments that you're gonna yield. It's great, it's wonderful

941
00:48:03,120 --> 00:48:05,480
Speaker 1: to watch in the moment. I will tell you a

942
00:48:05,520 --> 00:48:07,680
Speaker 1: couple more cons I have here. I think maybe most

943
00:48:07,719 --> 00:48:11,080
Speaker 1: of you agree with this one. January twentieth is way

944
00:48:11,120 --> 00:48:14,760
Speaker 1: too late to be playing a national championship game. It's insane.

945
00:48:15,200 --> 00:48:17,319
Speaker 1: So I don't know what the answer there is. Per

946
00:48:17,360 --> 00:48:19,719
Speaker 1: se like we can get into that in later episodes.

947
00:48:20,080 --> 00:48:24,840
Speaker 1: But January twentieth is so detached from the regular college

948
00:48:24,840 --> 00:48:27,960
Speaker 1: football season that Ohio State played a game last night

949
00:48:28,680 --> 00:48:33,520
Speaker 1: fifty one days after the Michigan game. Or let me

950
00:48:33,520 --> 00:48:36,680
Speaker 1: put it another way, if you didn't make a bowl game,

951
00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:39,480
Speaker 1: so your season ended the last week of the regular season,

952
00:48:39,480 --> 00:48:42,680
Speaker 1: it ended November thirtieth. The team that won the title

953
00:48:43,320 --> 00:48:46,640
Speaker 1: played fifty one more days than you did. Their final

954
00:48:46,680 --> 00:48:50,520
Speaker 1: game was fifty one days later than yours. Your staff

955
00:48:50,760 --> 00:48:53,200
Speaker 1: has been working on different things than theirs for fifty

956
00:48:53,200 --> 00:48:58,240
Speaker 1: one days. But also, contrary to popular belief, burnout does exist,

957
00:49:00,239 --> 00:49:04,960
Speaker 1: sort of ambivalence to the maximum value. If something does exist,

958
00:49:05,160 --> 00:49:08,719
Speaker 1: you can't just string an audience along forever. The diehards.

959
00:49:08,760 --> 00:49:10,560
Speaker 1: You can. I don't care if we stretch it to March.

960
00:49:10,600 --> 00:49:13,280
Speaker 1: I'll pay attention, but you can't expect a broad audience

961
00:49:13,320 --> 00:49:15,600
Speaker 1: to pay attention. And another thing that I'll talk about

962
00:49:16,560 --> 00:49:21,000
Speaker 1: is I don't love the exclusivity aspect that ESPN has.

963
00:49:21,200 --> 00:49:23,719
Speaker 1: I don't love that the entire thing is housed under

964
00:49:23,760 --> 00:49:28,040
Speaker 1: one network's roof. Can't blame ESPN. If I ran ESPN

965
00:49:28,239 --> 00:49:30,719
Speaker 1: and I could acquire that entire property, I'd do it

966
00:49:30,760 --> 00:49:32,560
Speaker 1: in a heartbeat. I do it in a heartbeat. I'm

967
00:49:32,560 --> 00:49:35,879
Speaker 1: not talking about, nor am I blaming ESPN. I'm kind

968
00:49:35,880 --> 00:49:38,920
Speaker 1: of upset that there aren't more players at the table

969
00:49:39,320 --> 00:49:43,520
Speaker 1: like there are for NFL. In the NFL, you cannot

970
00:49:43,680 --> 00:49:46,600
Speaker 1: watch the entire post season product by watching one channel

971
00:49:46,680 --> 00:49:49,200
Speaker 1: or one network. You gotta be watching NBC. Now, you

972
00:49:49,239 --> 00:49:51,479
Speaker 1: gotta have Amazon, you gotta be watching Fox, you gotta

973
00:49:51,480 --> 00:49:55,600
Speaker 1: be watching CBS, ESPN. I wish college football was that way.

974
00:49:55,680 --> 00:49:57,800
Speaker 1: I wish the playoff product was that way. And here's why.

975
00:49:58,360 --> 00:50:01,400
Speaker 1: Aside from the fact that it will spread the inventory

976
00:50:01,400 --> 00:50:05,440
Speaker 1: out more, I could see more a list broadcast pairings

977
00:50:05,480 --> 00:50:08,040
Speaker 1: get opportunities to do playoff games, and that's kind of

978
00:50:08,040 --> 00:50:10,640
Speaker 1: a selfish thing. You get to watch more networks take

979
00:50:10,680 --> 00:50:13,400
Speaker 1: part in it, so the presentations a little different. I

980
00:50:13,480 --> 00:50:16,600
Speaker 1: also love that it helps to promote the game, because

981
00:50:16,640 --> 00:50:19,359
Speaker 1: when you're a Fox or you're an NBC, or you're

982
00:50:19,400 --> 00:50:22,360
Speaker 1: a CBS and you know you've got some playoff inventory,

983
00:50:22,960 --> 00:50:25,600
Speaker 1: or your Amazon or your Netflix, and you know you've

984
00:50:25,640 --> 00:50:29,440
Speaker 1: got playoff inventory, it greatly behooves you to promote the product.

985
00:50:29,960 --> 00:50:33,480
Speaker 1: And so I noticed some complaints from you guys or

986
00:50:33,520 --> 00:50:37,320
Speaker 1: some observations from you guys yesterday, and it was something

987
00:50:37,400 --> 00:50:42,880
Speaker 1: like this. You said, does it feel like the societal

988
00:50:43,000 --> 00:50:46,520
Speaker 1: awareness of this game being tonight is really low, And

989
00:50:46,560 --> 00:50:48,200
Speaker 1: I don't have the best way to gauge that because

990
00:50:48,239 --> 00:50:50,760
Speaker 1: I live in the bubble, so of course I'm college

991
00:50:50,760 --> 00:50:52,600
Speaker 1: football all the time. But you guys are out there

992
00:50:52,760 --> 00:50:55,320
Speaker 1: living your lives, working your nine to five job. You

993
00:50:55,400 --> 00:50:59,320
Speaker 1: got kids, you got responsibilities, You're not consumed with college

994
00:50:59,360 --> 00:51:03,080
Speaker 1: football every day of your life. So I gotta trust you.

995
00:51:03,120 --> 00:51:04,960
Speaker 1: I got to defer to you on this. Did you

996
00:51:05,040 --> 00:51:07,880
Speaker 1: feel like maybe the awareness wasn't quite there like it

997
00:51:07,920 --> 00:51:12,160
Speaker 1: had been in the past. If that's the case, that

998
00:51:12,239 --> 00:51:14,720
Speaker 1: may be part of the reason. And to be honest,

999
00:51:14,800 --> 00:51:18,400
Speaker 1: I'm not even sure someone at the network is in

1000
00:51:18,520 --> 00:51:21,040
Speaker 1: the best position to gauge that. So they're kind of

1001
00:51:21,040 --> 00:51:22,960
Speaker 1: like me in a different sense. They're in the bubble.

1002
00:51:23,360 --> 00:51:26,840
Speaker 1: If you work at ESPN, it's been college football playoff

1003
00:51:26,920 --> 00:51:29,839
Speaker 1: in your face like a blowtorch wall to wall. And

1004
00:51:30,160 --> 00:51:32,600
Speaker 1: how are you to know that someone who lives in Cincinnati,

1005
00:51:33,600 --> 00:51:36,560
Speaker 1: who you know, kind of delves into ESPN, but it's

1006
00:51:36,560 --> 00:51:39,040
Speaker 1: not on TV constantly for them. How are you to

1007
00:51:39,120 --> 00:51:42,920
Speaker 1: know that the impression rate, you know, the engagement, the

1008
00:51:42,960 --> 00:51:45,919
Speaker 1: impact of your promotional products have not really hit them

1009
00:51:46,239 --> 00:51:49,000
Speaker 1: like it should. I don't know, And maybe that's not

1010
00:51:49,080 --> 00:51:52,799
Speaker 1: a factor, and maybe it's anecdotally felt. I don't know.

1011
00:51:53,280 --> 00:51:56,080
Speaker 1: That may be a con. We'll see if that's a con.

1012
00:51:56,160 --> 00:52:00,360
Speaker 1: Moving forward, tell you what's not quick Trip. I stopped

1013
00:52:00,360 --> 00:52:03,560
Speaker 1: at two Quick Trips last night on my way home.

1014
00:52:03,800 --> 00:52:08,920
Speaker 1: I got I gotta credit the colbrew on tap for

1015
00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:11,600
Speaker 1: bailing me out, and they do have gasoline on tap too.

1016
00:52:12,680 --> 00:52:16,400
Speaker 1: I would encourage the car consuming it, not you surgeons

1017
00:52:16,480 --> 00:52:19,799
Speaker 1: general warning there, even the unleaded stuff. Don't be consuming that.

1018
00:52:19,880 --> 00:52:23,040
Speaker 1: Let your car consume that. But Quick Trip fueled the

1019
00:52:23,040 --> 00:52:26,600
Speaker 1: whole New Saturday tour all year and it was really fun.

1020
00:52:27,040 --> 00:52:30,120
Speaker 1: We gave away a lot of free gas, we consumed

1021
00:52:30,160 --> 00:52:32,120
Speaker 1: a lot of gas. We consumed a lot of miles.

1022
00:52:32,160 --> 00:52:35,560
Speaker 1: Over twenty four thousand miles traveled for the tour this year,

1023
00:52:35,680 --> 00:52:37,399
Speaker 1: and Quick Trip was there every step of the way.

1024
00:52:38,280 --> 00:52:41,640
Speaker 1: Just it's just a little golf clap for them. And

1025
00:52:41,719 --> 00:52:44,040
Speaker 1: I still think that we are merely scratching the surface

1026
00:52:44,800 --> 00:52:48,600
Speaker 1: of what the Quick Trip brand and the Pate State

1027
00:52:48,800 --> 00:52:52,480
Speaker 1: brand can do together. I have some ideas. I will

1028
00:52:52,520 --> 00:52:59,320
Speaker 1: share them with you in due time. Let's move along.

1029
00:52:59,480 --> 00:53:01,919
Speaker 1: It's time to talk about a topic that we all

1030
00:53:01,960 --> 00:53:05,040
Speaker 1: know a lot about. Well. The first topic is hydration,

1031
00:53:05,520 --> 00:53:08,200
Speaker 1: because I need to take a sip of water. Excuse me,

1032
00:53:08,640 --> 00:53:12,560
Speaker 1: the voice is still there. We don't have a Jacksonville, Florida,

1033
00:53:12,600 --> 00:53:16,400
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three situation. It's just a little shaky. So

1034
00:53:16,440 --> 00:53:19,600
Speaker 1: we're taking a sip of water, mainly as a protocol measure,

1035
00:53:23,200 --> 00:53:27,480
Speaker 1: cause we had to yell a lot last night. You

1036
00:53:27,560 --> 00:53:29,919
Speaker 1: never notice, well, those of you who go to games,

1037
00:53:29,960 --> 00:53:34,120
Speaker 1: you do notice this. You can't talk normally at those games.

1038
00:53:34,200 --> 00:53:36,880
Speaker 1: You have to yell, and if you're trying to talk

1039
00:53:37,160 --> 00:53:38,520
Speaker 1: to the person next to you for three and a

1040
00:53:38,560 --> 00:53:41,080
Speaker 1: half or four hours, you're yelling for four hours. And

1041
00:53:41,160 --> 00:53:45,400
Speaker 1: not all of us have a like you know, Steve

1042
00:53:45,719 --> 00:53:49,200
Speaker 1: Perry level length to our voices. Some of them give

1043
00:53:49,239 --> 00:53:52,839
Speaker 1: out pretty quickly. Steve Perry's did. As it turns out,

1044
00:53:53,640 --> 00:53:57,279
Speaker 1: I really miss the original Journey lineup. No disrespect to

1045
00:53:57,320 --> 00:54:00,840
Speaker 1: the new guy. There's nothing like the original. Anyway. We

1046
00:54:00,920 --> 00:54:03,239
Speaker 1: had a question. I had a question. Well, actually I

1047
00:54:03,239 --> 00:54:06,400
Speaker 1: didn't have a question. I saw this from our buddy

1048
00:54:06,440 --> 00:54:10,920
Speaker 1: Jake Crane earlier today. Newborn at the house, A young

1049
00:54:11,200 --> 00:54:13,919
Speaker 1: a little fraid in training over there. Congratulations to Jake

1050
00:54:13,960 --> 00:54:16,719
Speaker 1: and company aka his wife. But I saw him put

1051
00:54:16,800 --> 00:54:20,640
Speaker 1: this online today. He said, is Ryan Day the most

1052
00:54:20,760 --> 00:54:24,640
Speaker 1: unlikable coach to ever win the National Championship? I'm only

1053
00:54:24,719 --> 00:54:28,360
Speaker 1: talking from a perception standpoint. I don't have any personal

1054
00:54:28,400 --> 00:54:31,000
Speaker 1: animus against him. This is a clinic by the way,

1055
00:54:31,640 --> 00:54:35,600
Speaker 1: you toss up some disrespect, you know, you toss up

1056
00:54:35,640 --> 00:54:37,920
Speaker 1: an observation, but then you're quick to say, no, that's

1057
00:54:37,960 --> 00:54:40,600
Speaker 1: not how I love the guy. That's not how I feel.

1058
00:54:40,920 --> 00:54:42,920
Speaker 1: I know this because I do it all the time. Okay,

1059
00:54:43,080 --> 00:54:46,359
Speaker 1: we got to talk about this. I have found that

1060
00:54:46,440 --> 00:54:50,160
Speaker 1: an alarming amount of view feel this way Ryan Day

1061
00:54:50,200 --> 00:54:55,400
Speaker 1: being unlikable. So I want to ask you why do

1062
00:54:55,480 --> 00:54:59,799
Speaker 1: you feel that way? If you do, why, I'm giving

1063
00:54:59,800 --> 00:55:02,319
Speaker 1: a little pregnant pause here. I'm giving you time to

1064
00:55:02,320 --> 00:55:05,239
Speaker 1: come up with your reasons. If you're driving around, if

1065
00:55:05,239 --> 00:55:08,080
Speaker 1: you're you know, sitting at your work desk, if you're

1066
00:55:08,480 --> 00:55:10,120
Speaker 1: I don't know, in the gym, you don't have to

1067
00:55:10,120 --> 00:55:12,799
Speaker 1: talk out loud, but think to yourself, do I think

1068
00:55:12,880 --> 00:55:16,400
Speaker 1: Ryan Day is unlikable? If the answer is yes, why

1069
00:55:16,440 --> 00:55:18,879
Speaker 1: do I think he's unlikable? Now? I did get some quick,

1070
00:55:18,960 --> 00:55:24,200
Speaker 1: unscientific results via Twitter. It seems that approximately eighty percent

1071
00:55:24,239 --> 00:55:27,479
Speaker 1: of America claims that be totally fine with Ryan Day

1072
00:55:27,760 --> 00:55:30,160
Speaker 1: if he just cut his beard off. Because a lot

1073
00:55:30,200 --> 00:55:33,040
Speaker 1: of you go the beard route. You go the coloring

1074
00:55:33,080 --> 00:55:35,960
Speaker 1: of the beard. You go is it authentic? Is it

1075
00:55:36,040 --> 00:55:39,479
Speaker 1: artificially colored? You don't like the way the beard looks? Now?

1076
00:55:39,560 --> 00:55:42,319
Speaker 1: I am calling bs on all this because Ryan Day

1077
00:55:42,360 --> 00:55:45,440
Speaker 1: has coached without facial hair before and most of you

1078
00:55:45,480 --> 00:55:48,439
Speaker 1: didn't feel like you liked him. Then, so I think

1079
00:55:48,480 --> 00:55:52,359
Speaker 1: the facial hair. We've got a classic beard die scapegoating

1080
00:55:52,400 --> 00:55:55,640
Speaker 1: situation going on. We've all seen how those turn out before.

1081
00:55:56,560 --> 00:55:59,480
Speaker 1: I think the beard is a crutch that a lot

1082
00:55:59,520 --> 00:56:02,480
Speaker 1: of you are. But if he shaved it off tomorrow,

1083
00:56:02,719 --> 00:56:05,800
Speaker 1: you'd go full on yeah butt mode. Yeah he shaved

1084
00:56:05,800 --> 00:56:08,239
Speaker 1: it off, but I still don't like him. Okay, well

1085
00:56:08,239 --> 00:56:10,919
Speaker 1: then it's not the beard. The beard was a straw man.

1086
00:56:10,960 --> 00:56:13,960
Speaker 1: It's a straw beard if you will, very black, but

1087
00:56:14,000 --> 00:56:17,719
Speaker 1: it's a straw beard. What's the next reason? And then

1088
00:56:18,680 --> 00:56:20,919
Speaker 1: producer Jesse and I were scrolling a little while ago,

1089
00:56:21,400 --> 00:56:24,440
Speaker 1: and the reasons it went into the mud really quickly.

1090
00:56:24,600 --> 00:56:26,879
Speaker 1: A lot of you went to lou Holtz route, and

1091
00:56:26,920 --> 00:56:29,640
Speaker 1: I will grant you then when he called lou Holtz

1092
00:56:29,640 --> 00:56:34,319
Speaker 1: out like, you know, macho man of years past calling

1093
00:56:34,400 --> 00:56:38,560
Speaker 1: out ultimate Dragon or Ultimate Warrior. I did look at it,

1094
00:56:38,840 --> 00:56:42,120
Speaker 1: and I did say that's a little peculiar, but I

1095
00:56:42,160 --> 00:56:44,240
Speaker 1: don't really care all that much. I didn't think anything

1096
00:56:44,239 --> 00:56:46,200
Speaker 1: different of Ryan Day when he said I wonder where

1097
00:56:46,239 --> 00:56:48,280
Speaker 1: Lou Holtz is right now. I just kind of said

1098
00:56:48,800 --> 00:56:51,920
Speaker 1: that's kind of funny, and I moved on. But apparently

1099
00:56:51,920 --> 00:56:54,640
Speaker 1: many of you felt differently. Okay, some of you said

1100
00:56:54,680 --> 00:56:57,960
Speaker 1: he's got a punchable face. I would I would encourage

1101
00:56:57,960 --> 00:57:01,640
Speaker 1: you to try it, but I would also say, look,

1102
00:57:01,920 --> 00:57:04,040
Speaker 1: let's just be honest with ourselves. Let's put all the

1103
00:57:04,080 --> 00:57:06,120
Speaker 1: chips on the table. How many of us are getting

1104
00:57:06,120 --> 00:57:09,520
Speaker 1: calls to do male or female modeling work? I mean,

1105
00:57:09,600 --> 00:57:12,520
Speaker 1: let's put all of our cards on the table. Are

1106
00:57:12,560 --> 00:57:15,120
Speaker 1: we really in the business where we want to be

1107
00:57:15,239 --> 00:57:19,560
Speaker 1: judging coaches or other humans period on their physical features?

1108
00:57:20,000 --> 00:57:23,080
Speaker 1: You got to answer that for yourself. I've already answered

1109
00:57:23,600 --> 00:57:27,400
Speaker 1: an unequivocal no. I'm totally happy with physical appearance not

1110
00:57:27,560 --> 00:57:31,720
Speaker 1: mattering at all. Case in point, the wardrobe yet again,

1111
00:57:31,760 --> 00:57:36,320
Speaker 1: tonight is a white T shirt and some joggers, and

1112
00:57:36,400 --> 00:57:39,080
Speaker 1: so yeah, I'm not going that route with you. But

1113
00:57:39,240 --> 00:57:42,400
Speaker 1: there is one other theme that works its way into

1114
00:57:42,440 --> 00:57:45,560
Speaker 1: the old zeitgeist when it comes to Ryan Day. This

1115
00:57:45,600 --> 00:57:50,520
Speaker 1: one is a little more serious and this one hold on,

1116
00:57:50,560 --> 00:57:52,920
Speaker 1: hold on, hold on, hold on, Jesse, do you see this?

1117
00:57:54,000 --> 00:57:58,200
Speaker 1: Do you see the accusation of John in the chat

1118
00:57:58,400 --> 00:58:00,920
Speaker 1: saying I must be dating Ryan Day now? Can't get

1119
00:58:00,920 --> 00:58:04,480
Speaker 1: over him? Buddy, I'm gonna tell you why I like him,

1120
00:58:04,880 --> 00:58:07,200
Speaker 1: but first let me get to this. Okay, that's just

1121
00:58:07,240 --> 00:58:13,200
Speaker 1: proof that, yes, I am watching live so I have

1122
00:58:13,320 --> 00:58:17,520
Speaker 1: some people, some some out there are saying I don't

1123
00:58:17,560 --> 00:58:20,360
Speaker 1: like Ryan Day's kind of unlikable. Why is that? Oh? Man,

1124
00:58:20,400 --> 00:58:22,840
Speaker 1: I just don't feel like he paid his dues. I

1125
00:58:22,880 --> 00:58:25,760
Speaker 1: feel like he started on third base, you know, I

1126
00:58:25,760 --> 00:58:30,640
Speaker 1: feel like he was handed the job. Well, I gotta

1127
00:58:30,680 --> 00:58:33,360
Speaker 1: suggest to you you may be wrong there. I don't

1128
00:58:33,400 --> 00:58:35,640
Speaker 1: say you're wrong in that you don't feel that way.

1129
00:58:36,040 --> 00:58:39,880
Speaker 1: I'm saying you may want to do a little research

1130
00:58:40,520 --> 00:58:44,360
Speaker 1: before you decide that Ryan Day was just handed a job.

1131
00:58:45,640 --> 00:58:49,040
Speaker 1: Ryan Day was not handed anything. Ryan Day worked his

1132
00:58:49,200 --> 00:58:52,200
Speaker 1: tail off. Ryan Day's been at this thing a long time.

1133
00:58:52,240 --> 00:58:54,840
Speaker 1: The problem is when you live in a world like

1134
00:58:54,920 --> 00:58:57,280
Speaker 1: we do now, where everyone has a voice, because everyone

1135
00:58:57,320 --> 00:58:59,800
Speaker 1: has a cell phone. Therefore, everyone has a social media account.

1136
00:59:00,000 --> 00:59:02,680
Speaker 1: Therefore everyone thinks that they have something profound to say.

1137
00:59:03,040 --> 00:59:06,880
Speaker 1: And you have someone that suddenly becomes successful, seemingly out

1138
00:59:06,880 --> 00:59:09,720
Speaker 1: of nowhere, and people want to react to it. One

1139
00:59:09,720 --> 00:59:12,800
Speaker 1: of the first reactions is that seems kind of sudden. Well, man,

1140
00:59:13,040 --> 00:59:14,680
Speaker 1: he didn't really have to pay his dues. He didn't

1141
00:59:14,680 --> 00:59:16,840
Speaker 1: really have to work his way up. Well, you see

1142
00:59:16,880 --> 00:59:19,160
Speaker 1: their destination like you see them arrive, you see them

1143
00:59:19,160 --> 00:59:21,080
Speaker 1: pull into the driveway. You have no clue what the

1144
00:59:21,120 --> 00:59:23,720
Speaker 1: journey consisted of. They could have come from five miles

1145
00:59:23,760 --> 00:59:26,760
Speaker 1: away or five thousand miles away. You don't know what

1146
00:59:27,320 --> 00:59:30,440
Speaker 1: predated that moment. You just see he's the head coach

1147
00:59:30,480 --> 00:59:33,320
Speaker 1: at Ohio State. It's never been a head coach before. Wow,

1148
00:59:33,440 --> 00:59:36,520
Speaker 1: it's already made winner. He must have been handed that.

1149
00:59:38,360 --> 00:59:42,880
Speaker 1: Ryan Day started his college coaching journey before The Office

1150
00:59:43,120 --> 00:59:48,280
Speaker 1: ever debuted on NBC. You remember the show Friends, you know,

1151
00:59:48,560 --> 00:59:54,520
Speaker 1: nineties really hot sitcom. Friends was still airing originally when

1152
00:59:54,600 --> 00:59:57,680
Speaker 1: Ryan Day started his head coaching journey, not head coaching Journey.

1153
00:59:57,760 --> 01:00:01,880
Speaker 1: When Ryan Day started his college coaching Friends was still

1154
01:00:01,920 --> 01:00:06,400
Speaker 1: airing originally on TV. Because it's two thousand and three,

1155
01:00:06,520 --> 01:00:09,280
Speaker 1: not sixteen or seventeen. It's two thousand and three at

1156
01:00:09,280 --> 01:00:12,400
Speaker 1: Boston College as a grad assistant when he starts working

1157
01:00:12,440 --> 01:00:14,520
Speaker 1: his way up, and then he's at Temple, and then

1158
01:00:14,520 --> 01:00:16,840
Speaker 1: he's back at BC, and then he's back at Temple,

1159
01:00:16,920 --> 01:00:18,800
Speaker 1: and then he's back at BC, and then he's in

1160
01:00:18,840 --> 01:00:21,439
Speaker 1: the NFL with Philly in San Francisco. Then he comes

1161
01:00:21,480 --> 01:00:24,080
Speaker 1: back to Ohio State and he's coaching under Urban and

1162
01:00:24,120 --> 01:00:26,640
Speaker 1: then things goes to crap with Urban Meyer, and then

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01:00:27,360 --> 01:00:30,760
Speaker 1: Ohio State, one of the premier programs, if not the

1164
01:00:30,840 --> 01:00:34,080
Speaker 1: premier program in college football, could go anywhere they wanted

1165
01:00:34,440 --> 01:00:37,800
Speaker 1: for a head coach, and instead they decided, we've got

1166
01:00:37,840 --> 01:00:41,040
Speaker 1: such a stud walking the hallways here already that we

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01:00:41,120 --> 01:00:43,280
Speaker 1: believe in that we don't even need to operate a

1168
01:00:43,360 --> 01:00:47,720
Speaker 1: national search. We'll promote him. He wasn't handed anything. He

1169
01:00:47,840 --> 01:00:51,560
Speaker 1: earned every bit of it. So then the follow up is, well, Okay,

1170
01:00:51,600 --> 01:00:54,440
Speaker 1: even if you're right about that, there's a big difference

1171
01:00:54,840 --> 01:00:57,680
Speaker 1: in having to rebuild a program from scratch versus doing

1172
01:00:57,720 --> 01:01:00,720
Speaker 1: what he did. You're right about that, that just means

1173
01:01:00,720 --> 01:01:03,440
Speaker 1: he was blessed to be in the right place and

1174
01:01:03,520 --> 01:01:05,960
Speaker 1: he was the right person at the right time. But

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01:01:06,040 --> 01:01:08,960
Speaker 1: let me ask you, this is it a Larry Koker situation?

1176
01:01:09,800 --> 01:01:11,800
Speaker 1: Did he take a ready made roster and win a

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01:01:11,840 --> 01:01:16,320
Speaker 1: title but then see things precipitously decline. I don't think so.

1178
01:01:17,360 --> 01:01:19,120
Speaker 1: I don't think that's the way that worked. I think

1179
01:01:19,120 --> 01:01:21,720
Speaker 1: he got the job. What in twenty nineteen was his

1180
01:01:21,760 --> 01:01:25,120
Speaker 1: first full year. So they go thirteen and won that

1181
01:01:25,280 --> 01:01:28,240
Speaker 1: year COVID years. The next year they go play for

1182
01:01:28,280 --> 01:01:32,280
Speaker 1: a title. They lose to Bama. Twenty twenty one. Eleven wins.

1183
01:01:32,400 --> 01:01:35,920
Speaker 1: Next year, eleven wins, next year, eleven wins. This past year,

1184
01:01:35,960 --> 01:01:40,880
Speaker 1: they just won a national championship. That is one, two, three, four,

1185
01:01:40,960 --> 01:01:44,960
Speaker 1: or five six years removed from Urban Meyer. There's nothing

1186
01:01:45,000 --> 01:01:49,640
Speaker 1: about this program that's urban Meyer anymore. So theoretically, even

1187
01:01:49,640 --> 01:01:53,520
Speaker 1: if Urban handed him a ready made winner six years later,

1188
01:01:53,520 --> 01:01:55,480
Speaker 1: it's still a ready made winner. They just won a title.

1189
01:01:55,640 --> 01:01:57,280
Speaker 1: Urban only won one of those, by the way, at

1190
01:01:57,280 --> 01:02:00,560
Speaker 1: Ohio State. He just won a title doing it his way,

1191
01:02:01,200 --> 01:02:04,880
Speaker 1: and the program is solely reflective of his thumb print.

1192
01:02:05,000 --> 01:02:08,120
Speaker 1: And the reason that's significant is the same reason it

1193
01:02:08,120 --> 01:02:10,720
Speaker 1: would be significant if I handed the stick to you,

1194
01:02:10,760 --> 01:02:12,880
Speaker 1: if I had the controls to you, of a seven

1195
01:02:13,040 --> 01:02:16,080
Speaker 1: forty seven at thirty five thousand feet. We would not

1196
01:02:16,200 --> 01:02:19,959
Speaker 1: crash immediately because anybody can sit there and just hold

1197
01:02:19,960 --> 01:02:23,480
Speaker 1: the thing relatively still. But eventually, guess what happens. Fuel

1198
01:02:23,560 --> 01:02:27,439
Speaker 1: runs low and you got to land and you don't

1199
01:02:27,440 --> 01:02:30,480
Speaker 1: know how to and if autopilot is not engaged, which

1200
01:02:30,520 --> 01:02:33,360
Speaker 1: is not because it's college football, then we are crashing

1201
01:02:33,840 --> 01:02:36,880
Speaker 1: and everyone's a goner unless you know how to fly.

1202
01:02:37,440 --> 01:02:39,840
Speaker 1: If you know how to fly, then it doesn't matter

1203
01:02:39,920 --> 01:02:42,000
Speaker 1: that the pilot who got us up to altitudes no

1204
01:02:42,040 --> 01:02:44,880
Speaker 1: longer there, because the copilot stepped in and he knows

1205
01:02:44,880 --> 01:02:47,040
Speaker 1: what he's doing as well, and then he can land

1206
01:02:47,080 --> 01:02:49,520
Speaker 1: it and they can refuel and they can take off again,

1207
01:02:49,640 --> 01:02:51,640
Speaker 1: and he can do whatever he wants to because he's

1208
01:02:51,640 --> 01:02:54,560
Speaker 1: a real life pilot and he's been trained and he's

1209
01:02:54,600 --> 01:02:57,360
Speaker 1: got the experience and he's got the trust of the airline.

1210
01:02:57,640 --> 01:02:59,760
Speaker 1: And college football coaching is the same way. This is

1211
01:02:59,760 --> 01:03:03,520
Speaker 1: a Ohio State man. This is Ohio State in a

1212
01:03:03,600 --> 01:03:08,960
Speaker 1: situation post urban Meyer, where everybody, aside from maybe two

1213
01:03:09,040 --> 01:03:11,920
Speaker 1: or three people in the sport would bear crawl over

1214
01:03:11,960 --> 01:03:14,800
Speaker 1: broken glass to get that job. And they don't even

1215
01:03:14,840 --> 01:03:19,120
Speaker 1: do a national search They say, Ryan Day never coached before,

1216
01:03:19,240 --> 01:03:21,080
Speaker 1: never been a head coach, but we trust him enough

1217
01:03:21,080 --> 01:03:23,160
Speaker 1: where we're gonna had him the keys of Ohio State.

1218
01:03:25,080 --> 01:03:26,640
Speaker 1: You know how sold. Only guy you have to be

1219
01:03:26,680 --> 01:03:29,120
Speaker 1: to do that at a place like Ohio State. You

1220
01:03:29,160 --> 01:03:31,080
Speaker 1: know how sold you have to be. Here's what's funny.

1221
01:03:31,720 --> 01:03:35,400
Speaker 1: Kirby faced this. I never heard anyone say, well, Kirby

1222
01:03:35,400 --> 01:03:38,320
Speaker 1: Smart got handed the Georgia job. Well, Kirby Smart didn't

1223
01:03:38,320 --> 01:03:40,200
Speaker 1: pay his dues. You know why, because he was a

1224
01:03:40,200 --> 01:03:43,120
Speaker 1: little more visible. He was visible because he was Saban's

1225
01:03:43,120 --> 01:03:45,440
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator for a long time. So you kind of

1226
01:03:45,480 --> 01:03:47,760
Speaker 1: got the rub of having been with Nick Saban, and

1227
01:03:47,800 --> 01:03:50,200
Speaker 1: you got the rub of well, if Saban endorses you,

1228
01:03:50,280 --> 01:03:52,520
Speaker 1: if Sabin trusted him to be his defensive coordinator for

1229
01:03:52,520 --> 01:03:54,560
Speaker 1: all those years, then he must be good. For some reason.

1230
01:03:54,640 --> 01:03:56,960
Speaker 1: Ryan Day didn't get the same benefit of doubt. So

1231
01:03:57,040 --> 01:04:01,120
Speaker 1: Kirby takes over Georgia. Pretty darn good job, pretty ready

1232
01:04:01,160 --> 01:04:03,480
Speaker 1: made winner there as well. People will say, oh, mc

1233
01:04:03,560 --> 01:04:06,400
Speaker 1: Kirby had to rebuild Georgia. Kurby didn't have to rebuild anything. Man,

1234
01:04:06,480 --> 01:04:08,200
Speaker 1: it was a ten win program when he got it.

1235
01:04:08,440 --> 01:04:11,240
Speaker 1: He had to restructure some things. He had to re

1236
01:04:11,280 --> 01:04:14,120
Speaker 1: engineer some things. Culture had to get ramped up a

1237
01:04:14,120 --> 01:04:16,960
Speaker 1: little bit there. But this wasn't a team. This wasn't

1238
01:04:16,960 --> 01:04:19,479
Speaker 1: a program that was down on its luck. It wasn't

1239
01:04:19,560 --> 01:04:23,160
Speaker 1: a program reeling from NCAA sanctions and probation. He took

1240
01:04:23,160 --> 01:04:25,320
Speaker 1: it over. A couple of years later, they're winning, they're

1241
01:04:25,320 --> 01:04:28,440
Speaker 1: playing for a title. Several years later, he wins his

1242
01:04:28,480 --> 01:04:32,000
Speaker 1: first title. He gets over the hump, he wins the

1243
01:04:32,040 --> 01:04:34,760
Speaker 1: big one, and the same fools who said he couldn't win,

1244
01:04:35,160 --> 01:04:37,080
Speaker 1: and the same fools who said he couldn't do anything

1245
01:04:37,240 --> 01:04:38,960
Speaker 1: shut up. And then they started talking about Ryan Day.

1246
01:04:38,960 --> 01:04:40,280
Speaker 1: And now he shut them up as well. I don't

1247
01:04:40,280 --> 01:04:44,120
Speaker 1: know where you'll go next. Newsflash. Winning a national championships

1248
01:04:44,120 --> 01:04:46,200
Speaker 1: really hard. The way I know that is about a

1249
01:04:46,200 --> 01:04:49,600
Speaker 1: month ago, when these playoffs started, we had two active

1250
01:04:49,640 --> 01:04:53,160
Speaker 1: head coaches in the entire country who had won a

1251
01:04:53,240 --> 01:04:56,600
Speaker 1: national championship. One of them was Debo, one of them

1252
01:04:56,640 --> 01:05:01,080
Speaker 1: was Kirby mac Brown had just been fired. Saban has retired.

1253
01:05:01,480 --> 01:05:03,959
Speaker 1: The entire country, we play a title game every year.

1254
01:05:04,560 --> 01:05:07,200
Speaker 1: There were two active coaches who had won a title

1255
01:05:07,680 --> 01:05:10,200
Speaker 1: entering this last playoffs, and now Ryan Day's the third

1256
01:05:10,200 --> 01:05:14,200
Speaker 1: one because he just won one. So I got a

1257
01:05:14,200 --> 01:05:16,240
Speaker 1: ton of respect for Ryan Day. I don't think he

1258
01:05:16,320 --> 01:05:18,720
Speaker 1: was handed anything. I think he earned everything he's gotten.

1259
01:05:18,760 --> 01:05:21,440
Speaker 1: And if I was wrong and he was a fraud,

1260
01:05:21,800 --> 01:05:25,000
Speaker 1: Ohio State's program would have begun to dip the day

1261
01:05:25,040 --> 01:05:29,160
Speaker 1: he got there, and it hasn't, and it's actually flying

1262
01:05:29,240 --> 01:05:31,600
Speaker 1: at as good an altitude now as it had at

1263
01:05:31,640 --> 01:05:35,680
Speaker 1: any point, including maybe under urban. So here's how I

1264
01:05:35,720 --> 01:05:38,080
Speaker 1: feel about him. It's I've been around Ryan Day a

1265
01:05:38,120 --> 01:05:41,120
Speaker 1: fair amount. Ryan Day I've always felt was a stud.

1266
01:05:41,280 --> 01:05:43,360
Speaker 1: Ryan Day was always a guy that I felt hatton

1267
01:05:43,480 --> 01:05:45,640
Speaker 1: one one that would eventually win one. And now that

1268
01:05:45,680 --> 01:05:48,520
Speaker 1: he has, he's no more validated. In my mind. His

1269
01:05:48,600 --> 01:05:52,280
Speaker 1: Wikipedia page looks different today than it did yesterday. Ryan

1270
01:05:52,320 --> 01:05:54,920
Speaker 1: Day's the same dude now that he was when he

1271
01:05:54,960 --> 01:05:57,960
Speaker 1: woke up yesterday morning. He's got a piece of hardware

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Speaker 1: that they could put in the Woody Hayes Center there

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Speaker 1: and it's great, and all due respect to them, Ryan

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Speaker 1: Day never shied away from the job. That's what I respected.

1275
01:06:07,120 --> 01:06:08,920
Speaker 1: Like Ryan Day, you can really tell if you know

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01:06:09,000 --> 01:06:11,160
Speaker 1: his story, and it's his story to tell, But if

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Speaker 1: you know his story, you know he went through some

1278
01:06:13,480 --> 01:06:15,960
Speaker 1: stuff when he was really young. He went through some

1279
01:06:15,960 --> 01:06:18,480
Speaker 1: stuff non football related, and I'm sure he's been through

1280
01:06:18,520 --> 01:06:21,480
Speaker 1: a lot that is football related. That kind of calloused

1281
01:06:21,560 --> 01:06:25,480
Speaker 1: him to the world, and it kind of made sure

1282
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Speaker 1: that he kept a little tension in his shoulders. He's

1283
01:06:28,480 --> 01:06:31,280
Speaker 1: very careful who he lets get close. I'm the exact

1284
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Speaker 1: same way. So in that case, I understand someone like that.

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01:06:34,400 --> 01:06:36,560
Speaker 1: I relate to someone like that. I don't have a

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Speaker 1: lot of close friends. I don't have a lot of

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Speaker 1: people in my inner circle either. I don't trust a

1288
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Speaker 1: lot of people, so I get someone like that. But

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Speaker 1: he never shied away from the job. When we've been

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01:06:46,680 --> 01:06:48,520
Speaker 1: up there, when we've sat down, when I've sat down

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Speaker 1: face to face with him, he's the first one to say,

1292
01:06:52,720 --> 01:06:56,040
Speaker 1: the expectations here exactly what they should be. We should

1293
01:06:56,080 --> 01:06:58,720
Speaker 1: never lower the temperature just because it makes me uncomfortable.

1294
01:06:58,880 --> 01:07:01,800
Speaker 1: We should never lower the expectation just because I didn't

1295
01:07:01,840 --> 01:07:03,760
Speaker 1: get the job done. If I don't get the job done,

1296
01:07:03,920 --> 01:07:06,120
Speaker 1: they'll put someone else in my place that will That

1297
01:07:06,280 --> 01:07:08,919
Speaker 1: was paraphrasing, but a pretty direct quote that he gave

1298
01:07:09,000 --> 01:07:12,080
Speaker 1: us on the air. It's not off the record stuff.

1299
01:07:12,080 --> 01:07:14,080
Speaker 1: He sat there and said that on the air after

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01:07:14,120 --> 01:07:16,200
Speaker 1: they just lost to Michigan for the third straight time,

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01:07:16,600 --> 01:07:18,560
Speaker 1: and unbeknownst to us at the time, they were going

1302
01:07:18,560 --> 01:07:20,960
Speaker 1: on to lose to him a four straight time. Ryan

1303
01:07:21,040 --> 01:07:24,280
Speaker 1: Day does not ask for any favors. Man doesn't ask

1304
01:07:24,320 --> 01:07:25,880
Speaker 1: you to take it easy on him. He is as

1305
01:07:25,920 --> 01:07:27,800
Speaker 1: blunt and direct about his role in this whole thing

1306
01:07:27,800 --> 01:07:31,040
Speaker 1: as anyone is. I've always respected it, always respected him,

1307
01:07:31,440 --> 01:07:33,480
Speaker 1: think the world of him. Very happy that they won

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01:07:33,480 --> 01:07:37,680
Speaker 1: this national championship. I mean, Chip Kelly wins a national championship,

1309
01:07:37,760 --> 01:07:40,439
Speaker 1: like a lot of Pete Jim Knowles wins a national title.

1310
01:07:40,480 --> 01:07:44,160
Speaker 1: Mark Pantoni gets himself a national title, a lot of

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01:07:44,160 --> 01:07:46,320
Speaker 1: good folks up there. Know a lot of those people

1312
01:07:46,880 --> 01:07:49,560
Speaker 1: got a little biased because of that, But I'm very

1313
01:07:49,600 --> 01:07:53,360
Speaker 1: happy for that program. So no, I don't really buy

1314
01:07:53,400 --> 01:07:56,440
Speaker 1: into the Ryan Day is unlikable thing. I think you

1315
01:07:56,520 --> 01:07:59,000
Speaker 1: may need to understand him or be around him a

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01:07:59,000 --> 01:08:01,640
Speaker 1: little more, which we get to be, but I don't

1317
01:08:01,760 --> 01:08:04,439
Speaker 1: view I like people like that a whole lot more

1318
01:08:04,720 --> 01:08:06,480
Speaker 1: than I like the folks who just say the right

1319
01:08:06,520 --> 01:08:08,560
Speaker 1: thing all the time, or I like the people who

1320
01:08:08,560 --> 01:08:11,800
Speaker 1: look like they're built through focus group efforts, like that

1321
01:08:11,960 --> 01:08:14,000
Speaker 1: I could take or leave. I want the ones who

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01:08:14,040 --> 01:08:16,600
Speaker 1: are authentic, and he is very authentic. That's just the

1323
01:08:16,600 --> 01:08:19,000
Speaker 1: way he is. Take it or leave it. And even

1324
01:08:19,000 --> 01:08:20,160
Speaker 1: if you leave it, you got to take the fact

1325
01:08:20,160 --> 01:08:22,640
Speaker 1: that he's a national champ. Now, let us move on.

1326
01:08:23,680 --> 01:08:29,520
Speaker 1: They're watching us in Tallahassee, Florida, Sumter, South Carolina, and Tempe, Arizona.

1327
01:08:29,600 --> 01:08:31,800
Speaker 1: Thank you guys so much. Let's throw that down here.

1328
01:08:32,479 --> 01:08:36,400
Speaker 1: What a jam packed show tonight. All right, let's move Jesse.

1329
01:08:36,560 --> 01:08:39,719
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what we're gonna do. Let's do the Michigan.

1330
01:08:40,080 --> 01:08:42,880
Speaker 1: Let's do the Michigan Thursday. I'm gonna put this over here.

1331
01:08:43,439 --> 01:08:45,840
Speaker 1: All right, we're about to do the JP Pole, but

1332
01:08:45,920 --> 01:08:47,560
Speaker 1: I just want to give a little traffic to the

1333
01:08:47,640 --> 01:08:50,120
Speaker 1: room in there and make sure I save that piece

1334
01:08:50,200 --> 01:08:55,760
Speaker 1: of paper. I've got a final JP pole here, kind

1335
01:08:55,800 --> 01:08:59,640
Speaker 1: of an immunity final JP Pole. I debated this, but

1336
01:08:59,720 --> 01:09:02,080
Speaker 1: I have decided I'm gonna release it. The JP Pole

1337
01:09:02,479 --> 01:09:06,400
Speaker 1: a reminder for the nineteen thousandth time is not a ranking.

1338
01:09:06,720 --> 01:09:08,760
Speaker 1: The JP Pole is we got the model over here,

1339
01:09:09,000 --> 01:09:11,320
Speaker 1: and we crunch the numbers and it's just built to

1340
01:09:11,320 --> 01:09:16,360
Speaker 1: spit out futuristic favorability. That's all I'm trying to do

1341
01:09:16,400 --> 01:09:18,880
Speaker 1: with these numbers. So who would be favored on a

1342
01:09:18,920 --> 01:09:21,679
Speaker 1: neutral field if we played these games tomorrow, any team

1343
01:09:21,720 --> 01:09:24,360
Speaker 1: against any team. So it'll look weird because there are

1344
01:09:24,360 --> 01:09:26,360
Speaker 1: a lot of teams with worse records than other teams

1345
01:09:26,400 --> 01:09:29,519
Speaker 1: and they're rated ahead of them. But that's why. So

1346
01:09:31,080 --> 01:09:35,160
Speaker 1: let's one last time you and I go down this

1347
01:09:35,280 --> 01:09:39,639
Speaker 1: road together. For this season. Ohio State does indeed finish

1348
01:09:39,720 --> 01:09:42,560
Speaker 1: as the number one team. So congrats to the Buckeyes.

1349
01:09:42,640 --> 01:09:45,920
Speaker 1: Not that they needed the validation because they just hoisted

1350
01:09:45,960 --> 01:09:48,800
Speaker 1: a national championship trophy. But let me read you one

1351
01:09:48,840 --> 01:09:50,479
Speaker 1: through five and then let me give you a note.

1352
01:09:50,920 --> 01:09:56,559
Speaker 1: So the final five Ohio State, Oregon, Texas, Notre Dame,

1353
01:09:56,600 --> 01:10:02,640
Speaker 1: and Georgia. That's your one through five. Ohio State not

1354
01:10:02,680 --> 01:10:08,120
Speaker 1: only finishes number one after starting number two, they beat

1355
01:10:08,160 --> 01:10:11,800
Speaker 1: the number two, number three, number four, number five, number six,

1356
01:10:11,840 --> 01:10:14,519
Speaker 1: and number nine teams in the country. So I know

1357
01:10:14,600 --> 01:10:17,240
Speaker 1: there's this stat floating around. You know, they beat the

1358
01:10:17,680 --> 01:10:20,639
Speaker 1: AP team here, the AP team there. Even in power

1359
01:10:20,720 --> 01:10:25,439
Speaker 1: rating world. Ohio State beat the two, three, four, five, six,

1360
01:10:25,479 --> 01:10:29,519
Speaker 1: and nine teams. It's insane. I know. It's the expanded playoffs,

1361
01:10:29,520 --> 01:10:31,080
Speaker 1: so you're gonna play more ranked teams if you go

1362
01:10:31,200 --> 01:10:33,320
Speaker 1: win a title. But that's crazy. But then Oregon being

1363
01:10:33,400 --> 01:10:36,360
Speaker 1: number two, I think will raise some eyebrows. Maybe I

1364
01:10:36,360 --> 01:10:39,320
Speaker 1: don't know where the AP had them, but Oregon. Remember

1365
01:10:40,200 --> 01:10:43,919
Speaker 1: this is about neutral field favorability, Like Oregon got pasted

1366
01:10:43,960 --> 01:10:47,519
Speaker 1: by Ohio State, but Ohio State's above them. Oregon against

1367
01:10:47,560 --> 01:10:50,479
Speaker 1: anyone else would be favored. According to the model, they

1368
01:10:50,479 --> 01:10:53,719
Speaker 1: would be favored. Texas at three, Georgia. Now I should

1369
01:10:53,720 --> 01:10:57,320
Speaker 1: say Georgia at five is without Carson Beck. So with

1370
01:10:57,439 --> 01:10:59,960
Speaker 1: Carson Beck, who knows, maybe they finish above Notre Dame.

1371
01:11:00,240 --> 01:11:02,080
Speaker 1: But that's a moot point because he wasn't on the

1372
01:11:02,120 --> 01:11:04,719
Speaker 1: team at the end of the year. Okay, six through ten,

1373
01:11:06,080 --> 01:11:09,799
Speaker 1: penn State winds up at six, Ole Miss at seven,

1374
01:11:10,760 --> 01:11:15,160
Speaker 1: Alabama eight, Tennessee nine, South Carolina ten. I feel like

1375
01:11:15,200 --> 01:11:19,000
Speaker 1: I need to pause because even though I gave the preface,

1376
01:11:19,320 --> 01:11:22,040
Speaker 1: and even though I think we've explained how this works,

1377
01:11:23,000 --> 01:11:24,800
Speaker 1: don't let me send this tweet right quick. Even though

1378
01:11:24,800 --> 01:11:26,960
Speaker 1: I've explained how this works, I know there'll be someone

1379
01:11:26,960 --> 01:11:28,919
Speaker 1: who looks at this and say, oh, so you think Tennessee,

1380
01:11:29,040 --> 01:11:31,400
Speaker 1: you think Alabama and South Carolina should have been in

1381
01:11:31,439 --> 01:11:33,479
Speaker 1: the playoff. No, I don't. They shouldn't have been in

1382
01:11:33,479 --> 01:11:35,800
Speaker 1: the playoff because that's not what this is. This is

1383
01:11:35,800 --> 01:11:37,960
Speaker 1: not merit base. This is who would they have been

1384
01:11:38,000 --> 01:11:41,479
Speaker 1: favored against if they played, So like SMU was in

1385
01:11:41,520 --> 01:11:44,360
Speaker 1: the playoff and Alabama would wasn't. Alabama would certainly be

1386
01:11:44,360 --> 01:11:46,479
Speaker 1: favored against SMU if they played, but that doesn't matter

1387
01:11:46,800 --> 01:11:49,920
Speaker 1: because it's not a merit based thing. So anyway, here's

1388
01:11:49,920 --> 01:11:53,599
Speaker 1: what's wild about this. I'm very proud of this. The

1389
01:11:53,640 --> 01:11:58,160
Speaker 1: top eight teams in the preseason for US finished the

1390
01:11:58,240 --> 01:12:01,800
Speaker 1: same top eight. The only difference was the order, and

1391
01:12:01,840 --> 01:12:04,640
Speaker 1: there's no team more than three spots off where they

1392
01:12:04,680 --> 01:12:08,599
Speaker 1: were in the preseason. So the model just totally nailed

1393
01:12:08,920 --> 01:12:11,160
Speaker 1: the best teams in the country. Now here's where it

1394
01:12:11,200 --> 01:12:13,400
Speaker 1: goes off the rails a little bit. Once we get

1395
01:12:13,400 --> 01:12:17,719
Speaker 1: past the top eight. We had FSU at nine, notably

1396
01:12:18,040 --> 01:12:21,960
Speaker 1: that ended in disaster, of which I take zero blame

1397
01:12:22,160 --> 01:12:24,800
Speaker 1: and I give all the blame to Florida State number ten.

1398
01:12:25,439 --> 01:12:27,840
Speaker 1: We had Oklahoma at twelve. We had A and M

1399
01:12:27,840 --> 01:12:31,280
Speaker 1: at thirteen. So yes, the model is not perfect. But again,

1400
01:12:31,320 --> 01:12:34,800
Speaker 1: remember the rule around here We do not get predictions wrong.

1401
01:12:35,160 --> 01:12:37,559
Speaker 1: We do not get power ratings wrong. Either we're right

1402
01:12:38,200 --> 01:12:40,479
Speaker 1: or kids, coaches and officials screw it up, and that's

1403
01:12:40,479 --> 01:12:43,639
Speaker 1: how we end up being wrong. So we love the credit.

1404
01:12:44,000 --> 01:12:46,320
Speaker 1: We do not want any of the blame. If you

1405
01:12:46,360 --> 01:12:49,640
Speaker 1: take away nothing else from this show about our responsibility

1406
01:12:49,680 --> 01:12:52,639
Speaker 1: to you other than that, just remember it's not our fault.

1407
01:12:52,840 --> 01:12:55,839
Speaker 1: Let's move on. Ten through fifteen or eleven through fifteen.

1408
01:12:56,200 --> 01:13:02,960
Speaker 1: Clemson finishes eleven, Miami is twelve, SMU is thirteen, Indiana fourteen.

1409
01:13:03,360 --> 01:13:06,519
Speaker 1: Florida finished top fifteen. Did you know that Billy Napier

1410
01:13:06,640 --> 01:13:09,080
Speaker 1: coached the top fifteen team this year? Well in the

1411
01:13:09,160 --> 01:13:12,679
Speaker 1: JP Pole, he sure did. Florida, even with five regular

1412
01:13:12,720 --> 01:13:17,040
Speaker 1: season losses, ended up beating the number twenty two team

1413
01:13:17,280 --> 01:13:19,080
Speaker 1: and ended up being the number and beating the number

1414
01:13:19,080 --> 01:13:21,639
Speaker 1: sevent team. Florida found a way to lose five games

1415
01:13:21,680 --> 01:13:25,360
Speaker 1: and still have a top ten win. Crazy stuff. Again,

1416
01:13:25,720 --> 01:13:28,320
Speaker 1: you're not always what your record says you are. They

1417
01:13:28,320 --> 01:13:30,160
Speaker 1: played eight teams in the top thirty. By the way,

1418
01:13:30,280 --> 01:13:37,120
Speaker 1: did Florida next up? Michigan finished sixteenth. Michigan left for dead.

1419
01:13:37,600 --> 01:13:39,760
Speaker 1: Once upon a time we kept them in the top

1420
01:13:39,800 --> 01:13:42,200
Speaker 1: twenty five. Remember we were taking some flat, Jesse and Collin.

1421
01:13:42,280 --> 01:13:44,360
Speaker 1: We were taking some flat because people sid once Michigan's

1422
01:13:44,360 --> 01:13:46,120
Speaker 1: still in the top twenty five. Well, they weren't bad.

1423
01:13:46,400 --> 01:13:48,360
Speaker 1: They weren't as bad as it looked. Let me say

1424
01:13:48,560 --> 01:13:51,639
Speaker 1: they end up number sixteen, Arizona State. This will raise

1425
01:13:51,680 --> 01:13:54,280
Speaker 1: some eyebrows. Arizona State was a playoff team, but in

1426
01:13:54,320 --> 01:13:59,240
Speaker 1: favorability terms, they're only seventeenth, no disrespect. This is a

1427
01:13:59,280 --> 01:14:04,000
Speaker 1: different thing than ranking Louisville eighteen, Iowa State nineteen, Baylor

1428
01:14:04,080 --> 01:14:07,120
Speaker 1: at twenty, and then to round out the top twenty five,

1429
01:14:08,479 --> 01:14:12,280
Speaker 1: TCU still there. Pretty underrated team TCU at twenty one.

1430
01:14:12,520 --> 01:14:16,439
Speaker 1: LSU finishes twenty two. They started at tenth, they finished

1431
01:14:16,439 --> 01:14:20,840
Speaker 1: twenty two. USC started at twentieth, they finished twenty third,

1432
01:14:21,439 --> 01:14:25,280
Speaker 1: Iowa started twenty second, they finished twenty fourth, and Minnesota

1433
01:14:25,640 --> 01:14:30,559
Speaker 1: finishes twenty fifth. So my biggest disappointment by ten miles

1434
01:14:30,640 --> 01:14:33,000
Speaker 1: of Florida State. I mean, that's not any great shock.

1435
01:14:33,360 --> 01:14:36,800
Speaker 1: It's interesting how the ACC panned out there. So it

1436
01:14:36,840 --> 01:14:40,360
Speaker 1: was Clemson versus SMU for the ACC title. It was

1437
01:14:40,400 --> 01:14:43,439
Speaker 1: Miami on the outside looking in, and they were all

1438
01:14:43,520 --> 01:14:46,639
Speaker 1: kind of bunched up and that's where they finished here too, eleven, twelve,

1439
01:14:46,640 --> 01:14:51,280
Speaker 1: and thirteen. I think Florida finishing fifteenth is interesting. I

1440
01:14:51,280 --> 01:14:55,040
Speaker 1: think Michigan, Michigan and Florida finishing fifteen sixteen after where

1441
01:14:55,080 --> 01:14:58,679
Speaker 1: they were early in the season pretty noteworthy to me. Okay,

1442
01:14:58,800 --> 01:15:03,679
Speaker 1: now with that in mind, let's apply some lipbomb right quick,

1443
01:15:04,560 --> 01:15:07,600
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna get to some Michigan stuff Thursday. Just

1444
01:15:07,640 --> 01:15:10,599
Speaker 1: a little fyi, but I did want to share some

1445
01:15:10,760 --> 01:15:14,720
Speaker 1: very very thought provoking information with you that I have

1446
01:15:15,160 --> 01:15:19,679
Speaker 1: hot off the presses. We just finished the twenty twenty

1447
01:15:19,720 --> 01:15:23,280
Speaker 1: four season in January of twenty twenty five, and Ohio

1448
01:15:23,280 --> 01:15:26,280
Speaker 1: State's the national champ. What if I told you that

1449
01:15:26,360 --> 01:15:29,120
Speaker 1: we don't believe in the off season, and our friends

1450
01:15:29,120 --> 01:15:31,880
Speaker 1: at FanDuel also don't believe in the off season, well,

1451
01:15:31,920 --> 01:15:34,519
Speaker 1: I would be right on both accounts. And here's the proof.

1452
01:15:35,040 --> 01:15:36,759
Speaker 1: The proof on our end is we're gonna do college

1453
01:15:36,760 --> 01:15:40,640
Speaker 1: football shows until week one of the following season, and

1454
01:15:40,680 --> 01:15:42,280
Speaker 1: make sure you subscribe to the channel so you don't

1455
01:15:42,280 --> 01:15:45,000
Speaker 1: miss any of that. But the proof from FanDuel's perspective

1456
01:15:45,120 --> 01:15:47,960
Speaker 1: is they already put their lines out for next year,

1457
01:15:48,439 --> 01:15:51,960
Speaker 1: several games of the year have been added. Now. I

1458
01:15:52,000 --> 01:15:54,000
Speaker 1: want you to look at your screen here, and if

1459
01:15:54,000 --> 01:15:57,000
Speaker 1: you can't because you're listening on podcast, that's fine. I'm

1460
01:15:57,040 --> 01:15:59,120
Speaker 1: just gonna tell you what we have. First thing you

1461
01:15:59,160 --> 01:16:03,360
Speaker 1: should know is Farmageddon is happening in Dublin, Ireland. That

1462
01:16:03,439 --> 01:16:06,439
Speaker 1: is Iowa State versus Kansas State. They're playing over in Dublin,

1463
01:16:06,840 --> 01:16:08,560
Speaker 1: and Kansas State has opened as a one and a

1464
01:16:08,600 --> 01:16:11,320
Speaker 1: half point favorite. I can't remember if that's a week

1465
01:16:11,439 --> 01:16:13,200
Speaker 1: zero game or a Week one game, but that one's

1466
01:16:13,240 --> 01:16:17,639
Speaker 1: happening overseas because we insist in college football on ignoring

1467
01:16:17,680 --> 01:16:20,680
Speaker 1: the fact that we have the best home field venues

1468
01:16:20,960 --> 01:16:23,639
Speaker 1: in all of sports to go play in random places.

1469
01:16:23,680 --> 01:16:26,439
Speaker 1: But anyway, I'm not complaining because by that time I

1470
01:16:26,479 --> 01:16:29,160
Speaker 1: will be starved for any kind of college football game.

1471
01:16:30,000 --> 01:16:34,240
Speaker 1: Texas opens at Ohio State. This is the real thing.

1472
01:16:34,600 --> 01:16:37,160
Speaker 1: This is not a preseason friendly. It's the real thing.

1473
01:16:37,920 --> 01:16:39,760
Speaker 1: Ohio State has opened as a four and a half

1474
01:16:39,800 --> 01:16:44,559
Speaker 1: point favorite. That's probably arch Manning for Texas against maybe

1475
01:16:44,640 --> 01:16:49,120
Speaker 1: Julian Sayan for Ohio State. It's a rematch from the

1476
01:16:49,160 --> 01:16:55,880
Speaker 1: Cotton Bowl, so that'll be fun. Alabama opens at Florida State. People, again,

1477
01:16:55,920 --> 01:16:59,760
Speaker 1: this is the real thing. Doak is being remodeled. It

1478
01:17:00,040 --> 01:17:02,840
Speaker 1: will be I think finished, so dote Campbell Stadium will

1479
01:17:02,880 --> 01:17:06,439
Speaker 1: look different for this game. Alabama opens minus seven and

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01:17:06,439 --> 01:17:10,240
Speaker 1: a half at Florida State. Who's the Bama quarterback? We

1481
01:17:10,280 --> 01:17:14,439
Speaker 1: don't know. Florida State's entire team dynamic, we don't know

1482
01:17:15,479 --> 01:17:19,320
Speaker 1: new quarterback, new offensive coordinator, new defensive coordinator. Bama's favored

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01:17:19,320 --> 01:17:22,000
Speaker 1: by over a touchdown on the road there. LSU plays

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01:17:22,000 --> 01:17:27,040
Speaker 1: at Clemson, which you think spread is there two really

1485
01:17:27,120 --> 01:17:30,960
Speaker 1: experienced quarterbacks Nussmeyer versus club Nick. Clemson opens is a

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01:17:30,960 --> 01:17:33,679
Speaker 1: two and a half point favorite roughly home field there,

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01:17:33,680 --> 01:17:37,120
Speaker 1: so roughly they're even teams and it's a premier quarterback

1488
01:17:37,120 --> 01:17:39,760
Speaker 1: spot man. LSU has struggled in these openers and yet

1489
01:17:39,760 --> 01:17:41,920
Speaker 1: they keep signing up for him. More credit to them,

1490
01:17:41,920 --> 01:17:43,920
Speaker 1: by the way, for that. They are a short two

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01:17:43,920 --> 01:17:46,519
Speaker 1: and a half point favorite. This number has like seven

1492
01:17:46,560 --> 01:17:50,200
Speaker 1: months to move, but that's noteworthy. Let's see, Colin, what

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01:17:50,240 --> 01:17:53,280
Speaker 1: else do we have. We've got Auburn at Baylor in Waco.

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01:17:53,400 --> 01:17:56,800
Speaker 1: Auburn opened in the season on the road one and

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01:17:56,800 --> 01:18:00,639
Speaker 1: a half point favorite. That's a total why card team

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01:18:00,680 --> 01:18:05,320
Speaker 1: at Auburn. Remember Jackson Arnold is their presumed starter at quarterback.

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01:18:05,360 --> 01:18:08,759
Speaker 1: The Oklahoma transfer. I like a lot of what Baylor returns.

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01:18:08,760 --> 01:18:10,400
Speaker 1: In fact, if I were to move some money on this,

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01:18:10,439 --> 01:18:13,920
Speaker 1: I would bet Baylor right now. Notre Dame where they

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01:18:14,000 --> 01:18:19,519
Speaker 1: open in the season at Miami. Notice these are not

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01:18:19,640 --> 01:18:21,640
Speaker 1: neutral site games, although we do have a couple of

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01:18:21,640 --> 01:18:24,720
Speaker 1: them coming up, but these are home games. Good for

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01:18:24,800 --> 01:18:27,960
Speaker 1: all of you for scheduling these games. Miami's got a

1504
01:18:27,960 --> 01:18:31,880
Speaker 1: new defensive coordinator. How's that going to look? Carson Beck?

1505
01:18:32,400 --> 01:18:35,320
Speaker 1: Is he ready? Is he healthy? Is he able to start?

1506
01:18:35,360 --> 01:18:39,200
Speaker 1: For Miami? The whole Notre Dame team may look different

1507
01:18:39,240 --> 01:18:43,120
Speaker 1: like we Again, of course, it's college football, and especially

1508
01:18:43,160 --> 01:18:45,400
Speaker 1: in the portal era, teams are gonna look a lot

1509
01:18:45,400 --> 01:18:47,800
Speaker 1: different year to year. And yet you can already bet

1510
01:18:47,840 --> 01:18:52,320
Speaker 1: these games. Syracuse plays Tennessee in Atlanta to start the year.

1511
01:18:53,080 --> 01:18:55,360
Speaker 1: Tennessee's favorite by thirteen and a half. I'll tell you

1512
01:18:55,360 --> 01:18:58,160
Speaker 1: what that's got me really upset. Is this one right

1513
01:18:58,160 --> 01:19:03,479
Speaker 1: here on the bottom of the screen. So Virginia Tech

1514
01:19:04,160 --> 01:19:06,160
Speaker 1: one of the best home field environments in all of

1515
01:19:06,160 --> 01:19:09,679
Speaker 1: college football. South Carolina one of the best home field

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01:19:09,720 --> 01:19:12,240
Speaker 1: environments in all of college football. They play each other

1517
01:19:12,320 --> 01:19:15,519
Speaker 1: in Week one, So it's a win win no matter what. Right,

1518
01:19:15,840 --> 01:19:19,200
Speaker 1: we're either gonna see game Cocks going to Blacksburg or

1519
01:19:19,240 --> 01:19:22,439
Speaker 1: see Hokies going to Williams. Brice Stadium. Yet we're actually

1520
01:19:22,479 --> 01:19:28,000
Speaker 1: gonna play it in Atlanta. Why because corporate sponsors have

1521
01:19:28,040 --> 01:19:30,680
Speaker 1: a lot of money they can pay for it. So

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01:19:30,680 --> 01:19:33,080
Speaker 1: South Carolina is gonna be favored by eight and a half.

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01:19:33,160 --> 01:19:38,240
Speaker 1: That's the opening number there, Tco. By the way, this

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01:19:38,280 --> 01:19:42,960
Speaker 1: one's off to me man. TCU is the first opponent

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01:19:43,080 --> 01:19:46,679
Speaker 1: for Bill Belichick at North Carolina. TCU plays at North

1526
01:19:46,680 --> 01:19:49,519
Speaker 1: Carolina to start the season. Why is North Carolina favored

1527
01:19:49,560 --> 01:19:52,960
Speaker 1: by two and a half other than the Belichick bump?

1528
01:19:53,000 --> 01:19:55,439
Speaker 1: I guess we could call it that. Why would you

1529
01:19:55,560 --> 01:19:57,680
Speaker 1: NC be favored? What in the world do we know

1530
01:19:57,760 --> 01:20:00,960
Speaker 1: about them? Do we know anything about them? I would

1531
01:20:01,080 --> 01:20:03,320
Speaker 1: lean TCU in that game right now. Fortunately, we're not

1532
01:20:03,320 --> 01:20:07,559
Speaker 1: picking the games tonight. Georgia Tech five and a half

1533
01:20:07,800 --> 01:20:10,400
Speaker 1: lay in five and a half at Colorado. This is

1534
01:20:10,439 --> 01:20:15,360
Speaker 1: Colorado post Shadour, post Travis Hunter. Dion's still there right now.

1535
01:20:15,400 --> 01:20:17,920
Speaker 1: We hope fingers crossed. We hope he will be as

1536
01:20:17,960 --> 01:20:22,800
Speaker 1: a college football people. Georgia Tech laying five and a half.

1537
01:20:22,880 --> 01:20:25,840
Speaker 1: Huh okay. Georgia Tech knows about going on the road.

1538
01:20:25,840 --> 01:20:28,200
Speaker 1: They played in Ireland to start the season last year.

1539
01:20:28,439 --> 01:20:30,040
Speaker 1: Which one of these games stands out to you? Oh,

1540
01:20:30,120 --> 01:20:33,120
Speaker 1: by the way, not to be buried, but it's not

1541
01:20:33,240 --> 01:20:36,599
Speaker 1: just week one games that are available. I know this

1542
01:20:36,640 --> 01:20:39,880
Speaker 1: probably isn't the right time, given the circumstances of the

1543
01:20:39,920 --> 01:20:43,200
Speaker 1: past twenty four hours, but I do need to inform you.

1544
01:20:44,520 --> 01:20:49,720
Speaker 1: Ohio State Michigan is on the board. Ohio State, are

1545
01:20:49,760 --> 01:20:52,920
Speaker 1: you ready for it? Almost a year away from this game?

1546
01:20:53,280 --> 01:20:58,280
Speaker 1: Ohio State minus eight and a half at Michigan in

1547
01:20:58,400 --> 01:21:02,559
Speaker 1: the game in twenty twenty five. Ohio State has also

1548
01:21:02,640 --> 01:21:05,559
Speaker 1: opened as the favorite to win the national championship. The

1549
01:21:05,600 --> 01:21:12,439
Speaker 1: odds in order are Ohio State, Texas, Oregon, Georgia, Penn State,

1550
01:21:12,680 --> 01:21:19,519
Speaker 1: Notre Dame, Alabama, Tennessee, Clemson, LSU, Ole, mess Texas, A

1551
01:21:19,600 --> 01:21:23,800
Speaker 1: and M. Translation. The SEC is probably going to be

1552
01:21:23,840 --> 01:21:27,080
Speaker 1: a factor. However, it might not matter because there are

1553
01:21:27,120 --> 01:21:29,880
Speaker 1: a lot of non SEC teams up there too. If,

1554
01:21:29,920 --> 01:21:33,320
Speaker 1: of course, you have bought into the toxic ideology of

1555
01:21:33,400 --> 01:21:36,479
Speaker 1: thinking in terms of conferences instead of thinking in terms

1556
01:21:36,479 --> 01:21:40,639
Speaker 1: of teams. This is all available at FanDuel. They are

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Speaker 1: the exclusive odds provider of the show. I got the

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01:21:45,520 --> 01:21:51,640
Speaker 1: text this morning from David and I looked at it

1559
01:21:52,520 --> 01:21:56,439
Speaker 1: and I thought to myself self, this can make some

1560
01:21:56,479 --> 01:21:59,200
Speaker 1: good content on the show tonight. But then I thought, David,

1561
01:21:59,320 --> 01:22:00,920
Speaker 1: is it really respond possible for you guys to be

1562
01:22:01,000 --> 01:22:03,559
Speaker 1: exposing yourself like this? Because think about how little you

1563
01:22:03,600 --> 01:22:06,080
Speaker 1: know about these teams right now, and yet you guys

1564
01:22:06,120 --> 01:22:07,920
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1588
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Speaker 1: to on the show is some talk that is not

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01:23:34,200 --> 01:23:39,400
Speaker 1: going away. Let me unfreeze my computer column password is

1590
01:23:39,439 --> 01:23:42,479
Speaker 1: so dumb, not dumb enough for me to share on air,

1591
01:23:42,520 --> 01:23:47,240
Speaker 1: but dumb nonetheless. Okay, so uh simple water too. The

1592
01:23:47,280 --> 01:23:50,080
Speaker 1: portal right now has got everyone up in arms. The

1593
01:23:50,120 --> 01:23:52,120
Speaker 1: portal is is like the new way of the college

1594
01:23:52,160 --> 01:23:54,880
Speaker 1: football world, and everyone thinks it's turned the norm on

1595
01:23:54,920 --> 01:23:58,160
Speaker 1: its ear, and it has, but it hasn't. So I'm

1596
01:23:58,160 --> 01:24:00,680
Speaker 1: gonna read a question to you and then I'll give

1597
01:24:00,680 --> 01:24:02,280
Speaker 1: you some thoughts on it, and then we'll wrap up

1598
01:24:02,320 --> 01:24:09,120
Speaker 1: and we'll go home and we'll eat dinner. Okay, So

1599
01:24:09,160 --> 01:24:15,280
Speaker 1: the question from Colin Sweet Sweet Name two l's though.

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01:24:16,080 --> 01:24:19,760
Speaker 1: Colin in Iowa City said, Ohio State and Notre Dame

1601
01:24:19,920 --> 01:24:22,519
Speaker 1: seemed to be close knit teams and it helped them

1602
01:24:22,560 --> 01:24:25,640
Speaker 1: get to the title game. Will we see teams like

1603
01:24:25,720 --> 01:24:28,720
Speaker 1: that ever again now that the portal has changed the

1604
01:24:28,760 --> 01:24:33,920
Speaker 1: sport into something different, great news. Yes, you probably will

1605
01:24:33,920 --> 01:24:36,680
Speaker 1: see teams like that again. I'm gonna go as far

1606
01:24:36,720 --> 01:24:39,040
Speaker 1: as to say you may see teams like that every year,

1607
01:24:39,520 --> 01:24:42,679
Speaker 1: maybe not quite as special as these two teams were.

1608
01:24:42,920 --> 01:24:45,439
Speaker 1: These two teams were amazing to be around. But the

1609
01:24:45,479 --> 01:24:48,760
Speaker 1: same things are going to keep on winning. There's a

1610
01:24:48,760 --> 01:24:52,479
Speaker 1: big fear out there that the fundamental way the sport

1611
01:24:52,560 --> 01:24:56,960
Speaker 1: works has changed in some ways. That's true, but the

1612
01:24:57,000 --> 01:25:00,720
Speaker 1: fundamental way to win in high level col football has

1613
01:25:00,720 --> 01:25:04,000
Speaker 1: not changed all that much. It's just that there's some

1614
01:25:04,040 --> 01:25:06,519
Speaker 1: different mechanisms that you have to use to go about

1615
01:25:06,560 --> 01:25:09,760
Speaker 1: achieving it. But I was talking to a head coach

1616
01:25:09,840 --> 01:25:13,479
Speaker 1: last night. Actually, not Ryan Day or Marcus Freeman, they

1617
01:25:13,479 --> 01:25:15,639
Speaker 1: were busy. I was talking to a head coach last

1618
01:25:15,720 --> 01:25:19,879
Speaker 1: night about this, about the concept that relationships don't matter anymore.

1619
01:25:19,920 --> 01:25:22,000
Speaker 1: It's just going and paying and buying your roster. And

1620
01:25:22,040 --> 01:25:25,760
Speaker 1: he said it's bs and I agree with him. There's

1621
01:25:25,800 --> 01:25:29,080
Speaker 1: money involved. But how do you think you're winning a

1622
01:25:29,120 --> 01:25:31,719
Speaker 1: bidding war? How do you think you have a situation

1623
01:25:32,040 --> 01:25:34,360
Speaker 1: where a guy takes thirty percent less to come to

1624
01:25:34,400 --> 01:25:36,360
Speaker 1: you as opposed to going to them. It's still a

1625
01:25:36,400 --> 01:25:39,640
Speaker 1: relationships thing. And by the way, if it's not and

1626
01:25:39,680 --> 01:25:43,799
Speaker 1: you go in, you acquire the talent. Ask jimbo Fisher

1627
01:25:43,960 --> 01:25:46,040
Speaker 1: how that worked out a few years ago, because they

1628
01:25:46,080 --> 01:25:48,719
Speaker 1: went and got the highest rated recruiting class in history.

1629
01:25:49,040 --> 01:25:51,400
Speaker 1: They did a piss poor job of forming relationships with

1630
01:25:51,439 --> 01:25:54,320
Speaker 1: the guys. They did a piss poor job of building

1631
01:25:54,479 --> 01:25:58,400
Speaker 1: the dynamic of a team, and the entire thing fell apart.

1632
01:25:58,800 --> 01:26:01,479
Speaker 1: It's not as easy is going and paying for players

1633
01:26:01,520 --> 01:26:04,639
Speaker 1: and just plugging them in. It looks that way in Xbox.

1634
01:26:04,640 --> 01:26:06,800
Speaker 1: It may be that way, but in real life it's

1635
01:26:06,800 --> 01:26:11,559
Speaker 1: not that way. Relationships very much matter. Also, what if

1636
01:26:11,560 --> 01:26:14,400
Speaker 1: they aren't all like that? What if all the players

1637
01:26:14,439 --> 01:26:18,360
Speaker 1: out there are not up for sale for the highest bidder?

1638
01:26:18,560 --> 01:26:21,000
Speaker 1: What if those are just the ones you hear about. Also,

1639
01:26:21,600 --> 01:26:25,559
Speaker 1: what if winning still requires intangibles that money can't buy,

1640
01:26:25,800 --> 01:26:29,160
Speaker 1: because I promise you it does. So the insinuation is, well,

1641
01:26:29,160 --> 01:26:31,439
Speaker 1: now that we've got nil and the portal, and we've

1642
01:26:31,439 --> 01:26:33,920
Speaker 1: got a bunch of money being spent on players, it

1643
01:26:34,040 --> 01:26:38,160
Speaker 1: removes what used to win. No, it doesn't. Ohio State's

1644
01:26:38,200 --> 01:26:41,400
Speaker 1: team dynamic is a large majority of the reason they

1645
01:26:41,439 --> 01:26:44,519
Speaker 1: just want a title. Notre Dame's team dynamic is a

1646
01:26:44,640 --> 01:26:47,200
Speaker 1: vast majority of the reason they were playing for a

1647
01:26:47,280 --> 01:26:50,160
Speaker 1: national title last night. You can't buy that stuff. You

1648
01:26:50,200 --> 01:26:52,639
Speaker 1: can't buy it if you want to. You couldn't purchase

1649
01:26:52,640 --> 01:26:55,640
Speaker 1: that if you tried. You can't get it overnight. That

1650
01:26:55,680 --> 01:26:59,320
Speaker 1: stuff takes time. There's no shortcut to that. Doesn't matter

1651
01:26:59,320 --> 01:27:01,400
Speaker 1: how much you pay your coaching staff, how much that

1652
01:27:01,439 --> 01:27:04,600
Speaker 1: coaching staff as players, doesn't matter. If the lesson that

1653
01:27:04,680 --> 01:27:08,760
Speaker 1: you took from this National championship game last night and

1654
01:27:08,840 --> 01:27:12,400
Speaker 1: Ohio State winning it was that you can now just

1655
01:27:12,479 --> 01:27:15,160
Speaker 1: go buy a title, I think you learned the wrong

1656
01:27:15,280 --> 01:27:18,680
Speaker 1: lesson from this season. I'm colin. I'm not saying you

1657
01:27:18,760 --> 01:27:20,760
Speaker 1: specifically said that in your question, but I think a

1658
01:27:20,760 --> 01:27:22,280
Speaker 1: lot of people out there believe that, and you're really

1659
01:27:22,360 --> 01:27:25,320
Speaker 1: jaded towards the sport right now, don't be, don't be.

1660
01:27:25,360 --> 01:27:29,120
Speaker 1: It's different. It takes some getting used to, but the

1661
01:27:29,160 --> 01:27:33,080
Speaker 1: same thing wins. That's always won, and that is evaluating,

1662
01:27:33,439 --> 01:27:36,000
Speaker 1: and that is recruiting, and that is acquiring, and that

1663
01:27:36,120 --> 01:27:38,680
Speaker 1: is developing. Here's the only difference. Now you got a

1664
01:27:38,720 --> 01:27:40,920
Speaker 1: lot more money and it's legal to do so that

1665
01:27:41,000 --> 01:27:44,040
Speaker 1: you can reinvest now, But the way to win is

1666
01:27:44,120 --> 01:27:47,000
Speaker 1: reinvesting in your own guys. And you can supplement here

1667
01:27:47,000 --> 01:27:50,400
Speaker 1: and there with availability in the portal, but no one's

1668
01:27:50,479 --> 01:27:53,240
Speaker 1: portaling their way to a title. Here you're going and

1669
01:27:53,280 --> 01:27:56,040
Speaker 1: you're doing same things you've always done, and now you're

1670
01:27:56,080 --> 01:27:59,080
Speaker 1: reinvesting in the ones you got right. And you may

1671
01:27:59,120 --> 01:28:02,679
Speaker 1: be cutting loose or allowing to walk free the evals

1672
01:28:02,720 --> 01:28:04,720
Speaker 1: that you missed on because the best staff in the

1673
01:28:04,760 --> 01:28:06,559
Speaker 1: world is not going to hit it one hundred percent.

1674
01:28:06,600 --> 01:28:09,519
Speaker 1: There are too many variables in the equation. But I

1675
01:28:09,560 --> 01:28:13,800
Speaker 1: would argue in an expanded field in the playoff, at

1676
01:28:13,880 --> 01:28:17,479
Speaker 1: least you're eventually going to have enough teams in any

1677
01:28:17,479 --> 01:28:19,840
Speaker 1: given field that have done it right, that have gotten

1678
01:28:19,880 --> 01:28:24,360
Speaker 1: themselves to that point that no one who who kind

1679
01:28:24,400 --> 01:28:26,280
Speaker 1: of hot shotted their way to that point through the

1680
01:28:26,320 --> 01:28:29,880
Speaker 1: portal is gonna make it through several rounds against teams

1681
01:28:29,920 --> 01:28:34,960
Speaker 1: that did it the right way, like to early. It's

1682
01:28:35,080 --> 01:28:37,400
Speaker 1: very early in the new expanded era. I think the

1683
01:28:37,800 --> 01:28:40,200
Speaker 1: expanded format will bear that out. Maybe that's a pro

1684
01:28:40,280 --> 01:28:42,679
Speaker 1: maybe that's a good thing. So I don't think things

1685
01:28:42,720 --> 01:28:45,559
Speaker 1: have changed the formula for success. Let me put it

1686
01:28:45,560 --> 01:28:48,040
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