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Speaker 1: third year of our Lord, twenty twenty three. Over under

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Speaker 1: of me screwing that up over the next two months,

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Speaker 1: probably four or five and a half. Ask not what

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Speaker 1: you can do for this season, ask what Bowl season

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Speaker 1: can do for you. We're jam packed, we're high atop

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Speaker 1: to talk about. You've asked me once. You've asked me

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Speaker 1: a thousand times over the past week. Where's all the

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Speaker 1: So I'm gonna give it to you, and boy, are

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Speaker 1: we gonna give it to you. We're loaded tonight. I

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Speaker 1: gonna get a lot of balltalk in. I got several thoughts,

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Speaker 1: not just on the games, but then on moving forward

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Speaker 1: what it means for a whole lot of teams. I

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Speaker 1: have to discuss some things with you tonight about Georgia,

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Speaker 1: quarterback Stetson Bennett. Shockingly, shockingly, there's still some folks on

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Speaker 1: either side of the proverbial fence when it comes to

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Speaker 1: think I'm in a pretty rare club right now. Bold

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Speaker 1: predictions revisited. Yep, we're doing that tonight. So I'm Jim

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Speaker 1: talking about that. Ryan Day, Have we changed our opinion

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Speaker 1: when you're scoring in the mid forties and still can't win.

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Speaker 1: We'll discuss it all. They're watching us in Lubbock, Texas, Elkton, Florida,

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Speaker 1: Oro Valley, Arizona, Ackworth, Georgia. You're all tuned in. You

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Speaker 1: made the show do things we never thought possible. In

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. We are going to in turn give

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Speaker 1: you some things that maybe you didn't think were possible

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Speaker 1: over on our end in twenty twenty three, paper Pop

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Speaker 1: on that. Thank you so much to give you an

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Speaker 1: idea of what we're doing this week. Tonight, Normal Show, Thursday,

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Speaker 1: Normal Show, Sunday night will be live from Los Angeles

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Speaker 1: and then Tuesday, the day after the National Championship Game.

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Speaker 1: We'll be live from la that day as well. Well.

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Speaker 1: I think we're going to go a little bit earlier

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Speaker 1: the Tuesday show next week will be early. That's then, though,

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Speaker 1: this is now and in the here and now. I

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Speaker 1: think you and I just witnessed one of the craziest

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Speaker 1: Bowl seasons ever, and it's not over. We still have

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Speaker 1: folks out there in the more casual college football community

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Speaker 1: who's still traffic in the whole meaningless bowl game conversation. Now,

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Speaker 1: we're long since past that. You and I have never

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Speaker 1: Just hit the mute button on them, figuratively, just mute them.

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Speaker 1: You can mute a casual, mute them. Make it your

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Speaker 1: New Year's resolution, mute more casuals. In twenty twenty three,

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Speaker 1: I got to talk to you about so many of

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Speaker 1: these games. First up, Tennessee beat Clemson, beat them convincingly.

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Speaker 1: And it did not matter at least in terms of

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Speaker 1: This was the one I was most concerned about because

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Speaker 1: But Tennessee it worked out. Clemson, you know what. Let

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Speaker 1: There were a lot of doubts about Clemson going into

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Speaker 1: There are some just crazy happenings with Tennessee this year.

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Speaker 1: attention around here. Next up, Where were you? Where were

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Speaker 1: They lost the game. Pause, Tulane came back and won.

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Speaker 1: Now the casual in the crowd would look and say, wow,

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Speaker 1: This is the second twelve win season in two lane history.

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Speaker 1: reiterate it again. For those of you who had been

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Speaker 1: but I've got a stat here that probably more perfectly

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Speaker 1: than anything I can say. Lincoln Riley now has six

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Speaker 1: Ohio State on the ropes at various points in that

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Speaker 1: game earlier this year. So it's not a gap of miles,

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Speaker 1: it's a gap of feet. Maybe not inches yet, but feet.

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Speaker 1: They can make that up. Let's move on. Bowl season

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Speaker 1: is great, they said, I couldn't talk about Bowl season.

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Speaker 1: We're talking about it. I had a fresh pack of

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Speaker 1: shirts come in on a moment too soon too, because

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Speaker 1: the color is so flimsy on my current rotation that

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Speaker 1: the law of mic always gets bent up on it.

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Speaker 1: If you're listening to podcast, ignore everything I just said.

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Speaker 1: And if you're watching live, I appreciate you guys being

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Speaker 1: tuned in. Really good crowd tonight. Make sure you subscribe

439
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Speaker 1: to the channel, and like the video. We're not going anywhere.

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Speaker 1: This show doesn't end after the National champions next week.

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Speaker 1: We just we go all year long. So if everyone

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Speaker 1: else quits on. You don't worry, We'll still be here. Ah,

443
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Speaker 1: this one's gonna hurt to talk about a little bit.

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Speaker 1: I told you the Robin Noddle Express went seven and

445
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Speaker 1: two in bowl season. I want to know what one

446
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Speaker 1: of the losses was LSU Wood Chippard Purdue sixty three

447
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Speaker 1: to seven. The true Sarah McLaughlin Special from bowl season.

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Speaker 1: Brian Kelly did some stuff to Drew Brees. It's illegal

449
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Speaker 1: in so many states and including Florida, and yet it

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Speaker 1: did it anyway. Five ninety four to two sixty three

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Speaker 1: was the yarda jedge here, big whiff for the model

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Speaker 1: Purdue plus fourteen and a half was out there, and

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Speaker 1: we gobbled it up and we got gobbled up. Fortunately

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Speaker 1: we made up for it. And then some elsewhere, I

455
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Speaker 1: mean LSU had to punt on the opening drive. I'm

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Speaker 1: watching it and I'm saying, all right, Purdue, good job.

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Speaker 1: And then the next eight possessions happened. And the thing

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Speaker 1: about those next eight possessions for LSU, they found the

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Speaker 1: end zone in seven of them. I had stats and

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Speaker 1: info the numbers eight times seven. That's over half one

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Speaker 1: hundred fifty six, to be exact. They got ugly. They

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Speaker 1: got ugly bad. They painted the walls, would produced blood

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Speaker 1: down there. And then a funny thing happened. They poured cheese.

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Speaker 1: It's all over. Excuse me, cheese. It says not the

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Speaker 1: plural Apparently they put you know what, screw the press

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Speaker 1: release the plural of cheese. It is cheese. It's just

467
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Speaker 1: like the plural of platypus is platypie and status is stati.

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Speaker 1: So they poured cheese. It's all over Brian Kelly, cause

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Speaker 1: it's the cheese at bowl. And then he ate some

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Speaker 1: of them off the ground. But he ate them off

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Speaker 1: the ground and didn't smile about it. See less, Miles

472
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Speaker 1: used to do that whole grass eating thing back in

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Speaker 1: the day, but he was doing it for spectacle. He

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Speaker 1: knew he was being watched. Brian Kelly did it as

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Speaker 1: if even though cameras weren't in the building and there

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Speaker 1: may not be anyone in the crowd, he still would

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Speaker 1: have done it the same way. And I respect that

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Speaker 1: because I lived my life in a very similar fashion.

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Speaker 1: Doesn't matter how much money this company ever pays me,

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Speaker 1: they could put me in the ten figure range. If

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Speaker 1: there is free food anywhere in the it's coming with me.

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Speaker 1: And Brian Kelly looked down at that big pile of

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Speaker 1: cheese it's on the ground, and he said, I'm not

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Speaker 1: letting all these go to waste. Boom. You can talk

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Speaker 1: in any accents you want. I understand that language. You

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Speaker 1: got free food in front of you, You clean your

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Speaker 1: plate or the field as it were. And football game

488
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Speaker 1: was still going on too, and you know what happened

489
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Speaker 1: after this game. They asked Brian Kelly in this postgame

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Speaker 1: presser about the quarterback situation, and he did something that

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Speaker 1: mildly surprised me. He said, when jade and Daniels is

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Speaker 1: our starter now, Garrett Nusmeyer is going to be able

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Speaker 1: to compete for this job in the spring, But Garrett,

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Speaker 1: but Jaden Daniels is going to be our starter now.

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Speaker 1: The reason I say that mildly surprised me is because

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Speaker 1: I don't know his particular angle. I just never think

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Speaker 1: there's a whole lot of things to be gained by

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Speaker 1: making those kind of statements before you have to if

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Speaker 1: you want to maintain your quarterback depth. There's another school

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Speaker 1: of thought, two of them. Actually. One school of thought

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Speaker 1: is you say that to challenge Garrett Nusmeyer the third

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Speaker 1: school of thought. And I definitely don't know if this

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Speaker 1: is the case. Is you say that to force his

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Speaker 1: hand coming out of spring. If you're going to transfer,

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Speaker 1: go ahead, but we'd like to know before fall. We'd

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Speaker 1: like to know if you're going to transfer, maybe before

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Speaker 1: spring or certainly after spring. I don't think he's trying

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Speaker 1: to get the guy to transfer. I'm just saying outside

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Speaker 1: of those possibilities. I'm not so sure why you make

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Speaker 1: that kind of statement. January is not normally the time

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Speaker 1: you make that kind of statement. But there was one

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Speaker 1: other thing. There was one other little cloud that was

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Speaker 1: kind of floating around the LSU program. Any of you

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Speaker 1: with internet access probably familiar with the kind of rumors

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Speaker 1: that were floating around LSU. I know I got asked

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Speaker 1: about it at the very least hundreds of times. I

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Speaker 1: hesitate to say thousands, but it really felt like that

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Speaker 1: there were some rumors floating about regarding some things that

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Speaker 1: may or may not have happened with the LSU football

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Speaker 1: program in Atlanta the weekend of the SEC Championship game. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I had heard about him. I had heard about him

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Speaker 1: weeks ago. I didn't RepA eat him on the air

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Speaker 1: because I couldn't confirm them, and then when you asked

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Speaker 1: me about them, I didn't confirm them via social media

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Speaker 1: because I still couldn't confirm them. And then Brian Kelly

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Speaker 1: was asked about it afterwards, and I should have brought

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Speaker 1: up his quote anyway, very very loose paraphrasing job here.

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Speaker 1: He said, there's nobody with this team that's done anything

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Speaker 1: to warrant getting fired or getting suspended. And that was that,

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Speaker 1: and I believe that to be the case. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: I'm not trafficking in it. If you got evidence of anything, ever,

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Speaker 1: I'm not telling you don't submit it to me. We

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Speaker 1: get intel fed to us all the time, and I

534
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Speaker 1: greatly appreciate it, and we have never burned a source,

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Speaker 1: and we never will burn a source. But I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: be responsible about what we do and don't say on

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Speaker 1: this show. And there's a reason I didn't mention a

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Speaker 1: word about rumors regarding LSU and Atlanta, because that's what

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Speaker 1: they were to me. Rumors. You should your eyes would

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Speaker 1: roll into the back of your head for the worst

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Speaker 1: of reasons if you could see all the rumors that

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Speaker 1: get sent to us. Gotta be careful paper Pop. Moving on,

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Speaker 1: I think this may have been the most entertaining Bowl game,

544
00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:10,720
Speaker 1: not the LSU game that was a that was tough

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Speaker 1: to watch. Notre Dame and South Carolina just played a thriller.

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Speaker 1: It was anything but meaningless. I'll tell you that forty

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Speaker 1: five to thirty eight, Notre Dame won this game. I

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Speaker 1: would grade this one as maybe the most entertaining non

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Speaker 1: playoff game that we saw. Tyler Buttner just shining. Everyone

550
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Speaker 1: knowing he's gonna transfer, He's shining there anyway. He's basically

551
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Speaker 1: just having an open audition for other teams and a hey, hey,

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Speaker 1: speaking to Sean Clifford, Tyler Buttner probably played about as

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Speaker 1: good as we've seen him. There's a really interesting situation

554
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Speaker 1: around Notre Dame right now where you got Buttoner there

555
00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:46,800
Speaker 1: and he's playing out of his mind and no one

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Speaker 1: thinks he's going to be with the team after this.

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Speaker 1: And then you got guys coming in in future recruiting classes,

558
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Speaker 1: but they won't be the starter in twenty twenty three,

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Speaker 1: and you got rumors that Sam Hartman is coming in.

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Speaker 1: Not Dan Hartman packing it's a great song. Not Dan Hartman.

561
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Speaker 1: Sam Hartman coming in, but he's not there yet. So

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Speaker 1: there is a much higher probability that a guy that

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Speaker 1: isn't on their roster will be their starter this upcoming

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Speaker 1: year than anyone who is on the roster or who

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Speaker 1: is in their recruiting class. Welcome to college football twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty three. Meanwhile, great game here, five point fifty eight

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Speaker 1: in the total yardage department. And by the way, let's

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Speaker 1: look at this season in totality for Notre Dame. Now

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Speaker 1: they started three and three, they finished nine and four.

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Speaker 1: Hoopsed amongst us thought that was a possibility. Not I

571
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Speaker 1: There was a period there where they had lost to

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Speaker 1: Ohio State and Marshall to start the year. The question

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Speaker 1: was are they going to make a bowl? Yeah, they

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Speaker 1: made one, and they actually got to play in sunny

575
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Speaker 1: but Chile, Florida, and they played a really entertaining game.

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Speaker 1: They just need the quarterback now, they need a bridge quarterback.

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Speaker 1: They need exactly one year out of a quarterback. I

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Speaker 1: think it will be Hartman. This was This was an

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Speaker 1: interesting game for Notre Dame just because it put a

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Speaker 1: really solid and positive cap on a program that's headed

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Speaker 1: in the right direction. Good recruiting class coming in, looks

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Speaker 1: like they'll be able to leverage the portal. South Carolina

583
00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:10,480
Speaker 1: is an interesting story here too, because even with the

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Speaker 1: Bowl loss again they overachieved this year. But here's the

585
00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:18,960
Speaker 1: interesting caveat. They have a lot of transfer portal activity

586
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Speaker 1: going on at South Carolina right now. And I was

587
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Speaker 1: reading over on the Big Spur earlier today. I think

588
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Speaker 1: it was John Wittell who was providing some updates as

589
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Speaker 1: best he could tell about some very notable players. Spencer

590
00:29:30,600 --> 00:29:34,040
Speaker 1: Rattler as of today, they don't know what he's gonna do. Now,

591
00:29:34,040 --> 00:29:36,760
Speaker 1: that wouldn't be portal, that would be NFL Draft. But

592
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Speaker 1: Jordan Birch, big time five star prospect. They got a

593
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Speaker 1: couple of cycles ago. What's he gonna do? No one

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Speaker 1: knows as of today. Antoine Wells wide receiver, What's he

595
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Speaker 1: gonna do? No one knows as of today. Now, that

596
00:29:48,520 --> 00:29:51,240
Speaker 1: could change by the time the show's over. But some

597
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Speaker 1: of the most important recruiting jobs that they have left

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Speaker 1: on their plate there in Columbia involved in many cases

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Speaker 1: players on their own team. By the way, the fourth

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Speaker 1: quarter numbers decidedly in the favor of the Irish two

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Speaker 1: five to thirty two totally yardage hats off to Marcus

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Speaker 1: Freeman and Notre Dame for pulling the nose up in

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Speaker 1: a big way this year. A couple more here. We

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Speaker 1: got a loaded show tonight. I'm going to go in

605
00:30:13,760 --> 00:30:17,800
Speaker 1: all different directions tonight. This is what happens when we

606
00:30:17,880 --> 00:30:20,480
Speaker 1: take a little bit of vacation. So many things get

607
00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:21,880
Speaker 1: bottled up, and we got to get it all out.

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Speaker 1: Fsu I keep it up, Calm, We'll go Washington. Washington

609
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Speaker 1: beat Texas twenty seven to twenty and they closed the

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Speaker 1: season on a seven game win streak. And I know

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Speaker 1: that for a lot of you, this is like halfway

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Speaker 1: to Russia. When you're looking at the University of Washington.

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Speaker 1: It's just up there somewhere you don't really know where.

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Speaker 1: It's not hard to find. Actually, Seattle's not a hard

615
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Speaker 1: place to find, but University of Washington and Kalin Debor

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Speaker 1: Finish eleven and two. Everyone is dunking on the PAC

617
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Speaker 1: twelve right now. You're not doing it because of Washington, Washington.

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Speaker 1: You know how much I love trains. They're just little

619
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Speaker 1: engine that coulding their way into tension. Maybe next year

620
00:31:01,920 --> 00:31:04,280
Speaker 1: they were there. This year it came down to tiebreaker

621
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Speaker 1: scenarios that kept him out of the PAC twelve Championship game.

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Speaker 1: Michael Pennix came in and he was like the more

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Speaker 1: quiet West Coast version of the Stetson Bennett story, only

624
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Speaker 1: he had already done some things in Indiana before he transferred.

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Speaker 1: But everyone remember summertime. If you don't, let me refresh

626
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Speaker 1: your memory Michael Pennick's transfers from Indiana to Washington, and

627
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Speaker 1: all you knew about him was he turns the ball

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Speaker 1: over a lot and he's hurt all the time. Well,

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Speaker 1: he didn't turn the ball over a ton this year,

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Speaker 1: and he wasn't injured a whole lot. And absent those

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00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:38,280
Speaker 1: two things, guess what he did. He played out of

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Speaker 1: his mind, including in this game thirty two to fifty four,

633
00:31:41,720 --> 00:31:43,360
Speaker 1: over two hundred and eighty yards through the air, a

634
00:31:43,360 --> 00:31:46,240
Speaker 1: couple of touchdowns on a pick. What a success story

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Speaker 1: this year. And it's not the last time that we'll

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Speaker 1: be looking at high profile transfers on the West coast.

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Speaker 1: DJ just went to Oregon State, so it's going to

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Speaker 1: be a common theme. Bo Nicks went to Oregon. Very

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Speaker 1: common theme on the West coast came Williams obviously at USC,

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00:32:02,120 --> 00:32:05,920
Speaker 1: But what about Texas in this game? Man. First off,

641
00:32:06,160 --> 00:32:11,200
Speaker 1: before I talk about the pregame scene with Sark, They're

642
00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:15,600
Speaker 1: leading rusher eight carries for twenty seven yards. Not too good,

643
00:32:16,040 --> 00:32:20,120
Speaker 1: not good at all, not good, Bob, not great. I

644
00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:22,920
Speaker 1: know a lot of you saw the video floating around

645
00:32:22,720 --> 00:32:25,600
Speaker 1: with Sark in the pregame and there was a there

646
00:32:25,640 --> 00:32:28,520
Speaker 1: was a timekeeper probably making little more than minimum wage

647
00:32:28,520 --> 00:32:30,360
Speaker 1: on the field. He's got the headset on teams coming

648
00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:32,680
Speaker 1: out of the tunnel and he's just trying to decide

649
00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:35,720
Speaker 1: whether to tell the team to go or not. And

650
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:39,200
Speaker 1: he apparently he committed the cardinal sin. I didn't know

651
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:41,840
Speaker 1: it was one, but he reached out. Now in fairness,

652
00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:44,400
Speaker 1: he got he got a how should I put this?

653
00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:47,080
Speaker 1: And remain on air? He got a great big handful

654
00:32:47,120 --> 00:32:50,920
Speaker 1: of pectoral muscle from Sark, and he was telling him,

655
00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:56,880
Speaker 1: don't go yet. And Sark hesitated, hesitated, and then volcanically

656
00:32:56,960 --> 00:33:00,680
Speaker 1: unloaded on this guy and using the phrase is that

657
00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:03,000
Speaker 1: I could not repeat for the sake of me, while

658
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:06,680
Speaker 1: being disappointed in me, told him don't touch me. That

659
00:33:06,880 --> 00:33:08,760
Speaker 1: was the message that was conveyed. There were just a

660
00:33:08,760 --> 00:33:12,160
Speaker 1: few extra words put in there. I don't know. I'll

661
00:33:12,160 --> 00:33:14,480
Speaker 1: tell you what it did It made me forget about

662
00:33:14,520 --> 00:33:17,000
Speaker 1: poll Assassin and Ga the Monkey. It made me forget

663
00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:18,480
Speaker 1: about them for a little while. So if that was

664
00:33:18,520 --> 00:33:19,880
Speaker 1: what they were trying to do, if they were trying

665
00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:22,920
Speaker 1: to race the memory of one instance out there for another,

666
00:33:23,200 --> 00:33:25,680
Speaker 1: they succeeded. They couldn't beat Washington in the bowl game. Now,

667
00:33:25,720 --> 00:33:28,840
Speaker 1: having said that, Texas still improved this year. They had

668
00:33:28,840 --> 00:33:31,000
Speaker 1: a better year than they had last year. They finished

669
00:33:31,000 --> 00:33:33,080
Speaker 1: eight and five. They weren't even in a bowl game

670
00:33:33,360 --> 00:33:37,120
Speaker 1: last year. So what do we make of him in

671
00:33:37,120 --> 00:33:40,360
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three. I think they're going to be a

672
00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:43,000
Speaker 1: little bit slept on. I know you think that's impossible

673
00:33:43,000 --> 00:33:45,760
Speaker 1: with Texas, but relative to some of the noise that

674
00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:47,840
Speaker 1: was being made about him coming into this year, I

675
00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:50,360
Speaker 1: think they'll be slept on a little bit, cause three

676
00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:54,320
Speaker 1: years this weird thing happens. Common sense would tell you

677
00:33:54,320 --> 00:33:57,240
Speaker 1: you shouldn't even start investing a lot of your emotion

678
00:33:57,320 --> 00:34:01,160
Speaker 1: and prediction into a coach until his third year. In

679
00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:05,040
Speaker 1: college football, everyone puts all the hype into the first year.

680
00:34:05,600 --> 00:34:07,880
Speaker 1: Then the second year is like do or die, and

681
00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:10,040
Speaker 1: if you don't make the playoff either of those years,

682
00:34:10,040 --> 00:34:12,840
Speaker 1: they just forget about you. Mike Norval is the perfect

683
00:34:12,880 --> 00:34:15,680
Speaker 1: example of Florida State. They just forget about you in

684
00:34:15,719 --> 00:34:19,799
Speaker 1: reality year three. If you're worth your weight whatsoever, if

685
00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:21,759
Speaker 1: you're worth your salt at all, that's when you start

686
00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:24,960
Speaker 1: to make your noise. So what Mike Norvel ended up

687
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:27,319
Speaker 1: being at Florida State this year, maybe sart is that

688
00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:31,759
Speaker 1: in Austin next year. Speaking of Mike Norvel, let's talk

689
00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:35,440
Speaker 1: about FSU for just a second. FSU beat Oklahoma thirty five,

690
00:34:35,560 --> 00:34:39,000
Speaker 1: thirty two, and I look, I watched it, and I thought,

691
00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:42,399
Speaker 1: great job, Florida State. I remember we were on air

692
00:34:42,760 --> 00:34:44,520
Speaker 1: and we walked out of the studio and it was

693
00:34:44,560 --> 00:34:46,840
Speaker 1: on the monitor right around the corner. We watched the ending,

694
00:34:47,080 --> 00:34:49,480
Speaker 1: probably the same time you did. So it was a

695
00:34:49,480 --> 00:34:53,279
Speaker 1: great game, great ending, a heartbreaker for Oklahoma, but great ending,

696
00:34:53,320 --> 00:34:55,560
Speaker 1: and it put the cap on a great season for FSU.

697
00:34:55,920 --> 00:35:00,920
Speaker 1: But then I made the dire mistake of seeing what

698
00:35:00,960 --> 00:35:04,480
Speaker 1: the Internet thought about it, and the Internet said, this

699
00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:08,200
Speaker 1: is nothing to write home about. Oklahoma was terrible this year.

700
00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:11,520
Speaker 1: You only beat him by three. Be real, most of

701
00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:13,839
Speaker 1: you were pissed that you didn't cover That's what most

702
00:35:13,880 --> 00:35:15,960
Speaker 1: of you were angry about. Well, I don't think Mike

703
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:18,000
Speaker 1: Novel had a ticket. He didn't go Pete Rose on

704
00:35:18,040 --> 00:35:19,759
Speaker 1: this game. He just wanted to win it by any

705
00:35:19,840 --> 00:35:23,120
Speaker 1: means necessary. And they did. And Jordan Travis, I mean

706
00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:25,040
Speaker 1: three for like half a mile I think roughly half

707
00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:28,520
Speaker 1: a mile worth of yardage in this game. They won,

708
00:35:29,160 --> 00:35:32,680
Speaker 1: and so FSU finished with When they finished with ten wins,

709
00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:38,000
Speaker 1: Jesse were a ten win team. Yeah, ten wins. You

710
00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:40,319
Speaker 1: guys won an eight. I went over to Nole's twenty

711
00:35:40,320 --> 00:35:42,680
Speaker 1: four to seven preseason. You guys won an eight. Eight

712
00:35:42,760 --> 00:35:44,879
Speaker 1: would have been good. You got ten. Here's the more

713
00:35:44,880 --> 00:35:48,680
Speaker 1: important thing. This was not a bad There are no

714
00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:51,200
Speaker 1: bad wins in boldseason. But this was not even a

715
00:35:51,239 --> 00:35:56,000
Speaker 1: win to look down on, because with Dylan Gabriel, especially

716
00:35:56,000 --> 00:35:58,400
Speaker 1: playing at his best, Oklahoma was a pretty good team.

717
00:35:58,800 --> 00:36:00,560
Speaker 1: It's just that you didn't see that a whole lot

718
00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:03,160
Speaker 1: this year. Now you saw them with Gabriel, I would

719
00:36:03,239 --> 00:36:05,560
Speaker 1: argue he wasn't always one hundred percent. But towards the

720
00:36:05,640 --> 00:36:08,719
Speaker 1: end of the year, Oklahoma's losses started to stack up.

721
00:36:09,320 --> 00:36:12,600
Speaker 1: But look at them their final Their final four losses

722
00:36:13,000 --> 00:36:17,320
Speaker 1: were by three points, three points, three points, three points,

723
00:36:17,400 --> 00:36:20,080
Speaker 1: So their final four losses were by combined twelve points.

724
00:36:20,120 --> 00:36:22,560
Speaker 1: Thank you Stats and Info. They had that three game

725
00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:25,440
Speaker 1: spell in the middle of the season where I mean

726
00:36:25,440 --> 00:36:29,040
Speaker 1: they just totally got blanked against Texas. But down the stretch, yeah,

727
00:36:29,040 --> 00:36:30,439
Speaker 1: I mean they were They were not a terrible team.

728
00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:33,360
Speaker 1: They just kept losing close games. They lost another close

729
00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:35,760
Speaker 1: game here. Well, you know what that means. That means

730
00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:39,200
Speaker 1: that it probably doesn't take a massive course correction for

731
00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:41,600
Speaker 1: Brent Venables and his team to see a big uptick.

732
00:36:42,080 --> 00:36:45,000
Speaker 1: You know, they could be next year what Mike Norvella

733
00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:46,719
Speaker 1: and his team were this year. For all we know,

734
00:36:47,160 --> 00:36:50,080
Speaker 1: there's a there are a lot of uncertainty obviously, because

735
00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:52,319
Speaker 1: you're you're still in a rebuild where you're still in

736
00:36:52,560 --> 00:36:55,160
Speaker 1: If you're not calling it a rebuild an overhaul, I

737
00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:58,359
Speaker 1: think it's fair at the very least. But I just look,

738
00:36:59,600 --> 00:37:02,640
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk about it more Thursday. How could you

739
00:37:02,680 --> 00:37:05,040
Speaker 1: not feel great about Florida State right now? I was

740
00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:07,359
Speaker 1: down with Brian McFadden in Atlanta. We were doing SEC

741
00:37:07,520 --> 00:37:09,560
Speaker 1: Championship covers. First thing he said to me when he

742
00:37:09,600 --> 00:37:12,279
Speaker 1: saw me was, what's up? How you've been? We're winning

743
00:37:12,320 --> 00:37:14,920
Speaker 1: the ACC next year. Just put a stamp on it

744
00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:17,320
Speaker 1: right there, and I thought to myself, that's a little bold.

745
00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:21,200
Speaker 1: You did play there, and so I get the love.

746
00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:22,799
Speaker 1: And he said, no, no, no, no, no, it doesn't matter

747
00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:26,000
Speaker 1: where I played. FSU's winning the ACC. I'm not telling

748
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:27,680
Speaker 1: you that because I played there. I'm telling you that

749
00:37:27,760 --> 00:37:30,120
Speaker 1: cause is going to happen. And then he probably rattled

750
00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:34,000
Speaker 1: off about fifteen bullet points. He may be right. The

751
00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:38,080
Speaker 1: ACC is wide open, wide open, and Florida State's going

752
00:37:38,160 --> 00:37:41,960
Speaker 1: nowhere but up. So this time, about four or five

753
00:37:42,000 --> 00:37:44,600
Speaker 1: months from now, when we start entering the dreaded preview

754
00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:47,600
Speaker 1: magazine season, you're going to see a brand on the

755
00:37:47,640 --> 00:37:49,719
Speaker 1: cover of some of those preview magas you hadn't seen

756
00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:53,640
Speaker 1: in a few years. And Chief Aciola is the face

757
00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:55,919
Speaker 1: of that brand, and Jordan Travis will be the face

758
00:37:55,960 --> 00:37:57,640
Speaker 1: of that team, and Mike Norvella be the face of

759
00:37:57,640 --> 00:38:01,320
Speaker 1: that team. Florida State. There's you know, there's no sugar

760
00:38:01,400 --> 00:38:04,440
Speaker 1: high here. This is not chugging a red bull. They

761
00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:07,640
Speaker 1: took time and they built it the right way. Not

762
00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:10,000
Speaker 1: everyone was patient with him, but the right people in

763
00:38:10,040 --> 00:38:14,759
Speaker 1: Tallahassee were patient with him. Tennessee in years past has

764
00:38:14,800 --> 00:38:19,200
Speaker 1: fit that description. Very passionate fan base sometimes irrational, but

765
00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:22,200
Speaker 1: on the whole they've been patient enough to allow the

766
00:38:22,239 --> 00:38:26,680
Speaker 1: proper thing to develop. Florida State fans sometimes irrational just

767
00:38:26,680 --> 00:38:29,000
Speaker 1: because they're very passionate. I don't ever knock you for that.

768
00:38:29,640 --> 00:38:32,640
Speaker 1: But you've taken time and now you've got things developing

769
00:38:32,640 --> 00:38:35,320
Speaker 1: the proper way, and you know what, as a result

770
00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:37,440
Speaker 1: of that, you don't have to worry about falling back

771
00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:41,279
Speaker 1: below the Bowl threshold. Next year. You'll be fine. I'm

772
00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:43,839
Speaker 1: not guaranteeing you'll win ten or more games again, I'm

773
00:38:43,880 --> 00:38:45,840
Speaker 1: telling you you'll be in the hunt. There is no

774
00:38:46,000 --> 00:38:47,959
Speaker 1: game that you're going to look out on Florida State's

775
00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:50,440
Speaker 1: schedule this upcoming season and have to chalk it up

776
00:38:50,440 --> 00:38:53,520
Speaker 1: as a loss. It's been a long time since we

777
00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:56,160
Speaker 1: said that. It's been a long time since we approached

778
00:38:56,160 --> 00:38:58,080
Speaker 1: a season and said, FS, you can win every one

779
00:38:58,080 --> 00:39:00,000
Speaker 1: of these games. In fact, it's been a very long

780
00:39:00,280 --> 00:39:04,240
Speaker 1: time since we did that. How's that thirty eight minutes

781
00:39:04,400 --> 00:39:07,400
Speaker 1: for some bowld thoughts, Jesse Colin. They said that we

782
00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:09,880
Speaker 1: ignored bull season. Oh, we didn't know ball season. We

783
00:39:09,920 --> 00:39:13,120
Speaker 1: didn't ignore at all. You guys ignored some of those

784
00:39:13,160 --> 00:39:16,520
Speaker 1: videos we put out last year, But apparently you saw

785
00:39:16,560 --> 00:39:18,520
Speaker 1: the air of your ways and so you let me

786
00:39:18,600 --> 00:39:21,279
Speaker 1: know talk about bulls or we're gonna walk. There's your

787
00:39:21,280 --> 00:39:24,160
Speaker 1: Bowl coverage. We've got a lot more show to go.

788
00:39:24,520 --> 00:39:28,000
Speaker 1: Academy Sports and Outdoors is coming with me to Los Angeles.

789
00:39:28,080 --> 00:39:31,239
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790
00:39:31,280 --> 00:39:34,960
Speaker 1: that sort of thing, and management wouldn't buy the seats anyway,

791
00:39:35,239 --> 00:39:39,960
Speaker 1: even if they could come. But figuratively, these guys are

792
00:39:40,000 --> 00:39:42,440
Speaker 1: coming with me to Los Angeles. So I'm gonna tell

793
00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:45,240
Speaker 1: you TCU and Georgia fans and any of you suits

794
00:39:45,239 --> 00:39:46,960
Speaker 1: who just happened to be able to get access to

795
00:39:47,000 --> 00:39:50,359
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796
00:39:50,400 --> 00:39:54,360
Speaker 1: find me, you see me, and I'm gonna have a

797
00:39:54,360 --> 00:39:56,799
Speaker 1: full pocket of Academy Sports and Outdoors gift cards. Now.

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00:39:56,800 --> 00:39:59,320
Speaker 1: I know that they don't exactly dot the landscape and

799
00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:03,920
Speaker 1: the Greater souther in California region, but Academy dot com

800
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Speaker 1: is your one stop shop if you can't get there

801
00:40:05,880 --> 00:40:08,520
Speaker 1: in person. And also, let's be real, most of you

802
00:40:08,560 --> 00:40:10,919
Speaker 1: are gonna be transient next week anyway. You're not from

803
00:40:10,960 --> 00:40:13,520
Speaker 1: Los Angeles. You're coming in there from Fort Worth. You're

804
00:40:13,560 --> 00:40:16,480
Speaker 1: coming in there from Athens, in Atlanta and everywhere in between.

805
00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:19,520
Speaker 1: If you see me, that's gonna be the weekend more

806
00:40:19,520 --> 00:40:21,600
Speaker 1: so than ever. Because I've got a reservoir of these

807
00:40:21,640 --> 00:40:24,239
Speaker 1: gift cards built up. We're just gonna unload them out

808
00:40:24,239 --> 00:40:28,439
Speaker 1: there over an unsuspecting mass of people. But you gotta ask.

809
00:40:28,600 --> 00:40:30,560
Speaker 1: I'm not just gonna Frisbee wane at you could hit

810
00:40:30,600 --> 00:40:32,520
Speaker 1: you in the neck lawsuit. We don't want any of that.

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812
00:40:35,400 --> 00:40:38,920
Speaker 1: loaded for bear, they've been the presenting sponsor of our

813
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Speaker 1: show the entire year. It is Late Kick, presented to

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Speaker 1: We don't ever have to try and charge you. We

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Speaker 1: don't have to put the show behind a paywall. And

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818
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Speaker 1: but it's made free to you because of them. So

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Speaker 1: get there in person alrighty, I've done a lot of talking,

823
00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:10,560
Speaker 1: but don't worry. The voice is rested, so we don't

824
00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:13,160
Speaker 1: even need to chug from the chalice. We were simply

825
00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:17,040
Speaker 1: going to chug from this nondescript Why not, it's public

826
00:41:17,080 --> 00:41:19,439
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00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:24,719
Speaker 1: There we go. For reasons that were stated on the

828
00:41:24,719 --> 00:41:27,880
Speaker 1: show last week, we're cutting back on our caffeine intake.

829
00:41:30,160 --> 00:41:32,839
Speaker 1: I was in Atlanta for the college football playoff semi

830
00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:35,560
Speaker 1: final the Peach Bawl. Stetson Bennett and Georgia won the game.

831
00:41:37,080 --> 00:41:41,040
Speaker 1: But I realized something about myself last weekend. I realized

832
00:41:41,040 --> 00:41:44,920
Speaker 1: that he's not so different than me. We're not so

833
00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:48,640
Speaker 1: different Statson and I. We're both part of pretty elite clubs.

834
00:41:48,920 --> 00:41:51,880
Speaker 1: Stetson Bennett is on the precipice of being part of

835
00:41:51,920 --> 00:41:54,640
Speaker 1: the two championship club as a starting quarterback, and hardly

836
00:41:54,680 --> 00:41:56,760
Speaker 1: anyone's ever done that. But I'm part of an elite

837
00:41:56,800 --> 00:42:00,760
Speaker 1: club too. I'm part of the club that has freely

838
00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:03,359
Speaker 1: admitted they were wrong about Stetson Bennett, and there are

839
00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:06,200
Speaker 1: not a lot of us in the room. I'm the guy,

840
00:42:06,760 --> 00:42:10,960
Speaker 1: if you'll remember that, once spoke into this microphone and

841
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:14,920
Speaker 1: I said, no team with stetsonn Bennett quarterback. He's going

842
00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:17,400
Speaker 1: to win a national championship. I was so confident in it.

843
00:42:17,440 --> 00:42:20,640
Speaker 1: I was so sure of myself. Why because history was

844
00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:24,440
Speaker 1: on my side. Well, if we were running the Georgia

845
00:42:24,480 --> 00:42:26,839
Speaker 1: program based off history, this guy never would have gotten

846
00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:29,359
Speaker 1: a shot to begin with. He has bunked history at

847
00:42:29,360 --> 00:42:32,960
Speaker 1: every turn in his career and still continues to do so.

848
00:42:32,960 --> 00:42:35,600
Speaker 1: So what I did was I came on the show

849
00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:38,080
Speaker 1: and said, hey, man, I was wrong about him. I'm

850
00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:40,520
Speaker 1: happy to be proven wrong, but I was wrong about him.

851
00:42:40,680 --> 00:42:42,439
Speaker 1: He took every word that came out of my mouth

852
00:42:42,480 --> 00:42:45,319
Speaker 1: and stuffed him right back in my face. Good for him,

853
00:42:46,800 --> 00:42:49,279
Speaker 1: but not everyone has come around. Even if the guy

854
00:42:49,320 --> 00:42:52,440
Speaker 1: won a championship last year, Not everyone has come around.

855
00:42:52,640 --> 00:42:54,920
Speaker 1: Even if he's playing out of his mind and fourth quarters,

856
00:42:54,960 --> 00:42:56,680
Speaker 1: not everyone has come around. And I just want to

857
00:42:56,719 --> 00:43:00,359
Speaker 1: know what part of this doesn't make sense to you

858
00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:02,879
Speaker 1: at this point? What part of that kid there number

859
00:43:02,920 --> 00:43:06,160
Speaker 1: thirteen in Red and the Silver Breeches, what part of

860
00:43:06,160 --> 00:43:11,520
Speaker 1: his game is not translating like I see shocking amounts

861
00:43:11,520 --> 00:43:14,719
Speaker 1: of polarization still with that guy. And to me, if

862
00:43:14,760 --> 00:43:17,920
Speaker 1: you still got legit doubt about Stetson Bennett, if you're

863
00:43:17,920 --> 00:43:21,040
Speaker 1: still clinging to Stetson Bennett hate. You got a handful

864
00:43:21,040 --> 00:43:23,200
Speaker 1: of ignorance in the other hand that there's no other

865
00:43:23,640 --> 00:43:27,759
Speaker 1: explanation for that. If you cut college football open, if

866
00:43:27,760 --> 00:43:30,000
Speaker 1: you cut the history and tradition of this game open,

867
00:43:30,560 --> 00:43:33,399
Speaker 1: it's not Bryce Young and Caleb Williams that bleed out.

868
00:43:33,760 --> 00:43:35,879
Speaker 1: God bless those guys, but you can see him coming

869
00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:39,200
Speaker 1: a mile away. Five star talent is five star talent.

870
00:43:39,960 --> 00:43:43,440
Speaker 1: When you cut college football open, stories like stets and Bennett,

871
00:43:43,480 --> 00:43:46,200
Speaker 1: that's what spills out. Man. If you claim to love

872
00:43:46,239 --> 00:43:48,600
Speaker 1: this sport more so than any other sport because the

873
00:43:48,640 --> 00:43:50,880
Speaker 1: fabric in the DNA is made up of something different

874
00:43:51,080 --> 00:43:52,839
Speaker 1: than all the other pro sports, how in the world

875
00:43:52,880 --> 00:43:54,920
Speaker 1: are you about to sit there and crap on stets

876
00:43:54,920 --> 00:43:57,960
Speaker 1: and Bennett. First off, it's one of the greatest stories

877
00:43:57,960 --> 00:43:59,520
Speaker 1: you'll ever hear, and I'm not gonna retell it because

878
00:43:59,520 --> 00:44:01,600
Speaker 1: you're gonna get force fed down your throat over the

879
00:44:01,640 --> 00:44:05,200
Speaker 1: next week. And all power to the folks telling the stories,

880
00:44:05,200 --> 00:44:08,160
Speaker 1: because it deserves to be told. But how do you

881
00:44:08,239 --> 00:44:11,520
Speaker 1: look at it and say anything other than if you

882
00:44:11,600 --> 00:44:14,480
Speaker 1: doubt it originally? Like me, just I was wrong. By

883
00:44:14,560 --> 00:44:18,120
Speaker 1: the way, this is not a guy surrounded by all

884
00:44:18,120 --> 00:44:20,600
Speaker 1: world talented receiver. This is not a guy with a

885
00:44:20,600 --> 00:44:23,080
Speaker 1: couple of future first rounders in the backfield at tailback.

886
00:44:23,719 --> 00:44:26,480
Speaker 1: This is a guy who is not able to be hidden.

887
00:44:26,880 --> 00:44:29,480
Speaker 1: In fact, you can't hide quarterbacks, no matter how talented

888
00:44:29,520 --> 00:44:31,600
Speaker 1: you are, when you get to this level, and when

889
00:44:31,640 --> 00:44:33,759
Speaker 1: you get this late in the season, in games that

890
00:44:33,840 --> 00:44:36,319
Speaker 1: mean this much, you can't hide your quarterback man, even

891
00:44:36,360 --> 00:44:38,759
Speaker 1: if he is surrounded by a bunch of talent, but

892
00:44:39,040 --> 00:44:42,640
Speaker 1: especially if he doesn't have those future first round horses

893
00:44:42,640 --> 00:44:45,279
Speaker 1: out wide and behind him. He's had to do it,

894
00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:48,040
Speaker 1: and he's done it. His fourth quarter numbers look like

895
00:44:48,040 --> 00:44:50,640
Speaker 1: a video game. And the other night here's what just

896
00:44:50,719 --> 00:44:52,960
Speaker 1: it kind of gives you goosebumps. If you're watching from

897
00:44:52,960 --> 00:44:55,600
Speaker 1: a neutral advantage point, I'm standing there on the field,

898
00:44:55,680 --> 00:44:57,560
Speaker 1: I'm going back and forth, end zone to end zone.

899
00:44:57,560 --> 00:45:00,240
Speaker 1: I'm staying ahead of Georgia's offense because i know i'miness

900
00:45:00,239 --> 00:45:05,799
Speaker 1: and something really special. He played very average by his standards,

901
00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:09,960
Speaker 1: and very average by quarterback in major game standards for

902
00:45:10,120 --> 00:45:11,600
Speaker 1: a lot of that game. They'd be the first to

903
00:45:11,680 --> 00:45:14,040
Speaker 1: admit it. I mean, he was readily admitting that post

904
00:45:14,040 --> 00:45:17,800
Speaker 1: game here's the beauty about football. They give you four quarters,

905
00:45:18,040 --> 00:45:20,800
Speaker 1: not two. See, you can start tweeting about something at halftime,

906
00:45:21,280 --> 00:45:23,560
Speaker 1: you can start typing on a message board mid third quarter.

907
00:45:24,040 --> 00:45:27,600
Speaker 1: But the folks with the toughest mental resolve, the folks

908
00:45:27,640 --> 00:45:29,560
Speaker 1: would like the heart of a champion. All the things

909
00:45:29,560 --> 00:45:32,400
Speaker 1: that you think are cliches that actually go into what

910
00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:34,960
Speaker 1: makes up a winner versus just an average person and

911
00:45:35,000 --> 00:45:38,400
Speaker 1: a loser. He's got him, He's got him in spades,

912
00:45:38,760 --> 00:45:41,560
Speaker 1: and so while everyone else is making all the noise

913
00:45:41,600 --> 00:45:44,279
Speaker 1: in the world around him, folks like that. They're rare,

914
00:45:44,600 --> 00:45:46,680
Speaker 1: but they're able to clear the mechanism. And when you

915
00:45:46,719 --> 00:45:49,520
Speaker 1: can clear that mechanism, man, none of that noise matters,

916
00:45:49,600 --> 00:45:52,200
Speaker 1: and you just keep swinging. You don't care. You couldn't

917
00:45:52,239 --> 00:45:54,279
Speaker 1: care less what people are saying about you. You just

918
00:45:54,360 --> 00:45:57,719
Speaker 1: keep swinging, and eventually, if you keep swinging and you're

919
00:45:57,760 --> 00:46:01,160
Speaker 1: made of the right stuff, you land one, two or three.

920
00:46:01,400 --> 00:46:03,240
Speaker 1: And that's what started to happen in the fourth quarter.

921
00:46:03,440 --> 00:46:07,000
Speaker 1: And what was beautiful about it is anyone can look

922
00:46:07,040 --> 00:46:09,759
Speaker 1: good when they're on their game all day. Anyone can

923
00:46:09,760 --> 00:46:12,040
Speaker 1: look good when they're up forty two to ten. George's

924
00:46:12,080 --> 00:46:15,840
Speaker 1: down two possessions and they just keep swinging. The entire

925
00:46:15,920 --> 00:46:19,160
Speaker 1: team embodies what they've got at quarterback. That's normally the

926
00:46:19,200 --> 00:46:22,880
Speaker 1: way it works. But I'm looking at that happen and

927
00:46:22,920 --> 00:46:26,720
Speaker 1: I'm saying to myself, I can't believe this is real.

928
00:46:26,840 --> 00:46:29,839
Speaker 1: Knowing his story, I can't believe this is real. And

929
00:46:30,120 --> 00:46:33,399
Speaker 1: even more than that, what makes me incredulous is people

930
00:46:33,440 --> 00:46:35,719
Speaker 1: aren't fully appreciated. And the only thing that can make

931
00:46:35,760 --> 00:46:37,680
Speaker 1: sense to me is maybe you just don't like Georgia.

932
00:46:37,719 --> 00:46:39,640
Speaker 1: If you don't like Georgia, you're rooting against Georgia. I

933
00:46:39,640 --> 00:46:41,080
Speaker 1: get that, man, I grew up in the South. A

934
00:46:41,080 --> 00:46:43,479
Speaker 1: ton of folks hate that program. More and more folks

935
00:46:43,560 --> 00:46:46,919
Speaker 1: by the day hate that program. But as an individual,

936
00:46:47,640 --> 00:46:49,759
Speaker 1: I'm not sure how anyone looks at that kid's game

937
00:46:49,800 --> 00:46:53,479
Speaker 1: at this point and thinks that it's flukish or thinks

938
00:46:53,560 --> 00:46:57,040
Speaker 1: it's inauthentic. There's nothing about that that makes sense to

939
00:46:57,040 --> 00:46:59,080
Speaker 1: me anymore. And the reason I'm addressing it on the

940
00:46:59,120 --> 00:47:03,000
Speaker 1: show is because this is real. I'm not manufacturing there.

941
00:47:03,080 --> 00:47:05,319
Speaker 1: There's a lot of this in my inbox. I don't

942
00:47:05,320 --> 00:47:08,920
Speaker 1: mean two or three people, a very very vocal ultra minority.

943
00:47:08,960 --> 00:47:11,600
Speaker 1: I mean there is a sizeable portion of the college

944
00:47:11,640 --> 00:47:15,080
Speaker 1: football public that still looks at that kid and says, ah,

945
00:47:15,760 --> 00:47:18,480
Speaker 1: I just don't really buy it. I'm not sure what

946
00:47:18,520 --> 00:47:22,360
Speaker 1: you're not buying. What I think is there is a

947
00:47:22,480 --> 00:47:25,239
Speaker 1: large portion of people, and this may even include folks

948
00:47:25,280 --> 00:47:28,560
Speaker 1: who love him, that can't fully appreciate what's happening right now,

949
00:47:28,680 --> 00:47:33,280
Speaker 1: because it's hard to appreciate history when you're witnessing it.

950
00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:37,960
Speaker 1: It takes the benefit of years, maybe it's sometimes even

951
00:47:38,000 --> 00:47:41,400
Speaker 1: a decade or two of hindsight, and then you look back,

952
00:47:41,480 --> 00:47:44,800
Speaker 1: and only with the lens of history can you properly

953
00:47:44,840 --> 00:47:47,560
Speaker 1: appreciate history when it was made in front of you.

954
00:47:47,920 --> 00:47:51,359
Speaker 1: I've had that happen to me before, when being able

955
00:47:51,400 --> 00:47:53,359
Speaker 1: to watch this sport or cover this sport. And that's

956
00:47:53,400 --> 00:47:56,440
Speaker 1: why I'm keenly aware, and I try and appreciate when

957
00:47:56,480 --> 00:47:59,279
Speaker 1: I'm witnessing it real time. There's no better time to

958
00:47:59,320 --> 00:48:02,399
Speaker 1: appreciate it the present. So appreciate this. You can pull

959
00:48:02,400 --> 00:48:04,960
Speaker 1: against Georgia all you want to, that's fine, but at

960
00:48:05,000 --> 00:48:10,840
Speaker 1: least appreciate what you're watching. They're watching us in wait.

961
00:48:11,200 --> 00:48:15,840
Speaker 1: Tyas wrote this all wrong. No, I didn't hector Arkansas. Yeah, Hello, Hector.

962
00:48:16,320 --> 00:48:18,400
Speaker 1: They're watching us in Dothan, Alabama, and they're watching us

963
00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:20,759
Speaker 1: in Danville, Virginia. I appreciate all you guys being tuned in.

964
00:48:22,080 --> 00:48:24,880
Speaker 1: I believe it or not. It's not done, so I

965
00:48:24,920 --> 00:48:26,879
Speaker 1: got a lot more to talk about. Appreciate you guys

966
00:48:26,880 --> 00:48:30,719
Speaker 1: being tuned in live too. We have like thirty five

967
00:48:30,800 --> 00:48:34,279
Speaker 1: hundred people watching live. We have at least, as far

968
00:48:34,280 --> 00:48:37,880
Speaker 1: as I can tell, like seven hundred likes. So my

969
00:48:38,040 --> 00:48:41,560
Speaker 1: wish to you click the thumbs up button and put

970
00:48:41,600 --> 00:48:45,000
Speaker 1: it over a thousand at the very least. It's what

971
00:48:45,040 --> 00:48:46,920
Speaker 1: me MO would want. Okay, So if you don't do

972
00:48:46,920 --> 00:48:48,839
Speaker 1: it for me, do it for mem. You know what

973
00:48:48,880 --> 00:48:52,080
Speaker 1: time it is. Though, It's time to revisit some bold predictions.

974
00:48:52,600 --> 00:48:54,920
Speaker 1: We went back in August. I asked you you got

975
00:48:54,960 --> 00:48:57,960
Speaker 1: some money, bet it on something, make a statement, take

976
00:48:57,960 --> 00:48:59,960
Speaker 1: a stand, and we got five of them to know

977
00:49:00,200 --> 00:49:03,480
Speaker 1: that you took. And frankly, it's a mixed bag tonight.

978
00:49:03,600 --> 00:49:05,759
Speaker 1: This has been a very fun series we've done. We've

979
00:49:05,760 --> 00:49:08,400
Speaker 1: got a mixed bag. Let's go first up here and

980
00:49:08,880 --> 00:49:13,360
Speaker 1: let's talk about Man of Hate. It's just his Twitter handle.

981
00:49:13,480 --> 00:49:15,839
Speaker 1: Don't get worked up, guys, but he said not a

982
00:49:15,880 --> 00:49:19,520
Speaker 1: single Power five conference championship game will be a repeat

983
00:49:19,680 --> 00:49:23,319
Speaker 1: of last year's matchups. Much love from a Fountain City

984
00:49:23,400 --> 00:49:29,680
Speaker 1: native the Fountain City For those unfamiliar Columbus Georgia this hit.

985
00:49:30,120 --> 00:49:33,640
Speaker 1: He was right, not a single conference championship game was

986
00:49:33,680 --> 00:49:35,920
Speaker 1: a straight up rematch from the year before. Now I

987
00:49:35,960 --> 00:49:39,240
Speaker 1: called this a seven on the boldness scale, and I said,

988
00:49:39,760 --> 00:49:42,040
Speaker 1: I think you're okay. You got a legit shot in

989
00:49:42,120 --> 00:49:44,680
Speaker 1: every other conference. But I had a hard time believing

990
00:49:45,200 --> 00:49:47,360
Speaker 1: that we were not going to see Georgia Bama again

991
00:49:47,600 --> 00:49:51,520
Speaker 1: in the SEC. As it turns out, we didn't. We had.

992
00:49:51,680 --> 00:49:54,000
Speaker 1: We went five for five in the Power five conferences

993
00:49:54,239 --> 00:49:59,080
Speaker 1: of unique matchups relative to last year. In the SEC,

994
00:49:59,520 --> 00:50:03,240
Speaker 1: Georgia made it again, Bama didn't. In the Pac twelve,

995
00:50:03,360 --> 00:50:07,120
Speaker 1: Utah made it again, Oregon didn't. In the ACC, neither

996
00:50:07,200 --> 00:50:09,359
Speaker 1: team that played in the conference title game last year

997
00:50:09,400 --> 00:50:11,520
Speaker 1: made it. In the Big Ten, only Michigan made it.

998
00:50:11,680 --> 00:50:13,719
Speaker 1: And in the Big twelve we had a brand new

999
00:50:13,880 --> 00:50:17,880
Speaker 1: rematch or match up. I guess. So no conference title

1000
00:50:17,880 --> 00:50:19,960
Speaker 1: game at the Power five level rose a rematch. Good

1001
00:50:20,000 --> 00:50:24,480
Speaker 1: call there. Next up, this one did not hit. This

1002
00:50:24,520 --> 00:50:27,120
Speaker 1: one was from Kyle. He said at the end of

1003
00:50:27,200 --> 00:50:29,919
Speaker 1: the year, there will be three teams from the state

1004
00:50:29,960 --> 00:50:33,480
Speaker 1: of Texas ranked higher than the Longhorns checking in from

1005
00:50:33,520 --> 00:50:38,520
Speaker 1: San Antonio. This did not hit, but it wasn't far off, Kyle,

1006
00:50:38,680 --> 00:50:41,160
Speaker 1: it was not far off. I like where your head was.

1007
00:50:41,200 --> 00:50:45,359
Speaker 1: Immunity TCU. Yeah, they finished number three, and we're talking

1008
00:50:45,360 --> 00:50:47,080
Speaker 1: about it at the end of the regular season and after

1009
00:50:47,120 --> 00:50:49,799
Speaker 1: conference title game. So TCU finished number three. They were

1010
00:50:49,800 --> 00:50:53,040
Speaker 1: thirteen and one. That's one. We needed three, so that's one.

1011
00:50:53,680 --> 00:50:57,680
Speaker 1: Texas finished twentieth and they were eight and four. So

1012
00:50:57,760 --> 00:51:00,719
Speaker 1: Texas was the second highest ranked team in Tech. Now,

1013
00:51:00,800 --> 00:51:05,440
Speaker 1: UTSA finished twenty fifth, so it was close. UTSA went

1014
00:51:05,440 --> 00:51:08,960
Speaker 1: eleven and three, by the way, but Texas Tech they

1015
00:51:09,080 --> 00:51:11,040
Speaker 1: peaked early and then they fell off a little bit.

1016
00:51:11,200 --> 00:51:13,799
Speaker 1: But here's what really cost you, Kyle, Baylor didn't hold

1017
00:51:13,840 --> 00:51:15,759
Speaker 1: up there into the bargain. A and M didn't hold

1018
00:51:15,840 --> 00:51:18,040
Speaker 1: up there into the bargain. And that's really what bit you.

1019
00:51:18,960 --> 00:51:22,319
Speaker 1: Next up, This one was a good shot here, and

1020
00:51:22,440 --> 00:51:26,919
Speaker 1: I doubted it, and for that I apologize. This one

1021
00:51:27,040 --> 00:51:32,040
Speaker 1: was from hopeful Panthers, and he said South Carolina will

1022
00:51:32,080 --> 00:51:35,640
Speaker 1: go two and two against Arkansas, Georgia, A and M

1023
00:51:35,680 --> 00:51:38,560
Speaker 1: and Clemson. Now, think about this in the context of

1024
00:51:38,600 --> 00:51:42,160
Speaker 1: the preseason. A and M was a preseason top ten team.

1025
00:51:42,760 --> 00:51:44,480
Speaker 1: I know it seems like a long time ago, and

1026
00:51:44,600 --> 00:51:47,839
Speaker 1: it was. But he said South Carolina game cuts going

1027
00:51:47,880 --> 00:51:51,120
Speaker 1: two and two against Archie, Georgia, A and M, and Clemson.

1028
00:51:51,160 --> 00:51:53,759
Speaker 1: South Carolina's defense also takes a huge leap under second

1029
00:51:53,800 --> 00:51:56,680
Speaker 1: year coordinator Clayton white Well, we chose to mainly focus

1030
00:51:56,719 --> 00:51:59,920
Speaker 1: on the predicted record. He nailed it. They went exactly

1031
00:52:00,000 --> 00:52:03,160
Speaker 1: two and two against those four teams. They lost to Arkansas,

1032
00:52:04,160 --> 00:52:06,960
Speaker 1: they lost to Georgia, so they started zero to two

1033
00:52:07,040 --> 00:52:09,120
Speaker 1: against those teams. But I'll tell you what they did.

1034
00:52:10,080 --> 00:52:12,560
Speaker 1: They beat A and M thirty to twenty four, and

1035
00:52:12,600 --> 00:52:15,400
Speaker 1: then they beat Clemson thirty one to thirty. And for

1036
00:52:15,480 --> 00:52:19,480
Speaker 1: good measure, they also beat Tennessee too. In fact, let

1037
00:52:19,480 --> 00:52:24,279
Speaker 1: me rephrase obliterated Tennessee. They obliterated Tennessee too, and they

1038
00:52:24,360 --> 00:52:26,120
Speaker 1: ended up going eight and five. So this was a

1039
00:52:26,120 --> 00:52:27,839
Speaker 1: good call here, and I thought it was pretty bold.

1040
00:52:27,880 --> 00:52:30,239
Speaker 1: I put an eight on the boldness scale this South

1041
00:52:30,280 --> 00:52:34,600
Speaker 1: Carolina season. Someone should already be well underway in writing

1042
00:52:34,600 --> 00:52:37,040
Speaker 1: a book about it, because there are so many things

1043
00:52:37,120 --> 00:52:39,840
Speaker 1: that just don't belong in the same season. You shouldn't

1044
00:52:39,880 --> 00:52:43,400
Speaker 1: be beating Clemson on the road, no less, and also

1045
00:52:44,040 --> 00:52:46,640
Speaker 1: losing thirty eight to six to Florida. You shouldn't be

1046
00:52:46,680 --> 00:52:49,200
Speaker 1: losing thirty eight six to Florida and then just skull

1047
00:52:49,320 --> 00:52:51,640
Speaker 1: dragging Tennessee the next week. How in the world did

1048
00:52:51,640 --> 00:52:54,560
Speaker 1: that happen? I still don't know. We know everything there

1049
00:52:54,600 --> 00:52:56,640
Speaker 1: is to know about the season now it's totally over.

1050
00:52:57,040 --> 00:52:59,719
Speaker 1: I still can't make sense of that. Next up, this

1051
00:53:00,160 --> 00:53:03,560
Speaker 1: hit two. This was another good prediction here. Jared said

1052
00:53:03,560 --> 00:53:06,480
Speaker 1: the a CC will be left out of the playoff

1053
00:53:06,600 --> 00:53:09,560
Speaker 1: again this year. What else did he say? Just for fun?

1054
00:53:09,920 --> 00:53:11,920
Speaker 1: The Big Ten will have one team that was wrong.

1055
00:53:12,239 --> 00:53:15,600
Speaker 1: Big twelve will have one team that was wrong. SEC

1056
00:53:15,719 --> 00:53:17,880
Speaker 1: will have two teams again that was wrong. Okay, so Jared,

1057
00:53:18,239 --> 00:53:20,759
Speaker 1: we're giving you credit because we only paid attention to

1058
00:53:20,760 --> 00:53:23,600
Speaker 1: the first part. The ACC will be left out of

1059
00:53:23,640 --> 00:53:27,440
Speaker 1: the playoff. Ding I put a six on the boldness scale.

1060
00:53:27,520 --> 00:53:30,440
Speaker 1: By the way, Clemson was the hurdle. Obviously, Clemson was

1061
00:53:30,480 --> 00:53:33,400
Speaker 1: the preseason overwhelming favorite. They were the favorite throughout the

1062
00:53:33,440 --> 00:53:36,719
Speaker 1: season in the conference, but when they lost to South Carolina,

1063
00:53:37,320 --> 00:53:40,960
Speaker 1: it's spelled doom. For the rest of the conference. So, Jared,

1064
00:53:41,080 --> 00:53:43,080
Speaker 1: you had that locked up. You were sitting pretty before

1065
00:53:43,080 --> 00:53:47,400
Speaker 1: conference championship Saturday, and lastly, a little bit off the

1066
00:53:47,480 --> 00:53:51,160
Speaker 1: national radar. But you know what, I wouldn't be g five,

1067
00:53:51,239 --> 00:53:55,080
Speaker 1: Josh if I didn't acknowledge Tristan saying Butch Jones will

1068
00:53:55,080 --> 00:53:58,080
Speaker 1: have a complete turnaround in year or two at Arkansas State.

1069
00:53:58,520 --> 00:54:00,920
Speaker 1: He will lead the Red Wolves to six plus wins

1070
00:54:01,280 --> 00:54:05,960
Speaker 1: and a bowl win. Well, this didn't quite happen. Friends,

1071
00:54:06,239 --> 00:54:08,759
Speaker 1: now here is the good news, because we like to

1072
00:54:08,840 --> 00:54:10,640
Speaker 1: end on a positive note. Here, at least end the

1073
00:54:10,680 --> 00:54:14,160
Speaker 1: segment on a positive note. They went two and ten

1074
00:54:14,320 --> 00:54:17,239
Speaker 1: last year, so when I tell you Butch Jones and

1075
00:54:17,320 --> 00:54:21,000
Speaker 1: Arkansas State went three and nine, you shouldn't do anything

1076
00:54:21,000 --> 00:54:24,239
Speaker 1: other than celebrate. Good for Butch Jones. I did tell

1077
00:54:24,280 --> 00:54:25,960
Speaker 1: you I thought they were about two years away at

1078
00:54:25,960 --> 00:54:27,759
Speaker 1: the beginning of the season, so I thought it was

1079
00:54:27,840 --> 00:54:31,440
Speaker 1: unrealistic to think they were going from two to six three.

1080
00:54:31,640 --> 00:54:35,520
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna say ring the city bells and anoint

1081
00:54:35,560 --> 00:54:38,319
Speaker 1: him with a new ten year deal, but I don't

1082
00:54:38,360 --> 00:54:40,840
Speaker 1: think this is the biggest indictment that the program's not

1083
00:54:40,880 --> 00:54:44,480
Speaker 1: headed in the right direction. However, there are a couple

1084
00:54:44,480 --> 00:54:47,160
Speaker 1: of three blowouts on that schedule, so yeah, a little

1085
00:54:47,200 --> 00:54:49,640
Speaker 1: work to do, don't worry, but you'll get it done.

1086
00:54:50,200 --> 00:54:52,080
Speaker 1: You're a lot of concerns I have in this sport,

1087
00:54:52,120 --> 00:54:54,799
Speaker 1: butch Jones and Jonesboro, Arkansas not one of them. I

1088
00:54:54,840 --> 00:54:56,560
Speaker 1: put an eight on the bowl and the scale for

1089
00:54:56,560 --> 00:55:01,319
Speaker 1: that one. Okay. I have some more things to talk

1090
00:55:01,320 --> 00:55:03,359
Speaker 1: to you about, and I'll tell you why, because we've

1091
00:55:03,360 --> 00:55:06,960
Speaker 1: been gone a while and I got some thoughts so

1092
00:55:07,080 --> 00:55:11,200
Speaker 1: much so that I'm gonna plus some chapstick here right quick. Ah,

1093
00:55:11,280 --> 00:55:15,440
Speaker 1: there we go, my perfect shade too. I had a

1094
00:55:15,480 --> 00:55:17,560
Speaker 1: question from one of you about Ryan Day, and I

1095
00:55:17,560 --> 00:55:20,120
Speaker 1: would like to answer that question right now, Colin, if

1096
00:55:20,200 --> 00:55:22,840
Speaker 1: you would. From Jordan, he says, the college football Playoffs

1097
00:55:22,800 --> 00:55:26,000
Speaker 1: semi finals were both great games. I agree, Jordan, he said,

1098
00:55:26,040 --> 00:55:29,440
Speaker 1: even in the loss. Did your opinion change on Ryan

1099
00:55:29,600 --> 00:55:35,360
Speaker 1: Day after Saturday from Toledo, Ohio? Yes, my opinion did change,

1100
00:55:35,440 --> 00:55:37,080
Speaker 1: which kind of makes me a hypocrite because I told

1101
00:55:37,120 --> 00:55:39,759
Speaker 1: you four quarters would not be changing that guy one

1102
00:55:39,800 --> 00:55:43,279
Speaker 1: way or the other. I'm only saying I changed my

1103
00:55:43,360 --> 00:55:45,759
Speaker 1: mind slightly on him, but it may not be the

1104
00:55:45,800 --> 00:55:49,200
Speaker 1: way you think. So first, Jordan, You or anyone else

1105
00:55:49,239 --> 00:55:52,080
Speaker 1: out there, I want to ask you, how do you

1106
00:55:52,160 --> 00:55:55,480
Speaker 1: feel about him? Rhetorically? You can talk to your phone,

1107
00:55:55,520 --> 00:55:58,400
Speaker 1: if you're listening on podcasts, you talk to your computer screen,

1108
00:55:58,440 --> 00:56:00,759
Speaker 1: if you're watching live, how do you think about him?

1109
00:56:00,840 --> 00:56:03,760
Speaker 1: And for you, is it any different than you felt

1110
00:56:03,840 --> 00:56:07,279
Speaker 1: about Ryan Day going into the Georgia game. Now, I'll

1111
00:56:07,320 --> 00:56:10,319
Speaker 1: tell you how my mind changed. It's gonna sound kind

1112
00:56:10,320 --> 00:56:15,399
Speaker 1: of counterintuitive to you, but if you watch the sport enough,

1113
00:56:15,440 --> 00:56:17,480
Speaker 1: it should make sense. I think a little bit more

1114
00:56:17,560 --> 00:56:20,600
Speaker 1: highly of Ryan Day. I already thought highly of him.

1115
00:56:21,239 --> 00:56:23,960
Speaker 1: I am not at all in this group of folks

1116
00:56:23,960 --> 00:56:27,160
Speaker 1: who thought it was do or die hot seat. That's foolishness.

1117
00:56:27,160 --> 00:56:29,160
Speaker 1: So I'm not part of that. I'm not calling you

1118
00:56:29,200 --> 00:56:31,359
Speaker 1: a fool. I'm saying, if you think that, I think

1119
00:56:31,360 --> 00:56:34,200
Speaker 1: it's a foolish thought. I want to be more respectful.

1120
00:56:34,239 --> 00:56:40,200
Speaker 1: In twenty twenty three, I wish so badly that I

1121
00:56:40,239 --> 00:56:42,799
Speaker 1: could bottle up what I got from Ryan Day and

1122
00:56:42,840 --> 00:56:45,279
Speaker 1: C J. Stroud and I could have had that all year.

1123
00:56:46,120 --> 00:56:48,400
Speaker 1: It's not a promise they would have beaten Michigan, and

1124
00:56:48,440 --> 00:56:51,719
Speaker 1: it's not a promise of anything. I'm just saying, as

1125
00:56:51,760 --> 00:56:54,560
Speaker 1: a person and as a competitor and as an athlete

1126
00:56:54,640 --> 00:56:57,600
Speaker 1: or a coach in life. You've got strengths and weaknesses, right,

1127
00:56:57,600 --> 00:57:00,000
Speaker 1: We've all got strengths and weaknesses, every one of us.

1128
00:57:00,280 --> 00:57:04,080
Speaker 1: Ryan Day included, CJ. Stroud included what at times I

1129
00:57:04,120 --> 00:57:07,560
Speaker 1: think has aggravated me as just a neutral observer and

1130
00:57:07,719 --> 00:57:13,200
Speaker 1: Buckeye fans hardcore to the max, as actually being emotionally invested.

1131
00:57:14,120 --> 00:57:17,080
Speaker 1: What's aggravated some folks about watching Ryan Day and c J.

1132
00:57:17,200 --> 00:57:21,000
Speaker 1: Stroud really this year is their strengths have not been

1133
00:57:21,160 --> 00:57:25,000
Speaker 1: fully on display. They haven't let their horses run. In

1134
00:57:25,040 --> 00:57:28,440
Speaker 1: other words, they haven't turned their strengths loose, and they

1135
00:57:28,480 --> 00:57:32,840
Speaker 1: did in this game. They lost the game. Okay, they

1136
00:57:32,880 --> 00:57:36,840
Speaker 1: turned it loose. I looked at Ryan Day. I looked

1137
00:57:36,840 --> 00:57:39,480
Speaker 1: at the level of intensity that guy had. I looked

1138
00:57:39,480 --> 00:57:42,080
Speaker 1: at how dialed in he had his team. I looked

1139
00:57:42,080 --> 00:57:44,200
Speaker 1: at how prepared he had his team. I looked at

1140
00:57:44,240 --> 00:57:47,240
Speaker 1: how prepared they were. I looked at the attention to

1141
00:57:47,280 --> 00:57:51,200
Speaker 1: detail every box that a fraudulent coach would not have

1142
00:57:51,320 --> 00:57:54,480
Speaker 1: had checked. Ryan Day had checked. You don't always win

1143
00:57:54,560 --> 00:57:57,080
Speaker 1: you play at this level. Other really good teams can

1144
00:57:57,120 --> 00:58:00,000
Speaker 1: beat you. Tip your Captain Georgia. It's not cause you

1145
00:58:00,120 --> 00:58:02,560
Speaker 1: dropped the ball at all I got. I mean, I

1146
00:58:02,600 --> 00:58:04,280
Speaker 1: got more out of Ryan Day than even I could

1147
00:58:04,280 --> 00:58:06,440
Speaker 1: have expected. I got more out of CJ. Stroud than

1148
00:58:06,440 --> 00:58:08,919
Speaker 1: I ever expected to get in that game. He let

1149
00:58:08,920 --> 00:58:12,360
Speaker 1: his horses run. He finally took his strengths as a player,

1150
00:58:12,360 --> 00:58:14,640
Speaker 1: as an athlete and said, I'm using every ounce of

1151
00:58:14,640 --> 00:58:17,000
Speaker 1: it tonight, and if I lose, I lose. But I

1152
00:58:17,000 --> 00:58:18,960
Speaker 1: got news for you. What you got out of Ohio

1153
00:58:18,960 --> 00:58:21,120
Speaker 1: State and Ryan Day the other night. Nine times out

1154
00:58:21,160 --> 00:58:23,680
Speaker 1: of ten, that's good enough to win, and in fact,

1155
00:58:24,120 --> 00:58:25,600
Speaker 1: most of the time, it'd be good enough to win

1156
00:58:25,680 --> 00:58:27,960
Speaker 1: comfortably where you can rest your quarterback and play the

1157
00:58:28,000 --> 00:58:31,000
Speaker 1: backup in the fourth quarter. So if my mind changed

1158
00:58:31,040 --> 00:58:34,040
Speaker 1: about Ryan Day, it's that I think even maybe a

1159
00:58:34,080 --> 00:58:36,680
Speaker 1: little bit more highly of the guy than I did.

1160
00:58:36,800 --> 00:58:40,160
Speaker 1: You can nitpick play calling if you want to. That's fine.

1161
00:58:40,280 --> 00:58:42,640
Speaker 1: I'm not telling you the guy's perfect. I'm telling you

1162
00:58:43,600 --> 00:58:45,680
Speaker 1: he had his team in his program at a very

1163
00:58:45,760 --> 00:58:48,200
Speaker 1: high level the other night and they just got beat.

1164
00:58:48,680 --> 00:58:52,120
Speaker 1: Oh well, they got beat. That team did not play

1165
00:58:52,160 --> 00:58:55,520
Speaker 1: at that level against Michigan, not close, not close. So

1166
00:58:55,640 --> 00:58:57,960
Speaker 1: what did they do? They rebounded, they regrouped, they were

1167
00:58:58,000 --> 00:59:00,360
Speaker 1: given a second chance. Most folks don't get it, and

1168
00:59:00,400 --> 00:59:03,440
Speaker 1: they rebounded, And I thought they represented themselves very well.

1169
00:59:03,960 --> 00:59:07,120
Speaker 1: Jesse walks in earlier today, and for those of you

1170
00:59:07,960 --> 00:59:10,040
Speaker 1: who thought this was a do or die game for

1171
00:59:10,160 --> 00:59:13,280
Speaker 1: Ryan Day, and you think, now, well, we've gotten the

1172
00:59:13,280 --> 00:59:15,800
Speaker 1: book on Ryan Day. We know who he is. No,

1173
00:59:15,920 --> 00:59:17,960
Speaker 1: you don't. You don't because you don't know what the

1174
00:59:17,960 --> 00:59:20,160
Speaker 1: future holds. Once upon a time they thought they had

1175
00:59:20,240 --> 00:59:23,200
Speaker 1: Kirby smart figured out in the SEC about a year

1176
00:59:23,240 --> 00:59:25,480
Speaker 1: ago he couldn't win the big one. Well, then all

1177
00:59:25,480 --> 00:59:27,640
Speaker 1: of a sudden, he won the Big One, and now

1178
00:59:27,640 --> 00:59:29,520
Speaker 1: he's a national champ and he's a favorite to win

1179
00:59:29,560 --> 00:59:32,560
Speaker 1: another one, and he's the toast of the SEC. And

1180
00:59:32,680 --> 00:59:38,160
Speaker 1: what changed four quarters changed everything, really, But Jesse walks

1181
00:59:38,160 --> 00:59:40,960
Speaker 1: in and he gives me a list, and it is

1182
00:59:41,000 --> 00:59:43,760
Speaker 1: the best winning percentage of all head coaches in the

1183
00:59:43,800 --> 00:59:47,480
Speaker 1: history of major college football with a minimum of fifty games.

1184
00:59:48,400 --> 00:59:51,840
Speaker 1: Walter Camp is number one. Guy named Newt Rotten. He

1185
00:59:51,960 --> 00:59:56,480
Speaker 1: is number three. Ryan Day's number two. But yes, yes,

1186
00:59:56,600 --> 00:59:59,280
Speaker 1: by all means, the guy is just a nexus of

1187
00:59:59,360 --> 01:00:01,440
Speaker 1: underachievement in the universe. Let's get him out of here.

1188
01:00:02,360 --> 01:00:04,080
Speaker 1: Moving forward, there are gonna be a lot of people

1189
01:00:04,120 --> 01:00:08,240
Speaker 1: who tell you Ryan Day chokes in big games. Can't

1190
01:00:08,240 --> 01:00:09,880
Speaker 1: get it done. Notice the word can't. I'm going to

1191
01:00:09,960 --> 01:00:11,680
Speaker 1: come back to that a second. He won't win the

1192
01:00:11,680 --> 01:00:14,600
Speaker 1: big game for us. He'll just fatten up on inferior competition.

1193
01:00:15,040 --> 01:00:16,960
Speaker 1: You hear it just like I do. So you know

1194
01:00:16,960 --> 01:00:20,120
Speaker 1: what you're saying. Let me tell you it's very fitting

1195
01:00:20,320 --> 01:00:22,360
Speaker 1: that he just faced Kirby Smart because I keep trying

1196
01:00:22,400 --> 01:00:24,840
Speaker 1: to remind people what they were very recently saying about

1197
01:00:24,880 --> 01:00:27,439
Speaker 1: Kirby Smart. It was the same thing, exact same thing.

1198
01:00:27,560 --> 01:00:30,520
Speaker 1: Back in twenty eighteen. Kirby plays in the SEC title game.

1199
01:00:30,680 --> 01:00:33,080
Speaker 1: They called a horrific fake punt in the middle of

1200
01:00:33,120 --> 01:00:36,000
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, probably turn the game they lose against Alabama.

1201
01:00:36,160 --> 01:00:38,560
Speaker 1: You know what they said about him chokes in big moments. Man,

1202
01:00:39,000 --> 01:00:42,200
Speaker 1: that's an elite head coach wouldn't have made that call. NA,

1203
01:00:42,520 --> 01:00:45,240
Speaker 1: a more experienced head coach wouldn't have made the call. Well,

1204
01:00:45,280 --> 01:00:48,360
Speaker 1: guess what Kirby Smart has now, He's got experience and

1205
01:00:48,440 --> 01:00:50,200
Speaker 1: it comes time for them to call a time out

1206
01:00:50,440 --> 01:00:52,800
Speaker 1: in a key moment. The other night, when Ohio State's

1207
01:00:52,800 --> 01:00:55,080
Speaker 1: about to execute a perfect fake punt and he called it.

1208
01:00:55,280 --> 01:00:58,280
Speaker 1: Why Probably because he's a little more experienced and he's

1209
01:00:58,280 --> 01:01:00,720
Speaker 1: got thousands of hours of repetition under his and Ryan

1210
01:01:00,800 --> 01:01:03,480
Speaker 1: Day doesn't quite have that yet he will one day.

1211
01:01:03,640 --> 01:01:06,720
Speaker 1: I go back to the word can't. He can't. No,

1212
01:01:07,480 --> 01:01:12,040
Speaker 1: there's a big difference in someone can't do something versus

1213
01:01:12,040 --> 01:01:16,520
Speaker 1: someone hasn't done something. Ryan Day hasn't won that big one.

1214
01:01:16,680 --> 01:01:20,040
Speaker 1: Ryan Day hasn't gotten you a national championship. He's fully

1215
01:01:20,040 --> 01:01:24,680
Speaker 1: capable of it, fully capable, and it's not overhauling the program.

1216
01:01:25,560 --> 01:01:29,320
Speaker 1: He doesn't have to reinvent himself. The reality is they're

1217
01:01:29,360 --> 01:01:32,440
Speaker 1: close right now. Outside of the teams who have already

1218
01:01:32,480 --> 01:01:34,840
Speaker 1: won one, there's close as any program out there. The

1219
01:01:34,920 --> 01:01:39,000
Speaker 1: difference is fractions of degrees. If I'm sitting in Nashville, Tennessee,

1220
01:01:39,080 --> 01:01:42,920
Speaker 1: right now and I've plot a chart one degree different,

1221
01:01:43,160 --> 01:01:44,760
Speaker 1: it doesn't make a whole lot of difference at the

1222
01:01:44,840 --> 01:01:46,919
Speaker 1: edge of this table right here. But if I'm going

1223
01:01:47,000 --> 01:01:51,240
Speaker 1: to Prague, if I'm going to Sicily, one degree's difference

1224
01:01:51,320 --> 01:01:54,160
Speaker 1: in my course makes a big difference. It makes one

1225
01:01:54,240 --> 01:01:57,760
Speaker 1: hundred miles worth of difference once I get that far away. Well,

1226
01:01:57,800 --> 01:02:03,080
Speaker 1: if you change degrees, just fractions about yourself and your program.

1227
01:02:03,360 --> 01:02:05,840
Speaker 1: You know what difference that can make over the span

1228
01:02:05,880 --> 01:02:10,080
Speaker 1: of a football season, playing twelve games over four months,

1229
01:02:10,240 --> 01:02:13,040
Speaker 1: plus you've got summer workouts, you've got spring. If you

1230
01:02:13,240 --> 01:02:17,280
Speaker 1: just changed fractions of degrees, you know, if you bring

1231
01:02:17,320 --> 01:02:20,960
Speaker 1: in one player from the portal, if you shore up corner.

1232
01:02:21,200 --> 01:02:24,240
Speaker 1: I didn't. I was listening to our buddy. Well, actually,

1233
01:02:24,640 --> 01:02:26,280
Speaker 1: I don't want to single someone out. I mean I

1234
01:02:26,320 --> 01:02:28,200
Speaker 1: listened to Zack Smith a lot, but a lot of

1235
01:02:28,200 --> 01:02:31,520
Speaker 1: the Ohio State beat had noticed this team's not quite

1236
01:02:31,520 --> 01:02:34,680
Speaker 1: what they have been at corner. Well, develop them, get

1237
01:02:34,720 --> 01:02:37,920
Speaker 1: them better at corner. That doesn't mean tearing it down

1238
01:02:38,000 --> 01:02:40,000
Speaker 1: to the studs and rebuilding the program. They don't need

1239
01:02:40,040 --> 01:02:44,360
Speaker 1: to do that. That's just hyperbole and nonsense. So yeah,

1240
01:02:44,520 --> 01:02:46,560
Speaker 1: I guess I do think a little differently of Ryan Day.

1241
01:02:46,920 --> 01:02:48,440
Speaker 1: I got more respect for the guy now than I

1242
01:02:48,440 --> 01:02:51,920
Speaker 1: did Saturday, and he lost. So that's what can happen

1243
01:02:51,960 --> 01:02:55,200
Speaker 1: sometimes in a loss. On the other side of that rivalry,

1244
01:02:55,400 --> 01:03:00,960
Speaker 1: I will take a sip from the chalice. Now. I

1245
01:03:01,000 --> 01:03:03,880
Speaker 1: think we had a Twitter question about this, didn't we. Yeah,

1246
01:03:03,960 --> 01:03:06,000
Speaker 1: let's show the Twitter question better than me just bringing

1247
01:03:06,000 --> 01:03:10,560
Speaker 1: it up. Nate from Dearborn, Michigan. Do you think Harball

1248
01:03:10,640 --> 01:03:13,720
Speaker 1: is really headed to the NFL this time? A lot

1249
01:03:13,720 --> 01:03:16,680
Speaker 1: of rumors out there about this, which there were always

1250
01:03:16,720 --> 01:03:20,080
Speaker 1: going to be. I think that it goes without saying.

1251
01:03:20,120 --> 01:03:22,720
Speaker 1: We just saw an incredible year from Michigan and they

1252
01:03:22,760 --> 01:03:26,400
Speaker 1: went to the playoff. I'm stunned they lost the game

1253
01:03:26,560 --> 01:03:30,240
Speaker 1: against TCU, Just stunned. I think if they played the

1254
01:03:30,240 --> 01:03:32,240
Speaker 1: game again tomorrow they'd win it. But you know what,

1255
01:03:32,880 --> 01:03:36,600
Speaker 1: that's me talking about paper. We don't play the games

1256
01:03:36,600 --> 01:03:38,680
Speaker 1: on paper. They played it on the field. They got

1257
01:03:38,680 --> 01:03:41,280
Speaker 1: beat and that's the way it goes. So now they're

1258
01:03:41,320 --> 01:03:44,439
Speaker 1: home and their staff's on vacation this week, but they're

1259
01:03:44,440 --> 01:03:47,120
Speaker 1: going to come back later this week and we got

1260
01:03:47,120 --> 01:03:51,520
Speaker 1: some things to find out. My question, my question with

1261
01:03:51,560 --> 01:03:55,160
Speaker 1: Harball is not whether he's interested in the NFL. I

1262
01:03:55,240 --> 01:03:58,200
Speaker 1: know he is. My question is not whether there's mutual interest.

1263
01:03:58,240 --> 01:04:01,040
Speaker 1: I'm sure there are some organizations interesting Jim Harbaugh. I

1264
01:04:01,040 --> 01:04:03,480
Speaker 1: don't care about that, okay, because that doesn't determine whether

1265
01:04:03,480 --> 01:04:05,800
Speaker 1: he's going to leave. Here's the thing I'm focused on,

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Speaker 1: and it's the only question I'm focused on. Is he

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Speaker 1: willing to interview for a job. There's a certain strata

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Speaker 1: you get yourself in where you're too good to interview

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Speaker 1: for the job. Number One, it's because of just that

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Speaker 1: you think you're good enough to where your resume speaks

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Speaker 1: for itself. And the other is, you know, from an

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Speaker 1: optics standpoint, you can't afford to go interview for that

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Speaker 1: job and not get it. He already did that one

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Speaker 1: time around. I'm a believer he's not going to do

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Speaker 1: that again, and I'm not alone there. So if he

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Speaker 1: gets an actual offer, I think he's very likely to

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Speaker 1: take it. Is he willing to interview or on the

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Speaker 1: other side of that coin, is there an organization out

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Speaker 1: there willing to offer Jim Harbaugh their job without going

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Speaker 1: through that interview process informally of course, So that's the

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Speaker 1: big question. Now, in a normal world, if this were

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Speaker 1: a vacuum, he wouldn't owe you an explanation or me

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Speaker 1: an explanation. He could just tell you mind your own

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Speaker 1: business and you can about his life. This is not

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Speaker 1: a vacuum. This is college football, and so for several reasons,

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Speaker 1: he does have to make a public statement on this.

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Speaker 1: Number One, you got to hold your roster together. Number two,

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Speaker 1: you got to hold your recruiting class together. Number three,

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Speaker 1: your staff you lost both coordinators last year during that

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Speaker 1: whole ordeal with the Vikings. Not sure you want to

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Speaker 1: go through that again. So the fourth thing, I would

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Speaker 1: encourage you to go to the Michigan Insider dot com

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01:05:23,120 --> 01:05:26,000
Speaker 1: because they do a great job covering this. Listen, Sam

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01:05:26,040 --> 01:05:28,800
Speaker 1: web over there, you guys are looking outside for sourcing.

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01:05:29,000 --> 01:05:31,520
Speaker 1: Sam Webb's about as close that situation as anyone, So

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Speaker 1: if it's happening, he'll know, and he'll probably know before

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Speaker 1: the national types know. But he made a good point,

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Speaker 1: and it's firsthand knowledge, he said. I'm hearing a lot

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Speaker 1: of donors are very hesitant to sign on the dotted

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Speaker 1: line with contributions. They want assurances about the direction. Who's

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Speaker 1: going to be the head coach here. That's totally fair, man,

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Speaker 1: that's totally fair. Your money you don't want to be

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01:05:53,080 --> 01:05:55,880
Speaker 1: tossing it into a fan and you don't know where

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01:05:55,880 --> 01:05:57,680
Speaker 1: it's going, and you don't know who's controlling the fan.

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Speaker 1: So for those reasons, Jim Harball's going to have to

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Speaker 1: make an announcement here in some shape form or fashion,

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Speaker 1: maybe publicly, maybe not but I don't think it's gonna

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Speaker 1: happen over the next forty eight or seventy two hours.

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Speaker 1: And the reason is because Black Monday is six days away.

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Speaker 1: That's the Monday after the NFL season ends. That's when

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Speaker 1: we find out who really gets fired. That's who we

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Speaker 1: find out really is serious about this thing. And that's

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Speaker 1: when we find out which jobs come open, and then

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Speaker 1: we can find out whether any of them want to

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Speaker 1: offer harball side on well not side unseen without proper

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Speaker 1: interview a job. And we also get to find out

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Speaker 1: whether he wants those jobs. You know, we assume I

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Speaker 1: assume he does, but we'll find out for sure. I

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Speaker 1: would just I would just like to also speak to

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Speaker 1: the Michigan fans for a second, because I know it

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Speaker 1: kind of sucks to be in limbo like this. I

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Speaker 1: want to ask you, is it worth it? I think

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Speaker 1: it is. Is it worth it? When you've been able

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Speaker 1: to do what you've done the last two years? You

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Speaker 1: beat Ohio State two times, I mean beat him convincingly

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Speaker 1: two times, celebrate that for the rest of your life.

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Speaker 1: You've been to the playoff a couple of times. I

1328
01:07:03,360 --> 01:07:05,800
Speaker 1: know last year we got the result. Most of it's

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Speaker 1: expected this year, we didn't, and it leaves a sour

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Speaker 1: taste in your mouth to end the year. But still, man,

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Speaker 1: it beats where you had been, doesn't it? And the

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Speaker 1: future of the program looks bright. Portal is treating you

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Speaker 1: very well right now. So you've got to deal with

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Speaker 1: this right now. Is it worth it? Rhetorical question. I'll

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Speaker 1: look at the comments later. I would imagine most of

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Speaker 1: you would say, all things considered, if I got to

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Speaker 1: wake up every day and check my message board five

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Speaker 1: times an hour to see if I still got a

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Speaker 1: head coach, but I do get to reap these rewards, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think it's worth it.

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Speaker 2: And by the way, if he does go, it's the

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Speaker 2: Michigan job, guys, it's so attractive, so you'll have your

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Speaker 2: choice of a line out the door of quality candidates.

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Speaker 1: Everyone wants to get into the big ten of the

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Speaker 1: SEC right now. Everyone does there. By the way, I know,

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Speaker 1: the hiring process at Michigan's a little bit different, and

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Speaker 1: I'm getting way ahead of myself here, but there may

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Speaker 1: be some names, some established names that you don't even

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Speaker 1: know are available, that would be available if the Michigan

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Speaker 1: job came open. I know this because I've asked inside

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Speaker 1: the industry and I know how attractive that Michigan job is.

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Speaker 1: And you can trust me because my logo is the

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Speaker 1: same color scheme as the Michigan logo. So how could

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Speaker 1: you get a closer source on the ground than us?

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Speaker 1: Thank you guys so much for watching the show. Make

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Speaker 1: sure you're subscribed to the channel. We got national championship

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Speaker 1: coming up in LA. Where I'm from, that means Lower Alabama,

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Speaker 1: but this week it means Los Angeles, and we'll be

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Speaker 1: headed out there later this week and we'll be doing

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Speaker 1: two live shows from Los Angeles where I don't know,

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Speaker 1: we'll make it out in the meantime or a director

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Speaker 1: call or producer Jesse, I'm josh Ba. Take care. It's

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Speaker 1: good to be back live a national We'll see it Thursday.

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Speaker 1: Until then, couples