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Speaker 1: And welcome in Lake Kick is Live. It is Thursday night,

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Speaker 1: February twenty fourth, in Fear of Our Lord twenty twenty two,

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Speaker 1: jam Pack High at Top Dreary, Downtown Nashville, Tennessee. Welcome

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Speaker 1: essentially to what will serve as a forty five minute

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Speaker 1: estate from reality and what all of us call the

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Speaker 1: real world. Right now, Hey, I can give you a

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Speaker 1: little spoiler alert. You don't have to wait till the

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Speaker 1: end of the show. We will not be waiting into

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Speaker 1: geopolitical waters tonight. We're gonna stick to what we at

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Speaker 1: least somewhat reasonably have a grasp on, and that is

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Speaker 1: college football. So if you want to block it all out,

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Speaker 1: just hang out with us. We appreciate you being here.

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Speaker 1: We have got a bunch of new coaching staffs out there,

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Speaker 1: coast to coast, and we're going to rank them now.

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Speaker 1: We do that normally once everything's settled down, So fingers crossed,

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Speaker 1: no one's making a late season staff move. We're gonna

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Speaker 1: rank some of these staffs. I put a pole up

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Speaker 1: no more than two hours ago. I put a Twitter

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Speaker 1: poll up, and I made the crucial mistake of just

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Speaker 1: list three candidates I wanted to know, Hey, which of

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Speaker 1: these do you think was the best hired this cycle?

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Speaker 1: Brian Kelly, Lincoln, Riley, Mario, Christobaul. Billy Napier is the

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Speaker 1: most popular person in that thread right now, and I

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Speaker 1: didn't even list him. That's on me. That's my bad.

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Speaker 1: I could have put a fourth option and I didn't. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna circle back to that in just a second.

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Speaker 1: We got the Auburn Mood tracker tonight. Another spoiler alert,

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Speaker 1: there will be a Shawshank redemption quote read on the

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Speaker 1: program tonight and it will deal with Auburn athletics. I've

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Speaker 1: been looking forward to this show for quite a while.

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Speaker 1: Finally it's time for us to put a cap on

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Speaker 1: the Renaissance season and the Renaissance Tour from twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 1: And we're going to do it by crowning our Eye

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Speaker 1: Josh video of the year. As you know, when I

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Speaker 1: went to games, we were on the road sixteen weeks

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Speaker 1: in a row. I had the trusty Eye Josh in

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Speaker 1: tow for every single trip and we got some amazing footage.

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Speaker 1: And if you've forgotten about it, Director Collins got them

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Speaker 1: all in there ready to punch him up one by

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Speaker 1: one tonight. We have eleven finalists and we're going to

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Speaker 1: run through them all. Don't worry, if you're listening on podcasts,

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Speaker 1: it will translate seamlessly if I do a half decent

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Speaker 1: job of describing it to you, and then I'm going

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Speaker 1: to tell you the winner, because you chose the winner

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Speaker 1: over the past twenty four hours. All that, plus we're

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Speaker 1: going to hit some Arizona State, We're going to hit

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Speaker 1: some LSU. We've got a lot to get to be

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Speaker 1: sure you're following on the social channels at Late Kick Josh,

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Speaker 1: I told you two shows ago. I want your feedback.

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Speaker 1: Do you want us to do some Twitter space activity

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Speaker 1: and when do you want it. I've gotten hundreds of

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Speaker 1: responses to that, potentially thousands, easily hundreds. I'm getting ready

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Speaker 1: to an ount something on that. It's going to be informal,

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Speaker 1: but I'm getting ready to win out something on that

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Speaker 1: because look, there are a lot of people in here

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Speaker 1: talking about everything from fashion to World War three. Why

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Speaker 1: don't we just talk about some college football at various

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Speaker 1: times during the week, so I'll have more on that

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Speaker 1: for you directly. Just stay tuned. Let's dive right into

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Speaker 1: the show tonight. I appreciate you guys being tuned in

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Speaker 1: as always, got a lot of new coaching staffs out there,

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Speaker 1: so naturally we got to rank them before they've ever

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Speaker 1: coached a spring practice. Now, what I want to remind

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Speaker 1: just ranking the head coach, although it is primarily about

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Speaker 1: the head coach, But when we're ranking them, it's not

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Speaker 1: all apples to apples. If I were to compare Brenton

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Speaker 1: in an apples to Apple's resume comparison, because one's got

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Speaker 1: more resources than the other. But as you're watching, if

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Speaker 1: so you quickly look down that staff list there. How

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Speaker 1: So he feels like Oklahoma. I'm very sure he loves Oklahoma.

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Speaker 1: He knows Oklahoma intimately been out there for a while.

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Speaker 1: He went and perfected his craft at Clemson and became

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Speaker 1: one of the sought after coaching minds and coordinators in America,

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Speaker 1: and now here he comes and he gets an opportunity here.

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Speaker 1: It's not the first opportunity it's just the first one

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Speaker 1: the more important to note Oklahoma is the one he selected.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't just a meeting in the dark. He selected Oklahoma.

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Speaker 1: There's a big difference, though, And the reason he's only

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Speaker 1: he knows it intimately. He knows what works out there.

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Speaker 1: Brent Vinnables at Oklahoma, that's number five. Now here's where

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Speaker 1: down Billy Napier at Florida right now. I think a

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Speaker 1: think a lot of folks are looking at Marcus Freeman

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Speaker 1: he hasn't done it at this level yet. At this

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Speaker 1: so Billy Napier killed it at Louisiana. And by the way,

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Speaker 1: attributes that they always pointed out about Napier is he

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Speaker 1: is a very very good developer, but he's also a

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Speaker 1: But it's a very competitive league. Hey, Billy Napier put

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Speaker 1: together a very competitive staff already, including inventing some new

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Speaker 1: previous regime. And he's not chasing monsters in Florida right now.

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Speaker 1: Mario Christa Miami, but Mario just got to Miami. Mike

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Speaker 1: if you're Billy Napier. There isn't a Nick Saban or

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Speaker 1: Their task is to flip the script when it comes

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Speaker 1: to end state recruiting, and it's very early on, so

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Speaker 1: it's still kind of it's the jury's kind of out

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Speaker 1: right now. I put this poll up two hours ago,

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Speaker 1: and I ask out of Brian Kelly and Lincoln Riley

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Speaker 1: So far, We've got nearly thirteen thousand votes in the

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Speaker 1: last two hours and right now Christaball leads the way

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Speaker 1: with forty three percent. Lincoln Riley's second at thirty nine percent,

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Speaker 1: that you're going to be relegated to Academy dot Com,

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Speaker 1: I do want to point out that one of you

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Speaker 1: the other morning I retweeted this sent me a picture

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Speaker 1: from a parking lot of Academy Sports and Outdoors and

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Speaker 1: the caption was I flew all the way from Seattle

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Speaker 1: for this. I don't know which city it was. That

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00:20:58,440 --> 00:21:00,960
Speaker 1: was not prompted by us. It never is. That's just

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Speaker 1: the loyalty of our audience. So hey, if you got

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00:21:03,600 --> 00:21:05,760
Speaker 1: some frequent flyer miles that you want to trade in,

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00:21:05,920 --> 00:21:07,679
Speaker 1: you don't have any friends or family you feel like

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00:21:07,720 --> 00:21:09,840
Speaker 1: going to see, I don't know, just just hop a

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00:21:09,840 --> 00:21:12,120
Speaker 1: plane to the nearest city with an Academy Sports and outdoors.

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Speaker 1: Just make a day of it. But yes, wherever you

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00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:18,040
Speaker 1: go and whatever you need, Academy Sports and Outdoors, they're

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00:21:18,080 --> 00:21:20,200
Speaker 1: here to hook you up. And they're always here to

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00:21:20,240 --> 00:21:22,520
Speaker 1: hook us up. And we thank them and we thank

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00:21:22,600 --> 00:21:26,960
Speaker 1: you for shopping with them. The mood tracker rolls on.

446
00:21:27,240 --> 00:21:29,040
Speaker 1: I appreciate all you guys being tuned in live, by

447
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Speaker 1: the way, So the mood tracker rolls on. The mood

448
00:21:31,560 --> 00:21:35,080
Speaker 1: tracker before we actually dive in a quick reminder, because

449
00:21:35,080 --> 00:21:37,040
Speaker 1: I forget to do this every now and then. The

450
00:21:37,040 --> 00:21:40,119
Speaker 1: mood Tracker is us taking a thermometer and placing it

451
00:21:40,160 --> 00:21:42,560
Speaker 1: in the fan base and finding out how the fan

452
00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:45,320
Speaker 1: base feels, not what preview magazines are going to tell you,

453
00:21:45,400 --> 00:21:48,520
Speaker 1: what the actual fan base is feeling. It is Auburn

454
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Speaker 1: mood Tracker time tonight. Now I have a quote and

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00:21:52,000 --> 00:21:54,719
Speaker 1: it's going to be followed with the overall mood of Auburn.

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Speaker 1: You tell me where this quote comes from. I wish

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Speaker 1: I could tell you Andy fought the good fight and

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00:22:01,240 --> 00:22:03,720
Speaker 1: the sisters let him be. I wish I could tell

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00:22:03,760 --> 00:22:07,520
Speaker 1: you that. But prison is no fairytale world. That, of course,

460
00:22:07,600 --> 00:22:10,800
Speaker 1: is Morgan Freeman in Shawshank Redemption but I took the liberty,

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00:22:11,160 --> 00:22:15,080
Speaker 1: the creative liberty of replacing a few words, because I realized,

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Speaker 1: if I change three words here, this perfectly summarizes the

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Speaker 1: fan mood right now at Auburn. Here's how we're going

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Speaker 1: to reword this. I wish I could tell you fans

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Speaker 1: fought the good fight and the boosters left the program

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Speaker 1: be I wish I could tell you that. But Auburn

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00:22:30,760 --> 00:22:33,879
Speaker 1: is no fairytale world. And with that we present the

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Speaker 1: current Auburn mood. Tracker seeking escape, not escape from Auburn.

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Speaker 1: This is where you got to dive into the weeds

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Speaker 1: a little bit and you got to understand Auburn, Alabama

471
00:22:42,880 --> 00:22:45,159
Speaker 1: very unique place. I grew up very very close, so

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00:22:45,200 --> 00:22:48,200
Speaker 1: I feel uniquely equipped to explain Auburn to you people.

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00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:53,159
Speaker 1: Auburn fans do not want to escape Auburn. Far from it.

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Speaker 1: They love Auburn. They love everything about Auburn. They love

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Speaker 1: the spirit there, they love the town itself. It's like

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Speaker 1: a postcard. Restaurants popping up as of late than I

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00:23:02,320 --> 00:23:04,399
Speaker 1: would like, but it's like a postcard if you're on

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00:23:04,400 --> 00:23:06,560
Speaker 1: the right parts of campus. They love the traditions, they

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00:23:06,560 --> 00:23:09,560
Speaker 1: love the community, they love the values everything about that

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00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:12,080
Speaker 1: they love. What Auburn fans and folks get really tired

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00:23:12,119 --> 00:23:15,600
Speaker 1: of is having to look around every corner waiting for

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Speaker 1: the self sabotage hammer to drop. It's one thing if

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00:23:18,720 --> 00:23:21,439
Speaker 1: you're having to punch out constantly, if you're having to

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00:23:21,480 --> 00:23:25,119
Speaker 1: fight outside forces, that's life, you know, and especially in

485
00:23:25,680 --> 00:23:29,119
Speaker 1: high level college football, that's the game. So if you're

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Speaker 1: trying to fight Bama or Georgia or LSU, R, A,

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00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:34,719
Speaker 1: and M, we expect that. What we don't expect is

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Speaker 1: we don't expect to have to fight our own. And

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00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:39,920
Speaker 1: yet at Auburn it's been a constant and it's not new.

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Speaker 1: And of course what I'm talking about if you've been

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00:23:42,119 --> 00:23:44,920
Speaker 1: checked out for the last month or so. These folks.

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Speaker 1: When I say these folks, I mean a small minority

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00:23:47,520 --> 00:23:50,080
Speaker 1: of powerful people around Auburn are now zero for two

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00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:51,840
Speaker 1: over the past year and a half of trying to

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Speaker 1: make sure Brian Harson is not their coach, much to

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00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:58,679
Speaker 1: the chagrin of the general Auburn family, who, even though

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Speaker 1: they may not be crazy about Harson's first year, they're

498
00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:03,560
Speaker 1: just so tired of a few people having a death

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Speaker 1: grip on the steering wheel of Auburn football and not

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Speaker 1: being willing to let go even though they themselves have

501
00:24:09,480 --> 00:24:12,240
Speaker 1: no clue where they're headed. They don't have GPS, they

502
00:24:12,240 --> 00:24:14,600
Speaker 1: don't know they're out in the middle of Wichita, and

503
00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:17,520
Speaker 1: they're not from the Midwest. But yet they're just driving

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00:24:17,520 --> 00:24:20,720
Speaker 1: around anyway aimlessly. Well, that's kind of the feeling if

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00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:23,119
Speaker 1: you've been an Auburn fan. You're watching folks with no

506
00:24:23,200 --> 00:24:25,560
Speaker 1: clue how to run a football program, but they got

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00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:27,920
Speaker 1: deep pockets and so they can reach the wheel and

508
00:24:27,960 --> 00:24:31,280
Speaker 1: they won't let go of the wheel. And they're driving

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Speaker 1: a car that you love. It's not a rental, you're

510
00:24:34,480 --> 00:24:36,840
Speaker 1: not leasing, and it's not a test drive. It's yours.

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Speaker 1: They have their hands on the wheel of Auburn, and

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00:24:39,800 --> 00:24:42,800
Speaker 1: Auburn belongs to you, you would think just as much

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Speaker 1: as them. This has always been a feeling around this program,

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Speaker 1: long before Brian Harson came along. I will say long

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Speaker 1: after he's gone, but I hope it's not the case

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Speaker 1: for their sake, But there's always been a feeling, you know,

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Speaker 1: And if you've been close to the program again and

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Speaker 1: you've been around the folks, there's always been a feeling

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00:25:01,320 --> 00:25:05,680
Speaker 1: around Auburn that if they could just channel the passion

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00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:09,600
Speaker 1: that everyone has for that program into a laser beam

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00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:12,000
Speaker 1: that points in the same direction, it would be a

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00:25:12,040 --> 00:25:15,359
Speaker 1: powerhouse athletic department. And I don't think they're wrong about

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00:25:15,400 --> 00:25:18,600
Speaker 1: that problem being they have never been able for a

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Speaker 1: sustained period of time to channel all that passion of couse,

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00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:26,040
Speaker 1: make no mistake about it. Even the folks that have

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00:25:26,119 --> 00:25:29,280
Speaker 1: been detrimental in their approach to Auburn Athletics, they love Auburn.

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00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:32,320
Speaker 1: They love themselves, but they love Auburn too. I mean,

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Speaker 1: if you ask them what their goal is, their goals

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Speaker 1: for that team to win on Saturday is just as

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00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:40,439
Speaker 1: much as you know sal from Silicaga shout out Highway

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Speaker 1: to eighty. But the way they go about it's different.

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00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:45,720
Speaker 1: You know, the prism with which they view the athletic

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Speaker 1: department of the program is just a little bit different.

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Speaker 1: And so here we are today. We're in spring. Now,

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00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:53,240
Speaker 1: we're approaching spring at least of twenty twenty two. The

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00:25:53,280 --> 00:25:56,399
Speaker 1: good news, as I said, is those folks who have

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00:25:56,680 --> 00:25:59,199
Speaker 1: tried to hijack the program, they're zero for two and

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00:25:59,200 --> 00:26:01,360
Speaker 1: they're two most recent and attempts. That's the good news.

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00:26:01,359 --> 00:26:04,359
Speaker 1: Here's the bad news. We have no clue what the

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00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:07,720
Speaker 1: future holds for Brian Harson and his staff because a

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00:26:07,800 --> 00:26:10,880
Speaker 1: million questions still remain. We're not out of the woods

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Speaker 1: by any stretch of the imagination. It's why I tried

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00:26:14,920 --> 00:26:16,879
Speaker 1: to frame it the right way when all that drama

544
00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:19,479
Speaker 1: was going on earlier this month. It wasn't that everyone

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00:26:19,560 --> 00:26:23,000
Speaker 1: was pro Harson. It was just that they were anti

546
00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:25,720
Speaker 1: you know, Java, as they call it, just Auburn being Auburn.

547
00:26:25,800 --> 00:26:29,959
Speaker 1: They're anti that. They're anti those forces punching in on

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00:26:30,040 --> 00:26:33,480
Speaker 1: Auburn and working against themselves. And so now you got

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00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:36,000
Speaker 1: staffers they had to replace. They had some guys leave

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00:26:36,320 --> 00:26:38,880
Speaker 1: via the portal. They did not recruit a very good

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00:26:38,920 --> 00:26:41,480
Speaker 1: class on paper. I want to stress that because you

552
00:26:41,520 --> 00:26:44,120
Speaker 1: don't really know what a class consists of until it's

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00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:47,359
Speaker 1: a few years into, you know, being on campus and

554
00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:49,639
Speaker 1: going through your strength and conditioning. So I'll grant you

555
00:26:49,680 --> 00:26:52,399
Speaker 1: that it doesn't feel like this is a rocket ship.

556
00:26:53,160 --> 00:26:55,560
Speaker 1: But at least they're going to get a chance. So

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00:26:55,600 --> 00:26:57,160
Speaker 1: we're going to go into spring now at least they'll

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00:26:57,160 --> 00:26:59,640
Speaker 1: get a chance. But a million questions still remain there

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00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:01,919
Speaker 1: and Alburn folks all the while they're just sitting around

560
00:27:02,359 --> 00:27:05,119
Speaker 1: wishing for nothing more than just an escape from what

561
00:27:05,200 --> 00:27:08,240
Speaker 1: the norm has been. Because their belief is if we

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00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:11,199
Speaker 1: could just compete on equal footing and have all the

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00:27:11,240 --> 00:27:14,320
Speaker 1: passion directed in the same you know, the same effort,

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00:27:14,480 --> 00:27:16,520
Speaker 1: would be really good, would be okay, And I agree

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Speaker 1: with them, I think they would be. Now comes the

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00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:24,440
Speaker 1: time where I've been looking forward to this for well,

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00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:27,400
Speaker 1: what since August, I guess or September. The first game

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00:27:27,440 --> 00:27:31,080
Speaker 1: I think was early September. The Renaissance season, as we

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00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:34,120
Speaker 1: called the twenty twenty one season, brought about the Renaissance Tour.

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00:27:34,359 --> 00:27:36,000
Speaker 1: We thought it was going to be a renaissance season

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00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:38,040
Speaker 1: for college football because we thought a lot of what

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00:27:38,040 --> 00:27:40,239
Speaker 1: we missed about the game was going to return, and

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00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:42,119
Speaker 1: we were on the road. Lake Kick was on the

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00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:44,960
Speaker 1: road every single week, and we ended up I think

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00:27:45,000 --> 00:27:47,280
Speaker 1: sixteen weeks in a row if you count the signing

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00:27:47,359 --> 00:27:49,320
Speaker 1: day shows and whatnot that we did too. So if

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00:27:49,359 --> 00:27:52,520
Speaker 1: you're watching on YouTube, there's a brief list up right

578
00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:55,720
Speaker 1: now of all the games that we were at, and

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00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:58,639
Speaker 1: we went all across the country, traverse the entire country.

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Speaker 1: The only thing we didn't get to do is we

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00:28:00,440 --> 00:28:02,080
Speaker 1: did not ever have a valid reason to go to

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00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:04,879
Speaker 1: the West Coast because there were no high profile games

583
00:28:04,960 --> 00:28:07,879
Speaker 1: on the Pacific Coast, and that includes Mount West, that

584
00:28:07,920 --> 00:28:10,879
Speaker 1: includes Pac twelve. So we didn't get to check that box,

585
00:28:10,920 --> 00:28:12,680
Speaker 1: but every other box we got to check. Think about

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00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:14,600
Speaker 1: the games we were at. Even Week three. You know,

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00:28:14,640 --> 00:28:16,920
Speaker 1: Auburn versus Penn State doesn't stand out to you now,

588
00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:19,399
Speaker 1: but it certainly did at the time. It was a

589
00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:23,040
Speaker 1: wide out and it was all the world was at

590
00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:26,080
Speaker 1: Penn State's fingertips. That Arkansas A and M game in

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00:28:26,160 --> 00:28:28,879
Speaker 1: Dallas was a classic. OHU Texas maybe the best regular

592
00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:32,160
Speaker 1: season game I saw. The good thing about college football

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00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:34,800
Speaker 1: is you get to the end of the year and

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00:28:34,840 --> 00:28:37,199
Speaker 1: you don't look at Texas as being anything special. But

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00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:40,000
Speaker 1: when I saw him in Week six against Ou in Dallas,

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00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:42,440
Speaker 1: that was the Red Rivers shootout game. Firstly, and then

597
00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:45,240
Speaker 1: I'd never seen one in person. And secondly, Texas was

598
00:28:45,360 --> 00:28:47,560
Speaker 1: just a one lost team, so they still had all

599
00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:49,920
Speaker 1: their goals still in front of them. We got later

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00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:52,320
Speaker 1: in the season, went to Michigan State, saw them take

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00:28:52,360 --> 00:28:55,360
Speaker 1: down Michigan, went to Michigan, saw them take down Ohio State.

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00:28:55,920 --> 00:28:58,160
Speaker 1: There were some big moments. I think we had four

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00:28:58,200 --> 00:29:01,320
Speaker 1: field stormings that we witnessed this year. So anyway, what

604
00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:03,360
Speaker 1: I was doing all the while was I had the

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00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:06,360
Speaker 1: eye Josh on me, a knockoff brand of the iPhone,

606
00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:10,080
Speaker 1: of course, and I always try and shoot you guys

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00:29:10,080 --> 00:29:11,960
Speaker 1: as much footage as I can. If you follow me

608
00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:14,640
Speaker 1: on Instagram and you're looking on Saturdays, you see I

609
00:29:14,720 --> 00:29:18,040
Speaker 1: probably put anywhere between twenty and forty pictures of videos

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00:29:18,080 --> 00:29:20,560
Speaker 1: behind the scenes up from the game. I'm at well.

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00:29:20,600 --> 00:29:23,000
Speaker 1: Out of those videos, there were some that really stood

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00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:25,040
Speaker 1: out even as we got to the end of the year.

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Speaker 1: And so what I did over about the past month

614
00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:29,440
Speaker 1: and a half is on Twitter, I've been putting up

615
00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:33,080
Speaker 1: the Eijosh Video of the Year nominees and we whittled

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00:29:33,080 --> 00:29:35,800
Speaker 1: it down to I think a final eleven and I

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00:29:35,880 --> 00:29:38,200
Speaker 1: had you guys vote on it. Last night I put

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00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:40,600
Speaker 1: them up. I said, we're doing this thing tonight. We're

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Speaker 1: going to announce the Iijosh Video of the Year winner,

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00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:44,960
Speaker 1: and we're going by votes. And we already had a

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00:29:45,000 --> 00:29:47,640
Speaker 1: good idea based on the traction these videos got. But

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00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:49,800
Speaker 1: what I wanted to do for the crowd here who

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00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:52,400
Speaker 1: hasn't seen the videos is let's just run through them.

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00:29:52,440 --> 00:29:54,160
Speaker 1: And I know some of you are listening on podcasts.

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00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:57,000
Speaker 1: I'll describe what we're seeing here, but where we start,

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00:29:57,000 --> 00:29:59,880
Speaker 1: we're going to go chronologically. Where we started was set

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00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:03,640
Speaker 1: September fourth. This was Georgia versus Clemson. This was the

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00:30:03,680 --> 00:30:05,640
Speaker 1: start of the season. It was in Charlotte. I was

629
00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:07,200
Speaker 1: worried it was going to be one hundred and ten degrees.

630
00:30:07,240 --> 00:30:10,600
Speaker 1: It really wasn't. And that was a defensive slug fest.

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Speaker 1: Georgia ends up winning that thing. I think ten to three.

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00:30:13,520 --> 00:30:17,000
Speaker 1: This is Kirby Smart afterwards. Now what's noteworthy is he's

633
00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:20,040
Speaker 1: running around, he's celebrating, he's waving that visor around, standing

634
00:30:20,080 --> 00:30:21,760
Speaker 1: up on the bleachers. What we didn't know at the

635
00:30:21,760 --> 00:30:24,280
Speaker 1: time was he was going to end the season the

636
00:30:24,400 --> 00:30:27,080
Speaker 1: exact same way he started the season, running around like

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Speaker 1: a maniac, waving that visor in the air and celebrating.

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00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:32,479
Speaker 1: And by the way, watch if you're watching on YouTube,

639
00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:35,760
Speaker 1: you follow him into the tunnel. He's hugging a player

640
00:30:35,840 --> 00:30:39,280
Speaker 1: right now. Who's that waiting for him? Greg Sanky, sec

641
00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:41,400
Speaker 1: commissioner waiting on him there? And then a lot of

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00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:43,400
Speaker 1: friends that I've made along the way in the world

643
00:30:43,400 --> 00:30:45,960
Speaker 1: of media standing behind him. This is always fun to

644
00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:47,640
Speaker 1: be able to see that postgame scene. So that was

645
00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:52,959
Speaker 1: Kirby Smart. That was week one. Two weeks later, we

646
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:55,320
Speaker 1: are on the road in a place that I had

647
00:30:55,400 --> 00:30:57,360
Speaker 1: never been able to go before. I had never been

648
00:30:57,360 --> 00:31:00,400
Speaker 1: to a Penn State game, and this was the White Eye.

649
00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:03,760
Speaker 1: This is Beaver Stadium at night, auburns in town. This

650
00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:08,040
Speaker 1: is September eighteenth. This is as close to a pro

651
00:31:08,120 --> 00:31:12,040
Speaker 1: wrestling entrance existing in college football, maybe this side of

652
00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:15,600
Speaker 1: Lane Stadium in Virginia Tech as it gets. The pregame

653
00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:19,120
Speaker 1: production staff and the in game production staff at Penn State,

654
00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:22,760
Speaker 1: they do a phenomenal job not only of making sure

655
00:31:22,800 --> 00:31:25,960
Speaker 1: that they're creating an event, they're creating a spectacle. But

656
00:31:26,040 --> 00:31:28,440
Speaker 1: what I love so much about my experience in Beaver

657
00:31:28,520 --> 00:31:32,120
Speaker 1: Stadium Jesse will attest because he went there. Those folks

658
00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:35,120
Speaker 1: are so aware that they're part of the show, and

659
00:31:35,200 --> 00:31:37,600
Speaker 1: they are so aware that they have an active role

660
00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:41,320
Speaker 1: in participating to create an environment. It's almost like they

661
00:31:41,360 --> 00:31:44,760
Speaker 1: have a role like they're in a movie and they acquiesce.

662
00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:48,560
Speaker 1: Look at that talk about picturesque that's real life, that's

663
00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:51,880
Speaker 1: not in a studio, that actually exists. You know where

664
00:31:51,880 --> 00:31:53,880
Speaker 1: you don't see that. You don't really see that on

665
00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:57,280
Speaker 1: Sundays because there are no environments like that anywhere other

666
00:31:57,520 --> 00:32:00,280
Speaker 1: than college football. So that was Week three was the

667
00:32:00,280 --> 00:32:04,600
Speaker 1: white out. That was an incredible experience. We move on

668
00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:10,400
Speaker 1: October ninth, Another first for me, the Red River Shootout

669
00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:14,640
Speaker 1: in Dallas noon kickoff. This is Caleb Williams taking over

670
00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:18,760
Speaker 1: for Spencer Rattler throwing it downfield. Marvin Memmes is there.

671
00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:23,680
Speaker 1: This is Oklahoma en route to erasing a three possession

672
00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:26,240
Speaker 1: deficit and they're going to go on to win the

673
00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:28,880
Speaker 1: Red River Shootout. Look at the celebration there, and you

674
00:32:28,960 --> 00:32:31,640
Speaker 1: notice what else is beautiful? Aside from all the artillery there,

675
00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:35,080
Speaker 1: what's beautiful is that blue sky. We're not playing under

676
00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:37,000
Speaker 1: artificial light. We're playing under God's light. You know what

677
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:40,160
Speaker 1: else is beautiful? Look around? Do you see any luxury suites?

678
00:32:40,280 --> 00:32:42,640
Speaker 1: Look at the Cotton Bowl. We're all the luxury suites.

679
00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:47,200
Speaker 1: They're not there. What an incredible environment and Oklahoma again

680
00:32:47,280 --> 00:32:50,000
Speaker 1: goes on to win in dramatic come from behind fashion.

681
00:32:50,360 --> 00:32:53,960
Speaker 1: Xavier Worthy for Texas had another Eye Josh Video of

682
00:32:53,960 --> 00:32:56,560
Speaker 1: the Year nominee right after that. Look at it we're

683
00:32:56,640 --> 00:32:59,720
Speaker 1: rolling it right now. So Texas they're getting blanked until

684
00:32:59,720 --> 00:33:02,640
Speaker 1: true freshman Xavier Worthy steps up. He went off in

685
00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:05,360
Speaker 1: this game and I think over two hundred and fifty

686
00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:09,040
Speaker 1: yards receiving. That's a true freshman. He's coming back this year, folks.

687
00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:11,360
Speaker 1: And so we had two of them right there from

688
00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:14,320
Speaker 1: the Red River shootout. That was a very memorable day.

689
00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:17,080
Speaker 1: This right here, I think was the best regular season

690
00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:19,800
Speaker 1: game I saw this year. Again, the beauty of college

691
00:33:19,840 --> 00:33:23,920
Speaker 1: football being didn't always have to have playoff ramifications. Neither

692
00:33:23,960 --> 00:33:26,640
Speaker 1: of these teams ended up making the playoff, doesn't change

693
00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:29,120
Speaker 1: the fact that it had two Eye Josh Video of

694
00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:33,840
Speaker 1: the Year nominees. Then we go to Knoxville. This one's fun.

695
00:33:33,880 --> 00:33:35,760
Speaker 1: A lot of you thought this was gonna win. We'll

696
00:33:35,760 --> 00:33:37,560
Speaker 1: see if it won. In just a second, Lane Kiffin.

697
00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:41,800
Speaker 1: After a surreal, bizarre, incredible game, they end up beating Tennessee.

698
00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:44,360
Speaker 1: Do the ole miss rebels in Kneeland. Watch for the

699
00:33:44,400 --> 00:33:48,000
Speaker 1: bottle throw. Watch for the bottle throw boom, debris raining

700
00:33:48,080 --> 00:33:51,600
Speaker 1: down a Lane Kiffin, and like Odell Beckham before him,

701
00:33:52,160 --> 00:33:55,480
Speaker 1: he one handed the bottle. Beckham did it with a football.

702
00:33:55,880 --> 00:33:57,840
Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin did it, and then he chucks the visor

703
00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:01,600
Speaker 1: for good measure into the stands. This is called heel tactics.

704
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:04,240
Speaker 1: To go back to pro wrestling for a second, this

705
00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:06,280
Speaker 1: is how you carry yourself as a heel. You don't

706
00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:08,480
Speaker 1: fight it, you don't try and make people like you.

707
00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:11,359
Speaker 1: You wave to him, You catch the bottle as only

708
00:34:11,400 --> 00:34:13,759
Speaker 1: a heel would do. That is Kurt Henning style, mister

709
00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:17,880
Speaker 1: perfect execution. And then as they're yelling every form of

710
00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:20,440
Speaker 1: profanity and obscenity at you, trust me. I was down there,

711
00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:22,880
Speaker 1: I can hear it. You chuck them the visor and

712
00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:25,560
Speaker 1: then you throw up the deuces and you leave. That

713
00:34:26,040 --> 00:34:28,200
Speaker 1: was a memorable night for a lot of wrong reasons,

714
00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:31,560
Speaker 1: but also a memorable night because a classic Eye Josh

715
00:34:31,680 --> 00:34:34,399
Speaker 1: Video of the Year nominee was born from it. Then

716
00:34:34,520 --> 00:34:37,040
Speaker 1: we're getting a little bit later into October. Let's go

717
00:34:37,080 --> 00:34:41,680
Speaker 1: to October thirtieth. This is Michigan State beating Michigan. This

718
00:34:41,920 --> 00:34:45,800
Speaker 1: actually ended up becoming a painting someone in or around

719
00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:49,760
Speaker 1: East Lansing took Mark Dantonio, who is the former Michigan

720
00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:52,200
Speaker 1: State coach. He's just on the field there. He's watching

721
00:34:52,239 --> 00:34:55,240
Speaker 1: the Spartan celebrate after they beat in state rival Michigan.

722
00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:59,120
Speaker 1: Look at him keeping his distance. He is about twenty

723
00:34:59,239 --> 00:35:01,520
Speaker 1: I would say fifteen twenty yards away from the majority

724
00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:05,080
Speaker 1: of the players. Hands in the pockets there, Win breaker on.

725
00:35:05,200 --> 00:35:07,760
Speaker 1: It was like thirty five degrees that day, rainy, misty,

726
00:35:08,080 --> 00:35:11,120
Speaker 1: and he's just watching the players. That is a great

727
00:35:11,160 --> 00:35:13,839
Speaker 1: image again, so much so then it got turned into

728
00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:17,520
Speaker 1: a painting. This was very memorable because again he didn't

729
00:35:17,520 --> 00:35:19,879
Speaker 1: try and make himself the focal point of anything. He's

730
00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:21,719
Speaker 1: standing off of the desk as mel Tucker, all the

731
00:35:21,719 --> 00:35:24,239
Speaker 1: players are celebrating. Gonna have another video from this one

732
00:35:24,239 --> 00:35:26,600
Speaker 1: in a second. But that image right there, that got

733
00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:29,719
Speaker 1: turned into a painting, Mark D'Antonio in East Lansing as

734
00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:32,839
Speaker 1: they take down Michigan. We had a second one. Within

735
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:36,560
Speaker 1: minutes of this video being shot, we had another Iedrosh

736
00:35:36,640 --> 00:35:39,440
Speaker 1: Video of the Year nominee, and it's Paul Bunyan not

737
00:35:39,480 --> 00:35:42,440
Speaker 1: only the trophy coming home to East Lancing, but with

738
00:35:42,560 --> 00:35:44,799
Speaker 1: the Spartan helmet on. And so when you're in a

739
00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:47,319
Speaker 1: situation like this, you just hold up the phone and

740
00:35:47,360 --> 00:35:49,759
Speaker 1: you just follow the players because they're headed towards the

741
00:35:49,760 --> 00:35:52,319
Speaker 1: student section. Again, I want you to look at the

742
00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:55,000
Speaker 1: level of celebration. And I want you to remember, this

743
00:35:55,040 --> 00:35:58,080
Speaker 1: is not a playoff game. This is not January. This

744
00:35:58,120 --> 00:36:01,399
Speaker 1: is not some nameless, lifeless NFL venue one thousand miles away.

745
00:36:01,560 --> 00:36:04,720
Speaker 1: That's East Lansing, Michigan. That's a Saturday afternoon in the fall.

746
00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:07,080
Speaker 1: And when I tell you Saturday afternoons in the fall

747
00:36:07,239 --> 00:36:10,200
Speaker 1: or what this sport is all about, look at that band,

748
00:36:10,320 --> 00:36:12,520
Speaker 1: look at those students, look at those players, Look at

749
00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:14,759
Speaker 1: that wooden trophy, look at the helmet on it. That's

750
00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:17,839
Speaker 1: what it's about. That's why I never support any kind

751
00:36:17,880 --> 00:36:21,680
Speaker 1: of model that would dampen any of this whatsoever. Two

752
00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:25,920
Speaker 1: classic moments there, just from one game. We're not done.

753
00:36:26,120 --> 00:36:28,600
Speaker 1: November sixth. What a change in the weather. This was

754
00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:32,760
Speaker 1: from those conditions to seventy and sunny in College station.

755
00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:36,520
Speaker 1: This is Auburn at Texas A and M. The date

756
00:36:36,640 --> 00:36:40,960
Speaker 1: was November sixth, Chamber of Commerce weather there in College station.

757
00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:42,960
Speaker 1: This is a view that a lot of you don't

758
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:45,040
Speaker 1: get to see, but since we do, I try and

759
00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:48,359
Speaker 1: capture it. It is a very dizzying scene because it's

760
00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:51,960
Speaker 1: during the Aggie Warham normally happening during commercial break, so

761
00:36:52,000 --> 00:36:54,200
Speaker 1: you don't get to see it. On TV. That is

762
00:36:54,239 --> 00:36:56,080
Speaker 1: about one hundred and five to one hundred and ten

763
00:36:56,120 --> 00:36:58,799
Speaker 1: thousand people swaying to the left and right, arm in arm,

764
00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:01,640
Speaker 1: and if you were to look up at it from

765
00:37:01,680 --> 00:37:04,879
Speaker 1: the field, it makes you very, very dizzy. Some people

766
00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:06,480
Speaker 1: would get sick looking at that. It would give you

767
00:37:06,520 --> 00:37:10,960
Speaker 1: motion sickness. And everyone is chanting the same thing. Now

768
00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:14,759
Speaker 1: again from the outside. Rival fans look at this and

769
00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:18,359
Speaker 1: they would label this cult behavior. Aggnie fans would say,

770
00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:20,960
Speaker 1: if you're not in it, it won't make sense to you.

771
00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:23,759
Speaker 1: But once you're in it, you can't imagine any other way.

772
00:37:24,239 --> 00:37:27,799
Speaker 1: This was a classic afternoon because again the weather was great,

773
00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:31,239
Speaker 1: got a little late season based hand. But also a

774
00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:34,600
Speaker 1: home game in College Station. A home game at Kyle Field.

775
00:37:35,600 --> 00:37:38,800
Speaker 1: I still think is the most underrated experience in college

776
00:37:38,800 --> 00:37:42,239
Speaker 1: football because when people talk about the best home environments,

777
00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:44,759
Speaker 1: a lot of them skip over Kyle Field, and they

778
00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:47,560
Speaker 1: shouldn't look at that place. That's insanity. Just a random

779
00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:50,160
Speaker 1: saturday in the fall. We'll come back to that one

780
00:37:50,200 --> 00:37:53,239
Speaker 1: in just a second. We move on to November thirteenth.

781
00:37:53,560 --> 00:37:56,600
Speaker 1: We're in Waco, Texas. Blown tire and all the day

782
00:37:56,600 --> 00:37:58,840
Speaker 1: before we're in Waco, this is Dennis Dodd and I

783
00:37:59,239 --> 00:38:03,560
Speaker 1: doing postgame work on CBS. And the reason why I

784
00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:06,360
Speaker 1: mentioned that we're doing work for CBS is because the

785
00:38:06,400 --> 00:38:09,400
Speaker 1: fine folks over at Fox Sports took it upon themselves

786
00:38:09,640 --> 00:38:11,920
Speaker 1: to take their pregame set, you know, the one the

787
00:38:12,080 --> 00:38:14,799
Speaker 1: likes of Brady Quinn would be sitting on, and they

788
00:38:14,920 --> 00:38:17,799
Speaker 1: just bombed us back there. And if it's not intentional,

789
00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:19,919
Speaker 1: it should have been. Look at that and I see

790
00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:22,200
Speaker 1: every bit of it. I got my eyes cut over there.

791
00:38:22,400 --> 00:38:25,040
Speaker 1: But being the industry professional that I am, I don't

792
00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:28,520
Speaker 1: break character. And believe me, if I'm wearing a polo,

793
00:38:28,600 --> 00:38:31,000
Speaker 1: I'm in character because you see how I address when

794
00:38:31,040 --> 00:38:33,640
Speaker 1: I get to choose my own wardrobe. That was another

795
00:38:33,680 --> 00:38:37,799
Speaker 1: great day because that was Baylor upsetting Oklahoma. It was

796
00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:41,440
Speaker 1: another field storming. That was our third field storming of

797
00:38:41,480 --> 00:38:44,520
Speaker 1: the year. Notice the Blue skies. Notice the fact that

798
00:38:44,560 --> 00:38:46,200
Speaker 1: the game's already over and it's three point thirty in

799
00:38:46,239 --> 00:38:49,600
Speaker 1: the afternoon. Love What I love about Fox is the

800
00:38:49,680 --> 00:38:53,320
Speaker 1: afternoon kickoffs. The noon kickoffs. What I love less about

801
00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:56,880
Speaker 1: Fox but still no ill will. But you know, there

802
00:38:56,920 --> 00:38:58,879
Speaker 1: are other times that you could push your stage down

803
00:38:58,920 --> 00:39:02,520
Speaker 1: the sideline. Have to be in a five minute postgame him. Luckily,

804
00:39:02,920 --> 00:39:05,200
Speaker 1: it did end up producing an Eyejosh Video of the

805
00:39:05,280 --> 00:39:08,239
Speaker 1: Year nominee and copious shout outs to a network that

806
00:39:08,280 --> 00:39:11,000
Speaker 1: I don't work for. Moving right along, two more, here

807
00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:14,640
Speaker 1: boy gets serious in a hurry. November twenty seventh, Cade

808
00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:18,200
Speaker 1: McNamara looks down fieled to Cornelius Johnson Michigan. The catch

809
00:39:18,320 --> 00:39:21,040
Speaker 1: inside the five yard line sets up a first and goal.

810
00:39:21,280 --> 00:39:23,960
Speaker 1: Michigan's gonna punch it in, Michigan's gonna go on to

811
00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:26,680
Speaker 1: beat Ohio State. But that's not what makes this a

812
00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:30,040
Speaker 1: Video of the Year nominee. It's a snow throw. Cornelius

813
00:39:30,120 --> 00:39:32,760
Speaker 1: Johnson hits the ground at the three, he slides about

814
00:39:32,760 --> 00:39:35,480
Speaker 1: ten yards into the end zone. That is a classic

815
00:39:35,560 --> 00:39:38,920
Speaker 1: snow throw situation. Now, the same time this was happening,

816
00:39:39,320 --> 00:39:41,239
Speaker 1: Jesse's Pen State and Nidney Lions were up the road

817
00:39:41,239 --> 00:39:43,759
Speaker 1: in East Lancing and it was a pure white out there.

818
00:39:44,120 --> 00:39:45,880
Speaker 1: We got the front end of the snow when we

819
00:39:45,880 --> 00:39:49,120
Speaker 1: were in ann Arbor. They got inundated with it in

820
00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:52,239
Speaker 1: East Lansing. But this was where I was at. And

821
00:39:52,280 --> 00:39:54,720
Speaker 1: so this is a Video of the Year nominee, because

822
00:39:54,719 --> 00:39:57,520
Speaker 1: how many times do you have to watch a guy

823
00:39:57,640 --> 00:39:59,880
Speaker 1: slide ten to fifteen yards after a catch for it

824
00:39:59,880 --> 00:40:03,120
Speaker 1: to get old. Answer, There is no limit. That's Lindsay

825
00:40:03,160 --> 00:40:05,640
Speaker 1: Lohan and mean girls. The limit does not exist. That

826
00:40:05,680 --> 00:40:09,040
Speaker 1: was a beautiful situation there. So that was one video

827
00:40:09,080 --> 00:40:13,040
Speaker 1: from that afternoon. But then at halftime, what happened. What

828
00:40:13,200 --> 00:40:15,799
Speaker 1: happened is I get up the tunnel early. A because

829
00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:18,040
Speaker 1: I'm freezing, B because I know there's food up there,

830
00:40:18,400 --> 00:40:22,000
Speaker 1: and C because there is a shared tunnel at Michigan Stadium,

831
00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:24,600
Speaker 1: kind of like the Cotton Bowl with OU in Texas. Now,

832
00:40:24,640 --> 00:40:26,960
Speaker 1: nothing happened at OU Texas, but I always know in

833
00:40:27,000 --> 00:40:31,200
Speaker 1: these older stadiums, if we're sharing the same tunnel, then

834
00:40:31,200 --> 00:40:33,880
Speaker 1: that means both teams have to walk up the same tunnel.

835
00:40:34,120 --> 00:40:36,200
Speaker 1: And if both teams are walking up the same tunnel

836
00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:39,759
Speaker 1: and they hate each other at a cellular level, it

837
00:40:39,840 --> 00:40:42,879
Speaker 1: always means there's a chance that something could happen. So

838
00:40:42,920 --> 00:40:46,040
Speaker 1: I went up the tunnel early, and here come the teams,

839
00:40:46,480 --> 00:40:48,319
Speaker 1: and I got the eye josh there in one hand.

840
00:40:48,320 --> 00:40:49,560
Speaker 1: I think I had a hot dog in the other.

841
00:40:50,080 --> 00:40:52,560
Speaker 1: Never put the hot dog down, by the way. But

842
00:40:53,200 --> 00:40:56,320
Speaker 1: Ohio State came up the tunnel first and then Michigan

843
00:40:56,400 --> 00:40:59,799
Speaker 1: comes up the tunnel and this breaks out. So again

844
00:40:59,800 --> 00:41:01,840
Speaker 1: you're by Boy hot Dog in the left hand, I

845
00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:04,920
Speaker 1: Josh in the right hand. I just hit record and

846
00:41:05,000 --> 00:41:07,480
Speaker 1: I rolled on it, and we got somebody going Stone Colt,

847
00:41:07,520 --> 00:41:10,840
Speaker 1: Steve Austin, double bird there, and we've got staffers in

848
00:41:10,840 --> 00:41:13,960
Speaker 1: the middle. What is great and poignant about this moment?

849
00:41:14,160 --> 00:41:17,320
Speaker 1: As these two teams border on fisticuffs, as me Ma

850
00:41:17,440 --> 00:41:20,080
Speaker 1: would say in the tunnel outside of the locker room says,

851
00:41:20,320 --> 00:41:23,880
Speaker 1: the refs are blowing the whistles. You know, Oh the

852
00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:25,960
Speaker 1: shame of it all that those guys didn't break it

853
00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:28,279
Speaker 1: up once the whistles got blown. No flags were thrown

854
00:41:28,280 --> 00:41:29,920
Speaker 1: in the tunnel. But here's what was great about it.

855
00:41:29,960 --> 00:41:32,200
Speaker 1: I just mentioned Fox a second ago. This is another

856
00:41:32,200 --> 00:41:34,759
Speaker 1: Fox game. They had to hit your boy up for

857
00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:37,160
Speaker 1: the footage because they didn't have a camera up the tunnel.

858
00:41:37,200 --> 00:41:39,520
Speaker 1: I was happy to oblige. I didn't charge them, like

859
00:41:39,840 --> 00:41:42,240
Speaker 1: in storm chasing. A lot of times when we shoot

860
00:41:42,320 --> 00:41:45,000
Speaker 1: video of tornadoes and all the news agencies ask for

861
00:41:45,040 --> 00:41:48,120
Speaker 1: the footage and people say, make him pay you. I'm good.

862
00:41:48,640 --> 00:41:50,719
Speaker 1: I'm good as you can tell. I live well within

863
00:41:50,760 --> 00:41:53,080
Speaker 1: my me not only fifty bucks for a video. So

864
00:41:53,160 --> 00:41:56,040
Speaker 1: we gave the video to Fox and every other person

865
00:41:56,080 --> 00:42:00,000
Speaker 1: who asked for it. But this was not seen on TVs.

866
00:42:00,040 --> 00:42:02,080
Speaker 1: See you guys are at break, you guys are watching

867
00:42:02,480 --> 00:42:05,239
Speaker 1: studio halftime coverage, or you're making yourself a sandwich and

868
00:42:05,280 --> 00:42:08,600
Speaker 1: you're watching another game. This is why you always position

869
00:42:08,680 --> 00:42:10,920
Speaker 1: yourself up those shared tunnels. Look at that both of

870
00:42:11,000 --> 00:42:15,520
Speaker 1: those teams in that tight, confined space. And remember after

871
00:42:15,560 --> 00:42:19,319
Speaker 1: this happened, I stopped rolling, but Harball got into it

872
00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:22,799
Speaker 1: pretty animated with one of the officials because he was

873
00:42:22,800 --> 00:42:24,320
Speaker 1: trying to talk about how it was a fifty to

874
00:42:24,320 --> 00:42:26,920
Speaker 1: fifty deal. It was both teams, Harball saying, no, it wasn't.

875
00:42:27,520 --> 00:42:29,280
Speaker 1: They're not even in their locker room when they're supposed

876
00:42:29,280 --> 00:42:31,400
Speaker 1: to be. I wish I would have shot that. I didn't.

877
00:42:31,680 --> 00:42:34,319
Speaker 1: So those are the eleven Eye Josh Video of the

878
00:42:34,360 --> 00:42:38,640
Speaker 1: Year finalist. Now, if you're just watching on YouTube, what

879
00:42:38,719 --> 00:42:41,080
Speaker 1: would you guess? What would you vote for as being

880
00:42:41,080 --> 00:42:43,000
Speaker 1: the video of the year. There because I put it

881
00:42:43,080 --> 00:42:45,040
Speaker 1: up to you, guys, I put it up to a vote.

882
00:42:45,120 --> 00:42:47,600
Speaker 1: I have my choice, and my choice is not the

883
00:42:47,680 --> 00:42:50,200
Speaker 1: choice that won. So just like the theme music on

884
00:42:50,239 --> 00:42:54,040
Speaker 1: this show my wishes were not granted because your wishes

885
00:42:54,360 --> 00:42:58,239
Speaker 1: were it went. You just went another direction. I don't

886
00:42:58,239 --> 00:42:59,920
Speaker 1: know what else to say. I didn't expect you to

887
00:42:59,920 --> 00:43:03,000
Speaker 1: go the direction you went. The winner of the Ijosh

888
00:43:03,040 --> 00:43:06,000
Speaker 1: Video of the Year was the game from November sixth.

889
00:43:06,440 --> 00:43:09,920
Speaker 1: It was Auburn at Texas A and M. It's nothing complex.

890
00:43:10,160 --> 00:43:12,960
Speaker 1: It's as simple as the Aggie war him and it's

891
00:43:13,000 --> 00:43:15,439
Speaker 1: as simple as this scene. Colin. You can full screen

892
00:43:15,440 --> 00:43:16,880
Speaker 1: it till the volume up for a second if you

893
00:43:16,880 --> 00:43:33,879
Speaker 1: want to look at that sea of humanity. Though now

894
00:43:33,920 --> 00:43:36,520
Speaker 1: I know that upset some of you because you saw

895
00:43:36,560 --> 00:43:38,960
Speaker 1: the borderline fight and the tunnel. You saw Lane Kiffin

896
00:43:39,080 --> 00:43:42,520
Speaker 1: one hand, the Dessani bottle, maybe Aquafina. I don't know.

897
00:43:42,520 --> 00:43:45,000
Speaker 1: I don't want to play favorites. But that's what won.

898
00:43:45,160 --> 00:43:47,680
Speaker 1: And you know why it won because Texas A and

899
00:43:47,800 --> 00:43:51,000
Speaker 1: M fans in some ways resemble a social media army,

900
00:43:51,160 --> 00:43:53,279
Speaker 1: and when they set their minds to doing something like

901
00:43:53,320 --> 00:43:55,799
Speaker 1: winning an Eye Josh Video of the Year poll, they

902
00:43:55,840 --> 00:43:59,239
Speaker 1: do it. And so congratulations Gigham, our folks out in

903
00:43:59,280 --> 00:44:02,200
Speaker 1: College station and beyond Texas A and M. The video

904
00:44:02,239 --> 00:44:05,680
Speaker 1: of the Year. I would send you a chalice of supremacy.

905
00:44:06,600 --> 00:44:08,759
Speaker 1: I don't really know that Jimbo wants it right now.

906
00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:11,799
Speaker 1: I don't know any one of you well enough. Well,

907
00:44:11,800 --> 00:44:13,120
Speaker 1: I do know a few of you. I don't know

908
00:44:13,160 --> 00:44:14,680
Speaker 1: which one of you I would send the chalice too.

909
00:44:14,880 --> 00:44:16,879
Speaker 1: But congratulations Texas, A and M. That was a really,

910
00:44:16,920 --> 00:44:20,160
Speaker 1: really fun deal. We will only enhance that experience this

911
00:44:20,280 --> 00:44:22,960
Speaker 1: upcoming year. All right, a couple of things that I

912
00:44:22,960 --> 00:44:24,160
Speaker 1: wanted to get to. I wanted to get to a

913
00:44:24,200 --> 00:44:26,840
Speaker 1: couple of Q and a's question and answer before we

914
00:44:26,880 --> 00:44:29,480
Speaker 1: get out of here. So we had two questions and

915
00:44:29,560 --> 00:44:31,520
Speaker 1: the first one was about Arizona State. And I didn't

916
00:44:31,520 --> 00:44:33,640
Speaker 1: touch on this the other night, so we do need

917
00:44:33,680 --> 00:44:36,080
Speaker 1: to get back to this, all right. So here's the question.

918
00:44:36,680 --> 00:44:40,520
Speaker 1: The question from Greg said, will coach HERM Edwards survive

919
00:44:40,680 --> 00:44:44,040
Speaker 1: everything happening at Arizona State. Some of you may not

920
00:44:44,120 --> 00:44:46,239
Speaker 1: be paying attention to what's happening out there. Remember going

921
00:44:46,280 --> 00:44:49,400
Speaker 1: into the year, there was that big NCAA scandal that broke,

922
00:44:49,760 --> 00:44:51,840
Speaker 1: and it looked for all the world like it was

923
00:44:51,880 --> 00:44:54,440
Speaker 1: just a matter of time before that entire staff was

924
00:44:54,440 --> 00:44:57,520
Speaker 1: out of there. They were doing all kinds of things

925
00:44:57,640 --> 00:45:00,600
Speaker 1: during the COVID dead period, that you weren't supposed to

926
00:45:00,600 --> 00:45:05,600
Speaker 1: be doing reportedly, reportedly investigations ongoing. Well, since then, a

927
00:45:05,640 --> 00:45:08,240
Speaker 1: football season has passed and there's been a lot of turnover.

928
00:45:08,280 --> 00:45:10,239
Speaker 1: But HERM Edwards, as you see on the screen there,

929
00:45:10,480 --> 00:45:12,359
Speaker 1: he is still as of the moment, the head coach

930
00:45:12,680 --> 00:45:15,040
Speaker 1: at Arizona State. Well, something kind of weird happened the

931
00:45:15,040 --> 00:45:19,480
Speaker 1: other day out in Phoenix, and that is Arizona State President.

932
00:45:19,719 --> 00:45:23,359
Speaker 1: Michael Crowe goes on, I want to get it right.

933
00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:26,600
Speaker 1: Ninety eight seven FM out in Phoenix, and he did

934
00:45:26,680 --> 00:45:30,719
Speaker 1: something that is well, it's taboo because of an investigation

935
00:45:30,800 --> 00:45:33,279
Speaker 1: still going on. He made public comments during an investigation.

936
00:45:33,960 --> 00:45:37,759
Speaker 1: And so here was his quote. Again, this is not

937
00:45:37,800 --> 00:45:40,480
Speaker 1: a lookie Lou. You know, this is not a street walker.

938
00:45:40,600 --> 00:45:43,920
Speaker 1: This is the president of the university during an ongoing investigation.

939
00:45:44,719 --> 00:45:47,840
Speaker 1: Michael Crowe had this to say on ninety eight seven.

940
00:45:48,440 --> 00:45:50,520
Speaker 1: We got this group of people that decided not to

941
00:45:50,520 --> 00:45:53,560
Speaker 1: play by the rules relative to recruiting. So we'll be

942
00:45:53,640 --> 00:45:55,840
Speaker 1: looking at how we can make improvements and so forth

943
00:45:55,840 --> 00:45:59,680
Speaker 1: and so on. Caveat this. I've got something to say

944
00:45:59,680 --> 00:46:03,719
Speaker 1: about this, he continues. Coach Edwards is responsible for the

945
00:46:03,760 --> 00:46:07,760
Speaker 1: actions of all his people. But these are not things

946
00:46:07,800 --> 00:46:11,000
Speaker 1: that he asked them to do. These are not things

947
00:46:11,160 --> 00:46:13,680
Speaker 1: that he was a part of. So we're looking at

948
00:46:13,680 --> 00:46:17,319
Speaker 1: everything possible. As I was reading that, I felt like

949
00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:19,920
Speaker 1: I was doing an impression of Bill Clement's former governor

950
00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:23,480
Speaker 1: of Texas during the thirty for thirty Pony Excess documentary.

951
00:46:24,200 --> 00:46:26,640
Speaker 1: We got this group of people that decided not to

952
00:46:26,640 --> 00:46:28,440
Speaker 1: play by the rules, or as he would call it,

953
00:46:28,640 --> 00:46:31,920
Speaker 1: monkey business back in the day. But this was the

954
00:46:31,960 --> 00:46:34,560
Speaker 1: president of the university here who went on the record,

955
00:46:34,960 --> 00:46:39,319
Speaker 1: as I said, during an ongoing investigation. That's why that's surprising.

956
00:46:40,320 --> 00:46:44,520
Speaker 1: But also here's why it's surprising. In another vein reportedly,

957
00:46:44,600 --> 00:46:47,799
Speaker 1: and when I say reportedly, I mean multiple very reputable

958
00:46:47,880 --> 00:46:52,120
Speaker 1: people close to the situation have reported her Madwards was

959
00:46:52,160 --> 00:46:57,240
Speaker 1: not a bystander. According to reports, he met directly, face

960
00:46:57,320 --> 00:46:59,360
Speaker 1: to face, me and you in the same room with

961
00:46:59,520 --> 00:47:02,600
Speaker 1: these kids during that dead period. So not only were

962
00:47:02,600 --> 00:47:06,040
Speaker 1: some of his staffers facilitating it, they were facilitating it

963
00:47:06,200 --> 00:47:08,560
Speaker 1: in a sense that they said him, here, coach is

964
00:47:08,600 --> 00:47:10,920
Speaker 1: ready for you. Coach here he is. This is Jimmy

965
00:47:11,200 --> 00:47:13,719
Speaker 1: four star from Tempe. Here you want to meet him? Yeah,

966
00:47:13,760 --> 00:47:17,680
Speaker 1: Jake Hans, we talk that is, that's a little bit

967
00:47:17,719 --> 00:47:20,200
Speaker 1: more involved than the old president's letting on. So either

968
00:47:20,200 --> 00:47:23,960
Speaker 1: those reports are wrong or the president's wrong here. Also

969
00:47:24,320 --> 00:47:26,880
Speaker 1: what makes this puzzling, as I said, is the investigation

970
00:47:27,000 --> 00:47:29,000
Speaker 1: is ongoing, and there have been a lot of other

971
00:47:29,080 --> 00:47:31,680
Speaker 1: dump buttons hit on this staff, So there have been

972
00:47:31,719 --> 00:47:34,200
Speaker 1: a lot of heads that have already rolled. Herm Edwards

973
00:47:34,440 --> 00:47:37,280
Speaker 1: his head has not rolled yet. And the President also

974
00:47:37,440 --> 00:47:40,640
Speaker 1: said they may be over a year away from the

975
00:47:40,719 --> 00:47:45,200
Speaker 1: NCAA investigation. Concluding his words, I think were it moves

976
00:47:45,200 --> 00:47:48,840
Speaker 1: at a glacial pace, which is an entire separate segment

977
00:47:49,080 --> 00:47:53,480
Speaker 1: by how insane it is the sloth like speed at

978
00:47:53,520 --> 00:47:57,000
Speaker 1: which some of these NCUBA investigations move. But that's again,

979
00:47:57,040 --> 00:47:59,160
Speaker 1: like I said, it's whole other story. So where I

980
00:47:59,200 --> 00:48:03,239
Speaker 1: am right now in Arizona State is I don't think HERM.

981
00:48:03,400 --> 00:48:06,040
Speaker 1: Edwards will survive this when it's done. I don't know

982
00:48:06,080 --> 00:48:07,640
Speaker 1: when it's going to be done. They don't know when

983
00:48:07,640 --> 00:48:09,480
Speaker 1: it's going to be done, and c DOAA doesn't know

984
00:48:09,520 --> 00:48:11,120
Speaker 1: when it's going to be done. So the whole theme

985
00:48:11,160 --> 00:48:13,160
Speaker 1: around this thing is no one really knows anything. It

986
00:48:13,280 --> 00:48:15,239
Speaker 1: just as it turns out, ends up being the case

987
00:48:15,280 --> 00:48:17,160
Speaker 1: that the default is going to be Herm Edwards is

988
00:48:17,239 --> 00:48:20,279
Speaker 1: keeping his job there as opposed to believing reports and

989
00:48:20,360 --> 00:48:22,799
Speaker 1: just going ahead and moving on it. But doesn't sound

990
00:48:22,800 --> 00:48:24,279
Speaker 1: like they're ready to make any kind of move yet,

991
00:48:24,400 --> 00:48:26,200
Speaker 1: at least on the head coaching front. So that's the

992
00:48:26,280 --> 00:48:29,440
Speaker 1: very latest out of Arizona State. We had another question

993
00:48:29,520 --> 00:48:30,960
Speaker 1: that I wanted to get to right before the end

994
00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:33,840
Speaker 1: of the show. Here question from Caleb. He said, what

995
00:48:33,920 --> 00:48:36,719
Speaker 1: are your takeaways from the recent Brian Kelly presser and

996
00:48:36,760 --> 00:48:40,400
Speaker 1: his new staff. We didn't play any sound from it earlier,

997
00:48:40,640 --> 00:48:43,480
Speaker 1: but Brian Kelly and members of his staff, they finally

998
00:48:43,760 --> 00:48:45,840
Speaker 1: met with the media because he's finally got his staff

999
00:48:45,840 --> 00:48:49,200
Speaker 1: put together. And I know that a lot of folks

1000
00:48:49,400 --> 00:48:52,000
Speaker 1: who have given their thoughts on Brian Kelly and LSU

1001
00:48:52,400 --> 00:48:54,480
Speaker 1: they've said, I just don't know if he's going to

1002
00:48:54,520 --> 00:48:56,520
Speaker 1: be a good fit. And as I've told you before,

1003
00:48:56,960 --> 00:48:59,239
Speaker 1: I don't care what I accent he talks with. I

1004
00:48:59,239 --> 00:49:03,919
Speaker 1: don't care how much dances and videos. That's foolishness, it's nonsense.

1005
00:49:04,239 --> 00:49:07,839
Speaker 1: It's so trivial. That's you know, that's clickbait stuff that's

1006
00:49:07,920 --> 00:49:11,360
Speaker 1: there for aggregation purposes. It has nothing to do with football.

1007
00:49:11,680 --> 00:49:14,359
Speaker 1: That guy knows how to win. Like it says there

1008
00:49:14,360 --> 00:49:17,279
Speaker 1: on the crossbar, he knows how to win. So where

1009
00:49:17,320 --> 00:49:19,400
Speaker 1: I'm ready to go is I'm ready to go and

1010
00:49:19,440 --> 00:49:22,080
Speaker 1: see how this staff translates. You're looking at a lot

1011
00:49:22,080 --> 00:49:24,239
Speaker 1: of them right now, and you heard from a lot

1012
00:49:24,280 --> 00:49:27,000
Speaker 1: of them down in LSU over the past twenty four hours,

1013
00:49:27,000 --> 00:49:30,520
Speaker 1: forty eight hours. Fit I'm not worried about. What I

1014
00:49:30,600 --> 00:49:33,239
Speaker 1: do want to know is how long will it take

1015
00:49:33,239 --> 00:49:36,920
Speaker 1: this roster rebuild. I was listening to Cooper Protegna with

1016
00:49:37,320 --> 00:49:39,720
Speaker 1: Blair and Gulo on the twenty four seven Sports Recruiting

1017
00:49:39,719 --> 00:49:43,080
Speaker 1: podcast today, I believe it was, and they were talking

1018
00:49:43,120 --> 00:49:45,880
Speaker 1: about how you know this is not a ground up rebuild,

1019
00:49:45,880 --> 00:49:48,560
Speaker 1: but it is a rebuild. There's some roster deficiencies here,

1020
00:49:48,600 --> 00:49:51,239
Speaker 1: so don't think that this is just come in and

1021
00:49:51,360 --> 00:49:53,160
Speaker 1: plug in the cord and boom, We're ready to go.

1022
00:49:53,200 --> 00:49:55,520
Speaker 1: You got to charge a little bit. So they've already

1023
00:49:55,600 --> 00:49:58,240
Speaker 1: gone about things in the transfer portal in a way

1024
00:49:58,320 --> 00:50:01,000
Speaker 1: that they're tactical with the brought some kids in that

1025
00:50:01,200 --> 00:50:04,680
Speaker 1: maybe are from Louisiana but didn't initially get LSU offers

1026
00:50:04,719 --> 00:50:07,359
Speaker 1: that now get to come back home that's strategy, and

1027
00:50:07,400 --> 00:50:09,799
Speaker 1: it's not the worst approach in the world. There are

1028
00:50:09,880 --> 00:50:12,800
Speaker 1: some deficiencies here, oh, line, lineback, and there's some deficiency.

1029
00:50:12,880 --> 00:50:15,160
Speaker 1: I'm not going to go down the lift, but how

1030
00:50:15,239 --> 00:50:19,080
Speaker 1: quickly can they do that simultaneously? How quickly can they

1031
00:50:19,160 --> 00:50:21,560
Speaker 1: really hit the ground running just on the recruiting trail

1032
00:50:21,600 --> 00:50:23,960
Speaker 1: in general, not the portal, but just in high school.

1033
00:50:24,080 --> 00:50:26,319
Speaker 1: Because that goes back to the staff he's hired. He

1034
00:50:26,360 --> 00:50:28,680
Speaker 1: didn't do it within the snap of a finger, but

1035
00:50:28,840 --> 00:50:31,399
Speaker 1: he put together a pretty good staff and he got

1036
00:50:31,440 --> 00:50:34,360
Speaker 1: guys who, like I said earlier, they have a mix

1037
00:50:34,480 --> 00:50:37,880
Speaker 1: of pro experience, they have a mix of SEC experience,

1038
00:50:37,920 --> 00:50:41,160
Speaker 1: but they also have enough national flavor about that staff.

1039
00:50:41,320 --> 00:50:43,240
Speaker 1: And they got, you know, a guy like Brian Pollion

1040
00:50:44,160 --> 00:50:46,920
Speaker 1: was I think a really integral He's a higher that

1041
00:50:47,000 --> 00:50:50,800
Speaker 1: everyone at LSU's talking about. If you live in Casper, Wyoming,

1042
00:50:50,800 --> 00:50:52,920
Speaker 1: you're probably not talking about him as much. But he's

1043
00:50:52,960 --> 00:50:54,520
Speaker 1: going to be a very very important part. He's not

1044
00:50:54,560 --> 00:50:56,320
Speaker 1: going to be a name you here every day nationally,

1045
00:50:56,600 --> 00:51:00,200
Speaker 1: but Brian Polian is the special teams coordinator, but he's

1046
00:51:00,239 --> 00:51:03,000
Speaker 1: the recruiting coordinator down there. He's a guy who knows

1047
00:51:03,040 --> 00:51:05,840
Speaker 1: how to identify talent, and it was very, very crucial

1048
00:51:06,040 --> 00:51:08,319
Speaker 1: that Brian Kelly got him to come along. While all

1049
00:51:08,320 --> 00:51:10,759
Speaker 1: the headlines were talking about the staffers from Notre Dame

1050
00:51:10,800 --> 00:51:14,239
Speaker 1: that didn't follow Kelly. Pollyon is a very important name

1051
00:51:14,320 --> 00:51:16,600
Speaker 1: to monitor that did come with him. But it's a

1052
00:51:16,600 --> 00:51:20,760
Speaker 1: really good mixture on the coaching staff. Jamar Kain, for example,

1053
00:51:21,120 --> 00:51:23,680
Speaker 1: is a guy who was at Oklahoma with Lincoln Riley

1054
00:51:23,960 --> 00:51:26,680
Speaker 1: and then went to USC for a second. And the

1055
00:51:26,719 --> 00:51:31,040
Speaker 1: headlines were, well, Lincoln Riley chose USC over LSU. Maybe

1056
00:51:31,080 --> 00:51:35,919
Speaker 1: he did. There is that little point of interest there

1057
00:51:36,120 --> 00:51:38,600
Speaker 1: and that Jamar kin obviously had his choice and he

1058
00:51:38,680 --> 00:51:41,320
Speaker 1: chose LSU. And so he's down there. They got a

1059
00:51:41,320 --> 00:51:43,120
Speaker 1: lot of they got a lot of work to do.

1060
00:51:43,520 --> 00:51:45,400
Speaker 1: I think they have the workers on the staff to

1061
00:51:45,400 --> 00:51:48,080
Speaker 1: do it. So I listened to the press conferences. I

1062
00:51:48,080 --> 00:51:51,000
Speaker 1: don't really ever get much out of press conferences. It's

1063
00:51:51,040 --> 00:51:55,080
Speaker 1: more validation than anything. But I'm excited. I'm excited because

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Speaker 1: whether you set a win loss bar as a measure

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Speaker 1: to care probably every bit as much about how they're

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Speaker 1: doing off the field as I will how they're doing

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Speaker 1: on the field in twenty twenty two, and then moving forward. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: once they get on equal footing with the Bamas and

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Speaker 1: A and ms of the world, then it's time to go.

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Speaker 1: But I'll tell you what the most important rivalry that

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Speaker 1: the nation won't be talking about a lot is it's

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Speaker 1: A and MLSU. Bama's not going anywhere, but A and

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Speaker 1: M and LSU recruit the same kids, and they're in

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Speaker 1: the same division, and they play at the end of

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Speaker 1: the year every year. Right now, it's already a fierce rivalry.

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Speaker 1: It's underrated nationally, but now it ramps up a little

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Speaker 1: bit more house everybody wants the same thing. In the West.

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Speaker 1: Auburn wants it, Arkansas wants it, Ole miss they just

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Speaker 1: won ten games. They want it. LSU wants it. They

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Speaker 1: just made a change because they didn't have it. Bama's

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Speaker 1: got it, A and M thinks they're well on their

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Speaker 1: way to having it. Farn't enough wins to go around.

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Speaker 1: I didn't even mention the Georgia's and Floridas and Tennessee

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Speaker 1: lot of these folks play each other every year. AMMLSU

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Speaker 1: were among them going to be a really, really hotly

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Speaker 1: contested rivalry. To keep your eye on Brian Kelly, the

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Speaker 1: Brian Kelly era at LSU. Just it's the reason why

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Speaker 1: we don't say the word season because you could never

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Speaker 1: have seen that coming two years ago. You can never

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Speaker 1: have seen it coming five months ago, and yet here

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Speaker 1: we are when we don't take any months off dose.

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Speaker 1: The sport never ends. Appreciate you guys being tuned in.

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Speaker 1: Make sure you like the video, subscribe to the YouTube channel,

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Speaker 1: and five star reviews on the podcast front is all

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Speaker 1: we as. Thank you so much for watching. Have yourselves

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Speaker 1: a great early start to the weekend. For director Colin,

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Speaker 1: for producer Jesse, for all of our production executives, I'm Josh, babe.

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Speaker 1: We'll see you Sunday night. Until then, take care mcgoblins