WEBVTT - Message Board Madness 0:00:02.160 --> 0:00:06.880 Welcome to the solid verbal call that for me, I'm 0:00:06.880 --> 0:00:09.560 a man, I'm for I've heard so many players say, 0:00:09.600 --> 0:00:11.640 well I want to be happy, you want to be happy? 0:00:11.640 --> 0:00:16.000 For Dake, Edith Steak is that woo woom? And Dan 0:00:16.360 --> 0:00:17.080 and Tie. 0:00:18.840 --> 0:00:22.000 Welcome back to these solid verbal boys and girls. My 0:00:22.120 --> 0:00:24.239 name is Ty Hill Neebrandt. That fine gentleman over there 0:00:24.320 --> 0:00:29.960 is always the one, the only still being comparable. Dan Rubenstein, Sir, 0:00:30.000 --> 0:00:31.560 Welcome back to the show How Goes It? 0:00:31.920 --> 0:00:34.240 Because really, well, this is one of my favorite annual 0:00:34.280 --> 0:00:40.879 episodes that we do. Because what is more college football 0:00:41.159 --> 0:00:43.680 than what we are going to do today? What is 0:00:44.120 --> 0:00:49.479 more uh evident of the insanity that college football brings 0:00:49.560 --> 0:00:54.040 upon people's brains than one listening to a college football 0:00:54.080 --> 0:00:58.240 podcast in early May and two listening to a college 0:00:58.240 --> 0:01:03.680 football podcast in early May about the funniest, weirdest, most 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:06.839 oddball message board posts. And this is these are message 0:01:06.880 --> 0:01:11.080 boards posts that are relatively recently Yes, costed correct. I 0:01:11.120 --> 0:01:13.480 love this episode so very much. It's the essence of 0:01:13.520 --> 0:01:15.120 the sport. It truly is. 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:17.520 We did a bonus episode out on our Patreon it 0:01:17.560 --> 0:01:19.400 for ballers dot com. This is not so much a 0:01:19.440 --> 0:01:24.040 plug as it is just a comment, yeah on Thursday 0:01:24.400 --> 0:01:27.400 where you pose the question or somebody posed the question 0:01:28.840 --> 0:01:31.360 asking what is college football made of? Of all the 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:35.880 other elements of sport in the United States, around the world, 0:01:36.440 --> 0:01:39.240 elements of pop culture, business, you name it, like, what 0:01:39.360 --> 0:01:41.919 are all of the bits and pieces that make college 0:01:41.920 --> 0:01:45.800 football unique? And we ended up having a longer discussion 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:53.280 about basically this, this subculture of college football fandom that 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:55.360 dabbles in conspiracies. 0:01:56.120 --> 0:01:59.240 Sure, some more so than others, dip some toes. 0:01:59.360 --> 0:02:02.240 It is all kind of mixed together into this weird 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:07.040 brew that we imbibe on a nearly weekly basis. Here 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:10.440 on the Solid Verbal College Football Podcast, today we are 0:02:10.480 --> 0:02:13.720 going to talk through some message board postings that have 0:02:13.800 --> 0:02:16.799 been put out there into the world by our good 0:02:16.800 --> 0:02:20.239 friends over at message board Geniuses. They are on Twitter 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:22.880 at board Geniuses. We are not taking credit for any 0:02:23.000 --> 0:02:26.200 of their walk We are merely piggybacking on it. 0:02:26.880 --> 0:02:30.640 We are aggregating their aggregation, are we not, and celebrating it? 0:02:30.760 --> 0:02:30.959 Yes? 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:33.880 So yeah, this is aggregation inception and one of the 0:02:33.880 --> 0:02:36.280 great things we should note at the top here is 0:02:36.720 --> 0:02:39.440 on any college football message board that you will ever 0:02:39.480 --> 0:02:43.400 come across, you will see topics that are like what 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:46.200 do we think of this defensive coordinator? Or what game 0:02:46.280 --> 0:02:50.320 scares you the most? Or is recruiting gonna take a 0:02:50.360 --> 0:02:52.760 step up in July, you know, like every sort of 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:56.799 micro issue or topic within team fandom. But then there's 0:02:57.200 --> 0:02:59.680 there are other adjacent boards. And I'm explaining to this 0:02:59.800 --> 0:03:01.200 to I don't know the four of you who have 0:03:01.240 --> 0:03:03.280 never come across a college football message board but are 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:05.880 listening to a college football podcast. Correct somehow that ven 0:03:05.960 --> 0:03:08.920 diagram and there's just like a tiny little sliver, but 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:10.800 there's always going to be Like I think they're usually 0:03:10.840 --> 0:03:13.480 called ot boards, right, the off topic boards, and there's 0:03:13.520 --> 0:03:17.880 like politics or family or food, and then there is 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:22.000 something about college football fandom. And there's so much emotion 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:26.639 in the connective tissue between fans that people feel comfortable 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:29.680 bouncing things off of each other, like you feel a 0:03:29.760 --> 0:03:33.520 rapport with this digital community. This is not me looking 0:03:33.520 --> 0:03:36.320 down at all. I actually think it's healthy to find 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:40.280 community in person, preferable, I would say, but digital community 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:43.200 can also be quite valuable. And you will just see 0:03:43.240 --> 0:03:47.080 posts like hey, quick question, what does anybody here do 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:51.040 about like particularly aggressive toe fungus? Like and it's just 0:03:51.080 --> 0:03:54.280 like throwing out personal stuff, thrown out things that you 0:03:54.320 --> 0:03:57.040 wouldn't think that would like come up on a college 0:03:57.040 --> 0:03:59.960 football message board, and then you'll get responses like, hey, 0:04:00.040 --> 0:04:02.400 if you go to Walgreens, look for this and like 0:04:02.760 --> 0:04:05.320 trust it, or like my doctor actually said you need 0:04:05.360 --> 0:04:08.200 to go see a specialist. And like everybody's very earnest 0:04:08.280 --> 0:04:11.160 on these boards and all of these posts that we're 0:04:11.160 --> 0:04:14.640 going to go through college football and otherwise I believe 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:18.719 actually like come from a pretty earnest place. Because it's April, 0:04:18.880 --> 0:04:23.120 it's March, it's May. There's nobody trolling, nobody who has 0:04:23.600 --> 0:04:27.359 the uh, the wherewithal to say. This is when I 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:30.400 go on and make something up completely ridiculous in May, 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:33.680 like the emotions get the best people in September. But 0:04:33.800 --> 0:04:37.479 right now, this is what's really truly weighing on people's minds. 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:39.800 These are the true believers that are posting in in 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:43.440 early May, and I love it. Throughout the month of April, 0:04:43.480 --> 0:04:45.960 we've joked on this show more times than I could 0:04:45.960 --> 0:04:50.320 ever count how this is the especially dead period of 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:53.840 college football, right after the draft, before before we start 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:57.599 getting into you know, scheduled previews and the summer months 0:04:57.600 --> 0:05:00.240 when things really start to pick up. Right about now 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:04.599 is that soft underbelly of college football content where frankly 0:05:04.640 --> 0:05:07.200 it's a show like this or an interview or nothing 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:10.240 else because there just isn't news. Thankfully, it's good to 0:05:10.279 --> 0:05:12.400 get a little bit of a reprieve from the news. 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:15.240 It feels like every time we open up our phones 0:05:15.279 --> 0:05:18.760 these days, there is something new that maybe troubles us 0:05:19.080 --> 0:05:22.000 on the college football front, be it roster construction in 0:05:22.040 --> 0:05:26.000 one place, or rules in another, lawsuits, lawsuits. 0:05:26.200 --> 0:05:27.000 The purpose of. 0:05:26.960 --> 0:05:30.679 Today is to dabble in none of that stuff, well, 0:05:30.800 --> 0:05:34.359 tangentially perhaps, Yeah, of course, But we're going to go 0:05:34.360 --> 0:05:37.080 through some of these again message board postings that have 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:39.760 been brought to light by our good friends over at 0:05:39.800 --> 0:05:43.000 board Geniuses. Go and check them out on Twitter. Okay, 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:46.240 before we go any further, hit follow, hit subscribe wherever 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:49.400 it is you are consuming this podcast. It helps Dan 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:52.320 and I grow the show, and one more time over 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:54.560 bowlers dot com. That is our Patreon where you can 0:05:54.600 --> 0:05:58.600 get add free episodes, bonus content, access to our community 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:04.600 out on Discord, and much much more. Dan, Yes, shall 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:11.320 we dive in? So you're telling me there's a chance, Yeah, Yeah, 0:06:11.360 --> 0:06:17.480 all right, Yes, what are we hiding? What are we hiding? 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:20.320 A Florida fan wants to know what Billy Napier is hiding. 0:06:20.520 --> 0:06:26.560 Oh yeah, was rewatching Ted Lasso and got to the 0:06:26.600 --> 0:06:30.960 episode where he lets the fans start attending practice after 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:34.120 two seasons of hiding practices, And I admit, he's not 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:38.800 the only coach. What does Billy think he's gaining? To 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:41.520 say that we've been able to surprise people with our 0:06:41.560 --> 0:06:46.120 scheme or game plan is laughable. Why can't you He's 0:06:46.279 --> 0:06:48.880 speaking directly to I guess a Florida Beat reporter here. 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:50.560 Why can't you or the rest of us watch a 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:53.320 practice and not just ten minutes of nothing? Does he 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:56.680 think he can lose worse than he has? 0:06:58.040 --> 0:06:58.360 Yeah? 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:03.200 So the tension here is obviously between Florida fans and 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:06.560 Billy Napier and no secret as to why billiy Napier 0:07:06.920 --> 0:07:10.120 is going to start the twenty twenty four campaign as 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:12.240 one of the one of the most prominent coaches on 0:07:12.320 --> 0:07:17.160 the hottest of seats and to boot, Florida has a 0:07:17.240 --> 0:07:22.360 particularly brutal schedule. It is tough anyway you shake it. 0:07:22.880 --> 0:07:25.560 I called it out a couple days ago, made a 0:07:25.640 --> 0:07:29.000 video that I posted online. But Florida opens its season 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:32.680 at home against the Miami Hurricanes, so in state rivalry 0:07:32.840 --> 0:07:35.760 right out of the shoot. We went through the schedule 0:07:35.880 --> 0:07:39.360 briefly before, and the way this thing is constructed, you 0:07:39.400 --> 0:07:40.720 got to get your wins early. If you want to 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:42.040 go to a bawl, you gotta get your wins early 0:07:42.040 --> 0:07:44.160 because it's going to toughen up a little bit later 0:07:44.200 --> 0:07:47.120 on in the season. So Florida, I feel like, is 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:51.400 a great candidate for wild conspiracy theories as it relates 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:55.000 to Billy Napier in college football? What is he hiding? 0:07:55.080 --> 0:07:55.920 Dan Rubinstein? 0:07:56.720 --> 0:07:58.840 What's the old line, If you're gonna be dumb, you 0:07:58.920 --> 0:08:02.120 better be tough, right like the old adage, like if 0:08:02.160 --> 0:08:05.559 you're going to be bad, it's tough to be secretive, right, 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:09.280 Like you need to sort of give people something. You give, 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:11.240 got to give people more sos. I don't think practices 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:14.080 should be open, like in a world, in a world 0:08:14.640 --> 0:08:18.560 that you do have, you know, eyes everywhere. I understand 0:08:18.560 --> 0:08:21.640 why people want to be secretive, especially given what's on 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:24.120 the line in major sec play, Like you don't want 0:08:24.120 --> 0:08:25.840 to give too money things away, You don't you know 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:28.920 who's starting at left guard? Perhaps that doesn't matter. But 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:33.120 I understand from Billion Napier's perspective why you want to 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:35.800 keep things secretive. I understand why you're if you're a 0:08:35.800 --> 0:08:40.800 Florida fan, you are starved for something positive, while if 0:08:40.840 --> 0:08:44.679 you are starved for a morsel of a highlight from practice, 0:08:44.720 --> 0:08:47.319 you know, a receiver making a one hand Trey Wilson 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:49.680 making a one handed grab, or something that even the 0:08:49.720 --> 0:08:52.840 team would put out. And so that's the sort of 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:55.640 issue that I get that if your team is disappointing, 0:08:56.240 --> 0:09:00.319 you better go into overdrive to give people. You don't 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:03.439 need to get people fluff for positivity, but a little 0:09:03.440 --> 0:09:06.800 bit of access to get people excited and energized and 0:09:06.880 --> 0:09:10.520 electrified during the off season. And so I enjoy the 0:09:10.559 --> 0:09:12.280 Ted last So I didn't watch the final season of 0:09:12.320 --> 0:09:14.240 Ted Lasso, by the way, so I don't know how 0:09:14.280 --> 0:09:17.199 secretive last I was with his practices. 0:09:17.440 --> 0:09:21.679 Yeah, well Last last season is a separate conversation from yeah, 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:26.800 the first two. But I get where fans are coming from. 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:29.599 I mean, you want something positive, you want momentum that 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:31.960 you can build on in the off season. I think 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:34.720 what we saw a DJ Lagway was very promising right 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:39.680 in the spring game that gave Florida some hope, some momentum, 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:43.080 some feeling of momentum. But the schedule stands in the way. 0:09:43.200 --> 0:09:48.360 And look, there seems to be something of a concern 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:51.200 as to what Florida's offense is going to look like 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:53.840 this season. And that's not to say that, you know, 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:55.760 they don't have guys who can play quarterback thenk Graham 0:09:55.760 --> 0:09:58.240 Mertz last year was fine. Maybe we'll see DJ Lagway 0:09:58.240 --> 0:10:01.199 a little bit here and there. Who knows. There are 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:04.320 some losses, obviously we've talked about them as well. But 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:07.480 as things stand right now, even with a lot of 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:10.040 the negative press that I know Florida people have talked 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:12.360 about in the off season, still only a two point 0:10:12.440 --> 0:10:15.760 dog at home to open up the season against the 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:20.160 Miami Hurricanes in State Ryle the Sunshine Showdown, whatever it's called. Right, 0:10:21.000 --> 0:10:23.320 So Vegas is not looking down its nose too much 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:25.719 at the Florida Gators, cause I think Miami should be 0:10:25.720 --> 0:10:29.640 pretty good. Sure whatever, here's my question for you. Sorry, 0:10:29.760 --> 0:10:31.440 I know that was very dismissive of what you said, 0:10:31.440 --> 0:10:35.960 which was all true. Do you consume Notre Dame produced 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:42.440 content like content schools are now pretty thorough about like 0:10:42.559 --> 0:10:44.560 behind the scenes stuff and here's a day in the 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:46.720 life of so and so on the team, like here's 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:49.520 a day in the life of Benjamin Morrison or whatever. 0:10:49.960 --> 0:10:54.040 And there is that opportunity if you're a diehard fan, 0:10:54.280 --> 0:10:57.520 to go inside the program via video and social media whatever. 0:10:57.559 --> 0:10:59.440 And some schools, I know Clemson is big on this. 0:11:00.040 --> 0:11:00.800 Schools are doing this. 0:11:00.800 --> 0:11:04.320 Now like full length like Oregon. Oregon's very big on it, 0:11:04.360 --> 0:11:06.880 but they do. I honestly have no idea what Orgon 0:11:06.880 --> 0:11:08.800 does in terms of longer form stuff, but there are 0:11:08.800 --> 0:11:12.040 some schools that will do like a twenty four minute episode, 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:14.640 and that's why I saw I remember seeing Clemson doing 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:17.839 this where it's like they're producing like their own version 0:11:17.880 --> 0:11:20.839 of Hard Knocks, right, It's like a highly produced thing, 0:11:21.320 --> 0:11:23.360 and it is red meat for the fans who want 0:11:23.400 --> 0:11:26.720 more access, who want more of a look in. I 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:28.480 have no idea if Notre Dame does that. I have 0:11:28.480 --> 0:11:30.840 no idea if you consume that. I like Organs like, 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:32.000 I think they all. 0:11:31.800 --> 0:11:35.480 Do it to some extent, and I can only take 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:39.400 it in doses because there's only some level of sunshine 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:42.600 pumping that's tolerable to me. Sure, and it's not just 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:44.600 Notre Dame stuff that I'll watch. I'll watch Penn State stuff. 0:11:44.600 --> 0:11:47.480 I'll watch other teams. We have been featured many times 0:11:47.480 --> 0:11:49.600 over in those types of videos. 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:50.160 That's right. 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:52.160 We were in the Texas A and M one last year. 0:11:52.200 --> 0:11:55.880 I think when they got rid of Jimbo and decided 0:11:55.880 --> 0:11:57.200 they were going to look for a new coach. Maybe 0:11:57.200 --> 0:12:00.360 it was after they hired Mike Elko. Regardless, you siate 0:12:00.400 --> 0:12:00.840 the free. 0:12:00.640 --> 0:12:03.680 Presses Penn State one. I think Penn State used my 0:12:03.880 --> 0:12:07.080 voice or something doubting them and yep, yep, yep, yep. 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:09.960 Then they were disappointing. 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:12.480 Yeah, we've been in a bunch of them over the years, 0:12:12.480 --> 0:12:13.760 so we've watched plenty of them. 0:12:13.840 --> 0:12:17.839 Feel free. By the way, here's my express verbal permission. 0:12:18.320 --> 0:12:20.600 You can use our voices in any of those if 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:22.840 we're high on your team, if we're low on your team, 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:24.680 do whatever you gotta do. 0:12:25.280 --> 0:12:29.120 Totally cool, We're it's totally totally fine for us. I 0:12:29.160 --> 0:12:32.760 can only take the school produced stuff in doses. Yeah, same, 0:12:33.440 --> 0:12:36.640 not against it. And where are we going. 0:12:36.480 --> 0:12:36.960 With this again? 0:12:37.000 --> 0:12:37.920 What was the pointed that? 0:12:38.040 --> 0:12:40.520 Oh, it's just that, like if Florida is being so 0:12:40.559 --> 0:12:43.280 secretive right that you have to go above and beyond 0:12:43.400 --> 0:12:45.760 to at least give the diehards some You're not going 0:12:45.800 --> 0:12:48.360 to let them into practice or whatever, but like you 0:12:48.440 --> 0:12:51.040 got to, you got to open up the content kimono 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:53.400 a little bit to get these people excited coming off 0:12:53.400 --> 0:12:55.520 of a season that was somewhat disappointing, and there's a 0:12:55.520 --> 0:12:58.839 lot of doubts heading into this season, especially considering the 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:01.640 Florida schedule. So that's all. And I think Oregon. I've 0:13:01.720 --> 0:13:03.240 seen some of the Oregon stuff they do with like 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:05.599 a two minute recap, like a cinematic recap during the 0:13:05.640 --> 0:13:07.920 season that's very well done, But like all of the 0:13:07.960 --> 0:13:10.319 behind the scenes stuff, if it's longer than two or 0:13:10.360 --> 0:13:12.280 three minutes, I know, I get kind of lost. 0:13:13.040 --> 0:13:14.120 Where do you want to go next? You want to 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:15.600 pick one out out of the dock? 0:13:15.640 --> 0:13:21.400 Here? Dan sure? If Oklahoma lands, this is Pickleman Pickleman's cafe. 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:29.439 If we Oklahoma land, Dominic Williams TCU defensive line transfer, 0:13:29.800 --> 0:13:36.440 I'll lack white dog bleep, like I guess from step Brothers. Okay, 0:13:37.480 --> 0:13:40.960 my question to you is not react to this or 0:13:41.040 --> 0:13:42.600 I don't. I have no idea. If there was a 0:13:42.640 --> 0:13:48.120 follow up about this gentleman or lady licking dog excrement 0:13:48.400 --> 0:13:52.080 based on a transfer, a promising defensive line transfer. My 0:13:52.200 --> 0:13:54.040 question to you is, have you ever made this kind 0:13:54.040 --> 0:13:57.080 of bet to do something disgusting based on sports? Is 0:13:57.120 --> 0:13:59.679 there something you'd be willing to do that would be 0:13:59.800 --> 0:14:02.920 a a worthwhile trade off for Notre Dame or Penn 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:06.120 State doing something like a recruit like a giant recruiting 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:11.120 win or a giant like in season win or playoff 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:14.480 birth like. Is there anything that compels you or maybe 0:14:14.520 --> 0:14:16.000 when you were nineteen or something. 0:14:16.480 --> 0:14:19.360 First off, I believe Oklahoma got the guy. 0:14:19.240 --> 0:14:21.240 That he did. That's what I'm saying. Did he follow 0:14:21.280 --> 0:14:22.160 he or she followed through? 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:24.160 So I don't know if there's been a follow up 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:26.800 post to it. Hopefully boor geniuses can point us in 0:14:26.800 --> 0:14:29.960 the right direction there. I hope this gentleman's okay. If 0:14:30.000 --> 0:14:32.800 he did follow through with that bet, it's a bit disgusting. 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:40.080 I've not really been much for the preposterous bet outside 0:14:40.080 --> 0:14:43.000 of our show. Outside of our show, you know now 0:14:43.040 --> 0:14:45.080 you had the bet, what was it. 0:14:45.040 --> 0:14:45.800 Two years ago? 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:49.640 I forget what it was. You did the face panting 0:14:49.680 --> 0:14:50.480 for LSU. 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:52.200 Which LSU Auburn. Yeah, Tiger was. 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:56.120 Tremendous and is still featured out there on many of 0:14:56.120 --> 0:14:58.800 our social media accounts. You can go find it anywhere 0:14:58.840 --> 0:15:03.960 you could find this solid verbal. I've thought about this. 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:06.240 I feel like in the end, I'm too much of 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:06.680 a chicken. 0:15:06.960 --> 0:15:10.200 This could be a good kind of inflection point because 0:15:10.320 --> 0:15:12.960 what happens is okay, So let's say this person doesn't 0:15:13.000 --> 0:15:18.400 renege on this offer to lick dog droppings whatever based 0:15:18.440 --> 0:15:23.520 on a portal commitment. And if this person is married 0:15:23.560 --> 0:15:27.640 and a spouse finds out that they are licking white dog, 0:15:27.760 --> 0:15:30.920 oh okay, okay, no, no, I'm like us, like Steve, 0:15:31.320 --> 0:15:34.640 what did you do today? And you post you posted 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:37.720 it where like maybe that's like the rock bottom that 0:15:37.800 --> 0:15:40.880 some people need when they're doing that online. So I 0:15:40.920 --> 0:15:44.320 appreciate that. Next one, this is from Buck fifty two 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:48.960 Underscore thirty Husker online, So conspiracy theory here. Oh dash 0:15:49.040 --> 0:15:51.960 dash A Big ten tells trev Alberts to take the 0:15:52.000 --> 0:15:54.640 text A and M. I add a D job and 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:57.440 help the program to and help lead the program to 0:15:57.560 --> 0:15:59.080 the Big ten. Text A and M to the Big 0:15:59.120 --> 0:16:03.040 ten leadership already be on board with this action, then 0:16:03.080 --> 0:16:05.880 the Big Ten tells Trev. If he gets the job done, 0:16:06.560 --> 0:16:08.920 he will be the next commissioner of the Big Ten. 0:16:09.680 --> 0:16:11.640 That being said, Texas A and M and Notre Dame 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:14.600 would be mega great news for the Big Ten. And 0:16:15.400 --> 0:16:18.160 oh and get our AAU membership back before we are 0:16:18.160 --> 0:16:20.520 booted back to the Big twelve or the MAC or 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:23.760 the Mountain West or some other conference like that. 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:28.600 Whoa, there's a lot going on here. Yeah, this is 0:16:28.720 --> 0:16:29.280 next level. 0:16:29.640 --> 0:16:32.880 So Trev Alberts as a Big Ten mole at Texas 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:34.880 A and M to get Texas A and M out 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:37.560 of the SEC to the Big Ten. This is on 0:16:37.600 --> 0:16:38.480 a Nebraska board. 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:40.360 By the way, Texas A and M just joined the 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:43.480 SEC not that long ago, right, This isn't like they've 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:44.600 been in the conference. 0:16:44.320 --> 0:16:45.640 Fourteen years, thirteen years. 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:48.040 It's been I know, but it's not been fifty years, 0:16:48.240 --> 0:16:51.640 I know. So he's saying, all right, so Trev's going 0:16:51.680 --> 0:16:54.120 to go to the take the A and M ad job, 0:16:54.400 --> 0:16:56.160 going to be the mole, going to move them over 0:16:57.080 --> 0:17:00.960 to the Big Ten. And then here's the problem with this. 0:17:01.040 --> 0:17:03.040 Trev Alberts has no say in whether or not a 0:17:03.040 --> 0:17:06.400 team leaves conferences. He might have input, but Ultimately, that's 0:17:06.400 --> 0:17:11.480 a president's decision. Right, So, unless Trev Alberts is playing 0:17:11.520 --> 0:17:15.320 some sort of game of thrones and will ascend to leadership, 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:17.159 true leadership of Texas A and M. 0:17:18.040 --> 0:17:20.480 I'm not asking for a counterpoint to this insane post. 0:17:20.560 --> 0:17:21.800 I just want your gut reaction. 0:17:22.760 --> 0:17:24.520 I mean, I love the energy of it, of course, 0:17:24.600 --> 0:17:26.920 as I do most conspiracy theories, most of the non 0:17:26.960 --> 0:17:28.159 problematic ones. Anyway. 0:17:28.440 --> 0:17:32.000 Yeah, but uh, would you like Texas A and M 0:17:32.000 --> 0:17:33.720 in the Big Ten? Would they be an asset to 0:17:33.760 --> 0:17:41.000 the Big Ten? Exactly? Exactly right, Ty, Texas A and 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:43.840 M and Notre Dame who are playing each other this year, right, 0:17:43.880 --> 0:17:46.320 first week of the season. Yeah, first week of the season. 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:49.320 Texas A and M and Notre Dame bringing Texas, the 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:54.320 state of Texas, bringing the South Ish into the Big Ten? 0:17:55.440 --> 0:17:59.479 Why not? Why not? I don't think it's Trev Alberts 0:17:59.560 --> 0:18:05.360 doing it. You said, But nothing matters, Ty, nothing matters. 0:18:05.440 --> 0:18:07.880 Everything is chaos. Texas A and M to the Big Ten. 0:18:07.960 --> 0:18:08.439 I'm ready. 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:12.199 Well, I mean, if Oregon and Washington and UCLA and 0:18:12.359 --> 0:18:15.800 USC can go to the Big ten, clearly, geographic footprint matters, 0:18:15.880 --> 0:18:19.440 not doesn't matter where you're located. The Big Ten's probably 0:18:19.440 --> 0:18:25.600 interested the SEC, if only because of its name, right, 0:18:26.280 --> 0:18:29.080 maybe anchored a bit more to teams in the general 0:18:29.240 --> 0:18:33.080 Southeast region, but even that has kind of expanded as 0:18:33.119 --> 0:18:38.000 time has gone on. It doesn't like I understand that 0:18:38.040 --> 0:18:40.119 this is all being driven by money. For the life 0:18:40.119 --> 0:18:43.400 of me, I still can't get past the whole geography thing. 0:18:43.720 --> 0:18:46.080 And I know college football has moved past it, I 0:18:46.119 --> 0:18:48.480 have not. It still feels really weird to me. It's 0:18:48.480 --> 0:18:50.040 going to feel really weird this year when O'regon and 0:18:50.119 --> 0:18:52.280 Washington are playing in the Big Ten. I'm just not 0:18:52.320 --> 0:18:54.080 going to be able to get over it. We've used 0:18:54.080 --> 0:18:56.480 the analogy before, but it's like when teams Major League 0:18:56.480 --> 0:19:01.159 Baseball teams switch switch leagues. Yeah, and I've still not 0:19:01.280 --> 0:19:03.520 figured out who's where. I've been a baseball fan my 0:19:03.640 --> 0:19:06.320 entire life. It still confuses me to this day. So 0:19:07.240 --> 0:19:09.240 you know, I guess college football has gotten to the 0:19:09.240 --> 0:19:12.119 point where they're living in a post geography conference world. 0:19:12.760 --> 0:19:17.359 But for me, no, I we can't. We can't do this. 0:19:17.760 --> 0:19:20.880 We can't. I appreciate the I appreciate the energy here, 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:21.240 but no. 0:19:21.840 --> 0:19:24.080 It's a little like if the Kansas City Royals announced 0:19:24.080 --> 0:19:27.240 they were joining the KBOY Korean Baseball League. Weere like 0:19:27.400 --> 0:19:30.840 it just actually makes more sense for us at this point. 0:19:31.160 --> 0:19:33.640 They got a great deal, a sweetheart deal to join 0:19:33.640 --> 0:19:37.159 the KBO. Uh. You know, South Korea is expanding to 0:19:37.280 --> 0:19:38.520 the Midwestern footprint. 0:19:38.600 --> 0:19:41.200 But here, see, here's where they get you with off 0:19:41.240 --> 0:19:44.399 the wall ideas like this. Yeah, there is a shred 0:19:44.480 --> 0:19:46.840 of truth in it, and that is that Notre Dame 0:19:46.840 --> 0:19:50.040 would be make a great news for the Big Ten. Yeah, 0:19:50.240 --> 0:19:52.359 of course it would be right. People have been saying 0:19:52.359 --> 0:19:56.199 that for decades, myself included, So at least it's grounded 0:19:56.280 --> 0:19:58.520 on that front. Although I don't know if A and 0:19:58.640 --> 0:20:00.800 M and A and M Notre Dame are going to 0:20:00.840 --> 0:20:03.160 be the targets the next targets for the Big Ten. 0:20:03.240 --> 0:20:05.359 It could be Florida State Notre Dame. 0:20:05.480 --> 0:20:08.000 If Notre Dame were to join the Big Ten. At 0:20:08.000 --> 0:20:10.840 that point, who becomes the most self important fan base? 0:20:11.200 --> 0:20:13.639 Is it Notre Dames or Michigan's Like, who is the 0:20:13.680 --> 0:20:17.639 alpha in that conversation within the Big Ten, regardless of winning? 0:20:18.200 --> 0:20:21.320 Just DNA wise, which fan base do you think is 0:20:21.359 --> 0:20:24.359 the alpha in that conversation. I'm closer to this than 0:20:24.359 --> 0:20:26.400 I am I think it's still Michigan. You think it's 0:20:26.400 --> 0:20:28.800 still Michigan? Do I Do you think Notre Dame has 0:20:28.800 --> 0:20:31.480 been humbled enough that there's a faction of the fan 0:20:31.520 --> 0:20:34.040 base that is just sort of like, let's do something 0:20:34.119 --> 0:20:35.640 before we go full Michigan. 0:20:36.080 --> 0:20:38.960 You think that's I mean, it's just been forever since 0:20:38.960 --> 0:20:41.919 Noname really wants something, honest. 0:20:42.080 --> 0:20:45.120 So if we're still talking about the only meaningful independent 0:20:45.160 --> 0:20:49.920 program in America, apologies to you know, yukon UMass recent ones. 0:20:50.160 --> 0:20:52.320 I'm biased. Don't ask me. I can't in good faith 0:20:52.400 --> 0:20:54.560