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Speaker 1: Are we about to have more college football playoff changes? Sometimes,

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Speaker 1: overlook them. Don't overlook them. Colby Crawford up at VT Scoop.

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Speaker 1: You think Jeff Brahm, and you get this idea in

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Speaker 1: to account for. Isaac Brown is a name I just

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Speaker 1: want you to keep an eye on. Write it down

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Speaker 1: And Jody Demling does a good job at Cardinal Authority

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Speaker 1: show me this thing about landing and debor because I

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Speaker 1: Mississippi hit me. He said, hey, straight up, who wins

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Speaker 1: a national title? First? Kaylin Deboor at Bama or Dan

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Speaker 1: Lanning at Oregon. Now, I think to myself, I've got

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Speaker 1: other people would. So I do the only thing I

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Speaker 1: can do. I go and I poll. It's an election year,

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Speaker 1: really have a good feel on you guys for so

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Speaker 1: I asked you, Hey, how's this going to turn out?

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Speaker 1: And this was one of the most trafficked polls that

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Speaker 1: we've done in quite a while, And right as we

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Speaker 1: came on air, I screened shat the latest results. So,

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Speaker 1: with about seventy eight hundred votes so far in this thing,

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Speaker 1: fifty three percent of you think Dan Lanning wins a

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Speaker 1: national title first, kaitlindboor forty seven percent of you think

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Speaker 1: he wins a national title first. So, in predictable fashion,

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Speaker 1: half the replies said their choice. And it's not close. Inevitably,

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Speaker 1: anytime that statement's thrown out, it's very close, which is

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Speaker 1: why it's one of the forbidden phrases on the show,

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Speaker 1: landing fifty three to boor forty seven. So if you're

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Speaker 1: making me bet this. I would go with my classic

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Speaker 1: Bo Herschel strategy, my BHS as I've called it back

529
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Speaker 1: in the day, and that is growing up in the South.

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Speaker 1: They would always especially if you grew up on the

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Speaker 1: Chattahoochee River like I did, which is literally the eight

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Speaker 1: line dividing Georgia and Alabama, they would always ask you

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Speaker 1: choose better running back in sec history bo Jackson Herschel Walker.

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Speaker 1: So I learned a long time ago the best way

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Speaker 1: to go about that is say I'll just give you

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Speaker 1: first pick, I'll take the leftovers. It makes you sound smart,

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Speaker 1: it makes you sound edgy and cool. You still end

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Speaker 1: up with a premiere running back. And there's really no

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Speaker 1: solid answer there. Despite what both sides say, they're both

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Speaker 1: really really good. Well, I think I would do the

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Speaker 1: same thing here if you honestly told me, Hey, Debor

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Speaker 1: and Landing, that is so comparable. Their next five years

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Speaker 1: seem comparable enough to me in terms of their shot

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Speaker 1: to win a title. Where I'd say you pick, I'll

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Speaker 1: just take you whoever's left over. But that is a

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Speaker 1: cop out, and I know it is. So if you're

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Speaker 1: making me choose, I'd choose Kaylin de Boor fifty two

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Speaker 1: forty eight. Basically as close as this poll was. I'd

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Speaker 1: lean to Boor a few reasons. Number one, Landing's got

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Speaker 1: Oregon rolling, but Debor doesn't have to rebuild Alabama. Debor

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Speaker 1: got handed the baton. And maybe he slightly slowed down.

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Speaker 1: That was when Caleb Downs left by the way, slightly

553
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Speaker 1: slowed down, but they quickly built up speed. And so

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Speaker 1: Alabama's Alabama still and unlike some other places where you

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Speaker 1: have a big time head coach and then it's an

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Speaker 1: unknown that follows him, there's nothing unknown about Kaylen de

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Speaker 1: bor And don't be telling me it's unknown whether he

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Speaker 1: can recruit the South because they're killing it in talent acquisition,

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Speaker 1: which leads me to my next point. The programs will

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Speaker 1: be on equal footing. The talent acquisition profiles I think

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Speaker 1: will be very similar. Oregon's recruited at as high a

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Speaker 1: level as they ever have, and I think they consistently will,

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Speaker 1: so we're talking in the future. Oregon will continue to

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Speaker 1: consistently be in the top five range of combined talent acquisition,

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Speaker 1: so portal and recruiting every year, but Bama will too.

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Speaker 1: That's one of the great concerns that I think in

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Speaker 1: quick order they alleviated from their own fan base, and

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Speaker 1: that is, hey, we got guys who know how to

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Speaker 1: get players too. And I also thought it was a

570
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Speaker 1: little short sighted. When Saban retired, there was this thought,

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Speaker 1: I think it was more a wish than a thought

572
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Speaker 1: around college football that hey, Bama secretly broke you know,

573
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Speaker 1: Bama secretly didn't have any money poverty program in disguise

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Speaker 1: at Alabama. And once Saban leaves and they don't get

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Speaker 1: discounts on kids anymore. Runner up city, Yeah, not so much.

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Speaker 1: The opposite was true. Bama always had the ability to

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Speaker 1: go way deeper into coffers then they had to. They

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Speaker 1: just didn't have to. And I'm not telling you that

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Speaker 1: they're out there winning bidding wars right now. In fact,

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Speaker 1: quite the opposite. A lot of these teams that are

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Speaker 1: killing it are not the highest bidders. The highest bidders

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Speaker 1: are the ones who don't have proven results to sell,

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Speaker 1: so they have to overcompensate with a deeper bag. But

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Speaker 1: if Bama needs to go deep in that bag, Bama

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Speaker 1: can go deep in the bag too. There is no one,

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Speaker 1: aside from maybe Texas, that's got Nil figured out more

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Speaker 1: methodically and scientifically than Oregon. But at the end of

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Speaker 1: the day, Bama's not taking a back seat to many

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Speaker 1: folks in talent acquisition. So if I've got the team

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Speaker 1: profile and the recruiting profile, well, you know what gives

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Speaker 1: Bama an edge right now is the head to head.

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Speaker 1: I was at both games last year. I was wrong

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Speaker 1: both times. Last year. I picked Landing and Oregon to

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Speaker 1: beat Debor and Washington, and then I end up with

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Speaker 1: just egg all over my face. I got to go

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Speaker 1: buy a new white T shirt because that wreaks havoc

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Speaker 1: on the threads. And so if I'm looking for a

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Speaker 1: slight edge there, well, head coach and the fact that

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Speaker 1: I think Bama's got a top ten staff right now,

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Speaker 1: and I would not quite qualify Oregon as having a

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Speaker 1: top ten staff when we consider the support staff structure

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Speaker 1: as well. That could change, of course year to year,

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Speaker 1: but by the slightest of margins, I would go to Bor.

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Speaker 1: But then I would ask you before you walk out

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Speaker 1: the door, I would say, could we arrange a side bet?

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Speaker 1: Because I have a little thought of my own here

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Speaker 1: instead of making get Dan Lanning or Kaylen de Boor,

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Speaker 1: could I interest you in a prop bet of Dan

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Speaker 1: Lanning and Kaylen Debor. I believe they'll both win a

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Speaker 1: title in the next five years. I believe that that's

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Speaker 1: a simple yes or no. Do you agree? And if

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Speaker 1: you don't agree, now, this is going to have to

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Speaker 1: be really creative. I probably have to call up fan

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Speaker 1: duel and get them to do some things that aren't

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Speaker 1: exactly legal. But I would be interested to see how

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Speaker 1: much action I could take on that. How many of

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Speaker 1: you have fifty bucks this you could bear to part

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Speaker 1: with for the next half decade. I don't need fifty dollars.

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Speaker 1: I already have fifty dollars, and if you feel the same,

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Speaker 1: I'd be willing to venture this. I don't know what

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Speaker 1: kind of odds we can get on this. I'd be

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Speaker 1: willing to venture this. I think both of them win

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Speaker 1: at least one title in the next five years, So

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Speaker 1: who wins it first is the question? Slightly lean Kaylen

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Speaker 1: de Boor. Of course, in like seven months, Dan Landing

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Speaker 1: could prove that wrong. So hoops amongst us know it's

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Speaker 1: good question, though lively debate for this time of year.

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Speaker 1: They're watching us in Washington, DC, watching in Greenville, South Carolina, Frisco, Texas,

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Speaker 1: and Eugene, Oregon. You can feel it, just a palpable

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Speaker 1: hue of anticipation building around the studio here because gas

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Speaker 1: station recruiting wars will soon come to an end. We're

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Speaker 1: changing the game tonight. I made you guys a promise.

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Speaker 1: I have not forgotten the promise. This is one This

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Speaker 1: is not one of those things where I'm gonna win.

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Speaker 1: It's one of those things where every single one of

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Speaker 1: you are gonna win, maybe more than once in some cases.

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Speaker 1: What's Michigan's record gonna be this year? They just won

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Speaker 1: the national title, they just ran it off undefeated historical season,

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Speaker 1: and then here they are with an over underwent total

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Speaker 1: of eight and a half at FanDuel to start the year,

641
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Speaker 1: and that's down from nine and a half. So we've

642
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Speaker 1: had a lot of action on the under there so far.

643
00:33:46,080 --> 00:33:47,600
Speaker 1: So they currently sit with an eight and a half

644
00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:50,400
Speaker 1: over underwin total. That's fairly heavily juice to the over,

645
00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:52,120
Speaker 1: but still it has been bumped down from nine and

646
00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:55,520
Speaker 1: a half. They are fourth best right now in terms

647
00:33:55,520 --> 00:33:58,480
Speaker 1: of odds to win the Big Ten. They are plus

648
00:33:58,520 --> 00:34:02,000
Speaker 1: one fifty to make the layoff and they are one

649
00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:04,720
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty sixth in returning production. I think that's

650
00:34:04,720 --> 00:34:07,200
Speaker 1: a stat that's been thrown around about as much as

651
00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:09,560
Speaker 1: any stat that I've heard pound for pound about college

652
00:34:09,600 --> 00:34:13,960
Speaker 1: football this upcoming year. Their recruiting classes. As we dive

653
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Speaker 1: into this, one more thing you need to know their

654
00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:18,960
Speaker 1: recruiting classes. They had back to back to back classes

655
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Speaker 1: that finished inside the top fifteen. The last two classes

656
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Speaker 1: they've had, albeit slightly, have been just outside the top fifteen.

657
00:34:27,680 --> 00:34:30,640
Speaker 1: So with a lot of talent leaving, they don't have

658
00:34:30,840 --> 00:34:34,239
Speaker 1: elite classes to backfill them. They got pretty good classes,

659
00:34:34,520 --> 00:34:37,640
Speaker 1: and they're great. They've been great at developing. But if

660
00:34:37,680 --> 00:34:41,480
Speaker 1: we're just assuming all that backfilling happened seamlessly, that's a

661
00:34:41,480 --> 00:34:44,000
Speaker 1: tall proposition. So here is what I think I know

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00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:48,760
Speaker 1: about Michigan. Mason Graham, Kenneth Grant. That's about as elite

663
00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:51,080
Speaker 1: a one to two combo on the interior of a

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Speaker 1: defensive line as you're going to have in college football.

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00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:56,600
Speaker 1: I have very little doubt that they will be as

666
00:34:56,600 --> 00:34:59,359
Speaker 1: stout as they need to be against the run. That

667
00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:02,400
Speaker 1: will probably be the strength of this team. But also

668
00:35:02,800 --> 00:35:07,399
Speaker 1: at tight end, they are very good running back, very

669
00:35:07,440 --> 00:35:12,080
Speaker 1: good corner those three positions, you have an elite player

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Speaker 1: that could challenge for being the top player at their

671
00:35:14,960 --> 00:35:18,600
Speaker 1: position in the sport. So even with all that departing talent,

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Speaker 1: Notice those aren't just defensive players I listed there. Even

673
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Speaker 1: with that departing talent, Michigan's still got some studs on

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00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:27,759
Speaker 1: their roster. Don't think that this was just an etch

675
00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:30,320
Speaker 1: a sketch where you wipe the entire slate clean. In

676
00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:33,799
Speaker 1: some cases, like the coaching staff, that did happen, But

677
00:35:33,840 --> 00:35:35,640
Speaker 1: that team still got a lot of players here. And

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00:35:35,719 --> 00:35:39,920
Speaker 1: another thing I think I know is it's gonna be

679
00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:42,280
Speaker 1: one of the most run heavy offenses in college football.

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00:35:42,440 --> 00:35:44,560
Speaker 1: It kind of was last year. I think it may

681
00:35:44,719 --> 00:35:49,080
Speaker 1: be even more run heavy this year, partly by design

682
00:35:49,120 --> 00:35:51,600
Speaker 1: but mostly by necessity than it was last year. So

683
00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:53,839
Speaker 1: here's what I need to know as a result of that.

684
00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:56,960
Speaker 1: I need to know can they throw the ball? I mean,

685
00:35:57,280 --> 00:35:59,719
Speaker 1: if they need to, can they throw the ball? Well, Josh,

686
00:35:59,840 --> 00:36:02,680
Speaker 1: did matter last year? Well, it did matter last year

687
00:36:03,080 --> 00:36:05,520
Speaker 1: even with how dominant that ground game and that offensive

688
00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:08,200
Speaker 1: line was. There was a moment. It came in the

689
00:36:08,280 --> 00:36:11,239
Speaker 1: Rose Bowl against Alabama where they needed a drive and

690
00:36:11,360 --> 00:36:13,640
Speaker 1: JJ McCarthy made a few throws and they end up

691
00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:15,840
Speaker 1: getting down there, tying the game, initially winning the game.

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Speaker 1: At the very least, we'll talk about their schedule in

693
00:36:19,480 --> 00:36:22,360
Speaker 1: a second. At the very least, they'll have those moments

694
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Speaker 1: again this year. Again. At the very least, I don't

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Speaker 1: think this team's as good as it was last year,

696
00:36:27,239 --> 00:36:29,160
Speaker 1: so maybe more so this year. They'll have to be

697
00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:32,760
Speaker 1: able to throw the ball. But with the ground centric

698
00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:35,440
Speaker 1: approach that I expect from them, is this offensive line

699
00:36:35,719 --> 00:36:38,960
Speaker 1: close to what it was last year? I'm expect them

700
00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:40,880
Speaker 1: to fall off a cliff. But when you are replacing

701
00:36:40,920 --> 00:36:43,279
Speaker 1: one hundred and ninety nine starts, when five of your

702
00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:47,799
Speaker 1: top six are gone, I know that they have players there.

703
00:36:47,960 --> 00:36:51,120
Speaker 1: I know that, okay, But this I'm not saying Michigan

704
00:36:51,200 --> 00:36:54,279
Speaker 1: fans have a blind assumption. Maybe some of the more

705
00:36:55,440 --> 00:36:57,680
Speaker 1: you know bathed in the kool aid maize and blue,

706
00:36:57,680 --> 00:36:59,960
Speaker 1: Michigan fans have an assumption that will it's Michigan, so well,

707
00:37:00,120 --> 00:37:02,440
Speaker 1: always be good on the offensive line. Well, you were

708
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Speaker 1: great on the offensive line last year, back to back

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Speaker 1: Joe Moore Awards. Will you be great again? And the

710
00:37:07,040 --> 00:37:08,600
Speaker 1: reason I asked that it's not because you can't win

711
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Speaker 1: with a pretty good offensive line, which probably won't impose

712
00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:14,719
Speaker 1: your will with a pretty good offensive line. So they

713
00:37:14,760 --> 00:37:17,200
Speaker 1: better be playing at a high level, especially if you're

714
00:37:17,200 --> 00:37:20,560
Speaker 1: limited in what you can do. Doubly, especially in the

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Speaker 1: intermediate passing game. If it's just a shot, play offense,

716
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Speaker 1: play action, and then run the ball, you better have

717
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Speaker 1: the offensive line that is fit to pave the way

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Speaker 1: for that. Thirdly, can they play from behind? Because last year,

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Speaker 1: here's a paper popper of a stat. This right here

720
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Speaker 1: is a Padlock stat first of the year. Ninety five

721
00:37:41,719 --> 00:37:45,160
Speaker 1: percent of Michigan snaps last year came with the lead.

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Speaker 1: That's pretty wild. That's hard to do. I don't think

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Speaker 1: that number will replicate itself this year. So if they

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Speaker 1: find themselves in position to have to play from behind,

725
00:37:55,760 --> 00:37:58,239
Speaker 1: to a little different game script then hanging out up

726
00:37:58,239 --> 00:37:59,960
Speaker 1: at Penn State and just running the ball thirty times

727
00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:02,680
Speaker 1: as a Roni yawning as the clock runs out. What

728
00:38:02,800 --> 00:38:07,040
Speaker 1: about this coaching staff, this coaching staff ton of transition.

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00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:10,600
Speaker 1: Happy for Sharon Moore that he got the job. Obviously

730
00:38:10,640 --> 00:38:13,319
Speaker 1: he's totally unproven. Now you need to understand something. If

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Speaker 1: you're watching this for the first time, when I talk

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Speaker 1: about grading a coaching staff, We've got a model that

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Speaker 1: internally grades every guy that coaches this game. So it's

734
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Speaker 1: not my opinion I'm throwing at you. We got blind criteria,

735
00:38:24,560 --> 00:38:26,960
Speaker 1: blind filters on here, and we run everyone through the

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Speaker 1: same one and we wait it for strength of competition

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Speaker 1: and whatnot. But we're not going to grade a guy

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Speaker 1: who's never done it before. So Sharon Moore just has

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00:38:33,800 --> 00:38:36,799
Speaker 1: a data and complete on him. That's criteria that we've

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Speaker 1: always had. Kurt Campbell one year of experience offensive coordinator

741
00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:44,520
Speaker 1: there data and complete on him as well. It could

742
00:38:44,520 --> 00:38:46,680
Speaker 1: be the best in the game. All that means is

743
00:38:46,719 --> 00:38:49,040
Speaker 1: we don't have enough of a data set to form

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00:38:49,080 --> 00:38:53,359
Speaker 1: a profile on him. This offensive support staff we do, though,

745
00:38:53,840 --> 00:38:57,040
Speaker 1: and they're outside the top seventy five right now. Now.

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00:38:57,040 --> 00:39:00,719
Speaker 1: It's a young staff, so you could see great strides

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Speaker 1: made over the course of a season in that department.

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Speaker 1: But all I can tell you is what we have

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Speaker 1: in the here and now. Now. It could be that

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Speaker 1: Sharon Moore knows what he has and this model has

751
00:39:10,880 --> 00:39:12,960
Speaker 1: no way of knowing that yet. Because this model se'es

752
00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:17,600
Speaker 1: numbers and Sharon Morrisey's living breathing human beings. But model

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00:39:17,600 --> 00:39:20,759
Speaker 1: doesn't run on faith and confidence. Sharon Moore can run

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Speaker 1: his program on that new DC Wink Martindale lifetime in

755
00:39:24,760 --> 00:39:29,000
Speaker 1: the NFL. No college experience. Could be good, could be bad.

756
00:39:29,200 --> 00:39:32,200
Speaker 1: Don't have a profile on him. So this defensive support

757
00:39:32,280 --> 00:39:34,839
Speaker 1: staff is the backbone of the staff because they are

758
00:39:34,840 --> 00:39:38,080
Speaker 1: top ten. So they killed it. Sharon Moore nailed it

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00:39:38,160 --> 00:39:41,320
Speaker 1: on that front. But there is a lot of unknown. Shocker,

760
00:39:41,440 --> 00:39:44,080
Speaker 1: I know, a lot of unknown. I think it would

761
00:39:44,120 --> 00:39:48,280
Speaker 1: be it would be smart to expect regression and allow

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00:39:48,320 --> 00:39:51,120
Speaker 1: yourself to be pleasantly surprised if there's not any drop off.

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00:39:51,120 --> 00:39:54,000
Speaker 1: That's the approach I'm taking with him. This schedule features

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Speaker 1: three of the top five teams in the college football

765
00:39:57,000 --> 00:40:01,160
Speaker 1: playoff odds at FanDuel. Simple as they got Texas in

766
00:40:01,200 --> 00:40:04,719
Speaker 1: week two at home, they got Oregon November two at home,

767
00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:06,960
Speaker 1: and they go to Ohio state of course, to end

768
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Speaker 1: the year a couple of days after Thanksgiving. There are

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Speaker 1: no really big by edges that they have. They do, however,

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Speaker 1: play four of the bottom five teams in the Big ten,

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Speaker 1: so when you're predicting their schedule, the point is a

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Speaker 1: lot of folks are gonna arrive at the same wins,

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Speaker 1: and then you're gonna arrive at either losses or question marks.

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00:40:26,440 --> 00:40:29,239
Speaker 1: So the best case, as the model sees it for

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Speaker 1: Michigan is eleven and one. Model thinks even best case,

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00:40:33,040 --> 00:40:35,399
Speaker 1: there is one loss baked in here somewhere, So we're

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Speaker 1: gonna go best case for Michigan eleven and one. Worst

778
00:40:38,640 --> 00:40:41,680
Speaker 1: case eight and four. Now I'm gonna stop for a second.

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00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:45,760
Speaker 1: If your worst case losing what they lost and losing

780
00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:48,479
Speaker 1: a coaching staff that they lost is eight and four,

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00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:50,600
Speaker 1: I know you don't want to be eight and four.

782
00:40:51,120 --> 00:40:53,080
Speaker 1: It could be far worse than eight and four, I

783
00:40:53,120 --> 00:40:56,240
Speaker 1: promise you. So the model seeing no. Seven and fives

784
00:40:56,320 --> 00:40:58,160
Speaker 1: or six and six is out there. It's actually a

785
00:40:58,320 --> 00:41:01,200
Speaker 1: sign of a really really rough sy program. So eight

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00:41:01,239 --> 00:41:04,040
Speaker 1: and four worst case, I predict them to go nine

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00:41:04,080 --> 00:41:06,359
Speaker 1: and three. I got Michigan at nine and three this year.

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00:41:06,440 --> 00:41:09,520
Speaker 1: JP Pole starts them at number eleven in the country

789
00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:12,520
Speaker 1: coming end of the year, nine and three in the

790
00:41:12,560 --> 00:41:15,520
Speaker 1: Big ten. What's that good enough for? Now? Keep in

791
00:41:15,520 --> 00:41:18,480
Speaker 1: mind Texas plays them in week two, So there's a

792
00:41:18,480 --> 00:41:21,719
Speaker 1: world where one of those losses is to Texas and

793
00:41:21,840 --> 00:41:24,799
Speaker 1: the other two losses are in conference, depending on who

794
00:41:24,840 --> 00:41:28,200
Speaker 1: they are and depending on how good those teams did

795
00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:30,600
Speaker 1: the rest of the way. Maybe there's a world where

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00:41:30,600 --> 00:41:32,640
Speaker 1: Michigan finds their way into the Big Ten title game.

797
00:41:33,600 --> 00:41:36,200
Speaker 1: Maybe there's a world where Michigan at nine and three,

798
00:41:36,840 --> 00:41:40,640
Speaker 1: with their only losses coming to playoff teams, is in

799
00:41:40,680 --> 00:41:43,719
Speaker 1: and of itself good enough to make the playoff nine

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Speaker 1: and three. It's gonna be one of those great debates.

801
00:41:45,160 --> 00:41:46,960
Speaker 1: You know it's coming. I think Michigan's gonna be one

802
00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:49,640
Speaker 1: of the teams right there on the bubble. A couple

803
00:41:49,640 --> 00:41:53,719
Speaker 1: of big questions that we have on tonight's show, and

804
00:41:53,800 --> 00:41:57,040
Speaker 1: again looking at the live chat lively over here, appreciate

805
00:41:57,080 --> 00:41:59,600
Speaker 1: you guys being tuned in. Make sure make sure here's

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Speaker 1: the extra subscribe and bring five of your friends along

807
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Speaker 1: to sub as well. And that goes for you guys

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00:42:04,600 --> 00:42:08,880
Speaker 1: and girls listening on podcast as well. Big quote, what

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00:42:09,040 --> 00:42:14,200
Speaker 1: was that? Jesse? Uh? Where are they? Jesse's talking in

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Speaker 1: my ear? It's very important. Just hold on a second.

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Speaker 1: I'm looking. I'm looking. Oh, I got it, Okay, all right,

812
00:42:21,680 --> 00:42:26,600
Speaker 1: I found it. So just just business, it's not of

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00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:29,279
Speaker 1: anyone else's concern. So a couple of big questions here.

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Speaker 1: First question that I got that I wanted to get

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Speaker 1: to tonight is about what's happening up in Lincoln, Nebraska

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00:42:35,000 --> 00:42:39,919
Speaker 1: right now. Many of you have doubt that Nebraska could

817
00:42:39,920 --> 00:42:42,879
Speaker 1: ever be what Nebraska once was. Well, what Nebraska once

818
00:42:43,000 --> 00:42:44,880
Speaker 1: was was one of the dominant programs in the country.

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Speaker 1: So Nebraska could be really good and still not be

820
00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:50,840
Speaker 1: what they once were. But Jamison from Dover, New Hampshire said,

821
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Speaker 1: tell me again why I should believe in Matt rule. Well, Jamison,

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00:42:54,640 --> 00:42:57,680
Speaker 1: I'm not telling you you have to do anything. I

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00:42:57,719 --> 00:43:00,000
Speaker 1: can tell you why I have a little bit of confident.

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00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:03,759
Speaker 1: It's in Matt rule at Nebraska. Why do I believe? Well,

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00:43:03,800 --> 00:43:06,760
Speaker 1: I believe because the dude won ten games at Temple.

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Speaker 1: And my rule has always been if you win ten

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Speaker 1: at Temple, I'll believe in you. And my follow up

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00:43:13,680 --> 00:43:17,560
Speaker 1: rule has been, if you win eleven at Baylor, I'll

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Speaker 1: follow you blindly into the desert. So Matt rule has

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00:43:20,239 --> 00:43:23,200
Speaker 1: done that, So I am willing to follow Matt rule blindly.

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Speaker 1: Remember Temple, the progression in record two and ten, six

832
00:43:27,520 --> 00:43:31,919
Speaker 1: and six, ten and four. Then he's at Baylor one

833
00:43:31,960 --> 00:43:35,880
Speaker 1: and eleven, seven and six, eleven and three. And the

834
00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:39,840
Speaker 1: beauty here is I would argue Nebraska is better resourced

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Speaker 1: than either one of those, especially as we enter a

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Speaker 1: new era. And I would also argue, if you got

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00:43:45,880 --> 00:43:48,719
Speaker 1: your quarterback in Dylan Ryola, and that's your quarterback of

838
00:43:48,760 --> 00:43:51,400
Speaker 1: the future. And also it proved that you can go

839
00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:53,200
Speaker 1: out and swing with the big boys in an effort

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00:43:53,239 --> 00:43:57,440
Speaker 1: to land premiere talent. This is not guesswork. This is

841
00:43:57,480 --> 00:44:00,839
Speaker 1: not a hot shot coordinator getting his first shot. It's

842
00:44:00,880 --> 00:44:04,000
Speaker 1: not a guy who's coming from the NFL but having

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00:44:04,040 --> 00:44:06,680
Speaker 1: never done it in college. Rule came from the NFL,

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00:44:07,040 --> 00:44:09,000
Speaker 1: but he got in the NFL job because he did

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00:44:09,080 --> 00:44:11,360
Speaker 1: it in college. So if I don't have to guess.

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Speaker 1: And I saw the dude do it at Temple, and

847
00:44:13,360 --> 00:44:16,760
Speaker 1: I saw the dude do it at Baylor, my reason

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00:44:16,840 --> 00:44:20,320
Speaker 1: for believing is I've seen it before. That's the easiest

849
00:44:20,320 --> 00:44:24,560
Speaker 1: thing to believe in. Believing in a proven commodity doesn't, frankly,

850
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Speaker 1: even require all that much faith. Not that I don't

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00:44:27,160 --> 00:44:29,319
Speaker 1: have faith in him, but I mean, I don't even

852
00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:31,560
Speaker 1: look at this as all that difficult. Now what am

853
00:44:31,600 --> 00:44:35,720
Speaker 1: I saying about him? Am I yelling Nebraska playoff Nebraska Playoff.

854
00:44:35,960 --> 00:44:39,160
Speaker 1: I'm not yelling that this year. I think they could

855
00:44:39,200 --> 00:44:42,920
Speaker 1: work themselves into being a perennial fringe playoff contender, or

856
00:44:42,960 --> 00:44:46,400
Speaker 1: maybe the kind of program that on average contends for

857
00:44:46,440 --> 00:44:49,359
Speaker 1: a spot one out of every two years or one

858
00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:52,080
Speaker 1: out of every three years. I mean, that's a heck

859
00:44:52,120 --> 00:44:54,680
Speaker 1: of a lot better than what you have had at Nebraska.

860
00:44:54,719 --> 00:44:57,200
Speaker 1: But also, Matt Ruhle just kind of strikes me as

861
00:44:57,200 --> 00:45:00,279
Speaker 1: a guy who gets it. He's uniquely in two with

862
00:45:00,320 --> 00:45:02,799
Speaker 1: what Nebraska is, what they aren't. But also I think

863
00:45:02,800 --> 00:45:04,520
Speaker 1: he understands what they could be. He's got a really

864
00:45:04,560 --> 00:45:07,680
Speaker 1: good vision for what they could be. But also I

865
00:45:07,719 --> 00:45:11,319
Speaker 1: don't view him as taking Nebraska and steering the program

866
00:45:11,480 --> 00:45:14,040
Speaker 1: in a direction that has no business being steered. Like

867
00:45:14,080 --> 00:45:16,480
Speaker 1: there are certain lanes Nebraska knows it can hang in.

868
00:45:16,960 --> 00:45:19,759
Speaker 1: There are some lanes they know we don't belong over there.

869
00:45:20,120 --> 00:45:21,879
Speaker 1: Let's stay here. If we do it right in this

870
00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:25,920
Speaker 1: lane a LAH Washington last year, all LA TCU two

871
00:45:26,000 --> 00:45:29,279
Speaker 1: years ago, we can be there at the end. Nebraska

872
00:45:29,320 --> 00:45:31,560
Speaker 1: could be there at the end. They're never gonna trade

873
00:45:31,600 --> 00:45:34,200
Speaker 1: shot for shot with Georgia. They're not trading shot for

874
00:45:34,239 --> 00:45:37,040
Speaker 1: shot with Ohio. State. But you know what, you catch

875
00:45:37,120 --> 00:45:38,680
Speaker 1: them in a down year and it's one of your

876
00:45:38,719 --> 00:45:42,440
Speaker 1: spike years. This is still college football. Okay, anything can happen.

877
00:45:42,840 --> 00:45:47,120
Speaker 1: Next up had a couple of We actually had ten

878
00:45:47,200 --> 00:45:49,319
Speaker 1: questions that I asked, Jesse, you think we got room

879
00:45:49,560 --> 00:45:51,840
Speaker 1: to throw these in tonight. He said, eh, maybe not

880
00:45:51,920 --> 00:45:53,960
Speaker 1: all of them, but we did arrive on two of them.

881
00:45:54,160 --> 00:45:59,320
Speaker 1: So the next one, James from Decatur, Georgia, says, judging

882
00:45:59,360 --> 00:46:04,800
Speaker 1: by the AP pole, the SEC looks overrated once again, because,

883
00:46:04,800 --> 00:46:07,719
Speaker 1: according to James, this is a trend. He continues, I'll

884
00:46:07,760 --> 00:46:11,520
Speaker 1: say it now, the SEC will not win the national

885
00:46:11,600 --> 00:46:15,640
Speaker 1: championship this year. Well, my goodness, what a stand to take, James, Well,

886
00:46:15,760 --> 00:46:18,480
Speaker 1: my goodness. So what did the AP poles say? The

887
00:46:18,600 --> 00:46:24,520
Speaker 1: evil AP has dared to put seven SEC teams in

888
00:46:24,560 --> 00:46:28,839
Speaker 1: their preseason top fifteen. Now, you might not be surprised

889
00:46:28,960 --> 00:46:32,160
Speaker 1: to find that I don't view this as too overly

890
00:46:32,200 --> 00:46:35,919
Speaker 1: egregious because the JP pole has nine in the top

891
00:46:35,960 --> 00:46:40,600
Speaker 1: twenty actually nine in the top fifteen. Now, if it

892
00:46:40,640 --> 00:46:43,680
Speaker 1: is any consolation outside the top fifteen, if you go

893
00:46:43,680 --> 00:46:45,239
Speaker 1: the rest of the top twenty five, I only had

894
00:46:45,280 --> 00:46:48,400
Speaker 1: one more. So hey, I had some SEC teams in

895
00:46:48,400 --> 00:46:49,880
Speaker 1: my top twenty five, but I made sure to put

896
00:46:49,920 --> 00:46:53,040
Speaker 1: them off the front of the line. Is that bias, Well,

897
00:46:53,200 --> 00:46:55,640
Speaker 1: don't ask me, ask the model. The model is what

898
00:46:55,680 --> 00:46:58,680
Speaker 1: puts the JP pole together. You guys think I would

899
00:46:58,719 --> 00:47:02,040
Speaker 1: dare interfere in something as sacred as the JP Pole,

900
00:47:02,160 --> 00:47:07,640
Speaker 1: I do. No, No, I wouldn't. The SEC does not

901
00:47:07,680 --> 00:47:11,200
Speaker 1: play for anything, James. The SEC does not play for

902
00:47:11,239 --> 00:47:14,400
Speaker 1: a national title. A team will play for a national title.

903
00:47:14,520 --> 00:47:17,759
Speaker 1: A team will win the national championship. I have never,

904
00:47:17,880 --> 00:47:21,240
Speaker 1: outside of media days, seen a helmet with an SEC

905
00:47:21,600 --> 00:47:23,480
Speaker 1: on the side of it. I've seen a team with

906
00:47:23,520 --> 00:47:25,520
Speaker 1: a G on the side of it, a little SEC

907
00:47:25,560 --> 00:47:27,440
Speaker 1: sticker on the back. That's about as close as we get.

908
00:47:27,520 --> 00:47:31,080
Speaker 1: That's called conference affiliation. But I do take your point.

909
00:47:31,280 --> 00:47:35,200
Speaker 1: Your point, I think is incorrect or misguided, because there's

910
00:47:35,239 --> 00:47:37,680
Speaker 1: this world if we want to talk about who wins

911
00:47:37,719 --> 00:47:41,160
Speaker 1: the title, there's this world where I'm looking at a

912
00:47:41,160 --> 00:47:43,960
Speaker 1: slider right now, and it says Ohio State has the

913
00:47:43,960 --> 00:47:46,120
Speaker 1: second best odds to win it all. It says Oregon

914
00:47:46,280 --> 00:47:48,680
Speaker 1: has the third best odds to win it all. Now,

915
00:47:48,719 --> 00:47:52,160
Speaker 1: the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh teams or SEC teams

916
00:47:52,160 --> 00:47:54,160
Speaker 1: and the first one is too, But never mind that,

917
00:47:54,280 --> 00:47:57,680
Speaker 1: never mind Vegas and Polsters and whatnot. What do they know? Hey,

918
00:47:58,000 --> 00:48:01,960
Speaker 1: let me ask you something. Let's just in ten seconds,

919
00:48:02,000 --> 00:48:05,479
Speaker 1: I'm gonna snap my fingers, and all truths were known.

920
00:48:05,840 --> 00:48:07,800
Speaker 1: There was no more guesswork. We just knew who the

921
00:48:07,840 --> 00:48:12,320
Speaker 1: best teams were. Voila, and right in front of you, James,

922
00:48:12,440 --> 00:48:15,480
Speaker 1: appears a sheet of paper and it tells you that

923
00:48:15,600 --> 00:48:18,279
Speaker 1: it's a fact that Ohio State will be the best

924
00:48:18,280 --> 00:48:20,680
Speaker 1: team in the country this year. But then that piece

925
00:48:20,680 --> 00:48:23,680
Speaker 1: of paper tells you two, three, four, five, six, seven,

926
00:48:23,719 --> 00:48:28,320
Speaker 1: and eight will all be SEC teams. James, who would

927
00:48:28,320 --> 00:48:31,840
Speaker 1: be your pick to win the national title if you

928
00:48:31,840 --> 00:48:35,240
Speaker 1: could pick one team? Because mine would be Ohio State

929
00:48:35,560 --> 00:48:38,279
Speaker 1: because I snapped my fingers and the truth paper told

930
00:48:38,280 --> 00:48:41,239
Speaker 1: me they're the best team. What if they went on

931
00:48:41,239 --> 00:48:45,760
Speaker 1: to win the national title and then everything else held

932
00:48:45,880 --> 00:48:49,880
Speaker 1: serve So SEC doesn't have a team that wins the title.

933
00:48:50,280 --> 00:48:53,359
Speaker 1: SEC has the literal second through eight the best teams

934
00:48:53,360 --> 00:48:55,239
Speaker 1: in the country. Guess who the best conference in the

935
00:48:55,239 --> 00:48:58,240
Speaker 1: country was? It was the SEC. Guess where it didn't

936
00:48:58,280 --> 00:49:01,240
Speaker 1: matter on the podium when they're handing over the national title.

937
00:49:01,440 --> 00:49:05,600
Speaker 1: So point being James, it is very possible that the

938
00:49:05,640 --> 00:49:08,319
Speaker 1: SEC is the best conference in college football and no

939
00:49:08,520 --> 00:49:12,960
Speaker 1: SEC team wins the title. Quite honestly, as we sit

940
00:49:13,040 --> 00:49:15,200
Speaker 1: here today, that's probably how I'd pick it. I'd probably

941
00:49:15,200 --> 00:49:17,799
Speaker 1: pick Ohio State to win the title today. I'd absolutely

942
00:49:17,840 --> 00:49:20,400
Speaker 1: slam dunk fashion say the SEC is the best conference.

943
00:49:20,560 --> 00:49:23,759
Speaker 1: And also, if you'll notice, when Colin put that question

944
00:49:23,840 --> 00:49:26,240
Speaker 1: up there, it didn't just say SEC is the best conference.

945
00:49:26,280 --> 00:49:28,279
Speaker 1: It didn't just say the AP overrated him. It said

946
00:49:28,560 --> 00:49:32,239
Speaker 1: yet again, which Colin correct me if I'm wrong, means

947
00:49:32,280 --> 00:49:36,520
Speaker 1: that there is an established pattern of this happening. So again,

948
00:49:36,600 --> 00:49:40,360
Speaker 1: can we stop with this foolishness about the SEC being overrated?

949
00:49:40,640 --> 00:49:44,200
Speaker 1: I have cold hard statistics, courtesy of stats and info

950
00:49:44,239 --> 00:49:46,960
Speaker 1: in front of me. The SEC in the playoff era,

951
00:49:47,040 --> 00:49:49,759
Speaker 1: it's only a decade. They won six titles. They had

952
00:49:49,800 --> 00:49:53,040
Speaker 1: twelve teams in the thing. The rest of college football

953
00:49:53,040 --> 00:49:55,040
Speaker 1: won four titles. They won six of them. They had

954
00:49:55,080 --> 00:49:57,920
Speaker 1: six hundred and thirty eight kids drafted in that time.

955
00:49:58,160 --> 00:50:00,800
Speaker 1: The Big Ten was next with four hundre fifty seven.

956
00:50:01,280 --> 00:50:04,040
Speaker 1: The SEC. This sounds like a typo, but it's not.

957
00:50:04,440 --> 00:50:08,040
Speaker 1: The SEC has had the number one ranked recruiting class.

958
00:50:08,440 --> 00:50:12,520
Speaker 1: Every year since two thousand and nine, there are kids

959
00:50:12,800 --> 00:50:15,800
Speaker 1: driving at least with a learner's license in some states

960
00:50:16,080 --> 00:50:18,759
Speaker 1: that weren't alive the last time a team other than

961
00:50:18,800 --> 00:50:21,680
Speaker 1: an SEC team had the top ranked recruiting class. And

962
00:50:21,760 --> 00:50:23,520
Speaker 1: the reason I put the draft on the back end

963
00:50:23,640 --> 00:50:25,560
Speaker 1: is because I know some of you too well. Some

964
00:50:25,600 --> 00:50:29,319
Speaker 1: of you would say, well, yeah, that's all rigged. Recruiting's rigged. Yeah,

965
00:50:29,360 --> 00:50:31,719
Speaker 1: of course, of course, you guys over at twenty four

966
00:50:31,719 --> 00:50:34,319
Speaker 1: to seven or on three arrivals or whatever. You guys

967
00:50:34,320 --> 00:50:37,400
Speaker 1: all make sure that the SEC's propped up. Well. Is

968
00:50:37,440 --> 00:50:41,120
Speaker 1: the NFL in on it as well? Friends, because the

969
00:50:41,200 --> 00:50:44,239
Speaker 1: NFL sure seems to share that sentiment. Four years later,

970
00:50:44,480 --> 00:50:47,279
Speaker 1: when the kids are knocking on their door, all I'm

971
00:50:47,320 --> 00:50:50,279
Speaker 1: saying is, yeah, it's possible. No SEC team wins the

972
00:50:50,280 --> 00:50:53,680
Speaker 1: title this year. But then being overrated, I mean the

973
00:50:53,719 --> 00:50:56,280
Speaker 1: age old rule on this show. If you call someone overrated,

974
00:50:56,560 --> 00:50:58,719
Speaker 1: what are they rated? As far as I can tell.

975
00:50:58,719 --> 00:51:00,640
Speaker 1: The SEC's rated number one, as far as I can tell.

976
00:51:00,680 --> 00:51:03,440
Speaker 1: This store on number one, Greg sank you ought to

977
00:51:03,480 --> 00:51:05,400
Speaker 1: send us a check for all the free marketing we

978
00:51:05,440 --> 00:51:08,839
Speaker 1: give him. Moving right along, got a couple more things

979
00:51:08,840 --> 00:51:10,600
Speaker 1: to get to and then we got the big thing

980
00:51:10,680 --> 00:51:16,520
Speaker 1: to get to, immunity. LSU's record this year will be Hello,

981
00:51:16,600 --> 00:51:18,719
Speaker 1: anyone fill in the blank. Well, I'm about to give

982
00:51:18,719 --> 00:51:21,440
Speaker 1: you my prediction for LSU. Here's what you need to know.

983
00:51:22,040 --> 00:51:25,280
Speaker 1: Courtesy of FanDuel over underwent total nine and a half.

984
00:51:26,000 --> 00:51:28,279
Speaker 1: It is juiced heavily to the under, but it is

985
00:51:28,400 --> 00:51:31,640
Speaker 1: nine and a half. They have the fifth best odds

986
00:51:31,840 --> 00:51:35,160
Speaker 1: to win the SEC. They are plus one twenty five

987
00:51:35,239 --> 00:51:39,719
Speaker 1: to make the playoff. So like just shy of being

988
00:51:39,760 --> 00:51:42,920
Speaker 1: outright favored to have a playoff spot. This is a

989
00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:46,640
Speaker 1: top five recruiting program the last five years, so the

990
00:51:46,760 --> 00:51:52,040
Speaker 1: talent profile on this team definitely tracks as a playoff contender.

991
00:51:52,760 --> 00:51:54,640
Speaker 1: But now we got to get specific. What do we

992
00:51:54,640 --> 00:51:56,600
Speaker 1: think we know? Well, what I think I know about

993
00:51:56,719 --> 00:51:59,799
Speaker 1: LSU is it's the best offensive tackle combo in college

994
00:51:59,840 --> 00:52:03,600
Speaker 1: four football. Will Campbell, Emery Jones, those guys will both

995
00:52:03,600 --> 00:52:07,880
Speaker 1: be playing on Sunday very very soon and it's going

996
00:52:07,920 --> 00:52:10,720
Speaker 1: to greatly impact the style of offense they can play

997
00:52:10,760 --> 00:52:13,120
Speaker 1: and probably that they have to play this year. The

998
00:52:13,160 --> 00:52:16,400
Speaker 1: next thing I think I know is that quarterback Garrett Nusmeyer,

999
00:52:16,840 --> 00:52:18,960
Speaker 1: if he has a good year, it'll be one of

1000
00:52:19,000 --> 00:52:22,480
Speaker 1: the best stories in college football. Garrett Nusmeyer, it's crazy.

1001
00:52:22,480 --> 00:52:25,080
Speaker 1: If you know his life story. His life story, he's

1002
00:52:25,120 --> 00:52:27,200
Speaker 1: just bounced around all over the place. He's lived in

1003
00:52:27,239 --> 00:52:31,680
Speaker 1: like twenty different places, which means if he commits somewhere

1004
00:52:31,719 --> 00:52:35,360
Speaker 1: and doesn't immediately start at quarterback, you think that'd be

1005
00:52:35,400 --> 00:52:37,280
Speaker 1: the kind of guy who would be a portal hopper,

1006
00:52:37,280 --> 00:52:41,000
Speaker 1: and instead he's stayed. He's stuck around. He waited his time,

1007
00:52:41,400 --> 00:52:45,080
Speaker 1: loves LSU and that's the kind of guy I root for. Now.

1008
00:52:45,120 --> 00:52:46,960
Speaker 1: Just because I root for you doesn't mean that the

1009
00:52:47,000 --> 00:52:48,560
Speaker 1: world works out in the way we want it to

1010
00:52:48,719 --> 00:52:52,400
Speaker 1: for you. But Garrett Nussmeyer, I think is ready for it.

1011
00:52:52,640 --> 00:52:54,920
Speaker 1: If they fail this year, it won't be because the

1012
00:52:54,960 --> 00:52:57,359
Speaker 1: moment was too big. In other words, so I think

1013
00:52:57,400 --> 00:53:01,399
Speaker 1: he's well prepared mentally for this. I think physically he's

1014
00:53:01,440 --> 00:53:04,359
Speaker 1: prepared for it, just a different physical skill set than

1015
00:53:04,400 --> 00:53:06,319
Speaker 1: what they had last year in Jade and Daniels. I

1016
00:53:06,320 --> 00:53:10,040
Speaker 1: also think I know they get how they have to

1017
00:53:10,080 --> 00:53:12,640
Speaker 1: win this year. I don't think many of you take

1018
00:53:12,680 --> 00:53:16,600
Speaker 1: time to listen to Brian Kelly press conferences, but you

1019
00:53:16,640 --> 00:53:18,719
Speaker 1: ought to listen to some of them because he's telling

1020
00:53:18,760 --> 00:53:21,000
Speaker 1: you what they got to do this year. His most

1021
00:53:21,080 --> 00:53:23,319
Speaker 1: recent one. I was watching it earlier today. It may

1022
00:53:23,360 --> 00:53:26,160
Speaker 1: have been from today or yesterday, and he's just flat

1023
00:53:26,200 --> 00:53:28,800
Speaker 1: out telegraphing we're going to play in a ton of

1024
00:53:28,840 --> 00:53:32,239
Speaker 1: close games this year. He knows they cannot replace that

1025
00:53:32,320 --> 00:53:35,400
Speaker 1: production at receiver now and the aggregate. They can be

1026
00:53:35,480 --> 00:53:38,480
Speaker 1: good enough there, and they can be better at tailback

1027
00:53:38,680 --> 00:53:40,680
Speaker 1: because they're also not going to run the ball at

1028
00:53:40,760 --> 00:53:43,480
Speaker 1: quarterback like they did last year when Daniels was quite

1029
00:53:43,600 --> 00:53:46,799
Speaker 1: literally their leading rusher. He knows they're not where they

1030
00:53:46,960 --> 00:53:49,280
Speaker 1: need to be to be top of the line defensively yet.

1031
00:53:49,480 --> 00:53:52,319
Speaker 1: So they've got to try and be in games with

1032
00:53:52,440 --> 00:53:54,960
Speaker 1: seven minutes to go in the fourth quarter, have one

1033
00:53:55,000 --> 00:53:57,440
Speaker 1: more possession than you, and have the ball bounce their

1034
00:53:57,440 --> 00:54:01,719
Speaker 1: way and win their big games and be plus three

1035
00:54:01,800 --> 00:54:04,440
Speaker 1: or four and one possession battles. That's what Brian Kelly

1036
00:54:04,520 --> 00:54:06,560
Speaker 1: is telling you. I don't even have to read between

1037
00:54:06,560 --> 00:54:09,479
Speaker 1: the lines. That's what he's saying. They get that, they've

1038
00:54:09,560 --> 00:54:12,080
Speaker 1: understood that since spring. They know that's what they got

1039
00:54:12,080 --> 00:54:14,399
Speaker 1: to do. So now we talk about what we need

1040
00:54:14,440 --> 00:54:17,960
Speaker 1: to know. I need to know, as does the entire country.

1041
00:54:18,360 --> 00:54:21,000
Speaker 1: How much this defense improves, because they were in the

1042
00:54:21,040 --> 00:54:25,319
Speaker 1: one hundreds in most critical categories last year. Terrible, I

1043
00:54:25,360 --> 00:54:31,600
Speaker 1: mean historically rancid defense at LSU. It wasted a Heisman

1044
00:54:31,640 --> 00:54:35,560
Speaker 1: Trophy winning season. It wasted an elite offense, had Mike

1045
00:54:35,640 --> 00:54:38,680
Speaker 1: Denbrock there dialing it up, had your Heisman trophy quarterback,

1046
00:54:38,800 --> 00:54:41,719
Speaker 1: and you lost three games because you couldn't stop molasses

1047
00:54:41,760 --> 00:54:44,160
Speaker 1: in December. As mem would say, that was a shame.

1048
00:54:44,400 --> 00:54:48,200
Speaker 1: That was them. This is now, how improved are they are?

1049
00:54:48,239 --> 00:54:51,160
Speaker 1: The rush yards there, that's another thing we need to know,

1050
00:54:51,680 --> 00:54:55,400
Speaker 1: Jaden Daniels, As I said, at quarterback, they're leading rusher

1051
00:54:55,480 --> 00:54:59,480
Speaker 1: last year over eleven hundred rushing yards. Logan Digs was

1052
00:54:59,560 --> 00:55:02,759
Speaker 1: next with six fifty three. Neither of them return, neither

1053
00:55:02,800 --> 00:55:07,200
Speaker 1: does Noah Kine. And there is no proven production for

1054
00:55:07,520 --> 00:55:10,880
Speaker 1: LSU on this board here. Now. I say that, but

1055
00:55:10,960 --> 00:55:13,759
Speaker 1: I'm also going to tell you we've gotten really good

1056
00:55:13,840 --> 00:55:16,440
Speaker 1: reports out of fall camp down there that they believe

1057
00:55:16,480 --> 00:55:18,560
Speaker 1: this is part of their offense that they can lean on.

1058
00:55:19,239 --> 00:55:21,600
Speaker 1: But if you know the history of LSU leaning on

1059
00:55:21,640 --> 00:55:26,640
Speaker 1: the tailback position post like Leonard Fournette, with very few exceptions,

1060
00:55:26,920 --> 00:55:30,160
Speaker 1: it's been more miss than hit. So I'm taking await

1061
00:55:30,200 --> 00:55:33,040
Speaker 1: and see approach on that. I don't think they need

1062
00:55:33,080 --> 00:55:35,759
Speaker 1: some thousand yard receiver. I don't think Kyroen Lacy, who's

1063
00:55:35,800 --> 00:55:38,319
Speaker 1: their one right now receiver, I don't think they need

1064
00:55:38,400 --> 00:55:40,759
Speaker 1: him to be a thousand yard receiver this year. He

1065
00:55:40,840 --> 00:55:43,279
Speaker 1: has the ability to be. I don't think they need that.

1066
00:55:43,760 --> 00:55:46,520
Speaker 1: What I want to know is in the aggregate of

1067
00:55:46,520 --> 00:55:49,640
Speaker 1: trying to replace I think twenty seven hundred some odd

1068
00:55:49,680 --> 00:55:51,960
Speaker 1: receiving yards with a couple of guys that are in

1069
00:55:52,000 --> 00:55:55,040
Speaker 1: the NFL now, in the aggregate, can they make up

1070
00:55:55,040 --> 00:55:56,960
Speaker 1: for it if they don't have Kyron and Lacy go

1071
00:55:57,040 --> 00:56:00,279
Speaker 1: off this year? Can they have like four guys get

1072
00:56:00,320 --> 00:56:02,759
Speaker 1: me five hundred or more receiving yards? Because if you

1073
00:56:02,840 --> 00:56:05,520
Speaker 1: got that and you got a little bit better defense

1074
00:56:05,560 --> 00:56:07,600
Speaker 1: than is expected, and you can run the ball and

1075
00:56:07,640 --> 00:56:10,160
Speaker 1: win those close games, you could be a playoff team.

1076
00:56:10,320 --> 00:56:11,840
Speaker 1: You could be that. Still a lot of good players,

1077
00:56:11,880 --> 00:56:14,440
Speaker 1: a lot of good talent at LSU, this coaching staff,

1078
00:56:15,280 --> 00:56:18,880
Speaker 1: who the defense last year. You'll look back on the

1079
00:56:18,880 --> 00:56:21,839
Speaker 1: Brian Kelly era, however long it ends up being, and

1080
00:56:22,280 --> 00:56:27,040
Speaker 1: his twenty twenty three defensive hires will go down collectively

1081
00:56:27,600 --> 00:56:30,200
Speaker 1: as some of the worst decision making that he made there,

1082
00:56:31,480 --> 00:56:34,920
Speaker 1: the good decision making was he flushed it, and he

1083
00:56:34,960 --> 00:56:38,360
Speaker 1: went and single handedly upgraded a side of the ball

1084
00:56:38,640 --> 00:56:41,760
Speaker 1: as much as any coach at any level of college

1085
00:56:41,760 --> 00:56:45,719
Speaker 1: football did this past cycle. So now they're very high

1086
00:56:45,800 --> 00:56:48,799
Speaker 1: level over there. Kevin Peeples is one of the best

1087
00:56:49,200 --> 00:56:52,719
Speaker 1: pass rush coaches, probably the best in the country. But

1088
00:56:52,760 --> 00:56:55,919
Speaker 1: also he went and got Bo Davis, and he got

1089
00:56:55,920 --> 00:56:58,719
Speaker 1: Corey Raymond back down there, Blake Baker, and by the way,

1090
00:56:59,160 --> 00:57:03,319
Speaker 1: speaking of Corey, just in general, injecting a lot more

1091
00:57:03,440 --> 00:57:08,080
Speaker 1: Louisiana flavor back into LSU was badly needed. And there's

1092
00:57:08,120 --> 00:57:11,160
Speaker 1: some off the field support staff types that have names

1093
00:57:11,160 --> 00:57:14,000
Speaker 1: you probably wouldn't know that are back there now that

1094
00:57:14,840 --> 00:57:17,600
Speaker 1: was badly needed. And the closer you get to Louisiana,

1095
00:57:17,720 --> 00:57:20,560
Speaker 1: the more frequently folks will tell you that the support

1096
00:57:20,640 --> 00:57:25,200
Speaker 1: staff here is probably only top six the offensively, Joe

1097
00:57:25,200 --> 00:57:28,560
Speaker 1: Sloan's the offensive coordinator, only two years as a play caller,

1098
00:57:28,640 --> 00:57:31,160
Speaker 1: so we don't grade him. We need at least three

1099
00:57:31,200 --> 00:57:35,320
Speaker 1: years under the belt. But defensive coaching staff there, support

1100
00:57:35,360 --> 00:57:38,160
Speaker 1: staff very very high level, as big a jump as

1101
00:57:38,200 --> 00:57:42,479
Speaker 1: any side of the ball in college football, So how

1102
00:57:42,520 --> 00:57:44,960
Speaker 1: good can the players be is the question? What can

1103
00:57:45,000 --> 00:57:47,800
Speaker 1: the coaches do with the players? Schedule this year, five

1104
00:57:47,880 --> 00:57:50,360
Speaker 1: teams in the top twenty of the college football playoff

1105
00:57:50,400 --> 00:57:53,840
Speaker 1: odds are on lsu schedule. Out of conference is not easy.

1106
00:57:53,840 --> 00:57:57,840
Speaker 1: They open with USC they also have UCLA at home,

1107
00:57:58,320 --> 00:58:00,920
Speaker 1: but they play three of the four bottom teams in

1108
00:58:01,000 --> 00:58:05,280
Speaker 1: the SEC. Vandy's on the schedule, Arkansas's on the schedule.

1109
00:58:05,680 --> 00:58:10,080
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you one other thing, paper pop here. Okay,

1110
00:58:10,120 --> 00:58:13,840
Speaker 1: this is a padlock stat In terms of scheduling. We

1111
00:58:14,280 --> 00:58:19,440
Speaker 1: track by edges around here, and LSU has one of

1112
00:58:19,480 --> 00:58:23,520
Speaker 1: the biggest hidden buy advantages against any team in a

1113
00:58:23,560 --> 00:58:26,400
Speaker 1: big moment this year. October twelfth's the biggest Saturday of

1114
00:58:26,440 --> 00:58:29,480
Speaker 1: the year in college football. Ole Miss goes to Baton

1115
00:58:29,560 --> 00:58:33,600
Speaker 1: Rouge that Saturday. I need you to understand something. LSU's

1116
00:58:33,600 --> 00:58:35,880
Speaker 1: got a bye week before that. That will be ole

1117
00:58:36,000 --> 00:58:42,000
Speaker 1: Miss's seventh consecutive game. Anybody here, Yeah, yeah, yeah, six

1118
00:58:42,040 --> 00:58:46,520
Speaker 1: games right before that, So huge by advantage in favor

1119
00:58:46,560 --> 00:58:49,760
Speaker 1: of LSU. There. What is the best case for the

1120
00:58:49,760 --> 00:58:54,120
Speaker 1: Tigers this year? My best case for LSU is eleven

1121
00:58:54,120 --> 00:58:56,680
Speaker 1: and one model sees a loss. No matter how we

1122
00:58:56,760 --> 00:59:01,360
Speaker 1: slice it, my worst case for LSU bordered on five

1123
00:59:01,400 --> 00:59:04,520
Speaker 1: and seven because there is a total disaster scenario here

1124
00:59:04,920 --> 00:59:07,920
Speaker 1: with this defense combined with losing all that offensive production

1125
00:59:07,960 --> 00:59:10,600
Speaker 1: and not being able to backfill it. It's the widest

1126
00:59:10,720 --> 00:59:13,560
Speaker 1: variance gap that we have for any major team. But

1127
00:59:13,680 --> 00:59:16,000
Speaker 1: I'm not going to go that wide of a gap.

1128
00:59:16,240 --> 00:59:19,320
Speaker 1: So my worst case is six and six for LSU,

1129
00:59:19,400 --> 00:59:20,880
Speaker 1: and even eleven and one to six and six is

1130
00:59:20,920 --> 00:59:23,200
Speaker 1: pretty wild. My prediction for them is nine and three.

1131
00:59:23,760 --> 00:59:25,720
Speaker 1: The JP pole has them at number ten to start

1132
00:59:25,720 --> 00:59:28,560
Speaker 1: the season. My prediction is nine and three for them,

1133
00:59:28,800 --> 00:59:31,360
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna be honest with you, that buy advantage

1134
00:59:31,400 --> 00:59:34,080
Speaker 1: they have against old mess was worth going from eight

1135
00:59:34,120 --> 00:59:35,800
Speaker 1: and four to nine and three. I'm a little bit

1136
00:59:35,800 --> 00:59:40,520
Speaker 1: lower on LSU than some other folks are, But there

1137
00:59:40,600 --> 00:59:42,880
Speaker 1: is also this world when you look at the way

1138
00:59:42,920 --> 00:59:45,840
Speaker 1: their schedule starts. If they start off strong against USC

1139
00:59:46,200 --> 00:59:49,520
Speaker 1: and that bowling ball turns into a snowball that starts

1140
00:59:49,520 --> 00:59:52,120
Speaker 1: to roll downhill, I see it just the same way

1141
00:59:52,160 --> 00:59:54,080
Speaker 1: you guys do. I see how that can turn into

1142
00:59:54,440 --> 00:59:56,440
Speaker 1: all of a sudden. LSU is a playoff team. I

1143
00:59:56,440 --> 00:59:58,760
Speaker 1: can see it. So I'm gonna go nine and three,

1144
00:59:59,160 --> 01:00:02,160
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of variants there, a lot of variants.

1145
01:00:02,400 --> 01:00:05,680
Speaker 1: All right, one more thing to get to and then

1146
01:00:05,720 --> 01:00:08,760
Speaker 1: gas station recruiting wars commences. Actually it's not going to commence.

1147
01:00:09,000 --> 01:00:12,360
Speaker 1: Gas station recruiting wars will come to a very very

1148
01:00:12,480 --> 01:00:17,240
Speaker 1: dramatic and chaotic ending. Bold predictions things that you believe

1149
01:00:17,680 --> 01:00:20,160
Speaker 1: so fervently you claim you have bet your own money

1150
01:00:20,240 --> 01:00:23,640
Speaker 1: on these things. First up on this Thursday evening here

1151
01:00:23,640 --> 01:00:28,600
Speaker 1: in mid August, what about Texas? A and M. Tucker said,

1152
01:00:28,600 --> 01:00:32,080
Speaker 1: the Aggies will have a losing record, but they'll beat Texas. Well,

1153
01:00:32,120 --> 01:00:34,680
Speaker 1: this is insane. So this is a nine point seventy

1154
01:00:34,760 --> 01:00:37,200
Speaker 1: five on the boldness scale. Their win toals eight and

1155
01:00:37,240 --> 01:00:41,880
Speaker 1: a half. By the way, so understand what he just predicted.

1156
01:00:43,200 --> 01:00:45,840
Speaker 1: He just predicted that A ANDM has to go into

1157
01:00:45,880 --> 01:00:47,800
Speaker 1: the Texas game, which is the last game of the year.

1158
01:00:47,920 --> 01:00:49,800
Speaker 1: They have to go into that game four and seven.

1159
01:00:50,720 --> 01:00:53,200
Speaker 1: They can't go into it five and six because if

1160
01:00:53,200 --> 01:00:55,360
Speaker 1: they're going to win the game, that would make them

1161
01:00:55,360 --> 01:00:57,440
Speaker 1: six and six, and they didn't have a losing record.

1162
01:00:57,520 --> 01:00:59,120
Speaker 1: So A and M's going to be four and seven

1163
01:00:59,440 --> 01:01:03,160
Speaker 1: going into the game, which means they've lost to basically

1164
01:01:03,200 --> 01:01:08,280
Speaker 1: all of Notre Dame, Florida, Missouri, Auburn, LSU, South Carolina,

1165
01:01:08,320 --> 01:01:11,160
Speaker 1: Mississippi State, or Arkansas. There are seven losses there, and

1166
01:01:11,200 --> 01:01:13,360
Speaker 1: you're telling me they're gonna beat Texas. Well, I'm telling

1167
01:01:13,400 --> 01:01:15,880
Speaker 1: you they're not, because if they're bad enough to lose those,

1168
01:01:15,960 --> 01:01:17,600
Speaker 1: they will not be good enough. I don't care how

1169
01:01:17,880 --> 01:01:20,200
Speaker 1: charged Kyle Field is, they will not be good enough

1170
01:01:20,240 --> 01:01:22,600
Speaker 1: to hang with Texas. So that's a nine point seventy five.

1171
01:01:23,520 --> 01:01:27,080
Speaker 1: Appreciate you playing next up. I like this when we

1172
01:01:27,080 --> 01:01:29,760
Speaker 1: had a version of this last year. Brian from Wilmington,

1173
01:01:29,800 --> 01:01:33,600
Speaker 1: North Carolina. Two teams from the Carolinas will make the

1174
01:01:33,600 --> 01:01:37,720
Speaker 1: playoff this year. Okay, slow down. I think a lot

1175
01:01:37,800 --> 01:01:40,560
Speaker 1: of you just started yelling nines on the boldness scale.

1176
01:01:40,840 --> 01:01:42,920
Speaker 1: This is only an eight point twenty five for me.

1177
01:01:43,840 --> 01:01:47,320
Speaker 1: Think about the structure of the playoff. We've got a

1178
01:01:47,360 --> 01:01:50,400
Speaker 1: G five auto bid baked in here as well, so

1179
01:01:51,040 --> 01:01:54,160
Speaker 1: we got Clemson plus two to h five odds to

1180
01:01:54,160 --> 01:01:56,680
Speaker 1: make the playoff. They're from South Carolina. We got NC

1181
01:01:56,880 --> 01:02:00,240
Speaker 1: State from North Carolina plus four to seventy odds to

1182
01:02:00,240 --> 01:02:02,240
Speaker 1: make the playoff. But they're both in the same conference

1183
01:02:02,280 --> 01:02:04,680
Speaker 1: point being someone's got to come out of the ACC

1184
01:02:05,040 --> 01:02:08,880
Speaker 1: so we could have one of them. But also Liberty

1185
01:02:09,360 --> 01:02:12,280
Speaker 1: has the best odds to go undefeated of any team

1186
01:02:12,320 --> 01:02:14,720
Speaker 1: in college football, and if they do that, they're going

1187
01:02:14,800 --> 01:02:16,960
Speaker 1: to be the one in the playoff. But also app

1188
01:02:17,000 --> 01:02:19,720
Speaker 1: State is favored to win the Sun Belt. Maybe app

1189
01:02:19,720 --> 01:02:22,840
Speaker 1: State's the highest ranked G five conference champ, so they're

1190
01:02:22,880 --> 01:02:26,800
Speaker 1: in this thing as well. I think there's a reasonable

1191
01:02:26,880 --> 01:02:29,520
Speaker 1: chance this ends up happening. And on the surface, it

1192
01:02:29,560 --> 01:02:31,160
Speaker 1: sounds a lot bolder than it is. So I gave

1193
01:02:31,200 --> 01:02:34,160
Speaker 1: that an eight point twenty five. This next one is

1194
01:02:34,200 --> 01:02:38,880
Speaker 1: a lot more bold than eight point twenty five. Chris

1195
01:02:39,520 --> 01:02:43,120
Speaker 1: just shows violence this evening from Atlanta, Georgia. He said

1196
01:02:43,120 --> 01:02:47,840
Speaker 1: Ohio State will miss the playoff, and Chris laid out

1197
01:02:47,840 --> 01:02:50,800
Speaker 1: the whole scenario. But let's just let's just take those

1198
01:02:50,840 --> 01:02:54,680
Speaker 1: first one, two, three, five worre Ohio State misses the playoff.

1199
01:02:56,600 --> 01:03:01,200
Speaker 1: Nobody sees this coming. Nobody. How many people out there,

1200
01:03:01,600 --> 01:03:03,480
Speaker 1: and I'm talking about people putting their money on it.

1201
01:03:03,600 --> 01:03:05,960
Speaker 1: How many people are predicting Ohio State to just outright

1202
01:03:06,080 --> 01:03:08,640
Speaker 1: miss the playoff? How many people are putting that in

1203
01:03:08,640 --> 01:03:11,160
Speaker 1: writing and making it public I'm gonna make this a

1204
01:03:11,240 --> 01:03:16,160
Speaker 1: nine point seventy five. This would reset every scale of logic.

1205
01:03:16,800 --> 01:03:18,920
Speaker 1: Like right now, people are talking about what happens to

1206
01:03:19,000 --> 01:03:21,600
Speaker 1: Ryan Day if he loses the Michigan game, But even

1207
01:03:21,680 --> 01:03:25,320
Speaker 1: those paths have him in the playoff. This one doesn't

1208
01:03:25,360 --> 01:03:27,720
Speaker 1: have him in the playoff. So I'm the first one

1209
01:03:27,720 --> 01:03:30,640
Speaker 1: to tell you, you're like insane if you're talking about

1210
01:03:30,640 --> 01:03:33,880
Speaker 1: hot seat with Ryan Day. But if they don't make

1211
01:03:33,920 --> 01:03:35,919
Speaker 1: the playoff with what I believe to be the best

1212
01:03:35,920 --> 01:03:39,200
Speaker 1: team he's had there, I don't even know what it

1213
01:03:39,240 --> 01:03:42,280
Speaker 1: would sound like. That's three losses. By the way, I'm

1214
01:03:42,280 --> 01:03:44,480
Speaker 1: thinking it takes three losses for them not to be

1215
01:03:44,600 --> 01:03:47,960
Speaker 1: in So that I would assume means they lose the

1216
01:03:48,000 --> 01:03:50,720
Speaker 1: Oregon game, they lose the Penn State game, and they

1217
01:03:50,760 --> 01:03:53,760
Speaker 1: lose to Michigan. Is that what happened here? If that's

1218
01:03:53,800 --> 01:03:58,480
Speaker 1: what happened, ten and two versus nine and three is

1219
01:03:58,480 --> 01:04:00,640
Speaker 1: a very different thing. See if they go ten and

1220
01:04:00,720 --> 01:04:03,680
Speaker 1: two and they're probably gonna make the playoff. If they

1221
01:04:03,760 --> 01:04:06,920
Speaker 1: do that, yeah, they're viewed as an underachiever, but they

1222
01:04:06,920 --> 01:04:08,640
Speaker 1: got a shot to a tone for it in the postseason.

1223
01:04:08,720 --> 01:04:11,760
Speaker 1: Plus maybe they beat Michigan, or if they lost to Michigan,

1224
01:04:11,840 --> 01:04:13,480
Speaker 1: maybe they still made the Big Ten title game and

1225
01:04:13,520 --> 01:04:16,360
Speaker 1: get a rematch, or maybe Michigan's not there. There are

1226
01:04:16,400 --> 01:04:18,520
Speaker 1: other ways to put lipstick on the pig at that point.

1227
01:04:18,680 --> 01:04:21,240
Speaker 1: But if they're nine and three, they're not going to

1228
01:04:21,280 --> 01:04:23,960
Speaker 1: be in. And if they're nine to three and not in,

1229
01:04:24,040 --> 01:04:25,640
Speaker 1: and Ryan Days sitting there with that kind of talent

1230
01:04:25,680 --> 01:04:29,760
Speaker 1: and they didn't make the postseason, yeah, I don't even know.

1231
01:04:30,160 --> 01:04:32,160
Speaker 1: I have no idea. Hopefully we don't have to cross

1232
01:04:32,200 --> 01:04:37,680
Speaker 1: that bridge. And lastly, this one's h well, this one's eclectic.

1233
01:04:38,000 --> 01:04:43,160
Speaker 1: Robert from Tucson, Arizona. Arizona makes it to the playoffs

1234
01:04:43,560 --> 01:04:46,880
Speaker 1: only to be killed by an SEC team. I'm not

1235
01:04:46,960 --> 01:04:49,720
Speaker 1: a fan of this prediction, Robert, because it has total

1236
01:04:49,800 --> 01:04:52,960
Speaker 1: randomness baked into it. So my first question is what

1237
01:04:52,960 --> 01:04:56,919
Speaker 1: are we doing. Secondly, let's talk about this Arizona making

1238
01:04:56,920 --> 01:04:59,040
Speaker 1: the playoff. They're plus eleven hundred to make the playoff

1239
01:04:59,040 --> 01:05:01,560
Speaker 1: this year, win total seven and a half. They have

1240
01:05:01,600 --> 01:05:04,280
Speaker 1: the seventh best odds to win the Big Twelve. It

1241
01:05:04,360 --> 01:05:06,520
Speaker 1: is the Big twelve. So the rule there is anything

1242
01:05:06,520 --> 01:05:09,680
Speaker 1: can happen, but even if it happens, even if they

1243
01:05:09,680 --> 01:05:13,440
Speaker 1: make the playoff, you're predicting which conference is gonna knock

1244
01:05:13,520 --> 01:05:16,280
Speaker 1: them out, which is out of anyone's control. Even the

1245
01:05:16,280 --> 01:05:19,040
Speaker 1: committee doesn't know how the bracket stacks up. So I'm

1246
01:05:19,040 --> 01:05:21,040
Speaker 1: gonna put a nine point five on this. And here's

1247
01:05:21,040 --> 01:05:23,560
Speaker 1: what's gonna make me angry. If they make it. I'll

1248
01:05:23,560 --> 01:05:25,800
Speaker 1: be happy for Arizona for making it, But if they

1249
01:05:25,880 --> 01:05:29,800
Speaker 1: make it and go get beat by thirty eight against Georgia,

1250
01:05:30,080 --> 01:05:32,120
Speaker 1: someone's gonna come back and tell me I told you so.

1251
01:05:32,480 --> 01:05:34,680
Speaker 1: And there's literally no possible way you could have seen

1252
01:05:34,720 --> 01:05:37,160
Speaker 1: this coming. You can tell me you saw Arizona making

1253
01:05:37,160 --> 01:05:39,880
Speaker 1: the playoff who they play in the playoff. There is

1254
01:05:39,960 --> 01:05:42,840
Speaker 1: no skill whatsoever in knowing that, and you'll be hard

1255
01:05:42,840 --> 01:05:48,240
Speaker 1: pressed to convince me otherwise. Oh boy, if we had

1256
01:05:48,240 --> 01:05:50,080
Speaker 1: a drum roll, I would go ahead and ask you

1257
01:05:50,120 --> 01:05:52,320
Speaker 1: to start it. So we were looking at those odds

1258
01:05:52,360 --> 01:05:56,840
Speaker 1: a second ago. It's been really fun lately producing these

1259
01:05:56,880 --> 01:05:59,200
Speaker 1: shows because we always have fan duel pulled up on

1260
01:05:59,240 --> 01:06:04,520
Speaker 1: a monitor, and more and more every week action is

1261
01:06:04,560 --> 01:06:06,880
Speaker 1: coming in on these lines and these games and these

1262
01:06:06,880 --> 01:06:09,600
Speaker 1: totals and these prop bets and whatnot, So we're seeing

1263
01:06:09,600 --> 01:06:12,040
Speaker 1: where the market's taken some of these. Case in point,

1264
01:06:12,320 --> 01:06:15,000
Speaker 1: we had Michigan over under nine and a half. Well

1265
01:06:15,000 --> 01:06:17,640
Speaker 1: now it's down to eight and a half. Well, of course,

1266
01:06:17,680 --> 01:06:20,520
Speaker 1: because people have bet the under. That's been fun to watch.

1267
01:06:20,960 --> 01:06:24,240
Speaker 1: And I keep telling you, FanDuel fully on board with us,

1268
01:06:24,320 --> 01:06:27,560
Speaker 1: the official odds provider of Pate State, So we appreciate

1269
01:06:27,560 --> 01:06:30,040
Speaker 1: them for that. We appreciate them because they're in touch

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Speaker 1: partner that's been with us all year. Academy is a

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Speaker 1: partner that's been with us for several years. But that's

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Speaker 1: not what you're here for tonight. We've gone on an

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Speaker 1: incredible journey this year. Back in the spring, I sort

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Speaker 1: of started toying around with the idea that we're on

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Speaker 1: the road all the time. I'm at college football games

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Speaker 1: every week in the fall. In the spring, we were

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Speaker 1: of campus, and we were constantly at gas stations. I'm

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Speaker 1: a storm chaser too, so in the spring, I'm in Oklahoma,

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Speaker 1: I'm in Kansas, I'm all across the Midwest and into

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Speaker 1: Dixie Alley, and we're at gas stations all the time.

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Speaker 1: You're just sitting in gas station parking lots. I know

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Speaker 1: these places like the back of my hand, and I thought,

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Speaker 1: why don't we have a partnership. So we started throwing

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Speaker 1: it out there on the show. The thing about this

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Speaker 1: show is it's big enough where someone in every walk

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Speaker 1: of life is watching. And so quickly we got hit

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Speaker 1: up by like seven or eight gas stations. So we

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Speaker 1: started a talk. We wanted a partnership. But the boy

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Speaker 1: partnerships work around here is different. In the ad sales world,

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Speaker 1: they give you a certain amount of mone you put

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Speaker 1: their logo somewhere, you do a little thirty second ad

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Speaker 1: read it's done. That's not the way it works here.

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Speaker 1: That's never the way it's going to work here around here.

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Speaker 1: The only way we enter into partnerships is if it

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Speaker 1: benefits every single one of us, and that's always been

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Speaker 1: the way it was going to work here. So we

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Speaker 1: went through the process. We went through the recruiting process

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Speaker 1: and we whittled it down to four finalists, loves Pilot,

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Speaker 1: Quick Trip, Racetrack. They were all awesome to work with.

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Speaker 1: The recruiting process was phenomenal because we found someone who

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Speaker 1: was on board with the way that we insist on

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Speaker 1: doing things around here. Not only were they on board

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Speaker 1: with it, they were very, very excited to do it

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Speaker 1: that way. And I'll tell you why because they watched

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Speaker 1: the show, so they get the show. So we didn't

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Speaker 1: have to explain our audience to anyone. And so tonight

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Speaker 1: has been the night that we've circled. We've led up

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Speaker 1: to it for weeks and weeks and weeks. Some of

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Speaker 1: you thought it was ridiculous. I disagree, And so, without

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Speaker 1: further ado, Jesse and Colin gas Station Recruiting Wars commitment ceremony.

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Speaker 1: It is go time. Okay, Josh, can you hear me? Hey? Hey?

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Speaker 1: Quite that shut up? Yeah? I can hear you. I

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Speaker 1: can hear you. Okay. This has been one of the

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Speaker 1: wildest recruitments that I personally can remember in the modern era.

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Speaker 1: Knowing you like I think I do, this cannot have

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Speaker 1: been easy for you. It hasn't been easy, Josh, it

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Speaker 1: has not been easy. In fact, this is one of

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Speaker 1: the hardest things I've ever done in my life. I

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Speaker 1: haven't lived a very hard life. You know, I gotta

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Speaker 1: thank God. I gotta think my family. I got to

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Speaker 1: think racetrack and quick Trip and pilot flying Jay and

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Speaker 1: loves for even making this possible. You know, we wouldn't

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Speaker 1: be here today without them. It's amazing to be recruited.

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Speaker 1: This is just amazing to be able to be in

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Speaker 1: a position to give everyone gas this fall. If we

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Speaker 1: can give everyone gas that's this fall, then our mission

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Speaker 1: has been accomplished. You know, I couldn't have said it

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Speaker 1: better myself. You've always had a way with words. I

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Speaker 1: appreciate that about you. Okay, moment of truth. Someone's life's

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Speaker 1: about to change. Who's it going to be. It's a

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Speaker 1: big moment. We've waited a long time for it. I

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Speaker 1: got four really great companies here in front of me.

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Speaker 1: It's a quick trip. It's going on a quick trip.

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Speaker 1: It's quick trip. Yeah, it's quick trip. Here's the promise

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Speaker 1: I gave you guys a long time ago. Oh my goodness,

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Speaker 1: look at this. The promise I gave you guys a

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Speaker 1: long time ago was anytime we partnered with someone, I

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Speaker 1: was going to make sure that it benefited all of us.

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Speaker 1: So let me break down exactly what that means for you.

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Speaker 1: In our meetings with quick Trip, I explained exactly that

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Speaker 1: they finished our sentences for us. Probably the best synergy,

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Speaker 1: Like Academy was like this too, best synergy that we've

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Speaker 1: ever had in any kind of partnership negotiation, because it

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Speaker 1: really wasn't negotiation. Everyone was excited a lot of laughter,

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Speaker 1: but they said, yeah, we get it, all right, what

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Speaker 1: do we want to do? And I said, my folks

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Speaker 1: want free gas. That's what they want. So, in almost

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Speaker 1: like presidential fashion, I can announce tonight that the powers

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Speaker 1: that be at quick Trip have authorized me to give

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Speaker 1: away literal thousands of dollars in free gas this fall.

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Speaker 1: Why do I say this fall, Well, that's because part

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Speaker 1: two of the announcement, which I didn't really tease but

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Speaker 1: i'll make now, is that quick Trip is sponsoring our

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Speaker 1: tour this fall, and we haven't even named it, but

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Speaker 1: we will this Sunday night. So you talk about paint

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Speaker 1: state material, those folks right there are peyt state material.

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Speaker 1: They get it. It's the reason that we want to

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Speaker 1: be in partnership with them, and I can promise you

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Speaker 1: they're watching, and I can promise you I'm watching. And so,

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Speaker 1: just like it's worked with Chili of Supremacy, just like

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Speaker 1: it's worked with those Academy gift cards, if you are

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Speaker 1: caught promoting this show, if you're caught sending in good feedback,

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Speaker 1: if you just catch me on a good day or

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Speaker 1: see me on the road, and I'm in the right mood,

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Speaker 1: we're just tossing out tanks of gas. I know times

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Speaker 1: quite literally every one if you drive a car, most

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Speaker 1: And so they are here in the nick of time

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Speaker 1: to help you out. So we one here. They want here.

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Speaker 1: Most importantly, every single one of you are going to

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Speaker 1: win here. So hats off to all of these gas stations.

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Speaker 1: It was fun getting to all of them, but Quick

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Speaker 1: Trip felt like home, and so we are home. It

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Speaker 1: is Quick Trip. I appreciate you guys so much, for

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Speaker 1: our entire crew for welcoming us down here in Fort Longervill,

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Speaker 1: for producer Jesse, for direct Colin. I'm Josh bab take care,

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Speaker 1: have a great start to your weekend, and we'll see

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