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Speaker 1: I would like to define it on the day it happens.

430
00:22:30,920 --> 00:22:33,119
Speaker 1: That's where the value of the game is for me.

431
00:22:33,720 --> 00:22:36,159
Speaker 1: I want to define the value then and freeze it,

432
00:22:36,520 --> 00:22:40,159
Speaker 1: lock it in so that we we don't fall to

433
00:22:40,200 --> 00:22:45,359
Speaker 1: the temptation of changing the value afterwards because that team

434
00:22:45,400 --> 00:22:48,199
Speaker 1: has subsequently gone and lost more games because of the

435
00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:51,640
Speaker 1: possibility that that team's losing more games because you either

436
00:22:51,720 --> 00:22:56,239
Speaker 1: injured them or you mentally drained them. That happens all

437
00:22:56,240 --> 00:23:00,520
Speaker 1: the time. There are exceptions. I have all been a

438
00:23:00,520 --> 00:23:04,240
Speaker 1: proponent of going back and retroactively adding the value of

439
00:23:04,240 --> 00:23:07,800
Speaker 1: a win because there are times. There absolutely are times

440
00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:10,840
Speaker 1: where you play a team and we don't know how

441
00:23:10,880 --> 00:23:12,840
Speaker 1: good they are that early in the year, and then

442
00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:14,640
Speaker 1: later in the year you're saying, you know, in retrospect

443
00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:17,320
Speaker 1: that loss we had wasn't so bad, wasn't I don't

444
00:23:17,320 --> 00:23:19,919
Speaker 1: have a problem with that, bec there's no risk in

445
00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:23,440
Speaker 1: doing that. There's big risk in just deciding to remove

446
00:23:23,600 --> 00:23:27,520
Speaker 1: values of wins when I beat you in week three

447
00:23:28,040 --> 00:23:30,680
Speaker 1: and then you're off in week eleven losing and you've

448
00:23:30,720 --> 00:23:33,560
Speaker 1: lost like seven starters since the time we played, and

449
00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:37,280
Speaker 1: you're not even the same team I faced. So that's

450
00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:40,240
Speaker 1: how I determine the value of a win. It's complicated,

451
00:23:40,320 --> 00:23:47,840
Speaker 1: but it's doable. Next question from Trophy Club Texas Craziest,

452
00:23:47,840 --> 00:23:50,280
Speaker 1: whether you've endured at a college football game. I think

453
00:23:50,280 --> 00:23:52,480
Speaker 1: some of you have much better stories than me on this.

454
00:23:52,880 --> 00:23:57,000
Speaker 1: The one I could think about was twenty fifteen, and

455
00:23:57,040 --> 00:24:01,280
Speaker 1: that was in Georgia, Athens, Georgia, where that was the

456
00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:04,960
Speaker 1: year that BAMA lost to Ole Miss. I think it

457
00:24:05,040 --> 00:24:08,920
Speaker 1: was that crazy five turnover game and Bama loses to

458
00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:11,240
Speaker 1: ol Miss and then Nick Saban has this press conference

459
00:24:11,280 --> 00:24:14,560
Speaker 1: where he says, hey, we're we're gonna play this rest

460
00:24:14,560 --> 00:24:16,160
Speaker 1: of the season the right way, but we're not doing

461
00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:18,120
Speaker 1: it for you. He was talking to the media. He said,

462
00:24:18,119 --> 00:24:20,000
Speaker 1: cause if we left it up to you, we're dead

463
00:24:20,040 --> 00:24:23,840
Speaker 1: and buried and gone gone it tad gone twice. Sounded

464
00:24:23,840 --> 00:24:28,320
Speaker 1: like a movie scene. So they go to Georgia. Bama

465
00:24:28,400 --> 00:24:31,639
Speaker 1: at Georgia the next week, do or Die. It was

466
00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:34,480
Speaker 1: the first time in years Bama had been a point

467
00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:38,440
Speaker 1: spread underdog, and about Tuesday of that week, it became

468
00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:42,199
Speaker 1: pretty apparent it is going to flood in Athens, Georgia

469
00:24:42,240 --> 00:24:45,720
Speaker 1: that Saturday, and there was a huge system off the

470
00:24:45,760 --> 00:24:48,640
Speaker 1: east coast. And so sure enough we go up there

471
00:24:49,359 --> 00:24:52,640
Speaker 1: and it's been raining all day and Bama comes in there.

472
00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:55,160
Speaker 1: They play at as high level as I've ever seen.

473
00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:58,840
Speaker 1: Weather did not impact them one bit. They just throttle

474
00:24:58,960 --> 00:25:02,160
Speaker 1: Georgia and and as the game set in, so too

475
00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:05,280
Speaker 1: did the heavier rain. And there was a point. I

476
00:25:05,320 --> 00:25:07,680
Speaker 1: remember this so vividly because I was working in local

477
00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:09,480
Speaker 1: news at the time, so I had to film the

478
00:25:09,520 --> 00:25:13,840
Speaker 1: game on the sideline and I'm out there with seventeen

479
00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:16,680
Speaker 1: kinds of garbage bags over my head, trying to stay dry,

480
00:25:16,840 --> 00:25:18,920
Speaker 1: trying to keep the camera dry, because the camera's far

481
00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:21,960
Speaker 1: more important than you and I am recording. And so

482
00:25:22,040 --> 00:25:23,600
Speaker 1: there was a time where it was thirty eight to

483
00:25:23,600 --> 00:25:26,520
Speaker 1: three Alabama, and you always zoom in on the scoreboard

484
00:25:26,680 --> 00:25:28,560
Speaker 1: because when you go back and you cut your footage,

485
00:25:28,680 --> 00:25:30,560
Speaker 1: you want a reference point. So you zoom in on

486
00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:33,399
Speaker 1: the scoreboard after a big play because number one that

487
00:25:33,440 --> 00:25:35,720
Speaker 1: marks hey, remember you wanted to use this play, and

488
00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:37,440
Speaker 1: number two they lets you know what the situation in

489
00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:39,960
Speaker 1: the game was. And I remember looking at a shot

490
00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:43,400
Speaker 1: of that scoreboard and when you zoom back out, there

491
00:25:43,480 --> 00:25:46,720
Speaker 1: was such heavy rain coming down that it distorted the

492
00:25:46,720 --> 00:25:50,240
Speaker 1: focus on the scoreboard. And I remember thinking, this has

493
00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:53,480
Speaker 1: to be the most miserable experience for a Georgia fan

494
00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:57,320
Speaker 1: because they see the Alabama game in the preseason. Obviously

495
00:25:57,320 --> 00:26:00,320
Speaker 1: it's hot on the secondary ticket market. Then Bama lose

496
00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:03,200
Speaker 1: is and they're bleeding, and you think to yourself, hey,

497
00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:04,760
Speaker 1: this is going to be the biggest win of the

498
00:26:04,840 --> 00:26:08,280
Speaker 1: mark Rick era, and Georgia could catapult themselves into national

499
00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:13,159
Speaker 1: title contention. And it was just Derrick Henry Calvin Ridley, a,

500
00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:18,720
Speaker 1: Jacob Cocher, Minka Fitzpatrick, Marlin Humphrey. They just smoked him, never,

501
00:26:18,880 --> 00:26:22,399
Speaker 1: never in doubt and thirty eight to three. With it

502
00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:26,359
Speaker 1: pouring down rain in the second half, traffic was not

503
00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:29,240
Speaker 1: bad on the way home because those folks had long

504
00:26:29,359 --> 00:26:32,159
Speaker 1: been gone by the time it was it was us

505
00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:35,680
Speaker 1: exiting Sanford Stadium. So that's one I remember. The Ohio

506
00:26:35,720 --> 00:26:38,359
Speaker 1: State Michigan snow game a couple of years ago is

507
00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:40,959
Speaker 1: one I remember. But like I just said, I mean

508
00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:43,040
Speaker 1: a big ten fan of Michigan fans listening to that,

509
00:26:43,080 --> 00:26:46,560
Speaker 1: saying you think that was was snow? You think that

510
00:26:46,720 --> 00:26:50,040
Speaker 1: was crazy weather. I'm telling you for me growing up

511
00:26:50,040 --> 00:26:54,440
Speaker 1: in the armpit of Georgia, yeah, it's it's pretty crazy weather.

512
00:26:54,640 --> 00:26:57,760
Speaker 1: For you, maybe not so much. I've experienced a lot

513
00:26:57,760 --> 00:27:01,280
Speaker 1: of hot game and those aren't crazy weather. It's just

514
00:27:01,359 --> 00:27:06,120
Speaker 1: miserable weather. I was also thinking the other day someone

515
00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:09,760
Speaker 1: was asking me, Hey, what kind of revolutionary change could

516
00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:13,480
Speaker 1: you make to college football that would actually work? And

517
00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:16,840
Speaker 1: the answer is, I'm not making this change, but I

518
00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:21,359
Speaker 1: thought about a change. I'm not advocating for this. Please

519
00:27:21,400 --> 00:27:25,480
Speaker 1: don't misunderstand me, as some of you will anyway. I

520
00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:27,040
Speaker 1: want you to think about this for a second though.

521
00:27:27,160 --> 00:27:30,639
Speaker 1: Pretend like we just reinvented the sport and we played

522
00:27:30,680 --> 00:27:33,640
Speaker 1: it in the spring. So follow me here right now,

523
00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:36,400
Speaker 1: we played in the fall, and it coincides with fall semester,

524
00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:40,359
Speaker 1: and then Christmas is kind of the finish line, and

525
00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:43,479
Speaker 1: that's where in college football we're also having bowl season

526
00:27:43,520 --> 00:27:47,639
Speaker 1: and eventually the playoff after the New year, and so

527
00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:51,120
Speaker 1: we're used to it starting off hot and becoming cold, right,

528
00:27:51,600 --> 00:27:53,840
Speaker 1: so think about if we just inverted it. We played

529
00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:57,280
Speaker 1: college football on the spring semester, so we know that

530
00:27:57,560 --> 00:28:00,560
Speaker 1: we got Christmas and we've got New Year. And then

531
00:28:00,640 --> 00:28:03,440
Speaker 1: when we come back, when when America collectively checks back

532
00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:06,399
Speaker 1: in for the new year, that's when college football season starts.

533
00:28:06,520 --> 00:28:09,959
Speaker 1: So we start it in the coldest weather season and

534
00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:13,480
Speaker 1: then we play like late January, February, March, April, and

535
00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:18,080
Speaker 1: then May about the time that semesters are ending, that's

536
00:28:18,119 --> 00:28:21,840
Speaker 1: the time where we're doing our conference championship games in

537
00:28:21,880 --> 00:28:25,679
Speaker 1: our playoff. And I just think about how great spring is.

538
00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:29,640
Speaker 1: So I think about how great days getting longer are.

539
00:28:30,000 --> 00:28:33,480
Speaker 1: I think about how great it is to see flowers blooming,

540
00:28:33,960 --> 00:28:37,119
Speaker 1: grass is green, again in Nashville. I'm telling you winter

541
00:28:37,320 --> 00:28:39,680
Speaker 1: sucks because the days end at like three point thirty.

542
00:28:40,080 --> 00:28:43,840
Speaker 1: But in spring, there are few cities in America that

543
00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:47,280
Speaker 1: are greater spring cities than Nashville. And so I look

544
00:28:47,320 --> 00:28:50,040
Speaker 1: around and I'm thinking, this is great. We got March

545
00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:53,360
Speaker 1: Madness going on, the Masters is around the corner, The

546
00:28:53,400 --> 00:28:57,240
Speaker 1: weather is awesome. What if you threw college football on

547
00:28:57,280 --> 00:28:59,520
Speaker 1: top of that? And so if there were this reinvention

548
00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:03,400
Speaker 1: of the work in a way that would work. Playing

549
00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:05,840
Speaker 1: college football in spring would work. If that's how they

550
00:29:06,000 --> 00:29:09,520
Speaker 1: invented the game one hundred years ago, it would work now.

551
00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:12,760
Speaker 1: Of course, it's not something I'm advocating for, because we

552
00:29:12,800 --> 00:29:14,840
Speaker 1: have trained ourselves to look ahead to the fall, and

553
00:29:15,160 --> 00:29:18,480
Speaker 1: we've trained ourselves that bowl season fits in a certain

554
00:29:18,520 --> 00:29:21,400
Speaker 1: place and blah blah blah. But that's only because you've

555
00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:23,960
Speaker 1: been conditioned to think that way. If we grew up

556
00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:25,440
Speaker 1: in a world where they just always played it in

557
00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:27,840
Speaker 1: the spring, I think you'd learn to look forward to

558
00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:30,200
Speaker 1: the spring. We already look forward to it. Anyway. I

559
00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:31,840
Speaker 1: don't know nearly as many people to look forward to

560
00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:33,720
Speaker 1: winter as look forward to spring. I was one of

561
00:29:33,760 --> 00:29:37,040
Speaker 1: those weirdos who used to love winter. No moss. I

562
00:29:37,080 --> 00:29:39,680
Speaker 1: got myself out of that line of thinking. No, you

563
00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:43,080
Speaker 1: give me, give me spring, Give me pollen, and I'm

564
00:29:43,800 --> 00:29:47,640
Speaker 1: deeply vulnerable to pollen and allergies. Give it to me.

565
00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:50,040
Speaker 1: I want to sneeze my head off. I sneezed to

566
00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:53,160
Speaker 1: the point of losing my voice sometimes because I sneeze

567
00:29:53,160 --> 00:29:55,360
Speaker 1: pretty violently. As I think I've shared with you before

568
00:29:56,520 --> 00:29:59,040
Speaker 1: you give me. If my son's setting at eight o'clock,

569
00:29:59,600 --> 00:30:03,240
Speaker 1: I'll I'll take sneezing in exchange for several hours more daylight.

570
00:30:04,200 --> 00:30:08,680
Speaker 1: All right? Next up, very important question here, besides the

571
00:30:08,720 --> 00:30:12,280
Speaker 1: Notre Dame overrated and college football playoffs need to be

572
00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:16,800
Speaker 1: expanding arguments, what are the other casual takes you're sick

573
00:30:16,840 --> 00:30:20,480
Speaker 1: of having to argue against. I want to point something

574
00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:23,280
Speaker 1: out before I give you my answer. Yes, Notre Dame

575
00:30:23,360 --> 00:30:27,200
Speaker 1: being overrated is a casual take. I don't automatically call

576
00:30:27,280 --> 00:30:30,040
Speaker 1: you a casual if you support college football playoff expansion,

577
00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:34,360
Speaker 1: some of the arguments you use, I think are casual arguments.

578
00:30:34,360 --> 00:30:36,320
Speaker 1: But if you just think the sport would be better,

579
00:30:36,480 --> 00:30:39,480
Speaker 1: or if you just flat out prefer a bigger playoff,

580
00:30:40,040 --> 00:30:42,520
Speaker 1: all we have there is a disagreement. You're not a

581
00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:45,160
Speaker 1: casual just because you think that. Not everything I disagree

582
00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:48,160
Speaker 1: with is dumb or stupid. There may be some things

583
00:30:48,160 --> 00:30:51,200
Speaker 1: that I think that you think are stupid, so I

584
00:30:51,240 --> 00:30:53,520
Speaker 1: wanted to point that out. I don't think you're automatically

585
00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:56,719
Speaker 1: casual because you happen to harbor an opinion I disagree with.

586
00:30:57,200 --> 00:31:00,880
Speaker 1: But since you asked, we did come up with a couple.

587
00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:03,640
Speaker 1: We were talking right before we started recording today. And

588
00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:06,920
Speaker 1: one of the things I cannot stand, I mean, I

589
00:31:06,920 --> 00:31:09,880
Speaker 1: mean hate it at a cellular level is when I

590
00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:12,720
Speaker 1: have to open my DMS on Sunday, or I have

591
00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:15,240
Speaker 1: to listen to talk radio on Monday, or have to

592
00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:17,800
Speaker 1: talk to a buddy of mine, one in particular who's

593
00:31:17,800 --> 00:31:20,080
Speaker 1: famous for this, and they tell me how they should

594
00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:24,200
Speaker 1: have won a game. We should have won. Now we didn't,

595
00:31:24,640 --> 00:31:26,360
Speaker 1: but we should have won a game. And then you

596
00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:28,880
Speaker 1: start diving in a little bit and you ask, what

597
00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:30,400
Speaker 1: do you mean you should have won it? If you

598
00:31:30,400 --> 00:31:32,600
Speaker 1: should have, you would have right, No, no, no, no no, no,

599
00:31:32,640 --> 00:31:35,959
Speaker 1: we should have won it, but we didn't. Some things happened.

600
00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:39,680
Speaker 1: What happened, We'll come to find out. Football happened. Come

601
00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:43,040
Speaker 1: to find out a call went against you, or come

602
00:31:43,080 --> 00:31:46,400
Speaker 1: to find out your running back fumbled the ball uncharacteristically

603
00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:48,160
Speaker 1: at the three yard line in a big game in

604
00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:50,880
Speaker 1: the red zone late and you lose by one possession.

605
00:31:50,920 --> 00:31:53,400
Speaker 1: So so in your mind, all I would have to

606
00:31:53,480 --> 00:31:56,440
Speaker 1: change is that one thing, and then we would have won. Translation,

607
00:31:56,600 --> 00:32:00,719
Speaker 1: we should have won. That's not how how it works.

608
00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:03,840
Speaker 1: I hate again to be the bearer of bad news.

609
00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:09,160
Speaker 1: That's not how competition works. It's not Xbox can't hear reset.

610
00:32:09,640 --> 00:32:14,240
Speaker 1: And it's also real life people, meaning that their mistakes

611
00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:18,960
Speaker 1: are part of the outcome. Their execution or lack thereof,

612
00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:22,280
Speaker 1: is part of the outcome. And what else I've noticed

613
00:32:22,280 --> 00:32:26,760
Speaker 1: about the should of one crowd is they never remember

614
00:32:26,840 --> 00:32:29,560
Speaker 1: the mistakes that were made by the other team. They

615
00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:33,040
Speaker 1: never remember the calls that went in their favor. They

616
00:32:33,080 --> 00:32:36,400
Speaker 1: never remember the calls that went against their opponent. They

617
00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:39,520
Speaker 1: may in the moment, remembers giggling at their TV and sad,

618
00:32:39,520 --> 00:32:41,960
Speaker 1: it will take it, will take it? Oh will you?

619
00:32:42,280 --> 00:32:45,840
Speaker 1: I bet you will? So where is that? Hey? Hey,

620
00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:48,560
Speaker 1: where's the we should have lost? I got some respect

621
00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:50,240
Speaker 1: for you, at least if you'll come to me and say, boy,

622
00:32:50,240 --> 00:32:52,800
Speaker 1: we should have lost that game. Remember the Georgia, Ohio

623
00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:56,400
Speaker 1: State playoff game this past year, You should It was crazy.

624
00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:59,080
Speaker 1: Kirby Smart went on the post game and said, yeah,

625
00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:02,360
Speaker 1: we probably should have lost that game. And I'm like, Kurry, No,

626
00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:04,640
Speaker 1: don't go down that road. But he did. Hey, at

627
00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:07,080
Speaker 1: least he's saying we should we should have lost, that

628
00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:11,680
Speaker 1: we should have one crowd is insufferable. Insufferable. It's fine

629
00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:14,880
Speaker 1: to say we lost because of something, and it's even

630
00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:16,960
Speaker 1: fine to say we lost because of something that doesn't

631
00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:19,800
Speaker 1: normally happen. But don't be saying you should have won

632
00:33:20,400 --> 00:33:23,440
Speaker 1: because of things that directly are baked into the outcome

633
00:33:23,480 --> 00:33:27,480
Speaker 1: of a game. Or receiver dropped a critical third down pass, Yeah,

634
00:33:27,520 --> 00:33:30,160
Speaker 1: that's part of the game. He's not a robot. He's

635
00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:34,920
Speaker 1: a person that the games are made perfect through their imperfections.

636
00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:37,880
Speaker 1: And then the other one, which I have just railed

637
00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:41,600
Speaker 1: against for eternity, is guys who question play calling. And

638
00:33:41,640 --> 00:33:44,080
Speaker 1: this hits a lot of you right there in the groin,

639
00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:48,720
Speaker 1: but we got to talk about it. Questioning play calling

640
00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:53,000
Speaker 1: it drives me up a wall. I guess it's because

641
00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:55,320
Speaker 1: I've been around it a little bit. I'm not an

642
00:33:55,360 --> 00:33:57,840
Speaker 1: expert on it. I've never called plays myself, I've never

643
00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:01,080
Speaker 1: coached myself in football at least, but I know the

644
00:34:01,160 --> 00:34:04,120
Speaker 1: intricacies of this because one of my favorite things to

645
00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:06,920
Speaker 1: do when I visit with coaching staffs is have them

646
00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:09,719
Speaker 1: walk me through what goes into a play call. And

647
00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:12,120
Speaker 1: I don't just mean calling it on game day. I

648
00:34:12,160 --> 00:34:15,040
Speaker 1: mean back in all the way up to twenty three

649
00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:18,560
Speaker 1: years ago, when they were at a clinic in Dothan, Alabama,

650
00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:21,280
Speaker 1: and they were introduced to a concept or a scheme

651
00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:24,600
Speaker 1: or the way to work this play or this concept

652
00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:27,280
Speaker 1: off a scheme, and then it goes from a pizza

653
00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:29,759
Speaker 1: box to all of a sudden, it's in their playbook,

654
00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:32,040
Speaker 1: and then they rep it in high school practice. And

655
00:34:32,080 --> 00:34:34,560
Speaker 1: then later on that coach starts to elevate himself up

656
00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:36,520
Speaker 1: the ranks, and he knows exactly what to do in

657
00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:39,520
Speaker 1: what situation, what would work against this look, depending on

658
00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:41,760
Speaker 1: which players you have and which players they have. Then

659
00:34:42,120 --> 00:34:45,160
Speaker 1: years later he is the he's the offensive coordinator for

660
00:34:45,239 --> 00:34:49,960
Speaker 1: Kansas State, and he knows his personnel intimately better than

661
00:34:50,000 --> 00:34:54,200
Speaker 1: you do. He knows the opposition's personnel intimately better than

662
00:34:54,239 --> 00:34:56,400
Speaker 1: you do. He knows what they're good at and what

663
00:34:56,440 --> 00:34:59,240
Speaker 1: they're not good at. He knows because it's time tested,

664
00:34:59,560 --> 00:35:03,319
Speaker 1: which his principles and which of his formations and which

665
00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:05,840
Speaker 1: of his approaches to offense or defense will work in

666
00:35:05,880 --> 00:35:08,560
Speaker 1: which situations if they're executed the right way. And then

667
00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:12,399
Speaker 1: he knows what they've repped during the week, and back

668
00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:17,640
Speaker 1: up even further that summer, that fall, camp, during installs, spring,

669
00:35:17,719 --> 00:35:20,720
Speaker 1: during installs, they've understood what will work and what won't work.

670
00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:24,239
Speaker 1: They've got it down to percentages. You would have your

671
00:35:24,280 --> 00:35:27,319
Speaker 1: mind blown if I could show you the research that

672
00:35:27,400 --> 00:35:31,279
Speaker 1: these staffs have today on percentages of what will work.

673
00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:34,759
Speaker 1: A lot of them do heat maps, which is just

674
00:35:34,880 --> 00:35:38,520
Speaker 1: it's mapping the field, and then it's each play what

675
00:35:38,600 --> 00:35:41,360
Speaker 1: works against what? Look at which point on the field.

676
00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:43,960
Speaker 1: You got the reds where it's more likely to work,

677
00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:46,360
Speaker 1: in the blues where it's less likely to work. They've

678
00:35:46,400 --> 00:35:50,200
Speaker 1: got all that stuff, and they've worked well, not quite

679
00:35:50,239 --> 00:35:52,920
Speaker 1: twenty hours a day, but sixteen hour days during the

680
00:35:52,920 --> 00:35:58,240
Speaker 1: week to be equipped to where it's almost it's almost

681
00:35:58,280 --> 00:36:02,120
Speaker 1: machine like on game day. And I got folks who

682
00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:06,040
Speaker 1: are working driving a coke truck during the week. God

683
00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:09,360
Speaker 1: bless you. I think Atlanta steals a little of the

684
00:36:09,360 --> 00:36:12,279
Speaker 1: credit that Columbus should have when it comes to inventing coke.

685
00:36:13,040 --> 00:36:16,560
Speaker 1: But that's another pod. I got folks driving a coke

686
00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:19,560
Speaker 1: truck during the week who have not spent a day

687
00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:23,479
Speaker 1: on campus in Manhattan, Kansas during the week. They don't

688
00:36:23,520 --> 00:36:27,080
Speaker 1: know the personnel. They specially don't know the opponent's personnel.

689
00:36:27,320 --> 00:36:29,279
Speaker 1: And they're sitting here and it's third and three on

690
00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:32,680
Speaker 1: the twenty two yard line and they are not taking

691
00:36:32,680 --> 00:36:36,080
Speaker 1: into account anything other than, well, you know, I think

692
00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:39,720
Speaker 1: they should run this. And then your offensive coordinator doesn't

693
00:36:39,760 --> 00:36:43,120
Speaker 1: run what you think you should run, and it doesn't work,

694
00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:46,120
Speaker 1: and you start questioning play calling and you don't know

695
00:36:47,600 --> 00:36:49,799
Speaker 1: one percent of what just went into that play call,

696
00:36:50,680 --> 00:36:53,880
Speaker 1: and you have no idea why it didn't work. You

697
00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:56,279
Speaker 1: don't even know if it was the play call. You

698
00:36:56,360 --> 00:36:58,520
Speaker 1: don't even know if a quarterback didn't check out of

699
00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:01,239
Speaker 1: something that the line of scrimmage. You don't even know

700
00:37:01,400 --> 00:37:04,560
Speaker 1: if a receiver who was supposed to run a ten

701
00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:06,920
Speaker 1: and in just ran a ten and out instead, and

702
00:37:07,000 --> 00:37:10,319
Speaker 1: a ball sales incomplete, or a pass doesn't even get

703
00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:13,040
Speaker 1: made because the end cut is not made, and then

704
00:37:13,040 --> 00:37:16,040
Speaker 1: the quarterback runs for himself, so it's supposed to be

705
00:37:16,080 --> 00:37:19,440
Speaker 1: a ten yard in Dude runs the wrong route. Quarterback

706
00:37:19,520 --> 00:37:21,399
Speaker 1: runs it, and you're yelling at the TV. Why would

707
00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:23,840
Speaker 1: we call a quarterback keeper? You don't know what you

708
00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:27,239
Speaker 1: don't know. I could take Nick Saban, I could take

709
00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:29,040
Speaker 1: Kirby Smart, I could take a Lincoln Rally. I could

710
00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:33,480
Speaker 1: take the highest profile coaches in the game. I could

711
00:37:33,560 --> 00:37:36,920
Speaker 1: sit them down next to you. They're not equipped to

712
00:37:37,040 --> 00:37:40,120
Speaker 1: question play calling in your game because they don't even

713
00:37:40,200 --> 00:37:43,400
Speaker 1: know what they don't know about that particular game, in

714
00:37:43,400 --> 00:37:46,560
Speaker 1: that particular matchup, in that particular staff, and what they've

715
00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:49,719
Speaker 1: talked about during the week. It drives me crazy. It's

716
00:37:49,719 --> 00:37:52,719
Speaker 1: a losing battle because I know it's so easy and

717
00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:55,760
Speaker 1: there's no risk for you. You could yell at your TV.

718
00:37:56,080 --> 00:38:00,440
Speaker 1: You could yell to the abyss really all day if

719
00:38:00,480 --> 00:38:03,200
Speaker 1: you want to about how bad our play calling was,

720
00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:05,560
Speaker 1: because you know no one's ever gonna come back at you.

721
00:38:05,600 --> 00:38:07,400
Speaker 1: No coach is ever gonna get in your face and

722
00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:09,319
Speaker 1: say you want to talk about play calling, Let's talk

723
00:38:09,320 --> 00:38:12,480
Speaker 1: about play calling. That's why my biggest concept show that

724
00:38:12,520 --> 00:38:15,000
Speaker 1: I would I would love to bank roll if we could,

725
00:38:15,200 --> 00:38:17,759
Speaker 1: but we can't because no one would participate. Is I

726
00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:21,720
Speaker 1: would love to just take fans who complain about play calling,

727
00:38:22,200 --> 00:38:24,360
Speaker 1: and I would love to get them face to face

728
00:38:25,160 --> 00:38:28,080
Speaker 1: with like a million dollars on the line for charity,

729
00:38:28,400 --> 00:38:30,040
Speaker 1: and I would love to get them face to face

730
00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:34,359
Speaker 1: and debate about a play call. You can pick the

731
00:38:34,360 --> 00:38:37,480
Speaker 1: play by the way, you can pick the play, but

732
00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:41,279
Speaker 1: as long as that coach agrees with his play call,

733
00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:42,919
Speaker 1: I just want you to to go head to head.

734
00:38:43,360 --> 00:38:45,920
Speaker 1: I want you to watch how quickly your head spinning,

735
00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:48,319
Speaker 1: because he's gonna come to the table equipped with all

736
00:38:48,320 --> 00:38:50,600
Speaker 1: the information and intel he has, and you get to

737
00:38:50,600 --> 00:38:52,440
Speaker 1: come to the table with all the intel and information

738
00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:55,960
Speaker 1: that you have, and he's about to beat you over

739
00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:59,520
Speaker 1: the head with what he has. And look, either that's

740
00:38:59,560 --> 00:39:01,880
Speaker 1: gonna happen, or he's going to lose his job because

741
00:39:01,920 --> 00:39:03,959
Speaker 1: you run circles around him, at which point he didn't

742
00:39:03,960 --> 00:39:05,640
Speaker 1: need to have a headset on anymore. So either way,

743
00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:08,560
Speaker 1: I would be entertained. Either way, there is no there

744
00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:14,480
Speaker 1: is no loss. Next up, this one's from Austin, Texas.

745
00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:16,919
Speaker 1: Hoger hit us up and said, what are your thoughts

746
00:39:16,960 --> 00:39:19,920
Speaker 1: on neutral site games in the regular season? I personally

747
00:39:19,960 --> 00:39:22,719
Speaker 1: hate them and think the Red Rivers Shootout is the

748
00:39:22,760 --> 00:39:25,200
Speaker 1: only one that should exist. All the other ones are

749
00:39:25,200 --> 00:39:27,840
Speaker 1: downgrades over just playing the games at home. In my opinion,

750
00:39:28,360 --> 00:39:31,600
Speaker 1: your opinion is very close to my opinion. That is

751
00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:34,080
Speaker 1: a game that I have an affinity for. The Red

752
00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:36,799
Speaker 1: River Shootout is a game that I would absolutely keep

753
00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:38,880
Speaker 1: neutral until the end of time. I got to tell

754
00:39:38,920 --> 00:39:40,319
Speaker 1: you something about that in a second. By the way,

755
00:39:40,719 --> 00:39:43,279
Speaker 1: I don't mind Georgia, Florida being in Jacksonville, but I

756
00:39:43,320 --> 00:39:46,400
Speaker 1: also would not care if they moved it to home campuses.

757
00:39:46,840 --> 00:39:50,120
Speaker 1: I don't have an attachment to Jacksonville, Florida. I know

758
00:39:50,320 --> 00:39:53,200
Speaker 1: some of those fan bases do. But look, I think

759
00:39:53,239 --> 00:39:56,480
Speaker 1: they may move that game on campus one day and

760
00:39:56,520 --> 00:39:58,680
Speaker 1: then not to this future. So let's watch that. But

761
00:39:58,840 --> 00:40:01,799
Speaker 1: by and large, I hate them, is my point. I

762
00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:05,600
Speaker 1: don't like neutral site games, and especially the ones that

763
00:40:05,719 --> 00:40:10,799
Speaker 1: are not annual. So Georgia, Florida and Austin in Texas, Oklahoma,

764
00:40:10,920 --> 00:40:13,799
Speaker 1: those are annual. Those have happened every year since most

765
00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:18,200
Speaker 1: of us have been alive. Tennessee announces the other day

766
00:40:18,239 --> 00:40:22,319
Speaker 1: they're gonna play NC State in Charlotte to start next year.

767
00:40:22,480 --> 00:40:28,319
Speaker 1: They're playing Virginia in Nashville to start this year. Blooh, no,

768
00:40:28,520 --> 00:40:31,680
Speaker 1: thank you, no, thank you. I was doing radio in

769
00:40:31,719 --> 00:40:35,799
Speaker 1: Knoxville yesterday. We were talking about this very thing, and

770
00:40:35,880 --> 00:40:39,320
Speaker 1: I was just thinking out loud, which can be dangerous

771
00:40:39,360 --> 00:40:42,239
Speaker 1: at times. I was thinking to myself, you know, I

772
00:40:42,280 --> 00:40:44,680
Speaker 1: already don't like them, But then when you think about

773
00:40:44,680 --> 00:40:48,839
Speaker 1: how few a home game or how few home games

774
00:40:48,840 --> 00:40:51,560
Speaker 1: you get during the year in football as opposed to baseball,

775
00:40:51,760 --> 00:40:54,319
Speaker 1: it makes it even more egregious. Major League Baseball plays

776
00:40:54,320 --> 00:40:56,960
Speaker 1: one hundred and sixty two games, you get eighty one

777
00:40:57,000 --> 00:40:59,000
Speaker 1: of them at home. So if you want to go

778
00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:02,719
Speaker 1: play a series in Cooperstown or Australia or the Moon,

779
00:41:02,800 --> 00:41:05,359
Speaker 1: I don't care because I'm not really going to miss

780
00:41:05,360 --> 00:41:07,560
Speaker 1: out on much of anything. My ticket holders are not

781
00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:10,880
Speaker 1: missing out on much of anything. But if you're Tennessee

782
00:41:11,520 --> 00:41:14,520
Speaker 1: and you're passing up an opportunity to play a game

783
00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:18,560
Speaker 1: in Niland Stadium, or if you're if you're Oregon and

784
00:41:18,600 --> 00:41:20,600
Speaker 1: you're passing up a chance to play in Audstin Stadium,

785
00:41:20,680 --> 00:41:23,080
Speaker 1: I'm not on board with that. I'm not on there.

786
00:41:23,400 --> 00:41:25,640
Speaker 1: There is no argument you could sell me on because really,

787
00:41:25,680 --> 00:41:27,479
Speaker 1: here's what it comes down to. They can talk about

788
00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:29,640
Speaker 1: how they want to get into another market to recruit

789
00:41:29,680 --> 00:41:33,399
Speaker 1: all they want to. It's about money. I know that's

790
00:41:33,400 --> 00:41:36,600
Speaker 1: a surprise to everyone, but it's about money. And the

791
00:41:36,640 --> 00:41:40,680
Speaker 1: most vested interest that any entity has in those neutral

792
00:41:40,680 --> 00:41:45,960
Speaker 1: site games is the neutral site. Charlotte, Atlanta, Dallas, wherever

793
00:41:46,000 --> 00:41:49,000
Speaker 1: it is. Those places are the places that benefit. The

794
00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:52,719
Speaker 1: fans don't benefit. Give me a break, even people who

795
00:41:52,800 --> 00:41:56,440
Speaker 1: live in Charlotte, even Tennessee fans who live in Charlotte,

796
00:41:56,520 --> 00:41:58,680
Speaker 1: if you ask them what the better experience would be,

797
00:41:59,200 --> 00:42:04,040
Speaker 1: it's to Knoxville, Tennessee. Yeah, it's convenient, and they're going

798
00:42:04,080 --> 00:42:05,800
Speaker 1: to go to the game because it's in their backyard.

799
00:42:06,120 --> 00:42:10,120
Speaker 1: But that's not the experience. There's an authenticity, there's a

800
00:42:10,120 --> 00:42:14,040
Speaker 1: purity about experiencing college football in the environment it's supposed

801
00:42:14,040 --> 00:42:17,200
Speaker 1: to be experienced in. Don't mess with that. If you've

802
00:42:17,239 --> 00:42:20,160
Speaker 1: got something that works, why in the world would you

803
00:42:20,200 --> 00:42:23,360
Speaker 1: mess with it. This works. That's why I'm not messing

804
00:42:23,360 --> 00:42:30,480
Speaker 1: with it. Watch. Yeah, you expect a lot of things,

805
00:42:30,560 --> 00:42:34,800
Speaker 1: but you don't expect the ad break inside the answer.

806
00:42:34,960 --> 00:42:36,920
Speaker 1: It's like a little pig in a blanket, except as

807
00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:40,279
Speaker 1: an ad break inside an answer. So the one thing

808
00:42:40,320 --> 00:42:42,799
Speaker 1: that I was talking about there with Sark and with

809
00:42:42,880 --> 00:42:45,799
Speaker 1: Texas and with Oklahoma is I was listening to Sark

810
00:42:45,880 --> 00:42:48,400
Speaker 1: the other day. Now forget where he was doing an interview.

811
00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:50,520
Speaker 1: He was on a show somewhere and he was talking

812
00:42:50,520 --> 00:42:53,120
Speaker 1: about this game. Someone asked him about ou Texas being

813
00:42:53,200 --> 00:42:55,279
Speaker 1: the Cotton Bowl, and he said the same things about it.

814
00:42:55,320 --> 00:42:58,479
Speaker 1: I say about it. It's great, awesome, state fair, blah

815
00:42:58,480 --> 00:43:02,640
Speaker 1: blah blah. And then someone pointed something out. They said,

816
00:43:02,640 --> 00:43:05,320
Speaker 1: go back and listen closer. Did he just give something away?

817
00:43:06,320 --> 00:43:07,919
Speaker 1: And I said, what are you talking about? I listened

818
00:43:07,920 --> 00:43:10,520
Speaker 1: pretty close. I didn't listen close enough, though, because when

819
00:43:10,560 --> 00:43:14,080
Speaker 1: I went back and listened, I caught it. He said

820
00:43:15,160 --> 00:43:18,400
Speaker 1: we still play that game. He either said we still

821
00:43:18,440 --> 00:43:21,160
Speaker 1: play it at the Cotton Bowl or for now it's

822
00:43:21,200 --> 00:43:25,360
Speaker 1: still at the Cotton Bowl. I don't want to alarm anyone,

823
00:43:25,680 --> 00:43:28,200
Speaker 1: but I'm freaking out over it. So I really hope

824
00:43:28,200 --> 00:43:30,640
Speaker 1: Steve Sarkisan steps up and just says, no, I don't

825
00:43:30,640 --> 00:43:32,799
Speaker 1: know anything. You don't know. I just happened to say

826
00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:36,279
Speaker 1: that because I'm I'm ready to start a conspiracy theory

827
00:43:36,280 --> 00:43:37,759
Speaker 1: that they're taking that game out of the Cotton Bowl

828
00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:39,560
Speaker 1: and moving it to Jerry World, which is one of

829
00:43:39,560 --> 00:43:43,040
Speaker 1: my bigger fears in life. I don't live I don't

830
00:43:43,080 --> 00:43:46,000
Speaker 1: live a fearful life, but I am scared of Ou

831
00:43:46,040 --> 00:43:48,560
Speaker 1: Texas moving from the Cotton Bowl. So Steve Sarkisian, I'm

832
00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:50,839
Speaker 1: sure he's glued to every show in every podcast. Could

833
00:43:50,880 --> 00:43:54,440
Speaker 1: you please come out and clarify? Do you know that

834
00:43:54,560 --> 00:43:57,160
Speaker 1: terrible news is on the horizon? And if you don't,

835
00:43:57,480 --> 00:43:59,680
Speaker 1: could you please set my mind at ease and the

836
00:43:59,680 --> 00:44:02,759
Speaker 1: mind of pretty much every other legit college football fan

837
00:44:03,000 --> 00:44:06,319
Speaker 1: that has been to this game at ease. There you go.

838
00:44:06,640 --> 00:44:11,560
Speaker 1: I'm doing the work for you, guys. Next up, we've

839
00:44:11,560 --> 00:44:15,120
Speaker 1: got a question about parody. I've got a question to

840
00:44:15,160 --> 00:44:18,239
Speaker 1: you about parody. How many of you spell this with

841
00:44:18,320 --> 00:44:21,719
Speaker 1: a D? How many of you spell this pr O D. Why?

842
00:44:23,360 --> 00:44:25,719
Speaker 1: I am not asking to make fun of you. I'm

843
00:44:25,760 --> 00:44:27,680
Speaker 1: asking because I spelled it with a D for a

844
00:44:27,719 --> 00:44:30,759
Speaker 1: long time. Now I have corrected, I have seen the

845
00:44:30,880 --> 00:44:33,680
Speaker 1: error of my ways. I have corrected myself. But it's

846
00:44:33,760 --> 00:44:36,000
Speaker 1: one of those words that you say a lot, but

847
00:44:36,080 --> 00:44:39,600
Speaker 1: you rarely see it written. We've got those words. You

848
00:44:40,200 --> 00:44:42,800
Speaker 1: don't see them written all that often. For the record,

849
00:44:42,840 --> 00:44:45,799
Speaker 1: the right spelling is p R I T Y, and

850
00:44:46,040 --> 00:44:49,480
Speaker 1: I think a lot of you just got your tongue burned.

851
00:44:49,920 --> 00:44:52,040
Speaker 1: But it's okay because it's just you and me talking,

852
00:44:52,640 --> 00:44:56,000
Speaker 1: so you can silently make the correction. You can Homer

853
00:44:56,040 --> 00:44:58,600
Speaker 1: Simpson yourself back into the bushes. And you never have

854
00:44:58,640 --> 00:45:01,319
Speaker 1: to get called out publicly, because I did one day.

855
00:45:01,400 --> 00:45:03,400
Speaker 1: I got called out, so you don't have to. But

856
00:45:03,480 --> 00:45:06,200
Speaker 1: we got hit with a question from Auburn, Alabama. Do

857
00:45:06,280 --> 00:45:09,200
Speaker 1: you think there will ever be parody in college football

858
00:45:09,520 --> 00:45:12,560
Speaker 1: compared to college basketball? Will never? I don't think we'll

859
00:45:12,560 --> 00:45:15,719
Speaker 1: ever have parody in college football the likes of which

860
00:45:15,760 --> 00:45:20,400
Speaker 1: we have in college basketball. I look around college basketball

861
00:45:20,480 --> 00:45:23,400
Speaker 1: right now. You haven't heard me say anything about it.

862
00:45:23,600 --> 00:45:26,279
Speaker 1: You haven't seen me publicly say anything about it. I

863
00:45:26,440 --> 00:45:30,319
Speaker 1: probably I may watch the Final Four. It will not

864
00:45:30,400 --> 00:45:33,799
Speaker 1: be appointment viewing for me. Will not be destination television

865
00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:37,120
Speaker 1: for me, even as a CBS employee. So there you go.

866
00:45:37,600 --> 00:45:39,160
Speaker 1: Do you think they send me a script to read

867
00:45:39,200 --> 00:45:41,399
Speaker 1: every week? They may send one, but Jesse never gives

868
00:45:41,400 --> 00:45:47,480
Speaker 1: it to me. I I am a believer that what

869
00:45:47,640 --> 00:45:53,399
Speaker 1: is best for television is the big brands playing. Now

870
00:45:53,440 --> 00:45:55,799
Speaker 1: what I'm not telling you is you should care about that.

871
00:45:56,520 --> 00:45:58,600
Speaker 1: That's why I've kept my mouth shut on it, because

872
00:45:58,840 --> 00:46:01,640
Speaker 1: I know it. Come college football season, I always get

873
00:46:01,640 --> 00:46:05,000
Speaker 1: mad when fans start talking about how the ratings were

874
00:46:05,000 --> 00:46:09,600
Speaker 1: down for this game or revenue was down. That stuff

875
00:46:09,640 --> 00:46:13,000
Speaker 1: doesn't impact you. You're not a stakeholder. Just enjoy the game.

876
00:46:13,040 --> 00:46:14,879
Speaker 1: If you enjoy the game, and if you don't, don't

877
00:46:14,880 --> 00:46:18,160
Speaker 1: watch it. That's me right now with college football. I

878
00:46:18,160 --> 00:46:21,520
Speaker 1: don't really care about FAU basketball. I don't really care

879
00:46:21,520 --> 00:46:24,560
Speaker 1: about about San Diego State basket, so I probably won't

880
00:46:24,560 --> 00:46:26,360
Speaker 1: watch the Final Four, or if I do, I'll just

881
00:46:26,440 --> 00:46:29,880
Speaker 1: kind of check it out sparingly. But that's my prerogative.

882
00:46:29,880 --> 00:46:32,279
Speaker 1: That's fine. If you're a college hoops guy and you're

883
00:46:32,440 --> 00:46:35,319
Speaker 1: glued to it right now, good for you. Enjoy what

884
00:46:35,360 --> 00:46:39,000
Speaker 1: you enjoy. But I'm saying all that to say in

885
00:46:39,120 --> 00:46:42,560
Speaker 1: college basketball, there's this big uproar right now of is

886
00:46:43,080 --> 00:46:45,920
Speaker 1: it the best thing for these non blue blood powers

887
00:46:45,960 --> 00:46:49,320
Speaker 1: to be where they are. It's competition. It's competition is

888
00:46:49,320 --> 00:46:53,479
Speaker 1: always a good thing. The structure of college basketball will

889
00:46:53,480 --> 00:46:55,680
Speaker 1: never be like the structure of college football, and so

890
00:46:56,320 --> 00:46:59,960
Speaker 1: it's there are fifty million differences between the two sports.

891
00:47:00,280 --> 00:47:03,400
Speaker 1: But I just want you to understand what it takes

892
00:47:03,400 --> 00:47:06,640
Speaker 1: to make the engine of a college football program go

893
00:47:07,280 --> 00:47:09,319
Speaker 1: versus what it takes to make the engine of a

894
00:47:09,360 --> 00:47:14,480
Speaker 1: college basketball program go. College basketball is like a NASCAR

895
00:47:14,640 --> 00:47:18,160
Speaker 1: race in that you could watch however many cars they have.

896
00:47:18,200 --> 00:47:19,759
Speaker 1: I think it's like forty two or something like that.

897
00:47:19,800 --> 00:47:23,000
Speaker 1: You could watch forty two cars racing, and there's a

898
00:47:23,040 --> 00:47:25,680
Speaker 1: car that's in first place, especially early in the race,

899
00:47:25,960 --> 00:47:27,880
Speaker 1: there's a car in first place, there's a car in

900
00:47:27,920 --> 00:47:30,880
Speaker 1: forty second place. Do you see how tightly packed together

901
00:47:30,960 --> 00:47:34,919
Speaker 1: they are? Now over the course of that race, folks

902
00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:37,080
Speaker 1: are gonna wreck, Folks are gonna fall off the pace.

903
00:47:37,280 --> 00:47:40,960
Speaker 1: Someone will finish thirty laps down. But this is the

904
00:47:41,040 --> 00:47:45,240
Speaker 1: NCAA tournament, so this is like a few laps around

905
00:47:45,239 --> 00:47:47,759
Speaker 1: the track. There's not enough time for that distance to

906
00:47:47,800 --> 00:47:53,520
Speaker 1: show up. And so car forty two, my point is,

907
00:47:53,520 --> 00:47:57,319
Speaker 1: is about three seconds behind car number one max. Three

908
00:47:57,320 --> 00:48:00,959
Speaker 1: seconds on the NASCAR tracks at eternity, So that means

909
00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:03,279
Speaker 1: there's not a ton of separation. So when you put

910
00:48:03,280 --> 00:48:06,759
Speaker 1: them on a basketball court and you just play a

911
00:48:06,880 --> 00:48:10,280
Speaker 1: forty minute game, hey, crazy stuff can happen. College football

912
00:48:10,320 --> 00:48:13,600
Speaker 1: is not that way college football. There are teams who

913
00:48:13,640 --> 00:48:15,720
Speaker 1: you could put on the field with Georgia one hundred

914
00:48:15,719 --> 00:48:18,800
Speaker 1: times and they're never winning. And I'm talking about teams

915
00:48:18,840 --> 00:48:22,200
Speaker 1: worse than TCU. But need I remind you what happened.

916
00:48:22,239 --> 00:48:25,080
Speaker 1: Even when we put TCU on the field against Georgia

917
00:48:25,120 --> 00:48:28,319
Speaker 1: in a national championship game, there will never be the

918
00:48:28,360 --> 00:48:31,319
Speaker 1: parody that you long for. If it is parody you

919
00:48:31,400 --> 00:48:35,319
Speaker 1: long for, I would argue to you that it is

920
00:48:35,600 --> 00:48:38,440
Speaker 1: enough parody that a TCU even made it to the

921
00:48:38,520 --> 00:48:41,680
Speaker 1: national title game. I would argue it's enough parody that

922
00:48:42,040 --> 00:48:46,799
Speaker 1: a program like Clemson was able to go from being

923
00:48:46,840 --> 00:48:49,879
Speaker 1: a joke to doing what they do now and they

924
00:48:49,920 --> 00:48:53,960
Speaker 1: never landed like a number one class. They never I

925
00:48:54,000 --> 00:48:56,799
Speaker 1: guess Clemson is a decent example. My point is there

926
00:48:56,840 --> 00:48:59,600
Speaker 1: have been teams Cincinnati made the playoff last year, two

927
00:48:59,680 --> 00:49:03,000
Speaker 1: years ago, I guess now, so we've had some parody.

928
00:49:03,200 --> 00:49:07,759
Speaker 1: I just that's why I always ask you guys who

929
00:49:07,800 --> 00:49:11,480
Speaker 1: are expansionists, what is it you're looking for when you're

930
00:49:11,560 --> 00:49:14,239
Speaker 1: expanding the playoff, Because even though some of you won't

931
00:49:14,239 --> 00:49:16,000
Speaker 1: admit it to me, a lot more will admit it

932
00:49:16,000 --> 00:49:17,600
Speaker 1: to me. You're looking for more of what they have

933
00:49:17,640 --> 00:49:20,880
Speaker 1: in college basketball. You're looking for more craziness at the

934
00:49:20,960 --> 00:49:23,000
Speaker 1: end of the road, and you're not gonna get it.

935
00:49:23,440 --> 00:49:25,680
Speaker 1: I'm not saying you'll never get upsets. I'm not saying

936
00:49:25,719 --> 00:49:29,360
Speaker 1: that at all. TCU just upset in Michigan in a

937
00:49:29,440 --> 00:49:31,879
Speaker 1: four game or a four team field, So yeah, it'll

938
00:49:31,880 --> 00:49:36,640
Speaker 1: happen occasionally. But I always look at a postseason tournament

939
00:49:37,080 --> 00:49:40,000
Speaker 1: as a mechanism to crown a champion. That's its purpose.

940
00:49:40,880 --> 00:49:45,080
Speaker 1: And if it's never going to change the champion week crown,

941
00:49:46,520 --> 00:49:49,359
Speaker 1: I don't really care about changing the format. And if

942
00:49:49,400 --> 00:49:52,480
Speaker 1: it's changed, even if it's changing the champion recrown, if

943
00:49:52,520 --> 00:49:54,879
Speaker 1: I think it's diluting the product, even then I don't

944
00:49:54,880 --> 00:49:58,080
Speaker 1: want it. That kind of explains my stance against expansion

945
00:49:58,120 --> 00:50:01,200
Speaker 1: in a nutshell. I am not about the journey through

946
00:50:01,200 --> 00:50:03,440
Speaker 1: the playoff. I'm not about that because I got a

947
00:50:03,440 --> 00:50:06,120
Speaker 1: four month journey. It's the regular season that's my journey.

948
00:50:06,120 --> 00:50:09,480
Speaker 1: I've already got plenty of journey. I listen to journey

949
00:50:09,520 --> 00:50:12,080
Speaker 1: as a band. I love the journey as a college

950
00:50:12,080 --> 00:50:15,640
Speaker 1: football fan dur in the season, so I know you

951
00:50:15,680 --> 00:50:17,400
Speaker 1: will not get that kind of parody. I don't think

952
00:50:17,400 --> 00:50:19,520
Speaker 1: you'll let No one would ever sell me on that. Frankly,

953
00:50:19,560 --> 00:50:23,439
Speaker 1: I don't even hear many people of sound mind make

954
00:50:23,480 --> 00:50:25,680
Speaker 1: the argument. I don't even hear people try and sell

955
00:50:25,680 --> 00:50:29,640
Speaker 1: me on it. Let's see next up. This was an

956
00:50:29,680 --> 00:50:34,800
Speaker 1: interesting question here, so Connor asked which of the roster

957
00:50:34,880 --> 00:50:38,320
Speaker 1: building strategies will be more successful in the long term

958
00:50:38,680 --> 00:50:43,600
Speaker 1: recruit and develop or transfer portal Basically the Dabo Sweeney

959
00:50:43,640 --> 00:50:50,359
Speaker 1: approach versus the Lane Kiffen approach from Starkville, Mississippi. There's

960
00:50:50,360 --> 00:50:53,120
Speaker 1: an interesting comparison here. There's also an interesting point that

961
00:50:53,160 --> 00:50:56,399
Speaker 1: has to be made. Sure, you've got Lane Kiffen, who

962
00:50:56,480 --> 00:50:58,680
Speaker 1: is dipped heavily into the transfer portal, and you've got

963
00:50:58,719 --> 00:51:01,239
Speaker 1: Dabo Sweeney, who really doesn't want much to do with

964
00:51:01,239 --> 00:51:04,000
Speaker 1: the transfer portal. They're all about recruiting and developing. It's

965
00:51:04,040 --> 00:51:07,600
Speaker 1: important to remember at one place they get to choose

966
00:51:07,640 --> 00:51:11,520
Speaker 1: their approach. At the other place, they don't. Daboswenty at

967
00:51:11,520 --> 00:51:15,359
Speaker 1: Clemson is so well resourced and so well positioned they

968
00:51:15,360 --> 00:51:18,040
Speaker 1: can choose any approach they want. So can Georgia, So

969
00:51:18,160 --> 00:51:22,000
Speaker 1: can Ohio State, so can usc SOA can Alabama? Ole

970
00:51:22,000 --> 00:51:24,960
Speaker 1: miss Can't do that? Ole Miss does not get to

971
00:51:25,000 --> 00:51:27,280
Speaker 1: do whatever they want to do. Now, I'm not saying

972
00:51:27,320 --> 00:51:30,120
Speaker 1: they don't literally get to choose their approach. I'm saying,

973
00:51:30,160 --> 00:51:33,080
Speaker 1: if they want to compete at a reasonably high level,

974
00:51:33,440 --> 00:51:36,240
Speaker 1: ole Miss doesn't get to say, all right, how's Bama

975
00:51:36,320 --> 00:51:38,399
Speaker 1: doing it, We'll just do it the exact same as them.

976
00:51:38,600 --> 00:51:40,920
Speaker 1: How's how's Kirby doing it. We'll do it the exact

977
00:51:41,000 --> 00:51:44,960
Speaker 1: same as them. GAP's too big the have and have not.

978
00:51:45,080 --> 00:51:47,480
Speaker 1: GAP is too big in this sport, and ole Miss,

979
00:51:47,520 --> 00:51:50,600
Speaker 1: while they're not a poverty program, they are not in

980
00:51:50,680 --> 00:51:53,360
Speaker 1: the halves tire that the Bamas and Georgia's of the

981
00:51:53,400 --> 00:51:55,560
Speaker 1: world are, and so they have to go about things

982
00:51:55,640 --> 00:51:57,759
Speaker 1: a different way. Clemson does not have to do that.

983
00:51:57,800 --> 00:52:00,400
Speaker 1: They choose to do that. Ole Miss has to do it.

984
00:52:00,640 --> 00:52:03,720
Speaker 1: And so with that you got to credit Lane Kiffin.

985
00:52:03,760 --> 00:52:05,680
Speaker 1: You've got a credit ole Miss for doing the same

986
00:52:05,719 --> 00:52:09,719
Speaker 1: thing to a degree that Chip Kelly's realized he can do. Ironically,

987
00:52:09,719 --> 00:52:13,960
Speaker 1: in the transfer rankings this past cycle so far, ole

988
00:52:14,040 --> 00:52:17,320
Speaker 1: Miss is six and UCLA seven, And those are the

989
00:52:17,320 --> 00:52:19,359
Speaker 1: two programs I'm looking at right now as being kind

990
00:52:19,400 --> 00:52:22,360
Speaker 1: of comparable. West Coast do closer to the East Coast

991
00:52:22,800 --> 00:52:24,759
Speaker 1: realizing we're not going to recruit in the top five

992
00:52:25,400 --> 00:52:27,200
Speaker 1: and that's a waste of time to think we will.

993
00:52:27,400 --> 00:52:30,280
Speaker 1: But what we can do is we can't present ourselves

994
00:52:30,320 --> 00:52:34,440
Speaker 1: to be a viable, attractive option in the transfer market because,

995
00:52:34,480 --> 00:52:37,799
Speaker 1: as we've seen many times now, the criteria and the

996
00:52:37,840 --> 00:52:40,880
Speaker 1: priorities for a transfer student are a lot different than

997
00:52:41,000 --> 00:52:44,560
Speaker 1: high school student. As for what will work long term,

998
00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:48,719
Speaker 1: I would always lean towards recruiting and developing working as

999
00:52:48,760 --> 00:52:55,319
Speaker 1: a theory long term. But at the same time, what

1000
00:52:55,320 --> 00:52:57,600
Speaker 1: do you really do, Like what's your alternative? Lane Kiffin's

1001
00:52:57,600 --> 00:53:00,440
Speaker 1: doing what he has to do and they land kids.

1002
00:53:00,560 --> 00:53:02,759
Speaker 1: They just got sun Toareene Perkins, that's one of the

1003
00:53:02,760 --> 00:53:05,120
Speaker 1: best linebackers in this class. So like I said, well,

1004
00:53:05,120 --> 00:53:07,399
Speaker 1: this is not a poverty program. It sounds like I'm

1005
00:53:07,400 --> 00:53:10,279
Speaker 1: painting them that way. They're not a poverty program. But

1006
00:53:10,320 --> 00:53:12,600
Speaker 1: they're also they're not going to recruit heads up against

1007
00:53:12,760 --> 00:53:15,600
Speaker 1: the top five brands in college football. And Lan Kiffen

1008
00:53:15,680 --> 00:53:18,239
Speaker 1: knows that, and credit him for knowing it to the

1009
00:53:18,280 --> 00:53:20,040
Speaker 1: point where he said, we got to do something different,

1010
00:53:20,080 --> 00:53:22,239
Speaker 1: and so they've done a little something different there. But

1011
00:53:23,120 --> 00:53:26,239
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think there's a substitute for recruiting

1012
00:53:26,280 --> 00:53:29,759
Speaker 1: and developing your guys. Herbie won the national title last

1013
00:53:29,840 --> 00:53:33,600
Speaker 1: year and found any microphone he could to remind you.

1014
00:53:34,080 --> 00:53:36,040
Speaker 1: We didn't go in the transfer portal a single time

1015
00:53:36,120 --> 00:53:40,600
Speaker 1: this past cycle. They will, they do, but there's a

1016
00:53:40,600 --> 00:53:43,719
Speaker 1: lot of pride to be taken in not having to

1017
00:53:43,800 --> 00:53:46,840
Speaker 1: have gone that route. There's no shame in going that route,

1018
00:53:46,880 --> 00:53:49,200
Speaker 1: but there is added pride to be taken in not

1019
00:53:49,320 --> 00:53:51,839
Speaker 1: having to go that route because because ultimately a lot

1020
00:53:51,840 --> 00:53:54,200
Speaker 1: of coaches look at having to use the portal as

1021
00:53:54,200 --> 00:53:57,799
Speaker 1: having to fill a mistake that you made, either a

1022
00:53:57,840 --> 00:54:01,000
Speaker 1: misevaluation or not being able to keep a guy on campus.

1023
00:54:01,320 --> 00:54:03,600
Speaker 1: Sometimes that is your fault. Sometimes it's out of your control.

1024
00:54:03,640 --> 00:54:07,840
Speaker 1: But I yeah, I look, I'm interested to see what

1025
00:54:07,880 --> 00:54:10,120
Speaker 1: Clemson is this year. It's not a Clemson prediction segment,

1026
00:54:10,160 --> 00:54:12,680
Speaker 1: but it's going to be a lot of weight is

1027
00:54:12,719 --> 00:54:15,040
Speaker 1: going to be put into the result this year as

1028
00:54:15,080 --> 00:54:18,400
Speaker 1: it relates to whether Dado's approach makes sense or not.

1029
00:54:19,560 --> 00:54:23,360
Speaker 1: So twenty twenty three yet another thing that we're looking

1030
00:54:23,719 --> 00:54:27,080
Speaker 1: very much forward to. We got to hey, we got

1031
00:54:27,120 --> 00:54:29,960
Speaker 1: a question with a palm tree emoji in it, So

1032
00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:34,279
Speaker 1: that always attracts my attention. Remington from Pays, Florida, home

1033
00:54:34,280 --> 00:54:37,880
Speaker 1: of Pace Academy, I think Pays Florida. Remington hit us

1034
00:54:37,920 --> 00:54:40,400
Speaker 1: up and said, which moment first made you fall in

1035
00:54:40,400 --> 00:54:42,359
Speaker 1: love with college football? So I thought of one off

1036
00:54:42,400 --> 00:54:45,040
Speaker 1: the radar today, But I thought of one. I got

1037
00:54:45,040 --> 00:54:48,200
Speaker 1: a buddy of mine who he and his dad once

1038
00:54:48,239 --> 00:54:51,920
Speaker 1: took me to a North Carolina Georgia Tech game. Random.

1039
00:54:52,000 --> 00:54:53,440
Speaker 1: I didn't grow up a fan of either team. They

1040
00:54:53,440 --> 00:54:55,960
Speaker 1: just took me to the game. Reggie Ball was the

1041
00:54:56,000 --> 00:55:00,000
Speaker 1: quarterback for Georgia Tech back then. And so I remember,

1042
00:55:00,680 --> 00:55:03,319
Speaker 1: I've never been to a sporting event that I can

1043
00:55:03,360 --> 00:55:07,719
Speaker 1: remember otherwise where I didn't have any rooting interest. I

1044
00:55:08,000 --> 00:55:11,160
Speaker 1: just was there observing. I've always gone to games and

1045
00:55:11,200 --> 00:55:13,480
Speaker 1: had a rooting interests, as is the case with most

1046
00:55:13,520 --> 00:55:17,880
Speaker 1: of you. So I remember watching, and neither one of

1047
00:55:17,920 --> 00:55:20,919
Speaker 1: those teams were in any kind of BCS contention that year.

1048
00:55:21,360 --> 00:55:24,360
Speaker 1: They weren't in contention for the ACC title, I don't think.

1049
00:55:25,560 --> 00:55:29,160
Speaker 1: And yet Grant Field or Bobby Dodd Stadium, Grant Field,

1050
00:55:29,200 --> 00:55:32,960
Speaker 1: the Atlanta it was sold out, and I remember watching

1051
00:55:33,360 --> 00:55:36,920
Speaker 1: now I was young. I remember watching the crowd and

1052
00:55:36,960 --> 00:55:41,920
Speaker 1: I remember thinking to myself, Wow, like the top five

1053
00:55:42,000 --> 00:55:45,880
Speaker 1: in the BCS whatever it was that year, those teams

1054
00:55:45,880 --> 00:55:49,520
Speaker 1: are playing right now, and there are big, consequential games

1055
00:55:49,520 --> 00:55:52,720
Speaker 1: happening all over the country, and yet these people here

1056
00:55:52,800 --> 00:55:57,200
Speaker 1: are so dialed into this game. These people here couldn't

1057
00:55:57,239 --> 00:56:00,359
Speaker 1: care less about anything else outside this stadium. I remember

1058
00:56:00,440 --> 00:56:03,719
Speaker 1: thinking to myself, how that was the wildest concept. I

1059
00:56:03,719 --> 00:56:05,680
Speaker 1: guess that's the day it kind of clicked for me,

1060
00:56:06,800 --> 00:56:10,520
Speaker 1: the beauty of the regular season and the beauty which

1061
00:56:10,560 --> 00:56:13,319
Speaker 1: we've lost the concept of by the way of not

1062
00:56:13,719 --> 00:56:19,040
Speaker 1: needing to tie everything to the postseason to have value.

1063
00:56:19,080 --> 00:56:23,680
Speaker 1: That afternoon Georgia Tech, North Carolina, two thousand and whatever

1064
00:56:23,760 --> 00:56:28,360
Speaker 1: it was, early two thousands, I remember realizing this little

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00:56:28,440 --> 00:56:32,560
Speaker 1: environment here, it exists independently of anything going on outside

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00:56:32,560 --> 00:56:34,799
Speaker 1: of it. No one had to show up and put

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00:56:34,880 --> 00:56:37,319
Speaker 1: rankings next to the teams. No one had to show

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00:56:37,400 --> 00:56:39,759
Speaker 1: up and put a trophy on the line, or a

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00:56:39,760 --> 00:56:42,719
Speaker 1: playoff spot on the line, or a BCS or ACC championship.

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00:56:43,080 --> 00:56:45,840
Speaker 1: They just care because that logo on the side of

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00:56:45,840 --> 00:56:48,160
Speaker 1: that helmet means so much to so many of these people.

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00:56:48,719 --> 00:56:51,839
Speaker 1: They're just invested because of that, and they don't need

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00:56:51,880 --> 00:56:55,920
Speaker 1: anything else. And it was like fifty four degrees crisp,

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00:56:56,000 --> 00:57:00,839
Speaker 1: clear fall afternoon. It was great. I think Georgia Tech

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00:57:00,880 --> 00:57:03,919
Speaker 1: won the game. I remember the experience and the observations

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00:57:03,920 --> 00:57:07,120
Speaker 1: more than even the outcome of the game, So that's

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Speaker 1: what I remember. And then I got far more recent memories, obviously,

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00:57:11,440 --> 00:57:13,920
Speaker 1: but that was the first one that really made me

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00:57:13,960 --> 00:57:16,080
Speaker 1: fall in love with college football. It made me realize

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00:57:16,280 --> 00:57:19,360
Speaker 1: this is so much different than pro sports, and I

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00:57:19,400 --> 00:57:22,840
Speaker 1: think that's what made me start leaning college football over NFL.

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00:57:23,200 --> 00:57:25,960
Speaker 1: Love I love. I was a Falcons fan growing up.

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00:57:26,120 --> 00:57:27,800
Speaker 1: I don't really have time to watch the NFL much

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00:57:27,840 --> 00:57:29,880
Speaker 1: these days, but yeah, I watched the pro game going

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00:57:29,920 --> 00:57:34,960
Speaker 1: up growing up, but it ain't the college game. Brian asked,

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00:57:35,160 --> 00:57:37,200
Speaker 1: do you think there needs to be a change to

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00:57:37,440 --> 00:57:40,640
Speaker 1: sideline density and the amount of people the crowds on

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00:57:40,640 --> 00:57:44,440
Speaker 1: the sideline to improve player and personnel safety. Once you

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00:57:44,560 --> 00:57:48,080
Speaker 1: notice it, it's hard to ignore all the sideline collisions

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00:57:48,280 --> 00:57:52,200
Speaker 1: that could be easily avoided. My answer here is yes,

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00:57:54,160 --> 00:57:57,600
Speaker 1: but I got to be careful, very careful because of

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00:57:57,680 --> 00:58:01,800
Speaker 1: the protocol that I floyd myself. So when I go

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00:58:01,880 --> 00:58:04,440
Speaker 1: to games, I don't go to the press box. I

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00:58:04,520 --> 00:58:08,720
Speaker 1: have any sid who will work with me, and ninety

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00:58:08,720 --> 00:58:11,840
Speaker 1: eight percent of them will I have them give me

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00:58:11,880 --> 00:58:15,640
Speaker 1: a sideline pass. I'm not down there recording. I am

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00:58:15,640 --> 00:58:19,040
Speaker 1: down there observing, and technically that's what the press box

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00:58:19,120 --> 00:58:21,240
Speaker 1: is for now. I know to stay out of the way.

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00:58:21,280 --> 00:58:22,800
Speaker 1: I know exactly how to get out of the way.

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00:58:22,840 --> 00:58:24,960
Speaker 1: I know not to be standing on that front white

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00:58:25,640 --> 00:58:28,400
Speaker 1: dashed line, and if you look on the field, that's

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Speaker 1: basically the boundaries for the press, and by press I

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00:58:33,160 --> 00:58:36,400
Speaker 1: mean people there in an active role recording the game,

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00:58:36,640 --> 00:58:39,200
Speaker 1: filming the game. I know to stay behind those folks.

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00:58:39,240 --> 00:58:40,400
Speaker 1: I know to get out of the way. I've got

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00:58:40,520 --> 00:58:43,280
Speaker 1: very very good what I would call with itness self awareness.

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00:58:44,160 --> 00:58:45,840
Speaker 1: That's also the reason you would never see me drive

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00:58:45,840 --> 00:58:49,120
Speaker 1: it slow in the left lane, for example. So I

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00:58:49,160 --> 00:58:51,040
Speaker 1: know to stay out of the way, but you do

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00:58:51,160 --> 00:58:54,840
Speaker 1: notice a lot of times people don't. And in fairness,

1111
00:58:54,920 --> 00:58:58,600
Speaker 1: you go to these bigger schools, some of the more

1112
00:58:58,880 --> 00:59:03,520
Speaker 1: wealthy alumni, in exchange for getting those checks have been

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00:59:03,560 --> 00:59:06,440
Speaker 1: promised sideline access at a game. And that's just the

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00:59:06,440 --> 00:59:08,760
Speaker 1: way it is, Bruce Hornsby, and you're not going to

1115
00:59:08,880 --> 00:59:10,920
Speaker 1: change that. And I get it. I get it. But

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00:59:11,160 --> 00:59:13,760
Speaker 1: what happens is those are people being put on a

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00:59:13,760 --> 00:59:16,280
Speaker 1: football field that are not used to being on the field,

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00:59:16,760 --> 00:59:21,640
Speaker 1: and I have seen some wicked collisions on sidelines that

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00:59:21,960 --> 00:59:24,919
Speaker 1: were results of people just not having awareness about where

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Speaker 1: they were, not having spatial awareness. I'll tell you what

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00:59:27,160 --> 00:59:29,760
Speaker 1: puts you the most at risk. People who watch the

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00:59:29,840 --> 00:59:33,560
Speaker 1: ball are the most at risk. And you would think, maybe, no, Josh,

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00:59:33,600 --> 00:59:36,000
Speaker 1: if you follow the ball, then that means you're following

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00:59:36,040 --> 00:59:39,080
Speaker 1: the play, and that means you'll always know if the

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Speaker 1: play is coming towards you. Know, following the ball is

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00:59:41,840 --> 00:59:44,920
Speaker 1: just that you're following the ball. But here's what happens.

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00:59:44,960 --> 00:59:51,680
Speaker 1: Sometimes sometimes there is a defensive back being stalk blocked

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00:59:52,200 --> 00:59:55,960
Speaker 1: by a receiver towards you that's twenty yards away from

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00:59:55,960 --> 00:59:59,480
Speaker 1: the ball, and you're not watching it because you're watching

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00:59:59,520 --> 01:00:02,040
Speaker 1: the ball, and all of a sudden, your head's down

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01:00:02,080 --> 01:00:05,440
Speaker 1: the field and you're blindsided and they chop block you.

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01:00:05,480 --> 01:00:07,280
Speaker 1: And it's legal because you're not in the game. You

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01:00:07,280 --> 01:00:09,120
Speaker 1: don't have a helmet on. The other thing I see

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Speaker 1: a lot of times is when the action does come

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01:00:11,680 --> 01:00:15,440
Speaker 1: towards you, there's an incomplete pass. So a lot of

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01:00:15,440 --> 01:00:18,120
Speaker 1: times the ball will sail over your head and your

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01:00:18,120 --> 01:00:22,080
Speaker 1: head goes up and you're looking behind you. Hey, the

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Speaker 1: guys that were running the routes that were meant to

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01:00:25,680 --> 01:00:30,160
Speaker 1: catch that pass, they're coming towards you. The defenders covering

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01:00:30,200 --> 01:00:33,600
Speaker 1: those guys and probably covering them so good it warranted

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01:00:33,600 --> 01:00:36,800
Speaker 1: the ball being thrown away. They're coming towards you, and

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01:00:36,920 --> 01:00:39,960
Speaker 1: they truck you. Those are the two most common instances

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01:00:40,040 --> 01:00:42,480
Speaker 1: that I've seen of people getting trucked. Here's the way

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01:00:42,520 --> 01:00:45,440
Speaker 1: to do it. The way to do it is you

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01:00:45,480 --> 01:00:48,280
Speaker 1: will see me. I am paranoid on sidelines. So what

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01:00:48,280 --> 01:00:49,640
Speaker 1: you have to do is you have to get yourself

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01:00:49,680 --> 01:00:51,640
Speaker 1: in position. The first thing you do is make sure

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01:00:51,680 --> 01:00:54,280
Speaker 1: you're not in anyone's way who's working. And then the

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01:00:54,320 --> 01:00:57,760
Speaker 1: second thing you do is you look behind you. Before

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01:00:57,760 --> 01:01:00,440
Speaker 1: every play, you look behind you because you need to

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01:01:00,480 --> 01:01:04,040
Speaker 1: know how far can I back up? Is there someone

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01:01:04,080 --> 01:01:07,960
Speaker 1: behind me? Is there something that's behind me that's blocking

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01:01:08,000 --> 01:01:11,960
Speaker 1: my ability to go backwards really really quick? And if

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01:01:12,000 --> 01:01:14,840
Speaker 1: there is, you need to move because that play is

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01:01:14,840 --> 01:01:17,680
Speaker 1: gonna find you eventually. So I've never been trucked on

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Speaker 1: the sideline. I never will because I have awareness, But

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01:01:20,640 --> 01:01:22,400
Speaker 1: yeah I would. I would love to see the sidelines

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01:01:22,480 --> 01:01:23,960
Speaker 1: be cleaned up a little bit. I just don't want

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01:01:23,960 --> 01:01:26,160
Speaker 1: it to come at the detriment of me being cleaned

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Speaker 1: off the sideline. And I don't look, I got pretty

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01:01:28,800 --> 01:01:31,919
Speaker 1: good working relationships with these folks, so I don't think

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01:01:31,920 --> 01:01:35,000
Speaker 1: that'll happen. But yeah, yeah, there may be a few

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Speaker 1: people down there who don't need to be down there.

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Speaker 1: Now at the end of the day, does it really

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01:01:40,400 --> 01:01:42,920
Speaker 1: hurt your feelings when you see someone get trucked or

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Speaker 1: do you rewind it five times? Let's just all be

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01:01:45,640 --> 01:01:47,960
Speaker 1: real with ourselves here. A lot of you like a

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Speaker 1: good sideline collision, or at least I think you do.

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Speaker 1: Chad from Evans, Georgia said, Hey, Thursday, today, it's opening day.

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Speaker 1: What's the story of young JP and his Atlanta Braves fandom.

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Speaker 1: When I saw this question this morning, I said, this

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01:02:02,680 --> 01:02:04,800
Speaker 1: is a college football podcast, there's no place for this.

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01:02:05,560 --> 01:02:10,080
Speaker 1: But then I thought to myself, it's your podcast. Maybe

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01:02:10,120 --> 01:02:14,600
Speaker 1: you can tell a quick story. The year was what

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01:02:14,640 --> 01:02:16,400
Speaker 1: was the first year I was in pre ks, like

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01:02:16,520 --> 01:02:21,240
Speaker 1: ninety two or something. Anyway, the Braves are there early

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Speaker 1: on in their division title run in the nineties. I

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01:02:24,040 --> 01:02:26,560
Speaker 1: can't remember what year was. Anyway, they're early on in

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01:02:26,560 --> 01:02:30,640
Speaker 1: their title run and their consecutive divisions titles one run.

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Speaker 1: It was crazy, man, growing up the nineties. America peaked

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01:02:34,280 --> 01:02:36,800
Speaker 1: in the nineties, okay, and especially if you're a Braves fan,

1182
01:02:36,960 --> 01:02:38,720
Speaker 1: we peaked in the nineties. It was just a great

1183
01:02:38,760 --> 01:02:40,960
Speaker 1: time to be alive and a great time to be

1184
01:02:41,000 --> 01:02:46,800
Speaker 1: growing up. So I remember so vividly. We had a

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01:02:46,800 --> 01:02:49,680
Speaker 1: bus driver named Miss Long, don't know where she is now.

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01:02:50,240 --> 01:02:52,680
Speaker 1: She was die hard. Pretty much everyone in the South was.

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Speaker 1: So we have a pennant get one. In ninety three,

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01:02:59,000 --> 01:03:01,320
Speaker 1: the Braves and Giants had what they call the Last

1189
01:03:01,320 --> 01:03:04,480
Speaker 1: Great Pennant Race. Both of them won over one hundred games.

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01:03:04,840 --> 01:03:07,680
Speaker 1: And back then you didn't have an expanded playoff, so

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01:03:07,760 --> 01:03:13,320
Speaker 1: you either win your league and or you're done. You'ither

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01:03:13,360 --> 01:03:16,400
Speaker 1: win your division or you're done. So the Giants won

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01:03:16,440 --> 01:03:19,240
Speaker 1: like one hundred and three games and went home crazy.

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01:03:19,520 --> 01:03:21,640
Speaker 1: So the Braves win. And the thing about it was

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01:03:21,680 --> 01:03:25,120
Speaker 1: it was neck and neck all summer, so every time

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01:03:25,200 --> 01:03:28,160
Speaker 1: you woke up in the morning it sucked because the

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01:03:28,200 --> 01:03:32,840
Speaker 1: San Francisco games would be starting at ten eastern and

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01:03:33,280 --> 01:03:36,640
Speaker 1: this was pre internet, so you did not have the

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Speaker 1: ability to just wake up the next morning and check

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01:03:39,280 --> 01:03:42,840
Speaker 1: your phone which was on the wall and see who won.

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01:03:43,920 --> 01:03:46,600
Speaker 1: And the newspapers didn't have the result, so you would

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01:03:46,640 --> 01:03:49,440
Speaker 1: have to turn on Sports Center and see if the

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01:03:49,480 --> 01:03:51,120
Speaker 1: Giants won the night before, and most of the time

1204
01:03:51,120 --> 01:03:53,360
Speaker 1: they had anyway, when the Braves finally wrapped that thing up,

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01:03:53,920 --> 01:03:56,560
Speaker 1: our bus driver when we got on the bus the

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01:03:56,600 --> 01:03:59,480
Speaker 1: next day, I remember she said, we're rolling the windows

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01:03:59,480 --> 01:04:01,720
Speaker 1: down today, a little bit cold. We're rolling the windows down,

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01:04:02,240 --> 01:04:04,320
Speaker 1: and I just will have all of you do the

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01:04:04,320 --> 01:04:07,720
Speaker 1: tomahawk chop. Throughout the entirety of our ride home. We

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01:04:07,800 --> 01:04:09,840
Speaker 1: just did the tomahawk chop. It sounded like a Chiefs game,

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01:04:09,920 --> 01:04:12,000
Speaker 1: sound like a Brave's or an FSU game. On our

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01:04:12,040 --> 01:04:15,000
Speaker 1: school bus. We did have to stop for railroad crossings

1213
01:04:15,320 --> 01:04:17,080
Speaker 1: because that's the law. You can't do the tomahawk chop

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01:04:17,080 --> 01:04:19,400
Speaker 1: at a railroad crossing. But other than that, we just

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01:04:19,440 --> 01:04:22,440
Speaker 1: did it all the way home. And I used to

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01:04:22,480 --> 01:04:24,800
Speaker 1: love that I had one of the first stops because

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01:04:24,840 --> 01:04:27,520
Speaker 1: I rode the bus to me Ma's house and my

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01:04:27,560 --> 01:04:29,920
Speaker 1: parents would come and pick me up after they worked. Yes,

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01:04:30,120 --> 01:04:32,080
Speaker 1: I was an out of district school kid by the way,

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01:04:33,000 --> 01:04:35,040
Speaker 1: until I got turned in someone narked me out in

1221
01:04:35,040 --> 01:04:36,640
Speaker 1: fourth grade and then I had to go to Harris

1222
01:04:36,680 --> 01:04:40,360
Speaker 1: County in fifth grade. So I remember I used to

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01:04:40,400 --> 01:04:43,000
Speaker 1: love getting dropped off one of the first stops, but

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01:04:43,160 --> 01:04:46,560
Speaker 1: that day I wanted the Bush Route to be to

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01:04:46,600 --> 01:04:48,720
Speaker 1: be inverted because I wanted to ride around and just

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01:04:48,760 --> 01:04:52,439
Speaker 1: singing and chant all day. So they dropped me off

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01:04:52,760 --> 01:04:55,960
Speaker 1: pretty early twelve oh one thirty fifth Street there in

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Speaker 1: Phoenix City, Alabama. And then they went on their way

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01:04:58,280 --> 01:04:59,600
Speaker 1: and you can just hear them chopping all the way

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01:04:59,680 --> 01:05:02,680
Speaker 1: up to some road. It was a great time, the

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01:05:02,680 --> 01:05:05,160
Speaker 1: best of times. But yeah, I also diehard brace fan

1232
01:05:05,200 --> 01:05:10,360
Speaker 1: from birth and still am now, and I want badly

1233
01:05:10,440 --> 01:05:12,080
Speaker 1: to be able to go to games, but it's hard

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01:05:12,080 --> 01:05:14,000
Speaker 1: to get down there with the schedule that we work.

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01:05:14,480 --> 01:05:18,320
Speaker 1: But I'm not complaining. Not complaining, mind you. Okay, here's

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01:05:18,360 --> 01:05:21,800
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen. I'm probably gonna be in danger Friday,

1237
01:05:22,200 --> 01:05:24,480
Speaker 1: and I will probably let you guys in on it

1238
01:05:24,560 --> 01:05:27,640
Speaker 1: if something really big goes down. I'm talking about storm chasing,

1239
01:05:27,680 --> 01:05:30,840
Speaker 1: of course. So make sure you're following Instagram and Twitter

1240
01:05:30,880 --> 01:05:34,680
Speaker 1: at late kick Josh, because regardless of what you tell me,

1241
01:05:35,280 --> 01:05:38,640
Speaker 1: you may not be fascinated with doing storm chasing yourself.

1242
01:05:38,920 --> 01:05:41,480
Speaker 1: One hundred percent of you would be fascinated with singing tornado.

1243
01:05:41,880 --> 01:05:44,200
Speaker 1: I know that for a fact. No one looks at

1244
01:05:44,200 --> 01:05:48,440
Speaker 1: the tornado and says boring, And if you do, you're

1245
01:05:48,480 --> 01:05:52,200
Speaker 1: a weather fashion. Thank you for listening to the Lake Pod.

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01:05:52,200 --> 01:05:54,640
Speaker 1: Make sure you are subscribed here and make sure, like

1247
01:05:54,680 --> 01:05:58,400
Speaker 1: I said, you're following on the social spore. Jesse Colin

1248
01:05:58,480 --> 01:06:01,920
Speaker 1: for director Bradley and there junior director Bradley, I'm Josh Paper,

1249
01:06:02,400 --> 01:06:03,720
Speaker 1: take care of have a great rest of your day.

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Speaker 1: Accomplis