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Speaker 1: and says profit, Yeah, it's great growth and an ideal world.

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Speaker 1: But really, I just want to cater to you. Do

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Speaker 1: you like your parking spot? Could I change things in

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Speaker 1: the vending machine for you? Are you happy? Because I

432
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Speaker 1: don't care about our P and L. I don't care

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Speaker 1: about the critical metrics. I just want I just want

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Speaker 1: to make sure you're getting what you want. That's not

435
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Speaker 1: the way it works in basically any walk of life.

436
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Speaker 1: It's not the way it works in college football. Here's

437
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Speaker 1: the difference. The difference is, if you've got a regular

438
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Speaker 1: nine to five, they really could do with or without you.

439
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Speaker 1: If you're an elite five star tailback, let's just say,

440
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Speaker 1: and you go to Clemson, their best interest, in your

441
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Speaker 1: best interest overlap. Clemson football has to stay on top.

442
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Speaker 1: They need players like you to be able to do that.

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Speaker 1: It's in their best interest. Therefore, that you are taken

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Speaker 1: care of, that you are developed to your max, that

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Speaker 1: you are promoted and marketed and propped up and kept

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Speaker 1: healthy and fed the right way. These are things that

447
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Speaker 1: benefit you. You also get in value rub against a major

448
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Speaker 1: college football brand. They'll see there's value in the fact

449
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Speaker 1: that those are massive brands. There's value in it. All

450
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Speaker 1: of a sudden, you come to Paint State and I

451
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Speaker 1: got that freight's logo that existed before you were born,

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Speaker 1: and there are billions of dollars in equity built up

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Speaker 1: in that thing. Well, all of a sudden, I get

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Speaker 1: to rub my name against that. Guess what that gives me?

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Speaker 1: Gives me value. So it's in my best interest and

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Speaker 1: their best interest for the same things to happen. You

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Speaker 1: do the old Venn diagram of best interest me versus

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Speaker 1: the school I go to. There's a lot of overlap.

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Speaker 1: So I don't know what lorld cam Newton was talking about.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what was said before or after. I

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Speaker 1: think that there was an attempt to say something profound

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Speaker 1: there and instead I just heard words. Never find that

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Speaker 1: sort of thing happening at Academy Sports and Outdoors. In fact,

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Speaker 1: they don't have to talk. I do it for them.

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Speaker 1: They don't have to talk. They just put their merch

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Speaker 1: where their mouth is. That's what they do. So you

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Speaker 1: walk in. Softball seasons start tomorrow night. Prayers appreciated. Softball

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Speaker 1: season starts tomorrow night. You know where I gear it up,

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Speaker 1: and I may not be done gearing up. We'll see.

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Speaker 1: But Academy Sports and Outdoors had me covered. They got

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Speaker 1: you covered too. I was talking to someone the other day.

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Speaker 1: I think I told the story, but it bears repeating.

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Speaker 1: It's not just bats and balls and gloves and hoops.

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Speaker 1: They got crawfish broil equipment for you. They got all

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Speaker 1: the ingredients you need there. They got tents for you,

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Speaker 1: they got grills for you. They've got everything you need

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Speaker 1: for the outdoors. And they've got us. And because they

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Speaker 1: have us, we get to come to you free of charge.

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Speaker 1: I can't necessarily say that the custom lake Kick helmet

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Speaker 1: is sold at Academy yet give it time, though there's

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Speaker 1: enough demand they'll have it. I mean they got buckets

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Speaker 1: of big league chew over there, which is always my

483
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Speaker 1: standard measuring stick for whether a store is elite or not.

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Speaker 1: Do you carry the bucket of big league chew? And

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Speaker 1: Academy does so. Academy Sports and out Doors. If you

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Speaker 1: can't get there in person, Academy dot com. As you

487
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Speaker 1: covered all right, we've been doing a little exercise around

488
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Speaker 1: here before we went off for Easter and then went

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Speaker 1: up to Penn State. We were doing a little exercise.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for being tuned in. If you are like

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Speaker 1: the video, subscribe to the channel please, and thank you.

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Speaker 1: Colin here's a better endpoint for you. We've been doing

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Speaker 1: a little exercise about spotlight teams, some of the teams

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Speaker 1: that may or may not be a national title contender

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Speaker 1: this year, but there's just something extra that's interesting about

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Speaker 1: them to me. And I wanted to talk to you

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Speaker 1: about Florida. I got four of them for you right quick.

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Speaker 1: Florida is one of them. Though they were bad last year,

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Speaker 1: not to put too fine a point on it, they

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Speaker 1: were one in five versus top twenty five teams. Thirty

501
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Speaker 1: was the magic number. Defensively, they were zero to six

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Speaker 1: when allowing thirty or more. There were six and one

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Speaker 1: when they allowed less than thirty. I don't think that's shocking.

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Speaker 1: What is a little bit of a shock to the

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Speaker 1: senses I guess is they are back to back sub

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Speaker 1: five hundred now for the first time since seventy eight

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Speaker 1: and seventy nine. That's Bradley wasn't even born then, Junior

508
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Speaker 1: director Bradley wasn't even around. That's a long time ago.

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Speaker 1: Remember the era we're in, because it has a lot

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Speaker 1: to do with how people are going to talk about

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Speaker 1: Billy Napier this year. We are in that whole portal

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Speaker 1: nil post Lincoln Riley USC Resurrection era and all that

513
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Speaker 1: sounds like cam Newton word salad. What that means is

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Speaker 1: once a guy has taken over a fledgling program and

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Speaker 1: reignited it overnight, like Lincoln Riley just did USC by

516
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Speaker 1: using the transfer portal in NIL, folks are going to

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Speaker 1: think anyone should be capable of doing that again, just

518
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Speaker 1: like that overnight. And when you don't. Instead of someone

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Speaker 1: saying half patients that one person's going to be drowned

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Speaker 1: out by a thirty eight, other people saying no, forget patients.

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Speaker 1: Lincoln Riley did it, why can't you do it? We're Florida,

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Speaker 1: after all, what do they have that we don't. That's

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Speaker 1: the way it's going to go. I'm not saying I

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Speaker 1: agree with it, but you know I'm right, that's the

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Speaker 1: way it's going to go. Now, you go nine to

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Speaker 1: three this year, I won't have to listen to it.

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Speaker 1: But you go seven and five, six and six, you're

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Speaker 1: struggling to make a bowl game again. We absolutely will

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Speaker 1: have to deal with it. That's the first thing. Another

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Speaker 1: thing is Billy Napier came from Louisiana and he came

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Speaker 1: from the G five ranks and whether it's fair or not.

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Speaker 1: There are other jobs that will come open and athletic

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Speaker 1: directors and hiring search firm committee types, whether it's fair

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Speaker 1: again or not. They are going to use this as

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Speaker 1: a barometer. And sure enough, if you're looking at a

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Speaker 1: G five candidate for your Power five head coaching position,

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Speaker 1: someone in the room is going to say, well, remember

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Speaker 1: what Billy Napier did at Florida over the past two years.

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Speaker 1: This year will determine whether that is a positive or

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Speaker 1: a negative, because if he's put up back to back

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Speaker 1: subpar season, someone's going to say, I don't know, do

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Speaker 1: we want to end up like Florida? You know, cause

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Speaker 1: you've seen one G five head coach. You've seen them

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Speaker 1: all right again. I don't have to like it or

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Speaker 1: endorse it, just telling you that broad brush will be

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Speaker 1: painted with by folks in the hiring position and not.

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Speaker 1: The least of which in this whole equation is we've

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Speaker 1: got the balance of power in the sec East up

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Speaker 1: for grabs. And it was for a long time a

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Speaker 1: belief that it's Georgia, Florida, Florida, Georgia, and it was

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Speaker 1: Tennessee was nowhere to be found. Well, then all of

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Speaker 1: a sudden, Tennessee rebounded and Tennessee is now a plus

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Speaker 1: twenty two hundred team in the SEC to win the

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Speaker 1: whole thing to win the national championship. They have the

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Speaker 1: fourth best odds in the SEC to win the national championship.

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Speaker 1: You know you know who has the second to worst odds, Florida.

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Speaker 1: Balance of power. Those folks in Gainesville, while they will

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Speaker 1: not tolerate long term Georgia dominating them, they at least

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Speaker 1: understand it. They don't understand Tennessee all of a sudden

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Speaker 1: writing this ship this quickly and them not Florida Big

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Speaker 1: time Spotlight program Now, Colin, that's where I want you

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Speaker 1: to outcut this when you put it on YouTube. But

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Speaker 1: for those of you watching live, do I have news

564
00:29:11,200 --> 00:29:13,920
Speaker 1: for you? Florida's first team offense has zero points in

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Speaker 1: the spring game with two twenty to go in the

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Speaker 1: first half. In slightly related news, yes, Florida's spring game

567
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Speaker 1: is going on right now, which I don't think is

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Speaker 1: the worst idea in the world. You know what, Billy

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Speaker 1: Napier chose to go head to head with late kick

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Speaker 1: for his spring game. Hm. Let me let me marinate

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Speaker 1: on that. We'll move on. I want to go as

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Speaker 1: far away from Gainesville as we can, at least on

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Speaker 1: the college football mat. Washington is a spotlight team this year.

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Speaker 1: Washington's one of those teams where when I ask you

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Speaker 1: how they did last year, if you're not a Washington fan,

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Speaker 1: if you don't watch a lot of PAC twelve, you

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Speaker 1: said they did pretty good. Yeah, they did pretty good.

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Speaker 1: They went eleven and two. That is their best record

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Speaker 1: since twenty sixteen. They were four to oh versus the

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Speaker 1: top twenty five. Both of their losses came by one

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Speaker 1: score on the road at UCLA at Arizona State right

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Speaker 1: there in weeks five and six. Those were their losses.

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Speaker 1: They went on to beat Oregon State. They went on

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Speaker 1: to win at Oregon. They went on to beat Texas

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Speaker 1: in the Alamo Bowl. Kayln de Bor went and found

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Speaker 1: Michael Pennix in the transfer portal oft injured Michael Pennix

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Speaker 1: turned him into a Heisman contender. They were seventh nationally

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Speaker 1: in points per game last year. They were first in

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Speaker 1: pass yards per game, second in total yards per game.

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Speaker 1: Why are they a spotlight team? I think some of

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Speaker 1: that makes it obvious, But remember all those numbers. I

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Speaker 1: just gave you. And then remember their top thirty, their

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Speaker 1: top twenty five actually in returning production this year. And

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Speaker 1: among those guys returning is Michael Pennix, the quarterback, Michael

595
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Speaker 1: Pennix Junior, the quarterback. So we got a potential star

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Speaker 1: head coach emerging on the West Coast in Kaylen de Borer.

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Speaker 1: We've got the leg see of Michael Pennix as a

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Speaker 1: quarterback being rewritten in real time. This dude was slept

599
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Speaker 1: on or in most cases written off. He can't stay

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Speaker 1: healthy and he's a turnover machine. And then it's like

601
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Speaker 1: West Coast Hendon Hooker. Really a change of scenery ends

602
00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:21,520
Speaker 1: up being everything he needs and he just blossoms into

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Speaker 1: an elite quarterback. And also, aside from the head coach

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Speaker 1: and the quarterback, Washington may be reemerging just as a

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Speaker 1: program to be taken serious nationally. I know it's conventional

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Speaker 1: wisdom to think if someone comes out of the PAC twelve,

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00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:40,280
Speaker 1: it'll either be USC or ORGAN. And then Utah says, hey, fool,

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Speaker 1: we've won the conference the last two years, and people say, okay, yeah, Utah,

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Speaker 1: you can come in here too. And then there's a

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Speaker 1: pause and there's silence in the room. Then someone says, Hey,

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Speaker 1: anyone paying attention to Washington, anyone paying attention to Oregon State.

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Speaker 1: You know those other teams out there, they may not

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Speaker 1: be other teams for very long. They don't get benefit

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Speaker 1: of the doubt. It is not one one of the

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00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:04,120
Speaker 1: most popular brands in college football. Gotta change it, and

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Speaker 1: they may have the right combination out there to do it.

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00:32:06,240 --> 00:32:08,479
Speaker 1: This will go a long way in deciding the Pac twelve.

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Speaker 1: That's another obvious reason. They're a spotlight team this year.

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Speaker 1: Major November spotlight though. You want to know who to

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Speaker 1: pay attention to really starting in mid October. They play

621
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Speaker 1: Oregon in mid October, they play them ten to fourteen.

622
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Speaker 1: But then it gets really really spicy once we get

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Speaker 1: to November at USC, Utah, at Oregon State. Those three weeks,

624
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Speaker 1: those are three of the premier contenders in that conference

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Speaker 1: this year. And I want to mention another three teams

626
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Speaker 1: to you that are not in the Pac twelve. Actually

627
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Speaker 1: one of them is here are the three teams. I

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Speaker 1: want you to guess what these teams have in common. Oklahoma, Utah, Texas,

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Speaker 1: A and m What if I told you that Washington

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Speaker 1: has better national championship odds than all of them hoops

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Speaker 1: to moongst you would have guessed that this time of

632
00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:02,320
Speaker 1: year ago. But yet there's Washington plus thirty five hundred

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Speaker 1: to win the national championship. That's third best odds amongst

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Speaker 1: PAC twelve teams. That's better than Utah out there, by

635
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Speaker 1: the way, So that's the fourteenth best odds in the country.

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Speaker 1: You're not thinking about Washington at least casual fans, aren't.

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Speaker 1: You should be. They're watching us in Ruskin, Florida, Casper, Wyoming. Really, Casper,

638
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Speaker 1: Wyoming is tuned in, and Barstow, California. A lot of

639
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Speaker 1: freight traffic, a lot of BNSF freight traffic out there

640
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Speaker 1: in Barstow. They're all tuned in. Thank you so much.

641
00:33:31,360 --> 00:33:33,960
Speaker 1: I met I met two people on the flight back

642
00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:37,840
Speaker 1: from Harrisburg yesterday that watched the show. I think I

643
00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:39,760
Speaker 1: told you that, Jesse, So that was good. It was

644
00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:43,720
Speaker 1: nice to meet everyone. Miami is a spotlight team. You

645
00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:46,560
Speaker 1: may not like it, but Miami's a spotlight team this year.

646
00:33:46,720 --> 00:33:49,520
Speaker 1: And I'm actually appeasing you by making them a spotlight team.

647
00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:52,400
Speaker 1: They're a spotlight team because it could go fantastically or

648
00:33:52,400 --> 00:33:55,120
Speaker 1: it could crash and burn horribly. And there are some

649
00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:58,160
Speaker 1: out there who hate Miami and they all watch the show.

650
00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:00,840
Speaker 1: Every Miami hater watches the show. So you know what,

651
00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:04,840
Speaker 1: because of you guys, I'm putting Miami in the spotlight.

652
00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:08,279
Speaker 1: Got the high profile program, you got high profile head coach.

653
00:34:08,520 --> 00:34:10,879
Speaker 1: We've got a quarterback that the nation has forgotten about

654
00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:13,840
Speaker 1: in Tyler Van Dyke, and we will discuss him, actually

655
00:34:13,880 --> 00:34:17,680
Speaker 1: discuss him. Now, what was his deal last year? Was

656
00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:19,759
Speaker 1: it just that he forgot how to throw football? Was

657
00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:24,279
Speaker 1: it just that everyone was wrong about him? Or was

658
00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:27,040
Speaker 1: it that offensive coordinator they hired and have since fired

659
00:34:27,920 --> 00:34:30,799
Speaker 1: in Josh gaddis that it just wasn't a good fit.

660
00:34:31,560 --> 00:34:34,640
Speaker 1: And therefore is it if that's the case, a situation

661
00:34:34,640 --> 00:34:37,200
Speaker 1: where maybe Tyler Van Dyke has a big re emergen season,

662
00:34:37,520 --> 00:34:40,880
Speaker 1: he didn't transfer. I was looking at it, I was

663
00:34:40,920 --> 00:34:45,719
Speaker 1: looking for it, he didn't transfer. There are just defining

664
00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:49,920
Speaker 1: opinions being shared about Miami. I frankly don't find a

665
00:34:49,960 --> 00:34:53,719
Speaker 1: lot of people who say Miami, I don't know. I

666
00:34:53,760 --> 00:34:57,000
Speaker 1: hadn't really figured him out. Seems like everyone's got a

667
00:34:57,040 --> 00:34:59,839
Speaker 1: pretty solidified opinion here. Some folks think eventually they'll get

668
00:34:59,880 --> 00:35:03,560
Speaker 1: it done and other folks think, oh, that's a fraud program. Nope,

669
00:35:03,680 --> 00:35:07,280
Speaker 1: Paper Tiger Total contender. You'll see they'll get exposed again,

670
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:10,239
Speaker 1: which is always fun for me because you know, I

671
00:35:10,280 --> 00:35:13,319
Speaker 1: never make those kind of statements in April, hard enough

672
00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:16,800
Speaker 1: to get me to make him in August, so I instead,

673
00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:22,040
Speaker 1: this is screenshot season for me. I'm screenshotting a lot

674
00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:24,839
Speaker 1: of those opinions and it always leads to a fun

675
00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:28,400
Speaker 1: time in December. So that is a reason, selfishly why

676
00:35:28,480 --> 00:35:32,359
Speaker 1: they're a spotlight team this year. The coordinator churn new

677
00:35:32,440 --> 00:35:37,560
Speaker 1: OC New DC. They allowed forty two plus in four

678
00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:39,759
Speaker 1: of their final five home games last year. Do you

679
00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:45,840
Speaker 1: realize that? And then when you realize they allowed forty

680
00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:48,520
Speaker 1: two plus in four of their last five home games,

681
00:35:49,440 --> 00:35:52,960
Speaker 1: then I tell you, but Bama hired their defensive coordinator

682
00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:56,160
Speaker 1: and you just go, who's the head coach at Bama? Now?

683
00:35:56,200 --> 00:35:58,600
Speaker 1: What happened to Saban? Oh he's still there? What does

684
00:35:58,640 --> 00:36:01,800
Speaker 1: he know that? We don't know a lot in general terms.

685
00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:05,560
Speaker 1: In this specific sense you got me, We'll see he

686
00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:08,440
Speaker 1: knows Kevin Steele knows him very well. But we'll see

687
00:36:08,560 --> 00:36:11,839
Speaker 1: they lost five games by fourteen plus. They lost four

688
00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:14,840
Speaker 1: games by twenty four plus how much ground can you

689
00:36:14,920 --> 00:36:17,920
Speaker 1: make up therefore over the span of one season. That's

690
00:36:17,960 --> 00:36:21,759
Speaker 1: a reason to be a spotlight team. And finally, you

691
00:36:21,800 --> 00:36:23,720
Speaker 1: know what they need this year? They need hope to sell.

692
00:36:24,680 --> 00:36:27,840
Speaker 1: They don't need to win the division. It would be nice.

693
00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:30,120
Speaker 1: They don't need to win the ACC that'd be a

694
00:36:30,120 --> 00:36:34,799
Speaker 1: big story. But they better show enough to indicate on

695
00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:39,080
Speaker 1: the recruiting trail. All right, we've stabilized things. We're coming now,

696
00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:43,320
Speaker 1: We're on our way, because if they don't. They landed

697
00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:45,920
Speaker 1: the seventh best class in recruiting this past year, fifteenth

698
00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:49,759
Speaker 1: best in the portal, eighth overall, you are going to

699
00:36:49,880 --> 00:36:54,160
Speaker 1: need something to continue to sell. You can't just continue

700
00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:56,879
Speaker 1: to traffic on cotton candy forever. You need some meat

701
00:36:56,920 --> 00:36:59,480
Speaker 1: and potatoes eventually to put in front of guys and say, hey,

702
00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:02,280
Speaker 1: what we've been promising you. Look, it's finally starting to happen.

703
00:37:03,080 --> 00:37:04,680
Speaker 1: Are we going to get that this year? Well, that's

704
00:37:04,680 --> 00:37:08,200
Speaker 1: what makes you a spotlight team. Got one more spotlight

705
00:37:08,239 --> 00:37:11,520
Speaker 1: team here? Can anyone guess who it is? That was

706
00:37:11,560 --> 00:37:17,960
Speaker 1: an unintentional triple paper pop? I got Nebraska as a

707
00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:21,520
Speaker 1: spotlight team this year. Matt Rule takes over. Obviously, they

708
00:37:21,560 --> 00:37:24,880
Speaker 1: have lost ear muffs in Lincoln. They have lost twenty

709
00:37:25,000 --> 00:37:29,680
Speaker 1: one straight games versus top twenty five teams. Nebraska Tom

710
00:37:29,760 --> 00:37:34,680
Speaker 1: Osborne's Nebraska has lost twenty one straight against the top

711
00:37:34,719 --> 00:37:38,040
Speaker 1: twenty five. Oh, the stat's not over. By the way,

712
00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:41,279
Speaker 1: Nebraska has lost twenty one straight against the top twenty five.

713
00:37:41,480 --> 00:37:46,840
Speaker 1: The average margin of defeat friends twenty point one points.

714
00:37:48,160 --> 00:37:53,200
Speaker 1: Just gross. They also, I mean, if anyone's interested, had

715
00:37:53,239 --> 00:37:56,319
Speaker 1: their last win against the top twenty five team September

716
00:37:56,360 --> 00:38:00,319
Speaker 1: of twenty sixteen. So that's where we are right now

717
00:38:00,360 --> 00:38:03,959
Speaker 1: with Nebraska football. Why are they a spotlight team? Well,

718
00:38:04,000 --> 00:38:06,560
Speaker 1: aside from being sub five hundred and six years in

719
00:38:06,560 --> 00:38:09,120
Speaker 1: a row, they're a spotlight team because of Matt rule.

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00:38:09,680 --> 00:38:12,719
Speaker 1: There's spotlight team because they didn't hire a guy who

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00:38:12,840 --> 00:38:16,799
Speaker 1: hasn't won already. He's proven he can win. He did

722
00:38:16,800 --> 00:38:18,799
Speaker 1: it at Temple, he did it at Baylor. So I

723
00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:20,799
Speaker 1: don't think it's an if thing. I think it's more

724
00:38:20,840 --> 00:38:24,640
Speaker 1: of a whim thing, which is an interesting question because

725
00:38:24,719 --> 00:38:28,000
Speaker 1: history says don't expect it in year one. I was

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00:38:28,000 --> 00:38:30,919
Speaker 1: looking earlier today at Temple year one, he was two

727
00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:35,160
Speaker 1: and ten at Baylor year one he was one and eleven,

728
00:38:35,920 --> 00:38:39,880
Speaker 1: Temple year two, six and six, Baylor year two, seven

729
00:38:39,920 --> 00:38:44,840
Speaker 1: and six, Temple year three, ten and four, Baylor year three,

730
00:38:45,080 --> 00:38:50,720
Speaker 1: eleven and three. Those are strikingly similar trajectories from taking

731
00:38:50,760 --> 00:38:53,520
Speaker 1: over programs that needed to be rebuilt from the ground up.

732
00:38:55,320 --> 00:38:58,319
Speaker 1: Now we ask ourselves, is Nebraska the same Are they

733
00:38:58,320 --> 00:39:00,719
Speaker 1: in the same boat? Are they going to be very

734
00:39:00,840 --> 00:39:03,920
Speaker 1: very bad this year? Are they going to be scrappy

735
00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:05,759
Speaker 1: next year? And then are they going to be a

736
00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:10,239
Speaker 1: surprise contender in year three? I would wonder if the

737
00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:13,120
Speaker 1: changes to the sport may not expedite that timetable a

738
00:39:13,120 --> 00:39:15,319
Speaker 1: little bit. You got, first off, a little bit better

739
00:39:15,360 --> 00:39:17,640
Speaker 1: access to talent at Nebraska, then you do it the

740
00:39:17,680 --> 00:39:20,880
Speaker 1: other two. You've also got the portal that can speed

741
00:39:20,920 --> 00:39:22,800
Speaker 1: that up. So maybe we just get rid of the

742
00:39:22,800 --> 00:39:25,440
Speaker 1: whole year one sub five hundred thing. Maybe we go

743
00:39:25,520 --> 00:39:28,160
Speaker 1: right to Borderline Bowl contention and then next year they

744
00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:32,920
Speaker 1: win nine or ten games. We'll see. But nevertheless, Nebraska

745
00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:35,839
Speaker 1: also a spotlight team for me this year. I got

746
00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:39,040
Speaker 1: one more thing to get to here, And I also

747
00:39:39,080 --> 00:39:42,200
Speaker 1: need to tell you, guys, if you tuned in and

748
00:39:42,239 --> 00:39:44,719
Speaker 1: you're looking for a lot of behind the scenes stories

749
00:39:45,320 --> 00:39:48,200
Speaker 1: about our trip to Penn State. We were there two nights,

750
00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:53,600
Speaker 1: two days and two nights, got full access to the program.

751
00:39:53,719 --> 00:39:55,960
Speaker 1: All those stories are on the Late Kick Extra podcast

752
00:39:56,000 --> 00:39:59,880
Speaker 1: that we released earlier today, and I've probably got more

753
00:40:00,239 --> 00:40:02,640
Speaker 1: for you. In fact, I know I didn't talk about

754
00:40:02,640 --> 00:40:04,239
Speaker 1: this on the show the other night. I showed you

755
00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:07,040
Speaker 1: the James Franklin interview. I guess I forgot to mention.

756
00:40:07,480 --> 00:40:09,960
Speaker 1: We also sat down with both coordinators and several of

757
00:40:09,960 --> 00:40:16,200
Speaker 1: the players. I should have mentioned that Many Diaz, former

758
00:40:16,239 --> 00:40:19,719
Speaker 1: head coach at Miami, current defensive coordinator up there, he

759
00:40:19,840 --> 00:40:24,160
Speaker 1: and I off camera, probably had about as spirited a

760
00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:28,800
Speaker 1: college football playoff expansion debate as I've ever had, because

761
00:40:28,840 --> 00:40:31,839
Speaker 1: he was ready and I'm always ready, and we had

762
00:40:31,840 --> 00:40:34,400
Speaker 1: already stopped rolling. He had to go somewhere else, and

763
00:40:34,400 --> 00:40:36,479
Speaker 1: he's just he's running late because he's still in there,

764
00:40:36,600 --> 00:40:39,960
Speaker 1: and he is. He is trafficking in the merits of

765
00:40:40,040 --> 00:40:43,359
Speaker 1: playoff expansion, and you know my stance against it, and

766
00:40:43,520 --> 00:40:45,600
Speaker 1: I really wish we would have been rolling on it.

767
00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:48,279
Speaker 1: It would have been its own segment tonight. So many

768
00:40:48,320 --> 00:40:51,400
Speaker 1: das an expansionist. I did tell him if I was

769
00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:54,640
Speaker 1: a coach at Penn State, like Penn State specifically, is

770
00:40:54,680 --> 00:40:58,799
Speaker 1: a fan base that should crave playoff expansion more so

771
00:40:58,800 --> 00:41:01,480
Speaker 1: than pretty much anyone else out there. So anyone in

772
00:41:01,520 --> 00:41:04,400
Speaker 1: the Penn State community who wants expansion, I understand it.

773
00:41:04,440 --> 00:41:06,080
Speaker 1: I don't have to agree with it, but I do

774
00:41:06,120 --> 00:41:08,160
Speaker 1: get it. You're parked in the same division with two

775
00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:11,040
Speaker 1: of the best four programs in America right now. It's

776
00:41:11,080 --> 00:41:14,320
Speaker 1: not the easiest schedule draw, So I get it. Anyway,

777
00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:17,400
Speaker 1: For all that behind the scenes stuff Late Kick Extra podcast,

778
00:41:17,440 --> 00:41:19,879
Speaker 1: it's in your podcast feed right now, and make sure

779
00:41:19,880 --> 00:41:24,320
Speaker 1: you subscribe while you're there. Okay, let's clear the throat

780
00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:27,040
Speaker 1: for this. I think we got a tweet to look at.

781
00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:31,279
Speaker 1: So my hit us up from Mobile, Alabama earlier today.

782
00:41:31,320 --> 00:41:33,920
Speaker 1: He said, did you hear Lane Kiffin talking about turning

783
00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:36,640
Speaker 1: down the Auburn job? What are your thoughts on all that?

784
00:41:36,719 --> 00:41:39,680
Speaker 1: I'll hang up and listen, Thank you, Mike. Well, Lane

785
00:41:39,719 --> 00:41:42,240
Speaker 1: Kiffin did have a press conference, I think earlier today,

786
00:41:43,000 --> 00:41:46,359
Speaker 1: and there's this ESPN article in the interest of full

787
00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:49,959
Speaker 1: context that was also released today. Alex Scarborough I think

788
00:41:50,239 --> 00:41:53,200
Speaker 1: did the writing on that, and so they had a

789
00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:54,839
Speaker 1: one on one with Lane Kiff and then he talked

790
00:41:54,840 --> 00:41:57,120
Speaker 1: a lot about a lot of things, and then the

791
00:41:57,160 --> 00:42:00,279
Speaker 1: Auburn job came up, so that article was really east.

792
00:42:00,760 --> 00:42:03,840
Speaker 1: Then they had practice today, then he had his post

793
00:42:03,880 --> 00:42:08,600
Speaker 1: practice media availability, and someone asked him about it, and

794
00:42:08,640 --> 00:42:10,359
Speaker 1: so I'm going to play the sound for you. I'll

795
00:42:10,400 --> 00:42:12,080
Speaker 1: react on the other side. Here's Lane Kiffin.

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00:42:12,200 --> 00:42:14,200
Speaker 3: It's interesting you asked that on the first day I've

797
00:42:14,239 --> 00:42:16,879
Speaker 3: seen John in a long time. Good to see you, John.

798
00:42:17,719 --> 00:42:19,600
Speaker 3: So yeah, I did say obstacles away in there, so

799
00:42:19,600 --> 00:42:21,799
Speaker 3: I do find a way to turn everything positive. So

800
00:42:22,480 --> 00:42:26,200
Speaker 3: I appreciate John for creating all that Chaosity created with

801
00:42:26,239 --> 00:42:31,080
Speaker 3: his false information, but that allowed us to work through it.

802
00:42:31,640 --> 00:42:35,080
Speaker 3: And like I said, an article help our collective. So really,

803
00:42:35,160 --> 00:42:38,359
Speaker 3: our fans and our collectives should thank John for that.

804
00:42:42,719 --> 00:42:46,360
Speaker 1: Take away. Number one, prayers for that TV anchor, that

805
00:42:46,480 --> 00:42:49,560
Speaker 1: sports anchor over in Mississippi who is still getting drug

806
00:42:49,880 --> 00:42:54,000
Speaker 1: at every opportunity. That's John who Link Kiffin's talking about.

807
00:42:54,520 --> 00:42:59,400
Speaker 1: Was the sports anchor who ran with the following Breaking

808
00:43:00,080 --> 00:43:03,319
Speaker 1: This is November twenty first, last year Breaking Ole miss

809
00:43:03,320 --> 00:43:05,960
Speaker 1: head coach Lane Kiffin plans to step down as the

810
00:43:05,960 --> 00:43:09,040
Speaker 1: Rebels coach Friday and head to Auburn to become the

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00:43:09,080 --> 00:43:12,440
Speaker 1: Tiger's next head coach, according to sources. Sources say the

812
00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:15,319
Speaker 1: Tigers haven't officially offered the job to anyone yet, so

813
00:43:15,520 --> 00:43:20,040
Speaker 1: Lane to Auburn is happening story soon. That was retweeted

814
00:43:20,040 --> 00:43:23,200
Speaker 1: by Lane Kiffin that same day, and he said that's

815
00:43:23,239 --> 00:43:27,080
Speaker 1: news to me. John Nice. Sources Lane Kiffen is not

816
00:43:27,120 --> 00:43:31,400
Speaker 1: forgotten and he has continued to call that dude out personally.

817
00:43:31,760 --> 00:43:36,440
Speaker 1: I think one day they will make amends and John

818
00:43:36,800 --> 00:43:39,800
Speaker 1: will end up co authoring a book with Lane Kiffin.

819
00:43:40,000 --> 00:43:43,160
Speaker 1: But that's for another day. Right now, it still dragged

820
00:43:43,200 --> 00:43:46,560
Speaker 1: John season DJs as they call it in Oxford. That's

821
00:43:46,640 --> 00:43:49,200
Speaker 1: takeaway number one, takeaway number two as it relates to

822
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Speaker 1: takeaway number one. This is why you never speak definitively

823
00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:57,680
Speaker 1: about a fluid situation, because here's the fact of the matter.

824
00:43:58,600 --> 00:44:02,520
Speaker 1: John was probably right until he wasn't. It's like predicting

825
00:44:02,520 --> 00:44:05,759
Speaker 1: a five star recruit to commit to Missouri. The kid

826
00:44:05,800 --> 00:44:08,400
Speaker 1: calls me the night before and says I'm committing to Missouri.

827
00:44:09,239 --> 00:44:12,600
Speaker 1: If I then go on Twitter and say I've got

828
00:44:12,600 --> 00:44:16,160
Speaker 1: it on good authority that Caleb five stars going to Missouri,

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00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:19,320
Speaker 1: you can mark it down. I'm right until he changes

830
00:44:19,360 --> 00:44:21,399
Speaker 1: his mind in the morning, then I'm not right. Lane

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00:44:21,480 --> 00:44:24,680
Speaker 1: Kiffin was going to Auburn. He's all but admitted that

832
00:44:24,840 --> 00:44:28,080
Speaker 1: Lane Kiffen was going to Auburn. Then he wasn't. We

833
00:44:28,120 --> 00:44:30,640
Speaker 1: don't really need to rehash at all. There are no

834
00:44:30,800 --> 00:44:34,520
Speaker 1: shortage of theories as to what mattered and what made

835
00:44:34,560 --> 00:44:37,560
Speaker 1: him change his mind. I guess this is as good

836
00:44:37,560 --> 00:44:41,000
Speaker 1: a time as any. I was at the Kentucky Old

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00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:42,920
Speaker 1: Miss game last year when all this was starting to

838
00:44:42,920 --> 00:44:44,680
Speaker 1: heat up. I was at the Kentucky Old Miss game

839
00:44:45,600 --> 00:44:48,719
Speaker 1: and Jimmy Sexton was there. That is, Lane Kiffin's agent.

840
00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:51,560
Speaker 1: Sexton was there. That's not uncommon, Jimmy Sexton has at

841
00:44:51,600 --> 00:44:54,640
Speaker 1: a game pretty much every Saturday. But I remember afterwards,

842
00:44:55,120 --> 00:44:57,960
Speaker 1: I remember listening to him talking. I was within earshot.

843
00:44:58,560 --> 00:45:01,080
Speaker 1: I've not shared this story. Within airshot, I could say

844
00:45:01,120 --> 00:45:04,080
Speaker 1: I could hear exactly what they were saying. I knew

845
00:45:04,520 --> 00:45:08,359
Speaker 1: obviously that Lane Kiffen was very interested in that Auburn job.

846
00:45:08,840 --> 00:45:11,319
Speaker 1: I also know they knew to keep an eye on

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00:45:11,360 --> 00:45:13,880
Speaker 1: Hugh Freeze. Both of them knew to keep a very

848
00:45:13,880 --> 00:45:16,120
Speaker 1: close eye on Hugh Freeze. Dare I even say at

849
00:45:16,160 --> 00:45:18,840
Speaker 1: the time, they were probably rooting for Hugh Freeze and

850
00:45:18,880 --> 00:45:21,720
Speaker 1: Liberty to drop a few games so his stock would plummet.

851
00:45:22,080 --> 00:45:26,000
Speaker 1: So yes, this was absolutely in play. This is not

852
00:45:26,080 --> 00:45:29,279
Speaker 1: a mystery to anyone at this point. And he had

853
00:45:29,280 --> 00:45:31,839
Speaker 1: probably even decided I'm going to take the job, and

854
00:45:31,880 --> 00:45:34,400
Speaker 1: then he didn't take the job, So you could have

855
00:45:34,400 --> 00:45:37,919
Speaker 1: been both right and wrong, and our dear friend John

856
00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:42,160
Speaker 1: probably was. Don't speak definitively. Don't say it's done. It's

857
00:45:42,280 --> 00:45:45,720
Speaker 1: never done until you see Lane Kiffin with that Auburn

858
00:45:45,760 --> 00:45:49,120
Speaker 1: backdrop at a podium in Lee County, Alabama at his

859
00:45:49,160 --> 00:45:52,920
Speaker 1: introductory press conference. Then it's done. And only then is

860
00:45:52,960 --> 00:45:57,440
Speaker 1: it done. Uh takeaway number three, Ole Miss people kind

861
00:45:57,440 --> 00:46:00,040
Speaker 1: of get it, Ole Miss folks. If you have, I

862
00:46:00,040 --> 00:46:02,960
Speaker 1: haven't been paying attention. There are a few fan bases

863
00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:05,520
Speaker 1: who understand their place in the college football world as

864
00:46:05,560 --> 00:46:08,759
Speaker 1: good as old Miss folks right now. I don't mean

865
00:46:08,800 --> 00:46:12,000
Speaker 1: they are happy about this. I don't mean when the

866
00:46:12,040 --> 00:46:16,799
Speaker 1: head coach at their program was openly refusing to turn

867
00:46:16,840 --> 00:46:19,279
Speaker 1: down rumors that he was going to another program in

868
00:46:19,320 --> 00:46:21,440
Speaker 1: their own division. I don't mean they were happy about it,

869
00:46:21,840 --> 00:46:25,920
Speaker 1: but they understood it. At least they understand that there

870
00:46:26,000 --> 00:46:28,879
Speaker 1: is a there's a hierarchy, there's a pecking order. Ole

871
00:46:28,960 --> 00:46:31,080
Speaker 1: Miss is not Tier one. Ol Miss probably not a

872
00:46:31,080 --> 00:46:35,440
Speaker 1: Tier two team. They're respectable. But did you notice what

873
00:46:35,520 --> 00:46:38,719
Speaker 1: lane Kiffin said. Lane Kiffin said, Oh, we've got John

874
00:46:38,760 --> 00:46:40,799
Speaker 1: to think for me still being here. No, no, no,

875
00:46:40,840 --> 00:46:43,960
Speaker 1: that's not what he said. That's what people will remember

876
00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:48,560
Speaker 1: because it was really jokey haha. Double pen tap there.

877
00:46:48,719 --> 00:46:52,279
Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin said something else. He said, we used that

878
00:46:52,680 --> 00:46:55,480
Speaker 1: and we got our collective in high gear and they did.

879
00:46:56,200 --> 00:46:59,280
Speaker 1: The NIO infrastructure at ole Miss now is way better

880
00:46:59,560 --> 00:47:02,640
Speaker 1: than it was last year in some ways. Internally, I

881
00:47:02,640 --> 00:47:06,160
Speaker 1: would say they have some innovation about themselves in terms

882
00:47:06,200 --> 00:47:10,880
Speaker 1: of developing a true market value on players. They're really good.

883
00:47:11,160 --> 00:47:13,080
Speaker 1: I have knowledge of some of the stuff they're doing

884
00:47:13,120 --> 00:47:18,160
Speaker 1: over there, really good. Would that have happened if those

885
00:47:18,160 --> 00:47:22,400
Speaker 1: Auburn rumors didn't persist. We just had James Franklin on

886
00:47:22,440 --> 00:47:25,839
Speaker 1: the show Tuesday night and he pretty much told you,

887
00:47:26,360 --> 00:47:29,160
Speaker 1: when my name is up for another job, I use

888
00:47:29,239 --> 00:47:33,080
Speaker 1: that to leverage against our university to get things I want.

889
00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:36,839
Speaker 1: That is not a mystery. It's just rare to have

890
00:47:36,880 --> 00:47:40,080
Speaker 1: the head coaches actually openly tell you that well with

891
00:47:40,200 --> 00:47:43,520
Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin. Lane Kiffen knows they're not about to out

892
00:47:43,600 --> 00:47:47,080
Speaker 1: recruit Alabama. What they can do is they can cherry

893
00:47:47,080 --> 00:47:48,960
Speaker 1: pick out of the portal, but they have to be

894
00:47:49,000 --> 00:47:51,319
Speaker 1: able to fit the nil bill in order to do it.

895
00:47:51,480 --> 00:47:54,480
Speaker 1: And now they're in a much better position because they

896
00:47:54,480 --> 00:47:56,800
Speaker 1: felt the heat in Oxford and they did the only

897
00:47:56,880 --> 00:47:59,920
Speaker 1: thing that you can do if you don't like it,

898
00:48:00,040 --> 00:48:03,239
Speaker 1: if you don't like fearing losing your head coach, you

899
00:48:03,320 --> 00:48:06,439
Speaker 1: can make him as happy as possible. And in this case,

900
00:48:06,480 --> 00:48:09,560
Speaker 1: it means investing more money into a collective so they

901
00:48:09,560 --> 00:48:13,560
Speaker 1: can go get better players. Pretty simple. The last takeaway,

902
00:48:14,560 --> 00:48:16,160
Speaker 1: and this is the one that I want you to

903
00:48:16,200 --> 00:48:19,400
Speaker 1: remember because I won't won't really be able to revisit

904
00:48:19,440 --> 00:48:23,239
Speaker 1: this one from a little while. Lane Kiffen wants that

905
00:48:23,280 --> 00:48:27,600
Speaker 1: Alabama job one day. Lane Kiffen is not a guy

906
00:48:27,960 --> 00:48:30,879
Speaker 1: who looks at Alabama and Nick saban and says, oh,

907
00:48:30,880 --> 00:48:33,799
Speaker 1: who would want to follow him? Lane Kiffin's answer is me,

908
00:48:34,160 --> 00:48:38,520
Speaker 1: I'd want to follow him. Supreme competitors, like alpha type competitors.

909
00:48:38,680 --> 00:48:41,240
Speaker 1: They don't think like that. By the way, they don't

910
00:48:41,280 --> 00:48:44,520
Speaker 1: look at a job that's currently held by the greatest

911
00:48:44,520 --> 00:48:47,360
Speaker 1: of all time and say, boy, I'd hate to follow him. No,

912
00:48:47,680 --> 00:48:51,799
Speaker 1: you would, you would. I'd love it because I know

913
00:48:51,840 --> 00:48:54,120
Speaker 1: what shape he's going to leave the program man, and

914
00:48:54,200 --> 00:48:55,759
Speaker 1: I think I'm good enough to go in there and

915
00:48:55,800 --> 00:48:59,160
Speaker 1: capitalize on it. Lane Kiffen wants that Alabama job. Lane

916
00:48:59,239 --> 00:49:01,200
Speaker 1: Kiffen knows he ain't in that Alabama job. If he's

917
00:49:01,239 --> 00:49:03,560
Speaker 1: got the Auburn job, that was not going to happen.

918
00:49:03,719 --> 00:49:05,880
Speaker 1: And I'm not telling you that was the deciding factor.

919
00:49:06,239 --> 00:49:09,920
Speaker 1: I absolutely believe it was a factor. Now. I know

920
00:49:10,000 --> 00:49:11,640
Speaker 1: what a lot of you are doing right now. A

921
00:49:11,640 --> 00:49:13,640
Speaker 1: lot of you are shaking your head saying, I don't

922
00:49:13,719 --> 00:49:16,440
Speaker 1: care what job he has now, Alabama's not going to

923
00:49:16,520 --> 00:49:19,920
Speaker 1: hire Lane Kiffin. To that, I would say, never say never.

924
00:49:21,520 --> 00:49:24,680
Speaker 1: That's where I leave that, never say never. They may

925
00:49:24,680 --> 00:49:27,759
Speaker 1: not hire him if the job came open tomorrow. But see,

926
00:49:27,760 --> 00:49:30,880
Speaker 1: by my estimation, Nick Saban hadn't hung it up yet.

927
00:49:31,239 --> 00:49:32,600
Speaker 1: So if Nick Saban were to hang it up in

928
00:49:32,600 --> 00:49:36,200
Speaker 1: twenty twenty seven, and Lane Kiffin's done some really remarkable

929
00:49:36,200 --> 00:49:39,680
Speaker 1: things between now and then in Oxford, Mississippi. Also, depending

930
00:49:39,719 --> 00:49:41,680
Speaker 1: on what the rest of the coaching market would look like,

931
00:49:42,200 --> 00:49:45,520
Speaker 1: you may sing a different tune. All I'm saying. All

932
00:49:45,560 --> 00:49:50,920
Speaker 1: I'm saying is don't speak definitively about fluid situations. This

933
00:49:51,080 --> 00:49:54,520
Speaker 1: is example number one million and one on that front.

934
00:49:55,600 --> 00:49:58,560
Speaker 1: Really really fun week for us. Now we finally get

935
00:49:58,560 --> 00:50:02,120
Speaker 1: to actually sleep Producer Jesse. Poor Producer Jesse. I had

936
00:50:02,120 --> 00:50:04,440
Speaker 1: to give him three squirts of MEO today instead of

937
00:50:04,440 --> 00:50:07,240
Speaker 1: as usual two to just keep him awake. I appreciate

938
00:50:07,280 --> 00:50:09,200
Speaker 1: you guys supporting us. We couldn't do any of this

939
00:50:09,239 --> 00:50:12,360
Speaker 1: stuff without you. We have a lot on our plate

940
00:50:12,520 --> 00:50:16,560
Speaker 1: in the coming weeks and months. There is probably a

941
00:50:16,680 --> 00:50:19,040
Speaker 1: we're probably busier now than we are during the season.

942
00:50:19,160 --> 00:50:20,839
Speaker 1: That's the way I'll put it to you, and we're

943
00:50:20,880 --> 00:50:23,960
Speaker 1: happy to be that way because the alternative is go

944
00:50:24,040 --> 00:50:26,560
Speaker 1: work a normal job, doing something you don't love to do.

945
00:50:26,840 --> 00:50:28,720
Speaker 1: So thank you guys for putting us in this position.

946
00:50:28,920 --> 00:50:31,960
Speaker 1: For producer Jesse, direct to Colin, I'm Josh Pate. Just

947
00:50:32,000 --> 00:50:34,200
Speaker 1: about the time the voice goes, we're wrapping it up.

948
00:50:34,200 --> 00:50:36,160
Speaker 1: I'll see you back here Sunday night. Until then, take

949
00:50:36,160 --> 00:50:44,240
Speaker 1: care of enjoy your weekend, and God bless