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Speaker 1: Welcome in Lake. Kick is Live. It is Sunday night

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Speaker 1: in May eighth, the r of ol Over twenty twenty two,

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Speaker 1: a playoff take so utterly trashy it needs its own

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Speaker 1: land film, and unfortunately we do have to open the

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Speaker 1: show with it. Tonight. We are jam packed high top

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Speaker 1: what can only be described as a boisterous downtown Nashville, Tennessee.

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Speaker 1: Mike Leach, he stepped in it, and so we're gonna

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Speaker 1: try and clean it up. But I do not believe

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Speaker 1: we're equipped to do it tonight. On a much more

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Speaker 1: bright note, we do have bold predictions six point zero

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Speaker 1: to get to you. You've given us a limitless supply

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Speaker 1: of boldness that you claim you would put your money behind.

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Speaker 1: It's Alabama mood Tracker night. We put it off for

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Speaker 1: a reason, and tonight is that night. And also you

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Speaker 1: want a story about mother's you know, it's Mother's Day,

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Speaker 1: and I'm gonna do the Happy Mother's Day at the

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Speaker 1: have some stories in this sport about mothers? I put

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Speaker 1: out a polarlier today on Twitter. Some of you remember

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Speaker 1: some of this. Some of you don't. Here's my ideal world.

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Speaker 1: There is a brand new sort of a college football

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Speaker 1: fawn of a fan out there. You just came to

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Speaker 1: college football a couple of years ago. You don't really

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Speaker 1: know about Landon Collins mom. You've never heard of Alex

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Speaker 1: Collins mom. Not related by the way, even Jacob Copeland.

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Speaker 1: Maybe you haven't really heard those stories. I'm gonna tell

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Speaker 1: you those stories tonight, and especially as it relates to

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Speaker 1: Landon Collins. I got some behind the scenes scoop for

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Speaker 1: you that I don't know that I've shared on the shore.

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Speaker 1: If I did, it was a really long time ago.

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Speaker 1: They're watching us, believe it or not. At check in

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Speaker 1: within the last twenty minutes from Morocco. Haven't ever had

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Speaker 1: it before. First time on the show. San Augustine, Florida, Salem, Oregon,

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Speaker 1: and Dothan, Alabama. And I want to be specific about Dothan, Alabama,

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Speaker 1: Wallace Community College and even more specifically Nathan at Wallace

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Speaker 1: Community College in Dothan, Alabama. You know who you are.

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Speaker 1: Thank you, brother. One hundred thousand is a number as

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Speaker 1: we open the show tonight, I don't want you to

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Speaker 1: focus on just wrote one zero zero ok. Director Colin

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Speaker 1: has been on a mission to get us one hundred

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Speaker 1: thousand subscribers on this YouTube channel because we get a big,

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Speaker 1: big shiny something from YouTube when we get there. But

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Speaker 1: also management and I were talking last week, them with

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Speaker 1: their mustaches and me with my white T shirt, and

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Speaker 1: I think that we may be able to do something

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Speaker 1: really really special with this channel if and when we

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Speaker 1: get there. That's all I can legally tell you right now.

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Speaker 1: But subscribe, subscribe, subscribe. It costs you nothing and it

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Speaker 1: helps us do a whole lot with that. Let me

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Speaker 1: put on a somber face. If you're listening on podcasts,

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Speaker 1: this is the rare exception where you benefit from not

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Speaker 1: being able to see me and my facial expressions. Frown. Okay,

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Speaker 1: here we go, Mike Leach. We have to lead the

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Speaker 1: show with tonight. Mike Leach is not to be trusted

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Speaker 1: anywhere near the college football playoff. Now I'm not anti

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Speaker 1: Mike Leach, but boy, I'm anti MIKEA. Leach. When he

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Speaker 1: football playoff, only bad things come out. I was in Columbus,

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Speaker 1: a sudden, the eye Josh just starts boo boo boo boom,

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Speaker 1: imagine my surprise when I glance, of course, at a

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Speaker 1: even taken aback by it, because if anyone made that connection,

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Speaker 1: I actually saw the tweet. Colin, if you must, let's

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Speaker 1: show the people what was said by Mississippi State head

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Speaker 1: coach Mike Leach at the conclusion of yesterday's Kentucky Derby,

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Speaker 1: winning the Kentucky Derby today is a good example, of course,

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Speaker 1: are a lot of positives about Mike Leach. Okay, I'm

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Speaker 1: And I know, if you didn't hear him say that,

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Speaker 1: And it's like, who whoaa Grandpa. Okay, girlfriend, let's go,

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Speaker 1: so we can cut that out, and then I will continue,

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Speaker 1: just not. There's just not. We're not even talking about

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Speaker 1: That is bumper sticker syndrome. Well, Leach has got a

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Speaker 1: Football Playoff. Could I reread you something please? You know

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Speaker 1: listening on podcast, I just read it one time for you.

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Speaker 1: our Kentucky brethren, one of whom was in here earlier

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Speaker 1: trying to sell me on this. That's what brought it

428
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Speaker 1: down from ten to nine point five. The win total

429
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Speaker 1: for Kentucky this year is eight and a half. I

430
00:22:02,119 --> 00:22:05,879
Speaker 1: don't know that people who don't bet win totals understand

431
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Speaker 1: how high a number that is for Kentucky football. Eight

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Speaker 1: and a half over under win total for Kentucky is

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Speaker 1: a monumental endorsement of what Stoops has done with that

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Speaker 1: program up there. Having said that, now you don't have

435
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Speaker 1: individual game points spreads out there, We've got our own

436
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Speaker 1: internal numbers. Suffice it to say they will either be

437
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Speaker 1: an underdog or a short favorite in at least four games.

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Speaker 1: Those games, as mentioned in the tweet at Tennessee. But

439
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Speaker 1: they also have a game at Florida, they go to

440
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Speaker 1: Ole Miss, and they've got Georgia at home. So you

441
00:22:40,040 --> 00:22:42,199
Speaker 1: gotta go three of four on those and then not

442
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Speaker 1: lose any other games. They have to be undefeated to

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Speaker 1: do this. They have to be undefeated going into the

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Speaker 1: Georgia game. I think, actually, so they could lose at Tennessee.

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Speaker 1: But the thing about it is they if they beat

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Speaker 1: Georgia that is November nineteen. I want you to understand

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Speaker 1: what that would mean. So if they lose to Tennessee

448
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Speaker 1: October twenty nine, they got plenty of time, They got

449
00:23:04,280 --> 00:23:07,320
Speaker 1: four games a whole month to build back up some steam,

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Speaker 1: and they would still control their own destiny because they

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Speaker 1: would still have Georgia in front of them, even if

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Speaker 1: Georgia is undefeated. If they beat Georgia on November nineteenth

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Speaker 1: in Athens. No less, this is not an early season upset.

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Speaker 1: Everybody is zoned in by that point. If Kentucky were

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Speaker 1: to beat Georgia in Athens that late in the year,

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Speaker 1: it would be one of the bigger upsets. Not knowing

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Speaker 1: what the points spread would be, of course, but just

458
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Speaker 1: in terms of theatrics, like in terms of the overall

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Speaker 1: perception of what football is in the SEC versus what

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Speaker 1: it would be that afternoon, that would be a monumental upset.

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Speaker 1: It would be a landmark upset for the Kentucky program.

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Speaker 1: And also, forget about just the SEC race, Kentucky would

463
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Speaker 1: be right there in the college football playoff picture. So

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Speaker 1: I know that sounds foreign to you because it hasn't happened.

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Speaker 1: That's a nine and a half for me, But boy

466
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Speaker 1: would it be entertaining to watch. You're looking right now

467
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Speaker 1: at the odds to win the SEC championship this year,

468
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Speaker 1: Kentucky is two four to six. They are seventh right there. Well,

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Speaker 1: actually they're like a three way tie from fifth, I

470
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Speaker 1: guess with LSU Auburn and then Kentucky is at plus

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Speaker 1: four thousand, eight and a half over underwent total. Good

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Speaker 1: for Kentucky before the season even starts. Next up, now,

473
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Speaker 1: this one's a little more doable, but it's still pretty bold.

474
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Speaker 1: Ohio State undefeated national champion. So fifteen to zero. Now,

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Speaker 1: Ohio State's going to be favored in every game they play.

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Speaker 1: This is not out of the Roman possibility. It never is.

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Speaker 1: They are one of a handful of teams, a small

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Speaker 1: handful of teams every given year that this is always

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Speaker 1: on the table. For having said that, I gave this

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Speaker 1: a seven on the boldness scale. Number one, because it

481
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Speaker 1: is just hard to win all of your games for

482
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Speaker 1: pretty much anyone. Number two, it is still the Big Ten.

483
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Speaker 1: While a lot of you scoff at that it means something.

484
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Speaker 1: It's the second toughest conference in America. And therefore they

485
00:24:53,400 --> 00:24:56,600
Speaker 1: do have games at Michigan State. They have a two

486
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Speaker 1: game stretch of Iowa and then at Penn State. Of course,

487
00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:00,920
Speaker 1: they've got Michigan at the end of the year. Now

488
00:25:01,160 --> 00:25:03,840
Speaker 1: to me, if I look at their schedule, it's hard

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Speaker 1: for me to look at it and say that I

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Speaker 1: would rearrange it any other way. They got Notre Dame

491
00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:11,199
Speaker 1: to open, so it's a really good solid opponent, but

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Speaker 1: they'll be favored by double digits. It's at home. They

493
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Speaker 1: should win that game. I don't think anyone's arguing with that.

494
00:25:16,560 --> 00:25:20,840
Speaker 1: They got Wisconsin three weeks later at home. They go

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Speaker 1: to Michigan State, but they've got Rutgers before that. They

496
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Speaker 1: go to Iowa, but they got a bye week, or

497
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Speaker 1: they got Iowa at home and a bye week before

498
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Speaker 1: Iowa at home, and then they go at Penn State

499
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Speaker 1: at Northwestern back to back games. There is no landmine

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Speaker 1: sequence of games. Here is my point. I do have

501
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Speaker 1: a lot of friends in the Northeast that would tell me,

502
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Speaker 1: look at that game on November nineteenth, very quietly, they

503
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Speaker 1: go to Maryland right before they play Michigan. I see it.

504
00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:49,199
Speaker 1: We had a prediction last week that Taliatunguabailoa was going

505
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Speaker 1: to be in New York City for a Heisman Trophy

506
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Speaker 1: final spot. So the schedule is very favorable. Ohio State's

507
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Speaker 1: one of a handful of teams that could pull this off.

508
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Speaker 1: This is not crazy to me. It is an indie Well,

509
00:26:00,560 --> 00:26:02,680
Speaker 1: it's a positive reflection of the program. I guess is

510
00:26:02,720 --> 00:26:05,119
Speaker 1: the better term that I say. It's only a seven

511
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Speaker 1: on the boldness scale when you predict an undefeated season.

512
00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:10,400
Speaker 1: Their last five recruiting cycles like they're right up there

513
00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:13,080
Speaker 1: that we all know what the roster's made of. They

514
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Speaker 1: got one of the best quarterbacks in the country, one

515
00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:17,080
Speaker 1: of the best wide receiver stables in the country, incredible

516
00:26:17,119 --> 00:26:20,520
Speaker 1: running back depth, overhauling the defense, which is of course

517
00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:23,480
Speaker 1: most people in Columbus's number one priority of things to

518
00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:26,000
Speaker 1: watch when they finally do tee it up. But that's

519
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Speaker 1: a seven. Now I've got one that's a little bit

520
00:26:28,119 --> 00:26:29,879
Speaker 1: bolder to wrap it up here. Well, it's not mine,

521
00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:32,840
Speaker 1: it's yours. This is John Williams. He says West Virginia

522
00:26:33,119 --> 00:26:36,359
Speaker 1: will make the Big twelve title game. That's an eight

523
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Speaker 1: on the boldness scale. Now, the Big Twelve could be very,

524
00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:42,760
Speaker 1: very wide open this year. I've got a problem with

525
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Speaker 1: West Virginia being in the Big twelve, which is its

526
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Speaker 1: own side segment, because their closest road trip is one

527
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Speaker 1: thousand miles away. Every road trip is along road trip.

528
00:26:51,400 --> 00:26:54,680
Speaker 1: There are no bus trips for West Virginia. There are

529
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Speaker 1: too many unknowns on the team right now for me

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Speaker 1: to make this any less than an eight on the

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Speaker 1: boldness scale. Not divisions in this conference, so just the

532
00:27:01,640 --> 00:27:03,960
Speaker 1: top two teams make it to the conference title game.

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Speaker 1: J T. Daniels For those who have been kind of

534
00:27:06,160 --> 00:27:09,240
Speaker 1: tuned out, you may not know. J. T. Daniels, former

535
00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:13,359
Speaker 1: Georgia quarterback, transferred to West Virginia. Presumably he will be

536
00:27:13,400 --> 00:27:15,960
Speaker 1: the starter there, but he came in after spring. They

537
00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:18,320
Speaker 1: had kind of a muddy quarterback situation coming out of Spring,

538
00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:21,280
Speaker 1: So it's not like, you know, it's not like some

539
00:27:21,359 --> 00:27:24,440
Speaker 1: other places like it Ole Miss for example, it's Luke,

540
00:27:24,440 --> 00:27:26,960
Speaker 1: Alton Myers, Jackson Darton. We don't really know who the

541
00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:29,080
Speaker 1: starter is going to be there yet. It's not like that,

542
00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:32,560
Speaker 1: at least perceptionally. At West Virginia's pretty widely assumed J. T.

543
00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:35,480
Speaker 1: Daniels will be the starting quarterback there, but he is

544
00:27:35,520 --> 00:27:37,800
Speaker 1: an unknown in and of himself at this point. I

545
00:27:37,800 --> 00:27:39,840
Speaker 1: don't think that's unfair to say. And I also think

546
00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:42,119
Speaker 1: it's very fair to say the attrition they had in

547
00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:45,560
Speaker 1: their secondary at West Virginia, no matter what they have

548
00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:47,280
Speaker 1: done or do in the portal to this point, it's

549
00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:50,080
Speaker 1: going to be a question mark, especially in this conference.

550
00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:55,560
Speaker 1: And lastly, if you'll look at their November schedule, they

551
00:27:55,640 --> 00:27:59,720
Speaker 1: wrap the regular season consecutively with a game at Iowa

552
00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:04,640
Speaker 1: State eight home versus Oklahoma Kansas State at home sleeper

553
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Speaker 1: in the Big Twelve, and then at Oklahoma State. Those

554
00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:09,159
Speaker 1: are their last four games. And if you want to

555
00:28:09,160 --> 00:28:11,760
Speaker 1: go two games prior to that, they got three games

556
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Speaker 1: prior to that. Four games prior to that, why not

557
00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:18,000
Speaker 1: they got Texas Baylor, Texas Tech TCU. It's tough. It's tough.

558
00:28:18,240 --> 00:28:20,719
Speaker 1: You've got to assume that you're gonna have to have

559
00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:24,160
Speaker 1: two losses max. If you're going to the conference title game.

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Speaker 1: I am assuming that crazier things have happened. That's a

561
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Speaker 1: tough ten and two slate there. Very tough, doable, but tough.

562
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Speaker 1: So I'm gonna give that one an eight bold predictions

563
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Speaker 1: have been one of the funnest things that I think

564
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Speaker 1: we've ever done in the spring on this show, and

565
00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:40,400
Speaker 1: Director Colin can attest to that. All right, let's move on.

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Speaker 1: We've got to talk about some moods tonight. I've got

567
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Speaker 1: some things coming up for you, by the way, that

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Speaker 1: we've never done on the show. So we're not wrapping

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Speaker 1: the show up with Mood Tracker tonight. I can promise

570
00:28:49,720 --> 00:28:53,160
Speaker 1: you that some very unique stories, at least two of

571
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Speaker 1: which I've never told on the show before. But first,

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Speaker 1: the Mood Tracker series is back. We head down to Tuscaloose,

573
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Speaker 1: Alabama tonight to talk about not the defending National champ,

574
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Speaker 1: but the defending SEC champ as it were. So the

575
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Speaker 1: Mood Tracker is just a slice of the fan base.

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Speaker 1: How are they feeling from Hayleyville to Ozark, from Biolabatory

577
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Speaker 1: to Florence, everywhere in between in the state of Alabama.

578
00:29:14,840 --> 00:29:17,200
Speaker 1: How are they feeling about Alabama football. It's always fun

579
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Speaker 1: to do the Alabama Mood Tracker because it's like the

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Speaker 1: most first world problem or list of problems in all

581
00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:26,320
Speaker 1: of college football. It's really fun. There's a lot of

582
00:29:26,320 --> 00:29:29,680
Speaker 1: freaking out routinely around Alabama football about things that would

583
00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:32,600
Speaker 1: be the envy of most of America. So the mood

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00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:35,400
Speaker 1: that we arrived at for Alabama is a sort of

585
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Speaker 1: emotional reloading. No one likes to lose the national championship game,

586
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Speaker 1: although it's great that you were there and you won

587
00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:43,680
Speaker 1: the SEC Championship against the same team that beat you

588
00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:45,960
Speaker 1: in the National Championship, and that'll look weird in a

589
00:29:46,000 --> 00:29:47,920
Speaker 1: history book fifty years from now. I'll grant you that.

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00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:53,240
Speaker 1: But if you've ever gone fishing, there's several different ways

591
00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:55,040
Speaker 1: really you can do it. You could, of course, do

592
00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:58,160
Speaker 1: it with a spear like Tom Hanksen Castaway, you just

593
00:29:58,200 --> 00:29:59,840
Speaker 1: get one shot at it. You can do it with

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00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:02,440
Speaker 1: a and at any given time you still only have

595
00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:04,560
Speaker 1: one shot at it. You could hang off a tree branch.

596
00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:06,120
Speaker 1: You could try and do it like Creed Bratton in

597
00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:10,000
Speaker 1: the office bare hand. At Alabama, the way they fish

598
00:30:10,040 --> 00:30:12,640
Speaker 1: is they go get a giant barrel and they pour

599
00:30:12,680 --> 00:30:14,320
Speaker 1: a bunch of fish in it, and then they take

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00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:16,520
Speaker 1: a shotgun and they just get to shoot into the

601
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Speaker 1: barrel and if they miss, oh well reload shoot again.

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Speaker 1: This is not a program that has to build and

603
00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:26,360
Speaker 1: build and build and oh we may be able to

604
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Speaker 1: contend this year. They just get to do it every year.

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Speaker 1: In fact, it is such a warped sense of what

606
00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:35,840
Speaker 1: reality is for everyone else in college football that last

607
00:30:35,920 --> 00:30:38,920
Speaker 1: year they were in the national championship game leading in

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Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, and a lot of people would tell

609
00:30:41,480 --> 00:30:43,680
Speaker 1: you it was a miracle, it was Nick Saban's best

610
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Speaker 1: coaching job since he's been at Alabama, and they would

611
00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:50,160
Speaker 1: basically pour mouth the team that won the conference title

612
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Speaker 1: and was a quarter away from winning the national championship.

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Speaker 1: So in order to make you understand why people really

614
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Speaker 1: aren't all that up in arms and they're ready to

615
00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:00,720
Speaker 1: go and they think they're the favorite for reason, this year,

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00:31:01,360 --> 00:31:04,479
Speaker 1: remember what happened, Remember what you had if you're an

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Speaker 1: Alabama fan going into last year, and certainly if you're

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00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:10,959
Speaker 1: a college football fan, I think going into seasons. There

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Speaker 1: are these talking points people have about teams right now.

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Speaker 1: For instance, it's talking point season preview magazine season. Well,

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Speaker 1: let me tell you what the preview magazines were saying

622
00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:21,440
Speaker 1: about Bama last year. They were losing the biggest collection

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Speaker 1: of talent Nick Saban had ever lost from the best

624
00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:26,680
Speaker 1: team Nick Saban had ever had. First round quarterback Mac Jones,

625
00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:29,080
Speaker 1: first round running back Naji Harris, first round ride receiver

626
00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:32,360
Speaker 1: Jaln Waddle, first round wide receiver DeVante Smith, first round

627
00:31:32,440 --> 00:31:36,520
Speaker 1: corner patzer Tam, first round offensive lineman Alex Leatherwood, another

628
00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:39,400
Speaker 1: first round caliber offensive lineman, if not for injury in

629
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Speaker 1: Landon Dickerson, who was part of the very glue and

630
00:31:42,320 --> 00:31:46,680
Speaker 1: fabric in quintessential leadership of that team. First round defensive

631
00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:49,640
Speaker 1: lineman Christian Barmore or high second round I think he

632
00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:53,239
Speaker 1: was also, I think the best offensive coordinator Sabans ever had,

633
00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:57,080
Speaker 1: and Steve Sarkizan, all of those folks walked out the

634
00:31:57,120 --> 00:32:00,000
Speaker 1: door and he took the team to the National champions

635
00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:03,400
Speaker 1: came again anyway, So yes, it is fishing in a

636
00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:06,560
Speaker 1: barrel with a shotgun, and you just get to take

637
00:32:06,640 --> 00:32:08,960
Speaker 1: another shot every single year. So they're gonna take a

638
00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:11,400
Speaker 1: shot this year, and the moon around there is just

639
00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:15,000
Speaker 1: a kind of emotional reloading. And it was a generational

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Speaker 1: experience for Georgia folks to win a national championship in

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00:32:18,040 --> 00:32:21,040
Speaker 1: Indianapolis a few months ago because they hadn't done it.

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Speaker 1: Bama folks have done it half a dozen times under

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Speaker 1: this guy, Nick Saban. Already, they got the best overall

644
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Speaker 1: odds in the national championship picture entering twenty twenty two.

645
00:32:31,080 --> 00:32:35,480
Speaker 1: Bryce Young insane pass rush. They have got a very

646
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Speaker 1: very good portal haul the likes of Jamiir Gibbs and

647
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Speaker 1: Eli Rix and Jermaine Burton, the Harald Kidd, a wide

648
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Speaker 1: receiver there out of Louisville. And also not to be

649
00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:49,840
Speaker 1: overlooked was Nick Saban in the spring repeatedly when he

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00:32:49,880 --> 00:32:52,600
Speaker 1: was asked by the media in Tuscaloosa. There he said

651
00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:55,280
Speaker 1: that this team's really got no drama on it, good leadership.

652
00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:57,960
Speaker 1: We don't really have any problem guys on this team now.

653
00:32:58,000 --> 00:33:00,200
Speaker 1: He said that a few times in his career atty

654
00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:02,040
Speaker 1: sure like every one of those teams went on to

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Speaker 1: just assault the earth with the rest of the sport.

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Speaker 1: That year. He's mentioning that for a reason wasn't exactly

657
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Speaker 1: the case at all times last year, nor should it

658
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Speaker 1: have been. How in the world do you lose that

659
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Speaker 1: much leadership and just go on merrily about your business.

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Speaker 1: I am of the camp that believes last year was

661
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Speaker 1: one of that staff's best coaching jobs, and I am

662
00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:24,080
Speaker 1: of the camp they should be the favorite going into

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Speaker 1: this year. They would tell you who offensive line is uncertain,

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Speaker 1: and it is it is. But we're not comparing this

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Speaker 1: team to past Alabama teams. We're comparing them to the

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Speaker 1: other teams across the landscape of twenty twenty two college football.

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00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:41,040
Speaker 1: There's not one that looks better, at least as my

668
00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:44,040
Speaker 1: I see it in May and guess what that means,

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Speaker 1: gooseg nothing. But that's all we have to go on.

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Speaker 1: We can only predict the future with the information at hand.

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Speaker 1: So the twenty twenty two schedule, they got a trip

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Speaker 1: to Texas in week two they opened conference play against

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Speaker 1: Vanderbilt Prayers for the Commodores, and then that trip to Arkansas,

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Speaker 1: followed by a game against Texas A and M, followed

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Speaker 1: by a game at Tennessee. That three game stretch right

676
00:34:06,200 --> 00:34:09,319
Speaker 1: there at Arkansas A and M, at Tennessee. That's the

677
00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:12,920
Speaker 1: meat of their schedule because we can't know what LSU is.

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00:34:13,320 --> 00:34:15,120
Speaker 1: They got a back to back road against LSU and

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Speaker 1: Old miss later in the year. But that three game

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00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:20,719
Speaker 1: stretch from the first October to the fifteenth, that is

681
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Speaker 1: the meat of their schedule, and that's why there's an

682
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Speaker 1: emotional reloading. But really no more than tuscaloosion. Moving on,

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Speaker 1: got to put something in the live chat there. Appreciate

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Speaker 1: you guys being tuned in. Subscribe to the channel one

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Speaker 1: hundred thousand. We are not even hiding it anymore. The

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Speaker 1: goal is one hundred thousand subs on that channel. They're

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Speaker 1: watching us in New Creek, West Virginia, Smithville, Missouri, and Brandon, Mississippi.

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Speaker 1: Not Walker, just good old fashioned brand in Mississippi. Thank

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Speaker 1: you so much. Let's dive into the mailbag. We got

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Speaker 1: four good ones here and I've got something to wrap

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Speaker 1: the show up that it'll mean a lot to some

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Speaker 1: of you, at least Scott. First up, he said, which

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Speaker 1: incoming freshman will be the most siding to watch this season? Well,

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Speaker 1: I don't have one for you. I've got one, two,

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00:35:03,920 --> 00:35:05,640
Speaker 1: three before I got five, and we're gonna move through

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Speaker 1: these really quickly. Evan Stewart wide receiver at Texas A

697
00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:11,359
Speaker 1: and M. I mean, that's a guy that has to

698
00:35:11,440 --> 00:35:14,040
Speaker 1: be an impact player for them this year. I think

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00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:18,719
Speaker 1: we've got some famous stats every offseason, and one of

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Speaker 1: the famous stats right now is they were ninety second

701
00:35:21,520 --> 00:35:23,080
Speaker 1: at Texas A and M and pass plays of twenty

702
00:35:23,160 --> 00:35:25,600
Speaker 1: yards and more last year. Well, that's because they need

703
00:35:25,680 --> 00:35:30,240
Speaker 1: better talent at wide receiver. Better talented quarterback wouldn't hurt either.

704
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Speaker 1: But Evan Stewart is one of those guys. He was

705
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Speaker 1: ranked eleventh and the twenty four to seven Composite Big Time,

706
00:35:35,800 --> 00:35:38,759
Speaker 1: get Huge. Everyone wanted him two Sports standout, as are

707
00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:41,640
Speaker 1: most guys at that position rated that high. But he

708
00:35:41,719 --> 00:35:44,800
Speaker 1: has got to be an immediate impact player. I expect

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00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:47,600
Speaker 1: he will be. Evan Stewart wide receiver, Texas A and M.

710
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Speaker 1: Let's go to Jesse's backyard. Nicholas Singleton's a big time

711
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Speaker 1: running back. He was the top recruit from the state

712
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Speaker 1: of Pennsylvania. He stays at home. This is a really

713
00:35:57,080 --> 00:35:59,480
Speaker 1: big deal at the time, still is for James Franklin

714
00:35:59,520 --> 00:36:02,560
Speaker 1: in company. And also it's a wide open path to

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Speaker 1: playing time. I mean, I think he's going to be

716
00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:08,240
Speaker 1: very much an impact player as a true freshman. And also,

717
00:36:08,480 --> 00:36:10,680
Speaker 1: like if you think about the best Penn State teams

718
00:36:10,880 --> 00:36:12,880
Speaker 1: and you think about what they've been able to lean on,

719
00:36:13,239 --> 00:36:16,440
Speaker 1: it's been a solid ground game. And we found ourselves

720
00:36:16,480 --> 00:36:19,799
Speaker 1: recently kind of whispering about the running game at Penn

721
00:36:19,840 --> 00:36:23,160
Speaker 1: State instead of with a big chest kind of boldly

722
00:36:23,239 --> 00:36:26,480
Speaker 1: proclaiming the running game. Well, Nicholas Singleton is the kind

723
00:36:26,480 --> 00:36:29,560
Speaker 1: of guy who can quickly remedy that keep an eye

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Speaker 1: on him. I think he will play and play a

725
00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:35,800
Speaker 1: lot as a true freshman. Mikel Williams from I Believe

726
00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:38,040
Speaker 1: Hardaway High School down in my neck of the woods, Columbus,

727
00:36:38,040 --> 00:36:41,799
Speaker 1: Georgia stayed in state after a brief commitment over in

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00:36:41,840 --> 00:36:46,360
Speaker 1: Southern cal stays in state. He's going to Georgia. I

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00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:49,160
Speaker 1: obviously know a lot of people around that program. They

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Speaker 1: talk about Mikel Williams like he was created in a lab.

731
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Speaker 1: People around the city do as well. And so Columbus

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00:36:55,719 --> 00:36:58,080
Speaker 1: has put out a number of big time players. I

733
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Speaker 1: mean you go back over the decades, Mikel Williams, there

734
00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:04,239
Speaker 1: have not been many ranked higher than him number four

735
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Speaker 1: nationally regardless of position in the twenty four to seven

736
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Speaker 1: Sports Composite six five two sixty. Now you've watched a

737
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Speaker 1: lot of the talent along the defensive line that's exited Athens.

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Speaker 1: They are not hurting for talent there. But this is

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00:37:18,800 --> 00:37:20,839
Speaker 1: the kind of guy who is the exception to the rule,

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Speaker 1: who has the kind of skill set that could walk

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Speaker 1: in even at a place like Georgia and contribute even

742
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Speaker 1: at a position like defensive line in his true freshman year.

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Speaker 1: I would not think he's going to be on the

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Speaker 1: field starting against Oregon as much as I would think

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Speaker 1: come November he is heavily involved in their defensive line rotation.

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Speaker 1: Luther Burden is a guy I need to talk about

747
00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:45,480
Speaker 1: for a second because we have not talked about him

748
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Speaker 1: a lot. He is a top recruitment State of Illinois

749
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Speaker 1: wide receiver and he committed to Missouri and signed with Missouri.

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Speaker 1: He was number three in the nation in our twenty

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00:37:55,560 --> 00:37:58,760
Speaker 1: four to seven Sports Composite. Big time high school player.

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Speaker 1: They're in Saint Louis well, he played Saint Louis High

753
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Speaker 1: and also he's the kind of player that they have

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Speaker 1: not gotten a lot up there. Like I few and

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Speaker 1: far between have been players the caliber of Luther Burden.

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Speaker 1: And so if you're trying to sell yourself on a

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Speaker 1: team other than Georgia or maybe even you're trying to

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00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:22,799
Speaker 1: sell yourself on a sleeper team other than Tennessee this year,

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Speaker 1: and you're trying to pick Missouri, Luther Burton's got to

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Speaker 1: be part of that equation. That's a guy who, probably

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Speaker 1: because of the opportunity his skill set and the depth

762
00:38:31,719 --> 00:38:34,480
Speaker 1: chart opportunity he has, I have very little doubt he's

763
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Speaker 1: going to be an impact player as a true freshman

764
00:38:36,080 --> 00:38:38,719
Speaker 1: and they're going to feature him. I don't doubt that

765
00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:41,239
Speaker 1: was part of the recruiting strategy with Luther Burden, and

766
00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:43,360
Speaker 1: it should have been because it's wide open. It's obvious

767
00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:45,840
Speaker 1: to everyone who's looked at Missouri over the last few years.

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Speaker 1: So you got Luther Burdon and also, at last, but

769
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Speaker 1: not least, just a different caliber of football is Travis Hunter.

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Speaker 1: Travis Hunter could very well be a two way player

771
00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:58,240
Speaker 1: for Jackson State. That was the number one overall player

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00:38:58,239 --> 00:39:02,200
Speaker 1: in the country who you remember famously committed to Jackson

773
00:39:02,239 --> 00:39:04,959
Speaker 1: State on signing days. So he's playing for Dion Sanders there.

774
00:39:05,760 --> 00:39:08,040
Speaker 1: This is the kind of guy who is not going

775
00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:11,120
Speaker 1: to have a lot of you finding where Jackson State's

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00:39:11,160 --> 00:39:13,200
Speaker 1: playing on your TV guide, even though no one looks

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00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:16,319
Speaker 1: at TV guide anymore. But what you will do at

778
00:39:16,360 --> 00:39:18,680
Speaker 1: the end of your Saturdays is you'll make sure and

779
00:39:18,719 --> 00:39:21,640
Speaker 1: you'll go find Jackson State highlights because you want to

780
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Speaker 1: see what Travis Hunter did the spring game. It was

781
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Speaker 1: pretty good indication of what that could look like this fall.

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Speaker 1: So Evan Stewart, Nicholas Singles, and Michael Williams, Luther Burden,

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Speaker 1: Travis Hunter. Those are the five. Not an exhaustive list,

784
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Speaker 1: but those are five that I'm looking at. Next up, boy,

785
00:39:39,040 --> 00:39:43,160
Speaker 1: this one's going to be fun. The Chow Choo Chap

786
00:39:43,440 --> 00:39:47,399
Speaker 1: great friend of the program asked, in honor of Mother's Day,

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Speaker 1: what's the craziest or best college football mom moment you

788
00:39:51,320 --> 00:39:54,600
Speaker 1: can recall. I got three of them, and I've got

789
00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:57,560
Speaker 1: a really good story about one of them. I bank

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Speaker 1: on the fact that some of you are new or

791
00:39:59,680 --> 00:40:01,360
Speaker 1: some of if you may just be young and you

792
00:40:01,440 --> 00:40:04,000
Speaker 1: may not have been around for some of this. Alex

793
00:40:04,080 --> 00:40:07,480
Speaker 1: Collins is the first story. This was back a few

794
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Speaker 1: years ago. Alex Collins, great running back, goes on to

795
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Speaker 1: play it at Arkansas, was involved in one of the

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Speaker 1: most famous plays in like the twenty fourteen or fifteen season,

797
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Speaker 1: that crazy fourth and a mile conversion against Old Miss.

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Speaker 1: But before Alex Collins was able to do that, he

799
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Speaker 1: had to sign with Arkansas. And you may think to yourself,

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Speaker 1: who cares, big deal, just put pen to paper right, Well,

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Speaker 1: did you hear that sound? That sound right there is

802
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Speaker 1: what it sounds like when Penn tries to meet paper

803
00:40:35,239 --> 00:40:37,399
Speaker 1: but there is no piece of paper there because your

804
00:40:37,440 --> 00:40:39,359
Speaker 1: mom has run off in the parking lot with it.

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00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:43,879
Speaker 1: That's what happened on signing day. Alex Collins commits to Arkansas,

806
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Speaker 1: mom takes the letter of intent, and she flees with it.

807
00:40:48,719 --> 00:40:51,440
Speaker 1: Jesse and I were looking earlier today. In fact, we

808
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Speaker 1: googled Alex Collins' mom signing day. Do yourself a favor.

809
00:40:57,200 --> 00:41:00,400
Speaker 1: Google that. It reads like a Netflix series, like the

810
00:41:00,440 --> 00:41:04,359
Speaker 1: plot line to a fictitious Netflix series about the world

811
00:41:04,400 --> 00:41:07,600
Speaker 1: of recruiting, only those headlines are real. It really happened.

812
00:41:07,640 --> 00:41:10,279
Speaker 1: She ended up going to court about it. All's well,

813
00:41:10,320 --> 00:41:13,640
Speaker 1: that ends well for the hogs me in Arkansas. You know. So,

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Speaker 1: Alex Collins' mom was having none of it, and she

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Speaker 1: just took the letter of intent, and the rules were,

816
00:41:20,239 --> 00:41:21,920
Speaker 1: I don't know what it is now. The rules were,

817
00:41:22,200 --> 00:41:24,319
Speaker 1: if you're under a certain age, you have to have

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Speaker 1: a parent or guardian signature on that letter of intent

819
00:41:27,920 --> 00:41:30,880
Speaker 1: before you fax it in and your signing becomes official.

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Speaker 1: We had to get dad involved because Mom was not

821
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Speaker 1: putting pen to paper, so she was very, very upset

822
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Speaker 1: that day and she took that paper and she fled.

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Speaker 1: She high tailed it out of there. That was a

824
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Speaker 1: mom moment. Notice he asked for craziest the more famous

825
00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:52,160
Speaker 1: was twenty eleven. We didn't have time nor probably the

826
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Speaker 1: budget to ask ESPN for the footage earlier today, but

827
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Speaker 1: you all know how to find it. Landon Collins two

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Speaker 1: thousand and eleven under armour, All American Game Tropic Cana Field,

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Speaker 1: Saint Petersburg, Florida. Dorry Noka became a legend on this afternoon,

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Speaker 1: if he wasn't already when he put the microphone in

831
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Speaker 1: front of Landon Collin's mouth and said, where will you

832
00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:19,719
Speaker 1: be going? LSU or Alabama? And he said roll, tide roll,

833
00:42:20,160 --> 00:42:24,240
Speaker 1: and then the camera pans out and everyone celebrating except

834
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Speaker 1: for mom. April Justin was her name, and as far

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Speaker 1: as I know, still is, and Dori Noka asks Landon

836
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Speaker 1: Collins the requisite follow up questions, what made you choose Alabama?

837
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Speaker 1: But this is a professional at work. He also had

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Speaker 1: his eyes cut over towards mom and he said, now

839
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Speaker 1: I gotta ask you did not seem overly thrilled about this?

840
00:42:46,880 --> 00:42:49,600
Speaker 1: Why not? And he puts that microphone in her face

841
00:42:50,080 --> 00:42:53,000
Speaker 1: and she says, I feel like LSU is the better

842
00:42:53,040 --> 00:42:56,800
Speaker 1: place for him. There was a pregnant pause. Dorry Noka

843
00:42:57,760 --> 00:43:01,440
Speaker 1: left the microphone in front of her face. A lesser

844
00:43:01,520 --> 00:43:04,720
Speaker 1: reporter would not have. He would have panicked. Everyone freaks

845
00:43:04,719 --> 00:43:06,560
Speaker 1: out when there's a pause on live air, and he

846
00:43:06,560 --> 00:43:09,040
Speaker 1: would have yanked that microphone back, and we would have

847
00:43:09,160 --> 00:43:13,760
Speaker 1: missed the golden SoundBite that followed, which was LSU TIGA's

848
00:43:13,880 --> 00:43:17,160
Speaker 1: number one Go Tigers. And then Landon Collins puts on

849
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Speaker 1: the Obama gloves and flashes the script ay and his

850
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Speaker 1: mom just shakes her head the entire time they fade

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Speaker 1: back to the game. Well that's what you saw. Now,

852
00:43:27,960 --> 00:43:31,440
Speaker 1: let me ruin the entire world for you, okay. I

853
00:43:32,280 --> 00:43:34,840
Speaker 1: A couple of years later, finally get credentialed to go

854
00:43:34,880 --> 00:43:37,719
Speaker 1: to college football games, and it's just a dream come

855
00:43:37,760 --> 00:43:40,960
Speaker 1: true for me. Lanton Collins is still at Alabama. Alabama's

856
00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:42,879
Speaker 1: doing what they always do under Nick Saban. They're winning,

857
00:43:42,880 --> 00:43:45,800
Speaker 1: They're playing for conference championships, and so they go to

858
00:43:45,840 --> 00:43:49,640
Speaker 1: the SEC Championship game. Landon Collins is on the team

859
00:43:49,880 --> 00:43:54,120
Speaker 1: Alabama wins the SEC Championship game. Since his commitment and

860
00:43:54,200 --> 00:43:57,680
Speaker 1: signing with Alabama, his mother has been very vocal. She

861
00:43:57,760 --> 00:44:01,600
Speaker 1: has been very staunchly and Nick Saban she has been

862
00:44:01,760 --> 00:44:04,920
Speaker 1: on a quest to inform other mothers in the recruiting

863
00:44:04,920 --> 00:44:07,719
Speaker 1: space about the potential perils and pitfalls out there that

864
00:44:07,960 --> 00:44:12,640
Speaker 1: your little kiddo faces. Nick Saban goes into his press conference.

865
00:44:12,680 --> 00:44:15,239
Speaker 1: This is at the Georgia Dome. Rest in peace. I'm

866
00:44:15,280 --> 00:44:17,840
Speaker 1: in there with him. No, we didn't go in together,

867
00:44:18,160 --> 00:44:20,000
Speaker 1: but I am in there as Nick Saban's in there,

868
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:23,080
Speaker 1: you get it. So he walks out and his wife's

869
00:44:23,120 --> 00:44:25,080
Speaker 1: there as she always is, and she hugs his neck,

870
00:44:26,480 --> 00:44:30,440
Speaker 1: and April Justin is there. Keep in mind, this is

871
00:44:30,480 --> 00:44:32,880
Speaker 1: the first access I've ever had to the sport behind

872
00:44:32,880 --> 00:44:35,680
Speaker 1: the scenes. All I've seen is what you've seen so far.

873
00:44:35,880 --> 00:44:38,560
Speaker 1: So all I know is this woman allegedly can't stand

874
00:44:38,600 --> 00:44:41,520
Speaker 1: this guy, and yet her kid is playing for him anyway,

875
00:44:42,280 --> 00:44:47,160
Speaker 1: and the arms open up and she embraces him in

876
00:44:47,360 --> 00:44:49,799
Speaker 1: every bit as big a hug as his wife had

877
00:44:49,840 --> 00:44:52,960
Speaker 1: just embraced him in. And you know what I was

878
00:44:53,200 --> 00:44:57,919
Speaker 1: yet again, I was the Koala mouth wide open leaf

879
00:44:57,960 --> 00:45:00,480
Speaker 1: hanging out. It was like I had gone to a

880
00:45:00,520 --> 00:45:04,000
Speaker 1: pro wrestling event and I had seen Hogan versus Warrior,

881
00:45:04,640 --> 00:45:07,600
Speaker 1: But then three miles down the road from the arena afterwards,

882
00:45:07,640 --> 00:45:09,840
Speaker 1: me and dad had gone to waffle house and income

883
00:45:09,920 --> 00:45:12,920
Speaker 1: Hogan and Warrior and they sit down together and I'm like,

884
00:45:13,840 --> 00:45:17,520
Speaker 1: what am I seeing? What's even real anymore? So that

885
00:45:18,760 --> 00:45:21,319
Speaker 1: really lifted the veil a little bit for me on

886
00:45:21,400 --> 00:45:23,960
Speaker 1: what could be different behind the scenes in college football

887
00:45:24,040 --> 00:45:26,120
Speaker 1: versus what I saw on the stage at the under

888
00:45:26,200 --> 00:45:29,800
Speaker 1: Armoor All American Game. Dare I say parts of college

889
00:45:29,800 --> 00:45:32,600
Speaker 1: football a work? They did a really good job of it.

890
00:45:32,680 --> 00:45:35,520
Speaker 1: I will give them that. Thirdly, a little bit lesser

891
00:45:35,560 --> 00:45:38,920
Speaker 1: renowned here, but more recent, Jacob Copeland when he committed

892
00:45:38,920 --> 00:45:41,520
Speaker 1: to Florida, he had mom sitting next to him. She

893
00:45:41,520 --> 00:45:44,080
Speaker 1: had a Bama sweatshirt on, and if that wasn't enough

894
00:45:44,320 --> 00:45:46,759
Speaker 1: you talk about not caring about matching, she had a

895
00:45:47,239 --> 00:45:51,160
Speaker 1: orange and white Tennessee Checkered Beanie on and he commits

896
00:45:51,160 --> 00:45:53,640
Speaker 1: to neither of them. He commits to Florida. And what

897
00:45:53,680 --> 00:45:57,000
Speaker 1: does Mom do? She gets up, packs her things, leaves,

898
00:45:57,160 --> 00:45:59,520
Speaker 1: walks in front of the hard cam. It's no no

899
00:45:59,640 --> 00:46:01,680
Speaker 1: in our word world, and she just throws up the

900
00:46:01,719 --> 00:46:05,800
Speaker 1: deuces goodbye. The context around that one, if you really

901
00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:07,840
Speaker 1: know the ins and outs of that story, it's not

902
00:46:08,120 --> 00:46:10,719
Speaker 1: quite as humorous as the others, Like I have fun

903
00:46:10,760 --> 00:46:12,600
Speaker 1: talking about the others. But those are some of the

904
00:46:12,600 --> 00:46:15,560
Speaker 1: best mom stories. And if you are new to our sport,

905
00:46:16,000 --> 00:46:18,080
Speaker 1: wait till the show's over. But if you are new

906
00:46:18,640 --> 00:46:21,720
Speaker 1: and you've never seen any of those, I specifically encourage

907
00:46:21,719 --> 00:46:25,160
Speaker 1: you as you wind down your Sunday or you start

908
00:46:25,200 --> 00:46:29,440
Speaker 1: your Monday, go to your YouTube machine and type in

909
00:46:30,400 --> 00:46:34,440
Speaker 1: land In Collins commitment, landon Collins Mom, and just watch

910
00:46:34,920 --> 00:46:39,000
Speaker 1: that unfold. You could never get a better two or

911
00:46:39,040 --> 00:46:41,960
Speaker 1: three minutes of television if you tried to, especially in

912
00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:44,879
Speaker 1: the world of college football recruiting. That was great. I'm

913
00:46:44,920 --> 00:46:47,040
Speaker 1: not done with the stories. Just wait a few minutes.

914
00:46:47,280 --> 00:46:50,359
Speaker 1: Next up, we've got a question kind of about one

915
00:46:50,400 --> 00:46:54,600
Speaker 1: of those teams. Hog Fan eighty four asks realistically how

916
00:46:54,719 --> 00:46:58,439
Speaker 1: far away are we from an SEC championship that does

917
00:46:58,480 --> 00:47:03,560
Speaker 1: not feature either Bama or Georgia from Cardiff Wales. Well,

918
00:47:03,600 --> 00:47:06,120
Speaker 1: I'll tell you how close you are. You're one year away,

919
00:47:06,360 --> 00:47:09,399
Speaker 1: you could be a few months away. I mean, this

920
00:47:09,440 --> 00:47:12,239
Speaker 1: is not a foregone conclusion. This year or any year.

921
00:47:12,920 --> 00:47:16,279
Speaker 1: The matchups only happened twice. You know, Like there's a

922
00:47:16,280 --> 00:47:18,239
Speaker 1: group out there that says I'm tired of watching the

923
00:47:18,280 --> 00:47:21,080
Speaker 1: same four teams play for the college Football Playoff every year,

924
00:47:21,400 --> 00:47:23,120
Speaker 1: even though the same four teams have never made the

925
00:47:23,120 --> 00:47:26,320
Speaker 1: College Football Plaoff twice. Well, there also is a growing

926
00:47:26,680 --> 00:47:29,719
Speaker 1: population in the seccene that says, I'm just let me

927
00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:32,960
Speaker 1: drop the pen. I'm so tired of watching Georgia versus

928
00:47:33,040 --> 00:47:37,200
Speaker 1: Bama every year. It happened twice since these current coaches

929
00:47:37,239 --> 00:47:39,480
Speaker 1: have been there. It's happened twice. It happened in what

930
00:47:39,520 --> 00:47:42,360
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen and it was a classic, and it happened

931
00:47:42,440 --> 00:47:46,920
Speaker 1: last year. That's it. That's all. So there's a big difference,

932
00:47:46,960 --> 00:47:49,360
Speaker 1: and it has to be noted there's a big difference

933
00:47:49,800 --> 00:47:52,759
Speaker 1: in team versus program. If you were to ask me,

934
00:47:53,560 --> 00:47:55,360
Speaker 1: how how long is it going to be before a

935
00:47:55,440 --> 00:47:58,799
Speaker 1: program bypasses Bama in the West or Georgia in the East.

936
00:47:59,160 --> 00:48:02,359
Speaker 1: That's a different question. But a team any given year,

937
00:48:02,400 --> 00:48:05,280
Speaker 1: any given twelve game stretch, all sorts of weird stuff

938
00:48:05,320 --> 00:48:08,040
Speaker 1: can happen, all sorts of injuries and bounces of balls,

939
00:48:08,480 --> 00:48:12,719
Speaker 1: just outright upsets could happen. So I would tell you

940
00:48:12,880 --> 00:48:15,359
Speaker 1: could be as close as a few months away from

941
00:48:15,400 --> 00:48:19,040
Speaker 1: seeing someone other than Georgia or Obama. Now it's unlikely

942
00:48:19,120 --> 00:48:22,400
Speaker 1: that neither will show up, but yeah, you could absolutely

943
00:48:22,440 --> 00:48:28,080
Speaker 1: get like an Arkansas versus Georgia or a Tennessee versus Alabama.

944
00:48:28,239 --> 00:48:31,400
Speaker 1: You could get that. I mean, anyone who scoffs at

945
00:48:31,400 --> 00:48:34,120
Speaker 1: that notion, I don't know what kind of cave you've

946
00:48:34,120 --> 00:48:36,760
Speaker 1: been hiding in. That stuff happens even in this sport,

947
00:48:36,840 --> 00:48:39,319
Speaker 1: even to those teams all the time. Ohio State did

948
00:48:39,320 --> 00:48:41,279
Speaker 1: not play for the Big Ten championship last year. If

949
00:48:41,320 --> 00:48:42,760
Speaker 1: you know what kind of odds you could have gotten

950
00:48:42,800 --> 00:48:46,160
Speaker 1: that in the preseason. Clemson did not play for the

951
00:48:46,200 --> 00:48:49,160
Speaker 1: ACC championship last year? What kind of odds could I

952
00:48:49,160 --> 00:48:51,399
Speaker 1: have gotten in the preseason on that? So this kind

953
00:48:51,400 --> 00:48:55,279
Speaker 1: of stuff happens all the time. But question was about

954
00:48:55,280 --> 00:48:58,480
Speaker 1: teams this year. How close are we to a program

955
00:48:58,600 --> 00:49:02,400
Speaker 1: overtaking Georgia in the East years away? How close are

956
00:49:02,480 --> 00:49:06,680
Speaker 1: you to a program overtaking Alabama in the West years away?

957
00:49:07,239 --> 00:49:11,000
Speaker 1: So luckily, programs don't play teams. Play a team is

958
00:49:11,000 --> 00:49:13,360
Speaker 1: a kind of a one year snapshot of a program.

959
00:49:14,719 --> 00:49:16,560
Speaker 1: That's why I think you can have a little more

960
00:49:16,560 --> 00:49:19,479
Speaker 1: confidence and excitement when you go into a season, even

961
00:49:19,520 --> 00:49:22,720
Speaker 1: if a program has been a buzzsaw. You know, for instance,

962
00:49:22,800 --> 00:49:24,880
Speaker 1: take these two teams, or take these two programs. I

963
00:49:24,960 --> 00:49:28,600
Speaker 1: guess I got a little pushback in two thousand and

964
00:49:29,120 --> 00:49:33,640
Speaker 1: twenty going into the season right after LSU had gone

965
00:49:33,640 --> 00:49:35,560
Speaker 1: on a run with what you may very well consider

966
00:49:35,640 --> 00:49:37,719
Speaker 1: the best team you've ever seen, that twenty nineteen team,

967
00:49:37,920 --> 00:49:40,719
Speaker 1: and they beat Alabama and they won the national championship.

968
00:49:40,880 --> 00:49:43,960
Speaker 1: And I said, Wellbama's still the top program in the West.

969
00:49:44,880 --> 00:49:46,759
Speaker 1: And some of the reactions were, did you not just

970
00:49:46,840 --> 00:49:49,560
Speaker 1: watch the game last year? Yeah, I watched the twenty

971
00:49:49,680 --> 00:49:54,520
Speaker 1: nineteen LSU team. Be better. The program hasn't bypassed, Saban.

972
00:49:54,600 --> 00:49:57,640
Speaker 1: If you're suggesting that one year could upend all that,

973
00:49:58,400 --> 00:50:02,319
Speaker 1: then we don't respect longevity or consistency at all. So

974
00:50:02,520 --> 00:50:05,439
Speaker 1: that can't be the metric. But also the following year

975
00:50:06,200 --> 00:50:09,200
Speaker 1: twenty twenty, remember what happened? That was that COVID year

976
00:50:09,239 --> 00:50:13,120
Speaker 1: where everything's shut down, Florida ends up running the score

977
00:50:13,200 --> 00:50:15,920
Speaker 1: up on Georgia down in Jacksonville and Florida beach Georgia,

978
00:50:15,920 --> 00:50:18,239
Speaker 1: and Florida ends up going to the SEC championship game.

979
00:50:19,200 --> 00:50:21,520
Speaker 1: I took heat the following spring by saying, well, George

980
00:50:21,600 --> 00:50:24,880
Speaker 1: is still the top program in the division in both cases,

981
00:50:24,880 --> 00:50:26,680
Speaker 1: We've seen how that played out. I'm not doing the

982
00:50:26,719 --> 00:50:28,719
Speaker 1: whole revisionist history thing now. I'm telling you at the

983
00:50:28,719 --> 00:50:32,280
Speaker 1: time I said it, that's the difference in program and team.

984
00:50:32,800 --> 00:50:34,480
Speaker 1: So when is the first time you're going to see

985
00:50:34,480 --> 00:50:36,360
Speaker 1: a team other than one or the other in Atlanta?

986
00:50:36,680 --> 00:50:39,120
Speaker 1: Could be this December, just to understand, it may not

987
00:50:39,239 --> 00:50:41,640
Speaker 1: mean that they've been bypassed as a program. All right,

988
00:50:41,719 --> 00:50:43,279
Speaker 1: let's get one more in here. The mail bag is

989
00:50:43,320 --> 00:50:46,279
Speaker 1: really really good tonight. This one is about the most

990
00:50:46,280 --> 00:50:49,600
Speaker 1: important position in this sport. Grumpy Old Sarge asked, with

991
00:50:49,680 --> 00:50:52,880
Speaker 1: a number of high profile quarterback transfers this, I'm not

992
00:50:52,880 --> 00:50:55,919
Speaker 1: saying that word these last few months, which of them

993
00:50:56,080 --> 00:50:59,480
Speaker 1: will be the most successful this year? Stats wins? However,

994
00:50:59,520 --> 00:51:01,879
Speaker 1: you wish to rank them. I'm not ready to rank

995
00:51:01,920 --> 00:51:05,000
Speaker 1: him yet, but I will obviously tell you Caleb Williams

996
00:51:05,080 --> 00:51:07,680
Speaker 1: is up here. I mean, what would USC football be

997
00:51:08,000 --> 00:51:12,120
Speaker 1: even if you had Lincoln Riley? What would USC football

998
00:51:12,160 --> 00:51:15,560
Speaker 1: be if he did not also bring along Caleb Williams.

999
00:51:15,920 --> 00:51:17,719
Speaker 1: Far be it from me to suggest they were a

1000
00:51:17,719 --> 00:51:21,000
Speaker 1: package deal. Now we all know how dirty and allegation

1001
00:51:21,120 --> 00:51:25,160
Speaker 1: that is. But Caleb Williams is obviously a big time

1002
00:51:25,160 --> 00:51:27,040
Speaker 1: player here. He was the number one player overall in

1003
00:51:27,080 --> 00:51:29,839
Speaker 1: the transfer portal. You see, Quinn, you was their second.

1004
00:51:29,880 --> 00:51:32,360
Speaker 1: Going to talk about him in a second. Spencer Ratler also,

1005
00:51:32,360 --> 00:51:35,280
Speaker 1: since we're talking about the Oklahoma theme there, Spencer Ratler

1006
00:51:35,360 --> 00:51:38,080
Speaker 1: is a massive boost, not only at the position of

1007
00:51:38,160 --> 00:51:42,759
Speaker 1: quarterback for South Carolina. But remember when that headline came

1008
00:51:42,840 --> 00:51:46,080
Speaker 1: down to me, I'm trying to think off the top

1009
00:51:46,160 --> 00:51:49,200
Speaker 1: of my head. I still don't think in this entire

1010
00:51:49,239 --> 00:51:53,680
Speaker 1: transfer portal cycle we had a bigger boom moment then

1011
00:51:53,840 --> 00:51:56,839
Speaker 1: Spencer Ratler going to South Carolina. That one just came

1012
00:51:56,880 --> 00:51:59,279
Speaker 1: out of nowhere. Now, I'm sure in the comment section

1013
00:51:59,360 --> 00:52:01,479
Speaker 1: someone's gonna mention one that will make me go, oh, yeah,

1014
00:52:01,480 --> 00:52:04,480
Speaker 1: that one. But listen, even if there are some comparable

1015
00:52:04,840 --> 00:52:06,839
Speaker 1: that was way up there that was a big deal

1016
00:52:06,880 --> 00:52:09,040
Speaker 1: and became with Stagner or the tight End. I think

1017
00:52:09,080 --> 00:52:11,200
Speaker 1: that happened a couple of days later. But Spencer Ratler

1018
00:52:11,280 --> 00:52:12,360
Speaker 1: is going to be a very big deal. It's a

1019
00:52:12,360 --> 00:52:15,400
Speaker 1: big deal in terms of on field performance and perception

1020
00:52:15,600 --> 00:52:19,480
Speaker 1: of program for South Carolina. Quinn Viewers is going to

1021
00:52:19,600 --> 00:52:23,480
Speaker 1: be boring injury. One of my old phrases down in

1022
00:52:23,520 --> 00:52:25,520
Speaker 1: Columbus I used on radio all the time when I

1023
00:52:25,520 --> 00:52:30,480
Speaker 1: made a prediction was barring something unforeseen, this will happen,

1024
00:52:31,360 --> 00:52:33,920
Speaker 1: And anytime it didn't happen, I would say something unforeseen

1025
00:52:34,000 --> 00:52:37,040
Speaker 1: came up. Well, barring something unforeseen, Quinn Ewers is going

1026
00:52:37,080 --> 00:52:40,040
Speaker 1: to be the starting quarterback for Texas. Maybe Hudson card

1027
00:52:40,040 --> 00:52:43,359
Speaker 1: beats him out a LA something unforeseen, But as for now,

1028
00:52:43,360 --> 00:52:46,040
Speaker 1: we're going to roll the dice with Quinn Eewers. This

1029
00:52:46,080 --> 00:52:49,200
Speaker 1: could be the difference in several games this fall for Texas.

1030
00:52:49,200 --> 00:52:51,719
Speaker 1: Just stayed it very clearly like it is. There could

1031
00:52:51,760 --> 00:52:55,120
Speaker 1: be wild fluctuation and the best, worst, and most likely

1032
00:52:55,200 --> 00:52:57,840
Speaker 1: record scenarios for the Longhorns. That guy's going to be

1033
00:52:57,840 --> 00:53:00,440
Speaker 1: pulling the trigger at quarterback. That will be a must

1034
00:53:00,480 --> 00:53:03,000
Speaker 1: watch team every week if Quinn Ewers as the quarterback

1035
00:53:03,120 --> 00:53:06,680
Speaker 1: for Texas, because he's also got guys calling plays for him,

1036
00:53:06,920 --> 00:53:09,359
Speaker 1: A guy calling plays for him that I just told

1037
00:53:09,400 --> 00:53:13,120
Speaker 1: you about what fifty minutes ago or so I thought

1038
00:53:13,200 --> 00:53:15,560
Speaker 1: was the best coordinator in college football when he was

1039
00:53:15,560 --> 00:53:18,520
Speaker 1: at Alabama and still very well maybe the best player

1040
00:53:18,520 --> 00:53:20,720
Speaker 1: caller in college football. Just got to have the ingredients,

1041
00:53:20,760 --> 00:53:22,959
Speaker 1: and he's getting more and more of them. What about

1042
00:53:23,000 --> 00:53:27,880
Speaker 1: Max Johnson, that former left handed quarterback there at LSU

1043
00:53:27,920 --> 00:53:30,560
Speaker 1: who is now at Texas A and m Am I

1044
00:53:30,680 --> 00:53:34,080
Speaker 1: the biggest fan of inter division transfers, No, I'm not.

1045
00:53:35,200 --> 00:53:38,120
Speaker 1: Do people in college football really care what I think?

1046
00:53:38,200 --> 00:53:40,680
Speaker 1: Right now? Also know, so forget about what I think.

1047
00:53:40,840 --> 00:53:44,480
Speaker 1: He's there and he's an aggie now, and there is

1048
00:53:44,640 --> 00:53:49,239
Speaker 1: some semi smart money in college station exiting Spring that

1049
00:53:49,280 --> 00:53:51,440
Speaker 1: would lead you to believe maybe he's the favorite to

1050
00:53:51,480 --> 00:53:54,640
Speaker 1: win the job. That's not even remotely settled, and so

1051
00:53:54,760 --> 00:53:57,799
Speaker 1: that's not even guided information. That's just kind of a

1052
00:53:57,800 --> 00:54:00,600
Speaker 1: couple of people talking out there around the program. Haynes

1053
00:54:00,640 --> 00:54:02,880
Speaker 1: King's gonna figure heavily into that, but he's not a transfer.

1054
00:54:02,920 --> 00:54:06,279
Speaker 1: Max Johnson is, and Max Johnson is the kind of

1055
00:54:06,320 --> 00:54:10,080
Speaker 1: guy who adds another player you can win with. It's

1056
00:54:10,120 --> 00:54:12,880
Speaker 1: not just cluttering up the quarterback room and hoping no

1057
00:54:12,920 --> 00:54:15,480
Speaker 1: one transfers so we can have some decent depth. That's

1058
00:54:15,480 --> 00:54:17,640
Speaker 1: a guy you can win with. You've already seen him

1059
00:54:17,640 --> 00:54:20,759
Speaker 1: win in this division. No less so Max Johnson's up there.

1060
00:54:21,040 --> 00:54:25,080
Speaker 1: Go back to Oklahoma for a second. Dylan Gabriel, who

1061
00:54:25,080 --> 00:54:29,680
Speaker 1: will absolutely be the starting quarterback there. That transfer that's

1062
00:54:29,760 --> 00:54:32,560
Speaker 1: quietly not in Norman. It's not quite a Norman, but

1063
00:54:32,719 --> 00:54:35,600
Speaker 1: nationally that's one of the biggest transfers in the sport

1064
00:54:36,120 --> 00:54:39,960
Speaker 1: this past cycle. If Dylan Gabriel is not at Oklahoma,

1065
00:54:40,280 --> 00:54:43,520
Speaker 1: what is Oklahoma football? This year? They swung and missed

1066
00:54:43,520 --> 00:54:45,400
Speaker 1: on Jackson Dart. Maybe they would have landed Dart if

1067
00:54:45,440 --> 00:54:48,040
Speaker 1: they didn't have Gabriel. My point is he's one of

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00:54:48,080 --> 00:54:51,520
Speaker 1: the most important players in that position, is one of

1069
00:54:51,520 --> 00:54:54,520
Speaker 1: the biggest boom or bust position groups this year for

1070
00:54:54,760 --> 00:54:58,880
Speaker 1: contending teams. There's a lot of weight on his shoulders

1071
00:54:58,920 --> 00:55:01,600
Speaker 1: this year. I look forward to watching him play too,

1072
00:55:01,800 --> 00:55:04,600
Speaker 1: also look forward to watching what kind of style they

1073
00:55:04,640 --> 00:55:07,600
Speaker 1: try and employ out there at Oklahoma. That's still the

1074
00:55:07,640 --> 00:55:10,120
Speaker 1: favorite in the Big Twelve you've seen all the churn

1075
00:55:10,200 --> 00:55:13,080
Speaker 1: and all the players leaving still the odds on favorite

1076
00:55:13,160 --> 00:55:15,359
Speaker 1: to win the Big Twelve. We mentioned Jackson Dart. They're

1077
00:55:15,360 --> 00:55:18,320
Speaker 1: at Old Miss that as of the end of spring,

1078
00:55:18,680 --> 00:55:22,200
Speaker 1: was not a settled quarterback battle. He and Luke Altmeyer

1079
00:55:22,440 --> 00:55:25,399
Speaker 1: are still tangled up in a legitimate quarterback battle there.

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00:55:25,719 --> 00:55:28,680
Speaker 1: I think that it will end up being Jackson Dart.

1081
00:55:28,680 --> 00:55:30,400
Speaker 1: I'll tell you this, I'm gonna talk more about it

1082
00:55:30,800 --> 00:55:34,279
Speaker 1: because this is not a running back segment. We are

1083
00:55:34,400 --> 00:55:39,600
Speaker 1: overlooking one of the biggest transfers in America this past cycle.

1084
00:55:40,080 --> 00:55:43,080
Speaker 1: It's not Jackson Dart, He's one of them. I'm telling

1085
00:55:43,080 --> 00:55:45,560
Speaker 1: you Zach Evans is being overlooked right now, that running

1086
00:55:45,560 --> 00:55:48,480
Speaker 1: back formerly of TCU. Now I've ole miss Zach Evans

1087
00:55:48,520 --> 00:55:51,080
Speaker 1: could be the best tailback in the SEC this year.

1088
00:55:51,400 --> 00:55:54,759
Speaker 1: And he's in Oxford, Mississippi, and I had heard. I

1089
00:55:54,800 --> 00:55:57,360
Speaker 1: can't believe I want to say this word. Nary a

1090
00:55:57,400 --> 00:56:01,279
Speaker 1: person talking about him as of late, which is hypocritical

1091
00:56:01,320 --> 00:56:02,920
Speaker 1: because I sit here three nights a week with a

1092
00:56:02,960 --> 00:56:04,080
Speaker 1: mic in front of my face. So we're going to

1093
00:56:04,120 --> 00:56:06,680
Speaker 1: talk about Zach Evans. Moore JT. Daniels also we talked

1094
00:56:06,680 --> 00:56:09,960
Speaker 1: about him earlier in the show transferred to West Virginia.

1095
00:56:10,080 --> 00:56:11,759
Speaker 1: We think, for better or for worse, that's going to

1096
00:56:11,760 --> 00:56:16,040
Speaker 1: be West Virginia starting quarterback. It is very intoxicating when

1097
00:56:16,080 --> 00:56:18,600
Speaker 1: you watch the best of J. T. Daniels, when you

1098
00:56:18,680 --> 00:56:23,759
Speaker 1: watch highlight film of JT. Daniels, no one's questioning his upside.

1099
00:56:23,920 --> 00:56:27,000
Speaker 1: It's the consistency in performance. Is he able to get

1100
00:56:27,040 --> 00:56:28,960
Speaker 1: all the way back and is he able to perform

1101
00:56:29,000 --> 00:56:32,040
Speaker 1: at a consistently high enough level for West Virginia? Hope

1102
00:56:32,040 --> 00:56:35,200
Speaker 1: he is. That's the great unknown there with West Virginia football.

1103
00:56:35,360 --> 00:56:38,399
Speaker 1: So those are some of the transfer quarterbacks that we're

1104
00:56:38,400 --> 00:56:40,919
Speaker 1: looking at. That's going to be I mean every year

1105
00:56:41,000 --> 00:56:44,880
Speaker 1: now moving forward the transfer quarterback picture that just has

1106
00:56:45,040 --> 00:56:48,840
Speaker 1: perennially an opportunity to upend the landscape of college football

1107
00:56:48,840 --> 00:56:53,000
Speaker 1: in a given year. Okay, last question that we're not

1108
00:56:53,040 --> 00:56:55,000
Speaker 1: going to cut this as an individual video, So the

1109
00:56:55,040 --> 00:56:57,360
Speaker 1: only chance you're going to hear this is watching or

1110
00:56:57,360 --> 00:57:01,000
Speaker 1: listening to the full show. And boy have been lately

1111
00:57:01,360 --> 00:57:04,360
Speaker 1: our average audience retention is it looks like a typo.

1112
00:57:04,840 --> 00:57:06,880
Speaker 1: Every time I presented to management, they accused me of

1113
00:57:06,920 --> 00:57:11,640
Speaker 1: being on substances. Mark asked, since it's Mother's Day, reminisce

1114
00:57:11,680 --> 00:57:13,960
Speaker 1: on a time maybe in sports that is special with

1115
00:57:14,120 --> 00:57:17,760
Speaker 1: you and your mom. Mark from Montgomery, Alabama. Well Mark,

1116
00:57:18,280 --> 00:57:22,000
Speaker 1: about an hour forty five minutes north of you is Birmingham, Alabama.

1117
00:57:22,400 --> 00:57:26,880
Speaker 1: According to Stats and Info, the year was two thousand.

1118
00:57:27,560 --> 00:57:32,280
Speaker 1: Your boy was in grade school and pro wrestling was

1119
00:57:32,320 --> 00:57:36,000
Speaker 1: red hot, and the Birmingham Jefferson Civic Center in December

1120
00:57:36,000 --> 00:57:40,040
Speaker 1: of two thousand hosted a WWF pay per view Armageddon.

1121
00:57:40,320 --> 00:57:42,800
Speaker 1: The main event, this was my first ever live event,

1122
00:57:43,320 --> 00:57:45,800
Speaker 1: was a six man Hell in the Cell match featuring

1123
00:57:46,040 --> 00:57:48,840
Speaker 1: think about this lineup, Stone Cold, Steve, Austin, the Rock,

1124
00:57:49,120 --> 00:57:53,280
Speaker 1: the Undertaker, Kerrent, Angle, Rakishi and who did I leave out?

1125
00:57:53,280 --> 00:57:57,240
Speaker 1: Triple H Yeah for the WWF title. And I went

1126
00:57:57,320 --> 00:57:59,760
Speaker 1: up there with a buddy who has since passed away,

1127
00:58:00,680 --> 00:58:03,800
Speaker 1: but my mom drove us up there. We did not

1128
00:58:03,920 --> 00:58:08,760
Speaker 1: go sixty five through Montgomery. We went two eighty up

1129
00:58:08,800 --> 00:58:14,120
Speaker 1: through among other cities, oh Man, Silicaga, Alexander City, those

1130
00:58:14,200 --> 00:58:16,400
Speaker 1: kind of cities. So we went up there, but we

1131
00:58:16,440 --> 00:58:18,760
Speaker 1: only had two tickets. Those were steep. I think there

1132
00:58:18,800 --> 00:58:20,840
Speaker 1: were like seventy five bucks apiece. And if you're in

1133
00:58:20,840 --> 00:58:23,240
Speaker 1: grade school, or you're on a budget at all. Can't

1134
00:58:23,280 --> 00:58:25,320
Speaker 1: just be dropping one fifty on a random Sunday night

1135
00:58:25,320 --> 00:58:28,960
Speaker 1: to go to Birmingham plus gas. So what happened, Well,

1136
00:58:29,160 --> 00:58:32,240
Speaker 1: my mother in I think we can all agree, not

1137
00:58:32,360 --> 00:58:35,200
Speaker 1: the best part of Birmingham, Alabama, sat outside in her

1138
00:58:35,200 --> 00:58:37,600
Speaker 1: car for four and a half hours while me and

1139
00:58:37,640 --> 00:58:39,880
Speaker 1: my buddy went in to sit in Section one twenty

1140
00:58:39,880 --> 00:58:43,000
Speaker 1: six and watch one of the best main events in

1141
00:58:43,280 --> 00:58:45,880
Speaker 1: the Attitude era, Rare Keys. She flew off the top

1142
00:58:45,920 --> 00:58:48,280
Speaker 1: of the hell in the cell amazing happened to be

1143
00:58:48,360 --> 00:58:50,240
Speaker 1: a bed of a truck there with some sawdust chips

1144
00:58:50,280 --> 00:58:52,120
Speaker 1: and background, so we didn't really get hurt all that much.

1145
00:58:52,480 --> 00:58:55,160
Speaker 1: But my mom sat out there in I don't know

1146
00:58:55,200 --> 00:58:56,800
Speaker 1: where she parked, and I don't really want to know,

1147
00:58:56,840 --> 00:58:58,600
Speaker 1: to be honest with you, I do know that all's well,

1148
00:58:58,640 --> 00:59:00,200
Speaker 1: that ends well, because she was there to pick us

1149
00:59:00,280 --> 00:59:02,920
Speaker 1: up when we walked out at eleven o'clock that night. Then,

1150
00:59:03,280 --> 00:59:05,960
Speaker 1: as we get later into the decade, this is why

1151
00:59:05,960 --> 00:59:08,640
Speaker 1: it's a very very happy Mother's Day, especially in Forts

1152
00:59:08,640 --> 00:59:13,000
Speaker 1: and Georgia. The SEC championship game was always right in

1153
00:59:13,040 --> 00:59:15,360
Speaker 1: our backyard, just up the road in Atlanta, So I

1154
00:59:15,440 --> 00:59:18,080
Speaker 1: was fortunate enough to grow up an hour south of Atlanta,

1155
00:59:18,920 --> 00:59:22,400
Speaker 1: and I mean there were always really expensive tickets and

1156
00:59:22,480 --> 00:59:24,400
Speaker 1: I didn't care which teams were playing. I just wanted

1157
00:59:24,440 --> 00:59:25,880
Speaker 1: to be there every year. Well, I mean, it was

1158
00:59:25,920 --> 00:59:27,800
Speaker 1: not financially feasible for me to be able to be

1159
00:59:27,840 --> 00:59:30,160
Speaker 1: there every year, but I did develop a strategy and

1160
00:59:30,200 --> 00:59:33,640
Speaker 1: it worked pretty decently. SEC Championship Game is the first

1161
00:59:33,640 --> 00:59:37,760
Speaker 1: week of December, first Saturday in December. Christmas is the

1162
00:59:37,760 --> 00:59:41,960
Speaker 1: twenty fifth every year, every single year, without fail. I

1163
00:59:42,000 --> 00:59:45,120
Speaker 1: developed a strategy which was good hearted because I wasn't

1164
00:59:45,120 --> 00:59:48,040
Speaker 1: trying to pull one over on anyone. I told my mom,

1165
00:59:49,080 --> 00:59:52,200
Speaker 1: you can forget my Christmas presence if you'll just buy

1166
00:59:52,240 --> 00:59:54,800
Speaker 1: me SEC Championship Game tickets, because I really did value

1167
00:59:54,800 --> 00:59:57,560
Speaker 1: that more than Christmas presence. And so two thousand and

1168
00:59:57,560 --> 01:00:00,440
Speaker 1: three Lsu Georgia, I was able to get that done.

1169
01:00:00,600 --> 01:00:04,320
Speaker 1: Two thousand and eight that was Florida Bama Part one.

1170
01:00:04,480 --> 01:00:06,040
Speaker 1: I was able to get that done. And those things

1171
01:00:06,040 --> 01:00:08,960
Speaker 1: were three hundred to pop in the upper deck and

1172
01:00:09,120 --> 01:00:12,920
Speaker 1: two thousand and nine ditto on the price point, ditto

1173
01:00:13,000 --> 01:00:15,800
Speaker 1: upper deck, ditto on the teams. It was Urban Meyer, Florida.

1174
01:00:15,920 --> 01:00:19,440
Speaker 1: Nick Saban, Alabama. Again. If you ever want to know,

1175
01:00:19,520 --> 01:00:21,520
Speaker 1: by the way, why I appreciate being able to do

1176
01:00:21,560 --> 01:00:23,919
Speaker 1: what I do so much, it's cause that's the way

1177
01:00:24,000 --> 01:00:26,920
Speaker 1: I used to have to get into games. Now I

1178
01:00:26,960 --> 01:00:29,800
Speaker 1: can't vouch for three as much, but eight and oh nine.

1179
01:00:30,160 --> 01:00:33,320
Speaker 1: It turns out that if you give enough lead time

1180
01:00:33,520 --> 01:00:35,840
Speaker 1: three weeks and you ask for a ticket to be

1181
01:00:35,880 --> 01:00:39,120
Speaker 1: a Christmas present, you may just get Christmas presents anyway.

1182
01:00:40,120 --> 01:00:43,520
Speaker 1: So Happy Mother's Day to all of our mothers out there.

1183
01:00:43,640 --> 01:00:46,560
Speaker 1: Those are three of the stories that I had. Look

1184
01:00:46,640 --> 01:00:49,400
Speaker 1: that that's sitting in a parking lot for four hours

1185
01:00:49,400 --> 01:00:54,280
Speaker 1: in Birmingham. That's pretty legendary. That's all we have for tonight.

1186
01:00:54,480 --> 01:00:57,560
Speaker 1: I encourage you guys, whether you're listening on pod or

1187
01:00:57,600 --> 01:01:00,880
Speaker 1: whether you're watching on YouTube, subscribe. That's what we need

1188
01:01:00,920 --> 01:01:03,400
Speaker 1: you to do. Subscribe and you may think you are,

1189
01:01:03,920 --> 01:01:06,680
Speaker 1: but just double check. And then, since it's Mother's Day,

1190
01:01:07,160 --> 01:01:09,680
Speaker 1: go give your mom a hug, and as you're hugging her.

1191
01:01:10,040 --> 01:01:13,440
Speaker 2: Pleas for the phone and subscribe on all of our feeds.

1192
01:01:13,920 --> 01:01:16,160
Speaker 2: Mom would want it that way, you know it. I

1193
01:01:16,240 --> 01:01:18,560
Speaker 2: know it, She probably knows it, so so I do

1194
01:01:18,600 --> 01:01:20,440
Speaker 2: it for her. Get it out of the way for it.

1195
01:01:20,440 --> 01:01:23,800
Speaker 1: It's actually a nice Mother's day press for producer Jesse,

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01:01:23,880 --> 01:01:26,360
Speaker 1: for director Colin. I'm Josh paid. Having yourselves a great

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Speaker 1: start to your week and God bless