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Speaker 1: Man, welcome in Lake is live. It is Thursday night.

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Speaker 1: I've been backwards all week on my day's Thursday night,

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Speaker 1: December eighth, the over Laura twenty twenty two. You have

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Speaker 1: the people responsible for college football's calendar. We're responsible for

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Speaker 1: building a treehouse. I pirmally believe they'd run out of

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Speaker 1: train wreck right now. We got to try and fix December.

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Speaker 1: Tonight we're jampagged high top a still saturated downtown Nashville, Tennessee,

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Speaker 1: and we will indeed dive into a lot of this tonight.

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Speaker 1: The transfer portal still ablaze. I would argue December shouldn't likely,

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Speaker 1: it shouldn't look like it does period, just calendar wise,

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Speaker 1: but it does. So we're going to talk about that.

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Speaker 1: I keep getting feedback. I don't think Jesse and Colin

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Speaker 1: correct me if I'm wrong. I don't think we've ever

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Speaker 1: gotten as much feedback per capita on the segment as

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Speaker 1: we have about Dion Sanders. I don't think we've had

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Speaker 1: a single bold or hot take on this. But if

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Speaker 1: what's about to happen with him and so a warning,

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Speaker 1: a subtle but stern warning on tonight's show, speaking of which,

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Speaker 1: we don't have to wait all that long to see

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Speaker 1: what could be Ryan Day's biggest game thus far as

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Speaker 1: Ohio State head coach. That's also not meant to be

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Speaker 1: a hot take. I really really believe there is some

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Speaker 1: inordinate pressure on the shoulders of one Ryan Day when

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Speaker 1: they play Georgia less than a month from now, and

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Speaker 1: part two of what will be an ongoing series of

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Speaker 1: bold predictions revisited. I didn't announce that we're going to

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Speaker 1: do that the other night, so we're you know, we're

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Speaker 1: dusting off the bold predictions from the preseason. What I

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Speaker 1: think is going to happen is our traffic on those

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Speaker 1: videos is going to substantially increase the more we get

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Speaker 1: into it. They're watching us in Roanoke, Virginia, Buenos Aires.

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Speaker 1: We can't roll the tongue where I'm from, so Buenos Aires, Argentina, McCarley, Mississippi,

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Speaker 1: and Tampa, Florida all tuned in the collaboration Late Kick

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Speaker 1: episode mode or episodes could be multiple are coming up.

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Speaker 1: I don't have a date for you yet. I know it,

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Speaker 1: I can't tell you yet, but just stay tuned. I

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Speaker 1: tell you guys all the time. I'm going to reiterate

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Speaker 1: it once more before we dive into the show here. December,

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Speaker 1: for many reasons, is a month you have to stay

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Speaker 1: locked in. You can't afford to be taking vacations or breaks. Okay,

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Speaker 1: if you need to tune out, that's what God made

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Speaker 1: March for. You need to be checked in. Right now,

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Speaker 1: let's dive in transfer portal. Still on fire Day, it

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Speaker 1: feels like ninety eight, but in reality we're only a

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Speaker 1: few days in to this transfer portal window being open.

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Speaker 1: I'm giving you names, I'm giving you the best intel

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Speaker 1: about where guys are going to transfer too. Right now,

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Speaker 1: we're just finding out who's going in and who may

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Speaker 1: not be going in. For example, Drake May, there's a

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Speaker 1: tweeted out to the world last night. I'm not going anywhere.

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Speaker 1: That's good, thank you, Drake. That's helpful to us, so

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Speaker 1: we don't have to waste time speculating about that. But

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Speaker 1: In the meantime, let's talk about Chris Marshall wide receiver. There,

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Speaker 1: former five star wide receiver at Texas A and M.

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Speaker 1: He was a five star in that twenty twenty one class.

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Speaker 1: Chris Marshall wasn't. Chris Marshall just on campus, had eleven

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Speaker 1: There is still no doubt in virtually anyone's mind. I've

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Speaker 1: Let's continue. Desaan McCullough, edge player from Indiana. You need

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Speaker 1: He was the number one signee in their signing class

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Speaker 1: A tool I would highly encourage you to be checking,

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Speaker 1: and I mean check it multiple times a day. Coaching

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Speaker 1: right now. That's a position that's premium. Everyone's looking for

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Speaker 1: every single one of you need wide receiver help. Just

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Speaker 1: about do you need quarterback help? Though? Do you need? What?

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Speaker 1: If I told you that I had over here an

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Speaker 1: He's thrown for at least two thousand yards every season,

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Speaker 1: That's who that is. Did you just say oh? Because

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Speaker 1: Hugh Freese's offense. But that doesn't mean you turn down

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Speaker 1: What about dj Uyan Galala And I got a special

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Speaker 1: little pink posted here for a recently added name. But first,

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Speaker 1: dj Uyangala a quarterback from Clemson. Obviously he's in the

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Speaker 1: of West Coast. You also see Ohio State, so Oregon, USC,

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Speaker 1: Ohio State. Now here's the thinking, which is pretty easy

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Speaker 1: it's not about decisions yet. It's about decisions to go

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Speaker 1: When guys start making decisions on where they're gonna land,

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Speaker 1: for me. This is tough for me to do. And

426
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Speaker 1: what else does a casual know? They know that Colorado

427
00:21:53,960 --> 00:21:55,960
Speaker 1: just hired him. That's it, that's all. And then a

428
00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:59,040
Speaker 1: casual checks out and they go sipadacory somewhere. So here's

429
00:21:59,080 --> 00:22:01,600
Speaker 1: what's gonna happen. The casuals are going to check back

430
00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:05,120
Speaker 1: in and they're going to find out that Deon Sanders

431
00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:09,359
Speaker 1: has accumulated more four star or higher rated talent on

432
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Speaker 1: Colorado's roster in one cycle than they have the past

433
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Speaker 1: two decades combined. Because that's real, Like I think that's

434
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Speaker 1: going to happen. It's going to happen really quickly because

435
00:22:18,600 --> 00:22:22,639
Speaker 1: of how your word, not mine, unconventional college football is

436
00:22:22,640 --> 00:22:26,000
Speaker 1: now you can do these sorts of things. I got

437
00:22:26,080 --> 00:22:30,000
Speaker 1: surprisingly little pushback to the segment we did the other night,

438
00:22:30,080 --> 00:22:32,960
Speaker 1: and Jesse knows because I told him beforehand, Boy, this

439
00:22:33,040 --> 00:22:36,159
Speaker 1: is going to aggravate some folks. If it did, you

440
00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:40,040
Speaker 1: didn't speak up because there was an overwhelming acceptance that

441
00:22:40,119 --> 00:22:42,080
Speaker 1: what I said the other night was reality, and what

442
00:22:42,119 --> 00:22:45,679
Speaker 1: I said was the way he's dealing with those players

443
00:22:45,680 --> 00:22:48,760
Speaker 1: out there right now. It's tough, but it's reality. It

444
00:22:48,760 --> 00:22:51,560
Speaker 1: doesn't even have to be fair. It's just real. It's

445
00:22:51,600 --> 00:22:54,639
Speaker 1: the same way as any other adult gets treated in

446
00:22:54,680 --> 00:22:56,760
Speaker 1: any other place of business. I had some of you say,

447
00:22:56,800 --> 00:22:59,119
Speaker 1: are you saying it's fair for you to get fired

448
00:22:59,160 --> 00:23:01,520
Speaker 1: for no reason? It doesn't have to be fair to you.

449
00:23:01,920 --> 00:23:05,159
Speaker 1: It's reality. When you draw paycheck, you know, when you

450
00:23:05,160 --> 00:23:08,760
Speaker 1: get those benefits of being an adult, there's sometimes consequences

451
00:23:08,760 --> 00:23:10,720
Speaker 1: out of your control. By the way, I mean, there's

452
00:23:10,840 --> 00:23:13,200
Speaker 1: probably a kid that's playing offensive guards, just mining his

453
00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:15,880
Speaker 1: own business, holding down a three spot on the depth

454
00:23:15,920 --> 00:23:18,879
Speaker 1: chart at Colorado that will not have a spot this spring.

455
00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:22,080
Speaker 1: It's not his fault, it just is what it is.

456
00:23:22,359 --> 00:23:24,320
Speaker 1: And so you know, Dian's going to come in there

457
00:23:24,320 --> 00:23:27,800
Speaker 1: and overhaul that roster, really, really, quickly. I venture to

458
00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:30,320
Speaker 1: guess the percentage of that roster that's going to be

459
00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:33,280
Speaker 1: overhauled is going to blow some people's minds, and the

460
00:23:33,359 --> 00:23:35,640
Speaker 1: caliber player they get out there is going to blow

461
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Speaker 1: some people's minds. I was listening to Joel Klatt the

462
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Speaker 1: other day. I think he had Bruce Feldman on, and

463
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Speaker 1: Feldman made a really good point. He said, I think

464
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Speaker 1: there are gonna be some guys who don't even consider

465
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Speaker 1: Colorado in their top three or four coming out of

466
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Speaker 1: high school. Just typical recruits that don't even consider Colorado

467
00:23:54,119 --> 00:23:56,480
Speaker 1: in their top three or four, but they want to

468
00:23:56,520 --> 00:24:00,000
Speaker 1: meet Dion and so they schedule an official visit to Colorado.

469
00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:03,480
Speaker 1: He'll land some of those kids. If you've ever been

470
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Speaker 1: around him, I've been around him. It's crazy, and I'm

471
00:24:06,880 --> 00:24:09,200
Speaker 1: around head coaches all the time. Like I'm around people

472
00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:12,359
Speaker 1: we would consider celebrity. Flex I'm around people we would

473
00:24:12,359 --> 00:24:17,680
Speaker 1: consider celebrities a lot. He's a celebrity amongst celebrities. Celebrities

474
00:24:17,720 --> 00:24:20,639
Speaker 1: talk about Deon Sanders like head coaches talk about Deon Sanders.

475
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Speaker 1: So the point is, the talent's going to be there,

476
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Speaker 1: and if you believe it's a talent acquisition, business. But

477
00:24:26,800 --> 00:24:28,920
Speaker 1: you don't believe he's going to win, then you think

478
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Speaker 1: he's going to fail for reasons other than talent. And

479
00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:34,440
Speaker 1: I'm telling you that you must just feel he's unconventional

480
00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:36,840
Speaker 1: and can't get the job done. And that's where we disagree.

481
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Speaker 1: So my challenge is give me two years. I'm not

482
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Speaker 1: making promises for the twenty twenty three season, although who knows,

483
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Speaker 1: he may even surpass my expectations the twenty twenty four

484
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Speaker 1: college football season. At minimum, that team's bowling at the

485
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Speaker 1: very minimum and could be in the eight or nine

486
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Speaker 1: win range. Is that impossible by any other metric in

487
00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:04,119
Speaker 1: any other time in the history of this sport. Yes,

488
00:25:04,240 --> 00:25:08,240
Speaker 1: it probably is. But have you paid attention to Kansas,

489
00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:11,200
Speaker 1: for example? Have you paid it? I mean Vanderbilt. Clark

490
00:25:11,280 --> 00:25:14,520
Speaker 1: Lee almost took Vanderbilt bowling this year, and they're going

491
00:25:14,560 --> 00:25:19,080
Speaker 1: about things at Kansas and Vanderbilt, respectively, far more conventionally

492
00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:22,200
Speaker 1: than Dion Sanders will ever think about going about things

493
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Speaker 1: in Boulder, Colorado. You don't think he can get them

494
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Speaker 1: in the eight or nine win range just taking a

495
00:25:27,440 --> 00:25:28,919
Speaker 1: bunch of four and five star kids. You can call

496
00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:30,679
Speaker 1: him mercenaries, and can call it whatever. You want to.

497
00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:33,400
Speaker 1: He's not going to force anyone to play out there,

498
00:25:33,560 --> 00:25:35,159
Speaker 1: so you're gonna see a lot of folks choose to

499
00:25:35,160 --> 00:25:37,720
Speaker 1: play out there. Hill. Here's my bigger question. This is

500
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Speaker 1: where you want to hit the mute button in Colorado.

501
00:25:40,000 --> 00:25:43,159
Speaker 1: My bigger question isn't if he's gonna win. My bigger

502
00:25:43,240 --> 00:25:45,360
Speaker 1: question is how long is he going to stay out

503
00:25:45,359 --> 00:25:48,359
Speaker 1: there because of how he's about to win. Because I

504
00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:51,199
Speaker 1: firmly believe, and I've had one of them confirm it

505
00:25:51,240 --> 00:25:54,399
Speaker 1: to me, I firmly believe there were some ads that

506
00:25:54,480 --> 00:25:56,560
Speaker 1: wanted to hire him this last cycle. There were some

507
00:25:56,640 --> 00:26:01,120
Speaker 1: ads at some surprisingly big time institutions then I think

508
00:26:01,240 --> 00:26:04,919
Speaker 1: wanted to pull the trigger on Dion Sanders this time around,

509
00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:08,840
Speaker 1: and they did not have the support internally that they needed.

510
00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:12,080
Speaker 1: When he does what he's about to do at Colorado,

511
00:26:13,040 --> 00:26:16,560
Speaker 1: all of those concerns will be alleviated. The proof of performance,

512
00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:20,000
Speaker 1: the proof of product will be there, and come twenty

513
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Speaker 1: twenty four, twenty five, probably if he so chooses, I

514
00:26:24,040 --> 00:26:25,720
Speaker 1: don't know where his heart and mind's at. If he

515
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Speaker 1: so chooses, the offers are going to be there. And

516
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Speaker 1: I also want to ask you this. We're obviously getting

517
00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:36,679
Speaker 1: way ahead of ourselves. But I feel pretty confident in this.

518
00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:41,840
Speaker 1: If that's where we go, what does it do for

519
00:26:41,960 --> 00:26:45,119
Speaker 1: the mold that you look for in a head coach

520
00:26:45,119 --> 00:26:48,280
Speaker 1: in the future. Like there are change agents, there are

521
00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:51,560
Speaker 1: inflection points in any walk of life if you just

522
00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:55,959
Speaker 1: observe it long enough. College football coaching no different and

523
00:26:56,520 --> 00:26:59,200
Speaker 1: you could be looking at one here because the way

524
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Speaker 1: that you feel, the things you look for, the critical

525
00:27:01,800 --> 00:27:03,600
Speaker 1: factors and traits you look for in a head coach,

526
00:27:03,960 --> 00:27:07,280
Speaker 1: could be about to change. And I would also suggest

527
00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:10,720
Speaker 1: to you this. I'm a believer there are two approaches

528
00:27:11,200 --> 00:27:14,919
Speaker 1: that are rapidly approaching in this sport that don't necessarily

529
00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:17,920
Speaker 1: get utilized right now. Most people go cookie cutter when

530
00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:19,639
Speaker 1: they're trying to hire. They just try and hire the

531
00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:22,959
Speaker 1: best version of what the classical college football coach is.

532
00:27:23,160 --> 00:27:27,280
Speaker 1: Colorado obviously deviated from that path. I think you could

533
00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:31,040
Speaker 1: have path one, and that is go hire a superstar

534
00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:33,639
Speaker 1: name like Dion Sanders and then give him a big

535
00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:36,160
Speaker 1: enough salary pool where he puts together a dynamite coaching staff,

536
00:27:36,160 --> 00:27:38,320
Speaker 1: which he's in the process of doing right now, and

537
00:27:38,359 --> 00:27:41,240
Speaker 1: then let him be the figurehead and let them do

538
00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:44,560
Speaker 1: the dirty work. That's one approach. Here's the other approach,

539
00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:48,120
Speaker 1: kind of unrelated to Dion, but it's unconventional. Since we're

540
00:27:48,119 --> 00:27:51,840
Speaker 1: talking about unconventional here, someone's going to try a moneyball

541
00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:56,440
Speaker 1: approach to college football coaching. Someone is going to figure out,

542
00:27:56,480 --> 00:28:00,960
Speaker 1: in the modern transfer portal nil world, don't have to

543
00:28:01,040 --> 00:28:03,560
Speaker 1: hire coaches in the same mold that you once did.

544
00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:08,359
Speaker 1: You up until this point and prior years, had to

545
00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:11,840
Speaker 1: have certain amounts of x's and o's boxes check, certain

546
00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:15,680
Speaker 1: amounts of recruiting prowess boxes checked, and especially the latter

547
00:28:15,760 --> 00:28:18,480
Speaker 1: mattered a lot. Someone's gonna go and pay a head

548
00:28:18,480 --> 00:28:20,920
Speaker 1: coach that you've never heard of, like three and a

549
00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:23,600
Speaker 1: half or four million dollars and a major program, and

550
00:28:23,640 --> 00:28:25,399
Speaker 1: he's going to be way under the pay scale of

551
00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:28,280
Speaker 1: his peers because you've never heard of him. And they're

552
00:28:28,280 --> 00:28:32,000
Speaker 1: gonna put together a staff, maybe of conventional hires, maybe

553
00:28:32,000 --> 00:28:35,120
Speaker 1: of unconventional hires, but they are going to have measured

554
00:28:36,080 --> 00:28:38,440
Speaker 1: the benefit of being able to just go buy your

555
00:28:38,480 --> 00:28:42,120
Speaker 1: talent roster, and they're not going to value recruiting prowess

556
00:28:42,240 --> 00:28:45,000
Speaker 1: quite to the degree you ever would have before. And

557
00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:47,920
Speaker 1: they're going to probably cut corners financially saving money on

558
00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:51,080
Speaker 1: a staff, and they're going to invest those millions into

559
00:28:51,200 --> 00:28:53,520
Speaker 1: NIL and they're going to construct the team for the

560
00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:55,640
Speaker 1: coaching staff. This is where we're headed, by the way,

561
00:28:55,640 --> 00:28:58,360
Speaker 1: if you don't get control of NIL, and that will

562
00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:02,200
Speaker 1: be the moneyball approach in college football. Not quite what

563
00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:04,280
Speaker 1: Billy Bean did out in Oakland once upon a time,

564
00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:07,040
Speaker 1: but that will be the approach. Who's going to try that?

565
00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:09,200
Speaker 1: I don't think the University of Alabama's ever going to

566
00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:12,560
Speaker 1: try that. I think there are some mid to lower

567
00:29:12,560 --> 00:29:15,800
Speaker 1: tier Power five programs that absolutely could be ready to

568
00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:17,920
Speaker 1: try that. It's just someone's got to be first. Someone's

569
00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:21,600
Speaker 1: got to be first. What did you say to me, Colin?

570
00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:26,160
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, So Colin just reminded me

571
00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:28,080
Speaker 1: of something. Colin, when you edit this, police cut the

572
00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:32,000
Speaker 1: last ten seconds out. Okay. You want to talk about change,

573
00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:33,800
Speaker 1: by the way, you want to talk about impact. So

574
00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:37,120
Speaker 1: Brandon Marcelo's out at some conference out west, and George

575
00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:39,680
Speaker 1: Klakoff was speaking at it, the PAC twelve commissioner. I

576
00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:42,760
Speaker 1: want you to think about how big this is. So

577
00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:45,960
Speaker 1: the PAC twelve has been negotiating a new media rights deal,

578
00:29:46,720 --> 00:29:48,560
Speaker 1: hasn't happened. Yet there's a little bit of a delay,

579
00:29:48,600 --> 00:29:51,680
Speaker 1: a little bit of a snag, And Marcelo quotes George

580
00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:54,320
Speaker 1: Klakoff from this conference. He said, well, we knew some

581
00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:57,600
Speaker 1: other information was coming, including the announcement of coach Prime.

582
00:29:57,960 --> 00:30:00,040
Speaker 1: Why would we do a media deal before that? That

583
00:30:00,040 --> 00:30:03,120
Speaker 1: absolutely adds value to the league. Stop for just a second.

584
00:30:04,240 --> 00:30:07,760
Speaker 1: So we're talking about nine figure numbers here, talking about

585
00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:11,600
Speaker 1: major multi year media rights deals. Even the PAC twelve

586
00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:14,520
Speaker 1: deal is going to fish that that kind of revenue

587
00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:18,080
Speaker 1: over the long haul. You're talking about one person, one

588
00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:20,360
Speaker 1: head coach. He will never play a down. One head

589
00:30:20,400 --> 00:30:23,600
Speaker 1: coach that adds so much to what, at the end

590
00:30:23,640 --> 00:30:26,880
Speaker 1: of the day, is an entertainment based product that they

591
00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:29,960
Speaker 1: just put their negotiations on hold until he got out there.

592
00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:32,240
Speaker 1: And he's not even at Southern Cal. He's not at Oregon,

593
00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:34,160
Speaker 1: he's not at one of the what would be called

594
00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:36,760
Speaker 1: the premier brands currently out there. I guess Southern Cal

595
00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:38,200
Speaker 1: for about five more minutes, so they go to the

596
00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:42,360
Speaker 1: big ten Deon Sanders put the media negotiations on hold

597
00:30:42,400 --> 00:30:44,600
Speaker 1: out there. That's how big that hire was. I know

598
00:30:44,640 --> 00:30:46,240
Speaker 1: a lot of you are getting sick of hearing that name.

599
00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:50,960
Speaker 1: That's cool. I'm just saying, we see the numbers. Most

600
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Speaker 1: of you aren't sick of it. Most of you have

601
00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:55,120
Speaker 1: very strong opinions on it. I got a strong opinion here.

602
00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:58,240
Speaker 1: As we move on, it's about on play or on

603
00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:00,600
Speaker 1: field play, and it's about something that's coming up very soon.

604
00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:06,640
Speaker 1: Take a little sip here running out pretty quickly. What

605
00:31:06,720 --> 00:31:08,480
Speaker 1: do you think about Ryan Day as a head coach?

606
00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:11,520
Speaker 1: I happen to think extremely highly of him, but I

607
00:31:11,520 --> 00:31:13,880
Speaker 1: know some people are down on him right now because

608
00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:17,040
Speaker 1: he just lost again to Michigan. But they're in the playoff.

609
00:31:17,480 --> 00:31:20,920
Speaker 1: So there's that. Ohio State's about to play Georgia and

610
00:31:20,960 --> 00:31:22,200
Speaker 1: they're going to play in the Peach Bowl. That's the

611
00:31:22,200 --> 00:31:23,600
Speaker 1: game we're going to be at, By the way, that's

612
00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:26,400
Speaker 1: a very subdued announcement. We're going to the New Year's

613
00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:30,080
Speaker 1: Eve Peach Bowl primetime kickoff there in Atlanta, and it's

614
00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:33,960
Speaker 1: a big game. And right now, the odds in that game,

615
00:31:34,440 --> 00:31:36,320
Speaker 1: I think at last checked, Georgea's favored by six and

616
00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:39,360
Speaker 1: a half or seven. It's a round of touchdown either way.

617
00:31:39,480 --> 00:31:43,520
Speaker 1: So what happens if Ohio State loses by double digits?

618
00:31:43,520 --> 00:31:45,320
Speaker 1: I just want to toss that out there, because this

619
00:31:45,400 --> 00:31:47,520
Speaker 1: is a reason to celebrate. If you're an Ohio State fan,

620
00:31:47,560 --> 00:31:50,560
Speaker 1: you're in the playoff. Hey, that's all you can ask for,

621
00:31:50,680 --> 00:31:53,240
Speaker 1: especially given where you were just fourteen days ago. It's

622
00:31:53,240 --> 00:31:55,760
Speaker 1: all you can ask for, right, So you're valid in

623
00:31:55,760 --> 00:32:00,480
Speaker 1: your celebration. That's the plus side. Here's the downside. Not

624
00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:03,320
Speaker 1: to be negative Nancy here, but if you lose again

625
00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:05,880
Speaker 1: by double digits, did you celebrate just to get tossed

626
00:32:05,880 --> 00:32:07,840
Speaker 1: in the wood chipper again for the fourth time in

627
00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:11,800
Speaker 1: the past four big games? And that is really where

628
00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:14,440
Speaker 1: I think the pressure starts to ramp up exponentially on

629
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Speaker 1: Ryan Day. And I know Ohio State fans know this.

630
00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:22,400
Speaker 1: I don't know if you're a Washington fan, if you're

631
00:32:22,600 --> 00:32:26,200
Speaker 1: a Texas State fan, if you just kind of observe

632
00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:29,400
Speaker 1: this program from a distance. I don't think people are

633
00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:32,280
Speaker 1: aware of how hot it is around Ryan Day. Not

634
00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:35,360
Speaker 1: hot seat. I don't mean it that way, although a

635
00:32:35,360 --> 00:32:39,440
Speaker 1: lot of you do. I don't ascribe to that whatsoever foolishness.

636
00:32:39,480 --> 00:32:41,640
Speaker 1: They could lose one hundred and nothing to Georgia. Ryan

637
00:32:41,680 --> 00:32:44,520
Speaker 1: Day's not getting fired. There are two kinds of pressure

638
00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:49,720
Speaker 1: in coaching there are, well, there are two kind not

639
00:32:49,760 --> 00:32:52,040
Speaker 1: hot seats. Okay, I'm gonna take the word hot seat

640
00:32:52,160 --> 00:32:53,760
Speaker 1: or the word's hot seat, and I'm gonna remove it

641
00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:56,719
Speaker 1: to me. There've always been two kinds of pressure in

642
00:32:56,800 --> 00:33:00,479
Speaker 1: the head coaching world. One is competitive pressure and the

643
00:33:00,520 --> 00:33:02,920
Speaker 1: other is hot seat pressure. Hot seat pressures. When your

644
00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:05,280
Speaker 1: job's on the line, win this game or you're going

645
00:33:05,320 --> 00:33:07,480
Speaker 1: to be fired. Win nine games this year, you're gonna

646
00:33:07,520 --> 00:33:09,640
Speaker 1: be fired. We all know that drill. But there's also

647
00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:13,600
Speaker 1: competitive pressure. Competitive pressure is what Kirby Smart faced last year.

648
00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:15,640
Speaker 1: He wasn't getting fired if he didn't beat Bama in

649
00:33:15,680 --> 00:33:19,040
Speaker 1: the title game, but if he started zero and five

650
00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:22,520
Speaker 1: against Nick Saban in his career. That's the kind of

651
00:33:22,560 --> 00:33:25,400
Speaker 1: competitive pressure that eats at you, that will not let

652
00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:29,160
Speaker 1: you sleep at night. Ryan Day's got immense competitive pressure

653
00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:31,120
Speaker 1: on him. He would sit here and tell you I've

654
00:33:31,120 --> 00:33:34,080
Speaker 1: always got that on me, and he's right. I'm sure

655
00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:36,240
Speaker 1: he puts more of it on himself than you ever can.

656
00:33:36,560 --> 00:33:42,120
Speaker 1: But outside forces sometimes have an effect on your employment status,

657
00:33:42,320 --> 00:33:45,400
Speaker 1: your quality of life. That's the way it is. It's

658
00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:49,040
Speaker 1: an ugly business. Sometimes there's a lot of competitive pressure

659
00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:51,840
Speaker 1: on Ryan Day to win this thing. I'm not talking

660
00:33:51,840 --> 00:33:55,200
Speaker 1: about covering. I'm talking about beating Georgia because if you

661
00:33:55,320 --> 00:33:59,120
Speaker 1: think back over the last four years, no one's talking

662
00:33:59,120 --> 00:34:01,680
Speaker 1: about the fact that he's two Big Ten championships. No

663
00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:03,760
Speaker 1: one's talking about the fact that he's undefeated in his

664
00:34:03,800 --> 00:34:06,040
Speaker 1: career against Penn State, no one. You know what they're

665
00:34:06,080 --> 00:34:08,440
Speaker 1: talking about right now, They're talking about the Bama game

666
00:34:08,480 --> 00:34:11,839
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty, double digit loss, Michigan twenty twenty one,

667
00:34:12,080 --> 00:34:14,920
Speaker 1: double digit loss Michigan a couple of weeks ago, double

668
00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:18,200
Speaker 1: digit loss. If they lose, let's say, by double digits

669
00:34:18,200 --> 00:34:22,680
Speaker 1: to Georgia at Ohio State, they don't think the way

670
00:34:22,719 --> 00:34:25,560
Speaker 1: you would maybe at Ole Miss. They don't think that

671
00:34:25,600 --> 00:34:28,839
Speaker 1: way because they look at their schedule every year and

672
00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:32,719
Speaker 1: they know how disproportionately more talented they are than everyone.

673
00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:36,240
Speaker 1: So they have learned it doesn't matter if we score

674
00:34:36,280 --> 00:34:39,040
Speaker 1: a million against Rutgers, it doesn't matter what we do

675
00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:43,359
Speaker 1: against Indiana. We should handle Maryland every year we're Ohio State,

676
00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:48,279
Speaker 1: we should and because we're so physically superior to all

677
00:34:48,280 --> 00:34:50,560
Speaker 1: the teams we plan our conference outside of a couple

678
00:34:51,040 --> 00:34:54,080
Speaker 1: here's what the season comes down to. Three boxes and

679
00:34:54,239 --> 00:34:57,360
Speaker 1: the goal is to check them all. You gotta beat Michigan,

680
00:34:58,160 --> 00:35:00,239
Speaker 1: you gotta win the Big Ten, got to win the

681
00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:02,839
Speaker 1: national title. Now you don't have to do all three

682
00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:06,120
Speaker 1: of those every year, but that is the gauge with

683
00:35:06,160 --> 00:35:10,040
Speaker 1: which they measure success at Ohio State. An outsider looks

684
00:35:10,080 --> 00:35:13,000
Speaker 1: at Ohio State going into the game against Michigan eleven

685
00:35:13,040 --> 00:35:15,160
Speaker 1: and zero a couple weeks ago and say, even if

686
00:35:15,160 --> 00:35:17,759
Speaker 1: they lose this game, like what a phenomenal season. No

687
00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:21,080
Speaker 1: one's saying that, Columbus Ohio. They're not saying it because

688
00:35:21,120 --> 00:35:24,680
Speaker 1: it is a mile. It's a grand Canyon's difference in

689
00:35:24,760 --> 00:35:27,240
Speaker 1: outcomes whether you win that game or lose that game,

690
00:35:27,719 --> 00:35:30,680
Speaker 1: because how were you not going to win every other game?

691
00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:33,200
Speaker 1: If they had been upset at any other point this year,

692
00:35:33,600 --> 00:35:36,879
Speaker 1: it would have been because of crippling inadequacy on their end.

693
00:35:37,000 --> 00:35:39,359
Speaker 1: That's how they feel about it. They're right about that,

694
00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:43,239
Speaker 1: and so they lose that Michigan game. I was up there.

695
00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:47,160
Speaker 1: I've never ever, no matter the size of the stadium,

696
00:35:47,600 --> 00:35:52,880
Speaker 1: experienced a more surreal and somber atmosphere. You picture one

697
00:35:52,960 --> 00:35:56,239
Speaker 1: hundred thousand folks in the horseshoe, you would think they'd

698
00:35:56,239 --> 00:35:59,120
Speaker 1: be irate they lost to Michigan again, but the way

699
00:35:59,160 --> 00:36:01,719
Speaker 1: the game unfolded and they got cattle prodded in the

700
00:36:01,719 --> 00:36:04,360
Speaker 1: neck a couple of times so quick, with those explosive

701
00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:06,880
Speaker 1: plays in the second half, when they really Michigan has

702
00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:10,080
Speaker 1: put it out of reach, those folks just slumped their

703
00:36:10,080 --> 00:36:13,160
Speaker 1: shoulders and they put their head to the ground and

704
00:36:13,200 --> 00:36:15,320
Speaker 1: they just kicked their can down the tunnel out to

705
00:36:15,360 --> 00:36:18,440
Speaker 1: the parking lot and went home. It was so quiet,

706
00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:22,719
Speaker 1: crazy quiet. Normally it is an angry, angry atmosphere when

707
00:36:22,760 --> 00:36:25,680
Speaker 1: the home team has lost, and Ohio State wasn't that

708
00:36:25,719 --> 00:36:29,000
Speaker 1: way that day. So, I mean, you can't help but

709
00:36:29,080 --> 00:36:32,560
Speaker 1: have that permeate some of your team, some of your program.

710
00:36:33,120 --> 00:36:35,319
Speaker 1: They took it every bit as hard as they took

711
00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:37,880
Speaker 1: it harder inside the program than they did the fan base.

712
00:36:38,719 --> 00:36:42,400
Speaker 1: But now they get another shot. It's a fine line

713
00:36:42,440 --> 00:36:44,279
Speaker 1: at a place like Ohio State. You really got to

714
00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:46,200
Speaker 1: be there to understand it because of the nature of

715
00:36:46,239 --> 00:36:48,799
Speaker 1: their surroundings. It's such a fine line. You can go

716
00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:51,520
Speaker 1: eight and ten and oh, eleven and oh, but if

717
00:36:51,560 --> 00:36:53,800
Speaker 1: you don't win that Michigan game. Given the state of

718
00:36:53,840 --> 00:36:55,160
Speaker 1: the Big Ten, like it'd be one thing if the

719
00:36:55,200 --> 00:36:58,320
Speaker 1: Big ten was full of powerhouses. They would be able

720
00:36:58,360 --> 00:37:00,920
Speaker 1: to appreciate eleven and zero and going eleven and one

721
00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:03,400
Speaker 1: a whole lot more than they do right now. But

722
00:37:03,600 --> 00:37:09,000
Speaker 1: your conference's weakness around you relative to you actually hampers

723
00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:12,719
Speaker 1: you because you don't get credit. Really, you don't get

724
00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:15,080
Speaker 1: credit for beating them the way you probably normally should.

725
00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:17,520
Speaker 1: So I want you to fast forward. Now. It's one

726
00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:19,399
Speaker 1: thing to say it, it's another thing to actually see

727
00:37:19,400 --> 00:37:22,480
Speaker 1: it happen. Sometimes you have to see it to realize.

728
00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:25,600
Speaker 1: Just like this Ohio State Michigan game. We did a

729
00:37:25,640 --> 00:37:28,239
Speaker 1: segment going into that week. Do you know what's going

730
00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:30,200
Speaker 1: to happen if they lose? Remember that we were out

731
00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:32,680
Speaker 1: in college station. I think we were at the Tech

732
00:37:32,680 --> 00:37:35,000
Speaker 1: SAG studio doing the show, and I was talking about

733
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:38,280
Speaker 1: the game, and I said, Ohio State's favored, and most

734
00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:41,360
Speaker 1: people expect them to win. You have not run the

735
00:37:41,400 --> 00:37:44,400
Speaker 1: scenario in your head. You haven't allowed yourself to contemplate

736
00:37:44,920 --> 00:37:46,920
Speaker 1: what it's going to be like if they lose and

737
00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:51,240
Speaker 1: lose big, because statistically that was the least probable outcome.

738
00:37:51,680 --> 00:37:54,360
Speaker 1: They lost and they lost big, and I told you

739
00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:56,640
Speaker 1: what was going to happen to Ryan Day well, all

740
00:37:56,640 --> 00:37:59,000
Speaker 1: of a sudden it started happening to him, and people

741
00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:03,040
Speaker 1: were stunned, like, are they seriously questioning this guy's this

742
00:38:03,120 --> 00:38:06,120
Speaker 1: guy's job security. Are they really doing it? They sure are?

743
00:38:06,600 --> 00:38:09,200
Speaker 1: They sure were? Are they seriously throwing out the name

744
00:38:09,280 --> 00:38:13,160
Speaker 1: John Cooper? They sure are? They sure were? Its present tents,

745
00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:16,439
Speaker 1: by the way, they hadn't stopped. Now they're ready, They're

746
00:38:16,440 --> 00:38:19,040
Speaker 1: ready to gird their loins and head to Atlanta and

747
00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:23,160
Speaker 1: take on the mighty Georgia Bulldogs. They're certainly ready. But

748
00:38:23,320 --> 00:38:26,319
Speaker 1: it's always in the back of your mind. Now, once

749
00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:28,799
Speaker 1: you've dropped the ball by double digits four consecutive times

750
00:38:28,840 --> 00:38:31,880
Speaker 1: in these big moments, it's in the back of every

751
00:38:31,960 --> 00:38:36,799
Speaker 1: Buckey's mind from Mansfield to Akron everywhere in between. What

752
00:38:36,960 --> 00:38:39,640
Speaker 1: if this happens? You know what if we get run

753
00:38:39,640 --> 00:38:43,560
Speaker 1: out of this building, you're playing the wrong team. If

754
00:38:43,560 --> 00:38:46,279
Speaker 1: you're not ready to physically bring it, you're playing the

755
00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:49,279
Speaker 1: wrong You were playing the worst possible team you could

756
00:38:49,320 --> 00:38:52,000
Speaker 1: find in this country if you're not ready to physically

757
00:38:52,000 --> 00:38:54,640
Speaker 1: bring it, if you can't match up better, which I

758
00:38:54,719 --> 00:38:56,640
Speaker 1: happen to think they did a pretty decent job of

759
00:38:56,680 --> 00:38:59,239
Speaker 1: against Michigan, Like there's this narrative out there they just

760
00:38:59,280 --> 00:39:02,399
Speaker 1: got put on skin again. They didn't. They didn't, They

761
00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:04,760
Speaker 1: gave up. It feels like thirty five points in about

762
00:39:04,760 --> 00:39:08,279
Speaker 1: five plays. I think that's actually true. They held their

763
00:39:08,320 --> 00:39:09,880
Speaker 1: own at the line of scrimmage a lot better than

764
00:39:09,960 --> 00:39:14,759
Speaker 1: last year. You got it to do in Atlanta, You

765
00:39:14,840 --> 00:39:17,400
Speaker 1: got it to do. All right, Let's go to what

766
00:39:17,560 --> 00:39:21,120
Speaker 1: is already my favorite segment of December and soon to

767
00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:24,240
Speaker 1: be yours, especially depending on whether you got your predictions

768
00:39:24,320 --> 00:39:28,320
Speaker 1: right or wrong. Colin, here's your endpoint. Back in August,

769
00:39:28,360 --> 00:39:30,719
Speaker 1: I took all the bold predictions and I just said,

770
00:39:30,760 --> 00:39:33,640
Speaker 1: give me predictions you would bet your money on, and

771
00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:35,800
Speaker 1: then I put a rating one to ten. How bold

772
00:39:35,840 --> 00:39:39,759
Speaker 1: were they? This is really fun. Let's dive in first prediction. Here,

773
00:39:39,960 --> 00:39:42,560
Speaker 1: we're headed to Notre Dame. Boy, this one looked like

774
00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:46,360
Speaker 1: it was off to a rocky and inauspicious start. Joseph said,

775
00:39:46,440 --> 00:39:50,080
Speaker 1: Marcus Freeman is gonna go eight and four in his

776
00:39:50,200 --> 00:39:52,919
Speaker 1: first year, but they're going to land the top five

777
00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:55,840
Speaker 1: recruiting class. So this was like a double decker prediction.

778
00:39:57,120 --> 00:40:01,080
Speaker 1: Joseph and his Twitter handle is at ban Fall Weddings.

779
00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:03,520
Speaker 1: By the way, Joseph may go two for two. Here

780
00:40:04,120 --> 00:40:08,160
Speaker 1: he nailed the record exactly. Notre Dame goes eight and four. Ding.

781
00:40:08,680 --> 00:40:12,520
Speaker 1: Right now, they've got the number three class in America. Ding. Ding.

782
00:40:12,960 --> 00:40:16,440
Speaker 1: So Joseph, I mean, hats off to you, my friend.

783
00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:20,080
Speaker 1: Now it looked like you were headed towards just utter

784
00:40:20,120 --> 00:40:24,560
Speaker 1: oblivion with this prediction early on, because remember they lost

785
00:40:24,560 --> 00:40:28,839
Speaker 1: to Ohio State, they lost to Marshall. They started off

786
00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:32,600
Speaker 1: three and three, and then they had that win against

787
00:40:32,600 --> 00:40:34,960
Speaker 1: Clemson that was part of a one to two, three, four,

788
00:40:35,200 --> 00:40:37,480
Speaker 1: five game winning streak I think or six game winning streak,

789
00:40:38,200 --> 00:40:40,480
Speaker 1: and it was it was all turned around from their

790
00:40:40,560 --> 00:40:43,440
Speaker 1: five game winning streak. But man, it looked for a

791
00:40:43,440 --> 00:40:44,759
Speaker 1: while like they were going to struggle to make a

792
00:40:44,760 --> 00:40:47,680
Speaker 1: bowl game. They ended up going eight and four. So

793
00:40:47,840 --> 00:40:50,879
Speaker 1: Joseph man, hats off. This was a bold prediction two

794
00:40:50,960 --> 00:40:52,920
Speaker 1: parter that I think he's going to go two for

795
00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:55,400
Speaker 1: two on. Notre Dame has to close on this recruiting class.

796
00:40:55,480 --> 00:40:58,160
Speaker 1: But they're number three right now, so they're either going

797
00:40:58,239 --> 00:40:59,800
Speaker 1: to flirt with the top five class or land to

798
00:40:59,800 --> 00:41:03,240
Speaker 1: tip five class next up. This one did not fare

799
00:41:03,360 --> 00:41:06,319
Speaker 1: nearly as well. Hide the women and children for this one.

800
00:41:06,360 --> 00:41:08,879
Speaker 1: Austin said, A and M and Alabama will both make

801
00:41:08,880 --> 00:41:13,600
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Eh, I'm gonna give a little minor buzzer

802
00:41:13,600 --> 00:41:16,440
Speaker 1: for Alabama. They did finish fifth. At least A and

803
00:41:16,560 --> 00:41:21,120
Speaker 1: M finished multiple games from even being Bowl eligible. It

804
00:41:21,239 --> 00:41:24,320
Speaker 1: was the most disastrous season for any major program in

805
00:41:24,360 --> 00:41:27,680
Speaker 1: America this year. Once upon a time, though, I had

806
00:41:27,760 --> 00:41:31,360
Speaker 1: jesse Go dust off the old preseason odds just to

807
00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:34,960
Speaker 1: show you even Vegas doesn't know everything. Alabama opened the

808
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:37,879
Speaker 1: season with the best odds to win the national championship.

809
00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:43,200
Speaker 1: They were plus one eighty. Then you had Ohio State, Georgia, Clemson,

810
00:41:43,360 --> 00:41:46,760
Speaker 1: USC All those teams were in the mix this year, Texas,

811
00:41:46,800 --> 00:41:50,040
Speaker 1: A and M. If you were to just align this

812
00:41:50,239 --> 00:41:53,120
Speaker 1: in forms of ranking, A and M was the sixth

813
00:41:53,600 --> 00:41:58,280
Speaker 1: highest odds to win the title preseason the national title, friends,

814
00:41:58,520 --> 00:42:00,520
Speaker 1: they had the six best dodds to win the national

815
00:42:00,560 --> 00:42:05,000
Speaker 1: title in the preseason. So not to just make fun

816
00:42:05,040 --> 00:42:06,759
Speaker 1: of everyone who believed in A and M because I

817
00:42:06,800 --> 00:42:09,640
Speaker 1: had him ranked top ten preseason two I think, but boy,

818
00:42:10,360 --> 00:42:14,000
Speaker 1: that just shows you how much a preseason odds maker

819
00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:18,520
Speaker 1: or preseason power ratings numbers are based on talent. And

820
00:42:18,560 --> 00:42:20,719
Speaker 1: if you don't do things with that talent. This is

821
00:42:20,760 --> 00:42:23,640
Speaker 1: what happens. You end up five and seven and everyone

822
00:42:23,640 --> 00:42:27,280
Speaker 1: who believed in you gets mocked, including me mocking myself,

823
00:42:27,520 --> 00:42:32,400
Speaker 1: you idiot. Next up, Michigan. Uh, this one's gonna this

824
00:42:32,400 --> 00:42:34,560
Speaker 1: one's still up in the air, but it needs some help.

825
00:42:34,640 --> 00:42:37,440
Speaker 1: Ben said, Michigan is gonna end the twenty twenty three

826
00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:41,880
Speaker 1: recruiting class with a top ten finish. Jesse believes this

827
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:45,520
Speaker 1: is outside the realm of possibility. I'm not quite as bleak.

828
00:42:45,920 --> 00:42:48,279
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say still it's a nine. I gave this

829
00:42:48,320 --> 00:42:50,960
Speaker 1: a nine. I still believe it's a nine. Right now,

830
00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:54,600
Speaker 1: Michigan has the twentieth ranked recruiting class. This is the

831
00:42:54,680 --> 00:42:57,760
Speaker 1: old fashioned, go get high school player's form of recruiting.

832
00:42:57,880 --> 00:43:01,440
Speaker 1: We're not talking about the transfer portal. I think Harball

833
00:43:01,480 --> 00:43:03,840
Speaker 1: is at central of Phoenix City if I saw correctly

834
00:43:03,840 --> 00:43:06,880
Speaker 1: today on the internet. By the way, and look some

835
00:43:07,000 --> 00:43:08,920
Speaker 1: of the last times that Jim Harball has ever been

836
00:43:08,920 --> 00:43:10,920
Speaker 1: in central Alabama, he didn't even have a shirt on.

837
00:43:11,960 --> 00:43:14,200
Speaker 1: That goes all the way back to the Prattville Satellite

838
00:43:14,280 --> 00:43:16,759
Speaker 1: camp days for those of you who remember that. So

839
00:43:17,160 --> 00:43:19,239
Speaker 1: Jesse thinks this is a nine point nine to nine.

840
00:43:19,280 --> 00:43:21,319
Speaker 1: He thinks there's no way they're going to finish top ten.

841
00:43:21,680 --> 00:43:23,960
Speaker 1: I tend to agree. But we did pull up the

842
00:43:24,000 --> 00:43:27,680
Speaker 1: twenty four to seven sports dot Com class calculator, a

843
00:43:27,719 --> 00:43:31,360
Speaker 1: phenomenal tool it. I think it's free to use, isn't it. Jesse?

844
00:43:31,800 --> 00:43:34,200
Speaker 1: Can't you just go on our website and use that calculator.

845
00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:37,560
Speaker 1: It's free? So I mean you can literally go to

846
00:43:37,600 --> 00:43:39,640
Speaker 1: twenty four seven sports dot com right now, go on

847
00:43:39,680 --> 00:43:42,360
Speaker 1: that calculator and just put together your own class and

848
00:43:42,680 --> 00:43:44,440
Speaker 1: see what it would be rated. Well, we did that

849
00:43:44,480 --> 00:43:49,239
Speaker 1: with Michigan today, So I told Jesse, don't be disrespectful

850
00:43:49,239 --> 00:43:51,879
Speaker 1: to Michigan first off, and secondly, I said, add their

851
00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:55,880
Speaker 1: top four targets. Just for fun, add their top four targets.

852
00:43:55,960 --> 00:43:58,279
Speaker 1: Let's pretend they land them all. Where would it put

853
00:43:58,280 --> 00:44:02,040
Speaker 1: in Michigan's class? I have bad news. Jesse's probably right

854
00:44:02,160 --> 00:44:04,920
Speaker 1: because the class still would not rank top ten, and

855
00:44:04,960 --> 00:44:09,200
Speaker 1: that's without anybody else adding players. So we're gonna probably

856
00:44:09,200 --> 00:44:12,239
Speaker 1: have to settle for a nice solid top fifteen finish here.

857
00:44:12,480 --> 00:44:15,000
Speaker 1: And in case you haven't been paying attention, it hasn't

858
00:44:15,040 --> 00:44:16,960
Speaker 1: hurt him so far, so I think they're going to

859
00:44:17,000 --> 00:44:20,120
Speaker 1: be just fined either way. Next question got really close

860
00:44:20,160 --> 00:44:24,160
Speaker 1: to home because it basically it put me on the

861
00:44:24,160 --> 00:44:26,840
Speaker 1: spot because it tried to predict my own judgment and

862
00:44:26,960 --> 00:44:30,600
Speaker 1: I can't do that, so I know you guys can't. Appropriately.

863
00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:33,960
Speaker 1: Someone named Josh said, the Every Given Saturday Tour will

864
00:44:33,960 --> 00:44:38,600
Speaker 1: be in Lexington, Kentucky in week twelve. I gave this

865
00:44:38,640 --> 00:44:40,120
Speaker 1: a six at the time. I don't know what I

866
00:44:40,160 --> 00:44:42,760
Speaker 1: was thinking because there was no shot. As it turns

867
00:44:42,760 --> 00:44:44,960
Speaker 1: out that we were going to be in Lexington, mainly

868
00:44:44,960 --> 00:44:46,960
Speaker 1: becaust Kentucky didn't hold up their end of the bargain.

869
00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:51,160
Speaker 1: They lost multiple games. What was the Every Given Saturday Tour? Obviously,

870
00:44:51,320 --> 00:44:53,200
Speaker 1: that's that's the tour. That's the game that we were

871
00:44:53,239 --> 00:44:57,440
Speaker 1: at every week. We went everywhere from Bama, Texas to Florida, Tennessee,

872
00:44:58,160 --> 00:45:02,120
Speaker 1: Tennessee at Georgia, we went to Oregon, we went to UCLA.

873
00:45:02,320 --> 00:45:05,000
Speaker 1: So we went a lot of places this year. Imagine,

874
00:45:05,000 --> 00:45:07,280
Speaker 1: once upon a time someone told us we were biased,

875
00:45:07,760 --> 00:45:11,200
Speaker 1: this was an SEC only tour. Now a couple of

876
00:45:11,239 --> 00:45:15,120
Speaker 1: Kansas State Oregon in two lanes later that disappeared with haste.

877
00:45:15,880 --> 00:45:19,400
Speaker 1: So here was that week. The week of Georgia Kentucky.

878
00:45:20,120 --> 00:45:24,200
Speaker 1: You had that game, you had TCU Baylor. On this day,

879
00:45:24,280 --> 00:45:27,799
Speaker 1: you had Utah, Oregon, Miami Clemson, and if you think

880
00:45:27,840 --> 00:45:31,440
Speaker 1: back to the preseason, those were the two respective favorites

881
00:45:31,480 --> 00:45:34,920
Speaker 1: to win their divisions. You had USC UCLA that's where

882
00:45:34,920 --> 00:45:37,640
Speaker 1: I ended up going, and you had Oklahoma State Oklahoma

883
00:45:37,640 --> 00:45:40,920
Speaker 1: that day. Just in retrospect, there was no way that

884
00:45:40,960 --> 00:45:42,280
Speaker 1: we were going to be able to be at Kentucky

885
00:45:42,280 --> 00:45:47,160
Speaker 1: Georgia unless Kentucky had somehow magically wound up undefeated this week,

886
00:45:47,640 --> 00:45:50,399
Speaker 1: and they didn't. Obviously dropped multiple games. I did see

887
00:45:50,480 --> 00:45:53,279
Speaker 1: Kentucky in person this year. It was the Old Miss

888
00:45:53,280 --> 00:45:56,879
Speaker 1: game and they had the ball twice in red zone,

889
00:45:56,920 --> 00:46:01,319
Speaker 1: not plus territory, the red zone late down three, and

890
00:46:01,600 --> 00:46:03,359
Speaker 1: they coughed it up both times. So that was your

891
00:46:03,360 --> 00:46:06,759
Speaker 1: shot and they blew it. Is Liam Cohen going to

892
00:46:06,800 --> 00:46:09,520
Speaker 1: be the OC there? Huh? Picked up Graham Mertz in

893
00:46:09,520 --> 00:46:13,440
Speaker 1: the portal, I heard, okay, next up, Ohio State. This

894
00:46:13,480 --> 00:46:16,360
Speaker 1: is from KD. Ohio State has a similar season to

895
00:46:16,440 --> 00:46:20,320
Speaker 1: last year. They missed the playoff because of defensive issues

896
00:46:20,360 --> 00:46:23,000
Speaker 1: again and Ryan Day is on the hot seat next year.

897
00:46:25,760 --> 00:46:28,520
Speaker 1: How close did we come to this happening. Their fate

898
00:46:28,640 --> 00:46:30,400
Speaker 1: was taken out of their hands. They thought they were

899
00:46:30,440 --> 00:46:32,520
Speaker 1: out of the playoff. They needed help to get back in.

900
00:46:32,840 --> 00:46:35,200
Speaker 1: I don't know about the hot seat part, but when

901
00:46:35,280 --> 00:46:37,759
Speaker 1: KD presented this to us in the preseason, I said

902
00:46:37,760 --> 00:46:40,560
Speaker 1: this was an eight on the boldness scale because I

903
00:46:40,800 --> 00:46:43,719
Speaker 1: was pretty sure they were going to the playoff. Now,

904
00:46:43,760 --> 00:46:46,239
Speaker 1: I did say, if they don't make the playoff, you

905
00:46:46,360 --> 00:46:49,640
Speaker 1: will have been right. It will be because defense let

906
00:46:49,719 --> 00:46:53,440
Speaker 1: him down. This is such a tale of two seasons,

907
00:46:53,480 --> 00:46:55,719
Speaker 1: Like how do you define a season for Ohio State?

908
00:46:55,719 --> 00:46:58,640
Speaker 1: Because I want you to listen to this. If you

909
00:46:58,719 --> 00:47:02,520
Speaker 1: look at the comparisons from twenty twenty one to this year,

910
00:47:03,080 --> 00:47:06,200
Speaker 1: they upgraded across the board defensively. I mean you're seeing

911
00:47:06,200 --> 00:47:09,359
Speaker 1: it on your screen right now. There are healthy upgrades

912
00:47:09,960 --> 00:47:14,640
Speaker 1: in every single department defensively. But here's the problem. That's

913
00:47:14,680 --> 00:47:18,600
Speaker 1: Weeks one through eleven, Week twelve, they still allowed Michigan

914
00:47:18,600 --> 00:47:21,360
Speaker 1: to score forty five on them. So if it was

915
00:47:21,400 --> 00:47:25,160
Speaker 1: all for that, did they really upgrade defensively? You know

916
00:47:25,200 --> 00:47:27,440
Speaker 1: what I just said about Ryan Day and about Ohio

917
00:47:27,480 --> 00:47:31,200
Speaker 1: State and how they gauge and measure success. So if

918
00:47:31,239 --> 00:47:35,080
Speaker 1: that's the way it turned out there did their defense

919
00:47:35,160 --> 00:47:37,279
Speaker 1: kind of let them down again? This year. I was

920
00:47:37,280 --> 00:47:40,200
Speaker 1: in Ryan Day's postgame press conference after the Michigan game.

921
00:47:40,640 --> 00:47:43,040
Speaker 1: I think I told this story. Someone started to ask

922
00:47:43,600 --> 00:47:47,880
Speaker 1: about Jim Knowles, the defensive coordinator, and they said, Michigan

923
00:47:48,440 --> 00:47:50,239
Speaker 1: scored a lot on you last year. They had big

924
00:47:50,239 --> 00:47:53,400
Speaker 1: explosive plays. Last year, you brought in Jim Knowles to

925
00:47:53,480 --> 00:47:57,200
Speaker 1: fix that. And like midway through that question, Ryan Day

926
00:47:57,719 --> 00:48:00,799
Speaker 1: looks down and just starts shaking his head as if

927
00:48:00,800 --> 00:48:04,640
Speaker 1: to say, yep, yep, you're right. So he feels that way.

928
00:48:04,800 --> 00:48:06,919
Speaker 1: I think a lot of fans feel that way. Forty

929
00:48:06,960 --> 00:48:09,000
Speaker 1: five twenty three was the final there. Now here's the

930
00:48:09,040 --> 00:48:11,000
Speaker 1: good news. It's all a moot point because they did

931
00:48:11,080 --> 00:48:13,000
Speaker 1: end up making the playoffs. So the prediction is wrong,

932
00:48:13,080 --> 00:48:15,880
Speaker 1: but it just feels kind of right still, doesn't it.

933
00:48:16,360 --> 00:48:21,000
Speaker 1: Bold Predictions revisited Treacherous Treacherous ground. If you guys are

934
00:48:21,000 --> 00:48:23,520
Speaker 1: tuned in live a lot of you are, I really

935
00:48:23,600 --> 00:48:26,840
Speaker 1: appreciate it. Do me one quick favor. You know what

936
00:48:26,920 --> 00:48:31,000
Speaker 1: it is. Click the thumbs up button and subscribe if

937
00:48:31,000 --> 00:48:34,160
Speaker 1: you haven't already. Really good numbers. I appreciate it, guys,

938
00:48:34,160 --> 00:48:38,320
Speaker 1: really good numbers. All right, we got a couple of

939
00:48:38,400 --> 00:48:40,680
Speaker 1: questions here that I want to hit, and then we'll

940
00:48:40,719 --> 00:48:44,719
Speaker 1: be on our mary Way tonight or tomorrow morning if

941
00:48:44,719 --> 00:48:49,520
Speaker 1: you're listening on POD. I hope no relation to Ryan

942
00:48:49,600 --> 00:48:52,040
Speaker 1: Day here. Kate Day hit us up and she said,

943
00:48:52,040 --> 00:48:54,560
Speaker 1: do you think there will be changes to Bowl season?

944
00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:57,600
Speaker 1: With how opt outs are changing everything? I get this

945
00:48:57,680 --> 00:49:00,160
Speaker 1: question all the time. I think everyone who as a

946
00:49:00,160 --> 00:49:03,600
Speaker 1: college football fan is wondering what's going to happen to

947
00:49:03,640 --> 00:49:07,759
Speaker 1: bowl season. For a long time, I held on, you know,

948
00:49:07,880 --> 00:49:09,920
Speaker 1: I did. All of you are witnesses, you know I

949
00:49:10,000 --> 00:49:13,320
Speaker 1: held on. And even when everyone else started saying meaningless

950
00:49:13,360 --> 00:49:18,080
Speaker 1: bowl game, I consider that profanity like that deserves a

951
00:49:18,080 --> 00:49:21,919
Speaker 1: TVMA label if you use that phrase. And so I've

952
00:49:21,960 --> 00:49:24,239
Speaker 1: held on. And look, I didn't really care that guys

953
00:49:24,239 --> 00:49:26,080
Speaker 1: were opting out because you're still putting a game in

954
00:49:26,080 --> 00:49:29,359
Speaker 1: front of me. So that's great. But man, I don't

955
00:49:29,400 --> 00:49:33,840
Speaker 1: know what it is about this year. Hmm. I don't know.

956
00:49:33,920 --> 00:49:38,000
Speaker 1: I mean, for some reason this particular cycle, I felt it.

957
00:49:38,320 --> 00:49:40,279
Speaker 1: I have felt what some of you have told me

958
00:49:40,320 --> 00:49:42,440
Speaker 1: you felt for a little while now, and that is

959
00:49:42,520 --> 00:49:48,719
Speaker 1: the deteriorating significance or impact or value of Bowl season. Now,

960
00:49:48,719 --> 00:49:51,120
Speaker 1: I'm still going to watch, so I'll still be there.

961
00:49:51,200 --> 00:49:54,440
Speaker 1: I am the most p one college football viewer imaginable.

962
00:49:54,480 --> 00:49:56,279
Speaker 1: I'm the most diehard. I'll be the last to leave,

963
00:49:56,800 --> 00:50:00,080
Speaker 1: but I do feel it. And the thing about it

964
00:49:59,880 --> 00:50:05,160
Speaker 1: is is you can't rely on me. Like networks advertisers,

965
00:50:05,480 --> 00:50:08,200
Speaker 1: they can't rely on everything being okay as long as

966
00:50:08,200 --> 00:50:11,200
Speaker 1: people like me and you are at the table, because

967
00:50:11,239 --> 00:50:14,200
Speaker 1: we'll be the last to leave. But the more casual

968
00:50:14,280 --> 00:50:16,560
Speaker 1: fan that can take it or leave it. You know

969
00:50:16,640 --> 00:50:19,040
Speaker 1: what they're saying about Bowl season. They've been saying it

970
00:50:19,080 --> 00:50:21,960
Speaker 1: for a while. You know why they feel in some ways,

971
00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:23,640
Speaker 1: I think you and I have started to feel this

972
00:50:23,680 --> 00:50:26,520
Speaker 1: way and looked at Bowl season and said, all I

973
00:50:26,520 --> 00:50:30,320
Speaker 1: see every day when I check my favorite team's website

974
00:50:30,400 --> 00:50:32,960
Speaker 1: or I check Twitter or Instagram as another player's opting out,

975
00:50:33,960 --> 00:50:36,319
Speaker 1: and these, especially the higher you go on the latter,

976
00:50:36,520 --> 00:50:38,799
Speaker 1: these aren't even the same teams that I watched in

977
00:50:38,840 --> 00:50:41,799
Speaker 1: the regular season. So I say all that to say, Kate,

978
00:50:41,960 --> 00:50:45,560
Speaker 1: answer your question. Something's got to be done because I

979
00:50:45,560 --> 00:50:47,200
Speaker 1: think there's too much money on the line. These are

980
00:50:47,239 --> 00:50:49,839
Speaker 1: television products first and foremost, and there's a lot of

981
00:50:49,880 --> 00:50:51,960
Speaker 1: money to be made on these things, and there's too

982
00:50:52,040 --> 00:50:55,640
Speaker 1: much on the line to just let bull season deteriorate

983
00:50:56,800 --> 00:51:01,200
Speaker 1: into nothingness. They can't allow that to happen. So what's

984
00:51:01,280 --> 00:51:04,359
Speaker 1: the alternative. The alternative is, well, a couple of things

985
00:51:04,360 --> 00:51:07,880
Speaker 1: you could try. I've told you, for example, that I

986
00:51:07,920 --> 00:51:12,520
Speaker 1: think tying revenue share from the Bowl from the Bowl

987
00:51:12,600 --> 00:51:17,000
Speaker 1: revenue packages onto a game pending you participate in the

988
00:51:17,040 --> 00:51:20,160
Speaker 1: game would be one way to do it. It's going

989
00:51:20,200 --> 00:51:21,480
Speaker 1: to make you feel like you need to take a

990
00:51:21,520 --> 00:51:23,239
Speaker 1: shower when I tell you what it comes down to,

991
00:51:23,320 --> 00:51:26,080
Speaker 1: But it all comes down to money. I wasn't for

992
00:51:26,600 --> 00:51:29,359
Speaker 1: the direction that the sport was taken, but it's been

993
00:51:29,400 --> 00:51:33,839
Speaker 1: taken this way. You can't look at guys and say, hey,

994
00:51:34,440 --> 00:51:37,000
Speaker 1: you're free to go profit off of yourself, but then

995
00:51:37,040 --> 00:51:41,160
Speaker 1: also tell them, however, however, we do want you to

996
00:51:41,160 --> 00:51:44,240
Speaker 1: still honor the pure spirit of competition and forget about

997
00:51:44,280 --> 00:51:47,040
Speaker 1: money and putting your own career at stake for what

998
00:51:47,120 --> 00:51:51,160
Speaker 1: we self ascribe as exhibition games. We still want you

999
00:51:51,200 --> 00:51:54,000
Speaker 1: to do that. You can't do that. That's a classic

1000
00:51:54,360 --> 00:51:57,040
Speaker 1: toothpaste out of the tube situation. You can't do that.

1001
00:51:57,719 --> 00:51:59,960
Speaker 1: So there's got to be skinning the game, or else

1002
00:52:00,040 --> 00:52:02,040
Speaker 1: you're going to have what you're already having. Now. There

1003
00:52:02,120 --> 00:52:06,000
Speaker 1: is truthfully nothing you can do to prevent first round

1004
00:52:06,080 --> 00:52:09,200
Speaker 1: caliber talent from opting out of Bowl games. I don't

1005
00:52:09,200 --> 00:52:12,279
Speaker 1: believe that's possible at this point. So what are we

1006
00:52:12,360 --> 00:52:15,840
Speaker 1: talking about. We're talking about maybe fringe guys, trying to

1007
00:52:15,840 --> 00:52:17,759
Speaker 1: get them to participate. You can either put skin in

1008
00:52:17,800 --> 00:52:21,560
Speaker 1: the game and have money on the line, or you

1009
00:52:21,600 --> 00:52:24,440
Speaker 1: can do things that are a lot more radical. I

1010
00:52:24,560 --> 00:52:26,880
Speaker 1: was talking to someone the other day I guess you

1011
00:52:26,880 --> 00:52:30,520
Speaker 1: would call them an administrator, and they were, you know,

1012
00:52:30,560 --> 00:52:33,240
Speaker 1: they weren't talking about anything formal, but they were telling

1013
00:52:33,239 --> 00:52:35,800
Speaker 1: me about some of the ideas. Folks behind the scenes

1014
00:52:35,840 --> 00:52:40,680
Speaker 1: have had two Salvage Bowl season and there's some pretty

1015
00:52:40,760 --> 00:52:43,520
Speaker 1: radical concepts. And one of them that I thought was

1016
00:52:43,560 --> 00:52:47,400
Speaker 1: interesting that I've added a couple of couple of little

1017
00:52:47,400 --> 00:52:52,480
Speaker 1: caveats myself onto is when you expand the playoff, you

1018
00:52:52,560 --> 00:52:57,200
Speaker 1: will fill more inventory in December and January. So you know,

1019
00:52:57,239 --> 00:52:58,920
Speaker 1: if you were to just snap your fingers and do

1020
00:52:59,000 --> 00:53:01,279
Speaker 1: away with all non play playoff Bowl games right now,

1021
00:53:01,320 --> 00:53:04,080
Speaker 1: you'd be left with three games. Well, you're not going

1022
00:53:04,120 --> 00:53:07,719
Speaker 1: to do that. So if you did though, and you

1023
00:53:07,800 --> 00:53:10,439
Speaker 1: expanded the playoff, which we're doing in a couple of years,

1024
00:53:10,440 --> 00:53:12,839
Speaker 1: whether we like it or not, you at least have

1025
00:53:12,880 --> 00:53:15,000
Speaker 1: more inventory, and that spread out over December and January.

1026
00:53:15,239 --> 00:53:18,400
Speaker 1: What a proposal that's been floated around would include is

1027
00:53:18,440 --> 00:53:21,480
Speaker 1: taking what would be your bowl game, like Kentucky is

1028
00:53:21,520 --> 00:53:23,879
Speaker 1: supposed to play Iowa. I think in the bowl game,

1029
00:53:24,640 --> 00:53:26,640
Speaker 1: you would just take that game. You would play it,

1030
00:53:26,960 --> 00:53:29,640
Speaker 1: but it would be your Week one game the following year,

1031
00:53:30,080 --> 00:53:32,440
Speaker 1: so that's how you would start your season, and it

1032
00:53:32,440 --> 00:53:35,919
Speaker 1: would obviously create a full on spectacle for what Week

1033
00:53:35,960 --> 00:53:38,880
Speaker 1: one of college football is. You still get your matchup.

1034
00:53:39,120 --> 00:53:42,040
Speaker 1: You would still present it the way I guess that

1035
00:53:42,120 --> 00:53:44,520
Speaker 1: a bowl game would be presented in terms of the

1036
00:53:44,960 --> 00:53:48,359
Speaker 1: advertising and the branding. I guess one of the trade

1037
00:53:48,360 --> 00:53:50,480
Speaker 1: offs there that I didn't think about is you'd need

1038
00:53:50,480 --> 00:53:53,359
Speaker 1: it in a neutral venue, which I'm not a fan

1039
00:53:53,440 --> 00:53:57,359
Speaker 1: of ever in the regular season. But anyway, if you're

1040
00:53:57,360 --> 00:54:00,839
Speaker 1: making a change, that's one change that has been just

1041
00:54:00,920 --> 00:54:03,520
Speaker 1: thrown around. I'm not saying that's ready for any vote

1042
00:54:03,600 --> 00:54:05,960
Speaker 1: or anybody has moved to put it to a vote

1043
00:54:06,000 --> 00:54:09,480
Speaker 1: or anything like that. Obviously, what happens if you didn't

1044
00:54:09,520 --> 00:54:11,399
Speaker 1: make a bowl? Do you just play someone else who

1045
00:54:11,400 --> 00:54:13,600
Speaker 1: didn't make a bowl? If you made the playoff, do

1046
00:54:13,680 --> 00:54:17,279
Speaker 1: you start the next season playing another playoff team? That

1047
00:54:17,400 --> 00:54:19,280
Speaker 1: is about as close as you would get in college football,

1048
00:54:19,280 --> 00:54:24,840
Speaker 1: by the way, to handling a scheduling format based on

1049
00:54:24,920 --> 00:54:27,360
Speaker 1: how successful you had been the year before, which is

1050
00:54:27,400 --> 00:54:31,200
Speaker 1: what the NFL does. So I don't know. I also

1051
00:54:31,400 --> 00:54:34,600
Speaker 1: know that financial incentives not going away, so I think

1052
00:54:34,640 --> 00:54:37,840
Speaker 1: that there are changes coming to bowl season. Truthfully, I

1053
00:54:37,840 --> 00:54:40,640
Speaker 1: have no skill of knowledge and knowing which direction they're

1054
00:54:40,640 --> 00:54:43,680
Speaker 1: going to take it, but I just don't think. I

1055
00:54:43,719 --> 00:54:46,560
Speaker 1: think it would be very foolish at this point for

1056
00:54:46,640 --> 00:54:50,200
Speaker 1: even the most romantic person about this sport to think, oh,

1057
00:54:50,239 --> 00:54:52,800
Speaker 1: they'll come back, just for love of the game, just

1058
00:54:53,440 --> 00:54:56,759
Speaker 1: for the spirit of competition, they'll come back. Can't you

1059
00:54:56,840 --> 00:54:59,719
Speaker 1: let that train leave the station and it's way down

1060
00:54:59,719 --> 00:55:02,439
Speaker 1: the track now, and those tracks are tilted, and they're

1061
00:55:02,440 --> 00:55:07,200
Speaker 1: not tilted towards you next up? Kind of a kind

1062
00:55:07,200 --> 00:55:10,800
Speaker 1: of a similar question here. Matthew asked from Herndon, Virginia.

1063
00:55:11,000 --> 00:55:14,960
Speaker 1: How unstable is the current transfer portal long term? How

1064
00:55:15,000 --> 00:55:17,840
Speaker 1: long until things go too far and rules need to

1065
00:55:17,840 --> 00:55:21,320
Speaker 1: be made Commissioner, we need you. Well. There are rules, Matthew.

1066
00:55:22,440 --> 00:55:24,279
Speaker 1: No one knows what they are day to day, but

1067
00:55:24,320 --> 00:55:28,520
Speaker 1: there are rules. But rules are you know, They're only

1068
00:55:28,560 --> 00:55:32,000
Speaker 1: as effective as people's need to follow them. And no

1069
00:55:32,040 --> 00:55:34,200
Speaker 1: one feels like they need to follow the rules right now.

1070
00:55:34,360 --> 00:55:36,560
Speaker 1: I mean, Drake May said he's not going in the

1071
00:55:36,600 --> 00:55:39,480
Speaker 1: transfer portal yesterday. If you don't think that dude has

1072
00:55:39,520 --> 00:55:41,840
Speaker 1: fielded offers before he ever put his name in the

1073
00:55:41,840 --> 00:55:45,560
Speaker 1: transfer portal, you're crazy. So obviously people are looking at

1074
00:55:45,560 --> 00:55:48,240
Speaker 1: the speed limit sign, laughing at it, and then flying

1075
00:55:48,280 --> 00:55:51,120
Speaker 1: past it at ninety seven miles an hour. I got

1076
00:55:51,200 --> 00:55:53,880
Speaker 1: many thoughts on this, but I will try and condense

1077
00:55:53,920 --> 00:56:00,040
Speaker 1: it down as best I can it it. Probably he

1078
00:56:00,680 --> 00:56:04,399
Speaker 1: comes down to several camps you could be in as

1079
00:56:04,440 --> 00:56:08,120
Speaker 1: to whether you think the NIO situation's good or bad,

1080
00:56:08,200 --> 00:56:11,720
Speaker 1: or maybe you're indifferent on it. I think most people

1081
00:56:12,400 --> 00:56:16,400
Speaker 1: understand what we're looking at right now is unsustainable. I

1082
00:56:16,440 --> 00:56:19,440
Speaker 1: want you to listen to this, okay now, before I

1083
00:56:19,480 --> 00:56:23,000
Speaker 1: say anything else. I wrote down here. I wrote down

1084
00:56:23,040 --> 00:56:27,480
Speaker 1: the word listen, and I circled the word listen. I

1085
00:56:27,560 --> 00:56:29,880
Speaker 1: want you to hear what I do say, and I

1086
00:56:29,920 --> 00:56:32,319
Speaker 1: don't want you to hear what I don't say. What

1087
00:56:32,440 --> 00:56:35,520
Speaker 1: I am not saying at all ever, at any point

1088
00:56:35,640 --> 00:56:39,560
Speaker 1: period in this segment or any segment, is we need

1089
00:56:39,600 --> 00:56:42,239
Speaker 1: to take away guys' ability to profit off their name,

1090
00:56:42,280 --> 00:56:47,959
Speaker 1: image and likeness not being said. Listen, listen, so listen

1091
00:56:47,960 --> 00:56:52,320
Speaker 1: to this stat How about this? This is per the NCAA,

1092
00:56:52,560 --> 00:56:57,080
Speaker 1: only fifty four percent of football players who entered the

1093
00:56:57,120 --> 00:57:03,480
Speaker 1: portal last year enrolled at a new NCAA program. Now

1094
00:57:03,520 --> 00:57:06,120
Speaker 1: you may think, like I did, Oh, that probably means

1095
00:57:06,120 --> 00:57:09,040
Speaker 1: a huge chunk of them just pulled their name out

1096
00:57:09,040 --> 00:57:11,239
Speaker 1: of the portal, right, they withdrew their name, They went

1097
00:57:11,320 --> 00:57:15,759
Speaker 1: right back to where they were. Only four percent withdrew.

1098
00:57:16,680 --> 00:57:20,160
Speaker 1: Fifty four percent entered the portal and landed at another

1099
00:57:20,240 --> 00:57:24,760
Speaker 1: nc DOUBLE institution. Four percent withdrew their name and just

1100
00:57:24,880 --> 00:57:28,360
Speaker 1: landed back at their same institution. I ran the numbers.

1101
00:57:28,720 --> 00:57:31,920
Speaker 1: That's fifty eight percent of players who entered the portal

1102
00:57:32,040 --> 00:57:35,200
Speaker 1: that we can account for. Does anyone want to tell

1103
00:57:35,240 --> 00:57:37,720
Speaker 1: me where the other forty two percent went? That's a

1104
00:57:37,840 --> 00:57:42,640
Speaker 1: Netflix mystery series. Forty two percent of players who entered

1105
00:57:42,640 --> 00:57:46,880
Speaker 1: the transfer portal did not withdraw and did not wind

1106
00:57:46,960 --> 00:57:52,600
Speaker 1: up at another NCAA member institution. That is wild. There

1107
00:57:52,640 --> 00:57:58,840
Speaker 1: are players making horrific decisions, life altering decisions. You're talking about,

1108
00:57:59,000 --> 00:58:04,080
Speaker 1: not four year decisions, forty year horrific decisions based on

1109
00:58:04,720 --> 00:58:07,760
Speaker 1: bad guidance, in some cases no guidance. So look, I'm

1110
00:58:07,760 --> 00:58:09,680
Speaker 1: not saying take away the freedom to do it. I'm

1111
00:58:09,680 --> 00:58:12,120
Speaker 1: not saying it. I'd love to have more education on

1112
00:58:12,160 --> 00:58:16,560
Speaker 1: this thing. But here's the other part. If you're yelling

1113
00:58:16,560 --> 00:58:18,800
Speaker 1: at me, oh, you say this is unsustainable, well, you

1114
00:58:18,840 --> 00:58:21,640
Speaker 1: can't be taking away players' rights. I'm not taking away

1115
00:58:21,640 --> 00:58:24,960
Speaker 1: any player's rights. I'm suggesting let them keep the right

1116
00:58:25,040 --> 00:58:27,680
Speaker 1: to transfer, Let him keep the right to profit off

1117
00:58:27,680 --> 00:58:30,240
Speaker 1: their name, image, and likeness. I want to remove the

1118
00:58:30,360 --> 00:58:34,280
Speaker 1: allure of the transfer portal. This is where conferences have

1119
00:58:34,320 --> 00:58:37,200
Speaker 1: to come in. No head coach can talk sense into

1120
00:58:37,240 --> 00:58:39,640
Speaker 1: a guy who is who has held bent on leaving

1121
00:58:40,040 --> 00:58:43,040
Speaker 1: because he thinks he can get a better deal somewhere else,

1122
00:58:43,200 --> 00:58:45,240
Speaker 1: and he thinks the grass is greener, and he doesn't

1123
00:58:45,320 --> 00:58:48,720
Speaker 1: understand that green grass is above a septic tank. They

1124
00:58:48,760 --> 00:58:51,760
Speaker 1: can't see it. They shouldn't be able to. You couldn't

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00:58:51,760 --> 00:58:53,360
Speaker 1: when you were nineteen. Why in the world should they

1126
00:58:53,400 --> 00:58:57,200
Speaker 1: be any different? How about someone, perhaps an adult in

1127
00:58:57,200 --> 00:58:59,600
Speaker 1: the room at the conference in league office, take it

1128
00:58:59,640 --> 00:59:01,960
Speaker 1: upon them themselves to get in one of those big

1129
00:59:02,000 --> 00:59:06,680
Speaker 1: board rooms and put together incentive packages that remove the

1130
00:59:06,760 --> 00:59:10,240
Speaker 1: allure of the transfer portal. Keep it there. You're free

1131
00:59:10,240 --> 00:59:12,320
Speaker 1: to use it if you want to. I don't want

1132
00:59:12,360 --> 00:59:14,600
Speaker 1: it to be tempting or nearly as tempting as it

1133
00:59:14,640 --> 00:59:17,800
Speaker 1: is right now. Here's why it's tempting right now, because

1134
00:59:17,840 --> 00:59:20,560
Speaker 1: if I'm a college football player, the average college football

1135
00:59:20,560 --> 00:59:24,960
Speaker 1: player comes from a lower income to at best middle

1136
00:59:24,960 --> 00:59:29,160
Speaker 1: income background, probably skewing more towards the lower income background,

1137
00:59:29,560 --> 00:59:32,840
Speaker 1: and fifteen thousand dollars means everything to them, just like

1138
00:59:32,880 --> 00:59:35,000
Speaker 1: it meant everything to me when I was their age.

1139
00:59:35,480 --> 00:59:38,200
Speaker 1: And right now, fifteen thousand dollars is worth its weight

1140
00:59:38,240 --> 00:59:42,280
Speaker 1: and go. Conferences have to step up. The media rights

1141
00:59:42,360 --> 00:59:45,959
Speaker 1: deals alone that those conferences are entering into are worth

1142
00:59:46,000 --> 00:59:50,720
Speaker 1: billions of dollars. I am a believer that if a

1143
00:59:50,800 --> 00:59:53,560
Speaker 1: conference got into the nil game, the Big Ten or

1144
00:59:53,560 --> 00:59:58,040
Speaker 1: the SEC whoever, if they entered themselves into the nil game,

1145
00:59:58,320 --> 01:00:02,600
Speaker 1: and said Pete Tim Johnny, just for the fact that

1146
01:00:02,680 --> 01:00:07,360
Speaker 1: you play at Missouri or Purdue, or South Carolina or Florida,

1147
01:00:07,640 --> 01:00:10,200
Speaker 1: you are making fill in the blank. I don't care

1148
01:00:10,240 --> 01:00:13,400
Speaker 1: what put forty grand a year on the table for him.

1149
01:00:13,800 --> 01:00:16,040
Speaker 1: That's a big number, isn't it? Tell me every one

1150
01:00:16,080 --> 01:00:19,160
Speaker 1: of those players on scholarship making forty grand? Josh, do

1151
01:00:19,240 --> 01:00:21,120
Speaker 1: you know how much money that is? It's three point

1152
01:00:21,200 --> 01:00:24,400
Speaker 1: four million dollars a year. That's exactly how much it is.

1153
01:00:25,160 --> 01:00:27,360
Speaker 1: I want to ask you a question, sir or man,

1154
01:00:27,720 --> 01:00:30,360
Speaker 1: do you know how much member institutions are about to

1155
01:00:30,400 --> 01:00:34,080
Speaker 1: stand to profit, especially in the two aforementioned conferences, off

1156
01:00:34,080 --> 01:00:37,320
Speaker 1: of these new media rights deals, because some estimates push

1157
01:00:37,320 --> 01:00:41,560
Speaker 1: it over one hundred million dollars a year. Why just

1158
01:00:41,600 --> 01:00:44,080
Speaker 1: because you got an SEC sticker or a big ten

1159
01:00:44,120 --> 01:00:47,720
Speaker 1: sticker on your helmet. So, by the way I see it,

1160
01:00:48,160 --> 01:00:51,400
Speaker 1: you can either continue to watch complete and utter chaos

1161
01:00:51,600 --> 01:00:55,680
Speaker 1: and watch huge chunks of rosters turnover and watch forty

1162
01:00:55,680 --> 01:00:57,880
Speaker 1: two percent of kids enter the portal never to be

1163
01:00:57,960 --> 01:01:00,880
Speaker 1: heard or seen from again. Or you can have some

1164
01:01:00,960 --> 01:01:05,080
Speaker 1: common sense about yourself, understand that you've identified the problem

1165
01:01:05,320 --> 01:01:07,560
Speaker 1: the solutions in the mirror. You just have to come

1166
01:01:07,600 --> 01:01:10,640
Speaker 1: off your hip pocket a little bit, which would account

1167
01:01:10,720 --> 01:01:13,680
Speaker 1: to maybe a dent in your wallet at the sake

1168
01:01:13,720 --> 01:01:17,320
Speaker 1: of saving the sanctity and integrity of your product. And

1169
01:01:17,440 --> 01:01:19,280
Speaker 1: I look at it and I say, how is this

1170
01:01:19,400 --> 01:01:23,920
Speaker 1: not common sense? If you're spending that much money. Listen,

1171
01:01:23,960 --> 01:01:26,800
Speaker 1: if I were a network executive, I'd be the one

1172
01:01:26,840 --> 01:01:29,440
Speaker 1: on the phone with Greg Sanki or Kevin Warren saying,

1173
01:01:29,800 --> 01:01:32,200
Speaker 1: you think we're paying you this kind of money so

1174
01:01:32,280 --> 01:01:34,640
Speaker 1: that your product can be in shambles, so that those

1175
01:01:34,720 --> 01:01:38,040
Speaker 1: rosters can be in shambles, so pretty good coaches are

1176
01:01:38,080 --> 01:01:41,440
Speaker 1: deterred from even participating in it. We're not doing that.

1177
01:01:42,040 --> 01:01:44,720
Speaker 1: Get a hold of your product, get your houses in order.

1178
01:01:45,120 --> 01:01:48,200
Speaker 1: And if it takes three point four four million dollars

1179
01:01:48,240 --> 01:01:52,280
Speaker 1: a year being allocated to funding your own players, you

1180
01:01:52,320 --> 01:01:55,160
Speaker 1: don't have to call them employees. Certainly we can find

1181
01:01:55,440 --> 01:01:58,360
Speaker 1: legal types to wiggle our way out of that. But

1182
01:01:58,440 --> 01:02:00,800
Speaker 1: here's what you get in return for that. If you're

1183
01:02:00,840 --> 01:02:02,840
Speaker 1: willing to put that kind of coin on the table,

1184
01:02:03,200 --> 01:02:05,960
Speaker 1: players are willing to stick around. Players are willing to stay.

1185
01:02:06,200 --> 01:02:08,040
Speaker 1: And here's what you could really do. What you could

1186
01:02:08,080 --> 01:02:12,160
Speaker 1: really do is tear it. And you could ascribe tenure

1187
01:02:12,520 --> 01:02:14,560
Speaker 1: to being part of the incentive package. In other words,

1188
01:02:14,560 --> 01:02:17,560
Speaker 1: if I know I'm making fifteen grand as a freshman,

1189
01:02:17,720 --> 01:02:20,360
Speaker 1: twenty five grand as a sophomore, thirty five grand as

1190
01:02:20,360 --> 01:02:22,320
Speaker 1: a junior, and I get a sixty grand payoff if

1191
01:02:22,360 --> 01:02:25,960
Speaker 1: I complete four years of eligibility at one program. Then

1192
01:02:26,040 --> 01:02:29,240
Speaker 1: imagine how de incentivized I am to look at the

1193
01:02:29,240 --> 01:02:33,200
Speaker 1: transfer portal every five minutes. I know it sounds simple.

1194
01:02:33,360 --> 01:02:36,360
Speaker 1: I know it's not that simple. I also know another thing.

1195
01:02:37,040 --> 01:02:40,680
Speaker 1: When there has been a problem that is existential in

1196
01:02:40,800 --> 01:02:43,840
Speaker 1: nature presented to this sport, they've gotten the job done.

1197
01:02:44,440 --> 01:02:47,120
Speaker 1: When they needed to schedule games in the COVID year,

1198
01:02:47,200 --> 01:02:50,120
Speaker 1: they got it done week of When they saw how

1199
01:02:50,200 --> 01:02:52,840
Speaker 1: much money that playoff would make them, they didn't take

1200
01:02:52,880 --> 01:02:56,080
Speaker 1: no for an answer. So listen to your coaches for

1201
01:02:56,160 --> 01:02:58,520
Speaker 1: a change, like listen to the boots on the ground

1202
01:02:58,520 --> 01:03:01,000
Speaker 1: for a change. When they're telling you that the current

1203
01:03:01,040 --> 01:03:05,280
Speaker 1: structure of college football is unsustainable, they're right. You don't

1204
01:03:05,280 --> 01:03:08,760
Speaker 1: live it every day they do. They're right. Please listen

1205
01:03:08,760 --> 01:03:10,440
Speaker 1: to them and do something about it. That would be

1206
01:03:10,480 --> 01:03:14,320
Speaker 1: how I stabilized the over an hour show tonight, and

1207
01:03:14,560 --> 01:03:16,320
Speaker 1: quite frankly, I didn't think we were going that mung okay,

1208
01:03:16,360 --> 01:03:18,760
Speaker 1: I appreciate you guys for watching. Make sure you like

1209
01:03:18,840 --> 01:03:21,280
Speaker 1: this stake on the way out and make sure you're

1210
01:03:21,320 --> 01:03:24,720
Speaker 1: subscribed everywhere when you can. We will be back here

1211
01:03:24,840 --> 01:03:28,720
Speaker 1: same time Sunday night until day for director Colin or

1212
01:03:28,840 --> 01:03:31,520
Speaker 1: producer Jesse in our entire game here, I'm Josh Great.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for watching, Take care and Goblins,