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Speaker 1: Now welcome to Lakes Live. It is Thursday at October

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Speaker 1: twenty seventh year, Oh a Lord, twenty twenty two, brought

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Speaker 1: football and recruiting the entire time. Unbeknownst to all of us,

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Speaker 1: in obviously the recruiting world in the last hour. I'm

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Speaker 1: going to talk about that tonight. Yes, i will have

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Speaker 1: a few thoughts. We have got upset alerts to talk about.

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Speaker 1: I've got four games that I've got my eye on,

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Speaker 1: and I'm gonna at least somewhat suggest you should keep

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Speaker 1: We did not do it Tuesday for a very specific

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Speaker 1: reason I will discuss in a few moments. We got

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Speaker 1: the mail tonight and you guys are taking us all

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Speaker 1: over the place. We got some really really good questions.

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Speaker 1: That's all I need. And we are once we get

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Speaker 1: kind around here. You're gonna get something, and it's up

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Speaker 1: to you to decide, because I'm no good at coming

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Speaker 1: up with that stuff, so I will be relying on you.

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Speaker 1: Let's talk up sets this week. It's week nine already.

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Speaker 1: I saw the Colin Jesse. I don't know if I

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Speaker 1: told you guys this. I saw the college football playoff

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Speaker 1: Twitter account put the little hour glass emoji out earlier

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Speaker 1: today or yesterday, and they said seventy five days till

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Speaker 1: the national championship game. That means seventy six days until

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Speaker 1: the season's over. Who in the world wants to celebrate?

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Speaker 1: That couldn't be us. We are a regular season shower

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Speaker 1: around here. Colin. Here's your endpoint upset alerts. We got

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Speaker 1: four games to look at in week nine of this

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Speaker 1: college football season. Ohio State Penn State. Now, if you

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Speaker 1: want our full game breakdown and preview and prediction and

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Speaker 1: pick on this game, it's already on the channel. We

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Speaker 1: did it Tuesday night. We took Penn State to cover.

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Speaker 1: We took Ohio State to win. But this segment's about

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Speaker 1: scale of one to ten. How concerned should the favorite be?

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Speaker 1: What level is the upset alert meter peaking at? I

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Speaker 1: got this one at a five. Fair enough, this is

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Speaker 1: a very very tough place to go, even at noon

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Speaker 1: get why, but we can't control that, and frankly, we

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Speaker 1: can't control what happens in the game either, But we're

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Speaker 1: gonna talk about it anyway. As I said the other night,

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Speaker 1: the toughest overall test that I think Ohio State's had

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Speaker 1: Sunday night. What about Oregon and Cal. I just saw

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Speaker 1: the Ducks last week. Very impressive team, ultra impressive team.

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Speaker 1: They have that small tidbit of a forty nine to

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Speaker 1: that program's getting a lot of praise this week, That

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Speaker 1: after messing around for a little while. Happens to every team,

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Speaker 1: They get in these spots where you're coming off a

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Speaker 1: a five. Take no chances. Hey, look, even the mysterious

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Speaker 1: My thoughts have been made very clear on this game.

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Speaker 1: There is that glaring mismatch of stats or mismash I guess,

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Speaker 1: Michigan runs the ball for about a quarter mile per game,

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Speaker 1: by virtually everyone, which was Florida, it was going to

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Speaker 1: be Miami. That's not a surprise. I don't think Alabama

429
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Speaker 1: was a factor in this really late, but I think,

430
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Speaker 1: as you can see, Mario christaball in Miami were So

431
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Speaker 1: here's what's always fun. I was on the phone with

432
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Speaker 1: Wilfong right before I went on air and I said, Stephen,

433
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Speaker 1: he said, Joshua, I said, when do you think this

434
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Speaker 1: thing was decided? And here's me assuming that Miami must

435
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Speaker 1: have swooped in last minute on CORMONI McClain, because I

436
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Speaker 1: mean it was assumed by everyone He's going to Florida,

437
00:21:50,080 --> 00:21:54,879
Speaker 1: and Steve said, I'm not so sure it happened last minute.

438
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Speaker 1: I think we had some bad intel. But I think

439
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Speaker 1: the folks inside the Miami complex knew when they woke

440
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Speaker 1: up this morning where CORMONI McLean was going. And the

441
00:22:05,280 --> 00:22:07,880
Speaker 1: more I have poked around on this eye Josh over

442
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Speaker 1: the last thirty or so minutes, I think that's true.

443
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Speaker 1: First off, hat tip to Steve will Fong for saying, yeah,

444
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Speaker 1: we kind of whiffed on that one. It happens you

445
00:22:16,800 --> 00:22:19,359
Speaker 1: are not doing this job the right way if you

446
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Speaker 1: don't occasionally go out on a limb, especially when you

447
00:22:21,760 --> 00:22:25,560
Speaker 1: got intel. It's not a coincidence everyone was on Floridas

448
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Speaker 1: because that's what the intel was suggesting. It's just another

449
00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:32,480
Speaker 1: hat tip, a bigger hat tip Tomorio crispau and his staff,

450
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Speaker 1: because they had their ducks in a row, they had

451
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Speaker 1: a game plan, they executed it. They got their target,

452
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Speaker 1: one of the top targets in the country kept a

453
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Speaker 1: kid in state and no one knew. Now that sucks

454
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Speaker 1: for us because we always want to know, but no

455
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Speaker 1: one knew. I know, this is upsetting to a Florida

456
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Speaker 1: Gator fan. And I also know because when I'm talking

457
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Speaker 1: about coaches texting me, it ain't Miami and Florida coaches.

458
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Speaker 1: It's just innocent bystanders. And there are a lot of

459
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Speaker 1: coaches out there who watch this and you feel kind

460
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Speaker 1: of helpless because you're looking around in the nil era

461
00:23:07,600 --> 00:23:10,639
Speaker 1: and you're saying, well, what if I do all the

462
00:23:10,720 --> 00:23:14,040
Speaker 1: right things recruiting a kid and then someone just comes

463
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Speaker 1: in at the last minute and they just swoop in

464
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Speaker 1: and they drop a check bigger than I can drop.

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Speaker 1: This is general commentary. I cannot give you specifics or

466
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Speaker 1: details on what happened with CORMINU McLain. I don't follow

467
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Speaker 1: recruiting at that level. That's other jobs around here. But

468
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Speaker 1: what I would say is suck it up. That's what

469
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Speaker 1: I would say. This is the era you're in, This

470
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Speaker 1: is the world you're in. So you got a few choices. Now.

471
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Speaker 1: You can either you can either match bags with the

472
00:23:39,600 --> 00:23:43,680
Speaker 1: big boys, you can get more creative or find other

473
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Speaker 1: ways to sell your program, or you can sit around

474
00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:50,400
Speaker 1: and wait till they've made their moves and you can

475
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Speaker 1: choose door number three. It's probably just not realistic to

476
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Speaker 1: compete with those other teams. If you're continually choosing door

477
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Speaker 1: number three, my feedback is, you got suck it up.

478
00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:03,000
Speaker 1: I know it's not fun, and I certainly know that's

479
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Speaker 1: not the way recruiting has worked. That's the world now,

480
00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:08,119
Speaker 1: that's where we're living now. Am I thrilled about it? No?

481
00:24:08,520 --> 00:24:12,080
Speaker 1: I don't particularly love this. It has nothing to do

482
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Speaker 1: with any one kid or any one program. Uh yeah,

483
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Speaker 1: I would greatly prefer the way it used to work,

484
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Speaker 1: which leads me to my next point that we're gonna

485
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Speaker 1: touch on later in the show. I can promise you

486
00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:26,919
Speaker 1: someone just heard me say something I didn't say. Guarantee

487
00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:30,520
Speaker 1: it absolute one hundred percent money back guarantee. Someone just

488
00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:33,359
Speaker 1: heard me say no one ever paid kids to go

489
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Speaker 1: to school before I jesse. I guarantee someone just heard

490
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Speaker 1: me say that and I didn't say it. But it'll

491
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Speaker 1: be out there anyway. So Kormani McClain to Miami, huge

492
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Speaker 1: pickup from Miami. I encourage you go to twenty four

493
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Speaker 1: seven sports dot com check out Steve Wilfong's story because

494
00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:50,400
Speaker 1: he talked to Mario right after this happened and got

495
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Speaker 1: him on the record. And by the way, forty eight

496
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Speaker 1: hours before a big game. They're playing Virginia. I think

497
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Speaker 1: this week that's not the easiest thing to do. So

498
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Speaker 1: Stephen Wilfong working the phones tonight. I'm allwa fascinated by

499
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Speaker 1: this stuff, just always fascinating. Early Signing Day is still

500
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Speaker 1: two months away, a little under two months away. Let's

501
00:25:08,960 --> 00:25:11,400
Speaker 1: dive back into the mailbag. We got some really really

502
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Speaker 1: good q ANDA submissions, and I want to take time

503
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Speaker 1: on a few of them, and I want you to

504
00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:18,840
Speaker 1: listen to these. This is the talk of college football

505
00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:23,080
Speaker 1: right now. Josh professional hater, as he calls himself, asks

506
00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:26,280
Speaker 1: are we going to see a mass exodus of the

507
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one Texas A and M recruiting class after

508
00:25:29,119 --> 00:25:33,000
Speaker 1: this season? He checks in from College Station Texas. Now,

509
00:25:33,040 --> 00:25:35,600
Speaker 1: I want you to really buckle up. You think recruiting

510
00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:37,600
Speaker 1: is not for the faint of heart, the transfer portal

511
00:25:37,880 --> 00:25:40,120
Speaker 1: is even less for the faint of heart. At least

512
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Speaker 1: in recruiting you didn't get yourself attached to the kid,

513
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Speaker 1: You didn't watch him wear your jersey, whereas in transfer

514
00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:52,720
Speaker 1: portal chaos scenarios you did. I'm going to try and

515
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Speaker 1: responsibly say this and not reveal any more information than

516
00:25:56,440 --> 00:25:58,280
Speaker 1: I'm supposed to. Let me take a sip of purple

517
00:25:58,320 --> 00:26:05,600
Speaker 1: drink here. Drink with an eye, not drink with an a.

518
00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:08,040
Speaker 1: As you know, I'm in a different town every week.

519
00:26:08,720 --> 00:26:12,560
Speaker 1: I usually meet with the coaching staff when I'm there,

520
00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:16,320
Speaker 1: and that counts opposing coaching staffs too. I get to

521
00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:19,480
Speaker 1: interact with a lot of coaches. Love that interaction. It's

522
00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:22,920
Speaker 1: one of the big motivators for being able to get

523
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Speaker 1: out on the road, especially when we couldn't do it

524
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Speaker 1: for two years because of COVID. I can tell you

525
00:26:27,840 --> 00:26:31,720
Speaker 1: this definitively. There is one message that I'm getting from

526
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Speaker 1: assistant coaches and head coaches and player personnels and director

527
00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:38,040
Speaker 1: of football operations folks more than any other message, and

528
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Speaker 1: that is we think this upcoming transfer portal cycle is

529
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Speaker 1: going to be unlike anything you've ever seen. Every one

530
00:26:44,600 --> 00:26:48,080
Speaker 1: of them says it independently. They all expect complete and

531
00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:51,640
Speaker 1: utter chaos in the transfer portal after the season's over.

532
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Speaker 1: They're all planning on it, they're all figuring out their

533
00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:57,960
Speaker 1: numbers situation. They're all trying to best gauge what kind

534
00:26:57,960 --> 00:26:59,760
Speaker 1: of hole they have with guys on their roster. But

535
00:27:00,000 --> 00:27:03,440
Speaker 1: they are ready for complete and total chaos and anarchy,

536
00:27:04,119 --> 00:27:07,480
Speaker 1: and that's coming. So the question was about A and M. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I expect several pieces of that true freshman class to

538
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Speaker 1: enter the portal, but I expected at a lot of places, Guys.

539
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Speaker 1: I mean, I cannot tell you how definitively this is

540
00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:19,280
Speaker 1: being told to me by several head coaches in the

541
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Speaker 1: past twenty four hours. Several head coaches have said this.

542
00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:26,000
Speaker 1: I'll go a step further. There are folks in the

543
00:27:26,040 --> 00:27:29,240
Speaker 1: world of getting coaches hired and taking care of coaches

544
00:27:29,280 --> 00:27:32,080
Speaker 1: when they're fired, in the agent world that know this

545
00:27:32,119 --> 00:27:35,040
Speaker 1: is coming so much that they're being engaged about getting

546
00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:39,400
Speaker 1: their clients' jobs in time to secure maybe a mass

547
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Speaker 1: trust for portal exodus from not happening, as well as

548
00:27:42,200 --> 00:27:46,040
Speaker 1: getting early signing day lockdown. It is total chaos behind

549
00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:47,960
Speaker 1: the scenes right now, and you wouldn't know it because

550
00:27:47,960 --> 00:27:50,040
Speaker 1: there are games going on on Saturday. So that's fun

551
00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:52,240
Speaker 1: for you and I to watch behind the scenes, like

552
00:27:52,280 --> 00:27:54,480
Speaker 1: behind the curtain over here getting ready for the second act.

553
00:27:54,520 --> 00:27:57,080
Speaker 1: It's a mad dash and no one's dressed, and everyone's

554
00:27:57,119 --> 00:28:00,399
Speaker 1: forgotten their lines, and half his makeups not even on yet. Oh,

555
00:28:00,920 --> 00:28:04,320
Speaker 1: transfer Portal season is going to be wild. So yes,

556
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Speaker 1: I think that Texas A and M could very well

557
00:28:06,640 --> 00:28:08,720
Speaker 1: deal with that. Now, I know a lot more focus

558
00:28:08,880 --> 00:28:11,600
Speaker 1: is on A and M because you've got multiple members

559
00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:13,879
Speaker 1: of that true freshman class suspended, some of them in

560
00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:17,440
Speaker 1: the news. You've got a losing record. By the way,

561
00:28:18,440 --> 00:28:21,600
Speaker 1: that game this weekend with Ole Miss going to Texas

562
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Speaker 1: A and M. I want you to pay close attention

563
00:28:23,480 --> 00:28:25,359
Speaker 1: to it. I'm gonna repeat what we said the other night.

564
00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:28,640
Speaker 1: That's a really important game. No, it doesn't have playoff

565
00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:31,639
Speaker 1: implications on it, at least for the home team. And

566
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Speaker 1: I'm not really so much talking about Old Miss here.

567
00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:35,960
Speaker 1: I'm talking about for A and M. We picked them

568
00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:39,960
Speaker 1: to cover and win because I have a sneaking suspicion,

569
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Speaker 1: or you can maybe even call it a hope as

570
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Speaker 1: far as A ANDM goes that there's enough pride in

571
00:28:44,560 --> 00:28:46,920
Speaker 1: that locker room, I mean, there are enough guys who

572
00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:50,320
Speaker 1: want to be there for that logo on their helmet. Yes,

573
00:28:50,400 --> 00:28:52,880
Speaker 1: I know that's a bygone concept. Yes, I know. I

574
00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:55,840
Speaker 1: get mocked and ridiculed when I dare suggest that some

575
00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:59,560
Speaker 1: guys play for passion and love of that particular school.

576
00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:04,000
Speaker 1: That's such a nineteen seventies ideology. No, No, there are

577
00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:07,680
Speaker 1: plenty of guys on that roster who take immense pride

578
00:29:07,720 --> 00:29:10,640
Speaker 1: in playing for that Aggie logo. There. They got to

579
00:29:10,680 --> 00:29:13,600
Speaker 1: win the game Saturday. That's got to be their locker room.

580
00:29:14,080 --> 00:29:16,760
Speaker 1: So pay attention to that cause if it doesn't go

581
00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:19,200
Speaker 1: their way and Lane Kiffin and Ole Miss go in

582
00:29:19,240 --> 00:29:21,760
Speaker 1: there and not only win, but especially if they win

583
00:29:21,800 --> 00:29:26,000
Speaker 1: by double digits in college station, it's already not fun

584
00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:29,240
Speaker 1: out there. I'm just saying that will signify something different,

585
00:29:29,880 --> 00:29:31,840
Speaker 1: and I think we all understand what I'm talking about.

586
00:29:31,880 --> 00:29:33,840
Speaker 1: And that's not a comfortable conversation that I feel like

587
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Speaker 1: having tonight. So here's what I wanted to get back

588
00:29:38,080 --> 00:29:42,800
Speaker 1: around to before we move on. It is so exhausting

589
00:29:43,320 --> 00:29:46,520
Speaker 1: to talk about NIL, and it's so exhausting to talk

590
00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:49,480
Speaker 1: about the transfer portal. And it's not because I say

591
00:29:49,520 --> 00:29:51,480
Speaker 1: the same stuff over and over again. I do that

592
00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:54,400
Speaker 1: all the time, made a living doing that. No, it

593
00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:57,520
Speaker 1: gets exhausting because, as I said the other day following

594
00:29:57,560 --> 00:30:02,959
Speaker 1: the Tuesday Show, nothing makes people hear what you didn't

595
00:30:03,040 --> 00:30:05,720
Speaker 1: say more than when you're talking about NIL or the

596
00:30:05,760 --> 00:30:09,040
Speaker 1: transfer portal. There's this little, small army of white Knights

597
00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:12,720
Speaker 1: out there that claim they're riding with the player's flag

598
00:30:12,840 --> 00:30:15,479
Speaker 1: hoisted above their horse, and they're out there for the

599
00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:18,400
Speaker 1: best interest of the player, and they're fighting for players' rights.

600
00:30:18,720 --> 00:30:22,480
Speaker 1: And it really doesn't if you come anywhere remotely close

601
00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:26,959
Speaker 1: to the same galaxy as making a comment about NIL

602
00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:30,920
Speaker 1: or the portal, they just say, oh, oh, you're blaming

603
00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:33,120
Speaker 1: the kids. Is that what you're doing. No, I'm not

604
00:30:33,160 --> 00:30:35,240
Speaker 1: doing that. What I did the other night was the

605
00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:38,000
Speaker 1: equivalent of saying, I think we may have a problem. Oh,

606
00:30:38,000 --> 00:30:40,160
Speaker 1: so you want to fire the nukes. No, No, I

607
00:30:40,160 --> 00:30:43,280
Speaker 1: think they're about fourteen or fifteen preventative measures we could

608
00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:46,480
Speaker 1: take before we hit the nuclear option. You need to

609
00:30:46,520 --> 00:30:48,600
Speaker 1: calm down. I'll go Taylor Swift on you if I

610
00:30:48,640 --> 00:30:51,320
Speaker 1: need to. You. You need to take a breath or two.

611
00:30:52,560 --> 00:30:57,400
Speaker 1: But they can't because they really have a more ideological

612
00:30:57,440 --> 00:31:00,160
Speaker 1: position and they're just they're just looking for confrontation. And

613
00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:02,440
Speaker 1: so here's what I didn't say the other night. I

614
00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:05,800
Speaker 1: didn't say it was the kid's fault when they get

615
00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:08,280
Speaker 1: tired after their freshman year and they want to transfer,

616
00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:11,000
Speaker 1: or I didn't say it was exclusively their fault. I

617
00:31:11,080 --> 00:31:14,680
Speaker 1: didn't say it's totally not Jimbo's fault at college station

618
00:31:14,880 --> 00:31:17,920
Speaker 1: in Texas A and M when they're having problems, he's

619
00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:21,040
Speaker 1: immune to criticism. I didn't say that. I didn't say

620
00:31:21,080 --> 00:31:24,240
Speaker 1: that money has never changed hands before and it only

621
00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:26,840
Speaker 1: just now became an issue. I didn't say any of

622
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Speaker 1: these things. And the reason why I just beat the

623
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Speaker 1: desk inherently is because even as I speak, someone not

624
00:31:35,400 --> 00:31:37,920
Speaker 1: someone with thirty seven followers either, I mean, people who

625
00:31:37,920 --> 00:31:42,920
Speaker 1: should know better, will take clips miscontextualized from this very

626
00:31:42,960 --> 00:31:45,320
Speaker 1: program of ours, brought to you by Academy Sports and Outdoors,

627
00:31:45,720 --> 00:31:49,000
Speaker 1: and they will present it as such. I'll watch it

628
00:31:49,040 --> 00:31:52,280
Speaker 1: happen all the time. It's pathetic. So yes, to go

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Speaker 1: back to the main point I wanted to deliver to you,

630
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Speaker 1: Transfer portal is about to be wild. Just get ready.

631
00:31:57,120 --> 00:31:59,520
Speaker 1: Teams next year may look nothing like they look right now.

632
00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:02,960
Speaker 1: Thirty or forty percent of a roster overturned, just like that.

633
00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:08,880
Speaker 1: Next question, Please yes, please, please please, I'm already tired

634
00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:12,959
Speaker 1: of talking about that. We're talking about threats here. Braden asked,

635
00:32:13,000 --> 00:32:16,440
Speaker 1: what is the biggest threat to the stability of college football?

636
00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:19,200
Speaker 1: Is it nil to I dare you, Braiden. Is it

637
00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:22,960
Speaker 1: playoff expansion? Is it conference realignment? So I'm gonna go

638
00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:25,000
Speaker 1: a couple of directions here. I'm not gonna bore you

639
00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:27,680
Speaker 1: with the same take I've got on the playoff, because

640
00:32:27,720 --> 00:32:29,960
Speaker 1: I know a lot of you think otherwise, and you

641
00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:31,720
Speaker 1: just probably hit the fast forward button at this point.

642
00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:34,520
Speaker 1: When I talk about playoff, I know my audience. I'm

643
00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:39,040
Speaker 1: sharp enough to see those metrics. Is this the football business?

644
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:41,840
Speaker 1: Is that what we're in? If you coach, if you're

645
00:32:41,840 --> 00:32:45,120
Speaker 1: the head coach at Tennessee, if you're Josh Hypel, are

646
00:32:45,160 --> 00:32:48,000
Speaker 1: you in the football coaching business? Because I would argue,

647
00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:52,160
Speaker 1: you're not. Am I sitting behind this microphone? Am I

648
00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:55,120
Speaker 1: in the football talking business? I would argue I'm not.

649
00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:58,280
Speaker 1: Josh Hypel and I in this case are in the

650
00:32:58,280 --> 00:33:02,280
Speaker 1: same business. We are in the entertainment business. And that

651
00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:05,680
Speaker 1: doesn't need to get lost. I don't have it lost

652
00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:08,160
Speaker 1: on me, because I mean, I live in the entertainment world.

653
00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:13,000
Speaker 1: But sometimes I think football coaches have it lost on

654
00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:16,240
Speaker 1: them because they think of themselves as coaches first and foremost.

655
00:33:16,280 --> 00:33:19,720
Speaker 1: But here's the thing. We got lacrosse coaches out there,

656
00:33:20,280 --> 00:33:23,040
Speaker 1: and they don't make any more than anyone watching this

657
00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:26,160
Speaker 1: show does. We got baseball coaches out there, some of

658
00:33:26,160 --> 00:33:29,440
Speaker 1: them can't even be retained as full time employees. Well,

659
00:33:29,480 --> 00:33:32,160
Speaker 1: they're coaching, just like you're coaching. Why in the world

660
00:33:32,200 --> 00:33:35,120
Speaker 1: are you making one thousand times what they make. It's

661
00:33:35,120 --> 00:33:38,440
Speaker 1: because you're in the entertainment business as well, and that

662
00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:42,160
Speaker 1: industry has dictated that those sports over there are some

663
00:33:42,240 --> 00:33:45,080
Speaker 1: quirky little indie movies. They may be good, maybe good

664
00:33:45,080 --> 00:33:50,080
Speaker 1: plot lines, may be superb acting, but you are the

665
00:33:50,120 --> 00:33:55,000
Speaker 1: Marvel franchise, and for whatever reason, people have decided that

666
00:33:55,160 --> 00:33:58,120
Speaker 1: they really really love your stuff. They love what you're

667
00:33:58,160 --> 00:34:02,000
Speaker 1: associated with. That's why I don't talk baseball on the show.

668
00:34:02,040 --> 00:34:06,520
Speaker 1: I love baseball, but there is candidly very little money

669
00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:10,880
Speaker 1: in talking about college baseball. There is conversely, massive scalability

670
00:34:11,000 --> 00:34:14,520
Speaker 1: and profitability in talking about college football. So I say

671
00:34:14,520 --> 00:34:16,200
Speaker 1: that to tee up. What I'm about to tell you

672
00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:18,640
Speaker 1: is the biggest threat to the sport. We're in the

673
00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:22,200
Speaker 1: entertainment industry. College football is an entertainment product, no different

674
00:34:22,200 --> 00:34:25,080
Speaker 1: than a movie. But that's the good news and the

675
00:34:25,080 --> 00:34:28,080
Speaker 1: bad news. You see, The good news is this is

676
00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:30,680
Speaker 1: the greatest sport on earth. I firmly believe that we

677
00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:34,200
Speaker 1: have a unique combination of things in our sport, in

678
00:34:34,239 --> 00:34:38,000
Speaker 1: our form of entertainment here that do not exist anywhere else.

679
00:34:38,760 --> 00:34:41,839
Speaker 1: Movie can make you cry, another movie can can get

680
00:34:41,880 --> 00:34:44,120
Speaker 1: your adrenaline going. I will never forget what it was

681
00:34:44,160 --> 00:34:46,120
Speaker 1: like the first time I saw Gone in sixty Seconds,

682
00:34:46,480 --> 00:34:49,000
Speaker 1: which is, I will contend, one of the great films

683
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:53,319
Speaker 1: of the two thousands. And I remember that it made

684
00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:56,879
Speaker 1: me feel a certain way. I remember Old Yeller made

685
00:34:56,880 --> 00:34:58,360
Speaker 1: me feel a certain way that I never want to

686
00:34:58,360 --> 00:35:00,040
Speaker 1: feel again. That's why I've never watched it again. But

687
00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:03,480
Speaker 1: there is nothing quite like college football that can make

688
00:35:03,520 --> 00:35:05,439
Speaker 1: you feel about ten of those things over the span

689
00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:09,560
Speaker 1: of three hours. And it's a very entertaining product. That's

690
00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:11,759
Speaker 1: the good news. The bad news is also everything I

691
00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:14,000
Speaker 1: just said, because it turns out the good news is

692
00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:17,240
Speaker 1: also the bad news. Because we couldn't hide it forever.

693
00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:23,920
Speaker 1: We couldn't hide it forever. Eventually people realized how profitable

694
00:35:23,920 --> 00:35:26,880
Speaker 1: it is if marketed the right way. Dirty words we

695
00:35:26,880 --> 00:35:28,959
Speaker 1: didn't really want associated with the game all that much,

696
00:35:29,160 --> 00:35:31,839
Speaker 1: if it was marketed, if it was harnessed, and if

697
00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:36,040
Speaker 1: it was reconfigured. Dare I say in a lot of ways.

698
00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:40,320
Speaker 1: If it were professionalized and streamlined like the more sophisticated

699
00:35:40,400 --> 00:35:44,680
Speaker 1: Sunday crowd, well, they got their hands on it. Some

700
00:35:44,719 --> 00:35:47,839
Speaker 1: of you support it, and that's your prerogative. I don't

701
00:35:47,880 --> 00:35:52,440
Speaker 1: necessarily ride with you on that, but that was the risk, okay,

702
00:35:52,520 --> 00:35:54,800
Speaker 1: in my opinion. Now I'm the one with the microphone

703
00:35:54,800 --> 00:35:56,720
Speaker 1: they asked me, so you can all have your opinions

704
00:35:56,760 --> 00:36:00,239
Speaker 1: on this, but it was my opinion that it is

705
00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:03,840
Speaker 1: still my opinion that there's this saturation point. It's a

706
00:36:04,000 --> 00:36:06,920
Speaker 1: really in exact science here, but it's just like your

707
00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:10,000
Speaker 1: favorite restaurant when it first opens and you and a

708
00:36:10,000 --> 00:36:13,760
Speaker 1: few hundred people know about it and it has that authenticity.

709
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:17,680
Speaker 1: But at the same time, if the chef tells you, boy,

710
00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:19,759
Speaker 1: we need to get some business in here, you go

711
00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:22,120
Speaker 1: and you tell a few friends, don't you, because you

712
00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:25,480
Speaker 1: gotta you gotta keep Pete open, you gotta keep those

713
00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:28,560
Speaker 1: street tacos coming. These things are great. So we need

714
00:36:28,600 --> 00:36:31,600
Speaker 1: to get enough foot traffic in the door to sustain.

715
00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:34,440
Speaker 1: But what do we not want. We don't want a

716
00:36:34,520 --> 00:36:38,080
Speaker 1: line two blocks wrapped around this place because number one,

717
00:36:38,160 --> 00:36:40,440
Speaker 1: I can't get in anymore, and then he's gonna franchise it,

718
00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:42,960
Speaker 1: and then it's gonna it's gonna lose its charm. It's

719
00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:46,160
Speaker 1: gonna lose what I loved about it. Pete, don't do it.

720
00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:49,640
Speaker 1: And then Pete looks back at you and says, ESPN says,

721
00:36:49,680 --> 00:36:51,640
Speaker 1: I have to. Fox says I have to see b

722
00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:55,520
Speaker 1: S says I have to, and you go, Pete, I

723
00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:58,399
Speaker 1: hate it, but I'd probably do the same thing. And

724
00:36:58,920 --> 00:37:02,680
Speaker 1: they're in lies the great threat. What's the saturation point?

725
00:37:02,760 --> 00:37:05,920
Speaker 1: In other words, what was the point at which this

726
00:37:06,040 --> 00:37:10,920
Speaker 1: sport needed to stop making moves to grow before it

727
00:37:11,080 --> 00:37:16,120
Speaker 1: sacrificed a critical mass of its integrity and appeal? To me?

728
00:37:16,600 --> 00:37:19,080
Speaker 1: You know my thoughts on this. It is happening right

729
00:37:19,120 --> 00:37:21,960
Speaker 1: now with conference realignment. I mean, I don't exactly see

730
00:37:22,000 --> 00:37:26,200
Speaker 1: a lot of charm in UCLA playing Rutgers in a

731
00:37:26,280 --> 00:37:29,000
Speaker 1: conference game. Okay, there's not a lot of charm in

732
00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:32,279
Speaker 1: that for me, But I get why it happened, and

733
00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:35,480
Speaker 1: there's not a lot of charm for me in seeing

734
00:37:35,640 --> 00:37:39,279
Speaker 1: games like Georgia Tennessee start to shape up, or seeing

735
00:37:39,320 --> 00:37:42,440
Speaker 1: Ohio State and Michigan coming at us and knowing all

736
00:37:42,480 --> 00:37:44,719
Speaker 1: the while in the back of my mind those games

737
00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:47,279
Speaker 1: are merely going to be for seeding. Doesn't matter who

738
00:37:47,280 --> 00:37:50,279
Speaker 1: wins or loses, all will find out is who's going

739
00:37:50,320 --> 00:37:53,920
Speaker 1: to be seeded higher in the playoff. That is not

740
00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:57,840
Speaker 1: the charm that I've come to love about the urgency

741
00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:03,000
Speaker 1: and the zero net approach of the college football regular season.

742
00:38:03,000 --> 00:38:06,080
Speaker 1: But that's where we're headed. Okay, So here's what could happen.

743
00:38:06,080 --> 00:38:09,160
Speaker 1: Because ultimately, like I said, we're in the entertainment business, right, so,

744
00:38:09,280 --> 00:38:13,400
Speaker 1: as long as the people are coming to the product,

745
00:38:12,840 --> 00:38:16,839
Speaker 1: it's not threatened. It's not in danger. Sure it may

746
00:38:16,880 --> 00:38:18,920
Speaker 1: lose some things that I loved about it, Maybe it

747
00:38:19,000 --> 00:38:21,520
Speaker 1: loses some things that you loved about it. But as

748
00:38:21,560 --> 00:38:23,600
Speaker 1: long as people are coming, as long as you've got

749
00:38:23,600 --> 00:38:25,840
Speaker 1: to return on the immense investment that's being made in

750
00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:29,719
Speaker 1: the sport, you can't call it a failure, at least financially,

751
00:38:29,760 --> 00:38:33,920
Speaker 1: you can. I think the other biggest threat is what

752
00:38:34,120 --> 00:38:37,520
Speaker 1: if we get to a point where the powers that

753
00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:42,360
Speaker 1: be realize the juice was not worth the squeeze translation,

754
00:38:42,800 --> 00:38:44,879
Speaker 1: what if people like me end up being a little

755
00:38:44,920 --> 00:38:48,040
Speaker 1: more right than we are wrong. Cause there are tons

756
00:38:48,040 --> 00:38:49,799
Speaker 1: of people out there that just think I'm dead wrong

757
00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:52,080
Speaker 1: about this, and I'll see eventually, you know, when we

758
00:38:52,120 --> 00:38:55,759
Speaker 1: expand the playoff, people like me will find out that no, no, no, no,

759
00:38:55,760 --> 00:38:58,720
Speaker 1: it doesn't detract from the regular season. It just adds

760
00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:02,200
Speaker 1: value to it. Of course, my contention is you cannot

761
00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:04,920
Speaker 1: increase the amount of anything and maintain the value of it.

762
00:39:04,920 --> 00:39:07,440
Speaker 1: It's the rule of scarcity, and I don't think that

763
00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:09,799
Speaker 1: that is something that's being reinvented when it comes to

764
00:39:09,800 --> 00:39:14,120
Speaker 1: college football. I just think instead of having those do

765
00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:16,919
Speaker 1: or die games, those no safety net games, you don't

766
00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:19,560
Speaker 1: have those anymore. You are going to add some consequence

767
00:39:19,560 --> 00:39:21,640
Speaker 1: on games. Yeah, there are going to be some games

768
00:39:21,840 --> 00:39:23,440
Speaker 1: that end up meaning a little bit more as it

769
00:39:23,480 --> 00:39:25,920
Speaker 1: relates to the playoff that never would have before. I

770
00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:28,919
Speaker 1: just think instead of having some spike nine or ten

771
00:39:28,960 --> 00:39:31,160
Speaker 1: games on the one to ten urgency scale, we're going

772
00:39:31,239 --> 00:39:33,680
Speaker 1: to give those up entirely in the regular season, and

773
00:39:33,719 --> 00:39:36,840
Speaker 1: we'll have a few more sixes and sevens featuring teams

774
00:39:36,880 --> 00:39:38,719
Speaker 1: that do not stand much of a chance of winning

775
00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:42,480
Speaker 1: a title anyway. Your mind will be reconditioned to understand

776
00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:46,640
Speaker 1: that in due time. And so here's the big threat.

777
00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:50,840
Speaker 1: Your sport becomes a tournament sport, college football becoming a

778
00:39:50,880 --> 00:39:54,560
Speaker 1: tournament sport is the biggest threat to college football. College football.

779
00:39:54,640 --> 00:39:57,360
Speaker 1: When you think of the NFL, you probably think of

780
00:39:57,440 --> 00:40:00,439
Speaker 1: postseason Super Bowl, like those are the images that pop

781
00:40:00,440 --> 00:40:03,040
Speaker 1: in your mind. When you think of college basketball, you

782
00:40:03,120 --> 00:40:06,080
Speaker 1: think of the NCAA tournament, March madness. When you think

783
00:40:06,080 --> 00:40:08,200
Speaker 1: of college football, you think of Saturdays in the fall.

784
00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:11,560
Speaker 1: And the fundamental threat to this sport is if in

785
00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:14,319
Speaker 1: twenty years that's not what you think anymore. You think

786
00:40:14,360 --> 00:40:20,600
Speaker 1: about Glendale, Arizona, or Arlington, Texas or Miami, Florida, and

787
00:40:20,640 --> 00:40:25,200
Speaker 1: you think of soulists, NFL venues, and you think of

788
00:40:25,719 --> 00:40:29,520
Speaker 1: semi final playoff games and national championship games, and that's

789
00:40:29,560 --> 00:40:32,680
Speaker 1: where the sport begins for you, because that's not college football.

790
00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:35,719
Speaker 1: That's not a remote piece of the charm of it,

791
00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:39,319
Speaker 1: that's not the romanticism of it. And so again, I

792
00:40:39,440 --> 00:40:42,120
Speaker 1: know sometimes it makes me sound ninety years old hanging

793
00:40:42,160 --> 00:40:44,040
Speaker 1: on to something, but there are some things worth hanging

794
00:40:44,080 --> 00:40:46,879
Speaker 1: on to, you know, because once they leave, you don't

795
00:40:46,920 --> 00:40:49,640
Speaker 1: get them back. Seeing it happen with many a sport,

796
00:40:49,840 --> 00:40:52,480
Speaker 1: There's a reason I don't watch pro wrestling anymore. There's

797
00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:55,239
Speaker 1: a reason I don't watch NASCAR anymore. This happened to

798
00:40:55,320 --> 00:40:57,440
Speaker 1: those things. I gave them a chance. I loved them.

799
00:40:57,480 --> 00:41:00,319
Speaker 1: At one point, I don't anymore. I checked out. I

800
00:41:00,360 --> 00:41:05,000
Speaker 1: didn't leave them, they left me. So that's my spiel

801
00:41:05,040 --> 00:41:07,200
Speaker 1: on that. I'll say that at least a dozen more

802
00:41:07,280 --> 00:41:10,720
Speaker 1: times before twenty twenty five. They're watching us in Beaumont, Texas.

803
00:41:10,719 --> 00:41:15,200
Speaker 1: They're watching us either in or on Mount Rae near Washington,

804
00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:18,719
Speaker 1: and they're watching us in Tupelo, Mississippi, probably on the

805
00:41:18,719 --> 00:41:22,560
Speaker 1: Blues Highway. Remember if you will to like the video

806
00:41:23,120 --> 00:41:27,560
Speaker 1: and subscribe to the channel. And that concludes my request

807
00:41:27,600 --> 00:41:30,160
Speaker 1: from you. Thank you so much. I got a really

808
00:41:30,160 --> 00:41:34,600
Speaker 1: interesting question here and I'm going to reveal a secret tonight.

809
00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:39,160
Speaker 1: This is from Savannah, Georgia. Okay, so Max from Savannah, Georgia.

810
00:41:39,200 --> 00:41:42,680
Speaker 1: He said, you mentioned that you manually had to bring

811
00:41:42,719 --> 00:41:46,400
Speaker 1: down Tennessee in the preseason jpee Pole. Now that we

812
00:41:46,480 --> 00:41:48,840
Speaker 1: know they're for real, the question has to be asked,

813
00:41:49,160 --> 00:41:53,080
Speaker 1: how far did you manually bring Tennessee down? And what

814
00:41:53,160 --> 00:41:56,320
Speaker 1: was your thought process? I did say this in the preseason,

815
00:41:57,120 --> 00:41:58,960
Speaker 1: and I shouldn't have because people have asked me a

816
00:41:59,000 --> 00:42:02,319
Speaker 1: trillion times about it since then. And as I was

817
00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:06,120
Speaker 1: revealing the preseason JPE Pole, which is just power ratings.

818
00:42:06,680 --> 00:42:09,839
Speaker 1: I showed you where Tennessee was. We had them fifteenth.

819
00:42:10,040 --> 00:42:13,799
Speaker 1: JP Pole had them fifteenth in week one, and as

820
00:42:13,840 --> 00:42:17,480
Speaker 1: I showed you Tennessee at fifteen, because we're live and

821
00:42:17,520 --> 00:42:20,239
Speaker 1: I couldn't have Colin edited out, I kind of made

822
00:42:20,280 --> 00:42:22,520
Speaker 1: a remark in passing, Hey, that's where I had to

823
00:42:22,520 --> 00:42:24,319
Speaker 1: bump them down to. You should have seen where the

824
00:42:24,320 --> 00:42:27,200
Speaker 1: model had Tennessee. And then I kept right on going, Well,

825
00:42:27,239 --> 00:42:30,360
Speaker 1: you guys hear every word that is said on this show,

826
00:42:30,440 --> 00:42:32,759
Speaker 1: and I appreciate that about you, but also I hate

827
00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:35,600
Speaker 1: that about you because I got called out and I've

828
00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:38,680
Speaker 1: been called out ever since, and now people want to know, well,

829
00:42:38,680 --> 00:42:40,400
Speaker 1: what did you really have them? Well, I'm going to

830
00:42:40,440 --> 00:42:44,280
Speaker 1: tell you tonight. JP Pole, I bumped them down to fifteen.

831
00:42:44,600 --> 00:42:46,880
Speaker 1: The AP Pole had them not ranked at all in

832
00:42:46,920 --> 00:42:51,880
Speaker 1: the preseason, but the model originally had Tennessee at number eight.

833
00:42:53,000 --> 00:42:56,720
Speaker 1: So we're starting the season with an AP not ranked

834
00:42:56,760 --> 00:43:00,480
Speaker 1: team and the model saying er er er, top ten,

835
00:43:00,600 --> 00:43:03,680
Speaker 1: top ten, And I thought to myself, this is the

836
00:43:03,760 --> 00:43:07,719
Speaker 1: last time I've done this. I thought to myself, I

837
00:43:07,760 --> 00:43:11,560
Speaker 1: can put Tennessee in the mid teens and still have

838
00:43:11,680 --> 00:43:13,959
Speaker 1: it stand out. We're still going to be way higher

839
00:43:14,000 --> 00:43:17,719
Speaker 1: than the AP but it won't be so preposterous, it

840
00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:21,320
Speaker 1: won't be so out of left field, because frankly, I

841
00:43:21,360 --> 00:43:24,360
Speaker 1: don't worry about this anymore. There's been a pretty radical

842
00:43:24,440 --> 00:43:27,440
Speaker 1: change in my concept on this in the past few months.

843
00:43:27,800 --> 00:43:29,719
Speaker 1: I thought we were going to get accused of clickbait,

844
00:43:30,840 --> 00:43:33,440
Speaker 1: plain and simple. I did not put Tennessee in the

845
00:43:33,440 --> 00:43:35,560
Speaker 1: top ten in the preseason because I didn't feel like

846
00:43:35,680 --> 00:43:41,160
Speaker 1: listening to act accusations of clickbait. And yet here they are.

847
00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:44,319
Speaker 1: What are they right now? So they're top five I think,

848
00:43:44,400 --> 00:43:47,319
Speaker 1: or top six right now. So they're higher even than

849
00:43:47,320 --> 00:43:50,440
Speaker 1: I would have had them in the preseason. So lesson

850
00:43:50,520 --> 00:43:53,520
Speaker 1: learned there. I also want to reiterate I was telling

851
00:43:53,560 --> 00:43:55,640
Speaker 1: this story to someone the other day at lunch when

852
00:43:55,680 --> 00:43:57,759
Speaker 1: I first got here. I've told this a couple of times,

853
00:43:57,800 --> 00:43:59,800
Speaker 1: I think, but we got a lot of new viewers

854
00:44:00,239 --> 00:44:03,080
Speaker 1: when I got here. There was there was a guy

855
00:44:03,160 --> 00:44:06,040
Speaker 1: named Lucas who used to work here. I don't know

856
00:44:06,080 --> 00:44:07,800
Speaker 1: what he's doing now. There was a guy named Lucas

857
00:44:07,800 --> 00:44:10,480
Speaker 1: who used to sit right next to me, and I

858
00:44:10,520 --> 00:44:12,399
Speaker 1: remember talking to him on my first day, and this

859
00:44:12,440 --> 00:44:14,799
Speaker 1: is when LSU had just blown up. It was right

860
00:44:14,840 --> 00:44:18,680
Speaker 1: after that twenty nineteen season, and so LSU traffic is

861
00:44:18,719 --> 00:44:21,120
Speaker 1: through the roof, the go twenty four to seven dot

862
00:44:21,120 --> 00:44:24,600
Speaker 1: com traffic is through the roof, and LSU football's flying high.

863
00:44:24,840 --> 00:44:26,880
Speaker 1: And I remember he and I were talking about what

864
00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:29,600
Speaker 1: the next version of that could be, like, what's the

865
00:44:29,640 --> 00:44:32,560
Speaker 1: next fan base out there that's a sleeping giant, and

866
00:44:32,600 --> 00:44:36,200
Speaker 1: we both kind of simultaneously said, it's Tennessee. Tennessee's the

867
00:44:36,239 --> 00:44:38,400
Speaker 1: one called the fans never left. They struggled for a

868
00:44:38,440 --> 00:44:40,520
Speaker 1: long time, but the fans never left. Now, if you

869
00:44:40,560 --> 00:44:43,600
Speaker 1: were like me and you follow that stuff day to day,

870
00:44:43,880 --> 00:44:46,880
Speaker 1: what you're seeing now is not a surprise. We can't.

871
00:44:47,080 --> 00:44:49,399
Speaker 1: We could put out a video on our channel right

872
00:44:49,400 --> 00:44:53,000
Speaker 1: now of me just coloring a picture of Neeland Stadium

873
00:44:53,040 --> 00:44:55,160
Speaker 1: and they get thirty thousand views. So it's not a

874
00:44:55,160 --> 00:44:57,720
Speaker 1: surprise to us because I've seen that you never left.

875
00:44:57,760 --> 00:45:00,759
Speaker 1: But think a lot of the country, especially the ones

876
00:45:00,760 --> 00:45:03,319
Speaker 1: who sold Tennessee down the river, the same one that

877
00:45:03,320 --> 00:45:05,239
Speaker 1: that goalpost is in now. I think a lot of

878
00:45:05,239 --> 00:45:08,359
Speaker 1: folks who sold them down the river are surprised. Oh wow,

879
00:45:08,440 --> 00:45:11,279
Speaker 1: Tennessee fans still exist. Wow, they can still win there. Yeah,

880
00:45:11,320 --> 00:45:14,880
Speaker 1: they can still win there. This is LSU twenty nineteen.

881
00:45:14,960 --> 00:45:17,040
Speaker 1: I don't mean this team is as good as LSU

882
00:45:17,040 --> 00:45:20,400
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. I mean in terms of an awakening of

883
00:45:20,440 --> 00:45:24,080
Speaker 1: a fan base and a reintroduction of a brand on

884
00:45:24,120 --> 00:45:27,839
Speaker 1: the national scale. This is what LSU twenty nineteen did

885
00:45:27,880 --> 00:45:29,959
Speaker 1: with Joe Burrow and edwors Ron and all those folks.

886
00:45:30,040 --> 00:45:32,840
Speaker 1: So I'm happy to see it because I knew it

887
00:45:32,880 --> 00:45:36,239
Speaker 1: was possible the whole time. The other thing, on a

888
00:45:36,880 --> 00:45:40,520
Speaker 1: somewhat lighter hearted but equally a serious note, that is

889
00:45:40,600 --> 00:45:43,720
Speaker 1: going to happen is a phenomenon that used to exist.

890
00:45:43,880 --> 00:45:47,719
Speaker 1: If you're like forty five years old or older, No,

891
00:45:47,760 --> 00:45:51,280
Speaker 1: maybe like thirty five or forty and older, you're probably

892
00:45:51,440 --> 00:45:55,480
Speaker 1: especially if you're a Florida fan, Bama fan, or Georgia fan. Really,

893
00:45:55,480 --> 00:45:58,200
Speaker 1: anyone in the SEC who remembers when Tennessee used to

894
00:45:58,200 --> 00:46:02,680
Speaker 1: be elite. There's a there's a phenomenon around the SEC.

895
00:46:02,719 --> 00:46:06,880
Speaker 1: I like to call rocky top rage, and it only

896
00:46:07,320 --> 00:46:12,400
Speaker 1: can occur when Tennessee's good, because only when Tennessee is

897
00:46:12,520 --> 00:46:15,520
Speaker 1: good do they have a reason to play that song.

898
00:46:16,120 --> 00:46:19,440
Speaker 1: Thirty seven to ninety eight times and a given Saturday.

899
00:46:19,840 --> 00:46:23,000
Speaker 1: It's normally happening when they're doing things on the field now.

900
00:46:23,520 --> 00:46:26,520
Speaker 1: When Tennessee was an afterthought for a long time aka

901
00:46:26,600 --> 00:46:29,040
Speaker 1: the past fifteen or so years, when Tennessee was not

902
00:46:29,080 --> 00:46:31,640
Speaker 1: a threat to anyone in the SEC or the East

903
00:46:31,680 --> 00:46:34,839
Speaker 1: even and when they were struggling to make a Bowl game,

904
00:46:35,600 --> 00:46:38,680
Speaker 1: no one really cared about Rocky Top. All it did

905
00:46:38,920 --> 00:46:43,120
Speaker 1: was evoke emotions of a generation gone by that hopefully,

906
00:46:43,280 --> 00:46:46,279
Speaker 1: if you're an anti Tennessee person you'll never see again. Well,

907
00:46:46,320 --> 00:46:49,920
Speaker 1: they're back, and I can tell you. If you're a

908
00:46:49,960 --> 00:46:52,080
Speaker 1: Florida fan, you went on the road with them this year,

909
00:46:52,120 --> 00:46:54,000
Speaker 1: you already experienced it. If you're a Bama fan, you

910
00:46:54,040 --> 00:46:55,680
Speaker 1: were a Kneeland a couple of weeks ago, you already

911
00:46:55,719 --> 00:47:02,280
Speaker 1: experienced it. There's this PTSD that kind of gets associated

912
00:47:02,320 --> 00:47:06,440
Speaker 1: with Rocky Top, the song, and the more they keep winning,

913
00:47:06,760 --> 00:47:08,279
Speaker 1: the more you're gonna hear it, and you're gonna have

914
00:47:08,320 --> 00:47:10,560
Speaker 1: to take a side, because no one is indifferent on

915
00:47:10,640 --> 00:47:13,560
Speaker 1: Rocky Top in the SEC. They either love it and

916
00:47:13,600 --> 00:47:17,320
Speaker 1: they woo every time he gets played, or they feel

917
00:47:17,360 --> 00:47:20,400
Speaker 1: like finding the nearest cliff and hurling themselves off of

918
00:47:20,440 --> 00:47:23,120
Speaker 1: it when they hear Rocky Top and Rocky Top rage

919
00:47:23,200 --> 00:47:27,080
Speaker 1: is back. Now, I'm in the business of entertainment and

920
00:47:27,120 --> 00:47:29,439
Speaker 1: we feed off emotion of fan basis. So I guess

921
00:47:29,480 --> 00:47:31,799
Speaker 1: that's a good thing for Late Cake, but it is

922
00:47:31,840 --> 00:47:34,239
Speaker 1: not a good thing for some of you, cause some

923
00:47:34,320 --> 00:47:37,560
Speaker 1: of you cannot handle a five plus year sustained run

924
00:47:37,600 --> 00:47:41,040
Speaker 1: of excellence in Knoxville, and we're only in year one here.

925
00:47:41,120 --> 00:47:44,200
Speaker 1: But we'll see what happens. How about this next question?

926
00:47:44,280 --> 00:47:47,920
Speaker 1: I like this one. Let's go out west, Aleck asked

927
00:47:47,960 --> 00:47:50,880
Speaker 1: with Kenny Dillingham being hired as the OC at Oregon.

928
00:47:50,960 --> 00:47:52,960
Speaker 1: When he got there, he made a comment along the

929
00:47:52,960 --> 00:47:56,360
Speaker 1: lines that Oregon and Eugene is the closest thing to

930
00:47:56,400 --> 00:48:00,279
Speaker 1: an sec environment you find out west based off your visit,

931
00:48:00,360 --> 00:48:06,400
Speaker 1: would you agree? Thank you? From Phoenix, Arizona. It's kind of,

932
00:48:06,440 --> 00:48:09,560
Speaker 1: I guess unfair because I haven't literally been everywhere out west.

933
00:48:09,920 --> 00:48:13,840
Speaker 1: I've got a feeling that Palo Alto, California doesn't quite

934
00:48:13,880 --> 00:48:16,520
Speaker 1: equal Athens, GA. So I don't think I need to

935
00:48:16,560 --> 00:48:21,040
Speaker 1: go everywhere. I don't probably think Bolder matches Baton Rouge.

936
00:48:21,440 --> 00:48:24,120
Speaker 1: It's a guess it looks very nice, it looks very scenic.

937
00:48:24,120 --> 00:48:26,520
Speaker 1: I'd love to go there. But I was in Eugene

938
00:48:26,600 --> 00:48:29,480
Speaker 1: last week and I did specifically do a lot of

939
00:48:29,560 --> 00:48:31,760
Speaker 1: radio hits in the South this week, where I said,

940
00:48:32,480 --> 00:48:35,080
Speaker 1: very much felt like an SEC atmosphere. Now here's what

941
00:48:35,120 --> 00:48:40,240
Speaker 1: you immediately pick up on when we go some places.

942
00:48:39,400 --> 00:48:44,720
Speaker 1: The task is to manufacture passion. And it's such a chore,

943
00:48:45,080 --> 00:48:47,160
Speaker 1: and it's so much easier if you've got a place

944
00:48:47,239 --> 00:48:50,600
Speaker 1: like Oregon where you don't have to worry about manufacturing passion.

945
00:48:50,680 --> 00:48:53,560
Speaker 1: The people show up, the people are engaged, everyone knows

946
00:48:53,560 --> 00:48:56,040
Speaker 1: the role, everyone does their job, and it doesn't really

947
00:48:56,040 --> 00:48:58,719
Speaker 1: matter if the team's winning or not. They still they're in.

948
00:48:58,920 --> 00:49:00,759
Speaker 1: They're all in for you. And when you don't have

949
00:49:00,800 --> 00:49:05,160
Speaker 1: to manufacture that, that's box one being checked. Box two.

950
00:49:05,960 --> 00:49:08,600
Speaker 1: After you've got the passion part down, you've got to

951
00:49:08,640 --> 00:49:10,920
Speaker 1: have investment, because if we're talking about matching some of

952
00:49:10,960 --> 00:49:13,560
Speaker 1: the big SEC and Big ten programs, you've got to

953
00:49:13,600 --> 00:49:15,880
Speaker 1: have the passion. But then you've got to have the investment.

954
00:49:16,360 --> 00:49:18,680
Speaker 1: And all you need to know about that is Phil Knight.

955
00:49:19,200 --> 00:49:21,279
Speaker 1: He built Nike, He built Orgon football to what you

956
00:49:21,320 --> 00:49:23,400
Speaker 1: know it as today, and I think there are probably

957
00:49:23,600 --> 00:49:25,600
Speaker 1: there are probably some things just around the corner up

958
00:49:25,640 --> 00:49:27,440
Speaker 1: there that may blow your mind even more than what

959
00:49:27,520 --> 00:49:32,680
Speaker 1: you currently see as the current iteration of Oregon football. Thirdly,

960
00:49:33,120 --> 00:49:35,799
Speaker 1: it's got to be attractive because the lifeblood of this

961
00:49:35,880 --> 00:49:40,920
Speaker 1: sport is recruiting. And this, to me is where outside

962
00:49:40,920 --> 00:49:44,120
Speaker 1: of southern cal of course, Oregon is able to separate

963
00:49:44,239 --> 00:49:47,439
Speaker 1: above and beyond anyone else on the West coast. There

964
00:49:47,480 --> 00:49:51,480
Speaker 1: is a brand attraction with that O that's unique onto

965
00:49:51,560 --> 00:49:55,120
Speaker 1: anything else outside of Los Angeles on the West coast.

966
00:49:55,400 --> 00:49:58,879
Speaker 1: And I was in their facility last week. I'll give

967
00:49:58,880 --> 00:50:02,120
Speaker 1: you an example. So I ran into Trequest Bridges last week,

968
00:50:02,920 --> 00:50:05,880
Speaker 1: who is a defensive back at Oregon. He played at

969
00:50:05,960 --> 00:50:10,319
Speaker 1: Lynette High School. What part of Oregon is Lynette, inn? Oh,

970
00:50:10,600 --> 00:50:12,839
Speaker 1: it's not in Oregon. Oh is it in California? Where

971
00:50:12,880 --> 00:50:15,920
Speaker 1: is it is in Arizona? No, It's in rural east

972
00:50:15,960 --> 00:50:20,320
Speaker 1: central Alabama. And Lynette is a very good program. Clifford

973
00:50:20,400 --> 00:50:23,520
Speaker 1: Story has done big things down there. But it's a

974
00:50:23,560 --> 00:50:28,480
Speaker 1: small school in Alabama. So Trackquest Bridges is a perfect

975
00:50:28,520 --> 00:50:30,839
Speaker 1: example of what I'm talking about here. Four star defensive back,

976
00:50:31,360 --> 00:50:33,840
Speaker 1: and you probably look at Alabama, you look at Georgia,

977
00:50:33,880 --> 00:50:36,920
Speaker 1: you look at Auburn, you know, basically within driving distance

978
00:50:36,920 --> 00:50:40,319
Speaker 1: of Lynette, and then Oregon's in the picture. And why

979
00:50:40,400 --> 00:50:42,920
Speaker 1: is Oregon in the picture? Because kids who grew up

980
00:50:42,960 --> 00:50:45,879
Speaker 1: in Lynette, Alabama, who are eighteen or nineteen years old,

981
00:50:46,239 --> 00:50:50,880
Speaker 1: they know Oregon. They don't know anything, frankly and respectfully

982
00:50:51,360 --> 00:50:54,000
Speaker 1: about a lot of the other competition that Oregon has

983
00:50:54,000 --> 00:50:56,200
Speaker 1: on the West coast. Those schools don't even try to

984
00:50:56,239 --> 00:50:59,280
Speaker 1: recruit nationally because of that. Oregon can afford to recruit

985
00:50:59,360 --> 00:51:02,960
Speaker 1: nationally because they know because of that check mark they

986
00:51:03,000 --> 00:51:05,400
Speaker 1: have on the side of everything they wear and everything

987
00:51:05,400 --> 00:51:10,680
Speaker 1: they feature up there, they resonate you leverage what you have. Now.

988
00:51:10,880 --> 00:51:12,839
Speaker 1: The downside is they got to fly one thousand miles

989
00:51:12,880 --> 00:51:14,400
Speaker 1: to go get a lout of that talent or more.

990
00:51:14,840 --> 00:51:18,200
Speaker 1: But the plus side is the distance doesn't matter because

991
00:51:18,239 --> 00:51:21,520
Speaker 1: it matters what attracts a kid, and what attracts a

992
00:51:21,600 --> 00:51:24,560
Speaker 1: kid they've got in abundance in Eugene, organ So Yes,

993
00:51:24,560 --> 00:51:27,920
Speaker 1: to answer your question, very much felt like an SEC program,

994
00:51:27,960 --> 00:51:31,440
Speaker 1: a venue, a game day experience, etc. And I went

995
00:51:31,520 --> 00:51:32,759
Speaker 1: up there for the first time. It will not be

996
00:51:32,760 --> 00:51:36,040
Speaker 1: the last time I got an interesting question here about

997
00:51:36,080 --> 00:51:42,719
Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin, and so this I'll just read it to you.

998
00:51:42,760 --> 00:51:47,840
Speaker 1: This one's interesting seth asked. Is Lane Kiffen a flight

999
00:51:48,000 --> 00:51:52,000
Speaker 1: risk at any school not named Alabama? From the Woodlands, Texas? Now,

1000
00:51:52,000 --> 00:51:55,640
Speaker 1: the insinuation here is if Kiffin had the Alabama job,

1001
00:51:55,880 --> 00:51:58,600
Speaker 1: he wouldn't be looking to go anywhere. But outside of

1002
00:51:58,680 --> 00:52:01,560
Speaker 1: him having the Bama job, do you always have to

1003
00:52:01,600 --> 00:52:07,719
Speaker 1: be worried about losing him. It's a complicated answer, and

1004
00:52:07,760 --> 00:52:14,080
Speaker 1: I've done some digging on this lately. So I Lane

1005
00:52:14,120 --> 00:52:16,920
Speaker 1: Kiffen wants the same thing every other coach wants. He

1006
00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:19,960
Speaker 1: wants to know that he has access to the resources

1007
00:52:20,000 --> 00:52:22,080
Speaker 1: he needs to win to compete at the highest level.

1008
00:52:22,239 --> 00:52:25,200
Speaker 1: He wants the ability to compete. In other words, he

1009
00:52:25,280 --> 00:52:29,080
Speaker 1: wants to know that he has the ability to not

1010
00:52:29,320 --> 00:52:32,120
Speaker 1: be hamstrung by things that are outside of his control.

1011
00:52:32,680 --> 00:52:35,840
Speaker 1: Guys like Kiffin the best in any walk of life.

1012
00:52:35,880 --> 00:52:38,359
Speaker 1: They believe that if all things are equal or even

1013
00:52:38,440 --> 00:52:43,280
Speaker 1: close to equal, if you put me on remotely stable

1014
00:52:43,320 --> 00:52:46,120
Speaker 1: and equal ground with my competition, I'll win because I'm

1015
00:52:46,160 --> 00:52:49,919
Speaker 1: not good. But what I can't do is I can't

1016
00:52:49,960 --> 00:52:51,960
Speaker 1: give them a thirty yard head start in the race

1017
00:52:52,440 --> 00:52:55,080
Speaker 1: because of things outside of my control and still be

1018
00:52:55,120 --> 00:52:58,839
Speaker 1: expected to win. And candidly, if I'm Lane Kiffin, I'm

1019
00:52:58,840 --> 00:53:02,000
Speaker 1: thinking about myself. I'm good enough to have one of

1020
00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:03,840
Speaker 1: those top jobs. I'm good enough to be at a

1021
00:53:03,880 --> 00:53:07,719
Speaker 1: place where they do allocate those kinds of resources. Now

1022
00:53:09,000 --> 00:53:11,359
Speaker 1: you've heard him make some comments over the past week

1023
00:53:11,400 --> 00:53:13,480
Speaker 1: about Texas, A and M. It's not an accident. It's

1024
00:53:13,480 --> 00:53:15,440
Speaker 1: not a coincidence they're playing him this week either. But

1025
00:53:16,360 --> 00:53:19,280
Speaker 1: they asked him about dj Dirkin this week, his former

1026
00:53:19,320 --> 00:53:24,399
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator who's now in College Station Texas. He said, paraphrasing, Yeah,

1027
00:53:24,440 --> 00:53:26,879
Speaker 1: we wanted to keep him, we got out bid. That's

1028
00:53:26,920 --> 00:53:30,440
Speaker 1: a familiar theme with that program. And he's talking about recruiting,

1029
00:53:30,640 --> 00:53:36,440
Speaker 1: talking about nil talking about coaching salaries. You don't just

1030
00:53:36,719 --> 00:53:41,080
Speaker 1: magically get access to a blank checkbook by having an

1031
00:53:41,200 --> 00:53:45,000
Speaker 1: SEC head coaching job. Even in the SEC you have levels,

1032
00:53:45,280 --> 00:53:48,680
Speaker 1: you have tears. So Lane Kiffin knows the name of

1033
00:53:48,719 --> 00:53:51,319
Speaker 1: the game. And Lane Kiffin doesn't want anything more than

1034
00:53:51,320 --> 00:53:53,640
Speaker 1: any other coach wants. He wants to be able to

1035
00:53:53,640 --> 00:53:57,239
Speaker 1: compete at the highest level. He wants the resources necessary

1036
00:53:57,560 --> 00:53:59,880
Speaker 1: to compete at the highest level, and he doesn't want

1037
00:53:59,880 --> 00:54:03,680
Speaker 1: to wake up every morning knowing that someone else has

1038
00:54:03,680 --> 00:54:05,960
Speaker 1: already got a head start on him due to things

1039
00:54:05,960 --> 00:54:10,520
Speaker 1: completely outside his control. And the thing I don't want

1040
00:54:10,520 --> 00:54:12,040
Speaker 1: to do is I don't want to single out Ole

1041
00:54:12,120 --> 00:54:15,839
Speaker 1: Miss here, because you could park Kiffin at North Carolina State,

1042
00:54:16,239 --> 00:54:18,719
Speaker 1: you could park him at South Carolina, you could park

1043
00:54:18,800 --> 00:54:20,760
Speaker 1: him at any of a number of places not named,

1044
00:54:20,920 --> 00:54:25,120
Speaker 1: like Alabama and Ohio State, and it would probably be

1045
00:54:25,280 --> 00:54:29,880
Speaker 1: a version of the same question. And so you also

1046
00:54:30,000 --> 00:54:33,920
Speaker 1: have to really dig deep and understand the dynamics. For example,

1047
00:54:34,040 --> 00:54:38,080
Speaker 1: there could be a random program out there like Oregon,

1048
00:54:38,120 --> 00:54:42,960
Speaker 1: for example, quite frankly, that has a multi billionaire donor

1049
00:54:43,000 --> 00:54:46,880
Speaker 1: and booster and a lum who is so disproportionately invested

1050
00:54:46,880 --> 00:54:49,719
Speaker 1: in football. Some of the other stuff doesn't matter. You'll

1051
00:54:49,719 --> 00:54:52,160
Speaker 1: always have what you need. I don't know that they

1052
00:54:52,160 --> 00:54:54,480
Speaker 1: have that at Ole Miss, quite frankly, I don't know

1053
00:54:54,480 --> 00:54:57,640
Speaker 1: they have that at many places. But it's just right situation.

1054
00:54:58,120 --> 00:55:00,480
Speaker 1: And then the other question, of course, if you're talking

1055
00:55:00,480 --> 00:55:03,399
Speaker 1: about any flight risk, is what's the market for him,

1056
00:55:04,360 --> 00:55:06,120
Speaker 1: which is a question that gets asked a lot about

1057
00:55:06,160 --> 00:55:11,560
Speaker 1: Kiffin because people perceive him to have baggage. People already

1058
00:55:11,600 --> 00:55:13,960
Speaker 1: have their opinion cast of him. No one's changing their

1059
00:55:14,000 --> 00:55:16,920
Speaker 1: mind on Lane Kiffin. Like, if I'm running pat State,

1060
00:55:17,080 --> 00:55:18,960
Speaker 1: I want to win. I think the guy can help

1061
00:55:19,000 --> 00:55:20,759
Speaker 1: me win. I think he's very good at hiring a

1062
00:55:20,800 --> 00:55:23,279
Speaker 1: staff that compliments what he does and who he is.

1063
00:55:23,320 --> 00:55:26,279
Speaker 1: So look, if I had an opening, i'd look hard

1064
00:55:26,280 --> 00:55:29,320
Speaker 1: at him. But I don't because we're a fictitious program

1065
00:55:29,400 --> 00:55:33,239
Speaker 1: right now, so we don't have openings. But yeah, I

1066
00:55:33,239 --> 00:55:35,800
Speaker 1: guess to answer the question, yeah, to a certain extent,

1067
00:55:36,200 --> 00:55:39,080
Speaker 1: almost everyone's a flight risk. Yeah, so i'd keep an

1068
00:55:39,080 --> 00:55:41,960
Speaker 1: eye on that. Without any specific information, By the way,

1069
00:55:41,960 --> 00:55:43,239
Speaker 1: I want to make that clear, but yeah, I keep

1070
00:55:43,239 --> 00:55:46,239
Speaker 1: an eye on it. Last question here before we get

1071
00:55:46,280 --> 00:55:47,640
Speaker 1: to best bets, and then we get out of here,

1072
00:55:49,440 --> 00:55:53,000
Speaker 1: I guess I'll probably have something controversial to say here too.

1073
00:55:53,760 --> 00:55:57,200
Speaker 1: Pen and Pull asked, how concerning is it that networks

1074
00:55:57,200 --> 00:56:01,520
Speaker 1: are dictating to conferences the time windows for the biggest games.

1075
00:56:01,880 --> 00:56:05,760
Speaker 1: Some venues Death Valley, Beaver Stadium, Kinnick Stadium, or Diptment

1076
00:56:05,840 --> 00:56:09,400
Speaker 1: different atmospheres at night, others are better during the daytime.

1077
00:56:09,560 --> 00:56:13,640
Speaker 1: How much does it hurt the product from Northside Chicago.

1078
00:56:13,760 --> 00:56:18,640
Speaker 1: There's merit to this, Okay, so what he's saying, is

1079
00:56:18,680 --> 00:56:20,919
Speaker 1: you go back a couple of weeks and you look

1080
00:56:20,920 --> 00:56:25,040
Speaker 1: at Tennessee at LSU. Tennessee wins going away, it's an

1081
00:56:25,040 --> 00:56:28,640
Speaker 1: eleven am local time kickoff in Baton Rouge. How much

1082
00:56:28,719 --> 00:56:31,880
Speaker 1: different would it possibly have been if it were a

1083
00:56:32,000 --> 00:56:35,560
Speaker 1: seven pm local time kickoff? They've got Bama in there

1084
00:56:35,719 --> 00:56:40,680
Speaker 1: next week. Bama's Bama's plan at night, so they got

1085
00:56:40,880 --> 00:56:44,120
Speaker 1: Tiger Stadium, Death Valley under the lights and all the trappings,

1086
00:56:44,520 --> 00:56:47,400
Speaker 1: so you'll get to see that. Next week. Penn State

1087
00:56:47,640 --> 00:56:51,440
Speaker 1: hosts Ohio State in about thirty six hours. That game's

1088
00:56:51,480 --> 00:56:54,960
Speaker 1: kicking off at noon local time? How much different would

1089
00:56:55,000 --> 00:56:57,960
Speaker 1: Beaver Stadium? Look if it were a seven thirty kickoff,

1090
00:56:58,400 --> 00:57:02,520
Speaker 1: it would be whited out. We know that, So I

1091
00:57:02,520 --> 00:57:04,759
Speaker 1: think some people scoff at this. It's mainly the folks

1092
00:57:04,800 --> 00:57:06,759
Speaker 1: who have never been there in person. A lot of

1093
00:57:06,760 --> 00:57:08,560
Speaker 1: people think of football game is a football game, doesn't

1094
00:57:08,560 --> 00:57:09,840
Speaker 1: matter what time they kick it off. You should be

1095
00:57:09,880 --> 00:57:11,760
Speaker 1: able to get your team up and all. That's true,

1096
00:57:12,080 --> 00:57:14,439
Speaker 1: But at the same time, it's not. If you're playing

1097
00:57:14,480 --> 00:57:17,160
Speaker 1: in front of one hundred people, that's true. If you're

1098
00:57:17,200 --> 00:57:20,440
Speaker 1: playing in front of one hundred thousand people, it's a

1099
00:57:20,760 --> 00:57:24,080
Speaker 1: It is a weapon, no more, no less. A home

1100
00:57:24,160 --> 00:57:27,200
Speaker 1: crowd that gets lathered up all day and then gets

1101
00:57:27,200 --> 00:57:31,560
Speaker 1: put in a very very confined space relatively speaking compared

1102
00:57:31,560 --> 00:57:34,680
Speaker 1: to the number is a weapon, and you can best

1103
00:57:34,760 --> 00:57:37,080
Speaker 1: utilize that weapon the later in the day it gets.

1104
00:57:37,280 --> 00:57:39,480
Speaker 1: That's a fact. I stand on the sideline at the

1105
00:57:39,480 --> 00:57:41,960
Speaker 1: biggest games every week. It is different at night than

1106
00:57:42,040 --> 00:57:46,040
Speaker 1: it is during the day. Here's where my controversial stance

1107
00:57:46,080 --> 00:57:49,400
Speaker 1: comes in. I don't care as much because I like

1108
00:57:49,440 --> 00:57:52,920
Speaker 1: to get home, and so I relish the noon kickoff,

1109
00:57:52,960 --> 00:57:56,680
Speaker 1: the eleven am Central kickoff. I love it, and candidly,

1110
00:57:56,880 --> 00:57:58,520
Speaker 1: I think a lot of these places do a plenty

1111
00:57:58,520 --> 00:58:01,600
Speaker 1: good enough job during the daytime. Now, my favorite, Windows

1112
00:58:01,640 --> 00:58:04,960
Speaker 1: three thirty I love because I think it's a little compromise.

1113
00:58:05,280 --> 00:58:07,720
Speaker 1: And what I love about the three thirty window this

1114
00:58:07,800 --> 00:58:10,360
Speaker 1: time of year is you get the first part of

1115
00:58:10,400 --> 00:58:12,920
Speaker 1: the game during the day, and then you get to

1116
00:58:13,000 --> 00:58:15,960
Speaker 1: watch the sunset as part of the broadcast. You get

1117
00:58:15,960 --> 00:58:18,360
Speaker 1: to watch the sunset as part of the second half

1118
00:58:18,440 --> 00:58:21,040
Speaker 1: game experience. So you kind of especially if you get

1119
00:58:21,080 --> 00:58:23,960
Speaker 1: into November, you got the time change, wretched time change.

1120
00:58:24,040 --> 00:58:26,960
Speaker 1: You get the best of both worlds. The networks do

1121
00:58:27,040 --> 00:58:30,920
Speaker 1: dictate this. We're the entertainment business. What do we just

1122
00:58:30,920 --> 00:58:32,960
Speaker 1: talk about a little while ago. If you were to

1123
00:58:32,960 --> 00:58:37,080
Speaker 1: pay billions of dollars for a media rights package, would

1124
00:58:37,120 --> 00:58:40,600
Speaker 1: you bat an eye if someone complained where you wanted

1125
00:58:40,640 --> 00:58:43,600
Speaker 1: to put your property. It's your property. You bought it.

1126
00:58:44,280 --> 00:58:50,560
Speaker 1: That's the way it is. I am surprised that conferences,

1127
00:58:51,920 --> 00:58:56,400
Speaker 1: especially ones with options, don't find a way to be

1128
00:58:56,520 --> 00:59:00,200
Speaker 1: a little bit more agreeable and flexible and dynamic in

1129
00:59:00,240 --> 00:59:02,360
Speaker 1: deciding what time of day some of this airs. But

1130
00:59:02,400 --> 00:59:05,160
Speaker 1: it's also very complex, and you want to see something

1131
00:59:05,200 --> 00:59:08,360
Speaker 1: really fun, watch the Big ten, the Big ten in

1132
00:59:08,400 --> 00:59:13,040
Speaker 1: the coming years. So they've got NBC, CBS and Fox

1133
00:59:13,240 --> 00:59:16,960
Speaker 1: in the room and the best, it's been explained to me,

1134
00:59:18,640 --> 00:59:21,680
Speaker 1: the number one game on any given week. There's this

1135
00:59:21,800 --> 00:59:24,400
Speaker 1: lottery system kind of for it. So in other words,

1136
00:59:24,640 --> 00:59:26,920
Speaker 1: Fox may have the number one game one week and

1137
00:59:27,000 --> 00:59:30,160
Speaker 1: put it at noon. CBS may have the number one

1138
00:59:30,200 --> 00:59:31,880
Speaker 1: game one week and they put it at three thirty.

1139
00:59:32,240 --> 00:59:35,080
Speaker 1: And you could have NBC have the number one game,

1140
00:59:35,120 --> 00:59:37,120
Speaker 1: they'd put it at seven thirty. So you got three

1141
00:59:37,160 --> 00:59:41,880
Speaker 1: different networks with three different broadcast window priorities, and that's

1142
00:59:41,920 --> 00:59:44,200
Speaker 1: going to be really fun for you guys to try

1143
00:59:44,200 --> 00:59:47,720
Speaker 1: and track. But it's it's a necessary evil. I guess

1144
00:59:47,720 --> 00:59:49,479
Speaker 1: it is what I would call it. All right, let's

1145
00:59:49,480 --> 00:59:51,560
Speaker 1: talk about best bets. We've already got four of them

1146
00:59:51,600 --> 00:59:54,280
Speaker 1: on the board. I'm gonna add another one tonight, and

1147
00:59:54,320 --> 00:59:56,640
Speaker 1: it's one that's familiar to us, and it's one that's

1148
00:59:56,680 --> 00:59:59,440
Speaker 1: been good to us. To remind you, the games were

1149
00:59:59,440 --> 01:00:02,120
Speaker 1: already on Texas A and M plus three. I don't

1150
01:00:02,120 --> 01:00:04,320
Speaker 1: think that number is available anymore. We like them to

1151
01:00:04,320 --> 01:00:06,800
Speaker 1: win out right, though, So take whatever number you can get.

1152
01:00:07,240 --> 01:00:13,920
Speaker 1: UAB minus five, Iowa State plus one, cal plus seventeen

1153
01:00:13,960 --> 01:00:16,880
Speaker 1: and a half. Also like it at seventeen. And here's

1154
01:00:16,880 --> 01:00:20,240
Speaker 1: what we're adding, Fresno State minus eight and a half.

1155
01:00:20,280 --> 01:00:23,240
Speaker 1: Bulldogs have been very good to us. Remember Friday Night Lines.

1156
01:00:23,640 --> 01:00:27,520
Speaker 1: Make sure you're following. You're losing value by the day

1157
01:00:27,720 --> 01:00:30,000
Speaker 1: if you're not following on Instagram, I give you a

1158
01:00:30,000 --> 01:00:32,400
Speaker 1: ton of behind the scenes access On Saturday. We got

1159
01:00:32,440 --> 01:00:35,960
Speaker 1: Friday Night Lines at Late Kick Josh. Make sure you're

1160
01:00:35,960 --> 01:00:38,080
Speaker 1: following there. There's a lot there that you don't get

1161
01:00:38,080 --> 01:00:40,480
Speaker 1: on the show for obvious reasons. Because I'm not live

1162
01:00:40,520 --> 01:00:42,760
Speaker 1: on Saturday so make sure you're following there. I appreciate

1163
01:00:42,800 --> 01:00:44,600
Speaker 1: you guys so much. Make sure you're subscribed to the

1164
01:00:44,680 --> 01:00:49,480
Speaker 1: channel like the video. If you're in Manhattan, Kansas for

1165
01:00:49,520 --> 01:00:52,480
Speaker 1: the first time ever, we will see you this Saturday

1166
01:00:52,640 --> 01:00:55,600
Speaker 1: with Academy gift cards in hand. So we'll take a

1167
01:00:55,640 --> 01:00:57,440
Speaker 1: lot of pictures, we'll hand out a lot of gift cards,

1168
01:00:57,440 --> 01:00:59,080
Speaker 1: and I bet you we see a really really good

1169
01:00:59,120 --> 01:01:01,080
Speaker 1: game and we'll be actors Sunday night at the same

1170
01:01:01,080 --> 01:01:03,600
Speaker 1: time to talk about it all. Until then for producer Jesse,

1171
01:01:03,640 --> 01:01:05,440
Speaker 1: director Colin On Josh Bay, take care of a great

1172
01:01:05,480 --> 01:01:07,200
Speaker 1: week and enjoy the games. The Goblins