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Speaker 1: good way. Texas is about to blow up. Not University

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Speaker 1: You never know what's going to happen when you're over

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Speaker 1: great high school football blah blah blah. All that's true.

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Speaker 1: about the future of Washington football? By that point, And

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Speaker 1: I'm asking you that question because I think Kaylen Deboor's

429
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Speaker 1: stock is already rising as a head coach. If he's

430
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Speaker 1: got a Heisman Trophy winning quarterback out there, if they

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Speaker 1: improved that pass defense any which was one hundredth in

432
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Speaker 1: yards per game allowed last year, you know, if they

433
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Speaker 1: had if they had that green arrow pointing up on

434
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Speaker 1: all aspects of the program, and he wins over nine

435
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Speaker 1: and a half or ten games, which is their total

436
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Speaker 1: right now. If he does all that, he is going

437
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Speaker 1: to be unextremely scorching hot commodity in the head coaching market.

438
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Speaker 1: And the reason I'm asking about Washington is because that's

439
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Speaker 1: a really good place to coach. But if it looks

440
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Speaker 1: like they're going to be tied to the Pac twelve

441
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Speaker 1: for the foreseeable future, it's far less a desirable place

442
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Speaker 1: to be. So we fast forward to December or January

443
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Speaker 1: when this would be happening, and have we seen any

444
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Speaker 1: headline from the Big Ten? Have we heard any rumblings?

445
00:22:16,320 --> 00:22:18,800
Speaker 1: Has Dennis Dodd broken a story on cbsports dot com

446
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Speaker 1: that indicates Washington maybe headed eults where Well, if that's

447
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Speaker 1: the case, then maybe he sticks it out there. If

448
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Speaker 1: it's not the case. Maybe half a dozen jobs come

449
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Speaker 1: open that look better than the one he has. That

450
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Speaker 1: Heisman Trophy win by his quarterback could impact the market

451
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Speaker 1: in more ways than one. And the last what if

452
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Speaker 1: on the docket tonight comes from Jeremy and he said,

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Speaker 1: what if Texas and Oklahoma both miss out on a

454
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Speaker 1: Big twelve title game? And Jeremy forgot to put the

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Speaker 1: word again on the end, but I am adding again,

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Speaker 1: what if Texas and o you miss out on this

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Speaker 1: game again? Number one in odds and number two in

458
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Speaker 1: odds again, just like last year, and they both missed out.

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Speaker 1: You remember that Texas to get to forty nine zip

460
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Speaker 1: win over Oklahoma, but it didn't matter at the end

461
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Speaker 1: of the day because neither of them made the conference

462
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Speaker 1: title game. I've said two times in the show already

463
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Speaker 1: and I'll do it again because Texas needs to hear it.

464
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Speaker 1: You hadn't made the conference title games at so nine.

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Speaker 1: This would make it I think three years since OU

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Speaker 1: has been there. What's the context here? So we're playing

467
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Speaker 1: the what if game? Well, what's the context? Did a

468
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Speaker 1: Kansas State and a TCU blow up? Did the entire

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Speaker 1: conference collectively cannibalize itself, and you just had a bunch

470
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Speaker 1: of scrap metal out there, and you chose a couple

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Speaker 1: of three lost teams to play in Dallas, and it

472
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Speaker 1: was an afterthought of a game. Did multiple teams grab

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Speaker 1: the reins? Because Texas they made the Big twelve title

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Speaker 1: game in twenty eighteen. I keep saying that they haven't

475
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Speaker 1: won it since two thousand and nine. I hope I'll

476
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Speaker 1: be forgiven for that. I probably I don't deserve to

477
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Speaker 1: be forgiven for that, So go ahead and give it

478
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Speaker 1: to me immunity. But if this happens, they're out the door.

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Speaker 1: It does not matter if they go, oh in twelve

480
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Speaker 1: or twelve O this year, there the door to the

481
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Speaker 1: SEC right after they turn the lights off on the season.

482
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Speaker 1: So did we have a situation where a Texas Tech

483
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Speaker 1: just grab the reins or Kansas State continues to have

484
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Speaker 1: their hands on the reins? And what I'm asking is,

485
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Speaker 1: once those two head out the door, has one or

486
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Speaker 1: multiples of these teams entrenched themselves as much more than

487
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Speaker 1: just the best of a bunch of mediocrity, Because that's

488
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Speaker 1: how the country's going to default. By the way, whether

489
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Speaker 1: you deserve that or not. The rest of the country's

490
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Speaker 1: going to look at those two big dogs walk out

491
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Speaker 1: the door, and they're gonna say, all right, why should

492
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Speaker 1: I take the Big twelve? Seriously? Well, maybe they don't

493
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Speaker 1: say that because in this scenario, maybe someone flexed out there,

494
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Speaker 1: maybe a couple of teams flexed out there enough where

495
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Speaker 1: they're not talking like that. So is there a TCUs

496
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Speaker 1: run another Kansas state? Is there one of those in

497
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Speaker 1: Lubbock or Baylor? Might we in ames Iowa? Might we

498
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Speaker 1: go on a little cyclonic run of our own to

499
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Speaker 1: the Big twelve championship game? Because we deserve it. I'll

500
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Speaker 1: tell you that fun game of what ift night? I

501
00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:06,920
Speaker 1: got some fun for you. How about playing sports outdoors?

502
00:25:06,960 --> 00:25:09,760
Speaker 1: How about that? How about playing football? And I know

503
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Speaker 1: some of you, especially with little ones running around, sometimes

504
00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:15,239
Speaker 1: you can be on the fence about such things. Why well,

505
00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:18,880
Speaker 1: you could get hurt playing football. Well that's true, and

506
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Speaker 1: that's where our friends at Academy Sports and Outdoors come in.

507
00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:25,600
Speaker 1: I would like you, if you are listening on podcast,

508
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Speaker 1: to just imagine a world where little Johnny twelve thirteen

509
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Speaker 1: years old. I don't know Johnny's birth certificate, but I

510
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Speaker 1: do know that when he straps it up when he

511
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Speaker 1: puts the lid on. When he goes out there on

512
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Speaker 1: the field, you wents every time there's a collision, right, Well,

513
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Speaker 1: what if he just put bubble wrap on his head. Well,

514
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Speaker 1: that would be soft and it would look weird. You

515
00:25:46,359 --> 00:25:48,480
Speaker 1: don't have to put literal bubble wrap. You can save

516
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Speaker 1: that for ups and FedEx. What you can do is

517
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Speaker 1: get a guardian cap and put it on that helmet,

518
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Speaker 1: which is pretty much what every college football team practice

519
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Speaker 1: is with now, and it reduces that impact to significant amount.

520
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Speaker 1: For that matter, it reduces temperature when it's one hundred

521
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Speaker 1: and five degrees outside in mid August. It reduces temperature.

522
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Speaker 1: And the reason I'm mentioning in it right now is

523
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Speaker 1: because for the time being, they are exclusively sold at

524
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Speaker 1: Academy Sports and Outdoors. Now, if you're listening on podcasts,

525
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Speaker 1: you can't see the bright, pretty pictures I'm showing you.

526
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Speaker 1: But if you're watching on pod or on YouTube, you

527
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Speaker 1: can see it. One of forty seven trillion different things.

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Speaker 1: That's a rough estimate that you can get when you

529
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Speaker 1: go to Academy Sports and Outdoors. So I would strongly

530
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Speaker 1: encourage you guys. You know, at the very least do

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Speaker 1: your research on it. But I always I always talk

532
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Speaker 1: when anyone asks me about, you know, safety of the game.

533
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Speaker 1: I always talk about the advancements they've made, and a

534
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Speaker 1: lot of the horror stories and a lot of the

535
00:26:43,359 --> 00:26:48,479
Speaker 1: terrible headlines you see are the end result of the

536
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Speaker 1: style that the game was played in twenty years ago,

537
00:26:51,160 --> 00:26:55,560
Speaker 1: thirty years ago. Well, practice has been altered significantly, like

538
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Speaker 1: no one even says to a days anymore, much less

539
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Speaker 1: does them. And you've also so got a lot more

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Speaker 1: understanding of collisions and how that actually works, head injuries

541
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Speaker 1: and how that actually works, and preventative measures that you

542
00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:12,359
Speaker 1: can take not to eliminate the risk, but to greatly

543
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Speaker 1: reduce the risk. So Academy Sports and Outdoors got those

544
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Speaker 1: Guardian hats for helmet. It's like Pedro Serrano hats for bat,

545
00:27:19,520 --> 00:27:21,879
Speaker 1: but we've got hats for helmet here. So this is

546
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Speaker 1: not major league. Thank you so much to Academy Sports

547
00:27:25,119 --> 00:27:28,000
Speaker 1: and Outdoors in town this week for SEC media Days.

548
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Speaker 1: Looking forward to seeing them all Right. We had a

549
00:27:30,280 --> 00:27:33,520
Speaker 1: question from the old mail bag that I couldn't get

550
00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:39,800
Speaker 1: to the other day from Douglasville, Georgia. No Less, got

551
00:27:39,800 --> 00:27:43,439
Speaker 1: a lot of famous families from that portion of the country.

552
00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:47,959
Speaker 1: I was gonna give you inside joke, but it's literally

553
00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:50,760
Speaker 1: so inside. Only like five people from my hometown would

554
00:27:50,760 --> 00:27:53,200
Speaker 1: get it, So I'm not gonna waste your time. Al

555
00:27:53,280 --> 00:27:56,280
Speaker 1: from Douglasville, Georgia said, have you done that hinge game

556
00:27:56,400 --> 00:27:58,919
Speaker 1: segment for this year yet? AL know we have not.

557
00:27:59,200 --> 00:28:01,720
Speaker 1: And Al's talk about something we do every year where

558
00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:05,040
Speaker 1: we start to look at the whole schedule, Grid and

559
00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:07,439
Speaker 1: I pick out the games that the entire season is

560
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Speaker 1: going to hinge on. And it's not always these marquee

561
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Speaker 1: matchups featuring top five versus top five. Sometimes it is,

562
00:28:14,960 --> 00:28:17,680
Speaker 1: but it's almost common sense those are hinge games. Let

563
00:28:17,680 --> 00:28:20,200
Speaker 1: me give you an example, Texas A and M at

564
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Speaker 1: Miami in Week two. That's a hinge game. Think about

565
00:28:25,520 --> 00:28:30,080
Speaker 1: the divergent paths that these two teams respective seasons will

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Speaker 1: take based on the outcome of that game. It's a

567
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Speaker 1: non conference game, it's Week two. But yet I'm looking

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Speaker 1: at teams here that don't have playoff hopes. Necessarily they've

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Speaker 1: got hopes, but no one's talking about Miami and A

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Speaker 1: and M in the playoff picture. So you may think,

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Speaker 1: why are you picking this game as a hinge game

572
00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:52,640
Speaker 1: because they both have sky high standards and expectations. Texas

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00:28:52,640 --> 00:28:56,080
Speaker 1: A and M and Miami truly as a fan base,

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Speaker 1: fancy themselves as programs that when things right should be

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Speaker 1: in the thick of the playoff conversation. They're not wrong.

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Speaker 1: Things just haven't been right. They're not wrong about that. Well,

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Speaker 1: the point is, it's a fact they're gonna play each

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Speaker 1: other in Week two, and it's a fact one of

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Speaker 1: them is gonna win and probably inflate the bubble a

580
00:29:15,360 --> 00:29:17,400
Speaker 1: little bit too much when it comes to expectations. But

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Speaker 1: here's the downside. One of them is gonna lose. That's

582
00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:21,840
Speaker 1: also a fact. And so before they even get in

583
00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:24,560
Speaker 1: conference play, either A and M or Miami's already gonna

584
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Speaker 1: have a loss. Don't really care what the score is,

585
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Speaker 1: but if it's embarrassing, that's its own kettle of fish.

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Speaker 1: As me Mal would say, Texas A and M. I

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Speaker 1: just want to paint you a frightening picture here. Let's

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Speaker 1: say Texas A and M goes down there and loses.

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00:29:39,040 --> 00:29:45,200
Speaker 1: They will already be one in one with games against Auburn,

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00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:52,200
Speaker 1: Arkansas neutral site against Bama at Tennessee South Carolina, at

591
00:29:52,200 --> 00:29:55,600
Speaker 1: Ole Miss Mississippi State, and at LSU still to go.

592
00:29:57,480 --> 00:30:00,320
Speaker 1: The standard is not let's make a bowl. There does

593
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Speaker 1: not let's get back to seven or eight wins. They

594
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Speaker 1: don't have time for that, nor should they have time

595
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Speaker 1: for that. So I'm not criticizing you guys. And conversely,

596
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Speaker 1: down at Miami, if they lose that game, and if

597
00:30:13,240 --> 00:30:16,480
Speaker 1: they're let's just say they're one in one. I don't

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Speaker 1: want to overlook Miami of Ohio. Someone warned me about

599
00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:22,000
Speaker 1: that the other day. Let's just for the sake of

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Speaker 1: fun here in time constraints, let's say they're one in one.

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Speaker 1: Miami's got a really treacherous road when it comes to

602
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Speaker 1: acc play. So they would still have games at North Carolina, Clemson,

603
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Speaker 1: at NC State, at FSU Louisville, they go to Boston

604
00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:41,720
Speaker 1: College in late November. That's doing you no favors if

605
00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:44,520
Speaker 1: you live pretty much anywhere, but especially in South Florida.

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00:30:44,880 --> 00:30:46,960
Speaker 1: So anyway, my point is if they've already got a

607
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Speaker 1: loss before they get into those weeds, it is not

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Speaker 1: going to be pleasant. That is a major hinge game.

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Speaker 1: Also in week two. In fact, I've got three of

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Speaker 1: them in week two in Tuscaloosa, Texas at Alabama and

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Speaker 1: we two is the definition of a hinge game. If

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Speaker 1: you told me this was the game you were looking

613
00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:07,120
Speaker 1: most forward to out of any game on the schedule

614
00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:09,480
Speaker 1: this year, I wouldn't push back too hard on you.

615
00:31:09,520 --> 00:31:13,000
Speaker 1: And that's not even a conference game. But there's a

616
00:31:13,040 --> 00:31:16,960
Speaker 1: funny thing, really funny thing about Bryant Denny Stadium and

617
00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:20,240
Speaker 1: the reputation there when you see all these lists. When

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Speaker 1: Big Game Boomer, for instance, goes down the route of

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Speaker 1: putting out a list of the most hostile stadiums. When

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Speaker 1: Brandon Walker makes a mistake and starts to talk period,

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Speaker 1: and he happens to choose to talk about the most

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Speaker 1: hostile environments in college football, Bryant Denny Stadium is never

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Speaker 1: on the list. It's never in the top three or

624
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Speaker 1: top four. And if you didn't know any better, this

625
00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:42,720
Speaker 1: is probably a good time for our buddy the Alien

626
00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:46,080
Speaker 1: to check in. Our buddy the Alien portals down, Hey, buddy,

627
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Speaker 1: and he says, why is this cathedral in Tuscaloosa where

628
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Speaker 1: they put one hundred and one thousand plus in there

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Speaker 1: every Saturday? You got to imagine him talking in his vernacular,

630
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Speaker 1: why is it not on the Hostile Stadiums list, and

631
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Speaker 1: I would say to the alien, they've been too good.

632
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Speaker 1: And he would say that does not compute, That does

633
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Speaker 1: not compute where I'm from, and I would tell him, Yeah, Well,

634
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Speaker 1: here's the thing about it. Humans down here, we have

635
00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:16,400
Speaker 1: a thing called complacency, and we have a thing called

636
00:32:16,440 --> 00:32:20,000
Speaker 1: getting drunk on success. And when you went a whole lot,

637
00:32:20,160 --> 00:32:23,920
Speaker 1: you never feel threatened. Bama fans never feel threatened at home.

638
00:32:24,160 --> 00:32:28,080
Speaker 1: They never feel threatened. They never or hardly ever go

639
00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:31,120
Speaker 1: into their home venue as anything less than a three

640
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Speaker 1: plus touchdown favorite. The last time I was in that

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Speaker 1: building and they felt threatened as a collective was twenty

642
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Speaker 1: nineteen when Joe Burrow and Edwards are on and LSU

643
00:32:44,040 --> 00:32:47,440
Speaker 1: came in there. Bama fans legitimately thought they could lose

644
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Speaker 1: that day, even if they did most things right. As

645
00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:53,400
Speaker 1: a result, the place was on fire. Unbelievable. You could

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Speaker 1: take that stadium that afternoon and I'd put it against

647
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Speaker 1: pretty much anything. It's just they rarely feel that way. Well,

648
00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:02,600
Speaker 1: they will feel that way on this night, is my point.

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00:33:02,920 --> 00:33:06,000
Speaker 1: And they'll feel that way for that matter when LSU

650
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Speaker 1: comes in there, and they'll feel that way when Tennessee

651
00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:10,600
Speaker 1: comes in there. And so if you're a season ticket

652
00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:13,720
Speaker 1: holder for Alabama and you've been force fed a crap

653
00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:18,000
Speaker 1: schedule in the recent past, not this year, get your

654
00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:20,360
Speaker 1: money's worth this year. I'm looking forward to it for

655
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Speaker 1: that reason. I'm looking forward to this for the same

656
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Speaker 1: reason we look forward to Boss Man Versus Undertaker Hell

657
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Speaker 1: and the sell at WRESTLEMINGA fifteen, and we all remember

658
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Speaker 1: how that turned out. A man's hanging from the roof

659
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Speaker 1: and the commentator is screaming, Is this symbolic? Is this

660
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Speaker 1: man hanging? Is this symbolic? If Texas wins against Alabama?

661
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Speaker 1: Is it symbolic? And you know where I'm going with

662
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Speaker 1: this way. Too much would be made of one outcome,

663
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Speaker 1: but that's what we do in college football. It would

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Speaker 1: be the old changing of the guard.

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Speaker 2: It would be certainly it would be Texas's back. Can

666
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Speaker 2: you imagine they wouldn't even bother to hit the capslock

667
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Speaker 2: button and lowercase it. It would just be Texas is back,

668
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Speaker 2: all caps. And then maybe your subheadline is is Nick

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Speaker 2: Saban leading?

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Speaker 1: Is Alabama not ever going to be what they were?

671
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Speaker 1: There's always that That's the nature of a hinge game.

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Speaker 1: But there's a flip side to the hinge game. What

673
00:34:15,960 --> 00:34:18,400
Speaker 1: if Bama just wins forty seven to twenty three. What

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Speaker 1: if they just run Texas out of the building and

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Speaker 1: all of a sudden you look at him as a

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Speaker 1: hold up. Now thought they were supposed to have a

677
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Speaker 1: weakness offensively. Twenty three points. Well, that Texas offense looks

678
00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:30,960
Speaker 1: like the secondary carried their water effectively. But I mean,

679
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Speaker 1: what if Bama just rolls? You know, that's that team

680
00:34:35,440 --> 00:34:39,200
Speaker 1: that's supposed to supposed to have a little achilles heel

681
00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:42,040
Speaker 1: if you will this season offensively? What if they run

682
00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:44,839
Speaker 1: the ball against Texas like Michigan did against Penn State

683
00:34:44,960 --> 00:34:46,839
Speaker 1: last year. What if they do that? What if that's

684
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Speaker 1: the outcome? So it's a hinge game, friends, a big

685
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Speaker 1: time hinge game. There is no margin for error. Whoever

686
00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:54,440
Speaker 1: loses this one when it comes to the playoff, you

687
00:34:54,560 --> 00:34:57,920
Speaker 1: leave Tuscaloosa that night one in one. If you're Texas,

688
00:34:58,840 --> 00:35:02,080
Speaker 1: thanks for scheduling up up. Everyone just thinks you are

689
00:35:02,080 --> 00:35:03,200
Speaker 1: what your record says you are at the end of

690
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Speaker 1: the day, and so the committee will not really care

691
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Speaker 1: that you scheduled up and dido with Alabama. So that's

692
00:35:07,320 --> 00:35:11,040
Speaker 1: a big time hinge game. Also in Week two, G

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Speaker 1: five Josh is here to let you know that Tulane,

694
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Speaker 1: out of all the G five programs, has the highest

695
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Speaker 1: preseason win total in all of college football.

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Speaker 2: Yay.

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Speaker 1: And they've got one Power five opponent on their schedule

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Speaker 1: and a sweet logo in that order, and it's Ole Miss.

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Speaker 1: Ole Miss comes in there in week two. You heard

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Speaker 1: me right. Ole Miss goes to Tulane in Week two.

701
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Speaker 1: What's going to happen that afternoon is a massive, massive

702
00:35:39,320 --> 00:35:42,279
Speaker 1: hinge moment for college football because if you're trying to

703
00:35:42,320 --> 00:35:45,120
Speaker 1: find that G five team to be your playoff buster

704
00:35:45,200 --> 00:35:47,800
Speaker 1: this year, it can't be UCF. They're not there anymore.

705
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Speaker 1: Can't be Houston, can't be Cincinnati, it can't be some

706
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Speaker 1: of the old reliable go tos. They're not there anymore.

707
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Speaker 1: So what are you left with? Well, you're left with

708
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Speaker 1: programs like Tulane. Tulane, most recently noted for going two

709
00:36:01,120 --> 00:36:04,120
Speaker 1: to ten one year and twelve and two the next year,

710
00:36:04,920 --> 00:36:08,000
Speaker 1: most recently noted for beating USC and the Cotton Bowl.

711
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Speaker 1: It's the only Power five opponent on their schedule this

712
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Speaker 1: Week two game against Old Miss, So it'll be whatever

713
00:36:14,239 --> 00:36:16,200
Speaker 1: a super Bowl atmosphere is down there be a super

714
00:36:16,239 --> 00:36:20,160
Speaker 1: Bowl atmosphere. They needed a springboard year two. So if

715
00:36:20,160 --> 00:36:22,359
Speaker 1: you remember Cincinnati when they made the playoff a couple

716
00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:24,600
Speaker 1: of years ago, not only did they have a good

717
00:36:24,680 --> 00:36:27,920
Speaker 1: enough year that year, but they were already on everyone's

718
00:36:28,000 --> 00:36:31,280
Speaker 1: radar because of the previous year. And so that's normally

719
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Speaker 1: what it takes for the G five. And it's no

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Speaker 1: different with Tulane. They popped on everyone's radar last year,

721
00:36:36,960 --> 00:36:39,640
Speaker 1: so people will take them seriously enough this year where

722
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Speaker 1: if they beat Ole Miss, they make a statement against

723
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Speaker 1: them and then they run the table and some other

724
00:36:44,320 --> 00:36:46,600
Speaker 1: things fall their way, which is the way it should be.

725
00:36:46,640 --> 00:36:48,560
Speaker 1: If you only play one Power five team, they could

726
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Speaker 1: make the playoff Ole Miss if they were to lose

727
00:36:52,239 --> 00:36:54,440
Speaker 1: that game. Their remaining schedule, Colin, do we have that,

728
00:36:54,440 --> 00:36:57,160
Speaker 1: by the way, because I did not even write it down, irresponsible.

729
00:36:57,200 --> 00:37:00,960
Speaker 1: I know the old Miss schedule, you know it. They

730
00:37:00,960 --> 00:37:02,960
Speaker 1: got to play in the SEC West. So if they

731
00:37:03,160 --> 00:37:06,359
Speaker 1: if they start one and one, they got Georgia Tech

732
00:37:06,400 --> 00:37:09,160
Speaker 1: the next week, and then they go Tobama. They got LSU,

733
00:37:09,360 --> 00:37:11,560
Speaker 1: they got Arkansas, they go to Auburn, they got A

734
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Speaker 1: and M at Georgia at Mississippi State. This is brutal,

735
00:37:15,160 --> 00:37:18,040
Speaker 1: and so I would recommend, I don't know if lank

736
00:37:18,080 --> 00:37:20,239
Speaker 1: Kiffn's w Washington, I recommend just go ahead and winning

737
00:37:20,239 --> 00:37:23,080
Speaker 1: the game. If they do win that game, you have

738
00:37:23,239 --> 00:37:26,040
Speaker 1: greatly reduced the likelihood that you have a G five

739
00:37:26,080 --> 00:37:28,319
Speaker 1: team in the mixcome seasons in. Let's go to Week

740
00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:30,919
Speaker 1: eight and let's let's hop on the old PJ. Let's

741
00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:33,640
Speaker 1: go all the way out to the west coast and

742
00:37:33,719 --> 00:37:36,400
Speaker 1: let's go to USC. You know who they play in

743
00:37:36,440 --> 00:37:39,680
Speaker 1: Week eight? They play Utah. Remember that game last year?

744
00:37:41,160 --> 00:37:43,719
Speaker 1: You should be asking me which one they played in

745
00:37:43,719 --> 00:37:46,000
Speaker 1: Salt Lake City. I think it was forty three to

746
00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:48,399
Speaker 1: forty two, something like that. And then they played again

747
00:37:48,440 --> 00:37:51,400
Speaker 1: in the PAC twelve championship game and Utah roles. You

748
00:37:51,440 --> 00:37:54,719
Speaker 1: had the Caleb Williams injury. He still played, but he

749
00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:58,040
Speaker 1: was injured. Utah won. They went to a h against

750
00:37:58,080 --> 00:38:00,560
Speaker 1: him last year, and all they had this year to

751
00:38:00,600 --> 00:38:02,799
Speaker 1: show for it is a preseason win total of eight

752
00:38:02,840 --> 00:38:04,879
Speaker 1: and a half. While Southern col is sitting there at ten.

753
00:38:05,280 --> 00:38:07,360
Speaker 1: This was the game out there last year, and it

754
00:38:07,400 --> 00:38:09,520
Speaker 1: may be the game out there this year. It's kind

755
00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:12,800
Speaker 1: of at the early outset of that whole round robin

756
00:38:13,600 --> 00:38:15,799
Speaker 1: that we're gonna have middle of the season on in

757
00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:17,799
Speaker 1: the PAC twelve. Remember about a month ago we did

758
00:38:17,880 --> 00:38:20,840
Speaker 1: that show and I said, boom, boom boom. Every week

759
00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:23,480
Speaker 1: the PAC twelve is throwing these really good games at you,

760
00:38:23,520 --> 00:38:27,160
Speaker 1: if you're wise enough to actually look out there and

761
00:38:27,239 --> 00:38:30,239
Speaker 1: ignore the reputation the conference is built, and look at

762
00:38:30,239 --> 00:38:32,400
Speaker 1: the teams this year. It's a really good collection of

763
00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:36,200
Speaker 1: teams this year. It also could be a little record

764
00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:40,920
Speaker 1: versus reality situation, and record versus reality happens sometimes when

765
00:38:41,000 --> 00:38:43,720
Speaker 1: one team has played a front loaded schedule and another

766
00:38:43,760 --> 00:38:46,399
Speaker 1: team hasn't, So that team's already been bitten and they're

767
00:38:46,400 --> 00:38:49,080
Speaker 1: in wounded animal mode, and you got a team that's

768
00:38:49,600 --> 00:38:53,280
Speaker 1: without blemish, and yet the team that's already been wounded

769
00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:57,040
Speaker 1: looks like the more physical team, the more put together team,

770
00:38:57,440 --> 00:39:00,680
Speaker 1: the better functioning team. Well, sometimes it's just that they've

771
00:39:00,680 --> 00:39:03,200
Speaker 1: been battle tested more and they've had a chance to

772
00:39:03,239 --> 00:39:05,800
Speaker 1: be exposed more. And the other teams always had flaws,

773
00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:07,880
Speaker 1: you just didn't see them because they hadn't had that

774
00:39:07,920 --> 00:39:12,560
Speaker 1: water pressure applied quite yet. USC will have played Notre

775
00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:15,239
Speaker 1: Dame the week before they play this game. So if

776
00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:20,160
Speaker 1: there are situations where maybe USC physically still doesn't match

777
00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:23,120
Speaker 1: up up front, Notre Dame will go a decent way

778
00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:25,399
Speaker 1: in exposing that. And if they don't get the job done,

779
00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:28,000
Speaker 1: Utah will. And if neither of them get the job done,

780
00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:31,560
Speaker 1: well might we and might you guys in the Lincoln

781
00:39:31,640 --> 00:39:34,520
Speaker 1: Riley hater community need to acknowledge, Hey, maybe a little

782
00:39:34,520 --> 00:39:38,680
Speaker 1: bit better defensively this year. Maybe still got the same

783
00:39:38,719 --> 00:39:42,000
Speaker 1: staff out there. So who knows, maybe USC to the

784
00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:44,040
Speaker 1: Big Ten is going to see them play a lot

785
00:39:44,080 --> 00:39:48,200
Speaker 1: more games of this caliber. And so I think the

786
00:39:48,280 --> 00:39:51,120
Speaker 1: last thing on any Trojan fans mind on their way

787
00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:53,600
Speaker 1: out the door is let's continue to get put on

788
00:39:53,719 --> 00:39:56,680
Speaker 1: skates against these more physical teams. No, thank you, Let's

789
00:39:56,680 --> 00:39:59,920
Speaker 1: go to week eleven. We've got people in our building

790
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:03,200
Speaker 1: looking very much forward to this one. Michigan at Penn

791
00:40:03,239 --> 00:40:07,560
Speaker 1: State all the way in week eleven. Yeah, Penn State's

792
00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:10,840
Speaker 1: already played Ohio State by this point. Does anyone know

793
00:40:10,840 --> 00:40:12,680
Speaker 1: the outcome there? Well, we will by the time this

794
00:40:12,760 --> 00:40:16,040
Speaker 1: game is played. So our hinge is as follows. Either

795
00:40:16,080 --> 00:40:20,719
Speaker 1: Penn State is in desperation survival mode or they've got

796
00:40:20,760 --> 00:40:24,239
Speaker 1: the brightest spotlight on them that they've had since James

797
00:40:24,320 --> 00:40:27,160
Speaker 1: Franklin's been there, because if they beat Ohio State, they

798
00:40:27,160 --> 00:40:29,920
Speaker 1: are playing for the division championship in this game in

799
00:40:29,960 --> 00:40:33,520
Speaker 1: all likelihood. I mean, if they beat Ohio State, they

800
00:40:33,520 --> 00:40:37,360
Speaker 1: got Michigan coming into their building with an opportunity to

801
00:40:37,360 --> 00:40:40,400
Speaker 1: wrap the East up again in all likelihood and keep

802
00:40:40,480 --> 00:40:43,040
Speaker 1: both of them out of the Big Ten championship game

803
00:40:43,040 --> 00:40:44,719
Speaker 1: and they got to hope for like a playoff at

804
00:40:44,800 --> 00:40:46,799
Speaker 1: large bid or something like that, whatever we call that.

805
00:40:47,280 --> 00:40:50,560
Speaker 1: So that's that. But also this is the game last

806
00:40:50,640 --> 00:40:53,800
Speaker 1: year where Michigan decided to hang four hundred and eighteen

807
00:40:53,880 --> 00:40:57,719
Speaker 1: rushing yards. Not in the series history, guys, that was

808
00:40:57,760 --> 00:41:01,280
Speaker 1: what happened on one Saturday afternoon last year. Assault look,

809
00:41:01,640 --> 00:41:04,800
Speaker 1: so we don't want that. And when you look defensively

810
00:41:04,840 --> 00:41:07,319
Speaker 1: at all three levels at what Manny Diaz is gonna

811
00:41:07,320 --> 00:41:08,920
Speaker 1: be able to throw out there on the field. And

812
00:41:08,960 --> 00:41:12,440
Speaker 1: then you can also consider what Beaver Stadium sounds like

813
00:41:12,480 --> 00:41:15,880
Speaker 1: when Michigan goes in there. Hard to imagine that happening again.

814
00:41:17,000 --> 00:41:18,960
Speaker 1: But then again, my eyeballs couldn't believe what they were

815
00:41:18,960 --> 00:41:21,040
Speaker 1: seeing last year, and it did happen. That is a

816
00:41:21,080 --> 00:41:24,960
Speaker 1: big time hinge game. You know, if Michigan wins that one,

817
00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:27,360
Speaker 1: I don't really love saying this. That's their first major

818
00:41:27,400 --> 00:41:30,359
Speaker 1: test of the year, Week eleven, first major test, and

819
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Speaker 1: then they've of course got Ohio State at the end

820
00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:34,439
Speaker 1: of the year. If Michigan wins that one, of course

821
00:41:34,440 --> 00:41:36,160
Speaker 1: they're set up and they got a lot of runway,

822
00:41:36,640 --> 00:41:41,160
Speaker 1: probably some wiggle room. And so for obvious reasons, probably

823
00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:44,759
Speaker 1: that game the most obvious. There are hinge components in

824
00:41:44,800 --> 00:41:48,799
Speaker 1: that one, for sure. I love that you guys are

825
00:41:48,800 --> 00:41:50,759
Speaker 1: watching live, so I know that a lot of you

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Speaker 1: on Twitter participated today in what I'm about to ask you.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna tell you what we're about to

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830
00:42:02,640 --> 00:42:04,880
Speaker 1: if you're watching on YouTube, just start to gather in

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Speaker 1: your mind what you think about Hugh Freeze, new Auburn

832
00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:11,520
Speaker 1: head coach, Hugh Freeze. He'll be in Nashville this week

833
00:42:11,600 --> 00:42:13,600
Speaker 1: for SEC Media Days. We'll get to talk to him.

834
00:42:13,680 --> 00:42:17,080
Speaker 1: Hugh Freeze, what you think about him? And then once

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00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:18,600
Speaker 1: you get all that out of the way, what do

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00:42:18,640 --> 00:42:20,400
Speaker 1: you think about him as a football coach? Because I

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00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:06,279
Speaker 1: can't afford it, tell them it's free. Just click the

854
00:43:06,280 --> 00:43:09,799
Speaker 1: button and then forget about it. Subscriptions are what drive

855
00:43:09,880 --> 00:43:13,160
Speaker 1: the boat. I asked you guys like a minute ago,

856
00:43:13,239 --> 00:43:16,200
Speaker 1: what do you think about Hugh Freeze never has a

857
00:43:16,280 --> 00:43:18,600
Speaker 1: sit from the child. It's been necessary before a segment

858
00:43:18,640 --> 00:43:23,000
Speaker 1: more so than right now. Some of you went down

859
00:43:23,000 --> 00:43:29,480
Speaker 1: that road today, that road where someone's mother, someone's children

860
00:43:29,520 --> 00:43:32,000
Speaker 1: could be reading this on Twitter, and you did it anyway.

861
00:43:32,040 --> 00:43:36,080
Speaker 1: All right, here's your endpoint, Colin the old opinion game.

862
00:43:36,080 --> 00:43:37,719
Speaker 1: We've been playing it for the better part of two

863
00:43:37,800 --> 00:43:40,279
Speaker 1: months now with head coaches. What is your opinion on

864
00:43:40,360 --> 00:43:42,360
Speaker 1: this guy? On that guy? And today I asked, what

865
00:43:42,440 --> 00:43:45,440
Speaker 1: is your opinion on Hugh Freeze, new head coach at

866
00:43:45,480 --> 00:43:48,640
Speaker 1: Auburn SEC media days this week. You're getting ready to

867
00:43:48,640 --> 00:43:50,759
Speaker 1: gear it up. They've been really good in the transfer portal,

868
00:43:50,800 --> 00:43:55,000
Speaker 1: pretty good in recruiting. This was the most universally negative

869
00:43:55,040 --> 00:43:58,720
Speaker 1: basket of feedback that I've gotten from you on any coach.

870
00:43:59,120 --> 00:44:01,920
Speaker 1: Not surprising. None of it had to do with football,

871
00:44:02,400 --> 00:44:04,919
Speaker 1: and so most people who aren't living under a rock,

872
00:44:05,320 --> 00:44:08,279
Speaker 1: they know the story of Hugh Freeze, how it ended

873
00:44:08,280 --> 00:44:11,440
Speaker 1: it all miss he goes to Liberty. Now he's at Auburn,

874
00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:15,640
Speaker 1: and there was that great, big dust up publicly, nationally

875
00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:18,239
Speaker 1: and locally about whether they were making the right move

876
00:44:18,280 --> 00:44:21,160
Speaker 1: and hiring him. Now we've got several videos on the

877
00:44:21,200 --> 00:44:22,560
Speaker 1: channel if you want to go back and listen to

878
00:44:22,600 --> 00:44:26,000
Speaker 1: what I said at the time about Auburn giving him

879
00:44:26,000 --> 00:44:29,239
Speaker 1: a second chance, and you guys thought what you thought.

880
00:44:29,280 --> 00:44:31,319
Speaker 1: I thought what I thought. But mine is not a

881
00:44:31,400 --> 00:44:33,919
Speaker 1: Hugh Freeze thing. Like most things that are said about

882
00:44:33,960 --> 00:44:37,920
Speaker 1: him are true, even if they're said in a hateful way.

883
00:44:38,200 --> 00:44:41,479
Speaker 1: I mean, there's a lot about the guy's past that's

884
00:44:41,560 --> 00:44:44,799
Speaker 1: just public knowledge, is public record, So it would do

885
00:44:44,960 --> 00:44:47,080
Speaker 1: me no good to try and defend it. You can

886
00:44:47,080 --> 00:44:48,719
Speaker 1: think whatever you want to about it. It's out there.

887
00:44:49,239 --> 00:44:52,799
Speaker 1: Auburn decided it wasn't detrimental enough that they shouldn't hire him,

888
00:44:53,120 --> 00:44:55,560
Speaker 1: so they brought him in there. And I said at

889
00:44:55,560 --> 00:44:58,840
Speaker 1: the time, and I'll say again, I just kind of

890
00:44:58,880 --> 00:45:02,120
Speaker 1: have different standard for what should make a guy unhirable.

891
00:45:02,440 --> 00:45:05,040
Speaker 1: And it's unpopular. I think more than fifty percent of

892
00:45:05,080 --> 00:45:07,480
Speaker 1: you disagree with me on this, But my take has

893
00:45:07,520 --> 00:45:12,680
Speaker 1: always been ask three questions. Number one, will this hire

894
00:45:12,800 --> 00:45:18,080
Speaker 1: do irrepuableah irrepuable harm to the university? Will the higher

895
00:45:18,160 --> 00:45:22,719
Speaker 1: do irrepuable harm to the university? Question number two is

896
00:45:22,719 --> 00:45:25,040
Speaker 1: anyone going to be placed in immediate danger by this

897
00:45:25,080 --> 00:45:27,759
Speaker 1: guy being hired? And question number three and this is

898
00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:32,799
Speaker 1: the ultimate. What are parents of prospective athletes going to

899
00:45:32,880 --> 00:45:35,279
Speaker 1: think about it? Because if they're not willing to send

900
00:45:35,320 --> 00:45:37,160
Speaker 1: their sons to play for you, the rest of it's

901
00:45:37,160 --> 00:45:40,640
Speaker 1: a moot point. No matter how you answered those questions, well,

902
00:45:40,760 --> 00:45:42,759
Speaker 1: I think they're going to be okay there when it

903
00:45:42,800 --> 00:45:44,880
Speaker 1: comes to that. That doesn't mean I have to endorse

904
00:45:44,920 --> 00:45:47,040
Speaker 1: the decisions that Hugh Freeze has made in the past.

905
00:45:47,440 --> 00:45:50,759
Speaker 1: It doesn't even matter whether I think his apologies are

906
00:45:50,800 --> 00:45:53,680
Speaker 1: sincere or not. And the reason I'm mentioning that is

907
00:45:53,760 --> 00:45:55,320
Speaker 1: cause a lot of the feedback I got from you

908
00:45:55,400 --> 00:45:59,440
Speaker 1: guys today was this and that, and he's guilty of this,

909
00:45:59,480 --> 00:46:01,600
Speaker 1: guilty of that, and I don't really care because I

910
00:46:01,640 --> 00:46:04,560
Speaker 1: don't think there's an authentic bone in his body. Hey,

911
00:46:04,640 --> 00:46:07,160
Speaker 1: let's just go Devil's advocate. Let's just say all that's true.

912
00:46:08,560 --> 00:46:10,560
Speaker 1: Those are the three questions I always go back to.

913
00:46:11,120 --> 00:46:15,360
Speaker 1: I think the standard for what you have to be

914
00:46:16,320 --> 00:46:20,560
Speaker 1: morally and what your life's history has to be in

915
00:46:20,640 --> 00:46:24,480
Speaker 1: terms of being spot free is held to a way

916
00:46:24,600 --> 00:46:27,560
Speaker 1: higher standard for being a football coach than it needs

917
00:46:27,640 --> 00:46:30,000
Speaker 1: to be. That's what I've always thought. It's not a

918
00:46:30,000 --> 00:46:33,360
Speaker 1: game coached by Angels it's not a game played by angels.

919
00:46:33,840 --> 00:46:36,880
Speaker 1: Angels don't watch the game. None of them are watching

920
00:46:36,920 --> 00:46:39,319
Speaker 1: my show right now. There's not one talking into this mic.

921
00:46:39,560 --> 00:46:42,000
Speaker 1: Don't be fooled by the white shirt. I screw up

922
00:46:42,040 --> 00:46:44,560
Speaker 1: just as much as the next guy. And it's not

923
00:46:44,719 --> 00:46:48,239
Speaker 1: to endorse behavior. It's nothing like that. I'm just as

924
00:46:48,280 --> 00:46:50,440
Speaker 1: grossed out by some of that stuff as you guys are.

925
00:46:50,920 --> 00:46:53,720
Speaker 1: I just think we're coaching football, man, We're playing a game.

926
00:46:54,200 --> 00:46:57,800
Speaker 1: And also sometimes it helps if a kid who's eighteen

927
00:46:57,880 --> 00:47:03,160
Speaker 1: or nineteen years old can see someone just spectacularly implode

928
00:47:03,160 --> 00:47:07,360
Speaker 1: in on themselves like a dying star, then go rehabilitate

929
00:47:07,400 --> 00:47:10,920
Speaker 1: their image and then get another shot. And maybe Ole

930
00:47:11,040 --> 00:47:14,520
Speaker 1: Miss was a learning procedure for Hugh Freason. Maybe he

931
00:47:14,560 --> 00:47:16,640
Speaker 1: never even so much just has a hiccup at Auburn.

932
00:47:17,560 --> 00:47:20,040
Speaker 1: It's a pretty good thing to watch, regardless of what

933
00:47:20,080 --> 00:47:22,480
Speaker 1: you think about his past. So you know that's where

934
00:47:22,520 --> 00:47:24,160
Speaker 1: I was on all of it. I didn't make nearly

935
00:47:24,160 --> 00:47:25,560
Speaker 1: as big a deal of it as a lot of

936
00:47:25,560 --> 00:47:29,360
Speaker 1: people did. Here's what I did not hear today and

937
00:47:29,400 --> 00:47:31,480
Speaker 1: what I don't plan on hearing. I don't plan on

938
00:47:31,560 --> 00:47:34,000
Speaker 1: here in anyone say, oh, Hugh Freeze it and a

939
00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:36,879
Speaker 1: good enough football coach. He's gonna fail there. I'm rooting

940
00:47:36,880 --> 00:47:38,719
Speaker 1: against him because he's not a good enough football coach.

941
00:47:38,800 --> 00:47:41,879
Speaker 1: What't much of that for obvious reasons. Guys won double

942
00:47:41,880 --> 00:47:45,880
Speaker 1: digit games everywhere he's been Lambooth, that's an naia in

943
00:47:45,880 --> 00:47:49,160
Speaker 1: the mid South. He won there Arkansas State, double digit wins,

944
00:47:49,280 --> 00:47:51,759
Speaker 1: Liberty right after Old Miss, where he also won double

945
00:47:51,800 --> 00:47:54,279
Speaker 1: digit games, double digit wins at Liberty. He's gonna do

946
00:47:54,280 --> 00:47:57,839
Speaker 1: that at Auburn. Hmm. That's what we're here to find out,

947
00:47:57,880 --> 00:48:00,879
Speaker 1: isn't it. They are recruiting well, they are portaling more

948
00:48:00,920 --> 00:48:04,240
Speaker 1: than well. The portal rank is number five right now.

949
00:48:04,760 --> 00:48:08,840
Speaker 1: In the twenty twenty three portal cycle, they had eleven

950
00:48:08,960 --> 00:48:11,719
Speaker 1: four star prospects as part of that portal cycle. That's

951
00:48:11,760 --> 00:48:15,759
Speaker 1: the most of any team in America, that includes your Colorado's,

952
00:48:15,800 --> 00:48:19,960
Speaker 1: your USC's. They had more high level talent out of

953
00:48:19,960 --> 00:48:23,720
Speaker 1: that portal than anyone. So here's where I have landed.

954
00:48:24,960 --> 00:48:27,520
Speaker 1: It really doesn't matter what I just said, because there

955
00:48:27,560 --> 00:48:31,760
Speaker 1: is no justification or there's no counter evidence that someone

956
00:48:31,760 --> 00:48:33,759
Speaker 1: who's grossed out by Hugh Freeze is going to hear

957
00:48:33,800 --> 00:48:35,479
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden say, all right, I guess

958
00:48:35,960 --> 00:48:39,319
Speaker 1: I'm okay with him. Never mind Team Hugh and Hugh.

959
00:48:39,400 --> 00:48:42,200
Speaker 1: I trust there's none of that. I know that I'm

960
00:48:42,239 --> 00:48:44,680
Speaker 1: not trying to change your mind. What I will do

961
00:48:44,800 --> 00:48:46,560
Speaker 1: is I'll play a little sarcastic game with you for

962
00:48:46,600 --> 00:48:49,560
Speaker 1: a second, especially my Georgia viewers, my Bama viewers, LSU

963
00:48:49,600 --> 00:48:52,239
Speaker 1: I heard a lot from today. If this guy's really

964
00:48:52,280 --> 00:48:55,319
Speaker 1: as toxic as you claim he is, if this is

965
00:48:55,400 --> 00:48:58,319
Speaker 1: really the no win proposition you claim it to be,

966
00:48:59,120 --> 00:49:01,200
Speaker 1: isn't it a really good thing for you? He's at Auburn,

967
00:49:02,760 --> 00:49:05,279
Speaker 1: isn't it. Shouldn't you be celebrating this? Because I had

968
00:49:05,280 --> 00:49:07,640
Speaker 1: a lot of anger and vitriol and a lot of

969
00:49:07,640 --> 00:49:10,400
Speaker 1: the replies I saw today, and best I could tell,

970
00:49:10,760 --> 00:49:13,480
Speaker 1: it was a bunch of replies from Georgia and the

971
00:49:13,520 --> 00:49:17,920
Speaker 1: more northwesterly parts of Alabama Louisiana. Like I said, so

972
00:49:19,160 --> 00:49:21,920
Speaker 1: I would say, if you guys believe what you're telling me,

973
00:49:22,560 --> 00:49:24,920
Speaker 1: he's right where you would want him to be, Right

974
00:49:25,000 --> 00:49:27,320
Speaker 1: where I need to be. Is a great Gary Allen

975
00:49:27,440 --> 00:49:30,480
Speaker 1: song that I quite literally just remembered. So I'm gonna

976
00:49:30,480 --> 00:49:33,759
Speaker 1: write that down for later. Right where I need to

977
00:49:33,800 --> 00:49:36,479
Speaker 1: be smoke Rings in the Dark's a great Gary Allen

978
00:49:36,520 --> 00:49:40,000
Speaker 1: tune as well. In case you hadn't noticed, that's the

979
00:49:40,080 --> 00:49:42,040
Speaker 1: end of the Hugh Freeze segment. But let me let

980
00:49:42,040 --> 00:49:45,080
Speaker 1: me pop this post it because they're watching us in Avon, Connecticut,

981
00:49:45,320 --> 00:49:49,400
Speaker 1: Coral Gables, Florida, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, just all over the place.

982
00:49:49,440 --> 00:49:51,080
Speaker 1: I mean, if you missed the early part of the show,

983
00:49:51,080 --> 00:49:56,520
Speaker 1: we had Vietnam check in today, so worldwide audience. College

984
00:49:56,520 --> 00:49:59,400
Speaker 1: football very much a global thing. No matter what Captain

985
00:49:59,440 --> 00:50:02,919
Speaker 1: CON's tri I tell you about. Ignoring the countdown until

986
00:50:02,920 --> 00:50:06,080
Speaker 1: we get three weeks out. No, no, no, no, ignore

987
00:50:06,120 --> 00:50:09,759
Speaker 1: the hits that Casual FM is playing. This is the

988
00:50:09,840 --> 00:50:13,560
Speaker 1: life all year round, no offseason. We just do it

989
00:50:13,560 --> 00:50:16,640
Speaker 1: all year round, immunity. Let's dive into bold predictions, shall we?

990
00:50:17,480 --> 00:50:20,279
Speaker 1: Bold predictions? What are you believing out there? And as

991
00:50:20,320 --> 00:50:22,799
Speaker 1: we get deeper into July and certainly August, I know

992
00:50:22,880 --> 00:50:25,640
Speaker 1: some of you have even more boldness in you that's

993
00:50:25,640 --> 00:50:27,840
Speaker 1: gonna eventually come out. But here's what we have for tonight.

994
00:50:27,840 --> 00:50:29,839
Speaker 1: And we're going all over the country here, by the way,

995
00:50:30,080 --> 00:50:31,840
Speaker 1: so I appreciate you guys from mixing it up a

996
00:50:31,880 --> 00:50:36,359
Speaker 1: little bit first bold prediction is from Digital Damn, and

997
00:50:36,400 --> 00:50:39,279
Speaker 1: there's even a little beaver emoji for good measure, he said.

998
00:50:39,280 --> 00:50:44,240
Speaker 1: Oregon State versus USC in the PAC twelve Championship game

999
00:50:44,480 --> 00:50:47,919
Speaker 1: from Beaver to Oregon, this is an eight point seventy

1000
00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:51,000
Speaker 1: five on the boldness scale. Oregon State's never been there.

1001
00:50:51,000 --> 00:50:53,640
Speaker 1: They've never been to the conference championship game. This is

1002
00:50:53,680 --> 00:50:56,600
Speaker 1: the number one team in odds and the number five

1003
00:50:56,680 --> 00:50:59,920
Speaker 1: team in preseason odds for the PAC twelve Championship. They

1004
00:51:00,080 --> 00:51:03,080
Speaker 1: don't play in the regular season, which is crazy because

1005
00:51:03,120 --> 00:51:05,120
Speaker 1: if you look at the odds on your screen right now,

1006
00:51:05,160 --> 00:51:11,200
Speaker 1: it goes USC, Oregon, Washington, Utah, Oregon State, UCLA's number six.

1007
00:51:12,400 --> 00:51:16,080
Speaker 1: Literally everyone else plays everyone else. USC Oregon State is

1008
00:51:16,080 --> 00:51:18,680
Speaker 1: one of the only matchups in that top half dozen

1009
00:51:18,719 --> 00:51:22,560
Speaker 1: there where you don't see that round robin effect. They

1010
00:51:22,640 --> 00:51:25,240
Speaker 1: each play everyone else though, so at least that's good.

1011
00:51:25,840 --> 00:51:29,000
Speaker 1: Last year, USC was the number one offense in the

1012
00:51:29,000 --> 00:51:32,560
Speaker 1: PAC twelve. Last year, Oregon State number one defense in

1013
00:51:32,600 --> 00:51:35,880
Speaker 1: the PAC twelve, and if that tracks this year, you

1014
00:51:35,920 --> 00:51:38,799
Speaker 1: would get a heck of a PAC twelve championship matchup. Also,

1015
00:51:38,880 --> 00:51:41,560
Speaker 1: Johnathan Smith would all of a sudden announce his arrival

1016
00:51:41,560 --> 00:51:44,239
Speaker 1: on the national stage. You should have already known about him.

1017
00:51:44,239 --> 00:51:45,920
Speaker 1: But think about if we go with the what if

1018
00:51:46,040 --> 00:51:49,080
Speaker 1: route here, If it's Oregon State in the Pac TWEL

1019
00:51:49,200 --> 00:51:53,759
Speaker 1: championship game, might dj uyangol Lay be comeback player of

1020
00:51:53,800 --> 00:51:56,719
Speaker 1: the Year. Yeah, I would think probably so if they

1021
00:51:56,800 --> 00:51:59,960
Speaker 1: end up there. Nevertheless, you know the rule around here,

1022
00:52:00,120 --> 00:52:03,200
Speaker 1: it's really hard to peg specific matchups, and especially if

1023
00:52:03,239 --> 00:52:05,000
Speaker 1: you're trying to pick a team that's never been there before.

1024
00:52:05,320 --> 00:52:07,880
Speaker 1: Eight point seventy five. That's how bold that prediction is.

1025
00:52:08,040 --> 00:52:13,439
Speaker 1: Next up, Blaze hit us up and he said two

1026
00:52:13,600 --> 00:52:17,200
Speaker 1: ACC teams will make the college football Playoff. Well, that's

1027
00:52:17,200 --> 00:52:19,279
Speaker 1: a nine point five on the boldness scale where I

1028
00:52:19,320 --> 00:52:24,000
Speaker 1: come from, Blaze, the conference hasn't had a playoff appearance

1029
00:52:24,040 --> 00:52:26,440
Speaker 1: in the last two years, so let's worry about getting

1030
00:52:26,440 --> 00:52:29,000
Speaker 1: one in there. What if I told you, though, that

1031
00:52:29,080 --> 00:52:32,520
Speaker 1: this has happened. I know that historians out there amongst

1032
00:52:32,640 --> 00:52:35,880
Speaker 1: us may say, oh, that's a bold prediction. The ACC

1033
00:52:36,040 --> 00:52:39,040
Speaker 1: has never had two teams in the playoff. Yeah, they have,

1034
00:52:39,680 --> 00:52:42,719
Speaker 1: and it happened recently. It happened in twenty twenty. And

1035
00:52:42,760 --> 00:52:47,000
Speaker 1: you're thinking to yourself, liar, oh sucks for him, that's

1036
00:52:47,040 --> 00:52:49,799
Speaker 1: a live show. He can't go back and edit that out. Well, hey,

1037
00:52:49,880 --> 00:52:53,400
Speaker 1: I could, but I'm not because b I'm right. Clemson

1038
00:52:53,480 --> 00:52:54,879
Speaker 1: made it that year. And you know who else made

1039
00:52:54,880 --> 00:52:58,680
Speaker 1: it that year? Notre Dame. Well they're independent, Josh, they

1040
00:52:58,719 --> 00:53:03,440
Speaker 1: weren't that year, producer Jesse with just a paper popping

1041
00:53:03,440 --> 00:53:07,839
Speaker 1: stat of the day, twenty twenty one year, only Notre

1042
00:53:07,920 --> 00:53:11,120
Speaker 1: Dame in the ACC, Yeah, they sure did. The ACC

1043
00:53:11,200 --> 00:53:13,520
Speaker 1: sent two teams to the playoff that year. As for

1044
00:53:13,600 --> 00:53:17,640
Speaker 1: this happening this year, remember there's not a divisional structure anymore,

1045
00:53:18,480 --> 00:53:23,399
Speaker 1: and so you can't take the classical route of let

1046
00:53:23,440 --> 00:53:25,840
Speaker 1: me beat you in the regular season so that you

1047
00:53:25,920 --> 00:53:28,840
Speaker 1: got one loss while I go undefeated. I go to

1048
00:53:28,880 --> 00:53:31,200
Speaker 1: the conference championship game and win it, and then on

1049
00:53:31,239 --> 00:53:35,120
Speaker 1: selection Sunday, your resume looks sparkling because I'm your only loss,

1050
00:53:35,400 --> 00:53:37,239
Speaker 1: and I'm one of the best teams in the country too,

1051
00:53:37,320 --> 00:53:39,239
Speaker 1: So you come with me in the playoff. You can't

1052
00:53:39,239 --> 00:53:42,759
Speaker 1: go that route. You probably have to go like the

1053
00:53:42,800 --> 00:53:47,960
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one Georgia Bama route maybe where you guys, well,

1054
00:53:48,000 --> 00:53:49,799
Speaker 1: it wouldn't even be like that. So you play in

1055
00:53:49,800 --> 00:53:52,759
Speaker 1: the regular season. Let's say Clemson beats Florida State, you

1056
00:53:52,760 --> 00:53:55,120
Speaker 1: guys need to meet in the ACC Championship game, and

1057
00:53:55,160 --> 00:53:57,160
Speaker 1: then Florida State needs to be Clemson, and then you

1058
00:53:57,160 --> 00:54:00,000
Speaker 1: have to get a favorable draw nationally, and the committee

1059
00:54:00,080 --> 00:54:02,200
Speaker 1: has to be able to look and say, yeah, I

1060
00:54:02,239 --> 00:54:04,080
Speaker 1: think we do have enough room for both of them.

1061
00:54:05,120 --> 00:54:09,279
Speaker 1: You need competition nationally, you need things to fall the

1062
00:54:09,360 --> 00:54:13,600
Speaker 1: right way. And also, here's a really good indication of

1063
00:54:13,640 --> 00:54:17,280
Speaker 1: how convoluted this gets, scheduling wise. Out of the top

1064
00:54:17,400 --> 00:54:20,840
Speaker 1: four teams in terms of preseason odds, here in the ACC,

1065
00:54:21,600 --> 00:54:24,520
Speaker 1: Clemson plays three of the four along with Notre Dame.

1066
00:54:25,040 --> 00:54:27,840
Speaker 1: Florida State plays two of the four, and they also

1067
00:54:27,880 --> 00:54:31,600
Speaker 1: play LSU. Louisville only plays one of the four, So

1068
00:54:31,680 --> 00:54:34,200
Speaker 1: keep an eye on the cards. North Carolina plays two

1069
00:54:34,239 --> 00:54:37,120
Speaker 1: of the four, Miami plays four of the four, and

1070
00:54:37,200 --> 00:54:39,239
Speaker 1: they play Texas A and M. So if you're getting

1071
00:54:39,280 --> 00:54:41,600
Speaker 1: two of these teams in the playoff, I assume you

1072
00:54:41,640 --> 00:54:44,399
Speaker 1: think Clemson in someone and maybe it's Florida State, it's

1073
00:54:44,400 --> 00:54:46,480
Speaker 1: not going to be easy. This is a nine point

1074
00:54:46,600 --> 00:54:50,600
Speaker 1: five on the boldness scale. Next up, we're going to

1075
00:54:50,680 --> 00:54:56,319
Speaker 1: Columbia Missouri. Matt thinks Missouri is going nine to three,

1076
00:54:56,640 --> 00:55:00,480
Speaker 1: and ironically he checks in from Charleston, South Carolina. Well,

1077
00:55:00,480 --> 00:55:02,520
Speaker 1: this is a nine on the boldness scale, Matt, for

1078
00:55:02,560 --> 00:55:04,680
Speaker 1: a team who's preseason over under win total is six

1079
00:55:04,760 --> 00:55:07,640
Speaker 1: and a half. For a team who's got Kansas State

1080
00:55:07,680 --> 00:55:11,560
Speaker 1: on the schedule along with your Georgia's and LSUS and Tennessee's,

1081
00:55:11,719 --> 00:55:14,359
Speaker 1: a team, like I just said, preseason over runner win

1082
00:55:14,360 --> 00:55:17,399
Speaker 1: total six and a half, had some close losses last year.

1083
00:55:17,440 --> 00:55:19,160
Speaker 1: So there is a case to be made here. But

1084
00:55:19,200 --> 00:55:22,959
Speaker 1: because of those reasons, it's a nine on the boldness scale. Now,

1085
00:55:23,640 --> 00:55:27,560
Speaker 1: what is the case if this does happen? What is

1086
00:55:27,600 --> 00:55:30,320
Speaker 1: the case for a nine to three Missouri team? Well,

1087
00:55:30,400 --> 00:55:33,720
Speaker 1: they are number two in all of FBS in returning production.

1088
00:55:34,000 --> 00:55:35,880
Speaker 1: I know some of you value that stat and some

1089
00:55:35,920 --> 00:55:38,719
Speaker 1: of you don't. Chuse your path. I'm just giving you

1090
00:55:38,719 --> 00:55:43,000
Speaker 1: the numbers. They are one of two teams nationally who

1091
00:55:43,040 --> 00:55:47,640
Speaker 1: are top ten in returning offensive and returning defensive production. Again,

1092
00:55:48,040 --> 00:55:50,160
Speaker 1: make of that what you will. There is a clear

1093
00:55:50,239 --> 00:55:52,359
Speaker 1: path to a four and one start. Collin. Could you

1094
00:55:52,400 --> 00:55:55,000
Speaker 1: do me a favor and could you throw up their

1095
00:55:55,040 --> 00:55:57,480
Speaker 1: schedule right quick? Because for the second time in the show,

1096
00:55:57,520 --> 00:55:59,880
Speaker 1: I forgot to write it down. So they play South Dakota,

1097
00:56:00,360 --> 00:56:04,480
Speaker 1: Middle Tennessee State, Kansas State, and Memphis the first four

1098
00:56:04,520 --> 00:56:08,440
Speaker 1: weeks of the season. A Vegas odds maker would tell

1099
00:56:08,480 --> 00:56:10,160
Speaker 1: you that should be a three and one start, and

1100
00:56:10,200 --> 00:56:12,680
Speaker 1: then they go two Vandy to open conference play, So

1101
00:56:12,760 --> 00:56:15,719
Speaker 1: there's a path. Now, there's runway to start four to

1102
00:56:15,800 --> 00:56:18,440
Speaker 1: one and if they beat Kansas State, maybe five and oh.

1103
00:56:18,440 --> 00:56:21,720
Speaker 1: There Kansas State's the toughest straw out of those first

1104
00:56:21,760 --> 00:56:25,839
Speaker 1: five games, and then it gets demonstrably tougher after that.

1105
00:56:25,960 --> 00:56:27,440
Speaker 1: But they don't need to go twelve to oh, they

1106
00:56:27,520 --> 00:56:30,520
Speaker 1: need to go nine to three. They get Vandy and

1107
00:56:31,120 --> 00:56:33,440
Speaker 1: Arkansas later in the year. They go to Arkansas the

1108
00:56:33,520 --> 00:56:37,080
Speaker 1: last game of the season. They'll be rested versus Georgia.

1109
00:56:37,600 --> 00:56:40,200
Speaker 1: Now they're going to be a significant underdog going to Georgia,

1110
00:56:40,640 --> 00:56:42,840
Speaker 1: but they got to buy before they go to Athens.

1111
00:56:43,160 --> 00:56:46,200
Speaker 1: Georgia plays Florida the week before they play Missouri, and

1112
00:56:46,520 --> 00:56:48,960
Speaker 1: for good measure, this was the closest Georgia came to

1113
00:56:49,000 --> 00:56:51,680
Speaker 1: being upset in the regular season last year. So I

1114
00:56:51,680 --> 00:56:53,600
Speaker 1: haven't forgotten that. And if I'm trying to make the

1115
00:56:53,600 --> 00:56:56,680
Speaker 1: case here, I also should remind you. Yeah, they went

1116
00:56:56,719 --> 00:56:59,360
Speaker 1: six and seven. They had four losses by one possession.

1117
00:56:59,760 --> 00:57:02,279
Speaker 1: If all that breaks right, nine to three, that's why

1118
00:57:02,280 --> 00:57:04,120
Speaker 1: it's not a ten on the boldness scale, but it

1119
00:57:04,160 --> 00:57:07,040
Speaker 1: is a nine. Let's go up north and let's go

1120
00:57:07,200 --> 00:57:09,960
Speaker 1: late in the year. Let's talk about something happening that

1121
00:57:09,960 --> 00:57:13,960
Speaker 1: hasn't happened in like a decade. Dan from Fremont, Nebraska says,

1122
00:57:14,000 --> 00:57:17,919
Speaker 1: Wisconsin wins the Big Ten West and wins the Big

1123
00:57:17,960 --> 00:57:22,160
Speaker 1: Ten title game. Well, the West is zero to nine

1124
00:57:22,240 --> 00:57:25,200
Speaker 1: versus the East in Big Ten championship games, and this

1125
00:57:25,320 --> 00:57:28,440
Speaker 1: is it because they're done with divisions, So got to

1126
00:57:28,480 --> 00:57:31,840
Speaker 1: get it done now or forever hold your piece. To

1127
00:57:32,000 --> 00:57:35,600
Speaker 1: get there is one thing, okay, So to get to

1128
00:57:35,680 --> 00:57:39,160
Speaker 1: the Big Ten title game, Wisconsin's got better odds than anyone.

1129
00:57:39,200 --> 00:57:41,560
Speaker 1: They're the favorite in the East. So if you just

1130
00:57:41,560 --> 00:57:43,240
Speaker 1: told me they're going to get there, that's like a

1131
00:57:43,280 --> 00:57:45,439
Speaker 1: five on the boldness scale. That's not bold at all.

1132
00:57:46,120 --> 00:57:48,680
Speaker 1: This division's had a new winner like each of the

1133
00:57:48,760 --> 00:57:52,320
Speaker 1: last four or five years. What do we learn in

1134
00:57:52,400 --> 00:57:54,920
Speaker 1: week nine? That's what I want to know. You want

1135
00:57:54,920 --> 00:57:56,840
Speaker 1: to mix a little what if in here, Well, let's

1136
00:57:56,840 --> 00:57:59,600
Speaker 1: look at week nine. That is October twenty eighth, for

1137
00:57:59,600 --> 00:58:02,040
Speaker 1: those of you keeping score at home, that's when Ohio

1138
00:58:02,120 --> 00:58:07,720
Speaker 1: State goes two Wisconsin, and after that, we don't really

1139
00:58:07,760 --> 00:58:09,280
Speaker 1: have anything that would be in the way of a

1140
00:58:09,360 --> 00:58:13,040
Speaker 1: hypothetical Big Ten Championship matchup on the rest of Wisconsin's schedule,

1141
00:58:13,080 --> 00:58:15,240
Speaker 1: So that's kind of when we need to learn. What

1142
00:58:15,280 --> 00:58:17,560
Speaker 1: we learned. They don't play Penn State, they don't play Michigan,

1143
00:58:17,560 --> 00:58:19,640
Speaker 1: which in and of itself makes them a prime contender

1144
00:58:19,680 --> 00:58:23,160
Speaker 1: to win their division. But when they get there, what

1145
00:58:23,200 --> 00:58:26,960
Speaker 1: would we see. Hey, Jesse, come in mind, speak to

1146
00:58:27,000 --> 00:58:31,120
Speaker 1: me in my ear please and tell me what Wisconsin's

1147
00:58:31,440 --> 00:58:33,360
Speaker 1: line was? Was it ten and a half on that

1148
00:58:33,400 --> 00:58:36,720
Speaker 1: Ohio State game? Ten? Okay, straight up ten? So just

1149
00:58:36,920 --> 00:58:41,080
Speaker 1: simple mathematics would tell you if Vegas is installing Ohio

1150
00:58:41,120 --> 00:58:44,480
Speaker 1: State as a ten point favorite in Madison, if you

1151
00:58:44,600 --> 00:58:46,920
Speaker 1: just let's just shave three and a half for the

1152
00:58:46,960 --> 00:58:50,040
Speaker 1: sake of argument off of that for home field edge,

1153
00:58:50,360 --> 00:58:53,280
Speaker 1: put them on a neutral site. They're telling you probably

1154
00:58:53,320 --> 00:58:56,080
Speaker 1: your line today in the Big Ten title game would

1155
00:58:56,120 --> 00:58:58,600
Speaker 1: be Ohio State minus thirteen and a half or minus fourteen.

1156
00:58:58,640 --> 00:59:01,000
Speaker 1: It'd be somewhere in that range, maybe fourteen and a

1157
00:59:01,040 --> 00:59:02,720
Speaker 1: half if they want to make you pay a premium

1158
00:59:02,840 --> 00:59:07,440
Speaker 1: to take the Buckeyes. So we've seen bigger upsets, but

1159
00:59:08,520 --> 00:59:11,080
Speaker 1: that's if the game was already set. The first thing

1160
00:59:11,080 --> 00:59:12,920
Speaker 1: you have to do, the first task at hand is

1161
00:59:12,960 --> 00:59:15,000
Speaker 1: take a brand new head coach with a brand new

1162
00:59:15,000 --> 00:59:17,120
Speaker 1: team and a bunch of transfer portal guys, including your

1163
00:59:17,160 --> 00:59:19,840
Speaker 1: starting quarterback, and get them there. And so, because you

1164
00:59:19,880 --> 00:59:21,680
Speaker 1: have all that wrapped in, I'm gonna say this is

1165
00:59:21,680 --> 00:59:24,840
Speaker 1: a nine on the boldness scale. I mean getting there's

1166
00:59:24,880 --> 00:59:27,720
Speaker 1: one thing winning It is something totally different. It's gonna

1167
00:59:27,720 --> 00:59:31,040
Speaker 1: be a fun team to watch this year. Though, let's

1168
00:59:31,040 --> 00:59:33,040
Speaker 1: continue rolling on. Got two more things, you know it.

1169
00:59:33,120 --> 00:59:36,760
Speaker 1: Surprisingly thought we were going to be under an hour tonight. Frankly,

1170
00:59:36,800 --> 00:59:38,480
Speaker 1: I got things to do later, so I tried to

1171
00:59:38,520 --> 00:59:41,360
Speaker 1: keep it under an hour. But we can't do it

1172
00:59:41,400 --> 00:59:44,040
Speaker 1: because we're too jam packed. Let's talk about the Clemson

1173
00:59:44,080 --> 00:59:46,120
Speaker 1: Tigers for just a second, if you don't mind, I

1174
00:59:46,160 --> 00:59:49,280
Speaker 1: want to put the spotlight on Clemson South Carolina. We've

1175
00:59:49,280 --> 00:59:50,960
Speaker 1: been doing this with a lot of teams. What are

1176
00:59:50,960 --> 00:59:53,840
Speaker 1: the biggest questions here? What's the best position group, who's

1177
00:59:53,880 --> 00:59:55,800
Speaker 1: the breakout player, what do we think about the schedule.

1178
00:59:56,120 --> 00:59:58,120
Speaker 1: It's like our own little preview magazine. But we're not

1179
00:59:58,160 --> 01:00:00,480
Speaker 1: wasting paper around here, because there's one one thing I

1180
01:00:00,520 --> 01:00:05,960
Speaker 1: care about. It is conserving paper in this office. Question

1181
01:00:06,080 --> 01:00:09,880
Speaker 1: number one. It's like a rubber band. It's like a

1182
01:00:09,960 --> 01:00:12,360
Speaker 1: rubber What would be rubber band ball? Yeah, it's like

1183
01:00:12,360 --> 01:00:14,520
Speaker 1: a rubber band ball. So I'm gonna throw it at you,

1184
01:00:14,560 --> 01:00:17,640
Speaker 1: and I'm just gonna say offense. But there's a whole

1185
01:00:17,680 --> 01:00:20,200
Speaker 1: lot here. And one of the rubber bands is, hey,

1186
01:00:20,240 --> 01:00:23,640
Speaker 1: we got Garrett Riley there, Now, how's he gonna pan out?

1187
01:00:23,800 --> 01:00:26,840
Speaker 1: And also another rubber band is close behind there? How

1188
01:00:26,920 --> 01:00:29,720
Speaker 1: is he gonna utilize their receiver corps? And then one

1189
01:00:29,720 --> 01:00:32,080
Speaker 1: of the other rubber bands is cade club Nick. Who

1190
01:00:32,160 --> 01:00:36,320
Speaker 1: will he be as the quarterback under Garrett Riley at Clemson?

1191
01:00:36,520 --> 01:00:39,600
Speaker 1: A lot of fascinating ideas to throw around, uh Dabo,

1192
01:00:40,280 --> 01:00:42,520
Speaker 1: as much as he's reluctant to go in the portal. Boy,

1193
01:00:42,560 --> 01:00:45,560
Speaker 1: he hit a grand slam with that coordinator higher And

1194
01:00:45,720 --> 01:00:47,720
Speaker 1: you remember this time last year when Mario went and

1195
01:00:47,760 --> 01:00:50,720
Speaker 1: got Josh Gaddis and everyone did cartwheels, and it was

1196
01:00:50,760 --> 01:00:54,000
Speaker 1: a disaster because behind the scenes people didn't think Gaddis

1197
01:00:54,080 --> 01:00:56,320
Speaker 1: was nearly as good as the folks out in front

1198
01:00:56,320 --> 01:00:58,920
Speaker 1: thought he was. That's not the case here. You ask

1199
01:00:58,960 --> 01:01:01,840
Speaker 1: folks in the industry about here at Riley, they think

1200
01:01:02,320 --> 01:01:04,800
Speaker 1: he's the real deal, and they think Dabo hit a

1201
01:01:04,800 --> 01:01:07,200
Speaker 1: home run getting him. So that's the first question. The

1202
01:01:07,200 --> 01:01:11,080
Speaker 1: second question, is this Clemson defensive line going to be

1203
01:01:11,160 --> 01:01:14,160
Speaker 1: like the ones they've had, those vintage Clemson defensive lines?

1204
01:01:14,200 --> 01:01:16,520
Speaker 1: Can Can the defensive line play up to the standard

1205
01:01:16,680 --> 01:01:18,560
Speaker 1: when you lose a Miles Murphy, when you lose a

1206
01:01:18,600 --> 01:01:22,840
Speaker 1: Brian Brazi, when you lose kJ Henry. Is the depth

1207
01:01:23,080 --> 01:01:26,120
Speaker 1: and quality of production going to be there? Because the

1208
01:01:26,120 --> 01:01:29,680
Speaker 1: first word just depth. Oh, they've recruited very well, and

1209
01:01:29,720 --> 01:01:33,360
Speaker 1: they've got some names in that room, but it takes

1210
01:01:33,800 --> 01:01:36,800
Speaker 1: a too deep to roll out there and play at

1211
01:01:36,800 --> 01:01:38,640
Speaker 1: a pretty high level, and like all of them need

1212
01:01:38,680 --> 01:01:41,120
Speaker 1: to pan out. The depth is there. I don't doubt

1213
01:01:41,160 --> 01:01:43,520
Speaker 1: the depth. I don't doubt a lot of names, the

1214
01:01:43,600 --> 01:01:46,560
Speaker 1: overall production level, in other words, the ability to take

1215
01:01:46,600 --> 01:01:48,760
Speaker 1: over a game. Remember when they played NC State last

1216
01:01:48,840 --> 01:01:50,520
Speaker 1: year and n C State could not move the ball

1217
01:01:50,680 --> 01:01:53,880
Speaker 1: because their offensive line kept getting wrecked. That kind of

1218
01:01:53,920 --> 01:01:57,080
Speaker 1: performance or something similar, that's the kind of thing that

1219
01:01:57,080 --> 01:02:00,960
Speaker 1: bails you out when your offense is not up to par. Now,

1220
01:02:00,960 --> 01:02:03,040
Speaker 1: maybe that's a moot point because maybe Clemson's offense is

1221
01:02:03,040 --> 01:02:05,280
Speaker 1: back this year. But that's that's question number two. Question

1222
01:02:05,360 --> 01:02:10,640
Speaker 1: number three, will we see portal regret because to this

1223
01:02:10,680 --> 01:02:14,640
Speaker 1: point it's not even a term, So let me add

1224
01:02:14,680 --> 01:02:19,280
Speaker 1: a note to trademark Matt. Portal regret trademark pending is

1225
01:02:19,320 --> 01:02:21,320
Speaker 1: that thing where you could have gone in the portal

1226
01:02:21,320 --> 01:02:24,600
Speaker 1: and gotten some players and you didn't. Voluntarily you said,

1227
01:02:24,680 --> 01:02:26,840
Speaker 1: now we're good, And then you may play a team

1228
01:02:26,880 --> 01:02:29,240
Speaker 1: like Florida State that's built off the portal and they

1229
01:02:29,360 --> 01:02:31,720
Speaker 1: spank you and beat you twenty seven to seventeen in

1230
01:02:31,760 --> 01:02:34,919
Speaker 1: your own building and all of a sudden, the first, second, third, fourth,

1231
01:02:34,960 --> 01:02:37,880
Speaker 1: and fifth questions in the postgame press conference are Dabo,

1232
01:02:37,920 --> 01:02:39,840
Speaker 1: do you regret not going and getting more players out

1233
01:02:39,880 --> 01:02:43,120
Speaker 1: of the portal va La portal regret? Depending on whether

1234
01:02:43,120 --> 01:02:45,520
Speaker 1: he says yes or no. Do we have portal regret there?

1235
01:02:45,920 --> 01:02:47,640
Speaker 1: And that's going to be a story far beyond just

1236
01:02:47,640 --> 01:02:50,880
Speaker 1: this year with Dabo and Clemson. What is the best

1237
01:02:50,920 --> 01:02:54,240
Speaker 1: position group on this team? Do you think we think

1238
01:02:54,240 --> 01:02:57,480
Speaker 1: it's linebacker? We look at the names in that linebacker room,

1239
01:02:57,520 --> 01:03:00,160
Speaker 1: Jeremiah trod Or Barrett Carter. We're third and fourth on

1240
01:03:00,200 --> 01:03:03,120
Speaker 1: the team and tackles last year. Trotter is second team

1241
01:03:03,160 --> 01:03:08,800
Speaker 1: All American last year. And hey, Jesse is the spelling

1242
01:03:08,840 --> 01:03:13,560
Speaker 1: on Wood? Ohz is it wodaz? Yes? Okay, it's just

1243
01:03:13,560 --> 01:03:15,480
Speaker 1: a really really unique last name. So I always have

1244
01:03:15,520 --> 01:03:17,919
Speaker 1: to check because the last thing he wants a mad

1245
01:03:17,960 --> 01:03:21,680
Speaker 1: parent in your DMS. Like when I mispronounced a Jy

1246
01:03:21,800 --> 01:03:24,760
Speaker 1: Hall that one year. Oh my goodness, never heard the

1247
01:03:24,800 --> 01:03:26,720
Speaker 1: end of it. So Wade Wood, as he played in

1248
01:03:26,720 --> 01:03:29,360
Speaker 1: every game last year, he is really going to be

1249
01:03:29,800 --> 01:03:32,680
Speaker 1: a focal point of that Clemson linebacker corps this year.

1250
01:03:33,200 --> 01:03:35,920
Speaker 1: Linebacker's a really good position for them right now. The

1251
01:03:35,960 --> 01:03:38,360
Speaker 1: breakout player on this team though, I'm going to a

1252
01:03:38,400 --> 01:03:41,080
Speaker 1: position group we talk about way too much with Clemson

1253
01:03:41,560 --> 01:03:44,120
Speaker 1: and it's been negative as of late. And that's been receiver.

1254
01:03:45,120 --> 01:03:48,320
Speaker 1: Receiver in the mid twenty teams was dynamite on this

1255
01:03:48,400 --> 01:03:52,959
Speaker 1: team lately it's been anything but. And Bo Collins that's

1256
01:03:53,000 --> 01:03:55,960
Speaker 1: the guy that I think could really shine this year.

1257
01:03:56,000 --> 01:03:58,440
Speaker 1: He's six three to two ten, he's a rising junior.

1258
01:03:58,840 --> 01:04:02,280
Speaker 1: He played he started ten games last year. Twenty two catches,

1259
01:04:02,880 --> 01:04:05,640
Speaker 1: three hundred and seventy three yards, five touchdowns. Those numbers

1260
01:04:05,720 --> 01:04:08,160
Speaker 1: do not stand out at all. I know that, But

1261
01:04:08,240 --> 01:04:10,080
Speaker 1: think about where we are in the here and now.

1262
01:04:10,400 --> 01:04:12,520
Speaker 1: Think about Garrett Riley coming in, think about what he

1263
01:04:12,600 --> 01:04:15,240
Speaker 1: just did at TCU, Think about featuring a player like

1264
01:04:15,320 --> 01:04:18,960
Speaker 1: Quinton Johnson, and then ask who is the closest thing

1265
01:04:19,000 --> 01:04:22,960
Speaker 1: on this roster to Quinton Johnson? And I think it

1266
01:04:23,000 --> 01:04:26,160
Speaker 1: may very well be Bo Collins. So I don't know

1267
01:04:26,200 --> 01:04:28,680
Speaker 1: what my over under on receiving yards for the year

1268
01:04:28,720 --> 01:04:31,320
Speaker 1: for him would be, but it'd be well north of

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Speaker 1: three seventy three. The schedule bears repeating here. We talked

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Speaker 1: about this early in the show. But don't overlook Duke.

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to tell you that anymore. I've said

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Speaker 1: it far too often, but that Duke game twelve points

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Speaker 1: spread on it. It's not just an imminent blowout in

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Speaker 1: Week one, standalone game Labor Day night. So that's how

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Speaker 1: Clemson starts their season. But also they got the Florida

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Speaker 1: State game, one of the games of the year, probably

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Speaker 1: the game of the year in the ACC. They go

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Speaker 1: to Miami. There's a stretch after their bye week they

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Speaker 1: go to Miami and two NC State back to back

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Speaker 1: road games, then Notre Dame at home. Then they get

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Speaker 1: Tech in there, George Tech. They got North Carolina at home,

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Speaker 1: and then at South Carolina to end the year. South

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01:05:11,440 --> 01:05:16,520
Speaker 1: Carolina beat them last year, so it is it's kind

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Speaker 1: of a backloaded schedule for him. Florida State Notre Dame

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Speaker 1: North Carolina is so funny because sometimes I'll write things

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Speaker 1: in parentheses, like I just started to go down a

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Speaker 1: road there where there were some things in parentheses, and

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Speaker 1: I hope that my mind figures it out as I'm

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Speaker 1: reading the thing off. And I got Florida State Notre

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Speaker 1: Dame North Carolina with three numbers in parentheses next to

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Speaker 1: their name. I have no earthly idea what I wrote

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Speaker 1: it down for. I'm sure it was good though, So

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Speaker 1: thank you Jesse. Really good work there. That's the Clemson spotlight. Now.

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Speaker 1: The last thing that you guys wanted me to talk

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01:05:48,840 --> 01:05:54,960
Speaker 1: about tonight, let me take a little sip here is

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Speaker 1: we got a ruling. We got an announcement the white

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01:05:58,800 --> 01:06:02,840
Speaker 1: smoke appeared in Indiana over NCAA headquarters, and we got

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Speaker 1: a ruling from the nc DOUBLEA. I got that news

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Speaker 1: dump Friday Special, and Brad asked me, what are your

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Speaker 1: thoughts on the NCAA's ruling on Tennessee regarding its violations. Well,

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01:06:13,000 --> 01:06:15,600
Speaker 1: here was the punishment. If you've been out in left

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Speaker 1: field on this. They got to pay eight million dollars

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01:06:18,440 --> 01:06:23,080
Speaker 1: in fine. They have a total reduction of twenty eight scholarships,

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01:06:23,200 --> 01:06:27,720
Speaker 1: a lot of that has already been scholarships served. They

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Speaker 1: are vacating eleven wins. Oh, what a dagger to the chest.

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01:06:32,840 --> 01:06:34,920
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, you were ordered not to remember

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01:06:35,000 --> 01:06:37,920
Speaker 1: watching those games Tennessee one and Jeremy Prewet has a

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01:06:38,000 --> 01:06:41,480
Speaker 1: six year show cause and a one year automatic suspension.

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01:06:42,920 --> 01:06:44,880
Speaker 1: That was the long and short of the punishment. I

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01:06:45,040 --> 01:06:47,280
Speaker 1: told you guys, I thought this was the path forward

1311
01:06:47,280 --> 01:06:50,480
Speaker 1: for the NCUBA. So the path forward I think is

1312
01:06:50,680 --> 01:06:53,480
Speaker 1: they're terrified of getting sued when they hand down these

1313
01:06:53,640 --> 01:06:56,520
Speaker 1: these decisions, and it looked like that may have been

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Speaker 1: a factor here for reasons I'm going to read you

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Speaker 1: in a second. They're just gonna find schools a ton

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01:07:01,000 --> 01:07:03,400
Speaker 1: of money. That's what they're going to start doing. And

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01:07:03,440 --> 01:07:06,520
Speaker 1: by the way, that's what they should do. Those kids

1318
01:07:06,560 --> 01:07:09,520
Speaker 1: on campus right now should be paying a price for

1319
01:07:09,920 --> 01:07:12,800
Speaker 1: what a former coaching staff did. You know what else

1320
01:07:12,880 --> 01:07:15,760
Speaker 1: kind of sucks here that no one talks about the

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Speaker 1: recruiting staff that was at Tennessee. And I'm not talking

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Speaker 1: about coaches, man, I'm talking about people whose names you

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01:07:22,120 --> 01:07:24,640
Speaker 1: don't know, Like a lot of young girls, a lot

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01:07:24,640 --> 01:07:26,800
Speaker 1: of young guys that work behind the scenes, don't make

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01:07:26,840 --> 01:07:29,320
Speaker 1: a ton of money. They're looking to forge a name

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Speaker 1: for themselves and work their way up the ladder. And

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Speaker 1: they're involved in something they're not spearheading, they're doing what

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Speaker 1: they're told, and they get blacklisted. They don't get to

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Speaker 1: get jobs anywhere. That part sucks, and no one's going

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01:07:41,600 --> 01:07:43,040
Speaker 1: to talk about it. So I guess I will for

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01:07:43,120 --> 01:07:46,360
Speaker 1: like fifteen seconds. But back to the matter at Ham

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Speaker 1: and when i'm college football commissioner and it eventually just

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Speaker 1: take over the NCAA and I handle investigations myself. You're

1334
01:07:54,280 --> 01:07:57,080
Speaker 1: just gonna get fined a ton of money and we

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Speaker 1: will take care of things internally. That's what we'll do. Also,

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Speaker 1: they're gonna hammer the guilty party. So Jeremy PREWITTT I mean,

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Speaker 1: I can tell you confidently I think Prewitt thought that

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Speaker 1: his time served because he hadn't coachedince twenty twenty. I

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01:08:11,840 --> 01:08:14,919
Speaker 1: think Prewitt thought his time served and maybe maybe one

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Speaker 1: or two more years that was gonna be it. NANC

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01:08:17,040 --> 01:08:20,599
Speaker 1: DOUBLEA said absolutely not, Tennessee. Your former employer is gonna

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Speaker 1: pays a ton of money and you are out. And

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01:08:23,560 --> 01:08:25,920
Speaker 1: even if someone wants to hire you, even after the

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01:08:25,960 --> 01:08:29,080
Speaker 1: show caused part of it, if he gets hired, there's

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Speaker 1: an automatic one year suspension where you can't do anything.

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Speaker 1: And I don't know if he's going to challenge it legally.

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Speaker 1: I'd kind of be surprised if he didn't, but I

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Speaker 1: don't have any information on that. That's the way it's

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Speaker 1: gonna happen. The guilty parties are gonna get hammered, the

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Speaker 1: university's gonna get hammered, and that's the way it'll be

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Speaker 1: moving forward. Now. There is this interesting tidbit paper pop

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Speaker 1: worthy from the Knoxville News Sentinel earlier today, and that

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01:08:53,560 --> 01:08:57,320
Speaker 1: was that the Tennessee Attorney General threatened legal action if

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Speaker 1: the NC DOUBLEA delivered a postseason ban, and the NC

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Speaker 1: double A has the legal standing of an accordion. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you're talking about like spine of jellyfish style up there,

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01:09:07,800 --> 01:09:10,559
Speaker 1: so they folded on that. No postseason ban, nor should

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Speaker 1: there have been. But let me tell you what they

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01:09:12,640 --> 01:09:15,519
Speaker 1: did do. As I read earlier, Yeah you got the fine,

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Speaker 1: Yeah you got the scholarship production. They took away eleven

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Speaker 1: wins Tennessee. Had you saw them when the games, I

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Speaker 1: saw them win the games, and the NC double A

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01:09:25,160 --> 01:09:28,040
Speaker 1: is still living in a world, in that bubble of theirs.

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01:09:28,439 --> 01:09:31,000
Speaker 1: They live in a world where they truly think, like

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Speaker 1: boom boom, like a clapper system. You turn the lights

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Speaker 1: off at night. They've got a clapper system in Indianapolis,

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01:09:36,560 --> 01:09:38,280
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, you hit that double clap.

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Speaker 1: Those wins never happen. The most casual behavior imaginable is

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Speaker 1: how I would classify it. For anyone out there wondering

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Speaker 1: what I think about it, I firmly believe. I firmly

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Speaker 1: believe there is coming a day where a future generation

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Speaker 1: looks back on the NC DOUBA vacating wins as a

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Speaker 1: punishment tool, the same way that we look back on

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01:09:58,680 --> 01:10:01,679
Speaker 1: the fact that doctors used to prescribe cigarettes to cure

1375
01:10:01,800 --> 01:10:05,400
Speaker 1: asthma in the fifties. You can't breathe here, puff on

1376
01:10:05,439 --> 01:10:09,040
Speaker 1: this lung dart that should help you. Well, that's crazy,

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01:10:09,080 --> 01:10:12,280
Speaker 1: about as crazy as vacating wins as a punitive measure

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01:10:12,560 --> 01:10:17,120
Speaker 1: for something that we all saw happen, and nothing about

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01:10:17,439 --> 01:10:19,840
Speaker 1: saying that history didn't happen change the fact that it

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01:10:19,880 --> 01:10:24,040
Speaker 1: did happen. So yeah, that's where we are in Knoxville.

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Speaker 1: The good news for our friends over there is you

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01:10:27,000 --> 01:10:29,679
Speaker 1: should be set moving forward. I mean, this is Josh

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01:10:29,720 --> 01:10:31,960
Speaker 1: Hipel got this news. This was not something that made

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01:10:32,000 --> 01:10:35,000
Speaker 1: Josh Hypel say, honeypack our boxes, we're moving. We're out

1385
01:10:35,040 --> 01:10:36,880
Speaker 1: of here. This is a dead end job. It's nothing

1386
01:10:36,920 --> 01:10:39,320
Speaker 1: like that. So I know there were a lot of

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Speaker 1: happy texts that I got from Knoxville about oh fifteen

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Speaker 1: minutes after Ross Dellinger and the boys dropped that story.

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Speaker 1: That's our show for tonight. I appreciate you guys being

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01:10:48,680 --> 01:10:51,439
Speaker 1: tuned in. Make sure make sure make sure that you

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01:10:51,560 --> 01:10:53,719
Speaker 1: like the video and subscribe to the channel or subscribe

1392
01:10:53,720 --> 01:10:56,639
Speaker 1: to the podcast. Quick reminder, we will have a live

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01:10:56,680 --> 01:10:59,479
Speaker 1: show Tuesday night. You know where it's gonna be live from.

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01:10:59,479 --> 01:11:03,880
Speaker 1: It's gonna be like I'm from Nashville, Tennessee. And same

1395
01:11:03,920 --> 01:11:07,760
Speaker 1: thing for Thursday. But until then for producer Jesse for

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01:11:07,840 --> 01:11:11,200
Speaker 1: director Colin for Chelsea. Who's on our way back to

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Speaker 1: beautiful Columbus, Georgia after tonight, Bradley the Associate, I'm Josh Baden.

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Speaker 1: Take care, have a great start to your week. It's

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Speaker 1: going to be jam packed here and God bless