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Speaker 2: I've heard so many players say, well, I want to

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Speaker 1: Is that? Whoo whoo? And no, Dan and Tie Dan Rubinstein,

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Speaker 1: welcome back to the show. The haze of the preseason

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Speaker 1: need to get into today. My good friend, welcome back

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Speaker 1: to the show. How are you?

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Speaker 2: I'm great. I was at a party brag much Friday

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Speaker 2: And as per usual, my my friends, who are there,

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Speaker 2: the dads in the neighborhood, in the area, they you know,

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Speaker 2: you got a Wisconsin fan, you got Notreed fan. A

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Speaker 2: of it, Robie right and getting ready. And I tell

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Speaker 2: going to be. So if you want to download some

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Speaker 2: what Oregon State's going to look like or Tcuo's going

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Speaker 2: to look like. Now's the time, and people took advantage.

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Speaker 2: It was a lot of like Indiana, Illinois, what do

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Speaker 2: should be fun and they look at me and they say, oh, okay, cool.

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Speaker 1: I find I have to throttle it back in conversations

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Speaker 2: You want to talk about justice ains, we can do that.

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Speaker 1: Quite literally, right before we hit record on this episode,

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Speaker 1: Incredible disrespect for the pit Panthers, but contain.

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Speaker 2: Continue fair? The Oklahoma one is interesting. So they get

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Speaker 1: They're too high on SMU for sure.

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Speaker 2: Here's my follow up tie, Generally speaking, where do you

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Speaker 1: I hate preseason polls.

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Speaker 2: Now you're back to this. You hated them, you are

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Speaker 2: I always find it funny that, like we'll do an

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Speaker 2: of preseasonble. You're just like, Okay, it's June fourteenth, ma'am,

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Speaker 2: always overrated to start the season, right raw, I don't know, man,

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Speaker 2: I mean, look, I understand this world about as well

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Speaker 1: Right, That's what this is. This is about getting people talking.

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Speaker 2: Oh I love it. I love it. I don't know, man,

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Speaker 2: you're signing up for you want to be a college

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Speaker 1: What we get? I don't want to be a coach.

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Speaker 1: That's why I didn't sign up for that.

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Speaker 2: I know, but you're talking about coaches getting their jobs

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Speaker 1: five team, you already knew that going into the year.

433
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Speaker 1: Your fan base already had those expectations going into the year.

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Speaker 1: You don't need this to validate it.

435
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Speaker 2: So you're you're a big Tony petiti Atto big guy.

436
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Speaker 2: Then I hate the auto bid too.

437
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Speaker 1: I hate it.

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Speaker 2: Settle it. On the field, we shouldn't have rankings. We

439
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Speaker 2: should have Iowa playing to get into the college football

440
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Speaker 2: playoff or on Thanksgiving that's the number team in the

441
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Speaker 2: Big Ten. Well it isn't It isn't right. You're taking

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Speaker 2: the power away from those ranking teams.

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Speaker 1: I hate these polls, man, I hate I hate these

444
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Speaker 1: preseason polls with every fiber of my being. But I'll

445
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Speaker 1: play nice with it because we need someone to talk

446
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Speaker 1: about So.

447
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Speaker 2: Yeah, by the way, Google engagement porn. But just be ready,

448
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Speaker 2: no you ready for what?

449
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Speaker 1: Man? I'm on a heater between this now and October

450
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Speaker 1: on the last episode.

451
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Speaker 2: That's true. Apparently that's a Howard Stern thing. By the way,

452
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Speaker 2: is it?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, of course I got weird emails about that already.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, how did mom h feel about it? Did not

455
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Speaker 2: talk to her about where is my not talking about

456
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Speaker 2: this fair enough?

457
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Speaker 1: Did not talk to her about that, thankfully, even though

458
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Speaker 1: she listens to the show religiously.

459
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Speaker 2: Oh I love these rankings. I love them.

460
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Speaker 1: I think Baylor, I think USC and Georgia Tech, both

461
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Speaker 1: of whom you mentioned, and of course my your pitt

462
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Speaker 1: Panthers all are in the others receiving votes category, which

463
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Speaker 1: is interesting to track the other thing that I think

464
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Speaker 1: we need to come back to, and maybe we can

465
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Speaker 1: do this on the Prediction Show. But Toulaine now with

466
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Speaker 1: Jake Retzliff is a more interesting conversation than it was

467
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Speaker 1: six weeks ago. And we started doing American previews yea

468
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Speaker 1: and things of that nature. And Tulane, even though I

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Speaker 1: think we assume Boise is still probably the best nonpower school, Uh,

470
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Speaker 1: Tulane may be in a different spot than they were

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Speaker 1: when we talked through that last time. So I'm curious

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Speaker 1: to see if you're thinking has evolved at all. We

473
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Speaker 1: can get into that on the Sunday episode where you

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Speaker 1: do predictions.

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Speaker 2: I like that you phrased it American previews as if

476
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Speaker 2: there's a Canadian preview forthcoming.

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Speaker 1: American Conference preview. They changed their name, by the way,

478
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Speaker 1: it's not the AAC, it's America.

479
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Speaker 2: Oh. They don't want the acronym anymore.

480
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Speaker 1: They don't want it. No, they want to go strictly American.

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Speaker 2: Okay, fair enough.

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Speaker 1: Marketing and branding people, What are you going to do

483
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Speaker 1: with them? I don't know.

484
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Speaker 2: USC, also outside the top twenty five has an opportunity

485
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Speaker 2: to springboard up.

486
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Speaker 1: We had some interesting injuries or injury news around college

487
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Speaker 1: football that I at least wanted to give voice too.

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Speaker 1: This is, by no means a complete list. This is

489
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Speaker 1: just a list of players that I think again, you

490
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Speaker 1: and I saw and we sat up a little bit.

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Speaker 1: The big one has been Garrett Nusmeyer. Actually, yes, there

492
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Speaker 1: were rumors that had circulated on message boards surrounding Nuss's injury.

493
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Speaker 1: What's what's wrong with him? Is it an ACL is

494
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Speaker 1: it something else? Pateeller tendonitis. Pateeller tendonitis seems to be

495
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Speaker 1: the confirmed ailment. Via Brian Kelly. He did lead off

496
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Speaker 1: some of his coaching remarks talking about this. It seems

497
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Speaker 1: as if he'll be fine, but Garrettnsmeyer obviously is a

498
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Speaker 1: lot riding on him this year. LSU success depends on

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Speaker 1: Garrett Nusmeyer this season, So you don't want to hear

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Speaker 1: about any kind of the teller ten tonight, this or

501
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Speaker 1: really anything at all. Does not seem like it's gonna

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Speaker 1: be super serious. But we have to pay attention to this.

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Speaker 2: Yes, but if he is playing and nicked up and

504
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Speaker 2: is affected with an unproven rushing attack, that there seems

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Speaker 2: to be a lot on Garrett nus Meyer's plate in

506
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Speaker 2: terms of how responsible he's going to be. Obviously, a

507
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Speaker 2: quarterback is already immensely responsible for an offense, but if

508
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Speaker 2: he is limited in some way, if he is favoring

509
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Speaker 2: one side of his body and it leads to disappointing throws,

510
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Speaker 2: there's a lot on the line here with Garrettusmeyer's health.

511
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Speaker 2: And they do have one of the better, if not

512
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Speaker 2: like the best, one of the best backup quarterbacks in

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Speaker 2: the sport, built a little bit differently physically, and I'm

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Speaker 2: gonna say Martin van Buren and let's just stick with that,

515
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Speaker 2: Michael van Buren. So they're not in a terribly thin

516
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Speaker 2: spot at quarterback. Should this go in an unfortunate direction.

517
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Speaker 2: But we as we talked about on the SEC preview,

518
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Speaker 2: Garrett nus Meyer's ceiling is New York. It's the Heisman

519
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Speaker 2: finalist or winner or something like. They're in a great

520
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Speaker 2: spot offensively provided Garrett nus Meyer's health is optimal, so

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Speaker 2: something worth monitoring. I hope it all works out because

522
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Speaker 2: they've got a big old opener to open the season

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Speaker 2: at Clemson.

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Speaker 1: Death Valley Invitational, the old DVII, the DVII yep. Dawson

525
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Speaker 1: Pendergrass from Baylor, the backup running back, has a foot injury.

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Speaker 1: Done for the year.

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Speaker 2: Okay, too bad.

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Speaker 1: Chris Brazzle from Tennessee was arrested after speeding and found

529
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Speaker 1: to be driving on a suspended license, So who knows

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Speaker 1: if there will be any kind of ramifications regarding that

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Speaker 1: this is a Tennessee wide receiver room. By the way,

532
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Speaker 1: that we talked about I guess in part three of

533
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Speaker 1: the SEC show where Mike Matthews been dinged up, I

534
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Speaker 1: think Brassl's been a little bit dinged up as well.

535
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Speaker 1: A lot of new pieces. I think we're both expecting

536
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Speaker 1: something of a step back, if only because there's just

537
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Speaker 1: a bunch new at Tennessee. But clearly the wide receiver

538
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Speaker 1: health is going to be a pretty big deal in

539
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Speaker 1: a Josh hipel system. Whether it's health, whether it's just

540
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Speaker 1: eligibility in general. We'll have to see if there are

541
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Speaker 1: any longer term repercussions from this one. But worth noting

542
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Speaker 1: on this show since we will be talking about Notre Dame,

543
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Speaker 1: and maybe I can save this for the Notre Dame bit,

544
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Speaker 1: but keeteran Young, one of their backup running backs, that

545
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Speaker 1: people were excited about the.

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Speaker 2: Third string, fourth string somewhere in there.

547
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Speaker 1: Yeah, third fourth string, I mean I think that. Well,

548
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Speaker 1: we could talk about this as we get into Notre

549
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Speaker 1: Dame a little bit later on. Clearly the rushing attack

550
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Speaker 1: is going to be paramount to the success of the

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Speaker 1: project this year. In twenty twenty five, bummer, but we'll

552
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Speaker 1: see see who else they've got that they can elevate

553
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Speaker 1: in his stead. I've been following this Molik Washington injury

554
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Speaker 1: news at Maryland. Okay, there hasn't really been a whole

555
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Speaker 1: lot available publicly on Malik Washington. They're big quarterback recruit freshmen,

556
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Speaker 1: not not a recruit anymore, yes, formally recruit now a freshman, Yes,

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Speaker 1: I am curious to see what he looks like and

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Speaker 1: if there are any kind of injury concerns as we

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Speaker 1: get a little bit closer to the year. Again, I

560
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Speaker 1: have not heard anything super definitive on that front, and

561
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Speaker 1: most of the updates I've seen have been encouraging, but

562
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Speaker 1: just something to keep keep your eyes and ears open

563
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Speaker 1: for because Malik Washington could factor in is just an

564
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Speaker 1: exciting prospect a great season for Maryland and you know,

565
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Speaker 1: maybe he could alter the course of the Big Ten.

566
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Speaker 1: And the only other thing that I wanted to call

567
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Speaker 1: out maybe you have other names. I don't know, but

568
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Speaker 1: I did mention this guy when we did our Penn

569
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Speaker 1: State preview and just because of how we recorded it

570
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Speaker 1: and because of just schedules and what.

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Speaker 2: News comes out.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, totally with like full disclosure on the news that

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Speaker 1: Max Granville, the edge rusher on the Penn State side

574
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Speaker 1: that I'm really excited about. Yeah, he's done long term injury.

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Speaker 1: When he comes back, when he arrives at full health,

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Speaker 1: I think it'll be exciting to see what he can

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Speaker 1: bring to bear. But does not look like that's going

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Speaker 1: to be happening anytime soon. So that one's on me.

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Speaker 2: All right, well, it takes a real man to fest

580
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Speaker 2: up take good for you.

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Speaker 1: Listen, it is what it is. We did one hundred

582
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Speaker 1: and thirty four teams. We're going to do the last

583
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Speaker 1: two today.

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Speaker 2: I am choosing not to be accountable for any of

585
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Speaker 2: the minor or major errors that I made any of

586
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Speaker 2: the preview episodes. No, I'm sure I made a ton

587
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Speaker 2: and I apologize, not in advance, but I apologize after

588
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Speaker 2: the fact if I screwed something up. I'm doing my best.

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Speaker 1: I do have one other thing that I wanted to

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Speaker 1: talk to you about.

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Speaker 2: Please, Usually an ointment can take care of most of it.

592
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Speaker 2: But continue.

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Speaker 1: Did you happen to see that ESPN acquired the rights

594
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Speaker 1: to the Red Zone brand?

595
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Speaker 2: Did see that? Well, it's part of the broader NFL

596
00:29:54,280 --> 00:29:56,360
Speaker 2: deal that ESPN has entered into.

597
00:29:56,560 --> 00:29:58,640
Speaker 1: Yeah, so the NFL Red Zone Channel. I don't know

598
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Speaker 1: if you've had a chance to check this out out,

599
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Speaker 1: but a pretty awesome way to stay plugged in on

600
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Speaker 1: an NFL Sunday.

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Speaker 2: Where are you asking me if I've checked out the

602
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Speaker 2: NFL Red Zone twenty years into its existence.

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Speaker 1: Have you watched it? I don't know. Yeah, of course,

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Speaker 1: I'm sure it's not a new concept for people who

605
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Speaker 1: are listening, you guys.

606
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Speaker 2: Always you're just like a Jay Leno Yes, Apple.

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Speaker 1: TVM rocom even strict extremely popular hosted by Scott Hansen.

608
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Speaker 1: The idea, as I'm sure everyone's aware of by now,

609
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Speaker 1: you see every touchdown every game. Great for people who

610
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Speaker 1: play fantasy football if that's your thing. Sure so in

611
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Speaker 1: our world here the move made some waves because of

612
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Speaker 1: something that Roger Goodell said, and he floated the idea

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Speaker 1: of there being a college football red zone channel, which

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Speaker 1: we've sort of had to be clear, we sort of had. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: caused a bunch of us in the college footble ecosystem.

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Speaker 1: Whether it's Twitter or blue Sky or MySpace, whatever you're into,

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Speaker 1: it doesn't matter. Yeah, sat up a little bit more

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Speaker 1: in the chair. Now listen before people write me the email.

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Speaker 1: I understand that there are some obstacles to this. The

620
00:31:06,480 --> 00:31:09,960
Speaker 1: NFL controls the rights to all of its games. ESPN

621
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Speaker 1: does not control the rights to all of college football.

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00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:17,280
Speaker 1: Some may believe that's the case, but yeah, just as

623
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Speaker 1: an example, ESPN, if it had a red zone for

624
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Speaker 1: college football, could not show plays from the Big Ten

625
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Speaker 1: because of broadcasting rights. Our friend any Staples from on

626
00:31:26,160 --> 00:31:28,920
Speaker 1: three wrote a long piece on how it require a

627
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Speaker 1: literal Act of Congress to make this actually a thing. Sure,

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Speaker 1: I was glad that Andy wrote that it prevents people

629
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Speaker 1: from taking it seriously or too seriously, right, which creates

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Speaker 1: an opening, Dan, for you, for I to get in

631
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Speaker 1: our official application.

632
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Speaker 2: Now we're really messing up our knees and eyes today. Continue.

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Speaker 1: I am formally throwing in my hat. I am formally

634
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Speaker 1: throwing in our hat if you would like to join.

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Speaker 2: Okay, so this can't happen in the way that it

636
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Speaker 2: should happen. Yeah, your enthusiastic volunteering the show.

637
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Speaker 1: I am making this central to my twenty twenty five platform.

638
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Speaker 2: Dan, But how are we overcoming the obstacle of not

639
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Speaker 2: being able to show all games?

640
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Speaker 1: Somebody else can figure that out, people with more money

641
00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:16,200
Speaker 1: and better legal knowledge than you and I.

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00:32:16,400 --> 00:32:19,560
Speaker 2: Yes, well they tried sort of right that they tried

643
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Speaker 2: to come up with a streaming service venue. I think

644
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Speaker 2: people were joking that it was called venu, but I

645
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Speaker 2: think it was a pronounced venue, which is like the

646
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Speaker 2: agreement between the now defunct Warner Brothers Discovery and ESPN

647
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Speaker 2: and Fox to sort of have a sports streaming service.

648
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Speaker 2: So maybe I could have lived there as part of

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Speaker 2: that agreement. I do not know enough about mergers and

650
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Speaker 2: streaming businesses.

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Speaker 1: But.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a tough ask. I don't know what our

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Speaker 2: opening looks like. And you and I both know that

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Speaker 2: should ESPN be able to figure out a college football

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Speaker 2: red zone, I think we both know that the whole

656
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Speaker 2: host would be like Pat McAfee's Electrician, an intern for

657
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Speaker 2: the Pat McAfee Show is taking over.

658
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Speaker 1: So I have a three point plan for this. Okay,

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Speaker 1: I have a three point plan, which is one, if

660
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Speaker 1: you're starting a college football red zone, your core constituency

661
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Speaker 1: is the super online crowd and the sickos that care

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Speaker 1: about all the games. True, in the Year of Our

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Speaker 1: Lord twenty twenty five, that online culture is like the

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Speaker 1: fabric of the whole experience on college football Saturdays.

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Speaker 2: Three hundred and fifty five of the craziest fans in America.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, so, to paraphrase the wise profit Bane, Oh, your

667
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Speaker 1: other hosts would have to adopt that culture. We were

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Speaker 1: born into it, Dan.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true.

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Speaker 1: And we've already sort of been doing this, haven't we,

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Speaker 1: with watch alongs over the last couple of years, which

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Speaker 1: have literally gotten hundreds of thousands of views. You can

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Speaker 1: stop by, executives listening. You can stop by any time

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Speaker 1: you want, Just please hit the subscribe button.

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Speaker 2: So you're saying, lean into like the more esoteric elements, right,

676
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Speaker 2: that it's not just about teams about to score. It's

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Speaker 2: about weird things happening when a punter absolutely rifles it

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Speaker 2: off of the long snap.

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Speaker 1: Right, exactly, right, exactly. I am treating every watch along

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Speaker 1: we do this here as a tryout. Okay, every single

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Speaker 1: one of them.

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Speaker 2: Oh, what's the third element?

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Speaker 1: This is only the first element?

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Speaker 2: Oh, only the first Okay, the second one.

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Speaker 1: The second one is in my opinion, and I'm biased.

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Speaker 1: There is no other duo that can blend the serious

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Speaker 1: with the stupidity. Okay, this damn sport. And if you

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Speaker 1: don't believe me, unnamed executive listening to this, you can

689
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Speaker 1: just ask your media personalities, because they all listen to

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Speaker 1: us have either been on the show, have emailed the show,

691
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Speaker 1: or have stolen bits from the show over the last

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Speaker 1: fifteen years. Yeah, and this is the god's honest truth.

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Speaker 1: And you know it's true.

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Speaker 2: That's true. Some of them have even made their way

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Speaker 2: to the ty Hilden branch charity massage mode.

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Speaker 1: That's right, that's right. There are a lot of folks

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Speaker 1: out there who take the sport very seriously. Also true,

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Speaker 1: and then there are you know, others who are just

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Speaker 1: in it for the madness. I think you and I

700
00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:12,799
Speaker 1: are the best at combining both of those worlds, whether

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00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:17,640
Speaker 1: it's like EPA per play and what that means. Actually,

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Speaker 1: I still don't really know what that means.

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Speaker 2: I'm not positive. I'm not positive when I'm getting.

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Speaker 1: Close EPA per play Ohio state represented by a giant nut. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: there's a middle ground. We do a pretty good job

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Speaker 1: blending those two. That's why people be listening all these years.

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Speaker 1: We can do this better than almost anybody.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Third point, we're willing to wear diapers fullwood.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean, if that's what it takes to get

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Speaker 1: a gig like this one.

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Speaker 2: Look, and we can partner with Dean Sanders, who is

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Speaker 2: out front man, he's very out there.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, this isn't even a joke. He's like all in.

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Speaker 2: If we could, I'm I'll do whatever. Man.

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Speaker 1: Here's a third thing. Third thing, and this is going

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Speaker 1: to be the most controversial. Okay, ready unnamed executive listening

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Speaker 1: at home. Yeah, maybe watching on the YouTube. I don't know. Yeah,

718
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Speaker 1: you don't need a big media personality to carry this.

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Speaker 1: People are not tuning in to see Matt Barrier whoever

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Speaker 1: you pick. They're just not That's not the appeal. The

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00:36:16,320 --> 00:36:22,400
Speaker 1: draw is the format. The focus should be on the games. Also,

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Speaker 1: and I probably shouldn't say this out loud, but we're

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Speaker 1: all friends here, right. I think we'd be cheaper, wouldn't.

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Speaker 2: We definitely be cheaper, very affordable.

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Speaker 1: Matt Barry is gonna want like a Hollywood star and

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Speaker 1: a private jet to do something like this. Yeah, just

727
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Speaker 1: pay for my guess to get over to New York City,

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Speaker 1: get Dan an exit row. Yeah, that's pretty much all

729
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Speaker 1: we I mean, you'd have to pay us something, but

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Speaker 1: definitely not as much as like the Matt Barry's of

731
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Speaker 1: the world. There's also the possibility that our wives would

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Speaker 1: want to divorces, which also true, which like if you

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Speaker 1: can get us a lawyer on speed dial, that might

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Speaker 1: be helpful if push came to shove. But I think

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Speaker 1: we could build a real case, and I will continue

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Speaker 1: building that case throughout all of our watch alongs this

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Speaker 1: year and all the content we do that I want

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Speaker 1: to be out in front of this. I saw other

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Speaker 1: people throwing their hat in the ring. That's great. We're better.

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Speaker 1: We just are we'd be better at it. I agree

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Speaker 1: Ty wants to buy a lake house. I don't even

742
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Speaker 1: care about the lake house. I just want to do this.

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Speaker 1: I think it'd be fun. I think i'd be better

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Speaker 1: at it then pretty much everybody else out there who's

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Speaker 1: throwing their name into the ring.

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Speaker 2: Now, are you limiting it at all? Or are you

747
00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:28,720
Speaker 2: doing full scope because there's a lot of games happening

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00:37:28,719 --> 00:37:31,920
Speaker 2: at once, much more so than on an NFL Sunday Listen.

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Speaker 1: I'm not charge of this. I'm in charge of this, okay.

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Speaker 1: I'm just saying we could do it better. If you

751
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Speaker 1: want to give us a trial run, it's oliverbe at

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00:37:40,600 --> 00:37:42,759
Speaker 1: gmail dot com. If you want to put us on

753
00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:46,080
Speaker 1: one of those like playoff alt casts, we could do

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00:37:46,120 --> 00:37:49,600
Speaker 1: the dark Web altcast whatever. True. If you want to

755
00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:53,600
Speaker 1: use that as a proving ground, great reach out. Or

756
00:37:53,640 --> 00:37:55,960
Speaker 1: you could return our emails, which you know we've sent you.

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00:37:57,000 --> 00:37:59,359
Speaker 1: We'd love to try it out. I think we could

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Speaker 1: do a good job with it.

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Speaker 2: I think we do great.

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Speaker 1: That's my diatrep.

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Speaker 2: It's going to Pat McAfee's Electrician.

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Speaker 1: It's going to go to Pat McAfee's Electrician. Yeah, they

763
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Speaker 1: got to somehow pay for all that.

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Speaker 2: But yes, yeah, all right, I'm in can't wait.

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Speaker 1: Solid Verbo at gmail dot com of course is the

766
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Speaker 1: email right in. Let us know your thoughts on this

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00:38:15,560 --> 00:38:17,800
Speaker 1: and any other pressing content or hashtag?

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Speaker 2: Do people still use hashtags that you want it? That

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Speaker 2: you want to employ? About this sv red zone, I

770
00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:25,520
Speaker 2: don't know what. We don't know.

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Speaker 1: You have until the end of the show to come

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Speaker 1: up with something creative. Okay, fair enough, this is going

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Speaker 1: to be your task. Okay, we do have two teams

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Speaker 1: left to preview. I have champagne upstairs, actually prosecco upstairs.

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Speaker 1: I am popping the cork. I told Solid Wife Kate,

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Speaker 1: we are popping the cork on the prosecco after we

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Speaker 1: get through these two teams, because that means we've officially

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Speaker 1: previewed all of them.

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Speaker 2: That's sparkling Italian White Wives Italian Yeah, okay, Ty Hilton

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Speaker 2: Brandt maybe has the Italian look, does not have the Italian.

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Speaker 1: Last We've got some Lamarka prosecco upstairs. Not a sponsor, could.

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Speaker 2: Be okay, but the Mama h side Italian.

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Speaker 1: That's right. Okay, let's start with the Notre Dame fighting

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Speaker 1: Irish Dan Rubinstein, I'm ready. Notre Dame fourteen and two

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Speaker 1: last season. This year they're over under per our friends

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Speaker 1: in the desert is ten and one half wins. What

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Speaker 1: is your reaction to seeing ten and a half? How

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Speaker 1: do you feel about that?

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Speaker 2: I feel fine about it. Yeah, would you go over

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Speaker 2: it's a big number?

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Speaker 1: Would you go over?

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Speaker 2: Not confidently?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Me neither, not confidently. But Notre Dame as a program

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Speaker 2: right now, with the way the sport is built, you know,

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Speaker 2: it's I don't know what rhymes with ten, the drive

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Speaker 2: to six, like you just got to get to ten wins.

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Speaker 2: You're in the playoff. So ultimately that doesn't matter a

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Speaker 2: ton right now, they don't have the same I don't know,

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Speaker 2: a dramatic need to win a conference to get a

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Speaker 2: certain seating or you know, they've got a brutal schedule

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Speaker 2: with these five powers in their conference that are recruiting

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Speaker 2: on an insane level. They've got tough games on this schedule.

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Speaker 2: They bring back so much. Yeah, and there are so

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Speaker 2: many known quantities outside of quarterback, which again They're one

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Speaker 2: of those six of top eight teams that will have

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Speaker 2: a new full time starting quarterback that if quarterback is

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Speaker 2: plug and play, competent or pretty good, they're going to

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Speaker 2: win ten games. So no name's to be really good

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Speaker 2: this year. They're going to be really good this year.

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Speaker 2: I think they're going to improve upon certain aspects of

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Speaker 2: what they needed to improve upon from last year, and

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Speaker 2: that they have the seasoning and the proof of concept,

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Speaker 2: and that Marcus Freeman can go into that locker room

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Speaker 2: and say, I haven't been here that long, and I

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Speaker 2: took you to the top of the mountain. We couldn't

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Speaker 2: plant our flag, but we were there. And so what

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Speaker 2: I am doing, who I am hiring, the culture I

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Speaker 2: am instilling is championship culture. And you either get on

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Speaker 2: board or you transferred to Nebraska, Tennessee or whatever. Like

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Speaker 2: the offensive linemen have done that didn't seem like they

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Speaker 2: were going to start. So that kind of advantage that

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Speaker 2: only five six seven type coaches have in this sport

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Speaker 2: is I think immense.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you're watching me right now, but

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Speaker 1: as you're saying all this, I'm just nodding. I'm nodding

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Speaker 1: in silent approval because Dan, you are stealing my thunder here.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, No, it's okay. It means that I'm not

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Speaker 1: off base, because you can't do a Notre Dame preview

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Speaker 1: without starting with that bigger picture view of this whole program.

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Speaker 1: At this point, this is and I was thinking about

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Speaker 1: this before I came down here, like this is far

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Speaker 1: and away the strongest this program's ever been in my lifetime.

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Speaker 1: WHOA and possibly in like the modern era. Yeah truly.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I know they haven't won the title yet,

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Speaker 1: but they were played for it last year, and it

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Speaker 1: feels like they are on the cusp of playing for

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Speaker 1: it again, or at least being in that conversation year

839
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Speaker 1: and you're out. The only way that you were building

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Speaker 1: a sustainable winner in twenty twenty five is if you've

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Speaker 1: got alignment, the big A word, your athletic director, your

842
00:42:06,160 --> 00:42:12,000
Speaker 1: athletic administration, your overall university administration, and the coach. And

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00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:15,759
Speaker 1: they've got that. They've really got that. It feels like

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Speaker 1: it's now more the case than ever at Notre Dame,

845
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Speaker 1: especially under Freeman. He's built the culture that you speak of,

846
00:42:22,040 --> 00:42:24,239
Speaker 1: doesn't just make guys want to come to Notre Dame.

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00:42:24,239 --> 00:42:25,839
Speaker 1: But it makes them want to stay when they're there.

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Speaker 1: I heard rumors about guys on this roster that we

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00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:33,000
Speaker 1: will talk through who I will not mention, who were

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Speaker 1: kind of straddling the line of like should I go,

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Speaker 1: should I go get a paycheck? Should I go somewhere else?

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Speaker 1: You get closer to home. So they're still there. Okay,

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Speaker 1: So this is a roster now, This is a program

854
00:42:43,840 --> 00:42:47,799
Speaker 1: now that is recruiting itself. It is a roster that

855
00:42:47,920 --> 00:42:50,160
Speaker 1: is deeper than ever as a result of it. And

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Speaker 1: more to the point, Notre Dame had really bad entry

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00:42:53,200 --> 00:42:55,840
Speaker 1: luck last season. We saw it along both lines, some

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Speaker 1: of it early, some of it in the playoffs. This

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00:42:58,760 --> 00:43:01,040
Speaker 1: was never a situation where they were just plugging in

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Speaker 1: guys willy nilly, and they were changing the game plan.

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Speaker 1: And I think that that is an undersold part of

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Speaker 1: what Marcus Freeman is doing right now, because you see

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00:43:10,920 --> 00:43:14,120
Speaker 1: it across college football all the time. Got to plug

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Speaker 1: in a new lineman, we got to change the game

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Speaker 1: plan on offense, on defense. We got a new quarterback,

866
00:43:18,520 --> 00:43:20,160
Speaker 1: we got to change the game plan, got a new

867
00:43:20,680 --> 00:43:23,000
Speaker 1: running back room, we got to change the game. He

868
00:43:23,120 --> 00:43:25,480
Speaker 1: is doing the same thing regardless of who is in there.

869
00:43:25,480 --> 00:43:27,600
Speaker 1: And we see that among the truly elite teams in

870
00:43:27,640 --> 00:43:31,040
Speaker 1: college football, whether it's Georgia or Ohio State or Oregon.

871
00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:34,399
Speaker 1: Right like, you see this among the top teams where

872
00:43:34,440 --> 00:43:38,319
Speaker 1: they just truly adopt the next man up mentality and

873
00:43:38,560 --> 00:43:40,680
Speaker 1: it is just plug and play with the next guy

874
00:43:41,000 --> 00:43:43,600
Speaker 1: stepping in. They don't have to reboot the entire game

875
00:43:43,600 --> 00:43:46,440
Speaker 1: plan in order to fit whatever new personnel they got

876
00:43:46,440 --> 00:43:49,560
Speaker 1: going into the starting lineup. Notre Dame has gotten them

877
00:43:49,960 --> 00:43:52,600
Speaker 1: to this point now, or Marcus Freeman excuse me, has

878
00:43:52,640 --> 00:43:54,960
Speaker 1: got Notre Dame to this point now. And so, as

879
00:43:54,960 --> 00:43:57,080
Speaker 1: someone who's watched this team his entire life, I am

880
00:43:57,200 --> 00:43:59,680
Speaker 1: thrilled with where they are at right now. And it

881
00:43:59,760 --> 00:44:02,600
Speaker 1: just to me like a program that continues to churn

882
00:44:02,680 --> 00:44:05,560
Speaker 1: and continues to get stronger. Yeah. The point that I

883
00:44:05,560 --> 00:44:07,879
Speaker 1: think a lot of people have missed, though, is how

884
00:44:07,920 --> 00:44:11,120
Speaker 1: young Notre Dame was a year ago. There obviously was

885
00:44:11,160 --> 00:44:14,400
Speaker 1: a veteran presence that was leading the charge, be it

886
00:44:14,480 --> 00:44:19,720
Speaker 1: Riley Leonard or Xavier Watts or Jack Kaiser, Riley Mills,

887
00:44:19,760 --> 00:44:24,520
Speaker 1: Ben Morrison, like, there were veterans, but there were also

888
00:44:25,160 --> 00:44:27,200
Speaker 1: a lot of freshmen and sophomores that were playing. Their

889
00:44:27,239 --> 00:44:30,240
Speaker 1: starting left tackle was a true freshman. Their best cornerback,

890
00:44:30,280 --> 00:44:33,640
Speaker 1: they're starting cornerback by year's end, Leonard Moore, My guy,

891
00:44:33,760 --> 00:44:38,799
Speaker 1: Leonard Moore, true freshmen. You had sophomores up and down

892
00:44:38,840 --> 00:44:43,160
Speaker 1: this roster that were playing huge roles in what we

893
00:44:43,239 --> 00:44:47,000
Speaker 1: saw in getting them to the national championship. Both Jeremiah

894
00:44:47,000 --> 00:44:50,160
Speaker 1: Love and Jadari and Price were sophomores. So just a

895
00:44:50,160 --> 00:44:53,359
Speaker 1: ton of underclassmen that were part of the thing last year.

896
00:44:54,160 --> 00:44:57,160
Speaker 1: There's a ton back now coming into twenty twenty five,

897
00:44:57,200 --> 00:45:00,440
Speaker 1: and it's more back on defense than offense. But I

898
00:45:00,480 --> 00:45:02,359
Speaker 1: think that stat might be a little bit skewed because

899
00:45:02,400 --> 00:45:06,879
Speaker 1: of Riley Leonard leaving. But alas, there was definitely a

900
00:45:06,920 --> 00:45:08,960
Speaker 1: big time youth movement last year that I think we're

901
00:45:08,960 --> 00:45:10,839
Speaker 1: going to see pay dividends now in twenty twenty five.

902
00:45:10,880 --> 00:45:12,439
Speaker 1: That's part of why they're a top five team.

903
00:45:12,920 --> 00:45:13,920
Speaker 2: Okay, fair enough.

904
00:45:13,960 --> 00:45:17,080
Speaker 1: The problem though is a quarterback. Yeah, And it might

905
00:45:17,120 --> 00:45:18,880
Speaker 1: be a bridge too far to call it a problem,

906
00:45:18,960 --> 00:45:21,359
Speaker 1: because I think their problem is one that a lot

907
00:45:21,360 --> 00:45:24,560
Speaker 1: of schools would pay to have, and that's two seemingly

908
00:45:24,600 --> 00:45:29,399
Speaker 1: capable quarterbacks competing for the gig. But from our chair

909
00:45:29,600 --> 00:45:33,960
Speaker 1: as we were previewing these teams, CJ. Carr, Kenny Minshew,

910
00:45:34,000 --> 00:45:37,080
Speaker 1: we haven't seen a whole lot of either of those guys,

911
00:45:37,560 --> 00:45:41,360
Speaker 1: if any of these guys at the major college football level.

912
00:45:41,880 --> 00:45:44,640
Speaker 1: So when you ask the question, what do you expect?

913
00:45:44,719 --> 00:45:47,600
Speaker 1: What should we expect, it's a big old shrug. I

914
00:45:47,640 --> 00:45:49,920
Speaker 1: know that Notre Dame people have been very excited about CJ.

915
00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:52,480
Speaker 1: Carr for a while, and I know that, and I'm

916
00:45:52,480 --> 00:45:56,239
Speaker 1: guilty of this too. I just sort of assumed, sight

917
00:45:56,320 --> 00:45:58,880
Speaker 1: unseen that it would be CJ. Carr's job to lose.

918
00:45:58,920 --> 00:46:02,080
Speaker 1: I still believe that that's the case. But from all indications,

919
00:46:02,120 --> 00:46:05,120
Speaker 1: this is a legitimate quarterback race. Dan. It's not like

920
00:46:05,160 --> 00:46:07,600
Speaker 1: they're just trying to appease Kenny Minshee to keep him around.

921
00:46:07,640 --> 00:46:09,879
Speaker 1: They don't want on the transfer, they don't like. It's

922
00:46:09,960 --> 00:46:12,960
Speaker 1: neck and neck from everything that I've been told. And

923
00:46:13,239 --> 00:46:15,760
Speaker 1: though there might still be a bit of an inclination

924
00:46:15,800 --> 00:46:18,600
Speaker 1: to go with Carr because he was the bigger prize

925
00:46:18,640 --> 00:46:22,400
Speaker 1: recruit of the two of them, still I think it's

926
00:46:22,440 --> 00:46:24,479
Speaker 1: an open question as to which one we're going to get.

927
00:46:24,680 --> 00:46:28,359
Speaker 1: Different quarterbacks. CJ. Carr early comps for him were Mac

928
00:46:28,440 --> 00:46:31,319
Speaker 1: Jones when he was being recruited out of high school. Right,

929
00:46:32,040 --> 00:46:35,320
Speaker 1: accurate passer, mobile, enough to move around in the pocket,

930
00:46:35,400 --> 00:46:38,920
Speaker 1: but he's not a runner. Kenny Minshee more of the athlete, right,

931
00:46:38,960 --> 00:46:40,520
Speaker 1: you can do more with him. You can put him

932
00:46:40,520 --> 00:46:41,080
Speaker 1: on the run.

933
00:46:41,719 --> 00:46:43,520
Speaker 2: Throws a nice ball, though, throws a nice ball.

934
00:46:43,520 --> 00:46:45,440
Speaker 1: He's your guy. You love Kenny Minshee.

935
00:46:45,520 --> 00:46:46,520
Speaker 2: I've liked him for a little bit.

936
00:46:46,680 --> 00:46:49,320
Speaker 1: Maybe not quite as big as CJ. Carr, but definitely

937
00:46:49,360 --> 00:46:53,920
Speaker 1: a different style athlete. So this is obviously going to

938
00:46:53,960 --> 00:46:57,200
Speaker 1: be the biggest question. There's a lot around whoever you

939
00:46:57,280 --> 00:47:00,120
Speaker 1: put at the quarterback position. You've got the ground game

940
00:47:00,320 --> 00:47:03,200
Speaker 1: with Jeremiah Love and Shadarian Price. I gotta believe the

941
00:47:03,200 --> 00:47:07,200
Speaker 1: Notre Dame offense is going to flow through background assault.

942
00:47:07,320 --> 00:47:10,040
Speaker 1: You've got the line up front. Notre Dame lost some

943
00:47:10,120 --> 00:47:13,840
Speaker 1: guys via transfer along the line. There was a narrative

944
00:47:13,880 --> 00:47:16,120
Speaker 1: out there in the preseason like, ah, well.

945
00:47:17,480 --> 00:47:21,440
Speaker 2: It's falling apart, wheels are coming off the offensive line. Yeah,

946
00:47:21,719 --> 00:47:24,120
Speaker 2: those guys weren't going to play dog. They weren't going

947
00:47:24,120 --> 00:47:26,520
Speaker 2: to play. They weren'ting to play.

948
00:47:26,600 --> 00:47:29,319
Speaker 1: They were in playing last year for injured dudes who

949
00:47:29,360 --> 00:47:31,799
Speaker 1: are now healthy. The fact they've got this line in

950
00:47:31,840 --> 00:47:35,440
Speaker 1: front of this running back room with I think this

951
00:47:35,520 --> 00:47:38,120
Speaker 1: wide receiving corps, which is better, still has some of

952
00:47:38,160 --> 00:47:42,000
Speaker 1: its own questions, but led by Jaden great House. You

953
00:47:42,080 --> 00:47:45,120
Speaker 1: bring in some other transfers as well, Malachi Fields while Pauling.

954
00:47:46,040 --> 00:47:47,719
Speaker 1: I think this is a receiver room that's going to

955
00:47:47,760 --> 00:47:49,640
Speaker 1: be better at getting open down the field and hopefully

956
00:47:49,680 --> 00:47:53,359
Speaker 1: stretching the field a little bit more vertically. But you

957
00:47:53,360 --> 00:47:55,000
Speaker 1: look at this offense and you say there's a lot

958
00:47:55,040 --> 00:47:58,880
Speaker 1: back who's playing quarterback? What does that quarterback look like?

959
00:47:59,160 --> 00:48:01,080
Speaker 1: That's the big old ug for Notre Dame this season

960
00:48:01,160 --> 00:48:01,680
Speaker 1: on offense.

961
00:48:02,320 --> 00:48:05,920
Speaker 2: I assume it's Jayden Greathhouse is going to be the number, like,

962
00:48:05,960 --> 00:48:09,560
Speaker 2: the clear number one pass catching option. Yeah, I tend

963
00:48:09,640 --> 00:48:12,880
Speaker 2: to think so. I mean, I like Jane Greathhouse.

964
00:48:13,000 --> 00:48:16,040
Speaker 1: Jane Greathouse clearly showed out down the stretch last season.

965
00:48:16,719 --> 00:48:19,840
Speaker 1: He factors to be I think their number one target

966
00:48:19,840 --> 00:48:23,920
Speaker 1: out wide. Malachi Field was really productive at UVA before

967
00:48:23,960 --> 00:48:26,719
Speaker 1: coming over. Will Pauling has been productive in his own

968
00:48:26,760 --> 00:48:28,799
Speaker 1: right coming down from Wisconsin. To me, those are the

969
00:48:28,840 --> 00:48:31,600
Speaker 1: three names, but you know they've got other guys that

970
00:48:31,719 --> 00:48:33,640
Speaker 1: I think can factor into this thing as well. Jordan

971
00:48:33,719 --> 00:48:36,919
Speaker 1: Faison is still there. Cam Williams a young guy who

972
00:48:36,920 --> 00:48:39,560
Speaker 1: maybe could step in and have more of a presence

973
00:48:39,600 --> 00:48:42,920
Speaker 1: out wide. Eli rarit in their tight end.

974
00:48:43,600 --> 00:48:45,520
Speaker 2: Is he on the level do you think of recent

975
00:48:45,600 --> 00:48:46,719
Speaker 2: tight ends that can be.

976
00:48:46,840 --> 00:48:49,000
Speaker 1: I think he can be Valves, I think he can

977
00:48:49,120 --> 00:48:53,360
Speaker 1: be absolutely so. There there's plenty of options in terms

978
00:48:53,360 --> 00:48:56,160
Speaker 1: of pass catchers, but I do think it's going to

979
00:48:56,239 --> 00:48:58,560
Speaker 1: depend somewhat on the quarterback to see how they are

980
00:48:58,640 --> 00:49:02,640
Speaker 1: utilized and to see moreover what that offense looks like

981
00:49:02,680 --> 00:49:04,440
Speaker 1: as they try to get down the field. Because this

982
00:49:04,600 --> 00:49:06,920
Speaker 1: was a pick a ball offense last year. There was

983
00:49:06,960 --> 00:49:09,120
Speaker 1: a lot within ten yards of the line of scrimmage.

984
00:49:09,160 --> 00:49:11,600
Speaker 1: If it wasn't open after one read, Riley Leonard would

985
00:49:11,600 --> 00:49:13,479
Speaker 1: take off and run with it. That was a whole

986
00:49:13,520 --> 00:49:15,680
Speaker 1: plan of attack in the National Championship game.

987
00:49:15,800 --> 00:49:19,920
Speaker 2: Until Steve Vangelli came in against Penn State and showed

988
00:49:19,960 --> 00:49:22,680
Speaker 2: what he can do for the beautiful Syracuse Orange.

989
00:49:23,440 --> 00:49:26,560
Speaker 1: Your questions on offense or who's playing quarterback and who's

990
00:49:26,560 --> 00:49:29,720
Speaker 1: ever playing quarterback? Can they stretch the ball down the field? Yep,

991
00:49:30,400 --> 00:49:32,080
Speaker 1: It's pretty cut and dry on that front.

992
00:49:32,600 --> 00:49:38,400
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean the duo of Love and Price is

993
00:49:38,440 --> 00:49:41,640
Speaker 2: as good a running back duo in the country, it seems, yep.

994
00:49:42,680 --> 00:49:45,520
Speaker 1: I mean it's either them Penn State. It's like one

995
00:49:45,560 --> 00:49:46,120
Speaker 1: A and one B.

996
00:49:46,680 --> 00:49:49,280
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think there's a lot of cases

997
00:49:49,360 --> 00:49:54,200
Speaker 2: out there, but yes, they are in rarefied air. Offense

998
00:49:54,239 --> 00:49:57,000
Speaker 2: should be fine, as you mentioned, need to find a quarterback,

999
00:49:57,040 --> 00:49:58,480
Speaker 2: need to find a quarterback who has pop And the

1000
00:49:58,520 --> 00:50:01,960
Speaker 2: only issue I see with finding quarterback is if it

1001
00:50:02,080 --> 00:50:06,800
Speaker 2: is seen and it becomes clear to the offensive staff

1002
00:50:06,800 --> 00:50:09,960
Speaker 2: that Kenny Minsche is the guy. He's got to be

1003
00:50:10,080 --> 00:50:13,879
Speaker 2: perfect because he's gonna have so much more pressure looking

1004
00:50:13,880 --> 00:50:17,960
Speaker 2: over his shoulder than car would looking over at Minshe.

1005
00:50:17,600 --> 00:50:20,399
Speaker 1: We're gonna end up seeing both quarterbacks, Okay. I mean

1006
00:50:20,640 --> 00:50:23,200
Speaker 1: I think especially Week one on the road against Miami,

1007
00:50:23,760 --> 00:50:30,160
Speaker 1: there will be positions or situations where the position could

1008
00:50:30,200 --> 00:50:33,319
Speaker 1: benefit from having a little bit more mobility and you

1009
00:50:33,400 --> 00:50:36,560
Speaker 1: need the hard yards and you can bring Kenny Minsche

1010
00:50:36,680 --> 00:50:39,759
Speaker 1: in to more effectively run something like a zone read like.

1011
00:50:39,840 --> 00:50:41,960
Speaker 1: I think we're gonna see that. I think it's probably

1012
00:50:42,000 --> 00:50:43,480
Speaker 1: trending in that direction at this point.

1013
00:50:43,760 --> 00:50:44,759
Speaker 2: I hate that for Notre Dame.

1014
00:50:44,760 --> 00:50:46,160
Speaker 1: By the way, I don't like that. Run an offense

1015
00:50:46,200 --> 00:50:47,960
Speaker 1: with one quarterback, I don't. I don't like that either.

1016
00:50:48,000 --> 00:50:50,720
Speaker 2: But unless unless it's a you know, a belldozer type

1017
00:50:50,760 --> 00:50:53,520
Speaker 2: guy who is built to be that kind of battering round.

1018
00:50:53,560 --> 00:50:54,640
Speaker 2: But neither one of these guys are.

1019
00:50:54,880 --> 00:50:56,719
Speaker 1: I am increasingly of the belief that we're going to

1020
00:50:56,760 --> 00:50:58,960
Speaker 1: see both these guys and it might just be like

1021
00:50:59,000 --> 00:51:01,719
Speaker 1: a package thing for a minsheer, even a car. You know.

1022
00:51:01,719 --> 00:51:03,120
Speaker 1: I don't know who the starter is going to be.

1023
00:51:03,160 --> 00:51:06,040
Speaker 1: But to my surprise and to the surprise of many

1024
00:51:06,080 --> 00:51:09,279
Speaker 1: people who I know personally who cover the team, this

1025
00:51:09,400 --> 00:51:12,480
Speaker 1: is a legitimate quarterback race, ok. And we're going to

1026
00:51:12,560 --> 00:51:14,920
Speaker 1: have to wait to find out who gets the nod

1027
00:51:15,520 --> 00:51:18,319
Speaker 1: Week one on the road against Miami. So that's the

1028
00:51:18,360 --> 00:51:23,320
Speaker 1: big thing with Notre Dame. Defensively, They're loaded, They're absolutely loaded.

1029
00:51:23,320 --> 00:51:25,200
Speaker 1: What stands out to you if you look at this

1030
00:51:25,239 --> 00:51:27,520
Speaker 1: team is the depth that they have at all three levels.

1031
00:51:28,080 --> 00:51:30,920
Speaker 1: And this is like Mike mickens Opus on the back

1032
00:51:31,000 --> 00:51:31,319
Speaker 1: end of this.

1033
00:51:31,480 --> 00:51:36,439
Speaker 2: He's the assistant defensive coordinator at a flash secondary's coach.

1034
00:51:36,480 --> 00:51:38,799
Speaker 1: Yeah, secondary's coach. He's found a lot of great ones

1035
00:51:38,840 --> 00:51:42,200
Speaker 1: over the years. He found another great one in. Leonard Moore,

1036
00:51:42,239 --> 00:51:44,160
Speaker 1: who was a true freshman last season, might be the

1037
00:51:44,200 --> 00:51:48,000
Speaker 1: best cornerback in college football this year. Wow, he's really good.

1038
00:51:48,440 --> 00:51:50,560
Speaker 1: Leonard Moore on one side, Christian Gray on the other.

1039
00:51:50,719 --> 00:51:55,160
Speaker 1: They brought over Devonte Smith the other, Davonte Smith from Alabama,

1040
00:51:55,200 --> 00:51:57,360
Speaker 1: who's going to be like a nickel corner. But whether

1041
00:51:57,400 --> 00:52:00,520
Speaker 1: you're talking about the cornerback positions or the depth that

1042
00:52:00,520 --> 00:52:03,920
Speaker 1: they've got at safety, it's just like a revolving door

1043
00:52:03,960 --> 00:52:06,040
Speaker 1: of guys that can step in and be productive. They

1044
00:52:06,040 --> 00:52:09,000
Speaker 1: figure to be really good a linebacker up front. They're

1045
00:52:09,320 --> 00:52:12,440
Speaker 1: again very deep along the defensive line. The one thing

1046
00:52:12,480 --> 00:52:16,240
Speaker 1: to watch Jordan Bettello got hurt again towards Peck, figures

1047
00:52:16,239 --> 00:52:19,200
Speaker 1: to be out until like September October. They get some

1048
00:52:19,360 --> 00:52:23,400
Speaker 1: help back with Bubakar Treori, who's I think factoring in

1049
00:52:23,400 --> 00:52:25,920
Speaker 1: to be one of their edge defenders. They need him

1050
00:52:25,960 --> 00:52:29,160
Speaker 1: to stay healthy. I'm excited to see my guy Bryce Young.

1051
00:52:29,760 --> 00:52:32,040
Speaker 1: Bryce Young was a true freshman. Lash is a big kid.

1052
00:52:32,719 --> 00:52:37,600
Speaker 1: Just different is this Bryant young Son Just built different? Okay,

1053
00:52:38,040 --> 00:52:40,360
Speaker 1: just built different. Dan He's going to rotate it and

1054
00:52:40,400 --> 00:52:42,399
Speaker 1: he's going to play a pretty big role. I would

1055
00:52:42,440 --> 00:52:44,400
Speaker 1: like to see the pass rush get better this season.

1056
00:52:44,400 --> 00:52:46,759
Speaker 1: I had like a little bit more production there that

1057
00:52:46,840 --> 00:52:49,360
Speaker 1: makes this defense an absolute force. But they've got so

1058
00:52:49,520 --> 00:52:51,880
Speaker 1: much that they can work with upfront. Again, more to

1059
00:52:51,920 --> 00:52:54,360
Speaker 1: the point I made earlier, the depth that they have

1060
00:52:54,440 --> 00:52:58,239
Speaker 1: built on defense especially is just astounding compared to where

1061
00:52:58,280 --> 00:53:01,560
Speaker 1: they were like ten years ago. Yep, it's incredible. It's

1062
00:53:01,560 --> 00:53:05,960
Speaker 1: not you, Yeah, Brian Young Sung, Yeah, so comes from

1063
00:53:05,960 --> 00:53:08,520
Speaker 1: good stock. Obviously, you see him out there. He's he's

1064
00:53:08,520 --> 00:53:12,040
Speaker 1: a big kid and he's different. The only real question

1065
00:53:12,120 --> 00:53:15,879
Speaker 1: I have, and it's not much of one, is you've

1066
00:53:15,920 --> 00:53:19,560
Speaker 1: got a new defensive coordinator and Chris Sash, who.

1067
00:53:19,680 --> 00:53:22,680
Speaker 2: To be fair, was a scout for the Jacksonville Jaguars

1068
00:53:22,760 --> 00:53:28,760
Speaker 2: last year continue.

1069
00:53:26,440 --> 00:53:29,239
Speaker 1: Al Golden went to the NFL. It's Chris Ash. I

1070
00:53:29,280 --> 00:53:32,440
Speaker 1: was very lukewarm on the higher. I've warmed up to it. Okay,

1071
00:53:33,239 --> 00:53:35,399
Speaker 1: here's a picture of this guy. I mean, you've seen

1072
00:53:35,480 --> 00:53:38,200
Speaker 1: him sort of restoring the tradition of a Notre Dame

1073
00:53:38,239 --> 00:53:42,359
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator with a very strong hairline. Oh, it's not

1074
00:53:42,440 --> 00:53:44,120
Speaker 1: like Diaco territory yet.

1075
00:53:44,760 --> 00:53:47,960
Speaker 2: Is Diaco coaching this year? I have no, that's your

1076
00:53:47,960 --> 00:53:48,680
Speaker 2: trivia question.

1077
00:53:49,600 --> 00:53:49,920
Speaker 1: I don't know.

1078
00:53:49,960 --> 00:53:52,360
Speaker 2: Look at this hairline. Oh he looks terrific. Bob Diaco,

1079
00:53:52,360 --> 00:53:55,040
Speaker 2: by the way, is Bill Belichick's defensive line coach, continuing,

1080
00:53:55,080 --> 00:53:57,719
Speaker 2: Oh beautiful. Yeah, I mean airline.

1081
00:53:57,960 --> 00:54:02,600
Speaker 1: If Chris Ash is holding his own point of attack

1082
00:54:03,000 --> 00:54:06,319
Speaker 1: like this, there's a school of thought he can carry

1083
00:54:06,360 --> 00:54:07,680
Speaker 1: that over to Notre Dame's front.

1084
00:54:08,080 --> 00:54:09,799
Speaker 2: Yeah. That's a that's a thing that a lot of

1085
00:54:09,800 --> 00:54:11,880
Speaker 2: the beat writers are talking about behind the scenes.

1086
00:54:12,000 --> 00:54:14,840
Speaker 1: That's why we're different here, man. Yeah, he's really holding on.

1087
00:54:16,080 --> 00:54:20,279
Speaker 2: Hope it works out. I don't love the well traveled

1088
00:54:20,520 --> 00:54:25,440
Speaker 2: nature of where he has coached these past few years,

1089
00:54:26,000 --> 00:54:29,799
Speaker 2: that they didn't hire the best possible, or they didn't

1090
00:54:29,800 --> 00:54:31,719
Speaker 2: go after and up and comer, or they didn't go

1091
00:54:31,760 --> 00:54:37,760
Speaker 2: after like I understand. Chris Ash has, you know, has

1092
00:54:38,280 --> 00:54:41,239
Speaker 2: a history in the Midwest at Wisconsin and Ohio State

1093
00:54:41,280 --> 00:54:42,840
Speaker 2: and has called some really good defenses.

1094
00:54:43,200 --> 00:54:46,280
Speaker 1: Urban Meyer called it the hire of the off season cycle.

1095
00:54:46,520 --> 00:54:50,520
Speaker 2: Well, he's an urban Meyer guy, so yeah, yeah.

1096
00:54:50,400 --> 00:54:52,719
Speaker 1: I don't know. Listen, it doesn't sound like Chris Ash

1097
00:54:52,760 --> 00:54:54,799
Speaker 1: is going to invent reinvent the wheel.

1098
00:54:54,840 --> 00:54:57,160
Speaker 2: Right, I'm sure it's it's the Notre Dame. He's running

1099
00:54:57,160 --> 00:54:58,080
Speaker 2: the Notre Dame defense.

1100
00:54:58,080 --> 00:55:00,200
Speaker 1: He's running the Notre Dame defense. It does sound like

1101
00:55:00,239 --> 00:55:03,120
Speaker 1: their elements. He wants to simpy simplify so guys can

1102
00:55:03,160 --> 00:55:05,160
Speaker 1: play faster, with more freedom and other thing that they

1103
00:55:05,160 --> 00:55:08,160
Speaker 1: all say. They're going to play a little more zone,

1104
00:55:08,920 --> 00:55:11,520
Speaker 1: a little bit more match coverage, which he's done at

1105
00:55:11,520 --> 00:55:14,239
Speaker 1: previous stops, which I don't hate. Gives them a little

1106
00:55:14,280 --> 00:55:17,359
Speaker 1: bit more variability. They were very man heavy a year ago,

1107
00:55:17,440 --> 00:55:20,279
Speaker 1: so this is a defense that probably could use a

1108
00:55:20,320 --> 00:55:24,120
Speaker 1: little bit of variation. He did answer a question when

1109
00:55:24,160 --> 00:55:26,680
Speaker 1: they asked him about what he wants to do. He

1110
00:55:26,719 --> 00:55:28,920
Speaker 1: didn't use the exact words, but he basically said that

1111
00:55:29,000 --> 00:55:32,520
Speaker 1: he's got concepts of a plan, which was okay, maybe

1112
00:55:32,520 --> 00:55:34,440
Speaker 1: not the most reassuring way to answer it, but he

1113
00:55:34,480 --> 00:55:36,440
Speaker 1: basically likes what they did last year. He's going to

1114
00:55:36,480 --> 00:55:38,840
Speaker 1: try and find ways to evolve it, not reinvent it,

1115
00:55:38,880 --> 00:55:42,080
Speaker 1: which I don't hate. Right This is a front loaded

1116
00:55:42,080 --> 00:55:45,799
Speaker 1: schedule for the Irish. Their toughest games are out of

1117
00:55:45,800 --> 00:55:48,920
Speaker 1: the way by mid October. If they can get through October,

1118
00:55:48,960 --> 00:55:52,600
Speaker 1: the eighteenth being relatively unscathed, this is a playoff team.

1119
00:55:53,360 --> 00:55:58,239
Speaker 1: The three big games on this schedule Week one on

1120
00:55:58,280 --> 00:56:02,120
Speaker 1: the road at Miami Sunday night. Then after a bye

1121
00:56:02,160 --> 00:56:05,799
Speaker 1: they come back home, they host Texas A and M

1122
00:56:06,040 --> 00:56:09,640
Speaker 1: and then they've got USC a little bit later on

1123
00:56:09,680 --> 00:56:12,719
Speaker 1: down the road. That's that October eighteenth game that is

1124
00:56:12,760 --> 00:56:16,080
Speaker 1: at home as well. Those three big ones on the

1125
00:56:16,120 --> 00:56:19,520
Speaker 1: road at Arkansas could be interesting. That's another one of

1126
00:56:19,520 --> 00:56:21,800
Speaker 1: those games that's on September the twenty seventh, the Monster

1127
00:56:21,800 --> 00:56:25,719
Speaker 1: College Football Weekend. In Week five, they've got Boise State

1128
00:56:25,800 --> 00:56:27,759
Speaker 1: on here as well, which will be interesting to see

1129
00:56:27,760 --> 00:56:33,520
Speaker 1: how Boise stacks up potential landmines. But otherwise, the only

1130
00:56:33,600 --> 00:56:36,640
Speaker 1: other game that I'm really sort of concerned about November

1131
00:56:36,680 --> 00:56:38,640
Speaker 1: the fifteenth on the road against Pitt, My pitch.

1132
00:56:38,680 --> 00:56:40,400
Speaker 2: Pitt Panthers. Yeah.

1133
00:56:40,480 --> 00:56:42,319
Speaker 1: But by and large, Dan, this is a schedule that

1134
00:56:42,400 --> 00:56:45,479
Speaker 1: sets up well, there's not a murderer's row on here

1135
00:56:46,160 --> 00:56:48,600
Speaker 1: with this roster of the floor should be ten and two.

1136
00:56:49,200 --> 00:56:54,040
Speaker 2: I think that's right. Should also note the USC schedule

1137
00:56:54,440 --> 00:56:58,160
Speaker 2: when they get Notre Dame is after USC travels to

1138
00:56:58,239 --> 00:57:01,680
Speaker 2: Illinois on playing that on September twenty seventh, they get

1139
00:57:01,680 --> 00:57:05,319
Speaker 2: a bye week and then it's Michigan at home immediately

1140
00:57:05,320 --> 00:57:09,200
Speaker 2: followed by a road trip to Notre Dame. It's a

1141
00:57:09,320 --> 00:57:12,479
Speaker 2: tough stretch for USC, the team that seemed to give

1142
00:57:13,120 --> 00:57:15,520
Speaker 2: in the back half of the regular season Notre Dame

1143
00:57:15,560 --> 00:57:19,040
Speaker 2: the most trouble, and so it seems Notre Dame and

1144
00:57:19,120 --> 00:57:22,800
Speaker 2: Notre Dame the Irish do not have USC in the

1145
00:57:22,840 --> 00:57:26,280
Speaker 2: midst of anything as dramatic. It's after NC State, it's

1146
00:57:26,320 --> 00:57:29,320
Speaker 2: before Boston College. All the respect to those teams, USC

1147
00:57:29,600 --> 00:57:34,840
Speaker 2: is sandwiched in something a little bit trickier when they meet. So, man,

1148
00:57:34,880 --> 00:57:36,280
Speaker 2: that A and A game is gonna be tough. The

1149
00:57:36,320 --> 00:57:40,840
Speaker 2: Miami game is going to be tough, especially since Miami's

1150
00:57:40,880 --> 00:57:43,920
Speaker 2: Week one, and you're likely going to need to score

1151
00:57:44,000 --> 00:57:47,040
Speaker 2: thirty points or in that vicinity to beat the Canes

1152
00:57:47,760 --> 00:57:51,760
Speaker 2: with how much firepower they seem to have. Yep, so

1153
00:57:52,520 --> 00:57:55,680
Speaker 2: that'll be a fascinating Week one. Not any sort of

1154
00:57:55,760 --> 00:57:57,880
Speaker 2: controversial statement that that game is going to be great,

1155
00:57:59,200 --> 00:58:02,600
Speaker 2: but it's very difficult to find more than two losses

1156
00:58:02,640 --> 00:58:04,440
Speaker 2: on this schedule. If Notre Dame is good, I've got

1157
00:58:04,520 --> 00:58:08,360
Speaker 2: them at eleven to one, Okay, likeliest loss being.

1158
00:58:08,960 --> 00:58:12,600
Speaker 1: Texas A and m Okay, i've got him at eleven

1159
00:58:12,600 --> 00:58:15,480
Speaker 1: and one. I think they win Week one on the

1160
00:58:15,560 --> 00:58:18,240
Speaker 1: road against Miami. I'm going to stand by that. I

1161
00:58:18,240 --> 00:58:19,400
Speaker 1: think they're better than Miami.

1162
00:58:19,440 --> 00:58:21,280
Speaker 2: But it's in South Beach. It's you know, it's not

1163
00:58:21,320 --> 00:58:23,440
Speaker 2: South Beach. It's not South Beach in Miami. It's in

1164
00:58:23,480 --> 00:58:24,400
Speaker 2: Coral Gables. Yeah.

1165
00:58:24,440 --> 00:58:27,120
Speaker 1: But coming back home then a week three after the bye,

1166
00:58:28,560 --> 00:58:30,840
Speaker 1: AM's a different animal and that's going to be a

1167
00:58:30,960 --> 00:58:33,040
Speaker 1: very physical game. I think it's going to be close.

1168
00:58:33,680 --> 00:58:36,600
Speaker 1: I think it's one of those games it's like seventeen

1169
00:58:36,640 --> 00:58:38,280
Speaker 1: to sixteen somebody wins.

1170
00:58:38,120 --> 00:58:40,120
Speaker 2: Like the sort of Georgia games, the Georgia Notre Dame

1171
00:58:40,160 --> 00:58:40,920
Speaker 2: games from before.

1172
00:58:41,000 --> 00:58:43,400
Speaker 1: Yeah, very much. That style of game that's there is

1173
00:58:43,400 --> 00:58:46,080
Speaker 1: going to be such a thin margin for error. And

1174
00:58:46,240 --> 00:58:49,760
Speaker 1: with two quarterbacks in that case, Marcel Reid and whoever

1175
00:58:49,800 --> 00:58:53,480
Speaker 1: Notre Dame ends up trotting out there, two quarterbacks who

1176
00:58:54,680 --> 00:58:57,320
Speaker 1: I can only assume need to improve some of their

1177
00:58:57,320 --> 00:59:00,240
Speaker 1: downfield passing. We saw it with Marcel Reid. I think

1178
00:59:00,280 --> 00:59:01,760
Speaker 1: there's going to be a thin margin for air and

1179
00:59:01,760 --> 00:59:03,520
Speaker 1: that's going to be a game that's one or lost

1180
00:59:03,520 --> 00:59:05,320
Speaker 1: on a couple of key plays that go one way

1181
00:59:05,400 --> 00:59:08,360
Speaker 1: or the other. But that's the loss. I think Notre

1182
00:59:08,400 --> 00:59:10,120
Speaker 1: Dame b twosc I think Notre Dame is better than

1183
00:59:10,080 --> 00:59:12,480
Speaker 1: the USC, and I think that game later in the

1184
00:59:12,520 --> 00:59:15,320
Speaker 1: year at Pitt could be dicey because I do believe

1185
00:59:15,320 --> 00:59:17,640
Speaker 1: in the Pitt Panthers. But eleven to one for me,

1186
00:59:17,720 --> 00:59:18,840
Speaker 1: Notre Dame gets in the playoff.

1187
00:59:19,120 --> 00:59:21,200
Speaker 2: Okay, And if you are a coach, how would you

1188
00:59:21,240 --> 00:59:23,920
Speaker 2: like what type of team should Notre Dame worry the

1189
00:59:23,920 --> 00:59:26,080
Speaker 2: most about? And I guess the answer is probably just

1190
00:59:26,160 --> 00:59:29,600
Speaker 2: like a team more talented at most positions than Notre Dame,

1191
00:59:29,600 --> 00:59:31,880
Speaker 2: because that's who beats them in the National Championship game.

1192
00:59:32,000 --> 00:59:36,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a team with a really, really good defensive front,

1193
00:59:36,240 --> 00:59:37,840
Speaker 1: which is part of why I look at that A

1194
00:59:37,920 --> 00:59:41,320
Speaker 1: and M game and I'm a little bit fearful. A

1195
00:59:41,440 --> 00:59:44,640
Speaker 1: really stout defensive front is what I'm a little bit

1196
00:59:44,640 --> 00:59:48,680
Speaker 1: worried about. You know, Miami could fit that bill. USC.

1197
00:59:48,800 --> 00:59:50,360
Speaker 1: You can make a case that they fit that bill

1198
00:59:50,400 --> 00:59:50,760
Speaker 1: as well.

1199
00:59:50,800 --> 00:59:52,760
Speaker 2: They're better there than they were. Yeah, sure.

1200
00:59:52,960 --> 00:59:55,560
Speaker 1: I mean this is not to demean any of those teams,

1201
00:59:55,840 --> 00:59:57,960
Speaker 1: because I think they're all fine in their own right,

1202
00:59:58,440 --> 01:00:00,280
Speaker 1: but that A and M game, to me, I think

1203
01:00:00,320 --> 01:00:02,440
Speaker 1: A and M can take away to some extent Notre

1204
01:00:02,480 --> 01:00:05,080
Speaker 1: Dame's ground attack and if you're putting Notre Dame in

1205
01:00:05,120 --> 01:00:06,960
Speaker 1: a position where they have to suddenly throw the ball,

1206
01:00:07,000 --> 01:00:09,360
Speaker 1: they have to work the ball down the field. You know,

1207
01:00:09,400 --> 01:00:12,160
Speaker 1: that's when I think things could break, if only because

1208
01:00:12,160 --> 01:00:14,200
Speaker 1: we don't know at this point what Notre Dame has

1209
01:00:14,240 --> 01:00:18,440
Speaker 1: a quarterback. That's the kind of game that frightens me

1210
01:00:18,440 --> 01:00:18,880
Speaker 1: a little bit.

1211
01:00:19,760 --> 01:00:22,320
Speaker 2: And to Notre Dame fans listening, if you could help

1212
01:00:22,360 --> 01:00:25,640
Speaker 2: them out, what's this whole AI thing about? What's going

1213
01:00:25,680 --> 01:00:30,320
Speaker 2: on with all these young people? And all right, fair enough.

1214
01:00:31,160 --> 01:00:35,960
Speaker 1: We've got one team left. We saved number one, thirty six,

1215
01:00:36,040 --> 01:00:37,040
Speaker 1: the best for last.

1216
01:00:37,320 --> 01:00:38,320
Speaker 2: That's true.

1217
01:00:39,240 --> 01:00:45,000
Speaker 1: Let's talk about your mind. America's Yukon Husky stand. Okay,

1218
01:00:45,360 --> 01:00:47,480
Speaker 1: nine and four year ago, you're over under a seven

1219
01:00:47,520 --> 01:00:50,000
Speaker 1: and a half this year. Jim Morris done a really

1220
01:00:50,040 --> 01:00:52,360
Speaker 1: good job. That's why you got a contract extension through

1221
01:00:52,400 --> 01:00:56,360
Speaker 1: twenty twenty eight. Definitely, they beat North Carolina, I want

1222
01:00:56,360 --> 01:00:58,439
Speaker 1: to say in the bowl game last year.

1223
01:00:58,680 --> 01:00:58,960
Speaker 2: Yep.

1224
01:00:59,520 --> 01:01:03,360
Speaker 1: It's a pretty exciting situation for these guys, like they've

1225
01:01:03,360 --> 01:01:06,320
Speaker 1: got a seventh year quarterback now, yep. The pride and

1226
01:01:06,440 --> 01:01:11,400
Speaker 1: joy of Williamsport, Pennsylvania, which I inadvertently demeaned. I guess

1227
01:01:11,400 --> 01:01:13,520
Speaker 1: a year ago on a show we got hate meal

1228
01:01:13,600 --> 01:01:18,560
Speaker 1: for that one. Joe Fagnano is the quarterback, very good

1229
01:01:18,640 --> 01:01:23,120
Speaker 1: last season, twenty touchdowns for interceptions. This is going to

1230
01:01:23,160 --> 01:01:25,440
Speaker 1: be an offense led by a ground assault. They've got

1231
01:01:25,440 --> 01:01:29,240
Speaker 1: a very very good running back room Cam Edwards mel Brown.

1232
01:01:29,320 --> 01:01:32,040
Speaker 1: They've got transfers that they're stacking in there as well.

1233
01:01:32,600 --> 01:01:35,040
Speaker 1: But you factor in what they can do on the

1234
01:01:35,040 --> 01:01:37,480
Speaker 1: ground with what I think they can do through the air,

1235
01:01:37,640 --> 01:01:43,040
Speaker 1: which has a legit NFL prospect in Skyler Bell out wide.

1236
01:01:43,200 --> 01:01:46,919
Speaker 1: I think this will be a very very interesting team

1237
01:01:46,960 --> 01:01:51,400
Speaker 1: to chart moving forward. Also, that doesn't even mention Alex Honig,

1238
01:01:51,400 --> 01:01:57,240
Speaker 1: who is number thirty nine maybe on Bruce's freaks list. Okay,

1239
01:01:57,720 --> 01:02:00,800
Speaker 1: the tight end originally from Germany, original only a quarterback

1240
01:02:00,800 --> 01:02:04,520
Speaker 1: originally at TCU now at Yukon playing tight end. I

1241
01:02:04,520 --> 01:02:07,880
Speaker 1: think they'll be pretty stout on offense and defensively. This

1242
01:02:07,920 --> 01:02:10,480
Speaker 1: is the secondary that should be pretty good. Got some

1243
01:02:10,600 --> 01:02:13,000
Speaker 1: questions about what they can do up front. Not as

1244
01:02:13,080 --> 01:02:15,760
Speaker 1: much back on defense as there is on offense. But

1245
01:02:15,840 --> 01:02:18,000
Speaker 1: I think you look at this team this year, you

1246
01:02:18,040 --> 01:02:21,080
Speaker 1: look at what they've done now under Jimora, I think

1247
01:02:21,120 --> 01:02:24,360
Speaker 1: you look at the quarterback who's been around in the

1248
01:02:24,360 --> 01:02:28,919
Speaker 1: block forever, seventh year guy. There's a lot to like here.

1249
01:02:29,360 --> 01:02:32,280
Speaker 1: There's a lot to be entertained about with respect to Yukon,

1250
01:02:32,400 --> 01:02:35,280
Speaker 1: especially with the schedule Dan, which is something that you found.

1251
01:02:35,240 --> 01:02:38,160
Speaker 2: They get well. So they were competitive with the ACC

1252
01:02:38,280 --> 01:02:40,760
Speaker 2: teams they played last year. They get I believe this

1253
01:02:40,840 --> 01:02:44,280
Speaker 2: year both Duke and Boston College a week after each

1254
01:02:44,280 --> 01:02:48,720
Speaker 2: of those teams plays Clemson. Yeah, and I don't know

1255
01:02:48,760 --> 01:02:51,560
Speaker 2: what they're doing in terms of winning those games, but

1256
01:02:51,680 --> 01:02:56,560
Speaker 2: if your starting point is experience, confidence, solid coaching, and

1257
01:02:56,600 --> 01:02:58,959
Speaker 2: they lost a good amount in the portal, quality guys

1258
01:02:58,960 --> 01:03:00,920
Speaker 2: in the portal, but still turn a lot of guys,

1259
01:03:01,240 --> 01:03:04,560
Speaker 2: are enough guys that you can build around and bringing

1260
01:03:04,560 --> 01:03:08,320
Speaker 2: in potentially quality dudes from smaller schools to sort of

1261
01:03:08,440 --> 01:03:12,240
Speaker 2: enter into a newly winning culture. You can jump on

1262
01:03:12,280 --> 01:03:16,320
Speaker 2: somebody with that combination, with that formula, and so Yukon

1263
01:03:16,440 --> 01:03:20,280
Speaker 2: is interesting. They should be if this keeps carrying through

1264
01:03:21,200 --> 01:03:24,520
Speaker 2: a perennial Bowl team, which is kind of crazy to say,

1265
01:03:24,680 --> 01:03:28,240
Speaker 2: give some of the recent lows of Yukon, but it's

1266
01:03:28,280 --> 01:03:30,480
Speaker 2: a great I don't know what act number this is

1267
01:03:30,520 --> 01:03:33,720
Speaker 2: for Jim Mora second third, fourth act. He's clearly a

1268
01:03:33,800 --> 01:03:38,240
Speaker 2: quality coach, Like this is a very difficult job, especially

1269
01:03:38,240 --> 01:03:41,240
Speaker 2: when if you discover and develop somebody at Yukon, it's

1270
01:03:41,280 --> 01:03:44,880
Speaker 2: probably not staying at Yukon terribly long. It's just too valuable, yeah,

1271
01:03:44,960 --> 01:03:47,400
Speaker 2: in the modern college football universe. And he's actually been

1272
01:03:47,520 --> 01:03:50,680
Speaker 2: like very forthright and has said a lot of interesting things,

1273
01:03:50,800 --> 01:03:53,320
Speaker 2: very human things about how like he doesn't hold it

1274
01:03:53,320 --> 01:03:55,360
Speaker 2: against his players when they look around. It's just the

1275
01:03:55,360 --> 01:03:58,120
Speaker 2: sport and it's the coach's job to sort of be

1276
01:03:58,240 --> 01:04:00,360
Speaker 2: honest with them and to put them in a position

1277
01:04:00,400 --> 01:04:03,480
Speaker 2: to succeed and you know, hopefully help them live out

1278
01:04:03,480 --> 01:04:08,280
Speaker 2: their football dreams. So Yukon's a quality situation right now.

1279
01:04:08,360 --> 01:04:10,200
Speaker 2: They were very good on defense last year, but they

1280
01:04:10,240 --> 01:04:13,720
Speaker 2: lost a lot of those contributors, and his defensive coordinator

1281
01:04:13,800 --> 01:04:15,400
Speaker 2: higher was very good last year. I think they were

1282
01:04:15,400 --> 01:04:18,080
Speaker 2: great at generating three and outs, they were great on

1283
01:04:18,160 --> 01:04:21,800
Speaker 2: third down specifically, and so it's just going to be

1284
01:04:21,840 --> 01:04:24,840
Speaker 2: an annual thing for Yukon to sort of to recruit

1285
01:04:25,520 --> 01:04:28,720
Speaker 2: William and Mary, to recruit Georgetown right that they're just

1286
01:04:28,760 --> 01:04:31,920
Speaker 2: going to have to go after guys at smaller schools

1287
01:04:32,120 --> 01:04:35,120
Speaker 2: or well traveled guys who've been at three schools in

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Speaker 2: three years and figure that their culture and their system

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Speaker 2: will work better for those guys looking for a home.

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Speaker 2: So I think it's a great story of what's happening

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Speaker 2: in Yukon. They just need to jump up and win

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Speaker 2: one of those games against an ACC type team because

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Speaker 2: there's a lot of wins on this schedule.

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Speaker 1: To me, there are a couple of games on this thing,

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Speaker 1: on this schedule that are I think, bigger picture interesting

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Speaker 1: for people who might be listening at home and have

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Speaker 1: no other interest in Yukon football. There's a game early

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Speaker 1: week two on the road at Syracuse. That's another situational spot, right, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: because Syracuse opens up the year that neutral cider against

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Speaker 1: Tennessee and then they come back home they're squaring off

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Speaker 1: against Yukon, which I think will be hungry to prove itself.

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Speaker 1: This was a competitive game a year ago, and especially

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Speaker 1: as we're looking at Yukon, a team that I think

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Speaker 1: can run the ball, a team that at least can

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Speaker 1: guard against the pass. I don't know about their defensive front.

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Speaker 1: You could see a situation in which that is interesting, right.

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Speaker 1: So that's one I look at Boston College, I look

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Speaker 1: at a home matchup against Duke in November. Those are

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Speaker 1: games that are very important, even they're on the road

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Speaker 1: against Takwan Roberson used to be their quarterback. Against Buffalo,

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Speaker 1: your Buffalo Bulls, of course at the end of September.

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Speaker 1: Another big game on septemb the twenty seventh. Maybe not

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Speaker 1: the headliner, far from it, but speak for yourself, these

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Speaker 1: are really important games. I gotta believe based on a

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Speaker 1: lot of what we have seen over the last two

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Speaker 1: years or so, Yukon wants to jump up. They want

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Speaker 1: to get into the Big twelve, they want to get

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Speaker 1: into the ACC. They're upping up their nil spend. They're

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Speaker 1: trying to double it each year, or at least improve

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Speaker 1: upon it year in and year out. They are actively in

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Speaker 1: conversations about what they can do with the stadium, maybe

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Speaker 1: to expand it all the way up to sixty thousand people.

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Speaker 1: This is a program that seems to want to do

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Speaker 1: more with that football side. Clearly, Yukon's been a basketball

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Speaker 1: school forever. They're very successful in their own right there,

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Speaker 1: but one of the more intriguing stories to follow and

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Speaker 1: moving forward, like totally agree they want to keep more around.

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Speaker 1: They are having conversations, maybe with the Big twelve, maybe

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Speaker 1: with the acc they.

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Speaker 2: Were packed twelve conversations before as like a football only situation.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, like they're very much dipping their toes in that

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Speaker 1: water and they want to see what they can get.

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Speaker 1: So the over under is seven and a half. I

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Speaker 1: remember being down on Yukon last year and Yukon one

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Speaker 1: nine games. I look at the schedule, I kind of

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Speaker 1: feel similarly to last year, where it's like, I don't

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Speaker 1: see it. I'm going to go over. I'm going to

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Speaker 1: go over because I believe in Jim Moore and I

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Speaker 1: believe in the Broader Yukon project.

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Speaker 2: Ok, the Broader Yukon, Broader Yukon project, Yes, and rumber.

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Speaker 2: If nothing else, there's always a basketball coach on campus

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Speaker 2: who at some point will eat somebody's face off.

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Speaker 1: And put him on the defensive line. Man. We can

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Speaker 1: all live in swer center of gravity, but definitely has

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Speaker 1: that type of fight that you want from your defensive lineman.

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Speaker 2: Sure, Danny Hurley, They've got the wild card and Danny

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Speaker 2: Hurley on campus.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that does it. One hundred and thirty six teams down.

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Speaker 1: We covered some of the news executive mystery unnamed executive

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Speaker 1: Soliverble at gmail dot com if you're interested.

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Speaker 2: In right or missus executive yet, what is our missus?

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Speaker 1: Excuse me? What is the hashtag that you've decided on?

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Speaker 2: Oh, I don't think it's good enough. I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I was trying to come up with something college football

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Speaker 2: that rhymes with red for like red and or something

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Speaker 2: solid verbal that rhymes with red for red zone, but

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Speaker 2: college football, and I didn't get anywhere. Okay, so I'm

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Speaker 2: not there yet. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: All right, Well, you could write people can write in

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Speaker 1: Soliverble atgmail dot com let us know your thoughts on

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Speaker 1: that as well, or hit us up on social media.

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Speaker 1: I guess that's where the hashtags live anyway, So if

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Speaker 1: you want to throw a few our way, we will

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Speaker 1: take them under advisement. Yes, okay, again, here is the drill.

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Speaker 1: We've got an episode that drops on Thursday, A now

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Speaker 1: unnamed episode that drops on Thursday. Dan and I are

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Speaker 1: still working that one up. We've got a couple fun

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Speaker 1: ideas for the Verbaaler hood on. There will be a

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Speaker 1: prediction special. We would encourage you to go on out

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Speaker 1: to Verballers dot com. V E R B A L

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Speaker 1: L E r s dot com sign up for any tier.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna pose a question out there. I want you

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Speaker 1: to respond in the comments with your one. Just one,

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Speaker 1: you get one. If you put more than one, you're

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Speaker 1: going to disqualified. I'm gonna delete all your messages. One

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Speaker 1: prediction that you can put in that comment thread and

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Speaker 1: or eight five five verbal three. That's the reverbline. It's

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Speaker 1: open for business starting now. You got a few days

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Speaker 1: to call in and leave a voice message of voice prediction.

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Speaker 1: I will cut up a special preseason Reverbs edition. We

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Speaker 1: will play it on the Sunday episode with your predictions.

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Speaker 1: Can't wait that drops this coming Sunday. Okay, writing it down?

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Speaker 1: Beautiful on that note, Thank you kind of baller hood.

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Speaker 1: Hit follow, hit subscribe, Tell your friends a lot more

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Speaker 1: is coming. The season is coming, So get excited. Dan

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Speaker 1: and I are, Dan and me are whatever the grammar

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Speaker 1: says we are. We're both excited for that guy over there, Dan,

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Speaker 1: for myself, Tai, thanks for tuning on. We'll talk to

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Speaker 1: you all say and stay soft peace