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Jeremiah Smith NIL value, Oregon QB Coach, Lane Kiffin Excuses, Top 10 Fanbases, & More! · Unafraid Show with George Wrighster

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the show Man. We got a lot of
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Speaker 1: viral stuff popping for y'all today. Jeremiah Smith. He believes
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Speaker 1: that he is the best player in college football and
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Speaker 1: says that if he had hopped in the transfer portal,
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Speaker 1: he could have gotten ten million dollars. Is this true?
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Speaker 1: Is this false? I got the answers for Oregon's quarterback
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Speaker 1: coach got in hot water talking about how he's recruiting
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Speaker 1: players with chocolate and vanilla ice cream. A lot of
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Speaker 1: people didn't like his answer, but they didn't really pay
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Speaker 1: attention to what the man said. Lane Kiffin, head coach
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Speaker 1: at LSU. He was up at the press conference talking
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Speaker 1: about the SEC playing nine conference games and what he
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Speaker 1: thinks about it. I'm going to break down everything this
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Speaker 1: man said and tell you why it's either a big
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Speaker 1: deal or not a big deal, and how the conference
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Speaker 1: is going to be impacted by it. On Tuesday Show,
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Speaker 1: we had a chance to interview Kyle Whittingham, head coach
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Speaker 1: of the Michigan Wolverines, and he said something not getting
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Speaker 1: enough attention right now. He is in favor of collective bargaining.
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Speaker 1: While leader of the NCAA, Charlie Baker to saying, oh,
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Speaker 1: we don't know if players really want collective bargaining or
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Speaker 1: the coaches even want it. We need to be asking
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Speaker 1: them specifically. Also, I gotta give you my top ten
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Speaker 1: college football fan bases in the country based upon my
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Speaker 1: shared is Karen. Let's get to it. We're gonna start.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna try to start all the time with the
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Speaker 1: best thing that I saw today. This is a dad,
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Speaker 1: Shack Barrett, who is changing his baby's diaper and it
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Speaker 1: was not going well at all.
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Speaker 2: Yo, yo yo, the baby.
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Speaker 1: The baby shirted on the OD Okay, So this is
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Speaker 1: funny to me as a parent, And if you've ever
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Speaker 1: been around kids, little little babies, then you know this.
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Speaker 1: I had this exact situation that happened to me with
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Speaker 1: my daughter mia Uh. It's usually your sons that get
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Speaker 1: you when you take the diaper off and they' shooting
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Speaker 1: some stuff at you. But my my my daughter got
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Speaker 1: it right oh, pooped right on my shirt. So I
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Speaker 1: could apply to this and it made me laugh, and
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Speaker 1: it made me smile, So I appreciate that. First order
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Speaker 1: of business is Jeremiah Smith. I remember the first time
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Speaker 1: I saw this kid play, Ohio State was playing. It
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Speaker 1: was his freshman year kids eighteen years old. One of
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Speaker 1: the things that happens to kids coming out of high
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Speaker 1: school to like their sophomore junior year in college, they
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Speaker 1: get much more muscular, they get bigger, all of these
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Speaker 1: things just from lifting weights. This kid, I looked at
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Speaker 1: his calves, he had grown man calves. I was highly
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Speaker 1: impressed with his physicality, how good he was. Everything else well,
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Speaker 1: Now he says that he was offered ten million dollars
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Speaker 1: to hop in the transfer portal. Jeremiah Smith, Ohio State phenom,
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Speaker 1: super wide out. He believes that he is worth ten
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Speaker 1: million dollars on the open market when it comes to
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Speaker 1: nil slash pay for play money, right, and the question
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Speaker 1: is is this true? Is this false? Would anybody have
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Speaker 1: paid him ten million dollars? Now? I asked a bunch
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Speaker 1: of coaches this and they said number one, no, we
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Speaker 1: would not pay him ten million dollars. However, it would
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Speaker 1: be worth seven to eight million dollars just to have
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Speaker 1: him not play at Ohio State, think about that, just
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Speaker 1: to have him not at Ohio State is worth value.
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Speaker 1: So there's two ways to think about it. Now. On
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Speaker 1: one hand, if he were just coming out of high school, right,
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Speaker 1: the value of him and what he could get paid
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Speaker 1: as a free agent has one value, right, But then
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Speaker 1: it always costs more to get somebody to leave somewhere
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Speaker 1: where they're where they're at. Right, So if quarterbacks are
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Speaker 1: worth you know, like the top quarterbacks this year in
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Speaker 1: between five and six million dollars, so a wide receiver
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Speaker 1: is not going to be worth that. However, to get
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Speaker 1: him to leave Ohio State, that might be worth seven
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Speaker 1: or eight million dollars to somebody, and not even to
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Speaker 1: just have him on your team. Think about if you
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Speaker 1: are Miami, if you are Oregon, if you are Michigan
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Speaker 1: or Texas, even it's more valuable to you not even
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Speaker 1: to have Jeremiah Smith, but just to make sure that
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Speaker 1: Jeremiah Smith is not on the field playing against you.
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Speaker 1: That's where his value is. Because obviously he's going to
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Speaker 1: be replaced with a good player. But he's so valuable
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Speaker 1: and so good that then it might be worth people
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Speaker 1: pulling up to ask him to sit the season out
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Speaker 1: just in case you have to play it because it
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Speaker 1: changes your coverage. You know how many special plays that
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Speaker 1: he can make, But he can't win you a national
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Speaker 1: championship all by yourself. Just like in the NFL. Have
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Speaker 1: you ever found an NFL team that was a wide
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Speaker 1: receiver away from when international from winning a Super Bowl? No,
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Speaker 1: like nobody basically had the same team added a wide receiver.
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Speaker 1: Now all of a sudden, we are Super Bowl champions.
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Speaker 1: And the same is true in college football with Jeremiah Smith.
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Speaker 1: But is he worth a lot of money? Hell yeah,
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Speaker 1: but I asked around. No, nobody would pay him ten
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Speaker 1: million dollars, but they would pay him even above the
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Speaker 1: market value, and even for some quarterbacks to get him
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Speaker 1: to leave on the open market. He might be worth
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Speaker 1: five million dollars, six million dollars like quarterback money when
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Speaker 1: it comes to his free agency. But just the fact
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Speaker 1: that it is leaving Ohio steak. So you actually have
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Speaker 1: to pay for him to leave somewhere where he's comfortable,
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Speaker 1: where he's happy, and all those things. If you're unhappy
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Speaker 1: or is geographically somewhere where you don't want to be,
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Speaker 1: then it costs less. That's the way it works. So
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Speaker 1: I'm not mad at Jeremiah Smith for having belief in himself,
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Speaker 1: but ten million dollars no, no, no, no, no, no,
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Speaker 1: no no. And if somebody said ten million dollars to
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Speaker 1: them in a phone conversation, they weren't gonna be able
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Speaker 1: to actually deliver ten million dollars just saying all right.
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Speaker 1: Another thing that went viral this week was Oregon's quarterback
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Speaker 1: coach cohor Right. Here is his viral clip. I'm gonna
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Speaker 1: let you hear it, and we're gonna break it down
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Speaker 1: the way you can actually hear what the man actually
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Speaker 1: said and not just what people wanted to portray what
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Speaker 1: he said.
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Speaker 3: I got ask him a question like this all the time. Hey,
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Speaker 3: do you like chocolate ice cream or vanilla ice cream? Okay,
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Speaker 3: the minute the kid pauses, I don't really want that kid, right,
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Speaker 3: because you need to have some type of conviction right,
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Speaker 3: wrong or indifferent. Hey, So whether you like chocolate or
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Speaker 3: you like vanilla, I don't really care. But if you
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Speaker 3: sit there and say, coach, I don't know, I want
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Speaker 3: as it melted is not? What's the brand? So on
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Speaker 3: and so forth, Like what is this kid going to
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Speaker 3: do on third down? In front of one hundred and
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Speaker 3: ten thousand. It's probably gonna think about it more than
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Speaker 3: he should. He's not gonna conviction, right, So it's like
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Speaker 3: I just said, long winded. I understand, but it's the
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Speaker 3: mental aspect, it's really what we're after.
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Speaker 1: Okay, I want you to pay attention to the first
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Speaker 1: couple seconds of what the man said.
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Speaker 3: I got asked him a question like this all the time.
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Speaker 1: I asked them a question like this all the time.
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Speaker 1: So that's first thing. So that's not the only question.
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Speaker 1: So there are questions that are like this. It's not
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Speaker 1: just this one singular question that people were holding on to.
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Speaker 1: That's first thing. And the second thing is is on
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Speaker 1: its face, if you're not going to recruit a kid
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Speaker 1: because of this question, that would be stupid, right, Like
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Speaker 1: that would be silly or be foolish. And it doesn't
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Speaker 1: really necessarily have a correlation. But what the correlation is
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Speaker 1: is that what he's trying to say is is that
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Speaker 1: you want a kid. And this is all coaches that
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Speaker 1: are quick decision makers and they are definitive that they
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Speaker 1: know where they stand on things. They want them to
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Speaker 1: make a choice and go with it, because that's what
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Speaker 1: happens with quarterbacking when you are thinking about when you're
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Speaker 1: overthinking the coverage, when you're overthinking your checks, when you're
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Speaker 1: over thinking, oh what should I do here? Where's my
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Speaker 1: This is no, they want you to be able to
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Speaker 1: play fast. Coaches always talked about players playing playing fast.
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Speaker 1: So this is what I believe that he is trying
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Speaker 1: to say, and that it's not just taking on its face,
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Speaker 1: oh vanilla ice cream, chocolate ice cream. But I will
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Speaker 1: say that that got me to thinking a little bit
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Speaker 1: about me and myself because I was like, what would
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Speaker 1: I have said if somebody said said that, Well, me,
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Speaker 1: for sure, easy vanilla ice cream. But then my next
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Speaker 1: question would have been, what's the brand? What's the brand
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Speaker 1: of ice cream? Because I'm a little bit of, you
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Speaker 1: know about some some things, a brand snob, and not
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Speaker 1: because of price, because of quality, because price is not
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Speaker 1: always equal quality. Same thing with players in college football,
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Speaker 1: same thing with everything. So yeah, So and if I'm
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Speaker 1: going to eat chocolate, I don't want chocolate ice cream.
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Speaker 1: I want a chocolate bar. When a nice limp bar,
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Speaker 1: when a nice you know, a fine chocolate establishment, goodiver
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Speaker 1: or something like like that or something else. So I
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Speaker 1: believe that that's what he was saying when he went
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Speaker 1: on and said it. But I think that people hold
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Speaker 1: on to and they're always and this is fan bases,
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Speaker 1: and there's no knock to it. Of course, USC, Ohio State,
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Speaker 1: all of these other fan bases. Oh this is stupid, this,
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Speaker 1: this and this Oregon fans. If Washington fans had said
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Speaker 1: if a Washington coach had said this, they'd be saying
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Speaker 1: the exact same thing. This is why it's important to
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Speaker 1: keep a tempered, measured approach and actually listen to all
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Speaker 1: the words that people said, not just hang on to
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Speaker 1: the ones that you want to hang on to. And no,
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Speaker 1: this isn't me defending him just because he's an Oregon guy. No,
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Speaker 1: this is just paying attention to what somebody said. I've
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Speaker 1: already said that if that's the only criteria for it,
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Speaker 1: this ain't a good idea. But he specifically said questions
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Speaker 1: like this, and I would imagine that he asked them
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Speaker 1: questions like this all the time just so he can
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Speaker 1: get them to make a decision quickly. Because that's a
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Speaker 1: process that just continues in every single area of your life.
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Speaker 1: That doesn't mean that you're not supposed to plan that
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Speaker 1: you're not supposed to be thoughtful or anything like that.
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Speaker 1: It just means that you are supposed to be very
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Speaker 1: careful well that when you do make a decision, that
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Speaker 1: you make it and then you do it full speed.
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Speaker 1: See how that works when you take a measured approach
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Speaker 1: to things. Oh, it just all of a sudden makes
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Speaker 1: a lot more sense. All right. Something else. The SEC
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Speaker 1: is going to nine conference games for the first time
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Speaker 1: this year instead of playing eight. I have been writing
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Speaker 1: about this for almost ten years about why it is
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Speaker 1: such a big deal that the SEC plays eight conference
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Speaker 1: games versus nine conference games and how that impacts the
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Speaker 1: college football playoff and the rankings and everything else. So
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Speaker 1: let me break this down for you. Over the course
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Speaker 1: of a season, when you are playing all your conference games,
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Speaker 1: obviously the conference itself is going to finish five hundred
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Speaker 1: because the certain number of conference games that you play,
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Speaker 1: one team wins, one team loses, it all equals out.
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Speaker 1: So but when you play eight conference games, that averages
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Speaker 1: four losses per team over the course of a season,
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Speaker 1: and with the SEC having sixteen teams, that is eight
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Speaker 1: more losses. Well excuse me, yeah, that's eight more losses
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Speaker 1: that the conference suffers. As a whole, and no, it's
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Speaker 1: not the only teams at the bottom, because you're not
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Speaker 1: only playing teams at the bottom of the teams at
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Speaker 1: the top are playing each other. And now versus nine
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Speaker 1: conference games, that's four and a half losses per team
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Speaker 1: and an average so that eight losses adds up to
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Speaker 1: another half game loss per team. So obviously some teams
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Speaker 1: are gonna lose zero or lose one, and then you're
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Speaker 1: gonna have other teams that lose nine or lose eight.
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Speaker 1: So that's where the average balance is out. And the
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Speaker 1: reason why that mattered so much was when you had
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Speaker 1: the PAC twelve, the ACC Big twelve, and Big ten,
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Speaker 1: and well, except the ACC, the other three were playing
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Speaker 1: nine conference games, so there was four and a half losses.
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Speaker 1: And remember as fans, how many times we would be
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Speaker 1: watching ESPN or watching some station and they would say, oh,
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Speaker 1: the PAC twelve or the Big ten or the Big twelve,
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Speaker 1: they just played themselves out of it. They lost when
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Speaker 1: they didn't need to because they're playing conference games. And
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Speaker 1: then when you get to the end of the season
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Speaker 1: in November, when the SEC teams that play, they're November cupcakes,
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Speaker 1: or even the ACC teams that play they're November cupcakes.
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Speaker 1: How does that balance out? Because those teams are playing
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Speaker 1: conference games, so you might have twelve versus fifteen, eighteen
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Speaker 1: versus twenty one, and one of those teams has to
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Speaker 1: lose and they may fall out of the top twenty five,
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Speaker 1: whereas the SEC team in November would then be playing
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Speaker 1: Charlton State, the Citadel or Elon or anybody else getting
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Speaker 1: a free win. So then that artificially manipulates up the
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Speaker 1: strength of schedule because the records are higher, and because
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Speaker 1: those teams get ranked higher because they simply did not lose.
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Speaker 1: So you would be sitting here looking at an SEC
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Speaker 1: team sitting there in November at eight and two versus
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Speaker 1: a Big ten team that just failed to you know,
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Speaker 1: seven and three because they played another conference game instead
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Speaker 1: of playing a cupcake in November. That's why it matters. Okay,
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Speaker 1: So now I give you that piece of information. To
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Speaker 1: listen to what Lane Kiffin had to say about the
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Speaker 1: SEC playing nine conference games.
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Speaker 4: The additional conference game this year, if it affects any
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Speaker 4: of your spring or fall work, and if you were
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Speaker 4: in favor of adding that ninth conference game in the SEC.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, again, I'm not going to complain about it. I
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Speaker 5: was very outspoken in meetings with the commissioner, with president's
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Speaker 5: athletic directors that was not in my opinion, that was
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Speaker 5: not a good idea until the system of how they
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Speaker 5: selected teams was fixed. Until it was fixed that there
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Speaker 5: were automatic bids, until it was truly fixed at a
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Speaker 5: strength of schedule matters how it should much more like
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Speaker 5: basketball does. Until that's fixed, it made zero sense to
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Speaker 5: me to go add another hard game, put teams on
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Speaker 5: the road five times in this conference, which top to
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Speaker 5: bottom is the hardest conference to play in the hardest stadiums,
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Speaker 5: but we did. I understand there's always things that go
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Speaker 5: into decisions besides the way that I think, and so
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Speaker 5: I'm sure there were financial reasons for it, But I
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Speaker 5: don't think that anybody now now that they've kind of
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Speaker 5: seen how selections have gone, thinks that there's value in
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Speaker 5: that from that standpoint. And you're going to continue to
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Speaker 5: have this, in my opinion, this threshold until they go
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Speaker 5: to more teams or a different system that ten and
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Speaker 5: two is in, nine and three is out. So you
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Speaker 5: just got some more losses in your conference and beat
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Speaker 5: yourself up more, which is different than any other conference
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Speaker 5: plays from a toughness standpoint.
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Speaker 1: Okay, Number one, Lane Kiffin, you he just left Old
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Speaker 1: Miss to go to LSU to have a better chance,
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Speaker 1: better recruits, all this stuff to win a national championship
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Speaker 1: despite having a team that made the College Football semi
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Speaker 1: Finals last year. He has a forty million dollar roster,
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Speaker 1: which is more than every other team in the conference
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Speaker 1: outside of maybe Texas. We do not want to hear
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Speaker 1: him complaining about playing an extra conference game and what
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Speaker 1: is currently now not the best conference in college football.
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Speaker 1: The best conference in college football is the Big Ten.
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Speaker 1: So how are we gonna sit up here and listen
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Speaker 1: to this? And mind you, this is the exact same
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Speaker 1: reason I've said Lane Kiffin will not win a national championship.
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Speaker 1: He definitely ain't winning this year. He will never win
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Speaker 1: a national champa until he stops this, Until he stops this,
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Speaker 1: all this incessant complaining, pre complaint. He's pre complaining about
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Speaker 1: something he hasn't even run into the problem. Ever, He's
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Speaker 1: never run into the problem. I mean, well, the way
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Speaker 1: they're doing selections. The SEC got five teams in the
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Speaker 1: College Football Playoff last year. Nobody's winning games except for Oklahoma,
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Speaker 1: in Alabama. Alabama won because they played each other. No
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Speaker 1: SEC team outside of Texas has ever won a college
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Speaker 1: football a twelve team playoff game. That's it. Nobody's winning.
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Speaker 1: So then, how can you reasonably tell me that the
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Speaker 1: SEC is the best conference, having the best of you know,
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Speaker 1: having the most difficult road when it is not showing
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Speaker 1: up when it is playing other conferences for all the marbles.
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Speaker 1: Explain to me that. Explain to me how the SEC
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Speaker 1: is the best conference in college football, but when they
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Speaker 1: meet the other conferences best on best in the college
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Speaker 1: football playoffs, they getting nothing going. Explain that to me.
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Speaker 1: It doesn't make any sense, right, But people will tell you, well,
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Speaker 1: that's because the middle of the SEC it's so difficult
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Speaker 1: and the bottom of the SEC so difficult, way harder
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Speaker 1: than everybody else. Are we sure about that? Because parody
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Speaker 1: has existed in conferences for a while, because the SEC
19:45
Speaker 1: had been so top heavy for a long time that
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Speaker 1: now they're trying to put that same It's so funny
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Speaker 1: how things in life are cyclical, because the same thing
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Speaker 1: that the every other conference was accusing the SEC of
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Speaker 1: being top heavy with Alabama, I'm in Georgia or the
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Speaker 1: LSU season or something else. Everybody complained about that and
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Speaker 1: called them top heavy, and they didn't want to hear it.
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Speaker 1: But now when it comes on the other side, No,
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Speaker 1: now the Big ten's just top heavy? Are we sure
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Speaker 1: about that? We got Oregon, Ohio State, Indiana who just
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Speaker 1: won a national championship, Michigan who's going to be significantly
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Speaker 1: improved with their new head coach Kyle Whittingham, Penn State.
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Speaker 1: Go look at Penn State's schedule this year. Tell me
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Speaker 1: how that looks. That looks like a team that is
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Speaker 1: poised to make to win ten games with that schedule
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Speaker 1: this year. Who else is in the conference? Washington might
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Speaker 1: be a college football playoff caliber team this year. USC
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Speaker 1: we're already at seven. We're already at seven like teams
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Speaker 1: that are going to for sure be ranked at the
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Speaker 1: entire season or points in time this college football season.
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Speaker 1: And we're talking about that. And then we know how
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Speaker 1: much how good Illinois has been. They are much improved.
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Speaker 1: What's gonna happen with Michigan State with their new head
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Speaker 1: coach with with with Pat Fitzgerald. Northwestern has proven they're
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Speaker 1: not a that They're not just an easy run, a
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Speaker 1: runaway type type of teammate just running off on them.
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Speaker 1: Oh and then everybody's forgetting about U c l A.
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Speaker 1: I'm telling you watch U c l A this season.
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Speaker 1: This could be a Kurt Signetti two point zero type
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Speaker 1: of deal in Westwood because they got a head coach
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Speaker 1: who knows what he's doing. Came from James Madison as well.
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Speaker 1: So uh so, any idea that the middle or the
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Speaker 1: bottom of the of the ten would get wiped out
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Speaker 1: by the SEC, that's foolishness, absolute foolishness. And if you
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Speaker 1: had to go bar for bar team team for team,
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Speaker 1: think about this. Think about this. If you had to
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Speaker 1: go bar for bar, team for team in this conference, right,
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, in college football, you would be looking at
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Speaker 1: let me pull it up. In the Big Ten, you
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Speaker 1: would be looking at Indiana, Ohio State, Oregon, USC, Michigan,
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Speaker 1: Oh damn, I forgot about Iowa two, Iowa, Washington, Penn State.
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Speaker 1: Let's take those eight teams, those eight teams. You mean
22:51
Speaker 1: to tell me that you believe that anybody believes that
22:56
Speaker 1: old Miss Georgia Tech, SAYIM, Alabama, Texas, Oklahoma, Vanderbilt, Missouri
23:03
Speaker 1: are better than those eight No, No, you know that
23:07
Speaker 1: you would take the first eight. First is just the
23:10
Speaker 1: reality of where we are at right now in the
23:13
Speaker 1: world of college football. But going back to Lane Kiffin
23:17
Speaker 1: for a second, I cannot, in good conscience hear Lane
23:22
Speaker 1: Kiffin really just just whine and cry about things. When
23:29
Speaker 1: you have every single advantage, worry about yourself. Why are
23:34
Speaker 1: you He doesn't really think about Lane Kiffin in general,
23:38
Speaker 1: because he has been practicing. He's been saying, guys, we
23:41
Speaker 1: need to have patience. We need to have patience. This
23:44
Speaker 1: thing's not gonna be figured out overnight. I'm gonna tell
23:47
Speaker 1: you this. LSU boosters. They not trying to hear none
23:51
Speaker 1: of that. Their donors not trying to hear none of that.
23:55
Speaker 1: The state who bought out Brian Kelly and brought you
24:00
Speaker 1: you in, they not trying to hear none of that.
24:03
Speaker 1: Because you got a forty million dollar roster. You have
24:07
Speaker 1: great players at wide receiver. You got a quarterback in
24:10
Speaker 1: Sam and Sam Levin even though he's hurt right now.
24:13
Speaker 1: You brought in another quarterback transfer from Elon. You brought
24:16
Speaker 1: in Hassan Longstreet, another quarterback transfer from USC. You got
24:21
Speaker 1: a defense, You got everything that you need. We don't
24:24
Speaker 1: want to hear nothing about your patience. They name, they
24:27
Speaker 1: really ain't gonna be trying to hear nothing about your patients.
24:32
Speaker 1: And do you really believe that Lane Kiffen cares about
24:35
Speaker 1: anybody except for Lane Kiffin? No? Right, so do you
24:39
Speaker 1: think that he really cares about what's best for the
24:41
Speaker 1: rest of the SEC teams? No, he cares about what's
24:44
Speaker 1: best for Lane Kiffin. And by way of the fact
24:47
Speaker 1: that he's at LSU right now, LSU. Now the next
24:51
Speaker 1: thing up. I had a chance to interview Kyle Whittingham
24:55
Speaker 1: last week, and here is damn. I got a chance
25:02
Speaker 1: to interview Kyle Whittingham the other day. Something he said
25:07
Speaker 1: didn't get the same amount of attention that it should have. Now.
25:11
Speaker 1: Mind you, a year ago when I interviewed him, he
25:15
Speaker 1: talked about the Super Leagues, that he believed that there
25:18
Speaker 1: will be a Super League within five years. I asked
25:21
Speaker 1: him about it again. He was like, yes, I definitely
25:24
Speaker 1: believe that that's coming. But this time he said something else.
25:28
Speaker 1: The devil's into details. You gotta pay attention to the details.
25:32
Speaker 1: And mind you, there's no devil in what he said.
25:34
Speaker 1: But I'm saying like that that sometimes the little things
25:37
Speaker 1: are the big things. And he was talking about collective bargaining.
25:40
Speaker 1: I have been a big proponent of collective bargaining in
25:45
Speaker 1: college football, absolutely, and that this is the only path forward.
25:52
Speaker 1: There have been people that will sit up here and
25:54
Speaker 1: tell you, oh my gosh, what are you talking about.
25:57
Speaker 1: You can't have collective margin. This is college football like
26:00
Speaker 1: it was. Those days are not coming back because now
26:04
Speaker 1: the amount of money being generated has now outpaced the
26:08
Speaker 1: value of the scholarship. It is now outpaced everything. And
26:11
Speaker 1: now these college football teams no longer exist to provide
26:16
Speaker 1: higher education. They are money making opportunities. They are money
26:20
Speaker 1: making opportunities for the athletic departments, for the schools because
26:24
Speaker 1: they get a chance to increase tuition, they get a chance,
26:27
Speaker 1: they get way more applications when your team's doing well.
26:31
Speaker 1: It is big money and real business for the networks ESPN, BOXED, CBSCW,
26:37
Speaker 1: every other network big business, big business for coaches, their agents,
26:43
Speaker 1: everybody involved, sponsors, shoe companies, everybody involved. It is real
26:48
Speaker 1: business and big business for so the idea that the
26:52
Speaker 1: players should be subjected to anything other than the business
26:57
Speaker 1: is wild, and I mean the good parts of the
27:00
Speaker 1: business and the bad parts of the business. So you
27:03
Speaker 1: gotta have buyouts, you gotta have contracts, be real. All
27:07
Speaker 1: of those things have to matter. But what happens in
27:10
Speaker 1: real life as it relates to companies and in big business,
27:15
Speaker 1: there are unions, there is collective bargaining. There are workplace
27:21
Speaker 1: rules and protections for employees and for employers, and that's
27:26
Speaker 1: what you have to have. And there's a reason why
27:29
Speaker 1: the NFL, which Kyle Whittingham says the best run league,
27:32
Speaker 1: and it is because the league is always doing what
27:36
Speaker 1: is best for the league. It is trying to increase
27:40
Speaker 1: fan engagement, fan experience, and make the game a better
27:45
Speaker 1: watch on television and in person. That's the whole goal.
27:50
Speaker 1: Because this is a money making enterprise. People confuse it
27:54
Speaker 1: with winning championships. No it's not. It's a money making enterprise.
28:00
Speaker 1: They do what's best for it. You got the NBA,
28:02
Speaker 1: they're not doing what's best for the game. They've gotten
28:05
Speaker 1: so ring culture centric, eccentric that they have forgotten that
28:10
Speaker 1: the fans, that's servicing the fans, a good product, starts
28:14
Speaker 1: consistently on the field. All of that is the best
28:17
Speaker 1: thing for the game. They've forgotten that college football has
28:21
Speaker 1: to act like that, not on an individual team basis,
28:25
Speaker 1: not for Alabama, Georgia, Oregon, Oklahoma, any of them. Got
28:32
Speaker 1: to stop acting like mercenaries and we have to start
28:35
Speaker 1: acting like an enterprise, a business, a real set of
28:41
Speaker 1: things like that. You can't just just be looking out
28:44
Speaker 1: for yourself only. That's the key point that is being
28:49
Speaker 1: missed in this whole college football discussion and situation, and
28:57
Speaker 1: Kyle Whittingham says it. It is dual and it must
29:01
Speaker 1: be done. It is the only pass forward. You can't
29:05
Speaker 1: have the NCUBA or the conferences unilaterally making rules as
29:11
Speaker 1: it relates to players, and the players not be involved
29:15
Speaker 1: in it because you know it's going to happen. Lawsuits.
29:18
Speaker 1: Lawsuits are going to happen. And this is the biggest
29:22
Speaker 1: opposition that I've heard to it. Why would players want
29:27
Speaker 1: a collective bargaining agreement and limit their earnings on some
29:34
Speaker 1: level because there's a salary cap and then real nil
29:38
Speaker 1: on top of that unlimited. Let me explain to you
29:41
Speaker 1: this number one. That is a very valid point, very
29:45
Speaker 1: valid point. I have a retort to it. First thing is,
29:49
Speaker 1: if I'm a player now, like all of a sudden,
29:52
Speaker 1: playing college foot football, if yes, get as much money
29:55
Speaker 1: as you possibly can son in the right situation, and
29:58
Speaker 1: all the other factors factored in, not just the money,
30:02
Speaker 1: but everything the total package factored into it. And players
30:09
Speaker 1: in college are not incentivized to look at the future
30:13
Speaker 1: like NFL players are because and mind you, NFL players
30:17
Speaker 1: still have a significant issue with this because the players
30:22
Speaker 1: at the top making the most money, they are generally
30:25
Speaker 1: thinking about or more conscious about health insurance, long term stuff,
30:30
Speaker 1: all these things. Whereas the players who are on the
30:34
Speaker 1: fringe of the roster, which is the majority of the players,
30:37
Speaker 1: they're more concerned with can I make more money right now?
30:41
Speaker 1: So yes, if you're a player now, you're not going
30:43
Speaker 1: to be concerned with that. But here is the issue.
30:46
Speaker 1: The current financial model is not sustainable long term. You
30:51
Speaker 1: can't be going to boosters every single year. Oh I
30:54
Speaker 1: need ten million, I need five million, I need eight million.
30:57
Speaker 1: It's just not the way it works because Pete, because
31:00
Speaker 1: the amount of money that's coming in, it's going out
31:02
Speaker 1: faster than it can possibly come in. This is why
31:06
Speaker 1: pooling metiaites is such a big deal because and operating
31:11
Speaker 1: like an actual business, because if you create a system
31:15
Speaker 1: where there is a salary cap and then real nil
31:19
Speaker 1: on top of that, which is unlimited, but a hard
31:22
Speaker 1: salary cap for what the team can play. I'm not
31:24
Speaker 1: talking about circumventing it with shoe companies, Liarfield and all
31:27
Speaker 1: these other places. No real hard salary cap like there
31:32
Speaker 1: are like there is in the NFL, And then you know,
31:35
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes or anybody else can go make unlimited money
31:38
Speaker 1: from their endorsements. Right that then creates a sustainable model
31:45
Speaker 1: long term. So the problem is is there that donor
31:49
Speaker 1: fatigue is happening right now? Schools are scrambling like I
31:54
Speaker 1: don't know how many times we're gonna be able to
31:56
Speaker 1: pick up this call and make this phone call, even
32:01
Speaker 1: if you win a championship. How many times can you
32:04
Speaker 1: ring that bell? Yes, yes you can ring the billionaire bell,
32:08
Speaker 1: but as long, but how many times can you ring
32:11
Speaker 1: that bell? You have to create a system where the
32:16
Speaker 1: money coming in outpaces the money going out, and then
32:23
Speaker 1: salary caps go up as marketing I'm sorry, as tv
32:28
Speaker 1: AD revenue goes up. So instead of as the Big
32:35
Speaker 1: ten having a three billion dollar deal, well the SEC
32:39
Speaker 1: having a three billion dollar deal and then another side
32:42
Speaker 1: deal with ESPN, the Big ten having seven million, seven
32:46
Speaker 1: billion dollars with Fox instead of all that and you
32:50
Speaker 1: know and CBS and all the rest of the companies
32:52
Speaker 1: that they're involved with. No, pull them all together. So
32:56
Speaker 1: I'd say that individually, put all the the four conferences together.
33:02
Speaker 1: Let's say you got twenty million dollars in deals, right,
33:07
Speaker 1: that would be worth I'm sorry, twenty billion dollars in
33:10
Speaker 1: deals that would be worth thirty billion, forty billion if
33:16
Speaker 1: they pull them. And then you know what else that
33:18
Speaker 1: will fix That will absolutely fix the schedules because there
33:22
Speaker 1: won't be no playing no e line in November because
33:26
Speaker 1: the people writ in your checking like, oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
33:31
Speaker 1: no super conference. We need everybody playing tough games every
33:35
Speaker 1: single week, NFL style, and that's the way it needs
33:39
Speaker 1: to be, all right. The last thing that we're going
33:42
Speaker 1: to talk about today before we get into the top
33:44
Speaker 1: ten today is how college football coaches are now running corporations.
33:52
Speaker 1: They are not running teams. They are CEOs of fortune
33:57
Speaker 1: five hundred company type situation. This is no longer them
34:03
Speaker 1: just running a team, them trying to get the x's
34:07
Speaker 1: and o's, right. No, this is a corporation. This is
34:09
Speaker 1: a money making enterprise. This ain't school. This ain't you know,
34:15
Speaker 1: trying to make everybody better man and all this stuff,
34:18
Speaker 1: even though that that's part of it. And let me
34:22
Speaker 1: explain to you exactly how this all breaks breaks down
34:27
Speaker 1: in terms of them running corporations and not teams. Number one,
34:32
Speaker 1: what are corporations trying to do. They're trying to make
34:35
Speaker 1: make money. And then they need capital, and that's exactly
34:41
Speaker 1: what college football coaches are dealing with. They need money,
34:44
Speaker 1: and they need resources for talent acquisition, they need facilities,
34:49
Speaker 1: they need travel, they need recovery, they need technology, they
34:54
Speaker 1: need all of those things. And that is and the
34:57
Speaker 1: number one thing that they need is capital. Every co
35:00
Speaker 1: talks about this. They need capital, which is what businesses
35:04
Speaker 1: thrive on and what they are trying to make. The
35:08
Speaker 1: second thing that they that it is it's the players, right.
35:13
Speaker 1: The players are the technology. The players are the technology.
35:19
Speaker 1: Because remember technology in corporations and companies, it comes and goes,
35:24
Speaker 1: it changes, Some technology is outdated, some technology lasts a
35:28
Speaker 1: long time, some technology breaks like injuries all this stuff.
35:32
Speaker 1: So the players are the technology. And the problem is
35:36
Speaker 1: in college football, you can't get a patent on the technology.
35:41
Speaker 1: You only get to license the technology. You only get
35:46
Speaker 1: if you're Ohio State, you only get Jeremiah Smith for
35:48
Speaker 1: three years. It's a license, it's not a patent. If
35:54
Speaker 1: you are Oregon, you got Dante More for two years.
35:57
Speaker 1: You weren't sure whether you're gonna have them for one
35:59
Speaker 1: or two, but you got them for two. So it's
36:02
Speaker 1: a license, it is not a patent. So the players
36:06
Speaker 1: of the technology, the coaches, the assistant coaches, what are
36:11
Speaker 1: they they are? They are your middle management. They are
36:15
Speaker 1: the people who are on the ground from day to
36:18
Speaker 1: day in your business, dealing with the employees, dealing with
36:23
Speaker 1: uh the payroll PTO, you know, restocking, the making making
36:32
Speaker 1: sure all the orders are there, making sure all the
36:35
Speaker 1: HR things are you know that everybody did their sexual
36:40
Speaker 1: harassment training, make sure everybody did all the rest of
36:43
Speaker 1: the stuff. That's what the coaches are. They are the
36:46
Speaker 1: middle management. They are the people dealing with the with
36:50
Speaker 1: the hands on and the employees on a day to
36:52
Speaker 1: day basis. Then, in a corporate corporation, okay, so who
36:58
Speaker 1: are the board of region and send the donors. That's
37:02
Speaker 1: private equity money, that's the debt, and the debt gotta
37:07
Speaker 1: be serviced and if the board of regents is not
37:11
Speaker 1: happy with the coach or the donors or not, then
37:15
Speaker 1: what happens. Oh CEO gets fired, Baby CEO gets fired,
37:21
Speaker 1: and then the private equity they can pull their money
37:24
Speaker 1: or call it do depending on the contracts, whenever they
37:28
Speaker 1: want to. So that's who the border regents and the
37:32
Speaker 1: donors are. That's the part of the company about the
37:36
Speaker 1: Fortune five hundred company that these coaches are running right now.
37:40
Speaker 1: That's who it is. They are the board. That's who
37:43
Speaker 1: the board like, who can fire the CEO? That's what
37:47
Speaker 1: it's who the border regents is. They are the board.
37:49
Speaker 1: That's the private equity. Now the fans, all the fans,
37:55
Speaker 1: they are the shareholders. They are me and you. They
37:59
Speaker 1: are the people who like fans influence sentiment. They can't
38:05
Speaker 1: actually like like think, think about if our own stock
38:10
Speaker 1: in a company. If our own stock and Apple, you
38:12
Speaker 1: own stopping Apple stocking Apple. Twenty thousand of us own
38:17
Speaker 1: stock and Apple. We don't own enough stock to make
38:21
Speaker 1: any decisions in the company, right, but we can influence
38:29
Speaker 1: sentiment on social media with our buying habits, with the
38:33
Speaker 1: way we feel about the company, the statements that we
38:35
Speaker 1: make about the CEO. We can essentially influence the border regions,
38:42
Speaker 1: influence the private equity. We can influence that. That's where
38:46
Speaker 1: the fans are, and that's exactly how coaches are now
38:50
Speaker 1: running corporations and not teams. You need capital, So the
38:57
Speaker 1: money and the resources that the coaches are consistently asking for,
39:00
Speaker 1: that's the capital of the business. The players they are
39:03
Speaker 1: the technology. They are licensed and not patented. The coaches
39:07
Speaker 1: are the middle management. The board of regents is the
39:13
Speaker 1: and the donors they are the private equity and the
39:17
Speaker 1: board like that's the debt. Those are the people that
39:20
Speaker 1: are the most important to whether the coach gets to
39:24
Speaker 1: continue running the corporation or not. They make the final decision.
39:28
Speaker 1: And then the fans they are the shareholders. They impact
39:31
Speaker 1: the sentiment, the goodwill of the team. That's how it goes,
39:38
Speaker 1: all right, you guys, Top ten is up next. It
39:44
Speaker 1: is Top ten time and these are the top ten
39:47
Speaker 1: fan bases in all of college football. Now, I put
39:51
Speaker 1: together some criteria for you guys to help you guys
39:54
Speaker 1: out the way. You guys fully understood why the list
39:57
Speaker 1: is what it is. So we got five criteria fan engagement, attendance,
40:05
Speaker 1: financial commitment by the boosters and by the fans, we
40:09
Speaker 1: got loyalty like how deep does your love run? And
40:14
Speaker 1: then number five is patients. Do you have a patience
40:17
Speaker 1: and do you have an attachment to reality? Now there
40:21
Speaker 1: are some honorable mentioned teams that I do feel like
40:23
Speaker 1: that need to be recognized because these fan bases are
40:27
Speaker 1: absolutely awesome. We got Indiana, Utah, LSU, Michigan, and Iowa.
40:36
Speaker 1: Those are my honorable mentions. Indiana Johnny Come come lately.
40:44
Speaker 1: But their financial commitment now elite. Their attendance now is elite.
40:49
Speaker 1: But what happens when you have some lean years in Indiana?
40:52
Speaker 1: Now we know you have a history of lean, but
40:55
Speaker 1: you weren't showing up to the stadium then. So what
40:58
Speaker 1: are you gonna do with seven eight years from now?
41:01
Speaker 1: You have three or four down years in a row?
41:04
Speaker 1: Are you gonna show up or you guys gonna bail?
41:06
Speaker 1: We don't know that yet. We just see what you're
41:08
Speaker 1: doing now. Utah, the mighty Utah student section, awesome fans.
41:12
Speaker 1: They are ridiculous. They show up, show out. One of
41:16
Speaker 1: the best places to watch a college football game. If
41:19
Speaker 1: you have not been there, Go there for the Holy War,
41:22
Speaker 1: go there for any big time game, and you will
41:24
Speaker 1: not be disappointed LSU. Oh they got Death Valley. Their
41:32
Speaker 1: attendance is great. The financial commitment, unfortunately, even though they
41:37
Speaker 1: have some good boosters and donors, is being largely taken
41:41
Speaker 1: up by the state. You got the buyouts and the
41:44
Speaker 1: new contracts and all that stuff. The state's taking up
41:47
Speaker 1: a lot of this. So that's why LSU is falling
41:49
Speaker 1: off the list, out of the top ten. But you're
41:52
Speaker 1: still in the top fifteen, baby, out of one hundred
41:54
Speaker 1: and thirty teams. You're still doing good. So they'll be
41:58
Speaker 1: too mad at me. You'at Michigan. Michigan's fans are I mean,
42:03
Speaker 1: just a few years ago, unfortunately, here's the reason why
42:06
Speaker 1: Michigan's not not on this list. Just one thing. Obviously,
42:09
Speaker 1: their engagement's good, their their their fans are great, except
42:14
Speaker 1: just a few years ago when they were having some
42:15
Speaker 1: lean years. They were doing bogos for either Coke or
42:19
Speaker 1: Pepsi cans, so their fans weren't showing up when it
42:23
Speaker 1: was the lean years. So I'm sorry Michigan men, you know,
42:27
Speaker 1: you know, come on uh. And then Iowa I got
42:32
Speaker 1: newly introduced to Iowa fans like fully fully for the
42:36
Speaker 1: last two years. They are incredible. They are absolutely incredible.
42:41
Speaker 1: They are punching way above their weight class. They are engaged.
42:45
Speaker 1: Their social media people make good content. Well sorry, their
42:48
Speaker 1: YouTube creators make great content. They know their team, they
42:53
Speaker 1: love their team. They are loyal, they are committed all right.
42:58
Speaker 1: Now on to the top ten. Number ten, we got
43:02
Speaker 1: the Wisconsin Badgers. Oh, their fans show up and show out.
43:07
Speaker 1: It is my favorite place that I ever played in
43:10
Speaker 1: college football away from Austin Stadium. Their fans jump around,
43:15
Speaker 1: they are engaged, and they're their loyalty very good. Their
43:20
Speaker 1: patients they probably got too much patience, so that's kind
43:22
Speaker 1: of a negative. Financial commitment could be a little bit
43:26
Speaker 1: more aggressive. Their attendance fantastic and their engagement from their
43:32
Speaker 1: from their fans excellent as well. Uh. Number nine Texas
43:36
Speaker 1: A and M the Aggies, the twelfth Man, that cult.
43:41
Speaker 1: How could the cult not be on? There? Go a gees,
43:45
Speaker 1: let's go, hey go, need I need I say anything else?
43:53
Speaker 1: Their their fan base is incredible and their attendants all
43:57
Speaker 1: those things. Number eight Penn State white out. They show up,
44:04
Speaker 1: they are engaged. They will make the financial commitment. Now
44:10
Speaker 1: the attachment to reality. You see, they lost it a
44:16
Speaker 1: little bit in this hiring cycle when they thought that
44:18
Speaker 1: they were gonna be able to get anybody that they wanted. Now,
44:21
Speaker 1: they did end up with a fantastic coaching Matt Campbell,
44:24
Speaker 1: but they lucked into that, lucked into that one all
44:27
Speaker 1: because they could not get anybody else because they got
44:32
Speaker 1: boxed out by Jimmy Sexton. But that's whole another story.
44:36
Speaker 1: Number seven the Nebraska Cornhuskers. Their fans deserve better now, granted,
44:43
Speaker 1: Matt Rule and everybody else saying they need to do
44:46
Speaker 1: a little bit better in the financial commitment, but their
44:48
Speaker 1: loyalty fantastic, their patients way too much. Their attendance number
44:55
Speaker 1: one out of all these schools, because if you miss
44:59
Speaker 1: a bowl game for seven straight years, I'm not sure
45:02
Speaker 1: if all these other teams sell out every year, but
45:05
Speaker 1: you know who does, Nebraska fans, So good on y'all.
45:11
Speaker 1: Number six the Florida Gators. The Swamp is incredible. It
45:19
Speaker 1: is a fantastic place to play college football. It is
45:22
Speaker 1: a great fan base. Some of my best teammates are
45:26
Speaker 1: from their Fred Taylor and a whole bunch of other
45:29
Speaker 1: guys that I played with. They are committed, they are engaged,
45:35
Speaker 1: The intendance is good, the loyalty is there. Good football program.
45:40
Speaker 1: Coming in at number five, we have the Alabama Crimson Tie.
45:46
Speaker 1: Paul Feinbaum literally made an entire show in a career
45:51
Speaker 1: from Alabama fans. Their engagement is fantastic, Their commitment, their loyalty.
45:58
Speaker 1: They will kill with Auburn. They will kill trees and
46:01
Speaker 1: kill each other if necessary. Their their patience and attachment
46:07
Speaker 1: to reality completely out of whack. They think that they
46:11
Speaker 1: should be having Nick Saban uh Nick Saban run again.
46:15
Speaker 1: It's not happening. Sorry to tell you. This is this
46:18
Speaker 1: is the new world, This is not the old world.
46:22
Speaker 1: And their financial commitment is just not They just don't
46:24
Speaker 1: have the ability to do what some of these other
46:27
Speaker 1: teams in front of them have to do, which is
46:30
Speaker 1: why they could go from a top five program or
46:33
Speaker 1: a top three program in college football to you know,
46:36
Speaker 1: top ten, twelve ish, just say number four. The Texas Longhorns.
46:41
Speaker 1: Oh Texas shows out. Oh my god. They will that
46:46
Speaker 1: that financial commitment, Oh they will make that financial commitment.
46:48
Speaker 1: You ain't got where about that loyalty incredible. Their attendance
46:54
Speaker 1: is very good. Their engagement is good. If you get
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Speaker 1: to talk about text on social media. They are defending
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Speaker 1: about their football team. Problem is their attachment to reality
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Speaker 1: might be worse than anybody else on this list except
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Speaker 1: for number two attachment to reality. Like, if you go
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Speaker 1: back the last thirty plus years of Texas football, they
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Speaker 1: got one national championship, which is awesome with Vince Young,
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Speaker 1: but they feel like that it feels like they see
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Speaker 1: themselves like Ohio State or Alabama or having the success
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Speaker 1: that Georgia's had. But that's not the case, so you know,
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Speaker 1: but all other boxes are completely checked except for the
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Speaker 1: attachment to to reality. But they are now back in
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Speaker 1: terms of being talked about every year. They're one of
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Speaker 1: the favorites to win a national championship this year, so
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Speaker 1: good job Texas. Top five number three. This is the
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Speaker 1: team that is probably punching most above its weight class.
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Speaker 1: That is the Oregon Ducks. Fan engagement extremely high, their tent.
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Speaker 1: The Oregon is one of those schools that has more
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Speaker 1: fans than they have living alumni and really what their
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Speaker 1: history says that they should have. They are one of
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Speaker 1: the top ten of schools for having the biggest fan
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Speaker 1: bases for a smaller school. That's incredible. That means You've
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Speaker 1: done a good job with your branding, and so their
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Speaker 1: engagement is high. Now they lose points on attendance because
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Speaker 1: they got a smaller stadium, but it's always full. The
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Speaker 1: financial commitment from the fans and from the boosters and
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Speaker 1: donors is incredible. And it's not just Nike. No. The loyalty,
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Speaker 1: fiercely loyal, fiercely loyal. Now Oregon is starting to lose that,
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Speaker 1: the patience that they used to have and the attachment
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Speaker 1: to reality to because you got people. I don't know
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Speaker 1: about this Dan Lennard. I don't know if he can
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Speaker 1: win the Big one, even though he just won the
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Speaker 1: Big ten, went to the College Football Playoff back to
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Speaker 1: back years, quarterfinals then semifinals. But but but we're not
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Speaker 1: sure about him. Okay. Number two the Notre Dame Fighting Irish.
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Speaker 1: Oh Lord have mercy. Now this is another one. Like
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Speaker 1: the Walmart Wolverines, the the the Target Trojans Oregon fans,
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Speaker 1: and like in Notre Dame, those these are some of
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Speaker 1: the brands that the majority of their fans did not
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Speaker 1: go to the university where they have where like the
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Speaker 1: team that's number one living alumni, crazy crazy, big But
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Speaker 1: this Notre Dame. They a lot of their fans are
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Speaker 1: attached to them because of Catholicism and their attachment to reality.
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Speaker 1: It's both exactly where it should be and way out
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Speaker 1: of whack. It's where it should be because they know
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Speaker 1: how much stay matter to college football. Despite people say, oh,
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Speaker 1: their schedule sucks, which is a complete lie. The teams
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Speaker 1: that beat them, oh, they get a big boost up
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Speaker 1: tech saying him and Miami both made the college Football
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Speaker 1: Playoff because they beat Notre Dame because everybody knows the
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Speaker 1: Notre Dame is a good football team. But then they've
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Speaker 1: lost attachment to reality because they ain't won a national championships.
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Speaker 1: It's like eighty eight eight eight at Long Domigobou, long
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Speaker 1: time ago. So they believe that they are, you know,
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Speaker 1: with the Ohio States and the and the anybody else
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Speaker 1: in the world who's won national championships. LSU's of the world.
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Speaker 1: It's not where you've been, even though your brand matters
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Speaker 1: a lot. Number one the best college football fan base.
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Speaker 1: Ohio State engagement incredible, number one engagement out of everybody.
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Speaker 1: I used to think it was Alabama when I first
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Speaker 1: started writing for fans side it like ten years ago
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Speaker 1: and then I was put to a test. Write some
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Speaker 1: articles about Ohio State, write them about Alabama. See which
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Speaker 1: ones do better. Ohio State won every single time. Their
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Speaker 1: tendance is great, financial commitment great, loyalty is great. Now
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Speaker 1: they're patients. They ain't got none of that, none, none
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Speaker 1: of that. But their attachment to reality, Oh it's right there.
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Speaker 1: They are who they think they are, just the truth.
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Speaker 1: And I know people will will hate it, but reality
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Speaker 1: is reality and that is the top ten college football
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Speaker 1: fan basis. Hey, sorry, sorry if your team wasn't doing it,
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Speaker 1: but leave it in the comments. Tell me if I
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Speaker 1: got them right, tell me who I got wrong, or
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Speaker 1: if any of the reasons, leave it down in the comments.
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Speaker 1: I'm George, right, so thanks for being one of us.
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