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LSU Tigers BATTLE Just Ended & that's GOOD NEWS for Lane Kiffin AND the SEC! · College Football Addiction: A Show About All Things College Football

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Speaker 1: Are we kicking LSU out of the SEC? Cole, what's
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Speaker 1: going on around here, man?
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Speaker 2: Ah, boy.
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Speaker 3: Okay, so now we have a ruling that comes into
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Speaker 3: motion by Commissioner Greg Sankey that says that we are
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Speaker 3: going to potentially have a meeting because we had a
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Speaker 3: lawsuit filed last week after the judge ruled that we
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Speaker 3: were going to allow two former NFL players to join
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Speaker 3: a roster. We are now having a compliance to where
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Speaker 3: the school presidents and the athletic directors will meet to
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Speaker 3: have a discussion of kicking out LSU permanently from the
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Speaker 3: Southeastern Conference. I personally think this is a power move
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Speaker 3: by Greg Sankey.
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Speaker 2: That's all this is.
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Speaker 3: This is our final resolute of, guys, we set a
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Speaker 3: rule in motion. You want to break it because of
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Speaker 3: what is going on with everything behind closed doors of
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Speaker 3: what a TRO allows you to do and that a
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Speaker 3: judge is not to follow our same bylaws, so therefore...
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Speaker 3: With the TRO in motion, you get to break the rules.
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Speaker 3: We are going to make sure that if you really
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Speaker 3: are all about this, that you are fully into bringing
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Speaker 3: in players when we have told you specifically, don't do
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Speaker 3: this one damn thing. Then at this point, we have
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Speaker 3: no other ruling, but we have to kick you on out.
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Speaker 3: And we know that we're going to be fine because
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Speaker 3: we're the Southeastern Conference, and somebody will take that 16th spot. Now,
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Speaker 3: we have heard, as of last night, two new roster
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Speaker 3: spots were filled by LSU. that were not for Daquan
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Speaker 3: Wright and for Xavier Harris. So therefore, the 105 roster
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Speaker 3: spots are all filled. Those two players will not be
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Speaker 3: a part of LSU.
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Speaker 2: Up to this point.
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Speaker 3: The question is, this is more than just the fact
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Speaker 3: that LSU was going out and adding in players in football.
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Speaker 3: Let me remind everybody, this is not just a Lane
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Speaker 3: Kiffin thing. And I know that everyone's going to say,
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Speaker 3: what about with Kentucky? What about with Texas? What about
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Speaker 3: with UCLA going out and adding in all these players?
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Speaker 3: I understand exactly what you're saying. This is not an
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Speaker 3: LSU Lane Kiffin thing. This is an LSU grand scheme thing.
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Speaker 3: Their soccer team has two former professional players that played
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Speaker 3: in a match earlier this month. The basketball team is
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Speaker 3: basically trying to build a G League underneath Will Wade
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Speaker 3: of roster players that have spent time outside of the
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Speaker 3: NCAA regulation. So the ruling is more so in the
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Speaker 3: grand scheme of the Southeastern Conference for this season. Lane
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Speaker 3: may have done everything wrong and then finally said, you
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Speaker 3: know what, it's not worth it and did this part.
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Speaker 3: And it may be too late because if you have
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Speaker 3: to get other people on board, Will Wade, Kim Mulkey,
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Speaker 3: if it happens in baseball, which it won't, but Jay Johnson,
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Speaker 3: all these other names have to be on board for
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Speaker 3: saying we are not going to be breaking these bylaws
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Speaker 3: or these regulations. Therefore, It could be a done deal,
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Speaker 3: and they'll stop staying in the conference. The way I
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Speaker 3: would describe this is that this, in my humble opinion,
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Speaker 3: is like being the owner of a country club. You
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Speaker 3: allow your patrons to make conversations and suggestions on the
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Speaker 3: rules that you want for your country club, and they
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Speaker 3: may be put into effect.
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Speaker 2: But at the end of the day.
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Speaker 3: You have the higher-ups, the president, and those who are
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Speaker 3: making the decisions come up with the rules that you
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Speaker 3: are invited to follow by. You get all these amenities
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Speaker 3: and all these perks and all these things that help
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Speaker 3: boost up your status because of what's in that club.
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Speaker 3: But if you want to break and not follow protocol
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Speaker 3: with these rules, eventually they will say, your money, as
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Speaker 3: much as we will miss it, It's not going to
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Speaker 3: make us feel that disappointed and we're not going to
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Speaker 3: lose that big of a dent. We will find somebody
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Speaker 3: to replace you with the resources and the funds that
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Speaker 3: you'd be funneling on in for your benefits per month
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Speaker 3: because they will learn how to follow the rules.
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Speaker 2: That's where I think this is.
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Speaker 3: I think to a certain degree, Lane Kiffin and LSU,
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Speaker 3: really LSU in general, not Lane Kiffin, kind of bent
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Speaker 3: the knee and said, we are done with this conversation.
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Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and focus in on football. That's where
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Speaker 2: I'm at.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it very much, Tom, feels like that power move, right?
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Speaker 4: And I, listen, to give some, the LSU fans are
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Speaker 4: not going to hear this the way they should, but
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Speaker 4: I promise you, they were not going to out-leverage the SEC, right?
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Speaker 4: There is one program in this country that feels like
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Speaker 4: it can do things on its own and out-leverage anyone
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Speaker 4: it wants. And that program just happens to reside in
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Speaker 4: South Bend, Indiana. I don't think there's, listen, I don't
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Speaker 4: think Ohio state.
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Speaker 1: Could out leverage the big 10.
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Speaker 4: Like it might be more of a conversation, maybe Alabama
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Speaker 4: at its very peak.
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Speaker 1: With Saban could have gotten closer with the sec. It
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Speaker 1: LSU was not going to out leverage the sec in this.
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Speaker 4: And much like, again, very different situations, much like the
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Speaker 4: Brendan Sorsby thing. When your conference steps in and says, hey, buddy,
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Speaker 4: this is where the rubber meets the road, you tell
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Speaker 4: me what you want to do, but we will dance
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Speaker 4: if you would like to. LSU, I don't know if
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Speaker 4: they were truly planning on adding those two guys that
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Speaker 4: were injured during the summer last night before all the
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Speaker 4: news dropped, but I do know the timing lines up
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Speaker 4: pretty well with them saying, all right, boss, we heard you.
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Speaker 4: We'll step back in line. And we talked about this
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Speaker 4: with LSU. Like, was the juice worth the squeeze? Probably not.
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Speaker 4: They're probably a playoff team. And you just had this
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Speaker 4: huge win against Clemson and beat their brains. Like, it
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Speaker 4: just became time for things to be done. So, no,
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Speaker 4: I don't think the S. Now, I think there is
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Speaker 4: a path where the SEC would have maybe done something
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Speaker 4: if LSU continued to push back. I don't think the
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Speaker 4: SEC liked the brashness as much as I liked hearing
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Speaker 4: Lane Kiffin talk.
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Speaker 1: In that interview with Holly Rose, say what he said,
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Speaker 1: because they hated it. They, they hate that, man. They
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Speaker 1: don't want to be, they don't want to be shown up.
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Speaker 4: It's one thing to disagree, but go to Florida state
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Speaker 4: and Clemson, like Florida state's like Mike Norvell wasn't doing interviews.
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Speaker 4: Dabble wasn't doing interviews at halftime of the show saying,
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Speaker 4: that's why we want to get out of this shithole.
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Speaker 4: You know, like there's a little bit of like decorum
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Speaker 4: that needs to happen. And so I think the sec
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Speaker 4: got very blood hurt about that, whether that's deserved or not.
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Speaker 4: And they just said, okay, if we got to take
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Speaker 4: this to, uh, If we've got to threaten to pull
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Speaker 4: one out, we will. LSU said, no thanks.
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Speaker 5: We don't want to dance anymore. Tom?
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Speaker 6: I've always been a fan of people or entities that
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Speaker 6: find loopholes.
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Speaker 5: Maybe not break the rules. I certainly don't approve of that.
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Speaker 6: But there's gaps, obviously, in this current era of college football.
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Speaker 6: So part of me looks at what LSU has been
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Speaker 6: doing in a multitude of sports, as Cole laid out.
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Speaker 6: And they're looking at the playing field and they're seeing, okay, well,
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Speaker 6: right now this is legal, so I can pursue this
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Speaker 6: to the best competitive advantage that LSU can have. So
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Speaker 6: while I don't approve of it, there was nothing blatantly
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Speaker 6: illegal about it. It was more ethical and moral that
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Speaker 6: we were coming after LSU. To be clear, I don't
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Speaker 6: approve of it. I don't think professional players should be
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Speaker 6: playing college athletics. But LSU was like, hey, let's push
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Speaker 6: this up until the 11th hour because no one has
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Speaker 6: said that we can't do this or at least put
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Speaker 6: it in writing. And then when it is put in writing,
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Speaker 6: we've gone to court, then yeah, we'll back off. I
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Speaker 6: was posing this question to you guys in.
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Speaker 5: Our group text.
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Speaker 6: Would it really be so bad if LSU went independent?
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Speaker 6: Could LSU handle itself?
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Speaker 5: And the answer is yes. Probably.
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Speaker 6: LSU absolutely could handle itself. Do they want to do
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Speaker 6: it in week two of the college football season?
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Speaker 5: Absolutely not.
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Speaker 5: If you're going to do this, you want to do
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Speaker 5: it on your own terms.
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Speaker 6: You don't want to be ejected midseason and have to
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Speaker 6: be kind of figuring things out, maybe from a media
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Speaker 6: rights deal. Maybe ESPN just already owns that. I don't
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Speaker 6: understand all the legalese, so that might be something else.
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Speaker 6: But you're telling me Lane Kiffin isn't chummy enough with
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Speaker 6: the people at ESPN who are practically living in his
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Speaker 6: house for the past year in Oxford, Mississippi? to the
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Speaker 6: point that he's like, hey, we might be just done
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Speaker 6: with the SEC. We can make a boatload more money
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Speaker 6: as an independent program. And if anything, if you were
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Speaker 6: to compare Notre Dame as an independent to LSU as
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Speaker 6: an independent, which one's the more coveted job? Which one
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Speaker 6: has more resources? Which one has more access to players?
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Speaker 6: Which one has a better pipeline in terms of recruiting?
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Speaker 6: Which one has more money to play with in terms
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Speaker 6: of the transfer portal? Oh, by the way, which one
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Speaker 6: has a whole state government behind it because emotion governs
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Speaker 6: college football? This is a fascinating subject. I don't think
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Speaker 6: LSU is going to push this so far that they
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Speaker 6: get ejected from the SEC this week. But I can
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Speaker 6: see why they pushed it right up into the goal line.
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Speaker 4: Well, not just Notre Dame. but BYU did fine as
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Speaker 4: an independent too. And it launched them into getting a
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Speaker 4: big 12 spot.
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Speaker 5: You guys are doing great right now, guys.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: The, I mean, it's been a long time and we
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Speaker 4: obviously think the way we think about the ACC right now,
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Speaker 4: and it's a lot different, but yeah, Florida state did
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Speaker 4: really well as an independent.
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Speaker 1: Now that's a different T that's a different time, right?
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Speaker 4: Like I understand that that was back, but they Florida
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Speaker 4: state would go play anybody anywhere.
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Speaker 1: And you want to know why they have such a
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Speaker 1: big brand now?
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Speaker 4: Cause they went and played in the big house three
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Speaker 4: times and they wouldn't play to Ohio state like four times.
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Speaker 4: They wouldn't play Nebraska up there a ton of times
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Speaker 4: in their heyday. They would play Penn state. They'd play
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Speaker 4: all the sec schools. They go look at Florida state's
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Speaker 4: record against the sec. They've played more sec schools, not
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Speaker 4: just because they play Florida every year than anybody else.
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Speaker 4: Cause Bobby was like, yeah, we'll play anybody put us
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Speaker 4: on TV. Let's go, let's go play. And that's why
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Speaker 4: they are a national brand now. And so, yeah, I
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Speaker 4: LSU could certainly do it. I don't know. I think, yeah,
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Speaker 4: that's where I think it's two conversations is I don't
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Speaker 4: think the, if the SEC, if, if LSU went to
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Speaker 4: him and said, Hey, we're, we're leaving. I think the
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Speaker 4: SEC would say, fine, we'll be fine without you. And
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Speaker 4: I think LSU would be fine on their end too.
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Speaker 5: Like both parties would be fine. Yeah.
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Speaker 4: I don't think it's like, Oh man, LSU would wander
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Speaker 4: in the desert of independence for, 30 years trying to
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Speaker 4: crawl their way back.
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Speaker 1: No, I think they'd both be fine. I think they'd say, yeah,
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Speaker 1: we will keep being the SEC.
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Speaker 3: Let me ask you guys, percentage-wise of LSU fans that
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Speaker 3: would welcome the chance to be independent.
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Speaker 2: What do you think it's at?
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Speaker 1: Say that again?
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Speaker 3: What do you think the percentage-wise of LSU fans who
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Speaker 3: hear that they are now being forced to bend the
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Speaker 3: knee to the mighty Greg Sankey and the SEC, and
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Speaker 3: they hear that there's an option about being independent, how
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Speaker 3: many of them do you think would actually agree with
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Speaker 3: that sentiment?
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Speaker 5: Probably 50-50.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I was going to say a little less than
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Speaker 4: half because a lot of your traditionalists won't want to.
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Speaker 2: I go 70-30 in favor of it.
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Speaker 5: In favor?
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Speaker 2: I do.
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Speaker 4: I think, here's where I'll push back on that. I'm
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Speaker 4: good disagreeing. I think that we, because of what we
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Speaker 4: do and where we live, the space that we're in
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Speaker 4: is very social media heavy. I'd say it's 70-30 on
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Speaker 4: social media, active, crazy people like this.
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Speaker 1: I think your old school.
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Speaker 4: traditionalist conservative boosters, it's probably the opposite.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: The comparison I'll make is everybody for the last year
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Speaker 4: on social media has been firing Mike Norvell. And then
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Speaker 4: all the old rich people in Tallahassee were still going
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Speaker 4: to games at the end of the year last year.
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Speaker 5: After losing it.
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Speaker 4: So that's where I think the split is. I think
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Speaker 4: your younger, that's just me guessing. I'm not going to
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Speaker 4: pretend that I have a complete reading on the Baton.
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Speaker 1: Rouge fan base.
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Speaker 4: I think your younger people, your younger inundated folks would
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Speaker 4: be like, F them, let's go. And your older conservative
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Speaker 4: booster type, you know, they probably would be like, guys,
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Speaker 4: we're a founding member. My grandfather was in this car,
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Speaker 4: you know, like they like the history and stuff. So
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Speaker 4: that's where I think the split would be.
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Speaker 3: The thing that I would say that you fight back
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Speaker 3: on is Notre Dame, with their revenue and what they
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Speaker 3: bring on in per year in annual distribution, would be
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Speaker 3: still significantly higher than LSU. I've heard some LSU fans
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Speaker 3: come out of their way and say, oh, well, we
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Speaker 3: think that we can hold our own and make just
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Speaker 3: as much money as Notre Dame.
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Speaker 2: I don't think that whatsoever. I can't see that scenario.
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Speaker 2: But I do think that you would be.
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Speaker 3: Able to function as an independent program.
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Speaker 2: I think you'd be able to make a schedule.
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Speaker 3: I think more specifically, because if you wouldn't have to
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Speaker 3: worry about the rulings that come from the outside of
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Speaker 3: what needs to happen with 5-5 and TROs and whatnot.
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Speaker 2: you would be able to govern.
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Speaker 3: Yourself to where you could allow these players to join
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Speaker 3: your team, and maybe teams won't schedule you, and that's
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Speaker 3: on their business, but you could make it work for yourself.
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Speaker 2: I just don't think.
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Speaker 3: I think the LSU would make more money staying in
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Speaker 3: the SEC, but they wouldn't be barren at the bottom
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Speaker 3: of the cupboard begging for change on the side of
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Speaker 3: the street for matchups, because.
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Speaker 2: If it's still LSU.
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Speaker 3: Their entire environment is completely different than anywhere else in
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Speaker 3: the sport. I've told you guys this multiple times. I've
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Speaker 3: said it here multiple times. I think the greatest job
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Speaker 3: when run properly in the country in college football is LSU.
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Speaker 2: Because it's just different down there.
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Speaker 3: We make fun of them because of, oh, they're just
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Speaker 3: all about the boondocks and living in the woods.
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Speaker 2: It's like, guys, you don't understand.
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Speaker 3: Baton Rouge is not a real place, but it is
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Speaker 3: to those people and they embrace it. The people of
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Speaker 3: Louisiana are not real people, but they are real people
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Speaker 3: to their environment. They would be able to thrive on
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Speaker 3: their own. It just wouldn't be at the same level
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Speaker 3: of what we witnessed. And I think that you brought
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Speaker 3: up a good point with BYU. BYU is profiting now
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Speaker 3: more in.
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Speaker 2: The Big 12. It didn't mean that they weren't profiting
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Speaker 2: though as an independent.
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Speaker 1: Correct.
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Speaker 4: And you think about with LSU, the one thing I
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Speaker 4: would say is I think that, to Cole's point, they
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Speaker 4: would be able to govern themselves. And then you brought
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Speaker 4: up the counterpoint to that. You look at Notre Dame.
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Speaker 4: Notre Dame doesn't go rogue the way that I think
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Speaker 4: LSU fans would want the folks in Baton Rouge to
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Speaker 4: go rogue. where it's like, hey, we're just going to
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Speaker 4: play whoever we want. These will be our rules, and
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Speaker 4: a judge will rule in our favor. Because then I
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Speaker 4: do think you get into a scheduling problem. Shoot, you
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Speaker 4: almost had Texas Tech running. You had people canceling Texas
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Speaker 4: Tech series in softball because of what they were doing.
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Speaker 4: So I do think LSU would need to be careful
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Speaker 4: with that. There's always an aspect of like, yeah, you
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Speaker 4: might be the biggest bully on the playground, but And
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Speaker 4: if you go so rogue that people just won't play
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Speaker 4: with you, then yeah, I mean, it's going to be
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Speaker 4: tough to, I mean, you're going to have 12 by games,
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Speaker 4: you know, like where you just played 12.
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Speaker 1: No, but like people will stop playing if they left
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Speaker 1: the sec. Okay. Here's a question.
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Speaker 4: If they left the sec, say it was for next year.
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Speaker 4: does Greg Sankey let any SEC program schedule them next year?
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Speaker 4: Or does he put a rule in that says you're
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Speaker 4: not scheduling them? And would any of the presidents, even
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Speaker 4: if there wasn't a rule, would any of the presidents
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Speaker 4: do it after voting them out?
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 5: It's a great point.
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Speaker 6: The second that you are one of those schools that
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Speaker 6: votes for LSU to be ejected from the SEC, that's
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Speaker 6: a whole thing. I think from a macro standpoint, LSU
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Speaker 6: should stay in the SEC, despite the things I was
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Speaker 6: just outlining. If I'm Lane Kiffin, I'm also like, hey,
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Speaker 6: I wanted to push the boundary, push the envelope, but
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Speaker 6: I didn't want to deal with all this. If you're
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Speaker 6: talking about taking a job the caliber of LSU, Lane
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Speaker 6: Kiffin's like, yeah, I want to go coach there. And
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Speaker 6: then if a couple months later they're like, hey, would
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Speaker 6: you like to lead an upheaval that will lead us
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Speaker 6: out of the SEC? Lane is probably like, no, I
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Speaker 6: just wanted to coach at this school ultimately. And then
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Speaker 6: long term, the name of this show is The Power 2,
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Speaker 6: the Big Ten and the SEC. We know at some
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Speaker 6: point in the future, The NCAA is going to get
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Speaker 6: pushed out, and it's going to be the SEC and
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Speaker 6: the Big Ten dictating terms within the greater world of
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Speaker 6: college football, either together or against each other. You want
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Speaker 6: to be in one of those two houses. So Notre
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Speaker 6: Dame might be on the outside looking in five, ten
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Speaker 6: years down the road. I don't think that's going to
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Speaker 6: be the case. LSU would be wise to stay within
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Speaker 6: the SEC. And as I said, if they want to
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Speaker 6: leave in X amount of years, whenever they're able to
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Speaker 6: on their own accord, Well, great. Then you set up
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Speaker 6: a nice runway for yourself from a business standpoint. That
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Speaker 6: makes way more sense than making an emotional decision on
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Speaker 6: September 9th.
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Speaker 3: I just, when you said that Lane doesn't want to
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Speaker 3: lead an upheaval of departing the SEC, I fight back
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Speaker 3: because of Lane.
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Speaker 2: I just, I don't know if he wants to do that,
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Speaker 2: but Lane's not afraid to talk Matt smack.
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Speaker 3: Lane, at a halftime, DeHolly Rowe said, imagine if we
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Speaker 3: had NFL players, and in the bylaws that was sent
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Speaker 3: in by the lawsuit, they threw that line in.
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Speaker 2: They're like, Lane, shut up with this stuff. Like, it's
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Speaker 2: getting annoying.
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Speaker 5: At this point.
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Speaker 6: But, Cole, he's not afraid to talk smack, but we've
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Speaker 6: seen a number of times now in this process that
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Speaker 6: when the rubber meets the road, so to speak, when
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Speaker 6: it comes to a.
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Speaker 5: Point where the SEC is like, hey, knock it off,
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Speaker 5: he knocks it off.
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Speaker 2: He's going to have to at this point.
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Speaker 5: He took this job, what, nine months ago? Ten months ago?
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Speaker 6: For them to be like, hey, we think so much
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Speaker 6: of ourselves after murdering Clemson. We think we're going to
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Speaker 6: leave the SEC. Lane, are you cool with that? Maybe
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Speaker 6: Lane is the adult in the room, and we have
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Speaker 6: no idea.
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Speaker 2: Can you imagine if he's there?
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Speaker 6: You have senators talking about LSU saying, oh, well, what
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Speaker 6: we do is we go to court.
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Speaker 5: That's what we do in this country. It's like, this
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Speaker 5: is insane.
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Speaker 3: Well, my favorite part is that Jeff Lange goes from,
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Speaker 3: we will see you in court, Greg Sankey, to Monday morning.
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Speaker 2: Can we just play football? Really? Can we just play football?
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Speaker 3: We could have played football until you guys made this
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Speaker 3: a giant. I apologize for the language.
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Speaker 2: I don't really care. A giant shit show at this point.
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Speaker 3: That being said, I'm not going to put all the
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Speaker 3: blame on LSU because the main villain in all of this,
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Speaker 3: which has been the main villain from the very get-go
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Speaker 3: in everything that goes wrong in the world of sports,
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Speaker 3: is the NCAA not having.
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Speaker 2: Its act together.
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Speaker 3: This falls back on them as the priority culprit of everything. Now,
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Speaker 3: LSU is not doing itself any favors. But before I
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Speaker 3: point all my fingers down in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, I'm
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Speaker 3: at least pointing to it the headwigs up in the NCAA.
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Speaker 2: Because if you could have solved all this last year,
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Speaker 2: you didn't.
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Speaker 3: You put yourself in this position, and now you're sitting
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Speaker 3: in a world where we are living in a timeline
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Speaker 3: of football games are legit going on.
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Speaker 2: And what? We're still arguing who's going to be playing
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Speaker 2: this year.