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The Next Round: College Football Week Zero Reactions: LSU-Clemson, Memphis, Belichick & Aaron Donald Returns | Hour 1 · The Next Round

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  Speaker 1: And as always, the next round presented by Hard Rock
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  Speaker 1: Bets here on Sporting State. Jim Dunaway, Lance Taylor, Ryan Brown,
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  Speaker 1: all the guys behind the glass. A lot to get
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  Speaker 1: to after we've watched week zero sort of spin our
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  Speaker 1: opinions about certain people and maybe different directions or the
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  Speaker 1: same direction. NFL cut time. A goat is returning to
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  Speaker 1: the NFL. All that coming up in the next two
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  Speaker 1: hours of the show. Week zero was fun, man. It
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  Speaker 1: was fun. I enjoyed it. The best game of the
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  Speaker 1: day to me was Memphis-UNLV.
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  Speaker 2: It was. I had to wait until late for that one,
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  Speaker 2: but that was a fun game. I agree.
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  Speaker 1: It was really good.
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  Speaker 2: I thought Stanford-Hawaii, it was definitely rollercoaster.
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  Speaker 3: It was really boring at first, and then Stanford looked
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  Speaker 3: like they were going to dominate in the third quarter,
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  Speaker 3: and then Hawaii comes storming back, and it was the
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  Speaker 3: bad beat of the weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Unfortunately, I had the Rainbow Warriors plus the four. It
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  Speaker 2: was a really good Saturday, but that would have capped
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  Speaker 2: off a perfect Saturday for us.
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  Speaker 1: And Virginia and NC State, Virginia looked good. So we've
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  Speaker 1: got a lot to get to from this week zero
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  Speaker 1: as we look ahead to week one as well. Our
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  Speaker 1: upset alert, if you're new to our show, we do
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  Speaker 1: those on Tuesday. We'll do it tomorrow as we always do.
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  Speaker 1: We have a little art event. With that as well,
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  Speaker 1: we draw some logos out. We make picks, have a
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  Speaker 1: competition all year long. It's a lot of fun, and
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  Speaker 1: we do that on Tuesdays. But we'll talk about Monday
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  Speaker 1: is always a super reaction day here on the show,
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  Speaker 1: as it is on every platform. And I guess the
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  Speaker 1: big reaction to Memphis UNLV was these were two group
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  Speaker 1: of six playoff contenders, right? The winner of this was
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  Speaker 1: going to have an inside track, possibly to be a
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  Speaker 1: group of six teams. It was a great game. Memphis
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  Speaker 1: wins it in the end. But my takeaway was, man,
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  Speaker 1: this Charles Huff guy can coach.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I thought there was two takeaways. Charles Huff definitely
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  Speaker 2: can coach.
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  Speaker 3: We didn't know how all this could come together with
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  Speaker 3: 60 new players on this Memphis roster. But, man, their
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  Speaker 3: ability to attack and get after the quarterback, six sacks
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  Speaker 3: for Memphis. On the other side, outside of the fact
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  Speaker 3: that Charles Huff can obviously coach going from Marshall to
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  Speaker 3: Southern Miss to now Memphis, Auburn is the place quarterbacks
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  Speaker 3: go to die. Malik Willis is going to be your
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  Speaker 3: starting quarterback for the Miami Dolphins. Did nothing at Auburn.
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  Speaker 3: Jared Stidham started an AFC championship game last year. Really
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  Speaker 3: didn't do much at Auburn. Bo Nix has to transfer
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  Speaker 3: out to make a name for himself. And then you
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  Speaker 3: look at Jackson Arnold. I thought Jackson Arnold played really,
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  Speaker 3: really good.
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  Speaker 2: This is why all offseason, I don't get much right,
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  Speaker 2: but I said it'll be a breakout year for him,
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  Speaker 2: and we'll see. This is one game. Not going to
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  Speaker 2: call it a breakout year yet, but Dan Mullen gets
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  Speaker 2: the most out of quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 3: He can get a lot out of quarterbacks. But that's
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  Speaker 3: one of the most difficult defenses he will see. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: Memphis was in his face all night. His ability to
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  Speaker 3: run the football, I thought he has progressed as a passer.
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  Speaker 2: Six sacks.
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  Speaker 1: Memphis had six sacks, so that's why they win the game.
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  Speaker 1: But I agree with you. Arnold looked a lot better,
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  Speaker 1: really emphasizing using his legs a lot more. That one,
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  Speaker 1: he broke into the— Off the right tackle.
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  Speaker 2: No, I thought he was taking it to the house.
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  Speaker 1: I did, too. I guess he just started running out
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  Speaker 1: of gas.
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  Speaker 2: It did look like it.
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  Speaker 1: It looked like he was doing those speed tests they
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  Speaker 1: used to do at the Salt Flats out near Las Vegas.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: It looked like he was doing one of those speed
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  Speaker 1: tests out there trying to break the world record.
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  Speaker 2: He was zooming. He got run down, but he was zooming. Well,
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  Speaker 2: I didn't see any of that at all.
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  Speaker 3: No, and you know, I mean, first of all, Dan Mullen,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he just can't get out of his way
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  Speaker 3: on being hokey.
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  Speaker 2: Coming out with Elvis... So college football.
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  Speaker 1: But if they if they go out and they win
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  Speaker 1: the game, 35 to 17, everybody would have loved it.
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  Speaker 2: Bring Elvis back. Still OK. I mean, something he doesn't
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  Speaker 2: need to do. But back to Las Vegas.
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  Speaker 1: Man, you're putting on a show. I mean, there's a
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  Speaker 1: good chance that. They could have come out with– what
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  Speaker 1: are those girls called? Oh, the Flamingo Girls? I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what they're called.
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  Speaker 2: That would have been hokey, too.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it would have been.
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  Speaker 2: Why not just roll your team out? So you didn't
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  Speaker 2: have a problem with Elvis?
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  Speaker 1: No, I didn't have a problem with Elvis running out there.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we've got stuffed animals at most places. I
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  Speaker 1: thought it was completely ridiculous, hokey. But, look, this is
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  Speaker 1: Dan Mullen for you.
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  Speaker 2: Look at that. That's awesome. I mean, that's– I love it.
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  Speaker 1: It's freaking Vegas, man. If he was dressed like Elvis,
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  Speaker 1: that would have been hokey. But he's running out with Elvis.
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  Speaker 1: That's what Vegas is known for.
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  Speaker 3: Jaden Thomas, one of the best group six running backs
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  Speaker 3: last year, held the 44 yards. I mean, this is
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  Speaker 3: Memphis defense. You know, they still give up 21 points
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  Speaker 3: because I thought Jackson Arnold was that good. And look,
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  Speaker 3: Forrester looks like He's brilliant right now, his group six
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  Speaker 3: rep being Charles Huff in Memphis.
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  Speaker 2: They've got a brutal schedule.
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  Speaker 1: They do. They eventually will get Boise State here in
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  Speaker 1: a second. But Charles Huff, they knew the setting, right?
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  Speaker 1: They knew that this was a primetime, main Fox, 9 o'clock,
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  Speaker 1: everybody in the country watching it moment for Memphis against UNLV.
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  Speaker 1: In what felt like a playoff atmosphere, Charles Huff said, man,
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  Speaker 1: we made a statement.
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  Speaker 4: This was a national statement, not just about the score,
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  Speaker 4: not just about the game, but that the Memphis Tiger
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  Speaker 4: community is serious about this program and the direction this
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  Speaker 4: program is going. And we've got a lot of work
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  Speaker 4: to do. I'm not saying that this is the end
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  Speaker 4: of the year. I said it before this game that
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  Speaker 4: it's just one game. But the momentum it created, the
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  Speaker 4: statement that it's making, It's huge. For all of those
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  Speaker 4: people back in Memphis without electric, I hope you smile
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  Speaker 4: a little brighter tomorrow because of what the Tigers were
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  Speaker 4: able to do. To all of the I'm going to
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  Speaker 4: wait and see before I buy my tickets to next week,
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  Speaker 4: the lines will be open tonight. You can buy your
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  Speaker 4: ticket tonight. We should sell this stadium out next week,
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  Speaker 4: not because of the win tonight, but because of who
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  Speaker 4: we are.
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  Speaker 2: We're Memphis.
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  Speaker 4: 901, Grind City, Amen, Semen. Everything about our community that
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  Speaker 4: everyone tries to tear down, we're not. And selling the
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  Speaker 4: stadium out next week, we'll make another national statement.
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  Speaker 2: He's lived there eight months. He talks like he was
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  Speaker 2: born and raised in Memphis. He's lived there eight months.
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  Speaker 3: I told you this, I guess it was when you
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  Speaker 3: were out two weeks ago, that I'm getting ready to
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  Speaker 3: draw a Red Wolf. I feel better about tomorrow. Might
• 6:27
  Speaker 3: be Arkansas State coming out. This is the ultimate early
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  Speaker 3: season trap game. You go West Coast, now you come back.
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  Speaker 3: You're hosting Arkansas State is right at a 10-point favorite,
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  Speaker 3: and then you've got to go to Boise next week.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody is now pointing at that Boise game saying, Memphis, Boise,
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  Speaker 2: there's your playoff matchup.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so it's Arkansas State this week coming to the
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  Speaker 1: UNLV loses. Dan Mullen ran out with Elvis. Didn't make
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  Speaker 1: LT happy. Dan Mullen got run out of Florida because...
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  Speaker 1: He dressed up as Darth Vader one time in a
• 8:29
  Speaker 1: postgame news conference and really rubbed the fan base the
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  Speaker 1: wrong way sometimes. One loss in year two for Dan Mullen,
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  Speaker 1: and this is his postgame commentary to his UNLV fans.
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  Speaker 5: I want to thank all our fans. It was a
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  Speaker 5: great turnout, great atmosphere for game one. I do thank
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  Speaker 5: all the UNLV fans, all the people of Las Vegas.
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  Speaker 5: One tip if they could help me in the future.
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  Speaker 5: We do the wave when we're on defense and we
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  Speaker 5: get really excited when we're on defense and we're a
• 9:00
  Speaker 5: little bit quieter when we're on offense. That would be
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  Speaker 5: one big plus, our game operations people and everyone in
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  Speaker 5: the stadium.
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  Speaker 2: Just that heads up. Well, I mean, he hasn't changed.
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  Speaker 2: I can coach, but boy, he's unlikable. I mean, really,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I'd say he can coach, but he's unlikable. Yeah,
• 9:15
  Speaker 2: that was so I don't want to say it's my fault.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm not going to say it's my fault, even
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  Speaker 2: though I'm the head coach. They did the wave at
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  Speaker 2: the wrong time. I mean, come freaking on. How many
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  Speaker 2: people were at the game? They showed the wide shot
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  Speaker 2: and the lower bowl was the only thing there. What
• 9:31
  Speaker 2: were there, 30,000 people? Yeah, again, if.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't bother me that he had Elvis out there,
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  Speaker 3: I just thought it was hokey. If I'm a UNLV fan,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know how many of those exist. that it
• 9:41
  Speaker 3: does bother me that he says things like that. They're like,
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  Speaker 3: why don't you focus on the offensive line getting better
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  Speaker 3: and protecting your quarterback and not focus on how we're
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  Speaker 3: doing the way.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Guy's completely unlikable. Now he's a good coach and he'll
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  Speaker 2: win at UNLV and he's going to get the most
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  Speaker 2: out of Jackson Arnold. Uh, but that was to me,
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  Speaker 2: a really bad look in a post game where you
• 10:01
  Speaker 2: just lost a big home game that was a big home.
• 10:03
  Speaker 3: Game especially now they go to the island to take
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  Speaker 3: on Hawaii and I don't know what to make Hawaii
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  Speaker 3: after watching them against Stanford but UNLV is only a
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  Speaker 3: two and a half point favorite and UNLV goes 0-2
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  Speaker 3: that would.
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  Speaker 2: Be bad yeah no way even Hawaii Only in the ocean.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I've got UNLV a three-point favorite right now at
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  Speaker 1: Hard Rock Benton Center. We'll adjust that as we move
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  Speaker 1: throughout the week. I'll move now to Virginia, and I'll
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  Speaker 1: ask the question, did Virginia impress you more than Memphis did?
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  Speaker 1: Virginia playing NC State, and my first impression of this
• 10:36
  Speaker 1: game was... Boy, we talked C.J. Bailey up a lot
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  Speaker 1: during the summer, and he did not look like he
• 10:42
  Speaker 1: was ready for action.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Virginia would beat Memphis by 14-plus.
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  Speaker 5: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Virginia up front, they are dominant right now. Look, and
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  Speaker 3: it might just be ACC.
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  Speaker 2: C.J. Bailey, he couldn't look any worse. I mean, his
• 10:54
  Speaker 2: worst QBR ever. Everybody told me all summer this guy
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  Speaker 2: was a guy to watch, and boy, he could not
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  Speaker 2: have been worse. And he was really good. It was horrible.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Bo Pribula, uh, you know, I, I know people.
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  Speaker 2: Were doubting this guy. Um, I've been a big.
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  Speaker 3: Fan of this Virginia team and you'll see how big
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  Speaker 3: of a fan at some point this week, but I
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  Speaker 3: had them 21 in our poll.
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  Speaker 2: I thought that might be too low based on schedule.
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  Speaker 2: I thought this was one of those games.
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  Speaker 3: Whoever won would, uh, ultimately maybe be that second team
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  Speaker 3: in the ACC championship game. I ended up playing Virginia
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  Speaker 3: minus the four, four and a half.
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  Speaker 2: Um, But, boy, they were dominant. Dominant.
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  Speaker 1: 168 yards is all NC State had with C.J. Bailey, which,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, people were talking about him with the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: All summer, man. That's all I heard was how good
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  Speaker 2: that guy was going to be.
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  Speaker 1: Not really when he was deciding to run. He didn't
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  Speaker 1: really seem to be hesitant to run. Didn't throw the
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  Speaker 1: ball that great. The protection wasn't fantastic. NC State, Dave
• 11:51
  Speaker 1: Doran looked like he got outcoached by Tony Elliott. Here's
• 11:53
  Speaker 1: Tony Elliott after Virginia's big win. Hey, they won 11
• 11:57
  Speaker 1: last year, and LT said it all summer long. Watch
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  Speaker 1: out for this Virginia team. They're not going anywhere.
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  Speaker 6: I think we just took advantage of the opportunity. It's
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  Speaker 6: what we've been asking for. It's what we've been working for,
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  Speaker 6: an opportunity to show that Virginia can be a destination.
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  Speaker 6: I think the staff came here. You know, people ask
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  Speaker 6: me a lot in my journey and, you know, I
• 12:21
  Speaker 6: didn't come to Virginia to go somewhere else. I came
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  Speaker 6: to Virginia to build Virginia into a destination for our fans. Man,
• 12:29
  Speaker 6: I want folks to, man, hey, we can't wait until
• 12:32
  Speaker 6: Saturdays in the fall to come tailgate, you know, on
• 12:35
  Speaker 6: grounds before a game in Scott Stadium. And I want
• 12:39
  Speaker 6: Scott Stadium to be the place where everybody wants to
• 12:41
  Speaker 6: go watch a game. I want the University of Virginia
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  Speaker 6: football to to be the destination for guys locally right
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  Speaker 6: here in state, but then also guys nationally. So we
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  Speaker 6: just capitalized on an opportunity.
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  Speaker 2: We still got work to, uh, work to do.
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  Speaker 6: Uh, we know that we got to continue to put
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  Speaker 6: a good product on the field, but I think we
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  Speaker 6: kind of showed what the potential, uh, is here at, uh,
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  Speaker 6: at UVA.
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  Speaker 1: And that game was supposed to be in Brazil and
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  Speaker 1: it was sold out and it was a great atmosphere.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it was, it was their first sellout, I think
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  Speaker 2: since 2006. I would not believe that. How can you
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  Speaker 2: not sell out that small stadium in that amount of time? Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Um, This is why you– it's a delicate balance because
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  Speaker 3: everybody talks about Cignetti, and in year one they were
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  Speaker 3: able to win 11 games at Indiana. But this is
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  Speaker 3: why you're patient at certain programs because his first three
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  Speaker 3: years he won a combined 11 games. In year four
• 13:27
  Speaker 3: he wins 11 games. He's got 28 grad students on
• 13:31
  Speaker 3: that roster. When you look at the offensive line, there
• 13:33
  Speaker 3: were two guys that are seventh-year guys on that offensive line.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but you're one of these people now. You're always
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  Speaker 1: throwing Cignetti up at me. Man, he's in his second year.
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  Speaker 1: He's in his third year. But then here's Tony Elliott.
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  Speaker 1: By your standards and truthfully, even by mine, we fired
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  Speaker 1: this guy two years ago.
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  Speaker 2: Look, and that's what I'm saying. Like, it's it's delicate.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know how you work it
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  Speaker 2: because I don't know how you figure which one is which. Like,
• 13:57
  Speaker 2: can Virginia be Indiana? I mean, I don't know. I
• 14:00
  Speaker 2: know what you're saying that way. Like. In one sense,
• 14:04
  Speaker 2: Kurt Cignetti resets the way we ought to treat first-year, second-year,
• 14:07
  Speaker 2: third-year coaches. One segment we're saying, man, Cignetti did it
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  Speaker 2: in two years. In one sense, I'm with Lance, you've
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  Speaker 2: got to sometimes realize you're Virginia, but you know what?
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  Speaker 2: Indiana didn't realize that they were Indiana. You know, Indiana
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  Speaker 2: was worse than Virginia as a program.
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  Speaker 3: Now, I will say, you know, programs like USC right now,
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  Speaker 3: and I know we'll get to them in a little bit,
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  Speaker 3: they should be like Indiana. Like, you can automatically be
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  Speaker 3: good year one. We'll see what LSU and Lane Kiffin
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  Speaker 3: is able to do this year. I think certain places
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  Speaker 3: like Virginia that still talk about academics, you probably have
• 14:35
  Speaker 3: to be a little bit more patient, and he's probably making–
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  Speaker 3: a fraction of what some of these other guys are
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  Speaker 3: making as.
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  Speaker 2: Far as a power forward. You can find 11 wins
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  Speaker 2: on that schedule pretty easily. Oh, they're winning 10 games. Yeah.
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: I mean, that is, that's probably a double digit win team.
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  Speaker 2: You saw Saturday there. Well, and Bo Pribula quarterback, um,
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: the best he's looked. Oh, he was fantastic. He was fantastic. Like,
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  Speaker 2: I want to say it was after the first quarter,
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  Speaker 2: his average per attempt was like 21.6. I mean, it
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  Speaker 2: was a ridiculous number. Like, he had everything. He just
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  Speaker 2: had all the completions in the first half, everything he wanted.
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  Speaker 2: It scares me.
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  Speaker 3: Is he going to consistently be– I mean, he's 9
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  Speaker 3: of 11, but he only attempted 11. I mean, they
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: were able to run the full ball at will, 258 yards.
• 15:17
  Speaker 2: Over 4.5 per carry.
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: I just wonder if he is going to be able
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: to throw it consistently consistently Because there's no way he's
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: going to be able to go out there and run
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: it 15 times. He runs it 15 times a game.
• 15:28
  Speaker 3: He's not going to make it 12 games.
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: Virginia wins it 34-8 over NC State. And Pribula with
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: 110 rushing yards, 155 passing, and a couple of touchdowns there.
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: And those were the two biggest games. More college football
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: coming up in our next segment here on Sport and
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: State with the folks here at the next round brought
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• 15:49
  Speaker 1: did want to get to some NFL news in our
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: opening segment here. rarely do you get to add a
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: guy considered to be one of the greatest of all
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: times to your roster this late in the offseason. But
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: Aaron Donald is coming back one year, $ 20 million deal
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: with the Rams. And he's expected to give it a
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: go in the opening game, right? Down in Australia, is
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: he going to play in that one?
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: Sean McVay is kind of yellow light on that, I assume, though.
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: I mean, he's been working out. I don't know why
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: he wouldn't play at least a handful of snaps. And
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: This is just a luxury addition for the L.A.
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: Rams.
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: I mean, you look at the team last year, a
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: lot of people believed, although they didn't win a Super Bowl,
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: it was the best.
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: Team in football.
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: You go out, you get Miles Garrett, you get Trent McDuffie,
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: you get Jalen Watson, and now Aaron Donald after a
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: two-year layoff comes back. I saw odds to win defensive
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: player of the year 33-1, exactly what Jared versus Derrick
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: Stingley Jr. So there's still a ton of respect. Vegas
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: has his over-under on sacks at 7.5. He should be
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: a factor this year. Is he going to be as
• 16:53
  Speaker 3: good as he was two years ago? Probably not, but
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: if he's 90% of that, he's better than 90% of
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: the defensive linemen in the NFL right now.
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: Here's Aaron Donald on the decision to come out of
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: retirement and rejoin the Rams.
• 17:05
  Speaker 7: Just having conversations with Sean, obviously, seeing what was being
• 17:10
  Speaker 7: done with this team, pieces that was getting brought here. Okay,
• 17:15
  Speaker 7: it's a complete team, and then you see all the
• 17:17
  Speaker 7: moves they make, and it's like, okay, that's I wish
• 17:21
  Speaker 7: I was still out there playing right about now. You
• 17:23
  Speaker 7: have conversations and then kind of start bringing it to fruition.
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 17:28
  Speaker 7: And, you know, starting to put myself in a position
• 17:30
  Speaker 7: to train and get my body to a certain point
• 17:32
  Speaker 7: where I felt good and see how I move and
• 17:35
  Speaker 7: see if I still can, you know, do certain things
• 17:37
  Speaker 7: and felt pretty good, man. And, you know, through my
• 17:41
  Speaker 7: training for about 13, 14 weeks is just nonstop grinding
• 17:44
  Speaker 7: and get to where we at right now.
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: So, you know, Aaron back playing football, I guess, right?
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: I always love the third person. Aaron's back playing football now.
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: I mean, this is exciting. I'll let you make fun
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: of him.
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: The one thing you don't want is him to come
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: out and be a shell of himself and kind of
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: hurt the legacy. I don't think that's going to happen.
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: The guy's in incredible physical shape. Three-time Defensive Player of
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: the Year, now paired with the reigning Defensive Player of
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: the Year in Miles Garrett. And I heard our buddy
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: Dan Orlovsky talking about It really is nine defenders out
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: there now because two defenders are going to be held
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: up by these guys as far as like double teams.
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: And he's like, it's 11 on nine. And he's like,
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: it's not even fair. Now, can they stay healthy? Like
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: if the Rams stay healthy, they're going to be really,
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: really difficult to beat.
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: I saw, I think it was Orlovsky had the defensive
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: front and just by name, Miles Garrett, Aaron Donald, you know,
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: your defensive front. And all he said was good luck
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: on third down. Yeah. Seriously, though. Good luck on Thursday.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: When they know you're throwing.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: When they know you're throwing. Lots of luck on that one.
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: But Mike Greenberg's got a little done away in him
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: as far as like landmines. And he was today, he
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: was like, I cannot believe the Rams are only a
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: three and a half point favorite against San Francisco.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: How are they only a three and a half point
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: favorite against San Francisco? I can't either.
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: I mean, what's their win total? 16 and a half?
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: I did see.
• 19:01
  Speaker 3: Taylor Luan from Bustin' with the Boys. tweeted out that
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: the Rams could go undefeated this year.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: I mean, come on. Let's settle down.
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: Our buddy Alexander Shannara sent out going to give the
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: Rams a Lombardi.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: I mean, this is things you hate. You know how
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: this normally goes. You know how it normally goes when
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: people do this.
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: Now, they have dropped to plus 550 to plus, you know,
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: just 5-1 now to win a Super Bowl, which is
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: a really, really low, short preseason season.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: Super Bowl number.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: A couple of notes from cut day. Trey Lance is
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: backup quarterback for the Chargers. He wins that job over
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: DJ Uyunglele. Odell Beckham Jr., he's on the Giants roster.
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: They cut Jalen Hyatt, but they keep Odell Beckham Jr.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: Odell was really good in the preseason, though.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: Almost like it's 2016 again. Former Chiefs Super Bowl winners,
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: I believe both of them, Hardman and Valcaz Scantley, both
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: got cut from Buffalo and Dallas. So those two guys
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: are gone. Cleveland cut Cedric Tillman. That surprised me.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: A little bit. You know, a lot of those names
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: you mentioned right there are wide receivers, and it just
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: shows you how quick the game disappears from your wide receiver.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: You miss half a step, and you're kind of like,
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: Meikle Hardman was an important part of those Chiefs Super
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: Bowl runs. Jalen Hyatt has not been out of Tennessee
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: too terribly long. I mean, boy, you lose in a
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: hurry at receiver in the NFL.
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: Well, and Cedric Tillman was kind of... I mean, it
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: was on the fence when you go back to May
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: and Cleveland, their first two selections in the draft, Casey Concepcion.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: And Denzel Boston. I mean, they went wide receiver, first
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: two picks.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: Bad day for former Alabama lineman Jedrick Wills gets cut
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: by Chicago. Evan Neal released by the New York Giants.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: Number seven pick at one point, I think.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: I thought he'd play forever. I think Wills was a
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: top ten pick. Trayvon Diggs cut by Seattle. And on
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: the commissioner's exempt list, Three players, two of which with
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: Alabama ties, Terion Arnold with his legal troubles, and Josh Jacobs,
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: the running back. He has two misdemeanors now, but those
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: were at one point felony charges that now are two
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: misdemeanor charges as he continues a legal battle. But both
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: getting paychecks, but they're not able to practice or participate
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: on the commissioner exempt list. That's your NFL news when
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: we come back. Speaking of the NFL, Bill Belichick looked
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: like he was in over his head in the college game.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: That may have changed over the weekend. I thought North
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: Carolina looked good. We'll also give you thoughts on Florida State,
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: a future Alabama opponent. What's Mike Norvell's future there? And
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: welcome to North Dakota State. I thought that was a
• 21:44
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• 21:50
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• 21:53
  Speaker 1: State as we roll on. First college team ever to
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: appear on the sphere out in Las Vegas is the
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: Ole Miss Rebels. After being in Times Square last week,
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: they continue their Heisman push. Out on the Sphere, there's
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: that great Ole Miss helmet in Vegas. And then they
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: celebrate Trinidad Chambliss and Kiwan Lacy, their quarterback and running
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: backs who return there. All that on the beautiful Sphere
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: in Vegas. You like this?
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: I do, but it shows you those agents held Ole
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: Miss over the barrel when Lane Kiffin left.
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: You guys tell me how much tickets are at the
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: Sphere because we're going out the weekend before Halloween because
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: the Rams are playing the Raiders.
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: On the 25th. So I'm going out that weekend.
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: And I was just looking at concerts and Metallica's playing
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: the sphere one night that weekend.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: There's no telling for that. The average ticket, the average
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: get in is thirty five hundred dollars. Is it like
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: that for most of the shows?
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: The Eagles were doing a residency there.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: So that is going to be a lot cheaper because
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: I think Metallica's got six total dates.
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: That's right.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: So the Eagles, who will pass their prime and they
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: don't even talk to each other on the stage. They
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: get along so well.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: So there's no storytelling?
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: Oh, no.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: $ 600 a ticket, and we were probably.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: midway of the very upper deck.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: Damn, I bet the Wizard of Oz was $ 150, $ 200.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: Jennifer bought those tickets. I'll find out from her.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: Well, I think Face was about $ 150 for those.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's pretty awesome, though. There's no telling what it
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: costs to get on the outside of the sphere. That's
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: to get inside it.
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: I don't know what Ole Miss paid to get on
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: the outside of it. Are they showing any games there, though?
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: You know, if they did some marquee games, they probably
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: could make money showing them there.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe, maybe. Remember, they were going to show the
• 23:38
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• 23:41
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  Speaker 1: Listen, the only ranked team that played in Week 0
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: was USC. They are a playoff contender. They're on more
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: of a majority of playoff brackets than they're not. Most
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: people have them, you know, at least 51% or more, majority,
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: have USC making the playoffs. The thing that the social
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: media folks couldn't get past was the lack of fans
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: in the stands at the L.A. Coliseum for this basically
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: noon local kickoff in August. against San Jose State. This
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: is at the kickoff.
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, embarrassing.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: That's the crowd that's there at the Coliseum. Now, that's
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: from the press box side where there are more fans
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: on the press box side than the other side, but still,
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: that's a shaky crowd. And you're saying, well, it's at
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: noon against San Jose State. So who's going to really
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: take time in Los Angeles to go do that? Same
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: two teams played at the same exact time back in 2009,
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: and there were 84,325 people in attendance for that USC game.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: It is a different era, though.
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: Once Pete Carroll left, it just started to slowly decline.
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: And now that Lincoln Riley has taken over this program,
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: I think there was excitement in year one where they
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: won 11 games, and you had a Heisman Trophy winner
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: in Caleb Williams.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: But it's fallen off.
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: Look, and I date a girl that is from Los Angeles,
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: and when we were watching the game on Saturday– I
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: was like, man, they have done such a good job
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: renovating the Coliseum. It looks beautiful. But the problem is
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: there's so many empty seats. And she said, do you
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: understand that? There are a million things to do in
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: Southern California, and we really– we like football, but it's
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: not like the end-all, be-all. Like, she is shocked at
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: how immersed we are in football here. She was like,
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: people are on the beach. It's still August. Like, there
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: are a couple of weeks left of summer. Like, people
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: aren't going to a noon game in Los Angeles.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: But I think if there was real excitement for this
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: product and real buy-in, people would have been there.
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but I think– I mean, 2009, same team, same matchup, 84,000.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but now– College football has become increasingly a watch-on-my-couch
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: sport since then, to Lance's point. I don't think this
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: is all a statement on where Lincoln Riley is, but
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: some of it is.
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: I think some of it is, but again, it is
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: a pain in the ass to get anywhere in Los
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: Angeles and to go watch a team that was a
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: 38.5-point favorite. People get there late, they leave early. It
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: wasn't a formula for a big crowd. I was surprised
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: at how light the crowd was. I don't think it's
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: going to get any better this Friday night for Fresno State,
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: maybe a little bit better.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: The other part of this, this should be a, and
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: it won't be because college athletics doesn't pay attention to
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: things like this. It should be a warning to everybody.
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: You can't just anymore roll out the San Jose States
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: of the world and people are going to come watch.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: You can't just play these crappy out-of-conference schedules and just because, oh,
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: we're USC, people are going to come watch. It's going
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: to be a million degrees in Tuscaloosa Saturday. There'll be
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: empty seats at Bryant-Denny Stadium because they're playing East Carolina.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: It's a terrible game. You can't keep playing these games
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: and just expect in this world where there is so
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: much competition for your time that people are just going
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: to roll out and see it no matter what because
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: you're USC.
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: First half, they look like a playoff team. Second half,
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: they look pathetic. Now, they played a lot of twos
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: and threes, especially the threes in the fourth quarter. I
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: didn't really understand that. I don't know how you guys
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: feel about this, but if I'm Gary Patterson and I'm
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: trying to build... what we believe is going to be
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: a dominant defense or a much better defense, I'll let
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: these guys stay in there.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: You're up 28-0 at the half.
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: You're up 35-3 after three quarters, and then you bring
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: in all the threes, and they completely fall apart and
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: give up 23 points in the fourth quarter.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: Well, you've got to build a little depth, first off,
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: but it's a long season. You don't want your ones
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: to get hurt in a meaningless 35-3 part of the game.
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: They're not going to lose the game. Here is Lincoln
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: Riley afterwards. on just what you're talking about, how unhappy
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: he was with the way the team finished and what
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: should have been a dominating day for USC in their
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: 42-26 win over San Jose State.
• 28:55
  Speaker 8: Fourth quarter, not up to our standards.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: Obviously, we played a bunch of different guys.
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: A bunch of guys got.
• 28:59
  Speaker 8: Opportunities, and we had several that did not play the
• 29:04
  Speaker 8: way that we anticipated, and there'll be a lot to
• 29:05
  Speaker 8: learn and grow from it because we're going to need
• 29:08
  Speaker 8: the depth of this roster, and we challenged that in
• 29:10
  Speaker 8: the fourth quarter, and it obviously didn't respond the way
• 29:13
  Speaker 8: we want it. So, you know, games like this, I just,
• 29:16
  Speaker 8: I take it for what it is, right? You don't,
• 29:18
  Speaker 8: you don't, you don't hide behind the fact that the
• 29:20
  Speaker 8: fourth quarter wasn't good enough. And also not going to
• 29:23
  Speaker 8: pretend like that we didn't dominate the game to three
• 29:25
  Speaker 8: quarters and obviously pull a bunch of our starters and
• 29:27
  Speaker 8: all that.
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: So they were missing three starters that should be back
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: Friday night against Fresno State.
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: They played 15 true freshmen.
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: The thing I was excited about seeing is like King
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: Miller and Wayman Jordan knew they'd be able to run
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: the football the year because you started to see flashes
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: of that last year but when you lose guys like
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: Makai limited Jacoby Lane who are going to be starters
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: in the NFL at wide receiver who do you replace
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: them with a ton of freshmen Trent Mosley who's brothers
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: with Emmett Mosley from Texas is going to be an
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: absolute stud. I don't know how much of that game
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: you guys got to watch, but as a true freshman,
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: he had 118 receiving yards.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: He had a 41-yard punt return. He's just very, very shifty.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: I thought USC did what they were supposed to do.
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: The other defensive line did not look good, though.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: The other big takeaway from the weekend was how good
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: Bill Belichick and North Carolina looked coaching-wise. They looked more
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: They looked more like they were taking care of business
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: as a program in this game against TCU in their win.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: I was more impressed with Belichick, and I know Petrino's
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: offense didn't put up a lot of numbers, but they
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: got enough to win a game against TCU, who a
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: lot of people had as a sneaky dark horse team
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: in the Big 12. I know it was 15-10, but
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: I thought that was a big, big plus day for
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: Bill Belichick. When you consider in this same game last year,
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: UNC got ran off the field in their home stadium.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: It does appear that they've gotten better year over year.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: And maybe some of this is Belichick's defense.
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: I'll wait and see. But through week zero, through week zero,
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: I don't know that there's a team in a power
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: conference that's going to have a bigger gap from their
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: quarterback play last year to their quarterback play this year
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: than TCU. Jaden Craig is not very good. He's awful.
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: He's not very good. Look, they did score 10 points
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: in the first quarter. How many did they end with?
• 31:23
  Speaker 9: 10 points.
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: And they did have those two fourth and shorts, and
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: Brown immediately texted me, and I agreed they should have
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: taken the three.
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: And then after the fact, Sonny Dykes is like, we
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: should have taken the three. Yeah, Sonny Dykes did his
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: team no favors. Yeah, you win the game there.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: Bill Belichick, who's pretty good at coaching, won a few
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: NFL games, that first drive, boom, very easily could have
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: gone for it. right he kicks the field goal he
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: takes three points because he knew what kind of game
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: it was going to be by the way it's the
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: first quarter that's right take points in the first quarter
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: yeah and sonny dykes had opportunities he knew what kind
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: of game this was third quarter any points.
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: Held 15 to 10 you know it's a low scoring
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: game it's 15 to 10.
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: In the third quarter their kryptonite has been converting third
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: downs in the entire game why would you not take
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: the points in that situation.
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: They're given to you and then you win the game.
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: If you would have taken the points in that situation
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: um That was just an ugly game.
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: I would put North Carolina's win total now at four
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: and a half.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, their schedule is brutal.
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's four or five wins. I mean,
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: it's a nice win. They're going to be improved.
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: I agree that Jaden Craig is a big downgrade from
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: Josh Hoover.
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: Big downgrade.
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: But a big upgrade of Reggio Lopez is going to
• 32:28
  Speaker 3: be Billy Edwards if he can stay healthy. I mean,
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: I don't think they're going to be very good offensively,
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: but defensively they are.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: Improved, no doubt. Yeah, I left that game thinking North
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: Carolina looks better, but the record's probably not going to
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: show how much better they look. because of that schedule.
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: Brutal schedule.
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: And the other half of it is I just don't
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: know where TCU– that TCU team, they could get better.
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: That TCU team where they find Big 12 wins because
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: you're going to have to score some points, I think,
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: to win in the Big 12. They're not going to
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: score many points.
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: The other thing that jumped out, whoever the official was
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: closest to me on the couch could not spot a
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: ball to save their life.
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: That same drive. Like she was behind the play and
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: comes running up and signals first down. I'm like, I don't–
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: He might have gotten to the line of the game, but, boy,
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: we're already doing this right here. Boy, and she spotted
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: one up a yard and a half short.
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: I know.
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: And then on that same drive, and this was a
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: pretty key drive. It was the one where they ended
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: up having to go for the fourth down. The first
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: down that they got that led to that fourth down,
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: the dude comes nowhere close to the first down. It
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: was nonstop on the spots. Did you notice that?
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: I saw her. She missed a couple of calls.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Bad spots. Bad spots. And was behind the play.
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: And those were key first downs, too. I mean, that
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: was in a drive. where TCU was driving down to either.
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: They ended up having to go 4-0, 4-0 down because
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: they didn't kick the field goal earlier. Could have been
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: their game-winning drive. Boy, Josh Heupel would hate to see
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: her officiate one of his games. I mean, she's slow, too.
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: She was. I mean, it was terrible.
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: I thought the North Dakota State atmosphere was unbelievable, by
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: the way. They came running out. It was a great
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: camera shot. Low cameras at the Fargo Dome. I know
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: you hate that.
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: Smaller school, though. I'll give them a break.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: But the lights are out. The fire is going. They're
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: running through the fire coming out for their first ever
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: FBS game. They blitzed Jack State 33-7, 373 yards rushing.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: But it just looked the part. I don't know what
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: North Dakota State will be this year, but in game one,
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: they look like they belong.
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: I'll go on and say they're your group six rep. Whoa. Whoa, really?
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: Not going to be surprised at all. I don't know
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: who that team is. Boise and Memphis. Oh, I know.
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Memphis schedule way too difficult. Way too difficult. I
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: think Boise schedule might be too difficult. I mean, the
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: problem for North Dakota State, they've got to get a UNLV.
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: I think that's their loss. I think they're 11-1 or 10-2.
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: I really do.
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: Now, whether that gets them in, I have no idea.
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: But I was very impressed with the defense. Did think
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: the turning point was that 44-yard touchdown play Like the
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: cornerback made a terrible, terrible play there.
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the turning point is, first of all, Charles Kelly.
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: But that going 17-7 was a massive difference. Charles Kelly,
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: the Jacksonville State coach, did a poor job preparing his
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: team for the environment. That's number one. They were not
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: prepared for the environment. They lost their composure and they melted. Again,
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: you're in the second quarter. It is a 10-7 game.
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: You've got fourth and short. Take the freaking points. They
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: go for it on fourth down, miss the fourth down,
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: then give up a 92-yard drive, I think it was.
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: where the safety did come over and try to make
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: the pick, and it ends up being a touchdown. 17-7
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: at the half. Poor job by Jacksonville State coach Charles
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: Kelly having his team prepared. He's got to do better
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: than that. But I would say great moment for North
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: Dakota State. I mean, that's their first game there. Their
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: fans showed up, packed that little joint out, and made
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: it a tough place to play.
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: Boy, Charles Kelly's got to clean it up. Eight penalties,
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: two turnovers. I thought they were bad. Caden Krill looked horrible,
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: quarterback position. But, again, North Dakota State, there was a
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: reason going into that game their win total was 9.5,
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: one of the highest win totals in college football.
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: And, boy, they did not disappoint.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: Worst rushing totals and worst points for Jack State since
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: they joined the FBS, just 170 yards. offense there all
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: right that's week zero we start looking ahead to the
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: massive week one which gets underway starting Thursday night we
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: still have a little SEC versus really LSU but SEC
• 36:22
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• 36:24
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• 36:39
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• 36:43
  Speaker 1: a ton of people, but if you're in camp, you
• 36:46
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  Speaker 2: What a weekend down at Auburn. Auburn, Alabama.
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  Speaker 1: They had an unbelievable opportunity to get two nights of
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  Speaker 1: the hottest star in country music right now. Really one
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: of the ones in pop music. Ella Langley did back-to-back
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  Speaker 1: sellout nights in Neville Arena. Albie was on stage and
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  Speaker 1: You know, that's her part of the country. She was
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  Speaker 1: an Auburn student. She have an Auburn degree. I don't
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• 37:24
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• 37:27
  Speaker 1: nights and Ella packed out the Neville Arena, the basketball
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• 37:36
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  Speaker 1: spent some time in the Phi Mu house where she
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  Speaker 3: We get some good country gossip, and I've heard she's
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: an extremely nice person.
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've heard the same. I think she's got some
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: pretty good roots here in Alabama. A little pitchy to me, dog.
• 37:57
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  Speaker 2: And that was when their kicker the short britches wearing
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: guy actually kind of fell apart talty actually was the
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  Speaker 2: you know the only thing that surprised me a little
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  Speaker 2: that was at one of the early scrimmages, and he
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  Speaker 2: the Quinn kid, was almost unshakable. Like, at the end
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: of practice, he was the one that was doing the kicking.
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: They were doing the drill where they try to throw
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  Speaker 2: the guy off, and if he makes everything, they don't
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: have to do wind sprints or something like that. You know,
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: whatever it is. You know what I'm talking about. And
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: that that guy was nails. And he's like, after watching
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: Talty last year, I'll be stunned if this guy doesn't
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: win the job. I mean, Talty was okay.
• 40:42
  Speaker 3: Um it got really good down the stretch i thought
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: just seems like such a job from will reichert oh
• 40:48
  Speaker 3: it is a drop yeah well reicher was one of
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: those inside of 50 it was just automatic and you
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: didn't really see that early in saban's career you know
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: saban had some some shaky ass kickers.
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: It cost him probably some national championships at some point.
• 41:01
  Speaker 3: And i mean caitlin abor is already kind of an
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: aggressive coach when it comes to you know fourth and
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: two fourth and three but I don't know how much
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: Alabama fans are going to trust Talty, like just automatically
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: between 40 and 45.
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: What do you do in that situation? I think a
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: lot of Alabama fans would like to see the offense
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: stay on the field. You mentioned that he got off
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: to a shaky start. He did. He was next to
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: last in the SEC in terms of field goal percentage.
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: With that said, he missed one kick in November, December,
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: and January. That's right. So by the end of the year,
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: he was much better than where he started the year.
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then maybe he's carried that over into the year.
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: It'll be interesting to see for the other fan bases
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: after the 53-man rosters and all the cuts happened yesterday,
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: if anybody's going to jump on trying to sign these
• 41:48
  Speaker 1: NFL guys. Interesting for Alabama, Jam Miller gets cut. Do
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: you make a run and try to get Jam Miller back?
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: Didn't show me anything last year. I mean, I don't know.
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: I mean, why even join the controversy? I'm with Lance.
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: I don't know that he's the guy you want to risk.
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: Whatever you risk to get in this controversy, I don't
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: think he's the guy.
• 42:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, if he felt like he's a 1,000-yard guy, yeah. Yeah,
• 42:14
  Speaker 3: I mean, 100%, but I just didn't see that last year.
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: Over the weekend, we hear the SEC first is going
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: to abide by the restraining order in the Louisiana judge,
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: but that doesn't mean they're not going to fight it.
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: Greg Sankey and the folks in the other side of
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: that suit will be in court defending the fact that
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: the conference is a voluntary association and can have rules.
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: that LSU needs to abide by. I get the feeling
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: by the time we kick things off this weekend, obviously
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: court case is Thursday morning. There are games Thursday night.
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: I have a feeling that by the time we get
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: to the LSU game this weekend, that the LSU NFL
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: players will not play.
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: Well, as Lane Kiffin himself pointed out to Pete Thamel
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: this morning, your official roster for a Saturday game is
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: due Friday. as Jim just said, the actual hearing is Friday.
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't think you would have any sort of resolution
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: in time. Thursday, I think, is the hearing. I thought
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: you said Friday. I'm sorry, is it Thursday? Maybe you would,
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: but they've got to have their active roster in to
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: the conference by Friday. So I wouldn't think you would
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: see these guys on active. And even Lane Kiffin was like,
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: they can practice, but right now they cannot play. So
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: it sounded like Lane Kiffin himself is not even thinking
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: about this.
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: And as far as the tenor of how everyone feels
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: about this, Eli Drinkwitz, who plays Thursday night, had this
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: to say over the weekend. This is Saturday.
• 43:36
  Speaker 9: I got a lot to say on the subject, but
• 43:39
  Speaker 9: I've been saying this for three years now, that college
• 43:41
  Speaker 9: football and college athletics is not in a great place,
• 43:45
  Speaker 9: and it's a direct reflection of our inability as leaders
• 43:50
  Speaker 9: to come up with a plan. We spent all summer
• 43:53
  Speaker 9: politicking a Save College Sports Act, And then at the
• 43:57
  Speaker 9: last moment, we all tried to get behind it.
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: And that's not how Washington, D.C.
• 44:00
  Speaker 9: Works. We've been trying to do it for six years
• 44:02
  Speaker 9: and it took a while to get it, you know,
• 44:03
  Speaker 9: to even get on board. And now you see the results.
• 44:07
  Speaker 9: You know, if that if that bill has passed, this
• 44:09
  Speaker 9: stuff is not happening right now. The season's kicked off
• 44:12
  Speaker 9: and we have no we do not know what the
• 44:16
  Speaker 9: rules are for eligibility.
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: That's embarrassing, man.
• 44:20
  Speaker 9: This is the second biggest sport in college in the
• 44:23
  Speaker 9: world in the United States. It's the second biggest sport
• 44:25
  Speaker 9: in the United States. Most watched sport in the United States.
• 44:29
  Speaker 9: And for us to be operating like this is a
• 44:30
  Speaker 9: complete clown show.
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: 100%.
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: I mean, we've already kicked off the games. I agree.
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: And we don't know what the eligibility is. That is
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: how DC works. He's right about that, yeah. Yeah, I agree.
• 44:42
  Speaker 2: I mean, it seems like. Once the Big Ten and
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: the SEC said, we're not doing this, that you just
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: let it go.
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, there are legal reasons why you have to,
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: you know, agree to adhere to the restraining order until
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: you get your chance to voice your side of the opinion,
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: and they'll do that Thursday, and then they will get
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: a ruling on this. Meanwhile, at Baton Rouge, Lane Kiffin
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: decided to, hey, let's do a whole mock game day
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: so we can, you know, we've got 60-something new players.
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: So down at Tiger Stadium this weekend, getting ready for Clemson,
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: they did the whole mock game day where they walk
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: the band and the cheerleaders walk down the avenue up
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: from the campus down to Tiger Stadium like they'll do
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: on game day.
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: And then.
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: Lane's walking. The team's walking. Everybody's getting ready for next
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: weekend when they'll be doing this for real. I was
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: impressed some of the fans came out.
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: I know. Way more people out watching this than I
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: would have imagined. They know it wasn't a real game. Yeah,
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: this would have felt different with Brian Kelly. It would
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: have been. You're right.
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: So a little mock game day. What are you making?
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: Early read on LSU and Clemson. I guess the LSU
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: is what's the hard rock? Nine and a half. is
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: the line at Hard Rock Bets right now.
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: My initial blush is Clemson covers, LSU wins.
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: So a close, entertaining game. 6.30 Central, 7.30. on Eastern
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: on ABC. Yeah, I mean, I think it's right around
• 46:10
  Speaker 1: the number. I don't feel really good on this game
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: either way. I do think LSU's going to win this game.
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: I think Clemson's going to be better than advertised. We've
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: kind of talked about that. How good's Vazina going to
• 46:19
  Speaker 1: be if, in fact, he is the guy, which I
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: assume he is going to be the guy. Well, the
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: word comes out that it looks like Vazina will be
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: the starter, though not one has been officially announced by
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: Dabo yet.
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: I'm stunned if it's not him. Stunned if it's not him.
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: And it's at least his second start now. It's by
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: far and away his most difficult start. His other one
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: was on the road at SMU. That crowd And Gerald R.
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: Ford Stadium will be nothing like he'll face in what
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: should be just a wild atmosphere.
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: But in that one start against SMU, pretty good team.
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: Three touchdowns, 317 yards.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he was good. I mean, like, if you get
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: anywhere close to that out of him Saturday night, you're thrilled.
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: But this is just a different world for him. Gerald R.
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: Ford Stadium in Dallas, nice little stadium. Tiger Stadium in
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: Baton Rouge, different world. And he'll have to manage. I
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: don't know who it was over the weekend.
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: I was listening to some analyst and he was like,
• 47:04
  Speaker 3: I think this is the most dynamic quarterback Lane Kiffin's
• 47:06
  Speaker 3: ever had.
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: And I'm like, We just saw Jackson Dart.
• 47:09
  Speaker 3: Like, I don't think Sam Levitt's going to be as
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: good as Jackson Dart.
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: I could be wrong.
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: If he's better than Jackson Dart, watch out. If he's
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: as good as Matt Corral, it'll be pretty good. But
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: Matt Corral wasn't bad under Lane Kiffin.
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: I would call Trinidad. Oh, and Trinidad. Trinidad Jameis was
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: fairly dynamic to me. Yeah, actually, Trinidad was better than
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: Jackson Dart. Yeah, yeah. So that's quite the statement if
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: Sam Levitt is the most dynamic quarterback Lane Kiffin's ever had.
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: I just wonder the internal pressure on LSU.
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: Like, they know they've got to be good immediately and
• 47:35
  Speaker 3: how much that's going to factor in.
• 47:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah.
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: That's one of the big games coming up this weekend.
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: We'll talk point spreads and some of the other ones
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: coming up in the next round version of the show.
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: But other than Clemson at LSU on Saturday night, to
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: me the most intriguing other game happens to be a
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: Sunday game, Louisville playing Ole Miss up in Nashville. Well,
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: I have Ole Miss as a, compared to the other lines,
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: a skinny six-and-a-half point favorite. At our neutral site game,
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: there should be probably as many Louisville fans there as
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: Ole Miss fans.
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would think so.
• 48:09
  Speaker 3: That's a terrifying game for Pete Golding. And that's one
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: of those, you know, Jeff Brom can coach, obviously. He's
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: never won, like, at the highest level as far as championships.
• 48:18
  Speaker 3: But he's right there in the mix. I think a
• 48:20
  Speaker 3: lot of people believe this Louisville team is the second
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: best team in the ACC. Boy, they could make a statement,
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: and it would be an awful loss. Although it is
• 48:28
  Speaker 3: a top 25 team, maybe a team that ends up
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: being in the college football playoff, On the surface, week
• 48:33
  Speaker 3: one would be a terrible loss for Pete Golding.
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: You know, after week zero, the big reaction is, I
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: still think Miami's going to win the ACC championship, but
• 48:40
  Speaker 2: they may have to beat Virginia in the conference championship game.
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: I think that's, a lot of people have started to
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: find the path for Virginia there. Let Louisville win this game,
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: and that all changes. Louisville wins this game, and then
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: everybody assumes, well, Miami's going to have to beat Louisville
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: to win the ACC championship. And I'm like Lance, it
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: would just be the Pete Golding era game. officially starting
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: that way would be horribly deflating for Ole Miss.
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: Joel Klatt will be on our show coming up after
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: our sport and state segment today. Joel with us at
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: 12.05 Central, 1.05 Eastern on the Next Round platform at
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: Next Round Live on YouTube and all the socials. Before
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: we end our one here i did want to bring
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: up the fact that scotty scheffler won the fedex cup
• 49:23
  Speaker 1: and has already passed now tiger woods with career on
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: course earnings that doesn't mean scheffler's worth more money than
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: tiger woods because of you know sponsorships and all the
• 49:34
  Speaker 1: business deals tiger has but Scheffler has now, on the course,
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: won more money than Tiger Woods.
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: Which is horribly misleading because they play for more now.
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: Because of Tiger Woods. Because of Tiger Woods, yeah, and Liv.
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: Two things, Tiger Woods and Liv. But you can do
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: a lot of over the last three years or in
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: his first X amount of starts or through X amount
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: of majors. And Scotty Scheffler's numbers compare favorably with Tiger Woods,
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: which I never thought we'd ever see anybody do again. Now,
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: can he maintain that? We'll have to wait and see.
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: But he compares favorably with him thus far through his career.
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: But this is the point where Tiger even took it
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: to a next level. And we'll see if Scheffler can
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: do that. How different would the money be if Tiger
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: never existed? It'd still be good. I mean, the thing
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: that accelerated the most, though, was Liv. I mean, Tiger
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: helped it a ton because of the TV ratings. Yeah,
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: but I'm saying does Liv even exist? Liv may not. Yeah,
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: I don't know. That's a great question. Arnold Palmer helped it.
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: Jack Nicklaus helped it. Tiger really helped it. And then
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: Liv accelerated it even more because they had to, you know,
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: they had to do something. I mean, we looked at
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: the sphere at Ole Miss. Why is Ole Miss doing
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: that on the sphere? Because they think Chambliss and Lacey
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: could win the Heisman? Maybe. They're doing it because they
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: wanted to keep Chambliss and Lacey. And they promised those guys,
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: we will do a massive Heisman campaign for you guys.
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: So now it's been Times Square and the sphere in
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: Las Vegas. I would think Times Square costs more. I
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: would think so, too. Well, that sphere can't be cheap.
• 50:58
  Speaker 5: No.
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: But that's what the PGA Tour had to do with Liv.
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: It's like, we want you guys to say, Rory, you'll
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: play for more money than you've ever played for. They're
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: going to guarantee it for you, but you can play
• 51:07
  Speaker 2: the PGA Tour and still make that kind of money. Scotty,
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: you too. So, I mean, that's why they're making so
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: much money now.
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: Who did the best job coaching this weekend? Who did
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: the worst job coaching? We will talk about that coming
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: up in the next segment, hour number two of the
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: next round, presented by Hard Rock Bets right here on
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: Sporting State.