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Chalking through College football as we eye spring practice - busy times in college basketball and baseball · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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We'll be on from three to five today, ceremonies following afterwards. Of course
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downtown. So it's a good day for baseball and a lot of you were
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for sure that time of the year we'll have Sam Williams at some point,
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and talk about what's going on here. Also Ropulo Sparsa at four o'clock today,
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we'll have jdpakel on three dot com coming up at four thirty. BEV.
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What is it like over there? You know? I saw you in
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the astute Jerry in there? Was he giving you a hard time about Alabama
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around the coffee pot. I don't remember what he was talking about, a
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bunch of nonsense. I'm just kind of block it out, right, Yeah,
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just kind of block it out, all right. So we'll get into
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a little bit more of this. Well, let me ask you, this
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was your cell phone service interrupted with what they were saying was some sort of
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a solar heat blast or what happened to the cell phones this morning? Russia?
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That's what I think. Like I'm a conspiracy theorist to the core.
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Something happened. I don't know that it was an anyway, Did you have
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cell service? I did, because I don't have AT and T or of
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Verizon or Cricket or any of that business. So who was fine? Seaspire
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me too. See, that's why you should do Seaspire Customer inspired all that
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stuff. So we'll get into it Missispi State gets a big win last night,
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obviously in basketball over Old miss Mississippi State baseball Beaver, is it time
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to go ahead and call it a year in the state of Mississippi for Ole
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misson State and baseball. Yeah, you're done, Mississippi State especially, You're
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just done. So we talked last week about don't freak out over the beginning
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of the season and all that. No, all that's all that talk last
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week. To take that flip it. Just just give up. It's football.
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Just get ready for football. No, there's no doubt I think baseball
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is at least college baseball State and Southern State and Old Miss. It's pretty
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much done. A couple of notes here and then we'll into several things along
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the way. If you've got opinions on Mississippi State, oral miss baseball,
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basketball, you can always Texas Show Texas Show sixer one eight eight, five,
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three, seven, seven six. So a lot of chatter still on
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win totals for college football teams. Also a lot on Yahoo sports dot com
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courtesy of Rosstellinger. Changes coming to the college football Playoff more automatic qualifiers.
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Yesterday, college football Playoffs leaders explored a variety of new models that grant multiple
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automatic qualifiers ten to twelve total to the four team power conferences in a fourteen
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team format, not a twelve team format, a fourteen team format with two
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buys. So buckle up, we'll get into all of that. As Brett
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McMurphy talked about on his x feed, at this rate, the playoffs will
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expand to sixty four teams, just like the late great Mike Leach champion four
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years ago. Also, since the end of the season w the college football
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season, two college head coaches left for the NFL, two more took lesser
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titles at at other universities, and twenty six FBS assistants took NFL jobs.
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Via Dennis Dodd Not also reports forty percent of college coaches and their moves occurred
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despite a reduction and title. So you know, we've talked a lot about,
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you know, the movement, so shall we say in the coaching professional
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football, especially when you talk about from college to from college to the NFL
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and vice versa. Also Dennis Stout reporting a unique Nile event, Lance Leopold
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and Chris climbing together breaking bread that the two coaches that would be Kansas and
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Kansas State's coaches called Unrivaled Uniting Kansas Elevating Athletes. This will be in March
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fourth. I don't think that anybody in the state of Mississippi is gonna go,
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but this is just a pretty unique event. It would be almost like
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Lane Kiffin and Jeff Levy doing a one night event here in the state of
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Mississippi. On that as well. Also, let's see where was that note
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I'm looking for? I will have to come back to it. A lot
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on the ES or EA Sports shall we say EA Sports game release for college
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football, A lot of notes on that today if you care about that.
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Chris Fowler has officially announced he'll be the commentator for EA Sports College Football twenty
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twenty five our College Football twenty five and then Herb Street and Fowler both will
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be on that as well. So there's no time what to getting paid for
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that. West Virginia head coach Neil Brown is a big advocate for helmet communication
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in college football. We talked about this a couple of weeks ago as it's
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starting to get into college Quote, if you look at our college sidelines,
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they look like clown shows right now, different colored shirts, a bunch of
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people. We need to clean that up. I don't know. I kind
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of like the signage, right, I kind of like it makes me chuckle,
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the signage, all of the colors and evan, everything that goes on
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on the sideline makes makes me laugh. All right. So when you look
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at now going into the weekend, updated baseball standings in the SEC, South
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Carolina has moved to five and oh on the season, Georgia and Kentucky sit
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at four and oh, Tennessee four and one, Florida two and one,
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Missouri two and one, in Vanderbilt at three and two in the SEC West
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and again, this is the last year of divisions in baseball, just like
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we talked about in football, with the emergency of Oklahoma and Texas, Alabama
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at five and oh, Auburn four and oh LSU four to oh and in
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Texas a and M four to oh Arkansas three and one, and then Ole
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Miss at two and three Mississippi State at two and three. When you look
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at basketball after last night updated standings in the SEC, Alabama still one game
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ahead of Tennessee there at eleven and two, nineteen and seven overall Tennessee ten
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and three, twenty and six, South Carolina and Auburn both sitting nine and
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four. They're in third place in the league twenty one and five and twenty
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and six. Florida is eight and five along with Kentucky, and they're both
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eighteen and eight. Missippi State at seven and six, they're now two four
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six, they're the seventh that would be the seventh seed, and the SEC
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Tournament Ole miss the eighth seed right behind them at six and seven. So
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you've got a cluster of six and seventeens behind Missippi State at seven and six,
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eighteen and eight, it's Ole Miss at nineteen and seven, six and
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seven, Texas A and M. We talked to Olm bu Cannon yesterday on
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the show LSU at six and seven, then Georgia, Arkansas, Vanderbilt,
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and Missouri six or one eight, eight, five, three, seven,
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seven six. That is the Cowboy Maloney's text line and some articles that we
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will be getting into new college football playoff format. Approved future models are out
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or at least potentially out. In what happens with the Notre Dame. This
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is a story that we will jump into. Also a message for the Big
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ten and the SEC quote take it easy. This is courtesy of Dan Wetzel.
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We will get into that, and the PAC twelve ponders its place as
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a as the college Football Playoff evolves a lot in flux, and again there's
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a lot that would have to happen, I think, to take to take
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the PAC twelve, Now that is two seriously in this whole deal, they're
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going to have to pretty much cannibalize or partner and be with the Mountain West
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or somebody else. Also, a group of five teams are just trying to
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survive. Quote, we talked about this with Kevin Griffin earlier in the week,
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says, quote, we are just farm systems now in college sports.
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So we've got a lot that we will get into. And then of course
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some other stuff with the NFL the top one hundred, we would not obviously
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go through one hundred. I want to look at some of these free agents
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that are out in the National Football League. A twenty twenty four updated Draft
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Maker in we still see more movement from JJ McCarthy of Michigan moving up the
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house have JD. Pakel at four pot thirty B Beaver or anything on your
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end. We need to get to Anysissippi State fans given up? Yeah,
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res dog has, he says Jake. My phone just started working again.
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Please tell me lo Monis was fired this morning. Very well done so far.
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He has not been so far. He is still the head baseball coach
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at Missippi State. That's that's the only doomsday text so far. Well,
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here's what's interesting about this this whole. Not to make this show about that,
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but you know it was sun spots. That's what they had reported on
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a lot of the news this morning, sunspots. But Beaver, I have
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a report right here in the palm of my hands. It's not even really
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in the palm of my hands. FBI in DHS investigating nationwide at and t
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outage for any potential cyber attacks on links. So, Timmy, I'll be
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honest with you. The first thing I thought of as well, someoney this
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is a dry run for an EMP attack. But that's that's another story for
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another day. So I don't think it was as simple as just sunspot at
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sunspots on the on the Earth. All right, So let's get into some
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of these college football stories, new college football playoff format, approved future college
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football playoff models, and what happens to Notre Dame. So there's a lot
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to unpack on here. Dan Wetzel and Ross Challenger have done a great job
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with this and SI's Pat forty as they kick off their podcast analyzing this week
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the new approved format for the college football Playoff, which we'll have five automatic
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qualifiers and seven at large bids. There's already much discomfort from the SEC and
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Big Ten about the amount of automatic qualifiers, but we finally have an expanded
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twelve team playoff, which is good. The cast breaks down who wins in
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this scenario and while the two top two conferences are already grasping to get more
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power, where does it leave Notre Dame in this situation? The private conference
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less university has been in the middle of the spotlight when discussing the new college
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wall playoff format. In this new design and without a Power five or Power
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four conference to call home, if Notre Dame were to be a top four
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seed to receive an automatic qualifier, they would forego the first round, buy
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for the fifth seed and take the likely take on a likely group of five
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qualifiers. So it's important to remember that if Notre Dame, let's just say,
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in this scenario, Notre Dame finishes undefeated, and then you've got conference
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champions in the other four. Obviously, you've got Georgia in the SEC,
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Ohio State in the Big ten, Kansas State or Oklahoma State or Utah in
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the Big twelve, and then you got acc Florida State, Clemson, somebody
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wins that. Well, even if Notre Dame has a better record than any
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of them in this format, they're immediately going to forfeit one of the top
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four seeds because they have to, and then they'll be the fifth seed and
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take on the twelve seed, which would likely be a group of five team.
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You know, when you look at some of this, the other questions
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that are out there, the expanded soon to be college football field, and
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then what the next one may look like Tuesday the format for the expanded twelve
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team playoff, of course, which this come up this Tuesday. Will the
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term of the champion of twenty four to twenty five that was announced and then
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now just six months before the start of the season, that was on Tuesday.
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By Wednesday, the powers that be which is increasingly just the Big ten
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in the SEC. It made no mistake about it. I don't know how
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much power the ACC really has in this. I don't know if the Big
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twelve has much power any more power than that as well. So you know,
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if you go in power brokers, SEC, Big ten and probably a
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little ACC and then a little less, a little less on the on the
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Big twelve, and then the rest of the conferences is just like nothing.
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It's absolutely nothing. The proposal includes additional automatic qualifier. This is what the
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SEC and Big ten one, disproportionate revenue sharing, and all sorts of other
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ideas that would greatly benefit the SEC and the Big ten. A better idea
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would be to allow this is opinion atid piece the SEC or ascume me the
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ce change of the twelve team model to play out for two years. Maybe
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kick the tires on that work on what works and what doesn't and what needs
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change and what does it. Jumping from four teams to a twelve is already
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a shock to the system. It is almost assuredly, assuredly that for better
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or worse, but a test drive wouldn't be a bad idea. The Big
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ten and the SEC however, aren't willing to find out and wait long to
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you know, trying to propose other stuff and get other stuff in there,
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and what will impact the regular season and how that will be, because remember,
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the twelve team playoff format has already had We've had to adjust the regular
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season. If you expand it to fourteen or sixteen, you're gonna have to
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look at how you're gonna do the regular season as well. There will be,
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or assume there is a power grab and money grab to be guaranteed.
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So why wait, says, Let's start with what is coming for the next
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two seasons. A twelve team model that provides automatic bids to the five highest
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rated conference champions. It is a near mathematical certainty that the four highest will
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always be the ACC, Big ten, Big twelve, SEC. That's gonna
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be the four seeds. So if you're in one of those four conferences,
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you're gonna get one of the one seeds and you're gonna have a buy The
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top four seeds will likely come up. And there's almost no way even if
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you go to the AAC champion, the Sun Belt Champion, Mountain West champion,
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that you're gonna have enough in your schedule, strength of schedule, and
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everything that they put together to be a top top four seed. The fifth
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automatic bid, of course, though, will go to the so called Group
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of five league. It's a chance to nationalize the event and bring in the
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quote Cinderella element and most notably avoid lawsuits of exclusion. And that is absolutely
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true. It's a good deal for the sport as a whole. Give a
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quality twelve and one Mountain Wist team per SAE, a champion of Chance.
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The rest of the field will feature seven at large bids, which every non
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champion including independents such as Notre Dame, can earn. Seeds five through eight
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will host Seeds nine through twelve will travel to those campuses in mid December.
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The winners will play one through four. The next three rounds will be on
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neutral sites, generally traditional bowl locations. It should be, it should be
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rocket fuel for the sport. There's no current playoff agreement for the twenty twenty
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sixth season and beyond. However, a new contract both between the conferences and
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the broadcast partners need to be reached, so there is already talk of expanding
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to a fourteen team playoff, So talking two years of a twelve and then
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move to a fourteen that would include up to four automatic bids for both the
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Big Ten and the SEC. So when you're talking about fourteen teams, you're
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talking about more revenue that it can be shared because you've got two more additional
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games that you're going to are two more teams, which adds more games to
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the racket. That means more television dollars, That means even more televiend do
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not just for everybody, but for sure the Big ten in the SEC and
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the SEC and the Big ten want four qualifiers a piece. So the top
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four teams in the SEC and then four teams in the Big Ten would go,
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which would provide both revenue certainty and more teams in the bracket. So,
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and it also says such as the perception of superiority over the ACC and
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the Big twelve, among others on the recruiting trail, it's the next step
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in the Big ten SEC becoming the true two big college football powers. It
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feels unnecessarily unnecessary, but especially at this moment, yes, two more playoff
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games should yield more television money. How much though reports have ESPN offering one
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point three billion annually for the eleven games of the twelve team format an average
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of about one hundred and eighteen million dollars per contest. So if you're ask
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yourself what is two more contests worth, it's about two hundred million dollars in
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rep share. And of course, do the SEC and Big ten really need
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additional automatic bids or qualifiers? Are they concerned that their second and third place
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teams wouldn't secure it at large spots based on merit? Historically they would.
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No one is disputing the strength and depth of those leagues, especially post expansion.
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eight five today beive anything on your end as we have called it a year,
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an end of the year for Missippi State and OMSS baseball. It's football
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season now. Yeah, I'd say one from unnamed texter here, that's from
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Blue. Think about this. For Notre Dame, yes, they'll not get
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a bye, but they love this. They don't have a conference championship game
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to lose and maybe knock them out. Well that is true. That is
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that is true. So if you're in your in and you know there's it's
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tip for tat. I mean, if you're playing a group of five team
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in the first round, if you're playing a group of five team in the
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first round versus getting a bye. I mean, I hate to say it's
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not that big of it when you still got to play a ball game,
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but it's a win for Notre Dame. I think anything else over there all
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right. The NCAA blasted out an email this courtesy of two four seven sports
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dot Com this morning, saying schools can no longer decorate prospects hotel rooms on
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official visits. This courtesy of Andrew Evans at Andrew Underscore evens on X photo
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shoots not the only thing gone from recruiting visits. Nc DOUBLEA blasted out an
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email this morning saying schools can no longer decorate prospects hotel rooms on officials.
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All cookies, cakes, and snacks must be handed to recruits in the lobby.
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It's in closer to NFL top thirty visits. This is so dumb.
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Let me just tell you that. And we don't even talk about this enough.
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The NCAA hates you. The NCAA hates you. Who is you?
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The people listening to the show your kids, they hate you. Like,
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why in the world would you try to condone? First off, I thought
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it was stupid that the NCABA condoned any kind of photos on campus, getting
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dressed up and you're taking pictures. What in the world does that hurt?
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You know, you got a kid who probably a lot of these kids have
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never been to a college campus. Let's just say they've never been to a
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college campus. So they get an offer. They're a really good football player,
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baseball player, basketball player, they go to University of Alabama, They
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got to State orle Miss or they go somewhere, and they get a chance
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to have a time of their life, tour the campus, take pictures with
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your family, take pictures of the stadium, all of this stuff that goes
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on. And then, oh, by the way, the NCAA says,
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now you can't. You can't put that uniform on, you can't take a
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photo, no photo ops. Why why you would think the NCAA would want
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it's member institutions to brand themselves. That's a great free branding and advertising of
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the school. Secondly, with this whole deal, now you can't you can't
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put stuff in the in the hotel rooms, but you can give it to
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them in the lobby. The NCAA hates your guts. Never forget that.
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They absolutely do if they didn't, they wouldn't have stupid roles in place like
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this six R one eight eight, five three seven seven six. Uh.
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That is just when you think the NC double A, you know what the
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NCAA is equivalent of. It'd be like the Titanic that hit the iceberg.
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Remember that that They just backed the Titanic up and just keep hitting the iceberg.
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Well, we're gonna hit it again. We didn't do enough damage the
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first time. Let's back it up and let's hit it again. That's the
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NC double A. Chris Hammer reports two four seven sports dot Com of the
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players returning to college football in twenty twenty four, thirty nine point three percent
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of Group of five first team All Conference selections transferred during the winter window thirty
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nine point three. That number was just ten point five percent in the Power
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five. It says more on these numbers, and a lot more here two
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four seven Sports dot com. How often do college footballs all conference players transfer?
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Chris Hummer Crunch's numbers Group of five's best players that are being rated by
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the portal. So you know, we talked about this earlier with Kevin Griffin
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in the week about the group of five schools basically now being farm league system
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teams regarless of sport, especially football for big boy programs, All conference players
25:34
from the Group of five are more than twice as likely to transfer to those
25:40
of the power five two four to seven sports, found in a study of
25:42
all conference players from the twenty twenty three season. Quote. You're probably thinking,
25:47
well, duh while reading that sentence, but it's critical context to understand
25:52
the shifting landscape of college football because let's pause right there. Remember just a
25:57
few years ago. You know, if you were a guy who kind of
26:00
fell through the cracks and recruiting, you could go maybe to two Lane or
26:07
Boise or somewhere like that, and you guys could have a heck of a
26:10
heck of a run, right, maybe even make it to a new year
26:11
six day of all, Liberty just did it right. Liberty just did it
26:15
last year. But now you go and you blow up and you get a
26:18
chance, which is fine, I mean the system and to move on.
26:22
It says here, this is the off season in which multiple Group of five
26:25
coaches have abandoned their post to take coordinator or even position coaching jobs in the
26:32
SEC. There's a reason for that. In many cases, their rosters are
26:34
under fire. The transfer portal impacts everyone in college football. Alabama, Georgia,
26:41
and Michigan and the sports upper tier have all suffered critical losses in recent
26:45
years, but they have the firepower both on the roster and via the portal
26:52
to replace what departs. That's not always the case for the group of five,
26:56
which is a problem when it you consider G five teams annually or by
27:00
Power five teams. It goes on to say that there are two hundred and
27:03
forty one group of five players selected as a first or second team All conference
27:08
player this year. Only one hundred and thirty four of those are remaining eligible
27:14
or had remaining eligibility or opted to return to college football in twenty twenty four.
27:18
Of those one hundred and thirty forty four one hundred and thirty four forty
27:22
four of them, thirty two point eight percent hit the transfer portal during the
27:26
window. So that is a lot. So you're seeing more and more and
27:30
more as far as the group of five, I mean, if you're if
27:34
you're if you go to the group of five and you're a really good player,
27:37
then odds are you're going to have an opportunity if you so do so
27:40
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to play in the National Basketball Association, also in c DOUBLEA. A lot
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of NCAA games tonight. You know, you look at this and that's the
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beautiful thing about basketball. You've got a lot of games to play on a
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lot of nights, So a lot of games tonight to play. You got
28:18
your futures right now. Of course we talked about the NCAA Championship. You
28:21
can go in and play that if you wish. Yukon is the favorite.
28:23
They have actually moved to the favorite in front of Purdue. Purdue and Yukon
28:29
have kind of gone, you know, toe to toe on this. Purdue
28:33
was the favorite about a month ago. Now it's Yukon Yukon five to one.
28:36
Purdue six and a half to one. You've got Houston at nine to
28:38
one, Arizona eleven to one, Tennessee fifteen to one, Auburn seventeen to
28:42
one, North Carolina nineteen to one, Alabama twenty to one. A lot
28:47
of people like Alabama and their team is a chance to make a deep run
28:49
of this tournament. That would be a great value bet. I mean,
28:52
you know you're talking about twenty to one. If you've got one hundred bucks,
28:56
you're gonna win two thousand. Allabama wins the tournament twenty to one,
29:00
Iowa State twenty to one, Kansas State, or excuse me, Kansas at
29:03
twenty two to one, Marquette twenty three to one. In Kentucky, you
29:06
know, in Kentucky at twenty five to one. I don't know how much
29:10
of a value that is, because it seems like Kentucky just they get into
29:12
that Sweet sixteen Elite eight here over the last several years, and they're gonna
29:17
get popped. It just seems like they just get popped. Now, just
29:18
as I say that, I'll tell you not to do the twenty five to
29:22
one, and then Kentucky will go win the whole thing. You can also
29:23
get SEC. I believe a Southeastern Conference if you want to play the Southeastern
29:29
Conference tournament right now, Alabama our regular season championship, not the tournament,
29:33
but the regular season championship. Alabama minus one seventy seven, Tennessee at plus
29:37
one seventy then Auburn seven to one. And of course you know if you
29:40
look at the at the standings right now, I mean that would lend itself.
29:42
Alabama has a one point or one game leads rather over Tennessee right now,
29:49
and a two game lead over South Carolina at Auburn. So if you
29:53
go back and look at this, I mean it is Alabama in Tennessee.
29:57
And then you know if you thought South kylind was when you can get him
30:00
at fifty to one, fifty to one, all right, real quickly here
30:03
we're going to get into some NFL free agency. Also twenty twenty four NFL
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quarterbacks. We'll get into that. Aj Brown Eagle Star takes aim at Philly
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Media after Bomb Show report about the twenty twenty three season, and also Danny
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Marino on Patrick Mahomes. He has his thoughts on Patrick Mahomes and several other
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stories to get into as well. I want to get into. Let me
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get out of that story. Potential proposals, other stuff that the SEC and
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the Big Ten. Look, the SEC and the Big Ten came in this
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week. Everybody shook heads and said, yes, great, We've got the
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five plus seven model on the SEC. And Big ten said that's awesome,
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getting a little NFL here, Oh, cell phone services dead, State baseball
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is dead, all miss Baseball's dead. It's kind of where we're at all
32:31
right. Looking at the NFL draft, Caleb Williams, you know, most
32:36
people feel like he's going to go to the Bears. We'll see what happens
32:37
with the combine. CBS Sports ranks obviously the number one quarterback number two overall.
32:44
Chicago hired former Seahawks offensive coordinator Sean Waldron excuse me to replace Luke Getzi
32:50
and while the while in Seattle, of the past three seasons, the team
32:53
executed designed quarterback runs on a one point seventy two percent of plays. According
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to True Media, Geno, Smith had rushed on eight point nine percent of
33:02
his dropbacks over the past two seasons. Williams could be best described as a
33:07
pocket passer, capable of rushing when the situation necessitates. His ability to extend
33:12
plays in complete passes outside of the pocket. It's what makes him so intriguing,
33:16
but it's not his identity. Again, we'll see what happens with Justin
33:22
Field. You would assume that they're going to put him on the trading block
33:23
if they are one going to do that. Drake may quarterback, North Carolina.
33:30
CBS Sports ranks him the number two quarterback, number six overall prospect,
33:32
and they right now have him pencil to the Patriots. Prototypical pocket passer quarterbacks
33:37
are all first year head coach Jared Mayo and the Patriots have known over the
33:43
past two plus decades. Drake May is listed a six four, two hundred
33:47
and thirty pounds. He has arm strength necessary to make quote every throw in
33:52
the field, and I always love the every throw in the field. I
33:53
don't know that we know that they can make every throw, but that's the
33:57
way we frame it up. But he has struggled with distancy, So there's
34:00
a difference in making the throw on the field and then being consistent. Somebody
34:06
runs a corner route at twenty yards, I may him throw it in that
34:09
direction. Does that mean I can make throw if I'm not consistent? It's
34:14
chicken in the egg anyway. Jade Daniels LSU ranked third best quarterback by cbsports
34:20
dot com eight overall prospect. He is pegged at least right now to the
34:23
Commanders. Outside of his final season at Arizona State, Daniels has done a
34:30
great job of protecting the football throughout his college career. In twenty twenty three,
34:32
he accomplished career highs and completion percentage at seventy two point two percent passing
34:37
yards thirty eight to twelve, also passing touchdowns forty in rushing yards and thirty
34:44
four is eleven point seven yards per past attempt far surpassed his previous career high
34:50
at eight point seven. What makes Daniels unique, particularly in this quarterback class,
34:53
is his mobility. Michael Pennock's junior Washington he is. This is interesting
35:01
to me. They have him now pegged for the Eagles fourth rank quarterback thirty
35:07
first. Overall, there are a handful of teams that could be in the
35:09
market for a quarterback that have not been discussed. The Rams, Falcons,
35:14
Bucks, Saints, etc. Butt here's an outside the box thought to consider
35:16
Philadelphia. In June of twenty nineteen, Carson Wentz signed a four year contract
35:22
extension with the Eagles, where one hundred twenty eight million he would just play
35:25
two more seasons with the franchise. It is not to say that Jalen Hurts
35:30
is not the guy in Philadelphia, but rather evidence to explain the franchise's position
35:35
at quarterback. When selecting Hertz in the second round of the twenty twenty draft,
35:38
general manager Howie Roseman was not expecting to trade Wentz, only to see
35:45
him bounce around over the league for the next five years and when he was
35:47
drafted. When they drafted Hurts, let's go to the lone roofing Carl the
35:51
line. We've got tied man on the line, tide Man, welcome in
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good afternoons. Hiy brother, I got something to get off my chest,
35:58
you guys with a little bit, very very deeply deeply disappointed in the University
36:07
of Alabama or the way they've handled um Eli Gold who apparently was basically let
36:14
go of fire because Eli said that he was not retiring, had no plans
36:19
to retire. And I know he's getting up an age, has some health
36:22
problems last year, But the man is that the man is an institution.
36:27
He is a legend, and Bama fans love him to death, and he's
36:31
given one hundred percent of his heart and soul to do what he's done for
36:36
that university. And I just I'm just I hate to see Alabama take that
36:42
take that route. You know, even if he's going to struggle, give
36:45
him one more year, let him struggle through it, give him some help
36:47
around him in the booth. He'll be fine. But to just let that
36:52
man go like they did that, that really hurts my heart. And I'm
36:55
disappointed as an Alabama fan today in the way our university previous him. But
37:00
you guys, in the broadcast business, so I just wanted to do that
37:04
there you all get your take on it. Anyway, y'all have a great
37:07
actitut in road time. Thank you, Rosie, appreciate it time. Matt
37:10
Well, I will tell you this beer, I'd like to get your thoughts
37:13
on what transpired of that. I will tell you this football play by play
37:17
is my one of my favorite things to do and have always loved it regardless,
37:22
especially on the radio side, from college to the NFL. And I've
37:24
always said Eli Gold is the best. I mean, he's unbelievable. He's
37:29
the kind of guy I've always said, if a guy can grab you or
37:32
girl not tell my Beth moments, if a guy can grab you and you
37:36
can ride for two hours in a vehicle and never turn it off, and
37:38
they can kind of keep you visualizing the ball game, then they're really really
37:43
good. Jack Crystal could do it, David Kellum does it. I think
37:46
obviously Neil Price does a fantastic job at Misissippi State with Matt, but Eli
37:51
Gold to me, was a standard. I mean, it didn't get any
37:52
better than him. So you know, I don't know the intricacies of what
37:55
was going on at the University of Alabama, inside that whole room, with
37:59
that whole deal. There's always things that we don't know about. But I
38:02
tend to agree that, like, the guy's a legend, so could you
38:06
kind of graciously help him get out of there? But Bieber, what was
38:09
your thoughts on it? Was that from face value? Was that wrong?
38:13
Just to let the legend go like that? It was surprising. It came
38:16
out of nowhere and right or wrong. This was my thought yesterday, which
38:25
would lean to wrong. I kind of thought it was comparable to Well,
38:35
Okay, first, I guess I should preface it with I think a large
38:37
part of this, Most of it was to do with his health. You
38:43
know, he had cancer and someone else had to step in and do it.
38:46
I related this to you know, I can in any sport, I
38:52
guess. But let's look at football. Let's go back to our biggest example
38:57
of late Brady Bledsoe, and then that started the whole unwritten rule of no
39:02
starter should lose their job due to injury. I take that over to this
39:09
now. Cancer is way beyond some football injury, but I think that applies
39:17
here. You know what I'm saying, Like got replaced due to his health
39:23
because maybe Alabama. I'm not saying that's exactly what happened, but that's the
39:28
feeling I got, like maybe Alabama didn't know if they could really count on
39:32
him to be there every game this season, so they went ahead and replace
39:36
him. Now that makes sense. Then you're gonna get a lot of mixed
39:39
reviews on that. Hey, speaking of Brady and Bloodshoe, did you did
39:44
you? Weren't you gonna get Apple TV to watch that? Did you do
39:45
that? Yeah? I haven't started it yet. I was gonna try to
39:49
get a review on that because I don't have Apple TV, and I'm wondering
39:52
should I get it for this? Yeah? You probably should because it's only
40:00
so it's a ten part five weeks, released every Tuesday, so you can
40:06
What you can do is you can just get it for a month. That's
40:09
what I'm doing. I have no interest in keeping Apple TV. I don't
40:15
even know what's on Apple TV. What is on there? I don't know
40:20
anymore. I know the Morning Show is still on there, Morning Show,
40:24
Mythic Quest, and this documentary on the Patriots that you speak of. Beyond
40:32
that, I don't know. I'm not familiar with Apple TV's current dealings me
40:38
either. We'll have to get to some more these quarterbacks JJ McCarthy on this
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thirty spars Are welcome in, sir, How are you pretty good? How
42:25
about yourself? You know, we're hanging in there, hanging in there.
42:29
I mean, look, you know, just in a matter of like half
42:30
a week or a week, Missisippi State and Ole Miss baseball have have hit
42:34
the hit, the hit the wall. So I mean that's kind of that
42:37
was fun. That was over quickly. Now we just turned to national college
42:40
baseball. Yeah, I mean there's been some good games so far the have
42:47
steen in college base But one thing about everyone keeps going to ask me,
42:51
how come some books don't book college more college baseball eyes and stuff like that.
42:55
First of all, people need to realize it's the only actually we get
42:59
in college baseball. Usually, like when they go to when a playoff start
43:04
and stuff like that. Right now, only the wise guys are betting at
43:07
college baseball, So trying to find and out of conference college baseball line,
43:12
it's going to be pretty hard to do. Yeah, I was gonna say,
43:15
and that's got to be I would assume. Is that a tough sport
43:17
to handicap? I mean, if you're going to handicap it, you want
43:21
a handicap as many as you can. But so many rosters, so many?
43:24
I mean, is it tougher to handicap in a normal baseball game like
43:28
Major League Baseball? It is just so many conferences. I mean in basketball,
43:32
you're automatically going to get two way actions a lot in college basketball.
43:37
But in college baseball is probably the hardest one because some of them don't even
43:42
go on TV. You got California Baptists. You have teams that some people
43:46
don't even know they had baseball teams. Do you have Nickels if you're in
43:50
Louisiana and stuff like. There's just so many teams when it comes to college
43:55
baseball. We could probably handicap it now. We would just get one that
43:59
actions every example if we were doing I'm trying to think of a game today,
44:02
they were probably it's probably lopstted Arizona State, Ohio State. Right now,
44:07
we're so lopsided on ASU because no one's betting Ohio State. Granted there
44:12
could be doing, we're lobstating they could be just maybe three best because we're
44:15
not getting any bets in it. Raphael. As far as my booket dot
44:19
ag get in and play today, college basketball though always hot. A lot
44:22
going on as we move through the weeks here in the next few weeks,
44:25
you know, bracketology continues to heat up. Looking at you know some of
44:30
the lines. I'm looking at Yukon, you know, five to one to
44:34
win the whole thing that I believe. Purdue was the number one team a
44:36
couple of weeks ago and they're now six and a half to one, Houston,
44:39
Arizona. I don't know the four teams that are listed as the number
44:44
one teams right now. That would be Yukon, Produce, Houston, and
44:45
Arizona. I don't know that they are heads and shoulders better than the twos
44:50
or the threes? Are they? No, they're not. I had a
44:53
conversation today talking about no one's really talking about some of these twos that are
44:58
going to be probably in there, like North Carolina team that's probably really hungry
45:01
because the didn't even make a tournament last year, so now they're probably going
45:05
to be a style of two as of now. Maybe they could falter off
45:09
because so far a lot of top teams have had some bad losses coming in
45:14
there. But yeah, but don't sleep on the two. This is probably
45:16
and I hoping I don't say this every year, but this is probably the
45:20
wide open March minutes I have seen in a very very very long I can
45:23
see a three winning at all, or even a four or three right now.
45:29
I think Baylor could be a three, Iowa State could be a three.
45:34
TRANS think Tennessee can maybe be a three if they slip up a little
45:37
bit. This is probably gonna be one of the most wide open tournaments now.
45:40
And you know, we do say that a lot, but I think
45:43
there's a lot of truth to it because you look at you know, just
45:45
like the focus on college football right now obviously is the transfer portal, but
45:50
when you look at college basketball, that's been the case for quite a while,
45:54
and you know a lot of rosters will be flipped totally in a year.
45:58
I mean I remember a couple years ago, I LSU has had I
46:00
can't remember like everybody, but two guys transferred out and their whole new team
46:04
was new. So, you know, I don't know how many of these
46:07
teams, and I think that's why you see some of these like the Saint
46:08
Mary's of the World or maybe a San Diego State of the World or Creighton,
46:13
they'll make a run of the tournament because they have, you know,
46:15
roster, a roster that has been together for two three years. We just
46:17
don't I mean, you just don't see that in any of the big schools
46:21
Duke, Kansas, Kentucky. I mean, none of them have longevity in
46:24
the roster, which I think makes for the tournament to be wide open.
46:29
Yeah, and your favorite school, Alabama, they can make some noise.
46:31
There'll probably be a three to fourteenth even though they just fired their football.
46:37
I'll played by play college. You guys had discussion. I can't believe that's
46:39
you guys with discussion on the air, But that's I'm not the producer or
46:44
you. But I guess that's hot topics there. Oh, it's one hundred
46:46
percent hot topics. I mean, think about Alabama. They got rid of
46:52
their legendary football coach and their legendary radio broadcast guy, and their new football
46:55
coaches on social media for the first that's the first time Alabama football was their
46:59
coaches on social media. So I mean, Alabama's going what eight and four
47:02
next year? I could see that. I could see them losing three foot
47:07
But this is not the same Alabama. Even when David was there, it
47:09
wasn't the same Alabama the last couple of years. Welcome to the times of
47:14
college sports. No, absolutely. Raphaelospars on mybooky Dot ag get in a
47:16
play today. Let's talk a little NFL. We've got some time here.
47:21
It looks like at least talking the talking heads are putting it out there.
47:23
Kleb Williams is going to go to the Bears. What happens to Justin Fields?
47:28
What is the interest in Justin Fields? I know he's your guy.
47:30
I did an interview for the Chicago station and they said there's about four to
47:35
five teams that are gonna make that phone call to try to get Justin Fields.
47:38
I think the Bears are just gonna take the best one, and I
47:42
don't. And I think the Bears really do like this kid. I think
47:44
they really do, like justin fields. But when you have this Caleb Willms,
47:47
the people are talking about he could be the next Patrick Mahomes. Or
47:52
how do you pass up this kind of offers. You're gonna probably get a
47:57
number one pick and so many other picks of the Beers. You just can't
48:00
pass that up. So I would not be shocked if the Bears called Pittsburgh,
48:05
calls New England, calls someone in the top three or four that Taylor
48:10
Williams is their guy. I mean, no offense. I think the Bears
48:14
are trading this. It's just how much can they get for it? So
48:16
you think they're trading out of the pick or trading justin fields. Oh,
48:21
they're trading justin field. They're gonna get it. They're gonna take the pick
48:22
and they're gonna trade justin fields easily. I do not. I mean,
48:27
I think they've even told him. That's why he came out yesterday and because
48:30
I'm tired of this talk or which he was just happening and blah blah blah.
48:34
What's your take on the quarterback class? You know, much like we
48:36
say every year, it's the most wide open field we've seen, which there's
48:37
a lot of truth to that. We just discussed that every year. It's
48:39
like, well, this is the potentially the best quarterback. Now, we
48:43
didn't say it two years ago when Kenny Pickett was the number one guy.
48:45
We kind of knew the whole field was very, very thin. But you
48:49
hear a lot of times this could be the best class since eighty five or
48:51
eighty three. Excuse me, my best classes eighty three, Kayla Williams.
48:54
You know Drake May is going to go right there in the top three,
48:58
Jay and Daniels likely in the top three. Then of course you got McCarthy,
49:00
You've got you know, Panics at Washington bow Knicks. Is this class
49:07
really the deepest we've seen it in a while, kind of want to say
49:09
deepest or talented, But there's a lot of good question marks and then we'll
49:14
put there. I still think Jane Daniels is a question mark. I'm not
49:16
he's he's gonna go two or three, but I think he's a question mark.
49:21
He's had one really good year. Uh, and we've all seen really
49:25
really big mobile quarterbacks painting the NFL. Happened last year Richardson and he got
49:30
hurt, but I like Bonnicks. I think he's experienced. I have no
49:35
idea why Michael Pennick Junior is necking that much love. Maybe because of his
49:38
knees. We're all tore up and how's he going to pass physicals and all
49:42
that. The kid from two Lanes got a canon, Michael Pratt, and
49:45
no one's talking about so. I think there's a lot of good question marks
49:49
on there, even honestly, Number one, I'm not sold on the number
49:52
one pet killer Williams. When your offensive line of us he's talking bad about
49:55
you, That there's that he's glad that he's gone. That puts smoke,
50:00
and I don't like smoke when I'm looking at quarterbacks because sometimes it just starts
50:02
a really big fire. Now there's no doubt about it. Ropulospars Ont MyBookie
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dot ag get in and play today. What's going on in Philadelphia? AJ
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Brown? Every time I look up, AJ Brown is chirping about something media
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locker room is Is that breakup emminent between AJ Brown and the Philadelphia Eagles?
50:21
I think so. If not, I think everyone's going to play one more
50:25
year, and if they have a year like they did last year, then
50:29
I think some fires are going to be starting let go. I think a
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new head coach, aj Brown play calling. I think we can see a
50:37
big change in Philadelphia. I don't know if he's going to be going because
50:39
I think I think the offense needs him unless they draft. I mean,
50:45
no one's talking about this wide receiver class is very very deep in the draft.
50:50
So unless they get someone that they really liked it, maybe they can
50:52
let him go. But I think everyone in Philly is going to get a
50:55
one year past. Hey, what else is going on? What's going on
50:59
in the fight old? What else can people play? I know there's a
51:01
lot today. It's a very convoluted sports part of the calendar. Well,
51:06
we got UFC Mexico this weekends, has some nice, really good matchups coming
51:09
off a great UFC last weekend. So that's probably with this key this one.
51:15
But it's all about pretty much college basketball because I can't believe in the
51:16
blink and I we're in the month of March. Baseball. First baseball preseason
51:20
game I got to watch on my TV today with fantastic Andres and Dodgers.
51:23
So baseball just around the corner. So it's gonna be a full full thing
51:28
and the NBA Star tips back into I hate to say second half of the
51:31
season because they only got like twenty games left. But I can't believe NH
51:35
and NBA playoffs are just around the corner as well. But hey, can
51:37
we go ahead and start a petition to stop all All Star games? I
51:40
mean, the NBA All Star Game is a flop, it always is.
51:44
The the NFL Pro Bowl is, you know, can we just get rid
51:49
of this stuff? I can say, yeah, I get rid of all
51:52
that. I do like. I think the Baseball All Star Game is a
51:54
semi competitive because the pitchers don't want to get rocks, they don't want to
51:58
give up any home run, and the hitters are trying to hit home runs
52:01
to satisfy the crowds. I think the Baseball Also Game is the best out
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We'll have jdpakel on three dot com. Next segment. We'll talk a little
53:30
college football with JD and talk about the twelve team playoff and everything going on
53:35
there as well. We're out here at five o'clock today a little early.
53:37
We're at Brandon today as coach. Sam Williams athletics director, also at Brandon
53:40
here to talk. Obviously, we'll talk a little football, but today Mark
53:44
Vincent Memorial Stadium, Bulldog Stadium, Bulldog Baseball coach. Wellcome in, how
53:47
are you. I'm good, Jay, Good to see you again. It's
53:50
good to see you. Man. You guys continue to just talk about facility
53:52
upgrades. You know, we always talk about it in college, but high
53:55
school wise, let's talk a little bit about the project you guys have going
53:59
on here. You pull up out here and of course, uh, you
54:00
know, the baseball field, for those that don't know, is set still
54:04
at the at the old high school middle school, not on the campus of
54:07
the high school. But what you guys are are are doing here is remarkable.
54:09
Talk a little bit about what's going on today. Yeah, man,
54:12
I mean it's been a it's been a really fun project down here. You
54:14
know, got here when we got here three years ago, we knew that
54:16
there were some changes that need to be made if we were going to keep
54:19
the stadium down here. And you always want to preserve something like this that
54:22
has so much history, uh, And and we've done. Uh, the
54:25
took the old bleacher from Lewis Jean Stadium. We've repurposed them uh down here
54:30
into some visitor bleachers and a student deck which look awesome. Uh and then
54:34
you know, getting to add a new press box like this has been awesome
54:37
in a sweet up top that we're going to kind of debut today and let
54:39
people come and check out. You know, you look at this. I've
54:44
just kind of walked around. I had had a chance to see it at
54:45
all, but just I mean really a nice I mean, high school baseball
54:47
press boxes typically don't look like this. I mean this is like a small
54:52
collegiate press box. Yeah, I mean that was kind of the vision.
54:54
Doctor Marshall kind of kind of wanted to do something like this with the with
54:58
the poor truck top and h just something unique. And that's what you know
55:00
is a d is A is a principle. You're always trying to find something
55:04
that's just a little bit, a little bit different, a little bit unique,
55:07
and uh, Coach Best myself, doctor Marshall, we kind of had
55:09
a vision for how this thing would turn out, even this whole stadium as
55:12
we've as we've kind of put a facelift on it, and uh, I
55:15
think all three of us would agree and everybody that sees it today as we
55:17
kind of debut it all together, it's it's a really good finished product.
55:22
Man. It's something that the kids and the and the town can really be
55:23
proud of. Sam Williams, Athletics Director, head football coach, on your
55:27
radio Thursday edition of the program. Uh, ribbon cutting today for the new
55:30
baseball or the upgrade and renovation of existing baseball. And you talk about baseball
55:35
in the state of Mississippi, we always focus on football right in the middle.
55:37
And this has got to be you know, talking to Tyler Cleveland and
55:39
others, and of course for us too, it's kind of the weirdest sports
55:43
window window a portion of the window because you've got basketball going on, you
55:46
got baseball going on. Spring football will happen, but baseball, pound for
55:51
pound, we know how important baseball is in this state. Uh, from
55:54
you know little's playing tournament ball, to league ball around cities and towns around
55:59
the state, to high school ball equally is important here, Brandon, no
56:02
question. And I laugh all the times people will say like, are you
56:05
a little less stressed this time here? I'm like, no, I'm probably
56:07
a little more stressed because of everything you got going on weather, trying to
56:10
get all these games in getting getting the like you said, the winter season's
56:14
wrapped up. But uh yeah, Brandon is is super important, and I
56:17
mean baseball is super important around Brandon. And uh, you know you look
56:22
at this facility now, you look at these guys, the way they carry
56:24
themselves, the team. Uh and and you know, we we we know
56:28
this is gonna be a super fun weekend. I mean, Mississippi Classic's always
56:30
a ton of fun. And be great crowds out here. We'll have the
56:34
the left field lounge out there will be rock and there'll be tons of students
56:36
in here. We'll have a we'll have a great crowd tonight. So uh
56:38
super excited to see them do that again tonight. Uh and and and to
56:43
continue the tradition around here of excellence at at Brandon High School and of course
56:46
basketball right in the thick of the MHSA playoffs. You know, obviously Brandon
56:51
has made it down to the big House. We'll see what happens then.
56:53
Who all gets down there? Fourteen Jeffred's gonna be there just about every year
56:57
now if as Barns go put a team out there, so uh yeah,
57:00
we'll be down a Gulf coast. Uh well, I think we. I
57:01
believe we'll play five thirty on Saturday. I think that's right to see the
57:05
five thirty or six. But uh yeah, it'll be big barn Burner's could
57:07
be good. When here Central's got a really good team. I think they're
57:10
number one in the STAATEU right now. Seems like we keep in the playoffs.
57:14
We're running aain runn against some really good teams in every sport. So
57:16
uh but yeah, I'm excited to see how those boys compete this week.
57:19
And you know, you look at the basketball championship bracket. I mean,
57:22
obviously football is tough, baseball stuff. Basketball is like it seems like the
57:25
longest road, right because you know, you play your district or region and
57:29
then you got to go travel like that and then oh, by the way,
57:30
you get down to the big house. Congratulations, Now you got to
57:32
play all week long to get to the championship. It's a long tournament.
57:37
It's a long season. I joke with them all the time. You go
57:38
through that long season and it means it means nothing. You lose two games
57:40
and you're out, you know what I mean, and the in their little
57:43
tournament that they do to kind of get their seating. But but yeah,
57:45
I mean, you look at all and I love what MHSA is done,
57:49
moving these games and neutral sites and bigger sites, you know, better venues.
57:52
But at the same time, it's a lot on the it's a lot
57:54
on the teams, it's a lot on the coaches just getting around, having
57:59
to play in you know, high US environments, environments that they're not used
58:00
to playing in, and so, you know, I think that's why it's
58:05
so important. You look at what Fred did, what even HoTT coach Monkraf
58:07
did this year, is you got to go around and you gotta find fine
58:10
road games, good road games, Go play and get used to doing that
58:14
because you're gonna have to do it when it matters most. Sam Williams on
58:16
your Radio, athletic director and head football coach at Brandon as a ribbon cut
58:21
the expansion and of course renovation of the baseball facility here, wonderful baseball facility.
58:24
A lot of you that don't even have kids at Brandon but maybe have
58:27
kids that will play here, we'll see this and it is a phenomenal facility.
58:30
Gotta talk a little football. It'll be a spring practice before you know
58:32
it for high school football. When do you guys do that. We'll start
58:36
the last week in April, but we'll I mean, we'll be going the
58:37
whole month April because we'll do junior high before that. Play Junior High on
58:40
the eighteenth with Pearl in Northwest ranking. But gonna be a fun year,
58:44
you know, kind of a transitional year where you when I say transitional,
58:46
a lot of key players coming back, but a lot of a lot of
58:50
key guys to replace guys that started for three years. But we're really excited.
58:54
We've been you know, flying around, having some good workouts, good
58:57
off season so far, so s I s of those guys hit the turf
59:00
and find out what they're really about here in a couple of weeks. Yeah,
59:01
And you know with football that just it never ends, now, right,
59:05
I mean, I know it's it's a little difficult for some of the
59:06
players that maybe cross you know, sports from baseball, basketball back to football.
59:10
But football it's a twenty four to seven, three sixty five sport now
59:15
it is. Yeah, I mean you I mean you know now like you
59:16
know, I've been This is my seventh year being Ahead football coach Nada.
59:20
You just have a year round calendar, right, Like you kind of have
59:22
a system that you do. You kind of have things that you hit throughout
59:24
the year. You know, kind of checkpoints that you're trying to get to,
59:28
phases that you're going through physically and football wise, and it's you know,
59:32
it's almost like you're you have a system and you develop it and you
59:36
find tune it every year. But for the most part, you kind of
59:37
getting that rhythm, the kids getting that rhythm as they move every year through
59:39
the program. So uh but yeah, it is a it is a full
59:43
time deal. It feels like it never ends. And I remember, you
59:46
know, playing college football and coming out of it and think myself, Man,
59:50
that is a grind. I'll probably never have experience again. And here
59:52
I am living it every single year. So one college football question will get
59:55
you on your way twelve team playoff. You like it, don't like it?
59:59
I think it's alright. I mean, I think college football as a
1:00:00
whole and gets trickling down in high school. I think there's a lot of
1:00:04
changes that are gonna have to be made over the next couple of years that
1:00:07
are not what you're talking about. I'm just talking about with but everything's going
1:00:09
on with the kids and all, and putting a lot of pressure on them
1:00:13
and having them make decisions that right now they're probably not ready to make.
1:00:15
But as far as from a business model, yeah, absolutely, it's gonna
1:00:19
be fun, you know. I mean, because I don't matter if you
1:00:21
make it twelve, twenty four or ninety six. Somebody's gonna complain about not
1:00:23
being in. But at the end of the day, it'll be fun to
1:00:24
watch twelve teams battle it out. And the thing that I'm interested to say
1:00:30
is, you know how football is just such a physical sport. You lose
1:00:31
guys every game. It's gonna be a war of attrition when you get to
1:00:35
that point, That's no doubt about it. Coach, I appreciate you as
1:00:37
always. Yeah, appreciate Jake Sam Williams, athletics director, head football coach
1:00:40
here at Brandon as they riven cut tonight on the new baseball stadium. Of
1:00:45
course, the renovated baseball stadium here at Brandon. A lot of great baseball
1:00:49
facilities high school wise from Northwest rankin Heartfield, Jackson Academy, Brandon Pearl,
1:00:53
Madison Central Mean all across the state. High school baseball extremely extremely popular here
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He is on your radio, JD. Welcome in, brother, how you
1:02:20
doing, Brad? Pleasure to yelving Mead Chack prosby all with your brother.
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I appreciate you having me man absolutely always, always and continuing to do great
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stuff on the hard count. You can check that out on on three dot
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com al so YouTube as well. All right, college Football Playoff, want
1:02:36
to get your take on everything moving and shaking in college football. Maybe a
1:02:38
couple teams as we head towards spring practice, but your thoughts on what has
1:02:43
transpired this week with a twelve team playoff, the five plus seven model and
1:02:46
oh, by the way, you shake hands if you're in that room,
1:02:49
and then all of a sudden, the sec and Big ten says yeah,
1:02:52
but maybe we want to expand it to fourteen in a couple of years.
1:02:53
Maybe we want some you know, we want our shake for this and for
1:02:58
that. Your thoughts of everything going on right now. Yeah, I think
1:03:00
there's a couple of different emotions because I always, truthfully, always on the
1:03:05
side of like, hey, let's stay at four. Four is grade four
1:03:07
is enough for us. We don't need to get too crazy with this playoff
1:03:10
field because obviously the more playoff games we have here, the less the regular
1:03:15
season games are gonna matter. So I was always, you know, kind
1:03:17
of kicking and screaming. But I'm like, all right, if we're gonna
1:03:19
go with a twelve team playoff, the five plus seven model makes a lot
1:03:22
of sense. First thought I had was okay, well we'll have a Notre
1:03:25
Dame. And what happens when we get to this point where you know,
1:03:29
it's one thing to say, all right, hey, we're cool not joining
1:03:31
the conference that NBC money. That's good now, Jay, you and I
1:03:34
both know, hey, that's that's a lot of a lot of zeros that
1:03:37
I'm sure are treating them just fine. But you know, you get to
1:03:39
the point where, all right, what if Notre Dame is an undefeated number
1:03:42
one team in the country, Well, they're not playing the conference championship games.
1:03:45
So by this five and seven model, they're gonna have to still play
1:03:49
a first round game that would probably be in South Bend, so I'm sure
1:03:52
that'd be nice, But I mean, to have to play another game instead
1:03:54
they drop that game and get upset by somebody, Like all right, it's
1:03:58
a whole different story about what you want to do in the long term.
1:04:00
So to answer your your thought though about you know, expanding this playoff even
1:04:03
more. It's tough because I think now more than ever, we really need
1:04:08
someone to regulate college football, you know. I mean, like the tough
1:04:11
part is we have a lot of guys in a room that you know,
1:04:14
to no fault to their own they're all acting in their own interest and that's
1:04:15
their job. But they're supposed to represent the SEC in the big end of
1:04:18
the ACC, in the Big Twelve, and so you know, they're all
1:04:21
acting in the best interest of their conferences and know it's best for college football.
1:04:25
And you know, the poor guys with the ACC and the Big Twelve
1:04:28
are kind of the mercy of those who in the cards, which is of
1:04:30
course the other two conferences. So it's it's all wild, it's all you
1:04:33
know, if you know the book, if you give them out the cookie,
1:04:34
they're going to want some melk. If you give the college football playoff
1:04:38
from expansion, they're gonna want more and more spots. So we'll see what
1:04:41
happens to you. But yeah, it's absolutely wild times in college football.
1:04:45
Jadipakel of course on three dot com. You can get a show daily,
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The Hard Count with Jadipakell on three also on YouTube on the on three YouTube
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channel every day talking college football. All right, so let me ask you
1:04:55
this, Floyd. There's so many you know, the off seasons have been
1:04:58
just wild over the last couple of years, and now we've got this potential
1:05:01
divorce between Florida State and the ACC, and you know, basically you look
1:05:06
at it, it's it's almost like a bad marriage where the ACC says,
1:05:09
well, maybe you can just buy us out if you want out. So
1:05:13
are we about to see a next round? I mean, if Florida State
1:05:15
does in fact find the money, be it whatever avenue they're doing this to
1:05:20
get out of this, does that open the door for now a collapse of
1:05:24
the ACC. It feels like it feels like it really would because what we've
1:05:28
seen too in the conference re alignment world is you know, these things happen
1:05:31
in the buddy system. So if Florida State leads. They're not going without
1:05:35
someone to go with them. You know, they're not going without a Clemson
1:05:38
or Miami. And with how much Florida State brings to making that pie,
1:05:43
it is the revenue in the ACC that would be really, really tricky.
1:05:45
And I think you see a lot of other schools like, Okay, well,
1:05:48
if the person bringing a lot of that you know, green package to
1:05:53
the table is leaving, okay, well we're gonna go jump ship and be
1:05:56
somewhat better for our own interest too. So I do think it would be
1:06:00
I don't know if it'd be quite as rapid as what we saw on the
1:06:01
packed ball, but I do think it would kind of start that slow demise
1:06:04
of Hey, it's just this rent is getting a little bit too expensive,
1:06:09
and the person that was paying it is leaving, and so I think we
1:06:11
got to all try to find another spot to sit or as hide unfortunately.
1:06:15
So it's kind of sad because I think you probably feel in a similar way,
1:06:18
Jake, and and I don't mean to speak for you at all,
1:06:19
but there was an era of college football we've been in now for the past
1:06:24
twenty plus years that have you know, kind of created a lot of great
1:06:28
memories for us, Like it's awesome to see in the ACC and watch Clemson
1:06:31
in Florida State, and you know when Miami's good, that's always fun in
1:06:33
college football. So it's kind of an unfortunate but maybe necessary evolution just to
1:06:39
kind of stay alive. But it's a little bit sadden than the least.
1:06:41
But no, I think you hit it on the head. I think that's
1:06:43
probably the next thing that has to happen or that will happen when it comes
1:06:45
to the ACC in Florida State. If it's one, it's usually two.
1:06:48
Now one hundred percent agree with the Jad McHale on your radio Thursday edition of
1:06:51
the program Talking College Football. Let me ask you about a couple of teams.
1:06:55
Now, obviously you know you'll like everybody, all of us, you'll
1:06:59
come out with your prediction as we move into the spring and into the summer.
1:07:00
But just to fly over here, this will be and it already is
1:07:04
the most anticipated offseason for all miss football in this state since probably Eli Manning's
1:07:10
senior year, and maybe even bigger than that. When you look at all
1:07:13
of the publications and all of the way too earlies has all missing the college
1:07:15
football Playoff. Coming off an eleven win season Victor River Penn State and the
1:07:20
Peach Bowl, Lane Kiffin returns the majority of this roster. There is some
1:07:25
churn there with obviously Quinn Shawn Judkins, head of Ohio State. But are
1:07:28
you in the camp of yes, this is this is a very good football
1:07:31
team. Lane Kiffin hasn't probably a college football playoff team, yeah, without
1:07:35
question, without question, And they probably were last year. Even if you
1:07:39
subtract quin Shawn Goodkins from that team, you know, I think we probably
1:07:43
still would be a twelve team playoff qualifier. But what they did through the
1:07:46
portal Man, I mean, Lane Kiffin just doing Lane Kiffin things, you
1:07:49
know, going in there and treating it like a target and finding what he
1:07:53
wants and just kind of you know, get a defensive lineman here, we'll
1:07:56
go get ourselves at Juice Wells there and just continuing to build that thing into
1:08:00
a battleship. And I think Walter Nolan that we did our most impactful players
1:08:03
in the SBC you know, race today on our show, and Walter Nolan
1:08:08
to me is just like signifying what Lanekiffen talked about after that Georgia game.
1:08:13
Saying, Hey, the difference with us right now between Georgia is they have
1:08:15
double digit five stars, and he's like, I think we have one.
1:08:18
And so I'm not saying that, you know, ole miss has the same
1:08:20
level of five stars that Georgia does. But bringing a guy like walshon Nolan
1:08:24
do for us was the number two player in the whole gosh Star and portal
1:08:28
and being able to just be able to play some more ball on the line
1:08:30
of scrimmage and you know, have a better showing against a team like Georgia
1:08:33
with their offensive line and play with with you know, the Alabamas and the
1:08:36
Lsus of the world here and year out, Like if you can just play
1:08:40
ball there, I think that allows Lane Kiffen offense to go to in my
1:08:44
mind, going from like the equalizer to the edge, like being what kept
1:08:47
you in the ball game. Maybe you'll play in a shootout to like,
1:08:49
all right, that shootout that was you know, forty two thirty eight is
1:08:53
now forty two twenty eight because olds able to get some more stops. So
1:08:57
I mean, I one thousand percent believe this is a year, potentially the
1:09:00
year for Olemus to really make some noise on a on a very very national
1:09:04
level. And I can't wait. I'd even talk about Jackson Garden all right
1:09:08
there, But yeah, I'm really excited to watch that TV. I think
1:09:10
there's gonna be a lot of fun to watch this year. What's your take
1:09:13
on Oregon to the Big Big Ten? Obviously Washington the Big Ten, USC
1:09:16
UCLA. But I'm intrigued by this because, uh, you know, obviously
1:09:19
that staff has done a great job bringing in guys in the transfer portal.
1:09:24
You look at the quarterback room is really good, talent's really good. They
1:09:27
play at a different rate and a pace than a lot of teams. Could
1:09:30
they potentially look Ohio State's going to be right there. We'll see what Michigan
1:09:34
does on a rebuild of swords Penn State. You know, until James Franklin
1:09:38
can win the big games, I mean, he looks like he's going to
1:09:40
be a ten win coach. Still got to, you know, get past
1:09:43
those guys like Ohio State and Michigan. But Oregon it feels like, and
1:09:46
correct me if I'm wrong here, that the way they play football, this
1:09:49
this could catch a lot of people off guard in the Big Ten. And
1:09:51
I think that they're a heck of a heck of a football team and could
1:09:55
at least challenge for that championship this year. No, man, you nailed
1:09:58
it. You absolutely nailed it Oregon. For what I have been sort of
1:10:01
thinking here for the better part of this last week, since we're trying to
1:10:04
kind of figure out what the best talking points are as we kind of move
1:10:08
into you know, spring football, it feels like to me, Oregon's been
1:10:11
a Big ten team for the last two years, since Dan Lenning's got there.
1:10:14
They're just now getting, you know, to have that sticker on the
1:10:15
helmet. I mean, they've had the big human beings up front. They
1:10:18
play a tough rand of football. The Paxwall kind of has this label fair
1:10:24
or not that it's the softer conference and those are West Coast guys like Dan
1:10:27
Lenny comes from the SEC, you know, like like he knows what it
1:10:30
is in the trenches and he does what it takes to win at a very
1:10:32
very high level given his time under Kirby Smart. So I think the way
1:10:35
they've built it inside out, meaning from the line of scrimmage out to the
1:10:39
skill players and then going and getting the most experienced quarterback from for my knowledge,
1:10:44
that's Sam college football right now. In Dylan Gabriel and how much he's
1:10:45
played, I think I think they're gona hit the ground running. I mean,
1:10:48
if I had to pick today a Big Ten title game, if I
1:10:51
had to pick our matchup, I mean Vegas, I suppose would agree.
1:10:54
But Ohio State, Oregon, man, we're gonna see you that one.
1:10:57
I believe we'll see it in October. I'm trying to think of where it's
1:11:00
that. It might be in Eugene, or might being Columbus. We'll see
1:11:01
it in the regular season. I want to be surprised in the slightest if
1:11:04
we saw a second time around in Indies for the conference championship. So it's
1:11:09
no it's going to be tremendous to watch them enter into that conference. I
1:11:13
don't think they'll lose a step at all. Wrapping up with JD. Pakel
1:11:15
the Hard Count on three dot com, let's get you out with this.
1:11:19
I'm sitting here looking through all these conferences, and you know, working on
1:11:23
all kinds of stuff that we do and analytically looking at this this stat and
1:11:27
this metric and these recruiting this and recruiting that. And I look at Miami
1:11:30
and in the ACC and I go, man, this this is a good
1:11:32
roster. At least on paper, it looks good. They've recruited well,
1:11:35
they've brooked a transfer portal, They've got a great quarterback coming in. And
1:11:39
then I look over there at Mario Crystabal, who's one game above five hundred
1:11:42
as a coach, and I'm like, man, where is this team?
1:11:45
Are they good enough to get over on what has been looks like at least
1:11:49
face value, some coaching efficiencies with crystal Ball. Is it time for Miami
1:11:54
to shine this year? I really think it is, and I think it's
1:11:58
fair based on the little body of work for Mario Crystabal to talk about that
1:12:02
record. I mean, for me, I think in recent history, like
1:12:05
he took over Miami in the spot where they weren't necessarily on the up and
1:12:10
up like that, there was a reason why he, you know, was
1:12:12
able to get that head coaching job based on what he did at Oregon and
1:12:15
then also based on what Miami hadn't been. So I think there's probably some
1:12:18
some context there. But I really think for me, from the outside looking
1:12:23
in, I think he is a culture guy. I think culture is something
1:12:26
they've lacked, you know, again outside looking in, that's kind of something
1:12:29
that seems to have been missing a little bit, that pride factor of what
1:12:32
that you know, green and orange you means across college football. And the
1:12:38
thing I love man is like he's a guy that's been a part of it
1:12:42
when it is humming, Like he's seeing what it's supposed to look like.
1:12:44
He's seen the blueprint and so to be able to have seen it firsthand and
1:12:47
now to try and recreate that, I think that helps you substantially more than
1:12:50
if he had other circumstances coming into it. But like you just mentioned,
1:12:54
Man, the roster you have a top ten class from twenty three that's cycling
1:12:58
up. Is kind of the verbage that I'll use. They're all going to
1:13:00
developing into their offseason. And Francis Malago is absolute freef show on the offensive
1:13:04
line for them, and Ruby Bay is another guy that just is an Avenger
1:13:09
playing defensive line for them. And I mean, you hit it on the
1:13:11
head, jam Ward, Man. I think the difference the quarterback can make
1:13:14
for you if they're able to have some guys around him as some weapons.
1:13:17
I really think this is kind of a year for Miami to really make some
1:13:19
noise in the ACC. And last thing I'll say is too, like Jake,
1:13:24
I don't see a team in the ACC that I have tremendous confidence.
1:13:27
And that's not throwing shade at Florida States or anything against Clemson, but like
1:13:30
I just see a big old question mark in the ACC and I see a
1:13:33
Miami team that just continues to trend up year after year under Crystal Ball.
1:13:38
So that's gonna be a lot of fun. Man. I'm fired up to
1:13:40
see to you, and I think this could be a really good year for
1:13:43
them. Very good stuff. As always, follow him on ex at JD
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PQL. You can find a show The Hard Count on on three. Check
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on three dot com. Jad appreciate you as always, my friend for taking
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some time while this look. Have a great weekend. We'll do it again
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your radio, So Sam Williams and Rafaela Sparsa will be out here in just
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a few minutes. Beave or anything on your end. We need to catch
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up on a couple of texts here. First from Brando. Guys, my
1:15:26
phone was down this morning. I'm back, I'm here, I'm safe.
1:15:31
Well that's good to know you know that that Brando is safe. I did
1:15:36
wonder this morning maybe did he have something to do with with the phone outage,
1:15:40
because I could see him being, you know, a little shyster in
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this Brando, I don't really care about anything you just said. I don't
1:15:50
worry about you, chief shooting Bull. Will Stingray be the next voice of
1:15:58
the Crimson Tide? Oh Stingray? Yeah? Remember that fool that that that
1:16:05
guy in fine Baum's show. Yes, yes, the guy that started out
1:16:11
affiliated Missippi State. Yeah, oh man, I don't know he he may
1:16:15
have some sort of affiliation there at least give it a shot. Did you
1:16:20
like his content? No? No, of course not. He was a
1:16:27
no that was loose man. I remember, yeah, because he came out.
1:16:30
Can you remember what it did? What he what he said? But
1:16:32
it was really stupid and involved bringing the cow bell. Yeah. He would
1:16:39
do videos weekly like basically opponent previews forro Missippi State on his YouTube channel or
1:16:44
social media, and then he would bring the cowbell and Yogo State and all
1:16:47
that stuff. Yeah, and then if I remember right, the Mississippi State
1:16:54
fans actually knew better. We don't want to be associated with this guy,
1:16:59
and that's why he jumped ship. That's right. There was a divide there,
1:17:02
and at one point he went to Southern miss. I think he even
1:17:05
spent some time at Ole Miss. I mean, it's like he just became
1:17:10
kind of hopped around the SEC and around the South. What else we got
1:17:15
over there? That'll catch us up right. Notre Dame talking with J.
1:17:18
D. Pikel about the college football Playoff. You know, Notre Dame has
1:17:23
options, you know, it says wise. Notre Dame's path more odors with
1:17:29
this seating alteration, the Fighting Irish, after playing a twelve game regular season
1:17:32
slate, would have to win four consecutive matchups against ranked teams to win the
1:17:36
expanded playoff. Some say that's brutal, and that would be Joe Pompeliano.
1:17:44
That's his opinion. Those top four seeds will be granted, of course,
1:17:47
a bye week a week in mid mid December, while others like Notre Dame
1:17:54
or playing first round games potentially away from home. The idea of a December
1:17:58
home game would be awesome for Fighting Ours, but Notre Dame could be unbeaten
1:18:01
and ranked number one of the poll and still have to still not have a
1:18:04
buy due to independence. Spencer Tillman on this, he says, quote more
1:18:12
than a few are upset about Notre Dame's place in the hierarchy of college football's
1:18:15
new playoffs structure. Can only achieve a five seed in the field even if
1:18:20
they end the regular season at number one. That's the price you pay for
1:18:24
independence. They'll be fine, we need some drama. So yeah, I
1:18:27
mean, Notre Dame really didn't raise an alarm about this. More people are
1:18:30
raising alarm about this than say, for instance, Notre Dame is, but
1:18:33
Notre Dame doesn't seem to be worried about this. Notre Dame TV analy Spencer
1:18:38
Tillman says Notre Dame has made its bed as a team standing on its own
1:18:42
outside of the ACC and must deal with the cards that has been given.
1:18:45
As long as regular season scheduling stays the way it is in the coming years,
1:18:49
this could be a net positive for the Fighting Irish, who won't have
1:18:54
to play a ranked team in a league title game, so there is that
1:18:57
as well. Jake on Twitter analysts for College Football, he said Nashville,
1:19:02
Tennessee. The biggest winner in the five plus seven model he thinks is Notre
1:19:05
Dame, and to be honest, it's not even close. He said,
1:19:09
think about this and the previous four team playoff era, Notre Dame was buying
1:19:13
for a coveted spot despite never playing during the final week of the regular season,
1:19:18
when the selection committee had several teams under the microscope. That worry is
1:19:23
now over. If Freeman's program finished is strong with double digit wins, there's
1:19:27
plenty of spots to be voted in. So what he's saying basically is,
1:19:30
if Notre Dame finishes with double digit wins, which you know we said this
1:19:33
at ten wins, they're gonna be no worse than a fifth seed. They
1:19:36
can't get one of the four seeds, but they could be the fifth seed,
1:19:40
and that's probably where they are. Heather Dinich on this. She says
1:19:45
that as an independent, Notre Dame's only path is one of these seven at
1:19:48
large bids. Even if the Irish are the committee's number one team on selection
1:19:54
day, they will follow the number five behind the four conference champs. The
1:19:57
Irish will need to win four straight games to win the national title, and
1:20:00
a lot of people are focusing on that. But again that's I mean the
1:20:03
committee. The committee puts this thing together for college football as a collective,
1:20:08
and you can't show favoritism to Notre Dame. Notre Dame already, I mean,
1:20:12
granted, a lot of this is they do it their own self.
1:20:15
I mean, the TV contract with NBC, the brand of Notre Dame,
1:20:17
it's bigger than just about any brand in college football. You can make an
1:20:20
argument that it is the biggest brand in college sports. So you can't give
1:20:27
you know, I guess you could say extra incentives or kind of a wink
1:20:30
wink deal to Notre Dame just because they are independent. Says This is where
1:20:33
it gets sticky for the fighting Irish. Theoretically, Notre Dame can play twice
1:20:36
as many games in a month to get to a national championship than they would
1:20:41
have played an entiger regular season. Would any team survive against this gauntlet?
1:20:45
Lucio Antonini says the most games Notre Dame can play in a season now it's
1:20:50
sixteen games, twelve regular season games, no conference championship game. Four total
1:20:56
playoff games. There's a chance some teams can play up to seventeen games if
1:21:00
they make the national title twelve games and a conference championship lost plus four games.
1:21:04
Notre Dame has an advantage there so a lot of people going back and
1:21:08
forth on who has the advantage and who doesn't. Bran Crawford two four seven
1:21:12
Sports says twenty twenty four college football playoff. He has Ohio State one the
1:21:16
first seed after winning the Big Ten championship at twelve and one, Georgia number
1:21:20
two seed at eleven to two and SEC champ, Florida State twelve and one,
1:21:25
a c S champ, Utah eleven and two Big twelve champion As Texas
1:21:29
is the five seed in this format, Oregon number six, Notre Dame seven,
1:21:32
Michigan eight, Ole Miss nine, LSU ten, South Florida as the
1:21:36
AAC champ. They would be the one group of five champion. But the
1:21:41
group of five champion is likely going to fall outside of the top ten almost
1:21:45
every year if you think about it, I mean, even an undefeated Liberty
1:21:49
or undefeated two Lane or South Florida or whoever that may be, Boise,
1:21:54
They're likely not going to get one of the top four seeds. It's just
1:21:58
not gonna happen. And of course he has Miami as his life team in
1:22:00
and real quickly. George Schwartz says that our Jeff Swatt says that Notre Dame
1:22:05
will be We'll get a home playoff game in the scenario, and they are
1:22:09
fine with that. So I think that's where the rubber meets the road for
1:22:12
Notre Dame is they are happy they will have a home playoff game and then
1:22:15
move forward from there. We appreciate Sam Williams, Rovulosparza and JD. Pakel
1:22:19
jumping in and we got to get out of here a little early today.
1:22:23
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