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Notre Dame Intel, $60M NIL Rosters , Arch Manning Debate, Colorado's Size, Top 10 · Unafraid Show with George Wrighster

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. Put your big boy pants on.
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Speaker 1: Today we gotta tell the truth about Notre Dame and
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Speaker 1: Marcus Freeman. Is he a championship caliber coach? Where is
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Speaker 1: Notre Dame headed? Where have they been? And what is
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Speaker 1: the truth about twenty twenty six and beyond March Manning?
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Speaker 1: He is not a generational player, and I think that
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Speaker 1: we can all agree on that. But I'll explain to
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Speaker 1: you why anybody that tells you that they would have
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Speaker 1: drafted Arch number one this year would have been drafting
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Speaker 1: a project. Twenty twenty eight. It is going to be
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Speaker 1: the breaking point for college football salaries. And on three
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Speaker 1: article by Brandon Huffman illustrates this perfectly. And you know
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Speaker 1: when it comes on nil transfer Portal, I've been ahead
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Speaker 1: of the curve of everybody. There was also an interesting
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Speaker 1: tweet by Ryan Broyles about when Michael Crabtree was his
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Speaker 1: recruiting host at Texas Tech, and then that got me
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Speaker 1: to thinking about when I was a recruiting host and
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Speaker 1: we're gonna start out the show the way we always
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Speaker 1: start out. The best thing I saw today is Colorado.
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Speaker 1: They sick of y'all ish talking about they got some
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Speaker 1: little bitty players. I went in on it. I talked
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Speaker 1: about it. They do have fourteen players under one hundred
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Speaker 1: and eighty pounds listed on their roster. Like we are small,
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Speaker 1: but we are mighty. Talking about them boys small, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: they ain't that small. Look at how buff these dudes are.
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Speaker 1: Look at him busting out the scene. Look at Julian
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Speaker 1: Lewis the extra buff up there. Man, you ain't stopping him.
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Speaker 1: Great job, Colorado. I'm gonna explain all this to you,
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Speaker 1: so hear me out. Arch Manning, who was the number
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Speaker 1: one player coming out of high school. He is not
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Speaker 1: a generational player. Anybody that tells you that they would
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Speaker 1: have taken him with a first round pick, they would
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Speaker 1: have been drafting a project. And when I say that,
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Speaker 1: that's no different than Anthony Richardson, Jordan love will Levis,
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Speaker 1: even Aaron Rodgers. And when I say that Arch Manning
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Speaker 1: is not a generational player, generational people show up early.
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Speaker 1: We're talking about Jeremiah Smith, We're talking about Lebron James's.
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Speaker 1: Steph Curry was not a generational college basketball player. He
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Speaker 1: didn't have the height, weight building. He had to grow
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Speaker 1: into who he was. And that is where Arch Manning
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Speaker 1: is right now. If you took him in the inn
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Speaker 1: of draft, right now, is he ready to start in
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Speaker 1: the NFL? Absolutely not. Quarterbacks like Noah Fafida, Jaye Mayavo
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Speaker 1: or Trinidad Chambliss have had more productive college football seasons,
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Speaker 1: and the tape has even been better. March was number
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Speaker 1: twenty seven in the country in passing last year thirty
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Speaker 1: one hundred yards, twenty six touchdown, seven interceptions. And we
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Speaker 1: can all be honest when you watch the tape, and yes,
3:24
Speaker 1: people may blame it on injuries, you can blame it
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Speaker 1: on whatever you want to, but when you turned on
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Speaker 1: the tape in the beginning of the season, it wasn't there.
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Speaker 1: There was inconsistency, there was misthrows, he was late at times.
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Speaker 1: The According to his coach Sark, he has handled the
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Speaker 1: pressure very well, and I do agree. It would have
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Speaker 1: broken and cracked a lot of people. He finished the
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Speaker 1: season well in their bowl game and against Texas A
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Speaker 1: and M where they got the huge win. But one
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Speaker 1: thing is, I've been told that bowl games are meaningless,
3:51
Speaker 1: So how can we put media in a game where
3:54
Speaker 1: SEC people consistently tell me, Oh, don't worry about them
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Speaker 1: bowl games. Nobody really cares anyway, But you want me
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Speaker 1: to care about this. And the point about him being
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Speaker 1: generational does not mean that he cannot go out and
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Speaker 1: be a great NFL quarterback. Look at Tom Brady. Nothing
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Speaker 1: generational about Tom Brady at all. You've seen the combine
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Speaker 1: photos with him with his shirt off. His arm is
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Speaker 1: pretty good, but it's not like he has a laser
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Speaker 1: beam of Josh Allen arm. That's the difference. That's the
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Speaker 1: point that I want to make. If his name was
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Speaker 1: anything other than Manning, his name was Arch Leftwitch, arch Duffewitz,
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Speaker 1: arch Black, he would not have the same hype around him.
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Speaker 1: So we need to keep the same energy about Arch
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Speaker 1: Manning that we keep about other quarterbacks and the skepticism
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Speaker 1: surrounding it. When it works, it works, but we have
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Speaker 1: not seen the consistency of it. That's the reason why
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Speaker 1: his dad, his uncles, anybody that has been asked about it,
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Speaker 1: no chance he's coming out in this draft because they
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Speaker 1: know he's not ready. If you did draft him with
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Speaker 1: the first round pick this year, if he had come out,
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Speaker 1: you would have been drafting in project. There's no different.
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Speaker 1: His project's name is just Manning instead of Blacksmith or
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Speaker 1: whatever his last name is. That's the difference. So when
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Speaker 1: we're judging Arch Manning, because he has been judged completely unfairly,
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Speaker 1: I will stand on that. You had Paul Feinbaum last year.
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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, the greatest thing since life's bread. He's
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Speaker 1: gonna do this. TeX's gonna do this. Unrealistic expectations. The
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Speaker 1: same way it was when he came out of high school.
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Speaker 1: He didn't go to the Elite eleven, he didn't play
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Speaker 1: seven on seven, he didn't go to camps with other kids.
5:27
Speaker 1: And it wasn't that he was ducking the smoke. His
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Speaker 1: family just had a different path for him and he
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Speaker 1: was able to do different things. He would not have
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Speaker 1: been able to achieve number one overall recruit status without
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Speaker 1: doing those things, because other kids have not been able
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Speaker 1: to do it who have turned out to be freaking phenomenal.
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Speaker 1: So there's no hating on arch Manning. I just want
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Speaker 1: us to have realistic expectations for arch man That way
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Speaker 1: he can go out and be treated like everybody else
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Speaker 1: this college football season. And the expectation is not that
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Speaker 1: he's going to be the number one overall pick. No,
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Speaker 1: he got to go there's no fairy tale going on.
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Speaker 1: Next thing up, the twenty twenty eight high school recruiting
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Speaker 1: cycle is going to be the breaking point for college football.
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Speaker 1: Salary donor fatigue is coming one hundred percent. This is
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Speaker 1: illustrated more than anything else in the Brandon Huffman article
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Speaker 1: on on three, and this article was titled Inside the
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Speaker 1: Recruiting nil Marketplace two and a half million dollars offers
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Speaker 1: and the Rise of seven figure high school prospects. I'm
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Speaker 1: reading through this article and it is just making it
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Speaker 1: so clear and so obvious to me it is imperative
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Speaker 1: that a real salary cap is in place the statement
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Speaker 1: in the whole article that was most indicative. This is
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Speaker 1: a quote from a high school prospect. The market value
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Speaker 1: for my position is about three hundred thousand dollars, but
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Speaker 1: I believe I'm worth one million dollars a year easily.
6:53
Speaker 1: So the going rate for his position is three hundred
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Speaker 1: thousand dollars, but he's worth a million dollars. That's like
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Speaker 1: a parent talking about their kid. All players believe that
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Speaker 1: they are worth more than what the market is bearing
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Speaker 1: for their position because they are the generational player. He
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Speaker 1: actually talked to a bunch of recruits about this, and
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Speaker 1: only one of them said that they would even consider
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Speaker 1: a program for less than three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
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Speaker 1: And the elite prospects, the price of admission starts at
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Speaker 1: seven point fifty at least. And I know this for
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Speaker 1: a fact because I've talked to general managers, I've talked
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Speaker 1: to people who I've talked to coaches, and I understand
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Speaker 1: and even have seen some of these contracts. There's no
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Speaker 1: faking in the making here. It's the truth. And when
7:37
Speaker 1: you're in a situation where the paper trail is nonexistent,
7:41
Speaker 1: that creates room for impropriety and backhanded things happen. Look
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Speaker 1: at the deal with Darien Mensa at Duke, the Duke Deal,
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Speaker 1: where he had signed a two year deal, Miami offers
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Speaker 1: him a boatload of money, he leaves while he's under contract,
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Speaker 1: and then they got to worry about buyouts and all
7:57
Speaker 1: of that stuff. Those things need to be clear cut
8:00
Speaker 1: and up front. But now, if you're a Duke booster
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Speaker 1: or a donor, yes, you got an ACC championship last year,
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Speaker 1: but you didn't get to the College Football Playoff. Your
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Speaker 1: team's taking a big hit because your quarterback left. How
8:12
Speaker 1: many times can you go to that? Well, Donors, they
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Speaker 1: have feelings, they want access, they want results. That's the
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Speaker 1: way it is. Brandon Huffman went on to give a
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Speaker 1: list of each position and how much those positions were worth.
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Speaker 1: The numbers are five hundred thousand to three million for
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Speaker 1: a quarterback, three hundred thousand to six seventy five for
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Speaker 1: a running back, three fifty to one point three for
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Speaker 1: a wide receiver, tight ends two fifty to three fifty,
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Speaker 1: interior o lineman two hundred to three hundred. Tackles were
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Speaker 1: four hundred to one point five. And we have seen
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Speaker 1: what Miami just just did to get the kid this year.
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Speaker 1: Defensive tackles three fifty to a million, and rushers five
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Speaker 1: hundred to two point five, linebackers two hundred to four hundred,
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Speaker 1: because they actually usually take the longest to develop. Cornerbacks
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Speaker 1: three twenty five to eight hundred, safeties two fifty to
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Speaker 1: six hundred. That is a lot of money invested, especially
9:11
Speaker 1: if that number just continues to go north and you
9:14
Speaker 1: multiply that eleven positions and you're having multiple of them,
9:18
Speaker 1: that can put you over to twenty million just there.
9:21
Speaker 1: And that's why there's a lot of people who are
9:23
Speaker 1: going to push back on kids getting paid. I'm not
9:25
Speaker 1: one of them people, but I do understand that it
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Speaker 1: must be run like a business. There needs to be
9:30
Speaker 1: equal opportunities for teams. Everybody needs to have a chance
9:35
Speaker 1: with the salary cap. Yes, you can generate more money
9:38
Speaker 1: because your brand is bigger all of that stuff, but
9:40
Speaker 1: everybody needs to be playing with the same amount of
9:42
Speaker 1: money available. And of course bird rights and all that
9:45
Speaker 1: type of stuff available as well. Speaking of rosters and
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Speaker 1: money and everything else, I want you guys to see
9:52
Speaker 1: what Alabama's general manager, Courtney Morgan had to say about
9:58
Speaker 1: this because there's been a lot of talk about how
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Speaker 1: much college football rosters costs, and that forty million dollars
10:05
Speaker 1: is the number, but apparently forty million dollars ain't even
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Speaker 1: the number no more.
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Speaker 2: You never really know really what other schools they're spending
10:13
Speaker 2: because everyone has creative ways in the third party in
10:16
Speaker 2: IL the authentic in IL portion of their spending to
10:20
Speaker 2: pay players, So you really don't know what other people
10:23
Speaker 2: are really doing. We kind of do the mass in
10:25
Speaker 2: their own head by monitoring with other schools and competition
10:28
Speaker 2: are doing, wondering probably more than forty million dollars, but
10:31
Speaker 2: you just never really know. So what we've done is
10:33
Speaker 2: try to take things on our own hand and come
10:35
Speaker 2: up with different ways that we can help offset the
10:38
Speaker 2: cap through content creation, third party deals. If you spend
10:42
Speaker 2: your time worry about what your competition is doing, you're
10:44
Speaker 2: not taking care of what's going on in your own program.
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Speaker 1: So anybody who thought that I was a crazy person
10:52
Speaker 1: for the last year, two years, three years even talking
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Speaker 1: about this about how the cap is being circumvented and
10:59
Speaker 1: how it was going to be circumvented and everything else,
11:02
Speaker 1: not crazy, Just the truth teller Here's where it's also important.
11:05
Speaker 1: Got to go back to the Brandon Huffman article and
11:07
Speaker 1: where I said that the twenty twenty eight class was
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Speaker 1: going to be the thing that changed college football payments.
11:12
Speaker 1: Because that twenty twenty eight class, they are waiting on
11:16
Speaker 1: the gold rush rising juniors. They are believing that this
11:20
Speaker 1: money is going to not only increase a little bit,
11:23
Speaker 1: that they're going to be significant increases. Ah, we gonna see.
11:28
Speaker 1: Don't shoot the messenger, your boys. Just here explaining this
11:31
Speaker 1: whole thing to you. Last thing I wanted to tell
11:33
Speaker 1: you guys about is so Ryan Broyles, who was a
11:37
Speaker 1: wide receiver in college pretty sure he played at Oklahoma.
11:40
Speaker 1: He was talking about how Michael Crabtree hosted him on
11:43
Speaker 1: his official visit at Texas Tech. He said he never
11:46
Speaker 1: felt the love as if he wanted to be the
11:48
Speaker 1: only guy there. Essentially, he said, didn't feel that way
11:52
Speaker 1: other places. The guy isn't always the best guy to
11:55
Speaker 1: host food for thought. Okay, so why this matters? There's
11:59
Speaker 1: two things this There's a lesson that Kyle Brady taught me,
12:03
Speaker 1: and I believe that this applies not only in football,
12:06
Speaker 1: but it applies everywhere. When I got to the Jacksonville Jaguars.
12:09
Speaker 1: We would be watching film or at practice. I would
12:12
Speaker 1: make a good play and he'd be like, good job, Gee,
12:14
Speaker 1: good job man, like cheer me on. And it damn
12:17
Speaker 1: near broke my brain because I remember hearing from people
12:21
Speaker 1: that they said, guys in the NFL not gonna want
12:24
Speaker 1: you to succeed. They're not gonna be rooting for you.
12:26
Speaker 1: It's an adversarial situation. So when Kyle Brady's doing this,
12:30
Speaker 1: and I remember pulling him aside, It's like, Yo, are
12:33
Speaker 1: you trying to play psychological games or something? Because I
12:35
Speaker 1: don't understand why you're cheering for me to be successful.
12:39
Speaker 1: He taught me one of the greatest lessons that I've
12:41
Speaker 1: ever been taught before in my life. He said, George,
12:44
Speaker 1: why would I root against you? And I was like,
12:46
Speaker 1: because I'm trying to take your job, and he laughed
12:49
Speaker 1: at me. He was like, you don't get it, gee,
12:51
Speaker 1: because if you go out there and perform poorly, that
12:54
Speaker 1: doesn't mean I get the job. You go perform back poorly.
12:57
Speaker 1: I perform poorly, they'll get rid of both of us.
13:00
Speaker 1: They'll bring somebody else in. So I don't have to
13:02
Speaker 1: root for your demise because I'm in control of how
13:06
Speaker 1: well I play. So if I play well, I don't
13:09
Speaker 1: have to root against you. I play better than you,
13:11
Speaker 1: I don't have to root against you. I don't have
13:12
Speaker 1: to root for you to fail because it's not tied
13:15
Speaker 1: to my position on the team. I was like, Yo,
13:18
Speaker 1: that was a big thing. When I was at the
13:20
Speaker 1: University of Oregon. We had this dB recruit come down
13:24
Speaker 1: and I would get to host a lot of the recruits.
13:27
Speaker 1: Apparently they knew I was responsible. You know, the house
13:30
Speaker 1: ain't gonna burn down and largely stayed out of trouble.
13:34
Speaker 1: Person that was gonna be able to articulate things to parents,
13:37
Speaker 1: to the recruits about the schools, speak positively all that stuff.
13:41
Speaker 1: I was your guy, and I love to do it
13:43
Speaker 1: because there was no nil at that time. So we
13:45
Speaker 1: got a good meal at oes Orgon Electric Station, or
13:49
Speaker 1: we got a chance to go to some other restaurant
13:51
Speaker 1: that was nice. So you got a chance to get
13:53
Speaker 1: a high end meal, and then they gave you money
13:55
Speaker 1: to take the recruits out. So it was a yes
13:58
Speaker 1: for me all the time. So we got a recruit
14:00
Speaker 1: man safety and I did like I did with all
14:04
Speaker 1: the other recruits. So me, Sammy Parker, gonna take the
14:07
Speaker 1: kid out. I asked the kid, what do you want
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Speaker 1: to do. He's like, I'm trying to go party. I
14:13
Speaker 1: want to see some girls, blah blah blah. So I'm like, okay, cool,
14:17
Speaker 1: no problem now, mind you. I tailored every single experience
14:22
Speaker 1: to the recruit. If he wanted to go out and party, cool,
14:26
Speaker 1: we'll go do it. If he wants to just chill,
14:28
Speaker 1: have a low key day playing playing video games and
14:31
Speaker 1: us chill good. If he wanted to smoke, I would
14:34
Speaker 1: find that for him. If you want to drink, I
14:35
Speaker 1: would find it for whatever the recruit wanted to do. Right,
14:39
Speaker 1: So we take him to a party, girls around. He's like,
14:44
Speaker 1: I want to drink something, so get it. So he
14:46
Speaker 1: ends up with some alcohol, everything else right, mind you.
14:50
Speaker 1: He goes home, gets back to the hotel that night
14:53
Speaker 1: in one piece. Everything is fine. He says he has
14:57
Speaker 1: had a phenomenal time. Okay, and then the next day
15:01
Speaker 1: he's getting ready to leave. So this is Saturday night,
15:03
Speaker 1: he's getting ready to leave on Sunday. We don't see
15:05
Speaker 1: him the next day. Of course, the coaches would normally
15:08
Speaker 1: see him. Everything I get called into the office, and
15:11
Speaker 1: I think Sammy did too, but I specifically got called
15:14
Speaker 1: into the office. Coach Bollati calls me into the office,
15:17
Speaker 1: and it was one of the other coaches in there too,
15:19
Speaker 1: and he was like, what happened last night? The parents
15:21
Speaker 1: came in here and they were like, it's like Sodom
15:24
Speaker 1: and Gomora out here. Our kid didn't feel comfortable, he
15:29
Speaker 1: was unsafe, He drank, he had a hangover this morning,
15:32
Speaker 1: and he said he tried to tell everybody that this
15:35
Speaker 1: is not what he wanted to do and everything else.
15:38
Speaker 1: And I'm looking at the kid, how dare he? How
15:40
Speaker 1: dare he literally asked for this? I gave him what
15:44
Speaker 1: he asked for, and now he'd then went back to
15:46
Speaker 1: the parents because apparently he showed up late to like
15:50
Speaker 1: breakfast or wherever they were supposed to meet the coach
15:52
Speaker 1: and he was sluggish and hungover. And how is this
15:55
Speaker 1: my fault? I don't know what he does at home.
15:57
Speaker 1: I don't know that this is a kid whose parents
15:59
Speaker 1: got his thumb on them like that. Now, mind you.
16:01
Speaker 1: On my recruiting trips, I didn't do that that sort
16:04
Speaker 1: of thing. I went on party, but I didn't drink
16:06
Speaker 1: out and smoke, nothing, none of that. But recruits come
16:08
Speaker 1: in and you're trying to show them a good time.
16:11
Speaker 1: So this was the only time that something went went left.
16:14
Speaker 1: I got put on apparently recruit probation for a couple
16:19
Speaker 1: of months, so I didn't get another recruit for a while.
16:21
Speaker 1: These are the things that happened on recruiting trips. But
16:24
Speaker 1: he asked for it. What was I supposed to do? People?
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Speaker 1: We got to tell the truth and talk about the
17:30
Speaker 1: Notre Dame Fighting Irish under Marcus Freelo. Is this a
17:34
Speaker 1: championship caliber team? Is he a championship caliber code? Can
17:38
Speaker 1: Notre Dame capture their first national championship in almost forty years?
17:43
Speaker 1: Marcus Freeman, he didn't take over a rebuild. He took
17:46
Speaker 1: over one of the hardest things in sports to inherit
17:49
Speaker 1: a program that was actually good enough that nobody wanted patience,
17:54
Speaker 1: and not good enough that anybody was ever going to
17:57
Speaker 1: be satisfied. That is a pressure cooker of a job, because,
18:00
Speaker 1: depending on who you ask, Marcus Freeman is either the
18:03
Speaker 1: future of the NFL and a testament to a great
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Speaker 1: about the show. As we get to talk about Notre Dame,
18:22
Speaker 1: maybe the most impressive high wire act that Marcus Freeman
18:25
Speaker 1: ever pulled is making Notre Dame likable. Look at how
18:29
Speaker 1: his team responded when he got the job. It was
18:32
Speaker 1: like the savior had come to town. And that's why
18:35
Speaker 1: I say Notre Dame fans, Oh, they are one hundred
18:38
Speaker 1: percent delusional while at the same time understanding exactly who
18:42
Speaker 1: they are. Their history says pre nineteen eighty eight, one
18:45
Speaker 1: of the greatest college football teams of all time. But
18:48
Speaker 1: since then there's just been a good football team with
18:50
Speaker 1: no championships. But then they also understand that if you
18:54
Speaker 1: beat Notre Dame that you get a chance to go
18:57
Speaker 1: to the college football Playoff like Miami and Texas last year.
19:01
Speaker 1: They don't want all the smoke. Not all smoke is
19:03
Speaker 1: good smoke. They don't want anything other than premium smoke
19:07
Speaker 1: because they understand who they are and they'll play in
19:09
Speaker 1: the postseas. But after that national championship title game run
19:12
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four, they weren't gonna sit up there
19:15
Speaker 1: and settle for what they felt was like a second
19:17
Speaker 1: rate Bogan. They understand that playing USC is an institution,
19:21
Speaker 1: but they also are not gonna throw their defense out
19:24
Speaker 1: against an air raid team in the middle of August
19:26
Speaker 1: and week zero when you had a game on the
19:28
Speaker 1: schedule already, and when you look at their schedule, they
19:31
Speaker 1: will schedule mossus, but they're not going to give power
19:34
Speaker 1: away to a conference despite everybody won. And these are
19:39
Speaker 1: things that definitely impact the way people see Notre Dame
19:42
Speaker 1: because some people, particularly those wearing green and gold, they
19:45
Speaker 1: see it as a show of strength, but some people
19:48
Speaker 1: they look at it as the complete opposite, because what's
19:51
Speaker 1: more important to the fighting Irish is that you're talking
19:54
Speaker 1: about them. And that's the level of relevance that they
19:57
Speaker 1: had under Lou Holtz and now Notre Day securing more
20:01
Speaker 1: five star talent in the last recruiting cycle than the
20:04
Speaker 1: ACC and the Big twelve Conference combined. And that's despite
20:08
Speaker 1: not having won a national championship since nineteen eighty eight
20:12
Speaker 1: when they were led by recently departed Lou Holtz and
20:15
Speaker 1: Notre Dame honestly, it wasn't a broken down fixer upper
20:19
Speaker 1: because Brian Kelly had them winning. They played in the
20:22
Speaker 1: National championship game in twenty twelve, and despite what Brian
20:25
Speaker 1: Kelly said after he left South Bend, Notre Dame had talent,
20:30
Speaker 1: they had infrastructure, money, brand power NBC and the type
20:35
Speaker 1: of national relevance that most programs would literally sell a
20:38
Speaker 1: kidney to have. It's clear that a lot of people
20:41
Speaker 1: didn't take the Irish very seriously, and that's because Brian
20:44
Speaker 1: Kelly was three and eight against opponents ranked inside the
20:48
Speaker 1: top ten while he was at Notre Dame.
20:50
Speaker 3: A lot of.
20:50
Speaker 1: Blame was placed on the players at Notre Dame. But
20:53
Speaker 1: was that really true? So Marcus Freeman, he didn't take
20:56
Speaker 1: over a rebuild the year one, Oh, you saw all
20:59
Speaker 1: of it. You saw the full gambit swing there, the
21:02
Speaker 1: highst oh, they were incredibly hot. Notre Dame beat four
21:06
Speaker 1: AP ranked teams in Freeman's debut season. It beat BYU Sarahcuse, Clemson,
21:11
Speaker 1: and South Carolina and that matched the program mark for
21:14
Speaker 1: wins by a first year head coach. And he also
21:16
Speaker 1: got his first win against Cal after the famous ozer
21:20
Speaker 1: and two start. But buddy, oh, the lowso they were loud,
21:25
Speaker 1: losing to Marshall at home. That is unacceptable. That's unacceptable
21:30
Speaker 1: at any power for a school, let alone Notre Dame.
21:33
Speaker 1: Then you got worked by Stanford when Stamford looked like
21:36
Speaker 1: it needed to be a life alert. That twenty twenty
21:40
Speaker 1: two season. It told you everything that you needed to
21:43
Speaker 1: know about early Marcus Freeman Notre Dame. That the ceiling, oh,
21:47
Speaker 1: it was obvious. The floor though, it was way too
21:50
Speaker 1: low for a place that walks around with touchdown Jesus
21:54
Speaker 1: over his shoulder. And then came twenty twenty three, and
21:56
Speaker 1: this is where the Marcus Freeman conversation started to split
22:00
Speaker 1: because some people saw progress and some people they just
22:03
Speaker 1: saw it as more of the same. They weren't going
22:05
Speaker 1: to exercise patience. The Iris had Sam Hartman offense. It
22:09
Speaker 1: was more buzz, more explosiveness, more expectations, and they did
22:14
Speaker 1: win ten games. That one hundred percent matters. Winning ten
22:18
Speaker 1: games is not a failure anywhere, except that the places
22:20
Speaker 1: that are spoiled enough to think that double digit wins
22:24
Speaker 1: grow on trees. Notre Dame it is one of those places.
22:27
Speaker 1: And if you're the head coach of Notre Dame, you
22:29
Speaker 1: don't get judged by whether your team is pretty good.
22:31
Speaker 1: You get judged by whether your team looks like it
22:34
Speaker 1: belongs in a room when the real monsters walk in.
22:37
Speaker 1: And that was the issue because Freeman's teams, they kept
22:40
Speaker 1: feeling like they were almost there good enough to be
22:43
Speaker 1: quality teams, good enough to look the part, and good
22:46
Speaker 1: enough to get everybody talking, but yet not disciplined enough
22:50
Speaker 1: or ruthless enough to remove all of the doubt. And
22:52
Speaker 1: then twenty twenty four happened. And that's the year Marcus
22:55
Speaker 1: Freeman changed the argument, because he went from a dead
22:58
Speaker 1: man walking after a loss to North Than Illinois to
23:01
Speaker 1: the record holder for most wins in a single season
23:04
Speaker 1: in program history, because the dude stacked thirteen straight wins
23:08
Speaker 1: and beating seven ranked opponents and winning three college football
23:12
Speaker 1: playoff games and playing in the National Championship. They lost
23:16
Speaker 1: to Ohio State thirty four to twenty three in that game,
23:19
Speaker 1: and through that point his overall record stood at thirty
23:23
Speaker 1: three and ten. And this wasn't a team built on
23:26
Speaker 1: an NBCTV deal. It wasn't built on branding or vibes.
23:31
Speaker 1: It was actual grown man football. It was physical, it
23:35
Speaker 1: was fast, and it was nasty on defense, and then
23:38
Speaker 1: on special teams it was dangerous, so much so that
23:41
Speaker 1: rules have been changed on special teams regarding their punt formations.
23:46
Speaker 1: And it wasn't just talented, but it was connected. And
23:50
Speaker 1: that twenty twenty four notre Dame team finished first nationally
23:53
Speaker 1: in pass efficiency on defense, in turnovers, game, defensive touchdowns,
23:58
Speaker 1: and blocked kicks, while also ranking in the top ten
24:02
Speaker 1: in scoring defense and top ten in scoring offense. And
24:05
Speaker 1: they did that with the only two players that would
24:08
Speaker 1: ultimately end up drafted in the top two rounds of
24:11
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty five NFL Draft, and the highest of
24:13
Speaker 1: them went in the fifty third pick of eight, like
24:16
Speaker 1: they had a whole bunch of first rounders. So if
24:18
Speaker 1: you want to argue that Marcus Freeman couldn't do the job,
24:21
Speaker 1: that argument had to die in twenty twenty four. But
24:23
Speaker 1: here's the thing, though, if you want to argue that
24:26
Speaker 1: he has permanently solved Notre Dame's biggest problem twenty twenty five,
24:30
Speaker 1: then said not so fast, because after playing for the
24:32
Speaker 1: national championship, Notre Dame then went ten to two in
24:36
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, and they won ten straight after a
24:39
Speaker 1: zero to two start where they lost to Miami and
24:41
Speaker 1: Texas A and M and they still got left out
24:44
Speaker 1: of the college football playoffs. And Freeman's own response in
24:47
Speaker 1: January twenty twenty six was basically, stop crying and leave
24:51
Speaker 1: no doubt, and that tells me that he understood the lesson,
24:54
Speaker 1: do not put your season in somebody else's hands. Take
24:58
Speaker 1: care of your own business, do your own work, don't
25:00
Speaker 1: beg for help as a dad, as a father, and
25:02
Speaker 1: all that. I respect that. That's the type of dude
25:05
Speaker 1: I want my son to play for. You can say
25:07
Speaker 1: they're rejecting a bid to the Pop Tart Bowl, was
25:09
Speaker 1: away of throwing a tantrum, But I actually feel like
25:12
Speaker 1: he owned it, that he owned it for his team
25:15
Speaker 1: because they did not do enough to get in the
25:17
Speaker 1: College Football Playoff. In the twelve team playoff, regardless of
25:20
Speaker 1: whether Alabama should have been in or not, they left out.
25:23
Speaker 1: Not an Irish. They head into twenty twenty six with
25:25
Speaker 1: a QB at the top of the Heisman odds and CJ. Carr,
25:28
Speaker 1: who I believe is the fenom who's going to be special,
25:31
Speaker 1: not only in college but in the NFL. He's got
25:34
Speaker 1: two running backs that are going to be high picks
25:36
Speaker 1: in this twenty twenty six NFL draft, three consecutive top
25:40
Speaker 1: twelve recruiting classes, a top ten transfer class, and per
25:45
Speaker 1: Bill Connolly, they are the number one team in the
25:47
Speaker 1: country as far as overall returning production. Of course there
25:51
Speaker 1: are outliers that don't jive with it, but that status
25:54
Speaker 1: heavily influenced by bringing back the second most production in
25:58
Speaker 1: the country on defense, and that puts you in a
26:00
Speaker 1: good spot to win games. Now, aside from CJ. Carr
26:03
Speaker 1: and its top wide receiver Jordan Faison, they're getting players
26:07
Speaker 1: responsible for forty two of sixty offensive line starts back
26:12
Speaker 1: and the fourteen of the twenty one defenders who recorded
26:15
Speaker 1: at least two hundred snaps. That is a veteran football team.
26:20
Speaker 1: And if we learned anything from Miami and from Indiana
26:23
Speaker 1: last year, veteran teams do well, and then you could
26:27
Speaker 1: do the same thing for Ohio State twenty twenty four
26:30
Speaker 1: or the cheaters in Michigan in twenty twenty three. Old
26:32
Speaker 1: football teams have won the last three national championships. But
26:35
Speaker 1: the final evolution of Marcus Freeman is still it's about consistency,
26:39
Speaker 1: notre Dame Yo yo in. That ain't gonna work there
26:42
Speaker 1: because the difference between a very good coach and a
26:44
Speaker 1: championship coach is not whether you can hit the mountain
26:47
Speaker 1: top once. It's whether you can get there, stay there, and,
26:51
Speaker 1: as Nick Saban said, become the mountain, and can you avoid,
26:55
Speaker 1: you know, a random clunker season? Can you make sure
26:57
Speaker 1: that your team doesn't play with its food? And September?
27:00
Speaker 1: Can you keep a playoff caliber roster from putting itself
27:04
Speaker 1: in a position where the committee gets to play bouncer?
27:07
Speaker 1: And then no, you can't come in here. No no, no, oh, oh,
27:10
Speaker 1: you ain't dressed good enough. I don't like them shoes. No,
27:13
Speaker 1: that's the next step. And I get the feeling that
27:17
Speaker 1: his biggest and earliest believers were all in the room
27:20
Speaker 1: with him when he got announced as Brian Kelly's replacement. Now,
27:23
Speaker 1: the people in the building, they clearly have always believed.
27:26
Speaker 1: They didn't doubt, they didn't waiver. And if you're a
27:29
Speaker 1: Notre Dame fan, you should feel good about where this
27:32
Speaker 1: is headed. But you should not be comfortable, because the
27:35
Speaker 1: comfort is how you become the version of Notre Dame
27:37
Speaker 1: that people spend a decade accusing of living off the
27:40
Speaker 1: logo and living off the pass. But Marcus Freeman has
27:43
Speaker 1: done a lot to make sure that the logo that
27:46
Speaker 1: it means something again. And now the challenge is simple,
27:49
Speaker 1: make good enough, disappear, make it so when Notre Dame
27:52
Speaker 1: is in the playoff conversations, nobody has to debate whether
27:55
Speaker 1: they belong or not. Leave no doubt. That's the entire
27:58
Speaker 1: story of Marcus Freeman's tenure. Do I think that he
28:01
Speaker 1: can pull off a national championship one hundred percent? If
28:04
Speaker 1: it's not this year, because I believe that Oregon is
28:06
Speaker 1: the best team in the country this year, It'll be
28:08
Speaker 1: next year or the year after. Because this is what
28:12
Speaker 1: championship coaches look like. This is what Kirby Smart looked like.
28:15
Speaker 1: This is what Ryan Day looked like. This is what
28:18
Speaker 1: Nick Saban looked like. This is what championship caliber DNA
28:22
Speaker 1: looks like before it happens. You gotta have vision. Do
28:26
Speaker 1: you believe Notre Dame is going to be able to
28:28
Speaker 1: win a national championship under Marcus Freeman? And if so,
28:31
Speaker 1: in what year? Leave it in the comments and thank
28:34
Speaker 1: you guys for watching and being one of us. Make
28:36
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28:39
Speaker 1: a friend about the shoppings. Now it is top ten
28:48
Speaker 1: times this time. This was inspired by Bobby Bowden, who
28:53
Speaker 1: now has an airport named after him. Now mind you,
28:57
Speaker 1: well deserved, well done, my good and faith servant to
29:01
Speaker 1: college football. But now that got us to thinking what
29:05
Speaker 1: other coaches should have landmarks named after him? And that's
29:09
Speaker 1: the top ten list today. We got ten coaches, some
29:14
Speaker 1: former and some current coaches. Ralph has put together a
29:18
Speaker 1: list for us and about the coaches and the landmarks
29:22
Speaker 1: that should be named after him. So I'm excited about this, Ralph.
29:26
Speaker 1: I can't wait to see what you got in store
29:28
Speaker 1: for us today.
29:29
Speaker 3: Buddy, all right, I'm gonna kick one over to you.
29:33
Speaker 3: We talked a little bit about this beforehand. So George
29:37
Speaker 3: has some landmarks that he came up with. I got
29:39
Speaker 3: some that I came up with, and we're gonna start
29:43
Speaker 3: with the goat. You said he's the goat. I don't
29:46
Speaker 3: think there's any question he's the goat. What about mister
29:49
Speaker 3: Nick Saban? Nick Saban was to have something named after him,
29:52
Speaker 3: like Bobby Batten just did with the Tallyhassee Airport. What
29:55
Speaker 3: would you name after Nick Saban?
29:58
Speaker 1: Oh, I'm naming the whole Tuscaloosa Historic Center with with
30:04
Speaker 1: city Hall, everything after Nick Saban because he's an institution.
30:09
Speaker 1: You're not gonna look back twenty years from now and
30:12
Speaker 1: be like, I don't know, why did they name it
30:14
Speaker 1: after that guy. It's not a repeatable performance. It's a
30:19
Speaker 1: whole historic center. It's literally historic. That's why you call
30:23
Speaker 1: it that. And and you know, I don't know if
30:27
Speaker 1: if the coach that followed him will end up with
30:32
Speaker 1: a landmark named after him.
30:33
Speaker 3: But we'll see, all right, uh I, well we might
30:40
Speaker 3: get around to him to find out. All right, I
30:43
Speaker 3: got one for you, and that is mister Brian Kelly,
30:47
Speaker 3: very successful coach a few different news.
30:51
Speaker 1: Right, what what city are you putting it in?
30:55
Speaker 3: Well, I think you might be surprised. We're gonna we're
30:59
Speaker 3: gonna pred his time at LSU. I don't think they're
31:02
Speaker 3: naming anything after.
31:03
Speaker 1: Him, right, So a gofund me after or something.
31:11
Speaker 3: Yeah, And Notre Dame has too much history. They got
31:14
Speaker 3: too much, so I think there's too much to compete with.
31:18
Speaker 3: You know, when when you're talking about the history of
31:20
Speaker 3: the fighting Irish and lou Holtz just passed away, they're
31:23
Speaker 3: probably gonna do some stuff to honor him. And Marcus
31:26
Speaker 3: Freeman's got them on the right track. And well they
31:28
Speaker 3: got new Rockney and all that stuff. So it wouldn't
31:30
Speaker 3: be South Bend, and I don't think it would be
31:34
Speaker 3: Western Michigan. I'm thinking that this is a Cincinnati deal,
31:39
Speaker 3: and so the landmark that I picked for Brian Kelly
31:44
Speaker 3: is Skyline Chili. I think we rename it a big
31:49
Speaker 3: steam and plate to BK.
31:55
Speaker 1: Wait wait, wait, wait what I am confused?
32:00
Speaker 3: Skyline Chili famous coming out of Cincinnati. Chili on top
32:03
Speaker 3: of spaghetti. I think that we renamed the entire dish
32:07
Speaker 3: after Brian Kelly in honor of his time with the Bearcats.
32:12
Speaker 1: I'm not mad at that, because chili on spaghetti is underrated. Underrated.
32:19
Speaker 1: That was like my struggle mill as a kid. My
32:22
Speaker 1: mom would make spaghetti and then when it when it
32:25
Speaker 1: wasn't enough left, I would I would crack open a
32:27
Speaker 1: can of chili. Put that in there. O, man, I
32:32
Speaker 1: need that right now.
32:35
Speaker 3: It might not be what you want it, but it
32:37
Speaker 3: gets the job done and eventually you grow out of it.
32:44
Speaker 3: All right, So next up on the on the list, Uh,
32:48
Speaker 3: let's go with Let's go with mister Pete Carroll, the
32:54
Speaker 3: legendary Pete Carroll, both NFL legend and college football legend.
32:59
Speaker 1: M all right, Pete Carroll. They at USC they treat
33:06
Speaker 1: Pete Carroll like I mean, like them, Pete Carroll days
33:08
Speaker 1: or are the years that they point to. We gotta
33:12
Speaker 1: get back to them. We gotta get back to the
33:14
Speaker 1: good old days. And when we were dominating. That's who
33:17
Speaker 1: we are, That's who USC. When they point to who
33:21
Speaker 1: who we are, that's when they point to. So, Pete Carroll,
33:25
Speaker 1: we're renaming the Hollywood sign. It's not just the Hollywood Sign,
33:29
Speaker 1: it's the Pete Carroll Hollywood Sign. Why does that matter
33:33
Speaker 1: because the Hollywood Sign it used to It's like Hollywood.
33:38
Speaker 1: Hollywood used to be this great place. You can see
33:41
Speaker 1: stars and everything. You walk down Hollywood Boulevard right now. Yes,
33:45
Speaker 1: the stars are the stars are on the ground the
33:48
Speaker 1: Hollywood Walker Walk of Fame, but it ain't exactly where
33:51
Speaker 1: you want to be hanging out. No more like that.
33:53
Speaker 1: The And it's kind of like Hollywood the movie industry,
33:56
Speaker 1: maybe the best days are behind them right now. So
34:00
Speaker 1: and everybody is going to Georgia and Canada and everywhere
34:04
Speaker 1: else that will give you tax credits to make movies.
34:07
Speaker 1: So a lot less movies are being made in California now,
34:10
Speaker 1: kind of like USC.
34:14
Speaker 3: The Pete Carroll Hollywood side. I like that very much.
34:20
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with I'm gonna go with a little
34:23
Speaker 3: bit of a Homer deal on this one. Herm Edwards.
34:28
Speaker 1: Okay, Edwards, Okay, So you only got one option for
34:33
Speaker 1: college that is Arizona State. That's right, that's right, because
34:39
Speaker 1: I can put him. Are you gonna put him at
34:42
Speaker 1: the pizza place that you put me on too? Oh? Bianco's,
34:47
Speaker 1: which is fabulous, by the bye, by the way, and
34:50
Speaker 1: I just watched a documentary on it on Netflix and
34:52
Speaker 1: I was like, I hate there. You did, you did?
34:55
Speaker 3: We had Bianco's, we had Chiebo. I think you were
34:57
Speaker 3: a big fan of both of them. I'm giving her
34:59
Speaker 3: Edwards Grand Canyon though, the herm Herm Edwards Grand Canyon.
35:08
Speaker 3: Here's why. Nationally it's a big deal, like people, people
35:15
Speaker 3: come from all over to see it. Uh, and then
35:19
Speaker 3: once you see it, you realize it's just a big
35:23
Speaker 3: hole in the ground like this, that's it. That there's
35:27
Speaker 3: not really anything other than the do to just stare
35:29
Speaker 3: at it for a minute and go away and beyond that,
35:32
Speaker 3: if you are in the state of Arizona, you don't
35:35
Speaker 3: really care about.
35:35
Speaker 1: It at all.
35:38
Speaker 3: You gotta go. You gotta go four out settier way
35:42
Speaker 3: to get there. And if you do visit. If you
35:46
Speaker 3: do visit, then you gotta go on like a thirty
35:48
Speaker 3: two mile hike just to experience the whole thing. It's
35:51
Speaker 3: like a It's a genuine labor of love. People in
35:54
Speaker 3: Arizona aren't necessarily fond of it. People all over the
35:57
Speaker 3: country view it as an eighth wonder. But when you
35:59
Speaker 3: sho give it the the Herm. Edwards Green Canyon, all right,
36:06
Speaker 3: how about that one?
36:08
Speaker 1: Okay, all right.
36:09
Speaker 3: Let's let's move on to your boy, Lane Kiffin, the
36:12
Speaker 3: newly minted head coach of the LSU Tigers. What would
36:15
Speaker 3: we name after Lane Kiffin? Hmmm?
36:19
Speaker 1: What does Lane Kiffin deserve? Okay, I'm not gonna put
36:25
Speaker 1: his statue. I mean, well, I'm not gonna put his
36:28
Speaker 1: landmark in Oxford because they don't want it there. I'm
36:32
Speaker 1: not gonna put it at f AU. They don't want
36:35
Speaker 1: it there. Not gonna put it at Tennessee. They damn
36:38
Speaker 1: sure don't want it there except for the break tip
36:41
Speaker 1: to throw things at it. They don't want it at USC.
36:44
Speaker 1: They don't want it with the with the raiders. So
36:47
Speaker 1: the only place to put it in Baton Rouge. But
36:52
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, in the state of Louisiana. So I am
36:56
Speaker 1: going to go with the Lake Pontra train causeway because
37:01
Speaker 1: it's a bridge from one place to another. That's exactly
37:05
Speaker 1: what Lane Kiffin does. He takes you from one place
37:08
Speaker 1: to another. It will not get you to the final destination,
37:13
Speaker 1: but it's a cool journey on there. Like you're up high.
37:17
Speaker 1: You're a little scared you're gonna fall down? Are we
37:20
Speaker 1: all right? There could be some traffic on there. Yeah,
37:24
Speaker 1: there's a lot of things. So a bridge, a bridge
37:27
Speaker 1: to a bridge to Nowheresville essentially is the Lake Pata
37:34
Speaker 1: drain Cau Causeway. I think that fits Lane Kiffing.
37:36
Speaker 3: Well, I like it. I'm gonna go ahead and go
37:41
Speaker 3: with James Franklin next. And he needs something to commemorate
37:46
Speaker 3: his time in Happy Valley.
37:51
Speaker 1: Do they want there though? I mean they may be
37:54
Speaker 1: scared to put another statue up of a coach, right.
37:59
Speaker 3: All right, so the yeah, let's let's stay away from
38:01
Speaker 3: statues if we're Penn State. But there's got to be
38:04
Speaker 3: a way to honor the success that James Franklin had
38:08
Speaker 3: even though he never got over the top. Right, And
38:11
Speaker 3: he's out of town now, he's off doing something else
38:14
Speaker 3: and what if you're a Penn State fan, you're actually
38:17
Speaker 3: hoping to never hear from him again, right, because that
38:20
Speaker 3: if you did, that would mean that he was having
38:22
Speaker 3: some success at your expense. So what I would like
38:25
Speaker 3: to do is name there is an ancient, inactive, like
38:29
Speaker 3: extinct volcano in Stonersville, Pennsylvania. Okay, ancient inactive boomerang shaped
38:39
Speaker 3: volcano Mountain Rage in Stonersville, Pennsylvania. And considering it never
38:45
Speaker 3: really blew its top off, it never really reached that
38:47
Speaker 3: next level, I think naming a volcano after James Franklin
38:52
Speaker 3: is appropriate. And if you're living in Pennsylvania, you got
38:56
Speaker 3: to hope that you never hear from that volcano, right,
38:58
Speaker 3: So I think it's the perfect thing. The volcano Mountain
39:02
Speaker 3: Range in Stonersville, Pennsylvania gets named after James Franklin.
39:08
Speaker 1: I'm not mad at that, Ralph. I think that that
39:10
Speaker 1: is appropriate, that is fitting, that is well thought out,
39:13
Speaker 1: that's calculated, and I think Penn State fans can even
39:16
Speaker 1: be okay with that.
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Speaker 3: Let's talk about one of the men, one of the
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Speaker 3: men that he never really got past, Ryan Day at
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Speaker 3: Ohio State. If you were to name something after an
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Speaker 3: active head football coach in Columbus, Ohio. What what would
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Speaker 3: you name after Ryan Day? So?
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Speaker 1: I was thinking about this. So there is a Triple
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Speaker 1: A baseball team in Columbus, the Columbus Clippers, Okay, and
39:45
Speaker 1: the Columbus Clippers are obviously a big deal. They are
39:50
Speaker 1: the farm system for the Cleveland Guardians, Ohio State farm
39:54
Speaker 1: system for the NFL. Okay, Ohio. But we are going
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Speaker 1: to name it the Ryan Day Field and he's gonna
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Speaker 1: have a commemorative goal third base there because he started
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Speaker 1: his coaching career as a head coach on third base
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Speaker 1: at Ohio State. Now that's not a slight because he's
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Speaker 1: doing a great job. He's got a national championship, but
40:19
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean he didn't start on third third base.
40:21
Speaker 1: Sometimes nepotism meets competence, and that is you know, and
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Speaker 1: that is Ryan Ryan Day. So the Columbus Clippers on
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Speaker 1: Ryan Day Field with a gold third base there just
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Speaker 1: for him.
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Speaker 3: I like it. It's a little messed up, but I
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Speaker 3: like it. I'm gonna go Kirby Smart on this next one.
40:51
Speaker 3: I hesitate to name any roads after Kirby Smart. We're
40:55
Speaker 3: not gonna do it. I thought about the I thought
40:58
Speaker 3: long and hard about the section of the eighty five
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Speaker 3: Freeway through downtown Atlanta, because it takes you forty years
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Speaker 3: longer than you wanted it to to get anywhere, but
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Speaker 3: eventually you get done right and that's what he did.
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Speaker 3: He delivered a championship to Georgia after forty years of waiting.
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Speaker 3: But I think what I'm gonna name after Kirby Smart
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Speaker 3: is actually, and if you've ever been there, this is
41:18
Speaker 3: one of the coolest places in all of America, the
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Speaker 3: Georgia Aquarium. Have you ever been to the Georgia Aquarium
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Speaker 3: George right in downtown Atlanta.
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Speaker 1: No, I've never been there.
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Speaker 3: They got whale sharks, well, like the biggest animal on Earth.
41:32
Speaker 3: They got whale sharks in downtown Atlanta. And have you
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Speaker 3: ever seen these boys that Kirby Smart recruits to Athens?
41:43
Speaker 3: Would not like that? Probably not, But I don't think
41:48
Speaker 3: Peter would like anything about the state of Georgia. Probably,
41:52
Speaker 3: But I think that the fact that this aquarium has
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Speaker 3: some of the biggest mammals on Earth and people come
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Speaker 3: from all over to see it, I think it's representative
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Speaker 3: of the recruits that Kirby Smart has pulled into University
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Speaker 3: of Georgia, your your, your brock Bowers is your you know,
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Speaker 3: all these first round picks, all these all these giants,
42:14
Speaker 3: you know, these six three corners like Keeley Ringo, all
42:17
Speaker 3: these monsters that he's brought around. So I think the
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Speaker 3: Georgia Aquarium, the Kirby Smart Georgia Aquarium in towntown Atlanta
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Speaker 3: would be would be a smart thing to name after him.
42:27
Speaker 3: And it doesn't involve being in a car, because we
42:30
Speaker 3: don't want to associate Kirby Smart with the with the
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Speaker 3: traffic at all. Otherwise I would have named the eighty
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Speaker 3: five after him.
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, that's diabolical. Okay, Okay, I'm not mad
42:46
Speaker 1: at that, though. Listen, you can't get mad at what's
42:50
Speaker 1: what's well thought out.
42:53
Speaker 3: So your last one is mister Dan Lanning.
42:57
Speaker 1: So so I thought about this, right, I was like,
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Speaker 1: we can put them at like Klamath Falls Monoma Falls,
43:05
Speaker 1: because it's a it's a good time, it's a nice hike,
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Speaker 1: it's beautiful, it's it's all of those things like it,
43:12
Speaker 1: and then you get a waterfall at the end, and
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Speaker 1: you can actually get wet from from the waterfall, so
43:18
Speaker 1: you get a payoff from it right now. So I
43:23
Speaker 1: thought about that, and then I thought about Spencer's Butte,
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Speaker 1: which the entire team hikes. Now I like both of them, Ralph,
43:30
Speaker 1: and I want you to tell me which which one
43:33
Speaker 1: sounds better. So you have the falls. You can either
43:36
Speaker 1: go Monomah Klamath Falls, whichever, whichever one right, Because as
43:43
Speaker 1: of right right now, Dan Lanning, you get the beautiful view.
43:48
Speaker 1: Everything's going well. You're trying to get to the thing,
43:51
Speaker 1: and and during the summertime it is amazing, but then
43:55
Speaker 1: in the winter time it ain't real comfortable to be
43:57
Speaker 1: out there in the cold. Right. So so we've had
44:01
Speaker 1: a couple of playoff blunders, but you but you still
44:06
Speaker 1: continuously get further and further, so you are happy with
44:09
Speaker 1: what you got. Or there is Spencer's but which is
44:13
Speaker 1: a very hard hike, which they started doing in honor
44:17
Speaker 1: of a Spencer Webb who passed away. It is a
44:21
Speaker 1: hard hike. The whole team does it. He started his
44:24
Speaker 1: own tradition for the team there. And that's why I
44:29
Speaker 1: would call it the the Dan Lanning Trail on the
44:32
Speaker 1: way to on the way to Spencer's because it's hard
44:36
Speaker 1: and you're trying to get to the top and you
44:39
Speaker 1: eventually do get there and when you look down, great view,
44:43
Speaker 1: you are, you are happy, But then you look down
44:46
Speaker 1: and you're like, damn, it took a lot of work
44:47
Speaker 1: to get up here. I mean.
44:53
Speaker 3: But right now, about one hundred yards from the summit
44:56
Speaker 3: is where it would stop being named after Dan Lanning
44:59
Speaker 3: for right now, just for right now. Yeah, but I believe,
45:09
Speaker 3: and I must.
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Speaker 1: You're the Ducks win the national championship, Ralph. This is
45:15
Speaker 1: the year.
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Speaker 3: And I believe. Why not? Why not? I think you
45:23
Speaker 3: and I spent two because my final one for mister
45:27
Speaker 3: Kaylin de Boor. It's not that different than we already.
45:32
Speaker 1: Said Nick Saban, the whole historic center. So what do
45:35
Speaker 1: you go? Give Kaylin to Boor?
45:37
Speaker 3: Okay, So there's this spot in Alabama's called the Little
45:41
Speaker 3: River Canyon Waterfall, so forty five foot waterfall. It's beautiful.
45:47
Speaker 3: It's like a little I think a state park where
45:49
Speaker 3: you can go and you can have a great time.
45:52
Speaker 3: But every once in a while, and it happens way
45:55
Speaker 3: more often than you would like it too, that water
45:58
Speaker 3: stops running. Did you doesn't run? It can't run, George,
46:05
Speaker 3: it doesn't run. The water stops running.
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, because Alabama couldn't. They haven't been able
46:15
Speaker 1: to run the football under Kaylin de boor bro.
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Speaker 3: That is amazing beautiful when it's running, Little river Canyon, waterfall,
46:24
Speaker 3: look it up. Every once in a while, the whole
46:26
Speaker 3: thing just completely dries up and uh and and stops flowing.
46:31
Speaker 3: But it's a beautiful place. And when it's when it's working,
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Speaker 3: it's working. So I think that'd be a great place
46:37
Speaker 3: to name after after Kaitlyn de Bor after his first
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Speaker 3: couple of years of Alabama. Yeah, and then I'm glad
46:43
Speaker 3: you glad you picked up.
46:46
Speaker 1: If he gets something going, if he starts running, then
46:49
Speaker 1: we got to find another landmark for him. But you guys, though,
46:53
Speaker 1: this is another jam packed great episode of George Reiser's
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