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Maybe Eli Drinkwitz Should Leave Mizzou, Ohio State vs Penn State & World Series Recap | Charlie Marlow Show · Kenny Wallace Media

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  You see the headline, maybe Eli Drinkwitz should leave Mizzou.
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  And I'll just be completely honest, I'm contradicting
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  myself. I did a video here on this
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  platform weeks ago, month ago, whenever it was, and I said Eli
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  Drinkwitz should never leave Mizzou.
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  And when I did that video, I believe that at the time, but
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  then I thought a little bit more.
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  And so for anybody that doesn't know, Eli Drinkwitz, head
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  football coach at Mizzou, he is being talked about for a lot of
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  these openings. I've seen him.
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  He was the betting favorite last week or so for Florida, also
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  being talked about at Penn State.
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  I'm not sure if he's really in the mix for LSU.
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  We shall see. There's a lot of big time
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  openings and there's going to be even more openings as we move
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  forward and especially after the season.
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  But I was thinking about it because originally I thought,
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  well, look, Eli Drinkwitz, you're at Mizzou.
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  You could go down as the the greatest coach at Mizzou.
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  They'll build you a statue. You don't have the same type of
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  expectations as a Penn State, as an LSU, as a Florida, where you
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  could be easily fired after 2-3, Four Seasons if they don't like
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  what they're seeing. You're Eli Drinkwitz.
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  He's about my age, I think I'm 43.
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  He's a little bit younger. You could probably stay at
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  Mizzou for the next 20 years. So why do you want to leave
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  again for all those things I mentioned, the pressure and all
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  that. You could get fired.
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  But then I thought about it more and I was thinking about Rich
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  Rodriguez when I was making this comparison.
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  First of all, Eli Drinkwitz may never have another opportunity
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  where he's being discussed for some of the best jobs in college
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  football. Now he may five years from now,
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  maybe he's great at Mizzou, maybe he doesn't leave.
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  I don't know. But to a certain extent, you
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  have to strike while the iron is hot.
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  And right now, Eli Drinkwitz is a hot name in college football.
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  Because what he's built at Mizzou, especially the last
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  couple seasons, there's no guarantee that I'll have more 10
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  win seasons back-to-back, whatever it was at Mizzou.
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  And three years from now, maybe he's not talked about for future
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  big openings. And so again, I'm thinking about
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  Rich Rodriguez and you have to put yourself in Eli Drinkwitz
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  shoes. Mizzou fans aren't going to like
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  what I say here. But think about it like this.
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  If you're Eli Drinkwitz and you're at Mizzou, which is a a
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  really good job, it's a good job.
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  But think about the tiers of college football.
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  It's not a tier one job. Now, wherever you want to slot
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  Mizzou, Tier 2, Tier 3, and I'm not, I'm not trying to talk
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  about tears for disrespect, but Mizzou is clearly a program that
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  can be top 25. You can be top 20, top 15.
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  Can you perennially be top ten? Probably not.
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  Certainly not perennially top five you would think.
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  But it's a good job. But there's a lot of schools
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  like Mizzou, Power 4, Power 5. I know we're calling it Power 4
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  now, but there's a lot of Power 4 jobs like Mizzou where if
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  you're thinking about this from Eli Drinkwitz standpoint, in his
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  mind, he's probably thinking this and maybe he loves Mizzou
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  and he's staying. But just go with me here.
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  Put yourself in Eli Drinkwitz shoes.
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  He's thinking if I go to Penn State, either AI succeed, I stay
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  there for a long time, make a ton of money, maybe win a
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  national championship. So there's a but here's B, Maybe
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  he fails at Penn State. Maybe he is fired after three,
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  Four Seasons, whatever it is. Eli Drinquitz, around age 40, in
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  his brain he probably thinks, and he's thinking correctly,
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  that if he fails at a Penn State or a Florida, whatever it is,
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  there's a very good chance that he can then go back to a Mizzou
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  type job. Not necessarily Mizzou.
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  I'm not saying he's going back to Mizzou.
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  He can go back to that Mizzou tier.
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  There's lots of schools in those tiers and there's a lot of great
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  jobs. I think about Michigan State.
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  Michigan State can be a great job.
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  Mark Dantonio took Michigan State to the College Football
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  Playoff. You can make Michigan State
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  every once in a while, a top ten, a top five team, just in
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  the same way you can make Mizzou a top ten, top five team every
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  once in a while, right? Every seven years, every 10
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  years, whatever it is. Gary Pinkel did it back in 1314.
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  Eli Drinkwitz, They were knocking on the door, what, two
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  years ago when they beat Ohio State in the Cotton Bowl.
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  We don't have to get into that. We've argued about that enough,
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  but that's my point. My point is, Eli Drinkwitz
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  should be thinking, this is how I would think.
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  And Mizzou fans, I know you get mad at me every couple years,
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  but put yourself in Eli Drinkwitz shoes.
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  He's thinking, all right, I go to Florida or I go to Penn
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  State. Whatever it is, I either succeed
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  or 3-4 years from now I get fired.
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  Huge buyout, but I'm only about 45.
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  However old he is, I want to coach again.
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  I can go back to a Mizzou type job and I'm talking about just
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  name the jobs that are kind of like Mizzou.
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  He's an Arkansas guy. He could go back to an Arkansas.
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  He could go to a Michigan State type job.
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  And I'm not saying Purdue is up there, but I'm just, I'm trying
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  to think of, you know, Mississippi State, schools like
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  that, not top tier. We're not talking about Ohio
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  State, Penn State, Florida, LSU. That's the conversation he's in
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  right now. But if he fails at a tier one
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  job, certainly Eli Drankwitz will get more opportunities
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  after that to go back to a Tier 2 or a Tier 3 job.
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  And again, I'm not trying to get into that debate of is Mizzou
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  Tier 2, Tier 3, whatever it is, I don't care.
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  Mizzou can be a really good job, top 25, top 20, top 15, whatever
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  it is, but they're not a blue blood.
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  And that's my point. And I thought about Rich
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  Rodriguez because I was in Michigan and I covered that
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  coaching search because we covered the last game of Lloyd
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  Carr, Lloyd Carr's last game, Capital One Bowl.
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  This was 2008 Michigan. Michigan actually beat beat Tim
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  Tebow's Florida team in that bowl game.
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  That was Lloyd Carr's last game. They have the coaching search.
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  They hire this hotshot spread offense guy, Rich Rodriguez out
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  of West Virginia. He had West Virginia rolling.
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  Everybody knows what happened at Michigan.
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  Obviously, it was a colossal failure for Rich Rodriguez.
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  And I looked it up, I don't even think he had a winning season in
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  about three seasons. But what happened after that?
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  Look, that was a colossal failure.
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  As I said, Rich Rodriguez is able to then go coach at
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  Arizona. And I'm not even saying, look,
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  it didn't work out great there. He was there for a decent amount
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  of time, but Arizona again is in that tier of a Mizzou.
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  We can argue about who's better. I would say Mizzou is a better
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  football job, but again, we're talking Power 4 type jobs that
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  aren't blue bloods. Rich Rodriguez failed at
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  Michigan after being hugely successful at West Virginia, was
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  able to go then to Arizona. It worked out whatever the way
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  it did. Then he did some kind of
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  assistant coordinator. I think he was at Jacksonville
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  State. Well, guess what, he's back at
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  West Virginia right now. So and West Virginia is not
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  having a great season right now. But my point is if you go from a
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  Tier 2, Tier 3 job to a Tier 1, Michigan's a Tier 1, Penn
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  State's a Tier 1, Florida's a Tier 1, and you fail there,
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  you're going to get opportunities back at a Tier 2,
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  Tier 3. Rich Rodriguez got those
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  opportunities at Arizona and now he's back at West Virginia
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  again, We're we're talking about similar type jobs to Mizzou.
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  I would say Arizona, West Virginia, similar type jobs to
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  Mizzou. That is where the narrative
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  shouldn't just be like, oh, you stay at Mizzou, you can stay
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  there forever. If I'm Eli Drinkwitz, don't you
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  want the pressure also of the blue blood?
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  And here's the other part I haven't mentioned.
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  If you truly don't think you can win a national championship at
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  Mizzou, which may be the case, then you got to take your shot
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  at a blue blood. I think we all agree that Eli
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  Drinkwitz could take Mizzou to the College Football Playoff in
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  this 12 team format. Absolutely.
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  If he doesn't think he has the resources, and I know they have
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  good resources at Mizzou, I'm talking about top tier resources
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  to win a national championship. He should leave.
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  If he's really a candidate for Penn State or Florida, he goes
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  there. He either succeeds or he fails,
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  but he gets another opportunity at a Mizzou type job.
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  There you go. I repeated myself a couple
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  times, but hopefully you got the point.
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  And thank you, Jeff Castle for tuning in.
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  He says Good afternoon, Charlie, good afternoon, Jeff.
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  OK, sticking with college football, I did a short on the
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  channel talking about Ohio State, Penn State.
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  I did watch basically that whole game last Saturday.
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  Really good game in the first half, 1714 Buckeyes I believe.
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  And then Ohio State just stomped on Penn State third quarter.
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  They scored 21 and answered points.
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  So what's the math? They're 3814 is the final.
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  Ohio State is really good. Their schedule is pretty damn
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  soft. Let's be real.
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  They've only played one competitive fourth quarter.
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  That was the first game of the season against Texas.
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  You can make the argument that the game against Washington was
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  competitive into the fourth quarter.
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  Penn State was competitive for 1/2.
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  But then Ohio State blew him out in the third quarter.
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  And I just saw, I just saw a mock draft that had three
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  Buckeyes in the top 8 or 9. You had Arvel Reese, Caleb Downs
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  on the defensive side of the ball, you had Carnell Tate, wide
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  receiver, all like top 8-9 picks.
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  Obviously Jeremiah Smith is only a sophomore, so Ohio State super
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  talented. I think they're deserving of
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  being the best team, number one team in the country.
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  But the schedule's pretty soft. We'll see what happens.
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  I do think there's a lot though, to Ryan Day shortening the
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  games. You've seen that narrative out
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  there. I think it's true.
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  It's very smart. Think about it like this.
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  In the 12 team College Football Playoff era, if you get to your
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  conference championship game, that's 13 games.
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  And then if you get to the national championship game,
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  depending on if you have a bye now, Ohio State right now would
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  have a bye, but you could play what is that 17 games, more
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  likely 16 if you have a bye there.
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  But Ryan Day is trying to shorten the games, shorten the
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  seasons, not to build up on injuries because this is no
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  longer a 12/13/14 game season if you want to win the national
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  championship. It was never 12, but I'm saying
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  back in the day it could have been about a 1415 game season to
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  win a national championship. Now it's a 16 or 17 game season
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  to win a national championship, depending on the byes, depending
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  on if you get to your conference championship game.
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  So there you go. I think Ohio State's really
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  good. The defense is rolling.
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  Like I said, you got Arvel Reese.
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  You have a a a great player there in the on the back end
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  with Caleb Downs as well. The offense is off the charts.
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  You have both coordinators being replaced.
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  Matt Patricia looks like a better coordinator than last
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  year with Jim Knowles. Julian saying the other day, 316
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  some something yards, 4 touchdowns, no picks.
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  Both receivers went off for like 5 or 6 catches and 1:25-ish.
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  Each had at least one touchdown. But you also have to be tested
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  if they play Indiana in the Big 10 championship game.
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  That would be awesome. I'm excited for that.
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  If it happens and then College Football Playoff, we shall see.
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  OK, moving on from college football to the World Series.
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  I know it ended whatever five days or so ago, but man, what a
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  World Series. I was totally locked into the
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  World Series, especially as it moved on and that Game 7, just
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  heartbreak. I was rooting for the Blue Jays.
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  But you just kept letting the Dodgers, as we say from Teddy
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  KGB hanging around, hanging around.
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  They kept letting the Dodgers hang around.
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  You had first of all, the play where they they sub out Tommy
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  Edmund and then Pai haste goes and makes that unbelievable
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  catch. And I love Tommy Edmund, but
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  Tommy Edmonds pretty short. He wasn't making that catch.
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  That was a a World Series winning move by Dave Roberts to
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  to sub out Tommy Edmond for Pahes.
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  You had to play from Miguel Rojas making the play at home
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  where otherwise the Blue Jays win the World Series.
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  I mean, they were so close so many times when they didn't
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  score in the inning. I'm talking about you kind of
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  got the feeling, you kind of got the feeling the Dodgers were
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  going to win it. And look, I don't dislike the
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  Dodgers. I think the Dodgers actually
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  have likable dudes on the team, Freddie Freeman, Mookie Betts,
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  Shoi Otani, Tommy Edmond. But just the Dodgers have become
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  the Yankees in terms of the spending, the evil empire.
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  Again, I don't look at them the same way.
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  I don't think they're evil, but they are the best team money can
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  buy. They're deferring all this
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  money. So I was rooting for the Blue
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  Jays, but at the end of the day, to be the man, you got to beat
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  the man and the Blue Jays had so many opportunities, so many
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  close games. Also the the 18 inning game and
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  the game before where you have the craziness going on with the
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  ball being stuck in the the outfield fence underneath.
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  Just so close. You can make the argument the
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  Blue Jays were were essentially the better team in in the World
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  Series. Shohei Otani went off,
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  obviously, especially early on in the World Series, but man,
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  that's one of those World Series you're never going to forget.
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  You're never going to forget the opportunities you had.
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  Kind of reminds me of the 2011 World Series.
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  If you're the Rangers, you can just never, never forget about
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  the opportunities, how close you were to winning the World
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  Series. Nelson Cruz, if he's not out
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  there, if he's subbed out, whoever the outfielder is better
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  defensively, could probably catch David Freeze's triple.
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  And maybe the Cardinals are never the World Series champs in
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  2011. But man, man, man, man.
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  And then the other thing about the World Series, it got me
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  thinking and I tweeted this, but it it puts aging into
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  perspective because I was 11 years old watching Joe Carter
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  hit the game-winning home run in 1993.
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  I was a huge baseball fan growing up.
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  So I remember all the video and you're seeing the the replays of
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  Bill Mazeroski hitting the game-winning home run in 1960.
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  Well, in 1993, when Joe Carter happens, I'm watching Bill
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  Mazeroski. That's 33 years ago.
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  That seemed like ancient time. It was crazy for me to think
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  that an 11 year old right now in 2025 looks at Joe Carter, which
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  was 32 years ago, in the same vain and time lapse that I
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  looked at Bill Mazeroski, which back then was 33 years ago,
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  right? 1993 to 1960, essentially the
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  same time frame as 2025 to 1993. And it's just crazy to think
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  that because when I'm growing up, Bill Mazeroski is 30 or so
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  years ago, but then 30 years before that is Babe Ruth and all
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  that. And if you're a kid now, 30
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  years ago is Joe Carter. 30 years before that, which to me
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  was Babe Ruth, is just Bill Mazeroski.
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  And then the Babe Ruth days is even another 30 years before
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  that. It's just crazy.
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  It's kind of obvious, but it puts things in perspective.
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  And we had the old grainy video of Bill Mazeroski.
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  You watch Joe Carter. It's it's pretty good.
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  It's pretty good in terms of video quality.
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  And then 30 years from now, we'll probably be watching like
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  freaking holograms and we'll see what happens this year and it'll
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  look old because God even only knows what the technology will
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  be like 30 years from now in 2055.
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  But anyway, that just put things in perspective.
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  It was kind of crazy for me to think that an 11 year old now,
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  Joe Carter to them is what Bill Mazeroski was to me in 1960.
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  Jeff Castle chimes in. I'm happy for Tommy.
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  Yep. I was also rooting for the Blue
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  Jays yet. Yeah, he was also rooting for
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  the Blue Jays. But he likes the former
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  We talked about college football.
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  Eli Drinkwitz, should he stay? Should he go?
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  If I'm him, I go see what happens at a Penn State or
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  Florida. Fall back to another Mizzou like
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  school if it doesn't work out. Ohio State, very good but
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  untested World Series. Dang Blue Jays, you had it.
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  And I'm feeling old. I'm feeling old that Joe Carter
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  was when I was 11 and for kids now that are 11, Joe Carter was
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  there. Bill Mazeroski makes you feel
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