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  Speaker 1: He is Blaine Crane. He joins us right now. He
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  Speaker 1: is a part of Crane and Cone. Those guys kill
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  Speaker 1: it talking college football. And you can check them out
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  Speaker 1: on their YouTube channel. Check it out wherever you get
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  Speaker 1: your podcasts. And Blaine Crane joins us here on the
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  Speaker 1: Mac and Bone Show. Blaine, what's going on, man?
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  Speaker 2: How you doing?
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  Speaker 3: What's up, fellas? Look, doing fantastic. Woke up this morning.
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  Speaker 3: That's a good start. We're getting closer and closer to Saturday,
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  Speaker 3: even Friday, of another beautiful college football slate.
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  Speaker 2: Hell yeah, baby.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: You hear that out there? If you're mad about football,
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  Speaker 2: you woke up today.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Let Blaine crane pick you up a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Um, uh, South Carolina fans want to wake up one
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  Speaker 1: day though, Blaine and have a different.
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  Speaker 2: Coach or not, or not wake up or not wake
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  Speaker 2: up at all. Is that where you're at boat?
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  Speaker 1: Um, what do you think about like, like his beamers
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  Speaker 1: does beamer now have the hottest seat in the whole
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  Speaker 1: country or what? I guess Mike Loxley probably got a
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  Speaker 1: battle there for that. But what, like, what do you
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  Speaker 1: think about the beamer situation? Can he dig himself out
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  Speaker 1: of this?
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  Speaker 3: No, at this point, I mean, you've already dug yourself
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  Speaker 3: too deep. I don't see yourself making out of this.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think South Carolina is going to magically winning
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  Speaker 3: football games.
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  Speaker 2: It's over, right?
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  Speaker 3: We read the book. We're at the end of it.
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  Speaker 3: It's time to push Shane Beamer down the river. We're
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  Speaker 3: all whole hands and sing Kumbaya. And I think it
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  Speaker 3: happens after this weekend because I think Kentucky is probably
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  Speaker 3: going to beat South Carolina. And then after that, with
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  Speaker 3: the Dylan Stewart stuff, It's over with. Mike Loxley's already
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  Speaker 3: in the body bag, basically. I think South Carolina is
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  Speaker 3: a lot more prominent job than what Maryland is right now.
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  Speaker 4: Blaine, I agree with you that it feels like the
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  Speaker 4: inevitable is going to happen with Shane Beamer. But why
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  Speaker 4: do you think he's had the highs and he's had
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  Speaker 4: the lows?
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  Speaker 2: Why has he.
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  Speaker 4: Had so much trouble finding a consistent balance with the Gamecocks?
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, I think he's done a really bad.
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  Speaker 3: He's got really, you know, top air talent. But the
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  Speaker 3: medium talent, especially up front of the offensive line, it
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  Speaker 3: just hasn't been there. And if you can't recruit in
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  Speaker 3: the trenches at South Carolina, in the SEC or anything
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  Speaker 3: like that, you're not going to survive. Even with a
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  Speaker 3: guy like Lenore Sellers as your quarterback. I mean, it
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  Speaker 3: doesn't matter. You have Nick Carver. If you can't recruit
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  Speaker 3: defensive linemen and offensive linemen consistently in the SEC, you're
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  Speaker 3: going to crumble.
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  Speaker 2: No doubt. No doubt.
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  Speaker 1: Blaine Crane is with us. It is Crane and Cone.
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  Speaker 1: Make sure you check those guys out. YouTube, wherever you
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  Speaker 1: get your podcasts. Talking college football. Blaine, we were talking
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  Speaker 1: about this one during the break. Mississippi State has their
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  Speaker 1: third straight high-profile game. They're hosting Bama. I hate that
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  Speaker 1: the game's at noon. I'd love for this one to
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  Speaker 1: be a night one, but it's a noon game. What
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  Speaker 1: do you think of that one? Bama's been extremely impressive.
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  Speaker 1: Gamecock fans know that from Saturday. What do you feel
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  Speaker 1: about this matchup? Can Mississippi State win like three big
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  Speaker 1: ones three weeks in a row, or is this where
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  Speaker 1: they lose?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, can they win? Sure. I think you
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  Speaker 3: have a chance any time you have that thing running
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  Speaker 3: around at your quarterback position at Kamario Taylor, who I
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  Speaker 3: call the Gray Lantern. The dude's just absolutely disgusting. This
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  Speaker 3: was going to be kind of weird to me because
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  Speaker 3: if you look at it, is it 11 o'clock? Yes.
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  Speaker 3: And the weather is supposed to be awful. It's supposed
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  Speaker 3: to be awful. And I think that actually favors Alabama
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  Speaker 3: a little bit. But if you look at Mississippi State
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  Speaker 3: and if you watch Mississippi State play this year, it's
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  Speaker 3: just not Camario. That's the only good player on this team.
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  Speaker 3: Evans at receiver. Buff Boswell at running back. Your defensive
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  Speaker 3: line is pretty good. This being at Mississippi State, if
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  Speaker 3: you're a Mississippi State fan, if you can look up
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  Speaker 3: in the fourth quarter and it be one possession, that's
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  Speaker 3: where you want to be. On the Alabama side... I
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  Speaker 3: think they're one of the scariest teams in the country.
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  Speaker 3: The most dynamic. I mean, Keelan Russell is getting better
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  Speaker 3: and better week in, week out. So if you're Mississippi State,
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  Speaker 3: can you win?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: Do I think you're going to win? No.
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  Speaker 4: Blaine, this is a dangerous question, and please don't laugh
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  Speaker 4: at my fellow friends here. We've got Clemson hosting Miami
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  Speaker 4: as a big underdog on Saturday. Notre Dame is coming
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  Speaker 4: into Chapel Hill as a big favorite against the Tar Heels.
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  Speaker 4: Is there any chance at all of Clemson or UNC competing,
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  Speaker 4: pushing their opponents? Any chance at all for either team,
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  Speaker 4: or is this going to be a bloody day for
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  Speaker 4: both Clemson and North Carolina?
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  Speaker 3: I think it's going to be a bloody day. I
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  Speaker 3: think it's going to be a massacre probably. But I
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  Speaker 3: will say I think North Carolina has a better chance
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  Speaker 3: of competing with Notre Dame than Clemson has with Miami.
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  Speaker 3: And I'll tell you this is why. Because as though
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  Speaker 3: I know, I mean, Mike Clemson's been on a little
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  Speaker 3: bit of a run lately beating– beating North Carolina, beating Cal.
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  Speaker 3: But Tate Reynolds, you're not going to run for 260
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  Speaker 3: yards against Miami. It's just not going to happen. North
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  Speaker 3: Carolina's more balanced. North Carolina has more athletes on both
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  Speaker 3: sides of the ball. And North Carolina has a quarterback
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  Speaker 3: who can actually push it vertically and threaten you a
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  Speaker 3: little bit to open up the run game. And I
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  Speaker 3: still think Notre Dame's coming along a little bit. So
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  Speaker 3: to keep it close, I'd go with North Carolina because
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  Speaker 3: I think Clemson's just going to get run out of
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  Speaker 3: the building.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, Blaine, I want to ask you about the little
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  Speaker 1: old ACC here, all right, headquartered in this great city
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  Speaker 1: of Charlotte, North Carolina. There are a few teams that
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  Speaker 1: are kind of just outside the rankings. A lot of
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  Speaker 1: ACC folks are like, we can't get these unbeaten teams in.
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  Speaker 1: In the rankings, teams like Virginia Tech and Pitt, they
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  Speaker 1: play each other Friday night. And then a Duke team
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  Speaker 1: as well that has, I think, one of the best
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  Speaker 1: offensive players in the country in Shepard at running back.
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  Speaker 1: Do you look at any of those three teams and
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  Speaker 1: feel like, oh, I think they'll be a staple of
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  Speaker 1: the rankings eventually? Or do you kind of view them
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  Speaker 1: maybe the way the voters do, which is, okay, okay starts,
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  Speaker 1: but I'm not sure you did anything great yet.
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  Speaker 3: Well, no, trust me, if you're talking about the AP,
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  Speaker 3: the last thing I do is view myself of anything
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  Speaker 3: that those people think. We did our own top 25,
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  Speaker 3: and we had Duke and Wake Forest.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Wake too, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, if you've watched Wake Forest play this year,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, Gio Lopez is a really good player. I
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  Speaker 3: love their coach. They play really hard. They play Miami,
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  Speaker 3: lost by 13, but that game was super competitive, and
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  Speaker 3: they really had kind of a chance at the end.
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  Speaker 3: Duke's been taking care of business. Nate Shepard, like you mentioned,
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  Speaker 3: is an absolute problem. Have they played anybody fantastic yet?
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  Speaker 2: No.
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  Speaker 3: But you beat Illinois. You've beaten Tulane. You've done the
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  Speaker 3: things you need to do. So we give the ACC
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  Speaker 3: a lot of credit when it comes to our show. And, look,
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  Speaker 3: I know a couple of voters that didn't even have
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  Speaker 3: Miami for back-to-back weeks in their top 25. So the
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  Speaker 3: ACC is wide open right now. I'm going to see
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  Speaker 3: what happens when Louisville is kind of– you didn't want
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  Speaker 3: to see that. A lot of people had them kind
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  Speaker 3: of that second-team– You know, maybe making a playoff and
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  Speaker 3: playing Miami in the ACC championship. So, look, there's teams,
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  Speaker 3: if you watch them play, which I don't think the
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  Speaker 3: AP voters do most of the time, that belong in
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  Speaker 3: the top 25. And to me, that's Duke and Wake Forest.
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  Speaker 4: Blaine, who has surprised you the most this year in
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  Speaker 4: a good way from what you felt when the season began?
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  Speaker 4: Who surprised you in a positive way? And who's kind
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  Speaker 4: of in that uh-oh category? They're not what we thought
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  Speaker 4: they were. Not just ACC, SEC, but just overall.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, overall right now, I mean, I could sit
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  Speaker 3: here and say Florida, but I feel like that'd be
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  Speaker 3: an easy out. I'd probably say UCLA. I think UCLA
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  Speaker 3: and Bob Chesson, this is why hiring matters so much.
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  Speaker 3: This is why if you can get the right guy nowadays,
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  Speaker 3: the immediate culture shift that can happen to your program
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  Speaker 3: is it's like Thanos, it's a snap of a finger.
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  Speaker 3: And I think after what UCLA did to Maryland, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: the way they've been playing all year, the way Nico's
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  Speaker 3: come along, the way that team's kind of gelling, if
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  Speaker 3: you go look at that schedule for UCLA, they can
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  Speaker 3: make a real run and have a real chance. The
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  Speaker 3: two teams that are on the other side of that
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  Speaker 3: to me are definitely Oklahoma and Texas A & M.
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  Speaker 3: Started with Oklahoma, it's just sooner or later, You know,
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  Speaker 3: everyone thought John Mateer was going to be the guy.
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  Speaker 3: If he's not the guy, you've got to put somebody
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  Speaker 3: else in because it's a disaster. Not only did Georgia
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  Speaker 3: just beat you, but you also beat yourself, which can happen.
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  Speaker 3: And you just gave a two-year extension to Brent Venables.
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  Speaker 3: And I know on that defense, if someone made multiple
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  Speaker 3: mistakes like that, Brent would bench him. So you have
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  Speaker 3: to keep the same energy for your quarterback. And then
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  Speaker 3: Texas A & M, I mean, what a disaster. Kentucky
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  Speaker 3: bullies you. Texas A & M, LSU takes you to
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  Speaker 3: the woodshed. Wasn't even close. You looked like a soft
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  Speaker 3: football team. You looked like a bad football team. And
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  Speaker 3: with all that money that you have, You know, that's
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  Speaker 3: inexcusable to me for a Mike Yelko kick to the pulpit.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the A & M one, Bone, I feel like
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  Speaker 1: we were talking about in the summer.
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  Speaker 2: Like, they had a weird, easy SEC schedule.
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  Speaker 4: When the top 25 came out, we all said, hey,
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  Speaker 4: they're going to be the one that's the most apt
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  Speaker 4: to get.
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  Speaker 1: They had the weird, easy SEC schedule last year, and
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  Speaker 1: this year they didn't. But the Oklahoma one, I bought
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  Speaker 1: in totally. I feel like a complete moron. I totally
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  Speaker 1: believe Blaine the whole, oh, John Mateer wasn't the same
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  Speaker 1: quarterback late in the season because of the injury. Well,
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  Speaker 1: what's his excuse now, man? Like those turnovers against Georgia,
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  Speaker 1: this dude is way too experienced of a quarterback to
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  Speaker 1: be turning the ball.
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  Speaker 2: It's like horrible, man. It really is.
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  Speaker 3: No, it's almost to the point where like, hey, man,
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  Speaker 3: let me check your betting slip. I need to know.
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  Speaker 3: I need to know because you're just like you're like
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  Speaker 3: that guy from the longest yard you should ate that
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  Speaker 3: popcorn so I think it needs to be a complete
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  Speaker 3: rehaul of the offense and this is another thing in
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  Speaker 3: like NIL and transfer portal why it makes it so
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  Speaker 3: important to have a backup quarterback that's worth something, you know,
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  Speaker 3: that you can stick in and look at Dylan Viola.
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  Speaker 2: That was huge.
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  Speaker 3: You know, go beat USC. I saw Landon Clark get
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  Speaker 3: some good snaps. So, I mean, you're watching Michael Hawkins
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  Speaker 3: put up 40 points a game right now at West Virginia,
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  Speaker 3: and you got a guy with Burger King hands who
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  Speaker 3: can't hold on to the ball.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: It's crazy, man. It really is.
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  Speaker 1: I tell you, there's never not a reference that the
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  Speaker 1: Crane brothers make. Oh, the Crane brothers come in just
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  Speaker 1: stocked with references, man. God bless you guys. Oh, my
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  Speaker 1: goodness gracious.
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  Speaker 2: God bless you guys.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 1: It is Crane and Cone. Check those boys out. It's
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  Speaker 1: college football talk. It's college football passion.
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  Speaker 2: It's humor.
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  Speaker 1: Man, it is good stuff. Crane boys aren't involved in
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  Speaker 1: that Auburn thing. That Auburn information sharing scandal, you guys
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  Speaker 1: are clean on that, right?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, we're clean. I mean, what information are you
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  Speaker 3: giving out?
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  Speaker 2: We're bad at football.
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  Speaker 3: Like, I don't understand what you're giving out. So, you know,
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  Speaker 3: but hey, if that's happening, that means, you know, there
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  Speaker 3: might be still something there. I'm actually on the other side.
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  Speaker 3: I should be interrogating him in the next couple of days.
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  Speaker 2: We'll figure it out.
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  Speaker 4: Not a good sign for Auburn when the other schools
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  Speaker 4: are like, hey, you got a guy sending us info.
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  Speaker 1: My favorite part is that a bunch of schools sent
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  Speaker 1: the stuff back to Auburn and was like, hold on now.
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  Speaker 2: You got, yeah, this is me. We don't need this.
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  Speaker 3: We're not good enough for the other teams to even
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  Speaker 3: take the information.
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  Speaker 1: Ah!
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  Speaker 2: You're recruiting intel?
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  Speaker 1: We don't want to figure out how you get those players.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, man.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, look, we're not recruiting this guy. Trust me,
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  Speaker 3: y'all can have him.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Oh, that one cracks me up. All right, brother,
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  Speaker 2: be good, man. Keep up the good work.
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  Speaker 3: See you, fellas. Y'all have a great week.