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Is College Football Losing Control? NIL, NCAA Rules and Playoff Controversy · JustIN Time

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Welcome back to another edition of the Justin Tom Podcast.
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I'm your host, Justin. We've got Will with us.
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How's it going? My God, what's up?
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How you doing? Doing pretty good.
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Awesome, how do I like to hear brother?
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Yeah, you know we do. That all the time.
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We got some football coming up. Yes.
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Listen, it snuck up on me the last couple of months.
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You know, it was like you know, you know, wrapping up baseball
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season, you know now like July stand up all it really just flew
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by in the 25th already as we were recording, but just.
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We had that downtime, you know. Yeah, we.
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Ain't used to that downtime. That's what it that's what it is
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though. That's yeah.
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Now that I'm thinking about it, it's like, see baseball see the
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end as sooner than normal for us.
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But hey, it's what it is, you know?
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Off to a new academic athletic season so hope it'll be much
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better this time around. Yeah, we're not used to that
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downtime we have we normally have with baseball.
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Baseball is only playing well in the June.
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As a matter of fact, question for the fans right here, just
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like for for all of the non LSU fans that watch.
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We know y'all watch, we know you watch, but just what do y'all?
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What do you do when you have baseball season then earlier
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than us? What do y'all normally do?
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We're not used to this. What do y'all?
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We're not used to this at. All And so y'all tell us in the
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comments. Yeah, I know, we know.
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Y'all watch? If Jay has his way, we'll never
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have to go through this again. Yeah, but you know, Ole Miss did
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this. And when it comes to baseball,
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Ole Miss does this a lot. So Ole Miss fans tell us, but
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that's not what we're getting into.
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While only reason I bring you all up is I saw something where
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the NIL director thing at Ole Miss had the FBI come and search
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for wiretaps in bugs. Yes, and.
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Like, how much is he in your head that you're having he you
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having to come and do search, have the FBI search for
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wiretaps? I mean, forget all the other
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crime that happens fit in all all the drugs.
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I don't know if that's controversial.
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So just forgive me if that's controversial for like for the
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community, but just all the drugs, all the alcohol, all the
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other crimes that are really deeply affecting people's lives
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every day. And we're going to.
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We have to do a. Pull into athletic for bugs.
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Athletic, we get on. That too much?
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They're too much. So get all those up brother.
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You know, another reason why I brought Ole missile up is
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because the topic we're going to get into, you know, they have
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some experience with, you know, so I don't even know how all
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this came about, you know, but apparently was it LSU that did
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this encourage his lawsuit? I just remember one day it
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popping up on my feed. Right, right.
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But you know, let's see, you know, like we said, anytime your
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athletic program is talked about on Fox News, it's never a good
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look. Yeah, man, just, you know, when
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we we was getting set up, you know, I saw the headlight.
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NCAA created this mess. Now Ellis she was.
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Set to make. Daquan, right?
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College football's first NFL returnee.
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Yeah, you know. And look, I don't know how I
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feel about that just because he was drafted.
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Yeah, I'll tell you how I feel in the second.
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And, you know, it doesn't matter if he played it down in the NFL
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or not, he still didn't practice and go through spring ball and
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summer workouts. And at this point, he's missing
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all the fall camp because he's with, you know, currently with
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the Saints or he was with the Saints.
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Or was this the one that got cut by Cleveland?
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No, just and like, I just got a report from Adam Schefter.
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Source. Former Browns Titan Daquan
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Wright cleared waivers today and is expected to sign with LSU on
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Wednesday. This is, this is, I mean, just
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as you were speaking, just drop from ESPN.
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Yeah. So see, this is what I was
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talking about. Like, yeah, I couldn't tell you
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if it was. There's one from the Saints that
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I saw too, you know, Right. But this is what we talked
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about, though, a couple weeks ago when we said, you know, Ole
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Miss set a terrible precedence with the whole Trinidad thing
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where they made-up a medical red shirt for him and had a
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Mississippi judge, state judge rule that he can play.
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Yeah. So all you Ole Miss fans crying
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and whining and bitching about this, you reek what you saw
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because you're the one who set the presidents for this.
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Actually, Diego, Pavi and Bandy set the presidents for this and
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you just followed suit with Trinidad, you know, So I don't
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want to hear it from you because it's the same exact thing.
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Only difference is these guys actually had the balls to go in
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the NFL and Trinidad, did you know they tried to move on with
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their careers, but. And that's what I want to really
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touch on, You know, was just like, obviously this is
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unprecedented for the, you know, for just ever shifting landscape
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of college football has really just been in flux for several
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years. Not really, to be honest.
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I will say I'm not a fan of of any athlete, you know, for going
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there at the rest of their college eligibility to go to the
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pro and then now you have an opportunity to go back.
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I don't, I don't like that precedent personally, even for
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my even for the sake of my own alma mater.
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I think that's just irrelevant about the specific fandom that a
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lot of people like to justify. Oh well, it's not that big of a
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deal. Well, you're a fan of the team
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so you probably will justify. Here's what you're saying, but I
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like what you're saying. I agree with what you're saying.
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Yeah, I also think they need to go back to, I mean, for all this
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NIL deals, they have to have an agent or some someone who can
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advocate for them when they're in season.
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But I also kind of like the rule before all this NIL stuff where
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it was you talk to an agent, you can't play, you had to go to dry
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up to do something, you know? Yeah.
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They need to have some kind of rule in place or a set of rules,
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universal rules that take this and make it so it can't happen.
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Everybody, this is getting wild. Yes, you know, and and like what
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you the thing that you said, I was going to wrap up by saying
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that yes, like I don't I'm not a fan of like just the back
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bobbing and weaving like the because I'm not, you know, she
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got at some point we got to make now he's young, so I'm not I'm
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not questioning him. That's not what this is about.
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But just like we all got we at some point we had to make the
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strong decisions. Like you said, you need that,
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that uniform governing body. And that's the problem.
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I have many years with the NCAA because it's just you're late to
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the part of everything. You don't crack down on
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something ahead of time. And then we got to do all this,
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this flip flop and we all got to do this shuffling.
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I mean, this is this is just another chapter in like this.
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The you know, the notorious history of that organization.
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Yeah. I mean, they're late to
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everything. And at this point, you should
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see every problem coming. I mean, you got men's
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basketball, and unfortunately, it's our alma mater taking the
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heat for this one. But basketball programs all over
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the country do this, you know? Yeah, Yeah.
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And, you know, eventually NCAA, you knew it was going to creep
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over and go into different sports, you know, so.
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It's all the nature. Of the beast.
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Yeah, slow band. It's a domino effect.
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When 1 sport does it, another sports going to do it.
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And when you've got two guys like Will Wade and Lane Kiffin,
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Lane Kiffin saw that Wade will, I mean, Will Wade did that and
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was like, that'll work. Eureka.
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You know that'll work. We can get the I'm missing
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pieces from injury. And the thing, and that's the
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thing like, and that's another thing I want to point, I want to
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make is just, even though I'm not crazy about this
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unprecedented circumstance, it's still within rule.
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I mean, because you're passing you sit like, I mean, it's, it's
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within the rule. So again, that's why I would go
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back to the to the organization. Yeah, when you don't have the
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rules set, it's hard to say something was, you know, within
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the rules to begin with. And this whole nil structure and
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everything is there's no rules. It's the wildlife.
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Start there. You know, until the NCAA gets
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off his ass and says you can't do this, you can do this.
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I'll tell you, it's like the classroom.
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It's like the classroom setting. If you don't go in there and
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tell these kids you can't do this, they're going to do it.
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You know, I mean, it's like anything in life.
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If you don't specifically say you can't do this, somebody's
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going to do it. It's wild of me to think that we
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could. LSU came up with the idea of
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because, you know, LSU did this, they specifically targeted these
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guys and said, we're going to add you to this lawsuit because
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we think that you could come back, you know, and it worked.
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Now I'm eager to see how many of the guys that they, you know,
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pushed that way, actually considers it and comes back.
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I feel like Jack Pyburn would be a good one to get back.
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He was on that list. But also, if you're killing it
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in the NFL, there's no reason for you to come back to college.
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Absolutely not. How would you?
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Because especially if that's the thing game.
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So I mean, I can get if you got waved, you know.
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Yeah, it's just like, I mean, that's that's the thing about
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just making strong decisions, having the governing bodies and
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that really sets that stuff in place.
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But today. But but like, in fairness to
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like the gentleman that are doing this, like, listen, I
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mean, that's the the rules give you the gateway to do that.
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So like I say, I like people crap on.
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I always think it's all the time.
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I know I'm a broke a rack with this crap on the athletes all
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the time but nobody holds the the dolls accountable.
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Yeah, and you know what's funny? It's the same people that do
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shitty stuff and then walk around and say don't hate to
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play, I hate the game. That's don't hate the player,
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hate to hate the governing body. But come on now bro.
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Thank you. I mean, if there's not a rule
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set for it in the way that NIL and everything works right now,
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in the way they take all this stuff, people are just loosely.
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It's like the SEC officiate. They just loosely, loosely
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interpret the rules. Yeah, they're going.
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They ain't going to like what you're saying that, but it'll be
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all right. No, but it's the truth.
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I don't argue, they put. That's the whole thing about.
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They put Matt Austin on the TV every year and two, he does 2
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games at a time, like one earlier in the day in one game.
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The first game he does that could be a targeting and he is
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the same. And well, by the letter of the
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rule, I wouldn't interpret it that way.
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And then he goes back and get he goes back to another game, they
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pull his ball itself on the next time and they asked him the same
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thing and it's the same exact play.
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Helmet down, lunging. Yeah, they needed.
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I would have tossed him maybe underneath the jail if it was
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me. Yeah.
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But like, if you're going to be the NCAA needs to stop being,
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you know, we have all these rules.
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They are rules and said it's not as bad as we make it sound.
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There are rules and set. It's just everybody becomes the
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SEC official and it happens and starts loosely interpreting
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these rules to where they're following it.
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There's just that little Gray space, you know?
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Yeah. I mean, it is like you said,
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it's all, yeah, it always, it always starts at the top,
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company starts at the top, always, always.
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We're going, it's a little bit of a, you know, it's black and
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white, but all of these, as far as rules go, you know, they're
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on paper, they're black and white.
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It's always that little Gray area and that's where a lot of
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these teams operate in. I mean, cause, and The thing is,
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I and I understand because it's, you know, it's the competitive
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edge. It's college sports is not equal
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and there will be equal. So like even with resources, a
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lot of teams have resources. So it's a, it's a competitive
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space, even more so now with the shifting year to year.
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So it's like, so I don't, I don't I understand because it's
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like and like somebody said it Reddit, unless you Reddit
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football ready like several days ago said, you know, whatever we
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can do to get the the competitive yet ethical
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advantage. I'm fine with that.
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So it's like is ethical legal? I mean, hey.
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There's that word I'm not. There's that word ethical.
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Yes. There's not a lot of ethics in
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college athletics when it comes down to stuff like this.
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Yeah, unfortunately not you just.
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Do what you do to get a competitive edge and you know,
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unfortunately, the NCAA let's a lot of things slide.
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And this ain't. And this ain't nothing new.
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Yeah, nothing. And I put a note here.
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I was about to get to it. Because I said something, I saw
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something, I think it's just it won't pull up on my pull up on
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my computer, but won't pull up on my personal computer.
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I don't understand that. Here we go.
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It says Paul Finebaum slams LSU head coach for shattering norms
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by bringing the NFL Titan back to college.
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And I made the note in the yeah, the only reason he's saying that
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it is is because it's LSU Bama or old Miss of Georgia or one of
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them did that he'd be praising them.
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Yeah, yeah. I put just look at the old piss,
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what old piss did with the Trinidad medical red shirt for
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Trinidad and having the Mississippi judge rule him
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eligible. It's no different than that, you
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know, But fine Bones whining and complaining about it and
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trashing LSU and it's just because it's LSU.
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That's the only reason he has a problem with it.
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If Alabama did it, he wouldn't care.
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In the Alabama, but it's just like, but it's I'm sorry, go
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ahead. Not wanting to say anything.
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Like, like you said, I mean, it's like I was thinking when
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you had put the note in the doc, I was like, I mean, it just, it
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just feeds into the villain rule, the villain arc.
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So that's that's what it comes down to.
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Like I said, you know a Lil way to hate it.
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Kiffin's hate it. I said, listen, you regardless
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of your emotion, it's going to at the end of the day, what what
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happens on the field. That's that's, that's that's
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all. Listen, I'm not when it comes to
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football in general, when I even when the Saints were like we,
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you know, Saints fans, you and I just watch the Saints games for
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how many years watching the glory days.
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You know this, you're fortunate enough to see both the heyday of
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the Saints and the LSU football Tigers.
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So it's the The thing is, I never get too high or too low
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when it comes to football because it's week to week and
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it's so it's so few games. I don't care how I don't care
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how dominant they've been like 4 winning every game, about 45
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points a game. I don't care.
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It's week to week. Baseball, basketball is hockey
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different because you got so many games in every week.
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So it's just are you going to lose anyway?
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But. Yeah.
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And then if you look at it, if you look at it, OK, the NCAA
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plays favoritism all the time. Yeah, Just look at Notre Dame,
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for example. If they're in the top 12, it
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doesn't matter. They're in.
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They're going to kick a deserving team out of the
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playoffs for a non power 5 conference champion and what
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might end up being a nine and three or 8 and 4 Notre Dame
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team. Everything's said and done, but
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because they're in the top 12, they'll kick out and attending
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to LSU or attending to SEC team to put a mediocre Notre Dame
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team in, you know? Like like, you know, we, you and
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I, we talked about this, you know, playoff playoff structure
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so much. My people in a lot of people
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along Memphis go and they were just complaining about they had
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the one guy that always complained about that.
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Like, you know, you just you're celebrating mediocrity by
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putting the brother. It's all about the schedule.
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So would you want like if it's two if toothbrush tech when 12
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and O and the and the and the groundskeeper conference but
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there's no real competition, but you going to put them over like
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a A9 in three LSU team who plays like 8 rig teams in the season?
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Exactly. So it's like, no, I'm not going
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to reward. Yes, you would.
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Yeah, it's great that you go undefeated, but it's all the
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context because college is not equal.
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That's why I would say expanded. Expanded to where you I like to
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eliminate all of the unnecessary guesswork.
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I said 32 teams. You got top 25 already, they
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were automatically and then you could the last other seventeens
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could Duke it out just for like the for the at large bid.
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I know people say that's too much.
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I said listen, eliminate the guesswork if you ranked at end
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of the season. Boom.
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Yeah. So I mean, it's not really
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guesswork at that point. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
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Just like, yeah, because like if you, if you, if you let them, if
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you like, just make it easy for yourself.
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Just leave all the ambiguity out, just like.
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Exactly. Unnecessary voters and stuff,
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no. I mean, you've got people on
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this committee voting that know nothing about a game, you know,
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And to say you got a school's athletic director on the
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committee is a shame, especially when you've got all these, you
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know, these NFL legends who are commentators nowadays.
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Yes. You know, put them on a
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committee and let them come up with this.
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You know, unfortunately it's not like baseball where you got
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people out, some guys out of Dominican Republic who become
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legends. You know, they all came from a
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College in in the NFL. So they're going to be a little
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biased towards such and such a team.
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There's enough legends out there and diversity and where they
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went to school with kind of cancels each cancels it out.
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Yeah, that's and that's that's another thing probably.
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That's a great point that you bring up.
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I mean, you you still got enough collegiate like you have enough
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collegiate heads that really can make a quality committee.
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But even if you don't get those guys, you follow the simple
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structure of like by the end of the week, the last week of the
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regular season out to take away cover championship games.
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All that's like because that's inconsistently useless,
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inconsistently valuable because Miami got to the national
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championship game without even playing in the conference title.
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Duke actually won the ACC like this past season, and they
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weren't even close to the playoffs because a certain
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tiebreaker, they was able to get in, you know, win ACC term and
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win today. Credit, but no.
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Yeah, it's all about, and I mean, if you even think about
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it, you've got the Heisman House.
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All they do is make commercials year round.
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Some of them. Don't do anything else but make
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their commercials. They can take time and I'm sure
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they would love to be a part of a committee.
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Those guys came up and said this is how we're going to do it.
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This is why we put this team in. At least it would be better than
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I'm the school's athletic director.
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So I thought they should be in the playoffs because it looks
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good on me. You know, look, I've had nothing
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wrong. I don't think anything's wrong
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with the athletic director and advocate for your school.
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No, yeah, but that's what Yeah, that's yeah, I.
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Feel like the whole committee and stuff has become more
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politics. It's not even about who's good
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anymore. That that's what and that's
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what's college football has been for forever.
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Politics, just like, you know, there's no because you know, BCS
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and stuff like that, you know, like.
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You know, having the computers decide like now we played in the
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SEC, so we played tougher schedule.
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So it was going to be favorable to us.
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But we we played the schedule. But even still, like Auburn was
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was undefeated the whole year 2004 didn't make played in the
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conference title game. Yeah.
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But like, you needed to go and because a lot of backlash
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happened from again, LSU was always at the forefront of
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backlash. But in 2011 when LSU and Alabama
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played each other in national championship, I don't even when
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Alabama beat LSU because what LSU did on that field did what
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does not even consider playing. But you know, you got that.
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Those two are the best two teams in the.
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Country, yeah. And that season I had no problem
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with the rematch because they were, like I said before, in
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2011, at the end of the regular season, the top three teams that
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ranked in the country were in the SEC West, US Bama in
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Arkansas. Yeah, see, I don't have a
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problem when the two best teams in the country back.
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The two best teams in the country should play for the
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national championship in that set up.
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You know, and that set up absolutely.
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And The thing is, but like and the thing about it and when I
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bring up Arkansas is because any other year they would have been
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like a title favorite. And then The thing is, if you
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would have had a tournament that year, they will be a worthy,
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they will have been a compelling case to make it to a title run
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because that was like the best argument team I've ever seen.
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So, so not to say they will win, just my thing is just like you,
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you award great teams, you award them for playing hard schedules
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and you reward even even more for even winning those games and
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just leave it on the field. Always leave it on the field.
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Don't make it about politics. Put it on the field.
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Then like even if somebody like even with 2023 Florida State,
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when Jordan Travis got hurt, they were still still about the
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playoffs for unfairly, I said, listen, even they would have got
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beat in the playoff game. Listen, they they weren't
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cheated out of a spot that they earned.
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So because at that point, all I can say at that point, all I can
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say is just an unfortunate time with this injury.
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But that's all you can say. But but at least they got their
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rightful playoff spot. Yeah.
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And look, to me, if you're going to do a 12 team playoff, like
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we're still doing a 12 team playoff, Compass championships
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and Notre Dame's whole argument, that's irrelevant to me.
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You're going to do that and you're going to rank the teams
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and you're going to say, OK, this is the playoffs.
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The 12 top teams get in the playoffs, but you're not going
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to put the 12 top teams in the playoffs.
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No offense to Tulane last year, but they were not one of the top
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12 teams in the country. You know, they played Ole Miss
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twice and they lost, but they lost to the same.
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Score. Yeah.
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That's the only compliment I'm ever going to give you on this.
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So take you with James Salt. There you go.
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But two lines shouldn't have been in there.
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You know who else got beat like a redheaded stepchild the first
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game they played in the playoffs because they were won their
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conference? Let me see.
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Fuck, I don't know why I can't think of it right now.
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I wish it would load up. James Madison was right 24 lost
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to Oregon 51 to 34 and two line was ranked 20th.
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OK, so you take that and then you look up the top 25 for the
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2025 season at the end of the year.
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I don't want the API went to college football.
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Yeah, because Jane Madison lost 51 to 34.
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Yeah, that's all I'm. Saying is they have scored.
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They have like they have scored basically in garbage time
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because they scored 2820. They were, they were losing 34
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to 6 at half time of that game against Oregon.
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Like they scored the house called Oregon 28 to 17.
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So basically just garbage time, yeah.
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So you take that and you know you've had you had better, way
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better teams that missed out on the playoffs because you took
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those the number 20 and #24 team in the country and each them in
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the playoffs. That's why I said like, even
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even if you put those teams in there, increase the playoffs to
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let the other deserving, the more deserving teams in that
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way, you don't have to worry about the hassle of like, Oh my
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God, he teared us out of a spot. I'm like we were without.
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Listen, yeah. We go to this, but that's what,
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yeah, we go to this. Every year and every year a team
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that deserves to be there doesn't get put in there because
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they put a conference champion in from a lower conference and
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it's not a good look. I mean, I just, I don't know
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what to say anymore. It's you've got NFL guys that
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got drafted coming back to play college.
24:54
You've got geriatric and guys in college terms still playing
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because state courts rule they're eligible.
25:05
And then you've got a college incompetent College Football
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Playoff committee that can't who wants to get yelled at every
25:10
year and wonders why they get yelled at every year.
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And listen, I understand like all these and like the the
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weekly playoff shows release is so useless, but I, I, it gives
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us about the dollar. I understand it's all about
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money. I get it.
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I don't make. It right, I don't call them
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incompetent because they can't do a job.
25:28
They can do the job that they were hired to do, but when it
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comes down to putting a playoff committee together for college
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football, they consistently drop the ball every year and they get
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yelled at every year. There's outrage even from teens
25:43
that their fam, who was it Florida State year before, You
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know, it wasn't just their fans that were outraged in 2024.
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It was the entirety. Of college, yeah, yeah, right,
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right. But yeah, because they went
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undefeated in the 23 season and just like they should have been
26:05
in the postseason. Yeah.
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Like it's just like, I mean, it was, I mean, and they did it for
26:09
this ratings because, I mean, they figured like Jordan Travis
26:12
being hurt would take the rating.
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Listen, yeah, I don't like I don't, I get business is a lot
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of life is about business. A lot of companies about
26:20
business, I understand. But keep your integrity, keep
26:24
your consistency intact. That's what I value because we
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already making a lot of money regardless of who's in the
26:31
tournament. Yes, do just do higher legacy
26:35
pro legacy programs bring in a higher number, yes, but I want
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my integrity and the consistency to be intact.
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You put it to 32 teams. The top 25 automatically get bid
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because they're ranked at the end of the season.
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Then you have a then you have a more of a debate with like a few
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teams and you could talk. You could, people would say that
26:55
dilutes the product but your deserving team still get in and
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you never know what's going to happen in the post season run.
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And it's the same people that claim that say that dot that
27:05
dilutes the product. They sit there and get excited
27:08
for the cheese zip bowl every year.
27:10
It's about diluting the product. I'm like, bro, you out in four
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and eight teams. Like that's that's diluting the
27:15
product for an exhibition game. Like don't get me started.
27:19
I wouldn't even call it an exhibition game.
27:21
I'd call it, you know, those high school scrimmages they had
27:24
before the season starts? Jamboree.
27:27
Not even a Jamboree is a little the scrimmage, actual scrimmage
27:32
games that they put on their schedule.
27:33
Scrimmage. Yeah.
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But let's talk what it is. It's a Jamboree of sorts.
27:40
You parade A-Team out there and you really get 15 minutes to
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solid football. And then the rest of it's just
27:46
let's see who else we could throw in there for next year.
27:49
But that'll do it from us. Get excited because it'll be
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Thursday. After this episode drops, we
27:58
stopped talking about the small potato stuff and start talking
28:00
about the big potato stuff. That's right.
28:03
That is right. And we will talk about the real
28:06
Tigers versus the fake Tigers, the great value Tigers.
28:14
When the great value Clemson Tigers come to the real Death
28:18
Valley to play. We will hit on that next week
28:23
and then the schedule might look a little differently moving
28:27
forward, but we'll touch on that.
28:29
For sure. Touch on that later, but for
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now, every Tuesday and Thursday morning at 7:00 AM TuneIn share
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it Comment subscribe We'd love to hear y'all thoughts you know
28:42
let's look at this thing on let's we say this every week,
28:45
but let's keep it going yes? Sir, of course.
28:50
For all the messiness you want, but in We try to our best to
28:53
explain it, but hopefully there won't be too much mess during
28:56
the regular season that we got to explain but.
28:58
Yes, and that's listen, as long as we do our part, I'm fine.
29:02
Yeah, because it's easier just when we when we when our team
29:06
handle business, we could talk about y'all teams because like,
29:09
like I said at the start, we know y'all watch y'all in y'all
29:13
in the LSU reddits, they're in the comments on YouTube.
29:16
But I hate LSU. You don't hate those that much.
29:18
I know you all don't. I mean, you must secretly love
29:21
us. That's this What?
29:24
Yeah, that's what he did. I always asked this straight
29:26
back in the days. Like the loving, the state of
29:28
confusion. Hated loving.
29:29
The state of confusion. They got one of those shrines
29:31
that they hate. Like, remember that show Hey
29:34
Arnold? She had a whole shrine to him.
29:40
I'd come bullied him every day. I'd I'd tell my sister all the
29:44
time like we because she like stay on him too.
29:46
I was like sit like nobody had more ribs than Arnold, bro.
29:50
It's like the girl I know it's one person, one girl like, but
29:54
it's like she had a whole worship shrine.
29:57
And. And I'm like that is.
29:59
Different. She would bully him every single
30:01
day but you would have the shrine.
30:05
That's what y'all are to all you non LSU fans.
30:10
You'll secretly have an LSU shrine and you value utilize it
30:13
and you just go online and hate on LSU for no reason.
30:17
Hey please please put that bro include that we like.
30:20
We like to have fun over here, so, you know, maybe take the
30:25
shrine out, take the shrine out the closet and join us.
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But that'll do it for months. Remember, have a great day, a
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great night, whatever you do, just have a great one and we'll
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see you next time. Peace, Peace.