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FIRED UP Greg Sankey at SEC Spring Meetings · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: The hump of the hill. Good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to
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  Speaker 1: the program here on sports Radio AM thirteen under the Zone.
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  Speaker 1: My name is Craig Way. I always say this on Wednesday,
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  Speaker 1: so I'm going to say it again. If today is
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  Speaker 1: the home day for you, the middle of the week,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I hope you get over that rise.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: For those of you for whom Wednesday is the end
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  Speaker 1: of the work week, good on you. Good for you,
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  Speaker 1: and hope you enjoy the next couple of days. And
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  Speaker 1: for those of you for a well, maybe Wednesday's the
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  Speaker 1: start of the work week, hope it gets off to
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  Speaker 1: a good start. It's the midway part for us, and
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  Speaker 1: US of course includes.
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  Speaker 2: The producer of the program, Cameron d. Parker.
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  Speaker 1: right now, the Dallas Cowboys. So it's Cameron Dallas Parker.
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  Speaker 1: It's not Cameron Dodgers Parker. Wouldn't be that. I was
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  Speaker 1: kind of taking a peak at the Dodger game today
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  Speaker 1: when you when he walked in there, because I know
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  Speaker 1: how you are. You you could care nothing about the
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  Speaker 1: team in La. It's the key when it comes to baseball.
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  Speaker 1: It's the team in Arlington that has your interest. And hey,
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  Speaker 1: they won last night too. Nothing got another great pitching performance.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, two runs they scored will not get it done.
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  Speaker 1: I was trying to be the optimistic one for you there. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: They the Rangers did get to win last night. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: the the Indiana Pacers got another win. They're now up
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  Speaker 1: three games to one on the New York Knicks. Did
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  Speaker 1: I'm trying to remember, did you pick them to win
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  Speaker 1: this series?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if I had an official pick. I
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  Speaker 3: felt like it was going to go seven, and it
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  Speaker 3: looks like it's going to go five in favor of Indiana.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we'll see Alla Nick's two back on our home floor.
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  Speaker 1: But obviously their their their backs are against the wall
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  Speaker 1: on that Speaking of backs against the wall, same for
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  Speaker 1: the Dallas Stars now backs against the wall, down three
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  Speaker 1: games to one, like the team I group. For the
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  Speaker 1: Carolina Hurricanes, they played to night, their backs against the wall.
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  Speaker 1: They're down three games to one as well. So it
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  Speaker 1: looks like all these series are just starting to neatly
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  Speaker 1: wrap up and tie up and be done, including the
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  Speaker 1: one for your team, the Oklahoma City Thunder, who go
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  Speaker 1: for the throat tonight, they try to finish off the
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  Speaker 1: Western Conference Finals series against the Minnesota Timberwolves.
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  Speaker 2: And you must be feeling good about that.
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  Speaker 3: I would imagine, yeah, I mean, Anthony and Wards and
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  Speaker 3: then t Wolves are They're such a good team, so
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  Speaker 3: you know, until o case he gets it done. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: I feel good about Thunder winning tonight, but these are
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  Speaker 3: two really good basketball teams here in Neo. Minnesota's gonna
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  Speaker 3: be fighting to the last tonight, so it's gonna be
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  Speaker 3: a fun game, but definitely being at home. I like
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  Speaker 3: our chances of taking down and advancing to the back
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  Speaker 3: to the NBA Finals.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, let me tell you what we have
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  Speaker 1: on the program today. There's some things to get to
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  Speaker 1: and uh, there's a couple of real interesting uh things.
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  Speaker 1: One would be and this is we'll have you hear
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  Speaker 1: parts of it in all three hours of the show
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  Speaker 1: because it's it's it's kind of some protracted, uh conversation
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  Speaker 1: and doings and things like that.
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  Speaker 2: But but here's why.
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about Greg Sanking, the commissioner of the Southeastern Conference.
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  Speaker 1: As we know the SEC meetings are ongoing, uh, have
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  Speaker 1: been ongoing. And we heard from the commissioner yesterday when
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  Speaker 1: he talked about, you know, this whole all for one
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  Speaker 1: one for all things being kind of silly and all
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  Speaker 1: that other kind of stuff. But today uh, and and
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  Speaker 1: he was he was rather non committal in the and
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  Speaker 1: it was audio from Monday. It was late Monday afternoon
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  Speaker 1: when he came out, so we ran it on yesterday's program,
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  Speaker 1: and he was rather noncommittal as to the direction and
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  Speaker 1: what they might do with regard to the college football playoff.
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  Speaker 1: And this is a very important part of this because
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  Speaker 1: I know a lot of you who are long worn
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  Speaker 1: fans or other SEC fans really have an interest in this.
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  Speaker 1: There are many who are very curious about the eight
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  Speaker 1: game SEC conference schedule format which they've been under, or
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  Speaker 1: the possibility of a nine game schedule, and they're varied
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  Speaker 1: opinions on it. The coaches certainly are not much in
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  Speaker 1: favor of the nine game schedule. They would rather play
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  Speaker 1: that fourth non conference game. I think athletic directors probably
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  Speaker 1: don't mind having the ninth game. Fans certainly seem to
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  Speaker 1: want the ninth conference game. And I'll tell you who
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  Speaker 1: else wants the ninth conference game? The conference commissioners of
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  Speaker 1: the other leagues with regard to the possibility of expansion
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  Speaker 1: of the college Football playoff too, and we figured this
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  Speaker 1: might be the case to sixteen teams that it might happen.
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  Speaker 1: And it almost seems to be a situation of we'll
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  Speaker 1: give you this if you give us that, meaning the
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  Speaker 1: other conference commissioners really want there to be a nine
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  Speaker 1: game conference schedule in the SEC. And I know a
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  Speaker 1: lot of you, and when I first read it at
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  Speaker 1: first glance, it goes, what businesses are the theirs? Why
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  Speaker 1: do they care whether the SEC plays eight or nine? Well,
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  Speaker 1: the answer is quite simple, really, when I've thought about it,
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  Speaker 1: the answer is pretty simple. If you're playing nine games
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  Speaker 1: in conference play in the SEC, the odds are greater
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  Speaker 1: that they're going to be more losses for SEC teams
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  Speaker 1: instead of playing whatever Louisiana Monroe or you know whatever,
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  Speaker 1: or especially as most of the SEC teams do play
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  Speaker 1: FCS opponents the Western Carolinas and Samford's of the world
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  Speaker 1: and some of the other ones. But you know that
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  Speaker 1: the odds are greater that that's going to happen. So
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  Speaker 1: therefore it might open the door for some of the other.
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  Speaker 1: So the debate is twofold whether there is latitude for
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  Speaker 1: adding a ninth conference game as it relates to the
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  Speaker 1: possibility of an expanded playoff, and the model that is
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  Speaker 1: being discussed a bit of the past twenty four hours
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  Speaker 1: is called a five plus eleven model.
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  Speaker 2: Do you know what that is?
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  Speaker 1: Cam If I just just threw that out there, the
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  Speaker 1: five plus eleven, do you know what that is?
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  Speaker 2: The five automatic bids? Or well, yeah, yes, they would
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  Speaker 2: be automatic. Uh huh. It is the five.
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  Speaker 1: Highest ranked conference champions so that would include a group
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  Speaker 1: of five or now they're saying G six plus eleven
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  Speaker 1: at large. The coaches like it. Athletic directors not so much.
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  Speaker 1: They want more guaranteed bids for their leagues. The coaches
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  Speaker 1: are like, look, it's on our shoulders if there's eleven
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  Speaker 1: at large bids out there, and if we didn't win
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  Speaker 1: our conference championship, but we're right up there near the top,
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  Speaker 1: or maybe we're the third best, but we have a
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  Speaker 1: chance to get in. So they apparently are for this.
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  Speaker 1: The athletic directors not so much. And then there's the commissioner,
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  Speaker 1: Greg Sankie, who has to listen about sides and then
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  Speaker 1: get people together. So he has some interesting takes on this,
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  Speaker 1: and so we'll hear some things from him today. There's
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  Speaker 1: there's some other topics that we're going to get to well,
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  Speaker 1: And I said this down the stretch of yesterday's show,
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  Speaker 1: and if you were tuned in laid in the show,
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  Speaker 1: you would have heard it, if not understandable, And here's
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  Speaker 1: where I'm repeating it today. For whatever reason, May twenty eighth,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why, but May twenty eighth is National
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  Speaker 1: Hamburger Day. So what we're asking you is what is
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  Speaker 1: the where or what under what circumstances could be restaurant
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  Speaker 1: or burger join or a picnic or a barbecue or
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  Speaker 1: you know whatever. I violated my own rule just in
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  Speaker 1: by the way, barbecue is a now not a verb,
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  Speaker 1: so you know it's a at a at a cookout.
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  Speaker 2: What what was the best burger you ever had?
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  Speaker 4: Right me?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm asking for everybody and for their input. The
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  Speaker 1: best burger you ever had was, and you fill in
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  Speaker 1: the blank. It could be, Oh, I had it at
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  Speaker 1: a whatever at a burger joint in Minneapolis, or I
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  Speaker 1: or I had it at whatever a place downtown in Austin,
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  Speaker 1: or I had it, you know, in San Antonio, or
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  Speaker 1: I had doubt wherever it can be that it could
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  Speaker 1: also be, Hey, the best burger I ever had was
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  Speaker 1: one my dad cooked up in the backyard cookout. We had,
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  Speaker 1: you know whatever, The best hamburger you ever had was?
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  Speaker 1: And you can say when I was at Summer Camper,
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  Speaker 1: when I was at a burger joint at such and such.
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  Speaker 2: So I want to know that because today is National
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  Speaker 2: Hamburger Day. Do you know yours? I put the question
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  Speaker 2: to you yesterday. Do you know your yours? I do.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, there's this place out close to Lake l b J.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's close to Marble Falls, me a little
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  Speaker 3: bit closer to in between Marble Falls in burn It.
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  Speaker 3: It's this little cafe out side of this road, and
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  Speaker 3: it was the best hamburger experience I've had in my life.
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  Speaker 3: The bun the fries, the meat, like the whole, the
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  Speaker 3: whole shebang.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, But you don't remember the name of the place.
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  Speaker 2: I always forget. I tell people about it all the time.
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  Speaker 2: I gotta look it up.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, Cam will try to look that up.
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  Speaker 1: But you can let us know on the tax line.
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  Speaker 1: Best hamburger you ever had was and was when I
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  Speaker 1: leave the blank, Like I said, that can be a day,
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  Speaker 1: a time, a place, Vally Cafe, Hoover's Valley Cafe Valley,
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  Speaker 1: Hoover's Valley Cafe. Okay. See, now when I get home,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna open up my Texas Atlas gazetteer
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  Speaker 1: and find Hoover's Valley because you say it's out by
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  Speaker 1: Lake LBJ.
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  Speaker 2: I have to find that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's technically in burning Okay, it's a technically okay,
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  Speaker 1: all right, well all right, so yeah it can be.
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  Speaker 1: It can be a place, but it doesn't necessarily have
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  Speaker 1: to be just the particulars. Best burger you ever had was.
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  Speaker 1: You can say when I was at blah blah blah,
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  Speaker 1: or it was at such and Schutzburger place, whatever it
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  Speaker 1: might be.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, we'll get to all that today.
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  Speaker 1: Is also a yacht rock Wednesday, and we'll bump back
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  Speaker 1: with some yacht rock for you this afternoon. And we
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  Speaker 1: have inconceivable this afternoon as well, so we'll get to
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  Speaker 1: all that and more here on a Wednesday afternoon. Happy
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  Speaker 1: as always to have you with us here on thirteen
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  Speaker 1: As I mentioned that, you know today being National Hamburger Day,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the answers obviously would be varied. Like I said,
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  Speaker 1: it can include the place where you got it if
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  Speaker 1: you want, didn't have to, but it can uh and
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't have to be a hamburger that you can
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  Speaker 1: get today. The question was the best hamburger you ever had? Was? Was?
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  Speaker 1: Can include the past for a burger joint that no
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  Speaker 1: longer exists?
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  Speaker 2: It can?
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  Speaker 1: It can be a place that isn't around anymore, but
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  Speaker 1: it happened to be the best one you ever got.
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  Speaker 2: You just hadn't had one that was that good since then.
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  Speaker 1: An example of that might be one text who said,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't remember this because I wasn't living in
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  Speaker 1: austin the eighties. But they said, but duncles on Barton Springs.
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  Speaker 1: But duncles on Barton Springs in the eighties was my fave.
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  Speaker 2: I get that. I remember you used to it.
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  Speaker 1: Used to be able to get a really good burger
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  Speaker 1: on Barton Springs. Maybe it was on Riverside when filling
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  Speaker 1: station over there. Somebody else said, grins in San Marcos.
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  Speaker 2: So that's a good call.
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  Speaker 1: And somebody some of my favorite every time is Chris
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  Speaker 1: Madrids and San Antonio on the corner of Hollywood and
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  Speaker 1: Blanco since nineteen seventy seven. Well done, Rob, well done.
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  Speaker 1: So that's it's quite simple. Today is National Hamburger Day.
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  Speaker 1: So the question is to you. And I brought this
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  Speaker 1: up yesterday and I said, we're not going to do
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  Speaker 1: this till tomorrow. Oh, somebody else said, I just happened
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  Speaker 1: to say it was just randomly naming towns, and I said, Minneapolis. Well,
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  Speaker 1: sure enough, we get one that says Matt's Bar in Minneapolis,
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  Speaker 1: home of the juice. See Lucy. Some of the best
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  Speaker 1: hamburgers you can get are at a bar. Some of them,
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  Speaker 1: there's no question about some of the best. Some of
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  Speaker 1: the there's there's a place in Omaha that's right up there.
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  Speaker 1: For me, it's about as good as just about anyone
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  Speaker 1: any any burger place I've been to, and and folks
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  Speaker 1: who have been to Omaha enough for the College World
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  Speaker 1: Series have probably been to this place. It's called Dinkers
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  Speaker 1: Dinker's Pub, and it's a deal kind of like hop
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  Speaker 1: dotty where you walk to the back whatever and make
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  Speaker 1: an order your burger. Then you go and sit down
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  Speaker 1: and they call you come and get it. And it's
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  Speaker 1: cash holding at that place, at at Dinkers.
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  Speaker 2: So it's near.
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  Speaker 1: It's I think at thirtieth and right where I forty
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  Speaker 1: eighty comes in. It's not far. It's not far from downtown.
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  Speaker 1: So the Longhorns do make it back to Omaha, I
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  Speaker 1: probably will make a make a pilgrimage over there to
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  Speaker 1: Denkers Deker's Pub over there to get one. But anyway,
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  Speaker 1: that's the question, is today being National Hamburger Day, the
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  Speaker 1: best hamburger you ever had was? And it can be
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  Speaker 1: a place, it can be a time frame, whatever you
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  Speaker 1: want it to be. Just want to know the best
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  Speaker 1: hamburg you ever had was so one and so forth. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: what is the best formula for college football for the playoff,
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  Speaker 1: what's the best formula for conference championship deciding games, What's
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  Speaker 1: the best formula for how many conference games you would play?
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  Speaker 1: All of these questions and others are being pondered at
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  Speaker 1: the SEC Spring meetings. And here's the first part of
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  Speaker 1: this with the Commissioner Greg Sankie yesterday and talking about
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  Speaker 1: the five plus eleven model. That's five highest ranked conference
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  Speaker 1: champions and the next eleven ranked highest ranked teams. That's
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  Speaker 1: that's one model. There are several out there, but you'll
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  Speaker 1: hear him talk about this because he seems to kind
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  Speaker 1: of favor at least the coaches he's had the conversations
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  Speaker 1: with him.
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  Speaker 2: Here's the Commissioner, Greg sanking.
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  Speaker 4: Welcome to Destin.
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  Speaker 6: It's always my annual trip to the beach where I
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  Speaker 6: actually never experienced the beach, so I put on pullovers
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  Speaker 6: because the ruins are cold. We actually I leave here
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  Speaker 6: and start with student athletes and then we start in
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  Speaker 6: the morning and we'll finish on Thursday afternoons. This our
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  Speaker 6: second year being a little bit more efficient. Play issues
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  Speaker 6: on the table, talk about football scheduling during the week,
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  Speaker 6: talking about the college football playoff, talk about and see governance,
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  Speaker 6: talk about if there is a settlement, what that might
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  Speaker 6: look like, and the work that's been done to prepare
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  Speaker 6: for if the settlement has approved, probably any other number
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  Speaker 6: of issues, tie breakers and women's basketball type breakers and
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  Speaker 6: men's basketball. As a result, a lot of conversation about
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  Speaker 6: should we moved to a perminent site for a softball
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  Speaker 6: tournament in the future.
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  Speaker 4: In preparing for what's ahead next year.
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  Speaker 6: So with that, I'll stop, since tomorrow's introduction will be
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  Speaker 6: much longer, I'm certain.
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  Speaker 4: Let's see what you want to talk about.
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  Speaker 7: Can you explain, as you see at the pros the
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  Speaker 7: upsides to a playoff format with multiple aques versus a
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  Speaker 7: playoff format where all of it would be decided via
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  Speaker 7: atlor solution.
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  Speaker 6: No, not three purposes here, there's a lot attributed to
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  Speaker 6: me that is not at this moment attributable to me.
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  Speaker 6: To our athletics directors met three weeks ago. Look to
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  Speaker 6: set of formats we have interest in, some, we're not
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  Speaker 6: committed to any particular format I have over time talked
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  Speaker 6: about And let's just have the film in the blank.
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  Speaker 6: Number of best teams that goes back to twenty nineteen
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  Speaker 6: twenty twenty playoff expansion. I reiterated that I think our
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  Speaker 6: room has an interest in a different model. We'll see
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  Speaker 6: how that conversation manifest itself this week, and we'll look
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  Speaker 6: a little bit more deeply at different ideas, which will
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  Speaker 6: put me at some point in a better position to
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  Speaker 6: answer those questions.
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  Speaker 7: Would you elaborate on you said our room as interested
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  Speaker 7: in a.
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  Speaker 6: Different model, different models. Yeah, our athletics director's room in
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  Speaker 6: particular went back to early May when we had a
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  Speaker 6: meeting where we focused on some different ideas.
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  Speaker 4: So we'll bring back some more information for them to
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  Speaker 4: take a look at it.
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  Speaker 8: Is it a case where you want to present one
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  Speaker 8: or several models to your presidents at the end of
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  Speaker 8: this And.
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  Speaker 6: I think it's incorrect to simply focused on the college
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  Speaker 6: football playoff at this moment, at least our existence, we've
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  Speaker 6: been talking about football schedule within our own league. I
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  Speaker 6: think last year, for example, is a really good experiment.
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  Speaker 6: If you go back to last year at this time,
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  Speaker 6: they said in the year had we're gonna have an
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  Speaker 6: expanded playoff, We're gonna have an expanded conference, We're gonna
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  Speaker 6: play in eight teams and excuse me, an eight game
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  Speaker 6: schedule with those sixteen teams, we're going to learn.
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  Speaker 4: Some things, and so we did.
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  Speaker 6: But one of the things we learned is you're not
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  Speaker 6: going to divorce your regular season schedule from college football
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  Speaker 6: playoffs selection.
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  Speaker 4: In fact, I think there's more of a.
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  Speaker 6: Feeling that regular season scheduling is governed by.
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: College football playoff selection.
• 19:39
  Speaker 6: Witness the discontinuation of the series. This isn't about This
• 19:44
  Speaker 6: isn't critical Troy. It's critical of the reality that, hey,
• 19:49
  Speaker 6: you can drop a big series and it's not gonna
• 19:52
  Speaker 6: hurt you come selection time. You have a team to
• 19:56
  Speaker 6: play four games against teams with six and six records
• 20:00
  Speaker 6: last year that got in. Another team didn't play. Really
• 20:04
  Speaker 6: anybody at the top of its conference was selected in,
• 20:07
  Speaker 6: and it's clear that not losing becomes in many ways
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: more important than beating the University of Georgia.
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: Which two of our teams were left out. Nobody had
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: that kind of quality win.
• 20:19
  Speaker 6: So and yet I think you can't just like run
• 20:23
  Speaker 6: down a college football playoff selection idea without thinking about, well,
• 20:27
  Speaker 6: we play it or nine games, what are the impacts.
• 20:29
  Speaker 6: That's the depth of analysis we're looking at. We also
• 20:32
  Speaker 6: look at and we'll go through this tomorrow. Are whether
• 20:37
  Speaker 6: people want to agree with that or not, that's up
• 20:39
  Speaker 6: to them. We can go through the analytics and show
• 20:42
  Speaker 6: the rigor of our schedule is different than anyone else's period,
• 20:47
  Speaker 6: and we had a learning session in September the CFP
• 20:51
  Speaker 6: about strength of schedule, and strength of schedule isn't everything,
• 20:53
  Speaker 6: but it is an important factor.
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: I remember very clearly.
• 20:57
  Speaker 6: One of the messages was, if you play the top
• 21:00
  Speaker 6: ranked team in the hundred and thirtieth ranked team, those
• 21:02
  Speaker 6: two games average out to.
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: Sixty five and a half. If you play sixty five
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: and sixty six.
• 21:08
  Speaker 6: To average out to sixty five and a half, And
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  Speaker 6: so the advisor said, just as well playing sixty five
• 21:14
  Speaker 6: and sixty six. Here's my problem. But for maybe one,
• 21:18
  Speaker 6: maybe two teams in a year, we don't have sixty
• 21:21
  Speaker 6: five or sixty six, and everybody else has a group
• 21:24
  Speaker 6: it's sixty and below that has to be considered by
• 21:29
  Speaker 6: us and making our schedule.
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: By the CFPS.
• 21:33
  Speaker 6: The CFP itself in evaluating selection criteria, and while I
• 21:40
  Speaker 6: one voice asking for that kind of clarity and information,
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: that hasn't exactly changed the crpia as it now exists.
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: Four provided clarity on how they're apply.
• 21:52
  Speaker 9: Greg, what are your thoughts on among the formats that
• 21:55
  Speaker 9: have been discussed among your athletic records. One of those
• 21:58
  Speaker 9: is four at an act qualifiers for the SEC and
• 22:01
  Speaker 9: also for the Big ten. And the critics out there
• 22:04
  Speaker 9: who are the last month or two have said that
• 22:07
  Speaker 9: that marginalizes your other Cower conference brother, and than the
• 22:10
  Speaker 9: ACC and Big twelve in addition to the other conferences.
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: Where are your thoughts on that? It's critics all over
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: the place.
• 22:19
  Speaker 6: So if you actually go back and do the research,
• 22:22
  Speaker 6: that kind of format could cost us positions depending on
• 22:26
  Speaker 6: the number of teams. I don't see the critics actually
• 22:29
  Speaker 6: digging in to understand that reality. I don't see the
• 22:32
  Speaker 6: critics actually analyzing, like I've just described how schedules are
• 22:37
  Speaker 6: evaluated so the critics can run of the microphones and
• 22:41
  Speaker 6: share their opinions.
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: We're trying to find the format.
• 22:47
  Speaker 6: To determine whatever number it is, the best teams in
• 22:50
  Speaker 6: college football. And I think where we are right now
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: is we have used a political process inside a room
• 22:57
  Speaker 6: to come to decisions about football. We should be using
• 23:00
  Speaker 6: football information to come to football decisions.
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  Speaker 4: Have to be unanimous.
• 23:06
  Speaker 6: We provide a model, and then we sit on our
• 23:09
  Speaker 6: hands for a year and a half two years, as
• 23:11
  Speaker 6: opposed to looking at the depth of issues I'm describing
• 23:14
  Speaker 6: about the game and the concerns about regular season scheduling
• 23:18
  Speaker 6: being impacted by what we have right now. We sat
• 23:23
  Speaker 6: on our hands because we had to have unanimity.
• 23:26
  Speaker 9: One could say that we talk about AMAC qualifiers. Look
• 23:30
  Speaker 9: at the instant a basketball term.
• 23:32
  Speaker 10: If you were to give the ACC a certain amount
• 23:35
  Speaker 10: based off of what was happening a decade ago, they're
• 23:37
  Speaker 10: the strongest conference arguably, and now they are no longer
• 23:41
  Speaker 10: that they had a record low and percentage representation.
• 23:44
  Speaker 9: So why should we be awarding a conference a certain
• 23:48
  Speaker 9: amount of automat qualifiers for a certain amount of years?
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: Why should we be setting that in stone for several years?
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: Is that an editorial or a question?
• 23:56
  Speaker 11: Hey, that's been asked by critics, reporters, everybody else.
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: There are lots of stake right now. Well, I don't
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: know what you're asking, your observant question, do you believe well,
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: it stopped. I just asked you, what's the question.
• 24:08
  Speaker 11: Do you believe that setting out that format for several years,
• 24:12
  Speaker 11: not just for one year, for several years? Is fair
• 24:15
  Speaker 11: having that static for on that qualifiers for a certain
• 24:19
  Speaker 11: amount of period.
• 24:20
  Speaker 6: Well, yeah, your question assumes like one variable when I
• 24:27
  Speaker 6: just walked through their other variables show. Well, I let
• 24:31
  Speaker 6: you ask your question so you can decide whether you
• 24:34
  Speaker 6: want me to answer the question or not. So there's
• 24:38
  Speaker 6: one variable you asked about, right, which is if you
• 24:41
  Speaker 6: do this. And I began by saying, we're not committed
• 24:48
  Speaker 6: at this point to something we're interesting.
• 24:53
  Speaker 7: To your fourth grade in some years that the model
• 24:58
  Speaker 7: that the grand is discussing would call the SEC it's
• 25:02
  Speaker 7: as compared to an at large to only forty Why
• 25:05
  Speaker 7: do you sense that maybe your membership is now more
• 25:09
  Speaker 7: passionately behind the idea of an at large only format.
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: Well, in in our own room, all right, I've had
• 25:19
  Speaker 6: our flight structors tell me directly that we've given too
• 25:22
  Speaker 6: much away to arrive at these political compromises that we
• 25:28
  Speaker 6: move teams from outside twelve in. And we've spoken about
• 25:34
  Speaker 6: that before. You know how many of those compromises does
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: it take?
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: Last week?
• 25:42
  Speaker 6: It took us a while to move beyond a model
• 25:45
  Speaker 6: introduced in twenty one. When at early twenty one, when
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: the when the conference alignments looked much different than they
• 25:52
  Speaker 6: do now, and so part of I think the right
• 25:56
  Speaker 6: conversation is about how do you continue to adapt to
• 25:59
  Speaker 6: all not a static game, nor should it be. I
• 26:03
  Speaker 6: think the second recognition is things have changed greatly, and
• 26:08
  Speaker 6: part of where we are in basketball is because we
• 26:12
  Speaker 6: have changed as a membership. So both of our new
• 26:15
  Speaker 6: members were selected at large. We've taken ten years to.
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: Move from where we were.
• 26:22
  Speaker 6: For the preceding ten years, so there's not like switch
• 26:25
  Speaker 6: flipping that goes on. I think the word hope is
• 26:29
  Speaker 6: at the center to how do you bring people into
• 26:32
  Speaker 6: the conversation.
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: Late in the season and has changing environment, and so
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: the idea of could you have.
• 26:40
  Speaker 6: Play in type games continues to populate itself before you're
• 26:44
  Speaker 6: in the see a Pece selection. That's about building interest
• 26:48
  Speaker 6: and giving hope. Whether that's the ultimate destination, we'll see.
• 26:53
  Speaker 6: But to your question, why does it populate itself? Why
• 26:59
  Speaker 6: do people think about it? Even if it costs us something?
• 27:03
  Speaker 6: You could have more teams perhaps involved later.
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: In the season through that moment's recreating that thing.
• 27:09
  Speaker 6: How much discussion has the any and we're going hypothetical.
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: Down the road.
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: You're spared with.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: Me too, on that offers one e in there.
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: Being accomplish sat and moved obviously.
• 27:19
  Speaker 12: And how much the league touching?
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: Is this league how seerious or is that of the stuff?
• 27:24
  Speaker 6: We haven't talked through that, So that's not at the
• 27:27
  Speaker 6: top of my points of consideration. You have to be
• 27:31
  Speaker 6: mindful of change, and you know, there's there's a saying
• 27:36
  Speaker 6: goes slow so you can go fast.
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: I think that gets lost these days.
• 27:40
  Speaker 6: You know, people say, sources say here's an idea, and
• 27:44
  Speaker 6: all of sudden we're down a road without thinking through
• 27:47
  Speaker 6: all the elements involved in that decision.
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: So we try to help bring those we probably don't
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: think of everything ourselves right out the bad. So that's
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: why a little bit of times helping.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's part of the reason why I like Greg
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: Sayky's commissioner. He will tell you how the cow choose
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: the cabbage. Uh, he won't, you know, uh vacillate on
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: certain things like what we've seen in the past in
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: the Big twelve.
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: He doesn't do that.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: What what what he does try to do is separate
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: the nonsensical from the sensical. And what he just said
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: there at the very end is it's it's it's a
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: really bad habit that a lot of reporters, be the
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: newspaper reporters, television reporters, radio reporters, uh, fan site reporters,
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: whatever this business of. And I'm quoting here the quote,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: there are those who would say dot dot dot.
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: Uh. Some people have said dot dot dot. There's there's
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: no attributing in that case. There's no attribution to who's
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: doing that.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: And that's what he's trying to But let's talk about
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: the hearing and not the speculative. Well, there are people
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: out there who believe that. Come on, you know, get
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: real on a lot of it, and that's what he does.
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: We're gonna hear some more from him next hour, and
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: he will get into more of that the playoff theory
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: thing as well as the real stuff. Up next, speaking
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: real might be inconceivable, but it's real. Next, I'm thirteen
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: under the Zone.
• 29:29
  Speaker 5: And we're back to the Craigway Show. Have a message
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• 29:40
  Speaker 1: Glad to have you with us on this Wednesday afternoon.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: He got rock Wednesday afternoon, We're going to hear some
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: more from Greg Sankie, the commissioner of the Southeastern Conference
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: here in a few minutes about the possibility and where
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: things stand and what they could consider for college football playoff,
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: what's being discussed among the commissioners in the ads and
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: the presidents, and also how the eight or nine game
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: quandary of the conference schedule may even affect that.
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: So there's more of that coming up also.
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: Here in a moment, I'll run down some some look
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: at what's coming up, because we're just around the corner
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: for the Major League Baseball Draft, and there's some familiar
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: names on these mock drafts that are popping up and
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: on the text line we're Today is National Hamburger Day.
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: Don't ask me why.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: I don't know why May twenty eighth is National Hamburger Day,
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: but it is. And I saw one posting about it yesterday. Foh,
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: is that right? And then I saw all kinds of
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: you know, obviously burger joints trumping it, you know, and
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: trumpeting it, saying hey, hey, there's that today is you know,
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: May twenty eighth is National Hamburger Day. So it got
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: me to thinking yesterday and that's why I tossed it
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: at the end of the show. I said, think about it.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: Where's the best place? Not best place, necessarily the best
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: hamburger you ever had was?
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: And then you fill in the blank.
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: It could be a place, might have been something that
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: somebody did it cooked it in a backyard barbecue or backyard.
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: Cookout, keeps in barbecue.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: I'm not from New York, uh from It could have
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: been a grilling situation. Maybe you had your dad grilled
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: the best burgers ever had or whatever. So I just
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: want to know the best hamburger you ever had. Cameron
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: Parker says his was at a place near Burnet.
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: In what did you say? It's called a Happy Valley?
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: What was the holiday Hoover's Valley Cafe, Hoover's.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: Valley Cafe and Burnet is where he had the best
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: hamburger he's ever had. And like I said, it doesn't
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: necessarily have to be a place, but if if you
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: want to list one, you can. Folks list a place
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: on Barton Springs called Praduncles.
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: And I know that I used to.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: Like to uh get a get a burger over at
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: Sandy's Frozen Custard. They had a pretty good I'll tell
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: I'll tell you you know, Hilbert's only as like I
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: guess the one location of there on Cameron Road now, uh,
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: but they still do one of my favorite Chile cheeseburgers
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: of all time. Uh Tina Madonato and the and the
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: great staff over uh there and uh, there's a there's
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: a place. There's a and it really is a dive.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: It's on the west side of Waco.
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: Now if you go to if you go to Waco,
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: I know some people like to go to health Camp
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: and I've had the.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: Burger there before and it's pretty good. Or cups that's
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: good too. Uh. But there's but there's a place in
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: Waco on the west side of town called Double R.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: And it's like and it's spelled like do you be
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: apostrophe L. It's not spelled like double like you get
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: a double in baseball? Do you be apostrophe L? And
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: then the letter are double R. And that's a great burger.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: And that's a you know, but there's lots. I mentioned
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: a place in Omaha is gone and I'll tell you
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: probably one of the best Hamburger's I ever had. I'll
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: mention that a little later on. So anyway, that's what's
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: out there. But Duncles by the way, that's where Terry
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: Blocks is.
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: Now.
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: Oh well, see now it makes perfect sense. You go
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: from like maybe the best burger in the area to
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: the best barbecue in the area, right, I don't know.
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: I mean that's one of the great places. We read
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: yesterday the top ten of Texas month least top fifty
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: barbecue list, and Interstellar made the top ten.
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: It was like number six on the list. So yeah,
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: it's good stuff. And that's that's good to know about that.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: Bird Uncles preceded my arrival in the Greater Ostin area,
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: but the filling station right nearby had had good burgers too.
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: I liked that.
• 33:51
  Speaker 1: And like I said, Sandy's just down the road, good
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: burgers all like that. So there's there's there's a lot
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: of great, great burgers here in the Austin area.
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: I mean, even even the.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: Chain places like shake Shack or Dry Queen and Wataburger
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: and all those. I don't I don't have quibbles with Lottos.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: Probably as good a burger as you can get in Austin. Also,
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: depending on what you get on it is.
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: I like getting that Longhorn special at top notch. That's great.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: That's that's that's that's just an outstanding burger. But anyway,
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: there's all kinds of different ones. Somebody said, my favorite
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: is Alamo Springs Cafe outside of Fredericksburg. Hoover's on Park
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: Road four outside of Kingsland. Okay, see these you know,
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: Kingsland Highland Lakes. You mentioned of Burnett out that way.
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: I talk.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: Oh oh okay, park Road four outside of Kingsland. Okay, yeah,
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: so it's coming coming. I guess it'd be west from Burnett,
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: would be over there. Okay, So there it is.
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: That's good to know.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: Duly noted Cameron just remembered it was up that way
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: and what was what was so good about it?
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: The bun was incredible.
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, to me, I think the experienced a good part
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: of it. It's you know, it's this old school cafe.
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: A lot of pies there. I think you would like
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: it because of the pie selection, great French fries. I
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: love their their ranch dressing. That's a big plus for me.
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: So I love that place and I wish it was
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: I've only you know, I've only had it three or
• 35:30
  Speaker 3: four times in my life because I'm not out in
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: Berne at Kingsland area.
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: A lot but phenomenal burger. Okay, all right, duly noted,
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: make a note of that. All right, we need to break.
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: When we come back, we're going to hear more from
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: the commissioner at Southeastern Conference, Greg sanky Here, I'm thirteen
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: under his own.
• 35:52
  Speaker 5: It's the Craig Way shot with the voice of the
• 35:56
  Speaker 5: Texas Longhorns and all of fame broadcast there away.
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: All right, let's hear some more from the commissioner of
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: the Southeastern Conference, Greg Sankie, dealing with in the questions
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: coming from the reporters about the expansion of the college
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: football playoff, the variables that go into that, and also
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: the possibility of the eight or nine game conference schedule.
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: Hang on, gonna go somebody else?
• 36:22
  Speaker 13: Does a play in format in any way that lot
• 36:24
  Speaker 13: the regular season any fur it?
• 36:26
  Speaker 6: You know, if you're blinging in to sixteen, I don't
• 36:29
  Speaker 6: think you can make that an absolute statement. You know,
• 36:32
  Speaker 6: we were having conversations, not necessarily you and I, although
• 36:35
  Speaker 6: we may have. If you go to twelve, does that
• 36:37
  Speaker 6: delute the regular season? I can tell you as at
• 36:40
  Speaker 6: the Georgia Texas game on the field talking excuse me,
• 36:43
  Speaker 6: the Georgia Alabama game. So where we're week three talking
• 36:47
  Speaker 6: with media members. Is that I just doesn't feel the same.
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: For those of you. That was a pretty incredible night.
• 36:54
  Speaker 6: I think everybody competed at the highest level as hard
• 36:58
  Speaker 6: as they could, and we had that over and over.
• 37:02
  Speaker 6: So I think these absolutes on what does or doesn't
• 37:05
  Speaker 6: impact the regular season are kind of older conversations, maybe
• 37:09
  Speaker 6: not completely informed. I will go back though, and people
• 37:13
  Speaker 6: are canceling games because of the CFP selection process that
• 37:17
  Speaker 6: directly impacts the regular season. And that's where when I
• 37:20
  Speaker 6: talked about there's a lot more than just one element
• 37:23
  Speaker 6: all these things, I think those are some of the
• 37:26
  Speaker 6: broader list developments.
• 37:30
  Speaker 13: If wins and losses is becoming an outsize more of this,
• 37:34
  Speaker 13: does that mean that the selection committee is not doing
• 37:37
  Speaker 13: its job?
• 37:38
  Speaker 4: Is there a lack of faith in the selection committee?
• 37:41
  Speaker 6: Well, I don't think wins and losses are outside because
• 37:44
  Speaker 6: there's two sides to that coin, right, I think it
• 37:47
  Speaker 6: is there's been so much effort to get to the
• 37:51
  Speaker 6: point of twelve that the continual evaluation of how are
• 37:56
  Speaker 6: we making.
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: Decisions got pushed in the background.
• 38:01
  Speaker 6: And the way I looked at last year the learning
• 38:03
  Speaker 6: experience was it used to be the argument about the
• 38:05
  Speaker 6: top four. That was it I'm fed or I'm sick,
• 38:08
  Speaker 6: and I'm angry at me. Now you had the last
• 38:11
  Speaker 6: year and you have the top four with buys, it's
• 38:15
  Speaker 6: a big deal. You have the next four that play
• 38:18
  Speaker 6: home games, that's a big deal. You have the next
• 38:21
  Speaker 6: four that are in, and then you.
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: Have the next four we're out.
• 38:27
  Speaker 6: And we had raised the issue when we talked back
• 38:32
  Speaker 6: in twenty one as a working group about you know,
• 38:34
  Speaker 6: how do you adapt some of the criteria. I think
• 38:36
  Speaker 6: the only thing we did is pull out conference championships
• 38:39
  Speaker 6: when you have teams on the margin.
• 38:42
  Speaker 4: So how do you look at strength of schedule?
• 38:45
  Speaker 6: What does that mean? We should be able to contextualize
• 38:48
  Speaker 6: that better. That doesn't mean that it's everything. And so
• 38:51
  Speaker 6: that's a little bit of the wins and losses pieces,
• 38:53
  Speaker 6: because you get have the strongest schedule and go over
• 38:56
  Speaker 6: and that's not going to put you in the playoff.
• 38:58
  Speaker 4: So what's the balance, what's the recognition a rigor that
• 39:02
  Speaker 4: has to be fully considered.
• 39:03
  Speaker 13: What's the incentive to want to schedule like a taxsas
• 39:08
  Speaker 13: in Ohio state when you see the oldness in Alabama,
• 39:12
  Speaker 13: you know.
• 39:12
  Speaker 4: Obviously really good teams that did get in.
• 39:15
  Speaker 13: Is it gonna hurt the fabric to schedule these tough
• 39:18
  Speaker 13: mon conference games out of here?
• 39:20
  Speaker 7: No.
• 39:21
  Speaker 6: I'll go back to the last year of four teams
• 39:24
  Speaker 6: when Texas and Alabama played as.
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: A non conference game.
• 39:28
  Speaker 6: I thought, and people had plenty of opinions that the
• 39:33
  Speaker 6: selection opinion honored the importance of that game. I think
• 39:38
  Speaker 6: it's good for college football to have those kind of games.
• 39:41
  Speaker 6: I generally think people lead that way. But you've seen
• 39:46
  Speaker 6: the dominance of CFP access becoming such a big deal.
• 39:50
  Speaker 4: So if you.
• 39:51
  Speaker 6: Pivot, if you pivot some access points, perhaps you can
• 39:58
  Speaker 6: not be as threatened by a loss. Or is it
• 40:01
  Speaker 6: a reward for a win that becomes greater or an offset,
• 40:06
  Speaker 6: particularly a rigorous.
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: One great doesn't it?
• 40:09
  Speaker 8: Also, some of these models also set up those non
• 40:14
  Speaker 8: conference games which you say you would like to or
• 40:16
  Speaker 8: at least hint that you'd like to preserve and make
• 40:19
  Speaker 8: them inconsequential, because there's no there would be no consequence
• 40:24
  Speaker 8: if you lost Texas, if Texas, who the loser of
• 40:28
  Speaker 8: the Texas So I'm wonder is there a balance that
• 40:31
  Speaker 8: has to be thought of? Is like, we'd like to
• 40:32
  Speaker 8: preserve these games, but we also need to preserve the
• 40:35
  Speaker 8: consequences of these games.
• 40:37
  Speaker 6: I think the first point is should we like to
• 40:39
  Speaker 6: preserve the games. I think that's one of the problems
• 40:40
  Speaker 6: we're encountering right now. And we've seen that and heard that,
• 40:46
  Speaker 6: and we've even had discussions whether ads were thinking about
• 40:50
  Speaker 6: maybe I shouldn't play this game, like don't don't walk
• 40:53
  Speaker 6: away at this point. So, Ralph, I think the first
• 40:56
  Speaker 6: point exists now. I don't think you can say they're
• 41:01
  Speaker 6: inconsequential again. I think one of the conversations last year
• 41:06
  Speaker 6: when we went to twelve was we had a big
• 41:08
  Speaker 6: game week three, Well, doesn't feel the same.
• 41:10
  Speaker 4: So I would just.
• 41:11
  Speaker 6: Caution about making the observation that won't have the same
• 41:15
  Speaker 6: meaning or same impact.
• 41:17
  Speaker 4: I think those games do have impact.
• 41:19
  Speaker 6: They do have meaning now maybe different from an access point,
• 41:26
  Speaker 6: and that's where I look at some of the waiting
• 41:28
  Speaker 6: of the rhetoric right now that well, I shouldn't play
• 41:31
  Speaker 6: those games. I'm better off going eleven and one twelve
• 41:35
  Speaker 6: and oho. I think that's a bigger threat.
• 41:38
  Speaker 4: To play in those games and some other model that
• 41:40
  Speaker 4: might be considered you.
• 41:42
  Speaker 14: Any anticipation or I hope that the housettlement would be
• 41:46
  Speaker 14: approved by now where there be a.
• 41:47
  Speaker 13: Decision, and how does that guide the discussions this weekend?
• 41:54
  Speaker 4: You know, hope, expectation.
• 41:57
  Speaker 6: I've learned a long time ago control the court system.
• 42:03
  Speaker 4: So is there a hope? Is there a thought?
• 42:06
  Speaker 6: Did people say it would be decided at this point? Yes,
• 42:13
  Speaker 6: we have a responsibility for implementation. So for the pivot,
• 42:17
  Speaker 6: what we say this week, yeah, doesn't mean we're gonna
• 42:22
  Speaker 6: keep preparing. We're gonna keep preparing. We're gonna wait to
• 42:26
  Speaker 6: see the judge's final decision.
• 42:29
  Speaker 4: On the postsettlement.
• 42:30
  Speaker 6: Greg, back on the more clarity we can have earlier
• 42:35
  Speaker 6: because clocks are taking here, the better.
• 42:38
  Speaker 15: Greg, you're about the challenges of teams eleven and one
• 42:42
  Speaker 15: and twelve and zero being compared against teams.
• 42:44
  Speaker 4: With more losses.
• 42:46
  Speaker 13: Were you surprised Alabama.
• 42:47
  Speaker 4: Did not make the playoff question? I don't know that
• 42:50
  Speaker 4: I'd say surprised. I think that's one of the realities.
• 42:52
  Speaker 4: But I spoke.
• 42:53
  Speaker 6: In July of media Days asking how will that nine
• 42:58
  Speaker 6: and three team, and I use Georgia's really good example,
• 43:00
  Speaker 6: given their three really difficult road, how do you evaluate
• 43:04
  Speaker 6: that against other teams that don't come anywhere close to that.
• 43:10
  Speaker 6: And as I said, we learned something the first time through,
• 43:12
  Speaker 6: and that raises.
• 43:15
  Speaker 4: The need for deeper analysis and understanding.
• 43:18
  Speaker 6: If we're going to just incentivize wins, playing fewer winning
• 43:23
  Speaker 6: teams can get you to more wins, I don't think
• 43:26
  Speaker 6: that's great for football.
• 43:28
  Speaker 4: I mean to Rolf's question so that I think the
• 43:33
  Speaker 4: wh pressures create the need for something to adopt.
• 43:37
  Speaker 6: Greg.
• 43:37
  Speaker 12: Remember when you were at Nashville Big the meetings, you said,
• 43:40
  Speaker 12: paraphrase you that you know this has to really go
• 43:42
  Speaker 12: a little it has.
• 43:43
  Speaker 4: To work the first year if it tol you play
• 43:45
  Speaker 4: on you of all the things you were talking about.
• 43:47
  Speaker 12: If you were to kind of look back, like did
• 43:49
  Speaker 12: it check that box with you know, who got left
• 43:52
  Speaker 12: at who did it? How it works like a committee
• 43:54
  Speaker 12: that did it work out? Did it really work as well?
• 43:55
  Speaker 4: If you were hoping was going to yeah, you'd like
• 43:59
  Speaker 4: to have more teams.
• 43:59
  Speaker 6: I think big picture, you know, we went granule right
• 44:03
  Speaker 6: off the bat, which is, hey, there's this model.
• 44:05
  Speaker 4: How do you respond to this model? What's the reason.
• 44:06
  Speaker 6: So if you take a step back yet, it went well,
• 44:11
  Speaker 6: we had twelve teams selected, there's always going to be
• 44:15
  Speaker 6: agreement and disagreement. I think we're late in adjusting the seating.
• 44:20
  Speaker 6: I think that could have happened sooner. We've done that
• 44:24
  Speaker 6: for the year ahead, and nobody's asked me about the
• 44:28
  Speaker 6: why of that, So be happy to come back to that.
• 44:32
  Speaker 6: You watch yourship build. I think when you actually looked
• 44:36
  Speaker 6: at actual comparisons, I don't compare a January one game
• 44:39
  Speaker 6: to a semi final a week later, but actually look
• 44:43
  Speaker 6: at the performance of that game relative to other sports properties.
• 44:49
  Speaker 6: I think there's there's a lot of good there. You
• 44:51
  Speaker 6: never sit back and suggest you've reached the destination. There's
• 44:56
  Speaker 6: always worked in the other But I think big picture
• 45:00
  Speaker 6: say that in Nashville it has to work. I think
• 45:02
  Speaker 6: it did work, and I think it's still has room
• 45:05
  Speaker 6: for improvement.
• 45:06
  Speaker 4: All got that on a report cards.
• 45:07
  Speaker 6: Back straight seating and discussing the straight seating with other commissioners.
• 45:13
  Speaker 4: I'm just gonna brought it up.
• 45:15
  Speaker 15: So what were those conversations like over the last couple
• 45:18
  Speaker 15: of months, looking at what the last college of the
• 45:21
  Speaker 15: playoff was with twelve teams, they've been making that decision
• 45:24
  Speaker 15: for a straight scene?
• 45:25
  Speaker 4: Can you take us far Occurdy? Oh yeah, it's a
• 45:29
  Speaker 4: lot of meetings.
• 45:32
  Speaker 6: They then break it down a handle supersion exactly which
• 45:37
  Speaker 6: is condensed.
• 45:40
  Speaker 4: I think the CFP.
• 45:41
  Speaker 6: Selection process has become a much bigger deal after a moment. Yeah,
• 45:45
  Speaker 6: I think that one. And again if you go back,
• 45:48
  Speaker 6: since John was kind enough to quote you last week
• 45:50
  Speaker 6: in double Check, I said, you know, CFP selection, we're
• 45:54
  Speaker 6: going to go through this sixteen team eight game first time.
• 46:00
  Speaker 4: We have schools that they think about Bowl games primarily
• 46:05
  Speaker 4: in that.
• 46:06
  Speaker 6: But the questions about the selection process, not the criticism
• 46:10
  Speaker 6: of the committee, but criterion process.
• 46:14
  Speaker 4: For me, well, you've seen some say we should.
• 46:16
  Speaker 6: Go back to the old way of the PCs, and
• 46:18
  Speaker 6: you know, is there some kind of in between between
• 46:21
  Speaker 6: human and machines.
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: That can inform there?
• 46:25
  Speaker 4: They've got analytics.
• 46:26
  Speaker 6: I'm just gonna stay in retirees court because at some
• 46:28
  Speaker 6: point I've read press announcements on you guys and keep
• 46:32
  Speaker 6: showing up.
• 46:34
  Speaker 4: I'm asking questions.
• 46:36
  Speaker 16: Tess, say, Zekay Ziggler has say for fifth year of eligibility,
• 46:39
  Speaker 16: would you like to see college athletes get five years ability?
• 46:43
  Speaker 6: You know, you've kind of cross pollinated two things, so
• 46:50
  Speaker 6: gay in the courts have to decide.
• 46:51
  Speaker 4: What's gonna happen.
• 46:53
  Speaker 6: I think the introduction of five and five happened back
• 46:57
  Speaker 6: in like ninety two. I had just arrived at the
• 47:01
  Speaker 6: Southern Conference as an assistant commissioner for compliance around fifteenth
• 47:08
  Speaker 6: Avenue in Plano, Texas with our office fifteenth three.
• 47:12
  Speaker 4: And it was not advanced.
• 47:15
  Speaker 6: It came back in ninety eight as a commissioner in
• 47:17
  Speaker 6: the Southron Conference. I think at that point we're at
• 47:19
  Speaker 6: the Campbell the towers down off seventy five, and I
• 47:23
  Speaker 6: was involved in that conversation.
• 47:25
  Speaker 4: It didn't advance.
• 47:27
  Speaker 6: I was here during the era, and the reason I
• 47:30
  Speaker 6: remember it is because of a conversation I think two
• 47:32
  Speaker 6: thousand and six seven Mike Shula was the coach at Alabama.
• 47:35
  Speaker 6: Mike had asked a direct question about it and it
• 47:39
  Speaker 6: didn't advance. So I kind of put that one aside myself.
• 47:44
  Speaker 6: It's been introduced at the national level. I think the
• 47:47
  Speaker 6: conversation has to be informed with the why it didn't
• 47:52
  Speaker 6: advance before. This is primarily an undergraduate experience. We got
• 47:56
  Speaker 6: a lot more summer school, but we allow waivers out there.
• 48:03
  Speaker 6: I think some of the rationale for advancing the idea
• 48:07
  Speaker 6: ties back to you get through the waivers and just
• 48:12
  Speaker 6: have something standard and you could do that at four
• 48:15
  Speaker 6: years of eligibility. Plenty of court cases now related to
• 48:19
  Speaker 6: five season or five years, four years with than five.
• 48:23
  Speaker 6: I mean, they're all over the place. Should my year
• 48:25
  Speaker 6: count at junior college? Should account in the Division two?
• 48:28
  Speaker 6: Should account Division three? I mean I played two years
• 48:32
  Speaker 6: of ANAI baseball and one year at junior college basketball,
• 48:35
  Speaker 6: So perhaps there's something out there for me.
• 48:38
  Speaker 4: Just like the nil Moneys of driving force and some
• 48:40
  Speaker 4: of those two. I'll let others speak to their wives.
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: Great, can I ask you one month the playoff question?
• 48:48
  Speaker 6: Does anybody else who hasn't asked a question? I have
• 48:50
  Speaker 6: a question because I send friend and that I shall.
• 48:52
  Speaker 4: Bring any I have a question, laver.
• 48:55
  Speaker 6: Well, you didn't raise your hand or anything, so I
• 48:57
  Speaker 6: might suppose or jump in okay, or retire and then
• 49:02
  Speaker 6: come back.
• 49:05
  Speaker 4: What is the what is the course of action for
• 49:08
  Speaker 4: the league? In maybe the power of conferences?
• 49:11
  Speaker 6: If the settlements do not, I think are likely several,
• 49:18
  Speaker 6: and I'll let my lawyers speak to that within my
• 49:20
  Speaker 6: room for ross rather than publish it. I think you're
• 49:23
  Speaker 6: still awaiting, focused on preparing for a settlement as it's
• 49:28
  Speaker 6: been presented at this point.
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: All right, there's some more from Gregson.
• 49:37
  Speaker 1: You got kind of funny there, I did talking about
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: his home collegiate eligibility left and what was going on.
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: But that's another thing. Remember Diego Pavia successfully sued to
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: get to get more eligibility, to get another year of
• 49:54
  Speaker 1: eligibility of Vanderbilt under the.
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: I know the motive that.
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: His junior college years should not have counted. So that's
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: something else they're still trying to figure out. But there's
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: still more and coming up next hour we'll hear some
• 50:11
  Speaker 1: more from Greg Sanky. What about the guys going on
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: to the next level in baseball from college to pros
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: Mock draft update for you when we come back.
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: I'm thirteen under the Zone.
• 50:22
  Speaker 5: Welcome back to the craig Way Show and the Voice
• 50:25
  Speaker 5: of the Longhorns. Craig Way. Follow Craig on social media
• 50:29
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• 50:36
  Speaker 1: We were hearing from the Commissioner, Greg Sankey, the SEC.
• 50:39
  Speaker 1: We'll hear more from him coming up next hour, but
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: they will talking about eligibility and things of student athletes,
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: those collegiate baseball players and not just collegiate but high
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: school baseball players who stand ready to sign and take
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: the next step. Remember baseball did different than basketball and
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: football in terms of what you can do in terms
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: of signing right out of high school or if you
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: pass on that within forty five days, I believe it
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: is of your twenty first birthday. So whenever you see
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: a draft, or for that matter, in this case we're
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: just a little inside of a month out from the
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: baseball draft, you see a mixture of both high school
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: seniors and college players. And it's also noteworthy because several
• 51:42
  Speaker 1: of these high school players will leverage where they have
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: signed with college against how much money they could be
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: offered in a signing bonus or in a contract. Overall,
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: that's the way it's been for some time and it
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: continues to be so like that. So with that in mind,
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: Kyle of McDaniel, who covers me league baseball drafting for ESPN,
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: put out not only his updated one hundred and fifty
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: prospect rankings and his mini mock now has come out
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: with his first full on mock draft and the number
• 52:18
  Speaker 1: one pick he's projecting and this year's major league draft.
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: By the way, do you know who has the number
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: one pick this year's Major League I don't be the
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: Washington Nationals and he's projecting them to take Stillwater High
• 52:33
  Speaker 1: School third basement. Ethan Holiday. Of course, Ethan is the
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: son of Matt Holliday, the former Big League or the
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: grandson of Tom Holiday, the former coach and pitching coaches
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: pitching coach for the Long Orange two thousand and five
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: National Championship team. Ethan third Basion. He was a guy
• 52:51
  Speaker 1: that Gene Watson had mentioned. He went to see both
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: him and another guy whose name you're going to hear
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: me mentioned a few minutes and Gino.
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: By the way, we'll join us Tom on the program tomorrow.
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: We are going to bring you the program from UFCU
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: dish fark Field as it is press conference and practice
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: day for the four teams that will be taking part
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: of the regional So we'll hear from the coaches and
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: we'll hear and we'll also visit with Geene Watson and
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: also Ty Harrington our weekly conversations both of Major League
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: Baseball with Gino and college baseball with Tie. They'll join
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: us tomorrow on the program. But Washington, according to Kyler McDaniel,
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: is going to take Ethan Holiday, who all these Holidays
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: who've signed and played for Oklahoma State in the past
• 53:38
  Speaker 1: josh Holiday, the head coach tom Son, the head coach
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: at Oklahoma State, played at Oklahoma State. Ethan Holidays actually
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: signed to play at Oklahoma, but Skip Johnson is not
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: counting on getting him. He figures he's going to sign
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: a major league contract, and he's projected to be the
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: number one overall pick, so Ethan Holiday will probably wind
• 53:59
  Speaker 1: up being drafted if he's drafted by the Nationals, signing
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: with them. Angels had the number two pick. Liam Doyle,
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: the left hander of the Longhorns, were able to go
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: after and score four runs against him last Friday afternoon
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: there or Thursday afternoon in Hoover, but he's projected to
• 54:22
  Speaker 1: be the second pick in the draft and would go
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: to the Los Angeles Angels Mariners at the third pick,
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: they're projected to take Kate Anderson, the LSU left hander
• 54:30
  Speaker 1: Colorado with a fourth pick expected to take Oregon State
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: shortstop Iva Arquette. Cardinals have the fifth pick, and here
• 54:38
  Speaker 1: you go. Eli Willets, the shortstop from Fort Cobb, Oklahoma,
• 54:44
  Speaker 1: whose brother plays Jackson Willetts, plays for OU, whose dad,
• 54:50
  Speaker 1: Reggie Willets, is the associate head coach for OU.
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: But and Eli is signed with Oklahoma.
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: But again, he's another player that Skip Johnson does not
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: believe he's going to wind up on his roster. He
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: believes he's going to wind up signing a big league contract,
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: and if you're drafted in the first five, that probably
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: makes sense. But that was the game that Gene Watson
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: went to see Ethan Holiday and still Water play Fort
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: Cobb with Eli Willitts earlier this season when he was
• 55:23
  Speaker 1: on with US. He was actually at the game when
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: he was on with US for a segment, and they're
• 55:26
  Speaker 1: expected to be two of the top five. Six pick
• 55:30
  Speaker 1: selected by the Pirates is projected to be Jamie Arnold,
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: left handed from Florida State Corona High School, California, shortstop
• 55:40
  Speaker 1: Billy Carlson, who was signed with cow but according to
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: this mock draft, expected to be the seventh choice overall
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: by the Marlins. Kyson Witherspoon, the Oklahoma right hander, expected
• 55:51
  Speaker 1: to be the eighth choice of the draft of the
• 55:54
  Speaker 1: Toronto Blue Jays, so that would be three. And this
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: was something when Toby Roland was on with US weeks
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: ago before we went up to Norman, he said, there's
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: a decent chance that Ethan Holiday, Eli Willitts and Kyson
• 56:09
  Speaker 1: Witherspoon could all go in the top.
• 56:10
  Speaker 2: Ten of draft.
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: He goes, Now, that's big for the state of Oklahoma.
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: I think it'd be big for any state really, but
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: especially if three going the top eight.
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: But it could happen.
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: Another Corona High school kid we mentioned, the shortstop Billy Carlson,
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: projected to be the pick of Miami at number seven.
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: Seth Ornandez, a right handed pitcher also from Corona, also
• 56:31
  Speaker 1: signed with cow but projected to be the ninth overall
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: pick of the Reds and then the White Sox at
• 56:38
  Speaker 1: number ten. Looking at Jojo Parker, shortstop from Purvis High
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: School in Mississippi's where Gene was last week when he
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: was over there scouting scouting him. So Gino's taking a
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: look at a lot of different guys than they All
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: of them are the rest of this mock draft.
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: First round.
• 56:55
  Speaker 1: A's and number eleven expected to take or projected in
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: this mock draft to take Brendan summer Hill from Arizona.
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: The Rangers to take hewittt Trustville High School shortstop Steele
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: Hall the twelfth overall pick. Giants to go with THEHVA
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: Alloy the Arkansas shortstop SEC Player of the Year fourteen
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: pick to Tampa Bay projected to take Josh Hammond High
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: School shortstop high school third basement out of the state
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: of North Carolina and signed with North Carolina. The fifteenth
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: pick Gavin Fine, third baseman from Great Oaks, California. Twins
• 57:33
  Speaker 1: at sixteen projected to take Jay Slapolette the Texas A
• 57:37
  Speaker 1: and M outfielder Gage Wood the right hand for Arkansas,
• 57:41
  Speaker 1: projected to go seventeen to the Cubs. Slater to Brunn
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  Speaker 1: High School center fielder, projected to be taken by Arizona
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  Speaker 1: at eighteen. The Oriols at nineteen projected these to draft
• 57:51
  Speaker 1: Mount Vernon Washington High School Xavier Naans. The Brewers the
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  Speaker 1: number twenty to go for Mill Creek High Schools shortstop
• 58:00
  Speaker 1: Daniel Pearce. Let's see the Astros at twenty one, projected
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  Speaker 1: to take take South Sea End, a shortstop from high
• 58:10
  Speaker 1: school baseball in Nevada. The Braves at twenty two to
• 58:13
  Speaker 1: go for Wake Forest shortstop Marra Houston. The Royals at
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: twenty three Ike Irish the outfielder at himself such a
• 58:19
  Speaker 1: big weekend against the log Worns. Here are the Royals
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: looking closely at him, projected to take him. How about
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  Speaker 1: Caison Cunningham LBJ. That's Lady Bird Johnson High School in
• 58:31
  Speaker 1: San Antonio, expected to be the pick of the Tigers
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  Speaker 1: at twenty four.
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  Speaker 2: He's a real deal. I've seen him. You've seen him
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  Speaker 2: a couple of his games before he can do it?
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  Speaker 4: Huh can do it?
• 58:40
  Speaker 1: Excellent defender Padres at twenty five, projected to go for
• 58:45
  Speaker 1: a left handed pitcher of the high school in the
• 58:47
  Speaker 1: Oregon named Cruz school Craft attack of a name Phillies
• 58:51
  Speaker 1: at twenty six. Matthew Fisher, a high schooler from Indiana,
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: right handed pitcher, projected to go to the Phillies. The
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  Speaker 1: Guardians projected twenty seven ago with UC Santa Barbara righthand
• 59:01
  Speaker 1: or Tyler Bremer. And then there are promotional prospect incentive picks.
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  Speaker 1: The Royals at twenty eight projected to go with Aaron Watson,
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  Speaker 1: a high school pitcher from Florida. The compensation picks Arizona
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  Speaker 1: twenty nine to go for White Forest right fielder Ethan Conrad.
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  Speaker 1: The Orioles at thirty to go for Sean Gamble from
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: IMG Academy in Florida. Mason Neville, a high school, no
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  Speaker 1: way centerfielder from Oregon to go to Baltimore at thirty one,
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  Speaker 1: and Milwaukee to go with Gavin Keeling. We saw him
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  Speaker 1: get a big hit against Texas last week. He's projected
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  Speaker 1: to be a compensation pick at thirty two, and then
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: finally the competitive balance picks. Between rounds one and two.
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  Speaker 1: They're all high school picks except for Anthony Ions and
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  Speaker 1: the LSU right hander at thirty four and the Yankees
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: at thirty nine projected to take Andrew Fisher, the Tennessee
• 59:54
  Speaker 1: third baseman first baseman, saw him play first the other day,
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  Speaker 1: and the Dodgers, with the final pick and number forty
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  Speaker 1: in the compensation round, the expected to take Clinton centerfielder
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  Speaker 1: Kim Kinderella. So that's a mock draft look at major
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  Speaker 1: League baseball. We'll be back to wrap up hour number
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  Speaker 1: two on thirteen under the Zone, third and final hour
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  Speaker 1: of the program here on thirteen hundred the Zone. Glad
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  Speaker 1: to have you with us here on this Wednesday afternoon.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: You got rock Wednesday. We brought you some of that,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll have some more as we go forward. We
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 1: brought you quite a bit of Greg Sankie. We'll bring
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: you some more coming up this all from the SEC
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  Speaker 1: spring meetings and is visiting with the media talking about
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  Speaker 1: the college Football Playoff, the possible expansion of it, the
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 1: different modeling of it. The one thing that's gotten hot
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: today or at least yesterday and talking about it was
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 1: a sixteen team model that will include the five highest
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 1: ranked conference champions. So if you figure that those would
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  Speaker 1: probably include, but not necessarily limited to, the SEC, the
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  Speaker 1: Big Ten, the Big Twelve, the ACC that's four, and
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  Speaker 1: then whether you're talking about the American.
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  Speaker 2: Or you know, even the Mid American or whatever it.
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  Speaker 1: Might be, the five highest ranked conference champions and eleven
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  Speaker 1: at large bids. The coaches seem to favor this model,
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  Speaker 1: and the athletic directors perhaps not so much, because there
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  Speaker 1: appears to be some sort of disconnect between the ads
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  Speaker 1: and the coaches. Florida AD Scott Strickland Texas A and
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: m athletic director trev Alberts both have been adamant about
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: wanting automatic qualifiers, which would go along with the league
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  Speaker 1: adopting a nine game league schedule, but the coaches, who
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  Speaker 1: appear to favor an eight game conference schedule have apparently
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  Speaker 1: been leaning toward what they think the sixteen team model
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  Speaker 1: would be like, for example, Lane Kiffin at Ole Miss
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  Speaker 1: Kirby Smart. They said they prefer a model with the
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  Speaker 1: sixteen best teams. Smart said he wanted a model that
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  Speaker 1: would include the most SEC teams possible, pointing to the
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  Speaker 1: SEC's other sports and their ability to flood the postseason
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  Speaker 1: because of strength of schedule. So there's a lot there,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll hear some more.
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  Speaker 2: Sainki.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, there was a great quote from former
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  Speaker 1: commissioner Roy Kramer, who was the first one, I think,
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  Speaker 1: and then the first one in the modern era, and
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: then it was Mike's Live and then Sankie, and he
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 1: said he had a conversation with Roy Kramer where they
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  Speaker 1: talked about all of these disagreements and they have to
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  Speaker 1: come to an agreement for twenty twenty six by December
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  Speaker 1: first of this year. And he said he takes comfort
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  Speaker 1: in the fact that past commissioners were able to disagree
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  Speaker 1: and quote always figure a way out. So he said,
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  Speaker 1: quote there's a responsibility to figure that out. We might
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: get mad at the moment, mad at different times. We've
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: been able to work together different people, but Kramer's description
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  Speaker 1: gives me great comfort. So anyway, we'll here's some more
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  Speaker 1: from Greg Sankie coming up. The scheduling decision for twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty six not done yet and he declined to give
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  Speaker 1: a specific date on that, but we'll hear him talk
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  Speaker 1: more about that coming up. So that's been going on
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 1: at the spring meetings there for the Southeastern Conference, we
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 1: mentioned NHL and the NBA playoffs into their final fours
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: and teams in commanding positions. Oklahoma City Thunder looking to
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 1: close out the Minnesota Timberwolves tonight back of the Paycom Center.
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  Speaker 2: The Pacers have a.
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  Speaker 1: Commanding three to one lead in the East on the
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: Knicks after winning last night. In the NHL, Florida can
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  Speaker 1: close South Carolina Hurricanes. They have to do it on
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: the road, but they can do it in Raleigh with
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: a win tonight. And of course the Stars with their
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: backs to the wall. The Dallas Stars, they're down three
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: games to one and they will hope host Edmonton in
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: Game five tomorrow night. By the way, Texas Stars into
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  Speaker 1: the Western Conference finals and they'll play Abbotsford in the
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: best of five, and they did not play Abbotsford this year.
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: The AHL being as large as it is, they did
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  Speaker 1: not play them this year, but they that starts this
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  Speaker 1: week as well. All right, Also we dropped out there
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  Speaker 1: for your consideration. We'd love to hear from you because
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  Speaker 1: today is National Hamburger Day, so it brings my out.
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  Speaker 1: You know where, did you have a great hamburger? Did
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  Speaker 1: your mom ever make hamburgers for you?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Shifted? Did she make a good burger? Yeah, she was
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  Speaker 2: a good cook.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Yes, my my mom could make make good hamburgers
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  Speaker 1: as well. And we've talked about some of the places
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  Speaker 1: where We've had good burgers.
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  Speaker 2: One of the best I've ever had has changed his name.
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  Speaker 2: The place has changed.
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  Speaker 1: If you've been up, if you have any connection with
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  Speaker 1: Denton or the University of North Texas, you know of
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  Speaker 1: what for many years is known as Denton County Independent
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  Speaker 1: Hamburger Company. It was around when I was in school
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  Speaker 1: there over forty years ago. Now it has undergone quite
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  Speaker 1: a few changes, and it was bought back ten years
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  Speaker 1: ago or so by a guy named Mike Barnett, who
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 1: is the brother of Dave Barnett, the former ESPN broadcaster
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  Speaker 1: who's the voice of the main Green of North Texas.
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  Speaker 1: And Mike has undergone a couple of changes. He changed
• 1:05:34
  Speaker 1: it he shortened it to Denton Independent Hamburger Company, and
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: now he's officially changed the name. It just happened a
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 1: week ago. It's now called County Road Hamburger Company. And
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: the reason he's doing that he's planning to franchise. And
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  Speaker 1: it's a great burger. I love their Hickory burger. So
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  Speaker 1: who knows, maybe there'll be one in the Greater Austin
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  Speaker 1: are at County Road Hamburger maybe. So anyway, that's that's
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  Speaker 1: that's an example of what I'm saying. But it could
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  Speaker 1: be it doesn't necessarily have to be a specific place.
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  Speaker 1: It could be an experience you had. We had the
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  Speaker 1: best hamburger that you ever had. However, folks have waited
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  Speaker 1: in for a variety of places. Like I said, Sea
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  Speaker 1: Powell mentioned Blue Boning Cafe as well as the Pies
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  Speaker 1: and Marble Falls, and somebody said, wait, blue Bony Cafe
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  Speaker 1: sells food other than pies. I know, inconceivable right now
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  Speaker 1: they have. It's that and the Coffee Cup Family Restaurant
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  Speaker 1: in Hiko probably my two favorite places to get a
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  Speaker 1: slice of pie. Well, House of Pies in Houston's also great,
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: so great pie places, but Blue Bony Cafe is tremendous
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  Speaker 1: in Marble Falls. But yes, and then somebody else said,
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  Speaker 1: the best burger I ever had is from odd Duck
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  Speaker 1: on South Lamar And you know what I saw that
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  Speaker 1: raid it is having one of the best burgers in it,
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  Speaker 1: said The AGB Cowboy burger is up there too.
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  Speaker 2: If you don't mind cooking it yourself. See that's what
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking about. You can. You can cook it yourself and.
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  Speaker 1: Say you had the best burger you ever had, or
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  Speaker 1: have somebody who's a really good cook or chef or
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  Speaker 1: grill master cook up a burger with a good with
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  Speaker 1: a good piece of meat and how you season it,
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  Speaker 1: all those kinds of things that something like that may
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  Speaker 1: wind up giving you the best hamburger you've ever had.
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  Speaker 2: But that's the question. Best hamburger you ever had was?
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  Speaker 1: And then you just fill in the rest, whether it
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  Speaker 1: was at a place, or whether somebody cooked it for you,
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  Speaker 1: or whether you grilled it yourself, or whatever the circumstance
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  Speaker 1: was today National Hamburger Day, the best hamburger you ever
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  Speaker 1: had was? And you tell us the rest, And you
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  Speaker 1: can do that on our text line text the word
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  Speaker 1: texas followed by your question of comment to eight, one, five,
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  Speaker 1: three zero.
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  Speaker 3: Do you have any honorable mentions like for me, Hoover's
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  Speaker 3: Valley Cafe's my number one. But if I was doing
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  Speaker 3: like you know, honorable mention like for instance, like fast
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  Speaker 3: food Hamburger right McDonald's, mcdoubell, I don't know if it
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  Speaker 3: would classify as fast food, but one textra sid mighty fine.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And I think if you came to Austin, that's a
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  Speaker 3: really good burgers right now. Not the best burger I've had,
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  Speaker 3: but I know I'm gonna have a quality burger there.
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  Speaker 3: And then next grill and okc oh right out there
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  Speaker 3: right outside Wobers thought it because the experience is a
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  Speaker 3: huge part of this answer for me, craig, and the
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  Speaker 3: next Grill experience is incredible because you walk into the
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  Speaker 3: shackets cash only.
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  Speaker 2: There's just a bar.
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  Speaker 1: Top with six stools, and I think I got three
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  Speaker 1: small little booths.
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  Speaker 3: Little booths, O little yeah, little boos, little tables, and
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  Speaker 3: there's a couple. I don't think there's anything on the outside,
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  Speaker 3: at least when I was there, just a place to
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  Speaker 3: scan it like.
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  Speaker 2: People maybe, and you order your burger.
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  Speaker 1: Now there's more than one location, but that you went
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  Speaker 1: to the original.
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  Speaker 2: Origin, but I didn't go to the new one. The
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  Speaker 2: new one I've heard like, yeah, go to the original yeah, right, agreed,
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  Speaker 2: agreed that that would be. That would be probably like
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  Speaker 2: two or three that's up there for me.
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  Speaker 1: I mentioned Dinker in Omaha would be one one of
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  Speaker 1: the best places I ever went to, believe it or not.
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  Speaker 1: So this was a dive, a hole in the wall dive.
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  Speaker 1: It's in the very small I don't think you've ever
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  Speaker 1: been in this town. It's in North Carolina. You ever
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  Speaker 1: heard of Elizabethtown. I think I've heard of it. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if I've been through it. It's down in
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 1: the southeastern part of the state. It's between say, Fayetteville
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  Speaker 1: and the coast. So I passed through the area a lot.
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  Speaker 1: And there's a little place right in the middle of downtown.
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  Speaker 1: It's an old downtown like you would imagine a lot
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  Speaker 1: of place. And there's a place called Melvin's. And in
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 1: Melvins you walk in there and it's like assembly line
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  Speaker 1: and they'll get these burgers and they're really good burgers,
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  Speaker 1: and they're not real fancy, but they're really good. They're
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  Speaker 1: cooked well, and it's just like it's almost like the
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 1: skit on Saturday Night Live, you know the cheabug atchibug,
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  Speaker 1: you know that kind of thing. You walk in there,
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  Speaker 1: except it's old country folk doing it. Hamburger's hot dogs
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  Speaker 1: and you can get chips and then like a soft drink.
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  Speaker 1: That's it. And there's a line that goes but it
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  Speaker 1: moves quick. You can get all the way to the
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  Speaker 1: back line, need be all the way through in less
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  Speaker 1: than ten minutes. And and and they're good. So that's
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  Speaker 1: that's another one of those like as you would say
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  Speaker 1: honorable mention places, it would be it is that good.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, there's lots of places like that. For me,
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  Speaker 1: somebody said, I can only eat here when my in
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  Speaker 1: laws are in town and it costs roughly the g
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  Speaker 1: n B the Gross National Product of Guam. But the
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  Speaker 1: Four Seasons makes a great brog. I bet they do.
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  Speaker 1: I bet they do. And I've never had one there,
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  Speaker 1: but I bet they do. Uh Yeah, there's a different
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  Speaker 1: there's also a different kind of level in what you're
• 1:10:37
  Speaker 1: paying on a specific hamburger, and for that, things like
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  Speaker 1: Casino El Camino, Great Burger's Gigantic, that's a great Burger.
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  Speaker 1: Second which is on Second Street, second, and they have
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  Speaker 1: a they have a location second in the airport.
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  Speaker 2: Second.
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  Speaker 3: Uh yes, the original location that was a great burger
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  Speaker 3: with the milkshake.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely is a great burger. So anyway, those kinds of places. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: if you want to weigh in with places, that's okay too.
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  Speaker 1: However you want to do it is fine, all right
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  Speaker 1: up necks. More from Greg sank when we continue on
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  Speaker 1: App here some more the last part of this from
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  Speaker 1: Greg Sankie, the SEC commissioner, And you know, being grilled
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 1: by the reporters there and standing right there in the
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 1: line of fire and taking all those questions about the
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 1: future of the college football playoff and also the possibility
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 1: of whether it's an eight game or a nine game
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  Speaker 1: regular season conference schedule in the SEC.
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  Speaker 17: How well do you believe you as a conference and
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  Speaker 17: your schools, your membership are prepared to sell in July
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  Speaker 17: first to kind of hate the ground running with the
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  Speaker 17: new landscape.
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  Speaker 6: I think we've prepared as well as we are able now.
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  Speaker 6: At anytime something is new I've said this, There's going
• 1:12:03
  Speaker 6: to be turbulence. There's gonna be questions to be answered,
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  Speaker 6: and our time frame is compressed between decision ipent a
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  Speaker 6: lot of implementation work, A lot of people have spent
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 6: a lot of time preparing. There'll be questions under like
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  Speaker 6: the anti circervention clause that's embedded within the settlement after
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 6: we go back to playmous council participatory problem solving. So
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  Speaker 6: to the extent we can be prepared, I think we've
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  Speaker 6: I know, we spent an incredible amount of time energy
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  Speaker 6: across the four conferences, and you know, I think the
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 6: judge said said in an order on rostersize I don't
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  Speaker 6: get ahead of this decision.
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  Speaker 4: And that's part of the there's a.
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  Speaker 6: Healthy reminder of why we're waiting as cracially as we can.
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  Speaker 4: You've been see I try to jump in here.
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  Speaker 14: You've been in NCAA governance committees for thirty plus years.
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  Speaker 4: I guess right now seems to be.
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  Speaker 14: A important time at twenty eight twenty is the socializing
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  Speaker 14: this proposal that grants the power league sixty five percent
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  Speaker 14: is Can you just tell us where what you view
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  Speaker 14: your views of this proposal? I know you were on
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  Speaker 14: the working group, but it's sixty five percent enough for.
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  Speaker 4: The power leagues to have it. I'll tell you exactly,
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 4: do you want me to go back? Like? Do you
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 4: want the twenty eight years later? Please? I walked in.
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  Speaker 6: Brittmanowski resigned this commissioner of the Southron Conference in March.
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 6: In April, I found myself in a Transition Management Council
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 6: meeting where I have no idea what the site was
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 6: up and down. I will say I remember an NTA
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 6: convention meeting with the Student Athlete Advisory Committee in San
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 6: Diego where we had a presentation student athletes left in
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 6: rythma like we I'm the Southland Commission, we have a
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 6: trust camp. How were we going to pivot? And you
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  Speaker 6: know we don't.
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  Speaker 4: We don't pivot.
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  Speaker 6: Well, there's there's a lot of people, a lot of
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  Speaker 6: interests to be served, even in the CFP room when
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  Speaker 6: we finished in January of twenty one, excuse me, January
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  Speaker 6: of twenty two, when was Alabama, Georgia and Indianapolis?
• 1:14:12
  Speaker 4: Was that January twenty two season twenty one season.
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  Speaker 6: Twenty two YEA, when we were at an impasse for
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 6: like the sixth time in that room and there were
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  Speaker 6: eleven of us. I said, look, because the NCAA building
• 1:14:25
  Speaker 6: was across the street, everybody wants to point your finger
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 6: over there.
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  Speaker 4: I think we've proven that we are the problem here,
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 4: not that. And you know through.
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 6: I was done participating in nca committee's pre COVID. I
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 6: think you know, I was on the infractions committee, shared
• 1:14:48
  Speaker 6: some perspective as I left, whether those were hurt or not,
• 1:14:52
  Speaker 6: and then kind of get you know, every time I
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 6: think I'm out, I get pulled back in.
• 1:14:56
  Speaker 4: I don't know if that's a reflection on me or
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 4: somebody else.
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 6: I fell back to trying to write an autonomy list
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  Speaker 6: and have that back in twenty twelve twenty thirteen, when
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 6: I was an Associate commissioner, there were more changes it
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 6: could be could have been pursued. Then it goes to
• 1:15:14
  Speaker 6: the nca board and then it's kind of negotiated back
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 6: from the ask.
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 4: I think a.
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 6: More autonomy had been granted then that would have been
• 1:15:23
  Speaker 6: healthy for the entire system, because you can go back
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 6: and you see where autonomy has used. I think it
• 1:15:27
  Speaker 6: has helped everybody cost of attendance to more medical care.
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 6: The Concussion Protocol came out of the autonomy process, just
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 6: to name a few. That doesn't mean we're perfect, but
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 6: I think, you know, having more autonomy would have been helpful.
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 6: So in this current iteration, Southeastern Conference is asked for
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 6: more authority and autonomy for the four conferences, and we've asked.
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 4: So.
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 6: I think there's some reporting today about authority to just depart.
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 6: That's not I don't have the authority of this department
• 1:16:01
  Speaker 6: have been voted upon. I've shared with the decision making
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 6: working group. I have people in my room asking why
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 6: are we still in the NCAA now.
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 4: The other side of that is.
• 1:16:12
  Speaker 6: We have thirteen teams invited to the NCAA baseball tournament today.
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 6: I've not been notified that anyone has declined the invitation.
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 6: We had fourteen men's basketball teams, nobody declined those invitations.
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 6: I think we have like seven of sixteen men's golf
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 6: teams that we're playing today on the final day of
• 1:16:31
  Speaker 6: stroke play. Nobody's declined those opportunities. So there's inherent value.
• 1:16:37
  Speaker 6: But how does the association continue to adapt? How do
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 6: those whose frustration level is at its highest, How maybe
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 6: are some of those frustrations mitigated?
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 4: How are some of those frustrations dealt with the process
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 4: of change is really exciting. At the start.
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 6: It's like running a mara which a few times every
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 6: time I've got run a marathon and you can't sleep
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 6: the night before, you're up early, you're at the start line.
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 6: The start of anything is really exciting. You go through that,
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 6: and then you get to the end and you see
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 6: you know, running down Toilston and the Boston Marathon, our
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 6: in Central Park in New York City, are crossing the
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 6: river in Missoula, Montana to finish there. I mean, it's exciting, right,
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 6: there's a finish line. The start and the finish is
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 6: always invigorating, exciting that the middle is messy, whether it's
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 6: a marathon, whether it's decision making, whether it's changed, and
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 6: we are in the middle and it's messy. That's not
• 1:17:39
  Speaker 6: unique to college sports, that's not unique to higher education,
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 6: that's not unique to American society. And so ross to
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 6: go back to the fundamental question, I think we would
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 6: like to see Maricot authority on autonomy granted under the
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 6: NCAA heading like to come together for championships. We think
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 6: that's critical important broad part of college sports. I think
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 6: there can be more independence and decision making. We talked
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 6: about an autonomy division that would be stand. It would
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 6: be under the NCAA heading clearly it would be linked,
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 6: but you'd have more authority on them. But I think
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 6: you reported on that in January as I recalled none
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 6: of my memos.
• 1:18:34
  Speaker 4: Ever, the main secret we're at sixty five percent.
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 6: I think the sixty eight percent number is one that's
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 6: been on our mind because you can't just have somebody
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 6: walk away at that level among the four and everything stops.
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 4: Others have said that's too much.
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 6: We'll talk through those things this week in depth see
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 6: where our leadership concludes as far as our feedback to
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 6: the decision making working group. But I've been clear within
• 1:19:10
  Speaker 6: the room that we are interested in this autonomy group
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 6: and having more authority of autonomy within the NCA structure.
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 6: I'd like to avoid situations where you're not allowed to
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 6: put spread on bagels in the future. For all the
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 6: finger pointing about who caused these problems, I think it's
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 6: naive when it's boiled down to some of the statements
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 6: that have been made in recent waves.
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  Speaker 16: Commissioner of the Sticking Point of Roster limitations, tell me
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 16: a little bit about conversations you've had about implementing those.
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 16: It does feel like a sticking point to the judge's
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 16: decision at least of implementing roster limitations more.
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 6: Than a sticking point go back and re look at
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 6: it and then don't come back to me without doing
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 6: something different. So been an assignment from the judge to
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 6: do something different, particularly for implementation. So that's been presented,
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 6: I think in a way that we think can result
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 6: and settlement approval. But that's up to the judge. Commission
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 6: has dinor DENI student athletes in a few minutes or yes,
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 6: we got one more.
• 1:20:28
  Speaker 4: Question, can I do you go for it?
• 1:20:30
  Speaker 1: You wait?
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 8: Okay to get back to the playoff. But it also
• 1:20:35
  Speaker 8: I think gets to governance to a certain degree. Talking
• 1:20:38
  Speaker 8: about your ADS, I said, we've given up too much.
• 1:20:41
  Speaker 8: You're sort of again in a position of thinking about
• 1:20:44
  Speaker 8: the greater good of college football. That was talked about
• 1:20:47
  Speaker 8: a lot from other commissioners last week when there was
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 8: some decision on the seating. How do you balance what
• 1:20:53
  Speaker 8: is best for the SEC. If what is best for
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 8: maybe it may be giving up a little bit for
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 8: the SEC would be better for the whole.
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 6: Look at the track record. We didn't need twelve? Could
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 6: we state the four? We would have had half the
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 6: four last year. I don't need lectures from others about
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 6: good at the game. I don't lecture others about good
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 6: a game, and coordinating press release is about good to
• 1:21:26
  Speaker 6: the game. You know, get a okay, you can issue
• 1:21:31
  Speaker 6: your press statement. But I'm actually looking for ideas to
• 1:21:35
  Speaker 6: move us forward.
• 1:21:39
  Speaker 4: So Ralph, I'll go.
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 6: Back and say I thought the twelve team designed was
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 6: really well considered at the time I came to Wait,
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 6: we never had a unanimous about to support the twelve
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 6: team playoffs. Even though I was involved in that work.
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 6: That didn't mean everybody in this league when we were
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 6: at fourteen thought it was the best idea. But you
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 6: engage in that type of problem, solve you our eight
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 6: or nine game schedule. That goes back to really twenty eighteen.
• 1:22:12
  Speaker 6: We've been talking about eliminating divisions from twenty eighteen forward,
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 6: and we expanded, so it became a different conversation, and
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 6: the shape of that conversation has changed over time. We
• 1:22:26
  Speaker 6: have to make a decision, the CFP and my colleagues
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 6: have to understand there's something different.
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 4: We we all played college football, And so while you
• 1:22:36
  Speaker 4: ask that of me.
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 6: I'll go back and say we we didn't need a
• 1:22:41
  Speaker 6: twelve teen college football playoff.
• 1:22:42
  Speaker 4: I thought it was good for the game. I was
• 1:22:45
  Speaker 4: involved in that others helping out.
• 1:22:49
  Speaker 6: I thought it was important to get after that work
• 1:22:53
  Speaker 6: and a time efficient manner. Yet we held up and
• 1:22:55
  Speaker 6: then we went fast. We didn't go slow so we
• 1:22:59
  Speaker 6: could go fast. We didn't do anything, and then we
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 6: went fast without solving some of the other elements. I
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 6: have a responsibility to push as well. I think my
• 1:23:10
  Speaker 6: membership has a responsibility and the desire.
• 1:23:13
  Speaker 4: To push me.
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 6: And that is a hard issue if you want to
• 1:23:16
  Speaker 6: go inside what it's like to sit in this role.
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 6: I think about the responsibility I have here. I think
• 1:23:23
  Speaker 6: about the responsibility more broadly all the time. Yesterday I said,
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 6: we don't apologize here. I'm proud we have thirteen eves.
• 1:23:34
  Speaker 6: I wish it was fourteen in baseball. I'm proud of
• 1:23:38
  Speaker 6: what we did in men's basketball. I'm proud that we
• 1:23:41
  Speaker 6: have I think it's five of eight. It's five of
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 6: eight in softball. I actually think that can make other
• 1:23:49
  Speaker 6: people better to And when I go back to the
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 6: college football playoff, I'm open to ideas.
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 4: There's just a lot of incoming.
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 6: My phone's not ringing off the book, but hey, here's
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 6: another way to look at it.
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 4: And so we'll continue to be thoughtful.
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 6: We'll continue to try to provide perspective and information to
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 6: our members and help them guide the decisions.
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 4: And ultimately, I recognize I'm the one who ends.
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 6: Up topic in front of the podium explaining not just
• 1:24:20
  Speaker 6: myself and ourselves, So.
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 2: Good luck to me, good luck to him. Indeed, So
• 1:24:26
  Speaker 2: there it is.
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 1: The things from the commissioner there, Greg Thanking talking about that.
• 1:24:36
  Speaker 1: And what's really going to be interesting to see is
• 1:24:40
  Speaker 1: how this divide is resolved between the coaches. Coaches who
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 1: want the five highest ranked conference champions and the next
• 1:24:53
  Speaker 1: eleven at large bids that's what they want with an
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 1: eight game schedule. The athletic directors and the conference commissioners
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 1: of the other leagues want the nine game schedule in
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 1: order to do that, So the ads and the coaches
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 1: have a different look at it.
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 2: There was one quote from Scott Strickland.
• 1:25:21
  Speaker 1: It's funny I remember when Scott Strickland was the media
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 1: relations director at Baylor and he rose up through the
• 1:25:26
  Speaker 1: ranks became an assistant athletic director at Mississippi State, then
• 1:25:31
  Speaker 1: the AD, and now he's the AD at Florida, and
• 1:25:34
  Speaker 1: he said he cannot support a nine game league schedule
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 1: without guarantee playoff access to the SEC. As quote was,
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 1: that's hard for me. There's not a sport that our
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 1: league competes in where less than half of our members
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 1: are not in the postseason except for one, and it
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 1: happens to be the one we all pay the most
• 1:25:50
  Speaker 1: attention to. Last year, three of our sixteen teams were
• 1:25:54
  Speaker 1: in the playoff. I think that's a problem systemically with
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 1: the structure of what we're trying to do.
• 1:25:59
  Speaker 8: Me.
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 2: I mean, he thinks there should be more.
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 1: But Lane Kiffin is not sold on the automatic qualifier thing.
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 1: He said he's in favor of the sixteen best teams
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 1: because after seeing all the data and the analytics about
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 1: who would be left out in multiple models, his quote was,
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 1: there's still flaws in every system.
• 1:26:18
  Speaker 2: I think we all know that that's definitely going to
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 2: be the case.
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 1: All Right, we have more coming up when we continue
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 1: on thirteen hundred the zone here on thirteen hundred zone.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, when I do the tip of the hat.
• 1:26:29
  Speaker 1: To the area schools that have advanced to state tournament action.
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 1: There's both in the state championship round of the softball
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 1: in the final four in baseball. Now, remember it's important
• 1:26:47
  Speaker 1: to remember this because I know there are a lot
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 1: of folks who are still getting used to this. It
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 1: is the first time and this really started. I guess
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 1: it's started with volleyball, but it people really took notice
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 1: of it during basketball and now in softball and baseball
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 1: that for the first time, you're only bringing the two
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 1: finalists to the Greater Austin area for the state champions
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 1: or in the case of basketball, was the alamodum because
• 1:27:15
  Speaker 1: they were doing it San Antonio.
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 2: The reason for this is because.
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 1: The Legislative Council, the UIL, that's the superintendents who from
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 1: across the state of Texas who are part of this
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 1: legislative council, voted to go split division two division state
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 1: champions in all sports now and all the team major
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 1: sports now as opposed to remember it was only in football,
• 1:27:40
  Speaker 1: and we've gotten used to it in football with twelve
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 1: state champions crown in football every year. The two divisions
• 1:27:46
  Speaker 1: of six man, which is Class one A, Class A,
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 1: then two divisions of two A, three A, four A,
• 1:27:51
  Speaker 1: five A, and six A. There are twelve total state
• 1:27:54
  Speaker 1: champions in football. Well, now that's the case in all sports,
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 1: but in order to date facilities and the time schedule,
• 1:28:04
  Speaker 1: it would mean that in those other sports now that
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 1: are new to this concept, they would have to play
• 1:28:12
  Speaker 1: their state semifinals away from Austin. In the past, we've
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 1: all been accustomed to a Final four coming to the
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 1: Alamo Dome for basketball, or a Final four coming to
• 1:28:22
  Speaker 1: the state tournament in Austin. In fact, like Travis upon
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 1: winning last week baseball said, like going to state, well,
• 1:28:29
  Speaker 1: they mean state semifinalists, but they're not playing it at
• 1:28:34
  Speaker 1: Dell Diamond as a final four participant. That's because of
• 1:28:40
  Speaker 1: the way that it is set up that you only
• 1:28:44
  Speaker 1: have the state because you have to have instead of
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 1: two semi final games for that, you have to have
• 1:28:50
  Speaker 1: two state championship games. So, nevertheless, getting an opportunity to
• 1:29:00
  Speaker 1: get to state, getting to the state semifinals is imported.
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 1: In Lake Travis is there in six A Division one
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 1: because we can say that now in baseball they're playing
• 1:29:08
  Speaker 1: in TASKASEDA and Prospering Midway.
• 1:29:12
  Speaker 2: The other.
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 1: Semifinalists in six A Division one. Now in terms of
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 1: the rest of it, in terms of area schools advancing
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 1: Dripping Springs in six A Division two, see in the past,
• 1:29:31
  Speaker 1: it would not have been possible for both of those
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 1: teams to be state semifinals because they were both not
• 1:29:36
  Speaker 1: only in the same division, but in the same district,
• 1:29:40
  Speaker 1: in the same classification the same district. Well now, just
• 1:29:43
  Speaker 1: like you know, Westlake and Vandergriff both making it to
• 1:29:47
  Speaker 1: state football championship games last December, Vandergriff winning the title
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 1: and Westlake is the runner up, falling the North Crowley.
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 1: That is achievable now in all of the other divisions,
• 1:29:58
  Speaker 1: in all of the other sports. Lake Travis is in
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 1: the semifinals against the task of see them. And that's
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 1: six A Division one. And in six A Division two
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 1: it is Kingwood and Dripping Springs. So Drip made it
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 1: and that will be this weekend there in six A
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 1: Division two. So yet two athletic team, two baseball teams
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 1: making it to state semifinals in six A Lake Travis
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 1: in Division one, and in six A Division two Dripping
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 1: Springs in five A. The closest team to the area
• 1:30:38
  Speaker 1: would be Smithson Valley, which won a state championship in football,
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 1: so that's in five A Division one. It's funny because
• 1:30:44
  Speaker 1: they're in it. And then you have named like Alito,
• 1:30:47
  Speaker 1: which is always in a Barber's Hill mckinnning north of
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 1: the other semifinalists in five A Division one five A
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 1: Division two, however, you do have an area school, Liberty Hill,
• 1:30:57
  Speaker 1: making the final four and they're playing Kingwood Park.
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 2: Defending state champion.
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 1: Grapevine is playing love Joy Lukes Lovejoy in the other semifinal.
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 1: That's a rematch of their state championship game a year ago.
• 1:31:09
  Speaker 1: But they're in the same division six A Division two,
• 1:31:11
  Speaker 1: so they meet in the final four this time around.
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 1: So in the largest classifications in six A and five
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 1: A you have two A you have two six A
• 1:31:21
  Speaker 1: state semifinalists that would be Lake Travis and six A
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 1: Division one and Dripping Springs in six A Division two,
• 1:31:30
  Speaker 1: and then in five A Division two you have Liberty
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 1: Hill making it.
• 1:31:38
  Speaker 2: In four A.
• 1:31:40
  Speaker 1: None of the there are no area schools involved in
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 1: the four A state semifinals and Division one Pleasant Grove
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 1: against Seminole, China Spring against cal Allen.
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 2: That's in four A Division one.
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 1: In four A Division two, the final four includes an
• 1:31:57
  Speaker 1: area school, Wimberley, and congratulations of the Texans. Not only
• 1:32:02
  Speaker 1: did they get to the state semifinal round, but Wimberley
• 1:32:05
  Speaker 1: also knocked off the giant the perennial power sent and
• 1:32:08
  Speaker 1: coached by lifetime long. Weren't Adrian Allenes who's won a
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 1: state title and is taking his team to state before.
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 1: And of course Ryland Galvan and Jacquey Stewart played on
• 1:32:18
  Speaker 1: that state championship team at Centon back in twenty twenty
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 1: two for Adrianalities, but they fell to Wimberley. And Wimberley
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 1: is in the final four of the play Bridge City
• 1:32:26
  Speaker 1: in one semifinal Brock and spring Hill the other semifinalists
• 1:32:31
  Speaker 1: in four A Division two. In three A Division one,
• 1:32:35
  Speaker 1: your state semifinals are Iowa Park, Liberty, Ilo, Huntington and London,
• 1:32:40
  Speaker 1: which is from the Corpus Christie area. So there's no
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 1: area teams in three A Division one, and in three
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 1: A Division two it's the same story.
• 1:32:50
  Speaker 2: You have Wall against Boyd and.
• 1:32:52
  Speaker 1: Well, no, no, no, they're all technically classifies as an area team.
• 1:32:56
  Speaker 1: They're right there on the county line. So yeah, asolutely
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 1: thralls an area team. And they're playing Orange Grove in
• 1:33:02
  Speaker 1: the three Division two. Thrall has grown so much, such
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 1: a very small place, but congratulations to those Purple and
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 1: White Tigers. They'll play Orange Grove in the state semifinals.
• 1:33:12
  Speaker 1: So you do have an area school, may not be
• 1:33:15
  Speaker 1: that local, but it's close enough. Is it's definitely area.
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  Speaker 1: And then in two A Division one you have new
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  Speaker 1: Home against tom Bean, Centerville against Schulenberg.
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  Speaker 2: So in no area schools in two A D one.
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  Speaker 1: In two A D two, same story, Stamford against Collinsville
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  Speaker 1: Overton again, and Burton is just beyond the area. It's
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  Speaker 1: over there, really kind of nestled a little bit in
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  Speaker 1: the Brasses Valley. It's over there by Brenham, but still
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  Speaker 1: not that far away. So Burton made it in two
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  Speaker 1: A Division two. Now the one classification that only has
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  Speaker 1: one division is one A. That's where you have six
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  Speaker 1: man football programs. But they have they have state semifinals
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  Speaker 1: Region one in region so they are doing it in
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  Speaker 1: the state semifinals. Hamlin and Gordon in one state semifinal
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  Speaker 1: in Region one and two, and then in Region.
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  Speaker 2: Three and four.
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  Speaker 1: Your other state semifinalists there are Brookland and Fayetteville. So
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  Speaker 1: there it is. There's your state semifinalist in UIL baseball,
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  Speaker 1: So congratulations to all that. We'll be back to wrap
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  Speaker 1: up today's program on thirteen under the Zone