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The College Football Report with Eric & Ryan: SEC & National Storylines with guest Grant Shouse (Podcast 342.1) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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[SPEAKER_01]: What you are listening to now is the central Indiana Sports Report podcast number, three hundred and forty two point one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The college football report with Eric and Ryan Robinson.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This week with special guest Grant Shows, talking about the SEC and national storylines.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And with Grant here, we talk a little IU football as well.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Revisit, post-агmetti's controversial comments on IU's schedule.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You're listening to the central Indiana Sports Report with your host, Greg Mendel.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Welcome college football fans to the central Indiana sports report for the college football report with Eric and Ryan Robinson here today to talk a little SEC a little national picture getting really close to another college football season.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Welcome, Eric, welcome, Ryan and we'll start with Ryan because he's on the phone.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Give us your number one headline going into the season.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The number one headline going into as far as the SEC goes is quarterback play.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And we got some good ones coming back this year.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Some proven some un-proven, but I think the total conference is going to revolve around quarterback play, like most colleagues football does.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No doubt about it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Even more important than NFL quarterbacking, don't you think Eric?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I would agree.
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[SPEAKER_02]: This whole year you look
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[SPEAKER_02]: that crossed all the conferences.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I can't remember a time where so many teams are starting over and fresh at quarterback.
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[SPEAKER_02]: There's a lot of unknowns with, I mean, big-time programs.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So we can call it the year of the quarterback already.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And some that we know are going to be great.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, definitely.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But also my headline for the year would be the NIL and the playoff and where college footballs had it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: This is going to be a big year.
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[SPEAKER_02]: A lot of changes have already been made in the last week or two and there's so much to navigate through.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's really going to the landscape and how these
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[SPEAKER_02]: athletes are getting paid and it's going to be a lot to really go through a lot of changes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, let's start there, Eric.
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[SPEAKER_01]: What does the landscape look like?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Because of the NIL and his clims and kind of, are they one that's starting to catch on?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Because last year at this time, you're said, I think clims and being left behind.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I think Ryan brought mentioned it first, but they sure do.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They've got fifteen and a half million in NIL, they're spending.
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[SPEAKER_02]: uh... they actually dipped into the portal for a few for a few players uh... but just nash on the national uh... seen the n i l uh... schools are allowed to use twenty point five million on college football uh... that's across the board uh... they're eliminating trump came out with uh... executive order i don't want to get too long-winded on this but uh... the executive order which from a college football fan
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm glad they came to light.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't really like politics being involved in my sports at all.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But I think something had to be done.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, a lot of people were calling and I all the wild wild west.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, but politically don't you say if a kid can get it, why wouldn't he?
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[SPEAKER_02]: And that's
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[SPEAKER_02]: the counterpart to this executive order.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I don't like college kids being paid to me.
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[SPEAKER_01]: College sports was better when before they were officially being paid.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But if you're going to do it, make it the Wild Wild West.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Why do you care?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I think the NCAA is trying to hang on to
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[SPEAKER_02]: They hate the term pay for play.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And when you allow third party people and boosters to start paying these kids outside of the NIL, then it turns into the Wild Wild West.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You look at Texas Tech, look what Texas Tech is doing.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's no secret and no surprise that top two NIL schools and schools raise a money.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Texas Tech, where's all the money?
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[SPEAKER_02]: These big oil companies.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I thought Oklahoma State would be the first to jump on with tea boon pickings.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I thought they'd ridden the first five national championships, but it's not quite like that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, but you have a booster, Texas tech, a billionaire.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They've got fifty-five million, and I are going to spend this year on all sports.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I know, but where do we want to draw the line?
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think I do.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I would like to see it drawing, and I'm glad.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Which side do you fall on Ryan?
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[SPEAKER_04]: Well, I mean, it needs to be, I can't, I mean, I agree with the third party involvement,
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[SPEAKER_04]: How are you going to divide that money up?
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[SPEAKER_04]: The executive over says things like a Olympic sports as I'm going to be one percent compared to eighty five percent towards football and we both know the answer to that.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Of course.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, and if you're going to get fifty five million in boost for money in NIO, I guarantee in the SEC fifty millions going towards football programs.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, the thing that's in the order that I think is critical is let's say the scenario you just mentioned, Ryan.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We know basketball and football are the revenue makers for all the universities.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So if they want a university, you want it to put all the revenue into that NIL or into invest into basketball or just football, the executive order,
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[SPEAKER_02]: cause for any school making more than fifty million in revenue to maintain all the current non revenue scholarship levels that they currently have.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And if you make over a hundred twenty five million in revenue, you have to increase scholarships on non revenue making sports.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I think that's a good thing.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And those numbers are not just picked out of the air because every school and the five major conferences make between fifty million and a hundred twenty five million in revenue.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Everything that order makes every school keep everything just like it is right now.
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[SPEAKER_02]: and not cut sports, not cut scholarships.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I think that that's the key part right now, a key part.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Last thing I want to say about this is what this does is just make it like it was.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And you're going to have people follow in the rules and others not follow in the rules.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And so you have to have enforcement or it doesn't work.
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[SPEAKER_02]: There is enforcement and one thing, the power for conferences have also done just in the last two weeks.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They form a college sports commission.
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[SPEAKER_02]: What the commission's going to do and every school's going to have to sign the contract.
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[SPEAKER_02]: If they don't sign the contract, they're going to get blacklisted and blackballed and they're going to get run out.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You're going to sign this contract and all your books, all your NIL, all the money raising, all your payments are going to be.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So for what's under the table, which is what's going to make.
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[SPEAKER_01]: the third party stuff.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Exactly.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's always going to be good.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's going to happen anyway.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You might as well.
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[SPEAKER_02]: What a happening.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We're seeing this is the beginning.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You think Kentucky is not going to pay more than they're supposed.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Their boosters are not going to try to pay these kids more.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You think that's not going to happen.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I think the one thing that may be missed amongst this whole thing is do you think there's a underlying issue with famous sports?
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[SPEAKER_04]: and the involvement and financial status they're getting.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think so.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's a good deal for them as well.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's not equitable, but the money brought in is an equitable either.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So it's going to maintain stability.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I think if you're in a non-revenue sport or you're going to more headstay on a golf scholarship, I think this is really good for you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And we welcome Grant Shals to the Central Indiana Sports Report College Football Report with Eric and Ryan Grant, of course, is our IU guy.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We're talking some SEC today, but Grant loves college football, no matter what the conference so wanted to bring him aboard.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Welcome Grant.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Thanks for having me, Grant.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Hey Grant, let me start off before we get into the SEC.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I was pretty hard on Indiana and they're scheduling.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I just want to know what your take is on it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And since I've made my comments on the podcast, I've seen some more things pop up online and Indiana is just getting annihilated on their scheduling decision.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So I just wonder what your thoughts are.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Hold on, also.
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[SPEAKER_01]: the coach fan the flame by by saying something stupid.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I thought, which was not even factual, which I've said on the IU report last week.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I went through the SEC schedules.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They all play at least one good team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a ridiculous.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And not only that they're not even playing a Mac school.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're playing Kinnisaw State and Indian.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Sorry, go ahead Grant, your thoughts.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's a good question, and it's the question I knew that was going to be asked before I even got on here.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So I've been thinking about my answer, and here's what I'm saying.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think the way they want to look at it, I think the way Indiana wants to look at it is the fact that
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[SPEAKER_03]: Indiana is going to try and be whoever they want to be.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Now we're talking about them canceling a series with Virginia, which is a good series.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I mean, that's a good match up for what Indiana has been.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But people, people I think rail on it, they have it too much, just because Indiana is not a branch.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know, it's not a grand school, it's not Michigan, it's not Ohio State, it's not Penn State, it's not Oregon, etc.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And if it was one of those, and I almost feel like people wouldn't bat an eye, but because it's an Indiana, and it's because they're kind of on, well, they are on the rise.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, they're good football team now, and they're quite literally the worst historical
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[SPEAKER_03]: college football team of all time.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think that people for some reason when it comes to college football, people don't like when there's a Cinderella.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They don't like when a slipper or when the slipper fit.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Now with college basketball where people love the Cinderella story come March.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't get why people don't
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[SPEAKER_03]: like that in college, but I do not just it's not just Indiana that's been really think in the end of the set.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was chair for Boise state mess in you last year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I was I'm for the underdog.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, I agree.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But there's a lot of people that for some reason aren't.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But talking about canceling the series with Virginia, it's not a good look, man.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, I hate to say it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's not a good look for Indiana's program.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Now, that's not to say that they can't replace that with something better.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You know, we may be jumping the gun too quickly and saying, oh, well, they're canceling that series with Virginia because they want to add another cupcake.
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[SPEAKER_03]: No, they may be canceling that series because they want to add a, you know, a bigger power by the front.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We have no idea.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm just speaking.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If segmenting hadn't said what he said, I might agree with you.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think for me, and I'm not, I'm not being hard on you, Grant.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I love you.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I hope I owe you one's every game.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But when you have a head coach, it's just such a huge contradiction to me.
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[SPEAKER_02]: When you have a coach, set out of podium and say, all I do is win, Google me.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, yeah, when you play Kennesall State and you're dropping Virginia, who is not very good, anyway.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They've had six losing seasons in a row.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Um, it's a terrible look and I and like Greg said, had Signetti not said what he said last week at the media day about the the wind or strength of schedule don't mean anything to the playoff.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm paraphrasing.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He said something really idiotic.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think it's wrong.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't think in the end is non-conference against a this year is that
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm justified when you're playing Illinois, who's going to be a top fifteen team this year.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm going to be ranked Oregon Penn State and then you have I think teams that are going to be better.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think Grant.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think we get all agree that it's excusable this year because the program two years ago wasn't very good, but it's not excusable next year and he's making excuses for next year, Ryan.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I agree with some of the
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[SPEAKER_04]: I don't want to pile on grant, but he's I, you guys, I just want to pose a question to him.
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[SPEAKER_04]: We talked about when we did our victim preview.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And that is as quick as the fan base supported IU football, because Lord knows we need a great football program.
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[SPEAKER_04]: We've been... This is an amazing partner for it for countless years.
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[SPEAKER_04]: If this year is as much moment as IU football gained last year,
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[SPEAKER_04]: If this year, I used starts out four and two, which assume when they win their first three games.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It should be three wins.
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[SPEAKER_04]: But then they win the Maryland game, but lose the Iowa and Illinois, and they're one and two in conference.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Are people going to fall off that ban wagon?
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[SPEAKER_04]: That's as fast as they jumped on it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: What are you talking about?
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's a good question.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And this is something I talked about with people is that Indiana could have gone seven and five last year.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They could have gone eight and four.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And the sand base would still be the way it is now.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, you, I mean, again, we have watched the CMB and the deaths of hell for forever.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And so a semi good season like a seven and five or an eight and four and you get your bowl game.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And you either win it or you just compete in your bold game, maybe leave.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I have no idea, but it doesn't matter about it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think the fans would still be the way they are now if that has been the case.
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[SPEAKER_03]: In the end, in the end, it's got to last year.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I can try what in the best schedule.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I go over you and play anybody else.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's like, OK, well, where are we supposed to do about it?
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[SPEAKER_03]: We go out on the field every week and we're
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[SPEAKER_03]: And we're trying to win the game.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Isn't that the point of playing?
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[SPEAKER_03]: Right.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You're trying to win.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They still won.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, exactly.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And the two teams they lost to were the first and the second best team in the nation last year when I was all said and done.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I think playing a maybe a weaker schedule teams that win very good, life, Northwestern, like Purdue, like Maryland, you didn't have a great season.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, that didn't help you come Ohio State.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It didn't help you come Notre Dame.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But it didn't help them get in the playoffs.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, and I still wouldn't trade that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, even a play off here and even if you don't win, it's something to celebrate.
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[SPEAKER_03]: One of the great, especially
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[SPEAKER_03]: especially when you went three and nine the year before and you turn it around the next year and you go ahead and do.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's remarkable but.
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[SPEAKER_01]: One of the great stories in the history of our state for sure.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's absolutely and I and and I see your guys that's playing that Indiana shouldn't be playing these week if not conference of not conference opponents and I agree.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I wholeheartedly agree but my job here is to play devil's advocate and.
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[SPEAKER_03]: When the head coach does come up and say, I win, Google me that kind of stuff.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Those things are true.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Those things are true.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You looked him up and the things he's done and where he's been.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's a winner.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's for sure.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No one says he's not great.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But he's fantastic.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I think he, I think he's a great coach.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But what he said was really, really, really dumb.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I really don't think he's a
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[SPEAKER_03]: I really don't think he's more necessarily a football coach with X's and I was like, yeah, that's certainly a factor, but I almost think he's like a sports psychologist, and he knows how to read people.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And his former boss, Nick Sabin, would be greatest at that concept.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And so you see where that kind of rubbed off on him a little bit.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Now, he's obviously not the best coach.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm not going to say if it's always the best coach in the country.
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[SPEAKER_03]: No, he's not.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He has flaws.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He does make the state.
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[SPEAKER_03]: He does run his mouth a little bit.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And it's like, dude, it's like, all right, ramp it back a little bit.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But we've never had that in the football program, right?
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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't think we ever had that ever at Indiana, not even night was doing those kind of things.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, we're eighteen minutes into our SEC preview and we've only talked about how you football and the state of college football.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So let's get to that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Sorry, Grant.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'll wrap it.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's fine.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I, we, we're going to talk about that all year in the island all year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That was what I'm going to say next.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And we're going to talk about it every week from now till at least the end of January.
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[SPEAKER_04]: We're going to be talking about you just for the just the record.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I'm not critical of I use scheduling.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I'm fine with it and, you know, I'm gonna lose it.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I just want the fan base to stay as supportive.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, we've wanted something like this for so long.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I agree.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I don't want to fail.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I don't want them to fail.
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[SPEAKER_04]: That's pretty enough.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Problems.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Would you be happy with what Joe Taylor did at Purdue?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Would that be good enough for you?
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[SPEAKER_04]: I think so.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, he brought them the relevance and, and, yeah, I think it would be great if I didn't want that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: All I want to see Indiana do is be consistent with this for however long it goes.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Like, like, stay between eight and four and eleven and two or whatever you can do, you know what I mean?
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[SPEAKER_03]: I hope that you're going to be a one-hit wonder.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, let's talk some SEC football and we talked quarterbacks before Grant joined us and man is the SEC loaded with some good with theoretically with manning, but we know with Nussbaum and a lot of them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It is going to be a great year in the SEC Ryan.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, and it's all going to be core back play.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, you look at Gunner Stockton at Georgia coming back.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I ran it for another name.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I'm all over the field last year, but I look for him to be a little bit more established this year.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Greatness.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Myers going to continue to do his thing.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Season veteran, he'll be leading LSU most most of the years.
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[SPEAKER_04]: They're going to be a strong strong contender.
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[SPEAKER_04]: But my sleeper is the soft Carolina and the lower sellers.
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[SPEAKER_04]: You know, he's been a great record in the SEC last year of the freshman.
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[SPEAKER_04]: He's back at the soft morse.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So I look at South Carolina and they're kind of like what we talked about Illinois in the big ten.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I think South Carolina's been a ruffle some feathers and they're going to be in the talks most of the season.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I a hundred percent agree.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's a great comparison.
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[SPEAKER_03]: with South Carolina and Illinois.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They played each other in a bowl game last year.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I think their style of play is similar.
20:52
[SPEAKER_03]: They have two really good quarterback with Alt-Mire at Illinois and then with sellers at South Carolina.
21:01
[SPEAKER_03]: I really think South Carolina can compete and what's going to be a dominant SEC all year long.
21:07
[SPEAKER_03]: I think they can be up there with Texas and Georgia and Alabama and all of them.
21:12
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm a hundred percent agree with that.
21:14
[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, I think so.
21:16
[SPEAKER_04]: I think so too.
21:17
[SPEAKER_04]: And, you know, they only allowed by like two points out of them last year.
21:21
[SPEAKER_04]: And they finished a tie for third in SEC at five and three.
21:26
[SPEAKER_04]: So they had a winning record in SEC play last year.
21:29
[SPEAKER_04]: So.
21:30
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, it didn't make the move.
21:32
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, and the North cell is just going to be a great player on Sunday here in a few years, I think.
21:40
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, he has been developed in a good system and the style of play.
21:47
[SPEAKER_03]: He can run with the ball.
21:49
[SPEAKER_03]: He can throw the ball.
21:50
[SPEAKER_03]: He's almost a little bit.
21:52
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know if he's kind of not as good, obviously, but I think it's still wise, comparable, maybe to Lamar Jackson in some ways.
22:02
[SPEAKER_03]: You know what I mean?
22:03
[SPEAKER_03]: He's also versatile and he's athletic and he can do a variety of things out on the field.
22:10
[SPEAKER_02]: I think it's ironic when you look at, uh, you mentioned Illinois and South Carolina.
22:14
[SPEAKER_02]: You look at, you look at the two head coaches.
22:17
[SPEAKER_02]: You might have two of the most intense, like borderline, psycho coaches in the country and their teams are playing a lot like they, like their head coaches attitudes.
22:29
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, Belema and Beamer are, they're a little bit cycle on the, on the sidelines at times.
22:35
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, they're hardcore.
22:37
[SPEAKER_02]: And their teams play, uh,
22:39
[SPEAKER_02]: play a lot of like physical.
22:42
[SPEAKER_02]: I like the South Carolina pick as a sleeper, the schedule for them.
22:47
[SPEAKER_02]: I know they go to LSU and they host Alabama, but the rest of their schedule looks really good in the SEC.
22:56
[SPEAKER_02]: I had them down as a one sleeper, not really a sleeper.
23:01
[SPEAKER_02]: I think they're a legit contender.
23:04
[SPEAKER_02]: But I'm going to go down, I'm going to go down the length, kiff and
23:10
[SPEAKER_02]: their schedule if they can get quarterback play they've got one road game at Georgia that's going to be difficult there's no Texas no Texas A&M no Alabama on that Ole Miss schedule so watch out for laying kiffin again we're going to fall for it I'm just not sure why Ole Miss is on the list of storied programs but
23:36
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, I mean, when you just look at all those names, one of those teams is going to finish ninth and conference.
23:42
[SPEAKER_04]: And that's just.
23:44
[SPEAKER_01]: You didn't mention Arkansas.
23:46
[SPEAKER_01]: You didn't, I mean, that's a good program too.
23:48
[SPEAKER_01]: You're, they're even other programs that are being left out Missouri.
23:52
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
23:53
[SPEAKER_04]: I didn't make, yeah, I didn't mention Missouri.
23:55
[SPEAKER_04]: I just mentioned the Arkansas.
23:58
[SPEAKER_04]: But it's just crazy that one of those teams are going to be the nice best team in that conference.
24:03
[SPEAKER_04]: And we talked about, you know, the big team when the last two national championships.
24:07
[SPEAKER_04]: I think this year, the SEC is going to be back in the full for national championship.
24:12
[SPEAKER_04]: I surely text this or Georgia or BAM or even LSU.
24:19
[SPEAKER_01]: There's a chance that five of the best six teams in the country are in the SEC this year.
24:25
[SPEAKER_04]: Well, I'm, you know, with a, which I expand to play off, you're going to have, you might have a couple too, lots of SEC teams make that play off.
24:35
[SPEAKER_01]: You probably Ohio State and Penn State are probably going to be two of the top five, but if one of them isn't, you could definitely have four of the best five teams from the SEC this year.
24:43
[SPEAKER_01]: Eric's looking at me skeptically.
24:47
[SPEAKER_02]: I am because I still think the power is in the big ten.
24:54
[SPEAKER_01]: So many Notre Dame and Arizona State.
24:56
[SPEAKER_01]: How about Arizona State?
24:57
[SPEAKER_01]: Are they on that list too?
24:58
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, they've got solid quarterback.
25:00
[SPEAKER_02]: They know who their quarterback is.
25:02
[SPEAKER_02]: You're going to hear me say that all year and I don't want to sound like a broken record, but to me, the quarterback play is just like, I mean, gosh, dang.
25:13
[SPEAKER_02]: How many, I mean, Ohio State, Michigan, Notre Dame, we're all looking for the quarterback.
25:20
[SPEAKER_02]: Alabama, question marks.
25:23
[SPEAKER_02]: Texas, I mean, we know it's arch-maning, but we got Georgia gunner stopped and what, I mean, he hasn't showed us anything.
25:37
[SPEAKER_01]: So that really puts LSU in a really good position.
25:40
[SPEAKER_02]: I've got LSU right now, I mean, I got LSU at the top of the list on my SEC.
25:48
[SPEAKER_02]: I think there number one, and I'm going to put, surprisingly, even with the quarterback question, Alabama right behind him because they're just so loaded on with talent.
25:59
[SPEAKER_01]: But so is Texas, and they could have a great quarterback.
26:03
[SPEAKER_02]: My thing on Texas is, last year, I never bought into them.
26:08
[SPEAKER_02]: I never bought into Quinn Ures at quarterback.
26:11
[SPEAKER_02]: And Archmany couldn't even start on that team.
26:14
[SPEAKER_02]: Everyone is wanting to hand him the Heisman.
26:18
[SPEAKER_02]: He was never going to win a national championship.
26:20
[SPEAKER_02]: And you had a quarterback behind him that could not even start on that team.
26:25
[SPEAKER_02]: And when yours came back from injury, guess where our remaining went, right back to the bench.
26:29
[SPEAKER_02]: Guys, we're pulling this quote right here, because when archmanings one of the highs went trophy, I'm playing this right here.
26:35
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm just not buying into all the high, but they're just wanting to hand everything to him.
26:40
[SPEAKER_02]: The highs man, he's going to be the best.
26:42
[SPEAKER_02]: Texas going to win the whole thing.
26:43
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm not buying into it yet.
26:47
[SPEAKER_02]: They've got some players.
26:48
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll give you that.
26:49
[SPEAKER_02]: Now, if archmaning goes into Columbus,
26:52
[SPEAKER_02]: and throws for three hundred and four times.
26:54
[SPEAKER_01]: That's going to be flattened with his.
26:56
[SPEAKER_01]: We'll see.
26:56
[SPEAKER_02]: We're going to know we're going to know all we need to know about arcs manning.
27:00
[SPEAKER_01]: We are man is going to be.
27:03
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm glad you said that Eric because, you know, pay man he can go on life TV and say, hey, this kid makes throws.
27:11
[SPEAKER_04]: I never even thought about making.
27:13
[SPEAKER_04]: But you know what, he still could win the starting job in front of Queen here.
27:16
[SPEAKER_01]: He died.
27:19
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm so poor this is the other year.
27:21
[SPEAKER_01]: I can't wait.
27:23
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm so glad you said that.
27:25
[SPEAKER_04]: No, I mean, I'm optimistic that he's going to have a good season, but you know, what's a good season?
27:32
[SPEAKER_04]: They go pen and two and he's SEC player the year and they don't want a national championship as out of failure.
27:41
[SPEAKER_04]: You can still have a good season and I smash.
27:46
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm just pumped in the brakes a little bit because he's on such a pedestal right now.
27:50
[SPEAKER_04]: He couldn't start the last two years over quintuers.
27:54
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm all on the hard standing train man.
27:57
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, I think he's, I think he's got potential to be a good player.
28:01
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, look at the family from life.
28:05
[SPEAKER_01]: Plus he's shown some.
28:06
[SPEAKER_01]: If you haven't shown anything, I'd say all he's just a manning, but he's shown us that he's pretty darn good.
28:12
[SPEAKER_02]: Hey, hey, through for nine hundred yards and three games.
28:15
[SPEAKER_02]: And ten touchdowns.
28:16
[SPEAKER_02]: That's pretty good.
28:17
[SPEAKER_02]: Pretty good.
28:17
[SPEAKER_02]: Pretty good.
28:19
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, the kids got to know something.
28:22
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, like, it's a given and given the opportunity.
28:27
[SPEAKER_03]: I think you's going to be able to rise to the occasion.
28:29
[SPEAKER_03]: Like, and he worked under what was another really good quarterback.
28:34
[SPEAKER_03]: I can't sound people are sitting here like, like, oh, aren't you?
28:38
[SPEAKER_03]: When you were, it was great.
28:44
[SPEAKER_03]: top five arguably quarterback in America last year.
28:50
[SPEAKER_03]: He, he single handedly, I mean, he's a big part of why they were as successful.
28:57
[SPEAKER_03]: And you factor in this, this arts man and kid who, I mean, look at his last name, look at his family tree, A, and B, he's already played under a really good quarterback in his learn things and pick things up.
29:12
[SPEAKER_03]: I wouldn't be surprised if he doesn't have one of the best football ideas in the entire country.
29:19
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, I think the kids are going to be able to dissect the game in ways that you just don't see from all quarterbacks.
29:26
[SPEAKER_03]: So is he going to be the best quarterback in the SEC?
29:29
[SPEAKER_03]: The only time we'll tell what that going back to, Lenora Sellers at South Carolina, I think he's probably in the conversation.
29:38
[SPEAKER_03]: As the best quarterback in the SEC this coming year, but I think when the season's over, you're going to be able to make a case for arch manning being up there and in the two, three or four, probably the five slot in the entire conference.
29:52
[SPEAKER_03]: So, only time will tell with arch manning is almost a little bit of a mystery at this point, but
29:59
[SPEAKER_03]: I think if we revisit the same subject here, the same question in a month, a month and a half, I think we're going to have maybe a more clear answer.
30:10
[SPEAKER_04]: And I'm a room against the kids, but don't lose size of fact that Texas has the number one defense in the SEC last year.
30:18
[SPEAKER_04]: I think they only gave us two hundred and eighty three yards of games.
30:21
[SPEAKER_04]: So, you know, all you need to really do is go out and get fourteen, seventeen points of game to get a win.
30:28
[SPEAKER_04]: And I mean not to discredit when yours, but he was a great game manager and it was a great quarterback.
30:36
[SPEAKER_04]: But you know, ours might have a great year.
30:40
[SPEAKER_04]: I hope he does.
30:42
[SPEAKER_04]: But I'm just, I'm not going to crown him yet.
30:46
[SPEAKER_01]: By the way, that game is thirty two days away and according to ESPN, three hundred and thirty three dollars is the get in the door.
30:57
[SPEAKER_01]: Take it right now for Texas at Ohio State.
31:00
[SPEAKER_01]: I think Ohio State's minus two and a half.
31:04
[SPEAKER_01]: It sounds about right.
31:05
[SPEAKER_01]: It's probably where I put it, but I like Texas's chances.
31:11
[SPEAKER_04]: I mean, the first week in the football is going to be fantastic with Texas at Ohio State and then you have a
31:19
[SPEAKER_04]: talk about these stepping out of their conference to try to get a statement when they don't get any bigger than that.
31:30
[SPEAKER_03]: People have closed me here this week, like I'm craving that week one, like I can't wait to sit my rear end on the couch all day, watch football.
31:43
[SPEAKER_03]: Now I'm going to the eye, you game the first game of the year, but it's a big game so I can come back home and watch the night gap.
31:51
[SPEAKER_03]: That first week's going to be really good.
31:53
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm especially looking forward to week zero with that intriguing match up of Iowa State and Kansas State over in Ireland.
32:03
[SPEAKER_03]: I think that's going to be a great table setter for the season to come and it's going to be entertaining football and it's going to be the most competitive football we've seen in a month.
32:18
[SPEAKER_03]: I, I circled that one.
32:19
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know about you guys, but what, what are some of the matchups you circled in week zero or week one?
32:26
[SPEAKER_03]: I guess kind of all the same thing, but what, what are some of the big ones that you guys circled?
32:32
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm curious.
32:32
[SPEAKER_01]: I got one in the SEC guys.
32:35
[SPEAKER_01]: Six o'clock later that day on August thirtyth on the SEC network.
32:40
[SPEAKER_01]: Winkers right in the Illinois State Redbirds go into Oklahoma looking for the upset.
32:46
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm predicting, two hundred and fifty yards and four touchdowns for the Illinois State senior.
32:52
[SPEAKER_01]: And I'm in an upset over the sooners.
32:56
[SPEAKER_04]: It wasn't weird that we're talking college football on Oklahoma that didn't get brought up unless they're playing the Illinois State.
33:02
[SPEAKER_01]: That's right.
33:05
[SPEAKER_04]: And I mean, how much longer is preventable is going to be allowed to coach that team?
33:11
[SPEAKER_05]: It's a good question.
33:14
[SPEAKER_04]: He better do something big this year.
33:16
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know that he makes it through the year.
33:20
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I think one thing the NIL is doing, what the NIL has done is it's going to make coaches their jobs a lot more safe because the coaches buy out some of these buyouts are insane.
33:36
[SPEAKER_02]: We've been picking on Lincoln Riley his buy out seventy five million dollars.
33:40
[SPEAKER_02]: USC's never going to buy that out because they need that money for the NIL.
33:44
[SPEAKER_01]: By the way, if you want to buy me out from the Central Indiana Sports Report, I'll do it for seven point five.
33:50
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm just saying the NIL is really going to make the coaching job a lot more secure.
33:57
[SPEAKER_02]: Just money based.
33:59
[SPEAKER_02]: It's going to without a doubt.
34:02
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, that's a good point with the NIL.
34:04
[SPEAKER_03]: And I was rewatching a college game day as it's so from
34:09
[SPEAKER_03]: This past year and next haven't said it he goes if you don't pay the right players that you're in I.L.
34:15
[SPEAKER_03]: You're going to be shit out of love.
34:18
[SPEAKER_03]: And he's a hundred percent right in that.
34:22
[SPEAKER_03]: You got to have it a recruit better with the N.I.L.
34:25
[SPEAKER_03]: because you got to know what you want to spend your money on at this point.
34:29
[SPEAKER_03]: It's like going to buy a new pair of shoes.
34:32
[SPEAKER_03]: It's like, what can I keep these cleaner or are these shoes going to last longer with what I'm doing?
34:38
[SPEAKER_03]: I mean, it's a no-brainer, but you have to know what you're spending your money on before you spend your money.
34:47
[SPEAKER_03]: there's no point in recruiting a kid if you know you're not going to be able to pay him enough or you don't think he's worse the money that you have within your program to pay him.
35:00
[SPEAKER_04]: First weekend of the year that I'm going to be watching no doubt about it's going to be LSU going to punch him.
35:06
[SPEAKER_04]: I know Clemson kind of grasp the transfer for a little bit.
35:11
[SPEAKER_04]: They had a great
35:13
[SPEAKER_04]: great recruiting year with Davos Winnie and I looked for them to bounce back this year but you know at least you I know they're coached by a me and Eric Spender coach of all time Brian Kelly however they do have
35:28
[SPEAKER_04]: the best quarterback in the SEC in Nussmire going in there.
35:32
[SPEAKER_04]: I think that game's going to be a real shootout.
35:35
[SPEAKER_04]: I look for how much you to go in there and when that game, I'm not even sure what the spread is at this point.
35:39
[SPEAKER_04]: It doesn't appear to be a line from that game, but you've got to appreciate two top teams like that schedule in that game, the first game, right out of the gate, and that's going to establish a lot of momentum for the winner, no doubt.
35:59
[SPEAKER_02]: Well, obviously, we got Notre Dame going to Miami.
36:02
[SPEAKER_02]: I think about that.
36:04
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, for a big one.
36:05
[SPEAKER_02]: We're got about that one, didn't we?
36:07
[SPEAKER_02]: Carson back.
36:09
[SPEAKER_02]: Second in the nation with the NIL.
36:11
[SPEAKER_02]: He's making about five million to go to Miami this year.
36:16
[SPEAKER_02]: So Notre Dame returns back to the Orange Bowl where we won our last game there.
36:22
[SPEAKER_02]: That is a Sunday night game.
36:24
[SPEAKER_02]: Also, that's the game of the weekend for me, but also locally Ball State Purdue play that weekend.
36:29
[SPEAKER_02]: That'll be interesting to keep an eye on.
36:31
[SPEAKER_02]: Don't you?
36:32
[SPEAKER_01]: Purdue make it.
36:33
[SPEAKER_02]: There's you when Purdue might get their only win.
36:36
[SPEAKER_02]: And then also Nebraska Cincinnati's kind of intriguing, I think, because Nebraska is one of those teams in the Big Ten I pick.
36:45
[SPEAKER_02]: They're like teetering five, six, seven in the league.
36:51
[SPEAKER_02]: So that's going to be an interesting see how that plays out with them.
36:55
[SPEAKER_01]: Zero Q's Tennessee and the interest in that one.
36:58
[SPEAKER_02]: No, I think Sarah Q's is going to be really down this year.
37:01
[SPEAKER_01]: Florida State Alabama.
37:02
[SPEAKER_02]: I was going to mention them.
37:03
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm glad you brought that up.
37:04
[SPEAKER_02]: I think that that Florida State program that across roads hosting Alabama.
37:10
[SPEAKER_02]: You heard the rumors.
37:11
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if you guys heard the rumors, but Nick Saven apparently has already agreed to be Florida State's next coach next year.
37:18
[SPEAKER_01]: No.
37:18
[SPEAKER_02]: He has put that to bad saying that's not true, but that broke.
37:22
[SPEAKER_02]: That would be yeah.
37:23
[SPEAKER_02]: Something else.
37:24
[SPEAKER_02]: So there's a lot of rumors about Nick Saven coming back to coaching.
37:27
[SPEAKER_01]: It's a place that's very easy to recruit to.
37:29
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
37:31
[SPEAKER_01]: way easier than Tuscaloosa Alabama.
37:33
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, you would think, but he, he has put that to bed and said there's no truth to any of that.
37:39
[SPEAKER_02]: Urban Meyer actually acts on an airfield watching too.
37:43
[SPEAKER_02]: He had mentioned the next day when we go to the NFL that he'll never come back to college, but we'll see.
37:49
[SPEAKER_03]: We kind of mentioned it briefly earlier, but Texas in all of
37:54
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, is the first headline game of the day on August thirty.
37:59
[SPEAKER_03]: That's, that's huge Ohio State opened up.
38:02
[SPEAKER_03]: It's two and a half point favorites at home.
38:05
[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, to answer the question earlier about LSU and Cleansing Cleansing favorite three and a half at this point, subject to change, of course.
38:14
[SPEAKER_03]: Um, but yeah, this is, this big one, of course.
38:17
[SPEAKER_03]: You're always looking at them.
38:18
[SPEAKER_03]: The one I'm looking, the two I'm looking forward to are Virginia Tech.
38:23
[SPEAKER_03]: And South Carolina, which is on Sunday afternoon at three o'clock on ESPN.
38:28
[SPEAKER_03]: That'll be a good Sunday afternoon football game.
38:30
[SPEAKER_03]: And then the Monday night game on Labor Day Monday, September first PCU at North Carolina Bill Belochett.
38:39
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, coaching is first-ever college game, which rightfully so gives him the national spotlight like that and see how he's able, you know, see how he's there to be able to have the college.
38:54
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm honestly really looking for that CCU North Carolina game on the United States and Clark on the SBA and it's that North Carolina, the CCU opens up this three-point favorite.
39:07
[SPEAKER_04]: I'm great that you brought that out of grand because I was listening to a sports radio and I think North Carolina has eight games that are nationally televised.
39:17
[SPEAKER_04]: Wow.
39:18
[SPEAKER_04]: They're all going to the bill bell to check narrative at North Carolina.
39:23
[SPEAKER_04]: I don't know, you know, realistic how well he's going to do, but we're going to find out on a national stage.
39:30
[SPEAKER_01]: Also that Friday night, August, twenty-nine, there's Auburn at Baylor on Fox and Georgia Tech at Colorado on ESPN to either of those games holding the interest.
39:41
[SPEAKER_01]: We love Dion.
39:43
[SPEAKER_02]: I love Dion, so I'll pay attention.
39:45
[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I'll pay attention to Colorado just because I enjoy Washington Dion and listening to his hot takes.
39:54
[SPEAKER_02]: Nothing interesting about Baylor or Auburn.
39:57
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't find anything.
39:58
[SPEAKER_02]: I'm sorry, I know you're a war eagle, but I just, I'll be back.
40:02
[SPEAKER_02]: If you freeze again, I'm gonna take him a minute down there.
40:06
[SPEAKER_01]: All right, guys, let's make some SEC predictions.
40:08
[SPEAKER_01]: Who's gonna be your champion, Grant?
40:10
[SPEAKER_03]: I really, at this point, preseason prediction, I like taxes to, to maybe when the SEC again.
40:19
[SPEAKER_03]: I think I was a big one and they had a little bit of a,
40:23
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't want to say crossers they grew talking about was for the state, but Alabama may not be on the same level that they were when they had satin and you kind of saw them have what was a down year for Alabama.
40:38
[SPEAKER_01]: I think you're right.
40:40
[SPEAKER_03]: I'm not saying they're not a good team because they would go in any other conference besides maybe six big ten with
40:50
[SPEAKER_03]: the powerhouses of Ohio State in Oregon and all that.
40:54
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't even got to mention them.
40:55
[SPEAKER_03]: And so probably told where they would in the SEC, but you put them in any other power for conference and they're probably right up there to win it.
41:04
[SPEAKER_03]: So that being said, I think you take an Alabama off the table with that.
41:12
[SPEAKER_03]: Again, I really like Texas.
41:16
[SPEAKER_03]: And I think it could come down again.
41:18
[SPEAKER_03]: They would rebattive last year with Texas and Georgia.
41:22
[SPEAKER_03]: I just think that Georgia is Georgia, you know what I mean?
41:28
[SPEAKER_03]: We talked about with Donna Stockton.
41:30
[SPEAKER_03]: He's a good quarterback.
41:31
[SPEAKER_03]: He's going to be one to look out for.
41:33
[SPEAKER_03]: I think Texas could win the SD have a good shot of winning the national championship.
41:40
[SPEAKER_03]: But I think for my national champion,
41:43
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't think I think it could come down to Ohio State again.
41:46
[SPEAKER_03]: I'd like very, they've reloaded that roster.
41:49
[SPEAKER_03]: Now, the quarterback is a question with the Julie and say in, I believe, say, say, I believe you say, say his name and he
41:59
[SPEAKER_03]: You know, you're going to be a newcomer, but he's at Ohio State for a reason, and it's because their staff feels like he fits their system.
42:07
[SPEAKER_03]: And he's going to have so many good weapons around him, and they return Jeremiah Smith, who's going to be a Heisman candidate, would be probably one of my favorites to win the Heisman candidate, the Heisman trophy, along with Penn State's quarterback and Drew Allen.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So it comes down to the SDC in the big ten once again in terms of winning the national championship, and who's going to be the best player
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[SPEAKER_03]: the country is here when it's all set and done.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But those are just some of my early prediction.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Those will obviously probably change as the year goes on.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But that's where I'm at on.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Well, I think the SEC champion's going to come down this event.
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[SPEAKER_04]: He's between Texas, Georgia, and LSU.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And I get the not-to-tattler.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I might have sounded critical of our remaining earlier in the podcast, but I think he's going to be a whole lead this team.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I think though when the SEC, I think they're going to be in the national title games again.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Man, I love to say Notre Dame, but it's probably going to be Ohio State expenses.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I think Texas is going to win the national championship.
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[SPEAKER_04]: But I give the high-spin, my front runner is Jeremiah Smith from Ohio State.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, not so fast on your Jeremiah Smith's take, guys.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We'll start with the SEC.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I agree with Ryan.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Texas, LSU, Georgia.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think are the top three teams.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to take.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a sweep.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We also Texas.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's weird.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I did not think that's how it was going to go earlier in the conversation.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm basing that totally on coaching because I think Ella, she's got the bet right now.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I would take Garrett Nessmire over arch manning today.
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[SPEAKER_02]: September first, I may switch after I want to see him in Columbus.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But I give Texas a slight edge over them because Brian Kelly never wins the big game.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But my husband pick this is a slam dot for me the best quarterback in the country is in Clemson Club Nick he will be the best quarterback this year
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's going to be your Heisman winner.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And the reason I don't like Jeremiah Smith for the Heisman, I think he's the best player in football, but not one.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Why do you see, where has won the Heisman?
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I think one has won it in thirty-five years.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It doesn't happen.
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[SPEAKER_02]: If the quarterback for Ohio State can put up the numbers to give Jeremiah Smith, Heisman numbers, that quarterback's going to be up there to win the Heisman.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's my only knock against Smith being the Heisman.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But I, for the record, Jeremiah Smith, best offense of player in college football.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But I don't think he wins the high school and I'm going to club Nick.
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[SPEAKER_04]: He said no letter to seevers won the high school and Travis Hunter just won it last.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's the first one to win it since like ninety since Desmond Howard.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He played both sides of the ball.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's been different.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's been one in thirty five years and he's he's the one.
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[SPEAKER_02]: If it had been just for receiver, he would not have won.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's true, Greg.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Good point.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Right, but you know, and I agree with the fact that Jeremiah Smith's going to have that support quarterback, obviously, and quarterback's going to be able to get him the ball.
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[SPEAKER_04]: But I mean, he's the most dynamic player, offensively, and college football.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So, but I do like your take on the cake club at Clemson.
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[SPEAKER_04]: He's going to have a really, really big year.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Eric, you didn't pick your national champion.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, my national champion.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I have got
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[SPEAKER_02]: Right at down, Penn State versus Clebson in the championship game.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm going with the Hyde Matrophy winner and the Clemson Tigers.
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[SPEAKER_02]: National Chains.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going Texas over Notre Dame for the National Champion and Winchers Wright, your high school student.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Things everybody.
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