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SEC Fall Off + Transfer Portal Chaos, Miami vs Indiana … CFB Breaking Point · Unafraid Show with George Wrighster

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the College Football Show. It's your boy, George Riister.
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Speaker 1: We got so much to talk about today. The transfer
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Speaker 1: portal is absolutely going insane. We gotta talk about Miami
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Speaker 1: versus Indiana. Full preview out tomorrow, which you guys don't
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Speaker 1: want to miss. We got video included. We are continuing
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Speaker 1: to up the ante on everything that we are doing.
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Speaker 1: What the hell is going on at Ohio State and
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Speaker 1: Oregon that you got you know, fifty four players in
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Speaker 1: the portal between the two of them at least and
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Speaker 1: might continue to be more. We got to talk about
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Speaker 1: what is going on with Mario Christobaul, Jordan Seaton over
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Speaker 1: there at Colorado because they're mad at him, roster building
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Speaker 1: in college football, and so much more. You guys do
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Speaker 1: not want to miss a single second of the show today,
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Speaker 1: this is a this is a family program, this is
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Speaker 1: we are in this together. I'm here with.
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Speaker 2: You guys, and we got to talk about it all right.
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Speaker 1: So where we're gonna start today is we're gonna start
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Speaker 1: with the transfer portal because there are over forty four
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Speaker 1: hundred players in the college football transfer portal, including one
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Speaker 1: of them being a reister kid. My own son is
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Speaker 1: in the portal right now. And if you go to
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Speaker 1: the last live show that wasn't a reaction to the games.
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Speaker 1: I talked about that and how this impacts families and
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Speaker 1: everything else when you're not in a situation where you're
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Speaker 1: going to go get you know, a super bag. Right, So,
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Speaker 1: is there something going on in some wrong with what's happening?
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Speaker 1: Because you got players, You got twenty nine players at
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Speaker 1: Ohio State, Oregon has twenty five. There's no head coaching
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Speaker 1: change there. And then at Oregon you have both coordinators leaving.
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Speaker 1: But the majority of the players aren't going to cal
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Speaker 1: or Kentucky. So what is the actual answer? Because on
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Speaker 1: one hand you blame there is it is the kids
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Speaker 1: are being blamed. It's like, oh my god, these kids,
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Speaker 1: they don't want to put up with anything. They don't
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Speaker 1: want to fight, they don't want to go through adversity,
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Speaker 1: they don't want to do anything like that.
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Speaker 2: But that's not the case.
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Speaker 1: And mind you, last year I made a video about
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Speaker 1: the reason why there are five main reasons why players
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Speaker 1: hit the transfer a portal, and the one that most
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Speaker 1: people don't even talk about is that players getting pushed
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Speaker 1: out of where they are.
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Speaker 2: And yes, there is.
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Speaker 1: Some element of the people don't want to fight it
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Speaker 1: out and all this stuff, but check check this out.
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Speaker 1: Let's say that you're on a team like Oregon or
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Speaker 1: Ohio State and you are gonna be returning a lot
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Speaker 1: of your players. Right, You're gonna be returning a lot
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Speaker 1: of your players. How are you then supposed to sell
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Speaker 1: these kids on the idea that that sitting and continuing
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Speaker 1: to be a backup for less money for three four,
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Speaker 1: five hundred thousand dollars when somebody else is offering you
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Speaker 1: a chance to start and a million dollars, Well, well,
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Speaker 1: you got to have pride in your university offs It's
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Speaker 1: also partly a job too, write so on on. On
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Speaker 1: one hand, how can you say that you want players
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Speaker 1: to you know, to uh to do something that the
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Speaker 1: adults don't even do. If somebody offers you a job
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Speaker 1: for fifty thousand dollars, and then somebody else offers you
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Speaker 1: the same basic job, actually in a higher level of job,
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Speaker 1: so then maybe you can even make more money, and
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Speaker 1: then they're offering to double your your salary. Most people
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Speaker 1: out in the world are going to take that. They
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Speaker 1: are It's just the truth. And you've even had Mario Christobal,
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Speaker 1: head coach in Miami, talk about.
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Speaker 2: That is that the adults did this, that the adults.
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Speaker 1: Did it, and I one hundred percent agree with that
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Speaker 1: because we have heard time and time again, Oh, it's
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Speaker 1: the players, it's the players. No, it's not the players.
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Speaker 1: This was started with adult leadership. Athletic directors leave when
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Speaker 1: they want to. Head coaches sit up in rooms and
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Speaker 1: promise kids and families listen, I'm gonna take care of
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Speaker 1: your son like he's my son. And then the first
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Speaker 1: the or a great opportunity comes along and the coach
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Speaker 1: is like, listen, I gotta do what's right for me
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Speaker 1: and my family. So when the coaches do what's right
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Speaker 1: for them and their family, the administrators do what's right
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Speaker 1: for them and their family, what do you expect the
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Speaker 1: players to do. They're following in their footsteps. So and
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Speaker 1: the adults have to be the ones to say to
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Speaker 1: fix this, we have to give up power. And I'm
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Speaker 1: not talking about seeding power to players. I'm talking about
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Speaker 1: seeding power from the If you're Tony Pettiti at the
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Speaker 1: Big ten, if you're Greg Sanki over there at the
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Speaker 1: Big twelve, if you are your Mark over at the
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Speaker 1: at the Big ten, Bevko over there at Notre Dame,
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Speaker 1: wherever you're at. You have to be willing to give
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Speaker 1: up control because collective bargaining is the only path forward.
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Speaker 1: It is the only way to stop lawsuits. It is
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Speaker 1: the only way to do any of that, the only way.
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Speaker 1: But but they keep trying to throw a band aid
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Speaker 1: on a on a gunshot wound, and it's not gonna work.
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Speaker 2: They keep trying to tinker with a rule here and there.
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Speaker 2: It ain't gonna work.
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Speaker 1: Just like today, there was a notable at the h
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Speaker 1: the Coaches Convention. All the coaches hunanimously voted for a
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Speaker 1: proposal for the NC double A. That way, instead of
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Speaker 1: players getting four games to play to use their red shirt,
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Speaker 1: now we're gonna up it to nine. Why not just
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Speaker 1: say five to play five. They're like, well, well, you
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Speaker 1: can play up to nine games now and get your
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Speaker 1: red shirt. And the reason why coaches want that is
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Speaker 1: because their rosters are getting incredibly thin with players. When
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Speaker 1: they're when they're like, oh, when they want to red
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Speaker 1: shirt a kid, but then they're also concerned about depth.
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Speaker 1: How many times have we heard about a player out
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Speaker 1: the rest of the season after the after playing three,
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Speaker 1: after playing three or four games because they want to
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Speaker 1: preserve their red shirt. So now moving that to nine games,
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Speaker 1: it basically eliminates that. But why not just go to
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Speaker 1: instead of five years to play four, just go five
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Speaker 1: to play five. It's common sense, like, like, why do
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Speaker 1: we keep inching towards something that is inevitable, just like
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Speaker 1: they inch toward nil and then it blew up in
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Speaker 1: their in their face, and now it's a it's an uncontrolled,
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Speaker 1: unregulated market which is unsustainable. And I've been saying this
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Speaker 1: for a minute. The reason why nil, the transfer portal,
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Speaker 1: all of this stuff, why it's unsustainable is it's not
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Speaker 1: because there's not money there. It's because of where the
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Speaker 1: money is coming from. If money has to come from
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Speaker 1: donors and boosters every single year, that means that your
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Speaker 1: model is broken. That means that the that means that
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Speaker 1: the amount of revenue. Okay, I'm gonna give you example.
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Speaker 1: It's the WNBA problem right right now, where the league's
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Speaker 1: not necessarily making money even though it is popular it's growing.
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Speaker 1: Everything else. College football is making money, but it's how
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Speaker 1: the money is being spent and allocated that's the issue.
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Speaker 1: So now player salaries because of NIL and pay for
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Speaker 1: play are now rising, but they're rising faster than the
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Speaker 1: amount of money in the bucket to be able to
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Speaker 1: pay them. And there comes a point where the well
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Speaker 1: runs dry on booster financing.
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Speaker 2: It does.
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Speaker 1: You can't ask people for five, six, eight million dollar checks,
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Speaker 1: ten million dollar checks every single year.
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Speaker 2: It's just not sustainable.
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Speaker 1: So there has to be a way to take the
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Speaker 1: reve and then impart it into the players and actually
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Speaker 1: put a real salary cap in place, a real salary cap,
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Speaker 1: and then N I L. Because remember there's two things.
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Speaker 1: There's pay for play, and the majority of this money
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Speaker 1: that college athletes are getting is pay for play.
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Speaker 2: It is not in I L.
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Speaker 1: N I L is when you get a deal with
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Speaker 1: with with with with with coke. It's when you get
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Speaker 1: a deal with It's when you get a deal with Cheetos,
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Speaker 1: Doritos or or whatever else that's real.
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Speaker 2: N I L. It's not.
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Speaker 1: It's not what this pay for play is. So you
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Speaker 1: have to get to a place where there is a
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Speaker 1: real salary cap if you want to have any sustained
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Speaker 1: success in the world of college foot football, it's not
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Speaker 1: gonna work any other type of type of way. And
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Speaker 1: you guys make sure that you guys swipe up, like share, subscribe,
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Speaker 1: get notifications, or because I'M Football is truth teller and
10:01
Speaker 1: a lot of people need to hear what we are
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Speaker 1: talking about. Okay, so let's go back to Ohio State Oregon.
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Speaker 1: A lot of people have asked, is there something going
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Speaker 1: wrong with both of these programs.
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Speaker 2: The answer is no.
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Speaker 1: The answer is is that people are offering their backups
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Speaker 1: money to go and play elsewhere. That's one bucket of players.
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Speaker 1: And then the other bucket of players is there's people
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Speaker 1: who do not believe that there are or that they
10:34
Speaker 1: don't believe that they're gonna get an opportunity to play
10:37
Speaker 1: there where they came out ranked a certain high and
10:41
Speaker 1: then they get there and they're like, oh wow, there's
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Speaker 1: different levels of this and these guys are better than
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Speaker 1: I am right now. That doesn't mean forever, but in
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Speaker 1: this short cycle, they're like, I'm not gonna get a
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Speaker 1: chance to play here. They're gonna continue to recruit or
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Speaker 1: transfer a player, transfer great players in I'm not gonna
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Speaker 1: get a chance, and so I need to go down
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Speaker 1: a level to build myself back up, which there's nothing
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Speaker 1: wrong with. And then there's the Iowa State who they
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Speaker 1: lost forty one plus players because they're head coach Matt
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Speaker 1: Campbell then goes to Penn State and they don't have
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Speaker 1: the nil resources to be able to retain their roster anyway.
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Speaker 1: But building through the portal is an unsustainable model. You
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Speaker 1: even see Indiana with Kurt Signetti. He took a lot
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Speaker 1: of James Madison players. They portal players, and they're portaland
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Speaker 1: older players, production over potential, all of that stuff. But
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Speaker 1: the reality is is that the lifeblood of your programs
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Speaker 1: have to be high school recruiting. It has to and
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Speaker 1: then filling gaps in the portal. Because the issue with
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Speaker 1: relying on the portal all by itself is is that
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Speaker 1: you end up with a situation where.
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Speaker 2: Where players well number one.
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Speaker 1: It makes it very difficult to build a culture first
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Speaker 1: and foremost very difficult to build a culture, and from
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Speaker 1: and from there you're you're at the mercy of who
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Speaker 1: you can pay to come out and everything else. It
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Speaker 1: is not a sustainable model.
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Speaker 2: It's not.
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Speaker 1: And now even look Look what you got in the portal.
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Speaker 1: Look at the players that you got in the portal.
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Speaker 1: You got Sam Levitt, Cam Coleman. Now he's a little
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Speaker 1: different because his coach left Chas Coleman, same same thing.
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Speaker 1: But then you got a player like Jordan Seaton from
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Speaker 1: uh from Colorado. He was either the number one player
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Speaker 1: in the nation or the number one tackling the nation
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Speaker 1: when he came out. And now and now Colorado people
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Speaker 1: are mad at Jordan Seaton because they're alleging that he
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Speaker 1: decided to that that he got a graphic made from
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Speaker 1: the Colorado people that instead of announcing that he was
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Speaker 1: going to return, he then used that graphic to announce
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Speaker 1: his transfer portal And now, granted number one, if he
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Speaker 1: did that, that is nasty work.
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Speaker 2: It's nasty work. You can't be using people to do that.
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Speaker 2: You can't.
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Speaker 1: But at the same time, at the same time, there's
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Speaker 1: nothing wrong with him hopping in the portal. Colorado has
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Speaker 1: not been good and this kid is a stone cold
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Speaker 1: first round pick. And also when he was going so
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Speaker 1: I first heard about him hopping in the portal maybe
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Speaker 1: about two weeks ago. And the numbers that you have
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Speaker 1: heard thrown around that's what he's expecting two win a
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Speaker 1: half million dollars or more. And there are a lot
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Speaker 1: of people who are going to sign up to pay it.
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Speaker 1: They are now. When you bring in a piece like him,
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Speaker 1: that's fine, it works. But if you're trying to do
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Speaker 1: with Florida State has done the last few years and
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Speaker 1: build your entire roster through to transfer portal or like
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Speaker 1: Colorado has done, it will blow up in your face
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Speaker 1: all the time.
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Speaker 2: It will.
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Speaker 1: There's nowhere around it. And now coaches have a choice, right.
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Speaker 1: Coaches are now in a position where they have to
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Speaker 1: choose right. They have to choose how they're going to
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Speaker 1: build their programs. Because on one hand, you got a
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Speaker 1: guy like Jeff chot Over at Nevada who's saying, yo, like,
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Speaker 1: come here to Nevada, come here to Nevada. We will
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Speaker 1: develop you, we will let you play well, make an
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Speaker 1: all conference list, and then transfer out to go to
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Speaker 1: anywhere else and go get a million plus plus dollars.
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Speaker 1: That's his sales pitch. And think about how good of
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Speaker 1: a pitch that that is. It's the same pitch that
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Speaker 1: Power Forward programs are making to high school players, the
14:58
Speaker 1: exact same pitch except for they're saying, we put so
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Speaker 1: many guys into the NFL.
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Speaker 2: That's why you should come here. You can be next.
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Speaker 1: And now the group of five teams are saying, and
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Speaker 1: the FCS programs, the ones that are gonna have sustained success,
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Speaker 1: are saying, listen, come here. We know it's a stepping stone,
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Speaker 1: but it is still a stone. Nonetheless, that is gonna
15:22
Speaker 1: be how you build programs from here on out. If
15:27
Speaker 1: you are at the FCS or the Group of five level,
15:31
Speaker 1: or even if you're Rutgers or you are something like that,
15:35
Speaker 1: you may have to be in that business for a
15:37
Speaker 1: little bit because then the players that weren't highly recruited
15:41
Speaker 1: anything like that, they're gonna look to you and say, man,
15:46
Speaker 1: we should probably go there. So that is something that
15:50
Speaker 1: you can pay attention to. Something you can pay attention to.
15:53
Speaker 1: And this is why there's a short that's coming out,
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Speaker 1: a video that I got coming out that coaches need
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Speaker 1: to build rockets and not programs the way they can
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Speaker 1: rocket you off to somewhere else. Stop trying to build
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Speaker 1: a program where where guys are gonna be there for
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Speaker 1: four years, and if they stay for four years and
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Speaker 1: their starters pretty much the whole time pool. That's just
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Speaker 1: a bonus. But you gotta build rockets so you can
16:19
Speaker 1: put them in a rocket, even if you're at Oregon, Alabama,
16:22
Speaker 1: whatever the rocket goes to the NFL. You gotta be
16:25
Speaker 1: able to put people in rockets and not trying to
16:28
Speaker 1: be put people in programs because programs no longer work.
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Speaker 2: It is not the sustainable model. It's not all right.
16:39
Speaker 1: The next thing that we gotta talk talk about, Oh Lord,
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Speaker 1: have mercy is the SEC.
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Speaker 2: Oh how the mighty have fallen?
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Speaker 1: And there's a lot of people who've danced on the
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Speaker 1: SEC grave because they haven't been in the college football
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Speaker 1: final in the for the last three years, haven't won
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Speaker 1: it national championship, even though that they historically have been
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Speaker 1: the best conference over the last twenty years by far,
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Speaker 1: it ain't even close in terms of national championships won.
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Speaker 1: But now there is a significent divide and all the
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Speaker 1: preseason rankings and everything, now people are having to rethink them.
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Speaker 2: They're having to look at them and say, did we
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Speaker 2: get this right?
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Speaker 1: Are we thinking about this program and these conferences properly?
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Speaker 2: Well?
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Speaker 1: I got the answer for you, for you, as college
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Speaker 1: football's truth teller. So Tom Fernelli of CBS Sports and
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Speaker 1: said that the SEC no longer deserves the benefit of
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Speaker 1: the doubt. A nice article about it, which I won
17:43
Speaker 1: one hundred percent agree with Tom about and in his
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Speaker 1: article he says that, and I'm paraphrasing that. In twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty four, when the SEC only got three teams into
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Speaker 1: the field, they cried about strength to schedule, about not
17:57
Speaker 1: getting enough consideration.
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Speaker 2: You had Paul fine Bomb get on TV talking.
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Speaker 1: Everything, Oh my god, the SCC if they don't get
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Speaker 1: more teams in the College Football Playoff, we are going
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Speaker 1: to riot.
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Speaker 2: It is gonna be it is gonna be bad. There's
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Speaker 2: gonna be consequences, hell to pay.
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Speaker 1: That's Paul fine Bomb, Greg Sanki, all of them, Nick
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Speaker 1: Saban going around telling you how much more difficult it
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Speaker 1: is to play in the SEC. And at the playoff
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Speaker 1: selection committee they needed to understand that three losses in
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Speaker 1: the SEC, that they were like one loss everywhere else. Okay,
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Speaker 1: the complaining worked this year, a three loss Alabama team
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Speaker 1: was given the benefit of the doubt over a two
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Speaker 1: loss BYU and a two loss Notre Dame. And then
18:45
Speaker 1: Alabama's third loss actually came in the SEC.
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Speaker 2: Championship. But it wasn't just a loss.
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Speaker 1: They got beat the hell up Beata by Georgia and
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Speaker 1: still maybe to a pece Greg Sanki and the SEC,
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Speaker 1: or maybe because they were persuaded by the strength the
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Speaker 1: schedule thing that the commissioner's argument was, the voters then
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Speaker 1: kept Alabama in. So the SEC representation went from three
19:14
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four to five and twenty twenty five.
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Speaker 1: And if it was to please Greg Sakie, do you
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Speaker 1: think he was grateful? Hell no, He then went immediately
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Speaker 1: right out and was like Texas and Vanderbilt they should
19:25
Speaker 1: have been into this, We should have got seven teams in.
19:29
Speaker 1: But now back to Bama four a second, how did
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Speaker 1: the Crimson Tide do with the opportunity and entire college
19:34
Speaker 1: football propaganda ecosystem argued for them to have. They went
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Speaker 1: out and took the biggest margin of victory lost in
19:42
Speaker 1: Alabama postseason history, with its fewest points since nineteen of
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Speaker 1: fifty nine. And now the question becomes, what is that
19:52
Speaker 1: going to cost the SEC going into twenty twenty six,
19:55
Speaker 1: because when AP voters sit down to sort out the
19:58
Speaker 1: top twenty five teams headed in the next season, question
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Speaker 1: is will they think about the fact that the SEC
20:04
Speaker 1: finished the twenty twenty five postseason with a one to
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Speaker 1: eight record versus Power four teams, And when you don't
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Speaker 1: include the CFP games where they played each other night, like,
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Speaker 1: is it gonna sink in that the SEC college Football
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Speaker 1: playoff record against out of conference team so not SEC
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Speaker 1: versus SEC they went zero to three, Or the fact
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Speaker 1: that it's been three years since we had an SEC champion.
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Speaker 1: Will they remember that when it's time there for the
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Speaker 1: not too early rankings after next Monday's championship game. And
20:41
Speaker 1: it's not just that the Big Ten has passed the
20:43
Speaker 1: SEC bye, that's obvious. The Big Ten is eight and
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Speaker 1: two versus the SEC in the college football playoff balls
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Speaker 1: in the last two years, and eight and three in
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Speaker 1: the CFP versus other conferences in the twelve team era.
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Speaker 2: The SEC is two.
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Speaker 1: And five in the College Football Playoff in the last
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Speaker 1: two years, three and eight in the playoff playoff games
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Speaker 1: in the last three years against non SEC opponents, and
21:10
Speaker 1: one of those wins, Texas over Arizona State, doesn't even
21:13
Speaker 1: happen without a failure to review the Longhorns game tye
21:17
Speaker 1: and touchdown in overtime, and then you got the ACC
21:22
Speaker 1: making a little run at the SEC as well. You
21:27
Speaker 1: don't believe me, Okay, I'm not even talking about Miami,
21:31
Speaker 1: because aside from Miami beating No missing the semifinal, the
21:34
Speaker 1: ACC actually has had a winning record outright versus the
21:38
Speaker 1: SEC in two out of the last three years. Now,
21:42
Speaker 1: I'm not saying the SEC is bad, but the top
21:45
Speaker 1: end SEC teams they're still very, very good teams. They're
21:49
Speaker 1: just not elite like they used to be. And I
21:52
Speaker 1: made the argument for years that the reputation of the
21:55
Speaker 1: league was actually carried by two to three teams per year.
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Speaker 1: And you don't have to look any further than the
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Speaker 1: fact that the twelve SEC teams that won a national
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Speaker 1: championship from two thousand and seven to twenty and twelve
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Speaker 1: lost a combined total of seven conference games. Think about that,
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Speaker 1: twelve SEC teams that won national championships seven conference games,
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Speaker 1: and in fact, the last two lost SEC team to
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Speaker 1: win a national championship was two thousand and seven LSU.
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Speaker 1: So the last eleven SEC national champions have had a
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Speaker 1: grand total of five SEC losses. So how does that
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Speaker 1: speak to the SEC schedule being a gauntlet any more
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Speaker 1: than Ohio State having to avenge a regular season lost
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Speaker 1: to Oregon last year or Miami not even making the
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Speaker 1: ACC Championship this year and still beating the SEC's last
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Speaker 1: standing contender. But it ain't just about the postseason record
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Speaker 1: that suggests an SEC fall off, because technically anything can
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Speaker 1: happen in the postseason. So let's get into the practical
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Speaker 1: matters of why AP voters need to consider that other
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Speaker 1: teams in the conferences actually deserve the benefit of the
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Speaker 1: doubt that they typically reserve for them teams from the South.
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Speaker 1: Because the SEC no longer has the NCAA rules in
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Speaker 1: place which allowed them to stockpile depth, teams are getting
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Speaker 1: like just beat down and broken down over the course
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Speaker 1: of the season and they don't have another four and
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Speaker 1: five star backup that's had some experience that's been waiting
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Speaker 1: on the bench chomping at the bit for two years.
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Speaker 1: And that's how the SEC can have a thirteen and
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Speaker 1: six record in bowl games versus power for outer conference
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Speaker 1: teams in the regular season and end up getting smacked.
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Speaker 2: Up in the playoffs.
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Speaker 1: And more than that, if the SEC is so impenetrably good,
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Speaker 1: why does it seem so easy for the top talent
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Speaker 1: in other conferences to step in and ball out. How
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Speaker 1: is it that Trinidad chamberlains transfers in from a D
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Speaker 1: two Ferry State, steps in against SEC defenses and lead
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Speaker 1: the conference in touchdown to interception ratio. The passing touchdown
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Speaker 1: leader this year came from New Mexico State in twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty four. Think about that in Diego. Pavia, the passing
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Speaker 1: yardage leader last year, played at Appalachian State, then he
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Speaker 1: was at Tennessee. The rushing yards leader in the SEC
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Speaker 1: was at Louisiana Monroe last year. The SEC receiving leader
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Speaker 1: started off his college career in the Big Twelve. In fact,
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Speaker 1: four of the top five receivers in the SEC started
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Speaker 1: their career in another conference. The SEC is just like
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Speaker 1: everybody else right now. They're only as good as the
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Speaker 1: level of talent that they can farm out to other places.
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Speaker 2: So instead of just paying attention to.
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Speaker 1: The logos on the side of the helmet and Greg
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Speaker 1: Sankee's lobbying and Paul Feinbaum and everybody else in the
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Speaker 1: four Letter Network and everybody else telling you how good
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Speaker 1: they are, you got to actually pay attention to the
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Speaker 1: things that matter coaching, recruiting, the portal resources, and anybody
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Speaker 1: with resources can challenge the SEC the truth and SEC
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Speaker 1: presidents and ads notice that's why they moved away from
25:25
Speaker 1: the traditional talent collectors that they've had as head coaches
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Speaker 1: and started having to hire from outside the conference. Because
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Speaker 1: two thirds of the head coaching hires in the SEC
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Speaker 1: in this cycle have been from outside the conference. And
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Speaker 1: who knows what LSU would have done if Lane Kiffen
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Speaker 1: had stayed at old mess Because if the SEC can
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Speaker 1: openly admit that they need an infusion of non SEC
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Speaker 1: coaches and players to continue to compete at a high level,
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Speaker 1: then what more evidence do you need that we are
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Speaker 1: in a new.
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Speaker 2: Chapter of college football.
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Speaker 1: So next year, if the top twenty five comes out
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Speaker 1: and for the top nine are from the SEC like
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Speaker 1: it was in twenty twenty five, I ain't gonna be
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Speaker 1: mad because that's sensible. But nine in the top twenty one, man,
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Speaker 1: them days, they gotta be over. They absolutely have to
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Speaker 1: be over if we being honest, Come on, that's just
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Speaker 1: the truth. The next thing that we gotta talk talk
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Speaker 1: about is the Indiana Miami game. I got the full prediction.
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Speaker 1: It is going up in the morning on that game.
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Speaker 1: We gotta talk about everything with all of these players,
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Speaker 1: about the matchups between the offensive lines, defensive lines. Indiana's
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Speaker 1: favor by eight and a half. I'm giving you my
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Speaker 1: entire pick because I've gone on and on about this
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Speaker 1: and and I am arguing that if Indiana beats up Miami,
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Speaker 1: that this will go on and be a top five
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Speaker 1: college football team of all time. And there's been a
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Speaker 1: lot of pushback on that, and part of the reason
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Speaker 1: is because Indiana, when you look at the amount of
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Speaker 1: talent that they have that is going to the NFL,
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Speaker 1: it is not the same as Ohio State. It's not
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Speaker 1: the same as Oregon, it's not the same as Alabama.
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Speaker 2: It's not. But they are a better team.
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Speaker 1: Clearly, They're older, they make less mistakes, they are efficient,
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Speaker 1: and Miami's older in some spots too. So this is
27:32
Speaker 1: gonna be a styles make fights game because Miami makes
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Speaker 1: mistakes at times Indiana doesn't. So the whole preview will
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Speaker 1: be out tomorrow and Indy and Miami's defensive line is
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Speaker 1: gonna factor into it and a lot of things.
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Speaker 2: But my next question is.
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Speaker 1: Why do people hate Fernando men Mendoza. Think about that
27:58
Speaker 1: why do people hate Fernando Mendoza Because this dude, I'd
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Speaker 1: like to call it, he is He is Jameis Winston.
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Speaker 1: That's what he is. He is himself. He's being genuine
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Speaker 1: and that's the part that I can actually really appreciate
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Speaker 1: with him, because Mendoza and Indiana actually added another honor
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Speaker 1: to their record breaking season.
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Speaker 2: The fastest team to go from from.
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Speaker 1: Plucky, loverable underdog to getting roasted on the on the
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Speaker 1: on the spit of the college football hater barbecue.
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Speaker 2: That is what they've done.
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Speaker 1: Because look, I get the Fernando Mendoza is a little
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Speaker 1: bit different, and I have the benefit of being used
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Speaker 1: to the former cow Bears quarterback, you know, Gronk with
28:45
Speaker 1: an IQ of one hundred and sixty persona or the
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Speaker 1: Jameis Winston persona because I covered him in the Pac twelve.
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Speaker 1: But some of you guys only saw him speak for
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Speaker 1: the first time after Indiana knocked off Ohio State in
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Speaker 1: the Big Team Championship, and you went right to Hayden.
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Speaker 1: I mean, look at some of the posts that y'all
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Speaker 1: had about him, which is absolutely wild to me. I
29:08
Speaker 1: was like, how on earth are we talking about a
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Speaker 1: kid this bad and this kid is this good. Fernando
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Speaker 1: Mendoza is Andrew Luck with Tim Tebow's fake ass BS voice,
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Speaker 1: and I can't help but hate him. And I mean it,
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Speaker 1: what are we serious? From cuffs the legend. Bernando Mendoza
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Speaker 1: talks like a homeschool kid that finally started going to
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Speaker 1: public school in the twelfth grade. And you guys, I
29:39
Speaker 1: appreciate your comments in there. I'll get a chance to
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Speaker 1: see him. Fernando Mendoza is a psychopath. When he talks,
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Speaker 1: I get scared and it just continues on and on
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Speaker 1: and on, and I'm like, why do you hate this kid?
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Speaker 1: He's a he is really good in school, he leads
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Speaker 1: his team. The only thing he's got on his phone
29:59
Speaker 1: social media, he said on his phone is LinkedIn and YouTube.
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Speaker 2: Like this.
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Speaker 1: You know, the the Heisma Dooza hate. It feels a
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Speaker 1: little bit forced. And the way people are talking about,
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Speaker 1: you know him, and the way Indiana built this year's team.
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Speaker 1: You think that they were talking about the twenty twenty
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Speaker 1: three Michigan Connor Stallions Advanced Scouting First Team All Pervert Squad.
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Speaker 1: You would think that they were talking about this. And yes,
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Speaker 1: Indiana has some older players. That's because they were at
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Speaker 1: the tail end of the COVID eligibility. There were thirty
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Speaker 1: seven hundred players in the college in college football this
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Speaker 1: year playing as college graduates. Northwestern and Virginia had thirty
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Speaker 1: four each, and it's not like having.
30:47
Speaker 2: Older players as a guarantee you'll succeed.
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Speaker 1: Ucla led to Big Ten with thirty one graduate players,
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Speaker 1: and they went three and nine. Oklahoma State was tied
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Speaker 1: for the most graduate players in the Big twelve, and
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Speaker 1: they had went one and eleven. Indiana has twenty one
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Speaker 1: players that have played five years of college football or more,
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Speaker 1: and not all of those guys even played. One of
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Speaker 1: them is the third string quarterback, the other was a
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Speaker 1: long snapper, and twenty one is just two more than
31:17
Speaker 1: Miami has. But nobody's talking about how Carson Beck's a
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Speaker 1: six year senior who's still younger than his teammate Mohammed
31:24
Speaker 1: ture A Key Messidor Keyante Scott and CJ. Daniels and
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Speaker 1: not being able to wrap your mind around the rise
31:33
Speaker 1: of Indiana football is not a reason to dismiss them
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Speaker 1: outright because they didn't come out of nowhere. Because a
31:39
Speaker 1: lot of them have been playing in the same system
31:42
Speaker 1: for four or five years now for the same coordinators,
31:45
Speaker 1: first of James Madison and now in Bloomington with Indiana.
31:48
Speaker 1: Maybe y'all should have listened to kurtse Signetti when when
31:51
Speaker 1: he got hired and put this man in the Google
31:53
Speaker 1: search bar when he was like Google me. But now
31:59
Speaker 1: the thing up because I mentioned Connor Stallions and this
32:05
Speaker 1: dude is out here trolling still. So this goes to
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Speaker 1: the Miami thing and I think that this is actually hilarious.
32:12
Speaker 1: I want you to be able to see it. So
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Speaker 1: Mark Cuban tweets out because he's an Indiana guy, He's
32:16
Speaker 1: one of their biggest boosters, and he asked if any
32:20
Speaker 1: ticket brokers who are selling stuff, you know, if they
32:24
Speaker 1: understanding how he can help get people tickets for a cheaper.
32:28
Speaker 1: Here comes Connor Stallions, Connor ticket buying Stallions. They usually
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Speaker 1: drop the day up. However, when demand is finite, because
32:35
Speaker 1: it's Miami, demand is relatively infinite, I don't see it dropping.
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Speaker 2: Don't worry about why. I know that Connor well played, Buddy,
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Speaker 2: well played.
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Speaker 1: Connor Stallions. You did that, you did that. I'm not
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Speaker 1: even I'm not even mad. I'm more impressed that because
32:57
Speaker 1: he's like, why am.
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Speaker 2: I running from this? Now?
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