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Truth About Lane Kiffin , Texas Longhorns Massive Pressure, SEC Meetings Intel, And CFP Expansion · Unafraid Show with George Wrighster

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Welcome to the show.
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  Speaker 2: We are going to exam how Lane Kiffin became the
• 0:05
  Speaker 2: most quotable and talked about coaching college football. Steve sarkisian
• 0:09
  Speaker 2: He's got the whole Big Twelve fighting against Texas all
• 0:12
  Speaker 2: weekend long and we are here for it on three.
• 0:16
  Speaker 2: Just put so much pressure on Texas and sark and
• 0:20
  Speaker 2: now the pressure is on they have to win now.
• 0:23
  Speaker 2: Playoff expansion propaganda is on Max. But I have figured
• 0:27
  Speaker 2: out the secret Old Miss. They are seeking sec reprimands
• 0:32
  Speaker 2: for Lane Kiffin and sark the Metata Hour Lane Kiffin,
• 0:35
  Speaker 2: he says that Old Miss would have reached the National
• 0:38
  Speaker 2: championship game if he had coached the playoffs. Wow, that
• 0:42
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• 0:44
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• 0:49
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• 0:53
  Speaker 1: Let's get to it.
• 1:04
  Speaker 2: Best thing that I saw today this is where politics
• 1:08
  Speaker 2: actually ended up meeting college football.
• 1:10
  Speaker 1: It was absolutely.
• 1:12
  Speaker 2: Hilarious, even though that some people have hijacked and tried
• 1:15
  Speaker 2: to turn it into a political thing. This mash up
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  Speaker 2: with the sec of Alexandria Acassio Cortez.
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  Speaker 1: Need to go over. Actually, you know what. I'm just
• 1:24
  Speaker 1: gonna let you watch for yourself. It's time for the
• 1:27
  Speaker 1: North to pull up to the South. It is time
• 1:32
  Speaker 1: for New York to pull up to Alabama. It is
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  Speaker 1: time for all of.
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  Speaker 2: Us to come to Georgia, to Louisiana, to Tennessee.
• 1:46
  Speaker 1: To Mississippi. Know exactly what they have on court.
• 1:58
  Speaker 2: How can you not like this because she named all
• 2:01
  Speaker 2: the Alabama Tennessee in Mississippi. This just goes to show
• 2:05
  Speaker 2: how sec people are in college football. People are because
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  Speaker 2: the Internet is undefeated and we love college football so much.
• 2:13
  Speaker 2: We worried about nothing else that all y'all are talking about.
• 2:16
  Speaker 2: We are worried about college football being about ninety days away.
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  Speaker 2: We need kickoff asap, baby, We need kickoff entire weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Had the Big Twelve fans fighting Texas fans all weekend long.
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  Speaker 2: It all started when Steve serkuse and took a shot
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  Speaker 2: at Texas Tech on May twenty first, in the way
• 2:35
  Speaker 2: of the Red Raiders college football playoff run. Now, he
• 2:38
  Speaker 2: commented on the importance of strength to schedule. Then he
• 2:41
  Speaker 2: made a point that actually seemed to really target Texas Tech.
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  Speaker 2: He said, quote, there is a team in our state
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  Speaker 2: that plays in another conference that has a schedule that
• 2:51
  Speaker 2: I would argue that if I played with our twos
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  Speaker 2: and threes, we could go undefeated and they'll probably make
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  Speaker 2: the CFP. There's a lot of schools in the state
• 2:59
  Speaker 2: of Texas, So could this have been about SMU Maybe,
• 3:02
  Speaker 2: but we all know who it was really about because
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  Speaker 2: there's been a bad blood between Texas and Texas Tech
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  Speaker 2: as the Red Raiders have become financially able to compete
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  Speaker 2: for a lot of the same recruits that Texas has,
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  Speaker 2: And then you look the Big Twelve commissioner Brett Yermark
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  Speaker 2: and Steve Sarkisian. They were taking shots through themselves in
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  Speaker 2: the media for the entire last season that Texas had.
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  Speaker 1: In the Big Twelve in twenty twenty three.
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  Speaker 2: Now, sark has a lot of opinions, some of them
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  Speaker 2: are good, but we can't act like he didn't predict
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  Speaker 2: last offseason that the days of an undefeated champion are
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  Speaker 2: behind us, only to have Indiana immediately go run the table. Now,
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  Speaker 2: some of the Texas Tech fans, they mistook this as
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  Speaker 2: a shot at Texas Tech team and now at Texas
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  Speaker 2: Tech schedule because they're billionaire booster Cody Campbell. He jumped
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  Speaker 2: in on Twitter, tagging Sark and saying, schedule us there,
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  Speaker 2: like we've been talking about it for years and we
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  Speaker 2: are more than willing. This is the college football that
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  Speaker 2: I know and love. You get to talk in trash,
• 4:05
  Speaker 2: you're running your mouth, Well, then guess what put us
• 4:08
  Speaker 2: on the schedule, then, chump, that's the way you're supposed
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  Speaker 2: to talk. Nobody is going undefeated in a conference without
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  Speaker 2: playing any of their starters.
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  Speaker 1: It ain't happening.
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  Speaker 2: So let's address what Sark was saying, Like this is
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  Speaker 2: like all of them times, the people saying that the
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  Speaker 2: old the Alabama Crimson Tide, they can line up against
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  Speaker 2: the Cleveland Browns, it ain't happening and actually win. Hell no,
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  Speaker 2: And here's the truth about Sark. Sark was seventeen and
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  Speaker 2: ten in the Big Twelve. Like it hasn't even been
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  Speaker 2: five years since Sark gave Kansas their first Big Twelve
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  Speaker 2: win in eighteen conference games by giving up fifty seven
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  Speaker 2: points at home. The Big Twelve is clearly not as
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  Speaker 2: strong of a conference as the SEC. But you can't
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  Speaker 2: come out here and claim that a hypothetical undefeated season
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  Speaker 2: when you never did it, not one single solitary tie
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  Speaker 2: when you were in the conference with more resources, like
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  Speaker 2: you had a chance with your ones, and you didn't
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  Speaker 2: do it. This is nothing more than fight promotions. This
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  Speaker 2: is no different than Floyd Mayweather and Manny pack Yaw
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  Speaker 2: sitting up there, or Connor McGregor and whoever he's fighting.
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  Speaker 2: They're talking down to the other guy. But at some
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  Speaker 2: point in time, you got to line up and play.
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  Speaker 2: We have so many people trying to make their schedule
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  Speaker 2: easier and Texas fans actually sitting up there. Maybe we
• 5:26
  Speaker 2: should cancel Ohio State to make our schedule easier. That's
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  Speaker 2: why we were left out of the playoffs. When it
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  Speaker 2: wasn't it.
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  Speaker 1: Was Florida lost. You know better than that.
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  Speaker 2: The truth is just the truth, and accountability matters. But
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  Speaker 2: something happened with ON three. They put out their top
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  Speaker 2: one hundred players, and this is only inflated Texas's expectations
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  Speaker 2: just that much more because Texas has four of the
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  Speaker 2: top thirteen players on on threes lists and three players
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  Speaker 2: in the top ten on the top one hundred players list.
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  Speaker 2: So you had Ari Wasserman. He put out his own
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  Speaker 2: list a week ago and it had three Texas players
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  Speaker 2: in his top ten, and then you got the list
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  Speaker 2: by Clark Brooks has Colin Simmons at six, Cam Coman
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  Speaker 2: at seven, Arch Manning at ten?
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  Speaker 1: Their tackle? Who's me at thirteen? Come on, man?
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  Speaker 2: Like, are we elevating Arch Manning above two? Twenty twenty five?
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  Speaker 2: All SEC quarterbacks in Trendidad Chamberlains and Gunner stocked it
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  Speaker 2: right now because a wide receiver transferred from Auburn that
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  Speaker 2: had seven hundred yards and five touchdowns?
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  Speaker 1: Like, are we true believers? Already?
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  Speaker 2: I have been on record saying arch has been a
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  Speaker 2: developmental quarterback, not a generational quarterback. Might he go into
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  Speaker 2: the NFL and be the greatest to ever do it?
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  Speaker 1: Sure? Like absolutely maybe?
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  Speaker 2: But in college football he's not going to the College
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  Speaker 2: Football Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 1: He ain't even going to.
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  Speaker 2: The Big twelve Hall of Fame, the SEC Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 2: This is projection and just hope. But then that puts
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  Speaker 2: so much more pressure on Sark and everybody else. Now
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  Speaker 2: dig deeper into this list. The list actually starts with
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  Speaker 2: two Big ten players, but by the time we get
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  Speaker 2: to twenty second on the list, the SEC leads to
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  Speaker 2: Big ten in representation fourteen to five and forty two
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  Speaker 2: to twenty eight overall. So of the thirty players on
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  Speaker 2: this list that aren't either from the Big two conferences,
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  Speaker 2: and you have Texas Tech with six players, Notre Dame
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  Speaker 2: with five players, and Miami with five players. That means,
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  Speaker 2: in this list's opinion, only fourteen of the top one
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  Speaker 2: hundred players in college football are outside of the SEC
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  Speaker 2: and the Big Ten. And then a combination of Miami
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  Speaker 2: in Texas Tech and Notre Dame.
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  Speaker 1: That's it.
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  Speaker 2: Just fourteen players on the top one hundred don't come
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  Speaker 2: from those places. And I find this very, very interesting
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  Speaker 2: because if the Big Ten is the best conference in
• 7:51
  Speaker 2: college football has the teams that have won the national championship,
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  Speaker 2: it's amazing to see what the SEC bias in this
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  Speaker 2: looks like.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 2: On another hand, you might say, well, look at the
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  Speaker 2: NFL draft picks. The SEC led in NFL total draft picks,
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  Speaker 2: but the Big Ten finally overtook the SEC for first
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  Speaker 2: round draft picks. So that would also make you think
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  Speaker 2: maybe the Big Ten is changing things in terms of
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  Speaker 2: first round talent, and those are the players that, if
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  Speaker 2: we're being real, should be at the top of the
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  Speaker 2: list for the top one hundred players. If we really
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  Speaker 2: being honest and really want the truth about these things,
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  Speaker 2: you guys hop in the comments, tell me if you
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  Speaker 2: believe that this is accurate.
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  Speaker 1: And if this is so accurate, if.
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  Speaker 2: The SEC is so much more talented, then why don't
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  Speaker 2: their teams beat the Big Ten over the last three
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  Speaker 2: years and especially when it comes down to the playoffs,
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  Speaker 2: And you can't tell me it's because they are Oh,
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  Speaker 2: it's because the schedule was so tough and everything else. Well,
• 8:49
  Speaker 2: we spent two decades of SEC dominance being told that
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  Speaker 2: the SEC Gauntlet, that these teams are battle tested and
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  Speaker 2: that's why they go into playoffs and win. But you
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  Speaker 2: can't tell me that they're tired when teams have in
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  Speaker 2: between fourteen and twenty eight days between playoff games, between
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  Speaker 2: the regular season ending and then the playoffs starting, So
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  Speaker 2: your team is rested, they are healthy.
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  Speaker 1: You're just not winning. It's just the truth.
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  Speaker 2: Next thing up, this came out of the SEC meetings,
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  Speaker 2: which I find very very interesting and a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people have not talked about as well. During the Big
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  Speaker 2: Ten meetings, you had all sorts of propaganda about the
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  Speaker 2: twenty fourteen playoff and why this is so great now
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  Speaker 2: in the SEC meetings, you're having them favor the sixteen
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  Speaker 2: team playoff in terms of expansion to that. Now, the
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  Speaker 2: thing that people have now talked about about this is
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  Speaker 2: that expansion in the college football playoff to sixteen teams,
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  Speaker 2: it clearly benefits the SEC because this last year you
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  Speaker 2: end up getting Texas Vanderbilt maybe being able to squeak
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  Speaker 2: one more team in as well. If you go to sixteen,
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  Speaker 2: whereas you wouldn't have had another Big ten team, you
• 10:01
  Speaker 2: would have had Notre Dame added, you would have BYU
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  Speaker 2: added the two SEC teams, maybe three SEC teams. You're
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  Speaker 2: gonna have more of those SEC teams because of their
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  Speaker 2: perceived strength to schedule, regardless of what has actually happened
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  Speaker 2: in bowl games and everything else, going up against teams
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  Speaker 2: in terms of where they're ranked. Historically, those teams from
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  Speaker 2: really like thirteen down to seventeen are really SEC teams largely.
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  Speaker 2: Right then, when you look at the twenty four team playoffs,
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  Speaker 2: that benefits obviously, more big twelve teams are going to
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  Speaker 2: get in, and you're gonna have another one probably ACC
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  Speaker 2: team get in, and then yes, you are gonna have
• 10:40
  Speaker 2: like eight Big ten teams, eight SEC teams, but the
• 10:44
  Speaker 2: other conferences, the Big Twelve and the ACC are going
• 10:47
  Speaker 2: to get and.
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  Speaker 1: Then Notre Dame.
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  Speaker 2: You're gonna have seven of those teams, eight of those
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  Speaker 2: teams in So yes, it does make a difference. But
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  Speaker 2: then this made me think, how do I feel about
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  Speaker 2: expansion because at first I had always been a expand
• 11:02
  Speaker 2: to eight or expand to sixteen. I'm a big proponent
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  Speaker 2: now of staying at twelve. But if you don't stay
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  Speaker 2: at twelve, I do think that twenty four does make
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  Speaker 2: the most sense.
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  Speaker 1: If we are.
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  Speaker 2: Forced to have a choice, I would rather go to
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  Speaker 2: twenty four than go to sixteen. But I don't want
• 11:20
  Speaker 2: either one of those things to happen. But now, another
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  Speaker 2: thing that came out of the SEC meetings a quote
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  Speaker 2: from one of their head coaches that said that if
• 11:27
  Speaker 2: we keep up this system of college football rosters, that
• 11:32
  Speaker 2: teams are going to go bankrupt trying to field rosters.
• 11:36
  Speaker 2: And I have been saying this, and I have also
• 11:39
  Speaker 2: pointed out that the SEC, the Big Ten, the Big twelve,
• 11:42
  Speaker 2: and the ACC have all done this to themselves, all
• 11:45
  Speaker 2: of this breakaway talk, Oh the SEC breaking off. We'll
• 11:48
  Speaker 2: do our own rules, We'll do our own thing. Big
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  Speaker 2: Ten saying the same thing, and we've said, gone, try it,
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  Speaker 2: Go be the UFL. See how that works out for you.
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  Speaker 2: No college football teams need each other. But I've been
• 12:00
  Speaker 2: saying that teams cannot afford long term these roster bilds
• 12:06
  Speaker 2: fifty sixty seventy million dollars because where is this money
• 12:09
  Speaker 2: coming from. You're asking boosters and donors to reach into
• 12:12
  Speaker 2: their pockets year after year after year, and that is never, ever, ever, ever,
• 12:18
  Speaker 2: ever going to have a sustainable model. The only sustainable
• 12:22
  Speaker 2: model is to be able to build it like a business,
• 12:25
  Speaker 2: one commissioner, everybody doing what's best for college football to
• 12:29
  Speaker 2: grow the game. This is why salary cap is very,
• 12:33
  Speaker 2: very very important. There's no difference in what these conferences
• 12:38
  Speaker 2: are saying than being in a relationship. You ever been
• 12:41
  Speaker 2: in a relationship it's not going well. They know what
• 12:44
  Speaker 2: they need to do to be a better partner for you,
• 12:48
  Speaker 2: and then you know what you need to do, and
• 12:50
  Speaker 2: you're sitting there like, no, I'm not doing it until
• 12:52
  Speaker 2: they change. They need to show me that they're willing
• 12:55
  Speaker 2: to do it. Well, neither party in these situations are
• 12:59
  Speaker 2: willing to do it. And now we are in a
• 13:01
  Speaker 2: bad situation in college football in terms of looming. But
• 13:06
  Speaker 2: this is why I said it is going to have
• 13:07
  Speaker 2: to break for significant changes. This is also out of
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  Speaker 2: the SEC meetings where Old Miss is actually seeking the
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  Speaker 2: SEC to reprimand the man of the hour, mister Lane
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  Speaker 2: Kiffen and Steve Sarkisian. While the ncublea investigation looms surrounding
• 13:26
  Speaker 2: the Clemson and Dabbosweeney allegations of tampering, Old Miss is
• 13:30
  Speaker 2: trying to get the SEC to invoke and enforce its
• 13:35
  Speaker 2: non slander policies while the NCUBA looks into Clemson's accusations
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  Speaker 2: of recruiting mile feastings and tampering.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, down there in Florida.
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  Speaker 2: At the SEC meetings, officials at Old MISS and the
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  Speaker 2: SEC have spoken about a potential reprimand for LSU coach
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  Speaker 2: Lane Kiffen over the comments that he made in that
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  Speaker 2: Vanity Fair article talking about racism down in Old Miss
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  Speaker 2: as one of the reasons why he left and went
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  Speaker 2: to LSU, And we know that wasn't why. It was
• 14:08
  Speaker 2: because he believed it was going to be an easier
• 14:11
  Speaker 2: route for him. USA today is now reporting that Old
• 14:14
  Speaker 2: Miss is seeking to get penalties for Kiffin but Kiffin
• 14:18
  Speaker 2: though he's standing firm because he said, I didn't make
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  Speaker 2: any racially insensitive comments about the differences in recruiting people
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  Speaker 2: at Old Miss. He said, quote, people don't actually read
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  Speaker 2: the words I used in the article.
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  Speaker 1: I said.
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  Speaker 2: A parent said, that's not me saying it as my opinion.
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  Speaker 2: The thing that Lane Kiffen doesn't understand because he has
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: continuously falling up the stairs is that I can say,
• 14:41
  Speaker 2: Daniel said, you're a jerk, but then if it comes
• 14:45
  Speaker 2: out of my mouth, yes, even though I said Daniel
• 14:47
  Speaker 2: said it, if I say it in a different way,
• 14:49
  Speaker 2: it sounds like it's coming from me too, or that
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: I believe that this is true and you're actually saying this,
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: which puts it out, which then exacerbates the conversation about
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: recruiting at Old Miss. So he's not wrong there. Ahead
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: of the SEC spring meetings, on three reported that Texas
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: head coach Steve sarkiz in that he actually might be
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: fined for his recent negative comments against Old Miss and
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: their academic standards. So Old Miss is under full attack.
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: You got the Lane kipping thing, then you had the
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: sark thing, and he said, quote, at Texas, we will
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: only take fifty percent of a player's academic credit hours,
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: which is a whole nother thing, like why would you
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: only do that and you put people further from graduation
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: and mess up your AARP if that's another thing. But
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: at Old Miss they can take you and all you
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: have to take is basket weaving and you can get
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  Speaker 2: an Old Miss degree. If I was Old missed, yes,
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: I'd be pissed about that. And Old Miss wanted a
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: find to be imposed on the two coaches based on
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: the sec bylaws and the Bylaw ten point two point three,
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: it states that coaches and staff should avoid making any
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: derogatory statements about another member's institution, athletics programs, facilities, or
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: educational opportunities. Then you got Bylaw five point ten point
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  Speaker 2: five point two says the coaches and administrators shall refrain
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  Speaker 2: from public criticism of member institutions, their staff, or players.
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: But now on the other side of the thing, according
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: to reports from David Hall and Mark Schlabak from documents
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  Speaker 2: obtained by ESPN via four your request, that it confirmed
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  Speaker 2: that the NCAA Enforcement has actually opened an investigation into
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: the Old Mess football program on January twenty third, and
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: that was the very same day that Dabosweeney that he
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: went public with the allegations of tampering in case you
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: don't remember, because according to Sweeney, Ole Miss GM Austin
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: Thomas said that he didn't support tampering, but that Golding
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: does what he does. And then Sweeney then accused Golding
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: of sending Luke Farelli, the linebacker who had enrolled in
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: Clemson and was in class, a photo of a million
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: dollar contract offer and texting him during that eight am
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: class at Clemson to inquire about his buyout amount. Oh
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: Miss wanting enforcement at the conference level while fighting enforcement
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: at the NCAA level is the perfect example of the
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: biggest issue in college football. Everybody wants rules for other people,
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: but then they don't want to have to follow those rules,
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: just the truth. Next thing up, Lane Kiffin. He says
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: that Old Miss would have reached the National Championship game
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: if he would have coached the playoff with Pete Golding.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: And you're like, wait, what what this is?
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: Why we have to do this deep dive in just
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: a minute about Lane Kiffin and how he got there,
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: because how he went from quitting at Fresno State to
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: being the head coach at lsu that timeline. Is he
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: a genius or is he not a genius? And is
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: this the final boss for him? So then why did
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: you leave old Miss Powell? Why did you leave o
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: Miss to win a championship? But you had a championship
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: standing right in front of you according to you, we'll
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: get to that last thing. We got the new head
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: coach at Penn State, mister Matt Campbell. Here's what he
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: had to say about living in ames Iowa all of
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: those years.
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: Hopefully the people in ames Iowa won't be mad that
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: I say this, but it's sometimes you felt like you're
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: a little bit of a food desert in aames Iowa.
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: So you know, there's number one, there's multiple options for
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: dinner here, there's multiple places to go out to eat,
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: and the food's been outstanding. I think the biggest, the bigger,
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: the biggest win for the Campbell family is there's a
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: Trader Joe's in town.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: Look, man, I'm a big food Yeah. I love food
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: as much much as the next guy. But when you're
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: in a new relationship, stop talking about your ax. Stop
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: talking about your axe. It's a no win situation, and
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: especially when you're punching down and I don't mean this
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: as any slight to Iowa State. It's just the reality
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: of the finances that Penn State has versus the finances
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: at Iowa State. If Iowa State had Penn State's finances
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: and resources, Matt Campbell would still be at Iowa State.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: So just leave them alone. It's aames Iowa man. These
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: people are doing the best that they can. Up next,
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: Lane Kiffin talk, how did he happen? And why does
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: it matter? Up next, you guys hop in the comments
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: and appreciate to being part of the show. What if
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: I told you that the biggest coaching name this last
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: cycle in college football has done so without winning anything significant.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: But we are shitting here and this is Lane Kiffin.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: In case you didn't know, Coach Kiffin was not on
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: our list.
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: We did not ask for him because we were told
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: that he would be unavailable.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: No, you didn't ask at all, Lane Kiffin. It actually
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: might be the most recognizable name in college football. I
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: actually get mistaken for you a lot. What's your mama's name?
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: And that sounds crazy and you say it out loud
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: because usually that title is reserved for somebody with a
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: ring collection.
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: Nick Saban Kirby.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: Smart guys who've been walking to a living room and
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: point at the jewelry and say this is what I
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: can do for you son. Now, Lane Kiffen, he can't
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: do that. As a head coach. Lane Kippen has only
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: had one example in his entire career and fourteen years
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: of coaching college football where he's been in one place
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: long enough to have taken a freshman and built a
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: championship contender over time.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: Six Seed Old Mess, a third Seed of Georgia.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: Even that situation ended up with him having to watch
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: the team that he built compete in the college football
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: playoffs without him because he decided to pursue greener pastures
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: down in Baton Rouge. Biggest story in sports today, Lane
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: Kiffen is leaving Ole Miss for LSU, and that is
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: him getting duoed off the tarmac. Lane Kiffen is must
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: see TV. He's the Donald Trump of sports. And I
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: don't mean that in a politically divisive sense, in the
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: way that Donald Trump's biggest supporters and his biggest haters
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: all have one major thing in common. They're watching, they're discussing,
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: and they're dissecting his every single move and counting wins
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: and losses, but when you look at the history, he
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: hasn't won anything. Why do people believe that this will
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: be different? How did Lane Kiffins immaculate all of this attention?
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: Talking a little bit to got this guy yelled at
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: me like during the game like five times.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: How great they were and we can't score on them.
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: Well, the story actually starts in a way that you
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: would absolutely expect it to. Lane Kiffen was a quarterback
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: at Fresno State. He was losing reps to a future
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: number one overall pick in David Carr, as well as
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: Billy Bullock, and he went on to have an eleven
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: year NFL career. So, instead of competing harder or accepting
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: his fate and fading into the depth chart of obscurity,
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: Kiffin came out on a full pass practice one day
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: in shorts and a tea shirt, and that caught the
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: ire of the head coach, Jeff Tefford. According to David Carr,
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: the ensuing exchange between Tetford and Carr went something like this, Lane,
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: what are you doing?
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: Well?
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: I figured I would come out on chorts and a
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: T shirt because you're just gonna give all my reps today.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: Then Temford, who was my officer coordinator when I was
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: at Oregon, which I can absolutely see this happening, kicks
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: Lane kipping out of practice. But then Monte Kippen, who
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: you know from the NFL, extremely successful and famous defensive
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: coordinator father for the Pittsburgh Steelers. He convinced his son
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: and Tetford to then let him become the assistant wide
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: receivers coach. What Lane Kiffen got his first taste of
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: the feeling that has followed him his own career, tripping
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: and falling. Not down the stairs, he falls up the
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: damn stairs. Lane Kippen has always been wired differently. Because
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: some guys lose a job, they disappear. Lane lost the
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: quarterback competition and somehow turned that into the beginning of
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: a coaching career. That was Lane learning the skill that
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: would define his life. When one lane closes, create another Lane.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: So after Fresno State year, after coaching at Colorado State,
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: and then another as a defensive quality control guy with
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: the Jacksonville Jaguars, it was actually where he was on
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: staff with one of college football's other enigmatic, unlikable lightning
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: rods in Bobby Patrino. That's when he got his first
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: position coaching job at USC. Now, I actually played against
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: USC when Lane Kiffen was an assistant. That was considered
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: the golden era of USC football, and Lane Kiffin was
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: there alongside Ed Oderon, Norm Chow and Steve Sarkizi. And
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: that's how Kiffin got his turn as offensive coordinator. He
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: turned a twenty three and three record, even though twelve
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: of those wins were later vacated into the head coaching
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: job of the Oakland.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: Raiders what and of course it went terribly. Kiffin went
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: five and fifteen in Oakland.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: Now, one of those losses was by about five touchdowns
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: to my Jacksonville Jaguars. I was injured at the time,
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: so you know, it actually could have been worse, but
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: the record, it wasn't even the loudest part al. Davis
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: fired him for cause and then held one of the
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: strangest press conferences that you will ever see, publicly called
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: him a liar who had disgraced the organization, when in
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: reality he should have never been hired in the first place. Now,
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: an arbitrator later sided with the Raiders, meaning that they
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: did not have to pay Kiffin.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: What he claimed that he was old, but then the.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: Press conference it actually backfire and it made Lane Kiffin
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: a household name and had people doing the reverse logic
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: of thinking, well, if an owner that keeps making terrible
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: hires and used the number one pick on JaMarcus Russell,
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: if he thinks that Lane Kiffin is an idiot, he
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: must actually.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: Be the opposite.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: So when most coaches would actually be buried by something
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: like that, Lane Kiffin instead he got the head coaching
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: job of the Tennessee Volunteers.
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: This is crazy.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: He was thirty three years old and SEC had coach,
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: had been a coordinator at USC, had been fired by
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: the Raiders all by the time he was thirty three,
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: like will Stein, who came from Oregon, just became the
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: youngest head coach hired by an SEC school since Lane
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: kiffen got the volunteer's job two decades ago. Stein is
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: still three years older than Kiffin was at the time.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: Now I get it. Tennessee was looking for energy. Philip
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: Folmer was gone. The program needed juice. Lane Kiffin showed
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: up young. He was cocky, he was loud, and immediately
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: started acting like he had already won the SEC, which
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: he still has never done before he coached a single
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: game at Tennessee, Kiffin accused urban Meyer of cheating during
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: the recruitment of Keith Richardson. Now the problem was Kiffin
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: was wrong. The SEC then reprimanded him and then he
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: had to apologize. Now that should have been a warning
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: sign to everybody. Instead it became a brand because Lane
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: wasn't trying to gently enter the SEC. He kicked the
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: door open, He tracked mud on the carpet, insulted the furniture,
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: and dared.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: Anybody to throw him out like that.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: Bad fans, they absolutely loved it until the person that
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: threw Lane Kiffin out of Knoxville was none other than
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: Lane Kiffin. Because Tennessee they went seven and six in
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: his one season. Obviously it's not terrible, but it ain't
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: special at all. But the exit is why so many
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: ballfans still treat this fan's name like a curse word.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: Because after one year, Lane Kiffin then left and got
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: the USC head coaching job. So he had been fired
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: by Oakland seven and six in Tennessee and then you
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: get the USC head coaching job. What and you think,
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: nico Ea Maliaba, that situation is where the starting quarterback
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: of a college football playoff team went to LA was intense.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, no, no.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: That was nothing compared to how Pis Tennessee was at
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: Lane Kiffin because that Tennessee Vall's year also came with
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: NCAA scrutiny because the Orange Pride hostes his program actually
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: became part of the conversation surrounding the Vall's recruiting practices
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: because they were unabashedly using hot co eds to host recruits.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: And then Kiffin's staff was tied to multiple secondary violations.
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: Now Kiffin he then denied knowing or committing any violations,
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: but the whole thing added to the perception that wherever
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: Lane went, smoke followed. It wasn't like where there's smoke,
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: there's fire. It was like, yo, there's fire. He went
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: back to USC, and this is where Lane Kiffin's career
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: gets even more complicated, because USC was the dream job,
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: but it was also a trap because he walked into
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: the aftermath of the Reggie Bush Shank Gyms scholarship reductions,
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: postseason restrictions, and a program that was trying to carry
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: itself like the old USC while operating with one arm.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: Really tied behind their back and maybe just made There
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: would have been some grace for the handicap that USC
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: was operating under if Flane Kippen was fully focused on football.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: But there were numerous peripheral distractions. First, there was deflated footballs.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: USC was reprimanded and fined by the PAC twelve after
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: a student manager intentionally deflated the balls during the twenty
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: twelve Oregon game, and Kiffin said, oh, I didn't know
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: about it. And then there was the jersey number stuff
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: where USC changed player numbers in a way critics felt
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: really crossed the line in terms of gamesmanship into deception. Now,
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: when you combine that with the twenty twelve season, where
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: USC started ranked number one and finished as one of
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: the sport's really biggest disappointments, you had a powder keg
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: heading into the twenty thirteen season.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: And then that created.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: The potential for one of the most notorious moments in
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: college football coaching history. Twenty thirteen, after a loss at
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: Arizona State, USC's athletic director Pat Hayden, he pulled Kiffin
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: off a team bus near lax and fired him. Lane
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: Kiffen literally got fired on the tarmac. Now this is
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: the kind of thing that sounds fake until you remember
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: that college football it has never been normal and the
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: moment that turned Lane Kiffen from controversial head coach into
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: college football folklore. So he's been fired at USC, went
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: seven and six at Tennessee, walked out the door, got
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: fired by the Raiders. Most people they would never recover
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: from that, But thanks to Nick Saban's rehabilitation soup Kitchen
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: for coaches, Kiffin not only survived, he then thrived.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: And then, whether you like Lane or not, you have.
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: To give him credit because he helped modernize Alabama's offense.
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: He worked with Black Simms, Jeff Kocher, and even Jalen Hurts,
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: and Alabama won a national title while he was on
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: staff in twenty fifteen. So while Lane was highly successful
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: at Alabama, he's still in ended up getting fired, really
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: because not even Nick Saban could keep Lane Kipping from
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: being Lane Kiffing, because he eventually got replaced and booted
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: out of the door before Alabama's twenty sixteen national title
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: game after he had already accepted the FAU job. Now
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: he got forced out because Saban had to tell him
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: that you can't be focused on pursuing a national title
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: while trying to build a staff and recruiting class at
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: a new school. That's a lesson that he took to
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: heart for about nine years before going through the exact
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: same thing during Old Missus twenty twenty five college football
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: playoff run. But back to Alabama for just a second,
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: because that's where Lane Kiffin grew up as a coach.
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: Maybe not all the way as a person, but definitely
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: as a coach because Lane still had the jokes, Lane
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: still had the Twitter fingers, Lane still had the ability
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: to make fan bases feel like that they needed a shower.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: After negotiating with him.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: But at FAU Oh, he won two conference titles there,
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: a twenty seven and thirteen run and a reminder that
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: beneath all the drama, the man can scheme offense. And
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: then that's when the rumor started swirling. Lane Kiffin publicly,
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: which makes no sense. He publicly stated that he hoped
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: fau wanted him back and that's where he planned to be.
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: What come on, man, So naturally, he was then immediately
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: introduced as the new head coach at Old Miss. At
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: Old Miss is where Lane Kiffin truly became dangerous. At Tennessee.
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: He was a loud, young head coach. At USC, he
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: was a talented coach with too much chaos around him.
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: At Alabama, he was the rehab project. At FAU, he
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: was the comeback story. At Old Miss, he became a
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: program build. And Old Miss is not supposed to win
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: eleven games. Old Miss is not supposed to look at Alabama, LSU, Texas,
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: A and M and Georgia and say, yeah, we can
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: play in this neighborhood too. Miss is only supposed to
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: be consistently scaring giants, not beating them. But Lane Kiffen
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: made them believe it. He embraced in il. He made
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: Old Miss, a school with all in the damn name
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: and ties to the Confederacy, feel like the most modern
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: program in America. Now we'll fast forward to the twenty
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: twenty five NFL draft, where Lane Kiffen had eight Old
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: Miss rebels drafted. That was more than Alabama, Florida, LSU,
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: Miami and Notre Dame. There were two first rounders as well,
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: in Walter Nolan and Jackson Dark. Now he showed that
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: he checks every box that every major program once outside
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: of winning the highest level. So then when that twenty
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: twenty five college football season started. He took number three
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: Georgia down to the wire with a former D two
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: quarterback in Trinidad Chambliss, and he was looking like a
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: Heisman contender at the time. He took down number eight
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: Oklahoma in Norman and then led the Rebels literally to
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: their best season ever and a spot in the College
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: Football Playoff. But then this whole time we started hearing
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: rumors about him and Florida and LSU and other places.
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: LSU offered him the job, and the decision played out
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: publicly in a way that made it feel like Lane
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: Kiffen enjoyed being the center of the college football conversation
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: more than he enjoyed the prospect of competing for a
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: national championship, which rubbed so many people the wrong way. So,
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: after dragging the decision out forever, Lane Kiffn decided to
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: take the LSU job. And then Old Miss did exactly
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: what a sensible program would do, made the best decision
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: for them. Their athletic director, Keith Carter. He wasn't going
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: to allow Kiffn to become a walking billboard for another
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: SEC team. And then, to make it even crazier, Nick
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: Saban who let Kiffin go before Alabama's national title game
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: as their OC then got on TV arguing that lane
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: Kiffin should be allowed to coach at Old Miss and
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: finish the season. What But now that the dust is settled,
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: even lane Kiffin's new boss came out and said, no,
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: I've probably been like.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: Nah, were not doing that. I'm not letting them coach.
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: That's Verge Rsbury.
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: Their new ad said that, now, let's take stock of
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: Lane Kiffin's reputation in each of its stops. In Fresno State,
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: he's quitter. In Oakland, he's a liar. In Knoxville, he's
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: a pariah. In La He's a punchline in Tusca, Lusa.
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: He's an immature genius. In Boca Retire, he's a hero
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: but not a faithful. In Oxford he's a perpetual what if.
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: And now he's in Baton Rouge, a city that is
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: not loyal to coaches because three of the last four
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: gave them a national title, and they also gave him
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: the walking papers, like they believe in the laundry, and
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: they fund that laundry. Like what Old Miss fans called betrayal,
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: LSU fans call ambition, baby, and both sides can be right.
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: And that's the Lane Kiffin experience. He makes you defend
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: the that you hate it when he did him to
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: other people. And we see now that in the National
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: conversation over his comments in the Vanity Fair article about
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: the difficulty recruiting the Oxford due to the racial history.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: Of the state. Was Lane kipping and the wrong? No?
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: Not necessarily, because it's true that people bring that up.
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: Did it need to be said? Absolutely not? Was his
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: apology necessary? Probably? Was the apology half assed?
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: Of course? And that's the thing with Laide.
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: He is allergic to boring, And even when he's making
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: a real point, he finds the most ridiculous way to
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: say it. And yet every single time that his name
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: comes up the entire college football they stop scrolling on
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: their phones and they start screaming at each other about
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: Lane kiffing. And he did it by trolling and stumbling
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: his way to the top. I mean, seriously, the man
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: is cursed with success. No matter how many times he
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: tries to fumble at the one yard line, the ball
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: just bounces back into his hands or out of bounds,
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: or bounces back to his hands for a touchdown. All
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: of his public failings have resulted in something that has
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: really proven to be just as valuable as success. It
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: is infamy. College football is no longer about just the
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: wins and losses. It's about recruiting buzz. It's about portal momentum.
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: It's about donors feeling hope. It's about social media eclips.
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: It's about your coach being able to walk into a
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: room and make people believe that your school is not
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: stuck in the past. Because fans don't want coaches to
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: just win. They want coaches to belong to them. And
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: when you can back it up and upset the status quo,
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: you get generationally rich. Lane kiffn the dude is polarizing,
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: but it's not because he's committed some massive criminal scandal.
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: Because he hasn't Lane Kiffin. He belongs to Lane Kiffin
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  Speaker 2: just like LSU belongs to LSU. And maybe that's why
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  Speaker 2: this marriage will actually work. Because he has survived Al
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  Speaker 2: Davis calling him a liar. He has survived Tennessee hatred,
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  Speaker 2: he has survived NCAA scrutiny, he has survived USC sanctions.
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  Speaker 2: He has survived being at an airport. He has survived
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  Speaker 2: being humbled by Nick Saban. He has survived becoming a meme,
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  Speaker 2: and now he is at LSU, one of the few
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  Speaker 2: places in America where the expectations are even louder than
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  Speaker 2: he is, and he's already trying to temper those. Oh
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  Speaker 2: it's going to take a while. I know I have
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  Speaker 2: a forty million dollar roster. I know I got the
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  Speaker 2: quarterback in the alignment that I wanted and everybody in
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  Speaker 2: the portal that I wanted. But hey, hey, hey, it's
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  Speaker 2: going to take a while to build things around here.
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  Speaker 1: But there are no more excuses. LSU ain't gonna want
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  Speaker 1: to hear it.
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  Speaker 2: LSU has resources, they have recruiting territory, they have national
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  Speaker 2: Championship DNA. Nobody is paying Lane Kiffin to just be interesting.
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  Speaker 2: They are paying him to win the whole damn thing.
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  Speaker 2: And that's what makes this next chapter perfect because Lane
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  Speaker 2: Kiffin has spent his entire career making college football looking.
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  Speaker 2: And you're looking. I know you are, because you made
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  Speaker 2: it to the end of the segment. Now he has
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  Speaker 2: to make college football bout of him. Do you think
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: he can do it? Let me know in the comments.
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  Speaker 2: Kevin two. It is top ten time, and these are
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  Speaker 2: the top ten fan bases that would be the most
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  Speaker 2: insufferable if they won a national championship in twenty twenty six,
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: because we know how college football fans are and so
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  Speaker 2: we got to get to the list. Number ten, it
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  Speaker 2: is my Oregon Ducks. If the Ducks winning championship in
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty six, I am going to tell you they
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  Speaker 2: are going to be insufferable, but not more than the
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  Speaker 2: other people on this list, because Ducks fans will still
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  Speaker 2: understand it's only one national championship, but it matters, and
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: now people can't stop with the zero comment and everything else.
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  Speaker 2: But you know where they would be insufferable. Oh on
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  Speaker 2: the West coast, Oh, looking up at Washington, looking down
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  Speaker 2: at USC.
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  Speaker 1: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: That would be the worst thing that happened to USC
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  Speaker 2: since Pete Carroll left and the sanctions. Number nine, the
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  Speaker 2: most insufferable fan base if they won a Natty in
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty six is the Michigan Wolverines. And I placed
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  Speaker 2: this squarely at Dave Portnoy's feet because They've just won
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  Speaker 2: a national championship in basketball.
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  Speaker 1: They won in football.
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  Speaker 2: The last national championship was marked by controversy, and they'd
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  Speaker 2: be like, we did it the right way.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, Michigan men, Michigan men. I mean.
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  Speaker 2: And then you think about all their former alumni that
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  Speaker 2: are on TV, who would be rubbing it in all
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  Speaker 2: the time, Charles Woodson, Desmond Howard, rich Eisen, all of them,
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  Speaker 2: they would all be all over it.
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  Speaker 1: Very insufferable. Number eight.
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  Speaker 2: Now, years ago, nobody would have ever said this, but
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  Speaker 2: I'm telling you now, Texas Tech if they won a
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  Speaker 2: national championship in twenty twenty six, Oh, they would be
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  Speaker 2: insufferable like that. They would you know that, they would
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  Speaker 2: spend money to throw it in your face. They would
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  Speaker 2: spend money to throw it in sarkspace. They'd be putting
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  Speaker 2: up billboards and Austin. They'd be putting them up in
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  Speaker 2: New York City, out in Cali. They would make at
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: the Sphere in Vegas. They would make sure everybody knew
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: because they got the money to pay for it. Number seven,
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  Speaker 2: The most insufferable fan base. It would be the Miami Hurricanes. Oh,
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: the Miami Hurricanes fan base. They would be the you
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  Speaker 2: the you I mean, because they ain't really acted like
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  Speaker 2: that they won the Natty and that the U was
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: fully back and every order had been restored because they
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: made the national championship this past year. And yes, we
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: did a deep dive on Miami and whether Mario Christabalu
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  Speaker 2: would win a national championship on the tip on the channel.
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  Speaker 2: Make sure that you guys go check that out. But
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: it's actually you know this fan base. Oh, they would
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  Speaker 2: absolutely because the former players that we run into, they
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  Speaker 2: act like that they were unbeatable in the two thousands anyway,
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  Speaker 2: and so yeah, they would definitely be bad. Number six. Now,
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  Speaker 2: this is very interesting fan base if Ohio State, if
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: Ohio State won the national championship in twenty twenty six,
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  Speaker 2: like they would be annoying, but it would be from
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: a place of pretentiousness and arrogance, like what did you
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  Speaker 2: expect to happen?
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  Speaker 1: We are Ohio State? What do you mean?
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  Speaker 2: We are the greatest thing that has ever happened? We
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  Speaker 2: are the most talked about, the biggest and baddest in
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  Speaker 2: college football brand that there is. What did you expect
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  Speaker 2: us to not win another national championship? That's oh, they
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  Speaker 2: would be on their high horse, looking down their nose
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  Speaker 2: at everybody else. Number five, this is the reigning defending
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  Speaker 2: national champions, the Indiana Hoosiers fan base. They would be
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  Speaker 2: insufferable if they won in twenty twenty six because it
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  Speaker 2: would be well deserved. First of all, first of all
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  Speaker 2: well deserved, but they would be looking down and talking
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  Speaker 2: to everybody. I mean, we are gonna win in twenty
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  Speaker 2: seven too. Let's just figure out who Kurt Signetti. Who's
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: the new Nick Saban. We are the new Alabama. We
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  Speaker 2: don't care about history. We are Alabama now. We are
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  Speaker 2: the rulers of college football. Hell, we might win ten
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  Speaker 2: years in a row. That's the way their fans will
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  Speaker 2: be acting. That's why I had to give them a
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: reality check last week. Number four most insufferable fan base
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  Speaker 2: would be the Texas Longhorns. They haven't won since Vince Young.
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  Speaker 2: But if you let the Texas fans tell you, oh,
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: we are Texas, we are everything, we are most important.
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  Speaker 2: But the reality is that their history doesn't even though
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  Speaker 2: that they are blue blood, doesn't match reality like you
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  Speaker 2: would think that they were winning national championships at Alabama's clip,
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: Ohio State's clip, LSU's clip the way that they talk
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  Speaker 2: about themselves and the perception about them everything's bigger in Texas,
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  Speaker 2: and the way that they stomp their feet around about
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: the horns down, getting penalties into Big twelve and everything else.
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  Speaker 2: So oh, they would be massively insufferable. And Sark two,
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  Speaker 2: are you kidding me? The way he's been talking about
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: Texas Tech and Ole missing everybody else. Imagine him winning
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  Speaker 2: a Natty. Oh, Sark would be insufferable too. Number three
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: most insufferable fan base. And this again is because of
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: their coach as the main culprit while they're so high
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: on this list, and then the fans would have had
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: him on the list all by itself.
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  Speaker 1: But LSU.
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  Speaker 2: If LSU one the national championship in Lane Kippen's first year,
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  Speaker 2: we're talking about a guy who has been fired multiple times.
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  Speaker 2: He's been tarmac, he's been embarrassed, he's been talked about
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  Speaker 2: scandals about you know, the Vanity Fair articles, talking about
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: old miss leaving during the playoffs. If this culminated in
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  Speaker 2: a national championship, everything would have felt worth it for LSU,
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  Speaker 2: buying all the players and everything. Oh my god, it
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: would feel worth it. And they would be like, see Look,
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: we fired Brian Kelly because we are championship people. If
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  Speaker 2: you're not winning championships, you are not.
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  Speaker 1: To hear at lsu Go Tigers.
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  Speaker 2: Number two, the most insufferable fan base. If they won
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  Speaker 2: in twenty twenty six, Oh, the USC Trojans, the USC Trojans,
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  Speaker 2: Lord have mercy, they would be acting like order has
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: been restored in college football. Everything is better to normal.
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: We've taken back the West. We are the premiere program
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: in the country in college football. All we had to
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: do was get the right coach and then support him
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  Speaker 2: the right way, get the right footing, and now.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, it's the place to be.
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  Speaker 2: They've already been trolling everybody on social media and they
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: haven't even made the college football playoff ever, So imagine
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: if they win, all their social media team is going
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: to go on assault on Notre Dame, on Oregon, on USC,
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: on Alabama, on anybody that they played in the playoffs,
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  Speaker 2: on Paul Fine Bomb and everybody else. Could going at
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: Lincoln Riley. Oh, and Lincoln's gonna be sitting up there.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I mean, I told you the championship window
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  Speaker 2: was open, baby, and we went out did it?
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  Speaker 3: So?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Oh, highly highly annoying. Oh Lord have mercy.
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: Oh oh that would be something and the number one
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  Speaker 2: one most insufferable fan base if they won a Natty
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: in twenty twenty six, Notre Dame. Notre Dame by a mile,
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  Speaker 2: do you understand. And it has nothing to do with
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: Marcus Freeman, because he would be standing there, cool as
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: a cucumber like he usually is. Oh but they're fans.
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  Speaker 2: Oh see, we knew we had the right coach. This
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  Speaker 2: is why we didn't want to play in the Pop
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: Tarts Bowl last year, because we're only a national championship
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  Speaker 2: kind of people, even though it's been you know, damn
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: near thirty years since they won last one and national
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  Speaker 2: championship eighty eight. And they would be sitting Oh it's touchdown, Jesus,
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: we have the best fan base. See, this is why
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: we don't join a conference. And oh, they would be
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: looking down their nose at everybody. They would be talking.
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: They would be oh see see, it's because God loves us.
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: We are just a special people. We are Notre Dame.
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  Speaker 2: We're not like you people. We don't do things the
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: way you commoners do them. We got our NBC deal.
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  Speaker 2: We don't need to join your conference. We're just we're
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: Notre Dame. We're just better than you. That is the
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  Speaker 2: list of the ten most insufferable fan bases. Number one
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: Notre Dame, number two, USC, number three, LSU, number four, Texas,
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: number five, Indiana, number six, Ohio State, number seven, Miami,
• 47:31
  Speaker 2: number eight, Texas Tech, number nine Michigan, and number ten
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  Speaker 2: my Oregon Ducks in that order. You guys dropping the comments,
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  Speaker 2: tell me which would be the most insufferable fan base.
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