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Geoff Schwartz on Jordan Gross returning to Utah as the OL coach, Oregon vs Indiana rematch in the CFP semis + more · The Sean O'Connell Show

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  Speaker 1: one a m Shaan o'connall show, our number three, and
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  Speaker 1: we welcome in my good friend Jeff Schwartz football inside.
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  Speaker 1: I just call him that because he could talk about
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  Speaker 1: every level. Jeff, welcome, How are you.
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  Speaker 2: I'm good, sir. You know my Ducks play this week.
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  Speaker 2: Still we're still doing that. I'm not. I decided I'm
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  Speaker 2: not going to game. I'm gonna stay home.
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  Speaker 1: A want what what are you doing? Your alma mater
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  Speaker 1: is in a semi final game? Does this mean you're
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  Speaker 1: saving it for the national champnel?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm going to Miami. Yeah, I'm gonna okay, all right,
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  Speaker 2: It's just it's just like a hard cell with family,
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  Speaker 2: where he went to New York this week. It's like
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  Speaker 2: just hard sell with the family.
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  Speaker 1: You know what. You know what I appreciate about you, Jeff,
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  Speaker 1: is that I feel the same way. I hate leaving
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  Speaker 1: my family any more than I have to. I don't
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  Speaker 1: like to, you know, I travel enough for work that
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  Speaker 1: I don't feel good about saying, hey, I'm also going
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  Speaker 1: for this. You know what I like about you? Though
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  Speaker 1: your wife doesn't feel that way. She's just like, Jeff,
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  Speaker 1: I'm we're going skiing. I'm leaving you behind. I'm going,
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  Speaker 1: oh yeah, if I'm leaving you behind. But you still
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  Speaker 1: feel that guilt, that dad guilt, even though you don't
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  Speaker 1: really have to.
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  Speaker 2: But but the skiing thing, like I get to just
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  Speaker 2: sit home and watch football by myself, so I get
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  Speaker 2: a win out of that. She is left alone with
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  Speaker 2: the kids, like it's just emy as our first basketball
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  Speaker 2: game this weekend and for the like it just it's
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  Speaker 2: just it just doesn't make sense. So I'm not going
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  Speaker 2: to do it. But we are. Tell you what, man,
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  Speaker 2: the portal and injuries are killing us right now because look,
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  Speaker 2: i know the kids have to go into portal. I'm
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  Speaker 2: this is not at all like it is what it
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  Speaker 2: is like they have to leave, but we just basically
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  Speaker 2: don't have a backup secondary. One of our running backs
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  Speaker 2: just left, like we just like you're out of players,
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  Speaker 2: out of players, but then one gets hurt on Friday.
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  Speaker 2: We are screwed. We might be screwed anyways, but we're
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  Speaker 2: definitely screwed. If anyone gets hurt in this game.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get to that game more. And here in a second,
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk about an announcement that I was
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  Speaker 1: expecting that I think you were expecting that. We kind
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  Speaker 1: of text back and forth about fourth about that is official.
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  Speaker 1: Now Jordan Gross, your former teammate, is the new offensive
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  Speaker 1: line coach at the University of Utah. And everyone listening
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  Speaker 1: to the show knows, like one of the major selling
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  Speaker 1: points I'm bringing somebody like Jordan Gross in because he
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  Speaker 1: got you know, he coached in high school, the number
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  Speaker 1: one recruit in the history of this program. Now he's
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  Speaker 1: the right guy. There were plenty of people, mostly from
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  Speaker 1: a posting fan basis, who were like, oh, you hired
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  Speaker 1: a high school coach, what are you doing? Do me
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  Speaker 1: a favor, and just if you can give me an
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  Speaker 1: idea of Jordan Gross as a football mind. We saw
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  Speaker 1: what he is as a football body.
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  Speaker 2: Oh man, I have so much which so much to say.
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  Speaker 2: So Jordan was my mentor, Like he was the only
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  Speaker 2: reason you're playing music behind this. I like this. He
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  Speaker 2: was the only reason I made in the NFL. And
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if that's a positive or neckt. I'm
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  Speaker 2: sure he's telling out to recruits right now. The reason
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  Speaker 2: why I'm a good coach because Jeff Schwartz made in
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  Speaker 2: the NFL, But like he just you know, I got
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  Speaker 2: to the NFL and him and Ryan Cole took me
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  Speaker 2: under their wing for whatever reason. They taught me how
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  Speaker 2: to train. He taught me how to prepare. He changed
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  Speaker 2: my stance for me, which was super helpful. He did
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  Speaker 2: everything that I needed to sit in the NFL. And
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  Speaker 2: he's just so bright, and he was such a physical player.
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  Speaker 2: He was so smart, you know. You know there's like
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  Speaker 2: levels of this, right, Like there are players that are
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  Speaker 2: Hall of Fame players, and I played with some of
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  Speaker 2: those and they, you know, they're on a different level.
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  Speaker 2: And there's guys like Jordan that are like Hall of
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  Speaker 2: very very good, right, multiple time pro bowler, And just
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  Speaker 2: the way he went about preparing himself to play every game,
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  Speaker 2: the way he went about executing the game plan, his
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  Speaker 2: love for football, right, you know, his his teaching, teaching
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  Speaker 2: me young player, really unmatched. And I remember so he
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  Speaker 2: got hurt twenty ninety, broke his leg. He did timfit
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  Speaker 2: which said, you know, you break both bones in your leg.
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  Speaker 2: He did in November, and he was back in March
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  Speaker 2: like beating us in running drills for offseason workout program,
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  Speaker 2: just like a fantastic like body like he just is
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  Speaker 2: a great football player. It was a ton of fun
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  Speaker 2: to be around him. I'm glad he's getting this job.
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  Speaker 2: He would text me like once a year to help
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  Speaker 2: him maybe draw some plays up for like some some
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  Speaker 2: high school. It was fun to do that every now
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  Speaker 2: and then. But look, but if he is, if he
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  Speaker 2: wants this job, he's perfect for it. He's gonna do
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  Speaker 2: a great job in this role. I did text him
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  Speaker 2: other day. He never answered me, unfortunately. I'm sure he
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  Speaker 2: had better things to do to answer me. But our
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  Speaker 2: offensive line coach in Carolina was this. It wasn't an
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  Speaker 2: old school coach, but old school personality. And he said
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  Speaker 2: some things that were not appropriate to say now. And
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  Speaker 2: one of them and he had a deep. He had
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  Speaker 2: a deep. He had a deep like a Northeast accents
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  Speaker 2: from the Northeast. And he would always say, hit him
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  Speaker 2: with your purse, and so you have a soft play
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  Speaker 2: like Schwartz, hit him with your purse and he but
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  Speaker 2: he said it in like a deeply Boston accent. I
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  Speaker 2: can't do the accent. Jordan can. Jordan's good with voices,
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  Speaker 2: and so I texted him, I said, I don't think
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  Speaker 2: you can say this on your first day, but good
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  Speaker 2: luck on the job anyways. But yeah, I mean yeah,
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  Speaker 2: like if you had a soft play, he'd be like
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  Speaker 2: hit him with your purse, Schwartz like And obviously that's
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  Speaker 2: something you cannot say in twenty twenty six. But he Uh,
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  Speaker 2: Jordan's been around a lot of different coaches and styles
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  Speaker 2: of football. Right. What we did early in my career
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  Speaker 2: was not what he did with Cam Newton, right, So
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  Speaker 2: he's seen sort of different ways to coach the run game,
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  Speaker 2: right because off its long coaches are you know, they're
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  Speaker 2: one of their big duties is they're going to handle
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  Speaker 2: the run game. So he's seen a run game if
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  Speaker 2: Cam Newton right, he was part of that offense. He's
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  Speaker 2: seen a run game that was more traditional with Theangel
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  Speaker 2: Williams and Jonathan Stewart. He's seen a lot of different
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  Speaker 2: types of ways to win in football, and I think
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  Speaker 2: it will be important at Utah. So obviously the connection
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  Speaker 2: to you know your your recruit is important. I would
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  Speaker 2: imagine that played a big role maybe getting him the job.
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  Speaker 2: But if he wants this job on me, I don't
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  Speaker 2: know how you you tell him no. So very happy
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  Speaker 2: for him and you're excited to see what he does
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  Speaker 2: in that role.
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  Speaker 1: So there's a there's a new article out on the
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  Speaker 1: Athletic of what that was setting kind of the salary
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  Speaker 1: ranges for the transfer portal players that have been on
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  Speaker 1: the move so far. And I was looking at it
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  Speaker 1: and we're kind of like doing this exercise, Okay, who
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  Speaker 1: do you have to pay this on the Utah roster?
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  Speaker 1: Just the guys that haven't already put their names in
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  Speaker 1: the portal to leave the name the guys that you
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  Speaker 1: haven't gotten out of the portal. They made a couple
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  Speaker 1: of announcement on that today and I'm looking at it
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  Speaker 1: and I'm like, man, if you go by the athletics
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  Speaker 1: numbers just to field starters with absolutely no depth, no
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  Speaker 1: special teams, you don't pay your kicker a dime whatever,
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  Speaker 1: Like you're looking at you gotta you gotta spend twenty
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  Speaker 1: five million bucks yep, and twenty five million. We've been
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  Speaker 1: told twenty five million might be a bridge too far
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  Speaker 1: for a lot of big twelve teams. I know it's
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  Speaker 1: not for your Oregon Ducks, but there's even teams in
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  Speaker 1: the Big Ten. I was looking at Rutgers is paying
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  Speaker 1: a wide receiver one point seven million dollars. I'm just
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  Speaker 1: looking at this and I'm just going like, oh my gosh.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So, I mean, with all that in mind, how important
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  Speaker 1: is the personnel manager, the general manager, the the cap
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  Speaker 1: guy in college football right now? Given even if if
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  Speaker 1: those athletic estimates are even close to accurate.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think a couple of things are very important.
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  Speaker 2: One is obviously your budget right and setting that and
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  Speaker 2: be and knowing what you'll you can afford to pay
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  Speaker 2: each guy that's you know, that becomes very important. But also, look,
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  Speaker 2: I see often it is true though I know people
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  Speaker 2: don't like to hear it, but not every player goes
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  Speaker 2: somewhere for all the moneys right now, the money has
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  Speaker 2: to be adequate. But this is where relationships matter, right
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  Speaker 2: It's where you know, does your NIL program deliver the
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  Speaker 2: money on time? Does it deliver it? You know where
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  Speaker 2: it's supposed to go? Like all those things are true, right,
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  Speaker 2: how how the contracts were in, where the obligations for
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  Speaker 2: the nil So those things, I say, it's a lot
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  Speaker 2: like Oregon doesn't pay the most for everyone, right, they don't,
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  Speaker 2: but they have the best functioning NIL program in the country,
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  Speaker 2: and that goes a long way. Like players knowing they're
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  Speaker 2: getting the money that they have that they negotiated, players
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  Speaker 2: know that they're working with a professional organization. I think
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  Speaker 2: all those things matter. So, yeah, the money certainly matters
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  Speaker 2: for players, but all the other things do as well.
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  Speaker 2: The relationships with coaches are very important in this discussion
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  Speaker 2: as well, and so you hopefully Skyy can build those relationships.
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  Speaker 2: You'll again, like go back to Jordan, like having a
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  Speaker 2: a Pro Bowl, All Pro caliber offensive lineman who's a
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  Speaker 2: is he comfortable Hall of Famer or Utah Hall of
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  Speaker 2: Famer people that, Yeah, like having that in the building. Look,
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  Speaker 2: maybe you take a little bit less than Utah to
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  Speaker 2: be with a guy like that, Right, Like those things
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  Speaker 2: I think they all matter in the end. And Utah
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  Speaker 2: is an established program. There are programs like Texas Tech,
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  Speaker 2: for example, that were not established in the way they
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  Speaker 2: are now that had to pay a lot for players
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  Speaker 2: because they, you know, like David Bailey, I would imagine,
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  Speaker 2: had plenty of offers elsewhere, right, and playing in places
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  Speaker 2: that had proven they've developed defensive ends and that kid's amazing.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, so you have to overpay. I think
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  Speaker 2: if you're Texas Tech where, I don't think you have
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  Speaker 2: to overpay for Utah, right, Like you just sell what
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  Speaker 2: your program is. That they don't want to come here.
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  Speaker 2: That's I mean, that stinks. It's it's too bad, But
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  Speaker 2: it's not your problem. I guess in the end, if
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  Speaker 2: if you're offering them market value and they go somewhere
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  Speaker 2: else for even more money, So I think I think
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  Speaker 2: it's sort of all relative for the program. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean you need twenty million dollars, I mean that's
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  Speaker 2: what it seems to cost the minimum. Now us you
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  Speaker 2: pay your coaches and your facility and your travels, it's
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  Speaker 2: a lot of money. Then.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there's just a lot going on right now in
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  Speaker 1: the college football world, and it's it's been interesting for
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  Speaker 1: us here in Salt Lake City to see kind of
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  Speaker 1: this media tour that Kyle Whittingham is going on. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he appears to be kind of refreshed for juvenile and
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  Speaker 1: he's on all the big shows and even at Michigan.
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  Speaker 1: He was asked by Dan Patrick about the sustainability of
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  Speaker 1: this model, this spending model, and even with now the
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  Speaker 1: Michigan resources, he's like, no, can't stay this way. So
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  Speaker 1: I think that tells you something. If you're at a
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  Speaker 1: blue blood program and you're for the first time in
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  Speaker 1: your career, you're experiencing what that looks like and you're
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  Speaker 1: still looking at it and going like, can't keep this up, though,
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  Speaker 1: it probably tells you a lot about the state of
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  Speaker 1: college football.
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  Speaker 2: So when we first we were on the radio when
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  Speaker 2: this happened, right, I remember we talked about the idea
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  Speaker 2: of like there being a breaking point right where the
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  Speaker 2: return on investment just isn't there, and Booster decided to
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  Speaker 2: pull back, and it has not happened yet. I thought
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  Speaker 2: it would. I thought would happen much sooner than this.
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  Speaker 2: But clearly, like you know, and you see what Texas
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  Speaker 2: Tech did, I think you're sort of like all in
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  Speaker 2: on on that idea. Like look what they did, right,
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  Speaker 2: They bought themselves a big roster and there they went
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  Speaker 2: from being you know, basically like not involved in the
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  Speaker 2: culturable playoffs to being super Bowl in culturable playoffs. So
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  Speaker 2: I think that the Texas Tech model is gonna make
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  Speaker 2: people maybe more enthusiastic to pay money now. I mean, look,
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  Speaker 2: Soresby is not worth five million dollars a year. I
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  Speaker 2: don't care what you like, You're just not But obviously, like,
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  Speaker 2: what are you gonna do? That's that's what Text is
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  Speaker 2: willing to pay him. That's what that's what he's gonna make.
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  Speaker 2: And maybe if Texas Tech goes nine to three next year,
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  Speaker 2: they regret paying him, But like, I don't know why
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  Speaker 2: they would regret that at the moment. Right like that,
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  Speaker 2: there's no reason to regret at the moment. So I
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  Speaker 2: think it's gonna change at some point. I don't know when, though,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know when.
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  Speaker 1: I don't Again, we talked so many times about out
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  Speaker 1: closing Pandora's box and unringing the bell, and the time
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  Speaker 1: for that has passed in college football, So it's gonna
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  Speaker 1: take another reorganization and then it'll be collective bargaining, and
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  Speaker 1: that's a totally different thing to examine. We won't get
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  Speaker 1: into that here on the show today. Jeff Schwartz is
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  Speaker 1: our guest. By the way, we're talking about the college
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  Speaker 1: football landscape ahead of the introductory press conference for Morgan's Scaley,
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  Speaker 1: which happens, and we will carry live right here on
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  Speaker 1: ESPN seven hundred and ninety two NFM, right after my
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  Speaker 1: show goes final. In fact, we're gonna end it a
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  Speaker 1: little bit early, just in case Morgan does what Kyle
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  Speaker 1: Whittingham does and starts talking like three minutes before the
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  Speaker 1: top of the hour. We're gonna make sure that we're
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  Speaker 1: covering it. There's Jordan Gross right now. He's standing in
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  Speaker 1: front of me. Jeff, you want me to say something
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  Speaker 1: to Jordan for you.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, to say Schwartz has hit him with your purse.
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  Speaker 2: Now I'm gonna try.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna try and wave him in here to see
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  Speaker 1: if I can get him to say something mean to you.
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  Speaker 1: But in any case, in any case, we were you know,
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  Speaker 1: Morgan Scalley takes over. Did you ever play for or
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  Speaker 1: you know, spend any time around the guy who followed
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  Speaker 1: the guy either as a player or as a coach
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  Speaker 1: in your career?
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  Speaker 2: No, I mean I was there when Chip got to
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  Speaker 2: Oregon with Who's oc first? Right, so a lot. He
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  Speaker 2: was there my entire time. I mean, I've had new coaches.
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  Speaker 2: I've had Ron Rivera was a new coach in the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: But like he's not like it's not like he followed
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  Speaker 2: anyone specifically, right, he just was hired. I've done that before,
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  Speaker 2: but I've never had like hire from within type of
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  Speaker 2: coach in any situation.
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  Speaker 1: I just it's a lot of pressure. He seems to
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  Speaker 1: be handling pretty well a week into the job. And
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  Speaker 1: we'll see what the rest of this transfer portal window
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  Speaker 1: looks like for Morgan Scalley. And obviously when you get
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  Speaker 1: into the real thing next year and you got to
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  Speaker 1: start competing, and you got to start competing again with
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  Speaker 1: the Texas texts of the world BYU continues to spend
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  Speaker 1: a lot of money on their program, et cetera, et cetera.
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  Speaker 1: Back to the College Football Playoff, your Oregon Ducks are
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  Speaker 1: in a semi final. Old Miss is one of the
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  Speaker 1: most fascinating stories right now for me, because I mean,
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  Speaker 1: we're getting like week game week, We're getting yeah, we'll
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  Speaker 1: let the offensive coordinator stay and continue to call plays
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  Speaker 1: for Old Miss, And you're getting all these transfer portal
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  Speaker 1: stories about how Lane Kiffin tried to get all of
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  Speaker 1: his players to follow him and they're not a in fact,
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  Speaker 1: in Mels, you guys are now going back to Old Miss.
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  Speaker 1: Can Old Miss compete?
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  Speaker 2: Still?
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  Speaker 1: Can they they didn't think they were gonna win last week?
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  Speaker 1: Can they win this week?
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  Speaker 2: So I think the number one reason why Lane Kiffin
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  Speaker 2: allowed his coaches are now su to coach an old misses.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think you thought they'd make it this far, right,
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  Speaker 2: And obviously now he has. And now it's like, oh, wait,
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  Speaker 2: are our coaches aren't going to be here for transfer
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  Speaker 2: portal and having college visits and and whatnot. And I
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  Speaker 2: mean that's unfortunate obviously that this is the case. But
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  Speaker 2: this is what the schedule is now, right, this is
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  Speaker 2: what the schedule has become.
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  Speaker 1: And so.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, look, I think I think the OC's gonna say
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  Speaker 2: but the running the running back coach is gone. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it just seems like an entire mess man they've done. Look,
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  Speaker 2: I thought Georgia would smoke them. So that's the one
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  Speaker 2: game that got wrong this week. I thought Ohio State
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  Speaker 2: would be close, a close win, so a loss didn't
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  Speaker 2: surprise me very much. And I thought obviously Oregon would win.
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  Speaker 2: I thought Indiana would win pretty handily. So dude, look,
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  Speaker 2: Chambliss has been really good, is improved. He's in D
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  Speaker 2: two last year at this time, which is kind of
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  Speaker 2: wild to think so his ability to just continue to
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  Speaker 2: get better each and every week. Their defense is not
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  Speaker 2: very good, but they did enough against Georgia, right, they
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  Speaker 2: made enough plays. So incredible story, man, incredible story would
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  Speaker 2: almost have done with all the all the drama around
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: them with what Lane try to sabotage them. So a
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: hat tip to them, man, fantastic job.
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: Can anyone beat Indiana?
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: I mean, I hope.
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: So, who's a better way to ask in Oregon Duck,
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: who is best equipped to beat Indiana? Of the remaining field?
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: I mean it's it's probably us are Miami. I mean,
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: I don't think Old Miss can do it. Look as
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: bad as we played the first game, it was twenty
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: twenty in the fourth quarter, right, and we allowed three
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: hundred and forty yards isn't a ton We ran the
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: ball really well, just didn't run the ball enough. The
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: thing that I think the biggest problem for us is
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: that in our better games this year, so Penn State, Iowa,
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: the first Indiana game, we just we have not been
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: as chrisp in Texas Tech. We've not been as crisp
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: on offense. I think you have to be to win
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: a game like this. I'm not saying you can't be
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: like we can. We can't just be better, like not
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: have bad snaps right and and like not do some
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: other silly things that feel like very self enforced wounds.
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: But against Indiana, I mean, they thrive on onforcing those
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: and then of course taking advantage of those of those problems.
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: And so we have to just avoid that. We have
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: to run the ball a bunch and avoid the dumb
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: things that happened. I think our defense has gotten better
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: this year, so I think that we can potentially hold them,
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: you know, download bit I put the set out the
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: other day. Landing's now forty I think it's forty eight
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: and seven now he's I think are now thirty one
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: to oher when he when his team has allowed less
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: than thirty points in a game. Wow, they have not
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: lost one time when his team has allowed less. Like.
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: The losses are all Indiana thirty twenty, right, Washington scored
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: in the thirties three times, the Beaver scored thirty four,
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: Georgia scored forty nine, Ohio State scored forty one. Those
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: are seven losses. Like, so if we can hold them
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: like we've we've been in that in that rage. Now
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: again there's some injury rumors about our running backs and
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: it's not great and we're down some death pieces. So
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: we'll see how it goes. But I mean the case
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: for Oregon is that they clean them some of the
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: offensive issues and that look, I mean, you can you
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: can make a case. I'm not saying that it's a
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: great case. So I'm an Oregon fan that you know that,
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: like Indiana, are they going sixteen? And oh, like is
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: that sixteen out? Show? That that would be the best
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: season of all cultural history. They've won every close moment
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: so far this season and just one of the biggest
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: game in program history. The one thing about Oregon that
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: I've liked so far is this offseason or this postseason,
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: is they have very clearly planned their whole season around
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: playing in the playoffs, right, and so I like that
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: like they've expected to be here, they've talked about wanting
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: to be here. Doesn't mean you're gonna win, but I
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: like the mindset, at least from Oregon. So no, man,
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: it'd be fun. We'll see what happens if they win.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: I'll be in Miami for the championship game. Absolutely, that'll
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: be a ton of fun. But looking forward to I
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: feel like, lastly, it's a little bit of house money
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: for us. You're Dante Moore. I think they expect to
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: come back at this point. Our team is going to
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: be much better next season. We're returning, like I think
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: everyone who can come back except on a tight end,
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: and it's gonna be a really it's an older team
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: next season. So I think that this feels like just
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: like house money now. Of course I want to win,
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: let's do it now, but it does feel like, you know,
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: if we lose this year in Indiana who went a championship,
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: you guys rates to them, but we'll shoot you back
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: next year.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: I want Dan Lanning to be the college football Commissioner
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: because he was asked and he gave the best answer
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: we've heard. He was just like, end the season on
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: January first. I agree, start in week zero, take away
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: a bye week, play every week during December, don't give
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: up all those saturdays to the NFL, and let's finish
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: this thing. And you know, he's a compelling guy when
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: he talks, So commissioner, let him quit it or again
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: and make him the college football commissioner.
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: That look, I think that there's a little bit of
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: like self promotion there because I think he would have
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: loved the organ to play a home game last year
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: and that that wasn't the case. And it's pretty easy
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: to say, yeah, well we'll go play Texas Tech. Why
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: not when they're not doing it. But I do greet
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: the schedule part of it, like the scheduled part of it. Look, man,
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: it's NFL posies in time. The fact that Collegetable is
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: still playing, I think that's a problem. And they're not
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: even done yet, right but like this week has been
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: dominating in sports by by NFL playoff talk like that,
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: that's what this that's what the time of the year
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: is right now. So I just expect there to be
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: some more changes. And to the last thing too, again
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: the calendar, Sean just it just can't be this way.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: You can't have a portal right now and make this
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: all happen. It's just it's feels very difficult to do
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: all this all at once. So the se January first,
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: open the portal up and everyone's happy.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: How do players feel when a kicker misses what should
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: be a routine kick to keep you out of the playoffs?
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: Oh loop the other day? I mean, I don't know
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: not great. It's you know, it's so interesting. It's like
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: the Internet is like it's like, oh my god, poor
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: poor kicker. I'm like, do your job.
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: No one says poor offensive lineman when he gives up
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: a sack.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: Correct.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: Umm, the why whenever someone's setting a sack record is
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: it unimpressive? Why is it not like a real sack
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: every time that the record's on the line, And it's
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: like the quarterbacks like take a pseudo dive.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: Okay, So the Shanahan play, I mean that Michael Strahan
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: play showed up today on my timeline because it was
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: it's been it was today, like whenever twenty five years ago.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: Twenty years ago, Farv took a complete dive on that play. Right,
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: he rolled out to his right and his fell down
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: and straight hand didn't even beat anyone. He just was
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: staying there. Miles Garrett like legitimately beat well the end
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: of Brown and Brouh, I know where to go. So
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: he just didn't want to get hit by Miles Garrett.
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: They're not even comparable at all.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: Okay, but uh, what did Joe Burrow play? I kind
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: of he sort of stopped his forward motion, ended up
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: going back into into Miles Garrett's arms. But I didn't
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: blame him because if he kept going forward, ninety three
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: was gonna get him. So like there was there's nothing
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: he could do in that one. It just isn't fun
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: when they just do it that way instead of getting
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: lit up, you know what I mean?
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: Correct? And but Garrett, dude, I mean, what an incredible
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: accomplishment for him. You know, people just I just kind
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: of don't want to give guys credit when when records
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: like this happened. Mean, you know, straight hand was like
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: he did in seventeen games, he did right, you did
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: sixteen games, absolutely right. But also far I took a
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: dive for you, so that also happened.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: All right, dude, We'll let you go. Always appreciate your time,
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: appreciate it. We have another. We got another.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: We got another organized portal commitments from just kickers and
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: long snappers.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: So far perfect. That's what you need, specialists and.
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: It's all we I just saw announced we got another
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: portal kicker. It's awesome. We're just just gonna just gonna be.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: We're gonna turn into Utah just punts and kicks.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: Let that be the complete, uh backbone of your team.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: I mean for years, that's what you guys did the
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: best in the country at That is true. That is
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: for you. For you the entire time we did radio,
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: you were the NEU most most team, the team in
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: the country.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: That's correct. There was three back to back to back
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Ray Guy Award winners. Nobody else gets to say that.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: And we had on We had on the former punter
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: all the time, right, yeah, Tom Hackett, Yeah, Tom Hackett
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: was aw that's our gual. You guys are there. I
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: would love if we were great at kicking every every year.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: It's a big benefit.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: It's not. I mean, it's an often overlooked part of
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: the game. It's kind of like offensive line play. You
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: know this better than I do. It's often overlooked until
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: it's a problem and then you're just like, what the
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: hell happened here?
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: I mean, I would imagine Illinois State wish they were
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: better kicking field goals last night.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: I guarantee that's the case.
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: Do you watch.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Even talked about that game yet today?
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: Montana tried to lose that game, tried their best. Illinois
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: State wouldn't let them.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: Hey, Montana State, that was the first championship they won
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: in forty one years and they've been like a top
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: ten team for decades. They've been in the National Championship
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: Game four times. Good for them. Probably get one.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: Sounds a little bit like organ interesting. Maybe we could
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: both win this year, all right, dude, all right, have
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: a good press conference till Jordan USA High. If you
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: see him, I'll see him, all right, Bye, guys, that's
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: Jeff Schwartz.