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Reimagining College Football: Playoffs and Beyond · JustIN Time

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Welcome back to another edition of the Just in Time podcast.
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I'm your host Justin, and pleasure to have you on again,
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Will. Likewise, brother, always a
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pleasure to be on with you. You know, you said the
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standards, so I got to uphold. It appreciate that of course, so
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playoffs. You talk about playoffs,
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brother. Playoffs, man, playoffs.
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We can win a game. You know this cheap version of
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whatever knock off they're going to put out next year.
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Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.
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I remember when you came with me the, with the, the, the topic a
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couple days ago. You know, it's just, it's
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remarkable how like I always say before I've said this for years,
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how they've tiptoed, the NCAA have tiptoed with every change,
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there's been long overdue. Everything is just, they're slow
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on the update. You know, they just, they can't
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get anything right. Cheers to the Kirkland brothers.
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Yep. Yeah, no, yeah.
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But NCAA can't get anything right.
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You know, I think I remember I sent you a while back.
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Let me see. It was a picture.
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I saw it on on Instagram. Here we go. 2014 playoff.
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That the Big 10? I remember I sent it to you
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because I told you who said the Big 10 is useless.
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And you have fulfilling your purpose but.
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Here we go 2014 playoffs. I mean, it's not 32, but if
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you're going to say, hey, this is the top 25, these teams
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should be ranked. This is your top 25.
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Then do a 2014 playoff, cut the bowl games and conference
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championships and just get right into it.
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Yeah, like I, you know, I said in the past, you know, I would
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definitely wouldn't mind AA24 team, but you know, actually it
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like just you know, for people who don't know, I'll just give
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them a quick overview. 20262027 season, the College Football
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Playoff, you know, maintain their twelve team format rather
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than expanding any further. You know the key rule changes
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for this coming season. It includes, you know, the
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guaranteed automatic bids for the the the four powerful
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conference championships. So obviously ACC, Big 10, Big 12
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ACC and the highest ranked Group of 6 champion.
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And here's the big the big thing.
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Notre Dame received an automatic berth if ranked in the top 12
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all. Right, Notre Dame.
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Here's the deal. Y'all haven't been relative in
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anything other than whining and complaining that y'all got left
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out for this and that you know all y'all are relevant for since
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Brian Kelly. Not since Brian Kelly left Notre
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Dame and Marcus Freeman brought him to the playoffs and brought
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him to the national championship game, what, a year or two after
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he left? Yeah, so Brian Kelly first year,
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first year with the LSU was 2022.
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They made the the title game last season, so the for the 24
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season, but they lost to Ohio State.
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But you know y'all whine and complain.
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Join a comp. Yep.
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How about you do that? We can talk, Join a conference,
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play the hard in and out schedules that these other guys
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play. Don't take that week off at the
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end of the season and then complain that you ain't in the
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championship. Put in the work.
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Put in the work. Yeah, just get my bag.
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Go ahead. Yeah, looking at this 2014
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playoff, most of it would have been the exact same.
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You'd have had some schools, some blowout games, you know?
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So be it. I mean, so be it.
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You know, you're always going to have those blowout games, pull
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up games, You know, 2014 playoff bracket that they put that they
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proposed the top eight teams would have buys, everybody else
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would play and then it would just trickle down from there
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until you left with the final two.
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But the NCAA thinks they have money coming in from all these
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bowl games, which they do. They have a good bit of money
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coming from these bowl games. They have a good bit of money
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coming from these conference championship games.
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But the amount of money you would get from expanding the
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playoffs, you expand the playoffs and you've got, you
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know, probably six to seven SEC teams in the playoffs at all
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times. That's right.
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You know you do that. You got that.
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That's a good bit of money right there.
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Well, expansion in general, yeah, expansion in general is
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going to bring you dollars because this is about the
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dollars. And you don't have to get rid of
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the bowl games. Yeah, definitely not start.
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Everybody a week earlier start everybody a week 0.
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I totally agree, I said. Listen, you know, if anything
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you don't, you don't have to. I still value tradition.
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So you don't have to eliminate bowl games or bowl season.
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They just have to be reimagined. So like I would just do
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everything you should have like a bowl extravaganza, so to speak
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at like you say week 0. Like that way you can you have
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to worry about opt outs from players or teams I don't like in
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the past. I don't mind certain players
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after now because if I'm if, like I said before, if I'm like
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a projected first round guy, especially in the top half of
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the first round, if I'm not in the playoff, I mean, what, what
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do I gain from that? Especially the neutral site
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glorified exhibition. Yeah, you gained nothing like OK
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in 20, the 24th season, when Nuss Meyer played that last
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game. You look at it this way, Dust
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Meyer played that last game and got everybody excited for what
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he was going to be this season. He was the Heisman favorite at
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one point, you know, But you also look at it as this way.
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Weeks played that game, snap his leg in half.
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You know you've got players like that, but you play that game at
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the not to mention, OK, you get teams in those bowl games better
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500 on the season. They don't.
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Yeah, but. Let's be real, they don't
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deserve to go out and play another game.
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This season should have ended at 66.
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And that's, and that's the problem that you're going to see
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like because I've seen a few bowl games this year, like teams
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are 5 or 7 because their teams are opt out.
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So like that's the, that's the danger of being so rigid on how
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things used to be. And like I said, I'm a
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traditional guy, traditional values, but just but I
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understand the shifts in business.
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So if you put these things you you put these bowl games at week
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1 list, think about the opportunity.
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You could like play games over overseas for all I care, because
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you're already doing the Ireland series, like play them over by
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you. You get it.
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Like college basketball does the Maui Invitational every year was
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you get like, no, I know that's not international.
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It's in the States, but just like, but you, you get a the
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opportunity for like coaches, players, fans to visit another
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part of the world, another part of the country and you still
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have the investment with the urgency because it's a Week 0
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game. It's the regular season started
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and you want to get your season off to right foot.
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Exactly. And I get the problem.
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But you have, let's say you do it week zero, you start week
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zero, you play these games. I mean, you have no problems
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playing Thursday night, play Thursday through Sunday.
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Then the next weekend you can play the rest of the games
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Friday to Monday. You know, you've got a bit,
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little bit of built in wiggle room.
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The only wiggle room you don't have is the Army Navy game at
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the end of the season. That is an executive order now.
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Yeah. I'm not going to lie, I kind of
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like it. I mean, just like, yeah, just
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like, yeah, absolutely. I mean, one of the bigger ones,
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you know, admittedly, you know, growing up, you know, just, I
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never looked at it so highly. I know it's an important game.
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It's like it's a rivalry. I mean, it's the armed forces,
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but just, you know, it's not like, you know, Iowa State,
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Michigan or like the Iron Bowl and stuff like that.
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But I know it's it's it has its weight.
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And it means a lot to those guys.
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As you should you know, I respect like, I mean, they, they
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are far more important things to worry about football.
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So I mean, I just, I just let them have their moment.
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So I'm totally for that. They are far more important
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things to do, but. Yeah, and I know it.
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They like, they traditionally play it in December.
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You know what's going to happen, though, if you keep that game
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that weekend, they expand the playoffs.
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One of those themes is always in the top 25.
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There's a reason with, you know. Yeah, one of them will get a
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playoff bid. What happens when that playoff
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is that weekend? And see that and that's my, my
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problem with like being rigged in certain areas.
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So it just because you can't move it up another seven days.
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I mean, what's to me, that's just my standpoint.
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What's what's a difference in seven days?
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Like, yeah, we could play a robbery.
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But I mean, what if one team, let's say if I'm Navy and we 12
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and O and we play an Army, that's like 4:00 and 8:00.
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I mean it's a historic rivalry, but I'm trying to rest up for a
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posting general. Yeah.
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So, I mean, but you know, that game is important, but you, like
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you said one week earlier, that's not going to hurt
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anything. I mean, it shouldn't.
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No, you know, but not only that, we need a total redesign of the
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entire college football system. Yes, he said.
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You see that every day. Yeah, I mean, you got stuff like
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what happened at LSU with Lane Kiffin where he left them.
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Coaches leave all the time, right?
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And the only difference between a coach leaving a job and like,
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if me or you left our jobs and went do something else, most
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people look at that and it's like, look, it would look at us
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and be like, oh, they got a better opportunity somewhere
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else. That's it.
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Yeah, you look at these coaches, sure Ole Miss would have, you
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know, made it to where they made it.
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That is the best he is that team has ever done in the history of
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that school. In the modern era, not even
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close. Yeah, that's that's they've done
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the best season they've had. How can you compare that to the
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constant success a place like LSU has?
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The constant numbers they drive. I'll give you 1.
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You want to know why I owe miss plays at 2:30 every afternoon on
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a Saturday? Because there's not a they're
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not the traditional success stories in the SEC.
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That's why. LSU, Alabama, Georgia, Texas.
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Now that's why they get the night gangs, because they have a
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night atmosphere that's well known, historically known.
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You know, I mean, I feel like the only reason Ole Miss had
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such a following during the playoffs because everybody was
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making fun of them because they don't show up to nothing.
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Yeah, just like like I said, you know, going back off your point,
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just, you know, you just need a massive overall.
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I know that's a tired statement, but like I said, just like you
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said, starting off, go push the seat up to week to week 0, make
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week one week zero, however you want to distinguish it.
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Have a bull extravaganza, all the bulls at the start of the
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season, No opt outs, no, no distractions, no.
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And like I'm and I say that it's important because of what my my
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formula is right at the bottom. You know, I took notes on it.
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I know many people talk about the 2014.
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I say, listen, go to 32. RIP the Band-Aid off already.
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And I'm just I'm and bear with me, I'm going to say it like
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this. Teams ranked in the top 25 get
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the automatic bids because you are you already do top 25 the
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whole season. Let the top 25 have a tremendous
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value through the whole year and the several remaining teams to
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complete the bracket would just be a large selections based on
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like, you know, out of conf tough.
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Did you schedule a tough route of conference teams?
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You know, you in conference schedule all the other tie
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breaks, all the other factors, you know, and by doing this you
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take the unnecessary guesswork out of it.
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All this weekly college shows and stuff like college like
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selection shows unnecessary. I think we said it from the
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beginning, though, you know, if you're going to stop counting
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the AP poll or the coaches poll after the first week in October.
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But what is it first week in? Yeah, No, it's the.
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You know, normally like it's like last week, October, like
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starting starting November is when, yeah, nothing go away.
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Why not have the so-called experts get together in August
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and start putting out their rankings in August?
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They ain't doing anything. Maybe it'll force them to
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actually watch football and understand that Notre Dame isn't
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in a conference. Shouldn't be rewarded for bad
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behaviour. Yeah, I mean, just like like
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like I said, it's just you maintain the value of a top 25
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because like even the AP like once November comes, nobody
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really cared about the a people, a people like they did in
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September and October. But like just when you, but when
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you have a like you said, start at the end of the year, just go
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from there. All this nonsense of weekly
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selection shows, like the first selection show this.
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I don't care about that because if my team's undefeated, I don't
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care about that. I mean, what what good does that
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mean? What good is it for our team to
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beat? So we LSU guys, what good is it
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for us to be right in the top 12 in the first week of November if
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we lose four straight and we're not going to make the playoff
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run? Oh, this is the first time in a
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long time I think we should be ranked in the top 12 in the
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first ranking, based off the excitement around the program we
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had Brian Kelly, we were lucky to be ranked in the top 25.
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But yeah, like in this system, like, listen, top 25 automatic
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bids. I mean, just take all the
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guesswork out. And then just like 7 at large, I
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say eliminate conference title games.
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Why? Because they're inconsistently
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important over time. Look at two.
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Yeah, go ahead. Yeah, you look at Tulane and
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them look at the SEC, we are by for the toughest conference
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plan. It doesn't matter.
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We don't have any weak teams on the schedule.
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We play in nine conference games already and that would bump us.
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That bumps us up to 10. If you make it to a conference
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championship game, I top content, you know, playing a
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tenth SEC game. And The thing is like, you know,
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I, I go back to, you know, 2004 Auburn, they were undefeated the
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whole year and then get to play in the championship game.
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They beat Tennessee twice on the end.
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They beat us. They beat the ones that they
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beat Georgia, and they beat they beat Tennessee twice in that
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season undefeat with Jason Campbell, Tom like, but they
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even play in the in the national title, they were 14 and up 13.
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And up. Well, that's because that was
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back when we were letting computers do all the guess.
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And now we're letting people who probably don't turn on the TV
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and watch this college football, college football Saturday all
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season long. They probably sit there on a
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Sunday, watch the NFL and think they're watching college
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football. And look, and I'll give you 2
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more recent ones, 2023 and Florida State.
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Let's yes, you know, Jordan Travis got hurt.
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I mean, but still, you can't take away they have a dominant
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season. If they if they lost 70 to to
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nothing in the playoffs, so be it.
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Like we said, I mean, they earned their right to be in the
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playoffs. They were undefeated Power 5
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conference title champion. Put in like Tulane or who else
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was it this year? JNU.
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Yep. And it beat by 50 points.
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What's the difference? You put in the undefeated
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Florida State into the playoffs and let them get beat, you know?
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Even this year with Duke, they won the national championship
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and, and I mean not I'm sorry, the conference championship.
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ACC, even though Miami was a big, way better team because of
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unique tiebreakers. Now, granted, Miami was the
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right selection for that conference, don't get me wrong.
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But Duke, when you have like you, you win the conference and
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you win like 9 and five. It's just the older I get.
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I realized it's just so inconsistent with the conference
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title games, just like just do away with them already.
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I just say like, look at yeah, but.
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Every year you have different people on that committee who
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value different things. It's not the same way across the
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board that you have. That's the problem.
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And what I don't like is for college football, eventually, if
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you keep adding conference champions, saying conference
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champions get in, you go to top 32 teams, then it's going to
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turn out like college baseball where you could go to have a
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losing season when your conference championship and be
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in the post season. Baseball, though, is different
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because if you win your conference championship, you're
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getting hot at the end of the year.
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Football, I mean, I'm not saying it can happen.
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I mean anything can happen. I mean, I'm not it'd be
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logistically hard. You can't have a losing seed
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your conference championship and think you'd be ranked high
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enough. But you know, all the time
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they'll bump these things up and be like, oh, they'll bump it up
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to 32 teams and be like, oh, let's keep it.
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Conference championship games help conference champions get an
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automatic bid. I mean they're just like when
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you with all the merging of conferences over the last
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several years and they increase conference in in season
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conference schedule. I mean you should have plenty of
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data to use to determine it without actual conference title
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game. Exactly.
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So it's like, do you have so much more data now?
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You have all these conferences that are constantly rearranging,
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like the SEC just added Texas and Oklahoma conferences
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struggling to stay afloat because they don't have enough
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teams in that conference. You know, like I said on one
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yeah, I was. Going to say, I was going to say
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real, real quick. I'm I'm going to sum it up real
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quick. Just when we talk about, you
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know, just eliminate conference title games itself using the
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conference title game weekend. Just use that make that awards
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weekend and that'll be like a bye week for all the 32 team
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because no need like and I'm and hear me out with this, you know
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this every every all the 32 teams will play on the same week
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like Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
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So that's a built in buy for every everybody.
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Round of 32, The top 16 teams that are ranked they they will
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host home games in their home stadiums.
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Round of 16 Round the 16, The highest 8 remaining seeds from
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the first round will host home games in their home stadium.
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Like I said, nothing like a home playoff game in the college
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football players. I love what I've seen in the
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last two years. And then in the quarterfinals,
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Yeah, go ahead. You do it like that, all that
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money that is going to be that they would pay for those bowl
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games and all of that. They're tripling it, maybe
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quadrupling it, and it's going to the right place.
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It's going to the concession sale, it's going to the
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university. That's it and then with and like
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when you get to the quarterfinals, then you could go
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to the neutral site. So quarterfinals, so the final,
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you know, 8 teams, there'll be 4 neutral sites at the iconic
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bowls, you know, orange, Fiesta, Peach, cotton, semi final be the
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final four, so Rose Bowl, Sugar Bowl, and then of course the
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national championship game. And obviously those bowl games
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were rotating on the regular on a annual basis about which one
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will be the quarter final, semi final.
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And you know, and a most important thing is like I put, I
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like to push everything up because that way in the early
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part of December, ideally you have the national championship
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game done by the end of the calendar year or make the
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national championship game on New Year's Day at the latest.
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That way you have about a couple weeks to have like the have a
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couple weeks to like have all the housekeeping stuff done.
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You know, if I coaching changes, roster changes, that way it
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won't be done during the middle of the post season, so.
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Exactly where I was going into this with Let us get rid of the
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spring football. Yeah.
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Push it. Push the transfer portal dates
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back. Yes.
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Let them finish the season. Let the coaches finish the team
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with unless they're fired. Let them finish with the teams
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they started with that they take a new job and I think it was,
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Saban said start them in the summer and let them do like make
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it like the NFL where they have summer camp.
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Basically they start AMP in the summer and they just go
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throughout the summer and they practice during the summer.
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That way they have two months to get to know each other, two
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months to learn. These sit, then start the fall.
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I'm which totally, I'm $1.00 percent agree you, you got to
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you, you have to, they have to get out of their own way.
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That's the bottom line. I mean, it fixes a lot going to
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an NFL format where the coaches, it's not perfect because it's
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still college, but it puts an emphasis on fixes all this stuff
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like Pete Golden calling, who do you call from Clemson, that
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linebacker. Yeah, I forgot his name, but you
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know that. That's the whole yeah.
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Funny how when you spit up, it comes back down because you spit
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up and said all that about Lane Kiffin with no proof and now
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they've got text message proof because your coach couldn't keep
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it in his pants. He had to send text messages and
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calls and that kid submitted all of that to Sweeney and Clemson
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and going straight did it. God bless.
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That's their problem. That's their problem.
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Good luck. Only how it happens.
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I love it. Yeah, but you know, you know,
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moving on kind of standing around with football.
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I saw some more clips from the Miked Up podcast this week.
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They were talking about playing a baseball team should play on
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Tiger Stadium, at Tiger Stadium. That would be interesting.
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That would be fun. It'll be unique.
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I mean it just like you already have an iconic stick.
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Like I remember you send me the I don't know if it's you or my
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or my Co workers. It's like they send me like the
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AI version of what Alex box could be like a they have like
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multiple decks. It's like AI version of the
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yeah, yeah, it was it was so beautiful.
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I said this is make it like it's an iconic baseball venue.
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Just make just deck it out. I mean.
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You couldn't. It gets loud over there already.
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Can you imagine if you had that, how hard it would be?
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The only problem with them playing at Tiger Stadium is I
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don't think Tiger Stadium. The field is wide enough.
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I don't think the dimensions add up.
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You know, you know, that's interesting.
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I mean, traditionally, I don't know, like many, you know, in,
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in the, in the, in the pros, like, you know, the San
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Francisco Giants played in they played at Candlestick Park where
23:17
the 49ers play, Dolphins play, the Marlins play where the
23:19
Dolphins played in. But there used to be like some
23:23
live stadium. But yeah.
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But I don't think we could logistically take Tiger Stadium
23:28
apart like that though, you know, because football is just
23:32
straight up and then baseball starts at the diamond and it
23:34
just goes out. I don't think it might work, but
23:39
just dimension wise, I don't think it'll work.
23:43
But I would love to see that just like they put on they
23:46
putting on all these concerts. Yeah, I mean, because I also
23:50
think about like Oakland, the Athletics, you know, they was
23:53
played, they would play them and the Raiders were sharing the
23:56
stadium, so like McAfee Stadium. So I mean, they, the, the names
24:00
changed so much. So bear with me y'all, but just
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yeah it. It'd be interesting to see at
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least one like once a year. Yeah, I mean, it would be fun to
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see him do something different, you know, pulling up the
24:15
scrimmage stats right now. I like that they just put up six
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hours ago, the LSU put up the new Intimidator.
24:24
Yeah, I definitely want to see, I'm trying to like open up the
24:26
scrimmage, what they have, the scrimmage schedule.
24:29
Yeah, they are. I think it's through.
24:33
I pulled up the recruit, but I think that's not where I need to
24:36
go. Let's see.
24:37
I think it might be baseball stats, baseball data.
24:39
I think it's what we need. But here we go.
24:42
These were stats from the 23rd because I think this is a random
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dates at random dates. You know Thursday, Friday,
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right? OK, from the 21st the scrimmage
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is scrimmage on the 21st we had Seth Dardar.
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These are the exit velocities. Top Trackman exit velocities.
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Seth Dardar at one O 8 Cater and BD at one O 5, One O 1.5.
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Zach you work at one O 1.1. Braden Simpson had the next two
25:22
at one O 1 and 100.5. John Pearson had 100.4, and
25:29
Tanneries was 100.3. OK.
25:35
They have listed here. Seth Dardar went 2 for two with
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a home run and three RBIs. Chris Stanfield went 2 for two.
25:44
Jake Brown was one for 2 with a walk and two RBIs, Zach York was
25:50
one for two with a walk and two RBIs, and Braden Simpson went 2
25:53
for three. Cooper Moore pitched 4 innings,
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gave up two hits, zero in runs in five case.
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Then on the 22nd, we'll just skip the exit.
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Below's. Not everybody likes that, but
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that's too much. But the scrim.
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The top stats from the scrimmage on the 22nd was John Pearson was
26:15
2 for three with a double and two RBIs, Jake Brown was 2 for
26:20
three with a double and Tanner Reeves was one for three with a
26:23
home run and one RBI. Marco's pass pitch with a inning
26:27
and 2/3, one hit, 0 iron runs and five KS.
26:31
Santiago Garcia would pitch the inning and 2/3.
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One home run, no iron runs and two KS.
26:39
One home run, one hit, gave up one hit, no iron runs in two
26:45
strikeouts. Maverick Rizzy pitched 2 and
26:48
2/3, gave a one hit one iron run in five case.
26:52
And I'm definitely not reading the exit velocities from the
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23rd because that was 234567891011121314.
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But I will say Eddie Yaman had the top exit V low at one O 8.7
27:12
miles an hour. And then from the 23rd the
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scrimmage stats. Top stats from the scrimmage was
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Mason Braun was 3 for four with a walk in RBI.
27:27
Eddie Yaman was 2 for 3A double. Breeze was 2 for four with RBI.
27:31
Eric Curiel was one for four with the home run.
27:34
Zach Yorke was one for four with the home run.
27:37
Jayden Newt pitched three and a third, gave a one hit, one run
27:42
and three KS. Dax Death.
27:44
That's his name. I am in my head listening to
27:52
Lynn Rollins pronounce these names when he gets when the
27:55
season starts. That's a lot I got to learn
27:58
right there. I'm gonna get these names.
28:01
Anyway, with if I'm mispronouncing, if I'm
28:04
mispronouncing these names, I'm mispronouncing them.
28:08
But Jack's death one and 2/3, no hits, no run runs. 2K's DJ
28:16
Primo, 1 inning pitch, zero hits, zero runs. 2K's Zion,
28:22
Theopolis, whatever. Theophilus.
28:25
I would say Theophilus. Theophilus, Yeah.
28:29
Two innings pitch, zero hits, 0 ONS and 3K's so.
28:34
What I'm saying is just like standing this, I I didn't want
28:37
you to be steady as possible. I know scrimmage.
28:39
So I mean, it's not going to be, it's not going to matter a month
28:42
from now, but but just like I just want to see steadiness from
28:45
the guys. It's just prosthetics and when
28:48
you go through it and you look at it and it's our guys, you
28:52
know, you look at it and it's our guys versus our guys, you
28:56
know, And you go ahead and you look at how good they are
28:58
against everybody else, all this other competition, you know, and
29:06
they're blowing the competition out the water, you know, the
29:10
other guys out the water and then their guys come and hit off
29:14
our pitches. You know, it's good to judge.
29:17
Like you look back at these early season scrimmages, it's
29:20
good to judge on what our guys are versus what everybody else
29:24
does, you know, But I saw earlier this week on the news,
29:31
they had Jeh Johnson. They were talking to a few of
29:34
them and Derek Curio said that, Jay said.
29:37
You know they were taking the target off of their back.
29:40
Yes, I saw. That and putting a gun in their
29:43
hand and everybody else is the target and that they're going to
29:47
work through this season is they're not the targeted ones,
29:51
they're the hunters. They're not the prey.
29:53
They're the hunters. They're coming and they're
29:55
coming for you, you know, and I think that's it.
29:59
Recipe for success? Well, you you keep the fire on
30:01
just like because I was I heard that standard clip a few days
30:04
ago also. So it was just like, you know,
30:08
you are he had mentioned also coach Johnson, just that your
30:12
standard is the the standard has been set youth before he got
30:15
here. So you already have the high
30:17
expectation and the high demand. So it was just like to, you
30:21
know, get the guys to control what they could control, but
30:24
just understand like, you know, process oriented thing.
30:27
That's that's what's going to drive.
30:28
Obviously I'm not naive to not having talent, but just keep the
30:32
process up because we see what, you know, a couple years ago,
30:37
just like we struggled fielding and like, you know, it's just,
30:41
you know, not having the routine play.
30:43
So you keep the, I mean, you can have the time, but just keep the
30:46
process. Make sure, you know, you keep
30:48
the fire going. Like you said, it just, you
30:50
know, change your mind. So, you know, we're still going
30:51
to attack, you know, because we got a title to the.
30:54
Yeah, you got to attack. But, and I think I said this a
30:59
lot last year, you got to set the tone early.
31:01
You got to have that guy, that Friday night guy that can come
31:04
in and set the tone for the weekend.
31:06
And I think you can pick any of those guys that Cowan, Jason
31:10
Evans, Jason Evans I think is going to be your Friday night
31:13
guy, you know, pick any of those guys that that we talked about
31:17
last week, you know that start. And I think any of those guys
31:24
will set the tone. And then one of our biggest
31:28
things has always been relief pitching coming in.
31:32
Relief pitching has to follow that tone that the start of set.
31:35
You know you can't beat up by 10 runs about to 10 run.
31:42
Rule somebody and then let them come in and get these cheap hits
31:47
and work their way back into a game.
31:50
You have to set the. Tone and keep the Yeah, I mean,
31:55
you have to set the tone and keep the tone and just keep
31:59
rolling through it. But it all starts on that Friday
32:01
night. That Friday night is a must, a
32:04
must. You must get that win, must set
32:06
that tone, you know? Just.
32:08
You got to do it. You got to do it.
32:10
But I think Jay's got a talented team.
32:12
I think he'll come out, he'll get them boys ready to play,
32:16
yeah. I just I just slide out a
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notification. I should be I totally agree.
32:22
Like, you know, I've never, you know, I've been fortunate, you
32:24
know, like even when we was in college, you know, we didn't
32:27
have the championship to show for like you and I will go all
32:30
the time. Just we were dominant then.
32:33
You know, it was just they just didn't put it together.
32:35
And then the day because we lost in the, we lost in the final the
32:41
when we was at college. But they have some dominant
32:43
teams then. Yeah, yeah.
32:45
If you look at it like I went back around that time, you know
32:49
how Facebook shows you like your memories and everything from
32:53
that day when they sport announced that last weekend in
32:57
March where the conference championships they go and they
33:00
say, oh, this team is going there.
33:02
They just do the announcement and stuff from a good the whole
33:07
time we were in college, for the most part, every time I looked
33:09
at that, it was top 8 national seed, top 8 national seed, top 8
33:13
national seed with nothing to show.
33:15
Yeah, they just couldn't get over.
33:17
Those teams had the talent. They just couldn't get there and
33:21
do what they needed to do to. And it's unfortunate, like
33:24
especially one of the history, yeah, but I mean, it happens.
33:27
And like I said, you know, hopefully with this new
33:29
intimidating that I'm looking at it because I just got the
33:32
notification from Reddit, you know, give us some extra
33:34
motivation. I just love it man.
33:37
You look up there. And see eight, I mean, like I
33:40
said, if you expand, listen, if you expand it to like the triple
33:43
dead, like the AI picture for the stadium, like you could put
33:46
it around the stadium, around the deck you look, or better
33:49
yet, you could name each section of the stadium a year of the
33:52
championship that they won. I'm in 91, I'm in O9I.
33:57
Mean you. You can already do that.
33:59
Yeah, so that's the luxury of having that great program.
34:03
Oh. Yeah, always luxury.
34:08
The history alone gets you to that point.
34:13
But I saw something this week. The CBA is considering making
34:17
college based, looking at the NFL and the NBA's draft rules,
34:21
meaning high school players have to go to college, play in
34:26
college, they can't be drafted out of high school.
34:28
That happens. Good luck everybody else.
34:31
Because that's interesting. I mean, because like, you know,
34:33
you have the baseball, the farm systems.
34:36
So it's like, yeah, I'd be curious to see how they
34:38
organize. Well, MLB.
34:40
Nowadays, if you, yeah, nowadays get to it and you look at
34:45
college teams and then you look at their farm system and the
34:49
kids who go to college come up faster than the 1, you know, go
34:52
straight from high school to the in the draft and go, Most of
34:55
those kids come up and they're more ready to play.
34:57
They're developed, you know, and if they're developed, they, they
35:01
get developed more. They just that, that some of
35:05
them just need that little shine and they go to college, they get
35:07
that shine, they get that development, they grow up a
35:10
little bit and then everything just flows for them.
35:12
Look at 2 recent guys for LS. I mean, I can't really say Paul
35:16
Schemes. Paul Schemes came from Air
35:17
Force, but I mean, look at what he did at LSULSU, polished him
35:22
as a baseball player. He was already polished as a
35:24
let's be honest, he's a robot. Yeah, like they just.
35:28
Took him and oiled him up a little.
35:30
And then there's a Unicorn. Yeah, set up catch gave him one
35:35
purpose and he dominated that one purpose and he continues to
35:39
dominate that one purpose. I don't, I don't know Major
35:42
League Baseball that much. When's the last time we had a
35:46
Rookie of the Year in the Cy Young Award winner?
35:48
The next year? Kind of looked it up.
35:51
Yeah. I mean, you just look at it and
35:53
they're polished. I mean, look at Dylan Cruz.
35:56
Dylan Cruz, another one. And he was ranked high coming
35:59
out of high school and we got him to campus and he was the
36:03
number two pick in the draft and he was Golden Spikes Award
36:07
winner #2 pick in the draft. And then he spends a season and
36:12
1/2 no, I think a season and a half, maybe a season in the
36:18
minors and they pull him up to MLB.
36:21
Now this season he got off to a good start.
36:24
He got no, he got off to a terrible start and started
36:28
heating up and got injured and had to come back.
36:30
You know, that's just two recent examples of guys coming to
36:35
college. One Cruz was an example of for
36:40
going to draft and coming to college.
36:42
Yeah, yeah. But to answer your question
36:48
really quick, you know like Fernando Valenzuela, the only
36:53
player in him, and I probably mispronounced it.
36:55
So give me just only play in MLB history to win both Rookie of
36:58
the Year and Cy Young. And I was back in 1981 with the
37:02
Dodgers. The Dodgers, it was a strike
37:05
short season. And, you know, he was like
37:07
nanomania. Yeah.
37:08
You got the Rookie of the Year and the Cy Young Award in the
37:11
same year. Yeah, yeah.
37:14
So I was the only one. I was the only time I have to
37:16
where he was Cy Young and Rick of the year.
37:18
So it was he went thirteen and seven with a 248 ERA and and 11
37:22
complete games at 8 shutouts. It was a strike sort of season,
37:26
though. Yeah, short season.
37:29
Yeah, not quite, Not quite what Skeins did.
37:31
He did it Rookie of the year one year, then came back and got
37:35
young but still impressive. Oh, without question.
37:38
But I really think Skeins has that advantage of where he was a
37:41
two way player for most of his career, so he wasn't throwing
37:46
all that junk and all that stuff, destroying his arm like
37:49
the rest of them. Where for their full careers
37:52
with extended outings, he would just come in, throw an inning or
37:55
two and then go back to catching, you know, right.
37:58
Then he gets to LSU, they make him a sole starter, and he just
38:01
has that huge jump because he's well rested.
38:03
He's not catching. He's not doing all those other
38:06
duties that they do at the service academies either.
38:08
Yeah. You know, I mean, part of what
38:10
makes him special, I think, is that military mindset.
38:14
Yeah, it's privilege to watch him.
38:16
But enough about the path. They got a brief.
38:19
But yeah, going back to what you were saying, it is.
38:26
Yeah, man, I'm with you everywhere.
38:27
All all that stuff. Yeah, when he was at LSUI, was
38:31
lucky enough to sit in the Champions Club, right behind the
38:34
third base dugout for the Tennessee game.
38:39
And just watching him throw, it's like dead ball.
38:43
Just was left his hand and then was going right back to him
38:47
within 5 seconds. Not even 5 seconds, like 2
38:49
seconds. Yeah.
38:51
You got anything to close this up?
38:53
Like I said, brother, listen, appreciate you having me on as
38:57
always. I would say like we should just
38:59
go to 32. Just to sum it up real quick, 32
39:01
teams are nothing. Likewise, 32 teams are nothing
39:05
and I'm like, sorry for this season.
39:07
We listen, you know, ready get to that baseball shout out to
39:10
wheels like the the the YouTube channel with the the highlights,
39:15
major shout out and black canvas tease.
39:18
Yeah. Blake Havestis.
39:19
Yep. All right, let's see if I got a
39:21
quote for everybody today. I didn't quite look one up, so I
39:24
don't have a quote for today, but I'll just say this.
39:27
I don't have a quote for today. I ain't got nothing for
39:29
everybody today. Lizzie, you.
39:31
You have we have quotable stuff and the minutes we recorded by
39:34
the we good. Yep.
39:37
All right, we'll just leave it with all.
39:39
I'm still pushing the school account.
39:41
Yes. I'll have the link tree posted
39:45
with the description. It'll have all my socials on it,
39:48
YouTube, the Twitter, the Facebook page, school account,
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Spotify, Apple podcast. It'll have everything on there
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