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Duke Is SUING Its QB... Indiana CFP Win Changes Everything, Way-Too-Early Rankings Are a Joke · Unafraid Show with George Wrighster

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Speaker 1: It is the day after the national championship, and we
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Speaker 1: just watched one of the most successful college football seasons
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Speaker 1: that we have ever seen. We got parody, We got
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Speaker 1: an unlikely champion, and we have the future of college
0:15
Speaker 1: football has been turned on its head because now nobody
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Speaker 1: knows what the exact recipe is. So is the exact
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Speaker 1: recipe for winning a national championship recruiting four and five
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Speaker 1: star talent depth and everything else. Yeah, sure that would work,
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Speaker 1: but that doesn't work in twenty twenty five, twenty twenty
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Speaker 1: six with the transfer portal. And this is why college
0:37
Speaker 1: football has never been any greater because of that parody.
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Speaker 1: And I've been talking about this since we were going
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Speaker 1: to get playoff expansion and people are against it, Oh no,
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Speaker 1: stay at four. I was like, no, it is going
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Speaker 1: to get greater later and they didn't believe it, but
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Speaker 1: now they are believers. So we got to talk about that.
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Speaker 1: We got to talk about how unlikely this Indiana championship is.
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Speaker 1: We have to talk about the leadership in college football
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Speaker 1: and what's going on and how and how they're tinkering
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Speaker 1: going on, and this is one one hundred percent trying
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Speaker 1: to mess things up. We got to talk about Darien
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Speaker 1: Mensa and his situation and how this is a landmark
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Speaker 1: situation for college football because how the judge rules in
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Speaker 1: this case will determine future lawsuits and how they are adjudicated.
1:30
Speaker 1: I cannot wait because there's so much that goes into this,
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Speaker 1: and we have to talk about the Big Ten versus
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Speaker 1: the SEC. So for a second, I want to focus
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Speaker 1: on what's going on in college football right now. Because
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Speaker 1: we have a champion, we have parody. This is what
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Speaker 1: makes the NFL so great is we don't know who's
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Speaker 1: gonna win from a year in the year out. Basis,
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Speaker 1: no matter how good a team looks during the regular season,
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Speaker 1: you gotta go in the playoffs and.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely prove it. And everybody ain't capable of that.
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Speaker 1: And we've seen that this year that the team that
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Speaker 1: everybody thought was the best team in the nation, Ohio State,
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Speaker 1: took back to back els to Indiana and in the
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Speaker 1: Big Ten Championship, and then they come and lose to
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Speaker 1: Miami in the College Football Quarterfinals. So this is there
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Speaker 1: has never been a time in college football where it
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Speaker 1: was harder to win a national championship than it is now.
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Speaker 1: Talent is spread out all over the place and people
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Speaker 1: could say whatever they want to say because the SEC people,
2:36
Speaker 1: they will try to tell you, oh, the product is
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Speaker 1: diluted now, and no it's not. There's a reason why
2:41
Speaker 1: ratings and interest have never been higher. You go on YouTube,
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Speaker 1: there are more college football channels than there have ever been.
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Speaker 1: The views are higher, the channels are trending, and there's opportunities.
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Speaker 1: And there's a reason why Kirk Herbstreet has now started
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Speaker 1: a channel Joel Klatt and all of the guys that
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Speaker 1: you see on TV while they are getting into this
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Speaker 1: YouTube game because it is growing faster and everybody wants
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Speaker 1: those clicks and those and those views.
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Speaker 2: And this season, though, with Indiana winning, throwing.
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Speaker 1: The the blue chip rating out in the trash, it
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Speaker 1: is taking everything that everybody knew balled it up and said,
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Speaker 1: oh oh oh, only big names can win, only teams
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Speaker 1: from the SEC can win, Only teams that, uh that
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Speaker 1: have enough four and five star talent can can win. Nope,
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Speaker 1: throw it in the trash. So you got to divorce
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Speaker 1: yourself from those old ideas. And then I got to
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Speaker 1: thinking about what could I equate this to in the
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Speaker 1: history of sports, Like how unlikely of a champion is Indiana.
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Speaker 1: Granted all your they proved that they were one of
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Speaker 1: the best teams in college football. But between the turnaround
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Speaker 1: and the name brand being that name brands only win
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Speaker 1: in college football, I was trying to think of some
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Speaker 1: other opportunities. So last night on the live stream, I
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Speaker 1: compared it to the nineteen eighty US Olympic hockey team,
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Speaker 1: the Miracle on Ice. There have been movies made about
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Speaker 1: it and everything else. That's when a group of college
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Speaker 1: amateurs defeated the seemingly invisible Soviet.
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Speaker 2: Union at the Winter Olympics.
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Speaker 1: Then if you're a soccer fan, you got to look
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Speaker 1: at like Leister City in twenty sixteen in the Premier League.
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Speaker 1: They went from damnar relegation five thousand to one odds
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Speaker 1: to England's top soccer league.
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Speaker 2: It was just they stunned the world.
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Speaker 1: You can go nineteen eighty five Villanova in college basketball.
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Speaker 1: They were the eight seed and they shot the damn
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Speaker 1: lights out versus Georgetown, who was a powerhouse at the time,
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Speaker 1: in the final game. Go back to the ninety nine
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Speaker 1: The Greatest Show on Turf. They turned a four and
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Speaker 1: twelve season into a Super Bowl victory and Kirk Warner
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Speaker 1: out of nowhere emerged as the MVP Fernando Mendoza style.
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Speaker 1: The two thousand and one Patriots went from five to
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Speaker 1: eleven the previous year to Super Bowl champions that started
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Speaker 1: the Brady Belichick dynasty. Or in you know, Buster Douglas
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Speaker 1: knocking out Mike Tyson. That's how unlikely Indiana winning a
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Speaker 1: national championship is because this is not a consistent powerhouse.
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Speaker 2: It's not.
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Speaker 1: And that's why I loved it so much, and I
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Speaker 1: believe that it is great for the sport because the
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Speaker 1: thing that college football needs more than anything else. And
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Speaker 1: if you guys don't remember anything else from this entire
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Speaker 1: live stream, remember this. The thing that college football fans
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Speaker 1: need more than anything or any sports fan or anybody
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Speaker 1: in life is hope. If there is no hope that
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Speaker 1: within three years, if we get the right coach, we
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Speaker 1: recruit the right players and get the right transfer portal people,
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Speaker 1: and have the right resources as well, that we can
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Speaker 1: win our conference and potentially win a national championship. That
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Speaker 1: is what college football needed more than anything, and now
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Speaker 1: it has arrived on our doorstep. Alabama don't like it,
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Speaker 1: Ohio State don't like it. But you know, the SEC
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Speaker 1: doesn't like it, All the powers that usc doesn't like it,
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Speaker 1: all of the traditional powers that be don't like it.
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Speaker 2: Texas.
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Speaker 1: There was a time where Texas would have gotten into
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Speaker 1: the College Football Playoff on name brand alone, and that's
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Speaker 1: why you had so many people caping for them. But
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Speaker 1: now that Indiana has won, what can you say about
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Speaker 1: keeping out the little guy? Because last year, a year ago,
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Speaker 1: you had people saying, oh, oh God, don't even put
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Speaker 1: Indiana back in the College football Playoffs.
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Speaker 2: It's Indiana. And then what did they do this year?
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Speaker 1: Ran through a big name brand in Alabama, ran through
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Speaker 1: Ohio State, ran through Oregon, and then beat up Miami
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Speaker 1: in the National championship too. That's a hell of a
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Speaker 1: run for a team that had to win three games
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Speaker 1: to win a national championship this year, and to think
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Speaker 1: about to go back in their history the last time
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Speaker 1: that they won three bowl games nineteen seventy nine, Are
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Speaker 1: you kidding me? Nineteen seventy nine. To get to find
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Speaker 1: three bowl victories in Indiana's history, that's how future it is.
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Speaker 1: That's why I want you to understand how big of
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Speaker 1: a deal that them winning the national championship is. Now
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Speaker 1: we are now dealing with some crazy things in college football.
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Speaker 1: One of the craziest things that we're dealing with in
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Speaker 1: college football now it involves Darien Mensa over at Duke.
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Speaker 1: So if you are just catching up to this story,
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Speaker 1: Darien Mensa quarterback for Duke outstanding outstanding college football season.
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Speaker 1: This kid was lights out over thirty touchdowns I believe,
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Speaker 1: and minimal picks as well. He was fantastic and he's
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Speaker 1: the reason why Duke was able to win the ACC
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Speaker 1: Championship despite having five losses. So he completed almost sixty
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Speaker 1: seven percent of his passes for thirty nine hundred yards.
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Speaker 1: That's almost four thousand yards, thirty four touchdowns, and six picks.
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Speaker 1: You know what type of season that that is. So
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Speaker 1: and he transferred over from Tulane the year prior. Signed
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Speaker 1: a two year deal with Duke up to eight million dollars. Now,
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Speaker 1: mind you that there's a base number and depending on
9:13
Speaker 1: you know, his stats and how the team does and
9:15
Speaker 1: everything else, he gets incentives. So he signed a two
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Speaker 1: year deal. So now he balls out. Okay, offseason start well,
9:26
Speaker 1: transfer portal starts and he's like, no, I'm staying at Duke.
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Speaker 1: Not sure if they redid his deal, but he was like, yo,
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Speaker 1: I'm staying at Duke. The college football playoffs is still
9:37
Speaker 1: going on. Miami can't find a quarterback. LSU is trying
9:42
Speaker 1: to find a quarterback. They tried to get Demon Williams
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Speaker 1: to come out of the portal. Miami's looking for a quarterback. Tennessee,
9:48
Speaker 1: like all of these teams are still looking for a
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Speaker 1: quarterback for next year because the idea of playing somebody
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Speaker 1: that you recruited is a foreign concept to a lot
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Speaker 1: of college football teams right now. And I'm not saying
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Speaker 1: it's wrong, because if you think about the amount of
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Speaker 1: pressure that is on winning right now, are you going
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Speaker 1: to be willing to trust your mortgage, your family's livelihood,
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Speaker 1: and your job on a red shirt freshman or a
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Speaker 1: red shirt sophomore who you have not really seen play
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Speaker 1: outside of some blowout garbage time where he was probably
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Speaker 1: handing off the ball a lot and practice. Right how
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Speaker 1: many coaches are going to be willing to stake their
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Speaker 1: reputation on that? Not very many, right, especially when the
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Speaker 1: rest of your roster it's primed to potentially win a championship.
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Speaker 2: So this is why so.
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Speaker 1: Darien Mensa's at Duke Miami can't find a quarterback.
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Speaker 2: They have tried.
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Speaker 1: They tried to get Tom Williams, they tried to get
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Speaker 1: Sam Levitt, they tried to get all these quarterbacks. All
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Speaker 1: of them said no for whatever reason, no disparagement against Miami,
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Speaker 1: but for whatever reason, didn't work out. So then Miami,
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Speaker 1: the portal is getting ready to close. Day before the
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Speaker 1: portal closes, Darien Missa and mind you, I started to
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Speaker 1: hear whispers about this a few days prior, simply about
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Speaker 1: Miami not finding a quarterback, in that they were going
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Speaker 1: to get aggressive and they weren't going to be able
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Speaker 1: to go into the SEC and find a quarterback because
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Speaker 1: it's like, okay, who do you get? Ain't really a
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Speaker 1: whole lot of options in the SEC. They had all
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Speaker 1: the schools looking for quarterbacks. Oh yeah, and old Missus
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Speaker 1: still looking for a quarterback too. The Big Ten, well,
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Speaker 1: the demand Williams situation. Who's gonna be willing to leave?
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Speaker 1: Dante Moore ain't leaving Oregon. Demond Williams tried to leave
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Speaker 1: and then he had to go back, and apparently the
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Speaker 1: Big Ten contracts are a little more ironclad. So then Miami,
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Speaker 1: He's like, okay, we got to go looking in the ACC.
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Speaker 1: I know that they looked at the Kid Bailey at
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Speaker 1: NC State and then Darien Mensa. And the numbers that
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Speaker 1: we are talking about that we have heard to get
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Speaker 1: Darien Mensa out of Duke are outrageous. So the going
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Speaker 1: rate for a top quarterback now already is into the
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Speaker 1: five millions right for a top tier quarterback in terms
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Speaker 1: of their NIL package plus their pay for play package,
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Speaker 1: like over five million dollars for the top quarterbacks in
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Speaker 1: the portal. And it's a matter of supply and demand.
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Speaker 1: And if he was already because of winning the ACC
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Speaker 1: Championship and leading, throwing for so many yards, all this stuff,
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Speaker 1: he was probably up to about four million dollars this
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Speaker 1: year at Duke. So imagine how much it would cost
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Speaker 1: to get you to leave Duke knowing that you could
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Speaker 1: end up having to hire a lawyer, that you could
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Speaker 1: end up getting sued and everything else. Well, and Matt,
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Speaker 1: people are talking about that that number is in excess
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Speaker 1: of seven and a half to potentially ten million dollars
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Speaker 1: is going to cost Miami all in for the total package.
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Speaker 1: Because if you're Dary and Mensa, are you leaving the
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Speaker 1: place that that fools with you at Duke paying you
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Speaker 1: four million dollars for.
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Speaker 2: Five probably not right.
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Speaker 1: This has to be a substantial raise and a chance
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Speaker 1: to win a national championship. So now here is where
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Speaker 1: we get into a situation where they are trying to sue. Well,
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Speaker 1: they're not trying to sue. Duke is suing Darien Mensa.
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Speaker 1: Now this case is highly significant because we've already seen
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Speaker 1: the at Obannon case in terms of name, image and
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Speaker 1: likeness transformed college sports ten years over ten years after
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Speaker 1: it was decided Austin versus the NCAA case, and I'll
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Speaker 1: give you a breakdown of the cases in just a
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Speaker 1: little bit as well. But this is significant because of
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Speaker 1: the demand William's situation and is a contract in actual contract,
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Speaker 1: So Duke was suing for a temporary restraining order to
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Speaker 1: keep there from to keep them from being able to
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Speaker 1: put Darien Mensa's name in the transfer portal. So then
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Speaker 1: Darien Mensa hires Darren Heidner, who's an NIL attorney and
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Speaker 1: you know, some some people don't like him, call him
14:32
Speaker 1: an ambulance chaser, but you know he's a guy who
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Speaker 1: understands this sort of law. So I wouldn't even call
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Speaker 1: him that, I would just say that he is on
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Speaker 1: the forefront of this and he's notable, so of course
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Speaker 1: people are going to hire him. So so, according to
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Speaker 1: CBS Sports, they went to Duke filed the tro today
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Speaker 1: for a temporary restraining order the way they didn't have
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Speaker 1: to put him into portal, but that got denied.
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Speaker 2: Here's the crazy part. Here's the twist to it.
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Speaker 1: The judge who denied it is also a Duke's basketball
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Speaker 1: season ticket holder, So you know, at that point in
15:10
Speaker 1: time he was upholding the law because he technically went
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Speaker 1: against Duke. But then he did something smart. He recused
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Speaker 1: himself from future proceedings, which is smart because there is
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Speaker 1: a conflict of interest and you don't want to have
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Speaker 1: your rulings thrown out because you could be biased toward
15:29
Speaker 1: a situation. And Darren Heidner, after after the hearing the day,
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Speaker 1: said that our understanding based on things is that they're
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Speaker 1: going to comply with NCAA rules and they're going to
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Speaker 1: put him in the portal tomorrow. And the craziest part
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Speaker 1: about that is is that that's not the same thing
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Speaker 1: that happened to Demon Williams. So Washington had legs to
15:57
Speaker 1: stand on versus Duke doesn't.
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Speaker 2: So now we're getting into contract.
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Speaker 1: Law, and this case is going to be decided sometime
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Speaker 1: between now and February second in terms of the injunction
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Speaker 1: to not let him play somewhere else and the Duke
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Speaker 1: to keep his nil rights so he can't even sign
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Speaker 1: with anybody and make nil money. So Duke is trying
16:27
Speaker 1: to press him to go back to Douke, and on
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Speaker 1: one hand, people are saying, oh, well, why would you
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Speaker 1: want somebody that doesn't want to be there? Well, here
16:37
Speaker 1: is one of the things is that Duke is now
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Speaker 1: saying that they're going after him because quote, his entry
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Speaker 1: into the transfer of portal will be a proverbial bell
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Speaker 1: that cannot be unwrung, and it will leave Duke University
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Speaker 1: with effective with no effective remedy for the material breaches.
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Speaker 2: And they're right.
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Speaker 1: They can't go find a quarterback now out of the
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Speaker 1: portal because he's breaking a contract. So now here is
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Speaker 1: the biggest thing and why this all matters, because if
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Speaker 1: schools want to prevent contracted athletes from playing for other teams,
17:20
Speaker 1: are they then gonna have to admit athletes are being
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Speaker 1: paid for athletic services and not just for nil and
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Speaker 1: then have them sign employment agreements and contracts, because that's
17:34
Speaker 1: where the trickiness lies, because are you an employee or
17:37
Speaker 1: are you not an employee? Because if you're an employee,
17:41
Speaker 1: your employer can stop you. If you've signed essentially a
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Speaker 1: non compete or there's no buyout, and there's all this
17:49
Speaker 1: other stuff, then how can you do this? So Duke
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Speaker 1: is not willing to settle, and I understand, and this
17:56
Speaker 1: is exactly why this case is going to be a
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Speaker 1: landmark case in college football, well in college sports in general,
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Speaker 1: to see if these contracts can actually be upheld in court,
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Speaker 1: because if they can't, these are one sided contracts. And
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Speaker 1: if you're the schools, you're saying, what so I can
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Speaker 1: be paying a guy, think he's on my team, be
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Speaker 1: housing him, getting in nil deals, and all of a
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Speaker 1: sudden at the last minute, he can just bounce when
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Speaker 1: he's under contract and we have performed our part of
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Speaker 1: the contract. This is where we're getting into big boy
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Speaker 1: business and why I do not want to hear I
18:40
Speaker 1: do not want to hear anybody talking about these are
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Speaker 1: just kids let him out of their contract. No, this
18:47
Speaker 1: is big boy business. When when money gets involved, you
18:53
Speaker 1: are now dealing with adult business and kids can't be
18:56
Speaker 1: an adult business when you're dealing with this type of money.
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Speaker 1: So if you guys want to look up, you got
19:03
Speaker 1: the Ed Obannon versus NC Double A, which was the
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Speaker 1: class action lawsuit between UCLA basketball star Ed Obanning challenging
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Speaker 1: the NC double a's use of their images in college
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Speaker 1: video games. And mind you, I was in one of
19:19
Speaker 1: the games and then it got pulled out and it
19:24
Speaker 1: was talking about and then you have Austin versus the
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Speaker 1: NC double A, which affirmed that limiting educational related benefits,
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Speaker 1: so essentially that the NC double A can't cap the cost,
19:38
Speaker 1: can't cap the scholarships at the cost of attendance, so
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Speaker 1: then you can get stuff like laptops, other school supplies, telescopes,
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Speaker 1: anything that you could possibly need for class paid for
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Speaker 1: by the school when it used to have to be
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Speaker 1: paid for.
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Speaker 2: By your parents.
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Speaker 1: And then there's the House versus the NC double A,
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Speaker 1: which is that anti US lawsuit that led to the
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Speaker 1: two point eight billion dollar settlement that got retroactive damages
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Speaker 1: for people and revenue sharing going forward. And it also
20:10
Speaker 1: created the CSC, the College Sports Commission, which is supposed
20:14
Speaker 1: to have enforcement power but actually has no enforcement power.
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Speaker 2: So there's that.
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Speaker 1: So that's why this case is so important for the
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Speaker 1: future of college sports because depending on how this gets ruled,
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Speaker 1: it is going to change everything everything going for it.
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Speaker 1: And then if Darien Mental loses this case it has
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Speaker 1: to go back to Duke. Then the NCAA is not
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Speaker 1: gonna need the antitrust exemptions as much as it thinks
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Speaker 1: it will. But if Darien Menta wins, we are one
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Speaker 1: step closer to collective bargaining, which I have said is
21:00
Speaker 1: the only way path was the only path forward, because
21:04
Speaker 1: you have to have one entity that the players negotiate with.
21:10
Speaker 1: You guys can negotiate on what they can negotiate on
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Speaker 1: rules about injuries, transfer, portal rules and everything, and that'll
21:18
Speaker 1: stop all the lawsuits once collective bargaining is involved. But
21:23
Speaker 1: you know, some people don't like to hear that are
21:27
Speaker 1: The next thing that we got to talk about is
21:30
Speaker 1: we just had the National Championship and the way too
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Speaker 1: early rankings are out and we have gone into length
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Speaker 1: about everything about this, and I have talked about a bit.
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Speaker 2: A week ago. I told you guys, and.
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Speaker 1: I told everybody on X and every other platform, and actually, first, guys,
21:56
Speaker 1: make sure that you guys like subscribe, get notifications, and
21:59
Speaker 1: tell a friend about the show, and most importantly shared
22:04
Speaker 1: I told everybody over a week ago that when these
22:08
Speaker 1: way too early rankings came out, so now I need
22:13
Speaker 1: to do one clear that the SEC was going to
22:17
Speaker 1: be overvalued again. And remember there's a video on the
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Speaker 1: channel that I put out last week about the SEC
22:24
Speaker 1: how it's lost its grip on college football and what
22:27
Speaker 1: the numbers and the stats suggests. Because you got guys
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Speaker 1: who because all the best players in the SEC, well
22:36
Speaker 1: maybe arguably the best quarterback in the SEC this year
22:39
Speaker 1: was Trinidad Chamberliss, who was at a D two school
22:42
Speaker 1: last year. Arguably the best running back in the SEC,
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Speaker 1: Ahmad Hardy, he came from a lower tier tier school.
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Speaker 2: This is this is the case all over the SEC.
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Speaker 1: And where all these portal players coming in having no problem,
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Speaker 1: Indiana players transferring in from Navy, James Madison of D
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Speaker 1: two schools everything.
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Speaker 2: No problem against Alabama. Why is that?
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Speaker 1: Because the SEC is not the gauntlet that everybody thinks
23:23
Speaker 1: it is. And I told you guys, they were going
23:25
Speaker 1: to over rank the SEC. So here we have two
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Speaker 1: way too early rankings.
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Speaker 2: We have.
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Speaker 1: R. J. Young's here from a Fox, and then over
23:36
Speaker 1: here we have on threes way too early. I just
23:41
Speaker 1: want to point out that the SEC for the last
23:44
Speaker 1: three years has not been competitive in the National Championship,
23:48
Speaker 1: has been piss poor in the college football playoffs, but
23:52
Speaker 1: again and terribly in bold games everything else. And we're
23:57
Speaker 1: gonna sit up here and act like that for on three.
24:02
Speaker 1: Who does a good job at pretty much everything, but
24:06
Speaker 1: this right here completely wrong, completely wrong. You got good
24:09
Speaker 1: people who missed the mark here. So you got Georgia
24:13
Speaker 1: Texas in the top five. Then you got Texas A
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Speaker 1: and M at eight, Oklahoma at ten, LSU at twelve,
24:24
Speaker 1: tell us, LSU done hire a new coach, oh Miss
24:29
Speaker 1: at fifteen, Alabama at seventeen.
24:33
Speaker 2: I know that hurts at Alabama fans heard.
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Speaker 1: Tennessee at twenty and Florida at twenty four. So we
24:42
Speaker 1: got nine SEC teams where you only got eight Big
24:47
Speaker 1: ten teams.
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Speaker 2: Ohio State, then you don't get.
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Speaker 1: Another one until Indiana at five, Oregon at six, Michigan
24:56
Speaker 1: at eleven, Penn.
24:57
Speaker 2: State at fourteen.
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Speaker 1: That feels sketch as well, but at least that they
25:02
Speaker 1: do take Iowa state's roster plus Penn states roster.
25:08
Speaker 2: And you got Iowa at twenty one.
25:10
Speaker 1: Oh wait, excuse, excuse me, USC at Washington at eighteen,
25:14
Speaker 1: USC at nineteen, Iowa at twenty one, that's what you got.
25:19
Speaker 2: So you got eight Big ten teams? Hey, like, what
25:23
Speaker 2: have we not learned?
25:24
Speaker 1: Because the AP pole has even the AP pole has
25:28
Speaker 1: showed us so many se They had ten SEC teams
25:32
Speaker 1: ranked in the top twenty five this last year only
25:34
Speaker 1: seven finished in there and it probably should have been six.
25:38
Speaker 2: And then you got RJ. Young over here.
25:40
Speaker 1: Ten SEC teams ranked in the top twenty five. Ten
25:45
Speaker 1: How how is this possible? With what with the results
25:49
Speaker 1: that we have seen Because we're sitting here talking about
25:53
Speaker 1: people keep talking about this SEC gauntlet. If the SEC
25:57
Speaker 1: gauntlet is so daunting, why on earth are they not
26:01
Speaker 1: doing well in the playoffs over the last three years.
26:06
Speaker 1: Forget the fact that they haven't even won a championship.
26:08
Speaker 1: They haven't even been competitive in terms of winning games
26:12
Speaker 1: except for against themselves.
26:15
Speaker 2: That's it.
26:18
Speaker 1: And it really looks like the Big Ten, the future
26:21
Speaker 1: of the Big Ten is really the gauntlet of college
26:24
Speaker 1: football Indiana. There's no reason to think that Indiana will
26:29
Speaker 1: be bad again, will all of a sudden fall off
26:32
Speaker 1: a cliff. Josh Hoover is going there from TCU, good quarterback,
26:37
Speaker 1: thrown for a lot of yards. Who got to assume
26:38
Speaker 1: he's gonna be productive. They've been highly efficient in the
26:42
Speaker 1: transfer portal. They're recruiting better out of high school. So
26:46
Speaker 1: you got Indiana, competitive, Ohio State competitive, Oregon competitive up
26:50
Speaker 1: Michigan with Kyle Whittingham.
26:52
Speaker 2: Competitive.
26:53
Speaker 1: Penn State is gonna be good again, at least in
26:55
Speaker 1: short order, with Matt Campbell as head coach. You got
26:59
Speaker 1: USC Washington. Pat Fitzgerald is over at Michigan State. Bob
27:06
Speaker 1: Chesney from James Madison, who made the College Football Playoff
27:09
Speaker 1: going to UCLA.
27:10
Speaker 2: They're getting better.
27:11
Speaker 1: It's nine teams already, and you have people picking Nebraska
27:16
Speaker 1: to go to the College Football Playoff last year. Nebraska
27:19
Speaker 1: is getting better. Illinois good football team. They should be
27:24
Speaker 1: in the top twenty five in the preseason. The Big
27:28
Speaker 1: Ten is the real gauntlet. We just have gotten so
27:32
Speaker 1: used to the sec being that that now it is
27:37
Speaker 1: hard for people to fathom in their mind that that's
27:41
Speaker 1: not reality anymore. It is hard for them not to
27:45
Speaker 1: put certain names because I've been doing top twenty five lists,
27:49
Speaker 1: and there are sometimes you go back and you account
27:51
Speaker 1: you're like, oh man, what am I doing here?
27:54
Speaker 2: What am I doing here? And you talk to.
27:58
Speaker 1: Yourself out of it, and you're like, damn, how could
28:00
Speaker 1: I not put Tennessee in there? They don't even have
28:02
Speaker 1: a quarterback yet? How could I not put this team
28:05
Speaker 1: in there? You start trying to justify it, and that's
28:08
Speaker 1: how you end up there instead of and mind you,
28:10
Speaker 1: it's just preseason rankings, but it does inform our minds
28:15
Speaker 1: and our bias, and then it gets reinforced on the television,
28:20
Speaker 1: and we can't sit up here and be sheep about it.
28:23
Speaker 1: We got we gotta talk about the actual real, and
28:27
Speaker 1: speaking of the real, what is going on with the
28:32
Speaker 1: leadership in college football? Because the leadership in college football
28:36
Speaker 1: is now trying to break college football because they're out
28:40
Speaker 1: here tinkering with everything. We are in the midst of
28:44
Speaker 1: the season ended on Monday, January nineteenth. The transfer portal
28:52
Speaker 1: is not even fully closed yet. It is closed in
28:55
Speaker 1: terms of people entering, but they had until the the friday,
29:01
Speaker 1: so then you had basically a three or four day
29:05
Speaker 1: weekend for a lot of people. So they said that
29:08
Speaker 1: and sometimes it takes up to forty eight hours to process.
29:11
Speaker 2: So you were gonna have.
29:12
Speaker 1: People still landing in the portal outside of from Miami
29:17
Speaker 1: and Indiana up until Wednesday, the last day for some
29:24
Speaker 1: of these schools to register for classes. LSU Oregon today Tuesday,
29:31
Speaker 1: January twentyth That's when the last day to register for
29:36
Speaker 1: classes is.
29:36
Speaker 2: And yes, they'll probably fudge it for a day, but
29:39
Speaker 2: what does that do for.
29:40
Speaker 1: Indiana and and Miami players hopping into portal?
29:45
Speaker 2: Nothing? Right?
29:46
Speaker 1: Who was like, We're not leaving our team until the
29:48
Speaker 1: National Championship. The schedule makes no sense. And to make
29:55
Speaker 1: it even worse, somebody was like, you know, you know what,
30:01
Speaker 1: I can find a way to make this even worse.
30:04
Speaker 2: I can make it even worse. You know how.
30:07
Speaker 1: Next year's National Championship is on January twenty fifth, a
30:13
Speaker 1: week later, two weeks before.
30:16
Speaker 2: The Super Bowl.
30:19
Speaker 1: The Combine is less than a month away from those
30:23
Speaker 1: players that'll be playing in it. So how are we
30:27
Speaker 1: killing their prep time when they may have to recover
30:29
Speaker 1: for it from an injury after the ball game. I mean,
30:33
Speaker 1: let's say you sprained and anchry, you get a calf bruise,
30:35
Speaker 1: like nothing significant sprain's shoulder something and now that's impacting
30:42
Speaker 1: your pro future. This calendar is trash, It is broken,
30:48
Speaker 1: and they are concentrated on the complete wrong things. College
30:54
Speaker 1: football is supposed to end January first, and when it
31:00
Speaker 1: ends on January twenty fifth, think about how much wasted
31:04
Speaker 1: time there is. The last week of the season is
31:07
Speaker 1: around Thanksgiving, conference championship games last week of November, first
31:13
Speaker 1: weekend of December. Okay, cool, I'm talking about as it is.
31:18
Speaker 1: Forget moving it up a week which makes are more
31:22
Speaker 1: sense to where week zero week is week one week.
31:26
Speaker 1: So then the teams that played in the conference championship,
31:30
Speaker 1: for the most part, those are the teams that are
31:32
Speaker 1: gonna get buys in the college football playoffs. Those teams
31:36
Speaker 1: have twenty five days or twenty six days before they play.
31:42
Speaker 1: And if it's a team that's not playing in the
31:44
Speaker 1: college football in their conference championship, they're gonna have thirty
31:49
Speaker 1: one or thirty two days between games between the first
31:54
Speaker 1: rounds of the playoffs and their last game. Why are
31:57
Speaker 1: we wasting so much time?
31:59
Speaker 2: It's idiocy.
32:01
Speaker 1: And then you have the second round of the playoffs,
32:05
Speaker 1: the quarterfinals on New Year's even New Year's Day, and
32:09
Speaker 1: then a week later, a week to ten days later
32:13
Speaker 1: you have the the semifinals, and then you got another
32:17
Speaker 1: depending on what day it's on, another fifteen to seventeen
32:23
Speaker 1: days before the National Championship.
32:27
Speaker 2: Whose idea is this? Why are we wasting so much time?
32:30
Speaker 2: To the NFL?
32:31
Speaker 1: The only time that they take more than a week
32:34
Speaker 1: off is the two weeks between the conference championship games
32:38
Speaker 1: and the Super Bowl, just because there's so much logistics.
32:42
Speaker 2: So if you want two weeks.
32:43
Speaker 1: Between the semifinals and the National Championship, cool, I'm fine
32:47
Speaker 1: with that, But we gotta move everything back and compress it.
32:53
Speaker 2: We can't keep moving it.
32:55
Speaker 1: And I know that ratings are up and the leadership
32:58
Speaker 1: doesn't care, And how does that impact school? School is
33:03
Speaker 1: going to start next year in twenty twenty six. Let
33:06
Speaker 1: me make sure I have the date right. In twenty
33:09
Speaker 1: twenty six, school is going to I'm sorry, in twenty
33:13
Speaker 1: twenty seven. School is going to start back for most
33:16
Speaker 1: kids January to fourth. If you're on the quarter system,
33:22
Speaker 1: January to fourth, so you're gonna be passed registration dates.
33:28
Speaker 1: If you're in a national championship team and you're hopping
33:31
Speaker 1: into port or even if you're a quarterfinal team or
33:34
Speaker 1: a semi final team, if you're a semi final team,
33:37
Speaker 1: same same thing.
33:40
Speaker 2: Whose idea is this?
33:42
Speaker 1: And instead of fixing the calendar, we got the Big
33:45
Speaker 1: Ten commissioner and the SEC Commissioner Tony Pettiti and Greg Sanki,
33:49
Speaker 1: who have control over the college football playoff, arguing should
33:53
Speaker 1: we go to sixteen teams or should we go to
33:55
Speaker 1: twenty four teams? No, nobody wants twenty five teams, Tony Patiti,
34:02
Speaker 1: it is a horrendous idea horrendous And I was the
34:06
Speaker 1: expansion guy when I was the one man standing up
34:09
Speaker 1: there like hey, hey, hey, we gonna expand we gotta
34:12
Speaker 1: do it when everybody was pushing back. And now it
34:16
Speaker 1: is time to stop the expansion. I can live with
34:20
Speaker 1: sixteen teams only because it'll create a situation where there's
34:24
Speaker 1: no buys, because I don't like byes unless you're going
34:29
Speaker 1: to give the the top four seeds a home game.
34:33
Speaker 1: If you're gonna do that, okay, cool, I am in
34:36
Speaker 1: on it. But twenty four teams, what good does the
34:41
Speaker 1: regular season do? What good is the regular season if
34:45
Speaker 1: the entire top twenty five is in the college football playoffs.
34:50
Speaker 1: We can't even get the top twenty five teams, right.
34:53
Speaker 1: Washington wasn't ranked for the majority of the year, and
34:55
Speaker 1: they should have been. If we can't get the top
34:58
Speaker 1: twenty five, right, how are we gonna get twenty four.
35:01
Speaker 1: It ain't twenty four teams worthy of playing in the
35:03
Speaker 1: national Championship. It ain't twenty four teams that can be
35:06
Speaker 1: competitive in them games.
35:09
Speaker 2: The answer is twelve or sixteen. That's it.
35:13
Speaker 1: And we're sitting here trying to trying to squeeze a
35:17
Speaker 1: square peg in a round hole and then have high
35:21
Speaker 1: school signing day, the transfer portal school starting while we're
35:27
Speaker 1: trying to do the playoff again. Didn't anybody see how
35:31
Speaker 1: crazy that this was and was like, you know what,
35:34
Speaker 1: we shouldn't do this.
35:36
Speaker 2: And instead they were like, I do it again.
35:39
Speaker 1: I do it better. I'll push it a week back later.
35:43
Speaker 1: That'll get them what it was like that they had it.
35:48
Speaker 1: It's almost like when an ad company only has one
35:54
Speaker 1: demographic working for him, right, Like, if you're an ad
35:58
Speaker 1: agency or you're company putting out an AD and you
36:02
Speaker 1: only have white men on the on the ad team
36:08
Speaker 1: and this ad is supposed to cater to women, or
36:11
Speaker 1: you know, or you have no idea how women are
36:13
Speaker 1: going to receive it, Black people, Asian people, nothing right,
36:17
Speaker 1: no idea how anybody is going to receive it. This
36:21
Speaker 1: is why diversity matters, not just diversity of race, diversity
36:25
Speaker 1: of age, diversity of race, diversity of geography, diversity of gender.
36:32
Speaker 2: Like, you need these things with competent people.
36:37
Speaker 1: So nobody in that room was like, hmmm, you know what,
36:43
Speaker 1: this is a bad idea. Nobody said that clearly or
36:47
Speaker 1: the leadership didn't hear them. So this is why you
36:51
Speaker 1: need people, common sense people.
36:53
Speaker 2: Me. I can be on there, Josh Pate can be
36:56
Speaker 2: on there.
36:56
Speaker 1: Other people can be on there that that understand college football.
37:00
Speaker 1: And also as a father of a kid who's playing
37:03
Speaker 1: college football, a kid who's gonna get recruited to play
37:06
Speaker 1: college football as well, I understand these things from a
37:11
Speaker 1: family level, from a college football level, as a former
37:15
Speaker 1: player level, former professional level, from every single level that
37:18
Speaker 1: you could possibly deal with. And we got people out
37:21
Speaker 1: out here just like, ah, yeah that's a good idea.
37:23
Speaker 1: Yeah that'll work. It's craziness, but we're gonna see if
37:31
Speaker 1: people can get it right. And you guys can leave
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Speaker 2: Peace out,