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Courts, Conferences, Chaos · Winning Cures Everything | College Football

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Speaker 1: On today's show, we're gonna talk eligibility. That's right, college
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Speaker 1: sports under fire or maybe not. Maybe it is just
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Speaker 1: what it is, a pro league, but we'll talk about that.
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Speaker 1: We got to recap the National Championship game. Yeah, we
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Speaker 1: haven't discussed that yet. It's probably time to do that
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Speaker 1: before this winter storm gets here. The championship game drew
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Speaker 1: outrageous numbers, so we got to discuss that early. Twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty six rankings have come out and people do this
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Speaker 1: every year. It was a little bit easier to do
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Speaker 1: in the past, but not so much anymore. And the
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Speaker 1: SEC and the Big Ten are still at odds. January
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Speaker 1: twenty third, Friday is the deadline set by ESPN on
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Speaker 1: whether or not expansion will happen in the college football playoff,
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Speaker 1: and we got the two biggest swinging d's that are
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Speaker 1: at odds over what this thing should be. Yeah, it's football.
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Speaker 1: BETTINGCFB dot com Indiana didn't cover for us, but that's
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Speaker 1: all right. It was a pretty good year overall, just
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Speaker 1: making all the different picks and whatnot. But it's gonna
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Speaker 1: be a lot of fun this coming season. I have
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Speaker 1: ideas everybody, That's what I got, all right, So let's
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Speaker 1: start off. Let's talk about something that looks like college
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Speaker 1: basketball on the surface, but could actually just be a
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Speaker 1: huge warning sign for college football. Because if you're if
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Speaker 1: you're watching what's happening with eligibility and you're thinking, eh,
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Speaker 1: like that's just basketball, Basketball's goofy, you know, it is
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Speaker 1: what it is. That's not all this is, right. This
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Speaker 1: is what it comes down to is whether or not
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Speaker 1: the NCAAA can still enforce their own rules. You know,
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Speaker 1: judges are kind of doing that for them right now.
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Speaker 1: And a lot of this is so well, Okay, there's
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Speaker 1: so many things I want to talk about with this.
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Speaker 1: Charles Bettiaco former Alabama big man. He was on the
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Speaker 1: Alabama twenty twenty three Sweet sixteen team and then he
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Speaker 1: went pro. He did not get drafted. He has bounced
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Speaker 1: around the G League a little bit, played for the
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Speaker 1: Spurs organization, played for the Pistons organization, played in Summer League,
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Speaker 1: et cetera. He basically played professionally, and now he has
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Speaker 1: decided he wants out of the G League. He came
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Speaker 1: back to Tuscaloosa. He is going to finish his degree.
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Speaker 1: He still has two years of eligibility left. I do believe, however,
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Speaker 1: his plan is he's just gonna play for this season.
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Speaker 1: That's right. He wants to play basketball for Alabama again.
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Speaker 1: The NCAAA came out and said, no, you signed an
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Speaker 1: NBA contract, you can't play, And the judge in Tuscalusa
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Speaker 1: County said, eh, hold on a second, let's take a
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Speaker 1: look at this now. The judge didn't say that Bettioco
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Speaker 1: was eligible forever. What he said was, I mean, in
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Speaker 1: all honesty, something way more dangerous for the NCAAA. But
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Speaker 1: he said the NCAAA might not be enforcing their rules consistently.
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Speaker 1: And this is where I think people misunderstand exactly what
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Speaker 1: has happened. Right, Courts don't hand out temporary restraining or
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Speaker 1: just for fun right to get one, you got to
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Speaker 1: show that you're likely to win the case, that you're
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Speaker 1: being irreparably harmed, and that the rule being enforced might
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Speaker 1: be I guess arbitrary. Right, if the NCAAA had a clean,
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Speaker 1: consistent history here. This thing never gets off the ground.
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Speaker 1: But that's where the NCAAA kind of kind of messed
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Speaker 1: themselves up because Bettioco's lawyers didn't argue about you know, oh,
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Speaker 1: he really wants to come back, and you know, he's
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Speaker 1: still got two years left. He left early, but his
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Speaker 1: pro career didn't work out the way he wanted it to. Now,
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Speaker 1: they argued actual, legitimate examples. They pointed to other players
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Speaker 1: that had professional experience that have been allowed to enroll
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Speaker 1: and play for college teams. And the biggest one, the
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Speaker 1: most recent one, is James Nanji or nag at Baylor,
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Speaker 1: right He was drafted in the first round of the
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Speaker 1: NBA draft. He never signed a contract, and I guess
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Speaker 1: that's the big sticking point here, but he never signed
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Speaker 1: an NBA contract. He played overseas with Barcelona, who's like
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Speaker 1: a EuroLeague power, but he got full eligibility with Baylor
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Speaker 1: this year. So there are rosters in college basketball right
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Speaker 1: now that have euro elitue pros that have older players
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Speaker 1: who were paid overseas, guys that have way more professional
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Speaker 1: experience than Bettioco. And once you allow that, you can't
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Speaker 1: suddenly slam the door on this one guy and expect
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Speaker 1: the courts to ignore it. Right. The NCAA's owned by
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Speaker 1: laws kind of muddy this, like they allow participation with
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Speaker 1: professional teams as long as the athlete only received actual
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Speaker 1: and necessary expenses. Now, if just think whether or not
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Speaker 1: that rule has been enforced cleanly or has it kind
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Speaker 1: of been what's a good word like selectively flexible? I
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Speaker 1: think maybe that's the best way to say, because selective
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Speaker 1: enforcement is poison as far as the court is concerned. Now,
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Speaker 1: do I think that this is the NCAA's fault just
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Speaker 1: on its face, No, not totally, because the courts have
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Speaker 1: kind of led them into this. Players have been asking
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Speaker 1: for more eligibility. We have seen seventh and TJ. Finley
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Speaker 1: is playing for his seventh college football team. Like, it's
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Speaker 1: just it's absurd. And you can talk about medical red
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Speaker 1: shirts and the one thing that they in college football
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Speaker 1: have not done is allow somebody to come back. But
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Speaker 1: in college football, there's really only one pro league. With
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Speaker 1: college or with basketball, it's complex, completely different. So as
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Speaker 1: far as judges go, they don't care about competitive balance.
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Speaker 1: They care about whether or not it's equal treatment. Right,
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Speaker 1: And I brought up college football for a reason because
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Speaker 1: if the logic holds like football is going to be next, right,
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Speaker 1: football has more money, they've got more player leverage, they've
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Speaker 1: got more incentive to challenge these eligibility denials. Right, We've
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Speaker 1: seen the JUCO guys, We've seen d two guys that
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Speaker 1: have argued for I mean, that's what Trinidad Chambliss is doing.
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Speaker 1: But now you know you've got semi pro leagues. It's
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Speaker 1: not the XFL anymore. It's what the AFL or the
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Speaker 1: UFL or whatever it is. There could be overseas developmental programs. Right,
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Speaker 1: every eligibility denial becomes a potential lawsuit at this point,
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Speaker 1: and if the courts keep siding with players, here's what
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Speaker 1: changes with college football. Eligibility becomes just a legal question,
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Speaker 1: not an NCAAA on the transfer portal turns on that.
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Speaker 1: I mean it's already basically this, but it turns into
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Speaker 1: full on just labor motility or mobility, excuse me. And three,
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Speaker 1: the NCAA starts begging Congress to give them the authority
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Speaker 1: that they cannot enforce themselves. Now they they were pushing
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Speaker 1: Congress for guardrails as far as nil and pay for
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Speaker 1: play and all that crap was concerned like they they're
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Speaker 1: already doing this. They're already leveraging or not leveraging Congress.
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Speaker 1: They're begging Congress. They're begging the government to please get
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Speaker 1: involved in our business, which is not something that you
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Speaker 1: typically ever want to do. And yet the NCAAA has
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Speaker 1: stepped on the rate so many damn times and screwed
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Speaker 1: themselves so many times. They've tried to enforce a model
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Speaker 1: that is just not legal by legal standards. If they
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Speaker 1: weren't so worried about the money, they could have sorted
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Speaker 1: out the eligibility issue. And it's not like they lost
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Speaker 1: control over night. The NCAA gave it away slowly, right
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Speaker 1: waiver by over, exception by exception with this eligibility stuff.
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Speaker 1: And it's like now they're shocked that the legal bunch
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Speaker 1: in this country has started to take notice, like it's
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Speaker 1: the whole thing is bananas. I'm I'm just shocked. Like
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Speaker 1: typically most of the people that listen to this podcast
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Speaker 1: know that I was born and raised an Alabama fan.
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Speaker 1: Typically the teams that I root for are not involved
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Speaker 1: in this stuff. Let me give you my opinion on this.
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Speaker 1: Do I think that Charles Bettioco should be allowed to
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Speaker 1: come back to play for Alabama, absolutely not, but also
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Speaker 1: believe that James Naji should not be playing for Baylor.
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Speaker 1: I believe that these overseas EuroLeague players should not be
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Speaker 1: playing for Yukon and Arkansas and whoever. Like, once you
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Speaker 1: have played professionally, you are not allowed to play college athletic. However,
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Speaker 1: now it has become all of these schools turned nil
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Speaker 1: into pay for play. Now there's revshare, now there's all
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Speaker 1: of this other stuff. So if you're paying guys anyway,
11:17
Speaker 1: there's not exactly a lot different between the business model
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Speaker 1: of the San Antonio Spurs and the Alabama basketball program.
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Speaker 1: The Spurs they have a basketball team, they sell tickets,
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Speaker 1: they're trying to win, they're trying to make money, they're
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Speaker 1: trying to sell out an arena. That's exactly what Alabama's doing.
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Speaker 1: The only difference is that they are tied to a university.
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Speaker 1: But at this point a court is not going to
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Speaker 1: look at that any differently. So I think it's absurd
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Speaker 1: one hundred percent. It is absurd that this guy that
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Speaker 1: played for the twenty twenty three Alabama Sweet sixteen team
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Speaker 1: all of a sudden didn't pan out in his professional
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Speaker 1: league and realize that he can make some money playing
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Speaker 1: basketball three years later at Alabama and can go and
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Speaker 1: finish his degree, which he probably should have done in
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Speaker 1: the first place. I mean, it's it's absurd, it's all
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Speaker 1: of it's ridiculous. But that's okay. Courts are gonna figure
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Speaker 1: this thing out next year. They've got an injunction hearing
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Speaker 1: and we'll go from there. But I'm I'm curious how
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Speaker 1: all of it's gonna play out, because I think the
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Speaker 1: courts are gonna side with the player. And there are
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Speaker 1: rules cited in that temporary restraining order that say that
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Speaker 1: the NCAAA cannot punish Alabama for playing him. So it's
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Speaker 1: not like they're gonna ban him from the NCAA tournament
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Speaker 1: or they're going to forfeit the wins if he was
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Speaker 1: deemed that he couldn't play, like all these kind of things.
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Speaker 1: Who knows, Who knows what to expect going forward? All right, now,
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Speaker 1: we have not broken down the College Football National Championship
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Speaker 1: Game and Indiana gets the win twenty seven to twenty
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Speaker 1: one over Miami. Good gracious. I mean, what an absolutely
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Speaker 1: incredible football game, and the best part about this, so
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Speaker 1: Indiana goes sixteen and oh in the same season that
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Speaker 1: At Media Day's, Texas's head coach Steve Sarkisan talked about
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Speaker 1: how no team's ever going to go sixteen and oh,
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Speaker 1: and if they do, you need to go on and
13:44
Speaker 1: put the statues up and all that kind of stuff. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: Indiana the losingest college football program, the losingest powerful word
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Speaker 1: college football program of all time. They were the first
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Speaker 1: ones to go sixteen and oh, just bananas. Biggest moment
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Speaker 1: in the game had to be Fernando Mendoza's quarterback draw
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Speaker 1: on a fourth and four, fourth and five whatever it
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Speaker 1: was that went for a twelve yard touchdown. I mean
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Speaker 1: he got demolished on that play, absolutely demolished. Only through
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Speaker 1: for one hundred eighty six yards, but that run just
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Speaker 1: kind of told you everything you need to know about
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Speaker 1: this Indiana football team. They have been so good all year.
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Speaker 1: They make very very few mistakes. And Miami, this is
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Speaker 1: for an analytics show, which is basically what I do.
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Speaker 1: This was a great encapsulation of how sometimes the better team,
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Speaker 1: like just talent wise and whatnot, doesn't win. The team
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Speaker 1: that played better on a down to down basis doesn't
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Speaker 1: win because of a few plays. How different would this
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Speaker 1: game have been if Miami had actually hit the field
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Speaker 1: goal towards the end of the first half. I mean,
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Speaker 1: if everything else went the exact same and that score
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Speaker 1: was twenty seven to twenty four in the last two
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Speaker 1: minutes of the game, well, then Miami's only got to
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Speaker 1: get into field goal range and they can tie it
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Speaker 1: intended overtime, and at that point their boys are bigger
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Speaker 1: than Indiana's boys. But that is not the way that
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Speaker 1: it went, right, So the field goal, the blocked punt
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Speaker 1: for Indiana, that fourth and four play, the third down
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Speaker 1: where Charlie Becker caught the pass, Like, there are just
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Speaker 1: plays that matter so much, and there's just a few places.
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Speaker 1: But if you look at it from a success rate,
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Speaker 1: from havoc, from everything else, Miami probably should have won
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Speaker 1: the football game. But Indiana was perfect in key situations.
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Speaker 1: And that's why you know, you look at things like
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Speaker 1: postgame win expectancy. Bill Conley at ESPN his Indiana postgame
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Speaker 1: win expectancy was only I think fourteen percent. So you
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Speaker 1: give the exact same stats that that game had success
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Speaker 1: rate everything else, and eighty six percent of the time
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Speaker 1: the team that had Miami stats is gonna win the game.
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Speaker 1: And that's not how it turned out. Like it's it's
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Speaker 1: insane how this stuff works, Absolutely insane. Mendoza afterwards, I mean,
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Speaker 1: it don't get any better than that guy. He said,
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Speaker 1: like he would die for his team. He said he
16:37
Speaker 1: would take shots to the front, to the back, and
16:39
Speaker 1: people of course ate that up on social media. They
16:43
Speaker 1: ran all kinds of different directions with that guy. But man,
16:48
Speaker 1: he's fun to root for, you know, he's he's just
16:52
Speaker 1: it's a whole thing. It's just a whole thing. Kurt
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Speaker 1: Signetti of course afterwards, said you know, we've won the
17:00
Speaker 1: national championship at Indiana, and he said, you know, it
17:04
Speaker 1: can be done. So the question, of course becomes like, well,
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Speaker 1: who is the next team? Who is the next Indiana?
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Speaker 1: And I don't know that there is a next Indiana.
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Speaker 1: But this insanely improbable title run is just bananas. Like
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Speaker 1: I don't even know how to how to quantify it,
17:25
Speaker 1: how to even talk about it, because now it does
17:29
Speaker 1: give hope to all of those other programs, Vanderbilt, who
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Speaker 1: had ten wins this year, Kentucky, Mississippi State. Because it's
17:40
Speaker 1: not like Indiana invested a ton. They just hit the
17:45
Speaker 1: jackpot on some transfer players, and they established a culture
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Speaker 1: that worked. Now, I mean, we're going to see what
17:55
Speaker 1: exactly they look like. The exodus has begun a little bit.
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Speaker 1: It's not that the coordinators are gone, it's not that
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Speaker 1: the it's not that all the players are gone, but
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Speaker 1: their strengthen conditioning coach has taken the job at Tennessee.
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Speaker 1: I don't know exactly what that's going to mean, but
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Speaker 1: I think in Theanna is going to be around for
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Speaker 1: a while. And I don't know that it means that Kentucky,
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Speaker 1: by hiring will Stein, is going to be you know,
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Speaker 1: really good anytime soon. Like you're talking about will Stein,
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Speaker 1: who is a first time head coach, and Kurt Signetti
18:31
Speaker 1: had been a head coach at the lower divisions since
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Speaker 1: twenty fourteen. He was on Nick Saban's staff. The guy
18:39
Speaker 1: has a knack for not only developing players, but finding
18:44
Speaker 1: the diamonds in the rough, the guys that fit culturally,
18:47
Speaker 1: et cetera. And I mean, he just did an absolutely
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Speaker 1: outstanding job Miami. On the other side, you know, like
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Speaker 1: it's a step in the right direction. Like it's kind
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Speaker 1: of hard to hang your head about a national championship
19:02
Speaker 1: runner upspot. There were a couple of losses this season
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Speaker 1: that they probably didn't need to have. But even if
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Speaker 1: they had won those games, I don't know that they
19:12
Speaker 1: were going to beat Indiana at the end of this thing.
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Speaker 1: So you get to the national championship game in your
19:18
Speaker 1: fourth year under Mario Cristobal and they are looking to
19:23
Speaker 1: go again, like they've got a few guys in the
19:25
Speaker 1: portal that are looking to leave. But if this Darien
19:29
Speaker 1: Mensa stuff which we haven't talked about, but who whenever
19:32
Speaker 1: they get all the lawsuit stuff figured out, Boy, do
19:34
Speaker 1: I have some opinions on that. I mean, we could
19:38
Speaker 1: have talked about that with the Bettioco stuff. But still
19:42
Speaker 1: the game, I mean, thirty point one million viewers. It
19:49
Speaker 1: was the most watched college football game since the very
19:53
Speaker 1: first College Football Playoff National Championship game that was Ohio
19:56
Speaker 1: State against Oregon. That was in twenty fifteen, thirty six
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Speaker 1: percent year over year increase in audience compared to last season.
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Speaker 1: It was outrageous. The quarterfinal average was nineteen point three million,
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Speaker 1: the Rose Bowl semi final with Indiana twenty three point
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Speaker 1: nine million. And what this says to me is that
20:21
Speaker 1: Indiana is a big boy. Now their stuff is going
20:27
Speaker 1: to drop off. Some like this was incredible for the
20:32
Speaker 1: largest living alumni base in the entire US. Of course,
20:38
Speaker 1: basically all of them were going to be watching all
20:42
Speaker 1: of them, but that's only eight hundred thousand alumni. You
20:49
Speaker 1: had thirty plus million watching this, So you know, I'm
20:56
Speaker 1: I'm curious what it means. I do think that a
20:58
Speaker 1: number like this will grab a tension as far as
21:02
Speaker 1: it wasn't just Indiana fans watching, this was also Miami fans.
21:06
Speaker 1: Miami is a big brand that has not been around
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Speaker 1: in a while. They were just kind of left out
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Speaker 1: in the cold and all the Big Ten expansion talks
21:15
Speaker 1: and whatnot, you know, for ACC teams that are looking
21:17
Speaker 1: to get out because the SEC everybody has talked about, oh,
21:21
Speaker 1: you know, they would want North Carolina and Virginia or
21:24
Speaker 1: Virginia might want to go to the Big Ten. The
21:27
Speaker 1: SEC is not going to add schools from states where
21:31
Speaker 1: they already have a foothold Florida, South Carolina, et cetera. Right,
21:37
Speaker 1: but Miami was one of those that the Big Ten
21:40
Speaker 1: would rather have. Florida State. Hell, we're so sure about that,
21:44
Speaker 1: I mean you see TV numbers like this, and it
21:47
Speaker 1: kind of makes you think a little bit, you know.
21:51
Speaker 1: It's it's interesting to say the least, Miami made a
21:55
Speaker 1: boatload of money because the ACC has set it up
21:59
Speaker 1: where whoever makes the CFP, however much money they make
22:03
Speaker 1: in that thing, they get it. It was the reward
22:05
Speaker 1: system that Clemson and Florida State pushed for and nowt
22:08
Speaker 1: both of those programs are struggling, and it is amazing
22:12
Speaker 1: how quickly things can turn in the sport of college football.
22:17
Speaker 1: It really really is. I don't know. I don't know
22:22
Speaker 1: why anybody would push for something like that, because everybody
22:28
Speaker 1: should understand, Hey, it's a lot better when you all
22:31
Speaker 1: band together. But alas it is what it is. The
22:38
Speaker 1: way too early. Top twenty fives for twenty twenty six
22:43
Speaker 1: on three you put one out, ESPN put one out.
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Speaker 1: Everybody has put one out. I'm not going to put
22:50
Speaker 1: one out. And I could. I could do it for
22:54
Speaker 1: clickbait reasons, I could do it for all kinds of things.
23:01
Speaker 1: But Indiana has kind of shown us you have no
23:06
Speaker 1: idea what to expect out of these teams. And it's
23:10
Speaker 1: fun to look at rankings. It's fun to guess and whatnot.
23:16
Speaker 1: We're still gonna have our preseason top twenty five, so
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Speaker 1: and we're still gonna have all of that. But it
23:21
Speaker 1: is impossible with the transfer portal and everything else to
23:26
Speaker 1: know how these teams are gonna gel, how this stuff's
23:30
Speaker 1: gonna work. Returning production doesn't seem to matter at all anymore.
23:34
Speaker 1: Last year Penn State and Clemson were what one and
23:38
Speaker 1: two or one in three or whatever it was in
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Speaker 1: returning production, and it did not matter at all. But
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Speaker 1: you know, with ESPN, we'll go through Mark lay Ball's
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Speaker 1: top ten. He's got Indiana number one for the way
23:55
Speaker 1: too early, top twenty five, Texas number two. There's the
23:59
Speaker 1: long Horns again. Oh they've got so much talent and
24:01
Speaker 1: so much blah blah blah blah blah. Okay, like, let's
24:04
Speaker 1: see what will Musschamp can do with that defense, and
24:07
Speaker 1: maybe it allows Sark to do something better with the offense.
24:09
Speaker 1: But the offense was the problem this year. Pete Kwakowski's
24:13
Speaker 1: defense was not the issue. Notre Dame at number three, Okay, okay,
24:19
Speaker 1: like I get it, I understand where you're coming from.
24:21
Speaker 1: But also they lost to the two best teams that
24:23
Speaker 1: they played last year. I don't know exactly what that means,
24:29
Speaker 1: but the roster lose good. I'm sure. Georgia number four, okay,
24:34
Speaker 1: like I mean, it's a Kirby Smart team. They gotta
24:39
Speaker 1: be up there. Oregon five, Yeah, okay, that makes sense.
24:42
Speaker 1: Dante Moore is coming back, Dylan Rail is going to
24:44
Speaker 1: be his backup. They got a lot of talent still there.
24:47
Speaker 1: I mean they were a young team this year, young team.
24:50
Speaker 1: Ohio State at number six. They're losing Caleb Downs, They're
24:55
Speaker 1: losing Rvel Reees, They're losing Sonny Styles, Kayden Curry, the
24:58
Speaker 1: defensive lineman McDonald, old cornerback Carnel Tate is gone. You know.
25:05
Speaker 1: They they're losing quite a few, but they had a
25:09
Speaker 1: good portal Hall. They still got Julian Saying, they still
25:11
Speaker 1: got the tailback Jackson, they still got Jeremiah Smith over there.
25:14
Speaker 1: I mean it's still a fantastic team. Number seven, Texas Tech. Okay,
25:21
Speaker 1: you're losing a lot off of that defensive line. You're
25:24
Speaker 1: bringing in Brennan Swergeby at quarterback, you know, I mean
25:30
Speaker 1: they've got a fantastic portal Hall paid a bunch of
25:34
Speaker 1: dudes again, is what it is. Miami. Number eight, we'd
25:37
Speaker 1: still don't know who's gonna play quarterback for him. They
25:40
Speaker 1: lose Malgoa, they lose the center Brockermeyer, they lose CJ. Daniels,
25:46
Speaker 1: Keelan Marion, Ruben Bain a key Mesador like it. They
25:50
Speaker 1: lose a bulk of the team, but they have been
25:55
Speaker 1: developing like a bunch of those guys that they lost
25:59
Speaker 1: were guys that had been in the program. Number nine,
26:02
Speaker 1: slay Ball has got Ole Miss again. I don't know
26:07
Speaker 1: how you can possibly rank Ole Miss up there. You
26:12
Speaker 1: don't know if Trinidad Chambliss is gonna be eligible, and
26:16
Speaker 1: if he's not, then he got DU's Night that came
26:18
Speaker 1: in from Auburn. I think Walker Howard. I think he's
26:24
Speaker 1: a quarterback that's coming in potentially. I think that's who
26:29
Speaker 1: he decided to go back with. I mean, who the
26:32
Speaker 1: hell knows? Who knows, I don't know, but who knows
26:37
Speaker 1: what Pete Golding is gonna be like as a head coach.
26:39
Speaker 1: He's not gonna have that same offensive staff. He's bringing
26:42
Speaker 1: in the guy from East Carolina, So what is that
26:45
Speaker 1: gonna look like? How is that gonna mesh? And Number
26:48
Speaker 1: ten they've got Texas A and L lost quite a
26:52
Speaker 1: bit off of the offensive line, lost some key defensive
26:57
Speaker 1: linemen as well. And I'm not huge, I'm not a
27:03
Speaker 1: huge red guy, Marcel Reid. But they hit it out
27:08
Speaker 1: of the park again in the portal. It looks like
27:10
Speaker 1: so who the hell knows. So as far as some
27:14
Speaker 1: other ones to b YU at eleven, Oklahoma twelve, USC thirteen,
27:20
Speaker 1: Louisville fourteen, LSU fifteen, everybody's got Bama way way down there.
27:26
Speaker 1: And I mean, I get it, like they lost quite
27:31
Speaker 1: a few guys. They're gonna be super super young. I
27:35
Speaker 1: think they've only got six or seven seniors on the team.
27:39
Speaker 1: Maybe like that. There's only a handful of players that
27:45
Speaker 1: have played more than two seasons, so they're gonna be young.
27:51
Speaker 1: They are still talented, super talented. So we're gonna see
27:54
Speaker 1: exactly what this team looks like. And finally we'll close
27:58
Speaker 1: out with this. The playoff format has to be done,
28:07
Speaker 1: has to be expanded. If they're going to expand, it
28:10
Speaker 1: has to be done by Friday, January twenty third. And
28:14
Speaker 1: I don't know that there is anything that would lead
28:19
Speaker 1: you to believe that this is going to get done.
28:23
Speaker 1: The Big ten wants twenty four teams, and they are
28:28
Speaker 1: willing to go with sixteen for two or three years,
28:32
Speaker 1: but then they have decided that they want a twenty
28:38
Speaker 1: four team after just a few years. So midway through
28:43
Speaker 1: the new ESPN contract, which begins next season, they want
28:50
Speaker 1: more teams, and they basically want to get rid of
28:52
Speaker 1: conference championship games and they want it to be a
28:55
Speaker 1: play in on that weekend. So they're telling the SEC,
28:59
Speaker 1: all right, we'll give you three more years of your
29:00
Speaker 1: conference championship game, and we've got a conference championship game two,
29:05
Speaker 1: but we're willing to get rid of it as well.
29:08
Speaker 1: And I don't believe any of this stuff has really
29:10
Speaker 1: been reported. I don't think anybody's actually said that. But
29:12
Speaker 1: there's no other way to do it than that way,
29:16
Speaker 1: Like if you're doing twenty four, that's the only way
29:19
Speaker 1: to do that. So it is what it is. The
29:24
Speaker 1: Big ten wants twenty four, the SEC wants sixteen. They
29:28
Speaker 1: want five automatic qualifiers, and they want let's see eleven
29:37
Speaker 1: at largest. And if you look at it, the sixteen
29:42
Speaker 1: does make sense right for what they've already got. It's
29:49
Speaker 1: it's odd because it's gonna shift all of these Bowl
29:53
Speaker 1: games around. It's the playoffs could shrink or grow depending
29:57
Speaker 1: on the leverage, and I don't know, I don't know
30:03
Speaker 1: which way that I would want to go. I think
30:05
Speaker 1: it's probably good that we're going to do twelve teams
30:08
Speaker 1: again going forward, but the way that it is set
30:11
Speaker 1: up is going to change. If Notre Damus ranked inside
30:13
Speaker 1: the top twelve, they get in, no matter what the
30:18
Speaker 1: ACC champ going forward. Due to memorandums of understanding, Duke
30:23
Speaker 1: would have been in the playoff this year, Miami probably
30:25
Speaker 1: would not have even made the playoff. Alabama may not
30:29
Speaker 1: have made the playoff. So all of it kind of
30:31
Speaker 1: changes around based on these new memorandum of understandings going
30:36
Speaker 1: into the twenty twenty six playoff. So I don't know
30:38
Speaker 1: how much everybody's going to like that. I mean, this,
30:44
Speaker 1: this whole thing is not going to get done. I
30:47
Speaker 1: just I have zero faith that this thing is going
30:50
Speaker 1: to get done. Heather Dinnich is the ESPN writer that
30:53
Speaker 1: is tasked with keeping up with the college football playoff.
30:56
Speaker 1: She has not tweeted anything in two weeks, I say
31:00
Speaker 1: two weeks in like ten days. So yeah, that should
31:07
Speaker 1: tell you everything you need to know. There's no news
31:10
Speaker 1: on this. They are not going to agree on it,
31:12
Speaker 1: and it's only because the Big Ten and the SEC
31:14
Speaker 1: don't agree. Most of the other conferences agree with the SEC.
31:19
Speaker 1: They are good with moving to sixteen and then maybe
31:22
Speaker 1: one day down the line, when TV contracts are up
31:24
Speaker 1: and all that kind of stuff, then we can discuss
31:26
Speaker 1: the twenty four one. But it doesn't matter what all
31:31
Speaker 1: the other conferences think because the SEC and the Big
31:33
Speaker 1: Ten have all the leverage. So unless they agree on something,
31:36
Speaker 1: nothing is getting done. So I suppose we'll see. I
31:42
Speaker 1: suppose we will see. All right, huh, pretty decent sized
31:47
Speaker 1: podcast for this evening. It's been a little while. I'm
31:49
Speaker 1: glad that you guys are back. Thank you for listening
31:51
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31:55
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