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The 5 Hottest Topics At 2025 Big Ten Media Days · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning. From Monday, July twenty, first
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Speaker 1: that countdown now. I don't have to do it much
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Speaker 1: math on this one at all. Big ten Media Days
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Speaker 1: starts in one day, starts on Tuesday out in Las Vegas.
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Speaker 1: I will be out there, Kevin Noon will be out there,
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Speaker 1: Tony Gerdeman will be out there covering all three days
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Speaker 1: for you. Could be a ton to talk about, and
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Speaker 1: today we're going to be talking about what we're talking
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Speaker 1: about out there. Tony Gerdaman joins me. Now, Tony, this
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Speaker 1: is a little gonna be a little bit of a
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Speaker 1: different Media Days. Normally we're at Lucas Oil Stadium in
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Speaker 1: Indian It's nice, easy drive over and you know, we
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Speaker 1: sort of know what to expect then we know where
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Speaker 1: the hotel is, and it's it's all kind of easy
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Speaker 1: and all kind of routine this year. You know how
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Speaker 1: the West Coast teams complain of all the travel they
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Speaker 1: have to do, Tony, we have to fly all the
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Speaker 1: way across the country to cover an event we used
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Speaker 1: to be able to drive to. I'm not sure I
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Speaker 1: care for the new, the new, big, bigger, big ten.
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Speaker 2: You know, it's it's either a three hour drive or
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Speaker 2: four hour flight, you know, so if you think about
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Speaker 2: it that way, Tom, But yeah, I I of late.
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Speaker 2: That's the only time we get to go to Indianapolis,
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Speaker 2: So you know they're taking that away.
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Speaker 1: From I can hear the audience right now saying too soon,
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Speaker 1: too soon, So normally that's my normal. That's me that
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Speaker 1: they're saying it too. So it's nice, nice of you
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Speaker 1: to take that, take that bullet for the for the
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Speaker 1: rest of us, this is a year where there's a
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Speaker 1: lot of stuff to talk about, and there's always you know,
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Speaker 1: individual teams and Ohio States replacing its starting quarterback and
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Speaker 1: all those players at lost in Michigan trying to bounce
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Speaker 1: back from you know, a certainly certainly a step back
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Speaker 1: year and started the Brice Underwood era and Oregon, how
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Speaker 1: are they going to bounce back from the thirty four
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Speaker 1: to nothing first half issue that they had at the
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Speaker 1: Rose Bowl Penn State? Are they going to be able
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Speaker 1: to you know, you know, this is this year that
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Speaker 1: they get over the hump. There's so many different things,
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Speaker 1: but this is also just a lot of interesting, big
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Speaker 1: picture stuff that I think we're gonna be talking about
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Speaker 1: this week. So I'll let you go first. What is
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Speaker 1: one thing you were really maybe most interested in talking
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Speaker 1: to people about, whether they're you know, folks are affiliating
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Speaker 1: with the Buckeyes or someone else in the league, you know.
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Speaker 2: And sometimes we just get access to random people in
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Speaker 2: college football, and I'm hoping there's some nil Go people
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Speaker 2: there or some people from the clearing house, because I'd
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Speaker 2: like to just get some direction on what can you
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Speaker 2: do with recruits, what can you do with high school players?
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Speaker 2: How much can you actually pay them or do you
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Speaker 2: just have like memorandums of understanding where? And then I
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Speaker 2: think one of the questions I would like to ask
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Speaker 2: Tony Pettiti is how do you feel about promises made
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Speaker 2: to recruits? Are perhaps money being given to recruits where
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Speaker 2: it's if this is allowed, then are going to be
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Speaker 2: we'll give you this much. If this doesn't allowed, we're
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Speaker 2: going to give you this much. And just as overall
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Speaker 2: thoughts on the strangeness of agents talking about recruit signing
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Speaker 2: deals with particular schools and but it's also more of
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Speaker 2: a conversation that I'd like to have with them. But
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Speaker 2: I really it's difficult to get conversations with with the commissioners.
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Speaker 2: You might get one question and no follow up, so
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Speaker 2: you don't really get what you want. But I think
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Speaker 2: the NIL aspect of things is going to be pretty
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Speaker 2: a pretty big talking point all over the place.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, And I would also add to that list of
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Speaker 1: people to talk to. I would be fascinated to talk
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Speaker 1: to head coaches about what's your approach to NIL, beIN
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Speaker 1: are you know what are you doing in terms of
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Speaker 1: your collective? Do you still have a collective? Did you
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Speaker 1: get rid of your collective? Or are you sort of
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Speaker 1: approaching it as We'll see what comes out and we're
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Speaker 1: going to be very cautious about it. And this is
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Speaker 1: one of these things where I'm fascinated to ask the question.
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Speaker 1: I don't know how many people are going to be
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Speaker 1: willing to answer, but it would be it's interesting to
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Speaker 1: have all a team coaches in the same place and
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Speaker 1: be able to get potentially an answer from it on
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Speaker 1: from some of them, because I think it's safe to
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Speaker 1: say that USC is approaching things a little differently than
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Speaker 1: Ohio State is, for example. And I don't know how
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Speaker 1: much Rutgers is going to have to say about nil
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Speaker 1: aggressiveness and all that, but you know, that's certainly something
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Speaker 1: that I think you're going to be able to talk
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Speaker 1: to some coaches and get some interesting answers on that
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Speaker 1: and a sort of related piece to that, And you know,
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Speaker 1: in terms of will coaches actually be able to talk
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Speaker 1: about it or be willing to talk about it, I
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Speaker 1: don't know the college Football playoff format. It feels like
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Speaker 1: the party line from the Big Ten is right now
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Speaker 1: that the four four three three one one format where
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Speaker 1: you get guaranteed, guaranteed spots for each conference for a
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Speaker 1: certain number of teams. So the Big Ten in SEC
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Speaker 1: would have four each, the Big twelve and ACC would
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Speaker 1: have three each, and then you'd have one for the
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Speaker 1: non non power leagues and one for either Notre Dame
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Speaker 1: or an at large that seems like that's what the
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Speaker 1: Big ten is pushing right now. The SEC seems like
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Speaker 1: they're pushing back on that a little bit, the Big
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Speaker 1: twelve feels like they're pushing back on that a little bit.
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Speaker 1: I'm interested to hear what Tony Petiti has to say,
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Speaker 1: you know, out loud, in front of a microphone, on
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Speaker 1: the record, on that. And I'm also interested to see
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Speaker 1: how many coaches are willing to talk about that in
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Speaker 1: express an opinion, because I'm certain Tony that they have
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Speaker 1: an opinion. It's just a matter of who's going to
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Speaker 1: be willing to talk about it in front of a
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Speaker 1: bunch of folks who they know are going to relay
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Speaker 1: that opinion if they give it well.
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Speaker 2: And it seems like if you play nine conference games,
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Speaker 2: you want the four to four, you want the guaranteed
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Speaker 2: four spots, and if you don't, if you're the SEC
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Speaker 2: and you play eight games, be like, why, let's just
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Speaker 2: go with what people think. Let's just go with popular opinion.
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Speaker 2: And so yeah, I would assume that the Big Ten,
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Speaker 2: knowing where that popular opinion goes a lot of times,
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Speaker 2: most of those coaches are going to want that opportunity
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Speaker 2: to play their way in and go with the say
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Speaker 2: play their way in with the automatic qualifiers. It's like
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Speaker 2: it's kind of like, are we contradicting ourselves a little
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Speaker 2: bit here? But I think most coaches do, Like I
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Speaker 2: could probably get to the top four, even though you're
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Speaker 2: especially if Michigan is down again because you assume Ohio State,
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Speaker 2: Penn State, and Oregon are gonna be there. But like,
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Speaker 2: if Indiana can do it, pretty much anybody can do it,
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Speaker 2: and that's the way that they'll they would look at it.
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Speaker 2: And we've seen in the past. If Michigan State can
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Speaker 2: do it in fourteen playoff back in twenty fifteen, anybody
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Speaker 2: should be able to do it. Iowa was one game
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Speaker 2: away back then, and you know, I know we're talking
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Speaker 2: ten years ago, but you only have to win the
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Speaker 2: games that are presented in front of you. And and
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Speaker 2: for some of the Big Ten programs sometimes you get
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Speaker 2: a pretty decent schedule and it allows you to win
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Speaker 2: ten games. So I think the Big Ten as a whole,
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Speaker 2: I don't know if it's going to be unanimous, but
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Speaker 2: you know, I think they're all going to be in
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Speaker 2: favor of the automatic qualifiers. I'd be interested, Like if
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Speaker 2: there aren't people who are in favor of it. Why, like, what,
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Speaker 2: how does it benefit you not to have automatic qualifiers
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Speaker 2: things like that? So yeah, and is there a you know, Tony,
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Speaker 2: Tony Pettitti wants us talking this way, so we're going
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Speaker 2: to talk this way or is it Tony Pettitti talks
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Speaker 2: this way because we're talking to like he's he is
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Speaker 2: echoing what his coaches have been saying or what they've
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Speaker 2: been telling him.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. And the thing that I think maybe has made
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Speaker 1: me a little more open to the automatic bids for
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Speaker 1: specific conferences is the fact that they're talking about also
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Speaker 1: having that play in round where three plut might play
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Speaker 1: six and four might play five, and then you don't
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Speaker 1: even need to be top four in the league to qualify.
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Speaker 1: You need to be top six in the league to
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Speaker 1: have a chance to play your way in. I mean,
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Speaker 1: think about some of the teams that have been would
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Speaker 1: have been top six in the Big Ten the last
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Speaker 1: over the last five years. Iowa made a Big twelve
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Speaker 1: Big Ten championship game out of the West, they certainly
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Speaker 1: would have been top six. Purdue made a Big Ten
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Speaker 1: championship game. As you said, Indiana last year got in
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Speaker 1: just as a you know, as an at large team,
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Speaker 1: but they would have obviously gotten into that play and
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Speaker 1: set up. Now you're opening things up to All you
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Speaker 1: got to do is get hot. All you got to
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Speaker 1: do is have you know, have a nine in three
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Speaker 1: ten in two type season and you're probably if you're
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Speaker 1: not losing three games in conference, you're probably in that
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Speaker 1: top six. At Illinois to the list as a potential
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Speaker 1: team this year. That this just that opens things up
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Speaker 1: to so many more teams, you know, having a chance
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Speaker 1: to play meaningful games in November, which is probably great
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Speaker 1: for the health of the sport overall.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. And I think going back, based on last year's records,
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Speaker 2: like Ohio State and Iowa would have played, and Indiana
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Speaker 2: and Illinois would have played. And I hear people saying, yeah,
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Speaker 2: but do you really want to play off with Iowa
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Speaker 2: and it it's like, well, they're probably not going to win,
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Speaker 2: but if they beat the number three teams, then clearly
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Speaker 2: they're not the number six team. They're the number three.
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Speaker 2: You know, they're one of the three best because they
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Speaker 2: just beat one of what we thought was the three best.
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Speaker 2: And I'm with you. The the Big Ten Championship game,
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Speaker 2: the conference championship games now are essentially meaningless the Major
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Speaker 2: com I'd say the SEC and the Big Ten championship
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Speaker 2: games are meaningless because both teams, all four of those
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Speaker 2: teams made it in last year despite what they did
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Speaker 2: in that game. So I'm of the opinion just scrap
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Speaker 2: the conference championship games and the top two teams they're in,
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Speaker 2: and then you have the other play ins because the
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Speaker 2: really are you rewarding? You actually get to reward two
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Speaker 2: teams with what you know they wouldn't have to play
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Speaker 2: that weekend basically, And so nobody's getting buys in the
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Speaker 2: sixteen team playoffs, So give them that buy and the
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Speaker 2: conference championship week now, is I just gonna make them rusty.
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Speaker 1: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: Coaches seem to love buys though, so so I don't
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Speaker 2: know that they'd argue, But I just think it'd be
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Speaker 2: fascinating and fun and make games more important throughout the
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Speaker 2: course of the season. And I know there are people
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Speaker 2: who are absolutely against this.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and there are, and I certainly understand that because
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Speaker 1: there is multiple specific auto buy or auto bids for
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Speaker 1: specific you certain conferences when others aren't getting the same number,
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Speaker 1: is a little you know, a little antithetical to what
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Speaker 1: the spirit of competitiveness might have traditionally told us is
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Speaker 1: the way. But you do also have teams then playing
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Speaker 1: their way in and winning their way in, and you
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Speaker 1: can't say, well, Indiana just kind of they didn't play
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Speaker 1: anyone and they just you know, lost the only good
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Speaker 1: team they played. Well, you got to play another halfway
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Speaker 1: decent team and you got to win your way in,
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Speaker 1: and you can also lose your way out. So that's
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Speaker 1: that's one speaking of things that have gotten people a
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Speaker 1: little stirred up, Tony, I am interested to talk to
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Speaker 1: various coaches about Big Noon Saturday, because I know Ohio
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Speaker 1: State fans have thoughts on Big Noon Saturday. And I'm sure,
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Speaker 1: you know, the if the Fox folks will be around
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Speaker 1: and maybe we'll get a chance to talk to them
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Speaker 1: about Big Noon Saturday. I you know, I think this
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Speaker 1: is probably really an Ohio State specific problem to a
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Speaker 1: certain degree, where the fact that Ohio State played on
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Speaker 1: you know what, six straight noon games to end the season,
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Speaker 1: and I think eight noon games all together in the
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Speaker 1: regular season last year, that means it's not anyone else's
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Speaker 1: problem broadly. But I do I do wonder if coaches
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Speaker 1: will talk about, you know, is that do you view
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Speaker 1: a noon game as a problem? What does a noon
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Speaker 1: game do for you in terms of recruiting, What does
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Speaker 1: a neon game do for you in terms of in
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Speaker 1: stateium atmosphere? And is it an issue to you that
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Speaker 1: your biggest games in a lot of cases are in
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Speaker 1: that new and slot. And you know, I have I
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Speaker 1: have been on our board and explained many times why
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Speaker 1: Fox is doing it, and I understand why Fox is
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Speaker 1: doing it, but I also understand why people are a
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Speaker 1: little bit upset about that. And I'm interested to hear
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Speaker 1: this is another one where I'm guessing people are not
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Speaker 1: going to talk too negatively about their valued corporate champions
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Speaker 1: from the Fox network, But I am interested to see
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Speaker 1: if anyone's going to be interested in going on the
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Speaker 1: record about you know, good, bad or indifferent there.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think before we ask those questions, go
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Speaker 2: back and research to see how many each of how
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Speaker 2: many times each of those Big ten teams has played
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Speaker 2: on Big Noon and if they've done it once or
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Speaker 2: are none and it is it a goal for them?
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Speaker 2: Not necessarily a goal, but it's like, hey, we are
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Speaker 2: the biggest game you know, that's what they can tell.
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Speaker 2: So it's it's a first world problem and they'd love
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Speaker 2: to have it. But then would you like to have
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Speaker 2: it six, you know, five weeks out of six weeks
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Speaker 2: in a row like Ohio State did Ohio State, as
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Speaker 2: you said, played seven noon games last year and six
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Speaker 2: of those were big neon In the last six games
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Speaker 2: we're noon with five of those being big noon, and
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Speaker 2: so would you like to do that? And of course
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Speaker 2: they'd say, well, if that means that we are currently
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Speaker 2: ask Brett be Bilama, would you would you want to
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Speaker 2: play six noon games in a row? He's like, if
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Speaker 2: that means we're number one into Big ten, give it
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Speaker 2: to me. And but eventually, after two, three, four years
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Speaker 2: of so many of these games and all of your
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Speaker 2: biggest games, like if Illinois Missouri was the biggest game
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Speaker 2: going and every year it had to be on noon
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Speaker 2: at noon, eventually you're going to want something. You're gonna
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Speaker 2: you're going to share some thoughts on maybe maybe we
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Speaker 2: could back off a little bit, like I think we've
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Speaker 2: equated it to like I don't need ice cream for
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Speaker 2: dinner every night. You know, this is this is just
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Speaker 2: a little bit much so yeah. I think that's gonna
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Speaker 2: be a good question, like PJ Flack like, please let
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Speaker 2: this happen to me, Like that's probably what he's gonna.
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Speaker 1: Say, Yeah, it does it? Do you want Gus Johnson
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Speaker 1: asking you if you want to smoke the entire pack?
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Speaker 1: Like no, no, thank you, even if that means he's
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Speaker 1: going to start calling Ryan Days Marlborough man, Oh, we're
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Speaker 1: making him smoke the whole pack, And I don't. I
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Speaker 1: don't think they're gonna probably be a fan of that eventually,
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Speaker 1: but we'll see. Okay, So I have one more that's
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Speaker 1: sort of adjacent, but do you have do you have
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Speaker 1: another one that you wanted to you wanted to hit on?
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Speaker 1: You know?
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Speaker 2: I think when we get to I think, for one,
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Speaker 2: I do want to go and ask all of the
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Speaker 2: big ten coaches, do you guys still have your your
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Speaker 2: collective going? I don't know how. Maybe I can google that,
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Speaker 2: but that is something to to get on record and
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Speaker 2: get the whys and the why not. But I also
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Speaker 2: want to ask some people like Brett Bielomas. Certainly he's
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Speaker 2: kind of talked about this already, but how nil has
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Speaker 2: even the field or programs like Illinois with the SEC,
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Speaker 2: and do you do you see a coincidence that you know,
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Speaker 2: the NIL has been around for a few years and
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Speaker 2: now the Big Ten has won two national championships in
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Speaker 2: a row, that sort of thing, like do you see
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Speaker 2: this continuing? And also how have those national championships? Do
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Speaker 2: you use those in recruiting? Like ask any of the
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Speaker 2: Big ten coaches like do you use the Big ten
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Speaker 2: status right now in recruiting? And it's kind of just
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Speaker 2: all tied together with the withinn il and success and
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Speaker 2: making the most of it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's related to my last one, because my
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Speaker 1: last one is this is a little bit of a
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Speaker 1: lobbing a softball up there and just inviting them to
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Speaker 1: smash it out of the park. But every league does
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Speaker 1: this where they're going to have their talking points and
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Speaker 1: they're going to tout how great their league is and
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Speaker 1: they're the best and here's why and oh boy, howdy
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Speaker 1: did you hear that during SEC media days last week?
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Speaker 1: And I'm sure you know they all had their talking
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Speaker 1: points and oh, I you know, yeah, we only play eight,
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Speaker 1: but boy would you rather play? You know, is playing
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Speaker 1: a ninth game against Purdue really that different? Like, Okay,
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Speaker 1: everyone in the SEC is the single greatest team in
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Speaker 1: the entire world, Tony, what is the SEC's playoff record
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Speaker 1: current SEC members over the last two seasons and which
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Speaker 1: teams have they beaten?
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Speaker 2: Texas beat Arizona State? And is that did Georgia beat nobody?
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Speaker 1: Georgia beat nobody? Texas also beat Clemson. So Texas the
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Speaker 1: entire SEC including you know this is this includes Texas'
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Speaker 1: before they joined the SEC two and five in the
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Speaker 1: College Football Playoff the last two years with wins over
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Speaker 1: Clemson and Arizona State. Georgia lost to Notre Dame. And
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Speaker 1: then the Big Ten is four to oh current Big
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Speaker 1: Ten members against the SEC in the College football player
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Speaker 1: for the last two years. Washington beat Texas, Michigan beat Alabama,
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Speaker 1: Ohio State beat Tennessee, Ohio State beat Texas. So how
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Speaker 1: often do you think you would hear the SEC is
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Speaker 1: four to zero against the Big Ten the last two
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Speaker 1: seasons if that was the case. So I have a
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Speaker 1: feeling this will be this is one where you're kind
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Speaker 1: of you know, this is we just saw the home
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Speaker 1: run derby at Major League Baseball's All Star Game. This
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Speaker 1: is one where we're going to throw one right down
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Speaker 1: the pipe. And just see how far someone can hit it,
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Speaker 1: because sometimes you get a real good quote there, and
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Speaker 1: sometimes that quote ends up biting someone in the butt later,
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Speaker 1: and sometimes that quote ends up being bulletin board material.
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Speaker 1: But it's just that's one you know, this is this
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Speaker 1: is We're not there to do pr for anyone. But
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Speaker 1: also sometimes there's lots of stuff coaches don't want to
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Speaker 1: talk about. You're gonna get some interesting answers on this one.
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Speaker 2: I think, yeah, for sure. And anytime you can throw
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Speaker 2: throw us off ball up there, you might get the
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Speaker 2: answer you're looking for. And it's not that you're trying
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Speaker 2: to get an easy answer. You're trying to kind of like, oh, okay,
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Speaker 2: get Brett Bailima, he's good for that. Cursing nutty probably
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Speaker 2: good for that. Anytime you can stir some things up,
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Speaker 2: it's fun.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, And I look, I think I'm also interested in
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Speaker 1: hearing like David Braun's thoughts on that. He's like, are
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Speaker 1: you asking me what is that's the Northwestern coach? For
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Speaker 1: those who are going what does that name sound familiar?
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Speaker 1: Is someone behind me? Now? Okay? Yeah, So well that's
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Speaker 1: just a smattering of the things we're going to have
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Speaker 1: to talk about at the Big Ten media days this week.
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Speaker 1: There's plenty more. I'm there are certain people I love
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Speaker 1: to talk to every year. James Franklin is. I know
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Speaker 1: people have various thoughts on James Franklin. I always find
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Speaker 1: that that forty five minutes with him one of the
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Speaker 1: most interesting periods of the week. I love talking to
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Speaker 1: Bill Carollo, the Big Ten Big Ten of Director of Officiating.
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Speaker 1: He's one of the first people who will talk on Tuesday.
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Speaker 1: But we also get a chance to talk to a
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Speaker 1: lot of the folks behind the scenes as well, get
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Speaker 1: a chance to have some kind of off the record
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Speaker 1: or you know, on background kind of conversations with TV
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Speaker 1: network folks. And got a chance to talk to Rich Clark,
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Speaker 1: the college Football Playoff director last year to get some
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Speaker 1: clarification on some stuff that just hadn't been reported. So
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Speaker 1: it's a great chance to get some clarity on some
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Speaker 1: stuff which then helps us give, you know, have more
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Speaker 1: informed reporting for you at buckey Huddle dot com because
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Speaker 1: that's where we have our whole team covering the Buckeyes,
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Speaker 1: covering the team we cover in fall camp. In just
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Speaker 1: about a week and a half at this point, it
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Speaker 1: seems like. And then we also have our team covering recruiting.
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Speaker 1: We got our team covering x's and o's. You want it,
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Speaker 1: it's there all at bucke Huddle dot com. We hope
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Speaker 1: to see you there. We hope to have plenty of
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Speaker 1: coverage for you this week from out in Las Vegas.
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Speaker 1: I don't know what our morning show is going to
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Speaker 1: look like on Monday evening. We have a late flight,
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Speaker 1: so we'll see what. We'll see how that all works out.
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Speaker 1: But wanted to get our pre big ten Media Days
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Speaker 1: show in for you here just to sort of set
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Speaker 1: up what should be a very busy week of content
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Speaker 1: Buckey Huddle a little that we'll do it for today.
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Speaker 1: Thank you guys all for joining us. Have a great day.
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Speaker 1: We'll talk to you tomorrow.