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Big Ten Win Total Prediction, Dante Moore Mental Health, & MORE · Unafraid Show with George Wrighster

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. We got so much to talk
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  Speaker 1: about today. I'm so excited Big ten win totals have
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  Speaker 1: come out, and we gotta tell you, guys, who's gonna
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  Speaker 1: go over, who's gonna go under, the exact finish of
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  Speaker 1: the Big ten, and then how you get there as well.
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  Speaker 1: Deep dive into it. You guys do not want to
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  Speaker 1: miss this. Matt Liner, former USC quarterback, jersey retirement Heisman
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  Speaker 1: Trophy winner. He has been asked to unretire his jersey
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  Speaker 1: for recruit and he gave the perfect answer. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to explain to you why this is the correct
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  Speaker 1: way to think about it and everything else that goes
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  Speaker 1: along with that. Dante Moore, Oregon Ducks quarterback, put out
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  Speaker 1: a letter essentially about his mental health struggles and detailed
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  Speaker 1: the things that went on at UCLA. I tried to
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  Speaker 1: tell y'all people called the kid mentally weak, But this
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  Speaker 1: and what he's asking his teammates to do, Oh my god,
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  Speaker 1: this is the biggest sign of strength and why he
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  Speaker 1: came back for this year, his junior year. This makes
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  Speaker 1: all the sense in the world and I love it.
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  Speaker 1: The NC Double A well maybe future NC Double A
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  Speaker 1: commissioner yep, Yeah, SEC Commissioner Greg Sanki. Oh, he is
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  Speaker 1: out here talking and campaigning like he is running for
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  Speaker 1: political office. I'm going to explain to you why he's
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  Speaker 1: doing this, not just everything that he's saying, but why
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  Speaker 1: he's doing this. This is a power play. There are threats,
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  Speaker 1: they're stoken fear, there is minimizing big problems everything that
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  Speaker 1: politicians doing. And I'm gonna explain to you why. And
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  Speaker 1: also our NC Double A tournament brackets, we gotta put
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  Speaker 1: him out. We're sending you guys a link in the
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  Speaker 1: comments the way you guys can join in our bracket.
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  Speaker 2: Join in.
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  Speaker 1: There will be prizes, so you guys make sure that
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  Speaker 1: you guys click that as well. Is gonna be a
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  Speaker 1: lot of fun. And we got to talk about Bruce Pearl.
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  Speaker 1: Bruce Pearl, former Auburn coach, gave his son the job
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  Speaker 1: at Auburn because of the timing that he retired and
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  Speaker 1: everything else, gave his son the head coaching job and
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  Speaker 1: now it hasn't gone as well as everybody expected. They
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  Speaker 1: didn't get into the tournament, and he has been criticized
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  Speaker 1: so heavily. And I'm going to explain to you why
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  Speaker 1: he's been criticized because a lot of people aren't really
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  Speaker 1: exactly sure that and so much more here on the show.
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  Speaker 1: I'm college Football's truth teller and this is the other frase.
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  Speaker 2: Joe Ooh, It's time to get into it.
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  Speaker 1: But first go visit Underdog Fantasy because the tournament is
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  Speaker 1: back up. Sets are inevitable buzzer beaters, and Underdog is
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  Speaker 1: the best place to get in on all the action.
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking at the games that Duke Arkansas Michigan State
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  Speaker 1: are planing because I like their young players. Darius Acuff,
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  Speaker 1: cam Boozer fears over there at Michigan State. Those are
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  Speaker 1: the guys that I'm looking at, their hires and their lowers,
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  Speaker 1: because we're gonna have buzzer beaters, fast breaks, and everything
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  Speaker 1: going on. Make three to five picks and progressively win
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  Speaker 1: more based upon how well each pick performs. Win a
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  Speaker 1: a great night, up to two hundred and fifty times
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  Speaker 2: All right, let's get to it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna let you guys here what Matt Leonard had
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  Speaker 1: to say about what's been happening with USC and they're
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  Speaker 1: recruiting because this.
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  Speaker 2: Matters at USC.
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  Speaker 3: I got my number retired. There's been multiple times where
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  Speaker 3: people at USC have asked me if I would unretire
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  Speaker 3: my jersey for some five star prospect, And do you
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  Speaker 3: want to know what I told those guys? Straight up,
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  Speaker 3: I am never going to unretire my jersey for some
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  Speaker 3: random dude, who, by the way, now could wear number
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  Speaker 3: eleven and transfer after a year. The only person that
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  Speaker 3: will ever wear my USC number eleven would be Cole
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  Speaker 3: who's not there right now, is at SEM or two
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  Speaker 3: of my boys if they end up going to USC
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  Speaker 3: and playing football, that is it.
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  Speaker 2: I love this. Matt Leonard is on the right page here.
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  Speaker 1: Recruiting has become such a volatile time and a volatile business.
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  Speaker 1: You don't know whether kids are even going to stay
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  Speaker 1: for one day, two days, hoping the portal after they signed,
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  Speaker 1: don't sign, play a year, leave, whatever it is. And
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  Speaker 1: I believe that numbers when they are retired, they got
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  Speaker 1: to be sacred. And yes, we've had Warren Moon allow
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  Speaker 1: a guy like cam Ward to wear his number one.
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  Speaker 1: But it fits me and my money. Ain't nobody outside
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  Speaker 1: of a reister wearing It's not happening because I'm not
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  Speaker 1: helping you with that. And this is actually one of
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  Speaker 1: the things that happens in recruiting all the time. As
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  Speaker 1: a part of their NIO contracts, kids are asking for
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  Speaker 1: numbers as part of their deal.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I want a.
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  Speaker 1: Single digit number, number choice preference, and sometimes they do
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  Speaker 1: get it as a part of their contracts. Now, I'm
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  Speaker 1: a dude who had to change my number. I was
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  Speaker 1: eighty four in high school and I do This is
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  Speaker 1: before you could wear single digits as well.
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  Speaker 2: In college you you could.
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  Speaker 1: But the only number I wanted was eight, and la
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  Speaker 1: Corey Collins had it, so I was fine with number
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  Speaker 1: eighty one. I was eighty four in high school, got
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  Speaker 1: to eighty one at Oregon, and then I didn't want
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  Speaker 1: to change my number because I was like, I'm already
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  Speaker 1: eighty one.
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  Speaker 2: I'm good now.
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  Speaker 1: The idea that recruits are so tied to numbers in
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  Speaker 1: high school. And I do think that this is part
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  Speaker 1: of the recruiting stuff that yes, you do have to act.
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  Speaker 1: We ask certain things to get prospects. But at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the day, if number choice, outside of it
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  Speaker 1: being something that your dad wore, something that is that
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  Speaker 1: big of a deal, you gotta wait and earn it.
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  Speaker 1: You gotta wait and earn it. And I would tell
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  Speaker 1: you this, and I know that Matt Liner said this,
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  Speaker 1: and I know Matt Liner, well, I believe that if
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  Speaker 1: you had had Caleb Williams right, somebody liked that and
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  Speaker 1: like a fantastic player that at WARN number eleven his
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  Speaker 1: whole life transferred in or something or came in in
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  Speaker 1: high school and then he balls out and it's like,
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  Speaker 1: I am USC for life, Matt Liner. For my senior year,
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  Speaker 1: Please can I wear your number eleven? This is my
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  Speaker 1: greatest dream. I wanted to wear this my whole time.
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  Speaker 1: I've been loyal to USC all of this stuff. I
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  Speaker 1: bet you then Matt Lioner would consider that. But I'm
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  Speaker 1: not in the opinion that you need to be acquiesce
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  Speaker 1: in everything to recruits that you have to have them
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  Speaker 1: build up right. And this is one of the things
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  Speaker 1: that when it comes to NIL is that sometimes coaches
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  Speaker 1: and general managers they mess up their roster by getting
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  Speaker 1: a five star recruit or a big time recruit and
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  Speaker 1: paying them more money than the starters on their roster.
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  Speaker 1: Then the people who are causing them to win and
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  Speaker 1: lose games, when in reality, most freshmen, even if they're
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  Speaker 1: really good, like the Fenny's up there at Oregon, like
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  Speaker 1: that's a big deal, but at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 1: you gotta earn it. Nothing's handed to you. And the
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  Speaker 1: second that you start handing out things to recruits not
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  Speaker 1: making him earn it, that's when you become a problem.
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  Speaker 1: And the truth is you can come in, get a number,
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  Speaker 1: and if you ball out, do you know what the
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  Speaker 1: coach is gonna say to you the next year when
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  Speaker 1: you say, listen, I need number five, coach, and you're
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  Speaker 1: the star player, he can be like, you can have
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  Speaker 1: number five. You got whatever the hell number that you
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  Speaker 1: want that's not attached to another star player that's older
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  Speaker 1: than you.
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  Speaker 2: Other than that, you can have it. And that's the.
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  Speaker 1: Way it needs to be negotiated, because that's the bottom line.
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  Speaker 1: Because stone cold said, so, now, next up Dante Moore,
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  Speaker 1: Oregon quarterback. He detailed and talked about his mental health
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  Speaker 1: struggles while he was at UCLA. He's a kid, and
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  Speaker 1: remember I've talked about this on the show, So let
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  Speaker 1: me guide you through what has happened in his career.
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  Speaker 1: I remember when his last game at USC, He's sitting
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  Speaker 1: on the ground, he got his helmet knocked off. He's
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  Speaker 1: wearing a shisty mask, it's not even in that freaking
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  Speaker 1: cold outside. And I looked at him and I was like,
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  Speaker 1: that's a kid that quit. He got broken in that moment,
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  Speaker 1: and I saw it all of his face, body language,
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  Speaker 1: every I could see it happening.
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  Speaker 2: As the season progressed.
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  Speaker 1: Now, mind you, people would look on the outside and
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  Speaker 1: they would say, this kid's broken.
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  Speaker 2: He's not redeemable. This isn't it.
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  Speaker 1: This is why nobody came in last year except for
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  Speaker 1: me putting Dante Moore as a top ten quarterback in
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  Speaker 1: college football.
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  Speaker 2: And oh he hasn't played in it.
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  Speaker 1: The talent was undeniable, but people saw that moment that
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  Speaker 1: I saw. But the thing I tried to explain to
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  Speaker 1: people was you can look at people's mental health and
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  Speaker 1: their growth as a human by the choices that they make.
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  Speaker 1: Dante Moore chose to leave UCLA to go back up
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  Speaker 1: Dylan gave at Oregon. He knew before he got there
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  Speaker 1: it was not a quarterback competition. Dylan Gabriel was going
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  Speaker 1: to start, he was going to sit for a year
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  Speaker 1: and developed, why is this important? His mother and I
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  Speaker 1: told everybody this. His mother got diagnosed with cancer while
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  Speaker 1: he was a freshman, before he was even starting. So
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  Speaker 1: now this is a dude who is seventeen years old
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  Speaker 1: going to college. Nil doesn't make you ready for everything
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  Speaker 1: that is coming for you, because a lot of times,
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  Speaker 1: our talent and ability takes us to places, our God
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  Speaker 1: given ability takes us to places that we're not mentally, spiritually,
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  Speaker 1: and emotionally ready for. And he wasn't any of those
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  Speaker 1: things ready for the moment because he was seventeen years old,
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  Speaker 1: thrust to being a starter or in a situation where
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  Speaker 1: he should not have even been a starter. So he
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  Speaker 1: goes to Oregon, he sits, and if you look at
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  Speaker 1: his growth last year, all the way up to that
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  Speaker 1: last game in Indiana, well against the Indiana and College
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  Speaker 1: Football playoffs, throws a pick six first play at the game,
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  Speaker 1: a kid who had quit and not grown. You know
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  Speaker 1: what he does then, Oh he falls apart, He falls apart,
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  Speaker 1: but he rallied, got his team to drive down, down,
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  Speaker 1: down the field, kept fighting all game even though it
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  Speaker 1: didn't go well. And that was how you knew why
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  Speaker 1: you should be excited about this twenty twenty six season.
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  Speaker 1: But there's another thing that he's doing, he said.
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  Speaker 2: Quote.
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  Speaker 1: I recently challenged my teammates to lead beyond the field
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  Speaker 1: and use our platform to support people who feel voiceless.
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  Speaker 1: Leadership is not just about what we do on saturdays.
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  Speaker 1: It's about who we stand up for every day. As
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  Speaker 1: a quarterback, I'm expected to lead, stay composed, and carry
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  Speaker 1: my responsibility for my team. And this is coming from
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  Speaker 1: a kid who says documents. Early in his college career,
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  Speaker 1: found himself struggling deeply. He was depressed. And when you
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  Speaker 1: think about all of the oh you suck, you're great,
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  Speaker 1: you're overrated, Oh you're not ready to play, you're the
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  Speaker 1: best thing in the whole world, all of those things
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  Speaker 1: going on at the exact same time for a seventeen
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  Speaker 1: year old while watching your mother endure chemo therapy, while
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  Speaker 1: trying to stay focused on college football. That those are
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  Speaker 1: the things that we have to pay attention to. And
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  Speaker 1: I know that fans we look at this and we say, oh, listen, listen,
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  Speaker 1: you're entertainers.
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  Speaker 2: You gotta get over it. You're making money all these things.
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  Speaker 1: People forget that you are a regular person dealing with
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  Speaker 1: regular issues that everybody else does. The things that people
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  Speaker 1: take off work for and take sick days, personal days,
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  Speaker 1: all the stuff. You don't get those in sports, and
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  Speaker 1: you don't get those when you're the quarterback. You got
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  Speaker 1: to show up to work and this is a job.
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  Speaker 1: So I applaud Dante more. Good on him. I'm proud
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  Speaker 1: of the kid, and this is exactly why I believe
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  Speaker 1: he will be successful. Good decision maker said, I needed time,
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  Speaker 1: and he took that time, and now he's in a
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  Speaker 1: totally different place as an older kid. And that's exactly
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  Speaker 1: why he did not go to the NFL draft. He said, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I can go chase the money. I did that as
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  Speaker 1: a freshman. I did that, chase stardom and chase the
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  Speaker 1: back when I decommitted from Oregon so I could go
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  Speaker 1: to UCLA and go start immediately. I chased the bag.
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  Speaker 1: I did it, and now instead of chasing the bag again.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to make sure that I'm mentally, emotionally and
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  Speaker 1: spiritually ready for where my God given ability takes me.
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  Speaker 2: And that's why he's.
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  Speaker 1: Going to be a good NFL quarterback. Thanks for coming
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  Speaker 1: to my Ted talk. Greg Sankie, SEC Commissioner. He has
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  Speaker 1: been doing press everywhere. He is doing the politician thing.
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  Speaker 1: His quotes are that of a man who is who
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  Speaker 1: is power hungry still and wants to stay in power
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  Speaker 1: and is offering solutions for everything. But a lot of
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  Speaker 1: them are non solutions. Let's take a look at a
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  Speaker 1: few of them. Greg Sankie on why the playoff will
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  Speaker 1: stay at twelve for now. It's not my responsibility to
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  Speaker 1: offer predictions. It's my responsibility to make decisions. So we
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  Speaker 1: had to make a decision for twenty twenty six and
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  Speaker 1: we'll see what that means for the future. Here's what
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  Speaker 1: he said about wanting to sixteen team playoffs. I think
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs should expand I've said that I think sixteen
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  Speaker 1: is the right number. We've done the research. If it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't expand, hey, we'll look at our position on things.
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  Speaker 1: So here's where threats come in. This worked really well
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  Speaker 1: and we've had two years of a twelve playoff team.
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  Speaker 1: The amount of interest and intensity in the game at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the year in the regular season in
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  Speaker 1: the two years that we've had twelve has been off
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  Speaker 1: the charts. So the notion that you just jumped to
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  Speaker 1: some larger number and there aren't impacts, I mean, gosh,
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  Speaker 1: we're just talking about name, image and likeness and how
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  Speaker 1: people said, oh, this will be great, won't be an issue.
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  Speaker 1: I was a profit then based upon what happened, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: you need to stop and slow down. I'm not always right,
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  Speaker 1: but I think you should exercise a lot of discernment
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  Speaker 1: before you just jump into something that he is one
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  Speaker 1: hundred percent right about. That is a statement about life
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  Speaker 1: that you got to exercise discernment and not just jump
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  Speaker 1: into things. But a lot of his statements are about
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  Speaker 1: power and keeping the SEC in a good place, because
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  Speaker 1: he even talked about that on the SEC attitude towards tampering,
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  Speaker 1: talking about old miss and the Clemson thing said and
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  Speaker 1: talking about asking the NCAA to increase all tampering investigations
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  Speaker 1: and punishments.
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  Speaker 2: He says that.
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't describe where we are as a league, and then
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  Speaker 1: he caught the NCAA language on the issue archaic and
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to the conference realignment, when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to nil, when it comes to the transfer portal and scheduling,
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  Speaker 1: everything is about the SEC staying on top. This is
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  Speaker 1: why I want you guys to pay attention to something
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  Speaker 1: that's going to be coming up, so as it relates to.
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  Speaker 2: The conference deals.
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  Speaker 1: Because you have the SEC deal which is up end
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  Speaker 1: I believe twenty thirty four. The other deals are up
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  Speaker 1: prior to that. So if you see the other because
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  Speaker 1: I believe the Big Ten, the Big Twelve, and the
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  Speaker 1: ACC are going to have all of their deals lined
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  Speaker 1: up with the SEC when they end.
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  Speaker 2: Because the.
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  Speaker 1: ACC he ends around the same time too, So the
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  Speaker 1: Big Ten and the Big twelve their deals when they
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  Speaker 1: do them should end around the same time because when
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  Speaker 1: all those deals line up, it is going to create
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  Speaker 1: an opportunity for a super conference or in more conference realignment.
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  Speaker 1: But if the SEC extends their deal, that is a
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  Speaker 1: sign that Greg Sanki that he has no desire to
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  Speaker 1: do what is best for college football. Because I've said
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  Speaker 1: college football needs to be looked at as an enterprise
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  Speaker 1: and not just an individual entity. And it keeps being
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: looked at as an individual entity, with each individual conferences
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  Speaker 1: and then each individual school doing what's best for them
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  Speaker 1: on the inside. When this has to be what is
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  Speaker 1: best for college football. We have to grow the game
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  Speaker 1: and stop trying to just insulate ourselves from bad things
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  Speaker 1: happening to you. That's just period last thing we got
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  Speaker 1: to talk about today before we get into the big
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  Speaker 1: ten win totals. Bruce Pearl notable college basketball coach man
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  Speaker 1: you see on TV. He's charismatic, he's got something to
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  Speaker 1: say everything. So there's been major pushback from a lot
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  Speaker 1: of his Auburn is so good. Auburn should make the
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  Speaker 1: college basketball Tournament, even though their record. Nothing about it
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  Speaker 1: says it losing record in the SEC. But he's pointing
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  Speaker 1: to three wins over conference champions. But you gotta win
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  Speaker 1: the games are supposed to win two Bruce. So people
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: have been wondering why people hate Bruce Pearl so much. Well,
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  Speaker 1: I am going to explain to you why Bruce Pearl.
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  Speaker 1: Why it wasn't just these comments that left him in
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  Speaker 1: under fire, but the reason why Bruce Pearl has been
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  Speaker 1: common to the pawn and people don't like Bruce Pearl.
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  Speaker 1: So is because of Bruce Pearl's history, the most recent incident,
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  Speaker 1: he's the head coach at Auburn. He mysteriously retires for
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  Speaker 1: whatever reason. But it ain't to spend more time with
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  Speaker 1: his family, none of that. Because he clearly went straight
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  Speaker 1: into a TV job.
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  Speaker 2: What does he do?
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  Speaker 1: Hands the keys over because of the timing, it was
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  Speaker 1: so late, his son, Stephen Pearl, who's been on his staff,
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  Speaker 1: was named the head coach. So he essentially just ushered
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: in his son as a head coach. And we know
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: how most people feel about nepotism, most normal people. They
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: hate it because it does not benefit them. It only
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: benefits people in power. And yes, people say, well if
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: I had that opportunity, I would do it too. It's
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: not even about that, it's just that when because nepotism
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: does not mean incompetence, Nepotism at times means just that
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: you got an advanced head start, You got a chance
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: to jump the line in front of everybody else.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: And that's fine because that's normal in life.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: But you can't let it be mixed with incompetence or
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: not readiness for the moment.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: You cannot allow that to happen. And Bruce Pearl.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: Why is he not looked at like Dion Sanders and
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: Shadeur Sanders. All the criticism about Dion Sanders, Shadure Sanders,
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: Shadre Sanders getting his jersey retired. He's never played for
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: anybody aside from his father. How's it gonna work out
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: for him? He's only been with his dad, coached by
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: his dad, all of this stuff. Stephen Pearl has only
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: been under his father. He hasn't coached anywhere else. Why
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: is he not getting the same treatment? But there are
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: other Bruce Pearl misgivings, which is why people don't like
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: Bruce Pearl. It's not just for the nepotism. It's go
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: back to when he was a Boston assistant. The recruitment
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: of Dion Thomas out of Simeon, Illinois. He was nineteen
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: eighty nine mister basketball then and Thomas said the Pearl
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: offered his grandma money, and then Pearl said to have
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: dangled a possible scholarship to his teammate Canaldo Kyle's in
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: exchange for spying on Thomas. Pearl then recorded a phone
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: call with Thomas and sent it to the nc double A,
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: alleging that Illinois was paying eighty thousand dollars to him
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: to commit the NC DOUBLEA got involved, Thomas denied that
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: what he said to Pearl was true and that was
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: just trying to get the guy off the phone, and
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: then Bruce Pearl the Tennessee NC DOUBLEA investigation. He invited
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: Aaron Kraft to a cookout and told everybody in attendance
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: to lie about it, then lied to the NC double
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: A like it would have been a minor VIO election,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: but his lies ended up costing him one and a
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: half million dollars in fines. He got eventually.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: Fired and hit with a three year show cause.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: In Auburn in twenty seventeen FBI sting that affected Arizona
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: LSU and many others. The whole Book Richardson thing and
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: the coaches ended up getting nothing. Pearl received a two
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: game suspension, while Chuck Person received a ten year show
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: cause penalty and the basketball program was put on four
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: years probation. Then he gifted the job to his son.
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: Come on, man, we gotta look at things. The reason
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: why people don't like Bruce Pearl's because all of the
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: other stuff.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: That Bruce Pearl has done, and now the nepotism.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: You can't knock what he's done with a seven to
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: twenty five win percentage as a basketball head coach, you
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: can't knock him, but you can knock him giving the
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: job to his son. But you, guys, though, we got
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: so much coming up. We got the big ten win
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: totals coming up. All oh God, make sure that you like, share, subscribe,
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• 23:10
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• 23:25
  Speaker 1: so we got something new today, Ralph, We got something
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: new today because big ten win totals have come out,
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: and we gotta tell everybody whether they're gonna be over
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: under the wind totals. And but the first thing I
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: wanted to point out is what stuck out to you
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: the biggest about the win totals, Like, was there anybody's
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: win total that you looked at and you were like, ooh,
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: that ain't good for the fan base.
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: I don't want to steal your thunder or unless you
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: want me to leave blow. I can be your fullback here.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: All right? Who do you think it is?
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: I'm I mean, I see your social media, I see
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: your YouTube comments. I see the people that come at
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: you for your attitude about the Lincoln Riley run USC Trojans,
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: not the USC Trojans, not the fan base, not historically
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: the Lincoln Riley run USC Trojans.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: People might not know that you have.
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: Not a like Philosophically you don't love the air raid,
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: you never have, and philosophically you don't love what it
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: takes to run that effective of an offense and the
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: lack of preparation that goes into your defense. Like, people
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: don't get it. People don't understand the respect that you
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: have for for USC through the years. They just think
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: you're a hater. And I look at this total and
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: I say to myself, this has nothing to do with
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: George I at all. So at what point when we
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: see I didn't make this total. I did not make
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: this total and eight and a half eight and a half,
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: that's assuming you know that could mean that your Bowl
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: game is the difference between eight and nine wins, that
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: it all comes down to that win totals are usually fairly.
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: They're in the neighborhood, right, They're usually in the neighborhood.
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: We don't get like a lot of shocking, you know,
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: Arizona States three and a half and then they end
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: up winning nine games or ten games type things. And
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: so if the expectation of the bookmakers, the odds makers,
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: the people who just take data no biteata only for
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: the whole purpose to make people bet fifty percent on
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: one side fifty percent on the other side, so that
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: they can get their points. Like it's it's in their
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: best interest to be as accurate as possible for USC
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: to be in year four of this and you're five,
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: you're five this, yes, and the expectation to be eight
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: and a half wins. I just what sticks out to
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: me is that that has nothing to do with you.
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: So yes, so take that how you want USC fans.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: And we'll start with USC there. Okay, we will start
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: with you USC Ralph their win.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: Total eight and a half.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: Now I'm projecting USC to go over over there eight
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: and a half win total because when you look at
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: this schedule, they're not going to lose to San Jose State,
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: Fresno State, or Louisiana. They got rid of the Notre
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: Dame game, so that they traded Notre Dame for San
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: Jose State. They traded they traded a possible win for
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: a loss. I'm sorry, a possible loss for a win, okay.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: And then this is where stuff gets weird on them.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: They got at Ruggers. Okay, that should be a win.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: Granted it's across the country, but you're more talent team.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: You should win that football game. But here's where things
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: get tricky for him, Ralph, when they have to go
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: and when they have to play the Oregon Ducks. That's
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: when things get crazy for him. And I know that
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: everybody is looking looking at that saying, well, they're playing
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: at home, they play better at home.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: All this stuff.
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: This is the moment where Lincoln Riley's the championship window
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: is open, is going to get put to the test.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: It is going to get pressure tested immediately, and they're
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: gonna lose that game to Oregon. Then they're gonna have
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: Washington at home, which ordinarily actually think that Washington might
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: be a fighting chance, but I'm not even sure about
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: their situation with Demand Williams. And then I think they
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: lose to Penn State, So I think they beat Washington
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: only because they're playing in LA and they just lost
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: to Oregon, unless they collapse after that, and then they
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: will lose at Indiana as well, and they will lose
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: to Ohio State. Well sorry, yeah, so I got Oregon,
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: Penn State, and either Indiana.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: Or Ohio State.
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: But you like the over.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: I do like the over because that I think that
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: they are getting better, so they will scratch out one
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: of Oregon.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: Well they they won't beat Oregon, but.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: Penn State, Ohio State, and Indiana they'll squeak one of
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: those out.
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: I think a requirement for USC to hit the over,
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: and I like the over too, is that they at least,
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: at the very least, they gotta go one and one
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: at a minimum coming off these two buys. So Wisconsin's
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: a non negotiable. You gotta you gotta, you gotta win
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: that game. Indiana, that's gonna be tough, but at a minimum,
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: you got to get one of these road wins coming
• 29:05
  Speaker 4: off of buy. I think that that's super important, and
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: if they can do that, it should be it should
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: be easy money. It should be the easiest money. The
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: worst possible thing that could happen for this team.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: I think.
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, because that Yeah, if you're if you're at
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: some point where you just ran four teams out of
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: the building on talent alone and then you go back
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: to back losses at home, I think that's tenure ending.
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: I think that's like James Franklin writing on the wall,
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: let's see which assistant.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: And then Washington.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: The chances of you losing at Penn State and then
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: at Camp Randall, Ohio State Indiana, that gets that goes
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: way up.
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: Like your you're the bottom could fall out of this thing, Ralph.
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: That's when you got to look at the stat that
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: is that is at USC right now, and you have
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: to find the most non threatening name that isn't gonna
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: put you in a Clay Helton position to have hired
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: somebody who took over and then give you like five
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: seasons of mediocrity. So when I pull up the staff,
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: you notice they just brought in Gary Patterson, who has
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: the head coaching experience at at TCU. Is that a
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: guy who you hand the program off to. If you're
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: in the middle of the season, you still have to worry,
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: I mean, and the two buys. The thing about teams
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: with expectations is bye weeks are actually transition points. That's
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: when your your AD and jen Co is still running
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: things out there, right, So that's when your AD actually
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: has the runway to say like, oh, we have two
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: weeks to prepare this team.
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: So if they Ralph, that is a great point because
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: if they lose to Yeah, if USC loses some combination
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: of Oregon, Washington, Pen Penn State, if they drop all
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: three of those and then beat Wisconsin and then drop
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: Ohio State and they got four losses already with Indiana,
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: Maryland and UCLA coming through.
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: That, yeah, that could be the end.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: It's a lot and yeah, the BIOT is still huge.
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: It's gonna be like fifty five million dollars after this year.
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: But it's USC and the standard out there should be
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: like when you watch Penn State make these moves mid
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: season and you watch schools like Florida State and USC
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: wrestle over it like these are not.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: USC was wrestling this last offseason. I think that they
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: went all in on this twenty twenty six class and
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: a failing season, like you know, four losses when he
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: declared the window open, that's going to impact the finances
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: going forward for the next recruiting class. Like people are
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: gonna be like, listen, we're not We're not chucking money
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: for this, dude. We need to find somebody else. And
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: if the bottom falls out like a five lost season,
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: oh they are going to which is very possible with
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: this schedule.
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: So you know, I feel like a universe exists where
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: USC and Alabama both to disappoint this year and then
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: and then Kaylin de boor reunites with Jen Cohen in
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: LA and kicks off like a massive run of USC success.
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: It's possible.
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: See and the people will say that I hate USC
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: if I hated USC out of picture to win seven
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: games this year. But college football truth teller here, I
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: think that nine games feels appropriate.
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: I think I think they'll be on the cusp of
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: a playoff spot.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but there is also the possibility that there is
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: five losses stare you in the face without Notre Dame.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: That would be that would be atrocious.
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: The next team up, the Ohio State Buck guys. Boy,
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of people that are picking him to
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: win the national championship. They love Julian saying Jeremiah Smith. Obviously,
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: Brian Hartline left. New coordinator Matt Patrici's back making eight
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: thousand million dollars a year. But this Ohio State team, Ralph,
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: they their win total is only nine and a half,
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: which feels when is the last time that we've seen
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: an Ohio State team not with a double digit win total.
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: Honestly, George, I don't remember, Like I just pencil him
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: in for double digits. Every single year Ryan Days, in
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: entire tenure is double digit winning seasons. We're reminded of
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: that by their fans all the time. And we're past
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: the born on third accusations. We're well outside that. So
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: I I mean, genuinely, I cannot remember the last time
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: USC was like mid really can't.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, well you mean Ohio State. But look at
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: the schedule though, Ralph, you got ball State. Actually love
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: that they have a warm up game prior to the
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: prior to going down to DKR at Texas. I think
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: both teams are going to be in a better spot
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: like in terms of where they're playing. So now there's
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: no it was the first week, excuse, Nope, this is
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: a huge game for Ohio State. So you got losable
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: game at Texas, then you got Kent State.
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: Illinois. You're at Iowa.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: You got Maryland at Indiana, USC, Oregon, Northwestern at Nebraska,
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: and then you got Michigan. I am taking Ohio State
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: and the over I'm taking them over ten games, Ralph
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: over ten, I'm sorry, over nine and a half games.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: With ten wins, they're gonna lose the game at Texas
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: and they're going to lose.
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: At USC. How about that?
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: Interesting ten wins would and that.
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: Can beat Oregon at home?
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: Yeah, look, you're you're fighting all these accusations of bias
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: on today's show. Hey, it's not gonna matter. It's not
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: gonna matter at all. It's gonna make no dent in
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: the way people assume that you go about your business. Here,
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: ten wins would be Ryan days the worst performance as
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: a coach, just in volume, because twenty twenty, I mean
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: they only play the eight games. You got to assume
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: they play a full slate. That's a very very good team.
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: But the minimum he I mean eleven eleven is the
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: minimum for him. So a ten win season is a
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: ten win season enough to forget a Big Ten championship,
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: because ten win season is enough to get them in
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: a college football playoff.
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, if the win is over Oregon right, and then
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: their only losses to USC and Texas and they're ten
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: and two. Ten and two is gonna get you in
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: in the strongest conference in college football. So I got
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: Ohio State over the nine and a half. But the
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: but the biggest question, though Ralph feels like surrounding Ohio
• 37:05
  Speaker 1: State to me, is what is going to happen with
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: Julian Saying and Jeremiah Smith? Because Jeremiah Smith obviously supremely talented,
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: but he's in a very unique situation. People were projecting
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: him as a number one overall pick as a freshman,
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: and then the more tape they get on you, the
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: more that they are going to scrutinize you, and you're
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: gonna have a situation where he's he's on his quote
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: unquote revenge to where everybody's got to feel it. So
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: the moment that he doesn't get the amount of balls
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: that he that he wants or desires, he's still a
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: wide receiver and wide receivers or defus even the best
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: of them are, and that could disrupt the way that
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: this team is going breaking in a new offensive coordinator.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: It is going to and is Ryan Day call Hini
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: play this year?
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: I believe he ended the season calling plays right, But
• 38:06
  Speaker 4: I don't think he's calling plays going into the season.
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: I don't believe. So I don't think he's adding that
• 38:12
  Speaker 4: to his resume in year eight or whatever.
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, correct, So we'll see because he took it
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: over for the Miami game and they lost. So we'll
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: see about that, all right. Next team up the team
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: because mathematically, the way it works, would actually finish second
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: in the Big Ten would be Oregon, because if Ohio
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: State beats Oregon, Oregon would finish. I have them finishing
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: eleven and one. Their win total is ten and a half.
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: Ralph.
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: I have that Ohio State game is the only game
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: that they lose. And the reason why I even picked
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: them to lose that Ohio State game is because winning
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: it with me that to win a national championship, they're
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: gonna go twelve to zero, and I think that that
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: is very difficult to do, to go twelve to zero
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: and then win a national championship, even though we just
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: saw Indiana doing it. This feels like the realistic part
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: of me because I have equated this Oregon twenty twenty
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: this Oregon twenty twenty sixteen to Ohio State twenty twenty
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: four four gone conclusion. We know who's going to win,
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: even though people are still fighting it. And I believe
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: that they're fighting it because Oregon has never won a
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: national championship, so they're saying, oh, well, this is not
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: gonna happen. We need to find somebody else who's actually
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: going to win. Despite everything, if you were to look
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: at the Ohio State twenty twenty four roster, Oregon's twenty
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: twenty six roster veteran quarterback except for a guy that's
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: projected to be a top ten pick instead of what
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: they had running backs, very good. Ohio State would get
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: the slight edge offensive line, both really good defense. That's
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: where the gotcha gotcha is because you had Jack Sawyer, JT.
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: Tulam Aloud, Caleb downs some corners.
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: It's literally what Oregon has an entire defense coming back
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: minus a nickel and a safety who they replaced with
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: Coy Parrish, same defense. This is the exact same thing
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: that everybody was like, Ohio State cannot lose, and that's
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: exactly what I feel with this Oregon team, Ralph, it
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: just makes all the sense in the world. Even though
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: people don't want to hear it quite as much or
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: say it out loud.
• 40:42
  Speaker 4: I agree with you. I also think that the interesting
• 40:47
  Speaker 4: thing about this Oregon team is the amount of players
• 40:53
  Speaker 4: that left, right that, because when your OC leaves and
• 40:57
  Speaker 4: your DC leaves, people are gonna see opportunity, maybe all opportunity.
• 41:01
  Speaker 4: Maybe that was the lead recruiter, and you did have
• 41:02
  Speaker 4: a lot of guys go to cal And so if
• 41:05
  Speaker 4: anybody is doubting or wants to bet the under for
• 41:08
  Speaker 4: ten and a half, you've got to understand that a
• 41:11
  Speaker 4: lot of those guys got replaced by people who are
• 41:14
  Speaker 4: ready to go yep. Right. If you're worried about Oregon
• 41:17
  Speaker 4: at wide receiver, We've been talking about Gatlin Bear for years.
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: Not everybody comes back. McClellan, the kid, the chorium more,
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: Evan Stewart is back. They're solid at tight end with.
• 41:40
  Speaker 4: I think Jalen lott of. I think Jalen lot the freshman,
• 41:43
  Speaker 4: I think he could play in a pinch. I think
• 41:45
  Speaker 4: he could play effectively because you your receivers are gonna
• 41:49
  Speaker 4: get banged up, especially the way Oregon plays no block,
• 41:51
  Speaker 4: no rock. Right, So, and then you got Kendre Harrison.
• 41:54
  Speaker 4: Everybody's talking about these tight ends all over the country.
• 41:56
  Speaker 4: Are they going to make an impact as a freshman?
• 41:58
  Speaker 4: Kendra Harrison's out, from my neck of it, one of
• 42:00
  Speaker 4: the best athletes I've ever seen. So you do have
• 42:03
  Speaker 4: guys that can step in in a pinch as as
• 42:06
  Speaker 4: the season goes on, as your roster gets eroded from injury.
• 42:10
  Speaker 4: I think that they're gonna be great. That My biggest
• 42:13
  Speaker 4: concern is quarterback. I think you're in a situation where
• 42:18
  Speaker 4: you would I would bet my house on over ten
• 42:22
  Speaker 4: and a half wins if I didn't think that, Uh,
• 42:30
  Speaker 4: changing quarterback early in the season could be the difference
• 42:34
  Speaker 4: between a national championship and an eight and five season.
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: Oh you're saying if something happens to Dante Moore, yes,
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: oh yeah, yeah, I mean yeah. I mean that's pretty
• 42:45
  Speaker 1: much all the teams. So if you lose your quarterback,
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: you you probably have lost, but at.
• 42:51
  Speaker 4: Least But but there's some teams that can get away
• 42:54
  Speaker 4: with it, and you can't have that discussion without being
• 42:58
  Speaker 4: accused of being against their quarterback. But sometimes it's just
• 43:03
  Speaker 4: how the quarterback plays football. So we're not gonna get
• 43:10
  Speaker 4: too deep into this, but I feel like Oregon is
• 43:12
  Speaker 4: the team in the country with the biggest variance between
• 43:17
  Speaker 4: who they are with their starter and who they might
• 43:20
  Speaker 4: have to become or how they might have to grind
• 43:23
  Speaker 4: out wins in a situation where it starts.
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: Tiller Ryola Cruze coming at you, buddy.
• 43:29
  Speaker 4: They've been mad at me since he was a sophomore
• 43:31
  Speaker 4: in high school.
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: So Boise State, at Oklahoma State, Portland State, and then
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: at USC obviously, I think that they get through the
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: first three, three and zero. That's a statement game at
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: USC because it matters to both of those programs big
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: time in recruiting. You're more talented than UCLA, and you
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: play them at home despite Bob Chesney just playing you
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: in Austin Stadium. So that could be a competitive I mean,
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: I think LA is gonna be much more competitive this year.
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: They're gonna beat Nebraska Illinois, I think, and we pointed
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: this out tough game Nebraska. I'm sorry, nor Northwestern, that
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: should be an easy win. That Ohio State game is
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: obviously going.
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: To be tough.
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: But I don't even think that that's one of the
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: five most important games on Oregon schedule, which there's a
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: video about go back and check it out on the
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: channel and yeah, So this feels like maximum, Ralph, maximum
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: maximum maximum. Worst case scenario a two loss situation, but
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: more likely a one loss or undefeated season for.
• 44:38
  Speaker 4: Me, percentage chance you will be in Indianapolis on December fifth,
• 44:44
  Speaker 4: personally you.
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: On December fifth for the Big Ten Championship. Yes, sir, probably,
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna give it.
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: Eight.
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: Depends on where as long as I don't have work,
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: I will be there and with the with the with
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: the fam, with the kiddos, because they love going in
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: their games.
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: The next team that we have up is the team
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: that we projecting to finish third in the Big Ten.
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: That is the Michigan Wolverines. Their win total is just
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: like USC's eight and a half, and I have them
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: going over as well.
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: Ralph.
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: I am a Kyle Whittingham believer. I think this schedule
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: sets them up and puts them in a good situation.
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: Believe that their losses will come to U that their
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: most likely losses are against Oregon, Ohio State, and Oklahoma.
• 45:47
  Speaker 1: That's where I think that they drop.
• 45:53
  Speaker 4: So the what do we know we know about Kyle Whittingham,
• 46:00
  Speaker 4: who did he struggle with every once in a while,
• 46:03
  Speaker 4: not every game, but every once in a while, who
• 46:07
  Speaker 4: would Utah struggle with In PAC twelve Play was a
• 46:17
  Speaker 4: beloved coach that you and I were often critical of,
• 46:21
  Speaker 4: but it seems like everyone loves him because he turned
• 46:23
  Speaker 4: every conversation into something about dinosaurs or dating.
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: Oh, Mike leet hmm, so he yeah, every once in
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: a while.
• 46:34
  Speaker 4: People don't realize this. Every once in a while, like
• 46:37
  Speaker 4: the Mighty Utes would get absolutely run off the field
• 46:42
  Speaker 4: by somebody running an air raid type system. I worry
• 46:47
  Speaker 4: a little bit like you about Ben Arbuckle, John Matteer,
• 46:52
  Speaker 4: the Washington State coalition over there at Oklahoma. I worry
• 46:58
  Speaker 4: about that game, in particular getting a little messy and
• 47:01
  Speaker 4: maybe Kyle Whittingham losing some of the grace of the
• 47:03
  Speaker 4: fans because they want to win, right. But I don't
• 47:06
  Speaker 4: really see I look at this schedule and I see
• 47:09
  Speaker 4: a lot of games stylistically that are advantageous to the
• 47:13
  Speaker 4: way that this particular coaching staff does things. They're not
• 47:16
  Speaker 4: devoid of talent. I am one hundred percent with you.
• 47:19
  Speaker 4: I'm all in on over eight and a half games.
• 47:21
  Speaker 4: I do think Oklahoma might whoop their ass in a
• 47:25
  Speaker 4: way that's not indicative of like how things are gonna be.
• 47:30
  Speaker 4: It's just if you don't know Kyle Whittingham, if you
• 47:33
  Speaker 4: don't know Utah's history, sometimes they'll just give a game
• 47:38
  Speaker 4: because it's not that's not what you're preparing for for
• 47:41
  Speaker 4: the whole right, So sometimes they'll just go out there
• 47:43
  Speaker 4: and risk it with talent. One thing Utah could never do, though,
• 47:46
  Speaker 4: is put five dbs on the field that could hang. Yes,
• 47:50
  Speaker 4: Utah was great having two dbs who were definitely going
• 47:53
  Speaker 4: to the NFL every single year, but they were never deep.
• 47:57
  Speaker 4: And Michigan could be deep. Michigan could solve it. This
• 47:59
  Speaker 4: could be a special year for the Wolverines. But I
• 48:02
  Speaker 4: worry about that Oklahoma game quite a bit.
• 48:03
  Speaker 5: Oh.
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: I definitely, definitely, definitely, definitely.
• 48:07
  Speaker 1: That the the Oregon Ohio state and and I do
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: believe that all of this comes down to one player, Ralph.
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: One player that is Bryce Underwood. If they go under
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: it's because Bryce Underwood got got benched.
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: That's why does he have?
• 48:31
  Speaker 4: Does Bryce Underwood have all the tools that a Devin
• 48:33
  Speaker 4: Dampier had to be able to get out of trouble
• 48:37
  Speaker 4: and just extend a driver.
• 48:39
  Speaker 1: No, no, no, Devin damp Year the quarterback now at Utah.
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: He is much more elusive, much more elusive, So that
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: affords you the opportunity to extend plays way more. Bryce
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: is a good athlete, but he's not a special well sorry,
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: he's not a dynamic runner, and I think that that's
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: the difference.
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: Now, we got our national champions, reigning national champions, Indiana
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: over under ten and a half. Now, the reason why
• 49:12
  Speaker 1: they're over under is ten and a half is because
• 49:14
  Speaker 1: their preseason schedule is pitiful. It is it is garbage,
• 49:20
  Speaker 1: it is it is uh despicable, it is gross. And
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: I like Kurt Signetti, like all these things are true.
• 49:31
  Speaker 1: I'm a Kurt Signetti truther and believer, and I'm also
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: a person that hates this with every single fiber of
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: my body. This is not how you are supposed to schedule.
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: And ten and a half wins Ralph. I have Indiana
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: with the under. I believe that last season was really good,
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: but you gotta rebuild the whole crew. Obviously, Josh Hoover,
• 50:02
  Speaker 1: he throws way more interceptions and he's not the runner
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: that Fernando Mendoza is, so he's gonna not look quite
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: as good as Fernando Mendoza. So I am looking at
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: this Indiana team, Ohio State at Michigan. Those look like
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: tough win tough games. And that's why ten and a
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: half is a half a game too much, half a
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: game too much, because obviously they're not gonna lose to
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: North Texas Howard or Western Kentucky. They're gonna beat Northwestern,
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: Rutgers Nebraska. They don't even have Ralph a really competitive
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: game until October seventeenth, and then that's when it gets tricky.
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: And then they got Minnesota and then they're off.
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: Then they got USC, Washington and a layup with Purdue
• 50:57
  Speaker 1: at the end of the season. So I I just
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: don't see a world. I mean, I guess they could.
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: Even if they lose to a house, they beat Michigan
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: and then lose to USC or lose to Washington, that
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: still puts them at ten wins and it's still the under.
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: Everything points to the under this season. And know that's
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: not a knock on Kurt Signetty. The fact if he
• 51:22
  Speaker 1: wins ten games again with losing everything he lost, it
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: just proves how great of a coach he is.
• 51:32
  Speaker 4: I agree with you. I think ten and a half
• 51:35
  Speaker 4: wins for Indiana is a sucker bet. I think it
• 51:40
  Speaker 4: is meant to pull people in as a reaction for
• 51:46
  Speaker 4: what they did the last two years. I think most
• 51:49
  Speaker 4: of the money is gonna be on the over, and
• 51:52
  Speaker 4: I don't necessarily think that's a smart bet. It's gonna
• 51:54
  Speaker 4: look good early because they got Bishop Sycamore, Bishop Sycamore Tech,
• 51:58
  Speaker 4: and Bishop Sycamore AA them to start the season, and
• 52:03
  Speaker 4: Kurt Signetty's proud of that. I think they're gonna stack
• 52:06
  Speaker 4: wins early. They could go into October seventeenth undefeated.
• 52:08
  Speaker 1: He said, Samore Business, Sycamore State, Sycamore A, and M
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: I love it for Indiana.
• 52:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and you know what I get. I understand why
• 52:20
  Speaker 4: they're doing it. Had they not won a national championship
• 52:24
  Speaker 4: last year, I think it would even be more necessary
• 52:27
  Speaker 4: to continue the progress and track the Indiana football is on.
• 52:30
  Speaker 4: But now it just looks terrible, which it is. It is.
• 52:34
  Speaker 4: It is an objectively terrible thing. But josh Ue is
• 52:39
  Speaker 4: a good quarterback. There's no Elijah Surrat, no Omar Cooper.
• 52:43
  Speaker 4: He's not evenna have anybody I think on Eric McAllister's
• 52:45
  Speaker 4: level who he had at TCU. So I do think
• 52:50
  Speaker 4: it's gonna be a little more difficult for this team
• 52:53
  Speaker 4: to move the football. I still think they'll be good.
• 52:56
  Speaker 4: Nine wins when it's all said and done. For me
• 52:59
  Speaker 4: is where I'm out on India.
• 53:00
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: The Penn State Nitney Lions over under nine and a half.
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: I got them over, Ralph. I got them at ten
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: wins this season. And I know that this is going
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: to shock people. They're like, George, did you know how
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: sorry they were last year? No, they were a very
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: talented team.
• 53:18
  Speaker 2: Last year.
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: They were a very talented team. And they put all
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: their hopes and dreams in the Oregon game and they lost,
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: and then the whole season fell apart. Gave up on
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: James Franklin, everything, Marshall, Temple, and Buffalo. Get the hell
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: out of here. Penn State with that week ass schedule
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: to start the season. No, no, no, this is unacceptable.
• 53:40
  Speaker 1: This is one of the Ralph one of the biggest
• 53:42
  Speaker 1: reasons why we need leadership in charge of college football
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: because the schedule situation is atrocious. Because everybody there is
• 53:51
  Speaker 1: going to say, well, let's just put some bs' for
• 53:55
  Speaker 1: our fans for the first three games. You know who's
• 53:58
  Speaker 1: gonna push back, the TV networks. That's who's gonna stop this.
• 54:02
  Speaker 1: It's a damn shame that we gotta ask for the
• 54:04
  Speaker 1: people it suits to fix a problem that is clear
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: and obvious. Give the fans more better inventory. You are
• 54:13
  Speaker 1: servicing the fans. You're trying to You're you're falling in
• 54:18
  Speaker 1: the way of the NBA ralph They're falling away to
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: NBA where the NBA.
• 54:23
  Speaker 2: Championships, championships, championships.
• 54:25
  Speaker 1: Let's be ready for the playoffs. Well, you gotta give
• 54:28
  Speaker 1: the fans stuff to show up to in the regular season.
• 54:33
  Speaker 1: When people buy tickets in the regular season, they should
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: get a good product on the field. They want to
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: see competitive games.
• 54:43
  Speaker 4: George, they got a road game, Well, they got a
• 54:46
  Speaker 4: neutral game against Temple. That's tough, right, I'll tell you what.
• 54:57
  Speaker 4: Here's a more interesting Uh, here's a more interesting overrun
• 55:00
  Speaker 4: for me. Pretty decent chance they start the season five
• 55:03
  Speaker 4: and oh. Wisconsin could be tough, at Northwestern could be tough.
• 55:07
  Speaker 4: Pretty decent chance they start the season five and oh,
• 55:10
  Speaker 4: will they score more than one hundred and ten assuming
• 55:12
  Speaker 4: may go five and oh, will they score more than
• 55:14
  Speaker 4: one hundred and ten points in the first five games?
• 55:17
  Speaker 4: Come on, that's twenty two points a game. Yes, Or
• 55:19
  Speaker 4: do you think they're gonna be out here beating Temple
• 55:21
  Speaker 4: ten to seven, beaten Buffalo fourteen to ten.
• 55:24
  Speaker 1: No, they are, Matt, Matt Campbell is gonna be happy.
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: These games are much easier with better players. Lord, have mercy, You.
• 55:36
  Speaker 4: Be like Kurk. Not seeing Kirk Farnce across the field
• 55:40
  Speaker 4: in early September is gonna help free up that offense.
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, yeah, so I'm excited about it. I believe
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: I'm looking at their wins, Ralph and their situation, and
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: I know that people are gonna be like.
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: George, this is way over for Penn State.
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: Maybe, but they're starting out with three free wins and
• 56:02
  Speaker 1: then I like them losing at Michigan and at Washington.
• 56:08
  Speaker 1: They avoid Oregon, Indiana and Ohio State. This is how
• 56:15
  Speaker 1: you get to ten wins. When you avoid those three teams,
• 56:19
  Speaker 1: it's a lot easier to get to ten wins.
• 56:23
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it looks the way it looks now being able
• 56:28
  Speaker 4: to finish the season on a three game stretch when
• 56:30
  Speaker 4: a lot of other teams are going to be dropping
• 56:32
  Speaker 4: down in the rankings. If anybody wasn't, there's a really
• 56:36
  Speaker 4: good chance of this. Georgia, if anybody wasn't excited about
• 56:38
  Speaker 4: the Matt Campbell higher. I think by the end of
• 56:42
  Speaker 4: the year, you'll see people coming around.
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 56:44
  Speaker 1: And this is honestly the perfect schedule for him in
• 56:47
  Speaker 1: year one, because then he'll get a chance to get
• 56:50
  Speaker 1: a good transfer portal class, build up the recruited rankings
• 56:54
  Speaker 1: with a lot of momentum, and now you can go
• 56:57
  Speaker 1: into twenty twenty seven where you will much likely have
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: a much more difficult conference slate, and he and be
• 57:03
  Speaker 1: all right, all right, next team that we have up.
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: We got the Iowa Hawkeyes ralph seven and a half
• 57:13
  Speaker 1: win total.
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: Seven and a half, and I got him going under.
• 57:24
  Speaker 4: Render.
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: This feels sacrilegious. I know that a lot of people
• 57:30
  Speaker 1: are are that A lot of you know, people are like,
• 57:35
  Speaker 1: come on, bro, come on bro, this is you are
• 57:39
  Speaker 1: going way overboard. Kirk Farnce does not do unders. He
• 57:44
  Speaker 1: does not do seven and a half wins. So I
• 57:47
  Speaker 1: keep trying to like math this out, and this feels
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: like a seven win roster to me. I think that
• 57:56
  Speaker 1: this is the year that if they don't get any
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: offense going, that it's gonna just work out terribly for him.
• 58:03
  Speaker 1: They're gonna beat Iowa State, then they Northern Iowa, they
• 58:11
  Speaker 1: win at Michigan, Ohio State, at Washington, bro this is
• 58:18
  Speaker 1: at Illinois. This is not an easy schedule by any
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: stretch of the imagination. And I got them losing at Michigan,
• 58:26
  Speaker 1: Ohio State, at Washington, at Minnesota.
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: So and then so maybe eight wins if they beat
• 58:36
  Speaker 2: oh Iowa State.
• 58:41
  Speaker 4: If they don't be Iowa State, that's gonna be a
• 58:43
  Speaker 4: problem because I think I'm on Iowa State's roster this year.
• 58:48
  Speaker 4: I think you might be two. We might get called
• 58:52
  Speaker 4: up for that game. Can you tell me the last
• 58:55
  Speaker 4: time that you think Iowa won seven games or less?
• 59:00
  Speaker 4: And no counting the COVID year.
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: Obviously, let's go twenty eighteen.
• 59:08
  Speaker 4: Twenty fourteen. Twenty fourteen is the last time they won
• 59:13
  Speaker 4: seven games or less and they followed that year up
• 59:18
  Speaker 4: where they went seven and six, four and four in
• 59:20
  Speaker 4: conference with Kirk Farrence's only undefeated run in the Big Ten.
• 59:26
  Speaker 4: In twenty fifteen, Iowa went twelve and to eight and
• 59:29
  Speaker 4: zero in conference and finished fifth. That's the highest that
• 59:34
  Speaker 4: he's ever Fe's actually never had a top ten finish.
• 59:38
  Speaker 4: That was the only one. So even if they do
• 59:41
  Speaker 4: win seven games, who knows what's around the corner. I
• 59:44
  Speaker 4: don't love the under just because it feels different than
• 59:49
  Speaker 4: what we're used to, but it's a bold prediction, and
• 59:51
  Speaker 4: you sometimes you'll make a bold prediction.
• 59:56
  Speaker 2: Hey, somebody's got to lose these games. I know.
• 59:59
  Speaker 4: I was like, I weel like eight straight overs. I'm like, wait,
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 4: every Big ten team, it's just gonna be a twelfth
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 4: team playoff of Big ten teams.
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no, absolutely not all right.
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 1: The next thing that we have up is the Washington
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 1: Huskies seven and a half.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: You know how much I hate Washington, Ralph.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 1: You know I hate Washington, So you know that I
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 1: had to pick them to win more than seven and
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 1: a half games because I'm college football's truth teller.
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 2: Man.
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 1: Their issue is so their toughest non conference game is
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 1: going to be Washington State, which is not you know,
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 1: that big of a deal. And then they go from
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 1: there they have at USC, at Nebraska, Indiana, and and Oregon.
• 1:00:54
  Speaker 1: The thing that's given me pause, Ralph with not giving
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 1: this team a nine win team is the controversy with
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 1: their quarterback de Mon Williams. I just don't know how
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 1: this team's going to jail. I believe Jeed Fish is
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 1: a good coach. I like his staff new he's got
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: a new coordinator, and because Jimmy Doherty is out, he's
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 1: got JP Lowsman in uh former you know, big time
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 1: college football quarterback, the short time as the NFL quarterback.
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 1: This feels like a tricky set of events because you're
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: at USC.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: USC is very good at.
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  Speaker 1: Home, they are awful on the road in Washington, well, USC,
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: Actually that fits both of those teams. They're both awful
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: on the road and have been. And then you got
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: and then at Nebraska. But then you could you might
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: be able to trade out the at Nebraska for the
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: Watt for the Iowa game. They got Penn State, Indiana, Oregon.
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  Speaker 1: It is gonna be hard Ralph to get more than
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: more than eight wins out of this roster, I'm sorry,
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: out of this schedule. Nine is the your absolute ceiling.
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 4: I feel like you're right, And I don't know, it's
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 4: just been the home and away thing, and maybe it's
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 4: just big ten. Maybe that's just how it's gonna be
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 4: for some of these teams. But I sometimes I'm obsessed
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 4: with with with the Washington hate because I want to
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 4: play a little game with you right now. It's just
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 4: thumbs up, thumbs down. Okay, here we go, so for
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 4: people to see like at some point in this there's
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 4: this a disconnect ready. Thumbs up, thumbs down. The City
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 4: of Seattle thumbs up, thumbs up, thumbs down.
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 2: Warren Moon Oh two thumbs up, love war super good.
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 4: Thumbs up, thumbs down. Jedfish as a coach thumbs up.
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 4: All right, thumbs up, thumbs down, the color purple thumbs up,
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 4: thumbs up, thumbs down, Demand Williams just like the every
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 4: everything about him thumbs up. Okay. Huskies as a pet,
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 4: like just as a dog.
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  Speaker 2: Thumbs down.
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 1: Because I'm I'm thumbs down on all dogs that that
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: that are shed so that's not a husky thing. It's
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 1: just any dogs that that shd. I'm thumbs down because
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 1: I don't like hair all over Maya house, even though
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: I can appreciate them from Afar and huskies look very
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: very nice. I'm just thumbs down on all dogs that
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 1: that ship.
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 4: Would you would you go on a dog sled?
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 2: You love? I would go on a dog sled, So
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 2: thumbs up.
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  Speaker 4: For dog sns okay, all right. University of Washington as
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 4: an institution.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 1: Oh, thumbs up, very good, good school research institution, bro.
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 4: Super thin up. Okay, Washington Football.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 2: I think they're a good football team. Thumbs up.
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  Speaker 4: That's like, that's like, that's like one hundred plus one
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 4: hundred plus one hundred plus one hundred plus one hundred
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 4: plus one hundred equals negative five thousand. That's the mastha.
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 4: I love that. I just it always makes you laugh
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 4: because when it comes down to like the individual things,
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 4: you're like, oh, no, very cool, love the color purple,
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 4: love Seattle as a city, demon's cool. Love chopping it
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 4: up with Jeff Fish. I think he's a great coach.
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 4: Warner Moon is my boy. That's my favorite. That's one
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 4: of my goats. And they're like uh, and then you
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 4: just yeah. When it's the topic, I'm like, Washington football
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 4: husky suck. I hate everything about him. But you don't though.
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 1: We're not here to let common sense get in away
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: of our argument. Truths were told, but that doesn't mean
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 1: that we're gonna let let that get in away of
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: our emotions.
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  Speaker 5: At times, I get it speaking of that, my daughter,
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 5: my precious daughter, my youngest daughter, tenth grade.
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 2: Dad, I think I want to go to Washington because
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 2: she wants to be a pediatrician. Why would you do that?
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, well, I hope you're prepared to
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 1: take out some student loans because daddy's not giving them
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 1: no money.
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 2: She was like why not.
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: She was like, oh, they must have beaten Oregon before,
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: and I was like, yes, pity, it's our biggest rival.
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 2: Oh I really want to go there now.
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  Speaker 4: That's why my reaction with like, oh, that's cool. You're
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 4: going to get to see University of Oregon win twice
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 4: in person. Yeah, well, pediatricians, you might get to see
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 4: it four times.
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  Speaker 1: Yes exactly, there will be a lot of that, all right, yes,
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 1: all right. Then we got and as we get deeper
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: in this list, we got to speed them up. We
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 1: got Wisconsin six and a half games, Ralph, I'm taking
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 1: Wisconsin and the over and the over. I got Wisconsin
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 1: winning seven games this year. Huge comeback for them and
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: Luke Fickle. This this schedule is.
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 2: Honestly not kind at all.
• 1:06:43
  Speaker 1: But it feels like to me, if they can get
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 1: seven wins out of this schedule, Ralph, that this feels
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: not even good, but fantastic. They play Notre Dame at
• 1:06:55
  Speaker 1: Penn State USC.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this feels very This feels like a seven win
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 1: team that you can get excited about. Can you see
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 1: a way that after last season, that they win more
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 1: than seven games out of their schedule?
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 4: I think it's possible. But my question for you is
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 4: seven enough to continue the Luke Fickle experiment? Is seven enough.
• 1:07:28
  Speaker 1: As long as you don't finish out the season on
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: a bad run, like if they finish out the season
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: with losses to Minnesota, Maryland and Purdue. No, but if
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 1: they win, if they go two and two in their
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: last four against Rutgers, Maryland, Purdue, and Minnesota, and then
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: they're able to knock off a good team because they
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 1: got wins against Western, Western, Illinois, Eastern Michigan. Those are
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 1: two and now we're fighting for five, well for five
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: out of the last ten.
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  Speaker 2: If you can go five?
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 1: About if they can go about and Big Ten play
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 1: and lose to Notre Notre Dame. I think five and
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: four and Big Ten play would be good.
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 4: Okay, So what about six and O at home with
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 4: a losing record in the Big Ten but a win
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 4: over Notre Dame? So seven wins the hard way? Do
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 4: you think that would do it?
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 1: Six and oh at at home with a win over
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 1: Notre Notre Dame. That would that would put him in
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 1: a way that their fans are like, hell, yeah, we'll take.
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 4: That, but that includes a loss at p two.
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  Speaker 2: Oh god, yeah yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I think Fickle has a chance to secure his his
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 1: job just by just by getting seven seven games with
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 1: at least one key win. And you can't have the
• 1:09:06
  Speaker 1: bottom fallout at the end of the season, but you
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 1: gotta be careful season either because then you won't make
• 1:09:15
  Speaker 1: it to the end of the season.
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 4: As long as they run the ball, they're gonna have
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 4: a chance, and they just haven't been running the ball.
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 4: So we'll see if they get that, right yep?
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 2: All right?
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: Uh, Illinois seven and a half, Ralph And you know,
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 1: I'm a Brett beelam a guy.
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 2: I like them to go under.
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 1: Okay, I think that it's gonna be that they lost
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 1: their defensive coordinator. It's gonna be a little bit of
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 1: a rebuild. But this doesn't mean that I'm down on Illinois.
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 1: Down on Illinois more for this season and then I
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: think that there's a big bounce back the following season.
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 4: That's kind of the point, like, if you're gonna have
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 4: Brett Beilima coach your team right, like you raise the floor.
• 1:10:09
  Speaker 4: The before Brett Beilamo was hired at Illinois, they had
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 4: three win season in twenty sixteen. They had a two
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 4: win season in twenty seventeen. They went two and six
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 4: in the COVID shortened year, but they wouldn't have got
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 4: five wins in that year. Since hiring Brett be Bilima,
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 4: the floor has been five wins, but they've also reached eight,
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 4: nine and ten wins over three of the last four seasons.
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 4: And so yeah, I think I think you if you're
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 4: an Illinois fan and somebody tells you that your flora
• 1:10:41
  Speaker 4: is seven wins, you're like, hell yeah. It reminds me
• 1:10:44
  Speaker 4: of the end of the ron Zuck era. You know
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 4: what ultimately got him. You know, didn't he go to
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 4: Florida for a minute, Yeah, yep, he was, or was
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 4: he at Florida before Illinois? But I but yeah, the
• 1:10:58
  Speaker 4: Illinois Okay, but you know when ron Zuck ended his tenure. Yeah,
• 1:11:03
  Speaker 4: you're right, he was at Florida and then Illinois, but
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 4: he ended his tenure you know, seven and six, six
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 4: and six, even a little bit of like dabbling in
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 4: the in the AP poll I think that's kind of
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 4: the sweet spot for Illinois if you can. And that
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 4: also justifies kind of some of this scheduling that people
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 4: talk about of stacking wins early early in the season,
• 1:11:24
  Speaker 4: which explains maybe why people do it. But the Duke
• 1:11:27
  Speaker 4: game is respectable. They beat the hell out of Duke
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 4: in the second half last year. I think they're gonna
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 4: do it again this year. But as long as they
• 1:11:34
  Speaker 4: as long as the wheels don't fall off having the
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 4: buy going into hosting Oregon. You've said you feel like
• 1:11:40
  Speaker 4: it is one of the more dangerous games this year.
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 4: If they're able to pull that off, even if they
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 4: only get seven wins this season, that they're gonna be
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 4: burning couches in the street Like that's that's an incredible year,
• 1:11:52
  Speaker 4: coming off of a huge build up into competing for
• 1:11:56
  Speaker 4: a spot in the College Football Playoff.
• 1:11:59
  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, one hundred percent. Our next team up the
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we're at the Minnesota, the Minnesota Golden go
• 1:12:11
  Speaker 1: with US five? Is that five and a half? Damn
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 1: five and a half wins? I got them with the
• 1:12:19
  Speaker 1: over They return their quarterback, return their running back. Those
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: are significant things. And Drake Lindsey is a very good
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 1: quarterback up there. He if he stays at Minnesota again
• 1:12:33
  Speaker 1: after this year, he's gonna make a well, sorry, if
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: he decides to leave, he's gonna make a mint in
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: the transfer portal. He's gonna be one of them players
• 1:12:40
  Speaker 1: that they try to pry him out of Minnesota. Round
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 1: five and a half wins, I got the over. I
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 1: got them actually getting to seven wins. I know a
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 1: lot of people aren't seeing it, but I believe that
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 1: they're head coach PJ. Fleck's a good coach, and they're
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 1: one of those teams that that that they have to have.
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: You know that they're like Illinois, that the right set
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: of circumstances has to happen, that they have to have
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 1: veteran players there for a couple of years and then
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 1: they can, you know, hit that ten win mark. But
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 1: this non conference schedule, Eastern Illinois, Mississippi State acron. If
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 1: they get Mississippi State, Oh, they are going to be
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 1: in a good way. And I think their losses ultimately
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 1: end up coming from Washington, Michigan, Indiana, Penn State, and
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 1: either Wisconsin or Mississippi State.
• 1:13:43
  Speaker 4: They have senior leadership at quarterback. They've senior leadership at
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 4: running back. They've been frisky. They're recruiting well. In my opinion,
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 4: they're recruiting well. You know, I might different than some
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 4: of the recruiting agencies or whatever. My big thing on
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 4: them is do they have big playability? Can they get
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 4: can they get a big chunk? I'm interested to see
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 4: they bring back Javon Tracy. He was their second leading
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 4: receiver last year. Was originally at Miami of Ohio. And
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 4: he's older. That's what we like now, right, we like
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 4: the older players. He's a he's gonna be a fifth
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 4: year guy. He had six touchdowns. I think he went
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 4: off against Northwestern last year. If he ends up being
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 4: that that guy for them, if he could be a
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 4: sixty catch guy, and you know, they got a guy
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 4: at quarterback, they got a guy at running back, they
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 4: got a guy at receiver. Then yet it's very possible
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 4: you could put together a special run. This to me,
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 4: I feel like this is the most obvious over in
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 4: the in the Big Ten. I like them to win
• 1:14:45
  Speaker 4: seven eight games, But I also think they might have
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 4: a little bit of that magic in him of like
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 4: a twenty twenty four Arizona State that made a run.
• 1:14:55
  Speaker 4: If you if you really do have a solid guy
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 4: at your primary positions.
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 1: For them to have a run where they end up
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 1: at the top of the conference.
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah and yeah, I feel you on that. But every
• 1:15:07
  Speaker 4: it's got to be somebody. Every year, there's got there's
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 4: someone that comes out of nowhere every single year. And
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 4: you know, I know that there's a bunch of data
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 4: against the idea that you know, if somebody's gonna make
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 4: a run like that, it's gonna be earlier in their
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 4: time coaching. But then you also got to look at
• 1:15:24
  Speaker 4: how things are coming together. I think they've got a
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 4: decent O line and I just really really like them
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 4: on offense this year, and we'll see if that's enough.
• 1:15:33
  Speaker 1: All Right, we got UCLA at six and a half wins,
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 1: Ralph at six and a half wins projected. I have
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 1: this team as a strong six and six. Okay, I
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 1: got them going under, but this feels like a strong
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 1: six and six team to me. Obviously, this this Cow
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 1: game is gonna be tough. You're gonna be going against
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 1: Tosh Boy col probably like they're in a similar roster situation,
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 1: except for you got veterans coming over from James Madison,
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 1: which could kind of speed up the process for for
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 1: Bob Chesney. Then you got San Diego State, tough game,
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 1: Purdue at Maryland, at Oregon, Wisconsin, Michigan State, Nevada at Minnesota,
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 1: and then you got Illinois, Michigan and USC.
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 2: I believe that they will be highly competitive this year.
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 1: Six and six fields like the most likely outcome, But
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 1: there's a world where they get to eight wins, which
• 1:16:44
  Speaker 1: would be like heroic territory for him in year one.
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 1: And if he gets eight wins in year one, and
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 1: this is not an easy Big Ten slate, oh boy,
• 1:16:55
  Speaker 1: oh boy, you better watch out if you are USC.
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 4: Bob Chesney is a lot like Caitlin de Boor. He's
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 4: a lot like Kurt Signetti, and everywhere he's been he's
• 1:17:10
  Speaker 4: had a lot of success, and a lot of that
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 4: success has come in conference play. They hired him at
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 4: UCLA because they chose to go to the Big Ten
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 4: and break up the Pac twelve. And if you're going
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 4: to do that, then you got to compete within that conference.
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 4: And this is somebody who has one four and four
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 4: year in conference and is in the Sun Belt in
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 4: his first year at James Madison. But outside of that
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 4: four and four year. If you go back to twenty twenty,
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 4: he's nineteen and one, twenty seven and one, twenty seven
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 4: and one in conference outside of a four and four
• 1:17:46
  Speaker 4: year going back to twenty twenty, So if you want to,
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 4: you can say that he's what thirty one and five,
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 4: thirty one and five in conference in the last six seasons.
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 4: This is a guy who wins it. It would shock me,
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 4: shock me to see him come out of the gate
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 4: and have UCLA look non functional like they've looked on
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 4: offense at times in the last few years. So I
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 4: think I'm with you. I think they'll be borderline on
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 4: it and give them the opportunity, give themselves the opportunity
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 4: to hit that over in postseason play.
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, next team do we have up? The
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 1: Nebraska Cornhuskers ralph They're over under five and a half.
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 1: I am going to And it's funny because when I'm
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 1: going through this sitting here, like how in the world,
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 1: Like I'm not a big believer of what's going on
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 1: with Matt Ruhle and everything there, but I was looking
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 1: at this schedule and this feels like that this is
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 1: one of the teams that I'm looking at that is
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 1: going to surprise this season, and it's confusing to me
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 1: because when I look at this, they got Ohio Bowling Green,
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 1: North North Dakota. All right, cool, that is three free wins.
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 1: Now you gotta go four and five, which feels like
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 1: like four and five in the Big Ten. Feels exactly
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 1: what I think about Nebraska. But I'm looking at this
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 1: and I'm saying, I feel like that this is a
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 1: team that can get because their win totals five and
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 1: a half, so all they need is six to go
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 1: over and I can see a world where they go
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 1: three and six into Big Ten or five and four
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, four and five. That feels like the ceiling,
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 1: four and five in the Big Ten getting the seven
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 1: wins because they're not gonna beat Indiana, They're not gonna
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 1: beat the Oregon. Their quarterback situation is not what it
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 1: needs to be. They're not gonna beat Washington. I start,
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 1: excuse me. They might beat Washington because that game is
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 1: at home, but then they got to go to Illinois.
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 1: They got Ohio State Ralph. This is not looking like
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 1: a good Big Ten run for them, but it's gonna
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 1: feel better because if they go three and six into
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 1: Big Ten and then start out three and Oh, it's
• 1:20:20
  Speaker 1: gonna look because they're gonna be like, yeah.
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 2: We're going to a ball game again.
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 1: But deep down under the cover it that ain't it.
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 4: Is there anything Nebraska can do that they actually have
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 4: control over to be a competitive team this year? The
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 4: heart of what I'm asking you is TJ Latif, who's
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 4: got some experience. Daniel Kalin, who I think was at Nebraska,
• 1:20:52
  Speaker 4: went to Virginia and came back. And then Anthony Calandria,
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 4: the Mountain West player of the year, who I think
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 4: was at Vergin and then did his damage at UNLB.
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 4: Is there any choice that Matt Rule could make or
• 1:21:09
  Speaker 4: Dana Holguson could make that would affect how you see
• 1:21:13
  Speaker 4: them versus the over under or even them being better? Like,
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 4: is there a choice they can make where they be
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 4: obviously better?
• 1:21:20
  Speaker 1: Seven wins assumes good quarterback play, That's what I'm saying.
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 1: Like it assumes good quarterback play. Nebraska fans will sit
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 1: up here and tell you we had three eight and
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 1: a million freshmen last year, but then you take a
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 1: small recruiting class this year, so now your classes are
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 1: way imbalanced. I just don't see the vision and Nebraska
• 1:21:41
  Speaker 1: feels like it is not it for me right now,
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 1: not it at all. But we're we're actually gonna finish
• 1:21:48
  Speaker 1: up the big ten teams. I'm gonna put the graphic
• 1:21:51
  Speaker 1: on the schedule so you guys can see it all
• 1:21:55
  Speaker 1: at once, and oh, uh okay, here we go, Ralph,
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 1: here is the here are the win totals.
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  Speaker 2: So we have.
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 1: For Maryland four and a half under feels like the
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 1: end for Mike Loxley. Michigan State with with with with
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 1: their new head coach, Pat Fitzgerald. Ralph pointed out that
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 1: Pat Fitzgerald, that the aura of Pat Fields Fitzgerald feels
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 1: better than the results of Pat Fitzgerald. So we got
• 1:22:47
  Speaker 1: them over their three and a half win total for four,
• 1:22:52
  Speaker 1: Northwestern under three and nine but a competitive three and
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 1: nine though, we got under their three and a half wins.
• 1:23:03
  Speaker 1: But their situation, to me, Ralph, feels a lot like
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 1: Virginia where Tony Elliott, where people year four, people like, oh,
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 1: this is gonna be the end for Tony Elliott and
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 1: then all of a sudden everything that they've been building
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 1: and working on that it finally clicks.
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 2: And then you got Rutgers.
• 1:23:25
  Speaker 1: Yep, I know that people are are going to hate that,
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 1: but somebody's got to finish at the bottom.
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 2: And it's just the reality of the world.
• 1:23:35
  Speaker 4: So here's my question, George. Every year people make emotional
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 4: decisions by people, I mean fans based on expectations that
• 1:23:46
  Speaker 4: were set. Like you could come into a season and
• 1:23:51
  Speaker 4: it could be this like beautiful thing, Football's back, and
• 1:23:55
  Speaker 4: right before the season, if somebody whispers in your ear,
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 4: this is a nine win team, and then that team
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 4: goes out and wins eight wins, you want to jump
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 4: off a bridge. But the truth of the matter is
• 1:24:05
  Speaker 4: like your mind was made up by somebody else providing
• 1:24:09
  Speaker 4: you these expectations. So my question for you, George, which
• 1:24:12
  Speaker 4: team on here has the best opportunity to blow expectations
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 4: out of the water. And which team on here is
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 4: expectations the biggest threat to just the overall health of
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 4: the fan base and the future of the program.
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 1: Oh, I think the answer to both of those is, Well,
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 1: that I could answer usc for both of those questions
• 1:24:37
  Speaker 1: is that their win totals eight and a half and
• 1:24:39
  Speaker 1: if they go ten.
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 2: Wins, hallelujah. Right.
• 1:24:44
  Speaker 1: But also the way that their schedule is set up,
• 1:24:48
  Speaker 1: you got Penn State Oregon, Ohio State, and Indiana all
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 1: on the same schedule. That could get you down to
• 1:24:58
  Speaker 1: seven wins too if the bottom falls out.
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 4: So God, you're making such a good point here, because
• 1:25:05
  Speaker 4: this entire time, I was seeing the eight and a
• 1:25:08
  Speaker 4: half win expectation from line setters and saying, oh wow,
• 1:25:14
  Speaker 4: this should actually be a huge reality check for USC
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 4: fans that they're not where they should be at this
• 1:25:22
  Speaker 4: point in time. But then you and I both picked
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 4: the over and then you point out this actually gives
• 1:25:30
  Speaker 4: them the opportunity to exceed expectations that were probably artificially
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 4: low for where they should be at this time. That's
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 4: a really good point, Like USC has a chance to
• 1:25:42
  Speaker 4: impress by doing something that's not impressive, not by their standards.
• 1:25:48
  Speaker 2: Yep, exactly.
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 4: They could win win nine games and have people feeling
• 1:25:52
  Speaker 4: good about themselves. But that's not USC football. In my lifetime,
• 1:25:57
  Speaker 4: in my opinion, USC I was a part of the
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 4: PAC twelve South. I went to Arizona. I win the
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 4: games I went to when I was attending Arizona State University.
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 4: I think there was one game where we returned to kickoff,
• 1:26:10
  Speaker 4: took a seven er leads allowed us to ever heard
• 1:26:13
  Speaker 4: Sun Devil Stadium, and I think we lost that game
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 4: by forty. They are monsters like to So the idea
• 1:26:21
  Speaker 4: of nine wins for them, that's not successful but to me,
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 4: but to their fans it might be.
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah.
• 1:26:26
  Speaker 1: And I think Washington is in this is in a
• 1:26:30
  Speaker 1: similar situation because they play USC this year. Oh wait, no, no, no, no,
• 1:26:37
  Speaker 1: they don't. Well, Washington's in a similar situation. Oh no,
• 1:26:42
  Speaker 1: they do play u USC due we talked about that.
• 1:26:45
  Speaker 1: So look at Washington schedule. If Washington can get either Oregon,
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 1: Indiana pensed like USC, if they can win some of
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 1: those games, that's seven and a half, that can look
• 1:27:00
  Speaker 1: like nine or ten real quick. So they're another team
• 1:27:05
  Speaker 1: that can absolutely put themselves in a good spot. And
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 1: I would say another team is Ohio State because if
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 1: Ohio State drops that Texas game, or if they dropped
• 1:27:22
  Speaker 1: the yeah, if they dropped Ohio State, excuse me, if
• 1:27:26
  Speaker 1: they drop that Texas game and they dropped the Oregon game.
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 1: So here's our schedule here, drop the Oregon game two,
• 1:27:34
  Speaker 1: So Texas Oregon.
• 1:27:37
  Speaker 2: And then if you lose to USC.
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 1: Now now you're looking at a maximum of nine wins,
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 1: which would be devastating for Ohio State fans. They they
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 1: would be ready to turn Ryan Day inside out if that.
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 4: If that happens, especially in the given Matt Patricia almost
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 4: four million dollars a year, three.
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 2: Points them five. Yep.
• 1:28:04
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• 1:28:08
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• 1:28:12
  Speaker 1: ten win totals. Next week we will have the SEC
• 1:28:15
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• 1:28:18
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  Speaker 2: So here is my bracket. Let me make it a
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  Speaker 2: Do you see who I've winning?
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  Speaker 4: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: My god, the Houston Cougars, Baby, the Houston Cougars.
• 1:30:50
  Speaker 4: That'd be a fun place to be if it went
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 4: down that way, that'd be a great I'm a big
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 4: Paul Wall fan. I love Mike Jones. I love twenty
• 1:30:58
  Speaker 4: eighteen James Harden shut out the city of Houston.
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  Speaker 1: Eight three toh eight zero zero fo all right, you
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 1: got the Duke Blue Devils Winny, Okay, your final four
• 1:31:15
  Speaker 1: is Duke Houston, Arizona and Kentucky. Oh no, no, no, I'm sorry,
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 1: Duke Houston, Arizona and Iowa State. I have Duke Houston,
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 1: Arizona and Kentucky. So I want Kelvin Sampson to win
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 1: so bad. Ralph, I don't know, I like, I've never
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 1: liked Kevin Kelvin Sampson. As much as I like him now,
• 1:31:46
  Speaker 1: I want nothing but great things for him and his teams.
• 1:31:50
  Speaker 1: I like what he's doing as a head coach. I
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 1: think I I think I fell in love with him,
• 1:31:59
  Speaker 1: like and what he's doing when he was talking about
• 1:32:03
  Speaker 1: prior to NIL, how he had families who were trying
• 1:32:07
  Speaker 1: to come to games and parents were like, we'll sleep
• 1:32:10
  Speaker 1: on the floor in the room, and they were like, no,
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 1: we can't do it. It's an NCAA violation, all of
• 1:32:17
  Speaker 1: this stuff. So yeah, that's when I fell in love
• 1:32:21
  Speaker 1: with Kelvin Simpson. But to me, Ralph, this season and now,
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 1: mind you, we focus way more on college football here,
• 1:32:27
  Speaker 1: but it feels like Duke, Arizona, Florida, and Michigan are
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 1: on a totally different level than everybody else. And then
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 1: there's Houston, whose defense is crazy good, which I think
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 1: that they're gonna get some good matchups because Duke's bracket
• 1:32:47
  Speaker 1: is crazy hard, and yeah, I just think that this
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 1: is an opportunity for that.
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 4: If what people notice about my picks is as an
• 1:33:01
  Speaker 4: Arizona State guy, over the last two years, these are
• 1:33:05
  Speaker 4: the teams that have embarrassed my team. The absolute most.
• 1:33:08
  Speaker 4: And so I'm making the assumption that based on watching
• 1:33:13
  Speaker 4: all these Arizona State games, whoever killed us the most,
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 4: that those are the best teams. And I do think
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 4: Big twelve basketball has been absolutely fantastic lately. I love
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 4: these freshmen that are at Houston. I Harwell is a monster,
• 1:33:30
  Speaker 4: Duke is so good this year. It really it's very easy,
• 1:33:34
  Speaker 4: very very easy this year to see the separation. Like,
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 4: I don't think we're gonna we're gonna have anybody outside
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 4: of a two seed in the final four. I really don't.
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 4: Iowa State is probably to me the highest effort team,
• 1:33:48
  Speaker 4: and they're not all effort, they're very skill based as well.
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 4: And then Arizona has a player named CoA Pete who
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 4: I covered at the high school level.
• 1:33:54
  Speaker 2: He won.
• 1:33:56
  Speaker 4: He's a Andres Pete, the Stanford legend and probably made
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 4: a hundred million dollars playing in the NFL. Andrews. Pete's
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 4: youngest sibling. They have eight kids in that family. I
• 1:34:06
  Speaker 4: think every single one of them played collegiate athletics. CoA
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 4: Pete's the youngest, and he won a championship his freshman
• 1:34:14
  Speaker 4: year of high school, sophomore year, junior year, and senior year.
• 1:34:18
  Speaker 4: Then he helped Arizona win the Big Twelve regular season
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 4: and the Big Twelve Conference tournament, and he was the
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 4: leading scorer. I have to believe that if he wins
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 4: four high school championships, the Big Twelve, the Big Twelve Tournament,
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 4: and the NCAA Tournament in his freshman year, that got
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 4: to be the greatest five year run of basketball I've
• 1:34:38
  Speaker 4: ever seen before someone reaches the professional level, and I
• 1:34:42
  Speaker 4: think there's a possibility he might not even be a
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 4: top five pick, that's how talented the field is this year.
• 1:34:49
  Speaker 4: So love, I love these four teams to be there.
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 4: I feel pretty confident that these four teams will be there.
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 4: I think Michigan will be the biggest disappin ointment, but
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 4: I do think that Duke gets it done. Interesting thing
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 4: about living out here in North Carolina, no one actually
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 4: likes Duke. There's not like a bunch of Duke fans
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 4: running around. It's like anywhere else, it's like you have
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 4: you got a few Duke fans here and there, But
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 4: in the state of North Carolina, they're all about NC State,
• 1:35:19
  Speaker 4: North Carolina, Wake Forest, all those teams. Duke fans are
• 1:35:22
  Speaker 4: pretty few and far between.
• 1:35:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I see. I appreciated Duke with with with
• 1:35:31
  Speaker 1: coach K. But then I think it got tricky for me.
• 1:35:35
  Speaker 1: So who are your biggest So my double digit seats
• 1:35:40
  Speaker 1: I have winning. I got Northern Iowa beating Saint John's.
• 1:35:44
  Speaker 1: I got South Florida beating Louisville. I have McNee State
• 1:35:49
  Speaker 1: beating Vanderbilt. And then I.
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 2: Have oh, Miami of Ohio.
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 1: Oh. I like them because everybody's been talking trash about
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 1: them with and so I hope that they I hope
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 1: that they come out and beat the s m U
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 1: in the playing game and then beat Tennessee. I want
• 1:36:14
  Speaker 1: that more than anything. Then I think I got Hofstra winning.
• 1:36:17
  Speaker 1: I got a bunch of them winning, and Missouri beating Miami,
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 1: and and who do you have winning?
• 1:36:25
  Speaker 2: Oh? You got South Florida beating Louisville. So we're there there.
• 1:36:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I love that you. I love that you're a
• 1:36:32
  Speaker 4: Miami of Ohio guy. When the truth of the matter
• 1:36:35
  Speaker 4: is like, you don't get you don't get sentimental over
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 4: underdogs like that, not all you don't.
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 2: I don't.
• 1:36:43
  Speaker 1: I don't care about your feel good story at all.
• 1:36:49
  Speaker 1: You got text saying him beating Saint Mary's.
• 1:36:52
  Speaker 4: Which how much of an upset is that? Really?
• 1:36:55
  Speaker 2: No, it's not. It's not.
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 1: You got Santa Clara beating Kentucky in the first round.
• 1:37:01
  Speaker 1: Coach Cow's not the coach.
• 1:37:02
  Speaker 2: There anymore, Ralph, that's true.
• 1:37:05
  Speaker 4: It's true. But Santa Clara is coached by Herb Syndeck,
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 4: and he was an Arizona State coach for about ten years.
• 1:37:12
  Speaker 4: It took him this long to make the tournament. He
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 4: did get Jalen Williams to the NBA, and Jalen Williams
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 4: got an NBA championship. Now a former also same high
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 4: school as co Pete. But I would like to see
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 4: Herb Syndeck a career as a great basketball coach at
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 4: NC State, Arizona State, and Santa Clara. I would love
• 1:37:31
  Speaker 4: to see him beat Kentucky in the NCAA Tournament. I
• 1:37:34
  Speaker 4: didn't just pick that. I'm like openly rooting for it
• 1:37:36
  Speaker 4: to happen.
• 1:37:37
  Speaker 1: Okay, And then you got Missouri beating Miami as well,
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 1: and you got Utah State over Villanova. But this is
• 1:37:45
  Speaker 1: not your father's Villanova team.
• 1:37:48
  Speaker 4: And if you Tas State wins that game, Arizona State
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 4: might hire their coach. So I'm I have a vested
• 1:37:53
  Speaker 4: interest in that I do. Everything runs through Tempe Arizona,
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 4: even though we're not a good basketball school.
• 1:38:02
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