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CFP Predictions & Coaching Headlines · Winning Cures Everything | College Football

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  Speaker 1: On today's pot We've got some news tidbits that are
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  Speaker 1: going on that we have got to discuss along with
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  Speaker 1: I'm go on and give you my predictions again for
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  Speaker 1: what I am expecting out of the college football playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: It's football. I've been watching it for forty years. How
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  Speaker 1: are you kidding me? You're listening to Winning Cures Everything?
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  Speaker 1: Game day, baby, Wake up or get out. Here's your host,
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  Speaker 1: my confident young man, a deferm athlete, Gary Siegers. Welcome
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  Speaker 1: in Winning Cures Everything. It's College Football Podcast. I'm your host,
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  Speaker 1: Gary Seegers at Gary WCE on all the different socials.
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  Speaker 1: The voice is just about gone today for whatever reason,
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  Speaker 1: so he left to bear with me. We won't make
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  Speaker 1: this one a long one, but there's some news nuggets
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  Speaker 1: that I have opinions on and in a few things
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  Speaker 1: that we are going to discuss today. First off, if
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  Speaker 1: you didn't want to listen through through the hour long
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  Speaker 1: whatever it is, I'll go on and tell you what
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  Speaker 1: my predictions are for this weekend. I think Miami covers,
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  Speaker 1: but I think Ohio State wins. I think Alabama covers
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  Speaker 1: and wins over Indiana. So you will have Oregon. I
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  Speaker 1: have Oregon covering and winning against Texas Tech, and I
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  Speaker 1: have Georgia covering and winning against Ole Miss. So your
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  Speaker 1: semi final games, which ESPN would absolutely love, would be
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  Speaker 1: Oregon against Alabama and Ohio State against Georgia. That is
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  Speaker 1: what I'm looking for in the college football playoffs. So far,
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  Speaker 1: I went three and one on spread picks, but I
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  Speaker 1: picked all four of the correct winners in round one,
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  Speaker 1: So we'll see what happens here. As always subscribed to
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  Speaker 1: appreciate that, certainly appreciate it. All right, let's get through
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  Speaker 1: some of the news and nuggets that we have to discuss. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: how about this happy frickin New Year, everybody. We are
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  Speaker 1: about to head into twenty twenty six, which will mark
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  Speaker 1: the tenth season that I have been podcasting about college football.
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  Speaker 1: Pretty crazy, which means that I've been out of a
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  Speaker 1: band even longer than that. I am getting old. My
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  Speaker 1: friends getting old. My forty third birthday is coming up.
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  Speaker 1: I just got used to telling everybody I'm forty two.
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  Speaker 1: We will see what that looks like. The world is
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  Speaker 1: a different place now than it was ten short years ago.
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  Speaker 1: All right, continuing on, let's move into it. Michigan hired
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  Speaker 1: Kyle Whittingham, former Utah coach outstanding record. Of course, he
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  Speaker 1: replaced Urban Meyer, so he and Urban Meyer have always
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  Speaker 1: had a pretty good relationship. And now Michigan goes and
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  Speaker 1: hires somebody from the urban Meyer tree. Now, at this point,
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  Speaker 1: I think Whittingham is his own guy. I don't think
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  Speaker 1: you can really call this part of the urban Meyer tree,
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  Speaker 1: but it is a fun anecdote to at least discuss
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  Speaker 1: for a minute. He is, I mean, he's sixty six
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  Speaker 1: years old, like that is. He's been around for a
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  Speaker 1: little bit, and everybody just kind of assumed that once
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  Speaker 1: he steps away from Utah, well he's going to retire,
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  Speaker 1: because there were retirement rumors at Utah for a very
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  Speaker 1: long time. I'm sure at some point people will get
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  Speaker 1: into why he was pushed out at Utah. The guy
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  Speaker 1: can still coach. He's an incredible CEO kind of coach.
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  Speaker 1: He instills a good culture, he instills a toughness about
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  Speaker 1: the team, and that is something that Michigan will absolutely love.
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  Speaker 1: They will love it. So I am excited to see that.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what he's gonna look like recruiting, but
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  Speaker 1: if you got you know, donors and whatnot in il
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  Speaker 1: people buying your players, it may be easy. From everything
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  Speaker 1: I've heard, he's bringing Jason Beck, the offensive coordinator with him.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if that means that Devin dan Pierre
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  Speaker 1: is coming, because I don't know why you would because
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  Speaker 1: Bryce Underwood is already there and I don't think he's
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  Speaker 1: going anywhere. So if you've got Bryce Underwood with Jason Beck,
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  Speaker 1: Jason Beck is awesome, Like he's fantastic. He was the
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  Speaker 1: quarterback coach at Virginia under Broncomenen Hall with Brendan Armstrong
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  Speaker 1: and had just an out sant like absolutely insane, absolutely
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  Speaker 1: insane year with him at quarterback and has done good
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  Speaker 1: things since. So again, we'll see what all this means.
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  Speaker 1: The portal opens up this Friday, so I'm certain that
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna get on and talk about all of the
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  Speaker 1: Auburn stuff. The fact that Iowa State only has seventeen
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  Speaker 1: active players on the roster, like all these different things.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk about that on Friday, but for now, we're
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  Speaker 1: not gonna We're not gonna mess with the portal stuff
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  Speaker 1: until everything becomes official. Once that does, then you know,
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  Speaker 1: we'll talk about it. But in the meantime, the Michigan
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  Speaker 1: stuff is going to be interesting, if for no other
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  Speaker 1: reason than it's Michigan and it's a huge, huge head coach.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely insane to think about the fact that this guy
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  Speaker 1: was coaching Utah this year, let him to a ten
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  Speaker 1: and two record, and then all of a sudden decided that, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm ready to step down. This is the next step
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  Speaker 1: for I think at some point we're just going to
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  Speaker 1: stop with the head coach and waiting stuff. I understand
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  Speaker 1: Utah did not want to lose Morgan Scalley, but at
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  Speaker 1: some point it's okay, you can grow and develop as
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  Speaker 1: a head coach somewhere else if you really want to leave.
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  Speaker 1: But why we guarantee jobs to certain coaches. I have
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  Speaker 1: no idea, especially coaches that have never been head coaches.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll see what that ends up looking like. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not totally sold on Morgan Scalley being the next big
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  Speaker 1: thing at Utah. But obviously we'll see, we'll see what
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  Speaker 1: ends up happening there. Let's talk about the Sugar Bowl
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  Speaker 1: for just a minute. It's going to be on New
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  Speaker 1: Year's Day that evening, and it's in New Orleans, and
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  Speaker 1: that place is effectively like a home away from home
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  Speaker 1: for ole Miss fans. So the Superdome is going to
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  Speaker 1: be completely overwhelmed with ole Miss fans for their game
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  Speaker 1: against Georgia, their playoff game against Georgia. And Ross Ellinger
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  Speaker 1: had a good article today, and I won't talk so
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  Speaker 1: much about the article just about the information that's in it,
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  Speaker 1: but I would highly recommend you go read it. Lane
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  Speaker 1: Kiffen appears to be going to the game with the
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  Speaker 1: Louisiana Governor, Jeff Landry, which is going to be wild.
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  Speaker 1: There are six assistant coaches that are still working for
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  Speaker 1: ole Miss that are going with Lane Kiffen to LSU.
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  Speaker 1: And you want to talk about a weird set of circumstances. Georgia, LSU,
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  Speaker 1: and ole Miss all involved in this Bowl game. Now
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  Speaker 1: LSU per se is not, but a good portion of
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  Speaker 1: the coaching staff for next year's LSU team is coaching
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  Speaker 1: in this game, and the head coach is going to
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  Speaker 1: be in one of the boots up there somewhere in
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  Speaker 1: one of the suites with the Governor of Louisiana, and
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  Speaker 1: I can't imagine a situation where he is not going
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  Speaker 1: to get spit on, where he is not going to
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  Speaker 1: get cussed where I mean, they will have to find
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  Speaker 1: all kinds of ways to get him into the building
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  Speaker 1: and into a certain spot without letting him be around
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  Speaker 1: anybody in the public. And I'm certain that there's ways,
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  Speaker 1: because obviously with the governor it's the same thing. But man,
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  Speaker 1: I just I can't imagine wanting to show up there.
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  Speaker 1: And why would you go sit through this game when
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  Speaker 1: you just got hired at the new school. You were
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  Speaker 1: just at their game over the weekend in Houston, and
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  Speaker 1: you didn't even hang around for the game. You'd went
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  Speaker 1: all the way to Houston and left as soon as
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  Speaker 1: your ESPN hit was done in the first half. Make
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  Speaker 1: it make sense? Because I did. I can't figure any
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  Speaker 1: of it out. Can't figure it out. But that is
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  Speaker 1: going to be a wild ballgame. I don't anticipate things
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  Speaker 1: are going to go well for Ole Miss. There's too
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  Speaker 1: much emotion. Too much stuff going on there, and the
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  Speaker 1: coaches are focused on other things. So continuity is nice.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm not completely sold that you are going to
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  Speaker 1: be able to beat a team that is as focused
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  Speaker 1: as Georgia. But maybe there is something to remember. Last year,
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  Speaker 1: the teams that had buys didn't exactly didn't exactly do well. Right,
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  Speaker 1: Texas did not have a buy they advanced to the semifinal. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State advanced to the semifinal. Obviously, they won the
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  Speaker 1: national championship. Notre Dame did not have a buye they
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  Speaker 1: advanced to the National championship, and Openn State did not
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  Speaker 1: have a buye. So not a single team that had
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  Speaker 1: to buy won a game last year, when now Georgia
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  Speaker 1: is the team that has the buy. They had a
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  Speaker 1: buy last year didn't do well. Obviously, that was Gunner
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  Speaker 1: Stockin's first start and it was against a pretty good
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  Speaker 1: defense in Notre Dame. In this situation, not really gonna
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  Speaker 1: have to worry about the defense too much. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think when people talk about ole Miss, they don't exactly
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  Speaker 1: talk about the defense. But we'll see what Lane Kiffin,
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  Speaker 1: what kind of commotion he causes, because I'm certain something
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  Speaker 1: will come out of this game that we will be discussing,
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  Speaker 1: but we'll see exactly what happens. If you haven't, by
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  Speaker 1: bucks for the year. All right, Clemson, let's talk about
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  Speaker 1: offensive coordinators. And the Clemson Tigers have fired Garrett Riley
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  Speaker 1: and they fired another longtime assistant as well. But three years,
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  Speaker 1: in three years with Cave Club, Nick never really had
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  Speaker 1: a shot with another quarterback, and Dabo says, eh, all right,
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  Speaker 1: you're out, We're done. Offense didn't do so well. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I know that they just hired Tom Allen, but that
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  Speaker 1: defense was ready built and they I mean they allowed
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  Speaker 1: forty six points to Duke. I mean what are we
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  Speaker 1: talking about? That is a defense that had some NFL
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  Speaker 1: talent on it. The offense had some NFL talent as well,
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  Speaker 1: not that the offense was great by any stretch. But
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  Speaker 1: I still don't know if I necessarily blame this on
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  Speaker 1: any one particular guy other than the guy at the
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  Speaker 1: top that sets the culture. I just think the culture
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  Speaker 1: has shifted, and it shifted because college football in and
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  Speaker 1: of itself is a different beast. And I don't know
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  Speaker 1: if Debo knows how to handle that. But if you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna hang around and you're gonna keep trying things, eh,
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  Speaker 1: I mean we'll see. Like I thought this was a
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  Speaker 1: Grand Slam higher for Clemson back when they did it,
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  Speaker 1: and all the rumors that are coming out it appears
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  Speaker 1: are that Chad Morris is coming back to coach. Took
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  Speaker 1: this year off to watch his son Chandler quarterback in
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  Speaker 1: Virginia to an eleven win season. But my goodness, Chad Morris,
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  Speaker 1: who hasn't exactly done a whole lot. You know, he
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  Speaker 1: left Clemson as the offensive coordinator before they had won
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  Speaker 1: a national championship, if I'm not mistaken, then took over
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  Speaker 1: SMU for a little while, left there, took over Arkansas
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  Speaker 1: and then disappeared because he was atrocious at Arkansas. Like
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  Speaker 1: I know that he had worked as an analyst and
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  Speaker 1: may have been an offensive coordinator somewhere else and whatnot,
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  Speaker 1: but it looks like that. But I was just kind
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  Speaker 1: of replaying the hits, like, this is somebody I'm comfortable with,
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  Speaker 1: somebody I believe in, somebody I trust, blah blah blah blah.
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  Speaker 1: But do we think this is actually going to work?
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  Speaker 1: I guess if you're gonna go into the portal and
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna buy players and you're gonna, you know, pay
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  Speaker 1: these guys, which I'm extremely curious about, what is that
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  Speaker 1: going to look like for this next batch of Clemson players.
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  Speaker 1: Are they going to go by themselves as a football
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  Speaker 1: team like because obviously they recruit high school but they
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  Speaker 1: don't do a lot in the portal. What is I mean?
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  Speaker 1: Clemson is fascinating, what a fascinating football team. So we'll
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  Speaker 1: see what that is a looking like. They have not
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  Speaker 1: hired Chad Morris yet, but that is all of the
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  Speaker 1: rumor that is going around from the circles that I
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  Speaker 1: am involved in, So we'll see what ends up. Happening there.
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  Speaker 1: Chip Kelly has been hired as Northwestern's offensive coordinator, So
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  Speaker 1: that means in the last four years he was the
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  Speaker 1: UCLA head coach, took them to a bowl game, did
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  Speaker 1: good things there, left there to be the offensive coordinator
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  Speaker 1: for Ryan Day at Ohio State they won a national championship.
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  Speaker 1: This year. He was the offensive coordinator for the Las
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  Speaker 1: Vegas Raiders, where he made six million dollars a year.
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  Speaker 1: You're guaranteed for three years, and they fired him midseason.
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  Speaker 1: Things went so badly there that they pulled the plug
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  Speaker 1: halfway through the first season, and they have him on
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  Speaker 1: the books for three years now. I don't know all
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  Speaker 1: the details about it, but that would certainly raise some
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  Speaker 1: red flags. And then to go from that where he
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  Speaker 1: was at Ohio State just two years ago, now he's
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  Speaker 1: going to be the offensive coordinator at Northwestern. I would
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  Speaker 1: have never imagined that Northwestern would have been able to
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  Speaker 1: hire chip Kelly, but also that they would want to
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  Speaker 1: with potential scandal and whatever else. But I do suppose
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  Speaker 1: if you are Northwestern and you are the people that
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  Speaker 1: are in charge there, you do not want Pat Fitzgerald
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  Speaker 1: to go and be successful at Michigan state. You got
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  Speaker 1: to do whatever you can do to be more successful
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  Speaker 1: than the guy that's over in East Lansing now. And
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  Speaker 1: maybe it's not that big a deal, but the fact
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  Speaker 1: that Pat Fitzgerald is back in the Big Ten against
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  Speaker 1: the team that Northwestern pretty regularly plays, they will be
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  Speaker 1: directly compared. So if you are in Northwestern, you got
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  Speaker 1: this brand new stadium, you got big things coming up.
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  Speaker 1: They might be willing to spend some money now, so
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  Speaker 1: we'll see what that looks like. I'm curious, very very curious.
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  Speaker 1: All right. I hope everybody has a wonderful new year.
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  Speaker 1: It's been a strange season and a strange year. Next
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  Speaker 1: year we will continue on, I mean ten years of winning,
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  Speaker 1: gears everything. How crazy is that? Crazy? Crazy? Yeah, started
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  Speaker 1: this thing in August of twenty sixteen, so August of
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six will be what ten years? I think
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  Speaker 1: that's right as so long as the math is correct.
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited about it. I'm excited. We'll see how this
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  Speaker 1: thing goes. We'll continue to adapt, we will continue to
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  Speaker 1: grow the show, and hopefully you're going to be right
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  Speaker 1: there with us. With that said, take care of yourself,
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  Speaker 1: take care of each other. God bless college football and
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