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Hour 4 – Rile Them Up Riley · The Ben Maller Show

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  Speaker 4: In the air everywhere, right, Yeah, we miss Ben too,
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  Speaker 4: all right. We love him very much as an honor
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  Speaker 4: to get to fill in for him tonight, He's not in.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sorry. What was that? Ben said that? A little
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  Speaker 5: Mother, He sounds like our callers.
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  Speaker 4: It was the caller earlier, Bree. Do we have this
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  Speaker 4: that's a drop.
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  Speaker 3: It is Bree.
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  Speaker 6: SeaBASS in Nashville?
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  Speaker 4: Tell me about the seven Toad Woman? That is that
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  Speaker 4: a real caller here on the Ben.
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  Speaker 5: Mallerads Felexus, the seven Toad drag queen.
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  Speaker 3: A lot going on to that name in that title's.
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  Speaker 6: She's based out of New York and she's a Vikings fan.
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  Speaker 4: So we had the nine Told Woman in The Big
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  Speaker 4: this person. It would be three toes. That's a lot.
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  Speaker 4: That's asking a lot. I don't know. You have to
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  Speaker 4: lose a few different gambling bets for the Sharks to
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  Speaker 4: take off three toes with you. But all right, Kevin,
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  Speaker 4: let's get back into it. Here our college football forecast.
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  Speaker 2: College football forecast with FNA.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, one more ball remaining of consequence at least coming
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  Speaker 3: up later this afternoon. The Sugar Bowl the Ole Miss
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  Speaker 3: in Georgia, a rematch from earlier in the season, a
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  Speaker 3: shootout was that thirty five to forty two. I believe
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  Speaker 3: the final score was yeah and uh for three to
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  Speaker 3: thirty five. Excuse me.
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  Speaker 4: Ole Miss was up in this game and scored on
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  Speaker 4: their first five possessions until the fourth quarter, where they
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  Speaker 4: were outscored seventeen to nothing. Which is kind of the
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  Speaker 4: calling card with Georgia this year with them dogs, They
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  Speaker 4: are resilient, they come back. They trailed in six of
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  Speaker 4: their seven regular season SEC victories, only loss, of course, Tobama,
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  Speaker 4: which they got back in the SEC Championship against them.
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  Speaker 3: Similar to the rolls ball, I think this is kind
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  Speaker 3: of a bad matchup for ole Miss because also consider
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  Speaker 3: at the time when these two teams played, Georgia was
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  Speaker 3: still kind of figuring some issues out defensively obviously when
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  Speaker 3: you were allowing thirty five points. And by the way,
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  Speaker 3: this is no disrespect to ole Miss and Trinidad. Chambliss
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  Speaker 3: has had a phenomenal season. He's been playing great. But
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  Speaker 3: Georgia's defense is leaps and bounds better, especially rushing the
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  Speaker 3: passer today than they were a couple of months ago
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  Speaker 3: when those two teams played.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, this is a team to me. Maybe I'm
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  Speaker 4: just it's ingrained with me that Georgia. I always think
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  Speaker 4: of them so highly because well, they won back to
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  Speaker 4: back championships recently, the most recent team to do that.
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  Speaker 4: But for a while, they kept knocking on the door
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  Speaker 4: and losing against Alabama, and really the only team that
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  Speaker 4: Kirby Smart loses to is Alabama. So I've got a
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  Speaker 4: lot of faith in them dogs, especially in this matchup,
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  Speaker 4: as you mentioned, because they've been there, they've done that,
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  Speaker 4: and they had Lane kiffen culling the plays when they
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  Speaker 4: lost that game that they were up big in early on,
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  Speaker 4: and he is a great play caller. They will be
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  Speaker 4: without him. That's a huge storyline we've been talking about
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  Speaker 4: over the last month. So I don't know what advantage
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  Speaker 4: they have considering as you also brought up, Georgia's defense
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  Speaker 4: has been playing much better and they're peaking at the
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  Speaker 4: right time.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, Ole Miss does have like a people's
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  Speaker 3: team vibe to it. You kind of feel like they're
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  Speaker 3: people have kind of put their support behind them because
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  Speaker 3: of the Lane Kiffin situation, and I like Pete Goldings
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  Speaker 3: seems to have a bit of an edge to him
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  Speaker 3: and as their defensive coordinator, and he's come out and
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  Speaker 3: said all the right things this week and getting the
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  Speaker 3: guys fired up and talking about schematic things and how
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  Speaker 3: they plan to play this game. I think I would
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  Speaker 3: love for Ole Miss to be able to win this
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  Speaker 3: game and continue to advance, mostly just to spurn Lane Kiffin.
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  Speaker 3: But I just don't think that's gonna happen. Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 3: just a bad matchup for them, and they're not gonna
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  Speaker 3: be able to slow down this Georgia offense and Old
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  Speaker 3: Miss's offense. I think it's gonna get stymied a little
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  Speaker 3: bit by an improved Georgia defense. Like you mentioned a second.
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  Speaker 4: Ago, Georgia's defense has allowed just thirty four points in
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  Speaker 4: the second half of games in regulation so far this season.
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  Speaker 4: So when it comes down to conch time in winning time,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if they have the clutch stats in
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  Speaker 4: college football like you have in the NBA line five
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  Speaker 4: minutes of a game within five points that's deemed clutch time.
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  Speaker 4: But they have been at their best when their best
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  Speaker 4: is required, and that's what wins in these type of situations,
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  Speaker 4: especially if you have the pedigree like they do, and
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  Speaker 4: maybe the best coach left, Kurt Signetti's knocking on the door.
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  Speaker 4: We'll see what happens in this playoff run. But Kirby smart,
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  Speaker 4: he is proven, he is bona fide, and so is Georgia.
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  Speaker 3: You said something last hour about this playoff in general
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  Speaker 3: and the Big Ten and what the perception may be
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  Speaker 3: if they don't advance, if Oregon loses to Texas Tech.
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  Speaker 4: And man, well that's not forbid. Come on now, well,
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  Speaker 4: I'm just saying, that's not go crazy here. My Ducks
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  Speaker 4: losing to Texas Tech. Okay, it could happen.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, And if Alabama somehow, as I never thought i'd
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  Speaker 3: say this during a football season, basketball season, sure, I
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  Speaker 3: never thought i'd say this. If Alabama pulls the upset
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  Speaker 3: and beats Indiana, Now all of a sudden, we're talking
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  Speaker 3: about no Big Ten representation, no in the final four.
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  Speaker 4: That would be okay. First of all, the Big Ten
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  Speaker 4: has won the last two championships, one with a four
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  Speaker 4: teamer last year winning the inaugural twelve team playoff championship,
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  Speaker 4: and as the SEC, they haven't even made it to
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  Speaker 4: the championship game the last two years.
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  Speaker 7: Washington Maylwaskest Michigan against Michigan, and last season it was
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  Speaker 7: Notre Dame against Ohio State, so they're kind of in
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  Speaker 7: a situation where if they don't at least get there,
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  Speaker 7: there are going to be odds on the SEC two.
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  Speaker 4: So maybe you could say between them and the Big
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  Speaker 4: ten when it comes to conference supremacy going on, they're
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  Speaker 4: both under the hot seat a little bit and under
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  Speaker 4: the microscope.
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  Speaker 3: To a certain degree. I mean, also, will you talk
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  Speaker 3: about conference supremacy though a lot of it is taken
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  Speaker 3: into amalgam and less of it, unfortunately, is taken into
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  Speaker 3: head to head, say oh, we lost that game, that
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  Speaker 3: doesn't matter. If you look at our conference is better
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  Speaker 3: than your conference top to bottom, and it's like, well,
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  Speaker 3: isn't this what matters most? When you talk about this.
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  Speaker 3: People are not gonna be arguing about who's better between
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  Speaker 3: Mississippi State and Michigan State. All due respect to those programs.
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  Speaker 3: This is the heavy hitters, the best of the best.
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  Speaker 3: What happens when your best face is my best and
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  Speaker 3: right now you know who knows? I mean, it's very
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  Speaker 3: possible that that the big bad Big ten who's been
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  Speaker 3: making a lot of noise and talking about conference or
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  Speaker 3: talking about playoff realignment and who should get automatic bids
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  Speaker 3: and a lot of stuff I agree with, but yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it does take your prestige to a certain degree. Takes
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  Speaker 3: a little bit of hit of a hit if you
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  Speaker 3: don't even make it into the Final four with a
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  Speaker 3: single team making it that deep into the postseason.
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  Speaker 4: Having said that, though Indiana's favored and Oregon is favored,
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  Speaker 4: Georgia favored here and Miami's doing their own thing with
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  Speaker 4: the ACC, Hey don't underestimate that ACC speed. We used
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  Speaker 4: to always talk about the SEC speed, but maybe the
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  Speaker 4: ACC needs a little bit more respect. After tonight, that was.
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  Speaker 3: ACC power is what that was given. It to O
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  Speaker 3: House stay over and over again, especially in that first half.
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  Speaker 4: I thought I saw Sean Taylor out there, one of
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  Speaker 4: my favorite players ever, rip the legend. But instead it
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  Speaker 4: was what that Nevin Shapiro guy, the booster just wearing
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  Speaker 4: his jersey.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean that Miami defense was hitting on Friday night.
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  Speaker 3: Some of the hits their land on those guys was incredible.
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  Speaker 3: They were fired up.
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  Speaker 4: I thought I saw Jonathan Wilma out there. I thought,
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  Speaker 4: I ray Lewis out there, Okay, ray Lewis out.
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  Speaker 3: There was a nice suit, real nice suit.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I hope he doesn't have to throw that one away. Okay,
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  Speaker 4: let's uh, and it was our last time feeling on
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  Speaker 4: the show, Adam Ashley, but.
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  Speaker 3: An impressive performance by Miami. Nonetheless, I mean for a
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  Speaker 3: team that a team that people questioned whether or not
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  Speaker 3: they should have even made the postseason, which I thought
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  Speaker 3: was ridiculous. The whole Notre Dame argument shouldn't have been
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  Speaker 3: an argument, I said from day one. If there was
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  Speaker 3: to be an argument, it should have been between Notre
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  Speaker 3: Dame and Alabama. You're right now, I am brilliant, You're right.
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  Speaker 3: And by the way, I also said I would have
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  Speaker 3: taken Alabama to make the playoff over Notre Dame too,
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  Speaker 3: so Notre Dame still would have been pissed off of
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  Speaker 3: someone like me, So that Notre.
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  Speaker 4: Dame, I gotta say. And maybe we can veer in
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  Speaker 4: because we haven't touched upon the follow up with Lincoln
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  Speaker 4: Riley here in his comments this week, But as much
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  Speaker 4: as we have gone after USC, and rightfully so, and
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  Speaker 4: had Petros Papadakas on too to talk about.
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  Speaker 2: It, but trying to bite a real show, we.
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  Speaker 3: Pretty much ripped into USC for twenty minutes.
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  Speaker 4: I'm also a little bit sick of having to accommodate
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  Speaker 4: for a team that won't join a conference. I understand
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  Speaker 4: why they won't. They got the big TV deal, why
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  Speaker 4: would they want to share it with anyone. But at
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  Speaker 4: the same time, they want this level of respect and
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  Speaker 4: you to come to them and lay down your arms
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  Speaker 4: and say we'll play you on your schedule later in
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  Speaker 4: the season. I'm thinking, like, isn't it two way street?
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  Speaker 4: Shouldn't it be with Notre Dame? Last time I checked,
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  Speaker 4: they haven't won a national championship since nineteen eighty eight,
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  Speaker 4: is correct? Why do we talk about it's almost a
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  Speaker 4: mid off with them in USC and subways. I know
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  Speaker 4: Notre Dame was just their last season. They they were.
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  Speaker 3: Competitive as title game couple been there.
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  Speaker 4: But okay, yeah, they got there and got wiped out
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  Speaker 4: by Alabama and we knew Notre Dame was gonna get smoked,
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  Speaker 4: and they had some interesting victories that season against Stanford notably,
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  Speaker 4: but Notre Dame to me has probably been the most
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  Speaker 4: overrated team in sports sans last season with them getting
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  Speaker 4: to the championship game, finally improving themselves and they beat
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  Speaker 4: Georgia to get there, and that was impressive. That was
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  Speaker 4: the first time in forever where Notre Dame didn't do
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  Speaker 4: exactly what I thought they were going to do, which
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  Speaker 4: was laid down when the going got tough. And yet
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  Speaker 4: we give them so much respect every season, and they are,
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  Speaker 4: I understand, a golden goose for college football and the
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  Speaker 4: most prestigious, renowned program they have it won in over
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  Speaker 4: forty years. What are we talking about? USC's gone like
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  Speaker 4: twenty years. Notre Dame were you're talking forty years.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like you could take Notre Dame out to
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  Speaker 3: insert Dallas Cowboys and just have the exact same argument,
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  Speaker 3: you know, as far as notoriety and prestige and how
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  Speaker 3: much people talk about you and why you expect all
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  Speaker 3: these things. You're right, though, the problem is Notre Dame
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  Speaker 3: viuse himself a little bit as this like Marquee franchise
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  Speaker 3: or Marquee that you should hold it at a highest
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  Speaker 3: team at the college football level, then they really shouldn't
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  Speaker 3: be at this point. And like there's talk, there's been
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  Speaker 3: reporting over the past couple of weeks that there are
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  Speaker 3: schools who just don't want to schedule them. It's like,
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  Speaker 3: all right, if you want to play tough, you're an independent,
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  Speaker 3: you have to make your own schedule. How about we
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  Speaker 3: just don't play you.
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  Speaker 4: So wait a second. The team that is independent, that
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  Speaker 4: gets to make their own schedule, that probably has the
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  Speaker 4: most flexible schedule because of that, is the one demanding
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  Speaker 4: you play them on their terms.
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  Speaker 3: Yep, that kind of bothers me.
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  Speaker 4: Right, I'm not trying to take USC's side here, but
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  Speaker 4: there may be a little bit more blame to go around.
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  Speaker 3: Well. I find it interesting and Lincoln Riley's comments earlier
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  Speaker 3: this week, you know, saying that, look, we told Notre
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  Speaker 3: Dame told us they play us anytime, anywhere, and we
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  Speaker 3: held them to that, and then the narrative changed. Now,
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  Speaker 3: maybe there was a response from Pepavaqua or someone else
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  Speaker 3: at Notre Dame. I haven't seen that response or hurt
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  Speaker 3: that response. Maybe they're just done with it and ready
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  Speaker 3: to move on at this point in time. But I mean,
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  Speaker 3: if that is true, And look, Jen Cohen said this,
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  Speaker 3: the athletic director at USC, We wanted to play them
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  Speaker 3: in Week zero to start the season, and they said
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  Speaker 3: no to it.
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  Speaker 4: That has to be approved by the NCAA, though too
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  Speaker 4: right to get a week zero game. There's some funny
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  Speaker 4: stuff going on with Week zero. Not as simple.
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  Speaker 3: They're not going to approve that if the SE and
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  Speaker 3: Notre Dame say that we want to play on week
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  Speaker 3: zero or make it week one. USC really just wants
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  Speaker 3: to play that game before they get into their conference schedule,
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  Speaker 3: which is within the first three to four weeks of
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  Speaker 3: the season. So if it's not week zero, maybe it's
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  Speaker 3: week one, maybe it's week three. They just want to
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  Speaker 3: play it earlier before conference schedule begins. It makes sense
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  Speaker 3: to me. I don't know why that's such a big deal.
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  Speaker 4: Do you think it's in earnest though? Or they knew
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  Speaker 4: that Notre Dame wouldn't do it, And this is USC
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  Speaker 4: trying to save a little bit of face and saying, well,
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  Speaker 4: we gave them a three week window, we gave them
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  Speaker 4: something knowing that Notre Dame would never go for it.
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  Speaker 3: That is the counter argument that I've heard, And maybe
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  Speaker 3: I guess the question is why would Notre Dame go
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  Speaker 3: for it? What's the what do you?
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  Speaker 4: Because they want everyone to bow and bend the knee
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  Speaker 4: for them because of their brand, So whose.
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  Speaker 3: Fault is that? I agree it's fault. So I don't
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  Speaker 3: want to play the USC for that. It is like
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  Speaker 3: we're still willing to play you but our situation changed yours,
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  Speaker 3: by the way, hasn't you've decided not to join the
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  Speaker 3: a SEC as a full member. You do have a
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  Speaker 3: part of their schedule, Adam, because they have this scheduling
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  Speaker 3: to deal with the ACC. They play five games a
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  Speaker 3: year for ACC teams, so those are slotted. But they
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  Speaker 3: still have the rest of their schedule completely wide open
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  Speaker 3: where they can schedule anybody wherever they want.
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  Speaker 4: And it's still four less games that USC is required
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  Speaker 4: to play in the Big Ten where they don't make
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  Speaker 4: their schedule like Notre Dame. Right, So I'm not saying
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  Speaker 4: that Notre Dame or USC are right or wrong.
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  Speaker 3: I understand both perspectives on it, but if I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to lean towards one side versus who gets more blame
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  Speaker 3: than another a Notre Dame is not denying that USC
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  Speaker 3: has offered to play the game earlier in the season.
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  Speaker 3: They've not denied that was that was the claim. So
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  Speaker 3: they're just saying like, well, they didn't want to continue
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  Speaker 3: the series. No, they didn't want to continue with on
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  Speaker 3: your terms, And why am I going to sit here
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  Speaker 3: and be dictated by you terms to me?
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  Speaker 4: I don't have to like it's a. It's a little
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  Speaker 4: bit petty what's happening between both sides. But if I'm
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  Speaker 4: USC and I have to play a conference schedule in
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  Speaker 4: a damn good conference, I don't know if it benefits
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  Speaker 4: me much to have to also take on what's going
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  Speaker 4: to be a good, solid Notre Dame team that is competitive,
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  Speaker 4: that is a contender, that has, by the way, their
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  Speaker 4: own little loophole into making the college football Playoff that
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  Speaker 4: nobody else has. Why are all the rules in their
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  Speaker 4: favor because they're a money maker for college football. It's
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  Speaker 4: as simple as that, and everybody has to help them out.
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  Speaker 4: The USC felt like, I don't we don't care. We're
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  Speaker 4: not going to help.
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  Speaker 3: You college fotball. The CFP shouldn't care, which, by the way,
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  Speaker 3: I guess by as evidence by the fact that they
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  Speaker 3: left them out kind of shows you to a certain
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  Speaker 3: degree like the playoff is gonna make money almost regardless
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  Speaker 3: of who's there. Would Notre Dame help, sure, But the
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  Speaker 3: train keeps moving. And if the CFP actually wanted to
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  Speaker 3: sack up and come together and say like no, no,
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  Speaker 3: no longer are we having Notre Dame dictate to us
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  Speaker 3: what happens if you want to be a part of
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  Speaker 3: this thing. Here is what is required of you to
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  Speaker 3: be a part of it. If you don't have fun
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  Speaker 3: playing the Citrus Bowl against whoever at the end of
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  Speaker 3: the season.
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  Speaker 4: I think we might be because we're on the older side.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 4: I hate that. I say that, no, no, this can't
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  Speaker 4: happen to us. I remember when they were turning thirty
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  Speaker 4: in Friends, Joey freaked out and he's like, God, why
• 15:46
  Speaker 4: would you let us get this old? How could this
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: happen to me? So you're thirty last?
• 15:52
  Speaker 5: Uh?
• 15:54
  Speaker 4: Old man. I do think maybe there is a little
• 16:02
  Speaker 4: bit of I guess just internal bias with us because
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: we live in southern California and we've been so critical
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: of USC for so many things over the years that
• 16:11
  Speaker 4: we are quick to take anyone else's side in an
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: argument with USC when I could easily see where they're
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: coming from in that. Okay, I think they play Oregon,
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: Ohio State in Indiana next year. All three of those
• 16:26
  Speaker 4: teams are on their schedule. One of those teams might
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: be better than the best team that Notre Dame plays
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: on their schedule this season. If i'm USC, I might
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: so now I have to play Notre Dame too, because
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: why when I'm being judged on not if I beat
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: Notre Dame anymore during the regular season, it's you're being
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: judged on making the playoff, right, That's it. That's that's
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: what modern fans care about. We might be a little
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: bit too old school in thinking that, oh, you have
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: to keep this rivalry going, and this is bigger than
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: anything else. And I get Petros's argument that the play
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: off could change in all these things, but we know
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: it is still the new measuring stick of how your
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: season went and whether or not it was a success or.
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: A failure, and you just want to make that road
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: as easy for yourself as possible. And again, it's not
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: like they said they didn't want to play them anymore,
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: where Lincoln Riley got himself in hot waters when he
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: brought this up last year and brought up the possibility
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: of them not playing it anymore. If Lincoln Riley had
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: said from day one, it's like, yeah, we you know,
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: love the rivalry, want to continue to play the game,
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: but the format just has to be a little bit different.
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: The roadmap has changed for USC. But he came out
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: from day one and basically said, I don't know if
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: the game can continue, and when he when he planned
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: that initial seed, that's what kind of started the ball
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: rolling on all of this. So now the perception is
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: that USC you know, is trying to say face with
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: what they're saying now as opposed to genuinely saying we
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: want to play you. We just don't want to play
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: you in the middle of our Big ten schedule.
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: And look, he continues to step in it with the
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: loss of TCU happening during the week while he was
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: questioned about Notre Dame and came out and gave their
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: side of the story. It looks even worse now. But
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: I've been checking some of the comments with the younger
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: fan base, or what I assume is the younger fan base,
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: because they're all over social media responding to these viral
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: videos and Brady Quinn talking about it and Petro's talking
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: about it and us talking about it now, and a
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: lot of them just say, we don't care about Notre Dame. Well,
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: we want to make the playoff. And if you have
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: to play those three teams Indiana, Oregon and Ohio State,
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: you probably gotta win at least maybe two of those games.
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: You gotta win one.
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: You're at Indiana and at Penn State and back to
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: back weeks. Next year.
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: They have Matt Campbell. Now, like, we don't know what
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: they're gonna look like. That could be really competitive.
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: They're gonna have talent at the back end of your
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: season Ohio State, Oregon Washington back to back games.
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: If Notre Dame or if the perception is you guys
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: are ducking us, I'm not hearing that from a team
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: that is ducking. Joining a conference and especially one as
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: good as the.
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: Big Ten so they can continue to play Stanford and
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: no disrespect to our servicemen. But like Navy every single year.
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah you know what I mean, sunk their battleship a
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: while ago.
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know.
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: Like, I'm sorry, but I see a lot of problems
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: on both sides with this situation. Maybe we made too
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: much of it because we're in southern California out of
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: USC and their position and Notre Dame also deserves plenty
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: of criticism.
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'd always fell more on the side than the
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: Notre Dame bears more of the responsibility in this than USC,
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: because USC says we're still willing to play it. We
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: just want to change the date. Notre Dame says, you
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: want to play it, we're gonna be We're gonna be
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: really rigid about it, and if you don't want, we'll
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: take our ball and go home. And that's exactly what
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: they did, because we're Notre Dame, and it's ridiculous.
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: I'm kind of tired of everyone acquiescing to them.
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: So maybe I'm bitter.
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: Because I've had to watch them so much and underperform
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: in big situations when they're overhyped, going into every single seat.
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: He's gonna take this thing full circle. Coming up next
• 20:03
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• 20:06
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• 20:12
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• 20:15
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• 20:19
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• 21:56
  Speaker 4: Is he one of the Eagles?
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  Speaker 5: Is he not one of the Eagles?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: He gets the ball from from Jailen Hurts all the time.
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  Speaker 6: No, uh, not Eagles the band.
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  Speaker 4: You were in the zip code of the time period,
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  Speaker 4: somewhat maybe sort of Wow, all right, Kevin, we started
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: this thing talking about basketball here as I played that
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  Speaker 4: Bobby Knight clip. Here's another one. But we've had some
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: h I don't want to say breaking news here, but
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: with getting hurt earlier tonight. They're calling it a light
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: hyper extension of his left knee.
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: Like whoever called it light probably has never hyper incented
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: their knee before. I'll put it that way.
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: It looked painful. Yeah, not as bad as Nikola Jokic
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: is considering how he had to walk off the floor,
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: and that was a scary scene, especially for Denver Nuggets.
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: Fans who are without five of their six top paid players,
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: like top bread winners on the team.
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: Is that an issue?
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: It could be, it could end up dropping them. I
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: think this is a situation right now where Denver had
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: a chance to be the two seed in the Western
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: Conference because Jamal Murray's been playing like an All Star
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: and will be an All Star this season. Finally, mind
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: but Nikola Jokich has been mister reliable for them and
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: has been able to get them where they need to
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: go regardless of who's around him. Well, this season they
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: actually built a team a little bit better. But now
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: Cameron Johnson is hurt, Aaron Gordon is out, Christian Brown
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: don't call him Braun is also out, and Jokich was
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: the one supposed to save them when they have all
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: these injuries and now he's out.
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's tough sledding. It's still relatively early, although he's
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: going to be out for a month, so they say
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: about four weeks is when he's gonna be reevaluated for
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: his k the issue. I mean, so that's a large stretch.
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: I mean you can easily right now they find themselves
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: sitting in the three seed. I mean they can fall
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: to five or six by then who knows, and they're
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: one of those teams. I will say, I think they're
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: good enough if they are healthy. I don't know if
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: home court necessarily matters. It takes. It's obviously an advantage
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: for them in the Mile High City, but just generally speaking,
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: they're so good and so talented and Yoki is such
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: a dominant player. Would you prefer to have home court advantage, Absolutely,
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: but I don't know if it's necessary for them. I
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: think the important thing for a team like them is
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: to be as healthy as possible getting into the postseason.
• 24:34
  Speaker 3: I don't know if it necessarily matters that they have
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: to be in the top two or three.
• 24:37
  Speaker 4: What it does do is open up a possibility for
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: San Antonio, who right now is a game up on them.
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: They are in the two spot. We don't know how
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: long Wemby will be out, if at all, because they're
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: calling it a light hyper extension. Even if he is, Yeah,
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: maybe it's a week at most.
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: But even if he is, I'm not gonna it sounds
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: like I'm downplaying his impact, which I'm not going to do.
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: But does it really matter. They've been They played their
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: asses off, even when Winby hasn't been there. Yeah, they've
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: been amazing.
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: They Wemby defensively, they're like ten points better per one
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: hundred possessions when he's on the floor because he guards
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: half the floor out there. If you thought Revis Islands
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: was something or Ed Reid back in the day taking
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: away half the field, well, in basketball terms, that's what
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: Wemby does out there on the court. There's nothing else
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: like it.
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: No.
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: I think it was JDub recently for the OKC Thunder
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: who put it really matter faculty after they lost to
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: them three times in twelve days, when nobody else could
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: beat the Thunder. It's like, yeah, well they have this
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: guy who you know, is like seven five and guards
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: half the court out there. It's kind of tough.
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: He's not wrong, but it's not just Wemby and Winby
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: does raise their ceiling. They go from a very good
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: defensive team to a dominant defensive team when he's in there.
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: But they have a bunch of other guys who have
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: been who contributed to them playing as well as they played,
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: so they if he had to miss a week or two,
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: I think it kind of lessens a little bit of
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: the impact. More So, than sant Nicole Yokish being out
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: for a month for the Denver Nunbers. I think the
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: Spurs can weather that storm more than Denver.
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: Camp They've already been used to getting by without him,
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: going back to last season two and even his rookie year,
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: because he's been injury prone unfortunately. But this could open
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: up a chance for the Houston Rockets, or the Lakers
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: if they could ever get it together, or the Minnesota Timberwolves,
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: like I say the same for them right now, as
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: Anthony Edwards was upset earlier and just left the bench
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: during the game tonight. But the Houston Rockets are really
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: the team in the driver's seat to take advantage of
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: these injuries and get a top three seed, because right
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: now they're game and a half behind Denver, in two
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: and a half games behind San Antonio. This is their
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: opportunity to really flex their muscles and shoot up the
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: Western Conference standings. That's we're forty percent of the way
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: through the season right now. People think it's too early
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: to be talking about this. No, no, no, remember Christmas. I
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: know you guys think that's the annual unofficial tip off
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: to the NBA season. But we're pretty far along now.
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, now, And I believe I brought this up on
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: our show that we do here on Friday nights on
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: Fox Sports Radio, just talking about the standings and when
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: you start scoreboard watching and people talking about games in
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: November and December and even January for a lot of
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: people not mattering that much. I just take you back
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: to the Western Conference standings at the end of last
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: season and the fact that two games separate at the
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: three seed from the nine seed. Two games. Yeah, that's
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: I mean. So you sit here and tell me that
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: at two or three game losing streak, are losing four
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: out of five and November doesn't matter. I will fast
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: forward you to April and tell you the reason why
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: your team is in a play in contest as opposed
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: to you know, having home field or home court advantage
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: in the first round, is because they lost four or
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: five games in December. These games matter.
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: I'll take it a step further with the regular season
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: with people that just think it's garbage, and they garbage.
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: I think it's inconsequential. Now that we're in twenty twenty six,
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: there has not been a team outside of the top
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: three in either conference over the last thirty years that
• 28:05
  Speaker 4: has won the championship. Everybody who has won a championship
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: the last thirty years has been a top three seed.
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: Because the last team to do it was in nineteen
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: ninety five with the Houston Rockets. Now we're in twenty six,
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: you can say it's been thirty years since we've had
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: anybody outside the top three.
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: In their conference.
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: If you aren't a top three team in your conference,
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: history will say you're unserious, You're not winning at all.
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: You don't have an opportunity to do that. Will somebody
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: probably breakthrough at some point. You bring up the Denver
• 28:36
  Speaker 4: Nuggets and how talented they are with the top end
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: talent with Nikol Jokic when they get healthy. Yeah, I
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: do feel like they're one of those teams that could
• 28:45
  Speaker 4: buck that trend. And because we have teams coming out
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: of the play in the league, the parody all these things,
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: But so far, it's held true that chock wins in
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: the end in the NBA, so the regular season and
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: seeding purposes really matter.
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: And I'm say for like the last few games that
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: the three straight wins that the San Antonios persons have
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: had overly Oklahoma City Thunder, I guess I wonder if
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: that that's really gonna hold true if these two teams
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: actually do me end up meeting in the postseason. I
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: do think Oklahoma City is one of those teams and
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: look as look as great as they've been this year,
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: when they get to the playoffs, they're a team that
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: can take it to an extra year offensively and defensively,
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: especially as good as Wimby is. I don't know. I
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: guess I give them credit for having for having such
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: success against them so far here in their three matchups
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: in the regular season, but I still think it's Oklahoma
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: Cities to lose. Again. It's Oklahoma City versus the field,
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: and that field includes San Antonio.
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: Well, up until two weeks ago, I would have said,
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: as long as they're healthy, okc is fine. There's nobody
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: else that can compete with them. And I was gonna
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: talk about more of this tomorrow night too, But there's
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: something about the way San Antonio matches up with them,
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: and it reminds me of back in nineteen ninety nine,
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: the Jacksonville Jaguars lost three games. They lost all three
• 30:06
  Speaker 4: games to one team in the Tennessee Titans beat them twice.
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: Division rival in the NFC or what was the AFC.
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: Was that South back then? Now it was before that
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: Central maybe. So they lost the two regular season games
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: against them, and then they lost the AFC championship game
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: against them. They had their number. And I'm not saying,
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: like you know, the San Antonio Spurs they can't beat
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: anybody but Oklahoma City. No, they're good, but they're also
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: perfectly constructed to beat OKAC because OKC and their major advantage,
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: and I've been saying this for years, is the one
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: thing you can rely upon more than most anything else
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: in sports is their defense, and particularly on the perimeter. Well,
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: San Antonio has the guards to get by those guys
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: like nobody else. It doesn't affect them nearly as much.
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: You look at the amount of turnovers they have against
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: okay See versus everybody else, as I think okay See
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: is turning people over like eighteen times per game. Well,
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: when you have Fox, when you have Harper, when you
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: have Castle, when you have Devin Faselle, I mean, they
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: just come at you in waves and they can get
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: by those defenders. I haven't seen anybody else do it.
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think there will be an intriguing seven game
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: series to watch. I will still take Oklahoma City in
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: that matchup, but San Antonio's coming. They're probably a year
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: ahead of schedule for as far as I'm concerned. Oh,
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: with how good they've been and how dominant they've been
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: this year.
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: It remarkable the step that they took. Just being okay
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: See three times in twelve days is insane to me, honestly,
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: because at some point okay See has a ton of pride.
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: They say they want to win every game. Shake giggles,
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: Alexander's talking about, Yeah, we're fine with breaking the record
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: seventy three wins. We'd be good with that. And it
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: looked like they were just gonna walk into seventy wins
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: this season. And then within less than two weeks a
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: team finally punched them in the mouth. And it was
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: this young, up and coming San Antonio team that is
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: way ahead of schedule.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe they got humbled a little bit too. When
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: they go back, they circle the wagons. I don't know
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: if and when they play again this year. The NBA
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: schedule is kind of funky when it comes to conferences.
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: They used to play everybody played each other four times,
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: and now sometimes you play somebody three times. So I
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: don't know how many more matchups they have this season,
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: but that's certainly a playoff matchup I'm looking forward to. Yeah,
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: and hopefully they're all healthy when we get there.
• 32:23
  Speaker 4: We might be seeing this over the next five to
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: ten years. Yeah. Like I know, we shouldn't look too
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: far out. Injuries and sports guys could regress, but this
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: could be a real rivalry. As you see Wemby and Chet,
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: it's really not from Chet's side, but Wemby just absolutely
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: loves to irritate him. Every time Chet misses a free throw,
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: he's out there clapping. Wenby's trying to embrace the villain role.
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: It's almost like he realized, you know what, the NBA
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: is missing great rivalries and a guy that will just
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: go out there and be a dog and be an
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: irritant And I'm here for it. I love it.
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: I just need the guy stay on the court. That's
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: my biggest fear with Wemby. And then maybe it's his build,
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: or maybe he just had some bad luck, maybe it's
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: a combination of both, but just I have not been
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: encouraged by the returns of his the early start to
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: his career, the amount of games that he's missed because
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: usually you don't get healthier as you get older. When
• 33:19
  Speaker 3: you have a body that's built that way, you're probably
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: more prone to getting injured. So I do fear that.
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: I hope that's not the case, and I hope he
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: ends up having a great career and play seventy plus
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: games a year, But so far he's not trending in
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: that direction. So that's an area of concern for.
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: Me as a basketball fan. I pray for Wemby to
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: stay healthy.
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: We all do, yeah, we all do.
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: I know Adam Silver is all right. Coming up next
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: final segment, we got Breeze three here on the f
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: and a takeover of the Ben Maller Show on Fox
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  Speaker 4: Sports Radio, and a Cotton welcome back in f and
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  Speaker 4: Remember with the iHeartRadio app. You know what I did
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: that one last hour. We don't have to do another
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: read here, but I do love the iHeartRadio app. You
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: should use it and you could stream us there. Final
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: segment of the show, What a save. It's breebree segment,
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: not one, not.
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  Speaker 2: Two, but three. It's entertainment. It's good, it's Breeze three.
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  Speaker 3: All right, breath what we got, guys.
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  Speaker 9: So we talked a lot about bowl games, and I'm
• 34:33
  Speaker 9: sure you guys saw the pop tart spool last week.
• 34:36
  Speaker 9: Did you guys see that last weekend of Everybody?
• 34:39
  Speaker 6: Okay, well whatever.
• 34:40
  Speaker 4: I will after this segment, okay.
• 34:42
  Speaker 9: Yes, And so you obviously saw it on Twitter, and
• 34:44
  Speaker 9: it just kind of got me thinking, like, well, if
• 34:46
  Speaker 9: you could make your up your own bowl game, like,
• 34:49
  Speaker 9: what would you do?
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: Okay?
• 34:51
  Speaker 9: So I said, you could do your favorite like TV show,
• 34:54
  Speaker 9: your favorite food, your fourth grade teacher, I don't know,
• 34:56
  Speaker 9: just based on anything that you really really like. So
• 34:59
  Speaker 9: the first one that I went with, I did a
• 35:00
  Speaker 9: nineties bowl. Okay, so I did like throwback uniforms for
• 35:04
  Speaker 9: the teams. Light brights line the field. Do you remember
• 35:07
  Speaker 9: light brights?
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: I saw a bleeping car on the way over that
• 35:11
  Speaker 4: actually was wrapped in Christmas lights. Yes, that happens, that's normal.
• 35:17
  Speaker 6: I've seen like five of them.
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: I couldn't believe it. Actually thought it was cool. Okay.
• 35:20
  Speaker 6: So like, yeah, he's like a French.
• 35:24
  Speaker 9: Yeah, easy bake oven goodies like sold in the stands,
• 35:27
  Speaker 9: you know kind of thing like it was that kind
• 35:29
  Speaker 9: of rapping a Blockbuster kind of like rapping over like
• 35:34
  Speaker 9: the big screens and they show like old movie clips
• 35:37
  Speaker 9: being played during timeouts.
• 35:38
  Speaker 5: Yeah you really thought about this?
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I didn't take it that far. Okay, Okay, okay,
• 35:43
  Speaker 4: is there a Hollywood video too? No?
• 35:44
  Speaker 6: I just did Blockbuster.
• 35:46
  Speaker 9: And then my second bowl, I did a Spotify bawl
• 35:49
  Speaker 9: so green goalpost.
• 35:50
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 35:51
  Speaker 9: There's a playlist of songs for each team every time
• 35:54
  Speaker 9: they take the field, black and green uniforms and concerts
• 35:57
  Speaker 9: in between each quarter, okay, for each genre. Okay, Okay,
• 36:05
  Speaker 9: Well it's like, you know, just play like one song.
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: It's fine, it's weird, It's bon Jovi every quarter cruisy actually.
• 36:12
  Speaker 9: Boys, it's fine, okay. And then my last one, I
• 36:14
  Speaker 9: went a little basic.
• 36:15
  Speaker 6: I went.
• 36:16
  Speaker 9: I went with like a Tito's vodka bole Okay, so,
• 36:19
  Speaker 9: like the goalposts are made out of the vodka bole,
• 36:22
  Speaker 9: like the vodka bottles, Okay, free vodka drinks for the fans,
• 36:27
  Speaker 9: like obviously they'd have to get cut off like really
• 36:29
  Speaker 9: really early, but like cute Moscow mules and like you know,
• 36:32
  Speaker 9: things like that little shots a beige field because like Tito's.
• 36:35
  Speaker 6: That's kind of like their you know, like scheme.
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: Are they sponsoring this segment?
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: How many free drinks did you say these for the fans?
• 36:43
  Speaker 9: I think like three, Tito's three, you know, and then
• 36:47
  Speaker 9: like beige uniforms, beije in white uniforms. So those are
• 36:49
  Speaker 9: my three. I did like a nineties bowl. I did
• 36:51
  Speaker 9: a Spotify bowl like very like music, and then Tito's
• 36:54
  Speaker 9: because obviously like booze. Alright, so I'll go Lorena next.
• 37:00
  Speaker 5: Yeah, minor much simpler than that. I was thinking a
• 37:02
  Speaker 5: top ramen bowl would be fun.
• 37:05
  Speaker 10: They could do like a big hot tub full of hot,
• 37:07
  Speaker 10: fresh top ramen and the players can get inside and
• 37:09
  Speaker 10: they can all, you know, slurp some ramen together.
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: This is not sanitary.
• 37:13
  Speaker 10: I didn't think the beans eating out like I thought
• 37:16
  Speaker 10: all of them eating out of the same bowl was
• 37:17
  Speaker 10: a little, a little much.
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: I don't even like the tur duck and stuff sometimes
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: like I grossed.
• 37:22
  Speaker 5: Out too much tur duckan. I also thought a chocolate
• 37:25
  Speaker 5: bowl would be fun, kind of similar to your martini bowl.
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: I thought about that. Yeah, I definitely thought about a
• 37:31
  Speaker 4: chocolate bowl.
• 37:31
  Speaker 10: And I think the costumes could be really cute, like
• 37:34
  Speaker 10: the uniforms, because you could do like melted chocolate gone
• 37:36
  Speaker 10: all of them.
• 37:37
  Speaker 5: Oh, it looks so cool. My last one would be
• 37:39
  Speaker 5: Boosy's beaver Bowl.
• 37:40
  Speaker 10: I love Boosies and I think we could do like
• 37:43
  Speaker 10: beaver tails everywhere.
• 37:44
  Speaker 5: That'd be super fun. Brisket for everybody.
• 37:50
  Speaker 4: You know the Oregon state. They tend to be in
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: some of.
• 37:53
  Speaker 5: These lame Beaver's Baby go Beavers.
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: Kevin, what do you got?
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: All right? So this will never happen, and they don't
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: advocate a legal drug use of where the substance is
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: not particularly legal.
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: God, I like where this is going. The best bowl
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: like a weed mass bowl.
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: Can we do that? How do you have time concert
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: with Snoop Dogg and Willie Nelson?
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: H the dual mascot could be a giant doobie and
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: maybe a pipe or something crack at it. And so
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: at the end of the game, the prize, you know,
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: the Orange Bowl, they give a bowl of oranges to
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: a bunch of guys rolls. Well, they toss them. Yeah,
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: I know what you're saying, Adam. You think I'm telling
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: them to throw blunts to all the players.
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: Yes, I too.
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: No, there's a ginormous blunt that all the players smoke.
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: Through.
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: It's it's a giant puff puff pass session, and then
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: they get to walk out with a giant bowl of
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: snacks in their hand as they head to the locker room.
• 38:43
  Speaker 4: Okay, I mean the concessions would be great. I mean
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: they would They would make so much money at this ball.
• 38:49
  Speaker 5: They could call it the Munchie Bowl, My missile.
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: Too much marijuana, they know, And if you play like
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: where the Tampa Bay Buccaneers player Raymond James, they can
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: fire off the cannons and the cannons just blow out
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: a bunch of weed smoke. But that might be a
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: little bit too much, and there might be kids in
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: the stands. I don't know if we want to smoke,
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: So we can't go that far.
• 39:06
  Speaker 5: Leave your kids at home.
• 39:07
  Speaker 4: I mean, was that just your first option? Yes?
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: So what's my first option?
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: Do you got two more?
• 39:14
  Speaker 9: Then?
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah? So I have another. I'll go I'll go with
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: one more because runny short on time. No, no, no, no,
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: I don't know if you guys are familiar with the Luther,
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: It's a burger, one burger patty, five slices of bacon, cheese,
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: fried egg, and the bread for the burger. Two donuts.
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: How about the Luther Bowl, named after Luther van Drass.
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: They can play a bunch of Luther Vandrass tracks throughout
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: the game and whoever wins in order for their team
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: to get the swag bag, they have to finish an
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: entire Luther in less than two minutes.
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: There goes with my diet in twenty twenty six. You're bowl, You're.
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: Done at them?
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: Not bad?
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: You got all right?
• 39:53
  Speaker 4: I'll go, uh the Mookie Bets Bowl Bowl where I
• 39:58
  Speaker 4: don't know to win the coin, Like they set up
• 40:01
  Speaker 4: some big ass pins out there and they have a
• 40:03
  Speaker 4: little bowling showdown. My thing is just the alliteration here,
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: Like I'm thinking the bull Bull Bull, the former Phoenix
• 40:13
  Speaker 4: Sun Bull Bul and he comes out for the coin
• 40:16
  Speaker 4: flip and he's really tall, so like you're gonna get
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: great rotation on that. It's gonna be the most random
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: coin flip of all time. And then also I need
• 40:25
  Speaker 4: this in my life. The jim Boys Taco Bowl. I
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: don't even know if they have taco bulls at jim Boys,
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: but I need jim Boys to stay around, so I
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: need more people to eat them, So I need them
• 40:35
  Speaker 4: to sponsor a bowl. And it just rolls right off
• 40:39
  Speaker 4: the Tongue, jim Boys Taco Bull.
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: Jim Boys Tacos.
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: I love that.
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: Okay, yeah that'll work.
• 40:44
  Speaker 4: Gotta work the last great American classic taco I think
• 40:47
  Speaker 4: they call it.
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: You know, I was getting ready to call the wheat
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: Maps Bowl just the smoke a Bowl Bull, but I
• 40:53
  Speaker 3: was like, I gotta get an actual, like you know,
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: business in there, you know what I mean. And I
• 40:56
  Speaker 3: don't want necessarily encourage smoking like that.
• 40:58
  Speaker 4: These ideas say a lot about us. I would say, yeah,
• 41:02
  Speaker 4: I don't even smoke weed. That's the crazy part.
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: I I was gonna believe that now they're they're not,
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: but it's but it's damn near true.
• 41:09
  Speaker 4: So thanks Lireina, Thanks to Brebris. I'm at a Masley's
• 41:12
  Speaker 4: getting figures. Fox will trade you