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Mac & Bone Show - Trevor Matich Interview · Mac & Bone Podcast

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  Speaker 1: And our next guest, you know he is Trevor Maddicch,
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  Speaker 1: longtime ESPN analyst of the games beautiful sport of college football,
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  Speaker 1: is here with us to preview the season. Trevor, thank
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  Speaker 1: you so much for coming on.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 1: How you doing?
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  Speaker 2: It was great to be with you, make great to
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  Speaker 2: be with you, bowing. I'm doing great. How about you guys?
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  Speaker 3: We're football's here. We can't be any better.
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  Speaker 1: We're doing good, man, we are doing so good. What
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  Speaker 1: I want to start in the acc How where do
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  Speaker 1: you put Miami? I noticed that, you know in the
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  Speaker 1: coaches poll, and again I don't know what you know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what that's worth at this point in time,
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  Speaker 1: but it gets us talking. The coaches poll has Miami
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  Speaker 1: outside of that top five at number seven, where I
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  Speaker 1: look at them and I think they've got a chance
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  Speaker 1: to be Hell, they were in the title game last year.
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  Speaker 1: I think they have a chance to be one of
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  Speaker 1: the two or three best teams this year. How good
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  Speaker 1: do you think Miami can be this year?
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  Speaker 2: I think Miami can do what they did last year.
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  Speaker 2: I think they have a chance to go deep into
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  Speaker 2: the playoffs, possibly win it all. So I agree with
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  Speaker 2: that part of I think what people are concerned about
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  Speaker 2: in terms of the polls is the folks they sent
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  Speaker 2: to the NFL. I mean, when a team Messador and
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  Speaker 2: Ruben Bain, possibly the best pair of edge rushers in
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  Speaker 2: college football, go off to the NFL, then how do
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  Speaker 2: you replace those guys? And I think there's some people
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  Speaker 2: that want to see that before they put Miami up
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  Speaker 2: that high. But at the same time, Miami has been
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  Speaker 2: loaded from a standpoint of debt and they've done a
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  Speaker 2: great job bringing in guys from the portal, and I
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  Speaker 2: think Miami has a chance to do exactly what they
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  Speaker 2: did last year and maybe more. Frankly, I think they
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  Speaker 2: improved at the one position where they need to and
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  Speaker 2: that's quarterback. I think you've got a more playmaking ability
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  Speaker 2: now than you did last year with Carson Beck, And
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  Speaker 2: so yeah, I think I think Miami is going to
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  Speaker 2: be awfully dangerous.
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  Speaker 3: Trevor, Another team outside the Big ten and SEC getting
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  Speaker 3: heavily hyped up this year is Notre Dame. How how
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  Speaker 3: good do you think the Irish will be and really
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  Speaker 3: motivated about what happened at the end of last season.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, the thing about Notre Dame is they have
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  Speaker 2: the gift of rage. Last year, they lost their first
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  Speaker 2: two games by a combined four points to playoff caliber
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  Speaker 2: teams to Miami and Texas A and M with a
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  Speaker 2: quarterback making his first two starts, and then they laid
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  Speaker 2: waste to pretty much everybody else that they played for
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  Speaker 2: the rest of the year but did not make the playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: And most people think that that was a travesty, and
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  Speaker 2: they thought it was worse than a travesty. They didn't
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  Speaker 2: even accept the ball bid. They said, fine, you guys
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  Speaker 2: are going to tweet us like this, We're not going
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  Speaker 2: to play in a bowl game. We're out of here.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see you next year. And I think Notre Dame
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  Speaker 2: has been building with a seizing rage this entire offseason.
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  Speaker 2: And then I've talked to people who have followed Notre
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  Speaker 2: Dame intimately for decades and they say that Notre Dame
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  Speaker 2: has more depth now in more places of quality players
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  Speaker 2: than they've had everard that they've ever seen them. And
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  Speaker 2: now CJ. Carr their quarterback. I mean a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people think he could be the first quarterback taken in
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  Speaker 2: the draft when he comes out. You know, he is
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  Speaker 2: a guy that is ready to absolutely excel and not
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  Speaker 2: to name the quarterback has been quite good. It's been
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  Speaker 2: admitts in elite. But now all of a sudden, you've
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  Speaker 2: got a receiving corps that has been not a liability
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  Speaker 2: but hasn't been a strength. Looks like it will be
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  Speaker 2: a strength. They're strong in the lines of scrimmage, they're
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  Speaker 2: exceptional in the secondary, you know, and they're fury is.
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  Speaker 2: And keep this in mind that when you look at
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  Speaker 2: at Michigan when they won the national championship a few
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  Speaker 2: years ago, it was in the aftermath of the sign
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  Speaker 2: stealing scandal, and the players what they'd heard was that
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  Speaker 2: people were saying that they cheated and didn't deserve to
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  Speaker 2: win the games that they did. And the players were like,
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  Speaker 2: wait a minute, wait a minute. We made every block,
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  Speaker 2: every tackle, we tow every pass, caught every pass. What
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  Speaker 2: do you say we don't deserve it? And they had
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  Speaker 2: rage and they won the national championship. The next year,
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  Speaker 2: Ohio State lost to Michigan to the fourth or fifth
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  Speaker 2: time in a row and didn't even play for the
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  Speaker 2: Big Ten championship, but they made the playoff. They had
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  Speaker 2: raids and they laid waste everybody in the playoff and
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  Speaker 2: won the national championship. I think Notre Dame is a
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  Speaker 2: team that has that same advantage, Trevor.
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  Speaker 3: Some people think that the gift of rage also is
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  Speaker 3: what we have here on sports talk radio.
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  Speaker 1: I never thought of it as a gift. Oh man,
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  Speaker 1: that is beautiful, the gift of rage. I love that.
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  Speaker 1: I love that. That is the words of Trevor Madditch
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  Speaker 1: talking about fired up Notre Dame team. Trevor, of course,
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  Speaker 1: ESPN college Football analysts Clemson. There could be some rage
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  Speaker 1: for Clemson too, right they want to bounce back. This
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  Speaker 1: year was a rough year, to say the least, with
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  Speaker 1: seven wins. What do you think I've noticed, Trevor. I
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  Speaker 1: go around and look at all these articles after the
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  Speaker 1: coaches poll came out, Who do the national folks think
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  Speaker 1: is overrated and underrated? In that polly, I didn't find
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  Speaker 1: one person thought Clemson was underrated. I saw so many
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  Speaker 1: people say they're overrated, they're twenty three, they shouldn't even
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  Speaker 1: be in the top twenty five. They're only there based
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  Speaker 1: off reputation. Do you feel like Clemson will prove to
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  Speaker 1: be worthy of being like a top twenty five caliber
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  Speaker 1: team or are you skeptical of that.
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  Speaker 2: No, I think they will. I think that the way
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  Speaker 2: Dabbosweeney built the team with recruiting and not much in
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  Speaker 2: the portal and then he's transitioned to bringing in more
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  Speaker 2: guys in the portal now, I think it builds a foundation,
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  Speaker 2: and I think that foundation is enough to keep them
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  Speaker 2: in the top twenty five. The question is will the
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  Speaker 2: high end talent be good enough to take them where
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  Speaker 2: they want to go? And I'm not sure about that
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  Speaker 2: this year. You know, I think they'll be a very
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  Speaker 2: good team, but in order to to you know, make
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  Speaker 2: the playoffs, there's a very good chance that they're going
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  Speaker 2: to have to win the ACC And if they don't,
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  Speaker 2: there's going to be there's going to be a problem.
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  Speaker 2: Because Damie Sweeney, I think, is one of the best
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  Speaker 2: coaches still in college football, and he will tell you
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  Speaker 2: that they have won the ACC Championship a lot in
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  Speaker 2: recent years when everybody says that they've been terrible, and yet,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the the reputation, not reputation, the perception I
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  Speaker 2: guess nationally of them is that they aren't good, you know,
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  Speaker 2: is that they're not up to the standard that they've
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  Speaker 2: set well, the standard that they set was win the
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  Speaker 2: national championship or at least playing the national championship game
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  Speaker 2: over and over again. And so you know this year
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  Speaker 2: it'll come down to their top end talent. You know, Vezena,
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  Speaker 2: a quarterback I think will be better than people think.
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  Speaker 2: There are a lot of There are a lot of
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  Speaker 2: quarterbacks that are sucking all the officers out of the
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  Speaker 2: room nationally, you know, And and Tate Reynolds, the freshman
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  Speaker 2: is the guy who's gonna be in the mix as well.
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  Speaker 2: They've got talent and they've got competition. And I don't
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  Speaker 2: know if they have to get the rage, but I
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  Speaker 2: think they're under the radar. Now can they do it?
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  Speaker 2: They have to overcome the problem that they've had in
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  Speaker 2: recent years when they've been they've been very good at
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  Speaker 2: being very good. Now you know, last year, what were
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  Speaker 2: they seven and five? No, not two years ago? Of
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  Speaker 2: spacing that Yeah, lit learning in the morning. Where I
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  Speaker 2: am right now? I mean, I'm not in glam but
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  Speaker 2: sometimes I feel like it. But you know, they're rebuilding.
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  Speaker 2: They're rebuilding the offensive line. They lost four starters on
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  Speaker 2: the line. You know, they've got a lot to do,
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  Speaker 2: but they've got a lot of very good players. The
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  Speaker 2: question is will Clemson fans be satisfied with being very
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  Speaker 2: good but not great? Again?
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  Speaker 3: Good question, Trevor, Thanks for joining us from Guam. By
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  Speaker 3: the way, so much chatter about the Big Ten's recent dominance,
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  Speaker 3: the SEC losing an edge that it had for so long.
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  Speaker 3: Why do you think the Big Ten has won these championships?
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  Speaker 3: The SEC has fallen off a little bit, and how
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  Speaker 3: long do you think this will continue?
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  Speaker 2: For well the foreseeable future. This is delicious, isn't it.
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  Speaker 2: If you're not an SEC fan. You see the SEC,
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  Speaker 2: which for what fifteen seventeen years, was dominant, and they
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  Speaker 2: were deep, and they were winning national championships with multiple teams,
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  Speaker 2: and they told you about it, right, Well, all of
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  Speaker 2: a sudden, now for the last three years, the Big
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  Speaker 2: Ten has won the national championship with three different teams,
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  Speaker 2: including last year with Indiana, the losingest program in the
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  Speaker 2: history of college football. And the SEC has not even
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  Speaker 2: played for national championship very often in the last couple
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  Speaker 2: of years. Right, last several years, it's been it's been
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  Speaker 2: a bad run at the top. And they will tell
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  Speaker 2: you that there's still the deepest the Big Ten will
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  Speaker 2: suggest Otherwise, the Big Ten will tell you that they've
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  Speaker 2: won eleven games as a conference in the in the
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  Speaker 2: twelking playoff era in the last two years, more than
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  Speaker 2: double what the SEC has won. The SEC has won
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  Speaker 2: just five. So at the top, the Big Ten will say, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we're the best, But they'll also point out that they
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  Speaker 2: also have a great record against the SEC head to
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  Speaker 2: head in regular season in bold, and so how they
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  Speaker 2: do it? They did it puts all with great coaching,
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  Speaker 2: and I mean the rise of Indiana kind of really
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  Speaker 2: puts an exclamation point on this because Michigan, okay, but
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people will say that they kind of
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  Speaker 2: had the advantage because they did things that gave them
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  Speaker 2: an advantage and they got sanctioned for it. Ohio State, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: they're Ohio State. But here comes Indiana superior to every
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  Speaker 2: SEC team and that's a real problem for the SETA.
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  Speaker 2: How did they do it? First of all, coach Signetti
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  Speaker 2: turned out to be one of the miracle hires of
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  Speaker 2: our lifetime. But beyond that, they have marshaled the portal
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  Speaker 2: and nil. You know, when Signetti brought in so many guys,
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  Speaker 2: especially from James Madison's former stop, he immediately injected a
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  Speaker 2: winning culture there. But Indiana last year was not one
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  Speaker 2: of the most highly compensated teams in terms of NIL
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  Speaker 2: in the nation. There were a bunch of teams that
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  Speaker 2: got paid a whole lot more money than Indiana. Indiana
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  Speaker 2: was just better picking the right guys for their culture,
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  Speaker 2: picking the right guys that could mesh together with chemistry
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  Speaker 2: and then coaching them up. And so that's what the
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  Speaker 2: SEC needs to do in order to get back. It
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  Speaker 2: used to be that the SEC had more big guys
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  Speaker 2: that can run on both sides of the latt of scrimmage,
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  Speaker 2: and that's why they were winning all those national championships.
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  Speaker 2: But NIL read some of those guys out and then
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  Speaker 2: superior approaching, especially by Signetti the last two years, is
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  Speaker 2: what really cemented the perception and the reality.
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  Speaker 1: Great stuff, Trevor, great stuff. Can't wait for the season
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  Speaker 1: to get here. Thanks for coming on, man, appreciate you.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, thanks guys, I appreciate it. Mack and my own call. Anytime.
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  Speaker 2: I enjoyed visiting with you, Trevor. Begum there this beautiful,
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  Speaker 2: this time ofment.
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  Speaker 1: There you go, baby. Trevor Matich Live was the gift
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  Speaker 1: of talk not rage, the gift of rage. I love
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  Speaker 1: that