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Miami Hurricanes Predictions, Diego Pavia, Brendan Sorsby, College Football Podcast · Unafraid Show with George Wrighster

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. We had a lot to talk
0:03
Speaker 1: about today. The truth is going to be told about
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Speaker 1: the Miami Hurricanes under Mario Christobaul. We just had the
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Speaker 1: NFL Draft. The draft proofs that the Big Ten is
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Speaker 1: better than the SEC. I'm going to explain it to you,
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Speaker 1: because yes, the SEC had more draft picks. There's something
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Speaker 1: that you're missing. Bring games, the attendance for them absolutely matters.
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Speaker 1: Despite what your fan base gonna tell. Diego Pavia, he
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Speaker 1: was not selected in the NFL Draft and you got
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Speaker 1: people all up sad about it like he was done wrong.
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Speaker 1: Diego Pavia was never getting drafted, So stop crying about it,
0:39
Speaker 1: and I'll explain to you why Brendan's Sours checked itself
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Speaker 1: into rehab for gambling after allegations came out. But this
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Speaker 1: was absolutely inevitable to happen in college football, and we
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Speaker 1: caused it and what he snitched on and then we
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Speaker 1: have Reister or wrong my NFL Draft hot takes, but
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Speaker 1: it has nothing to do with anybody that was picked.
1:02
Speaker 1: You are going to enjoy that album, so make sure
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Speaker 1: tell a friend about the show and hop in them comments. People,
1:13
Speaker 1: let's get too. The best thing that I saw today
1:25
Speaker 1: comes from Northern Iowa. After the spring game. They let
1:29
Speaker 1: the kids down on the field and they put a
1:31
Speaker 1: player out there and the kids can go out there
1:34
Speaker 1: and try to tackle them. Watch this kid coming up here.
1:41
Speaker 1: He took a shoulder to the dude. Hey, this is
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Speaker 1: a lesson. People. Don't try to tackle them up top.
1:48
Speaker 1: You gotta go at the legs. You gotta wrap the
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Speaker 1: leg Next thing up, Spring game attendance matters people. Here's
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Speaker 1: a video from Oregon spring game attendance. Do you see this?
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Speaker 1: Fifty thousand strong for a spring game. These are fans
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Speaker 1: that are engaged. These are fans that are happy to
2:12
Speaker 1: be there. When you have good spring game attendants, when
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Speaker 1: you're actually putting on a real spring game, that just
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Speaker 1: shows how much energy your fan base has. If you're
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Speaker 1: gonna be able to sell out in the fall, fair
2:23
Speaker 1: weather fans don't make it in college football because you
2:26
Speaker 1: have places like Nebraska. Their fans have not missed a sellout,
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Speaker 1: even when they missed seven straight bowl games. So this
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Speaker 1: tweet is what inspired this whole conversation. There was a
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Speaker 1: USC fan account. This is a pretty prominent USC fan account.
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Speaker 1: They put out a video that said, man, when the
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Speaker 1: coliseum is rocking, there's no place like it. And my
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Speaker 1: response was top college football stadiums and fan bases, they
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Speaker 1: never have to say when it gets rocking because it's
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Speaker 1: always rocket You think that you ever have to be like,
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Speaker 1: oh my god, when Kneeland Stadium and Rocky Top are rocking, Boy,
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Speaker 1: it's special. Man, when Austin is quiet, it is louder
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Speaker 1: than the loudest the coliseum gets. USC, who is one
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Speaker 1: of a college football blue blood. They need to do better.
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Speaker 1: They want to be what they believe that they are
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Speaker 1: in college football. Y'all got to show up the way
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Speaker 1: the top college football programs and their fans show up.
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Speaker 1: Don't give me the oh, well, well, when we start winning,
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Speaker 1: we'll do that. Even when they're winning, it is quiet,
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Speaker 1: except for occasional times, it should be louthy entire game
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Speaker 1: just saying next thing, diego poppy. He was never getting drafted,
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Speaker 1: so stop crying about it. The kid is a very
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Speaker 1: good story. But he's a five foot nine quarterback. He's
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Speaker 1: short like when you watch him play football. Yeah, he's
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Speaker 1: a football player. He's not an elite passer, he can
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Speaker 1: run a little bit, like he's a poor man Johnny Manzel.
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Speaker 1: And then when you think about the off the field
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Speaker 1: stuff on top of it, where he was like FD
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Speaker 1: Heisman voters after he didn't win, publicly drunk, just saying
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Speaker 1: random stuff like he's not the type of dude that
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Speaker 1: you want to have represent your franchise. So why are
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Speaker 1: we sitting here crying about this? He was never getting drafted.
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Speaker 1: He's more WWE personality. There's a place for him playing
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Speaker 1: football though, whether it's in the UFL, whether it's in Canada,
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Speaker 1: there is a place for Diego Pavia to be playing quarterback.
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Speaker 1: He might develop into a better pass or he might
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Speaker 1: be Doug Flutie. He might get his head wrapped on
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Speaker 1: straight faster than Johnny Manziel did. But you know what,
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Speaker 1: he will always be a Vanderbilt legend. He will always
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Speaker 1: have a spectacular college football season. But you know what
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Speaker 1: else that we didn't have this year, Travis Hunter. You
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Speaker 1: think he finished his runner up there? Absolutely not. This
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Speaker 1: is just a year where it worked out well for
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Speaker 1: him to be a finalist. He was hoping he was
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Speaker 1: going to win. He's spoken into existence. But even some
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Speaker 1: of the best passers in college football history have not
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Speaker 1: gone on to have not even a sniff in the NFL.
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Speaker 1: Landry Jones, one of the all time leading passes in
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Speaker 1: college football? What are you doing in the league, Graham Harrold,
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Speaker 1: Timmy Chain, Will Rogers, aj Mccaerron winning the National Championship.
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Speaker 1: Reality is, just because you are a great college quarterback
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Speaker 1: does not mean that that's going to translate over into
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Speaker 1: the NFL. The NFL Draft just happened, and the NFL
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Speaker 1: Draft proves that the Big Ten is better than the SEC.
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Speaker 1: Better coach, better teams, better allocational resources. And this vanity
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Speaker 1: project of overall draft picks versus winning games, it doesn't
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Speaker 1: matter because when you get in the college football playoff,
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Speaker 1: what is happening? SECA winning games unless they're playing against
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Speaker 1: themself or Texas two years ago. This is the first
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Speaker 1: time in damn near twenty years that the SEC didn't
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Speaker 1: have the most first round draft picks. That matters because
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Speaker 1: the SEC always told us, oh my gosh, it was
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Speaker 1: a look at how many first round draft picks that
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Speaker 1: there are. Well, the Big Ten had more this year,
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Speaker 1: Well the SEC had more. Overall, that means that our
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Speaker 1: teams are better No, it doesn't because the best teams
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Speaker 1: win the most football games against inferior competition. Yes, the
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Speaker 1: teams at the top of the Big Ten are better,
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Speaker 1: but our conference is tougher because we have more NFL
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Speaker 1: draft picks. That's a vanity project. What you're saying is
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Speaker 1: your teams did more with less because when they go
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Speaker 1: to bowl games and they lose to other conferences, the ACC,
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Speaker 1: the Big Ten, the Big Twelve, everybody else. You try
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Speaker 1: to tell me it doesn't matter. Then you want to
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Speaker 1: tell me that the talent is the thing that matters
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Speaker 1: the most. What does talent matter if you are not
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Speaker 1: winning the football game, if your team is not better prepared,
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Speaker 1: better coach, and perform better and execute on the field,
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Speaker 1: are you a better team? No, you're not. You may
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Speaker 1: have a collection of individuals that other people at the
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Speaker 1: next level, which is a different game, think that you
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Speaker 1: are better, but that doesn't mean your teams are better.
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Speaker 1: So you ultimately ended up in the twenty twenty six
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Speaker 1: draft with the SEC with a record number of draft
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Speaker 1: picks with eighty seven, the Big Ten with sixty eight,
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Speaker 1: ACC with thirty eight, the Big Twelve with thirty eight
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Speaker 1: as well. The Independence had seven which is basically Notre Dame.
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Speaker 1: The FCS had four, the MAC had for the American
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Speaker 1: had three, the Mountain West had three, the Sun Belt
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Speaker 1: had to Conference USA had one, and there was one
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Speaker 1: international player draft. The thing I want to note about
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Speaker 1: that is the number of FCS players was down, and
7:36
Speaker 1: so was the number of a group of six players
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Speaker 1: that was drafted that was down. Well. The reason why
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Speaker 1: is because a lot of those players were poached into
7:45
Speaker 1: the Big Ten, the ACC and the SEC. So on
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Speaker 1: one hand, the SEC wants tell us that we got
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Speaker 1: more four and five star products, but you're taking more
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Speaker 1: FCS MAC players than anybody else. It ain't that tough.
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Speaker 1: If those players can go in there, walk in there
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Speaker 1: and be able to play. There's a reason why Oregon, Indiana,
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Speaker 1: Ohio State are at the top of college football right now.
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Speaker 1: In Indiana, their head coach, Kurt Signette even talked about
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Speaker 1: that their roster is last year was closer to fifteen
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Speaker 1: million dollars. That means that the coaching and the development
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Speaker 1: was doing a lot of heavy lifting and the idea
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Speaker 1: of roster talent or roster resources does not equal championships.
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Speaker 1: Look at Ohio State last year, eleven draft picks this weekend,
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Speaker 1: seven in the first two rounds, and what do you get.
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Speaker 1: You don't win the Big Ten and you're out in
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Speaker 1: the playoff game versus Miami. The rosters that spend the
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Speaker 1: most money or have the most draft picks does not
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Speaker 1: equal winning a championship or even being able to beat
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Speaker 1: a team that has less. So we got to stop
8:46
Speaker 1: moving the goal posts. What happens when these conferences go
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Speaker 1: up against each other, that's what matters, and that's why
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Speaker 1: the Big Ten is better than the SEC right now.
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Speaker 1: I don't want to hear though, from top to bottom
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Speaker 1: to middle, anything else, because I guarantee you better this year.
9:01
Speaker 1: Michigan is going to be a problem. You think that
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Speaker 1: Texas A and m who played the easiest SEC schedule,
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Speaker 1: the least amount of draft picks and all this stuff,
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Speaker 1: would have gone into Big Ten and made the playoff
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Speaker 1: Absolutely not. People to quote the Wire, the thing about
9:15
Speaker 1: the old days is that they the old days. So
9:18
Speaker 1: SEC you gotta regroup. You gotta fix what is broken,
9:22
Speaker 1: whether it's recruiting, whether it's coaching anything else. The last
9:26
Speaker 1: thing I want to talk about for the draft is
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Speaker 1: what does the NFL draft say about the Oregon Ducks
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Speaker 1: because over the last four years under Dan Lanning, they've
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Speaker 1: had six first rounders, two second rounders, five third rounders,
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Speaker 1: seven fourth rounders, three fifth rounders, four to sixth rounders,
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Speaker 1: and three seventh rounders. That's thirty one total draft picks
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Speaker 1: in four years, and this upcoming year they could have
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Speaker 1: as many as four or five first round picks like
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Speaker 1: Ohio State did this year. That just shows you the
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Speaker 1: level of development that is happening at Oregon and this
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Speaker 1: is why so many people are bullish on them winning
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Speaker 1: a national championship and why I believe that this twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty sixth season will be the year of the Ducks.
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Speaker 1: Oregon will win the national championship in twenty twenty six.
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Speaker 1: Their defense will be Ohio State twenty twenty five, where
10:20
Speaker 1: they are smothering people. Their offense will be elite as well.
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Speaker 1: They have an amazing probably the Heisman Trophy winning quarterback,
10:28
Speaker 1: but he'll at least be a finalist at worst. The
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Speaker 1: wide receiver court Evan Stewart, the Corey and Moore, Jeremiah
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Speaker 1: McClelland those are just the starters. They are phenomenal. Johnson
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Speaker 1: at tight end, a first round pick the old line
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Speaker 1: last two years Joe Moore Award finalist, the year before that,
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Speaker 1: semi finalist, So you know they're gonna put a good
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Speaker 1: offensive line together. The defensive line Tatum Teot Matteo, Uyan Galailea,
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Speaker 1: Mari Washington, Bear, Alexander Aiden, Breelan Richardson to transfer, and
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Speaker 1: then the secondary incredible Brandon Finnie and company. This is
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Speaker 1: a team that is that the NFL scouts look at
11:05
Speaker 1: and they're like, Yo, we need that. We need them, dudes.
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Speaker 1: So I'm excited about what's going on at Oregon. I
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Speaker 1: got a chance to go up there for the spring game.
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna drop over the next week. You guys are
11:15
Speaker 1: gonna see an interview from Dan Lanning. You guys are
11:18
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Speaker 1: some money. Our next thing, Brendan Soresby. He just got
12:27
Speaker 1: popped for gambling. The NC DOUBLEA investigation comes out where
12:33
Speaker 1: Texas Tech gets informed a week or two weeks ago,
12:36
Speaker 1: whatever the NC Doubla provided, Like, here's what we have,
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Speaker 1: which is for sure that he bet on games in
12:43
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two when he was at Indiana. He did
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Speaker 1: not play it that year. He bet on Indiana to win,
12:49
Speaker 1: but you cannot be betting on games. And he was underage,
12:53
Speaker 1: which creates a whole nother issue which could create him
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Speaker 1: some legal issues Brendan Soresby getting popped for gambling was inevitable.
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Speaker 1: And I'm not talking about for Brendan Soresby. I'm talking
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Speaker 1: about because we caused this as a society. We have
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Speaker 1: normalized this so much that kids that they look at
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Speaker 1: betting and they don't believe that there's anything dangerous about it.
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Speaker 1: They don't understand that this addictions can form from this.
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Speaker 1: This is why you must responsibly game. They don't understand that.
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Speaker 1: Because their brains are young, they're still invincible. Even when
13:25
Speaker 1: you're in your early twenties, you think you're invincible. So
13:28
Speaker 1: should we feel bad for Brendan Sowresby. No, because he
13:31
Speaker 1: made poor choices and you get consequences for it, and
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Speaker 1: hopefully he's able to grow from it, beat his addiction
13:37
Speaker 1: and get a chance to play football. That's what I hope.
13:40
Speaker 1: But now the question is what did Cincinnati know? Because
13:43
Speaker 1: reports keep trickling out and allegedly Cincinnati may have been
13:47
Speaker 1: tipped off about this last fall, but you know what,
13:50
Speaker 1: they didn't want to do play without the quarterback. If
13:52
Speaker 1: that's the case, Brendan sores believes school suites him for
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Speaker 1: a million dollars. So now you're wondering that this lawsuit
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Speaker 1: and his refusal to pay what they deemed a buyout
14:03
Speaker 1: when he went to Texas Tech for about five million dollars,
14:06
Speaker 1: did that have anything to do with somebody snitching on
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Speaker 1: him about this? Because the reports are that there's thousands
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Speaker 1: of bets a little less than seven figures thousands of
14:16
Speaker 1: bets going up until last December, and they put out
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Speaker 1: a statement saying that listen, this has not happened since
14:23
Speaker 1: he's been at Texas Tech. But does it even matter
14:25
Speaker 1: because his eligibility in the NCAA is likely done because
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Speaker 1: you are not allowed to bet on sports period. I
14:33
Speaker 1: talked to my son about this, and he asked me.
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Speaker 1: He said, Dad, isn't this legal? Didn't they change the rule?
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Speaker 1: I said, yes, they did, but then they changed it
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Speaker 1: right back. You cannot gamble on college football at all,
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Speaker 1: and you're not even supposed to be gambling on other sports.
14:47
Speaker 1: It is a slippery slope. The NFL essentially tells his
14:50
Speaker 1: players do not gamble on sports because it creates an
14:54
Speaker 1: integrity issue because if you get down, how are you
14:58
Speaker 1: going to get yourself out of a hole? The only
15:02
Speaker 1: way that you can, which is not good. It's bad
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Speaker 1: for everybody, sucks for the kids, sucks for Texas Tech
15:08
Speaker 1: because their forty million dollar roster is resting on the
15:12
Speaker 1: knee of Will Hammond, who tours acl last year. Who
15:16
Speaker 1: their head coach, Joey McGuire says, at the best case scenario,
15:20
Speaker 1: we'll be ready after week three. This could derail their
15:23
Speaker 1: whole season. So now they are tasked with a question
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Speaker 1: because the NCAA just passed new rules for the ghost transfer.
15:29
Speaker 1: And what a ghost transfer is is that if somebody
15:32
Speaker 1: checks out of a school because remember there's no spring
15:35
Speaker 1: transfer portal window. Now there's only one window and that's
15:38
Speaker 1: in the winner after the season in January. So then
15:41
Speaker 1: ghost transfer checks out of school and just enrolls at
15:44
Speaker 1: another school. Well, the rule now says that if a
15:47
Speaker 1: coach takes a player who ghost transfers, then your coach
15:51
Speaker 1: has to sit out fifty percent of the season. So
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Speaker 1: is that worth it for Texas Tech for Joey McGuire
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Speaker 1: to miss six weeks of the season coaching? Now, I'm
16:01
Speaker 1: not sure what the exact rules are in terms of
16:04
Speaker 1: what coaching looks like. Is it a Jim Harbaugh game
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Speaker 1: game day only suspension or are we talking like he
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Speaker 1: can't be even at practice helping game plan and all
16:13
Speaker 1: of that stuff. And then the second portion of the
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Speaker 1: penalization is twenty percent of your nil budget because all
16:19
Speaker 1: these third party things that wouldn't matter to Texas Tech
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Speaker 1: at all because they could just run the rest of
16:24
Speaker 1: everything through the third parties, which is how you get
16:26
Speaker 1: to a forty million dollar roster to begin with. So
16:29
Speaker 1: if you lose out of your twenty million dollars, if
16:32
Speaker 1: you lose four million dollars, you can probably get that
16:35
Speaker 1: back through that Texas Tech oial money and through them
16:37
Speaker 1: INIL deals. But then one of the biggest questions I
16:40
Speaker 1: was thinking was like, did Brendan Soresby check himself into
16:44
Speaker 1: rehab because of the allegations or was this because he
16:49
Speaker 1: knows that he had a problem. Because if he checked
16:51
Speaker 1: himself in because he had a problem, then that's a
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Speaker 1: lot more noble. He still got so much because the
16:56
Speaker 1: truth about Miami and the Hurricanes under Mario crystal Ball
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Speaker 1: is coming up next. It is time to tell the
17:07
Speaker 1: truth about the Miami Hurricanes under Mario crystal Ball as
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Speaker 1: head coach. We have talked about the Oregon Ducks, which
17:14
Speaker 1: guys can see on the channel. We have talked about
17:16
Speaker 1: Notre Dame fighting Iris, which you can see on the channel.
17:19
Speaker 1: Let's talk about the Miami hurricane. Every spring and every
17:22
Speaker 1: single summer we hear Miami is back. But there's one
17:25
Speaker 1: thing that the internet absolutely always loves. It's the nostalgia
17:28
Speaker 1: for the days of Ray Lewis and Ed Reid everybody
17:31
Speaker 1: else that was part of that two thousand and one
17:33
Speaker 1: version that had the greatest running back room of all time.
17:37
Speaker 1: But after having the twenty twenty four number one overall
17:40
Speaker 1: picking Cambore and being the twenty twenty five runner up
17:43
Speaker 1: to Indiana, is it more than nostalgia at this point?
17:46
Speaker 1: Can they sustain this? Can Mario Chrystal Ball sustain this?
17:49
Speaker 1: Because it is no secret everybody knows. I know Mario
17:52
Speaker 1: Cristiball known of since he was at Oregon. I remember
17:55
Speaker 1: when he was getting ready to leave Eugene. We were
17:57
Speaker 1: having conversations behind the scenes and he was very torn.
18:01
Speaker 1: But he's a Miami man. All them dudes that are
18:03
Speaker 1: a part of that team, them dudes have a special bond.
18:06
Speaker 1: They went through something and they stick together. So I
18:08
Speaker 1: get it. When Mario Christoball got to Coral Gables, in
18:12
Speaker 1: December of twenty twenty one. People treated it like it
18:15
Speaker 1: was the prophesied Savior had returned home, and honestly, in
18:18
Speaker 1: a lot of ways he had. This is a Miami man,
18:22
Speaker 1: a National championship player, South Florida roots, creudent chops, offensive line, identity, physicality,
18:29
Speaker 1: the whole thing. But heritage. It doesn't block anybody, Nostalgia,
18:34
Speaker 1: don't tackle anybody, and being Miami enough, they don't win
18:37
Speaker 1: games in modern college football. Year one, oh, it was bad.
18:41
Speaker 1: It was real bad. Miami went five and seven in
18:43
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. And that wasn't some minor speed bump.
18:46
Speaker 1: That was a face plan. Harrio Cristoball, in the ensuing
18:49
Speaker 1: years of the climbing to the college Football Ladder, says
18:52
Speaker 1: that the twenty and twenty two team just didn't have
18:55
Speaker 1: the talent those players. They might not like it, but
18:58
Speaker 1: cristal Ball has been very honest. The Jimmies and the Joe's,
19:01
Speaker 1: they weren't good enough for him to get the Canes
19:03
Speaker 1: to where he needed them to go. Year two, that
19:05
Speaker 1: was better, but nowhere near close to good enough. Amy
19:08
Speaker 1: went seven and six that year. In twenty twenty three,
19:10
Speaker 1: and that season it is always going to be remembered
19:14
Speaker 1: for one of the most brutal coaching blunders that we've
19:17
Speaker 1: seen in a decade against Georgia Tech. Just kneel the football.
19:21
Speaker 1: So if you're a Miami fan who spent two years
19:23
Speaker 1: wondering whether this thing was headed in the right direction,
19:26
Speaker 1: I'm not here to gaslight you. Your frustration was one
19:28
Speaker 1: hundred percent valid. But this is where a lot of
19:30
Speaker 1: people missed the plot, because building a real program is
19:33
Speaker 1: not the same thing as slapping one together. One exciting
19:36
Speaker 1: September that was because the Canes revamped their offense and
19:39
Speaker 1: convinced cam Ward to transfer in Then they posted their
19:43
Speaker 1: first true undefeated home season since two thousand and two.
19:47
Speaker 1: They landed not one, not two, not three, not four,
19:51
Speaker 1: not five, and not six, but seventeen all ACC selections,
19:57
Speaker 1: and then they finished amongst the teams nationally ranked in
19:59
Speaker 1: the time in both offense and total defense. Fast forward
20:04
Speaker 1: to twenty twenty five, Miami took another jump. They finished
20:07
Speaker 1: thirteen and three, made the College Football Playoff as the
20:10
Speaker 1: number ten seed, beat Texas A and M beat Ohio
20:14
Speaker 1: State and Old Miss in the postseason. And that's not
20:16
Speaker 1: even talking about the notre Dame game in the beginning
20:19
Speaker 1: of the season. All of that, they reached the National
20:21
Speaker 1: Championship Game before falling to Indiana, and that matters because
20:24
Speaker 1: it's not branding and this is not vibes. This is
20:27
Speaker 1: actual evidence. We're gonna take a time out real quick,
20:30
Speaker 1: make sure that you guys like share, subscribe, get notifications,
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20:37
Speaker 1: Oh Brown. So what changed? First thing? Talent acquisition Mario
20:42
Speaker 1: christibaal He was one of the top recruiters in America
20:44
Speaker 1: before he even ever had the benefit of Oregon or
20:48
Speaker 1: Miami's resources, and that's why Nick Saban had him as
20:51
Speaker 1: the recruiting coordinator at Alabama. Christ Ball also has used
20:54
Speaker 1: the resources afforded to him to then turn Miami into
20:58
Speaker 1: one of the ACC's consistent recruiting powers, because Miami signed
21:02
Speaker 1: the number seven class in the country in twenty twenty three,
21:05
Speaker 1: the number four class in twenty four, the number thirteen
21:08
Speaker 1: class in twenty twenty five, and the number ten class
21:11
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty six. This twenty twenty six group was
21:14
Speaker 1: also the top rated class in the ACC, making it
21:17
Speaker 1: four straight years that Miami signed the conference to stop class.
21:20
Speaker 1: And that's how you stop being a nostalgia brand and
21:24
Speaker 1: start building a roster and then a contender. Now it's
21:27
Speaker 1: not just stars on paper. These guys are actually panning
21:30
Speaker 1: out because Christobaul staffs have done real work in the
21:34
Speaker 1: state of Florida. Because Miami signed more top twenty five
21:37
Speaker 1: Florida prospects than anybody in the twenty twenty four cycle,
21:41
Speaker 1: and then over the twenty three and twenty four cycles combined,
21:44
Speaker 1: the Hurricanes led the way in blue chip in state
21:47
Speaker 1: halls to begin with. That matters because the entire history
21:50
Speaker 1: of the program is tied to keeping elite South Florida
21:53
Speaker 1: talent home, which is exactly why they were trying to
21:56
Speaker 1: pay Jeremiah Smith a whole bag of money to come home. Now,
22:00
Speaker 1: the second thing that Mario Cristoball has done well standout players.
22:03
Speaker 1: You cannot sell a rebuild without dudes. Cam Mooard became
22:08
Speaker 1: the face of the twenty twenty four league, helping Miami
22:11
Speaker 1: to go to a ten win season and then later
22:13
Speaker 1: on becoming the number one pick in the twenty twenty
22:15
Speaker 1: five minut Bel draft. Then on that team also you
22:18
Speaker 1: had Xavier Ristrepo, who was an absolute monster, and during
22:21
Speaker 1: that year Ruben Bain became one of the most important
22:24
Speaker 1: young defenders in the conference, and now he's going to
22:26
Speaker 1: be a first round pick this year. Francis Maligoa. He
22:29
Speaker 1: gave Miami the kind of frontline building block that the
22:32
Speaker 1: program used to churn out like a factory, and by
22:35
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, Miami had enough difference makers to make
22:38
Speaker 1: a real college football playoff run. And that's what progress
22:42
Speaker 1: looks like. It's not just pushing a flawd roster up
22:45
Speaker 1: a hill like Sissipus, but waves of capable players at
22:49
Speaker 1: premium positions. That's what they have now. And the third
22:52
Speaker 1: thing he's done really well is staff construction, because Chris
22:55
Speaker 1: Baul fairly got criticized early for some of his staffing decisions,
23:00
Speaker 1: but he's also shown a willingness to adjust, because he
23:02
Speaker 1: hired Shannon Dawson ahead of the twenty twenty three season
23:05
Speaker 1: to modernize this offense. Then he brought in Lance Gidry
23:09
Speaker 1: for the twenty twenty three defense reset. Then after twenty
23:12
Speaker 1: twenty four, made another major move by hiring Corey Heatherman
23:16
Speaker 1: as defensive coordinator, and then you got this year. Heading
23:19
Speaker 1: into twenty twenty six, Dawson and Heatherman. They remain in place.
23:23
Speaker 1: Staff continuity is a big thing. Then you got Alex
23:26
Speaker 1: mirror Ball as well on the offensive line, who's one
23:28
Speaker 1: of the best o line coaches in the country. You
23:30
Speaker 1: got Kevin Beard at wide receiver, Jason Taylor who might
23:34
Speaker 1: put out two first round picks on the defensive line.
23:38
Speaker 1: That is a real staff. That is a serious staff.
23:40
Speaker 1: There's no laughing matter, and that's a recruiting staff and
23:43
Speaker 1: a development staff. Now I love that part because too
23:47
Speaker 1: many people evaluate head coaches like they're playing mad. The
23:50
Speaker 1: best head coaches aren't just play callers. They're organizational architects.
23:55
Speaker 1: They are CEOs. Christo Baul has increasingly built Miami like
23:58
Speaker 1: a real organization. Now does that mean everything has been perfect? No,
24:02
Speaker 1: Like Christa Ball still carries the represation of them early
24:06
Speaker 1: failures because it's fair. It's because who he is, a
24:09
Speaker 1: former Miami player, high dollar higher, a big personality, and
24:14
Speaker 1: he's never gonna get graded on a curve because Miami
24:17
Speaker 1: they not paying for pretty good. Miami pays for the
24:19
Speaker 1: feeling that when you see that you on the helmet,
24:22
Speaker 1: that you know you're in for a long night. When
24:25
Speaker 1: they put that up They're like, they want people to
24:27
Speaker 1: be afraid, and the truth is they're getting closer to
24:30
Speaker 1: that now. So the question is what about this upcoming
24:33
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six season. This is where it gets interested
24:35
Speaker 1: because Miami opens the season with Stanford on September fourth,
24:38
Speaker 1: Florida A and M Then they go to Wake Forest,
24:41
Speaker 1: which I will tell you Wake Forest is a well
24:43
Speaker 1: coached team, nowhere near as talented, but if you don't
24:46
Speaker 1: show up with at least your B game, you're gonna
24:49
Speaker 1: be in a dogfight. Then they get a Central Michigan, Clemson,
24:52
Speaker 1: Florida State, Duke, and Virginia Tech all at home, and
24:54
Speaker 1: then they have road trips to Notre Dame got him
24:58
Speaker 1: in the College Football Playoff last year, which is going
24:59
Speaker 1: to be absolute dogfight because Notre Dame is going to
25:02
Speaker 1: be one of the top five teams in the country
25:04
Speaker 1: this year. And then they got North Carolina on the
25:07
Speaker 1: road too. Do not sleep on that. North Carolina last year,
25:10
Speaker 1: who had one of the better defenses in the country,
25:12
Speaker 1: is also enhancing their offense because they now have a
25:17
Speaker 1: real offensive coordinator in Bobby Patrino, who scores points that
25:20
Speaker 1: ain't a cupcake stroll of a schedule, but it's also
25:23
Speaker 1: the kind of schedule that a playoff caliber roster. Oh,
25:26
Speaker 1: you should absolutely be excited about it and not fear
25:28
Speaker 1: that schedule. There are two major names to watch on
25:31
Speaker 1: this team. There is the transferred quarterback from Duke, Darien Mensa,
25:35
Speaker 1: and then the second one. Oh, it is Calare Malachi Tony,
25:40
Speaker 1: wide receiver, electric over one hundred passes caught last year.
25:43
Speaker 1: He is a weapon. And if Mario christobaul is gone
25:46
Speaker 1: from Cammore to Carson back to Darien Mensa in a
25:49
Speaker 1: three year stretch, oh, that tells you that Miami is
25:51
Speaker 1: no longer guessing that quarterback. They are shopping with intent.
25:55
Speaker 1: And beyond Mensa and Malakai Tony, you got names like
25:59
Speaker 1: Justin Scott, Damon Wilson the second and this roster is
26:02
Speaker 1: filled with the kind of young talent that keeps showing
26:05
Speaker 1: up early under this staft. Because Miami has had at
26:07
Speaker 1: least one true freshman All American in each of the
26:11
Speaker 1: past three seasons. This year was Malachi Toni and that
26:15
Speaker 1: tells you that the next breakout player may already be
26:17
Speaker 1: on campus. Here is the truth about the Miami Hurricanes
26:21
Speaker 1: under Mario Christobo. It was slower than Miami fans want,
26:25
Speaker 1: more embarrassing at times than anybody wanted to admit. But
26:29
Speaker 1: it's also been real. This isn't some fake resurrection built
26:32
Speaker 1: on hashtags and old VHS tapes that's just here for
26:35
Speaker 1: a short time. This is a program that climbed from
26:38
Speaker 1: five to seven to seven and six to ten wins
26:42
Speaker 1: to a thirteen and three last season and a National
26:45
Speaker 1: title game appearance. This is a program recruiting at an
26:48
Speaker 1: elite level, stacking line of scrimmage talent, retaining strong assistance,
26:53
Speaker 1: and entering twenty twenty six with a real quarterback and
26:56
Speaker 1: real expectations. Miami is not back because people got emotional
27:00
Speaker 1: on the internet. Miami is back in the conversation because
27:02
Speaker 1: Mario Christobaul has finally made the conversation unavoidable. If you
27:08
Speaker 1: guys enjoyed this breakdown, make sure that you like, share, subscribe,
27:12
Speaker 1: get notifications, and tell a friend about the show. And
27:14
Speaker 1: of course hopp in the comments, is Miami back? And
27:17
Speaker 1: can they win a national championship in twenty twenty six?
27:27
Speaker 1: Reister or wrong time instead of the top ten today?
27:31
Speaker 1: So Ralph is gonna give me five declarative hot takes
27:35
Speaker 1: about the NFL Draft, and I will tell you are
27:38
Speaker 1: they reister or are they wrong? This has nothing to
27:42
Speaker 1: do with the draft picks themselves. This is surrounding the draft.
27:47
Speaker 1: This should be a lot of fun. He said, he's
27:48
Speaker 1: got some stuff for me that I'm excited about it, Ralph.
27:52
Speaker 1: So when you put this together, there's nothing that is
27:55
Speaker 1: going to Is this going to go viral because I'm
28:00
Speaker 1: want to say something ridiculous.
28:05
Speaker 2: One thing I've learned over the last like seven years
28:08
Speaker 2: of us working together is that I can't control what
28:11
Speaker 2: comes out of your mouth. I do also want to
28:20
Speaker 2: stress that these are very declarative statements of strong opinions
28:26
Speaker 2: that came out of various sources surrounding the NFL Draft
28:30
Speaker 2: and are not necessarily reflective of my opinions.
28:35
Speaker 1: Do you want to put as it was like, these
28:40
Speaker 1: do not These do not reflect the These do not
28:45
Speaker 1: reflect the views of the company or its stances.
28:51
Speaker 2: I feel like we just you and I just had
28:53
Speaker 2: a conversation off air about how I try as hard
28:55
Speaker 2: as I can to not have opinions. Now you know
28:58
Speaker 2: that that's not true, but I try really hard. So
29:00
Speaker 2: these are not necessarily my opinions, but they are opinions.
29:04
Speaker 2: They do exist, and we're gonna find out if they're
29:07
Speaker 2: reister or wrong. Okay, okay, So the first one is
29:13
Speaker 2: that these fans who attend the NFL Draft as it
29:18
Speaker 2: goes from city to city in person, in full gear,
29:23
Speaker 2: are out of their minds. They're like on a completely
29:27
Speaker 2: different level of irrational NFL fandom.
29:33
Speaker 1: One hundred percent reister. It is one hundred percent reister
29:39
Speaker 1: that they are out of their ever loving minds. But
29:43
Speaker 1: I love it. You need them, like these are your
29:46
Speaker 1: P one listeners, These are your P one viewers, Like
29:49
Speaker 1: these are the people that are going to sacrifice their
29:52
Speaker 1: relationships or their relationships have to get on board with it.
29:55
Speaker 1: They will sacrifice time with their kids or their kids.
29:58
Speaker 1: Got to get on board with it for this, and
30:01
Speaker 1: you need those people to sustain a league, to sustain
30:04
Speaker 1: anything great. But like you got hundreds of thousands of
30:08
Speaker 1: people out there, you have what like seven hundred thousand
30:11
Speaker 1: people out there in Pittsburgh. They are committed to it.
30:14
Speaker 1: I love it. It's absolutely insanity, but it is necessary
30:19
Speaker 1: and I love it. And the traveling draft as a
30:23
Speaker 1: circus is probably route like the best thing, the best
30:27
Speaker 1: idea that they came up with instead of just having
30:29
Speaker 1: it in the same city every year, because it gives
30:32
Speaker 1: like fans and opportunity to show up and be a
30:36
Speaker 1: part of it instead of just having to go to
30:38
Speaker 1: New York City every year.
30:41
Speaker 2: Yeah, it does remind me of the State of the
30:43
Speaker 2: Union a little bit, Like you know that no matter what,
30:49
Speaker 2: these partisans are gonna stand and clap and really they're
30:52
Speaker 2: just trying to get on TV.
30:54
Speaker 1: Yes, that's it.
30:56
Speaker 2: You are right, They're gonna clap no matter what.
31:00
Speaker 1: You're excited about somebody that you don't know whether they're
31:04
Speaker 1: going to work out or not, because they literally boo
31:09
Speaker 1: Josh Allen and and and you see how that worked
31:13
Speaker 1: worked out. And I told you he was going to
31:15
Speaker 1: be a fantastic quarterback.
31:19
Speaker 2: Yeah. When you when you are there on Day three
31:23
Speaker 2: and it's the sixth round and it's your eighth draft pick,
31:26
Speaker 2: and you pick a lineman out of Southeast Louisiana Tech
31:31
Speaker 2: School of the Bride and then you cut to the
31:34
Speaker 2: fans and they're cheering like they just stick Joe Montana,
31:39
Speaker 2: Like what it's like, Okay, sure, sure, all right, number two. Uh,
31:46
Speaker 2: it is time, George for the fans to give up
31:50
Speaker 2: on booing Roger Goodell, it doesn't do anything. He keeps
31:55
Speaker 2: putting human shields out there. Uh, it's just time to
31:58
Speaker 2: give up on the whole stick booing the commissioner.
32:02
Speaker 1: One hundred percent wrong you are. So it is now
32:06
Speaker 1: ingrained in the culture. They not only do it in
32:10
Speaker 1: uh the NFL, they do it in the NBA too.
32:13
Speaker 1: It is a right of passage. If if Roger Goodell
32:16
Speaker 1: went out there and they cheered him, he would probably
32:18
Speaker 1: think he was gonna get assassinated or something like. He'd
32:21
Speaker 1: be like, no, no, like what is going on? He
32:24
Speaker 1: would think something, something's crazy. The best thing that he
32:27
Speaker 1: can do is continue to bring human shields out with
32:29
Speaker 1: him because it's part of the gag. Now he needs
32:33
Speaker 1: to bring out like three kids in wheelchairs next time
32:37
Speaker 1: and then let them boom and be like, look at
32:40
Speaker 1: you people, you're you're booing and the kids up here like,
32:45
Speaker 1: we're not booing them, we're booing you. It's just part
32:48
Speaker 1: of the right write a passage. And honestly, I guarantee
32:52
Speaker 1: you that Roger Goodell, who actually has a sense of
32:55
Speaker 1: humor and a and doesn't take himself too seriously, he
33:00
Speaker 1: enjoys that like he gets it. It's part of it.
33:04
Speaker 1: And as a commissioner, you can't have thin skin.
33:09
Speaker 2: Well it comes with a fifty million dollars you checked.
33:11
Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah, booth all you want to quite a bit.
33:16
Speaker 1: I will stand up there and get booed all the
33:18
Speaker 1: time from dude. I get booed for a lot less.
33:21
Speaker 1: I get called crazy and terrible and stupid online for
33:25
Speaker 1: a lot less. So for fifty million dollars, do you
33:28
Speaker 1: think that that is going to impact my mental health
33:30
Speaker 1: at all? If it doesn't impact my mental health for
33:33
Speaker 1: what we're getting paid, now, imagine how much less it
33:36
Speaker 1: will impact. I might pull a Lebron James on him.
33:42
Speaker 2: Explain.
33:44
Speaker 1: Okay, so remember when Lebron James was like when when
33:50
Speaker 1: people were criticized, he was like, and you got to
33:52
Speaker 1: go back to your miserable life. No, I mean I
33:58
Speaker 1: would do that because I'm not a thin, thin skinned
34:01
Speaker 1: individual and Lebron at times is. But that would be funny. Though.
34:07
Speaker 2: One thing I would love is if your kids used
34:12
Speaker 2: against you the train of thought that you just presented
34:15
Speaker 2: about booing Goodell, like you come home and they they
34:20
Speaker 2: got home and they just put their socks and shoes
34:22
Speaker 2: in the middle of the floor and you're like, how
34:24
Speaker 2: many times do I gotta tell you to put this
34:27
Speaker 2: stuff away? And they're like, this is just part of
34:29
Speaker 2: what we do now, this is tradition. You would probably
34:36
Speaker 2: think something would right.
34:38
Speaker 1: Kind of what that's kind of what has happened with
34:41
Speaker 1: the shoes at the house and the backpack bro with
34:44
Speaker 1: the backpacks by the door is probably the most annoying
34:48
Speaker 1: thing in all the world.
34:50
Speaker 2: Yeah, And they'd be like, and if we did it right,
34:52
Speaker 2: you'd probably think something was wrong exactly exactly.
34:56
Speaker 1: I'd be like, what do you want?
35:00
Speaker 2: Okay? So number three, the best possible thing that could
35:03
Speaker 2: continue to happen at these live drafts is what Mark
35:08
Speaker 2: Ingram came out and did to the Pittsburgh crowd, treating
35:11
Speaker 2: it like a WWE bringing his son out there, saying
35:14
Speaker 2: Pittsburgh still sucks. We should lean into the WWE nature
35:20
Speaker 2: of the NFL draft show.
35:23
Speaker 1: That's one hundred percent Rester Reister, because these people are
35:28
Speaker 1: standing out there for hours upon hours before the draft
35:31
Speaker 1: stars through the three hours of the first round, you know,
35:35
Speaker 1: the three hours of the second round, the six hours
35:38
Speaker 1: of four through seven. I'm not mad at it, dude,
35:44
Speaker 1: Give them something give them something to feel. Now, granted,
35:48
Speaker 1: it does need to be a little more authentic because
35:52
Speaker 1: Pat McAfee came out before mark Ingram and he was
35:55
Speaker 1: trying to get it going. His first one kind of
35:57
Speaker 1: fell flat. His promo that he cut fell flat, and
36:01
Speaker 1: then mark Ingram came out and then he came Pat
36:05
Speaker 1: Matt came back out and his second promo was much better.
36:08
Speaker 1: So I love it. The fans get a little riled up,
36:11
Speaker 1: and it's just got to be authentic. Though. I think
36:15
Speaker 1: that a good troll is well thought out. It is important,
36:19
Speaker 1: and you can't just go go out there and ish
36:22
Speaker 1: talking like you got to go out there with a plan,
36:26
Speaker 1: with a plan, a setup and like to where they
36:29
Speaker 1: think that something's gonna happen and then you hit him
36:31
Speaker 1: like whoa, put your pants down? Neat that.
36:37
Speaker 2: So two years ago, you took me to my very
36:40
Speaker 2: first ever WWE wrestling match and we got there and
36:46
Speaker 2: it was very exciting because The Rock hadn't been part
36:49
Speaker 2: of WWE for a long time and this was him
36:52
Speaker 2: coming back into the fold. And you and I walked
36:56
Speaker 2: into this arena in Glendale, Arizona, just as The Rock
36:59
Speaker 2: would you know, standing center ring with a microphone in
37:03
Speaker 2: his hand, and the very first thing I see is
37:06
Speaker 2: the rock one of most famous man on the planet
37:09
Speaker 2: calling the entire state of Arizona crackheads. Yes, and the
37:15
Speaker 2: entire stadium went from like booze to cheers at the
37:18
Speaker 2: same time because they wanted to be neg they wanted
37:21
Speaker 2: to be acknowledged. Yes, right, And so I I think
37:27
Speaker 2: you're right. I think that we people can handle being
37:30
Speaker 2: trolled as long as like, ay, but you're acknowledging me.
37:33
Speaker 2: You're thinking about me though, rep free right.
37:36
Speaker 1: Yes, dude, there are a couple of people online that
37:40
Speaker 1: I've engaged with who are trolls, Right, dude, there is
37:44
Speaker 1: nothing more than they love. So every now and then,
37:48
Speaker 1: as as long as they're not doing anything racist, I'll
37:50
Speaker 1: feed them a little bit because it keeps them coming
37:55
Speaker 1: back and it's kind of cool. Every now and then
37:57
Speaker 1: they do have something of value to us say. But
38:01
Speaker 1: but then when when they take it too far, I
38:04
Speaker 1: just ignore him. I just ignore him, and then they
38:07
Speaker 1: like this. One dude tweeted me because I had engaged
38:10
Speaker 1: with him, and then he tweeted me thirty straight times.
38:13
Speaker 1: I did not respond because he says something super reckless
38:17
Speaker 1: and I was like, no, I'm not giving him anything now.
38:19
Speaker 1: So so now he's on mute until he gets until
38:23
Speaker 1: he gets his life back in order. And that's the
38:25
Speaker 1: way I treat people on Twitter. I will engage with
38:28
Speaker 1: pretty much anybody. I engage with pretty much anybody who
38:30
Speaker 1: engages with me. I try to because sometimes it gets
38:33
Speaker 1: a little overwhelming. But but I tried to. And you know,
38:38
Speaker 1: and you know, but as as long as you don't
38:40
Speaker 1: cross the line, were good.
38:43
Speaker 2: So you're saying mark Ingram would actually have to think
38:46
Speaker 2: Steelers fans were a certain level of cool for him
38:48
Speaker 2: to bring his son out on the stage. Yes, and
38:51
Speaker 2: light the entire franchise up exactly, exactly, all right, Number four, Uh,
39:00
Speaker 2: it's actually not a big deal when these NFL pundits,
39:06
Speaker 2: your Jordan Schultz is your Jay Glazers are tipping these
39:09
Speaker 2: picks on Twitter before they're actually announced on TV.
39:15
Speaker 1: Wrong, one hundred percent wrong, tipping picks on Twitter. You
39:21
Speaker 1: should be put in Twitter jail for the next You
39:26
Speaker 1: should be jailed that day, like automatic, like you can
39:31
Speaker 1: still be on Twitter, because the worst thing that can
39:34
Speaker 1: happen to somebody on Twitter is that you can be
39:36
Speaker 1: on Twitter and you can't write on Twitter that if
39:39
Speaker 1: somebody is responding, like if it's somebody who tweets a lot,
39:43
Speaker 1: the worst thing that you can have them do is
39:46
Speaker 1: have to watch things and can't respond to them or
39:50
Speaker 1: can't send out information, And then they should be banned
39:56
Speaker 1: from the next draft. They should be put in Twitter
39:59
Speaker 1: jail for the next draft too. It's ridiculous that, like,
40:03
Speaker 1: it's the moment for the fans, but instead they're trying
40:06
Speaker 1: to get their followings up. And now, mind you, I
40:09
Speaker 1: knew that Kenyon Sadik was getting picked by the Jets
40:13
Speaker 1: over five minutes before it happened. Did I tweet it out? No?
40:18
Speaker 1: You know why, because that's an asshole move. It's like,
40:22
Speaker 1: let the person have their moment, let the fans have
40:25
Speaker 1: their moment. Everything. It's it's I get why people do it,
40:30
Speaker 1: because people will go follow them and they're like, Yo,
40:34
Speaker 1: this is a newsbreaker. He got inside information. So I
40:38
Speaker 1: get it. But it's a thing that just because you
40:42
Speaker 1: can do something doesn't mean you should do something.
40:47
Speaker 2: Yeah, you gotta breakaway dunk, you don't got to put
40:49
Speaker 2: it through the legs. That's and so. But we're in
40:53
Speaker 2: the middle of this whole Mike Rabel, Diana Rassini thing,
40:56
Speaker 2: and so people need to know, like here's what here's
40:58
Speaker 2: what somebody's saying when they're hipping a pick. They're saying,
41:02
Speaker 2: you know, I know more than the average person, so
41:06
Speaker 2: you should follow me. But what they're actually saying, the
41:10
Speaker 2: unsaid thing is I'm getting fed information by somebody inside
41:17
Speaker 2: the team or an agent. And you, as a consumer
41:21
Speaker 2: need to ask yourself the question are these people sharing
41:24
Speaker 2: Spotify playlists? Is everything above board? Like what favors are
41:29
Speaker 2: being done? Like what you what did somebody give up
41:32
Speaker 2: that have access like this? What are the kids? Oh
41:37
Speaker 2: my god, we gotta move on. I'm oh you took
41:40
Speaker 2: me out with that one. Okay, yeah I had Jordan
41:48
Speaker 2: if he has a young heart, yeah Jordan Schultz. Someone
41:55
Speaker 2: gotta find out if Jordan Schultz has a dog named
41:57
Speaker 2: Kingsbury or something. Okay, So so number five last one,
42:03
Speaker 2: players should be encouraged to sit with their girlfriend on
42:09
Speaker 2: draft night.
42:13
Speaker 1: Wrong, wrong, wrong, dude. You cannot have the girlfriend. And now,
42:20
Speaker 1: now mind you, if you're in the green room, girlfriend
42:23
Speaker 1: can be sitting next to you, but not too close,
42:26
Speaker 1: like she needs to be a couple of chairs away.
42:27
Speaker 1: The way when they flash to you, you, mom, dad, agent,
42:31
Speaker 1: whoever it is, that that's what the shot is. She
42:35
Speaker 1: can get some peripheral action, but how many times have
42:37
Speaker 1: we seen the girlfriend she vanishes after that? She vanishes
42:41
Speaker 1: after that, Look a look at Ceedee Lamb having to
42:44
Speaker 1: take the like grabbing the phone and like that's one
42:47
Speaker 1: of the legendary ones. Of course they broke up. And
42:51
Speaker 1: then also you have to be very secure in your relationship,
42:56
Speaker 1: especially if she's a baddie one hundred percent, because remember
43:00
Speaker 1: when Brett Musburger and they flashed AJ mccerron's girlfriend and
43:06
Speaker 1: she picked up like two hundred thousand followers and it
43:10
Speaker 1: probably wasn't women men them dms getting getting popping boy.
43:16
Speaker 1: So you got to be secure in your relationship. And
43:18
Speaker 1: also if it's somebody that you've been with since like
43:21
Speaker 1: high school, yes, she can be in camera action, but
43:25
Speaker 1: when especially when it's remote, nah bro Nona, she gotta
43:31
Speaker 1: be on the peripheral the way the camera catches catches that,
43:34
Speaker 1: and then people might be like, oh, who is that
43:36
Speaker 1: over there? Not the not the whole yes, where they are,
43:41
Speaker 1: like where the couple forever? Especially when you know, especially
43:46
Speaker 1: if you know you've been on nasty time because some
43:48
Speaker 1: of these dudes know that they've been dibbling, dabbling in
43:51
Speaker 1: other spots. You can't have her in there in that.
43:54
Speaker 1: Are you gonna do is blow your own spot up.
43:56
Speaker 1: Don't do it.
43:59
Speaker 2: I do remember a couple of years ago, some girl
44:02
Speaker 2: came out on TikTok and she's like, how come my
44:04
Speaker 2: man is with someone else at the draft?
44:09
Speaker 1: Exactly?
44:10
Speaker 2: That's a rough way to find out. Yeah, And then
44:12
Speaker 2: there was the Will Levis drop.
44:15
Speaker 1: Huh.
44:16
Speaker 2: The Will Levis drop was brutal because you got you're
44:18
Speaker 2: talking about needing to be secure, Will Levis is falling
44:21
Speaker 2: in the draft. His girl dressed like it was Oscar night,
44:24
Speaker 2: Gia Duddy. We shouldn't know these people's names, by the way,
44:28
Speaker 2: And they camera cut to her so many times that
44:32
Speaker 2: the internet was really not a safe place to be
44:34
Speaker 2: during the draft. It wasn't about people stopped tweeting about
44:37
Speaker 2: tipping picks and they were tweeting other things and it
44:40
Speaker 2: got really inappropriate real quick. And I don't know if
44:43
Speaker 2: you want that type of stuff. The Internet is not
44:45
Speaker 2: a good shay.
44:46
Speaker 1: And she don't belong to Will Levice no more. She
44:48
Speaker 1: belongs to an NBA player. I believe it happened to
44:53
Speaker 1: other people. It's nobody's safe. Nobody's safe, So don't.
44:58
Speaker 2: Do and and then what what do we have to deal
45:01
Speaker 2: with every single NFL draft? Who do we see pictures
45:04
Speaker 2: of Russell Wilson's ex wife? Oh, everybody posts it. He
45:08
Speaker 2: gets posted every example. I feel bad for her. I
45:14
Speaker 2: feel bad for her.
45:15
Speaker 1: I wonder if Michael Sam is still with that dude.
45:21
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's true. I would say sit in a room
45:25
Speaker 2: by yourself, because I mean, yeah, you never know what's
45:30
Speaker 2: gonna happen. You saw Maxie Hanachor got drafted by the
45:33
Speaker 2: uh the Steelers after MacKaye Lemon got got taken by
45:38
Speaker 2: the Eagles because they were on the phone with McKay lemon.
45:41
Speaker 2: And then Maxie Hannachre's boy decides to stand in front
45:43
Speaker 2: of him and his pants fell off. And so Maxie
45:47
Speaker 2: hana Trre's boys just mooning the TV, like is his
45:50
Speaker 2: boxers or whatever he's sagging, but he's just mooning the
45:53
Speaker 2: TV for forty five straight seconds. And so now your
45:56
Speaker 2: moment that should have been captured forever is just your
45:59
Speaker 2: homies asked you, and so it's just you gotta think
46:03
Speaker 2: that stuff through who's in the room. What people are
46:05
Speaker 2: gonna say, it's unfortunate that that's the case, but man,
46:08
Speaker 2: the internet will the Internet will pick on every little
46:12
Speaker 2: thing flaw. They'll talk about what your mom's wearing, you
46:14
Speaker 2: bring your sisters to a draft because such.
46:16
Speaker 1: Abody is gonna see the thing that's in the background
46:19
Speaker 1: that nobody else saw. Then they're gonna tweet like, yo, bro,
46:23
Speaker 1: do you see this in the background, And they're like, yeah, bro,
46:27
Speaker 1: this is a this is an only fans QR code
46:30
Speaker 1: in the back for this. This this person like how
46:34
Speaker 1: did you notice that? Okay, so before.
46:39
Speaker 2: We get if they if they weren't cool, if they
46:42
Speaker 2: weren't cool about Aiden Hutchinson's sisters, they're not gonna be
46:45
Speaker 2: cool about anything.
46:46
Speaker 1: No, exactly. All right, So I'm gonna tell a story
46:50
Speaker 1: for anybody who made it to the end of the podcast.
46:53
Speaker 1: I felt like I should. I think I'm gonna do
46:55
Speaker 1: this regularly now, Ralph, but not put it in the chapters,
47:01
Speaker 1: because then to make people make sure they get to
47:04
Speaker 1: the end of the episodes. Okay, so here's a story.
47:08
Speaker 1: I've not told you this story, so you hear how
47:11
Speaker 1: my voice is a little bit rough, right, yes, okay,
47:15
Speaker 1: so how my voice got rough? Obviously, I just came
47:19
Speaker 1: from Oregon spring game and one might surmise, oh, you
47:23
Speaker 1: were screaming and everything else. Right, Absolutely not. So I
47:31
Speaker 1: fly back home. I get back home, flight lands at
47:35
Speaker 1: midnight on Saturday night. Get back home about twelve thirty,
47:42
Speaker 1: and I have really bad allergies. So I'm starting to
47:48
Speaker 1: think that I'm getting a sinus infection. Okay, so I
47:53
Speaker 1: still I remember, I'm like, ooh, I have some antibiotics
47:56
Speaker 1: upstairs in my room in the drawer, right, I go upstairs,
48:02
Speaker 1: mind you, I'm delirious, I'm tired, and but I'm like, bro,
48:06
Speaker 1: I can't get a sinus infection because it just like
48:09
Speaker 1: everything started to hurt, you feel sick, everything. So I'm like,
48:12
Speaker 1: let me go take this. And my wife always is like, George,
48:17
Speaker 1: stop just taking stuff. You are not a pharmacist, okay,
48:20
Speaker 1: And now mind you. And the reason why she says
48:23
Speaker 1: this is because a couple of years ago, I had
48:27
Speaker 1: a drug interaction issue where like, now, mind these are
48:31
Speaker 1: two things that were prescribed to me, and then so
48:35
Speaker 1: I took them and they interacted poorly, and she said
48:39
Speaker 1: I was talking strange and all sorts of stuff, right,
48:43
Speaker 1: and my mom and so she calls my mom and
48:46
Speaker 1: my mom is like, looks it up. Because my mom's
48:49
Speaker 1: a nurse, So she looks it up and she's like, no,
48:53
Speaker 1: you're not supposed to take those two things together. It's
48:56
Speaker 1: actually a deadly interaction. So good thing he's so big
49:00
Speaker 1: that he is a like that he's that he's okay. Right.
49:06
Speaker 1: So so that so that night the wife is sleep, Okay,
49:14
Speaker 1: I go take it. I go in the room, don't
49:16
Speaker 1: wake her up, and I go and I take the antibiotics,
49:20
Speaker 1: and then I read what it is. Okay, I am
49:24
Speaker 1: allergic to penicillin, okay, And then I see it's a moxicilan.
49:31
Speaker 1: But I can take like a zithromyacin and apparently a moxicillan, right,
49:39
Speaker 1: So because the doctor prescribes it to me. But I
49:41
Speaker 1: tell everybody that I'm allergic to penicillin because when I
49:44
Speaker 1: was young, I had an anaphylactic reaction to it. Okay,
49:47
Speaker 1: so that means if you don't know what that means,
49:50
Speaker 1: where you stop breathing, your throw closes up all that stuff.
49:53
Speaker 1: So I stay away from it. But I have been
49:56
Speaker 1: able to take other variants of it, because a mox
49:58
Speaker 1: sicilian is like a synthetic version of it and all
50:01
Speaker 1: that stuff. Right, So I take a mox sicilian. It's nighttime.
50:05
Speaker 1: But now I'm like, I'm disoriented because I'm tired and everything,
50:09
Speaker 1: and I'm thinking, I'm like, oh my god, wait, is
50:12
Speaker 1: a mox sicilian penicillin? And I was like, I know
50:16
Speaker 1: it's not, but is it? Like, so I google and
50:19
Speaker 1: it's like, yes, it is. If you're allergic to penicillin,
50:21
Speaker 1: you're probably allergic to a moxicillian too. And I'm like,
50:25
Speaker 1: oh my god, I'm screwed. I'm gonna freaking die. Right,
50:29
Speaker 1: So immediately after I take it, this is within one minute,
50:32
Speaker 1: I'm like, oh my god, I gotta throw this shit up. Okay,
50:36
Speaker 1: So I go downstairs because I know I'm a loud
50:39
Speaker 1: thrower upper right, like yourself, dude, loud, like like I
50:48
Speaker 1: don't know why I'm so loud. Like my wife she
50:52
Speaker 1: throws up like if she got sicka. So she's like like,
50:56
Speaker 1: you would never hear it me. I'm waking people up. Yes,
51:02
Speaker 1: So I'm downstairs and I'm trying to like heave and
51:07
Speaker 1: make myself throw up. Right, It's not working. So now
51:13
Speaker 1: I'm panicking because I'm like, oh shit, when this kicks in,
51:16
Speaker 1: I'm gonna die, okay. And now I'm like, I don't
51:22
Speaker 1: know what to do. So then I'm like, all right, okay,
51:28
Speaker 1: I've seen in movies people stick their fingers down their throat,
51:33
Speaker 1: so I tried to stick my finger down my throat
51:36
Speaker 1: to make myself throw up. I'm heaving super loud, and
51:41
Speaker 1: it's still not working. So then I was like, all right,
51:44
Speaker 1: let me try to drink something to make myself throw up.
51:47
Speaker 1: So I go to the refrigerator and just grab milk,
51:51
Speaker 1: and I'm like, I was like, this will mess my
51:54
Speaker 1: stomach up so bad that it'll make me throw up immediately.
52:02
Speaker 1: So so then i go back to the bathroom and
52:05
Speaker 1: I'm trying to throw up, but I'm using my abb
52:09
Speaker 1: muscles so hard and that then I cramp up right,
52:14
Speaker 1: like my abs cramp up, So now I can't even
52:16
Speaker 1: heave anymore. Now I'm like, oh my god, I'm gonna die.
52:19
Speaker 1: And then I'm debating whether I'm gonna wake Denisia up
52:23
Speaker 1: because it could be a false alarm because the doctor
52:26
Speaker 1: prescribed me a max of cillian, so I'm probably fine, right,
52:31
Speaker 1: but it was a full thing, so I had never
52:33
Speaker 1: taken it. So now I'm like, is there a reason
52:37
Speaker 1: why I didn't take this? So so then so then
52:45
Speaker 1: she eat So then I walk out of the bathroom.
52:47
Speaker 1: Well oh, and then she goes George. She's at the
52:51
Speaker 1: top of the stairs, right. I walk out of the
52:54
Speaker 1: like the entry way bathroom, and I'm like, what's up?
53:00
Speaker 1: And she was like, are you okay? And I was like,
53:03
Speaker 1: and mind you. I think I'm gonna die or well,
53:07
Speaker 1: I'm not sure I'm gonna die. So I'm like pacing
53:09
Speaker 1: around and I've been trying to throw up, stuck my
53:12
Speaker 1: finger down my throat and everything else, and I'm like, babe,
53:14
Speaker 1: I don't, I don't, I don't know. Hold on, let
53:16
Speaker 1: me just get myself together. And she was like, George,
53:22
Speaker 1: what what did you do? What happened? And so it
53:26
Speaker 1: takes me like two minutes to like calm myself down
53:30
Speaker 1: so I could be like, Babe, I just drank a
53:32
Speaker 1: bunch of milk. I was trying to throw up. I
53:34
Speaker 1: took the amoxicilian and she was like, oh my god,
53:41
Speaker 1: let me come sit sit with you to make sure
53:43
Speaker 1: you're not gonna die, Like George, it's one thirty in
53:46
Speaker 1: the morning, and so needless to say, I did not
53:52
Speaker 1: die a my Sicilian's.
53:54
Speaker 2: Fine, Okay, So I have a question for you. Okay,
54:01
Speaker 2: at any point, at any point when you were like
54:05
Speaker 2: panicking knowing that like you might be about to have
54:09
Speaker 2: a severe allergic reaction, severe like and the consequences could
54:15
Speaker 2: be infinitely bad, I.
54:16
Speaker 1: Was like, brouh, I gotta get an epipin. That that's
54:18
Speaker 1: the next next thing. I was like, broh, I gotta
54:20
Speaker 1: get an epipin at home. I have to and I'm
54:24
Speaker 1: allergic to But I almost died on our wedding. But
54:27
Speaker 1: so I wasn't allergic to anything except benicula until I
54:30
Speaker 1: found out I was allergic to octopus. That's who another story.
54:36
Speaker 2: Good to know, good to know, h. But what I
54:40
Speaker 2: need to know is, at any point during that process,
54:44
Speaker 2: when you're like, my life might be on the line,
54:47
Speaker 2: did it cross your mind that you were never going
54:50
Speaker 2: to see Oregon win a national championship?
54:54
Speaker 1: And this podcast is over, goodbye, Ralph, have a good
54:58
Speaker 1: freaking day. Thanks a lot, Thanks a lot, And yes,
55:04
Speaker 1: I'm will live for this for the twenty twenty six season.
55:07
Speaker 1: So yes, I'll see it kind of with with with
55:13
Speaker 1: friends like these, enemies with friends like this, Who needs it? Goodbye?
55:18
Speaker 1: Didn't come up, No, it didn't come up. Ralph. Y'all
55:22
Speaker 1: like share, subscribe, get notifications and send hate mail. Get
55:27
Speaker 1: in a fight with Ralph on Twitter. Please, he'll he'll,
55:29
Speaker 1: he'll love it. He'll he'll, he'll enjoy it.