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Deion Sanders not expecting star players to skip Bowl Game, Kansas State head coach criticizes Big 12 · The Craig Way Show

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  Speaker 1: Craig Way alongside the producer Cameron Parker. Earlier in the program,
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  Speaker 1: we visited with Andrew Monico, play by play voice of
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  Speaker 1: the Texas A and m Maggie's I was in the
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  Speaker 1: two o'clock hour. In the three o'clock hour, Greg Tepper,
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  Speaker 1: managing enter Todave Campbell's Texas Football Magazine, talked to college
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  Speaker 1: football and in high school football. If you missed any
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  Speaker 1: of that, you can go to our podcast page at
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  Speaker 2: You can do that.
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  Speaker 1: Coming up, we'll hear from some long worn basketball players
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  Speaker 1: and also some more from Vic Shaffer, Texas women's head coach.
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  Speaker 2: Again.
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  Speaker 1: They're playing in Southwest Florida, the Gulf Coast Showcase. That's
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  Speaker 1: down in Estero, Florida, which is basically Fort Myers is
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  Speaker 1: where it is. Texas played in and won that event
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  Speaker 1: I think twenty eighteen. I went down there six years ago.
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  Speaker 1: They won that event down there. I'll tell you this,
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  Speaker 1: this is how I know it's twenty eighteen.
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  Speaker 2: Cam.
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  Speaker 1: They had a freshman on that team. Texas did red
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  Speaker 1: shirting because of injury. You know who that freshman was.
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  Speaker 1: Hit me with it, Sedona Prince. That's right from Liberty
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  Speaker 1: Hill broke a leg. She ended up transferring Oregon and
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  Speaker 1: now she's playing at TCU and playing well by the
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  Speaker 1: way she and Haley van Lyth, who has been all
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  Speaker 1: around in terms of her transfer. You know, it was
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  Speaker 1: on that louisvill team.
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  Speaker 3: They have a lot of college basketball now, but it
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  Speaker 3: feels like is their entire starting five transfers.
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  Speaker 2: They've got a lot.
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  Speaker 1: The guy that came in has brought in a lot
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  Speaker 1: of transfers, and their rank seventeenth in the country off
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  Speaker 1: of that. College football notes. I don't know if you
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  Speaker 1: heard it. Mac Brown was fired today by North Carolina.
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  Speaker 1: The university announced he'll not return next season, and that
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  Speaker 1: was one day after he declared his intentions to return.
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  Speaker 2: Does that sound familiar to people?
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  Speaker 3: Sounds like Mac?
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  Speaker 2: Does that sound like twenty thirteen around here?
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  Speaker 1: But it was Bubba Cunningham, the ad who informed back
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  Speaker 1: of the decision. He will coach the team in the
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  Speaker 1: regular season finale against North Carolina State on Saturday, but
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  Speaker 1: a decision has not yet been made about whether he
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  Speaker 1: will coach the Tar Hills in the bowl game. I
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  Speaker 1: remember that's what he did here. He was not discharged
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  Speaker 1: after the bowl game or before the final game of
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  Speaker 1: the regular season against Baylor, which if Texas had won
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  Speaker 1: that game, they would have won the Big Twelve, but
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  Speaker 1: they didn't. And then he had mentioned at the banquet
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  Speaker 1: he was going to be back, and then he wasn't
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  Speaker 1: back as the athletic director Steve.
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  Speaker 2: Patterson let him go.
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  Speaker 1: And then then but he was allowed to coach their
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  Speaker 1: final game, which was that Alamo Bowl lost to Oregon.
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  Speaker 1: So he's going to coach the game against INNCIS State.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't, It's not yet known if he'll coach them
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  Speaker 1: in the bowl game. His quote was, while this was
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  Speaker 1: not the perfect time and way in which I imagine
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  Speaker 1: going out, no time will ever be the perfect time.
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  Speaker 2: I've spent sixteen seasons.
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  Speaker 1: At North Carolina and will always cherish the memories and
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  Speaker 1: relationships Sally and I have built while serving as head coach.
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  Speaker 2: We had a chance to coach.
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  Speaker 1: And men or some great young men, and we'll miss
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  Speaker 1: have any opportunity to do that in the future. Moving forward,
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  Speaker 1: my total focus is on helping these players and coaches
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  Speaker 1: prepare for Saturday's game against NC State and give them
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  Speaker 1: the best chance to win. We want to send these
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  Speaker 1: seniors out right, and I hope our fans will show
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  Speaker 1: up Saturday do the same. If you're wondering about Max
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  Speaker 1: all time record one hundred and thirteen wins, seventy eight
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  Speaker 1: losses and one time one thirteen to seventy eight, one
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  Speaker 1: nine wins short of Nick Saban, by.
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  Speaker 3: The way, so with him being out of college football
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  Speaker 3: at twenty twenty five, and of course there could be
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  Speaker 3: some coaches hired. The only coaches, the only active coaches
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  Speaker 3: with a national championship, are going to be what Kirby's
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  Speaker 3: smart and who else? It'll be Kirby And that's it,
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  Speaker 3: because right, just Kirby the only one? Or was is
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  Speaker 3: there another one?
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  Speaker 2: I'm missing? I'm thinking thinking about this.
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  Speaker 3: Because obviously Saban's retired. Oar Ball is in the NFL.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, gene Chiswick is not a head coach anymore, not
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  Speaker 1: a head coach.
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  Speaker 3: Jimbo obviously not a head coach, right, Mac Brown not
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  Speaker 3: coaching anymore? Yeah after this next season? Yeah, oh Dabbo
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  Speaker 3: so too. Yeah, there's two coaches. Yeah, isn't that crazy
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  Speaker 3: to think about?
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  Speaker 2: I know.
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  Speaker 1: What and what it can do to you? What the
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  Speaker 1: what the what the job certainly can do to you?
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  Speaker 1: A couple of other things. Uh some other college football notes.
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  Speaker 1: I mentioned Dian Sanders being upset about Travis Hunter not
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  Speaker 1: being a Thorip Award finalist.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, I'm just saying it right now in
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  Speaker 3: the record h November twenty six, four or five pm
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  Speaker 3: Central time, Deion Sanders in shore. Sanders will be with
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  Speaker 3: the Oakland I'm sorry, the Las Vegas Raiders.
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  Speaker 2: Ye, that'll happen. That seems to be a growing But
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  Speaker 2: get this. Uh.
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  Speaker 1: He did say that he expects Shadoor Sanders and Travis
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  Speaker 1: Hunter both to play in a bowl game because, uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, it was hitting at the possibility they could
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  Speaker 1: skip this recent trend of setting out a bowl game
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  Speaker 1: to protect against the possibility of injury. He was asked
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  Speaker 1: if Friday's game at home against Oklahoma State could be
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  Speaker 1: the final time they suit up for Colorado because they
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  Speaker 1: only have the slightest of mathematical chances to get into
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  Speaker 1: the Bigtorald Championship game.
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  Speaker 2: Is probably not gonna happen.
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  Speaker 1: He said, no, it's not the last time you're going
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  Speaker 1: to see them in a Buff's uniform. These two and
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  Speaker 1: all the rest of the seniors have done a wonderful
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  Speaker 1: job of getting us to where we are instilling so
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  Speaker 1: much expectation in our fan base and expectation in ourselves.
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  Speaker 1: So we're going to fight and try to go out
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  Speaker 1: there and kick some butt in this thing on the
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  Speaker 1: right note, and we are going to a bowl game
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  Speaker 1: in this thing on the right note, because our fans
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  Speaker 1: deserve the absolute best.
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  Speaker 2: Love that so love him. Yeah, So.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's where he stands. That'll be interesting if Travis
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  Speaker 1: Hunter says, yeah, I don't think so, or if you know,
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  Speaker 1: worst case scenario to get injured in that game. Yes, right,
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  Speaker 1: I think Travis Hunter. You know, I'm seeing a lot
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  Speaker 1: of mock drafts.
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  Speaker 3: Could be the number one overall pick in should or
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  Speaker 3: probably gonna be a first round draft pick. Now. Of course,
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  Speaker 3: if his dad does end up taking a head coaching
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  Speaker 3: spot in the NFL next season, what happens with them?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: I wonder will teams be afraid to draft him? I'll
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  Speaker 3: h Brownie James, you know, because there because it could
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  Speaker 3: be like Eli Manning right where he only where did
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  Speaker 3: he refuse to go to?
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  Speaker 1: He was not going to go to San Diegos, right,
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  Speaker 1: the Chargers and they got Drew Brees, correct, Yep, Yep,
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  Speaker 1: that's how that works.
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  Speaker 2: If that'll happen with should possibly.
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  Speaker 1: If he can stay, was it, Adam Shefter saying, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if he's powerful enough Deon to be able
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  Speaker 1: to steer him to the Raiders because deals would have
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  Speaker 1: to be made, They would have to trade up possibly
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  Speaker 1: in order to make this thing really and truly happen.
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  Speaker 1: There's one other college football thing wanted to get to.
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  Speaker 1: We were talking about this, you know, the playoffs, and
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  Speaker 1: we're going to find out tonight. The updated playoff ranking standings,
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  Speaker 1: the long ORNs are expected to still be number three
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  Speaker 1: in the standings, which would make the number two in
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  Speaker 1: the playoff because one in two in the rankings would
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  Speaker 1: be Oregon in Ohio State. And of course, as we know,
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  Speaker 1: only one of those teams can represent the Big Ten
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  Speaker 1: Conference in terms as the conference champion drawing a first
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  Speaker 1: round by and if one of those two defeats the
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  Speaker 1: other in the Big Ten Championship, they're probably going to
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  Speaker 1: be the one seed. Texas could be the two seed
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  Speaker 1: if it wins out, if it wins Saturday Night College Station,
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  Speaker 1: then wins in Atlanta against Georgia, they could be the
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  Speaker 1: two seed. Other projections have Georgia going in is the
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  Speaker 1: two seed, but you know, be the two seed, but
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  Speaker 1: they'll probably be ranked third again tonight. So the number
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  Speaker 1: of SEC teams projected, depending on which projection you're looking at,
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  Speaker 1: the number of SEC teams projected to make the college
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  Speaker 1: football playoffs right now is down from five to three
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  Speaker 1: because of Ole Miss and Alabama's losses and Texas A
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  Speaker 1: and M's loss and all that sort of thing.
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  Speaker 2: So there's that.
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  Speaker 1: Then there is the projection of what could happen with
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  Speaker 1: the Big Ten, with the Indiana taking a hit and
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  Speaker 1: going down but not completely out of the standings, and
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  Speaker 1: what could happen with SMU and Miami and the ACC
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  Speaker 1: and the very real possibility that the Big Twelve champion
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  Speaker 1: could wind up not getting a buye being rated lower
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  Speaker 1: than Boise State, and that boys, he would draw that well,
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  Speaker 1: that was all on the mine of Kansas State head
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  Speaker 1: coach Chris Kleman at his news conference today when he
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  Speaker 1: feels the fault with the Big Twelve lies in the
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  Speaker 1: practice of playing nine conference games instead of eight conference games.
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  Speaker 4: Other teams can leave lose in other leagues, and it's
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  Speaker 4: that league's really good. We lose in this league in
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  Speaker 4: this league stinks, and I don't understand that as a conference,
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  Speaker 4: we need to get together and figure some things out.
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  Speaker 4: Because for a bunch of teams to be nine and
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  Speaker 4: three and us not get any of those things in
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  Speaker 4: the College Football Playoff, then we've got to cancel one
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  Speaker 4: of these games.
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  Speaker 2: I don't care what people say.
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  Speaker 4: We then go to eight games in league play, or
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  Speaker 4: stay with nine but play an FCS or play a
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  Speaker 4: group of five, and I'd say, wow, that would hurt you.
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  Speaker 4: I don't care you say what you want. Ten and
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  Speaker 4: two looks better than nine and three. And we're going
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  Speaker 4: to visit at this year's conference meetings. And because we
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  Speaker 4: have to do things to benefit our league for the
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  Speaker 4: twelve team playoff, not to just benefit our league in general,
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  Speaker 4: and we need to be able to get two and
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  Speaker 4: three teams in the Big Twelve or in the twelve
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  Speaker 4: team playoff. The carnage that you're seeing is going to
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  Speaker 4: allow for one most likely.
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  Speaker 1: So there it is not happy with it. And saying
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  Speaker 1: that the nine games played in conference plays the problem,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that that's the whole problem. The problem
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  Speaker 1: for the Big Twelve is that too many teams who
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  Speaker 1: are good teams ranked in the CFP rankings, but not
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  Speaker 1: high enough other than BYU as they were a couple
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  Speaker 1: of weeks ago, not ranked high enough to sustain a
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  Speaker 1: loss or two as what we've seen like with Georgia.
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  Speaker 1: So and here's Texas with one loss and probably in
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  Speaker 1: the three slot right now.
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  Speaker 2: But it's those other ones.
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  Speaker 1: And that's his main beef is by playing games, there's
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  Speaker 1: more cannibalizing going.
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  Speaker 3: On, and right now with the SEC, you play eight games,
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  Speaker 3: eight conference games, and there's been a lot of discussion
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  Speaker 3: and discourse. You know, we've heard sarcast about it, We've
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  Speaker 3: heard CDC asked about it, we've heard Greg Sanky asked
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  Speaker 3: about it. Would the SEC consider going to a nine
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  Speaker 3: game schedule? And there's kind of been likeh you know,
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  Speaker 3: we got to see. And I think this is why
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  Speaker 3: the SEC has waited because even next year, Craig in
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  Speaker 3: twenty twenty five, I believe it's still an eight game
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  Speaker 3: conference schedule. It is, and so I think they want
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  Speaker 3: to see, first off, there's a playoff expan possibly to
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  Speaker 3: sixteen sixteen teams and even more, and also what happens
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  Speaker 3: if these schools beat up on each other like we're
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  Speaker 3: seeing last week with Auburn beating A and M and
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  Speaker 3: Alabama losing the Oklahoma and Ole mis loosing, are we
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  Speaker 3: losing more playoff teams because the SCC they won as
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  Speaker 3: many playoff teams as possible in a nine game schedule.
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  Speaker 3: As Chris Cleman talks about hurts.
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  Speaker 2: That yep, it does.
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  Speaker 1: And I think you're right and that they're going to
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  Speaker 1: they're playing a wait and see game with regard to
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  Speaker 1: whether there's a expansion of the playoffs. The expansion will come.
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  Speaker 1: It is inevitable. The genie is out of the bottle.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to happen. And by the way, I'm for it.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's good. I mean, look at look at
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  Speaker 1: the conversation and excitement about the twelve team. It'll be
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  Speaker 1: even more with the sixteen.
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  Speaker 2: It just will. I'm still I still like eight teams.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I would like here? Here My way
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  Speaker 1: of looking at it is different than say how the
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  Speaker 1: SEC or other college football people look at it. Here's
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  Speaker 1: the way I'd like it. There are eleven eleven Division
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  Speaker 1: one fps conferences. Give every one of those conference champions
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  Speaker 1: a birth, not a buye a birth. You can rank them.
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  Speaker 1: Give every one of those eleven Division one FPS conference champion,
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  Speaker 1: the back the Sunbell Conference USA American. Yeah, give Mount West,
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  Speaker 1: give them all those five plus the other ones there
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  Speaker 1: are eleven, Go ahead and give them that those births
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  Speaker 1: and then have five at larges. The next five rank
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  Speaker 1: and you can rank it outever you want. However, you
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  Speaker 1: have your committee do the ranking. But don't give automatic bids.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, don't give buys. You have sixteen team things,
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  Speaker 1: you don't have buys, and then you just rank them
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  Speaker 1: and you go from there, and don't don't let automout
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  Speaker 1: conference champions slot in at the top. You just rank it.
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  Speaker 1: But every conference gets in. And for those who would say,
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  Speaker 1: well what good would that do you, I mean, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you have somebody playing a Sun Belt team that probably
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  Speaker 1: slaughter or whatever as supposed to buy whatever, play a game.
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  Speaker 1: Let the whole the totality of the first round be
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  Speaker 1: on the campus sites of the top eight seeds, and
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  Speaker 1: then after that then you go into your bowl thing
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  Speaker 1: with your remaining eight teams like they're planning to do
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  Speaker 1: this year.
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  Speaker 2: Just my thought.
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  Speaker 1: All right, we're going to talk some basketball coming up
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