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Bonus Episode: The Daily Huddle On Ryan Day's Comments On Lou Holtz · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Hey guys, it's tom Before we drop tomorrow's episode of Buckeyes Tomorrow Morning,
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  I wanted to share a little bonus content with you a new podcast called The
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  Daily Huddle. This is going to sound very familiar to subscribers of Buckeyes Tomorrow
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  Morning, but get this. It is a daily morning show college football podcast.
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  Okay, day we stand with me so far from our friends at Saturday
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  Glory, which is affiliated with Buckeye Huddle. It's hosted by Garrett's Seawright.
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  If you watch our postgame coverage after games, Garrett does a great job on
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  that, and he does a great job on this show as well. Let
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  make sure you check out The Daily Huddle wherever you get your podcasts. You
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  can just search Daily Huddle or you can search Buckeye Huddle to find that.
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  It's a daily look at national college football trends, stories, and much much
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  more so here it is The Daily Huddle. I think the average college football
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  fan can sometimes be a hypocrite, and I'm guilty of that as well.
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  And the biggest point that I can make with that is that we offer and
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  accused coaches of never saying anything. All they do is just give coach speak
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  that's just words salad, mumbo jumbro, corporate buzz words that sound like they're
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  saying something that they never do. And yesterday there were three coaches that did
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  not adhere to that script, didn't stick to it, and I think the
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  college football world's better for it. But the blowback has been pretty swift,
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  and I don't I think the Ryan Day I'm not gonna play it because you
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  probably saw it went super viral on Twitter and they were split kind of like
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  sixty forty. I think there were sixty percent of people that were like,
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  this is awesome, this is exactly what Ryan Day has needed, and this
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  is great, and then the forty percent were like, he's arguing without eighty
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  six year old man. Well, okay, yes, and no that eighty
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  six year old man. And I had a great conversation with a very dear
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  friend of mine who disagreedly that Ryan Day basically made an ass out of himself.
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  But I disagree. I think it's one it's good for the sport,
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  it's good for his program. And if somebody like, there's not a more
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  disrespectful thing you can call a football, team, player, coach, program,
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  whatever than soft soft is worse than calling somebody a cheater, because that's
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  questioned in your manhood, that's questioning your integrity, that's basically implying that you
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  are weak, and it just goes against everything that it stands for to play
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  the sport and be a man in that sport. Lou Holtz, and let
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  me make this distinction. Lou Holtz called out Ryan Day professionally. There's been
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  a lot of oh these this is turning personal. It was not personal saying
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  Ryan Day is a bad man or a bad husband or something like that.
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  If personal, lou Holtz criticized Ryan Day professionally, there is a difference between
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  personal and professional. If lou Holtz said Ryan Day's got a crappy beard,
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  yes, that is a personal shot. Lou Holtz saying Ohio State loses because
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  Ryan Day coaches soft teams is professional criticism, and I think it is important
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  to define those two things. But it is undeniable that lou Holtz criticized Ryan
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  Day professionally more so than the players. And I know Ryan Day spent the
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  majority of his postgame interview on the field with NBC and in the postgame press
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  conference saying, you know, people have questioned our players. I don't know
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  that people questioned the players as much as people question you personally professionally, and
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  Ryan Day turned it into a hey, people think you're soft and used it
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  for motivation for his team. I think there were some aspects of lou Holtz's
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  criticism him that were fair and valid. Ohio State has lost to Clemson,
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  They've lost to Georgia, They've lost to Michigan on the sports biggest stages.
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  That is absolutely one percent fact. Ohio State lost to Alabama in the National
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  Championship Game. Ohio State lost Alabama in the National Championship Game because Alabama was
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  a significantly better team than they were. Ohio State lost to Clemson. If
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  you Georgia doesn't leave that game last year in the College Football Playoffs semifinals and
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  think man mm efforts were soft, it just doesn't. That's not true and
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  it's not the case. So Ryan Day defended himself from criticism. Now,
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  the argument is is that lou Holtz is an eighty six year old man.
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  Hell, he might have Alzheimer's and don't even know what he's saying. Yes,
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  he yes, he does know what he's saying. Now, lou Holtz
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  is an ultimate Notre Dame Homer and that's okay, But he called out Ryan
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  Day professionally with critics. Isn't that Ryan Day didn't feel was valid? So
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  why on one hand is it okay for lou Holtz to say whatever he'd like,
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  but then it's not okay for Ryan Day to respond. That doesn't make
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  any sense. The college football world is better today because Ryan Day had that
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  reaction because he didn't just meet with NBC after a thrilling seventeen fourteen victory and
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  goo, yeah, you know, we're really proud of our program. Guys
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  really fought through some adversity there in the fourth quarter and we came out with
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  a win. All a respect to Notre Dame. It's a it's a well
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  coached football team. It's a hell of a lot more interesting when he says,
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  I want to know where Lou Holtz is right now, because that's a
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  normal person response. That is a normal thing for somebody who feels that they've
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  been disrespected. That is the normal attitude to have. That's real life,
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  and real life is a hell of a lot more interesting than the idea of
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  like he's got to be a CEO, even keel at all times he can
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  ever show any emotion whatsoever. No, to hell with that, to hell
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  with it. That game is more interesting and college football is more interesting today
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  because of the reaction that Ryan Day had and for you'd have any other reaction
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  than this is bleeping awesome, is ridiculous and hypocritical. But he's not the
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  only one the idea that Dan Lanning at Oregon he made it personal with Dion,
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  No, he didn't. All he did was motivate his team. And
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  I hate to break it to anybody who took it took offense to that that
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  that. First of all, that's not the first time that somebody's talking about
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  that talk that way about Colorado this college football season. I guarantee you that's
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  just the first time you've seen it. And kudos to Dan Lanning for not
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  being afraid to let the cameras in the locker room to showcase the Hey,
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  I'm gonna run this guy down because they want to play with pomp and circumstance
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  and flash, and the game's not gonna be played on Hollywood. It's gonna
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  be played on his grass. And you know what, they backed it up.
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  Nobody cares about how much trash talk and how arrogant, how much hubris
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  you have if you can back it up in Oregon backed it up pretty strongly.
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  And the idea that somehow like could Deon Sanders take that as disrespectful,
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  Sure, certainly, but it's not personal. Deon Sanders has said things about
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  other programs, other players, other coaches to fire his guys up, and
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  it was okay. And going back to Deon Sanders, Ryan Day is now
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  guilty of doing the same thing that Deon Sanders has been hyped up for.
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  For the last month. All Deon Sanders has done is called members of the
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  media talked about how anything that any slight anybody has used against them, Well,
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  that's disrespectful. They made it personal. Now, no they didn't,
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  but he used that for motivation for his players. And if Ryan Day wants
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  to tell his players the national perception of you guys is that you're soft and
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  you're not physical one, he's telling the truth. That is the national that
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  is the national perception of Ohio State. And frankly, I don't know that
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  they've got a whole lot to hang their hat on, except for they won
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  in Notre Dame. Lost because Ohio State wasn't overly physical in that game.
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  They didn't run the ground and pound. They were one Notre Dame play away
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  where they had ten guys on the field, away from the perception being you
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  failed on short yardage and on fourth and one, on the game's most pivotal
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  play, you hand the ball off to a wide receiver and the game winning
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  play is scored when three guys were blocking two because there wasn't a defensive lineman
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  where he was supposed to be, and the running back still barely got into
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  the end zone. So I don't know that Ohio State did much to dispel
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  the notion that they're not physical and that they're soft, other than win the
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  football game. Now that's the most important thing, is to go on the
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  road against a really tough opponent and win, and that matters. But it
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  wasn't some feat of physicality that won them the game. If anything, it
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  was Notre Dame's ineptitude down the stretch that won them the game. Now there
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  are positives for Ohio State. On a final drive, Kyle McCord, there
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  was talk of he's gonna get a lot of confidence from this. I think
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  he showed he's got a lot of confidence. But Ryan Day in Ohio State
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  didn't dispel this notion that they're not physical enough. That was a dress rehearsal
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  for a game against Michigan in two months. But I'm guessing when they go
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  back and watch the film doesn't instill them with a ton of faith that they're
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  going to handle another really great offensive line and better it just as good,
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  maybe better running backstable from Michigan. This is the daily huddle on Saturday,
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  Gloria, I'm Garrett se Right. Takes for making us a part of your
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  day, however it is wherever it is you're doing, so, certainly appreciate
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  the video thumbs up. Goes a long way in helping out the channel.
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  Also, if you are listening on the podcast, drop a five star if
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  you will read them here on the show. But Ryan Day wasn't the only
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  coach that got honked off. The story of this Saturday was honked off coaches
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  was angry, angry guys. Ryan Day up that fiery and passionate Dan Landing
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  an organ, fiery and passionate. Jake Diggert at Washington State fiery and passionate,
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  and he has as big of a point as anybody where, and I
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  know that the idea that you're arguing with these old guys, it's open season
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  on geriatrics. Lou Holts. His opinion, Lou Holtz is a legend in
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  the sport. His opinion on what a coach is or isn't doing still holds
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  weight and will until the day he dies. Whether he realizes that or not,
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  I don't know, but it does. You can pretend that it doesn't,
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  but it does. And so for Ryan Day to respond, I don't
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  think his outrageous are unwarranted. He felt personally disrespected. Now I think he's
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  professionally disrespected, But disrespect is disrespect. If somebody disrespects you, how how
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  likely are you to go? Ah, you know what, that's just their
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  opinion and they're entitled to it. Not likely, Not likely at all.
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  So stop pretending as if it's some horrible thing that Ryan Day did. That.
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  Dan Lanning and Frankly, Oregon has built their brand and gotten their publicity
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  notoriety from being the flashy school, and Colorado took that away. So you
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  gotta take it back, but you also got to take it back on the
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  football field, and they did that. Washington State might have the biggest scripe
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  of the day where League Corso God loved the man called the game between Washington
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  State and Oregon State though nobody's watching bull And I don't think it was as
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  much because it's Oregon State in Washington State as much as it's that game's gonna
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  happen while Ohio State's play in Michigan, or State's playing Notre Dame. I've
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  your pardon. Yeah, there's gonna be a lot of eyeballs on a high
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  state Notre Dame and not Oregon State Washington. It still was a really fun
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  game. It was an exciting, back and forth, awesome pack twelve game
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  that somebody had to win and somebody had to lose, and Washington State got
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  a big win. It's a big deal. It just so happened that it
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  took place during the second or third biggest game of the college football season so
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  far this year. And that's not that's not their fault. It's just are
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  the eyeballs gonna be on number fourteen versus number twenty one? Are they gonna
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  be on number six versus number nine? And number six versus number nine are
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  two of the storied programs in college football history and number fourteen versus number twenty
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  one is the two schools who got left, the two schools that now run
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  the zombified corpse of the PAC twelve. Is it disrespectful? Yeah, yeah,
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  it is. It is. It's undeniably disrespectful, but it's also the
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  truth. The television figures of Oregon State Washington State will pale in comparison to
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  Ohio State, Notre Dame. It's just the truth. But j Diggert had
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  reason to be angry, had reason to be field disrespected because Washington State has
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  spent the majority of the last three months being disrespected. They saw their in
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  conference disintegrate in front of their eyes, and they in Oregon State are the
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  ones left holding the bag. So they're already going to have a chip on
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  their shoulder. And then somebody that works for the network that frankly killed their
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  conference, worked in conjunction with Fox Sports to kill their conference. Somebody on
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  that network then says, well, nobody's gonna watch it anyway. You're right,
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  you should feel disrespected. And similarly to Lou Holtz, Lee Corso is
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  a little old man on TV just saying what he believes. But like Lou
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  Holtz Lee Corso's opinion matters. It holds weight because there is not a coach
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  in America who doesn't want to be respected by Lou Holtz and Lee Corso.
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  That's just the reality of the situation. Whether you believe or trust or put
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  a lot of stock in anything those guys say. Lou Holtz is a legend
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  in the college football coaching profession, and Lee Corso is a legend in the
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  college football media world. You want to have the respect of those guys,
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  and when they say things that come across as disrespectful, the idea that these
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  coaches are as any intern supposed to go like, oh, you know,
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  that's just your opinion, and that's fine. You're in tied to that.
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  Real people don't react that way. And so to see Jake Dickert and Dan
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  Lanning and Ryan Day react like real people is refreshing and should be encouraged because
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  you can't believe that these college football coaches are boring. Nobody ever shaves anything.
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  All they ever do is give their coach speaking. It's stupid and I
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  hate it. And then the second somebody goes off script, you think,
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  well, that's kind of tacky, that's classless. It can't be both.
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  It cannot be both. I'm somebody who believes that in a lot of situations,
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  in most situations, that sometimes it can be both. In this situation,
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  it cannot. It cannot be that these guys are boring and shallow and
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  all they're doing is talking to the media because they have to. And then
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  the second somebody tells you how they really feel or lets you in to see
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  how things really go in the locker room before a real big game, your
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  immediate reaction then can't be, well, that's personal, that's disrespectful, you're
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  a class lists. It can't be both. So I encourage you to get
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  on the side of this is awesome, and you know why. Because it's
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  awesome. College football is better for it. Do I think we'll ever see
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  Ryan they do that again. Probably not unless Jim Harball keeps talking about him
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  and they put a hopen on Michigan. I don't think you'll see that from
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  him. You might see that some more from Dan Lanning. You might see
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  that some more from Jake Dickard. I hope you see it some more from
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  everybody. I like seeing Nick Saban open up a little bit. I like
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  Lane Kiffin saying that it looks like Alabama's got a new defensive coordinator and they're
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  not telling you or planting the seed that you know. He really appreciates competing
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  against Nick Saban because that might have been the last time. The sport is
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  better for it, and I hope that you can come around to join me
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  on this side of the fence. That'll do it for today's edition of The
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  Daily Huddle. Got another big Saturday at college football coming up. Looking forward
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  to chatting all week with you about it here on Saturday Glory and The Daily
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