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Notre Dame Has To Answer to College Football Fans, Brendan Sorsby Too · Unafraid Show with George Wrighster

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. Notre Dame is reporting to College
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Speaker 1: Football Court to answer for all the allegations from college
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Speaker 1: football fans the ducking playoff games in USC Who is
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Speaker 1: to flame Notre Dame police Rise Brending Sowersby's agents says
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Speaker 1: Cincinnati knew about his gambling issues for two years. If true,
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Speaker 1: Cincinnati got some explaining to do. Uff Head coach Brian
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Speaker 1: Hartline just landed a four star quarterback, and I want
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Speaker 1: to talk about why more quarterbacks need to stop chasing
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Speaker 1: the power for offers and start chasing the best path.
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Speaker 1: CBS says, the schools are basically paying for unofficial recruiting visits. Duh,
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Speaker 1: and my take is simple, stop pretending and let schools
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Speaker 1: pay for flights and hotels. Oklahoma GM Jim Naggy just
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Speaker 1: got a monster new deal which proves your kids' best
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Speaker 1: path to getting rich in sports, and it actually might
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Speaker 1: not be playing anymore. Roman Rashata has helped create a
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Speaker 2: It will be used against you. Speaking of things being
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Speaker 2: used against you.
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Speaker 1: And we're gonna get to Notre Dame in just a
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Speaker 1: little bit and them going to college football court. But
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Speaker 1: Brendan Soresby, his agent now says that Cincinnati knew that
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Speaker 1: he had been gambling for two years.
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Speaker 2: Just when you thought that this story.
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Speaker 1: Was finally heading to the NFL Supplemental Draft and out
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Speaker 1: of college football's living room, his agent walked back in
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Speaker 1: with a flamethrower and was like, I'm burning the whole
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Speaker 1: house down. Ron Slavin, who has been in the NFL
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Speaker 1: agent for about twenty years. It represents players including Quinn
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Speaker 1: Ewers Byron Murphy. This dude went a one oh five
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Speaker 1: point three the fan in Dallas and said that Cincinnati
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Speaker 1: knew about Brendan Soresby's gambling issues for over two years.
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Speaker 1: Let me be clear, this is an allegation. Cincinnati denies it,
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Speaker 1: and there's a big difference between the school knew he
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Speaker 1: had a gamble in addiction and the school knew that
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Speaker 1: he was violating n CUBA rules by betting on college football.
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Speaker 1: Those two things are not the same thing. But if
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Speaker 1: Cincinnati knew anything close to what Slaven is saying, then
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Speaker 1: they need to answer for it. How the same amount
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Speaker 1: of energy that you had for Texas Tech and we
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Speaker 1: all had for Texas Tech, Cincinnati should be If that's
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Speaker 1: a ten, this should.
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Speaker 2: Be a one hundred, and Slaven said quote.
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Speaker 1: If anybody should be questioned for catching heat, it should
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Speaker 1: be Cincinnati because according to him, they knew. And that
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Speaker 1: timeline matters because it reframes the whole story because for
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Speaker 1: the last week, most of the heat has been on
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Speaker 1: Soresby Texas Tech. Cody Campbell, the big twelve NCUBA in
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Speaker 1: the Texas court system, but he's slaving, is saying like,
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Speaker 1: hold up, why are we acting like Cincinnati's innocent? And
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Speaker 1: it's a fair question, especially if there is evidence to
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Speaker 1: support it. Now. When this first came out, one of
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Speaker 1: the biggest questions that I had was who told and
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Speaker 1: why right? And then I asked if Cincinnati knew anything?
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Speaker 1: And this is from people inside the know, inside the circle,
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Speaker 1: and they were like, we can't verify, but there are
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Speaker 1: some questions and there are some reasons to believe that
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Speaker 1: that could be possibly true. So if they knew for
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Speaker 1: over two years, you know, why only come public after
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Speaker 1: Texas Tech got pressure from the Big twelve because the
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Speaker 1: legal pathway it got messy, and Soresby had seven days
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Speaker 1: left before the supplemental draft deadline. This is where the
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Speaker 1: timing matters because it doesn't automatically make slavery wrong, but
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Speaker 1: it also does mean that we should ask whether this
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Speaker 1: is accountability or if this is strategy. And I know
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Speaker 1: that some people hate when you ask the question, but
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Speaker 1: I played the game. I've been in the locker rooms,
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Speaker 1: I've dealt with agents, I've watched people leak information and
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Speaker 1: even hit me with information when situations feel like that
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Speaker 1: they started slipping away. So sometimes the truth comes out
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Speaker 1: because people finally want to be honest, and sometimes the
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Speaker 1: truth comes out because somebody wants to move the smoke
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Speaker 1: from one side of the room and blow it over
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Speaker 1: to the other side of the broom. Now. Slaven also
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Speaker 1: said that Texas Tech basically nudged Sores Be toward the
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Speaker 1: supplemental Draft, and his argument was that this was not
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Speaker 1: Sores be quitting on college football, that this was Texas
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Speaker 1: Tech saying, look at the uncertainty. We don't know where
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Speaker 1: this whole thing is going. So that sounds like that
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Speaker 1: Texas Tech was caving under the pressure. And from SoRs perspective,
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Speaker 1: it makes sense like you won in court, now you
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Speaker 1: can play. Then the Big Twelve was like not so fast.
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Speaker 1: Then people started asking about the Big Twelve Championship game
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Speaker 1: sex sanctions on Texas Tech, and Texas Tech is like, whoa, whoa, whoa,
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Speaker 1: We were willing to pay you five million dollars, We
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Speaker 1: willing to take sanctions for you. That's a whole different story.
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Speaker 1: So Brendan Sorosby had to ask himself. But one of
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Speaker 1: the things that people were asking though, is when did
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Speaker 1: slavey his agent? No, So now think about this. He
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Speaker 1: didn't get hired by Brendan Soresby until summer of twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty five. So slaven is saying that this was known
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Speaker 1: by Cincinnati before he even came into the picture. Now,
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Speaker 1: the way things work and the way people hide things,
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Speaker 1: I highly doubt that Slavian knew anything about this until recently,
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Speaker 1: until it probably right before it came out, because if
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Speaker 1: you are Brendan Soresby, why would you tell anybody? You
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Speaker 1: wouldn't You're hoping that this states buried. But then the
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Speaker 1: question is how many NFL teams are interesting? And he
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Speaker 1: said that his agent said the twenty six out of
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Speaker 1: the thirty two NFL teams have reached out to do
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Speaker 1: their due diligence. Now that I one hundred percent believe
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Speaker 1: because the NFL is not emotional about this stuff the
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Speaker 1: way that fans are. Fans will be like I would
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Speaker 1: never take him. NFL teams be like, what round? How
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Speaker 1: much did it cost? Let's get to the details of this.
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Speaker 1: How far away can we get away from this? How
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Speaker 1: cheap can we get him to see if he's a
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Speaker 1: really changed man? Because he can throw a deep out,
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Speaker 1: throw a post and read the defense and we might
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Speaker 1: be able to talk about the rehabilitation in this situation.
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Speaker 1: This story has taken a complete left turn, and it matters. Now,
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Speaker 1: let's talk about something positive. Ryan Hartline, new head coach
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Speaker 1: at us SELF South Florida. He just landed a kid
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Speaker 1: named Kevin Verpale, a quarterback and who was previously committed
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Speaker 1: to Pitt. Now on three and Rivals list him as
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Speaker 1: a four star quarterback. And this matters one because he's
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Speaker 1: a legacy USF kid because his father and his uncle
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Speaker 1: both played there. So I already loved this story. But
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Speaker 1: the reason why I love this even more is because
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Speaker 1: not every single quarterback needs to go to a power
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Speaker 1: for a school, and a lot more big name quarterbacks
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Speaker 1: need to start considering Group of five schools because more
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Speaker 1: and more quarterbacks need to understand that this is not
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Speaker 1: a short term situation. That just because you can get
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Speaker 1: two million dollars to go to Vanderbilt doesn't mean that
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Speaker 1: you shouldn't take seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars to
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Speaker 1: go to South Florida or half a million dollars to
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Speaker 1: go to South Florida. Because this is the new era
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Speaker 1: of thinking because so many parents and so many kids,
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Speaker 1: they want the biggest logo, they want the biggest nio,
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Speaker 1: and everybody wants to, you know, make the edit with
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Speaker 1: all the smoke, with the Lamborghini, the private jet, the
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Speaker 1: glove reveal and the caption that says home.
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Speaker 2: But quarterbacks actually have to ask a.
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Speaker 1: Different question because there's only one of them on the
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Speaker 1: field at the same time. Where can I actually become
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Speaker 1: a quarterback and where can I get to play?
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Speaker 2: Because if your quarterback can.
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Speaker 1: You go to the wrong school. It's not like going
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Speaker 1: to the wrong school as a defensive end. A defensive
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Speaker 1: end can rotate. A wide receiver can get ten snaps.
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Speaker 1: You only got to be one of the top five
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Speaker 1: or six wide receivers to get playing time and then
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Speaker 1: for people to see you. A running back can be
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Speaker 1: part of a committee, a corner. He can play nickel,
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Speaker 1: he can play dime, he can play special teams anything.
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Speaker 1: Quarterback one ball, one starter, and most coaches do not
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Speaker 1: even enjoy playing quarterback roulette unless their job is on
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Speaker 1: the line.
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Speaker 2: So if you are going.
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Speaker 1: To a school as one of the top two or
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Speaker 1: three quarterbacks in that building, you know, like preferably number
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Speaker 1: two with a realistic path to play. Then you better
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Speaker 1: think long and hard before you sign, and then think
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Speaker 1: about the transfer portal, because if you are a big
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Speaker 1: name power for school, does it make more sense to
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Speaker 1: spend two million dollars million and a half dollars on
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Speaker 1: a five star quarterback who you don't know how good
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Speaker 1: he's gonna be. He's just a ba La Hope versus
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Speaker 1: Trinidad Chambliss who came from a Division two or an
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Speaker 1: FCS kid or a kid from a group of five
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Speaker 1: that absolutely balled out and you know for sure he
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Speaker 1: can play. Think about this. Would you rather have Byron Brown,
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Speaker 1: who came from USF last year come be your starting quarterback?
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Speaker 1: Or would you rather a five star kid out of
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Speaker 1: high school who's not gonna be good as a freshman
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Speaker 1: even if he shows promise. You can't win a national
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Speaker 1: championship with him, but you might be able to do
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Speaker 1: it with that older kid. So that is something to
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Speaker 1: think about. Because the worst thing a young quarterback can
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Speaker 1: do is sit still. And I'm not saying that sitting
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Speaker 1: is always bad. Sometimes sitting behind the right guy in
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Speaker 1: the right room, right offensive coordinator can actually make you
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Speaker 1: significantly better. But sitting behind three other former blue chip
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Speaker 1: kids in an offense that changes coordinators every year, while
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Speaker 1: the fan bases out here screaming for the next savior.
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Speaker 1: That's not development, it's not Look at some of the
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Speaker 1: quarterbacks have been treated. You know who've created value by playing.
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Speaker 1: Look at Diego Pavia. He bailed out in New Mexico State,
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Speaker 1: then turned himself into a story at Vanderbilt. Byron Brown,
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Speaker 1: who I mentioned, became a name at USL. Drew Mestemaker
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Speaker 1: made himself valuable at North Texas before moving to Oklahoma State.
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Speaker 1: Trinidad Chamblers built it at D two. These kids weren't
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Speaker 1: crowned coming out of high school. They became valuable because
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Speaker 1: they played football, and you know the things that quarterbacks
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Speaker 1: are supposed to do exactly that. And this is where
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Speaker 1: the five star conversation gets uncomfortable. You want a five
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Speaker 1: star who sits or a four star who plays. Do
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Speaker 1: you want the guy getting a big check to run
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Speaker 1: scout team or the guy putting throws up on tape
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Speaker 1: every single Saturday? Because at some point NFL scouts are
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Speaker 1: not drafting your commitment graphic, They're drafting your answers. What
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Speaker 1: do you do on third down. Can you handle pressure,
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Speaker 1: can you play from behind? Can you process the middle
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Speaker 1: of the field. Are you a good leader? Are you
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Speaker 1: on timing on target? And you can't prove that care
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Speaker 1: and the clipboard. Look at ty Thompson, look at Malachi Nelson.
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Speaker 1: All of these guys who had real talent and the
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Speaker 1: bodies look good ended up in quarterback rooms where the
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Speaker 1: path got complicated. And then once the path gets complicated,
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Speaker 1: now you're transferring into a new competition, learning a new
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Speaker 1: offense under a new staff with a new fan base
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Speaker 1: who didn't recruit you at first, while everybody is sitting
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Speaker 1: there wondering why it didn't work in the first place.
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Speaker 1: That's a lot So for Kevin verpel usf makes sense.
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Speaker 1: Legacy connection coach with momentum, a program that where he
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Speaker 1: can matter, and a path where he's not just an
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Speaker 1: expensive helmet in the room.
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Speaker 2: This could be the way for a lot of them.
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Speaker 1: And quarterback I'm asking which school looks best on signing day?
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Speaker 1: Which school gives me the best chance to, you know,
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Speaker 1: still matter three years from now. That's the question that
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Speaker 1: you need to be asking next day. Schools are clearly
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Speaker 1: and obviously paying for unofficial visits. So let's stop pretending
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Speaker 1: and let them play. And this, honestly is one of
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Speaker 1: the dumbest fake scandals in college football. Unofficial visits cause
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Speaker 1: CBS Sports Chris Hummer. He wrote about, you know the
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Speaker 1: shadow economy around unofficial recruiting visits, you know, cashing birthday cards,
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Speaker 1: money moving through agents, boosters taking care of it, gift cards,
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Speaker 1: you know, nil deals being used to cover travel that
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Speaker 1: schools technically are not supposed to be paying for. And
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Speaker 1: my take is very simple on this. Let schools pay
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Speaker 1: for unofficial visits full stop flight, hotel, transportation, food, reasonable expenses.
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Speaker 1: Pay for it, report it, and stop pretending like everybody
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Speaker 1: ain't doing it, because if you think about it, the
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Speaker 1: whole goal is to get kids to the right spot.
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Speaker 1: How are you supposed to get on campus that many times?
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Speaker 1: Like kids are kids are going to you know, kids
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Speaker 1: from places are going to Alabama three four five six times,
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Speaker 1: going to Ohio State three four five six times, Oregon,
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Speaker 1: USC Miami, wherever it is. That costs money, hotels cost money.
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Speaker 1: His parents ain't paying for that. Even if you got money,
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Speaker 1: you're not doing that. That's a lot. And this is
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Speaker 1: where college football actually gets ridiculous because the school can
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Speaker 1: spend millions on a locker room with led lights, a barbershop,
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Speaker 1: a slide, nutrition center, nap pods of waterfall, putting greens,
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Speaker 1: a hallway that looks like a nightclub for people with
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Speaker 1: three point eight GBA's, and we're supposed to draw the
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Speaker 1: moral line at paying for a kid's mom to fly
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Speaker 1: to Florida to see the campus more than once to
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Speaker 1: make sure that her kid is comfortable where he's.
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Speaker 2: Gonna go to school. Come on, man, what are we doing.
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Speaker 1: If a school wants a kid to visit, the school
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Speaker 1: should be able to help the kid business.
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Speaker 2: That's not corruption, that's logistics.
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Speaker 1: Now. I understand why, though, why the rule existed. Why
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Speaker 1: the difference between an unofficial visit and an official visit
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Speaker 1: two different things?
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Speaker 2: I get it.
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Speaker 1: The idea was to stop the rich schools from flying
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Speaker 1: in every recruiting America, you know, around the country every weekend,
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Speaker 1: and turning recruiting into a travel arms race. And that
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Speaker 1: made sense in the old world. But we are not
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Speaker 1: in the old world. We're living in twenty twenty six,
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Speaker 1: CBS reported examples of players receiving money through nil style
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Speaker 1: contracts for unofficial business, including a high profile recruit getting
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Speaker 1: ten thousand dollars tied to a tailgate appearance and then
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Speaker 1: he had to make three Instagram posts and then sign
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Speaker 1: some memorabilia.
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Speaker 2: So what are we even doing. We're not preventing payment,
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Speaker 2: We're just making the payment weirder like, instead of saying
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Speaker 2: here's a travel stipend, schools are saying here's ten thousand
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Speaker 2: dollars for one tailgate appearance, three posts and ten autographs.
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Speaker 1: That's not cleaner. That's like costplay compliance. And you know
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Speaker 1: who benefits from.
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Speaker 2: The confusing rules.
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Speaker 1: The people who are already good at breaking them. The
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Speaker 1: schools with the most aggressive collectives, shadow agents and handlers.
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Speaker 1: Those are the people who benefit the most. And the
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Speaker 1: boosters who know how to move the money. The programs
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Speaker 1: that got general managers, capologists, lawyers, and agents they on
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Speaker 1: speed dial. The family that does everything by the book,
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Speaker 1: they get stuck paying for flights. The family that knows
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Speaker 1: the game gets taken care of. That's not fairness, This
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Speaker 1: is an invitation to lie. Better think about this. Tennessee
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Speaker 1: Balls they got hit hard over recruiting violations right and
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Speaker 1: their visit violations. Arizona State got hot hammered with no
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Speaker 1: show what would show cause penalties tied to recruiting issues
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Speaker 1: during the COVID.
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Speaker 2: DAD period and back then, paid.
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Speaker 1: Unofficial visits were treated like, you know, the kind of
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Speaker 1: thing that could bury a staff. Now the NC DOUBLEA
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Speaker 1: is trying to put out you know, fifty fires at once,
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Speaker 1: revenue sharing, the transfer rules, nil enforcement, gambling, eligibility, lawsuits,
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Speaker 1: you got Congress stuff of conference realignment. At some point
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Speaker 1: the end, the NC DOUBLEA is like a substitute teacher
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Speaker 1: is trying to stop a food fight with the principal
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Speaker 1: being sued in the parking lot. And while all of
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Speaker 1: that is happening, everybody they are you got people sneaking
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Speaker 1: recruits on campus however they can. So the answer is,
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Speaker 1: let's make it legal, put a cap on it, make
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Speaker 1: schools disclose it. One flight, one hotel for the recruit
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Speaker 1: and their guardians, reasonable meals, no cruises, no birthday cards,
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Speaker 1: stuff with cash, no booster showing up like Santa Claus
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Speaker 1: with a venmo. Just pay for the visit. Because the
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Speaker 1: current system does not stop cheating, it rewards people who
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Speaker 1: can cheat creatively. And if college football is going to
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Speaker 1: have rules, they should have rules. People can actually follow
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Speaker 1: those rules without needing a lawyer and agent at a
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Speaker 1: burner phone.
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Speaker 2: Next thing, then.
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Speaker 1: People who help set them up. Those are the people
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Speaker 1: who get big paychecks. We got to talk about mister
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Speaker 1: Jim Naggy, who's been a guest on this program before.
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Speaker 1: He's Oklahoma's general manager, who used to be in charge
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Speaker 1: of the Reces Bowl Senior Bowl. Oklahoma just signed him
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Speaker 1: to a new multi year contract worth four point six
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Speaker 1: million dollars. He's set to make one million dollars in
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty six, with one hundred thousand dollars annual raises
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Speaker 1: after that. And this should make every single sports parents
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Speaker 1: sit up straight, people, because becoming an elite athlete, it
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Speaker 1: might not be your child's best shot at financial security
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Speaker 1: in sports anymore. It might be working in the machine.
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Speaker 1: Because for generations, parents looked at sports like this, Can
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Speaker 1: I get play? Can I kid get a scholarship? Can
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Speaker 1: I kid go pro? Can I ki'd make life changing money?
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Speaker 1: And yes, that path still exists, but it's narrow and
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Speaker 1: it's brutal, and it can disappear with a knee injury,
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Speaker 1: a bad coach, a bad depth chart, one missed evaluation,
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Speaker 1: one transfer mistake at ankle spring at the wrong time.
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Speaker 1: Like look at the other side of sports though, parents
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Speaker 1: and people. You can stay in sports that you love,
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Speaker 1: but there are so many other jobs that are actual careers.
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Speaker 1: Because playing sports is a job. It is a temporary thing.
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Speaker 1: Your NFL career average career three point four years. That's it.
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Speaker 1: But you know how long you can be a general manager.
19:56
Speaker 1: You can run a scouting department, be a personnel director
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Speaker 1: and cap manager, strength coaches, coach and analysts, recruiting director,
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Speaker 1: creative directors, nils, strategists, roster manager.
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Speaker 2: You can be.
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Speaker 1: You can go into TV, into media, you can do
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Speaker 1: the music for the for sports like you got people
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Speaker 1: making seven figures who never have to run a forty,
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Speaker 1: never have to get surgery after they get hurt, never
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Speaker 1: have to take a charge, never have to wonder if
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Speaker 1: their hamstring is gonna cost them a future. Think about this.
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Speaker 1: Between twenty eighteen and twenty twenty three, the number of
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Speaker 1: college football assistant coaches making seven figures jumped from twenty
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Speaker 1: one to sixty six. And that's just the coaches. Defensive
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Speaker 1: coordinators are making two three and a half million dollars.
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Speaker 1: You got strength coaches making real money. Athletic directors making
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Speaker 1: CEO money. Now college football gms are getting paid like
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Speaker 1: coordinators used to. That's a change how we talk to
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Speaker 1: our kids. Because not every kid is going to the NFL.
21:03
Speaker 1: But a kid who loves football, who understands people, studies film,
21:07
Speaker 1: communicates well, and learns the business of roster building.
21:11
Speaker 2: Oh, that kid might be you know.
21:13
Speaker 1: In sports for forty years. And I'm not telling kids
21:16
Speaker 1: not to chase the dream. Chase it, compete, train, go,
21:21
Speaker 1: get everything that you possibly can. But parents stop acting
21:25
Speaker 1: like the only valuable sports dream is wearing the jersey.
21:29
Speaker 1: Sometimes the real money is in deciding who gets the jersey.
21:33
Speaker 1: Jim Naggi went from Senior Bowl director to Oklahoma and
21:37
Speaker 1: now has a contract that most former players would love
21:40
Speaker 1: to have. Bro I would love to have a GM
21:44
Speaker 1: job million dollars a year. Yeah, we can do that.
21:47
Speaker 1: Why because personnel is the new battlefield. Roster construction is
21:51
Speaker 1: everything to transfer portal, turn college football into free agency,
21:56
Speaker 1: revenue shareing, turn roster management into budget management, high school recruiting,
22:01
Speaker 1: porter recruiting, nil evaluation, roster retention, scouting. That's not a
22:06
Speaker 1: side department anymore. That is at the front and center
22:11
Speaker 1: of the sport and the best part you get longevity.
22:14
Speaker 1: Longevity no coach is yelling at you. In practice, that
22:18
Speaker 1: coach can't decide your financial future. So parents, yes, support
22:22
Speaker 1: your kids athletic dream, but also teach them the sport,
22:25
Speaker 1: teaching the business, teach them the contracts, teach them in
22:28
Speaker 1: the scouting, teach them how to watch film, Teach them
22:30
Speaker 1: how to build relationships. Because the next million dollar opportunity
22:34
Speaker 1: in football might not require your kid to be six
22:37
Speaker 1: or five and run four five. It might be for
22:39
Speaker 1: them to understand why the kid who runs a four
22:41
Speaker 1: or five is not worth the money. Say speaking of
22:44
Speaker 1: being worth the money, though, I don't like this because
22:47
Speaker 1: there's a new way of making money in sports without
22:51
Speaker 1: being on the field. Let's talk about Roman Reshot. Roman
22:55
Speaker 1: Rashata brother of Jayden Reshot, and he has reportedly eight
23:00
Speaker 1: seven figures acting as a referred connecting athletes to companies
23:05
Speaker 1: that buy house settlement claims. His name is mentioned, but
23:08
Speaker 1: let's not forget that he's not the bad guy.
23:12
Speaker 2: In the situation.
23:13
Speaker 1: Even though the people are gonna point to him as
23:15
Speaker 1: the bad guy, he's not. Sportcode reported that he became
23:18
Speaker 1: the top earning from athlete creditor, who is a company
23:23
Speaker 1: that is buying claims from the athletes who are set
23:26
Speaker 1: to receive settlement payments from the house versus the NC
23:30
Speaker 1: double A. And when I first saw this, I had
23:32
Speaker 1: two reactions. One that sounds sketch. Two this is exactly
23:37
Speaker 1: the kind of business opportunities that appears when a new
23:41
Speaker 1: money system gets created and nobody fully understands it yet.
23:44
Speaker 2: So here's the basic idea.
23:46
Speaker 1: Some former athletes who are owed money through the house settlement,
23:49
Speaker 1: and I'm talking about big money, Like if you were
23:53
Speaker 1: a kid that was at you know, Southern Myss, you
23:55
Speaker 1: might be doing a few thousand dollars, but if you
23:58
Speaker 1: were Marcus Mariota you might be doing millions. But some
24:01
Speaker 1: of that money is supposed to be paid over time,
24:03
Speaker 1: and people do not want to wait for money all
24:06
Speaker 1: the time, and future money is not worth as much
24:10
Speaker 1: as you know money right now. So so companies like
24:15
Speaker 1: this athlete creditor they offer them cash in exchange for
24:20
Speaker 1: the right to collect their future payments.
24:23
Speaker 2: And no, this is not new.
24:25
Speaker 1: This is basically JG Wentworth for college athletes like Jay
24:31
Speaker 1: G Wentworth eight seven to seven cash Now like it's
24:35
Speaker 1: my settlement and I want it now. That that one now,
24:39
Speaker 1: Roman Rashada reportedly sold his own claim, which was around
24:43
Speaker 1: forty thousand dollars, for a little under twenty thousand up front,
24:47
Speaker 1: and then he started referring to other athletes. This is
24:50
Speaker 1: why I say he's not He's not the bad guy.
24:53
Speaker 1: The bad guy is the fact that these are This
24:56
Speaker 1: is a money making opportunity. But at the same time,
25:00
Speaker 1: people need money now, so are you actually abusing it?
25:03
Speaker 1: Because this is kind of paid a loaners and that
25:05
Speaker 1: referral business turned into real money. And this is where
25:08
Speaker 1: I'm torn because on one hand, I respect seeing an
25:12
Speaker 1: opportunity and athletes have been the product forever. Now somebody
25:16
Speaker 1: from an athlete family figured out a way to make
25:18
Speaker 1: money in the financial ecosystem around athletes, that is business.
25:23
Speaker 1: But on the other hand, this is where former athletes
25:26
Speaker 1: get exploited because when you are young and when you
25:29
Speaker 1: need cash, if you're still in your twenties, you didn't
25:32
Speaker 1: go to the league, or you went to the league
25:33
Speaker 1: and had a cup of coffee, you may not fully
25:36
Speaker 1: understand the long term value of your claim because it's
25:39
Speaker 1: easy to take less now and regret it later and
25:43
Speaker 1: before anybody gets judgmental, like, let's be real, a lot
25:47
Speaker 1: of people would take the money now, especially former athletes
25:50
Speaker 1: who were never millionaires, especially guys who have bills, especially
25:54
Speaker 1: guys who are done playing and trying to start a
25:56
Speaker 1: life or a family. It's easy to say, yeah, just
26:00
Speaker 1: take it over to ten years when your rent is
26:03
Speaker 1: do on Friday. So I'm not here to shame anybody,
26:06
Speaker 1: but I am saying that athletes need education before they
26:09
Speaker 1: sell anything. Do not sell your claim because somebody in
26:13
Speaker 1: the group chat said it worked for them. Do not
26:15
Speaker 1: sell your claim because the process looks easy. Do not
26:19
Speaker 1: sell your claim without asking the most important questions.
26:23
Speaker 2: What is the discount rate? What are the fees?
26:25
Speaker 1: What happens if payments are delayed? What rights am I
26:28
Speaker 1: giving up? Who is advising me? Because quick money can
26:32
Speaker 1: actually be expensive money. And here's the larger point about this,
26:36
Speaker 1: the whole bigger point. College sports created a new economy
26:40
Speaker 1: nil deals, revenue sharing, settlement payments, claim you know, claims buyers,
26:47
Speaker 1: you got agents, collectives, roster building, visit payments, referral fees.
26:53
Speaker 1: And every time a new economy gets created, the first
26:56
Speaker 1: people to make real money are the people who understand
26:59
Speaker 1: the pay work, and not always are the people who
27:03
Speaker 1: created the value the people getting the value. And this
27:06
Speaker 1: is why athlete education matters. Financial literacy is not a
27:10
Speaker 1: cute seminar during freshman orientation. It's protection because the money
27:15
Speaker 1: is here now and so are the people who are
27:18
Speaker 1: trying to get a piece of it. And then you
27:19
Speaker 1: got the people who are trying to keep athletes from
27:22
Speaker 1: getting more of a piece of it. And this is
27:24
Speaker 1: a quick hitter here. Because the NFL, NFLPA, Major League Baseball,
27:29
Speaker 1: and the NBA Players Association, they have weighed in in
27:33
Speaker 1: support of the Protect College Sports Acts Now. ESPN reported
27:38
Speaker 1: that the leagues and the union sent statements to Congress
27:41
Speaker 1: supporting the bill while encouraging more negotiations. The AP then
27:46
Speaker 1: reported that the bill cleared a key Senate commerce hurdle
27:50
Speaker 1: that still faces major opposition from the SEC, Big Ten
27:54
Speaker 1: and others.
27:55
Speaker 2: And my take is very simple.
27:57
Speaker 1: Everybody that I named, NBA, NFL, all the PA's mind
28:01
Speaker 1: your damn business, stay in your lane, farm your own land. Now,
28:06
Speaker 1: I understand our pro leagues care because sports are part
28:10
Speaker 1: of their labor pipeline. College football is the NFL's unpaid
28:14
Speaker 1: minor league. And yes, I know that players are getting
28:16
Speaker 1: paid now, but you understand what I mean. College basketball, IFEC,
28:19
Speaker 1: the NBA, Olympic Sports feed international competition, so the stability
28:24
Speaker 1: of college athletics matters. I get it, but I'm always
28:29
Speaker 1: suspicious when professional leagues start talking about what college athletes
28:34
Speaker 1: should accept because the NFL, they're not volunteering to pay
28:38
Speaker 1: for college football. They're not volunteering to not play on Saturdays.
28:41
Speaker 1: Laws have prohibited it. Otherwise they would during the regular
28:46
Speaker 1: college football season. Major League Baseball, they're not cutting checks
28:49
Speaker 1: to the MAC. The NBAPA is not responsible for keeping
28:53
Speaker 1: women's volleyball alive at the mid major level. So when
28:56
Speaker 1: everybody shows up to the influence the bill, I want
29:00
Speaker 1: to know, are you helping the athletes or are you
29:03
Speaker 1: protecting your pipeline. It's the NFLPA, because the easiest position
29:08
Speaker 1: for a player's association should be college athletes need collective
29:12
Speaker 1: bargaining period not we support some provisions, we encourage negotiations.
29:19
Speaker 1: This bill has promised a union should be screaming from
29:22
Speaker 1: the mountaintop that labor needs representation, because that's the whole
29:27
Speaker 1: point of a union. Now, maybe the NFLPA believes the
29:30
Speaker 1: bill is a step towards stability. Maybe they think that
29:34
Speaker 1: some structure is better than the current chaos. But if
29:37
Speaker 1: I make college athlete, I do not want the pro
29:40
Speaker 1: unions speaking around me, especially not if this the way
29:43
Speaker 1: you go do it. I want somebody representing me, because
29:46
Speaker 1: right now, college football has owners without admitting that they're owners,
29:51
Speaker 1: employees without admitting that they're employees, salary budgets without admitting
29:56
Speaker 1: that they are salaries, and labor rules with out a
30:00
Speaker 1: real labor agreement that is not sustainable. So yeah, Congress
30:05
Speaker 1: may get involved, But if the end result is your schools, conferences,
30:08
Speaker 1: and leagues and politicians deciding what athletes can and cannot
30:12
Speaker 1: do without real representation, then we are putting a new
30:15
Speaker 1: code of paint on the same.
30:16
Speaker 2: Old house, and that house is already leaning.
30:20
Speaker 1: But you guys, it is time for Notre Dame to
30:24
Speaker 1: go to college football court. They have to answer for
30:28
Speaker 1: all of their crimes. Let's get to it, like share, subscribe,
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Speaker 1: get notifications and uh yeah, hopping them comments. The Notre
30:38
Speaker 1: Dame fighting Irish are in college football court today. They
30:42
Speaker 1: must answer for their crimes. They have been charged with
30:47
Speaker 1: ten counts of all sorts of things and their defense
30:51
Speaker 1: attorney today the man from Irish Breakdown, mister Brian Driscoll.
30:57
Speaker 2: Brian, welcome to the show.
30:59
Speaker 3: Thank you for having me. I am ready to rock
31:00
Speaker 3: and roll.
31:01
Speaker 2: Hopefully you're not too offended.
31:03
Speaker 3: Yes, you know, I'm a little nervous. You know, you
31:06
Speaker 3: got my dad's hairdoo from the seventies, you got the
31:08
Speaker 3: USC colors on, you know. But I'm ready.
31:11
Speaker 1: I think I'm ready for it. I got it balanced,
31:13
Speaker 1: I have. Yeah, see, I got some Notre Dame colors
31:17
Speaker 1: under us. We were talking about rocket before the show.
31:19
Speaker 3: I think I'm expecting a fair and balanced judicial system today.
31:23
Speaker 2: That's the best that I can do.
31:24
Speaker 1: First charge against Notre Dame is one count of espionage,
31:31
Speaker 1: which is a capital crime, because you're being charged with
31:34
Speaker 1: college football espionage, of having no loyalty to a conference.
31:40
Speaker 1: And how does Notre Dame plead Because espionage it aims
31:46
Speaker 1: to discover the political, military, or industrial secrets of a
31:50
Speaker 1: rival government, organization, or competitor in order to gain a
31:54
Speaker 1: strategic or financial advantage. And that is exactly what Notre
31:59
Speaker 1: Dame is doing by not joining a conference.
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Speaker 3: Your honor, we are not guilty of these charges. In fact,
32:05
Speaker 3: this is nothing but mere projection. Because if you want
32:08
Speaker 3: to talk about loyalty, let's begin loyalty to whom the
32:12
Speaker 3: Big Ten who signs an agreement with the Pac twelve
32:15
Speaker 3: all while stabbing them in the back to take their
32:17
Speaker 3: top four programs. As far as loyalty, like the SEC
32:22
Speaker 3: that says, hey, let's go take Texas and Oklahoma from
32:25
Speaker 3: the Big twelve, where was their loyalty? Then? Where were
32:29
Speaker 3: those programs loyalty?
32:30
Speaker 1: Then?
32:30
Speaker 3: I want to remind you of your honor that in
32:32
Speaker 3: nineteen eighty eight, the last time Notre Dame won a
32:34
Speaker 3: national championship, there were over twenty independent programs. Notre Dame
32:38
Speaker 3: has done nothing but be the same. In nineteen eighty eight,
32:41
Speaker 3: the number one, two, three, and five ranked teams in
32:45
Speaker 3: the country were all independence Notre Dame, Florida State, Miami,
32:49
Speaker 3: and West Virginia. The only one that wasn't was Michigan.
32:52
Speaker 3: I'd like to also remind your honor that there were
32:55
Speaker 3: two occasions where Notre Dame wanted to join the Big Ten. First,
33:00
Speaker 3: own is the Western Conference then known as the Big
33:02
Speaker 3: Ten Conference twice in Notre Dame's history. First, back when
33:06
Speaker 3: newt Rockney was around in Notre Dame. Notre Dame tried
33:09
Speaker 3: to join the Western Conference that became the Big Ten.
33:13
Speaker 3: Michigan State pro Notre Dame, perdue pro Notre Dame. One
33:17
Speaker 3: school said no, we don't like Catholics, we don't like
33:21
Speaker 3: the we don't like this school that is a private school.
33:24
Speaker 3: We don't like this school that we taught how to
33:26
Speaker 3: play football. And then they started doing it better than us.
33:29
Speaker 3: That's why we stopped playing them. When they first started
33:31
Speaker 3: beating us. That would be the University of Michigan and
33:33
Speaker 3: Fielding Yost. Notre Dame wanted to join a conference, but
33:36
Speaker 3: Michigan said no. Notre Dame was then forced to become
33:40
Speaker 3: a national powerhouse because Michigan started telling teams in the
33:43
Speaker 3: region don't play Notre Dame. So we were forced to
33:47
Speaker 3: play a national schedule, hop on a train, go across
33:50
Speaker 3: the country to play USC, drive to or get on
33:52
Speaker 3: the train to New York play Army when they were
33:54
Speaker 3: a powerhouse. Then decades later, Notre Dame tried again to
34:00
Speaker 3: the Big Ten Conference, and once again, because Notre Dame's
34:03
Speaker 3: a Catholic institution, they were blocked. Then Notre Dame says fine,
34:08
Speaker 3: you don't want us, we're going to become a national powerhouse.
34:10
Speaker 3: And then they say, well, now that you're a national
34:13
Speaker 3: powerhouse and you're worth tens of millions of dollars annually
34:16
Speaker 3: on a TV contract, now we want to cry about
34:19
Speaker 3: you being in a conference. I'd also like to remind
34:21
Speaker 3: your Honor that every school in the country has a
34:24
Speaker 3: right to be an independent program. There is no rule
34:27
Speaker 3: that says you have to be independent. They just knew
34:31
Speaker 3: that they can't get their own deals like Notre Dame could.
34:34
Speaker 3: So at the end of the day, Honor, this is
34:36
Speaker 3: projection and this is jealousy. You can't do it, so
34:39
Speaker 3: you're mad at us because we can.
34:47
Speaker 2: I so wanted this.
34:48
Speaker 1: To be guilty, but you have presented an argument that
34:52
Speaker 1: I cannot even refute. Not guilty on the charges tough
34:57
Speaker 1: customer today, count number two one count of indecent exposure
35:04
Speaker 1: because the popularity of Notre Dame in contrast to the
35:08
Speaker 1: fact that nobody under forty actually remembers seeing the last
35:13
Speaker 1: time that they won a national championship, has created in
35:17
Speaker 1: decent exposure charges. How do you respond to the accusation
35:21
Speaker 1: that America is seeing far too much of Notre Dame
35:25
Speaker 1: relative to their success.
35:29
Speaker 3: Not guilty your honor, because Notre Dame is no longer
35:32
Speaker 3: the only team with NBC. Obviously, NBC also has the
35:35
Speaker 3: Big Ten. I'd also like to mind your honor that
35:36
Speaker 3: the University of Oregon has still never won a national
35:39
Speaker 3: championship and they're on TV National Champion National TV every weekend.
35:42
Speaker 3: I just like to remind people of that. I'd like
35:44
Speaker 3: to mind your honor that before Clemson won a national
35:46
Speaker 3: championship in twenty sixteen, their draught was even slightly longer.
35:49
Speaker 3: Their last championship was in nineteen eighty one. So it's
35:53
Speaker 3: not about championships. If you're gonna be on TV, you're
35:55
Speaker 3: gonna be on TV because.
35:56
Speaker 2: You draw eyes.
35:57
Speaker 3: That is the whole point of having a team on television,
35:59
Speaker 3: because people will watch, which means advertising money. It is
36:02
Speaker 3: not a competition of who has the best football teams.
36:05
Speaker 3: It is a competition of who has the best brand power.
36:08
Speaker 3: And if you want to look at Notre Dame's brand power,
36:09
Speaker 3: I'd like to remind your honor that last year Not
36:12
Speaker 3: Dame was number three in all of college football in
36:15
Speaker 3: a in revenue produced, behind only Texas and Ohio. State.
36:19
Speaker 3: So clearly Notre Dame is still one of the great
36:22
Speaker 3: brands of college football, and that is ultimately what should determine,
36:25
Speaker 3: or should say, what does determine who's on national television.
36:29
Speaker 1: Counselor, I would like you to confer with your client
36:33
Speaker 1: before I deem a ruling. I am going to give
36:36
Speaker 1: you the option of taking this down from a felony
36:39
Speaker 1: charge down to a simple misdemeanor infraction ticket of loitering,
36:47
Speaker 1: just hanging around and not doing a lot.
36:50
Speaker 3: Also would like to say, not guilty, your honor, because
36:52
Speaker 3: we are on national television because that deal was offered
36:55
Speaker 3: to us by NBC. They have agreed to sign with
36:58
Speaker 3: us every year. We're not forcing any one to do
37:00
Speaker 3: anything that they're not willing to do. We're not also
37:03
Speaker 3: doing anything illegal. We were offered TV deals. We're allowed
37:07
Speaker 3: to be on TV. We're in the We're also our
37:09
Speaker 3: road games are on TV because the ACC asked us
37:12
Speaker 3: to come join their league as a part time member
37:14
Speaker 3: because it benefits them, which is why every single ninety
37:18
Speaker 3: percent people of Vaqua has the data the athletic director
37:20
Speaker 3: of Not Dame ninety percent of games that not Name
37:23
Speaker 3: plays in ACC stadiums are sold out. If you look
37:26
Speaker 3: at ACC games against each other, that sellout percentage is
37:29
Speaker 3: in the twenties. Notre Dame also last year had more
37:33
Speaker 3: TV views than any team in the ACC, so it
37:36
Speaker 3: benefits the ACC. It also liked to reminds your honor
37:39
Speaker 3: that ACC's best revenue season ever due to TV was
37:42
Speaker 3: the one season that Notre Dame joined the ACC for
37:45
Speaker 3: a season, So I'd just like to remind your honor
37:47
Speaker 3: of that. So therefore, we are simply benefiting the TV markets.
37:51
Speaker 3: We are taking advantage of deals that were offered to us,
37:54
Speaker 3: so we are not guilty of these charges.
37:56
Speaker 1: Okay, so I'm going to lessen the charge just to
38:02
Speaker 1: loitering only because of that COVID season and you guys
38:06
Speaker 1: used and abused the ACC and then left.
38:09
Speaker 3: Them high object after that, I object, your honor. Let
38:13
Speaker 3: me add this last caveat. I'd like to remind you
38:15
Speaker 3: that at that time that Notre Dame joined the ACC,
38:18
Speaker 3: the ACC and the Big Twelve were leaning towards not
38:21
Speaker 3: playing college football that season, something that the Pac Twelve
38:24
Speaker 3: and Big Ten had already decided not to do. Clemson
38:27
Speaker 3: was one of the few ACC schools that was fighting
38:29
Speaker 3: to keep in Notre Dame joining the ACC is the
38:33
Speaker 3: reason the ACC even decided to play football that season.
38:36
Speaker 3: The ACC deciding to play is why the Big twelve
38:39
Speaker 3: decided to play, which is why the Big Ten decided
38:41
Speaker 3: to play, which is why the Pac twelve decided to play,
38:43
Speaker 3: which is why we had a college football season in
38:45
Speaker 3: twenty twenty. So, in that one season the ACC was
38:49
Speaker 3: not using abused, they were able to still make tens
38:51
Speaker 3: of millions of dollars per school because they still played.
38:54
Speaker 3: Had it not been for Notre Dame, they would not
38:56
Speaker 3: have played that season, and therefore those schools would have
38:59
Speaker 3: lost tens of millions of dollars.
39:01
Speaker 1: So, counselor and listening to you through the first two arguments,
39:06
Speaker 1: it kind of sounds like Notre Dame feels like that
39:08
Speaker 1: they are the reason why college football goes around. Guilty
39:12
Speaker 1: on that one, sir, next charge Occupational Safety and Health Administration,
39:19
Speaker 1: charge of operating damaged and dysfunctional equipment.
39:25
Speaker 2: So Notre Dame's.
39:26
Speaker 1: Athletic director he publicly criticized the process and the ACC,
39:31
Speaker 1: saying that the relationship had been damaged after the league
39:35
Speaker 1: advocated for Miami to get into the CFP and then
39:40
Speaker 1: Ruters reported that the ad also said that he accused
39:44
Speaker 1: the acc and said that they had done permanent damage
39:48
Speaker 1: with its Miami campaign. You are being charged with intent
39:52
Speaker 1: to take a damaged program into competition in twenty twenty six,
39:56
Speaker 1: which is a federal crime.
39:58
Speaker 2: How do you plead?
40:00
Speaker 3: Can we negotiate a plea down?
40:04
Speaker 2: Okay?
40:05
Speaker 3: I will, I will, and I'll hear. It's just here.
40:07
Speaker 3: I do believe Notre Dame got screwed in the playoff.
40:10
Speaker 3: I think the way that they were dropped, the fact
40:12
Speaker 3: that the committee said, hey, we went back and watched
40:15
Speaker 3: the Week one game against Miami, while not going back
40:18
Speaker 3: to watch the Week one game between Alabama and Florida State,
40:21
Speaker 3: which I thought was kind of silly. Notre Dame had
40:24
Speaker 3: every right to be upset. I'm also fine with Notre
40:27
Speaker 3: Dame not playing a Bowl game. I would have rather
40:28
Speaker 3: than have played. But you don't say you did permanent damage.
40:32
Speaker 3: And then a few months later you say, oh, but
40:34
Speaker 3: we're good now, just because they said sorry, it's either
40:37
Speaker 3: permanent damage or you're not own it or don't And
40:40
Speaker 3: now they're trying to act like, no, we're friends again.
40:42
Speaker 3: I'll be honest with you. Your honor. That's a bad
40:44
Speaker 3: look by us. I'd like to negotiate a bit of
40:46
Speaker 3: a plea deal on this particularly.
40:48
Speaker 1: Okay, I will give you a plea deal on this
40:50
Speaker 1: one if you also concede the fact that on one hand,
40:56
Speaker 1: where you said that you did not use and abuse
40:59
Speaker 1: the ACC, but then the AD wanted to be upset
41:04
Speaker 1: for the ACC advocating for an actual ACC member.
41:11
Speaker 3: So the issue that Notre Dame has is not that
41:13
Speaker 3: the ACC advocated for Miami. Notre Dame is said all
41:16
Speaker 3: along that Notre Dame and Miami should be both in
41:19
Speaker 3: the playoffs. Notre Dame stances always that Alabama didn't belong
41:23
Speaker 3: in the playoff. The issue with the ACC was simply
41:26
Speaker 3: that not that you advocated for Miami. It's that you
41:29
Speaker 3: advocated Miami over us because we are an ACC member.
41:33
Speaker 3: We are of a contract, and you're not supposed to
41:35
Speaker 3: publicly condemn and go against teams in your league. Contractually,
41:41
Speaker 3: you're not supposed to do that. We should have been
41:43
Speaker 3: teaming up against a very average Alabama team. That was
41:46
Speaker 3: not name's issue. So it wasn't that the ACC advocated
41:49
Speaker 3: for Miami as much as it was they advocated against
41:52
Speaker 3: Notre Dame. Notre Dame's argument in front of the committee
41:55
Speaker 3: when they were able to represent, was not a we're
41:58
Speaker 3: better than Miami argument. It was we're better than Alabama
42:01
Speaker 3: and Oklahoma. That was the names issue. And I believe
42:05
Speaker 3: that that is fair. That's why I will take the
42:07
Speaker 3: plead to a lesser charge of pouting. Fair charge number four.
42:16
Speaker 1: This one actually carries eight counts, eight counts of matriculating
42:21
Speaker 1: under the influence because historically Notre Dame they have limited
42:25
Speaker 1: themselves to almost exclusively graduate transfers. But in January, the
42:31
Speaker 1: Irish they opened up the floodgates of undergraduate transfer recruiting,
42:35
Speaker 1: taking eight players, including five the five star Alabama recruit
42:39
Speaker 1: Kean Keighley. And Notre Dame is supposed to be a
42:42
Speaker 1: shining example on the heel under touchdown Jesus, But it
42:46
Speaker 1: seems as if the culture has shifted, as Notre Dame's
42:50
Speaker 1: priorities have shifted.
42:52
Speaker 2: How do you plead, plead not guilty, your honor.
42:55
Speaker 3: I think we are making an assumption that undergraduate players
42:58
Speaker 3: who have not graduated yet that are somehow unfit to
43:01
Speaker 3: be student athletes at Notre Dame. Notre Dame is simply
43:04
Speaker 3: going with the rules of college football. Also, like our
43:06
Speaker 3: minder Honor that this is not the first time that
43:08
Speaker 3: no Name has taken undergraduate players. Notre Dame also took
43:10
Speaker 3: an undergraduate in Riley Leonard and an undergraduate in Elijah
43:14
Speaker 3: Hughes the previous season, and those players obviously were not
43:17
Speaker 3: graduate players. Notre Dame is once again abiding by the rules.
43:20
Speaker 3: These are the rules of college football, and Marcus Freeman
43:23
Speaker 3: has said, our head football coaches said, We're going to
43:25
Speaker 3: find young men that fit the culture of what we're
43:27
Speaker 3: trying to build. We've also made a commitment to the
43:30
Speaker 3: admissions department in the faculty heads of that we will
43:32
Speaker 3: find young men that can be successful here in the classroom.
43:36
Speaker 3: We are not taking mercenaries. We're not taking players who
43:38
Speaker 3: are going to be ones and done. We're going to
43:39
Speaker 3: take young men that we believe can fit into our program.
43:42
Speaker 3: That's why we are going to work with them to
43:44
Speaker 3: make sure that they remain on course to graduate, which
43:47
Speaker 3: ultimately should be the number one goal. And we as
43:49
Speaker 3: an institution still have over a ninety percent graduation rate
43:53
Speaker 3: for our football players compared to our brethren down in
43:56
Speaker 3: Athens who have a sub fifty percent graduation rate for
43:59
Speaker 3: their football players. So we are still holding to the
44:01
Speaker 3: integrity of our institution and in fact, we are now
44:05
Speaker 3: opening up more opportunities to student athletes to come get
44:08
Speaker 3: a world class degree. So we are not guilty of
44:10
Speaker 3: these charges.
44:12
Speaker 2: Was was Riley Leonard at one and done? Yes, sir, okay, okay.
44:17
Speaker 1: So there there has been some shift in the.
44:21
Speaker 3: There are some one and done's, but it's not worth seeing.
44:23
Speaker 3: And what I mean by that is we're not getting
44:24
Speaker 3: a kid to come here. Don't worry about going to class.
44:27
Speaker 3: You're only here to play football, you know that type
44:30
Speaker 3: of thing. Riley Leonard was obviously from Duke. He was
44:32
Speaker 3: a very strong student athlete. So and he is the
44:35
Speaker 3: and he is the only undergrad I believe that will
44:39
Speaker 3: be a one and done key on Kieley's gonna has
44:41
Speaker 3: two years of village ability left. DJ McKinney is a graduate.
44:44
Speaker 3: That's why he wasn't here in the spring. The rest
44:45
Speaker 3: of the players are undergraduates for at least two years
44:47
Speaker 3: of villge.
44:49
Speaker 1: Okay, ruling here, I will give you not guilty here
44:54
Speaker 1: because I do believe that you have to adjust to
44:57
Speaker 1: the rules of college football and the signe of the Times,
45:00
Speaker 1: and you can do that without sacrificing your academic integrity,
45:04
Speaker 1: even though Brian Kelly is over there punching walls right now.
45:11
Speaker 1: Count number five and this one has fourteen counts of
45:16
Speaker 1: fraud because only one of the fifteen four star wide
45:22
Speaker 1: receivers that you guys have signed from the twenty sixteen
45:25
Speaker 1: class to the twenty twenty three class have been drafted
45:28
Speaker 1: into the NFL, and that is mister Chase Claypool and
45:34
Speaker 1: drafted Notre Dame wide receivers had a total of four
45:38
Speaker 1: receptions in the NFL in twenty twenty five and they
45:42
Speaker 1: all belong to do you know who?
45:46
Speaker 3: Notre Dame wide receivers? All four catches for Notreame wide
45:49
Speaker 3: receivers and be Ben Scarnic?
45:50
Speaker 1: Correct, Yes, you are one hundred percent right, You know
45:53
Speaker 1: your clients, and you are charged with fourteen counts of
45:57
Speaker 1: fraudulent promises to develop receivers into NFL talent.
46:02
Speaker 2: How do you plead, sir?
46:04
Speaker 3: I like to negotiate a lesser police or a lesser
46:07
Speaker 3: charge if we can, because I'm gonna have a hard
46:09
Speaker 3: time pushing back on that. That is in an area
46:11
Speaker 3: where Notre Dame has not lived up to expect it.
46:13
Speaker 3: This feels like an airtight case here. Yeah, I'll say guilty. Yeah,
46:18
Speaker 3: that's an area where Notre Dame has not lived up
46:19
Speaker 3: to expectations. They have not developed that position the way
46:22
Speaker 3: that they need to. I think that's going in a
46:24
Speaker 3: different directions. We just saw Malachi Fields get drafted in
46:26
Speaker 3: the third round. He was not part of your criteria,
46:29
Speaker 3: was not someone that n't even signed out of high school.
46:31
Speaker 3: But I think that's going to change here. Jordan Faison
46:33
Speaker 3: is going to be a top NFL draft prospect next year,
46:35
Speaker 3: potentially Day two to day three.
46:37
Speaker 1: Guy.
46:37
Speaker 3: Certainly heading in a different direction. But yes, that is
46:39
Speaker 3: something that Not Dame is guilty of.
46:41
Speaker 1: Yes, guilty. However, though we're not gonna give you the
46:45
Speaker 1: maximum sentence because there is clearly a process to.
46:50
Speaker 3: Trying to fix our ways. We're trying to overcome our
46:53
Speaker 3: past sins at wide receiver. Yes, sir, correct, I like that.
46:58
Speaker 1: Count six and you actually might be okay with pleading
47:01
Speaker 1: guilty to this one one count of cyber bullying. Because
47:07
Speaker 1: the historic USC Notre Dame rivalry has been ended slash paused.
47:14
Speaker 1: It went on hiatus after the.
47:16
Speaker 2: Two school the two schools.
47:18
Speaker 1: Could not agree on future scheduling terms, and USC claiming
47:23
Speaker 1: that they wanted to move the game up to the
47:26
Speaker 1: beginning of the season instead of playing in the Big
47:29
Speaker 1: Ten schedule because it's too difficult. And Notre Dame has
47:34
Speaker 1: been relentless online bullying Trojan fans.
47:39
Speaker 3: How do you plead not guilty, your honor, It's not
47:43
Speaker 3: bullying when you speak the truth. USC has continued to
47:46
Speaker 3: state falsehoods. I watched your show and watched your previous
47:49
Speaker 3: trial with the USC person. He continued, the falsehoods that
47:52
Speaker 3: are being spun by usse here are the reality of
47:55
Speaker 3: the situation, your honor, Notre Dame, we went to USC
47:58
Speaker 3: and said, hey, listen, we want to play no matter what.
48:01
Speaker 3: I like to remind your honor also that Lincoln Riley
48:03
Speaker 3: has been talking about getting out of this game for
48:05
Speaker 3: three years. I'd also like to remind your honor that
48:08
Speaker 3: USC tried to get out of the LSU game in
48:10
Speaker 3: twenty twenty four, and it was USC that canceled the
48:13
Speaker 3: ole Miss series in twenty five and twenty six. There
48:16
Speaker 3: is a pattern here with the Trojans that shows they
48:19
Speaker 3: don't want to play those tough games out of conference.
48:21
Speaker 3: We told USC we are willing to move it up
48:24
Speaker 3: to the beginning season and also playing week zero whenever
48:27
Speaker 3: the NCAA will allow us, because we can't choose to
48:29
Speaker 3: play in week zero we have to get granted permission
48:32
Speaker 3: from the ncaation. So everybody says, why does Notre Dame
48:35
Speaker 3: always get exceptions, Well, now you're asking us to get
48:38
Speaker 3: an exception to play by something differently. We said, we
48:42
Speaker 3: will play you early, but here's the reality for the
48:44
Speaker 3: next three seasons. We can't play you then because we
48:47
Speaker 3: are already contractually obligated to play games early. USC said, nope,
48:51
Speaker 3: we got to do this. They eventually agreed, or we
48:54
Speaker 3: continue to say we will do this, we will do this,
48:56
Speaker 3: we will work with you. Then when we had come
48:59
Speaker 3: to an agreement, and USC then moved the goalpost yet
49:03
Speaker 3: again and said, we just learned that Notre Dame has
49:07
Speaker 3: an exemption in next year's playoff.
49:09
Speaker 2: So now we're from the beginning.
49:12
Speaker 3: Thank you, your honor. So I would like to remind
49:14
Speaker 3: you that we were willing to meet them on whatever
49:17
Speaker 3: terms that we legally could. We just asked that they'd
49:20
Speaker 3: be patient until our schedule loosened up. At the very beginning.
49:24
Speaker 3: They're the ones that said no. They're the ones that
49:27
Speaker 3: walked away. They're the ones that said hey no. They're
49:29
Speaker 3: also the ones that have a history of that. I'd
49:32
Speaker 3: also like to remind your honor for those who say
49:34
Speaker 3: Notreame doesn't want to play USC. Notre Dame within five
49:37
Speaker 3: minutes of that being canceled, scheduled a team who's actually
49:40
Speaker 3: been ranked higher than US the last two years in BYUA,
49:44
Speaker 3: team that has actually contended for the playoffs the last
49:46
Speaker 3: two years, something US has not done.
49:48
Speaker 1: So.
49:48
Speaker 3: In fact, by getting rid of USC, the Notre Dame
49:51
Speaker 3: strength of schedule has been toughened, so we're clearly not
49:54
Speaker 3: ducking a team. They're the ones that have a proven
49:57
Speaker 3: tracker could have ducking teams. They did it to Ole Miss,
49:59
Speaker 3: they tried to do with LSU, and now they're doing
50:01
Speaker 3: with US, while then pretending that it was US that
50:05
Speaker 3: back out of a series that they have been talking
50:07
Speaker 3: about for three years they wanted to eventually get out of.
50:12
Speaker 2: Not guilty, not guilty.
50:15
Speaker 1: And I will go even further, Brian, is you brought
50:20
Speaker 1: up the point about Lincoln Riley for three years he's
50:24
Speaker 1: been talking about this and then the SEC scheduling model
50:28
Speaker 1: and all of this stuff.
50:29
Speaker 2: He doesn't want to smoke. It is very clear to
50:33
Speaker 2: the entire jury.
50:34
Speaker 3: Exactly why he took USC job instead of the LSU
50:37
Speaker 3: job when he left Oklahoma. Why did he leave Oklahoma
50:40
Speaker 3: right after they announced they were going to go to
50:42
Speaker 3: the SEC. Why did he not take the LSU job
50:44
Speaker 3: even though they wanted him because he didn't want the
50:46
Speaker 3: smoke of playing in the SEC. Now that they then
50:49
Speaker 3: move from the soft Pac twelve to the to the
50:51
Speaker 3: Big ten, now all of a sudden, he doesn't want
50:53
Speaker 3: to play notre name. He doesn't play Ole Miss, he
50:55
Speaker 3: doesn't want to play. I'd like to.
50:56
Speaker 1: Remind you that the class of that league, from the
50:58
Speaker 1: record soft Pack twelve, that will not be allowed in
51:01
Speaker 1: this court.
51:03
Speaker 2: The words soft and PAC twelve will not be I thought.
51:06
Speaker 3: You said there was gonna be no bias in this conversation.
51:09
Speaker 1: There there is PAC twelve nostalgia still here though.
51:15
Speaker 2: Understandable, sir, But yeah, it's rough.
51:20
Speaker 1: And Kirby Smart has a famous quote, you run from hard,
51:25
Speaker 1: you find more hard. Lincoln tried to run from the
51:28
Speaker 1: SEC hard, and he found Big ten hard. It turned
51:32
Speaker 1: out to be a hard.
51:33
Speaker 3: Any time when the Big ten is actually more top
51:35
Speaker 3: heavy even than the SEC.
51:37
Speaker 2: Yep, hey, you run from hard, you get.
51:40
Speaker 3: What you deserve. Karm is the son of a you
51:42
Speaker 3: know what?
51:43
Speaker 2: Yep. And and then the other part is and then
51:46
Speaker 2: then we'll leave USC alone. Is that.
51:50
Speaker 1: Wasn't there a game on the books for twenty six
51:52
Speaker 1: and twenty seven already.
51:54
Speaker 3: Sir, so twenty six?
51:56
Speaker 2: So why need to cancel that?
51:58
Speaker 3: Right?
52:00
Speaker 2: Because they saw.
52:02
Speaker 1: Oregon, Indiana and Ohio State on the schedule and Penn State.
52:07
Speaker 3: And I would like to remind your honor that Notre
52:11
Speaker 3: Dame replaced that game with BYU, while USC replaced that
52:15
Speaker 3: game with San Jose Jose State. So I think that's
52:19
Speaker 3: evidence of of who was trying to do what with
52:21
Speaker 3: their schedule.
52:24
Speaker 1: Next count count number seven one count. A dereliction Intentional
52:32
Speaker 1: abandonment is also referred to as dereliction, and something voluntarily
52:38
Speaker 1: abandoned by its owner with intention of not retaking it
52:42
Speaker 1: is a dearly And you are being charged with abandoning
52:45
Speaker 1: your responsibility to appear in the twenty twenty five Pop
52:50
Speaker 1: Tarts Bowl following your exclusion to the twelve team playoff.
52:55
Speaker 3: How do you plead not guilty? Your honor. We were
53:00
Speaker 3: part of a process that was unfair to us, a
53:04
Speaker 3: process where we were lied to, a process where a
53:07
Speaker 3: certain network used us for TV ratings for a month,
53:11
Speaker 3: all while dan Patrick noted that behind the scenes, they
53:13
Speaker 3: were going to screw us over the entire time, and
53:16
Speaker 3: then they wanted to use that process to then create
53:18
Speaker 3: a ball game between the two teams that were left out,
53:21
Speaker 3: including a team that they lied to and screwed over,
53:23
Speaker 3: and then now you want to use us to make
53:26
Speaker 3: money off of that bowl game, your honor. The reality
53:29
Speaker 3: is is that we weren't going to stand for that.
53:30
Speaker 3: We were going to allow ourselves to be cheated and
53:32
Speaker 3: then benefit the person that did the cheating. So that's
53:35
Speaker 3: why we opted out of that football game. It was
53:38
Speaker 3: also something that our players voted they did not want
53:40
Speaker 3: to be part of that football game. The twenty twenty
53:42
Speaker 3: six to five football team that you were going to
53:45
Speaker 3: see in that game was not the twenty five football
53:47
Speaker 3: team that played throughout that season. Most of our top
53:49
Speaker 3: players would have set out that game, and therefore we
53:52
Speaker 3: were not going to participate in that particular.
53:54
Speaker 1: Game, Sir, guilty, Guilty as charge. Because no team except
54:04
Speaker 1: for the teams going into the playoffs are our whole
54:07
Speaker 1: when it comes to bowl games and Notre Dame they're
54:11
Speaker 1: actually getting an additional count of pouting for sitting out.
54:14
Speaker 3: Of that game pouting. I will accept the charge of pouting.
54:19
Speaker 3: Will I'm going to appeal the other charge at a
54:21
Speaker 3: later date.
54:22
Speaker 1: Okay, go on, sir, of charge number eight sixty one
54:31
Speaker 1: counts Brian of hate crimes sixty one. A hate crime
54:37
Speaker 1: is a traditional offense where the perpetrators' actions are motivated
54:41
Speaker 1: by bias against a protected characteristics, such as a victim's
54:45
Speaker 1: actual or perceived race. This charge is on behalf of
54:49
Speaker 1: the nation of Ireland and is relevant to Notre Dame
54:53
Speaker 1: sixty one year old official.
54:55
Speaker 2: Fighting Leperkam mascot, how do you.
54:59
Speaker 3: Plead not guilty? Fighting Irish is a term that is
55:04
Speaker 3: used as endearment. It's also a term that is embraced
55:06
Speaker 3: by the people of Ireland. The only people that have
55:08
Speaker 3: a problem with that are soft minded, weak Americans who
55:10
Speaker 3: have no idea what people of Ireland believe about that mascot.
55:13
Speaker 3: That is why when we go play in Ireland, we
55:15
Speaker 3: are embraced at large. Also, I'd like to remind your
55:18
Speaker 3: honor that part of the term fighting Irish came from
55:21
Speaker 3: the fact that it was our students, our all male
55:24
Speaker 3: students that went and fought, literally fought the KKK in
55:27
Speaker 3: the streets of South Bend when they tried to bring
55:29
Speaker 3: their racism into our town. That is also partly why
55:32
Speaker 3: we are known as the fighting Irish. It is a
55:34
Speaker 3: term of endearment, It is a term of respect. It
55:37
Speaker 3: is a term that refers to the blue collar nature
55:39
Speaker 3: of the Irish people. And that is why when we
55:41
Speaker 3: go to Ireland to travel, we are embraced and loved
55:45
Speaker 3: as the fighting Irish because they realize that it is
55:47
Speaker 3: in term of endearment. It is only soft minded Americans
55:50
Speaker 3: that have a problem with that. So therefore we are
55:52
Speaker 3: not guilty of this at all. I'd also like to
55:56
Speaker 3: mind your honor that it was Father Hesburg that was
55:58
Speaker 3: hand in hand with Martin Luther King on campus and
56:01
Speaker 3: throughout different civil rights activations. So to say that this
56:04
Speaker 3: is some sort of hate crime goes in the face
56:07
Speaker 3: of what the University of Notre Dame has been about
56:09
Speaker 3: for one hundred years.
56:10
Speaker 1: Okay, I am tempted, very persuasive to give you a
56:15
Speaker 1: not guilty here, but I am going to delay this
56:20
Speaker 1: verdict only because I need to consult with the Irish contingent.
56:25
Speaker 1: I need to consult with the people of Ireland first.
56:29
Speaker 1: But you are not guilty. That will work out well
56:33
Speaker 1: for us, your Honor.
56:34
Speaker 3: That's why we are so well loved and embraced, and
56:36
Speaker 3: they have sellouts to their stadium and our merch sells
56:39
Speaker 3: so well in the Ireland. And also I like to
56:41
Speaker 3: remind your Honor that the most famous Irish wrestler, Seamus
56:46
Speaker 3: has been at Notre Dame, has introduced our team before games,
56:49
Speaker 3: and he also embraces the term fighting Irish. You have
56:52
Speaker 3: one evidence of a very well known irishman who certainly
56:55
Speaker 3: respects the name fighting Irish.
56:58
Speaker 1: Okay, not guilty, not guilty, that's fair, That's fair. I'm
57:03
Speaker 1: a WWE fan, so you know. Charge number nine, one
57:08
Speaker 1: count of DEI Diversity, equity and inclusion is parent is
57:13
Speaker 1: apparently a crime. Now I am but an administrator of justice,
57:18
Speaker 1: so there's nothing I can do for you here. Notre
57:20
Speaker 1: Dame is charged with promoting a diverse candidate after Brian
57:26
Speaker 1: Kelly left for LSU over more qualified and experienced candidates
57:31
Speaker 1: that would have been available in that hiring cycle. You
57:34
Speaker 1: could have hired Billy Napier, You could have hired Lincoln Riley,
57:38
Speaker 1: you could have hired Clay Helton.
57:40
Speaker 2: How do you plead.
57:43
Speaker 3: Experience doesn't equal talent. Clay Helton is soft. Therefore he
57:47
Speaker 3: could not be the head coach of the Fighting Irish.
57:49
Speaker 3: It would literally give him into spasms and fits and
57:52
Speaker 3: convulsions because someone who is soft cannot possibly lead an
57:56
Speaker 3: institution known as the Fighting Irish. I'd also like the
57:58
Speaker 3: reminder owner that Billy Name had experience coaching at the
58:01
Speaker 3: G five level, not at the Division IE level. He
58:04
Speaker 3: did not have the experience to win on this level.
58:07
Speaker 3: That has been proven true by the fact that he
58:09
Speaker 3: could not win at the University of Florida. I also
58:12
Speaker 3: like to remind your Onor that some of the best
58:13
Speaker 3: coaches that we have seen were not head coaches ever
58:16
Speaker 3: before Kirby Smart went from being a defensive coordinator to
58:19
Speaker 3: the University of Georgia. I also like to remind your
58:21
Speaker 3: honor that Dabo Sweeney also was not even a coordinator
58:24
Speaker 3: before being promoted to the head football coach at Clemson.
58:27
Speaker 3: They have combined for four national champions. Also like to
58:30
Speaker 3: remind your on It that those two coaches also ended
58:33
Speaker 3: thirty plus year drafts of no championships at their institutions.
58:37
Speaker 3: Kirby Smart wasn't alum, but Dabo Sweeney was not. He
58:40
Speaker 3: is an Alabama graduate. Marcus Freeman got that job because
58:44
Speaker 3: of why all coaches should get their jobs, why all
58:46
Speaker 3: people should get their jobs, because he was the most
58:49
Speaker 3: talented person for that job. He was someone who came
58:51
Speaker 3: to Notre Dame converted to Catholicism. I liked to remind
58:54
Speaker 3: your Honor of by that fact. Also, he was someone
58:57
Speaker 3: who showed a willingness to recruit he was, so he
59:00
Speaker 3: was someone who showed a passion for the type of
59:02
Speaker 3: student athletes we get for Notre Dame. He's a Midwesterner,
59:05
Speaker 3: so he obviously appreciates the blue collar values. His father
59:08
Speaker 3: is a military person. He understands the discipline that comes
59:11
Speaker 3: from being at University of Notre Dame. He also showed
59:14
Speaker 3: in his one year at Notre Dame that he genuinely
59:16
Speaker 3: cares about developing young men off the field just as
59:19
Speaker 3: much as on the field. All extreme qualifications. On top
59:23
Speaker 3: of being one of the best young coordinators in college football.
59:26
Speaker 3: I'd also like to say your honor now that we
59:28
Speaker 3: have four years of evidence that Marcus Freeman has showed
59:31
Speaker 3: that we did make the right decision, that we hired
59:34
Speaker 3: him because he was the best for the job, just
59:36
Speaker 3: like Niel Ivy was the best for the job for
59:38
Speaker 3: the women's basketball And so we don't hire based on race.
59:42
Speaker 3: We hire based on talent, skill and potential. We bet
59:46
Speaker 3: on coach Freeman, we bet on coach Ivy. So far,
59:49
Speaker 3: those bets have paid off for both of us, and
59:51
Speaker 3: that is why we are one of the premier coaches
59:53
Speaker 3: teams in the in the country. I also erect reminds
59:55
Speaker 3: your honor that Notre Dame hired a very experienced head
59:58
Speaker 3: coach in twenty ten. He then spent the next twelve
1:00:01
Speaker 3: years making excuses for why we couldn't win instead of
1:00:03
Speaker 3: putting in the work. Marcus Freeman said, no, I'll embrace
1:00:06
Speaker 3: what makes their name unique. I won't make excuses, and
1:00:08
Speaker 3: that's why we're going to win. And he won't and didn't.
1:00:14
Speaker 1: Not guilty, not guilty, not guilty. And you brought up
1:00:19
Speaker 1: a great point, Brian, and I reiterate this all the time,
1:00:22
Speaker 1: is that you have so many schools that are and
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Speaker 1: this is why the SEC keeps hiring. Why they don't
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Speaker 1: have the best coaches in the country right now, or
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Speaker 1: I mean they could have now because they just hire
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Speaker 1: some new ones, is that they keep wanting to hire
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Speaker 1: the big name guy instead of hiring the right guy,
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Speaker 1: because like imagine if Oregon had tried to get Lane
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Speaker 1: Kiffin instead of Dan Lanning, or if they had tried
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Speaker 1: to get Lincoln Riley. Don't hire a big name because
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Speaker 1: like like you said, Dan Lanning, Marcus Freeman, Dabbo Kirby,
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Speaker 1: SMA like all of these other coaches that everybody would
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Speaker 1: give their right arm to have. They were assistant coaches,
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Speaker 1: and that's where you need to look for your talent.
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Speaker 1: Last last one, sir, you are accused. Notre Dame is
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Speaker 1: accused of one count of contributing to the delinquency of
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Speaker 1: a minor Ohio fate Ohio state. They faced this same
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Speaker 1: charge by letting Indiana win a national championship. Indiana shares
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Speaker 1: a state border with Notre Dame. So responsibility of letting
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Speaker 1: this happen, of letting a college football doormat become a
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Speaker 1: nationally relevant team is part on you. How do you
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Speaker 1: plead this is the.
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Speaker 3: Easiest one of all your honor, We are not guilty.
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Speaker 3: I would like to remind your honor that the last
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Speaker 3: time Indiana lost a football game was to us in
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Speaker 3: our stadium. We had them down twenty seven to three
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Speaker 3: before we put called off, before we took our foot
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Speaker 3: off the gas. Final scores twenty seven to seventeen. We
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Speaker 3: would have beaten Indiana again this year, but the College
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Speaker 3: four All Playoff Committee cheated us out of a playoff
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Speaker 3: opportunity instead put a garbage sc team in there that
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Speaker 3: was nothing more than a sacrificial land to the Hoosiers.
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Speaker 3: Had Notre Dame got into the playoff like they should have,
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Speaker 3: then either Miami would have had a chance to maybe
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Speaker 3: play Indiana in the second round, or Notre Dame would
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Speaker 3: have been able to play them in the Rose Bowl.
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Speaker 3: And we matched up very well with them. We were
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Speaker 3: the hottest team in the country coming down to stretch,
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Speaker 3: your honor, so we were prepared to do what we
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Speaker 3: needed to do to knock them out. We were the
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Speaker 3: last team to beat them. I'm sorry that Ohio State
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Speaker 3: could not handle their business. I'm sorry that Alabama could
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Speaker 3: not handle their business. I'm sorry that Oregon who couldn't
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Speaker 3: handle their business. We handled our business against the Hoosiers
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Speaker 3: last time we played, because Kurt Signetti is still over
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Speaker 3: against Marcus Freeman in his tenure and got beat by
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Speaker 3: ten points. So I just would like to point that
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Speaker 3: out to your honor.
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Speaker 1: We did our job. Everybody else didn't do theirs. Not guilty, sir,
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Speaker 1: not guilty. Because the College Football Committee they should not
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Speaker 1: have put Alabama in the playoffs.
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Speaker 2: They had no business there.
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Speaker 1: They had no business there, and everybody knew that at
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Speaker 1: the very end that they were gonna flip flop Miami
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Speaker 1: and note Notre Dame because a head to ahead, So
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Speaker 1: Alabama should have been left out. That would have been
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Speaker 1: the proper thing to do.
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Speaker 3: How do you put a three loss team in that
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Speaker 3: just lost a conference championship game by twenty one points
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Speaker 3: and also, by the way, had a fourteen point loss
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Speaker 3: to an ACC school that was five and seven, and
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Speaker 3: you're gonna put that team in. Why they had a
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Speaker 3: really tough rivalry game against an Auburn team with a
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Speaker 3: losing record, while ignoring the fact that Notre Dame beat
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Speaker 3: a rival by twenty nine, it was because they samed
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Speaker 3: that Georgia.
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Speaker 2: Like seven weeks prior or something.
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Speaker 3: Right, we saw how those two two teams looked when
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Speaker 3: they played late in the season.
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Speaker 1: You are right about that, you guys. He is Brian Driscoll.
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Speaker 1: He defended Notre Dame to the hilt. And and so the.
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Speaker 3: Final third deals are I'm just gonna let you know,
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Speaker 3: I'm gonna be following a couple of appeals. Uh when
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Speaker 3: when this process is overall.
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Speaker 1: Well, y'all got some good lawyer around around there, So overall.
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Speaker 2: Notre Dame.
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Speaker 1: Gotta be honest, not guilty. Overall they're guilty of some
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Speaker 1: of these charges, but overall not not guilty.
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Speaker 2: And but oh but.
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Speaker 1: I will bring it, bring up there is a pending
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Speaker 1: charge about about Notre Dame receiving special treatment essentially being
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Speaker 1: like Messy in the in the World Cup where he
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Speaker 1: should have got a red card or Wimby where he
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Speaker 1: should have gotten another flagrant foul, because they're getting easy
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Speaker 1: access into the college football playoffs by just remaining in
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Speaker 1: the top twelve.
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Speaker 2: Just just just by.
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Speaker 3: And I offer a preliminary rebuttal to that, your honor. Yes,
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Speaker 3: I like to remind you that Notre Dame's pathway is
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Speaker 3: still technically harder than anybody else's. As we see with
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Speaker 3: the new rules that also allows us. All you have
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Speaker 3: to do is win as a Power four team. If
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Speaker 3: you win a Power four division or conference, you get
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Speaker 3: in automatically, which means last year Arizona State and Clemson,
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Speaker 3: who did not rank in the top sixteen or top twelve,
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Speaker 3: would have been in the playoff. This year, Duke, who
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Speaker 3: was not even a top twenty five team, would have
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Speaker 3: made the College Follwall playoffs. No name actually has to
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Speaker 3: rank in the top twelve to make a twelve team playoff.
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Speaker 3: A conference champion does not technically have to be in
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Speaker 3: the top twelve to make the playoff. Also like to
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Speaker 3: remind your honor that there's already a pathway for every
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Speaker 3: Power four team to get in win your league. Notre
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Speaker 3: Dame doesn't have a league. I'd also like to remind
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Speaker 3: your honor that is the committee showed this past year
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Speaker 3: if Notre Dame is close enough to the top twelve,
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Speaker 3: they just drop them out. But Notre Dame is the
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Speaker 3: only team that has to actually rank in the top
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Speaker 3: twelve to make it into the College Fowall Playoff. So
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Speaker 3: I think this charge is going to be proven easily proven.
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Speaker 3: I'd also like theirmind your honor that this special exception
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Speaker 3: is also available to any other team. If Ohio State
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Speaker 3: wants to become an independent and get the same deal,
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Speaker 3: they're more than entitled to do. So we're not playing
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Speaker 3: by any special rules. I'd also like to remind your
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Speaker 3: honor that this is not something we imposed. This is
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Speaker 3: something that every power for conference agreed to. So everybody
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Speaker 3: supports this right by us. So it can't be a
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Speaker 3: special privilege if it's something that everyone has access to
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Speaker 3: and something that everyone agreed that we have a right to.
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Speaker 1: And that was an excellent defense by mister Brian Driscoll
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Speaker 1: of Irish Breakdown. You guys, make sure you guys go
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Speaker 1: over to the channel. Absolute amazing stuff. I watch it
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Speaker 1: all the time.
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Speaker 3: Brian.
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Speaker 1: Appreciate you coming on in defending Notre Dame. I mean
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Speaker 1: this might have been the best defense that we've had
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Speaker 1: so far.
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Speaker 3: Appreciate that. I would also like to say that you
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Speaker 3: did make an accusation about Notre Dame recently that I
1:06:50
Speaker 3: like to address. You said that Notre Dame is the
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Speaker 3: will be the number one fan base that will be
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Speaker 3: the most obnoxious if they win a championship, and I
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Speaker 3: would like to say, I for personally am guilty of that.
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Speaker 3: I will be insufferable on social media responding to all
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Speaker 3: the hate that we have gotten over the years if
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Speaker 3: no name went a championship. So I wanted to object
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Speaker 3: with that, Sir. I wanted to be offended. But if
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Speaker 3: I'm being fair and honest, I think that there's some
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Speaker 3: truth that for me, I can only speak for myself.
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Speaker 1: Oh oh, I think you speak for Irish nation. And
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Speaker 1: just like the Oregon Ducks were on there, if I
1:07:21
Speaker 1: am going to act a plumb fool, I'm just letting
1:07:24
Speaker 1: everybody body know there will be no objectivity, there will
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Speaker 1: be no there will be no chill.
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Speaker 3: So there will be a lot of a lot of
1:07:34
Speaker 3: this from me for a good couple of months. So
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Speaker 3: I'm just gonna let you know that one right now.
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Speaker 3: I appreciate it, Thank you, sir.
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Speaker 1: Ordinarily this is top ten time, but this is hot
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Speaker 1: take corner today. I'm sitting over here and I'm watching
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Speaker 1: the World Cup and it just frustrated me to no
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Speaker 1: end because we ripped turf feel out of NFL stadiums
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Speaker 1: and college football stadiums to put grass fields in. When
1:08:09
Speaker 1: players want to play on grass fields, only to take
1:08:12
Speaker 1: them the grass fields back out and put turf fields
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Speaker 1: back in. Can anybody explain to me Atlanta MetLife Fields,
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Speaker 1: all of these other places taking oh Sofi Stadium, man
1:08:26
Speaker 1: Ella taking turf out to put grass in, only to
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Speaker 1: put turf back in. It is clear that you can
1:08:36
Speaker 1: grow it indoors. You can grow it outdoors. You can
1:08:39
Speaker 1: do what the Raiders do. Think about this. The Raiders
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Speaker 1: have UNLB playing on turf and then when the NFL
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Speaker 1: comes they slide in a whole new grass field. What
1:08:49
Speaker 1: are we doing? The science is the science? Can we
1:08:53
Speaker 1: keep more of our athletes healthy?
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Speaker 2: Now? For high schools and all that?
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Speaker 1: I understand why there's a maintenance issue, cost, this sho
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Speaker 1: all of this stuff. Weather doesn't permit in a lot
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Speaker 1: of places. But if you can play on grass for
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Speaker 1: professional sports, if you can make it work for FIFA,
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Speaker 1: are your NFL players not more valuable? They are acls
1:09:13
Speaker 1: and knees and everything not more valuable. Come on, man,
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Speaker 1: let's get to it. Somebody's gotta say something, and that
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Speaker 1: somebody is me