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Episode 6.24: Game Week Preview -- Indiana · Return to Glory - Nebraska

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Speaker 1: H Return to Glory Podcasts under Sarvagnicky Austin Rose, Dakota
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Speaker 1: Free Tag five weeks over. Nerves are creeping in for
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Speaker 1: Indiana the ranked Hoosiers on the road. I'm going to
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Speaker 1: the game leaving tomorrow morning, which means we're probably gonna lose.
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Speaker 2: I know we're gonna lose because of that. That's what
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Speaker 2: you said. You kind of said with a spooky voice.
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Speaker 2: He said, you know, return to Glory podcast to a
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Speaker 2: little spooky to it, because you know we're gonna get
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Speaker 2: Walla while you're there.
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Speaker 3: He's sitting there deck right now outside Hunter.
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Speaker 4: A new deck, nice fall weather outside.
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Speaker 2: I would be amazed if that was your actual porch.
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Speaker 2: You can you would not go through that much effort
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Speaker 2: to decorate your porch with that many pumpkins.
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Speaker 4: You don't think I'd buy all these pumpkins behind me.
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Speaker 2: I feel very confident that you would never put that
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Speaker 2: many pumpkins on your porch.
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Speaker 3: How far drive of is it to Bloomington?
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Speaker 4: Ten hour drive?
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Speaker 1: That's not that sounds bad, but no in the city,
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Speaker 1: go through Saint Louis, a part of Illinois, and then
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Speaker 1: you had South at South it is not Yeah, we
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Speaker 1: are Bloomington's a little bit south back was ester geography
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Speaker 1: latitude longitude line by which.
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Speaker 2: What do you say, which one's which you're head?
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Speaker 3: You're heading dead south. That's all I know.
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Speaker 1: So that wasn't even the question I asked.
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Speaker 3: But we're gonna move on. Good good answer.
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Speaker 1: Indiana Week Churs Signetti, cigar boat, whatever you want to
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Speaker 1: call him, head coach of the Hoosiers, have it a
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Speaker 1: little bit of Indiana preview. He came from James Madison.
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Speaker 1: Big time usage of the transfer portal. I want to
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Speaker 1: spend some time in the top here because it got
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Speaker 1: brought up in reals press conference and we talk about it,
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Speaker 1: but we really don't go into detail.
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Speaker 4: I will say on.
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Speaker 1: Just the shift of college football, how it continues to
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Speaker 1: move and change for the better, for the worse, ever
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Speaker 1: you want to view it. But the transfer portal nil
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Speaker 1: a big factor that the conferences shifting around and teams
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Speaker 1: now there's going to be a brand new Pact twelve
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Speaker 1: in the last few weeks. Everything is so much different now.
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Speaker 1: One argument is that it's always been changing every ten years,
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Speaker 1: thirty years, but I think we're just seeing it change
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Speaker 1: so much quicker, and we're living in it, so we're
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Speaker 1: not really seeing the long term impacts of it.
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Speaker 4: While we're living in the change.
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Speaker 1: So I think the biggest thing to emphasize or highlight here,
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Speaker 1: and I think we're seeing it a little bit, is
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be hard to build a dynasty anymore for
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Speaker 1: extended periods of time. You guys, name any dynasties. I mean, Nebraska,
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Speaker 1: we can name that one. I think the recent one
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Speaker 1: you can talk about the dynasty Alabama.
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Speaker 3: Would you count Georgia the three year run? That's a
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Speaker 3: little I think five years says to be a dynasty.
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Speaker 1: See that's the question though now in modern world, I
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Speaker 1: guess Georgia's towards the beginning of this changing college football
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Speaker 1: landscape with the playoff. But I mean, think about back
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Speaker 1: in the day some of these teams that went on runs.
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Speaker 1: I mean, Dak I was hoping you throw out your
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Speaker 1: Oklahoma team.
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Speaker 2: The Minnesota Gophers in the fifth year.
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Speaker 1: Not this year, but Oklahoma had some years where they
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Speaker 1: were running towards the top there for a while.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, but.
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Speaker 3: I wouldn't call them a they didn't. They never won
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Speaker 3: it all. What'd you call the Chiefs right now? Dynasty?
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Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
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Speaker 3: That's a good question, because I think if you call
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Speaker 3: them a dynasty, I think you called Georgia dynasty.
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Speaker 2: Then I don't know if I Koma dynasty. That has
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Speaker 2: been enough player turnover.
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Speaker 4: Okay, Dak, did you just say Oklahoma's never won it all?
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Speaker 3: Two thousand was the last one?
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Speaker 4: No?
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Speaker 3: Two thousand and one?
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Speaker 2: No?
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Speaker 1: They they You have how many national titles? Does it
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Speaker 1: your team? The Oklahoma Sooners have five? You don't know,
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Speaker 1: do you?
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Speaker 3: Nope? But it's five, boy, it is five.
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Speaker 4: No, it's sixteen.
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Speaker 3: Okay, I'm talking about Yes, that's what I'm saying, Dak.
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Speaker 1: We're talking about the change of the college football landscape
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Speaker 1: from the past to the present. We're not just talking
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Speaker 1: about the last ten years. We talked about Nebraska. I
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Speaker 1: was going to say, Oklahoma in the fifties, Okay, they won.
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Speaker 1: You probably don't even know. They probably wont five national
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Speaker 1: titles in the fifties. They also won. They also won
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Speaker 1: four in the seventies. So I'm talking about teams like
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Speaker 1: that that historically have been able to put together long
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Speaker 1: strings of success over a decade. Right, I just don't
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Speaker 1: know that you're gonna see that ever again. Maybe that's
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Speaker 1: That's the point I'm trying to make is that all
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Speaker 1: these moving parts, it's harder to be the dynasty and
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Speaker 1: the culture. And if you do, I mean props to you.
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Speaker 1: You you beat the system. But I think now what
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Speaker 1: you're seeing in any given year, it is more competitive
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Speaker 1: at the top. It's not five teams that There are
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Speaker 1: a lot of competitive teams at the top, and there
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Speaker 1: will be year after year.
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Speaker 2: I agree. I also think it is tough to define
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Speaker 2: what a dynasty is. But yeah, I think the nil
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Speaker 2: it spreads out the talent. I don't remember. Maybe it
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Speaker 2: was rule someone was saying it where basically the maybe
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Speaker 2: it was Nick Saban, we're the best players. Now it's
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Speaker 2: would you rather be like, you know, two lane, They've
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Speaker 2: got all this money to spend. Some boosters are like, yeah,
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Speaker 2: we're not gonna be able to get the number one
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Speaker 2: overall recruit, but the number ten overall recruit, he might
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Speaker 2: take our money and be the number one guy on
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Speaker 2: our team versus being the number three guy in Georgia.
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Speaker 2: Like that's how it's just gonna spread it out where
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Speaker 2: it's just gonna be a wider depth of talent across
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Speaker 2: every team. In theory that coulda be just a mass
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Speaker 2: talent Where Alabama has all the top players, Ohio State
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Speaker 2: has all the top players. They're still going to be
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Speaker 2: heavily favored, but not as much as it was.
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Speaker 3: The Only thing that I think would make it easier
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Speaker 3: for a dynasty is I think it's easier to keep
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Speaker 3: a quarterback in college now true in top players than
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Speaker 3: it used to be, because.
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Speaker 2: After three years, you're not jumping to get paid.
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Speaker 3: Yeah you can go. You can get paid in college now,
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Speaker 3: I think. But he's also getting offers from any every
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Speaker 3: other school too, so he can go everywhere he wants.
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Speaker 3: I don't think. I just think it's too even out
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Speaker 3: now than I on transfer bortal life at the top, Like,
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Speaker 3: no Texas number one right now. They used to have
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Speaker 3: Alabama and Georgia where you just knew going in the
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Speaker 3: year there and one at all. Now it's it's toss
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Speaker 3: up every year. You have no idea.
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Speaker 1: It is like, what does Texans have that is helping them?
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna call it Texas is.
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Speaker 3: Back four year starter.
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Speaker 4: They have money.
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Speaker 1: They have money, and what are these other schools that
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Speaker 1: are around the top half money? What does Nebraska have
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Speaker 1: that hopefully will pay off for us here in the
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Speaker 1: next five or ten years.
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Speaker 3: Money how they got their five star If.
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Speaker 1: You follow the money trail, that's where things are heading
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Speaker 1: in college football, and I'll just say it in society
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Speaker 1: in general.
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Speaker 4: You look at the conferences.
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Speaker 1: Where are the teams going to the conferences that have
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Speaker 1: these big TV deals and where the money's at Again,
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Speaker 1: for the better, for the worse, I don't know. And unfortunately,
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Speaker 1: right now, unfortunately or unfortunately I keep saying it because
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Speaker 1: I don't know if it's good or bad.
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Speaker 4: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: My take on it, college football and college sports is
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Speaker 1: gonna be very individualized, all about me, me, me from me.
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Speaker 1: For the athlete's perspective, and it probably should be because
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Speaker 1: they're finally getting paid. It's gonna be like that for
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Speaker 1: a while, and you're gonna see these crazy nil the deals.
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Speaker 1: You're gonna potentially see contracts agents. These athletes become employees,
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Speaker 1: no more.
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Speaker 2: National letter of intent. Colleges directly pay students.
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Speaker 4: It's it's to get paid that way.
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Speaker 1: And so I guess the point is when you have that,
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Speaker 1: what I think you're seeing is you're right, your Alabama's,
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Speaker 1: your Georgia's, your Clemson's these Ohio states. These teams now
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Speaker 1: a lot of them are still good.
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Speaker 4: I'm not calling them not good.
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Speaker 1: It's so much more balanced because, like you said, the
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Speaker 1: best players are actively seeking out what is the best
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Speaker 1: deal I can make, What is the best team that
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Speaker 1: I can play on and play and make as much money.
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Speaker 1: And that's getting spread out right now amongst your top teams.
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Speaker 1: What will be interesting is will we ever see the
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Speaker 1: turn like we kind of did in the NBA a
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Speaker 1: little bit now with the Golden State Warriors, right where
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Speaker 1: teams kind of start sacrificing a little bit of salary
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Speaker 1: to say, all right, I'm going to go play on
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Speaker 1: a winning team again because I want to win more
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Speaker 1: than I care about myself. That could be something that
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Speaker 1: shifts in five or ten years. I don't know if
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Speaker 1: society will ever go back to that, right I think
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Speaker 1: it's fast. I think it's fast. That's my stick on
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Speaker 1: it right now. As individual sport, not individual sport, but
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Speaker 1: individual mind of I want to get paid.
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Speaker 4: I don't think there's anything wrong with.
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Speaker 2: That right now. It's also interesting because I don't know
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Speaker 2: if you have following the at the high school level
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Speaker 2: in the Omaha area. I don't know, did you read
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Speaker 2: the Bennington football story how basically all their good players
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Speaker 2: are going to West Side because they're able to transfer
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Speaker 2: and get you know, better school And now there's a
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Speaker 2: couple of Class A programs, there's a consolidation of talent
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Speaker 2: within the Class A and the Nebraska state football program
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Speaker 2: that's basically siphoning Class B and lower Class A talent.
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Speaker 2: It's creating a couple of schools that have had to
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Speaker 2: fold their football seasons because they can't maintain their their
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Speaker 2: football players because they just don't have enough students who
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Speaker 2: are playing football for them, because they're going to rival
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Speaker 2: schools because they're getting offered better things. So, I mean,
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Speaker 2: it's not just at the college level.
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Speaker 4: Mm hm.
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Speaker 1: And and that's the start right there of in the
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Speaker 1: high school level probably of how a lot of this
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Speaker 1: transfer type of thing happened at college, right because your
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Speaker 1: accessibility to view other schools, to attend other schools with
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Speaker 1: technology and get there. You know, back in the day
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Speaker 1: with technology and stuff, you didn't you didn't know. I mean,
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Speaker 1: you had no idea if you were in Nebraska, what
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Speaker 1: the heck was going on in in Oregon. I mean,
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Speaker 1: you had no idea. There's no way to find out.
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Speaker 1: You just knew Organ was playing a game every week.
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Speaker 1: Get somebody. But now it's a completely different world. It's starting. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's high school starting to see it. You're able to
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Speaker 1: to move and do different things so much EASi.
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Speaker 2: Kill and have played it four different.
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Speaker 3: Four Yeah, I think.
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Speaker 2: In different they weren't even all in the same state.
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Speaker 2: I mean, yeah, like it's it's pretty wild. What's going on.
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Speaker 2: The only on the right side.
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Speaker 3: The only thing what you said about the super team
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Speaker 3: taking less money, I I can't see that been in
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Speaker 3: college because the way these kids are probably looking it
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Speaker 3: is you got four years to make as much money
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Speaker 3: as you can. Who knows what's gonna happen in the pros.
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Speaker 3: So I think they'll just follow the money and make
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Speaker 3: it the four years. Then they'll go pro and test
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Speaker 3: out from there. I don't think. I don't think they'll
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Speaker 3: sacrifice any money, but you never know. I don't.
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Speaker 2: I mean even at the pro level that doesn't happen.
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Speaker 3: No, it's probably now it is.
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Speaker 4: It is very spread out now.
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Speaker 1: Dak wants to say the Celtics can start their own
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Speaker 1: dynasty year.
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Speaker 2: But everyone that's why the owner is trying to sell
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Speaker 2: the freaking Celtics, like, all right, we're gonna be in
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Speaker 2: the luxury text for the next ten years.
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Speaker 3: Yep, you gotta you gotta cut our best pickup of
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Speaker 3: the off season because we can't pay the luxury tax.
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Speaker 3: So there you go.
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Speaker 2: Yep.
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Speaker 1: So we spent a lot of the time talking about,
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Speaker 1: you know, the big teams, the big markets, the the
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Speaker 1: money making conferences. The most negative impact I think could
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Speaker 1: come to the lower conferences in schools that don't have
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Speaker 1: the money to self sustain. And what could happen in
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Speaker 1: that scenario where all the money in college football specifically
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Speaker 1: is going to these top teams. How do these smaller
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Speaker 1: programs exist?
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Speaker 4: Right? I think that's more to see how to come.
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Speaker 1: But for right now, they're benefiting from it in the
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Speaker 1: same sense that top tier Division one schools are pulling
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Speaker 1: from them, they're pulling from other schools as well.
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Speaker 4: Then there's this middle level.
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Speaker 1: I think that it doesn't get talked about, and I
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Speaker 1: would I guess put Nebraska in there, but you're Indiana's
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Speaker 1: right now, right, that are a part of in football anyways,
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Speaker 1: a power conference. They're not necessarily a football school, but
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Speaker 1: they have the ability to get a coach and what
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Speaker 1: does this coach do? Say, I'm from James Madison. I'm
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Speaker 1: just going to bring all my players with me because
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Speaker 1: I can. And guess what, we have more money. So yeah,
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Speaker 1: if you don't want to come, well, here's an extra
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Speaker 1: half a million dollars to come play if you want.
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Speaker 4: And then you see what's happening.
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Speaker 1: It is like Indiana now, who's six to oh and
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Speaker 1: trending upwards right now in the Big Ten. Nebraska, I say,
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Speaker 1: is also in that same boat. It'll be interesting to
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Speaker 1: see how those mid school, mid level schools, which ones
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Speaker 1: take advantage of it and have the ability to. I
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Speaker 1: think Nebraska is very high on that list because of
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Speaker 1: the money that is going into the program. Indiana obviously,
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Speaker 1: basketball is going to be a big staple there and
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Speaker 1: you're gonna see probably a lot of benefits there as
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Speaker 1: well as what they're seeing in football. But then a
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Speaker 1: team like Purdue, is it going to almost hurt Purdue
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Speaker 1: relatively speaking as to how these how the separation might
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Speaker 1: come in the Big Ten.
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Speaker 4: I don't know. This year doesn't look great for him
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Speaker 4: in football, but we'll see.
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Speaker 1: Like I think that's where my head's going is, Who's
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Speaker 1: it helping, who's it hurting? And then like short term
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Speaker 1: and the long term, what's going to be the impact?
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Speaker 3: Look who look who as the most amount money in
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Speaker 3: Big ten? Lukhu's at the top organ yep. So I
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Speaker 3: don't think their money's ever gonna go away. The Nike
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Speaker 3: they won't ever. So the organ is they're gonna fall off.
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Speaker 3: And Ohio State they'll always have money. Michigan they importanally
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Speaker 3: say he's gonna pay some the top quarterback and then
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Speaker 3: what do you say? Two million bucks?
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Speaker 2: He is gonna put it out there.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so it'll just be a Barsool sponsored player. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: people will just start throwing money anywhere.
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Speaker 1: So well, you know, we say that the rich get richer,
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Speaker 1: but the rich are still getting spread out amongst the richer.
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Speaker 4: So, I mean, guys, what this is lean, what this is.
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Speaker 1: Heading towards is depending on how many good players are
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Speaker 1: out there, it's heading towards an NFL NBA type of system.
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Speaker 1: Like I've always said, that's where it's going and it's
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Speaker 1: going to end up there.
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Speaker 4: I still think that's where it's going to go.
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Speaker 1: And I to me, there's a lot that has to
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Speaker 1: get done between now and then for it to work well,
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Speaker 1: otherwise it's going to be a disaster if they tried
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Speaker 1: doing it too soon.
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Speaker 4: So I think I think we're going there.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if it's five years, ten years, twenty years,
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Speaker 1: but that's the direction it's heading with the money and
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Speaker 1: all of these things that are impacting college sports.
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Speaker 3: Now, how mad are you if you're like, let's say,
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Speaker 3: Johnny Manziela Baker Mayfield, you missed the it's getting paid
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Speaker 3: by ten years, five years, so Manzel would have been
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Speaker 3: unlimited amount of money in college.
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Speaker 1: Not not to get into all of the exact numbers
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Speaker 1: behind it, but I mean there have been lawsuits already
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Speaker 1: that are backdating some of these payments to these athletes.
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Speaker 1: The most recent one I think was Tererell Pryor I
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Speaker 1: just saw last week that went to the NCAA and said,
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Speaker 1: you know, I'm filing suit against the NCAA, the Ohio State,
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Speaker 1: Big ten, whoever you get money out of and saying
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Speaker 1: I should be should have gotten paid.
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Speaker 4: Guys, it's not good.
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Speaker 1: It's not it's not that's not promising for the NCAA,
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Speaker 1: A and all these lawsuits. Because you're right, Dak, like
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Speaker 1: these players are gonna say, we have right to compensation
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Speaker 1: too and should have had rights. So that's where I
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Speaker 1: don't know, like.
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Speaker 3: I can put a value on that thought.
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Speaker 1: That's that's the courts, that's your society, that's your judicial system.
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Speaker 1: It's hard, I mean, that's it's it's difficult because the one,
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Speaker 1: the one that happened that I don't remember exactly, it's
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Speaker 1: out there in the news.
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Speaker 4: A lot.
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Speaker 1: The settlement amount was, like I don't even remember what
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Speaker 1: it was, a lot less than what they actually requested.
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Speaker 1: But what they requested for was billions of dollars to
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Speaker 1: pay all these athletes. I mean, think about how many
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Speaker 1: there are right that are out there.
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Speaker 4: So it's it's crazy. It's a crazy world.
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Speaker 1: I thought it was worth talking about because we don't
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Speaker 1: dive into it much, but it's good to revisit because
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Speaker 1: we're living in it and you don't really realize it
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Speaker 1: unless you take a step back and think about what's
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Speaker 1: happening over the past few years in college sportsman college
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Speaker 1: football being the biggest one that it's impacting.
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Speaker 2: Speaking of conference you alignment, did you guys see the
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Speaker 2: news that SEC Big ten are looking to do a
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Speaker 2: football challenge somewhere to the a SEC Big ten.
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Speaker 3: That would be awesome. I mean, I think eventually they're
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Speaker 3: just getting joined together. You're going to have because I
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Speaker 3: many teams are in the Big.
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Speaker 2: Ten right now, eighteen.
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Speaker 3: And there's I think there's the eighteen the SEC. I
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Speaker 3: think they'll do twenty four and twenty four and just
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Speaker 3: make a super conference and then the other ones. They'll
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Speaker 3: get the Big twelve to join in on both sides
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Speaker 3: and then leave the other conferences to do whatever they.
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Speaker 4: Need to do.
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Speaker 3: That's the way I think it'll go.
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Speaker 1: That's what I was kind of saying with the NFL
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Speaker 1: NBA like type of system, because I like, yeah, and
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Speaker 1: their meeting to talk about trying to lock themselves in
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Speaker 1: the four teams each in the playoffs, which I think
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Speaker 1: is bold worthy. I think maybe it's gonna change about
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Speaker 1: every other year now. I mean, it's funny, but I
19:45
Speaker 1: think back to when the playoff got implemented, right like
19:48
Speaker 1: it got pasted them. We're like, oh my gosh, the
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Speaker 1: playoffs not for another three years or whatever. And then
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Speaker 1: we were like, oh, the eighteen or twelve team playoff.
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Speaker 1: We gotta wait, Like things are going to be moving
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Speaker 1: pretty quick.
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Speaker 2: Bring in relegation man, that's what I want.
20:02
Speaker 3: Mm hm.
20:04
Speaker 4: I love that idea.
20:06
Speaker 2: They tried.
20:07
Speaker 3: They tried to changes to a sixteen playoff before they
20:10
Speaker 3: even did the twelve.
20:11
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, and we haven't even played one year of
20:14
Speaker 4: it yet.
20:14
Speaker 3: No, it's gonna be. I think the max it will
20:18
Speaker 3: be is thirty two, but it'll get there.
20:19
Speaker 2: What teams in the SEC do you want to play?
20:21
Speaker 2: If there's a Big ten SEC? I mean, I feel
20:24
Speaker 2: like there's obvious answers.
20:25
Speaker 4: That's the argument is like, do we want to in
20:30
Speaker 4: our non conference to help ourselves out for making the
20:34
Speaker 4: playoffs play one of these schools?
20:36
Speaker 1: Right? Obviously we're not a top tier Big ten team yet,
20:40
Speaker 1: so we're not gonna get the Alabamas, Georgia's Texas. But
20:43
Speaker 1: I mean they're they're gonna throw us against Missouri and
20:47
Speaker 1: A and M and.
20:49
Speaker 4: Oklahoma. That's a Big twelve.
20:53
Speaker 1: They're gonna do that early on. I do think it'd
20:55
Speaker 1: be fun to play in these other schools. Don't get
20:57
Speaker 1: me wrong. It be fun to travel to your Arkansas,
21:00
Speaker 1: let's use Ole miss Like. Those would be fun games.
21:02
Speaker 1: But we're gonna get the old Big twelve rivalries first.
21:05
Speaker 2: Out of that. Yeah, I saw someone online pitched the
21:09
Speaker 2: idea of every year you just match up one B
21:12
Speaker 2: one B two three B three, So where we ranked
21:15
Speaker 2: the previous year, you get matched up with the next year.
21:19
Speaker 3: And that's that's the way I thought when you said that,
21:21
Speaker 3: that's the way I thought they would do it. Maybe
21:23
Speaker 3: not f the bat, but.
21:26
Speaker 1: I mean to do that for basketball, Like, it's not
21:30
Speaker 1: exact science, but yeah, I mean your the lower teams
21:33
Speaker 1: are playing your lower teams in the conference for sure,
21:35
Speaker 1: like Nebraska. The one year I think we got Villanova
21:38
Speaker 1: and the Big Ten Big East Challenge was the year
21:40
Speaker 1: that we were coming off the NCAA Tournament with pet
21:44
Speaker 1: Away and all of them. So I can they try
21:45
Speaker 1: to do that a little bit. But it's not an
21:48
Speaker 1: exact science.
21:49
Speaker 3: It's it's a Big Ten ACC challenge right now? Right?
21:52
Speaker 2: Yeah?
21:54
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're you're never playing North Carolina. I don't know
21:56
Speaker 3: who you probably Boston College and basketball.
21:58
Speaker 1: We've played Boston College, Clemson, we played yeah, great North
22:03
Speaker 1: Carolina State. Yeah those are Wake Forest. I think like
22:07
Speaker 1: those Pantines. Okay, let's move on here. Indiana Preview. What
22:15
Speaker 1: people actually came to listen to the Hoosiers oh series
22:21
Speaker 1: talking to me the Hoosiers are six and zero. Brank
22:26
Speaker 1: sixteenth or eighteenth, depending on what poll you're looking at.
22:29
Speaker 1: New head coach Kurt sag and Netty coming from James Madison.
22:33
Speaker 1: Google him. He's a he's a character.
22:38
Speaker 4: Uh.
22:39
Speaker 1: He also knows how to win. Their schedule, has I
22:46
Speaker 1: guess been favorable. I did write this down. There combined
22:49
Speaker 1: opponents record is fourteen and twenty three.
22:52
Speaker 2: Yeah.
22:53
Speaker 4: There.
22:56
Speaker 1: Strength to schedule right now is one hundred of one
23:00
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty four. Now I say that stat because
23:05
Speaker 1: guess what Nebraska's is one hundred and seventeenth of one
23:08
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty four nationally. So it's not like we've
23:12
Speaker 1: had the toughest schedule either. They beat Florida International, Western
23:15
Speaker 1: Illinois in Charlotte in the non conference, and then they
23:20
Speaker 1: beat the crap out of UCLA on the road, and
23:23
Speaker 1: then beat Maryland two weeks ago and then beat Northwestern
23:29
Speaker 1: on the road by seventeen.
23:31
Speaker 4: Wasn't really a seventeen point game. It was a lot
23:33
Speaker 4: closer than that.
23:34
Speaker 1: But they are six to no and they've put up
23:40
Speaker 1: and I don't know what they're averaging exactly for points,
23:42
Speaker 1: but they're scoring forty plus a game and that's putting
23:47
Speaker 1: them what fourth nationally in scoring and sixth nationally defensive scoring.
23:55
Speaker 1: So they are a quote unquote top ten team when
23:57
Speaker 1: you look at it from that stat metrics rule came
23:59
Speaker 1: out and at his breast conference that they're a top
24:02
Speaker 1: ten caliber team. And here we are getting to go
24:07
Speaker 1: to Bloomington for a big time matchup, big neon kickoff
24:11
Speaker 1: on Saturday. First question, I guess, are you surprised Austin that,
24:18
Speaker 1: I mean, Indiana is getting all this hype, this love
24:21
Speaker 1: from the national media at this point in the season.
24:27
Speaker 2: I mean, they average forty seven and a half points
24:29
Speaker 2: a game. I do think that part of their ranking
24:35
Speaker 2: is a product of just being six and oh and
24:37
Speaker 2: being a Big ten team. I think just like had
24:40
Speaker 2: we not lost to Illinois, we probably would been higher
24:43
Speaker 2: than Indiana just because of the way teams fell ahead
24:46
Speaker 2: of them. And so I know that's why you know,
24:50
Speaker 2: you put through the stats and you say they're a
24:51
Speaker 2: top ten team. But I don't know if anyone really thinks.
24:56
Speaker 2: I think that's their factory and their schedule and they're
24:58
Speaker 2: looking at their rank and they're like, Okay, they haven't
25:00
Speaker 2: really played anyone good, but we can't knock them for
25:04
Speaker 2: obliterating the people they have played, I would say most
25:09
Speaker 2: people are. I'm definitely surprised at how good they are.
25:11
Speaker 2: I don't think now admittedly we didn't look at their schedule,
25:15
Speaker 2: but they're definitely better than we thought they were. Their
25:18
Speaker 2: coach kind of was a little cringey at the Big
25:19
Speaker 2: Ten media days. He kind of gave off Scott frosty vibes,
25:23
Speaker 2: saying the Big Ten has to adjust to him, which
25:26
Speaker 2: felt okay. But yeah, they're better than what They're better
25:32
Speaker 2: than what everyone thought sixteen teams high. But like I said,
25:36
Speaker 2: I think it's just a product of you win all
25:38
Speaker 2: your games. You're winning. You won two games by a
25:42
Speaker 2: ship tone, but I think that inflates your offensive numbers
25:46
Speaker 2: a little bit. But I mean that's what you're supposed
25:49
Speaker 2: to do. You supposed to win your games. I'm not
25:51
Speaker 2: gonna blaming for that.
25:55
Speaker 3: Yeah, they have played the worst Big Ten teams you
25:59
Speaker 3: could play, but they're six and no, you got to
26:02
Speaker 3: rank him by now. I do think you guys think
26:07
Speaker 3: this is probably the biggest game in Indian football history
26:11
Speaker 3: so far.
26:12
Speaker 2: They had Michael Pennix a couple of years ago where
26:13
Speaker 2: they were actually good.
26:16
Speaker 3: I don't remember how Yeah, they were, but you couldn't
26:19
Speaker 3: have fans there.
26:21
Speaker 2: True, that's true. Yeah, let's kickoff.
26:26
Speaker 3: They were six and that year, weren't there? Are they five?
26:28
Speaker 3: And oh they were or something?
26:31
Speaker 2: I don't remember.
26:31
Speaker 3: I can't remember. They were good that year though, But
26:36
Speaker 3: but their coach brought in everybody from James Madison, and
26:38
Speaker 3: James Madison was a powerhouse last year. So and they
26:41
Speaker 3: could score on the ball or they could score anytime
26:43
Speaker 3: they went last year too. I really like their quarterback
26:46
Speaker 3: they have, Yeah.
26:49
Speaker 2: I mean their coaches and thirty five. I mean that's
26:53
Speaker 2: a pretty good coaching record.
26:55
Speaker 4: He Kurt knows how to win.
26:57
Speaker 1: And you mentioned the James as some transfers it there
27:02
Speaker 1: are a lot, right, but there's only five on the
27:05
Speaker 1: I mean five starters on defense and three on offense,
27:08
Speaker 1: so like it's not like it's their whole team. You
27:12
Speaker 1: combine it with some of the pieces of Indiana had
27:15
Speaker 1: last year. Here's here's the expectation for Indiana.
27:21
Speaker 4: Why.
27:21
Speaker 1: Yeah, people say their schedule is easy, and I'm highly
27:25
Speaker 1: guilty of that saying that.
27:26
Speaker 4: I just don't think Indiana's very good. And I still
27:28
Speaker 4: don't know, Dak.
27:31
Speaker 1: You had them eighteenth in your preseason rankings in the
27:33
Speaker 1: Big Ten out of eighteen teams. Austin and I we
27:37
Speaker 1: both had them at seventeen. And you look at the schedule, right.
27:44
Speaker 1: I guess going into the year, if I try to
27:46
Speaker 1: think on what I thought of Indiana, I didn't think
27:48
Speaker 1: they'd go three and oh a non conference. I mean,
27:50
Speaker 1: I get they played Ford International, Charlotte, and somebody else
27:53
Speaker 1: had Western Illinois, so I probably I was like, I
27:57
Speaker 1: don't know, maybe they could.
27:58
Speaker 4: I guess they could win those three.
27:59
Speaker 1: But then you're telling me that, then they win their
28:01
Speaker 1: next three Big Ten teams again, granted maybe not the
28:04
Speaker 1: best Big Ten teams, but they want um.
28:07
Speaker 4: So am I surprised?
28:10
Speaker 2: No?
28:11
Speaker 1: I mean no, but yes, like I just I didn't.
28:14
Speaker 1: I didn't expect. I didn't expect them to be six
28:16
Speaker 1: and zero. I guess going into the year, I would
28:19
Speaker 1: have said born too at this point, I just I
28:23
Speaker 1: didn't think they'd beat UCLA. We all had UCLA ahead
28:26
Speaker 1: of them, we all had Northwestern ahead of them, we
28:29
Speaker 1: all had Maryland ahead of them in our power rankings.
28:31
Speaker 1: And guess what, they went three and oh in those games.
28:33
Speaker 1: So yeah, they've done credit to that program. They done
28:37
Speaker 1: a really good job. Now the flip side of that,
28:41
Speaker 1: we I believe are better than all three of those teams, hopefully.
28:46
Speaker 1: Now there's this year of Big ten teams that we
28:48
Speaker 1: all think are quote unquote decent and maybe comparable.
28:51
Speaker 4: Maybe we are comparable to all of those teams.
28:53
Speaker 1: But this probably will be their toughest game so far
28:58
Speaker 1: this year that they've seen and all the pressure I
29:01
Speaker 1: should say all, but a lot of the pressure is
29:04
Speaker 1: on them.
29:05
Speaker 2: They're ranked, they've never been there.
29:09
Speaker 4: We've also never been there yet.
29:12
Speaker 2: But we're like I said, they're the ones undefeated Big
29:16
Speaker 2: newon kickoff, they're the ones who are ranked.
29:19
Speaker 1: It's at their house, so there is obviously a lot
29:22
Speaker 1: of pressure. I don't want to say there's no pressure
29:24
Speaker 1: on us, because there's a lot. Like you want to
29:26
Speaker 1: flip that around and say, nebrask is five and one,
29:30
Speaker 1: we haven't been five to one, and how many.
29:31
Speaker 2: Years bold game on the line, bold game.
29:34
Speaker 4: On the line?
29:34
Speaker 1: You lose this, let's start looking at our schedule, what
29:37
Speaker 1: games are favored in the rest of the year. Like,
29:40
Speaker 1: there's pressure on our end too, and I think the
29:44
Speaker 1: team that can handle that pressure the best and know
29:48
Speaker 1: how to deal with it. And it's not something you'd say, Okay,
29:51
Speaker 1: you wake up and say I'm going to handle the
29:52
Speaker 1: pressure today. No, that's a long term thing that you're
29:56
Speaker 1: instilled in your player's mindsets. And what do we know
29:59
Speaker 1: with our upper classmen and how they've dealt with close
30:02
Speaker 1: games and pressure late in games.
30:04
Speaker 4: It hasn't been good. Now.
30:07
Speaker 1: I can't speak for anything that these Indiana players because
30:12
Speaker 1: they obviously have not had much success the Indiana players,
30:16
Speaker 1: but the James Madison players have and Kurt Signetti you
30:19
Speaker 1: mentioned his record as a head coach.
30:21
Speaker 4: He definitely they know how to win.
30:24
Speaker 1: So it's a huge game back all the way full
30:27
Speaker 1: circle to your point, it is one of the biggest
30:29
Speaker 1: games that for both teams on the schedule, and I
30:33
Speaker 1: don't think many people saw that coming into the year
30:38
Speaker 1: because of just who the teams.
30:40
Speaker 4: Were trying to see.
30:42
Speaker 1: If we had have my importance rankings, uh, I feel
30:48
Speaker 1: like I had them Indiana game pretty dang high in
30:51
Speaker 1: the in the importance rankings because of not because of
30:55
Speaker 1: all this stuff, but just given the fact that this
30:57
Speaker 1: is a team that I think we could or a beat.
31:01
Speaker 2: Uh.
31:01
Speaker 4: But for six and a half point dogs, I haven't
31:03
Speaker 4: even mentioned the spread yet.
31:04
Speaker 2: Well, it started at three and a half, it's moved
31:06
Speaker 2: to six and a half over the last week. I
31:09
Speaker 2: agree with you. I think I think we're on their level.
31:16
Speaker 2: I really like talent wise and execution wise, and just
31:22
Speaker 2: where the programs. I think we're probably a little bit
31:24
Speaker 2: further ahead as far as far as the program at
31:26
Speaker 2: just because it's our year two establishing that rural culture.
31:30
Speaker 2: But I really do think that it's going to be
31:35
Speaker 2: a competitive game. Our our strength is matches up against
31:39
Speaker 2: their strength. I think you actually just said something interesting.
31:44
Speaker 2: What does that mean though?
31:45
Speaker 1: If if and I don't expect it, if it's a
31:49
Speaker 1: one score game, we lose. Whatever, I don't expect them
31:51
Speaker 1: to beat us by ten plus. What does that say, though,
31:56
Speaker 1: I guess to everything if we lose in Matt Rule's
32:04
Speaker 1: second year to a first year head coach at when
32:07
Speaker 1: you grabb you guys from James Madison in a program
32:09
Speaker 1: that you could say is way behind us, from a
32:13
Speaker 1: from a culture, from a edition standpoint, Yeah, fans all
32:21
Speaker 1: of that, Like, what does that say? It is at
32:23
Speaker 1: a high level. It doesn't look good.
32:28
Speaker 3: No, I don't know who they paid out to get
32:31
Speaker 3: this schedule. But if they made you, guys, put your
32:35
Speaker 3: putt your mind down. They're only losing one game on
32:37
Speaker 3: the year. They go Washington, Michigan State, Michigan, Ohio State
32:43
Speaker 3: produce after that, So I don't know how they got
32:46
Speaker 3: that easy at schedule. That's easy, big thing schedule I
32:48
Speaker 3: ever saw. But it's pretty notoks like if they're good
32:51
Speaker 3: or not.
32:53
Speaker 2: Honestly, their schedule is pretty close to ours, all right.
32:58
Speaker 2: I mean, Colorado's probably better than any of their coloradoways,
33:01
Speaker 2: better than any of their non con games.
33:02
Speaker 3: In Illinois, like quite a bit, but Illinois better than.
33:06
Speaker 2: Any of their other big ten pounds outside of.
33:10
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't I I don't know if I believe
33:15
Speaker 3: in Indiana or not yet. God, they just haven't blamed anybody.
33:21
Speaker 2: I guess. They put up fifty points a game on
33:24
Speaker 2: right now, that's not nothing.
33:27
Speaker 1: We're gonna find out a lot because I do think
33:31
Speaker 1: from a talent perspective, this is going to be the
33:33
Speaker 1: most talented team they played on Saturday, Nebraska, Uh Indiana.
33:39
Speaker 1: Getting to their personnel here, Dak. You mentioned their quarterback earlier,
33:43
Speaker 1: Curtis Rourke. He's a sixth year six five, twenty three
33:50
Speaker 1: pound player out of Ohio, where he is was recruited
33:57
Speaker 1: by I guess who Frank solog long long back in
34:02
Speaker 1: the day. His brother was recruited by Frank Solich. Older brother,
34:07
Speaker 1: so Curtis Rourke was a twenty twenty two Mac Player
34:12
Speaker 1: of the Year at Ohio. He's thrown for almost eighteen
34:16
Speaker 1: hundred yards this year, fourteen touchdowns, two interceptions. He's a big.
34:20
Speaker 2: Dudev completion percentage.
34:23
Speaker 1: I've I've heard comparisons of like Luke Altmeyer, but just
34:30
Speaker 1: more experienced, which torched us. That scares me a little bit.
34:34
Speaker 1: He throws to several different guys. I'm not seeing really
34:39
Speaker 1: anyone that stands out entirely. Maybe their leading receiver just
34:44
Speaker 1: from a stat standpoint, is Elijah san It Sart. Sorry,
34:49
Speaker 1: I don't know if those are ends or ours. In
34:50
Speaker 1: my notes, there are twenty nine receptions five hundred and
34:55
Speaker 1: thirteen yards, two touchdowns, Omar Cooper, Miles Price, else Cross.
35:00
Speaker 1: I mean, all these guys are catching balls from him.
35:03
Speaker 1: He spreads it around. They're gonna be very balanced running
35:07
Speaker 1: and passing the ball. I think we've all the teams
35:10
Speaker 1: we've played so far we can say besides Illinois have
35:13
Speaker 1: had an identity of what they want to do running
35:16
Speaker 1: or passing the ball. I think this is going to
35:18
Speaker 1: be a team that plays complimentary football. Justice Ellison and
35:23
Speaker 1: ty Tyson Lawton are their two running backs, just as
35:27
Speaker 1: average six point four yards of carry, which it is
35:30
Speaker 1: pretty impressive. Offensive line is fairly young. I guess three sophomores,
35:35
Speaker 1: two seniors is what they start. I think the key
35:39
Speaker 1: here pressure, yes, and I think that's just going to
35:44
Speaker 1: be the talking point and it might get beat and
35:50
Speaker 1: people's heads over and over. But if we can get
35:52
Speaker 1: pressure on Curtis Rourke and our defensive line, our front seven,
35:56
Speaker 1: which a lot of us can say has been the
35:58
Speaker 1: strength of our team.
36:02
Speaker 2: Say, and our dbs have actually looked like we've had
36:04
Speaker 2: some dvs pop up. That's like, man, it's a deeper
36:07
Speaker 2: pool than we thought it was going to be.
36:08
Speaker 1: At corner, it like, if we can do that and
36:13
Speaker 1: get pressure on Curtis Rourke can make him uncomfortable for
36:18
Speaker 1: a veteran that he is. I think we're going to
36:20
Speaker 1: do well in this game if we can see from
36:23
Speaker 1: the get go that their offensive line is doing a
36:25
Speaker 1: good job in pass pro and they're able to get
36:28
Speaker 1: four or five yards of carry they're going to put
36:31
Speaker 1: up forty points as far as say they're going to
36:34
Speaker 1: do it, because it's not the type of offense that
36:36
Speaker 1: it's going to be very predictable from a scheming standpoint.
36:40
Speaker 1: So I think how we have to win this game
36:42
Speaker 1: on the defensive side is by hoping a little bit
36:46
Speaker 1: that we have the better athletes and then scheming up
36:50
Speaker 1: the different blitzes and ways that we can get pressure.
36:53
Speaker 1: That's where the strategy comes in, is getting pressure on
36:55
Speaker 1: Curtis Roorke in the pocket. And if we can do that,
36:58
Speaker 1: I like our chances of holding them to twenty points.
37:01
Speaker 1: And I don't think anybody's done that had the ability
37:04
Speaker 1: to do that because of the talent these teams that
37:06
Speaker 1: they played against.
37:07
Speaker 4: I think we will.
37:08
Speaker 2: The thing that scares me the most, I would feel
37:11
Speaker 2: a lot more confident if they weren't coming off of
37:14
Speaker 2: bye week. I think our defensive scheme is unique enough
37:18
Speaker 2: that it kind of catches people off a little bit
37:21
Speaker 2: and when you only have a week to prepare, you
37:23
Speaker 2: aren't quite ready for all the folds that throws at you.
37:26
Speaker 2: But the fact that they've had a bye week, I
37:28
Speaker 2: know we've had a bye week as well, like, don't
37:30
Speaker 2: get me wrong, but I don't love the fact that
37:33
Speaker 2: their offense is really good, really balanced, and they've had
37:38
Speaker 2: an extra week to look at our defense and what
37:40
Speaker 2: we do well.
37:43
Speaker 3: Now, like I said about the pressure part, you you
37:48
Speaker 3: can't just let sixty year quarterback sit back there because
37:50
Speaker 3: he'll pick you apart. You saw every defense in college.
37:52
Speaker 3: You can see it's just like all miner like you said,
37:55
Speaker 3: he said, I mean, you guys got pressure on him,
37:59
Speaker 3: but not enough where he sat back there and he's
38:01
Speaker 3: picked you apart. Like he'll sit back, he'll read the
38:03
Speaker 3: field great against you see, you've got to you gotta
38:06
Speaker 3: get to him. You guys think you'll blitz all game
38:08
Speaker 3: or what's your what's defensive playing there?
38:11
Speaker 1: I just think you got to be creative and how
38:14
Speaker 1: you do that, which has been the message all year
38:17
Speaker 1: for this defense is you can't be I think that
38:21
Speaker 1: Illinois game, we got comfortable and thought that our front
38:24
Speaker 1: four could do their job, and and we talked about
38:28
Speaker 1: that in the recap part of that game. We have
38:30
Speaker 1: to utilize our linebackers and secondary in a way that
38:35
Speaker 1: confuses a veteran quarterback that has seen it all. So
38:40
Speaker 1: I do think you're gonna see a lot of blitzes,
38:42
Speaker 1: and that might come at the sacrifice of potentially some
38:45
Speaker 1: big plays. The risk reward there. We haven't shown a
38:49
Speaker 1: whole lot of that this year yet, and maybe you
38:51
Speaker 1: can argue we haven't had to, uh, based on some
38:54
Speaker 1: of the opponents we've played, given Ruggers what they want
38:58
Speaker 1: to do, Purdue what they want to do running the ball.
39:03
Speaker 1: So I think we're gonna see a little bit different
39:06
Speaker 1: game plan on the defensive side, which I think is
39:08
Speaker 1: a good thing. I don't think we should be scared
39:09
Speaker 1: by that, but I also think that could come with
39:12
Speaker 1: a few big plays that we might have to swallow.
39:15
Speaker 1: But there could be some high risk, high reward And
39:17
Speaker 1: if you forced a couple of turnovers, which have done
39:19
Speaker 1: a tremendous job of this year and happened in the
39:21
Speaker 1: past on the road, like those are huge defining moment
39:26
Speaker 1: plays and there's going to be four or five plays
39:29
Speaker 1: that really define this game. I really believe that because
39:33
Speaker 1: of the way this game is going to go, so uh,
39:36
Speaker 1: I do.
39:37
Speaker 4: I think being creative is the big answer there.
39:40
Speaker 2: On the defense, they've only kicked four field goals all year.
39:45
Speaker 3: I was just gonna bring on specialties on that. Yeah,
39:48
Speaker 3: it'll exact excite you guys at the game. Probably come
39:51
Speaker 3: down to kicking. So there you go. It vantaged Nebraska, right, Well,
39:58
Speaker 3: you don't know, actually follow me. Four field goals? Has
40:01
Speaker 3: he made all four?
40:02
Speaker 2: He's made all four?
40:03
Speaker 3: Okay, you know i'd give the advantage.
40:05
Speaker 4: Then then I completely agree.
40:11
Speaker 1: Talking about the special teams is a huge thing. We
40:16
Speaker 1: can't beat ourselves with it, Like we can't have negative
40:19
Speaker 1: special teams plays is the most important thing. I don't
40:22
Speaker 1: I'm not saying we have to be spectacular on special
40:24
Speaker 1: teams because I don't know that we have the ability to.
40:27
Speaker 2: Black shirt Bouchin. He can't get blocked twice.
40:30
Speaker 1: Black shirt Bouchin yet, Yeah, we can't.
40:34
Speaker 4: We can't get blocked.
40:35
Speaker 1: I mean, if we miss a couple of field goals,
40:37
Speaker 1: like I'm expecting it at this point. Obviously, if we
40:40
Speaker 1: drill him, great, hopefully Albano maybe is back, well I
40:43
Speaker 1: think maybe hopefully.
40:44
Speaker 4: I don't know.
40:46
Speaker 1: I guess he's probably a better but it's a whole unit.
40:50
Speaker 1: So just we can't get a field goal blocked right
40:53
Speaker 1: in return for sixty yards for a touchdown. If if
40:56
Speaker 1: it gets blocked, you know, hopefully it's the ball where
41:00
Speaker 1: it was kicked from. We also got to be able
41:03
Speaker 1: to make him if we decide to kick him. Maybe
41:06
Speaker 1: the decision on fourth and three from the twenty is
41:09
Speaker 1: let's go for it instead, and I'd be okay with that.
41:12
Speaker 1: I don't think many people are going to question that
41:14
Speaker 1: play call at this point in the season. You know,
41:16
Speaker 1: the coaching staff has spent links talking about that. At
41:20
Speaker 1: what point in time fourth and six from the twenty,
41:24
Speaker 1: I don't know, Like, what do you do that? That's
41:26
Speaker 1: the question that the coaching staff has to decide on
41:29
Speaker 1: when it comes to kicking these field goals in games
41:31
Speaker 1: like this.
41:32
Speaker 4: That's why they get paid the big bucks.
41:35
Speaker 3: You got to give Gus Johnson a good show because
41:37
Speaker 3: so you can hype you up next week. He's following
41:39
Speaker 3: you all around the nation. He'll be back in the
41:43
Speaker 3: game next week.
41:44
Speaker 2: I do, I guess Johnson and Joel Klatt, I really do.
41:46
Speaker 1: I do too.
41:48
Speaker 3: It just feels like a big game with it. I
41:49
Speaker 3: wish it wasn't noon by they call games.
41:51
Speaker 1: But okay, uh, let's move the other side of the ball.
41:57
Speaker 1: Indiana's defense they run a four two five multiple Look,
42:02
Speaker 1: we're gonna see a lot of different fronts. Here's the
42:08
Speaker 1: question the headline this week that I hear everybody talking about,
42:11
Speaker 1: but I think it's we're talking about here as well,
42:14
Speaker 1: is the rushing attack and what can Nebraska get going
42:19
Speaker 1: on the ground in the second half of the year.
42:23
Speaker 1: Rule mentioned that he thought we've done a good job
42:25
Speaker 1: of getting you know, four or five yard runs.
42:29
Speaker 4: Maybe, I guess, I don't know.
42:30
Speaker 1: Some people I think would argue that that they don't
42:33
Speaker 1: really know what they're seeing that either, But he wants,
42:35
Speaker 1: you know, the big explosive runs, the big explosive plays
42:39
Speaker 1: from these running backs guys. The more that I watch
42:42
Speaker 1: other college football teams, it's a combination of everything. Why
42:48
Speaker 1: the rushing game is I'll call it stale right now.
42:52
Speaker 1: But you have a guy like Cam Scattabo from Arizona State,
42:58
Speaker 1: like I think it makes a world of difference in
43:02
Speaker 1: our running game. And I've always said to you know,
43:05
Speaker 1: the offensive line, it starts there. It still does. There's
43:08
Speaker 1: no doubt in that you have a good offensive line
43:11
Speaker 1: that can build holes. Anybody can run the ball. But
43:13
Speaker 1: when you're talking about extending four yards to eight yards
43:16
Speaker 1: or ten yards to sixty yards, that's where dynamic backs
43:20
Speaker 1: come into play. And we have four good all five
43:25
Speaker 1: out of ten backs, five to six out of ten, Like,
43:28
Speaker 1: that's great. I don't think there's how many teams in
43:30
Speaker 1: the country can say they have four guys that are
43:33
Speaker 1: a five or six out of ten, maybe maybe zero
43:37
Speaker 1: besides us. So that's not a bad thing. But when
43:40
Speaker 1: you're looking to have explosive runs, it'd be nice to
43:43
Speaker 1: have one guy that's a seven or eight out of
43:45
Speaker 1: ten at running back that can do the things that
43:48
Speaker 1: I just mentioned. There's guys out there. We've played it
43:52
Speaker 1: against a couple of them. I don't know that we
43:55
Speaker 1: have that. And that's where I'm a little bit concerned.
43:57
Speaker 1: Is can our run game ever get going?
43:59
Speaker 2: How how long before we can just trade for Askton
44:03
Speaker 2: gent midseason?
44:04
Speaker 4: Yeah? Like watching a guy like that, just.
44:07
Speaker 2: Hey, here's our nail money. We'll trade you dowdel and
44:11
Speaker 2: Thomas Fadoni.
44:15
Speaker 1: Oh that's a good question. Would you do that right now?
44:17
Speaker 1: Fdoni and Dowdell for Genties?
44:19
Speaker 2: Oh?
44:19
Speaker 3: My god? Like yeah, with five thousand dollars, you'd have
44:25
Speaker 3: to say, oh yeah.
44:27
Speaker 1: Follow up question, is there any single player out there
44:30
Speaker 1: that you trade for Dylan Ryol and given Ryol as
44:32
Speaker 1: a freshman this.
44:33
Speaker 3: Year, No, right, you have to. They have to come
44:39
Speaker 3: in and start like as record is right now.
44:42
Speaker 4: Yep.
44:44
Speaker 1: Is there any single player out there that you would
44:46
Speaker 1: do a one to one trade with?
44:48
Speaker 2: Maybe cam Mood maybe, but the fact that he's a freshman.
44:52
Speaker 3: I don't think I would Dan Gabriel.
44:56
Speaker 2: Nope, No, Dylan Gabriel is not gonna make your sivers better.
45:03
Speaker 3: Arch Manning, m.
45:12
Speaker 4: I think one guy.
45:13
Speaker 2: I don't think that.
45:14
Speaker 3: Yeah, I wouldn't do dealing Gabriel because he's he's gone instantly.
45:19
Speaker 3: Arch Manning would be the one that.
45:22
Speaker 2: That you'd consider. He still has a red shirt ability. No,
45:26
Speaker 2: he read shirt last year, Didny? Yeah?
45:28
Speaker 3: No, he's so he's got three years left.
45:33
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a good that's a good question.
45:34
Speaker 3: I mean, that's good to say you wouldn't trade arch
45:37
Speaker 3: Manning for Rayla, But if you're guaranteed you.
45:40
Speaker 2: Keep Rayola, I think I think it's pretty negligible between
45:43
Speaker 2: the two.
45:44
Speaker 1: And then you have a family that would be a
45:45
Speaker 1: good pull out there. Arch Manning or Dylan Rayl Who
45:49
Speaker 1: would you rather have for the future?
45:51
Speaker 3: Oh God, I think are you posting on ESPN, he
45:55
Speaker 3: posted on.
45:55
Speaker 1: The Hot podcast, considering I don't have my ESPN credentials
46:01
Speaker 1: probably the Hustes podcast.
46:03
Speaker 3: Well, plus than that, I been better be a little
46:06
Speaker 3: bit forent of you blust on the ESPN.
46:07
Speaker 2: But well, anyways, back to the offense versus defense, I
46:14
Speaker 2: will say it's comforting to know that they've given up.
46:16
Speaker 2: Their defense is given up twenty four plus the last
46:19
Speaker 2: two Big Ten games against Northwestern and Maryland, and I
46:21
Speaker 2: think our offense is better than Northwestern and Maryland. So
46:23
Speaker 2: that's where I feel a little bit better. Have granted
46:26
Speaker 2: both those games they scored forty two for forty one
46:30
Speaker 2: and forty two, so they're probably their defense is probably
46:32
Speaker 2: playing a little bit different with the lead. But I
46:36
Speaker 2: feel better knowing that offensive has offenses have scored on them.
46:43
Speaker 3: Yeah, but have they have they scored on them because
46:49
Speaker 3: because they built up all these big leads, the defense
46:51
Speaker 3: gets a little bit more relaxed. Like you, when you
46:54
Speaker 3: build a big league you let teams drive down the
46:56
Speaker 3: field slowly on you.
46:58
Speaker 4: That wasn't what happened Indiana Northwest. I know that.
47:01
Speaker 3: No, but that's the one game that's got to give
47:04
Speaker 3: you hope, is that Northwestern hung with them because Northwestern sucks, which.
47:10
Speaker 4: I maybe they also could just be another decent team.
47:14
Speaker 1: Yeah, I wouldn't put them, maybe in that decent category
47:17
Speaker 1: that we talked about on Sunday. But you know, that's
47:20
Speaker 1: what you want to think is our offense is even
47:24
Speaker 1: though it's not very good, hasn't shown to be great,
47:27
Speaker 1: it's better than last year, and you would think that
47:29
Speaker 1: maybe it's better or as good as Northwestern Maryland, right,
47:32
Speaker 1: and then our defense is much better, hopefully one of
47:36
Speaker 1: the top of the Big Ten, hopefully is where we're
47:39
Speaker 1: seeing it.
47:40
Speaker 4: So like that. That's why I look at a game like.
47:42
Speaker 1: This and you look at their scores, you look at
47:43
Speaker 1: our scores, and you think, Okay, which way is it
47:47
Speaker 1: gonna go. We're winning games fourteen to seven, twenty eight
47:50
Speaker 1: to ten. I guess we scored a little more against Colorado.
47:54
Speaker 1: They're winning games forty one to twenty four. Right if
47:59
Speaker 1: it if the game stays in the load high teens,
48:04
Speaker 1: low twenties, I like our chances. Like that tells me that,
48:08
Speaker 1: right if it becomes a shoot that we're not winning,
48:10
Speaker 1: that's why we lost Illinois. It became I don't have
48:14
Speaker 1: a good feeling if our defense can't stop him. Now,
48:16
Speaker 1: Royola did some amazing things that game right to keep
48:19
Speaker 1: us in it. I just don't think that's our style
48:22
Speaker 1: of football. That's not what we preached. And once that
48:24
Speaker 1: game got in that style with Illinois, it was, oh boy, like,
48:29
Speaker 1: all right, Royola, try to bail us out if you.
48:30
Speaker 2: Can, and closed a couple of times, just did and.
48:34
Speaker 4: He did a great job.
48:35
Speaker 1: And then overtime and it was the worst overtime performance
48:38
Speaker 1: in the history of college So I think for us
48:43
Speaker 1: to win, and I think we do have a decent
48:45
Speaker 1: chance to win, it's gonna have to be twenty one
48:46
Speaker 1: to seventeen, seventeen, fourteen, twenty four to seventeen type of game.
48:51
Speaker 1: It's not going to be forty one thirty seven like
48:53
Speaker 1: DA's predicted every week.
48:54
Speaker 3: And yeah, I'm on prediction again. I actually have seventy
49:03
Speaker 3: two to sixty eight written down as my no.
49:09
Speaker 1: Well, I mean that I will say my score prediction.
49:11
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it. I'm gonna say it. I'm going
49:14
Speaker 1: twenty one to twenty Nebraska.
49:16
Speaker 2: Whoa, whoa what?
49:19
Speaker 3: Whoa what?
49:20
Speaker 4: I'm guys, I'm going to the game and breaking it's
49:22
Speaker 4: breaking the streak I.
49:24
Speaker 3: That you just said thirty minutes ago, there's no shock
49:26
Speaker 3: we win this game.
49:28
Speaker 1: Because I'm going. Okay that that you don't you still
49:32
Speaker 1: understand my sarcasm. They're like my record on the roads
49:36
Speaker 1: two and fourteen. So when I say that I'm going
49:38
Speaker 1: and I lose, I always just say that, like that's
49:40
Speaker 1: not my actual score prediction. But at the same time,
49:42
Speaker 1: I'm like, I don't win road games when I go.
49:45
Speaker 2: Would be interesting to see what the spread was for
49:47
Speaker 2: all those games.
49:48
Speaker 1: You know, all I know one of them, like I
49:52
Speaker 1: to I jokingly say that, like people like will laugh,
49:56
Speaker 1: I'm the problem, guys, I'm not the problem, like all
49:59
Speaker 1: realistic there's not that's not that's not possible.
50:01
Speaker 3: Right, But how many of those games were Scott frostc games.
50:04
Speaker 1: He went to, I don't. We don't need to go
50:07
Speaker 1: through my two and fourteen record. It's it's very poor.
50:11
Speaker 1: I got a road to win at Purdue and the
50:13
Speaker 1: road to at Illinois. Clearly, me being there does not
50:17
Speaker 1: impact everything. But at the same time, it's fun to
50:19
Speaker 1: say that I'm the problem. I just I think that
50:22
Speaker 1: I think we're gonna win. I do I think we
50:26
Speaker 1: were going into the year I think we were like
50:29
Speaker 1: a four point favorite. I believe in like the preseason lines,
50:33
Speaker 1: what has changed really since the first of the year.
50:37
Speaker 1: Indiana has looked probably a little better. Where are we
50:40
Speaker 1: at compared to what we expected? I would not see.
50:44
Speaker 1: So I just I don't think Indiana is as hyped
50:46
Speaker 1: as everybody's making them up to me and all the
50:49
Speaker 1: pressure on them, not all most because we have a
50:52
Speaker 1: lot on us too. I'm taking us this week just
50:56
Speaker 1: enough to get my hopes blown away and me to
50:58
Speaker 1: be sad driving back from Bloomington on Sunday, like I
51:01
Speaker 1: am embery other road game. But I think I think
51:03
Speaker 1: we're gonna win this game, and I think we're gonna
51:05
Speaker 1: win it, Cloaks.
51:06
Speaker 2: It is. It is interesting also because it opened at three.
51:09
Speaker 1: And a half.
51:10
Speaker 3: Yeah, which one do you guys put money on them?
51:12
Speaker 2: Which put any money on them? But it's weird.
51:15
Speaker 4: It's weird. I mean, I usually don't like betting on
51:20
Speaker 4: our game.
51:21
Speaker 1: I don't think I have this year yet, to be honest,
51:25
Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna bet on Nebraska. I just feel
51:28
Speaker 1: like it's a good spot.
51:29
Speaker 2: This is just all teeming up for a very set.
51:32
Speaker 2: I can feel you're.
51:34
Speaker 1: Just waiting for me to come on, and I don't
51:35
Speaker 1: even know what my emotions will be.
51:37
Speaker 3: Things play though.
51:38
Speaker 2: I can already feel the tech coming in Thursday.
51:41
Speaker 4: Okay, well, nice try.
51:44
Speaker 2: I can feel the Texans coming in. Have to find
51:46
Speaker 2: a way, big embarrassment. I can already feel those text
51:51
Speaker 2: message they probably already typed up in your phone. I
51:54
Speaker 2: actually have us losing twenty eight to seventeen. O oh boy,
52:02
Speaker 2: I just I'm I just am terrified of their offense.
52:06
Speaker 2: And I just think if they get a big leader offense,
52:10
Speaker 2: they they seem to find them getting in their own way.
52:15
Speaker 3: God, I still I would definitely take that six nas
52:19
Speaker 3: spread for Nebraska. I don't think. I don't think they're
52:21
Speaker 3: gonna win my more than six, but god, dang, I
52:23
Speaker 3: still know who's gonna win this. Go that's all you Sunday.
52:27
Speaker 3: What's my score prediction is? I'll go what?
52:33
Speaker 4: Why do you?
52:35
Speaker 3: Twenty to seventeen Nebraska? Would you say to seventeen?
52:41
Speaker 2: Okay?
52:42
Speaker 4: All right, so is that a missed extra point or
52:47
Speaker 4: two field goals?
52:50
Speaker 2: Probably make extra point? Do we go for two? Okay?
52:56
Speaker 3: Twenty one seventeen? You ain't making a field.
52:58
Speaker 4: Goal, but we couldn't miss an extra point.
53:03
Speaker 3: Easily. Yeah, all right.
53:07
Speaker 4: All right, Uh survivor picks for one of us.
53:13
Speaker 2: Let's see, Yeah, that's this week. I got Tulane over Rice,
53:20
Speaker 2: I got Wazoo, Washington State over Hawaii, s m U
53:24
Speaker 2: over Stanford, and the unstoppable Vanderbilt over Ball State.
53:31
Speaker 3: Now, how do you still have all these low tier teams?
53:33
Speaker 3: What are you just pulling these? Pull these out of nowhere?
53:37
Speaker 3: What I've gotten by this point I would have to take.
53:41
Speaker 3: I would have to take Georgia beating Texas or something
53:44
Speaker 3: like that.
53:47
Speaker 2: I'm saving them all.
53:49
Speaker 4: You gotta cross check Austin's teams.
53:51
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, we need to check this out. No way, I've.
53:55
Speaker 2: Got a spreadsheet that I've been tagging them in and
53:57
Speaker 2: supposed to highlight if they're duplicates.
53:59
Speaker 3: So I pick people get every week we did, I didn't.
54:02
Speaker 3: I forgot to keep you track.
54:05
Speaker 4: And that's still lost. Uh. Dak on your head. Look
54:12
Speaker 4: at you. You are.
54:14
Speaker 3: On a heater going seven last two weeks. I'd be
54:20
Speaker 3: last two weeks, eighteen and seven last two weeks.
54:24
Speaker 4: You are five and three. On your locks.
54:26
Speaker 1: Your lock did not hit your lock of the year
54:29
Speaker 1: be more specific than not hit. How do you do
54:31
Speaker 1: that with Oklahoma? I don't know, but you are a
54:34
Speaker 1: very sad person on Saturday.
54:38
Speaker 3: Yeah.
54:41
Speaker 1: Your overall record on the year it's fifty six, forty
54:46
Speaker 1: four and one. Here you're hitting at a fifty four
54:48
Speaker 1: and a half percent. That's right where you want to
54:51
Speaker 1: be if you want to win some money. So right
54:55
Speaker 1: now is the turning point to either go above or
54:57
Speaker 1: below that you're having a good year.
54:59
Speaker 4: You're high.
55:00
Speaker 1: Everybod should tell his picks, and Dak before coming on
55:02
Speaker 1: the pod, said he just wrote down ten picks, but
55:04
Speaker 1: he loves all ten of them.
55:05
Speaker 4: He feels really confident of them.
55:07
Speaker 2: He said, I love all ten. I'm confident all of them.
55:09
Speaker 2: Well except for that one.
55:11
Speaker 3: Before before we do these picks, I just want to
55:14
Speaker 3: hat myself up more. I am six and on an
55:16
Speaker 3: NFL locks this year.
55:17
Speaker 4: There you go, as am.
55:19
Speaker 3: I I don't know why we haven't part done those
55:23
Speaker 3: of both.
55:24
Speaker 1: But okay, all right, dakly you can there. You're not
55:29
Speaker 1: You're not on any time crunch here, so go through
55:32
Speaker 1: say your games. Do you want to give some reasoning
55:35
Speaker 1: you're no longer on a clock?
55:38
Speaker 3: Okay, I really don't have too much reasoning about this.
55:41
Speaker 3: But all right, I will do uh, we'll do one
55:45
Speaker 3: game right now off the bat Tuesday night, not Tuesday
55:47
Speaker 3: Wednesday night. It might have already kicked off. Who knows
55:50
Speaker 3: if I you minus seven, it's utib pause up. Boston
55:55
Speaker 3: College plus seven and a half against Virginia. I don't
55:58
Speaker 3: know if cast is hurt or something. And I think
56:00
Speaker 3: bost College is better in Virginia. Now here's my locker.
56:03
Speaker 3: Duke my three and is Florida State. I have no
56:05
Speaker 3: idea how Zach close Duke's five and one. Florida State
56:07
Speaker 3: is ass I think they're one in five. You flip
56:10
Speaker 3: those records and it's only it's only a three point spread.
56:14
Speaker 3: Next one, Purdue plus twenty seven halfgs Oregon Purdue. You
56:17
Speaker 3: don't want to play them on Friday night.
56:19
Speaker 4: Okay, so we have time to talk about this.
56:22
Speaker 1: Did you see you see the stat of Purdue's last
56:24
Speaker 1: three games against the number two AP ranks team at night?
56:29
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're one.
56:30
Speaker 4: They did lose their last one.
56:31
Speaker 3: I think last year was it Ohio State they kicked
56:34
Speaker 3: this year?
56:34
Speaker 1: Maybe Ohio State forty eight twenty back like.
56:38
Speaker 3: Nie years ago in Purdue in Iowa a couple of
56:41
Speaker 3: years ago I think it was yep.
56:43
Speaker 4: Iowa was the other one.
56:45
Speaker 3: I don't love that spread, but that's I only took
56:47
Speaker 3: him because of that. All right? Next one b Yu
56:49
Speaker 3: minus nine and half megs Oklahoma State. Did you guys
56:51
Speaker 3: see it having to Mike Gunny this weekend? No got
56:54
Speaker 3: a concussion from a bullhead button him on the bye
56:59
Speaker 3: week for what biting him? A bowl head buttons him.
57:03
Speaker 4: Oh, yes, that's a lock.
57:12
Speaker 3: They suck their quarterback is all of us in all
57:15
Speaker 3: of us combined Virginia plus torn hapginst Clemson. I hate Clemson.
57:21
Speaker 3: Next one, Missouri plus four and a half against Auburn.
57:25
Speaker 3: I think Auburn's offense is awful. Missouri is not as
57:28
Speaker 3: good as what I thought they'd beat. And honestly, I
57:31
Speaker 3: probably take an Auburn because we need Missouri to keep losing.
57:35
Speaker 3: All right. Next one, Oklahoma plus one happen in South Carolina.
57:38
Speaker 1: You're you're going through this like you're on a timer.
57:41
Speaker 1: You can slow down and dug at your picks.
57:45
Speaker 3: Me and you want Missouri to keep losing, then we'll
57:47
Speaker 3: just say that we also want Oklahoma keep losing. But
57:51
Speaker 3: we'll go Okahoma plus one a half against South Carolina. You
57:54
Speaker 3: guys know the reason behind that, all right? Next one,
57:56
Speaker 3: these next two, I want to know what you guys
57:58
Speaker 3: think about both these Tennessee plus do against Bama. I'm
58:02
Speaker 3: not impressed with either of these teams. I think Alabama's
58:07
Speaker 3: defense really sucks, and I think Tennessee's is a little
58:10
Speaker 3: bit better. I I just took them because they're home.
58:15
Speaker 3: Next one, Georgia plus five against Texas. You know the reason,
58:18
Speaker 3: man and I took that. I hate Texas? All right? Boom, Now,
58:23
Speaker 3: what do you guys think about those last two games.
58:25
Speaker 4: To watch that you didn't have a stop watch on. Uh?
58:31
Speaker 1: I hate Tennessee Obama game. I have no idea, no idea.
58:37
Speaker 1: I lean Alabama, but like I have no idea how
58:44
Speaker 1: either of these teams are going to respond. Tennessee I
58:46
Speaker 1: thought was decent. They have not looked great for the
58:49
Speaker 1: past two weeks. Alabama, I mean, who knows, Austin, what
58:56
Speaker 1: do you have on that one?
58:57
Speaker 4: Anything?
58:59
Speaker 2: I think I like Tennessee, Yeah.
59:03
Speaker 3: Just because they're home. Yeah, both teams have the Both
59:08
Speaker 3: teams I thought were great early in the season and
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Speaker 3: have fallen off the map.
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Speaker 1: What's I don't know what the implied like home field advantages. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: it's maybe a little bit different in college based on
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Speaker 1: the environment.
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Speaker 4: But you know, the NFL is like three. I would
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Speaker 4: guess colleges maybe a little.
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Speaker 3: Bit more more and a half probably.
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Speaker 1: I mean getting to the Georgia Texas game, I think
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Speaker 1: that's about right. Like you give me Georgia Texas right
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Speaker 1: now on a neutral field. I don't know who that
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Speaker 1: I'm taking.
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Speaker 3: I don't know which quarterback I'm taking.
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Speaker 4: Part of me leans Georgia in this game too.
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Speaker 1: Uh. I think I like Georgia a little more than
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Speaker 1: I like Alabama, But I just I hate they're both
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Speaker 1: on the road, Alabama and Georgia.
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Speaker 4: I just don't.
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Speaker 1: And it's scary. And in Texas I think right now,
1:00:00
Speaker 1: Scott all the all the targets on their back right
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Speaker 1: now and pressure and all of that, especially how they
1:00:09
Speaker 1: just drilled Oklahoma and everyone thinks that well even us,
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Speaker 1: maybe Texas is the one team they're gonna slip up.
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Speaker 4: I think this week's the best week to do it.
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Speaker 4: I don't know.
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Speaker 3: Those other three teams are winning go home kind of
1:00:24
Speaker 3: like they're guys.
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Speaker 4: CC.
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Speaker 3: You could probably lose five games. I'll still make it,
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Speaker 3: but it should be wan to go home for Bama,
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Speaker 3: Tennessee and Georgia.
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Speaker 2: Well, I mean, if you just have to be in
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Speaker 2: the top twelve, they're all going to be in.
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Speaker 4: The top twelve.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, before those spots. They have to be in the
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Speaker 3: top eight. Is for those spots to be taken.
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Speaker 2: True, But realistically, for those spots.
1:00:43
Speaker 3: Five of those spots will be taken. You gotta be
1:00:45
Speaker 3: top seven, but.
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Speaker 4: One of those still could be them.
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Speaker 3: That's true, I hope.
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Speaker 2: I mean if Georgia Alabama is they're probably not in
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Speaker 2: the championship game. It's gonna be Texas and Texas and.
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Speaker 3: M Realistically, no, yeah, they're yeah.
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Speaker 2: Games, You're probably not in the SEC championship.
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Speaker 4: Texas wins this week. I think that.
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Speaker 1: I just I think they could lose this week and
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Speaker 1: then it's all open again. I mean, yeah, you're right
1:01:12
Speaker 1: if they win this.
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Speaker 2: Yeah too much Jesse C talk.
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Speaker 1: Dah, get back to the big ten. You know my
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Speaker 1: favorite pick of the week, I don't think he had
1:01:25
Speaker 1: it on there. Iowa minus five and a half. Guys,
1:01:28
Speaker 1: Iowa's good. That was real good good hood because Michigan State.
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Speaker 3: I like that a lot.
1:01:33
Speaker 1: I think that I know they're at Michigan State. I
1:01:35
Speaker 1: think I think they're better all around than Michigan State.
1:01:39
Speaker 3: Everybody, everybody gave up on them after the Iowa State loss.
1:01:42
Speaker 3: Will look what Iowa State's like now, right.
1:01:44
Speaker 2: Well, they're running backs really freaking good.
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Speaker 4: Mm hmm shocker.
1:01:50
Speaker 3: Mcmra was fucking lighting money on fire, but macamer didn't
1:01:57
Speaker 3: they pay him like five hundred thousand dollars. They lit
1:01:59
Speaker 3: that money on fire.
1:02:01
Speaker 4: I liked something about the mayor.
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Speaker 3: That guy sucks. But they don't need a quarter Why
1:02:09
Speaker 3: don't they throw three million dollars at a quarterback? Like?
1:02:12
Speaker 3: Can they not go find what? They try to? Guess?
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Speaker 4: Maybe they don't want to.
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Speaker 1: Who wants to play quarterback at Iowa?
1:02:19
Speaker 3: They said trouble for trying to throw money at a quarterback?
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Speaker 4: All right, twelve, which is luck? Boys, wish me luck
1:02:29
Speaker 4: on my road adventure.
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Speaker 2: Good luck, good luck.
1:02:33
Speaker 4: Thanks thanks tach Rhetorical question.
1:02:38
Speaker 1: Uh, we're back on Sunday, probably with a bunch of
1:02:41
Speaker 1: tears and depressed emotions, but that's what we do.
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Speaker 4: Here on the Return to Glory Podcast.
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Speaker 2: Hope you're wrong, I hope I'm wrong.
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Speaker 4: Hope I'm right with my score prediction.
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Speaker 2: There you go.
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Speaker 4: All right, go be gread gb R more.
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