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Chuck in the Morning 9/1 H4: Rick Neuheisel, ABC's of the Mariners and one last thing! · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: All right nine o'clock hour here on this tuesday but
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  Speaker 1: not just any tuesday it is a special tuesday the
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  Speaker 1: college football season is underway and so.
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  Speaker 2: Too we renew our friendship uh with college football insider,
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  Speaker 2: former UW head coach, former quarterback of the San Antonio Gunslingers,
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  Speaker 2: and the best damn analyst in the business. He is
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  Speaker 2: back for another season with us here on KJR. Rick
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  Speaker 2: Neuheisel joins us. Hello, coach.
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  Speaker 3: Chuck, how the heck are you, buddy? You ready for 2026?
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  Speaker 2: I think so. I think I am. Are you? That's
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  Speaker 2: the bigger question.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I'm ready. Storylines abound, as is normally the case.
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  Speaker 3: But many of them away from the fields of play.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Many of them in the courtrooms. And that has been
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  Speaker 3: the story all summer long.
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  Speaker 2: Well, let's go ahead and start there since you brought
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  Speaker 2: it up. What the hell is wrong with Lane Kiffin?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, at his core as a human being, what
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  Speaker 2: is the issue with this person?
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  Speaker 3: Always looking for an edge. And listen, I've been in
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  Speaker 3: the business a long time. I understand that. I was
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  Speaker 3: always looking for an edge in recruiting, always trying to
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  Speaker 3: figure out how, because that's your lifeblood, getting good players.
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  Speaker 3: But this has gone to a place where I think
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  Speaker 3: everybody is just scratching their heads. And in this case,
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  Speaker 3: I actually can't fault him. Because the class of 2022,
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  Speaker 3: the class of 2022 got a raw deal by the NCAA.
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  Speaker 3: They were told that there was going to be no
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  Speaker 3: extra year. And so those who decided to go off
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  Speaker 3: to the NFL, even though they weren't drafted, decided, OK,
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  Speaker 3: I'll go off and try to get into camp and
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  Speaker 3: make a team. And then they find out in June
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  Speaker 3: after they've already signed that, oh, we're going to go
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  Speaker 3: five for five. But in the five for five edict,
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  Speaker 3: the NCAA still says to everybody that's part of that
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  Speaker 3: class of 2022, the high school class of 2022, that
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  Speaker 3: you don't get to play the fifth year. You played
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  Speaker 3: against people that all got a fifth year because of COVID.
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  Speaker 3: You are anybody that's not a senior that didn't just graduate.
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  Speaker 3: They get their fifth year. But you are going to
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  Speaker 3: be the one class in this kind of last decade
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  Speaker 3: that doesn't get your fifth year. And then when the
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  Speaker 3: kids took that to court, judges looked around and said, why?
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  Speaker 3: Why are you the only ones that don't get the
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  Speaker 3: fifth year? And so they said, the merits of your opportunity,
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  Speaker 3: the chances of you winning in court are such that
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to provide you an injunction. And that's why
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  Speaker 3: they're eligible to play. And we're going to see a
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  Speaker 3: bunch of those kids play this weekend. So Lane just said, well,
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  Speaker 3: what about the guys that because they were told they
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  Speaker 3: couldn't play, went and tried to make an NFL team?
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  Speaker 3: and now aren't on an NFL team, why can't they
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  Speaker 3: come back? And the judge in Louisiana has said, I
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  Speaker 3: agree with you. They shouldn't be able to come back.
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  Speaker 3: They were given bad information by the very entity that
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  Speaker 3: created the new rule. And because of that, Lane's trying
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  Speaker 3: to get a few of his former players back to
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  Speaker 3: come and play for him at LSU. A Louisiana judge
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  Speaker 3: has said yes, and the SEC is up in arms,
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  Speaker 3: threatening him. All sorts of penalties, all sorts of fines,
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  Speaker 3: all sorts of even kicking LSU out of the league
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  Speaker 3: is being talked about. I mean, it is craziness what's
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  Speaker 3: going on in the southeastern portion of our country.
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  Speaker 2: So what is he going to do? Is he just
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  Speaker 2: going to play them and then see where the chips fall?
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  Speaker 4: No.
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  Speaker 3: So tomorrow or excuse me, Thursday, there's going to be
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  Speaker 3: another court hearing. The SEC bringing this this to a
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  Speaker 3: magistrate and they're going to plead their case. And that
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  Speaker 3: judge is going to give a ruling. And Lane Kiffin
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  Speaker 3: has said he'll comply with whatever that whatever that judge says.
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  Speaker 3: The SEC has said we got to think about all
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  Speaker 3: of our options because they're banding against LSU, thinking that
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  Speaker 3: they're a rogue state, if you will. And it's wild.
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  Speaker 3: It really is wild.
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  Speaker 2: Is this going to be the craziest thing that happens?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, do you get the impression that we're starting
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  Speaker 2: to get our arms around every potential weird situation? Or
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  Speaker 2: are we just a long way away from the Wild
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  Speaker 2: West having laws in town?
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  Speaker 3: Well, the five for five rule is a common sense rule.
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  Speaker 3: that the idea that you get five years to play,
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  Speaker 3: which then that people can't play games with the red
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  Speaker 3: shirt rule, right? The red shirt rule was great while
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  Speaker 3: it was around. But now that people get paid, if
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  Speaker 3: I can stop playing and save my year because I've
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  Speaker 3: proven I'm a really good player and get more money
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  Speaker 3: the next place, you stop playing. And no one wants that.
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  Speaker 3: So we've just gone to five for five, which makes sense.
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  Speaker 3: It starts now. when you turn 19 or when you, uh,
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  Speaker 3: graduate high school, whichever comes first and has a few
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  Speaker 3: exceptions like a Mormon mission or something like that. But,
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  Speaker 3: but that's it. Five for five, no waivers. That makes
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  Speaker 3: a lot of sense. What didn't make sense is that
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  Speaker 3: the guys who wrote that bill and wrote that law
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  Speaker 3: into the NCA, uh, uh, legislation just said to the
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  Speaker 3: class of 22, except you not realizing what judges were
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  Speaker 3: going to say, because it's, It's easy for a judge
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  Speaker 3: to say, well, you're getting the wrong side of this
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  Speaker 3: and finding for him. And all you have to do
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  Speaker 3: is give an injunction. You don't have to have it
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  Speaker 3: go to court because court won't happen until after the
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  Speaker 3: year is over and the guys will get to play.
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  Speaker 3: We've seen countless people play in the last two or
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  Speaker 3: three years of college football that never actually went to court,
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  Speaker 3: even though they got an injunction to do just that.
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  Speaker 2: You know what's funny is the other night I couldn't sleep,
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  Speaker 2: so I just turned on one of those 30 for 30s,
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  Speaker 2: and it was the SMU story. It was the death
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  Speaker 2: penalty to SMU. And I'm sitting there watching. I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: this is tame compared to what's happening now in every program.
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  Speaker 3: I was at UCLA. We got a couple of those kids.
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  Speaker 3: The guys who went to Dallas on that story to
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  Speaker 3: recruit said it was the wildest scene. Every hotel in
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  Speaker 3: Dallas was filled with college recruiters all trying to find
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  Speaker 3: and hide these kids at different restaurants so they could
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  Speaker 3: talk to them about coming to their school.
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  Speaker 2: That reminds me of that. There's a Major League Baseball story.
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  Speaker 2: When Major League Baseball started the American League against the
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  Speaker 2: National League, and they were doing the same thing 100
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  Speaker 2: years ago. I mean, we're supposed to like... It's.
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  Speaker 3: The old NBA versus ABA, the NFL versus the AFL.
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  Speaker 3: It's all the same. The competition creates the competitor.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I know that we've had controversial topics that have
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  Speaker 2: been juicy to discuss, and at times... irritating, frustrating, and
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  Speaker 2: have sent some people over the edge. But another thing
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  Speaker 2: that has happened during this last three years is, man,
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  Speaker 2: we've had some great football. We have had some great
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  Speaker 2: football seasons the last two or three years, and I
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  Speaker 2: doubt that's going to be different for this upcoming year.
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  Speaker 2: So let's talk about the landscape for the college football
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  Speaker 2: season upcoming. Who is your first team that comes to
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  Speaker 2: mind when I say, who's the team to beat in
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  Speaker 2: college football this year?
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  Speaker 3: I think it's Notre Dame. Notre Dame has an excellent
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  Speaker 3: quarterback in C.J. Carr. I had a lot of friends
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  Speaker 3: who were down at the Manning Passing Academy, which happens
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  Speaker 3: every year in Thibodeau, Louisiana. And they recruit all kinds
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  Speaker 3: of college quarterbacks to come there and kind of put
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  Speaker 3: on displays. They coach the young kids, but they also
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  Speaker 3: kind of have a showcase, if you will. And C.J.
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  Speaker 3: Carr was incredibly impressive. he's the grandson of Lloyd Carr,
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  Speaker 3: who was the coach at Michigan. So you know he's
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  Speaker 3: got a background in football. He's going to be well-versed
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  Speaker 3: in terms of the X's and O's. But he's also very,
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  Speaker 3: very good. So you start with him. You've got a
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  Speaker 3: couple of Ohio State receivers that just transferred in. You
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  Speaker 3: know what Ohio State gets in the wide receiver department.
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  Speaker 3: You've got the best offensive line coming back. You've got
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  Speaker 3: a great linebacker and secondary core, a top five defensive line,
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  Speaker 3: and you don't play a team that can come close
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  Speaker 3: to beating you without helping them by beating yourself until
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  Speaker 3: November 7th, which is Miami. So they've got a schedule.
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  Speaker 3: They've got everything you need. Notre Dame's the team to pick.
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  Speaker 2: Notre Dame. Look at that.
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  Speaker 3: Yuck.
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  Speaker 2: Says the USC fan chiming in. Or USC grad, I
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  Speaker 2: should say.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but they don't play it anymore, so she can't
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  Speaker 3: be bitter.
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  Speaker 5: Well, that whole thing makes me bitter, too. But at USC,
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  Speaker 5: not at Notre Dame.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, she even celebrated, I think, UCLA firing their AD today,
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  Speaker 2: which I thought was over the top. I'm like, well, man,
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  Speaker 2: that's rough. Rick Neuheisel with us here on Chugging Back
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  Speaker 2: in the Morning, his first official visit with us of
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  Speaker 2: the college football season. Excited to have him back for
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  Speaker 2: another full year, thanks to Taco Time. All right, let's
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  Speaker 2: talk about the players that will be involved this year.
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  Speaker 2: this time last year was all arch madness and then
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  Speaker 2: obviously he didn't exactly have the road paved for him
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  Speaker 2: to a Heisman trophy a year ago but he's back
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  Speaker 2: again and my guess is he's going to have a
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  Speaker 2: pretty good season but is he going to have the
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  Speaker 2: best season out there who's the player you got your
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  Speaker 2: eye on this season.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I just mentioned CJ Carr. Obviously, Dante Moore at
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  Speaker 3: Oregon is a tremendous player, as is DeMond Williams, the
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  Speaker 3: quarterback right there in Seattle for the Dogs. I think
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  Speaker 3: those guys are fabulous players. Jaden Maiava just got out
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  Speaker 3: of the blocks as SC beat San Jose State. I
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  Speaker 3: know it's just San Jose State, but he was 25
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  Speaker 3: of 29 in his first go-round. You've got.
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  Speaker 3: Josh Hoover is now the quarterback at Indiana. He'd been
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  Speaker 3: at TCU. If he eliminates interceptions, which kind of plagued
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  Speaker 3: him a little bit, playing for the Frogs, and under Signetti,
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  Speaker 3: I expect him to do that. He's got a chance
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  Speaker 3: to be terrific. Darian Menza was an unbelievable player for
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  Speaker 3: Duke and Tulane. Now he's at Miami, and you can
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  Speaker 3: imagine what's along with him, namely Malachi Toney. Uh, the receiver,
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  Speaker 3: the freshman that was a phenom, you saw him showcase.
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  Speaker 3: I think he had 10 catches or something close to
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  Speaker 3: it in the national championship game. So there's in Trinidad,
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  Speaker 3: Chambliss at Ole miss, uh, Marcel Reed at Texas A & M.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, there's, there's really good players. This is going
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  Speaker 3: to be a fun, fun season. Um, and, and just,
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  Speaker 3: I know it's sounds Homer ish, given that you're in Seattle,
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  Speaker 3: but I liked the Husky schedule. I really do. And
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  Speaker 3: I long for them to be in the hunt when
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  Speaker 3: Indiana comes to town in November. Indiana is not going
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  Speaker 3: to be intimidated because of the weather, but they will
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  Speaker 3: be intimidated because of that Husky crowd that I know
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  Speaker 3: is one of the best in football when they're motivated.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm kind of pinpointing that game as a CFP
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  Speaker 3: highlighted type of occasion.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I went out to camp a couple of weeks
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  Speaker 2: ago and I've kind of gotten the buzz around this team.
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  Speaker 2: And they believe three years into the Jed Fish era
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  Speaker 2: that when he took over, I mean, he had to
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  Speaker 2: rebuild the lines from scratch. And they believe that's the
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  Speaker 2: strength of this team, the offensive line and the defensive line.
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  Speaker 2: So what do you think that means for a team
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  Speaker 2: that has DeMond Williams at quarterback for their chances of
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  Speaker 2: making the playoffs this year?
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  Speaker 3: I think a 10-2 team from the Big Ten is in, okay?
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  Speaker 3: And as you look at their schedule, they should be
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  Speaker 3: 3-0 when Minnesota comes to town. And I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: say the Husky home crowd will carry them through against P.J.
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  Speaker 2: 's crew.
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  Speaker 3: The game at USC in early October is a big one.
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  Speaker 3: If they can find a way to win on the road,
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  Speaker 3: which will be their first road test, that to me
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  Speaker 3: will signal that this is a team that has arrived.
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  Speaker 3: They get Iowa at home, another Husky crowd requirement. You've
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  Speaker 3: got to be there for that. On the road at Purdue,
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  Speaker 3: they should handle business. And you can't take anything lightly.
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  Speaker 3: We all remember what happened at Wisconsin, right? And then
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  Speaker 3: at Nebraska, those are winnable games. I'm anxious to see
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  Speaker 3: what Calandria looks like at Nebraska. But until I'm proven otherwise,
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  Speaker 3: Nebraska is a 500 team. Then you get Penn State
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  Speaker 3: at home. At Michigan State, a team kind of been
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  Speaker 3: rebuilding with Pat Fitzgerald as their coach. Indiana at home.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just saying, even with two blemishes and then you
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  Speaker 3: finish at Oregon, you can go to Eugene holding a
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  Speaker 3: Pat hand. I see them having a real chance to
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  Speaker 3: be 10-1 or 9-2 going to Oregon to play for
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  Speaker 3: a CFP spot.
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  Speaker 2: You know, that lake jump you did would have been
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  Speaker 2: a lot easier to do this time of year, a
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  Speaker 2: lot warmer. Oh, my goodness.
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  Speaker 3: Can you imagine the apple cup plunge? I mean, that
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  Speaker 3: would have been simple Simon. Yeah, easy. I'm telling you,
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  Speaker 3: in November, it's a commitment.
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  Speaker 2: You can tell her firsthand. That's a commitment. What do
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  Speaker 2: you think of?
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  Speaker 3: I told you that story about Barbara Hedges. I told
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  Speaker 3: you that story about Barbara, right? Uh-huh.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I know the plunge. That's why I'm bringing it up.
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  Speaker 2: It would just be so easy to do when the
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  Speaker 2: Apple Cups played in early September, for goodness sake.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's a no-brainer.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think, as somebody that's coached in this
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  Speaker 2: game and still feels part of this rivalry? I remember
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  Speaker 2: you bringing the apples for the guys on the set
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  Speaker 2: last year for the Apple Cup. What do you think
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  Speaker 2: of it being the opening game of the year and
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  Speaker 2: on a Sunday?
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  Speaker 3: I'll take it whenever I can get it. College football
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  Speaker 3: has morphed and changed and been put through some meat
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  Speaker 3: grinders and blenders and what have you. And we got
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  Speaker 3: a we got a smoothie now.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 3: But but the bottom line is if we can get
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  Speaker 3: it on the schedule where Washington and Washington State play,
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  Speaker 3: we should get it on the schedule. The problem is
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  Speaker 3: for the poor Cougars is they've been beat up in
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  Speaker 3: terms of what they can afford to spend on their
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  Speaker 3: roster because they're not getting the same kind of television
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  Speaker 3: revenue and for no wrongdoing on their own. It's just unfortunate.
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  Speaker 3: So the chances for the game to be really competitive
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  Speaker 3: have diminished. But don't tell that to that team that's
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  Speaker 3: going to take the field wearing crimson and gray.
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  Speaker 2: You might as well tell your Barbara Hedges story for
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  Speaker 2: those that didn't hear it.
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  Speaker 3: Barbara Hedges was in my kitchen getting ready as we
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  Speaker 3: were all preparing for the Apple Cup plunge. And Neil Dempsey,
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  Speaker 3: whose name is on the indoor facility, an incredibly benevolent booster.
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  Speaker 3: sat and looked at me like, are you crazy? You're
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  Speaker 3: jumping in the lake right now. It's that cold. And
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  Speaker 3: I said, we're going, Neil, you want to go? And
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  Speaker 3: he goes, I won't, but I will write a check
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  Speaker 3: for $ 2 million to the athletic department. And he pointed
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  Speaker 3: at Barbara. If she goes, if she goes 2 million
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  Speaker 3: right now. And I looked at Barbara and I said,
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  Speaker 3: come on, let's go. And she said, Rick, I can't
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  Speaker 3: my hair.
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  Speaker 2: Two million dollars.
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  Speaker 3: Two million. I said we can buy new hair. She
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  Speaker 3: didn't think that was funny.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think the game will last many more years?
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  Speaker 2: Do you think that the sands and the hourglass are
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  Speaker 2: running out on it?
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  Speaker 3: Here's my prediction. I think For the short term, that
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  Speaker 3: could be obviously your conclusion. I see a new world
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  Speaker 3: in 2031, 2032, maybe even having to wait until 2036
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  Speaker 3: when the ACC television deal is up, where we reshuffle
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  Speaker 3: the deck, and Washington and Washington State will be back
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  Speaker 3: as partners again in whatever the new look of college
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  Speaker 3: football is.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it'll be sad, but it wouldn't be the first
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  Speaker 2: great rivalry that got crushed by the modern times. But
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  Speaker 2: hopefully we do get to see the game played annually
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  Speaker 2: going forward. We shall see how it unfolds. All right.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to go through. I mean, I normally
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  Speaker 2: weekly go through the big games this weekend, but. You
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  Speaker 2: haven't even had a chance to watch most of these
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  Speaker 2: teams play, any of these teams play this weekend. So
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  Speaker 2: it almost seems unfair to have you analyze them without
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  Speaker 2: any information having watched them play. So I'll just ask this.
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  Speaker 2: What's the game you're most looking forward to this weekend
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  Speaker 2: that's not the Apple Cup?
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  Speaker 3: The Tiger versus Tiger thing in Baton Rouge. So much
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  Speaker 3: conversation about Lane and what's going on there and you know,
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  Speaker 3: our pros play in and here comes Dabo Sweeney, who's
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  Speaker 3: as old school as they come, you know, baseball, hot dogs,
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  Speaker 3: apple pie and Dabo Sweeney. Right. And, and I'm, I'm,
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  Speaker 3: I'm just curious to see if his Clemson team can
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  Speaker 3: give those, the, the new fangled tigers a run. And, uh,
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  Speaker 3: I'm hoping it's a really competitive game.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Uh, do you have your same crew back
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  Speaker 2: this year?
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  Speaker 3: Same crew. On Tuesdays, though, we add a face. Brian
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  Speaker 3: Kelly joins our squad today, which I leave our phone
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  Speaker 3: call now to go to the studio and do some
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  Speaker 3: TV with BK, which.
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  Speaker 2: Will be fun. He came out firing this past weekend
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: as a media member, from what I understand. So get ready.
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: I don't think there'll be any shyness from Brian Kelly.
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: I don't worry about his ability to be gregarious.
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: Well, have fun. Thanks again for joining us. We're excited
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: to have you back for another year and looking forward
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: to another thrilling college football season with you.
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: We're going to have a blast. Go Dawgs. Enjoy the weekend,
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: my friend.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: Rick Neuheisel joining us right here on the radio show.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: Coming up next, ABCs of the M, Sports Radio 93.3 KJRFM.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: Losing somehow to the Boston Red Sox last night, inventing
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: another way to blow a baseball game 9-8 in 10 innings.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: And so we've had numerous conversations about it here this morning.
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to recap all of them. I'm just
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: going to use the ABCs of the M's as they
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: were designed to be used You never know where the
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: alphabet's going to take us through our Daily Mariner segment.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: And we begin with the letter M today, and M
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: is for Montez. So, not trying to pull it a
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: silver lining, but certainly for Mariner fans that follow prospects,
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: this is an exciting night to see Laz Montez make
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: his Major League debut. We still don't know who's pitching
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: for the rest in Red Sox, or at least I
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: didn't at 6 o'clock this morning. Maybe they've updated that since.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: I can check. But if it's a left-hander, I would
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: imagine that Montez is going to play anyway. That would
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: be my guess. Looks like Jettison Pius. Never even heard
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: of him. Bet you he's left-handed. No, he's right-handed. 22
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: years old.
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: Oh, and he's wearing a white socks uniform in the picture,
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: so he must have just.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: Jadickson Pius. Never even heard of him. 22 years old, 6'1, 175,
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: 70 pounds. So Laz Montes is going to be in
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: the lineup tonight. Who are you getting in Laz Montes?
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: For those of you that don't follow the prospects, the
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: best power hitter in our organization, at least power hitting
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: prospect in our organization. A big dude. So gregarious. Such
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: a great personality. And then also moves pretty well for
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: his size. Has a really big arm from right field.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: I watched him play a few Tacoma games and sometimes defensively, yeah,
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: he doesn't always take the best route. But I watched
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: him play the last couple of games and he was
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: fantastic in the outfield. So I'm excited about this tonight
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: if for no other reason than to watch Laz Montes
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: make his debut in the major leagues. And maybe he
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: will give them a boost because this dude does damage
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: to the baseball when he makes contact with it. But
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: he does strike out a lot. And he hits from
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: the left side of the plate. So, again, we already
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: have a pretty lefty-dominated lineup. Well, we're adding another left-handed
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: hitter to that mix here this evening. So, excited about it. Now,
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: there is another wrinkle to this. There's another power-hitting prospect
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: placed for the Cleveland Guardians organization by the name of
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: Ralphie Velasquez. And Ralphie Velasquez is the hottest hitter in
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: the minor leagues. And the Guardians right now are a
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: wild card team. They actually had the last spot in
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: the wild card, or at least last I checked. And so,
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: Ralphie Velasquez could help a team that, despite their status
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: as a playoff team, has been terrible offensively all season long.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: And so, they've been asking, just like they did a
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: year ago with Chase DeLauder, when are we going to
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: bring up Ralphie? Ralphie, Ralphie, wreck it, Ralphie. Let's bring
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: up Ralphie.
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: Ralphie, Ralphie, Ralphie.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: That's all they've been talking about in Cleveland, and they've
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: refused to do it to this point. And they still
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: haven't announced, even though today's September 1st, i.e. September call-up time,
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: they still haven't announced that he's being called up. And
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: believe me, he's crushing it. And one of the reasons
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: they aren't is because they are thinking about there possibly
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: being a strike next year. A little interesting fact about that.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: Major League Baseball can strike minor league baseball can continue playing.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: So their theory is apparently in Cleveland, do we really
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: want to start his clock, have to create a 40-man
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: roster spot for him, and then if we don't have
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: major league baseball, Ralphie doesn't have a place to play.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: Where if we don't activate him this year to try
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: to help us win and secure a playoff spot, then
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: he can keep his development going at the minor league level. Well,
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: we've clearly decided we don't care about that with Laz
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: Montes here in Seattle. And so interesting kind of approach
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: to all of this shows you how desperate the Mariners
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: are to still try to pull this thing off. Meanwhile,
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: the Cleveland Guardians are far more worried about Ralphie Velasquez's
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: longevity than they are about whether or not they make
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: a wild card spot this year.
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: Yeah, sure seems that way.
• 24:23
  Speaker 4: Also, I will say, I would love to see Montez
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: hit his 39th and 40th home runs against Jeddix and
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: Paez today with his 18 ERA.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, let's do that.
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 24:33
  Speaker 5: He's played in three games. The last one was March 31st.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I think he's being called up just because of
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: an emergency.
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: Yeah, let's do it.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: Situation here. So, yeah, I'm sure we'll invent a way
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: to get no hit by him.
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: Oh, God.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: All right. N is for nincompoop. Okay. Yeah, I'm going
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: to talk about Dan. I'm shocked. I mean, I mentioned
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: this at 6 o'clock. I did not mention it when
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: we talked about him at 7.30 or at 8 o'clock
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: when we talked about the season at large. I don't
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: mean to keep piling on, but, man, you should have, like,
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: one managerial decision that you're, like, outraged by.
• 25:16
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: I mean, if you're being reasonable... At most, once a
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: week maybe, where you're like standing on the table like, no, no, no.
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: Or why?
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And maybe I'm wrong. Maybe you are wrong, the
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: Mariner fan. And maybe the manager is right most of
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: the time and we're wrong. Maybe that's the case. I mean,
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: he does have a lot more information than we do, right?
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: He has played a lot more baseball than what we have, right?
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: But I'm telling you, Ashley, it is four times a game.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: It's four times a game with this guy. And last
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: night was, why have they not figured out that when
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: George gives up a cheap hit that he loses focus?
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: He needs a little talking to.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: I mean, since I started bringing this up, does it
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: not happen every single time? If he gives up a
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: cheap hit, he gets angry. And then the next thing
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: you know, he's giving up a walk, which he did
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: last night. And then it was a 2-0 count on
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: the next batter before Cal went out to talk to him.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: I'm not saying Pete goes out there or Dan goes
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: out there. Cal's perfectly good with that, but Cal either
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: needs to take it upon himself or Dan needs to say, Cal,
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: get out there. He just gave up a blue pit.
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: You know what happens, Dan, when he gives up a
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: blue hit. Talk him off the blue pit. Talk him
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: off the ledge. You don't say it out loud on
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: the field, but there's got to be some sort of
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: code like.
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: Ha, ha.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: Ka-ka!
• 26:45
  Speaker 6: Ka-ka!
• 26:46
  Speaker 5: Whip-a-wow! Whip-a-wow!
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: You know, some sort of call that George isn't even
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: aware of that means, oh yeah, I gotta go out
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: and talk to George. How are they keep letting this happen?
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: And he gave up two more runs last night after
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: the cheap infield single that he knew he made his pitch,
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: and that guy should have never been on first, and
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: I'm pissed about it, and I can't even focus on
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: the next hitter, and I'm gonna walk him, and I'm
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: gonna 2-0 on the next guy because I can't get
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: over the fact that that... Jerk got an infield single
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: against me when I made my pitch. That's how it operates,
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: and the Mariners do not figure it out. This has
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: been five years with this guy, and they still don't
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: figure it out.
• 27:25
  Speaker 5: Yeah, there's no excuse for it, honestly. There's no excuse.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: Oh, that's just one example. Bizzardo shouldn't have been in.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: We shouldn't have bunted with Robles in the 10th. That's
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: not what you do in the top of the 10th inning,
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: and shouldn't have put Criswell in in the bottom of
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: the 10th. his first appearance in two months, you're going
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: to throw him into the fire and say, save our season, buddy.
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: And then load the bases and give him no margin
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: for error. That's where it bothered me.
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: I was sitting there watching it with my friend Ashley
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: because it's easy to have friends with the same name.
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: You never forget them.
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: And I said, what are we doing? Now he can't
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: screw up at all because we'll just walk in the
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: winning run. And that's the worst thing.
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: And what did he do?
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: 3-0.
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: And then he had to throw right over.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: The middle, and Story ends up knocking in the game-winning hit.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: It's not bad strategy to load the bases in that situation.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: Not with him. Yeah, exactly. Because you do want to
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: get the force at home. Chad Durbin is a dirtbag.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: I mean, he's going to get the job done if
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: you pitch to Durbin in that situation. But I'm throwing
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: Ferrer against the lefty Duran. Maybe I don't have the
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: force at home. But maybe I can get the strikeout,
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: and that's my best way to get out of this,
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: not getting the force at home. So it was just
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: a terrible decision to go to Criswell. Yeah. You haven't
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: pitched in two months. You're coming back to Boston where
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: you used to pitch. Your motor's going to be running
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: hotter than anyone here. I'm going to load the bases
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: for you. Get out of it.
• 28:51
  Speaker 5: Yeah, please don't screw this up.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: Unreal. O is for oblique. I think we're going to
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: find out this offseason that Cal Raleigh played with a
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: Bad oblique this entire year. And I think that we're
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: going to have a different perspective on it once we
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: get to the offseason when he's honest about it. And
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: here's why I mean this. Anybody else notice that he
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: can't throw out runners anymore? And I know he got
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: one last night. I don't even remember the last time
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: he threw out a base runner prior to last night.
• 29:22
  Speaker 5: We actually had someone text in and ask about that yesterday.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: Do you know what it is? Here are his percentages
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: since he came into the league. 26%, 29%, 28%, 29%.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: That was his platinum glove year. year.
• 29:41
  Speaker 5: 26%.
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: Those were the first five years. That's a really good
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: ratio in Major League Baseball. This season, 13%. Oh, wow.
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: He's throwing out 13. Nine out of 10 runners are
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: stealing base. Alejandro Kirk. Stole a base against him over
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: the weekend.
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and he's short and chubby.
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: Now, does anybody think that Cal Raleigh's arm would have
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: just gone to trash in the offseason? Or do you
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: think maybe he can't let it rip because he's dealing
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: with a side injury? Maybe?
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: Maybe?
• 30:17
  Speaker 6: Maybe.
• 30:17
  Speaker 5: I wouldn't rule it out.
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: I mean, he's never dealt with an injury before this year,
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: and I don't know that he handles it well.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: His arm strength is 45th. This guy won a Platinum
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: Glove Award two years ago. Arm strength of all catchers
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: in Major League Baseball, 45th out of 70. When Cal Raleigh's, oh, fine.
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: We're talking top 10.
• 30:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah, he's incredible.
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: 13% of base runners.
• 30:42
  Speaker 4: I hadn't thought about the possibility that he was still
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: playing with it. I think he's still playing with it.
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: I think that's a good observation.
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: He's either still playing with pain or he got so
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: used to throwing that way to protect himself that now
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: his entire motion is off.
• 30:58
  Speaker 6: Oof.
• 30:59
  Speaker 5: Well, I hope, I'm going to hope that it's some
• 31:01
  Speaker 5: pain that he can get over and not that he
• 31:02
  Speaker 5: has to relearn how to throw.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: Finally, and I do have to mention this just quickly.
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: P is for Peyton. Did you like the hug last night?
• 31:10
  Speaker 5: Oh, between him and.
• 31:12
  Speaker 2: Dom? Yeah, and Dom.
• 31:13
  Speaker 5: Yeah, actually, I thought it was funny.
• 31:15
  Speaker 6: I laughed.
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: As diehard as Red Sox fans are, you know how, oh,
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: take it seriously. That's a wicked pisser.
• 31:22
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: They loved it. They love him.
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, because it was funny. It was like, Okay, Dom
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: was like, all right, you got me here. And I mean,
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: what are you going to do in that? Be mad
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: that Dom didn't reach first?
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: No.
• 31:33
  Speaker 5: And it wasn't that he wasn't taking it seriously. It
• 31:35
  Speaker 5: was just a moment.
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: He's apparently like the most likable person in sports. Peyton Tolley,
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: the pitcher for the Red Sox. Big bear of a
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: man with big giant Tom Selleck mustache. Really good at
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: what he does. But he plays with that sort of
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: charm all the time. And it might rub old school
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: people the wrong way that he's going to hug an opponent.
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: But it got... greeted with so much aplomb last night,
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: and when Red Sox fans are like, I love this guy,
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: after something like that, I mean, he's a pretty special dude,
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: that Peyton Tully. I liked it.
• 32:09
  Speaker 5: It's not like Dom hit a home run and then...
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: totally walked up to him at home plate and was like, hey, man,
• 32:13
  Speaker 5: that was a great hit.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly.
• 32:15
  Speaker 5: This was in the competitive spirit.
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: It was funny. A big giant bear standing between you
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: and first base. You can run over me or you
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: can hug me.
• 32:23
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Dom's just like, all right.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: Let me rephrase that. You can try to run over
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: me or you can just hug me and accept your fate.
• 32:32
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: And they just did the hug it out. I actually
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: really liked that. Me too. All right, one last thing
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: next on KJR. Oh, that Ashley Ryan's going to entertain
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: you next Wednesday if you want to be around 12s,
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: but you're not heading to the game. I mean, we
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: are starting defense of a world championship after all.
• 33:00
  Speaker 5: Oh, are we the returning Super Bowl champions?
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: Oh.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: Everybody shares in that.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: Then you get your big giant ring.
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: I will check the mail when I get home.
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: It probably is in the mail. But yeah, if you
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: want to be a part of an opening day watch party,
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: Tulalip Resort and Casino is hosting one at their Tulalip Amphitheater.
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: So 3,000 seating capacity outdoors, the way God intended it.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: And then out there with the big screen television and
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: the amphitheater quality sound. You can be around fellow 12s.
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: You can win some prizes. You can eat. You can drink.
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: You can be right next door to a casino. For
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: goodness sake, if you want to make a few bets
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: on the game. And you get to hang out with
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: Ashley Ryan.
• 33:45
  Speaker 5: Yeah, you do.
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: So that's next Wednesday. 4.30 doors open. Game time at 5.20.
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: Tulalip Resort Casino. And all you want is everything. Everythingtulalip.com.
• 33:56
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: What's your one last thing today?
• 33:57
  Speaker 5: Oh, I'm having a hard time, Chuck. Having a real
• 34:00
  Speaker 5: hard time.
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: With?
• 34:02
  Speaker 5: Palmer starts middle school tomorrow.
• 34:04
  Speaker 6: Oh, wow.
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: Palmer the Great is going to be a middle schooler
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: tomorrow morning.
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: Is that a tough one?
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: As a parent, middle school, from grade school to middle school?
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: Yeah, because once they start middle school, they start changing
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: real fast. And, you know, elementary school, they're just still
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: little kids.
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 34:22
  Speaker 5: They have a playground.
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 34:25
  Speaker 5: And now it's hard. Okay.
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: It's hard.
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: What's been the toughest one before now? Is that kindergarten?
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: And then this one, it won't be as hard as kindergarten,
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: will it?
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 34:41
  Speaker 5: We'll see how I feel tomorrow. I don't get to
• 34:42
  Speaker 5: take her to school.
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: When I took her to kindergarten, although on the last
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: day of elementary school, you should have seen all the
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: moms outside school.
• 34:48
  Speaker 5: We all had tears in our eyes. So did the kids.
• 34:51
  Speaker 5: It's a big transition to go from elementary school to
• 34:53
  Speaker 5: middle school.
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: Is this the last big one?
• 34:56
  Speaker 5: No, then it'll go to high school.
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: High school will be even bigger or just as difficult?
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: I don't know. It's a great question because I feel
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: like they go through such a change in middle school
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: that I don't know that transition into high school is
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: as emotional versus this feels like she's going from being
• 35:11
  Speaker 4: a little kid to almost a teenager, and that's hard.
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: I don't want to put any pressure on you, but...
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: For a little while, when I was in middle school,
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: I was dating a senior in high school.
• 35:23
  Speaker 5: Okay, well, that's different.
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: I don't want to put any pressure on you.
• 35:29
  Speaker 5: Yeah. Well, it just got harder.
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, small school.
• 35:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah, small school.
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah.
• 35:39
  Speaker 5: Oh, that just made my heart hurt.
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: I was mature. She was immature.
• 35:44
  Speaker 5: I actually made.
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: A pretty cute couple until my mom found out.
• 35:47
  Speaker 5: Well, okay, good. Did your parents support this?
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a tough thing to do. It doesn't matter
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: what age you are is when you have to tell
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: a girl, my mom won't let me date you. I
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: don't care how old you are. That's not an easy conversation.
• 35:59
  Speaker 5: That's not an easy one.
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: No.
• 36:04
  Speaker 5: Nope, nope, nope.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so anyway.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: No, that's hard.
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: If you want me to.
• 36:08
  Speaker 5: Don't want you to give her any advice.
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: You want me to have a talk with her, I'm
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: happy to... Nah, we're good. Come on.
• 36:13
  Speaker 5: We're good.
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: Let me have a conversation.
• 36:16
  Speaker 5: Yeah, we're good.
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: Don't let their mom ruin that for you. That could
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: have been the love of my life, Palmer the Great. Yeah.
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: Stacey Frederick could have been mine forever.
• 36:29
  Speaker 5: She could have been.
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: She could have been. My last one. My one last
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: thing is we finally have a college football playoff, but
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: because of NIL.
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: Are we going to get a college football playoff where
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: we really don't need college football playoff games? And what
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: I mean by that is the discrepancy between the haves
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: and have-nots is going to get so pronounced that we're
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: not going to be able to find 12 teams on
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: the same level to compete with one another. Let me
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: give you an example. Somebody did a simulation of the
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: entire season. Computer simulation. Did it a million times.
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: And Here are the results that they came up with,
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: and I'm going to skip ahead to the quarterfinals. Miami, Alabama,
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: Ohio State versus North Dakota State, pulling off an upset.
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: Texas Tech versus Oregon, and Notre Dame versus Florida. So
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: that's the quarterfinals of the college football playoff. That's the
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: final eight teams in the college football season. Theoretically, the
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: best eight teams in the college football season, right? Here
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: are the final scores, the point differential in those four games,
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: according to the computer. 20 points, 28 points, 20 points,
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: and 38 points. Oh, yikes.
• 37:48
  Speaker 5: Well, that sounds great.
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: Are we going to get to the four biggest games
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: of the year on one day or one weekend, and
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: the average point differential is going to be 28 points?
• 38:01
  Speaker 5: Oh, that's a bummer. We had some good ones last year, too.
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: Suddenly I'm a little worried about having a college football
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: playoff right now.
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: Which is what I fought for my entire life. But
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: I don't want to get a bunch of blowouts because
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: there are only eight good teams in college football at
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: any given season.
• 38:16
  Speaker 5: That would suck.
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: That would be horrible.
• 38:19
  Speaker 5: Well, let's just hope the computer doesn't know what the
• 38:21
  Speaker 5: hell it's talking about.
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: What do computers know?
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: Right?
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: They're dumb. Yeah.
• 38:26
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: We'll talk to you tomorrow. Computer probably dated a junior
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: when they were in the eighth grade.
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: Hunk's a junk.
• 38:31
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• 38:34
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