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ESPN Just LEAKED A WARNING About Miami Hurricanes You MUST SEE! · ACC Football Addiction (Atlantic Coast Conference)

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Speaker 1: What's up canes fans welcome back to acc football addiction
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Speaker 1: we've got a pretty big problem that we have to
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Speaker 1: discuss today maybe what you're thinking it may not be
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Speaker 1: what you're thinking i haven't made this thumbnail yet so
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Speaker 1: i don't know i might have given it away already
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Speaker 1: 150 in lineups instantly if they use code hma I've
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Speaker 1: seen this play out way too many times, and I'm
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Speaker 1: already frustrated by it. We're not even to week three
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Speaker 1: of the college football season yet. I'm recording this on
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Speaker 1: a Tuesday night. I think I'll drop it Wednesday morning.
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Speaker 1: But I don't like the direction that narratives are already
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Speaker 1: going when it comes to Miami. Listen, I am not
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Speaker 1: an ACC guy at all. I don't cheer for the
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Speaker 1: overall conference to do well. I am certainly not a
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Speaker 1: fan of some of our rivals in this conference as
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Speaker 1: a Florida State guy. And so there's nothing inside of me.
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Speaker 1: That's like go ACC. What I will tell you is
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Speaker 1: that I am a massive college football fan and I
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Speaker 1: like football. And listen, this is about to be as
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Speaker 1: close as many of you will ever get to hear
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Speaker 1: in me. Say the words you want to hear me say,
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Speaker 1: I enjoyed watching Miami football last year in the playoff,
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Speaker 1: not because I wanted the canes to win, but because
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Speaker 1: I enjoy good football. I enjoyed watching a kid like
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Speaker 1: Mark Fletcher just work his butt off and go get it.
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Speaker 1: I enjoyed watching a guy like Ruben Bain go out
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Speaker 1: and work his absolute tail off. If I mean, we
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Speaker 1: can be rivals and we cannot cheer for each other.
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Speaker 1: I liked watching Malachi Tony last year. Every week except
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Speaker 1: for the week that he was in Tallahassee, he was
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Speaker 1: a ton of fun to watch. And so if you're
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Speaker 1: just a college football fan, how do you not enjoy
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Speaker 1: those things? Now, I understand some people can't separate the rivalry,
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Speaker 1: and I'm a little odd when it comes to that.
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Speaker 1: I won't like you coming up here in a few
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Speaker 1: weeks when we go down to Coral Gables to get
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Speaker 1: our bus kicked, and that's fine. But just as a
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Speaker 1: fan of football, I enjoyed watching Miami. Let me tell
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Speaker 1: you something. I enjoyed watching Ole Miss. I enjoyed watching Indiana.
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Speaker 1: I like good football. And that is not really a
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Speaker 1: deep concept. What I don't like is the narratives that
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Speaker 1: continue to get put on this sport and the way
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Speaker 1: that the people in power, the people that run the
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Speaker 1: TV networks are trying to alter the way that our
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Speaker 1: sport works. I usually write out a lot of details
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Speaker 1: for these. I over-script. I over-outline because I'm very worried
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Speaker 1: about messing something up. I don't want to mess a
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Speaker 1: kid's name up. Usually I do a pretty good job
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Speaker 1: of it. I have some fact-checkers that will read through
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Speaker 1: my stuff, but I am almost overly intentional about scripting
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Speaker 1: things out. I scripted nothing out, man. This is like
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Speaker 1: a Florida State rant. This is like an SMU Florida
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Speaker 1: State rant at 2 a.m. in Tallahassee level of frustration
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Speaker 1: that I have with this situation. And it's not because
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Speaker 1: I really want to see Miami in the playoffs. It's
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Speaker 1: not because I'm cheering for a rival. I just want
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Speaker 1: what's right in this sport. For the last few years,
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Speaker 1: I don't think we've gotten what's right. Now, I'll make
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Speaker 1: an argument real quick. A lot of our arguing about
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Speaker 1: the playoff happens with, teams four and five, or in
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Speaker 1: the 12 team happens with teams 10, 11, 12, and 13. Right.
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Speaker 1: And my take on that is we really shouldn't waste
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Speaker 1: that much time talking about who the 11th best team is.
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Speaker 1: If you put the group of five in it, 12th,
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Speaker 1: we should really focus more time on the top because
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Speaker 1: the 11th best team probably ain't going to win it. Well,
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Speaker 1: Miami went out last year and was damn near the
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Speaker 1: 11th best team. They were 10th according to the committee
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Speaker 1: and they went out and they were 40 yards away
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Speaker 1: from winning the whole thing. So maybe you can win
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Speaker 1: it from 10th or below. And here's what frustrates me
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Speaker 1: is you guys know where I stand on this in 2023.
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Speaker 1: I know about the quarterback injury. I know about all
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Speaker 1: that stuff. I also know that in sports, we are
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Speaker 1: supposed to reward teams that overcome adversity in a massive way.
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Speaker 1: If you watch Texas and Ohio state on Saturday at midnight,
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Speaker 1: Kirk curb streets on his TV, talking about how proud
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Speaker 1: he is and how sports are all about overcoming adversity
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Speaker 1: and how that was the biggest part of the Texas
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Speaker 1: comeback to him. And I can't disagree. I cannot disagree
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Speaker 1: with that at all. The problem that I have is
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Speaker 1: in 2023, Kirk Herbstreet openly campaigned against Florida State to
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Speaker 1: leave them out of the college football playoff after those
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Speaker 1: kids responded to adversity and won three straight games after
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Speaker 1: watching their quarterback snap their leg in half on TV.
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Speaker 1: So don't tell me you're all about adversity and overcoming
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Speaker 1: it when you're doing that. And it doesn't just start
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Speaker 1: with Kirk Herbstreet. It is up and down the line
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Speaker 1: at ESPN, and anybody who doesn't tow the company line,
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Speaker 1: they will fire and they will move on from. That's
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Speaker 1: why RG3 is calling games for Fox now and no
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Speaker 1: longer with ESPN. If you don't tow the company line
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Speaker 1: and say what they want you to say, they'll get
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Speaker 1: rid of you. They don't care about it at all.
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Speaker 1: Here's the problem that we get to. ESPN's Heather Denich,
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Speaker 1: who is paid by the company that houses the college
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Speaker 1: football playoff committee. I've always thought it was a conflict
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Speaker 1: of interest that ESPN owned the rights to the college
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Speaker 1: football playoff. They pay a reporter to follow the college
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Speaker 1: football playoff committee around and get insight from them. They
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Speaker 1: host the show on which the college football playoff committee
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Speaker 1: drops their weekly rankings and changes the most important metric
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Speaker 1: every single week. She says, is Miami maybe on bubble watch?
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Speaker 1: So the real question for Miami is whether it can
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Speaker 1: get through a schedule. Without losing a game, it's favored
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Speaker 1: to win. That's the needing not to lose framing that
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Speaker 1: I want to talk about. It's Miami avoiding a slip-up.
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Speaker 1: You want to know why? Because they are looking for
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Speaker 1: any reason possible to leave the Canes out. I'll tell
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Speaker 1: you that there is no doubt in my mind that
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Speaker 1: Miami is a top 10 team in this country. And
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Speaker 1: you know what we say about top 10 teams that
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Speaker 1: we are sure about, no matter what their resume is,
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Speaker 1: when they're in the SEC or the Big Ten? We
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Speaker 1: talk about their eye test. We talk about how good
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Speaker 1: they look. We don't care who they've played. We don't
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Speaker 1: care who they've beaten. We don't care what their resume
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Speaker 1: looks like. We don't even look at their strength of
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Speaker 1: schedule or their strength of record. When you're in the
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Speaker 1: SEC or the Big Ten, we just need to see
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Speaker 1: how you look. If you look good enough, we'll put
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Speaker 1: you in. But if you look at the ACC, which
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Speaker 1: you guys know I'm not an ACC guy, but if
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Speaker 1: you look at the ACC or the Big 12, well,
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Speaker 1: then it's not about how you look. It's about who
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Speaker 1: you've beaten. It's about your strength of schedule. And they're
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Speaker 1: already starting to bring up Miami's strength of schedule. Talk
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Speaker 1: about how Miami doesn't have an incredibly strong strength of schedule.
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Speaker 1: How many of the teams they play are not very good.
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Speaker 1: how their strength of schedule currently remaining ranks number 39 nationally,
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Speaker 1: how fam you was an FCS school, how Stanford had
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Speaker 1: so many guys out. And so they're already devaluing your wins.
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Speaker 1: Now I'll tell you guys what I've told you on
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Speaker 1: both recaps. I don't think those wins amount to a
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Speaker 1: hill of beans. I don't think the wins against Stanford
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Speaker 1: and fam, you should mean much. You went out, you
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Speaker 1: took care of business the way you were supposed to.
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Speaker 1: I didn't see any Miami fans printing championship banners after
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Speaker 1: beating those teams. But you handled business the way you
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Speaker 1: were supposed to, and if Miami continues to do that,
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Speaker 1: that's fine. There's a standard when you're in the SEC
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Speaker 1: and the Big Ten that, man, all we need to
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Speaker 1: do is see how you look. If you're in the ACC,
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Speaker 1: you need to have this kind of resume, and you
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Speaker 1: need to have this kind of win metric, and you
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Speaker 1: need to play this way. No, that's not how it works.
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Speaker 1: But they are already starting to formulate the narrative on
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Speaker 1: keeping Miami out. TJ, why would they want to keep
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Speaker 1: Miami out? Because ESPN makes more money if the SEC
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Speaker 1: makes it into the playoff. I'm just telling you they do.
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Speaker 1: I know that Miami does great from ratings. I know
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Speaker 1: that Miami does great from TV audience. I know that
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Speaker 1: Miami's games, I couldn't even mess with you guys about
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Speaker 1: the attendance for FAMU because it was good. But ESPN
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Speaker 1: is already trying to frame the narrative of, I mean,
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Speaker 1: if they lose that game to Notre Dame, who have
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Speaker 1: they beaten this year? And part of me will agree
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Speaker 1: and say, yeah, man, I don't know what the second
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Speaker 1: best win on you guys' schedule is going to be.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if somehow maybe Clemson turns it around.
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Speaker 1: Maybe Virginia Tech's a better team by the time you
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Speaker 1: guys play them. Maybe somebody else rises up. But I'd agree.
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Speaker 1: Miami's schedule is not very daunting. That's not the point.
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Speaker 1: The point is, if you go 11-1, And your only
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Speaker 1: loss is a close loss or even a 7-point, 10-point
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Speaker 1: loss on the road at Notre Dame. That's not enough
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Speaker 1: to keep Miami out, in my opinion. Now, ultimately, Miami
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Speaker 1: controls their own destiny. I would probably venture to say
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Speaker 1: that ESPN hates the fact that Miami controls their own destiny.
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Speaker 1: That's what happens when you know scripted out. I would
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Speaker 1: imagine that's the case. That ESPN doesn't love the fact
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Speaker 1: that Miami can walk through its schedule, take care of
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Speaker 1: business every single week, and then beat one team in
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Speaker 1: Charlotte and go to the playoff. I'll tell you this.
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Speaker 1: If you don't go undefeated, I'm not sure they make
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Speaker 1: you a top four seed. Despite winning your conference, despite
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Speaker 1: your only loss being to another team that probably went undefeated,
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Speaker 1: I think BYU will be a challenge for Notre Dame,
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Speaker 1: but let's agree. If Notre Dame loses a game this year,
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Speaker 1: the only one I really see is that Miami contest.
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Speaker 1: So they're probably going to be undefeated. They will not
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Speaker 1: rank you top four. I think that narrative is already
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Speaker 1: starting to be set. And Dinic is not the only
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Speaker 1: one saying it. I'll get to that in a moment.
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Speaker 1: can click it and watch it. The narrative is being
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Speaker 1: set by Denich. that no team in the country has
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Speaker 1: a better chance to win this conference than Miami right now.
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Speaker 1: But the Hurricanes have played bad competition, and they should
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Speaker 1: be on bubble watch right now. The real question for
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Speaker 1: Miami is whether or not it can get through its
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Speaker 1: schedule without losing a game. That is the narrative that
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Speaker 1: they're already crafting about you. Because the question is going
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Speaker 1: to be, if they lose another game, who do they beat?
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Speaker 1: Who did Miami beat? Why should we have them in there? Now, again,
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Speaker 1: Miami controls their own destiny, so it's not all doom
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Speaker 1: and gloom. Mario's talked about the importance of winning the ACC.
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Speaker 1: A lot of Miami fans will get on me and say, hey, man,
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Speaker 1: winning the ACC is not that important. You want to
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Speaker 1: know why it's important? Because they'll leave your butt out
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Speaker 1: if you don't. You think the ACC is getting two
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Speaker 1: teams in this thing? You think the Big 12 is
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Speaker 1: getting two teams in this thing? Nah. Believe it when
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Speaker 1: you see it. I'll tell you what, I think Miami
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Speaker 1: was fortunate last year, though I think they were clearly
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Speaker 1: a top 12 team. I think Miami was fortunate last
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Speaker 1: year that Virginia didn't win. Because had Virginia gotten in
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Speaker 1: the playoff, I don't think they'd have put you in.
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Speaker 1: I think they would have said, yeah, we ain't kicking
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Speaker 1: an SEC team out for this. We're not kicking Alabama
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Speaker 1: out for this. Sorry, Miami. It's just not Denich. She's
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Speaker 1: been doing this for years. She's been parroting what ESPN
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Speaker 1: and the college football playoff committee want her to say,
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Speaker 1: which is to show favoritism towards the sec and the
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Speaker 1: big 10 a little bit as well. Nick Saban before
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Speaker 1: the game on Saturday before Ohio state, Texas at college
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Speaker 1: game day said, we need a better metric to actually
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Speaker 1: evaluate quality wins and quality losses. I have to pause
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Speaker 1: before I even say this line out loud because I
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Speaker 1: could not think of a more loser-ass thing to say
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Speaker 1: than the greatest coach of all time said on college
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Speaker 1: game day. But he followed that up by saying some
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Speaker 1: losses are better than wins. I feel like I could
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Speaker 1: stop the video right now and just cuss. Now I
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Speaker 1: get the logic, right? Let me back up a little bit.
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Speaker 1: Let me slow down. His example, he said last year,
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Speaker 1: Texas lost to Ohio State. Is that better than them
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Speaker 1: beating Texas State? He said, I think there's got to
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Speaker 1: be some metric with the committee that evaluates those things
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Speaker 1: a little bit better so that we can get the
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Speaker 1: best teams into the playoff. His broader gripe, he said
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Speaker 1: raw win totals can be misleading when comparing contenders from
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Speaker 1: different conferences, different conferences and schedules. He thinks the system
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Speaker 1: as it is built is discourages teams from scheduling different
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Speaker 1: non-conference games since how many games you win helps you
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Speaker 1: get into the playoffs. And it becomes the barometer for
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Speaker 1: the success of your program. In theory, I can get
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Speaker 1: behind some of what he's saying. In theory, I don't
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Speaker 1: like that Indiana and Kurt Cignetti won't play anybody out
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Speaker 1: of conference. If you guys have heard what Cignetti has said,
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Speaker 1: he said, I ain't playing anybody out of conference. We
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Speaker 1: play the Big Ten schedule that we're given. We play
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Speaker 1: Ohio State or Michigan or one of these teams, Oregon,
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Speaker 1: in the Big Ten Championship, and then we go to
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Speaker 1: the playoff. And until they tell me I have to
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Speaker 1: schedule somebody tough out of conference, I'm not going to.
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Speaker 1: And so I get it. I would rather see Indiana
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Speaker 1: play a really good out-of-conference game. I think that would
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Speaker 1: be fun for me as a college football fan. But
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Speaker 1: Cignetti's not wrong. And you shouldn't play anybody out of
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Speaker 1: conference if you can get away with it. Now, Here's
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Speaker 1: what I'll say about Miami. Miami is playing Notre Dame
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Speaker 1: out of conference. They also have conference games against Florida State, Clemson,
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Speaker 1: and Virginia Tech. That Clemson game on the road in
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Speaker 1: Death Valley. That Florida State game, one of the best
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Speaker 1: rivalries in college football. I feel like I'm in church.
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Speaker 1: It is not Miami's fault. that Florida State is a
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Speaker 1: dumpster fire right now. It is not Miami's fault that
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Speaker 1: Clemson is a dumpster fire right now. It is not
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Speaker 1: Miami's fault that Virginia Tech is with a first-year head
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Speaker 1: coach this year. Miami went on the road and played
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Speaker 1: Stanford to open up the season. Miami plays on a
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Speaker 1: Friday night, Thursday night, Friday night to open up the season.
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Speaker 1: Their kids don't even get to play on a Saturday
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Speaker 1: for nearly the whole first month of the year. And
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Speaker 1: then they play Clemson. And then they play Florida State.
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Speaker 1: And then they play Virginia Tech. Oh, and by the way,
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Speaker 1: they go on the road and play Notre Dame. So
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Speaker 1: Saban's idea is to penalize teams like Miami because other
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Speaker 1: teams on their schedule are down. The other thing I'll
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Speaker 1: tell you is this. Yeah, I understand the idea of
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Speaker 1: non-conference schedules being more difficult and why that's a good
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Speaker 1: and bad thing based on who you ask. We also
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Speaker 1: are very well aware that conference schedules are set six
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Speaker 1: to ten years before the games ever happen. Conference schedules
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Speaker 1: are not set today and played tomorrow. And so you
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Speaker 1: would really float the idea of penalizing a team because
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Speaker 1: an AD that most likely is two predecessors past where
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Speaker 1: that one was scheduled a game? You would penalize Miami
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Speaker 1: because two ADs ago scheduled an out-of-conference lineup? I don't
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Speaker 1: know how much sense that makes. What about the ACC,
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Speaker 1: where some teams play eight conference games and some play nine?
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Speaker 1: What about in the SEC, where you require a group
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Speaker 1: of five or a power four opponent outside of your conference,
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Speaker 1: but other conferences don't have that? The ACC has it.
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Speaker 1: The Big Ten doesn't. I'm not a big fan of
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Speaker 1: ever saying the words that a good loss is better
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Speaker 1: than a bad win. And that's not what he said exactly.
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Speaker 1: But he said some losses are better than some wins.
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Speaker 1: My brother in Christ, you're the greatest coach that ever lived.
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Speaker 1: Respectfully shut up. What are you saying? Miami lost to
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Speaker 1: Middle Tennessee State. Florida State lost to Jacksonville State. Alabama,
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Speaker 1: with Nick Saban at the helm, lost to ULM. There
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Speaker 1: will never be a situation that I take my kids
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Speaker 1: to a game and say, hey guys, we're playing a
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Speaker 1: good team today. It's okay if we lose. No! If
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Speaker 1: you told me right now, hey, you can go watch
17:45
Speaker 1: Florida State. Let's pretend we're good for a moment. You
17:47
Speaker 1: can go watch Florida State play Alabama and they win
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Speaker 1: or lose, or you can go to this game that's
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Speaker 1: a guaranteed win because that loss against Bama is better
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Speaker 1: than a win in some situations. No, man. I hate
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Speaker 1: to quote Herm Edwards. You play to win the game,
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Speaker 1: and you don't penalize a team because they won a
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Speaker 1: game against an inferior opponent. Because it was scheduled eight
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Speaker 1: years ago. But here's where I'll land on. This is intentional.
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Speaker 1: This is 1,000% intentional. And the intentionality behind it is
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Speaker 1: that y'all better go undefeated or you better win the
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Speaker 1: ACC so they can't leave you out. Because that is
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Speaker 1: what they're telegraphing to you right now. When you're in
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Speaker 1: the SEC and the Big Ten, it's just about how
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Speaker 1: you look. When you're in the ACC and the Big 12,
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Speaker 1: you better have the resume to back it up. Or
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Speaker 1: you better go get an auto bid. Because if you don't,
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Speaker 1: I'm telling you, they'll screw you over. Just like they
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Speaker 1: screwed over Miami two years ago. Just like they screwed
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Speaker 1: over Florida State three years ago. Just like they screwed
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Speaker 1: over BYU and Notre Dame last year. And who's been
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Speaker 1: the beneficiary of that just about every year? It's been
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Speaker 1: Alabama more years than it hasn't. And guess what they'll do?
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Speaker 1: If Miami is 11-1 and isn't their conference champion and
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Speaker 1: Bama's 10-2 or 9-3, guess what, buddy? It'll happen again.
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Speaker 1: You already know it'll happen again. Listen, it does not
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Speaker 1: take a real rocket scientist to know that Miami is
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Speaker 1: a top five team in the country. Every analyst in
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Speaker 1: the nation would agree with that. The college football playoff
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Speaker 1: committee would come out tomorrow if they were meeting and
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Speaker 1: tell you, we think Miami is one of the best
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Speaker 1: five teams in the nation. And then in that same breath,
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Speaker 1: They'll come and say, but you just, you got to
19:40
Speaker 1: look at their resume. Who did they really beat? When
19:43
Speaker 1: you're an ACC team, the metrics change. When you're an
19:47
Speaker 1: ACC team, the barometer for what we're evaluating changes. When
19:52
Speaker 1: you're an SEC team, you'll get the benefit of the doubt.
19:55
Speaker 1: We would all look at Alabama last year and say, no,
19:58
Speaker 1: they were not one of the 12 best teams going
20:00
Speaker 1: to the playoff. I think we would have looked at
20:02
Speaker 1: Oklahoma and said, I don't think so. I put Notre
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Speaker 1: Dame over both of them. but that's not even close
20:10
Speaker 1: to what happened. Why? The SEC gets the benefit of
20:12
Speaker 1: the doubt. They beat up on each other. Whoever comes
20:15
Speaker 1: out with the most wins is clearly a team that
20:17
Speaker 1: deserves to be in. This ignores the entire conversation around
20:22
Speaker 1: how poor the SEC has performed in the college football playoff. Guys,
20:27
Speaker 1: the only two wins that the SEC has in the
20:30
Speaker 1: playoff that's not a head-to-head SEC game or a group
20:34
Speaker 1: of five game is Texas' two wins against in 2024,
20:38
Speaker 1: where they beat Clemson unconvincingly, and then they nearly lost
20:44
Speaker 1: to Arizona State in overtime. Those are the SEC's only
20:47
Speaker 1: two wins. Other than that, they don't have a win
20:51
Speaker 1: that wasn't a head-to-head SEC game or playing the school
20:54
Speaker 1: of the deaf and the blind. I'll tell you, I
20:57
Speaker 1: don't know what else to leave you with in this.
20:59
Speaker 1: I just was frustrated and wanted to rant on it.
21:02
Speaker 1: You better find a way to go undefeated or win
21:05
Speaker 1: the ACC. You lose the Notre Dame game, go 12-1.
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Speaker 1: You'll get in with the auto bid. You don't win
21:11
Speaker 1: your ACC this year, and I got bad news for you.
21:14
Speaker 1: They will find a way to screw you over. They've
21:17
Speaker 1: done it before. They will do it again. And they're already,
21:21
Speaker 1: in week two, just ended. They're already starting to lay
21:25
Speaker 1: the groundwork. Before Jordan Travis got injured, they... did a
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Speaker 1: segment on college game day and they asked Kirk who
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Speaker 1: he would put in. If all the teams that were
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Speaker 1: in the top five continue to win, Michigan was in there.
21:39
Speaker 1: Washington was in there, Alabama, Texas, and Florida state Florida
21:43
Speaker 1: state was undefeated at the time. Jordan Travis was not
21:45
Speaker 1: hurt that morning. Kirk took FSU out and said he
21:48
Speaker 1: would put Texas in Bama. And if they continue to win,
21:51
Speaker 1: Jordan got hurt several hours later and did the committee's
21:55
Speaker 1: job for them. But that was always the play. When
21:58
Speaker 1: ESPN telegraphs something and tells you that it's coming, you
22:03
Speaker 1: may not like them, but you damn sure better believe them.
22:06
Speaker 1: People ask me, why is it important for Miami to
22:08
Speaker 1: win the ACC? Because if you don't, there's a real
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Speaker 1: chance they don't put you in. You guys don't impact
22:15
Speaker 1: the game. You guys don't throw the touchdown passes. You
22:17
Speaker 1: guys don't catch the ball. You're not Malachi Tony. I
22:21
Speaker 1: get it. I doubt the staff is watching this. If
22:24
Speaker 1: they are, guys, feel free to hit me up. But...
22:27
Speaker 1: I will tell you, the narrative needs to be exposed
22:31
Speaker 1: because they will absolutely screw you over like they screwed
22:34
Speaker 1: my team over, like they screwed over BYU last year,
22:37
Speaker 1: like they've done to so many teams that don't have
22:40
Speaker 1: that SEC patch on the side of their jerseys. Let
22:43
Speaker 1: me know your thoughts down in the comments. I'm all
22:45
Speaker 1: riled up. I'm in a bad mood now that I've
22:47
Speaker 1: done this. But I wanted to chat with you guys
22:51
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