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Chuck and Buck 10-27 Hour 3: CFB strikes again! Jackson Felts talks MLS playoffs and it's almost Halloween! · Chuck in the Morning

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Speaker 1: But it was more than just a nice win for
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Speaker 1: Washington on Saturday to beat.
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Speaker 2: A ranked team.
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Speaker 1: Sure it was at home, where you have certainly played
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Speaker 1: better in the Jedfish era than you have on the road,
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Speaker 1: but you'd very impressive against a lunch pale kind of
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Speaker 1: effort that Illinois gives every single week. It was pretty
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Speaker 1: close there in the first half, but the Dogs pull
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Speaker 1: away in the second half and move to six and
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Speaker 1: two on the season, and you do have the opportunity
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Speaker 1: here this morning to think about, in my opinion, the
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Speaker 1: possibility of making the playoff. I mean, you got to
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Speaker 1: run the table in order to do it, and that
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Speaker 1: includes the beating Oregon in the last game of the
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Speaker 1: regular season. But the next three weeks are games that
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Speaker 1: you should handle and then who knows what kind of
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Speaker 1: momentum you'll have and where Oregon sits a month from now.
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Speaker 1: But nice win for Jedfish yesterday or see me Saturday
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Speaker 1: over the five a line eye and a much.
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Speaker 2: Needed win for the program.
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Speaker 1: Quite frankly, they needed to get one of those big
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Speaker 1: wins over a ranked.
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Speaker 2: Team, whether it was home, road, whatever the case might be.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, if you have you know, if you're
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Speaker 3: still entertaining the idea of making the playoff, which it
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Speaker 3: being expanded. You should be thinking about that. Then this
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Speaker 3: was a kind of a must win. You drop that game,
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Speaker 3: that that whole dream is over, and yet you get
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Speaker 3: that one. Now all of a sudden, you have a
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Speaker 3: couple of games that seem really really doable, and then
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Speaker 3: even UCLA doable. But they're kind of a Jekyll and Hyde.
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Speaker 3: We've seen two different versions of them this season alone
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Speaker 3: before a big matchup against the Ducks. But they got
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Speaker 3: to come play at earplace. So take care of everything
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Speaker 3: one week at a one week at a time, and
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Speaker 3: this last week, this last weekend was a big win
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Speaker 3: for them.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, just looking at the both schedules kind of for
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Speaker 4: Oregon in Washington are kind of similar, Like Oregon has
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Speaker 4: Iowa and Minnesota and USC, so I think you could
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Speaker 4: be yeah, well that's a.
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Speaker 2: Lot harder than you Dubs schedule.
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Speaker 5: Well, yeah, Iowa was a lot I was pretty good.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and depending on which UCLA you get, then the
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Speaker 4: USC game could be a lot harder.
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Speaker 5: But as yeah, as we were just saying, it's you
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Speaker 5: never know.
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Speaker 4: What team you're going to get, but yeah, you got
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Speaker 4: to take care of what you can control and take
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Speaker 4: care of your own thing before you can even start
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Speaker 4: thinking about it, that's for sure.
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Speaker 2: Well, I mean Jedfish bristled a little bit.
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Speaker 1: I guess he'd heard enough from everybody talking about whether
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Speaker 1: or not he was going to stay or go, and
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Speaker 1: he bristled a little bit as the week progressed about
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Speaker 1: that narrative that was being spread as we discussed with
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Speaker 1: soft Ye last Thursday. Look, I don't think anybody at
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Speaker 1: this radio station is saying Jedfish is listening to offers.
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Speaker 1: But I do believe that the conversation that we had
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Speaker 1: with Softy on Thursday, I'm not gonna I'm certainly not
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Speaker 1: going to back away from You've kind of earned this reputation.
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Speaker 1: You joked about at the moment that you arrived at
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Speaker 1: Washington that you are a bit of a vagabond and
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Speaker 1: that you will bounce from lily to lily Pad for
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Speaker 1: a little better of an opportunity. Rumors to the NFL,
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Speaker 1: rumors to Florida have always swirled around Jedfish's visor for
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Speaker 1: years in wherever he's been, whatever program that he's been with.
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Speaker 1: So that reputation you've earned yourself, and so when coaching
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Speaker 1: holes are created in college football, and there have been
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Speaker 1: a lot of them that have been created here recently.
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Speaker 1: Jetfish's names just going to come up, and you're gonna
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Speaker 1: have to deal with that. You're going to have to
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Speaker 1: make sure your players don't listen to the noise, to
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Speaker 1: the chatter, read the things that might not be true
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Speaker 1: on social media. But Jedfish has certainly gotten dragged into
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Speaker 1: a number of these college football vacancies that have been
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Speaker 1: created here in the last four weeks between UCLA and Florida,
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Speaker 1: and now you've got Penn State and you've got LSU
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Speaker 1: as well. This is straight weeks in college football that
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Speaker 1: a big time program has a head coaching vacancy created
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Speaker 1: midway through the season. So Jedfish, along with a lot
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Speaker 1: of people, are being rumored as possibilities for these programs,
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Speaker 1: and you're the only person that can just snuff it
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Speaker 1: out and say and I'm not gonna go anywhere. So
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Speaker 1: it was nice to see him bristle a little bit
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Speaker 1: at some of the rumors over at the end of
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Speaker 1: last week.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I mean it's just right now is so
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Speaker 3: weird in the college coaching world.
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Speaker 6: I mean, the the how cutthroat. It kind of is.
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Speaker 3: I mean, Brian Kelly being the most recent one at LSU,
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Speaker 3: it's that we're five and three.
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Speaker 6: That's disappointing for them. But he's been good there.
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Speaker 3: I mean his win record, win loss record is good,
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Speaker 3: but he hasn't won the SEC title since like twenty
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Speaker 3: nineteen or something like that. I mean, it was it
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Speaker 3: just as odd that now all of a sudden, you're
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Speaker 3: seeing big time programs. They're willing to pay fifty sixty
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Speaker 3: seventy eighty million dollars in to go away.
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Speaker 6: You just go somewhere else. We want somebody else.
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Speaker 2: And yet they didn't have money to pay players for
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Speaker 2: eight hundred years.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, ye, yeah, yeah, I think they figured interesting. Huh, Well,
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Speaker 6: that's one.
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Speaker 3: I mean, basically they lose, you know, this weekend they
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Speaker 3: lost A and M, and the crowd is chanting fire
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Speaker 3: Brian Kelly there. So it becomes now more of a
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Speaker 3: we're there's a little bit more impatience if you're gonna pay,
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Speaker 3: regardless of if you're paying him ten million dollars a
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Speaker 3: year and you have to pay him sixty million dollars
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Speaker 3: to go somewhere else and bring somebody else in that
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Speaker 3: you think is going to be better. It's like this,
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Speaker 3: we don't have time to wait around. We don't have
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Speaker 3: time for mediocrity. If you're one of these blue blood
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Speaker 3: and I mean there's eight teams that are now going
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Speaker 3: to be looking for coaches just in power, in the
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Speaker 3: power flour level. And so to me, it kind of
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Speaker 3: brings two sides of every coin. If I am somewhat
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Speaker 3: happy or if really happy, let's just talk about jet
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Speaker 3: Fish really maybe likes you, Dub and likes his house
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Speaker 3: and likes the weather and the greatest setting and all
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Speaker 3: this stuff, and maybe likes where it is heading right now.
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Speaker 3: Gold sweaters, he likes gold sweaters. I don't like the
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Speaker 3: gold sweater, mustard colored sweater.
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Speaker 6: He's into it. Hey, you do you?
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Speaker 3: But I think maybe there's some coaches then some are
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Speaker 3: going to be like I will leave where I'm at
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Speaker 3: to go coach at LSU. The prestige that what that
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Speaker 3: what that university means. And then I think there's others
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Speaker 3: that maybe or a guy like even Jetfish who does
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Speaker 3: hop around, that are like, boy, I got a really
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Speaker 3: good gig here, and if I go somewhere that maybe
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Speaker 3: I consider a step up because I hate to break
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Speaker 3: it to people. There is teams that are considered a
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Speaker 3: step up, Alabama being one of them. I don't blame
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Speaker 3: people for taking something like that, but what what that
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Speaker 3: What comes with it is the raised expectations to some degree,
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Speaker 3: whereas you you basically and they're not going to be
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Speaker 3: crazy patient with you. There's not going to be a well,
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Speaker 3: you had a bad first year, you lost a lot
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Speaker 3: of guys to the NFL, and the transfer portal's hard
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Speaker 3: to get your hand you wrap your hands around. I
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Speaker 3: don't think you get that at some of these other schools.
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Speaker 3: And he has that here and he's turning the thing around.
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Speaker 2: Well, it's very strange.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know if we understand how many
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Speaker 1: twists and turns are still ahead of us with college football.
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Speaker 1: When this brave new world that we entered with paying
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Speaker 1: players and nil and a transfer portal that you didn't
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Speaker 1: have to sit out a year. I mean, there have
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Speaker 1: been surprises, and I don't think we're done with the surprises.
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Speaker 1: How is this all going to impact this sport for
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Speaker 1: the next twenty five years. I think we're going to
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Speaker 1: continuously be surprised about it. So register under this under
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Speaker 1: the category of the thing that I'm most recently surprised
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Speaker 1: about with college football because I thought, with all of
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Speaker 1: the players being able to move around so easily that
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Speaker 1: coaches might actually hold on to their jobs longer, that
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Speaker 1: it was going to be important for programs to introduce stability.
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Speaker 1: So if we got players moving in and out, then
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Speaker 1: the players need to know that where they're going is
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Speaker 1: going to be rock.
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Speaker 2: Solid for them.
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Speaker 1: And it's it's now turned into and maybe it won't persist.
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Speaker 1: Maybe maybe we'll learn that this is a mistake what
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Speaker 1: we're doing right now. But now it's turned into like
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Speaker 1: nobody's job is safe now, it's not just guys wanting
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Speaker 1: to leave. Like if we're going to pay you money
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Speaker 1: and I am going you're gonna ask me, You're gonna
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Speaker 1: call me up and say, I need a million dollars
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Speaker 1: for a strong safety out of southern California, and he's
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Speaker 1: the difference in the program, and I'm gonna give you
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Speaker 1: a million dollars. What they've done is they have empowered
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Speaker 1: all of these million dollar plus donors. They now want
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Speaker 1: to say and how the program goes, And so the
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Speaker 1: moment that they're not happy with how their investment is
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Speaker 1: being used. They're threatening to pull the millions of dollars
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Speaker 1: back if you want more of this than I want
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Speaker 1: to say on who's coaching the team.
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Speaker 2: And so it sounds to me.
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Speaker 1: Like, based off of a conversation they were having on
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Speaker 1: game day on Saturday, that this seems to be the
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Speaker 1: issue right now. It is the multimillion dollar donors who
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Speaker 1: aren't getting return on their investment and are used to
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Speaker 1: getting return on their investment, and they want to tell
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Speaker 1: the university who's going to be the head coach or
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Speaker 1: in these cases, who's not going to be the head
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Speaker 1: coach anymore. So for us to be at a time
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, mid October, late October of twenty twenty five,
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Speaker 1: just a couple short years into this new world of
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Speaker 1: ours in college football, and to see programs that have
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Speaker 1: cried poverty for my entire life now willing to write
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Speaker 1: a check for sixty million dollars to get rid of
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Speaker 1: James Franklin just to have him not coach the team,
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Speaker 1: fifty four million to get rid of Brian Kelly. Neither
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Speaker 1: of those guys have had a bad season.
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Speaker 5: Look at and Riley, he's fine, and he's been terrible seasons.
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Speaker 2: Well, you would think he would be mad.
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Speaker 5: I thought he would have been gone.
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Speaker 1: But I think his buyouts around that sixty million dollars.
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Speaker 1: And this doesn't come from the Yuarsiversity. These are the people.
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Speaker 2: I mean.
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Speaker 1: Apparently Adidas is the one that paid off James Franklin's
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Speaker 1: contract or at least that's what we'd heard. And who
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Speaker 1: knows who's playing off Brian Kelly's contract. But that's how
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Speaker 1: much money is involved in this thing. Is that here
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Speaker 1: are programs or alums or donors or whoever is taking us. Say,
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Speaker 1: sixty million dollars is nothing to me compared to watching
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Speaker 1: my team suffer the indignity of being five and three.
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Speaker 1: That's the world that we're living. And as I said before,
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Speaker 1: I don't know if it's going to persist. I don't
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Speaker 1: know if it will be as hard turn the other way,
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Speaker 1: because there's no way to keep everybody satisfied, no no,
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Speaker 1: no matter who you hire, just it's not just one
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Speaker 1: guy that's right in the check for fifty four million dollars.
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Speaker 1: You have several people that are donating a million here,
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Speaker 1: two million there, whatever the case may be. You can't
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Speaker 1: keep them all satisfied. You can't get them all in
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Speaker 1: a room and they're all going to agree on the
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Speaker 1: next LSU head coach. And then the moment that he
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Speaker 1: goes five and three, who's taking their money out and
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Speaker 1: then threatening. So maybe it reverses, and maybe it does,
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Speaker 1: just like everything else, kind of smooth out and become
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Speaker 1: a little more consistent. But right now we are in
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Speaker 1: the phase in this new world where the donors have
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Speaker 1: so much say now, they're not gonna sit around and
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Speaker 1: give millions and millions of dollars to a coach they
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Speaker 1: don't trust to use it the right way. So that's
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Speaker 1: where we are, and it's gonna get it's gonna get
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Speaker 1: more dramatic. Yeah, before it rains itself in. I mean,
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Speaker 1: this is probably just the tip of the iceberg. The
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Speaker 1: only thing is we don't know what that iceberg looks
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Speaker 1: like underneath the surface. It could be massive and it
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Speaker 1: could be very easy to manage going for it. Maybe
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Speaker 1: it does reverse itself at some point, but right now
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Speaker 1: it's crazy.
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Speaker 2: That is crazy eating fifty four million plus.
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Speaker 1: Whoever you hire is probably gonna make a ten to
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Speaker 1: fifteen million dollars per year salary.
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Speaker 2: You gotta find somebody better than Brian Kelly.
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Speaker 6: Yep.
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Speaker 2: That means you got to go.
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Speaker 1: Ten to fifteen million dollars on somebody and take him
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Speaker 1: from somebody else, probably who then has to replace him
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Speaker 1: on the backside. I mean, Lane Kiffin probably wasn't interested
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Speaker 1: in Florida. I bet he's interested in LSU. So you're
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Speaker 1: gonna get Lane Kiffn twelve million dollars a year to
12:29
Speaker 1: jump over when you're already paying Brian Kelly ten million
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Speaker 1: dollars a year, and then ole Miss has to replace
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Speaker 1: lane Kiffn.
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Speaker 2: But at least they're replacing him. At least somebody else.
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Speaker 1: Is paying his salary now and they're not having double
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Speaker 1: down on it. Ole Miss might be like, please.
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Speaker 2: Take lane Kiffin.
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Speaker 1: We'll get a cheaper coach now he's on. He really
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Speaker 1: hasn't gotten us into the tournament. So it is insane
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Speaker 1: right now, and I don't think it's gonna slow down
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Speaker 1: anytime soon. It's gonna get crazier. It's gonna get crazier
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Speaker 1: first before it starts making sense.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think there's a part where I don't. I mean,
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Speaker 3: it's it's we're getting some sort of.
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Speaker 6: Rules, right.
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Speaker 3: We have the twenty million dollars that salary cap type thing.
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Speaker 3: But then there still is other ways where you can
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Speaker 3: make it as long as it's fair market value. So
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Speaker 3: to me, while they're wrangling in some sort of rules,
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Speaker 3: it still is not one hundred percent sure what that's
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Speaker 3: going to look like. And so I think it creates
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Speaker 3: certain there's certain programs out there that they just flat
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Speaker 3: out expect national championship or bust. Like and I LSU
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Speaker 3: this year went out and spent They were one of
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Speaker 3: the top teams in the transfer portal, and then they
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Speaker 3: spent a bunch of money.
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Speaker 6: They have been crying.
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Speaker 3: Wolf of oh, we're so poor for years, and then
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Speaker 3: this year they're like, nope, we're jumping out on top
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Speaker 3: of this. We're gonna spend the money. And then you
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Speaker 3: end up losing a bad game at home against a
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Speaker 3: mediocre team, and next thing you know, you're on the
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Speaker 3: outside looking in. I do think there's gonna be some
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Speaker 3: if you're one that gets players poached from your program,
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Speaker 3: that you're going to get more leniency. But if you're
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Speaker 3: one that is poaching from others and you're constantly bringing
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Speaker 3: people in, if you're one of those top teams, then
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Speaker 3: you've got to put up or shut up, or they're
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Speaker 3: going to move on from it. I mean, obviously, the
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Speaker 3: fact that we've seen these big time coaches get paid
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Speaker 3: tens I mean over fifty million dollars to leave is
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Speaker 3: crazy to me.
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Speaker 4: It's almost like college football survivor, like you just get
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Speaker 4: voted off the island. When we were talking about this earlier,
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Speaker 4: I was.
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Speaker 5: Saying, you know, I Arch is out.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, right, we were talking about it earlier, though, I
14:23
Speaker 4: was saying that, you know, I don't know if it's
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Speaker 4: because of the Mariners that I just don't have I
14:27
Speaker 4: didn't have the passion like feeling in just in sports
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Speaker 4: in general in this past week. But I also think
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Speaker 4: and I said it was a no fault of the Huskies,
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Speaker 4: but I do think there is a certain fault in
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Speaker 4: college football because I will say, over the last two years,
14:41
Speaker 4: my fandom has definitely waned.
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Speaker 5: I'm just not as into it as I as I
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Speaker 5: used to be.
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Speaker 1: I don't think they care, no, because everybody else's attention
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Speaker 1: has gone through the roof. Like the sports never been popular.
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Speaker 1: The product over the last three years has probably not
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Speaker 1: been better in my entire lifetime.
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Speaker 2: And and obviously they are rolling in.
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Speaker 1: The cash otherwise you're not just you know, farting away
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Speaker 1: fifty four million dollars because you're not happy with five
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Speaker 1: and three. So the sport and the product itself is
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Speaker 1: on fire. Yeah, but I this obviously can't sustain itself.
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Speaker 1: To Bucky's point, you know you're gonna you're it's championship
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Speaker 1: or bust. That's the mentality of all of these suddenly
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Speaker 1: empowered millionaire donors. All right, and we're not a championship team,
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Speaker 1: then your my money's not good here. Okay, only one
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Speaker 1: team wins the championship. So are you just gonna do
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Speaker 1: this every year?
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Speaker 2: Every year that you're out.
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Speaker 1: Of championship contention? You're gonna pay off the coach you
15:43
Speaker 1: just hired. That certainly is not sustainable. How could it be?
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Speaker 1: And yet this is kind of where we're at right
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Speaker 1: now in the moment, where we're in this mode of
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Speaker 1: firing pretty successful coaches, buying them out, and then preparing
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Speaker 1: yourself to spend even more so a fifty four million
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Speaker 1: dollar buyout, an eighteen million dollar payroll for a roster
16:09
Speaker 1: that at LSU that again, not bad, just not as
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Speaker 1: good as you hoped it would be when you invested
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Speaker 1: in it if you are one of those LSU investors,
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Speaker 1: And now who are you going to replace him with?
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Speaker 2: That guarantees you.
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Speaker 1: You're going to be a championship team next year. Man,
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Speaker 1: who's got that? Like Nick Saban, right? I mean who
16:31
Speaker 1: you get? I mean North Carolina thought they had their
16:33
Speaker 1: guy and Bill Belichick. They're the laughing stock of college
16:36
Speaker 1: football right now. We just got the best coach in
16:39
Speaker 1: the history of football, laughing stock of all of college football,
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Speaker 1: North Carolina football right now. So, I mean, that's a
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Speaker 1: lot of money to be rolling, rolling the dice on
16:53
Speaker 1: something that might not even be better than what you
16:55
Speaker 1: have right now. And yet you've made it very clear
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Speaker 1: if you're not the best, we're not gonna stand for it.
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Speaker 1: It's unsustainable. It just cannot continue. But I do think
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Speaker 1: it will get, as I said earlier, crazier before it
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Speaker 1: starts making sense.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I think some I would be willing to
17:12
Speaker 3: bet that some of these big rich dudes that are
17:15
Speaker 3: donating to this stuff that then all of a sudden
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Speaker 3: now want a voice and have a voice and can
17:21
Speaker 3: express their displeasure and possibly get somebody fired.
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Speaker 6: And regardless of the ripple effect and all of.
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Speaker 3: The things, you have to do after you get rid
17:28
Speaker 3: of one a guy like Brian Kelly, for example, that
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Speaker 3: now you have to replace him with somebody better. I
17:33
Speaker 3: wouldn't be surprised if some of these boosters are understanding, Yeah, no,
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Speaker 3: I'm going to donate and we're gonna be up there
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Speaker 3: at that twenty million dollar mark. And then we're gonna
17:43
Speaker 3: be doing the other stuff, you know, the back door
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Speaker 3: stuff a little bit, so that we have consistently good
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Speaker 3: players and we consistently get more bites at the Apple,
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Speaker 3: whether or not it turns into a national championship or not,
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Speaker 3: we just need to.
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Speaker 6: Be moving in that direction.
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Speaker 3: And then you're gonna have others like LSU who did
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Speaker 3: not compete in the transfer portal the same way until
18:01
Speaker 3: this year, and then they go get eighteen different guys
18:03
Speaker 3: and spend up a near that twenty million dollar mark,
18:05
Speaker 3: and then you you lose three games, some of which
18:08
Speaker 3: you don't think you should have lost, and they're like, not,
18:10
Speaker 3: I have no patience, you know what I mean. I
18:12
Speaker 3: don't think every organization is going to be as impatient
18:15
Speaker 3: as that one is. I Now that said, I do
18:18
Speaker 3: think that there's still some that will will do that,
18:21
Speaker 3: like you know, Sarkasian's not going to be able to
18:24
Speaker 3: just have two or three years of not turning your
18:28
Speaker 3: your you know, team into the powerhouse that they're being
18:31
Speaker 3: paid to be. If you don't do that for very long,
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Speaker 3: boom you'll be out too. And so I do think
18:36
Speaker 3: that there is a lot more heads on the chopping
18:38
Speaker 3: block than in years past.
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Speaker 2: Oh, interesting stuff, all right, Coming up next tonight there.
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Speaker 1: Is a playoff game to be viewed and we will
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Speaker 1: chat with the face of Sounders Hockey. Excuse me, Sounders
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Speaker 1: Soccer Now is going to be in Sports Radio ninety
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Speaker 1: three point three KJRFM.
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Speaker 2: Six o'clock. The start time.
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Speaker 1: Minnesota is the location and the guy we trust more
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Speaker 1: than anybody else in America to talk about the Sounders
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Speaker 1: with us, Our own Jackson Feltz, joins us here on
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Speaker 1: the radio program.
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Speaker 2: Good morning, sir, Good morning, Good to be with y'all.
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Speaker 2: How are you feeling today?
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Speaker 7: Nervous? It's playoff time, baby, HiT's.
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Speaker 8: This is the time we wait for all year in Sunderland,
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Speaker 8: and it's a very very good team we're facing in Minnesota.
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Speaker 1: All right, Well, tell us about the opponent. So why
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Speaker 1: would the Minnesota United make you feel nervous about this series.
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Speaker 8: They're a weird team is probably the best way to
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Speaker 8: say it. They're a very very good defensive team. They're
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Speaker 8: actually worse than Seattle offensively. They're the four seed in
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Speaker 8: the West or the five seed in the West in
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Speaker 8: this first round, best of three series.
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Speaker 7: They're a weird.
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Speaker 8: Team because they basically run a style under a thirty
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Speaker 8: three year old head coach. They're head coach Eric Ramsey
19:54
Speaker 8: is my age Chuck, and he runs a system that
19:59
Speaker 8: basically says, we're just gonna sit back defensively, account for
20:03
Speaker 8: you to make a mistake, which MLS teams you know
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Speaker 8: sometimes do occasionally, and when you make a mistake, we're
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Speaker 8: going to capitalize on that mistake. We're going to get
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Speaker 8: you on the other end, and we're going to take
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Speaker 8: advantage of set pieces and basically just you know, count
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Speaker 8: on you all making mistakes and you know credit. This
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Speaker 8: guy is Eric Ramsey's a former assistant with Manchester United
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Speaker 8: in England. He basically probably looked at the Major League
20:29
Speaker 8: Soccer quality and system and said, I know they're going
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Speaker 8: to make mistakes, let's capitalize on that.
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Speaker 7: And it's worked all.
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Speaker 3: Right, Well, then give me Jackson give me a number,
20:40
Speaker 3: Give me the name number of a dude that we
20:42
Speaker 3: that if I'm watching tonight, when I'm watching tonight, that
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Speaker 3: I'm like, that guy better be marked the entire time.
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Speaker 8: I think we look at one thing and that's going
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Speaker 8: to be the set pieces. When Minnesota gets corner kicks,
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Speaker 8: when they get free kicks, and those balls are going
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Speaker 8: into the box, and there's a couple guys.
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Speaker 7: Joaquin Carrera is somebody who scored.
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Speaker 8: On us in the game at Minnesota just a couple
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Speaker 8: of months ago. He's one of the ones that'll take
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Speaker 8: those free kicks. Six goals, eleven assists on the year.
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Speaker 8: He leads their team in assist He can send a
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Speaker 8: ball in with those set pieces and get to one
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Speaker 8: of those big bodies, and there are a lot of
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Speaker 8: big bodies who can send them in. You have Anthony Markanich,
21:20
Speaker 8: who's a defender who has nine goals this year, very
21:23
Speaker 8: very good on set pieces. Michael Boxall is one of
21:26
Speaker 8: their defenders, very good on set pieces. And it's those
21:29
Speaker 8: guys when they send those balls in for set pieces
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Speaker 8: that we have to mark them. Jackson Reagan, Yamar Gomez
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Speaker 8: Androti are center backs. They have to be on their game,
21:39
Speaker 8: and they have to be kind of honestly perfect because
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Speaker 8: Minnesota is a Historically they are better scoring on set
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Speaker 8: pieces then pretty much. According to my data, and that
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Speaker 8: goes back pretty far, they're the best team in MLS
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Speaker 8: history when it comes to scoring on set pieces in
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Speaker 8: terms of how often they get them and how often
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Speaker 8: they score on them.
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Speaker 2: Jackson Feltz is with us.
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Speaker 1: Join him this evening five thirty pre match six pm
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Speaker 1: kickoff on nine to fifty AMS. The Sounders get started
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Speaker 1: with their postseason against Minnesota at Minnesota, Let's talk a
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Speaker 1: little more about our guys, the good guys. Considering sort
22:17
Speaker 1: of the ups and downs this season and a couple
22:20
Speaker 1: of the big injuries that this team had to deal
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Speaker 1: with this year, is it safe to say the Christian
22:25
Speaker 1: roll Done may have had his best season as a Sounder.
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Speaker 2: That at age thirty, he might actually be getting better.
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Speaker 8: I think you got You're onto something there, Chuck. I
22:36
Speaker 8: think because of everything else, the Sounders have lost in
22:40
Speaker 8: certain moments where you have Albert Rusnak out for a while,
22:43
Speaker 8: you have Jordan Morris out for a very long while,
22:46
Speaker 8: you have Pedro de la Vega who's been in and
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Speaker 8: out and now injured again. He fractured his patella in
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Speaker 8: the last game of the regular season, so he's out
22:55
Speaker 8: for six months. And everybody who's been out here and
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Speaker 8: there and Christians just kind of in the iron man
23:01
Speaker 8: and looking at what.
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Speaker 7: He's done over the course of the year. It's not
23:04
Speaker 7: the statistics.
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Speaker 8: He's not, you know, racking up a whole bunch of stats,
23:08
Speaker 8: but it's just what he's meant to the team on
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Speaker 8: both ends of the field. And then you look at
23:13
Speaker 8: what he did with the United States national team. You know,
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Speaker 8: I frankly think that based on what he did over
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Speaker 8: the last month, he may have locked up a spot
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Speaker 8: on the national team for the World Cup. In a
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Speaker 8: a in a World Cup where the United States is
23:28
Speaker 8: going to be playing a game in Seattle, and it's
23:30
Speaker 8: the middle game of those three games. I said on
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Speaker 8: Sounders Weekly last week, if I was a betting man,
23:35
Speaker 8: I would put money down that Christian Worldon starts in
23:38
Speaker 8: Seattle for the United States in the World Cup next year.
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Speaker 3: Oh wow, Well, Jordan Morris is back, right, I mean,
23:45
Speaker 3: a bad season as far as the injuries go. So
23:48
Speaker 3: what do you expecting out of a guy like him?
23:50
Speaker 3: Even though he hasn't gotten logged a whole bunch of
23:52
Speaker 3: minutes this year.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, no, Bucky exactly.
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Speaker 8: It's it's been a tough year for him because of
23:57
Speaker 8: these injuries, and it's just kind.
23:59
Speaker 7: Of been a one after another.
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Speaker 8: And the shoulder thing is such a freak injury where
24:04
Speaker 8: a shoulder injury of all things pops up and keeps
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Speaker 8: him out for a couple of months.
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Speaker 7: But now he is back and he was kind of.
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Speaker 8: Playing I would honestly say without much confidence going into
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Speaker 8: a couple weeks ago. He scores in the final game
24:18
Speaker 8: of the regular season, and you do see sort of
24:21
Speaker 8: his reaction to the goal very much was all right,
24:23
Speaker 8: the monkey's off, the back of the weights off. And
24:26
Speaker 8: now you hope that going into this playoff game he
24:29
Speaker 8: looks like the classic Jordan Morris because I mean, they're
24:32
Speaker 8: gonna need him. This Minnesota team is so good defensively,
24:35
Speaker 8: he's gonna have to get creative with his runs. He's
24:38
Speaker 8: gonna have to, honestly just keep making runs. And I
24:40
Speaker 8: know Jordan deals with type one diabetes. He obviously you know,
24:44
Speaker 8: it just works his ass off out there, and he's
24:47
Speaker 8: gonna have to recycle runs, keep making runs, run run, run,
24:50
Speaker 8: and I want you know, if there's one thing the
24:53
Speaker 8: Sounders need out of this game in order to score,
24:56
Speaker 8: it's probably Jordan Morris to be tired as hell at
24:58
Speaker 8: the end of this game, because he just has kept
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Speaker 8: running and kept forcing the Minnesota backline into tough situations
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Speaker 8: the entire game.
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Speaker 1: Thirty three year old Jackson felts our guests right here
25:09
Speaker 1: on Checking Buck in the morning. If you want to
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Speaker 1: follow him on Twitter, do so at Jackson on radio
25:14
Speaker 1: and look as the found fan base that this is
25:18
Speaker 1: a championship organization. They like their championships. The organization wants
25:23
Speaker 1: to talk about what's it going to take to win
25:25
Speaker 1: the whole damn thing. I mean, I'm reading that Philadelphia
25:29
Speaker 1: might be unbeatable and I also have MESSI for an
25:32
Speaker 1: entire postseason that everybody's gonna have to deal with. So
25:36
Speaker 1: how do the Sounders compare in terms of being able
25:39
Speaker 1: to take the whole damn thing?
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Speaker 8: Yeah, I think even before talking about the Eastern Conference,
25:44
Speaker 8: which is pretty good this year, the Western Conference is
25:47
Speaker 8: also pretty good this year.
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Speaker 7: I do like how the bracket sets up for Seattle.
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Speaker 8: It's Minnesota in the first round, it's likely San Diego
25:55
Speaker 8: in the second round, and San Diego is an expansion
25:57
Speaker 8: team who's had an amazing first year, but they aren't
26:01
Speaker 8: playoff tested like the Sounders are playoff tested, and they're
26:04
Speaker 8: dealing with a couple of big injuries as well. So
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Speaker 8: you know, frankly, if it's Sounders san Diego, I like
26:10
Speaker 8: the matchup there. Sounders actually beat San Diego earlier this year,
26:14
Speaker 8: and then in the West Final you'd be facing either
26:17
Speaker 8: Vancouver or LAFC, and that is where I think the
26:21
Speaker 8: major major challenge. Frankly, even with MLS Cup, I think
26:24
Speaker 8: the major challenge would come with Vancouver or LAFC. LAFC
26:28
Speaker 8: brought in this guy named Sun from Tottenham in England
26:31
Speaker 8: earlier this year and.
26:32
Speaker 7: He's a spectacular player.
26:34
Speaker 8: He's basically made LAFC nearly unbeatable on the offensive end.
26:39
Speaker 8: Vancouver has had their greatest season ever. They finished second
26:43
Speaker 8: in the Western Conference. They brought in some weapons. Either
26:46
Speaker 8: of those teams in a one off West Final would
26:48
Speaker 8: be very, very difficult to get past for Seattle. But
26:52
Speaker 8: then if you somehow did, You're right, Chuck, it's Philadelphia.
26:56
Speaker 8: It's Miami on the other side, and yes, Sounders beat
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Speaker 8: Miami they're out.
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Speaker 7: For something to play for.
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Speaker 8: For sure, Philadelphia is an incredible defensive team, even better
27:06
Speaker 8: than Minnesota, only thirty five goals allowed in thirty four games,
27:11
Speaker 8: so that would be an enormous challenge. But from my
27:14
Speaker 8: eyes right now, it's just LAFC or Vancouver in a
27:18
Speaker 8: West Final theoretically would be about as hard of a
27:21
Speaker 8: West Final as we would ever have.
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Speaker 1: The nervous Jackson Felts woke up this morning chewing on
27:26
Speaker 1: glass to get ready to get tough for this postseason
27:30
Speaker 1: run which begins tonight. Anything else I need to mention
27:34
Speaker 1: five point thirty pre match six o'clock kickoff, Anything else
27:36
Speaker 1: that we need to pump up for Jackson this evening.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, No, it's listen, guys, it's playoff time. And Brian Schmitzer,
27:44
Speaker 8: if there's one thing he does better than anything else,
27:47
Speaker 8: it's getting guys ready to play playoff soccer. This team,
27:50
Speaker 8: when they're not injured, they generally fight for championships. Last
27:54
Speaker 8: year we came out of nowhere to make the Western
27:57
Speaker 8: Conference championship. Yes, this team is dealing with a big
28:00
Speaker 8: injury to Pedro, but I think it all comes back
28:03
Speaker 8: to Brian Schmitzer and he gets these boys ready, and
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Speaker 8: if there's one reason the Sounders would get to an
28:08
Speaker 8: MLS Cup, it would be him.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, sir. Enjoy it all and we appreciate you
28:13
Speaker 2: joining us.
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Speaker 7: Thank you, everybody appreciate it.
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Speaker 2: There is Jackson.
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Speaker 1: Belts joining us right here on Chuck and Buck in
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Speaker 1: the morning. Sounders to start at six o'clock tonight against
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Speaker 1: Minnesota United coming up next. There's another major event this
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Speaker 1: week and it has to be discussed. Sports Radio ninety
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Speaker 1: three point three kh arfm. Halloween falls on a Friday,
28:33
Speaker 1: which means your children can get home and not worry
28:37
Speaker 1: about getting up for school the next day. They can
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Speaker 1: get drunk on peanut butter cups. They can be hungover
28:44
Speaker 1: on a Saturday morning from a candy rush.
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Speaker 2: Oh man, this.
28:48
Speaker 1: Is living if you're a nine year old in Seattle
28:52
Speaker 1: on Friday. Now, it's gonna rain a little bit, but
28:54
Speaker 1: I would hope that your children are pumped.
28:57
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh yeah, Minor, I can tell you that they already.
29:00
Speaker 3: There was a trunk or treat thing. Oh, I think
29:03
Speaker 3: it was on Friday this last Friday at the pre
29:05
Speaker 3: Funk Prefunk trunk or treat where you basically a lot
29:09
Speaker 3: of parents will decorate the back of their car and
29:11
Speaker 3: you kind of go. But it was dump and rain
29:13
Speaker 3: and so they moved it into the gym and so
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Speaker 3: it was good fun. I mean, obviously the kids love
29:19
Speaker 3: dressing up and love getting the candy. I'm kind of
29:22
Speaker 3: pumped about the dad tax that's coming.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: I got a lot less excited about the tax because
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Speaker 4: I can't eat half of it because I can't eat
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Speaker 4: the chocolate, so I just steal the sour candies.
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Speaker 5: She doesn't like them anyway.
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Speaker 2: Oh boy, you're really in a good position.
29:33
Speaker 5: Then, Yeah, it's decent.
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Speaker 4: We did a Halloween dance on Friday, fourth and fifth
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Speaker 4: grade Halloween dance, so all the kids got to wear
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Speaker 4: their costumes.
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Speaker 5: It's pretty entertaining to watch a good time.
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Speaker 2: But you had it like at the school.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, oh yeah, they had the dance.
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Speaker 2: Dude, then you had like a party of your house already.
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Speaker 4: We had Palmer's softball team over to decorate pumpkins or
29:58
Speaker 4: carve pumpkins, dumpkins, dumpkins in some case. That's what we did. Yeah,
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Speaker 4: that was on Thursday. So we've already I mean.
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Speaker 2: You've already we've been. Now you're getting ready for the crescendo, Yes,
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Speaker 2: your finale.
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Speaker 5: Yeah we dismount, Yeah we are.
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Speaker 4: And I will say I had we had an interesting
30:15
Speaker 4: moment in our house the other day because the Calloween
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Speaker 4: roll of toilet paper is still in Palmer's bathroom.
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Speaker 1: I'm glad it hasn't been used. It hasn't been used
30:22
Speaker 1: because you can't make another one.
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Speaker 5: You can't. Nope, it's impossible.
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Speaker 4: And I went to use her bathroom and there was
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Speaker 4: no toilet paper, and I said.
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Speaker 5: Uh, Palmer, Palmer the Great said yeah. I said, can
30:36
Speaker 5: I use this Calloween roll the toilet paper? She's like no.
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Speaker 4: Mom said, well, you need to go into the garage
30:44
Speaker 4: then and get toilet paper for your bathroom.
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Speaker 2: There's none of it's going to be preserved through time.
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Speaker 4: It has to She's like, I understand, technically Calloween is over, Mom,
30:53
Speaker 4: but it's not over till the end of the month.
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Speaker 2: All right, what are the kids going as this year?
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Speaker 3: Baron is Cody Roads, a wrestler, Okay, And I think
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Speaker 3: the person that might get the most enjoyment out of
31:07
Speaker 3: Halloween is my wife. She loves making the costumes. And
31:11
Speaker 3: then Grace is a Roomy, which is a K pop
31:14
Speaker 3: demon hunter it's a children's TV show or movie, and
31:20
Speaker 3: so it's a big thing. And so she has this
31:22
Speaker 3: big purple braid that goes in her hair. And and
31:26
Speaker 3: yet Kate then went all out like, well, she's got
31:28
Speaker 3: to be warm. So I got her some like long John's,
31:31
Speaker 3: like fluffy long John's that. Then I did puff paint
31:34
Speaker 3: that imitate the skin and the whole thing, and then
31:37
Speaker 3: made this Cody Rhodes jacket. It's just a plain red
31:41
Speaker 3: long jacket like he wears, but it's got all the
31:44
Speaker 3: wings on the back and the I mean dazzled little
31:47
Speaker 3: shoulder thing.
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Speaker 5: It's did you ever make you one?
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Speaker 1: Too?
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Speaker 6: No?
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Speaker 2: No, wrest.
31:54
Speaker 6: Yeah that was easy though. That was just a Goldberg mask,
31:57
Speaker 6: black underwearing a belt. Yeah, and I rocked it.
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Speaker 2: You support your son. You can go with this tag teammate.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I'm not going to do that again.
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Speaker 5: That's right.
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Speaker 6: Maybe I will. How much I drink before we go.
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Speaker 4: See, that's the real joy for parents is that Halloween
32:15
Speaker 4: is on a Friday.
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Speaker 5: Because we don't have to wake up the three of
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Speaker 5: us at the butt crack of dawn. We get to enjoy.
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Speaker 2: Halloween, right, It's called drunk or treat.
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Speaker 1: Gold Yeah, noticed it wasn't trick or drunk or just
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Speaker 1: because I don't want one of those options, either.
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Speaker 6: Going to get old, drink drunk or tree probably drunk
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Speaker 6: and treat.
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Speaker 4: It is the best when you go to a house, though,
32:36
Speaker 4: and they do give out many shots for the parents
32:38
Speaker 4: that are taking their kids out.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I'll promise you that.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, and doing that?
32:46
Speaker 2: Is that right?
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Speaker 5: It's fun?
32:47
Speaker 6: All right, kids around the neighborhood where we'll be right here.
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Speaker 1: I heard roomy at first, and I'm like, Grace is
32:52
Speaker 1: gonna go? Is just like a unshowered buddy eating your chips.
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Speaker 5: And not paying the rent.
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Speaker 1: That'd be a pretty good costume too, have a mismatch
33:06
Speaker 1: name on the chips.
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Speaker 5: I saw that costumes that purple braid.
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Speaker 4: Now I'm glad you said that, because I saw that
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Speaker 4: we had a Halloween tournament softball tournament this week and
33:16
Speaker 4: one of the coaches was wearing that.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, we've been fully immersed in Halloween. Do you have
33:19
Speaker 5: been five days?
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Speaker 8: Now?
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Speaker 2: You're going to be burned out by Friday? I already am.
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Speaker 5: I might just sit home and drink.
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Speaker 2: Okay, what is paulmer the Gray?
33:26
Speaker 5: She's going as a witch.
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Speaker 2: As a witch old school like that. I like I do.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I love it, I love it all, but man,
33:34
Speaker 1: I like a good old school.
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Speaker 5: It's nice. It's easy to find a costume for it.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah that's true. Yeah all right, well happy Halloween.
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Speaker 5: Did Happy Halloween?
33:43
Speaker 2: Some fun this week? All right?
33:45
Speaker 1: Coming up next on the program, we'll find out what
33:47
Speaker 1: Ryan Heay is going to go as for Halloween. Plus
33:51
Speaker 1: we'll talk some Mariners exit interviews, and also we'll talk
33:55
Speaker 1: about the World Series.
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