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Episode 5.2: College Football Preview -- More Moving Parts · Return to Glory - Nebraska

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Glory Podcast. Welcome back Hunter, Austin Rose and our newest member to tote
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a free tag. We are here to talk college football today, not just
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Tusker football, but all of college football. And as Dak's here wearing his
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ou Boomer, Sooner had I'm sure we'll get a deep dive into the Sooners
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down in Norman. I've got it all ready to go, all right.
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Before we jump right into that, I do want to add a comment or
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ask a question about coach rule that we didn't get to on Sunday, So
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we'll get to all the different stuff going on in college football, all the
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conference realignment, the NIL, the transfer portal, the teams that are gonna
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succeed are gonna have a leader that is gonna do well with those things as
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they continue to evolve, and and wherever it's gonna end up, it's coach
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rule. Gonna be on the cutting edge of it. Is he gonna be
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just in the middle, Is he's not gonna do anything with it? Like
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one example right now, Dabbo. Dabbo is like anti transfer portal. It's
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teams like one hundred tenth or something in the country. I think it's hurting
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them. I think it's hurting Clemson. They're no longer the dominant team in
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the ACC at the top by themselves. Is Matt Rule the guy to fit
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all of this jumbo jumbled mess that we got going on? Um, I
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guess my initial thought is just based on what he's said so and na l
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Wise, he says he's not opposed to players getting paid, but that's not
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what he's selling, and that he's going to make sure it's done in the
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right way. So there's two ways that I see that, where it's he
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might not be taking advantage of the system, but he's also doing it the
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right way, which might be a good pitch, I don't know. And
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it's basically pretty much a similar stances what he has for the transfer portal,
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where he says, I'm not I'm going to use it and we want to
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make sure people, the students are using it properly, but we're here to
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develop guys. So I think he's gonna be lean more towards the good side,
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but I don't think he's gonna be on the cutting edge. He's got
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he's got adapt and be able to use it because you can lose a player,
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just like today he lost that starting safety, you can lose a player.
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Yeah, you can lose a player right away, like any day,
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you can lose one and don't We don't know. I guess with Farmer or
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that seems to be DUI related and Rule put him on suspension, so we
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think that probably has something to do with it, But yeah, we don't
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know if that was the whole story. Is that Rule trying to establish a
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culture. Same thing with Bob Wagger getting resigning his position from the tight end
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coach, Like, is that him trying to say, Nope, this is
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this is our expectation and this is what we believe in. I saw someone
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this is just a friend or someone that I know that goes to the college
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that said, seriously, we're gonna suspend a guy for just having a dui.
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The ship that went down over the past four or five years and guys
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were allowed to get away with compared to this, it's unbelievable. And I'm
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like, huh, So you wonder what was going on under Frost. I
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mean, as we can imagine, who the hell knows that was going on
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behind closed doors with the Frost regime. But maybe that is Rule just saying
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nope, this is how it's going to be, which I mean I'm not
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opposed to. He's like, hey, going to follow the rules, this
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is what we do. If you can't do it, get out. I
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mean, that's part of the culture thing that you wanted with Frost, right
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what is our culture? And being undisciplined was kind of the what we saw
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in the field. And if you want to start with off the field being
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disciplined and make that way onto the field, that kind of makes sense.
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Well. I read an article about guys showing up to an eight o'clock meeting
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at eight oh three or eight oh five, and Rule made it a point
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to call that out, said this is the kind of standards that we have
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right now, and that just pisses me off even more with what was happening
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under Frost, Like that to me is culture one oh one. But yeah,
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I do think that has an impact on a lot of the close games
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and a lot of that dumb shit that went on under Frost. So we're
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not here to bash off Frost Frost. I just wanted to get opinion on
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Rule. I do think Rule has He's a good people person. He knows
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how to read people, he knows how to put people in the play.
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So if he doesn't think he's equipped to deal with let's just say the transfer
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portal, for example, he's going to find the right guys to put in
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that position to deal with it. I think that's where he'll succeed. I
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agree with the Austin. I don't think he's going to be on the cutting
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edge of any of this stuff, but I do think he knows people really,
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really well, and I think that'll only benefit him when it comes to
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all these movie crooks. And the university has been on the cutting that as
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far as an I I mean like when the na L became nationwide, there
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was an article on ESPN that was like, here's what Nebraska is doing and
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what we expect other people to do following. So Nebraska has actually done pretty
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well as a school setting up how they're going to process NIL. Do I
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think we're gonna have the most money flowing into our NIL system? Probably not,
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But we know that the school itself is setting up a system that helps
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students with NIL, So it's not all going to follow on that rule,
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which is kind of what he's alluding to. It's like, Hey, that's
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not my job. If students get paid but that's not why I'm that's not
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why I'm here. Well, if you have a good structure set up,
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that's the best way to go about nil. Because Miami just had they're big
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in il. Dude, he's he's getting investigated for I don't even know what
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he did, money laundering or what. I don't even know what he did.
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I'm not sure something about because he well, he got paid a ton
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of money and then decided to transfer because he wasn't gonna get a play but
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he so he went. They were suing him for his money, for their
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money back or I don't know exactly what the situation was, but yeah,
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yeah he went. He went in and bought a bunch of players and now
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now looking back on it, they all he's going basically at jail probably,
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I mean, it is it's all this stuff that when there's not many regulations
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around it, like what are people gonna try to get away with? And
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then what's gonna come to find out that, oh that was not right,
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Like I don't know, it's just it's a it's a lot old world and
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conference realignment here is going to be a big topic of today's episode here,
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So usc UCLA coming to the Big Ten next year. Owe you Texas leaving
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the Big twelve next year the Big twelve. sEH, go you know what,
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Dak, you just go go right now? What do you what do
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you think about that? We'll just stay right on Owe you in Texas.
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I all right, if I'm being honest, I wish they stayed the Big
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twelve. Don't kill him. I do because I know there's more money in
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the in the SEC. But I like the way the Big twelve is set
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up. I like all the schools are relatively close to each other. Like
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I don't like. I don't like like saying Nebraska and all them now.
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I don't like having to play far away teams, like now you gotta travel
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to La and all that. I don't want to travel to Bama, Georgia,
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Blorida. Yeah, but you have all your recruiting set up here right
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now. Now, you got to reset that all is a Big twelve gonna
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survive on its own. I think now it is. It's gonna get all
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the Pac twelve. Yeah, they're gonna they added Colorado and I think they're
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probably they're gonna add one more for sure to make it fourteen and and so
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yeah let's go through those real quick, because I I until I started getting
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back into college football stuff here over the last couple of weeks, I was
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shocked at all these teams coming into the Big twelve this year BYU Cincinnati,
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was Houston in there already this year? No, this is their first year.
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I'm pretty sure you sef all new teams joining this year and then adding
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Colorado, So maybe big Big twelve will be okay. I think that was
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one of the conferences we didn't know about. But the PAC twelve looks to
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be then basically falling apart. I saw that they were trigging to try to
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sell their media rights to like Apple or something, just to try to make
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money. It was a rumor. Obviously it's not whether it's true or not.
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But if they're going to try to sell to an independent streamer and they're
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losing all their big schools, no way they make it. Oregon and Washington
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will be next to go. They'll probably go Big ten, I would think.
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I think the rumor is Oregon, Washington, Clemson, and who is
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the other one those rumored to be coming to the Big ten or State Florida
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State. Yeah that's right. But so the point to all this, I
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guess is all these the top teams in every conference are leaving to go to
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two conferences, the SEC in the Big Ten. So yeah, the Big
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twelve mite quote unquote survive. But I mean, Dak Austin and I talked
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about this previously. Do you do you envision those two conferences just jumboing and
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making their own almost league. Um, I think I think it'll end up
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being the SEC, the Big Ten, and the Big twelve now and then
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the Pac twelve will just go around and join. They'll all the schools will
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join those three conferences. They'll all just go there. But but who's gonna
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Big twelve gonna have? I mean, the Big twelve's gonna keep their top
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dogs are gonna be k State, Baylor, I mean Oklahoma State supposedly talking
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football. They could pick up some of the Pac twelve. I mean,
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yeah, Arizona State like great, but cal Colorado your your your power your
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powerhouses are gonna be two conferences here moving forward, And yeah, we have
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this whole new playoff system coming where it's gonna be a twelve teamer. You're
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gonna get four buys, You're gonna get an automatic UM group of five team
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into that every year. But I think there's a stipulation that it it's not
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the winning team from every Power five conference is the winning team from the top
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five conferences by some metric. So that's not necessarily going to be what we
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know as the Power of five necessarily, especially with all these moving parts and
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teams leaving and going anywhere. Do we like the new setup or is this
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going to continue to change every two or three years because we're gonna have new
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conferences and it's just going to continue to be a roller coaster that we have
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to get used to year after year. It all depends on the money.
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Every everyone is falls with the money's at gosh. I don't know. I
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do. I think the SEC in big sen my opinion, I think they
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will. I think they're gonna if they get enough power and Dak, you
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nailed it. The money, They're gonna have the money to be able to
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say, you know what, we're gonna do our own thing, almost like
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an NFC, AFC, NFL. We're gonna have two leagues and we're gonna
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have our own thing and screw everybody else. Now. I don't know when
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that could happen, but I do think they're going to have to do that
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my only because I mean, conferences go beyond just football and athletics, you
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know, like the Big Ten. I remember when we were at Nebraska,
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there was like research things because it was all it's like, oh, go
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to any Big Ten institution and do X, y Z or part of this
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Big Ten initiative is X. You know, like this there is some sort
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of like you could go to these schools and participate in some program, you
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know, academically, the conferences also matters. So I don't know if it's
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going to become a sport dependent conferences. I don't know how they're treating it
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right now. But you know, for instance, like Notre Dame, they're
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not part of any conference until they were for basketball. I don't know if
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they don't think do they do that for basketball still? I think they do.
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Yeah, they're still independent, but yeah they're part of the ACC for
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basketball, I know, and a couple other sports. And did you see
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the ACC just being like a basketball conference like picking up Kansas, Gonzaga,
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all the big time schools. Yep. I mean there's that whole other side
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of things with basketball and men's basketball, college football are going to be your
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two generating revenue sports. So those are going to be when people are talking
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about like Colorado coming to the coming back to the Big twelve was not for
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football fuss, not at all. What do you mean they got don now?
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So it could be could be is the I'm gonna work? Is he
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gonna work? Oh? I I think he will. At first, I
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think it's suns A hell of a quarterback. I'm not I'm not betting I'm
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gonna win the hisman, but I think I think he's gonna be really good.
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Are they gonna beat Nebraska? Yes, yep, they're gonna beat him.
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Nebraska didn't go one and won the first two games. Okay, so
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we're beat in Minnesota. Yeah, they're gonna beat Minnesota. I don't for
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the Colorado game right now. I saw Minnesota as a touchdown. We're favored
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by like ten. I think, wow, what I saw Wow? On
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the road a right, Colorado is not supposed to be very good. But
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neither or we No, That's what I'm thinking, was like, hey,
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won four games, Okay, raining it back in here. Let's talk N
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I L N I L is are we going down the right path with nil?
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And what I mean by that again, I think very long term when
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I when I think about stuff, and I think about five ten year periods,
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our players going to start getting contracts to where it's going to be more
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like professional sports. I think we talked about this last year where the scholarships
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have become contracts. Yes, because it's becoming more and more that way.
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There's more and more information now on these NIL deals and it is a lot
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of these transfer portal reasons are NIL related. I just saw something today that
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I can't remember who it was. Maybe it was Bryce Young that said before
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he got his NIL deal in college door dashing. Yeah, So is nil
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still good? Are we still moving down the right path? The NCAA still
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has really yet to put their foot down on a lot of this stuff.
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So it's still kind of the wild wild West where trains reportal. If you
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want a better deal somewhere, you go leave. And then what impact does
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that have on coaches and talk about culture with what someone like coach Rules trying
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to do. What impact does that have? Well? I think it benefits
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Like for instance, Nebraska right now, Rules basically he is recruiting three star,
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no star guys and he's hoping he can develop them into talent. So
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I'm thinking that he's hoping. You know, maybe the thought process there is
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is if I develop them over two years before they play, you know,
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they're gonna be more likely to stay and the money's going to come to them
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because they've been here for a long time. I don't know. I don't
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think it's going to in fact the transfer poorer. Well, so like Hunter
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Dickinson is the one that comes to my own, I think nil because he
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left Michigan basketball completely different, left Michigan basketball, went to Kansas, and
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he's straight out and said he's like money definitely played in this decision because he
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was like the not one. He was one of the best college basketball players
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last year for Michigan, which is a great basketball school, and he's still
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left for Kansas. So it's stuff like that that makes me think that it's
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being used improperly because you know that that was kind of like tampering because he
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wasn't under a contract. But also you know, he didn't like, oh,
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I'm just gonna transfer to Kansas and not know what money I'm getting,
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because he's straight up said no, I if money played into this, that's
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the stuff that I don't think I'm gonna like about it, but I think
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it is the right path. Yeah, I don't. I don't like the
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transfer portal that much because there's no loyalty anymore to any team at all.
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You could the coach make him mad one day at practice. You could transfer
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next day right after that. And I don't know, I think it used
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to be. I like that used to be with was a year or two
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years you had to sit out I think just one year depending one. I
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like that because then that have little instentive. When you commit to school,
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you're gonna for sure be there two years and you can build up your program.
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If you don't like it, then you can leave right now. You
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can just leave any day, any time. Yeah, I probably agree.
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There should be some sort of cap on a number of times you can transfer
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without cause you know, if like a coach gets fired. I don't think
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that should count against it. But you can transfer twice in your four years,
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but I think once is totally fair. Like if you get somewhere and
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this is not what I signed up for or it's not working out, students
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should have the ability to leave and still play football. I mean, let's
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be real, we are We are just more and more empowering the student athletes
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with all of these things, every new development, it's giving more power to
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them. So that comes to my next point is where is the NCAA and
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conferences, as the governing bodies of these schools and these players, where where
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is their role and where is their foot going to come down and say,
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nope, here are our buy laws, here's our guidelines, because right now
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we are giving a lot of freedom to these eighteen twenty one, twenty two
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year olds who really have no professional support advice given to them right now.
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You know, professionals have agents, they have people that can help make those
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decisions for them. They're dealing with a lot higher dollar amounts right now.
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But as we give more power right now, we're putting and it's not the
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entire world, but a lot of the entertainment of college sports is going in
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the hands of eight twenty two year olds. That could be okay, it
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could be good. It's what people want right now. There's a little scary
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though. There's a lot of adults that are talking into these kids ears that
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don't have the kids' best interest at heart. Yep, you know, they're
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looking out for their bottom line, or hey you should transfer. I know,
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like say students at a school and it's going pretty well, but it's
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hey, come over here, we're gonna offer you more money. It might
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not be a better situation for the student, but there's no So you're right,
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there's no support system set up. I think the NCAA is toast.
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I don't think they're going to survive outside of like I mean, there's so
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many small sports, and then March madness is kind of their baby. Well
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they might. They have to continue to support the student athletes and every every
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way, shape or form, because I think one to take a stance against
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it, that's when their their hands folded. So they have to do everything
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they can to support the student athletes with the way it's going. But right
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now they have zero power over anything. Yes, they basically when an AIL
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came onto the scene, they're like, yeah, we're gonna let you guys
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self governed. And now you can't go in and be like no, these
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are the rules. You need to play by. These rules now that the
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conferences have grown, No, they're big enough, that's like, and we
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don't need you. They kind of messed up pretty bad. Actually, did
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their CEO get fired. Nope, no, I don't think so. No.
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There they got a new president though that the other one resign. Okay,
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one other thing before we get deeper into some of these conferences. Big
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rule change this year for those of you that aren't aware. The biggest one
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is that clock is not going to stop after first downs unless it's inside two
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minutes, So very similar to the NFL DAK. What's that gonna mean for
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the betting people out there? What are we betting off? Well? I
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got I got one question about that. Is it gonna be able to stop?
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There's one second? Laughter? Geez uh, skip on that comment,
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don't heal quick? No, what's your question? I don't you just you
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just heard play clock and all you thought about or the clock and you thought
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of Texas. Oh yeah, right, I was gonna say that right after
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you said that. I do. But yeah, I do think that it's
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gonna lead towards the under interfere for the first few weeks until the markets are
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daft to it. I think the markets have tried to adjust to it.
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But which it was weird because no one was complaining about how long college No
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one was Yeah, I did not hear anyone would be like, man,
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these college football games are they're too long? Why are we shortening something that
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we all love? Like, I have no idea. It's it's just like
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overtime. They made that worse too. It was perfect the way they had
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it. Now they now what they got two point conversions after? Is it
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one driver or two? I think, oh no, I think it's too
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try. The third overtime is too. Yeah, it was perfect the way
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they had it. I don't know why they thought change that up. Who
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knows. Just wanted to get get our thoughts out on that. Okay,
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I want to go on to eat of the just really brief at a high
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level. Um, we'll start at alphabetical order. So we're starting ACC.
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Clemson skip. That's literally all you have to say about the ACC. So
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you do like Clemson. I don't like Clemson, but I don't know who
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I do like out of a sec Here's who I like. Louisville man in
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Florida State, Florida State. Okay, maybe I can see that. I
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don't think Clemson's winning the ACC this year. I don't think they are.
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I think I think Florida State's gonna that they're the one I like to win,
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which kind of pisces me off because I remember when we were doing this
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podcast here two or three it was Florida State, Tennessee, Nebraska were the
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three schools that were all on the same boat. Two of them are doing
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really really well. One is no whoops, Dak. Anybody else in the
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ACC that you like, Oh, I'm big on I think Florida State's got
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run away with it. I Jodan Travis is a hell of a player,
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and I I'm with you, and I to my comment on Clemson, I
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think I think Clemson's stock is going down. I agree with that, but
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I don't think they're utilizing the portal correctly. I think ever since your boy
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left for Oklahoma, Dak, I think their defense is falling off. So
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I don't know. I think I am selling Clemson big time and I'm buying
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Florida State right now. And Louis but Louis Bille is my sleeper team that
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everyone's out on. North Carolina got about them. I do like them.
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I like Drew drink May That's what it is. Yeah, he I forgot
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about North Carolina. They they might have a shot at it too. I
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think it'll be for sure, be Florida State and they'll be second place,
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but it'll be they'll be right behind them. North Carolina was nine and five
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last year when Clemson was eleven and three, and Florida's State was ten and
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three. So I don't know what their schedules look like, but I probably
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agree that those are the three at the top. I'd still probably take Clemson
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over Florida's State, though, Miami, you nah, Nope, all right,
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big twelve, da you get to lead this one yourself. Go ahead.
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There is no way in this world Oklahoma doesn't win it. Wow.
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That's coming off of TCU's national title appearance in case state winning the conference PC
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is gonna be garbage this year. They lost Max Dungan. That's true.
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And the thing about Coloma is their defense cannot get worse. Well, okay,
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I take that back out. I saw twenty years a bit getting worse,
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but eventually it's got to get better. And another year under Dylan Gabriel,
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I think Venables will start to get his offense figured out a little bit
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better. His defense. He I hope he figures out defense. Yeah,
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that's what he came in for. I don't That's what I'm confused on with
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OU and is Venables was the defensive guy in their defense was absolutely atrocious.
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And I don't know that it's gonna get any better, is it? Who's
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the back? Who's the linebacker? The good ones supposed to be the linebacker?
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Oh, the freshman M I know you're talking about Dak. I know,
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I cannot think what his name is. Oh anyways, I asked.
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What I've heard about him is that like he's supposed to be the one that's
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supposed to be the leader of their team. But I don't know that.
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I don't know. These are my notes on OU. I have three down
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pointing arrows next to them. I don't I don't want them. I don't
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want them this year. And that has nothing to do do with you,
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Dak, and you being on the podcast. I just don't. I think
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they're gonna have it down to you. I really do. There's one thing
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they need to stop doing, and that's recruiting five two cornerbacks every year.
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Every year. They have the shortest cornerbacks in nation, and they just get
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towards every season. I will say the Big Twelve as a conference, I
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think is better this year than they weren't last year. I think Texas will
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be better. I think two CU will probably be a little bit worse,
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but not much worse. They got some depth and they're not gonna have some
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They don't gonna have too many duds. Right, Case State's probably gonna be
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about the same. Kansas should be better. Texas Tech probably the same,
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maybe a little better. Well, Iowa State just lost their quarterback. Yeah,
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yeah, oh, they could be a dud. Iowa State's definitely a
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dud. They had their moment, now they're they're Yeah. No, Iwa
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State's gonna be a dud. These do these new teams, I guess the
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one that maybe has any chances UCF do they have a shot at all?
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Hero No, I don't think so. B y U b Yu could have
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a shot. Oh Taki, Yeah, I I've read a lot on BYU
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and their defense supposed to be very good. Well, the one team we
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haven't talked about is one of my favorite teams in college football this year Dad
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oh Case Date Oh Texas. Okay, and I hate saying that, but
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I think Texas is going to have a really big year and the one last
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year, the one future that I have this year on is Texas to make
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the College Football Playoff. I think I think I think they'll be there.
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I think they're gonna win the Big Twelve pretty easy there. Their odds are
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like plus one oh five right now plus one hund and they are turned up
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un and it's another year with Stark. I like Texas this year, Quinn
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years is back again with with some depth at QB. I mean, talk
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about a team that's gonna have some depth at quarterback a lot I like.
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Honestly, I think I kind of I'm kind of with you. I like
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Texas last year and then they just didn't quite put it all together. But
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the brand is definitely there for if they are one lost team, I could
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totally see them being in the top six teams in the nation just because if
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they win the Big Twelve, for sure, I mean I have them Tier
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one, I have OU Kansas State Tier two, and then everybody else tier
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three. I don't think Texas is losing to any Tier three or below teams
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in the Big Twelve. And I mean, if they won't play OU in
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k State, we'll see if they can beat them. But I think they
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could easily win the Big Twelve. Back You're really quiet why I hate I'm
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gonna say as well, why is everyone so low on years this year?
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I've areen like no one's talking about him, and I think he's a hell
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of a quarterback. He is a really good quarterback. You can delete I
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said that. But all right, moving on, let's skip the Big Ten.
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We're gonna have a separate podcast on the Big Ten here as we go
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through the Husker schedule, Let's move on to the Path Act twelve, led
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by usc UM. Oregon and Washington are up there towards the top. The
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long shot that I like is Oregon State. I think they could make a
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run at least to get to the title game. UM UCLA. Their odds
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are pretty low, but they've had a pretty solid past couple of years.
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Utah, don't we go? Utah? I totally forgot about Utah? Came
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Rising? It is camera Rising gonna stay healthy? That's the question. That
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is a great question. Is he even gonna play this year? That's another
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question. I say back, we got DJ DJU coming to coming to where's
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he going? He's at Organ State. That's why I love Organ State.
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DJ. You definitely USC's conference to lose a lot of good quarterbacks. We
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got what does face bone Nix and Oregon. Yeah, Dak loves Bownicks.
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I hate us even more though. I there's two traders on that team.
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All right, SEC, what do we think? That's a great question.
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Alabama had a down yet year last year for them two losses. Are they
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falling? I think is. I don't know if it's there falling, but
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I think everyone else is rising. I mean Georgia, George's Georgie's mind notes
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minus one oh five win the SEC minus one oh five. Yep, they'll
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probably win it again, but it's gonna be a lot tougher. Tennessee should
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be back with a healthy quarterback. LSU I expect to be better. Brian
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Kelly did pretty well. You're one LSU team on the ride. I think
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Texas A and M's a team that's doing the opposite falling off. Auburn's kind
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of in that same boat. Florida is in that same boat. The SEC
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is weird. I some of these figures Arkansas, Like, yeah, teams
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could pop up and play a good game, but then you look on a
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random Saturday in Georgia Beach, Mississippi State like forty six to seven, Like
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right, it, SEC is just hard for me because it's like it's the
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biggest conference, but you're still getting dominated by one or two teams. But
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then you never know. A and M takes Alabama to overtime last year.
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My dark horse in that conference is the Mississippi State. Will Rogers could throw
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for six hundred yards any Saturday. I like that a lot, Dak,
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I like it a lot really, to be honest, They're just the school
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that's they're having a moment. I don't want to take it away from them.
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Is the SEC getting two in the playoffs? Oh nope. I think
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the Big twelve is gonna produce a playoff person. I think usc is if
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they don't lose to Utah twice, I think they're in. And obviously a
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Big ten spits one in two. Well, let's let's just do this.
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I'll go first because I've prepared this, but let's give our four playoff teams
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here as of right now on August second, with what we know, let's
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go through and say who's in for a playoffs and then who's just outside?
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Who's five? Okay, yeah, so I'm going these are these are gonna
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be my four teams. I got Georgia mhm. I got Texas, I
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got Ohio State, and bear with me here I got Can I do it?
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I don't know if I can do it. I'm gonna I'm gonna go
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Bama Ohio State. There's a team that I kind of want to put in
34:55
that I think could get in Penn State, WHOA going to collaborate on until
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we get to our Big ten preview. But I'm pretty down there and I
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think, um, I'm gonna go. Florida State is my first team out,
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their second team out with Penn State. I'm pretty close. I got
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Georgia, USC, Texas, Ohio State, and then I have a BAM
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on the outside as well as this one. I'm not an hundred percent committed
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on. Michigan is the one I want to say, but it seems kind
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of like the safe pick, but I'd probably put LSU. So I have
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three SEC teams right there. Yeah, Dak Let's here at Ou, Georgia,
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Oklahoma, Washington Okay, and and Michigan and in Florida State just barely
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behind them, Okay. I like it. It's interesting that the conferences were
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pulling from because like I didn't have anybody from the ACAS or from the Pact
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twelve, because I think they're gonna beat everybody up again like they do every
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year until USC and UCLA finally get out of there. Part of me also
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wanted to throw in um Notre Dame because they kind of but I don't know.
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They had a really rough start last year, but they ended pretty all
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right. But I don't know what their schedule is. They're always the wild
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card there. Do you never know? They played somewhat tough schedule every year.
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Notre Dame. They want them in the playoffs. I are they ever
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gonna join a conference now or they just gonna stay independent? They got the
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money power. They have the money power to do what they want. They
36:50
just like a massive merchandise deal, like massive. So they're fine, and
36:58
they know every team's every team is more than happy to play them. Yep.
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It's like, yep, bring them in like we want, we'll play
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them. We'll play you the Irish, all right? Any other last thoughts
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on college football world? Do you think it's gonna be a parody ridd in
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season kind of like it was last year? Real quick? I think so?
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Yes, Yeah, I think I think the powerhouses are the same powerhouses.
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I've been there for the last ten years, but some are falling and
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we're The gap is narrow Yep, the gap is narrowing between teams. The
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tops tighter. It's not Alabama and the rest, which is perfect as we're
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expanding into a larger playoff because it makes for a lot of exciting conversation where
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eleventh seed could potentially be to two or three seed in any matchup like that.
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The transfer portal narrows the gap a lot. I agree, Yep,
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that is Dak. That is the best take you've had on this podcast.
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Better end on that one. I don't know the one second one that was
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pretty all right. We'll be back Sunday talk Husker schedule. We're gonna go
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through our schedule game by game, make our picks, and see where we
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end up at the end of the year. Until then, go be great.
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