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Brendan Sorsby Is Out Of Options, Oregon Ducks Japan Takeover & MORE · Unafraid Show with George Wrighster

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the show.
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Speaker 2: I am ranking the best college football quarterbacks in twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty six, not by NFL prospects, but if I had
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Speaker 2: to win a national championship, who do I trust the most?
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Speaker 2: We're talking about the hardest thing to do in sports parenting.
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Speaker 2: When do you push your kid and when do you
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Speaker 2: let them just be a kid? Because former NFL and
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Speaker 2: college football player David Pollock says that families should stop
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Speaker 2: wasting their summers chasing sports and go make memories. And
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Speaker 2: I think that he's right, but I also know why
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Speaker 2: parents are scared to listen. We're also getting into the
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Speaker 2: NCAA reportedly canceling eligibility waiver requests instead of deciding on them,
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Speaker 2: which means that college athletes.
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Speaker 1: May be headed right back to court.
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Speaker 2: The Oregon Ducks, they are selling Tokyo themed gear. They're
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Speaker 2: putting Dante Moore on a billboard in Japan, and this
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Speaker 2: is reminding everybody else that the Ducks are not just
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Speaker 2: a donor program. They are a money making machine and
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Speaker 2: why you're program needs to get on board. And we
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Speaker 2: got to talk about a nineteen sixty five peach powl plaque.
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Speaker 1: Let's get to them. The best thing.
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Speaker 2: That I saw today there's this nineteen sixty five peconbo
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Speaker 2: which doesn't exist anymore, but this plaque was actually found
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Speaker 2: and this pecan tree is supposed to be commemorating that
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Speaker 2: game from December eleventh, nineteen sixty five, between North Dakota
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Speaker 2: State and Grambling College. Now this thing they don't know,
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Speaker 2: not records of the game and all of this stuff,
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Speaker 2: but this.
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Speaker 1: Is pretty cool.
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Speaker 2: They're not sure if this is one hundred percent the tree,
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Speaker 2: but I do believe that this piece of college football nostalgia,
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Speaker 2: which is in the old Mayor's backyard, is very big.
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Speaker 2: We had something pop up at the last minute today
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Speaker 2: and we weren't even talking about Brendan Soersby. But now
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Speaker 2: the worst case scenario has landed on his lap. He
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Speaker 2: has nowhere to play. The NFL, which can hold a
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Speaker 2: supplemental draft, which is where he was planning to go.
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Speaker 2: The NFL said, nope, we will not be having a
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Speaker 2: supplemental draft in twenty twenty seven. So people might be like, well,
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Speaker 2: why aren't they having it, Well, the NFL has the
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Speaker 2: opportunity to have a supplemental draft for players that have
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Speaker 2: extenuating circumstances, but they don't have to do it, and
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Speaker 2: they actually haven't done it for a number of years.
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Speaker 2: They essentially have said to their letter to Brendan Sorosby
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Speaker 2: into the rest of the thirty two clubs that they
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Speaker 2: won't be holding a supplemental draft and that they essentially
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Speaker 2: won't be a safe harbor for Brendan Sowsby trying to
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Speaker 2: run away from his problems with the NCAA and his
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Speaker 2: eligibility issues. But I think that this is a larger point,
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Speaker 2: is that this has to do with the gambling and
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Speaker 2: integrity of the game, because the NFL is already dealing
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Speaker 2: with people saying, oh that the there's an NFL script
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Speaker 2: which is absolute bs and all sorts of things, and
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Speaker 2: whether the referees are on the take and all sorts
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Speaker 2: of stuff. So you can't bring a player into the
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Speaker 2: league who is forty five days from going into rehab
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Speaker 2: surrounding gambling addiction and then you're going to put him
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Speaker 2: into a locker room as not one of the highest
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Speaker 2: paid players and everything else. This is a recipe for
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Speaker 2: a disaster, and the NFL wanted another year to get
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Speaker 2: away from it. Possibly, but I do believe that his
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Speaker 2: days may be numbered in terms of playing professional football.
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Speaker 2: And it sucks because he made a mistake. So I
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Speaker 2: have empathy for him. But at the same time, just
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Speaker 2: because you make a mistake, that doesn't mean that it
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Speaker 2: escapes you from the consequences. Sometimes the consequences are just
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Speaker 2: much bigger than what you were willing to pay. Now,
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Speaker 2: the next thing up, David Pollack, you hear him on
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Speaker 2: the NCAA game. You saw him playing at Georgia. Was
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Speaker 2: a first round pick, broke his neck, ended up, I
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Speaker 2: think it was with the Bengals, and he put out
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Speaker 2: a Father's Day thought, and I'm going to prayer or
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Speaker 2: phrase it here. He said, don't waste your summers playing sports.
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Speaker 2: Go on trips, make memories. Let your kids enjoy being kids,
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Speaker 2: because once they get to high school, their summers are
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Speaker 2: taken by sports.
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Speaker 1: Anyway.
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Speaker 2: Pollock also framed it as coming from experience and failure
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Speaker 2: and not coming from a place that you know he's
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Speaker 2: better than anybody else. Now that post got a lot
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Speaker 2: of attention, hundreds of thousands of impressions, a lot of agreement,
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Speaker 2: but also a lot of pushback and a lot of
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Speaker 2: people saying easy for you to say, Pollock, you were
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Speaker 2: an All American and an NFL player and a broadcaster.
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Speaker 2: Of course you can tell people not to chase sports. Now,
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Speaker 2: I get the reaction, but also I have dealt with
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Speaker 2: this in my own life, cause there are two truths
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Speaker 2: fighting against each other here. Truth number one, your kid,
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Speaker 2: they only get one childhood. There's only so many summers
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Speaker 2: that they get to want to hang out with you,
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Speaker 2: and there are only so many road trips, so many opportunities.
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Speaker 2: You know, before they're too cool not to be singing
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Speaker 2: in the car, and they only get so many beach days,
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Speaker 2: amusement parks, going to go hang out with your cousins, grandparents,
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Speaker 2: you know, being on the couch, late night ice cream runs,
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Speaker 2: you know, random memories that have nothing to do with
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Speaker 2: a tournament bracket. Now, if you spend every single summer
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Speaker 2: chasing another showcase, whether it's another showcase, another camp, another
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Speaker 2: private trainer, another seven on seven event, a baseball tournament,
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Speaker 2: you know, travel ball, weekend basketball, aau, any of that,
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Speaker 2: and these are in neighborhoods that nobody really wanted to visit,
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Speaker 2: then you might really wake up one day and realize
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Speaker 2: that you developed an athlete, but you missed all the
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Speaker 2: parts of the kid. And that's truth number one. Then
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Speaker 2: on truth number two, the sports world is not waiting
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Speaker 2: for your child to have a balanced childhood. And that's
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Speaker 2: the part that people don't want to say out out
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Speaker 2: because opportunities are very real, the development windows, they are real,
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Speaker 2: Recruiting calendars are real, and if your kid wants to
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Speaker 2: play at the highest level, there are times where they
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Speaker 2: need extra reps, where they need exposure, where they need coaching,
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Speaker 2: where they have to sacrifice. And parents know that. And
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Speaker 2: that's why parents are scared because every parent is trying
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Speaker 2: to figure out the same thing. Am I helping my
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Speaker 2: kid chase the stream? Or am I letting a dream
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Speaker 2: still their childhood? And that's really a brutal question. And
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Speaker 2: I'm saying this as a father, I'm saying this as
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Speaker 2: a former athlete. Ask somebody whose family understands football, who's
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Speaker 2: played travel baseball traveling around this country as a kid
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Speaker 2: myself who was playing travel basketball running around the country.
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Speaker 2: And I'm saying this as somebody who has watched how
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Speaker 2: youth sports can build confidence, discipline, toughness, friendships and opportunity.
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Speaker 2: But also I've watched it become a business that has
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Speaker 2: convinced parents that they are only one miss camp away
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Speaker 2: from ruining their child's future, that they're this tournament, that
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Speaker 2: this is going to be.
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Speaker 1: The thing that propels them to start them.
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Speaker 2: It's manipulation though, and let me say this again the way,
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Speaker 2: it's very very clear a lot of U sports culture
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Speaker 2: is built on manipulating parental fear. Your kid, he needs
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Speaker 2: this camp, he needs this trainer, he needs this exposure
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Speaker 2: event your kid. They need to specialize early. Your kid,
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Speaker 2: they need to be seen, they need to travel. No,
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Speaker 2: your kid needs to develop, and development is not always
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Speaker 2: the same as exposure. Sometimes development is rest. Sometimes development
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Speaker 2: is playing another sport, sometimes in learning the mentality they're
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Speaker 2: your muscles doing different things. Sometimes development is being bored
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Speaker 2: enough to learn who they are outside of football, baseball,
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Speaker 2: or basketball. And that brings me to my point as
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Speaker 2: a parent is I've done both sides of this where
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Speaker 2: I have run my kid all across the country playing
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Speaker 2: every weekend and felt that fear inside of me like yo,
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Speaker 2: like he's gonna miss out on this, this and this.
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Speaker 2: But the best thing that I've done and doing. What
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Speaker 2: my younger kids is is that yes, we are going
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Speaker 2: to play sports because they enjoy and love doing it.
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Speaker 2: We practice extra, we do extra. But there are times
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Speaker 2: where our family, oh, we're going on vacation, we are
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Speaker 2: going to take some days and say listen, we're not
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Speaker 2: going to go work out today, We're going to the beach.
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Speaker 2: We're going to go do this, We're going to go
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Speaker 2: do that because they're mental, they're being a well rounded
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Speaker 2: person is the thing that will actually make them better
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Speaker 2: at sports. And I've learned that as a dad, I've
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Speaker 2: made them the same mistake that David Pollock has made.
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Speaker 2: And now, yes, we practice extra. And when they get
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Speaker 2: to high school, like I have two kids playing high
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Speaker 2: school sports right now, and so that impacts our vacation
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Speaker 2: plans and all of that stuff because it's a whole
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Speaker 2: differ from world. But when your kids are young, let
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Speaker 2: them go and don't be afraid to tell the coach
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Speaker 2: we're not going to that tournament. We're going to go
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Speaker 2: hang out as a family this weekend. We're gonna go
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Speaker 2: to Tihoe, We're gonna go to the beach, we're gonna
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Speaker 2: go to the desert.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna go do some stuff.
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Speaker 2: We're gonna build legos because burnout is one hundred percent
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Speaker 2: impacting sports. And I think specialization has created players who
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Speaker 2: are incredibly trained but sometimes less complete because you see
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Speaker 2: kids who've been quarterback coached and say we're nine years old,
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Speaker 2: but never have to be the best athlete on a
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Speaker 2: basketball court. You see receivers who run, oh, they so
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Speaker 2: good at them damn cone drills, but they don't know
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Speaker 2: how to use their body like a rebounder. You see
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Speaker 2: linemen who trained year round but never played baseball. They
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Speaker 2: never wrestled, they never learned how have a different movement pattern. Now,
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Speaker 2: I'm not saying that that automatically being a multi sport
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Speaker 2: athlete makes you better like some kids specialize and it
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Speaker 2: turns out great, But look at the history of the
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Speaker 2: NFL draft in particular multi sport athletes. Oh it works.
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Speaker 2: And I'm not saying that you know that childhood variety
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Speaker 2: that it doesn't matter. It matters for athletic development, it
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Speaker 2: matters for them. Learning to do other things. Play the piano,
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Speaker 2: do art, do something else is for them as humans.
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Speaker 2: And this is the part that people don't talk about
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Speaker 2: when it comes to nil everybody talking about NIO money, right,
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Speaker 2: all these parents, that's gonna be great.
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Speaker 1: Get some Nio money. It's not nil, it's pay for play.
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Speaker 2: Think about if your kid actually had more life to them,
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Speaker 2: give them more personality, more interest, more stories, more confidence,
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Speaker 2: more ability to speak to people, more ability to build
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Speaker 2: their brand that is bigger than I play football. Well,
10:43
Speaker 2: how about if I can cook and I like cooking,
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Speaker 2: that gives me opportunities to do things with cooking and
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Speaker 2: cooking brands. If I build legos, if I make clothes,
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Speaker 2: if I play the piano, anything, It gives me so
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Speaker 2: many more opportunities.
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Speaker 1: You will be more marketable.
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Speaker 2: If it requires interest, it requires communication, all of those things.
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Speaker 2: So if your kid spends every waking hour being trained
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Speaker 2: like a product, don't be shocked when they struggle to
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Speaker 2: become a person, well, a people, person that people have
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Speaker 2: to connect with and resonated with. So David Pollock is right,
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Speaker 2: But it's hard because parents, they're not crazy.
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Speaker 1: They're scared.
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Speaker 2: They see the money, they see the scholarships, they see
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Speaker 2: the nil they see the NBA deals, they see the
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Speaker 2: transfer portal kids making life changing money. They see other
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Speaker 2: parents posting commitment graphics for seventh graders, and they think
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Speaker 2: if we slow down, we're gonna fall behind. The fear
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Speaker 2: is real. But here's my advice. Don't let youth sports
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Speaker 2: still every summer. Don't let your kid become a full
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Speaker 2: time athlete, become before they become a full time person.
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Speaker 1: Pick your spots.
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Speaker 2: Train hard when it's time to train, Compete hard when
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Speaker 2: it's time to compete. Build real memories, because if your
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Speaker 2: kid is good enough, high school will take plenty of
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Speaker 2: that time. College is gonna take more. The business will
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Speaker 2: take even more so before sports takes over. Give them
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Speaker 2: something that the sport cannot give them, a childhood. Next
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Speaker 2: thing up, let's talk about the nc DOUBLE A sports
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Speaker 2: attorney Darren Heidner. He posted that the NCUBA has recently
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Speaker 2: been canceling their pending eligibility extension and season of competition
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Speaker 2: waiver requests just outright instead of this tiding them on
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Speaker 2: their merriat, and then Heidner went on to say that
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Speaker 2: he's seeing increasingly active matters and suggesting that administrative process
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Speaker 2: is being dismantled ahead of the new five year rule
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Speaker 2: which people believe is possibly going to pass. Now when
12:43
Speaker 2: I say that that sounds awfully technical, right, But here
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Speaker 2: is what it means in plain English. It means that
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Speaker 2: players are asking the NC DOUBLEA, can I have more
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Speaker 2: eligibility because of these specific facts, And according to Heightner,
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Speaker 2: instead of the NC DOUBLEA saying yes or no based
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Speaker 2: on the case, the NC DOUBLEA is increasingly saying we're
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Speaker 2: not even going to review.
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Speaker 1: This is the old way.
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Speaker 2: That is a massive problem because if you're an athlete,
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Speaker 2: the administrative process, it's supposed to be the path. You
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Speaker 2: submit the facts, you submit the documentation, you make your argument,
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Speaker 2: and then the NC DOUBLEA they evaluate the request. Now
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Speaker 2: you may disagree with the decision, but at least there
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Speaker 2: was a decision. But if the NC DOUBLEA starts canceling
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Speaker 2: or closing the cases without actually reviewing what was submitted,
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Speaker 2: then what choice does the athlete have.
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Speaker 1: There's only one solution left, go to court. That's it.
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Speaker 2: And then everybody gets mad when the players sue. Oh
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Speaker 2: my gosh, they're just trying to find a favorable judge.
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Speaker 2: But if the front door is locked, the side door
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Speaker 2: becomes the entrance. Like this is the part of college
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Speaker 2: sports that just keeps getting worse. You can't complain about
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Speaker 2: the lawsuits while making the lawsuits the only.
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Speaker 1: RelA liable process.
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Speaker 2: You can't say, why is everybody running the court while
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Speaker 2: literally taking away the internal mechanism that could have resolved
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Speaker 2: the issue. This is like closing the customer service desk
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Speaker 2: or the phone and then get mad when people start
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Speaker 2: yelling in the lobby.
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Speaker 1: Now.
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Speaker 2: I understand the NCAA side on this too, because they're
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Speaker 2: trying to prepare for a new eligibility structure, but they
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Speaker 2: are also not doing it the correct way with collective
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Speaker 2: bargaining with the players. They are trying to stop endless waivers,
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Speaker 2: they're trying to create cleaner rules, and they're tied of
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Speaker 2: every single eligibility case becoming a personal injury lead lawsuit
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Speaker 2: with cleats. I want one hundred percent get that. But
14:42
Speaker 2: transition periods are where fairness matters the most because you've
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Speaker 2: caught athletes between the old rules and the new rules,
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Speaker 2: and you have athletes who made decisions based on one
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Speaker 2: system and now the system is changing it literally while
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Speaker 2: they're still standing in the system.
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Speaker 1: You don't carefully handle.
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Speaker 2: This, you create the exact situation that the NCAA allegedly
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Speaker 2: wants to avoid, more litigation, more chaos, more inconsistent rules,
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Speaker 2: more judges making college sports policy, you know, with a
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Speaker 2: temporary restraining order, one ruling at a time. And this
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Speaker 2: is where the NCAA needs to stop trying to, you know,
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Speaker 2: win every fight with a procedural fog. Just say the
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Speaker 2: rules negotiated with the players and figure it out, because
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Speaker 2: right now, athletes and schools are operating in the dark,
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Speaker 2: and in college sports, the only way out of the dark,
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Speaker 2: the only flashlight is litigation.
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Speaker 1: If the NCAA wants people to respect.
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Speaker 2: The process, there has to be a process worth respecting,
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Speaker 2: because right now, the NCUBA is trying to tell athletes, hey, hey, hey,
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Speaker 2: trust us, We'll do the right thing, and athletes are like,
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Speaker 2: why you've never done the right thing by us? Next
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Speaker 2: thing up, Oregon is doing something that people are going
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Speaker 2: to joke about right before they turn around and copy
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Speaker 2: it because Oregon has Tokyo inspired merchandise tied to the
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Speaker 2: Oregon Ducks football presence in Japan. So Dante More has
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Speaker 2: been featured on a billboard in Tokyo ahead of Oregon's
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Speaker 2: trip out there this summer for to do camps, appearances
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Speaker 2: and releasing an Oregon Duck shoe that is going to
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Speaker 2: be released there as well, are you serious? And before
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Speaker 2: anybody says why is Oregon doing all of this, it's
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Speaker 2: because Oregon understands something a lot of schools are pretending
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Speaker 2: not to understand. College football is not about donations anymore.
16:37
Speaker 2: It is about revenue creation. Because for years people talked
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Speaker 2: about Oregon like it was just Phil Knight's money. Let's
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Speaker 2: not act like the Ducks built a spaceship with loose
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Speaker 2: change from under the couch. But what separates Oregon is
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Speaker 2: that Oregon does not just receive money. Oregon is creating money, branding, merchandise, uniforms,
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Speaker 2: global marketing, Nike Synergy, athlete inil opportunities, real nil opportunities.
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Speaker 2: They're doing it with creative storytelling. And Oregon understands that
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Speaker 2: attention can become revenue. And in the college football world
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Speaker 2: right now, that is a competitive advantage when you can
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Speaker 2: generate real nil deals that don't get knocked off by
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Speaker 2: the college Sports commission that college sports commissioners looking at
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Speaker 2: them like yep, that's a yes. This Tokyo thing it
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Speaker 2: is not just a shirt, it is not just a hoodie.
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Speaker 2: It is a signal because the Oregon is looking at
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Speaker 2: college football and saying where can we create markets, Where
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Speaker 2: can we create attention, Where can we create athlete value?
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Speaker 2: And where can we turn the athlete brand into something
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Speaker 2: that is bigger than Saturdays in Eugenie. Because in the
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Speaker 2: revenue sharing era, the schools that only know how to
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Speaker 2: pass the hat around or the collection played around are
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Speaker 2: going to fall behind the schools that know how to
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Speaker 2: build a business. And there's a difference. A donor model says, hey, guys,
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Speaker 2: which which one of y'all can write a check? Who's
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Speaker 2: giving me five million? A business model says, what can
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Speaker 2: we sell, what can we build, what can we own,
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Speaker 2: what can we scale? And what can we repeat? And
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Speaker 2: Oregon is trying to be the second one look around.
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Speaker 2: The sport I would state is making beer to sell
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Speaker 2: at games. Schools are creating branded products. Collectives are turning
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Speaker 2: into marketing agencies. Merch drops are becoming nil tools. Everybody
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Speaker 2: is searching for new money because everybody knows the expenses
18:30
Speaker 2: are only gonna go up and revenue sharing it is here.
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Speaker 2: Roster costs are going up, Front offices are getting paid. Facilities,
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Speaker 2: yes they still matter, Travel costs are going up. And
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Speaker 2: if you think the schools is just gonna sit there
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Speaker 2: and be like, oh, we'll.
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Speaker 1: Figure it out.
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Speaker 2: No, they are going to monetize everything that is not
18:49
Speaker 2: nailed down, and if it's not nailed down, they're gonna
18:51
Speaker 2: put a sponsor on the nail. And this is a
18:54
Speaker 2: huge advantage for Oregon because Oregon has been training for
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Speaker 2: this era for twenty five year years. Oregon has been
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Speaker 2: selling the idea that a school in Eugene, Oregon can
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Speaker 2: be one of the most recognizable football brands in America.
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Speaker 2: And now when the sport says everybody needs to think
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Speaker 2: like a business, Oregon is looking around like, we already
19:16
Speaker 2: knew that, and yes, people are. They're gonna make jokes
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Speaker 2: about the Tokyo shirts, They're gonna make jokes about the
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Speaker 2: billboards in Japan, and they'll say Oregon, oh, they're doing
19:25
Speaker 2: too much. But in this nil era, doing too much
19:28
Speaker 2: actually might be the price to stay ahead. Because if
19:32
Speaker 2: Dante Moore wins big this year, do not be surprised
19:35
Speaker 2: when every school in America suddenly discovers the international marketing strategy.
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Speaker 2: And the reason why this matters even more, This creates
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Speaker 2: a brand that is international, So now you can sell products.
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Speaker 2: There's opportunities available to you. Think about the Los Angeles Dodgers.
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Speaker 2: What has happened with Yamamoto and show hel Tony look
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Speaker 2: at the brand deals that the that the team and
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Speaker 2: the club now have. So imagine if you are the
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Speaker 2: first college football team to break through in Asia that
20:07
Speaker 2: gets people to watch your games, they love your logo,
20:11
Speaker 2: they buy your merch. This is a massive opportunity and
20:15
Speaker 2: the Ducks just got there first. All right, Next thing up,
20:18
Speaker 2: do you guys remember the rapper Tussy who was going
20:21
Speaker 2: to go to Syracuse but then ended up at LSU. Well,
20:26
Speaker 2: he is now leaving LSU to resume his rap career.
20:31
Speaker 2: This is where people think that being a college athlete, Oh,
20:34
Speaker 2: it's going to be easy, I'll figure it out.
20:36
Speaker 1: No, it's not. It is difficult.
20:38
Speaker 2: And Lane Kippin said that Tucsy left the program to
20:41
Speaker 2: resume his rap career, and reports noted that one issue
20:45
Speaker 2: was that he had signed with a gambling company, which
20:49
Speaker 2: creates obvious problems inside college athletics. And listen, I respect
20:54
Speaker 2: the attempt by TUSI. I respect anybody that says I
20:57
Speaker 2: have a dream, I want to try it. And Tucsi's
20:59
Speaker 2: already successful in music, he didn't need to do this
21:02
Speaker 2: for attention.
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Speaker 1: He already had attention.
21:03
Speaker 2: But this should also be a warning to every kid
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Speaker 2: that thinks that big time football is easy. It is
21:08
Speaker 2: one hundred percent not. It looks fun, it looks cool,
21:12
Speaker 2: but when you get to the lift and the conditioning,
21:15
Speaker 2: the special teams, the film to practice, more film, more meetings,
21:20
Speaker 2: and then you.
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Speaker 1: Still might not play. That's a job, people.
21:23
Speaker 2: Tut time out Tima, you guys, make sure that y'all
21:25
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21:29
Speaker 2: in just a few minutes, we are going to get
21:31
Speaker 2: to the best college football quarterbacks. We got to talk
21:35
Speaker 2: about the list, the definitive list. All right, back to
21:38
Speaker 2: the show. Now, the next thing up. Jake Paul. He
21:41
Speaker 2: has said that he wants to come play college football
21:44
Speaker 2: when he finishes box. To that, I say, shut up,
21:47
Speaker 2: Jake Paul. This is not your make a wish life
21:50
Speaker 2: at this point. Yes, you got to go to boxing,
21:53
Speaker 2: Anthony Joshua broke your face and then you were like, oh,
21:57
Speaker 2: I probably shouldn't do this anymore. This is problem a
22:00
Speaker 2: little bit more than what I've been off. More knock
22:03
Speaker 2: at you. And yes, he does a good job with
22:06
Speaker 2: MVP and marketing fights and all of that stuff. Got
22:09
Speaker 2: nothing against what he's doing professionally. But before you come
22:13
Speaker 2: out here and try to make a mockery of yourself
22:15
Speaker 2: on the college football field, you better figure out the
22:18
Speaker 2: right place.
22:19
Speaker 1: For you to play.
22:19
Speaker 2: Maybe you need to go to a Division two, Division
22:22
Speaker 2: III school or something, and you know, make a YouTube
22:25
Speaker 2: video about it and own the brand there. But if
22:29
Speaker 2: you think that you are going to step foot on
22:31
Speaker 2: here with Division one athletes, they are going to hurt
22:34
Speaker 2: your kid, just the reality, and we don't we don't
22:37
Speaker 2: want to see it state boxing or whatever the.
22:39
Speaker 1: Hell of else is that you're doing.
22:42
Speaker 2: Just last thing out you guys, stop falling for the
22:45
Speaker 2: banana in the tailpipe. I need to help some of
22:49
Speaker 2: you people because the Internet got fooled by a Dylan
22:53
Speaker 2: Ryola fake tweet. And I need to help you because
22:56
Speaker 2: at some point, hardy accounts have gotten everybody. I've even
23:00
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23:03
Speaker 2: ways that I have figured out how not to get
23:06
Speaker 2: got by the parody trolls. At some point we gotta
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Speaker 2: that hard. They're putting the word parody in their bio,
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23:24
Speaker 2: people still say wow, bringing news like here is your
23:27
Speaker 2: step by step guide to not getting food. Step one,
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23:35
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Speaker 2: with a canvas subscription. Step two, check the bio. If
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Speaker 2: the bio says parody, satire, not affiliated, or don't take
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Speaker 2: this seriously, maybe don't take it seriously. Step three look
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Speaker 2: for a second source. You don't have to be the
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Speaker 2: first person to tweet it out right after. If Dylan
24:02
Speaker 2: Ryola allegedly transferred, if he retired, join the WWE, or
24:07
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Speaker 2: hundred and eighteen followers and a profile picture of SpongeBob
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Speaker 2: and a headset, maybe just wait please. Step four ask yourself,
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Speaker 2: do I want this to be true? Because that's how
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24:26
Speaker 2: something that they already want to believe, or they want
24:29
Speaker 2: to believe about somebody that they do not like. Step
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Speaker 2: five before you quote tweet it with outrage, just breathe,
24:37
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Speaker 2: erase the screenshot. The Internet is forever, and the group
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24:49
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24:53
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24:57
Speaker 2: get off of Facebook. Complete people, because the Internet we
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25:06
Speaker 2: do not have to keep falling for the.
25:08
Speaker 1: Banana and the tailpipe, you guys.
25:10
Speaker 2: Up next, it is my college football quarterback rankings. You
25:14
Speaker 2: do not want to miss this. Up next, these are
25:19
Speaker 2: my top twelve quarterbacks in college football. And I want
25:24
Speaker 2: to be very clear about this list. This is not
25:27
Speaker 2: my NFL draft quarterback ranking. This is not who has
25:31
Speaker 2: the strongest arm, who has the highest ceiling, This ain't
25:34
Speaker 2: who has the prettiest high school recruiting profile. This is
25:37
Speaker 2: one question. If I had a roster good enough to
25:40
Speaker 2: win a national championship in twenty twenty six, which quarterback
25:44
Speaker 2: would I trust to get me there? That's what this
25:48
Speaker 2: list is. Production matters, decision making matters, Toughness matters, ceiling matters,
25:53
Speaker 2: floor matters. Can you win from ahead? Can you win
25:56
Speaker 2: from behind? Can you survive chaos? Can you handle the moment?
26:01
Speaker 2: Because a championship quarterback does not have to be perfect,
26:04
Speaker 2: but he has to give your team answers when the
26:07
Speaker 2: season asks the hardest questions.
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Speaker 1: Here's the list. Number one, Dante Moore. And I know
26:13
Speaker 1: people are gonna be like you're in no reorg at Homer.
26:15
Speaker 1: I don't care.
26:16
Speaker 2: Sometimes being close to something means that it helps you
26:19
Speaker 2: to see it very clearly.
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Speaker 1: Dante Moore. He's not the most dangerous runner on this.
26:24
Speaker 2: List, but he will run if it means the difference
26:26
Speaker 2: between winning and losing. And he has overcome adversity. He's
26:30
Speaker 2: leading and heading into his fourth year of college football
26:33
Speaker 2: and it's third in UG He has the tools, the
26:36
Speaker 2: playoff experience, and most importantly, he has been in real
26:39
Speaker 2: environments and did not blink. He's been in Happy Valley,
26:43
Speaker 2: He's been in Seattle, He's had big moments hostile stadiums,
26:47
Speaker 2: and you see the growth and development. He cannot be
26:50
Speaker 2: shaken at this point. But the biggest reason why I
26:53
Speaker 2: trust him is the fact that he doesn't have an
26:56
Speaker 2: ego about how the offense has to win, because that matters.
27:00
Speaker 2: Some quarterbacks only want to win if they get to
27:02
Speaker 2: be the reason. Dante can win. Throwing it all over
27:04
Speaker 2: the yard, he can win. Managing the game. He can
27:07
Speaker 2: win when Oregon has to adjust the offensive style like
27:10
Speaker 2: they did against Wisconsin and Northwestern, or if he has
27:14
Speaker 2: to spread the ball around, because there were games last
27:16
Speaker 2: year where he completed more than twenty five passes and
27:19
Speaker 2: average around ten different players catching passes, and that tells
27:23
Speaker 2: me the ball is going where it is supposed to go,
27:26
Speaker 2: not just to one guy. That is championship quarterbacking. This
27:30
Speaker 2: is the quarterback that I trust more than anybody in
27:33
Speaker 2: America to win the whole thing.
27:35
Speaker 1: Number two CJ. Carr from Notre Dame.
27:38
Speaker 2: And if you watch him closely, this should not shock
27:42
Speaker 2: you because Car is heading into his third year at
27:45
Speaker 2: Notre Dame and he already looks like a top ten
27:47
Speaker 2: passer in college football as a red shirt freshman last year.
27:51
Speaker 2: He throws an extremely catchable ball and that sounds simple,
27:54
Speaker 2: but it's not. And some quarterbacks throw fastballs at everybody,
27:58
Speaker 2: some throw hospital balls, some throw balls that technically arrive
28:01
Speaker 2: but make the wide receiver work like he's solving a
28:04
Speaker 2: math problem in traffic. But what I like the most
28:07
Speaker 2: about the kid is that he recovers. He threw one
28:10
Speaker 2: of the ugliest red zone interceptions that you will ever
28:12
Speaker 2: see against USC right before halftime and came out after
28:16
Speaker 2: halftime and led a scoring drive. And in his first
28:19
Speaker 2: college spots start, he threw a pick to Ruben Bain
28:23
Speaker 2: that helped Miami go up ten in the fourth quarter
28:25
Speaker 2: and then led back to back scoring drives to tie it.
28:28
Speaker 2: And that's what I want to see, not perfection, but recovery,
28:31
Speaker 2: because in a championship run, something bad is going to happen.
28:35
Speaker 2: You're gonna throw a pick, you're gonna miss a read,
28:37
Speaker 2: you're gonna get hit, and you are gonna have a
28:39
Speaker 2: drive where the whole stadium thinks that the game just changed,
28:43
Speaker 2: and the quarterback has to walk back out there.
28:45
Speaker 1: And be like, bro, don't don't worry about none of that.
28:47
Speaker 1: And CJ. Car has shown that.
28:49
Speaker 2: And yes, Notre Dame fans could be annoying, but the
28:52
Speaker 2: quarterback can lay absolutely, And if I'm going to win
28:56
Speaker 2: a title, CJ. Carr is one of the first calls
28:58
Speaker 2: I'm making. Number three. Darien Mensa over at Miami. This
29:04
Speaker 2: kid is completely underrated. He came from Tulane and then
29:08
Speaker 2: went to Duke, and you know what happened. Only six
29:12
Speaker 2: interceptions on five hundred pass attempts last year at Duke.
29:16
Speaker 1: That ain't an accident.
29:17
Speaker 2: That is a quarterback who understands where the ball is
29:20
Speaker 2: supposed to go. But the part people miss is what
29:24
Speaker 2: he does for the running game. Because Duke went from
29:27
Speaker 2: four games of one hundred plus rushing yards in twenty
29:30
Speaker 2: twenty four to ten games in twenty twenty five. They
29:34
Speaker 2: went from three point two yards per carry to four
29:36
Speaker 2: point three as a team. And they didn't do that
29:39
Speaker 2: because they suddenly had you know, the nineteen ninety five
29:42
Speaker 2: Nebraska offensive line. No, they did it because defenses couldn't
29:46
Speaker 2: overload the box because Mensa was punishing them. That is
29:50
Speaker 2: quarterback gravity. Some quarterbacks helped the run game by running.
29:54
Speaker 2: Mensa helps the run game by making defensive coordinators afraid
29:58
Speaker 2: to be wrong.
29:59
Speaker 1: That is very powerful.
30:00
Speaker 2: And if you give him a championship roster, I know
30:04
Speaker 2: the offense is going to be on schedule. I know
30:06
Speaker 2: he's gonna get the answers right. I know he's not
30:09
Speaker 2: gonna throw the ball to the other team and that
30:11
Speaker 2: travels in that win. The Number four on the list
30:14
Speaker 2: Julian Saying from Ohio State. Now, sometimes the best way
30:18
Speaker 2: to win the championships is to limit mistakes. And if
30:21
Speaker 2: I'm playing the favorite in a big game, I trust
30:24
Speaker 2: Julian Saying to do his job. I saw him play
30:27
Speaker 2: in high school. He's not going to wile you with
30:29
Speaker 2: his arm. He's not gonna wol you with his legs.
30:31
Speaker 2: He's going to wile you with his decision making and
30:34
Speaker 2: his accuracy, which are elite traits, Like he knows where
30:37
Speaker 2: the money targets are, he understands timing, he will exploit matchups,
30:42
Speaker 2: and he has zero pride about checking the ball down
30:45
Speaker 2: or handling it off. And this is a compliment because
30:48
Speaker 2: some quarterbacks treat trek downs like personal insults.
30:52
Speaker 1: Saying does not.
30:53
Speaker 2: I believe in this kid and I respect him, and
30:57
Speaker 2: that is why he is very, very high on this list.
31:01
Speaker 2: Number five Trinidad Champlas from Old miss This is who
31:06
Speaker 2: I want in a moment of chaos, like if I
31:09
Speaker 2: got a moment where somebody comes unblocked in the end
31:12
Speaker 2: of the game. Some quarterbacks play like they're protecting a
31:15
Speaker 2: resume Chambliss plays every down like it might be his last.
31:19
Speaker 2: Unfortunately for Old Miss, a court decided that it was
31:23
Speaker 2: not his last.
31:24
Speaker 1: So the show goes on.
31:25
Speaker 2: If it's third and long, you know, ty game, pass protection,
31:29
Speaker 2: somebody coming free. The entire season is hanging in the air.
31:33
Speaker 2: Trinidadad Chamberlas is my god, because that's when he becomes
31:38
Speaker 2: a magician. He might not make the read at first,
31:40
Speaker 2: but he gonna run around till somebody open. He started
31:43
Speaker 2: the fourth quarter against Georgia in the playoff seven for nine,
31:47
Speaker 2: one hundred and twenty seven yards of a touchdown and
31:49
Speaker 2: then through a two point conversion. He nearly pulled off
31:52
Speaker 2: the impossible against Miami with a perfect pass to Stribling,
31:56
Speaker 2: but then you had an uncalled pass and affairs that
31:58
Speaker 2: would have took away our chance to see if Old
32:01
Speaker 2: Miskus score from the twenty and go to the national
32:04
Speaker 2: championship against Indiana. And that's the kind of quarterback that
32:08
Speaker 2: makes defensive coordinators just absolutely sleep badly, Like he may
32:12
Speaker 2: not be the safest quarterback on this list, but if
32:14
Speaker 2: the game turns into a street fight, I want him
32:17
Speaker 2: in an alley with me. Number six from Texas Arch Manni.
32:22
Speaker 2: Now this is where people are gonna get bad from
32:24
Speaker 2: both directions.
32:25
Speaker 1: Some people gonna say I got him too low.
32:27
Speaker 2: Some people gonna say I got him too high, And
32:29
Speaker 2: that usually means I'm.
32:30
Speaker 1: Close to right. Oh and Arch he has every attribute
32:34
Speaker 1: you want.
32:34
Speaker 2: He's tough, he's a better runner than the five guys
32:37
Speaker 2: ahead of him except for Champlish, but maybe even better.
32:41
Speaker 2: His deep ball, you know, is very good, and he
32:45
Speaker 2: carries himself with not a lot of ego. He has
32:48
Speaker 2: handled pressure well at times. I mean well, not pass
32:52
Speaker 2: orus pressure, but you mean I mean life pressure, about
32:55
Speaker 2: as well as any quarterback with that last name could
32:58
Speaker 2: possibly handle it. But here's the problem, a big moment
33:01
Speaker 2: with the game on his shoulders. We haven't seen it yet,
33:04
Speaker 2: not really, because if you believe that he has that
33:07
Speaker 2: over the guys ahead of him, then you're taking it
33:10
Speaker 2: on faith. And maybe the faith is rewarded because he's
33:13
Speaker 2: had big games over Oklahoma even though they didn't have
33:15
Speaker 2: their quarterback, and Texas A and M. But both of
33:18
Speaker 2: those games were clearly about Trey Wisner and the run game.
33:22
Speaker 2: And that doesn't mean that Arch did nothing. It just
33:24
Speaker 2: means that we still need the game where Texas wins
33:27
Speaker 2: because Arch Manning took it, not because he managed it,
33:29
Speaker 2: not because he the defense carried it, not because the
33:32
Speaker 2: running back was the story. Because Arch has the answer
33:35
Speaker 2: that day may come, just hasn't happened yet. Number seven
33:38
Speaker 2: Gunner stocked him from George all reward here no risk,
33:43
Speaker 2: like he might be the most dependable quarterback in college football.
33:47
Speaker 1: But here's the question.
33:48
Speaker 2: Is Gunner stocked in enough to carry a team in
33:51
Speaker 2: a shootout? Because Georgia has had chances where the game
33:54
Speaker 2: required more aggression, more trust, more opening up the offense,
33:58
Speaker 2: and they did not really look like they believe that
34:02
Speaker 2: that was their best path. Now that might not be
34:04
Speaker 2: Stockedon's fault, but it is part of his evaluation. You
34:08
Speaker 2: had Zachari Branch, one of the most dynamic athletes in America,
34:11
Speaker 2: being used like a possession wide receiver, and that tells
34:14
Speaker 2: me that the offense was being driven safely, and safe
34:17
Speaker 2: can win a lot of games. A Honda Accord is
34:20
Speaker 2: a great card to get you from place to place, reliable,
34:23
Speaker 2: it's efficient, get you where you need to go. But
34:25
Speaker 2: late in the season, when the goal is to outdrive
34:28
Speaker 2: Ferraris and Lamborghinis, I need to know the accord has
34:32
Speaker 2: another gear. Now I trust doctor, I just don't know
34:35
Speaker 2: if I trust the version of Georgia's offense that is
34:37
Speaker 2: built around him to win a shootout against the best
34:40
Speaker 2: quarterbacks in the country. Number eight Nico Ea ma Leava
34:44
Speaker 2: from UCLA call me a true believer. Six foot six,
34:48
Speaker 2: freak athlete, rocket arm, tons of starting experience, and if
34:52
Speaker 2: I were a college GM with a college with a
34:55
Speaker 2: championship galliber roster, I would have way too many reasons
34:58
Speaker 2: to consentder Nico and handing him the keys. I got
35:02
Speaker 2: all the information I need. Now UCLA they do not
35:05
Speaker 2: have a championship roster this year. That's a whole different conversation.
35:08
Speaker 2: But this list is about a quarterback I would trust
35:11
Speaker 2: with a championship roster.
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Speaker 1: Nico.
35:13
Speaker 2: He's got rare tools. He takes care of the football
35:16
Speaker 2: in a way that gives me confidence, and I want
35:19
Speaker 2: to see this year as him pushing the ball down
35:21
Speaker 2: the field more showing off the thing that made him
35:23
Speaker 2: a five star quarterback, let that arm breeze baby. Because
35:27
Speaker 2: of Nico combines ball security, exposive passing, then everybody who
35:31
Speaker 2: bailed on the stock way too early is going to
35:34
Speaker 2: have to buy it back at a premium, and.
35:36
Speaker 1: I ain't sell it. Number nine Byron Brown from all now.
35:40
Speaker 2: I like my quarterback to be quarterbacks, but sometimes you
35:43
Speaker 2: need a guy who can just pop off for one
35:44
Speaker 2: hundred and twenty rush yards and ruin the defensive coordinator's weekend.
35:48
Speaker 1: And Byron Brown gives you that.
35:50
Speaker 2: And I think that I believe that his dual threat
35:53
Speaker 2: ability will translate to the SEC better than John Matteers
35:57
Speaker 2: did when he left Washington State for Oklahoma. Now he
36:01
Speaker 2: also gets his head coach with him as well. Now Auburn,
36:04
Speaker 2: if they can keep games coach, Byron Brown can still
36:07
Speaker 2: two or three wins late. And that matters because sometimes
36:10
Speaker 2: the quarterback is not just about efficiency. Sometimes it's you know,
36:14
Speaker 2: a guy who gives the whole team swagger, like Diego
36:17
Speaker 2: Pavia with Vanderbilt. And when your quarterback can turn a
36:21
Speaker 2: bad play into a first down, the sideline changes, the
36:24
Speaker 2: defense believes, the offensive line they get more confident. The
36:28
Speaker 2: play caller he gets a little bit more brave, the
36:31
Speaker 2: crowd they feel it. The momentum changes. And that's exactly
36:35
Speaker 2: what Byron Brown can bring to Auburn. Number ten a
36:38
Speaker 2: short king for people who say I don't like short kings.
36:42
Speaker 2: Noah for Feeda from Arizona. If you have followed me
36:46
Speaker 2: for a while, you know I've been in Noah Fafeeda's
36:49
Speaker 2: corner since high school.
36:51
Speaker 1: I am somebody.
36:52
Speaker 2: Who has, you know, a very easy time dismissing quarterbacks
36:56
Speaker 2: who do not have championship level physical traits, but keeps
37:01
Speaker 2: making people look wrong. People said he'd be nutting without
37:04
Speaker 2: Jeff Fish. Then they said it again without Team mac
37:07
Speaker 2: Tteroa McMillan, who you know, Panthers wide receiver. Then Fafieda
37:12
Speaker 2: had his best year in twenty twenty five without either
37:15
Speaker 2: one of them. And at some point you have to
37:17
Speaker 2: stop explaining away the production and just that meant the
37:21
Speaker 2: kid can play. If you gave Fafida an elite roster,
37:25
Speaker 2: it might not look different than what Bryce Young was
37:28
Speaker 2: able to do with Alabama. No, he does not have
37:30
Speaker 2: the biggest frame. No he's not gonna win the Combine Olympics.
37:33
Speaker 2: But he's accurate, he's smart, and he's tough, and he
37:36
Speaker 2: has the thing where the offense believes the ball is
37:39
Speaker 2: going to go to the right place. So Mark September
37:42
Speaker 2: twelfth at BYU, because one of us is going to
37:45
Speaker 2: have an I Told you so moment.
37:47
Speaker 1: Listen.
37:48
Speaker 2: Number eleven Drew mess to make over at Oklahoma State.
37:52
Speaker 2: This is one of them quarterbacks who forced his way
37:54
Speaker 2: into the conversation by playing real football. And that matters
37:57
Speaker 2: to me because there are quarterbacks ranked ahead of him
37:59
Speaker 2: and recruiting who feel like, you know, like like they
38:03
Speaker 2: might be good mester maker. He feels like a player.
38:07
Speaker 2: He built value at North Texas, moved up, had didn't
38:10
Speaker 2: even play in high school. And now the question is
38:12
Speaker 2: whether the production, if it can scale up, and that
38:15
Speaker 2: is the whole test. Can the same answers can they
38:19
Speaker 2: work when the windows get smaller, when the pass russ
38:21
Speaker 2: gets faster and the margin for Eerra shrinks. I'm not
38:24
Speaker 2: putting him in the top ten just yet, but I'm
38:27
Speaker 2: not dismissing him either. Number twelve Jay k s, Jaron Kwey,
38:32
Speaker 2: Sagapoy Telly And yes, this is a projection spot. I
38:36
Speaker 2: know it, but sometimes you watch a quarterback and say
38:39
Speaker 2: there's something there.
38:40
Speaker 1: Ball jumps.
38:41
Speaker 2: The confidence is real, the upside is real, and if
38:44
Speaker 2: the situation around him stabilizes. At cal oh he has
38:48
Speaker 2: the kind of pass and ability that can make rankings
38:50
Speaker 2: look way too low, like he's not in the championship
38:54
Speaker 2: trust tier just yet, but he is in the I
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Speaker 2: want to see more before everybody else catches up to here.
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Speaker 2: And this kid, I believe that if you in his
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Speaker 2: sophomore year, because he had a good freshman year, you
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Speaker 2: put him on a championship caliber roster. Oh, he's a
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Speaker 2: guy who can lead you to a championship. But now
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Speaker 2: the first five out the guys who were thirteen through
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Speaker 2: seventeen on this list, Josh Hoover over at Indiana, Jaye
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Speaker 2: Mova over at USC. I know USC fans are screaming
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Speaker 2: right now, but it's the same reason why you be
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Speaker 2: screaming at Jade Myivia, So don't scream at me. Number
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Speaker 2: fifteen Demion Williams U doub fans he was the best quarterback.
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Speaker 2: When he said he wanted to hop in a transfer porter,
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Speaker 2: y'all called him everything but a child of God. Say
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Speaker 2: they had a weak arm and you was short. Number
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Speaker 2: sixteen Leonora Sellers. I'm nervous, but he has physical traits
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Speaker 2: and he is a you know, he's done some good
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Speaker 2: things and he's a big time NFL prospect. But got
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Speaker 2: to show me more. Number seventeen, Sam Levitt, and I
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Speaker 2: want to be clear, these are not disrespectful spots.
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Speaker 1: This is a crowded quarterback year. Hoover can spind it.
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Speaker 2: Mava, you know, has real tools, demon can't create sellers,
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Speaker 2: that has the kind of coaching traits, that has the
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Speaker 2: traits the coaches dream about. Levit is tough, productive, absolutely
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Speaker 2: belongs in the conversation. But we're talking about winning a
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Speaker 2: national title. I need the whole picture, not just talent,
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Speaker 2: not just flashes. The whole picture. Now here's the rest
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Speaker 2: of the list. Here's how it goes. Marcel Reid, Jeometeer, CJ. Bailey,
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Speaker 2: Kevin Jennings, bear Bachmeyer, Rock Obeckt, Devin Dampier, Malik Washington,
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Speaker 2: Colton Joseph, Bryce Underwood, Avery Johnson, DJ Lagway, Bopah Bulah,
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Speaker 2: and then Keeland Russell or Austin Mack whoever starts at Alabama.
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Speaker 2: And yes, I know there are some names on the
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Speaker 2: back half of this list that could make a big
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Speaker 2: jump this year. Bryce Underwood's got the talent. DJ Lagway
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Speaker 2: physical tools too, Avery Johnson talented. Marcel Reid already shown
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Speaker 2: that he has high end ability. But this list ain't
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Speaker 2: about talent. This list is about trust, and trust is
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Speaker 2: earned and uncomfortable moment. It ain't earned in recruiting rankings,
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Speaker 2: not spring practice clips, not seven on seven throws in
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Speaker 2: uncomfortable moments. So here's the takeaway. If I had to
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Speaker 2: win a national championship in twenty twenty six, Dante Moore
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Speaker 2: is my first call.
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Speaker 1: CJ.
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Speaker 2: Carr is closer than people think that Darien Mensam might
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Speaker 2: be the safest processor in the country. Julian's saying can
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Speaker 2: win the whole thing if structure holes. Trinidad Chambliss is
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Speaker 2: the guy I want when everything breaks. Arch Manning has
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Speaker 2: the tools were waiting on the moment. Gunner Stockton dependable,
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Speaker 2: but I need to know if Georgia can win a
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Speaker 2: track meet with him. Nico e A Maliava He's too
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Speaker 2: talented and has proven too much to quit on. Compare
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Speaker 2: his stats with arch Manning. No Forefieda. He's gonna keep
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Speaker 2: making people apologize if they watch the tape. Drew Mestenmakers
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Speaker 2: got a shot. JKS special player. You guys hop down
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Speaker 2: in the comments. Who would you choose