Episode 16: A Crossover, Live CFP Reactions, and the Heisman...Oh My!

[00:00:00] Hey everybody, it's Mallory your host of The Staredown and I have a great episode for you today

[00:00:05] I teamed up with Greg and TD from the other sports podcast on the Alabama Take Network

[00:00:15] Taken on sports and we all sat in our prospective homes

[00:00:20] watched the ESPN selection show for the college football playoffs today and

[00:00:25] And so we recorded you get to hear our reactions as they're happening and oh my gosh

[00:00:33] You all probably know by now what happened, but those two guys are huge Bama fans. I

[00:00:39] Obviously just wanted my rebels to make a new year six all three of us somehow got our wishes

[00:00:45] But it wasn't as easy for any of us

[00:00:49] I think there was some relief on their side some surprise

[00:00:52] But not really on mine and at the end of the day just a whole lot of thoughts on

[00:00:58] What's wrong with the system as we have it now how we don't even know that going to 12 is gonna truly fix it and

[00:01:04] Yeah, just some real life commentary. So

[00:01:07] You know what to do. It's time to sit back

[00:01:10] Relax grab a drink or two and listen to the Staredown and a crossover with Taken on sports

[00:01:50] Welcome everybody to a joint special edition of Taken on sports in the Staredown. I am TD

[00:01:57] That's Greg and that's Mallory. How are y'all doing this morning?

[00:02:03] Well nervous

[00:02:06] I'm ready for some chaos to ensue because you know it's gonna happen

[00:02:12] I'm joining Greg in the nervous ranks. I'm not sure. I don't know. It's just

[00:02:18] it seems really weird to leave out a

[00:02:21] Top or undefeated power five conference champ in Florida State and I don't think that they're leaving out Texas

[00:02:27] but

[00:02:28] Then again, the committee has said in the past that they're here to find the four best teams and not the four most

[00:02:34] Deserving teams. So I have no idea what's about to happen

[00:02:37] But we are here with y'all literally live. It is 11 a.m. Central time

[00:02:43] We are all three of us have the TV on ESPN right now

[00:02:48] We're gonna watch this selection show live with y'all. I think I read that they will actually

[00:02:53] give us the

[00:02:56] Selection to about quarter after so we have about 15 minutes

[00:03:00] To kill before then we'll pay attention to it

[00:03:04] But uh, so I guess we can just start so it seems like we already have our predictions

[00:03:08] We talked about it on there. I think we get left out. I think it's Michigan Washington, Florida State, Texas

[00:03:13] Greg same thing sounds like

[00:03:16] Yeah, I mean just because this

[00:03:19] No matter how you look at it a power five undefeated team

[00:03:22] It's hard to jump them regardless of what we think about them right now and their situation

[00:03:28] They still run one ACC

[00:03:30] Still undefeated. I

[00:03:33] Sorry to keep them out

[00:03:35] And you know, I think guys I I would love to agree with you on that

[00:03:40] I think deep down, you know, this is kind of why we went away from the BCS right because you wanted that eye test and you

[00:03:46] Wanted those things where maybe the BCS would have waited a little bit of a strength of schedule or something like that

[00:03:53] heavier in favor of

[00:03:55] putting in you know

[00:03:56] Abama but you really wanted an undefeated conference champion in there, but I think here the eye test

[00:04:03] The fact that they can look at injuries. I just don't think you can overcome that. I think that if you take

[00:04:09] Washington, Michigan or even Texas and you put them up against Florida State right now. I think they just get blown out

[00:04:16] I think the committee knows that so I think

[00:04:19] I think Bama sneaks in and I think

[00:04:23] Texas gets to be sad at home and

[00:04:28] Florida State too

[00:04:30] Wait, so oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. No, Texas and Bama get in

[00:04:35] Florida State gets to go be sad at home. Sorry

[00:04:38] Maybe you're calling for the ultimate chaos

[00:04:43] No, sorry, yes, I got distracted by what was on TV. I

[00:04:47] Was distracted by Jordan throwing his his crutch up in the air and I

[00:04:53] My total battle not one, but yeah, no, I think I think you have a I think the committee puts you in there to possibly having a

[00:04:59] Texas Alabama rematch in the championship game if if true chaos ensues within the top four

[00:05:06] Yeah, I think they would avoid the rematch in the semis and we you see something like Michigan Bama

[00:05:12] Washington, Texas

[00:05:13] Yeah, I can see that

[00:05:16] But man Washington Washington to me should scare everybody right now

[00:05:22] I was talking my dad on the phone after the game yesterday

[00:05:26] And he was saying he's like Texas might actually be the best team in the country which I

[00:05:30] Support I couldn't support that argument. They're playing as well as anybody

[00:05:35] But Washington I was like I think I'd worry about them the most because they just find ways to win and they're a tough tough team

[00:05:41] And it's those tough teams

[00:05:43] It's like any NFL when you hear teams are built for January, you know, like those are the teams

[00:05:47] You don't want to play and

[00:05:50] But you could make that same argument for Bama right now

[00:05:52] They almost made for the playoffs and you won't talk about finding a way to win

[00:05:58] Fourth and 31 anybody

[00:06:00] There you go. Yeah

[00:06:02] But I mean, yeah, that's it

[00:06:05] Well for me just Washington, I mean

[00:06:08] No one really thought they were winning Friday night

[00:06:10] Beside them. I mean Vegas didn't think so no one thought the win in that rematch on the neutral field

[00:06:17] And really for a lot of from for a while. I mean they're blowing the organ out

[00:06:22] Right, that's crazy

[00:06:25] Yeah

[00:06:27] No, yeah, they they started and they were not just blowing them out. They were running all over them

[00:06:31] They were doing what everyone thought Oregon was gonna do

[00:06:33] I

[00:06:34] Don't know if I've ever seen the odds makers look dumber than that nine ten point

[00:06:40] Line in Oregon's favor and we said that last week I went what is this line?

[00:06:46] Yeah, we did we we looked it up

[00:06:48] Yeah, when we're recording last week and saw that's way too big and

[00:06:52] It didn't move at all. That was a weird thing to like yeah believed it

[00:06:57] Yeah point or so I think at one point it might have been ten and then it finished at nine

[00:07:01] I know myself Mallory and Blaine all took Washington in the column and that was the easiest pick in that

[00:07:08] Money, oh, yeah, that would to me was the

[00:07:12] December for car football

[00:07:15] Late November is the hardest time to get easy money against Vegas

[00:07:20] And they just gave us it with that

[00:07:23] But yeah, you said something earlier. I want to go back to while we're waiting here

[00:07:29] We mentioned the BCS

[00:07:32] So there's a growing sentiment. I think online that people miss the BCS. Where do y'all fall in that?

[00:07:39] Mallory, do you miss the BCS off? I do

[00:07:44] What I'm okay what I miss about it is is

[00:07:48] It's a mathematical equation, right? It's you and put this you get this out

[00:07:53] And I don't think that there was ever really

[00:07:57] Any true controversy in terms of what I can remember that led to something like what we're about to see here

[00:08:03] Where somebody is going to be left out and be so upset about it like you would have had

[00:08:07] All of your conference champions there and that kind of thing and people would have been like the only thing

[00:08:11] They would have like is oh, well take the eye test

[00:08:13] All right, cool. But if you have you know four undefeated teams the four undefeated teams are gonna get into your top four slots

[00:08:19] What I what I ultimately wish for though is that we could have taken the BCS with a committee and

[00:08:26] Kind of had a hybrid but you're just I don't think there's any way to do that

[00:08:30] Or if there is someone who's very smart who can figure it out hadn't figured it out yet

[00:08:34] No, there's absolutely way to do that because college basketball does it and they did it with the RPI and whatever

[00:08:39] New formally they use they have a human selection committee

[00:08:42] but a ranking space thing that they use not as like a

[00:08:46] You know kind of biblical end all be all text, but they do hey

[00:08:50] This is our best tool and in doubt

[00:08:53] We kind of go to this and oh this team's 20 spots higher than they deserve to get in the at-large

[00:08:58] You know and I think you nailed it

[00:09:00] They missed a chance when they first made the playoff to Blake

[00:09:02] We're keeping the BCS rankings around but we're gonna have a selection committee to debate things like injuries and strength

[00:09:08] Disguiser what have you and I think originally people didn't like the BCS because we because they wanted a playoff

[00:09:15] Or more than just two teams. I think that was the biggest thing if you I remember way long before any that

[00:09:21] I had to do a speech in my tenth grade one not 10th grade soon

[00:09:25] So I'm a year of college talking about it was a persuasive speech and the mind was about why the NCAA

[00:09:32] Should use the BCS system a chance to play off and use the rankings and build a playoff map like that

[00:09:38] I thought that was a perfect way to do it because it keeps the human bias element out of it

[00:09:42] But it allows teams that rightfully should be in the playoff into the playoff and play each other

[00:09:48] Yeah, and uh, yeah, I think they missed opportunities there

[00:09:53] Because when we were in school back then I think same thing I came up with a playoff system was basically this it was

[00:09:59] 16 teams every conference champ gets in and there's five at largest because there are 11 conferences in and

[00:10:06] So you had your conference champs in and then five at largest which I thought was more than enough

[00:10:10] But everybody's happy you play on campus blah blah blah

[00:10:13] And back then it could have worked because the gap between the power conferences and the mid majors and smaller guys wasn't

[00:10:20] Nearly as astronomical as it is now. I mean evidenced by like Boise State what they did in the BCS in their run, you know

[00:10:29] But yeah one thing I find

[00:10:32] interesting

[00:10:33] About the BCS love all of a sudden is that people are acting like well, it got it right most of the time

[00:10:38] I think the only time the BCS really got it right was when the answer was obvious

[00:10:42] There was two unbeaten teams and then no one else, you know like okay. Yeah, or

[00:10:46] There's an unbeaten team or one lost team and a bunch of

[00:10:49] Two lost teams or something but when it was bad it was bad. I mean 2001, you know, we had

[00:10:55] Oh, it was that the year that Oklahoma was in right and then you had

[00:11:00] Florida state which had one lost to Miami which had one lost to Washington who had one lost and they

[00:11:07] Which was yeah, yeah, yeah, and you know Washington beat Miami

[00:11:12] And they picked Florida state and that obviously was the wrong choice because that the worst BCS title game of all time

[00:11:19] 13 to 2 2 Florida State got there given their safety, right?

[00:11:23] Yeah

[00:11:26] Yeah, and we still had won the BCS

[00:11:29] I'll let you guys go but my

[00:11:31] The BCS to the whole point of it was to crown one champion to get and we still had split titles during the BCS era

[00:11:37] So that's why I always go back to another shoe in USC USC

[00:11:40] Yeah, I'm like no it didn't work then if we bring on this system. It didn't work, you know, and I mean

[00:11:47] Go ahead

[00:11:49] Even in you know, of course from our opinion 2011

[00:11:53] We were definitely should have been in the because we're down with fans

[00:11:56] But I be you looking like Oklahoma State and everybody else did we benefited from losing their last weekend?

[00:12:03] I mean they have just as rightful of a thing as we did as far as then in that national title game

[00:12:07] And that was kind of the final straw for the the BCS after that they were well, we definitely went to the playoffs

[00:12:15] Yeah, and I think too, you know the thing that always got me about the BCS

[00:12:18] But I don't think we've seen anything different from this and I think this is where everybody

[00:12:21] Truly started getting kind of upset as you got into like the 0708 years is like Matt Brown at Texas

[00:12:28] He was lobbying for votes. Well, what is him lobbying for votes any different than Greg Stanky coming out and saying like

[00:12:34] Leaving an SEC team out of the top four is a travesty and it doesn't happen like that's the exact same thing

[00:12:41] It's just it like

[00:12:43] That and I think that's probably the thing that like people were that the things that people were mad about with the BCS

[00:12:49] They're still mad about now. So, you know, I think

[00:12:53] No, but it all goes back to you look

[00:12:56] Hey, let's get your speech up online from your sophomore year of college because you're right and

[00:13:01] You know, I mean and you know TD you nailed it too. We do it in the NCAA for Marsh Madness

[00:13:07] So yeah, I understand that's way more teams

[00:13:10] But I you know just a thing that just popped up on the screen was when you're looking at Georgia

[00:13:15] Their key wins are Ole Miss in Missouri. Okay. Well, if you've followed anything I've said

[00:13:21] Ole Miss in Missouri, I

[00:13:23] Can argue Ole Miss would be ranked higher than Missouri because our two losses were to Bama and Georgia

[00:13:29] The two teams who you're gonna try and decide to put into the top four maybe from the SEC

[00:13:34] Missouri's losses are to LSU at home that Ole Miss beat and

[00:13:39] Then Georgia so how do you rank Missouri ahead of us?

[00:13:43] That's what I don't understand and again it goes kind of back to that

[00:13:46] It's like, you know

[00:13:47] I'm sure there is some lobbying behind the scenes within the SEC offices to get Greg to go to the committee for that

[00:13:54] But I mean there's all what you're always gonna have things like that

[00:13:57] But if you do have just the true computer rankings that spit it out

[00:14:01] I mean come on y'all we have computers that can put, you know

[00:14:04] people on the moon

[00:14:06] You can put in you can figure out who the top 12 teams are based on that and then narrow it down to the four by using

[00:14:13] The human eye factor if you really need to

[00:14:16] No, yeah

[00:14:19] We've already said it. Yeah, the best system would be keep a BCS style rankings, you know and

[00:14:26] That's what you talk about every Tuesday instead of that's another thing

[00:14:29] The committee is one of the dumbest things they do and I know they do it because ESPN probably asked them to

[00:14:34] And they want the the ratings or not

[00:14:36] But is that they would release weekly rankings because all they do is subject themselves to this

[00:14:41] So Bama jumps in now they're gonna jump at least four spots

[00:14:46] In the rankings and people are gonna be mad about that or we remember the first year when Baylor

[00:14:51] Was in the the second to last rankings and then got jumped over by Ohio State and everyone's like well

[00:14:57] How what did they do? I was blah blah blah blah blah, you know

[00:15:00] Again the committee could just get rid of all this if they just said

[00:15:04] We have a committee we're watching it. These are the BCS rankings every week, but that's not the end all be all

[00:15:09] ESPN could still have their show every week and talk about the rankings

[00:15:13] But then the committee could just come out and say these are our four teams. They wouldn't even have to see them

[00:15:18] Exactly. Yeah, when you have a 14 play out seeding is kind of silly anyway, you know, just get let's be honest

[00:15:24] What do we want?

[00:15:25] What is everybody in the world college football world want right now?

[00:15:27] They want Michigan and Washington to be in the Rose Bowl. They want that final grand old

[00:15:33] 10 packs and Rose Bowl. Yeah

[00:15:36] But if you do the rankings that means it like Texas one lost Texas or if Alabama gets in

[00:15:41] they're gonna have to like play around these rankings and make them funky, which is why

[00:15:45] You know, I don't know. It's a whole thing

[00:15:49] Which is why if Florida State gets in then they can't be ranked fourth with Texas third because you're telling us that

[00:15:54] It's important that they're unbeaten in a conference champ

[00:15:56] Well, then that means that they need to be the third place team and we need to have Michigan Texas. Yeah

[00:16:02] Yeah

[00:16:04] Well, and I mean, you know, it is kind of the same thing like okay, so

[00:16:08] You know, I've seen a bunch and again, we all know and I'm an Ole Miss homer here

[00:16:13] But you know the the sentiment has been so if you do that

[00:16:17] Then you're saying like oh, it's okay if you still schedule cupcakes because you can still get in

[00:16:23] But you know then Texas who didn't schedule an out of conference cupcake and Bama

[00:16:28] That obviously helps but it's like but then you look at the Missouri Ole Miss and they didn't play too lane

[00:16:34] Like we played in granted to lane lost yesterday

[00:16:36] Now SMU is playing some phenomenal football right now

[00:16:40] But too late to go only two losses and one of them being the championship game like that's big

[00:16:45] Like that's really big for them and we went on the road and beat them there. So yeah, I think

[00:16:50] Man, I'm so ready for 12 teams. That's all I can say like and you can't and I'm tired of the argument of oh

[00:16:56] You can't make these college kids play as many games as they do in the NFL

[00:17:00] Well, you basically are at this point and as soon as they leave college

[00:17:03] They're gonna go do it and you mean to tell me physically in one year

[00:17:06] They gained that much to play two or three extra games

[00:17:09] No, not at all not with the way stuff set up now because the champion plays with 15 games right now

[00:17:16] Two more games. That's it. And then we look at our lower divisions where they have a 2014 playoff

[00:17:27] Yeah, not a single no

[00:17:32] If anything it's always been why haven't the power of conferences moved to this format years ago

[00:17:39] Yeah, exactly. Yeah, which I mean yeah good choice like I said, I think that time has gone now

[00:17:44] I don't think you can have a playoff where the SEC champ and the Mac champ are in the same thing

[00:17:50] I think now that the resources are just too

[00:17:53] Why I've said it for years now that I don't think I think the best thing to do would be to trim down

[00:18:00] The FPS level to be like get find it somewhere around 80 to 100 teams be like these this is it

[00:18:07] This is whatever metrics you need to do. This is a threshold for what it should be

[00:18:12] Teams like you know like an Eastern Michigan not to call them out. Sorry any hum

[00:18:16] I don't even know what you guys are Eagles

[00:18:19] Sorry, any Eastern Michigan fans, but you know like your resources just aren't there

[00:18:25] Compared to you know a Georgia and Ole Miss in Alabama, you know, it's not the same level of football

[00:18:30] It's like it's soccer if you asked, you know

[00:18:34] okay, well, we're gonna have

[00:18:36] Manchester City play the second tier champion and that decided well guess what that second two champions never being Manchester City

[00:18:44] right

[00:18:45] but yeah, that's a

[00:18:47] I think

[00:18:49] I've kind of lost my point now, but I'm rambling. No, but uh, yeah

[00:18:52] I

[00:18:53] Want to make a point off of what you just said because I think this is kind of going

[00:18:57] I think we're all talking towards the same thing right and I think

[00:19:01] This is kind of where it's fun to go watch like Twitter and all of that and see

[00:19:05] I refuse to call it X by the way

[00:19:07] But I think it's fun to go watch Twitter and all of those things and see how everybody's talking the same thing and people start arguing over it

[00:19:13] I'm like guys are talking about the same thing

[00:19:14] But to me what this does is this just proves the point that I have said since we started seeing conference realignment

[00:19:20] With Oklahoma and Texas kind of being those first two dominoes

[00:19:23] I have said since then you're gonna end up with four major conferences and within those you're gonna have four divisions

[00:19:30] So you're basically gonna look like an expanded NFL and I just did the math with my calculator because it's too early to do it

[00:19:36] My head six teams in each of those four divisions within those four conferences gives you 96 teams done

[00:19:44] There you go

[00:19:45] Yeah, there's gonna be yes. That's what it's leading toward and another product here is

[00:19:53] Depending on what this result is if Alabama gets left out for Florida State

[00:20:00] What you're essentially telling and granted Florida State's played

[00:20:03] The great schedule, but if album gets left off because they have the loss

[00:20:07] It's more the better thing to say here then you're gonna see AD start canceling all these premier

[00:20:14] Out of conference games because it tells you that it doesn't matter that you're playing a strong schedule

[00:20:20] Which in the past committee has said is very important, right?

[00:20:23] But if it seemed like Michigan who schedules what you like

[00:20:27] Cocking you an elf. Yeah, you and LV, you know, Northwestern Michigan State School for the Blind

[00:20:33] You know all these just horrible out of conference schedules granted, you know, we had a good year good for them. Yeah

[00:20:41] But still yeah, you're gonna stop seeing these games or until like Mallory says there's just a complete break off and then formation of a new

[00:20:49] Premier League type level of college football where all these teams just play each other the whole time

[00:20:54] Yeah, and I mean, I think you know like I've already looked ahead to Ole Miss a schedule next year. We play Furman

[00:21:01] So yeah, you're gonna see Keith Keith Carter start scheduling Furman instead of Tulane

[00:21:07] And you're also gonna start seeing teams like Florida State saying bye ACC because you know to that point if Ole Miss and

[00:21:14] Bama and Georgia have to play

[00:21:16] Texas and Oklahoma and LSU every year. Why the hell are we gonna go get ourselves beat up by playing?

[00:21:23] Florida State out of conference. No, let's save it for the playoffs

[00:21:27] We're not gonna kill ourselves that way in them in the regular season

[00:21:31] Yeah, that's also why the SEC has never moved to nine games because what's the point if you can get into playoff with eight

[00:21:38] Why risk that nice when no one else is doing it for you?

[00:21:41] It's not universal so although it should be noted Nick Saban is one of the very vocal

[00:21:47] Proponents, he's been like never yeah, not games and he also believes that only power five teams should only play other power five teams

[00:21:55] John I'm not wholly on board with because I just I love college football

[00:21:59] Part of college football is because we see stuff like app state upset Michigan, you know

[00:22:03] New Mexico State walking into Jordan air the weekend. That's where the iron ball. Yeah, exactly

[00:22:08] Yeah, or yeah exactly

[00:22:10] That's what college football and that and that's the problem with even my suggestion of going done up

[00:22:15] Here we go. We're going oh

[00:22:17] Number one Michigan to be of course. Yeah

[00:22:22] Yeah, no arguments there grant weeks like we said but

[00:22:31] And I definitely once we see all of these I do want to come back to Michigan because

[00:22:35] Do you put an asterisk next to them if they win it because of all the stuff with hardball this year?

[00:22:40] I wouldn't I

[00:22:43] Don't I don't think you can because again along with the injuries they also get to look at coaching issues as well and

[00:22:50] Look hey

[00:22:52] He sat out six games and they still went and destroyed

[00:22:55] Everybody now whether it was a cupcake or not. It doesn't matter. They still took care of business

[00:22:59] Yeah, I mean maybe in state and I mean they be Penn State in Ohio State without Jim hardball and the sideline for whatever

[00:23:06] That's worth. Yeah

[00:23:08] And honestly to me that's just good coaching during the week

[00:23:11] The Huskies number two so we will not get a Michigan Washington Rose Bowl interesting

[00:23:18] Y'all this is where like I just got nervous for my Florida State friend and all my Bama friends

[00:23:26] Because one group's about to be really upset. I'm guessing three is gonna be Texas here

[00:23:31] I think so regardless of if Florida States in or not. I think yeah, I think three is Texas

[00:23:37] But then that just kills your whole

[00:23:40] They did that season. Yeah, if you put Texas at three and then Florida stayed at four then your

[00:23:47] You have no idea what your actual metrics are you're just picking teams out of your ass. Yeah

[00:23:53] Yep, that's how much he said all this time. Yeah, I know

[00:23:56] And we didn't even mention during this whole thing Kirby smart lobbying to and he was saying you know if it's for

[00:24:01] Best teams not foremost deserving than yeah, if you're talking for a best team. Yep, here's Texas at three

[00:24:06] Yeah, then if we're talking for best teams and yet Georgia should probably be in this too, but that's a different argument

[00:24:17] Oh god y'all

[00:24:20] Not even any of my teams that I'm nervous

[00:24:24] Shot of the Texas players are excited. They knew you were getting it. Come on you guys come on y'all

[00:24:30] So we're getting a Washington Texas semifinal. That'll be a good one

[00:24:34] I'm excited for that last year didn't they

[00:24:37] Did they did they like a holiday bowl or something?

[00:24:40] I swear they put in the holiday ball

[00:24:42] Oh, no one of the best holiday balls of all time know that major Apple white come back when way back in the day

[00:24:49] Texas Washington here. We are our fourth spot

[00:24:52] Or they're gonna give us six first. They're gonna give us six first to really tease it out

[00:24:57] Which I would imagine be Georgia

[00:25:00] And you're correct they played Washington in the Alamo Bowl last year. Okay

[00:25:08] Now hey, look old Mrs. On the two as key wins against famine Georgia y'all that's all I can hope for is my

[00:25:15] At least doing something that means something that'll make Lake if it's so happy

[00:25:21] anything

[00:25:23] Florida state should not be picked based on how God awful that ACC title game was last night in the grand

[00:25:29] I know you're down your third string quarterback, but good Lord

[00:25:32] But it's

[00:25:34] How would Louisville get the ten and two with that?

[00:25:40] I think which is to me shows how weak the ACC actually was this year. I think so too y'all because we all thought

[00:25:52] There was Florida state and then there was nobody

[00:25:55] Yeah, they're gonna give us six first Georgia six. Okay, well, that's good too because I was a lot of people are afraid to the highest state

[00:26:04] Was somehow still gonna be in this mix and I was just like no way. No, there's no way a lot of here. Yeah

[00:26:11] Like their best wins were what Notre Dame and I guys

[00:26:15] I think you put four to state at five and you put them at four

[00:26:17] And I think it's just based off of that strength of schedule that we just saw I hope you're right

[00:26:22] I think that's what happens and I think four to state family about to be oh

[00:26:27] Greg's ahead of us

[00:26:33] Alabama in

[00:26:39] Florida's Twitter gonna be mad

[00:26:46] This is

[00:26:52] On this episode

[00:26:57] First undefeated power five champ not to be in

[00:27:02] Alabama gets in

[00:27:05] Again if you're talking for best teams Florida state without Jordan Travis is not one of them

[00:27:10] If they had Jordan Travis this wouldn't be anything. This is an argument

[00:27:16] They got it right

[00:27:18] Jordan Travis is there we're out. It's simple. Yeah, yeah, I agree so it looks

[00:27:25] Alabama and the roast I

[00:27:28] Played yesterday they probably still get it

[00:27:32] All right

[00:27:34] So I'm gonna say this oh

[00:27:36] I know a bunch of my friends are gonna be very very happy but roll in that thing tied against Michigan y'all

[00:27:43] Let's go. Let's go Bama our boss. They've been

[00:27:48] I

[00:27:51] Be wearing some crimson and white that day because I can't stand hardball a rose ball matchup to a classic

[00:27:59] Granddaddy of them all

[00:28:01] Y'all oh y'all have chills like I'm not even kidding. I have chills like I cannot wait for

[00:28:07] This should be an epic playoff. I mean you have

[00:28:11] Michigan Alabama just a history of both the programs to the longest programs of all time in the Rose Bowl

[00:28:18] It doesn't get bigger than that and then all the other game. I mean you got Washington, Texas. I mean

[00:28:25] Been in the top the whole season

[00:28:27] Yeah, it doesn't doesn't get better than what we have

[00:28:31] Well, I think the best playoff we we've ever had

[00:28:35] Honestly, I think it is because you know and we've set it all along this whole time

[00:28:40] We've been talking where the four these are the four best

[00:28:42] These are the four teams that are hitting on every single cylinder and I think

[00:28:47] You know, I I text Corey Hannah, which I know y'all know Corey

[00:28:50] But I took some last week and I was like look championship teams find a way to win

[00:28:54] And like I said, Bama did it fourth and 31 against Georgia

[00:28:58] Basically on Georgia's home turf in the Georgia Dome or whatever they call it the Mercedes Benz

[00:29:03] Whatever that thing is now in Atlanta and it's like they went in and did it

[00:29:10] That's right

[00:29:13] Wow

[00:29:15] So, yeah, there it is Alabama, Michigan in the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day

[00:29:20] Followed by Washington and Texas in the sugar bowl that night

[00:29:24] And you talking about rating I mean Michigan fans, Texas fan, Bama fans

[00:29:30] You know even the Washington has a good amount in those ratings and being through the roof

[00:29:35] I mean, there's coming and the other thing too is even the teams that aren't

[00:29:40] Affiliated they can't see all the year, you know, the SEC got to win. We're not watching people are gonna watch this

[00:29:46] Even if they know that teams not there because it's epic football

[00:29:50] Tell you what this also tells me is that Florida State is going to be lobbying hard to get into the SEC now or oh and they should

[00:29:58] Yeah, cuz this is you know, this is this is two big 10 teams in two SEC teams now

[00:30:04] Yep

[00:30:06] Guys, I think we just saw the start of the toppling of the NCAA

[00:30:13] Going to that for

[00:30:15] In figuring it out that way and I mean like I hate it and I'm sure we could all talk for hours on this

[00:30:21] I hate it for the

[00:30:23] Vanderbilt's I hate it for the Wake Forests of the world

[00:30:27] But I think now you do start to see

[00:30:30] These powers I mean in 10 years

[00:30:33] We're not even gonna know like go buy all your go buy your SEC merch now without Texas and Oklahoma on it

[00:30:39] And you can show your great

[00:30:41] Therefore Jordan Travis is healthy then the three seed Texas is the fourth

[00:30:48] Jordan Travis is healthy. This is Florida State is in no question. I don't think yeah, we even worry about

[00:30:59] because if

[00:31:02] Yeah

[00:31:03] And again again, this surprises me and I'm trying to well actually not really

[00:31:08] Again, I said the seeding is dumb and a 14 playoff

[00:31:12] In Houston, maybe Michigan Washington and the Rose Falls what they want to put in you

[00:31:18] They would they don't want to schedule that rematch. Yeah, that rematch is gonna happen. They won in the title game. Yeah, yeah

[00:31:25] and

[00:31:28] Yeah

[00:31:34] No, you know you could play these games in Japan and Bama fans would find a way to make it there

[00:31:40] I like because it's but same with Texas

[00:31:43] You mentioned Houston but

[00:31:48] That sugar bowl is gonna be

[00:31:54] But it's still pretty expensive the average Washington fan is not gonna be able to get the tickets the

[00:32:01] Flying tickets the game tickets the hotel by death gets pricey real quick these days

[00:32:09] Yeah, and plus it's a drive away. I mean you're driving to New Orleans

[00:32:17] Yeah, oh

[00:32:20] One you got Texas oil money

[00:32:23] It's crazy to think that has been since

[00:32:27] Yeah

[00:32:29] Be real expensive playoff appearance big-time sugar bowl game that actually means something

[00:32:35] Whoo, I can't even imagine what these rosebow tickets are gonna go for

[00:32:45] It's insane, yeah, you know, oh, yeah, there you see it folks. Oh

[00:32:54] Man, yeah

[00:32:56] We're in Bama, Washington. I've been on Washington's bandwagon

[00:33:01] Bama over Michigan. I jumped off for a week Texas over Washington. I think we get three match. Sorry Mike

[00:33:06] I'm back on Bama, Washington. That's what I did again

[00:33:15] That's true

[00:33:26] That's a tough one Texas is just playing so well

[00:33:29] Movie before I think I have to go Bama Texas as well the rematch

[00:33:34] So I love how none of us are giving Michigan a shot here

[00:33:39] We've seen this we saw this what not

[00:33:43] Four years ago

[00:33:45] With a great Mac Jones who had an even good start

[00:33:50] I mean and

[00:33:53] Yeah

[00:33:59] We deserve to lose but I

[00:34:02] Have confidence that that's not gonna yeah, and I think this team, you know, maybe Michigan's a little

[00:34:09] Defensively better matchup. Yeah

[00:34:20] I agree

[00:34:21] Well, and I think you know you want Milrow

[00:34:24] I mean look, you know him coming off the field at Auburn screaming give me the Heisman

[00:34:30] He doesn't deserve the Heisman. I think everybody knows that but you want him having that kind of confidence right now

[00:34:35] And that's and your team Bama is just so

[00:34:39] Confident so come Bama losing early every year makes every should make every other team so scared

[00:34:47] And it just proved why they just proved why

[00:34:53] Daniel I'm just like

[00:34:55] This is insane

[00:35:00] That is indeed here. All right

[00:35:04] All right, now we have a decision to make do we want to end it here?

[00:35:08] Mal or great you you want to go ahead and just do our quick full episode real quick at least talk about the games yesterday

[00:35:16] Yeah, sure let's do it. All right. Hey, well then let's do it here a full not just a quick episode but a full

[00:35:23] So we just got our reactions

[00:35:27] Let's talk about yesterday then what we'll start

[00:35:32] With the I guess the big one the sec title game Alabama 27 Georgia 24

[00:35:37] Early on didn't look good for the tie Georgia marched right down the field scored

[00:35:43] Alabama offense looked a little

[00:35:46] overmatched early on and then

[00:35:48] They turned it around and Alabama was I think the much better team for most of the game

[00:35:59] I'll give Georgia fans a fair credit because Bama fans say about the title game a couple years ago if

[00:36:05] Brock Bowers and Lad McConkey are 100%

[00:36:08] Just Georgia win

[00:36:13] Mal I'll go to you first. I

[00:36:18] think

[00:36:20] You don't see as many mistakes as you did

[00:36:24] But I still think that

[00:36:26] Uncle Mo is on Bama side right now

[00:36:29] So I think maybe you end up with a one point one and so the three point one

[00:36:32] I think you end or you end up with an overtime because I mean

[00:36:36] Brogw hours man when he's healthy, I don't I don't know that there's a better

[00:36:42] Player in college football that can change an offense outside of maybe Michael Pinnick Jr. But I

[00:36:50] Still just don't think I think Bama's not why we nobody's getting any credit

[00:36:55] Even to find a way to make stops

[00:37:00] Is an opportunity to win that game right?

[00:37:04] You know we had some drop touchdowns. We were up in the fourth quarter

[00:37:07] We could have won that game or you could use it. Yes, it's a change the game

[00:37:11] But we still could have won that game

[00:37:13] Georgia could have still won yesterday had things gone that way that fumble doesn't happen

[00:37:18] Maybe you know they maybe they win same time you look at it as well

[00:37:22] We thought plenty of points on the board as well

[00:37:24] You know, Miller doesn't overthrow a couple of those after that fumble return and he overthrew in their back of end zone

[00:37:32] There's a couple of time we could have easily scored touchdowns we got field goals

[00:37:36] So we're looking at completely different game

[00:37:38] So it's always a what if and that's always fun to talk about but the reality is played a game

[00:37:43] You get your winners

[00:37:59] Yeah, no, I agree

[00:38:01] Like you said, it's fun to do what if yeah if James and Williamson John Metchie play for Alabama a couple years ago

[00:38:07] I think Alabama wins that game

[00:38:10] Didn't

[00:38:12] But we also played that game in Georgia one and deserved a win yesterday two things about yesterday

[00:38:19] One they played they were on the field. So if they're good enough to go on the field then

[00:38:24] Hey, they played. Yeah

[00:38:26] I've seen some people saying that maybe

[00:38:28] That was a fault in Kirby's and Mike Bobo's game plan was still relying on them even though they weren't 100%

[00:38:34] Well again here on the field

[00:38:37] But to where I actually go to is I think Alabama like y'all still wins

[00:38:43] Because that game was one at the line of scrimmage and Alabama's lines want it

[00:38:50] Their defense

[00:38:56] State right now

[00:38:58] Do feel bad for those guys. They want to be the fan base can be as mad as they want to be

[00:39:03] Yeah, they did everything they could to be in the playoffs they won the power five conference

[00:39:18] I

[00:39:20] And you know

[00:39:22] And you know, I'll go I'll go back to something too

[00:39:26] You know, they say this is a team game and it is inside

[00:39:30] I

[00:39:35] Yeah, I mean

[00:39:44] Long term of course a big 10 was gonna jump a big 12

[00:39:51] Game that mean that was gonna happen. It's Ohio State course you're gonna jump a were

[00:39:57] Over yeah, but Ohio State's gonna

[00:40:00] Jump a were TCU even now like it doesn't matter

[00:40:04] Like that's just the reality is the world

[00:40:06] We're in and then all of the time did we have it?

[00:40:10] Yeah, I mean

[00:40:13] Well, I mean last year the biggest drama was TCU or Alabama and we knew we were I mean most of a new

[00:40:19] Yeah, we it was fun to argue. Hey, we were buried in TCU and people

[00:40:24] Don't genuinely felt that however those two losses we weren't gonna get into playoff

[00:40:41] Yeah, yeah

[00:40:45] But yeah

[00:40:47] So from yesterday's game you had Jalen Milrow MVP deservingly

[00:40:52] Really

[00:40:54] Opportunities to really put the game away

[00:40:56] I actually after they settled for the field gold after that fumble. I was

[00:41:02] Starting to get real worried. I'm like, oh, that's one of those. I think I

[00:41:07] Mm-hmm. Yeah, I think I even posted on like blue sky or something

[00:41:09] I'm like if Georgia come backs and comes back and wins this game

[00:41:13] Then this is the moment right here when their defense held them to a field gold

[00:41:16] Because that would have been at 14 point lead not 10 and that would have been huge

[00:41:21] But Alabama won 30th SEC title

[00:41:25] Three of the last four SEC titles which is kind of hilarious for all the hand-wringing and

[00:41:31] Alabama fans, you know a lot of them doom doomsday

[00:41:34] Sabans coming to the end of the run. Hey three of the four as more people are always said eight of them

[00:41:40] I'm a team is terrible. They have a running back

[00:41:44] rumors of the Alabama dynasty demise

[00:41:46] Offensive coordinators horrible. They have a Kevin still way past who he's supposed to be he's not good anymore

[00:41:53] So reason why it's been everywhere

[00:41:55] Here we are

[00:41:57] There we are

[00:42:03] Yeah

[00:42:11] As I said, there are a lot of Bama fans

[00:42:14] probably us to a little small degree to but

[00:42:17] That after the Texas industry a few SF games that a oh some apologies to

[00:42:23] Coach Saban coming through and some people but I mean also that team

[00:42:28] You know you've heard it said that those are two different teams, you know that Alabama September and then Alabama yesterday

[00:42:34] Yeah, all credit to the players for my bed adapting and coming through maturing and

[00:42:41] progressing as a season went on all

[00:42:44] Shout out to Tommy Reese

[00:42:46] He learned on the fly

[00:42:48] That's a lot better as the year went on and actually game plan to his players strengths

[00:42:55] Not perfect. He still got learning to do his play call it, but he's a young guy

[00:42:59] I mean hell he was playing quarterback about what a

[00:43:02] The decade ago. Yeah less than 10 years ago

[00:43:07] Florida State

[00:43:12] Yeah Florida State ACC title game ugly ugly

[00:43:17] Defensive struggle is nasty

[00:43:20] Yeah, I mean oh

[00:43:29] That defensive line

[00:43:32] did

[00:43:33] Criminal things to the Louisville offensive line yesterday

[00:43:38] Now what do you got say about it?

[00:43:40] Man, I think you know

[00:43:40] I just pulled up the box score to look at you know when the scoring finally happened

[00:43:45] You don't even get a fill goal until 10 minutes in or I'm sorry five minutes into the second quarter

[00:43:51] So, you know, you go look at that you hold for the States defense holds Louisville scoreless until

[00:43:57] eight minutes into the second half and

[00:44:00] then after that it was just I

[00:44:02] Think Louisville just had had enough

[00:44:06] Yeah, I Florida States defense man, they did everything right they did everything right and

[00:44:15] you know

[00:44:17] Defense wins you games defense wins you championships

[00:44:21] You know everybody always wants to talk about offense offense is always the easy thing to talk about right

[00:44:26] But man, you're right. I think that defensive Florida State they are so

[00:44:31] Overlooked and you just can't do that and I think

[00:44:37] They're going to take this use it in

[00:44:40] They're gonna be scary. They're going to be scary next year. We were kids and I think we saw why college growing up

[00:44:46] I mean for the state was a perennial

[00:44:48] worst case scenario they lose one and they only out the title because

[00:44:52] Miami got in or Florida got in, you know, they're almost back to that level moving to the 12 team playoff

[00:45:00] I mean if they continue on the path of their own, I mean there ain't almost every year you would think

[00:45:07] Yeah, yep

[00:45:19] Yeah, so

[00:45:21] Sorry TD real quick, you know pulling up team stats to Florida States defense held Louisville to a hundred eighty eight total yards on

[00:45:29] 28 and a half minutes of possession

[00:45:32] Hundred and eighty eight yards. Oh, that's insane

[00:45:35] Yeah, like I said that defensive line was just outstanding last night all credit to them

[00:45:41] Saying that's an argument for Florida State staying in the ACC is

[00:45:48] You're pretty much almost guaranteed a birth as the champion

[00:45:52] Large out of that conference now

[00:45:57] ACC

[00:45:59] The pack 12 a lot stupid TV deal

[00:46:05] We talk about that yeah, it's not some special

[00:46:09] Limited only direct TV like with the pack 12 things like at least have that some intelligence with how they

[00:46:15] structure their TV deal as far as

[00:46:18] Everybody I'm gonna get it because that pack 12 was the worst media deal in history of media deals

[00:46:25] Yeah

[00:46:38] Yes, yeah

[00:46:41] So yeah, what do you think about yesterday outside of the defense for Florida State? I

[00:46:46] think

[00:46:50] I don't think that was a rough game to watch I think I tuned in for an ACC title game and a big big 10 game broke out

[00:46:57] The

[00:47:00] Defense is great the Louisville played great too. We were all this praise from Mike Norville and he does I agree Florida State is

[00:47:07] Regardless of where they end up

[00:47:09] ACC SEC whatever new the new thing is called when all these leagues break apart from the NCAA anyway

[00:47:16] Florida States they got their man. They're on the right track

[00:47:19] You just keep putting money into that program

[00:47:22] Keep those resources in those facilities updated

[00:47:26] They're gonna be back to you know

[00:47:29] At least in contention every year for the ACC and in the talk of this is a possible national title team every year

[00:47:36] on the other sideline

[00:47:39] Disappointing into their you know conference season, but that's a great 10 wins for a Louisville team that nobody expected

[00:47:47] I don't remember where they were predicted

[00:47:49] to

[00:47:50] Begin the year, but that is an

[00:47:56] After wow here we go

[00:47:58] You know Tom my Louisville people back there

[00:48:02] It sucks today because you had your shots. They're Louisville had their chances to win that game too after that

[00:48:09] mm-hmm, yeah when

[00:48:11] They they jail broke they tackled upon

[00:48:15] They just murdered the poor punner

[00:48:17] Yeah, they got the ball at what like the 11 yard line

[00:48:20] I thought this is it Louisville is gonna score a touchdown here take the lead and

[00:48:25] Their defense is gonna finish it off, but

[00:48:29] Yeah, absolutely

[00:48:31] So the preseason pole for Louisville they were eight

[00:48:35] It was Clemson Florida State North Carolina NC State

[00:48:40] Miami Duke and Pitt tied for six Louisville way Cherquees

[00:48:44] Tech Virginia Tech then Georgia Tech Boston College in Virginia. Yeah

[00:48:49] Yeah, so yeah

[00:48:51] Hold your head up Louisville fans because that you got you finally got your right guy

[00:48:54] He's gonna get y'all back to be in a team you have to respect

[00:48:58] Maybe not ACC title game every year

[00:49:00] I don't know what happened. I think eight win floor is probably

[00:49:05] Where Louisville should be at?

[00:49:09] Yeah

[00:49:11] Oh

[00:49:13] Let's see

[00:49:14] We kind of respected that yeah

[00:49:17] Let's move on some other games real quick

[00:49:20] Not make this too long

[00:49:24] Blowout wins Texas blew out Oklahoma State. I think everyone in the world saw that coming Texas

[00:49:29] Yeah, Texas is on the

[00:49:31] I way ever got her we said about that game this even okay often Michigan easily beat Iowa

[00:49:37] These have been so good for so long. I don't think he's not

[00:49:43] And this is I mean it's gonna get tougher now of course with no more divisions

[00:49:47] So I mean you can sit in the skate folks in the west

[00:49:51] So they do down to a championship game, but if they could get any semblance of an offense

[00:49:55] They could these somewhat of a decent team

[00:50:06] Who do they get yeah, well, I mean they've already said that

[00:50:14] Baby France is not coming back as their offensive coordinator next year. So maybe we do see it next year

[00:50:19] Or at least see some improvement there. Hey, well, they can have Charlie West Jr

[00:50:24] I'm more than happy to give him up

[00:50:29] Yeah

[00:50:32] What other games we had

[00:50:37] Miami Ohio on the Mac, I'm sure none of us really know anything about that

[00:50:41] No, but that seemed to be a surprise though, right?

[00:50:45] Everybody had Toledo was the touchdown favorite. Yeah, so that definitely wasn't upset question

[00:50:52] SMU upset

[00:50:57] They did it with their backup. Yeah, exactly. I was impressed they did it with their backup quarterback

[00:51:08] Oregon stay look dead in the

[00:51:12] Yeah

[00:51:15] Yeah

[00:51:17] About Jonathan Smith going to

[00:51:20] Michigan State from Oregon

[00:51:22] Yeah

[00:51:24] Yeah, we are we are scarred from the 2002 iron ball where we watched Trey Smith run all over our

[00:51:31] Really good defense and then learned a few days later that Dennis Francioni was jetting off to

[00:51:37] Fucking Texas A&M

[00:51:39] I mean, there's

[00:51:43] You know

[00:51:46] As a kid they were hardly kind of like my number two team

[00:51:49] I think just because they were similar colors and maybe I knew like the Bear Bryant lore or something

[00:52:02] Mm-hmm

[00:52:03] But then you kind of actually learn about them and how they're just a cult

[00:52:07] Disguised as a college and then yeah, oh, yeah, no, they absolutely are and yeah

[00:52:12] The second cringiest thing I've ever seen was them introducing their new coach. That was all God. Yeah

[00:52:18] Jesus but so while we have while we're talking about SMU Liberty did win conference to us a

[00:52:24] So they finished unbeaten so now

[00:52:27] The next question for the committee is it going to be Liberty going in the New Year 6 or is it SMU because SMU's

[00:52:34] Strength of schedule the strength of victories all of that is infinitely better than Liberty

[00:52:38] Yeah, but Liberty is unbeaten as you may as to losses the state

[00:52:41] But you just proved you don't have to be unbeaten for it to matter. That's true

[00:52:46] I will say the only plus of Liberty getting into the New Year 6 is that they play someone like a pissed off Georgia and

[00:52:53] Oh, man, if that one to be the funniest game to watch. Yeah, oh, yeah, or a Florida State

[00:52:59] So yeah, I'd rather see SMU get in because I think they'd give someone a better game but and also fuck Liberty

[00:53:08] Wow, what were we talking about horrible universities?

[00:53:13] Yeah

[00:53:15] That's interesting. What else we got of course that great packed 12 title game Friday night

[00:53:20] We mentioned Washington jumped out early Oregon fought back and it was another tight affair

[00:53:27] Washington made late plays to seal the game

[00:53:31] The boysy responded to their coach on the road obviously there were some problems in there

[00:53:37] We all thought it was kind of surprising when the boys he fired the coach, but a mountain west champ for the first time in a good few years

[00:53:44] Um

[00:53:47] Sunbelt Troy a big yes

[00:53:49] Yeah, yeah on the road technically for boys. Yeah, Troy and that's been the fun belt of 28.4th quarter

[00:53:58] Huge good win for them over it pretty hot at state team

[00:54:03] And by the way, I think I'm the only one that picked that

[00:54:06] You are I had at stay I think Blaine had the over or under in this game. Yeah

[00:54:13] They were by that under yeah, but you know, I think

[00:54:18] I think I put it in mind too like if game day is there then obviously

[00:54:23] Right because there's something weird about game day being there and at state pulling it out

[00:54:27] So, you know when game day one there, I was like, yeah, I feel like Troy's got this plus it was at Troy

[00:54:32] So yeah, and the house formerly known as movie gallery stadium. Yes

[00:54:37] Yeah

[00:54:39] Hey John summer all Huntsville natives their head coach. Yeah

[00:54:43] I think that's it for the title games

[00:54:48] Yeah

[00:54:51] Of course the next big thing coaching Carol so we mentioned that Houston officially hired really fritz away from Tulane a good hire for Houston

[00:55:01] Tough loss for Tulane a guy he really got that program up to where it's tough because Tulane's one of those academic schools that

[00:55:09] You might it's tougher to get the better athletes so to say but in that

[00:55:14] Region with all of that talent not just in the New Orleans area, but Louisiana you're right next to Texas. Yeah

[00:55:21] That should be a power they should be a power mid major every year. They should be like a bullies East state where

[00:55:27] Every year before the year. Oh, yeah, we talked about teams that could ruin somebody's day

[00:55:32] I mean now you saw it first hand. Yeah, they gave you rebels everything

[00:55:37] They could have with a backup quarterback. Yes, and look their new stadium is super nice, too

[00:55:42] Like I love the fact that that they've

[00:55:45] Yeah, I mean it's it's small but it was loud

[00:55:48] And so I'm really happy for them that they are on that upswing, you know, I'm actually really surprised

[00:55:53] Mississippi State didn't go get him. I

[00:55:55] Thought that's where he would end up

[00:55:57] I thought he was gonna end up his next job being at like a state or a Vanderbilt or something like that

[00:56:03] Because he's obviously proven he can go and do something with

[00:56:06] But I think when you have the Houston

[00:56:08] Money that he's gonna have now like it's still going I mean

[00:56:12] He's a little money's eventually gonna come out. It's a point that no division. I think he's gonna do great things

[00:56:19] Mississippi State sniffing as you see title game

[00:56:23] Very unlikely. I mean you gotta look with Houston the whole area

[00:56:27] I mean all the town in the state of Texas the market the money

[00:56:32] I mean when you sin was winning the fans show up

[00:56:34] I mean, it's a perfect situation and the big 12 is gonna be a little different with Texas in Oklahoma even though

[00:56:41] I think it's that

[00:56:55] No, I think we touched on that last week when we talked about them firing Holger's in but

[00:57:01] Houston is ripe to explode as a perennial big 12 power

[00:57:06] The money comes into that university, you know, they've got a huge alumni base and they got money

[00:57:13] And it's talk about recruiting hotbed moving Willie Fritz can do what he did at Tulane with the academic restrictions. He can

[00:57:22] Absolutely kill it at Houston when that recruiting

[00:57:27] Fertile fertile recruiting grounds gonna be a few different he's gonna be able to steal some like five star guys from the bigger

[00:57:33] You know, Texas is Alabama's ain't in LSU's it come in there and have been taken all of those top Houston guys

[00:57:39] They're still gonna get their share

[00:57:41] Of those best Houston players, but Willie Fritz is gonna steal the one or two that make a difference

[00:57:46] Yeah, he's gonna get a couple kids that want to stay home

[00:57:48] He's gonna get a five star quarterback or something that's gonna make a difference

[00:57:53] Is gonna be in a playoff sooner than later with Willie Fritz

[00:57:56] Yeah, yeah exactly

[00:58:03] Madison coach, yeah

[00:58:06] Yeah, yeah

[00:58:10] Did India Indiana did announce who they've hired correct? Yes Kirk signetty James Madison or Jane?

[00:58:16] Yeah, that's right. I'm a sin coach. Yeah, that's right

[00:58:19] And you know that one was a surprise to me because they owed Tom Ellen a 20 million dollar buyout

[00:58:24] Horrible move that was a surprise. Yeah, that they they would pony it up that much money for their football program and to I'm a little surprised

[00:58:31] Signetty made that move because

[00:58:33] That is a lateral move at best. I mean you're in the big now

[00:58:38] But James man, yeah, you're gonna win so much more and James Madison is

[00:58:43] technically, you know newcomer and they're quote-unquote a smaller school but

[00:58:47] They have resources. They have a huge fan base like that's

[00:58:52] We're talking about realignment if we're talking about breaking away if you know, you mentioned

[00:58:58] 96 teams now if you're doing that math here, it's not gonna be just our power confidence teams

[00:59:02] You're gonna have to add some of these, you know mid majors James Madison is near the top of that list

[00:59:07] Yeah, the teams that you invite to come with you. Yeah easily

[00:59:12] When I do even with that you you can even make the point that like okay liberty look at them

[00:59:17] But I still think like if I'm looking at conference realignment, I think I'm James Madison over liberty if those are my choices

[00:59:23] Mm-hmm. Oh, yeah. Yeah, no

[00:59:27] Still don't have a line other big news in this week. I'll be patrino going back to Arkansas

[00:59:35] Yeah, I'm not sure that's gonna fix your offensive problems there

[00:59:41] It's funny it's

[00:59:43] Yeah for all the memes that's gonna be

[00:59:47] Well, as I say we will get to the portal here in a minute

[00:59:51] Because it is loaded. Well, I think oh

[00:59:56] That's right

[00:59:57] So I think the thing you see with Arkansas there is I think their fan base never wanted to get rid of them

[01:00:03] Right like you didn't have a choice

[01:00:04] I'm shocked to get rid of them and I think they're there in the mindset now of like well enough times past

[01:00:10] They weren't same pitman's not gonna last there another year y'all

[01:00:14] Yeah

[01:00:16] He may not watch a bag sound that does sound very yeah, like if Sam Pittman loses a couple early games

[01:00:23] Yeah, I'll be patrino steps in and he might be returned to their head coach

[01:00:29] Again, I don't think that the A&M offense improved this year. They did but also

[01:00:39] Yeah, but I'm not sure how much of that was due to Patrino and not just like oh, right

[01:00:42] These are five and four star kids that are know what they're doing. Yeah

[01:00:46] Yeah

[01:00:48] San Diego State hired Colorado offense coordinator Sean Lewis to be their new head coach replacing the retired Brady hoke

[01:00:55] We'll see San Diego States another one those mid-major hercams. It should be better than they are

[01:01:01] They have their runs where they're decent but they should be threatened to break into a playoff or a new year six every few years

[01:01:08] Yeah

[01:01:10] Syracuse hired Fran Brown the Georgia defensive backs coach so big jump for him a great career move, right?

[01:01:18] Yeah, I I'm I think that's gonna help him a lot with

[01:01:24] Well, especially with the ACC realignment

[01:01:26] He's gonna be able to go in and be able to recruit a little bit where they haven't ever been able to

[01:01:31] I don't think and I think he's gonna have their defense ready to go and

[01:01:35] Kind of take away a little bit of that ACC offense that people think is

[01:01:39] I'm interested to see that one how that goes out how that works out

[01:01:43] Yes, sir. Q. So

[01:01:45] But it can be done. We've seen in the 90s. We were growing up Syracuse was kind of a power. I mean, yeah

[01:01:52] Yeah

[01:01:54] Mm-hmm. I know who you're talking about and I can't bring him up either

[01:01:59] Yeah

[01:02:01] Mm-hmm. Yeah, it was him and you know all Jim of a high on the on the hardwood there

[01:02:07] But they they ruled the sidelines forever. I think I think it looks like Mallory's got a research face on right now

[01:02:19] No, I was still looking to see who still has to has to fill head coaching positions. I believe I have that right here

[01:02:26] My other note Oregon State did promote their defensive coordinator Trent Bray to full-time head coach

[01:02:31] Still open head coaching jobs Duke Boise State James Madison

[01:02:36] Middle Tennessee State New Mexico

[01:02:39] Nevada

[01:02:40] UTEP and you L Monroe

[01:02:43] Well, we're all sad to see Terry Bowden get fired from yet another job, right?

[01:02:49] Hey

[01:02:51] That is a that's a tough tough tough place to win

[01:02:57] In Monroe that that part of Louisiana is not the fun part of Louisiana. No, yeah, that's the

[01:03:05] Yeah

[01:03:08] Don't have anybody better

[01:03:11] Go ahead. No, I say I think one of the retentions that I saw that I'm shocked about is Baylor

[01:03:17] They kept a Rhonda. No, no, no

[01:03:20] I think he's probably in that

[01:03:24] He's probably in that Neil Brown seat where he's gonna be the guy on the hot seat entering next season

[01:03:30] He's gonna have to win about eight nine games to yeah

[01:03:35] Because yeah, they were my I think

[01:03:38] surprise rebound team in the big 12 this year and they did not

[01:03:45] Speaking of which real quick before we get to the transfer portal Greg I saved our predictions for conference winners

[01:03:54] Didn't not as bad as I thought it might be

[01:03:57] SEC we both had Bama as their title Greg you called it over Georgia

[01:04:01] I of course thought the Vols might actually take the step. They did not

[01:04:06] Uh, big 10 Greg had Penn State over Wisconsin miss that I had Michigan over Wisconsin. So we both missed the West

[01:04:15] We did both have Florida State winning the ACC but we had it over Clemson of course

[01:04:22] We both have Texas winning the big 12

[01:04:26] But you had them beating K stay item beating Baylor as I mentioned

[01:04:30] Greg you got Washington right as your packed 12 champ like you said you've been on them all year

[01:04:37] You had the beating USC in the title game. I had the flip flop ID USC winning so swinging a big miss there

[01:04:46] American Greg

[01:04:52] Maybe a year to couple years too early for them and they're speaking of guys that have not left yet Jeff trailer

[01:05:00] Roadrunners coach where you're at my guy. I went some more no pressures on yeah, I don't see any big enough jobs opening

[01:05:07] There's no the Duke job isn't worth it. I change it come Boise State's a lateral move. Yeah

[01:05:14] Yeah

[01:05:22] Unlv would be there and Jane yeah

[01:05:25] Um

[01:05:27] Mountain West we did both have Boise State went in I'm sure neither of us predicted they would do so

[01:05:33] while firing their head coach

[01:05:37] Yeah, no

[01:05:40] Convert to say Greg you got Liberty, right?

[01:05:42] I

[01:05:44] Had UTEP so I don't know what I was I don't even know where they finished in the standings

[01:05:51] That's an interesting one

[01:05:53] Sunbelt Greg had upstate close. I had South Alabama who had a good year just not quite that good

[01:06:00] Mack we both had Toledo close but no cigar

[01:06:05] My playoff Alabama

[01:06:08] In Michigan USC Florida States I got two right

[01:06:12] Greg I actually don't have yours here. Do you remember what you called for the playoff?

[01:06:16] Well, I had Alabama Georgia going undefeated and planning both making a playoff

[01:06:23] Yeah, so we went both went with 50 50 maybe not terrible. Yeah, okay

[01:06:29] So to

[01:06:37] Yeah, I

[01:06:40] Think of that. I think that's cool

[01:06:42] And here's something I just saw a flash on the screen too. I'd like to talk about

[01:06:46] What did y'all think of the WWE partnership with the big 12 title game and getting the championship belts seen?

[01:06:53] I

[01:07:03] Mean I like it

[01:07:05] I get it why they're trying to maybe

[01:07:08] Appeal to a younger crowd, especially when you start looking at the fact that game day brought on Pat McAfee this year

[01:07:13] So they was smart move on their part. They're kind of making sure they still attach themselves to ESPN keep that stuff going

[01:07:20] So yeah, I could I like it. Yeah

[01:07:23] I'm with Greg wrestling fan. It's funny. See the old-ass undertaker up there given a

[01:07:28] The championship belts away and MVP belts his wife Michelle McCool got to give her her props too

[01:07:33] I think a Hall of Famer in her own right

[01:07:35] I'm very worried with them

[01:07:38] The biggest surprise to me was that they actually put the logo on the field

[01:07:42] Yeah, the logo with the belt and all that on the 35 yard lines. I was

[01:07:47] I'm good for WDB whatever. I'd rather them do yeah, I'd rather them partner with ESPN than Saudi Arabia like they do

[01:07:54] So but that's another

[01:07:56] discussion

[01:07:58] Going back transfer portal we mentioned that just want to throw some names out

[01:08:02] These are all quarterbacks that have announced that they are entering the portal and again this they might stay but a lot of them gone

[01:08:09] Cam ward Washington State quarterback. That is an absolute stud somebody could get

[01:08:15] Dante Moore UCLA quarterback freshman had his moments this year, but I guess fell out of favor with Chip Kelly there

[01:08:23] DJ you organ state quarterback former Clemson quarterback. He has put his name in there Riley Leonard Duke quarterback

[01:08:33] Grayson McCall

[01:08:35] Coastal Carolina quarterback

[01:08:40] Yeah, one of your dog's favorites obviously

[01:08:45] Tyler van dyke Miami quarterback

[01:08:47] Former, you know the NFL scouts used to love him definitely has fallen off

[01:08:52] But that's still maybe he can be a reclamation probably somewhere and then will Howard Kansas State quarterback

[01:08:59] Though that is a powerful list of just quarterbacks alone. I didn't even touch on running backs receivers skill players defensive guys, you know, oh

[01:09:11] Yeah, KJ Jefferson announced he is in the portal

[01:09:16] There's some studs in that part. So is this gonna be another

[01:09:21] You know, not everybody's a fan

[01:09:26] But I like it

[01:09:32] Folks are never mad when coaches just left out of nowhere so I can't be mad at the players either

[01:09:37] You gotta do it's best for you. I mean we have jobs and if another opportunity comes we feel this better

[01:09:43] We're not gonna stay so I can knock a kid if they feel like that's a better opportunity

[01:09:48] That's gonna get more they need to go for their career

[01:09:51] Hey, more power to you. Hopefully it works out for you

[01:10:08] Yeah, I think that's exactly it, you know, I

[01:10:11] had a guest on

[01:10:13] Katie Hill he you know was recreated by he frees offered by he frees we fire he frees

[01:10:20] He stays committed to Ole Miss as a school, you know, his mom told him like hey, you need to commit to the school

[01:10:25] Not the coaches. I don't think you see that as much now

[01:10:28] I think he was an anomaly

[01:10:30] But I same thing, you know even before that you could transfer as a graduate transfer

[01:10:35] And so again kind of going back to that whole career thing, you know

[01:10:38] If you but you had to go to a school like if you didn't want to sit out

[01:10:41] You had to go to a school that offered a graduate program that your current school didn't offer

[01:10:44] So you can make an argument that that's a career move

[01:10:47] But yeah, I mean we change jobs every single day

[01:10:50] Why can't they and you know, maybe they get there and they think oh even academically

[01:10:54] This isn't where I want to be like that happens. I transferred after my freshman year of college

[01:10:59] For academic things, you know, and it's like why can't we let them like I don't like Tommy Tuberville and his whole

[01:11:05] Oh, they have to sign a contract. Come on

[01:11:07] You look like Tuberville of all people does not need to talk about being loyal

[01:11:13] Thanking this double standard to the max in the middle of the night and leaving your recruits at a dinner and yeah, come on

[01:11:21] Mr.. What was it? The only way I'll leave Oxford is in a pine box. Yeah

[01:11:26] Yeah

[01:11:30] Absolutely no

[01:11:32] Yeah, that's that's a while I agree. Yeah, every work. Yeah, these kids have agency

[01:11:37] To move

[01:11:41] Major

[01:11:49] Everything else I mean, there's still getting $10 million a year

[01:11:54] So job

[01:12:08] Yeah

[01:12:10] Absolutely wild

[01:12:12] I

[01:12:13] Guess no NFL talk this week really since it's so early in the day here

[01:12:19] Greg's cowboys got a good Thursday night win DK make out how to feel dead a tough Seattle team a little scary

[01:12:26] But I mean Seattle is a tough team. That's a tough team to play

[01:12:35] Yeah against against Charles defense that's impressive

[01:12:39] That one slander pass he took and then just

[01:12:43] Gone

[01:12:44] The what the fastest recorded speed in the NFL this year like 22 miles an hour

[01:12:49] No, he's beast that prompted a joke

[01:12:52] Yeah within our group text so that somebody said imagine if DK and AJ Brown played on the same team

[01:12:59] Oh wait. Oh wait. Oh wait, but yeah, they were never really healthy at the same time

[01:13:03] No, yeah

[01:13:04] my responses DK just could not stay healthy in college and into

[01:13:10] Matt Luke was the wrong guy to have them because if that were they were a couple years younger or if

[01:13:16] Lane Kiffin was a couple years ahead of them

[01:13:19] Lane Kiffin with those two and there's offense. No, I don't want to because

[01:13:24] That's that's a couple losses

[01:13:26] I don't I don't want to have Lane Kiffin with DK Metcalf and AJ Brown against the Golden defense

[01:13:34] But see the other thing you have to remember is the same time DK and AJ were there we had Elijah Moore

[01:13:39] He was with the Browns now and we had Dawson Knox did not catch a touchdown in college

[01:13:45] Think about that. Can you imagine a tight end like Dawson Knox and Elaine Kiffin? Oh god, y'all

[01:13:51] We'd put a hundred on everybody every week and then we just have to pray our defense could hold them to 99

[01:13:58] Yeah

[01:13:59] But yeah, I take y'alls offense every time. Yeah

[01:14:03] So yeah, that was our NFL news

[01:14:07] NBA in season tournaments down to the quarter finals this week

[01:14:12] And then the finals like what next Saturday, right? It's still long. I think so comes all quick

[01:14:21] Greg's Mavericks did something really weird and never before done yesterday went on a 30 run in the fourth quarter

[01:14:29] Still lost

[01:14:34] Probably just life as a Mavericks fan

[01:14:46] Yeah, he still the he's still the decision-maker, but yes, so this yeah

[01:14:51] Couple billion dollars they sold there

[01:14:53] So thoughts on on Cuban selling his state

[01:14:59] Eventually of Texas ever says just the gambling that they're gonna build a big

[01:15:04] Casino and have a norina for the Mavericks. So it's all a big business deal

[01:15:14] Well, they have a lottery they just don't have casinos or anything got to go to Oklahoma

[01:15:23] Interesting I didn't realize Texas didn't have a lottery

[01:15:30] Okay, oh or Louisiana

[01:15:34] The ones in tree ford are super awesome and nice right? Oh, hey we stayed at

[01:15:40] We went out to me and a few friends went out to

[01:15:44] South by Southwest one year and we stopped in Bozier City and stayed at a place called class diamond gyms

[01:15:51] Even though it was four of us because you know your poor 20 somethings to save money

[01:15:55] I think we ended up with a honeymoon suite because we definitely had a hot tub in the room

[01:16:01] Yes

[01:16:02] That I enjoyed and somewhere floating around is a great picture of me very much enjoying that hot tub with a stack of empty Miller High

[01:16:09] Life's behind me. I was up. I was living a good life then

[01:16:15] Yeah, that was a interesting place

[01:16:19] It's a great song by the Turpan trip or is about Bozier City

[01:16:24] Your country fan

[01:16:27] Other sports still waiting on Domino's to fall in the major league baseball offseason

[01:16:36] Yeah

[01:16:38] Our W&B finals are set right I

[01:16:44] Believe so

[01:16:47] You know I

[01:16:50] Look I am all for women's sports

[01:16:53] Obviously, I will podcast and we talk about it and try and touch on it as much

[01:16:57] But I just I cannot follow what they do and when their season is it is so weird

[01:17:03] It is a very rare

[01:17:07] No, no, it's over. Hell. Oh, yeah, it's over. Yeah, Las Vegas one. Okay

[01:17:14] That's right because Becky Hammons got her second to the back-to-back and then pop went and she did the whole

[01:17:21] Like a week before the week after they won it. That's right. It's been a few weeks ago

[01:17:25] Y'all there's been some college football things happening

[01:17:28] Yeah, we're a little about that

[01:17:31] It's been since October really I

[01:17:34] Thought that maybe I've been looking at I guess

[01:17:41] Yes, I've been looking at draft news coming up

[01:17:45] Wow, wow, I'm embarrassed. I have to edit that part out

[01:17:49] Fun over the next couple weeks with the

[01:17:52] Portal opening up see where everybody other than that. Yeah, nothing really else anything else you guys wanted to talk about in the sports world

[01:17:58] Oh, then the early us finding they'll come to new signing day pretty much that'll be this month so

[01:18:05] Interesting month of car football

[01:18:07] Even with the end of the regular season and championship waiting for both seasons in one. Yeah

[01:18:13] December's turning to the hot month record football

[01:18:19] I

[01:18:31] Think you know the only thing I mean obviously love early signing day

[01:18:35] I think it's smart especially now to after coven you start seeing kids being able to do more classes

[01:18:42] Online and at home so they can graduate early get a spring in early come in hopefully make a little bit more of an impact

[01:18:48] So I really like to see that for them

[01:18:51] But I'm going back to you know the selection committee and stuff

[01:18:56] I mean we still got to figure out who's playing the rest of New York new the new year six bowls and I

[01:19:01] Think they're gonna be some upset

[01:19:03] Yeah, but I think you're gonna end up a

[01:19:06] We're gonna put a couple of teams that are unhappy that

[01:19:10] They're not going to be so no, I'm interested to see how the the bowl games kind of shake out

[01:19:15] Yeah, I believe that happens about two thirty

[01:19:20] Oh, yeah

[01:19:30] You could he deserves to go to New York. Yeah, send him to New York. Oh

[01:19:37] Heisman

[01:19:38] Let's talk guys been really fast. There we go does bow nicks deserve to be in the finalist

[01:19:44] Finalist? Yeah

[01:19:46] New York does J. Daniels deserve

[01:19:52] I don't think there's I think so too

[01:19:55] Dude you take J Daniels off of LSU and they are

[01:19:58] They're like Vanderbilt their trash

[01:20:01] Yeah, but overall overall yards and everything you gotta think if he had any semblance. Yeah

[01:20:11] He had better numbers than Joe Borough. Yeah

[01:20:13] Yes

[01:20:15] Yeah, not as passing touchdowns, but yeah, yeah

[01:20:19] I

[01:20:25] Have always been until like the last ten years. Yeah, and that's yeah, we talked about that a little bit

[01:20:31] That's the messed up part of that award. It's a give it to the best guy one of the best teams award now

[01:20:36] And that's just not how it should be, you know

[01:20:41] Yeah, I would make the argument started with Peyton and don't get me wrong. What's him?

[01:20:47] Alabama

[01:20:49] Doesn't do what they do without him. I think they do this Tennessee do what they do without Peyton

[01:20:55] No way, and I think that's when you started to see it change

[01:20:59] Yep, it's true, but he was the daily

[01:21:05] Yeah

[01:21:06] So so if Peyton if Peyton strikes the Heisman pose does he win at that year?

[01:21:11] That's a thing. Yeah, does he he doesn't have that moment

[01:21:14] I know they beat him of course

[01:21:16] They also so that was 97 right Tennessee did not make the SEC title game

[01:21:24] Florida

[01:21:26] Assume yeah, Florida house them absolutely house them

[01:21:31] Yeah

[01:21:42] 30 over 29 over Auburn they won it you're correct

[01:21:46] Okay, oh and that's when he got up on the ladder and led the band in Rocky Top

[01:21:51] Yeah, I did that at Legion Field too after a win over Alabama

[01:21:58] Rest in peace Legion Field. Thank God

[01:22:01] It's still here sort of

[01:22:03] sort of

[01:22:05] Yeah, that's why I forgot that. Yeah, of course. I would forget a Tennessee Auburn

[01:22:13] Yeah, right it's misery yeah, that was Mike the micabose first micabose season or

[01:22:19] Yeah, yeah, oh god the Mike eras that was yeah, that was the beginning of the dark times for Alabama

[01:22:26] after they forced out

[01:22:29] Jean Stallings, you know, you know what won an SEC title won a national title average 10 wins a year. Yeah, but

[01:22:38] Yeah, I used to have a great book on that. I wish I still had it and or could remember what it was called because it was written by a player who

[01:22:46] Played during that era and had a lot of inside knowledge about why

[01:22:52] For whatever reason UA presidents and athletic directors didn't like Jean Stallings, which again

[01:22:58] One of the dumbest moods Alabama ever made I guess you could do connecting dots sliding doors to that eventually led to Nick Saban but

[01:23:08] We could still got Nick Saban. Yeah after Jean Stallings stayed for a few more years

[01:23:15] Okay, y'all sorry they're putting up a post that Jordan Travis put out on Twitter

[01:23:20] And he says I wish my leg broke earlier in the season so you could see what this team is really about y'all

[01:23:26] That's a leader right there man. That's

[01:23:31] Yeah

[01:23:34] We felt terrible for the Florida State players because they did nothing wrong did what they were supposed to do

[01:23:40] just this

[01:23:42] Which you watch it could be at first of the season we thought hey

[01:23:47] ACC might be a lot better than what folks died

[01:23:49] Yeah, right said that fell apart quickly

[01:24:06] Yeah

[01:24:08] Yeah, be mad at not being aggressive enough in expansion, you know, maybe

[01:24:12] If they get a UCF earlier or something, you know one of those teams maybe you know if they

[01:24:19] All these you know, I said I think I said it

[01:24:26] Well, you know going yeah going back to all that mess eventually what's gonna happen is when all these schools break away

[01:24:31] Anyway, we're just gonna go back to geographical alignments. Anyway, so yeah, and we're gonna get our you know old-school

[01:24:39] alignments but

[01:24:41] I think I mentioned it too early actually. Yeah, that's what it was someone posted a video of the Texas A&M

[01:24:47] Welcome to my galco and I believe I said

[01:24:52] Something like dear aliens, please come and take me to the timeline where the big East is still around and the SEC

[01:24:58] Got Florida State in Memphis or something instead of a now

[01:25:03] Yes, yes, please, you know somewhere that's a thing

[01:25:08] All right, we've been recording for almost 90 minutes now y'all

[01:25:14] Yeah

[01:25:16] Let's go ahead do our done up real good Mallory. What has been done up real good for you lately? Oh

[01:25:23] man, I think oh

[01:25:27] The done up real good for me has probably just been

[01:25:32] The way that you've started to see

[01:25:36] Game day honestly start to take on a little bit more of the

[01:25:41] Social media aspect starting to pull in younger

[01:25:44] Viewers with Pat McAfee those kinds of things. I think that they also did a really good job as Lee Corso has kind of gone down

[01:25:52] To kind of pull him off not force him to be up there all the time. I know though when he would come off the stage

[01:25:56] I think we all were afraid that like oh crap something had happened, but I think that

[01:26:01] We're gonna see that this is the end of it for him

[01:26:04] I don't think he's back next year and so I think they did it the right way by letting him kind of bow out gracefully

[01:26:10] I'll give them that and in the playoff doesn't get better than Greg

[01:26:28] Stole my answer right there. That was it. That's my answer. It's a good day to be an Alabama fan

[01:26:34] a

[01:26:36] Good win that was I was not as confident as 2021

[01:26:39] I was confident that we were gonna go in the SEC title game and win despite

[01:26:43] The you know ugly Auburn game the week before despite Georgia seemingly looking unstoppable then I was just like no

[01:26:50] We got this

[01:26:52] Yesterday less confident, but I still was like we can do this. I didn't think that Georgia was

[01:27:00] This Georgia team. Yeah, it's obviously isn't as good as the previous couple years

[01:27:05] And good too

[01:27:07] Yeah, and this is also good to slow down a little bit of that

[01:27:13] Georgia is about to surpass the Alabama Dynasty talk because I

[01:27:17] Preach it all the time

[01:27:18] but one thing that we as college football fans lack a lot of the time 90% probably is perspective and

[01:27:25] Once again must remind everyone Alabama fans included

[01:27:29] That what Nick Saban has done what we're seeing what we're in the middle of is unprecedented in the history of the sport

[01:27:35] This is the most amazing run in the history of college football

[01:27:40] It's not gonna be easily matched no matter how good Kirby takes Georgia to and he's gonna take it there

[01:27:49] He's still he's got a win four more national titles within the next few years just to match Nick Saban

[01:27:55] like we said that's

[01:27:56] now eight of the last

[01:27:59] 12 SEC titles have gone to Bama

[01:28:01] Let's just slow down. I know everybody's got to get their clicks out and their think pieces and all that

[01:28:10] Give it some room to breathe, you know, but it's a good wine open it up

[01:28:13] Let it run all epic runs. Just let Georgia have their success because they're still a great team

[01:28:18] We don't have to compare them. Yeah, it all started with David Pollack and last year's national title game

[01:28:24] SEC record. That's there. And that was the beginning of it

[01:28:31] And they come

[01:28:41] Yep, that's who you have to thank Georgia fans your your boy David Pollack he messed it up for everyone all y'all

[01:28:47] He he awoke the beast that was Nick Saban

[01:28:53] But yeah, that does it for us y'all

[01:28:57] Mal any plugs for the stardow anything this week

[01:29:02] Man, I think this week I'm gonna talk a little angel Reese. She's back

[01:29:06] We're I'm gonna dive into the kimulki history and how murky that all is

[01:29:11] And uh, I think to you know, a little bowl preview. We kind of see where everybody's gonna go but

[01:29:16] Um, women's basketball. I think it's really just going to be kind of our main thing

[01:29:19] There's a lot of a lot of interesting stuff happening. So um, yeah

[01:29:23] We're we'll get into a little bit more winter sports and uh, oh and uh, we're gonna talk about the no fun league

[01:29:29] I've got a lot to say about the no fun league. So

[01:29:31] Oh interesting. All right

[01:29:33] Um

[01:29:35] All right, and I guess uh, congratulations or in order to you. I do believe you won the uh pick

[01:29:40] column this year

[01:29:42] Hooray beginners luck total

[01:29:44] Yeah, I'm not sure yet what the final numbers what I just know at that that um

[01:29:49] Somewhere yesterday in the window you picked a couple of the ones that uh

[01:29:53] Uh, I did it and you hit so uh

[01:29:57] Congratulations to you. Uh, blaine you'll bounce back next year buddy. It's okay

[01:30:02] Um, we know you were better than what you showed

[01:30:05] This year, um

[01:30:07] It happens

[01:30:08] Yeah, um

[01:30:09] Which is also maybe this will be the catalyst I can finally talking him into or maybe not now because he did so much better

[01:30:15] I'm the pick them

[01:30:17] Then he did uh the picks column. So uh, I just hate the confidence points. I just want us to move that

[01:30:22] Oh

[01:30:24] Yeah, I don't like that or just outright winner and don't confidence pick it. Just let it go. Yeah, that's fine by me too

[01:30:30] Who's gonna win? I will go on but uh that does it for us folks. Thank you for listening

[01:30:35] Roll tied to all you Bama fans out there. Sorry to Florida state fans, but also not sorry

[01:30:41] We will see y'all later mal greg take it easy y'all

[01:30:44] Awesome y'all too

[01:31:05] huge shout out to

[01:31:07] TD and greg for spending an hour and a half of their sunday with me talking

[01:31:13] And reacting live to the chaos that ensued and we knew going into it

[01:31:19] There was going to be a fan base and a team that is absolutely deserving

[01:31:24] To have a shot at the national title and there was going to be a team that was left out

[01:31:28] I am so so sad. It was Florida state

[01:31:32] I still don't know that I can process all of my thoughts about it

[01:31:36] But I hate it for those kids

[01:31:38] They worked

[01:31:39] Their tails off when their leader went down

[01:31:41] They all stepped up to show that it's not just about him

[01:31:45] He even made the point that it is a team sport and the entire entire team played their hearts out this season

[01:31:51] I'm hoping the 12th team playoff next year will help. I don't know. It's yet to be seen

[01:31:56] I think you heard we had some interesting ideas as to how we can ensure that it maybe doesn't happen

[01:32:01] But who knows I really don't think until we get four major conferences

[01:32:07] And the ncwa basically goes away that we're going to see anything that would remotely

[01:32:12] resemble anything that's going to be fair

[01:32:14] So I guess we're going to see how it plays out over the next few years

[01:32:19] On that note though, it is time to wrap up the show

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[01:32:55] You can find blog posts and things that go along with this and every other show that the alabama take

[01:33:02] Pits out there. It's always done up real good

[01:33:05] And you'll also be able to check out the blog where apparently I won the pick-up who knew I'm so excited

[01:33:12] I've never done anything against the spread and apparently it was beginners luck my first year out

[01:33:17] So to td and blaine. Thank you. It was a lot of fun

[01:33:20] I can't wait to see what next year holds and who knows maybe we'll do some cool stuff with the ball games

[01:33:26] but

[01:33:27] On that note, we're going to finish it up. There still has not been justice for steven perkins and decater alabama

[01:33:33] This week a city councilman whose name does not even bear repeating because what he did was so low and so despicable

[01:33:40] And the rhetoric that he is trying to push is absolutely not what the citizens of decater are about and what they're protesting for

[01:33:47] They just want justice for steven. They want the officers to be held accountable

[01:33:52] Both on a policy level within their jobs and also at a criminal level if it is determined to be at that level

[01:33:59] So the mayor this week will be holding the hearings to determine the policy

[01:34:04] portion of it aliyah still has the criminal investigation, but

[01:34:10] To all of my decater rights

[01:34:13] Do not allow that one city councilman

[01:34:17] to stir up

[01:34:19] The hatred that he wants

[01:34:23] Stephen wouldn't have wanted that

[01:34:24] He would have wanted love and the way you love on him

[01:34:28] In his memory and cattrila and their babies and the remainder of his family members and his friends that are here

[01:34:34] Carrying on his name is do not buy into that. Keep it peaceful

[01:34:38] You will get your point across i promise

[01:34:41] Do not do not stoop to the level of the one city councilman

[01:34:46] Let him talk

[01:34:47] Whatever craziness he's going to talk maintain your calm. Do not let him be the button that pushes you over

[01:34:53] You're smarter than that. We all seen it. We all know what it is

[01:34:57] So just let it be and continue to do and be

[01:35:01] The good people

[01:35:03] That steven loved so so dearly of his hometown

[01:35:08] And on that note

[01:35:10] Catch us later this week with a normal episode

[01:35:13] And like i said, if you got anything, you know where to find us

[01:35:17] So until then sit back

[01:35:20] Relax

[01:35:21] Grab a drink or two and thanks for listening to this airdown. Have a wonderful week y'all