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Discussion dot Com. This week we
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to have Brian Siegli back from the
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Twitter at at SEI G five zero
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I believe and Brian, you can crypt

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you have I'm wrong, You're one
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r So, Brian, welcome back and

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tell me if I'm correct, because
last year it was one half and now

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I believe it's one third of the
podcast. Hey, the floor is your

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yeah, and occasionally probably one fourth. We've got our buddy Sheldon Moss that

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joins us on a semi regular basis
doing a lot of the sports analytics,

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bringing in a lot of great metrics
that we can kind of talk about,

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so he's on their occasion. But
we brought Jonathan Tally on as well as

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a full time member back in February, so officially, if you're looking week

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to week, it's one third,
but we were a four man team as

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far as the entirety of the show
now. But it's great to be back.

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Thanks for having me. It's always
a pleasure getting on here and talk

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to a little ACC football with you. Guys. We are happy to have

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you back. Friend, We're happy
to have you back. So let's get

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right into it. Man, which
ACS see football team do you think was

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the most disappointing in Week two?
And which ACC football team was the most

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impressive? And oh man, that's
that's a great question. You know,

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personally obviously disappointed the Virginia Tech dropped
that when last night, after all of

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that, we were actually all the
old crew was at that game. Six

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hour rain delay, soaking went to
the bone, so it was it was

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an interesting u outing out there,
and definitely disappointed to drop that one.

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But as far as the ACC as
a whole, I feel like UVA dropping

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that home game against UVA was rough
against JMU. Excuse me, I thought,

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you know, looking at you know, as a Virginia Tech fan,

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I'm kind of programmed to want UVA
to lose, but I thought they might

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be able to squeak one out against
JMU. I know, the JMU fans

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kind of talking big game of kind
of being the the ACC football killer out

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there, so I kind of wanted
to see that if they were able to

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take them down. There definitely a
disappointing outing for EVA losing to a G

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five in state rival, and obviously
as a Virginia Tech fan, that's something

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that we've experienced in the past,
so it's definitely a tough one to swallow

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for sure for that fan base.
Looking at most impressive, I'm I'm gonna

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go with Miami taking it to Texas. A and m Tyler van Dyke went

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out there and had three hundred twenty
four yards through the air, and that

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one they really handled some adversity early. You know, Texas adim kind of

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got on them pretty quick, and
you know, they fall back, got

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the lead up to double digits and
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So that was probably the most impressive
win because I actually had A and M

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winning that one when when I did
my picks. So goodwin by Miami.

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So, Brian, I am going
to keep you. I am going to

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keep you somewhat honest here now,
and I know you're always being honest with

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that. So and being a little
a little facetious, I was, I

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gotta vote for Virginia Tech here,
and I am I'm a Virginia Tech alum,

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and I gotta vote for Virginia Tech
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thought I'd see better signs than eleven
yards rushing in that game. And my

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my, I'm thinking in my mind
the GMU was favored going into Scott's Stadium,

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and I'm all, I have to
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more out of the running game than
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I got more yards like walking in
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than I think we got on the
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Am I being too harsh? No, You're not being harsh at all.

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I mean, I think we definitely
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like what we were doing from a
play calling standpoint, but the fact that

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we cannot run the football at all, especially with Grant Wells in the game.

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We'll see if that shifts, if
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we'll see in the future, but
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game, we are going to struggle
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with talent running backs in the backfield
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tackles and kind of drag guys for
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we saw two and get involved in
the passing game some this week as well.

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But you're gonna eventually have to be
able to run the ball somehow,

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now, whether that means getting drones
in the game full time or part time.

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A little bit more so, you
have you know, an extra key

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as a as a linebacker and somebody
that's big like that that can kind of

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plow forward for some extra yards and
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in the run game that isn't just
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man across from you. I'll be
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I was definitely disappointed in the outing
overall. But I think just from a

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perception standpoint, I don't think it
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touchdown game to Purdue, is you
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to jail you fair enough? I'm
gonna ask you one. I'm gonna ask

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you one more question about another question
about Virginia, about Virginia Tech, were

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you surprised because I had this conversation
with my my friend Drew, who I

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tailgate with down there in Blacksburg when
I get down there and Droid Merry and

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I know you know him when I
when I get down there when both of

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us were we're thinking that we're highly
disappointed with the runs to the tackles that

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never really worked because our offensive line
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And it's weird that both of both
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maybe this quick out to the side, like a jet sweeper something that I

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say. I hate that I'm saying
that it's okay, but that's where but

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that's where our line is. That's
kind of where our line is at right

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now. And having these quick short
passes may help develop some may help develop

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some sort of offense some or the
offense. I'm just I'm just curious.

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the edge of the tackle box really
quick without having to uh kind of you

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know, worry about getting your running
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an outside zone or something like that, so, you know, stretching stretching

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the defense a little more. Latterly, I think we'll help. We'll see

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if Bowen gets a little more creative
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of move forward in the year.
I think he could do a little bit

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more with pre snap motion to kind
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into their gap and making it kind
of bogged down and not really a whole

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lot of room to run in there. So that's that's what's giving us a

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lot of problems right now, is
that you know, they're they're not really

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biting on the fakes. I mean, nothing Wells is doing is scaring them

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so that they're keying right on the
running back, they're getting in their gaps.

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We're not doing a good job of
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to stop that from happening. So
it's it's gonna be a big struggle until

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we get either change up something schematically
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communication from the offensive one that outstanding
analysis, Brian, that's why we have

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you here. Jeff, you're up
friend. All right, thanks Matthew.

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All right, Brian, is we
look ahead to next week? What acc

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football games are you looking forward to
the most? In Week three? You

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know, I was looking at the
schedule and there's not a ton of compelling

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matchups out there from a current season
storyline perspective. So I'm gonna go a

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little historical here. I'll go with
the one hundred and six iteration of the

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backyard brawl. Interested to see if
Pitt can bounce back from that Week two

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loss against Cincinnati at home, and
looking from the West Virginia perspective, I

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mean, Neil Brown is still coaching
for his life as as every game really

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at this point, so he's probably
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it could be interesting to see who
can come out of that, because you

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know, if it drops another one, there's going to be questions of,

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Okay, was your COVID the right
fit is the did the defense lose too

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much to kind of rebuild this year? And then obviously on the West Virginia

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side, you know, is are
they going to have this this same coach

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at the end of the season.
So I think it's gonna be a pretty

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compelling matchup, all right, Yeah, it sounds sounds good. Yeah,

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if when you look across the week, you know, there's nothing that really

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just you know, grabs your attention
that seems like much must watch. But

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I mean I see some other games
here as well that that kind of have

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my attention. I'd like to see, you know, how North Carolina comes

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back against uh, you know,
hosting the two and oh Minnesota team in

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that and you know, we saw
North Carolina look fantastic defensively against South Carolina.

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But then this past week, you
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up and down the field on them
and the and the Heels were very fortunate

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to escape that that game. So
you know, I kind of see,

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you know, where do the tar
Heels, who who are they exactly?

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You know, also looking at that
with Syracuse. They're going on the road

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to Purdue, who you know has
the loss to Fresno State but then won

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it Virginia Tech. And Syracuse has
really looked impressive in its first two games

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overmatched opponents. But you know,
could they get at a little something together?

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So uh yeah, like you said, nothing just jumps out on the

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on the screen. But you know, a couple of those kind of under

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radar the games that I think could
be interesting. Yeah, I agree,

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they're you know, looking at UNC. Yeah, I'd be interested to see

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if if they bounce back or if
they get kind of you know, punched

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in the mouth again a little bit
on the defensive side of the ball,

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because you know, they looked like
the team I think a lot of people

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thought they would would be out of
the Gate and then you know, app

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State really gave them a big scare. So I'm definitely interested to see if

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they can turn it around against Minnesota. All Right, you know, looking

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at some of those games, which
ACC team do you think could be upset

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in Week three if they're looking ahead
to a game on our schedule or otherwise

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just sleepwalking on the field. Yeah, you know, we just talked about

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a little bit. I was gonna
say, you and see, but I

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think app State definitely woke them up, so I don't think they'll be caught

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sleeping again. But as far as
this week, I think the one I'm

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gonna go with is you've be Wake
Forest heading up to Norfolk and and playing

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ODU. As Virginia Tech fan,
I've seen firsthand that that's not a place

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that you know, Power five opponents
to go in there and are just gonna

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get a cake walks. They're definitely
gonna get O to U's best effort in

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that environment. And Wake isn't the
team I think they've been in the last

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you know, probably four or five
years. They lost a lot, especially

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on the offensive side of the ball. So if they aren't able to generate

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a lot of points, then that
could really be a tight game. All

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right, Brian, Let's let's step
out of the ACC for a bit here.

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Which national FBS game are you looking
forward to the most this week?

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And we're wide open with this question. You know, this can be Power

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five non Power five, or you
can even have an FCS matchup and then

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give us the winner of that game, or you know any others that catch

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your eye. Let's go to the
Sun Belt this week. I'm looking at

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that that Troy hosting JMU JMU obviously
coming off the big win against UVA in

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Charlottesville. There these are probably two
teams that could potentially see each other again

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at the end of the season.
So there's a lot of implications there about

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how that's going to go to the
first round and seeing if the other can

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kind of take care of business the
rest of the way down the schedule to

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see them again. But I'm gonna
go with James Madison winning a very close

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one down at Troy. All right, Okay, Brian, you know that

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summer it's been all about realignment and
now we're focused on the season, but

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still there's we want to get your
thoughts on the ACC's most recent additions to

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the conference from a couple of weeks
ago, Stanford, Cal and SMU football

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wise, it looks pretty obvious that
that Stanford's definitely not a very good They

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got absolutely throttled by USC this past
week. But on the other hand,

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Cal put up a very credible,
you know, effort against Auburn this past

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weekend. You know, led that
game in the fourth quarter and lost fourteen

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to ten. You know, maybe
they're not as bad as we thought.

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And of course SMU with all their
financial resources at their disposal. Yeah,

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give us your thoughts on those editions. Yeah, I mean, just from

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a looking at a conference realignment perspective, you know, I think it's kind

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of a band aid for the current
financial shortcomings of the conference in a way

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to kind of further insulate the acc
from fully disbanding should one or one to

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three of the bigger teams were right
of the way, you're not gonna necessarily

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have a mass accidents. I feel
like that kind of helps them avoid that

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in the short term, you know, depending on if you know someone's able

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to break that grant of rights deal. I don't think there's a ton of

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long term benefit. I think these
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neck with the Big Twelve in terms
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for current members, though, I
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to come and join the conference,
other than when looking at it maybe from

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a travel perspective, because these three
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until near the end of the current
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short term loss from the conference of
adding those teams, and you know,

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potentially a boost long term there as
well to keep it keep them neck and

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neck with a Big Twelve. But
looking at it from a competition standpoint,

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I mean this does raise the bar
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in the ACC. You know,
Callan Stanford are probably two of the teams

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that are, especially Stanford the torch
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So you look at it from that
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boost competition wise there, and then
when you look at SMU, specifically football,

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conference money coming in to go along
with what their boosters are are already able

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to provide, because you know,
they've been competitive against some of the better

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competition, you know, not really
getting any media money outside of what their

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boosters are able to generate from you
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they're able to get a piece of
that acc media pie. You know,

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we're complaining about it, but if
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to be a big boost for them
long term. All Right, Brian,

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thank you for your comments there.
Matthew, I'm gonna turn it over to

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you for our last segment in the
podcast. Definitely definitely Brian open microphone time.

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Anything you want to talk about,
all right, so let's go this

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way. I want to talk a
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you know, Clemson really got exposed, not really able to generate a lot

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in their passing game. And I
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they were not taking advantage of the
transfer portal or nil to the way they

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think could start to create some holes
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It is probably as low as it's
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could see them losing you know,
three or four games this year if they

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don't figure out how to get things
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because if they continue kind of what
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it also carried over a little bit
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a long season when they play some
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So you know, this could I'm
not saying this is the beginning of

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the end of Clemson being a good
team, but I think they could definitely

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take a step back from being that
elite program to being that kind of top

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of that second tier again that they
were kind of historically before their run the

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last decade. Farrest statement, fairest
statement. I'm going to use my open

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microphone to ask you both the question, Jeff and Brian, do you have

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a computer or a phone in front
of you or one or both, and

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tell me what you think about October
fourteenth. I am from far I am

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from Fargo, North Dakota. I
actually think that week again, that's October

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fourteenth, that's Saturday. I actually
think the college Game Day is going to

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go to Grand Force North Dakota to
do the matchup between North Dakota and North

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Dakota State. I think there's a
good chance that North Dakota North Dakota may

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have two losses, but one of
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and if they were to lose to
South Dakota State, that wouldn't put too

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much shame on that with an undefeated
nd SUE coming up to Grand to Grand

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Forks. And I think there's a
very good chance that college game Day could

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be in Grand Forest, North Dakota
that weekend. And I say that only

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because of what you know, you
kind of talked about Miami earlier, Brian.

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They beat Texas A and m SO
Texas A and m that week It

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was was scheduled to go on the
road to the Valls, but they but

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they have lost now and ESPN commonly
like goes to the Central Time Zone,

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you know, like like during a
you know, during some sort of FCS

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on campus thing, and if they
have to go to West Coast games at

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night, and I think there's a
good possibility that the Dakotas get it that

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weekend. What do you think about
the possibility of my prediction, Brian,

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I would think that the only thing
that would come in the way of that

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would be that Miami UNC matchup.
That might be one that's a little too

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compelling. To avoid. You know, you also have UCLA in Oregon state

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that weekend. I don't think they
go out west. So even if those

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teams continue down their their current trajectory, I don't think you end up seeing

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that matchup. But I think the
Miami and U n C game could could

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be the one that would get in
the way of a trip up there to

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North Dakota. How about you,
Jeff, Because they've taken they've taken it.

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That past they've taken, they've done
pretty well, given India issue some

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love the last couple of years.
Yeah, I think there's there's also another

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couple of games that could be on
the radar that that weekend, in addition

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to the ones Brian mentioned. You
got Oregon, you know, going to

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Washington? Do they do? But
I think they've gone there before, like

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they were, they going one time
zone and then they fly out there for

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the game. Yeah, I mean. And then also there was another one

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I was just scanning here that I
could see, Oh yeah, USC and

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Notre Dame. Even though that's a
game on NBC, you know that one

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might be just too big of a
game too to pass up. So I'm

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I'm I'm not saying that it won't
happen, and ESPN usually will you know,

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choose a non traditional, you know, power five location to go.

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I don't know. This one might
be kind of tough though. This week,

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there there are there are a number
of number of games at the moment

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that looked like they could be possibilities. So I'm not saying no, but

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I do see some places I could
that they could end up. That's my

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prediction. I'm giving you my prediction. That's that's where I think they'll go

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that week, because it can happen. I'm going, I'm going, I'm

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going for that. That'll be my
open mic. I picked it to pick.

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I picked to the eight October fourteenth
Over fourteenth College game day. Say,

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Jeff, you're up, man,
you're open mic. I'm telling you,

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as a Spectrum customer soon to be
maybe a former customer, I'm just

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ready. I'm you know, go
ahead, just get the deal done.

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I mean now, at this point
I would have I actually would say that

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I felt like Disney was kind of
the villain here and in this. But

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after a couple of weeks, you
know, we know the deal is not

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is The dispute is still going on
between Charter and Disney and I'm holding them

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now both equally responsible for aggravating a
significant portion of the viewing audience having to

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scramble to find other methods. I
mean, I have not missed any of

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the any any football at all.
Thankfully YouTube TV came to the rescue with

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a very lengthy trial period that I'm
currently in enjoying. But still there there's

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a certain level of aggravation to the
whole thing. And you know, I

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was back in the Spectrum office today
returning you know, more equipment and cutting

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more services, you know, as
I kind of still hope they I'm still

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holding out that they get it resolved
and then I at least have the option.

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But there was like an entire cart
fool of hardware that people had been

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returning. I suppose that that whole
morning. And you know, I'm no

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media expert, so I don't understand
how this is beneficial to either one of

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them to to just lose customers.
And now tomorrow you're gonna you know,

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it's one thing to really get on
it with with college football fans, who

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are you know, a pretty rabid
bunch. But you know, now tomorrow

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you've got Monday night football to be
affected in a game between the Buffalo Bills

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and new in the New York Jets
and Charter. Spectrum is the provider in

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the New York City area, and
that could be the tipping point because I'm

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not sure Spectrum and Disney are quite
ready to deal with New York Jet fans

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who have to go through a lot
to try to catch the Jets and Aaron

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Rodgers. They may want to get
this resolved before then, or you know,

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it could be a pretty enough right
rough night for Charter with the phone

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calls coming in. And then you
know, the college football, you know,

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is definitely popular, but it doesn't
touch the NFL. And now you're

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starting to get into having NFL fans
miss miss football game. So I mean,

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come on, you guys, just
just get this, get this straight.

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You know, you guys are you
know, splitting hairs over probably bazillions

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of dollars and the only people suffering
at the end, you know, are

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people that just want to watch you
know, ESPN in their sports and you

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know they're not They're not winning any
fans anywhere. So you know, just

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just get it resolved so that we
can go back to watching the games in

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the in the manner that we you
know, if we want to stay with

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it, we can stay with it
or if we want to choose, but

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we have the option and not having
to like find all these other outside options.

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But I will say, hats off
to YouTube TV, and if this

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doesn't get resolved, They're gonna be
my number one choice. So I'm giving

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a big shout out to YouTube TV
because I haven't missed anything the last couple

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of weeks while these two you know, argue over their stock prices and bazillions

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of dollars with their board of directors. Says that's my rant, Jeff,

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are they your Are they your internet
provider? To Jeff, they are my

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internet provider, and the Internet is
I have really no complaints about the Internet.

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Bryan, did you want to chime
in there? It sounded like you

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were going to say something. Yeah, It's just it's gonna be interesting when

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all those New York fans are calling
in and uh and getting on the horn

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there to chartercause I feel like that's
gonna be the the deal breaker there.

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Like, at some point it's going
to get to a point where we just

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got to get this done or we're
gonna have an all out mutiny, and

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there will be, like Jeff,
you know, people that are gonna fully

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just decide to do something different.
And the longer you push sports fans,

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the more they will find an avenue, whether it's legal, illegal, or

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otherwise. It's pretty interesting. It's
pretty interesting hearing what, I mean,

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what the Spectrum CEO was saying,
because he's clearly thinking about really making a

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clean break and going to an alternative, alternative option, and that's really going

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to that would really impact Disney's,
right, you know, Disney's for EVERYNUE

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model, they probably try and hit
the other hit the other cable carriers.

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And it was interesting. I know
you saw this too, Jeff. That

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that I mean, it was interesting
where he was saying that. And I

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didn't know this that if he if
they make a deal, that is to

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say, if Spectrum makes a deal
and it's better than what the other carriers

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have, then the other carriers have
the right to revert to that deal.

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If I'm not mistaken. Is that
correct? Repeat that last that last part

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I didn't quite follow. I said, like, okay, so if Spectrum

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makes a deal and it's better than
like say, what Comcast has, right

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the other carriers, Uh, then
they have what I think what's called rights

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of last last resorts where or last
last resort. Whatever the best deal was,

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the other carriers can revert to that. So, for example, Spectrum

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has a better deal than Comcast,
does those become the new terms. That's

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what I remember reading that from from
from from John Orran. Yeah, I'm

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gonna, I'm gonna no, I
don't, I don't know, so I'm

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just I'm a you know, that
sounds pretty reasonable to me. I definitely

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do not know the answer. You
could very well be correct on that,

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And so that's what everybody's you know, that's what you know, they're dis's

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being really careful break down with negotiations
because they don't want to. They don't

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want to that that will cause their
resident revenue to drop drop substantially. If

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they gave Spectrum a better deal than
they gave Comcast through as much larger.

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Yeah, and they I mean the
other thing is, you know, ESPN

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is already literally shelling out, you
know, billions and media deals. You

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know we've talked about you're always talking
about the media deals with the the ACC.

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But I mean, even that one
is as bad as it is,

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it's still hundreds of millions of dollars. You've got the SEC Media deal,

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You've got their deals you know,
for NBA, Major League Baseball, football,

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and now they're gonna, you know, try to have you know,

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the bidding for the college football playoffs. Uh. I mean it doesn't make

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sense, like good luck with that
when you when you just you know,

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lost fifteen to twenty percent of the
second you know, largest cable carrier in

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the country. I mean, how
do you keep paying for that? You've

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got advertisers that have expectations. So
I don't understand what how this benefits either

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one of them to to prolong this, you know, just get a deal

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that doesn't because they keep I mean, like all these cable companies are bleeding

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subscribers right now, exactly, I
mean. And so I mean obviously Disney

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is aware of that as well,
and I've got to think that they're going

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to you know, that that deal
is going to be done sooner rather than

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later. I mean, it took
a long time for that for the ACC

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network to get you know, to
get connected to comcasts. But you know,

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it seems like it seems like,
yes, I mean, it seems

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like you know, something's going to
have to come to a head here as

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they say on that, and so
I hope it it's done, you know,

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because people like like, you know, like watching their college football and

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all that stuff. So I'm hoping
it at least gosh, I'm hoping it

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gets done before ACC basketball season.
Yeah yeah, yeah, absolutely, I

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mean a gas Thankiel. Really,
you'll really hear some some upset fans.

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Brian, thank you so much for
joining us on the All Sports Discussion ACC

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podcast this week. We loved having
you come on the show and we would

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love to have you come back again
sometime. Frian, thanks again for joining

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us and spending your Sunday night with
us. Brian, thank you always always

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happy to jump on with you guys
and talk to ACC football, so definitely

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welcome. I will be back anytime
you guys beat me. Thanks so much

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for joining us. Take care every
great guys. Thank you you too,