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It's time for coffee and company,
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day. Now here's nick coffee.
All right, let's do it. Let's

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Can we get it? Started with
some some I don't know how to

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describe this, but there's a story
here that I just read from a website

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that is called Alpha m dot com. I assume that means Alpha Male,

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which isn't a website that I would
typically frequent, and I don't I've never

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heard of it. But I saw
this link pop up here on one of

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our show prep sites, and it
says lessons guys learn learn way too late

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in life. And I feel like
this we could use the platform here,

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John to share lessons that others learn
way later that if you learn now on

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the younger side, it could really
benefit you as a man. Let's do

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it. I'm ready. So some
of these I'm not gonna read all of

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them, but there's some bullet points
here. Money and stuff are both nice,

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but they're not golden tickets to personal
bliss. The greatest success comes from

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building solid and dependable relationships with quality
people. I think that's good advice.

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I think that's true. It's hard
to ignore, you know, financial stability

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and stuff like of course, I
think, you know, money. At

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this point in my life, what
I would love more than anything about having

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a lot of money, which I
don't, would just be the security and

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not because money's one of the bigger
things people in the world. I mean,

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that is money not what most humans
stress more about than anything I would

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assume. Yeah, I think that's
very I mean, it's the biggest,

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say, it's the biggest, one
of the biggest reasons for divorce. It

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is the bigger reasons. Yeah.
So if you just knew that, no

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matter what, you wouldn't like that's
not something you have to worry about as

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far as taking care of yourself and
your livelihood and those that you know are

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the closest to you. You know, that would that would really put you

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in a different ball park of life. I think. So, you know

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that's important, but it also you
know, again, if you had all

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the money in the world and nobody
to share what comes with being wealthy,

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like it would be sad. I
feel like you'd always feel like you'd feel

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empty. I mean, I mean, I don't believe that, you know,

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the money can't buy happiness line Like, technically it it can't because just

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having it doesn't give you happiness.
But everything that you get out of life

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with a lot of money does give
you happiness. So I've never really believed

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that this is a good one.
You can run, but you can't hide.

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Your past will always find you.
Instead of avoiding and ignoring it,

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deal with it. I'd say that's
probably something a lot of people learned later

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in life. It's a very harsh
truth for a lot of people. That's

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it's exactly that good point our truth. Never take your health for granted.

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Nothing will ever substitute for good health, So make sure you take care of

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yourself. Yeah, I think that's
true, But I also think that that

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can backfire a few And I'm not
like that you shouldn't take care of yourself,

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but if you become a hypochondriac and
you kind of overthink your health,

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I think that could be a bit
of a toxic thing to do. Yeah,

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but I wonder how many people out
there have just for years known something

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was kind of off, but just
you know, put it off and then

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it ended up being something that you
know is tragic like that, that is

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terrifying. So when I say good
good health, like good health habits are

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obviously a big factor in that,
but like just go to the doctor regularly

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and get check ups so you don't
miss something, right, I mean this

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one, this one I think is
is real and I feel like I can

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kind of relate. Your happiness is
your responsibility, and it will never be

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found that another person take the lead
in your own existence because you only get

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one. That's that's real. That's
like, I mean, that makes total

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sense. I would have never thought
about that. But yeah, your happiness

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only you can control. So do
what you have to do to find happiness.

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And don't feel as if if you're
you know, who would want to

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live life miserable? Right, I
mean, sometimes you got you know,

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you put others before yourself because you're
taking care of your you know, your

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children and all that. Like,
look, there's a lot of sacrifices made

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in your life, but at the
end of the day, like no one

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is going to look out for you
as much as you are. So if

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you're not looking out for yourself.
Like, that's not a good recipe,

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all right, Last one here.
Comfort zones are nice, but you'll only

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find out who and what you are
when you put yourself out there and take

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chances, take calculated risks, and
find out who you really are. That's

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a good one. I agree.
I mean, I I've I've oftentimes had

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fear of doing things and realize,
you know, hey, what why not

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you know, if you if you
if you fail, which I've failed at

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things, probably didn't surprise you guys
listening. But you know, if I

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didn't at least try, I would
always you know, I overthink everything in

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life, so I would be dwelling
on it for for you know, forever.

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Honestly, in this business, you
kind of have to absolutely you you

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have to. I feel like if
you know, like if if you know

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this is what you're going to do, you have I think you have to

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enter it with with the not just
belief, but with the guarantee that you

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will, at some point have You'll
have a hardship in your career. You'll

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do something that you hope work out
and it didn't. You'll I mean,

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you'll get fired from a job.
You'll you know, not I mean it's

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it's I feel like you can be
really good at this and have setbacks and

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failures along the way, and you'll
get another opportunity, you learn from it,

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and you know you go from there. All right, I lied one

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more. No one cares as much
about what you do or how you do

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it as you might think they do. As much as the world should revolve

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around you, it rarely does.
When you realize there's not a big spotlight

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on you, it might or it
makes taking chances easier. Do your thing

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and get your and be your own
best audience. It's kind of in the

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same lane there as far as like, look, you know, if you

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have a setback of failure, something
embarrassing happens, like you know, nobody's

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going to be thinking about it and
you know, holding you accountable for it

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like you think they are. So
I don't know, I just we assume

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the world cares about everything that we're
doing. Yeah, but the world,

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yeah, what, we only care
about what we're doing. Yep. That's

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probably one of the biggest lies that
we tell ourselves in society, that everybody's

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worried about what you're doing, not
because they're like a big fan, but

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like they're looking to clown you or
something or criticize you, or you know,

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like I used to have that mindset
every now and then of like well

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if I don't, if i'm not, if I'm not at this event,

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or if i'm not you know,
there's a lot of schmoosing, and you

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know in sports media in this market
as far as like rubbing elbows networking,

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and that's just not my not my
personality. I have enough relationships and I'm

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content and to do what I do. Fortunately, I don't really need that.

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I mean, be nice to have
access and resources and all that kind

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of stuff, but you know that's
not really how this all comes together.

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But I used to feel like,
well, I got to be there because

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others are going to be there,
and if I'm not, you know,

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they're going to be thinking where's this
guy at? And then I realized,

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like that's ridiculous, Like I could
not be many places and nobody would notice.

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So you get a little self absorbed
in what we do at times.

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But you know, I think there's
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All right, So let's get back
to this, to this Bahamas trip.

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So I mentioned earlier that I was
not fishing for somebody to help me out,

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but I was trying to figure out
if I could make it work and

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get to the Bahamas later this month
and early in August, because you know,

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it'd be an awesome trip to go
on and I want to see this

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team. I mean, I mean
this when I say it. Most may

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not think I'm genuine, But the
biggest reason I would want to go is

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because I want to see this team. Like it's a new team, it's

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a new era, and you know, I think this team could be pretty

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damn good. I'm well aware that
they're going to be playing competition that's not

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the same level of competition as to
what you'll see when you play, you

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know, during the regular season,
but you know, I getting a chance

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to see these guys play in action
for the first time, you know it.

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Also being in the Bahamas helps.
But man, I I'm I'm eager,

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but you know I can't go.
I found somebody that was going to

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help me out and make it much
more easy to do and much more affordable.

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But I totally didn't realize that my
family vacation to Destin, Florida absence

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to take place at the same time
this trip is going on. So I've

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kind of jokingly mentioned, like calling
my wife on the show and asking like,

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hey, you know, honey,
what do you think you go to

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destin? You know you enjoy the
trip. We'll let you, guys,

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let you have your own time with
the kids. You deserve it, you

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know, I know you want it, and I'll just I'll just go to

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the Bahamas and work. And you
know, I mean, she wouldn't go

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for it. I'm trying. I'm
trying to throw something out there to where

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when I you know, after I
say it, I can kind of reflect

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and think like maybe I'm looking for
something to where she wouldn't think like you're

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an idiot or hit me in the
head or you know, something like that.

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I don't think I have a genuinely
would just be like, are you

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seriously I can go by myself with
the kids. Oh? Oh no,

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I mean that's not a real thing. No, oh my god. I

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mean any parents. I mean,
if you have two young children and you

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you know you you parent together.
I mean it's different if you're divorced,

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because you know you're never together.
The only time you see each other's when

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you swap kids. But you know, like being by yourself with two kids

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at times is I mean, in
fact, a lot of times it's just

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a lot. I mean, it's
doable. I mean, there are a

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lot of single parents out there,
and you know, God bless you,

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because I know that's not easy to
do. But you know, if my

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wife, like it, is gone
for a couple of days and I just

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have the kids by myself, you
know, I'm tagging out when she gets

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home. I'm you know, I'm
saying, like I need a break,

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that kind of thing, so her, you know, I mean, I

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just it's it's it's impossible to even
to be it wouldn't happen. But like

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just thinking of her carrying all the
stuff to the beach, all the beach

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toys and the chairs, and the
kids are screaming, and you know,

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I'm I'm you know, I got
a fruity drink with an umbrella in it

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in the Bahamas watching Louisville play basketall. I guess it's not it's not.

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It's not. There's no way I
can make it happen. So I'm jealous

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if you're gonna go. But the
reason I'll bring it up is because we

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do. We now know when they're
gonna play. So if you were,

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you know, maybe gonna be able
to make the trip dependent upon the dates

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of the games. They're gonna play
on Tuesday at seven pm against the Bahamas,

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which I don't know if that I
don't know who that team is,

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but you know, I guess we'll, uh, we'll, we'll find out.

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Not like usually there's somebody you recognize
on one of these teams, on

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some of these teams that'd end up
playing these colleges in these you know,

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international trips. And they'll also play
Calgary on Thursday at noon, and that's

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that's that's a college in Canada and
this is what they do every year,

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looks like, meaning they'll traveled.
I mean, it's a good gig.

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If you're one of these schools in
Canada, you probably you don't have to

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pay to go. I mean they're
paying you to be there and be the

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be the competition. So this same
Calgary team went fifteen to five in their

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conference last year. Obviously a much
different level than you know, Division one

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high level college basketball, but they're
at least good at their level. They

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went twenty one and eleven overall,
again fifteen and five in league play,

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and last year they played Yale,
who by the way, beat Auburn in

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the first round. Of the tournament
last year, and they also played Wichita

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State. They didn't win any of
those games, but they were competitive in

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just about all of them. So
you know, I don't say that to

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say, hey, we better be
careful. This could be a real,

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you know, potential upset. I
mean, I don't believe that at all,

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but it at least gives us the
census to who they're going to be

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competing against. I mean, I
would be I have no clue what to

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expect with the Bahamas team, but
I would be willing to bet that the

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Calgary team they're the Dinos by the
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just because that's a real team that
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if the portal exists in Canada,
but you know there's a coach that's been

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coaching that same program for quite some
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know, I mean, I mean, I the Bahama the Bahama national team,

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going on, right, I mean
the Olympics, I think, are aren't

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they going on, like when this
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Olympic Games start? I think the
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I think it's mid to late August. Okay, now I gotta look it

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up. And and and I don't
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think they'd be there anyway, because
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pretty sure they qualify because I keep
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how this happened. But the the
Bahama, the Bohemians, that's how you

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say it, right, the Bahamian
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guys who I think have been well
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Buddy Healed, but also Eric Gordon
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playing in in the NBA. Tom
Tom Narron if you remember that name.

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He played at Michigan State years ago. Yeah, a lot of these guys

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played in college. And then I
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keep seeing that Klay Thompson has been
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or from the Bohemian national team.
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those guys, just because with the
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doesn't make any sense. So maybe
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from Nassau that I have no clue
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we were in this situation on these
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to expect as far as competition,
I mean, there were dudes who worked

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at the resort that would play.
I mean there's stories of Russ Smith,

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you know, couldn't believe it whenever
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was the same guy who was his
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the bell hop. Like, those
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are real. So I don't know
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playing, but we shall see.
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the college football world. Not a
story that's gonna lead the headlines across the

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country, but it is unusual to
see a coach randomly fired in college football

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in July, but we've now had
it happen two straight years. So former

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Northwestern coach Pat Fitzgerald was fired last
year, which, by the way,

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he's suing Northwestern for one hundred and
thirty million dollars for wrongful termination over the

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hazing scandal that led to him being
outed last year and most recently in April,

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the judge rejected the request to dismiss
this, so he may actually,

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I mean, he encouraged them to
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They want to fight it out.
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And at that point, if you
get one hundred and thirty million in a

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lawsuit, do you want to coach
anymore? You know what I mean,

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Because he's a good coach, but
I don't think he's hireable until his lawsuit

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situation is handled. So that was
last year, and that was a bigger

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deal because that's Northwestern, the big
ten. I mean, they weren't good,

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but they had had some good seasons
sprinkled in throughout his tenure and and

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that had never happened in Northwestern,
and he was beloved there. He played

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there like he was one of the
better players ever, So that was big

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news. And this is not as
big news. But I'm curious to see

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if we get more information here soon
as far as what happened. So Blake

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Anderson has been placed on administrative leave
and is not expected to return as Utah

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State's head coach. This is a
guy who's had the same who's had that

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job since twenty twenty one, and
at that point he actually I think in

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his first year he led the Aggies
to the Mountain West Championship, and he

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has I mean, he's probably earned
some attention across college football from people who

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don't follow or care about Utah State
or the Mountain West because of what he's

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gone through. I mean, this
is from a broadcast a couple of years

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ago during one of Utah State's games. Utah State head coach Blake Anderson four

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years ago lost his wife to cancer. His father passed away. About eight

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months after that. In this February, he lost his son, Cason,

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who died by suicide. I mean, that's a heavy burden for anybody,

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let alone a head coach of a
college football team. It's amazing how he's

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coping and his whole team is helping. It's unreal how everybody's rallied around them.

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And when we ask him, how
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the game plan to be able to
deal with so much adversity, he said,

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transparency. There were days that practice
that I was crying and I need

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other coaches to step in. A
bunch of us, send songs or text

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messages, different things to pick each
other up. We're in this together.

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This is a community and a team
based on chemistry and culture and weak care.

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And that's incredible because what he's been
able to do is what his team

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starting to do. Oh that's bee
forward number of mean just think about that.

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I mean, you lose your wife
to cancer, your father passes away

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less than a year later, and
then just a few months later, your

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son commits suicide. I mean that
is absolutely I mean I can't imagine.

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And he continued to coach, you
know, doing his job, probably just

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trying to distract himself from the tragedy. And they were successful and you know

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he's emotional at practice as they described
there, so like he's beloved because they've

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had success, and you know,
he's done this while you know, the

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entire fan base in probably the entire
university has kind of has kind of become

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his direct family because he's lost so
much of his own family. So for

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him to be placed on leave and
now we know he's going to be he's

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done there. I mean Brett McMurphy
reported it, and if Brett mcmov Brett

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McMurphy. I mean, I don't
know. I don't know if Brett McMurphy

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has ever been wrong when it comes
to these kind of things as far as

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like reporting of guys being out as
the coach. So, I mean,

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no clue, what what what will
lead you know what, what's going to

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end up being the reason as to
why? And let me ask you this,

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John, I think this day and
age, it's it's it's difficult.

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It's difficult to think that we won't
find out right, like it's it's gonna

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get out. Well. One thing, I've seen this and I don't know

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if this has been confirmed or anything, but I'm reading it says he is

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alleged to have been non compliant with
university rules regarding complaints of sexual misconduct.

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Yeah, I mean that's that's the
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to be. Yeah, it looks
like just earlier this afternoon. This is

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from Sam Farnsworth, who is a
sports anchor in Salt Lake City. He

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shared, Yeah that it, I
mean says, Okay, so this is

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I mean, gosh, I don't
know how to I don't know how to

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to the word this because there's a
difference. Both are gross, but it

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sounds as if he is in trouble
because of failure to like report what he

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knew was happening, which again is
still awful and you need to be held

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accountable, but he wasn't actually doesn't
sound like he was actually sexually snassing people

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directly necessarily. It also says that
Associate Vice President and Deputy Athletic Director of

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External Affairs Jerry Bovie, who's the
interim ad in twenty tween three, and

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Utah State Football Director of Player Development
and Community Austin Albrecht also have been dismissed

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for violations of university policies related to
the reporting of sexual and domestic violence and

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failures of professional responsibilities. So these
are guys, these guys, and I

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don't, you know, we don't
know the extent of like any involvement or

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knowledge, but essentially these three individuals
have been essentially let go because of things

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that happened on their watch that they
either knew about and didn't do what they're

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supposed to do in that position,
or you know, they didn't know about

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and should have known about. So
I mean, that's that's awful to hear

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about and and that's that's terrible.
But again, I knew it had to

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be something kind of in that in
that lane. Given you you know,

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he could probably break a rule,
get in trouble for something rather relatively minor,

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and given his situation and his you
know, how beloved he is,

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he could probably ride it out.
But it's one of those things that once

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it becomes public, this university is
going to make sure that once they were

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aware, they they cleaned house,
because they don't, you know, they

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don't, they don't stand for it. So yeah, Utah State now opened

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in the Mountain West, which by
this point they're gonna they're gonna hire from

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with then, aren't they. I
mean, I don't easy way to do,

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you know higher Bobby Patrino Hier Bobby
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It still so weird to me that
he's at Arkansas calling plays, But I

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guess I should never be shocked with
anything when it comes to Bobby Patrino.

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All right, let's get to a
quick break. We'll come back on the

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other side. Keep this thing rolling
along. Uh, we'll talk a little

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more about this EA Sports college football
game that is coming back and it's all

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anybody seems to be talking about in
the college football world. And the n

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is double A right like there's there's
there's been the belief that for years that

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this, this this institution, this
organization that is the nabaa A may just

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eventually no longer be around anymore.
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or not, but a lot of
people think it's just because you know,

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they'll just fold. Well, I
have a guess as to where if the

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NCAA ends up just no longer existing
in the next five years, it'll be

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because of one specific reason, then
not many people are talking about. So

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how about that for a tease.
So for those just times joining us,

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we did a little something different to
start the four o'clock hour, nothing sports

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related. I think it was informative
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about things you can you know,
you don't want to learn the hard way,

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you don't want to learn too late
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things that I can genuinely tell you
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know what it meant. But the
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before knowing what it was, I
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deal with when you're like getting to
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you know, you're getting old and
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it is. It's testosteron. Testosterone
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thirty, you start to decrease the
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some people have that happen and it
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me, I don't know when it
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I'd lost my edge. I just
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little bit lethargic, not getting the
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you know, some excess fat and
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the EA Sports College Football twenty twenty
four, I guess is what they're calling

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it. It'll when does it come
out? Do we know? Like I'm

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sure there's so many that know the
exact date. But John and I are

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not gamers, so therefore you know
we're not I mean, we're not keeping

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up with it as much, but
apparently July nineteenth is what it tells me

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here on Google. I'm going to
assume that that's right. So you still

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got a couple of weeks roughly before
you're able to to to purchase it and

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play it. But it's all anybody's
talking about in college football, which I

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feel like there are people like me
that don't play video games, that you

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know, aren't going to go buy
it, that are still really getting caught

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up in the game itself, and
you know, some of it is just

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just you know, the where EA
Sports has your team ranked, which I'm

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not really sure how accurate this is, because today they released like a six

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minute video with Kirk kurb Street,
I guess describing describing what is new in

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the Dynasty mode. I think that's
I think that's what he was describing earlier

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today in this in this video that, by the way, EA Sports put

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it out at eleven o'clock on the
Dot and it's now got three million views

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already, and we'll let you hear
a little snippet of it. This is

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herb Street kind of describing what you
can do within the Dynasty mode of this

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video game. Everyone Kirk kurb Street
here with EA Sports College Football twenty five

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back for another deep dive. This
time we're talking about everyone's favorite mode,

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Dynasty Online. Dynasty in College Football
twenty five can accommodate up to thirty two

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teams, and you could play with
friends for up to thirty seasons. Today

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we'll take a closer look at the
new twelve team college Football Playoff, recruiting,

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the transfer portal, and a ton
of customization options to make your program

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unique. College football has seen seismic
changes over the past, so there's a

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lot to this that I don't I
don't. I have questions, but it's

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not worth getting into because I don't
really care, but because players are going

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to be in it. Like if
I'm the punter for Louisville and I'm in

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the game, you know, if
somebody's playing with I don't know, they're

405
00:26:41.039 --> 00:26:45.079
doing Dynasty mode with Indiana, and
John's running Indiana and he sees Nick Coffee

406
00:26:45.079 --> 00:26:48.039
the punters in the portal, like
he could scoop me up. But like,

407
00:26:51.640 --> 00:26:53.880
because they're actually real players now,
like everybody, I just where people

408
00:26:53.920 --> 00:26:57.319
are gonna get caught up and not
realize this is not real. I mean

409
00:26:57.920 --> 00:27:00.880
assume most people know that this is
a video game, but like the level

410
00:27:00.920 --> 00:27:06.119
of what you're able to do,
and with technology advancing so much since the

411
00:27:06.200 --> 00:27:07.400
last time this game came out,
there as a lot of people probably haven't

412
00:27:07.440 --> 00:27:11.359
gamed. They call it that like
there yeah that they as a verb.

413
00:27:11.480 --> 00:27:17.279
Yes, yeah, they haven't gamed
since this was a since this game was

414
00:27:17.480 --> 00:27:22.480
you know, still being made many
years ago. So I mean I can

415
00:27:22.519 --> 00:27:26.480
see it now, though maybe not
right away because obviously the game comes out

416
00:27:26.480 --> 00:27:30.839
in July, but like next year, somebody's gonna enter the portal on the

417
00:27:30.920 --> 00:27:34.200
video game and like make that their
announcement and like share a like you could

418
00:27:34.200 --> 00:27:38.640
see that happening, right, yeah, Like that's you know, so I

419
00:27:38.640 --> 00:27:42.880
I just you know, by the
way, one of the biggest things people

420
00:27:42.920 --> 00:27:47.119
are getting angry about is where Colorado
is, right, yes, yeah,

421
00:27:47.160 --> 00:27:51.640
so that's one thing that I just
I don't understand. It's silly to get

422
00:27:51.680 --> 00:27:56.960
wrapped up in what any analyst says
about your team. I mean it really

423
00:27:56.960 --> 00:28:00.440
does. Like people are wrong often
right, Like pre season talk about a

424
00:28:00.519 --> 00:28:06.880
team is so often forgotten regardless of
how right or wrong people are, because

425
00:28:07.519 --> 00:28:10.240
we're just buying time until we get
the real thing, you know what I

426
00:28:10.240 --> 00:28:15.359
mean. So I share some things
that are out there, preseason, top

427
00:28:15.400 --> 00:28:18.319
twenty fives, watch list, that
kind of stuff, just because it's something

428
00:28:18.319 --> 00:28:19.240
to bring up. But like we
all know, deep down, it didn't

429
00:28:19.240 --> 00:28:22.920
matter. You got to go out
there and play and prove it. But

430
00:28:23.039 --> 00:28:27.319
getting caught up in what a video
game thinks of your team is really,

431
00:28:27.480 --> 00:28:33.000
really, really silly, and people
are doing it everywhere. So yeah,

432
00:28:33.000 --> 00:28:37.200
Colorado, they're top twenty out of
number sixteen. Yeah at it right now,

433
00:28:37.319 --> 00:28:41.519
number sixteen, and they came in
at number like ten in the Big

434
00:28:41.599 --> 00:28:45.359
ten I'm sorry, the Big twelve
preseason poll today, and like there's really

435
00:28:45.440 --> 00:28:48.160
no justification to put them there at
all. They sucked last year. They

436
00:28:48.240 --> 00:28:49.319
might be a little bit better,
but like to have them at sixteen,

437
00:28:49.359 --> 00:28:55.160
it's just nonsense. And I guess
this is EA Sports. Either EA Sports

438
00:28:55.240 --> 00:29:00.559
is just that misinformed or they're doing
things that'll only bring more tens and hype

439
00:29:00.559 --> 00:29:03.680
around it to where people will buy
it, Like Colorado. Let's be honest,

440
00:29:03.720 --> 00:29:07.759
man, I don't think that it's
gonna work out. I don't think

441
00:29:07.799 --> 00:29:10.079
Deon's gonna win a whole lot there, Just to be honest with you,

442
00:29:11.480 --> 00:29:12.960
but he but I've always said he's
still going to be talked about because he's

443
00:29:12.960 --> 00:29:15.799
deon he has They could go three
and nine for three more years and he

444
00:29:15.880 --> 00:29:21.960
will still be talked about extensively because
of he's Prime, right, And I

445
00:29:22.000 --> 00:29:23.839
can't quite understand it, but you
know, he's just a lot different and

446
00:29:25.920 --> 00:29:30.240
he's an entertainer, he's a character. So you know, maybe they're doing

447
00:29:30.279 --> 00:29:34.960
this because they realize maybe somebody wasn't
going to be interested or even think about

448
00:29:34.960 --> 00:29:37.599
the game, but they see that
Colorado's supposed to be pretty good, and

449
00:29:37.599 --> 00:29:41.359
man, I want to play with
Coach Prime's team because man, they're awesome,

450
00:29:41.599 --> 00:29:44.119
and then they're gonna go I don't
know. I like to be honest

451
00:29:44.119 --> 00:29:47.799
with you, those who determine,
like how good a team's defense is,

452
00:29:47.920 --> 00:29:51.039
how good a team's offense is,
where the rankings are, Like that should

453
00:29:51.039 --> 00:29:52.880
be done by somebody within college football, Like I wouldn't be like, I

454
00:29:52.880 --> 00:29:56.759
wouldn't be mad if they had you
know, Chris Vanini who covers college football

455
00:29:56.759 --> 00:29:59.720
for the Athletic, Like, have
him do it, like he would know

456
00:29:59.759 --> 00:30:02.960
better. And I think somebody who
develops video games. What if Dion Sanders

457
00:30:02.960 --> 00:30:04.880
threw some money at ed EA Sports
just to kind of give them a little

458
00:30:04.880 --> 00:30:10.039
bit of a boost wouldn't shock me. But like it's it's egregious. But

459
00:30:10.079 --> 00:30:14.559
then again, like it's not real. Even the people who could be wrong

460
00:30:14.599 --> 00:30:18.359
about preseason predictions that are putting stuff
out there now, they're actually basing it

461
00:30:18.400 --> 00:30:22.480
off of a real team that's going
to play the sport of football on an

462
00:30:22.519 --> 00:30:26.400
actual football field later. So I
mean, look, when people get all

463
00:30:26.559 --> 00:30:29.599
worked up about something that's usually good
for this, for this kind of show,

464
00:30:29.680 --> 00:30:33.000
right, Like that's it's it's usually
something that we can run with.

465
00:30:34.359 --> 00:30:38.960
But I just can't really even get
deep enough to like, I just can't.

466
00:30:40.000 --> 00:30:41.960
I can't relate to people caring about
what a video game thinks of a

467
00:30:41.960 --> 00:30:47.799
team to where I you know,
if they really wanted to up the realism

468
00:30:47.799 --> 00:30:49.839
of this, they should just go
by whatever the rankings are for that week

469
00:30:49.920 --> 00:30:52.519
and update them. You know,
with online stuff and online gaming, they

470
00:30:52.519 --> 00:30:56.720
should be able to change the rankings. Yeah, I don't know if that

471
00:30:56.880 --> 00:30:59.480
maybe they don't have anyway, And
you can customize everything, right, so

472
00:31:00.000 --> 00:31:02.400
there are people you know, you
can cheat, you you can make Colorado

473
00:31:02.440 --> 00:31:07.839
number one. Part of it is
like okay, you're angry that Louisville's not

474
00:31:07.880 --> 00:31:12.640
a top twenty five teen potentially,
which apparently somebody sharing screenshots of Louisville appearing

475
00:31:12.680 --> 00:31:15.440
in a number next to them,
And I don't have no clue if it's

476
00:31:15.440 --> 00:31:18.480
real, but what nobody seems to
think about is it could be where Louisville

477
00:31:18.480 --> 00:31:21.640
finished the season rank last year.
Like I think that's what it is.

478
00:31:21.640 --> 00:31:23.400
There's something that has them like fourteen, and I think in one of the

479
00:31:23.480 --> 00:31:29.319
rankings that's where they finished a year
ago. So anyways, you know,

480
00:31:29.480 --> 00:31:33.279
if somebody played this game in a
month and they were playing as Kentucky and

481
00:31:33.279 --> 00:31:37.400
they beat Louisville by fifty points,
are you going to care if they share

482
00:31:37.440 --> 00:31:40.160
it? No, then then why
would you care about? Like, you

483
00:31:40.200 --> 00:31:44.720
know, I just don't get it, but you know, knock yourself out.

484
00:31:45.720 --> 00:31:51.880
Somebody shared this underneath the the the
EA sports tweet that came at earlier

485
00:31:51.880 --> 00:31:59.079
today, and it's funny but also
like I kind of agree a little bit,

486
00:32:00.440 --> 00:32:04.000
but hey, this guy said it, not me. I want you

487
00:32:04.079 --> 00:32:07.119
people to know we're not so different, you and I. I used to

488
00:32:07.240 --> 00:32:15.000
love video games, yeah, video
games, video games, Yeah, I

489
00:32:15.039 --> 00:32:22.839
love video games, and then I
lost my virtunity and that's why I'm gonna

490
00:32:22.839 --> 00:32:27.319
win tonight, baby, because I'm
better than you. And you know it.

491
00:32:28.039 --> 00:32:35.440
That is MJF from aw who is
a really really good heel in wrestling.

492
00:32:37.279 --> 00:32:38.680
He said it, not me,
but I found it funny. And

493
00:32:39.039 --> 00:32:43.799
you know, only a wrestler could
get somebody to start chanting video games.

494
00:32:43.839 --> 00:32:45.680
Like, I'm not gonna lie to
you. A lot of guys I grew

495
00:32:45.759 --> 00:32:49.759
up with, I never was into
video games as much as as some others.

496
00:32:49.759 --> 00:32:52.200
I mean, I had a PlayStation
two. That's where my gaming ended,

497
00:32:52.200 --> 00:32:54.799
like around sixth seventh grade. But
a lot of like a lot of

498
00:32:54.799 --> 00:32:58.400
my friends who were really into games, they weren't as much into games.

499
00:32:58.400 --> 00:33:00.680
Whenever, you know, we got
a little older and we started chasing ladies,

500
00:33:00.680 --> 00:33:02.240
you know what I'm saying, Like, you know, want to hang

501
00:33:02.279 --> 00:33:07.200
out with girls, not being our
mom's basement playing video games. But hey,

502
00:33:07.240 --> 00:33:09.440
I waste time on TikTok. If
you waste time on a video game,

503
00:33:09.440 --> 00:33:12.519
at least you can go to bed
at night feeling as if you're an

504
00:33:12.519 --> 00:33:15.240
accomplished college football coach that is in
the midst of a very successful dynasty.

505
00:33:16.200 --> 00:33:19.599
I mean, that's that's a pretty
funny line, isn't it. No,

506
00:33:19.680 --> 00:33:22.480
we're not so different you and I. I used to love video games,

507
00:33:23.599 --> 00:33:31.160
yeah, video games, video games. Yeah, I love video games,

508
00:33:31.359 --> 00:33:37.319
and then I lost my virtunity.
I just love how he's getting booed.

509
00:33:37.359 --> 00:33:40.240
And then they started chanting right after
all that. Again, I mean,

510
00:33:40.799 --> 00:33:45.039
if you know him even a little
bit and you're chanting, and you're picking

511
00:33:45.119 --> 00:33:49.000
up his chant like he's gonna he's
coming back at you with something like and

512
00:33:49.039 --> 00:33:52.519
there were enough people where you could
hear it clearly on television video games.

513
00:33:52.480 --> 00:33:54.519
All right, we'll wrap up a
four o'clock hour. On the other side,

514
00:33:54.599 --> 00:33:58.119
keep this party going. It's coffee
and company. Philbeth Thornton's right here

515
00:33:58.160 --> 00:34:01.920
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516
00:34:01.960 --> 00:34:07.799
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517
00:34:07.839 --> 00:34:09.360
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518
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519
00:34:15.360 --> 00:34:20.679
All right, so I'm pretty sure
the last member of the twenty twenty three

520
00:34:20.679 --> 00:34:27.119
to twenty twenty four Louisville basketball team
has found a new home. Walk On

521
00:34:27.239 --> 00:34:30.880
not a scholarship player. All those
scholarship players have since landed elsewhere. But

522
00:34:30.159 --> 00:34:36.400
earlier today on Twitter, I think
it was Hersey Miller, son of Master

523
00:34:36.480 --> 00:34:40.719
P, he announced that he was
going to be transferring to looks like Utah,

524
00:34:40.920 --> 00:34:45.440
Southern. I think that's I'm sorry, yeah, Southern, Utah and

525
00:34:45.480 --> 00:34:47.880
the Big Sky. So best of
luck to him. You know, with

526
00:34:49.960 --> 00:34:53.159
this two year Kenny Payne era being
you know, disastrous, I mean,

527
00:34:53.199 --> 00:34:57.039
I'm not sure what's going to be
remembered down the line, I mean,

528
00:34:57.079 --> 00:35:00.239
other than you know, it being
terrible and nobody wanting to think of about

529
00:35:00.239 --> 00:35:05.599
it. But from by all accounts, he was a really really good kid,

530
00:35:06.079 --> 00:35:09.239
good guy to be around. According
to those within the athletic department that

531
00:35:09.480 --> 00:35:13.000
uh, you know, got you
know, of all the guys that they

532
00:35:13.039 --> 00:35:15.559
had on a two year window here
during the Kinny Payne era, I always

533
00:35:15.559 --> 00:35:17.159
feel like he was one of the
nicer guys that they that they, you

534
00:35:17.159 --> 00:35:20.400
know, I want to I want
to say worked with, because you know,

535
00:35:20.440 --> 00:35:22.079
they didn't work together. But and
I think honestly, most of the

536
00:35:22.119 --> 00:35:25.320
guys who played those last few years
weren't bad kids. But you know he's

537
00:35:25.400 --> 00:35:30.719
the son of a rap mogul who
you know, walked on here and didn't

538
00:35:30.719 --> 00:35:31.639
get a whole lot of minutes,
but always seemed to have a good attitude

539
00:35:31.639 --> 00:35:35.239
about him, and man, he
was bounced around. He started it I

540
00:35:35.280 --> 00:35:38.719
think it was Tennessee State and and
really couldn't crack the rotation there. Ended

541
00:35:38.800 --> 00:35:43.000
up walking on at Xavier but never
played. Then transferred to Louisville, and

542
00:35:43.039 --> 00:35:46.000
he actually got minutes for Louisville,
uh here and there in his first season,

543
00:35:46.079 --> 00:35:50.239
and then last year I don't remember
him playing much at all, and

544
00:35:50.280 --> 00:35:53.039
then of course he got hurt and
did not return. So I think that's

545
00:35:53.079 --> 00:35:58.039
just about everybody, as far as
uh, as far as guys from last

546
00:35:58.119 --> 00:36:01.280
year's team that have that have found
the new home also real quick as we

547
00:36:02.719 --> 00:36:06.079
utilized the little time we have here
before we hit the top of the hour.

548
00:36:06.320 --> 00:36:09.800
Ashton Julyatti. The off season honors
keep rolling in. He was named

549
00:36:09.840 --> 00:36:15.639
a twenty twenty four Walter Camp preseason
All American First Team guy. And you

550
00:36:15.679 --> 00:36:21.320
know a couple of things. As
we get closer to the season, like

551
00:36:21.400 --> 00:36:23.119
most fans, I'm going to get
more excited, which will lead me to

552
00:36:23.159 --> 00:36:27.400
maybe being a little bit more optimistic
than I was in April or May.

553
00:36:27.440 --> 00:36:30.519
But to be fair, I've I've
always felt good about year two of Jeff

554
00:36:30.559 --> 00:36:35.559
Brown because you know, I don't
see a scenario where you take like a

555
00:36:35.559 --> 00:36:37.599
massive step back. It could happen. You really never know. But I

556
00:36:37.639 --> 00:36:39.639
think this team, and I think
I said it a couple of weeks ago,

557
00:36:39.719 --> 00:36:46.840
I feel like this team eight and
four is the floor and ten and

558
00:36:46.840 --> 00:36:51.639
two is the ceiling, which means
more often, more likely than not,

559
00:36:52.519 --> 00:36:54.800
you know, they'll probably win eight
or nine. I mean, they could

560
00:36:54.800 --> 00:37:00.679
get to seven. But you know, I think this team the schedule being

561
00:37:00.679 --> 00:37:01.000
and by the way, that's what
I was going to get to. There's

562
00:37:01.000 --> 00:37:04.199
two things that have kind of stood
out as we get closer to the season,

563
00:37:04.239 --> 00:37:07.400
because we're really just two months away
if you think about it. I

564
00:37:07.440 --> 00:37:09.960
remember on June first thinking, well, damn, now we still got three

565
00:37:09.960 --> 00:37:13.159
months, and at least you know, now a month has gone by and

566
00:37:13.159 --> 00:37:15.239
it went pretty quick, to be
honest with you. So I'm not trying

567
00:37:15.280 --> 00:37:16.880
to fast forward through everybody's summer plans. But man, I can't wait for

568
00:37:16.880 --> 00:37:22.239
football to get here because then it
all comes the NFL, college basketball,

569
00:37:22.360 --> 00:37:27.039
NBA, like you know, the
sports that I typically care about mostly just

570
00:37:27.039 --> 00:37:30.599
those three though, college football,
NFL, and college basketball and no particular

571
00:37:30.639 --> 00:37:36.679
order. But I think the schedule
will in fact be I mean, I

572
00:37:36.679 --> 00:37:39.079
don't think it's a stretch to say
the schedule could be substantially tougher than it

573
00:37:39.119 --> 00:37:43.239
was a year ago. And it's
not just because you know, the schedule

574
00:37:43.320 --> 00:37:47.880
was so bad last year. Like
Louisville played thirteen at Power five teams last

575
00:37:47.920 --> 00:37:52.880
year. So even when they were
playing teams that weren't very good at that

576
00:37:52.960 --> 00:37:59.039
level, no offense, you know, like Indiana in Virginia and you know

577
00:37:59.119 --> 00:38:04.960
those teams, they were still playing
legitimate teams of that level, not to

578
00:38:05.000 --> 00:38:07.719
say legitimate like they're you know,
hunting for the playoff. But you know,

579
00:38:07.800 --> 00:38:12.679
they didn't play any G fives.
They didn't play any FCS teams last

580
00:38:12.760 --> 00:38:16.480
year. So you know, that
doesn't mean the schedule was tough. Clearly

581
00:38:16.519 --> 00:38:20.719
they benefited from the way the ACC
laid out that schedule, there's no way

582
00:38:20.760 --> 00:38:22.679
around it. But they also played
Notre Dame, who at the time was

583
00:38:22.719 --> 00:38:25.760
a top ten team, and you
know, they played an SEC team in

584
00:38:25.800 --> 00:38:30.480
Kentucky. Now they lost, So
you know, I'm willing to acknowledge last

585
00:38:30.519 --> 00:38:32.280
year's team. Last year's schedule was
a factor in how they got to ten,

586
00:38:34.960 --> 00:38:37.519
and this year I think it's That's
why I feel like I can say

587
00:38:37.559 --> 00:38:43.400
that it's gonna be substantially tougher because
you go to Notre Dame. People can

588
00:38:43.440 --> 00:38:45.960
talk about Notre Dame always being overrated
all they want, but not many.

589
00:38:45.000 --> 00:38:47.480
I mean, it's not that often
teams win in South Bend. I mean

590
00:38:47.519 --> 00:38:52.079
it happens, but like that's not
an easy place to play, and Notre

591
00:38:52.159 --> 00:38:53.480
Dame. You know, we'll see
how good they are. But they're going

592
00:38:53.559 --> 00:38:58.199
to be preseason top fifteen. I
would imagine maybe top ten. They always

593
00:38:58.239 --> 00:39:00.840
are SMU. I'm not a believer
that they're going to come in and run

594
00:39:00.880 --> 00:39:05.119
the ACC but you will see them
in some preseason top twenty five rankings.

595
00:39:05.840 --> 00:39:08.559
Miami. I'm a believer that Mario
chister ball is not a bum. I

596
00:39:08.599 --> 00:39:12.800
could be wrong, but I wouldn't
be shocked at all if Miami's a top

597
00:39:12.840 --> 00:39:16.480
twenty team this year. You know, I think cam Ward from was at

598
00:39:16.519 --> 00:39:20.800
Washington State. I believe that transferred
there. I mean, he he's sensational,

599
00:39:21.599 --> 00:39:27.119
and Miami always has talent. You
know Clemson again, they've taken the

600
00:39:27.119 --> 00:39:30.199
step back, but going to play
Clemson at their place and winning is still

601
00:39:30.199 --> 00:39:35.440
a very very difficult thing to do
that very few have done. So you

602
00:39:35.480 --> 00:39:39.519
know that's not me laying out Damn
Louisville's got, you know, a murderer's

603
00:39:39.599 --> 00:39:45.039
road type of schedule, but I
do think it's substantially tougher than last year

604
00:39:45.199 --> 00:39:46.719
because there's going to be some teams
like Georgia Tech that should be a lot

605
00:39:46.760 --> 00:39:50.119
better. You should beat them.
I'm not setting I'm not setting it up

606
00:39:50.159 --> 00:39:52.639
as if, oh man, what
are we gonna do? We gotta play

607
00:39:52.639 --> 00:39:53.920
Georgia Tech. But you know,
they ended up going to a bowl game

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last year. I think they won
seven maybe eight games in their coaches for

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year, and they're expected to be
a little better. So you know,

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you play Georgia Tech, Notre d
AMSMU in week three, in weeks three,

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four, and five, And you
know, I'm not going to act

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as if that's you know, a
gauntlet, but that that I think those

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will be challenging games because those teams
I believe are not elite like that's that's

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one of the things I hate about
college football. I mean, I really

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do hate it. It's that you're
either elite or you're trash. And that's

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how a lot of people view just
about every team like you like, and

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it's because of how the hierarchy works. It's such a you know, it's

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such a I mean, very few
teams actually are real contenders to win the

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national championship in college football. There's
going to be twelve teams in the playoff,

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but that really doesn't change the fact
that it's likely going to be the

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same teams every year winning. We
haven't had a new winner since Spurrier won

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his first championship at Florida. It's
been a long time. So because you

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feel it's such a small tier.
And I feel like even if you're even

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if you're like ranked seventeenth or eighteenth
and you want to talk up like we

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got a tough team coming to town, somebody will say, I know,

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they sucked. They lost last week, or they lost they lost to this

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team who you know is pretty good, but then they turned around and lost

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to a bum so like that means
they suck. Like there's no way,

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like the middle ground is not a
bad place to be, and in fact,

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the majority of every team in college
football at the FBS division level is

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there, or they're bad, meaning
they're they're on the they're on the weaker

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side. It's like, I just
wish people could, you know, understand,

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I'm not claiming that SMU and Georgia
Tech, I mean maybe even Pittsburgh,

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Like, I'm not telling you that
they're great, and if you beat

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them, we're gonna throw a parade
and shut down the streets in Louisville.

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But like not everybody sucks ass.
Sorry for saying. I don't know if

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I'm supposed to. I think I
think I think I can say that,

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but I didn't mean. I just
kind of came out, all right,

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we got another hour left, keep
it locked right here, a body mouth

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in order. Sorry,