Speaker 1: Thank you, John. It is six oh five here Kentucky,
Speaker 1: this morning news. Happy Friday, everybody. We made it to
Speaker 1: the end of the week. And I feel like I
Speaker 1: have you ever I wouldn't call a secret, but have
Speaker 1: you ever had some information that isn't necessarily juicy, but
Speaker 1: you just want to share it with somebody because you
Speaker 1: think they may be surprised and somewhat interested like you were?
Speaker 2: Because I'm about to do that to both.
Speaker 3: Of you, guys.
Speaker 2: Oh you ready?
Speaker 3: All right, let's do it.
Speaker 1: What if I told you I had information that leads
Speaker 1: me to believe that Tony Cruz was up past eleven o'clock.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, believe it.
Speaker 1: I mean talk about quickly getting acclimated.
Speaker 3: Burning the midnight oil.
Speaker 2: I mean he may have had an all nighter. I
Speaker 2: don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean letting his letting his hair down in retirement
Speaker 1: pretty early, staying up past eleven o'clock and being active
Speaker 1: on social media. So, uh, he's adjusting and I'm I'm
Speaker 1: adjusting as well. It's been a it's been a it's
Speaker 1: been a week, been a fun week. But yesterday I
Speaker 1: felt like I had a breakthrough as far as just
Speaker 1: understanding how to balance out the early rising, but also
Speaker 1: not wanting to want to be a zombie the rest
Speaker 1: of the day. But you know that little quick nap,
Speaker 1: and I give Scott. I give Scott some credit. He
Speaker 1: encouraged me to take the nap and I would and
Speaker 1: I did, and it paid off for me because one
Speaker 1: I was able to be not you know, a zombie
Speaker 1: in the evening, and then I watched I was able
Speaker 1: to watch the game. I probably would have gone to
Speaker 1: bed had it been out of reach, but I stayed
Speaker 1: up late, got to watch the Pacers pull off the
Speaker 1: come from behind victory once again. So we're getting adjusted here,
Speaker 1: and we made it to Friday, which Friday's best day
Speaker 1: of the week in my opinion. I don't know if
Speaker 1: you guys agree, and if you don't, you're wrong.
Speaker 3: Friday's the best Thursday. And now we always you say
Speaker 3: Thursday is the new Friday too, Yeah.
Speaker 1: So Thursday's the new Friday. Then basically the weekend is here.
Speaker 1: We are right now existing on a week within a
Speaker 1: weekend which everybody's working for the weekend. It's a song,
Speaker 1: of course, but also it's a saying for good reason.
Speaker 3: How many jobs, how many workplaces do you think are
Speaker 3: now in summer hours, now the Memorial days in the
Speaker 3: rear view, and then how many people actually like do
Speaker 3: anything Like most summer hour places are you work a
Speaker 3: half day on Friday and you go home.
Speaker 1: Or they have you there all day, but everybody just knows, yeah,
Speaker 1: we're only after lunch.
Speaker 3: It's for mailing you packed.
Speaker 1: It exactly seems like a collective understanding. And there are
Speaker 1: some jobs that you really can't do that because it's
Speaker 1: the same thing constantly. If you're working, you're working, and
Speaker 1: that's what you're doing while you're while you're on the clock,
Speaker 1: unless there's a break. But yeah, the cubicle office lifestyle. Uh,
Speaker 1: and maybe some are really getting after it on a
Speaker 1: Friday late in the afternoon, but if not, you're probably
Speaker 1: at least trying to make it look like you're you're
Speaker 1: getting after it.
Speaker 3: Right, So does that give credence to the four day
Speaker 3: work week?
Speaker 1: I wish we would get the four day work week.
Speaker 1: I mean, and let me ask you this. We had
Speaker 1: this conversation not that long ago on my previous show.
Speaker 1: If we went four day work week, would you prefer
Speaker 1: getting the Monday off or the Friday off? I think
Speaker 1: there's an easy answer, but I want both of your
Speaker 1: thoughts before I share mine.
Speaker 3: John, what say you, Bud?
Speaker 4: I feel like I go back and forth with this,
Speaker 4: but I would say the friday off, getting the weekend
Speaker 4: started sooner is probably the better way to go most
Speaker 4: of the time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's it's it's really just how you pipulate
Speaker 1: it yourself. And look, i'd be fine with either you
Speaker 1: want to give me Monday or Friday.
Speaker 2: I'll take it.
Speaker 1: But when the Friday is the is the day off
Speaker 1: the added day to your weekend, It's like you got
Speaker 1: there early, right, It's like it's it's like it's it's
Speaker 1: I mean, it's still a three day weekend regardless if
Speaker 1: we get it Monday or Friday. But if it was Monday,
Speaker 1: it would more so feel like we've just kind of
Speaker 1: been able to slightly delay the real world and getting
Speaker 1: back to the work week. If I'm getting out on
Speaker 1: a Friday and I'm off Thursday, I mean that then
Speaker 1: it officially becomes the new Friday.
Speaker 2: So I'll take either, but I would prefer the Friday.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, the bullet County just really came out Friday.
Speaker 1: If it's Friday, don't get your old train I've ready
Speaker 1: get you. I'm ready to get your Friday. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: I slipped up a and I still you'll you'll learn
Speaker 1: that over time. Sometimes it'll really come out and I'll
Speaker 1: just have to. You know, I'm pretty transparent, probably more
Speaker 1: so than I should be, but I'll acknowledge it when
Speaker 1: it does come out. But at one point I was
Speaker 1: talking Bullet County when John was my producer over on
Speaker 1: seven ninety and I referenced something about getting an oil changed,
Speaker 1: not an oil, but an oil changed out in Mount
Speaker 1: war Wasshington. And we've got certain words we say that,
Speaker 1: and I shouldn't say week because I'm sure others don't.
Speaker 1: Everybody's different. I'm only myself and I don't want to
Speaker 1: make it act like everybody else. Sometimes can sound like,
Speaker 1: you know, a hillbilly like I can.
Speaker 3: But well, anyways, the nice thing to your point is
Speaker 3: my wife and I discovered the four o'clock happy hour
Speaker 3: now and now that the kids are gone, it's awesome,
Speaker 3: I mean, and now we become because I've had to
Speaker 3: encourage her to do this. I like going to happy
Speaker 3: hour and sitting at the bar, of course, and that's
Speaker 3: where I like to eat. I like to drink. It
Speaker 3: took my wife a while to get there. She always
Speaker 3: wanted to sit in a booth, and I'm like, no,
Speaker 3: you know, this is our happy hour where kids are gone.
Speaker 3: We're sitting at the bar.
Speaker 1: Ben Eddie and I were talking about that at the
Speaker 1: end of the show yesterday, because I would never have
Speaker 1: predicted it.
Speaker 2: But we went out.
Speaker 1: My wife and I went out for our anniversary a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, and we went to a restaurant
Speaker 1: where they had tables available, but they had opened patio
Speaker 1: and it was kind of like a big open win window. Therefore,
Speaker 1: you know, we weren't gonna sit outside, but if we
Speaker 1: sat at the bar, we would be closer to where
Speaker 1: the air would come in and a little more close
Speaker 1: to where we were seemingly having a patio dinner type
Speaker 1: kind of thing.
Speaker 2: So we sat at the.
Speaker 1: Bar, and we both realized that despite being directly next
Speaker 1: to each other, not really looking across from each other,
Speaker 1: we were it was more of like we were on
Speaker 1: a date together.
Speaker 2: We were less likely to be on our phones.
Speaker 1: But for some reason, if I'm at a table or
Speaker 1: a booth, I'm you know, not that we don't enjoy dinner.
Speaker 3: But Yeah, I love that feeling. It's a comfort feeling.
Speaker 1: Yeah, better vibes at the bar, and it's it's not
Speaker 1: even it's not even about just the booths. I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously that's you could do that at a table too,
Speaker 1: But yeah, I'm with you.
Speaker 3: I got you.
Speaker 1: It's one of the perks of this new schedule. Maybe
Speaker 1: maybe a four o'clock happy hour.
Speaker 3: Right, Awesome, dude, I'm in bed by eight. I'm good.
Speaker 2: This job just keeps getting better. Good stuff.
Speaker 1: All right, we got another update of traffic and weather
Speaker 1: coming your way right here on news Radio.
Speaker 2: Eight forty whas.
Speaker 1: It is six sixteen here on a Friday morning, Kentucky,
Speaker 1: and it's morning news on news Radio eight forty Whas.
Speaker 1: We've got another update of sports coming your way about
Speaker 1: ten minutes. Also, Mayor Kraig Greenberg is going to stop
Speaker 1: by around eight o'clock. So hang out with us and
Speaker 1: don't forget take us with you wherever it is you're going,
Speaker 1: whatever it is you're doing here on a Friday morning.
Speaker 1: You can listen live on the iHeartRadio app. Also listen
Speaker 1: live at whas dot com. This is something I want
Speaker 1: to hit on here and there throughout throughout the morning.
Speaker 1: And I don't know if you guys will find this
Speaker 1: as interesting as I did, but let's get into it.
Speaker 1: So somebody at Barstool Sports has put together a bracket
Speaker 1: that has which person uh with the has a breakdown
Speaker 1: of people who have the most fitting names. And some
Speaker 1: of these people I have heard of, some of these
Speaker 1: people I have not, and the ones that I've heard of.
Speaker 1: It makes me feel like a real dummy because I'm thinking,
Speaker 1: I never realized how I guess random it is that
Speaker 1: this person might have the perfect name for what they do.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you some of them. Okay, how about
Speaker 1: Yousain Bolt being a sprender his last name is Bolt.
Speaker 1: Would have never been like that, and he's he's really
Speaker 1: well known, probably one of the more well known names
Speaker 1: as far as celebrity status with all of these folks.
Speaker 1: But there is a guy who goes by the name
Speaker 1: of Bob Rock.
Speaker 2: You know, you know what Bob Rock does. No, He
Speaker 2: produces rock music. He's a legendary rock music producer, and his.
Speaker 1: Name is Bob Rock like his parents. His parents may
Speaker 1: not have known that he would just really really embrace
Speaker 1: that last name, but that's uh, that's what he did.
Speaker 1: There is a meteorologist named Amy Freeze. I mean, that's
Speaker 1: that's fitting too. I'm wondering some of these people change
Speaker 1: their names just because it's just doesn't you know.
Speaker 2: There's a guy who's a race car driver.
Speaker 1: I don't know this name, but it wouldn't shock me
Speaker 1: if Scott does Scott speed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, familiar off the top of my head. A name
Speaker 3: sounds very familiar. I was trying to remember where I
Speaker 3: heard that now.
Speaker 1: And then I don't know if this is a celebrity
Speaker 1: or just just somebody that has probably gathered some attention
Speaker 1: just because it is wild to have this name as
Speaker 1: a firefighter. Firefighter, but how about less McBurney.
Speaker 3: Ah.
Speaker 1: And then there's a banker whose name is rich Ricci.
Speaker 1: I think that's I think r I see c I
Speaker 1: is at Ricci, rich Ricci, maybe that's how you say it.
Speaker 1: And then there's a a bartender who is I guess
Speaker 1: a celebrity bartender. He's participated on John Taffer's bar Rescue.
Speaker 1: He's one of those whenever Taffor says shut it down,
Speaker 1: and he yells, and you know, they make a big
Speaker 1: hole scene about it. He brings in his reinforcements. To
Speaker 1: help him clean it up, and he always goes to
Speaker 1: a bartender. I guess this guy has been one of them.
Speaker 1: But his name is Burt beveridge s name you never
Speaker 1: hear Beveridge is the last name. Yeah, nationality that is.
Speaker 2: That's got to be somebody changing their name, right, yeah.
Speaker 1: Me. And then and then maybe there maybe this was
Speaker 1: a reason why uh the this there was a character
Speaker 1: with a Nintendo name this, but the Nintendo president's name
Speaker 1: is Doug Bowser.
Speaker 2: Isn't Bowser a character.
Speaker 3: Supervillain?
Speaker 1: It's got to be him, like just using his name
Speaker 1: to to you know, to have some affiliation with the
Speaker 1: big brand that is, you know, with the Nintendo Mari.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And then this one again, this one makes me feel
Speaker 1: stupid because this is somebody at least I know who
Speaker 1: they are.
Speaker 2: Prince Fielder plays baseball.
Speaker 3: Yeup Fielder, Yeah, yep, Prince Cecil Fielder's son. And Scott
Speaker 3: Speed By the way, he was a Formula one driver.
Speaker 3: You also drove for the Indy Car in twenty eleven
Speaker 3: in the Arcis series. I knew that name sounded.
Speaker 1: I knew if there was somebody that might have heard
Speaker 1: of that name before, it would probably be you. I
Speaker 1: know you follow racing quite a bit. So, Yeah, my
Speaker 1: last name being coffee. It's not spelled like the drink
Speaker 1: for those who are unfamiliar. And my dad, believe it
Speaker 1: or not, for a time in his life owned a
Speaker 1: coffee shop. And I remember I was younger, and maybe
Speaker 1: I just you know, didn't maybe I remember asking him
Speaker 1: and it was a look he gave me of like, son,
Speaker 1: are you kidding me? Because I said, hey, hey, Dad,
Speaker 1: anybody ever ask you when they come to the store
Speaker 1: and it's random your name's coffee and you own a
Speaker 1: coffee shop. But he looked at me and he was like, yes,
Speaker 1: every single second of my life, people are referencing that
Speaker 1: my last name's coffee and he owned to coffee.
Speaker 3: You know, I mentioned that has a lot to do
Speaker 3: with the story you talked about earlier this week in
Speaker 3: Aliah Obama. Yeah, getting rid of her last name because
Speaker 3: she's probably tired of trying to explain. She wants to
Speaker 3: do things on her own. And I wonder how many
Speaker 3: people do that. That's I didn't know your dad owned
Speaker 3: to coffee sho.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he did for about three or four years and
Speaker 1: it was fun. Yeah, a lot of work, a lot
Speaker 1: of I mean, I think things in our lives smelled
Speaker 1: like coffee for that entire time. Everything smelled like coffee
Speaker 1: that for that stretch. But yeah, it was fun.
Speaker 3: Nice.
Speaker 1: All right, we got another update of sports coming your way,
Speaker 1: but first let's get an update on traffic and weather
Speaker 1: right here on news radio eight forty whas. Thank you, John.
Speaker 1: It is six thirty five here in Kentucky at his
Speaker 1: morning news on news Radio eight forty whas. So, as
Speaker 1: you heard there, there's been a change to the requirements
Speaker 1: in order to obtain your driver's permit. So in March,
Speaker 1: Kentucky implemented this change where you can now be fifteen
Speaker 1: years old and get your permit, whereas previously it was
Speaker 1: it was sixteen years old. And this is different than
Speaker 1: when I was at that age, I think, Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: pretty sure when I the day I turned sixteen, my
Speaker 1: mother took me to take a written exam and at
Speaker 1: that point I got my permit, and then six months
Speaker 1: from there, so sixteen and a half, I was then
Speaker 1: able to go back and take a driver's test in
Speaker 1: order to obtain my license, which I passed first time.
Speaker 1: Not to brag, just letting you guys know But anyways,
Speaker 1: what was it like you were you growing up? I'm
Speaker 1: assuming your first driver's license was in Michigan.
Speaker 3: Well, it was in the school sponsored a two week
Speaker 3: driver's ed course you could take when you were fifteen.
Speaker 3: That was in the summertime, and then local auto dealerships
Speaker 3: would donate cars to do this and they write them
Speaker 3: off as a tax and resell the In fact, Delta
Speaker 3: eighty eight was the first car drove. It was a tank,
Speaker 3: but you would do that. You're fifteen, you pass the course,
Speaker 3: you go to the state, they say, okay, here's your permit.
Speaker 3: You can roll with your parents for a year. You
Speaker 3: can't drive on your own. Minute you hit sixteen, boom,
Speaker 3: come and get your license. You're done. It was very simple.
Speaker 3: But when my son and my daughter took it here,
Speaker 3: I mean we got to go through this hole. You
Speaker 3: got to drive with your parents, you got to log
Speaker 3: your hours, and we just finally made up our hours.
Speaker 1: So there was a requirement as far as logging the
Speaker 1: amount of time you were but.
Speaker 3: It was on the honor system.
Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, gotcha.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So we started writing stuff, but we were sweating
Speaker 3: it at first with our daughter. She was our first
Speaker 3: and then when my son came along, We're like, just
Speaker 3: write it in there.
Speaker 1: Well, John, you you got your license in Bullet County,
Speaker 1: just like I did. You were about ten years younger
Speaker 1: than I am. Was the situation for you much different
Speaker 1: than than how I just laid out?
Speaker 4: Yeah, so he mentioned Scott just mentioned the logging. So
Speaker 4: you get your permanent fifteen or excuse me, sixteen six
Speaker 4: months later get your restricted license. During that time you
Speaker 4: have to log those hours. You had to have I
Speaker 4: think forty daytime hours and ten night time hours.
Speaker 1: So when you're logging those hours, that's after you've obtained
Speaker 1: your actual restricted license. So that's that's where you're That
Speaker 1: wasn't the restricted license was? I don't believe it was
Speaker 1: a thing. Whenever I got my license.
Speaker 4: Then that time frame I believe was another six months,
Speaker 4: and then once that happened, I can't remember if the
Speaker 4: final test was before you got your restricted or after.
Speaker 3: I'm assuming it was after. But for some reason it's
Speaker 3: hazy for me.
Speaker 1: I may get myself in trouble here because I guess
Speaker 1: there's a chance there could have been some logging of
Speaker 1: hours necessary, but I didn't know about it.
Speaker 2: We didn't do it.
Speaker 1: But I do remember there actually being somewhat of a
Speaker 1: change right after I, because for us, it was simple
Speaker 1: when you got your license or when you got your permit,
Speaker 1: you could drive, but somebody had to be with you.
Speaker 1: And then once you passed your driver's test, there was
Speaker 1: no there was no requirement. But in that restrictor in
Speaker 1: the restricted license, isn't there a rule as far as
Speaker 1: how many.
Speaker 2: People can be in the vehicle with you?
Speaker 3: Yes?
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, that makes sense. Yeah, there was a change,
Speaker 1: I think not long after I. I guess maybe we
Speaker 1: were such bad drivers my generation. They were like, look,
Speaker 1: we gotta we got to add some new layers to this,
Speaker 1: because we need to make sure these people, these young individuals,
Speaker 1: are better equipped to be.
Speaker 2: On the roadways.
Speaker 1: But yeah, the the drive, I was nervous, as can be,
Speaker 1: in both the written and in the in the actual
Speaker 1: driver's test.
Speaker 4: I failed my written test the first time. I weren't
Speaker 4: even called a written you was like on a little computer.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Well, now I feel bad for making a poor attempted
Speaker 1: humor and bragging about passing, because no, I'm sorry, guys,
Speaker 1: I just did know.
Speaker 2: I would have said the same thing.
Speaker 3: I'm with John, I just did I didn't study. I mean,
Speaker 3: it was like, this is easy, I'm driving, and I
Speaker 3: studied way too hard. For the second time, I felt like, to.
Speaker 1: Those people that are with you on your test, do
Speaker 1: they realize the power they have in their hands? Did
Speaker 1: they realize how nervous everybody is. I mean, that's a
Speaker 1: powerful thing to not take advantage of, because when you're sixteen,
Speaker 1: all you want to do is get that license and
Speaker 1: be able to especially if you've been driving with your
Speaker 1: permit at that point you're ready to. I mean, there's
Speaker 1: not there's not many better feelings from my teenage years
Speaker 1: than whenever I became somebody with with with a license
Speaker 1: to drive by myself.
Speaker 2: I didn't do anything crazy.
Speaker 1: In fact, nothing really changed other than I was driving
Speaker 1: myself instead of riding with friends because most of my
Speaker 1: friends are older than me and they'd already had their
Speaker 1: license long before I did. I was last in line,
Speaker 1: so it wasn't like I was able to get places
Speaker 1: I couldn't get before.
Speaker 2: But you know, being on the open room, having that freedom.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then how long did you realize, Hey, I
Speaker 3: wanted to drive and want to drive, and then like
Speaker 3: now you're like, man, I gotta go to the store.
Speaker 3: I gonna get my car and drive over to the store.
Speaker 2: My wife.
Speaker 1: We're taking the kids camping this weekend and we're leaving
Speaker 1: a little bit later today, and I'm sure if she
Speaker 1: offers to drive, I'm not gonna stop her.
Speaker 3: I hate driving in during the day day. I don't
Speaker 3: mind on the road, and we take road trips, but
Speaker 3: I hate driving during the day through town because.
Speaker 1: She'll just want me to be the drivers so she
Speaker 1: can say, all right, get him under control. If the
Speaker 1: kids start, you know, there's shenanigans in the back seat.
Speaker 3: Are we there yet?
Speaker 1: We've been on the road five miles. I'm sure sure
Speaker 1: that'll happen. But yeah, good stuff. All right, We've got
Speaker 1: another update of traffic and weather coming your way right
Speaker 1: here on Who's Radio eight forty whas it is six
Speaker 1: forty six here at Kentucky Anda's morning news reminder coming
Speaker 1: up at eight o'clock. Mayor Kirk Greenberg is going to
Speaker 1: be stopping by. I look forward to to chatting with him.
Speaker 1: We've got another update of sports coming your way in
Speaker 1: roughly ten minutes. And I will say I of all
Speaker 1: the sports that I that I consider to be I
Speaker 1: guess the ones that I'm passionate about. College football is
Speaker 1: certainly up there. We are college basketball crazy around here
Speaker 1: and that'll never change. But obviously college football is still
Speaker 1: very popular as we are. Really our pro teams around
Speaker 1: here are the Cats and the Cards. That's the way
Speaker 1: it's always been. That's what makes us rare. So we're
Speaker 1: more so known for basketball. But I love college football,
Speaker 1: and what worries me is that it is turning into
Speaker 1: more of a popularity contest than actually, you know, a
Speaker 1: sport where you go out and realize the results ultimately matter,
Speaker 1: and that's what should matter. And the College Football Playoff
Speaker 1: expansion has easily been one of the biggest storylines so
Speaker 1: far this offseason. So for those who aren't aware, it
Speaker 1: went from a two team format in the BCS era
Speaker 1: to four teams. They did that for roughly ten years,
Speaker 1: and then last year was the first year the College
Speaker 1: Football Playoff expanded to twelve teams, and that won't last
Speaker 1: long because it sounds like by twenty twenty six they're
Speaker 1: going to have an expansion. Most likely it's sixteen teams.
Speaker 1: So the issue is that there's a lot of back
Speaker 1: and forth as far as how you determine not necessarily
Speaker 1: which teams take up the sixteen team field, but how
Speaker 1: you determine who is guaranteed, how many spots are guaranteed
Speaker 1: by conference, that kind of stuff. And what really worries
Speaker 1: me is that they're and I don't know if it'll
Speaker 1: end up happening, but the scenario where the SEC and
Speaker 1: the Big Ten secure half of the field automatically eight
Speaker 1: of the sixteen for SEC four Big Ten, if it's
Speaker 1: just a given that you know those spots are slotted
Speaker 1: for teams in those conferences before anybody has played a game,
Speaker 1: I can't tell you how dumb that is, to be honest,
Speaker 1: just in my opinion, But how can you guarantee spots?
Speaker 1: And again, you're not guaranteeing it to a team, you're
Speaker 1: guaranteeing it to members of a conference. But this is
Speaker 1: a hypothetical that will probably not play out. But what
Speaker 1: if one year the SEC and the Big Ten are
Speaker 1: awful in football?
Speaker 2: That probably won't happen.
Speaker 1: So maybe a poor analogy, but we're just going to say, Okay,
Speaker 1: well doesn't matter they automatically get foreign because that's what
Speaker 1: we agreed on. It just doesn't to me. Results should
Speaker 1: matter and there's no way around the fact that your
Speaker 1: brand and what you've done historically as a conference and
Speaker 1: as a program, it is going to be included with
Speaker 1: how people perceive you to an extent, but that shouldn't
Speaker 1: play any factor in actually getting a spot to participate
Speaker 1: in a playoff that determines the college football national champion. So,
Speaker 1: I mean, there's to me, it's just when you hear
Speaker 1: people mention things like we should, I don't think this
Speaker 1: will happen because I just refuse to believe this would
Speaker 1: ever we'd ever get to this point. But in these
Speaker 1: meetings that have taken place in the off season about
Speaker 1: the future of the college football playoff, it's at least
Speaker 1: been discussed that TV viewership should be part of the
Speaker 1: criteria as far as how you get in, and like
Speaker 1: that alone is it's I mean, that's the direct proof
Speaker 1: that it's not really about what you do on the field,
Speaker 1: what you earn, it's more about who you are, how
Speaker 1: many people watch you. It's a popularity contest.
Speaker 3: Well, and that's where I love Gino ari Ema and
Speaker 3: what he had to say about women's college basketball. It's
Speaker 3: right along those same lines. They parallel each other. Let's
Speaker 3: just call this what it is. Okay, let's stop pretending
Speaker 3: that we think Indiana football is going to win a
Speaker 3: national championship. And I love I love Signetti. I think
Speaker 3: he's a fantastic coach. He did wonderful things at James Madison.
Speaker 3: But Indiana was never going to win a national championship
Speaker 3: last year. And so you take teams like that because
Speaker 3: they're in the Big Ten, they're going to get a
Speaker 3: birth over someone who's probably a little bit more deserving,
Speaker 3: who can make a little bit more noise. But we
Speaker 3: can't predict that we often think we can.
Speaker 1: Indiana's schedule did not do them any famous last year,
Speaker 1: but they also played the two teams that played for
Speaker 1: the national championship the year prior, and it just didn't
Speaker 1: work out where those teams were as good. Now, I mean,
Speaker 1: we're learning on the fly here. As far as when
Speaker 1: you have this many members in the big conferences sixteen
Speaker 1: eighteen members in certain leagues, the SEC, the Big Ten
Speaker 1: have expanded, the ACC's now expanded, it is impossible for
Speaker 1: you to lay out conference schedules that are going to
Speaker 1: be even close to comparable as far as how tough
Speaker 1: they are. And that's that's not the team's fault that
Speaker 1: the schedule that they got handed ended up being what
Speaker 1: it is.
Speaker 3: Well, and see Michigan never was what they were that
Speaker 3: national championship here and they only beat Michigan by five points,
Speaker 3: but yet they took on Ohio State and they were
Speaker 3: blown out of the water. So that's to your point.
Speaker 3: We've got to find a better way to select these
Speaker 3: teams and have those auto bid.
Speaker 1: And trust me, don't I think the SEC has proven
Speaker 1: it's the best league. They'll probably still get way more
Speaker 1: in every year than anybody else. But just to guard
Speaker 1: just say that they gante it's guaranteed to them regardless
Speaker 1: of what happens if for anybody plays a game. Just
Speaker 1: I think that's it's silly, but we shall see. It'll
Speaker 1: certainly be a big continued storyline when it comes to
Speaker 1: college football this offseason. All right, your next update of
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