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d A c C. I'm gonna turn it over to Matthew.

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Now we still don't have our guests in UH, but

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hopefully he'll join us here momentarily.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Jeff, maybe you can reach out to Maybe you

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can reach out to our friend Joe here either on

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either through d M on Twitter or through UH through

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the through the Google dot Google dot Google doc.

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Speaker 3: He'll have to just click on the invitation here.

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Speaker 2: So, but I'm gonna ask you a question before we

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before we start out. Well, it looks like we're getting

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a little Yeah, it looks like we're getting a little issue.

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Speaker 3: Getting a little issue here.

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Speaker 2: Uh, Jeff, check in to check to see if he

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has a check to see if he has the invite,

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because he'll have to. He may have to click on

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it again, on it again. I think that's probably the

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probably the juice here. But let me let me ask

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you a question, Jeff. Uh So, it looks like to me,

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if I'm not mistaken, is California gonna be the game

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day host next week?

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Speaker 3: Is this the case the cow bears.

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Speaker 1: Yes, that was announced yesterday. I thought it had a

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really good chance of getting it if Cal had beaten

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pleasant surprise that Cal's going to be hosting game day

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for the first time ever against Miami in a in

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a matchup next Saturday. So pretty cool stuff there. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I was kind of okay because I you and I

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had kind of talked about this before, because you were

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kind of I mean, I think it was kind of funny.

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Speaker 3: You were kind of snarky on Twitter.

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Speaker 2: I joke about it a little bit and with I mean,

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and I think rightfully, so to be a little bit

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of snarky, rightfully, So to be a little snarky that

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Speaker 3: Probably gonna be SOMESSAC team. It's probably gonna be some

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SCC team, you know what I mean, that sort of thing.

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Speaker 2: Jeff, and I actually thought that they might use October

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fifth as an opportunity to visit, you know, to do

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an FCS school right to visit, visit the UH, to

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visit at the to UH University of North Dkota and

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in North Dakota State and Fargo, because both of them

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are undefeated and the FCS play and it's been several

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they're playing as good or better football than most FCS

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teams in the country. And I thought, well, you know

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that they you know, you know, they visited North Dakota

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of times, and I thought they might actually use that

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as an opportunity to visit. But you know, lucky, lucky,

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that lucky that they actually uh Luckily that they actually

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had an opportunity to to UH for for CAL to

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actually get that opportunity to UH to host college game Day,

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and it's kind of it's kind of it's sort of

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interesting because you know this better than me, Jeff, I

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mean did if I'm not mistaken, both CAL, s m U,

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and I think even Stanford or two of the three

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at least were mentioned in the lawsuit against the ACC.

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Speaker 3: And I see Joe here, Now, I see Joe here.

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Now is that the Is that the case? Jeff?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Joe looks it looks good to it looks good

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Speaker 3: Is that is that the case? Jeff?

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Speaker 1: Though?

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Speaker 3: Did they were they mentioned in the lawsuit?

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Speaker 3: And now I know Florida states like that.

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Speaker 2: I mean, just getting dogged by every every They're getting

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dogged by all those fans. They're getting dogged by the

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rest of the ACC fans. This is like, I mean,

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really upset right now. So Joe rogers Man, Welcome back

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Speaker 3: This Week in the ACC.

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It's the podcast for All Sports Discussion dot Com. Jeffrey

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follow me at at All Sports dACC. Joe's here with

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us tonight. He's one third of the Virginia Tech for

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Life podcast. He is a barstool national champion. He's the

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mayor of don V Fridays. He's a founding member of

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the Stuholt Fan Club. He is the a UFC guru Joe,

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Welcome back friend. Tell us about yourself.

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Speaker 3: The floor is your.

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Speaker 4: Hey, guys, I appreciate everybody having me on tonight. Man

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love the podcast. Longtime follower, second or third time color

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so I appreciate it.

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Speaker 1: Man.

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tech alumna.

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Speaker 3: So always here.

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Speaker 4: It's ack ACC sports.

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Speaker 3: Their fault wonderful.

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Speaker 2: So let's look at this past week in ACC football,

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and we think you might have an idea where you're

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going with with your answer. Answer, but which ACC football

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team was the most disappointing team in week five? And

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who was your most impressive ACC football team this.

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Speaker 4: Past week most disappointing. I think the obvious answer for

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most people would be Florida State. You know, they got

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absolutely stomped by SMU. But I'm looking at the other

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side of things and it's probably Wake Forest they lost,

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the Louisiana they lost to the Rage Occasions they lost

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forty one to thirty eight at home. They had the

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missed field goal at the end to ice the game,

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so that was really shocking to me. I thought they

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were a little bit better than that. Most impressive team

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they had a shot going into that game. It's really impressive.

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you know, rightfully so probably should have won it at

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Speaker 2: I mean it's fair to talk about Virginia Tech because,

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a Virginia Tech team that, uh, this is probably what

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most of the year, and I think it's fair to

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talk about the positives there. I mean, I there were

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a couple of blown calls, I think from the from

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but I was probably more upset about the phantom holding call,

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which was a pancake block rather than the referees decision

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on on who made the catch. There an overshurning call

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upset about that one. I think I'm probably more upset

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about the former, because that was just so it was

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just so obvious and blatant that it was a pancake

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block and that there was no hole there, and it

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took six points off the board a sixty two yard

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run and six points off the board there, And I

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they saw all year. It's probably a team that if

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likely could have defeated Rutgers. And they look like a

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felt like Virginia Tech had had that kind of effort

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in them. I mean, we all couldn't have been wrong.

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drawings and quarterback and tooting it running back and the

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momentum they had last year, and this was the first game,

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at the whole year, which makes them a very dangerous

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team even at two and three going forward about what

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that controversial call at the end of the game, you know,

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and Drones went toe to toe with cam Ward, who

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and it was just, you know, a great performance by

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Virginia Tech. They were really physical in that game, which

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Miami it was. I think Virginia Tech exposed quite a

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an elite team this year and really be a true

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playoff contender, you know they're going to have to match,

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that of that catch, and so you hate to see

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a game end on a controversial call like that. But

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it was kind of a throwback to

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those Virginia Tech Miami games in the Big East when

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rivalry games they had in the late nineties and early

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Speaker 3: Definitely, definitely, Jeff, you're up.

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Speaker 1: All right, Joe. Which ACC football game are you looking

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forward to the most in Week six?

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Speaker 4: You know, that's a really tough one. You kind of

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look across the board and there's a lot of just

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straight up ACC games, not much out of conference games

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this week. But for me personally, I think it's Duke

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going to Georgia Tech. They play at seven pm. They're

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in Atlanta. I think Duke might probably be one of

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the most fraudulent five and O teams in the country

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right now, haven't really been tested. They beat some really

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bad teams. I don't think UNC is very good at all.

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They're physical. I'm looking forward to that one because I

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think I think that's a really intriguing game

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to you know, Georgia Tech, even in both of their losses,

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to play his best late in games. And then the

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three three games. And you know, this is a game

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that you look at and you say, hey, if Duke

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wins that game and gets to six and oh going

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into a bye week, because they really, you know, you know,

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really contend here in the ACC and you kind of

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just look at it and you say, they're a solid team,

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but they look more like an eight win type team

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than someone who's going to contend. But boy, they go

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into Atlanta and win that game on a Saturday night

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where Georgia Tech usually performs really well. And then I

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agree with you Joe that you know, Georgia Tech has

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some issues on the defensive side of the ball, a

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little bit of an issue running the ball and their losses,

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but I mean they still are a pretty decent team.

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it'll it'll send us. They're both seasons in two different directions.

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and then Georgia Tech might see, you know, things go

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for them and to complete free fall. You know, there's

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a couple other games that I'm personally looking forward to

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in a pretty good slate of games. Of course, Clemson

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Florida State, not not with the kind of the cachet

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you would normally see in a Clemson Florida State game,

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but Clemson probably playing as well as anyone in the

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A c C over the last three games. And I

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mean they could. I think Florida State seasons already sunk,

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there's no question about that. But just how much further

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can it sync if Clemson wins wins that game, is

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they they you know, have their eye on trying to

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get to the ACC title game. And then a really

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sneaky good game I think is s MU at Louisville.

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Louisville coming off an emotional game where they competed pretty

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well with Notre Dame but made a few mistakes which

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they couldn't overcome, and then SMU, who I think right

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after Clemson has shown the most improvement of any ACC

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team since game number one, and that's a pretty pretty

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nice matchup in the ACC as well. All right, Joe,

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as we as we keep looking ahead of anything else

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here in the ACC, get your thoughts on which ACC

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team or teams could be on upset alert in week

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week week six, if they're looking ahead to a game

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on their schedule or otherwise just sleepwalking on the field.

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Speaker 4: I think it's the obvious one. I think it's number eight,

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Miami going all the way to Berkeley playing at Cal.

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They're playing late. I believe it's a nine to thirty

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Eastern PM start, So that could be kind of funky

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for Miami. You know, do they have a letdown after

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a big emotional win against Virginia Tech? You know, Cal

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has two good running backs that got Thomas and they

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got Auto or excuse me, so I kind of look

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at Miami, you know, they're five and zero, the number eight.

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They Miami fans never want to say, you know, we're back.

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They don't want to jinx it. But are they? You know,

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this game could be the one to kind of solidify them.

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There's a lot on the line there. How's the travel

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affect them, how's the late start affect them? You know,

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their twelve point favorite. But there's a lot that could

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go wrong in that game. And that's who I'm looking at.

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I'm looking at Miami.

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Speaker 2: It's fair to say that they're gonna be kind of

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They're gonna be kind of a crazy Jeff, you probably

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agree with this, but you've watched well, I call it

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acc after dark man, I've been I should trade bark

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D because they've been cal is kind of a strange

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team at all. Their fans are kind of nuts and

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that may and I'm with y'all. I think that that

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could that could be an interesting situation.

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Speaker 3: What about what about? How about how about this though?

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How about this though? Uh, Syracuse going on the road

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Speaker 1: Yet, Yeah, that's that's not going to be easy for Syracuse.

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And now that I think, I remember, a couple of

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weeks ago, people were saying, oh wow, Syracuse and UNL

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vs un l V a big twelve champion versus Syracuse

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ACC champ before Stanford knocked off Syracuse. But that's a

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really dangerous game for Syracuse. Actually, I think UNLV is

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favored in that game, but they better play well. And

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weird deal going on there at UNLV. They lost their

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starting quarterbacks a Loucable because of Nil thinking he didn't

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get paid. So all kind of weird things going to

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be involved in that one.

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Speaker 2: And then of course you've got Pettitt or a Pettitt

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at North Carolina. People get to find out whether what

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Pitt's all about, right.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, that's another good one too. I mean North

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Carolina is reeling and you know it, don't even get

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me started on that defense with Jeff Collins giving up

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seventy points last week, blowing a twenty point lead midway

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through the third quarter. In this one, I mean, Pitt

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can absolutely knock knock the rails off of North Carolina season.

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I mean it's completely teetering in Chapel Hill right now,

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and I think they're on the verge of an absolute

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collapse of that season. And Pitt can close the door

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on that. I mean, they still have a Marion Hampton.

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They got some offensive skilled players, but but Pitt, you know,

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Mike might send Mac Brown off into the sunset and

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Jeff Collins looking for a new a new position. If

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they can go in there into Chapel Hill and off

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the Tar Hills, and I think, you know, if Pitt

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is truly the team, I think they're starting to become.

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I mean, we've seen them have their fourth quarter comebacks

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against Cincinnati and West Virginia. If they can put a

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whole game together, you know, they might win that game

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by a couple of touchdowns. And that's a game that

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they certainly can't overlook because we've seen Pitt play great

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two weeks in a row and then get have a

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loss inexplicably to a team over the last few years.

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And they got to avoid that against North Carolina because

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North Carolina still has enough talent. But if Pitt punches

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first and Lands won, it might be curtains for North Carolina.

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All right, Joe, let's step out of the acc for

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a bid here. Which National FBS game are you looking

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forward to the most in Week six? And we're wide

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open with this question. This can be powerfied non powerfied.

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You can even have an FCS matchup and then give

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us the winner of that game.

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Speaker 4: So I've kind of got two and I'll narrow it

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down to one, but number nine Missouri at number twenty

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five Texas A and M. Missouri's four to oher A

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and M's four and one, you know, the one loss

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coming to Notre Dame. That's the early games eleven AM

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my time. I think it's New New yor All's time Eastern.

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That is going to be really intriguing. It's going to

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be interesting to see if Missouri is for real. I mean,

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so that's probably the first game of the day I'm

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going to be watching. But the real game of the

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week for me still staying in the SEC six point thirty,

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number four Tennessee at three and two Arkansas, because I

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think that Arkansas team is better than their record. Tennessee's

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on the road. I know that they beat Oklahoma on

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the road, but I really want to see if they

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can get it done against Arkansas, who I think it's

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probably a top top half of the ACC or SEC's

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probably the game that I think is going to be

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really intriguing for me. And this is a good slate,

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Don't get me wrong. I mean there's Michigan at Washington,

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got USC at Minnesota. I mean, this pretty good week

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for games. The ACC has a bunch of good games,

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but those are the two that I'm really interested in

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outside of the ACS.

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Speaker 1: All right, yeah, Matthew, you got to fall up on

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this question.

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Speaker 2: Dude, Joe, what about the even bigger matchup? Because, man,

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I'm telling you had had Miami lost, do you know

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why who I think would have hosted Game Day this

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week Joe or this upcoming week?

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Speaker 4: Do you think it would have been BC and EVA?

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Speaker 3: No, I think it would have a good one.

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Speaker 2: I think it would have been North Dakota North Dakota States.

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Speaker 3: Oh, that's such a classic matchup too.

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Speaker 2: I'm actually did serious about it because they've gone to

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Fargo before and both teams are undefeated.

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Speaker 3: Yes, he is, And I think that Virginia Tech should

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have their recruiting staff and Fargo trying to pick offensive lineman.

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Who's win that game?

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Speaker 1: Man?

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Speaker 4: So, I am a North Dakota State University fan personally.

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You know, I saw Quincy Patterson go play there. I

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love them, man, I love their moxie, I love their staff.

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I love that program. I kind of love how they

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play just physical, smash mouth football. Practicing the cold, I

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mean it's not too cold yet, you know. But yeah,

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North Coast State, they're winning that game. But that would

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have been a great game day.

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Speaker 2: I truly thought it was going to be that, be that,

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but Miami, Miami, Miami, Miami screwed it up.

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Speaker 3: Okay, now I'm just kidding. This is an acc podcast.

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Speaker 2: I mean, and it's gonna be hell It's gonna be

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a hell of a freaking matchup with California because I

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think I think, as Joe said, that they the Bears

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have a chance to pull it up, pull an upset

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out there, because that is going to be the craziest

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fan base and they're gonna be They're gonna be pulling

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all kinds of crazy Blootz packages in Miami. It's gonna

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be kind of I think it's gonna be kind of

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fun to watch. They'll have to Yeah, and I think

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they'll spy, and I think they'll spy on that quarterback

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a little more too, So I think I certainly think

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that's the case.

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Speaker 3: Go ahead, Jeff, all.

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Speaker 1: Right, Joe, we're gonna have our next segment and We

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got a couple we call open mic segments, but this

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first one we just want to focus on you as

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our guest. Anything you want to hit on, just let

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it fly. We call this open mic number one.

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Speaker 4: You know, I am really shocked this year at the

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level of play out of the top half of the SEC.

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It just almost looks like a different sport to me.

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You know, I watched the Bama Georgia game last night.

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I watched Texas arch manning incredible, and yeah, they get

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a ton of prey. But I think the ACC this

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year in general, has a lot of parody outside of

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Clemson in Miami. So the ACC has a ton of

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fun games. I hope that they continue to get a

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lot of viewers. The cal edition turned out to be

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a very smart move. I mean, they've been a good

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addition to the ACC. They're starting, They're fitting right in,

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you know, SMU, they've had some good games so far. Stanford,

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I don't know about them yet. You know, they just

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got shell ACKed by Clemson, but a lot of teams

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do so. But to me, I think a lot of

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people thought that the ACC would be, you know, like

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a Tier two I don't see that. I don't think

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that the Big Ten is good enough to create that

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separation in the conferences. To me, and I honestly think

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that the ACC is better than the Big twelve. So

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I think that we've got, you know, kind of some

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fun things going this year so far. You know, the

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conference realignment really did actually help the ACC. What do

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you guys think about that?

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Speaker 2: We agree with you. I think in part, the ACC

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is much better this year. I mean, Jeff and I

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have talked about this on several occasions. I think the

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last time the ACC really good nationally was when they

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when there was good quarterback play in the league. And

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there's at least ten in this conference that can play

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at other universities in the country.

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Speaker 3: The cut quarterback the level of quarterback play.

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Speaker 2: Is extremely high in the ACC, and I think that

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certainly contributes to it.

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Speaker 3: Jeff, what do you got there?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I definitely, I don't think there's any

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question that the ACC is superior to to the Big twelve.

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You know, so then you look at I know, I

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don't think that they have a team that you can

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really put comparable to to Ohio State, for example, But

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I feel like, you know, in that that league from

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Penn State Oregon down, you know, and we I think

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the ACC even has a winning record against a big

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ten overall, so we know the middle of the packs

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are are are similar. And you know, then you look

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at the SEC and I think, I do you know,

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we have to agree, Joe, we get credit where credit

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is due. You look at Texas, Alabama and Georgia and

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and they're they're cut above and maybe even Tennessee. I

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think Tennessee is really good. And you put Ohio State

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in that group. But you know, you get past those

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00:26:30,200 --> 00:26:33,000
four and and the A c C has has generally

478
00:26:33,079 --> 00:26:37,119
competed pretty well with the middle of the pack of

479
00:26:37,559 --> 00:26:42,400
the SEC. You know, there was that Calwyn at Auburn.

480
00:26:43,279 --> 00:26:48,680
We know, Okay, unfortunately the Vanderbilt loss was was in there.

481
00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:55,200
But I think the ACC has compared very favorably with

482
00:26:55,319 --> 00:26:59,240
the other four power leagues this year. I think there's

483
00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:04,319
very much potential to get two ACC teams into the playoffs.

484
00:27:05,279 --> 00:27:07,240
I would have said there even could have been an

485
00:27:07,279 --> 00:27:12,359
outside shot at three if Louisville had knocked off Notre Dame.

486
00:27:12,440 --> 00:27:15,400
But that's probably a stretch. But I think it's not

487
00:27:15,519 --> 00:27:19,000
out of the question that you could have Miami and

488
00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:22,480
a Clemson, and you never know if another team that's

489
00:27:22,559 --> 00:27:25,960
kind of back in the pack, but starting out of

490
00:27:25,960 --> 00:27:28,720
the season really well. We talked about Duke. I'm not

491
00:27:28,880 --> 00:27:31,079
sure I can really see Duke putting on that kind

492
00:27:31,119 --> 00:27:33,119
of a run, but I mean, you never know if

493
00:27:33,160 --> 00:27:37,720
pitt can have an eleven and one type season they got.

494
00:27:37,720 --> 00:27:42,440
They got some deficiencies in the secondary, but you've kind

495
00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:45,200
of survived some of those issues in the first four

496
00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:47,319
games and if you get those things right with Holstein

497
00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:51,839
at quarterback. So I think it's it's been a pretty

498
00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:55,160
solid season for ACC football. I mean, everyone tried to

499
00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:57,519
ride them off instantly because of some of the opening

500
00:27:58,039 --> 00:28:02,359
weekend losses. Old Florida State, you know, they lost, even

501
00:28:02,400 --> 00:28:04,319
though it was too They've been losing in the ACC.

502
00:28:04,440 --> 00:28:06,960
I never quite understood that when you how it's bad

503
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:09,599
for a conference when they lose to another team in

504
00:28:09,640 --> 00:28:14,319
the conference. You know, and Georgia definitely put it to Clemson.

505
00:28:15,519 --> 00:28:19,000
But we're gonna use that same argument that that everyone

506
00:28:19,000 --> 00:28:22,319
else uses when you have a bad first game. Clemson

507
00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:25,400
is a different team than they were in that Georgia game.

508
00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:27,839
And I'm not saying they could beat Georgia. That's that's

509
00:28:27,839 --> 00:28:31,480
not what I'm saying at all. But in that game,

510
00:28:32,119 --> 00:28:33,720
I don't know if people came out of it thinking

511
00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:36,480
Clemson is not even a top twenty five team, and

512
00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:39,200
they're the one of the hottest teams in the conference

513
00:28:39,279 --> 00:28:42,880
right now. They have deep threats at wide out with

514
00:28:43,359 --> 00:28:46,519
more and west co that they haven't had in years,

515
00:28:46,880 --> 00:28:51,319
and those two barely played against Georgia and that offense,

516
00:28:51,599 --> 00:28:54,240
and you see the way clay Clublick is playing now

517
00:28:54,279 --> 00:28:58,680
that they can have guys get behind defenses. They haven't

518
00:28:58,720 --> 00:29:02,920
had that three or four years. And I think Clemson

519
00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:06,799
has a really great opportunity to run the table to

520
00:29:06,839 --> 00:29:10,319
the ACC championship game. I mean, there's still some tests.

521
00:29:10,319 --> 00:29:13,519
They got to go to Blacksburg, they got to play Louisville.

522
00:29:14,039 --> 00:29:17,759
South Carolina is a capable team an a rivalry game,

523
00:29:18,119 --> 00:29:20,960
so it's definitely not assured that they're going to be

524
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:24,599
able to do it. But right now they're just they're

525
00:29:24,640 --> 00:29:29,519
just beating the daylights out of their opponents, and you know,

526
00:29:29,559 --> 00:29:31,519
we'll see how it goes for them. But I do

527
00:29:31,599 --> 00:29:34,240
not think that is the same team that you saw

528
00:29:34,279 --> 00:29:35,160
against Georgia.

529
00:29:35,319 --> 00:29:37,599
Speaker 2: I think, certainly think that's fair to say I think

530
00:29:37,720 --> 00:29:40,559
I certainly think that's fair to say, Jeff, Okay, we

531
00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:42,519
got our last open microphone.

532
00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:42,880
Speaker 1: Joe.

533
00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:45,240
Speaker 2: I'm actually gonna go with it first this time. But

534
00:29:45,400 --> 00:29:48,759
I'm going to ask you a question that I've kind

535
00:29:48,759 --> 00:29:53,000
of been asking a lot of people on Twitter about

536
00:29:53,079 --> 00:29:55,279
Virginia Tech. And this is kind of a Homer question

537
00:29:55,319 --> 00:30:00,680
here for me. What's the ceiling for wins for Virginia Tech?

538
00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:03,599
Who sits at two and three in the league.

539
00:30:05,039 --> 00:30:08,400
Speaker 4: I think now, after you know, the start of season,

540
00:30:08,519 --> 00:30:11,359
knowing what we know now, I think the ceiling is

541
00:30:11,400 --> 00:30:14,039
probably eight and four. I think that's probably what we're

542
00:30:14,079 --> 00:30:16,960
looking at. You know, the Clemson game that looks like

543
00:30:17,039 --> 00:30:18,759
it could be a loss, but even if you get

544
00:30:18,799 --> 00:30:21,480
by them, there could be another one on the schedule somewhere.

545
00:30:21,960 --> 00:30:23,720
I'm gonna say ceiling is probably eight and four.

546
00:30:24,839 --> 00:30:25,839
Speaker 3: Fair enough? Fair enough?

547
00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:29,200
Speaker 2: What do you got for your open microphone, Joe? Second segment?

548
00:30:29,839 --> 00:30:32,759
Speaker 4: All right, so I know that you all mentioned the

549
00:30:32,839 --> 00:30:36,519
quarterback play and the acc who's some of the most

550
00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:40,440
you know, disappointing quarterbacks that you've seen. I think for

551
00:30:40,480 --> 00:30:43,319
me it would be Presston Stone at SMU.

552
00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:44,200
Speaker 3: I thought he was.

553
00:30:44,160 --> 00:30:46,440
Speaker 4: Gonna come out and like the world on fire.

554
00:30:47,279 --> 00:30:52,400
Speaker 3: But I'd like to hear your all thoughts, Jeff. I'm gonna,

555
00:30:52,480 --> 00:30:54,519
I'm gonna, I'm gonna pitch over to you.

556
00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:59,400
Speaker 1: Jeff. Yeah, I think that's a great point, Joe. I mean,

557
00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:03,240
I had Preston Stone is one of my top five

558
00:31:03,279 --> 00:31:06,799
acc quarterbacks going into the season. I had him at

559
00:31:06,880 --> 00:31:10,759
number five and he's not even a starting quarterback now,

560
00:31:10,759 --> 00:31:15,000
and he's probably not the Jennings player. Kevin Jennings I

561
00:31:15,000 --> 00:31:17,000
think his name is, but no, no, I know it's Jennings,

562
00:31:18,359 --> 00:31:20,599
you know, since he came in about halfway through that,

563
00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:25,799
but BYU game, he's he's just been on fire since

564
00:31:25,839 --> 00:31:28,279
he's been put into the full time role. I mean,

565
00:31:28,279 --> 00:31:33,559
I scored sixty six against TCU. They marched up and

566
00:31:33,599 --> 00:31:36,119
down the field on a pretty good Florida State defense.

567
00:31:36,200 --> 00:31:39,119
Is you know, as much as we've talked about Florida State,

568
00:31:39,319 --> 00:31:43,519
you know, really being a bad football team defensively, they

569
00:31:43,559 --> 00:31:46,319
they've been kind of stingy, you know, not as great

570
00:31:46,319 --> 00:31:48,160
as what we thought they would be, but they've been

571
00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:52,160
a pretty decent defensive team. And you know, SMU just

572
00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:55,759
man handled them, and Jennings had no problem moving the

573
00:31:55,799 --> 00:32:00,119
ball on them. So yeah, I think Stone losing his

574
00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:04,960
job it's probably makes him the most disappointing quarterback. Of course,

575
00:32:04,960 --> 00:32:07,319
you have to talk about dj Ui Anglula, But I'm

576
00:32:07,319 --> 00:32:09,640
not sure if he was a disappointment because he is

577
00:32:09,680 --> 00:32:13,640
who he is, and you know, most observant acc fans

578
00:32:13,920 --> 00:32:18,119
knew that he was, you know, gonna have issues in

579
00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:21,160
that offense if he didn't have help, and as soon

580
00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:24,559
as they didn't have a running game behind him, the

581
00:32:24,599 --> 00:32:28,000
offensive line is kind of train wrecked. And he didn't

582
00:32:28,079 --> 00:32:30,000
you know, he didn't have Keon Coleman to throw to.

583
00:32:30,160 --> 00:32:33,039
They really haven't had any other wide receiver step up,

584
00:32:33,359 --> 00:32:36,279
and you put things on dj you knew what you

585
00:32:36,319 --> 00:32:38,359
were going to get. You were going to get a

586
00:32:38,359 --> 00:32:42,119
guy who you know has a great arm, and you

587
00:32:42,119 --> 00:32:44,480
know every now and then makes a throw that you're like, look,

588
00:32:44,480 --> 00:32:46,799
guy looks at an NFL quarterback. But you know, in general,

589
00:32:46,839 --> 00:32:50,119
he's just hasn't been a good collegiate quarterback. So I'm

590
00:32:50,119 --> 00:32:52,559
not sure if we can say he's been disappointing. I

591
00:32:52,799 --> 00:32:56,039
think Stones Stones Stone's the probably the one who's been

592
00:32:56,119 --> 00:32:59,319
the most surprising disappointment at quarterback.

593
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Speaker 3: Very good point, Jeff, Very good point. Jeff, I'm going

594
00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:03,000
to bring up one other one.

595
00:33:03,559 --> 00:33:06,640
Speaker 2: Did you you know, because I think I'm I'm going

596
00:33:06,680 --> 00:33:08,799
to add on a little bit to the DJU thing there.

597
00:33:08,880 --> 00:33:13,559
I mean, I think they knew, at least I hope

598
00:33:13,599 --> 00:33:16,160
they did, Jeff and Joe, that they knew what they

599
00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:18,839
were getting at Florida State before they came in and

600
00:33:18,880 --> 00:33:22,039
paid all the nil funding. That would be the first

601
00:33:22,079 --> 00:33:24,440
thing that I would say on that, because he has

602
00:33:24,480 --> 00:33:27,279
a I mean, Jeff has said this consistently on Twitter

603
00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:32,599
right that, for example, that oh, you should just try

604
00:33:32,599 --> 00:33:35,039
and make sure you sell out on the run.

605
00:33:35,119 --> 00:33:37,480
Speaker 3: And force DJU to throw with his arms.

606
00:33:37,519 --> 00:33:40,599
Speaker 2: So, I mean that's been the known issue with DJU

607
00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:42,759
for quite a bit of time. But I guess I

608
00:33:42,759 --> 00:33:45,799
would ask you then, Jeff, I mean, did you think

609
00:33:45,839 --> 00:33:48,440
that Grayson McCall was going to be better at NC

610
00:33:48,559 --> 00:33:49,200
State than he is?

611
00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:50,759
Speaker 3: Because it's kind of under.

612
00:33:54,599 --> 00:33:58,559
Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean I think there's to me with NC State.

613
00:33:58,599 --> 00:34:02,480
I think there's other issues going went on than than

614
00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:06,559
just McCall. I mean, they have the concepts the owned

615
00:34:06,640 --> 00:34:11,559
kid who's really really good, but you know, their offensive

616
00:34:11,559 --> 00:34:13,800
line is really not very good. They don't they don't

617
00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:17,159
have much of a running game, and and defensively without

618
00:34:17,199 --> 00:34:22,280
Peyton Wilson. You know, on that on that team, they

619
00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:25,639
got so many holes on that side of the ball

620
00:34:26,400 --> 00:34:28,639
that I don't I don't know if you know. He's

621
00:34:28,639 --> 00:34:36,320
been okay when he was was playing, but you know

622
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:39,480
he okay, I don't. I do agree with you, Matthew.

623
00:34:39,519 --> 00:34:44,039
He hasn't been what we expected. But I'm not quite

624
00:34:44,079 --> 00:34:47,320
sure if I put him in the category of of

625
00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:53,440
Preston Stone as as pure disappointment and if I'm not mistaken,

626
00:34:53,519 --> 00:34:57,480
didn't didn't he get hurt? Yeah? I think he got hurt.

627
00:34:58,079 --> 00:35:01,480
It is now out for several weeks, out for the season. Possibly.

628
00:35:02,719 --> 00:35:04,639
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know he I think he did.

629
00:35:04,719 --> 00:35:08,880
Speaker 2: But I I just I wasn't as impressed with I

630
00:35:09,079 --> 00:35:10,000
guess I thought they.

631
00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:13,320
Speaker 3: Were gonna get a little more, a little more from him.

632
00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:15,880
I mean, I I've heard I've heard him even before

633
00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:16,599
he got hurt.

634
00:35:16,679 --> 00:35:19,719
Speaker 5: I've heard some NC State fans that just what what

635
00:35:19,719 --> 00:35:22,599
what weren't as pleased with weren't as pleased with him,

636
00:35:22,599 --> 00:35:25,159
And I guess I'll I'll ask one other I'll throw

637
00:35:25,559 --> 00:35:28,119
what one other one other question to you, Jeff, what

638
00:35:28,159 --> 00:35:29,719
about what about quarterback?

639
00:35:29,800 --> 00:35:33,159
Speaker 3: Quarterback play? At North Carolina.

640
00:35:34,440 --> 00:35:38,039
Speaker 1: Yeah, they they've had some bad luck there. They lost

641
00:35:38,119 --> 00:35:44,159
Johnson in the opening game to a leg injury. Harold

642
00:35:44,199 --> 00:35:48,079
was playing there for a bit, and you know, they

643
00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:50,760
just don't have a lot of options there at North

644
00:35:50,800 --> 00:35:55,199
Carolina at the white at the quarterback position now with

645
00:35:55,199 --> 00:36:00,000
with the injuries and inconsistent play. But you know, definitely

646
00:36:00,239 --> 00:36:03,079
after what you'd seen there the last few years with

647
00:36:03,199 --> 00:36:08,239
Drake May, they've definitely have downgraded at the quarterback position,

648
00:36:08,320 --> 00:36:10,719
and I think that's a big reason why they've had

649
00:36:11,039 --> 00:36:14,199
such uneven play with that offense, even though they do

650
00:36:14,239 --> 00:36:17,079
have some decent wideouts in Hampton at running back.

651
00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:21,360
Speaker 3: Definitely, definitely. What do you got for is Jeff open Mic?

652
00:36:23,559 --> 00:36:25,639
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just want to put a word out there.

653
00:36:25,639 --> 00:36:32,480
I mean in ac seaaland the you know, keep keep

654
00:36:32,519 --> 00:36:35,360
your thoughts and prayers out there for the people and

655
00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:39,000
you know that were affected by Hurricane Elaine up through

656
00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:46,360
the Florida Gulf Coast, through just eastern Georgia, the midlands

657
00:36:46,360 --> 00:36:51,159
of South Carolina, through the upstate. You know, just just

658
00:36:51,239 --> 00:36:55,920
devastating and then even as you go through western North Carolina.

659
00:36:56,599 --> 00:36:59,280
The only way you can describe what's what's going on

660
00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:05,039
and is like Asheville, North Carolina. That comes to mind,

661
00:37:05,440 --> 00:37:09,920
is it's almost like Katrina, Like even though you're several

662
00:37:10,039 --> 00:37:15,679
hundred miles inland, it was just total devastation from the flooding.

663
00:37:16,239 --> 00:37:20,320
And you know, even myself, like my house it does

664
00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:22,840
not have power. So I'm here like staying at at

665
00:37:24,039 --> 00:37:27,480
you know, my mom's house, who does have have have power.

666
00:37:27,599 --> 00:37:30,719
So you know, we've we've been pretty much okay, definitely

667
00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:33,239
not as bad as some folks, but I mean they're

668
00:37:33,280 --> 00:37:37,639
they're like whole counties that are still over ninety five

669
00:37:37,679 --> 00:37:40,679
percent without without power. And even as you go through

670
00:37:40,679 --> 00:37:45,199
eastern Tennessee, just a trail of devastation, you know, through

671
00:37:46,440 --> 00:37:50,159
through this area. And you know, just keep those folks

672
00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:54,760
thoughts and prayers, however, you know, hope, you know that

673
00:37:54,840 --> 00:37:59,199
they can recover as quickly as possible. The electrical guys

674
00:37:59,199 --> 00:38:01,960
that we were driving through our neighborhood, and I mean

675
00:38:02,400 --> 00:38:05,559
it's like looking at you know, you're almost these are

676
00:38:05,559 --> 00:38:08,639
like the electrical first responders, and we passed by them

677
00:38:08,639 --> 00:38:10,360
like honk the horn, give them the thumbs up. And

678
00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:12,239
I mean they're working around the clock to try to

679
00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:16,559
get power up for everyone and and today, like where

680
00:38:16,599 --> 00:38:19,960
we live just south of Greenville. I mean, there was

681
00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:23,880
power popping up like all through the area of friends

682
00:38:23,880 --> 00:38:26,039
of ours who'd been out, and we kind of expect

683
00:38:26,039 --> 00:38:27,639
ours to be up in the next day or two

684
00:38:27,760 --> 00:38:30,920
at least, so you know, we're we're gonna be definitely

685
00:38:30,920 --> 00:38:33,360
be fined. But in some of those really hard hit

686
00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:37,000
areas like eastern Tennessee and the mountains of North Carolina,

687
00:38:38,199 --> 00:38:42,960
who might be weeks without power and having to rebuild

688
00:38:43,119 --> 00:38:46,400
like total infrastructures there, you.

689
00:38:46,360 --> 00:38:51,559
Speaker 2: Know, just absolutely absolutely for you, Jeff, are they bringing

690
00:38:51,599 --> 00:38:54,559
in like the core of engineers and the guard. Do

691
00:38:54,599 --> 00:38:56,559
you see any of the I mean because I know

692
00:38:56,639 --> 00:38:59,639
FEMA obviously FEMA is down there, But are they bringing

693
00:38:59,679 --> 00:39:04,000
in others to help rebuild, you know, because they rebuild

694
00:39:04,079 --> 00:39:06,559
the infrastructure, you know, do you are you seeing larger

695
00:39:06,599 --> 00:39:11,800
governmental outfits there like that, or even military support, sorts

696
00:39:11,800 --> 00:39:15,159
of facility, sorts of facilities like the like the like

697
00:39:15,239 --> 00:39:16,079
what I just mentioned.

698
00:39:17,599 --> 00:39:21,360
Speaker 1: Not not where where I where I'm at, I don't

699
00:39:21,400 --> 00:39:28,280
think we have that level of damage in this area.

700
00:39:28,400 --> 00:39:31,719
Ours are mostly like electrical power lines, and we've seen

701
00:39:31,760 --> 00:39:34,440
plenty of you know, electrical guys starting to work in

702
00:39:34,440 --> 00:39:39,039
this area. From what I saw on the news today,

703
00:39:40,719 --> 00:39:45,559
they have not yet had uh FEMA there in Western

704
00:39:45,599 --> 00:39:47,880
North Carolina, at least just one of the people they

705
00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:50,840
were interviewing saying, you know, when are they going to

706
00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:54,840
set up there? But I imagine that relief efforts have already

707
00:39:55,679 --> 00:39:59,039
started there. I think they said the President was gonna

708
00:39:59,360 --> 00:40:03,320
come through the area later this week. So I imagine

709
00:40:03,360 --> 00:40:06,719
they are, you know, probably working around the clock to

710
00:40:06,719 --> 00:40:07,920
to to get them.

711
00:40:08,079 --> 00:40:11,719
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, they got to they gott to declare a

712
00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:16,559
natural disaster area before Yeah, that's when everything closed in.

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And so I suspect because I have a couple of

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friends who from FEMA who may get called in from

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BC to come down and help, come down and help

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you know, yeah, how big, how big it is.

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Speaker 1: I think part of the issue at the at the

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moment is that Western North Carolina is largely impassable, so

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I don't even know if if FEMA could get there.

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They're still doing like a damage assessment. There's certain areas

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where they can't even get anyone on the ground. They're

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having to do like drone drive by or drone overhead

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views to get an assessment of the damage. And I

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think like roads into Asheville. They're they're like whole road

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infrastructures that's completely underwater damaged. Uh So, I think that's

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that's going to be a hindrance for a lot of

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the relief efforts is there's only so many ways to

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get through those mountains into those areas, and so many

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of them are are impassable. Someone told me that they're

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in Greensboro and that the exits for going into western

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North Carolina they basically said, do not even enter this area.

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It's it's that bad.

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Speaker 2: Well, we're certainly praying for for them all here at

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All Sports Discussion, coming from everybody here on the on

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the on the podcast. Joe, thank you so much for

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spending your Sunday evening with us on the All Sports

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Discussion ACC podcast. We loved having you come on the

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show and we'd love to have you come on the

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show again sometime.

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Speaker 1: Hey.

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Speaker 4: Thank you guys, And yeah, everybody pray for everyone affected

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by the hurricane h southwest Virginia, especially the deeper part

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over toward eastern Tennessee. They've got a lot of flooding.

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I got and family members without power over Enriched Valley.

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It's over by Marion, so yeah, I feel for everybody.

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Man from Florida all the way up. Just pray for

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everyone and thank you guys for having all right.

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Speaker 2: Have a great week guys, Thanks again, Joe,