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Speaker 2: I'm a little bummed that you didn't match my excitement
Speaker 2: for the live tiger that's going to be at LSU
Speaker 2: this weekend.
Speaker 3: Well, it used to be a regular thing, right, and
Speaker 3: they don't do it every week anymore.
Speaker 2: So that's what I was looking into it. I don't
Speaker 2: know if it was a regular thing. It used to
Speaker 2: be much more common. Apparently it's been a while. I'm
Speaker 2: trying to see how long it has been, but apparently
Speaker 2: a report from one oh four point five ESPN and
Speaker 2: Baton Rouge, they're the ones who I guess broke the
Speaker 2: news that Mike the Tiger Yes says for years it
Speaker 2: was a commonplace for Mike the Tiger to be driven
Speaker 2: around Tiger Stadium prior to kick off safely in the
Speaker 2: confines of his cage. That practice stopped with the latest
Speaker 2: Mike being adopted by the school in twenty seventeen, and
Speaker 2: the current Mike, I guess this is he's one of
Speaker 2: many Mike's, will not be the actual tiger being used
Speaker 2: for the display. So wait a second, so they're getting
Speaker 2: really I mean, I guess it's if they have a
Speaker 2: real tiger. I mean, they do have a real tiger,
Speaker 2: but like if it's if it's a different tiger that's
Speaker 2: not the one that like everybody, Well, first of all,
Speaker 2: I'm not sure anybody really notice. I think you could
Speaker 2: put a lot of different tigers out there and fans
Speaker 2: probably wouldn't be able to determine if it's mean, you know,
Speaker 2: unless we're talking about one that's way bigger than the
Speaker 2: one they're used to or smaller. But is that what
Speaker 2: it is telling me here is that they're going to
Speaker 2: have a tiger, but it's not actually Mike their mascot.
Speaker 3: That's even more lame. That's lame.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's I mean, I guess having any
Speaker 2: tiger there is potentially going to give you a little
Speaker 2: more give you a little more momentum and you're on
Speaker 2: your home field. But if it's not your mascot. I
Speaker 2: think it kind of defeats the point they probably should
Speaker 2: have just kept that a secret because nobody would have known.
Speaker 2: But Ross Ellinger, who covers college football for Sports Illustrated,
Speaker 2: says that decades ago, LSU used to station the live
Speaker 2: tiger outside of the visitors locker room and feed at
Speaker 2: raw steak, setting a horror scene for visiting coaches players
Speaker 2: who would emerge from pregame warmups to a roaring Bengal
Speaker 2: ripping a part of ribi, his jaws covered in blood. Yeah,
Speaker 2: that would be pretty I mean a little spooky. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I know it's Spooky's a little disgusting.
Speaker 3: So booky in the sense is like, wow, they actually
Speaker 3: just had they had the nerve to I mean, I
Speaker 3: guess you know, things were different back in.
Speaker 4: The day with it.
Speaker 2: You mean like basically what you're saying is that that
Speaker 2: would probably get somebody canceled. It would be a little
Speaker 2: canceled the right way. It wouldn't be acceptable. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: a little inhumane for sure. And I'm thinking one, my
Speaker 2: stomach wouldn't like that. I wouldn't be able to deal
Speaker 2: with that as far as the visual. But if you know,
Speaker 2: I'm it wouldn't shock me if there's some football players,
Speaker 2: even if even if that's not their tiger and they're
Speaker 2: on the road like that might you know, a weird
Speaker 2: way that I wouldn't be able to relate to get
Speaker 2: them fired up for the game, right like, yeah, let's go.
Speaker 2: Let meant, let let's go not kill somebody. But you know,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna I'm gonna just move on from the whole
Speaker 2: conversation about the tiger because one, it's lame that it's
Speaker 2: not their actual mascot, and also, yeah, just to just
Speaker 2: probably shouldn't have read what Ross Dellinger was sharing there
Speaker 2: because it's pretty disgusting.
Speaker 3: But this is an elimination past it now like a
Speaker 3: playoff elimination game for the two. I feel like, oh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a big two losses, no doubt, this is
Speaker 2: a big, big game. And you know, Louisville doesn't play
Speaker 2: this week. They've got a big basketball game. So I've
Speaker 2: not necessarily been as plugged in this week keeping up
Speaker 2: with with the other matchups because again, Louisville is often
Speaker 2: on Saturday. I mean, I'm gonna watch college football. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna bet on a lot of games, but The first
Speaker 2: thing comes to mind for me right now is Louisville Tennessee,
Speaker 2: which I better now knowing that I'm not the only
Speaker 2: one that looks at Tennessee as far as personnel and
Speaker 2: style and thinks that Louisville can win, and I'm I
Speaker 2: kind of expect him to win. Kid Spencer joined us
Speaker 2: earlier from WHS eleven and he kind of echoed the
Speaker 2: same thing. So anyways, but back to the football side
Speaker 2: of things, Yeah, I mean, that's certainly one of the
Speaker 2: bigger games of the week. I mean, can you say
Speaker 2: Indiana and Michigan is that? I mean, can you can
Speaker 2: we say that's one of the bigger games of the
Speaker 2: weekend because.
Speaker 3: I mean, is in the conference? That's for sure? Yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean I guess you could even say.
Speaker 2: I mean, Michigan's a top Michigan's the defending national champs.
Speaker 2: They're clearly take They've taken a step back this year.
Speaker 2: But I think when you're in when you're a top
Speaker 2: ten team at this late in the season, every game
Speaker 2: is a big game. I mean, maybe not for everybody
Speaker 2: to tune in and watch. Clearly Indiana loses here, that
Speaker 2: would be you know, I'm.
Speaker 3: Kind of treated this as sort of a college football
Speaker 3: playoff playing game of sorts. Now, a lot of people
Speaker 3: at this point have said, well, if they go to
Speaker 3: Ohio State and get killed, maybe that wouldn't be the case.
Speaker 3: But I think at that point, if you do take
Speaker 3: care of Michigan this weekend and Indiana at least is
Speaker 3: pegitificans Ohio State for the entirety of the game, I
Speaker 3: think they've solidified a playoff spot at that point.
Speaker 2: I think Indiana fans, like yourself and I think you're
Speaker 2: doing it, should absolutely be living in the moment because
Speaker 2: this has got to be such an awesome experience as
Speaker 2: an Indiana football fan, something you clearly have never experienced before,
Speaker 2: and to be honest, probably something you never thought you'd.
Speaker 3: Experienced and maybe might not ever again.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, it's just it's that kind of a
Speaker 2: magical scenario that's played out. So again, live in the moment. However,
Speaker 2: I do want to say this because this just really
Speaker 2: puts it in perspective. Imagine me telling you six months
Speaker 2: ago that Indiana would be fourteen point favorites against the
Speaker 2: defending national champions. Say it out loud. It's insane.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is insane. Michigan was expected to be a
Speaker 3: whole lot better than they are. And it's not that
Speaker 3: they have, you know, poor talent. They just haven't really
Speaker 3: been able to put it together this year. That spread
Speaker 3: has more to do with Indiana than it does Michigan.
Speaker 3: Like so, Michigan's not Florida State. I mean, they just
Speaker 3: they took a step back. That spread is what it
Speaker 3: is because.
Speaker 2: All Kurt Signetti has done this year is just kick
Speaker 2: everybody's ass.
Speaker 3: On the schedule over.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that's that's what he's doing. Yeah, looking
Speaker 2: at some other the other I mean I can't. Yeah,
Speaker 2: So Florida Alabama and I'm sorry LSU Alabama. That's eleven
Speaker 2: and fifteen, and again it'll I don't know if either
Speaker 2: of those teams are gonna make the playoff, but a loss
Speaker 2: here would would essentially eliminate the possibility for both. And
Speaker 2: then other than that, I guess you don't have Okay,
Speaker 2: I did not mention that one because I'm not seeing
Speaker 2: it here. But yes, that is a big time matchup
Speaker 2: between two ranked teams, So a decent slate this weekend
Speaker 2: in college football. No doubt Florida and Texas play, and
Speaker 2: Texas will probably kill Florida. But those wondering if Billy
Speaker 2: Napier is gonna survive the year or even survive long term,
Speaker 2: we now have an answer. So they've announced. Florida, their
Speaker 2: athletic director Strickland, announced that that they're going to retain
Speaker 2: Billy Napier and keep him around, which it kind of
Speaker 2: felt like that would probably be the the move because
Speaker 2: they're not good. But man, you can tell while watching them,
Speaker 2: with all of the noise out there about him likely
Speaker 2: losing his job, how tough of a schedule that they have,
Speaker 2: which they do. They have the toughest schedule in the country,
Speaker 2: and it's impressive that they've been able to compete in
Speaker 2: games against I mean that they lost to who Wasn't
Speaker 2: in overtime? They lost is it out? Was it Tennessee?
Speaker 2: And who else? They have two overtime losses, two really
Speaker 2: really good teams, which again you're still losing. But I
Speaker 2: think it's impressive that Billy Dapier, given what the whole
Speaker 2: vibe was surrounding this entire season, in his future. It
Speaker 2: kind of felt like a throwaway season for Florida. And
Speaker 2: I'm sure they're players, you know, they knew all what
Speaker 2: was being said, but yet they're still competing night in
Speaker 2: and night out. And I mean, I'm not here to
Speaker 2: tell you that I think Billy and Aper's gonna end
Speaker 2: up being a very successful coach there long term. But
Speaker 2: I kind of understand why they're at least going to
Speaker 2: give him one more year because you know, it would
Speaker 2: be a costly move and you know, maybe they could
Speaker 2: go get Lane Kiffin, maybe they could go get Kurt Signetti,
Speaker 2: But like outside of that, I don't really know. I mean,
Speaker 2: I don't think there's any certainty that Lane would come.
Speaker 2: Same thing with with Signetti, I guess. So if you'd
Speaker 2: have said a few weeks ago, I would have said
Speaker 2: there's no way that he keeps his job. But I
Speaker 2: kind of get it now. I mean, again, wins and
Speaker 2: losses ultimately matter, and if he ever gets fired, it'll
Speaker 2: because he didn't win enough. But I think you can
Speaker 2: tell a little more than just their record that they
Speaker 2: actually have gotten better this year, and they've got a
Speaker 2: young quarterback now that you know is having success that
Speaker 2: might be somebody that can save the situation overall for Billionapier.
Speaker 3: Do you want to ask you real quick now that
Speaker 3: the Florida job won't open this offseason. Are there any
Speaker 3: like Tier one level CFB jobs that are primed to open?
Speaker 2: I'm glad point, I'm glad you asked, because the folks
Speaker 2: at CBS Sports to cover college football as well as
Speaker 2: the athletic They did an update with on their hot
Speaker 2: seat rankings for college football coaches, and honestly, now that
Speaker 2: Napier has gotten the green light to stick around for
Speaker 2: at least one more year, the other jobs that could
Speaker 2: open up from the Power four level, I mean, here's
Speaker 2: what's listed here. Mac Brown could just retire because clearly
Speaker 2: they've really struggled, and his overall tenure there has been
Speaker 2: successful because of the how bad they were prior to him,
Speaker 2: but I think, I mean, I think it's been really underwhelming.
Speaker 2: They're five and four right now. If they end up
Speaker 2: getting a winning record, maybe he calls it quits. Because
Speaker 2: he's been pretty outspoken about just how different college sports,
Speaker 2: as college football is as far as the coaching job,
Speaker 2: and I mean, he's complaining about how there's so much
Speaker 2: distractions with the Portland Nil that like coaches aren't able
Speaker 2: to put a consistent product on the field, and he
Speaker 2: may be right, but also is he at the age
Speaker 2: where he wants to navigate that. I mean, he's he's
Speaker 2: getting up there in age. It's seventy three. And then
Speaker 2: the other This is how they this is how CBS
Speaker 2: Sports listed this. This is a swing group. Could be
Speaker 2: safe or fired depending upon what happens in November. Ryan
Speaker 2: Walter's you don't have to worry about that if you're Indiana. No,
Speaker 2: And I don't know who they would hire. That's not
Speaker 2: a good job. And man, they were terrible before Brahm
Speaker 2: and they've they've been much worse without him. Neil Brown
Speaker 2: could could get let go. So he's four and four
Speaker 2: right now. He was lucky to get another year this
Speaker 2: past season. I mean that job might open up. But
Speaker 2: I could also see West Virginia saying, look, and I
Speaker 2: don't know what his contract situation is, but I could
Speaker 2: see West Virginia saying, look, we don't we're not thrilled
Speaker 2: with the way this thing is gone, but we're going
Speaker 2: to give it another year because of finances in because
Speaker 2: we don't really know for sure who we would go
Speaker 2: get and if they would be that much better. David
Speaker 2: Randa at Baylor, he's a guy that could lose his
Speaker 2: gig after this season gusmells On, I'd be shocked, but
Speaker 2: then again, you know he has been underwhelming, and they're
Speaker 2: four and five this year, and they've struggled since making
Speaker 2: that move to the Big twelve as far as what
Speaker 2: their expectations were when they hired somebody like gusmells On
Speaker 2: Sam Pittman, you know, they're five and four right now.
Speaker 2: They've been competitive against some pretty good teams this year.
Speaker 2: They did get they I mean the lost to Ole
Speaker 2: Miss the way it happened and the defense being as
Speaker 2: pathetic as it was, probably wasn't a good sign for
Speaker 2: Sam Pittman. But the other jobs that I guess could
Speaker 2: potentially Yeah, Kyle Whittingham, they're mentioning that they mentioned him
Speaker 2: as somebody that could retire, but would he retire on
Speaker 2: a bad note because they're having a down year. So
Speaker 2: all in all, I would say the worry of losing Signetti,
Speaker 2: if there even really is one, after just one season,
Speaker 2: there's not gonna be a job that would open up
Speaker 2: that would be worth it to him because I mean,
Speaker 2: obviously West Virginia's a decent job, they've had some good success.
Speaker 3: He's if he's a West Virginia alum is Signetti. I
Speaker 3: believe I can double check that that sounds almost. That
Speaker 3: sounds very Maybe it's either West Virginia or Pittsburgh. It's
Speaker 3: very odd.
Speaker 2: That sounds off. But hey, that would make that maybe
Speaker 2: a little more worrisome if that truly is his alma mater.
Speaker 3: Yeah he did. He pleaves quarterback at West Virginia in
Speaker 3: the frow.
Speaker 2: Oh, I mean West Virginia. That's the thing. The West
Speaker 2: Virginia all in all, historically is a better football program
Speaker 2: than India for sure, but this day and age, they're
Speaker 2: not in the Big Ten or the SEC, and that
Speaker 2: has real value for these jobs as far as resources.
Speaker 2: So I just it'd be wild to see Signette lead
Speaker 2: after just one season. But hey, I mean I wouldn't
Speaker 2: say his.
Speaker 3: Alma mater though, Like, yeah, either an alma mater situation
Speaker 3: or another gig in the Big ten in the SEC
Speaker 3: that's considered better than where you're at, which is a
Speaker 3: lot for being honest, But I mean, how much if
Speaker 3: you depending on where he ends up at the end
Speaker 3: of this year, why feel the need to try to
Speaker 3: repeat that elsewhere if you already do it in Indiana?
Speaker 3: But again, that's just me talking.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it is wild how he's I mean
Speaker 2: right now, if a big job did open up, I
Speaker 2: don't know how he wouldn't be somebody that's in mind
Speaker 2: for for anybody. But the good good thing for Indiana
Speaker 2: didn't look like there's gonna be any big jobs opening
Speaker 2: up now. Next year could be different. Hugh Freeze. They
Speaker 2: have a list here of not now, but they may
Speaker 2: lead the hot seat in twenty twenty five. That's Hugh
Speaker 2: Freeze at Auburn, Mike Loxley at Maryland, brit Venables at Oklahoma,
Speaker 2: Lincoln Riley at USC And then they mentioned Sean Moore
Speaker 2: getting a mulligan this year, which is true, like he
Speaker 2: was never going to only get one year. But next
Speaker 2: year they need to be really good. I think they could.
Speaker 2: They could win two three more games next year, and
Speaker 2: they still might move on from him because they're not
Speaker 2: gonna want to lose the momentum they had with a
Speaker 2: national championship just a year ago. And then this is
Speaker 2: a coach listed here in its own tier by himself.
Speaker 2: He's safe, but the staff overhaul better be good. That's
Speaker 2: Mike Norvell at Florida State. Yeah, I mean that. I
Speaker 2: mean it's.
Speaker 3: Do you go from undefeated to this?
Speaker 2: Listen to this. The team total for Florida State this
Speaker 2: weekend is seven and a half. That's insane. All right,
Speaker 2: You're insane if you don't stick around, because we got
Speaker 2: a lot more to come, including the conversation with our
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Speaker 2: mister Brian Edwards from Vegas Insider dot com. Brian, before
Speaker 2: we dive in here, I felt bad after I reached
Speaker 2: out to you and asked if you could come on
Speaker 2: the show today because I thought maybe you needed a
Speaker 2: little time to kind of, you know, accept what your
Speaker 2: athletic director has decided to do. But maybe I'm wrong,
Speaker 2: maybe you have have changed your mind a little bit.
Speaker 2: On Billy Napier, I got I gotta get your thoughts
Speaker 2: on this decision. Did it seem like this was this
Speaker 2: was coming.
Speaker 4: Not at all out of nowhere.
Speaker 5: Strickland, the ad should have been fired years ago. Napier
Speaker 5: never should have been hired. Our university clearly, clearly, excuse me,
Speaker 5: does not care about football anymore. Napier is at a
Speaker 5: time where right when he got hired.
Speaker 4: Shortly after, within.
Speaker 5: A few months, we opened the football only facility that
Speaker 5: costs about eighty five million, considered one of the best
Speaker 5: in the country. The University of Florida has never invested
Speaker 5: more money into the football program in terms of how
Speaker 5: large Napier's garbage staff is and how much they all
Speaker 5: get paid. And he is one in ten in rivalry games,
Speaker 5: with five losses by double digit margins.
Speaker 4: He is ten and.
Speaker 5: Eighteen against Power five opponents.
Speaker 4: I say Power five instead of Power four because Oregon State.
Speaker 5: We were the victim of an Oregon State beat down
Speaker 5: in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 4: And right now he has the.
Speaker 5: Number one I mean, I'm sorry, the number fifty one,
Speaker 5: fifty one recruiting class in the country for twenty twenty
Speaker 5: five per two four seven Sports Composite.
Speaker 4: So we're on our way to our fourth losing season.
Speaker 5: In a row, and we had never we had not
Speaker 5: had three losing seasons in a row since the nineteen forties.
Speaker 2: Clearly, you laid it out as to why you're upset
Speaker 2: with this decision, and I think any Florida fan that
Speaker 2: feels the same it makes total sense. But what do
Speaker 2: you think the reason is other than just incompetence an
Speaker 2: athletic director that doesn't know what he's doing? Is is
Speaker 2: Strickland stubborn? Because you know, maybe is it because they've
Speaker 2: already invested so much money they don't have enough money
Speaker 2: to buy him out. Like clearly they've been a little
Speaker 2: more competitive than maybe people would have expected. But Florida
Speaker 2: is Florida, right.
Speaker 5: Well, one thing that's making everything very complicated is the
Speaker 5: school president, who had only been there for like two years.
Speaker 4: He left this summer where he resigned supposedly.
Speaker 5: Because his wife is dealing with a health issue, but
Speaker 5: then it came out that he was doing some things
Speaker 5: that you know, weren't good. So anyway, we have an
Speaker 5: interim president right now, and the interim president is the
Speaker 5: former president who hired Strickland. So it's all about self
Speaker 5: preservation from Strickland to the you know, We're apparently not
Speaker 5: hiring a new full time president until twenty twenty five,
Speaker 5: so the the interim.
Speaker 4: President don't want to fire Strickland.
Speaker 5: Strickland's tied to Napier, and there's no way that anybody's
Speaker 5: gonna let Strickland hire another coach at Florida. I mean,
Speaker 5: he's got the worst hire in SEC football history on
Speaker 5: his resume and Billy Napier and the worst hire in
Speaker 5: SEC basketball history in Rick Ray when he was at
Speaker 5: Mississippi State.
Speaker 4: So that's Strickland's resume.
Speaker 5: How he is in power still is incomprehensible, to say
Speaker 5: the least.
Speaker 2: Yikes. Yikes. Brian Edwards, Vegas Insider, is our guest joining
Speaker 2: us here on Sports Talk seven ninety. We've got some
Speaker 2: football to wager on this weekend, and it's actually starts tonight.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure if you've got any place for tonight specifically,
Speaker 2: but here we go again, another four day stretch of football,
Speaker 2: and I'm gonna I'm gonna enjoy every minute of it.
Speaker 2: On the college football side, Indiana obviously one of the
Speaker 2: biggest stories in college football. Signetti just whooping everybody's ass
Speaker 2: this year. That's what he's doing. And my producer big
Speaker 2: Indiana fan, and I told him, hey, he should live
Speaker 2: in the moment. In Indiana fans are but just say
Speaker 2: it out loud. Imagine saying something six months ago like this.
Speaker 2: Indiana is two touchdown favorites against the defending national champs.
Speaker 2: Is that too big of a number? You got any
Speaker 2: action on this one? I mean, it still doesn't seem real.
Speaker 2: But Signetti and the Hoosiers are for real.
Speaker 5: Yes, they are not only the fourteen point favorite against Michigan,
Speaker 5: they are gunning for a ten win season for the
Speaker 5: first time ever.
Speaker 4: They've been playing college football since eighteen eighty seven.
Speaker 5: They've only won nine before twice in nineteen forty three in.
Speaker 4: Nineteen sixty seven.
Speaker 5: So if Signetti's not National Coach of the Year, it'll
Speaker 5: be a crime. So they had led every second of
Speaker 5: every game until at Michigan State. Last week's Fartey jumped
Speaker 5: on them ten to nothing in the first quarter, and
Speaker 5: all they did was score forty seven unanswered after that
Speaker 5: for another easy spread cover and Curtis Rorke, who had
Speaker 5: missed a game and a half, was back to two
Speaker 5: hundred and sixty three passing yards, four touchdowns, no picks,
Speaker 5: He now is in nineteen to three TDI and T
Speaker 5: ratio and Michigan has lost three of its last four
Speaker 5: games and is miirred in a one to four against
Speaker 5: the spread slump and Michigan all four of their losses
Speaker 5: this year by double digit margins. They're zero to two,
Speaker 5: both straight up in ats and a pair of road
Speaker 5: assignments and making matters worse. Star corner Will Johnson preseason
Speaker 5: All American projected first round pick.
Speaker 4: He's missed back to back games.
Speaker 5: He and the other starting corner for Michigan are listed
Speaker 5: as questionable Indiana minus fourteen. For me, I'm sure I'll
Speaker 5: be on in the first half as well, which will
Speaker 5: probably be seven and a half or eight.
Speaker 4: And yeah, I'm.
Speaker 2: With you the last few weeks. There's the one thing
Speaker 2: I felt more confident in every time I've wagered it
Speaker 2: is Signette to cover. And I'd be surprised if he
Speaker 2: stops doing it at this point. I mean, they've just
Speaker 2: been they've been absolutely dominant. Another team that has been
Speaker 2: dominant this year in a little bit of a different way, Army.
Speaker 2: They're undefeated. They found themselves just inside the college football
Speaker 2: playoff rankings. They've got North Texas here, a good North
Speaker 2: Texas team, a pretty good American Conference matchup here. I
Speaker 2: know Army favored by just under in fact me, what
Speaker 2: is that now that one moved?
Speaker 3: Uh?
Speaker 4: Good question.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so I'm seeing minus four?
Speaker 5: Did it?
Speaker 4: Did it?
Speaker 2: Did it start bigger than that?
Speaker 4: Oh? Yeah, yeah it was six?
Speaker 2: Okay that's what I thought.
Speaker 1: So yeah.
Speaker 5: So the deal with this is Bryson Daily, there stud
Speaker 5: running back who's got nineteen rushing touchdowns and a seven
Speaker 5: to zero.
Speaker 4: T d I and T ratio.
Speaker 5: So Monkin said the other day, I don't know if
Speaker 5: it's Monday or Tuesday that he's questionable to probable. So
Speaker 5: I'm guessing maybe there's some reports that he maybe hasn't
Speaker 5: practiced or something to that effect. You know, he was
Speaker 5: doing national interviews on ESPN last week, and they had
Speaker 5: two weeks to prepare for Air Force and there wasn't
Speaker 5: a word for two weeks about him having an injury,
Speaker 5: and then it just pops Saturday morning, you know that
Speaker 5: he is out. And so Army was one of my
Speaker 5: few losses last week, and that was very frustrating. You know,
Speaker 5: if if I you know, I've said all week, I'm
Speaker 5: not betting Army. Unless I see daily in uniform and
Speaker 5: on camera, I can see him moving around pretty good.
Speaker 5: If I do see that Saturday morning and it's Army
Speaker 5: minus seven or fewer, I may play Army.
Speaker 4: But right now I'm thinking, you know, he's very, very
Speaker 4: questionable if you know at best.
Speaker 2: Yeah, given the way they play, it makes sense to
Speaker 2: strictly only get it on action if you know they're
Speaker 2: going to be the same team you've seen all year.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 2: Sticking with with college football, do I see that Brian
Speaker 2: Edwards may have a little money line parlay going on here?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 5: Yes, yes, yes, yes did I. Cincinnati and Pittsburgh both
Speaker 5: at home. PITTSGH nice minus seven and a half to
Speaker 5: Virginia and Cincinnati off the open date, but so is
Speaker 5: West Virginia. But Cincinnati has been great to me. I'm
Speaker 5: five and.
Speaker 4: One ahts backing them.
Speaker 5: I only lost their last time out at Colorado, so
Speaker 5: I don't want to lay the five though. With the Bearcats.
Speaker 5: Most of my bets on them have venice underdogs.
Speaker 4: But I think they're gonna win out right at home.
Speaker 5: So Cincinnati and Pittsburgh just to win out right plus
Speaker 5: one oh five or.
Speaker 2: Ten, all right, let's switch gears to the NFL. Another
Speaker 2: team I know that you have mentioned throughout during our
Speaker 2: conversations this season is the Commanders. They're two and a
Speaker 2: half point favorites against the Steelers, who have really played
Speaker 2: well this year and really turned it on since Russell
Speaker 2: Wilson entered the lineup. What do you like here?
Speaker 5: Yeah, so I've taken the Commanders every game since Week two,
Speaker 5: and I'm seven to zho to one against the spread doing.
Speaker 2: That, and gotta keep riding it. Gotta stay hot, right, Yeah.
Speaker 4: Three or few or I gotta do it.
Speaker 5: I mean, I certainly respect Pittsburgh's defense and you know,
Speaker 5: as them in general, but I think we've got a
Speaker 5: huge advantage at the quarterback position and Washington's been automatic
Speaker 5: at home. Give me the Commanders minus two and a
Speaker 5: half or maybe three.
Speaker 2: All right, so the Lions minus three at Houston. In fact,
Speaker 2: I think it's now around three and a half to four.
Speaker 2: I like the Lions here. I believe you do as well.
Speaker 2: I'm a little like it's one of those games for me.
Speaker 2: I wouldn't have expected to be a huge number, but
Speaker 2: I'm a little surprised that it was at around three.
Speaker 2: I kind of thought. It's given me a little hesitation
Speaker 2: because I feel like maybe there's something that we don't know.
Speaker 2: But I like the Lions here. I'm assuming you do
Speaker 2: as well.
Speaker 4: Yep, it's an absolute gift. I made Detroit seven.
Speaker 5: They've won six in a row, both straight up in ATS.
Speaker 5: They're the best team in the NFL. The twenty four
Speaker 5: to fourteen win at Green Bay was a misleading final.
Speaker 5: That was the TOUMP.
Speaker 4: Slap the air up twenty four to three early third
Speaker 4: and it was raining.
Speaker 5: They were just trying to chew clock and get out
Speaker 5: of there. Last five games, Jared Goff eleven touchdown passes,
Speaker 5: no picks, and Houston is in a slump one and two,
Speaker 5: both straight up in ATS. Their last three. They're not
Speaker 5: given CJ. Stroud enough time to throw the ball. We
Speaker 5: don't know if Nico Collins will be back this week,
Speaker 5: but we know Stefan Diggs has gone for the rest
Speaker 5: of the season.
Speaker 4: I got it at three.
Speaker 5: If it's three and a half, you can buy it
Speaker 5: to three at minus one thirty or cheaper. I do that,
Speaker 5: But if it's four, no problem.
Speaker 4: I think they put it on pretty good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, sometimes recency can ken cloud you know your judgment
Speaker 2: when it comes to to to what you want to do.
Speaker 2: But man, the last time I saw Stroud, even though
Speaker 2: it was just maybe his worst game ever that I
Speaker 2: guess that's why I'm surprised that that it was around three.
Speaker 2: I think seven seven would have been something I wouldn't
Speaker 2: have been surprised at all. So yeah, I'm I'm with
Speaker 2: you on that one. I don't know if it's on
Speaker 2: your card, but do you have any thoughts on tonight's
Speaker 2: Bengals in Ravens game is certainly a big game around here, Yeah, you.
Speaker 5: Know, pre game not really now, if both offenses would
Speaker 5: get off to a slow start, you know, in the
Speaker 5: first quarter, and you know I could get the over
Speaker 5: with a live bet in the you know, forty six
Speaker 5: to forty eight range, I might be interested in that.
Speaker 5: You know, if Baltimore you know, jumps out to seven
Speaker 5: nothing lead early and maybe, you know, if I could
Speaker 5: get the Bengals you know, plus ten live, maybe I'd
Speaker 5: think about that because even without t Higgins, you know,
Speaker 5: Burrows playing really well right now. They're just playing better
Speaker 5: last few weeks. The rivalry game. I mean, I don't
Speaker 5: think Baltimore is gonna run away from him. I was
Speaker 5: thinking Baltimore's team total, but it was twenty nine and
Speaker 5: a half. I mean, you know, that's just kind of
Speaker 5: a little rich for me.
Speaker 4: So I'm probably just gonna live bet it. I don't
Speaker 4: think I'm gonna do anything pregame.
Speaker 2: Any thoughts at all on the total, Like the fifty
Speaker 2: two and a half. That seems a little high, but
Speaker 2: then again, I could see that hitting. But again, there's
Speaker 2: a lot of things I could have seen happening that
Speaker 2: would have made money, but I didn't win.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you know, I lean over, but it's just a
Speaker 5: touch high.
Speaker 4: I think I'm with you what I was thinking.
Speaker 5: You know, I'd love for both teams to have like
Speaker 5: time consuming field goal.
Speaker 4: Drives to start and it's three to three.
Speaker 5: You know, it was five minutes left in the first
Speaker 5: and we can hit an over forty seven and a half.
Speaker 4: Maybe you know, something to that effect, I might do that.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna keep my eye on that as well. Brian
Speaker 2: has always appreciate you making time. Enjoy another four day
Speaker 2: stretch here some awesome football, and best of luck to
Speaker 2: your brother.
Speaker 4: Thanks nik jall have a great weekend man.
Speaker 2: Take care. That's Brian Evers from Vegas Insider dot com.
Speaker 2: Man I, I am really impressed, but also feeling bad
Speaker 2: for him as far as how well he laid out
Speaker 2: the Florida Billy Napier situation, because that's somebody who clearly
Speaker 2: is a diehard Florida fan and knows much more about
Speaker 2: the you know, the ongoings there than most especially those
Speaker 2: that you know aren't Florida fans. But it's got to
Speaker 2: be I mean, that's got to be the worst thing
Speaker 2: because college sports right now is so much pro sport,
Speaker 2: it's pro sports, it's a business, and to know that
Speaker 2: like a move that needs to be made sooner rather
Speaker 2: than later for the future of your program is seemingly
Speaker 2: being held up because of administration issues, meaning the actual
Speaker 2: the president of the school, the person that's literally in
Speaker 2: charge of everybody. They left. There's an interim, so like
Speaker 2: no action can be taken. Like that's that's got to
Speaker 2: be tough. But if you are, you know, I should
Speaker 2: have mentioned this to Brian and maybe make it feel
Speaker 2: a little bit better. If you are a Florida fan
Speaker 2: and you don't believe that Billy Napier is the guy
Speaker 2: long term, you're probably right, but I don't know does
Speaker 2: Lane Kiffin look as intriguing. I mean, clearly he's better
Speaker 2: than Napier, But maybe you write it out one more
Speaker 2: year and maybe Signette's more gettable, maybe there's a new
Speaker 2: name like. I don't know, but what I would hate
Speaker 2: is if just knowing that you're kind of in no
Speaker 2: man's land, right, like this year was a wasted year
Speaker 2: for Florida because they never expected to be good. They're
Speaker 2: really not good, but they haven't been bad enough to
Speaker 2: where it's no decision or there's no discussion. He's gone.
Speaker 2: Clearly he hadn't been good enough though, to where you
Speaker 2: feel like he's the guy. I mean that not at
Speaker 2: all the same situation, but that's what I That's how
Speaker 2: I described the Sadderfield situation. Like when he went into
Speaker 2: his last year here, I wanted him to be either
Speaker 2: really good or you know, bad enough to where, yeah,
Speaker 2: this thing has run its course, let's move on. And
Speaker 2: sure enough he was in no man's land. He did
Speaker 2: not give you a fireable season in any way, but
Speaker 2: he also didn't do good enough to where everybody like
Speaker 2: that things were going to work out long term, and
Speaker 2: he didn't do enough to earn an extension a new
Speaker 2: contract in the eyes of Josh Hurd, and that is
Speaker 2: why he started looking for a new job. And it
Speaker 2: all worked out, and I'm very happy about that. And
Speaker 2: I will give Scott's out of a credit. As much
Speaker 2: as I like to rag on him, I mean, he's
Speaker 2: having a year he needed to have at Cincinnati. I mean,
Speaker 2: they're not great, but they're much better than they were
Speaker 2: a year ago. And I mean, it wouldn't be shocker
Speaker 2: if he ends up doing the same thing he did
Speaker 2: at Louisville, where he wins but not enough to where
Speaker 2: they feel like they're a real threat. But he hadn't
Speaker 2: lose enough to where you feel like he got a canon.
Speaker 2: All right, quick break, we'll come back on the other side.
Speaker 2: Keep this thing rolling along. This is an unlikely scenario,
Speaker 2: but it is a possible scenario that I want to
Speaker 2: share with you because this would be insane if this
Speaker 2: was to play out with the college football playoff rankings.
Speaker 2: But there's a scenario that. Again, it's not likely, but
Speaker 2: I don't think it's insanely unlikely that the Big twelve
Speaker 2: champion doesn't make doesn't make it sounds crazy, but we'll
Speaker 2: explain on the other side. Stick with us right here
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Speaker 2: don't you think it's a little unfair to Isaac Brown
Speaker 2: for everybody to just be assuming he would leave after
Speaker 2: one year? I mean, I don't think it's unfair to him.
Speaker 2: I don't think he would be insulted by that, because
Speaker 2: I mean that's I mean, I get what you mean.
Speaker 2: But in this new world, that is I mean, that's
Speaker 2: gonna happen with everybody, right, I mean, And if Isaac
Speaker 2: Brown is looking out for himself, I mean, he's probably
Speaker 2: going to have his end of year meeting with Jeff
Speaker 2: Brohm and want to know about nil, Like he probably
Speaker 2: had some NIL in place when he arrived. He was
Speaker 2: a really highly regarded freshman. But obviously the inile money
Speaker 2: appears to be going mostly to players that have proven
Speaker 2: that they have, you know, have the ability to really
Speaker 2: get results for you at the college level. That's why
Speaker 2: transfers are usually the ones, you know, the big name transfers,
Speaker 2: that's that's those are the guys who get the most
Speaker 2: of the money, especially quarterbacks. And then now you've got
Speaker 2: guys that come back, and in order to get them back,
Speaker 2: they're going to need a lot of money. For example,
Speaker 2: the defensive lineman, the freshman at South Carolina who's just
Speaker 2: been dominating the SEC as an eighteen year old freshman.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think the report I saw today was
Speaker 2: that he's they're working on securing him a one point
Speaker 2: five to two million dollars in il dil to return.
Speaker 2: So it's just how things are. I mean, I know
Speaker 2: what you mean when you say that, Like I don't.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's not like I think what what you
Speaker 2: said is crazy, but the new in the new world,
Speaker 2: it is kind of crazy to assume that Isaac Brown
Speaker 2: wouldn't need to be compensated higher than he was already
Speaker 2: has already been compensated in order for him to because
Speaker 2: here's the reality, Like Isaac Brown, if he doesn't get
Speaker 2: more money, which he will, and I think UFL is
Speaker 2: going to do everything they can to when I say ul,
Speaker 2: I guess I mean the collective, and I mean there's
Speaker 2: going to be a lot of people knowing they got
Speaker 2: to make sure they got that he's taken care of
Speaker 2: from an nil perspective, because if not, he will get way,
Speaker 2: he will get a lot of money elsewhere. And look,
Speaker 2: you could end up losing him to a school that
Speaker 2: simply can outbid you. But I mean the notion that
Speaker 2: he would just stick around, no questions asked, not even
Speaker 2: going to bring up any NIL money like that is crazy.
Speaker 2: So it's not insulting to him, but he would I
Speaker 2: mean if he decided to just stay here and not
Speaker 2: even talk in IL with U of L and simply
Speaker 2: know that he could get a lot of money elsewhere
Speaker 2: but he doesn't care, then first of all, that would
Speaker 2: be a great gift that he would be would we
Speaker 2: would want to thank him, right, But that's I mean,
Speaker 2: why would he do that? These players, this is now
Speaker 2: a job they need. They should be looking out for themselves.
Speaker 2: And if they aren't, and they, you know, are not
Speaker 2: concerned about how much money they can make, then you know,
Speaker 2: good on them. But I'm at a point now where
Speaker 2: any like I no longer have any thought of like, well,
Speaker 2: come on, man, really you're going to do that? Oh,
Speaker 2: it's all about money. Like I get that some people
Speaker 2: still have that reaction when they see their player, a
Speaker 2: player on their team entering the portal or potentially looking
Speaker 2: to leave and whatnot, because it's still new in the
Speaker 2: grand scheme of things. But it'll be here forever and
Speaker 2: money's going to always matter. That's just how it is,
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Speaker 2: like I might have been kind of rude when when
Speaker 2: responding to that, but I hope I made my point.
Speaker 2: So it's not you know, it's not unfair to him
Speaker 2: for people to assume that I would imagine, but if
Speaker 2: there is this scenario out there where he was like, yeah,
Speaker 2: you know what, I'm good. Yeah, we don't need to
Speaker 2: talk about nil. I mean, that would be awesome, But
Speaker 2: that's just I don't think that's I don't think that's reality.
Speaker 2: And there's no doubt he's the one guy on your
Speaker 2: team that like there probably will be tampering going on.
Speaker 2: There might already be tampering going on. And that's just
Speaker 2: where we are with with college football.
Speaker 3: Speaking of tampering, did you see the Miller Moss decision. No,
Speaker 3: so he's decided that he's getting into the Tree Answer
Speaker 3: portal and is already expected to go to Michigan.
Speaker 2: Really, yes, that came together quickly.
Speaker 3: I know, a little tampering action probably.
Speaker 2: Oh, there's no doubt about it, right.
Speaker 3: I mean yeah, how do you already know without officially
Speaker 3: being in the portal?
Speaker 2: So did he get benched or something?
Speaker 3: I knew he was think they're just having a really
Speaker 3: terrible season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but if he's I mean, okay.
Speaker 3: Or maybe he just decided to sit out and not
Speaker 3: play anymore.
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, so I was thinking maybe he was in
Speaker 2: somewhat of a situation similar to Colin Lacey. But no,
Speaker 2: so he man, this is his So he'll have an
Speaker 2: extra year anyway because it'll be his fifth year. So
Speaker 2: this year's probably burnt up as far as eligibility because
Speaker 2: he's played in enough games. But like, I mean, he
Speaker 2: pretty much just left the team and was like, see
Speaker 2: you later. I'll you know, I'm gonna go finish my career.
Speaker 2: So that's already happened, like he's already committed.
Speaker 3: Was announced a few hours ago that he's entering the
Speaker 3: portal and his top choice reportedly is Michigan.
Speaker 2: Got you. Well, yeah, that happened pretty quickly, and there's
Speaker 2: no scenario in my mind that there wasn't a.
Speaker 3: Michigan's quarterback situation is a disaster.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I mean, this might be the most blatant
Speaker 2: move that, Like, there's no scenario this could have happened
Speaker 2: without tampering going on.
Speaker 3: We all know Michigan doesn't care about cheating.
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