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Speaker 1: Well well, well, welcome into the week ten edition Florida
Football Insiders podcast. We have reached the month of November,
hard to believe, Halloween is here, Thanksgiving right around the corner,
and Christmas not too far away.
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us on the week ten edition. Lots of stuff going
on in the state of Florida football wise. We've got
coaching news. We've got coaching blunders, NFL everything in between.
Speaker 2: We've got a good guest for you.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk to Tony Sirah Cusa, the college football
managing editor for the Last Word for Last Word on Sports.
He's gonna give us some good chatter about the coaching
hot situation in Gainesville, potential change in Tallahassee Mario Cristobal
as well. So you'll enjoy our conversation with Tony. Before
we get to Tony's let's give you a little recap again.
Lots of news going on in the state of Florida
which could affect the Florida coaching hire. Obviously, you heard
the news Brian Kelly out at LSU. Obviously that puts
Lane Kiffin in line in the mix in LSU. As well,
the bizarre news that the governor of Louisiana is going
to spearhead this coaching search, not the athletics director sco
Scott Woodward Scott has not done a great job here
in the last couple of opportunities to hire a coach member.
He was the one that hired Jimbo Fisher, I mean
at Texas A and M and ended up having to
pay him seventy six million dollars to not be the coach.
He's now on the hook for a reported fifty four
million dollars to Brian Kelly following the firing on Sunday
after the disastrous performance in the second half versus Texas
A and M last weekend. So the governor the governor,
the governor Louisiana has stepped in and has said he
is going to kind of spearhead the coaching search, which
is another twist and turn and bizarre set of circumstances.
So how Scott Woodwards survives at LSU as the ad
not sure moving forward when your knees have been cut
from underneath of you and it's coaching higher.
Speaker 2: But we will see how that unfolds.
Speaker 1: But obviously all the speculation is that Lane Kiffen, in
addition to being the number one target in Gainesville, will
be the number one target in Baton Rouge. So we'll
see if Lane's gonna have a very interesting month of
November to ponder and continue to win games at Old Miss.
If he does, the playoffs are inevitable for Ole Miss
if they if they run the table, they will be
in the playoffs. But I'll be interesting to see how
this next thirty to forty days is handled by Lane
Kiffen in Oxford concerning these job vacancies that.
Speaker 2: You know he is being offered behind.
Speaker 1: The scenes to Jimmy Sexton and his agent. How he
handles all that stuff in the playoff run at Old
Miss as well. So the Gators coming off of a
bye Billy Billy Gonzalez the interim coach, as they head
to Jacksonville this weekend for the cocktail party versus Georgia again,
I think you're gonna see a wide open offensive philosophy.
I think there's been the Billy Gonzalez has talked about.
He's gonna try to make things, make things a little
bit more wide open than they were maybe under Billy Napier. Again,
what does Billy Gonzalez have to lose?
Speaker 2: I E. Nothing.
Speaker 1: You might as well go guns to blaze in here
with Billy Napier. With Billy Napier gone, and this is
your opportunity. He's not getting the Florida job. I don't
care if he wins every single game. Uh, He's not
getting that job. But obviously these players Lagway and the
entire roster have are trying, are going to need to
put good stuff on film for the next coach and
Arthur potential entrance into the into the transfer portal. So
I do not expect the Florida team to to you know,
pack it in and just mail it in here because
they those those kids have a lot on the line
as well financially with a potential move to another school
or if they end up staying here with the new
coach in Gainesville. So interesting game. George is about a
seven point favorite. I expect Florida to be very competitive.
If you remember last year this game, Florida probably was
on their way to winning the game if if if
Lagway doesn't get hurt, he got hurt. I think smid
second quarter of that game, Florida was playing really well
and they were they were in a great space to
potentially win the game last year with what Lagway was doing. Again,
I expect this to be a very competitive game. Georgia
has struggled mightily in the first half of games. Their
defense is nowhere near to what they've been in the past.
But you do have to deal with Gunner Stockton. He'll
be He'll be a pain in the neck for the
Florida defense. Florida is fighting some injury issues in the
defensive backfield, so we'll see how that how that affects
the game. This is always one of those rivalry games
that no matter what the records of the teams are,
you get some in you get some goofy things that
happened in this game. And again I expect no different
this weekend in Jacksonville. All right, heads up, head let's
head up to Tallahassee. Wake Forest comes to town. Uh,
Florida State coming off the by and off the loss
at Stanford. We think Tommy cast Allowance is gonna play.
That's not been confirmed as of yet. But again, this
is a game. If if you're Norvel, you're oh and
four in the a CC. If you lose this game,
I think your your your fate will be sealed. You
cannot lose this game. His fate might be sealed already.
But if you lose to Wake Forest, it's gonna be
lights out in Tallahassee for Norvell and that staff.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 1: Uh, you know, Michael Auford said they're gonna they're doing
They're gonna do a full assessment of the program.
Speaker 2: At the end of the year. Uh.
Speaker 1: What that means we don't know. But again, Norvell is
on shaky ground at best there so you shall see.
But again, a game you have to win if you're
Florida State against a feisty, competitive Wake Forest team who's
I believe five and three on their way to a
bowl game.
Speaker 2: Potentially.
Speaker 1: They beat SMU last week thirteen to twelve at the
gun with a long field goal. So this will not
be an easy test for Florida State coming off the
by and all the turmoil going surrounding Novelle's future. There
so down to Miami. Miami beat Stanford forty two to
seven last week. The game was seven to seven at
the half Florida. I mean Miami ended up running away
with the game in the second half. They stuck it
to Frank Reich in the Stanford cardinal there at the end,
kind of ran it up at the end, punched in
a late touchdown in the last thirty seconds that I
know Frank Reich did not like. I saw the handshake
at the end of the game. You could tell if
Reike was not amused with what Mario ran did at
the end there, punching it in at the end to
make it forty two to seven and to cover the number.
By the way, for those of you in the gambling world,
that that's that score did cover the number in the
last thirty seconds, so you figure Mario had that on
his mind as well.
Speaker 2: Mario.
Speaker 1: The Canes head to SMU this week to play a
wounded Mustang team coming off the loss last week at SMU.
They've not played as well. They're at five and three
this year, their first conference loss. Tricky game here for Miami.
You cannot mess around here, and again, Miami is still
not out of the woods as far as getting to
the college football playoff. You have a late November date
at Pittsburgh which could be true, which will be tricky.
But again, if you're Miami, you got to take care
of business here on the road against a team that
you're better than in SMU. But you can't mess around
with your mess around and let this game get to
the fourth quarter. Miami is a big favorite, twelve to
twelve and a half point favorite at SMU, So keep
an eye on this game here on Saturday. Tricky spot
here for the Canes usf Alex Golish a complete meltdown disaster.
You blow a fourteen point lead at Memphis last week.
This one's on Alex Golish one. In my view, you're
up seven points with about twelve minutes to go in
the game and you don't kick a field goal. I'd
think it was a horrendous decision by Alex Golish. You
don't kick a field goal fourth and three on the
seven yard line, you go for it, don't make it, Memphis,
The game ends up getting back to fourteen, and then
and then you lose. Just a terrible coaching decision by
Alex Golish, putting that USF program in peril to allow
to come back. They lose by three points. Gramatica misses
a long, long field goal at the gun to tie
the game, a field goal you would not have needed
to win the game if you kick.
Speaker 2: The field goal earlier in the game.
Speaker 1: So just this one on for me is one thousand
percent on Alex Golish from a co coaching perspective, a
lousy job of of reading the moment, reading the game.
His defense was playing well at the time, and you
and you just get greedy. These these coaches that go
for it all the time on fourth down. It never
gets discussed of all the times that you don't you
don't make it on fourth down, you cost yourself points
and then and then you end up losing the.
Speaker 2: Game or change thing. And what you what.
Speaker 1: You do is you change the strategy of the game
by not kicking the field goal and putting putting us
F by up by two scores.
Speaker 2: It puts increased pressure on the Memphis.
Speaker 1: It changes the strategy of how Memphis has to play things,
how they have to call plays when you're when you're
down two scores compared to one score. Just a again,
terrible job in my view, U Biaosh goals in that
uh in USF and really cost in USF a golden
opportunity to go to the playoff. I don't think they're
going to the playoff this year. They still have to
go to Navy. I think two losses is going to
be a dagger. I don't think they're you know, they're
gonna need a lot of help from other people in
that conference, I e. Memphis and Navy to have any
opportunity to be in that conference title game. And I'm
not sure they're gonna get the help they think they're
They're gonna need to do that and again gonna ruin
not It's still gonna be a really good year for USF,
but it could have been an all time historic year
for USF, and I think it was large in large part.
Speaker 2: Due to just just a.
Speaker 1: Poor, poor, poor coaching decision by Alex golis So. USF
does not have a game Saturday. They will play on Thursday,
November six against UTSA here in Tampa, but USF falls
to six and two heading into the bye week. FAU
loses a hard fought game at Navy forty two thirty two.
Speaker 2: They fall to three and five. They are off this week.
Speaker 1: Jay Shawn Platt five catches, one hundred and twenty one
yards and a touchdown. Caden Veld camp through for two
ninety nine and a couple of touchdowns. Again a good
effort by FAU, but you lose to a the undefeated
Navy team, still undefeated in the American still undefeated overall.
And you will see USF again play at Navy here
in a couple of weeks as well. USF coming off UCF,
excuse me, coming off a bye week. They head to
Baylor this week, Scott Frost and company a game that
should be competitive, but UCF coming off the bye heading
to Baylor this week as well. FIU falls to three
and five. They lost on Wednesday night at Missouri State
twenty eight twenty one, and they head to Middle Tennessee
State next week next Saturday, so they get a basically
an extended bye week, a long weekend head before they
head to Middle Tennessee. So there's your recap of your
state schools again. Tony Siracusa, managing editor of the Last
Word on Sports College Football Analysts covers the ACC covers
Wake Forest. He'll give you some good insight on the
coaching jobs Miami. Me a little Wake Forest Florida State
preview as well. You'll enjoy our chat there. Again, appreciate
you finding us on your on the various podcast platforms.
You can find me on x at JPO Sports. I'd
love to hear any comments that you might have concerning
the podcast. And again we are getting to the stretch
run of the month of November. Lots of stuff going
on again coaching wise here at FSU in Florida. And
then you got the run of Mitt Ken Miami get
to the finish line and get to the college football
playoff as well.
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Florida Football Insiders Podcast. Now we take you to Charlotte,
North Carolina, where we are going to speak with a
first time you're here on the Florida Football Insiders Podcast.
Mister Tony sarah cusa college football editor managing editor for
the Last Word on Sports podcast Feed Network Tony covers
ACC football college football nationally and a former and he
covers Wake Forest as well, so very well versed in
the world.
Speaker 2: Of college football.
Speaker 1: We got a lot going on, obviously in the state
of Florida with the Billy Napier situation, Florida coaching search,
potential move at Florida State, Miami's college football playoff host,
which Tony will talk about with his ACC connections. Welcome
into the podcast, sir, I appreciate you joining us.
Speaker 4: Hey, Jason, happy to do it.
Speaker 1: All right, let's get to let's get to Let's go
to Gainesville first. Obviously, have lots and lots of drama
going on to the coaching carousel. Hard to believe there
are so many openings already. But as we get to
Halloween and head to November, just give me your overall
sense of the triggers that are being pulled around the
country at all these coaching jobs.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's I think it's a couple of things.
If you look at last year, there was actually really
almost a historic low in the amount of coaching changes
that were made, and I think a lot of it
had to do with the uncertainty around finances for college
sports schools were waiting to see what was going to
happen with the House versus NCAA settlement or the lawsuit
as it still was back then, what was going to
happen with revenue sharing, and what was going to happen
with collectives and nil, and how their money was going
to be allocated. So I think a lot of schools
sat on making moves that they otherwise would have gone
on had and made. And of course, as someone who
who covers the sport as much as you do, you
also know that moving the early signing days into you know,
early to mid December makes a change. Also, if you're
a school that is not doing well, that is, you know,
has a track record over a two or three year
period of struggling, you're trying to send a message to
those recruits and to the portal potential portal transfers that
you're not sitting on this inefficient or in sufficient play,
that you're being proactive. So I think when you look
at those things combined, you now have where what we
are now, which is just a staggering amount of openings
already certainly with more to come. Also, I don't think
we're anywhere near done yet.
Speaker 1: In your part of the world, a name that's been
talked about about whether he's gonna make it for a
year two Bill Belichick, give us a little sense of
what do you think? You know, do you think North
Carolina eats it and starts over? Do you think they
you think they try they give Bill Belichick a second year.
Speaker 4: I gotta be honest with you, I don't think Belichick
ever was coming back long term. I don't think for
all the for all the pomp and circumstance that surrounded his,
you know, his hiring, and you got to feel badly
for athletic director of public Cunningham, who didn't want Belichick
to begin with and went through that whole circus where
he off the sleeves from his suit, you know, to
look like Belichick's pooty at the press conference. I mean,
that was ridiculous. But now you have Cunningham who just decided,
you know, forget it, I'm going to retire when the
season's over. As ad He's moving on. And I don't
think Belichick ever was long term. And the reason I
say that is because his initial buyout, He's got what
they call a reciprocal buyout, which is if you leave,
you owe this amount of money. If we fire you
without cause, we owe you this amount of money, and
it's generally the same amount of money. His buyout was
ten million dollars, but on June fifteenth it went down
to one million. Who what school signs that contract with
the coach where six months in your reciprocal buyout is
virtually eliminated. I think everybody was cognizant of the fact
that he was using it to, you know, get back
into the coaching game. He got his son is one
of his top assistants, who could conceivably be the new
head coach. Now you have the meltdown of the season
that North Carolina is having. I don't I don't see
him being back for a year or two. I never
did to begin with, But now I really really don't.
Speaker 1: Give me a couple of names if in Gainesville, if
Florida can't get Lane Kiff, and he clearly is the
number one guy on their list, give me a couple
of names that you think would be good fits in
Gainesville if they don't get Lane Kiffin that will fit
into that the pressure cooker of the SEC.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I think Lane Kiffin remains their number
one choice. But I think he's also going to be
LSU's number one choice. And you know, here's one of
the things real quickly that's happening is three weeks ago,
Penn State was the crown jewel of the job openings.
Then you got the Florida movement. Now you got the
LSU movement. If you're a school like UCLA, man, you're
going down the total hole in terms of the visibility
and viability to get a top name head coach. I
think LSU trumps the Florida job a little bit. I
think there's some weirdness because the governor.
Speaker 2: Is now involved in the search.
Speaker 4: And if I'm a head coach, I'm sitting there going, man,
I don't know if I need meetings at the Governor's
office just to get this job. But if you don't
get Kiffin, look, I've seen Glenn Schuman's name mentioned the
defensive coordinator Georgia, Florida can do better than that. You
can do better. I think I think the top guy
is Eli Drinkwitz. I really do. Drink is a good coach.
He has not had a lot to work with at Missouri,
not the kind of resources you get at a Florida.
But you know, he's what forty four and twenty six
in his sixth year there. He had the one good
year at app State. He's a good coach. He's and
you'll appreciate this. He's well liked by the media. He's
a funny guy. You know, he's not well believed or not.
He's not well liked by a lot of other coaches.
He is a little too acerbic and a little too
glib with things he says. And I've got a you know,
long list of coaches who not big fans of the drink.
But I think he would do a good job there. Look,
he's been to four straight bowl games with Missouri. This
is a school that a handful of years ago we
were all still questioning why they left the Big twelve
slash Big eight before that and did they make a
mistake going to the SEC. They're in the middle of
the pack right now. They're six and two overall. They're
two and two in conference. But by Missouri standards, they're competitive,
and that's not easy to do at that school. It's right,
and I I you know, and the and you know,
you look at the other part of it, because I
think obviously in the state of Florida. This is always
a big deal. How do you recruit this area, right,
because man, it's a battle every day right with Miami
and Florida State and heck even USF.
Speaker 1: Alabama coming into Alabama, Georgia going in at Missouri.
Speaker 4: He's got eight players on his roster now from the
state of Florida at Missouri. That's not an easy pull. Heck,
he's got a linebacker from Saint Thomas Aquinas that is
not an easy pull to go to Missouri. From there,
he's got another dozen players from Georgia on his roster,
so he can recruit the area. And it's again, given
the improved resources or the increase in resources that he's
got or that he would get from Florida versus what
he's got from Missouri, I think he's a good coach
for the job.
Speaker 2: There you go, there, you go.
Speaker 1: Let's go down to Miami again and acc a fellow.
No coaching issues down there, but give me your sense
of Miami as a college football legitimate national championship contendent.
We saw him slip up a couple of Friday nights
ago against Louisville. You know, they struggled a little bit
against Stanford out of the gate and they got a
tricky game this weekend in Dallas against SMU. The past
seems to be pretty good. If you win this game,
you may not even make the ACC title game because
what Georgia Tech and some other people are doing, but
you should be in good shape for a spot. Give
me your give me an overview of what you think
of Miami this year.
Speaker 4: Yeah, look, I think Miami is definitely where we thought
they would be. I mean, in the ACC preseason poll,
I was one of the voters and had Miami's the
number two team. Now, I will tell you the pollsters
don't know anything because most of us had Clenson at
number one and that turnout for us. But at six
and one overall, two and one in conference, this is
not an easy game going to SMU this week. SMU
isn't as good as we thought they would be in
that they're only five and three overall. But SMU is
going to be emotional because that was a brutal loss
to have to take to Wake Forest last week. With
that last second field goal, SMU has lost and it
was the first conference loss, regular season conference loss ever
for SMU in the ACC and they're year and a
half in there. They have two Here, here's a point.
They have two losses in the ACC, the championship game
and the loss to Wake Forest. They were both by
fifty yard field goals on the last play of the game. Wow,
that's tough to swallow.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 4: But if you're Miami and you win this game and
you're looking ahead, you've got Syracuse at home and this
isn't last year Syracuse team where they're surprising people they're
not that good. You've got NC State, which is in
the annual Dave Dorn turmoil of under delivering on what
should have been there. You're at Virginia Tech and then
you're at pit to close the season. I will put
an asterisk on that one. Pitt is playing well their
freshman quarterback because outstanding. That's a tough one, and people
who follow our work know that Miami fans hate this.
When I refer to Mario Cristoball as coach in Stacart,
I'm fine with him doing the shopping. I don't want
him doing the cooking. Because every year there's a game
that Miami loses that they shouldn't, that they have no
business losing. That was fine with the Louisville loss. Louisville
is a good team, good quarterback, good running back. You
knew that Miami was eventually going to get their footing
in the Stanford game. There was no way Stanford was
going to beat him. You didn't think it would be
thirty five points in the second half to do it,
but they got there. I'm still waiting for that, for
that Mario Cristoball game where they slip up when they shouldn't,
and it very well could be that pit game at
the end of the season. Does a two loss ACC
team make the playoff if they are not in the
championship game. They don't think so, because I think you're
only going to get two ACC teams in. I think
they need to be playing in the championship game, win
or lose. Right, They need to be in that championship
game to make the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you make a great point about Mario batching the
game management stuff he's he's notorious for doing, and.
Speaker 4: It happened when I was on the West coast back
twelve he did Oregon. This isn't something, This isn't a
Miami thing. This is a Mario Christobal thing.
Speaker 1: No, doubt, no doubt, give me a thought about let's
go to Tallahassee where you're obviously the team you cover.
Wake Forest is heading to Tallahassee this weekend coming off
the nice win against SMU. The complete cratering that's going
on at Tallahassee from seven weeks ago when they were
at the top of the college football world when they
thumped Alabama and everybody thought Florida State's back to where
they were two years ago.
Speaker 2: They've gone, you know, haven't.
Speaker 1: Won a conference game since, you know, the terrible loss
at Stanford, all that stuff, Norvelle, you know, the buyout's huge.
Florida State's not known for having a ton of money
up there in Tallahassee. Do you think he makes it?
Do you think he survives? How do you think this?
With everything else that's going around in the college in
the coaching world, can Florida State afford to wait another
year to do this? I give Florida State credit for
coming out publicly and say nothing is going to happen
until the end of the season.
Speaker 4: Everybody just ride through this. But man, your own four
in conference play and you've got to play Wake. You
got to play at Clemson. Still, you've got to play
in See State, you got to play Virginia Tech, and
then of course you close the season with a non
conference game against Florida. I'm looking at two to three
more losses in there. I don't see how you do it.
I don't see how you keep norvelle. I like Mike's
a good guy. He does well with the press conferences, which,
of course for people like the two of us, that matters.
We like the good coaching press conferences. But man, I
last year they could deal with the meltdown because of
the number of players that left and having it being
a rebuild. But now, what what's the excuse?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 4: We all bit into the apple when they beat Alabama
in Week one? I did, you probably did, and most
of us did. They're back. They're back, maybe not to
the conference championship level that they were a couple of
years ago, but they have their footing back. They don't
three and four overall. You know, you look at Alabama
now and the question really is, wow, how'd you ever
lose to Florida State? Because Alabama is a really good
team right now, that you ever lose Florida State, I
don't see how he survives. I really don't. I know
the buyout is big, but I also know Florida State
is kind of back and forth with the idea of
taking some private equity investment and things like that. The
money will be there, I would and I would also
say this, the buyouts are never as much is what
they look like at the beginning, And that's true. You know,
I know we're talking about the fifty million dollars buyout
at LSU, nay Peers buy out, the Penn State buy out.
They all look huge, but there are all these clauses
in the contract that wind up lowering that amount. A
lot of them have a duty to mitigate clause, which
means you're required to go look for a job. You
don't get to just sit on your barking lounger and
take our direct deposit. A lot of them have offset
clauses so that when you get another job, whatever you're
getting paid, the different from that new employer comes out
of what we owe you. You know, at the end
of the day, most of them wind up getting cut
in half. It's still a lot of money. What a
little bit more management.
Speaker 1: I got you, I got you, give me give me
a quick thought on the on the Wake Forest program,
Dickert's done a pretty good job there.
Speaker 2: They're one game away from being Bowl eligible. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Again, that's that's been a program over the years that's
had some had some moments.
Speaker 2: Jim Company, That's.
Speaker 1: A tough place to recruit in, tough place to win consistently.
Just give me a sense of that Wake Forest program
as they head to Tallahassee this weekend.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a totally different vibe. You know, Dave Clawson
was very professorial, he was very cerebral about everything. Dickert
is the prototypical Midwestern football coach. He came from Wisconsin
and guys chops at you know, in North Dakota and Wyoming,
and he's the high energy guy and the players have
bought into that. The biggest difference is the defense. This
team went from being in the low nineties to the
one hundreds into ranking in total defense to number twenty
three in the country right now in total defense. It
is aggressive, it is blitzing. They've got a defensive line
that's got guys with NFL pedigree. They've got Langston Hardy
and Camden Hardy, who you know whose dad played in
the NFL. They've got Gabe Kirshky, whose dad Travis Kershy's
got a couple of Super Bowl rings with the Steelers.
They've got guys who get it, and it's and it's
a mix of guys who came back and guys from
the transfer portal. Dicker cuts up Aouston could never have
gotten thirty six players in the transfer board. There is
a little bit of leniency that was given from admission
from the administration, which happens where the Forest fans hate
it when I say that happens everywhere. For a new coach, sure,
and a little yeah, a few guys and you otherwise
wouldn't have gotten in that thirty six players is double
what Clawson had in the last four years combined. So
it's a good team. They still struggle at the quarterback position,
but that defense is carrying them.
Speaker 1: And the good thing for a place like Wake Forrest
is you look, you look East, I'm sorry West, and
you see what they're doing in Nashville, that there's hope
for a school that's academically oriented a little more harder
to get into from a player perspective, that there's some
hope down the road that if you get the right
quarter back, you get the right coach, you could.
Speaker 2: Put together a year like Vanderbilt having. Right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Oh absolutely, Vanderbilt two years ago made an investment
both in their in their facilities and uh in their
in their players, in the football program as a whole.
I mean, I've been to games at Vanderbilt where you know,
the visiting team had more fans than the home than
the home team did. It's not that way anymore. Wake
has already spent in the facilities they They had a
new thirty six million dollar football training facility unveiled two
years ago, so that's already there. Now they're investing in
the program itself. The revenue sharing obviously is a big
help because Wake Forest doesn't have a big collective. It's
the smallest school out of all the power for conferences,
so there's not a huge alumni base to kick in
tons of money. There's a wealthy alumni base, but you
can only keep going to those same people so many
times asking for more money before it drives up. So
the revenue sharing has made a big difference for a school,
no doubt.
Speaker 2: Well, Tony, great work. I appreciate the time. Tony's the
managing editor.
Speaker 1: College Football edited the Last Word on sports at Tony
Bruin is his handle on ex and Twitter that used
to cover his buddy Chip Kelly out in lost.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Chip Chip wished me a fond farewell as I was
leaving California and headed out to North Carolina. Chip Chip
did not shed a tear when I left.
Speaker 2: And is Chip is struggling.
Speaker 1: He's making a nice paycheck, but they're struggling mightily out
in Vegas with the Raiders. So a little karma for
treating our buddy Tony with some disdain. So keep up
the great word, appreciate the time, and we'll talk soon.
Speaker 4: Okay, all right, Jason be Well, you got all right.
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