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Speaker 1: May I be hypocritical for a handful of minutes here, Okay,

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And I'm going to tell you all something. And I

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don't think I'm a minority on this or I shouldn't

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say I shouldn't minority. I'm not the only one that

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thinks this. And it comes to college football, and it's

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the last night's championship game, which I tried to watch.

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I didn't have any interest in either school. I had

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it all, so it was a casual watch for me

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at best. Last pretty good game, pretty good game. But again,

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I wasn't on the edge of my seat or the

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playoff games of the NFL, even though I have a

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dog in that fight. I was on the edge of

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my seat for that Buffalo game with Denver. The Rams

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game with the Chicago was awesome as I got in

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the car after the Rockets game. So I can be

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captivated by an NFL game, but I don't care about

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the two teams. College is a little more work for me.

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So here comes all the hypocrisy. So we're watching this

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brand new football team, and not Indiana's on brand new,

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but brand new to the landscape of of being good.

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They were good last year, they were great this year,

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they were superior that insight. For a single loss, they

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were college football's best team. And it's an interesting storyline

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that you don't have Alabama, and you don't have LSU,

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and you don't have Michigan, you know of Ohio State.

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You've got this brand new school and the reality is this.

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I spent a lot of time last night looking at

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the salaries of not necessarily every Indiana player, but I

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looked at their payroll and how much Mendoza was going

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to be getting this year, and everything is approximate, but

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they're saying approximately he made two point seven million dollars.

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And if there's been anything that I have done since

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you and I have don this show together, as I

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have changed my opinion in large part about compensation for

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players because the money that is being produced at the

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collegiate level was absurd and now these athletes should g it.

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But here comes the hypocrisy part. I didn't take great,

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great joy in Indiana doing it because they spend a

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lot of money to do it. They if not for

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the money, Indiana is not where they are. And you

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could say that for a lot of schools. You could

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say that for everyone. No school not spending and winning.

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I know, stay with me on this. I really really

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really want a salary cap in football, and I don't

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think college football. Yeah, and college football because here's the

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reason why. Because if you just can outspend everybody, that's

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going to give you a significant chance of getting there.

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Not guarantee, but it's going to give you a good

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chance if you manage your money right and you have

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a salary cap. That's where I go, man, good job

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by you, Indiana. You got the right players at the

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right amount, and you did it the right way. Where

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all now everybody is doing is they're going to their

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boosters and saying, hey, I need like Michigan took the

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Underwood kid from LSU because somebody stepped into the very

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last second and just said, let's just throw as much

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cash as we can in them. So that's hipocracy part.

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And I don't expect you to say, Matt, I understand

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or Matt, you're crazy. I don't. I don't know what

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you want me, what you want to say in return.

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But I watched Indiana, and when I watch Indiana, I go, Okay,

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you just got a cash infusion. If not for the

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cash infusion, you're back to what you normally are. They're

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in al spending though, isn't it like up to what

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Tech cram. They have a lot of developed players they have.

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They hit the portal well and they selected well. Kurt

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Signetti does his own scout. He does not have a

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general manager, right, He does his own scouting and finds

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his players. I would think if you're you're upset with

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the current state of college football, you should be fully unblotted.

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I'm not upset with Indiana per se, because I'm upset

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about the fact that, like next year, if Texas Tech

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wins the national championship, Missus Thomas will be very happy.

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My oldest will be extremely happy. But there's no ifans

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or butts. What's going on. Our guy, Clay Campbell, all

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he pushed to Cody, whatever his brother Kit Clay. All

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Cody wants to do is just flood the market with

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this money. I do believe that there should be some

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sort of science to it where every school gets an

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nil max of forty million dollars. Now, it doesn't mean

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you got to spend it, but it means you can't

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go over that forty million threshold. That's all I'm saying

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is the hypocrisy of this is that I would like

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to see some sort of small regulation to it. And

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I guess I don't think you can do it that way,

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but I'm just saying, I just if you're going to

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try to level the playing field a little bit, because

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it's if it's not for Indiana, it could be Rutgers

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in three years, it could be I don't know, University

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of California. Just throwing money at him seems to be

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of enjoying the national championship experience. I didn't think about

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that at all. And also I will say with the nil,

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what we've wanted for years and years and years is

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the word parody. So Kurt Signetti is a great coach.

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They didn't wallet whip everybody, they didn't overspend, and you're

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in Texas Tech and Cody Campbell's the perfect example that

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just spending money doesn't lead directly to winning. How about

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Phil Knight in Oregon as well. Yeah, I mean we

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can point to any Texas spent a ton of money

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this year and didn't do anything. So I mean this

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should be the perfect example, the golden example that you

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can still do it in the nil era that it's

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not only that they won. They didn't fall bass ackwards

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into this and get a bunch of turnovers and get lucky.

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They went sixteen in freaking oh like they they went

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sixteen and oh and beat down Alabama, They destroyed Oregon

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and they won a close game against a very good

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Miami team. And this is the this is what we

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were looking for and what we were worried about when

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nil happened. Oh, the haves are going to stay the

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haves and the have nots have no chance. Indiana Indiana

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Hoosiers football. But here's my question now, is initially Sandiana

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going to be on the on the top of the

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lodder or near it for a long time or are

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they going to go to Miami mornings route, win their

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championship and then the money. They're not gonna sell a

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bunch of pieces. No, I don't think they're gonna sell

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off a bunch of their team. I think we'll see

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what happens and how what the staying power is. But

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the bottom line is you can do it. I told

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you it was hypocritical. I just did. I told you,

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and I'd come to you and say, yeah, I don't

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know what the spending is of the Indiana Hoosiers. Nobody's

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making it this far without doing that way. Yeah, Indiana's

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not probably even the top ten, to be honest with you.

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But I'm thinking more of a MAC review of this.

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And they went sixteen and oh, this is great parody.

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They've never won a football championship. Correct, Correct, they did

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in like eighteen ninety nine or something. No, so I

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mean this is this is great for the overall health

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of college football. And I bet you the ratings are

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going to be pretty good because they built themselves. They

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have a great, huge alumni base, and I found them

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compelling to watch and follow because the way that they

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were destroying the blue bloods. As we mean, they what

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was it thirty eight to three of the Alabama Alabama

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are thirty eight to three. What was the nil money

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for Alabama relative to the Hoosiers. Well, I don't know

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if I think Alabama is a little under the norm

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of the other schools. That's why part of the well,

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all right, get your weight up, son, let's go. So

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that's what I'm saying. If you're gonna get your weight up,

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that's good. But shouldn't I guess my question, my thought

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is I feel like I'm knowing the trend's coming up.

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I'd like to see a cap and maybe and look,

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there's no one even talking about a cap. It would

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probably not pass any any sort of legislation. Why should

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Texas and A and M spend the same amount as Baylor? Like,

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how do you get they they're rev their athletic departments

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generate way more revenue because I like level playing fields.

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Because in the NBA, I have Sacramento and San Antonio

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can win just as much as New York and LA

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can absolutely can. Look as Sam turned, you get the

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in the NBA, you get the soft cap. The guys

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go way over. That's how the Golden State kept That's okay,

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cam In these I'll give you a better example. Carolina

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and Green Bay can win as much as the Giants.

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It's a hard cap. It's a hard cap from a

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collective team where they they're sharing TV revenues, they're sharing

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Jersey revenues, and college football is not doing that. No,

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they're not. And there's no reason why would I. Why

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would I, as Crystal Conte, athletic director of Texas, come

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to the negotiating table and say, you know what, Yes,

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I want to be able to spend the same amount

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of There's there's no way in the world the SEC

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want or Big ten wants this because they're the ones

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that are carrying it. I'm just telling you this is

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just me as I was watching the game last night,

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going Okay, I'm supposed to embrace this story, but I

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can't fully do it. And again, I'm just coming to

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you open and honestly, I'm just telling you. It's your opinion. It'sion,

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it's opinion, and I think it's a great story. It

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might change, but I'll say this for the underdog world,

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yesterday was a great day for college football because it

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wasn't flittered with SEC in Big ten. Well Big ten.

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I'm Indiana obviously, as far as powerful programs, Indiana Hoosiers

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have been as anept as it's gotten, I mean, Vanderbilt

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has been getting in the game. It's I think it's great.

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But it's like, as they were calling the game last night,

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their last conference championship was nineteen sixty seven. Yeah, was

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Lee Carsel the coach of that team. I don't think

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he was. I think in the seventies, yeah, before, I

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don't know. I it doesn't make sense, But I'm just

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coming to you open and honest, I just am. I'm

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just I was like, you know what I mean, if

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it's next year it's Texas Tech, nobody's gonna nobody's gonna

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say wow, thank you very much for all the great coaching.

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and Ward. At the check, they were one hundred and

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fifty one to win the college football Championship in the preseason.

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I saw this earlier. Indiana was even after making the

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playoff last year. Really, that seems way too high. That

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was the same odds as the Marlins to win the

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World Series, as the Suns to win the NBA Finals,

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and for Utah State College Basketball to win it all

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in March madness. This is from a bleacher report posted

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last night. All Right, so os and the Marlins win

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the World Series. I mean, this is this is an

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insane story. Okay, So I know it feels kind of

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like it was gonna happen because of how dominant they were,

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how crazy this is. But it's still crazy. I think, yeah,

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as all thrown out wonderful story or a byproduct of

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a school that got money thrown into it. Like again,

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where here's a better question and we're gonna get your

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break here, let me ask you, if there was no

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nil Indiana's this is not Indiana, right, I don't know.

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I mean, Signetti is a great coach. I think he's

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a bad human being, but he's a great coach. I

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I mean that they're generating these millions of revenues. I'm

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glad the players are getting their slice. I guess we

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wouldn't even be able to know because if that was

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the case, if we already know the issues, and Kurt

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two years ago, when there was no nil, Indiana wasn't

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on the radar. Kurt Signette's looking like the truth. Now

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we'll see, time will tell all. But he's he looks

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like the real deal, right, there's no reason to doubt him.

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After the six sixteen and oer with the Indiana freaking Hoosiers, Yeah,

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and beat up everybody basically and even being Miami in

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their home field,