Josh Pate Picks College Football Playoff Semifinal Games W/ Will Compton And Taylor Lewan

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Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, we are finally in the semi finals of this game. We got two games left, Miami versus Old Miss who would have thunk it? Oregon versus Indiana, a remiss that took place in the Bake ten earlier this year. Now let's go to the standings. There's only two games left, and now there's only two individuals left. Will Compton has been mathematically eliminated for holding the prize of the one spot in this show. It is just down to me and Josh Pate, separated by one game. We had a lot taking place Nebraska just last night. We're filming this Tuesday morning. Just last night they had a quarterback and that they do not have a quarterback. There's transfer portal stuff going on everywhere. Josh paid is here, Will Compton is here to break down his emotions and everything. Let's have a hell of a show. Please do me a favor and just subscribe. Let's have a hell of show.

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Speaker 1: There's a fandol dot com slash busting to get started. There's a there's a lot to talk about on the show.

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Speaker 6: I've never walked in the room with more to talk about that I have today.

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Speaker 1: There is I know that like a lot of this revolves around this man sitting between the main character.

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Speaker 5: Yeah he is the main character.

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Speaker 3: No, no, no, that's about the four teams we've got in the college who will playoff. They don't want to take away from their stories.

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Speaker 6: It's about the kids.

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Speaker 3: It's about the kids. It's about the kids.

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Speaker 5: Also about the kids, about the kids.

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Speaker 1: The kids have let you down. In the words of Josh Paid, you weren't wrong. They were wrong, but you were. They were wrong enough to where you are mathematically eliminated from them.

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Speaker 3: I went one in three last week. Yeah, I'm gonna break that down for me.

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Speaker 1: You picked four games, one of us correct, but Alabama got blown out. Alabama got blown out, and by all the truth, I went three and one.

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Speaker 6: What are you looking at me?

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Speaker 3: For you?

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Speaker 1: I've never seen you so strong in a game. And by the way, great pivot, because now I'm off of you.

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Speaker 6: On him Alabama plus seven and a half sitting right here looking at me.

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Speaker 3: That was easy work, man.

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Speaker 6: I was not entertained. Was not entertained during the Rose Bowl?

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Speaker 5: Hey it was entertaining?

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Speaker 3: How peak? What's that postgame video?

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Speaker 4: In my personal experience, maybe Taylor has a different experience. I've never seen you feel more confident about an Alabama team in a game, even though.

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Speaker 5: They gave you.

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Speaker 3: They gave you the resume there at the end of the year.

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Speaker 1: Since we've known you for somebody saying that you've always done a great job. And we've said early in the year, we said Millaneer, we said late in the year, something about Josh Payty's bulletproof. He always has a way of even when he's wrong, he seems right like he has a way of like even when the shrapnel and everything's coming at him, it doesn't it doesn't affect him. This is the only time you've laid your neck out on the line only to be placed in a guilla team and he fucking chopped off.

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Speaker 6: I'm looking up at my own body.

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Speaker 1: You're looking up, you are floating away towards the sky and looking at what you've displayed for yourself. And you chose an Alabama team that came against it came back against Oklahoma, and that was good enough for you to ignore the see championship. That was good enough they came back against Oklahoma, and you're like, that's enough for me to get my home or brain to finally be like, hey, Alabama is a beating Indiana.

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Speaker 4: Taylor, But did they come back against Oklahoma or did Oklahoma knna I think Oklahoma Conna.

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Speaker 6: In my defense, there is no defending me. I tried to get skinny and I couldn't on this one. I didn't say the kids screwed up. I just you know, I lost the game. But we were really really emphatic. Excuse me, I was really emphatic about that last week, and we made the whole social reel like it went out there tagged Ty Simpson, by the way, really silent when they lose a game, Ty.

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Speaker 5: Simpson, you got to live and die by the sword that with age.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, you have his back and they get blown out. I got I got nothing. I'm just left standing here holding the back transparent.

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Speaker 1: I'm kind of picking Indiana, knowing Ty is gonna see it be like this is you guys.

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Speaker 5: You wanted this like you wanted the wolf the whole thing.

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Speaker 1: Give him the fodder, give him the motivation. He looks at and he goes good. The boys have my back. Without having my back.

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Speaker 4: You hated going three and one.

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Speaker 5: I would have much rather gone too. And two.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, much rather gone. So you and I are sitting there in the semis evened up.

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Speaker 6: I like to think that at the end of that game, which was about five and changed to go in the first half, as it turns out. But I like to think at the end of that game, those kids are on that bus ride home, Kaitlyn divores, on that bus ride home, that staffs on that bus ride home, somewhere in the back of their minds, not only did they let down their families, their teammates, their staff, their university, their conference, they let me down to this is pretty historic.

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Speaker 5: They didn't let you down. They let your wife down.

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Speaker 6: They let my father down.

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Speaker 5: They let your father down.

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Speaker 6: That's who they really let me.

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Speaker 1: Who calls it like it is, calls it like he sees it. First time I met him, he looked me in the eyes, he goes, you're the dirtiest player, dirtiest son, bitch I've ever.

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Speaker 5: Seen play football.

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Speaker 6: And you didn't disagree.

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Speaker 1: And my heart sang to me, that's a massive compliment as an offense blindman, like you want to have a scumbag mentality And he said it right to my right, to my face. A lot of people would say behind my back, not knowing that would take as he looked me in the eyes. But he's a role tide guy all the way, all the way. Do you think your judgment got messed up with your family.

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Speaker 6: No, no, but I will say he was blinded by bias. I was blinded by wanting to be right in the preseason. In the preseason, I wanted to be right. I did pick by him in the preseason. I picked Oregon in the preseason. They're still alive. I have long since bailed on both of those predictions, so I wasn't really so much worried about that. I think maybe there was a part of me, way way way back in the back of my mind that just still needed to see Indiana win as a big favorite in one of these games, like the long rest thing. Everyone else with the Buys losing, they won. So I never had Kurt Signidia on the show. Has he ever come on this show? Has he ever come on bussing?

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Speaker 1: I think he actually declined us right the end of the year to the end of the year. But we're going to keep We'll get big, we'll get big nen on. But like right now, we're oh for one, but baseball that.

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Speaker 6: Happens, yep. So we're sitting around now and you gotta wonder, like, do they change coaching staff, do they change strength staff, what are they going to do in the portal, who's leaving, who's staying? All this stuff. We gotta we got to regroup. Me and me and me and Dan Pate. We got some things to talk about.

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Speaker 5: Alabama.

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Speaker 1: There's rumblings in this in behind the scenes about what might be happening in the transl portal of Alabama.

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Speaker 5: Are you hearing anything out there?

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Speaker 6: I'm hearing stuff with everybody.

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Speaker 1: I gotta hy Simpson. I'm hearing there's a wolf looking for a new pack. That's what that's all I'm then it's just whispers. I haven't spoke to the young man, the young wolf. There's just a couple of whispers. I just want to know if you've heard those whispers as well.

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Speaker 6: I think Keeland Russell starting a quarterback for Alabama next year, so that's what I think. But that may mean Ty Simpson's gone to the NFL. Like I still think that's what's gonna end up happening with him. But I don't know, man, because I don't I've learned a long time ago. Guys can be telling you, oh, I'm either coming back or I'm going to the NFL. Boom. They're in the portal. Twenty four hours later, so I mean to answer your to my question. I've heard the same rumors you have, I can't substantiate them, and frankly, with the portal, all I choose to do is stay out of it, and I'll text Pete Nakos if I really want to know if something's legit, or I'll hit up a coach if i really want to know something's legit, or I'll get a call from Will in the middle of the night if something's happened to we Nebraska, which brings me to my next point.

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Speaker 3: I'm thinking, I got it. I'm done with this fucking portal.

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Speaker 5: Can we just done?

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Speaker 6: We paint a picture if you'll allow me to lay out a timeline and then I'll toss it to you and then you finish the picture, Like, can we co paint the picture?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 6: Absolutely, all right. The date is Conference Championship weekend. We're going to do the altcast big day, career day for us. It's Alabama Georgia. It's going to be a back and forth game, and it's not. It's a blowout. And we spend the the entirety of the second half of that game holding ESPN microphones in our hand, not talking about the action on the field, but talking about whether Alabama belongs in the playoff or not. Some people think they should be in, other people think they shouldn't be in. William is in the latter camp. He thinks that Notre Dame should be in, and the only thing that's going to keep them out is the college football deep state. Fast forward twenty four hours, the College FOOTBA Playoff Committee reveals their correct rankings and their correct seting. I will still stand behind that Notre Dame is left out, and Lou Holtz is upset, and everyone in South Bend, Indiana is upset, and will Compton is really upset, and he goes on a Twitter rampage about how the college football deep state has worked to collude against Notre Dame, and to his credit, even though he was incorrect about it, he stood behind his argument even through the playoffs, even when Alabama was being eliminated. The other day emphatically. It was a see I told you so moment. It was a big moment for you guys. And so after everything that he's done for Notre Dame, the dust clears and the portal opens, Nebraska needs a quarterback at that point, after Will Compton has laid his life on the line for Notre Dame, let's talk about what's happening in the port Yeah.

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Speaker 5: First off, that was a van go painting.

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Speaker 1: That was where Jackson Pollock it and say it always comes back to Notre Dame with Will company, and this time it's bit him in the ass. Your loyalty got you killed.

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Speaker 3: Everything I've done for that program.

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Speaker 1: This is on the day, on the day of January fifth.

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Speaker 5: This is how they do it to you.

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Speaker 1: What is talk Talk to me as much as you can because I know you're in the weeds in Nebraska. Yeah, you've got every coach in GM and AD on speed dial. I'm sure you know a lot more than you're willing to say on the show. So I'm just gonna give you the floor.

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Speaker 5: We'll sit back and just I want you to replay your emotions for me.

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Speaker 1: Monday we leave the office. Yeah, great day, we leave the office. I'm I'm having dinner, wife and kids.

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Speaker 4: You know, chaos is thinking players were trying to get Rudy eats got he's being funny. He's slamming stuff on the ground, throwing food on the floor. Phone buzzes buzz a couple of times.

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Speaker 3: Know what's going on?

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Speaker 4: I see, I see uh, a Nebraska name come across my phone. I look at the Nebraska name and apparently we're losing the quarterback that had just committed to us on Friday. When the portal opened, there was a non contact claws that are non contact status that kind of came with this portal opening of this player, Kenny Mitchie, the quarterback for Notre Dame, who's a who's a backup to CJ.

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Speaker 3: Car big name in the portal.

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Speaker 4: You're hearing a lot about him, how he's you know, he can win on the he can win with his legs, he can win with his arm, a lot of good things.

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Speaker 3: This was Nebraska's number one target. So portal opens.

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Speaker 4: Up non contact status, meaning what that usually means in this college football world because there is no tampering period or anything else. But usually when somebody comes with that, they're close to a school, and I had learned that we were close to landing Kenny Minchie.

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Speaker 3: Go ahead.

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Speaker 5: Non contact just means that don't contact him, contact the agent.

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Speaker 6: I'm going in the portal. If I have a non contact tag, that's translation for I already know where I'm going, do not call me. Got you, That's what that means. I understood. Ninety nine times out of one hundred. We continue with the one time out of one hundred story.

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Speaker 4: Yes, and then over the weekend Kenny Minchie. We land Kenny Minchie in the portal. He's coming to the breast. He's committed, big announcement, graphics and everything. Maybe maybe NACo's I know on three posts about it, but it's public knowledge now that Kenny Mitchie is coming to What's up?

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Speaker 6: You posted a graphic.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, you're coming Kenny Mitchie to the Big Red even Jock Kenny minsche at text You're gonna look fucking great and Red.

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Speaker 5: Got his number already.

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Speaker 4: No response that now, looking back hindsight, that should have been a red flag for a week Willie boy. Yeah, So the weekend, Oh's and everything set up. We got our quarterback. He is committed to the University of Nebraska. Just pen has not been put to paper yet. Formality formality, which again understand all that stuff. When we were in the game, it was verbal committed. Once you signed the dad line, that's when you actually have them. So Monday night rolls around and I get these texts and We're losing the quarterback and I'm learning about what went down. To my knowledge, what I understand the situation to be was that Nebraska was told all weekend that he's committed. Because on Nebraska side of it, they are pushing and following up, not pressuring, but following up.

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Speaker 3: Hey, where's Ken he at with the contract?

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Speaker 4: Like we got the contract to you on Friday morning when the portal opened up. We need him to sign that contract because you know, coach ruled the big the big man are like, hey, when is the quarterback?

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Speaker 3: When are we getting pin to paper? Go ahead?

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Speaker 1: Before you knew that the result that we know now happened. Were you aware that this pen to paper thing was going to be an issue was being an issue? You just thought we got our guys.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, businesses still taking place.

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Speaker 4: Again, I'm not as tied into the portal stuff like you know, like like Pate was talking about, I'm not like deep in the weeds on everything that's happened in the portal. I might see guys names come up, I might see lists happening. I might shoot a text, Hey, what quarterbacks are we actually looking at? Let me know if you need any help with anything. But so I'm just thinking it's all, you know, business related stuff. He's going to sign the contract. He's supposed to visit on Wednesday, and to my knowledge again, he not only wanted to come and visit on Wednesday, but stay in Nebraska and help recruit the rest of the portal. All this free agency that's going on with five thousand guys in the transfer and we get to you get up to last night, and again, from what I understand it to be, the agent was telling Nebraska all weekend long. We're just going through the contract. Everything is all good. He's committed. He's coming to Nebraska. I have a lot of clients right now. I'm dealing with a lot of transfer portal stuff. But Kenny Minchee is coming to Nebraska.

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Speaker 6: Question, you're watching Titanic right now? Yeah, it just hit the ice, but everyone thinks it's okay, and they're going back to sleep and they're kicking around the iceberg on the deck and everyone's still laughing. But what they don't know is they're dying and they'll be at the bottom of the Atlantic in two hours. As it turns out, that's the part of the movie we're at right now.

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Speaker 1: And also just to point out, because I love the movie Titanic. While this is going on, Jack and Rose are on the bottom deck in a car, Jack being Minshi, the Rose being Kentucky, and they're making love right now. He is this, this is the fiance.

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Speaker 4: So as it unfolds on Monday, Nebraska again.

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Speaker 6: Follows up, can't disagree, go ahead play?

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Speaker 4: Nebraska again follows up, where are we at with the contract?

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Speaker 3: Pin the paper? When is it happening? I'm still redlining everything again, busy season with clients, stall tactic.

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Speaker 4: The next phone call that takes place, to my knowledge, is that Nebraska gets called Kenny's going to Kentucky. He did not know Kenny was going to do that, And that was the last bone call Asient never called coach rule, He never called coach rule back, and that was basically what happened. Nebraska couldn't get back in the conversation, trying to figure out hey, can we counter you know, what's.

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Speaker 3: Going like, what what has happened? It's like, hey, he's going to Kentucky.

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Speaker 4: So essentially you see it as we got blank checked by Kentucky, we got out bid by Kentucky, but we were never able to get back in the ring of Kentucky. So I'm sitting there taking all of this stuff in. Josh paid alludes to it. I call him and what's going on? I was like, I'm standing in my bedroom right now. All of the lights are off.

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Speaker 6: That's when you said the dinner table eating you paused there, and I thought you were in trouble. I thought there was an actual medical situation or perhaps like a home invasion situation, because you just said we got big issues. I'm standing here, my family's downstairs, I'm staring out at the front yard. All the lights are out. Then it just sizzled and I said, do you need something like what's going on? And there may have been some other mentions that I don't think legally we can say on it, But then you let me know kids weren't in danger, wife wasn't in danger, home wasn't being invaded. It was actually something much worse than that.

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Speaker 3: Can you mention that agent fuck Nebraska.

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Speaker 1: This type of stuff happened when you and I were coming out of high school before an il, before those things where guys are committed, they're fully in it, day of letter of intent happens they decided to flip their commitment at the last second. Yeah, that does happen.

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Speaker 6: So here's yes, that happened. There's a little bit of it. There's a lot of difference in the structure of how things are set up now because you've back then. Yeah, you were paying guys under the table. There was no like payroll, there's no budget, there was no set cap, and some people still laugh at the concept of a cap in college football, but technically it exists. But the bigger picture thing is people need to understand the way college football roster construction works. Right now, there is no more portal after spring. This is it. So you just had your signing class and you've got your portal class right now, and what is it like the sixteenth of January. Yep, once kids are in that's the dead line. You got to have your roster set for this year. And this dude, slash his representation, slash his camp just took what seventy two or ninety six hours from Matt Rule in Nebraska, where they thought they had quarterback figured out and they'd allocated the money the resources to that position. That then the rug gets jerked out from under you, and so you got to go back to square one on the most important position on the field, and you just you may have seen other guys come off the board that you would have had a shot at in those ninety six hours because you took someone at their word. Yeah, so yeah, it's not a good deal.

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Speaker 7: He had a no contact tag too. So that's the other thing is Nebraska is sitting there not thinking anyone else is talking to him. He's committed to Nebraska, No one should be contacting him. He there that camp is reaching out to Kentucky. Kentucky's not reaching out to them.

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Speaker 1: Mind saying of the no contact tag, because when I first saw it, think.

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Speaker 3: We hey, guys, we all know that stuff's bullshit.

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Speaker 1: Yes, hold on, let's my understanding of the no contact tag is do not contact me personally, contact my agent.

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Speaker 6: No, it's just don't contact. But it's really just a tag. There's nothing legally, it's not bound by rule. What clumps say and what is right is that's the equivalent of like, if I'm at the end of a dead end road and there's only one road, there's no side roads off this main road, and I get word that, hey, you've turned down this road. There's only one place you could be coming, and that is to me at the end of the road. That's the do not contact tag. The do not contact tag is once the kid goes in the portal, he's got do not contact, and you've been given word through him or his representation he's coming to you. You view it as just a formality. You're like, you're letting the boosters know, You're letting your staff know, Hey, we got him. We'll see when he makes the announcement. Oh, by the way, then the announcement happens, and so then you're doubly told you we got him. It is so far in the back of your mind that that could go wrong at that point that it's not even a concern. So that had to be a bombshell for them in that building.

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Speaker 5: Bombshell.

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Speaker 1: And I think like obviously over the weekend, there was a handful of more quarterbacks that were in that top five the ten range that committed to another score transfer school. When I got the information from you, I went on the transfer portal just to look at how people are evaluating quarterbacks. Went to the quarterback section, scrolled through, saw our boy Soresby Texas Tech Levitt looks like he's going to LSU.

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Speaker 6: Correct, that's what I heard.

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Speaker 1: It seems like it seems like he was in the running four, which tells you that Sam Levit is not going to go to l s U. Because this Minshi kid can tell you must have heard from a good agent that he's not gonna go to Kentucky.

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Speaker 5: He's going to LSU or somewhere else.

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Speaker 1: So I start scrolling down and I'm seeing this person's transferring here, this person transferring here the first and highest available spot.

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Speaker 5: I saw Dylan Riola.

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Speaker 1: You think do you think at number seven maybe something Delan Roola transfers too.

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Speaker 5: There was a blank space and it was the only one.

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Speaker 6: I think.

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Speaker 1: It was like two guys within the top ten quarterbacks. And I'm like, hey, maybe you have to maybe.

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Speaker 8: You have to go back to what Maybe maybe I need to refollow Dylan on Instagram. Now, hey about all that stuff I said. This is Adam Saylor.

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Speaker 1: Baby, I'm sorry, I didn't me.

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Speaker 4: I know there's lists you're scrolling to see what optimism there could be with Nebraska. Like I obviously I want us to be a good football.

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Speaker 1: Team, right, But I'm doing You're on the phone with a bunch of Michigan people, and you're every time I see a wide receiver enter the portal, let me see these stats?

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Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, yeah, what do you say about this guy? What do you think about that guy?

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Speaker 4: But I'm also trying to talk about in a way to where I'm I'm separating myself from like, again, I want Nebraska to win. I want us to get all the best players in the portal. You wrong us, I'm coming after you, right, But just something that's just it's it's always bothered me. I know it's always going to continue to happen. Just I just feel like it's a it's like a lost cause.

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Speaker 6: This time last year, in one of these games that we're gonna break down Ole Miss Miami, Ole Miss will start a quarterback that was at Ferris State or Ago two. Don't don't let anyone tell you there aren't better options out there for Nebraska.

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Hey that's beautiful.

00:23:10
Speaker 1: And you so there's two things you've done. Beautiful that and allowing us to get away from me. How hard you are on Alabama.

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Speaker 6: We pivoted.

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Speaker 1: That was wildly impressive because you deserve a lot more talking to about what took place last week.

00:23:25
Speaker 6: I'm not about getting what I deserve. I'm about getting what I want.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, and that is completely fair.

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Speaker 1: Episode, the Fiesta Bowl is taking place. We got number ten Miami, who what a THUNKSTI who stood an stood an Will said the Miami shouldn't be in this team.

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Speaker 5: I shouldn't be he.

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Speaker 6: Said Kenny Minsch in Notre Dame should have been in there.

00:24:13
Speaker 5: Back up, that's right, you wanted Kenny Minsche in the playoffs?

00:24:16
Speaker 3: What did I What did I say on Yeah?

00:24:20
Speaker 4: And also Miami? What what did I say on the broadcast? The ass whooping was happening? Alabama should not be in the College Wall playoff. Put Notre Dame in Miami in the College Old playoffs. When I posted before the College Faall playoff rankings came out, I had a here's what I think they're gonna do. Here's what I wish would happen. And nine, nine, and ten were Miami and Notre Dame, and eleven and twelve were Alabama and BYU.

00:24:44
Speaker 3: So you say what you want.

00:24:45
Speaker 4: I never said that Miami wouldn't belong when I argued Miami being out.

00:24:49
Speaker 3: It was when the argument was just out of Notre Dame in Miami.

00:24:52
Speaker 6: Crazy, just go lose to Louisville and move to SMU whatever.

00:24:55
Speaker 1: Yeah, Miami, Miami's I ain't beat no House by tena just Miami, Miami's favor and a half, Miami's favorite three and a half toorpoints.

00:25:06
Speaker 5: Am It's fifty one and a half will what do you think about this game?

00:25:12
Speaker 3: I believe Notre Dame would be both these teams.

00:25:15
Speaker 6: Is that gonna? Are we putting that up on the boards?

00:25:18
Speaker 3: Yeah? I like Miami. I like Miami.

00:25:23
Speaker 4: I think Miami is the most physical football team that's left in the final four of the college.

00:25:27
Speaker 6: Were they the most physical team in the playoff period? I think the answer is also yes.

00:25:31
Speaker 3: Yes, I would say yes.

00:25:32
Speaker 4: I know you did a great job kind of breaking down. Hey, when people are trying to come after you saying everything on Miami was better than Ohio State, you were absolutely right about the beef that this Miami team has on offense and defensive line.

00:25:43
Speaker 3: Like bain Mesador, Who's is it?

00:25:46
Speaker 6: Moten? Yeah?

00:25:47
Speaker 3: Moten?

00:25:48
Speaker 4: That front four, the way they can apply pressure while keeping the back seven playing coverage, disguising simulated pressures, all the different things that that Miami defense is allowed to do. Who's at Cante Scott who had that pick that picked six and took him back to the house.

00:26:04
Speaker 5: Dude?

00:26:04
Speaker 4: They are physical. The back seven will knock your dick in the dirt, bro. They're the most physical football team. And I love everything about the story of Ole Miss. All four of these teams There's something that I love about all of their story arcs. I love that ole Miss is winning in spite of their head coach. I love that they conquered the beast in Georgia when they lost to Georgia with Lane Kiffin on the sideline. I love the high powered offense. This is an offense I hadn't scored less than thirty all season long. The quarterback dual threatcat can beat you. The most dangerous. Josh Paate has said it the most dangerous quarterback in the college football playoff. Ye I love all of that stuff about him. I think Miami's going to have their handful, is going to have their hands full defensively trying to stop this offense. But I do lean on the physicality of Miami. I lean on the defense that the savviness that they play with. And I love that Carson Beck has played with pooise in the Collegewell Playoff. He's taking care of the football. Fledgers came alive in the run game. He's averaging what one to thirty across these two games. And then last week it's like, hey, if you're Ohio State, you take away who in the receiving core of Miami, and he still got He's still had five perceptions. But other Cats are coming alive on the outside. And you just see a team that's fully taking on the identity of their head coach. And I I love the way Miami's been playing football. I love the way Old Miss has gotten to this point. I think it's gonna be an awesome game. I just lean on the physical in the defense of Miami to.

00:27:27
Speaker 3: Beat Ole Miss.

00:27:29
Speaker 5: Totals what fifty one and a half turning away from the spreads.

00:27:33
Speaker 3: Huh yeah, you like the under scared ball? No, you like the over?

00:27:37
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think I'm gonna take the over as my pick.

00:27:40
Speaker 5: Then why not take Old Miss plus dow in a.

00:27:42
Speaker 6: Half because I still think Miami's gonna win with the over.

00:27:45
Speaker 4: Yeah, Ole Missus defense, they're lighting the ass in the second level, you know how.

00:27:49
Speaker 3: I'm always looking at that second.

00:27:50
Speaker 5: Level, always looking at them dies in the second level.

00:27:52
Speaker 4: They do have a defense where Miami can keep up with them in this game, and it's gonna come down to Miami making some of those big plays defensively, getting after Chambliss and trying to get to the ground when he is being dangerous on the outside. I could see him being a high score game in Miami, just coming out on top.

00:28:06
Speaker 6: I was at the Miami game earlier this year and Kevin Jennings went off. He was hurt too, and he went off against Miami. Now, I'm going to tell you straight up, I think Miami's playing at a way different level now than they were in that game. It's probably a wake up call for him, all right. So over fifty one and a half is going to be my pick. If I picked against the spread, it would be Miami minus the points. My question is is this game played like in structure? Because if it's played in structure, if there's not a ton of Trinidad Chamblis's circus plays like he had against Georgia, I would love Miami to cover. I probably love the under at that point too. But the thing about that is when you think you've got a two way disadvantage on the line of scrimmage, which old Miss does here, there's not much incentive to play the game in structure. So there's incentive to just wildly fire until the chambers are empty, and at that point you tip your cap to Miami if they just leaned on you and they won the game. Here's what will make me nervous a little bit we've long since documented on this show. Miami's done a really good job containing mobile quarterbacks. Trinidad Shambliss is not the kind of guy who's gonna rack up a ton of rushing yardage. That was never gonna be his game. His game is extending plays like you saw against Georgia. Maybe occasionally he runs for a first down. Carson Beck doing that too, by the way. But what would make me nervous is Miami's ground game against really good run defenses has held up in the playoffs. They had twenty eight for one to seventy five against amm that's a top forty run defense. They had thirty seven for one point fifty three against Ohio State, that's a top ten run defense. Ole Miss is sixty fifth. So there is a world where if ole Miss does not come out of the gate hot and the game just settles in that Miami just settles in and they just start leaning, and it's and it's in a methodical game, and it's over in three hours and eight minutes, and Miami wins and they move on and you end up saying, wow, I was kind of boring those kind of anti climactic. The one problem potentially with Miami getting the game they want is it compresses the game and it builds a trapdoor situation where ole Miss does nothing early Miami just starts running the ball, grinding the clock. They're up seven to nothing, they're up ten to three. You get to halftime and you think this is utter domination on the stat sheet, but the scoreboard says it's one possession, because that's how those games go. That's a fourth quarter approach, and you end up stretching it. At the very end, the trapdoor comes where you've seen ole Miss do nothing, and it's late third quarter and Miami's up like, you know, a possession, maybe ten points or something like that. And then all of a sudden, the fact that ole Miss is number four in the country and explosive plays number three in the country and capbuster plays happens and it validates and just out of nowhere, boom boom, and you look up and you are dominating, You're out gaining them, You've got all the advantages on the stat sheet, and it's tied. And at that point your strategy has worked against you because you've run the ball you've grinded clock, you've condensed the game, and it's the fourth quarter and we each got two possessions left now, and they figured out a way to tie it up. And at that point, Trinidad chandlers can do one special thing and beat you. So I think it's a big mistake if Miami starts good and then they try and grind the pace to a halt. I really think they got to be aggressive. There's no reason for me to look at Carson Beck against this Ole miss team and think anything other than he should be a weapon. Malachi TONI should be a weapon. You talked about getting a few more receivers worked in our run game. We should be balanced, We should be able to hang thirty five on them if we need to, and there's no way they're scoring thirty five on us. So I think Miami, even if they get off to a strong start, got to keep scoring. Got to keep scoring. And that's why my strategy is over fifty one and a half. But I think Miami's gonna win and cover.

00:31:42
Speaker 5: Miami's gonna win a cover. So your bet is over fifty.

00:31:45
Speaker 6: My bet is the total. My heart is with Miami minus three and a half.

00:31:49
Speaker 3: Got you.

00:31:51
Speaker 1: I agree with everything I say, especially when it comes to the trenches, like Miami has a massive edge on the offensive line side of the ball and the defensive line side of the ball. The thing that gives me a little bit of pause is can Ole Miss run the ball effectively in this game? And it's not about Trinidad Chambliss dropping back, scanning, surveying, and passing the ball in the field. It's behind the line of scrimmage, like you said, extending plays when these defensive defensive backs on the back end try to plaster, someone gets loose like they have the entire season against Ole Miss, and he makes big plays down the field over and over and over again. Couple that with Old Miss using a lot of tempo in this game to slow down that defensive line and make them run east to west, over and over by the time you get in that third and fourth quarter.

00:32:34
Speaker 5: I like Ole Miss.

00:32:35
Speaker 6: That's where I get worried.

00:32:37
Speaker 1: Because I really think, like we've we've questioned all Miss throughout this entire process. We've watched them, We've watched their head coach take all his coaches from LSU back to Ole Miss, back and forth. As the weeks have gone on Lane Kiffin is leaving LSU Bowl games early. He's making his coaches come back to do recruiting visits while also they're trying to gain plan for a semi final playoff spot. And the only thing these kids have done is just exceed every expectation out there.

00:33:02
Speaker 4: I feel like America is like rooting for this. I sit there from one of them. Yeah, I sit there, and I'm like root for him against Georgia. Lucy the running back is a dog. Yeah, Lacey Lacy, the running back is a dog. Yeah, Lucy Lacy. Lucy Nicotine's incredible. Dude, there's I think in this game if Old Miss can do what they've done the entire years. I believe it was Washington State early in the season when they kind of had a sleeper before a big game, close game, sleeper before a big game. I think you're gonna put Miami situation to where Carson Beck. Everyone wants talk great about Parson Beck and how at the beginning of the season went a little stumble in the middle, but it has been.

00:33:37
Speaker 5: Great since then. He threw one one hundred fifty six yards last game Miami.

00:33:41
Speaker 4: I don't I don't feel like people are saying like he's but he's out there ball and like he's he's.

00:33:47
Speaker 5: Showing somebody not.

00:33:48
Speaker 1: Will Compton said, you you look at Carson Beck as a weapon in this game. I think if you use Carson Beck as a weapon in this game, you have a high probability of turnovers.

00:33:58
Speaker 6: Don't you think the weapon last game with his legs, but I think with his.

00:34:04
Speaker 5: Two was here for one hundred prederent yards.

00:34:08
Speaker 6: True, they were very effective.

00:34:10
Speaker 3: Y'all see you saw them with that shoulder last game. Right, let's see it putting that shoulder down on some boys weight room.

00:34:16
Speaker 6: Like.

00:34:16
Speaker 1: I think they run the ball really effectively. I think they've proven that. You said the stats right there. I think if Old Miss can turn this into a game that almost wants to play, where it's fifty thirty and a third with and one hundred yards long and allowed to make these defensive linemen run east to west throughout the entire game and tire them out and extend plays. Have some explosives here and there, but get them ten to twelve play drives. I like Ole Miss in this game, and I'm taking Old Miss to cover three and a half.

00:34:41
Speaker 6: The other part of the trap door theory. I'm glad you mentioned that because part of the trap door theory is, hey, Miami's up at the half, but you look at the stat sheet and ole Miss ran thirty nine plays, and the thirty nine plays involved those defensive linemen on the field, and you converted some third downs and you just you just made them stay on the field, and you're looking and you're saying, thirty nine, what's about to happen in the second half. Because the thing about big dudes that you'll notice that doesn't apply to dbs or wide receivers is once their tank is empty, their tank's just empty, right. They don't reload. Big dudes don't reload, especially defensive linemen, they don't really reload, and so once they're gassed, they're gassed. And that's what worries me. And that's why I think, even if it's a lower scoring game to start out with, I still like that over because I think at some point, if you even get a fraction of what ole Miss did against Georgia, there's going to come a time where you know, that game turns loose in the second half, maybe early fourth quarter, And that's what makes me nervous. So I still like Miami, but because I think they can score two. I just think they may have to score because they give up a little bit more than they're used to.

00:35:46
Speaker 1: Right, But if you look at both teams, you're like, which team has to score? Who do I feel more comfortable with producing seven US as opposed to three?

00:35:54
Speaker 5: What team are you picking in that just that situation.

00:35:56
Speaker 6: It would be Old Miss. But I will say this Ole Miss may have the greatest kicker in the history of organized sports. That dude's once once you if you get fair, catch the ball in the end zone, he's almost in field goal range. You need about ten fifteen yards. I feel like that dude would have been good from seventy five the other day.

00:36:13
Speaker 5: Yeah, I like Old Mess. I love the story too.

00:36:15
Speaker 1: I love how Lane Kiffin is now like just actually trying to ruin their playoffs. He's like no longer a hiding. At first, it was like, let me try to be a little more sneaky about this. Now he's out of the bushes. He's out of the bushes, just be like, hey, we're we can't win this happen.

00:36:33
Speaker 3: I love all of the stories of these four teams.

00:36:35
Speaker 5: Yeah, absolutely left.

00:36:38
Speaker 1: Yeah, my heart is I'm worried about this next time we're about to talk about, but I do. I'm excited to watch this game as a fan and see all the ACC dowters, myself included, see if they are like, hey they get something to stand out. Hey, we're our ACC football team is in the National Championship. And then this old Missagle with Lane Kiffin and all the things he tried to do to derail them. Can they withstand all the distractions?

00:37:01
Speaker 3: Yeah?

00:37:02
Speaker 5: And just can and just be great?

00:37:04
Speaker 6: Can you?

00:37:05
Speaker 3: And don't give the a sec that Bro, They're just still very mediocre. They have Miami.

00:37:10
Speaker 1: But it's the same thing like now the ACC cans sit there and say our top is better than anybody else's top, yeah, which is like, yeah, it's a whole nother war for next year when we get after the season.

00:37:21
Speaker 3: And I just love hearing the rumbling suit the U is back.

00:37:25
Speaker 6: You hear what Mario said about that?

00:37:27
Speaker 3: What Mario said?

00:37:28
Speaker 6: So Mario, I was down there three years ago and I was sitting in his office and he just like went on this tirade which was off camera, and he's really good off camera, He's okay on camera. Mario's a really good off camera. So he's just pounding Cuban coffee shots at his desk and he's going off about the U being back. He said, I'm I'm going to clean it up a little bit. But he said, I'm so tired of these people asking me when the U is going to be back. The US never going to be back because we can't ever replicate what we did in the late eighties and early nineties, not because we don't want to, but because the entire sport has changed. It's impossible for any want to do what we did in the late eighties and early nineties. I'm not focused on bringing the U back. I'm focused on building what the U is going to be. And I sat there and I said, putting on a T shirt, that's great. Yeah, well US three years ago, you know. So they've still had some bad losses since then, and like people have been up and down on him, saying he's just a recruiter. He can't do this, he can't do that. A lot of cannot when it should have been has not. So now they're four quarters away from playing for a national championship in their own building. By the way, it'll be a home game for the national title game, and he said it the other night they interviewed him. I think Scott Benpelt had him on Sports Center. He's got the headset on, He's right there, there's confetti still flying down, and he said a version of that. He said, I've not really been worried about getting the U back. That was another era in college football history. We love the tradition, we appreciate it, we respect it, but I'm focused on building what the U is going to be. That's the exact proper stance to have. He had it. It's not some new catchphrase that marketing gave him on a post it note, like that's how they've constructed things down there, because the only thing that this Miami team would have in common with those teams if they won the title was that they won the title. Nothing about the way these teams are constructed now has anything in common with the way Howard Schnellenberger or Jimmy Johnson or anyone like that put those teams together back then.

00:39:14
Speaker 3: That's fair. Also, Michael Irvan on the sideline Belta ass.

00:39:18
Speaker 6: Belts, Ray, Lewis, Ray and Lewis. You gotta wonder who's gonna be there this week. You gotta wonder.

00:39:23
Speaker 3: Yeah, they use back. They're bringing the U back. Let's get to Big Netty and Lanny.

00:39:29
Speaker 5: Yeah you want me to read it?

00:39:32
Speaker 3: Yeah, Big Natty and Laney.

00:39:34
Speaker 6: I have a nine and a half on the nervousness scale about to predict this game. And I shouldn't feel the way I feel, but I'm nervous. Go ahead.

00:39:41
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00:39:53
Speaker 5: You never se that A little curve I.

00:39:54
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00:39:58
Speaker 3: You look good?

00:39:58
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00:40:06
Speaker 3: You really don't.

00:40:07
Speaker 1: Oh, get Jack twenty twenty six, doesn't matter. I got True Classic hab in my back. Let's get into the Tru Classic Game of the week. Can I can fully get on board with that. This is the Peach Bowl, Mercedes Benz Stadium, Number five, Oregon versus number one in Indiana. Indiana's favored by three and a half points total. That game is forty six and a half. No one wants to go first. Nope, no, No one wants to have this conversation. Dan Lanning, friend of the show, Signetti Denier, but soon to be a friend of the show, doesn't know it yet. Maybe the most well coached football team in Bloomfield, Indiana. Bloomington Bloomington, Indiana, follow by the second most best coach team in Eugene, Oregon.

00:40:49
Speaker 3: Are they though?

00:40:50
Speaker 5: Yeah, they're good, They're well coached. Do you really think so? Situationally, I think they're really good.

00:40:55
Speaker 3: Yeah.

00:40:55
Speaker 6: And I hated situational offense with them this last game. I hated it. I mean, we will. Stein's partly checked out. He's busy taking your quarterback down there at Kentucky, they go for God bless they go for it eight times on fourth down.

00:41:08
Speaker 5: That the new age of football, dude, the new age of football.

00:41:11
Speaker 6: You're not about to tell me everyone's just out there going for it over half a dozen times on fourth down per game. It looked a little shape.

00:41:17
Speaker 3: We got to get him. On the phone with Greg Olson.

00:41:20
Speaker 6: I've heard no don't make sense. I'm not saying the analytics don't make sense. I'm saying, all right, forget, forget the fourth down thing. That's a byproduct of I think some offensive inefficiency that they had in this game. So I'm kind of joking, but I'm kind of serious. There was defense, but that's true. There was a lot of stuff that Oregon could afford to get away with against Texas Tech that would just bankrupt you against Indiana because Indiana can make you pay for that stuff. And man, I'm telling you, I go back a couple of years. I remember Dubor was still at Washington Landing and Oregon played them twice one in Seattle, won in the PAC twelve Championship game, and I was up at the game in Seattle. He goes for it on fourth down a couple of times, they don't convert and they lose, and he just gets drug in the media, and I respected him because he said we just didn't execute, like I'm not changing my strategy. I'm not changing my formula. And that got born out because later in the year they still go for it on fourth down. But then they got to the Pactweld Championship game, and I ran my mouth all year about how orgon in the rematch they'll win it. They're favored by like ten, and they got beat worse that time than they did the first time around. And so this whole Dan landing in a rematch thing still got to see it. That's part one. But part two is the fourth down thing. So last week, you go for it eight times on fourth down, you convert four of them. There were a lot of arguments that maybe you kept Texas Tech in the game by not converting. So the answer is, of course, to execute. You convert and you're good. But there's another thing that could creep into play here. You're watching the film of Alabama in Indiana, Kaylin de Bor just egregiously goes for it on fourth down on his own thirty yard line. They don't convert, and the damn breaks on Alabama. So you've got your fourth down experience against Texas Tech, You've got people experiencing fourth down failure against Indiana. You've got your entire career and your ethos and your DNA. How are you going to handle fourth down play? Calling? Fourth down decision making in this game, because the best thing Indiana does is they force you off of who you are, Like there's no world where I think Alabama's making those decisions against Georgia or Tennessee. But Indiana made them feel the pressure and make those decisions. And so these decisions, these game decisions, these third and fourth down play calling decisions, I wonder how different that looks in this game. And then the other thing that I wonder is is there enough looseness in the puzzle? Like are there enough blank pieces in the puzzle of Indiana or are they just fully put together? Because the puzzle that's fully put together, that's just there's no loose ends, there's no blank spaces, there's no weaknesses. In other words, which means you have to either be as good as them and execute or you just got to be more talented than them and execute at a relatively high level. And I just hadn't seen anyone do it this year. So I think the staff edge goes to Indiana because I don't I don't care what Dan Lanning says. I hate that you have stats, including his, that have multiple coordinators on their way out the door. You will never convince me, that's not an issue, and I think conditionally once we get out of the playoffs and you start to get some truth serum in some folks anonymously, I'm not just talking about Oregon here, I'm talking about a number of stats. You will hear that this was a huge impediment to people's preparation and people's game week execution. You will hear that. So Dante Moore, I think the game falls on him. Dante Moore got picked off a couple of times. I think in this game.

00:44:42
Speaker 3: The first time around.

00:44:44
Speaker 6: It's because their average distance to gain on third down was over six yards, so they got to get him in manageable situations. They had five third and nine plus situations, so third and fourth down. I know it's always important. It's the most important out of it any of these playoff games for Oregon in this game. So if anyone can convince me they're gonna execute it that high level, I would pick Oregon, but they didn't against Texas Tech. I think Indiana can put the heat on you every bit as much, if not more than Texas Tech. So I'm just done doubting him. You got his number, I don't. I don't have Kurt Signetty's number. He's never texted me, but I know not to doubt him. So if Dan Lanning needs disrespect, if Dan Lanning needs doubt, if he needs a face to look at in the mirror other than his own, he can look at mine. Because I may not be doubting him. I'm just believing in the other guy more so, I'm gonna take Indiana to win. I will take Indiana to cover.

00:45:52
Speaker 1: So Dan Lanning looks in the mirror and he's he's a doubter, and it's Josh Pate. It's unfortunately out of the one. Oh my goodness, I believe Indiana is the best coach team in all of college football right now. Thirteen points that Oregon got came from four turnovers against Texas Tech. Indiana is not going to give you those types of opportunities, Dan Landing, as much as I love him, you're right. He's a super aggressive guy who's gonna live and die by his own sword. You we pointed out the couple of years ago against Washington, killing the bor going for a fourth down. If I'm strategically going against Indiana and my office is not getting off to a good start and it's and I know how they can kind of just trudge down the field to run the ball, RPOs passing the ball. I'm going to flip the field on them and make them go the length of the field.

00:46:38
Speaker 6: I agree.

00:46:39
Speaker 1: I don't know if Dan will do that. I agree because he's shown that and you you, I mean, you said all of it. They were horrible and third down last time, I think he got sacked how many times?

00:46:50
Speaker 5: But six times in the first matchup.

00:46:52
Speaker 6: I think three or fourteen on third down.

00:46:53
Speaker 1: Maybe I think that number goes down a little bit because of the injury that took place to that that player that I can't remember his name right now. But you're not going to get four turnovers against Indiana. You're gonna have to go to the length of the field. You're not going to get him on some petty they jumped off side. There's a free five yards, so we're going to take a shot down the field. Dante Moore to win for Ore going to win this game, Danzey Moore has to be elite.

00:47:14
Speaker 6: Yep.

00:47:15
Speaker 1: It can't be your run game. It can't be six point seven on the ground. I know their rushing stats weren't great in this last game, but a lot of that comes back to how many times he was sacked.

00:47:23
Speaker 6: It does even the sack adjusted though, they were under two yards per carry, so they sucked running the ball even without sacks. But if you take out sacks in the Indiana game, they were near five yards per carry. They did not run the ball terribly against Indiana the first time around. That's why the key I said it eventually falls on Dante Moore. That's all predicated on your run game being able to do enough of what it should be able to do. Like Bama had nothing running the ball in Indiana. You should have something, not a whole lot, but you should have something running the ball against Indiana. Stephen Daily being out for Indiana ended up not mattering against Bama. Maybe it matters in this game. Maybe this is where that shows that.

00:48:01
Speaker 1: I don't know if it does, and based on my page, I don't think it does. And it breaks my heart for Oregon. Breaks my heart because I'm a massive fan of Dan Landing. And then when he looks in the mirror of doubt, he's gonna see both of our faces. We'll find out if there's three faces in front of him in just a second but they have to do things we haven't seen on film in order for them to be successful against Indiana.

00:48:21
Speaker 5: And because of that, I have.

00:48:22
Speaker 1: To go with the safer bet, which is I have to pick the team that I've seen do it on film, which is Indiana.

00:48:26
Speaker 6: Do you remember Landing post game against Penn State.

00:48:30
Speaker 1: Yeah, coked out of his mind, not really coked out. That's a people are.

00:48:34
Speaker 6: Gonna take that Coca Cola classic. Yeah, polar bear style. That has to pale in comparison. You know, he's watching, you know how he has to feel, and he's he's seated like I am right now, because he knows there's one man who can save them. There's one man who can pull the nose up on this before it craters into the earth. His name is William Compton.

00:48:58
Speaker 3: His nose is cratered into the earth.

00:49:00
Speaker 1: You're kidding me, no this, hey, but here's a positive. This is don't even break anything down. Exactly what break down is exactly what Organ needs to win one, two three on Indiana.

00:49:14
Speaker 3: It's crazy.

00:49:14
Speaker 5: Welcome to the show boys. I've been on this for a week longer. All good. I'm happy to have you. But this is gonna help Organ win this game.

00:49:21
Speaker 3: There ain't much to break down.

00:49:22
Speaker 4: You guys, lay out scenarios where the game could be played like four different ways. Every outcome screams Indiana. Not a whole lot of fodder from Bignetti. The name Bignetti texting me other than he knows I'm his daddy. Yeah, that's it. And he and I sit there and read that, and I'm like, he is his daddy, Like Big Netty is big bro and Landing is little bro. In this situation, there's there's no and everybody knows we love Orgon.

00:49:54
Speaker 5: We love Orgon.

00:49:56
Speaker 4: Our bias lies with Lanning and organ absolutely that fan base does.

00:50:00
Speaker 3: Any time we go out there.

00:50:02
Speaker 1: Animal House, Animal film there and you still haven't seen the movie, gotta watch it. But a animals master Matt Kearney, Yeah.

00:50:13
Speaker 3: He's got the song.

00:50:16
Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, so yeah, but voice, hey heartbreaking.

00:50:22
Speaker 6: Yeah it's Kurt Bignetti after all the things that he said, not about Dan. You can talk about a guy, you talk about a guy's family, you talk about a guy's wife. And the beautiful thing is a lot of times when people trash talk you where they take shots at you in life, you don't get a chance to seek retribution. You don't get a chance to avenge yourself. Dan Lanning has a chance to avenge himself, his name, his team, his family, his.

00:50:46
Speaker 4: Wife, his friends, us. But Kurt Bignetti is gonna be across the sideline. He's gonna look at Dan and he's gonna go and it's over.

00:50:58
Speaker 5: Was there a harder clip to come out this last week? Then?

00:51:00
Speaker 3: When he did at to Pat.

00:51:01
Speaker 1: McAfee, that's unbelievable. It was unbelievable. Rose Bull, Well, the first time you need it was ever in the rose Ball had to.

00:51:07
Speaker 6: Be Yeah, uh with in color TV era, certainly. And you know what the worst part of it was, You seen Silence of the Lambs? Yeah, okay, Hannibal Lecter. One of the famous things about him is when he was killing people, his heart rate never got above eighty. And so he's beaten a cop to death spoiler alert, he's beaten a cop to death with his club. He's beating his head, he gets the prison doors, and all the while he just has this look on his face like he's watching the TV show.

00:51:34
Speaker 5: Just boring TV show too.

00:51:37
Speaker 6: That was Kurt Signetti. Kurt Signetti sitting there finger gun in Pat McAfee thinking of him, suff you have no idea what I'm about to do to these kids.

00:51:44
Speaker 5: They finished the Rose Bowl, they fly back to Indiana.

00:51:47
Speaker 1: I've already throughout the city. He corrected me Onloo Bloomington. He lets his coaching staff, goes home. He stays at the office for six more hours, six to eight more hours, just to watch films start breaking down. Organ because he's got transferportablecruits coming in. Ends up signing half a dozy, including Nick marsh whoever he wanted, whoever he wanted. They here's here's the front for here's no. They just signed. They assigned h TCU. Correct, Yes, Brenana Mendozo. We're in the most RPOs in all of college football this year, second place, Hoover.

00:52:24
Speaker 5: Most r post. He got his guy. This is what Dan Lenny has on his shoulders this weekend.

00:52:30
Speaker 1: It's not the Oregon Ducks, it's not the Northwest, it's not it's not his wife. It's if you let Indiana win this game and the transfer portal that we live in, we will now be living in a world where kids will give up, give up some money to go to Indiana to pick coach.

00:52:47
Speaker 6: By Kurtz I think they already are.

00:52:50
Speaker 5: Hey, that's on Dan. That's one hundred Dan. If they loses this.

00:52:54
Speaker 6: Game, Hey, I got one more thing for you to I got a text Landing. I got one more thing for you. Now, let me ask you this. You hear some of the haters, Believe it or not, not everyone loves Dan Lanning. Some people say about him, what is he won? What does he want?

00:53:10
Speaker 5: You know?

00:53:10
Speaker 6: Cause to some people, if you haven't won a national title, you haven't won anything. I think he's in the James Franklin spot last year because they were saying that about James Franklin. James Franklin doesn't win the Big Ten title but still goes to the playoff. Right hosts a playoff game, just like Landing. Did they beat SMU at home? Oregon beat JMU at home? Then Penn State goes and they beat Boise in the Fiesta Bowl. Well, Oregon goes and they beat Texas Tech in the Orange Bowl. But still you're not going to get credit for it because to the public, Oh, those were games you were supposed to win. It's Penn State go beat Notre Dame. Well you can't Drawaler throws an interception, season over and the haters were still even after you won two playoff games, saying, at the end of the day, what has James Franklin won? Mark my words, if Oregon lou this is this game, the haters will still say about Dan Lanning, what has he won? So throw that on his shoulders as well to any Franklin, That's what they'll say.

00:54:11
Speaker 3: Did you text him that? No, I texted her. I said Bignetti owns.

00:54:14
Speaker 4: You'll sell the follow up and say none of us believe in you thumbs up to both this thumbs up.

00:54:22
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's heartbreaking. I was really hoping one of you would.

00:54:27
Speaker 6: You actually say that.

00:54:28
Speaker 5: Yeah.

00:54:30
Speaker 1: I was really helping one of you would go Oregon because I feel extra bad now that we're all.

00:54:35
Speaker 5: Three of us are in the hurt list. It's gonna hurt. Get it done.

00:54:41
Speaker 4: You can't not recognize what this Indiana team has done. Most balanced football team, which feels like a like a like a cop out on talking about how much respect that this team has on the ground with Mendoza, that defense, the secondary, the way that they play, I mean, they are.

00:55:01
Speaker 3: They are that squad.

00:55:02
Speaker 1: They are elite and all the boring things in football. Yeah, and that's what makes them excellent. Yeah, they don't make mistakes a lot of bite. Yeah, but they're so sound in their techniques. They're always in the right spots when they're breaking their routes. Their offensive line is always on the same page. Mendoza always knows where he's going. Even in the first first series of the game, Like you see the lead up to the Rose Bowl and they're breaking down games of Fernanda Mendoza played, and he shows a couple of plays in that game, goes to Fernanda Mendoza singing in a car shirt, talking to the person whoever it was, breaking down the stuff, and he goes, yeah, I'll be hono. So I was really nervous, and then we all just settled down and we knew we had each other's back. In Classic Frenanda Mendoza Verbid Cinema and they showed it two or three times, two or three games they talked about and two or three times he says similar things about being nervous calming down Alabama starts. They get two sacks in the first series on their first two dropback passes, and it's exactly it's like, yeah, they're probably a little nervous, and they settled down and for Nana Mendoza and that that computer of his, they.

00:56:04
Speaker 4: Just yeah, the only team who's won with a bye teams with the buye are what it was?

00:56:09
Speaker 3: One and seven?

00:56:10
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, which is nuts nuts.

00:56:15
Speaker 3: Well, Fellas, this doesn't seem like we feel good.

00:56:18
Speaker 5: No, Hey, Bryce Underwood came back to Michigan.

00:56:23
Speaker 6: A big deal.

00:56:23
Speaker 5: That is a big deal.

00:56:24
Speaker 3: Is a very big deal.

00:56:25
Speaker 5: That's a big deal.

00:56:26
Speaker 3: A lot of work, a lot of effort.

00:56:29
Speaker 6: Oh no, ship, it's rolling.

00:56:33
Speaker 5: It's rolling. Now.

00:56:34
Speaker 1: I need douceduice back. Haynes Marshall, marsh get those boys, a couple of wide receivers. Get that snowed in kid from Utah and that Daily kid. I like where we say.

00:56:52
Speaker 4: Hey, But as Mario would say, it's not about being back, it's about where you're doing it.

00:56:55
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that that too.

00:56:59
Speaker 6: The Mario's up too.

00:57:00
Speaker 5: You'll see you next time.

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