Hour 1 – College Football Playoff Drama, Chris Paul Released by the Clippers

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Speaker 4: So if you were on the college football committee, which Russia now would be most important whilst ranking the teams, that's your cue that this is from Paul.

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Speaker 2: The word walst was used.

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Speaker 5: In it.

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Speaker 4: A team's resume, current chance to win the title, or teams that will be best for ratings. I think that this is very pointed at one specific matchup, but we'll see.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I'm curious what Chris Fowler will say about this when he joins this like next hour, because it is entertainment. You want ratings, you want Notre Dame. There there's a chance Notre Dame does not make the college football playoffs. Now there's some scenarios that have to happen. But if I'm going to look at BYU and Notre Dame straight up right now, BYU has the better resume. BYU has Texas Tech coming up this weekend. Notre Dame doesn't play until their next game, which could be a bowl game or a playoff game. But if you're just looking the eye test BYU as a better resume. Now we've been matching up Notre Dame in Miami, and I still think Notre Dame is a better team. I want to factor in how you play now. They did have two losses. They did lose to Miami, they lost at home to Texas Tech. But Texas to me is playing as good to football as maybe anybody is right now. But they have three losses and they went out and scheduled Ohio State to start the year. If BYU doesn't have a game this weekend, is BYU going to be in the college football playoffs? If Texas had one more game and won the game, would they be in the playoffs? See, this is where it gets tricky with these conference title games. I don't like them. I think it's a money grab and I think at times it does hurt some of these schools that if they do lose, then they're not going to be in the college football playoffs. Not everybody has a conference championship game to play him. I mean, he got Duke with five losses playing in the ACC title game. But there's a chance the ACC will I guess be on the outside looking in. Yeah, palling.

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Speaker 3: There's so many semantics to this.

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Speaker 6: Because Duke in Virginia, there's like a loophole because Duke isn't currently ranked in the top twenty five. They could beat Virginia and not be in there's a possibility of it because they're not ranked.

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Speaker 3: It's like a tax loophole.

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Speaker 2: It's really weird, and it's a national signing day and I can't imagine how morale is in Penn State Happy Valley because we had Devin mccordyon from NBC Football Night in America, former defensive back, and he said, you go to play for the coach. Well, if you're going to go to Penn State, who's your coach? And Kalani Sataki, BYU head coach is going to stay at BYU. I guess a big booster came in, big donor and said you're not going anywhere, you're one of us. And he's done a really good job. I think BYU is a really good job. If you look at the history of that program, very underrated. You can look at forty years of BYU football and it's an underrated program. So he's going to stay there. They're playing Texas Tech in the title game there and maybe a chance to go into the playoffs. But for Penn State, we said it at the time, Okay, you're going to fire James Franklin, who are you bringing in? And it felt like we got to get rid of James Franklin. We'll worry about that other stuff later on, and that's come back to haunt them. Yeah, Paulie, it does.

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Speaker 6: Like Penn State miscalculated their reputation. Like we're Penn State, We're going to have our pick of coaches because we're firing our head coach early. So we're early in this process and then like the Dominos fell and a bunch of people passed, and it almost like devalued the brand month by month.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you start to look at, Okay, maybe there's somebody who is going to be coaching in the playoffs and that's who you got your site set on. Maybe it's an assistant coach who's there. Not sure. I thought Brian Hartline, the offensive coordinator at Ohio State, might get an opportunity. I think he was up for the Kentucky job, and maybe maybe he does get a chance.

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Speaker 7: Now.

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Speaker 2: I don't think he's had any head coaching experience. I do know he is a great recruiter. He certainly knows what a great wide receiver looks like. If you Ohio States become wide receiver, Hugh, who would have thought that? What he Hayes. I can't imagine what he hayes if somebody said, you know, they don't run the ball anywhere near the way they used to. It's not three yards in a cloud of dust. They throw the ball a lot. Are they good? Yeah they are, they're really good. Alrighty, battle to cough here, So if I hit the cough button a couple of times here, we'll try to slug our way through this. Yeah, it's going around. Well, it stayed around. I've had this going around and sticking around a little bit. Yeah, sorry to hear that. Man, It's like, man, how did this happen again? It won't leave me. It's like Todd, it's always there. Yes, the nineteen year cough. Apparently twenty two year cough. Yeah, Pauling.

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Speaker 3: There are worse diseases to bring home from Vegas, though.

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Speaker 6: Historically you think about it the cold and your your rough shade.

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Speaker 2: But historically some of them clear up a lot easier, though. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, penicillin.

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Speaker 2: Penicillin knock that right out. I had penicillin, you know, I had the shots. Had the doctor came to my uh my hotel room. I have to call her back, see if she'll give me a you know drive by here. Yeah, Pauling, this.

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Speaker 6: Could be an early best week in sports. But what an opportunity for BYU. You keep your coach from going to Penn State, which you would think would be of reverse. You lose your coach to Penn State. You could get in the playoffs this weekend by beating Texas Tech, and you could knock Notre Dame possibly out of the playoffs, all in.

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Speaker 3: A week's time for BYU football.

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Speaker 8: Wow.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, interesting times though, And I know these coaches, they rail against this, but then the coaches are the ones who can change this. And I mean, I don't know what kind of reform we're going to have, and I'll talk to Chris Fowler about this that you know, we just need to come up with a solution that works for everybody. Works. Imagine National Signing Day. So imagine if you're a big time recruit and you were planning on going to Penn State. Well, James Franklin goes to Virginia Tech. Well, now are you going to follow James Franklin to Virginia Tech? And that's what's happening. So we can we can talk about current players, the coaches, changing fan base is and I mean all of these things the high school kid. Nobody is factoring that in Hey, who's my coach? Where am I going? What other pole questions do you have?

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Speaker 4: Setan well, we could go with one there sort of point about BYU, who will get in Notre Dame or BYU?

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Speaker 2: And then who should get in Notre Dame?

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Speaker 3: BYU?

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Speaker 2: Okay, well by you should right now? But you know, strength to schedule record. They're playing for a conference championship. Man, I'd be I'd be shocked if Notre Dame's not in. Yeah, because you want to do everything you possibly can to get Notre Dame in. You still want eyeballs, you still want a great Cinderella story, and you'll probably have that. It has a way of sorting itself out. I know that we always look at worst case scenario, and but it just feels like whenever we talk about these scenarios, it just seems to work its way out to have a little chaos. I'm okay with that. Yes, Marvin is Alabama in trouble if they get like housed by Georgia, I would say yes. I would say yes. And although this isn't a dynamic Georgia team, but Alabama. You need a good showing and look, it's only a two point spread, so they're expecting a close game.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Paul, And the other team that's in the play the conference playoffs this weekend, the conference championships, Indiana, you need a nice showing against Ohio State. Now you're obviously still going to stay in the playoffs, but you know, the downside is probably worse than the upside this weekend for Indiana.

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Speaker 2: And Old Miss went up in the rankings, the standings there with the College Football Selection Committee. I'm kind of surprised at that. And then you got Charlie Weis junior who was the defensive coordinator and he's now going to LSU, but now he goes back to Ole Miss to be the defensive coordinator during the playoff.

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Speaker 3: Like a loner.

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Speaker 2: What is going on? Yeah, it's like a loaner.

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Speaker 4: Car is he looking at the Penn State job now? Based off the strength of that?

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Speaker 2: I have no idea what's going on. But Lane had to sign off on this, and then Ole Miss had to sign on off on this, and then you get our defensive coordinator and then we're going to take him back when the playoffs are over all right. A couple of phone calls in here, Chris and Syracuse leads us off this morning. Hi Chris, what's on your mind?

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Speaker 5: Hey?

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Speaker 1: Thanks Dan?

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Speaker 9: Yeah, a couple things you guys are talking Penn State. You know, the Penn State coach coaching search reminds me of the New York Knicks coaching search after they fired Tom Thibodeau last year. Both seemingly plumb jobs. But you wonder if Penn State's going to be like the Knicks and whoever they do end up hiring. It's not really an upgrade. And I definitely think there's no way Lane Tippins should coach that game, the playoff game.

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Speaker 2: But he's got to be rolling.

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Speaker 9: His eyes a little with new LSU coach Charlie Weiss junior allowed.

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Speaker 2: To Yeah, but and I don't understand the backroom dealings with this. I don't want Charlie Weis junior there. I don't want Lane Kiffin there. These are our guys, these are our coaches. Let's go out and plague. But we did spend a lot of time on Lane Kiff. And now there is a player that we've been in contact with who said that Lane. You know, the players weren't all gung ho. They wanted Lane Kiffin to stay there, and I think some of that news came out. We had gotten word a couple of days ago. But Lane makes it seem like all those players wanted me, all the national media wanted me to stay and coach that you're not a victim. You got a great job. Celebrate it, you know, don't be apologetic. Take the job. You took the job, Enjoy the job. Good luck with the job. But the other stuff stop making it seem like this is all one old miss. Yes.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's about as fast as a hero to zero transition as I think I can ever remember in modern sports.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, but you know, I watched the press conference. It just didn't seem like he was in a celebratory mood. It was almost a mood of well, they wouldn't let me coach. Yeah, I wouldn't let you coach. You took the job, Yeah, but I wanted to finish the job. Well, you didn't finish the job. Go to LSU. It's okay, it's a great job. But for him to come out and say I don't know how much I'm getting paid, really, it's not the answer I want from my coach, how much you got with the collectibles, the collectives or and I I don't know, Like you don't know how much you're getting paid to make it seem like, well, money wasn't an issue here, you're being highly compensated. That's why he doesn't want to say anything. I mean, I wish you would stop trying to kind of clean up the mess here. Yeah, it's he's walking behind the elephant in the circus. It's just like, move on, It's okay, yes, Ton, when you're.

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Speaker 10: Twenty, it's okay to play that card. It's all about the opportunity. I got to build up my resume, and whenever they pay me, I'll just take it. But at this point in the game, that's a very difficult thing to believe.

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Speaker 2: You know.

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Speaker 10: It sounds nice to say that it's all about the opportunity that I wasn't really crunching the numbers. I'll leave that to my agent, but I can't anyone gonna have a brain don't believe that.

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Speaker 2: Uh yeah, coach, would you take five million if they could use the other ten million for recruits? N I l would you coach it? Because money doesn't matter, it's the job. Right, See, it's all silly. Just stop, you know, making up excuses. Just take the job.

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 2: That's the landscape that we have, like it or not, that's the landscape we have.

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Speaker 6: Yes, Paul, I do think that what you guys just said is exactly the reason why Lane Kiffin let Charlie Weist Junior stay for a month or two with ole Miss football as offensive coordinator. It's like I'll loan him back to you. He's not coaching with LSU like he and Lane. They're not coaching the team in any bowl game they get. They've already announced that, so he would just be say in there not doing anything. It's almost like I'm going to loan you this as an olive branch on the way out to help you with the playoff committee. They announced us before the playoff selections yesterday. And maybe it's not a little bit of a light olive branch between the two.

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Speaker 2: They're still hated rivals. They're always going to be hated rivals. Next November when LSU goes to ole Miss, it is going to be a scene. So, I mean, you can put a band aid on it, but boy, they can rip the band aid off really quickly. All right, we'll settle on our poll question. More phone calls coming up, and we'll talk more about the college football well the rankings, really everything attached to that with Chris Fowler a little bit later on. We're back after this Dan Patrick's Show.

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Speaker 2: National Signing Day for college football. Penn State enters the day with just four recruits, so their class for this year ranks around Montana State, Missouri State, and Akron. This is Penn State we're talking about. And you go back to the James Franklin firing. Got to get him out of here. Where Penn State will have our choice and maybe they do find their coach. They missed on a few coaches, and maybe they eventually find the guy, and I'm sure they can tell us all along, this is the guy that we wanted after they've been turned down by a few coaches. Yes, Pauling, just.

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Speaker 6: To give you a comparison, twenty four to seven Sports really dialed in on this stuff. Last year, Penn State was fifth ranked in the Big Ten with commitments at this juncture of signing week, and they had twenty eight. They were only behind Ohio State, Oregon, Michigan, and USC. Understandable. And this year, with the same situation, like you said, just in the Big Ten, they are at best twelfth place.

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Speaker 2: Mis Penn State. They're known for their recruiting. They get great players there. They turn out to be a lot of great pros that go there. But it is National Signing Day. Never in my wildest dreams imagination did I think that Vandy would be able to flip a quarterback who was maybe going to Georgia, Jared Curtis, who was from Nashville, five star recruit. He's going to be the successor to Diego Pavilla, there at Vandy. I have the college football title odds. Ohio State is the big favorite. Then it's Indiana, then Georgia. Then you have Oregon and Notre Dame who are tied. Then it's Texas tech A and m Alabama, and then Old Miss is way down the list top heavy with Ohio State, Indiana. The fact that Notre Dame and Oregon have the same odds and we don't even know if Notre Dame is going to make the playoffs? All right? Each seven to seven three DP show email address Dpadanpatrick dot com, Twitter handle DP show. I believe we have settled on a pole question, at least for the first hour of the program.

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Speaker 8: Seaton.

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Speaker 4: I haven't even gotten into the Toddler assumptions as well. Oh Todd has some Oh okay, many, I've got another one here from Paul to Paul submitted a second and said, would you rather move to Amsterdam or Barcelona?

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Speaker 7: That's fun.

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Speaker 3: Let's say you had never been to either.

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Speaker 6: Todd just went to one, Seaton just went to another, just off without going to either. Just their reputations. You had to move tomorrow for the rest of your life to Amsterdam or Barcelona.

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Speaker 2: Amsterdam i'd like to visit. I think barcel is where I would live. Amsterdam feels like there's a novelty to it. You want to see the canals, you want to see everything that's attached to that Copenhagen, all of those things. Barcelona probably said live there.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, Paul Dan, I've been to Amsham twice, kind of like Hamilton original cast. Amsterdam has that reputation with the red light district and the weed when you get there. It's really a small part of the city. The red light district is three blocks right by the train station. It's easily avoidable, and the rest of it's beautiful. It's like, I don't know how to compare it. It's not like Venice. But isn't that Venice Ilk where it's like canals and bicycles and all that great stuff.

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Speaker 2: Well, they're just known as the Venice of the North. Here you got Did you come up with that? Or is that historic? I don't know sure? Why not? Yeah, Seaton, Would you take Barcelona the rest of your life easily? Easily? Yeah?

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Speaker 4: But I've been to both places. Both are spectacular. Barcelona is one of the best places I've ever been in my life. It's incredible. It's kind of like it's a lot like me in high school, but as a city. It's a lot of skateboarding, a lot of graffiti, a lot of like music and stuff like that. It's exactly the right temperature for me.

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Speaker 3: I love it.

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Speaker 2: Do they call it Bartholona over there? Barcelona? I don't know, not around me, but.

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Speaker 4: Maybe they were just being okay with my Barcelona.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, my son went to Barcelona and we said, how was Barcelona? He goes, no, no, no, it's Barcelona befa.

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Speaker 5: I go.

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Speaker 3: We spent some time in a bifa.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Todd, how about you Copenhagen, Amsterdam or Bartholona.

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Speaker 3: I really enjoyed amsterday.

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Speaker 10: I've never been to Barcelona, so it be hard to compare the two, but if they were both presented to me, I would probably want to see Barcelona first, but I am curious. I'd like to get to I haven't been to Spain or France. I've just been to parts of Italy, so I'm not the best person to answer that.

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Speaker 3: But I did enjoy Amsterdam very much.

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Speaker 10: But I could see what you're saying about it seems more of a touristy go there for maybe a week or two, not necessarily to live there forever.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I loved going to Venice, but I don't want to live in Venice, you know. And it's there's a great curiosity there and how it's built in the canals and beautiful. But there's other places. If you said I could pick, then I would probably pick those. But it's, you know, something you need to see. What other pole questions t o dubs? You want to run through? A couple you've got, let's do it. Yeah.

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Speaker 10: Are you comfortable with the current college football ranking system? A simple yes or no? Are you comfortable with the current college football ranking system?

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Speaker 2: It's comfortable, yeah, I would say I'm not comfortable. No, I mean, am I okay with it? Yes? But I'm not completely comfortable with it. I accept it, but then I have no other choice.

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Speaker 10: What else do you if you were well off financially, would you give large sums of money to alma mater to improve.

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Speaker 2: Their athletic programs?

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Speaker 10: Is that how you'd like to spend a lot of your money? If well off could mean doesn't necessarily mean you're a billionaire, but you're doing very well financially, but you'd like to see your alma mater do well. What you know, are you going to do that?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean if you have cash and you want to see, you know, your alma mater do well, and you can take great pride in that, and you know you're a big booster of that. Sure I could see that.

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Speaker 5: Yes.

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Speaker 6: And in the old days, if you're a booster, your money could go to like a general college fund or the athletic department, but it might go to build something. Now you could just send your money and say we want to buy players. You can just funnel your money right to Michigan or Nebraska and say I would like to buy that quarterback please.

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Speaker 2: Yeah you can actually, you know, go buy you know the window shopping say I'm going to take that and take one of those and and can I get one of those two? Yes? You can? What else? Do you have time? A couple more? How much college?

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Speaker 5: Best?

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Speaker 10: People are you watching right now? A lot peak here and there waiting for March madness.

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Speaker 2: All I know is Cameron Boozer needs to go to the NBA right now. He had another great game last night. He has ninety points over the last three games for Duke and you know, if you don't like Duke, then you're not gonna like Cameron Boozer because he's really good, really good. What else do you have?

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Speaker 10: And the last side fun one. It's exactly three weeks until Christmas Eve? So I ask you how much holiday shopping have you done? Exactly three weeks before Christmas Eve? All finished, mostly done, bought a few items?

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Speaker 2: None, zero, I've done nothing. Wow, it's zero. And I'm starting to get nervous because I usually dominate. I get my wife a great gift. I only have to get one gift that she has to do all the other shopping. And I'm whiffing on this right now, so I'm getting a little nervous here. I'd like to get her the autograph calendar of the DP show, but we're out of those calendars unless.

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Speaker 3: She ordered one, unless she already ordered one.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, might have to get the Tailgate moonshine and they special there with the autographic calendary. Thank you, Tom, Yes, Paul.

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Speaker 6: With your wife. With your wives, guys, do you ask her what she wants and asks for a couple ideas or do you say I got this big surprise.

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Speaker 2: I usually run reconnaissance with one of my daughters and she can help out a little bit. Yeah, yeah, smart, I mean I do, I ask, but she always says I don't want anything, and I know that that's not true. I say, you can't do that when everybody's opening gifts and then they'll be like, what'd you get mom? Nothing? Nothing, just this smile right here. She said you didn't want anything. So yeah, yeah, Now it's tough. You know, it's tricky. But never ever, you young guys out there, when they say they don't want to gift, they want a gift, do not fall for that. I brought my bought my wife a blender one time for Christmas back in the early days, and she goes, oh, it's a blender. I said yes, and I've never lived that down. As kids will always say oh, did you get mom a blender? And I'll go nope, uh, nope, god or something different.

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Speaker 6: Yes, if you're going to do the blender, it's got to be a joke and you have to put a high end piece of jewelry in the bottom of the blender like that would be the move.

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Speaker 3: I think.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, So no blender this year, but open to suggestions, all right. Cody in Texas Good morning, Cody. What's on your mind today?

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Speaker 5: Hey Dan?

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Speaker 7: I want to give the committee some props for you know, they get a lot of stuff wrong, but man leaving Texas out, that was a good move. Texas doesn't belong in the playoffs. This this this media blitz of well what about they lost to Florida and then they got dog walked two weeks ago by Georgia. They were not a playoff team.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you're right, you know that Florida loss is the one and if they don't make it, they don't make it. But I do think they're you know, you can see what they did against A and M. I mean, that's impressive, and A and M is a top five team. But they got to look at your resume. The Florida loss was a bad loss and they'll look back on that. And yes, they played Ohio State. They played Ohio State close, they lost that game. And three losses, it feels like it's really difficult for the committee to go, We're going to make an exception and have that three loss team in Dan in Ohio. Hi Dan, what's on your mind today?

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Speaker 8: Hey?

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Speaker 5: Dan? Sixty five?

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Speaker 8: Just wondering what you guys think. Do you think college football even wants to make.

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Speaker 2: Any change in a megaphone, Dan, are you using a megaphone here?

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Speaker 3: Dan, It's great to be on the show. Very excited to be here college football.

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Speaker 8: Sorry, I do have a bluetooth.

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Speaker 2: Okay, can you hear me?

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Speaker 7: Okay?

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Speaker 2: Now, yeah, no, I can Okay.

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Speaker 8: I'm just wondering if you think college football has any sort of urgency or any even desire to make any changes to coaching, hiring, transfer, portal signing day, anything like that. They've absolutely dominated sports talk radio for the better part of three weeks and I don't think anything would change as far as fandom goes if they didn't make any changes.

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Speaker 2: You know, say people, I don't know if they want to make changes. You brought up a great point. You know, they owned the sports talk whether it's TV or radio the last couple of weeks with all this. That's that's happened, and we'll continue. And that's hard to do when you're knocking NFL out of the top spot there. But you know, you want people talking about your product, and they are and there might be some negatives in there, but people are still talking about your product.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, polling, and I think it's pretty obvious, but the College Football Playoff Committee would much rather get three days of heat like they're getting now than put together a product that doesn't get the best ratings at the best matchups, and it's clearly their motivation.

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Speaker 2: Lucas in Texas, Hi, Luke, what's on your mind? Hey Dan, good morning, Good morning.

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Speaker 13: Just wanted to have a quick bit on the Lane Kippin saga that just never seems to end. I think there's a reason that he was playing so koy with his salary and whatnot, and I think it's politics. I mean, a few weeks ago, the Louisiana governor made a big show about bad contracts and we're not going to do that again. I'm going to get involved, and they gave Kiffen a worse contract. If you look at it, he has a financial incentive for another team to perform well in the playoff. If Ole Miss goes further, Lane gets more of a bonus. And so frankly, I think I think it's weird when politicians like try to actually substantively get involved in sports. But if you're gonna throw yourself out there, like, don't be afraid when you make a dumb deal and then try to hide it by saying, well, let's not talk about the money aspect.

00:29:27
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I reported, I gave you all the details yesterday in the final fifteen minutes of the program. I told you exactly what it was, and that he gets a bonus. He wanted to be rewarded for the job that he did at Old Miss because hey, I'm gonna take the job at LSU. I'm gonna take it now, I'm gonna take the bullets here. But I want to be compensated for you know, the clauses in my contract there, and and that governor has to know what his contract is. Everybody knows what the contract is. He's just silly for Lane to go, yeah, I don't even know what I'm getting paid. Yes you do, Yes you do, And you know all the other you know bonuses that kick it, you know all of those things. You got a great agent who negotiated this. But it's not like you go, hey, I don't want to know. I don't believe that for a second, because we're starting to find out. You know, Lane, it wasn't universal that everybody goes, hey, we want coach Kiffin to coach us in the playoffs. Some of these players have said no that that's not the case. So he did know, he does know to be silly if he didn't know. Curtis in Illinois, Hi, Curtis Morner DP on the Lane Kiffin subject.

00:30:43
Speaker 14: I don't know if it's Devil's advocate, but does he get any credit for this the fact that obviously the LSU job came up, he was interested and he just took it versus line about it for the next two months or having a handshake deal that could have come out and made him look worse in the media's eyes. And then also on top of that, is there a way that he could actually want the LSU job, take the LSU job, but not take it right now.

00:31:11
Speaker 2: No, he wanted to get there before National Signing Day. That's the problem with this. These coaches that hey, I'm going to jump to. We got coaches whose teams are in a conference championship game this weekend. They've already taken another job, and it's because you got to get there before National Signing Day. I mean, look at Penn State, the mess that they're in because they don't have a coach at National Signing Day. Lane had to take the job. Then you're right. Could he have sat there and lied and said, uh, you know, I'm staying here. He doesn't have to apologize for taking the job, because that's the way collegees set this up. You know, he didn't create this window here. He took advantage of the window. He's just the latest guy to do it. There'll be others and he l s u is there. Is it a better job than Ole Miss Yes, the resources, the money, all of that, the talent surrounding, you know, three hour radius. Absolutely, but it's just don't sit here and make excuses that, Hey, I wanted but they didn't want me to stay. No, I don't want you to stay. Go and don't apologize. Go do your job and I'm sure he'll do a great job there. All right, We'll come back more phone calls. Our Play of the Day next.

00:32:33
Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio has the best sports talk lineup in the nation. Catch all of our shows at foxsports Radio dot com and within the iHeartRadio app. Search FSR to listen live. Oh my God, the play of the day.

00:32:52
Speaker 12: This is the play of the day.

00:32:55
Speaker 7: Check this out.

00:32:56
Speaker 12: He mounted it for Koozer, three shot it Hoorra sick Ken of the lead switch him a five ago time out Shire we break for thirty to.

00:33:10
Speaker 1: Come sixty two fifty nine.

00:33:13
Speaker 2: That's curtisey Learfield Sports Cam Boozer had twenty nine. Duke is nine to zero on the season, They'd beaten Kansas, Arkansas and Florida while they were ranked in the top twenty five. Boozer is a little over eighteen years of age.

00:33:31
Speaker 3: He looks twenty five.

00:33:33
Speaker 2: He's great, great player. By the way, Chris Paul's career is probably over. He was released or said home in the middle of the night, and I think the Clippers were playing in Atlanta, and then there was a statement that was issued and said that hey, we're sending Chris home and we're gonna help him with his career moving forward. I mean, if you know you're gonna get rid of him, can you get rid of him closer to LA than Atlanta? Poor guy? They're going to make an all state commercial out of this, Yes, Paulie.

00:34:09
Speaker 6: There's very few details on this overnight. None of the writers have had any details on it. But Chris Paul a couple of weeks ago it announced that he was going to retire at the end of the season. He thought they just let him finish out his career as a Clipper. But there's no disciplinary things that are being reported. There's very little stuff on the story.

00:34:26
Speaker 2: He played all eighty two games last year with San Antonio and then went to the Clippers. Now he was coming off the bench and he wasn't really doing much for the Clippers and they're not going anywhere, you know, ty Lou is probably trying to hold onto his job there and Clippers are a mess. But I mean in the middle of them of the night you say to Chris, hey, we're going to release you. Now, does he get his own you know, playing home or does he go commercial?

00:34:56
Speaker 5: Like?

00:34:56
Speaker 2: How does that work for Chris Paul, We're going to help you moving forward? How are you going to help you moving forward? Probably go into broadcasting, I'm guessing, but that's a what twenty twenty one, twenty two year career. I guess he could latch onto somebody. But yeah, he wasn't doing much for the Clippers. I think he was averaging like three points a game. Yeah, Marv, he should finish out with Oklahoma City. He played there. He's tied with Shake Gots Alexander. Just get a.

00:35:27
Speaker 10: Roster spot, hang out on the bench and watch them win seventy five games.

00:35:33
Speaker 2: Yeah, but they you don't want to use a roster spot on somebody that really is not going. They don't need help. They want a title. It's not like you go, you know what they're missing. They're missing missing veteran leadership here. You don't need that. By the way, I think they have three first round picks in this upcoming draft. Okay see does yes, Pauline.

00:35:53
Speaker 6: Dan they have four first round picks in the Uppine draft. They have the Clippers pick, which is the fifth pick overall U Toss pick, which is ninth right now, and they have Philadelphia's pick, which is fourteen. They have three of the top fourteen picks.

00:36:09
Speaker 3: Could you see them.

00:36:09
Speaker 6: Packaging all three and going to one and taking one of the top guys. There's three guys they say in this draft that are hot, hot properties that could be interesting because there's not enough spots on OKC for three new players.

00:36:21
Speaker 5: Yeah.

00:36:21
Speaker 2: I know you're right. And that's a young team. They were a little over like twenty three years of age. Winning the NBA championship pretty amazing. They've done a great job, they really have. Sam Presty did a wonderful job building that roster. But when you make that trade and you get Shay Gilgis, then all of a sudden things started to fall in place. I mean, Cheed Holmgren is a nice player, but Shay Gilgis is a Hall of Fame player.

00:36:51
Speaker 4: Yeah, Chris Paul to the thing with that that makes you raise your eyebrows a little bit is that they were in Atlanta.

00:37:00
Speaker 2: Yeah, Oh, what'd you do in Atlanta? Chris?

00:37:03
Speaker 4: Oh allegedly, Oh what happened in Atlanta?

00:37:10
Speaker 1: What did you do?

00:37:11
Speaker 3: Noet released? No one gets released in Salt Lake City.

00:37:14
Speaker 5: Yeah.

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00:38:17
Speaker 6: Yes, bully quickly, Dan, if you'd like to play the Chris Paul Final Salary game, if this is the end of his career. I had the exact number who ever would like to play careerban.

00:38:28
Speaker 2: You go, you go first? Wait, hold on, let we need some music. Salary salary, salary.

00:38:38
Speaker 15: Salary, salary, salary salary.

00:38:57
Speaker 2: All right, Marvin, you start careers callery Chris.

00:39:00
Speaker 3: Paul four hundred and twenty two million dollars.

00:39:05
Speaker 2: Okay, Todd, three thirty seven seating you.

00:39:11
Speaker 4: Made that last year? Yes, three thirty seven. I'm gonna say four to twenty five.

00:39:18
Speaker 2: I'm gonna go four oh two five wowow.

00:39:25
Speaker 3: Okay Dan.

00:39:25
Speaker 6: This might be the closest guest guests in the history of this game. Chris Paul will have made four hundred and three.

00:39:34
Speaker 3: Two mail with you.

00:39:38
Speaker 2: Thank you, well done. Even under the Weather. You know, still doing it, Todd, that.

00:39:43
Speaker 10: Was pretty it.

00:39:44
Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you, still doing it.

00:39:46
Speaker 10: So why why did he pay the flight coach from Atlanta back to la He's got plenty of.

00:39:49
Speaker 2: Well, no, I don't know that.

00:39:50
Speaker 3: Okay, we don't know that.

00:39:52
Speaker 2: Yeah. You imagine you're flying out of Atlanta this morning. All of a sudden, middle seat coach, Chris Paul's there. Hey, aren't you Chris Paul?

00:40:02
Speaker 3: And he's on the wait list.

00:40:03
Speaker 10: They saw CEP three up on the screen.

00:40:05
Speaker 3: He didn't even have a guaranteed seat.

00:40:08
Speaker 2: Michael and Montana. Hi, Mike, what's on your mind today?

00:40:12
Speaker 5: I think it was Mitchell in Montana. But sixths it's gonna be like one nineties. I think someone said that Lane Kiffen was the biggest hero to Zero and I gotta wag my finger at that because that title goes to Joe Paterno. For sure.

00:40:33
Speaker 3: That was Oranges.

00:40:35
Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's something different than what we're talking about with Lane Kiffin. Yeah. You know when they when they start to tear down your statue, that pretty much you know, that was the Ende.

00:40:51
Speaker 4: Had resurrected his career from where he was sort of a joke and then had all of this built up, all of this goodwill, only to torch it in a matter of like seven days by just taking another job.

00:41:06
Speaker 2: We'll talk some college football. Chris Fowler, Voice of College Football, will stop by here in about twenty five minutes. More of your phone calls as well. EH seven seven three DP show. Paulie came in and he was, uh, I don't. How would you describe your reaction to Kansas basketball platforms apoplectic?

00:41:23
Speaker 3: Yes, it was quite salty.

00:41:25
Speaker 2: Yes, Paulie goes, did you see Kansas? I go, what did you see their uniforms? I go, yeah, Oh my god.