00:00Boy, what a game last night.
00:01My goodness.
00:02That was fun.
00:03That was the perfect sports fan.
00:05You talked about how sports fans were stupid and were, you know.
00:09Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, hold on.
00:10Because there's a lot of people listening to me that are sports fans.
00:12Let's be clear here.
00:13We're like cutters.
00:14You know, we just do this pain.
00:17Oh, yeah.
00:17We sign up for this pain.
00:19If we were just operating logically.
00:20Yeah.
00:21If you were being a sports fan is not the logical thing to do.
00:24Except we're all here because it's a narcotic that we enjoy.
00:26But when you don't have a dog in the fight and you get a game like last night.
00:30Dang, that was fun.
00:32I mean, it was fun.
00:34It was four lead change.
00:35Maybe was it five lead changes in the fourth quarter?
00:38Something like that.
00:39Incredible plays.
00:40Hard hitting.
00:42And I, you know, I know this is a cliche, but gritty performance by Ole Miss in the first half
00:48when they were getting run up and down the field.
00:50Four fourth quarter lead changes.
00:51But hanging in there, four fourth quarter lead changes.
00:54And here's my takeaway.
00:56And I know you don't agree with it, but just let me lay it.
01:00The NIL and the transfer portal is an absolute mess.
01:06We all know that.
01:07People talk about the Wild West.
01:08Hell, it makes the Wild West look like a book club.
01:11I thought it was going pretty good.
01:12Well, I'm going to get to that because there is a good side.
01:15You know, it's chaos, the NIL and the transfer portal.
01:20But without him, we wouldn't have gotten last night.
01:25Flat out, we would not have gotten last night.
01:28Would Carson Beck have been on the field?
01:30Would Trinidad Shambliss have been on the field?
01:33Would Malachi Tony, the 17-year-old, would he have decided to come out early and reclassify as a freshman?
01:40Because he's supposed to be in high school right now still.
01:42Yeah, I've heard that quite a few times.
01:44Had he not been offered $750,000 to reclassify, we would not have gotten last night without these things happening.
01:54And the other thing about it, yes, you can talk about how it's ruining college football.
01:57And there are certainly arguments to be made about how it's ruining some things about college football.
02:02But on the field, these are the teams that have been in the last few title games.
02:08Michigan, Washington, Ohio State, Notre Dame, Indiana, Oregon, Miami.
02:14You know what's weird about that?
02:16No SEC teams.
02:18Well, that's been a sub-conversation about this.
02:23That's part of this, too, because the SEC was, hey, if you've got a car dealership, give half your money to our players.
02:29You know, they did it under the table.
02:30The SEC was notorious about that.
02:31Oh, yeah, and I would always push people to what was one of my favorite pieces.
02:35I think I've told you about it.
02:36Steven Gottfried's Meet the Bagman that I think a decade plus ago.
02:41Yeah, the SEC has been making sure that these dudes have gotten money well before.
02:44And now everybody gets money.
02:46So my point is, it's an absolute mess.
02:49It's chaotic.
02:49It's all that.
02:50But on the field for college football, it's good.
02:54It's really good.
02:55I think that you get these types of games without that.
03:00I hear your point.
03:00I'm not trying to.
03:02Carson Beck was in C.J. Stroud's recruiting class.
03:05Yeah, I think you get more of a chance from teams like Ole Miss.
03:10I'm not calling them like a little underdog.
03:12That's another great example.
03:14No, I think you get more teams have a chance, especially if they participate in the IL stuff.
03:20Oh, yeah.
03:20It mitigates some of the other factors that historically have determined whether or not you can compete at this level, especially in a sustained way, without cheating.
03:29Right?
03:30It used to be that geography mattered so much more to what's happening.
03:34I think it still matters in a small degree, but we're changing that.
03:37Now the geography matters in so much as what do you have in your area that allows other people to filter the number one thing in America, money.
03:47Indiana.
03:48It's not just Alabama and Georgia.
03:50Yes.
03:51And, you know, you got Indiana now.
03:52No, I am with you on the whole.
03:54No, it's –
03:54But on the field, it's business on the field.
03:57But institutional support has always mattered and coaching has always mattered.
04:01I think with Indiana, you can look at the talent.
04:03And now a lot of that talent transfers with Signetti, which I think that that is a point that is there to be made and cannot be.
04:09With Signetti and a lot of money.
04:11With Signetti and a lot of money.
04:13I mean –
04:13Shout out to Mark Cuban.
04:14Those guys go to Indiana because they came from JMU because they wanted to –
04:19But that's not –
04:19It's not.
04:20No, and I'm not trying to say that –
04:21I mean, Mendoza came from Cal.
04:23Sure.
04:24No, but I mean, that coaching aspect matters in it and that institutional investment has always mattered as well.
04:31Wouldn't Mendoza have won the Heisman five years ago?
04:35That's such a – there's so many more factors to consider in the house.
04:37I'm telling you, probably not.
04:38On the field, it's been good, man.
04:42It's been good.
04:43Oh, well, I mean, making sure that the players are paid and invested in, I thought that's absolutely been a good thing for college football.
04:51I think we might be overstating the impact on this game in particular of those things.
04:56I think this game is the perfect example.
04:58There wouldn't have been a Carson Beck.
04:59There wouldn't have been a Trinidad Chambliss.
05:01Trinidad Chambliss you absolutely could have happened.
05:02You could argue, but I don't know if there would have been.
05:04I mean, because –
05:05Marikai Tony might have been at a prom.
05:08That one maybe.
05:09That one maybe.
05:10They offered him 700 – reportedly – 750 grand.
05:14Hey, can you reclassify for that?
05:15Sure.
05:17Sure.
05:18I'll do it.
05:18But you did mention something that has been happening that I feel like we have not taken enough stock at, which is, hey, SEC.
05:25Yeah.
05:25It just means more?
05:26They have been awful this bowl season.
05:28I'll tell you what.
05:29But I think it does mean more, as we illustrated with the old car dealership guys.
05:34I mean, they've always been good.
05:36They always will be good.
05:38I think the SEC is kind of suffering from all this.
05:40I think it all ties together.
05:42We'll talk more about this game itself because we did not give enough due to a Miami Hurricanes team that it came down to Selection Sunday,
05:49where we did not believe them being the team that would make it in, to them ultimately going and winning a couple of games the hard way
05:57and getting themselves in themselves.
05:59And, mind you, it's going to be played in their own backyards in South Florida.
06:03What a run that they have had.
06:05And shout out to, again, Carson Beck, Marikai Tony, you know, Bain.
06:10Who was that receiver, Keelan Allen?
06:12Not Keelan Allen.
06:13Keelan, the guy that had a 100-yard receiver for Miami, he was pretty dang incredible.
06:20Yeah, they put on him.
06:21Marion, Keelan Marion.
06:22Keelan Marion, yeah.
06:22Yeah, it was a very good game that, honestly, Ole Miss has got to be feeling tough because they were this close to winning that game,
06:30and they had every right to – if that switches up and maybe that last second, you know, Hail Mary is brought down,
06:37they would have every right as well to claim their right in or claim their place in the championship.
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