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Welcome in to the newest edition of the Justin Timesports podcast.

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I am your host, Justin Jackson.

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In this week's episode, we'll be talking about the fast changing and ever changing

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landscape of the college football and college athletics conference realignment.

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We'll be discussing the NFL as it is officially back with the Hall of Fame game on Thursday

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night and we will have our best for last.

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We'll pull up everything that you have on social media.

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Now, as always, don't forget to sit back and get ready to learn something.

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Welcome into the show.

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So excited to be back with you guys.

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Recording this per usual on Friday night.

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And you guys will get this, of course, Saturday morning.

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So hopefully nothing breaks overnight.

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That kind of throws off anything I'm saying right now.

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But of course, we'll have, or I guess you guys don't know, we will have some schedule

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adjustments until when the podcast comes out.

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As you guys know, if you guys are faithful listeners, I do coach football myself.

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And so coming into the season now, getting close, ramping up, the show may come out a

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little earlier.

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Plus the NFL, I want to try and get you guys a show Thursday morning so you guys may, you

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know, I may record Wednesday night, get it out Thursday morning, or so on and so forth.

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We'll be adjusting the schedule.

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But I will let you guys know how the schedule adjusts.

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I will do my best to do it the week or two before it adjusts.

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So probably that last week of preseason, I do the big NFL preview show.

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Probably it's going to be the last Saturday show all the way through the NFL season.

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Because then I want to get you guys a show before the next week of the NFL starts.

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So a Wednesday morning show, Thursday morning show.

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That way you guys will have all of your previews and your recaps before the NFL week even kicks

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off.

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Plus if it's a little better into my schedule, in perfect honesty with you.

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But we are here today.

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I woke up this morning, I'll be honest, right to the show, right to the show.

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I woke up this morning completely and totally honest with you.

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I was going to leave with the NFL.

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And I was also thinking in my head, it's not going to be the longest show.

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I was like, not a lot is happening right now.

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It's kind of in that dead period of sports.

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Major League Baseball is in the middle of the summer.

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They're still playing day games, like one o'clock games.

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They're still dead heat in the middle of the summer.

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The WNBA is ramping up.

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They're nearing their playoffs.

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So that's going to be covered probably in earnest, probably next week on the show.

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I mean, honestly, they might have got it in this week, but then so much stuff started

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happening that they kind of got bumped out.

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You know, I was thinking maybe it's going to be a 25, 30 minute show.

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NFL news, touching some signings, touched on the Hall of Fame game last night, kind

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of preview, maybe share a couple of stories about the Hall of Famers since we're now getting

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to the age group.

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I'm a fairly young guy.

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I'm just kidding if you're a loyal listener.

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I'm 26.

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So a lot of these Hall of Famers now, you know, Ray Lewis is prime.

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I don't remember if that makes sense.

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And being not a Ravens fan, I don't remember that 04, 05, 06 Ray Lewis.

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I'm a Patriots fan.

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I barely remember Teddy Brueske on the field.

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Like, one of those things was like my first real football memories probably, I remember

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Teddy Brueske, but I can't say, oh, that specific play.

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Like, I, you know, like I'm not, yeah, I can in some of the Super Bowls, some of the

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Avers title games, but that's because I was a Patriots fan.

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And of course, the Randy Moss years and stuff like that.

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But, you know, I know the history of the game.

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I've seen the highlight packages, but not being a Ravens, being not that I wasn't a

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Ravens fan, I can't really pinpoint, bam, when certain stuff, Ray Lewis happened.

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Just for instance, Ed Reed, same thing.

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But now with this Hall of Fam class, I can tell you a lot about the Arribas.

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I can tell you a lot about Joe Thomas, you know, so we're starting to get to guys, even

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Trey Palamalu, like I was a little bit more of a Steelers fan.

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I can remember, I remember vividly watching when he jumped over the line and tackled the

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quarterback.

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I can't really remember that, right?

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And so we're now getting to the Hall of Fam class.

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I was going to do stuff like this.

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I see how this is already naturally taking off and I find even how I'm starting the show.

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That's kind of how I was going to go into the show.

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And then the bottom fell out of college sports.

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And really college football is the headline, of course.

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Nothing moves in college athletics without football, of course.

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That's why Duke doesn't move.

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That's why North Carolina doesn't move.

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That's why Gonzaga, no one cares.

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And conference realignment, that's why no one's clamoring over getting Gonzaga in to

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a conference.

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They don't play football.

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They'd be more of a detriment than a help.

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No one's clamoring over at the basketball schools to get in conference, St. John's,

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because they don't play football.

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If you guys are driving or listening or walking or running or whatever, and for some strange

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reason you're starting to hear bells and singing, that's because the funeral song of the Pac-12

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has officially started.

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The rumors of the Pac-12 demise was told to us last year, right around the same time.

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Greatly exaggerated.

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USC and UCLA were heading out of the front door.

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They weren't even going out of the side door.

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They were going out of the front door and they were heading their way to the Big Ten

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in 2024.

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Simultaneously, the reason why the Pac-12 can kind of stand on their laurels and stand

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like, we're standing ten toes down, is because the Big 12 in 2025 was losing Texas and Oklahoma

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to the SEC.

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But I want to go back in the story of conference realignment since the world's kind of shaking

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out and we're pretty much going to find out what's happening.

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I want to go back about a decade.

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Maybe a little more than a decade.

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Remember the world of the four super conferences?

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Who was the first conference to say to get the 16 teams?

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There's going to be four 16-team conferences.

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64 teams, pretty much the football powers, the top 64 of the football world, were going

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to play in four conferences.

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Those teams would basically, remember the playoff was remembered even back then.

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Those four champions was going to, I mean they were talking about those four champions

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automatically being tossed into a playoff or a tournament or whatever, but effectively

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playoff.

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The winner of the Pac-16, the winner of the Big 16, the winner of the SEC, and the winner

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of the ACC would play in a tournament.

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Those four teams would battle for the national champion.

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I'm old enough to remember this.

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This is probably 10 years ago, maybe 12 years ago.

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I remember vividly getting used to saying the words Pac-16, Big 16, the super conferences

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and stuff like that.

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I remember trying to train a younger version of myself to say these things.

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Of course, when there's four super conferences, someone has to die.

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Now me, I wasn't old enough and I'm still, I'm old enough now, but I'm not really into

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the TV contractual language and stuff like that.

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And why there can't be five super conferences, and I kind of understand a little bit more

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now with the Pac-12 and that situation.

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Why there couldn't be five super conferences.

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If everybody's TV deal isn't at the same time, and everybody's going to renegotiate and

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move around, 80 teams and five conferences, the rest are scraps.

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It fits, that works in my brain.

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It was going to be the four super conferences, anywhere from 16 to 18 teams, 16 to 20 teams

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in these conferences, the I-Man, I-Be, and the Big 12.

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This idea dies.

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The Pac-12 couldn't, at the time, Texas was trying to make the Longhorn Network.

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Oklahoma and Texas were going to move together wherever they went.

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The Longhorn Network and them, they were trying to keep the Longhorn Network out and all kinds

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of stuff.

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It fell apart.

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Another bunch of public heat, by the way, it fell apart.

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Fast forward to January, 2020.

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The Big 12 has a problem.

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Texas and Oklahoma are on their way out the door.

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Now Texas was already out the door, probably to the SEC a little before that.

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But again, the Longhorn Network is an issue.

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When the Longhorn Network no longer became an issue, due to the Longhorn Networks ultimately,

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but they were going to use the Longhorn Network for, I think, the NCAA and the Big 12 kind

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of smelled out.

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That's when the Longhorn Network basically became unimportant.

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Oklahoma and Texas began to flirt with the SEC.

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Now the Big 12 has a problem.

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Their two top money makers, looking elsewhere, looking east, already have gone east from

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the Big 12, was Missouri and Texas A&M.

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Now, like I said, their two cash cows, the pillars on which the SEC was built, sorry,

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the pillars on which the Big 12 was built, my apologies, was looking to join Missouri,

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Texas A&M and the rest of the SEC.

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They had the biggest revenue share.

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They had the best athletes.

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They had the best recruiting.

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And frankly, A&M and Missouri was making handover fits financially with not really a whole

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bunch of success.

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I think Johnny Menzel had a spell at A&M.

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Kyle Field is the house that Menzel built, especially that top section, literally.

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Missouri came in and won the east, I think, their very first year in the conference.

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But after that, Missouri's been below that.

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Missouri's been average, six to seven win team.

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A&M's anywhere from eight to 10.

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Good, good competitive teams on both sides, not the cream of the crop of the SEC.

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In Oklahoma, we're looking to join the SEC.

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Okay, so the Big 12 commissioner goes to the Pac-12 commissioner because now there's the

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beginning of embers and smoke flying up at USC and UCLA, maybe looking to go elsewhere

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too, specifically the Big 10.

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So the Big 12 commissioner goes to the Pac-12 commissioner and say, hey, let's talk.

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How about we combine?

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USC and UCLA haven't gone anywhere yet.

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Oklahoma and Texas haven't gone anywhere, or they're out the door, but USC and UCLA

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haven't gone anywhere yet.

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We have some big brands, especially, we have big football brands, Oklahoma State, Baylor,

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but we also have basketball brands, Kansas, Baylor.

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You know, Oklahoma State's getting basketball, like West Virginia.

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We have big basketball brands and we've got big football brands.

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USC and UCLA are probably out the door, but they haven't gone yet.

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Maybe even if they walk, we still have an 18 team conference.

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The Pac-12 is still viable.

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It's the biggest conference in the country, all this stuff.

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All right.

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The Pac-12 commissioner says no.

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So now fast forward about a year, USC and UCLA, adios amigo, we're going to the Big

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Texas and Oklahoma, adios amigo, not only are we going to the Big 12, we're not only

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going to the SEC, we're going to the SEC early.

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We're going to 24 instead of 25.

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UCLA and USC, that's a good move, Texas and Oklahoma.

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We're going to go into the Big 10 in 2024, not 25.

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Why is 2024 the year people are joining?

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You don't have to pay an exit fee when there's a new TV contract.

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So if the TV contract ends, you don't have to pay the conference an exit fee.

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The Pac-12 and the Big 12's TV contract ends in 2024, which means as long as Texas and

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Oklahoma, USC and UCLA don't put their names to a new TV contract, they're free to go.

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Which is why they're joining in 24, which is why USC and UCLA are joining the Big 10

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in 24.

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So ultimately, it became the SEC's strongest, the Big 10 is the second strongest because

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now the Big 10 goes coast to coast.

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USC and UCLA are in LA, California, Rutgers is in New Jersey.

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The Big 10 officially goes coast to coast.

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Of course they have the middle of the country, Ohio State, Michigan State, Michigan, Iowa,

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Iowa State, whatever.

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They're officially coast to coast.

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It's going to be very interesting when USC basketball on a Tuesday night has to fly to

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Rutgers to play and then go back to school.

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Well, most of their damage be done when on school in the spring.

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It's going to be interesting when UCLA football has to play at Michigan in the big house in

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November and it's a blizzard or Happy Valley, Pennsylvania and it's a blizzard.

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Well just vice versa when Penn State has to go to California and it's 80 degrees and they've

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been playing in 20 degree weather and their bodies are sweating bullets.

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It's going to be very interesting how that works.

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team in the conference easily.

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They have their top dog in Clemson, which is how they're football.

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They have a building in Florida State.

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They have Duke in Carolina as far as basketball.

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They're in a good spot.

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Pac 12 and the Big 12 are hurting.

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Then the Big 12 takes a swing and not only do they take a swing, they hit that swing

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because the Pac 12 commissioner said, man, yeah, we don't have USC, UCLA, but we have

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something they don't.

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We have Deion Sanders.

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We have the biggest star in the game.

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We have Deion Sanders at Colorado.

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The Big 12 says, originally Corso, not so fast my friends.

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They get Colorado to join the Big 12.

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Colorado is originally Big 12 school, but they get Colorado to rejoin the Big 12.

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Then the chirping from other Pac 12 schools start.

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They're just chasing the money and Deion's leaving the Pac 12 behind dry and all of a

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sudden, bunch of Colorado slander.

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Right?

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Then the dominoes over the past week begin to fall.

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We start hearing rumblings, the Pac 12 is done.

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We start hearing rumblings, Arizona, Arizona State, and Utah.

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Along with Oregon and Washington could be looking to go elsewhere.

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The Big 10 have officially decided to bring in Oregon and Washington to be an 18 team

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conference.

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Now for basketball, I don't know how you do that.

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You only played 30 some odd regular season games in basketball.

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You can't play everybody twice now.

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Usually in college basketball, you play 12, 12 to 14 non-disclosure conference games.

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Then you play everybody twice in your conference, 30s, four games, and you go into the tournament.

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At 18 teams, play everybody twice, that's 34.

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So unless you basically have no non-conference games, you can have like three no non-conference

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games, or you don't play everybody twice, I'm not sure how they're going to do that

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basketball because baseball is easy, it'll fold into itself.

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Football, you'd have two big divisions.

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19 divisions, you play to meet 10 conference games, you have to.

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You play an automatic cross-unrivaled two non-conference games.

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But anyway, they become an 18 team conference.

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Oregon and Washington will not see the immediate financial jump that the other schools as USC

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and UCLA will see when they took the conference from 14 to 16.

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Oregon and Washington will not see as big of a jump.

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They will get half portions of the Big Ten media share.

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Still a good amount of money, and it will raise every single year through about 2029

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when they will still be able to receive full portions.

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But anyway, they're joining into the Big Ten.

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Nike with Oregon, gone.

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Washington, one of the bigger brands and rising brands, gone.

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So UCLA is gone.

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USC is gone.

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Nike with Oregon is gone.

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Washington is gone.

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Within a couple of hours of each other, Arizona State, Arizona, and Utah all become voted

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in members of the Big 12.

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The Big 12 swells now to 14-ish teams, I believe, because they were back up to 12.

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Oklahoma, Texas, they added two more teams.

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So they could be a 16-team, and with 14 to 16 teams, I came out on top of my head right

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now, conference themselves.

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Which leaves the Pac-12 with Stanford, Cal, Washington State, and Oregon State in their

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conference.

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Now, normally schools have to stay together.

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The only problem is, normally state schools have to stay together.

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The only problem is, in order for the state schools of Washington and Oregon State and

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Oregon to stay together, they have to go to the Big Ten.

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And I'm not sure if the Big Ten is ready to have a 20-team conference.

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They're already giving out half media portions to Oregon and Washington.

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I mean, they might give quarter portions to Washington State and Oregon State.

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And then that basically, to me, cripples the Pac-12.

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Because my brain immediately went, okay, we'll go get Mountain West teams.

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One problem.

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Mountain West has a $32 million buyout fee per team in their conference.

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So if they were to say, okay, let's just buy, let's just say we're going to go to

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Mountain West and get 17 out of Mountain West, and immediately go back up to 11 teams.

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Okay, we're going to have to pay over $360 million to do that.

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Either the conference has to fork up $360 million, or they have to convince teams who

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already don't have a lot of money in the universities to pay $32 million a piece to exit and go

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to the Pac-12.

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I don't see that happening.

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So now you look at teams like Fresno State, and you look at the WAC, maybe, getting some

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of those teams in there.

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You're calling FCS teams.

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You're dying.

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You're no longer a power conference.

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It's over.

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The Pac-12 mishandled this probably for about 12 to 13 years now.

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From the era of not securing the first super conference to not, I mean, I remember just

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on a super conference though, ESPN was doing the dream matchups of Texas, USC, and the

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Rose Bowl in November.

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Winner, ghosts of the Pac-12.

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I mean, just all kind of stuff.

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These dream matchups were coming together.

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The Big 12 was supposed to be the team conference that died, and then there's going to be the

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Pac-12.

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So there's a lot of ramifications flying around.

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Of course, again, you're adding Oregon and Washington, along with USC and UCLA, to the

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Big 10 in 2024.

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You're adding Arizona State, Arizona, Utah, along with Colorado to the Big 12 in 2024.

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Texas and Oklahoma head to the SEC in 2024.

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The Big 12 also does their realignment in 2024 as well, making up for the loss of Oklahoma

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and Texas.

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What is the ramifications in different areas?

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So in Angu I didn't think about it when child Clay Travis for this.

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We just ran a lot, but he made a hell of a point on this.

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What does the Rose Bowl do?

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And I kind of said that the Pac-12 would survive because of the Rose Bowl.

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It's in LA.

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It's played in the Rose Bowl Stadium.

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UCLA shares a stadium like.

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You know those stadiums where it's nine miles from USC.

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It's right around the heart of the Pac-12 offices and the Pac-12 epicenter.

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What does the Rose Bowl do?

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I think that the Big 12 should get involved with the Rose Bowl.

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I think the Big 12 should be the host team for the Rose Bowl now.

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One last year the Pac-12 champion going representing it and it'd be the end of the Rose Bowl as

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we know it.

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But I think that the Big 12 ought to get involved.

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Clay Travis suggested Big 10 SEC meet at the Rose Bowl.

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Big 12 champion, SEC champion, if they're not in the playoff they meet at the Rose Bowl.

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There's one problem with that.

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The SEC has the sugar bowl.

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The Big 10 is linked to the cotton bowl, the Big 10 is linked to one of the New Year's

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six bowl.

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I can't even think right now.

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It's the one in Indianapolis.

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I know the SEC is linked to the orange bowl.

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SEC has the sugar bowl.

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The Pac-12 has the Rose Bowl.

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Big 12's cotton bowl.

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Oh man, I can't think right now.

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But the Big 10 to me, if the Big 10 isn't bowl affiliated then I think that, let me

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do a quick Google search guys.

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I know it's a little odd but let me do a quick Google search to find out what bowl they are

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linked to.

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By linked I mean this team has an automatic conference tie in.

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No matter what happens this conference champion goes to, okay no, so the Big 10 is linked

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to the Rose Bowl.

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Okay, then the sugar bowl is SEC versus the Big 12.

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The orange bowl is ACC versus either the Big 10, the SEC or Notre Dame.

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The cotton bowl, the fiesta bowl and the peach bowls have no conference tie ins.

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So that's intriguing.

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So in that case, I think the Big 10 changed my point.

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The Big 10 should be the whole school and I think it should be Big 10 versus at large.

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The Big 10's been going out there versus the Pac-12.

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Oh god, feels like my entire life.

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So probably before that it's been Big 10 versus the Pac-12 going out to the Rose Bowl.

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I think I remember seeing when Joe Paterno was in the Joe Paterno special he was playing

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for the Rose Bowl and it was like in the 80s, 70s and 80s.

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So I think the Pac-12 should drop it and the Big 10 becomes the host and I think it should

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just be Big 10 versus whoever.

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If you want to automatically link I would say Big 12 but the Big 12 is tied into the

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sugar bowl.

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So I think the Big 10 should just be like the Orange Bowl where the Orange Bowl is the

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ACC champion versus whoever.

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The sugar bowl, the ACC Big 12, they want to keep that going.

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They can keep it going especially because the zones are merging with the Big 12 going

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from the center of the country to the east coast.

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The ACC going from the east coast to the center of the country.

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The zones are kind of merging now.

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So they want to keep the sugar bowl as their catch all spot.

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They're not in the playoffs that's fine and then the Big 10 hold down the Rose Bowl.

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So I think that is what the situation should be.

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The Big 10 holds down the Rose Bowl.

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The Pac-12 drops claim to it and it's more like an at large thing to get to the Rose

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Bowl.

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But this is a situation where...

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Oh one more point before I go into the major overarching point.

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What is the ACC doing?

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Now the ACC is adding two dogs in Texas.

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I mean the financial amplification alone for that is massive.

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What is the ACC doing?

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They've kind of sat and chilled for like a better term and just played defense in this

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whole conference realignment movement as opposed to playing offense.

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They didn't get aggressive at the Big 10 and added four great brands.

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They didn't get aggressive like the Big 12 if they lost their dogs and added three great

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brands and then a great superstar.

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Or two great brands and a superstar.

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And Deion Sanders.

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They didn't make a move like the ACC and get two of the biggest brands in college athletics.

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I mean out of the top five brands, out of the top seven brands of all sports, the ACC

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holds four of them.

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Top eight, the ACC holds four of them.

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The Big 10 might hold the other four because USC, UCLA, Ohio State, Michigan came to mind

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immediately.

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That's all in the Big 10.

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LSU, Alabama, Texas, Oklahoma came to mind immediately and those are all in the ACC.

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So they split the top eight of brands.

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And then you got Georgia in the ACC but you've got Michigan State in the Big 10.

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So what does the ACC do?

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I've named 10 top brands and I haven't mentioned the one ACC school.

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Probably your biggest brand out there would be Florida State or Clemson.

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I would say Florida.

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Probably Florida gives them a run for their money for 11th.

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Iowa State suck.

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Oregon's actually up there.

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So Oregon and Florida is probably the fifth biggest brands in each conference.

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Texas A&M's up there too.

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And they're competing with the top of the ACC.

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So what does the ACC do?

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Do they look at the American Conference with Louisville, maybe at Cincinnati, getting those

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guys in the ACC just expand in number and try to match some of the sheer size of the

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Big 10 and the SEC.

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I hear the Big 10's at an 18.

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The SEC is going to be at 16.

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I wonder if the Big 10's going to change their name.

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But just to match the sheer size of those two conferences, I wonder what the ACC decides

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to do.

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Also with the Big 12, I wonder if they play a year or two and then they say, okay, let's

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buy two of the best Mountain West schools and go to 16 teams and just match that size

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since they'll be pretty much coast to coast as well.

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They won't reach all the way into California, but let's say they get a San Diego State and

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a BYU with those two Mountain West teams.

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$32 million apiece.

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The 16 teams pay $4 million apiece and they buy them out.

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And then they bring in those two schools, their 16 team conference and their coast to

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coast.

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So that would be huge.

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The Big 10 gets the distinction.

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They're the only coast to coast conference.

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Rutgers is in New Jersey, which touches the Eastern Seaboard.

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USC and UCLA, Oregon and Washington all play in the Western State teams, all play in states

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that touch the Pacific Ocean.

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Actually, all three states that touch the Pacific Ocean in the West are Washington,

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California and Oregon.

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The University of Washington, University of Oregon, USC and UCLA, all in the Big 10 now.

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So they're the first coast to coast conference.

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A distinction I'm sure that they're going to kind of thumb their nose at the SEC about

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because although the top right now, you said the top may not be as good, but USC, UCLA

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or Ohio State, Michigan, like you can put that up against Georgia, LSU, Alabama, Texas,

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Oklahoma.

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You can put those brands at each other and say, we got this the biggest brand as you

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do.

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But absolutely huge for collegiate athletics.

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The Pac-12 is dead.

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They're going to be the first conference, the first power five conference to die.

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We've seen smaller conferences fade in and out, up and down, but this would be the first

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of the power five conferences probably since the term came to be.

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But definitely I remember since the Big Eight and really the Big Eight became the Big 12

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to just flat out die.

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I don't see an out for the Pac-12, especially this day, a power five conference is probably

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going to transition into being a power four conference, power four situation because what's

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the Pac-12 going to do?

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The easiest answer would have been the Mountain West, but they'd have to basically absorb

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the Mountain West.

468
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And with the Mountain West having a $32 million per team buyout fee, unless they came to some

469
00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:38,680
sort of joint agreement and became the Pac Mountain or Mountain Pac-12 or something like

470
00:30:38,680 --> 00:30:40,680
that.

471
00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:46,880
I don't see an answer for the Pac-12 to even begin to hope to remain a power conference.

472
00:30:46,880 --> 00:30:50,480
So the Pac-12 race is going to be incredibly interesting this year because it's the last

473
00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:51,480
one.

474
00:30:51,480 --> 00:30:58,200
USC, UCLA going forward, Colorado, Arizona, Arizona State, and Utah.

475
00:30:58,200 --> 00:31:02,560
It's the last time they can automatically probably bid into the Rose Bowl.

476
00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:04,560
So these conferences are going to go forward.

477
00:31:04,560 --> 00:31:10,440
If you're here in SC Oregon, my bad, Oregon and Washington too, they're gone.

478
00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:13,600
So it's going to be very interesting to see how these teams link up, even though Oregon

479
00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:15,920
and Washington are going to end up in a conference.

480
00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:20,640
Along with USC, UCLA that can put the Big Ten logo on their chest and go to the Rose

481
00:31:20,640 --> 00:31:24,440
Bowl, but that'd be the last time they could do it as Pac-12 members.

482
00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:28,040
So it'll be very interesting to see how this all shakes out.

483
00:31:28,040 --> 00:31:31,000
Like I said, I was really crazy out.

484
00:31:31,000 --> 00:31:35,080
I thought I was going to lead into the show with the NFL and it turns out I'm spending

485
00:31:35,080 --> 00:31:42,880
about 30 minutes on college athletic realignment and just it changed over a course of about

486
00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:46,600
24 hours, 48 hours at the max.

487
00:31:46,600 --> 00:31:50,360
The whole world of collegiate athletics changed.

488
00:31:50,360 --> 00:31:56,120
The West has no, the King has, there's no crown in the West.

489
00:31:56,120 --> 00:31:57,240
The Emperor has no clothes.

490
00:31:57,240 --> 00:31:59,800
The Pac-12 commissioner, he has nothing to stand on.

491
00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:06,600
His crown, his entire conference came from under him in 72 to 96 hours.

492
00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:09,440
Absolutely insane quickly.

493
00:32:09,440 --> 00:32:10,760
And Dion spoke about it.

494
00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:12,240
He's speaking about the hypocrisy now.

495
00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:13,240
Last point on this.

496
00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:18,480
Dion saying that, hey Coach Colorado Buffaloes, he's speaking on the hypocrisy now because

497
00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:27,480
Oregon, Dan Laning at Oregon, Washington, I think one of the Arizona schools in Utah

498
00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:33,720
had the loudest, oh, they're just running and they're what has Colorado done to say

499
00:32:33,720 --> 00:32:35,400
they changed anything in the conference?

500
00:32:35,400 --> 00:32:40,120
That was Oregon said, um, what, you know, they're just running for the money and they're

501
00:32:40,120 --> 00:32:41,960
just da da da da da.

502
00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:45,300
And so when all this happened, Dion went, what happened?

503
00:32:45,300 --> 00:32:46,300
It's about the bag.

504
00:32:46,300 --> 00:32:47,300
He said it by NIL too.

505
00:32:47,300 --> 00:32:48,300
He said it's about the bag.

506
00:32:48,300 --> 00:32:49,300
These collectives want to win.

507
00:32:49,300 --> 00:32:50,300
They want to get their money.

508
00:32:50,300 --> 00:32:52,160
It's about the bag.

509
00:32:52,160 --> 00:33:02,680
So it's super hypocritical cause Dan Laning in school within a week of Dion moving, moved.

510
00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:03,680
What is Oregon?

511
00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:04,680
Oregon got a Capaceo title.

512
00:33:04,680 --> 00:33:05,680
I'll give them that.

513
00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:07,680
But, and they've been in NADD.

514
00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:08,680
Lost it.

515
00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:09,680
They've been to a NADD.

516
00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:20,200
Um, so very hypocritical of some of these schools to jet less than a week after criticizing

517
00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:22,320
Colorado for doing it.

518
00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:24,800
Um, but we're going to move on.

519
00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:27,480
We're going to definitely keep our eye on this situation.

520
00:33:27,480 --> 00:33:30,080
I could probably do an entire show on conference realignment.

521
00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:32,400
Actually, I probably did an entire show on conference realignment.

522
00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:34,280
I said about a 30 minute segment.

523
00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:35,280
My apologies.

524
00:33:35,280 --> 00:33:39,320
Being a little long winded, but now we're going to shift to the NFL and talk about how

525
00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:40,320
football is back.

526
00:33:50,280 --> 00:34:03,280
Fucking gym.

527
00:34:03,280 --> 00:34:22,320
Welcome back into the show.

528
00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:23,320
My apologies.

529
00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:26,760
I just, I know I apologized in the last segment.

530
00:34:26,760 --> 00:34:28,400
My apologies for the long-winded segment.

531
00:34:28,400 --> 00:34:32,720
I actually thought about something else about the conference realignment that the ACC should

532
00:34:32,720 --> 00:34:36,840
probably scoop the last four of Stanford, Cal, Washington State, and Oregon State.

533
00:34:36,840 --> 00:34:38,680
Go Coast to Coast is like the Big Ten.

534
00:34:38,680 --> 00:34:40,600
But we're going to leave that there.

535
00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:45,840
We might discuss that again next week because conference realignment moves, it seems, every

536
00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:46,840
day.

537
00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:48,680
So we're probably be discussing that next week.

538
00:34:48,680 --> 00:34:51,540
But moving on into the NFL.

539
00:34:51,540 --> 00:34:53,280
The NFL is back people.

540
00:34:53,280 --> 00:34:54,840
Hellman's pass.

541
00:34:54,840 --> 00:34:56,440
Referees giving penalties.

542
00:34:56,440 --> 00:34:57,600
Crowds cheering.

543
00:34:57,600 --> 00:34:58,600
Legends.

544
00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:01,280
Guys looking at bus.

545
00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:03,360
Bus playing on the field.

546
00:35:03,360 --> 00:35:04,360
That was everything.

547
00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:05,360
Football's back.

548
00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:08,360
My God, it's been such a long dark one.

549
00:35:08,360 --> 00:35:11,360
Oh, I love this.

550
00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:15,760
Look, I love the NBA like the next man.

551
00:35:15,760 --> 00:35:18,040
I love baseball just like the next person.

552
00:35:18,040 --> 00:35:19,520
God knows I love the WNBA.

553
00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:21,840
Oh man, I'm an LSU fan.

554
00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:24,240
I had a great women's basketball year.

555
00:35:24,240 --> 00:35:27,880
I had a great college baseball year.

556
00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:35,720
But it's something about helmets, shoulder pads, girdles, knee pads, cleats, crowds,

557
00:35:35,720 --> 00:35:38,520
that oblong shaped brown ball.

558
00:35:38,520 --> 00:35:42,560
100 by 53 and a half yards.

559
00:35:42,560 --> 00:35:43,560
Goal posts.

560
00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:46,680
10 yard end zones.

561
00:35:46,680 --> 00:35:51,000
Pylons, holding calls, penalties, flags, referees, six of them.

562
00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:53,000
53 man rosters.

563
00:35:53,000 --> 00:35:58,840
Hell, 120 man rosters for college football, 85 for an acting scholarship.

564
00:35:58,840 --> 00:36:00,000
It's just something about it.

565
00:36:00,000 --> 00:36:01,000
Hell, high school ball.

566
00:36:01,000 --> 00:36:02,000
I'm a high school coach myself.

567
00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:03,000
I love high school ball.

568
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:04,600
High school ball, Friday nights.

569
00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:09,960
It's something about it that just brings out the passion in every man, woman, child.

570
00:36:09,960 --> 00:36:13,960
If you don't love football, potgall, you might not be alive.

571
00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:14,960
But enough of the dramatics.

572
00:36:14,960 --> 00:36:17,320
Enough of the whatever.

573
00:36:17,320 --> 00:36:18,320
Football's back, people.

574
00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:20,040
The Hall of Fame game.

575
00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:23,720
Yeah, I call it week zero, college football has something similar.

576
00:36:23,720 --> 00:36:28,960
It's called week zero, where it's like the games exist, but they're not in the traditional

577
00:36:28,960 --> 00:36:30,680
12 week calendar of college football.

578
00:36:30,680 --> 00:36:34,160
14 week calendar of along, 15 week calendar of footballers.

579
00:36:34,160 --> 00:36:37,160
It's only week zero of the preseason.

580
00:36:37,160 --> 00:36:41,400
It's only like Hall of Fame week now.

581
00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:44,640
Everyone has their issue with the Hall of Fame game.

582
00:36:44,640 --> 00:36:45,640
Right?

583
00:36:45,640 --> 00:36:47,880
We all have the same issues.

584
00:36:47,880 --> 00:36:50,200
It's the first game of the preseason.

585
00:36:50,200 --> 00:36:52,720
It's a standalone game of the preseason.

586
00:36:52,720 --> 00:36:54,640
No one cares who wins.

587
00:36:54,640 --> 00:36:56,320
No stars played.

588
00:36:56,320 --> 00:36:59,880
You get all these legends there to watch bad football.

589
00:36:59,880 --> 00:37:05,120
Okay, let's go over to that.

590
00:37:05,120 --> 00:37:08,200
First of all, let's talk about it.

591
00:37:08,200 --> 00:37:10,760
I think the Hall of Fame game should die.

592
00:37:10,760 --> 00:37:13,000
Just like the Pac-12.

593
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:16,400
I think it should die.

594
00:37:16,400 --> 00:37:18,320
Get rid of it.

595
00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:20,520
In the way it's set up now.

596
00:37:20,520 --> 00:37:29,520
Why oh why on a weekend celebrating the greatest players to ever play this game?

597
00:37:29,520 --> 00:37:37,960
There's 300 and some odd Hall of Famers and 103 and counting years of football.

598
00:37:37,960 --> 00:37:41,600
That means on average, there's three Hall of Famers a year.

599
00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:44,880
We've been playing NFL football for over 100 years.

600
00:37:44,880 --> 00:37:47,200
I don't think there's 400 Hall of Famers.

601
00:37:47,200 --> 00:37:49,120
There might be a little 400 Hall of Famers.

602
00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:50,680
I know there's not 500.

603
00:37:50,680 --> 00:37:56,520
So there's less than five Hall of Famers for every year the NFL has existed.

604
00:37:56,520 --> 00:38:01,160
There's less Hall of Famers than there are players in the AFC right now.

605
00:38:01,160 --> 00:38:02,160
About half.

606
00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:05,880
Because every time it's 53, it's three times, 10 and 500.

607
00:38:05,880 --> 00:38:13,160
So there's less Hall of Famers than there are players in the AFC conference right now.

608
00:38:13,160 --> 00:38:19,080
And we're subjecting those people who come every year for the Hall of Fame to what we

609
00:38:19,080 --> 00:38:22,560
saw last night or two nights ago for 10 years.

610
00:38:22,560 --> 00:38:25,120
Now I watched it.

611
00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:28,200
I watched three quarters of it quite vigorously.

612
00:38:28,200 --> 00:38:30,680
Fourth quarter and then I was out.

613
00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:32,920
But I watched three quarters of it quite vigorously.

614
00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:35,400
Dorian Thompson Robinson kept me glued for the most part.

615
00:38:35,400 --> 00:38:43,840
But I was excited all day to watch Zach Wilson versus Kellen Mond.

616
00:38:43,840 --> 00:38:45,480
I mean that's what got me going.

617
00:38:45,480 --> 00:38:47,720
I didn't know most of the receivers.

618
00:38:47,720 --> 00:38:50,480
A couple of the names kind of stood out to me when they said them.

619
00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:51,480
Oh, I know that person.

620
00:38:51,480 --> 00:38:54,680
He's from wherever, wherever.

621
00:38:54,680 --> 00:38:58,360
I was so excited to watch Kellen Mond versus Zach Wilson.

622
00:38:58,360 --> 00:39:01,520
You know what the best part about the game was?

623
00:39:01,520 --> 00:39:04,680
I saw Dorian Thompson Robinson's amazing performance.

624
00:39:04,680 --> 00:39:05,680
Shout out to him.

625
00:39:05,680 --> 00:39:08,800
He secured himself as that spy.

626
00:39:08,800 --> 00:39:10,360
Him and the mom were battling for his spot.

627
00:39:10,360 --> 00:39:12,360
Give it to Thompson Robinson.

628
00:39:12,360 --> 00:39:14,360
It was interviews.

629
00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:16,040
It was hearing from Joe Thomas.

630
00:39:16,040 --> 00:39:17,440
It was hearing from Daryl Reavers.

631
00:39:17,440 --> 00:39:18,440
It was hearing from Ann Rogers.

632
00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:20,480
That was the best part of the game to me.

633
00:39:20,480 --> 00:39:22,480
Chris Collinsworth, commentary and Deshaun Watson notwithstanding.

634
00:39:22,480 --> 00:39:26,800
Now I'm going to talk about the game because again it was football.

635
00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:27,800
It was back.

636
00:39:27,800 --> 00:39:29,400
I loved it.

637
00:39:29,400 --> 00:39:38,480
But I think the Hall of Fame weekend should be the Hall of Fame ceremony.

638
00:39:38,480 --> 00:39:44,360
I think they should have a Hall of Fame ceremony, have a big blowout party Thursday night, party

639
00:39:44,360 --> 00:39:49,720
it up again Saturday night, have the Hall of Fame presentation Saturday or Sunday when

640
00:39:49,720 --> 00:39:52,200
they want to do it.

641
00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:56,320
Wait six weeks or push the Hall of Fame back.

642
00:39:56,320 --> 00:40:01,720
Push the Hall of Fame induction back six weeks or just wait six weeks.

643
00:40:01,720 --> 00:40:05,480
Thursday night the Super Bowl champion opens.

644
00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:08,160
Every single year they open.

645
00:40:08,160 --> 00:40:09,160
Period.

646
00:40:09,160 --> 00:40:10,160
Doesn't matter.

647
00:40:10,160 --> 00:40:12,720
Every single year the Super Bowl champion opens Thursday night.

648
00:40:12,720 --> 00:40:14,840
They get their rings.

649
00:40:14,840 --> 00:40:18,520
They run the right to host week one.

650
00:40:18,520 --> 00:40:22,760
Monday night doesn't exist in week one I think.

651
00:40:22,760 --> 00:40:24,400
No they just open the button.

652
00:40:24,400 --> 00:40:27,880
Thursday night one of the nights you don't exist.

653
00:40:27,880 --> 00:40:32,360
I say make a special Saturday night time slot.

654
00:40:32,360 --> 00:40:36,560
It's before college football kicks off for real for real.

655
00:40:36,560 --> 00:40:42,960
Make a special time slot either a Friday night time slot, Saturday night time slot or make

656
00:40:42,960 --> 00:40:46,360
the Sunday night opener the Hall of Fame game.

657
00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:49,280
You still playing in Canton.

658
00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:51,680
Tom Benson filled all of it.

659
00:40:51,680 --> 00:40:56,160
But you play it with real people.

660
00:40:56,160 --> 00:41:00,240
You play the Hall of Fame game with real talent.

661
00:41:00,240 --> 00:41:06,360
So whether you want to play it at Tom Benson's eight in McCann Ohio week one or whether you

662
00:41:06,360 --> 00:41:11,800
say you just say okay the legends are gonna fly to this game we're deeming as the Hall

663
00:41:11,800 --> 00:41:19,320
of Fame game and the commissioner will come and little five private jets and their gold

664
00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:22,280
jackets and one last big who-rom-a-me-in-the-NFL.

665
00:41:22,280 --> 00:41:23,280
I don't know.

666
00:41:23,280 --> 00:41:24,280
Right?

667
00:41:24,280 --> 00:41:29,680
I say playing in Tom Benson's stadium you already have teams.

668
00:41:29,680 --> 00:41:33,920
My first half my brain was saying what about the revenue from the home game?

669
00:41:33,920 --> 00:41:38,880
You already have teams giving the revenue going to Germany and London and Mexico City

670
00:41:38,880 --> 00:41:40,640
and giving up a home game.

671
00:41:40,640 --> 00:41:43,400
Why not have that go to Canton Ohio?

672
00:41:43,400 --> 00:41:46,040
All the money goes into the NFL Hall of Fame.

673
00:41:46,040 --> 00:41:49,400
You probably build a bigger stadium because you know you're gonna probably sell that stadium

674
00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:52,280
out.

675
00:41:52,280 --> 00:41:56,800
The two teams, Hall of Famers get to be sideline pass members.

676
00:41:56,800 --> 00:42:01,600
Make it a thing and it's real football.

677
00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:05,640
That was real football last night and I loved every freaking second of it.

678
00:42:05,640 --> 00:42:06,640
I was glued.

679
00:42:06,640 --> 00:42:09,240
Like I said about two and a half, three quarters I'm honest.

680
00:42:09,240 --> 00:42:10,240
I was glued.

681
00:42:10,240 --> 00:42:11,240
Right?

682
00:42:11,240 --> 00:42:12,240
I was watching.

683
00:42:12,240 --> 00:42:14,640
I was critiquing Kellen Maughan very closely.

684
00:42:14,640 --> 00:42:16,720
Watching Zach Wilson very closely.

685
00:42:16,720 --> 00:42:20,800
During Thompson Robinson popped off my screen.

686
00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:22,400
He's a UCLA legend.

687
00:42:22,400 --> 00:42:27,840
He popped off my screen at quarterback for the Browns.

688
00:42:27,840 --> 00:42:30,720
Trying to get a move, trying to get a feel of what Ann Rogers was talking about with

689
00:42:30,720 --> 00:42:32,320
the Jets.

690
00:42:32,320 --> 00:42:37,840
Listening to Joe Thomas, listening to Rell Reeves, you know talk about their glory days.

691
00:42:37,840 --> 00:42:42,000
Football was back and you can tell it has a lot of contact.

692
00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:44,560
A lot of broken titles.

693
00:42:44,560 --> 00:42:46,080
A lot of running game.

694
00:42:46,080 --> 00:42:47,640
Way in front of the passing game.

695
00:42:47,640 --> 00:42:52,160
But that's because it's easier for foul fence alignment to take a good zone step to the

696
00:42:52,160 --> 00:42:53,760
right and block their assignment.

697
00:42:53,760 --> 00:42:56,400
And then the run back read it and cut through.

698
00:42:56,400 --> 00:43:01,080
As opposed to the quarterback with timing with their receivers.

699
00:43:01,080 --> 00:43:06,080
You know we talk about, oh man you can't throw a ball in front of a guy?

700
00:43:06,080 --> 00:43:11,480
Well if you haven't been working with that receiver, the slightest mistake in the NFL

701
00:43:11,480 --> 00:43:14,560
can be an interception.

702
00:43:14,560 --> 00:43:17,320
The slightest mistake can be an interception.

703
00:43:17,320 --> 00:43:21,000
Even against cover two, two high safety all night.

704
00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:24,760
Like the Jets, it's the preseason so the Jets wasn't throwing anything crazy.

705
00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:26,080
I know it was a four man rush.

706
00:43:26,080 --> 00:43:29,960
I think I saw two or three extra rushers.

707
00:43:29,960 --> 00:43:31,400
Two high safety all night.

708
00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:32,640
12 yards deep.

709
00:43:32,640 --> 00:43:35,040
Nothing cheap, nothing deep.

710
00:43:35,040 --> 00:43:37,560
Cover two man or just straight up cover two.

711
00:43:37,560 --> 00:43:40,400
And that was pretty much what the Jets ran.

712
00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:43,800
The Browns pretty much did similar.

713
00:43:43,800 --> 00:43:52,360
And so the quarterbacks not being able to be successful in that would worry me.

714
00:43:52,360 --> 00:43:54,600
Kellen Maughan had a decent night.

715
00:43:54,600 --> 00:43:58,040
The interception he threw was awful.

716
00:43:58,040 --> 00:44:04,120
It wasn't an interception where, oh how come you didn't see that safety screaming towards

717
00:44:04,120 --> 00:44:11,360
the, I couldn't even see that safety screaming towards your receiver over that post and

718
00:44:11,360 --> 00:44:16,360
picked the post or under throwing ball.

719
00:44:16,360 --> 00:44:20,280
The pick that Sean Kaiser threw, the one that stuck out to me was the one he threw to the

720
00:44:20,280 --> 00:44:25,520
linebacker where the linebacker literally mirrored the receiver in front of him so the

721
00:44:25,520 --> 00:44:28,240
person behind the intending target.

722
00:44:28,240 --> 00:44:33,160
And then from the time the receiver started his break, the linebacker who caught the pick

723
00:44:33,160 --> 00:44:34,400
was in between them.

724
00:44:34,400 --> 00:44:37,920
It wasn't like he was trailing or trying to cut off in front.

725
00:44:37,920 --> 00:44:42,160
He was literally underneath it the entire time and Kaiser hit him right in the chest.

726
00:44:42,160 --> 00:44:52,480
That pick was so bad that when Kellen Maughan let that pass go, the receiver started jogging

727
00:44:52,480 --> 00:44:55,320
because he knew there was no chance that ball was getting him.

728
00:44:55,320 --> 00:45:01,680
It was a pure bully right into the chest of the linebacker running the route for the receiver.

729
00:45:01,680 --> 00:45:05,960
I mean, that was an awful intercession by Kellen Maughan.

730
00:45:05,960 --> 00:45:07,440
Absolutely terrible.

731
00:45:07,440 --> 00:45:14,800
Like I said, then you get a situation where DTR comes right in off the bench and looks

732
00:45:14,800 --> 00:45:15,800
pretty good.

733
00:45:15,800 --> 00:45:21,240
Leads two touchdown drives and you have that awful pick on the film.

734
00:45:21,240 --> 00:45:25,000
That's one of those things that you can decide who's a practice squad quarterback and who's

735
00:45:25,000 --> 00:45:28,000
an active roster guy.

736
00:45:28,000 --> 00:45:29,920
Which to pay is significantly different.

737
00:45:29,920 --> 00:45:34,520
So that could be something huge to look out for in Cleveland.

738
00:45:34,520 --> 00:45:35,520
Huge-ish.

739
00:45:35,520 --> 00:45:39,440
But who's the guy behind Deshaun Watson?

740
00:45:39,440 --> 00:45:41,960
And then Jess had some good signs.

741
00:45:41,960 --> 00:45:48,280
Their first round pass rush sure dominated against non-Innerfield talent.

742
00:45:48,280 --> 00:45:54,480
Those guys would be ex-FL all-stars, good backups in the league or practice squad warriors.

743
00:45:54,480 --> 00:45:55,480
He dominated.

744
00:45:55,480 --> 00:45:59,000
He had several big players that popped off the screen as soon as he came in the game.

745
00:45:59,000 --> 00:46:02,160
He did what he was supposed to do against that level of competition.

746
00:46:02,160 --> 00:46:04,600
Zach Wilson looks like he's grown up.

747
00:46:04,600 --> 00:46:12,200
Now again, it was simple reads, again simple coverages, no real pass rush.

748
00:46:12,200 --> 00:46:15,240
Nobody should be too, too concerned about killing him.

749
00:46:15,240 --> 00:46:16,240
No real pressure.

750
00:46:16,240 --> 00:46:19,680
But just from live bullets, he looked like he's grown up.

751
00:46:19,680 --> 00:46:22,000
He threw a beautiful ball down the sideline.

752
00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:28,000
He didn't do his usual take one read and take off that he used to do with turns of running

753
00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:30,600
with the football and scrambling.

754
00:46:30,600 --> 00:46:32,760
Showed better pocket presence.

755
00:46:32,760 --> 00:46:36,560
So kudos to Zach Wilson.

756
00:46:36,560 --> 00:46:39,960
Both of these teams have high expectations, the Browns and the Jets.

757
00:46:39,960 --> 00:46:44,000
That's the one benefit of being in the Hall of Fame game to me is that you get the old

758
00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:47,040
school fourth preseason game schedule.

759
00:46:47,040 --> 00:46:54,200
So for guys, 85 through 90, who might be trying to fight to survive that first cut, that Hall

760
00:46:54,200 --> 00:46:56,600
of Fame game could mean surviving that first cut.

761
00:46:56,600 --> 00:47:00,640
Chris Collinsworth spoke about it on the broadcast.

762
00:47:00,640 --> 00:47:04,080
It was like the Jets have a lot of linebackers and safeties.

763
00:47:04,080 --> 00:47:10,680
And so the preseason matters a lot to those guys because they're not even fighting for

764
00:47:10,680 --> 00:47:11,680
actor roster spots.

765
00:47:11,680 --> 00:47:14,920
They got so many of those guys, they're fighting to be on the practice squad.

766
00:47:14,920 --> 00:47:19,160
Like there's so many linebackers and safeties on the Jets.

767
00:47:19,160 --> 00:47:22,800
They're fighting for literal practice squad spots along with actor roster spots, they can

768
00:47:22,800 --> 00:47:23,800
get it.

769
00:47:23,800 --> 00:47:29,840
And of course the Jets have the influx of Aaron Rodgers with his newly reworked contract,

770
00:47:29,840 --> 00:47:32,920
giving back 30 to $35 million.

771
00:47:32,920 --> 00:47:37,480
Signing a book to his old Packers buddies.

772
00:47:37,480 --> 00:47:45,280
They have sky high expectations, not as high as the Lions, but they have sky high expectations.

773
00:47:45,280 --> 00:47:47,200
People are picking them to win the AFC East.

774
00:47:47,200 --> 00:47:50,640
They are popular bet for the Superbowl champions through the Superbowl trophy.

775
00:47:50,640 --> 00:47:54,280
I mean, they have sky high expectations.

776
00:47:54,280 --> 00:47:57,240
On the Brown side, they're looking to compete in the division.

777
00:47:57,240 --> 00:47:59,800
This is Deshaun Watson in his first four years since 2020.

778
00:47:59,800 --> 00:48:04,520
I think 2020, yeah, 2020.

779
00:48:04,520 --> 00:48:08,520
Where last time we saw him in the full season, he was 70% completion in the universe, regarded

780
00:48:08,520 --> 00:48:11,480
as one of the best five to seven quarterbacks in the league.

781
00:48:11,480 --> 00:48:15,040
And now, of course, he set all his 121.

782
00:48:15,040 --> 00:48:19,000
He was suspended for 11 games in 2022.

783
00:48:19,000 --> 00:48:21,960
When he came back, he was okay.

784
00:48:21,960 --> 00:48:26,920
Went three and three, had some moments of greatness, has moments of awfulness, but sitting

785
00:48:26,920 --> 00:48:30,880
out a year and a half, especially at the quarterback position in the NFL, that's going to happen

786
00:48:30,880 --> 00:48:31,880
to anybody.

787
00:48:31,880 --> 00:48:36,520
And so now he gets a full off season, a full mini camp, a full training camp.

788
00:48:36,520 --> 00:48:41,960
The second year in his offense, he gets to really learn how to make this offense work,

789
00:48:41,960 --> 00:48:44,960
how to be successful in this offense.

790
00:48:44,960 --> 00:48:50,360
And so he gets an opportunity to now really begin to earn that $230 million full guarantee

791
00:48:50,360 --> 00:48:51,360
contract.

792
00:48:51,360 --> 00:48:56,280
They did some mechanizations in the first year of it to keep it out of harm, most of

793
00:48:56,280 --> 00:48:57,280
it out of harm's way.

794
00:48:57,280 --> 00:49:02,800
I think his base salary for year one was $1 million or something insane or something insane

795
00:49:02,800 --> 00:49:08,840
like that, just so they can keep his suspension loss money to a minimum.

796
00:49:08,840 --> 00:49:14,880
But Deshaun Watson gets an opportunity to lead this Browns franchise with the deal being

797
00:49:14,880 --> 00:49:20,920
fully guaranteed for the next four seasons is his franchise.

798
00:49:20,920 --> 00:49:24,480
Quick hitters before we touch, we're going to wrap up the segment.

799
00:49:24,480 --> 00:49:27,160
Our team we got to touch on, but quick hitters.

800
00:49:27,160 --> 00:49:32,280
Alvin Kamara suspended three games by the NFL following his fight at a Las Vegas club.

801
00:49:32,280 --> 00:49:37,520
He gets three games at the meeting with the commissioner, Roger Goodell.

802
00:49:37,520 --> 00:49:41,360
So he will miss the first three games of the season.

803
00:49:41,360 --> 00:49:46,960
Josh Sills of the Philadelphia Eagles has been acquitted of rape and kidnapping charges

804
00:49:46,960 --> 00:49:51,480
placed on the commissioner exemplists in 2019, but he did make one appearance last season

805
00:49:51,480 --> 00:49:52,480
against the Cardinals.

806
00:49:52,480 --> 00:49:58,200
He has been committed, removed from the exemplists and will be on the active roster per the Eagles

807
00:49:58,200 --> 00:50:00,840
starting tomorrow.

808
00:50:00,840 --> 00:50:06,280
Malik Hooker, safety of the Dallas Cowboys have agreed to a three year, $24 million contract

809
00:50:06,280 --> 00:50:12,160
extension with the team with $16.5 million guaranteed basically the first two seasons

810
00:50:12,160 --> 00:50:15,800
and also has an $8 million signing bonus.

811
00:50:15,800 --> 00:50:19,160
So it pretty much guarantees the first two seasons.

812
00:50:19,160 --> 00:50:23,960
I'm sure some of us had a roster bonuses, but good deal for Malik Hooker as he has been

813
00:50:23,960 --> 00:50:29,400
impressing the Cowboys throughout camp and with his play last season.

814
00:50:29,400 --> 00:50:34,280
Seattle Seahawks wide receiver, Dwayne Eskridge, along with newly acquired Kansas City Chiefs

815
00:50:34,280 --> 00:50:39,600
defensive end Charles Amenahue have been suspended since games of peace for violating the league's

816
00:50:39,600 --> 00:50:42,520
personal conduct policy.

817
00:50:42,520 --> 00:50:48,640
I don't recall what Amenahue's situation was, they got him suspended, but Mr. Eskridge

818
00:50:48,640 --> 00:50:54,160
of the Seahawks was suspended for an incident involving a woman.

819
00:50:54,160 --> 00:50:59,560
Uniquin Gakwe has joined the Chicago Bears on a one year, $10.5 million deal with $10

820
00:50:59,560 --> 00:51:02,040
million of a guaranteed.

821
00:51:02,040 --> 00:51:09,240
So big news in Chicago, they look to try and take advantage of the first times in 25ish

822
00:51:09,240 --> 00:51:14,640
years, 20ish years for sure that the Green Bay Packers don't have a Hall of Fame quarterback.

823
00:51:14,640 --> 00:51:19,680
Between Brett Favre and Aaron Rodgers, the Bears look to try and jump up along with trying

824
00:51:19,680 --> 00:51:25,640
to see what Justin Fields truly has and if he can lead the franchise.

825
00:51:25,640 --> 00:51:30,600
Elm Cam Jordan for the New Orleans Saints extends two years, $27.5 million guaranteed

826
00:51:30,600 --> 00:51:35,080
contract, this contract is basically what I would like to consider a retirement contract,

827
00:51:35,080 --> 00:51:37,080
it's the last bill he'll ever sign.

828
00:51:37,080 --> 00:51:43,160
He flew his father in to help watch him sign the contract, he extends through 2025 and

829
00:51:43,160 --> 00:51:47,120
ensures that Cam Jordan retires as a Saint.

830
00:51:47,120 --> 00:51:56,080
He'll be one of the rare players that over a long career spends her entire career with

831
00:51:56,080 --> 00:52:03,120
one team, 15 seasons will be the mark that he will have with the Saints.

832
00:52:03,120 --> 00:52:06,920
He's the franchise's all time sack leader, he holds the NFL record as well for the most

833
00:52:06,920 --> 00:52:14,280
time sacking one player, that's former Falcons and Coats quarterback Matt Ryan and so he

834
00:52:14,280 --> 00:52:18,440
will retire a New Orleans Saint.

835
00:52:18,440 --> 00:52:23,960
And then there's been a strange, or to me, a strange uptick of injuries in training camp,

836
00:52:23,960 --> 00:52:32,280
a lot of ACLs, a lot of lower leg injuries, many people are contributing this to a lot

837
00:52:32,280 --> 00:52:39,360
of artificial fields during training camps, a lot of non-use surfaces a lot, because these

838
00:52:39,360 --> 00:52:44,000
places a lot of the time only get used if people do training camp offsite during training

839
00:52:44,000 --> 00:52:45,000
camp.

840
00:52:45,000 --> 00:52:51,160
And then you have a lot of guys who use the training camps to play their way into shape.

841
00:52:51,160 --> 00:52:56,080
They may lift weights in the off season, but they don't do a lot of cardio, do a lot of

842
00:52:56,080 --> 00:53:00,440
football workouts, or if they do, it's not at the intensity of a full speed training

843
00:53:00,440 --> 00:53:01,440
camp.

844
00:53:01,440 --> 00:53:04,880
So you're seeing ACLs go left and right.

845
00:53:04,880 --> 00:53:08,600
Big names have gone down, small names have gone down.

846
00:53:08,600 --> 00:53:12,260
Guys that won't affect anybody's season, Jaylen Ramsey is out with a meniscus.

847
00:53:12,260 --> 00:53:16,400
So a calf strain too, Joe Burrow with a calf strain.

848
00:53:16,400 --> 00:53:20,480
So you see top guys going down along with guys that won't affect anyone's season.

849
00:53:20,480 --> 00:53:25,400
Our fans in football leagues with these training camp injuries.

850
00:53:25,400 --> 00:53:29,920
But wrapping up the NFL segment, the Detroit Lions, I just want to give a shout out to

851
00:53:29,920 --> 00:53:30,920
the Lions.

852
00:53:30,920 --> 00:53:35,240
For the first time in the forward field era, which is 21 seasons, they have sold out all

853
00:53:35,240 --> 00:53:37,040
of their season tickets for this season.

854
00:53:37,040 --> 00:53:43,080
First time ever, they have a waiting list for season tickets for the first time since

855
00:53:43,080 --> 00:53:44,760
they moved into the forward field.

856
00:53:44,760 --> 00:53:50,920
And like I said, it's been 21 years, they have a waiting list for season tickets for

857
00:53:50,920 --> 00:53:52,400
the first time ever.

858
00:53:52,400 --> 00:53:59,280
The excitement around that team is palpable, which is huge for a city like Detroit.

859
00:53:59,280 --> 00:54:01,840
Parts of it are completely deserted and abandoned.

860
00:54:01,840 --> 00:54:09,260
I mean, it's just old closed businesses, busted out windows, no movement in parts of the city

861
00:54:09,260 --> 00:54:10,600
like it just doesn't exist.

862
00:54:10,600 --> 00:54:16,240
It's like I am legend during the day, Will Smith's walking around and there's nobody

863
00:54:16,240 --> 00:54:17,240
else but him.

864
00:54:17,240 --> 00:54:18,240
You know what I'm saying?

865
00:54:18,240 --> 00:54:22,040
It's like there's just parts of the city completely abandoned.

866
00:54:22,040 --> 00:54:25,360
And so situation, a great team in Detroit.

867
00:54:25,360 --> 00:54:27,880
That team went into their last 10.

868
00:54:27,880 --> 00:54:33,480
Jared Goff over his last six or seven starts, 15 touchdowns, no one exceptions.

869
00:54:33,480 --> 00:54:36,800
They were a top five offense second half of the year.

870
00:54:36,800 --> 00:54:42,600
And there's a lot of excitement around that Detroit franchise, the Detroit Lions franchise.

871
00:54:42,600 --> 00:54:45,360
Ding dong, the witch is dead in terms of Ann Rogers is gone.

872
00:54:45,360 --> 00:54:46,480
He's a jet.

873
00:54:46,480 --> 00:54:50,920
So now the best quarterback in the division is to me, it's Kirk Cousins, but you can make

874
00:54:50,920 --> 00:54:54,120
out Jared Goff argument pretty easily.

875
00:54:54,120 --> 00:55:01,480
And so there's an opportunity to win the NMC North because the Packers have had a strangle

876
00:55:01,480 --> 00:55:03,000
on them for 20 some odd years.

877
00:55:03,000 --> 00:55:05,320
The Vikings have popped up and won it.

878
00:55:05,320 --> 00:55:07,080
The Bears have popped up and won it.

879
00:55:07,080 --> 00:55:09,200
The Lions haven't.

880
00:55:09,200 --> 00:55:13,640
And so huge opportunity for the Lions because I just want to give a shout out to Dan Campbell

881
00:55:13,640 --> 00:55:18,200
and the rest of the organization for just changing the culture in Detroit.

882
00:55:18,200 --> 00:55:23,560
And again, bringing excitement to the city that obviously has not been seen since they

883
00:55:23,560 --> 00:55:25,680
moved the forward field at minimum.

884
00:55:25,680 --> 00:55:31,640
But up next, we're going to shift to our best for last and discuss Anthony Davis contract

885
00:55:31,640 --> 00:55:32,640
extension with the Los Angeles Lakers.

886
00:55:32,640 --> 00:55:58,220
Right before I talk about Anthony Davis is Dan Campbell.

887
00:55:58,220 --> 00:56:16,940
Welcome back into the show and now we're going to touch on Anthony Davis' contract extension

888
00:56:16,940 --> 00:56:20,380
with the Los Angeles Lakers.

889
00:56:20,380 --> 00:56:28,020
AD signed the biggest average annual value extension in NBA history at over $62 million

890
00:56:28,020 --> 00:56:33,780
a year and he signed a three-year extension for $186 million.

891
00:56:33,780 --> 00:56:35,980
This extension won't start for another two seasons.

892
00:56:35,980 --> 00:56:41,860
It ties him to the Lakers through 2028.

893
00:56:41,860 --> 00:56:45,700
He signed this deal as soon as he was eligible to sign it.

894
00:56:45,700 --> 00:56:49,740
Had he waited a season, he could have gotten more money.

895
00:56:49,740 --> 00:56:54,500
He could have super maxed it and been down to one year left, did a four-year max extension

896
00:56:54,500 --> 00:56:59,980
maybe signed, maybe went over $230 million extension, maybe $240 million.

897
00:56:59,980 --> 00:57:03,980
He's already in his 60s, maybe a $250 million extension.

898
00:57:03,980 --> 00:57:10,380
Especially if he qualified for the super max extension, we could have been looking at a

899
00:57:10,380 --> 00:57:13,420
possibly $70 million a year extension.

900
00:57:13,420 --> 00:57:15,220
Who knows what the dollar amount would have gone.

901
00:57:15,220 --> 00:57:19,300
But AD, just like he did when he first got to LA.

902
00:57:19,300 --> 00:57:23,820
He showed up on a one-year deal or two-year, one year left on his contract, extended four

903
00:57:23,820 --> 00:57:29,340
years instead of waiting to go to free agency and then signing back for the five years with

904
00:57:29,340 --> 00:57:31,060
the 10-year and all the other rules.

905
00:57:31,060 --> 00:57:34,460
He could have got way more money when he first got to LA.

906
00:57:34,460 --> 00:57:37,100
He took the quick, fast guarantee money.

907
00:57:37,100 --> 00:57:41,500
Now as soon as he was physically able to sign the extension, I think he went and felt he

908
00:57:41,500 --> 00:57:46,780
was eligible either today or yesterday, he signed three-year max extensions.

909
00:57:46,780 --> 00:57:49,820
The man in Davis known to do, he knows his body.

910
00:57:49,820 --> 00:57:53,820
He admitted it in 2020 when he signed the four-year extension.

911
00:57:53,820 --> 00:57:54,820
He admitted it.

912
00:57:54,820 --> 00:57:57,580
Yeah, I know my body.

913
00:57:57,580 --> 00:57:59,460
I know that I have injury concerns.

914
00:57:59,460 --> 00:58:03,180
Pretty much admitting like I know at any given moment I could be banged up.

915
00:58:03,180 --> 00:58:04,180
I want security.

916
00:58:04,180 --> 00:58:06,740
He didn't want to put on that last year the deal.

917
00:58:06,740 --> 00:58:11,660
He gets a really bad injury and the Lakers don't give him the money.

918
00:58:11,660 --> 00:58:13,340
Ask Demarcus Cousins.

919
00:58:13,340 --> 00:58:14,340
It happens.

920
00:58:14,340 --> 00:58:19,020
Demarcus Cousins popped his quad New Orleans and went from a max guy to the Pelicans in

921
00:58:19,020 --> 00:58:22,020
the Mafia in two years 40.

922
00:58:22,020 --> 00:58:23,420
Basically give him time to rehab and come back.

923
00:58:23,420 --> 00:58:26,740
He said, no, went to the Warriors on a one-year prove it, so on and so forth.

924
00:58:26,740 --> 00:58:30,500
He's never seen that money.

925
00:58:30,500 --> 00:58:33,700
And so those things can happen.

926
00:58:33,700 --> 00:58:37,260
Anthony Davis on that New Orleans scene that that happened to Demarcus Cousins too.

927
00:58:37,260 --> 00:58:43,620
If anybody knows how a big man can go from a max to nothing overnight, it's Anthony

928
00:58:43,620 --> 00:58:45,940
Davis because he watched it happen to Demarcus Cousins.

929
00:58:45,940 --> 00:58:49,140
He took the extension.

930
00:58:49,140 --> 00:58:55,980
It brings his total contract to five years north of $270 million on what's left on his

931
00:58:55,980 --> 00:58:56,980
deal.

932
00:58:56,980 --> 00:58:57,980
He had a weird contract.

933
00:58:57,980 --> 00:58:59,420
Anyway, he didn't have a player option.

934
00:58:59,420 --> 00:59:01,420
He had an early termination option.

935
00:59:01,420 --> 00:59:04,580
It's not quite the same thing.

936
00:59:04,580 --> 00:59:05,580
Same function.

937
00:59:05,580 --> 00:59:08,060
The player option, you can either pick it up at a client.

938
00:59:08,060 --> 00:59:11,140
The early termination, if you don't do anything, you just keep playing a contract.

939
00:59:11,140 --> 00:59:14,500
You ETO it, you turn it into a four-year deal.

940
00:59:14,500 --> 00:59:17,140
You just got the deal a year early.

941
00:59:17,140 --> 00:59:19,780
But I don't know if there are options during this contract.

942
00:59:19,780 --> 00:59:23,300
I'm sure it may have another ETO or another player option.

943
00:59:23,300 --> 00:59:29,380
But like I said, it brings his total deal to five years, $270 million.

944
00:59:29,380 --> 00:59:32,420
It also completes the Los Angeles Lakers offseason.

945
00:59:32,420 --> 00:59:38,180
I would grade it an A. And no, they didn't bring back a Damian Lillard.

946
00:59:38,180 --> 00:59:42,860
If they traded for Damian Lillard and kept LeBron AD, that's an A plus.

947
00:59:42,860 --> 00:59:45,060
Plus, plus, plus.

948
00:59:45,060 --> 00:59:49,860
But they probably went out on their board and they had retained these guys and extended

949
00:59:49,860 --> 00:59:50,860
these guys.

950
00:59:50,860 --> 00:59:54,700
Ruhajah Moore is on a four-year deal.

951
00:59:54,700 --> 00:59:56,420
Austin Reeves is on a four-year deal.

952
00:59:56,420 --> 00:59:59,220
Anthony Davis, now it's high-troubling his for five years.

953
00:59:59,220 --> 01:00:02,940
Gary Vinson, it's three years.

954
01:00:02,940 --> 01:00:04,420
LeBron James is back.

955
01:00:04,420 --> 01:00:09,100
I think I might have mentioned Ruhajah Moore, but Ruhajah Moore, if I hadn't mentioned him,

956
01:00:09,100 --> 01:00:10,100
he's on a four-year deal.

957
01:00:10,100 --> 01:00:12,460
Like they went out and got back.

958
01:00:12,460 --> 01:00:17,420
D'Angelo Russell is on a two-year deal, effectively waived his no trade.

959
01:00:17,420 --> 01:00:18,420
So he's an asset.

960
01:00:18,420 --> 01:00:24,020
That's going to be $19.5 million a year or $19 million a year that is tradable.

961
01:00:24,020 --> 01:00:25,740
That's a big trade piece.

962
01:00:25,740 --> 01:00:28,620
So you're looking at the Los Angeles Lakers.

963
01:00:28,620 --> 01:00:31,940
Jerry Vanderbilt is back.

964
01:00:31,940 --> 01:00:36,740
They had a hell of an off season.

965
01:00:36,740 --> 01:00:40,940
I think their off season is done, but I do think they make an early to mid-season trade

966
01:00:40,940 --> 01:00:42,940
with D'Angelo Russell's contract.

967
01:00:42,940 --> 01:00:46,020
Austin Reeves to me is a starting point guard in the NBA.

968
01:00:46,020 --> 01:00:49,420
Ruhajah Moore to me is a starter in the NBA.

969
01:00:49,420 --> 01:00:51,100
Jerry Vanderbilt is a starter in the NBA.

970
01:00:51,100 --> 01:00:54,300
Anthony Davis, LeBron James, obviously.

971
01:00:54,300 --> 01:00:55,780
Gary Vinson can start at the two.

972
01:00:55,780 --> 01:01:00,740
We're going to do Austin Reeves, Gary Vinson, LeBron, AD, insert person here.

973
01:01:00,740 --> 01:01:03,140
That could be a starting lineup.

974
01:01:03,140 --> 01:01:04,900
Jackson Hayes is on that team.

975
01:01:04,900 --> 01:01:07,140
Torian Prince is on that team.

976
01:01:07,140 --> 01:01:11,860
So I think that the Lakers make a move with D'Angelo Russell early in the season if it

977
01:01:11,860 --> 01:01:12,860
doesn't happen before the season.

978
01:01:12,860 --> 01:01:20,140
But I think they want to go into the season and see how it goes and then possibly make

979
01:01:20,140 --> 01:01:24,140
that move with D'Angelo Russell.

980
01:01:24,140 --> 01:01:28,500
Like I said, $19 million a year is a hell of a contract.

981
01:01:28,500 --> 01:01:30,500
That's a center and that's Vujicic.

982
01:01:30,500 --> 01:01:35,340
I mean, literally almost dollar for dollar, that's Nikola Vujicic.

983
01:01:35,340 --> 01:01:41,140
Vujicic signed for 20 million a year, I want to say in Chicago, three years, 60.

984
01:01:41,140 --> 01:01:46,580
D'Angelo is two years, 37, 18 and a half versus 20.

985
01:01:46,580 --> 01:01:52,500
Max Christie is on the Lakers team, but D'Angelo Russell throw in some random two-way guy to

986
01:01:52,500 --> 01:01:56,620
make the dollars work could turn into Nikola Vujicic.

987
01:01:56,620 --> 01:02:04,300
And then you make it start Austin Reeves, Gary Vincent, LeBron, AD, Vuj.

988
01:02:04,300 --> 01:02:06,300
That's a hell of a starting five.

989
01:02:06,300 --> 01:02:10,860
So there's different options out there for the Lakers with that 19 and a half million

990
01:02:10,860 --> 01:02:11,860
dollars.

991
01:02:11,860 --> 01:02:15,940
I think their big piece is going to be D'Angelo Russell, the trade deadline.

992
01:02:15,940 --> 01:02:21,780
But congratulations to Rich Paul, he did big again.

993
01:02:21,780 --> 01:02:26,740
Rich Paul today gets 3% of contracts.

994
01:02:26,740 --> 01:02:34,580
So Rich Paul today made $5.58 million getting his contract extension signed with Anthony

995
01:02:34,580 --> 01:02:35,580
Davis.

996
01:02:35,580 --> 01:02:36,580
So shout out him.

997
01:02:36,580 --> 01:02:39,180
Shout out AD again for securing his future.

998
01:02:39,180 --> 01:02:45,180
He's due $270 million over the next five years.

999
01:02:45,180 --> 01:02:48,180
The Lakers have their centerpiece into the future post-LeBron era.

1000
01:02:48,180 --> 01:02:53,220
They also have a pretty solid team around them, like I said, multiple guys with more

1001
01:02:53,220 --> 01:02:56,580
than two years on their contract.

1002
01:02:56,580 --> 01:02:58,820
That is all I have for today.

1003
01:02:58,820 --> 01:03:01,540
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1004
01:03:01,540 --> 01:03:06,300
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1005
01:03:06,300 --> 01:03:09,460
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1006
01:03:09,460 --> 01:03:12,980
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1007
01:03:12,980 --> 01:03:16,060
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1008
01:03:16,060 --> 01:03:18,500
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01:03:18,500 --> 01:03:46,100
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