Buck & Fitz React to Texas Beating Vanderbilt, Preview Game 7 of the World Series & More!

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
Let the chaos of the college football season continue. Just
when you thought maybe we were getting answers, and only
days before the college Football Playoff Committee meets for the
first time. So a weekend with tremendous importance not just
for winning, but for also making an impression, two top
ten teams have already fallen. Texas takes down Vanderbilt, SMU

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takes down Miami, and we continue to be reminded every
single week that in the modern college football world, we
have no idea. He's buck rising out. Jason fitzbucking fits
taken over Fox Sports Saturday. Texas beats Vandy, and I
want to stress here, this wasn't a beat. It was
a beat down. Don't look at the box score, watch
the game. And if you watch the game, in this one,

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Vandy needed an epic, unbelievable, oh my god come back
in the fourth quarter that an on side kick almost
got recovered. I was the one person in the world
screaming at the television when they had a shot at it.
Texas takes down Vandy, and now all of a sudden,
those college football playoff dreams look a hell of a
lot thinner right now. If you're a Commodores fan, or
if you're a fan of The Wild and Unexpected book.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
Why you gotta do Vanderbilt like that. They had twenty
one points in a fourth quarterer.

Speaker 4 (01:12):
Oh way, it was Vanderbilt.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
I mean, listen, when anytime you have a touchdown, a
seventy five yard touchdown on the first offensive play of
the game to open things up, and then the on
the ensuing Vanderbilt possession, you fumble away the ball and
put your opponent inside the twenty in the score starts
to unravel.

Speaker 4 (01:34):
That way, That's fine.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
Jason fitz It was for three quarters a beat down
and then mighty Vanderbilt rallied back. But I love that
were I love, love, love love that we are in
a place where you are talking about the state of
college football and the best conference in college football, the SEC,
no matter what ACC people will tell you, and that
you are opening up the show with the idea that

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ugh Texas eat Vanderbilt.

Speaker 4 (02:01):
Showing us that we don't know anything about.

Speaker 3 (02:03):
College football, as if that's not the thing that we
all thought was the most obvious thing at the start
of the season, when we saw that Vandy was going
to have to go down to Austin.

Speaker 4 (02:12):
Again.

Speaker 3 (02:12):
These things are all requiring context here, and it is
unfortunate for Vanderbilt if you've been rooting for the story
that they were not able to get the job done,
because I mean FITZI on their sideline that on sidekick,
it goes through the initial Texas player's hands and like
four or five guys have a chance at it. The guy,
the Vanderbilt player has his arm around the ball as

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it's going out of bounds, unfortunately not in time enough
to recover. I'm biased, I'm rooting for Vanderbilt in this situation.
I'm doing the show here from Nashville, as some of
the audience may not know listening to us on Fox
Sports Radio. And then the other part of this is Miami.
Miami had this thing in control for the vast majority
of the game, much like Texas. But the difference is

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Texas got the job done at the end, was able
to hold off even if they allowed a Diego Pavia
a touchdown run for an explosive play in a sixty
seven yard receiving touchdown to Eli Stowers, the tight end
and all these different things.

Speaker 4 (03:08):
Miami, they don't.

Speaker 3 (03:10):
Even they don't even have a place now in the
ACC Championship game at this point in time, like it is,
it is becoming messier by the day. And as as
Ohio State handles business against Penn State and Indiana looks
like they're very much in control as the number two
team in the country. We had an interesting Georgia Florida
game going on right now that appears to have just
at least put themselves in a position Florida to tie

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the game pending the extra point a two yard touchdown
rush in the Are we still calling at the world's
largest outdoor cocktail party? Or did we get away get
rid of that.

Speaker 2 (03:42):
Too, it's the world's largest outdoor tailgate.

Speaker 5 (03:45):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (03:45):
Like, so this is like the weird things that we've
done in college football. We can't call it.

Speaker 5 (03:50):
Dad can't cover that.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
And like everything went too far one direction now we're
going back the opposite direction wildly. So I'm pretty sure
it'll be called, you know, some level of debauchery again
with it. Seconds said, you're right, Florida getting the opportunity
to get to within one. But I think about what
you were talking about with Texas and Miami. Think about
this Buck We were stunned today that Arch Manning actually
put together a decent game, had a couple of balls

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that sailed on him that could have been picked but
Arts wasn't terrible, and we're like, oh, ars is putting
it together.

Speaker 5 (04:17):
I mean, that's where we are.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
And then Carson Beck throws just a lay mass interception
in overtime that absolutely cost Miami had the opportunity goes
just absolutely terrible throw that's picked off. Part of the
surprise where we are in this season is that at
this point the margins are so thin at the quarterback position.
If you have somebody that's supposed to be that guy
and he doesn't play like that guy, man, things get

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much tougher. This whole season has looked tougher for Texas
because Arch has just been slower to develop. For whatever
reason we want to put on that Arch hasn't been
very good. We talked about it on the show Carson
Beck Is you know, shows shades of Carson Beck. I
just keep looking at this saying it just proves the
one thing this year that we could count on is
it's wild, it's crazy, it's unknown. But the other side
of it is Buck like I want to oversimplicate and simplify. Here,

(05:02):
over complicate, oversimplify. We're gonna make it one word.

Speaker 3 (05:04):
Oh I like to oversimplicate, implication, simplicate. It feels like
it could have a positive and a negative connotation.

Speaker 2 (05:10):
Yeah, simple, So we're gonna simplicate things. Look, college football
takes care of itself to a fault. Like so often
we spend the first two months screaming, oh my god,
what about this team? But what about this? This guy
has no shot at the playoffs.

Speaker 5 (05:24):
I can't believe this.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
And by the end of the year there's been just
enough chaos that the cream rises in college football take
care of itself. It feels like these are those reminders,
like the teams that don't really belong that everybody spends
time spent like, look, if Vanderbilt loses again throughout the
course of the season, they probably didn't belong in this
conversation anyway, and it'll prove itself out by then, right,
Like that's in Miami a couple of weeks ago.

Speaker 5 (05:46):
Miami. Oh man, they're getting disrespected. There's number one. Why
don't we pay more attention?

Speaker 2 (05:50):
Then you get a little bit further into the season,
you're like, what do you know, with more tangible proof,
we kind of know who Miami is right now, and
Miami really isn't that right, Like, college football takes care
of itself no matter what happens out of Notre Dame today,
no matter what happens on Tuesday, when the college football
Playoff committee meets for the first time, one of the
big conversations is going to be will Notre Dame get
into the college football Playoff. The stupidity of that conversation

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sometimes is that it forgets that there are eleven or
twelve other teams that will impact the destiny of it. Like, frankly,
the chance is that eleven or twelve other teams that
could be ahead of Notre Dame in the playoff conversation,
the chances that those to eleven or twelve teams make
it through the rest of the season unscathed is virtually
non existent. So like, part of the reason, yeah, they're
going to make the playoffs is because eventually everybody ahead

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of them screws up and makes it easy.

Speaker 5 (06:36):
Like it just college football takes care of itself.

Speaker 4 (06:40):
Yeah, I think that's fair.

Speaker 3 (06:41):
And that's the thing that makes for example, Vanderbilt and
Indiana such different stories. Now, Vanderbilt even has a higher
talent profile than Indiana does, which makes the things that
Kurt Signetti and Indiana are doing. This has become a
by the way, an Indiana football show in the middle
of national the Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 4 (06:59):
I feel like, over of course the last couple.

Speaker 3 (07:00):
Weeks, because it's shocking that Indiana football is the number
two team in the country. But today FITZI for the
three quarters of beat Down, before the twenty one unanswered
points that Vanderbilt scored, to me, it was just, well, yeah,
the talent differential evened out. Texas is just a vastly
more talented football team than Vanderbilt is. You saw the

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things that Diego Pavia, the Vanderbilt quarterback, was trying to
do against the Texas defensive front that is going to
be talent loaded for the NFL Draft and one of
the highest talent profiles of any one singular unit in
all of college football.

Speaker 4 (07:37):
And they ravaged Vandy upfront the way.

Speaker 3 (07:39):
That they should, the way that we expected them to do,
and that they have done. The offense obviously hasn't done
its side of the job, or not enough of its
side of the job throughout the course of the season
though they've survived. I mean they're seven to two, but
Arch had three twenty eight what three touchdowns?

Speaker 4 (07:54):
He was twenty five of thirty three today. They had
a complimentary rushing attack as well.

Speaker 3 (07:58):
So it felt like the best version of Texas that
we've seen now for back to back weeks, even if
they were getting their asses kicked for a good period.

Speaker 4 (08:05):
Of that Mississippi State game last week.

Speaker 3 (08:07):
That's the thing that I'm fascinated with about Indiana, for example,
because like, that's a less talented team than Vanderbilt. You
look at the JUCO players and transfer portal players and
JMU players that Kurt Signetti is out here whipping ass with.

Speaker 4 (08:20):
It doesn't make any sense.

Speaker 3 (08:22):
And so I watched that Ohio State Penn State game today,
and Penn State is going to have double digit picks
in this year's NFL draft. Again, it's a wildly talented
football team, even though it's fired its coach and it's
lost its starting quarterback for the remainder of the season.
At this point in time, and I'm looking at that
Indiana Penn State game and being like, Yeah, where is

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the moment where Indiana finally stubs its toe because I
just or does it ever happen to make this thing
the improbable even more so at this point in time.
It's one of the more interesting parts of It's an
anomaly to what you're saying about the college football season
evening out, even though we saw them do it last
year and be a playoff team.

Speaker 4 (09:04):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
But here's the flip side of all of this. We've
spent all year coming in being like, oh my god,
it's so crazy. This year so crazy, it's wild. We
don't know what's going on. It's insane. We're gonna end
up with Ohio State versus Alabama for the national championship,
right like, we're.

Speaker 5 (09:18):
Gonna go through all of this. Well, that was fun.
Gee golly, guys, that was awesome.

Speaker 2 (09:22):
We're gonna get Ohio State Bama for the championship and
then people are gonna complain about that.

Speaker 3 (09:26):
Oh I don't know, but I mean, wasn't that the
point though? When they reconfigured this entire thing? And again
they've they've they've mangled the the process to get college
football to the place where they're ultimately trying to get
it to. But they've at least tricked us in our
heads FITZI that we don't know what to expect from

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the college football season, even if the best programs and
the programs that we all expect to be in it
at the end of the day are the teams that
are still out there competing in the national championship game.
I have at least convinced myself that in has a
chance to play for a college football playoff title.

Speaker 4 (10:05):
And even that, guys, knowing that Ohio.

Speaker 3 (10:08):
State is just rolling through their competition, they haven't really
been tested yet, but there's nothing to say that they
wouldn't rise to the occasion because they are one of
the most talented teams, if not the most talented team
in the country.

Speaker 4 (10:18):
Alabama, I think.

Speaker 3 (10:19):
Has a little more is a little more flawed top
to bottom in terms of where they are gettable and
how they are beating teams and how they're surviving some
of these games. But still the premise is they've at
least tricked us into thinking that other teams have a chance.

Speaker 2 (10:35):
I mean, isn't that, at some level a little bit
like what we see constantly from the March madness from
the NCAA tournament, right, Like we have this concept, oh,
anybody can win it. But really what we want to
see are all sorts of upsets in the beginning, and
then as we get through, maybe a few more cute moments,
and then we get all the way down to the
end of this thing. And when we get to the
end of this thing, we still just want to see
Duke North Carolina somehow play for a national championship. We

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want to see the biggest brands. We want to see
the biggest sort of opportunity is Yeah, that's what we
want here. We want Indiana to win some football games.
But come on, Like, if anybody's been paying attention, I'm
the one nerd that pays attention to TV ratings.

Speaker 5 (11:09):
All the time.

Speaker 2 (11:10):
I love how they're trying to package the World Series
ratings to tell you how great they are because.

Speaker 5 (11:14):
They're including Japan and Canada.

Speaker 2 (11:16):
Like one sixth of Canada as a country watched the
opening two games of the World Series. But the fact
is last year, when you had a Dodgers Yankees World
Series Monday Night Football, the Monday Night Football World Series
matchup last year actually beat or sorry, the World Series
beat Monday Night Football last year in the ratings with
those two teams beat this year, which has been a

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classic all time series that we're gonna talk about in
a minute. It's like the thing that they make Disney
movies about. God, it's ass Kit on Monday NF. I
just absolutely molly wopped on Monday Night Football by Patrick Mahomes, right, Like,
that's just at the end of the day, what college
football really wants is Indiana to get to the final
four of the College Football Playoffs where they lose to

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Ohio State and Ohio State gets it like they want
if that's why I always laughed when people are like, oh,
ESPN has all this bias with the college football play up.
Let me be clear to somebody that worked there for
over six years, if ESPN could wave a wand they
would get Texas, Notre Dame, Ohio State, and pick an
SEC school other than Texas in that every year, that
would be their dream, like because those are the ratings

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catchers like that, those are the teams that catch the ratings.
So to your point, yes, like, at the end of
the day, we want everyone convinced Indiana could win it all,
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Speaker 5 (12:52):
Do that all right?

Speaker 2 (12:53):
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Speaker 2 (13:51):
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Speaker 5 (14:30):
For Game seven.

Speaker 2 (14:31):
I'm telling you, Buck, you want to talk about just
I heard him before. I was talking about the fact
that this is just too much of a movie to
not play out the right way. But life man a
Disney movie. Show Hey was not on the mound. He
was not untouchable the last time he was up there
a couple of days ago.

Speaker 5 (14:46):
Now tonight we get Game seven in Toronto.

Speaker 2 (14:49):
The entire country of Canada will will stop everything to
pay attention to this. It is going to be a
wild atmosphere. I don't know, man, Like I've every time
I've I felt confident about what's going to happen in
this series, I have just absolutely been wrong. It has
taken my money and my pride. So I just at
this point, I'm waving the white flag. I have no
idea what to expect other than it's going to be

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a classic.

Speaker 3 (15:12):
I so I'm like baseball agnostic during the regular season,
which I don't think is an unpopular thing to say,
But I'll drop in during the playoffs and I'll enjoy
baseball without any level of expectation whatsoever. And obviously I
know what Shoeo Tani is and how unprecedented he is
within the concept or within the realm of the history

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of the sport, not just modern day baseball. But it's
just so it's been so much fun to go in
with zero expectations.

Speaker 4 (15:40):
And I don't want to say it.

Speaker 3 (15:41):
Like completely ignorant of everything that's going on. But to
experience these series without any kind of preconceived notion about
what I think should happen or what should happen other
than I know that the best player in the sport
plays for the Dodgers. Now, you brought up the idea
that he was on the mound after the eighteen game,
where his postgame quote was something to the effect of,

(16:04):
I just want to get to sleep as soon as
humanly possible because I have to be back out here
in seventeen hours. And he went out there and he pitched,
and he didn't have his best stuff. And I was
scrolling social media the other day and I came across
a clip from our colleague Ben Maller, who hosts in
the Overnights for most of America on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 4 (16:24):
It seems never met him personally. I know we feel that.

Speaker 2 (16:26):
Informal person I'm just I'm just a big fan.

Speaker 5 (16:28):
I'm a big fan of the Ben Malors show.

Speaker 4 (16:29):
Go Ahead. I enjoy it.

Speaker 3 (16:31):
And I was listening to him tee off on people
who were making the excuse for show. Heyo Tani that
he didn't have his best performance in a World Series
game on the mound after the eighteen inning game because
he was tired, And how lame ass of an excuse
that was because he was tired, Because this is the
moment when you're supposed to see the best be their best,
no matter what the circumstances are, and he wasn't. He

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wasn't at his best. Whatever you want to consider the
extenuating circumstances, that's what it is. He's going to pitch
again on short rest in Game seven, which comes with
I think a lot of fair questions. But when you
consider how just generally, how would you describe the Dodgers' bullpen.

Speaker 4 (17:16):
Unreliable, largish.

Speaker 3 (17:18):
Yeah, that's probably the more extreme version of it. But
they're trying to find ways to patch over that and
not expose themselves against the Toronto Blue Jays team that
you know can mash when given the opportunity. So it's
been a lot of fun to watch. I know you
brought up ratings in the first segment talking about how
much football in comparison has outweighed this World Series, But

(17:42):
you know, I almost hate to get caught up in that,
even though it does matter for our purposes, because we
want to talk about the thing that the most people
are watching and if more people are watching football than
they are this World series, then whatever. But I almost
want to pushback on your earlier point, FITZI, about the brands,
the brands that these leagues or these networks want to

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see in the final series or in the college football
playoff or whatever whatever championship finale, final four type situation
that you want to talk about, because I do think
there is something to the idea of just wanting seven games,
like just to get the opportunity to have seven games
in a series, no matter what it is. And I
know that we just came off of an NBA Finals

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that had the Pacers in the thunder and it was
a very regionalized type thing, And that is the biggest
point to your credit, against something like the idea that
brands don't necessarily matter, but the length of the series do.
I do think that we are getting a little bit
of the best of both worlds here, even if the
numbers do seem to be dwarfed by football.

Speaker 2 (18:43):
All hunred percent. And my point earlier was not to
minimize this series. I think you're absolutely right. So yeah, well,
I mean just a little bit. I will say too
name dropping because that's my favorite thing to do. It's
my Olympic sport. But buddy, for a long time, JPR
and Sibbia played for the Blue Chairs And one thing
he told me that has always stuck with me about
the Blue Jays, like he still goes back. He only

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played there for a few years and he still goes
through all of Canada to do like annual tours where
they said former Blue Jays all over the country. One
thing that he explained to me that I don't think
I really understood till we started talking, was that when
you played for the Blue Jays, every single postseason opportunity,
every single game, it's it's more like the Olympics. The
entire country of Canada has one team, and it is

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that one team that means everything. So it doesn't matter
whether you're in Vancouver on the far opposite end, or
whether you're hanging out in Toronto, like everything.

Speaker 5 (19:36):
Stops for the Blue Jays.

Speaker 2 (19:37):
And so I think, to your point, while demonstrating some
of my point with the ratings, it's not lost on
me how absolutely important this World Series is to the
entire country Canada. Like, let's be honest, if we're gonna
be real for a second, it's a more magical win
for Blue Jays fans than it ever would be for Dodgers.

Speaker 4 (19:58):
Face.

Speaker 2 (19:58):
Dodgers fans win thatchampionship and immediately they're gonna start complaining
it out. Yeah, well, I don't know, took seven games,
and I gotta see it again next year, and like,
let's see what happens if this, if this squad can't
go back to back to back, you know, like it's
immediately Dodgers fans never really happy, always gonna.

Speaker 5 (20:13):
Find something to complain about. Blue Jays fans would.

Speaker 2 (20:16):
Be absolutely running through the streets doing naked cartwheels for
the next decade because they saw the Blue Jays win
a championship. So like, I gotta be honest, pardon me,
I don't un American to say it kind of rooting
for the Blue Jays. Everybody else wants show Ay to
have this one.

Speaker 5 (20:31):
I can't.

Speaker 2 (20:31):
Even one of my good friends, George, like he's having
a big watch, a geo where everybody wants to go
to Old Town, the little die bar we're gonna watch.
We're all rooting for the Dodgers. I'm a lifelong diehard
Jarge Dodgers fan. As of like last October so I've
almost it's almost a year since you know, and I'm
all I know is a fan of the Dodgers are
world series, right, Like, I have an expectation that must
be met. So look, I want the show Hay ending

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of this. I do think it's important to point out
it's a Disney storybook ending either way. If Flad gets
a championship for Toronto, that is by itself its own
Disney movie. If show he gets it for the Dodgers,
that's even that in and of itself a Disney movie.

Speaker 5 (21:08):
It's win win really for all of us.

Speaker 3 (21:11):
Shaye is texting us vigorously right now, calling you basically
a domestic terrorist for your lack of seeing that the.

Speaker 4 (21:19):
Dodgers over.

Speaker 3 (21:23):
And say go so far as to say, yeah, you're
a real Dodgers fan, to go so far as to
say you're lucky. I'm not your producer right now, which
is the threat that he just sent us wild he is.

Speaker 5 (21:36):
My producer here.

Speaker 2 (21:36):
You want to catch my back against Shay here, like,
can we have a producer and producer beef?

Speaker 8 (21:39):
He's he's been wrestling me for the mic and I've
been holding him off back there. He's he's a studio.

Speaker 3 (21:48):
That even though there's a mic, say something with your
chest one time, shake, don't just text, just don't lurk
in the background.

Speaker 2 (21:55):
He can't. Okay, that's very He can't shaking his head.

Speaker 4 (21:59):
He's my microphone.

Speaker 8 (22:01):
It's actually tears in his eyes.

Speaker 2 (22:03):
What that do we have? Do we have producer and
producer beef going on? Like can we grease you guys
up and get you like for a wrestling.

Speaker 5 (22:08):
Match or something?

Speaker 4 (22:09):
Or why do we have to grease them up?

Speaker 2 (22:11):
When have you ever seen pro wrestlers not greased up? Okay,
I'm just I'm just pointing out the obvious. If you've
ever watched SmackDown, they're greased.

Speaker 5 (22:18):
Up, all right?

Speaker 2 (22:19):
Like you We'll go back and watch Wholkgan. Do you
think that's just natural sweat win? And maybe like you
think he's.

Speaker 4 (22:26):
Problem. I don't know where this is headed.

Speaker 5 (22:28):
All people, you gotta get greased up before you wrestle.

Speaker 2 (22:31):
This is like the rules.

Speaker 3 (22:35):
Poor Mary is just sitting a sidecar and all of this.
Horrified at the way that we've turned our World Series
and we haven't had a Game seven in a World
Series in six years, and you turned it into greased
up producer wrestling.

Speaker 5 (22:50):
And I'm waiting for you. Okay, I'm waiting at like
I did.

Speaker 8 (22:53):
I first flag, first flag.

Speaker 5 (22:55):
I have flag? Am I getting flagged for Greek?

Speaker 4 (22:58):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (22:59):
We'll get more to get Okay, get Martin to get
us the update. No update on christ I'm not sure.
We'll find out Martin field free updates on the overall
grease factor and then go ahead and let us know
what's going on in sports.

Speaker 4 (23:10):
So greace factor none. But I am.

Speaker 9 (23:13):
I am dressed as a college football coach that I'm
going to be debuting in about an hour and a
half on my show. And if Mary didn't blow that whistle,
I was about to blow the whistle around my neck
because somebody was getting flagged.

Speaker 4 (23:26):
Somebody had to get flagged.

Speaker 9 (23:28):
Off of that now the under nine minutes left in
the fourth quarter, Indiana pounding Maryland forty eight to ten.
He had a chance of fire Locksley in the crowd
as Indiana's outscored Maryland in the second half twenty eight
to seven.

Speaker 4 (23:44):
Yeah, it hasn't been close.

Speaker 9 (23:45):
Florida and Georgia, Florida with the ball twenty to seventeen
to score. Georgia is the fifth ranked team in the nation,
but Florida driving the ball obviously off an interim head
coach after Billy Napier was relieved of his services. Florida
got the ball out just under thirteen minutes left in.

Speaker 4 (24:01):
The fourth quarter.

Speaker 9 (24:02):
There just under ten minutes left in the fourth quarter
Notre Dame. It's been a struggle kick in the kicking
game for the Fighting Irish, but twenty five to ten
the lead over Boston College a twelve frank Fighting Irish
five and two. Excuse me, Texas Tech with a twenty
nine to twenty lead over Kansas State just under twelve
minutes left. As Fern Mandelman does it, this kid can
play big run for him for Indiana.

Speaker 4 (24:24):
Michigan State about.

Speaker 9 (24:25):
To get our look, trying to get its first big
ten win forty five seconds left in the fourth quarter,
seven to seventeen to ten over Minnesota. Minnesota does have
the ball though in the red zone. Earlier today we
saw the Texas Longhorns squeak pass Vanderbilt. Vanderbolt had twenty
one unanswered fourth quarter points. Texas gets the win thirty

(24:46):
four to twenty. Let's start thirty four to thirty one.
Ohio State with a thirty eight to fourteen win over
Penn State. SMU upsets tenth ranked in Miami. They now
fall to two and two in the ACC twenty six
to twenty. The final score Louisville with a twenty eight
to sixteen win over Virginia Tech and West Virginia got
its first.

Speaker 4 (25:05):
Big twelve win over the year, this.

Speaker 9 (25:07):
One courtesy of the twenty second rank Houston Cougar's forty.

Speaker 4 (25:10):
Five to thirty five. Back to you.

Speaker 2 (25:12):
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(25:35):
saying about. It's just the concept of show. Hey didn't
have his best and I hear that. I understand. But
my clap back to Ben Mallain'm not trying to create again.
I've been a fan of Ben show. I'm creating show beef.
I listened to Cant.

Speaker 3 (25:53):
Greased up producer wrestling. Now he wants to get greased
up and wrestle Ben Mallor.

Speaker 2 (25:57):
Well, I mean, I think I can take that. But look,
you know, here's number one. I hear Ben saying, Hey,
you got a couple of your biggest moments. I guess
I would ask Bend this because Ben's on I think
for four hours tonight. I don't want all four but
four hours a night overnight. I guess my question to
Ben is if you had to do eight hours of
the most intense radio you'd ever done in your entire life,

(26:17):
and then the next day you had to come in
and do four more hours of the most intense radio
you've ever done in your entire life, and that's just radio,
that's just us sitting like idiots in front of a microphone,
you'd be exhausted. I just think there is a human
element to eighteen innings and then turning around and having
to pitch that. I think is a fair and reasonable explanation.
I'm not big on excuses, but that's a pretty reasonable explanation.

(26:39):
Do you think show hey tonight wins it all for
the Dodgers? Like, because look, the method to the Dodgers
winning is hopefully and if you're a Dodgers fan, by god,
you're not getting that bullpen, like you hope you don't
have to get a lot out of your bullpen, so
you need extra innings out of show hey, right, like
you need him to be able to go a little
over five maybe six gloriously, like you need some helpe there.

(27:01):
Think there's any chance to get that.

Speaker 4 (27:04):
So their favor tonight.

Speaker 3 (27:06):
And you know, gambling on baseball is not something that
I do very often, because it's one and a half
at this point, I feel like I'm leaning Blue Jays.

Speaker 4 (27:15):
And I don't really have a.

Speaker 3 (27:18):
Not out of want for the Blue Jays to win, because,
unlike you, I am a proud American And despite the
Dodgers being one of the most unlikable brands in all
of sports, USA, USA, USA, Canada will make you the
fifty first state if you don't keep your act together.
But in America's pastime, if it's still America's pastime, I

(27:39):
feel like Canada might have the edge tonight, I think,
and I you know, I've kind of felt this way
about how Toronto is handled each series leading up to
the final here and the Dodgers aren't hitting the way
that you would like them to three runs in the
third inning of Game six, they had three base runners

(28:00):
the rest of the game. I feel like I trust
Toronto's pitching more top to bottom. He got Max Scherzer
opposite show hey o tiny tonight, and obviously you feel
better about what the Blue Jays have behind Sharzer in
this particular situation.

Speaker 4 (28:14):
So I'll go Blue Jays.

Speaker 3 (28:17):
I don't know that I necessarily feel great about it,
because watch, after all the analysis I've just given it,
It'll be the complete opposite and the Dodgers will come
out and shell them eleven to four or something like that,
like Game one. But still, I just feel like I
trust Toronto more. I'm relying less on individual greatness with Toronto.

Speaker 4 (28:36):
Which is a weird thing to say.

Speaker 3 (28:38):
I just think that Sho Hay is being asked to
do an incredible amount here, and he has done an
incredible amount throughout the course of this to get them,
help get them to a Game seven.

Speaker 4 (28:49):
But I take the Blue Jays by two runs.

Speaker 2 (28:54):
Yeah, Look, I don't think you're wrong at this point.

Speaker 5 (28:58):
Like, look, Mookie Pets.

Speaker 2 (28:59):
Has been by the way it in this series, like
it has been really bad for Mooki, I know, as
a national legend and just everybody loves Mooki, Like you
won't find anybody in our business has anything other than
incredible things to say about Mooki bats it's great.

Speaker 4 (29:14):
He's been bad excess. You just called him a disaster.

Speaker 2 (29:17):
He's been a disaster in this series that has nothing
to do with the human being, like looking a great
dude that's also having well, I mean that's true, but
you know, I'm just calling out the facts. I don't
think if you sat down one on one with Mookie
right now and you said how the series go so
far for you?

Speaker 5 (29:31):
I think you'd either get.

Speaker 2 (29:31):
A blank stare or you get it on you get
an answer you don't really like. You know that feeling
like when you're asking an athlete just how bad has
it sucked? When they know it sucked and you know
it sucked, Like that's not a comfortable thing to do.

Speaker 5 (29:43):
That's what you'd have to do with Mookie bets right now.

Speaker 3 (29:45):
I just went through that a couple of weeks ago
with Cam War to the Tennessee Titans, with the whole
we ask diatribe.

Speaker 5 (29:51):
So did you ask that question. Did you ask the
question that God is to no?

Speaker 4 (29:55):
I did not ask that question.

Speaker 3 (29:57):
He In fact, that press conference started before the rest
of Titans media had scurried into the press conference because
it was just a whole convoluted thing in the Houston
Stadium and pisses me off.

Speaker 4 (30:06):
I hated it down.

Speaker 2 (30:07):
I just wanted I wanted that to be your moment. Uh, look,
you're taking like here's it really is tough because I
think what we're all thinking is, well, show Hay's just
gonna have some way to do it. But if we're
being real, even look back that eighteen inning game. They
won that game when show Hay was lights out and

(30:28):
had one of the best games we've ever seen in
Major League Baseball history, and Freddie Freeman did the unthinkable
with the second.

Speaker 5 (30:35):
Walk off home run in World Series history.

Speaker 2 (30:38):
Also like Freddy Freeman became a modern Mister October in
the same game where show Hay created a Hall of
Fame like performance and it took them extra innings to
win this Like when the Dodgers have won in this series,
it has mostly been because their stars have played absolutely,
lights out incredible baseball. That's the way they win this game.
I man, I want to believe that the Stars will starve,

(31:01):
but I don't know, Like it's just this game being
in Toronto, and maybe I'm just too blinded and biased
by what I think that that home field advantage was.
It was that last night and.

Speaker 5 (31:09):
That didn't matter. So you know, the one thing I
will tell you is if you.

Speaker 2 (31:12):
Are a degenerate, whichever side that you think that you're
gonna bet on, this pretty easy to also slap on
an MVP that like is if the Dodgers win, showhy
is going to be the MVP. If the Blue Jays win,
Flat's going to be the MVP. So just get out there.
Maybe head your bet one way or the other. I
don't know. I'm just saying like, at some point, get
out there and take a look at the MVP portion
of it because there'll be some money to made. Also,
while you're watching the broadcast, don't be sure, don't forget,

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(31:57):
bunch of football going on right now across the college
football landscap. We'll get you updated on some of the
scores that are happening. Obviously, there is an upset brewing,
possibly with the top five team. We'll tell you about
a next plus gets you updated on the weirdest coaching
search in maybe sports history.

Speaker 5 (32:13):
It's happening right now. Fucking fits on Fox Sports Radio.

Speaker 1 (32:20):
You're listening to Fox Sports Radio Radio.

Speaker 2 (32:23):
It's fucking fits on Fox Sports Radio. He's Buck Rising.
I'm Jason Fitz. We've already had two top ten teams
fall today as Vanderbilt loses to Texas and Miami loses
to SMU. SMU just gave a contract extension to their coach.
You had another coach that will be off the board
when the hiring cycle starts. Not the only upset that

(32:44):
could be brewing right now, because what we have as
we speak, with six minutes to go in the fourth quarter,
Florida beating number five Georgia twenty to seventeen. Buck, I'm
not ready for that. I'm not ready for that because
we all finally know. I mean, guys, like, what are
we doing, Like we're playing with our food at that point,
Like we know George is gonna end up in the

(33:04):
college football playoffs. You're just you know, you're gonna have
to eat the peas eventually. You're just I love peas,
you have to eat the colorflower eventually because nobody likes colorflower.
So like you're just moving it around the plate, You're
trying to find something to wash it all, Like we're
George is gonna end up in the college football playoffs.
So this just creates more chaos and weirdness with trying
to figure out who belongs and who doesn't. Like, you know,

(33:25):
it's fine, but Florida up twenty to seventeen in the
world's largest cocktail party. So I don't know how we
are what you in on Florida winning this thing?

Speaker 4 (33:33):
Well, yeah, I just like weird.

Speaker 3 (33:35):
You know, it just gives us an extra an extra
thing to talk about, and you know how relevant it
is to the future of.

Speaker 4 (33:41):
Florida's program, not at all.

Speaker 3 (33:43):
At three and four, they're obviously going to be looking
for a new coach. They're not nearly as weird as
the LSU situation, which I'm sure we will touch on
at some point in time.

Speaker 4 (33:52):
But I just I'm curious to say.

Speaker 3 (33:54):
I like seeing teams tested, and Georgia right now is
being tested.

Speaker 4 (33:59):
Now, Oh, it doesn't mean that they can as.

Speaker 3 (34:01):
They get into field goal range at this point in
time after getting a critical defensive stop because Florida was
going down the field. They had a ten play drive.
It took about four almost five minutes off the clock,
and Georgia was able to stop that short. Now they're
pushing the ball down the field. Gunner Stockton has been
awesome so far this season, one of the more I
would say, one of the bigger surprises of the college

(34:23):
football season. If you're talking about Ty Simpson or Gunner
Stockton's just a Joey Aguilar. And I know I'm making
it specific to the SEC. I know there's great stories
all over college football everywhere, but that's the conference that
I pay the most amount of attention to. It's the
best conference in college football, so we understand that. And
they're now in field goal range and driving with just
under five minutes to play in the fourth quarter.

Speaker 4 (34:43):
But I'd like these moments.

Speaker 3 (34:45):
I'm not necessarily rooting for Florida to win, but I
want to see Georgia pushed that way and to see
the offense that has been prolific for them stymied by
a really genuinely good Florida defense. It has been cool.
This is the kind of thing that would equip them
for the college football playoff. As they break, Oh, they're
going to get a touchdown on that run.

Speaker 2 (35:05):
All right, and this is college football just taking care
of itself right in front of our very eyes. They
get that touchdown, they Georgia now takes a twenty three
to twenty lead.

Speaker 5 (35:14):
I don't know, I feel like Florida pending extra point.

Speaker 2 (35:16):
By the way, four thirty six to go in the
fourth quarter, I feel like Florida fans got to be
sitting here saying what might depend though, Like it's just
got to be frustrating when you see your team competitive
with the number five team in the country and you've
been so bad that you've already fired your coach. It's
just it speaks to something speaking of coaching firing. And
we'll keep you updated on what happens in this game.

(35:36):
Reminder that Florida no longer has a permanent head football coach.
Penn State has also fired their coach, and LSU joined
into the firing of their coach. In fact, after that,
LSU has since gone on to fire their athletic director
as well. What becomes wildly interesting is that LSU is
a state funded school and as a result, the governor

(35:59):
of LSU has started speaking on exactly what's gone down,
how it's gone down, and what he thinks they should
be doing about it. This is a little of what
he had to say in a much longer press conference
about what's going to happen at LSU. Check it out.

Speaker 10 (36:13):
We are not going down a failed path. And I
wanted to tell you something. This is a pattern. The
guy that's heared out at road that contract cost Texas
A and M seventy something million dollars. Right now, we
got a fifty three million dollar liability. We are not
doing that again. I can tell you right now. Is
not selecting an extra coach.

Speaker 2 (36:31):
Hell, I'll let Donald Trump select it before I let
him do it.

Speaker 10 (36:34):
I don't know, but the Border super is going to
come up with a committee and they're going to go
find us a coach.

Speaker 2 (36:39):
My misspeak, I said, Governor of LSU is obviously the
governor of Louisiana.

Speaker 5 (36:42):
I want to point out he mentioned.

Speaker 2 (36:44):
There that that Woodward was responsible for the buy out. Also,
you know at Texas A and M, that is not
actually factually accurate. I don't want to I don't want
to pog the governor down with details. But while Scott
did give the Jimbo the original contract, it was another
ad after Scott left, they gave Jimbo the larger extension

(37:04):
that did result in the larger So like Fatch matter,
and he's factually incorrect.

Speaker 5 (37:09):
On this, But Book, I mean, this is when you.

Speaker 2 (37:11):
Get the government involved in your head coaching search, things
get really complicated really quickly.

Speaker 3 (37:17):
Well, and your colleague Ross Dellinger, who was on that
beat for a long time. By the way, I've been
trying to actively avoid saying the governor of LSU on
the local show here in Nashville all week long. I've
almost slipped. I've almost done it. I think twenty times
since this story broke. But Ross Dellinger, your colleague at
Yahoo docyah sports dot Yahoo dot com, rather has a

(37:39):
really great piece up thoroughly reported as Ross always does,
and he obviously has huge connections down there because he
was a former beat writer on the LSU Beat. But
the circumstance for this is made even more interesting because
it is Is it currently I mean, there are a
handful of jobs open right now.

Speaker 4 (38:00):
Is it currently the best job available?

Speaker 2 (38:03):
Yes?

Speaker 5 (38:04):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, no doubt.

Speaker 3 (38:06):
Will it continue to be the best job available pending
some different things that may come open. We don't know
for sure who's staying and who's going. I don't know
what's going to happen with Dabbo at Clemson.

Speaker 4 (38:16):
For example. I'd be surprised if he ended up out,
But I.

Speaker 3 (38:19):
Don't know what a better job job thing I would agree,
so that this is it's the best job that figures
to be on the market. It's got the governor of
the state involved with some correct facts, some factually inaccurate stuff.
As you pointed out, he was also on a bit
of a diatribe. The whole two and a half minute

(38:39):
clip is excellent, by the way, I would ten out
of ten recommend anybody who hasn't heard it to go
seek it out because it's just funny. It's just objectively
hilarious to listen to this man talking to one sports
reporter in attendance, confused as to why there's only one
sports reporter in attendance.

Speaker 4 (38:54):
He's saying, yeah, there should be.

Speaker 3 (38:55):
More of you here, and going on to say that
the athletic director, who's no longer the athletic director would
not get to get to make the decision on this,
but they're gonna let the interim.

Speaker 4 (39:03):
May D make the call.

Speaker 3 (39:05):
FITZI on the next head coach, which screams to a
level of dysfunction. We would call it in the NFL
if this was the case for an NFL team, and
Miami is something that I'm sure we're going to talk
about at some point. I wonder how much that makes,
For example, Lane Kiffin look around and say, well, it's
a highly pressurized job anyway, And I was already thinking

(39:28):
about what I like about my life and what would
I like it at LSU versus Oxford, Mississippi and Ole
miss And you add all these additional components to it.
You got to find somebody who's up to the task.
And clearly Woodward got caught up in the Brian Kelly
of it all. It's a star name, it's a successful
coach from a highly touted, name brand program, and it

(39:49):
just was never going to make sense to have that
dude in Baton Rouge. But I wonder if this doesn't
make somebody like Lane Kiffin, for example, think twice or
at least reconsider what he may be jumping for.

Speaker 2 (40:00):
One hundred percent, because one thing that the governor pointed
out is he thinks that the agents he did incorrectly
state that one agent, they different agents involved in this
are all essentially criminals in the way that they built
these contracts. He made it clear that they want to
build contracts that are different. He made it clear that
the state of Louisiana doesn't want to do business the
same way, which fine. I respect that. Everybody that always

(40:21):
tells me, hey, my city should not pay a billionaire
for a stadium, My answer to that is, you are
absolutely corrected. If you want to die on that hill,
totally great. It only takes one city that's willing to
do that, right, so your team will just leave.

Speaker 5 (40:32):
That's fine.

Speaker 2 (40:32):
If you don't want to pay guarantee contract to coaches,
I think you're right. If you think the structure is
completely asinine, I think you're right. I don't know how
you change the market, and it sounds like the governor's intent,
especially knowing fifty three million dollars of state funds could
be necessary for this buyout. He's looking at it saying,
we won't do this again. That's why I think it
could change the future of the entire coaching care sol.

(40:53):
We'll tell you more about it coming up next on
Fox Sports Radio. He's Buck Rising. I'm Jason Fitz.

Speaker 1 (41:00):
Made no Fox Sports Radio Radio.

Speaker 2 (41:02):
Another Saturday of bucking fits, which means another Saturday, a
big games coming down to the wire, Florida trailing by
four against Georgia with just over three minutes to go
in the fourth quarter in what's shaping up to be
an electric finish.

Speaker 5 (41:18):
He's Buck Rising.

Speaker 2 (41:18):
I'm Jason Fitz, hanging out with you as we will
for the next hour. We'll keep you updated on every
ounce of what's happening there from a coaching standpoint. Also,
Game seven of the World Series tonight. Cannot wait for that.
Gonna be absolutely incredible. But Buck, we were just talking
about the LSU coaching search, and I know a lot
of people are sitting here saying, well, why should I
care about the LSU coaching search if I'm not an
LSU fan. I want to talk for a second about

(41:41):
one of my favorite words to use in all the world, precedent.
And to me, precedent is important because anytime somebody does
something once, will everybody pay attention to it and try
and do it again. You have to be careful about
setting precedent. You have to be careful about precedent.

Speaker 5 (41:56):
That has been set.

Speaker 2 (41:57):
When a governor of Louisiana comes out and talks about
the fact that he finds it unacceptable that the taxpayers
are on the hook for fifty three million dollars in
a buyout for Brian Kelly, and then he talks about
the fact that they're going to make sure that they're
not in that situation again. It's very easy to imply
from that, as many have that that means that they're
going to structure their contracts differently, That that means they're

(42:18):
going to try and find a way to protect themselves
from a coach that may not be as successful now.
Number one, that might limit the coaching pool. And what
we've seen over the last few last week, we've seen
several big names get contract extensions where they are names
that we expected might be in consideration for other jobs,
resigning to stay where they are. Lastly, it's a SMU.

(42:39):
We saw that Matt Ruhle at Nebraska, We've seen that
with Signetti at Indiana. Across the board, we see guys
getting paid to stay where they are.

Speaker 5 (42:47):
But I also keep thinking, instead of just talking.

Speaker 2 (42:48):
About the pool of candidates for this job, one thing
we have to talk about is, Okay, if LSU arguably
the most desirable job right now in the country, Right
if LSU turns around and finds a coach that is
willing to take a contract that's done differently than everybody else,
does that set precedent? What's going to happen because now

(43:09):
every other especially state funded schools like gets harder with
the private school. Vandy does whatever Vandy wants, right Like,
if you're a private school, if you're smut, you can
do whatever the hell you want to.

Speaker 5 (43:18):
Nobody's there to tell you how you can do things.

Speaker 2 (43:20):
If you are a publicly funded school, where at the
end of the day, taxpayer dollars are part of this
entire equation, and all of these publicly funded schools start
looking around, I think this is really the governor's attempt
to try and get a national precedent set. But I
wonder if the future of coaching contracts in college football
could be changing in front of our very eyes.

Speaker 3 (43:40):
It's possible. I guess it just depends on each specific situation.
So in this specific situation, we're talking about Jeff Landry,
who's the governor of Louisiana using this as an opportunity.
Did you read the story that I mentioned earlier on
Yahoo Sports by Elanger. Yeah, So he's referencing a couple

(44:00):
of different things, and in particular where Jeff Landry, the
conservative governor of Louisiana, had a falling out with Scott Woodward,
the former athletic director, over things beyond just football and
the expenses of football and all these different things. And
it's a very again well reported story Sports dot Yahoo
dot com that Delager goes into on some of the

(44:22):
deep seated issues that have caused them to move this
in a certain direction and essentially use LSU football as
a political tool. Now without getting into all the implications
of that, do you trust the parties involved here to
be the one setting the precedent, because now we have

(44:44):
the Louisiana state governor dealing with a situation where there's
a board of directors and an interim athletic director at
Louisiana or at Louisiana State that is going to make
the decision on the next head coach. Why would you
put a situation in place where you've got an interim
athletic director who may end up getting the job. I

(45:07):
suppose we don't know the veracity or the veracity is
the wrong word, the profile of this interim guy, and
whether he actually has a chance to be the guy.

Speaker 4 (45:19):
And I bet he ends up at.

Speaker 3 (45:22):
Least giving himself a strong percentage chance of keeping the
job if he does what Jeff Landry wants him to do, right.
So it becomes a little bit of a political and
these a lot of these, a lot of these organizations,
whether it be the NFL or college football or you know,
just sports at the highest levels, do have a degree
of politics in him, certainly inner office politics. But this

(45:43):
is a different kind of leverage that Jeff Landry is
trying to impose. But Jeff Landry, did you see some
of the other comments beyond the press conference that went viral.
Did you see the phone interview that he gave recently
where he's talking about getting back to the Bowl Championship Series,
The BCS. The BCS has been gone for a long
long time. Jeff Landry is the governor of a state,

(46:03):
like he's got a lot of different things on his
plate beyond just worrying about LSU football. But you can't
have somebody who's not totally informed on all of the
facts being the one to set precedent, to be the
one to push this thing forward, because then you open
up a whole different can of worms, and it's going
to be specific to the individual the state that this

(46:25):
is happening in the public institution that you're talking about.
So I don't think it's as wide ranging as we
may feel that it could be. It does have the potential,
and it's almost like a different version of you've seen
the situation with the Colts owner Carly Ers.

Speaker 4 (46:41):
Gordon or Gordon Ers, I can't remember exactly Gordon Er say.

Speaker 3 (46:45):
And she's taken this thing over from her father, and
she's trying to be as informed about her decision making
as humanly possible, and so she wears a headset on
the sidelines during games and obviously is being informed of
all the different things that the team is doing on
a granular level on it day by day basis. But
she's sitting there with a headset on and she's taking notes.
She's taking notes the whole time. She's saying, I don't

(47:05):
know what I don't know, but I'm here to learn
to make a more informed decision. And I would recommend
I'm paraphrasing here, but essentially said she said when she
first started doing this, I would recommend that everybody in
a situation who's in a position to pay a coach
tens of millions of dollars avoids or at least tries
to avoid a potentially very very expensive mistake by doing

(47:27):
the same thing, doing your due diligence here and making
sure that you're in a position to succeed. Now, it's
easy to be Carl Ursay Gordon or Gordon Nursey when
you're seven and one and it's more than just a
novelty and you're not getting eyes rolled at you anymore
because oh, maybe they're onto something, when of course the
Colts aren't seven to one because she's on the sideline
taking notes, But it does make them seem like a

(47:48):
more stable organization, a well, a more well oiled machine.
I don't trust the State of Louisiana to be anywhere
near this.

Speaker 2 (47:55):
If I'm LSU, it's Carli Ersa Gordon, I double check that.

Speaker 5 (48:00):
And the great thing about it is you're right. I
love it.

Speaker 2 (48:03):
It's become a phenomenon. Everyone's talking about the fact that
she's wearing the headset and they're like, all owners should
do this. My only question of that is if we
turned on the Cowboys game so and Jerry Jones was
wearing a headset taking notes. If we turned on the
Jets game and Woody Johnson on Sunday was wearing the
headset taking notes, would we feel like that?

Speaker 5 (48:25):
If we turned on the Raiders game and Mark Davis.

Speaker 2 (48:27):
Is walking up to Pete Carroll afterwards with a headset on,
we feeling good about that? So, like, it is funny
how perception matters a lot here now, I want to
be clear for anyone listening that wants to have any
conversation about politics themselves in LSU, as buck Well knows,
I don't care about your politics, and by your I
mean all y'all. I don't care about my politics. I

(48:48):
don't care about bucks politics. I don't care about you listening.
I don't care. I am the world's biggest nihilist. When
it comes to all of this, none of us makes
the difference. And I don't really give a damn about
any of your politics. Now that I've said that, I
agree with everything you said that. Certainly the governor in
many instances seems ill informed, but president only has to

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come in the form of one.

Speaker 5 (49:10):
When it comes to a contract.

Speaker 2 (49:11):
The one thing that he will have some control over,
it appears, is what's the next contract look like. Now,
certainly if he goes to a condent candidate, if he
goes to Lane Kiffid and says, great, we want to
sign him, We're gonna fully guarantee your contract unless this happens,
this happens, this happens, or this happens, in which case
we're gonna choose to We're gonna make it all incentively,
and you win a national championship, you get a fifty

(49:33):
million dollar bonus. But if you don't, you get nothing
like great. He can do that all day long. The
top candidates now are all paid so wildly that there
is not a financial incentive to going to LSU versus
coaching at Indiana. I want you to hear that you
do not make more money anymore as a head coach
of LSU than you would if you were the head

(49:53):
coach at Indiana. So I think what the governor may
not be aware of is when he goes swimming in
those waters and saying, yeah, but we're LSU.

Speaker 5 (50:02):
It's like cool.

Speaker 2 (50:04):
I mean, you're you want to pay me thirteen million
while I'm already making eleven and a half. So you
want to pay me a million and a half more,
but you want to make it incentive based. You want
to make me have to go through all of these hoops,
turn and kindly, respectfully No.

Speaker 5 (50:18):
And that's the part of the right.

Speaker 2 (50:20):
Right, So are they going to end up getting a
lesser candidate or when the rubber meets the road, do
they just bend and do what everybody else does, or
do they find somebody that is a reasonable candidate, that
is a good candidate, that takes some wildly incentive based
contract and then does that change. That's where I think
it gets interesting. Puff, But you are right, most of
his concepts are wildly like this is the problem when
you get with somebody caf Cherry Jones that's in the room,

(50:41):
Caft Cherry Jones, Woody Johnson, that may not be fully
informed on the way everything's working, and they just think
that they know everything. That's where things get difficult.

Speaker 4 (50:52):
I still can't wrap.

Speaker 3 (50:53):
My head around the idea that Indiana University is paying
ninety three million dollars to a coach and it's not
a basketball coach. To your point, like, this is the
market for what college If you want to be excellent
at college football, that is the literal cost of excellence.
And I wonder if Jeff Landry's not not playing a

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dangerous game here because if you are a political figure and.

Speaker 4 (51:18):
You have an electorate.

Speaker 3 (51:20):
Again not to get into the necessarily the actual politics
of it, but let's just, you know, take this for
what it is. If you start to meddle in something
that your entire state, Republican, Democrat, anybody in between believes
in fiercely loves more than anything else in the world,

(51:40):
which is Louisiana State University football, and you start to
meddle with that, and then all of a sudden, you
start to become a liability.

Speaker 4 (51:48):
You're not going to be the governor of Louisiana very long.

Speaker 3 (51:51):
Like I don't I'm not saying that sports should have
the ability to impact political decisions that way, but damned
if it won't color people's decision on who they're voting
for the next time he comes.

Speaker 4 (52:02):
Up on the ballot.

Speaker 3 (52:03):
I am so curious to see what happens here, because
I mean, in my lifetime Fitsie, I can't and I'm
you know, I'm thirty two years old.

Speaker 4 (52:10):
I wouldn't.

Speaker 3 (52:11):
I wouldn't pretend to know everything in the world of
sports and the history of sports.

Speaker 2 (52:15):
What thank you?

Speaker 4 (52:17):
You are you getting up there?

Speaker 2 (52:22):
Up there? Gang?

Speaker 4 (52:24):
Chill out?

Speaker 8 (52:24):
Mary, aarp is at your door.

Speaker 2 (52:26):
Well, I just want to point out, based on the
time of my life I started doing the Hibby dibity, uh,
Buck could definitely definitely be my cut, my kid, Like,
I just want to point.

Speaker 5 (52:36):
That out, like that Buck is definitely young enough to
be my son.

Speaker 3 (52:39):
She's right though. I got a fade the other day
when I went to get my hair cut, and like,
I'm getting enough grays in my sideburns that you can
still tell I'm going gray when I get my hair faded.
It's tough to It's what I'm saying, Mary, I'm not
ready for the.

Speaker 5 (52:52):
Gray in the Do you not see the grain in
your beard? Like I see the grain?

Speaker 3 (52:56):
Okay, I know all right, this is not about me,
back off about Jeff Landry.

Speaker 4 (53:04):
This is unacceptable, a serious thing here.

Speaker 2 (53:09):
Mary has found the weakness, She has found my vanity.

Speaker 3 (53:14):
It's the only thing I care about me me. I
don't even want to talk about this anymore.

Speaker 4 (53:20):
No, I don't. I don't care to find me.

Speaker 3 (53:22):
It's my fine system anyway, Mary George on the.

Speaker 4 (53:26):
Florida if you're still paying attention.

Speaker 2 (53:28):
It's just it's just mean. Does Buck suddenly sound like
a really angry old man? He is, Like he's going
full into grumpy old man on this, Like and you
want you want to talk about the kids being up
too late and make it too much noise during the.

Speaker 4 (53:40):
Hot to read or something? Didn't you have something to do?
What you do your job? One time?

Speaker 2 (53:48):
He's getting mad.

Speaker 5 (53:51):
If you missed any of today's.

Speaker 8 (53:52):
Shovels or you laugh, by the way, you don't.

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Speaker 5 (54:12):
He's Buck Rising, Jason Fitz. We'll get you caught.

Speaker 2 (54:15):
Up, coming up on what's going on right now in
college football. Another upset brewing. We'll figure out what's happening
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(54:38):
We did this one? Buck Rising, Jason Fitz, Fox Sports
Radio out there like Bucks striking.

Speaker 4 (54:46):
I am so upset that would for a dance.

Speaker 3 (54:53):
Yeah, that's that's when you were still courting women, not
dating women or Yeah, to ask permission to go have
a dance as opposed to, you know, any other any
other advancement of the relationship.

Speaker 4 (55:05):
This is garbage.

Speaker 2 (55:05):
I don't want to do it right now. No, I'm
not make feel like you're back in the speakeasy the
old nation, like the actual speaks, not the trendy ones
you go to now, but the actual speakeasy.

Speaker 4 (55:17):
I do actually go to speakeasy that's.

Speaker 2 (55:20):
So I'm bringing up there the minute, Yeah, because it
makes him feel like he's back home, right, like you
think al Capone's going to come in and help you out.

Speaker 3 (55:27):
I just want to talk about college football, and the
three of you are insistent upon annoying me.

Speaker 4 (55:36):
Like I know that's the better version of me.

Speaker 3 (55:38):
And if we got to sacrifice my well being for
the sake of the shell, then fine, I don't want.

Speaker 4 (55:42):
To do this.

Speaker 2 (55:45):
He is a particularly crotchety old buck rising. I'm Jason
Fitz's bucking fits. That is that is fair. Look when
he's not applying Bengay relentlessly all over himself because he's
so sore, he checks out the Major Baseball postseason while
you're watching the postseason. Strauss Made History is the first
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smile every time I see it on the helmets because
I know we talk about it all the time.

Speaker 5 (56:17):
I love it all right. Georgia just got the win
over Florida.

Speaker 2 (56:21):
So one of the top ten teams that has been
tinkering with the possibility of an upset has avoided that.

Speaker 1 (56:27):
Today.

Speaker 2 (56:28):
We did have two upsets as Vanderbilt fell and Miami
fell so far today. So that's where we are in
the world of college football chaos. But also tomorrow is
an interesting day in the NFL book, and it's an
interesting day, particularly for one Minnesota Vikings. And I'll tell
you it's interesting to me because now we know that
Carson Wentz has gone. By the way, the next time
somebody comes in with the wild theory about an athlete injury,

(56:51):
just tell him to go to Helen.

Speaker 4 (56:52):
Shut up.

Speaker 2 (56:53):
Like the number of times I heard people say, oh, well,
it's truly a soft pinching for JJ, and they're doing
all these like no, not like when Lamar Jackson has
hurt a couple of years ago, and clearly he was
in the middle of a contract. People were sitting there saying, oh, well,
you know he doesn't want to come back in because
it doesn't want.

Speaker 5 (57:09):
To risk the contract.

Speaker 2 (57:11):
And you would talk to actual people that know injuries
and they'd say, no, this is pretty staggering stuff. He's
got to come back from. Well, Carson Wentz. There were
plenty of people that had things to say, even about
Carson on Thursday Night Football when he was getting banged around,
and then all of a sudden we find out that
that shoulder is jacked, surgery gone for the year. Sunday
we get JJ for the first time on the field,
and JJ has played, I mean for the first time

(57:31):
of weeks. He's played six quarters, six quarters in his
entire NFL career so far, J J McCarthy hasn't made
it through two games. So I just I hear Vikings
fans and they yell at me every time I bring
this up, because when I say Sam Darnold, they say, oh,
what's it matter? If you're just gonna throw interceptions and
lose us a game in the playoffs, we don't need
you as our quarterback.

Speaker 5 (57:51):
You know what's worse than throwing picks in the playoffs
at the end.

Speaker 2 (57:54):
Of a fourteen and three season, not going to the
playoffs at all, Like the Viking season is teetering on
the edge of the disaster. We have no idea if
JJ McCarthy's actually good, could be could be buck, But
I don't feel confident right now that I could sit
here and bet your house on JJ McCarthy turning around
and being something like, who knows.

Speaker 4 (58:12):
Uh, you don't get do you?

Speaker 3 (58:14):
You lose the rights to betting the palatial rising estate
on anything at this point in time because of your
constant prattering about how old I am?

Speaker 4 (58:24):
I think a very long.

Speaker 2 (58:29):
Sorry, I mean you open that door. Do I have
to take the the like the extra railings off, like
the thing that you sit on to get up the stairs?
So I have to take that off? Or do I
leave that on for the next person?

Speaker 3 (58:44):
One of those called I actually wanted to Yeah, like
they do the infommercials. It's not a StairMaster. That's like
a workout machine. Is that even what they're called. I
have no idea called that.

Speaker 8 (58:55):
But you know you can't access that. You need a
kind of lob.

Speaker 4 (59:00):
Mindy was hurting a little bit today, of course.

Speaker 2 (59:03):
It was it was it was it humidity outside or
just just a little arthritis setting in. What do we
got when we got a little fluid there near drained?
We got to get this show back on the rims.
It's just hard because it's owing. This not me.

Speaker 3 (59:16):
I'm trying to talk about the Vikings quarterback.

Speaker 2 (59:17):
Situation not in my bad all right? You know who's
not old JJ McCarthy. What's what's what are we expecting
from JJ this weekend?

Speaker 4 (59:24):
I'll bleep off. I.

Speaker 3 (59:25):
I think that the situation for him is much like me,
My knees hurt, His knees hurt. He is not available
to your point about how little he's played like he's not.
We're not going to be able to determine if he
improves or if he is capable of improvement. Here fitsie
and if the Vikings gamble on letting Sam Darnold walk
for big money and free agency and not the biggest money, right,

(59:48):
he didn't get one of these fifty five sixty million
dollar contracts from Seattle. But by the way, who looks
smart as hell for picking up that Sam Darnold situation
Seattle looks excellent, is probably, but they are going to
push the Rams for that division, a division that's highly
competitive with the Niners, who have no business trying to
get in that trying to continue to compete that way

(01:00:09):
given the rash of injuries that they have. But Sam
Darnold is killing it in Seattle and they got him
for what is essentially a quarterback bargain. Minnesota gambled by
letting Sam Darnold walk after winning fifteen games with him
last season. I understand his limitations. I saw them. We
all saw them in the playoff loss to the Rams
and in the decisive Week eighteen game for the division

(01:00:32):
where Detroit just mugged him and ended up winning the
NFC North last season because Darnald looked mortal when he
didn't have a plus protection or even a minus protection.
JJ McCarthy hasn't been able to stay on the field,
and he came in with an injury in his rookie season,

(01:00:54):
or he experienced that injury in his rookie season.

Speaker 4 (01:00:56):
That cost him the entirety of it.

Speaker 3 (01:00:58):
Now he's the second year player that, to your point,
has only played six quarters. We've got a lot of
questions about him and about what Minnesota can be. But
as they sit here looking up at the rest of
their division, then trying to figure out if Chicago, if
what they're doing is sustainable, Green Bay looks like they
might be onto something as they start to iron out
some of the inconsistencies that they have on offense. I'm

(01:01:20):
having a hard time determining what McCarthy might be able
to do because I just don't trust him to be
able to be out there, and I know these injuries
haven't been connected. Like I hate the phrase injury prone
because it applies or it implies that these are things
that are connected and it's somehow the player's fault, and
if you have a torn acl and then a high
ankle sprain after that, that those things are even remotely

(01:01:43):
close to the same thing, they're not at all. And
this is something that JJ McCarthy's going to have to
battle through.

Speaker 4 (01:01:48):
At least the perception of it. But you are.

Speaker 3 (01:01:52):
Kevin O'Connell's the coach of the year the GM in Minnesota,
and I don't want to disrespect him by but during
the pronunciation of his name. I'm sure it's much more
routine than I want to make it. But it scares
me every time I look at it, and I feel
like I slowed down like a speed bump in front
of me every time I try to say it. So
I think that they all have a tremendous amount riding

(01:02:13):
on the success.

Speaker 4 (01:02:14):
The instantaneous success.

Speaker 3 (01:02:16):
Of JJ McCarthy and the fact that it hasn't gone
exactly to plan, is going to have a lot of people,
including Vikings ownership, looking around and being like, do we
trust these guys to make good decisions? Do they actually
have the quarterback magic that we thought they did when
they were able to turn Sam Darnold into a fifteen
win quarterback last year.

Speaker 2 (01:02:33):
Quessiadolfo Mensa is the GM of the Minnesota Vikings, and
you're right, it always looks very weird. Look you said
something important there, and I think it's what makes the
Vikings hard to figure out. To me, anybody that tells
you they know what the Vikings are going to be,
including Vikings fans of Vikings haters, are full of it,
because how can we know. I covered a lot of

(01:02:56):
college football for that National Championship run, was at the
National Championship came actually spent some pretty extended time with
JJ over the course of that week.

Speaker 5 (01:03:05):
Leading up to the game.

Speaker 2 (01:03:07):
I don't think anybody can look at the body of
work in college and say, yep, I get exactly how
that's going to translate, which is why the day he
was drafted, I was like, well, I think maybe we'll
see none of those answers are different, and now you
have I think maybe we'll see After only six quarters
in well over a year of football, and you have
I think maybe we'll see on a team that won
fourteen games last year. And I don't disagree with everybody

(01:03:29):
when they sit there and say Sam Donald wasn't good
enough at the end. But the thing for me is,
when you win fourteen games, you're in a window. If
you're in a window where you can legitimately win a
Super Bowl, then you keep everything in that house that
you possibly can. If you have any way to keep
Donald in there, it protects you. It protects you in
case JJ isn't going to be that guy. Now, maybe
Sam wouldn't have wanted to do that, Maybe you don't
want to disrupt your plan. But right now today, not

(01:03:51):
a single person who is worried about the fact that
Jordan Love didn't get on the field in the beginning
is his career in Green Bay. Not a single person.
And if I'm Minnesota, I would have taken that same trajectory.
I would have looked at JJ and said, hey, we're
head of schedule here, so all this is gonna do
is gonna make you a better pro. Eventually, We're gonna
take our time with you because we want to get
you right, But we're in a super Bowl window right now,

(01:04:11):
and we're not gonna risk that super Bowl window that way.
If Sam Donald falls off into your tea two, okay, fine,
then you just hand the rains over to JJ. And
if JJ suddenly turns out out plays them out the
course the whole time, fine, you hand the rains over
to JJ.

Speaker 5 (01:04:24):
But the worst case scenario could also be Sam Donald goes.

Speaker 2 (01:04:27):
Out there and wins you a lot of games, just
like Aaron Rodgers did, and you have to wait a
couple of years until you make that transition, just like
the Packers did with Jordan Love, which, by the way,
is the reason that feels right now. If you're a
Packers fan, you are a fan of a team that
today would be the number one seed in the NFC.

Speaker 5 (01:04:43):
The playoffs today would run through Lambo.

Speaker 2 (01:04:46):
Let's get Martin's thoughts on what's coming up, what's going
on right now across the landscape.

Speaker 5 (01:04:50):
Martin, get us updated on the scores.

Speaker 9 (01:04:52):
My friend, we got old miss, seventh rank team in
the nation right now, trailing South Carolina with under four
minutes left in the first quarterknocking on the door though
of the end zone, third and goal six minutes left
in the first quarter per Dwe and Michigan tied scoreless
per Due with the third and seven at the Michigan
nineteen yard line.

Speaker 4 (01:05:10):
Arizona and Colorado.

Speaker 9 (01:05:12):
It's Arnie Spaniard tweeting, what do I decide to watch
the day? Arizona at Colorado? Our Game seven? Tough decision?
Well the fighting. The Spaniards are up ten to nothing
on Colorado under eight minutes left in the first quarter.
Earlier today we saw Indiana route Maryland. You know I
saw this just come down Maryland since firing head coach

(01:05:32):
Ralph frig and ACC the ACC Coach of the Year
in December twenty ten, Maryland's home record after Halloween scary
oh and twenty four against teams not named Rutgers.

Speaker 4 (01:05:45):
So there you go. Thanks for joining the Big ten Rutgers.

Speaker 9 (01:05:49):
Maryland enjoys you guys coming every holiday season.

Speaker 4 (01:05:52):
Florida, Georgia and Florida.

Speaker 9 (01:05:53):
The biggest world's largest outdoor cocktail party goes to the Bulldogs.
After Florida really blew it and Gunnerstockon blew the cover
twenty four to twenty for the fifth rank Georgia Bulldogs.
They remain with just one loss in the SEC. Florida
drops a three and five, Notre Dame beats Boston College
twenty five to ten, Texas Tech over Kansas State, and

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also we had wins for Ohio State with a thirty
eight to fourteen win over Penn State. Texas hong On
after giving up twenty one on answers in the fourth quarter,
the Vanderbilt thirty four to thirty one, the twentieth rank
Longhorns hanging there. SMU beats Miami in overtime twenty six
to twenty. Wins for Virginia for Louisville and Virginia, and

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West Virginia gives Houston their second loss of the year,
but West Virginia's first win in conference play, and talk
about things that haven't happened in a long time. Duke
beat Clemson today, which if and normally, if Clemson was
having a standard season, that would be shocking. But this
year the Clemson everybody beats Clemson. Duke wins at Clemson

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for the first time in forty.

Speaker 4 (01:06:58):
Five years for six to forty five.

Speaker 2 (01:07:01):
Back to you guys, that's stunning. I mean, we're sitting
here right now with the Clemson team that was supposed
to have a top quarterback in the eyes of some
coming into this season, and a Clemson team that was
regarded highly regarded coming into the season by some loses
today Buck they're three and five. Like there's a world

(01:07:23):
where Clemson doesn't even get to a bowl game this year.
Like I know that. You know, it's it's gotten contentious
considering the way that everybody Dabo has talked to, everybody
who has anything to say to Dabbo. But man, I
just this that's stunning to me.

Speaker 3 (01:07:40):
I mentioned that I wasn't sure if it was even
worth talking about because again, it's a one point loss today.
But they are three and five, and Dabo is I
don't know, is it fair to describe him spiraling every
time he gets in front of media at this point.
It's just it feels like things are starting to fray there.
And he has brought this up before in that third
teen minute rant to a question that was completely unrelated

(01:08:02):
to Dabo's resume that he went on a diatribe about
a couple of months ago. At this point in time,
early at the start of the season, he's only fifty five.
It would make sense if you're cleansing to move in
another direction because whatever magic was there in a previous
version of collegiate athletics, a pre transfer portal, a pre name,

(01:08:24):
image and likeness. Where Dabo is and listen, it's not
a shot at Christianity or anything like that. When he's
saying we're built in Christ's name, image and likeness as
opposed to talking about the money of it. It's a
cute turn of phrase. And I get what he's trying
to do there. And I'm not saying that there's nothing
there's anything wrong with being rooted in your faith, but
like from a practical standpoint, you got to be in

(01:08:47):
this at the highest level. You've got to be in
this at the granular level. And things have been bad.
He's done a bad job adapting. He's from a different
generation of this sport. And while they have been incredibly
accomplished under Dabo Sweeney, I don't know that Clemson doesn't.

Speaker 4 (01:09:04):
Look to make a move.

Speaker 3 (01:09:05):
The question is, though FITSI As we talked about with
LSU going through their own coaching search as the best
coaching spot or the best program, the best available job
of the cycle. Penn State is also involved in this
as well. We'll see how many others Oklahoma State fired
Mike Gundhy after so many years there. What does Clemson

(01:09:27):
want to be in the landscape. Do they want to
just ride it out for one more season with Dabo
and find out if this season wasn't an anomaly? Or
do they want to make a change here and try
and put their program out there in a way and
be like, no, guys, I swear we can do all
the things that all these other power for programs can do.

Speaker 4 (01:09:44):
We just have a coach that's unwilling to change.

Speaker 2 (01:09:47):
Mother of God, if there's ever been a year to
hold onto your coach, it's this one. I'm like, please, y'all.
I'm just I'm begging you to think this through. Every
single school, I am begging you to think this through,
because at the end of the day, what everybody keeps
seeming to forget somehow, some way. Is it? Like when
I talked to Stephen Gottfrey, who works with Yahoo Sports.

(01:10:10):
We talked to him on Yahoo Sports Daily last week
and he said, some people in college football are estimating
this is not a misspeak. There will be as many
as forty coaching openings in college football this year. Forty
head coaching societies. Penn State has not done a single
thing publicly in any way, shape or form since they

(01:10:30):
fired James Franklin without doing anything other than just staying
the course. Nothing is changed to Penn State. They've already
become at best, in the eyes of many, the third
best available job. Think about that, like if Clemson fires Dabble,
what are they going to be the fifth? The sixth?

Speaker 4 (01:10:48):
Like?

Speaker 2 (01:10:49):
Look, but Florida State fans are so frustrated with Mike Gorvell.

Speaker 5 (01:10:52):
Great cool, go fire him? Who you hiring? Who you hiring?

Speaker 2 (01:10:55):
Because most of the time, what everybody wants to do
is just take a coach from somewhere else. But as
I mentioned, SMU gets an extension with their coach, Nebraska
gets an extension with their coach. Coaches that may or
may not actually be where like what Matt Rule has
done in Nebraska's deserved more time and more money.

Speaker 4 (01:11:11):
I'm not under sent.

Speaker 2 (01:11:12):
Sure, although the extension doesn't necessarily according to some reports,
include a lot of extra money still a contract extension.
I don't know. And Kurt Signetti is the great white
whale for everybody. He gets incredible money. And Indiana, like
everybody's thought is well Lane kiv Lane's gotta come here.
Lane's gonna come coach here. He's already one of the
top paid coaches in all of college football. And as

(01:11:34):
I have repeated until I'm blew in the face, we
were on air when Lane KIFVN a couple of weeks ago,
lost the game he shouldn't have lost. And you know
what happened to him that night? He went to dinner,
went to dinner with his family, and he had a
fine night. Do you think he went to bed that
night thinking, oh God, am I getting fired tomorrow? Because
if he loses the same game and he's the coach
of LSU, or is the coach of Penn State, or

(01:11:56):
is the coach of Florida, there're gonna be people calling,
oh man, he can't win in that he doesn't know
how to win the big game.

Speaker 5 (01:12:02):
He's fired, like go and fired.

Speaker 2 (01:12:03):
There are Ohio State fans that still want Ryan Day
to be fired if he can't beat Michigan this year.

Speaker 5 (01:12:08):
They are the defending national champions.

Speaker 2 (01:12:10):
And I do a weekly hit with the station in Dayton,
and the number of times they talked about, well, no,
people here just aren't happy it hasn't beaten Michigan, who cares.
And this is where every said, if you don't get it,
you don't understand the importance of the game.

Speaker 5 (01:12:22):
I do get it. I do get it.

Speaker 2 (01:12:24):
They raise banners for national champions if college football has changed.
Nobody wants to hear it, but it's real. So if
you're a coach and you're already making close to ten
million dollars a year, and you know that the equity
is going to be pretty similar anywhere you go, and
you know that boosters will provide private jets to get
anybody from anywhere to anywhere for your recruits, and you
know that most of these kids you bring it in
are speaking from knowledge here are getting first class tickets

(01:12:47):
for their family to fly in and out of the
airport every single week. So where you are doesn't matter.
The hot better recruiting doesn't really matter, And the only
thing that matters is how much nil money do you
have to spend. That's the only thing that couldn't make
a difference. But if you can have the quality of
life and lose some games, like Lane Kiffen could lose
two or three games this season for the rest of
his life in Old miss and never have to worry

(01:13:08):
about it, if he's coming back the next year, if
he does the exact same thing at LSU, you're a
fire him. So like, no, Clemson shouldn't fire Dabo, and
Dabbo shouldn't want to go anywhere. They should just sit
there miserably like my parents didn't. Just not like each
other and stay in the room together.

Speaker 3 (01:13:23):
Come on, grow off, do what the real adults do.
Suppress your feelings.

Speaker 2 (01:13:29):
Cut it out angrily, just argue in front of the children.

Speaker 5 (01:13:33):
That's the healthy thing to do.

Speaker 2 (01:13:35):
Working through some things apparently clearly so.

Speaker 3 (01:13:38):
They're home for Florida State. They're at number sixteen Louisville.
They've got a cupcake against Furman before rivalry week at
South Carolina, who's not, you know, covering themselves in glory.
But they are driving up seven to three on Ole
Miss right now in Oxford. Speaking of Lane Kiffin in games,
that he might drop the seven and one Ole Miss

(01:13:59):
football team right now at a point where a nice
play on defense there to get a stop, and I
think South Carolina's going to happen. Pretty sure. That was
third down. I think South Carolina's gonna have to punt here.
But just something to keep an eye on. I don't
know if Dabo wins more than the Furman Game at
the end of the year, because Florida State's got its
own problems. But it's not like Clemson is doing anything
at a higher level right now. And if they go

(01:14:22):
one for three in their final four down the stretch
here FITSI and they end up a four win football
program under Dabo Sweeney, I don't know if you can
allow him to stay. No matter how you feel about this. Again,
the buyout matters here. And it's like you mentioned with
Mike Norvell at Florida State, Like, is it really worth
eating the buyout money to fire these coaches when you're

(01:14:44):
going to be the fourth, the fifth, the sixth best
job on the market when we finally get into the
coaching carousel type of stuff. It's not a problem that
I would wish on any college football program. Lucky for me,
I've got Kurt Signetti.

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Speaker 5 (01:15:13):
We just need to remember that Clemson like Clemson.

Speaker 2 (01:15:15):
I'm sorry, guys, Like the football program at Clemson is
like a it's a six and Da dados a nine.
So like, even when you're frustrated with the nine, you
better realize if you go back to the market, you're
still a six out on the dating market.

Speaker 5 (01:15:27):
All right, let's get to would you rather?

Speaker 2 (01:15:29):
Coming up next to the single greatest game show in
the history of sports ar radio. We'll do it next.
He's Buck Rising, I'm Jason Fitz. It's Bucking Fits on
Fox Sports Radio. Hanging out with you on a wild night. Obviously,
we've been all over the place with college football. The

(01:15:49):
uh the Tennessee game kicking off now a loser leaves
town to the playoff probably Oklahoma Tennessee game.

Speaker 5 (01:15:57):
Good nights.

Speaker 2 (01:15:58):
Neyland Stadium gonna be absolutely electric, e electric.

Speaker 5 (01:16:04):
So excited for that. Also excited for this.

Speaker 2 (01:16:06):
Excited to play the single greatest game show in the
history of sports talk radio.

Speaker 5 (01:16:10):
Buck, Are you ready for this?

Speaker 4 (01:16:11):
Yep?

Speaker 2 (01:16:12):
It's time for would you rather?

Speaker 4 (01:16:18):
Can we do it with this?

Speaker 7 (01:16:19):
No?

Speaker 8 (01:16:20):
No, you guys did it?

Speaker 1 (01:16:22):
Did it?

Speaker 8 (01:16:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (01:16:23):
Wow?

Speaker 8 (01:16:24):
That guys credit where credits d That was probably the
best one you've done since ahead of him.

Speaker 3 (01:16:30):
I went a little ahead of him because you guys
keep telling me on him on the life.

Speaker 8 (01:16:32):
And then do that every time because it worked it
Hurd was yeah, full unison. But all right, let's get
to some would you rather let's go ahead and spin
our wheel?

Speaker 2 (01:16:41):
Okay?

Speaker 8 (01:16:42):
So would you always? Would you rather always find a
perfectly ripe avocado? I guess we can also say apple,
or you know, whatever fruit most applies to you, or
always pour exactly the right amount of cereal cereal to
milk ratio every time.

Speaker 4 (01:16:57):
Oh, I think I'm gonna go.

Speaker 3 (01:16:59):
So if we're just making it, you know, generally fruit
or vegetables, I don't think anything hits harder than like
a fruit or vegetable that is that peak ripeness, like
whether it's crispy, whether it's the texture that you're looking for,
Because there's nothing worse than when you like, bite into
an apple that's been sitting out for too long and
it's a little bit soggy, it's a little bit granular,

(01:17:20):
it's not what you want, right, So.

Speaker 2 (01:17:22):
I anyway, that's fair. It's better on the tees come
out when you know that's better on your You know what,
this cowl on bulk rising his face. You keep making
that face, and that's what it's gonna look like when
you're even older. But I'm with Buck on this one.

Speaker 4 (01:17:36):
By the way, too much botox in my face for
any of that.

Speaker 2 (01:17:40):
There's there's no wrong cereal to milk ratio. I can
make all of it work. So I need the avocado.

Speaker 4 (01:17:46):
I hate you Mary, all right.

Speaker 8 (01:17:48):
Would you rather have a fridge that quietly judges your
late night snacks or a microwave that cheers for you
every time you reheat leftovers?

Speaker 2 (01:17:58):
Well, look, you know I'm hmmm, I want to I
want the quiet judgment. I want the quiet judgment.

Speaker 5 (01:18:03):
They'll keep me on tracking. Yeah, there you go, keeps
me honest.

Speaker 2 (01:18:05):
Yeah. Plus, by the time I get the late night sacks,
I'm usually a little paranoid and like really high. So
I figured that by the time you can bind those
two things, I'll be convinced that the refrigerator is actually
loudly judging me, and that will help keep me on track.
I'm over that.

Speaker 3 (01:18:20):
I want the microwave that cheers for me when I
reheat leftovers because I'm trying to cut down on the
amount of times I order out on a regular basis
or just ordered wings.

Speaker 2 (01:18:29):
You just ordered wings to be delivered to you like
right now as we speak, during the last breaks.

Speaker 8 (01:18:35):
That's why he needs the microwave. Then, right.

Speaker 3 (01:18:39):
Before I was so rudely interrupted. Yeah, you're correct, but
that he didn't let me get that far. I was
gonna make that point that I am as we speak,
ordering wings so I can go home and watch the
balls game, Go balls.

Speaker 4 (01:18:51):
Go ahead.

Speaker 5 (01:18:51):
He's crouchy, angry elf self.

Speaker 3 (01:18:55):
People, you can't call me an elf if you're two
foot shorter than me.

Speaker 4 (01:19:00):
That's not how that works.

Speaker 2 (01:19:01):
I'm not two feet shorter than you. Go ahead, all right?

Speaker 8 (01:19:04):
Would you rather your phone auto correct everything?

Speaker 4 (01:19:07):
Hobbit run around at her?

Speaker 2 (01:19:09):
Five nine? Go ahead?

Speaker 5 (01:19:10):
Would you rather go ahead?

Speaker 8 (01:19:15):
Would around on you?

Speaker 5 (01:19:18):
You don't like that?

Speaker 2 (01:19:19):
I'm sufficiently average, Thank you very much. I've been told
go ahead.

Speaker 8 (01:19:22):
I'll say by your mom.

Speaker 2 (01:19:25):
Well not no, not really no. I don't want to.

Speaker 8 (01:19:29):
Get fired at your family history.

Speaker 2 (01:19:31):
No, no, no.

Speaker 5 (01:19:32):
The answer I wanted to give was no by your mom.
But I think that that was probably a little aggressive.

Speaker 3 (01:19:36):
But nobody playing me like that.

Speaker 8 (01:19:41):
All right, we spun the wheel a long time ago,
so let me finally read this. Would you rather your
phone auto correct every ha ha into he he he
or every okay into okay friend with an exclamation mark
and an emoji with a blushing smiley face.

Speaker 3 (01:19:57):
I don't want people who aren't my friends to think
they're my friend. I'll go with the he he even
though it bothers me.

Speaker 2 (01:20:02):
Oh, I would go with the he heat because I
think most of my friends would hear it and then
actually think that I was saying it. Most of my
friends think that I'm a guy, not a ha ha
ha ha guy, like I don't really yeah, yeah, like
I'm definitely I'm a he he he.

Speaker 5 (01:20:15):
Is it safe for you to laugh hysterically at your age, Buck?

Speaker 8 (01:20:18):
Like?

Speaker 5 (01:20:18):
Or do you have to worry about your heart?

Speaker 8 (01:20:19):
Like?

Speaker 2 (01:20:19):
How does that work?

Speaker 4 (01:20:20):
Like?

Speaker 2 (01:20:21):
I mean, yeah, hernia is the at all of these
You start pulling things when you laugh. It's like that's
all we know. We'll be back to next Saturday, presuming
Buck makes it that far at his age.

Speaker 5 (01:20:29):
Thanks for hanging out with

Speaker 2 (01:20:30):
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