September 1, 2023 • 40 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon react to the College Football game between Nebraska and Minnesota with the Hoosiers choking away the win in the 4th to the Golden Gophers.
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Tonight is the night. I don't want to say tonight's
really the first night of college football because we had
Saturday last week. We had Caleb Williams and Sam Hartman,
but you know, on a Saturday middle of this now
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tonight feels like, hey, we got a lot of college football,
we got a couple of big games going on, except
half the country not getting to see the big game,
which is Florida and Utah right now four minutes ago
in the fourth quarter. You've been saying this all last
hour because you don't need to see it, because Utah
has been in control of this game from the beginning.
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Although Florida did just get a touchdown Graham Mertz through
a touchdown two point conversion make it twenty four to eleven,
but it's still a thirteen point lead by Utah with
about four minutes to go in the fourth quarter. Just
a little bit about this game before we get to
the whole controversy happening, is that you know, I know,
Billy Napier is just going to get killed, you know,
for this game, and Florida's gonna get killed. To look
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where they are now, they still they stink their all
of this time out. For a second, Florida hasn't been
a year in year rout college football power in fifteen years. Right,
You're going back to the end of the Urban Meyer
era to say, hey, this is a national championship type
team that every year can go eleven and one or
ten and two and play in the CFP or play
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for the National champions Right, that's the last time Florida
was really that kind of team. Doesn't mean they haven't
had great years since they have. They even had a
big year under Dan Mullen, who is diagramming how Florida
is not doing well at halftime of the game line,
which is like me watching Adam Gate say, this is
what Aaron Rodgers is not doing for the Jets. So
I get that, you know Florida all, what's going on?
(02:24):
What's going on? But this is not like a dip
in recruiting. All right, This is not Hey, we've had
a couple of down years. This is not Florida football anymore.
This is not the Florida football that you the same
thing we'll talk about Nebraska coming up. This is not
the Florida football that you and I grew up with.
That was Heisman trophies and all kinds of offense and
legendary games in the swamp and every year and Steve
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Spurriyer and Danny Whirfel and Terry Dean and Heisman trophies.
This is not that same team. This is not Tim
Tebow and Chris Leak. This is not those teams, not
Chris Doring. This is not those teams Florida has been
and every couple of years. They're still pretty good, which
is nice, right, but they're in every year power. Meanwhile, Utah,
Utah is pretty good. They've won back to Backpack twelve championships.
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They're going for an unprecedented third Pack twelve championship in
a row, really packed two championship. But they're going for
their third straight PAC twelve championship. Utah is pretty good
Winningham's a pretty good coach. This is a pretty good team,
and they've been pretty good for a while. They should
be winning this game. They're winning this game. There's two
minutes left and they're winning. I think we're asking the
wrong questions here. But you know, teams, you expect teams
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even after fifteen years of not being great year and
a year. So no, we still got to get back
to those salad days. Those days are gone, man, this
is not two or three years. No, those days are gone.
If you get them back, great, but you can't expect
them to come back just because we're Florida. We'll get
the recruit. No, No, you had that time fifteen years
ain't a blip on that college football radar screen.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Well, it's like you and I had been discussing a
long time when everybody was calling for Jim Harbaugh's head
at Michigan, you got a recog eyes what you are
and what you've been. Doesn't mean you didn't have some big,
flashy seasons, right, titles in the in the rear view mirror,
but you were not a team that was winning nine
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ten games a year. That was just not who you were.
Huge brand, huge alumni base, all of that thing. Yes, absolutely,
but not a consistent winner for Florida. It's it's now
flipp Now, this is obviously a spot. You go and
you schedule one of the big boys right off the jump.
You know what's why we've always had directional schools in
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the mix. In those first couple of weeks, figure out
what you are, figure out what you do well, and
then start playing against some of these heavyweights. And that
doesn't mean that Utah didn't make it interesting. It's almost
like they were in Cahut saying, hey, you really wish
you had that carriage rights now, don't you. But we'll
get that in a minute. But like for all of
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these these teams, and you know, Nebraska part of that
as well. Of remember the history. We we joked about
it yesterday with Tom Osbourne and those teams of all
those years ago. You talk about urban Meyer and that
fluff piece they did that whatever. You can't really call
that a documentary, can you? Uh? If you're gonna leave
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out a lot of the stuff that was going on
around there, now you didn't.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
We're gonna leave out all the bad stuff. How long
is a documentary? It is eight minutes. It's you winning
the national championship, winning it again. You hug t boat,
They build the statue and we roll credits all the
bad stuff.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Is there a spot where in the tight end when
normally we can't talk about him?
Speaker 1 (05:35):
When we put all the bad stuff in, then we
need six nights at three hours a night.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
We put the bad stuff in.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Yeah, that's it. It's a fluff piece saying, hey, get
him back on the sideline. But that's for a story
for another time. But again, those were the big days.
The Heisman runs the race towards national titles, siclicality and
the changing landscape of college football. But you know what,
here on this Thursday night, on this particul killer Thursday night,
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we celebrate it all. We celebrate their space on our televisions.
You know why, because you and I can actually watch
these games and comment and boo and scream at the
officials from miss Calls Liven and Living Color not clicking
the refresh button because well we don't have carriage.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Well see that's the big thing, you said. You and
I can see these games. Yes, every other person is
not getting to see the big game of the night,
right is not getting to see Utah and Florida not
getting to see it? Why? And this is this is
like gamesmanship to the nth degree at kickoff tonight of
Florida and Utah, which is the big you know this
(06:41):
is Tonight's the big Like I said, Saturday Fields like
it felt like an extra day zero week of college football,
the game in Dublin, but then it really feel like
a game was more. Hey, here's the pageantry in college
football is back. You know USC was playing. You k
new they were gonna roll over. So it was hard
to look at that and say, hey, all right, this
is this is just you know, hey, college football is
back tonight.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Tight. It got you into some of your pregame rhythms
and maybe got you out of a couple of to
do lists things on the weekend because you had football
to Panten too.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
I gotta watch about that game in Dublin. Really, who's playing?
I don't know, but it's in Dublin, so I have
to watch it. There's nothing I can do.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
I also need to go buy some smitticks. Yeah, let's
get it off.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
But right before kickoff Utah and Florida tonight again, less
than two minutes left to go. Utah has the football.
They are going to be kneeling on it. They're gonna
beat Florida twenty four to eleven just a kickoff. Spectrum
the second largest cable carrier in the United States behind Comcast.
They've been at war with Disney about their programming and
(07:44):
pricing and tiers and look every day you can get
on the internet and find a big topic about oh,
cable prices and streaming and cutting the court. It's it's everywhere, right,
you've heard this is like five years about being five
ten years about cutting the court.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
We're cutting the Yes, yes, I understand.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
But this carry dispute between Disney and Spectrum got to
the point where Spectrum says, we're drawing a line in
the sand and right and right at kickoff for Utah Florida.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
If you had Spectrum, like I do.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Big notice comes up on your TV due to the
inability for us to come to an agreement with ESPN,
with Disney, we're not gonna be getting this this channel.
And they go into a whole big description of how
we feel in this in the world right now, that
our asks shouldn't be too much, and like they have
this whole big plan, the whole big scroll on the script.
We want to know. I want people to know exactly
(08:34):
what we're thinking. Why you decided to draw the line
in the sand here. Yeah, yeah, because we don't care
about you. Because if you cared about me the viewer,
you wouldn't do this right. And this is the other
part we talked about this last hour that so Spectrum
is not carrying the game, and there's so many people
that are upset. YouTube TV is trending because this is
where people are gonna go because this is not Spectrum.
You're not gonna win. No one is gonna throw their
(08:56):
arms around a cable company. They're gonna throw their arms
around who's giving me content that I want, Disney is
whether it's the TV shows, whether it's live sports, because
not having ESPN, if I'm a sports fan is a.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Really big deal.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
So Spectrum is sitting here saying, we're making the decision
to do this right before a game begins. If you
cared about me, the viewer, you wouldn't do it. You
would not do it. What you would do instead is
you would do something like, we're gonna have a scroll
on the bottom of the screen for the entire game.
There's a big dispute going on. This is the last
game you're going to see or something. We're gonna have
this up here while we're trying to get this to
(09:29):
something where you make it look like, hey, we're trying
to figure this out. Because what I look at now
is they've just decided to make me mad and make
me mad at Disney, like that's what they've want to do,
not to try to solve this, but they said, Okay,
we can't do this, so now haha, we're gonna drop
your programming just when people want to see it, and
Disney's gonna say, so, what you're gonna do then is
force people to find other ways to get our programming. Great,
(09:52):
thank you very much, appreciate it, because that's what people
are gonna do. They're gonna find their ways to get this.
They're gonna go and get ESPN and bundle it with
with Hulu and and whatever. The third one is it's
ESPN plus and and and Hulu and something else or
Amazon I think it is. Or they're gonna go to
YouTube TV. They're gonna find something. They're gonna find some
way to get that because that's what people want. People
(10:12):
want the programming. They don't care about the cable come.
They're gonna have loyalty to the cable company going on.
I got I expect no what they're gonna do then
and say we're not gonna have cable anymore.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
And all Youna do is lose subscribers. You have to
lose subscribers.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
People are gonna go more a la carte and it's
just more of the leaching away from cable. This is
a decision that Spectrum made that I don't understand because
Number one, all it does is piss off people. Because
I'm not mad at Disney. I'm mad at Spectrum because
who made the decision to not carry the game Spectrum did.
Disney did not make this decision. I don't care whose
fault it is. I just want the games on my
TV and I don't think I'm different than anybody else
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in the country, because we're dealing with a rapidly changing
landscape on TV now where every day it's where is
this show?
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Where is this? Now? Is this on TV? Do I
have this system? Do I have it?
Speaker 1 (10:54):
We're dealing with this every bleeping day. And when you
force people to make a choice, they're gonna go to
where I Where can I get the content? They're not
gonna do it here? And and I mean people are
gonna get mad at spectrum. No one's gonna say I'm
keeping spectrum, Screw ESPN, screw Disney. I don't care about
watching Harry Potter on free form. They're gonna say, that's
what I have to find a way to watch. That's
what it's going to be. A spectrum. I mean, they
(11:15):
overplayed their hand. And I don't think they I don't
think they see this resulting the way they think it's
going to. They think it's gonna wind up being Disney
saying hey, okay, okay, okay, let's cut a check. We'll
do this, We'll do this, when in reality, it's gonna
be the exact opposite.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
No, And that's the thing, right because the other options
aren't cheap, right, I mean, I'm paying nearly double for
YouTube TV what I did when it first was announced,
and I probably watch a third of the channels that
I did back then. Again, the if for those that
know me, uh, if there's Law and Order, I will
find it. If there is a Spider Man movie, I
(11:52):
will find it. If there's Star Wars, find it. For
the matrix for that man, I mean there are a
few things, and you know, a couple of movies here
and there that mix they're in, But otherwise it's live sports.
I want live sports. I am not brand loyal to
a cable company, right because they sent me a sticker
(12:12):
or for the first six months they gave me four
dollars off, or whatever the hell.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
The deal was.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
No, I mean, I'm not sticking around and in the
assess blame. Yes, in a real business sense, we can
talk about the true value add for each of these
channels to the average person's household. Well, the problem is
you and I and people that live and breathe sports. Right.
(12:38):
We got Patrick and Steve and Chris. You know, that's
what we need to you know, that's the lifeblood of
what we do, not just from a work perspective, but
who we are. And then on the other spectrum you
got the other folks who really couldn't care less about
any of this. Yeah, you're trying to get eight bucks
ahead per month from every subscriber, and so it becomes
(13:00):
this difficult proposition. And then we talk about switching costs
and for the you know, for the cost of a
cup of coffee each month, YouTube can do well that
that's kind of where we're at. And for some folks
it doesn't matter. Just give me my make the deal,
give me my sports. Otherwise I gotta leave and I
got to go figure out where it is. That's really
(13:22):
all it is for spectrum, for any of these companies.
When you look at it, what's your value proposition? How
do you explain it to your subscribers that stay? How
do you explain it to the board and to the
shareholders that need to see big results on a quarter
to quarter basis. As there's a mass exodus because you know,
(13:45):
live sporting events where the dollars and cents continues to
grow time and time again, the only place where that is, Uh,
you don't have what I need anymore, So I gotta
go get my fixed somewhere else, and that's where we're going.
And while we see the conferences trying to make all
their power plays and build these rights, PAC twelve had
the right idea, they just executed it terribly right. When
(14:08):
it's all said and done, all of these different entities
going back to Major League Baseball and streaming out of town. Right,
I'm a White Sox fan in northern California. I want
to be able to listen to Farmio back in the
day or watch Hawk scream. You gotta be kidding me.
You found a way to get in my wallet there,
(14:28):
and bit by bit we've seen that keep going. Now
it's more bundling, more specialization, and how do we just
nickel and Dimon to get you what you need? And
let's face it, since most of it's done electronically and
I'm not writing out a check like I might have
done twenty years ago, it don't matter. That effort's gone, right,
(14:49):
The switching cost effort is gone with three clicks of
a mouse, Twitter and how.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
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look back in five years, right, I really know this
is how it's gonna go. In five years, We're gonna
look back and go, Man, remember when college football it
was so much easier to get it on TV. All
the games were on I could see all the big games.
(15:17):
And instead, now if I want to see all the
college football, I have to have the Big twelve package,
or I have to have the the not the Pack twelve.
I have the Pack one package. I'm gonna have the
ACC package just to get those games. I gotta have
the SEC package or I have to have the Big
twelve package. We're gonna have at least three NBA rights.
Same thing with Major League Baseball because all these rights
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are coming up in the next couple of years. But
we're gonna say, remember those days, Remember when when it
was so for the longest time, it was so easy
to get games, and we knew we were guaranteed to
watch all these games. And because this is now, you
see it changing. You see this ridiculous power play that
spectrums Pot trying to pull. That's all it does is
piss people off, and it's gonna push people to YouTube
(15:57):
and do other things. And that's what's gonna happen. And
it's Look, it's not just death of cable. This is
this is just you know, the landscape of sports television.
We're not going to recognize it. Man, We're getting you
think it's oh here, Oh it's nice. And Amazon has
the one game a week that's nice and oh it's
kind of fun and quirky. We can make fun and
al Michaels doesn't like to get Yeah, you just wait
until the next time NFL right's coming. Amazon has all
(16:20):
the games on Sunday anyway?
Speaker 3 (16:21):
You mean you mean?
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Amazon is one hundred and fifty dollars a month. Yep,
got it for all you But I only want it
doesn't matter Amazon's one hundred and fifty dollars. You wait,
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We'll have more on the night.
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In college football coming up, including I don't know and
I know I'm prisoner of the moment here because I
just saw it. I mean ire with you though, that
I have seen a better toe tap in my life
than what just happened in Nebraska and Minnesota where Minnesota
ties the game at ten apiece. I don't know that
(17:16):
I've ever seen a more impressive toe tap in my
life than that play. We'll talk about it. You'll hear
it coming up next right here Jason and Mike Fox.
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right now full drama Gus Johnson doing Gus Johnson fish
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right now Nebraska, and he makes Nebraska. He's making Nebraska.
Minnesota sounded like Ohio State Michigan. Five seconds to go,
Minnesota has called time out. They'll be kicking a forty
nine yard field goal to win this game over Nebraska.
It is a ten to ten game, Minnesota scoring a
(18:20):
touchdown to tie to ten. A fourth down pass we're
gonna get to in a second in a big way,
trust me. And then Jeff Simms throws his third interception
of the night. Minnesota drives down the field. They've had
just enough to get into field goal range. Here on
a fourth and two, three seconds left for field goal
that could win this game. Now before we get to that,
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with timeadd on the field, the touchdown that tied the
game was a corner pattern.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
In the end zone to Daniel Jackson.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
This is a throw that is I want to say
it's it's not an easy throw, but it's not that
difficult to throw because Jackson's pretty wide open. It's a
thirteen yard touchdown and the ball is overthrown more than
it should be because he's got three steps on the
dB and he makes a catch. He makes a toe
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tap and I get I am prisoner of the moment,
but he makes a catch in a toe tap that
may be the best toe tap I have ever seen
in my life. It is so unbelievably impressive because what
Jackson does is he catches the ball in mid air
with his right foot three feet over the outer bounds line.
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It's three feet past it. Like it's three feet past
it where he catches the ball. There's no way he's
coming down in bounds. And still he catches the ball
mid air again three feet over out of bounds, and
he drags he gets his left foot down just enough
for the catch. The referee is right on it. No,
(19:54):
I don't if the referee is right or he just
got lucky. But the referee is right on it signals
a touchdown. And I said, oh, there's no they're gonna
look at that. That's not a touchdown. But I looked
at and I could not believe it because I'm looking
at his right leg going it's so far over the
over the like he's never coming down. And still he
is able with all his momentum going that way to
be able to get your left leg all the way back,
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and he's doing a split. He's doing like a forward
backward split and he's able to get his foot down.
That is so unbelievably impressive. Again, I don't know I've
ever seen a better one. I really don't know I've
ever seen a better one than that. That was I've seen.
I've seen the play like five times now. I have
no idea how you can have that kind of body control.
We say that all the time about wide receiver's body
control and X, Y and Z and everything else. And
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I look at that and I go, I don't know, man,
I don't know how you have that kind of body
control and can make that play. It was absolutely insane.
I mean, seen a lot of toe taps, right, Santonio
Holmes toe tap for a touchdown to win the Super Bowl.
That was great, right, since Santoniomes does that. But when
you when you're extended that far out over over the
out of bounds line and you still are able to
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get your left foot down, Oh man, that is the
Heisman troph Forget about Sam Hartman, who I told just
gonna win it. No, no, no, I'm voting for for Heisman
Trophy right now. Give me Jackson for the Heisman Trophy.
Fan Sam Hartman. Last week's News, give me Jackson for
the Heisman troph. Well that's it, man.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
When you make a play like that, body control and
that's why they're superhumans. Uh, not quite Spiderman, but uh
doing doing Burish Nikoff stuff out there out on the field.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
With with that catch, I gotta give the referee credit.
Steely eyed watching the feet. You know, we saw this
couple of weeks ago, Patrick mahomes right did a thing
where he was half his body was out of bounds
but hadn't touched one of those. Ay, he's probably gonna
get drilled into the ground at some point. Uh, and
then we'll have rule changes again related to quarterbacks, but
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same kind of thing, drifting. It's like, all right, that
foots well out of bounds and somehow corrals the ball
and you start seeing the turf flying up behind. It's like, wow,
the trail of black I don't know what do you
call it, rabbit food, gurbil food, whatever.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
It starts from rolling up.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
The pellets are ready, man, and everybody's looking around going did.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
He really just did that? I mean, he really just
did that. It was insane in fact, you know what
it felt. I felt like I'm watching that watching the
Odell Beckham catch, Like, Wow, he really that, he really
got that. He really got that foot down. He really
got that foot down. I really, I'm still stunned he
was able to do. I don't know how he did
I don't know how he did it. I really don't
know how he did it.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
You know what he did, though, that was That's what
you really call putting your giant ore in and rowing
the damn boat. That's what that's all about right there.
And you know what, in the box score, not in
the highlights anything, it's gonna look like one of the
greatest touchdown drives of the quarterbacks. Young life man's pinny
point precision in the corner of the end zone. That's
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all what's gonna look at look like in the box
score and in print. But we see that video. My goodness.
You want to talk about a wide receiver instilling a
lot of confidence going for the rest of the season,
How much freer do you feel as a quarterback? You
got a guy to make him play like that, never
mind that he'd already been roughed up and beaten up
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by defensive backs with no calls gone. Ah, that was
kind of a hail Mary it's like, no, no, no, he
grabbed his head and twisted in before the boot. Now
it doesn't matter incomplete, No, no, no, it's the old
We talked about it the other day, the cheaters proof.
There you go, he got his play.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Really, I just I'm continuing to watch this play, this replay.
It is it really is. It's difficult to fathom. I
don't know, there's there's physical See. The thing is is
that they're smart plays that players make that really frustrate you. Right,
that's when the player makes a smart play so incredibly frisk. Oh,
why how does he how does he find the fifth
receiver on that? How does he have that much time?
(23:50):
How does Brady find his fifth target? A guy that's
not even a wide receiver. He came out of the stands,
he's eating French fries, he's not even wearing a uniform.
He just caught a touchdown, Bess. I mean, there's that
kind of impressive. And there's when you can do stuff
physically that makes you go, oh, it's superhuman. You look
like something that's absolutely superhuman. And that's what Jackson looked
like on that catch. It was unreal. Now did that
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end happily for Minnesota ten ten. They were driving down
for a field goal that could potentially win the game.
Let's find out in what's trending right now with special
delivery Steve de Sager, who had a lot of money
on this game. He had the under end, he had
Nebraska and he was getting three points.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Steve, how did you do?
Speaker 5 (24:35):
I'm just fine, thank you. Completely separate from this game
on Fox TV. Minnesota kicks a forty seven yard field
goal on the final play to beat Nebraska thirteen to ten.
It was three nothing Gophers at the half. Husker's doing
Husker things late in the game. Nebraska on its final
two possessions fumble which led to a touchdown and an
(24:57):
interception which led to the field goal.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
Matt Ruhle has it all figured out, Steave, He's a genius.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
Yeah, well, they'll show up for the volleyball team. At
least we know that fourteenth right to Utah beat up
Florida twenty four to eleven, Uts defense with five sacks.
It was twenty four to three Utah early in the
fourth quarter, and the Utes were missing their star quarterback
Tonight Cam Rising still out after return acl last season
in the Rose Bowl, and so Tonight's starter on the
(25:27):
first offensive play of the season through a seventy yard
touchdown pass. Earlier on FS one, UCF beat Kent State
fifty six to six. North Carolina State a winner at
yukon twenty four to fourteen. Arizona State has scored just
before halftime to take a twenty one to seven lead
on Southern Utah. It was seven all in the second quarter.
(25:47):
Victories Tonight for UAB and Tulsa for Missouri, and Wake
Forest wins for Western Michigan and Georgia State. Friday night
on FS one, Michigan State will host Central Michigan. The
Minnesota Vikings gave Tidy and TJ. Hawkinson a four year extension.
RAMS wide receiver Cooper cup is day to day after
a setback with his strained hamstring to Major League Baseball.
(26:09):
Still a home run problem for lance Lynn. He was
the Dodgers starting pitcher Tonight, Braves up seven to one
in LA in the bottom of the fifth. You know
a lot of people thinking this is a playoff preview,
and if they're gonna give lance Lynn starts in the postseason,
I think this is a playoff preview. He gave up
three homers in four to third seven months, seven hits. Yeah, exactly.
(26:32):
If you were to guess what pitcher in Major League
Baseball is giving up the home runs. First off, if
you guessed any White Sox pitcher, you'd probably be wrong.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
What steep? How dare you?
Speaker 5 (26:44):
Michael Kopek was not good in that category, or Lucas Giolito,
but lance Lynn better than them all. I think it's
up to thirty seven.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
Home runty seven.
Speaker 5 (26:54):
It's just been about twenty seven starts. So if you
have a ticket for a lance Ling game, it's just
part of the price of admission. Atlanta is leading seven
to one in LA I think, I.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Think if I'm looking, I see the back of the ticket.
If lance Lynn starts this game, the potential for many
balls to be hit into the crowd is great, especially
in the bleachers. Please understand that if you get hit
with a home run ball, the Dodges are not responsible. Okay, back, okay,
So they have a big disclaimer on the tickets nation.
Speaker 5 (27:22):
The prices of those home run seats they put in
the first two rows of the by the outfield balls.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Guarantee you one home run ball.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
Agate you could actually lance Lynn ad An e Ara
of what six with the White Sox, but was four
and oh this month after the trade, the old Lance
Lynn showed up and Atlanta's just flat great. A win
tonight would put them at eighty eight and forty five.
This is the start of a four game series in
La Ronald de Kunye at a Grand Slam, thirtieth homer
(27:50):
of the year. Austin Riley is thirty second home run
the only other game going. The Giants got a lot
of unearned runs early and they lead at San Diego
seven to nothing in the bottom of the sixth three
early errors for the Padres. Miami beat Washington six to one. Today,
Detroit down the Yankees in ten innings, four to three. Juliar.
It's officially retired from soccer and at Basketball's World Cup,
(28:11):
the US plays Montenegro early Friday, then faces Lithuania on Sunday.
After that the quarterfinals. Today, Finland with Lowry Marketing getting
thirty four points, beat Cape Verde and South Sudan one
at the Philippines, US playing its games in Manila.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
Back to you thanks a bunch, STEVEO.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carmen
live from the Tiraq dot Com studios and to get
to this right here, Mike, because now we got to
spend a little bit of time talking about Nebraska. Nebraska
was winning this game the entire way. They were in control.
Minnesota was not able to threaten. But how many times
you seen it. A team can't do anything for the
first fifty eight minutes, but those last two minutes they
(28:51):
looking to turn into world beaters. You know, three turnovers
will do it for you as well.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
But also remember remember Nebraska's touchdown, the most improbable, unlikely
touchdown you will ever see in your life. When you
have a half back pass that actually rolls on the
ground and rolls back up to the quarterback who finds
a wide receiver because of the brokenness of the play
(29:17):
standing with nobody within twenty yards of him. You'll never
see that. You can't draw that up on the street,
let alone in a major college program game. So the
seven points I put a giant asterisk on the still count.
But yeah, for any of the hey, Theylee, they led
whatever else man that was, that's about a horseshoe stuck
(29:39):
as high as you can right there.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
I'll tell you this for Nebraska because we have to
explain Nebraska football to millennials and Generation Z because they
were on national television tonight and people are watching abra.
I don't understand the break. I see people older than
me and they get this wistful look in their eyes
when they hear Nebraska. I don't understand Nebraska football come by.
This is gott Frost. They were terrible. Didn't he ever
(30:02):
play there? People don't understand. Like, this is why I
say there's sports Stonehenges, right, because Stone Henges, this crazy
group of rocks that have been there for thousands of years.
Nobody knows why they're there, yet they seem to have
some kind of fascination even though no one understands why
that's things like Nebraska football. Why is there still this
(30:22):
fascination with Nebraska football. Well, because Nebraska football, Indiana basketball,
you know, they're Stonehenges. They are the relics of a
bygone era.
Speaker 4 (30:30):
And they have a lot of alumni, yeah, and very
large alumni base, so they don't forget.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Fans don't understand, you know, don't because how much of
a big deal and how great Nebraska used to be.
That in the eighties and nineties and early two thousands,
Nebraska was it.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
Oklahoma.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Nebraska was always the biggest game of the year in
college football because the winner of that game was always
going to play in the national Championship. It's not like, well,
some years Michigan, Ohio State has got some year, some
years Alabama or every year Nebraska, Oklahoma, one of them
was playing for the national championship. They had Heisman Trophy cannons.
They had quarterbacks like Turner Gill and Steve Taylor and
(31:08):
Eric Crouch, and running backs would be cannions for the
Heisman Trophy every year. Where it's Mike Rozier or somebody else,
this was Nebraska football. And they would put fifty sixty
seventy points up every week.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
They didn't care.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
They would run a wishbone offense with three running backs.
Tom Osborne senator, the senator, how's the representatives at whatever
it was? Oh, you mean the guy coaching, Yes, he
coached Nebraska, and they were terrific, and they would score
every week, and they would have two two hundred yard
runners every week, and they were so good for so long.
And now Nebraska football just looks like Rutgers football. And
(31:40):
it's been that way for a while. And I know
that that the whole Scott Frost arrows. Oh maybe Scott
Frost wasn't up to it and all that. Yeah, and
I get, but you watch Nebraska open up things tonight,
you know, scoring ten points against Nebraska. When this used
to be an offense out would sledgehammer people. And instead
now people think, oh that that volleyball school. They have
a football team too. Really, tinty two thousand people in
(32:00):
that game, they have a football team Nebraska plays for
I didn't know. I thought they just played volleyball. I
don't know they played football there too. I mean, it's
it's a sports to Nebraska is such a relic of
a bygone era in college football when Nebraska was it,
when they controlled everything. Like I was rooted for Nebraska
when they played Oklahoma. I don't know why, I just did.
I mean there's I mean, when I'm growing up and
it's Oklahoma Nebraska, it's always on a rainy field the
(32:23):
day after Thanksgiving or two days after Thanksgiving, and and
the field is just so wet, and there's great there's
rain everywhere, and pitch outs get fumbled. And that was
always the biggest play of the game. If somebody fumbled
you turned it over. I mean that was always the
nadeer of college football Oklahoma Nebraska, and Oklahoma has found
a way to sustain it at least a little bit better.
You know, they're not year in and year out great, but
(32:44):
they're year in and year out there still really really good,
and they have a national championship in the past twenty years.
But Nebraska football is just what why do they matter?
I mean, people are watching them for the first and
only time this year because it's the game on national
TV because half the country didn't get Utah in Florida
because the spectrum. So they're watching this game and they go, Wow, Nebraska, Okay.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
They were a big deal. Yes that you.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Once upon a time they were a big deal, just
like the Jedi would tell stories to the younglings of
oh ten thousand years ago. The Jedi was very important.
Let me tell you why. I'm gonna see her and
tell stories to my daughter and her friends. They'll be
out in the pool in the backyard and I'm gonna say,
I want to tell you all about Helen Pultet Nebraska
football used to be, and they're gonna go, what, yes, yes,
let me sit and tell you about the nineteen eighty
seven Oklahoma Nebraska game and what happened when when a
(33:29):
young quarterback named Turner Gil decided to I mean, that's
how I'm gonna talk about in Nebraska because it feels
like it's that long ago for them.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
Nicely done.
Speaker 4 (33:35):
Yeah, we're in mid season four because people are starting
to do suppruder film shots of would be touchdowns and
would be false starts and all of these things. So
the officials. We did get Gus Johnson to call a
game winner one a night one for Fox. So I mean,
that's about as good.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
As it gets.
Speaker 4 (33:53):
The agony and the ecstasy yesterday ninety two thousand and three.
People to watch volleyball and wins and straight sets and
now this the futility. Ready, here's your stat in Nebraska
the last five years, twenty six one score losses. Seventeen
of those were second half collapses. Seventeen losses in the
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last five years where they light at half time. Meanwhile,
PJ Fleck forty one and four when leading at half.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Unbelievable, Absolutely unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
This is such a stunt.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
And I feel bad because I love good I always
because I used to love watching Nebraska just roll over people.
Here's an eighty yard touchdown run coming your way. Nope,
there it goes. Now. You also used to like Cable.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
That's yes. I used to watch Hannah Montana. Now I
don't anymore.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
Yes, I used to have came Well be revisited that
there's a lot of genius in that show.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
Cable.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
Nebraska football, you know, all the same.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
That's how it is, all the same. Twitter and out
about a fresca.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
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Where in the game, Well, okay, we're in the game.
Half of America got to see tonight. The other half
just didn't get to see it because of a dispute
between Spectra Spears and Disney. Utah wins the game of
(36:47):
the night in college football. They beat Florida twenty four
to eleven, and already the reaction for this game, it's insane.
Florida goes out of state for or an opening game
on the road for the first time in over thirty years.
(37:07):
They lose a night to Utah, just like they lost
in nineteen ninety one when they came to Syracuse, and
they left with a big fat l Yeah.
Speaker 4 (37:18):
Thirty two years.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
Yeah, buddy, But I'm gonna be honest with you, that
was the great That's the greatest dome memory I haven't
of college of college football to the Syracuse winning that game.
I mean, Florida was there in eighteen ninety one. Your
final opening opening play of the game. We ran a
reverse on the kickoff, and Kirby Dardar, who was supposed
to be a great player, but he ran a reverse,
(37:40):
ran in for a touchdown. We get off the field.
George Rook sack Shane matt I still remember the game.
George Rooks sack Shane Matthews. They have to punt, We
go down and score again. It's fourteen to nothing. And
all those Florida fans that showed up on campus walking
around like they owned the place. I was like that.
They're wearing their Florida earrings and all there get on
you walk around. This is your campus. You're going home
(38:02):
with a big fat l. And that's what happened thirty
years ago. It's what happened tonight. It'll be another thirty
years before Florida opens up on the road outside of
the state of Florida again. Not gonna happen again, Mike Harmon,
Not gonna happen.
Speaker 4 (38:15):
I will say this. The likelihood of a rebound like
Shane Matthews had to lead them to an SEC title,
ain't gonna happen with this Florida team. Ain't gonna happen
with this Florida team because you know, you can make
the running jokes. And well, two years later he brought
that ineptitude and willingness to be sacked to the Bears. Now, no, no,
(38:36):
but he had some college greatness before that. But yeah,
I mean, it's great that we can have a little
bit fun with our guy Todd Furman on X And
how about a fresco at swollend Dome with pictures of
Donovan McNabb and all of that going back to those
Syracuse days. Right, Obviously that's a little earlier than McNab
was there, but just you start thinking about those squads.
(38:58):
But the fact that you had done it for thirty
two years, which means you and I will be dead
before they do it again.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Spury or shut well, last time I'm going to Syracuse.
Not going there anymore. That's not gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
Now.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
The whole thing is now you look at at at
Florida and everybody's crazed about Florida losing opening week. This
is what's supposed to happen. Okay, I mean, Utah is
pretty good. They won, they won the.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
Patagraph the last two years.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
You know, it's it's kind of like with Nebraska, but
not quite where Nebraska is a relic of a bygone era.
Florida Gator fans are still completely unreasonable because they think,
why isn't life still like it was fifteen years ago?
Why why are we not winning championships? Why are we
not doing that?
Speaker 4 (39:41):
Why?
Speaker 3 (39:41):
Why? Why?
Speaker 1 (39:41):
I do understand, I understand when the new normal is
you haven't been year and a year out dominant since
you had Urban Meyer every couple of years, once once
every three four years. That you have a big year, right,
which is great, right, celebrate that. But it's like it's
like fans think, oh, because we were like that for
so long We just have to get back to that.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
Those days are gone.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
They're not coming back now. Could you get to a
run a couple of years in a row where you
win a bunch of games. Yeah, you get the right
guys in place, but it's not gonna be like it was.
And just understand that some years are gonna be okay,
some years are gonna be bad. Once in a while
to have a really good year, that's the new normal
for Florida. But expect him to be the rock stars
of college football. Not happen anymore. They used to be.
(40:22):
Not anymore.
Speaker 4 (40:23):
Yeah, changing landscape, changing game, deeper conference, all of those things.
But after this game they might actually get taunted a bit.
The only thing on the schedule before their bye week
in mid October is a date against Tennessee that's in Gainesville.
Otherwise they can run off a bunch of wins here
and people could start feeling jesty before they get their
ass handed to him on the back end of the schedule.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
Is Eric rhet running for them again? I don't think
he is.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
I don't think he is.
Speaker 4 (40:49):
Nicely done.
Speaker 1 (40:50):
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Tonight is the night. I don't want to say tonight's
really the first night of college football because we had
Saturday last week. We had Caleb Williams and Sam Hartman,
but you know, on a Saturday middle of this now
(01:00):
tonight feels like, hey, we got a lot of college football,
we got a couple of big games going on, except
half the country not getting to see the big game,
which is Florida and Utah right now four minutes ago
in the fourth quarter. You've been saying this all last
hour because you don't need to see it, because Utah
has been in control of this game from the beginning.
(01:21):
Although Florida did just get a touchdown Graham Mertz through
a touchdown two point conversion make it twenty four to eleven,
but it's still a thirteen point lead by Utah with
about four minutes to go in the fourth quarter. Just
a little bit about this game before we get to
the whole controversy happening, is that you know, I know,
Billy Napier is just going to get killed, you know,
for this game, and Florida's gonna get killed. To look
(01:42):
where they are now, they still they stink their all
of this time out. For a second, Florida hasn't been
a year in year rout college football power in fifteen years. Right,
You're going back to the end of the Urban Meyer
era to say, hey, this is a national championship type
team that every year can go eleven and one or
ten and two and play in the CFP or play
(02:04):
for the National champions Right, that's the last time Florida
was really that kind of team. Doesn't mean they haven't
had great years since they have. They even had a
big year under Dan Mullen, who is diagramming how Florida
is not doing well at halftime of the game line,
which is like me watching Adam Gate say, this is
what Aaron Rodgers is not doing for the Jets. So
I get that, you know Florida all, what's going on?
(02:24):
What's going on? But this is not like a dip
in recruiting. All right, This is not Hey, we've had
a couple of down years. This is not Florida football anymore.
This is not the Florida football that you the same
thing we'll talk about Nebraska coming up. This is not
the Florida football that you and I grew up with.
That was Heisman trophies and all kinds of offense and
legendary games in the swamp and every year and Steve
(02:45):
Spurriyer and Danny Whirfel and Terry Dean and Heisman trophies.
This is not that same team. This is not Tim
Tebow and Chris Leak. This is not those teams, not
Chris Doring. This is not those teams Florida has been
and every couple of years. They're still pretty good, which
is nice, right, but they're in every year power. Meanwhile, Utah,
Utah is pretty good. They've won back to Backpack twelve championships.
(03:07):
They're going for an unprecedented third Pack twelve championship in
a row, really packed two championship. But they're going for
their third straight PAC twelve championship. Utah is pretty good
Winningham's a pretty good coach. This is a pretty good team,
and they've been pretty good for a while. They should
be winning this game. They're winning this game. There's two
minutes left and they're winning. I think we're asking the
wrong questions here. But you know, teams, you expect teams
(03:30):
even after fifteen years of not being great year and
a year. So no, we still got to get back
to those salad days. Those days are gone, man, this
is not two or three years. No, those days are gone.
If you get them back, great, but you can't expect
them to come back just because we're Florida. We'll get
the recruit. No, No, you had that time fifteen years
ain't a blip on that college football radar screen.
Speaker 4 (03:51):
Well, it's like you and I had been discussing a
long time when everybody was calling for Jim Harbaugh's head
at Michigan, you got a recog eyes what you are
and what you've been. Doesn't mean you didn't have some big,
flashy seasons, right, titles in the in the rear view mirror,
but you were not a team that was winning nine
(04:11):
ten games a year. That was just not who you were.
Huge brand, huge alumni base, all of that thing. Yes, absolutely,
but not a consistent winner for Florida. It's it's now
flipp Now, this is obviously a spot. You go and
you schedule one of the big boys right off the jump.
You know what's why we've always had directional schools in
(04:34):
the mix. In those first couple of weeks, figure out
what you are, figure out what you do well, and
then start playing against some of these heavyweights. And that
doesn't mean that Utah didn't make it interesting. It's almost
like they were in Cahut saying, hey, you really wish
you had that carriage rights now, don't you. But we'll
get that in a minute. But like for all of
(04:54):
these these teams, and you know, Nebraska part of that
as well. Of remember the history. We we joked about
it yesterday with Tom Osbourne and those teams of all
those years ago. You talk about urban Meyer and that
fluff piece they did that whatever. You can't really call
that a documentary, can you? Uh? If you're gonna leave
(05:16):
out a lot of the stuff that was going on
around there, now you didn't.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
We're gonna leave out all the bad stuff. How long
is a documentary? It is eight minutes. It's you winning
the national championship, winning it again. You hug t boat,
They build the statue and we roll credits all the
bad stuff.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
Is there a spot where in the tight end when
normally we can't talk about him?
Speaker 1 (05:35):
When we put all the bad stuff in, then we
need six nights at three hours a night.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
We put the bad stuff in.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Yeah, that's it. It's a fluff piece saying, hey, get
him back on the sideline. But that's for a story
for another time. But again, those were the big days.
The Heisman runs the race towards national titles, siclicality and
the changing landscape of college football. But you know what,
here on this Thursday night, on this particul killer Thursday night,
(06:01):
we celebrate it all. We celebrate their space on our televisions.
You know why, because you and I can actually watch
these games and comment and boo and scream at the
officials from miss Calls Liven and Living Color not clicking
the refresh button because well we don't have carriage.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Well see that's the big thing, you said. You and
I can see these games. Yes, every other person is
not getting to see the big game of the night,
right is not getting to see Utah and Florida not
getting to see it? Why? And this is this is
like gamesmanship to the nth degree at kickoff tonight of
Florida and Utah, which is the big you know this
(06:41):
is Tonight's the big Like I said, Saturday Fields like
it felt like an extra day zero week of college football,
the game in Dublin, but then it really feel like
a game was more. Hey, here's the pageantry in college
football is back. You know USC was playing. You k
new they were gonna roll over. So it was hard
to look at that and say, hey, all right, this
is this is just you know, hey, college football is
back tonight.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Tight. It got you into some of your pregame rhythms
and maybe got you out of a couple of to
do lists things on the weekend because you had football
to Panten too.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
I gotta watch about that game in Dublin. Really, who's playing?
I don't know, but it's in Dublin, so I have
to watch it. There's nothing I can do.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
I also need to go buy some smitticks. Yeah, let's
get it off.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
But right before kickoff Utah and Florida tonight again, less
than two minutes left to go. Utah has the football.
They are going to be kneeling on it. They're gonna
beat Florida twenty four to eleven just a kickoff. Spectrum
the second largest cable carrier in the United States behind Comcast.
They've been at war with Disney about their programming and
(07:44):
pricing and tiers and look every day you can get
on the internet and find a big topic about oh,
cable prices and streaming and cutting the court. It's it's everywhere, right,
you've heard this is like five years about being five
ten years about cutting the court.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
We're cutting the Yes, yes, I understand.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
But this carry dispute between Disney and Spectrum got to
the point where Spectrum says, we're drawing a line in
the sand and right and right at kickoff for Utah Florida.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
If you had Spectrum, like I do.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Big notice comes up on your TV due to the
inability for us to come to an agreement with ESPN,
with Disney, we're not gonna be getting this this channel.
And they go into a whole big description of how
we feel in this in the world right now, that
our asks shouldn't be too much, and like they have
this whole big plan, the whole big scroll on the script.
We want to know. I want people to know exactly
(08:34):
what we're thinking. Why you decided to draw the line
in the sand here. Yeah, yeah, because we don't care
about you. Because if you cared about me the viewer,
you wouldn't do this right. And this is the other
part we talked about this last hour that so Spectrum
is not carrying the game, and there's so many people
that are upset. YouTube TV is trending because this is
where people are gonna go because this is not Spectrum.
You're not gonna win. No one is gonna throw their
(08:56):
arms around a cable company. They're gonna throw their arms
around who's giving me content that I want, Disney is
whether it's the TV shows, whether it's live sports, because
not having ESPN, if I'm a sports fan is a.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Really big deal.
Speaker 1 (09:08):
So Spectrum is sitting here saying, we're making the decision
to do this right before a game begins. If you
cared about me, the viewer, you wouldn't do it. You
would not do it. What you would do instead is
you would do something like, we're gonna have a scroll
on the bottom of the screen for the entire game.
There's a big dispute going on. This is the last
game you're going to see or something. We're gonna have
this up here while we're trying to get this to
(09:29):
something where you make it look like, hey, we're trying
to figure this out. Because what I look at now
is they've just decided to make me mad and make
me mad at Disney, like that's what they've want to do,
not to try to solve this, but they said, Okay,
we can't do this, so now haha, we're gonna drop
your programming just when people want to see it, and
Disney's gonna say, so, what you're gonna do then is
force people to find other ways to get our programming. Great,
(09:52):
thank you very much, appreciate it, because that's what people
are gonna do. They're gonna find their ways to get this.
They're gonna go and get ESPN and bundle it with
with Hulu and and whatever. The third one is it's
ESPN plus and and and Hulu and something else or
Amazon I think it is. Or they're gonna go to
YouTube TV. They're gonna find something. They're gonna find some
way to get that because that's what people want. People
(10:12):
want the programming. They don't care about the cable come.
They're gonna have loyalty to the cable company going on.
I got I expect no what they're gonna do then
and say we're not gonna have cable anymore.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
And all Youna do is lose subscribers. You have to
lose subscribers.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
People are gonna go more a la carte and it's
just more of the leaching away from cable. This is
a decision that Spectrum made that I don't understand because
Number one, all it does is piss off people. Because
I'm not mad at Disney. I'm mad at Spectrum because
who made the decision to not carry the game Spectrum did.
Disney did not make this decision. I don't care whose
fault it is. I just want the games on my
TV and I don't think I'm different than anybody else
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in the country, because we're dealing with a rapidly changing
landscape on TV now where every day it's where is
this show?
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Where is this? Now? Is this on TV? Do I
have this system? Do I have it?
Speaker 1 (10:54):
We're dealing with this every bleeping day. And when you
force people to make a choice, they're gonna go to
where I Where can I get the content? They're not
gonna do it here? And and I mean people are
gonna get mad at spectrum. No one's gonna say I'm
keeping spectrum, Screw ESPN, screw Disney. I don't care about
watching Harry Potter on free form. They're gonna say, that's
what I have to find a way to watch. That's
what it's going to be. A spectrum. I mean, they
(11:15):
overplayed their hand. And I don't think they I don't
think they see this resulting the way they think it's
going to. They think it's gonna wind up being Disney
saying hey, okay, okay, okay, let's cut a check. We'll
do this, We'll do this, when in reality, it's gonna
be the exact opposite.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
No, And that's the thing, right because the other options
aren't cheap, right, I mean, I'm paying nearly double for
YouTube TV what I did when it first was announced,
and I probably watch a third of the channels that
I did back then. Again, the if for those that
know me, uh, if there's Law and Order, I will
find it. If there is a Spider Man movie, I
(11:52):
will find it. If there's Star Wars, find it. For
the matrix for that man, I mean there are a
few things, and you know, a couple of movies here
and there that mix they're in, But otherwise it's live sports.
I want live sports. I am not brand loyal to
a cable company, right because they sent me a sticker
(12:12):
or for the first six months they gave me four
dollars off, or whatever the hell.
Speaker 3 (12:16):
The deal was.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
No, I mean, I'm not sticking around and in the
assess blame. Yes, in a real business sense, we can
talk about the true value add for each of these
channels to the average person's household. Well, the problem is
you and I and people that live and breathe sports. Right.
(12:38):
We got Patrick and Steve and Chris. You know, that's
what we need to you know, that's the lifeblood of
what we do, not just from a work perspective, but
who we are. And then on the other spectrum you
got the other folks who really couldn't care less about
any of this. Yeah, you're trying to get eight bucks
ahead per month from every subscriber, and so it becomes
(13:00):
this difficult proposition. And then we talk about switching costs
and for the you know, for the cost of a
cup of coffee each month, YouTube can do well that
that's kind of where we're at. And for some folks
it doesn't matter. Just give me my make the deal,
give me my sports. Otherwise I gotta leave and I
got to go figure out where it is. That's really
(13:22):
all it is for spectrum, for any of these companies.
When you look at it, what's your value proposition? How
do you explain it to your subscribers that stay? How
do you explain it to the board and to the
shareholders that need to see big results on a quarter
to quarter basis. As there's a mass exodus because you know,
(13:45):
live sporting events where the dollars and cents continues to
grow time and time again, the only place where that is, Uh,
you don't have what I need anymore, So I gotta
go get my fixed somewhere else, and that's where we're going.
And while we see the conferences trying to make all
their power plays and build these rights, PAC twelve had
the right idea, they just executed it terribly right. When
(14:08):
it's all said and done, all of these different entities
going back to Major League Baseball and streaming out of town. Right,
I'm a White Sox fan in northern California. I want
to be able to listen to Farmio back in the
day or watch Hawk scream. You gotta be kidding me.
You found a way to get in my wallet there,
(14:28):
and bit by bit we've seen that keep going. Now
it's more bundling, more specialization, and how do we just
nickel and Dimon to get you what you need? And
let's face it, since most of it's done electronically and
I'm not writing out a check like I might have
done twenty years ago, it don't matter. That effort's gone, right,
(14:49):
The switching cost effort is gone with three clicks of
a mouse, Twitter and how.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
About a fresco Mike gets Swollendum The Jason Smith Show
with my best friend Mike Carmen live from the tire
Raq dot Com Studios. I mean, this is We're gonna
look back in five years, right, I really know this
is how it's gonna go. In five years, We're gonna
look back and go, Man, remember when college football it
was so much easier to get it on TV. All
the games were on I could see all the big games.
(15:17):
And instead, now if I want to see all the
college football, I have to have the Big twelve package,
or I have to have the the not the Pack twelve.
I have the Pack one package. I'm gonna have the
ACC package just to get those games. I gotta have
the SEC package or I have to have the Big
twelve package. We're gonna have at least three NBA rights.
Same thing with Major League Baseball because all these rights
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are coming up in the next couple of years. But
we're gonna say, remember those days, Remember when when it
was so for the longest time, it was so easy
to get games, and we knew we were guaranteed to
watch all these games. And because this is now, you
see it changing. You see this ridiculous power play that
spectrums Pot trying to pull. That's all it does is
piss people off, and it's gonna push people to YouTube
(15:57):
and do other things. And that's what's gonna happen. And
it's Look, it's not just death of cable. This is
this is just you know, the landscape of sports television.
We're not going to recognize it. Man, We're getting you
think it's oh here, Oh it's nice. And Amazon has
the one game a week that's nice and oh it's
kind of fun and quirky. We can make fun and
al Michaels doesn't like to get Yeah, you just wait
until the next time NFL right's coming. Amazon has all
(16:20):
the games on Sunday anyway?
Speaker 3 (16:21):
You mean you mean?
Speaker 1 (16:22):
Amazon is one hundred and fifty dollars a month. Yep,
got it for all you But I only want it
doesn't matter Amazon's one hundred and fifty dollars. You wait,
because that's where we're headed. And a night like tonight
is another night that just hastens that development. Easy Twitter
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We'll have more on the night.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
In college football coming up, including I don't know and
I know I'm prisoner of the moment here because I
just saw it. I mean ire with you though, that
I have seen a better toe tap in my life
than what just happened in Nebraska and Minnesota where Minnesota
ties the game at ten apiece. I don't know that
(17:16):
I've ever seen a more impressive toe tap in my
life than that play. We'll talk about it. You'll hear
it coming up next right here Jason and Mike Fox.
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right now full drama Gus Johnson doing Gus Johnson fish
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right now Nebraska, and he makes Nebraska. He's making Nebraska.
Minnesota sounded like Ohio State Michigan. Five seconds to go,
Minnesota has called time out. They'll be kicking a forty
nine yard field goal to win this game over Nebraska.
It is a ten to ten game, Minnesota scoring a
(18:20):
touchdown to tie to ten. A fourth down pass we're
gonna get to in a second in a big way,
trust me. And then Jeff Simms throws his third interception
of the night. Minnesota drives down the field. They've had
just enough to get into field goal range. Here on
a fourth and two, three seconds left for field goal
that could win this game. Now before we get to that,
(18:40):
with timeadd on the field, the touchdown that tied the
game was a corner pattern.
Speaker 3 (18:47):
In the end zone to Daniel Jackson.
Speaker 1 (18:49):
This is a throw that is I want to say
it's it's not an easy throw, but it's not that
difficult to throw because Jackson's pretty wide open. It's a
thirteen yard touchdown and the ball is overthrown more than
it should be because he's got three steps on the
dB and he makes a catch. He makes a toe
(19:12):
tap and I get I am prisoner of the moment,
but he makes a catch in a toe tap that
may be the best toe tap I have ever seen
in my life. It is so unbelievably impressive because what
Jackson does is he catches the ball in mid air
with his right foot three feet over the outer bounds line.
(19:34):
It's three feet past it. Like it's three feet past
it where he catches the ball. There's no way he's
coming down in bounds. And still he catches the ball
mid air again three feet over out of bounds, and
he drags he gets his left foot down just enough
for the catch. The referee is right on it. No,
(19:54):
I don't if the referee is right or he just
got lucky. But the referee is right on it signals
a touchdown. And I said, oh, there's no they're gonna
look at that. That's not a touchdown. But I looked
at and I could not believe it because I'm looking
at his right leg going it's so far over the
over the like he's never coming down. And still he
is able with all his momentum going that way to
be able to get your left leg all the way back,
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and he's doing a split. He's doing like a forward
backward split and he's able to get his foot down.
That is so unbelievably impressive. Again, I don't know I've
ever seen a better one. I really don't know I've
ever seen a better one than that. That was I've seen.
I've seen the play like five times now. I have
no idea how you can have that kind of body control.
We say that all the time about wide receiver's body
control and X, Y and Z and everything else. And
(20:36):
I look at that and I go, I don't know, man,
I don't know how you have that kind of body
control and can make that play. It was absolutely insane.
I mean, seen a lot of toe taps, right, Santonio
Holmes toe tap for a touchdown to win the Super Bowl.
That was great, right, since Santoniomes does that. But when
you when you're extended that far out over over the
out of bounds line and you still are able to
(20:57):
get your left foot down, Oh man, that is the
Heisman troph Forget about Sam Hartman, who I told just
gonna win it. No, no, no, I'm voting for for Heisman
Trophy right now. Give me Jackson for the Heisman Trophy.
Fan Sam Hartman. Last week's News, give me Jackson for
the Heisman troph. Well that's it, man.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
When you make a play like that, body control and
that's why they're superhumans. Uh, not quite Spiderman, but uh
doing doing Burish Nikoff stuff out there out on the field.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
With with that catch, I gotta give the referee credit.
Steely eyed watching the feet. You know, we saw this
couple of weeks ago, Patrick mahomes right did a thing
where he was half his body was out of bounds
but hadn't touched one of those. Ay, he's probably gonna
get drilled into the ground at some point. Uh, and
then we'll have rule changes again related to quarterbacks, but
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same kind of thing, drifting. It's like, all right, that
foots well out of bounds and somehow corrals the ball
and you start seeing the turf flying up behind. It's like, wow,
the trail of black I don't know what do you
call it, rabbit food, gurbil food, whatever.
Speaker 3 (22:04):
It starts from rolling up.
Speaker 4 (22:05):
The pellets are ready, man, and everybody's looking around going did.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
He really just did that? I mean, he really just
did that. It was insane in fact, you know what
it felt. I felt like I'm watching that watching the
Odell Beckham catch, Like, Wow, he really that, he really
got that. He really got that foot down. He really
got that foot down. I really, I'm still stunned he
was able to do. I don't know how he did
I don't know how he did it. I really don't
know how he did it.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
You know what he did, though, that was That's what
you really call putting your giant ore in and rowing
the damn boat. That's what that's all about right there.
And you know what, in the box score, not in
the highlights anything, it's gonna look like one of the
greatest touchdown drives of the quarterbacks. Young life man's pinny
point precision in the corner of the end zone. That's
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all what's gonna look at look like in the box
score and in print. But we see that video. My goodness.
You want to talk about a wide receiver instilling a
lot of confidence going for the rest of the season,
How much freer do you feel as a quarterback? You
got a guy to make him play like that, never
mind that he'd already been roughed up and beaten up
(23:13):
by defensive backs with no calls gone. Ah, that was
kind of a hail Mary it's like, no, no, no, he
grabbed his head and twisted in before the boot. Now
it doesn't matter incomplete, No, no, no, it's the old
We talked about it the other day, the cheaters proof.
There you go, he got his play.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
Really, I just I'm continuing to watch this play, this replay.
It is it really is. It's difficult to fathom. I
don't know, there's there's physical See. The thing is is
that they're smart plays that players make that really frustrate you. Right,
that's when the player makes a smart play so incredibly frisk. Oh,
why how does he how does he find the fifth
receiver on that? How does he have that much time?
(23:50):
How does Brady find his fifth target? A guy that's
not even a wide receiver. He came out of the stands,
he's eating French fries, he's not even wearing a uniform.
He just caught a touchdown, Bess. I mean, there's that
kind of impressive. And there's when you can do stuff
physically that makes you go, oh, it's superhuman. You look
like something that's absolutely superhuman. And that's what Jackson looked
like on that catch. It was unreal. Now did that
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end happily for Minnesota ten ten. They were driving down
for a field goal that could potentially win the game.
Let's find out in what's trending right now with special
delivery Steve de Sager, who had a lot of money
on this game. He had the under end, he had
Nebraska and he was getting three points.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
Steve, how did you do?
Speaker 5 (24:35):
I'm just fine, thank you. Completely separate from this game
on Fox TV. Minnesota kicks a forty seven yard field
goal on the final play to beat Nebraska thirteen to ten.
It was three nothing Gophers at the half. Husker's doing
Husker things late in the game. Nebraska on its final
two possessions fumble which led to a touchdown and an
(24:57):
interception which led to the field goal.
Speaker 4 (25:00):
Matt Ruhle has it all figured out, Steave, He's a genius.
Speaker 5 (25:06):
Yeah, well, they'll show up for the volleyball team. At
least we know that fourteenth right to Utah beat up
Florida twenty four to eleven, Uts defense with five sacks.
It was twenty four to three Utah early in the
fourth quarter, and the Utes were missing their star quarterback
Tonight Cam Rising still out after return acl last season
in the Rose Bowl, and so Tonight's starter on the
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first offensive play of the season through a seventy yard
touchdown pass. Earlier on FS one, UCF beat Kent State
fifty six to six. North Carolina State a winner at
yukon twenty four to fourteen. Arizona State has scored just
before halftime to take a twenty one to seven lead
on Southern Utah. It was seven all in the second quarter.
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Victories Tonight for UAB and Tulsa for Missouri, and Wake
Forest wins for Western Michigan and Georgia State. Friday night
on FS one, Michigan State will host Central Michigan. The
Minnesota Vikings gave Tidy and TJ. Hawkinson a four year extension.
RAMS wide receiver Cooper cup is day to day after
a setback with his strained hamstring to Major League Baseball.
(26:09):
Still a home run problem for lance Lynn. He was
the Dodgers starting pitcher Tonight, Braves up seven to one
in LA in the bottom of the fifth. You know
a lot of people thinking this is a playoff preview,
and if they're gonna give lance Lynn starts in the postseason,
I think this is a playoff preview. He gave up
three homers in four to third seven months, seven hits. Yeah, exactly.
(26:32):
If you were to guess what pitcher in Major League
Baseball is giving up the home runs. First off, if
you guessed any White Sox pitcher, you'd probably be wrong.
Speaker 4 (26:40):
What steep? How dare you?
Speaker 5 (26:44):
Michael Kopek was not good in that category, or Lucas Giolito,
but lance Lynn better than them all. I think it's
up to thirty seven.
Speaker 4 (26:51):
Home runty seven.
Speaker 5 (26:54):
It's just been about twenty seven starts. So if you
have a ticket for a lance Ling game, it's just
part of the price of admission. Atlanta is leading seven
to one in LA I think, I.
Speaker 1 (27:05):
Think if I'm looking, I see the back of the ticket.
If lance Lynn starts this game, the potential for many
balls to be hit into the crowd is great, especially
in the bleachers. Please understand that if you get hit
with a home run ball, the Dodges are not responsible. Okay, back, okay,
So they have a big disclaimer on the tickets nation.
Speaker 5 (27:22):
The prices of those home run seats they put in
the first two rows of the by the outfield balls.
Speaker 3 (27:27):
Guarantee you one home run ball.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
Agate you could actually lance Lynn ad An e Ara
of what six with the White Sox, but was four
and oh this month after the trade, the old Lance
Lynn showed up and Atlanta's just flat great. A win
tonight would put them at eighty eight and forty five.
This is the start of a four game series in
La Ronald de Kunye at a Grand Slam, thirtieth homer
(27:50):
of the year. Austin Riley is thirty second home run
the only other game going. The Giants got a lot
of unearned runs early and they lead at San Diego
seven to nothing in the bottom of the sixth three
early errors for the Padres. Miami beat Washington six to one. Today,
Detroit down the Yankees in ten innings, four to three. Juliar.
It's officially retired from soccer and at Basketball's World Cup,
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the US plays Montenegro early Friday, then faces Lithuania on Sunday.
After that the quarterfinals. Today, Finland with Lowry Marketing getting
thirty four points, beat Cape Verde and South Sudan one
at the Philippines, US playing its games in Manila.
Speaker 3 (28:28):
Back to you thanks a bunch, STEVEO.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
The Jason Smith Show with my best friend Mike Carmen
live from the Tiraq dot Com studios and to get
to this right here, Mike, because now we got to
spend a little bit of time talking about Nebraska. Nebraska
was winning this game the entire way. They were in control.
Minnesota was not able to threaten. But how many times
you seen it. A team can't do anything for the
first fifty eight minutes, but those last two minutes they
(28:51):
looking to turn into world beaters. You know, three turnovers
will do it for you as well.
Speaker 4 (28:56):
But also remember remember Nebraska's touchdown, the most improbable, unlikely
touchdown you will ever see in your life. When you
have a half back pass that actually rolls on the
ground and rolls back up to the quarterback who finds
a wide receiver because of the brokenness of the play
(29:17):
standing with nobody within twenty yards of him. You'll never
see that. You can't draw that up on the street,
let alone in a major college program game. So the
seven points I put a giant asterisk on the still count.
But yeah, for any of the hey, Theylee, they led
whatever else man that was, that's about a horseshoe stuck
(29:39):
as high as you can right there.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
I'll tell you this for Nebraska because we have to
explain Nebraska football to millennials and Generation Z because they
were on national television tonight and people are watching abra.
I don't understand the break. I see people older than
me and they get this wistful look in their eyes
when they hear Nebraska. I don't understand Nebraska football come by.
This is gott Frost. They were terrible. Didn't he ever
(30:02):
play there? People don't understand. Like, this is why I
say there's sports Stonehenges, right, because Stone Henges, this crazy
group of rocks that have been there for thousands of years.
Nobody knows why they're there, yet they seem to have
some kind of fascination even though no one understands why
that's things like Nebraska football. Why is there still this
(30:22):
fascination with Nebraska football. Well, because Nebraska football, Indiana basketball,
you know, they're Stonehenges. They are the relics of a
bygone era.
Speaker 4 (30:30):
And they have a lot of alumni, yeah, and very
large alumni base, so they don't forget.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Fans don't understand, you know, don't because how much of
a big deal and how great Nebraska used to be.
That in the eighties and nineties and early two thousands,
Nebraska was it.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
Oklahoma.
Speaker 1 (30:47):
Nebraska was always the biggest game of the year in
college football because the winner of that game was always
going to play in the national Championship. It's not like, well,
some years Michigan, Ohio State has got some year, some
years Alabama or every year Nebraska, Oklahoma, one of them
was playing for the national championship. They had Heisman Trophy cannons.
They had quarterbacks like Turner Gill and Steve Taylor and
(31:08):
Eric Crouch, and running backs would be cannions for the
Heisman Trophy every year. Where it's Mike Rozier or somebody else,
this was Nebraska football. And they would put fifty sixty
seventy points up every week.
Speaker 3 (31:18):
They didn't care.
Speaker 1 (31:19):
They would run a wishbone offense with three running backs.
Tom Osborne senator, the senator, how's the representatives at whatever
it was? Oh, you mean the guy coaching, Yes, he
coached Nebraska, and they were terrific, and they would score
every week, and they would have two two hundred yard
runners every week, and they were so good for so long.
And now Nebraska football just looks like Rutgers football. And
(31:40):
it's been that way for a while. And I know
that that the whole Scott Frost arrows. Oh maybe Scott
Frost wasn't up to it and all that. Yeah, and
I get, but you watch Nebraska open up things tonight,
you know, scoring ten points against Nebraska. When this used
to be an offense out would sledgehammer people. And instead
now people think, oh that that volleyball school. They have
a football team too. Really, tinty two thousand people in
(32:00):
that game, they have a football team Nebraska plays for
I didn't know. I thought they just played volleyball. I
don't know they played football there too. I mean, it's
it's a sports to Nebraska is such a relic of
a bygone era in college football when Nebraska was it,
when they controlled everything. Like I was rooted for Nebraska
when they played Oklahoma. I don't know why, I just did.
I mean there's I mean, when I'm growing up and
it's Oklahoma Nebraska, it's always on a rainy field the
(32:23):
day after Thanksgiving or two days after Thanksgiving, and and
the field is just so wet, and there's great there's
rain everywhere, and pitch outs get fumbled. And that was
always the biggest play of the game. If somebody fumbled
you turned it over. I mean that was always the
nadeer of college football Oklahoma Nebraska, and Oklahoma has found
a way to sustain it at least a little bit better.
You know, they're not year in and year out great, but
(32:44):
they're year in and year out there still really really good,
and they have a national championship in the past twenty years.
But Nebraska football is just what why do they matter?
I mean, people are watching them for the first and
only time this year because it's the game on national
TV because half the country didn't get Utah in Florida
because the spectrum. So they're watching this game and they go, Wow, Nebraska, Okay.
Speaker 3 (33:04):
They were a big deal. Yes that you.
Speaker 1 (33:06):
Once upon a time they were a big deal, just
like the Jedi would tell stories to the younglings of
oh ten thousand years ago. The Jedi was very important.
Let me tell you why. I'm gonna see her and
tell stories to my daughter and her friends. They'll be
out in the pool in the backyard and I'm gonna say,
I want to tell you all about Helen Pultet Nebraska
football used to be, and they're gonna go, what, yes, yes,
let me sit and tell you about the nineteen eighty
seven Oklahoma Nebraska game and what happened when when a
(33:29):
young quarterback named Turner Gil decided to I mean, that's
how I'm gonna talk about in Nebraska because it feels
like it's that long ago for them.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
Nicely done.
Speaker 4 (33:35):
Yeah, we're in mid season four because people are starting
to do suppruder film shots of would be touchdowns and
would be false starts and all of these things. So
the officials. We did get Gus Johnson to call a
game winner one a night one for Fox. So I mean,
that's about as good.
Speaker 3 (33:52):
As it gets.
Speaker 4 (33:53):
The agony and the ecstasy yesterday ninety two thousand and three.
People to watch volleyball and wins and straight sets and
now this the futility. Ready, here's your stat in Nebraska
the last five years, twenty six one score losses. Seventeen
of those were second half collapses. Seventeen losses in the
(34:14):
last five years where they light at half time. Meanwhile,
PJ Fleck forty one and four when leading at half.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Unbelievable, Absolutely unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (34:28):
This is such a stunt.
Speaker 1 (34:29):
And I feel bad because I love good I always
because I used to love watching Nebraska just roll over people.
Here's an eighty yard touchdown run coming your way. Nope,
there it goes. Now. You also used to like Cable.
Speaker 3 (34:40):
That's yes. I used to watch Hannah Montana. Now I
don't anymore.
Speaker 4 (34:46):
Yes, I used to have came Well be revisited that
there's a lot of genius in that show.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
Cable.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
Nebraska football, you know, all the same.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
That's how it is, all the same. Twitter and out
about a fresca.
Speaker 1 (34:57):
Mike gets swollen down The Jason Smith Show with my
my best friend Mike Carbon live from the Tirack dot
com studios. Coming up next, we stay with college football
and some of the drama we saw tonight. There is
one team that is never gonna do anything again after
what happened tonight.
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Speaker 1 (36:26):
Fox Sports Radio The Jason Smith Show with my best
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Where in the game, Well, okay, we're in the game.
Half of America got to see tonight. The other half
just didn't get to see it because of a dispute
between Spectra Spears and Disney. Utah wins the game of
(36:47):
the night in college football. They beat Florida twenty four
to eleven, and already the reaction for this game, it's insane.
Florida goes out of state for or an opening game
on the road for the first time in over thirty years.
(37:07):
They lose a night to Utah, just like they lost
in nineteen ninety one when they came to Syracuse, and
they left with a big fat l Yeah.
Speaker 4 (37:18):
Thirty two years.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
Yeah, buddy, But I'm gonna be honest with you, that
was the great That's the greatest dome memory I haven't
of college of college football to the Syracuse winning that game.
I mean, Florida was there in eighteen ninety one. Your
final opening opening play of the game. We ran a
reverse on the kickoff, and Kirby Dardar, who was supposed
to be a great player, but he ran a reverse,
(37:40):
ran in for a touchdown. We get off the field.
George Rook sack Shane matt I still remember the game.
George Rooks sack Shane Matthews. They have to punt, We
go down and score again. It's fourteen to nothing. And
all those Florida fans that showed up on campus walking
around like they owned the place. I was like that.
They're wearing their Florida earrings and all there get on
you walk around. This is your campus. You're going home
(38:02):
with a big fat l. And that's what happened thirty
years ago. It's what happened tonight. It'll be another thirty
years before Florida opens up on the road outside of
the state of Florida again. Not gonna happen again, Mike Harmon,
Not gonna happen.
Speaker 4 (38:15):
I will say this. The likelihood of a rebound like
Shane Matthews had to lead them to an SEC title,
ain't gonna happen with this Florida team. Ain't gonna happen
with this Florida team because you know, you can make
the running jokes. And well, two years later he brought
that ineptitude and willingness to be sacked to the Bears. Now, no, no,
(38:36):
but he had some college greatness before that. But yeah,
I mean, it's great that we can have a little
bit fun with our guy Todd Furman on X And
how about a fresco at swollend Dome with pictures of
Donovan McNabb and all of that going back to those
Syracuse days. Right, Obviously that's a little earlier than McNab
was there, but just you start thinking about those squads.
(38:58):
But the fact that you had done it for thirty
two years, which means you and I will be dead
before they do it again.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
Spury or shut well, last time I'm going to Syracuse.
Not going there anymore. That's not gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (39:11):
Now.
Speaker 1 (39:12):
The whole thing is now you look at at at
Florida and everybody's crazed about Florida losing opening week. This
is what's supposed to happen. Okay, I mean, Utah is
pretty good. They won, they won the.
Speaker 2 (39:23):
Patagraph the last two years.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
You know, it's it's kind of like with Nebraska, but
not quite where Nebraska is a relic of a bygone era.
Florida Gator fans are still completely unreasonable because they think,
why isn't life still like it was fifteen years ago?
Why why are we not winning championships? Why are we
not doing that?
Speaker 4 (39:41):
Why?
Speaker 3 (39:41):
Why? Why?
Speaker 1 (39:41):
I do understand, I understand when the new normal is
you haven't been year and a year out dominant since
you had Urban Meyer every couple of years, once once
every three four years. That you have a big year, right,
which is great, right, celebrate that. But it's like it's
like fans think, oh, because we were like that for
so long We just have to get back to that.
Speaker 3 (40:00):
Those days are gone.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
They're not coming back now. Could you get to a
run a couple of years in a row where you
win a bunch of games. Yeah, you get the right
guys in place, but it's not gonna be like it was.
And just understand that some years are gonna be okay,
some years are gonna be bad. Once in a while
to have a really good year, that's the new normal
for Florida. But expect him to be the rock stars
of college football. Not happen anymore. They used to be.
(40:22):
Not anymore.
Speaker 4 (40:23):
Yeah, changing landscape, changing game, deeper conference, all of those things.
But after this game they might actually get taunted a bit.
The only thing on the schedule before their bye week
in mid October is a date against Tennessee that's in Gainesville.
Otherwise they can run off a bunch of wins here
and people could start feeling jesty before they get their
ass handed to him on the back end of the schedule.
Speaker 1 (40:44):
Is Eric rhet running for them again? I don't think
he is.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
I don't think he is.
Speaker 4 (40:49):
Nicely done.
Speaker 1 (40:50):
More big college football reacts.
Speaker 3 (40:53):
Next, give it the Air, Fox
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