August 28, 2024 • 28 mins
The Netflix documentary ‘Sign Stealer’ about Michigan Wolverines scandal and Connor Stalions gave us some big time insights about Jim Harbaugh, Michigan, and Connor Stalions that we previously just assumed.
The state of North Carolina has a real NIL problem in college football and basketball on its hands but it’s clear this is about politics in sports. The university of Tennesse Vols are at the center of this as well.
rmen Keteyian and John Talty's new book “The Price: What It Takes to Win In College Football’s Era of Chaos, is interesting and highlights former Alabama coach Nick Saban's relationship with Ole Miss head coach Lane Kiffin.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Welcome to Unafraid Show Daily Live, where we bring you
the most important things in sports quickly, simply and honestly.
And today's show, you do not want to miss this.
Oh we have a jam packed three important things that
you are absolutely not gonna wanna miss. So I got
a chance to watch the Signed Steeler Netflix documentary the
(00:25):
way you don't have to. I would still advise that
you watch it, but it was excellent, and yeah, a
bunch of takeaways from there, and it actually gave us
some big time insights on Jim Harbaugh, Michigan. Connor stallions
that things that we previously just assumed. And there are
more allegations out there with the NCAA getting ready to
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well it's already given Michigan, it's noticed of allegations, but
that will be out in the light pretty damn soon.
And North Carolina they have a lawsuit going on with
their name, image and likeness and this is a private school,
public school issue and it centers around the University of Tennessee.
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So you're not gonna want to miss that either. And
then Armin Kintaian's book talking about Nick Saban and Lane Kiffin,
where you have some pretty strong statements about Lane Kifvin
from Nick Saban. You're gonna wanna hear that as well.
But we're gonna start with the signs stealing Netflix documentary
from Untold. Now Untold brings us documentaries about different things.
(01:32):
Gave us to man Titeitao, the Johnny Manzel, the Urban
Meyer swamp Kings, which was really good except for painted
Urban real nice. But that's a whole nother story. But
let's get to this Michigan thing, because there have been
people on both sides, and I as a takeaway from
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this documentary, that number one is that Connor Styles, at
some point in time, will work in college football again.
Absolutely without a doubt. He will absolutely do it. Now.
I was also left with takeaways about Connor Stallions. First
of all, I have a lot of respect for Connor
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Connor Stallions, George, what did you ever checked for? You
have respect for a cheater? Here's the thing. I of
respect for somebody who is laser focused, somebody who is
relentless and is who is willing to get it by
any means necessary. Now now there comes the integrity part
of it. Now, his integrity ain't as high as you
want it to be. But if you want anybody on
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your side, you want a Connor Stallions on your side,
don't you. Obviously you want somebody that if that, if
the boats are burning and the ship is sinking, he's like,
I'm still up there playing on the tight sandy. He's
playing it and he's gonna make sure that nobody else
goes down with it. Like you want people, if people
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are supporting you, you want them to be this vigilant
and this animated and this committed to the cause. And
Connor Stallions is committed. But then that led me to
the other thing is when I said I would hie, well,
Connor Stallions will work in college football again. But the
question is, if I were a college football head coach,
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would I hire Connor Stallions? And the question is did
he learn his lesson? Now that I don't know, because
he actually lost the thing that was probably most important
to him. Because this is a dude who, since he
was a little kid, wanted to be the head football
coach at the University of Michigan, and he was scheming
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and weaseling and plotting his way to be able to
be that. And I'm telling you, had this not come out,
he would have been the head coach at Michigan Football
at some point in time. Book it guarantee it. But
the question is did he learn his lesson if I
would hire him? Or is he a celebrity stalker? And
by celebrity stalker, I mean one of them people that
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follows the celebrity and just can't get enough because they're
so obsessed that they will just lose their mind, lose
their life. They think that they're in love with them
and everything else. So is he a celebrity stalker or
has he learned his lesson? Because Connor Stallion's probably thinks
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that he is still that he is still going to
be the head coach of Michigan guaranteed. After watching this,
he absolutely believes that his parents are in on it,
but they are in on protecting their kid. And it's
one of those as a parent, do you protect your
kid if you know they've done something wrong? It depends
on you know, depends on the parents, and depends on
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what your level of wrong is. And the reason why
he will also work in the world of sports is
because it's like the movie Catch Me if you Can
with Leonardo DiCaprio. If you remember he went to jail
But then when he got out, what did he do?
He worked with the FBI, He worked with banks to
prevent check fraud because he was an expert at it.
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So Connor Stallion's just gonna have a place and he
has this huge recruiting database and everything in between. That
is very valuable information because this is a smart dude
who's going to figure out an answer to the problem.
But the biggest question is that was not answered in
the documentary that you have that was inferenced that you
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do have to make assumptions about, is how in the
hell could Connor Stallions do all of this be in
the defensive and offensive coordinator's ear every single play, and
nobody have a clue how or why he was doing it.
Who was paying for all of these tickets because it
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wasn't him because those tickets were expensive, and Jim Harbaugh
and I've said it, he fed us a line of
bs because there is no way in hell that this
dude had no idea that he was oblivious. He hired
the man and then let him further and further into program.
You don't do that without getting closer and closer to
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the person in charge by you keeping elevating your status,
just the reality of it. Connor Styllius reminds me of
people in prison, And I know people who've gone to
jail who had done some who've run criminal organizations and
big time drug dealers, done things that are illegal, and
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those are actually some of the smartest people around. Like
these are people. Some of them have run multi level businesses.
Like if you've been a high level drug kingpin, you've
run different levels of business. You understand a hierarchy. You
have a CFO, a COO, you have a general manager,
you have regular employee, Like you understand that. But it's
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a matter of whether you chose to use your services
for good or for bad, or illegal or not illegal,
depends on however you want to say it. Because Connor
Stallion's focus, like he literally went to the Naval Academy
because he wanted to coach. But now here is where
the it goes left and where you have to wonder
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if Connor Stallions is a celebrity stalker or whether he
is a person who just loves college football and is
smart and has a talent. Well, here's the thing is
that in there he talks about that sign stilling operations
go on on eighty to ninety percent of college football,
because his whole thing is at this point, it's protecting Michigan,
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protecting Jim Harbaugh, protecting anybody in this. And he's like,
I'll just take it off. But the truth is that, yes,
there are people who are trying to decode signs and everything,
but they're not flying games, not on the level that
they were, and they're not recording, and they're not doing
the other nefarious things that were going on, and there
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was actually Oh, probably the most funny thing about it
is is that this turned into something that happens in
politics and everything all the time. So let's say that
that I do something wrong and I break the rules,
and then my hated enemy is the one who catches me,
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is the one who you know, blows the whistle, and
then me turning around and say, oh, really, look at
what my hated enemy did. They broke the They they're
the one who turned me in. You think that you
can trust them, bro You did it. It doesn't matter
whether Ohio State was behind the investigation. It doesn't matter
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whether Ryan Day's brother, brother in law whoever, was the
private investigator. You literally did it. And I think that
that's where Michigan fans continue to hold their hat number one.
They're like, we got a national championship, we don't give
a depth and Connor was already gone. So that further
complicates the situation, is because they won a national championship
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without Connor stallions for the for the end of the season.
So that means that you have to assume that those
were fair and legitimate wins. But then you know as
a football person that's stealing signs and the things that
were done and alleged to be done have a significant
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impact on the games, because if it didn't, why the
hell would you have a coordinator being paid over a
million dollars taking advice every single play from somebody making
fifty sixty thousand. Come on now, man. But I do
applaud as parents because they're being parents and and you
understand that they're trying to protect their son because there's
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lyon going on. There is absolutely lying going on in
the deposition Connor stating sat up there, Oh that wasn't
I have no recollection of the Central Michigan thing. Do
you're full of shit? We all know, like just like
you can get back in in the world of college football,
just tell the truth, Connor. Just tell the truth, because
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if you want what you say you want, Connor, which
is to be a head college football coach, maybe even
at the University of Michigan, because you're clearly talented, smart
enough and you don't necessarily have to be a football
guy in terms of playing in college or the pros
to be a really good head coach. So Connor, if
you want in tell the damn truth. The problem is
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when you sit there and lie about this, trying to
protect Michigan and all of this stuff, you are putting
yourself further away from what you want. Because do you
know what Michigan did. Michigan turned their back on Connor.
Stallions not talking to them now I'm talking about the
university Jim Harbaugh article. Everybody else turn their back on them.
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That's what universities and people and big corporations and stuff
are gonna do. When trouble comes. You are expendable. This
is why the truth is so important. Just and I
know it feels wrong for you to come out and
say it because you did it, But if you want
back in, Connor, that is the only way, all right,
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Because there's so many smoking guns here. There's the Uncle
t Tim Smith thing with the Champion Circle, their booster
from their collective. He's gone, why do he get fired?
Come on? Man? But the last thing that I want
to talk about about this Netflix documentary, which I enjoyed,
and you guys can leave a comment share everything in
between is the Brohio guy mask and everything them. The
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Ohio State people doing the investigation are the same as
the don't f with Cats people. That's how college football
fans are. And I was like, dude, it made me
love and appreciate college football that much more because if
you're a don't f with Cats people up, you are
with us. You are with us. And the last thing
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that I was gonna say is there have been allegations
that we're gonna find out whether they're true or not.
When we see the notice of allegations about Michigan hacking
into Ohio State and other teams exos that's where they
keep all their film from practice and everything else. That's
what the biggest allegation is. Because even regardless of the
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signs stealing the in person recording, if you hack into
somebody or use a password from somebody, pay them forward
anything to somebody's exos that is a problem. That is
the highest level of violation and you should actually be
hung up by your damn toenails. So, Jim Harball, if
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this is true, the NFL must do what they did
to Jim Trestle and fire Jim I'm sorry, excuse me,
Suspend Jim Harbaugh. They must do exactly what they did
to Jim Trestle, suspend Jim Harball, suspend some of his
other coaches. Because what you cannot do is violate stuff
in college football and then go find a safe haven
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in the NFL. You cannot do that. But anyways, though,
the next topic of if you have not if you
do not understand what's going on in the world of name,
image and likeness, this is for you and you guys,
make sure that you guys like, subscribe, Tell a friend, Yeah,
so hit the subscribe button, hit the like button right
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now on YouTube or Twitter or wherever else. So, name
image and likeness rule have created a lawsuit in the
state of North Carolina, which is impacting the Tennessee volunteers
as well. So, name image and likeness rules are different
from state to state for high school athletes. For high
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school athletes, some don't allow it at all, and some
states allow a player to capitalize on their own name, image,
and likeness as long as they don't advertise the school
that they play for. And then some states are just
a free for all, and this has led to high
school athletes leaving states like you know, like Texas to
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go to California, or leaving North Carolina to go to
California and all of this stuff. Well, here's the thing
about North Carolina. They have a unique setup because they
actually have two different athletic associations that govern high school athletics.
One of them is made up of mostly private schools
and then you have one that's made up of mostly
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public schools now the Carolina Independent school At Athletic Association.
Let me repeat that, the North Carolina Independent Schools Athletic Association.
They actually changed their bylaws before last year to allow
athletes to capitalize on their name, image, and likeness. And
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the best example of that being put to use has
been five star offensive tackle David Sanders. He just committed
to Tennessee recently. And Sanders who is represented by WMME,
which is William Morris Endeavor, which is one of the
biggest agencies around now. After he committed to Tennessee and
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then smartly right before his commitment, he announced that his
personal nil store would feature merchandise in the team colors
that he was committing to. And then that brings us
to his counterpart in the same state. They are twenty
twenty six instead of twenty twenty five. Twenty twenty five
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star quarterback Faison Brandon, who actually plays for a public
school in North Carolina called Grimsley. Now Faison is also
committed to Tennessee, but according to North Carolina's High School
Athletic Association, which is the other governing body in the
state which governs the majority of the public schools, now
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Brandon can't engage in the marketplace the same way that
David Sanders is. And now Faison Brandon's mother is suing
North Carolina Board of Education and the Department of Public Instruction. Now.
The lawsuit says that her son was forced to turn
down nil money by a prominent national trading card company,
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which we believe to either be tops or fanatics, just
to remain enrolled in public school and to continue playing
along his teammates. Now, as a dad, I would be
doing exactly what this mom is doing. If you are
in competing on my kids' ability to make money. That
is a problem, especially when other people that go to
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private schools in the state they can't. Why is that?
But then if I transfer to the private schools, Oh,
now all of a sudden, you'll be like what California
IMG other places are where you have kids transferring and
the public school system is actually at a deficit, just
like in the state I live in. In California, the
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public schools don't have the same resources, class sizes, all
of this stuff that the private schools have. So the
best football in the state of California, for the most part,
is at the private schools, particularly in southern California. And
now before we just beat up the North Carolina High
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School Athletic Association, this isn't their fault. Now it's important
to oh that their border directors actually did approve a
policy over a year ago that would allow high school
athletes to North Carolina to pursue and profit off their name, image,
and likeness opportunities. So you're wondering, George, how Okay, So
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if they did it, what's the problem. Well before that
rule could be cemented in the place, the North Carolina
State House and state Senate they passed Senate Bill four
fifty two. So look that up, Senate Bill four fifty
two in North Carolina. Now, the bill was meant to
increase mandatory minimum insurance limits for North Carolina motorists for
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the first time in twenty four years, which for whatever reason,
was going to pass with flying colors. But this is
what happens in politics all the time, is that people
put other stuff in bills. They sneak it in on
stuff that is going to for sure pass. But what
actually happened is North Carolina Republicans added to the bill
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language that then stripped the North Carolina High School Athletic
Association of its decision making power over the issues like
nil and subjected to NCHSAA to annual audits. And most importantly,
the conservative state government of North Carolina allowed the government
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to define the rules for biological participation requirements. So that's right,
Faison Brandon can't cash nil checks and play for his
public school because North Carolina Republicans. And mind you that
this is not a Democrat Republican issue, this is just
who did it. These are the facts, because they were
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trying to keep biological men out of women's sports. Okay,
so you're like, okay, okay, that makes sense, right. No,
the issue is is that they used a bill about
out insurance minimums to make that happen, and now there
is a big backlash on it when it comes to
NIL and the public schools. Because I'm not here to
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tell you what to believe in or how you feel.
I have stated how I felt about that issue in
another video. I'm just telling you what happened now. North
Carolina politicians, in an attempt to expand the government control
over this state athletic association, they restricted its residents' ability
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to participate in a free market unless they enroll in
private school governed by an entirely different athletic association. But
just because the state took control doesn't mean that they
just can't find common sense solutions for public school kids. Right.
You would think like that would make sense. Wrong, because
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North Carolina the Board of Education then put rules into
place that started on July first of this year that
banned public appearances or commercials, autograph signings, athletic camps or clinics,
the sale of NFTs non fungible tokens, product or service endorsements,
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and promotional activities, indulging in personal and social media advertisements.
What So you're intentionally hurting the private school of the
public school kids. So somebody has a vested interest in
this in the state of North Carolina. So this has
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to be brought to the light because she actually his
mom who is suing. She actually wants a preliminary and
a permanent injunction to allow NIL for public school high
school for public high school athletes, and that in her
son's specific case, not allowing for NIL has meant that
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the quarterback has missed out on potentially millions of dollars
that Brandon has no guarantee of ever recouping. And then
you got North Carolina's Department of Public Instruction that has
told his mom Rwanda's representatives that the process to revise
the rule will take a full year. But that's exactly
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why they want this injunction right now. And this is
the issue. This goes to socioeconomic issues. Private school costs money. Yes,
there are rich people that put their kids in public school.
There are kids from socioeconomically disadvantaged situations that are in
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private school because they have scholarships or they're great athletes
or something. Like that, this is something that has to
be fixed and is one hundred percent wrong, one hundred
percent wrong. The lasting up so Lane Kiffen and Nick Saban.
So Lane Kippen, who was Nick Saban's offensive coordinator and
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assistant coach for a couple of years. He got dismissed
right before the National Championship game a couple of years ago.
But Nick Saban has been a troll. He's a regular
troll on social media. And now look at this. So
he puts this up, and this is obviously about his
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running back quin Shawn Jukins, who left Ole Miss and
went over to Ohio State, he says. And the article
title is how Ohio State built a twenty million dollar
National Championship or bus roster via ESPN. That was obviously
a shot at his running back who left and went
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over there. But from the article quote Day's vision became
reality booy by name, image and likeness war chest this
year of twenty million. And according to the writer of it,
the Buckeye struck gold in the transfer portal, landing the
top two players in safety Caleb Downs who came from
Alabama and running back quin Shawn Jenkins from Old Miss,
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who side note is od is overpowered everything. In the
NCAA twenty five game, they literally had to nerve the kid.
But anyways, Lane Kippen is gonna troll you. But does
Lane Kipping actually have the right to trol after how
he left Tennessee and FAU to secure his own personal bag.
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So you control everybody else, But Lane, you literally did this.
You left Tennessee High End Dry to go to USC.
You left FA you after they gave you a chance
to revitalize your opportunity, and then go over to old
miss Come on, man, like I'm I'm liking I'm you know,
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like Lane Kipping. But at the end of the day,
this is hypocritical behavior. I'm just saying that's just the truth,
all right. So and then how this goes? So Lane
Kiffen leaning into his reputation as a heel and as
funny timing. Armin Kataian's book with John Talty called The
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Price What it Takes to Win in College Football's Era
of Chaos. So here's where the Nick Saban Park comes
in because there's a chapter dedicated to sports agent Jimmy Sexton,
who is by far the most powerful man in all
the college football because he represents the majority, yes, the majority,
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of big time college football agents. Prime example, he represented
Willie Taggert, who knew that Jimbo Fisher was going to
go to Texas A and M. So then he knows that,
so then he knows that Willy Taggert wants that job.
While he's at Oregon, He's like, don't sign that extension, man,
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because I got some for you at Florida State. Potentially
Jimbo Fisher goes text saying him boom boom. Same thing,
same thing when Nick Saban retires, Oh, I wonder whose agent?
I wonder who got the job? A Jimmy Sexton guy,
Come on, man, And there's a whole chapter in the
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book dedicated to him and his relationship. And CIA actually
reps both coaches, and it was actually Sexton who encouraged
Nick Saban to hire Lane Kiffen after he got fired
by USC, and Saban explained the hiring at the time
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as Alabama's needing to modernize its offense at a time
when the game was shifting away from the run and
punt run heavy pro style to the spread, the power
spread essentially that Alabama runs now. And then there's a
quote where Nick Saban says that son of a bitch
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referring to referring to Lane Kiffin, and then he says,
I'm gonna fire you Jimmy forever, making me hire that
narcissistic prick. And it's interesting because he also said, I
ain't never had an fing coach that I can't control
because Lane Kiffen is his own individual. He is a
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maverick if you will, He's his own person and he
gonna do his own damn thing. And now Nick Saban
ended up in a position hiring him, and now that
beast has gotten grown and exploded even that much more.
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Welcome to Unafraid Show Daily Live, where we bring you
the most important things in sports quickly, simply and honestly.
And today's show, you do not want to miss this.
Oh we have a jam packed three important things that
you are absolutely not gonna wanna miss. So I got
a chance to watch the Signed Steeler Netflix documentary the
(00:25):
way you don't have to. I would still advise that
you watch it, but it was excellent, and yeah, a
bunch of takeaways from there, and it actually gave us
some big time insights on Jim Harbaugh, Michigan. Connor stallions
that things that we previously just assumed. And there are
more allegations out there with the NCAA getting ready to
(00:48):
well it's already given Michigan, it's noticed of allegations, but
that will be out in the light pretty damn soon.
And North Carolina they have a lawsuit going on with
their name, image and likeness and this is a private school,
public school issue and it centers around the University of Tennessee.
(01:09):
So you're not gonna want to miss that either. And
then Armin Kintaian's book talking about Nick Saban and Lane Kiffin,
where you have some pretty strong statements about Lane Kifvin
from Nick Saban. You're gonna wanna hear that as well.
But we're gonna start with the signs stealing Netflix documentary
from Untold. Now Untold brings us documentaries about different things.
(01:32):
Gave us to man Titeitao, the Johnny Manzel, the Urban
Meyer swamp Kings, which was really good except for painted
Urban real nice. But that's a whole nother story. But
let's get to this Michigan thing, because there have been
people on both sides, and I as a takeaway from
(01:54):
this documentary, that number one is that Connor Styles, at
some point in time, will work in college football again.
Absolutely without a doubt. He will absolutely do it. Now.
I was also left with takeaways about Connor Stallions. First
of all, I have a lot of respect for Connor
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Connor Stallions, George, what did you ever checked for? You
have respect for a cheater? Here's the thing. I of
respect for somebody who is laser focused, somebody who is
relentless and is who is willing to get it by
any means necessary. Now now there comes the integrity part
of it. Now, his integrity ain't as high as you
want it to be. But if you want anybody on
(02:38):
your side, you want a Connor Stallions on your side,
don't you. Obviously you want somebody that if that, if
the boats are burning and the ship is sinking, he's like,
I'm still up there playing on the tight sandy. He's
playing it and he's gonna make sure that nobody else
goes down with it. Like you want people, if people
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are supporting you, you want them to be this vigilant
and this animated and this committed to the cause. And
Connor Stallions is committed. But then that led me to
the other thing is when I said I would hie, well,
Connor Stallions will work in college football again. But the
question is, if I were a college football head coach,
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would I hire Connor Stallions? And the question is did
he learn his lesson? Now that I don't know, because
he actually lost the thing that was probably most important
to him. Because this is a dude who, since he
was a little kid, wanted to be the head football
coach at the University of Michigan, and he was scheming
(03:41):
and weaseling and plotting his way to be able to
be that. And I'm telling you, had this not come out,
he would have been the head coach at Michigan Football
at some point in time. Book it guarantee it. But
the question is did he learn his lesson if I
would hire him? Or is he a celebrity stalker? And
by celebrity stalker, I mean one of them people that
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follows the celebrity and just can't get enough because they're
so obsessed that they will just lose their mind, lose
their life. They think that they're in love with them
and everything else. So is he a celebrity stalker or
has he learned his lesson? Because Connor Stallion's probably thinks
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that he is still that he is still going to
be the head coach of Michigan guaranteed. After watching this,
he absolutely believes that his parents are in on it,
but they are in on protecting their kid. And it's
one of those as a parent, do you protect your
kid if you know they've done something wrong? It depends
on you know, depends on the parents, and depends on
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what your level of wrong is. And the reason why
he will also work in the world of sports is
because it's like the movie Catch Me if you Can
with Leonardo DiCaprio. If you remember he went to jail
But then when he got out, what did he do?
He worked with the FBI, He worked with banks to
prevent check fraud because he was an expert at it.
(05:11):
So Connor Stallion's just gonna have a place and he
has this huge recruiting database and everything in between. That
is very valuable information because this is a smart dude
who's going to figure out an answer to the problem.
But the biggest question is that was not answered in
the documentary that you have that was inferenced that you
(05:32):
do have to make assumptions about, is how in the
hell could Connor Stallions do all of this be in
the defensive and offensive coordinator's ear every single play, and
nobody have a clue how or why he was doing it.
Who was paying for all of these tickets because it
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wasn't him because those tickets were expensive, and Jim Harbaugh
and I've said it, he fed us a line of
bs because there is no way in hell that this
dude had no idea that he was oblivious. He hired
the man and then let him further and further into program.
You don't do that without getting closer and closer to
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the person in charge by you keeping elevating your status,
just the reality of it. Connor Styllius reminds me of
people in prison, And I know people who've gone to
jail who had done some who've run criminal organizations and
big time drug dealers, done things that are illegal, and
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those are actually some of the smartest people around. Like
these are people. Some of them have run multi level businesses.
Like if you've been a high level drug kingpin, you've
run different levels of business. You understand a hierarchy. You
have a CFO, a COO, you have a general manager,
you have regular employee, Like you understand that. But it's
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a matter of whether you chose to use your services
for good or for bad, or illegal or not illegal,
depends on however you want to say it. Because Connor
Stallion's focus, like he literally went to the Naval Academy
because he wanted to coach. But now here is where
the it goes left and where you have to wonder
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if Connor Stallions is a celebrity stalker or whether he
is a person who just loves college football and is
smart and has a talent. Well, here's the thing is
that in there he talks about that sign stilling operations
go on on eighty to ninety percent of college football,
because his whole thing is at this point, it's protecting Michigan,
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protecting Jim Harbaugh, protecting anybody in this. And he's like,
I'll just take it off. But the truth is that, yes,
there are people who are trying to decode signs and everything,
but they're not flying games, not on the level that
they were, and they're not recording, and they're not doing
the other nefarious things that were going on, and there
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was actually Oh, probably the most funny thing about it
is is that this turned into something that happens in
politics and everything all the time. So let's say that
that I do something wrong and I break the rules,
and then my hated enemy is the one who catches me,
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is the one who you know, blows the whistle, and
then me turning around and say, oh, really, look at
what my hated enemy did. They broke the They they're
the one who turned me in. You think that you
can trust them, bro You did it. It doesn't matter
whether Ohio State was behind the investigation. It doesn't matter
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whether Ryan Day's brother, brother in law whoever, was the
private investigator. You literally did it. And I think that
that's where Michigan fans continue to hold their hat number one.
They're like, we got a national championship, we don't give
a depth and Connor was already gone. So that further
complicates the situation, is because they won a national championship
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without Connor stallions for the for the end of the season.
So that means that you have to assume that those
were fair and legitimate wins. But then you know as
a football person that's stealing signs and the things that
were done and alleged to be done have a significant
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impact on the games, because if it didn't, why the
hell would you have a coordinator being paid over a
million dollars taking advice every single play from somebody making
fifty sixty thousand. Come on now, man. But I do
applaud as parents because they're being parents and and you
understand that they're trying to protect their son because there's
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lyon going on. There is absolutely lying going on in
the deposition Connor stating sat up there, Oh that wasn't
I have no recollection of the Central Michigan thing. Do
you're full of shit? We all know, like just like
you can get back in in the world of college football,
just tell the truth, Connor. Just tell the truth, because
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if you want what you say you want, Connor, which
is to be a head college football coach, maybe even
at the University of Michigan, because you're clearly talented, smart
enough and you don't necessarily have to be a football
guy in terms of playing in college or the pros
to be a really good head coach. So Connor, if
you want in tell the damn truth. The problem is
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when you sit there and lie about this, trying to
protect Michigan and all of this stuff, you are putting
yourself further away from what you want. Because do you
know what Michigan did. Michigan turned their back on Connor.
Stallions not talking to them now I'm talking about the
university Jim Harbaugh article. Everybody else turn their back on them.
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That's what universities and people and big corporations and stuff
are gonna do. When trouble comes. You are expendable. This
is why the truth is so important. Just and I
know it feels wrong for you to come out and
say it because you did it, But if you want
back in, Connor, that is the only way, all right,
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Because there's so many smoking guns here. There's the Uncle
t Tim Smith thing with the Champion Circle, their booster
from their collective. He's gone, why do he get fired?
Come on? Man? But the last thing that I want
to talk about about this Netflix documentary, which I enjoyed,
and you guys can leave a comment share everything in
between is the Brohio guy mask and everything them. The
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Ohio State people doing the investigation are the same as
the don't f with Cats people. That's how college football
fans are. And I was like, dude, it made me
love and appreciate college football that much more because if
you're a don't f with Cats people up, you are
with us. You are with us. And the last thing
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that I was gonna say is there have been allegations
that we're gonna find out whether they're true or not.
When we see the notice of allegations about Michigan hacking
into Ohio State and other teams exos that's where they
keep all their film from practice and everything else. That's
what the biggest allegation is. Because even regardless of the
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signs stealing the in person recording, if you hack into
somebody or use a password from somebody, pay them forward
anything to somebody's exos that is a problem. That is
the highest level of violation and you should actually be
hung up by your damn toenails. So, Jim Harball, if
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this is true, the NFL must do what they did
to Jim Trestle and fire Jim I'm sorry, excuse me,
Suspend Jim Harbaugh. They must do exactly what they did
to Jim Trestle, suspend Jim Harball, suspend some of his
other coaches. Because what you cannot do is violate stuff
in college football and then go find a safe haven
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in the NFL. You cannot do that. But anyways, though,
the next topic of if you have not if you
do not understand what's going on in the world of name,
image and likeness, this is for you and you guys,
make sure that you guys like, subscribe, Tell a friend, Yeah,
so hit the subscribe button, hit the like button right
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now on YouTube or Twitter or wherever else. So, name
image and likeness rule have created a lawsuit in the
state of North Carolina, which is impacting the Tennessee volunteers
as well. So, name image and likeness rules are different
from state to state for high school athletes. For high
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school athletes, some don't allow it at all, and some
states allow a player to capitalize on their own name, image,
and likeness as long as they don't advertise the school
that they play for. And then some states are just
a free for all, and this has led to high
school athletes leaving states like you know, like Texas to
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go to California, or leaving North Carolina to go to
California and all of this stuff. Well, here's the thing
about North Carolina. They have a unique setup because they
actually have two different athletic associations that govern high school athletics.
One of them is made up of mostly private schools
and then you have one that's made up of mostly
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public schools now the Carolina Independent school At Athletic Association.
Let me repeat that, the North Carolina Independent Schools Athletic Association.
They actually changed their bylaws before last year to allow
athletes to capitalize on their name, image, and likeness. And
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the best example of that being put to use has
been five star offensive tackle David Sanders. He just committed
to Tennessee recently. And Sanders who is represented by WMME,
which is William Morris Endeavor, which is one of the
biggest agencies around now. After he committed to Tennessee and
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then smartly right before his commitment, he announced that his
personal nil store would feature merchandise in the team colors
that he was committing to. And then that brings us
to his counterpart in the same state. They are twenty
twenty six instead of twenty twenty five. Twenty twenty five
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star quarterback Faison Brandon, who actually plays for a public
school in North Carolina called Grimsley. Now Faison is also
committed to Tennessee, but according to North Carolina's High School
Athletic Association, which is the other governing body in the
state which governs the majority of the public schools, now
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Brandon can't engage in the marketplace the same way that
David Sanders is. And now Faison Brandon's mother is suing
North Carolina Board of Education and the Department of Public Instruction. Now.
The lawsuit says that her son was forced to turn
down nil money by a prominent national trading card company,
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which we believe to either be tops or fanatics, just
to remain enrolled in public school and to continue playing
along his teammates. Now, as a dad, I would be
doing exactly what this mom is doing. If you are
in competing on my kids' ability to make money. That
is a problem, especially when other people that go to
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private schools in the state they can't. Why is that?
But then if I transfer to the private schools, Oh,
now all of a sudden, you'll be like what California
IMG other places are where you have kids transferring and
the public school system is actually at a deficit, just
like in the state I live in. In California, the
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public schools don't have the same resources, class sizes, all
of this stuff that the private schools have. So the
best football in the state of California, for the most part,
is at the private schools, particularly in southern California. And
now before we just beat up the North Carolina High
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School Athletic Association, this isn't their fault. Now it's important
to oh that their border directors actually did approve a
policy over a year ago that would allow high school
athletes to North Carolina to pursue and profit off their name, image,
and likeness opportunities. So you're wondering, George, how Okay, So
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if they did it, what's the problem. Well before that
rule could be cemented in the place, the North Carolina
State House and state Senate they passed Senate Bill four
fifty two. So look that up, Senate Bill four fifty
two in North Carolina. Now, the bill was meant to
increase mandatory minimum insurance limits for North Carolina motorists for
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the first time in twenty four years, which for whatever reason,
was going to pass with flying colors. But this is
what happens in politics all the time, is that people
put other stuff in bills. They sneak it in on
stuff that is going to for sure pass. But what
actually happened is North Carolina Republicans added to the bill
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language that then stripped the North Carolina High School Athletic
Association of its decision making power over the issues like
nil and subjected to NCHSAA to annual audits. And most importantly,
the conservative state government of North Carolina allowed the government
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to define the rules for biological participation requirements. So that's right,
Faison Brandon can't cash nil checks and play for his
public school because North Carolina Republicans. And mind you that
this is not a Democrat Republican issue, this is just
who did it. These are the facts, because they were
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trying to keep biological men out of women's sports. Okay,
so you're like, okay, okay, that makes sense, right. No,
the issue is is that they used a bill about
out insurance minimums to make that happen, and now there
is a big backlash on it when it comes to
NIL and the public schools. Because I'm not here to
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tell you what to believe in or how you feel.
I have stated how I felt about that issue in
another video. I'm just telling you what happened now. North
Carolina politicians, in an attempt to expand the government control
over this state athletic association, they restricted its residents' ability
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to participate in a free market unless they enroll in
private school governed by an entirely different athletic association. But
just because the state took control doesn't mean that they
just can't find common sense solutions for public school kids. Right.
You would think like that would make sense. Wrong, because
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North Carolina the Board of Education then put rules into
place that started on July first of this year that
banned public appearances or commercials, autograph signings, athletic camps or clinics,
the sale of NFTs non fungible tokens, product or service endorsements,
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and promotional activities, indulging in personal and social media advertisements.
What So you're intentionally hurting the private school of the
public school kids. So somebody has a vested interest in
this in the state of North Carolina. So this has
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to be brought to the light because she actually his
mom who is suing. She actually wants a preliminary and
a permanent injunction to allow NIL for public school high
school for public high school athletes, and that in her
son's specific case, not allowing for NIL has meant that
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the quarterback has missed out on potentially millions of dollars
that Brandon has no guarantee of ever recouping. And then
you got North Carolina's Department of Public Instruction that has
told his mom Rwanda's representatives that the process to revise
the rule will take a full year. But that's exactly
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why they want this injunction right now. And this is
the issue. This goes to socioeconomic issues. Private school costs money. Yes,
there are rich people that put their kids in public school.
There are kids from socioeconomically disadvantaged situations that are in
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private school because they have scholarships or they're great athletes
or something. Like that, this is something that has to
be fixed and is one hundred percent wrong, one hundred
percent wrong. The lasting up so Lane Kiffen and Nick Saban.
So Lane Kippen, who was Nick Saban's offensive coordinator and
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assistant coach for a couple of years. He got dismissed
right before the National Championship game a couple of years ago.
But Nick Saban has been a troll. He's a regular
troll on social media. And now look at this. So
he puts this up, and this is obviously about his
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running back quin Shawn Jukins, who left Ole Miss and
went over to Ohio State, he says. And the article
title is how Ohio State built a twenty million dollar
National Championship or bus roster via ESPN. That was obviously
a shot at his running back who left and went
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over there. But from the article quote Day's vision became
reality booy by name, image and likeness war chest this
year of twenty million. And according to the writer of it,
the Buckeye struck gold in the transfer portal, landing the
top two players in safety Caleb Downs who came from
Alabama and running back quin Shawn Jenkins from Old Miss,
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who side note is od is overpowered everything. In the
NCAA twenty five game, they literally had to nerve the kid.
But anyways, Lane Kippen is gonna troll you. But does
Lane Kipping actually have the right to trol after how
he left Tennessee and FAU to secure his own personal bag.
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So you control everybody else, But Lane, you literally did this.
You left Tennessee High End Dry to go to USC.
You left FA you after they gave you a chance
to revitalize your opportunity, and then go over to old
miss Come on, man, like I'm I'm liking I'm you know,
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like Lane Kipping. But at the end of the day,
this is hypocritical behavior. I'm just saying that's just the truth,
all right. So and then how this goes? So Lane
Kiffen leaning into his reputation as a heel and as
funny timing. Armin Kataian's book with John Talty called The
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Price What it Takes to Win in College Football's Era
of Chaos. So here's where the Nick Saban Park comes
in because there's a chapter dedicated to sports agent Jimmy Sexton,
who is by far the most powerful man in all
the college football because he represents the majority, yes, the majority,
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of big time college football agents. Prime example, he represented
Willie Taggert, who knew that Jimbo Fisher was going to
go to Texas A and M. So then he knows that,
so then he knows that Willy Taggert wants that job.
While he's at Oregon, He's like, don't sign that extension, man,
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because I got some for you at Florida State. Potentially
Jimbo Fisher goes text saying him boom boom. Same thing,
same thing when Nick Saban retires, Oh, I wonder whose agent?
I wonder who got the job? A Jimmy Sexton guy,
Come on, man, And there's a whole chapter in the
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book dedicated to him and his relationship. And CIA actually
reps both coaches, and it was actually Sexton who encouraged
Nick Saban to hire Lane Kiffen after he got fired
by USC, and Saban explained the hiring at the time
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as Alabama's needing to modernize its offense at a time
when the game was shifting away from the run and
punt run heavy pro style to the spread, the power
spread essentially that Alabama runs now. And then there's a
quote where Nick Saban says that son of a bitch
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referring to referring to Lane Kiffin, and then he says,
I'm gonna fire you Jimmy forever, making me hire that
narcissistic prick. And it's interesting because he also said, I
ain't never had an fing coach that I can't control
because Lane Kiffen is his own individual. He is a
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maverick if you will, He's his own person and he
gonna do his own damn thing. And now Nick Saban
ended up in a position hiring him, and now that
beast has gotten grown and exploded even that much more.
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