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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I would guess our next I would guess that our
next guest, easy for me to say, probably thinks the
same thing.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
He's here to talk about a lot of football.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Roman Harper, two time Pro Bowl or Super Bowl champion,
SEC Network analysts, back with us for his Wednesday conversation, Roman,
what's going on, buddy?
Speaker 2 (00:13):
How are you?
Speaker 3 (00:14):
KB? What's go bro? Just in Birmingham watching my daughter
play basketball on the phone and got off to talk
to you guys.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
That's awesome. How's it going to you winning?
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Well, yeah, they're winning. They're being Myers Park pretty good
right now. The JV team, so it's so good. A
lot of mistakes made on both teams, but I was
watching it's fine. It's you know, I've been in Alabama
for covering Alabama's signing day today. That's a big thing
that is now in December, when it used to be
in February, and I remember they everybody used to send
in factes and when you got that sign that paper
(00:49):
early in the morning on sinning day. And now you
can only know it's real when the players put out
a post on Instagram or x or x and to
let you know where they're going. Before that, you have
no idea.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Yeah, so wait, I don't want to get in a
rabbit hole.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
So you're in Birmingham, Alabama watching your daughter play from
Myers Park.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Huh that's a big deal.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Yeah, well she's that Providence State playing against yeah Alapeza.
Now man, nowadays you can watch the games from you know,
anywhere in the world.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
So I thought you were watching them play live, and
Smoke and I were both very confused when you I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Oh no, sorry about that.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
It's okay, it's okay. I thought that was cool though.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
All right, I'll just start with the Bryce Young thing
real quick, because they just beat the perceived best team
in the NFL on Sunday in the La Rams. Bryce
played well, they ran the ball well, They were so
shorthanded defensively, with no JC Horn, no Trayvon Merrick, missing
a starting linebacker, and they still beat the best team
in football on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
What did you think about it?
Speaker 3 (01:45):
I really didn't watch the game, but the highlights that
I saw because they actually affected the quarterback. They got
at to Matt Stafford, big Brown up front, get the
sack fumbles towards the end of the game. To really
still it, I thought you know, nobody's playing better than
that young man right there up front, and I'm glad
he's getting all his flowers and everybody's noticed him, especially
have to come off the injury and missing so much
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time last year. So it's just really good to see
when your top round pick are starting to pay off.
You can say the same thing about Tero McMillan, Bryce Young.
The last three or four years, it's been really really
good with some of these first round picks, and when
your young guys are starting to understand what it takes
to win games, they're going out there and performing at
a high level. This is all positive. I just remember, Kyle,
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remember this has been a journey with us on these
Wednesday calls, week in and week out. They win one,
they lose one, they win a big one, they lose
a terrible one, and you cannot ride the emotions of
the fans. You just can't. I've been telling you all year.
It's a long season. This team still has a chance
into the playoffs. I said that after everybody was so
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on Bryce after the terrible performance way he threw just
the hundred yards. Now he comes back and they're putting
up stats about him. You know, having the most comeback
wins at the earliest age, and he also threw a
four hundred yards a team record, and so you're going
to deal with the ups and downs when you're dealing
with a young team that has not had anybody on
this team that has had any type of winning at
a high level for this organization specifically. So it's been
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a really good action see them competing. Everybody had taken
a bonus of, you know, ownership of their mess ups,
but when they're also doing good, less praising and love
on them too. So really big win by this Panthers team,
and ultimately they're exactly where they want to be at
and that's actually in a position to maybe make the
playoffs by winning the division.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
I'm with you on that.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
So before I get back to college football then, I mean,
it's Dan Morgan's decision ultimately, and they have until May
to do it. To me, it's a no brainer. I'm
picking up Bryce's fifth year option. You don't have to
do it today, but like I'm automatically personally picking up
his fifty year option. By the time that made deadline
rolls around. I mean, he's going into the final four
games of year three, just a second year with Dave Canalis,
(03:55):
They're getting better as an organization. I'm picking up the
fifth year option right now without question. How do you
feel about that?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Yeah, of course, because two questions if you don't pick
up the option is who else you're gonna go get?
Because you're not gonna have an extremely high drafted The
quarterback situations coming out are not going to be great
the next year. In my opinion, I think the best
players in the draft coming up will not be quarterbacks,
to be other positions. And you can probably say that
for the year after as well. The classes are very
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hid and miss. And then so if you want to
restart that, I mean, that's one decision. But then also
if you don't do the fifth year option and he
does play well next year, it's gonna cost you a
lot more. So at least you have the fifth year
options to hold on to players. That's what it's. You
have it for the first rounders that have been really
good for their own organization to give you more time
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to figure out the right number to pay them when
it is time. If you make that decision, which when
you got a quarterback, you got a chance. And right now,
Bright shund is playing well. It hasn't been perfect, but
he is playing well for this team.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Roman Arber hanging out with a here for a Wednesday conversation.
All right, college football rankings last night. I'm going to
start with Alabama with you because I know Alabama's a
good team.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
You know they're a good team.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
But there are a lot of folks once again upset
last night with the committee because it felt like they
gave Alabama sort of a built in excuse if they
lose the SEC title game, and that the Committee kind
of protected Alabama, you know, and gave them a mulligan,
if you will, based on the way they were ranked
last night. And I want to be clear to you,
because you and I've had a lot of these conversations
over the years. To me, there's a lack of consistency
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issue with the committee overall. It's never just about Alabama
because there are a lot of things you can question
with what they're doing. But what do you think about
the folks that look at what they did last night,
move Alabama to nine, Notre Dame ten, and people saying
that this is the this is the playoff politics to
drive people crazy.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Well, if you mad at that why I was the
only four lost team in the top twenty five. And
that's the prop up the ones in the big ten
that they got at the top. And so it's not
just one thing of the other, Kyle, And you know Alabama,
that's the easy target because people love that have an
opinion about Alabama. But I ask the same thing. Okay,
well why they head of Notre Dame? Now their resonate
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has been good. You can put them in front because
they win on the road to versus Oliver, who the
outsider say is a bad team because their record isn't
that good. And so what did Alabama do this past week?
And that made them all of a sudden out jump
ahead of them when they should have been ahead of
Notre Dame from the start. And so you're talking about
making excuses or giving people the out. The people that's
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getting out is the committee, not Alabama. Alabama's not getting out.
They deserve to be there or hired since day one.
It's the committee that's all of a sudden showing you
guys these things to say. Okay, well, it justifies this
because they ultimately are the ones that want to be right.
I don't think you give Alabama, any brain or you know,
say that they're getting unfair treatment. They should have been there,
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tence to jump the fact that they just put them there.
Now you can blame the committee because the committee's already
setting up and telling you who they feel is where.
Listen to what they say weekend and week out. Last
week versus when Oregon beat USC they said, you know,
Oregon finally beat a team that inflayed how we expected
them to be, and so we were able to put
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them where we wanted them to be the whole time.
That tells you everything right there. So you know, you
have to listen to the words that they say. And yes,
it is ultimately some sort of bias. I believe it is,
but hey, what can I do about it. I'm not
going to complain because my team is actually one of
the ones that usually are playing well and are usually
good enough to get into the playoffs when they deserve it.
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I was the first one to say that they didn't
deserve it last year. But the other thing is they
put them there, Kyle, because ultimately, if Alabama does lose,
I still think they would deserve to be in because
you can't. You didn't punish SMU for not winning the
the ACC Championship game last year, now or not, everybody
was mad then, and so now Alabama loses the Georgia
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and SEC Championship, which I don't belie what happened. Well,
and that gives them credits to say, okay, well we
can't funish Alabama. It will be the first time you
get a three lost team into the playoffs. But it
was a third loss in the SEC championship where they
have the number one ranked team in the SEC. I
know we don't look at as rankings, they're not number one,
(08:19):
but if you look at the standings within the SEC,
Alabama is the number one team in the SEC.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
So it's funny. You'll appreciate this.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
One of our listeners, one of your members of Role
Todd Nation, Dono, the Obama fan, just told me Notre
Dame hasn't played any hard teams. Grow up, KB, She
just told me to grow up. I mean, I'm not
I'm not arguing against Notre Dame. I'm not even arguing
against Alabama. I'm not even arguing for Notre Dame. In fact,
I've been arguing for Miami in this and I hate that.
It tastes terrible I hate Miami, but I gotta argue
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for him. And what I'm bringing up here is like,
you're you are a competitor. Okay, I don't think you
have to have played sports at the highest level to
BA competitor, but you are and you did. And it's
been maddening to me watch this committee act as if
that Notre Dame Miami game didn't happen in Week one,
and they've been acting as if that head to head
data point, you know, has somehow been devalued.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
But then at the same.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Time last night, Broman, Uh, you got Texas leapfrogging Vanderbilt
because they have the head to head advantage over them. Like,
I think we're in a really dangerous spot here if
if they start making decisions that devalue head to head competition.
And maybe we're already there, but as a former player,
that has to bother.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
You, right, Uh, it does. But you know, a couple
of weeks ago, I would have said, Lord Dame's playing
better than Miami, so I kind of understood it. But
and I don't think they want to be beholden to
just like, oh, well, that team beat them, so they
just nottually have to be higher, even though you know
they've played multiple games since then. I would also say
I would also encourage and then go back to my
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Alabama fan. That's with me, Kyle. They didn't like the
toney with the question of that, so I agree with them.
You know, check yourself, check itself. So it's so, you know,
so I'm not mad at the for you know, I'm
more mad at the ACC. Okay, how do you not
have Miami in the ACC championship game? It makes zero
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sense for them to be the club probably be clearly
the best team in your conference and they're not in.
It doesn't make any sense at all. And if Duke
wins this game, pandemonium for the ACC will happen, and
so everybody needs to be rooting for Virginia to win
this game. And I'm with all due respect to the
Duke fans just because the conference will not be represented
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in the correct way if that happens. Because now it's
just so many other things that can happen. And I
don't know, Kyle, the whole playoff things is just weird
because you're telling me that tu Lang was ranked the
twenty fourth best team in the country. But because if
they want a certain conference or whatever that was. And
I like everybody there at two lane that's in my
own my old you know, backyard and my old stomping
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grounds in New Orleans. But if you put them out
the twenty four team, then you put them in a
twelve team playoffs, you know, I'd rather you lie to
me and just put them higher or something to make
it at least justifiable. And so these are the things
that bothers me about the whole quote unquote committee thing,
because it's never as clean and understanding as possible. And
you can't tell me it takes me all week long
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to watch sixteen or eighteen, nineteen twenty games, and you're
telling me that all these teams, all these people that
are great and needs have watched twenty something games. It's just,
you know, so everybody's looking at certain things and taking
everybody else's advice about who's better than who, and I
think that's what you're running into. And it's not fun.
It's stinks, honestly, But this is where we're at right now,
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and I don't think it's changing.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
No, I don't.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
And listen, I'm gonna let you save your predictions for
your your actual day job. With the network, So I
want to ask you about Georgia Bamma. Necessarily. I am
curious though, because this is already an epic coaching cycle
with all kinds of jobs being vacated and filled and
everything else. So far we have what Ryan Silverfield to Arkansas, Arkansas? Yeah,
with John Summral headed to Florida.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
We played in the same All Calabama missed to the
All Star Game coming out of high school. Did you
really shout out John Summer? Yeah, we've been homies for
since high school. Washington play at Kentucky, Washington coach at Kentucky.
Watched them go to Troy, which my brother went to,
rooted for and talked to him then, and then watched
him go to Tulane. You know, it's in my old backyard.
Big fan of this guy. Man. He played safety. I
actually played corner in the game together. So he was
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a safety, I was a corner. He moved the linebacker.
I moved to safety.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Oh that's awesome.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Back in the day, that was awesome.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
No, that's cool, man.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
So Summer on Florida, Alex Golish at Auburn, Ryan Silverfield
at Arkansas, Will Stein, who was headed to Kentucky former
Louisville quarterback. Oddly enough, any of those stand out to
you is particularly impressive or guys you think will succeed.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Well, you know, I already talked about John Sumraw. For me,
Alex Golis brings a great idea of what they want
to do offensively. They you know, he was Tennessee's quarterback
offensive coordinator under Josh Heipel, so under that high school system,
So they're gonna spread routse, They're gonna throw it all
over the ballpark. We won't to beu ABD to score points,
but will have be able to continue get enough stops.
And can Auburn not implos That would be the other
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question mark with that one. The other one is I
like silver fields at Arkansas because he's a LEAs won
a lot at Memphis. Okay, not only that, but Memphis
is very close to Arkansas, so he's used to recruiting
in that area. And you know, it's just similar doing
a lot with not as much money. I know Sedex
money is good. I just don't know if this is
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as good as Walmart, Entyson Chicken money. So now you
have a little bit more resources in your pocket. Can
Arkansas build upon that and also recruit the state of Arkansas,
get the ones that are talented in that state, lock
them in, and then be able to go to across
the borders of Texas, Tennessee, over there by Memphis and
a couple other places Mississippi, Louisiana and get some of
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these players. Because ultimately, that's what it's going to have
to take. And can you stop turn the football over?
They have to have a mindset switch at Arkansas if
they want to be able to compete and win games
at the highest level because in the SEC there are
no by wings.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Well listen, I'll let you go in you're busy. I
want to let you watch your daughter play basketball. But
I do want to let you know that I'm very
excited for a year from now talking about James Franklin
and the Hokies. They're seeding in the playoff, and I mean,
my man has taking the recruiting class from one twenty
one to twenty two in a span of a week.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
So we coming we got I saw that he was
very excited about that. I saw him doing some things
and look, man, you should improve. I'm not going to
say that much. That's a huge jump, all right, but
you should improve when you're not having a coach at
team and all you're doing is focused on recruiting. And
James Franklin is a hell of a recruiter. Everybody's known
that about him since day one. So congrating you man
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in your hockey. Because I saw Virginia walk the dogs
with him. My son was watching the recare that morning,
So I apologize about that. KD.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Yeah, you sound really to me.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
My team beat Yeah, my team beat our rivals. So
you know, like you said earlier, Man, that degenerates you,
egg Man such that's whatever.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Wow, you and Donna the Bama fan are really frigging
sensitive today, Mike. I was just being playful and I
took strays there at the end. All right, buddy, enjoy Alabama.
We'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Thanks, kav be good man By Slow
I would guess our next I would guess that our
next guest, easy for me to say, probably thinks the
same thing.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
He's here to talk about a lot of football.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
Roman Harper, two time Pro Bowl or Super Bowl champion,
SEC Network analysts, back with us for his Wednesday conversation, Roman,
what's going on, buddy?
Speaker 2 (00:13):
How are you?
Speaker 3 (00:14):
KB? What's go bro? Just in Birmingham watching my daughter
play basketball on the phone and got off to talk
to you guys.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
That's awesome. How's it going to you winning?
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Well, yeah, they're winning. They're being Myers Park pretty good
right now. The JV team, so it's so good. A
lot of mistakes made on both teams, but I was
watching it's fine. It's you know, I've been in Alabama
for covering Alabama's signing day today. That's a big thing
that is now in December, when it used to be
in February, and I remember they everybody used to send
in factes and when you got that sign that paper
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early in the morning on sinning day. And now you
can only know it's real when the players put out
a post on Instagram or x or x and to
let you know where they're going. Before that, you have
no idea.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
Yeah, so wait, I don't want to get in a
rabbit hole.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
So you're in Birmingham, Alabama watching your daughter play from
Myers Park.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Huh that's a big deal.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
Yeah, well she's that Providence State playing against yeah Alapeza.
Now man, nowadays you can watch the games from you know,
anywhere in the world.
Speaker 1 (01:18):
So I thought you were watching them play live, and
Smoke and I were both very confused when you I'm sorry.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
Oh no, sorry about that.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
It's okay, it's okay. I thought that was cool though.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
All right, I'll just start with the Bryce Young thing
real quick, because they just beat the perceived best team
in the NFL on Sunday in the La Rams. Bryce
played well, they ran the ball well, They were so
shorthanded defensively, with no JC Horn, no Trayvon Merrick, missing
a starting linebacker, and they still beat the best team
in football on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
What did you think about it?
Speaker 3 (01:45):
I really didn't watch the game, but the highlights that
I saw because they actually affected the quarterback. They got
at to Matt Stafford, big Brown up front, get the
sack fumbles towards the end of the game. To really
still it, I thought you know, nobody's playing better than
that young man right there up front, and I'm glad
he's getting all his flowers and everybody's noticed him, especially
have to come off the injury and missing so much
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time last year. So it's just really good to see
when your top round pick are starting to pay off.
You can say the same thing about Tero McMillan, Bryce Young.
The last three or four years, it's been really really
good with some of these first round picks, and when
your young guys are starting to understand what it takes
to win games, they're going out there and performing at
a high level. This is all positive. I just remember, Kyle,
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remember this has been a journey with us on these
Wednesday calls, week in and week out. They win one,
they lose one, they win a big one, they lose
a terrible one, and you cannot ride the emotions of
the fans. You just can't. I've been telling you all year.
It's a long season. This team still has a chance
into the playoffs. I said that after everybody was so
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on Bryce after the terrible performance way he threw just
the hundred yards. Now he comes back and they're putting
up stats about him. You know, having the most comeback
wins at the earliest age, and he also threw a
four hundred yards a team record, and so you're going
to deal with the ups and downs when you're dealing
with a young team that has not had anybody on
this team that has had any type of winning at
a high level for this organization specifically. So it's been
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a really good action see them competing. Everybody had taken
a bonus of, you know, ownership of their mess ups,
but when they're also doing good, less praising and love
on them too. So really big win by this Panthers team,
and ultimately they're exactly where they want to be at
and that's actually in a position to maybe make the
playoffs by winning the division.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
I'm with you on that.
Speaker 1 (03:33):
So before I get back to college football then, I mean,
it's Dan Morgan's decision ultimately, and they have until May
to do it. To me, it's a no brainer. I'm
picking up Bryce's fifth year option. You don't have to
do it today, but like I'm automatically personally picking up
his fifty year option. By the time that made deadline
rolls around. I mean, he's going into the final four
games of year three, just a second year with Dave Canalis,
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They're getting better as an organization. I'm picking up the
fifth year option right now without question. How do you
feel about that?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Yeah, of course, because two questions if you don't pick
up the option is who else you're gonna go get?
Because you're not gonna have an extremely high drafted The
quarterback situations coming out are not going to be great
the next year. In my opinion, I think the best
players in the draft coming up will not be quarterbacks,
to be other positions. And you can probably say that
for the year after as well. The classes are very
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hid and miss. And then so if you want to
restart that, I mean, that's one decision. But then also
if you don't do the fifth year option and he
does play well next year, it's gonna cost you a
lot more. So at least you have the fifth year
options to hold on to players. That's what it's. You
have it for the first rounders that have been really
good for their own organization to give you more time
(04:45):
to figure out the right number to pay them when
it is time. If you make that decision, which when
you got a quarterback, you got a chance. And right now,
Bright shund is playing well. It hasn't been perfect, but
he is playing well for this team.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Roman Arber hanging out with a here for a Wednesday conversation.
All right, college football rankings last night. I'm going to
start with Alabama with you because I know Alabama's a
good team.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
You know they're a good team.
Speaker 1 (05:10):
But there are a lot of folks once again upset
last night with the committee because it felt like they
gave Alabama sort of a built in excuse if they
lose the SEC title game, and that the Committee kind
of protected Alabama, you know, and gave them a mulligan,
if you will, based on the way they were ranked
last night. And I want to be clear to you,
because you and I've had a lot of these conversations
over the years. To me, there's a lack of consistency
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issue with the committee overall. It's never just about Alabama
because there are a lot of things you can question
with what they're doing. But what do you think about
the folks that look at what they did last night,
move Alabama to nine, Notre Dame ten, and people saying
that this is the this is the playoff politics to
drive people crazy.
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Well, if you mad at that why I was the
only four lost team in the top twenty five. And
that's the prop up the ones in the big ten
that they got at the top. And so it's not
just one thing of the other, Kyle, And you know Alabama,
that's the easy target because people love that have an
opinion about Alabama. But I ask the same thing. Okay,
well why they head of Notre Dame? Now their resonate
(06:10):
has been good. You can put them in front because
they win on the road to versus Oliver, who the
outsider say is a bad team because their record isn't
that good. And so what did Alabama do this past week?
And that made them all of a sudden out jump
ahead of them when they should have been ahead of
Notre Dame from the start. And so you're talking about
making excuses or giving people the out. The people that's
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getting out is the committee, not Alabama. Alabama's not getting out.
They deserve to be there or hired since day one.
It's the committee that's all of a sudden showing you
guys these things to say. Okay, well, it justifies this
because they ultimately are the ones that want to be right.
I don't think you give Alabama, any brain or you know,
say that they're getting unfair treatment. They should have been there,
(06:53):
tence to jump the fact that they just put them there.
Now you can blame the committee because the committee's already
setting up and telling you who they feel is where.
Listen to what they say weekend and week out. Last
week versus when Oregon beat USC they said, you know,
Oregon finally beat a team that inflayed how we expected
them to be, and so we were able to put
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them where we wanted them to be the whole time.
That tells you everything right there. So you know, you
have to listen to the words that they say. And yes,
it is ultimately some sort of bias. I believe it is,
but hey, what can I do about it. I'm not
going to complain because my team is actually one of
the ones that usually are playing well and are usually
good enough to get into the playoffs when they deserve it.
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I was the first one to say that they didn't
deserve it last year. But the other thing is they
put them there, Kyle, because ultimately, if Alabama does lose,
I still think they would deserve to be in because
you can't. You didn't punish SMU for not winning the
the ACC Championship game last year, now or not, everybody
was mad then, and so now Alabama loses the Georgia
(07:57):
and SEC Championship, which I don't belie what happened. Well,
and that gives them credits to say, okay, well we
can't funish Alabama. It will be the first time you
get a three lost team into the playoffs. But it
was a third loss in the SEC championship where they
have the number one ranked team in the SEC. I
know we don't look at as rankings, they're not number one,
(08:19):
but if you look at the standings within the SEC,
Alabama is the number one team in the SEC.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
So it's funny. You'll appreciate this.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
One of our listeners, one of your members of Role
Todd Nation, Dono, the Obama fan, just told me Notre
Dame hasn't played any hard teams. Grow up, KB, She
just told me to grow up. I mean, I'm not
I'm not arguing against Notre Dame. I'm not even arguing
against Alabama. I'm not even arguing for Notre Dame. In fact,
I've been arguing for Miami in this and I hate that.
It tastes terrible I hate Miami, but I gotta argue
(08:49):
for him. And what I'm bringing up here is like,
you're you are a competitor. Okay, I don't think you
have to have played sports at the highest level to
BA competitor, but you are and you did. And it's
been maddening to me watch this committee act as if
that Notre Dame Miami game didn't happen in Week one,
and they've been acting as if that head to head
data point, you know, has somehow been devalued.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
But then at the same.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Time last night, Broman, Uh, you got Texas leapfrogging Vanderbilt
because they have the head to head advantage over them. Like,
I think we're in a really dangerous spot here if
if they start making decisions that devalue head to head competition.
And maybe we're already there, but as a former player,
that has to bother.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
You, right, Uh, it does. But you know, a couple
of weeks ago, I would have said, Lord Dame's playing
better than Miami, so I kind of understood it. But
and I don't think they want to be beholden to
just like, oh, well, that team beat them, so they
just nottually have to be higher, even though you know
they've played multiple games since then. I would also say
I would also encourage and then go back to my
(09:46):
Alabama fan. That's with me, Kyle. They didn't like the
toney with the question of that, so I agree with them.
You know, check yourself, check itself. So it's so, you know,
so I'm not mad at the for you know, I'm
more mad at the ACC. Okay, how do you not
have Miami in the ACC championship game? It makes zero
(10:09):
sense for them to be the club probably be clearly
the best team in your conference and they're not in.
It doesn't make any sense at all. And if Duke
wins this game, pandemonium for the ACC will happen, and
so everybody needs to be rooting for Virginia to win
this game. And I'm with all due respect to the
Duke fans just because the conference will not be represented
(10:31):
in the correct way if that happens. Because now it's
just so many other things that can happen. And I
don't know, Kyle, the whole playoff things is just weird
because you're telling me that tu Lang was ranked the
twenty fourth best team in the country. But because if
they want a certain conference or whatever that was. And
I like everybody there at two lane that's in my
own my old you know, backyard and my old stomping
(10:53):
grounds in New Orleans. But if you put them out
the twenty four team, then you put them in a
twelve team playoffs, you know, I'd rather you lie to
me and just put them higher or something to make
it at least justifiable. And so these are the things
that bothers me about the whole quote unquote committee thing,
because it's never as clean and understanding as possible. And
you can't tell me it takes me all week long
(11:15):
to watch sixteen or eighteen, nineteen twenty games, and you're
telling me that all these teams, all these people that
are great and needs have watched twenty something games. It's just,
you know, so everybody's looking at certain things and taking
everybody else's advice about who's better than who, and I
think that's what you're running into. And it's not fun.
It's stinks, honestly, But this is where we're at right now,
(11:36):
and I don't think it's changing.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
No, I don't.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
And listen, I'm gonna let you save your predictions for
your your actual day job. With the network, So I
want to ask you about Georgia Bamma. Necessarily. I am
curious though, because this is already an epic coaching cycle
with all kinds of jobs being vacated and filled and
everything else. So far we have what Ryan Silverfield to Arkansas, Arkansas? Yeah,
with John Summral headed to Florida.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
We played in the same All Calabama missed to the
All Star Game coming out of high school. Did you
really shout out John Summer? Yeah, we've been homies for
since high school. Washington play at Kentucky, Washington coach at Kentucky.
Watched them go to Troy, which my brother went to,
rooted for and talked to him then, and then watched
him go to Tulane. You know, it's in my old backyard.
Big fan of this guy. Man. He played safety. I
actually played corner in the game together. So he was
(12:23):
a safety, I was a corner. He moved the linebacker.
I moved to safety.
Speaker 2 (12:26):
Oh that's awesome.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Back in the day, that was awesome.
Speaker 2 (12:28):
No, that's cool, man.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
So Summer on Florida, Alex Golish at Auburn, Ryan Silverfield
at Arkansas, Will Stein, who was headed to Kentucky former
Louisville quarterback. Oddly enough, any of those stand out to
you is particularly impressive or guys you think will succeed.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Well, you know, I already talked about John Sumraw. For me,
Alex Golis brings a great idea of what they want
to do offensively. They you know, he was Tennessee's quarterback
offensive coordinator under Josh Heipel, so under that high school system,
So they're gonna spread routse, They're gonna throw it all
over the ballpark. We won't to beu ABD to score points,
but will have be able to continue get enough stops.
And can Auburn not implos That would be the other
(13:04):
question mark with that one. The other one is I
like silver fields at Arkansas because he's a LEAs won
a lot at Memphis. Okay, not only that, but Memphis
is very close to Arkansas, so he's used to recruiting
in that area. And you know, it's just similar doing
a lot with not as much money. I know Sedex
money is good. I just don't know if this is
(13:24):
as good as Walmart, Entyson Chicken money. So now you
have a little bit more resources in your pocket. Can
Arkansas build upon that and also recruit the state of Arkansas,
get the ones that are talented in that state, lock
them in, and then be able to go to across
the borders of Texas, Tennessee, over there by Memphis and
a couple other places Mississippi, Louisiana and get some of
(13:44):
these players. Because ultimately, that's what it's going to have
to take. And can you stop turn the football over?
They have to have a mindset switch at Arkansas if
they want to be able to compete and win games
at the highest level because in the SEC there are
no by wings.
Speaker 1 (13:58):
Well listen, I'll let you go in you're busy. I
want to let you watch your daughter play basketball. But
I do want to let you know that I'm very
excited for a year from now talking about James Franklin
and the Hokies. They're seeding in the playoff, and I mean,
my man has taking the recruiting class from one twenty
one to twenty two in a span of a week.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
So we coming we got I saw that he was
very excited about that. I saw him doing some things
and look, man, you should improve. I'm not going to
say that much. That's a huge jump, all right, but
you should improve when you're not having a coach at
team and all you're doing is focused on recruiting. And
James Franklin is a hell of a recruiter. Everybody's known
that about him since day one. So congrating you man
(14:35):
in your hockey. Because I saw Virginia walk the dogs
with him. My son was watching the recare that morning,
So I apologize about that. KD.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Yeah, you sound really to me.
Speaker 3 (14:45):
My team beat Yeah, my team beat our rivals. So
you know, like you said earlier, Man, that degenerates you,
egg Man such that's whatever.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Wow, you and Donna the Bama fan are really frigging
sensitive today, Mike. I was just being playful and I
took strays there at the end. All right, buddy, enjoy Alabama.
We'll talk to you soon.
Speaker 3 (15:03):
Thanks, kav be good man By Slow
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