November 27, 2025 • 41 mins
Jason Fitz and Buck Reising fill-in for Jason and Mike, previewing the biggests college football games this weekend. And the Lane Kiffin conundrum provides an opportunity to fix college football.
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He's buck rising up Jason fitz. Buckin Fitz taking over
Fox Sports Radio tonight on a big weekend across the landscape,
and one of the things we'll be talking a lot
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about is Rivalry Week. But here's the fact, nobody wants
to hear Buck rival Reweek doesn't really have the same
impact anymore. I want this. This is what I asked
eight pounds, six sounds Baby Jesus for this year for Christmas.
What I asked Santa Claus for very simple here's what
I need, the one thing in the world I need
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more than anything else in my sports library, my sports lexicon,
the thing that I am begging the gods to give me.
I need Michigan to beat Ohio State in the game.
And hear me out, Ohio State fans, don't get mad yet,
all right, don't get mad. I need Michigan to beat
Ohio State and then Ohio State to go on a
run that leads to a national championship. So that we're
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sitting here in February trying to make sense of a
team that's back to back national champions with back to
back losses in the game. Because every time I talk
to people in the Ohio area, every time I do
radio station interviews or talk about college football with anybody there,
all I hear about is we didn't win the game.
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We didn't win the game. We didn't win the game,
to which I say, you don't raise a banner for
winning the game. You raise a banner for a national championship.
You don't get a big fat ring full of diamonds
for beating Michigan. You do for a national championship. In
the modern landscape, the way the game is built like
rivalries matter because you still see him in the grocery
store and it means something to how it feels in
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the area. But like rivalry, games don't really matter. So
I want this chaos so that everybody has to understand
that it's far more important. Like Ryan Day's record against
Michigan doesn't matter. If he wins back to back championships.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
It would be five in a row from Michigan. If
they were to win this year, which again last year
was improbable, they did it anyway. This year, it would
be the first time we saw Ohio State against a
higher level of competition, which has kind of been I
don't know if it's a complaint, but just kind of
the footnote with this Ohio State team. Yes they're great,
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Yes they're the number one team. Yes they've handled business
all the way through. Yes, Julian Saying is a Heisman
Trophy candidate and favorite at this point in time. Well,
maybe Mendoz is the favorite, depending on which sportsbook you're
looking at. But still the case for Julian Saying is strong,
and they've got all the things that they need to
repeat as national champions. And maybe we've spent all of
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this time throughout the course of the last offseason in
college football season, talking about everybody else just for Ohio
State to win it again. But I don't think Ohio
State fans can't like That's what makes that hatred and
then that rivalry so special. It's the thing that keeps
rivalry weak relevant despite what the college football playoff implications
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and all these different things are. It's the hate and
how much it means for the fan bases and the
fact that Ohio State fans may care less about winning
back to back national championships than they do about beating Michigan,
because You're right, they don't get anything for beating Michigan
other than the fact that they get to spend a
year talking smack to the other state. It is as
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big a border war as exists in college sports. It
is fantastic, And it's not even the most exciting chaos
scenario that could happen this weekend, because the Iron Bowl
is this weekend, and the idea that Bama, who is
good but not perfect in this college football season, is
going up against as weird an Auburn team as I
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can remember in my lifetime like that actually has both
hatred implications and college football playoff implications that could be
so detrimental to everybody involved if Alabama was to lose
this weekend.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Well, that's why my Michigan scenario is so important, because
Ohio State's going to playoff either way, which is the
biggest part of this. You know, frankly what makes the
game meaningless. And this is where you know, ultimately people
in that area will constantly tell me you just don't
get it, you just don't get it, and then they'll
try and explain it to me. I get it. I
just I'm a very logic different person. I have very
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little emotion in my life. I kind of do everything
logically right. So the logic stacker in me, stacking my
bricks of logical content, sits there and says, I understand it.
I just don't care. Like at some point, there are
only three coaches in college football that have won a
national championship currently active. Ryan Day's one of them. So
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when we talk about Ryan Day, the thing we should
talk about is the fact that they're defending national champions
not what they did against Michigan. Now, to your point,
the Iron Bowl has so much on the line because
it is still of huge consequence Alabama is sitting here
in a really interesting position, and I do mean interesting
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because they need to guard themselves from what I think
is the other part of the inevitability here, which is
they go to the SEC Championship game, and let's just
say they lose the SEC Championship game, which then let's
just say gets them to three losses. Like this is
where everybody says, it doesn't matter three loss you lose
in the SEC Championship game, you won't be punished. I
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don't know. This year's committee is in eye test committee,
which we said from the day that from the first
day we saw him. So if you just if you
go into Auburn and you don't pass the eye test,
can I problems with this committee, Like if you go
into Auburn and you leave any sort of an element
of doubt that can be added to what they see
in the SEC Championship game, Like if they struggle against
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Auburn and then they get run out of the building
against Georgia for the SECS or to Texas A and M.
I should say, for the SEC Championship game by three touchdowns.
I don't think the playoffs are given for this team,
even with the win and the iron Ball.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
So which would be crazy chaos, No I know, but
if Alabama was to miss this thing again, it would
reignite all the kaelin de boor talk in that part
of the country and in this part of the country.
I'm in the Southeast right now. In SEC country, people
would lose their damn minds. It would also be a
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riot from the SEC. Greg Sankey would lose his mind
the commission of the most powerful league in collegiate athletics
right now, is specially given the kind of lobbying that
he has done to make sure that they weren't in
a position to only get three into the tournament this
year like they did a year ago. It would be
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as big a talking point, I think, And you can
debate the merits of this, but I think it would
be as explosive a talking point as Florida State getting
let out or left out of the College Football Playoff
picture a couple of years ago, after being able, after
having the schedule or having the success that they did
under Mike Norvell. And obviously we understand that the thing
is very much tailed off in the last couple of years,
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but at the time they did have a really good
case for what the hell are we doing here if
Florida State is not going to be included in the
middle of all of this stuff. So this is the
detriment of the conference championship games in the case for
making the playoffs. It's why rivalry week has such great
implications here, or such chaotic implications here. And to your
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point about the Committee, I mean, beyond a hunter yere
being as cringe worthy a person on television as I
can remember in my lifetime. The current College Football Committee
chair and current Arkansas athletic director, who, by the way,
hired a coach today to replace Sam pittman South Florida,
Alex Golish, the former Tennessee offensive coordinator who's been at
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South Florida and been doing some pretty good things down there.
Point being, the Committee showed you, I think in a
couple of different there's a couple of different things that
they're showing you. One that they are valuing losses more
than they value wins, and I don't love that logic
in that kind in certain circumstances, especially as it pertains
to Notre Dame in Miami. Secondarily, that they will fight.
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They have very clearly defined ceilings for some of these
programs a la Vanderbilt, where Vanderbilt handled business. Just smacked
Kentucky around on West End last week, and it didn't
move a spot. They're stuck at fourteen, even if they
beat Tennessee this weekend. No, and there still needs to
be some things that happen in front of them. The
committee is said, yeah, okay, it's cute that you've beaten
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a ranked LSU and a ranked Missouri at the time,
but you lost the two big games, the two games
that we value more than those ranked wins that you
actually put together. So we're just gonna leave you at
fourteen and you'll figure it out from there or you
won't tough pleep. That's kind of the situation that Alabama
is in because you get three losses on this year
and you're in that you're in that weird space. I mean,
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what's to say that a three loss Alabama wouldn't still
make it over a two loss Vanderbilt team.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Right, one hundred percent, And look, Vandy is the message
has been sent to Andy. I will say this, I'm
surprised where where we are, but I think Vandy could
beat Tennessee by sixty this weekend. And it won't get
him in the College Football Playoff. There's just too much
left in front of them, too many roadblocks. Because to
your point there at number fourteen, where things get really
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tricky for Alabama is just the what if here, and
this is the big what if that you'd have to
be worried about. What if BYU who turns around and
beats Texas Tech, for example, for the Big twelve championship game, Well,
Texas Tech is still going to go. We're already looking
at two bid thieves. We could even be looking at
three bid thieves. And if we get to three bid thieves,
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that's where losing the conference championship game becomes absolutely catastrophic.
Past committees has said that they don't want to hold
the conference championship game against you. But again, this particular
committee and the way they value the eye test means
how you look over the course of a few different
simple size weeks is going to be massively important. Go
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back to that game you just mentioned when you talk
about Notre Dame and Miami, and I watched I think
one of the most heated sort of debates I've watched
on ESPN as the panel on the College Football Ranking show.
They just absolutely disagreed at their core to the way
they should be handled. And I think that speaks to
the fact that there's no easy discussion here. Miami beat
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Notre Dame, but that was in the beginning of the season.
Much like I remind people all the time, the Raiders
beat the Patriots Week one, that doesn't mean the Raiders
are better than the Patriots in a power ranking today.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Transitive property though fits transitive property.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
But we end up with this weird and I mean
it's out here right, like what do you do when
you've seen two teams play and it should have emphasis,
it should have meaning, But also you know that one
team just looks better than the other, and they have
been able to couch it under. They weren't being in
the same they weren't considered in the same group. Now
they are like Miami and Notre Dame, only separate. They
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were discussed, according to the committee chair, in the same
grouping as Alabama and BYU, so directly head to head
with Notre Dame in the discussion, and head to head
still wasn't enough to put them up. So I think
that speaks to the fact that it's not just how
it's not just whether you win, it's how you look
when you win that will matter over the course of
the next two weeks.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Yeah, I don't know how I feel about that. And
maybe it's just because I've been watching this Players Players
Era Anditational thing where Tennessee just again to run it
through a local prism. I know we're doing national shows,
but Tennessee is one of the teams participating. They lost
blew a twelve point lead against Kansas tonight in a
third place game, so they still get two hundred thousand
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dollars worth of nil money. Kansas gets three hundred thousand dollars.
But they won their first two games, and arguably they
had as good a win as anybody's had all college
basketball season long yesterday against Houston. But because Michigan beat
down Auburn by so many more, they factored in point
differential i e. Style points as to put Michigan in
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this first place game against Gonzaga. And I don't love
the idea of style points having an outsized impact, even
if it is just one variable that's being taken into consideration.
I don't love the idea of style points in principle
because it just seems so subjective to me, like, it's
just not about how many more points than you score
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than the opponent, because that doesn't take into context what
the game situation was. Was it a turn over? Was
the game close for the vast majority of it, and
something just blew it open at the end. I don't
love that idea.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Yeah, it's it's a tough spot to be in because
it's certainly I don't know what the right answer is.
I'm glad I'm not in the committee this year, truly,
because I, as we've talked about before, I equated to
walking up to hotel coffee bar and like, you know,
you've got the coffee there, but you also have cream,
and you have sugar, and you have fake sugar, and
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you have half and half, and you know someplace you
have oat milk. You got all these different options. Right,
Everybody walks up to the same coffee bar, but how
they make their coffee ends up really different. So what
one committee might member might value, another committee member might not.
And I don't know how to make sense of all
of that in this world where it doesn't feel like
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it's wild wild West. Because I guess my biggest problem
with not putting weight in head to head above everything else.
Is that what's the point of scheduling these games if
you don't get the benefit from it? But also, do
you want to schedule the game if you know that
there's a possible like your season could be over in
Week one? I mean, as much as I'm sitting here
seeing Miami's not getting the benefit of a huge matchup,
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and that might keep teaching teams from even wanting to
schedule these the flip side of it is Notre Dame's
not getting punished for a Week one loss, which could
be incentives to keep scheduling these types of games. I
don't know what the right answer is. I just feel like,
if you devalue what we actually saw in the field,
what's the point of playing it?
Speaker 4 (14:30):
No, it's it's completely fairer. And that's the kind of
thing that has college football fans frustrated. And again, you know,
you always want the thing that you feel like is
a different alternative to what you're currently experiencing. Because what
this is creating is dialogue around college football. We've talked
about this before, dialogue the college football desperately needs. I
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know it's America's second most popular sport, but in order
to keep that to not get completely drowned out every
Monday or throughout the course of the week. Once the
NFL has spread itself across Sunday, Monday, Thursday, now Friday
with Black Friday football, you're you're losing real estate if
you're college and you're trying to find ways to continue
to prolong your conversation, to continue to prolong the interest
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in various teams seasons throughout the court of course of
the year. And I do think that the committee effectively
does that, even if it's the less scientific way from
what the BCS originally was.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Now, you're not wrong. I mean, if we just auto
bid this whole thing, then my god, nobody there's no
reason to talk about it. And if there's no reason
to talk about it, that's bad for the sport.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
It's like the rankings thing, like I don't really, I
don't know. Maybe this is defeatist, but like I don't
care what hunter you're a check has to say to
Rhyes Davis and he called him rick by the way
this no, I'm sorry he called him rich this week
while he's making the most awkward six seven reference in
the middle of his the middle of his committee dialogue
that I've ever heard of.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Kids put him up to that, right, like his kids
had to put him up that give us reference to.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
I don't care who put him to it. Just just
get through it, you know what I'm saying. So Like,
But my point is I already treat the rankings like
you're talking about. I see what the rankings look like
on Wednesday. I'm not watching these shows unless you know,
in this rare situation where a committee chair change is
the Macrods situation, who's put on personal leave by Baylor? Like,
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if something forces you to have to pay attention to
the dialogue around that, fine, and understanding that for our purposes,
Understanding the parameters or at least what they're saying about
how they evaluate these teams does matter. But if I
was if I was just a casual, if I was
a civilian in this world, I just checked the rankings
on Wednesday. Go about my business anyway, you know what
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I'm saying, Like, I don't care what hunter you're a
check has to say. If I'm a college football fan,
unless I'm Miami or Notre Dame, who's got to defend
the position.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
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We'll keep breaking it down. Obviously, the biggest story in
college football, one of the biggest stories in all of
sports this week, has been Lane Kiffin, and it might
be killing the entire college football world in front of
our very eyes. We'll describe exactly what's happening next, figure
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Jason Fitz. It's Bucking Fits on Fox Sports Radio. I
gotta be honest, I've been covering college football professionally for
about a decade now, Buck, I've never seen anything quite
like what we're seeing right now with Lane Kiffen.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Like, I.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Get it, he's the biggest name on the market. I
get it, he's the biggest brand on the market. I
get why teams would be interested to a degree in
Lane Kiffen. But it feels like this is absolutely blowing
the entire college football world up. I mean, when have
we ever seen three different programs just sitting and waiting.
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And now there reports out that Florida has started talking
to some other candidates, and there reports out that old
miss is starting to quietly reach out. It looks like
maybe a decision has been made, and you know we're
gonna find out on Saturday. He's headed to LSU. I
don't know. I won't pretend to know, but Buck, what
I do know is that this thing is broken and
the entire there is no fix. Sometimes things are broken
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in there isn't a fix. But if a head coach
walks away from a team before they go into the
college football playoff, which I don't fault him for doing,
he's got to go, like, he's got to go make
his money. He's gonna go take his new gig whatever. Fine,
he wants a new job. I get it. But the
thought of not coaching your team through the playoffs, to
me is just something I'm having a hard time wrapping
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my head around.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
No, it's egregious. And this is something that clearly has
bothered Nick Saban, who is now sitting up there on
the desk of College Game Day offering his thoughts to
America as a de facto college football commissioner without actually
having to do the job. In fact, Lee, I know
we have an abbreviated version of what Sabin had to
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say this past Saturday on the situation surrounding Lane Kiffin.
Speaker 6 (20:14):
This is not a Lane Kiffin conundrum. This is a
college football conundrum that we need some leadership to step
up and change the rules on how this gets done.
In terms of coaching, searches and opportunities for people to leave.
Players can lead. So if you went to the ole
Miss players, they would say, I want my coach to
coach to the seasons over. We got a chance to
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go to the playoffs ones, and next time we're going
to have a chance to go to the playoffs. So
that's the way it should be, regardless of what Lane
decides to do.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
So that's Nick Saban on the desk of College Game
Day this past weekend. FITZI, what's the biggest flaw in
Sabin's explanation or Saban's articulation of the problem without being
able to find there? Because he's saying the obvious, right,
And I'm not knocking Nick Saban or whatever, like, It's
true we do need leadership to step in and correct
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the problem. But what he's not necessarily articulating what the
problem is other than that they should change the schedule,
which of course revolves around collegiate academic institutions that theoretically
should not be deferential to athletics and the decision making
that comes there.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Right, Like, that's the hardest part is that National signing
days in early December, right, and so you have the
transfer portal and you have kids that have the opportunity
to start committing in early December. Many people have said,
you know what, we need to move that to after
the National Championship Game, which would be the NFL equivalent.
This is one hundred percent right. For everybody that says this,
your mindset is right. I cannot imagine being near the
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end of the NFL season and then having free agencies
start while teams are still in the playoffs. It is broken.
The problem is if you move it all the way
to after the National Championship Game, you would be moving
National Signing Day and transfer portal opening to the beginning
of February. I would ask everybody that's listening, how do
you enroll in school in a new college. How how
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do you change where you're going to school in the
beginning of February. The school times don't align with that, So, like,
there's no way to start that school system when you
need to start. If you want to be a part
of the spring practices all of these things, you have
to be enrolled in school. How do you enroll in
school in the middle of February. That doesn't work with
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actual academic calendars. So college football to fix this would
have to either ask every college in America to change
when their semesters start. Doesn't seem like that's likely to happen.
Or they're going to have to change the college football
calendar and start their games substantially early earlier. So then
you're talking about asking kids to start playing college football
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games in what late July? Like that, that doesn't make it,
he said, So like I hear Nick Chamber.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
Went south, I mean no, or in Texas or on
the West coast, Like it's just it's not it's not
feasible to enact that level of change for a variety
of different rates.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Yes, no, exactly. So that's why everything just becomes stuck.
And I think, you know again, this is where I
don't have any emotion. I just have logic with these things.
When you look at all of the logic, there is
no easy way for this to get worked out, Like
this is just the worst imaginable situation where a coach,
in order to go out and get the transfers and
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get the roster built that he needs to get built
at the school that's likely going to be paying him
ninety million dollars, he's going to have to stop coaching
at all Miss before the playoffs And that just feels
icky like that. But but I can't figure out a
way to solve it.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
No, it's I mean it is, it's not currently there's
not a solve that currently exists, right, We're just going
I have to get through the flaws of this thing
as it's currently constructed, and I mean, I don't know.
We'll see what decision Lane ends up making. It's going
to be polarizing either way. To your point the way
that you started this segment, there's never been one a
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situation like this, but also an atmosphere to create a
situation like this ever in the that I can think
of in the history of collegiate athletics. And the fact
that Lane Kiffin has done his job right, He's gotten
Old Miss into the playoff picture. Lane Kiffin has done
his job. And you could say, well, the job is
not finished because the goal is a national championship and
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that should be the priority. But that I think that
depends on the program that you're at, and it'll miss.
I think it is good enough to make the playoffs,
like I think Lane Kiffin has done his job at
a commensurate level that anything else beyond this would be gravy. Now,
if you want to be considered as one of the
best in your profession, if you want to be talked
about in the same way that we talk about Ryan
Day or Kirby Smart, than yeah, national championship every year
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is the standard, which is why LSU and Florida are
in consideration at all, because if it was just about
winning ten games a year, he could stay at all
MISS and have a much easier lifestyle, as you've pointed
out several times on our on our weekend show together, FITZI.
But it's just it's very, very convoluted right now, and
I don't what if what if he loses the egg ball,
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you know what I'm saying, Like, what if he loses
the egg Maybe maybe he's thinking about all right, I'm
I'm I'm going uh, no matter what. But then he
loses the egg bowl, LSU and Florida look around and
be like, how much money are we going to offer
the guy that just lost to Mississippi State When Mississippi
State doesn't beat anybody by the way, they're playing for
ball eligibility. They're not a good team, but they're a
team that's good enough to make you sweat at this.
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You talked about chaos scenarios earlier in the world of
college football, that that Egg Bowl has the potential to
be as catastrophic as any game played this weekend.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
That's that's complicated, like this entire situation, and there's another
reason why. I don't think there's an easy answer. We'll
tell you what it is next, but first, man's bel
you's got to get us caught up on what is
going on. Get us caught up.
Speaker 7 (26:03):
My friend fits you saying that it's icky is putting
it nicely, thank me, because it's so. It is so
it just sucks, Like the situation just sucks. And you
guys think there's a chance that Lane Kiffin is not leaving.
Why would you make that announcement if you were not leaving.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
I know we're waiting on the official.
Speaker 7 (26:22):
Announcement, but you get what I'm saying, Like, why would
you announce the announcement?
Speaker 4 (26:25):
Hey, why is there an announcement to begin with?
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Everybody, shut up, I'm so with you, I'm so with you.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Why are we announcing anything?
Speaker 7 (26:34):
Just play and then when there's news, then share the
news because maybe there's not no news, but there's no
way there's no news anyway. It's just it's just an
annoying situation.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
In the NBA.
Speaker 7 (26:43):
Fellas you know, I don't know how old Steph Curry
is off the top of my head, but this guy
is actually playing defense tonight, and it's really nice to
see against the Rockets. The Warriors are up right now,
sixty three to fifty. It's still early in the third quarter.
This is the NBA Group play for the NBA Cup.
The Spurs are up on the trail Plazer seventy to
sixty five, also still early in the third. Halfway through
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the third, these Suns are just cruising past the Kings
right now. Seventy two to fifty five is the score.
Russell Westbrook leading the way for Sacramento with fourteen points.
The Celtics snapped the Pistons thirteen game winning streak already.
They came out on top one seventeen to one fourteen.
Okse though is one of five NBA teams in the
history of NBA to start the season eighteen and one
or better. They defeated the Timberwolds one thirteen to one
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oh five. OKAC has also won ten in a row.
The Grizzlies defeated the Pelicans in overtime one thirty three
to one twenty eight. When it comes to the NHL,
the Avalanche have won ten in a row. They just
shut out the Sharks six zero early in the third period.
The Mammoth are up on the Canadians three to two.
Late in the second period, the Senators are edging the
Golden Knights three to two. Just like the Canucks and
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the Ducks, where the Canucks are up three to two
and the Kraken are up are no The Crackner are
losing to the Stars two to one, but alexovachikan Fell
has scored his nine hundred and eighth career goal and
the Capitol's top of the Jets four to three. Lightning
extend their winning streak to five after beating the Flames
five to one, and the Wild now have won six
in a row. They edged the Blackhawks four to three
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in overtime. When it comes to the NFL four time
Pro Bowl Detroit line center Frank Ragnow is coming out
of retirement. The Bengals have activated Joe Burrow, off injured reserve,
and Isaiah Pacheco, running back of the Chiefs, who's been
dealing with the knee injury. He is expected to play
Thursday against the Cowboys. In baseball, the Blue Jays are
signing pitcher Dylan Sees to a seven year, two hundred
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and ten million dollar contract, pending a physical. Also, ESPN
reports at the Angels and Third Basement Anthony Rendon are
in talks about buying out the final year of his contract.
He has owed thirty eight million in twenty twenty six
and he hasn't played in years. Okay, I'm exaggerating, but years.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Back to you guys, I just like the way you
said Anthony's last name, Monzi said, just yet.
Speaker 7 (28:55):
Lead Bendun yet, sure, bendon Un.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
Don't let don't make him do it now.
Speaker 7 (29:02):
What it's a good thing to practice rolling your rs.
You never know when you're gonna need it.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
No, that's fine, But he tries to do the sensual thing.
I just I cannot have that.
Speaker 7 (29:12):
Violating my ear Spanish is a sensual language.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
You know.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
Yeah, but this, this little pink Caucasian human being in
front of me rolling his ours is not sensual in
the least.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
So I, you know, look, help, My sensualness just comes
through when I say, Buck rising, is that?
Speaker 4 (29:35):
See?
Speaker 3 (29:36):
See he's a book rising on Jason Frish's Stop that's dy.
Sometimes I whisper just to make my co host uncomfortable.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
Works.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
You did great, You're amazing. H Yeah. Look, I don't
even know where I was going to go. I just
started whispering and Buck, and now I forgot what I
was talking about. Link Kiffin. Yeah again, my my theory
in life. By the way, you can test this out
while you're hanging out with your family on Thanksgiving. Anything
that you say normal, that you whisper then becomes creepy.
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It's not creepy when you say it, it's creepy when
you whisper.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
It.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Like if I look at Buck and I say, I
like the hat you're wearing tonight, not creepy. If I
look at Buck and I say I like the hat
you're wearing tonight, it's very creepy. See what I mean?
So just try that at a Thanksgiving.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
I don't like that at all not wonder. Oh you're welcome.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
I'm here to help. I'm here to help. I'll be
here all night. Try the mail. For over forty years,
tire Rack's been helping customers find the right tires for how,
what and where they drive. Buck wants to drive away
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tire buying should be. I'm not sure what the way
coach hiring should be, but like there is some nuance
to this, and I find myself correcting my own thought
process sometimes because Buck, we've debated this on the weekend
a few times about where you can win a national championship.
I'm a big believer you can win a national championship.
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And all miss right now. I mean, the proof is
in the fact that they should have been in the
playoffs last year. If their head coach hadn't helped them
blow a game against Kentucky, they would have been in
the playoffs. And the proof is in the fact that
they should be in the playoffs this year. So they
have one of the top nil budgets in the country.
You can win a national championship at all MISS. So
many people like me have been screaming, why would you
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go to LSU when you can win a national championship
at all MISS. But also what if Lane just wants
to go to LSU. Like if one thing that Nick
Saban was very right about in his statement, if a
player just decides they want to play somewhere else, they
can play somewhere else in college football really anywhere. If
a coach decides they want to coach somewhere else, they're
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just gonna go coach somewhere else. We spend so much
time trying to figure out what job is the better job,
when reality is, if Lane just wants to go to
LSU or Florida in the way that this is now
in the wy Wow West, he's got every right to
do that. And if he built it an old mess,
he can certainly build it build it wherever he goes.
So I understand the Lane portion of this. What I
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don't necessarily understand is why there's this level of absolute
just buffoonery over hiring a coach that doesn't have a
landmark win, Like what is what is the biggest win
of Lane Kiffin's career. And this is where people say,
just making old misrelevant is the biggest win of their career.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
Well maybe, yes, I know that's my entire argument. Thank
you for underminding me before I have the chance to speak.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
But here's the thing, Like just being able to win
games didn't keep Brian Kelly employed, right, Like just how
many less smiles did Miles? Yeah, but that's the thing,
Like this all gets really confusing to me because yeah,
he's the best candidate available, But is the entire college
football calendar worth changing and the entire way that everybody
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does business we're changing for Lane? Damn Kiffen.
Speaker 4 (33:06):
Well, no, it's not Lane Kiffin, but it's what it represents.
It's what Lane represents, right, It's the opportunity for this
to happen again. I think that if you are talking
about the circumstance around Lane, yes it is. I think
it's exacerbated because it's Lane, because Lane leans in on
social media, Because Lane is dealing with an athletic director
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that is comfortable putting out statements saying will announce what
we're gonna do with Lane Kiffin after the egg ball.
I just think that's as bad a move as has
been made in the middle of all of this that
has stirred stuff up unnecessarily. You can say that Lane,
you know, is that he should be above this, right
he's supposed to be this change person, this and the other.
Lane Kiffin has changed a great deal about his life
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and route to making himself again a success after all
the trials and tribulations of the early part of his career.
That doesn't mean that he's not allowed to lean into
some of this on social media the way that very
many of us would in our own lives. I think
your point about making it about Lane is correct, but
it's not about Lane. It's about preventing another situation like
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this for a team potentially. Get who is in the
playoff picture, who should be able to be in the
playoff picture, who has earned the right to participate in that,
but who's being undermined by the fact that all of
these institutions fired their coach in season. It's thrown the
coaching carousel into a level of fervor that we haven't
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seen so much so that James Franklin is getting scooped
up by Virginia Tech. Basically in the middle of the
season and is hanging out on the sidelines on a
Virginia Tech hoodie, watching everybody else coach a team that
he's getting ready to take over next year. It's it's
a very messy situation, so Lane, it's impossible to remove
Lane from the scenario. But you have to think about
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how many times, how many more times this could happen
down the line with the coaches of a similar caliber.
Wants SEC money, and that's really what it is. Once
SEC money starts to get involved the way that it has.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
You're right, and that's why I think there's a massive
change that has to be made. There's one thing that
can be done that would prevent this from ever happening again.
I'll tell you what it is next. He's Buck Rising.
I'm Jason Fitzer, hanging out with you on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
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Speaker 3 (35:30):
He's Buck Rising. I'm Jason Fitz.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
It's Bucking Fits on.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
Fox Sports Radio. The look of absolute disgust, disdain that
I'm getting right now from Buck Rising, who apparently just
doesn't like to whisper okay, buck.
Speaker 4 (35:50):
Uh, yeah, go ahead, let this play out. Oh yes,
the addited version of the Yeng Yang. I love the
Young Yang Twins. I love that they're performing at sea
World on a regular basis. Now. I don't know if
they have a residency there or not. It's just the
idea of you and the whisper song in the same
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time in my life is not something that I want.
I don't want anything to do with it. It's really a
you problem. It's got nothing to do with a whisper song.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
So I think I just picked my first song for
karaoke night when we go hang out, and that's what
it's gonna be. I'm gonna get right down on the
stet like I'm gonna writhe on the stage while I
whisper at you. That is my my goal, just to
make at me a salt. Yeah, that My goal is
to make the entire room uncomfortable. That's how we're gonna
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go viral. He's buck rising. I'm Jason Vinzer's bucket fits
anything but that.
Speaker 4 (36:46):
God, you're just slinking across the stage. Would you do
the unedited version or the edited version?
Speaker 3 (36:54):
Well, no, I'll do the edited version because I wanted
to go on social media and I wanted to live.
And to be clear, I'm not going to do the
worm while it happens. I'm gonna do the caterpillar. It's
less there's like it's just more like a weird crawl
where like the hips come up and I just like
inch my way across the stage. Wow, whispering your book.
Rising's God, this is.
Speaker 4 (37:15):
That you see what you've done. You see what you've done.
This is entirely within your control. We could have just
moved on, I mean, like mature adults, and yet in
my ears, we're coming back. Fits. This one's for you.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
But I don't I think I think this was flawlessly
done by the team. And I don't know why you
have to tear everybody down right before the Maybe you
should be thankful, Maybe you should just try to have
some nights in your heart for the fact that you
have a co host that can whisper so well. So,
you know, I think that that's maybe, maybe that's part
of my charm. Maybe that's a maybe that's a it's
a positive not a negative that I can whisper things too,
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and it's it works all right. I've fixed I've fixed
the college coaching conundrum. Oh good, college coaching conundrum.
Speaker 4 (37:54):
Transition.
Speaker 3 (37:55):
I have fixed it. Yeah, there's no way to transition
from making you uncomfortable. Uh, I've got it figured out.
And it just came to me while we were talking
just a moment ago. This one is is very, very simple.
We need to just we moving forward. Jimmy Sexton the
power agent of all college football coaches and feels like
it's time to have a new negotiation practice for every
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school while we're in this period. What you need to
do from now on moving forward, in every coaching contract
is simply put in the language that should the team
they're coaching make the playoffs, they cannot leave until the
playoffs are completed without let's say, an astronomical extra hundred
million dollars. You know, you just you put it an
astronomical number in there. That's like, great if you want
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to leave, if it's a playoff season and you choose
to walk away, then we want a hundred million dollars
like you put in a balloon payment that makes it
absolutely impossible for a coach to leave his team before.
Speaker 4 (38:55):
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt you in the
middle of that. I I mean, that would make sense.
But if you're Jimmy Sexton, would that not like this
plays into the hands of the agents to some extent, right,
like this is some of their leverage. Now, could they
stand to make more money if you put in a
poison pill type situation like that? Where I mean, would
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would a program get desperate enough to actually do it?
I don't know. I don't know what to make of
LSU in its entirety right now. The whole thing seems
to be a bit of a mess. We haven't talked
about Brian Kelly officially getting fired finally from LSU because
it was just so hard for him to find another job,
God forbid Brian Kelly.
Speaker 3 (39:32):
Well, but this is where to your point, the real
fix to college football for everybody that thinks it needs
to be fixed, and I'm not sure it does, but
the real fix is a commissioner is one league, one
league with divisions in it, and a collective bargaining agreement
where all of the teams, all of the programs across
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the country have one set of rules and all of
the players are part of a union that then negotiates
against those programs. It is the NFL. The real way
that you fix this is you implement salary caps and
standard procedures and you have a standardized practice all the
way across the board. The problem is that's going to
take ten years of court right, Like there's just it's
gonna take years of negotiation and litigation to get to
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that point. That's not a fast solution, but Buck, that's
the only real solution, like the real solution to the
calendar and to competitive balance. If you think that's an
issue again, I don't. The real issue to how you
control nil again, I don't think. But the only way
that's all going to happen is if they literally come
in and collectively bargain.
Speaker 4 (40:37):
And we know what a long and arduous process that
would be for us to even get to the point
of collective bargaining agreements. At this point in time's it
feels inevitable, but it doesn't feel immediate.
Speaker 3 (40:51):
Well, in the meantime, we'll figure out how to swim
in these waters. More importantly, we're gonna figure out who
the frauds are in the NFL. We'll do it next
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He's buck rising up Jason fitz. Buckin Fitz taking over
Fox Sports Radio tonight on a big weekend across the landscape,
and one of the things we'll be talking a lot
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about is Rivalry Week. But here's the fact, nobody wants
to hear Buck rival Reweek doesn't really have the same
impact anymore. I want this. This is what I asked
eight pounds, six sounds Baby Jesus for this year for Christmas.
What I asked Santa Claus for very simple here's what
I need, the one thing in the world I need
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more than anything else in my sports library, my sports lexicon,
the thing that I am begging the gods to give me.
I need Michigan to beat Ohio State in the game.
And hear me out, Ohio State fans, don't get mad yet,
all right, don't get mad. I need Michigan to beat
Ohio State and then Ohio State to go on a
run that leads to a national championship. So that we're
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sitting here in February trying to make sense of a
team that's back to back national champions with back to
back losses in the game. Because every time I talk
to people in the Ohio area, every time I do
radio station interviews or talk about college football with anybody there,
all I hear about is we didn't win the game.
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We didn't win the game. We didn't win the game,
to which I say, you don't raise a banner for
winning the game. You raise a banner for a national championship.
You don't get a big fat ring full of diamonds
for beating Michigan. You do for a national championship. In
the modern landscape, the way the game is built like
rivalries matter because you still see him in the grocery
store and it means something to how it feels in
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the area. But like rivalry, games don't really matter. So
I want this chaos so that everybody has to understand
that it's far more important. Like Ryan Day's record against
Michigan doesn't matter. If he wins back to back championships.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
It would be five in a row from Michigan. If
they were to win this year, which again last year
was improbable, they did it anyway. This year, it would
be the first time we saw Ohio State against a
higher level of competition, which has kind of been I
don't know if it's a complaint, but just kind of
the footnote with this Ohio State team. Yes they're great,
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Yes they're the number one team. Yes they've handled business
all the way through. Yes, Julian Saying is a Heisman
Trophy candidate and favorite at this point in time. Well,
maybe Mendoz is the favorite, depending on which sportsbook you're
looking at. But still the case for Julian Saying is strong,
and they've got all the things that they need to
repeat as national champions. And maybe we've spent all of
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this time throughout the course of the last offseason in
college football season, talking about everybody else just for Ohio
State to win it again. But I don't think Ohio
State fans can't like That's what makes that hatred and
then that rivalry so special. It's the thing that keeps
rivalry weak relevant despite what the college football playoff implications
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and all these different things are. It's the hate and
how much it means for the fan bases and the
fact that Ohio State fans may care less about winning
back to back national championships than they do about beating Michigan,
because You're right, they don't get anything for beating Michigan
other than the fact that they get to spend a
year talking smack to the other state. It is as
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big a border war as exists in college sports. It
is fantastic, And it's not even the most exciting chaos
scenario that could happen this weekend, because the Iron Bowl
is this weekend, and the idea that Bama, who is
good but not perfect in this college football season, is
going up against as weird an Auburn team as I
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can remember in my lifetime like that actually has both
hatred implications and college football playoff implications that could be
so detrimental to everybody involved if Alabama was to lose
this weekend.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Well, that's why my Michigan scenario is so important, because
Ohio State's going to playoff either way, which is the
biggest part of this. You know, frankly what makes the
game meaningless. And this is where you know, ultimately people
in that area will constantly tell me you just don't
get it, you just don't get it, and then they'll
try and explain it to me. I get it. I
just I'm a very logic different person. I have very
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little emotion in my life. I kind of do everything
logically right. So the logic stacker in me, stacking my
bricks of logical content, sits there and says, I understand it.
I just don't care. Like at some point, there are
only three coaches in college football that have won a
national championship currently active. Ryan Day's one of them. So
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when we talk about Ryan Day, the thing we should
talk about is the fact that they're defending national champions
not what they did against Michigan. Now, to your point,
the Iron Bowl has so much on the line because
it is still of huge consequence Alabama is sitting here
in a really interesting position, and I do mean interesting
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because they need to guard themselves from what I think
is the other part of the inevitability here, which is
they go to the SEC Championship game, and let's just
say they lose the SEC Championship game, which then let's
just say gets them to three losses. Like this is
where everybody says, it doesn't matter three loss you lose
in the SEC Championship game, you won't be punished. I
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don't know. This year's committee is in eye test committee,
which we said from the day that from the first
day we saw him. So if you just if you
go into Auburn and you don't pass the eye test,
can I problems with this committee, Like if you go
into Auburn and you leave any sort of an element
of doubt that can be added to what they see
in the SEC Championship game, Like if they struggle against
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Auburn and then they get run out of the building
against Georgia for the SECS or to Texas A and M.
I should say, for the SEC Championship game by three touchdowns.
I don't think the playoffs are given for this team,
even with the win and the iron Ball.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
So which would be crazy chaos, No I know, but
if Alabama was to miss this thing again, it would
reignite all the kaelin de boor talk in that part
of the country and in this part of the country.
I'm in the Southeast right now. In SEC country, people
would lose their damn minds. It would also be a
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riot from the SEC. Greg Sankey would lose his mind
the commission of the most powerful league in collegiate athletics
right now, is specially given the kind of lobbying that
he has done to make sure that they weren't in
a position to only get three into the tournament this
year like they did a year ago. It would be
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as big a talking point, I think, And you can
debate the merits of this, but I think it would
be as explosive a talking point as Florida State getting
let out or left out of the College Football Playoff
picture a couple of years ago, after being able, after
having the schedule or having the success that they did
under Mike Norvell. And obviously we understand that the thing
is very much tailed off in the last couple of years,
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but at the time they did have a really good
case for what the hell are we doing here if
Florida State is not going to be included in the
middle of all of this stuff. So this is the
detriment of the conference championship games in the case for
making the playoffs. It's why rivalry week has such great
implications here, or such chaotic implications here. And to your
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point about the Committee, I mean, beyond a hunter yere
being as cringe worthy a person on television as I
can remember in my lifetime. The current College Football Committee
chair and current Arkansas athletic director, who, by the way,
hired a coach today to replace Sam pittman South Florida,
Alex Golish, the former Tennessee offensive coordinator who's been at
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South Florida and been doing some pretty good things down there.
Point being, the Committee showed you, I think in a
couple of different there's a couple of different things that
they're showing you. One that they are valuing losses more
than they value wins, and I don't love that logic
in that kind in certain circumstances, especially as it pertains
to Notre Dame in Miami. Secondarily, that they will fight.
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They have very clearly defined ceilings for some of these
programs a la Vanderbilt, where Vanderbilt handled business. Just smacked
Kentucky around on West End last week, and it didn't
move a spot. They're stuck at fourteen, even if they
beat Tennessee this weekend. No, and there still needs to
be some things that happen in front of them. The
committee is said, yeah, okay, it's cute that you've beaten
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a ranked LSU and a ranked Missouri at the time,
but you lost the two big games, the two games
that we value more than those ranked wins that you
actually put together. So we're just gonna leave you at
fourteen and you'll figure it out from there or you
won't tough pleep. That's kind of the situation that Alabama
is in because you get three losses on this year
and you're in that you're in that weird space. I mean,
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what's to say that a three loss Alabama wouldn't still
make it over a two loss Vanderbilt team.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Right, one hundred percent, And look, Vandy is the message
has been sent to Andy. I will say this, I'm
surprised where where we are, but I think Vandy could
beat Tennessee by sixty this weekend. And it won't get
him in the College Football Playoff. There's just too much
left in front of them, too many roadblocks. Because to
your point there at number fourteen, where things get really
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tricky for Alabama is just the what if here, and
this is the big what if that you'd have to
be worried about. What if BYU who turns around and
beats Texas Tech, for example, for the Big twelve championship game, Well,
Texas Tech is still going to go. We're already looking
at two bid thieves. We could even be looking at
three bid thieves. And if we get to three bid thieves,
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that's where losing the conference championship game becomes absolutely catastrophic.
Past committees has said that they don't want to hold
the conference championship game against you. But again, this particular
committee and the way they value the eye test means
how you look over the course of a few different
simple size weeks is going to be massively important. Go
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back to that game you just mentioned when you talk
about Notre Dame and Miami, and I watched I think
one of the most heated sort of debates I've watched
on ESPN as the panel on the College Football Ranking show.
They just absolutely disagreed at their core to the way
they should be handled. And I think that speaks to
the fact that there's no easy discussion here. Miami beat
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Notre Dame, but that was in the beginning of the season.
Much like I remind people all the time, the Raiders
beat the Patriots Week one, that doesn't mean the Raiders
are better than the Patriots in a power ranking today.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Transitive property though fits transitive property.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
But we end up with this weird and I mean
it's out here right, like what do you do when
you've seen two teams play and it should have emphasis,
it should have meaning, But also you know that one
team just looks better than the other, and they have
been able to couch it under. They weren't being in
the same they weren't considered in the same group. Now
they are like Miami and Notre Dame, only separate. They
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were discussed, according to the committee chair, in the same
grouping as Alabama and BYU, so directly head to head
with Notre Dame in the discussion, and head to head
still wasn't enough to put them up. So I think
that speaks to the fact that it's not just how
it's not just whether you win, it's how you look
when you win that will matter over the course of
the next two weeks.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
Yeah, I don't know how I feel about that. And
maybe it's just because I've been watching this Players Players
Era Anditational thing where Tennessee just again to run it
through a local prism. I know we're doing national shows,
but Tennessee is one of the teams participating. They lost
blew a twelve point lead against Kansas tonight in a
third place game, so they still get two hundred thousand
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dollars worth of nil money. Kansas gets three hundred thousand dollars.
But they won their first two games, and arguably they
had as good a win as anybody's had all college
basketball season long yesterday against Houston. But because Michigan beat
down Auburn by so many more, they factored in point
differential i e. Style points as to put Michigan in
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this first place game against Gonzaga. And I don't love
the idea of style points having an outsized impact, even
if it is just one variable that's being taken into consideration.
I don't love the idea of style points in principle
because it just seems so subjective to me, like, it's
just not about how many more points than you score
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than the opponent, because that doesn't take into context what
the game situation was. Was it a turn over? Was
the game close for the vast majority of it, and
something just blew it open at the end. I don't
love that idea.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Yeah, it's it's a tough spot to be in because
it's certainly I don't know what the right answer is.
I'm glad I'm not in the committee this year, truly,
because I, as we've talked about before, I equated to
walking up to hotel coffee bar and like, you know,
you've got the coffee there, but you also have cream,
and you have sugar, and you have fake sugar, and
(13:29):
you have half and half, and you know someplace you
have oat milk. You got all these different options. Right,
Everybody walks up to the same coffee bar, but how
they make their coffee ends up really different. So what
one committee might member might value, another committee member might not.
And I don't know how to make sense of all
of that in this world where it doesn't feel like
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it's wild wild West. Because I guess my biggest problem
with not putting weight in head to head above everything else.
Is that what's the point of scheduling these games if
you don't get the benefit from it? But also, do
you want to schedule the game if you know that
there's a possible like your season could be over in
Week one? I mean, as much as I'm sitting here
seeing Miami's not getting the benefit of a huge matchup,
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and that might keep teaching teams from even wanting to
schedule these the flip side of it is Notre Dame's
not getting punished for a Week one loss, which could
be incentives to keep scheduling these types of games. I
don't know what the right answer is. I just feel like,
if you devalue what we actually saw in the field,
what's the point of playing it?
Speaker 4 (14:30):
No, it's it's completely fairer. And that's the kind of
thing that has college football fans frustrated. And again, you know,
you always want the thing that you feel like is
a different alternative to what you're currently experiencing. Because what
this is creating is dialogue around college football. We've talked
about this before, dialogue the college football desperately needs. I
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know it's America's second most popular sport, but in order
to keep that to not get completely drowned out every
Monday or throughout the course of the week. Once the
NFL has spread itself across Sunday, Monday, Thursday, now Friday
with Black Friday football, you're you're losing real estate if
you're college and you're trying to find ways to continue
to prolong your conversation, to continue to prolong the interest
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in various teams seasons throughout the court of course of
the year. And I do think that the committee effectively
does that, even if it's the less scientific way from
what the BCS originally was.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Now, you're not wrong. I mean, if we just auto
bid this whole thing, then my god, nobody there's no
reason to talk about it. And if there's no reason
to talk about it, that's bad for the sport.
Speaker 4 (15:31):
It's like the rankings thing, like I don't really, I
don't know. Maybe this is defeatist, but like I don't
care what hunter you're a check has to say to
Rhyes Davis and he called him rick by the way
this no, I'm sorry he called him rich this week
while he's making the most awkward six seven reference in
the middle of his the middle of his committee dialogue
that I've ever heard of.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Kids put him up to that, right, like his kids
had to put him up that give us reference to.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
I don't care who put him to it. Just just
get through it, you know what I'm saying. So Like,
But my point is I already treat the rankings like
you're talking about. I see what the rankings look like
on Wednesday. I'm not watching these shows unless you know,
in this rare situation where a committee chair change is
the Macrods situation, who's put on personal leave by Baylor? Like,
(16:17):
if something forces you to have to pay attention to
the dialogue around that, fine, and understanding that for our purposes,
Understanding the parameters or at least what they're saying about
how they evaluate these teams does matter. But if I
was if I was just a casual, if I was
a civilian in this world, I just checked the rankings
on Wednesday. Go about my business anyway, you know what
(16:37):
I'm saying, Like, I don't care what hunter you're a
check has to say. If I'm a college football fan,
unless I'm Miami or Notre Dame, who's got to defend
the position.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
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We'll keep breaking it down. Obviously, the biggest story in
college football, one of the biggest stories in all of
sports this week, has been Lane Kiffin, and it might
be killing the entire college football world in front of
our very eyes. We'll describe exactly what's happening next, figure
(17:29):
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Or wherever you get your podcasts. He's Buck Rising, I'm
Jason Fitz. It's Bucking Fits on Fox Sports Radio. I
gotta be honest, I've been covering college football professionally for
about a decade now, Buck, I've never seen anything quite
like what we're seeing right now with Lane Kiffen.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Like, I.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Get it, he's the biggest name on the market. I
get it, he's the biggest brand on the market. I
get why teams would be interested to a degree in
Lane Kiffen. But it feels like this is absolutely blowing
the entire college football world up. I mean, when have
we ever seen three different programs just sitting and waiting.
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And now there reports out that Florida has started talking
to some other candidates, and there reports out that old
miss is starting to quietly reach out. It looks like
maybe a decision has been made, and you know we're
gonna find out on Saturday. He's headed to LSU. I
don't know. I won't pretend to know, but Buck, what
I do know is that this thing is broken and
the entire there is no fix. Sometimes things are broken
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in there isn't a fix. But if a head coach
walks away from a team before they go into the
college football playoff, which I don't fault him for doing,
he's got to go, like, he's got to go make
his money. He's gonna go take his new gig whatever. Fine,
he wants a new job. I get it. But the
thought of not coaching your team through the playoffs, to
me is just something I'm having a hard time wrapping
(19:45):
my head around.
Speaker 4 (19:45):
No, it's egregious. And this is something that clearly has
bothered Nick Saban, who is now sitting up there on
the desk of College Game Day offering his thoughts to
America as a de facto college football commissioner without actually
having to do the job. In fact, Lee, I know
we have an abbreviated version of what Sabin had to
(20:06):
say this past Saturday on the situation surrounding Lane Kiffin.
Speaker 6 (20:14):
This is not a Lane Kiffin conundrum. This is a
college football conundrum that we need some leadership to step
up and change the rules on how this gets done.
In terms of coaching, searches and opportunities for people to leave.
Players can lead. So if you went to the ole
Miss players, they would say, I want my coach to
coach to the seasons over. We got a chance to
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go to the playoffs ones, and next time we're going
to have a chance to go to the playoffs. So
that's the way it should be, regardless of what Lane
decides to do.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
So that's Nick Saban on the desk of College Game
Day this past weekend. FITZI, what's the biggest flaw in
Sabin's explanation or Saban's articulation of the problem without being
able to find there? Because he's saying the obvious, right,
And I'm not knocking Nick Saban or whatever, like, It's
true we do need leadership to step in and correct
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the problem. But what he's not necessarily articulating what the
problem is other than that they should change the schedule,
which of course revolves around collegiate academic institutions that theoretically
should not be deferential to athletics and the decision making
that comes there.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Right, Like, that's the hardest part is that National signing
days in early December, right, and so you have the
transfer portal and you have kids that have the opportunity
to start committing in early December. Many people have said,
you know what, we need to move that to after
the National Championship Game, which would be the NFL equivalent.
This is one hundred percent right. For everybody that says this,
your mindset is right. I cannot imagine being near the
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end of the NFL season and then having free agencies
start while teams are still in the playoffs. It is broken.
The problem is if you move it all the way
to after the National Championship Game, you would be moving
National Signing Day and transfer portal opening to the beginning
of February. I would ask everybody that's listening, how do
you enroll in school in a new college. How how
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do you change where you're going to school in the
beginning of February. The school times don't align with that, So, like,
there's no way to start that school system when you
need to start. If you want to be a part
of the spring practices all of these things, you have
to be enrolled in school. How do you enroll in
school in the middle of February. That doesn't work with
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actual academic calendars. So college football to fix this would
have to either ask every college in America to change
when their semesters start. Doesn't seem like that's likely to happen.
Or they're going to have to change the college football
calendar and start their games substantially early earlier. So then
you're talking about asking kids to start playing college football
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games in what late July? Like that, that doesn't make it,
he said, So like I hear Nick Chamber.
Speaker 4 (23:02):
Went south, I mean no, or in Texas or on
the West coast, Like it's just it's not it's not
feasible to enact that level of change for a variety
of different rates.
Speaker 3 (23:14):
Yes, no, exactly. So that's why everything just becomes stuck.
And I think, you know again, this is where I
don't have any emotion. I just have logic with these things.
When you look at all of the logic, there is
no easy way for this to get worked out, Like
this is just the worst imaginable situation where a coach,
in order to go out and get the transfers and
(23:36):
get the roster built that he needs to get built
at the school that's likely going to be paying him
ninety million dollars, he's going to have to stop coaching
at all Miss before the playoffs And that just feels
icky like that. But but I can't figure out a
way to solve it.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
No, it's I mean it is, it's not currently there's
not a solve that currently exists, right, We're just going
I have to get through the flaws of this thing
as it's currently constructed, and I mean, I don't know.
We'll see what decision Lane ends up making. It's going
to be polarizing either way. To your point the way
that you started this segment, there's never been one a
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situation like this, but also an atmosphere to create a
situation like this ever in the that I can think
of in the history of collegiate athletics. And the fact
that Lane Kiffin has done his job right, He's gotten
Old Miss into the playoff picture. Lane Kiffin has done
his job. And you could say, well, the job is
not finished because the goal is a national championship and
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that should be the priority. But that I think that
depends on the program that you're at, and it'll miss.
I think it is good enough to make the playoffs,
like I think Lane Kiffin has done his job at
a commensurate level that anything else beyond this would be gravy. Now,
if you want to be considered as one of the
best in your profession, if you want to be talked
about in the same way that we talk about Ryan
Day or Kirby Smart, than yeah, national championship every year
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is the standard, which is why LSU and Florida are
in consideration at all, because if it was just about
winning ten games a year, he could stay at all
MISS and have a much easier lifestyle, as you've pointed
out several times on our on our weekend show together, FITZI.
But it's just it's very, very convoluted right now, and
I don't what if what if he loses the egg ball,
(25:19):
you know what I'm saying, Like, what if he loses
the egg Maybe maybe he's thinking about all right, I'm
I'm I'm going uh, no matter what. But then he
loses the egg bowl, LSU and Florida look around and
be like, how much money are we going to offer
the guy that just lost to Mississippi State When Mississippi
State doesn't beat anybody by the way, they're playing for
ball eligibility. They're not a good team, but they're a
team that's good enough to make you sweat at this.
(25:41):
You talked about chaos scenarios earlier in the world of
college football, that that Egg Bowl has the potential to
be as catastrophic as any game played this weekend.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
That's that's complicated, like this entire situation, and there's another
reason why. I don't think there's an easy answer. We'll
tell you what it is next, but first, man's bel
you's got to get us caught up on what is
going on. Get us caught up.
Speaker 7 (26:03):
My friend fits you saying that it's icky is putting
it nicely, thank me, because it's so. It is so
it just sucks, Like the situation just sucks. And you
guys think there's a chance that Lane Kiffin is not leaving.
Why would you make that announcement if you were not leaving.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
I know we're waiting on the official.
Speaker 7 (26:22):
Announcement, but you get what I'm saying, Like, why would
you announce the announcement?
Speaker 4 (26:25):
Hey, why is there an announcement to begin with?
Speaker 2 (26:28):
Everybody, shut up, I'm so with you, I'm so with you.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Why are we announcing anything?
Speaker 7 (26:34):
Just play and then when there's news, then share the
news because maybe there's not no news, but there's no
way there's no news anyway. It's just it's just an
annoying situation.
Speaker 3 (26:42):
In the NBA.
Speaker 7 (26:43):
Fellas you know, I don't know how old Steph Curry
is off the top of my head, but this guy
is actually playing defense tonight, and it's really nice to
see against the Rockets. The Warriors are up right now,
sixty three to fifty. It's still early in the third quarter.
This is the NBA Group play for the NBA Cup.
The Spurs are up on the trail Plazer seventy to
sixty five, also still early in the third. Halfway through
(27:03):
the third, these Suns are just cruising past the Kings
right now. Seventy two to fifty five is the score.
Russell Westbrook leading the way for Sacramento with fourteen points.
The Celtics snapped the Pistons thirteen game winning streak already.
They came out on top one seventeen to one fourteen.
Okse though is one of five NBA teams in the
history of NBA to start the season eighteen and one
or better. They defeated the Timberwolds one thirteen to one
(27:26):
oh five. OKAC has also won ten in a row.
The Grizzlies defeated the Pelicans in overtime one thirty three
to one twenty eight. When it comes to the NHL,
the Avalanche have won ten in a row. They just
shut out the Sharks six zero early in the third period.
The Mammoth are up on the Canadians three to two.
Late in the second period, the Senators are edging the
Golden Knights three to two. Just like the Canucks and
(27:47):
the Ducks, where the Canucks are up three to two
and the Kraken are up are no The Crackner are
losing to the Stars two to one, but alexovachikan Fell
has scored his nine hundred and eighth career goal and
the Capitol's top of the Jets four to three. Lightning
extend their winning streak to five after beating the Flames
five to one, and the Wild now have won six
in a row. They edged the Blackhawks four to three
(28:08):
in overtime. When it comes to the NFL four time
Pro Bowl Detroit line center Frank Ragnow is coming out
of retirement. The Bengals have activated Joe Burrow, off injured reserve,
and Isaiah Pacheco, running back of the Chiefs, who's been
dealing with the knee injury. He is expected to play
Thursday against the Cowboys. In baseball, the Blue Jays are
signing pitcher Dylan Sees to a seven year, two hundred
(28:30):
and ten million dollar contract, pending a physical. Also, ESPN
reports at the Angels and Third Basement Anthony Rendon are
in talks about buying out the final year of his contract.
He has owed thirty eight million in twenty twenty six
and he hasn't played in years. Okay, I'm exaggerating, but years.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Back to you guys, I just like the way you
said Anthony's last name, Monzi said, just yet.
Speaker 7 (28:55):
Lead Bendun yet, sure, bendon Un.
Speaker 4 (29:00):
Don't let don't make him do it now.
Speaker 7 (29:02):
What it's a good thing to practice rolling your rs.
You never know when you're gonna need it.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
No, that's fine, But he tries to do the sensual thing.
I just I cannot have that.
Speaker 7 (29:12):
Violating my ear Spanish is a sensual language.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
You know.
Speaker 4 (29:20):
Yeah, but this, this little pink Caucasian human being in
front of me rolling his ours is not sensual in
the least.
Speaker 3 (29:26):
So I, you know, look, help, My sensualness just comes
through when I say, Buck rising, is that?
Speaker 4 (29:35):
See?
Speaker 3 (29:36):
See he's a book rising on Jason Frish's Stop that's dy.
Sometimes I whisper just to make my co host uncomfortable.
Speaker 4 (29:45):
Works.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
You did great, You're amazing. H Yeah. Look, I don't
even know where I was going to go. I just
started whispering and Buck, and now I forgot what I
was talking about. Link Kiffin. Yeah again, my my theory
in life. By the way, you can test this out
while you're hanging out with your family on Thanksgiving. Anything
that you say normal, that you whisper then becomes creepy.
(30:09):
It's not creepy when you say it, it's creepy when
you whisper.
Speaker 4 (30:12):
It.
Speaker 3 (30:12):
Like if I look at Buck and I say, I
like the hat you're wearing tonight, not creepy. If I
look at Buck and I say I like the hat
you're wearing tonight, it's very creepy. See what I mean?
So just try that at a Thanksgiving.
Speaker 4 (30:24):
I don't like that at all not wonder. Oh you're welcome.
Speaker 3 (30:29):
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tire buying should be. I'm not sure what the way
coach hiring should be, but like there is some nuance
to this, and I find myself correcting my own thought
process sometimes because Buck, we've debated this on the weekend
a few times about where you can win a national championship.
I'm a big believer you can win a national championship.
(31:11):
And all miss right now. I mean, the proof is
in the fact that they should have been in the
playoffs last year. If their head coach hadn't helped them
blow a game against Kentucky, they would have been in
the playoffs. And the proof is in the fact that
they should be in the playoffs this year. So they
have one of the top nil budgets in the country.
You can win a national championship at all MISS. So
many people like me have been screaming, why would you
(31:32):
go to LSU when you can win a national championship
at all MISS. But also what if Lane just wants
to go to LSU. Like if one thing that Nick
Saban was very right about in his statement, if a
player just decides they want to play somewhere else, they
can play somewhere else in college football really anywhere. If
a coach decides they want to coach somewhere else, they're
(31:53):
just gonna go coach somewhere else. We spend so much
time trying to figure out what job is the better job,
when reality is, if Lane just wants to go to
LSU or Florida in the way that this is now
in the wy Wow West, he's got every right to
do that. And if he built it an old mess,
he can certainly build it build it wherever he goes.
So I understand the Lane portion of this. What I
(32:15):
don't necessarily understand is why there's this level of absolute
just buffoonery over hiring a coach that doesn't have a
landmark win, Like what is what is the biggest win
of Lane Kiffin's career. And this is where people say,
just making old misrelevant is the biggest win of their career.
Speaker 4 (32:36):
Well maybe, yes, I know that's my entire argument. Thank
you for underminding me before I have the chance to speak.
Speaker 3 (32:42):
But here's the thing, Like just being able to win
games didn't keep Brian Kelly employed, right, Like just how
many less smiles did Miles? Yeah, but that's the thing,
Like this all gets really confusing to me because yeah,
he's the best candidate available, But is the entire college
football calendar worth changing and the entire way that everybody
(33:03):
does business we're changing for Lane? Damn Kiffen.
Speaker 4 (33:06):
Well, no, it's not Lane Kiffin, but it's what it represents.
It's what Lane represents, right, It's the opportunity for this
to happen again. I think that if you are talking
about the circumstance around Lane, yes it is. I think
it's exacerbated because it's Lane, because Lane leans in on
social media, Because Lane is dealing with an athletic director
(33:29):
that is comfortable putting out statements saying will announce what
we're gonna do with Lane Kiffin after the egg ball.
I just think that's as bad a move as has
been made in the middle of all of this that
has stirred stuff up unnecessarily. You can say that Lane,
you know, is that he should be above this, right
he's supposed to be this change person, this and the other.
Lane Kiffin has changed a great deal about his life
(33:50):
and route to making himself again a success after all
the trials and tribulations of the early part of his career.
That doesn't mean that he's not allowed to lean into
some of this on social media the way that very
many of us would in our own lives. I think
your point about making it about Lane is correct, but
it's not about Lane. It's about preventing another situation like
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this for a team potentially. Get who is in the
playoff picture, who should be able to be in the
playoff picture, who has earned the right to participate in that,
but who's being undermined by the fact that all of
these institutions fired their coach in season. It's thrown the
coaching carousel into a level of fervor that we haven't
(34:32):
seen so much so that James Franklin is getting scooped
up by Virginia Tech. Basically in the middle of the
season and is hanging out on the sidelines on a
Virginia Tech hoodie, watching everybody else coach a team that
he's getting ready to take over next year. It's it's
a very messy situation, so Lane, it's impossible to remove
Lane from the scenario. But you have to think about
(34:55):
how many times, how many more times this could happen
down the line with the coaches of a similar caliber.
Wants SEC money, and that's really what it is. Once
SEC money starts to get involved the way that it has.
Speaker 3 (35:07):
You're right, and that's why I think there's a massive
change that has to be made. There's one thing that
can be done that would prevent this from ever happening again.
I'll tell you what it is next. He's Buck Rising.
I'm Jason Fitzer, hanging out with you on Fox Sports Radio.
Speaker 2 (35:22):
Be sure to catch live editions of The Jason Smith
Show with Mike harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
pm Pacific.
Speaker 3 (35:30):
He's Buck Rising. I'm Jason Fitz.
Speaker 4 (35:33):
It's Bucking Fits on.
Speaker 3 (35:34):
Fox Sports Radio. The look of absolute disgust, disdain that
I'm getting right now from Buck Rising, who apparently just
doesn't like to whisper okay, buck.
Speaker 4 (35:50):
Uh, yeah, go ahead, let this play out. Oh yes,
the addited version of the Yeng Yang. I love the
Young Yang Twins. I love that they're performing at sea
World on a regular basis. Now. I don't know if
they have a residency there or not. It's just the
idea of you and the whisper song in the same
(36:13):
time in my life is not something that I want.
I don't want anything to do with it. It's really a
you problem. It's got nothing to do with a whisper song.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
So I think I just picked my first song for
karaoke night when we go hang out, and that's what
it's gonna be. I'm gonna get right down on the
stet like I'm gonna writhe on the stage while I
whisper at you. That is my my goal, just to
make at me a salt. Yeah, that My goal is
to make the entire room uncomfortable. That's how we're gonna
(36:41):
go viral. He's buck rising. I'm Jason Vinzer's bucket fits
anything but that.
Speaker 4 (36:46):
God, you're just slinking across the stage. Would you do
the unedited version or the edited version?
Speaker 3 (36:54):
Well, no, I'll do the edited version because I wanted
to go on social media and I wanted to live.
And to be clear, I'm not going to do the
worm while it happens. I'm gonna do the caterpillar. It's
less there's like it's just more like a weird crawl
where like the hips come up and I just like
inch my way across the stage. Wow, whispering your book.
Rising's God, this is.
Speaker 4 (37:15):
That you see what you've done. You see what you've done.
This is entirely within your control. We could have just
moved on, I mean, like mature adults, and yet in
my ears, we're coming back. Fits. This one's for you.
Speaker 3 (37:26):
But I don't I think I think this was flawlessly
done by the team. And I don't know why you
have to tear everybody down right before the Maybe you
should be thankful, Maybe you should just try to have
some nights in your heart for the fact that you
have a co host that can whisper so well. So,
you know, I think that that's maybe, maybe that's part
of my charm. Maybe that's a maybe that's a it's
a positive not a negative that I can whisper things too,
(37:47):
and it's it works all right. I've fixed I've fixed
the college coaching conundrum. Oh good, college coaching conundrum.
Speaker 4 (37:54):
Transition.
Speaker 3 (37:55):
I have fixed it. Yeah, there's no way to transition
from making you uncomfortable. Uh, I've got it figured out.
And it just came to me while we were talking
just a moment ago. This one is is very, very simple.
We need to just we moving forward. Jimmy Sexton the
power agent of all college football coaches and feels like
it's time to have a new negotiation practice for every
(38:18):
school while we're in this period. What you need to
do from now on moving forward, in every coaching contract
is simply put in the language that should the team
they're coaching make the playoffs, they cannot leave until the
playoffs are completed without let's say, an astronomical extra hundred
million dollars. You know, you just you put it an
astronomical number in there. That's like, great if you want
(38:38):
to leave, if it's a playoff season and you choose
to walk away, then we want a hundred million dollars
like you put in a balloon payment that makes it
absolutely impossible for a coach to leave his team before.
Speaker 4 (38:55):
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt you in the
middle of that. I I mean, that would make sense.
But if you're Jimmy Sexton, would that not like this
plays into the hands of the agents to some extent, right,
like this is some of their leverage. Now, could they
stand to make more money if you put in a
poison pill type situation like that? Where I mean, would
(39:16):
would a program get desperate enough to actually do it?
I don't know. I don't know what to make of
LSU in its entirety right now. The whole thing seems
to be a bit of a mess. We haven't talked
about Brian Kelly officially getting fired finally from LSU because
it was just so hard for him to find another job,
God forbid Brian Kelly.
Speaker 3 (39:32):
Well, but this is where to your point, the real
fix to college football for everybody that thinks it needs
to be fixed, and I'm not sure it does, but
the real fix is a commissioner is one league, one
league with divisions in it, and a collective bargaining agreement
where all of the teams, all of the programs across
(39:54):
the country have one set of rules and all of
the players are part of a union that then negotiates
against those programs. It is the NFL. The real way
that you fix this is you implement salary caps and
standard procedures and you have a standardized practice all the
way across the board. The problem is that's going to
take ten years of court right, Like there's just it's
gonna take years of negotiation and litigation to get to
(40:16):
that point. That's not a fast solution, but Buck, that's
the only real solution, like the real solution to the
calendar and to competitive balance. If you think that's an
issue again, I don't. The real issue to how you
control nil again, I don't think. But the only way
that's all going to happen is if they literally come
in and collectively bargain.
Speaker 4 (40:37):
And we know what a long and arduous process that
would be for us to even get to the point
of collective bargaining agreements. At this point in time's it
feels inevitable, but it doesn't feel immediate.
Speaker 3 (40:51):
Well, in the meantime, we'll figure out how to swim
in these waters. More importantly, we're gonna figure out who
the frauds are in the NFL. We'll do it next
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