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Speaker 5 (00:37):
What will be the word for it, Well, I'm just
trying to get rid of my pole ed pocket protector
right here now.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
Yeah, exactly. That was a good rant. I knew you
loved ball. I didn't know it was going to get
you to that level, but that was good. I appreciate it.
I hope you feel better. I don't think you do, though.

Speaker 4 (00:53):
I got a weight off my shoulders.

Speaker 3 (00:54):
Now, Yeah, what's the headline right now for Gopher football?
Before we talk about national stuff and the chaos that
is December and it appears to be chaotic this time
of year.

Speaker 4 (01:04):
There's only one transfer portal window. It's going to open January. Second.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
There's a lot of what they call in the business
pre portaling, which is a fancy way to say tampering.
I think, yes, pre portaling going on right now, But
what is the headline? What are we a week and
a day right, Yeah, a week and a day from No,
a week and two days from the Rate Bowl. No
longer the guaranteed rate bawl. They're not going to guarantee
the rate. They'll give you a rate. You don't know

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what the hell's going to be questions and it's not
going to be guaranteed. But it's the Rate Bowl A
week from Friday, Gophers, New Mexico.

Speaker 1 (01:35):
What's the headline right now around the program?

Speaker 5 (01:38):
Oh, there's so many different directions you could go with it,
I think, especially now that it's it's weird to say this,
but we're going to be going into year ten of
PJ Fleck here in Dinky Town.

Speaker 4 (01:48):
It's crazy.

Speaker 5 (01:48):
I still remember asking him out in Vegas prior to
the season a big ten media days. I looked him
in the eyes on the record and said, did you
think you were going to be here this long? Because
I didn't, and he was like, Nope, didn't think I was.
But I'm happy to still be here and happy to
still be an above five hundred team and I think
for a lot of fans, especially casual fans in this market,
they want to see them have an Indiana type of

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season or have a twenty nineteen type of season again.
And I get the twenty nineteen vibe where that we
all want that, and the question is how do you
get back there? And I think when you look at
the direction of this program where your quarterback came out
with your guy Mike Grimm and said he's going to
be coming back, I can tell you that he resigned
before a national signing day. He wanted to get that

(02:31):
done right after the Wisconsin game so he can start
to talk to guys in the portals, start to figure
out who he's going to be throwing the football to.

Speaker 4 (02:38):
In Drake Lindsay. But it's how do they get back
to that?

Speaker 5 (02:42):
And I think it starts with how do you build
again in the portal where you're going to be losing
a lot of players, especially on the defensive line, where
you're only as good as you are upfront. And that's
where I'm so tired of talking about the offensive and
defensive lines. But frankly, the offensive line may have been
the weakest link that I've seen a Gopher offensive line

(03:02):
in Pj's now ten years here what it will be
next year. And if you're not if you're not really
good up front, it's going to be tough to run
the football. And they stunk it running the football, and
it's tough to protect your quarterback and thinks of that nature.
But it's when you look at how it has to
go over these next four to six weeks where the
portal opens on January second, closes for new entrants at

(03:24):
midnight for Cinderella there on January the eighteenth, they have
to hit in the portal with raising the floor and
raising the ceiling where you have immediate needs at.

Speaker 4 (03:33):
Right tackle, defensive line.

Speaker 5 (03:35):
I tell you, I'd like somebody that Drake Lindsay can
go throw the ball to that actually can have something
called the contested catch that I continue to hear about
but don't watch consistently enough at hunting a Bank Stadium.
But it's how can PJ get from the six seven,
eight wins that he has been incredibly consistent at here
to getting back to a ten win season that puts

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you in this era on the cusp of a college
football playoff.

Speaker 3 (04:00):
Let's talk about Drake Lindsay and let's let's stay with
the portal thing for a second. Actually, because we just
talked payroll last segment talking about the twins, how do
you feel about how they are positioned now financially with Revschaer,
Dinky Town athletes, the whole deal, because I think I
think that's the question I always get from people, and

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you know that I went on the rant and the
parent of spare rant that people said, well, yeah, Drake's
playing good football, too bad they're going to lose him
at the end of the year, which I thought was
stupid at the time, and obviously it was proven to
be stupid. Yeah, I'm not saying he'll never leave, because
if to your point, if he's getting sacked fifty times
next season and they don't have any wide receivers, he's
probably not going to stay. But it wasn't as easy
as he's good to go get a bag somewhere. Someone's

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going to pay him, which just drives me crazy, as
you know. So give us their pole add number or
not number, but their poll add positioning in terms of
where they used to be to where they are now
going into the portal season means money season, and really
even player retention season means money season.

Speaker 4 (05:01):
How they're positioned now.

Speaker 5 (05:03):
Well, you have to remember, and again for those listening,
there was a house settlement where now schools can pay players.
And that's one of the things where all of these
Power five college football teams have, say fourteen million dollars
immediately coming out of the athletic department budget to pay
their players. Now, not every player is going to get
the same amount of money. That's not how this works.

(05:25):
I would tell you Drake Lindsay is easily making a
million dollars, Okay, I would tell you that for teams
like Brett's Wisconsin Badger team and Iowa team that's going
to be losing Mark Ronowski Indiana. There's a lot of
teams that are going to be looking for an established
veteran portal quarterback. They're going to be easily one and
a half, if not two plus million dollars.

Speaker 4 (05:46):
Right.

Speaker 1 (05:46):
You throw Nebraska in there now too, correct.

Speaker 5 (05:48):
I mean that is not a place where Minnesota can
live because if you have to think about it in
terms of what you have for a budget, and again,
from what I understand Dinkeytown athletes, Minnesota is thatile collective
is giving Fleck and his staff more money this year
than they did last year. I don't know the exact
number to that, but I would even say you have
to think about it almost as an NFL type of

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strategy where you don't want to have the highest paid
players on the team being guys like running backs and
safeties because it's hard to then build an offensive line,
a defensive line, things of that nature.

Speaker 4 (06:21):
So it's they have money.

Speaker 5 (06:23):
But I also think part of the Signetti conversation where
you and I both have said for a very long
time since he took over the Indiana job and has
done amazing things for them, amazing things again the number
one team in the top there's a reason he is
the coach of the year, and he gets the most
out of his players, the most out of his coaches.

Speaker 4 (06:42):
He's an outstanding coach.

Speaker 5 (06:44):
But I also think people need to look at when
did Mark Cuban leave his prominent position with the Dallas
Mavericks and how does that coincide with some of the
donations that have now since come into the Indiana football
program to elevate their assistant coach pool where they've got
the Broyls Award winner and their defensive coordinator, and I

(07:04):
mean even the Heisman Trophy winner who I think. I
know I had him number one on my Heisman ballot,
and Fernando Mendoz, I think you did too.

Speaker 4 (07:11):
I sure did. I thought it was an easy call.

Speaker 5 (07:13):
I mean they went out in the portal and bought
him from millions of dollars from cal like they were
able to go spend money because they had money. And
that's a great thing for Indiana. And I don't think
they should be taking away from everything that they've done,
because we've been screaming from the mountain tops for more
parody in college football, and now you have. Indiana is
the number one team in the country right now. So

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it's trying to make sure if you're a team like Minnesota,
you've you've done the most difficult thing in football and
that you found.

Speaker 4 (07:41):
A good quarterback. Yeah, and he's good.

Speaker 5 (07:43):
He is, and I think if you continue to build
around him, he can be even better and then you
can actually have a run game with guys like Darius
Taylor if he can stay healthy, which is a giant
question mark into twenty twenty six. But he needs an
offensive line and I think that's something they have to
continue to build around.

Speaker 3 (07:58):
All right, when we come back with Burns, we'll talk
a little bit more Gophers. I want to get into
the Michigan conversation. I also want to talk College Football
Playoff with him, because, believe it or not, it starts
this weekend.

Speaker 4 (08:06):
A lot more to get to with Burns.

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Speaker 3 (08:42):
I like this question to Ryan Burns from Gopher Illustrated
dot com. You can follow him at Ryan Burns and
on Twitter. You hear him on Gopher grid Iron Radio.
You hear him on the Parent of Spare podcast. He
joins me every Sunday on Go for Football Sunday. He's
one of the best. He's one of my guys, and
I don't think I've ever asked you this or that
you and I have ever talked about this, but it's
an interest in question. Why are NIL donations, fundraising payments,

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et cetera so secretive and vague?

Speaker 5 (09:08):
Why are they? Yes, how would you like to take this?
I mean, I mean it's something to where it's becoming
more and more transparent every year, because the days of
me getting a phone call from someone saying, Chipskoggin's Tennessee

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volunteers gave this football player one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars in a McDonald's bagh, which that is one hundred
percent a true story that I have been told. Like
that is how teams in the SEC used to get
things done. Was you mean, you just give kids cash
and bags and you go from there. And it's a
lot harder to do that now because there is more

(09:50):
and more violations and more and more I guess technically
repercussions for things like that, and they're trying to get
more and more things above. But it is fascinating that
even in a place like say the SEC, where you
have the SEC and the Big ten and the two
big power two schools, that to even find out what

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Gunner Stockton at Georgia Mayde is just so hush hushed
that even the people who do know can keep it squashed.

Speaker 4 (10:19):
It's truly amazing, and I think it's just.

Speaker 5 (10:22):
Because no one wants to alert their competitor to a
competitive advantage of what would be Well, I know this
guy is making xyz amount, yet we're not going to
let our school amounts get out.

Speaker 4 (10:35):
It's I want it all to be above board.

Speaker 5 (10:37):
And I think in the next five to ten years,
this whole thing with college specifically college football athletes, is
going to be going towards a collective bargaining agreement because
I think both sides are getting tired, and specifically donors
are getting tired of not knowing complete transparency as to
where their money is going. Sure, and look, if I
had had that type of money and I had that

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type of generational wealth, I personally i'd go buy one
hundred acres and get out of here. But if you
want to go buy a starting quarterback, you can do
that too, right, But you don't.

Speaker 3 (11:07):
Those those guys can do both. Yes, those guys can
do that and whatever else they want.

Speaker 5 (11:12):
The decision is between my third yeah yacht, mister polad
or if it's going to buy a starting quarterback.

Speaker 4 (11:17):
I get it, but it's it's becoming more above board.

Speaker 5 (11:20):
But that's the thing about college football is you don't know,
I mean, just the way that the rules are set.

Speaker 4 (11:26):
Up right now.

Speaker 3 (11:26):
So there's been a lot of money figures that have
been thrown around. Michigan State just made a big announcement
that they're going to raise a billion dollars for their
athletic department. A billion, and that's a legit number, a billion.
They got four hundred and one million from one guy
who started some kind of financial company or something, right,
and he's buddies with Tom Izzo. Illinois just had a
couple hundred million dollar donation that was announced by one individual.

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And so that led me to and I've always said,
and I've contended that the worst loss in Minnesota sports
history was t Denny Sanford. It wasn't Michigan on Friday Night.
It wasn't the overtime game in the Frozen Four a
few years ago. It wasn't to Iowa in two thousand
and nine or Wisconsin in two thousand and nine.

Speaker 4 (12:06):
It was teed any Sandford.

Speaker 3 (12:07):
Because you only have to drive about three hours west
northwest southwest, and you'll see that Sandford basically owns the
Dakotas and I'm guessing parts of Iowa.

Speaker 4 (12:17):
That was a big loss for this university.

Speaker 3 (12:19):
But it led me to google richest Minnesota alumni because
I was just curious because you mentioned Mark Cuban. They've
got a couple of those guys, right. A lot of
schools have these dudes, these men and or women. Shoot,
look at Saint Thomas with Lee and Penny Anderson that
just said, yeah, what do you want for a new building, Yeah,
we'll do it. Yeah, whatever, We've already built a couple,
but we're happy to build another one. You kind of

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have to have some of those guys, and we don't
have those guys. Bernsy the richest alums, Well, we got
a lot of Cargills who are like the Dutton family
in Yellowstone. They are super secretive and they don't want
you in their business at all. They're not going to
give any money. There's another guy who his family trust
I think to Carlson School. His family they're big into

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like environmental causes. So I don't think they're going to
get you a new quarterback. I guess I just wanted
to get that on the record that I've looked into it,
and I don't think we have our white whale, unless
with Joe Polad getting kicked out of the Twins, you
think that he might want to make something happen and
rewrite his legacy and help PJ.

Speaker 4 (13:20):
Flecky.

Speaker 3 (13:21):
I'm sure they live close to each other and he dinah,
could we make that work?

Speaker 4 (13:24):
Well.

Speaker 5 (13:24):
The one I would be hoping to see is we
were just out at Oregon probably about a month ago,
and I was watching the Marcus Mariota Performance Center go up,
and I'm thinking to myself, didn't Antoine Winfield Junior become
one of the highest paid safeties in the NFL?

Speaker 3 (13:37):
Here, sure, Rashot Bateman just resigned a nice contract. They've
got a lot of dudes in the NFL.

Speaker 5 (13:41):
Now, I'd be hoping that, Yeah, for the Bateman's and
the Winfields. Maybe that's the avenue that they explore. Because
even the University of Minnesota thing, it predates Mark Coyle.
It goes back to materia even pre date's probably my
existence on this earth.

Speaker 4 (13:54):
It does.

Speaker 5 (13:55):
But it's one of the things that Mark Coyle and
this staff have to continue to figure out they're only
going to spend what they have, and the reality of
the situation is they're sixteenth in terms of revenue, which
means they're bottom five in the Big ten in terms
of spending. And if you're going to compete with the
teams you want to be competing with, especially get to
get to a college football playoff, you've got to figure

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out the money problem.

Speaker 4 (14:18):
What's going to happen at Michigan?

Speaker 5 (14:21):
Are we talking the Real Housewives of Van Arbor Below
Deck Lake Michigan edition?

Speaker 4 (14:25):
It is?

Speaker 5 (14:26):
And when that bombshell dropped where I mean, to be
quite honest with you, the more it unfolded and I
couldn't get enough of it is I felt bad for
Sharon Moore's family. I want to get that stata right away,
his wife and kids with that whole thing and how
it went down, and then he's placed in a psych
hold for forty eight hours, gets to appear in the
jumpsuit on tell. I mean, it's it's not a good deal.

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And I don't know that Sharon Moore is ever going
to be And I know you've always been You've said
this for a long time. You've always been big Searon
Moore guys since he started crying after the Penn State
win what was it twenty twenty three when he was
the intern cast.

Speaker 3 (15:00):
It's still one of the most ridiculous scenes I've ever seen,
is him crying on the field of Penn State, like
Jim Harbaugh was in a hospital in nearby State College,
fighting for his life, when in fact he was just
suspended for cheating. But it's one of the most preposterous
scenes I've ever seen. It still bothers me to this day.

Speaker 4 (15:17):
Now.

Speaker 3 (15:17):
I don't wish this on everybody, right, this is so far,
so far gone, but anyway.

Speaker 5 (15:24):
I mean, the whole thing is just incredibly chaotic. And
the one thing to me that I still can't believe
as we sit here in time that is still true
is that Ward Manual is still the athletic director at Michigan.
Because you cannot convince me that he didn't know that
he didn't know that the entire situation that was going
on with his executive assistant, which had been years in

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the making, that if you had been in college football circles,
this entire fall had been being talked about, and for
him to plead ignorance there is just incredibly insane to me.
And now they've got this internal investigation going on. But
the question becomes, is he really going to be the
one to make that higher? Where this is still one
of the best ten to fifteen jobs in college football?

Speaker 4 (16:08):
I'd be higher it probably is.

Speaker 5 (16:10):
They just won a national championship two years ago and
they went out and again they're not lacking money there
with their five star quarterback and Bryce Underwood who they
inked to a multi year deal from multi millions per year,
say two something million dollars per year, Like, this is
a great job, But are you going to entrust that
Ward Manual is going to be the man to make
that higher? And if he is going to be, is

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it going to be someone like Kenny Dillingham from Brett's
Arizona State team? Is it going to be former Golden
Gopher offensive coordinator from two thousand and nine Mounds View,
Minnesota stand up Adam Weber's offensive coordinator.

Speaker 3 (16:44):
I believe Jed Fish and one of them, one of
Adam Weber's ocs.

Speaker 4 (16:47):
He had a few Well.

Speaker 5 (16:48):
I was also talking with your guy Daniel House today
and he brought up a great point and I want
to discuss it is if.

Speaker 4 (16:55):
We're going to go outside of the college football.

Speaker 5 (16:57):
Circle here, and also still because you know Michigan, the
US University of Michigan loves to talk about Michigan men
and the.

Speaker 4 (17:03):
Values that they hold.

Speaker 5 (17:05):
What if they go out to Green Bay, Wisconsin and
hire the offensive coordinator Adam Stenovich, a Michigan grad.

Speaker 4 (17:12):
Do we like him, Brett?

Speaker 1 (17:14):
I mean, that would suck.

Speaker 4 (17:15):
He's a packer, he is, yeah, yeah, I mean he's
a good coach.

Speaker 1 (17:19):
I mean it's Lafleur's offense.

Speaker 2 (17:21):
So it's one of those things where you're like, we
know you're highly spoken of and Rogers loved him, but
it's like, I don't know from a fan perspective what
you do exactly.

Speaker 1 (17:30):
So you know.

Speaker 2 (17:32):
But I'm sure he's a good coach because everyone talks
highly of him. I just don't know where Lafleour ends
and he begins.

Speaker 4 (17:38):
Well that's where I thought.

Speaker 5 (17:39):
I saw something come out in the last couple of
weeks where he's one of the highest paid coordinators in
the NFL. He's a Michigan grad. He's got great success
here with Jordan Love and everything. So you were able
to keep it within the family of someone like the
University of Michigan. He's in a lum but then you're
able to bring the NFL roots in and then also
try to have him figure out how to then p

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this thing together because I wonder how many names on
the list, whatever the list is for Ward Manual, how
many names do you have to whiff on before you
just say your guy. Biff Pogi is the interim here
for twenty twenty six. We figure out the internal investigation,
probably fire our athletic director, and then he can be
the one to make the higher. That's the whole fascinating

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part about all this is how many more dominoes have
to fall for this Michigan thing to continue to go.

Speaker 3 (18:27):
Well, what's interesting is they've shown over the last seven years.
So I know Harbaugh got higher the year that we
were at the Citrus Bowl. I remember watching the press
conference in Orlando and he didn't come in Gangbusters. They
were good. They were nine and three every year and
they'd go to the Citrus Bowl or the Outback Bowl
and they'd play Alabama. But fans were bitter right because
they weren't beating Ohio State. Well then we know they

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started beating everybody, and we learned some of the reasons
why they were cheating during COVID recruiting people. And then
we know about Connor Stallions and he had his contract slash,
which I thought at the time was I don't know if.

Speaker 4 (19:00):
We were doing pairent of spare.

Speaker 3 (19:01):
At the time, I'm like, the guy's winning every game,
but one like, can we get serious here? Because Michigan
was not very good in the years before he got there,
whether it was Brady Holk or Rich Rodriguez, they clearly
made the decision at that point that we don't give
a bleep about anything, and even their old president was
backing Harbaugh in the Boys, even though it was obvious

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what was going on. And now that's all. It's like
a credit card payment. Now the interest you know, the
the interest free period is done. You know that TV
financed from best Buy. Now the eighteen month promotional period's done,
and all of a sudden, the thing is shot up
and you got a bunch of more payments.

Speaker 4 (19:38):
That's what's fascinating to me. They just didn't care.

Speaker 3 (19:40):
They just wanted football to be good, and they got
their national championship, and so everybody's happy there.

Speaker 5 (19:44):
Or even your Ohio State team and when we're talking
about Michigan even Ohio State. What I mean, we've talked
about it on Pairent of Spare, but I think you
should let the listeners know what did the outgoing athletic
director at Ohio State too, in terms of running up.

Speaker 4 (19:58):
A thirty million dollar deficit the last year that he
was there.

Speaker 5 (20:00):
Can you imagine the west side of town's paper if
that were to ever happen here at the University of Minnesota,
the skating columns that would come out.

Speaker 3 (20:08):
Yeah, yeah, I mean, but they wanted to be go
to football and that's what he said, and that's what
it is, and they won a national championship.

Speaker 5 (20:13):
So it's a crazy world. It is a crazy world.
But that's where it's going to be. How much further
does this snowball have to roll downhill? Because I think
it's more. I think you either have to go out
of the box with an Adam Stenovich or you have
to go interim with a Biff Pogi Because I just
don't believe that by the time this internal investigation gets
wrapped up that Ward Manual is still going to be

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the athletic director. So if you are a sitting head coach,
say Kenny Dillingham, knowing that you might be six months
into the job, thinking, am I even on solid footing
here if this isn't the guy that hired me. So
there's a lot of questions that Michigan has to figure out,
but like you said, it is still one of the
best jobs in college football.

Speaker 3 (20:52):
A lot of texts here to the KFE and Bradshawn
Bryant text line six four six eighty six.

Speaker 4 (20:56):
I want to get to a couple of them.

Speaker 3 (20:57):
We talked earlier about drag Lindsay coming back for the Gophers,
who'll play in the bowl game next week? What do
we we know le Micky Brockington is not going to
play in the bowl game? Do we expect that everybody
else is going to play? We're in the age of
the opt out, and the Gophers, like I obviously, we
know that bowl games don't hold the same prestige that
they used to hold when we were all kids, and
we are in the opt out season. Part of the

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reason why the Gophers are playing New Mexico is because
two programs just said, we don't really have a coach,
and we don't really know who's going to be on
our team, So we can't go. Yeah, i kanas Kansas
State and Iowa State, those were supposed to be. In fact,
I think the Bowl guy even said, we thought it
was going to be Iowa State, which would have been
a cool, fun little matchup.

Speaker 4 (21:33):
Right.

Speaker 3 (21:33):
Well, now Matt Campbell's at Penn State and they don't.
They have their coach, but they they didn't want to.
You know, you force feed it and make the guys play.
But pj's guys have played. You know, I do hold
a soft spot in my heart for programs like Iowa.
Then no matter what ballgame they go to, they say, yeah,
we're good, we're playing like it's football. We're going to play,
and Minnesota has been pretty consistent with that as well.

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I would imagine New Mexico they're fired up because they
get to come play another power for a team. You guy,
Jason eck Lacrosse Wisconsin, stand up. I mean they played
two yeah exactly, they played two Big ten teams this year,
beat one of them, UCLA, and hung with Michigan. Right, So,
what do we know about who's playing next week or
what you think and maybe even any headlines about who
else we know for sure is coming back next season

(22:17):
or we feel good about.

Speaker 5 (22:18):
Well, we don't know for sure if Minnesota is leading
receiver lame Micky Brockinson is playing or if he's not.

Speaker 4 (22:22):
Fleck wouldn't confirm that today.

Speaker 5 (22:23):
I almost think he declared for the NFL draft, And
I'm thinking to myself, with the utmost peace and love
to that young man. I mean, do we really think
Lamecky Brockinson is going to be an NFL draft pick?

Speaker 4 (22:34):
Now?

Speaker 5 (22:34):
I would tend to say no, but he's got to
do what's best for him. I almost think we might
see more Koy Parrots on offense because I do expect Cooy.

Speaker 4 (22:42):
Parrits to play in the bowl game.

Speaker 5 (22:43):
Darius Taylor sounds like he's healthy, is as healthy as
he's been all season, which if you have watched any
bowl game that features Darius Taylor the last two years,
you know two things are going to happen. One, he's
going to get thirty touches and they're going to run him, slash,
pass him the ball into the ground and he's going
to do very well with that. And I mean too,
I mean, he has just been prolific in bowl games.

(23:05):
But I think Anthony Smith is going to be the
inflection point where I from what I have been told
behind the scenes, Anthony Smith is going to play in
this game. Who is the Big Ten leader in sacks,
one of the best defensive linemen in the Big Ten,
and hopefully he can cause havoc against this Jason X
team where that's probably one of the underrated Look, I
know your big narrative street guy.

Speaker 4 (23:25):
Yeah, and you're mister media. You like to make an
area the stories.

Speaker 5 (23:28):
Well that's where you don't think Jason Ck, who's the
new Mexico head coach from Lacrosse, Wisconsin near the Dells,
played at UW Madison near the Dells. You don't think
he wants to beat the Golden Gophers. I mean, you
don't think he knows that if there's another pair shape
season for Luke Fickle, that he's probably number one or
two on the list for what is it, mister McIntosh

(23:51):
out there for McIntosh, McIntosh, Yeah, out there at Wisconsin.
You don't think he wants to beat the gold like
you don't think he's going to have that team prepared.
So again, Minnesota takes Bowl game seriously under Fleck.

Speaker 4 (24:02):
Yeah, they're six and zero.

Speaker 5 (24:03):
Yeah, I understand it's not the highest caliber of bowl
games in them, but you only get to play who's
on your schedule. They didn't pick New Mexico like you said.
I think they thought they were going to be playing Cincinnati,
Iowa State, whoever it may be. And then they get
a nine win New Mexico team, who, like you said,
beat UCLA. So I think Minnesota is going to be prepared,
but I'm also excited to see what Drake Lindsay and

(24:25):
Darius Taylor can do.

Speaker 3 (24:27):
The college football playoff. There is a lot of anger
about who was in and who was not in. And
I don't want to talk about Notre Dame and I
don't want to talk about.

Speaker 4 (24:36):
Them taking their ball and going home.

Speaker 3 (24:38):
Yeah, I don't want to talk about any of that, Okay,
But I've seen a lot from like big voices in
the sport, like Joel Klatt and others that have a
lot of bitterness that James Madison, for instance, is going
to play Oregon this week and that TWU Lane is
also in the playoff and they will play Ole Miss
this week. And I understand their point, but I think
they're missing the overall point that you know, do we

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think that James Madison is going to go into Oregon
and shock the world and you know, and beat the Ducks.
I don't do I think that Tulane's going to be
Ole Miss maybe but probably not. But do I think
that those schools absolutely deserve an opportunity to have something
to play for and something to strive for.

Speaker 4 (25:22):
I do.

Speaker 3 (25:23):
And it's bothering me when people say are saying, because
you've got so you got ten teams that probably have
a chance to win the national title. There's probably six
or seven, but ten theoretically, right when with all the
power forwards, I don't like that it that those schools
are getting kind of shafted in the discussion of why
are we even saving a spot for these guys, Like
because you're asking everybody to play, you're asking everybody to

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feel the team, you're asking everybody to fund it at
ridiculous levels that we just talked about. You got to
give them something to play for, like something, and you
look at I was looking at some tweets from Tulane
where their school store their Goldie's locker room. They can't
keep up with the demand for the playoff shirts, right,
Like schools should have an opportunity to have that moment.

Speaker 4 (26:06):
It doesn't always have to be.

Speaker 3 (26:08):
And I'm saying this is a Big Ten guy that
would love for some time the Gophers to be the
fourth or fifth Big Ten team in a playoff. It
it'd be fun to do that, right both, It'd be
fun to cover that. Brett's thinking the same thing for
his Wisconsin Badgers. IO owed the same thing. I want
as many teams in the playoff as possible, because because
everybody a chance outside of the blue bloods. But I
have not loved the narrative, to use your word about

(26:30):
nobody wants to see those teams. I do, and I
want them to have their moment. And I think it's
okay that they have their moment. Am I too romantic
about college football?

Speaker 5 (26:37):
No? I think the thing about college football is everybody
had been saying for a long time we want more parody.
We're tired of the blue blue bloods being able to
buy their way to national championships. Now do I expect Tulane?
Do I expect? Do I expect James Madison to win
their football games this upcoming weekend?

Speaker 4 (26:53):
I do not.

Speaker 5 (26:54):
But the games aren't played on paper. If they were,
you know who just signed the number one recruiting clabs
in college football Southern California. Yeh, I mean we've been
hearing they've been back since your guy, well since you're
a Nebraska team.

Speaker 4 (27:07):
Have we seen yet?

Speaker 5 (27:08):
Are they still ranked in the top twenty five for
next year's preseason top twenty five pole?

Speaker 3 (27:12):
Nebraska football is in Indiana basketball already for next season?

Speaker 5 (27:16):
Yes, I love that for them, But I mean everybody
wants parody until they get it or that's even where
the Notre Dame thing plays a part in this where
part of vice everybody's upset, And we talked about.

Speaker 4 (27:26):
It this week on the pod.

Speaker 5 (27:27):
Was okay, well, why did they finally at the very end,
after they had Notre Dame higher than Miami for the
last month, just flip them?

Speaker 4 (27:37):
And that's what you get when you have human beings.

Speaker 5 (27:40):
Making these decisions where there's not and you hear their
rationale after there's not a ton of rationale in that.

Speaker 4 (27:46):
Like, what we need is to your point is to
give just give teams a chance.

Speaker 5 (27:52):
I mean I saw even today the economic I mean
you talk about you know, the Goldies locker room of Tulane.

Speaker 4 (27:57):
Yeah, like they.

Speaker 5 (28:00):
We've talked about for a long time too, that college
athletics is the front door to a university and where
I even think about remember the run the run that
what was at Florida Gulf.

Speaker 4 (28:10):
Coast, Yeah, dunk City, lop City. And then you look at.

Speaker 5 (28:14):
The amount of again the amount of admissions, correct donations.

Speaker 4 (28:19):
Yes, you wanted many teams.

Speaker 5 (28:21):
To get in and have a shot, and I understand
that last year a lot of the lower seeded teams
didn't end up winning their football games, but I remember
watching those games thinking, at least you give them a
shot to play, because again, this is their super Bowl
to prove that for if you're at James Madison that
you can compete with an organ or I understand an
old miss Untu Lane already played this year and I
know how it went. But I know your guy Lane

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is no longer there, and that's a program that has
been under transition, to say the least, and I don't
know what version we're going to get of Ole Miss
at that point. So this is why you play the games.
And I understand recruiting rankings better than anybody. I've done
this industry for fifteen years. Every single day of my life,
I'm talking to somebody about portal retention, high school rankings,

(29:02):
whatever it may be. But this is why you play
the games, and everybody wants parody until they get it.

Speaker 3 (29:06):
You would likely be complaining if too Lane or jam
you bumped the Gophers, that's a Texas six from six
to one two.

Speaker 4 (29:11):
No, I wouldn't and we can write that down.

Speaker 3 (29:12):
I wouldn't like, especially if they were nine and three
or ten and two or whatever like you have. Like,
it's okay, we're gonna survive the first week because even
last year, remember there was all that bitterness about how
non competitive the first weekend's games were and there were
blowouts everywhere. Yeah, wait till Wildcard weekend January eleventh, when
the NFL is, you know, hosting like it happens. It's okay,

(29:33):
we'll survive. Some of the games are still gonna be epic.
It's gonna be okay. Yeah, okay.

Speaker 4 (29:37):
And by the way, if James Madison wasn't in.

Speaker 3 (29:39):
The postseason, we wouldn't have been witness to one of
the most prolific Twitter admin runs that we've ever seen
in the world of sport. Just look at James Madison
Athletics or whatever I mean, the trolleying. They're doing of
Oregon and Notre Dame is brilliant, and they know they
know what's going to happen at I think noon or
eleven o'clock. No, I should say I think it's Saturday

(30:01):
night because Oregon's way out west. I think they know
what's going to happen. I think they're all well aware
of it. But it's okay, it's fun, it's cool. Everything
will be fine, exactly. They'll crown a national champion and
everything will be fine.

Speaker 4 (30:12):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (30:12):
Do I think that either one of those teams have
a shot? No, again, I even think there's probably only
four or five teams that really have a shot. And
I'm going to be very curious for that New Year's
Day and things of that nature.

Speaker 4 (30:23):
But at least put them in.

Speaker 5 (30:25):
I'm just glad that they in my opinion, I'm just
glad that they got it right with something like that
and not just easily find a way to put Notre
Dame in, which, by the way, Notre Dame just go
find a bleeping conference at that point and stop playing
the ACC who is clearly at best now in the
fourth best conference in college football.

Speaker 3 (30:44):
I will see you in Phoenix, Burnsey. I look forward
to it as always.

Speaker 5 (30:49):
I appreciate the invitation to your VRBO that features it
looks like a pickleball court. I mean, this is the
best that the West side of the Cities can buy,
can look.

Speaker 4 (31:00):
I'm an Oakdale guy, your.

Speaker 5 (31:01):
Mystery dying and mister Minnetonka like that vrbo slash airbnb
looks terrific and I cannot wait to break bread over
there with you.

Speaker 3 (31:09):
And I look forward to seeing you on Friday, April third,
when the Twins open their season against the Tampa Bay Rays.
You will be sitting on the Tampa Bay dugout with
your Tom polead T shirt jersey.

Speaker 5 (31:22):
It's a Jack Jones, okay, Jock Jones, Denny Hawking.

Speaker 4 (31:26):
I got a lou Ford jersey.

Speaker 3 (31:28):
I think lou Ford, as of like last year, was
still playing. He hadn't hung up the cleats yet. He
was playing somewhere in like Korea.

Speaker 4 (31:34):
Him Chris John Guzmansch.

Speaker 3 (31:35):
I keep going, well, you're guy, no wonder you're such
a fan.

Speaker 4 (31:38):
That was your youth, right it was. I'm looking at you.

Speaker 5 (31:41):
You're wearing a Jason Tyner jersey right now, Like my goodness,
that's sad and scary.

Speaker 3 (31:46):
How deep you can go. I hope you remember where
he parked, because you probably can't, but you can remember
all those names.

Speaker 4 (31:52):
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (31:52):
Burns here that is Ryan Burns from Gopher Illustrated dot com.
You can read him right there at gi You can
hear him on Pair and a Spare. We dropped an
episode a couple of days ago. Find it wherever you
get your favorite podcast, as well as the parent of
Spare YouTube channel, and go for grid Iron Radio as well.
It's all good with Burnsy, one of my favorite dudes,
and I will see him next week in Phoenix.

Speaker 4 (32:11):
Burnsy's a legend.

Speaker 3 (32:12):
We all know that Brett Blakemore, in my mind, became
a legend this past weekend. How did Brett Blakemore become
a legend? We will explain it and tell the story
when we come back before Pat Kessler joins in the
five o'clock out.

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Speaker 3 (32:48):
Top five and five coming up about ten minutes from now.
Pat Kessler of around five fifteen guardsian for Barrero today
cake show edition of Bumper to Bumper. Dan will be
back tomorrow. If you're looking for Glenn Mason, he joined yesterday.
If you were looking for Lunani yesterday, he will join tomorrow.
We expect Sean Salisbury as well. So Dan, we'll be
back tomorrow and Friday. It's December. Around the fan, things

(33:09):
get a little weird, things get a little messy. We
have vacation time too. You wouldn't believe it, you wouldn't
know about it, but we do. We actually we get
some and a lot of us try to take it
so and there's times where we just can't take it.
Because there's a thing called a football season. There's a
thing called the State Fair. We kind of have to work.
When Timberwolves make big playoff runs, We've got to be
available for those days. So that's why it's a little

(33:30):
wonky in December.

Speaker 4 (33:31):
But it's all good.

Speaker 3 (33:32):
Speaking of wonky in December, you had an interesting weekend,
Brett Blakemore, You first of all had to ride the
emotional roller coaster of your favorite hockey team, making the
biggest trade in its franchise history and coming to grips
with it. And I know you're a big Ze Bulliam guy. Yeah,
And I know you were a big Marco Rossi guy,
was a Rossie defender for years, you were, and now
you're vindicated already didn't he already have a goal in

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his first game with the Canucks.

Speaker 1 (33:56):
As Dan would say, didn't need him.

Speaker 4 (33:57):
Didn't need him.

Speaker 3 (33:58):
We did get that like fifty times, right. But after
Beyond the Pond on Saturday, you drove up to Duluth,
Minnesota because you were taking in the Bulldogs versus the
Arizona State Sun Devils NHC. Right, that's big time hockey matchup.

(34:20):
Bulldogs rank like fifth game, it's Scott Sandalin and what
else do you expect? Even I know that. Yeah, as
a new hockey fan because of Quinn Hughes, why did
you go up to Duluth?

Speaker 4 (34:31):
What was the task?

Speaker 2 (34:33):
So I just retweeted my own tweet, which is tacky,
but just to I just retweeted.

Speaker 3 (34:36):
Your tweet as well, because I think people need to
go to my Twitter and or your Twitter. Actually, let
me set it up. Go ahead, let me set it up.
This way because I was trying figure out how to
get in there. We I discovered what a year or
so ago that the head coach of Arizona State, the
Sun Devils, what's his name.

Speaker 1 (34:53):
Greg Powers?

Speaker 4 (34:53):
Is his name?

Speaker 3 (34:54):
Looks like he's a long lost Blakemore looks like he's
your long lost twin brother.

Speaker 4 (35:01):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (35:01):
And so then I got in the algorithm because I
tweeted about it one time. I somehow got a Greg
Powers press conference video on my feed and the Devils
must have had a big win or something, and I
tweeted out congratulations to Brett Blakemore on, you know, continuing
to grow the game in the desert. And now all
I get is Arizona State hockey stuff. And because people

(35:25):
can go to your Twitter handle and think about it
or see it, he does look exactly like you.

Speaker 4 (35:31):
I think. Now he has glasses, right.

Speaker 1 (35:32):
He's got glasses. I wear glasses from time to time,
but I don't need them. I think he needs them.

Speaker 3 (35:37):
So in a throwback thing, I just said this a
little while ago on I think on pair and to spare,
we used to do a lot of cool stuff back
in our younger days. We used to do fun bits
and wacky things all the time before we I don't
know matured into an actual radio station. I don't know
what it was, but we used to do. We just
get ideas and we would just go do them. We
probably need to get back to that in the new
year twenty twenty six. But our dream was for you

(36:01):
to get a side by side picture with Greg Powers.
My dream was actually to have you sitting behind the
bench and just have the TV shot of when they
showed the coach, You're just right behind him like you're
his brother in this in this team seats. And I
give you a ton of credit because you did what
we all used to do. You went above and beyond

(36:22):
and drove up to Duluth in sub zero temperatures on Saturday,
made all the accommodations and requests and asks, and I
think from what you told told enough lies to get
yourself where you needed to go. So flies go to
the If you go to either one of our Twitter handles,
you can see from my money, it's the end of

(36:42):
the year. So people always do like the image of
twenty twenty six. This to me is the image of
twenty twenty six for KFE And right here is you
with Brett Powers, Greg Powers.

Speaker 4 (36:52):
Could be Brett Powers.

Speaker 3 (36:54):
Yeah, in Duluth, Minnesota on a sub zero, frozen December afternoon.

Speaker 4 (36:58):
So how did it happen?

Speaker 2 (36:59):
So we've been planning it for a while, and so
he got in touch. We looked at their schedule. The
only time Saint Cloud, I think, goes to Arizona State,
so the closest was Duluth's.

Speaker 1 (37:09):
Like, all right, we got to make that work.

Speaker 2 (37:10):
So you get in touch with with Sisky, Bruce Sisky,
the play by play guy who got me in touch
with someone else whose name escapes me at the moment,
but thank you very much, who got me.

Speaker 1 (37:21):
A credential, which was half the battle.

Speaker 4 (37:23):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (37:23):
So then I, by the way, it should not be
that difficult, Like, with all respect to Amsoil Arena, should
be pretty easy to get in there when you're Brett blakemore.

Speaker 1 (37:31):
Well, thank you, and you got in there.

Speaker 4 (37:33):
I did there.

Speaker 2 (37:35):
They did have They didn't put me in the system,
so they had to write me a credential. That happens
the spot, but hey, I'll take it that happens. No
one checked, by the way, so no Bruce saw me
and I'm just but uh so I pitched the idea
to him. He loved it. So then we get there
and I'm in the press box and and even Bruce
Sisky did he goes, you do look like him?

Speaker 1 (37:57):
It's kind of weird.

Speaker 4 (37:59):
It really is able.

Speaker 2 (38:00):
So I asked the one guy, like, what do we
think we can do? Do you think we can get me
down there like before or after? So they send me
with intern gal and she's like, do you know where
the coaches are? And she's like I think so, like
send them down there. And the kind of half lie
told was there, like is he no, this meeting's coming?

Speaker 4 (38:19):
Oh boy?

Speaker 1 (38:20):
And I'm like, well, yeah, of course.

Speaker 3 (38:23):
Now I'm not just going to drive two and a
half hours from my home to take a random picture
with a guy he totally knows.

Speaker 4 (38:28):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (38:28):
But in my defense, he has tweeted back at me
several times.

Speaker 1 (38:32):
We've gone back and forth. This is kind of a
bit between you two.

Speaker 2 (38:35):
Yes so, and he said like hashtag good looking and
yeah and handsome fellow. Last year, when I was visiting
my sister in Phoenix, I drove to the arena just
to get a picture out in front of it. So
much commitment exact. So now I had to one up
myself this year. So I go down there and we
can't find him. An intern girl Gal's getting a little
like antsy. Oh yeah. So we see like a couple

(38:58):
of people in Sun Devils stuff and she's ready to
just go back. Well that's it, right, So I just
go up out of my own way and just that
Hey does Greg around and they're like Greg powers.

Speaker 1 (39:08):
Like yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (39:11):
He goes, what do you need? He's like, oh, well,
I was hoping to get a quick picture with him.
They they go and get him and he comes out
very confused.

Speaker 4 (39:19):
Oh I'm sure.

Speaker 1 (39:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (39:21):
So so I have to explain to him like, hey,
I'm Bret Blakemore.

Speaker 1 (39:25):
We've gone back and forth on Twitter.

Speaker 2 (39:26):
He still doesn't really know, and I go, yeah, like
justin guard and Pat Nicoletty tweets.

Speaker 4 (39:32):
You and it doesn't care, doesn't bother.

Speaker 2 (39:34):
Well, hang on, this could have been acting or the
light could have flipped.

Speaker 1 (39:39):
I think if it was, it was good acting.

Speaker 2 (39:41):
But he goes, oh yeah, like I you're that guy,
Like I absolutely know what you're You're that guy? Yeah,
And he knew like out and then he started saying that,
oh well you are you're handsome. You know what can
I say? So he's like, yeah, we got to get
a picture. And he asked like a couple like two
small talks like oh you from here, and I do
the whole no on, I'm from the by working the.

Speaker 1 (40:00):
Cities, blah blah blah.

Speaker 2 (40:02):
So then I go, well, the idea is I'm hopefully
going to be right behind you at the bench.

Speaker 1 (40:06):
I explained it to him.

Speaker 2 (40:07):
So that way, and by the way, shout if anyone
is an NCCHC subscriber. Yeah, in the first or third period,
if it ever cuts to the coach, someone screen grabbed that.

Speaker 1 (40:18):
Please, I have yet to see that.

Speaker 3 (40:19):
Because we couldn't. I mean, I wanted you to be
committed to the bit. I wasn't going to be an
NCCHC TV subscriber that night. I did think about it
to try to find it. But and I wonder if
you can go back in archive games. I'm sure you
really can, and I'm sure somebody in Duluth probably has
the video. Yeah, it's out there somewhere. We need this
because you were right behind him. So anyway, go to

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the picture.

Speaker 1 (40:41):
So we get so he's like, hey, let's take a picture.

Speaker 3 (40:43):
We get that, and you did the forks up too, right, yes,
because that's the bit for Arizona State.

Speaker 2 (40:49):
He loved that I was wearing Arizona State stuff. I'm like,
you think I'm not committed to the p'st like, oh,
I love it. You got the stuff on. So even
intering gal rocking backs like you guys do really look away,
Like yeah, I know.

Speaker 1 (41:01):
So I get back up the press box, thank you everyone.

Speaker 2 (41:04):
And and I go, yeah, we actually think right behind
the bench is a good spot, like you should be
able to just sit down there.

Speaker 1 (41:09):
I'm like, yeah, no problem.

Speaker 3 (41:10):
Because I looked for tickets in that spot, yes, because
I was committed to this as well, but there weren't
any available, even on like seat geek or stub hub.
So I don't know if season ticket holders have them
and don't go all the time or what, but they
were not available right.

Speaker 4 (41:23):
Behind the visitors bench. So I'm glad that worked out.

Speaker 1 (41:25):
Yeah, so I think it was just family.

Speaker 2 (41:27):
Like they said they were all sold, but then Friday night,
no one was sitting there, so like, you should be
fine to just sit down there and you'll be fine.

Speaker 4 (41:33):
Brilliant.

Speaker 2 (41:34):
So I was literally the second period he was on
the other side of the bench, but literally the first
and third period. I was right behind him and like
perfectly framed. If the TV ever cut to him, it
would be a great screenshot. And he even he saw
me and acknowledged me, like the first time in the
first period.

Speaker 1 (41:51):
He was coming to the bench.

Speaker 2 (41:53):
I had several players because there was a lot of
family members there.

Speaker 1 (41:56):
Half the teams from Minnesota. It's college hockey.

Speaker 2 (41:58):
Yeah, I had people literally asked me like, are you
his brother? Like players families were convinced that I was
related to them. So yeah, it's uh. And that was
pretty much it. And the Devil's the Sun Devils forks up.
They beat d Luth upset the number five team and Duluth,
So forks up there Saturday night.

Speaker 1 (42:15):
I'm undefeated behind the bench.

Speaker 3 (42:17):
And you said some of the assistant coaches loved it,
right they in the in the tunnel.

Speaker 2 (42:23):
Yeah, they they were looking back and forth and they
had really big grins on like what is going on here?

Speaker 1 (42:29):
They got a big kick.

Speaker 4 (42:30):
Out of that. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (42:31):
So go to either one of our Twitter handles, Breadcaffean
or at Guardsy and see the picture that we're talking about.

Speaker 1 (42:36):
This is what two years in the making, something like
at least a year time.

Speaker 3 (42:39):
Because I think the first like last year around this time,
you went to Arizona to take the picture last spring whenever.

Speaker 1 (42:44):
By the way, flight tomorrow.

Speaker 4 (42:46):
Oh good. We're for you if you have the means.

Speaker 3 (42:50):
And the other part that I think people should know
is you came in like three weeks ago and reminded me, Hey,
they're coming, the devils are coming to Duluth. You think
we can make this happen? What do we need to do?
We were kind of crafting it whatever. And my favorite
part was last week when you said I've been growing
my beard just to match him for the picture. He's
got a little more gray than me. Yeah, yeah, he's older,

(43:11):
but yes, I knew he was growing it out. And
I usually keep it kind of tighter to the face. Yeah,
I felt like I had to let it go. So
did you shave it like Sunday? Did you trim it again?

Speaker 5 (43:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (43:21):
I did. It was too much.

Speaker 3 (43:22):
It's like when Leonardo DiCaprio gains weight to play a role. Yeah,
that's basically what you did. I give you great kudos.
This was this was well crafted. Was it worth it
the five.

Speaker 2 (43:34):
Hours of driving total to do that? I also I
made a huge mistake on the website it said it
was a four o'clock game, so I bolt it out
of beyond the Pond, right, Well, it turns out that
was Mountain time, so it was actually five o'clock.

Speaker 4 (43:49):
You were checking the wrong website. That's okay. He got
there early, nothing wrong with that.

Speaker 2 (43:52):
Well, yeah, and so I got there within plenty of
time to get my credential written up for me. So yeah,
I would say for like the five retweets, and he
Greg Powers himself retweeted, they're five retweets.

Speaker 3 (44:05):
Yeah, wait a side, I think it was worth it. No,
I just love how they thought you were a family member.
Like people literally asked you and players maybe you loosened
up the team because they started looking at you and
they said maybe that loosened them up, and that's why
they played so well, I.

Speaker 2 (44:18):
Will say this, And there were players like getting off
the bench, like mostly during TV timeouts, not like the
real game, but like TV timeouts, come to the bench
and would make eye contact with me a lot, and
we're kind of looking like.

Speaker 3 (44:30):
The direction they were trying to is their line going out?
Are we tweaking anything? What do we need to change?

Speaker 1 (44:35):
Coach stop a little bit here it's so good.

Speaker 3 (44:37):
Well, now we got to keep following Arizona State Hockey
like he's like our guy.

Speaker 1 (44:41):
I love this guy. Nice dude, I think.

Speaker 3 (44:44):
You I mean this to me is better than the
bumper bumper seal of approve. I don't think you can
get any higher praise here, Bratchawan Brian Camfean text line
Larry mondelo guy. Well done by Blake Moore. I've done
a lot for a joke in the past, but this
is next level. To quote Bart Simpson, that's what you
call to a bit. I also give you great credit
to me, it's the image of twenty twenty six, the

(45:04):
cafe and sports image of twenty twenty five. And I
give you great credit because you were committed to it
and we used to do fun stuff like this all
the time.

Speaker 4 (45:13):
So made me feel young again.

Speaker 3 (45:15):
It was fun, made me feel young again, and I'm
glad he was a good sport about it. And I
just love that he told him he was expecting you.
That's just my favorite part. Pat Custler about fifteen minutes
from now, anything for top five

Speaker 1 (45:26):
And five Quinnesota is in full fame.