Headlines and CHRIS PETERSEN (Fox Sports) The final college football rankings came out yesterday and the bracket has been revealed, but not without some D-R-A-M-A! Did the committee get it right? Was Alabama the team that should have been left out? Are conference championships a problem? How does Coach Petersen feel about Notre Dame opting out of the bowl games? :30- Fact or Fiction is over and we need to appropriately celebrate the champions… oh wait, that’s us! Winter meetings are underway and the Mariners are already making more moves. Did they get enough for Harry Ford? :45- We always hear from Mike MacDonald post-game, so what did Coach have to say following the Seahawks 37-9 win over the Falcons?
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Fifty last week, and it's blocked.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Another special teams play, Nicky Man worry.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
With a rejection to eliminate the reasons why there's concern
over this offense. But we're seeing a lot of the
same things we've seen in the last few weeks. And
here's where shots he big special teams play, breaking.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
Free and Shae Heed all the way to the house.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Still flags second and eleven, Darnold over the middle, checks
and Smith and.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Jake Bona run bikes a tackle.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
He'll take it all the way in far Seattle touchdown.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Good morning, Chuck, Buck and Ashley with you here on
a Monday. We got a big session with Hugh Millan
and Mike Homgrigan coming away from eight to ten, and
Chris Peterson's going to join us here in a matter
of moments to talk about the college football playoff rankings.
I hope you had a great weekend. It's time a
frost browed Corps light Choose Chill. Headlines on a frost
browed Corps light Choose Chill.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Monday.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Count you down to the very second that the five
to fifteen pm kickoff of Monday Night football takes place.
The Seahawks and the Atlanta Falcons were tied at six
at halftime in Atlanta, Georgia, and then all of a sudden,
the Seahawks pulled away, and pulled away quickly. Rashid Shaheed's
kick return for a touchdown set the tone in the
second half, a second half that the Seahawks outscored Atlanta
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thirty one to three to win by a final score
of thirty seven to nine and improved to ten and
three on the season. The Cupcakes might be done with
though next week the Indianapolis Colts, who though might now
be without Daniel Jones or will be certainly will be
without Daniel Jones as he had an achilles injury yesterday
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and is going to miss the rest of the season.
Also from the National Football League, yesterday, the Los Angeles
Rams forty five seventeen winners over the Arizona Cardinals, so
the Rams and Seahawks both tied at ten and three
atop the division.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Forty nine ers were on buy this week.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
They are a full game back now in the NFC West,
the loaded NFC West. Elsewhere, the Winter meetings got underway
last night. Major League Baseball, the Mariners did pull off
a trade over the weekend sending prospect Harry Ford to
the Washington Nationals in exchange for left handed reliever jose
A Farrer. We'll talk more about that coming up at
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seven point thirty here today.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Also, there was Katel Marte.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Returning to Seattle, rumors floating around out there as well.
And the Kraken will be in action tonight against the
Minnesota Wild the crack and really need a victory. They
will drop the puck on that game at seven o'clock.
But perhaps the most interesting topic today is the college
football playoff controversy. The rankings came out yesterday morning and
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Notre Dame, after being in the top ten for five
consecutive weeks, when the actual college football rankings came out,
Notre Dame did not make the cut. Joining us now
to talk about that and many other things. Former dub
head coach and now he's a big fancy analyst on
one of the big networks. Joining us is Chris Peterson
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on Chuck and Buck in the Mornings.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Good morning, coach, Good morning guys. I think you're overstating
it as a big fancy analyst, a bit.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Much super fancy, a your sheer fancy up there on
the set you do a great job. I mean I
missed you coaching, but you do a great job there.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
You know. I love football. I just still can't stomach
to watch one of my teams play. I like to
watch everybody else's teams play and have a lot of
answer sitting on the sidelines.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
I made my living that way, coach, just not investing
any skin in the game, but having loud ass opinions
all the time.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
That's you.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Just you just describe me.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
You know, it's not a bad gig. I kind of
been missing this all year, all my life.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
You made a lot more money than I do, though.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
All right, well, let's talk about the college football playoff.
I don't really want to steer you in any direction.
Let me just ask you just an overall question. What
was your reaction to seeing the college football playoff seedings yesterday?
What's your biggest takeaway from it?
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Oh? My gosh, I mean I just continually shake my head,
scratch my head. You know, I've been saying this forever,
Like the games on Saturday for college football are spectacular.
It's just awesome. But behind the scenes, you know, Sunday.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
Through Friday in the off season, it is just complete
chaos and this is just another you know, step along
the way to that chaos.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
And you know, I think we all know since twenty
twenty when the pandemic kicked, everything changed in normal life
and in college football, from you know, nil to the
re alignment, to the portal, to firings with the huge buyouts,
and now we have the you know, the CFP drama.
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What I actually thought about the selection yesterday was for
what the committee was given, they got it right. I
really like Notre Dame. I mean they I like Marcus Freeman.
I think Notre Dame could have made a run in
this thing. But at the end of the day, when
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Miami and Notre Dame were ranked so close to each
other in almost all the metrics and in the final rankings,
I don't see how you could put Notre Dame in
over Miami if it comes to that they played head
to head Like as a coach, I have a hard
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time with that walking in to the to the team
room and saying, yeah, we beat them. Yeah. Everything else
is the saying, but we're not going That makes no
sense to me. So you know the fact that ESPN
has this show and they do it because they make
money and drama, and they have it every week, and
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they had Miami after Notre Dame beat them and then
they lost another game. So far apart in the rankings.
But as the season was changing and Miami got better
and they started winning more and they got close in
the rankings, it looked so awkward that they were so
far apart. But by the end of this regular season,
they're sitting right next to each other and they probably
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did the right thing.
Speaker 7 (06:47):
Yep, I'm with you. I mean, I agree with you
on that part. I mean I was last week at
some point last week. I bet this is long before
we thought or knew that we were going to have
you on, and I was just thinking myself, Chris Peterson
would figure out how to how to get all this
stuff right now. Let's just make him the commissioner, get
rid of the whole committee. We'll just let you do
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it all on your own. Probably be a pay bump
if you just take over all of college football.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
No thanks, too big of a headache.
Speaker 7 (07:18):
I'm with you, but you just kind of talked about
some of these headaches that we talk about all season,
and the coaching, you know, coaches leaving and leaving contracts
on the table and buy outs and transfer portal. But
just sticking to kind of the topic djure at this
point in time, I mean, is there a change if
you were the czar of the college football playoff, would
you want to have? I like having an underdog having
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a chance at this thing. If they are unbelievably exceptional,
they don't lose. They go out there and just say, hey,
you got to give us a chance against the big dogs.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
But do you like having two of them in there? No,
not at all.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
And I'm one of those guys that came from a place,
as you know, right, we had to scratch and claw
to get a chance. But you know again, and they're
kind of figuring this out as we go. Like last
year they ended up giving ASU and Boise State buys in,
you know, in the in the tournament, and no one
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really felt that was the right thing, so they tweaked
it this year. This year, I don't think anyone's feeling
good about number twenty Tulane and number twenty four JM.
You both getting in over Notre Dame BYU Vandy. You know,
so there's gonna be some tweaking coming to that. I
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just hope there's not an overreaction where you're not given
this group of five, group of six a chance to
go compete for this. But you can you can feel
the change coming on this because this doesn't feel right
as well.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Yeah, just make the adjustments, as you said. Don't think
that the answer is, oh, we got to expand to
twenty four. I mean, we just can't keep everybody happy.
You know, give the twelve team format a little bit
of time and that's make our adjustments as necessary.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
And I'm with you.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
I mean, and this is coming from a guy that
built Boise Stayed into a national power, and he's saying
we shouldn't have two.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
And I couldn't agree with you more.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Chris Peterson is with us, of course, former ub ED
coach and now college football analyst for Fox Sports. Great
to have them on here on the programs. Talk about
this college football playoff controversy. You mentioned before that they
got it right the committee by putting Miami ahead of
Notre Dame. What about Alabama coach? I mean, I realize
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not penalizing someone too much because they earned an extra game,
but considering how closely Notre Dame, Alabama, Miami all seemed
to be ranked by committee standards heading into this weekend.
Didn't that third loss provide the opportunity for you to
bump Alabama out and put Miami and Notre Dame both
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into the tournament?
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Okay, another awkward thing with college football right now is
the conference championship games. Right, some of them are really good.
I mean the Ohio State Indiana, I mean, was that
not spectacular? And it was a low scoring game. Usually
low scoring games aren't that spectacular, but that was spectacular.
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And then you go to Alabama Georgia. You're like, this
is kind of awkward that Alabama already went there had
the best win to me in all of college football
this season. That was the best win when Alabama went
into Georgia and beat them. And then you have the
most awkward one with Duke playing Virginia and you're like, oh,
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what is going to happen here if Duke wins? And
so that's you know, that's another problem there. I mean,
it's just it's again a hard situation. What are you
going to do? You're going to really punish somebody that
had the best win of the season, they're playing them
for the second time, and you know, it's just like
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you don't want to punish a team that's going to
like play for a league championship and knock them all
the way out. I thought, you know, the SEC is
a rough neighborhood, and those guys had about four games
that they're playing four or five all ranked teams at
the time, and they're navigating this pretty darn well. And
so I didn't have a problem leaving leaving Alabama in
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this whole thing. I find I felt it would have
even maybe a little awkward to bounce them out, you know,
going to a championship game. But this is the bottom line.
There is going to be no perfect way when you
have one hundred and forty three teams in college football
buying for this and you're trying to give access and
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you know we're talking about you know, some leagues, it's
apples to oranges, and it's just it's not the same.
But you're trying to make it right. So there's going
to always be a little bit of awkwardness. But in
my opinion too, this is the beauty of college football.
Everybody's like, get rid of the committee, hate the committee.
I don't see how you can do that, And you
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got to embrace it and I think if we make
some changes moving forward and tweak it so okay, learned
on that one, we're not doing that again, it can
get better.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
I'm with you.
Speaker 7 (12:15):
I mean, I think Chuck and I differ a little
bit on the expansion idea. And yet to me, I mean,
I'm not in a hurry to break this thing and
try to change it all together. And yet some of
the tweaks I would wonder if you would agree with,
no matter what happens if you expand it to sixteen.
Let's just say, if you're gonna have somebody that's at
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seventeen and they're gonna be upset that they're not, so
you're right, there's nothing that's going to be perfect. But
to me, the idea of making it to where maybe
it's your top six teams that are there automatically in
and then you have a ten team playoff to figure
out the rest or something like that, where it's it's
almost like a play in, a play in type of
a game. Do you think there's anything to that, because
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once you start getting down below, you know, sixteen teams,
all of a sudden it's Virginia. Do you really deserve
to be in? Or you know, Georgia Tech, did you
really deserve to be in after three losses in the ACC?
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (13:08):
I think that there's a bigger or a more valid
argument as to why some of these teams will be
on the outside looking in when you expand it just
a little bit further than twelve.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Yeah, I agree. I agree with you one hundred percent
on that. I mean, I think we should go slow.
You know, we tweak it from the things we learned
this year and see what that looks like if it
does go to sixteen. You know, eventually that could you know,
there's some merit there. I think the play on games
are interesting. There could be a lot of drama, which
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is what I mean.
Speaker 6 (13:41):
That's college football right now. Right.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
I keep joking with our guys at Fox that, you
know the Fansville commercial of Doctor Pepper. Yeah, you know,
a couple of years ago. I just chuckle those commercials
and get a kick out of them. Now they're not
dramatic enough. Like college football fan though, There's more drama
going on in those than the cover. So I think
another thing. I think another thing that you know, and
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again the networks would have to get on board with this.
But like I think the college football season needs to
start earlier. I think we need to start in the
you know, two weeks earlier in August. Everybody's dying for
football at that point anyways, and I really think this
whole thing needs to be done by early January. January first,
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and for a couple of reasons. One, then let the
NFL go have their their Heyday. Don't compete in there.
You know, the games were so spread out last year
that I kind of felt myself losing a little interest
in the college football playoffs and and you're putting, you know,
the NFL playoffs in between. And I'm more of a
college football guy than I am a NFL guy, but
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so that was a little awkward. And then you can
then also shift acuadet you know, the football calendar around
the academic calendar. I mean, it is ridiculous that we're
having coaches, you know, and it's been going around for
a while, but leave their programs that kids are opting
out going into the transfer portal while the season's still
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going on. So you got to play the season, get
that over with. Then you got to sign your high
school kids. Then after that you can sign your portal
guys and there's going to probably need to be some
adjustments to springball. Although these coaches are old school people
and they don't like change and they want that spring
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football how it's always been. But I you know, I
look at the NFL how they do their quote spring football.
It's later. It's not as much pass, not as much contact.
I mean, I see that model. And then you know,
the kids are all here for the summer, the coaches
are here. They can now coach them in the summertime.
So you kind of just blend into that. And so anyway,
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there's just so many things that you're trying to figure out.
It's it's not it's unending.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Don't I know you don't want the job, but you
sound like a commissioner. Sound like you got some answers there.
Coach Peterson is with us here chucking buck in the morning.
I do want to ask you because well I think
I already know the answer, but I want to hear
how you verbalize it. I'm sure you think Notre Dame
is not doing the right thing by announcing they're sitting
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out the bulls.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Yeah, I mean again, here we go, Fansville. Right, We've
had like players coaches opting out, and now we've got
teams opting out. It's like, are we serious here? You know,
you know what I think about I think about BYU
a little bit, because you know, here's the team that
got beat by the number four team in the country
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twice and they really haven't said a whole lot. So
the word on the three was that BYU was going
to play Notre Dame in that pop Tart Bull, which
would have been a really cool matchup. B Yu can
make a case two years in a row. They've kind
of been snubbed a little bit, but they're going to
go on and play. I mean, I don't know. This
is a hard one for me because I get the
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emotion and how Notre Dame feels like they were so wronged,
But it also feels like, Okay, I'm gonna take my
ball and go home now. And you guys said, you
know how I'd come, and I say, yes, I'm still
an old school guy that we're teaching. Like, you know,
there's so many things that this is why I love
football so much. It's like the Trojan Horse. It's the
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Trojan horse values that we're teaching. There's so much life
that we're still teaching through this game. And one of
those things are is like being extremely disappointed and things
don't go your way and you still got to figure
out how to do your best and navigate through that.
It's like, okay, so what now? What I mean, that's
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what I think about, Like, Okay, this happened to us,
So what now? What are we going to go home?
Are we going to lay down? Are we going to respond?
And so I think about that. I think Notre Dame,
you know, is going to be really good next year,
and so you're kind of throwing all that away in
terms of practicing, putting a chip on your shoulder, go
out and prove it against a really good team and
set yourself up for next year. I understand both sides
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of this. I would have loved to see them play
against BYU.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
I would love to see you coach again. Are you
really not going to coach again? And it is like
Sandy Kofax hanging it up? I mean, you got something
left in the tank here, Peterson? Are you really done?
Speaker 2 (18:31):
One of the things that I do now that I
really find a lot of probably joy purpose in so
I'm not coaching on the sideline, but I do I
do some stuff with a handful of coaches, and so
I find a lot of purpose, like all the things
that we're talking about here, help them coaches navigate this
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really difficult arena that we're in right now, and it
is tricky, tough, and it's like it's really about it
comes back to ourselves, you know, with all the things
that are being thrown how do we show.
Speaker 6 (19:03):
Up every day?
Speaker 5 (19:04):
Is our best? You know? We put that.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Always on our kids. We demand so much out of
the kids and the players and expect them to bring
their best energy, their best focused day in and day out.
But half the time we don't show up as our
best because this arena is so like twenty four seven,
three sixty five, and it squeezes us and dinners us
and makes us not our best but our worst version
in some cases. And so I find a lot of
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purpose in helping coaches navigate that. And I think the
bottom line is that and this is why I stepped
away when I was trying to really get clarity on
this whole thing that I had this beautiful job at
you dub, but wasn't happy. And I think I've just
come to the conclusion that I love football, I love
teaching coaching, leading all those type of things and helping
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people navigate that. But when you jump back in to
that arena and stand on the sidelines, you live a very,
very narrow life. That is what you do. Twenty four seven,
three sixty five, And at this point in my life,
I just don't want to live.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
That narrow.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Well said, thank you, coach. It was great hearing from you,
great avenue. All we appreciate it, and we'll bug you
again down the road.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
All right, yeah, appreciate you guys, and good luck Solvent
College Football.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Well, I'm gonna try Chris Peters the joining us right
here on Chuck and Buck in the morning, and I'm
gonna stop to dig right in and I got a
lot of things more to say.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
I don't know if we're gonna have.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Time to get into it today, but if not, we
will certainly have a lot of discussions on tomorrow's show
coming up.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Next. Factor fiction is over.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
We're not gonna play factor fiction, but there's still a
little bit of factor fiction business to take care of.
And believe it or not, baseball has made its way
into this crazy Monday Sports Radio ninety three point three
kJ RFM, Well, congratulations to the Factor Fiction Champions of
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twenty twenty five for the second year in a row,
third banner in the history of Factor Fiction. The morning
show celebrates with champagne over each other's heads. Ashley Ryan
with a two and zero week to finish out the season.
Bucky also finishes five hundred for the year.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
We were the only show to finish over five hundred
for the season.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
All three of us five hundred are better for the season.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
The people that gamble the least at KJR win the
most when it comes to Factor Congratulations team.
Speaker 7 (21:52):
Maybe we should be arrogantting boastful about gambling when we
don't ever do it.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Okay, we're the We're the beast.
Speaker 7 (22:01):
Hey, Ashley, you know you make trophies and stuff for us.
Can you make banners?
Speaker 8 (22:05):
I got I got called dumb by some of our listeners.
Speaker 9 (22:07):
I pick about Indiana plus five against Ohio State.
Speaker 8 (22:12):
Who's dumb? Now?
Speaker 5 (22:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Maybe the championship beltum.
Speaker 7 (22:17):
Now l O L that's a laugh out loud at you,
not with you, at you?
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Uh so, congratulations gang, we did it again, back to
back champions of Factor Fiction.
Speaker 7 (22:29):
Granted you you kind of carried it. You you you
let everybody. You were the leader you were, you beat
everybody including m J. Yeah, well it is expert, yep,
it is. Yeah, whooped him. I'm pretty sure you whooped Faine.
I think Faine probably finished like five hundred as well.
(22:50):
And yeah, you's usually good head and shoulders better than
everybody else. Congratulations, we did kick individual title. We're not
gonna hang a banner for that. That's your own thing.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Yeah, well, you know what I'm gonna be like Fernando Mendosa.
I'm just gonna get in front of the camera, speak
directly into it and just please yell about team.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
He's really not good in the interviews, really good quarterback.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
You know, it's probably gonna cost him in the draft
a few spots.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
It might. They'll overlook it. E get coached on that
because boy is it bad.
Speaker 6 (23:25):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Let me mention a couple of things that we have
not talked about yet before we talk about what I
had planned to talk about here. Because we don't have
factor fiction, suddenly I have this full passion whole to
play around in. I don't have to worry about getting
the factor fiction because the season is over with. But
Rick Nuheisel is being rumored as the Kougs next head coach.
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I don't know how serious that is. Well, we're supposed
to have coach on tomorrow at nine o'clock. If he cancels,
it might be really serious.
Speaker 8 (23:54):
Now that makes a lot more sense why Ian was
asking me for his info.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Yes, so me maybe maybe.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
I mean the idea being that Rick new Isel takes
over a program that he knows in a state that
he's recruited, and then he brings over his son Jerry,
to be the offensive coordinator and then just hands the
baton to Jerry when the time is right.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
But Jimmy Rogers.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Left for Iowa State over the weekend after Matt Campbell
went to Penn State. Followed the bouncing ball, and so
Rick new Isel rumors to the Koogs have started. I'm
sure Ian's going to talk about a little bit later
on today. I would also want to point this out.
Notre Dame is not the only team that is bounced
out of the bowls. I realize it looks like sour grapes,
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and I think that it certainly is. You're not going
to use US ESPN, ABC to get a great TV
rating in a bowl game after you just completely snubbed
us and broke our hearts when we felt we were
deserving four programs and counting have decided we're not. Well,
I guess not counting anymore because the Bowl Games are
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set four programs. Iowa, Stake, Kansas State, Notre Dame, and
Baylor all said we don't want to play. So I
think everybody's just got to accept this fact. I realized
we grew up with Bowl games. They're about dead. They're
not going to exist for much longer, and if they do,
I think that they're going to be in a much
different form than what they are now. So yes, most
of that from the Irish, I'm sure sour grapes, but
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part of it is that there is really nobody even
wants to play in Bowl games anymore. Kids don't want to,
coaches don't want to, administrators don't want to. The only
people that want to do it are the people that
make money off of them.
Speaker 5 (25:38):
Yeah, oh yeah, they make money.
Speaker 7 (25:39):
I mean, there's no doubt about that, and that money
trickles down to some degree, right, I mean, so I
think I think there's some folks that would still want
to go out there. I know this is an argument
I stand on, like the getting to play one final game.
But if it is sour grapes, what Notre Dame's doing.
At the same time, if they came up with that
as a as a as a team, we don't want
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to do it. We're not going to do exactly what
you said. And that's grant ESPN a great matchup for
some bowl game. Then I don't have any I don't
have anything to say about it.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
It's just all right. If you don't want to play
in it, then don't play in it. You're right if you.
Speaker 7 (26:13):
Think you're getting ready to go to the NFL, and
why the heck would you risk hurting yourself, which a
lot of kids are opting to not do that.
Speaker 5 (26:19):
I may okay with that as well.
Speaker 9 (26:21):
I think if it was like, I don't know, somebody
I liked that was dropping out of a bowl game,
I'd be like, yeah, good for you. You show ESPN what
you're made of. But because it's Notre Dame, I think
they're cry babies.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
And then I do want to mention a little baseball,
and I don't know if we're gonna have enough time.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Later to do it at all.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
So Harry Ford is now a Washington National. We've already
talked about a little bit this morning. I'm surprised he
wasn't worth more on the trade market. I do see
the value of Jose Ferrera. Ferrer, who is a young
lefty who is controllable for a number of years one
hundred works low in his own tremendous ground ball rate,
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but also somebody with that nastiest stuff that strikes out
fewer than one batter per inning, and not just at
the major league level, but did at the minor league
level as well. It smacks very much to me of
a left handed Gregory Santos Bucky who just did not
work out. I mean, he's now an ex Mariner, and
I know how excited they were when they landed him
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and thought the exact same things about him as they
think about.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Farrer right now.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
So to me, it's less than I thought Harry Ford
would fetch in a trade. So I'm a little disappointed
from that. And that's even while acknowledging that Farrer certainly
can be useful to this team for the next few years.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
Yeah, I mean, I don't.
Speaker 7 (27:45):
I think I felt like there would have been more
for Harry Ford, and I think that maybe you could
have gotten more. Had you said we're going to keep
him as our backup guy and catch him once a
week or maybe even try to give Cal a couple
of days a week off and if he's swinging it,
then you'll in DH one week in between that as well,
I think you could have rose, his stock could have risen,
and you could have got more. But at this point
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it's you're getting a guy who is for sure capable
of being good in the big leagues. He hasn't really
popped yet. Jose Ferrere guy we're talking about. He hasn't
really popped and done what I think his stuff says.
But to me, it's the I think there's a different
He didn't walk guys like Santos. Santos was a guy
who didn't punch out a bunch of guys, but it's
he also walked a lot. At This guy is like
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ninety fifth percentile in walk percentage. So he doesn't walk guys.
So he pitches in the zone, which means then he's
gonna put balls, but guys gonna put balls in play,
and then they're not gonna put it in play very well.
And so that's where he's really good on his hard
hit percentage and barrel rates and a bunch of other
stuff that you end up looking into. So I can
see how the Mariners are like, that's what we need.
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We need a left handed guy. We don't need a
backup catcher that is one of our top prospects. So
at same time, it's kind of one of those you
could have probably gotten more for him had you let
Harry Ford become a big league dude, because in you're
trading a controllable position player that plays a very important position,
You're getting more than just a good, controllable left handed
arm out of the bullpen.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
So I'm with you. I think there's there's two different
ways you could win about it. There's not a whole
heck of a lot.
Speaker 7 (29:13):
I'm going to immediately criticize about the Mariners when it
comes to them going out and getting the reliever, though,
because they seem to really know how to do that.
Speaker 5 (29:20):
That's true.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
The other thing I think needs to be mentioned winter
meetings who are underway. Joel Sherman said last night the
Kyle Schwarber domino once it falls, it's the difference between
having an active Winter meetings and his estimation and not
having anything. I think what he's saying is the free
agent market's waiting on Kyle Schwarber, and it just sets
in motion all sorts of other activity. So we shall see.
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The Pittsburgh Pirates have offered Kyle Schwarber a four year,
one hundred million dollar contract. I just want to mention
this because there's not going to be time later on today.
That is the most ridiculous PR stunt I've ever seen
in my entire life. They know they're not going to
get him, yeah, at that salary, and yet they want
their fans.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
To see s we're trying.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
We offered, We offered something thirty percent below market value,
knowing that he wasn't going to take it. I mean,
not only even if he did take four years, one
hundred million dollars, is it going to be on a
bad baseball team that's been rebuilding for the last two decades.
It's just a PR stunt. So I hope people in
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Pittsburgh aren't falling for that. They unfortunately have painted themselves.
And not only if you want to go out to
Kyle Schwarber, not only going to have to play market rate,
you probably gotta have to pay more than market rate
to get him to come to Pittsburgh because nobody trusts Pittsburgh.
They'll pull the rug out from underneath the entire operation.
Shwarbur will get there and they'll trade Paul Skeins the
next day.
Speaker 5 (30:47):
You know.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
That's that's how Pittsburgh. That's the reputation that they've earned.
And so please do not buy that Kyle Schwarber pirates
have made a really serious offer for it's not serious
at all. No, a counterfeit offer for Kyle Schwarber on
the free agent market. All right, Coming up next week
from Mike McDonald about yesterday's when before Humellon joins is
at eight o'clock on Monday morning quarterback on Chucking Buck
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Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ r F M
as Michael McDonald's I don't think that's asking too much.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
Well, play open the PA first half. It was really
slow on the fixt kick down to second.
Speaker 8 (31:28):
Gear because I caught that touchdown.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Taking it too shatat taking it too sha oh wow wow, whoa.
Speaker 5 (31:41):
You can want that? And I guess you're gonna keep
wanting it.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
Well, I'm gonna keep wanting it then, because I'm never
going to not want it, all right, tell you that
right now.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
You will never turn this falset off.
Speaker 10 (31:55):
All right, we got Dan Wentz to Josh Bern were
all ten entree, we are ten three.
Speaker 8 (32:06):
Next time it's a Colts.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
Don't have actor back gumming. He blew out his achilles,
He blew out his okilles.
Speaker 8 (32:19):
I mean, I'm not laughing at him blowing. Michael McDonald
talking about it.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Oh that rhyme's with taking it to the street. Yeah,
all right.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Mike McDonald yesterday talking about the strange doings six to
six at halftime, he predicts a Rashid Shah he'd kick
returned to start the second half. He gets it, he
calls it, he names it, and then all of a sudden,
the team just takes off defensively, offensively. Special teams dominated
the third quarter like few teams have in the National
Football League's history, and then rolled to a thirty seven
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to nine victory. You would have never guessed it was
six to six at half time. You Melan will join
us at eight o'clock. Mike hongran at nine o'clock to
talk about the game. I we'll also talk a little
college football with Hugh as well. But here is coach
mc donald on his rookie safety weapon, linebacker, edge rusher,
corner nick emon War.
Speaker 11 (33:07):
You know he's so good extended plays and just gonna
be a playmaker man, you know, go do the things
that you do and get excited about it. But just
kind of build him up on that front. But can't him,
can't make too big of these things. Just like let
him just encourage him to keep you know, make him
go do what he does and and and making it come.
Speaker 5 (33:27):
To life overall.
Speaker 11 (33:29):
The tremendous Chason we gave out some game like like
he got one of the game balls. I'm really happy
for him. Mean, he's he's worked his tail off, he
just really has. He just does it every day and
just asked that for us obviously when how we're utilizing
him and we're playing him against thirteen personnel in there
and he's throwing his stuff in there. So baby for him,
and he's got a great attitude. So happy for him.
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He deserves it.
Speaker 4 (33:54):
Streets I like him out.
Speaker 9 (33:57):
When he said tremendous asset, I had to listen to
it to because I had at first he said, smeared
his ass out for us, was.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Spared his ass out. It means, I tell you.
Speaker 8 (34:05):
Something must be new football lingo.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
If it means something good he did it, then trust me,
Nick and wear that Nick Emon wore.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
He smeared his ass out.
Speaker 5 (34:13):
That is what he did, yes, all over those falcons.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
If if, if that's new terminology for dominant play on defense.
Speaker 8 (34:24):
Yeah, yeah, I was like, wait, oh, that makes more sense.
Speaker 7 (34:29):
A lot of things have changed since the days when
I was playing high school football.
Speaker 5 (34:33):
When you know, so, maybe they have come up with.
Speaker 7 (34:35):
A new way of describing let's go with that smearing
yourself all over the defense in different ways. It's just
smearing your ass out there.
Speaker 8 (34:42):
All that's right.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
He was phenomenal. He certainly packed the stat line yesterday.
He had a sack, he had two tackles for loss,
he had an interception, he blocked a field goal. I
led the team in solo tackles. It's like, what did
he not do? Covered sixteen different types of receivers out
of the Atlanta offense. I mean, he was just special.
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And the team took off in the second half. But
thirty nine to seven, excuse me, thirty seven to nine
the final score. So the Seahawks improved to ten and three.
We got two full hours to break This Down with
Hugh Millen and Mike Homern and it starts next on
Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ RFM
Fifty last week, and it's blocked.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Another special teams play, Nicky Man worry.
Speaker 3 (00:10):
With a rejection to eliminate the reasons why there's concern
over this offense. But we're seeing a lot of the
same things we've seen in the last few weeks. And
here's where shots he big special teams play, breaking.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
Free and Shae Heed all the way to the house.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Still flags second and eleven, Darnold over the middle, checks
and Smith and.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Jake Bona run bikes a tackle.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
He'll take it all the way in far Seattle touchdown.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Good morning, Chuck, Buck and Ashley with you here on
a Monday. We got a big session with Hugh Millan
and Mike Homgrigan coming away from eight to ten, and
Chris Peterson's going to join us here in a matter
of moments to talk about the college football playoff rankings.
I hope you had a great weekend. It's time a
frost browed Corps light Choose Chill. Headlines on a frost
browed Corps light Choose Chill.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Monday.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Count you down to the very second that the five
to fifteen pm kickoff of Monday Night football takes place.
The Seahawks and the Atlanta Falcons were tied at six
at halftime in Atlanta, Georgia, and then all of a sudden,
the Seahawks pulled away, and pulled away quickly. Rashid Shaheed's
kick return for a touchdown set the tone in the
second half, a second half that the Seahawks outscored Atlanta
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thirty one to three to win by a final score
of thirty seven to nine and improved to ten and
three on the season. The Cupcakes might be done with
though next week the Indianapolis Colts, who though might now
be without Daniel Jones or will be certainly will be
without Daniel Jones as he had an achilles injury yesterday
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and is going to miss the rest of the season.
Also from the National Football League, yesterday, the Los Angeles
Rams forty five seventeen winners over the Arizona Cardinals, so
the Rams and Seahawks both tied at ten and three
atop the division.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Forty nine ers were on buy this week.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
They are a full game back now in the NFC West,
the loaded NFC West. Elsewhere, the Winter meetings got underway
last night. Major League Baseball, the Mariners did pull off
a trade over the weekend sending prospect Harry Ford to
the Washington Nationals in exchange for left handed reliever jose
A Farrer. We'll talk more about that coming up at
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seven point thirty here today.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Also, there was Katel Marte.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Returning to Seattle, rumors floating around out there as well.
And the Kraken will be in action tonight against the
Minnesota Wild the crack and really need a victory. They
will drop the puck on that game at seven o'clock.
But perhaps the most interesting topic today is the college
football playoff controversy. The rankings came out yesterday morning and
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Notre Dame, after being in the top ten for five
consecutive weeks, when the actual college football rankings came out,
Notre Dame did not make the cut. Joining us now
to talk about that and many other things. Former dub
head coach and now he's a big fancy analyst on
one of the big networks. Joining us is Chris Peterson
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on Chuck and Buck in the Mornings.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Good morning, coach, Good morning guys. I think you're overstating
it as a big fancy analyst, a bit.
Speaker 3 (03:28):
Much super fancy, a your sheer fancy up there on
the set you do a great job. I mean I
missed you coaching, but you do a great job there.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
You know. I love football. I just still can't stomach
to watch one of my teams play. I like to
watch everybody else's teams play and have a lot of
answer sitting on the sidelines.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
I made my living that way, coach, just not investing
any skin in the game, but having loud ass opinions
all the time.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
That's you.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Just you just describe me.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
You know, it's not a bad gig. I kind of
been missing this all year, all my life.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
You made a lot more money than I do, though.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
All right, well, let's talk about the college football playoff.
I don't really want to steer you in any direction.
Let me just ask you just an overall question. What
was your reaction to seeing the college football playoff seedings yesterday?
What's your biggest takeaway from it?
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Oh? My gosh, I mean I just continually shake my head,
scratch my head. You know, I've been saying this forever,
Like the games on Saturday for college football are spectacular.
It's just awesome. But behind the scenes, you know, Sunday.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
Through Friday in the off season, it is just complete
chaos and this is just another you know, step along
the way to that chaos.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
And you know, I think we all know since twenty
twenty when the pandemic kicked, everything changed in normal life
and in college football, from you know, nil to the
re alignment, to the portal, to firings with the huge buyouts,
and now we have the you know, the CFP drama.
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What I actually thought about the selection yesterday was for
what the committee was given, they got it right. I
really like Notre Dame. I mean they I like Marcus Freeman.
I think Notre Dame could have made a run in
this thing. But at the end of the day, when
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Miami and Notre Dame were ranked so close to each
other in almost all the metrics and in the final rankings,
I don't see how you could put Notre Dame in
over Miami if it comes to that they played head
to head Like as a coach, I have a hard
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time with that walking in to the to the team
room and saying, yeah, we beat them. Yeah. Everything else
is the saying, but we're not going That makes no
sense to me. So you know the fact that ESPN
has this show and they do it because they make
money and drama, and they have it every week, and
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they had Miami after Notre Dame beat them and then
they lost another game. So far apart in the rankings.
But as the season was changing and Miami got better
and they started winning more and they got close in
the rankings, it looked so awkward that they were so
far apart. But by the end of this regular season,
they're sitting right next to each other and they probably
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did the right thing.
Speaker 7 (06:47):
Yep, I'm with you. I mean, I agree with you
on that part. I mean I was last week at
some point last week. I bet this is long before
we thought or knew that we were going to have
you on, and I was just thinking myself, Chris Peterson
would figure out how to how to get all this
stuff right now. Let's just make him the commissioner, get
rid of the whole committee. We'll just let you do
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it all on your own. Probably be a pay bump
if you just take over all of college football.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
No thanks, too big of a headache.
Speaker 7 (07:18):
I'm with you, but you just kind of talked about
some of these headaches that we talk about all season,
and the coaching, you know, coaches leaving and leaving contracts
on the table and buy outs and transfer portal. But
just sticking to kind of the topic djure at this
point in time, I mean, is there a change if
you were the czar of the college football playoff, would
you want to have? I like having an underdog having
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a chance at this thing. If they are unbelievably exceptional,
they don't lose. They go out there and just say, hey,
you got to give us a chance against the big dogs.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
But do you like having two of them in there? No,
not at all.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
And I'm one of those guys that came from a place,
as you know, right, we had to scratch and claw
to get a chance. But you know again, and they're
kind of figuring this out as we go. Like last
year they ended up giving ASU and Boise State buys in,
you know, in the in the tournament, and no one
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really felt that was the right thing, so they tweaked
it this year. This year, I don't think anyone's feeling
good about number twenty Tulane and number twenty four JM.
You both getting in over Notre Dame BYU Vandy. You know,
so there's gonna be some tweaking coming to that. I
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just hope there's not an overreaction where you're not given
this group of five, group of six a chance to
go compete for this. But you can you can feel
the change coming on this because this doesn't feel right
as well.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Yeah, just make the adjustments, as you said. Don't think
that the answer is, oh, we got to expand to
twenty four. I mean, we just can't keep everybody happy.
You know, give the twelve team format a little bit
of time and that's make our adjustments as necessary.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
And I'm with you.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
I mean, and this is coming from a guy that
built Boise Stayed into a national power, and he's saying
we shouldn't have two.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
And I couldn't agree with you more.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Chris Peterson is with us, of course, former ub ED
coach and now college football analyst for Fox Sports. Great
to have them on here on the programs. Talk about
this college football playoff controversy. You mentioned before that they
got it right the committee by putting Miami ahead of
Notre Dame. What about Alabama coach? I mean, I realize
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not penalizing someone too much because they earned an extra game,
but considering how closely Notre Dame, Alabama, Miami all seemed
to be ranked by committee standards heading into this weekend.
Didn't that third loss provide the opportunity for you to
bump Alabama out and put Miami and Notre Dame both
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into the tournament?
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Okay, another awkward thing with college football right now is
the conference championship games. Right, some of them are really good.
I mean the Ohio State Indiana, I mean, was that
not spectacular? And it was a low scoring game. Usually
low scoring games aren't that spectacular, but that was spectacular.
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And then you go to Alabama Georgia. You're like, this
is kind of awkward that Alabama already went there had
the best win to me in all of college football
this season. That was the best win when Alabama went
into Georgia and beat them. And then you have the
most awkward one with Duke playing Virginia and you're like, oh,
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what is going to happen here if Duke wins? And
so that's you know, that's another problem there. I mean,
it's just it's again a hard situation. What are you
going to do? You're going to really punish somebody that
had the best win of the season, they're playing them
for the second time, and you know, it's just like
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you don't want to punish a team that's going to
like play for a league championship and knock them all
the way out. I thought, you know, the SEC is
a rough neighborhood, and those guys had about four games
that they're playing four or five all ranked teams at
the time, and they're navigating this pretty darn well. And
so I didn't have a problem leaving leaving Alabama in
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this whole thing. I find I felt it would have
even maybe a little awkward to bounce them out, you know,
going to a championship game. But this is the bottom line.
There is going to be no perfect way when you
have one hundred and forty three teams in college football
buying for this and you're trying to give access and
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you know we're talking about you know, some leagues, it's
apples to oranges, and it's just it's not the same.
But you're trying to make it right. So there's going
to always be a little bit of awkwardness. But in
my opinion too, this is the beauty of college football.
Everybody's like, get rid of the committee, hate the committee.
I don't see how you can do that, And you
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got to embrace it and I think if we make
some changes moving forward and tweak it so okay, learned
on that one, we're not doing that again, it can
get better.
Speaker 5 (12:14):
I'm with you.
Speaker 7 (12:15):
I mean, I think Chuck and I differ a little
bit on the expansion idea. And yet to me, I mean,
I'm not in a hurry to break this thing and
try to change it all together. And yet some of
the tweaks I would wonder if you would agree with,
no matter what happens if you expand it to sixteen.
Let's just say, if you're gonna have somebody that's at
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seventeen and they're gonna be upset that they're not, so
you're right, there's nothing that's going to be perfect. But
to me, the idea of making it to where maybe
it's your top six teams that are there automatically in
and then you have a ten team playoff to figure
out the rest or something like that, where it's it's
almost like a play in, a play in type of
a game. Do you think there's anything to that, because
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once you start getting down below, you know, sixteen teams,
all of a sudden it's Virginia. Do you really deserve
to be in? Or you know, Georgia Tech, did you
really deserve to be in after three losses in the ACC?
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (13:08):
I think that there's a bigger or a more valid
argument as to why some of these teams will be
on the outside looking in when you expand it just
a little bit further than twelve.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
Yeah, I agree. I agree with you one hundred percent
on that. I mean, I think we should go slow.
You know, we tweak it from the things we learned
this year and see what that looks like if it
does go to sixteen. You know, eventually that could you know,
there's some merit there. I think the play on games
are interesting. There could be a lot of drama, which
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is what I mean.
Speaker 6 (13:41):
That's college football right now. Right.
Speaker 2 (13:43):
I keep joking with our guys at Fox that, you
know the Fansville commercial of Doctor Pepper. Yeah, you know,
a couple of years ago. I just chuckle those commercials
and get a kick out of them. Now they're not
dramatic enough. Like college football fan though, There's more drama
going on in those than the cover. So I think
another thing. I think another thing that you know, and
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again the networks would have to get on board with this.
But like I think the college football season needs to
start earlier. I think we need to start in the
you know, two weeks earlier in August. Everybody's dying for
football at that point anyways, and I really think this
whole thing needs to be done by early January. January first,
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and for a couple of reasons. One, then let the
NFL go have their their Heyday. Don't compete in there.
You know, the games were so spread out last year
that I kind of felt myself losing a little interest
in the college football playoffs and and you're putting, you know,
the NFL playoffs in between. And I'm more of a
college football guy than I am a NFL guy, but
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so that was a little awkward. And then you can
then also shift acuadet you know, the football calendar around
the academic calendar. I mean, it is ridiculous that we're
having coaches, you know, and it's been going around for
a while, but leave their programs that kids are opting
out going into the transfer portal while the season's still
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going on. So you got to play the season, get
that over with. Then you got to sign your high
school kids. Then after that you can sign your portal
guys and there's going to probably need to be some
adjustments to springball. Although these coaches are old school people
and they don't like change and they want that spring
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football how it's always been. But I you know, I
look at the NFL how they do their quote spring football.
It's later. It's not as much pass, not as much contact.
I mean, I see that model. And then you know,
the kids are all here for the summer, the coaches
are here. They can now coach them in the summertime.
So you kind of just blend into that. And so anyway,
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there's just so many things that you're trying to figure out.
It's it's not it's unending.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Don't I know you don't want the job, but you
sound like a commissioner. Sound like you got some answers there.
Coach Peterson is with us here chucking buck in the morning.
I do want to ask you because well I think
I already know the answer, but I want to hear
how you verbalize it. I'm sure you think Notre Dame
is not doing the right thing by announcing they're sitting
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out the bulls.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Yeah, I mean again, here we go, Fansville. Right, We've
had like players coaches opting out, and now we've got
teams opting out. It's like, are we serious here? You know,
you know what I think about I think about BYU
a little bit, because you know, here's the team that
got beat by the number four team in the country
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twice and they really haven't said a whole lot. So
the word on the three was that BYU was going
to play Notre Dame in that pop Tart Bull, which
would have been a really cool matchup. B Yu can
make a case two years in a row. They've kind
of been snubbed a little bit, but they're going to
go on and play. I mean, I don't know. This
is a hard one for me because I get the
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emotion and how Notre Dame feels like they were so wronged,
But it also feels like, Okay, I'm gonna take my
ball and go home now. And you guys said, you
know how I'd come, and I say, yes, I'm still
an old school guy that we're teaching. Like, you know,
there's so many things that this is why I love
football so much. It's like the Trojan Horse. It's the
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Trojan horse values that we're teaching. There's so much life
that we're still teaching through this game. And one of
those things are is like being extremely disappointed and things
don't go your way and you still got to figure
out how to do your best and navigate through that.
It's like, okay, so what now? What I mean, that's
(17:53):
what I think about, Like, Okay, this happened to us,
So what now? What are we going to go home?
Are we going to lay down? Are we going to respond?
And so I think about that. I think Notre Dame,
you know, is going to be really good next year,
and so you're kind of throwing all that away in
terms of practicing, putting a chip on your shoulder, go
out and prove it against a really good team and
set yourself up for next year. I understand both sides
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of this. I would have loved to see them play
against BYU.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
I would love to see you coach again. Are you
really not going to coach again? And it is like
Sandy Kofax hanging it up? I mean, you got something
left in the tank here, Peterson? Are you really done?
Speaker 2 (18:31):
One of the things that I do now that I
really find a lot of probably joy purpose in so
I'm not coaching on the sideline, but I do I
do some stuff with a handful of coaches, and so
I find a lot of purpose, like all the things
that we're talking about here, help them coaches navigate this
(18:52):
really difficult arena that we're in right now, and it
is tricky, tough, and it's like it's really about it
comes back to ourselves, you know, with all the things
that are being thrown how do we show.
Speaker 6 (19:03):
Up every day?
Speaker 5 (19:04):
Is our best? You know? We put that.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Always on our kids. We demand so much out of
the kids and the players and expect them to bring
their best energy, their best focused day in and day out.
But half the time we don't show up as our
best because this arena is so like twenty four seven,
three sixty five, and it squeezes us and dinners us
and makes us not our best but our worst version
in some cases. And so I find a lot of
(19:29):
purpose in helping coaches navigate that. And I think the
bottom line is that and this is why I stepped
away when I was trying to really get clarity on
this whole thing that I had this beautiful job at
you dub, but wasn't happy. And I think I've just
come to the conclusion that I love football, I love
teaching coaching, leading all those type of things and helping
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people navigate that. But when you jump back in to
that arena and stand on the sidelines, you live a very,
very narrow life. That is what you do. Twenty four seven,
three sixty five, And at this point in my life,
I just don't want to live.
Speaker 5 (20:06):
That narrow.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
Well said, thank you, coach. It was great hearing from you,
great avenue. All we appreciate it, and we'll bug you
again down the road.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
All right, yeah, appreciate you guys, and good luck Solvent
College Football.
Speaker 3 (20:21):
Well, I'm gonna try Chris Peters the joining us right
here on Chuck and Buck in the morning, and I'm
gonna stop to dig right in and I got a
lot of things more to say.
Speaker 1 (20:30):
I don't know if we're gonna have.
Speaker 3 (20:31):
Time to get into it today, but if not, we
will certainly have a lot of discussions on tomorrow's show
coming up.
Speaker 1 (20:38):
Next. Factor fiction is over.
Speaker 3 (20:41):
We're not gonna play factor fiction, but there's still a
little bit of factor fiction business to take care of.
And believe it or not, baseball has made its way
into this crazy Monday Sports Radio ninety three point three
kJ RFM, Well, congratulations to the Factor Fiction Champions of
(21:12):
twenty twenty five for the second year in a row,
third banner in the history of Factor Fiction. The morning
show celebrates with champagne over each other's heads. Ashley Ryan
with a two and zero week to finish out the season.
Bucky also finishes five hundred for the year.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
We were the only show to finish over five hundred
for the season.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
All three of us five hundred are better for the season.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
The people that gamble the least at KJR win the
most when it comes to Factor Congratulations team.
Speaker 7 (21:52):
Maybe we should be arrogantting boastful about gambling when we
don't ever do it.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
Okay, we're the We're the beast.
Speaker 7 (22:01):
Hey, Ashley, you know you make trophies and stuff for us.
Can you make banners?
Speaker 8 (22:05):
I got I got called dumb by some of our listeners.
Speaker 9 (22:07):
I pick about Indiana plus five against Ohio State.
Speaker 8 (22:12):
Who's dumb? Now?
Speaker 5 (22:13):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (22:14):
Maybe the championship beltum.
Speaker 7 (22:17):
Now l O L that's a laugh out loud at you,
not with you, at you?
Speaker 3 (22:24):
Uh so, congratulations gang, we did it again, back to
back champions of Factor Fiction.
Speaker 7 (22:29):
Granted you you kind of carried it. You you you
let everybody. You were the leader you were, you beat
everybody including m J. Yeah, well it is expert, yep,
it is. Yeah, whooped him. I'm pretty sure you whooped Faine.
I think Faine probably finished like five hundred as well.
(22:50):
And yeah, you's usually good head and shoulders better than
everybody else. Congratulations, we did kick individual title. We're not
gonna hang a banner for that. That's your own thing.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Yeah, well, you know what I'm gonna be like Fernando Mendosa.
I'm just gonna get in front of the camera, speak
directly into it and just please yell about team.
Speaker 5 (23:11):
He's really not good in the interviews, really good quarterback.
Speaker 1 (23:16):
You know, it's probably gonna cost him in the draft
a few spots.
Speaker 5 (23:19):
It might. They'll overlook it. E get coached on that
because boy is it bad.
Speaker 6 (23:25):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
Let me mention a couple of things that we have
not talked about yet before we talk about what I
had planned to talk about here. Because we don't have
factor fiction, suddenly I have this full passion whole to
play around in. I don't have to worry about getting
the factor fiction because the season is over with. But
Rick Nuheisel is being rumored as the Kougs next head coach.
(23:47):
I don't know how serious that is. Well, we're supposed
to have coach on tomorrow at nine o'clock. If he cancels,
it might be really serious.
Speaker 8 (23:54):
Now that makes a lot more sense why Ian was
asking me for his info.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Yes, so me maybe maybe.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
I mean the idea being that Rick new Isel takes
over a program that he knows in a state that
he's recruited, and then he brings over his son Jerry,
to be the offensive coordinator and then just hands the
baton to Jerry when the time is right.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
But Jimmy Rogers.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
Left for Iowa State over the weekend after Matt Campbell
went to Penn State. Followed the bouncing ball, and so
Rick new Isel rumors to the Koogs have started. I'm
sure Ian's going to talk about a little bit later
on today. I would also want to point this out.
Notre Dame is not the only team that is bounced
out of the bowls. I realize it looks like sour grapes,
(24:41):
and I think that it certainly is. You're not going
to use US ESPN, ABC to get a great TV
rating in a bowl game after you just completely snubbed
us and broke our hearts when we felt we were
deserving four programs and counting have decided we're not. Well,
I guess not counting anymore because the Bowl Games are
(25:02):
set four programs. Iowa, Stake, Kansas State, Notre Dame, and
Baylor all said we don't want to play. So I
think everybody's just got to accept this fact. I realized
we grew up with Bowl games. They're about dead. They're
not going to exist for much longer, and if they do,
I think that they're going to be in a much
different form than what they are now. So yes, most
of that from the Irish, I'm sure sour grapes, but
(25:26):
part of it is that there is really nobody even
wants to play in Bowl games anymore. Kids don't want to,
coaches don't want to, administrators don't want to. The only
people that want to do it are the people that
make money off of them.
Speaker 5 (25:38):
Yeah, oh yeah, they make money.
Speaker 7 (25:39):
I mean, there's no doubt about that, and that money
trickles down to some degree, right, I mean, so I
think I think there's some folks that would still want
to go out there. I know this is an argument
I stand on, like the getting to play one final game.
But if it is sour grapes, what Notre Dame's doing.
At the same time, if they came up with that
as a as a as a team, we don't want
(26:00):
to do it. We're not going to do exactly what
you said. And that's grant ESPN a great matchup for
some bowl game. Then I don't have any I don't
have anything to say about it.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
It's just all right. If you don't want to play
in it, then don't play in it. You're right if you.
Speaker 7 (26:13):
Think you're getting ready to go to the NFL, and
why the heck would you risk hurting yourself, which a
lot of kids are opting to not do that.
Speaker 5 (26:19):
I may okay with that as well.
Speaker 9 (26:21):
I think if it was like, I don't know, somebody
I liked that was dropping out of a bowl game,
I'd be like, yeah, good for you. You show ESPN what
you're made of. But because it's Notre Dame, I think
they're cry babies.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
And then I do want to mention a little baseball,
and I don't know if we're gonna have enough time.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Later to do it at all.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
So Harry Ford is now a Washington National. We've already
talked about a little bit this morning. I'm surprised he
wasn't worth more on the trade market. I do see
the value of Jose Ferrera. Ferrer, who is a young
lefty who is controllable for a number of years one
hundred works low in his own tremendous ground ball rate,
(27:03):
but also somebody with that nastiest stuff that strikes out
fewer than one batter per inning, and not just at
the major league level, but did at the minor league
level as well. It smacks very much to me of
a left handed Gregory Santos Bucky who just did not
work out. I mean, he's now an ex Mariner, and
I know how excited they were when they landed him
(27:24):
and thought the exact same things about him as they
think about.
Speaker 1 (27:27):
Farrer right now.
Speaker 3 (27:29):
So to me, it's less than I thought Harry Ford
would fetch in a trade. So I'm a little disappointed
from that. And that's even while acknowledging that Farrer certainly
can be useful to this team for the next few years.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
Yeah, I mean, I don't.
Speaker 7 (27:45):
I think I felt like there would have been more
for Harry Ford, and I think that maybe you could
have gotten more. Had you said we're going to keep
him as our backup guy and catch him once a
week or maybe even try to give Cal a couple
of days a week off and if he's swinging it,
then you'll in DH one week in between that as well,
I think you could have rose, his stock could have risen,
and you could have got more. But at this point
(28:06):
it's you're getting a guy who is for sure capable
of being good in the big leagues. He hasn't really
popped yet. Jose Ferrere guy we're talking about. He hasn't
really popped and done what I think his stuff says.
But to me, it's the I think there's a different
He didn't walk guys like Santos. Santos was a guy
who didn't punch out a bunch of guys, but it's
he also walked a lot. At This guy is like
(28:27):
ninety fifth percentile in walk percentage. So he doesn't walk guys.
So he pitches in the zone, which means then he's
gonna put balls, but guys gonna put balls in play,
and then they're not gonna put it in play very well.
And so that's where he's really good on his hard
hit percentage and barrel rates and a bunch of other
stuff that you end up looking into. So I can
see how the Mariners are like, that's what we need.
(28:49):
We need a left handed guy. We don't need a
backup catcher that is one of our top prospects. So
at same time, it's kind of one of those you
could have probably gotten more for him had you let
Harry Ford become a big league dude, because in you're
trading a controllable position player that plays a very important position,
You're getting more than just a good, controllable left handed
arm out of the bullpen.
Speaker 5 (29:09):
So I'm with you. I think there's there's two different
ways you could win about it. There's not a whole
heck of a lot.
Speaker 7 (29:13):
I'm going to immediately criticize about the Mariners when it
comes to them going out and getting the reliever, though,
because they seem to really know how to do that.
Speaker 5 (29:20):
That's true.
Speaker 3 (29:22):
The other thing I think needs to be mentioned winter
meetings who are underway. Joel Sherman said last night the
Kyle Schwarber domino once it falls, it's the difference between
having an active Winter meetings and his estimation and not
having anything. I think what he's saying is the free
agent market's waiting on Kyle Schwarber, and it just sets
in motion all sorts of other activity. So we shall see.
(29:46):
The Pittsburgh Pirates have offered Kyle Schwarber a four year,
one hundred million dollar contract. I just want to mention
this because there's not going to be time later on today.
That is the most ridiculous PR stunt I've ever seen
in my entire life. They know they're not going to
get him, yeah, at that salary, and yet they want
their fans.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
To see s we're trying.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
We offered, We offered something thirty percent below market value,
knowing that he wasn't going to take it. I mean,
not only even if he did take four years, one
hundred million dollars, is it going to be on a
bad baseball team that's been rebuilding for the last two decades.
It's just a PR stunt. So I hope people in
(30:29):
Pittsburgh aren't falling for that. They unfortunately have painted themselves.
And not only if you want to go out to
Kyle Schwarber, not only going to have to play market rate,
you probably gotta have to pay more than market rate
to get him to come to Pittsburgh because nobody trusts Pittsburgh.
They'll pull the rug out from underneath the entire operation.
Shwarbur will get there and they'll trade Paul Skeins the
next day.
Speaker 5 (30:47):
You know.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
That's that's how Pittsburgh. That's the reputation that they've earned.
And so please do not buy that Kyle Schwarber pirates
have made a really serious offer for it's not serious
at all. No, a counterfeit offer for Kyle Schwarber on
the free agent market. All right, Coming up next week
from Mike McDonald about yesterday's when before Humellon joins is
at eight o'clock on Monday morning quarterback on Chucking Buck
(31:10):
Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ r F M
as Michael McDonald's I don't think that's asking too much.
Speaker 4 (31:17):
Well, play open the PA first half. It was really
slow on the fixt kick down to second.
Speaker 8 (31:28):
Gear because I caught that touchdown.
Speaker 4 (31:34):
Taking it too shatat taking it too sha oh wow wow, whoa.
Speaker 5 (31:41):
You can want that? And I guess you're gonna keep
wanting it.
Speaker 3 (31:46):
Well, I'm gonna keep wanting it then, because I'm never
going to not want it, all right, tell you that
right now.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
You will never turn this falset off.
Speaker 10 (31:55):
All right, we got Dan Wentz to Josh Bern were
all ten entree, we are ten three.
Speaker 8 (32:06):
Next time it's a Colts.
Speaker 4 (32:09):
Don't have actor back gumming. He blew out his achilles,
He blew out his okilles.
Speaker 8 (32:19):
I mean, I'm not laughing at him blowing. Michael McDonald
talking about it.
Speaker 1 (32:22):
Oh that rhyme's with taking it to the street. Yeah,
all right.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Mike McDonald yesterday talking about the strange doings six to
six at halftime, he predicts a Rashid Shah he'd kick
returned to start the second half. He gets it, he
calls it, he names it, and then all of a sudden,
the team just takes off defensively, offensively. Special teams dominated
the third quarter like few teams have in the National
Football League's history, and then rolled to a thirty seven
(32:47):
to nine victory. You would have never guessed it was
six to six at half time. You Melan will join
us at eight o'clock. Mike hongran at nine o'clock to
talk about the game. I we'll also talk a little
college football with Hugh as well. But here is coach
mc donald on his rookie safety weapon, linebacker, edge rusher,
corner nick emon War.
Speaker 11 (33:07):
You know he's so good extended plays and just gonna
be a playmaker man, you know, go do the things
that you do and get excited about it. But just
kind of build him up on that front. But can't him,
can't make too big of these things. Just like let
him just encourage him to keep you know, make him
go do what he does and and and making it come.
Speaker 5 (33:27):
To life overall.
Speaker 11 (33:29):
The tremendous Chason we gave out some game like like
he got one of the game balls. I'm really happy
for him. Mean, he's he's worked his tail off, he
just really has. He just does it every day and
just asked that for us obviously when how we're utilizing
him and we're playing him against thirteen personnel in there
and he's throwing his stuff in there. So baby for him,
and he's got a great attitude. So happy for him.
(33:52):
He deserves it.
Speaker 4 (33:54):
Streets I like him out.
Speaker 9 (33:57):
When he said tremendous asset, I had to listen to
it to because I had at first he said, smeared
his ass out for us, was.
Speaker 1 (34:02):
Spared his ass out. It means, I tell you.
Speaker 8 (34:05):
Something must be new football lingo.
Speaker 3 (34:07):
If it means something good he did it, then trust me,
Nick and wear that Nick Emon wore.
Speaker 1 (34:12):
He smeared his ass out.
Speaker 5 (34:13):
That is what he did, yes, all over those falcons.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
If if, if that's new terminology for dominant play on defense.
Speaker 8 (34:24):
Yeah, yeah, I was like, wait, oh, that makes more sense.
Speaker 7 (34:29):
A lot of things have changed since the days when
I was playing high school football.
Speaker 5 (34:33):
When you know, so, maybe they have come up with.
Speaker 7 (34:35):
A new way of describing let's go with that smearing
yourself all over the defense in different ways. It's just
smearing your ass out there.
Speaker 8 (34:42):
All that's right.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
He was phenomenal. He certainly packed the stat line yesterday.
He had a sack, he had two tackles for loss,
he had an interception, he blocked a field goal. I
led the team in solo tackles. It's like, what did
he not do? Covered sixteen different types of receivers out
of the Atlanta offense. I mean, he was just special.
(35:05):
And the team took off in the second half. But
thirty nine to seven, excuse me, thirty seven to nine
the final score. So the Seahawks improved to ten and three.
We got two full hours to break This Down with
Hugh Millen and Mike Homern and it starts next on
Sports Radio ninety three point three kJ RFM
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