December 10, 2025 • 18 mins
Petros Papadakis of Fox Sports Radio in Los Angeles joins Dave Softy Mahler to talk about the College Football Playoff field and Notre Dame getting left out, if changes are needed to the bowl season, UW facing Boise State the L.A. Bowl, and Rick Neuheisel.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's time for our weekly conversation with college football analyst
Petros Papadekas.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Not that I'm a smart guy, I'm stupid.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Now with Petros, Peer's Dave's softy Muller. Alrighty, boys and girls,
here we go on.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
A beautiful and I'm not really beautiful. It's pissing rain outside.
It's a freaking monsoon. Baby here and see Atti, but
we are used to that. Joining us right now on
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(00:59):
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and my friend Petrose Popadokat brought to you.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
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(01:30):
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Speaker 3 (01:35):
How about your your boys over at Notre Dame throwing
a fit because they didn't make the college football playoffs
as a USC alum. That's got to kind of make
you smile a little bit of their behavior.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Not really, I don't. I don't get that way about rivalries.
Like some people act like a jackass, alienate a whole
bunch of people.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Wow, I understand. Are you insinuating something, brother?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
No? Oh, go okay, But I do understand their frustration
because last year Notre Dame won four games in the
College Football Playoff, and I think it helped the college
Football Playoff in the annual year of having a bunch
of games, and they use their name all season long
(02:19):
and their reveal show and then flipped them when they
hadn't played a game. So I understand why they're upset,
and then the one bowl game they're supposed to go
playing is like the double circle with the frosting and
the pop Tarts and just the total ESPN. I mean,
the only things could be the Mayo Bowl, right if
(02:42):
you dip Marcus Freeman and Mayo Dukes, which I heard
as a little kick to it, But so I understand
them saying, look the part about it that bothers me,
and I don't feel bad for Notre Dame though it's
probably out of Amma that doesn't deserve to be in there.
But when the one thing I do want to point
(03:06):
out is when the playoff did expand, and it's probably
going to expand more very soon. But when the playoff
did expand and everybody was like, well, we're not going
to have the great argument we had about who's number three,
and what about who's going to care who's number thirteen,
it turns out a lot of people care, and making
the playoff is pretty much that or bust for a
(03:30):
lot of college football programs, including USC and Washington and
our respective towns. That being said, softy, I do find
it really annoying that ESPN owns the ACC, they own
the SEC, they own the playoff, right, and they own
like ninety five percent of the bowl games, and then
(03:53):
they have all these talking heads arguing about that they
put it on TV. They've created the whole problem. They're
making it up as they go along, and they're sitting
here and telling you while they're pissing in your face
that it's that it's raining stud That part of it
(04:13):
is is pretty wild, is that the TV companies are
behind this. And we use words like the ACC and
the SEC and the Big ten, but we're really just
talking about Fox and Disney. Yeah, and that's really the
bottom line. And I maybe the Notre Dame athletic director
(04:34):
has done one too many interviews or press conferences about this,
but Notre Dame feels like they have the biggest puzzo
and the pants of college football. And if they want,
if they don't want to, you know, it's like Dirk Diggler,
if they don't want to, they don't want to perform
that day for ESPN and playing their reindeer games. I
(04:55):
certainly I can totally understand it because they feel look
and no, her name is going to be independent as
long as somebody's willing to pay them. Big network TV
money to be an independent right, And how long has
that NBC deal been what is it thirty four years? Yeah,
since nineteen ninety one with Notre Dame, right right, right,
(05:16):
So it feels it feels like they have a pretty
good platform there and that they're going to be able
to do what they want. And the college football Playoffs
is going to expand anyway, so it's not likely that
we'll have this problem again. It is hilarious because it
just speaks to the instability of the sports and how
(05:37):
wacky it is.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
I just can't get over the Dirt Giggler reference.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
And you know what I mean. I want to aff
right now.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
You know what I'm thinking about.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
It's my big c and I want to have right now.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
If Notre Dame is Dirt Diggler, who's playing the role
of the colonel? Oh, may I see it? That would
Robert rid remember Robert Ridsley.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Probably be NBC.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Okay, NBC wants to see it.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Right, And Boston College is chest rockwell.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Oh god, unbelievable. Remember Phillip Seymour Hoffman in that Yeah,
he was he was fabulous when he tried to come
on to Marky Mark and he guys the car.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
The guy that made that movie. He's got three names.
Paul Thomas Anderson. Is that the guy's name. He's really
close friends with our friend down here that works at KFI,
Tim Conway Junior, really and he put he put Tim
Conway in one of his more recent movies, Licorice Pizza,
which was pretty cool. Just remember, Paul Thomas Anderson, Did
(06:38):
I get it right? There?
Speaker 3 (06:39):
You go, Phillip Seymour Hoffman sitting in his car.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Stupid. Don't do that man.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Well, it's uh, it's really kind of a it's disappointing
because it's supposed to be a wonderful time of the
year for college football and instead it's not right. A
lot of the whole season.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Has been that way, and the whole season when James
Franklin got the whole season got up in.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
But what about these ball games now, because it's not
just Notre Dame. You know new Heiseel Rick new Heiseel,
who does a weekly hit with us courtesy at Taco Time.
He'll be on tomorrow. By the way, he's got a
pretty good idea. I think he was on the Dan
Patrick Show and I don't know, maybe he stole it
from you.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
What was the idea, You got to hire my son
to be the coaching waiting at Wazoo.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Maybe yeah, Well the Cougar has already did that with
Dick and Tony Bennett back in the day. Worked out
pretty good for the Kubes. Went to the Sweet sixteen
with Klay Thompson and then he took off and went
to Virginia. But anyway, new Heidel's idea was, let's let's
play all these ball games because we have all these
like the Chick fil A Kickoff Classic in Atlanta to
start the year. Let's move all the ball games to
(07:43):
the start of the year week one, week zero, Yeah, right, whatever,
and we just get them all out of the way
there and then the only thing that matters come December
is the playoff.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Well yeah, but then you're you're boxing out all the
small schools that like to play.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
It's a reward for the previous season.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
That's your attitude.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
I would say, if you earn it the previous year,
then you get to go.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
A few of the bulls are good previous year, as
if that means anything.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Now in college, it means a lot for the eight
people when they come out in.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Which is also stupid, Like why do you guys try
to make sense of this stuff? Like a lot of
the bulls will probably end up going away. The championship
games are going to end up going away, and the
playoff is going to expand, and they need more uniformity.
Having a smaller portal or one portal and making the
(08:40):
SEC play an extra conference game is not enough uniformity.
They need more. And it's the same thing I've been
telling you for years. The TV companies are going to
have to figure out how to get along to stabilize
the sport they need. That's really who's in charge and
governing body Petros. If they need a governing body, well,
(09:02):
that's another part of the committee is so stupid. And
if you're going to have a committee, you have to
have football people like Mike Riley and Chris Alt and
Ivan Mazell who's on there. That's fine. Those are the
type of people that need to be on the committee.
The second, with all due respect to athletic directors, the
second it becomes a bunch of athletic directors, which it is,
(09:24):
they're politicians, and politicians have no backbone. They flip with
public sentiment. They always have. That's politics. So when public
sentiment says, hey, how come you put Miami? How come
you put notre name in front of Miami all this
time when they played each other, they're like, oh my god,
you're right. That's there's no backbone there. So there doesn't
(09:46):
need to be administrators or politicians on this committee. If
there's going to be a committee, there needs to be
football people that have a backbone, that stick to their
story throughout the year unless something dramatic happens. Just get
rid of the reveal show, which is just a big
ESPN mutual session. That's all this is. So much of
(10:08):
this is just that, Oh god, and yet we are
all forced to argue about it and act like any
of this stuff is legitimate, and act like everybody's not
making it up as they go along.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
I think we should podcast the unedited version of this conversation.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
I haven't said anything that needs to be edited. People
will listen, they will flock. I haven't said anything that
needs to be edited. You said I can say that.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
You can't say that on the air.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Yes you can't. No, you can't can't do it.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Day me talk to my boss man. You know what's
even dumber by the way about all this Notre Dame
talk that we're talking about Petros Petros courtesy is Sweet
James dot com. How about the fact that you Dub's
going to play in a ballgame on Saturday night and
they had six days the fans said, six days to
get ready for a stupid ballgame on Saturday against Boise State.
(10:59):
We're going down for the La Bawl. It's so Fie
against the Mountain West Champs. I mean, who's gonna go.
Who's gonna go to a game? Travel to a game
when you got six days to get ready?
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Come on? Probably more people then we'll go to the
UCLA games and so far you think, yeah, probably, But
it's obviously not about attendants anymore, which was unfortunate. But
it's about the TV slot and ESPN's inventory. You wanted
(11:30):
to say something else, didn't you? No, leave me alone?
I looked at Kate's I was like, I can't say that.
He was like, well, you probably should. I was like, dude,
I hate everybody.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
I'm with you, man, I get it. I just you know,
when you're when you're a slave to the man, then
you gotta you know whatever. But I don't know. I mean,
they just Husky fans. Just saw the Dogs against UCLA
at the Rose Bowl three weeks ago. I'm saying Husky
fans that live in southern California, right, So maybe a
few folks that. And they got a large fan base
(12:00):
down there. A lot of schools have a lot of
fans in LA.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
But and so the.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Boiss I know, Yeah, they might have more people down
there than we will.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
They have a lot of people down here too, And
that's an interesting football team. They got their quarterback back, imagine. Yeah,
and they're tough upfront on both sides. They really are.
I mean, Boise without the Ashton genty thing, Boise is
still what they are, which is a team built at
the line of scrimmage. So that's not an easy out. Yeah,
the Dogs better be motivated in that one or they're
(12:29):
going to get beat.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Well, they're given ten and a half, for God's sakes,
I'd take Poise in the points.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Where's the motivation, Well, there's.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
I mean, this is not like Notre Dame or you
know another school that would be greatly disappointed to miss
the CFP. They have not been in the CFP for
three weeks. You're saying Washington's not motivated.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
I don't know. Every team's different, Every team had its
own personality, Every team reacts to the Bullpack practices differently. Yeah,
really hard to gauge what they're going to come out
and be like. Of course, teams are more veteran laden now,
but the transfer portal opening up and all the uncertainty
and instability doesn't help the bull practice part of it either.
(13:12):
Plus six days to get ready is not exactly a
plethora of time to wrap your head around Boise, and
they're very, very complex blitz packages under defensive coordinator coach Chinander,
So good luck to everybody involved.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Would you hire Rick new Heisel if you were Wazoo?
Speaker 2 (13:32):
No? Why not? I think I'd rather hire a Bob
Chesney type.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Okay, like a Jason Ck kind of guy. Yeah, somebody
from Don't you think ek though could get a better
gig than Wazoo if he's leaving New Mexico?
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Is he? I don't know what he eventually does? I
think he could. Yeah, I think Jason Eck has done.
If it wasn't for Indiana, Jason Eck would be the
most masterful coaching job in the country this year.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Yeah, so why not new Heisel? At Wazoo.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
I'm just kid. I just think we've seen the whole
thing play itself out a few times already, haven't we.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
I mean, I guess it's like I said, I worked
in basketball for Wazoo with Dick and Tony Bennett.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Yeah, but Dick and Tony Bennett are not Rick and
Jerry Neuheisel. How do you know that these are total
just because their father and son, it's a totally different sport.
They're two totally different people. Dick and Tony Bennett had
been coaching. I mean, Rix hasn't coached in a long time,
right right, Yeah, Well he wants the gig. Well, good
for him. I hope he gets it when I do it.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Did you hear about this thing with Utah that they
want to partner up with a private equity.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Everybody's looking to find a way to become the next
Texas Tech, find more money and blow everybody out of
the water with cash because you can do it. I mean,
that's the thing that makes the USC problem really egregious
is that you could say, well, one thing people don't
realize about Indiana is they have a lot of money.
And that is true. That is one thing That's why
(15:05):
they were able to pay Signetti when that Penn State
job opened up and extend him. But that's the one
thing about USC. USC has money, and that's the biggest problem.
They don't have an excuse to be this bad anymore.
And teams that have that much money, when you see
what some have done with the money and bringing the
(15:28):
right people in and having the right coach and ad
and president and all that. You look at Texas Tech
and their turnaround. Obviously Indiana, you look at a team
like USC or even Washington, you say, hey, let's get
a move on. What are you guys doing. You can
see that these people have the same resources as you
in this modern era and they're having success. What is
(15:50):
your problem? So that's one of the interesting things about Indiana.
And if you can turn New Mexico around, for God's sakes,
with have to. If you could turn Indian around with
a bunch of players from the Sun Belt and turn
football purgatory New Mexico into something with a bunch of
players from Idaho, what the hell is everybody else doing?
(16:12):
And I think that's a really good point that can
be made about this modern era.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Well, the Heisman vote is going to be announced on Saturday. Yeah,
do you have a vote, But oh no, you don't. No, No,
I don't. Do you want to think of a loser?
Would you like a vote?
Speaker 2 (16:27):
No? Not at this point.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Okay, who do you think should win? Should it be
the kid from Indiana, the former cal quarterback?
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Yeah, after he got his head knocked clean off and
then still led them to victory. That was amazing. On
the first player of the game or whatever it was.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
I think it was the It was the first drive
for sure.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Yeah, I give it to Ferdy Mendoza. Although I did
see a great tweet about Diego Pavia. It said Diego
Pavia is what Axe Body Spray would be as a person,
and it felt curate. I like this mom tworking doing
(17:03):
the Heisman pose. Oh yeah, the drunk brother being escorted
out of every game. I just hope he's at the
ceremony on Saturday. They're like the new Honey Boo Boo family.
Oh God, it's exciting. I love it.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
All right, Well, good stuff, appreciate this. We'll talk in
a week. Man, Curious to see you back to the wazoo.
Hopeful Rick new Heiseel and old blowhard Kevin Harlan, Am
I gonna see you on Saturday down in La. I'm
coming down Friday night for the game. Yeah yeah, shoot
me a text. You want to meet up? Oh maybe? Okay,
see you man.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Sure me a text. I'll see. Let's see what's up shaking.
Are you gonna stay in the South Bay area.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
We're staying in Torrents by the way. Oh my god,
well that's right by where I live.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
I'll come over. I landed. I didn't say.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Banging the door. All right, Bud, we're talking a week
Maybe I'll see you this weekend.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Maybe. All right, bring rashaan shehe and some weed.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
All right, Petrust Paparaka is with us. We're gonna break.
Kevin Harlan joins it. Five Coming upon ninety three three
K J R F M.
It's time for our weekly conversation with college football analyst
Petros Papadekas.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Not that I'm a smart guy, I'm stupid.
Speaker 1 (00:07):
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you're hurt in an accident, called Sweet James right away
at eight hundred, five hundred and fifty two hundred. Sweet
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Now with Petros, Peer's Dave's softy Muller. Alrighty, boys and girls,
here we go on.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
A beautiful and I'm not really beautiful. It's pissing rain outside.
It's a freaking monsoon. Baby here and see Atti, but
we are used to that. Joining us right now on
the radio show Let's face It, one of the premier
sports talk radio hosts this country has to offer a
legend in Southern California, noted USC football star, one half
of the Petros and Money Show, one fine Greek American,
(00:59):
how's He's been of the year, Father of the Month,
and my friend Petrose Popadokat brought to you.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
By Sweet James. The dense beard of justice. Samanna can
come through for you. If you've ever been in a
car accident or hurt, you know how difficult it is
to get what you deserve out of your insurance company.
That's why Sweet James is there, So give him a
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(01:30):
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Speaker 3 (01:35):
How about your your boys over at Notre Dame throwing
a fit because they didn't make the college football playoffs
as a USC alum. That's got to kind of make
you smile a little bit of their behavior.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Not really, I don't. I don't get that way about rivalries.
Like some people act like a jackass, alienate a whole
bunch of people.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Wow, I understand. Are you insinuating something, brother?
Speaker 2 (01:58):
No? Oh, go okay, But I do understand their frustration
because last year Notre Dame won four games in the
College Football Playoff, and I think it helped the college
Football Playoff in the annual year of having a bunch
of games, and they use their name all season long
(02:19):
and their reveal show and then flipped them when they
hadn't played a game. So I understand why they're upset,
and then the one bowl game they're supposed to go
playing is like the double circle with the frosting and
the pop Tarts and just the total ESPN. I mean,
the only things could be the Mayo Bowl, right if
(02:42):
you dip Marcus Freeman and Mayo Dukes, which I heard
as a little kick to it, But so I understand
them saying, look the part about it that bothers me,
and I don't feel bad for Notre Dame though it's
probably out of Amma that doesn't deserve to be in there.
But when the one thing I do want to point
(03:06):
out is when the playoff did expand, and it's probably
going to expand more very soon. But when the playoff
did expand and everybody was like, well, we're not going
to have the great argument we had about who's number three,
and what about who's going to care who's number thirteen,
it turns out a lot of people care, and making
the playoff is pretty much that or bust for a
(03:30):
lot of college football programs, including USC and Washington and
our respective towns. That being said, softy, I do find
it really annoying that ESPN owns the ACC, they own
the SEC, they own the playoff, right, and they own
like ninety five percent of the bowl games, and then
(03:53):
they have all these talking heads arguing about that they
put it on TV. They've created the whole problem. They're
making it up as they go along, and they're sitting
here and telling you while they're pissing in your face
that it's that it's raining stud That part of it
(04:13):
is is pretty wild, is that the TV companies are
behind this. And we use words like the ACC and
the SEC and the Big ten, but we're really just
talking about Fox and Disney. Yeah, and that's really the
bottom line. And I maybe the Notre Dame athletic director
(04:34):
has done one too many interviews or press conferences about this,
but Notre Dame feels like they have the biggest puzzo
and the pants of college football. And if they want,
if they don't want to, you know, it's like Dirk Diggler,
if they don't want to, they don't want to perform
that day for ESPN and playing their reindeer games. I
(04:55):
certainly I can totally understand it because they feel look
and no, her name is going to be independent as
long as somebody's willing to pay them. Big network TV
money to be an independent right, And how long has
that NBC deal been what is it thirty four years? Yeah,
since nineteen ninety one with Notre Dame, right right, right,
(05:16):
So it feels it feels like they have a pretty
good platform there and that they're going to be able
to do what they want. And the college football Playoffs
is going to expand anyway, so it's not likely that
we'll have this problem again. It is hilarious because it
just speaks to the instability of the sports and how
(05:37):
wacky it is.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
I just can't get over the Dirt Giggler reference.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
And you know what I mean. I want to aff
right now.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
You know what I'm thinking about.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
It's my big c and I want to have right now.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
If Notre Dame is Dirt Diggler, who's playing the role
of the colonel? Oh, may I see it? That would
Robert rid remember Robert Ridsley.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Probably be NBC.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
Okay, NBC wants to see it.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Right, And Boston College is chest rockwell.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Oh god, unbelievable. Remember Phillip Seymour Hoffman in that Yeah,
he was he was fabulous when he tried to come
on to Marky Mark and he guys the car.
Speaker 2 (06:16):
The guy that made that movie. He's got three names.
Paul Thomas Anderson. Is that the guy's name. He's really
close friends with our friend down here that works at KFI,
Tim Conway Junior, really and he put he put Tim
Conway in one of his more recent movies, Licorice Pizza,
which was pretty cool. Just remember, Paul Thomas Anderson, Did
(06:38):
I get it right? There?
Speaker 3 (06:39):
You go, Phillip Seymour Hoffman sitting in his car.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Stupid. Don't do that man.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Well, it's uh, it's really kind of a it's disappointing
because it's supposed to be a wonderful time of the
year for college football and instead it's not right. A
lot of the whole season.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Has been that way, and the whole season when James
Franklin got the whole season got up in.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
But what about these ball games now, because it's not
just Notre Dame. You know new Heiseel Rick new Heiseel,
who does a weekly hit with us courtesy at Taco Time.
He'll be on tomorrow. By the way, he's got a
pretty good idea. I think he was on the Dan
Patrick Show and I don't know, maybe he stole it
from you.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
What was the idea, You got to hire my son
to be the coaching waiting at Wazoo.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Maybe yeah, Well the Cougar has already did that with
Dick and Tony Bennett back in the day. Worked out
pretty good for the Kubes. Went to the Sweet sixteen
with Klay Thompson and then he took off and went
to Virginia. But anyway, new Heidel's idea was, let's let's
play all these ball games because we have all these
like the Chick fil A Kickoff Classic in Atlanta to
start the year. Let's move all the ball games to
(07:43):
the start of the year week one, week zero, Yeah, right, whatever,
and we just get them all out of the way
there and then the only thing that matters come December
is the playoff.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Well yeah, but then you're you're boxing out all the
small schools that like to play.
Speaker 3 (07:58):
It's a reward for the previous season.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
That's your attitude.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
I would say, if you earn it the previous year,
then you get to go.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
A few of the bulls are good previous year, as
if that means anything.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
Now in college, it means a lot for the eight
people when they come out in.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Which is also stupid, Like why do you guys try
to make sense of this stuff? Like a lot of
the bulls will probably end up going away. The championship
games are going to end up going away, and the
playoff is going to expand, and they need more uniformity.
Having a smaller portal or one portal and making the
(08:40):
SEC play an extra conference game is not enough uniformity.
They need more. And it's the same thing I've been
telling you for years. The TV companies are going to
have to figure out how to get along to stabilize
the sport they need. That's really who's in charge and
governing body Petros. If they need a governing body, well,
(09:02):
that's another part of the committee is so stupid. And
if you're going to have a committee, you have to
have football people like Mike Riley and Chris Alt and
Ivan Mazell who's on there. That's fine. Those are the
type of people that need to be on the committee.
The second, with all due respect to athletic directors, the
second it becomes a bunch of athletic directors, which it is,
(09:24):
they're politicians, and politicians have no backbone. They flip with
public sentiment. They always have. That's politics. So when public
sentiment says, hey, how come you put Miami? How come
you put notre name in front of Miami all this
time when they played each other, they're like, oh my god,
you're right. That's there's no backbone there. So there doesn't
(09:46):
need to be administrators or politicians on this committee. If
there's going to be a committee, there needs to be
football people that have a backbone, that stick to their
story throughout the year unless something dramatic happens. Just get
rid of the reveal show, which is just a big
ESPN mutual session. That's all this is. So much of
(10:08):
this is just that, Oh god, and yet we are
all forced to argue about it and act like any
of this stuff is legitimate, and act like everybody's not
making it up as they go along.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
I think we should podcast the unedited version of this conversation.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
I haven't said anything that needs to be edited. People
will listen, they will flock. I haven't said anything that
needs to be edited. You said I can say that.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
You can't say that on the air.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Yes you can't. No, you can't can't do it.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Day me talk to my boss man. You know what's
even dumber by the way about all this Notre Dame
talk that we're talking about Petros Petros courtesy is Sweet
James dot com. How about the fact that you Dub's
going to play in a ballgame on Saturday night and
they had six days the fans said, six days to
get ready for a stupid ballgame on Saturday against Boise State.
(10:59):
We're going down for the La Bawl. It's so Fie
against the Mountain West Champs. I mean, who's gonna go.
Who's gonna go to a game? Travel to a game
when you got six days to get ready?
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Come on? Probably more people then we'll go to the
UCLA games and so far you think, yeah, probably, But
it's obviously not about attendants anymore, which was unfortunate. But
it's about the TV slot and ESPN's inventory. You wanted
(11:30):
to say something else, didn't you? No, leave me alone?
I looked at Kate's I was like, I can't say that.
He was like, well, you probably should. I was like, dude,
I hate everybody.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
I'm with you, man, I get it. I just you know,
when you're when you're a slave to the man, then
you gotta you know whatever. But I don't know. I mean,
they just Husky fans. Just saw the Dogs against UCLA
at the Rose Bowl three weeks ago. I'm saying Husky
fans that live in southern California, right, So maybe a
few folks that. And they got a large fan base
(12:00):
down there. A lot of schools have a lot of
fans in LA.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
But and so the.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Boiss I know, Yeah, they might have more people down
there than we will.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
They have a lot of people down here too, And
that's an interesting football team. They got their quarterback back, imagine. Yeah,
and they're tough upfront on both sides. They really are.
I mean, Boise without the Ashton genty thing, Boise is
still what they are, which is a team built at
the line of scrimmage. So that's not an easy out. Yeah,
the Dogs better be motivated in that one or they're
(12:29):
going to get beat.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Well, they're given ten and a half, for God's sakes,
I'd take Poise in the points.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Where's the motivation, Well, there's.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
I mean, this is not like Notre Dame or you
know another school that would be greatly disappointed to miss
the CFP. They have not been in the CFP for
three weeks. You're saying Washington's not motivated.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
I don't know. Every team's different, Every team had its
own personality, Every team reacts to the Bullpack practices differently. Yeah,
really hard to gauge what they're going to come out
and be like. Of course, teams are more veteran laden now,
but the transfer portal opening up and all the uncertainty
and instability doesn't help the bull practice part of it either.
(13:12):
Plus six days to get ready is not exactly a
plethora of time to wrap your head around Boise, and
they're very, very complex blitz packages under defensive coordinator coach Chinander,
So good luck to everybody involved.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
Would you hire Rick new Heisel if you were Wazoo?
Speaker 2 (13:32):
No? Why not? I think I'd rather hire a Bob
Chesney type.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Okay, like a Jason Ck kind of guy. Yeah, somebody
from Don't you think ek though could get a better
gig than Wazoo if he's leaving New Mexico?
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Is he? I don't know what he eventually does? I
think he could. Yeah, I think Jason Eck has done.
If it wasn't for Indiana, Jason Eck would be the
most masterful coaching job in the country this year.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Yeah, so why not new Heisel? At Wazoo.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
I'm just kid. I just think we've seen the whole
thing play itself out a few times already, haven't we.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
I mean, I guess it's like I said, I worked
in basketball for Wazoo with Dick and Tony Bennett.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Yeah, but Dick and Tony Bennett are not Rick and
Jerry Neuheisel. How do you know that these are total
just because their father and son, it's a totally different sport.
They're two totally different people. Dick and Tony Bennett had
been coaching. I mean, Rix hasn't coached in a long time,
right right, Yeah, Well he wants the gig. Well, good
for him. I hope he gets it when I do it.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Did you hear about this thing with Utah that they
want to partner up with a private equity.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Everybody's looking to find a way to become the next
Texas Tech, find more money and blow everybody out of
the water with cash because you can do it. I mean,
that's the thing that makes the USC problem really egregious
is that you could say, well, one thing people don't
realize about Indiana is they have a lot of money.
And that is true. That is one thing That's why
(15:05):
they were able to pay Signetti when that Penn State
job opened up and extend him. But that's the one
thing about USC. USC has money, and that's the biggest problem.
They don't have an excuse to be this bad anymore.
And teams that have that much money, when you see
what some have done with the money and bringing the
(15:28):
right people in and having the right coach and ad
and president and all that. You look at Texas Tech
and their turnaround. Obviously Indiana, you look at a team
like USC or even Washington, you say, hey, let's get
a move on. What are you guys doing. You can
see that these people have the same resources as you
in this modern era and they're having success. What is
(15:50):
your problem? So that's one of the interesting things about Indiana.
And if you can turn New Mexico around, for God's sakes,
with have to. If you could turn Indian around with
a bunch of players from the Sun Belt and turn
football purgatory New Mexico into something with a bunch of
players from Idaho, what the hell is everybody else doing?
(16:12):
And I think that's a really good point that can
be made about this modern era.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Well, the Heisman vote is going to be announced on Saturday. Yeah,
do you have a vote, But oh no, you don't. No, No,
I don't. Do you want to think of a loser?
Would you like a vote?
Speaker 2 (16:27):
No? Not at this point.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
Okay, who do you think should win? Should it be
the kid from Indiana, the former cal quarterback?
Speaker 2 (16:32):
Yeah, after he got his head knocked clean off and
then still led them to victory. That was amazing. On
the first player of the game or whatever it was.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
I think it was the It was the first drive
for sure.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Yeah, I give it to Ferdy Mendoza. Although I did
see a great tweet about Diego Pavia. It said Diego
Pavia is what Axe Body Spray would be as a person,
and it felt curate. I like this mom tworking doing
(17:03):
the Heisman pose. Oh yeah, the drunk brother being escorted
out of every game. I just hope he's at the
ceremony on Saturday. They're like the new Honey Boo Boo family.
Oh God, it's exciting. I love it.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
All right, Well, good stuff, appreciate this. We'll talk in
a week. Man, Curious to see you back to the wazoo.
Hopeful Rick new Heiseel and old blowhard Kevin Harlan, Am
I gonna see you on Saturday down in La. I'm
coming down Friday night for the game. Yeah yeah, shoot
me a text. You want to meet up? Oh maybe? Okay,
see you man.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Sure me a text. I'll see. Let's see what's up shaking.
Are you gonna stay in the South Bay area.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
We're staying in Torrents by the way. Oh my god,
well that's right by where I live.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
I'll come over. I landed. I didn't say.
Speaker 3 (17:49):
Banging the door. All right, Bud, we're talking a week
Maybe I'll see you this weekend.
Speaker 2 (17:52):
Maybe. All right, bring rashaan shehe and some weed.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
All right, Petrust Paparaka is with us. We're gonna break.
Kevin Harlan joins it. Five Coming upon ninety three three
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