April 2, 2025 • 32 mins
It's April already and with 143 days to go until the college football season kicks off, the Chaps mull over some of the April Fools Japes circulating college football social media.
On this episode we talk,
On this episode we talk,
- why can't ASU have a maroon field?
- Coaches Sanders and Saban expand their AFLAC relationship in Colorado?
- Are Georgia Black Uni’s back? And we hope Oregon's pink ones are indeed a joke...
- Matt Rhule does Strictly with Harper Murray!
- It's true with "golden" tulips in South Bend, the honeymoon is over & we are back to hating Notre Dame
- It's not a joke but there's free food in Myrtle Beach!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We're not going to comment on that. I'll get fine
for the rest of my life if I get comment.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
On that.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Natural championship.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
We've got that, young Stirl.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Hey everyone, welcome to the College Chaps podcast. We have
written down here says a college Chaos podcast could be
an accurate I think it's probably going to be a
fairly accurate anyway. As we record this, we are but
one hundred and forty three days away from the start
of the college football season and the bright sparks among
SHOLLI worked out. We are now in April, so before
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we get back to spring football and really the beginning
of talking season, we thought we'd moll over some of
the April Fool's headlines and have our own many talking
nonsense season. But fast with the charts. I'm joined by
my fantastically talented compatchion from Deepest Darkest Derbyshire, Oliver.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
How are you the darkest?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
It's the nicest thing anyone said about Derbyshire for a
long time. I think I was a bit disappointed with
a lack of absolute crazy April Fool's headline, just that
I was also disappointed by what appears to be a
complete lack of paper for falls etiquette these days because
people don't tend to stick to the noon in your
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local time zone.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Restriction of what is April Fool's worthy or not as
a long held season.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Ticket older to April Fool's Day. That that's the that's
the change I don't like to see. That's the epitome
of people getting upset about the transfer bottle and n
il in college football. That's that's how I feel about
people not adhering to the mid days is concern.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Well, like many things in this life, the April fools
etiquette has gone to you know, hell and a hand basket.
So on that note, we've picked her a few, right,
There were a few, right, there wasn't. What I found
was that it's generally it's quite interesting to see people's
sense of humor, right because what some people found hilarious
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and didn't translated to other stuff. But we've picked her
a few to talk about. And the one that caught
my eye easily was Arizona State putting out something on
Twitter that they were going to put a field to
other fuel to maroon. They went a loan in that
respect because the cal put one out which is a
very bright yellow golden color, which would have tested even
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the best eyesight, I think with the football. But it
was kind of cool. I mean, I think the walk
up of Eshue Stadium with the maroon field is pretty cool,
wasn't it.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Honestly, from an April fool's perspective, all this did was
make me feel sad that there's not more like colorful
football turfs around college football. If you think about like
the great sporting arenas that we like get really excited about,
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Albertson Stadium, Boys State, the smurf turf, the teal turf
down at Coastal Carolina at Myrtle Beach, the the gray,
the great turf at Eastern Michigan. There there's a red
turf at Eastern Washington. There's Central Arkansas has like a purple.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
And gray.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Thing striped turf, which is just awesomely horrible. But I
think it's like those quirks, Those those quirks are what
set college football apart from the NFL.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
So when I was like, but.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
That Arizona State tif the amazing that maroon was, like
those colors, those Arizona States are awesome. So to have
like a turf and back collar col's like you mentioned
Col's golden yellow turf.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
I try to think there was. I'm sure there was
another one yesterday as well. I saw.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
I'm sure there was three that I picked up, but
there's you rightly mentioned then, George. Not everyone found it
funny because there was.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
There was a.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Well followed college football news aggregation, Twitter page, whatever you
want to call it, did the reverse and then made
the smurf turf green as an April Fold prank that
Boys State were ditching the smurf turf for life, and
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States ad Jeremiah Dickey did.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Not found that funny at all.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
He found out in a frontace football program and right
he should cold dead hands body called dead Boddy call
those lads from Jeremiah Dickie strong farting words.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
I say, there's some things you just shouldn't mess with, right,
and the smuff turf at Boys he is one of those.
I guess you're right in saying that. I do think
that that when I saw that particular post, instantly I thought,
because of the timing, it was likely to be in
April Field, but not out with the realm's possibility. It
did look somewhat attractive. I wasn't greatly taken with Carl's
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mock up. It was just way too bright. He needed
some sunglasses. But you know that, would I have would
I have had maroon turf over the Greater? Yes, absolutely,
I'm not a big fan of the Greater to be perflorious.
So it was one of those ones which wasn't wasn't
absurdly out of the question. I didn't think.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
I think the thing is as well.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
I guess for us it's easy to stay home watching
it on Tealia and be able to pick up players
at William Ellie. But I guess if you've got a
reserve a stake playing in my if some Maroons on
the maroon field with some sort of hideous number combination
like color combination of life, you're you're call, you're.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Calling that game. I remember I remember a couple of
seasons ago, Eastern Michigan's.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
On the gray turf with the gray uniform, and I'm
sure it was a gray uniform and some like bizarre
color for the numbers, like you couldn't pick out a number,
You can't pick out a name of a single player
on that football field and cowls. You get a bit
of sunshine on that yellow turf. But that's the that's
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like staring at a solar eclipse.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Could you could you imagine? Can you imagine the glear
that comes off of that? The next one quite quite
certainly as a result of the hugely popular ad flak
a flack can be I'm sure with Joan Sanders and
Coach Stephen, which which I find it hilarious, right, And
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I think that's the kind of bit that people realize
how closely were as I kind of partnership and they
do bounce off each other and the adverts are hilarious.
But the story was run yesterday that coach Sabin was
going to link up with Deo Sun doesn't become he's
become his number two, And that one was an easy
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one to spot. But it's interesting in terms of, you know,
the debate about whether Saban would be enticed back into
the game, isn't it right? I mean, he seems to
have settled in very well, maybe too well into life
as a pundit in a TV personality, but you do
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wonder when you see you know, Belichick at North Carolina
and others, Frank Right going to Stamford, but there Saban
could be tempted out retirement. But that was that was
that was a funny one in terms of the the
duo that they've become.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Yeah, I think multiple there was multiple strengths that I
thought it great and I thought almost believable as well.
And I'll get it to why I thought it was
almost believable. But yeah, that that that whole, that whole
relationship that has come to life via the Afflat commercials.
It's not it's probably one of the most unlikely like
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relationships that you could imagine when you consider there, like
those two head coaches personalities as head coaches, you know,
Dion Sanders is very swaggy character who you know is
really masterminded the current era of college football with Ni
l and how you use social media to present your program,
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and against Nick Saban, who you know famously very annoyed
when his players would celebrate after wins. They're two very,
two very different coaches, but has come together to form
this unlikely on screen relationship with the Afflat commercials, which
which work, which work incredibly well. And then obviously there
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is a there is an element of mutual coaching respect
there as well, which I think is which is great
to see. With Nick Saban, you always feel like you
never felt like you could see his retirement coming because
you always felt like he would be a coach. You
never felt that day would come where he wouldn't be
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even in this changing climate of college football, and you
can almost feel like he's a sort of character that
would never be able to completely extricate himself from the game.
So for a rumor of this magnitude doesn't seem that
far stretched, right, that this is a guy who loves football,
who a lot of people with shocked retired that you
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know you could see making his way back to the game.
I think the where it where it kind of falls
from a fit perspective is like Nick Saban's No. One's
number two, right, I think this is the thing like
Nick Saban's No. One, number two, you have a hard
time imagining playing second fiddle to anyone, which, which, yeah, Well,
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the thing that intrigued me was obviously we were talking
about is before we started.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Recording, was.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
The coaching staff that Colorado is putting together now, like
it's not out of the realm, the possibility that you
would hear a name of Nick Saban being banded around
to join that coaching staff, because it seems like Dean
Sanders is cherry picking every big name coach to join
that coaching staff, right.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Yeah, I mean it's intriguing, right, And I think we've
seen this a little bit over the last couple of seasons,
a lot more last season. We are some really highly
respected NFL coaches are kind of coming back into the NFL.
Now some of them were well, look, i'll correct myself
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before start are that they've all worked in college before,
but most of them have made their kind of name
in the NFL. So you know, we talked about Freddy
Kitchens becoming offensive coordinator act at North Carolina, and there
are and there are others who are who are coming
into the gaming. Of Frank Reikers now you're in from
head coach at at Stanford. So it's intriguing to see.
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With the development of the college game, and we've talked
about it's a lot where the college game is moving
more towards the NFL model, and when you get into
that with with with schemes and the way in which
you know, players kind of interact with coaches, it's going
to be really interesting to see how this plays out.
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Was interesting for me at the weekend, Tim Tebow had
his kind of annual charity event and on the on
the Saturday had had the golf tournament. It was as
you would expect, there was a lot of big name
sporting personalities there, one of whom was Urban Meyer, who
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was Tebow's head coach at Florida when they won the
national championship. And Meyer was asked about Dion Saunders as
as a head coach, and a really interesting anecdote that
Urban Meyer does, like I guess many ex head coaches,
go around different schools, different NFL franchises, just to listen
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in and observe from what's happening. And he said, within
a very short space of time at Colorado, he was
very much of the opinion that Delon Saunders was going
to be an excellent coach. And he said it was
because of the way that he interacted with the players,
it was his coaching and he knew from a pretty
early viewpoint that Sanders was going to be a really
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good coach. Now, I think it's really interesting now that
this is his third season at Colorado and we've got
that right, we're not we're not entering into four yet,
so you know, he's been there. He's just signed a
new contract, which is worth a lot of money. Colorado
clearly want to keep hold of them. It is not
the five minute wonder that everybody thought it was going
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to be. And I think, I include myself, and he
is going to be you know, he almost got his
foot in the door and he was getting linked with
the Florida State or you know, another other job somewhere else.
But it's not the flash in the pan. I think
many people or hoped it might be. And Dean Sanders
could really make a splash with Colorado Kevin given where
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they now player.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Football, Yeah, I mean he would hope. So for fifty
four four million dollars, you would think you would make
a relatively significant splashing. But you saw the turn around
last year, one year turnaround like wherever day on Sanders goes.
And just going back to his time at Jackson State,
obviously there was some familiar uh from family element to
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the recruiting that he was able to do for Jackson
State with Shade, with Shiloh. But you know, he entices
the guy like Travis from to Jackson State. He bought
a guy like Travis from to Colorado with him. He
was able to and has been able to whatever you
think of how Deon Sanders approaches the transfer portal. In
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this transferred portal era, he's able to bring players in,
able to bring in the players that he wants, and
and that paid off pretty handsomely. And now he's showing
his chops in recruiting. That recruiting ability that bought Travis
Hunt to Jackson State, brought Juju Lewis to Colorado when
he could have gone to any program.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
You know he could have.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
He could have been at USC with renowned Quarterbacksborough Lincoln Riley,
and he's going to be potentially playing football in Colorado
as a true freshman this season. Like you say, great
arena for them with the Big twelve now and ever
expanding Big twelve footprint moving forward, and a team that
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will rightly or wrongly be very early favorites to win
that conference this year. And I put some banging line
for a spot in the college football playoffs moving forward.
And what biggest showcase is there for a guy like
the on standers and the college football player.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
That's exactly what I was going to say, because that's
where that's where you're recruiting. A message comes from. We
will put you in the window we will get you
a national, nationwide exposure and you can play in about
twelve So yeah, it's going to be yeah and another
another another great year for the Colorado Buffaloes in terms
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of the evolvement and the episode of the evolution of
that team.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
The next.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Aple fills on to talk about is careful what you
wish for, right, because I think sometimes there's two good
examples of this where you get people's expectations up right.
And I touched on this at the start about individual's
sense of humors. This is not where I'm going with this,
but Tiger Woods had tweeted out the after this intensive
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treatment and all the shenanigans that go with them, with
a busted ACL, he was going to be fit enough
to make the Masters. Now I'm sure Tiger would thought
that was hilarious because he has nowhere near fit enough
to make it to the Masters. But a lot of
people didn't. A lot of people were really quite disappointed
by it. And why by mentioned that was the Georgia
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equipment team tweeted out that black jerseys were back. And
I don't know how familiar you are with this, Olie,
but the black jerseys are a real topic of conversation
at Georgia because they very really get rolled out. It
really is a kind of once in a blue moon
type of situation. So it got a lot of people
super excited. On the other hand, I was lessened. And
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I know you're a big uniform guy, right so I
know you like to look at you all the different uniforms.
I was less than impressed by the Oregon neon pink
uniform that that was doing the circulation, which I dearly
hope was in fact in April Folds, because you'd have
to wear sunglasses to watch that awful piece of kit
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to be pare for us.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Imagine, imagine Cal was still in the Pac twelve and.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Cal this is an Oregon game on an April Folds
collaboration between the bright yellow field and the bright pink
Oregon units.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
That would be I've been universe. They're mad. They had
a they had a.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Uniform this year with a touch of pink in it,
if I remember Rightley, just some accents and highlights. And
there is such a great job Oregon, And honestly, that's
we took about all these April fours that we looked
at on Tuesday morning, and as they came through throughout
the day as the clock shifted around to the April falls,
which an hour. That's probably the most believable one anything
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to do with Oregon and the uniforms. I think that's
probably why they did it. That's probably why they did
it because they were like, oh, I tell you what
we can we can get people really sucking in with
this is like, these are our new uniforms, part of
our fifty uniform rotation for the one season. And what
didn't the one who surprised me better come out with
something about changing uniforms are half that? Because that's you know,
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we've got so many different rotations at this point that
they could have a uniform every quarter.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Let's be honest.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Equipment managers keep up with it, to be honest, because
they do. They do push you envelope. I was just
trying to think what would be the worst possible clash
for that pink uniform, which team would be. I mean,
as you know, I am, I am not a fan
of the middle Anteropen's uniforms. I just don't know where
on earth that abomination comes from, but I can't. Yeah,
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there's I mean, I guess the thing is that the
neon green would be a truly horrible clash so many
maybe the Oregon spring game should not be neon pink
versus neon green, Greek greens versus pink.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
So I don't think could be able to watch spring
games actually go am we won't have to worry about it.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Yeah, I'm trying to think maybe like the orange, like
an orange like Oregon State. Sometimes orange color or that
against that pink would be quite something vile about.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
They've got quite They've got quite a neo and that's
quite a bright orange, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Yeah, they could have an exhibition game between the Oklahoma
Stake Cowboys in their mouse and violent orange versus the
Oregon Ducks in their mouse and violent pink, and play
it on the gray Eastern Michigan. We'll play it on
the purple and white pet purple and gray whatever color,
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Central Arkansas. Well, it's a great treat for the eyes.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
That would be. That would be a day you wish
to be colored.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Well, that's where it was going to go as an
excellent segment because I was watched listening to Martin McGee
on Saturday and Tim Tebow was on. He was talking
about the the gender reveal for them and Dami are
having a baby and they had a gender reveal and
people said, well, but they all forgot them colorblind. So
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when they did the gender reveal, he said, all I
could see was this kind of your brownie gray and
He's like, what is that? It was hilarious the way
he said it. We're missing Alex in many ways. We
always miss Alex, but we're really missing him for this
next part because well, actually maybe not, because we've got
what ten minutes left in a podcast, and if we're
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going to start talking about volleyball, we'd be here for
the next forty. Harper Murray is a volleyball superstar in Nebraska.
Now we have touched on this a little bit. Volleyball
at Nebraska is massive because they filled the stadium they played,
They filled the Lincoln Memorial Stadium for a volleyball game.
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But Harper Murray's but the TikTok star, and she's managed
to coerce the head coaches into appearing on TikTok. And
this week she managed to get Matt Rule on And
this was the best headline I saw this week where
Nebraska Athletics managed to convince people that Harper and Matt
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Rule were going to I'd signed up for the US
equivalent Strictly, which I would frankly, I would love to
see head coach. It didn't Reggie Bush do Dancing with
the Stars. Yes, your head you must, you must watch
the stuff.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
You know, I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
What I will say is, if anyone believed that Matt
Roll was going to go on Dancing with the Stars,
I presume you have to be able to actually dance
in this TV program. I imagine you have to have
some sort of level of competence. If anyone believed that
Matt Roll was going to go on Dancing with the
Stars after watching that TikTok video of him dancing, then
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you deserve to be fooled, to be shamed.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Because that wasn't it.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
No, Matt, Matt Rule hasn't going to worry about his
start dancing okay skills being pouched. But so what else
following spring spring dancing practice.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Let's put that out.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
It was all diversary tactics to get away from the
football team. Don't watch the football team, watch were dancing.
But I've said this many many days. I don't watch Strictly.
I'll just say that now but where there's all these
where there's all these kind of conspiracy theories and controversies,
where someone who's actually a dancer makes it to the
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final The whole point of it is that it should
be a bunch of amateurs who over the weeks improve.
We've talked about them already, but someone who doesn't shy
away from the fact that he knows he's two steps
from his chat chats Next Saven. So maybe Next Saven
will make it onto Dancing with the Stars. That would
be that interesting.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
The sporting cross over and now on any of it.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Well, we weren't sure where we're going to go with
this episode, and we've gone down of a dark path.
Frankly the least.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
If we ever thought we were gettingbled on this podcast
before this episode, honestly, not not sure those chances.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
I'll tell you. Like now now raised the point that
you know we're gonna we're gonna ask them about Dancing
with the Stars. I'm sure that would be the point
that we do again.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
We come on in Britain's premiere Dancing with the Stars podcast.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Well we don't end up. We don't end it college football,
so it may as well pretend to do something else.
The least believable headline, frankly with very very poor humor,
was the fact that to South Bend, Indiana was producing
golden chillips on the campus at Notre Dame, which was
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just a ridiculous April fil to put out there a
golden domes everywhere and the chilip said appeared with the
with the floor golden, which.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Was just a shame.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
It's such a shame that we had one season where
we really liked now today in football on this podcast,
Marcus Freeman made that program cool and black ball and
on one one.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
April Tuesday, the note name social media team made it.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
So that we will never eat for him again, exactly
back to square one. What were they thinking. They've built
up all this good will momentum and then they throw
it out the window with golden chillips. What nonsense. I mean,
look at Nebraska, I've got Matt Rule and TikTok and
you know, boring old Notre Dame, I've got golden chillips.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
I mean, Marcus Freeman drives me the guy who'd be
pretty pretty swift on the antelope.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
That you know that's going to be next episode. Next
episode is which head coaches could make it Onto Dancing
with the Stars. We've already got but half a dozen
of the thought.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
We've already got mad and in the back of your
brain for this Dancing with the Stars podcast.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Sam Pittman, I tell you what, Sam Pittman, I bet
he knows I been. Bet he knows a fox trot
when it comes on. He's got He's got a jukebox
at home.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Right, So.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
I say, Sam, Sam's a smooth operator.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
I tell you Greg. If Greg thank he's listening to
this on his morning ron.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
He's switching off. I think, what is this rubbish? Anyway? Anyway,
onto onto our favorite topic outside of college shot balls, food.
And this is not an April Fools jake, although it
kind of. It caught me out a little bit, although
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you connected me and in so far as you said,
they had been reported the day before, so clearly out
with the April Fools etiquette anyway, But I thought this
is a genius way to get people into the stands
at football games. Coastal Carolina giving away free foot to
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their home games. And I think it's the ticket holders
as you would expect, but I think it may be
in season ticket holders to drive. Maybe some increased ticket sales,
but who wouldn't want a free hot dog when you
go to a game?
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Only I have a three hot dog, whether it's going
through a game, whether it was handed to me on
the street, giving to me out with dust, to be honest,
but yeah, it's great. Its coastal coastal Carolina, obviously capturing
the imagination of a nation in a global audience. I
think during the COVID season where they had such a
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they were such an enigmatic program under Jamie Chadwell when
Grayson McCall was a quarterback. There holds on the talented players,
the til to great offensive scheme while Chadwell was there
and they had they had a difficult season last season.
It's not been the same program in terms of the
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level of entertainment there over the last two years. And
presumably that's you know, that's had a detrimental impact on
the number of season tickets being sold. And what better
way to try and get people to come back through
the door stay through the door then offering free food.
So four four three four three, that's easy for me
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to say four three items from the concession stand. Multiple
trips will ag with. I think this is where it
started to sound like an April food and jape because
it was like, oh, you get four three items, so
a hot dog, the coke, popcorn, and another chromo. What
else was option that chose? Maybe and you can go
back again and again and again, and that's maybe that made.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
It sound like it was probably an April Fools gag.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
But you have to scan an app. Presumably there's there's
something that helps the program keep a track on that.
Maybe marketing. That's what people use absolutely, email agressors and
stuff for nowadays as much as direct marketing. It's a
way to get people's information. But if it gets season
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ticket for your holders through the door, if it gets
people packing the stands at Mertle Beach, if it gets
people excited and interested in Coastal Carolina football, I think
that's a great thing. And you know, in this era
where it seems to be, I don't come across as
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a miserable old man because I'm not, and I agree
with a lot of what happens in college football right now,
but it's particularly around player powerble at a time where
schools are turning to the pockets of fans to help
pay their way through this new era of college football,
rather than asking for donations towards nil collectives and whatnot.
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It seems it's a very different approach to college football
and to people to bands, and I think that's that's
the satily, something to be celebrated.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
I think you're right. I think you get on a
really good point there that I think they're goodwill. So
you've got this community spirit in schools just now where
and for decades frankly where everybody's in it to get
the school ever was proud of the alma mater and
the team that they support, the team that the town
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they live in. I think goodwill has the potential to
erode depending on how things not just I don't just
mean winning and losing, but you know, investing in a
player who then disappears after a year, jumps into transfer portal. Right,
So I think it's it's ingenious to come up with
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different ways of supporting the team without you still have
to do it financially, but without necessary you know, putting
your hand in the pocket for a donation. And it
seemed like a a great idea. I don't want to
be overly controversial, but I still yet to go to
a football game whether that's NFL or college and have
(31:09):
some actual decent food. I'm still slightly disappointed by by
the offerings you get. I mean, I'm thinking of my
trips to college football games, and I've.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Seen the males who've been eating in these American press
boxes at college.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Football, well the press boxes.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
So I guess the whole point here is like the
tailgate scene is where the food scene is exactly like
if you want to if you want to eat well
at a college football game, you're not eating in the stadium.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
You're eating in the car I think so.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
So you got to Coastal Carolina and you pay for
your season ticket and you're probably going to get your
one dollar hot dogs. But hot dogs hot dog right.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
As I good friend John ty I just told us.
But many many times the American people exactly, you don't
need to do anything about Sure, you're Interosex.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Talk about finishing the podcast on a high. That's how
to do it with It's been a roller coaster.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
We've had some some.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Lows, but we finished on a high. Thank you, Ollie.
That's all from all us on this episode. We hope
you've enjoyed listening to our talking Nonsense season thanks for listening,
Thanks for continuing to support us. We really mean that.
Stay safe and well and catch all next time.
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Speaker 2 (00:04):
On that.
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Natural championship.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
We've got that, young Stirl.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Hey everyone, welcome to the College Chaps podcast. We have
written down here says a college Chaos podcast could be
an accurate I think it's probably going to be a
fairly accurate anyway. As we record this, we are but
one hundred and forty three days away from the start
of the college football season and the bright sparks among
SHOLLI worked out. We are now in April, so before
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we get back to spring football and really the beginning
of talking season, we thought we'd moll over some of
the April Fool's headlines and have our own many talking
nonsense season. But fast with the charts. I'm joined by
my fantastically talented compatchion from Deepest Darkest Derbyshire, Oliver.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
How are you the darkest?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
It's the nicest thing anyone said about Derbyshire for a
long time. I think I was a bit disappointed with
a lack of absolute crazy April Fool's headline, just that
I was also disappointed by what appears to be a
complete lack of paper for falls etiquette these days because
people don't tend to stick to the noon in your
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local time zone.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Restriction of what is April Fool's worthy or not as
a long held season.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Ticket older to April Fool's Day. That that's the that's
the change I don't like to see. That's the epitome
of people getting upset about the transfer bottle and n
il in college football. That's that's how I feel about
people not adhering to the mid days is concern.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Well, like many things in this life, the April fools
etiquette has gone to you know, hell and a hand basket.
So on that note, we've picked her a few, right,
There were a few, right, there wasn't. What I found
was that it's generally it's quite interesting to see people's
sense of humor, right because what some people found hilarious
(02:25):
and didn't translated to other stuff. But we've picked her
a few to talk about. And the one that caught
my eye easily was Arizona State putting out something on
Twitter that they were going to put a field to
other fuel to maroon. They went a loan in that
respect because the cal put one out which is a
very bright yellow golden color, which would have tested even
(02:50):
the best eyesight, I think with the football. But it
was kind of cool. I mean, I think the walk
up of Eshue Stadium with the maroon field is pretty cool,
wasn't it.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Honestly, from an April fool's perspective, all this did was
make me feel sad that there's not more like colorful
football turfs around college football. If you think about like
the great sporting arenas that we like get really excited about,
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Albertson Stadium, Boys State, the smurf turf, the teal turf
down at Coastal Carolina at Myrtle Beach, the the gray,
the great turf at Eastern Michigan. There there's a red
turf at Eastern Washington. There's Central Arkansas has like a purple.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
And gray.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Thing striped turf, which is just awesomely horrible. But I
think it's like those quirks, Those those quirks are what
set college football apart from the NFL.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
So when I was like, but.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
That Arizona State tif the amazing that maroon was, like
those colors, those Arizona States are awesome. So to have
like a turf and back collar col's like you mentioned
Col's golden yellow turf.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
I try to think there was. I'm sure there was
another one yesterday as well. I saw.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
I'm sure there was three that I picked up, but
there's you rightly mentioned then, George. Not everyone found it
funny because there was.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
There was a.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Well followed college football news aggregation, Twitter page, whatever you
want to call it, did the reverse and then made
the smurf turf green as an April Fold prank that
Boys State were ditching the smurf turf for life, and
(04:48):
States ad Jeremiah Dickey did.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Not found that funny at all.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
He found out in a frontace football program and right
he should cold dead hands body called dead Boddy call
those lads from Jeremiah Dickie strong farting words.
Speaker 1 (05:05):
I say, there's some things you just shouldn't mess with, right,
and the smuff turf at Boys he is one of those.
I guess you're right in saying that. I do think
that that when I saw that particular post, instantly I thought,
because of the timing, it was likely to be in
April Field, but not out with the realm's possibility. It
did look somewhat attractive. I wasn't greatly taken with Carl's
(05:29):
mock up. It was just way too bright. He needed
some sunglasses. But you know that, would I have would
I have had maroon turf over the Greater? Yes, absolutely,
I'm not a big fan of the Greater to be perflorious.
So it was one of those ones which wasn't wasn't
absurdly out of the question. I didn't think.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
I think the thing is as well.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
I guess for us it's easy to stay home watching
it on Tealia and be able to pick up players
at William Ellie. But I guess if you've got a
reserve a stake playing in my if some Maroons on
the maroon field with some sort of hideous number combination
like color combination of life, you're you're call, you're.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Calling that game. I remember I remember a couple of
seasons ago, Eastern Michigan's.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
On the gray turf with the gray uniform, and I'm
sure it was a gray uniform and some like bizarre
color for the numbers, like you couldn't pick out a number,
You can't pick out a name of a single player
on that football field and cowls. You get a bit
of sunshine on that yellow turf. But that's the that's
(06:34):
like staring at a solar eclipse.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Could you could you imagine? Can you imagine the glear
that comes off of that? The next one quite quite
certainly as a result of the hugely popular ad flak
a flack can be I'm sure with Joan Sanders and
Coach Stephen, which which I find it hilarious, right, And
(06:57):
I think that's the kind of bit that people realize
how closely were as I kind of partnership and they
do bounce off each other and the adverts are hilarious.
But the story was run yesterday that coach Sabin was
going to link up with Deo Sun doesn't become he's
become his number two, And that one was an easy
(07:17):
one to spot. But it's interesting in terms of, you know,
the debate about whether Saban would be enticed back into
the game, isn't it right? I mean, he seems to
have settled in very well, maybe too well into life
as a pundit in a TV personality, but you do
(07:38):
wonder when you see you know, Belichick at North Carolina
and others, Frank Right going to Stamford, but there Saban
could be tempted out retirement. But that was that was
that was a funny one in terms of the the
duo that they've become.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Yeah, I think multiple there was multiple strengths that I
thought it great and I thought almost believable as well.
And I'll get it to why I thought it was
almost believable. But yeah, that that that whole, that whole
relationship that has come to life via the Afflat commercials.
It's not it's probably one of the most unlikely like
(08:16):
relationships that you could imagine when you consider there, like
those two head coaches personalities as head coaches, you know,
Dion Sanders is very swaggy character who you know is
really masterminded the current era of college football with Ni
l and how you use social media to present your program,
(08:38):
and against Nick Saban, who you know famously very annoyed
when his players would celebrate after wins. They're two very,
two very different coaches, but has come together to form
this unlikely on screen relationship with the Afflat commercials, which
which work, which work incredibly well. And then obviously there
(08:59):
is a there is an element of mutual coaching respect
there as well, which I think is which is great
to see. With Nick Saban, you always feel like you
never felt like you could see his retirement coming because
you always felt like he would be a coach. You
never felt that day would come where he wouldn't be
(09:19):
even in this changing climate of college football, and you
can almost feel like he's a sort of character that
would never be able to completely extricate himself from the game.
So for a rumor of this magnitude doesn't seem that
far stretched, right, that this is a guy who loves football,
who a lot of people with shocked retired that you
(09:41):
know you could see making his way back to the game.
I think the where it where it kind of falls
from a fit perspective is like Nick Saban's No. One's
number two, right, I think this is the thing like
Nick Saban's No. One, number two, you have a hard
time imagining playing second fiddle to anyone, which, which, yeah, Well,
(10:06):
the thing that intrigued me was obviously we were talking
about is before we started.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Recording, was.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
The coaching staff that Colorado is putting together now, like
it's not out of the realm, the possibility that you
would hear a name of Nick Saban being banded around
to join that coaching staff, because it seems like Dean
Sanders is cherry picking every big name coach to join
that coaching staff, right.
Speaker 1 (10:35):
Yeah, I mean it's intriguing, right, And I think we've
seen this a little bit over the last couple of seasons,
a lot more last season. We are some really highly
respected NFL coaches are kind of coming back into the NFL.
Now some of them were well, look, i'll correct myself
(10:59):
before start are that they've all worked in college before,
but most of them have made their kind of name
in the NFL. So you know, we talked about Freddy
Kitchens becoming offensive coordinator act at North Carolina, and there
are and there are others who are who are coming
into the gaming. Of Frank Reikers now you're in from
head coach at at Stanford. So it's intriguing to see.
(11:24):
With the development of the college game, and we've talked
about it's a lot where the college game is moving
more towards the NFL model, and when you get into
that with with with schemes and the way in which
you know, players kind of interact with coaches, it's going
to be really interesting to see how this plays out.
(11:45):
Was interesting for me at the weekend, Tim Tebow had
his kind of annual charity event and on the on
the Saturday had had the golf tournament. It was as
you would expect, there was a lot of big name
sporting personalities there, one of whom was Urban Meyer, who
(12:05):
was Tebow's head coach at Florida when they won the
national championship. And Meyer was asked about Dion Saunders as
as a head coach, and a really interesting anecdote that
Urban Meyer does, like I guess many ex head coaches,
go around different schools, different NFL franchises, just to listen
(12:28):
in and observe from what's happening. And he said, within
a very short space of time at Colorado, he was
very much of the opinion that Delon Saunders was going
to be an excellent coach. And he said it was
because of the way that he interacted with the players,
it was his coaching and he knew from a pretty
early viewpoint that Sanders was going to be a really
(12:54):
good coach. Now, I think it's really interesting now that
this is his third season at Colorado and we've got
that right, we're not we're not entering into four yet,
so you know, he's been there. He's just signed a
new contract, which is worth a lot of money. Colorado
clearly want to keep hold of them. It is not
the five minute wonder that everybody thought it was going
(13:15):
to be. And I think, I include myself, and he
is going to be you know, he almost got his
foot in the door and he was getting linked with
the Florida State or you know, another other job somewhere else.
But it's not the flash in the pan. I think
many people or hoped it might be. And Dean Sanders
could really make a splash with Colorado Kevin given where
(13:36):
they now player.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Football, Yeah, I mean he would hope. So for fifty
four four million dollars, you would think you would make
a relatively significant splashing. But you saw the turn around
last year, one year turnaround like wherever day on Sanders goes.
And just going back to his time at Jackson State,
obviously there was some familiar uh from family element to
(14:04):
the recruiting that he was able to do for Jackson
State with Shade, with Shiloh. But you know, he entices
the guy like Travis from to Jackson State. He bought
a guy like Travis from to Colorado with him. He
was able to and has been able to whatever you
think of how Deon Sanders approaches the transfer portal. In
(14:25):
this transferred portal era, he's able to bring players in,
able to bring in the players that he wants, and
and that paid off pretty handsomely. And now he's showing
his chops in recruiting. That recruiting ability that bought Travis
Hunt to Jackson State, brought Juju Lewis to Colorado when
he could have gone to any program.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
You know he could have.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
He could have been at USC with renowned Quarterbacksborough Lincoln Riley,
and he's going to be potentially playing football in Colorado
as a true freshman this season. Like you say, great
arena for them with the Big twelve now and ever
expanding Big twelve footprint moving forward, and a team that
(15:08):
will rightly or wrongly be very early favorites to win
that conference this year. And I put some banging line
for a spot in the college football playoffs moving forward.
And what biggest showcase is there for a guy like
the on standers and the college football player.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
That's exactly what I was going to say, because that's
where that's where you're recruiting. A message comes from. We
will put you in the window we will get you
a national, nationwide exposure and you can play in about
twelve So yeah, it's going to be yeah and another
another another great year for the Colorado Buffaloes in terms
(15:47):
of the evolvement and the episode of the evolution of
that team.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
The next.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Aple fills on to talk about is careful what you
wish for, right, because I think sometimes there's two good
examples of this where you get people's expectations up right.
And I touched on this at the start about individual's
sense of humors. This is not where I'm going with this,
but Tiger Woods had tweeted out the after this intensive
(16:24):
treatment and all the shenanigans that go with them, with
a busted ACL, he was going to be fit enough
to make the Masters. Now I'm sure Tiger would thought
that was hilarious because he has nowhere near fit enough
to make it to the Masters. But a lot of
people didn't. A lot of people were really quite disappointed
by it. And why by mentioned that was the Georgia
(16:48):
equipment team tweeted out that black jerseys were back. And
I don't know how familiar you are with this, Olie,
but the black jerseys are a real topic of conversation
at Georgia because they very really get rolled out. It
really is a kind of once in a blue moon
type of situation. So it got a lot of people
super excited. On the other hand, I was lessened. And
(17:12):
I know you're a big uniform guy, right so I
know you like to look at you all the different uniforms.
I was less than impressed by the Oregon neon pink
uniform that that was doing the circulation, which I dearly
hope was in fact in April Folds, because you'd have
to wear sunglasses to watch that awful piece of kit
(17:37):
to be pare for us.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Imagine, imagine Cal was still in the Pac twelve and.
Speaker 2 (17:45):
Cal this is an Oregon game on an April Folds
collaboration between the bright yellow field and the bright pink
Oregon units.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
That would be I've been universe. They're mad. They had
a they had a.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Uniform this year with a touch of pink in it,
if I remember Rightley, just some accents and highlights. And
there is such a great job Oregon, And honestly, that's
we took about all these April fours that we looked
at on Tuesday morning, and as they came through throughout
the day as the clock shifted around to the April falls,
which an hour. That's probably the most believable one anything
(18:26):
to do with Oregon and the uniforms. I think that's
probably why they did it. That's probably why they did
it because they were like, oh, I tell you what
we can we can get people really sucking in with
this is like, these are our new uniforms, part of
our fifty uniform rotation for the one season. And what
didn't the one who surprised me better come out with
something about changing uniforms are half that? Because that's you know,
(18:51):
we've got so many different rotations at this point that
they could have a uniform every quarter.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Let's be honest.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
Equipment managers keep up with it, to be honest, because
they do. They do push you envelope. I was just
trying to think what would be the worst possible clash
for that pink uniform, which team would be. I mean,
as you know, I am, I am not a fan
of the middle Anteropen's uniforms. I just don't know where
on earth that abomination comes from, but I can't. Yeah,
(19:23):
there's I mean, I guess the thing is that the
neon green would be a truly horrible clash so many
maybe the Oregon spring game should not be neon pink
versus neon green, Greek greens versus pink.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
So I don't think could be able to watch spring
games actually go am we won't have to worry about it.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
Yeah, I'm trying to think maybe like the orange, like
an orange like Oregon State. Sometimes orange color or that
against that pink would be quite something vile about.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
They've got quite They've got quite a neo and that's
quite a bright orange, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Yeah, they could have an exhibition game between the Oklahoma
Stake Cowboys in their mouse and violent orange versus the
Oregon Ducks in their mouse and violent pink, and play
it on the gray Eastern Michigan. We'll play it on
the purple and white pet purple and gray whatever color,
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Central Arkansas. Well, it's a great treat for the eyes.
Speaker 3 (20:30):
That would be. That would be a day you wish
to be colored.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Well, that's where it was going to go as an
excellent segment because I was watched listening to Martin McGee
on Saturday and Tim Tebow was on. He was talking
about the the gender reveal for them and Dami are
having a baby and they had a gender reveal and
people said, well, but they all forgot them colorblind. So
(20:56):
when they did the gender reveal, he said, all I
could see was this kind of your brownie gray and
He's like, what is that? It was hilarious the way
he said it. We're missing Alex in many ways. We
always miss Alex, but we're really missing him for this
next part because well, actually maybe not, because we've got
what ten minutes left in a podcast, and if we're
(21:17):
going to start talking about volleyball, we'd be here for
the next forty. Harper Murray is a volleyball superstar in Nebraska.
Now we have touched on this a little bit. Volleyball
at Nebraska is massive because they filled the stadium they played,
They filled the Lincoln Memorial Stadium for a volleyball game.
(21:41):
But Harper Murray's but the TikTok star, and she's managed
to coerce the head coaches into appearing on TikTok. And
this week she managed to get Matt Rule on And
this was the best headline I saw this week where
Nebraska Athletics managed to convince people that Harper and Matt
(22:03):
Rule were going to I'd signed up for the US
equivalent Strictly, which I would frankly, I would love to
see head coach. It didn't Reggie Bush do Dancing with
the Stars. Yes, your head you must, you must watch
the stuff.
Speaker 3 (22:22):
You know, I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
What I will say is, if anyone believed that Matt
Roll was going to go on Dancing with the Stars,
I presume you have to be able to actually dance
in this TV program. I imagine you have to have
some sort of level of competence. If anyone believed that
Matt Roll was going to go on Dancing with the
Stars after watching that TikTok video of him dancing, then
(22:47):
you deserve to be fooled, to be shamed.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Because that wasn't it.
Speaker 2 (22:54):
No, Matt, Matt Rule hasn't going to worry about his
start dancing okay skills being pouched. But so what else
following spring spring dancing practice.
Speaker 3 (23:06):
Let's put that out.
Speaker 1 (23:08):
It was all diversary tactics to get away from the
football team. Don't watch the football team, watch were dancing.
But I've said this many many days. I don't watch Strictly.
I'll just say that now but where there's all these
where there's all these kind of conspiracy theories and controversies,
where someone who's actually a dancer makes it to the
(23:31):
final The whole point of it is that it should
be a bunch of amateurs who over the weeks improve.
We've talked about them already, but someone who doesn't shy
away from the fact that he knows he's two steps
from his chat chats Next Saven. So maybe Next Saven
will make it onto Dancing with the Stars. That would
be that interesting.
Speaker 3 (23:52):
The sporting cross over and now on any of it.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Well, we weren't sure where we're going to go with
this episode, and we've gone down of a dark path.
Frankly the least.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
If we ever thought we were gettingbled on this podcast
before this episode, honestly, not not sure those chances.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
I'll tell you. Like now now raised the point that
you know we're gonna we're gonna ask them about Dancing
with the Stars. I'm sure that would be the point
that we do again.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
We come on in Britain's premiere Dancing with the Stars podcast.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Well we don't end up. We don't end it college football,
so it may as well pretend to do something else.
The least believable headline, frankly with very very poor humor,
was the fact that to South Bend, Indiana was producing
golden chillips on the campus at Notre Dame, which was
(24:51):
just a ridiculous April fil to put out there a
golden domes everywhere and the chilip said appeared with the
with the floor golden, which.
Speaker 3 (25:04):
Was just a shame.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
It's such a shame that we had one season where
we really liked now today in football on this podcast,
Marcus Freeman made that program cool and black ball and
on one one.
Speaker 3 (25:17):
April Tuesday, the note name social media team made it.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
So that we will never eat for him again, exactly
back to square one. What were they thinking. They've built
up all this good will momentum and then they throw
it out the window with golden chillips. What nonsense. I mean,
look at Nebraska, I've got Matt Rule and TikTok and
you know, boring old Notre Dame, I've got golden chillips.
Speaker 2 (25:42):
I mean, Marcus Freeman drives me the guy who'd be
pretty pretty swift on the antelope.
Speaker 1 (25:48):
That you know that's going to be next episode. Next
episode is which head coaches could make it Onto Dancing
with the Stars. We've already got but half a dozen
of the thought.
Speaker 3 (25:58):
We've already got mad and in the back of your
brain for this Dancing with the Stars podcast.
Speaker 1 (26:03):
Sam Pittman, I tell you what, Sam Pittman, I bet
he knows I been. Bet he knows a fox trot
when it comes on. He's got He's got a jukebox
at home.
Speaker 3 (26:13):
Right, So.
Speaker 1 (26:16):
I say, Sam, Sam's a smooth operator.
Speaker 3 (26:19):
I tell you Greg. If Greg thank he's listening to
this on his morning ron.
Speaker 1 (26:24):
He's switching off. I think, what is this rubbish? Anyway? Anyway,
onto onto our favorite topic outside of college shot balls, food.
And this is not an April Fools jake, although it
kind of. It caught me out a little bit, although
(26:45):
you connected me and in so far as you said,
they had been reported the day before, so clearly out
with the April Fools etiquette anyway, But I thought this
is a genius way to get people into the stands
at football games. Coastal Carolina giving away free foot to
(27:06):
their home games. And I think it's the ticket holders
as you would expect, but I think it may be
in season ticket holders to drive. Maybe some increased ticket sales,
but who wouldn't want a free hot dog when you
go to a game?
Speaker 2 (27:20):
Only I have a three hot dog, whether it's going
through a game, whether it was handed to me on
the street, giving to me out with dust, to be honest,
but yeah, it's great. Its coastal coastal Carolina, obviously capturing
the imagination of a nation in a global audience. I
think during the COVID season where they had such a
(27:42):
they were such an enigmatic program under Jamie Chadwell when
Grayson McCall was a quarterback. There holds on the talented players,
the til to great offensive scheme while Chadwell was there
and they had they had a difficult season last season.
It's not been the same program in terms of the
(28:02):
level of entertainment there over the last two years. And
presumably that's you know, that's had a detrimental impact on
the number of season tickets being sold. And what better
way to try and get people to come back through
the door stay through the door then offering free food.
So four four three four three, that's easy for me
(28:24):
to say four three items from the concession stand. Multiple
trips will ag with. I think this is where it
started to sound like an April food and jape because
it was like, oh, you get four three items, so
a hot dog, the coke, popcorn, and another chromo. What
else was option that chose? Maybe and you can go
back again and again and again, and that's maybe that made.
Speaker 3 (28:45):
It sound like it was probably an April Fools gag.
Speaker 2 (28:47):
But you have to scan an app. Presumably there's there's
something that helps the program keep a track on that.
Maybe marketing. That's what people use absolutely, email agressors and
stuff for nowadays as much as direct marketing. It's a
way to get people's information. But if it gets season
(29:07):
ticket for your holders through the door, if it gets
people packing the stands at Mertle Beach, if it gets
people excited and interested in Coastal Carolina football, I think
that's a great thing. And you know, in this era
where it seems to be, I don't come across as
(29:27):
a miserable old man because I'm not, and I agree
with a lot of what happens in college football right now,
but it's particularly around player powerble at a time where
schools are turning to the pockets of fans to help
pay their way through this new era of college football,
rather than asking for donations towards nil collectives and whatnot.
(29:54):
It seems it's a very different approach to college football
and to people to bands, and I think that's that's
the satily, something to be celebrated.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
I think you're right. I think you get on a
really good point there that I think they're goodwill. So
you've got this community spirit in schools just now where
and for decades frankly where everybody's in it to get
the school ever was proud of the alma mater and
the team that they support, the team that the town
(30:26):
they live in. I think goodwill has the potential to
erode depending on how things not just I don't just
mean winning and losing, but you know, investing in a
player who then disappears after a year, jumps into transfer portal. Right,
So I think it's it's ingenious to come up with
(30:49):
different ways of supporting the team without you still have
to do it financially, but without necessary you know, putting
your hand in the pocket for a donation. And it
seemed like a a great idea. I don't want to
be overly controversial, but I still yet to go to
a football game whether that's NFL or college and have
(31:09):
some actual decent food. I'm still slightly disappointed by by
the offerings you get. I mean, I'm thinking of my
trips to college football games, and I've.
Speaker 2 (31:21):
Seen the males who've been eating in these American press
boxes at college.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
Football, well the press boxes.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
So I guess the whole point here is like the
tailgate scene is where the food scene is exactly like
if you want to if you want to eat well
at a college football game, you're not eating in the stadium.
Speaker 3 (31:39):
You're eating in the car I think so.
Speaker 1 (31:42):
So you got to Coastal Carolina and you pay for
your season ticket and you're probably going to get your
one dollar hot dogs. But hot dogs hot dog right.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
As I good friend John ty I just told us.
But many many times the American people exactly, you don't
need to do anything about Sure, you're Interosex.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
Talk about finishing the podcast on a high. That's how
to do it with It's been a roller coaster.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
We've had some some.
Speaker 1 (32:09):
Lows, but we finished on a high. Thank you, Ollie.
That's all from all us on this episode. We hope
you've enjoyed listening to our talking Nonsense season thanks for listening,
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