Andy & Ari On3 - Pitbull Stadium comes to FIU! | Which of Alabama, LSU, Missouri or Ole Miss will go over 9.5 wins?

Episode Date: August 7, 2024

This show is sponsored by Rhoback, the makers of the world’s most comfortable hoodies, polos, shorts and swim trunks. Use the code “ANDY” on Rhoback.com for 20 percent off for all new customers.(0:00-5:51) Intro: Dalé! Pitbull Stadium at FIU(5:52-7:08) Ad(7:09-17:38) Pete Nakos joins to discuss Pitbull Stadim at FIU with other ideas(17:39-25:09) Looking at the future of college football(25:10-30:25) More Names for stadiums(30:26-33:15) Stanford Steve joins - Colorado Discussion(33:16-37:58) Baylor Bears: 5.5 Wins(37:59-48:03) 9.5 Win Teams in the SEC(48:04-53:11) Auburn at 7.5 Wins(53:12-55:34) Wrapping Up with Stanford Steve(55:35-1:00:03) Conclusion - Dear Andy Tomorrow! [e-mail] On3! $1 for 1 month! https://www.on3.com/join/Pitbull has bought the naming rights to FIU, and Andy has a LOT of ideas about which musicians need to pony up next.On3’s Pete Nakos joins Andy to discuss what Mr. 305’s deal means in the grand scheme and how different the reaction to this is from the reaction to Ohio State athletic director Ross Bjork’s recent comments that selling the naming rights to Ohio Stadium are on the table.Next, it’s part two of Stanford Steve Coughlin’s visit. The ESPN College GameDay star joins Andy to talk more season win totals.The big question: Alabama, LSU, Ole Miss and Missouri are all at 9.5. It’s essentially asking which of those teams you’re betting on to make the College Football Playoff. Which will Andy and Steve pick?Want to watch the show instead? Join us LIVE, M-F at 8 am et! https://youtube.com/live/LEAM_led-50Host: Andy StaplesGuests: Pete Nakos, "Stanford" Steve CoughlinProducer: River Bailey

welcome to andy staples on three that's right there's a pitbull stadium in college football now fiu announced a naming rights deal that now makes their stadium Pitbull Stadium. Armando Perez, Mr. 305, Mr. Worldwide, paying $1.2 million a year to have his name on the stadium. Now, he gets some stuff out of that, too. He gets 10 dates a year to use the stadium rent-free. So if he wants to have a music festival, sell tickets, he's probably making that money back pretty quick.

But Pitbull's on the stadium. We got some ideas. This has got my wheels spinning. I've got some new stadium names that we're going to have to talk about on this show. We also, part two of Stanford Steveve later today we got win totals we got the big question vegas asking like basically who of these scc teams do you think is going to make the playoff with their win total so like alabama ole miss missouri lsu all at nine and a half that's essentially vegas asking you which of these teams is going to make the playoff by whether you say over or under we're going to talk about that with Stanford Steve

later today but now we got to talk pit bull because this is the most college football story in a while and there's been a lot of stories that were really college football but this is insanely college football. This is the dumbest sport in America, dumbest sport in the world. And it's a beautiful thing, a beautiful thing. I mean,

how about a guy who came, as he says from the bottom, grew up in the area, gets discovered, starts rapping about dealing drugs, decides, nah, Grew up in the area. Gets discovered. Starts rapping about dealing drugs. Decides, you know what? That's not radio friendly enough. I'm going to go from being Mr. 305 to Mr. Worldwide.

He's rhyming Kodak with Kodak. He's partying under a bridge in his videos. And now he's got his name on a stadium. America. I'm just telling you. He had a press conference at FIU yesterday. Here's what he said about the idea. So when this idea came about,

it came about just like a Miami-Dade County 305 idea would come about. Nobody would believe in it, right? So therefore, you know, someone that was very creative, being Alex, who you mentioned, and thank you so much for putting this together, Renee as well, and they kept fighting. And with President Jessel and Athletic Director Carr

approving and greenlining it, all we had to do was just, like we say in Miami too, take it to the house. And that's what we've done at this point. And what we're doing here is groundbreaking. We're making history. This is history in the making. You're going to see that every other university is going to want to do the same thing.

But the difference is we don't do this for propaganda. We do it from the heart. We do it because it's meaningful. We do it because I'm from the crib. I'm 305. I'm from the bottom. This is my backyard. And when I say Miami, it's ours.

Of course, you got to have a trick daddy shout out on there and also let's not forget another person who helped young pitbull's career along very big in the football world we speak of course of uncle luke luther campbell two live crew who yes we know about his miami fandom but he's also a high school football coach. So this is, it's all coming together. It all comes around. But I just, I can't believe we're talking about Pitbull Stadium. But that is, that's where we're at.

I don't think Pitbull can believe it either. To be on this stage is just to motivate everybody out there and let you know that if you put your mind to it and you got creative minds around you, you can get anything done. That's why I say when someone tell you sky's the limit, you say, nah, partner, this foot puts on the moon. So you keep it moving, you keep it pushing. So with that said, now we're in FIU and we're talking about Pitbull Stadium. Woo!

He can't believe it either. And it's a great deal for him, though. It really is because he gets his vodka distributed in the stadium. And like I said, he gets 10 dates a year. He can do what he wants with them. We got the contract, of course. FIU did give it out. We didn't have to do the public records request,

but it's pretty awesome on both sides. It's a pretty good deal because this is the most publicity FIU football is going to get. This is a program. Do you know who FIU's football coach is? I do. It's Mike McIntyre. He took Colorado to the Pac-12 championship game a few years ago. But I don't know that most of you do. Do you know they have a player named Rowdy Beers? You probably knew that. We talked about that on the show.

We know they lost a good receiver named Chris Mitchell to Notre Dame in the transfer portal. But maybe having Pitbull around will keep that from happening. We'll see. We'll see in the future. We're going to talk to Pete Nacos from On3 about this because Pete's been doing some stories on naming rights and some of the things that universities are doing to try to be creative, to create new revenue before they start having to pay the players quite a bit of their money. But first, we're going to talk to a company that already helping players out, already making the American dream come true, and that is Roback. Roback has a bunch of sponsored athletes out there. They also have the most comfortable clothing in the history of the world. The performance hoodie, I'm wearing it right now. This is my favorite garment. I've got five of them. I had seven. My daughter took

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I see a man wearing a beautiful Roback performance hoodie right now, and his name is Pete Dacos. What's up, Pete? What's up, man? Oh, we're twins today. We got the Roback memo. I like it. Definitely. As producer River pointed outuck memo. I like it. Definitely.

As producer River pointed out to me before I jumped on, so FIU did Miami Vice uniforms. Yes. So could we see a Pitbull-Miami Vice, you know, collab? Could we see a Pitbull helmet? We could definitely see a Pitbull helmet? We could definitely see a Pitbull helmet. By the way, Kevin in the chat informs us Rowdy Beer is not on the team anymore. Darn.

It's a shame. It's a shame. All right. We got to have a Pitbull helmet. This got my wheels spinning. I sent this tweet out. This tweet got a little traction yesterday because I think if, if Pitbull,

who is definitely authentically Miami, like if he can do this, we need to see this elsewhere. And, and what I said is if we don't have Memphis running onto project Pat field at the Liberty bowl this fall, we have completely failed as a society. I,

I would love that. And I had a couple of, a couple people like, how come you didn't say 3-6 Mafia? Because Juicy J is Project Pat's little brother. And Project Pat's already on all the good 3-6 Mafia tracks. So that's why. And there's so many ideas, so many ideas. I really, I told River, because Rivers, a Tennessee grad, I was like, listen, your girl Dolly needs to pony up.

Yeah. Dolly Parton Field at Neyland Stadium. Is this doable? Get her get her face in like around the 20 yard line. Oh, my God. Yes. Doy parton logos on both 20s yep that's the is that is that the only thing that tennesseans would allow to be on the same field as the power t and the checkerboard i think dolly parton's face is the only thing acceptable in that circumstance i don't think they would accept anything else i'd have to agree right there. Yeah. Dolly Parton really checks off all the boxes for Tennessee fans. And this is what we're going to talk about because we've talked about this with schools like FIU.

Even Kentucky. Yeah. Krogerfield. They went from Commonwealth Stadium to Krogerfield. Commonwealth Stadium kind of basically named after the state. Right. You wrote a story earlier named after the state. Right. You wrote a story earlier this week, or maybe last week. No, this week. You wrote the athletic director at Ohio State talking about the naming rights to Ohio Stadium being on the table.

And I saw a lot of read the room, Ross. Like, this is unacceptable. Yeah. And people can say, like, read the room. But at the same time, yeah, revenue sharing is unacceptable. Yeah. And people can say like read the room, but at the same time, yeah, revenue sharing is coming in any way you can, you know,

leverage more dollars makes a lot of sense. When you do start to think though, about like what would fit at Ohio stadium, right? The shot and scene family is really prominent in Columbus. They, they own a Victoria secret. They are linked to American Eagle.

Jeremiah Smith and Caleb Downs just signed. Wait, I thought Les Wexner was Victoria's Secret. Also a Buckeye grad. Big boost. The song, remember that Victoria's Secret song that came out a few years ago? I know Victoria's Secret. She was made up by a dude. That dude is Les Wexner.

The first time I heard it, I'm like, that's an Ohio State booster. So we could do Victoria's Secret Stadium. But, you know, they have a bigger brand in their portfolio right now. Bath and Body Works Stadium. Everybody gets a scented candle when they come in? That would be an Ohio State scented candle. Yes. What does a Buckeye scented candle yes what does a buckeye scented

candle smell like nuts ah i had a friend who once covered the 24 hours at sebring race and the the gift to the reporters who covered the race was a burnt rubber scented candle, which it went well until he left it in the back of his car one day in Florida, and it melted into the seat. And then his car smelled like burnt rubber. So you got to be careful with the candle giveaways. Flammable.

There's just a lot of liability concerns there. But seriously, okay, so let's talk about this part of it because schools are going to be looking for this sort of thing. So you're talking about naming rights to stadiums. You're talking about logos on the field. You're talking about maybe logos on the uniforms. My thing is if you're Penn State, if you're Auburn, if you're people who think, you know,

who always acted as if your uniform is sacred. Yep. Like you don't do that but if you're a Baylor or TCU or Oklahoma State or even Oregon yeah where you've I mean you've made the uniform and changing the uniform part of the thing like why not do that if you have a stadium that's not named like well Iowa State Jack Trice Stadium, that is named after a very important person in your history. Yes. His story is very important to the people at Iowa State. You don't change that.

But there are other places where it's not as big of a deal. Yeah, I mean, there's some stadiums, right, where someone gave some acres to build the stadium or money to help build the initial stadium. So that's going to come up. You know, the one other thing I'm interested to see play out, and we kind of saw in the backlash from Ohio State, was like how many fans will care if a stadium is renamed?

I think a little bit more than I initially thought, to be honest with you. And you best believe that a lot of these fan bases are going to care very much about what name their stadium is, like, renamed. So it's going to be interesting. Jersey patches are a way away still, but I still think that that is going to be the real moneymaker in college football. Yeah, and we've seen it in international soccer and professional soccer overseas.

I mean, they're so far gone on this thing. Like, the jersey patch is the team logo. Right. And the big logo on the jersey is the ad. I mean, like, Manchester city or Manchester United was, was Emirates airlines for, for years and years. And like,

I knew them more from the fly Emirates than I did their own crest. Yeah. Yeah. And then like the crest is like where the road back and it's like that kind of size too. So the real interesting thing will be as, as rock Bjork pointed out to me is like, how does Nike feel about all this? Right.

Nike is an official apparel sponsor. That's why they get the logo on this stuff. They've already been advertising on their uniforms for 30 years. Exactly. Exactly. Right. That Nike symbol on the Penn State uniform, that really sticks out. Same with Oregon and other programs in Alabama.

So is Nike okay with it? Is Nike going to cough up more money so it stays like that? We're not really sure. We'll have to see how that plays out. Yeah, and so that part's interesting too. We've got some folks in the chat that, that want some different stadium names. Uh, AJ says, can we get outcast naming rights on Georgia tech stadium or Migos or future or TI? I listen in Atlanta. I think maybe

now Georgia tech would be a good one. That's a, that's a good, you know, good piece of real estate there. I georgia state should become gz stadium and you can nickname it the trap and like how how amazing would that be that a stadium that was once the olympic stadium was once named after ted turner when the braves played there could be named after a true atl legend i like what you're thinking right there, Andy. I think that makes a lot of sense. One of my favorites was someone named BraveSwearJar on Twitter suggested that Houston change theirs to Megan D Stadium. We can't do that because Megan the Stallion just got a degree

from Texas Southern, so they're going to get Megan D Stadium. I like that. Big fan of that one. That's tremendous. That's, that's phenomenal. That is phenomenal. What about, um,

what are you thinking on the West coast? You think, uh, well, the Dr. Dre Coliseum, I believe he's already got a, he's already got the school of communications named after him at USC.

So let's just take it another step further. Now, you could, he's willing to pay USC millions of dollars. We already know that. So I think that makes sense. The Counting Crows, Counting Crows Stadium at Cal, like Adam Duritz is a Cal message board dude. Like he's following Cruton at Cal on the message boards. We don't have a Cal team site here at on three yet.

So I don't know that Adam Duritz is giving us any money, but you think, think about this and you're, we're going to expose my age and Pete's age difference here. Adam Duritz once dated jennifer aniston and courtney cox like he was he was elisa kudrow away from wow the the friends trifecta wow i did not know that hey can we go back to usc real quick what if we yeah dr jerry called uh will farrell feel that dr jerry coliseum I love it I look does Will Ferrell

need it though does he need the no and and would I would assume Dr. Dre now he's already sold beats to Apple so I don't know that that he is going to make any more off of that so maybe maybe he's got a new idea that he's going to come up with and he needs to sell. So yeah. How about the home and home, you know, between big 10 rivals, Ohio state goes to the Dr. Dre Coliseum and then USC goes back to bath and body work stadium in Columbus.

I'm interested to see going back to FIU real quick, like how much Pitbull does for the university, right? So if you look at the contract, he can make an anthem. He can host events. He's the official FIU entrepreneur. He's going to have two football tweets a game. And yeah, it's, yeah, there's a lot of options. He's getting 20 VIP parking passes a game.

Yeah. I mean, at the Ohio States of the world, you kind of have to give up $1.2 million a year to get the 20 parking passes, so that's a different universe as we're living in here. And he's going to make money off the vodka in the stadium. Yes. Yeah. Exactly.

No, I think this is a very good deal for all parties involved. And we are talking about FIU. We have spent the first 20 minutes of the show talking about FIU when we never would have talked about FIU otherwise. Like how often, I was thinking about this and I, we're going to have the athletic director from FIU, Scott Carr, on the show later this week. I want to ask you this, Pete, because you cover sports business. How often do you have a situation where somebody gives the school money and that generates more publicity than anything they could have done? Usually, you have to pay for that level of publicity. Yeah.

Not too much. There hasn't been... You got to pay quite a bit or you got to really make a splash move and that's exactly what pitbull did um yeah speaking though i'll make the transition here andy speaking of splashy donations um iowa state's nil collective received a three hundred thousand dollar donation from elite casino resorts yesterday. And that, the irony of irony is right there. Yes, they had to kick their starting quarterback off the team last year. They did.

Because he got arrested in a gambling sting. Now, as we've learned, that was a very only in Iowa thing. It happened, Iowa and Iowa State had to deal with the fallout from that but it was uh it is crazy to think that that their football team was seriously adversely affected by gambling and now they're using gambling money to pay the players it's crazy and and um had some conversations with people and someone even pointed out to me like hey like you don't even have to announce it like take the money just like maybe don't even like publicly announce that you're taking the money um so it's gonna be interesting and and beyond that too andy like athletes are gonna promote

some of these resorts to receive the dollars so it's not going away anytime soon it's not like a check into the collective and that's it well and i thought it i thought it was going to be a situation where if it was a gambling deal it was an alcohol deal it was going to have to be kind of vetted through the university and but i think it's come to the point where if you're if you're going to give us some money, we'll take your money. Yeah. Which, listen, anybody who wants to advertise on Andy Staples on 3, if you'd like to give us some money, we'll take your money. I've read some ad copy from some companies on podcasts through the years that, let's be real, I was not particularly proud reading some of the puns

that were written for me by these copywriters. And so, yeah, I'll take your money. I'm not going to criticize the Iowa State people for doing that because in this environment, this is what it is. They are all trying to raise some money. Yep. Few can be as creative as FIU was. This was kind of a masterstroke. Cause I remember this,

this thing hit yesterday and I was like, Oh my God, what a brilliant idea. Because again, we would not be talking about FIU otherwise. And there isn't, you know, there like if the big 12 does rename itself,

like the all state 12, like there is going to be serious backlash. Like people are really going to be against it. This is an idea that drives publicity drives dollars also doesn't completely like tear apart like the history of like fiu or anything like that um but also aligns them with uh international superstar well and the newer you are as a school and a program and the younger you are as a school and a program, and the younger you are as a school and a program, the easier this is. So Scott Carr, the AD at FIU, where did he work before this?

UCF. Like that's the one I'm looking at. Yeah. Because it is one of the youngest schools in the power conferences. Yeah. Like they can do all of this stuff. Now, there's not really an Orlando artist. Like you're not going to have a matchbox 20 stadium at Rob Thomas field.

At least I hope not. Disney wants to reach out to a new generation. Exactly. Exactly. You, you, there are companies in town that do want to do business with you. I mean,

like triple A has got their headquarters in the Orlando area. Maybe they want to do business with you. I mean, like AAA has got their headquarters in the Orlando area. Maybe they want to do it. So it is out there for those. I think it's harder if you're Ohio State, if you're Penn State, to do stuff like that. Yeah, and there's a lot of memorial stadiums out there too, but even there, I'm not sold that some of these fan bases would want to move away from that.

You're definitely going to see a lot of on-field sponsorships in terms of like the naming rights of fields that is coming and to be more popular. I mean, and when it's announced, it gets traction and all that, but at the same time, right? Like you're not always referring to Ohio stadium, safe flight field, like constantly. action and all that but at the same time right like you're not always referring to um ohio stadium safe flight field like constantly well right and that's the other thing about ohio stadium that's interesting because they have sold the name of the field so safe flight we've all heard their little jingle safe like repair safe like replace you call them if your windshield's broken and

so they've already done all that but it is interesting and now you've got the name the field after right the great head coach you have steve spurrier field at ben hill griffin stadium at florida you have nick saban field at bryant denny stadium uh or you're gonna have that once they dedicate it so it is there you got to be careful how much real estate you give up to people you love. Right. I don't know. Maybe we just need, because like there already was a saving statue,

but it may be, you just make statues of people and you leave the names off so you can sell the names. Yeah. That, that, that could definitely happen. That could a hundred percent happen.

It's, it's going to be a, a brave new world. Pete Nicos. thank you so much. You've got a lot to cover here. Yeah, I was just at the personnel symposium the last two days, and that's also been something that's taken too, right? I mean, they're trying to figure out what the transfer portal is going to look like

because the NCAA D1 council is going to vote on that this October. It can move from 45 to 30 days. Guys want to know what their roster limits are going to look like. I've heard about a lot of partial scholarships. I mean, there's a lot going on right now in college sports. A lot behind the scenes. A lot of people trying to make money. A lot of people trying to figure out what the rules are,

and they don't know yet, and they won't know for a little while. Exactly. That'll keep you busy. Thank you, Pete. Thanks, Andy. We got a few more of these because I made a long list of places that may need to look into having a popular artist name their stadium. Now I, I, we gave Megan D stadium to Texas Southern. I do think Houston though should memorialize someone. And I think Houston and Florida should memorialize people if we're going to change the names. So Houston,

you have DJ screw Memorial stadium so that when somebody comes in and loses, you can say they got chopped and screwed. Florida, Ben Hill Griffin, citrus grower who gave money for the stadium expansion. That's why his name's on the stadium. But if they wanted to memorialize maybe the most famous person ever from Gainesville, Steve Spurrierfield at Tom Petty Memorial Stadium would be the way to do it. Now, on the current artist from the town who's made a bunch of money who can help infuse some cash into

the coffers, how about T-Pain Stadium at Florida State? A sire supporting the Seminoles. Ryan Willings is trying to tell me that Leonard Skinner came from Gainesville. No, Leonard Skinner is from Jacksonville, not from Gainesville. Tom Petty is from Gainesville.

It would be Tom Petty, Sister Hazel, less than Jake. We're in my wheelhouse here, Ryan. Jacksonville would be Leonard Skinner, the allman brothers tallahassee t-pain creed formed in tallahassee though those guys are from orlando so yeah now i was thinking about the the dallas metroplex you got sm SMU. You got TCU. Not a ton of great rappers. The DOC probably would have been the greatest rapper out of Dallas. He had an unfortunate accident that took his voice.

We're obviously not naming a stadium after Vanilla Ice. I think we move into another genre here. For SMU, we have the Pantera Plex. That would be tremendous. And of course, we go to South Carolina. And we can do this a couple different ways. Hootie in the Blowfish Stadium has the best ring to it. If you would like to have Darius Rucker just put his name on it by himself, he's still recording albums. He's got a great solo career going.

But Hootie and the Blowfish Stadium just sounds better. So how attached are we to Williams-Brice? I don't know. But I am glad you guys appreciate the pantera plex because their stadium right now like the smu stadium is named gerald ford stadium but it's not the gerald ford who was the president that gerald ford went to michigan so we can change this to the pantera plex it would be spectacular. And yes, you could have, as Goat Dog points out in the chat, you could have some serious walkout music there. We got a lot of ideas. We got a lot of ideas. Keep them coming. But again, we're going to make, we got to make

Project Pat Field happen. We've got to make Project Pat Field happen. All right, let's talk some actual football because we are not far away from the opening of the college football season.

Week zero, we got a Saturday this Saturday and then another Saturday and then we're going to have week zero. We're going to have Florida State and Georgia Tech and Dublin. We talked a little ACC with our friend Stanford Steve yesterday. Now it's time for part two of that conversation. So we talked some ACC and big 10 with a little SEC sprinkled in. Now we're going to hit the big 12 and then the SEC proper, because there are some really interesting ones. There's more interesting ones in the SEC, I think, than any other conference. And so we sprinkled in Florida and Oklahoma yesterday because they made sense in the

conversation. But again, we're going to get to the question, I think, in the SEC that Vegas has posed to us, which is here's four teams. We think probably a couple of them are going to make the playoff. We think probably a couple of them aren't. So you decide who you think is going to make the playoff. Those four teams are all at nine and a half for their win total. That's Alabama, it's Missouri, it's Ole Miss, and it is LSU. All of those at nine and a half. It is essentially them asking you, who do you think will make the playoff? But before we get to that, we're going to hit a couple of the big 12,

and we will start, of course, with Coach Prime. All right, Stanford, Steve. This is one you knew we were going to do. Red meat for everybody. Coach Prime. Yeah. Five and a half win total, which would be you got to make a bowl game. You got to be two wins better than last season to go over here

I have said I think Colorado's going to make a bowl game so we know I I'm taking the over on this one I'm not really confident they're going to be much over six wins I think six wins six or seven is probably the number but do you think they can they can? Yes, I do. I really do. Just looking at the last thing I read, I believe he brought in 72 players before the 23 season, 72 or 73 brand-new players, never put on a Colorado uniform. Forty-five of those are already gone. Offensive line, five brand-new starters last year.

This year, five brand new starters last year. This year, five brand new starters. What I do look at is having played for him, his offensive coordinator, Pat Shermer. I think he's great in a role, especially in college, of having a game plan. I think that's going to help Shador a ton.

What he was able to do, when you talk about pocket presence, I would put him right up there with Caleb Williams and how he had to run for his life and still to be able to be accurate showed me wonders at the beginning of the season. And I know what happened later in the year, but that's what we're going to see with these teams changing conferences. Now, the experience those kids got,

the spotlight that they were under after that week one win, nothing's going to be bigger than that to me. Now that they're going to the Big 12, which is going to be the most competitive league in the country, I'm pretty firm in that where I think a multitude of teams can win it. But when you still have a quarterback like that that got that experience and all those kids that got that experience, I think that helps immensely with managing your expectation. Deion is going to Deion. He is going to put everything on him and take it to a level

that no one else can go. But that's been him his whole life. There are plenty of conversations he has had with his team where things got out of hand last year, and they're going to learn from that, and they will learn from that. So I look at the schedule. The schedule's crazy to me because you can, I can't wait to see the

point spreads on these games because I think every game is winnable. I really do. Right. And you don't know who's going to actually be good in the Big 12 yeah um you know i had going through it i had utah and kansas state playing in the conference championship game i see both those teams on this colorado schedule i don't think they win those like baylor what what's baylor gonna be you know oh we can talk about baylor actually let's do it let's talk

baylor because i think we both think Colorado is going over. Okay. I have said I think Dave Aranda is going to save his job this year. Baylor's total is five and a half. So you only got to make a bowl game. I don't think that saves his job, by the way. I'm not sure six and six saves the job. But I think six and six is doable.

The thing is, though, like you look at the schedule. At Utah, Oklahoma State, at West Virginia, that's a – and six is doable the the thing is though like you look at the schedule at utah yep oklahoma state at west virginia that's a like nobody wants to go to morgantown this year i think that's one that people don't understand is going to be one of the tougher places to play they're also at lubbock and at ames like they got the trifecta of places you don't want to go. Yep. Yeah. In, you know, in that conference, we, you know, we know. It's funny.

I was reading a thing about Texas and Oklahoma going to SEC. But the biggest stadium they play in in the road was Ames. Like, that's the biggest stadium in the Big 12. Not the new Big 12. Not one of theirs. But, yeah. But, yeah. But I thought that was kind of crazy. So, they've been there.

They know what to expect at those road venues. I love the hire of Jake Spavadal. I think he's a great offensive mind. I wonder about the quarterback depth after the starter. Knowing what Jake wants to do and what he puts on a quarterback's plate. But there's no doubt in my mind Dave Aranda could coach his butt off. I just think that

the way people plucked his roster, it was unfortunate with the offensive corner. I thought Grimes was good, but it felt like there was just a disconnect. You saw how smart he was with that quick turnaround when they had that great season.

I don't question Aranda at all as a head coach. I think he's tremendous. I think he's a super great football mind. And also, he was never a head coach before. You're going to learn a ton from year to one to year two. You're also going to learn even more from two to three if you had so much success in that start year. So I look at Baylor as the ultimate outlier.

Like, they're the wild card in this conference because of what I believe Jake Spavadal could do offensively and what Aranda could do defensively. Now, look, you said the road games. I love West Virginia this year. The question I do have is the defense, but a road game, that's going to be in November at at Morgantown I don't have that as a as a win for Baylor so I would lean I I think six six so you take six and six he saves his job I I don't know if he saves his job at six and six

because I I that's you know the question if you're Mack Rhoads is, is that good enough? Is it showing enough improvement? You think that's going – because they brought in Daquan Finn. Yeah. But the question is how much can you pass this year? Is it because of that? Daquan Finn is one of my favorite transfers this year. I think he's going to do well in Jake Spadal's offense. Yes. But six and six is enough to go over here.

I think he probably needs to be seven and five, eight and four. They're there. They're really happy. They're there, obviously. Here's the thing, too, is now that we have this one less of a conference, when you go on the road, you can't expect to win if you don't play your best. Those days are done. Those venues are just too tough.

These teams, when they know they get their home schedule, you know the onus that teams put on their own players and staffs and home games because of why do you have to win home? All your boosters are there. You want everybody in a good mood. You know how important your boosters are now and are going to be even more important as we move on in this NIL era. So the idea of road games and just being more focused,

I think is going to be a big onus for a multitude of teams. And Baylor, a middle of the pack, not a lot of expectations. But then you count in the pressure of a head coach possibly coaching for his job. That's a lot that can instill in a locker room that kind of makes you almost want to go on the road and be able to prove yourself. Oh, all right, so what? We won a game. No one's still believing us because we won a home game.

All right, let's go on the road and prove it that our staff's good enough and our players are good enough. That's the great thing we have in this sport because you don't know what's go on the road and prove it that our staff's good enough and our players are good enough. That's the great thing we have in this sport because you don't know what's going on in that locker room and the belief or the non-belief that we've seen with some teams that happens throughout the course of a season. But I still think the world of Miranda, and I do expect a bowl season for Baylor.

Let's go to the SEC. We talked about Florida. We talked about Oklahoma in part one one but i'm going to give you three teams steve they all have the same total okay and and basically this total asks a question is this a playoff team or not yep so there are three teams in the sec at nine and a half actually there's four teams at nine and a half well let's do all four all right let's do all four i feel like one of these doesn't belong in this group, and you tell me if you feel the same way.

Alabama is 9.5. Missouri is 9.5. LSU is 9.5. Ole Miss is 9.5. My expectation level, I have Ole Miss as the highest of that group. I have a question for you with two of those teams.

Okay. Just reading because they're playing a great game last year. Missouri, Missouri and LSU. Which defensive situation would you rather have?

Missouri's. Okay. Even though they lost the coaches and they brought in players and who can help them okay yeah all right i because to me what missouri now the question becomes what you always were worried about and then you have that is depth. We know why you were good. We look at the NFL draft. Exactly. But I do think Drink is smart enough to know he doesn't have those guys, so they do have to be more dynamic on offense,

and they got the guys to do it on offense. I haven't watched the running back from Georgia State. People love him. Marcus Carroll, yeah. And fits right into that system with the outside zone, the stretch, whatever you want to play. That Schrader made a killing on last year, and that drink just ran into the ground. It was

just awesome to watch. They had, like, here's what we're running. Stop us. And personality wise, I wouldn't take any other head coach in the country than Drink. Love the dude and what he's brought to that university and knowing him from prior stops he's he's got everything um just ask him he'll he'll tell you oh but LSU LSU to me you

know taking Missouri's defensive coordinator but not still having a belief in the pieces, how much can great coach do? You know, we saw the debacle that was when, when Bo went there with coach Joe after the title year. And you know, that was still some players on that roster. So that's what worries me with LSU is a new staff and everybody's are, what are we gonna do? All right, we're going to simplify things and make us more attacking. Everybody says that. Good defensive player in the country. What's his role?

He's going back to middle backer. I'm not going to argue and be the guy that everybody, oh, put him on the edge, he's the best pass rusher. Yeah, but you've got to think of your defense as a whole. They're better if he's in the middle. I get he's a great, he could still rush the passer from the middle, but you have to have your best player in the middle. If he's on the edge, guess where I'm going with the ball?

I'm never going to... The theory is because he's 220 pounds, if he's on the edge, you're going to run right at him. Yeah, I'm going to run... You're sitting at him like it's... Yeah. Yeah, so I put Ole Miss at the top. I have huge expectations.

The one bet I've made was Jackson Dart-Heisman. I look at what they did in coming back in game. That's where Lane was always, I thought, he put a lot of stuff on him, obviously, right, the things he said, the way he goes about himself. But last year, you go back and watch the games, they came back and won. That's the impressive stuff. And why did they do that?

Because of Lane Kiffin and because of Jackson Dart. They gave up, well, 49 points to LSU. They were down nine in the fourth quarter. They win that game in regulation. You don't do that without a special kid, a quarterback. And I'm a huge believer in Jackson Dart. I love the depth that Lane has gotten across the board as being the portal king. So, again, with Miami, I've never done it in years past.

I'm jumping in. I'm in on Ole Miss this year. I do believe that roster, and Lane is smart enough and has got enough experience now to know what to handle. We don't want to talk about bowl games and how much stock you put in. Go back and look at the numbers, what they did at Penn State. That defense was statistically, I think, the best. And they, I mean, Priest-Corn went crazy in that game.

How many times do you see a tight end go off on the number one defense in the country? So I'm all in on Ole Miss. I put them at the top. I'm still believing in Alabama. They are right there. I think it's worth a bet. There's still plus money to make the playoff. I'd love DeBoer.

People had a question about recruiting. I don't know about these late flips or whatever. He's put his foot in the ground and been able to do that. Everything I hear about Milrow, he's better with the football. That's taking care of it and accuracy. What were the two things that he has to be better at to go to the next level? Taking care of the football and being more accurate. There's still four or five stars at wide receiver on Alabama's roster.

When I go back and look, I thought those receivers for Washington were pretty well coached. They're damn talented, but last year they were pretty well coached. When you look at his scheme and what they do against Mann or what they do against Zone, they always had a plan. I think he's so detail-oriented offensively, and the wins compared to the losses speak for themselves when it comes to Kalen.

When I look at the defense, hearing Nick Saban say that they got some questions to answer at the secondary, I'm not going to argue with that. His assessment, he knows those guys better, but I like the guys that they brought in. Transfer from SC, I think he's a plug-and-play starter. Sab from Michigan, believe he'll be a starter. Love the middle linebacker, one of my favorite players in the country. Will we see the defensive line in this, this, I know, I know you've talked about this, the depth of the war daddies in the sec and the defensive line. We don't have a lot. We don't have,

Speaker 1 0. Speaker 3 0. Speaker 1 0. Speaker 0 0. Speaker 1 0. Speaker 1 0. Speaker 0 0. Speaker 1 0. Speaker 1 0. we don't have no but i do feel like alabama like you know jaheim otis is back look at georgia look yeah putting the draft the last couple years they're serviceable they're good they're gonna rotate multiple guys but there's not those guys those three techniques they're you know the old tilts we don't see any more tilts playing i don't know no nose tilt um. So I think just hearing coaches talk, that's a big question to me.

Is there a word about the defensive line knowing extra games that you're going to have to play if you're going to be successful? But when I look at Alabama, they have guys there that have played. And I'll take that when I look at a season as a whole and knowing that I have guys that have been in the trenches before, and this is what we're going to go out and do. The Georgia game is enormous because I think at that point in the season, we want to see where both those teams are, and we're going to get that with that.

Can Wisconsin be tricky going up there? I think that's big noon, right? Like that's 11 a.m. local. How do you get that? Hopefully Wisconsin opens the doors earlier so all the students can get to their seats by the end of the first quarter, like the last couple times I've been there. But they can show up earlier too. But I'm still a believer in Alabama.

I would look at more to make the playoff than bet over nine and a half wins because you're going to get plus money. Does that make sense to you? That makes a lot of sense. Yeah. I still think they have a super high ceiling. I really want to see the improvements in Milrow. We're going to see that when they go to Wisconsin if he didn't make them

because you're going to need to throw the football there to win the game. So my expectation of Alabama hasn't changed, but it's more of I want to see it because of the change in the scheme and the guy in charge, but I'm super fired up. I thought, again, a home run higher. I think we're kind of flipped on alabama and old miss because like i want to see it with old miss i want to see that their improvements on the d line they're dead you know increased depth on the o line i want to see that in action i trust alabama's roster more so i

feel like they're the kind of outlier of those four like i feel very confident with the over i feel very confident with the say yes they're making the playoff like you said we're we're gonna make more money on that one uh I am confident Ole Miss gonna make the playoff yep the schedule bodes well for them like Ole Miss and Missouri got a better schedule draw in Alabama and LSU that is a fact yep but I just I like Alabama and Ole Miss here I would go under on Missouri and LSU. And Missouri, I said I liked Missouri's defensive situation better because they brought in some players to help them because of what they lost.

They lost Darius Robinson and Raikstra and Hopper. But LSU, neither one of them, I think, are going to be able to play as well on the defensive side of the ball as they need to to make the playoff. I don't worry about either one of them on offense. I think they're both going to be good on offense. But I think one of them is going to have to prove they can play very well on defense to make the playoff. Because LSU's schedule is very hard. Missouri's schedule is not.

But they still have a couple games in there that can get them because you have Auburn, Alabama, Oklahoma in a row. You could lose all those. Go on to A&M. You could lose that game. Those are all... So 10-2 is not easy, even though this is one of the quote-unquote easier schedules in the SEC.

So I got one more for you though steve we touched on it in part one auburn seven and a half the idea of hugh freeze being able to speak directly to the quarterback through through the helmet yep i think that helps payton thne an awful lot. I totally agree. I'm really, really excited to see Auburn. I'm dying to see Cam Coleman and what I've heard from people that have seen him. Do you see the still image floating around on the internet of the one-handed catch? Yes. The other day? Yeah, that's exactly what I think.

When I hear people, I'm like, oh, God, he's built like a Greek God. He runs like a deer, you know, like the whole package. And then you just think about how Auburn has never had a guy like that at wide receiver. Like you go through Auburn's wide receiver records. You'll be blown away at how attainable they are. If campman is the real deal i i've tried i've tried to figure we because uh philip dukes who works with us went to auburn and i said dukes like who has auburn had like did they ever sign a receiver that was this hyped have they who's like the best receiver in auburn history and he's like i could name guys but but you're going to be like, yeah, I was going to say like Frank Sanders.

That would be, I think Frank Sanders is the guy I'd name great player. But when you look at the numbers and now in this day and age, and then you just think about Hugh freeze and who he's had and the success that he's had with players. I love this dynamic. He's just crushing it on the recruiting front. I love that fan base because of how crazy they are. And I want them. I really am rooting for Auburn and Florida this year in the SEC

because those are the teams we need. When they're good, it's so much more fun. And I'm really hoping game day can get to Auburn. We haven't been there in a while. It's one of my favorite. I'm really hoping game day could get to Auburn. We haven't been there in a while. It's one of my favorite. I've said that earlier. One of my favorite places. What I love about Auburn here

is go back and look what they did. I get everybody brings up the New Mexico State. But Alabama and Georgia were probably the best games they played, and they lost. And going back and watching the tape of the Auburn-Georgia game,

that really freaked me out with Carson Beck because if he doesn't make those throws, Auburn wins that game. What they needed to do and how precise. They had one drive, and they had to do it, and he was as good as I've seen in the sport. So that really opened me up to Carson Beck. But then I go back and look like they were put in that position because Hugh took the play call that week. And Peyton Thorne was ripping off 40-yard runs like it's nothing.

And I think Peyton Thorne, again, go back and look at his receivers at Michigan State. They're pretty good. They're playing in the NFL. Are you saying Keon Coleman is a good receiver? Oh, God, I love Keon Coleman. So I think Peyton Thorne is going to be way, way more efficient. You know, having great players, I think helps decision-making also where, you know, you get caught, you know, in a tough spot and you don't have the best guys.

What are you going to do? You're either going to hold onto the ball, bad things, bad things are going to happen. And probably the least, least talked. How do I say this? Least talked about, talked about great player. In that league is Jarquez Hunter. That guy's a stud, an absolute stud. I'd love, I want to, I'm going to try and do where I just draft myself, but the running backs in the sec this year. And I love that Hunter. You talk about making the most of a

situation last year. Again, I mentioned Hugh takes that play call. Look at his numbers the last five games. Look how many yards they ran for. I think they went over 250 against Bama, you know, and that's a week after that New Mexico State game. So there's some resiliency that I believe is built in in Auburn just because of how crazy they are, and I love that about them. So I think, see, I think it's 7-5, and I think that's a really, really good season for them where they can keep building, he can keep recruiting.

So I would go under, but I think that's a super successful season, 7-5, with that schedule and what they have. I'm going to go over. I think they can do 8-4. Okay. Which means they're going to have to steal one. They're not supposed to win. Which can happen at that home state.

Whether that's. Yeah. And now they're going to Georgia, going to Alabama. So they're going to have to win something on the road because I mentioned they have to go to Missouri. At Kentucky, there's no picnic either. That's the one. Missouri or Kentucky, you're going to have to beat.

Yep. And that's fun. That's a whole lot of fun. I am so pumped up now. These are coming soon, Steve. We're two and a half weeks away from Florida State, Georgia Tech, and Dublin. Yeah, I left. I'm leaving the 19th.

I'm like, that's two weeks. I can't believe it. Have a Guinness for me. Have you been to Dublin? I haven't, no. I'm really worried about the food situation. What? You know, I'm trying to think of corn beef like nothing on corn beef and cabbage is great

every meal not every meal with eggs that's like they do i'll be down with that i'm good yeah i think you'll be right a lot a lot of potatoes spoiled though with our travel and the places we get to go i mean oh yeah come on what's up lamb stew lamb stew steve you gotta you gotta love lamb stew i'll try it i'll try it for sure okay what's um and then the following week i'm in college station what's my taco place oh oh gosh um well you've got fuego that's 24 hours. Yes. You hit the drive-thru at 3 a.m. It is so good. You used to be able to get rotisserie chicken there at like 3 a.m.

You ran there before your crazy workout, Andy, came in there to have lunch with me. That was awesome. I did. I did. That's what I used to try to do is outrun my diet. I'm here to tell you, Steve, it doesn't work. Oh, I know.

Look at me. Also, here's the problem with College Station. So you can go to Fuego, and it's great, and I love it. But you've also got a bunch of new barbecue places there now. Okay. And then you've got the Republic Steakhouse. got a bunch of new barbecue places there now. Okay. Like it. And then you got the Republic steakhouse. Like that's the place to see and be seen in college station. So if you,

if you can get one of those tables by the bar Republic, I'm telling you right now, you will be in for a treat because everybody who's anybody is going to come through. You never look. Cameos are endless. Love it. Love it. are endless. Love it. Love it, love it, love it.

Stanford Steve, thank you so much. You got it, my man. I appreciate you having me on. The great Stanford Steve. The Auburn thing is going to be very interesting. We put up a poll on the nine and a half question. Which of the four SEC teams that are at nine and a half do you think is the best? I expected Alabama to run away with it, but Bama sitting there at 39%, Ole Miss not far behind in our poll. I think there's some believers in the Rebs. They're at 33% right now. Those are the two I would expect to be the top vote getters,

but I thought Alabama would kind of run away with it. So I think there's, you know, you guys also kind of agreeing with Nick Saban that Ole Miss has improved on the line of scrimmage enough to really compete with these teams. I do think we still need to see it. And I do think that Ole Miss at LSU is going to be one of those litmus test games because that's a place that Ole Miss has struggled to win. And they should be able to beat LSU there this year. They should be able to.

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