Locked On ACC - Daily College Football & Basketball Podcast - ACC SHAKEUP: Ashton Daniels Named Seminoles QB as Florida State PLANS Potential ACC Exit
Episode Date: April 21, 2026Florida State Seminoles shake up the ACC by naming Ashton Daniels their 2026 starting quarterback, igniting questions about Mike Norvell’s strategy and the future of FSU football. With talented pros...pects like Kevin Sperry and JUCO star Malachi Marshall on the roster, is Daniels truly the safest pick—or just the most experienced? As speculation swirls, fans wonder how this move impacts the Seminoles’ competitiveness and Norvell’s job security. Meanwhile, FSU’s athletic department is eyeing massive changes with a $50 million budget increase and hints at possible conference realignment by 2028. Alex Donno and Kenton Gibbs debate where the influx of funding is coming from, Title IX implications, and the potential cutbacks that could follow. Additional topics include Gio Lopez’s candid take on bizarre weight room culture at North Carolina and a heated review of J.D. PicKell’s ACC-heavy college football top 25 rankings. Will seismic shifts in the ACC reshape college football’s power structure? Everydayer ClubIf you never miss an episode, it’s time to make it official. Join the Locked On Everydayer Club and get ad-free audio, access to our members-only Discord, and more — all built for our most loyal fans. Click here to learn more and join your team’s community: https://lockedonpodcasts.com/everydayerclub Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! Indeed Listeners of this show get a $75 Sponsored Job Credit to help give your job the premium placement it deserves at http://Indeed.com/podcast FanDuel Today's episode is brought to you by FanDuel. Right now new customers can bet just five dollars and get two-hundred and fifty dollars in bonus bets if your first bet wins. Visit https://FANDUEL.COM to get started — Play Your Game. FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN) Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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Florida State has announced their starting quarterback for 2026, and there could be a new conference for them by 2028.
You are Locked on ACC, your daily podcast on the Atlantic Coast Conference.
Part of the Locked on Podcast Network, your team every day.
He's Kenton Gibbs from Locked on Wolfpack.
I'm Alex Dono from Lockedon Cain's on this loaded episode of Lockdown ACC.
J.D. Piquel from On 3 has Miami,
in his top five, but what about the rest of the ACC in his post-spring top 25 national rankings?
Gio Lopez, who made a move from North Carolina to Wake Forest,
made some very odd revelations about the weight room at UNC.
He didn't seem to enjoy his one year in Chapel Hill.
I don't think Chapel Hill enjoyed his one year there either, to be fair.
Florida State, their athletic director, made some comments that leads some people to wonder,
are they expecting seismic shifts, perhaps more conference realignment as soon as 2028,
two years from now.
But meanwhile, Florida State, they're very much in the news today, Kenton.
Somewhat surprisingly, just the timing of this, they have announced their starting quarterback
for the 2026 season.
The guy who won the job is not surprising because he's been the favorite.
He's the most experienced.
But I just think based on Mike Norvell saying is really,
recently as a week ago or less that the competition was still open,
all of a sudden now it gets leaked that Ashton Daniels will be their starting quarterback.
It seems a little odd.
And I see Florida state fans talking, Kenton, that, you know, Kevin Sperry, who's a talented red shirt freshman,
doesn't have Daniels experience, but a lot of people were rooting for him.
But also they have incoming to the program, really talented junior college transfer Malachi Marshall.
who fans are very excited about, hasn't started practicing with them yet.
He's enrolling in the summer.
So I guess there was maybe some hope that they would keep the competition between Sperry and Daniels open
and then throw Malachi Marshall into that competition.
So I don't know, why do you think they chose today to name a starting quarterback?
Dono, I have no clue.
I very seriously, I don't understand the logic here besides maybe saying we're going to go with.
So I will say this.
Maybe the thought behind it, let me not say I don't understand any of them.
Maybe the thought is we're going to go in the fog camp with our guy.
He's going to be the guy trotting out with the ones.
We want to make sure that everybody is on the same page that this is our guy going into the season.
And I'll tell you this much.
I'm not disappointed that, you know, Daniels ends up being the guy.
If he's the best player, if he is giving you the best chance to win, you take your best
chance to win. I'm not denying that.
Especially in the situation that Florida
State is in, it's just
a little bit surprising because
like I said about
Angelie leaving Notre Dame
for Syracuse,
I believe he did so in the spring portal last
year. Did he not?
Yes, he did.
Yeah, it was in the spring, yeah.
And remember what I
said about that, you don't go get
another guy if you're comfortable with
what you got. And so I'm
kind of sitting here saying the same thing here like wait a minute you got another guy and you want him
to start in the spring or i'm sorry you want him to start in the summer but you're comfortable with what
you have yeah you know two plus two got to equal four not fish this something is is not quite right there
but at the end of the day norvel is doing whatever he can to you know save his job and save his
program, honestly. Because I mean, at the end of the day, if he's, if he and what he wants for this
program is to come to pass at any level, he's got to first cool that seat off to a ridiculous
degree. You know what I mean? That seat is hot as fish grease right now. So it's not like
he's got time to kind of sit around and let younger guys figure it out. He's got to get it
right today. Right now. You go with the guy with the highest floor, I think, if you're in
Norville situation. And I don't think there's any doubt that Ashton Daniels has that. I think in the
case of Malachi Marshall, who was the Jucco player of the year last year, I believe he's got three years
to play two. So the thought might be let him sit behind red shirt fully developed and then he'll
really have his opportunity 2027 or maybe that's Kevin Sperry's year. But Daniels has one year. And again,
like Ashton Daniels, I don't know how much excitement there is, but he's a guy who's played quite a bit
throughout his career. But not so much last year. He was a backup last year at Auburn through three
touchdowns, two interceptions, 797 yards and 68 attempts. But prior couple of years, he was the
starter at Stanford. He threw for 1,700 yards, 10 touchdowns, 12 interceptions in 2024,
2023. He threw for 2200 yards, 11 touchdowns, 8 interceptions. So these are not exactly the numbers
that scream out. This guy's been great throughout his career.
career. But he does have experience, Kenton, and again, Ashton Daniels, and he's also got dual threat
capabilities that I'm not factoring into those passing stats, but he's definitely got a higher
floor than the other two quarterbacks that are competing. I just don't think he has anywhere
near the ceiling. I mean, that's, we can all agree on that. And the reason that we talked about
Florida State and the excitement of them having a, you know, them having a quarterback battle at all
was saying that this was not Norville being desperate and saying,
hey, the older guy's going to start.
That's just all it is.
He gave this thing a true shot.
He gave the young guys a true shot.
But again, I'm sure that the Juko player the year ain't coming to play for free.
You know what I mean?
He ain't coming to play for free.
Now, if you're in win now mode and you are going to, hey,
I need to do what I can to cool this seat off first,
why would you be doing that?
What could you possibly be planning or doing?
And does the quarterback, does Marshall stick around if you leave?
Do you take him with you to your next job potentially?
As we've seen with other quarterbacks,
we saw that with Michigan State's head coach getting fired
and then getting the job at Northwestern as an offensive coordinator,
and then his guy comes with him.
So it's very intriguing to see what's going on right now with Florida State.
Yeah.
Well, and also there's off the field stuff too.
I believe it was Ira Schofel of Warchant,
who's he's probably like one of the most connected reporters at Florida State.
He has access to these Board of Trustees meetings.
He detailed that Florida State is they are increasing their athletic budget.
I don't think we know exactly what the budget was this past year,
but from two years ago, their budget was just over $200 million for all of athletics.
And for this coming year, they're increasing it to over $250 million.
So they are injecting a ton of money into their athletic department.
And you would imagine, like the highest percentage of that would go to football
and then probably men's basketball, a distant second, maybe women's basketball after that.
but there's a lot more money being pumped in.
And of course, it's been well documented, you know, the recent expenditures for their stadium and facilities, renovations.
And they've got a very expensive buyout on their current head coach who they opted not to fire because the buyout is so expensive.
But they're going all in with further investment, Kent, in about 50 extra million dollars.
And this quote from their athletic director, Michael Alford, makes people wonder, what is he not saying?
And what are they anticipating behind the scenes?
He says the next 24 months are very important because we think there could potentially be more movement within the industry, Alford said.
So we need to make sure daily that we're preparing ourselves for that.
And folks are speculating.
Hey, if you're suddenly increasing your athletics budget when, you know, the ACC doesn't really have the revenue potential that the Big Ten or the SEC have or maybe that Super League that we've talked about before.
for is Michael Alford maybe putting his chips on the table and saying, hey, maybe we're
somewhere else with a higher revenue share two years from now, or at least those, those
conversations start being had two years from now.
I mean, I don't, I don't see why you wouldn't do your due diligence to be prepared to
make a move, but my only thing about it is this.
Where is this additional funding coming from when we just saw articles talking about, hey,
they're running out a deep deficit?
Like what's?
Private equity maybe?
It's possible.
Loan sharks.
But that's the thing, Donald.
Florida State is a public university.
There are public land.
You've got to disclose, hey, the dollars are coming from here and they're going to there.
Like, it's different if Miami were to do this private school.
If Duke were to do this, private school.
You know, hey, Wake Forest, I believe, is in that same branch of like, hey, we don't got to tell nobody where a dime comes from.
We could give every player a helicopter.
You can't ask us any questions about it.
That's just what we're doing now.
The Florida State is not in that same bracket.
So it's a very interesting thing happening here, and I'm going to tell you, ultimately, this is very perplexing because what's on the other side of leaving the ACC?
So you leave the ACC, you pay the buyout.
But now which conference is incentivized to fight for you?
to like really say, hey, we're going to give you a full membership right away.
Are you one of the first schools to go fully independent and say, hey, we're going to do our own thing and we may draft up something with the ACC.
There could be something there.
There could be or maybe some of like the top brands from the ACC and the Big 12 decide to, you know, maybe join together all revenue producers and kind of cut the fat out, right?
Like you, you know, you cut out the, you know, the Wake Forest of the world and some of the bigger brands like the Florida States, Clemson, Miami, Texas Tech, BYU, kind of band together.
Yeah.
And you know what?
It's, it could be a situation where they're like, hey, if you batting below the Mendoza line, we're getting rid of you, period.
Yeah.
We are not, we do not, you know, it's, there's a lot of ways this could go.
And this is one thing.
I'm not going to fall Florida.
state for at all, right? A lot of people say we're too mean to Florida
State on this show. I don't think so. I think that we're fair to them and they've done a
lot of things that are just objectively goofs. My friend to the left of me or right,
depending on how you're watching this, may disagree. But I think that we've been very fair
to Florida State. But what I will say is in this moment, it makes sense to be prepared to make a move
if the opportunity is there and the numbers work out in the right way. I just don't think the
numbers will work out in a way that it's beneficial to them because again you take the buyout
you got to take the buy out of the conference buy out norville buy out by your way out the conference
and potentially get a reduced share of your new conference revenue that's that's not easy
that's not and then you're saying well i guarantee because of our viewership we could be able
to work something out independently which it could work out that way it could or
Or the folks that you were working that out with could say,
wait a minute now.
If we work out a deal independent with them,
there are bigger players than them who are then going to want to come to the table
and say we want our independent deal.
And now, instead of paying out the conference
where half of these schools are getting more than they ever could imagine,
I got to pay out all my big, you know, the big guys on some real big deals.
So, you know, it's a lot that can happen.
There are a lot of paths this could take,
but good on Florida State for being.
ready for the future. Yeah, no, no doubt. And there's more details from the War Chant story about
where that money is going to come from for the extra 50 million of the budget, which I think is
important. Crazy ESPN story on Gio Lopez, former North Carolina quarterback who's now
he's in a different part of North Carolina. He's in Wake Forest now. He's still in the ACC,
and he's having a lot more fun so far at Wake Forest. And I think he explained why it wasn't as fun at
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All right, so Kenton, from the War Chant story, it says Florida State will be able to cover some of its increased athletics expensive and expenses in the next few years with help from the university.
In the past, the state's board of governors has required public schools to operate self-sufficiently.
But once revenue sharing became a reality, the Board of Governors passed an amendment earlier this year to allow state universities to move 22.5 million each year to their athletics departments to cover those.
those costs through 2028.
Even with that assistance, all for the AD explained, Florida State's Athletics Department
will still need to cut some expenses, create additional revenue, or receive additional support
from the university.
So I guess that means it's still in flux.
Like he did say very specifically, they don't plan on cutting any non-revenue sports.
Like it did sound like they kind of looked into that, but it'd be a really bad look to cut.
like Olympic sports and also could get you in Title IX trouble.
So they're not going to be cutting any sports, he said,
but they are going to look at certain budget cuts.
So I don't know, like if you're the paid intern who's in charge of the copy machine,
you might want to get your resume on Indeed.com.
I'm just saying.
You know, I love quoting movies and, you know, music and all that.
And I believe it was Magneto who said,
no one ever talks about doing it.
They just do it.
This is one of those things.
everybody's ever going to tell you exactly where the cuts are going to come.
Nobody ever says out loud, hey, this sport is going to be even less funded than it already is.
Nobody's going to say that out loud.
You're just going to look up and say, hey, wait a minute.
They don't have that team anymore.
And here's the thing.
I am very intrigued by this because even with the influx of money from the state, you're still saying this, which is very worrisome.
That's that's very worrisome.
You're getting an injection of 22 and a half a year.
But if you're upping the budget 50 mil a year, I get it.
Now, Donald, correct me if I'm wrong.
Is it 50 mil per year or is this 50 mil over multiple years?
I think it's 50.
Oh, that's a good question.
I think it's 50 mil per year because that, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, that's, so you're doubling what the state is giving you.
Yeah.
You were given 50 cents and you're taking.
taking a dollar out to till.
Yeah.
The math there is kind of wonky.
We're going to see where, because, I mean, again, I haven't heard of anything that Florida
State is running this big bloated ship of, you know, way too much bureaucracy and nobody's,
there's a bunch of folks not doing much around there.
Florida State, and don't get me wrong.
I have heard of some universities that do function like that, but they got the motion to do it.
They got the motion to have people just around, just to be around.
Florida State is not one of those that I've heard reported on in that way.
So I'm very intrigued to see how this all shakes out.
But there is that worry that, of course, nobody's going to say, oh, by the way, y'all, our track program.
See you later.
Oh, by the way, everybody, I don't know what we're doing here with this whole beach volleyball thing.
Get it out of here.
Well, who cares about that nonsense?
sense, you know, and I'm not saying that football should be handicapped because of these other sports or anything like that.
I get it.
Trust me, I get it.
I understand that 50,000 people fielded Carter to see us play every Saturday, right?
It's a very different experience than what the tennis team experience.
And that's no disrespect to the tennis players.
It's just a very different environment.
It's a very different thing that you're going through.
But I'm just wondering, where are the kids?
where are they going to come from?
Where?
Yeah.
We don't know and they're not going to tell us.
Even if they know, they're not going to tell us where they're coming from.
So there was an ESPN story about the career so far and the year coming up for G.O. Lopez, right?
Former South Alabama and then North Carolina.
And it was a very unsuccessful year at North Carolina last year with Bill Belichick.
He's now at Wake Forest.
And he seems energized by head.
coach Jake Dickert and the way that they run things at Wake Forest, even to the point where
he's talking about the energy around the program. So according to Lopez, when they would do
lifting sessions at North Carolina, it was pretty important for a football team to be in the
weight room, strength the auditioning program. Allegedly they were playing classical music in there,
which seems like an odd choice. And he said, I'm a fan of Mozart too, but not when I'm on the
football field, that's not going to height me up.
So I guess they're playing classical music in weight room sessions, sessions, and on the
practice field.
I'm guessing, like, when you were at NC State, Kenton, and you're getting really charged
up in training sessions, it probably wasn't like to Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.
It was probably like something else playing, a little hip-hop, little hard rock, something
to get you going.
Brother, I like ode to joy as much as the next thing, okay?
I don't have a problem with a little bit of Bach,
a little bit of Mozart, a little bit of Bayton.
I ain't got a problem with that.
Don't play it while I'm getting ready to get hype.
Yeah.
If you're going to play something, play something with some tempo to it,
even if it's music that I hate, even if it's music that I despise.
Yeah.
I despise country music, very seriously.
Yeah, I'm not a fan either.
If you ever see me at a country concert, that's not me.
That's an imposter.
I'm telling you right now.
But with that being said, even when they play.
that in the way room. I hated it so much
it got me wrapped up and ready.
You get what I'm saying? Like it was like, it was like,
I don't want to hear this. I need to go to a different place
to do what I'm about to do right now.
Why would you play classical music?
What is that?
What? And I'm going to say this
and this is me doing
my good service because they just got my boy Matt Abel
up off us, you Judas, you
you slimy.
Et too brute.
It's crazy.
The way that, you know, we were hurt here.
But I'm going to say this.
They could have had a lot better of a quarterback than G.O. Lopez last year.
There's no doubt about that.
There was a lot of problems with G.O. Lopez's play that objectively bought the level of that team down.
However, North Carolina also did a lot of things to bring G.O. Lopez's level of play down.
this was a group effort.
It's, you know, when you're as bad of a team as they were last year,
that blamed pie is damn big.
Everybody can get a slice.
Everybody can get a slice.
It is, you know, this is like that giant birthday cake
where everybody gets a corner piece.
That's how big.
That's how big that blamed pie was.
But you can't play classical music on a regular basis
when guys are supposed to be getting bigger and stronger.
and all that, that's just not
the vibe. Like, even
when you think about the little details
of how to be successful,
Iowa has a pink away
a visiting locker room, right?
I'm sure you've heard about that, right, Donna?
Oh, sure, yeah.
Iowa has a pink locker room. Why is there
away locker room pink? Because
pink is a calming color, number one,
but number two, it gets teams in their
head to think about it and I've got to
paint all over the wall or put something all
over the walls and all that.
So if you paint over it, you end up having to pay them.
And if you put something over it, now you're thinking about that instead of, you know, winning a football game.
That's the type of stuff that you should be doing.
Tactical warfare against your opponent, not against your own players.
What are we doing here?
By the way, Lopez described this is one of the quotes from the article.
North Carolina's stiff and overly professional atmosphere, he compared it to the weight.
room at a dentist's office, he said, like hearing that Mozart in the wait room.
It's like in the waiting room in a dentist office.
Yeah.
Yeah, again, I, there's, you don't have to like what I like.
You don't have to do it the way that I do it.
But one thing that I know, the average college football player is somewhere between 18 and 24.
18 to 24 year old young men do not want to hear any type of classical music.
They're not thinking, oh, yeah.
I'm about to lift.
Turn that Vivaldi on right now.
Turn it on.
Although you know what, Vivaldi could probably get me,
and that might be the exception.
Ah, I ain't trying to hear it.
I ain't trying to hear it, okay?
You could turn on whatever you want to turn on.
But again, let me hear some words.
Let me hear something that's going to get me geeked up.
I love it.
Well, all right, when we come back,
J.D. Pichel from On Three Sports,
like he's trending on social media because everybody,
well, not everybody,
but a lot of people have a problem with his,
his top 25 post-spring college football rankings.
Did he get it right with the ACC?
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Kent and Gibbs and Grayson Boone talk all things NC State on Locked on Wolfpack.
I talk all things Miami on Locked on Cains.
So the Hurricanes do get respect here from J.D. Pichel,
who's going over all of his intel.
from spring football, and he's given a,
I guess you could call this a way too early top 25.
He calls it his post-spring top 25.
He's got UGA at number one, Ohio State, second, Oregon, third.
He's got Miami fourth.
So high ranks for one of the ACC's teams.
And I know that they're not too happy in South Bend
because he's got Miami ranked a spot ahead of Notre Dame.
So that's created some controversy there.
Texas 6 Indiana defending champ 7 Texas Tech 8 Oklahoma 9 Texas A&M rounds out the top 10 LSU at number 11
a little high but they're bringing in a lot of players there and Lane Kiffin's there now
Ole Miss his former stop lane is number 12 USC 13 I saw a comment today from Lincoln Riley how he's saying like USC is now just entering their championship window he's been there
for five years.
Like they're just,
they're entering their championship window now,
he said.
Michigan at 14, Bama 15,
BYU,
Washington, Utah, Tennessee,
Penn State at number 20,
Iowa,
Missouri, Houston,
and then not until 24 and 25,
Kenton, do you get more teams from the ACCC?
SMU at 24, Louisville at 25.
So Miami 4, SMU,
24, Louisville 25.
How do you feel about his rankings for the ACC teams?
I mean, I don't know why anybody would be upset that Miami is in front of Notre Dame.
They beat them head to head last year and you're bringing back more.
You're bringing back better than what Notre Dame is bringing back by comparison.
What are we really doing there?
And I'm not a C.J. Car believer.
I think he's a guy that you win with, not a guy that you win because of.
I don't think that you have that in your starting quarterback and you're replacing your top two backs.
Darian Minza, he's a guy you win because of.
He's going to get it done.
Now, granted, there were some times that do where the turnovers did pile up,
but you also have to consider those turnovers by and large piled up because they were outclassed almost everywhere else.
So I think that Miami, where you're returning a Fletcher, where you're returning a Brown,
where you're returning a Malikai Tony,
where you're getting Cooper Barcate coming over with Dari and Mintsa.
I mean, I don't really know why they're surprised there.
This list feels a little lazy to me,
and I'm going to tell you why.
This list feels a little lazy because you could tell that this JD was just like,
oh, man, we've gone on too long of a streak of all, you know,
Big Ten and SEC teams.
We need something to throw in here.
We need somebody to break up that monotony of all SEC and Big Ten.
And then he just threw teams in randomly and said, all right, I guess this team's going to be better than this team.
I guess that team's going to be better than that team.
And more than anything else, I continue to ask this question and nobody has an answer for me.
Why under God's green earth does Texas continue to be ranked this high?
Yeah.
In fact, some people, I think, are going to have.
Texas higher than the six that he has to
at. Like that, that's probably lower than
most, but I agree with you.
And here's my question. And here's my question.
Because I, as much as I get on
Archmanning, I'll absolutely
admit he can make some off-platform
throws that are like, oh, that's big time.
That's a big-time throw there. Yeah. He does
not do it consistently enough at a
volume that I'm like, oh, this is
freaks your stuff. And he
lacks the ability to play on time.
If you cannot play
on time and you cannot consistently
hit the off-schedule stuff,
what are we talking about here?
What are we actually doing here?
I love Hollywood Smothers.
I think they got one of the best backs in the portal
in him going to Texas.
What are we doing with them
once again being rated there?
And I'm going to tell you this,
Michigan.
Bryce Underwood is apparently
struggling with the concept of a forward pass.
He had a terrible spring game.
And here's the thing.
Apparently they didn't have a dedicated quarterback
that coach for just him last year.
But even now, even with that,
the results still ain't been much better.
So, again, you could say what you want about all these ACC schools and say,
oh, they just don't have the players.
Oh, they just can't afford the big men.
Oh, they can't afford to.
But when we line it up, all of a sudden, a lot of these SEC teams tend to slide back.
All of a sudden, all these big 10 teams that are, oh, yeah, this team's going to be great.
This team is going to be great.
You cannot sell me on Penn State post James Franklin being a top 25 team.
You cannot sell me on that.
Oh, but Rocco Benton and but oh, they're going to be so good.
When we talked to the host of Lock on Ninty lines and said,
what is success in this role for Matt Campbell in year one?
Didn't he say, what was it, seven to eight wins?
So what are we doing?
So what are we doing?
You think that eight wins is enough to get you in the top 20?
And mind you, and mind you, eight wins, and he admitted,
oh, he's not going to win those big games that Franklin couldn't win in year one.
So what are we doing here?
Seven, eight wins, and you get blown out by everybody that's actually good in the big 10,
and you're telling me that that's good enough for 20th,
and that's by your guy?
Come on.
Yeah, I'm with you on that.
A lot of controversy here.
We have more to unpack later on in the week.
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