Locked On Jayhawks - Daily Podcast On Kansas Jayhawks Football & Basketball - BIG 12 SQUAD - Why the Big Twelve SHOULD Have Two Teams in the CFP

Episode Date: December 11, 2025

The Big 12 Conference has been nothing short of a whirlwind over the past week, marked by a major championship, postseason selection drama, and a groundbreaking business announcement that reinforces its "New Look" identity.1. Championship and CFP BreakthroughThe week started with the Big 12 Championship Game where Texas Tech defeated BYU in a commanding fashion (34-7). This victory propelled the Red Raiders to a 12-1 record, securing the Big 12's automatic bid to the expanded College Football Playoff. The subsequent CFP rankings confirmed Texas Tech as the No. 4 seed, earning them a crucial first-round bye straight to the Orange Bowl Quarterfinal—a massive statement for the restructured league.2. Bowl and Political FalloutWhile the Big 12 celebrated Tech's CFP inclusion and the bowl selections for seven other teams, drama erupted over the bubble. Commissioner Brett Yormark publicly backed the CFP committee's decision, despite BYU's exclusion, and notably criticized Notre Dame's Athletic Director for his "egregious" outrage over the Irish being left out. This positioned the Big 12 as a stable, unified partner in the new CFP ecosystem, contrasting sharply with the ACC's turmoil. Adding to the controversy, the conference levied $500,000 fines on Iowa State and Kansas State for opting to skip bowl games, underscoring the conference's commitment to fulfilling its postseason obligations.3. NFL Partnership AnnouncementPerhaps the most significant long-term news was the conference's announcement of a strategic partnership with the NFL. This collaboration aims to align the two organizations on everything from officiating development and emerging technology to global growth initiatives. This unprecedented move further showcases the Big 12's innovative, business-forward approach under Yormark, establishing a distinct brand identity separate from the traditionalist SEC/Big Ten dynamic. 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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Know her feelings and thin skin allowed. Squad up, you're part of the Big 12 Squad. Welcome to the Big 12 squad. The only, the only locked on podcast network squad show for a conference that has two 2025 conference champion stadiums in their intro. Welcome, of course, Nick Mervetz, who had the worst week out of all of us somehow. Yeah. Loses a coach, gets a new coach, can't even record a 30 minute.

show in between. Dary and Gray, how does it feel? Alone at the top, the only one on the Big 12 squad this week who made a bowl game. I told everybody else to stay at home, so I couldn't be the only one. It feels good. That feels really good. In fact, we got someone else to add to the stage, and he also didn't make a bowl game. But first, Kevin Borba, how, how good did it feel to not have to watch the Colorado Buffalo's play again this season? It was, I mean, Tough watch all season long. So excited to talk about Brendan Marion and anything possible. Hey, whoever that is.

Yep. And he's got 49 new commits. And this guy just handled about 34 of them, got him to sign on the dotted line. Mountaineer, Paul. Oh, you know, Rich Rod and company, man, they're coming. I'm excited about the new class, obviously. I think, I mean, we haven't been the number one of the big, Well, but anything, at anything.

Or what I? The Ruggiat ready over there at West Virginia. And of course, we don't want to have a coach. We don't want to have a bowl game either. Christian Rau. And that's how I enter after Ruggiat ready? Yeah. All right.

Is there a better time? You got 15 minutes. Christian Rau promised to record with me after the show. 36 hours. Christian Rau. He can last. fellas Ruggia doesn't even kick in

in the time that it takes Iowa State to hire a head coach by the way oh okay 57 seconds yeah that's no be a lightning fast that's a long time would you guys like the comparison

between Rino 3,000 and Ruggiat what this is going from experience Paul I have dabbled in Rino 3,000 before men we need to talk about this more men it's time to talk about it we don't

have anyone who was part of the conversation this week. Texas Tech wins the Big 12 championship. Thoughts? I thought so. They were as advertised. When you spend that much money on a roster, you expect to win. And I think them being so good hurt BYU in the process, because I think BYU needed to lose close if they had any chance that making it to the playoff outside of winning the game itself. And Texas Tech looks good. And I think there's a lot of people around that playoff bracket that are a little bit scared of that defense line, as they should be. Yeah, no, this is, it's interesting because I think the idea of what happens with BYU, their fate was kind of sealed.

I think that tech had their number, and unless they won, they were just done. You know, that little log jam at the back end with Notre Dame, Bama, Miami, BYU. They were always going to be the eye team out. And it didn't help that they got handled the way that they did. They couldn't get hit. They got handled the way the Alabama got handled, but they're not Alabama. Can someone tell me? because Darren's right, like they, everything leading up to this, they had to be the odd team out.

But like, can somebody give me a great explanation as to why they had to be the team out? In terms of Alabama, Alabama beat Georgia early in the year. I don't care about Alabama. No, I'm just saying, like, BYU didn't have that win over Texas Tech to sort of help them. And, I mean, we all know the obvious answer. They have the smallest brand power out of those schools, right? It's not the U. It's not Notre Dame, which I was shocked to see Notre Dame get bounced because the committee had like,

made it seem that they were in it the whole time until the very end. So I think of your BYU, it just comes down to like you didn't win enough games by a large margin and you weren't as popular as you hope. It's almost like they were. I'm having a tough time with that one. I'm having a tough time with this more. I really am because, yes, you have to look at different resumes. I understand it.

There's definitely the bias. There's no doubt about that. But what other team that has been left out of the college ball playoffs with their only losses? Now, again, I realize that that's two losses from the same exact team, but their only losses are to a top five team. Miami lost to a Florida state team. Notre Dame lost to SMU. You know, like that's right. So I just don't, I just can't see why.

I understand why they were left out because where they started going into the week, although the Miami conversation is completely different, but they should have headed in. into the week in the top 10 they should have i think that would have changed a lot of the narrative so now brett your mark agrees he was actually defending this decision earlier which is pretty shocking that is why yeah the top 10 thing that's the actual problem it's funny to me they told you that they the committee was in a terrible position let's remove bi you just briefly they were in a very bad position because i think they removed them already with bama notadame in my Miami, you had to say either last week's rankings don't matter, which is what they did with

Miami, jumping Notre Dame without ever playing a game. It's a cluster, Darien. It's all about the cluster. It's all about if they're right next to each other, then that's when you worry about it. They're good old buzzer once they're touching. Right. So then you have to tell Miami head to head doesn't matter if we don't put you in. And then you have to tell Bama that you're penalized for losing in a conference game if you take them out.

So now they put themselves into a corner. of what do you say, what bad stance do you take? And the bad stance was, well, we can change our mind, no matter what happens. Last year, 1A, for teams that were screwed over was BYU. This year, I think you could either put them as 1A or 1B, Notre Dame being in the conversation as well. But each year that we've had a 12-team college ball playoffs, BYU is in the conversation of being screwed out of being inside the top 12,

of being one of the teams. And that's not even the other bad thing that happened in this, which was Ole Miss obviously lost their coach. And if we're going to use the Florida State method here when they lost their quarterback and didn't get in with a very valid team, how do you apply that to the Ole Miss situation? Right? So, like, there's a bunch of stuff here that we would get into, even though it's not really Big 12 relevant, it's cultural playoff relevant.

Yeah, that one doesn't bug me as much, though, because, like, they have their coordinator still, their play callers. Like, that one doesn't bug me as much, but I do understand the argument. I think the problem with the South is an excuse objective, though. Like they have sort of like a fail safe for every scenario just to kind of save their asses. Like they can kind of just be like, well, we're going to nitpick this. So that way it doesn't. They could have come up with a reason for Colorado to get in.

That's how bad it is. Dude, I mean, Colorado, they found one ends up the end there with the quarterback, right? They change play callers. It's almost being West Virginia losses. Hey, that list almost got down the Colorado to see if you guys wanted to take a bowl game or not. Yeah. I don't know if Colorado wanted to take a bowl game ever again. I'm happy with this team

but I think the playoff they need to figure out how they change like they need to change how they decide teams they need to expand it or they just need to stop telling us their thought process

until the very end because they're not smart enough to sort of not backtrack on what they've said previously because they'll say something like head to head matters and it's like okay well does it or like

because you had Notre Dame ahead of Miami the entire time until the very end so it only mattered once they could talk about resume and if you looked at the BYU resume it was better than insert team here right so they either need to

stop telling us what they see or just sort of figure out a way to evaluate these teams differently. And if anybody wants to make the conversation about saying that the college ball playoffs the ranking system is for content and that's the reason why these media departments do that

not having those at all is even more content. Imagine all the controversy and hypotheticals you can do ESPN according to that plugged into those SECs. They love those hypotheticals, man. So, I mean, they could do that all day. And I'll say this about Ole Miss.

The thing with Ole Miss versus Florida State, I think is two things. One, Old Miss wasn't a fringe playoff team. Like, I think, I don't remember exactly where Florida State was, but there was only four teams at the time. So it wasn't a lot of wiggle room, right? While Ole Miss was pretty firmly there, even if you got knocked a little bit, you probably weren't going to get thrown all the way out.

And then secondly, absence of evidence because they didn't make the SEC championship game. If they would have played the SEC championship game and got beat badly with no Lane Kiffin, I do think Ole Miss misses it. I do think, oh, Ole Miss is the playoffs. No, too on the head. Anyway, so I think that Ole Miss is out of the playoffs if they play a game without Lane Kiffin and get beat. But to Christian's point, I think it was Christian that said it. They still have their OC, right?

They still have a lot of pieces around that. team. They still have the team. So you feel like they have enough continuity without seeing what they look like. And then look, they get to play Tulane, right? So I'll be interested. Two lane versus no lane. Two lines. Come on. They beat by like 35. I saw that a t-shirt. I thought that t-shirt was awesome. Two-lane versus no lane. Is it the best. Which is the second best lane kiff and pun ever, only behind when his time was running out at USC and someone put outside one of the facilities where it said fire lane and it said you just spray painted kiffin next to it like that was really good parker ainsworth joins us from the road parker any thoughts on this on to

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Anything. Anything. I got my own. Like, right now, it's your show. It's my lane. That's the interesting thing. You mentioned the 49 recruits and all that. Any other fallout from signing day as you have a Baylor Bears hat on your head right now?

Is that a sore subject? I'm sorry, a what day? A signing day last week? No, no. What's that for? Well, what could that have been for, if not to improve football teams? Wait, you're trying to tell me that you guys didn't have your worst signing class? in 21 years?

No, thank you. Thank you, Borba. We signed all people. 12 is a good number. That is a good, clean number. Sorry. It goes a terrible number, man. Cam, you can say all you want.

Tom Brady. There's 12 teams in the playoff. Like, 12 is a good. Playoffs. Good number. Good number. Playoffs? You can say all you want about these recruiting,

but you can say you are the only coach in the Big 12, maybe even all of the country that sat crisscross applesauce during national signing day look i'm telling you man he's a different cat dave randa he is in fact i'll go as far as saying that dave iranda is the only one with enough balls in this context i've no idea like what the hell i'm doing you know i have no idea it takes a real man to admit that okay i just do it to my pillow every night Dave Oranda does it with a microphone in front of them. You do it to your pillow every night.

Yep. You guys think I, you guys think my fiance is a real person? Are you serious? Mountain here, Paul, has Rich Rodriguez coming. You have the pillow? Like, what's going on here, bro? Sometimes it's more than just about what's coming. You know what I mean?

It's about being present. Yes, yes. I'm really jizzed. I mean, jazzed about the recruits. and glass we're getting, for getting, for sure. Paul. Mark that down. You're supposed to be subtle, Paul.

Yeah, mark it. 1417. Let's put a marker there. I'm just saying our big boss, think of what show our big boss does. That's all I'm saying. It's all I'm saying, Paul. Anyway, Texas Tech is in. BYU's not in.

And new coaches seem to be the thing. Let's start with Nick Marevettes because, man, I feel for you. you. I feel for you, brother. No, you don't pause. Don't you would rather be Nick Maravitz right now, actually. No, no. I mean, maybe, maybe because I'm a more, I'm a little more season than Maravits. And what you have to do is just throw the rumors in there, no matter what, just in case you don't get this opportunity. But Marivetz, Matt Campbell leaves in like literally a half hour later. They're like, yeah, we've got another guy. Like, no Lincoln Riley episode, no Brian Kelly episode.

John Gruden. No Fisher, no John Gruden episode. No T.J. Otsoberger double-dipping episode. None of it, man. What I got was before he even left was just like, if he were to leave, who would we hypothetically want? That was the most I got out of that. It was so fast.

Who did you want to? Good for you, Nick. I did think John Gruden would be pretty fun. I mean, it would certainly be interesting. Ed Orgeron, another name that was thrown out, definitely would have had my attention. attention. But we got clip today, man.

Do you see Orgeron's clip today? With Busson? No, yeah, it was with Bussin. Yeah, where he was talking about how recruits are being paid now. Yeah, how they were going into the back door. He said, now they just come in the front door and do it's out of the back or whatever it was. He said, you know, basically just admitted that they used to pay players, which is not any breaking news. water is also wet.

I didn't know that. I didn't know they used to pace with it. And is Sandy. Wow. So Marivetz, how about this new guy? Yeah, Jimmy Rogers is going to bring a national tile to Iowa State,

which is extremely exciting. I do expect us. We'll be running the four-man front defensively, so that's a great change of pace. A lot of... Oh, wow. It's pretty upset about the three-man front. That's exciting, man.

I'm really excited about that four-man front. Yep. The portal class or the recruiting class I am not so confident in. I'm a little bit closer. to you on that one, Cam, but after all the tears were washed out of my pillow case, I do feel better

about the coaching situation in Iowa State. You guys in pillows, man. What the hell? I treat my pillow with respect. Where else am I supposed to cry, Parker? I just cried all night long. I mean, the shower is typically a pretty good cry spot.

Allegedly. Allegedly. Allegedly. Christian Rao. 1B. How long did I have? search at Kansas State. It's a good feeling. God, it's got to be a good feeling.

I didn't have a coaching search plan either. I couldn't make the content saying who could be the next coach because Climman retired and Klein came back in, but to be completely honest, like selfishly, that would have been cool for the channel, but there is no better perfect match for having Colin Klein back at Kansas State. It truly isn't, and it's exciting. The donors, the support has been unbelievable, according to multiple sources. There I say, K-State's back, baby.

All right, I need Marivetz and Rao to answer this question at the same time. Why aren't you going to a bowl game? Three, two, one, coaching. Yeah, K-State has no excuse. K-State has legit no excuse, okay? Iowa State would have been sending out eight freshmen. It would have been eight-man football in a bowl game. That's probably not the best play for even the big, well, brand.

Kansas State was just like, wait, this guy has never coached. coached us before. I don't feel like playing anymore. Bad excuse. I want to turn my hat backwards and actually fight back here, but he's right. They don't have any, they, I put it back. They don't have any excuse. It's actually kind of sad and it sucks. That is the reason, though, is that they're making such a big coaching turnover that they don't have anybody to go. Apparently, they had some sort of a team meeting. But TCU doesn't have a coach. They're going to go to a ball. Believe me, it's a terrible excuse. Kansas State's been filled of excuse a year long.

It's an injury conversation. Can I make a proposal I saw online that I would give credit to but I can't remember who to give credit to? If you decline a bowl, you shouldn't get a part of all the conference money coming in for other bowl games. That I actually don't hate.

I don't disagree. 500K each. They got fined. Yeah, they did get fined. Now, that might be the reason saying we're not going to leave you out of that, but here's your fine. I don't think that'll be a double-dip thing. I'm not assuming that they get fined and they get left out, just being completely straight, like, because that would kind of put them in the same boat of, you know, Oklahoma State, you know, they didn't get to a bowl game and they're going to still

get someone in a refs year, you know? Um, so, although I agree with you, I think that that shouldn't be. I don't think they're going to be double-dipped. I think that's what the fines for. Here's something. Look, I'm just saying what the TCU fans are saying, man. That's all, I'm just, I'm just regurgitating it. They're saying we're going to take your office coordinator. Iowa State, Kansas State, and Notre Dame are the three actual eligible teams to say no to being. It's not like I don't want it.

I don't want that to happen. But like, at this point, like what? How much of the difference is it really going to make? You know what I mean? Like, you know, is it going to get us from two wins to three wins next year? Possibly. A record prediction for 2026, Cam? Just thoughts like fresh out.

How many games? For Baylor, we'll say 12, record prediction, please. 0 and 11. Nice. They opt out of the final one. He's in the Neil Brown spot. He's in the Neil Brown spot. He'll do what Brown did in 2020,

2020, 23. He'll win nine games. Paul, we've played this game. We've played this game after they were three and nine, the first friggin time he led them to three and nine, we said, Neil Brown. Like, that could be it. And then he wins eight games.

And then he does the Neil Brown thing and goes five and seven. And here we are. With the best team he's ever going to have. Same exact thing. You're going to do the Neil Brown thing and hire him after one great year at North Texas. I could just feel it. Baylor should have hired the last North Texas coach. They're going to get the new one instead.

Yeah. Yeah. Neil Brown said in his press conference yesterday that he left West Virginia in a better place than he found it. I took except I didn't like that. I was pretty upset about it. Did a show on it. Let's talk about what else

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So can you? Mountaineer, Paul. Tell us what you're mad about, man. Anything. Oh, on the spot really not mad about much you can that's a great way to be in life man that's a great way to be in life i can give you six things right now i'm not going to we'll be here forever but i can i can complain about pretty much anything i think that's actually my best asset in

this job yeah there's a few things i can complain about it's like you want to stoke the fires or do you want to just leave it a bit you know leave it be stoke the fires paul Stoke fires. Stoves. No, better not do it. I better let cooler heads prevail on this one, for sure. Just better to do it that way. Although I will say this, man, West Virginia.

Big 12 champs next year. How about that? No. Well, now I'm at. You know what? Why not? Why not? Why not?

Now I'm a liar. I'm mad now. Actually. I want Colorado to win it for just for Borba. I want to see Borba win it. That'd be nice. We got... I'm not there yet, Borba.

Well, you're a hater. I am. Yes. You're a professional leader. Big time. Parker, Parker, Rainsworth, low-key, has to be in a metaphoric way,

Parker, the fattest guy in the Big 12 squad on the screen right now. Metaphorically. Like, you've got to feel like you have who are eating good. Is there a P. mention there. Yeah. I'm going to hope the metaphor is intended. But the, like, Houston

obviously had the great recruiting class and finished nine and three. I've already looked at next year's projected opponents and actually, like, they do have to go to tech and to Utah, but it's actually kind of friendly. Utah won't be a problem. That won't be a problem. Not better than West Virginia's recruiting class. I mean, if you have 80,000 people on your recruiting class, it means you probably needed to replace a lot you can't you can't only not only top 19 count you know only only only 11 on the field though Paul like only it's it's a lot more than 11 anyway um well rich did honestly in all honestly we didn't rich didn't get a first year recruiting class so I do believe there's some you know he also being in the country like fritz did so that's fine um but that's the way that goes

uh I feel pretty good about the way things are for using right now if I'm being honest um I, like, I hope that we're just being metaphorical with the fat coffee, but I really. I just got a text from one of my friends who is a little overweight, used to be, and he said, I've had a few beers. Matt Ruhl can F off? Can I get a retweet? Can I get an amen anywhere in the chat? I'll quote tweet that with a fire emoji for you. This is how I want to end this just blisteringly good show.

let's go around the room what coach can F off no you can't pick Dave Miranda you can't I'm sorry that's too easy starts off Cam is your idea um Marcus good Notre Dame Newt Rockney honestly Newt Newt started this whole thing I used to I used to have respect for him man I could do a whole

I could have done this whole squad show just just taken out Notre Dame I'm so sick of it doesn't make you feel any different if he's the New York Giants head coach Or is he still like... That makes it worse, man, actually. Notre Dame went up there a couple years ago. Loved it. Great spot.

You guys know me. Love some good sports history and everything. But I have had the Notre Dame people in my comments this week, which I invited them. I totally invited them by calling their team cowards. That is a different group. Not the worst, not nearly the most hostile, but the most in a, bubble on a different planet fan base I've ever seen.

They are just not at all in the reality of anything going on in their lives. It's crazy. And who would turn down the Pop-Tart bowl? Are you kidding me? Six flavors this year. Running from BYU.

I give limbs. I would give limbs to be in the Pop-Tart Bowl. Cody Stovall already has. It's fun being a Pop-Tart champion. It is. It is, man. you better win the pop tar championship we cannot leave the big 12 i'll pick pat nard doozy thank you i edited myself i did i did a good thing that time no in all seriously so i hate i hate narduzi man uh he has continuously just totally bash our fan base

over the years he's called it zoo animals uh he makes their their team wear shoulder pads and helmets when they get off the bus and tells them they're going to have batteries thrown at him. He's at one time he said, we need to get back to the friendly confines of Pittsburgh where the people are very level headed and not at all where you don't know where you don't even have your own stadium. Yeah. I know, man. It's wild. The nice elegance of Pittsburgh. We actually do have the worst fan base in the country, too. They have no fan base. The real snobby refined people of Pittsburgh. Yeah. Yeah. Whenever they asked him about how he felt about playing in Morgantown

instead of at 3 p.m. instead of 7 p.m. He said, well, I mean, the beers will be probably a little bit less empty so the less likely to throw it at you. Marivetz. So again, calling us violent. I'm not too fond of James Franklin right now. I mean, I hope he succeeds at VT, but yeah, this is all, this is all his fault. Probably the worst person to be a coach at Penn State ever, right?

easily yeah yeah yeah easy enough forba he he had a couple scandals thanks franklin did yeah yeah telling the doctor not to report injuries yeah go look at that one right that's probably the worst scandal i have to thin state you're right pa i just probably ever yeah probably ever i never said the worst i said he had a couple scandals you know can't think of another one it's tough tough to think of the one um i'll go pat Shermer, simply for being hired by Colorado, for being on staff for two years. Similar to the way, I guess, like, Nick Mervitz didn't even get a show. Like, Colorado didn't even announce they fired anyone and just randomly announced

new offense coordinator. So Pat Schumer, like, shout out to you, dude. You kind of got carried by a few NFL players and rode their coattails into a solid three and nine season. So nothing about the best for you. It's actually hilarious. I was like looking on social media when I heard about the new Colorado office coordinator being hired.

And I was like, what happened to the old one? I meant to actually text you that. So that's really funny. They have three right now. They haven't announced anyone's firing. So they have three at the moment, apparently. I can't see how you can hate James Franklin. James Franklin, former Kansas State quarterback coach,

recruited the brand new coach at Kansas State, Colin Klein. And then, of course, he also destroys Penn State enough to go take Matt Campbell, who was a Chris Kleinman killer at Kansas State. So I love James Franklin right now. I'm happy that Matt Campbell's out of the conference. He can F on. Am I right, Rao? Speaking of that, I have a list of that. I have a list of players from Iowa State that I do want.

We can talk about it. Want to. I have them on hand, though, if you want to hear. Yeah, new coaches, usually you lose players in the 2026 recruiting class. Kansas State hasn't lost any yet, though. How's that working for you, Nick? 26 class, we're okay for now. It's not looking great.

I'm actually much more high on the amount of players we're going to keep on the current team. I feel like all right on that. Yeah, I know. Armageddon flips is what we're calling it over here at lockdown. You have more or less than 12 recruits, though, Nick? I'm pretty sure it's more than 12. Bad. You don't want to be in the 12 group.

Too many. Quantity over quality. That's a bad way to go. That is a bad way to go. Parker Raysworth? I'm somewhere between Herman and Major. Mostly because I feel like the vibes are good right now around Houston football. And like I kind of blame those two guys in the Diffin.

The easy answer is probably Dana, I guess, because he like rode the end of the slide there. and slid it further in the ground. But yeah, the buy-in, yeah. Parker, oh, yeah. Thought on Kendra Scott. That's a good pull, Borba. Speaking of Tom Herman, that's a good pull. I'm just saying.

I'm just saying. She has a great jewelry business. I looked. Christmas is coming. You're not the only one to look at Kendra Scott. We'll leave it at that. Okay. Okay.

Oh, that's awesome. Cam, you want to go again, round two? Oh, it's my turn. I get to keep the conversation as the host of the show today. Drake Toll's got a new national morning radio show. He's very much too big for us. So it's just me, pinch hitting. I get nothing else, fellas.

Does anyone have a favorite Glenn Campbell song before we go? I don't even know who that is. That's ridiculous, Borr, but that's insane. That's, I'm sorry. Yeah, Borba. How dare you? Yeah, Borba. Wow.

Borba, really? You're not going to know. Glen Angelo is. California thing. Be gentle on my mind, Borba. One of the best combovers of all time. Me or Glenn Ham. It was an elite combover.

You know, Wichita Lyman wasn't even finished. That's an unfinished song. Hmm. It's an unbelievable piece of American art. That hair, Borba, you don't even know Rhinestone Cowboy? You kidding me? Oh, I do know that one. Wow. Cool. Okay, I'm back in. I don't know who the name.

He's back, boys. I'm back in. So I totally know how Rhinestone Cowboy goes, but I hear Nick doesn't. So can you sing some, can't? Nick supposedly does. You know I will. No, I, gosh, the name sounds familiar, but I can't put the tune to it.

Can you just? Do, da, da, da. Thank you. Paul. That's close to me get for copyright purposes, right? We're good there. Yeah, that's pretty close. Yeah, there was no way.

Yeah, that's the thing is I sound too close to Glenn Campbell that will get copyright flagged. That's it actually him. And so does this guy. All right, look at listen, Linda B.Y, you got screwed. Jacob Rodriguez did too. KSU, ISU should probably grow a bigger pair of Gajonase to play in the bowl game that your seniors and backups deserve to play into. Don't be started on Notre Dame. I ain't got time to say, nor never would I say that they are so extra charm.

squishy baby soft that that would just be so rude okay love you goodbye glad you the first point on his inspiration for wichita lineman while driving through oklahoma oh i have a live schedule for two minutes ago we only have one thing missing from that still a snowball rant and that was a velvet dolphin painting now it is perfect no notes i love the uh what he has written what was the angry elf revolution that's all right look at listen linda b why you got Jacob Rodriguez did to KSU evolution I wouldn't say I'm great at it I wouldn't say I'm great but it's whatever anyway guys locked on big 12 squad we'll see you next week it might be better