Shutdown Fullcast - 40 for 40: The 2016 Cotton Bowl

Episode Date: December 31, 2016

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Ramp.m.p.com slash easy. Currents issued by Sutton Bank and Celtic Bank members of DIC terms and condition supply. Welcome to the 40 for 40 for the Cotton Bowl. We are going to do podcasts for every bowl game this year and talk about them as long as we like. There's one thing that we have to start off with because this is a game involving Western Michigan versus Wisconsin. And for that, I will throw to Holly Anderson. What was PJ Fleck talking about in a press conference today? The thing about PJ Fleck right now at the end of yet another successful season in Kalamazoo is that as long as we have been on this bandwagon. And if there

were ever a time we got on a bandwagon before literally anybody else, it's with this program. I think we can all agree. And at this point, you know, we've got a comfort level with PJ Fleck and PJ Fleck interest taxonomies that like with Mike Leach, you know, we can just simply skip to the things he was talking about. We don't have to add context. We don't have to, you know, dress it up and explain, well, you know, PJ Fleck is a literal crazy person because, you know, we could just dive in. And of course, that's why this report, uh, this morning from our friend David Oven did not surprise anyone. Who would blink at reading the following? P.J. Fleck talked at length to his team yesterday about Princess Diana. Why and how she was different and her death. I mean, this does answer the important question. of how did Western Michigan have the year that they had and several interesting coaching jobs opened up and we seem to have come to the end of the coaching carousel with PJ Fleck still at Western Michigan and the answer is because because he you know he wants to be near his kid there's like a family thing there's that and I'm willing to buy that but I'm also willing to buy that when somebody asks him like oh what's your long term plan for insert program here he went on a diatribe about Princess Diana and how she was different.

There's also a better than even chance that when asked that same question, he started talking about how he's going to be at Western Michigan until the heat death of the universe and that in that moment he actually meant it and means to live until the heat death of the universe. This also creates one further ancillary benefit for us. If I can jump back to Princess Diana for just a second, because you are all now, as of this moment, imagining PJ Fleck coaching Kate Middleton through childbirth. Oh, I was going to go with Sarah Ferguson, but that's fair.

Thanks! Thanks, PJ! It's a beautiful baby. Thanks. Yeah, PJ Fleck getting Western Michigan to this bowl to compete against Wisconsin. Row the crown! Row the crown! Shit, that actually has a double-measional. meaning with childbirth and the monarch. Yeah, it's my fault. That's my fault.

Wow, man. That's my fault. You backfliped the dumpster. I'm sorry I talked about your vagina, Kate Middleton. Yeah, he did. He did. Thinking of back flipping into dumpsters, this game is taking place at AT&T Stadium in lovely Arlington, Texas.

The dumpster of a city? A great stadium. I unapologetically defend that. It's fine. No, there's a jail in it. We love it. Yeah, there's a jail. There's a Ford dealership. There's a place where you can buy, there's a place where you can buy champagne for a reasonable price at the concession stand.

There's a gun shop, right? I don't know about a gun shop, but I do know Jerry's got unsafe pedestrian walkways that choke up really badly during game time, which is super Texas. That's like a rich guy thing, right, to be like, let's get the proletariat in here and then trap them in a mouse

trap. And ample knee room. Ample leg room across that stadium. It is, if you want to know what that stadium is designed for, it's not designed for football. It's actually designed for WrestleMania, which I kind of love. And I have very fond memories of our time in the stadium, and not just because this was also the trip where American Express called me to say, ma'am, someone has charged $187 in one trip to Taco Cabana at the drive-thru. And I had to tell them that that was me.

Well done. and you're mad at us for talking about Gary Patterson and Taco Bell you guys ate half that order yeah that was our tacos yeah that's right I don't want to I don't want to drift too far into NFL discussion here but there's a possibility Wisconsin fans are going to have to go to this game at the home of the Dallas Cowboys after the Packers had been eliminated from playoff contention and I just

Wisconsin fans were such snowflakes That's literally what they are Who vote Scott Walker Yeah And you are low key my favorite state It's a great state But Wisconsin I think they're currently ranked number eight And this is exactly what you want

Out of a team that is ranked eight They are extremely ornery They have a thorny defense They have a quarterback on the rise still learning some things that is that is super charitable still making some mistakes man he's young right sure uh and and a pretty mean run game so that's that's what you're looking at they're um they're eight they're a very good football team uh they're relatable because they're not going to be too good.

No, they're not. Yeah. They're right. Wisconsin's a more organized LSU. Is that unfair? Yes, because a more organized LSU would be totally capable of killing less miles. Actual LSU, yeah.

Okay, okay, they're slightly, they're slightly more organized LSU, which is why they beat you.