The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 1: The Only Reason I Know McCormick's Name

Episode Date: September 27, 2023

After taking a look at a classic Roy tweet from last week, the crew discusses the evolution of college offenses and Deion Sanders' approach to handling a star QB. Then, Dan was really offended that Billy asked if we're in his will, but now the floodgates have opened... Plus, the Useless Sound Montage, and Marty Smith joins for a MARTY PARTY and chat about his new book, the ACC's dominance, process over outcome, and marrying up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to Giraffe King's Network. This is the Dunlabel Tarshou with the Stugat's Podcast. We have a useless sound montage. Again, these are taking longer and longer to deliver because Billy is immersed in God's blood. Football chasing stu-gots around, finding whoever it is that died his beard so that stu-gots can get vengeance on that person. I saw that O.J. Simpson said the other day that he doesn't go to Los Angeles because he never knows if he might be sitting next to the person who did it uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh... uh on the is what it is podcast is popular at least in part because it adheres to no rules.

It does not have to have any rules and so OJ Simpson can come on. I'd kind of like what's that? I didn't hear what you said. Just give it a moving day. Yeah, it is what it is. Thank you. You got it. It's a great name for a podcast.

I mean, it's Roy Schelp. It is Roy's favorite expression. What were you guys making fun of Roy about because you said he delivered the most Roy tweet ever the other day? Something about a mama and a lane. I let Roy describe it. It came out of nowhere. It's really, it made me laugh then.

Mama and a lane. That's a, that's a very lazy description. Well, because I want Roy to describe his own work. It was great work by Roy. It made me laugh. I saved it on Twitter and I showed it to Roy the next day because it made me laugh. Yeah. Somebody said I should stay in my lane, you know, Panthers treats.

The Panthers on the power play. Crickets. And then he laughed at himself, LOL in the tweet. So I said, yeah, I'll stay in my lane. My lane is being on the street taking your mama to the club. Classic Roy. I don't love the line. I think it isn't really though.

Is that who you are? I don't understand this part of Roy. That's what he takes any sort of criticism and he makes it taking your mama to a club. I mean, there's no need for criticism. Zero. It's threatening. Roy's personality is a threatening internet person

who tells your mama, yo mama, like I don't understand it as a personality type. It's not who he actually is. It's about the verb play, Dan. See, Lane, you know, street, you know, taking her to the club, you know, that's not that worse. But you're not someone who would take her to the club. You're a man who wouldn't go to the club.

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No, you're not. Restaurant? What's the last time you went to a club? Probably with me during the NHL All-Star game. Yeah, last year. Last year with Chris. But I mean, was there a half hour, and then he was just gone. NHL media club. He was busy with your homework.

Is that hard work? I saw some things to God that made me happy the other day because even though you and Greg Cody are allergic to numbers and data, I actually saw Brent Vennibles, the Oklahoma football coach, Oklahoma I think of as Barry Switzer's a moonshiner. He's going out there and he's going to beat you with offensive option football. He's going to have, back when Oklahoma was Oklahoma and they had all the best athletes and they beat you by not passing. Now Brent Vennibles, who's coaching Oklahoma and trying to keep up said in a radio, in a, you know, coaching radio show, just said, you know, I looked at all the data and your

success on first and 10 is the greatest indicator of whether you're going to have overall success in our sport. Take all the analytics that you want. What kind of successor are you having on first and 10? Both sides of the ball, offense and defences like that's the most important stat. And I'm like, huh, even Oklahoma is doing the analytics and bringing in coaches who are trying to win in the margins because they're not going to go with their gut. They're going to do the math on, I need to know my subject matter. I'm not going to beat you their gut. They're going to do the math on I need to know my subject matter. I'm not going to beat you because I got the best athletes anymore. I'm going to try and take

advantage of actually learning and not being an old school Oklahoma coach. It's a huge part of why Tyler Van Dyke is the nation's leading pastor according to Prof. Paul Focus is because Miami's been able to stay ahead of the change. That's big. Cannot blitz him. We know from last year that Tyler Van Dyke struggled to get against a blitz. This offensive line has been really good. They haven't been so good that you just merely haven't noticed the other teams blitzing. It's because the other teams can't blitz because of all the success they're having on early down. Were you surprised to hear that from Venables because he appears to be a coach where he would say whoever hits harder. That's

the team that wins. It wasn't him that I was surprised to hear it from. It was just an Oklahoma coach telling me he's not going to stoop his way to victory. I mean, that's unfair. No, but I don't think of, I don't. Your recollection of Oklahoma is like, they were, they were the option offense, a shorter amount of time than they were. There's booming offense that had Bradford winning Heisman trophies and Jason White winning Heisman trophies. And Jason White winning high's controversies.

And then Kyla Murray's and Baker Mayfields, they've been offensive innovators since the turn of the century. Fair enough. Okay. I make stupes as a reference because I think of the stupes family as a college football family. The same way I think of the Boudons as a college football family, a bunch of coaches from the old school, but you're right.

Oklahoma stayed with the powers in offense because they had great quarterback play from innovators in a conference that, you know, was doing a lot of passing offense and playing against Mike Leach, a cheap shot at stoop. You feel bad? And when you think about the quarterbacks that have gone through that program, just like over the last 10 years, it's ridiculous. Crazy. The fact that he won Jason White, a high spent trophy. I mean, I mean, you Jason White has not heard Caleb Williams won a high

spent trophy last year with USC. He came from Oklahoma. It's insane. Jalen Hertz goes through there. Kyler Murray Baker Mayfield. It's insane. But to keep up with everybody else, right? If you make all the money equals to gots and give the players of transfer power all over the place. Oklahoma has a decided recruiting disadvantage of where it is players would like to be. It's one of the reasons that Deon Sanders now, I can't go another day without mentioning him. Deon Sanders is doing it differently and getting a lot of attention for doing it differently because it can be as simple as do you want to play there for him and Oklahoma's a tough sell

to get the top of the prospects. Alabama's a tough sell now. So God's, it is, if I give the high school players a geography, you're saying. I'm talking about city you wanna live in. Right, well that's geography. It does the high school player terms of geography, you're saying. I'm talking about city you want to live in. Right. Well, that's geography. Does the program have a lot of money? And can the Oklahoma does?

They're competing. They they they they'd zone. It was thought that he was going to commit to Miami. Last second, even surprising his own family, that went there with orange and green balloons. He decided to commit to Oklahoma still live in that one. But Dan, there are only so many schools and there's so many kids playing football. Like you Oklahoma's gonna stumble into getting some good players here.

Of course. There's there are number seven right now, according to two four seven sports and recruiting. But in watching them again, Cincinnati, they didn't feel to me like somebody who could play against everybody. I think they're going to come to regret the Venables higher, but we'll see that's because of Dylan Gabriel.

A quarterback choking in big moments. Like he always does did a UCF. He's going to do it at Oklahoma. It's infuriating. It doesn't sound emotional. No, no, no. Wait, so there was a kid who left Florida to go to Oklahoma. UCF to go to Oklahoma.

There you have it. I mean, but he did mention UCF to Oklahoma because Jeremy badly wants UCF to be a big boy. And as soon as they play the big boys, they end up losing back up quarterback on the road. Toughest game will play all season. Not the same. Not the only loss be a big boy. And as soon as they play the big boys, they end up losing back up quarterback on the road. Toughest game will play all season. Not the only loss. You all know. Yeah. Not defensive. Ready conference champs. I know how to do this. Mike, let's play this to you. I've been

listening to the show for a decade. Come on. Let's play this. Deon sound for people because Mike was telling you that the only reason I know McCormick's name. You don't. McCormick? Yeah, no, it's Cormonnie McClanley. That's California. You could have written a better joke. Cormonnie McClanley.

Yeah, he was a five star. He was a five star. He was a number two recruit in the nation. He was highly recruit. I can't even find you. I feel bad. He was, I deserve a fine for that. What is initially, that is it's five dollars.

Uh, his, uh, his recruitment was well reported on. He was originally committed to Florida and then Miami stolen from Florida. And then at the very last second, once coach primed takes the job over at Colorado, he steals Cormani McClain away from the University of Miami. And he hasn't played yet. And if you're watching Colorado's struggles, you'd wonder, where is this young Louis bag that you've brought over a five star? And over the last couple of weeks, Deon has handled this in ways that you haven't seen coaches handle this. And I'm not judging. It's just different. And he was pressed on some of his comments last week

about Cormani. And he doubles and triples and quadruples down. Coach Sean Keeler at the Denver Post, you mentioned last week that Cormani seeing the field was up to Cormani. I wonder if you could elaborate on what you want to see him do one. And two, did he help his case? Study, prepare.

Later, later, get it. Study, prepare. Be on time for meetings. Show up to the darn meetings. Understand what we're doing as a scheme. Want to play this game. Desire to play this game. Desire to be the best in this game.

At practice in the film room. And on your own free time. You do know that I check film time for each player upon the week. Thursday, I need film times from the whole staff so I can see who's been preparing. And that's just not about, come on, it's about a multitude of them.

So if I don't see that, that you would be a fool to put somebody out there and they're unprepared. Can't do it, won't do that, that you would be a fool to put somebody out there and I'm prepared. Can't do it. Won't do it, can't do it. I'm old school, I'm sorry. Did Oregon help in that regard because he got out there late? What you saying?

What a score. Shoot. I started to put you out there at one point. See that Broncos game? It would have looked like that. Hey, hey, leave my guy alone. Leave my guy alone. I love the Broncos. You know, I love their coach and Sean Payne's my guy.

He mentioned that he's old school, but tracking players, iPads to see how much film they're watching is a pretty new school approach. And we talked about Kornmani some on the local hour last year and how I didn't necessarily get even though he's a supreme talent, why Miami was still recruiting him after he had showed up to what was supposed to be commitment ceremony. There was a very sad public's cake that he ended up like turning his back on. And the mentality, we were recruiting a very certain type of player, like the Rubin Baines of the World, the fletters of the world.

And Kormani kind of felt like a throwback to the previous regime, because there was a lot of stuff about his maturity. And while you don't see a coach doing this, and while it's not my favorite thing to do, especially with an 18 year old that it's been widely reported in the recruiting blogs that he had maturity issues, this might be the right approach. I mean, Dion, he got Travis Hunter. He is a mentor to young cornerbacks, especially. He doesn't come from a great family situation. And I imagine he's tried really hard with Cormony behind the scenes and he's trying this new approach. We'll see if it connects because Cormony could use some help in that.

So you're saying publicly is the issue here because him hat like you can't you're saying I thought you were saying it to be in that he should play this guy no matter what you're saying. You can have the option of having you can play like he he detailed he articulate beautifully what you can. You're just saying do that publicly what he just did there do that publicly. I would say to you excellent work by you throughout that segment Chris each ride just misunderstanding everything. No, ride just misunderstanding everything.

No, I just misspoke. I said publicly. I meant probably which is the exact opposite. You misspoke. Okay. Very good. I mean, you have the guy is McCormick. I know. Fair enough.

And not only that, I had the guy as the only reason I know Cormony McCormick's name and I made him McDermott. Yes, the only reason I know his name is because Mike was telling you in real time when there was a recruiting war over a monster talent at the Um, yes, the only reason I know his name is because Mike was telling you in real time when there was a recruiting war over a monster talent at the ender's, at the intersection of where Miami and Colorado compete. Mike Ryan's arguing for Mario Christobal's way. Eons arguing for his way better, winning more through three games.

And now Miami's got the number one quarterback in the country. And Mike is saying, I want a long term program. Show me what Deon does when he hits adversity. And he's telling you one of the difficulties in managing the mess of college football right now. Show up to the damn meetings is what he's saying. It was wild. You know, you do not hear a college coach say show up to the damn meetings because this is what they're governing now. You have to understand they don't have any actual power. The player just leave. He'll go get the money somewhere else. Like you tell him what to do. He doesn't like it. He'll go to another school. Like that's what you've engaged upon the public that's not going to like this team's trash talk or how it's

led or how much attention it gets. I just can't believe I'm old enough to hear Deon Sanders say, I'm old school. Are you kidding me? Like don't skip past that. He was the most polarizing, electric, electric person that you had playing sports for 15 years as a personality. I'm old school. I can't get, he's a grandpa telling kids to get to their meeting. Kids are like, I want to take talk. I want to twitch. And he's saying not here.

He's saying, you show up to the meeting. It's like, ah, if you don't show up to the meetings, I'll take my bust at USC. And I'll lose by 30 points without you games at home. Okay. 30 points without you games at home. Okay They'll take the bus to the park at home and I know awesome field Don Lebatard get some golf ASMR spugats. Oh This is the Don Lebatar show with the two cats. That wasn't very good last one. If you bring it at the start of this cycle, I'm falling apart. I haven't been the same since I called Dan Patrick Dave

That was also by the way I already tricky played on him because you confused him with Samson that had nothing to do Oh, man just us definitely Samson. I mean, I don't actually know what happened there. I don't really know What you guys had you guys called Samson Dave a few times in that I told I actually told Stephen. Steven I Smith this the other day. I call my wife and- You call them Dave? I call people I'm arguing with. I start the sentence with Stugat

and since my brother's death because I'm thinking about him so often, I often say Dave to people. I think it's why I did it to Samson. I've never called him Dave before. Now I feel like a jerk. When I debate people on sports, I often call them skip.

David A Smith, though, would be. Different guy. Yeah, but Dave is no good at debate. David A Smith is good. Dave, Dave is not great. You need to be David. It's the two syllables. You need two syllables before the A Smith. We're to get to the useless sound montage in a second.

If the truth is being told, actually, Stugat, I haven't been the same since yesterday. When Billy Gill out of nowhere discombobulated me on air, I don't even know how this started. You don't remember what you did? No, I don't. You just casually, as I'm thinking about death all the time, ask me if you're in my will. No, no, no, no, no. I didn't say, am I in your will. I said, we in your will. I was asking, yeah.

Not me, I'm not, what am I gonna get? You're asking again, what you're going to get? Well, no, it's hypothetical. We don't have to answer that. Hats? Well, I'm wondering, I don't know. I'm not leaving the hats to you. Well, no, I was hypothetical. We don't have to answer that. Hats? Well, I'm wondering. I'm not leaving the hats to you. Well, would you leave them to?

Why? I do wear a lot of hats. I would appreciate them, maybe. Who else would you leave the hats? Is it based off how long you've known someone? Oh, yeah, good question. What's the neck case of a member, Daniel? The hats are something my brother only made for me.

And so I wear them and I've always they go with you, worn them in his honor. So I guess they're going to have to throw them all into the casket with me. I just don't know how we got on this subject. Where you guys are comfortable enough to ask me on air, whether you're in my will or not, because you have a different level of insurance than we have. Who are you leaving your shoes to? Not it. Not it. No. I don't want them. Oh, let's talk for a second about this. The fact that you guys thought

that key man life insurance was something that would pay off to you individually, that Stugots would think that- Think about the pain will be in. Insurance that- Exactly. It'd be suffering. So you should get a bunch of money.

You should just get what I wouldn't hurt. Well, so what if you just got stuck with only my shoes? Because I haven't drilled down to my shoes. Please know. Nobody wants my shoes. Nope. I want my socks. No.

How about your F1 outfit? That's going in the museum. Where is it? That's who gots is going to build. So he can still make money off of your name after you're gone. The Dan Levitts in the museum. Where is it? That's who gots is going to build so he can still make money off of your name after your gun The Dan Levitard Museum The casino stood the front and it spelled museum That's a good museum. I'd like to see I would actually like to see someone build that out

Stugatz is a casino host on a museum of artifacts just catching in on the last members of my corpse. Here is the advanced auto parts battery. No, that's in a dumpster behind the clean. I can't still be there. It's probably still not. We can't roll it out. We don't know though. I wanted to keep it just as an artifact for a Stuyatz's museum.

We have to do this. That was a sad day seeing that thing. It was, why did we get rid of that? And we didn't have space. It did take up a lot of room. Yeah, a lot of room. We could've used it in one of the walls for Bob's office that was made out of like cardboard and boxes.

I just wanted to keep repurposing it. It's like, okay, here's the game time app battery. It's a car battery, but it just scratch out off. Here's a KFC car battery. I signed that team-and-life insurance on the dumpster that that battery was in in the alley behind the Cleveland. No one mentioned that yesterday as you guys all fought for my remains. Is that where you take meetings?

Bimble did mention it just after we were done saying important things on air. He's afraid as a corporate person of microphones. Our COO, put it on the poll at Lebitard show, should COO always be afraid of microphones? What's he getting? He's not in the will. Oh, no, the will. Are you sure did you read that thing before you signed it? The fine line.

I'm going to put them down for shoes Socks, I want to go through my will with you guys in a second. Why I want to do this publicly But first it's called dibs on things. No, I will choose Whoever says it first. I will choose. I got that nobody wants the shoes. I got the waterfall. I got that say money Yeah, you guys I've enjoyed how everyone around here is a sneaker head all of you wearing the same shoe and telling me that my shoes suck. I mean, okay, thank you.

I'm so insecure about that. It's 55 years old that the cool people and their shoes around here think I wear lame shoes. Let's play the useless sound montage. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Owen 3 doesn't feel good and you got to put your blinders on and you got to know that it's a race and it's got to know that it's a journey and you got to know that it's a battle and you got to know that you're starting in the far outside lane and you know all we can do is keep focus on the fundamentals and the details. This isn't a one person game, this is a game where you know as an offense we got to play as a full 11 as a team we got to play as a full 53. Most important things points, most important things turnovers if we take better care of the ball then that gives us a lot better chance to win.

You have to protect your football. Obviously it starts with me and I got to take better care of the football. I think he wanted to get in the end zone just as much as I all the swities wanted him to. Travis Kelsey's had a lot of big catches in his career. This would be the biggest. You know what I've met her before. This would be the biggest. You know what I've met her before. I thought am I set him up?

I've got a lot of opportunities that I've had. I was trying to go 1-0 each week. I kind of view him as separate stages like a tour de France. I don't really connect him. I view him as 1-0 and then whatever happens, you just kind of erase that week and you start a week fresh. You just do that 17 times and see where he are in early mid-January. Right now is actually the best player in the...

he's who gives us the best chance to win. We played hard, we made some mistakes, you know, the mistakes we didn't make the first we gave and we made this game and a lot of us to do with them and give them credit. Everybody's probably going to take a little bit of blame on this one, so we just have to be better as a unit. There's no doubt about that. You know, we just didn't do enough on offense, especially early in the game to kind of give ourselves a little bit of blame on this one. So we just have to be better as a unit. There's no doubt about that. You know, we shouldn't do enough on offense, especially early in the game to kind of give ourselves a little bit of a lead there. You know, we came here to win, and that's what we're trying to do.

Gotta be happy with the win. I mean, that's all we came here for. And I know we can be a good football team if we don't beat ourselves. You can't. Can't live in the past. That starts with me as an offensive coach. That starts with our offensive coaches, you know, getting our players ready. And that starts with our players. We got to make winning a habitual thing, man, just to stack winning performance on top of winning performance

is significant. It's everybody just pulling in the same direction, trying to be as good as we can, trying to get better. I think we're over 201, it's only one. You know, we got to handle that environment better. So you're going to do you look at the tape. Tomorrow I can go by the step by step, if you want. But clearly wasn't good enough there.

We played a physical violent game. There's next two days, we'll have a lot to look at and discuss again, it's disappointing. I mean, I'm at a loss for words because I've never been in a... I've been on the other side of some games like that and then every once in a while on this, like, you get your butt wet, but this was more than that. Nobody flinched. I believe in this team.

I believe in the makeup of this team. I believe in our leadership. I believe in our coaches. And we are going to continue to work. That is not one concern of mine. Look, I'm confident in our football team. We stumbled today. We'll learn from it.

We'll get better from it. And we'll keep going. Just fighting and clawing and scratching. They got to make plays. We got young guys. You know, nobody's going to feel sorry for us. And we're not going to feel sorry for anybody. I thought he handled some of the moments pretty well.

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I was not excited. I was not excited. I was not excited. What? I was merely pointing out that a Browns legend has passed away. Hold on. That was amazing. Marty Shorneheim had done. Hold on. Hold on incredible. I'm gonna show you how I'm gonna die.

Hold on, hold on. And maybe the greatest coach that ever went a super bowl. Okay, wait a minute. Let's just everybody, let's settle down. Shut it, all down. This is the Don Lebatar Show with the Stukats. [♪ Music playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing in background, playing Oh, it's a Marty party. Oh, those are normally on Fridays.

Marty party is before college football weekend. We're starting the Marty party. On Wednesday, we're starting the Marty party. It's a little early. Little early for the Marty party. College football. little early, little early for the Marty party college. But a little late, because we're a couple of weeks into the season. We are. Marty, we are so happy to see you, always happy to see you.

My wife said, why are there so many Marty books in our house? Why does Marty Smith has so many more books that he's written than you have? Didn't I marry an author? I, I mean, I guess I'm, I can't help myself. books that he's written than you have. Didn't I marry an author? I, I mean, I guess I'm, I can't help myself. I, um, yeah, man, I just enjoy taking all this information that I have the blessing of being around all the time and trying to impact other people's lives with it. And 20 different coaches who are all champions. There's 55 championships in those pages. We're kind enough to give me their time. And I think the two-diligious applicable in so many different ways and so many different walks of life. You don't have to be a coach in order to glean

a lot of cool wisdom from those pages. Marty, you are the face and voice for college football. You know, for those who don't know. Like, we love Marty, obviously, he's been a friend for a long time, but he knows so much about college football. Mike is dying to talk college football with him, but I wanna make fun of how ridiculous the cover of his book is and that he's calling himself a sideline CEO. Like, he's gonna sell a lot of books, but look at him.

Like this. You wanna buy me a shirt? It as policy while you're at it? Now Marty Smith is funny. Marty Smith is fun. And here you are just holding out of microphone uselessly in a suit looking amazing, dapper, regal, sideline CEO. But come on. Where's the party? Like what is this? That is a sick old man. You dad, oh, I love you so much, man. You know exactly where to go. I had so many debates with my publisher about that. I didn't even want to be on the cover,

if I'm being honest, I mean, y'all know I'm vain. So I liked myself, but I did not want to be on the cover of this book and he's like, no, man, like we have to have you on the cover. And I'm like, okay, well, like, why don't we take a photograph of me interviewing one of the coaches that's in the book and make that the cover. And I'm like, okay, well, like, why don't we take a photograph of me interviewing one of the coaches that's in the book and make that the cover is like, nah, man, nope, we're going to shoot an original photo. And he wanted it to be a situation where it's

like, I'm holding this microphone out to interview the reader, I guess, right? And so I'm sitting there doing this. And I'm in my mind, I'm like, I wonder how this is going to go home. I know one thing for damn sure. And that's it. My buddies back home in Appalachia. It's ridiculous. It's ridiculous. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, look at your buddy in Miami. Look at one of the sweetest people. I know you look like an asshole. But you know what? I am one of hands on my asshole son. So get on that train. It's just jealousy. It's true. I could never pull off that photo shoot as my jealousy problem.

I'm selling butthole pictures down morning. I hope it's a New York Times best selling butthole son. Marty, let's talk some ball. The ACC has six, not one, not two, not three, not four, not four not five, but six four no teams. It's the first time the power five conference has featured six four no teams since the SEC and the glory days of 2012. Everyone's talking about the pack 12 and rightfully so really amazing teams out there. But can the ACC lay claim to best conference in America? One thing is pretty obvious. So far, these two conferences

are up on the SEC, including head to head matchups. The ACC is showing out. No, no question. I mean, and none of those teams are Clemson, which, you know, I mean, Florida state is really, really good. They're, they're a championship caliber group. They have a complete team. I really like what coach Norville has done in Tallahassee. Aureo Cristobal, your guy, I really, really like what he's building in Coral Gables. I think that the way he's recruiting down there, I think you, you see the potential that the you of old could come back. Now there was a moment and I came and saw you guys during that moment when we really

felt like coach Rick had that thing. Hummins. I think it was 2017 season when they were very, very good. Notre Dame was very good. We went there for college game day. The whole thing. What Mike Elco is doing at Duke. Hey, man, college game day is going to Duke.

And at the same time that the show I'm hosting right now, SEC Nation because lower relatives doing Monday night football, we're going to Lexington, Kentucky. So I said to my boss, it's like, is it basketball season? Because game day is going to do. We're going to Lexington, but it's for football. I think Mike Elko has done a tremendous job. Everybody thought Clemson was bad because of how Duke dragged them and it's not bad. Dan, they're not bad at all, man.

They should have, they should look, they have made some, I think that some of their offensive schematic philosophies have not been what maybe they should be based on the skill set of the players, okay? But they're not bad. That makes me laugh. No, but you want to mark it, but I'm saying there is because they're not good because Duke did that to Clemson. Everyone assumes both ends there. Oh, they assume Duke's always going to be bad and Duke seems to be really

good. They are good. Mike Elko's a great football coach, Dan and Riley Leonard is a really good quarterback. What you like life is context and repetition fellas. And if you actually watch the tape and I'm not this is not defensive Clemson. This is ball. We're talking ball. They went up and down a field, poo through a tin horn and they were terrible in the red zone, fumbling a ball around, missing field goals, whole thing. Roy, you like that, don't you? Pooh through a tin horn. Big dog.

Yeah. Yeah. That's a new one for me. I'll take that. I'll do it for $9.99. You lost the game. Duke beat him. Okay.

Not a whole. Duke was physical in that game. But they didn't just like, run him out of town. You know, I feel like I need to clean my camera. I look foggy like I'm in the blue. You look so good. Marty, you don't look as good as you do on the front of that book.

Because sideline seat. Valorate did Valerie blow it up. Is it hanging in there? No, Marty, I'm dead serious about there. There are three of these in our house, three of them. And she, so she sees you dressed up more than me dressed up because you're on the cover of all of these books. And I've pointed out a number of times

that I'm insane with anger that you have now written two books before I've written any. And I'm just lashing out at you because you're also very handsome and a suit, but you're selling this as a sideline CEO. And that is ridiculous. You're not the CEO. You're Marty party. Not the CEO. The coaches are. It's the principle that the sideline CEO is the people in the book, Dan O. That's Nick Saban, Davos Sweeney, Mac Brown, Roy Williams, Tom Iso, Doc Rivers, Patty Gasso, just won her seventh national title with Oklahoma saw Balkim Malki, just won her fourth with LSU Women's Basketball.

It is proven excellence. I just happen to be the conduit because they were all kind enough to give me the time and tutelage to give it to you. All right. The sideline CEO is not me, even though the jack wad on the cover of the book might, might, might not make you think that way. It's the coaches in the, in the insight they gave me. Look at that handsome man, my word.

Sounds like it needs to read the book. I mean, yeah. Marty. Okay. Look, I don't blame him. I mean, if Dan O sent me a book, I don't know if I'd read it enough. Marty, who was number 20? Like, if the editors were like, I only have 250 pages, you went over 12 pages. Like, who would have been number 20 on that list?

Yeah, the one that gave you the real thing that you'd see like on a high school wall on a poster of a cat hanging from a rope or something, you know what I mean? Like, the hang in their cat. Yeah. Someone that give you just nonsense bullshit. I got to kind of look at the list, Billy. Hold on a minute. I don't know. I mean, no man. Oh, I don't know.

Mark Helfritch. Not he ain't in it. Number 20. Let me look at the list here. Hold on. I mean, here's your list. Sabin Frank Beamer, Mac Brown, Jim Bo, Patty Gasso, Leonard Hamilton, Tom is O'Lane, Kiff and Urban Meyer, Calipari, Kim Malky, Roy Williams, Dabbo, Doc Rivers, Tim Corbin and Nancy Lieberman.

Tim Corbin. He's won two national championships. He has Vanderbilt baseball. He's one of the greatest. He is in insight in the book is unbelievable. Who gave you the, who gave you the best insight? You have to choose one. One above all others. You're always coming in here and saying all sorts of things about Sabin. You love Sabin. I love Sabin. That's my dude. And like I know you so I know, Dan oh so well. And this is the kind of stuff that makes you roll your eyes, but it's the stuff that like juices me up. Like Nick Saban's sharing with me that the goals pyramid on the on the wall in the Alabama football facility does not say winning SEC championship. It does not say winning national championship. It says be a champion. It's an inside out approach.

If you do everything you're supposed to do to the best of your ability every single day and you're accountable to that culture and that standard, then you'll have the opportunity probably to win a championship. It's not the same thing. It's process over outcome. And if you show Dan right now, whoever's running the cameras, his eyes are rolling over here somewhere, because that's the kind of stuff that makes you roll your eyes. And I get it, but it's bad ass. And I love that stuff, man. I try to be that kind of father.

If I'm projecting what I want for my children, then I'm failing my children. If I'm being the best dad and trying to guide them every day and not worrying about being their friend, if I'm their friend when I'm 60 and they're 30, then great. Be in their friend right now in my goal. Raising empathetic, kind, intelligent people who have emotional awareness is what I'm supposed to do every day, right? So I'm trying to use what they're telling me in an athletic function in my daily walk. And your family can look at that book cover

and say you look ridiculous. Speaking of, hold on a minute, we have to discuss this. Going back to being dressed up, the last time I saw you dressed up, forgive me the only time I've ever seen you dressed up, was your lovely and beautiful wedding. You talk about marrying up boys. Oh, Dan O married up higher than giraffe's ass. There's another one Roy put that one on your board. Nobody in the history of humankind has married up higher than

Dan O did. Okay. And I just, I, all of a sudden my phone starts blowing up last week, because Torre has had on Katie and Dan and they're breaking down my ineptitude in the social media world. I've broken every law and creed of the Dan O and Valerie wedding. And I'm still so sorry about that. Oh my god. I'm on the poll. Please, Jude, you're at Levitard show. Did Dan Mary up higher than a giraffe's ass? That's going to be a 100%. Okay. We've never had a hundred. I feel like I made you look good at that wedding. How did you do? I was blown away with how he how he just owned that suit. Let's go. Marty Good seeing you. We miss you, buddy. Hey, listen to me. I love

you guys so much. The sports world and and broader. I know you guys hit on a lot more than sports. Has to have your spirit and your honesty and your loyalty to one another. And I love that about you. And Dan, you know, Leiboh is very special to me. I have, I wish I could, I can't swing my stuff around. I have a, I actually in my house, I have a picture of his piece of art of the Marty party that, that hung in Y'all studio for so long. And it matters so deeply to me. And I'm grateful that he shared his gift with me. So thank you guys for your spirit. I love all you so much. And Roy, if I don't hear you say poo through a tin horn, very soon, I'll be really disappointed. You poo through a tin horn. Yeah. I love you guys. Thanks for having me. Love you too, Dave. Thanks, Dave. Oh, I love those guys, man. Thank you, buddy.

Oh, I love those guys, man. Thank you, buddy.