The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: Let's Have Perspective!

Episode Date: October 7, 2024

Today's Cast: Dan, David, Chris, Izzy, Jess, Jeremy. The University of Miami Hurricanes pulled off one of the great comebacks in school history and while the show wants to celebrate it, David Samson is not having it. Surely he would care about Vanderbilt pulling off one of the great upsets in school (and maybe even college football) history over Alabama, right? Guess again! Plus, Rece Davis battled through an incredibly long day and gave us one of the weirdest touchdown calls we've ever seen. Also, College Gameday at Cal absolutely ruled. What a weekend. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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No bag full of candy. He's actually spinning plates and juggling things. What is the show, Chaos, that we're about to embark on? You just came in here and said we have several University of Miami songs, never has a victory against Cal felt so good in anything in sports. It's weird that University of Miami fans are taking a victory lap around the country after a victory over Cal. How many songs do we have today to celebrate the University of Miami's victory over a what has been historically a terrible Cal team.

We have two songs and there's just so much energy in the room today. Like you said, Stugats is here pinballing everywhere. We don't even have time for Stugats. Stugats, get out of here. Go do God bless football. We got David Sampson and this is, was that a big win for you, Em?

Like, The way they did it was obviously enormous. It's not often that you're down 35, 10 with four minutes left in the third quarter. At two in the morning, Dan. Two in the morning, it was so fun. There was a lot that happened in that game. So Jeremy is wearing a bag on his head

because after losing to Colorado, UCF also loses to Florida. That's right. What a loser. That's right. He is wearing a bag and I guess the people will see that shortly. Fire Gus.

Jessica, there's no way you were up at two o'clock in the morning watching a 35 to 10 Miami deficit. There is also no way that I watched the end of Sunday Night Football last night, but I can probably tell you exactly what happened, which is the Steelers offense was bad and the defense was good until the last drive of the game. That is what happened and I believe that we saw a couple of things this weekend. You saw exactly how the Steelers will lose in the playoffs and you also

saw how the University of Miami is going to lose this season. Like I know they won that game but you absolutely saw how they lose a game this season. You cannot put better chemicals together than Mario Cristobal's coaching and Cam Ward's quarterbacking. It is such a good thing to have lived together. We can all agree though, the performance of the night. Reese Davis.

I mean, my God, with a golf ball in his throat. Power through my guy. He worked 20 straight hours and there were touchdown calls where he wasn't saying anything at all. It was just milling about at the goal line because he was so exhausted. He worked from 4 a.m. until 11 p.m. West Coast time. Let's get started.

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I don't even know the history of Vanderbilt sports, but there simply cannot be a bigger, better victory than beating Alabama. I can't hear Jeremy through the back. He hasn't said anything. Yes he did, he just said something. He was telling David that they're a great baseball school. They've won multiple college football.

David, he was talking to you personally. He was not talking on air. It's that seat. It's not that seat, that's the Greg Cody seat that he needs to be sitting in if he's not gonna understand who's talking on the air and who's not talking on the air. Welcome David.

Welcome Izzy as well. I want to. Yes Dan though, I do wanna talk about that real quick. Biggest Vanderbilt football win in history. Wow. Can we say that? I don't think there's a bigger basketball win. They've had big wins but they haven't had a win

that I remember like that one. Like what, baseball? Like give me, anybody out there, give me whatever you got that's bigger than beating Alabama when, I've got the stat somewhere. I think the last three times, this was from Timothy Burke,

I think the last three times that Vanderbilt has played Alabama, they've lost like 150 to three the last three times. I know how it could have been bigger if Saban was still coaching. It feels a little smaller. Saban not being there just takes a little bit away from it. No, Chris, they just came out of a huge win against Georgia.

They're the number one team in the country. Just saying, if Saban was there, it'd be bigger. Doesn't feel the same. We're trying to see if we can get Reese Davis. The stat from Tim Burke is 148 to three, the last three times that Alabama has played Vanderbilt. It was their first time beating Alabama since 1984. Most of this

room had not been born yet. Emphasis on most. I'm sorry Izzy. There are all sorts of stats from that game that we'll get to in a second but I do want to celebrate what it is that the University of Miami did for a second because Cam Ward had 277 fourth quarter yards. That's the most any player has had individually in seven years. And I looked this up, okay? I didn't have that many yards for the game against Ohio State. Michigan State didn't have that many yards for the game. UCLA didn't. Missouri didn't, FSU didn't, Tulsa didn't, Air Force didn't, Purdue didn't, Duke didn't, Jeremy's UCF didn't have 277 yards for the whole game against Florida. Rutgers and Nebraska

played a game and neither one of them against each other had 277 yards in the game. Stanford didn't have 277 yards in the game. Do you know how absurd it is to produce a fourth quarter that hasn't been produced by a single player in seven years? It's the regular season. Why is everyone so excited about this? Am I missing? Because it's the biggest comeback the University of Miami has had in a century. They were down, the statistics on what it is that they were down, David, they were down 35-10 with three minutes left in the third quarter.

They were down 38-18 with 10 and a half minutes left in the game. Against an unranked team. They were down 38-25 with four minutes left. Ah, but this Saturday, David, was the Saturday where all ranked teams lose to under ranked team This was the disease that was going through college football on Saturday when five of the top I believe 11 had already lost by the time UM got on out there and they're playing

classic Atlantic Coast Conference rivalry game within spinning distance of the Pacific Ocean Against Cal and they were down 25 points in the second half and they're a top 10 team now Coast Conference rivalry game within spinning distance of the Pacific Ocean against Cal, and they were down 25 points in the second half, and they're a top 10 team now. So yeah, something there mattered, and they came back dramatically with probably the Heisman Trophy favorite. I think Cam Ward was third in terms of gutsy performances.

It was Reese Davis first, second it was Michael Irvin, third it was Cam Ward. Michael Irvin, I mean, that's impressive, the passion. I mean, you see the mascot, what is he? He wasn't sweating so much this time. This is what happens when college game day goes to Cal. It unleashed some sort of weird portal into hell Saturday morning

and we were all rolling around in it. It was one of the strangest Saturdays of college football in my lifetime and the capper was Miami and Cal going till rolling around in it. It was one of the strangest Saturdays of college football in my lifetime and the capper was Miami and Cal going till 2 a.m. Eastern time and Miami coming from behind with that win. Some controversial calls at the end. A lot of people unhappy with the ACC refs

for a second weekend in a row. But it was a really incredible college football game. Justin Wilcox, the Cal head coach, he is not going to sleep well for a while after giving up that lead. But it was a big game, Justin Wilcox, the Cal head coach, he is not going to sleep well for a while after giving up that lead. But it was a big game, David. It was not a ranked team versus a ranked team, but it was huge for the momentum of Cal going into that game,

having game day there for the first time, and playing so well just until the last fourth quarter. After UM benefits two weeks in a row from, all right, whether they were right calls, wrong calls, they benefited from calls late in the last two weeks. We can all agree on that Can we agree that we're even for though for the whole national championship thing? No two weeks Why that national championship there even we call it even no, and that's it I mean Dan these last two weeks. They could have easily been lost agreed one was for the national championship

These two are just Virginia Tech and Cal. One more bad call and then they're even. David is doing from this seat what Amin did on Friday when we had 506 yards from Kirk Cousins and Pete Alonso hits a homer. And now David and Amin, this is a terrible thing to have happen, okay? If you work at McDonald's all your life, eventually you don't like the french fries anymore. David and Amin have been watching sports for so long, they're numb to great sports things. They've gotten old and sports things that happen that are exciting don't excite them. It's not possible to titillate them.

Wrong. I get titillated all the time. Several times a day. watching games all day long. How can you not? Maximum titillation. How can you not? Baby. Watch a team come down from 35-10 with three minutes left in the third quarter

to win on the road and say, what's the big deal when it's the biggest comeback they've had this century? Because it's October 5th. Yeah, but David, they're six and and all all the other teams of laws that's only the third time this century that the hurricanes are six and all and that this is the part that i think is going to be funny because you can have two losses and still get into the playoff

you can't trust college kids to be consistent not players just college kids college kids to be consistent. Not players, just college kids. College kids of any kind. It doesn't make any sense that Alabama would lose that way against Vanderbilt after playing that way against Georgia. To your point, Dan, before this game started

with all the upsets, I was like, this is going to happen. UM is going to fall into that category because they always do. This is going to be the sad Mike Ryan game where he comes back and he says, oh, we're back to work, but really back to work this time. This was going to be it. And they come back and in the college football 12 team playoff era, yeah, you could have one or two of these slip ups, but when you avoid them, man, that feels great.

And you can think now, I'm not only certainly getting into that top 12, I might be one of those first four, six seeds of whichever ones get to buy. But especially if you were resigned to losing that game, which you kind of had to be at 35-10. At 35-10, you had to be resigned to the University of Miami's not gonna come back from a 25-point deficit, even if I trust that offense. I just knew they were gonna come back from a 25 point deficit even if I trust that offense.

I just knew they were gonna come back. I think because like I've just had so much tough luck this year with college football. I knew as a lifelong Cal Golden Bears fan I wasn't gonna get this one. But were you watching? Yeah I actually did stay up. You stayed up that late? I stayed up because it was Saturday? I did keep dozing off. And normally when you doze off during a late college football game, someone scores and you kind of wake up. But Reese Davis, he was so consistent in his inflection

because that poor man, his voice, it was very Stu Gottz like at the end of that game. Sort of slept through a couple of those ones. But when I woke up, David, I knew that this was just not gonna happen for Cal and I felt so bad for my fellow Golden Bears. Nobody did Saturday Night's UM game better than me.

Fell asleep around mid first quarter on the couch, woke up around 2 a.m. with 30 minutes left. It was the best. No. I was just like, what did I miss? I think it was like, I think it was 38-25. That's exciting for you not knowing what you missed. But I was just like, what did I miss? It was, I think it was like, that's exciting for you not knowing what you missed. But I was just like, holy shit, I'm witnessing a game

and I watched the final end of it, so I saw all the end. Do you spend your time catching up? Because I've done that before and instead of watching what's live, I end up trying to catch up on what I missed when I dozed off. I texted my- And then you end up missing what's so great about now.

I actually texted my dad, because I'm like, I bet he fell asleep and he actually stayed up, which is the biggest shocker in all of this. I'll tell you some of the things you missed, okay? Cam Ward's pick six is as bad a throw as anyone has ever made in a University of Miami uniform, and all of the California players,

I was deeply thankful that they got together in the end zone, and all of them started Karate Kid crane kicking. All of them were got together in the end zone and all of them started karate kid crane kicking all of them were Crane kicking in the end zone to celebrate what they thought would be a victory also that odd kid for California is very fast Jay not he's pretty good. Oh TT to go Dan. I want to play for you guys Excuse me, Jessica. I want to play for you guys, Reese Davis being exhausted, just so that you guys can see. Look at this here.

This is one of the things you missed, Chris. And I want you to just listen to Reese Davis on the call because he was called in an emergency. He had done game day. And I think Dave Fleming was out for personal reasons. Listen to this call and listen to how Reese Davis doesn't have any idea what's going on here. It's the single worst touchdown call I've ever heard. Listen to this.

They just scored. Whistles. And they signal the touch Martinez Two minutes ago a much-needed score for the case Impressive drive by Miami Damien Martin Jessica's feeling terrible for Reese Davis. I do I mean you guys are Jessica's feeling terrible for Reese Davis. I do, I mean, you guys are so, so mean to Reese.

He had a long day. The band had a long day. Their call time was 2 a.m. for game day. This poor Cal marching band. The fans were up all day. They were just going crazy. It was such a great college football scene. I love when game day goes somewhere

they've never been before and they invigorate a fan base that everyone just sort of doesn't really know anything about. And so we got the woke first Coke game for the ages. And as many have said before me, we all should have known when this game went to 2 a.m. Coke was going to be victorious. It's rare that the internet takes an L quickly. Cause you could tell the internet was like,

why are they going to Cal? What a weird game to end. Within an hour, all the tweets were, this is great, this fan base showed up, it's rare that the internet takes an L. To your point, Chris, when you talk about the officiating, Brock Osweiler said, and he wasn't wrong, that is an automatic targeting call. That was his analysis of a targeting call

that should have been a targeting call that would have ended the game in Cal's favor. And we can do that if you guys insist on doing officiating talk, but I'd really rather talk about Cam Ward. Let's do that, because my favorite Reese Davis call was one where he was saying how calm and relaxed Cam was as he was getting attacked by defenders and eventually it was a terrible play,

and he's like, well, maybe there he was too calm. And so I'm curious, Dan, how you sort of take in Cam Ward as somebody who's watched UM quarterbacks your whole life. He does seem calm, collected, he seems to have control of everything, but he also seems to play it a little too cool sometimes, and I'm wondering if that's gonna come back to bite him. It will, I like-

So you're done with this, so you think that this win and their prospects are- I'm not done. You don't have to be absolute about this He is not afraid of making mistakes. That's what I want from my quarterback He's not look one of the things that happen on the pick six I don't know if you guys notice this but he throws the pick six and I'm like This is a disaster scenario where they're going to lose and lose badly on the road. And the first thing that happened in the middle of the field while the California players are crane kicking in the end zone is Restrepo and Cam

are both slapping each other on the head in the middle of the field. Don't worry, it's fine. He's not afraid of anything. Miami Herald said that Restrepo said, we already know you're gonna lead us to this comeback. He's not. Down 25 in the third quarter. But you say that every know you're gonna lead us to this comeback. He's not. Down 25 in the third quarter.

But you say that every time you're down, and it happens, it works out once in a while. You are really doing shitty things to this game. Like, you're squatting over the game, and you're simply shitting on this game. Not a visual I wanted. Yeah, no, that's not the visual. I'm trying to bring perspective to a show

that is overreacting to the game Cal had lost 10 straight games to ranked teams They were 1 in 26 against top 10 teams the last 20 years and the only team that they beat is Washington State you can have a measure of perspective and still be awed and hyperventilate about the fact that you don't often come back from 25 down when you're down 25 with three minutes left in the third quarter. I see where Dave is coming from. It's not a it's not a huge like power for matchup. This is a Cal team that is new to the ACC. They've struggled. This is why they've never hosted College Game Day before because they are double-digit win seasons are very few and far between.

However, it was a big comeback, so, you know, maybe Miami shouldn't have let Cal gash them so much in the first half, let up, like, I think it was like five plays of over 50 yards. And that's fair, but still, a comeback, especially like ACC football after dark, it was like a fun environment, it was a fun college football game,

and I think, you know, as a Miami show, I get why everyone is feeling excited about Cam Ward today and the comeback. Even though, like I said, not good that two weeks in a row, Miami playing a little down to the competition could be very easily 0-2 right now in the ACC, which would be a disaster, but both times coming away with wins

in these sort of late game comebacks. Miami could easily lose at Louisville. And I do believe that we can say pretty absolutely with conviction, they'd lose and not be favored against five SEC teams. Like there are five SEC teams that I wouldn't favor them against because even though they're six and oh,

they've been exposed the last couple of weeks allowing so many of those 50 yard plays. I was a little bit torn though, because a kid from Miami was playing quarterback for Cal. I've got a root for Fernando Mendoza. Like how can I not root for Fernando? Izzy, you were gonna say, I interrupted you, I'm sorry. No, I was just wanting to counter sort of David's take here,

because when you look at what a national champion ends up being, and not saying that the Canes are going to be national champions But every single game that is not a loss can be super dramatic Like I remember when the the Gators won and Tim Tebow lost a game I believe to Ole Miss at home I believe they were unranked at the time and he gave this dramatic speech and they came back and won the national championship that year and everybody pointed to that loss. If UM goes ahead and wins the national championship, they're gonna point to probably the instant replay against Virginia Tech and this game right here

as the most dramatic win because they probably don't go the same path and win a national championship if they lose this game. Yeah, no they won't. If they win the national championship, they'll go to the CFP and the rounds they had to win to win the national championship. No matter how you slice it,

Miami's season won't be defined by this. Do you think the Patriots, when they came back to beat the Falcons, is that noteworthy because it was the Super Bowl? That's my view. It's not noteworthy, week four. Okay, so the only game that matters is the last one? There are no other memorable games except for the last one.

There was a huge, it's Buffalo, Frank Reich, he had a huge comeback, somebody helped me. Yes, Buffalo against the Titans. But it was early and they didn't end up winning. It was the playoffs. So it was exciting, that was the playoff. Okay, but we can't talk about the playoffs because they haven't happened yet,

so we're talking about this game. There's so much else going on, I've got seven pages of amazing things. You just mentioned Frank Reich Like it's a memorable game. Obviously if you're mentioning Frank Reich David the show is five hours long. We'll get to baseball I'm not even I'm not fighting enthusiasm about this I don't even understand how David arrives at his position of watching that particular game that has led our audience How many songs do we have, Chris?

How many? Two songs. We've got, do you know how rare it is for a game for a game to produce two songs to motivate and inspire our audience? Play one of them, please. Which one is this? What's the context for this song?

This one is just celebrating how late this game went and just what a crazy game it was. All right, let's see it. Hand off, no, he throws, left side of the ring. Get it! He lunges, he's got it! Touchdown! It's a touchdown!

Miami is tied the game! The golden bears Right out the gate They had us dead to rights For most of the game I'm thinking why is Cal even in the ACC it's just like Miami to disappoint me and I had some gin and tonics or like eight then the K-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A's got the dub that day that came from behind Cause Ken War is great, he's got Heisman hype And we're the best team in state

Cause we can pay guys six figures. What a comeback on a day when upsets abounded. I don't know if I've ever seen anything play out like the way this football game did. The Miami Hurricanes coming back down 35 to 10 in the second half. Life is a golden cage. It's pretty damn good.

Pretty damn good. I just saw her in concert. It was an old person concert with Sting and... No, that's Andrew Streeter. Pearl Jam and Devo and Alanis Morissette. Did they end with Whip It? They did not. It was their fourth song.

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But in this case, the employee was enough levels below where I was that I did not do the firing, but I had it done within moments of discovery. I like firing people. It's just absurd. It's absurd. of discovery. This is the Don Lebatar Show with the Stugats. California had never hosted a game day. California is rarely a full stadium. It doesn't happen very often. You give no weight to that, David. You give no weight to them being strong enough

with the momentum of having a day's worth of energy behind them and getting up 35 to 10. You still shrug your shoulders at that. Don't mischaracterize it. I'm not shrugging my shoulders. I'm merely saying that allocating this amount of showtime and saying that this Cam Ward, and it was an amazing performance,

but it's not the proper time to give him his flowers for this moment. It's too soon, Dan. It's clearly too soon. He has more yards and more touchdowns than anyone in the sport. I'm not on your side here, David. I know. When do I get to celebrate him?

You felt like you could have been. When do I get to celebrate him, if not when there's six and oh and he's got more passing yards and more touchdowns than anyone in the sport? I want you to celebrate in January. David, if this was our two. It's not January! If this was our two, I'd be with you. We're in the middle. I want you to celebrate in January. David if this was our January if this was our two I'd be with you we're in the middle of the first

segment like give us a Christ man. Jeremy's over here with a bag over his head because his team in October is awful lost to Colorado and Florida and back-to-back games and he doesn't even want to show his face it's okay to spend 11 minutes talking about Cam Warden the Hurricanes, a top 10 team, winning a, what is it after prime time? After dark. After dark, winning an after dark game, which they've never really had before.

I thought it was pretty dang cool. Why do broadcasters think it's dangerous, and like when it gets after midnight on a broadcast, they're like, welcome to, it's just like, like Mike Trico did this last night. Once it turned midnight, he mentioned it like after every play. He's just like, hey guys, it's midnight football here.

That's not creepy at all for Tirico. I just don't get the, like, they just feel, do they feel dangerous? Like they can get away with a little more? They know things are getting wacky. Can you guys get from me again, the touchdown call that happened after midnight? Because I want to play for you and I don't even mean this as an indictment of Reese Davis. He was clearly tired.

He'd been working since 4 a.m. His voice didn't work correctly. I'm going to tell you though when the score was obvious and I want you to hear all the sound afterward. They're at the goal line and they're scoring. Go ahead and play it. And they score, go ahead and play it. Right there. Whistles. And they signal the touchdown. What is Brock Osweiler doing in the booth? He gets it in a full nine seconds after the runner crossed the goal line.

He announced the touchdown. I'm picturing Brock Osweiler in the booth like, go Reese, this is your time. Go. What was the local time? It was a 730 local kickoff. So in the fourth quarter it was probably like, I don't know, 10.30. Do you carry cash?

That's a fine for all of the phlegm that you just threw all over the microphone because you didn't clear your throat without the microphone off. Do you have $5? Do you carry cash? Or did you do that to celebrate Reese Davis because that's next level?

Yes, that would have been comedically artistic. Jessica, can you explain to me what happened in the Vanderbilt Alabama game? Yes I can. Okay Vanderbilt Alabama was incredible. So Clark Lee is the head coach at Vanderbilt and I want to start with him because he went to Vanderbilt he played full back there and then became a linebackers coach in college football became a defensive coordinator he's actually the defensive coordinator at Notre Dame and then the team that went to the playoff a couple times he's coached a ton of NFL players he's a

great coordinator and then he gets a call to come back to his alma mater and coach Vanderbilt be the head coach at Vanderbilt knowing all of the sort of resource limitations and all of the like disadvantages that you have limitations but Nashville's on fire these days. At Vanderbilt, well yes, Nashville very, I mean I wouldn't mind moving from Indiana to Nashville either, but anyways, that's besides the point. That's the biggest recruiting pitch they have, right?

We're in Nashville. Yeah, Nashville's awesome. So Clark goes to Vanderbilt, really like up and down three seasons for him. His second season they actually like do pretty well. I think they won five games. They won a couple SEC conference games, which is nothing to be snarky about, Chris Cody.

You were gonna sneeze at it a second ago, right? He was about to sneeze at it. You were gonna sneeze at it. And you were like, he had a good season. I'm like, oh, let me hear what this was like. Almost like bowling. Five games, that's amazing. It's Vanderbilt football.

Vanderbilt football is the butt of every joke in the SEC. When people talk about conference realignment, they're like, Vanderbilt football. Vanderbilt football is the butt of every joke in the SEC. When people talk about conference realignment, they're like, Vanderbilt needs to get relegated before the SEC gets bigger because they're not even on the same competitive level, whatever, blah, blah, blah. So anyways, Clark Lee goes back to his alma mater, has had a lot of ups and downs, but in this past off season, they bring in a ton of these New Mexico State players,

including last year's CUSA player of the year, Diego Pavia, the quarterback, who led this amazing Vanderbilt offense on Saturday. They also bring over the offensive coordinator, the head coach, and I think a tight end, a running back, and a couple other players. So Vanderbilt has this new, sort of unique, spread option offense that they're running on Saturday.

And Alabama coming off this huge emotional win over Georgia at home, the Georgia comeback and then the Ryan Williams touchdown, everything. They go to Vanderbilt, a team that historically they dominate, destroy. Nick Saban has said previously, Vanderbilt's the only school in the SEC that is easy to play at.

He's mocked them. And so Vanderbilt is aware of all of this. Clark Lee is aware of all of this. Clark Lee played at Vanderbilt is aware of all this. Clark Lee is aware of all this. Clark Lee played at Vanderbilt, like I said. But Clark Lee has taught his players and has told his players they can win any game that they want.

Like this, you laugh at like David, you're kind of like rolling your eyes at like Restrepo and Kim War being like, oh we can win this game. Like that's what everyone says. That's not true. Sometimes college football teams do not think they have a chance. But Clark Lee's Vanderbilt team actually thought

they had a chance in this game. And they started the season really well. They beat Virginia Tech, which was a huge upset early in the season, and then they almost beat a top 10 Missouri team in overtime. Basically lost on a missed field goal in that game. So Vanderbilt is kinda coming off of like, okay, we have something here with this offense,

and Clark Lee obviously very good defensive mind, like I've mentioned. So they're ready to play Alabama. They run this kind of unique, weird offense. Pavia is a absolute maniac. I mean that in the most complimentary way. He is the perfect point guard for the offense that Vanderbilt's running.

And Alabama, defensivelyly was just on their toes the entire time and was not able to stop this offense. And so Vanderbilt scores 40 points on Alabama in this game. Alabama's offense not able to overcome that even though they did have another great Ryan Williams touchdown, 58 yard pass and the end around touchdown at the end that was pretty nifty. But it turns into the biggest upset

I think in Vanderbilt football history. And Clark Lee gets to say as the head coach that comes home to his alma mater against all the odds, he upset the number one team in the country at home in front of the home fans at an active construction site stadium. Didn't realize there was that much feel good in this win. I'm not gonna lie.

Yeah, I mean it was awesome. This is the flip side of college football. Obviously on the Alabama side, devastating loss. The players are probably feeling really upset, really embarrassed. Going the highs of the Georgia game to the lows of losing at Vanderbilt is terrible. And Kailin DeBoer, I assume currently

on Alabama Sports Talk Radio, is getting destroyed. Paul Feinbaum's show today is going to be must listen for everyone out there. Not for David, he hates this shit in October, it's too soon. Exactly, the flip side though is Clark Lee and the team and the staff that he has built

at Vanderbilt and the players that he's brought into Vanderbilt that bought into what he was selling get to celebrate this and be really like proud of this moment for the rest of their lives. Juju put it on the poll please does the University of Miami have to do it in January in October? Also Jeremy what is Vanderbilt's record against top 10 teams all time? Against top five teams Dan they were 0 and 60 headed into this game. Okay.

Is that goal post in the river worthy? That was so awesome. That thing must have traveled, did they track how many miles that thing traveled? Cause that river's not that close to the stadium. I saw some estimate that it was two and a half miles from the stadium to the river where they dumped it in. I saw some funny video of some guy videoing himself.

He's like, I don't even go here. And he's just carrying it. That was awesome. What's the point of that? What kind of celebration is that? This thing, this sort of H, upside down H, we're just gonna throw into a body of water. That's what everyone does now.

That's the new thing is tear down the goalpost, throw it in a body of water. It had a police escort at one point. David, if beating a top five team when you're 0-60 against top five teams in your history is not walk the goalpost to the River Worthy, then what do you need to happen to have it make it something that's worthy?

I'm almost positive that nothing is goalpost in the River Worthy. I'm trying to think of any possible victory that would, but people what they're looking for, here's where I was. Everybody's looking for an excuse to celebrate and you just manifested it. Hey guy, I don't even go here.

I just wanna be part of this thing that could lead to destruction or to something that's gonna cause bachelor artists to get interrupted. Why would you be against celebration and joy? Like what's the lane you're trying to occupy today? No, I've been in this lane my whole life. The after- Joyless?

No, it's not, why is it that you have to destroy property after winning a title? They should have been chanting, let's have perspective. Let's have perspective. New wants. New wants. Make fun of all you want. This was a fine victory. What if you were in charge of dealing with the fact that there is destruction of property?

David, I saw a security guard videotaping this whole thing. Like everyone was so excited to be there. It was a crazy moment. It's probably like, oh, do we have the clip of Lane Kiffin watching during his press conference? Because he, I feel like what I just spat out in four minutes he encapsulated in one very easy sentence. It did sound like you were hyperventilating a little bit you're very excited understandable it's an excitable victory even though David is against excitement let's play the Lane Kiffin uh let's the video and the sound of him watching this. How would you assess just sort of the the health of your team right now?

How many timeouts does Alabama have? One left. They had all three of you guys. They have one left, 118. Huh? He's rooting for Alabama. I mean this is like a once in a lifetime thing going on. Better watch, you're not going to see it probably ever again. What was the question? I mean, this is like a once in a lifetime thing going on.

Better watch, you're not gonna see it probably ever again. What was the question? They're just like, hey, what are you making your team's effort? How many time, he's like, you can see him squinting, looking at a TV in the back. How many timeouts does Alabama have left? Guys, you gotta look at this. This is a once in a lifetime thing.

You hear Lang Kiffin there? Once in a lifetime thing, David. But it would've been better with Sabin. If everything were once in a lifetime that's called once in a lifetime, there'd be very few lifetimes. What? Okay, that's deep. You know what?

Hold on a second. Give me just a second here. I'm going to. What was that? I'm just, like, just. Cut a minor penalty, two minutes for ruining comedy. ["Running Comedy"] I would have gone with high-sticking, but let's also play the,

although I don't know what character he's being. Let's play- He's not being a character. He's just being himself. I don't know what this is. He's not schticking. Nick Saban, the clip of Nick Saban on, I think it was a McAfee show,

talking about playing at Vanderbilt, that Vanderbilt played on their video board on a loop after Vanderbilt upset Alabama on Saturday. But the only place you play in the SEC that's not hard to play is Vanderbilt. Because when you play at Vanderbilt, you have more fans there than they have. And that's no disrespect to them, it's just the truth. When we played in Nashville, we had more fans, Alabama fans, than what they had Vanderbilt fans. They had only beaten Bama one other time in 1994. They had not, Vanderbilt had not beaten a top ten team since 2007 and they've never beaten a number one team and This this stat I think is the best of the stats that I can give you on Vanderbilt all time

They have a winning percentage of 48 percent That is worse than Ball State Utah State Duke Rutgers San Jose State, North Texas, East Carolina.

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