The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Local Hour: Premature Prediculation

Episode Date: January 13, 2026

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Oh yeah, Pabloito, what's good, bro? Look, that I reswepo. I'm going to get out the corner. Gaparvin. De Pinguerewins. Cortalitos. Two collas. He's a guy who is a, blank.

Prick. Look, one, a collada that I'll come back here. For your mother. I imagine it would be like your mama. For your mother. Saludu. Hey, that's great to hear it. How we feel about, of the hurricanes?

Tell you all you. Oh, my God. Hey, the hurricanes. Oh, my God. My name me, the hurricanes. The hurricanes. leaving in the koreseving in our family. How'd I do?

Guess what we're doing the party? We're doing it at Bird Bowl. So, no matter how you wrap it up and your fancy, happy music, I sit right at the center of what is blatant, obvious, and offensive cultural appropriation. I can't believe what I'm about to say. Zaslow looked great as a Cuban Thiel yesterday, but Greg Cody somehow looked better. I'm not kidding you, if I put Greg Cody next to a kajana, 12 Biazzi. 12 beers in and I say, Greg, just don't say anything.

He is the coolest of the old Theo's. He doesn't say anything. You don't know what's... Etio Mudo. You don't know what's in his pass, but he absolutely looks like a fusing right now of my grandfather and my uncle. He's bringing them back to life with the way that he looks.

Greg Cody could absolutely pass as Cuban Tio better than even Zazlo. Is it the beard? It's the face. It's the entirety of the face. It's the age. It's battered by South Florida, sunshine, and the islands for 50 years. I don't know, Dan.

The more I see Zaz, the more I'm transported into my childhood. Like, I know 11 guys that look exactly like that. Okay, can we put them side to side, please? Send out a photo and do a vote of who looks more like the Coupantillo, who's not saying anything at the barbecue. He's had too many drinks. He's sedated. He's been at this party, this way, every time we've gotten together for 30 straight years.

Like nobody knows him He's super mysterious He says nothing He's just there for the drink And the smell of the pig That's dead in the backyard He's elijo de la Tiauella And I'm like oh I don't really know him

My mom told me to be careful with him That he's a little weird That I'm like oh I don't know He's past He's never said anything In any of these parties He just drinks And there's pig there

And he's there to everyone And he's family I have one of these in my family I'm not gonna say his name But not innocent We all do But they were all like hey, as a kid, they told me, don't go around him.

Don't bring the kids around him. Like, we don't know what is going on. Not in that way. We just don't know what he's going to say. All right. We don't know what he's going to say. I'm not comfortable with the cultural appropriation. I also am not comfortable with something else that's happening because the game has arrived,

all right? My phone's never done this with tickets before ever. And former players already complaining that they can't get tickets. That former players, champions are like, whoa, Miami does the big event giant. Miami always does the big event well, and this is the biggest of the big Miami events. This school mattering brings generations of bandwagon to the party. What do you mean Miami can just pay attention for six or seven minutes and then gets to celebrate as the winners at the end? Because they weren't, you know, too busy windsurfing all weekend to pay attention to the local football team that has always been a source of pride.

I'm driving yesterday and Stephen A. Smith is saying no manner of objectionable, hugely objectionable things about. the world that I wanted to comment on every five minutes for the last two years. But finally, he pissed me off yesterday when he's like, does Miami have a chance? Is this even going to be a game? Like Indiana, and Stephen A, you came sniffing college football three weeks ago. Don't try to pretend like you've been watching any of this. Miami's playing a home game for the championship. Do you people have no sense of history of what that means?

Miami wins that game, always. Miami changes the fortunes of everything happening in football around here. When you bring it to Miami, throw the party at them in Indiana. Have you played this? Have you played this size of crowd? Because you went to Iowa, and Iowa, you struggle, and Iowa, I was tough. And you went to Penn State, and Penn State was a failure this year. But that was tough.

You've never seen this. This is Reringa. This is Scarface. This is, do you remember the scene in the movie? The scene in the movie, the one we all love, 10 minutes of it was filmed in South Florida, and then they chased it out because our people are very powerful and said, get that racist shit out of here.

Pacino doesn't sound Latin at all. And we ran that whole film off, but it's ours. And in the middle of that, Tony, you probably have family that were in that camp, no? Not in the Mariel boat lifts, but obviously everybody knew what was happening at that point. I did do it Tony's top five from that exact spot. And you were like, why are you there?

And I'm like, damn, because this is a massive piece of our head. history. This is Revenga and then you're like, ah, it's not that big of a deal. Well, it is a big deal in the movie because it's what you have to do to get to freedom from Cuba, even if it means killing somebody under a highway because... Again, it was part of the Cuban police though, Dan. Stephen Bauer became a star here and Pacino already was a star. Talk about cultural appropriation. But what the riots under the bridge, what did it sound like? Is Stephen Bauer room the premises with a Shiv.

So now imagine what, Indiana. Indiana. Mendosa! The young man knows what he's returning to, right? He'll have a lot of people there. That's why it's a home game for him, as well as it is for the hurricane. I want to give all the glory to God! That's part of the reason why the point spread is an insult to the hurricanes.

It's an insult. The fact that it creeped up over seven points, that's an insult. Mario Chris Balls, playing that man he's playing it all all week long he was playing that when they were favored what you're going into meeting saying they think we're going to lose by a million how this gift is what i'm legitimately asking you guys you've all my keeps getting tired of me talking about the context and the history of the program but when it comes to feeling like the u is back you've been fighting for something how in holy hell am i living in a universe where the world has made

Miami, an overwhelming underdog to win a home game in Miami. In what world? Like I understand how many people would look at the last two games and just say, Indiana is going to ransack everyone. They're undefeated. It's hard to go undefeated. But have you no sense of history when you think of every time the championship comes to Miami to be played by Miami by a Miami team?

You know that's as good as this one that has pros on the field. That Miami team wins at home against everybody who's ever played college football, even the very highest of the sport, which Indiana hasn't been except for the last five minutes. So I need a little bit of help with this because I was too young. I'm pretty sure what? The Canes, three of their first four national championships, came after wins in the Orange Bowl, right? Three of five.

Okay, yeah. Three of their five. Right, but three of the first four, you know, from 83 to 91. And I'm curious, I feel like back then those games in the OPEC, be was probably 90 plus percent Keynes fans. That's not going to be the case for this game. It's a home game, but it's going to be closer to 50-50, right? You would imagine, I mean, that's what the national championship game in a neutral site is supposed to legislate. Basically, 25% allotment goes to the Miami Hurricanes,

25% allotment goes to the Indiana Hoosiers, 20% goes to corporate, and then the remaining percentages, go to the primary market. And as we've seen, some of those tickets already got snagged up and you're getting insane prices. I got a plan for today, by the way. My phone has never done this. My phone has, what it is presently doing, my phone has never done outreach from all over the place to get tickets to this game. Call them schnerrs. You know the seats that I sit at usually? I don't have access to those Golden Cane seats, obviously. Do you know who's going to be in your seats? I know what they're going for. No, but like who, I don't know. It's a major corporate sponsor. No, but like this is, it's six figures.

what those seats are going for just for this game. Wasn't Mark Cuban saying he wanted a discount on the tickets? He was struggling. Yeah, he was talking to Connorsalians. Weird. The other thing at the center of this that makes it so fun as Miami, all of Miami can bandwagon around the big event. And this part makes me smile because of just how ridiculous it is.

The Cubans never get to feel this about their guys in sports. The Cubans always are fighting to maybe be a release. in baseball or even pitch in the World Series. But they never get to be the star of the biggest football game in America's sport. Never ever do the Cubans ever get to feel what they have in this game, which is, are you shitting me? The coach and the quarterback went to the same high school. And it's in Miami.

It's crazy how the stars have a line. For Indiana to be here with a Cuban quarterback that went to Columbus, the same high school as the Cuban head coach of the Miami Hurricanes to be playing a national title game in Miami. Florida, you couldn't write a better script. This never happens for us. And that's all I was saying the other day at the mural. This never happens for us.

Cuban kids don't get to turn on the TV and see a kid that went to Columbus. Oh, that could be my cousin. A guy that went to Columbus that went through all the stuff that your parents went through as second generations in this country. We never get to see that on TV, right? Now we get to see it live and in color for the biggest stage. Indiana, Bego Porti! That's a weird dynamic about this game.

If this was Ole Miss against Indiana in Hard Rock Stadium, Mendoza and Indiana would be the team. They would be worshipped. Mendoza would be worshipped in South Florida this week. But because it's Miami, there's no losing team here. If I look at it neutrally as a journalist, there's no bad story to write off this game because it's two wonderful stories. My thought, though, placing all of those elements in front of you,

not even just the Cuban parts of it. Like, what's the context in the last 50 years outside of the first time they played Nebraska, the first championship they won? Because Tom Osborne went for two when a tie would have given him the championship. Failed to get a two, starts the Miami dynasty. And all the time in there. When do I get to make Miami after all this excellence, this kind of underdog where Stephen A is asking whether this can even be a competitive? game. When it's a game in Miami, and if that's ever happened, we've seen, the very beginning

of this didn't quite have all the pros that when it was Portis and Gore and McGahey in the same huddle or the secondaries, Sean Taylor and Ed Reed. This isn't that. This is not that. They do not have all the pros on one team. But the idea that this team is here, this program is here, and you've seen physically what they've done to the last three teams they've played. In what world is that a touchdown underdog viewed by America to not have a chance in the game? The world in which Indiana has won their two college football playoff games by an average of 34 and a half points per game, Dan. Like, the way you have watched Miami all season.

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I wouldn't expect you to apologize. You're a giant infant. Okay. You have no control over your emotions. You have no control over your emotions. When you're calling someone you know an idiot, I don't deserve it. I don't deserve it. All right.

And you're a fool for saying it. Okay. Stugats. You're a fool. I was kind of following. Oh, you're locking in right now. You're locking in on eyes? Yeah, all right.

Let's drop the gloves, pal. Let's rock. You should be thanking me. For what? Every day. For what? For what? For what I've done around this character.

And the second shit gets real for you, you want to come at me and call me a fool? No, no, no, no, no, seriously. Jeremy just, pal. I've added 10 years to your career. This is the Dan Lebatar show with the Stugats. I think it's ridiculous that there is seven and a half or eight and a half point favorite as well. But to that point, it does make more sense that they are that, as opposed to the line being a lot closer to even.

You mentioned the line. You know the last time Miami lost a game by more than seven points. It was 2023 against NC State. Tyler Van Dyke had his meltdown. We said with teams, with lesser Miami teams, that teams that have this advantage along the line of scrimmage, historically in college football, they do not get blown out. And I understand why people are gassing Indiana up.

They've been incredible. That stat where Mendoza has eight touchdowns and five incompletions. And the cheating part, right? I'm not going there. But Miami's prepared. Put it on the poll at Leviton. show, is Indiana cheating and is Miami prepared for that? Prepared for the cheating.

Maybe they're cheating by giving all the glory to God. Miami's run through teams with top 10 defenses, especially against the rush, throughout this entire run. Tony circulated the set that's all out there about the difference in size. Miami is, that's the whole thing about cheating and knowing what the plays are. We can tell you the script. Miami's going to run Agap. Ohio State was.

prepared for agap. You know, Texas A&M was prepared for AGA. And these were great run defenses and Miami just mono-a-mano won. It's the Revenga. The play is not A-Gap. You're calling it an A-Gap with all your fancy coaching jargon because you insist on being an offensive coordinator. Here's the play, Indiana. Cheat this. Revenga. Right behind. For a medium. Right? Right. Hey, people. Revenga for in a media. Yes, I've heard that Levitvittsard. Wimpering. Run outside, right outside. No.

Trevenga, right up the middle. It's going to be second and three all game. Dan's going to complain about the tush push over here, but he's going to love it when those canes get eight yards because their offensive line is just thrown Fletcher eight yards. And I did call for the execution of the guard on the Buffalo Bills by the electric chair. But if Ennis Cooper wants to pick up Mark Fletcher and go 15 yards, we will celebrate that.

I will say listening to this show for the last few months, the analysis when it comes to how Miami's going to go about these games have been pretty on the nose. And the game that we were nervous about was Ole Miss because they did things that neutralized Miami's pass rush. They were more effective at getting home on the quarterback than Miami was in that game. Why? Chambleau gets rid of the ball quick.

That proved to be a very real thing. Heath gets rid of the ball at 2.42 seconds a clip. Mendoza holds on to that ball longer than three seconds. The perception, though, of the championship game swung wildly with the results of the two semifinal games, right? I mean, Miami barely gets by Ole Miss. and 38 to 3 over Alabama. I mean, they humiliate.

What Greg is saying is right, quantifiably, the advance line on draft kings for an Indiana-Maiami neutral field matchup and the CFP final was 5.5. And it ballooned up to 7.5. That's a big two points. Immediately after that peach bowl. Okay, but I keep doing this,

and I feel like I must be using too many words and not communicating anything well, okay? The Alabama team that they're getting so much credit for, It seems like so long ago that Alabama team went to FSU to start the season and lost by two touchdowns. An FSU team that wasn't any good. An FSU team that I think ends up losing its last, did they lose their last night? An FSU team that has lost the state that is fighting over football presently to play against Indiana.

I don't have it wrong, right? No, you're right. I mean, I'm not saying Alabama's a great team, but 38 to 3. Alabama got in on reputation. Alabama got in because we think of the SEC a certain way. To me, a victory over Alabama this year did not mean much. And Georgia was running around in uniforms that were Georgia's, but that's not the teams that you remember.

All of the things in the SEC, all of them were okay. So including Ole Miss then. Ole Miss included. Stiles make fights. Transit property is kind of dumb in this sport. and I think we know how this game is going to look like. It's going to be violent. And when you're in a rock fight, get out of here with 30-point spreads.

That's not the way that this game's going to go. They're an execution team. They're going to have to play a clean game, Indiana, to win this game. It's entirely possible that Miami plays a sloppy game. We just saw it. They survived in spite of that. But I don't see how this game's a blow-up. But historically in the national title game, it's either a favorite, covers by a lot, or a dog win straight-up.

Blah for the canes. What? You heard me? No, are you saying it on the record? Stutter. Okay, wait a minute. Is this what you're saying now on the record? Blah for the canes?

Yes. He's a journalist. What you're predicting, you're on the record now as, your Zaslo, ESPN, college football, game analysts, your predictions hold embargo bake all week, and then you unleash them at the end of the week, and it matters what you say. Sometimes I can't wait.

Okay, so this is premed, sure prediculation. Here's how this one's going to go. 90% of the betting public is going to keep listening to the Stephen A. Smith's of the world and keep hammering Indiana. Minus 7.5. That line will probably balloon up close to 9. And then

before kickoff, that line is going to steam down 1.5 to 2 points. And then you're going to know, because they know. Yeah, that's when the smart money comes in. Two days before kickoff. That line's going to drop below 7. And that's not a prediction. That's a spoiler. I am sitting pretty.

More money's right here. Put your life savings on the canes. All right. So are there T-shirts here? Then you're going to know because they know. There's a gambling T-shirts here. Seems like a bad shirt. It does it seem like a bad shirt? Okay, because it felt like that's what you were telling us right there.

I've seen this game a million times. You've seen this game a million times. This line is going to steam down and everyone's going to be like, what's happening here? You're going to manhandle them. You've seen this game a million times? Zaslo's on the record. That's an... Okay. So, on Tuesday. Yep. Do I look like I'm effing around?

No, you do not. I will get with Greg Cody here and get his thoughts on all of this in a second. But we really are going to have, annoying as it is, a week of buildup to this funny Miami event. Funny? I mean, the business of sports is such that five years ago we weren't paying anyone, and now it's salary caps. And can your $21 million payroll beat Ohio State's $21 million payroll? All of this.

Like just to see the finances of this result in Miami in four years, Christobal, Columbus, Cristobal and Columbus buying their way into business. They got a life wallet guy over here who's a bogus billionaire, and it starts with, they sort of fake their way into, ooh, program is on its last legs here. Programs hurt and program hasn't matter in 20 years. Oh, they squandered all of it. Can Columbus go get us $90 million for Cristobo? Why, Christobo?

He failed at FIU. Why would you do that? That's idiotic. Oh, $90 million for Cristobo. fixes it in four years. Plays in the championship game. They won their way to the top of the business. Why do I think that's funny?

It's weird. I give you that. But Chris Ball proved himself at Oregon. I mean, it's not like he didn't have a track record. Greg, this doesn't get to happen. When you think of the people who win championships, okay, they don't get to be this guy. They don't get to be the guy who had to climb his way up through FIU. Never mind the Cuban part of it.

Who's still got the balls to go on television at Sabin because he's worked with the best and now bosses around Jason Taylor. Bosses around Jason Taylor. I bet you if I talk to Jason Taylor, he'd tell me right now he's a little scared of that crazy Cuban, legitimately scared of him because he's a lunatic. These guys typically don't get fired at programs like FIU. For Jason Taylor, Hall of Famer to say, I'll get to coaching by being the guy who coaches your defensive ends. Yes, because I want to learn from this rabbit Cuban.

I want to get a shortcut to coaching here, learn Miami style. Oh, this guy ran FIU. business, how'd that get into a bowl game? Oh, then he got to run Nike's business. Oregon's still trying to be as relevant as they, like they're still trying to do. Rest assured, coaching defensive line for several years under Mario Cristobal is no shortcut. Look, man, Lane Kiffin ran away from Saban. Christobal got in a, you know, four-point stance and let's go, Saban. Give me some more. I'll eat your, I'll eat your eyebrows, Sabin. You trim your eyebrows.

I admire Christopher. I think he's real. I think he's a real guy. I think when he's a real guy. I think when he uses words like relentless and violent as a style of play, he means it. I think his players have bought into it. That part's funny, isn't it? That every interview he does, like, for sure, right? If I could get betting on, the pregame interview, he's going to say the word violent. 100%. Yes, the word, whatever the question is, the answer, one of the words, if I could take bets on this right now.

We're going to do a live stream during the championship game, and I want to figure out, how to be able to somehow do bets on this. For sure, in the pregame, the betting odds would be favored to say, whatever the question is, Mario Cristobal, will bite it off in one sentence, and that sentence will have the word violent in it. If we're playing a drinking game,

the first-round draft pick is violent. That's my word. Let's play the drinking game. Let's do that on Monday night during our live stream. Mask kicks ass. That's, that's, and that's going up against sweet local. kid Fernando Mendoza. I've never seen myself in an athlete more than Fernando Mendoza.

Oh, man, I'm just noticing your shirt right now. You're bullshit. What are you doing wearing that? No. This is absolutely the most I've ever related to an athlete. That representation of a Cuban athlete from South Florida, the starched all the glory to God, smile on my face. Like, that's the way I always approached the game.

I'm going out there. I'm working hard. I'm playing for my teammates. It's the name on the front, not the name on the back. Fernando Mendoza, thank you for representing Cubans like me. How are we doing here? If you shave. He would look like Mendoza if he's shaved.

It's not a bit, by the way, audience. Jeremy is Cuban. But what are we doing? They made it to the national championship game. You're going to just keep going until the very end, just doing this thing, whatever it is. Supporting a local kid who has an unbelievable story who's made it. Look at that face. How charming is that?

You're being a hating-ass hater. Hating-ass hater. Yeah. If this were Oregon, I guarantee you you'd be dressed like Phil Knight. It'd be kind of cool. Have you not learned? Have I not learned what? Have you not learned.

The last two months have been you forcibly eating it. Like they've been running it up your A-gap for two months. I'm pretty sure everything that I said was right. Everything that you said was right. You said that James Madison should be in over Miami. I said James Madison should be in. And they earned it. Jeremy, you said Miami should be out.

Got to want to learn. There are some teams that earned their way by winning championships. Let me for a moment. Grab Mike by the collar because it's Tuesday and I want to settle everybody down. Okay. Because the week began with Billy Corbyn and if we still go. It's going to end with Billy Corbyn too. Don Lebertard.

You. are a fool. You're nobody. You are an infant. You have nobody to me. I literally put together a freaking stage for your toenail. I am your career right now, pal. Look at me.

No. I am your career. Stugats. You have messed with me, David. And now you're messing with me. And I'm more dangerous, pal. This is the Dan Levitar show with the Stugats. I just took full terms.

on. Jeremy, no, I want, I want to do this with you. I simply want to give you the space to do it because Mike is taking his victory lap aggressively. He, he, um, he has been right about the things Miami is. They did, about everything, damn, reputationalally. Let me help you. I've been right about everything. If I'm wrong about the SEC being a fraud, I may indeed be wrong about that, but they beat the three teams at the top of the food chain and they You're not wrong about that because I was saying that months ago and I was right about everything. And 24-14. That's right.

And maybe or maybe not, they would have beaten Georgia, and maybe or maybe not the analysis would have been, oh, yeah, I remember Georgia's the best of the SEC. No, it's just another team in the SEC, like Missouri, like Vanderbilt. It was just another conference. As soon as the business got involved with all of this and there are 16 teams, you think Texas and Oklahoma are one thing, and they're just, everybody's in this game now, including Indiana, because the business of this happened fast, man. Everybody isn't in this game.

There are two teams in this game. They're going to spot the ball and Mass is going to kick ass. That's what's going to happen. Okay, but so I'd like to get Jeremy's thoughts as you want to run up the score on Jeremy on being right. Why? Because you said, you said, you said, he corrected you on. Bad thoughts. Bad thoughts.

Bad thoughts. I want, bad thoughts. I want facts from him. Jeremy was making a reasonable argument on behalf of the country. Mike, I don't think that you see some of the blind spots we have as a show, okay, because yesterday on the show you looked me in the face and you said Columbus High said of me in this show, yeah, Dan, you're

viewed as not pro-Miamy enough. Blind spots. Ask our national audience whether we're pro-Miamy enough or not. Like, you think I reputational. No, you're in particular. Okay. Yeah. All right. So, I don't think we are. You don't have. We're just located. So, yeah. All of it matters are what Mario

thinks of you. And the thing about blind spots, Dan, is they're behind you. Yeah. I got my eyes forward. All right? I got Hard Rock Stadium. January 19th. I don't have an obstructed view of that. Adelante, am I right? So the ticket prices, and I just, I, locally during difficult times, difficult economic times, I think, enter Miami, priced enough real fandom out, and look, it was a big championship won in Miami, and congratulations.

but in the places that corporations and communities and ethnic feelings come together in sports. Like this is crazy what we're in the center of right now. And the amount of requests I'm getting for tickets and the idea that former players' legends, like this place has a lot of legends, they'd like tickets. They want to know that they could be on. on the sideline, not everyone gets to have Ray Lewis and Edger and James bring him out for a coin toss, and lest you think these things not matter in the present age, okay, when Netflix went to get their best Washington player on Christmas Day, here, look, here's the past, here's Emmett Smith on behalf of

the Cowboys, because he's the best they've ever have. Who do we get from Washington? Who do we get from Washington? Oh, oh, Portis. Oh, yeah, Portis is the best they got. A guy in a huddle with McGahey and Gore because those Miami teams, they were Alabama before Alabama. All of the context matter and it brings you to this moment and a team in a program and a quarterback who has never seen this. Like Miami ravages every Heisman trophy winner who comes through Miami thinking it's the best throughout history. Are you going to tell me, am I being an idiot and short-sighted and homerific when I tell you how do the last two guys? games matter to you more than the last 40 years.

You tell me, am I being the idiot? Am I being emotional when I say, don't bring that, don't tell me about Indiana's last two games. Tell me about Miami's last 40 years in the brutal sport that births this caveman Cuban, who's like, Ravanga, Acap, let's go. I'll fight you in the middle of the stage. And if Sabin wants to criticize me from over there, f*** him too. Jeremy and I have common ground here.

Stop being a writer. You're being a writer too much, dude. Yeah, the last 40 years, like the last 20 years has none of that. So it's not like that context that you're trying to apply to it is irrelevant. These last two games of Indiana, like this Miami team is spectacular. And what they've done this season is what should make you believe that they can stomp this Indiana team if they do. Not what happened 25, 30, 40 years ago. It should be this team.

That's the one place Mike and I kind of tend to. to agree here. It's for the fans. When Mark Fletcher lines up in the pistol formation, he's not thinking about Melvin Bratton. He's thinking about five yards. Right. It's also fair to say, though, that however much Miami and the hurricanes are hungry for this, Indiana's hungrier. It's been like the drought here is... It's a hungry off 24 years. How could they be hungrier? How could they be hungrier? They're not hungry right now. Because the drought here... They just started paying attention to football. The drought here is 24 years.

The drought in Indiana is like forever. They never knew success. It's a basketball state. Are you talking about the fans? Because the players, I mean... Indiana, you're not playing the tortured fan base card here. All right, I saw what those crowds looked like three years ago. And you could say the very same to me, but in our crowd, there were five banners at least.

You know the whole cliche about it's better to never have been rich at all? What the hell was that? Someone's tummy. Who's hungry? Dan? Oh, it is a hungry off. It is. Good.

It's a hungry elf. It's a hungry off. That's what we look. Distracting sound. Who wants it more? Let's see who's hungrier. Indiana or Miami. It's just like, we were there.

We tasted it. And we've been a joke for 20 years. Like, this is fun. I'm not saying that you don't want it. I'm just saying your torture is, I don't like it. Stop it. I do like, though. It is a hungry off.

That's what just happened. Look, you guys all just turned on Greg Cody. You turned on him. It's okay. Great. Is it okay? I got alligator skin. Greg.

Come out. Come out. Come out. me. Greg Cody volunteered for America and you all chewed his face off. He espoused the opinion of Indiana's the hungrier team and you guys

rejected it and you said no we're hungrier and now we have and Chris don't push Chris off of this. He's right to do this to you. We have a hungry off. You think you can do a better game show than that? Do you think that you can do a better game show? Matter of fact I do. I don't believe you can. I think we can. That's a son of dancing swords.

I think we will. I dare you. No, I, look, I want to do a hungry off as a game show now. You're promising me that later in today's show you could do something better than a hungry off because that's where I want to go right now with Chris Cody. And you've been aggressive and you've been aggressive for two days. And the victory lap has started with you being super arrogant. I can promise that we will raise expectations and fall well below them with our own game show. I do think it's funny that we're taking victory laps just by getting to the championship game as opposed to winning one.

You mean going to? And we spent the whole week going on it. No, I am a little bit because Miami has beaten Notre Dame, Ohio State, Florida, Florida State on their path to this very game. Who's Indiana beat? A game in a tournament that they said Miami didn't belong in. The same people that are saying that Miami doesn't have a chance against Indiana, we're saying that Notre Dame would beat Miami had they played again

because Miami lost to SMU and Louisville. Yeah, yeah, I'm going to enjoy it. I got a couple more days to lock in and get in game mode, but excuse me if I feel myself. my head coach and enjoy being right for the last few months. I'm just glad. Because I've been in hell. You got the opportunity in a new version of a playoff where the teams that never would

have made it before get to make it now. Congratulations. I'm excited for you. It's cool. Your team got hot at the right time. You're not happy for me. Nobody believes. I am.

I am jack shit over here. Jack shit doesn't know jack shit. I literally almost took off my shoe and threw it just had been sick. Please make this character on the show. Please make, I would like to hear at some point from Jeremy as only jack shit, okay? The character jack shit is the only one I want speaking to me. You guys are... Tell me shit.

You got... That was your actual stomach I just heard. No, it couldn't have been. It couldn't have been. I mean, we can't hear you talk about hungry. Unfortunately, our audio's not good enough in here, but comedically, I'm telling you, that was perfect. The stomach of Greg Cody just made the coffee sounds, and Greg, you've eaten nothing today, correct? Dancing swords is what we call that.

I heard your stomach. Pardon me. I wanted to do a hungry off. I do think it would be funny. It seems like it's something that would delight Chris Cody. The idea, though, that we're looking, you guys are sort of rejecting the entire history of this to me. I don't, I mean, I know about the now.

You're focused on that. I'm focused on Indiana. But I, okay, okay. But you don't believe at all. in the, if you're buying a coach to instill the culture of whatever the culture is that he learned from Jimmy Johnson to be a man who devotes his life to winning a championship in this sport, okay? Like, this is all story. It's all tapestry. I understand. But like you say this matters so much to Mario Cristobal. To come from to a program where you know what the standard is, it's higher than ever that Signetti ever had. Indiana has never been this. I don't know how many years they've been playing football, but it has not been with,

This is its history in its bones. It doesn't mean anything if Mendoza completes 85% of his passes for three touchdowns and they drag you. But I'm not just telling a story here when I say Mario Cristobal has been here and he's been teaching these people about how he's been here. And that's the job he was paid to do. And he devoted himself to it to be heir to Jimmy Johnson and these things. So if he's the man you think he is and you know how he cares, it's not irrelevant that Mario Cristobal is like, What do you mean Signetti thinks he's better and cares more about this than I do? What do you mean he's the highest paid coach in the game?

With $90 million in four years, I built this and now it flexes on you. And now it's A-GAP. You tell me that means nothing? Afterwards and might, he's singularly focused. He's a psychopath about this. That's for other people to do. Like he understand. It certainly made Mario Crissabal who he is.

He knows what the standard is. He will not rest till Miami reaches that standard, but it doesn't, he's not an ego monster like that. I guarantee you he's a very peculiar dude in that way. He's just so singularly focused on making tackles, building trenches, like talent acquisition. It's weird.