The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - The Big Suey: Respect Yourself

Episode Date: January 8, 2026

"I don't know the question I am about to ask." The show gets so stuck in the mud that Dan REQUESTS the Magic Crate of Content. And once we've emerged from the muck, we break down the three-pronged genius of Mario Cristobal and the nation rooting against Miami. They hate us 'cause they ain't us. Right, Pipo? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to the big suey, presented by Draft Kings. Why are you listening to this show? The podcast that seems very similar to the other Dan Lebitard podcast. I'm sorry, I'm not going to apologize for that. In fact, the only difference seems to be this imaging. I have been tempted in restaurants just walking past tables to grab somebody's fries if they're just there. That hasn't happened to you guys? I've done it.

And now, here's the marching man to nowhere, fat face, and the habit. Bet you're a liar. This episode of the Dan Lubbitt's heart show is presented by Draft Kings. Draft Kings. The crown is yours. You're very pleased with your shots there. I love a little pause there. Four seconds, everybody.

That's the good stuff right there. The pause is what? That's silence. I just love it. I don't know why. Can I do it again? Sure. Sure.

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I think you need to be more of a spokesman for Draft Kings just doing it that way because not everyone can do it that way and that's the correct way to do it. Everyone's doing it all over. No one's doing it like that. I saw Kevin Hart and Shaq and they definitely did that. No, they're not. They kind of just ran through it. Draft Kings commercials, nice houses.

Man. Always. The LeBron one is good, too. It would be wild if LeBron's in like a small apartment in the commercial. All right. I have a conundrum and I need the help of the group here because it is a legitimate complication after 20 years of doing this and specifically the last five years of doing it. Media is collapsing. Independent microphone is kind of important. And I'm very grateful to the audience that rides with us so that we can do daily what we have done and less well the last five

years because we've buried it in sports to hide and help you laugh at the ridiculousness of the country falling apart around you. I don't feel like it's hyperbole to say that. I don't feel like it's propaganda. We risked everything to have these microphones be free so that I could live that so that you could just see my family live it. My family live it because my dad wanted me to believe in journalism and now you just see it all gets. Your dad wanted you to believe that? Ravaged. My dad, we make the joke about the freedom. The freedom towers next door. It's the first place my father was in this country and we're talking about him being a casino greeter for Trump Library

in a couple of years because this is Cuba. We learned nothing from the lessons of Cuba. Miami became Cuba, the United States became Cuba because we didn't understand the very basics of, do you people not understand when you have freedom? You have to protect it vigilantly? Like, you can't just give it away to any sort of just orange

vanity poser who like... I feel like you're talking about someone specific now. But seriously, like... One of the most insulting parts of everything happening in this country is the idea that the power could be taken this cravenly by just a moron, like just a total moron. Dan, Dan, not a moron.

A creamcical moron. Well, not a creamsicle, a creamsicle who exhibits the behavior of a moron. Come on, guys. All right, but Amin is sitting here lamenting, as am I, because during, the audience thinks I don't feel this and know this. I'm sitting there in the middle of our fake pregame show before the meeting where I's like, bigger! And I'm listening to Amin and Mike Ryan and I'm like,

where's the magic crate music? Like, where, God Almighty, where's the magic crate? But the problem we have is the sensibilities of magic crate. We're always being run by the guy who was gas bagging there, Mike Ryan. Yeah. So what happened? I was afraid to hit it. You were afraid it's part of the problem around here.

I mean, it was a serious conversation. I'm glad we're having it. And we had it. So can we move on? To biggest game in 20 years? Play the music now. to biggest game in 20 years I interrupted Amin on the way to his vantage point

on Amin has cared more about college football I think the last three years than he has in the last 25 at least in part because he's been able to laugh at the University of Miami through the face of Georgia Tech being good for the first time in his lifetime Georgia Tech being good

Georgia Tech being better Georgia Tech respect yourself forgive me Georgia Tech being better as a relevant national name than Miami Georgia Tech has not been in a Miami Sir respect yourself What is that condemnation? It's a condemnation about the 1999 yellow jackets, led by my good friend and neighbor, Joe Hamilton, second and Heisman voting.

All right. So we had the only team that stared us down was Florida State and we lost by six at Tallahassee. You know why? Because Peter Warwick was the best football player I've ever seen in my life. Yes. In my life. Yes, he was very good. He was very good.

Yes, no, he was. He was. Man, respect yourself. Respect yourself. You're not respecting yourself right now. it's such a great t-shirt I mean shouting and somebody respect yourself because I dared

to not mention the 1999 Golden State Yellow Jacket to call them but yes your interest in college football you thought you had the Heisman trophy winner this year before the last couple of games

of the season I'm going to say this I don't think he was going to win it but not because he wasn't deserving but because college football is bought and paid for it's corrupt man and like they have their little

in club and like oh my god these guys are different we're not going to get I know it's not a level playing field from that vantage point but having said that I'm proud of what the yellow jackets did I'm proud of Haynes King another acceptance speech yeah no I'm proud I'm real proud but I

he was proud to be a yellow jacket this year was sort of my point he got to he got to wave the flag of alma mater allegiance publicly and it felt good with pride I won't lie it did feel good. It felt good when they were winning. And then when they started losing, I'm like, who cares? Well, but you only started

losing at the very end because you had a lot of quarterback and not a lot else. And you weren't that much worse than Miami most of the season, which is probably why it is a whole lot of people are frustrated today. I do wonder this actually, because I don't know the answer to the question I'm about to ask.

Wait, you don't know the question you're about to ask? This is amazing. I don't know the answer. Oh, okay. I was like, whoa, this This is all this. I wonder this is how Trump feels. I don't know what I'm about to say next. I can be a T-shirt, too. I don't know what Miami's or America's rooting interests are tonight.

Well, so help me here because I, because I, so, because you say what's best for the show. I always assume that half of the country rooting for Miami to lose is what makes Miami the brand that it is nationally, even though it hasn't been this kind of relevant in 20 years. because Miami will do numbers tonight because it's Miami. Miami of the four remaining teams will be the most interesting one to America, but not the most polarizing unless you're using only the history of Miami as a program and a city

because these kids haven't done anything to misrepresent anyone in Miami. Nobody cares about that. It is the most polarizing, right? In terms of Indiana, that's like, oh, shucks, that's a nice story. Oregon, like, oh, they're usually good. Oh, Miss, people feel sorry for it. them. That's the team their coach walked

out on. Man, that's who people are, forget about Miami. People are going to be rooting for Ole Miss just because that's the team their coach walked out. Is Christabal going to be beaten by a bunch of coaches who were working part-time in the last couple of days? Is Christabal going to lose with the better team because the other coaches? And if you

didn't see the end of the first half of Mississippi, it was funny, because I think a lot of people missed it, Georgia. They couldn't get their field goal team on the field. They had no time out, so they just threw away three points in that game. Because if you'd put a clown car on the field. It was as poorly coached a moment as you will see in college football, a lack of discipline all season. And Mario Cristobal could lose to it. That's the best result.

No. Or no, the best result, Chris had it right. You win this game. You get to the natty, and then it's a close game. And all you had to do is some blatant, like, hey, everyone does this in this situation. I loved your idea here where they're tied late and they go for two instead of kicking an extra point. Like, with no time. like it would have to something like Nebraska no he's saying the game is no he's saying the game is tied and Christobald decides to go for two people with no time left just to prove it with a running play right up to his genius offensive line well well this that's the best case okay so guys this this I didn't object to it strongly enough the other day because Mike Ryan's a crazy

person him coming out here and talking about the multiple layers of genius of Mario Cristobal, okay? The three-pronged geniuses, like Einstein's a genius. The three-pronged genius of Mario Cristobal. If the Tony fumble in Texas A&M goes another way, Miami's not here and we're laughing at Mario. Now he's genius two games later at I Block better than you. But Mass does kick ass, and they are going to be able to run the ball against this team, even though their offense has been by far the worst this postseason. Like they don't try anything. downfield. Their two biggest offensive plays are the two biggest scoring plays

have been a pick six and a special team's return that went for like 60 yards. Everything else has been, this is not an explosive offense. This is the worst offense remaining in the playoffs. Yeah, I mean James Madison lost their game to Oregon, the Final Four team, but they scored as many points in their one game against Oregon as Miami

has scored in two games. That's the James Madison offense. So you're going to need to win this with defense and you're going to need to do it against Trinidad Chamble, so we know Zaz is sick of. Remember, guys, Ole Miss Tackles. I don't think, though, that I have an accurate answer, and I don't know what you guys would hypothesize here.

America sits in front of its television and streaming services tonight to watch a legitimately big college football game made bigger by the fact that Miami participates in it in whatever form because Miami used to mean something and this old new system. The portals over here. I don't understand what the hell's going on with Lane Kiff's team. This jucoization and AAUing of college football that has made it a professional sport with no rules whatsoever, a genuine stupidity, that allows you to buy yourself a quarterback in Carson Peck, $21 million, and spend it to get into a game, lose two games during the season, and not play for the championship with what everyone believes to be the better team. I don't know what America is rooting for. I don't know.

You know what America is rooting for. I don't. On the one hand, you have a team whose coach walked out on them. These poor kids, these poor kids from Mississippi, Ole Miss, right? As I mentioned in the weekend. I think broader, I think America prefers Miami losing in the final, not tonight. America, like, that's the part of having a team like that is you root for it the entire way. People don't root for the Yankees to lose in the World Series.

They root for the Yankees to lose the whole way. And when at the time it gets to the World Series, it hits a fever. pitch. You have to build that fever pitch by hating them along the way. There's no part of America. Dan, if we drew a map, you know those maps, they're like, hey, what team are you rooting for? It's going to be one little corner here in Florida.

I love those maps. What team is every state rooting for? They're all rooting for Ole Miss. I love those things. They're all rooting for Ole Miss. I understand it. Miami's reputation on one side as a program and on the other side, Ole Miss, and their poor kids.

The coach walked out on them. I don't know, Dan. You, me, and the mean, have been alive for more than 40 years. Under no circumstances has America ever rooted for the Miami hurricanes. Ever. Ever. You were just talking about, Dan? Remember that America we were talking about last segment?

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Celebrate responsibly. Miller Brewing Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 96 calories, and 3.2 carbs per 12 ounces. Don Liebertard It's not my favorite Rejoin Context needs to be applied Yeah, I thought that context Was applied

We'd like to rip that out of context I was going for a thing And You're gonna I have a family You're gonna pretend here That you don't love Matthew Kachuk more than you love

Anybody you've ever loved I don't love Matthew Kach more than my daughter Stugats Now it's pretty damn close This is the Don Leveratar show With the Stugats I thought that America would prefer the idea of an undefeated Indiana beating Miami,

that that is more satisfying as an underdog story. An Indiana team like none before it, an Indiana team that comes out of nowhere beats the bought Miami Hurricanes who just got into the game by getting all the best players, by paying a coach $90 million, and now we're going to win the business of football by getting bigger mass kicks ass and our offensive linemen and defensive linemen It will be paid more than your guys

and we will tackle the quarterback better than your guys do that and they will get to the legitimate as it can be championship game of the moment. We have a map here. Yeah, Dan, I'd like to, if I could, just utilize some of the new tools we have available to us here. See, here this is the United States right here.

Let me draw this circle big. And I said, big, that's the United States, right? You see, this part right here, everything that I'm shading right here. Tell the audience, the audio audience. Yes, I'm shading the entirety. of the country, maybe someone else to do that, so it's a little fun. All right, so, I mean, we can do that with you.

I mean, if you told us you were going to do this. So what's happening, audio audience, is Amin is using the Telestrator, and he promised us he would do it better than Cody today because Cody was a disaster with it yesterday. And now we've gotten him a map. And now that we have toys with all this new media freedom that we have in this modern age of nobody has media freedom, Amin has a Telestrator, and he has crossed off most of an American map. Go ahead, Amin.

And now I'm going to write right here in blue, because that's the, I believe, the color the Old Miss wears. This is Old Miss Country right here. Everything I've, blue and red, old Miss. The entire country. So you're just painting in the rest of the country. Everyone is rooting for Ole Miss tonight. Alaska and Hawaii as well. Don't get them, don't lose them. And three quarters of Florida. And then, yeah, oh yeah, that's true. This is also right here, Old Miss Country, Northern Florida, because you got Tallahassee here. You got Gainesville. They don't like you guys here. Miami's not even in the shot. Because of the lower third, we can't even see the part of the country that is rooting for Miami. And it's not Tampa.

Because of the lower third graphically that says the Dan Levitar show with Stugat. Nice graphic. So let's zoom in on Southern Florida. And I'll show you exactly which parts. But this isn't great as audio. You understand that. You've hijacked the show now to do something that is all visual. Well, I would say...

You can hit the trash can button if you want to clear. I know how to use it. I know how to use it. I would say that maybe don't give me a visual tool and then demand me to make it an audio product. I think now would be a good time to hit the magic creative content. He's run out of material. Yes, right here. lost all of the blue that was on the map.

So you're calling for Magic Critics? Yeah, I am because I want... It's not even that big of an area. Yes, I was still. I did too much there. West Palm ate with us. Hold on. You got West Florida in there.

There you go, right here. This is an hour late. This is an hour late. I mean, grab a topic out of the... Yeah, if we're going to do it visually, I don't know how that fell apart. So you're just doing... Were you trying to just get to the tip of a penis joke? Is that what you were trying to get to visually?

Is that all that you were doing? Yes? Okay, great. What did you think of Mike McDaniel's glasses? I don't know what moment in time we're talking about here. He always has silly glasses, so... No, this was... When Jujia was in town, that's a good ad lib, by the way, off of that,

just to look up... And look around and be confused and not know what the bit is supposed to do. I don't like his glasses. I'll say it. I'll ask you. The Mr. I used to have like good things like, hey, if you were a color, what color would you be? Not like specifics.

What do you think of the second episode of Beverly Hills Copp? Forest Green. Do you be Forest Green? It's dance color. Do me a favor, please. Lewis. Ask Juju what he meant to trigger with that question when he threw it in the magic crate of content when he was in time. And we will see if we can get an answer to that question.

interested participants. We need timeless questions, guys. Timeless questions. Are you telling Juju how to do the show? How to do the mystery crate? Yeah. Or the magic crate, yeah. I just snitched on Juju.

I don't think that's... I didn't know Juju wrote it, yeah. Yeah, I don't think that's supposed to be known. Well, that's a shocker. I think the magic creative content... Dan Lovatar snitches on someone. So I don't think, though... Okay, I don't think that Amin has this right, though.

When... My map? You're just saying that by reflex by history, by pattern, everyone's rooting against Miami again. So you're framing for me, what you're saying is it's legitimately Miami against the world. Nobody wants Miami to win. And every team

says that every year and most years it's nonsense. And Miami's going to be running around saying no one believed in us, no one believed in us. Because they lost two games. Nobody did believe in them. That's what I said, like, in weekend observations. Holy shit, Mike was right? Because it's like

I am legitimately shocked. Shocked. Texas A&M. I was like, okay, they could do it. Ohio State, I was like, damn. I'm completely floored. I had no confidence whatsoever. And now they're not even playing Georgia which is what we thought was going to happen before. Like, hey, you got to beat Ohio State, then you got to be Georgia. So now they don't have to play Georgia. I'm like, holy shit, they could actually do it. It's just so funny, though, because like two years ago, this season just would have ended before anything. They wouldn't have even played for the conference championship it would have ended and now they've earned their way there that's really cool

but it is funny that we're like doing these victory laps on behalf of the u is back and everything is amazing when they could just be like eliminated from a weird extra postseason that no one cared about two years ago you want to hear a funny way to think of this they're basically fAU basketball from a couple years ago yeah that's what they are that's all they got you got hot you got hot the tournament you made the final four they didn't even make their conference championship among the more impressive things i saw that though, down the last part of the season was what Miami did specifically to NC State as it started getting healthy, okay? There are some physical things happening with this team. As we have some

confusions about how strong the athletes and some of these conferences are, because we do have these confusions when there are athletes all over the place, you've seen that the measurements can become difficult on this thing, right? I mean, like you, we're sitting here watching, and I believe everyone listening and watching this thinks that Alabama and Georgia, because of those uniforms, were something close to what Alabama and Georgia have been the last five or six years. And it's just not. It's just Mississippi has a different quarterback in a different uniform, and Mississippi has all the same athletes, Georgia does. This is the best Mississippi season we have seen.

The only game they lost was to Georgia, correct? It was the one loss they have, but if I tell you the entire conference is fraudulent and Georgia just sits atop. it because it has. You don't see all the rampant mediocrity throughout the entirety of the conference. But NC State, whatever you think of it, or Pitt, whatever you think of it, Miami dragged NC State in a way that was like, oh, they're a lot more physical. And as Notre Dame watches what's happening here and says, oh, that could have been us. Like, we were right there. That was, we could beat Texas A&M in a game. We could beat Miami in a game. We could beat Ohio State. Why couldn't we? Why couldn't we beat Ohio State? We've got a good quarterback.

We've got a quarterback who doesn't turn the ball over. We've concocted. this wildly funny thing in a new ecosystem of taking all our past thoughts and thinking they apply at all to what we're watching right now. Precisely. Indiana is as good as anybody. Indiana plays that Ohio State of football. When they play it against Ohio State, it's going to be 13 to 10, even if they have the Heisman trophy winner.

And then they go drag Alabama, because Alabama's not that good because the SEC was fraudulent all year. Not anything like what you remember. As fraudulent as Clemson is fraudulent this year, what you used to think of Clemson, The entire SEC is that kind of fraud this year. And just because you're used to seeing Georgia be good and Mississippi being better than Georgia, they are smaller than Miami.

They're physically smaller on the offensive and defensive line and you're going to see it tonight. Even in the SEC, Ole Miss beat no one. Like I'm looking through their schedule right now. Their wins, and just to say all the teams, Georgia State, Kentucky, Arkansas, Tulane, LSU, Washington State. They lost at Georgia.

They beat Oklahoma, South Carolina, the Citadel, Florida, and Mississippi State en route to then beating Tulane again in the playoff and then beating Georgia by five points after losing to them by eight earlier in the season. Okay, let me stop the show right here. Guys, you're messing it up. You're messing it up because now we're hyping Miami up. And now we're putting ourselves in a position where they're going to lose and now we're going to look like jackass into this whole segment. We're a whole thing that downplay because we want them to get to the final so that Mario Cristoboff goes to go for two.

Well, all he needs is a one. This is my point when Jeremy's going through the game logs, okay? This is my only point about what you're about to watch tonight, if you think Mississippi is indeed playing the kind of football that is better than any Mississippi has ever played and is the best that the SEC can play and would be better than Miami in this circumstance. When Jeremy goes through those game logs, can you take a look at the Washington state numbers, what Washington state did to Trinidad Chamblis?

Can you take a look at the Florida numbers, what Florida did? to Trinidad Chamblis. Every time you say Trinidad, I'm waiting for you, say Trinidad, James. So Washington State, Chambliss had 253 yards in the air, and Florida, it was 301. I'll get you the rest of those stats in a second. I don't want yards. What I'd like is sort of how much pressure they put on him in those games, because those are the lower scoring games.

That offense has not been slowed by anybody, and it's because I would say to you that outside of largely Oklahoma and Florida early in the season, the deep, defenses in that conference stunk. You're just used to these people being good, and so you think they're still good. They all stunk. It was like a lower level. It's the ACC in disguise. Whatever you thought the ACC was, all these Missouries and Vanderbilt's, like they're all the same and they're all just okay. Washington State had three sacks in that game. They had six tackles for loss and two passes deflected. Florida sacked them five times, and they had seven tackles for loss as well.

Like Ole Miss's offensive line isn't really built, obviously, to go up against Miami's defensive line. We did give, when Miami beat Florida, we gave Florida a ton of credit for how great their defense is. So we do need to continue to do that now, considering they were seemingly healthier at the end of the year than they were earlier in the year when they played Miami. That is a good defense. But at the same time, that was a 3 and 17 going into that game or after that game.

Michael Irvin should bring a separate belt with him. He takes off his actual belt, and then he's kind of pulling up his pants the whole time. Is that right? Yeah, like, if we watch this video right here of him celebrating after they beat... So he's always trying to be authentic here by using his own belt instead of a prop belt,

and you're saying you can't use your own belt because you can't hold up your pants if you do that. Or wear suspenders, maybe, and then take off the belt. You're going to give him style tips? No, I'm not style tips. Look, see? I'm just trying to... That's real baggy.

Those pants are really baggy. It's a wide waist. He's lost a lot of weight of weight. apparently. What do you think he's got planned for the night? Like, Michael Irvin, going into tonight's game. Like, do you think he just flies by the seat of his pants? Or do you think he's thinking, like, what do I got to do?

You think this man has a plan? I mean, I think he knows that he's been the star of these post-game. So he's got to be thinking, all right, if we win this one, I got to have something. This was where I was going to with that question of Mike Ryan. Like, who's famous on Miami other than Carson Beck? I was going to say Michael Irvin. Well, so here, this will be a fun one to dissect here for a second. You saw how everybody got super excited about Dion Sanders and what Colorado was doing when they could have bought their way into this particular fame wave.

I think Michael Irvin was like on their sidelines a couple of days. No, but so, no, but let's talk about this for a second when it comes to black excellence and black showmanship and Michael Irvin being almost the perfect mascot for Miami because 30 years ago, he was running down the sidelines like that. My favorite, Greg Cody, my favorite, yeah, 40 years ago, my favorite Greg Cody column ever that he wrote was about Michael Irvin. and how much he missed his late father's old hat. It was when Michael Irvin was like a freshman or a sophomore at the University of Miami, I think. Or maybe a junior. But for better or for worse, that guy and everything in his personality has been representing Miami on the public stage. NFL Network, Dallas Cowboys, fired scandals, alleged crimes, and otherwise.

He's the perfectly scarred mascot for Miami, crazed, lunatic, flawed, and flawed. and way, way too loud. And wonderfully loud. We're going to find out what year it was. Errogantly loud. You're going to find out whether it was 30 years or 40 years? Well, no, it was 40 years ago because he played from 1985, 86, and 87. So, yes, you were right.

Dan, 30 years ago was 1996. It was a Super Bowl where Brett Far blew out Drew Bledso. Look, it's you. I'm sorry. Super Bowl knowledge. Excellent work, I mean. Look, my sports knowledge up until like 2000. than probably two.

All sports, bro. I was on everything. That's why I crush it at our pitch clock because we do old baseball trivia. If we did today, baseball trivia, I would stink. That pitch clock. I crush it because we do 03 to 08.

Oh, that's a fun time. Don Lebertard. Can I tell you something? I don't know, it was maybe like a month ago. And I decided to watch pitch clock. And I told Jeremy. Stugats. This is a good show you're doing.

This is the Dan Lebatar show with the Stugats. You just wanted to tell us that? No, I want to tell you that you said it was either his freshman or his junior or sophomore or junior year. He only played three years at University of Miami. So you really nailed the window. We're going to figure it out, Dan. We're going to get to the bottom of it. And he wasn't a true freshman either.

Find the article, Jeremy. Well, I wasn't asking him to find the article. No, we are. We need to know what year was. of his college career. What year? It's important to the story. Okay, well, if we're going to put tonight in the proper historical context, okay,

because I'm not joking when I say I've been waiting for this game for 20 years. Miami has not felt like this in football. We've been running a media company making football bets. Yeah. And none of them feel like this for 20 years. Miami always stinks. even the reincarnation of Miami. Okay, so going back in history, when it's on the sidelines,

Jonathan Vilma and Ed Reed and Sean Taylor, and what they're saying is we don't want to be seen like those old canes. We're an entirely new generation. We don't want bad boy canes, all that stuff. That's a different time. Andre Johnson, we want to do all this differently. That's the last time Miami has mattered the way it matters today. You don't know it's players the way that you know some of those stars.

Wait a second. Those guys were after Willis McGahey and Jeremy Shockey and those guys? In 2001, that era, all of those guys were on the same team. The running backs were McGehee, Portis, and Gore. Those were the running backs on that team. That's what I'm saying. Three-fourths of the secondary was drafted in the fourth round, and you can't remember the names of those players, but three-fourths of the secondary was drafted in the first round. It's the best team there's ever been, if you don't think else. LSU of Joe Burrow.

But that was kind of like I was getting to, Mike. That team was famous. Everybody on that team was famous. And all I know is Carson Beck. At the time they were? Yeah. Okay. Jeremy's shocking.

Once they became pros, I thought maybe. Don't, why do I know that? He didn't even amount to anything. He was famous. Oh, my God. This was famous, man. Kellen Winslow Jr., I'm a soldier. Remember, that was a big deal.

Hey, we're at war, guy. You can't see you're a soldier. That was the biggest problem we had in America at the point. All right. Can you guys please go get that. So let me, I'd like to do the comparison. Entrell roll. Holy hell, that team's a roll on.

Ed Reed, Vince Wilford? I'm telling you, Chris, it was, they were celebrities. You know, he has a new wife now. Does he? Can you guys get for me, please, Kellyn Winslow's. I'm a soldier because this time in Miami football that Amin speaks of when Miami felt like a national professional program because they'd won some championships. and, you know, it feels a little like Alabama before Alabama.

It was, Miami was right there on several championships for several years around this era. In a weird way, do you know what I compare them to? And probably because they were contemporaries at the same time. They reminded me of the Rams in the NFL. That first Super Bowl, you're like, oh, my God, these guys are going to win 700 Super Bowls. And then the next one, they lose to the Patriots. And it's kind of like, oh, it was like, just a little close. whatever it was a venetary field go or whatever.

And it's like, same thing. Those guys are supposed to run the sport, and then they lose Ohio State in a really close game at the Fiesta Bowl of all places, right? Those are the things I think of of that time, just like of a dominance that I thought, man, no one's ever going to beat that. So the time period that Amin is bringing up, okay, of when Ohio State beat Miami,

and it seemed like an impossible thing because Ohio State only had seven NFL draft picks and Miami had 17 in that game. But Miami had a bunch of turnovers. Ohio State did play well in the game, and Ohio State wins at the end on a penalty flag. Because fireworks in the sky, Terry Porter, official that Miami still hasn't forgiven, makes the incorrect call. And Miami is denied another championship. But Ohio State was plenty great then, but what?

Craig Crenzel was their quarterback. But when you look back at what you're saying about Dorsey and look at how good those teams were, go back and look at the highlights. and all of those wobblers he was throwing to Andre Johnson, who was 70 feet behind everybody. As I'm saying, it's like their quarterback wasn't good, but he was surrounded with such incredible, famous talent that, like, it didn't matter. So the Kellyn Winslow team, and do not look up his crimes, they are wildly unpleasant, and I believe he's still in jail.

I forgot about that part. I think he's still in prison. Kellen Winslow was in the locker room. Imagine how many college football players? You guys tell me in all the college interviews that you're watching these days still on network television, not on their live streams or not on their Instagrams, how many players in college football today are giving this interview? No, man, I'm pissed.

All y'all take this down, I'm pissed, man. We don't care about nobody except as you. We don't. If I didn't hurt him, he'd hurt me. They're gunning from my legs. I'm gonna come right back at him. soldier America lost its shit

because he said I'm a I remember that I cannot stress enough how people how people are how dare you how dare you the pearl clutching and then he went on to do some awful things

that is correct that you'd forgotten about that that's what the how he dare you I should be pro clutching for that because what you remember about telling Winslow and those Miami teams What is interesting about this time period and the fact that I think that this Miami team has a guess sort of snuck up on the country?

No? Of course they snuck. Why do you keep asking this question? None of us. A month ago, none of us saw here in Miami we didn't see this happening. The only people who thought that this could happen are the biggest homers of them all.

Mike Ryan and that high school kid that he does predictions with. I don't know. I can only tell from a little profile picture they post. I'm like, who is this child? Why is he making picks? But, like, those are the only people, Dan, right here, Miami, we were laughing at Mike. We're like, Mike's crazy.

We had Jessica Smatana come on every week, like, laughing at Mike. Remember Trista was like, you guys don't have a chance. You guys think you have a chance. No one thinks you have a chance. Nobody. Nobody. So it is us against the world. Nobody thought we could be here.

That's what you're doing. We didn't think we'd be here. And I'm not even part of the we. So did we. So did we. Okay. So you're sitting here in front of me right now alleging that the American sporting public this evening while watching this game is watching the reasons that people watch Floyd Mayweather, they watch Nick Sabin, after they got too good, they watched the Patriots, they watched Jake Paul, that people will be watching tonight in bigger numbers making this a bigger game because what's going to be here that you will not find in many other places in college football is a whole bunch of people watching just to see. Miami lose. Now slow down there, Dan. I didn't say bigger numbers. I don't know how many

people actually care. Yeah, I think it's mostly indifference. The people who do care. The people who do watch are rooting for Ole Miss. And like I said, that rooting interest comes from two different directions. On the one direction, there's a feeling that Ole Miss got job by Lane, selfish Lane Kiven, according to Jimbo Fisher. And the other version or the other kind of source of the rooting interest is people don't like Miami. They don't like it as a city. They don't like it as a school. They don't like it as a as a team. They don't like anything about the vacation here. They just like the vacation here. And you know what they do? They come here and they look at you guys derisively like, ugh, they get to live like this all the time. I don't, why is that so unfair? That's how they all think. So you're doing jealousy? Was that your jealousy boy? Is that your envy? What is that? The bad drivers. What's happening? Oh, that's true. No one here speaks English. Stigget driving everywhere

The traffic here is so bad That's what they do They come over here and there's a part of them It's like they don't get to have it all They don't get to have beautiful people And the beach 12 months a year And be best at a sport That's supposed to be played in the cold

In the frozen tundra That's their whole mentality Oh the hockey really pisses them all Because they thought this one that was theirs I want more sniveling envy voice I want that as a character Like, so this is Miami Hater. This is Miami Hater guy is sort of snit.

So you're telling me, Ugh. Is it internet minute? You're telling me that Miami Hater guy, because you said nothing of ratings, I believe the numbers on the game will be big because it's football and because it's Miami. That's it. You said bigger. Big versus bigger.

I mean, Alabama being there is big. Look, I don't know how many programs you look at and say would be a ratings mover here, but I think Miami generationally is one of them just because you're... I think Miami's the ratings mover of this bunch, but I don't know. Yes. In general, no.

Indiana's a cool story, though. Like, I think we have a really, really, really local perspective on this. Because Indiana is a much more national name in Ryan. It's the Heisman winner. They're the only undefeated team. It's a cool underdog story on its own. Like, I think Indiana, their story becomes, cooler if it's Miami because

Ole Miss is also a Cinderella in a fun way. So nationally the storyline is more fun if it's Indiana Miami, but I don't think that there's people then in turn rooting for Miami. Of the remaining teams, you're right, Indiana, Miami is the

best matchup. Some people might say Oregon, because Christopal came from there. Oregon doesn't draw, it's West Coast, nobody cares, right? So you need like that Middle America, and it's Indiana Miami, which of course we've had that in basketball, as well, that rivalry of Hicks versus like guys by the beach and all that stuff.

And you got Mendoza is from here. I want to give all the glory to God! Jesus. I love him so much. Lord of God! You want a surprise with that? You guys are really doing this.

I don't know if you hear yourselves, but this is what you have framed, okay? And it's assonine. What you have presently framed is I close my eyes and look at the frame. I want you to yes, please, all of you. Close your eyes now. Unless you're driving. Close your eyes. unless, even if you're driving. Close your eyes because this will guide you in the future.

Open every like three seconds for safety. You guys have presented to me as I've said, bigger, bigger, make the game. Bigger, sing a song, sing a national song. You guys are telling me that we are headed to a game or a couple of games possibly where Miami's going to be able to shout nobody believed in us. The rest of the country is going to be rooting actively against all the Miami things because it's Miami, and in order to hate Miami, and I'm saying spiking the ratings

just with that little dollop of flavor, that Miami's also going to be allowed against lovable little Indiana, that upstart underdog allegedly, right up until they're undefeated and Miami's got two losses, and Indiana is the favorite because Miami gets to be the lovable underdog.

Like, you're telling me that that's where we're headed right now. We're two games from Miami being lovable underdog. You never believed in us. you a thousand times over like the way that we said when Michael Irvin was running down the sidelines and the way that LeBron and Miami and Chris Bosch in Miami said you're going to put us in that position

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