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I'm the one still stupid enough to not doubt Kurt Signetti. I don't want to put that out there in the ecosystem. I'm not doubting him. I'm just choosing to believe in Mario a little bit. Choosing to believe in Carson Beck, who's ever gone wrong doing such things. So we're going to talk about that. Kubelet's going to be on the show later. He's reached his breaking point. He's just yelling out into the clouds and we're going to let you hear him later. Something about the transfer portal in Auburn. Speaking of breaking points, is college football approaching a breaking point? No. Well, I don't know. Maybe. I'm going to talk about it in a second. Got a little Mario Cristobal legacy question on the show tonight. Of course, it's a day that ends in Y in January, so the portal is acting crazy, although that's about to come to an end. So we got a jam packed show as it should be on the Thursday before the national championship game. 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You're just helping us when you subscribe. All right, I'm going to get into a lot tonight. The first thing that I wanted to do before we talk about Miami, Indiana anymore or we even talk about the portal, I have an article in my hand from Ross Dellinger at Yahoo. And if you did not know, and judging by the fact that most of you have lives to live, you don't, the NCAA Convention has been happening this week. Ross is up there because, you know, it's his job to cover such things. And he has been writing some very, very important literature, very, very important work coming out of the old NCAA convention. It seems like it's every bit as stuffy as it sounds like it would be. Ross Dellinger, though, I very, very strongly encourage you guys to read over at yahoosports.com, what he's written about this thing so far this week. So I got two tweets that are up on the screen right now, if you're listening on podcast. He's got first off on the bottom here, just kind of a capsule of what he's been writing about. And it's about with little national enforcement. There's no federal bill. Some college leaders are calling for change. Gasp. My word, not his. He continues. Can each conference govern itself, enforce rules, and compete only with its members? An exasperated industry searches for answers. And then up top, here is a quote Ross got from Trev Alberts at Texas A and M. He's the ad there. Quote. Lots of people in this league are saying, what's plan B? I'd put a really small group together, put everything on the table. You're saying, if we were to go start over, what would it look like? The longer we wait, the deeper the hole gets. Okay, what is all this about? What is all this about? Well, most of you know now most of you, again, have lives to live. You got a normal job, you got mouths to feed, running around your own house, including your own. You got all kinds of different things going on in your life. You love college football or you wouldn't be watching the show right now. I get that. But let's be real. Most of us aren't tangling ourselves up in all the legalese and the daily goings on in the weeds of federal legislation and what conferences are doing here and what a lawyer's doing over there. You just know what I know. It's a mess. You don't really love the way it feels. You sort of miss the structure, relatively speaking, that we used to have. And in an ideal world, you'd love to have it back. You haven't stopped watching the games. You haven't stopped loving college football. You just detest some of the things orbiting around college football. I've just described 95% of our audience. You don't really particularly care who's on which side. You don't really particularly care about the legalese. As Memo used to say, legalese might as well be Portuguese. All we know is some stuff seems really messed up and they need to fix it. They. They need to fix it. Is that it? Yeah, that's about it. All right, so Ross Dellinger, oneofus, by the way, he's just paid to cover this stuff. Ross Dellinger wrote something this week that caught my attention, and I really think we need to discuss it for just a second before we move on in the show. I don't think the status quo is going to exist much longer. So that's good news. Hey, if you don't like the way things are right now, good news. I don't think it's going to be allowed to continue like this because what you have right now is just a total mess. What you have right now is like a swimming pool in the bed of a pickup truck driving down a gravel road in Harris County, Georgia. The water's just sloshing all over the place. This is not a sustainable model for a swimming pool. The water's all gonna be gone. Speaking of water, actually, this makes perfect sense. Let me go down this road. All the bickering back and forth about how the transfer portal should work, you know, how many times should you be able to transfer? Is there supposed to be a cap on how much you can pay players? Are people cheating? Are they circumventing the cap? Are they leveraging third party deals? Is it just glorified pay for play? Basically, Isn't it a giant money laundering scheme right now where the haves are able to pay and the have nots have to sit there and lose all their players to the haves? All that happening and everybody bickering over it and everybody having an opinion. You know what it reminds me of? It reminds me of, like, we don't deal with this where I'm from, but I have always read out west about them dealing with, like, water issues, water restrictions, water debates, and that's kind of what college football is right now. And it strikes me every time Ross Dellinger covers a conference, and every time Ross Dellinger gets a quote from a commissioner or an ad or an anonymous administrator, it strikes me the same way. It's like the closer someone is to the issue, the further away they are from understanding the totality of the issue. Sounds counterintuitive, right? These people are in the weeds day to day. Don't they know more than you do about it? Yes, they know more specific details about what's going on in their world than I do. It's their job to. That's not what I said. I didn't say they don't know more details than someone like you or someone like me or someone like your buddies who just watch college football on Saturday. I said the closer someone is to these issues, the further away they seem to be from understanding the issue. So correlate it to, like, a water restriction debate. Out in Nevada, out in the deserts of California, you got towns and you got states, and they're locked in legal battles over water conflicts. What's the most important thing in a water conflict? Some of you live in an area of the country where this happens all the time. So what's the most important thing? It's not a trick question, but it kind of is. Is it reasonable access to the water? Is it environmental impact? Is it irrigation versus electrical? Is it population study? What's the most important thing? The most important thing is the water. Because without the water, none of the rest of the stuff matters. And for a long time now, college football leaders, college football administrative types, the sweater vest crowd, they've debated this stuff back and forth. And you got bad actors on both sides, then you've got good actors on both sides, but everyone's just screaming back and forth. And people like us sit back hoping one day each side realizes everything that you get to debate right now is downstream of one key ingredient, and that is interest. Fan interest. Fans are the most important aspect in this entire equation. Now. They're taken for granted. The Interest is treated as a constant when in the reality it's a variable. It's just that it's taken for granted that you'll always care, that you'll always be there, that you'll always watch. These TV ratings will always look like they do, which I'll get to in a second. But that's not a constant. It very much is a variable that I choose to love college football, that I choose to watch it, and I choose to watch it along with others in the numbers that it takes to make it as profitable a venture as it is. Truthfully, most of these people are only involved because it's so profitable. I mean, if this were a charity over here, I doubt we'd have this many interested parties. We'd have some. There are charities all over the place that operate in good faith. But this right here is a business, and it became an ATM for a lot of people, and it still is. And again, not all those folks are bad. But contingent on all of that is fan interest. And you got to make sure you don't drive people away. Now, I know it is a very, very foreign concept that anyone could ever become disinterested in football in this country, and I'll grant you that it is. But I will say at the very least, you know, because you are out there. I know because I'm right there with you, locked arm in arm. You don't really love where things are right now. And they don't necessarily speak that kind of language at the NCAA convention. They don't really speak that kind of language at conference spring meetings. These people are isolated. These people don't live amongst you. These people largely live amongst themselves. These people largely breathe the same air. They don't breathe the same air you do. And therefore they don't really understand the dynamics in play here. If you get everything straightened out the way you want it, or in your water debates, if you get all of the concessions that you want but there's no water left over, it doesn't really matter which concessions you got. And likewise, if you get everything, if you get a collective bargaining agreement over in this camp, or if you get federal antitrust exemption over in that camp, but in the aggregate, you've shaved 25% of interest off your sport. It lost its value anyway. The money is not there anymore to the degree it was anyway. So my only viewpoint on all this from the seat I sit in, is I don't really care about the legalese. I didn't go to Pate State Law School, so I don't hold that degree that's not on my wall at home. So frankly, I don't really care. I get phone calls all the time from people trying to state their case on this stuff. I'm respectful, I listen to it. But at the end of the day I just say the same three or four things. How are you going to get this thing fixed to where fan interest is maintained and growable, scalable? How's that going to happen? And how does college football look the way it should in order for that to take place? Because right now it doesn't really look the way it should. The games are still great, but by the time the games suffer, by the time the Saturday product really suffers, you've long since lost everyone. That's why you can't trust drive by leadership. That's why you can't trust the group that treats college football like a rental car. You can't trust them because they use things like TV ratings as an argument to bolster their stance. I mean, there are people who will look you dead in the eye right now when I talk the way I do. And their only response will be, well, if college football so broken, why aren't the TV ratings so high? I'm serious. That's something that a bad faith actor, a drive by leader will tell you. They can afford to hold that stance because they won't be here by the time the poison drifts far enough down the river to affect the water supply. A lot of water analogies in the show tonight for some reason, but I've told you this from the beginning, you don't dump poison in St. Louis, Missouri, in the Mississippi and immediately affect New Orleans. It takes it a little while. And likewise, you don't make bad decisions today in college football and kill the sport tomorrow. In fact, it'd be very hard to kill college football. But what we're talking about here is not killing anything. What we're talking about is detrimentally impacting it. And you can't continue with the way things are right now. You can't continue to erode interest in quite literally everything other than the games on the field and not have the collateral damage eventually include viewership of the games on the field. If you don't believe that can happen, you haven't really studied the American entertainment model long enough. There's a limit to what people will tolerate by you taking advantage of their viewership. There's a limit to it. So I just hope, and I think this is not just hope, I think we are very, very close to pretty Radical action taken. That could mean a breakaway from the NCAA and a new subdivision created. I'm not necessarily telling you I'm in favor or against any of this. I'm telling you I think something's about to change that's pretty major. And. And it could be a breakaway. It could be self governance inside conferences where the Big Ten governs itself, the SEC governs itself. For the record, I've said that's probably the most likely path for five years now, and it looks like we're closer to that than ever. Whatever the case may be, you've got to incentivize players remaining on the same roster and being paid to do so and incentivized to do so and revenue sharing and no one's got a problem with it. That's the old caveat. You always got to say it. It's like, oh, I want them to be paid. But it's like anytime you say something about a politician, you've always got a caveat. No, I don't agree with everything he says. I don't agree with everything she says. But no one cares. Just state your opinion. So my opinion is, yeah, I don't care that the players are being paid what I do care about, more so than the players being paid, more so than coaches being paid, more so than anything. I care about the product. That's what I care about. Everything else is downstream of that because if we're not getting a worthwhile product, it doesn't matter how much money anyone else is making, you ruin the product. I'm not here anymore. I'm at Quick Trip. Quick Trip fueling the fall don't lie tour. We're headed to Miami last game of the season. We got to make it count. Last game of the season on Monday night. Quick Trip has fueled the fall don't lie tour all year and they have caffeinated me all year. They have fed me all year. Not just me, anyone rolling with us. And I cannot tell you when I wake up in the morning and I refresh my social feeds. How many times per morning? Couple of dozen. At least. I'm tagged by people who were at a Quick Trip gas pump or at the cold brew on tap station in the Kwik Trip and decided, you know what? I'm going to take a picture. I'm going to tag him. I'm going to tag them. I just want them to know I was at Quik Trip this morning. Hey, I love it. They love it. Obviously you guys love it. Kwiktrip is the presenting partner of this show. I mean they are maximally invested, maximally maxim maximum investment the Highest possible Level 1 could be invested in this show quick trip is and I in turn emotionally at least am invested in them. Let's move on. Got Cubelet coming up in a little while. He's mad what's new but in the meantime Transfer Portal Update Thursday Damon Wilson scheduling some visits. So that's the number five overall player in the portal. The number two edge courtesy of the on three rankings right now. He was at Georgia. He went to Missouri. Had a really good year at Missouri last year. This can be a premier pass rusher for you. And looking at Nacos updated some stuff today. Texas Tech. I think he's out there right now. I think he's visiting out there right now. It looks like Miami's going to get a visit soon. Rumor on the street is Miami is a little preoccupied at the moment with some kind of game they got Monday. But nevertheless those are two big spenders. It's no mystery. It's no mystery what the priority is in Damon Wilson's portal recruitment. Both of those teams are losing premier pass rushers too. So those are puzzle piece fits like it makes perfect sense. That is a big time player. That is a difference making player. Keep an eye on him. LSU is making moves. Not that we are shocked, but lsu Hassan Longstreet has also headed to lsu. Now you remember the last time we talked it wasn't about Longstreet signing there, it was about LSU signing Sam Levitt. This is another example now of a program that's signing multiple quarterbacks and it's great for them because it fills their quarterback room. It like rounds out their quarterback room. I think Longstreet has some kind of family tie in Louisiana as well, so this kind of made sense. But he's got multiple years left to play, so he's not a guy who needed to leave USC and just exclusively go somewhere where he can start. Just like Dylan Raiola didn't need to leave Nebraska and immediately start like Raiola's going to sit behind Dante Moore for a year. Well, maybe Longstreet's about to sit behind Sam Levitt and you're sitting behind Sam Levitt in a really good system to be marinating in as a player. So that fills out their quarterback room. Also, I saw Shay Dixon over on the LSU on three board earlier today talking about a pair of twins redundant. But Zach Grace is an Oregon tight end and Theo Grace is a North Dakota linebacker. They're both visiting. I don't Know if that's a package deal, it makes sense that it would be a package deal. So Lane's not done, nor is Brent Key. Justice Haynes to Georgia Tech. This made perfect sense. As soon as I saw the headline I was like, yeah, yeah, that makes sense. Was it Alabama went and had a good year before he got hurt from Michigan. And I think he can do the same thing at Georgia Tech and he better be able to do the same thing. He's the number 22 overall player in the ON3 portal rankings. He fits the style they're going to have to lean on there. Just remember what's happened with Georgia Tech. So Georgia Tech was in the thick of the playoff race, the ACC championship race, had a good year, ultimately fell a little short there at the end. But then Haynes King leaves because he's got to leave. He's done. And then you lose your offensive coordinator and you lose Aaron Filo, who was going to be the quarterback there. He. They both go to Florida and so you're wondering, okay, who's quarterback going to be here? Well, in any event, I mean you're obviously not going to have a ton of star power at the quarterback position. You're going to be a run heavy offense and you're going to need players, especially at least one like Justice Haynes. So it makes a lot of sense that he goes there. He fits the style they're going to have to lean on. What about the style Indiana leans on? Pretty unique style. Pretty unique. And as a result they're in the national title game. But what if I told you they have the number two ranked portal class in the on three portal rankings? I would be telling the truth. They do. In fact, when we were putting the show together, they had number one. So there was like fluctuation even as we were looking at the monitor. But look at these players they've signed. Josh Hoover is going to be a plug and play starter quarterback for them. I'm really high on Nick Marsh. I think probably his potential at Indiana makes him underrated as only the number 32 player in the portal. They got AJ Harris, the corner, the DB from Penn State, Shas Preston, the wide receiver from Tulane. So they've got a lot of good players there. And remember they get a little extended window as opposed to everyone else after the national championship game because they're playing in it. Ohio State's making some moves too. Ohio State strikes me a little differently though. They got Que Russo and James Smith both from Alabama. And those both can be really good players and conditionally or Situationally, they were for Alabama this year. But Ohio State, unlike some of these places, they're not looking in desperation mode at filling starting spots. Like, these guys can play starting minutes for them, starting snaps for them. But it's not like they're making wholesale changes with their starting 22. What they're doing is they're trying to build their roster, they're trying to build their top 40 or top 45, and that's a pretty privileged position to be in. And if you recruit high school and you retain well enough, then, hey, that can be where you find yourself. Ohio State does that at an okay clip. So transfer portal not open for much longer. In fact, this may be the last time we talk about it. Or there could be fireworks right at the end because I mean, these guys are really running up against this deadline now to get in. Now once you're in, you can stay in as long as you want. So the deadline's not. You have to commit by this deadline. The deadline is just you have to be in the portal by the deadline. You can stay in there until. Until April for all they care. I think is the way that works. I'll tell you something that I'm excited about. Not necessarily the portal. I'm excited that if you go to patematerial.com right now we have, I don't know how many Jesse, like four or five brand new shirts. We just, we basically have new university themed shirts now. The one I'm most excited about and the one we've been workshopping and finally can debut is the McLaughlin School of Music. It's going to be a hot seller. I know because I'm already wearing that thing in my mind. I don't have it physically yet. We got the Chalice Cafe T shirt debuting. The Department of Saturday Sciences, basically any kind of concept that they have on the campus of a real life university, we could just create it in our minds here. But that McLaughlin School of Music, we made sure to spell her name right and everything. It's going to be a, it's going to be a great spring at the Pate State Store. I mean, we got some Valentine's concepts coming up too, so there is no shortage. Like I know a lot of you went and you went early in the season last year and you just kind of filled your basket with everything we had to offer in there. And make sure you keep checking because Alex and the team keep updating the store. Remember like we had a version 1.0 of the store where we struggled to keep things in stock. And we had like six options. Now we don't struggle to keep things in stock and we got like 6 million options over there and growing. So I'm betting the McLaughlin School of Music does the best. I'm also tilting the odds in my favor by mentioning it a lot. We got several good offerings there. Patestatematerial.com Move on. We got a question that's very relevant to Monday night. So Trey from Sarasota, Florida said people have bashed Mario Cristobal so much and yet he's 60 minutes away from a national title at his sleeping giant alma mater. How would a playoff title win mold his legacy? Big time. Big time. There's no reason to be a contrarian here. I mean, it would make Mario a legend down there. And Mario walked in and tried to do what a lot of guys have tried to do, and that is resurrect the identity of that program to look like it used to look. The difference is he's just the guy who finally did it, did it in a way different format than they used to do it down there because everyone's got to do that now because college football is totally different. But he's the guy who actually did it. To me thus far, that's his legacy. Now if he wins a title on Monday night, you're talking about an entire entirely different classification. Not just in the lineage of Miami head coaches, but in the lineage of college football head coaches. I mean, there are very, very few active coaches that have national championships. Very like it's a handful of them that have national championships. So last time before he came there that they had back to back double digit win seasons was 02,03. Yes, yes. An entire generation is seeing Miami do something that they haven't seen them do basically in their lifetime. Look at 2022 on this little slider here that Bradley's showing you on the screen. Do you remember that year? It was only three years ago. Do you remember the five and seven year? You remember Middle Tennessee State dog walking Miami in Miami? Do you remember Duke coming in there and just owning Miami in Miami? And do you remember? Because I remember what they said about Mario afterwards because everyone was fooled into thinking he was taking over a pretty good roster. And oh, it's Miami. You know, they got to have good athletes down there. Even in year one. You can't be losing to mtsu. And I remember thinking, what does that mean though? You can't lose to Middleton? Okay, well they did. He just did. So what does that mean? Are you going to fire him? No, no. So obviously you can lose to Middle Tennessee in year one, especially if you understand sometimes your entry point is rock bottom, sometimes your entry point is when things are still going downhill. And sometimes your entry point is such that you need to. A phrase we use around here sometimes is torch the barn and kill the rats, which just means a full startover. That's about as close to what they did down there as you get in major college football. He knew it. We were down there his first year there. He laid it all out. I mean, in graphic, competitive detail. He laid out what it was going to take. He laid out the corners that they were not going to cut because he understood to ultimately get where we go, we're going to have to bite the bullet in 2022, 2023. Like, obviously you want to win every game, but not at the expense of the overall direction of the program. And to his credit, they didn't. They did not. And to his credit, they've continued to grow. I think Mario's continued to grow. A lot of the criticisms of him have been, you know, there's some people who thought he was just a recruiter, he's not a coach. And his in game decision making is questionable. His end of game decision making, there have been times where it's bitten him. No one said that as of late, though. They haven't said that as of late because it really hasn't happened as much. It hasn't happened as much because out of the public spotlight, he really took it personal and made it his mission down there to rectify that. I mean, if your quarterback's got accuracy problems, what does he work on in the spring and summer? Accuracy. So if you've got critical moments in games where situationally and operationally you're not giving your team the best chance to win, that's a reflection on you. So what do you do in the spring and summer? Either you work on that stuff or you delegate that stuff and you hire people who are going to make you better in those moments. They've done that. It doesn't get any attention because it's not a coordinator hire or it's not a quarterback addition out of the portal. But they've done that. So that's growth. And that leads to a potential legacy defining moment Monday night. But I also. Look, here's what I appreciate more so than anything. You can never. You can never really see this unless you just get to be around it. The intensity in that building is off the charts. And I'm not talking about leading up to a National championship game. I'm talking about a random Tuesday in the middle of March when you're in the middle of spring practice. You could go down there because we often do go down there in April after spring ball's over. There's just an off the charts intensity. And it's that way to an extent, no matter where you go. But, man, it's a different volume at Miami and the ability to operate at that level year round, it just boggles the mind. That to me is the. It's not an accomplishment because, like, they would look at that as a prerequisite. Like, why are you even discussing that? These are non negotiables. This is just how it's got to be. That's the impressive part. Because the outside world is not like that. Much of the outside college football world is not like that. And if there's one thing that I wish we could do, like in the way of a field trip, is I wish we could just load up a bus, call them and tell them we're on our way, and just take a bus of civilians, just normal college football civilian types, pull them out of a restaurant, pull them off the job site, just hop in a bus and head down to Coral Gables for a day. Just watch the way that place operates and you would be shocked. It would be like being tossed in the middle of a war zone. Like, you'd be shell shocked and then you'd come back and you'd be laying in your bed at night, eyes wide open, saying, hold up, that's the way it is every day down there. How do normal humans even operate? They don't. They're not normal humans. At least that part of their brain. Not normal. Not normal. And I have enjoyed, speaking of legacy, I have enjoyed during this playoff run, you've seen a little bit more of Mario Cristobal and you've seen, like, him going back and forth with Scott Van Pelt. You've seen him up on the stage accepting the trophy, and you've just seen Guy is a little different from the neck up. Little bit different. Well, that is a small glimpse of how different that guy is. There are stories that coaches tell about him, that player personnel types tell about him, that players tell about him. I love being around it. I love hanging around it. I just tell you, it's not for everybody. That environment's not for everybody. Mario Cristobal is not for everybody. But you know what? Neither is Kirby Smart. Neither is Ryan Day, neither was Nick Saban. Like, there are a lot of places where they win at a high level and yet some people are turned off by it. In my opinion, you're not really fully maximizing your potential and and operating at peak efficiency until you can say that. Because any college football program or high level organization that's operating near a peak efficiency has a climate that's going to be a turn off to an average person because you don't achieve at a high level with average people. So you got to fill your building with high achievers. Now, high achievers look around and this is just a normal Tuesday. An average person in a room full of high achievers looks around and thinks this is unsustainable. But we can't work like this year round. No, you can't work like this year round. That's why this place probably isn't for you. That's how it feels at Miami. That's the legacy. Because it's hard to create that and it hasn't existed down there in a long time. And now you hope that the results just are a byproduct of that because that's usually how the sport works. Academy Sports and Outdoors can get you geared up now. Thankfully, if you guys live in South Florida, you're not stocking up on cold weather gear right now. Some of us are less fortunate and so we are. Fortunately for us, we have Academy Sports and Outdoors. So we got several of them even within a stone's throw of where I sit right now. So I can just pop over there anytime I want to. And I frequently do. And of course we've got spring sports season coming up. Some of you are still playing winter sports no matter what. Gear up at Academy Sports and Outdoors. If you can get there in person. I encourage it. Place always uplifts you. You walk in with a frown, you walk out with a smile. A cheek full of big league chew, maybe always recommend ground ball. Great. But if you can't get there in person, academy.com has your hookup. And we've always loved being in business with Academy. They've been a partner of ours for a long time and we appreciate them. They've always been there for us and they can be there for. We got Kubelik on deck. Let me answer this one more question. I wanted to fit this one in. Isaiah from Fort Worth said, with all the changes in the media space, are you ever going to cover the NFL? I have no plans to cover the NFL. I don't watch a ton of NFL Isaiah. I used to be immersed in the NFL, but Sunday is our busiest work day. So you hop, you hop down to church and then you hop out of church and, and maybe get to the gym, but then it's right into the office and we're wall to wall college football on Sunday. So I just don't really get to watch much of the NFL now. I will tell you this. I watched every playoff game in the last round. So I watched probably more NFL in the past weekend than I had the entire year combined. I just love college football. We're blessed to be able to pick a lane now. Used to be in the sports media world, even 15 years ago, if you were kind of going to get in this game at the highest level, you had to be what they would call a generalist, which is someone who talks everything. When it's basketball season, you're talking college hoops, NBA finals roll around, you're talking NBA finals. I don't talk about any of that. I just do college football year round. That's why I'm so blessed to exist in an era where podcasting and YouTube has come of age, because that's just on demand all the time and you get to dictate what you listen to and what you watch all year. And that means if there's something that really has a year round interest factor, like college football, you really can talk about it year round exclusively, and people will listen and people will watch. That's our show. We just talk about college football all year. I mean, certainly when you get to February and March, we have a little more time to mix in different themes and elements. But no, no NFL for me. I leave that to someone else. I love college football. Like truthfully, if we were to get into different verticals, which is like a fancy industry term for new shows or new themes, it would probably be outside of sports. Like I could easily see if you fast forward two years, we have an entire storm chasing channel or something like that, because I do that in the spring. The only thing that preempts our shows in the spring is if we're out storm chasing. I could see getting into that. But covering another sport aside from college football, I don't really see that for myself. I would challenge FanDuel to put odds on it. Why not? I mean, I'm not against it. Probably would be restricted from betting on it. But what you're not restricted from depending on what state you live in at least is betting on the national championship game. Monday night. Indiana, I believe, at this hour, minus eight and a half. I saw those over under total rushing statistics, Jesse. They fluctuated wildly from the other day. So when here's what you do know. You do know that I took Miami plus eight and a half the other day. What you didn't know is I also took them over 96 and a half rushing yards. It was at 104 this morning. I can't take credit for it because it worked the opposite way when I bet the Oregon rushing totals last week. So I'm like a sparrow in a hurricane right now betting these these over under rushing numbers. But you get a profit boost if you're betting on this game. Go to FanDuel right now. Profit boost on the national championship game. Going to be a fun one. But if you don't really care, like if you're a, I mean if you're a Minnesota fan and you're just totally checked out on this, like you're going to watch the game but you're not interested in betting on it, you know they've got the Heisman odds for next year already posted. So there, there are a number of things that are already available. Not to mention There are 50 different ways, probably more than 50 actually, that you could bet just on this game and get a profit boost while you're at it. FanDuel.com Josh Pate must be 21 plus.