The Big Suey: Respect Yourself

Summary

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The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz

Episode: The Big Suey – "Respect Yourself"

Date: January 8, 2026

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Main Theme & Purpose

Broadcasting from the Elser Hotel in Downtown Miami, Dan Le Batard, Stugotz, and the crew dive deep into the intersection of sports, Miami identity, and college football’s shifting landscape. The episode moves from playful banter and show self-examination to a larger, passionate discussion about Miami’s place in the college football playoffs, what it represents nationally, and the complexities of American rooting interest—especially when it comes to the University of Miami Hurricanes.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Show Identity and Meta Humor

• Dan, Stugotz, and the team poke fun at the show’s format, its similarity to other segments, and the performative aspects of sponsorships.
  • Dan jokes about the blurred lines between their podcast segments and the seriousness—or lack thereof—of their show’s identity.
  • (01:04) “You need to be more of a spokesman for DraftKings…because not everyone can do it the way you do.”—Dan Le Batard to Mike Ryan

2. Media Independence and Miami’s Transformation

• Dan makes a passionate case for the importance of independent media voices amidst what he sees as the collapse of traditional media, linking it to broader themes of freedom and vigilance.
  • He reminisces about his own father’s immigrant journey from Cuba—contrasting vital lessons in protecting freedom with the current state of American media and politics.
  • (01:44) “I don’t feel like it’s hyperbole…We risked everything to have these microphones be free…We learned from the lessons of Cuba. Miami became Cuba. The United States became Cuba.”—Dan Le Batard

3. Magic Crate and the Dynamics of Show Participation

• There’s playful self-awareness about their segment structure. Banter about “Magic Crate” becomes meta-commentary about when and how to shift between serious and silly content.
  • (03:45) "You were afraid. It's part of the problem around here."—Dan to Mike Ryan

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4. College Football: Miami’s Place & National Perception

Subsection: Miami Hurricanes as a Symbolic Lightning Rod

• The heart of the episode centers on Miami’s unexpected football playoff run and the polarized perception of the Hurricanes.
• Stugotz, Amin, Mike, and Dan dissect how America will root intensely against Miami, arguing that Miami is almost always “Miami vs. The World.”
• They explore the idea that part of Miami’s national brand is built on being polarizing—either you root for them to lose, or you love the chaos they bring.

Discussion on College Football’s Changing Landscape

• The group talks at length about:

  • The transfer portal, NIL deals, and the "professionalization" of college football.
  • How Miami’s current success is seen through a suspicious or negative national lens, in part because of its history but also due to perceptions of “buying” talent.
  • (10:02) “This juco-ization and AAU-ing of college football…made it a professional sport with no rules whatsoever.”—Dan Le Batard

• They examine narratives surrounding other playoff teams (Ole Miss, Indiana, Oregon), suggesting most neutrals will side with Miami’s opponent, especially a “lovable underdog” like Indiana or the spurned kids of Ole Miss.

  • (11:57) “Under no circumstances has America ever rooted for the Miami Hurricanes.”—Guest/Announcer

5. Miami Geography and the “No One Likes Us” Schtick

• A comedic segment attempts (and mostly fails) to visually map the parts of America rooting for Miami—concluding it’s only a tiny corner of South Florida.
  • (17:17) “This is Ole Miss country right here…The entire country.”—Stugotz, joking as he colors in the map

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6. Miami’s Historic Identity and the “Nobody Believed in Us” Trope

• The hosts draw constant parallels to Miami’s legendary teams of the 1980s and early 2000s, reminiscing about the “bad boy” reputation and relentless national scrutiny.

• They revisit famous moments (Kellen Winslow’s “I’m a Soldier” rant, Michael Irvin’s persona), using them as emblematic of how Miami galvanizes haters but also draws charisma and attention.

  • Notable quote:
  • (37:50) “America lost its shit. ‘I’m a soldier’…I cannot stress enough how people…How dare you, the pearl clutching…”—Stugotz on Kellen Winslow’s infamous outburst

• Stugotz and Dan both verbalize what it’s like for Miami, even locally, to “sneak up” on everyone—including its own fans, who often didn’t believe this team could make a legitimate run.

  • (39:04) “So it is us against the world. Nobody thought we could be here.”—Dan Le Batard

7. The Change in College Football’s Power Structure

• Dan and the group assert that the SEC's “infallibility” is as much a myth this year as Clemson’s ACC reign, noting the illusion provided by uniforms and past dominance.

  • (23:26) “Indiana is as good as anybody…just because you’re used to seeing Georgia be good…they are smaller than Miami…physically smaller.”—Dan Le Batard

• The playoff structure, transfer portal, and market dynamics make the once-grand narratives less predictable and more open to “Cinderella stories”—though Miami never gets to play that role.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On American indifference and Miami’s national image:
  • (11:49) Guest/Announcer: "Under no circumstances has America ever rooted for the Miami Hurricanes."
  • (39:50) Jeremy: "Yeah, I think it's mostly indifference. The people who do care, the people who do watch are rooting for Ole Miss."
• On “nobody believed in us”:
  • (39:04) Dan Le Batard: “So it is us against the world. Nobody thought we could be here. That’s what you’re—”
  • (43:13) Dan Le Batard: “…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.”
• On College Football’s professionalization:
  • (10:02) Dan Le Batard: "This juc-oization and aau-ing of college football that has made it a professional sport with no rules whatsoever."
• On Florida’s general feeling toward Miami:
  • (17:42) Stugotz: "Northern Florida, because you got Tallahassee here, you got Gainesville. They don't like you guys."
  • (40:32) Mike Ryan: "They just like the vacation here."
• On Miami’s 2001 championship teams:
  • (34:11) Dan Le Batard: “The running backs were McGahey, Portis, and Gore. Those were the running backs on that team.”
• On the historic indifference and hatred for Miami:
  • (41:11) Dan Le Batard: “I want more sniveling envy voice. I want that as a character, like, so this is Miami hater. This is Miami hater guy...”

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Important Timestamps

• 01:44 – Dan’s monologue on media, freedom, and Miami’s transformation
• 04:15 – On Miami and Georgia Tech rivalry; “Respect yourself” banter begins
• 07:14 – “Miami…is the most polarizing [team],” discussion about rooting interests in the College Football Playoff
• 10:02 – Dan on the state of college football, NIL, and the transfer portal
• 17:17 – Map segment: visualizing all of America rooting against Miami
• 37:35 – Recalling Kellen Winslow’s “I’m a soldier” interview
• 39:04 – “Us against the world” moment—nobody believed Miami would be here
• 41:11 – Comedy bit: Miami hater jealousy voice, explaining national resentment
• 43:13 – Dan summarizes the “nobody believed in us” underdog narrative for Miami

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Episode Flow & Tone

The show is delivered in its trademark style: rapid-fire, irreverent, and full of inside jokes, Miami pride, and mock-seriousness. The crew is self-aware, poking fun at themselves and their obsessions (sports, Miami, and the mythic status of the U) while offering insightful social and sports commentary.

There’s a recurring theme of insecurity and pride: Miami both wants to be hated and feels wounded by the scope of that hate. The hosts oscillate between lampooning Miami’s failures and marveling at its myth and magnetism.

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For Listeners Who Didn’t Tune In

If you missed the episode:

• Expect to hear a blend of local Miami braggadocio and wounded pride, filtered through the lens of the sports world’s most passionate contrarians.
• The central argument is that Miami’s presence in the College Football Playoff transforms the event; the country tunes in at least as much to see them potentially lose as to see them win.
• The conversation moves seamlessly between campus legends, sports media critique, the fevered politics of college football, and the ways in which a team—and a city—can personify national envy, scorn, and hope.

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A must-listen for fans of Miami, sports culture, or anyone who enjoys irreverent but incisive conversations about why rooting interests in college football are as much about identity and history as about the games themselves.

Transcript

[Dan Le Batard]

Welcome to the Big Sui, presented by DraftKings. Why are you listening to this show, the podcast that seems very similar to.

[Stugotz]

The other Dan LeBatard podcast?

[Chris Cody]

I'm sorry.

[Dan Le Batard]

I'm not going to apologize for that.

[Stugotz]

In fact, the only difference seems to be this imaging.

[Dan Le Batard]

I have been tempted in restaurants just walking past tables to grab somebody's fries that if they're just there. That hasn't happened to you guys.

[Jeremy]

I've done it.

[Stugotz]

And now here's the marching man to.

[Dan Le Batard]

Nowhere, Fat Face and the Habitual Liar.

[Mike Ryan]

This episode of the Dan Levitzard show is presented by DraftKings. DraftKings. The Crown is yours.

[Dan Le Batard]

You're very pleased with yourself.

[Mike Ryan]

I love the little pause there.

[Guest/Announcer]

Four seconds, everybody. That was four seconds.

[Dan Le Batard]

Four seconds right there. I think the pause, that's silence.

[Amin]

I just love it.

[Stugotz]

I don't know why.

[Dan Le Batard]

Can I do it again?

[Stugotz]

Sure, sure.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yeah.

[Mike Ryan]

This episode of the Dan Levitard show is presented by DraftKings. DraftKings. The Crown is yours.

[Guest/Announcer]

Oh, that was fast. It was two seconds.

[Dan Le Batard]

That makes it more yours, right? It puts your signature on it.

[Mike Ryan]

You got chills.

[Dan Le Batard]

I think you need to be more of a spokesman for DraftKings. 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.

[Mike Ryan]

Zagak.

[Stugotz]

I saw Kevin Hart and Shaq, and they definitely did.

[Mike Ryan]

No, they're not.

[Stugotz]

No, they kind of draft. Kings County. Yours.

[Mike Ryan]

DraftKings commercials. Nice houses.

[Dan Le Batard]

Always.

[Stugotz]

The LeBron one is good, too.

[Mike Ryan]

It'd be wild if LeBron's in, like, a small apartment in the commercial.

[Dan Le Batard]

All right, I. 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's collapsing. Independent microphones kind of important.

[Amin]

Yeah.

[Dan Le Batard]

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 Tower's 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 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? You can't just give it away to any sort of just orange vanity poser.

[Stugotz]

Who, like, I feel like you're talking about someone specific now.

[Dan Le Batard]

Oh, but seriously, 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.

[Stugotz]

Dan. Dan. Not a moron.

[Guest/Announcer]

A creamsicle moron.

[Stugotz]

Well, not a creamsicle. A creamsicle who exhibits the behavior of a moron. Come on, guys.

[Dan Le Batard]

All right, but Amin is sitting here lamenting, as am I, because 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 it's like, bigger and I'm listening to Amin and Mike Ryan. 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 were always being run by the guy who was gas bagging there. Mike Ryan.

[Stugotz]

Yeah.

[Mike Ryan]

So I was afraid to hit it.

[Dan Le Batard]

You were afraid. It's part of the problem around here.

[Mike Ryan]

I mean, it was a serious conversation.

[Stugotz]

Glad we're having it.

[Mike Ryan]

And we had it. So can we move on to biggest.

[Dan Le Batard]

Game in 20 years?

[Stugotz]

Play the music now.

[Dan Le Batard]

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.

[Stugotz]

Georgia Tech being good.

[Dan Le Batard]

Georgia Tech. Georgia Tech.

[Stugotz]

Respect yourself.

[Dan Le Batard]

Forgive me. Georgia Tech being better as a relevant national name than Miami. Georgia Tech has not been in a. Miami.

[Stugotz]

Sir, Respect yourself.

[Dan Le Batard]

What is that? What is that? Condemnation. What are you saying?

[Stugotz]

Condemnation about the 1999 yellow jackets led by my good friend and neighbor Joe Hamilton, second in Heisman voting.

[Dan Le Batard]

Right.

[Stugotz]

So we the only team that stared us down was Florida State, and we lost by six at Tallahassee. You know why? Because Peter Wark is the best football player I've ever seen in my life.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yes.

[Stugotz]

In my life.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yes, he was very good.

[Stugotz]

He was very good. Yes.

[Dan Le Batard]

No, he was.

[Stugotz]

He was.

[Mike Ryan]

And respect yourself.

[Stugotz]

Respect yourself. You're not respecting yourself right now.

[Dan Le Batard]

It's such a great T shirt. I mean, shouting at somebody, respect yourself. Because I dared to not mention the 1999 Golden State Yellow Jackets. 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.

[Stugotz]

I'm gonna say this. I don't think he was gonna 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. They have their little in club and like, oh, my God, these guys are different. We're not gonna get. I know, 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.

[Mike Ryan]

Another accepted speech.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, no, I'm proud. I'm real proud. But I.

[Dan Le Batard]

He was proud to be a Yellow Jacket this year was sort of my point. He got to wave the flag of Alma mater allegiance publicly. And it felt good. With pride.

[Stugotz]

I won't lie. It did feel good. It felt good when they were winning and then when they started losing, like, ah, who cares?

[Dan Le Batard]

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.

[Stugotz]

Wait, you don't know the question you're about to ask? This is amazing.

[Dan Le Batard]

I don't know the answer. Oh, okay.

[Stugotz]

I'll say. Whoa. This is ultimate. I wonder. This is how Trump feels like. I don't know what I'm about to say next.

[Mike Ryan]

That could be a T shirt, too.

[Dan Le Batard]

I don't know what Miami's or America's rooting interests are tonight. Well, so help me here, because I. Because I. So could 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.

[Stugotz]

Nobody cares about that. It is the most polarizing. Right, like in terms Indiana, that's like, oh, shucks, that's a nice story. Oregon, like, oh, yeah, they're usually good Ole Miss. People feel sorry for 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 that coach.

[Dan Le Batard]

Is Crystal Ball going to be beaten by a bunch of coaches who are working part time the last couple of days? Is Crystal Ball 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 timeout. 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.

[Stugotz]

No, for or no the best result. Chris had it right. You get, 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.

[Mike Ryan]

I love your idea here where they're tied late and they go for two instead of kicking an extra point like they. With no time left, it would have been Nebraska.

[Dan Le Batard]

No, he's saying the game is. No, he's saying the game is tied and Crystal Ball decides to go for.

[Mike Ryan]

With no time just to prove it.

[Dan Le Batard]

With a running play right up the genius offensive line.

[Stugotz]

Well, well, this, that's the best case.

[Dan Le Batard]

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 Crystal ball, okay? The three pronged geniuses, like Einstein's genius. The three pronged genius of Mario Cristobal. When if one, if the Tony fumble in Texas A and 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 have been or the two biggest scoring plays have been a pick six and a special teams return that went for like 60 yards. Everything else has been, this is not an explosive offense. This is the worst offense remains remaining in the playoffs.

[Jeremy]

Yeah, I mean, James Madison lost their game to Oregon, a final four team, but they scored as many points in their one game against Oregon as Miami has scored in two games. Like, 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 Chambliss, who we know Zaz is sick of.

[Mike Ryan]

Remember, guys, Ole Miss tackles.

[Dan Le Batard]

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 televisions 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 Kiffin's team. This juco ization 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. Get 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's rooting for. I don't know.

[Stugotz]

You know what America's rooting for?

[Dan Le Batard]

I don't.

[Stugotz]

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.

[Dan Le Batard]

I think broader, I think America prefers Miami losing in the final, not.

[Stugotz]

Not tonight. America, like that's a 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 by the time it gets to the World Series, it hits a fever pitch. You have to build that fever pitch. But by hating them along the way, there's no part of America. Dan, if we drew a map, you know, those maps they like. Hey, what team are you rooting for? It's going to be one little corner here in Florida.

[Mike Ryan]

I love those maps.

[Jeremy]

What state?

[Stugotz]

What?

[Mike Ryan]

What team is every state rooting for?

[Stugotz]

They're all rooting for Ole Miss.

[Mike Ryan]

I love those things.

[Stugotz]

They're all rooting for Ole Miss. 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.

[Guest/Announcer]

I don't know, Dan. You, me and Amin have been alive for more than 40 years. Under no circumstances has America ever rooted for the Miami Hurricanes.

[Jeremy]

Yeah, the America you were just talking about, Dan. Remember that America we were talking about last segment? You think that America is rooting for Miami over Ole Miss?

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[Chris Cody]

Context needs to be applied.

[Amin]

Going for a joke and thought the context was applied. We we'd like to rip that out of context. I was going for a thing and.

[Dan Le Batard]

You'Re gonna I have a family. You're gonna pretend here that you don't love Matthew Tkachuk more than you love anybody you've ever loved.

[Amin]

I I don't love Matthew T. Than my daughter.

[Dan Le Batard]

Stugats.

[Amin]

Now it's pretty damn close.

[Guest/Announcer]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugats.

[Dan Le Batard]

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 lineman and defensive linemen 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.

[Mike Ryan]

We have a map here.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, Dan, I'd like to, if I could just utilize some of the new tools we have available to us here. Here, see here, this is the United States right here. Right? Let me draw this circle big. Nice and big. That's the United States right. You see this part right here? Everything that I'm shading right here.

[Mike Ryan]

Tell the audience, the audio audience, where you're shading.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, I'm shading the entirety of the country. Maybe someone else should do that. So it's a little funny.

[Dan Le Batard]

All right, so, Amin, 49 states. We can do that with you, Amin, 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.

[Stugotz]

I mean, and now I'm going to write right here in blue because that's, I believe, the color the Ole Miss wears. This is Ole Miss country right here. Everything I've blue and red.

[Mike Ryan]

Oh, the entire country.

[Dan Le Batard]

So you're just painting in the rest of the country. Everyone is rooting for Miss tonight.

[Stugotz]

Alaska and Hawaii as well. Don't get them. Don't lose them.

[Guest/Announcer]

Three quarters of Florida and then.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, oh, yeah, that's true. This is also right here, Ole Miss country. Northern Florida, because you got Tallahassee here, you got Gainesville. They don't like you guys.

[Mike Ryan]

Miami's not even in the shot because.

[Stugotz]

Of the lower third. We can't even see the part of the country that is rooting for Miami.

[Dan Le Batard]

And it's not Tampa because of the lower third. Graphically, that says the Dan Lebatard show with Stugat.

[Mike Ryan]

Nice graphic.

[Stugotz]

Let's zoom in on Southern Florida. And I'll show you exactly which.

[Dan Le Batard]

But this isn't great as audio. You understand that you've hijacked the show now to do something that is all visual.

[Stugotz]

Well, I would say you can hit.

[Mike Ryan]

The trash can button if you want to play.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, I know how to use it. Okay. Use it. I would say that maybe don't give me a visual tool then demand me to make it an audio.

[Dan Le Batard]

I think now would be a good time to hit the Magic Creative content. He's run out of materials and he lost all of the blue that was on the map calling for Magic Creative. Yeah, I am, because I.

[Guest/Announcer]

It's not even that big of an area.

[Dan Le Batard]

Yes, I was right there.

[Stugotz]

I did too much there. West Palm ain't with us. Hold on.

[Guest/Announcer]

You got western Florida in there.

[Stugotz]

There you go.

[Amin]

Right here.

[Dan Le Batard]

This is an hour late. Okay. This is an hour later.

[Mike Ryan]

Grab a topic out of this.

[Amin]

Yeah.

[Dan Le Batard]

If we're going to do it visually, I don't know how that fell apart. So you were 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.

[Stugotz]

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.

[Dan Le Batard]

No. This was when juju was in town. That's 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 be.

[Mike Ryan]

I don't like his glasses. I'll say it.

[Dan Le Batard]

I'll ask.

[Stugotz]

WCK 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 Cop?

[Jeremy]

Forest green.

[Stugotz]

GB Forest green stands color.

[Dan Le Batard]

Do me a favor, please, Lewis. Ask juju what he meant to trigger with that quote question when he threw it in the magic crater. Content when he was. And we will see if we can get an answer to that question that has interested participants.

[Stugotz]

We need timeless questions, guys. Timeless questions.

[Dan Le Batard]

Are you telling juju how to do the. The show?

[Stugotz]

How to do the Mystery crate? Yeah.

[Dan Le Batard]

Or the Magic Crate? Yeah. I just snitched on juju. I don't think.

[Stugotz]

I didn't know juju wrote it. Yeah, yeah.

[Dan Le Batard]

I don't think that's supposed to be known.

[Stugotz]

Well, that's a shock.

[Dan Le Batard]

The Magic Creative content.

[Stugotz]

Levitard snitches on someone.

[Dan Le Batard]

So I don't think, though. Okay, I don't think that Amin has this right, though, when 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 is going to be running around saying, no one believed in us. No one believed in us because they lost two games.

[Stugotz]

Nobody. No, but nobody did believe in them. That's why I said, like, a Weekend observations. Holy shit. Mike was right. Because, like, there is. I am legitimately shocked. Shocked. Texas A and 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 pay. George. I'm like, holy shit. They could actually do it.

[Jeremy]

It's just so funny, though, because, like, two years ago, this season just would have ended before. Before anything. They would have even played for the conference championship.

[Stugotz]

Yeah.

[Jeremy]

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.

[Stugotz]

You want to hear a funny way.

[Dan Le Batard]

To think of this?

[Stugotz]

They're basically FAU basketball from a couple years ago.

[Jeremy]

Yeah, that's what they are.

[Stugotz]

That's what they are. You got hot.

[Mike Ryan]

Come on.

[Jeremy]

No, they got hot.

[Stugotz]

You got highlights on me. You made the Final Four.

[Dan Le Batard]

They didn't even make their conference championship. Among the more impressive things I saw, 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 in 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 like it's Just Mississippi has a different quarterback in a different uniform. And Mississippi has all the same athletes. Georgia does. There's no. 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, they're a lot more physical. And as Notre Dame watches, what's happening here says, oh, that could have been us. Like we were right there. That was. We could beat Texas A and M in a game. We could be Miami in a game. We could beat. We, we could. We could beat Ohio State. Why couldn't we. 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.

[Stugotz]

Precisely.

[Dan Le Batard]

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 like what you remember, as fraudulent as Clemson is fraudulent this year. What you said, 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.

[Jeremy]

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 to 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.

[Stugotz]

Okay, let me stop. 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 jackasses for this whole segment. We'll hold things, downplay it because we want him to get to the final so that Mario Cristobal can go for two when all he needs is a one.

[Dan Le Batard]

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 circle circumstance, when Jeremy goes through those game logs, can you take a look at the Washington State numbers? What Washington State did to Trinidad Chambliss. Can you take a look at the Florida numbers? What Florida did to Trinidad Chambliss?

[Stugotz]

Every time you say Trinidad, I'm waiting for you to say Trinidad, James.

[Jeremy]

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, but I don't want.

[Dan Le Batard]

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 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 Missouri's and Vanderbilts, like they're all the same and they're all just okay.

[Jeremy]

Washington State had three sacks in that game. They had six tackles for loss and two passes deflected. Florida sacked him 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, 7 team going into that game or after that game.

[Stugotz]

Michael Irvin should bring a separate belt with him. He takes off his actual belt, but then he's kind of pulling up his pants the whole time.

[Dan Le Batard]

Is that right?

[Stugotz]

Yeah, like if we watch this video right here of him celebrating after they beat.

[Dan Le Batard]

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.

[Stugotz]

If you do that or wear suspense fenders maybe and then take off the.

[Dan Le Batard]

Belt, you're gonna give him style tips.

[Stugotz]

No, I'm not style tips. Look, see, look, I'm just trying to.

[Mike Ryan]

That's real baggy pants there.

[Stugotz]

Those pants are really baggy. It's a wide waist. He's lost a lot of weight apparently.

[Mike Ryan]

What do you think he's got planned for the night? Like Michael tonight, going into tonight's game, like, do you think he. Do you think he just flies by the seat of his pants? Or you think he's thinking to like, what do I gotta do?

[Stugotz]

You think this man has a plan?

[Mike Ryan]

I mean, I think, 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.

[Stugotz]

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 gonna say Michael Irvin.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, so here, this, this will be fun one to dissect here for a second. You saw how everybody got super excited about Deion Sanders and what Colorado was doing when they could have bought their way into this particular fame.

[Mike Ryan]

I think Michael Irvin was like on their sidelines a couple.

[Dan Le Batard]

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 per 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, like a freshman or a sophomore at the University of Miami, I think, or maybe, maybe a junior. But for better or for worse, 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 way, way too loud and wonderfully loud. We're gonna find out what year it was arrogantly loud. Whether you're gonna find out whether it was 30 years or 40 years.

[Jeremy]

Well, no, it was 40 years ago because he played from 1985, 86, and 87. So, yes, you were right.

[Stugotz]

Then 30 years ago was 1996 was the super bowl where Brett Favre blew out Drew Bledsoe.

[Amin]

Look at you.

[Dan Le Batard]

I'm sorry. Super bowl knowledge, Excellent work.

[Stugotz]

I mean, look, my sports knowledge up until like 2000 and probably 2. All sports, bro. I was on everything.

[Mike Ryan]

That's why I crush it at our pitch clock because we do old baseball trivia. Like, if we did today baseball trivia, I would stink.

[Jeremy]

That pitch clock, I crush it because we do 03 to 08.

[Stugotz]

Oh, that's a fun time.

[Amin]

Hey, Jeremy. Happy holidays.

[Jeremy]

Happy Januka.

[Amin]

I want to toast you. Actually, I don't. I will toast with you.

[Guest/Announcer]

Okay.

[Amin]

We're co workers.

[Dan Le Batard]

Mm.

[Jeremy]

Friends, you could say.

[Amin]

No, we cannot say that. But we both enjoy an ice cold Miller Lite.

[Jeremy]

That's true.

[Amin]

Especially around the holidays. You know, it's a 50th anniversary Miller Lite.

[Jeremy]

It's really amazing every time we say that. I can't believe it.

[Amin]

Well, it's crazy because, like, they've basically been partners with the Dan LeBatard show for half of their existence. When I put it to you that way, we got an old ass show.

[Jeremy]

Yeah, we do. That's crazy.

[Amin]

Hey, let's look around at our friends, not each other and our family, even though they're not here. I do miss your brother, though.

[Jeremy]

Yeah, I know.

[Amin]

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[Chris Cody]

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[Guest/Announcer]

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[Chris Cody]

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[Dan Le Batard]

Smear off, Chris.

[Guest/Announcer]

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[Chris Cody]

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[Dan Le Batard]

Fair enough.

[Chris Cody]

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[Dan Le Batard]

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[Chris Cody]

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[Stugotz]

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[Chris Cody]

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[Stugotz]

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[Chris Cody]

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[Mike Ryan]

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[Dan Le Batard]

Don Lebatard. Can I tell you something? I don't know, maybe like a month.

[Jeremy]

Ago, and I decided to watch Pitch Clock, and I told Jeremy, stugats, this is a good show you're doing.

[Guest/Announcer]

This is the Dan Levatar show with the Stugats.

[Dan Le Batard]

You just wanted to tell us that?

[Stugotz]

No, I want to tell you that you said it was either his freshman or his junior or sophomore. Junior year. He only played three years at University of Miami, so you really nailed the window.

[Mike Ryan]

We're going to figure it out, Dan. We're going to get to the bottom.

[Dan Le Batard]

Thank you. And he wasn't a true freshman either.

[Mike Ryan]

So maybe the article, Jeremy.

[Dan Le Batard]

Well, I wasn't asking him to find the article.

[Stugotz]

We are.

[Mike Ryan]

We need to know what year of his college.

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay. Year. Well, it's important to the story. Okay, well, if. 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, 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. 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 Keynes. We're an entirely new generation. We don't want bad boy Canes, all that stuff. That's a different time. We're doing 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 its players the way that you know some of those stars.

[Stugotz]

Because, wait a second, those guys were after Willis McGahey and Jeremy Shockey and.

[Dan Le Batard]

Those guys in 2001, that era, all of those guys were on the same team. The running backs were McGahey, Portis and Gore. Those were the running backs on that team.

[Stugotz]

So.

[Dan Le Batard]

So that's what I'm saying. But three fourths of the secondary was drafted in the fourth round, and you can't remember those. The names of those players, but 3/4 of the secondary was drafted in the first round. It's the best team there's ever been. If you don't think LSU of Joe.

[Stugotz]

Burrow is like, that's. But that's. That was kind of. I was getting a mike. Like, that team was famous. Everybody on that team was famous.

[Mike Ryan]

And all I know is, at the time, they were.

[Stugotz]

Yeah, okay, Jeremy. Shocking.

[Mike Ryan]

Once they became prosy.

[Stugotz]

No. Why do I know that? He didn't even amount to anything. He was famous. Like, they.

[Dan Le Batard]

Oh, my go.

[Stugotz]

This was famous. Kelly Winslow Jr. I'm a soldier, remember? That was a big deal. Like, 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.

[Dan Le Batard]

All right, can you guys please go get that? So let me. I'd like to do the comparison.

[Stugotz]

Montreal roll like it's a roll on Ed Reed.

[Dan Le Batard]

Vince.

[Stugotz]

Vince Wilfort. I'm telling you, Chris, it was. They were celebrities.

[Jeremy]

You know, he has a new wife now.

[Stugotz]

Does he?

[Dan Le Batard]

Can you guys get for me, please, Kellen 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.

[Stugotz]

In a weird way, do you know what I compare them to? And probably it's because it's. 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 gonna win 700 Super Bowls. And then the next one, they lose to the Patriots. And it's kind of like, oh, it's like just a little close, but it was a military field goal, whatever. And it's like, same thing. Those guys are supposed to run the sport. And then they lose to 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.

[Dan Le Batard]

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. Greg, great then, but what? Craig Krensel was their quarterback, but when you look back at what you're saying about Dorsey and look at those. 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 70ft behind everybody.

[Stugotz]

As I'm saying, it's like their quarterback wasn't good, but like, he was surrounded with such incredible famous talent that, like, it didn't matter.

[Dan Le Batard]

So the Kellen Winslow team. And do not look up his crimes. They are wildly unpleasant. And I believe he's still in jail.

[Stugotz]

I forgot about that part.

[Dan Le Batard]

Still, he. I think he's still in prison. Kellen Winslow was in the locker room as. 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? Nah, man, I'm pissed.

[Stugotz]

All y' all take this down.

[Dan Le Batard]

I'm pissed, man. We don't care about nobody except this. You.

[Stugotz]

We don't.

[Dan Le Batard]

If I didn't hurt him, he'd hurt me. They're gunning for my legs. I'm gonna come right back at him soldier.

[Stugotz]

America lost its shit. Cause he said I'm a. I remember that. Like they. I cannot stress enough how people. How dare you. How dare you. The pearl clutching and then he went on to do some awful things.

[Dan Le Batard]

That is correct. That you'd forgotten about all that.

[Stugotz]

That's what the. How dare you. I should be pearl clutching for that.

[Dan Le Batard]

Cuz what you remember about Kellen Winslow and those Miami teams? This. What. What is interesting about this time period and the fact that I think that this Miami team has, I guess, sort of snuck up on the country? No.

[Stugotz]

If 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 the little profile picture they post. I'm like, who is this child? Why is he making pics? But like those are the only people. Dan, right here in Miami, we were laughing at Mike. We're like, Mike's crazy. We had Jessica Smittana come on. Every week laughing at Mike.

[Mike Ryan]

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.

[Stugotz]

Nobody. Nobody.

[Dan Le Batard]

So it is us against the world. Nobody thought we could be here. That's what you're.

[Stugotz]

We didn't think we'd be here. And I'm not even part of the we.

[Dan Le Batard]

So did we.

[Stugotz]

So did we.

[Dan Le Batard]

Okay, so you're. 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. Nick Saban after they got too good. They watched the Patriots, they watched Jake Paul. That people will be watching tonight in bigger numbers make 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.

[Stugotz]

Now slow down there, Dan. I didn't say bigger numbers. I don't know how many people actually care.

[Jeremy]

Yeah, I think it's mostly indifference.

[Stugotz]

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 Link Selfish Lane Kiffin according to Jimbo Fish 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. As a school. They don't like it as a team. They don't like anything.

[Mike Ryan]

They just like the vacation here.

[Stugotz]

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. Ugh.

[Mike Ryan]

I don't.

[Stugotz]

Why is that so unfair? That's how they all feel.

[Dan Le Batard]

So you're doing jealousy. Was that your jealousy voice, your envy? What is that?

[Mike Ryan]

Drivers.

[Dan Le Batard]

What's happening?

[Jeremy]

Oh, that's true.

[Stugotz]

No one here speaks English like that.

[Mike Ryan]

Stick of driving everywhere.

[Stugotz]

The traffic here is so bad. That's what they do. They come over here and they. And. And there's a part of them that'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 off because they thought this one that was theirs.

[Dan Le Batard]

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 what you're telling me.

[Mike Ryan]

Internet minute.

[Dan Le Batard]

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.

[Stugotz]

That's. It just said bigger. Big versus big girl.

[Dan Le Batard]

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.

[Stugotz]

Just because you're Notre Dame, I think.

[Mike Ryan]

Miami's the ratings mover of this bunch. Yes, but I don't know.

[Stugotz]

Yes, in general. No.

[Jeremy]

But Indiana is a cool story, though. Like, I think we have a really, really, really local perspective on. Really really?

[Stugotz]

Because Indiana is a much more national.

[Jeremy]

Name in Brian, 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.

[Stugotz]

Of the of the remaining teams, you're right. Indiana Miami is the best matchup. Or some people might say Oregon because crystal ball came from there. Sure. 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. Every. And you got. Mendoza is from here. Give all the glory to God.

[Jeremy]

Jesus, I love him so much more to God.

[Stugotz]

You want surprise with that?

[Dan Le Batard]

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 asinine what you have presently framed. As I put.

[Mike Ryan]

Close my eyes and look at the frame.

[Dan Le Batard]

I want you to. Yes, please, all of you, close your.

[Mike Ryan]

Eyes unless you're driving.

[Dan Le Batard]

Close your eyes. Unless even if you're driving, close your eyes because this will guide you.

[Mike Ryan]

Open every like three seconds for safety.

[Dan Le Batard]

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. Dog off. 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 you when Michael Irvin was running down the sidelines and the way that LeBron in Miami and Chris Bosh in Miami said you. You're going to be. You're going to put us in that position. There's as low and he's at the Peach bowl for some reason.