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00:00What are you most looking forward to in the new world order of college football?
00:05We've discussed a lot of what we're uncomfortable with and why we're uncomfortable with it,
00:12but there's sort of this cliche that people just hate change.
00:18I don't like change.
00:20I don't want things to change.
00:23And it's boxing you in to be stodgy and old.
00:27And we try to avoid that and just say, okay, this is the way it's going to be.
00:31And we've talked about how we're uncomfortable.
00:33And yet I suspect when Saturdays come, I'm going to be all back in the way I have been
00:37my entire life.
00:39But what are you most looking forward to in conference realignment and NIL and transfer
00:44portal and all this, this crazy, crazy stuff that is a lot to digest in a short period
00:51of time?
00:52What are you most looking forward to?
00:53It's the matchups.
00:54It's the idea that we're going to see on a semi-regular basis, Ohio state taken on
01:00Oregon, Michigan taken on USC, Michigan state taken on Oregon, Georgia taken on Oklahoma,
01:10Alabama, maybe taken on Texas.
01:14These are the things I'm looking forward to seeing.
01:16What I don't want to see and what I suspect will happen to the SEC, maybe it's just because
01:20I have the disdain for the superiority of the SEC, even though they're fantastic, there's
01:26no question about it.
01:27What I don't want to see from that conference is shying away from the matchup, protecting
01:32the matchups so that they only happen in the post season.
01:35I don't want to see, I don't want to see them eschew some of those great matchups so that
01:41it only happens late.
01:43You mean that the conferences manipulate the scheduling and they don't, I don't think that's
01:47going to happen.
01:48I don't think I'm going to see Georgia and Alabama playing in the regular season.
01:50Well, they were in different sides of the conference in the old format.
01:53And so I can't imagine that the TV networks would allow for that.
01:59Like that's what they're in for is great matchups.
02:01And I agree the week in, week out matchups are going to, it's going to be a lot of interesting
02:10stuff.
02:11Yeah.
02:12And as a fan, so to see those matchups on TV and also to see those matchups live, if
02:16you want to go to a game and never been to a game at Washington, I want to see a game
02:20there at some point in my life.
02:22And here's an opportunity to go watch Michigan state play at Washington.
02:26I've been to Oregon.
02:28It was fan, beautiful, beautiful area.
02:31Loved it out there.
02:32Yeah.
02:33I'd love to see those matchups go to the, to play UCLA in the Rose bowl.
02:38I mean, the Rose bowl is a perfect venue.
02:40Yeah.
02:41It's a, it's, it's all great.
02:44So my, the fear I have on the other side of that is that because of the post season losing
02:50these games doesn't matter.
02:51Like the intensity, you can lose two and maybe three games depending on your strength of
02:56schedule and still go to the post season.
03:00And I think college football had a spectacular regular season.
03:04There'll be more good matchups, but there's less at stake in those matchups.
03:11I, I, I'm hopeful that that won't really water down the regular season.
03:15There'll still be fun games.
03:17I find it hard.
03:19And for the traditionalist and I find it hard to argue that the Michigan Ohio state game
03:25will be as important because it used to basically, you know, in a traditional sense, these two
03:32schools were on a collision course and they were hoping it was for a big 10 title.
03:36It wasn't always the case, but I think that that is one of the downsides of all this.
03:41Well, I mean, that's, it's been this way for a long time though, with that, I mean, ever
03:44since they've expanded the big 10 and, um, and, and when it went to the BCS, it, things
03:51changed, right?
03:52Yep.
03:53So I think this is a pretty rapid and, and probably the most dramatic change for those
03:58that, and look, we got a fan base here that, that really leaned heavily on that rivalry.
04:03And I, I understand why, but, and it's still a great rivalry.
04:06I mean, it is, it just, you know, the, the prize at the end is different now because
04:11you're no longer playing for the big 10 championship, but you're playing for the, the ultimate goal
04:16in the end now is a national championship, which should be even better than what it was
04:20before because before it was just beat Ohio state and okay, then you get to play in the
04:26Rose bowl.
04:27Right.
04:28And, and, and, and, but there wasn't any national champ was voted on.
04:31It wasn't played on.
04:32So I think it's a big difference is now you tangibly get to play the game.
04:36Yeah.
04:37We've watched that slowly take on, I get watered down through the years.
04:40And I think this is the biggest move to water it down even more.
04:43I still suspect it'll be great.
04:45I just don't think it means.
04:46I'll go the other way.
04:47I don't think it waters it down.
04:48I think now you get more of a true champion at the end because you're going to have to
04:51play a schedule.
04:52You're going to have to play real teams in the regular season because we've got these
04:55mega conferences now.
04:57And then when you get to the playoff situation, you're going to have to play at least three
05:02playoff games.
05:04That's a different argument.
05:05I agree that there are some good stuff watering it down.
05:07I'm talking about watering down Michigan, Ohio state exclusively, and that, that, that
05:14I'm not talking about watering down college football or the champion.
05:16I'm just talking about, I think Michigan, Ohio state takes on less significance than
05:20it has in the past, but that's, it's important.
05:23It's important to the Michigan fan.
05:24I don't know how important it is, but it is, it has been important to the Michigan fan
05:27Kang.
05:28What are you looking forward to most?
05:29Does it water down to Michigan, Michigan state rivalry?
05:33I don't know.
05:34I don't know that as much was on the line historically, but maybe it might.
05:37Kang, what are you, what are you most looking forward to?
05:40Of course, like you guys, I'm not in love with all the changes, but if you're forcing
05:43me to look forward to something about the new college, new world order of college football,
05:47it's probably the playoff system and actually a real playoff system.
05:50Now we can debate whether it's too many teams, not enough teams, but there is going to be
05:54a playoff system this year and to see how that plays out because a lot of us are bitching
05:59about it.
06:00But in the end, these games are one and done.
06:02They mean something and everyone's going to be watching and that's what they want because
06:06that's, there's so much money involved.
06:08So to watch this bracket and do the NFL style essentially of a playoff system, that's probably
06:13what I'll be.
06:14Like I said, I may bitch now, but I'm going to be watching for sure later.
06:18So mine is very personal.
06:20This is personal.
06:21It's just because we've done this job forever.
06:23The one thing about the new world order of college football and we'd get into debates
06:27that I got very tired of, I got tired of the same old debate.
06:31The players getting paid, okay, the players can make money now, which I have no issue
06:35with them making money.
06:37I hated the argument that they weren't quote, getting anything that always rubbed me the
06:40wrong way because these tuition checks I'm writing certainly feel like I'm paying for
06:45something.
06:46And uh, at the end of the day, I thought the players, the reward that the players was getting,
06:50it might not be the reward that they wanted, but the reward of a college education I think
06:54is that is paid for is pretty valuable.
06:56They work for it and they deserve it.
06:58I'm not arguing that, but I'm glad that that conversation in the new world order, we won't
07:02have to have that conversation anymore.
07:05Um, so I do like that, but I want to ask the fans, what are you most looking forward to
07:10in this new world order of college football?