Transcript of Local Hour: Premature Prediculation

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Oye, Pablito, what's good, bro? Mira que yo resuelpo I want to give all the glory God.

Billy Corbin..

I imagine it would be like your mama.

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Saludos. Hey, that's great to hear.. Oye, los huracanes.

La Universidad Miami, los huracanes viven en el corazón de nuestra familia.

How do I do?

Guess what we're doing the party? We're doing it at Bird Bowl.

I love you, Miami. No matter how you wrap it up in your fancy happy music, I sit right at the center of what is blatant, obvious, and offensive cultural appropriation. I can't believe what I'm about to say. Zazlo looked great as a Cuban Theo yesterday, but Greg Cody somehow looked better. I'm not kidding you. If I put Greg Cody next to A Caja China, 12 beers in, and I say, Greg, just don't say anything. He is the coolest of the old Thios. He doesn't say anything. You don't know what's in his past, but he absolutely looks like a fusing right now of my grand My father and my uncle, he's bringing them back to life with the way that he looks. Greg Cody could absolutely pass as Cuban Thio better than even Zazlo. Is it the beard? It's the face. It's the entirety of the face. It's the age it's battered by South Florida sunshine and the islands for 50 years.

I don't know, Dan. The more I see Zaz, the more I'm transported into my childhood. I know 11 guys that look exactly like that.

Can we put them side to side, please? Send out a photo and do a vote of who looks more like the Coupan Teo who's not saying anything at the barbecue. He's had too many drinks. He's sedated. He's been at this party this way every time we've gotten together for 30 straight years. Nobody knows him. He's super mysterious. He says nothing. He's just there for the drink and the smell of the pig that's dead in the backyard.

. And I'm like, Oh, I don't really know him. My mom told me to be careful with him, that he's a little weird. Then I'm like, Oh, I don't know.

Nobody knows his past. He's never said anything in any of these parties. He just drinks and there's pig there, and he's there to everyone in his family.

I have one of these in my family. I'm not going to say his name to protect. Not innocent. We all do. But I was like, Hey, as a kid, they told Don't go around him. Don't bring the kids around him. We don't know what is going on. Not in that way. We just don't know what he's going to say. We don't know what he's going to say.

I'm not comfortable with the cultural appropriation. I also am not comfortable with something else that's happening because the game has arrived, all right? My phone's never done this with tickets before ever. And former players already complaining that they can't get tickets. That former players, champions are like, Whoa, Miami does the big event, giant. Miami always does the big event well, and this is the biggest of the big Miami events. This school, Mattering, brings generations of bandwagon to the party. What do you mean Miami can just pay attention for six or seven minutes and then gets to celebrate as the winners at the end because they weren't too busy win surfing all weekend to pay attention to the local football team that has always been a source of pride. I'm driving yesterday, and Stephen A. Smith is saying no manner of hugely objectionable things about the world that I wanted to comment on every five minutes for the last two years. But finally, he pissed me off yesterday when he's like, Does Miami have a chance? Is this even going to be a game? Like, Indiana And Steven, you came sniffing college football three weeks ago.

Don't try to pretend like you've been watching any of this. Miami is playing a home game for the Championship. Do you people have no sense of history of what that means? Miami wins that game always. Miami changes the fortunes of everything happening in football around here. When you bring it to Miami, throw the party at them. And Indiana, have you played this? Have you played this size of crowd? Because you went to Iowa, and Iowa, you struggled in Iowa. I was tough. And you went to Penn State, and Penn State was a failure this year, but that was tough. You've never seen this. This is. This is Scarface. Do you remember the scene in the movie? The scene in the movie, the one we all love, 10 minutes of it was filmed in South Florida, and then they chased it out because our people are very powerful and said, Get that racist shit out of here. Pacino doesn't sound Latin at all. And we ran that whole film off, but it's ours. And in the middle of that, Tony, you probably have family that were in that camp, no?

Not in the Mariel boatlifts, but obviously, everybody knew what was happening at that point. I did do a Tony's Top 5 from that exact spot, and you were like, Why are you there? I'm like, Dan, because this is a massive piece of our history. This is Rebenga. Then you were like, It's not that big of a deal.

Well, it is a big deal in the movie because it's what you have to do to get to freedom from Cuba, even if it means killing somebody under a highway because- Again, it was part of the Cuban police, though, Dan. It's a different story. It's Steven Power became a star here, and Pacino already was a star. Talk about cultural appropriation. But the riots under the Bridge, what did it sound like as Steven Bauer roamed the premises with a shiv? Now, imagine what? Indiana. Indiana. Revenga. Mendoza. Fernando. Revenga. Come on. That young man knows what he's returning to, right?

He'll have a lot of people there. That's why it's a home game for him as well as it is for the hurricanes. I want to give all the glory to God. That's part of the reason why the point spread is an insult to the hurricanes. It's an insult. The fact that it creeped up over seven points That's an insult. Mario Cristobal is playing that, man. He's playing it all week long.

He was playing that when they were favored. What? He was going in a meeting saying, They think we're going to lose by a million.

How this gift is what I'm legitimately asking you guys. Mike keeps getting tired of me talking about the context and the history of the program. But when it comes to feeling like the U is back, you've been fighting for something, how in holy hell am I living in a universe where the has made Miami an overwhelming underdog to win a home game in Miami? In what world? I understand how many people would look at the last two games and just say, Indiana is going to ransack everyone. They're undefeated. It's hard to go undefeated. But have you no sense of history when you think of every time the championship comes to Miami to be played by a Miami team, you know that's as good as this one that has pros on the field. That Miami team wins at home against everybody who's ever played college football, even the very highest of the sport, which Indiana hasn't been except for the last five minutes.

I need a little bit of help with this because I was too young. I'm pretty sure what, the Canes, three of their first four national championships came after wins in the Orange Bowl, right? Three or five. Okay, yeah. Three of their five were at home. But three of the first four, from '83 to '91. I'm curious. I feel like back then, those games in the OB was probably 90 plus % Canes fans. That's not going to be the case for this game. It's a home game, but it's going to be closer to 50/50, right?

You would imagine. I mean, that's what the National Championship game in a neutral site is supposed to legislate. Basically, 25 % allotment goes to the Miami Huracanes, 25 % allotment goes to the Indiana Hoosiers, 20 % goes to corporate, and then the remaining percentages is go to the primary market. As we've seen, some of those tickets already got snagged up and you're getting insane prices.

I got a plan for today, by the way. You know the seat set?

My phone has never done this. What it is presently doing, my phone has never done outreach from all over the place to get tickets to this game.

Call them schners. You know the seats that I sit at, usually? I don't have access to those Golden Canes seats, obviously.

Do you know who's going to be in your seat?

I know what they're going for.

No, but who? It's a major corporate sponsor.

No, but it's six figures. It's what those seats are going for just for this game.

Wasn't Mark Cuban saying he wanted a discount on the tickets?

He was struggling.

Yeah, he was talking to Connor Salian. It's weird.

The other thing at the center of this that makes it so fun as Miami, all of Miami, can bandwagon around the big event. And this part makes me smile because of just how ridiculous it is. The Cubans never get to feel this about their guys in sports. The Cubans always are fighting to maybe be a reliever in baseball or even pitch in the World Series, but they never get to be the star of the biggest football game in America's sport. Never, ever do the Cubans ever get to feel what they have in this game, which is, are you shitting me? The coach and the quarterback went to the same high school.

And it's in Miami. It's crazy how the stars have aligned. It's insane. For Indiana to be here with a Cuban quarterback that went to Columbus, the same high school as that Cuban head coach of the Miami Hurcans, to be playing a national title game in Miami, Florida, you couldn't write a better script.

This never happens for us. And that's all I was saying the other day at the mural. This never happens for us. Cuban kids don't get to turn on the TV and see a kid that went to Columbus. Oh, that could be my cousin. A guy that went to Columbus that went through all the stuff that your parents went through as second generations in this country. We never get to see that on TV. Now we get to see it live and in color for the biggest stage. Indiana, bego por ti.

That's the weird dynamic about this game. If this was Ole Miss against Indiana in Hard Rock Stadium, Mendoza and Indiana would be the team. They would be worshiped. Mendoza would be worshiped in South Florida this week. But because it's Miami, there's no losing team here. If I look at it neutrally as a journalist, there's no bad story to write off this game because it's two wonderful stories.

My thought, though, placing all of those elements in front of you, not even just the Cube and parts of it. What's the context in the last 50 years, outside of the first time they played Nebraska, the first championship they won, because Tom Osborne went for two when a tie would have given him the championship, failed to get it to, starts the Miami dynasty, and all the time in there. When do I get to make Miami, after all this excellence, this underdog where Steven A is asking whether this can even be a competitive game? When it's a game in Miami. If that's ever happened, we've seen the very beginning of this didn't quite have all the pros that when it was Portis and Gore and McGahee in the same huddle or the secondaries, Sean Taylor and Ed Reid. This isn't that. This is not that. They do not have all the pros on one team. But the idea that this team is here, this program is here, and you've seen physically what they've done to the last three teams they've played, in what world is that a an underdog viewed by America to not have a chance in the game.

The world in which Indiana has won their two college football playoff games by an average of 34. 5 points per game, Dan. The way you have watched Miami all season, we have watched the way that they've improved, we have watched all of that. But everyone else is looking at Indiana, rightfully so, as an undefeated team that has physically dominated every other team that they've played.

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Don Lebatard. I'm not going to apologize. I wouldn't expect you to apologize.

You're a giant infant. You have no control over your emotions. You have no control over your emotions when you're calling someone you know an idiot, I don't deserve it. I don't deserve it, and you're a fool for saying it.

You're a fool.

I was following you.

You're locking in right now. You're locking in on us? Yeah. All right. Let's drop the gloves, pal. You should be thanking me-For what? Every day. For what? For what I've done around this character. And the second shit gets real for you, you want to come at me and call me a fool? No, no, no, no.

Seriously. Jeremy just whispered.

I've added 10 years to your career.

This is the Dan Levatard show with the Stugats.

I think it's ridiculous that there is seven and a half or eight and a half point favorite as well. But to that point, it does make more sense that they are that, as opposed to the line being a lot closer to even.

You mentioned the line. You know the last time Miami lost a game by more than seven points? It was 2023 against NC State. Tyler Van Dyke had his meltdown. We said with lesser Miami teams that teams that have this advantage along the line of scrimage, historically in college football, they do not get blown out. I understand why people are gassing Indiana up. They've been incredible. That stat where Mendoza has eight touch downs and five incompletions.

And the cheating part, right?

I'm not going there, but Miami is prepared.

Put it on the poll at Levitard's show. Is Indiana cheating and is Miami prepared for that? Prepared for the cheating.

Maybe they're cheating by giving all the glory to God?

Miami's run through teams with top 10 defenses, especially against the rush, throughout this entire run. Tony circulated the set that's all out there about the difference in size. That's the whole thing about cheating and knowing what the plays are. We can tell you the script. Miami is going to run a gap. Ohio State was prepared for a gap. Texas A&M was prepared for a gap, and these were great run defenses, and Miami just mano a mano, one. It's the Rebenga.

The play is not a gap. You're calling it a gap with all your fancy coaching jargon because you insist on being an offensive coordinator. Here's the play, Indiana. Cheat this. Rebenga, right behind.. Yes, I've heard that Leventard, winpering, run outside, right outside. No. Rebenga, right up the middle. It's going to be second and three all game. Dan's going to complain about the push-push over here, but he's going to love it when those canes get eight yards because their offensive line has just thrown Fletcher eight yards.

And I did call for the execution of a guard on the Buffalo bills by the electric chair. But if Enes Cooper wants to pick up Marp Fletcher and go 15 yards. We will celebrate that.

I will say listening to this show for the last few months, the analysis when it comes to how Miami is going to go about these games have been pretty on the nose. And the game that we were nervous about was Ole Miss because they did things that neutralized Miami's pass rush. They were more effective at getting home on the quarterback than Miami was in that game. Why? Chamblas gets rid of the ball quick. That proved to be a very real thing. He gets rid of the ball at 2. 42 seconds a clip. Mendoza holds onto that ball longer than three seconds.

The perception, though, of the Championship game swung wildly with the results of the two semifinal games, right? I mean, Miami barely gets by O-Mis, and 38 to three over Alabama. I mean, they humiliated- What Greg is saying is right.

Quantifiably, the advance line on draft Kings for an Indiana-Miami neutral field matchup, and the CFP final was five and a half, and it ballooned up to seven and a half. That's a big two points. Immediately after that Beach Bowl.

Okay, but I keep doing this, and I feel like I must be using too many words and not communicating anything well. The Alabama team that they're getting so much credit for... It seems like so long ago, that Alabama team went to FSU to start the season and lost by two touch downs. An FSU team that wasn't any good, an FSU team that I think ends up losing its last... Did they lose their last night? An FSU team that has lost the state that is fighting over football presently to play against Indiana. I don't have it wrong, right?

No, you're right. I mean, I'm not saying Alabama is a great team, but 38 to three.

No, Alabama got in on reputation. Alabama got in because we think of the SEC a certain way. To me, a victory over Alabama this year did not mean much. Georgia was running around in uniforms that were Georgia's, but that's not the teams that you remember. All of the things in the SEC, all of them, they were okay.

So including Ole Miss then?

Ole Miss included, yes.

The styles make fights. That transit of property is dumb in this sport. I think we know how this game is going to look like. It's going to be violent. When you're in a rock fight, get out of here with 30-point spreads. That's not the way that this game is going to go. They're an execution team. They're going to have to play a clean game, Indiana, to win this game. It's entirely possible that Miami plays a sloppy game. We just saw it. They survived in spite of that. But I don't see how this game's a blow up. But historically, in the national title game, it's either a favorite It covers by a lot, or a dog win straight up.

Blow off for the canes.

What?

You heard me?

No. Are you saying it on the record? Stutter. Okay, wait a minute. Is this what you're saying now on the record?

Blow off for the canes.

Yes. He's a journalist.

What you're predicting, you're on the record now as your Zazlo, ESPN, college football game analyst, your predictions hold embargo, bake all week, and then you unleash them at the end of the week, and it matters what you say. Sometimes I can't wait. Okay, so this is premature prediculation.

Here's how this one's going to go. 90% of the betting public is going to keep listening to the Steven A Smiths of the world and keep hammering Indiana. Minus seven and a half. That line will probably balloon up to close to nine. Good. Keep going. And then before kickoff, that line is going to steam down one and a half to two points. And then you're going to know because they know.

Yeah, that's when the smart money comes in. Two days before kickoff, that line is going to drop below seven. And that's not a prediction.

That's a spoiler.

I am sitting pretty. Smart money is right here. Put your life savings on the canes.

All right. So are there T-shirts here? Then you're going to know because they know. There's a gambling T-shirt there. It seems like a bad shirt. It does it seem like a bad shirt? A burt. Okay, because it felt like that's what you were telling us right there.

I've seen this game a million times. You've seen this game a million times.

You've seen this game a million times.

This line is going to steam down, and everyone's going to be like, What's happening here?

You're going to manhandle them.

You've seen this game a million times? You've seen this game a Aslo's on the record. That's an... Okay, so on Tuesday- Yep.

Do I look like I'm effing around?

No, you do not. I will get with Greg Cody here and get his thoughts on all of this in a second. But we really are going to have, annoying as it is, a week of buildup to this funny Miami event. Funny? I mean, the business of sports is such that five years ago, we weren't paying anyone, and now it's salary caps. And can your $21 million payroll beat Ohio State's $21 million payroll? All of this. To see the finances of this result in Miami in four years, Cristobal, Columbus. Cristobal and Columbus buying their way into business. They got a life wallet guy over here who's a bogus billionaire. There, and it starts with they fake their way into, oh, program is on its last legs here. Program is hurt and program hasn't met in 20 years. Oh, they squandered all of it. Can Columbus go get us 90 million for Cristobal? Why Cristobal? He failed at FIU. Why would you do that? That's idiotic. Oh, 90 million for Cristobal. Fixes it in four years. Plays in the Championship game. They won their way to the top of the business. Why do I think that's funny?

It's weird. I give you that. But Cristobal proved himself at Oregon. I mean, it's not like he didn't have a track record.

Greg, this doesn't get to happen. When you think of the people who win championships, they don't get to be this guy. They don't get to be the guy who had to climb his way up through FIU, never mind the Cuban part of it, who's still got the balls to go on television vision at Saban because he's worked with the best and now boss is around Jason Taylor. Boss is around Jason Taylor. I bet you if I talk to Jason Taylor, he'd tell me, Right now, he's a little scared of that crazy Cuban. Legitimately scared of him because he's a lunatic.

These guys typically don't get fired at programs like FIU.

For Jason Taylor, Hall of Famer, to say, I'll get to coaching by being the guy who coaches your defensive ends, yes, because I want to learn from this Rabbit Cuban. I want to get a shortcut to coaching here, learn Miami style. Oh, this guy ran FIU's business. How did that get into a bowl game? Oh, then he got to run Nike's business. Oregon's still trying to be as relevant as they... They're still trying to do- Rest assured, coaching defensive line for several years under Mario Cristobal is no shortcut. Look, man, Lane Kiffin ran away from Saban. Cristobal got in a four-point stance and let's go, Saban. Give me some more. I'll eat your eyebrows, Saban. You trim your eyebrows.

I admire Cristobal. I think he's real. I think he's a real guy. I think when he uses words like relentless and violent as a style of play, he means it. I think his players have bought into it.

That part's funny, isn't it? That every interview he does, for sure, if I could get betting on, the pregame interview, he's going to say the word violent. A hundred %. Yes. The word whatever the question is, the answer, one of the words, if I could take bets on this right now. We're going to do a live stream during the Championship game, and I want to figure out how to be able to somehow do bets on this. For sure in the pregame, the betting odds would be favored to say whatever the question is, Mario Cristobal will bite it off in one sentence, and that sentence will have the word violent in it.

If we're playing a drinking game, the first-round draft pick is violent.

That's my word. Let's play the drinking game. Let's do that on Monday night during our live stream. Mass kicks ass. And that's going up against sweet local kid Fernando Mendoza.

I've never seen myself in an athlete more than Fernando Mendoza.

Oh, man, I'm just noticing your shirt right now. You're bullshit. What are you doing wearing that?

No, this is absolutely the most I've ever related to an athlete. That representation of a Cuban athlete from South Florida, the starched all the glory to God smile on my face, that's the way I always approach the game. I'm going out there, I'm working hard, I'm playing for my teammates. It's the name on the front, not the name on the back. Fernando Mendoza, thank you for representing Cubans like me.

How are we doing here?

If you shave, he would look like Mendoza if he shaved.

It's not a bit, by the way, audience. Jeremy is Cuban.

But what are we doing? They made it to the national championship game. You're just keep going until the very end, just doing this thing, whatever it is.

Supporting a local kid who has an unbelievable story, who's made it. Look at that face.

How charming is that? You're being the hate and ass hater. Hating ass hater? Yeah. If this were Oregon, I guarantee you, you'd be dressed like Phil Knight. It'd be cool. Have you not learned?

Have I not learned what?

Have you not learned? Have you not learned? The last two months have been you forcibly eating it. They've been running it up your egg gap for two months.

I'm pretty sure everything that I said was right.

Everything that you said was right. You said that James Madison should be in over Miami.

I said James Madison should be in.

No. And they earned it. Jeremy, you said Miami should be out.

Got to want to learn.

There are some teams that earned their way by winning championships.

Let me for a moment grab Mike by the collar because it's Tuesday, and I want to settle everybody down, okay? Because the week began with Billy Corbin, and if we still go- It's going to end with Billy Corbin, too. Don Levatard. You are a fool. You're nobody.

You are an infant.

You have no thick skin. You have nobody to me.

I literally put together a freaking stage for your toenail. I am your career right now, pal. Look at me. I am your career. No. Stugats.

You have messed with me, David, and now you're messing with me, and I'm more dangerous, pal.

This is the Dan Levatard show with the Stugats. I just hope both teams have fun. Jeremy, no, I want to do this with you. I simply want to give you the space to do it because Mike is taking his victory lap aggressively. He has been right about the things Miami has.

They did- About everything, Dan.

Reputationally- Let me help you out.

Been right about everything.

If I'm wrong about the SEC being a fraud, I may indeed be wrong about that. But they beat the three teams at the top of the food chain.

You're not wrong about that because I was saying that months ago, and I was right about everything.

And maybe- 24-14. That's right. And maybe or maybe not, they would have beaten Georgia, and maybe or maybe not, the analysis would have been, Oh, yeah, I remember Georgia is the best of the SEC. No, it's just another team in the SEC, like Missouri, like Vanderbilt. It was just another conference. As soon as the business got involved with all of this and there are 16 teams, you think Texas and Oklahoma are one thing, and they're just... Everybody's in this game now, including Indiana, because the business of this happened fast, man.

Everybody isn't in this game. There are two teams in this game. They're going to spot the ball, and Mass is going to kick ass. That's what's going to happen.

Okay, so I'd like to get Jeremy's thoughts as you want to run up the score on Jeremy on being right. Why? Because you said- His thoughts are bad. He corrected you on Jeremy.

Bad thoughts. Not a fan.

Bad thoughts. I want facts from him. Jeremy was making a I have a reasonable argument on behalf of the country. Mike, I don't think that you see some of the blind spots we have as a show, okay? Because yesterday on the show, you looked me in the face and you said, Columbus High said, Of me in this show, yeah, Dan, you're viewed as not pro-Miami enough. Blind spots? Ask our national audience whether we're pro-Miami enough or not. You think I reputationally- No, you in particular. Okay. Yeah. All right.

I don't think we are.

You don't have- We're just located.

All it matters is what Mario thinks of you.

The thing about blind spots, Dan, is they're behind you. I got my eyes forward. I got Hard Rock Stadium, January 19th. I don't have an obstructed view of that.

Adelante, am I right?

So the ticket prices And locally, during difficult times, difficult economic times, I think Inter Miami priced enough real fandom out. And look, it was a big Championship, one in Miami, and congratulations. But in the places that corporations and communities and ethnic feelings come together in sports. This is crazy what we're in the center of right now. And the amount of requests I'm getting for tickets and the idea that former players' legends, this place has a lot of legends. They'd like tickets. They want to know that They could be on the sideline. Not everyone gets to have Ray Lewis and Edger and James bring them out for a coin toss. And lest you think these things not matter in the present age, okay? When Netflix went to get their best Washington player on Christmas Day. Here, look, here's the pass. Here's Emmet Smith on behalf of the Cowboys because he's the best they've ever had. Who do we get from Washington? Who do we get from Washington? Oh, Portis. Oh, yeah, Portis is the best they got. A guy in a huddle with Yeh, he, and Gore because those Miami teams, they were Alabama before Alabama.

All of the context matter. And it brings you to this moment and a team in a program and a quarterback who has never seen this. Miami ravages every Heisman Trophy winner who comes through Miami thinking it's the best throughout history. Are you going to tell me, am I being an idiot and short-sighted and homerific when I tell you, how do the last two How do you think these games matter to you more than the last 40 years? You tell me, am I being the idiot? Am I being emotional when I say, Don't tell me about Indiana's last two games. Tell me about Miami's last 40 years in the brutal sport that births this caveman, Cuban, who's like, Rueva, Aqab, let's go. I'll fight you in the middle of the stage. If Saban wants to criticize me from over there, for him, too.

Jeremy and I have common ground here. Stop being a writer. You're being a writer too much, dude.

Yeah, the last 40 years, the last 20 years has none of that. So it's not like that context that you're trying to apply to it is irrelevant. These last two games of Indiana, this Miami team is spectacular. And what they've done this season is what should make you believe that they can stomp this Indiana team if they do. Not what happened 25, 30, 40 years ago. It should be this team. That's the one place Mike and I tend to agree here.

It's for the When Mark Fletcher lines up in the pistol formation, he's not thinking about Melvin Bratten. He's thinking about five yards.

It's also fair to say, though, that however much Miami and the hurricanes are hungry for this, Indiana is hungrier. The drought here is-It's a hungry off. No, they're not.

How can they be hungrier?

They're hungry right now.

Because the drought here is-They just started paying attention to football.

The drought here is For 24 years, the drought in Indiana is forever.

They never knew success.

It's a basketball state.

Are you talking about the fans? Because the players- Indiana, you're not playing the tortured fan base card here.

All right? I saw what those crowds looked like three years ago. You could say the very same to me, but in our crowd, there were five banners at least. You know the whole cliché about it's better to never have been rich at all? What the hell was that?

Someone's tummy. Who's hungry?

Dan? Oh, it is a hungry elf. It is. This is good.

It's a hungry elf.

It's a hungry off. That's what we like, distracting sounds.

Who wants it more?

Let's see who's hungrier, Indiana or Miami. It's just like, we were there, we tasted it, and we've been a joke for 20 years.

This is fun. I'm not saying that you don't want it. I'm just saying your torture, I don't like it. Stop it.

I do like, though. It is a hungry off. That's what just happened. Look, you guys all just turned on Greg Cody. You turned on him. It's okay. Is it okay?

I got an alligator skin. Come at me.

Greg Cody volunteered for America, and you all chewed his face off. He espoused the opinion of Indiana's the hungrier team, and you guys rejected it, and you said, No, we're hungrier. Now we have, and Chris, don't push Chris off of this. He's right to do this to you. We have a hungry off. You think you can do a better game show than that? Do you think that you can do a better game show? Matter of fact, I do. I don't believe you can.

I think we can.

That's the sound of dancing swords.

I think we will.

I dare you. No, look, I want to do a hungry off as a game show now. You're promising me that later in today's show, you could do something better than a hungry off because that's where I want to go right now with Chris Cody. You've been aggressive, and you've been aggressive for two days, and the victory lap has started with you being super arrogant.

I can promise that we will raise expectations and fall well below them with our own game show.

I do think it's funny that we're taking victory laps just by getting to the championship game as opposed to winning one.

You mean going-We spent the whole week doing it. No, I am a little bit because Miami has beaten Notre Dame Ohio State, Florida, Florida State on their path to this very game.

Who's Indiana beat?

A game in a tournament that they said Miami didn't belong in. The same people that are saying that Miami doesn't have a chance against Indiana, we're saying that Notre Dame would beat Miami had they played again because Miami lost to SMU and Louisville. Yeah, I'm going to enjoy it. I got a couple more days to lock in and get in game mode. But excuse me if I feel myself and my head coach and enjoy being right for the last few months. I'm just Because I've been in hell.

You got the opportunity in a new version of a payoff where the teams that never would have made it before get to make it now. Congratulations. I'm excited for you. It's cool. Your team got hot at the right time.

You're not happy for me. Nobody believes. I am. I am Jack Shit over here.

Jack Shit doesn't know Jack Shit.

I literally almost took off my shoe and threw it. It just had been said.

Please make this character on the show. I would like to hear at some point from Jeremy as only Jack Shit, okay? The character Jack Shit is the only one I want speaking to me. You guys are- Jeremy shit. That was your actual stomach I just heard.

No, it couldn't have been.

It couldn't have been. We can't hear you talk about hungry. Unfortunately, our audio is not good enough in here. But comedically, I'm telling you, that was Perfect. The stomach of Greg Cody just made the coffee sounds, and Greg, you've eaten nothing today, correct?

Yeah, dancing swords is what we call that.

I heard your stomach.

Pardon me.

I wanted to do a hungry off. I do think it would be funny. It seems like it's something that would delight Chris Cody. The idea, though, that we're looking... You guys are rejecting the entire history of this to me. I know about the now- You're focused on that.

I'm focused on Indiana.

Okay, but you don't believe at all in the... If you're buying a coach to instill the culture of whatever the culture is that he learned from Jimmy Johnson to be a man who devotes his life to winning a championship in this sport. This is all story. It's all tapestry. I understand. But you say this matters so much to Mario Cristobal. To come from to a program where you know what the standard is, it's higher than ever that Signetti ever had. Indiana has never been this. I don't know how many years they've been playing football, but it has not been with this is its history and its bones. It doesn't mean anything if Mendoza completes 85% of his passes for three and they drag you. But I'm not just telling a story here when I say Mario Cristobal has been here and he's been teaching these people about how he's been here, and that's the job he was paid to do, and he devoted himself to it to be heir to Jimmy Johnson and these things. So if he's the man you think he is and you know how he cares, it's not irrelevant that Mario Cristobal is like, What do you mean Signetti thinks he's better and cares more about this than I do?

What do you mean he's the highest paid coach in the game? When with $90 million in four years, I built this and now it flexes on you, and now it's a gap. You tell me that means nothing?

Afterwards, it might. He's singular focused. He's a psychopath about this. That's for other people to do. It certainly made Mario Cristobal who he is. He knows what the standard is. He will not rest till Miami reaches that standard. But he's not an ego monster a very peculiar dude in that way. He's just so singularly focused on making tackles, building trenches, talent acquisition. It's weird.