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00:00They're getting aggressive on this Thanksgiving weekend. Here we go.
00:03Kirk Cignetti, he's the Indiana head coach.
00:05If you don't know, he has a buyout of 13 million.
00:08He's doing great this year.
00:10If he were to leave Indiana, where do you think he would coach next season?
00:14This is interesting because I don't think the 13 million dollar buyout
00:17is going to really deter too many teams that are better teams
00:21or better programs from looking for that coach. However,
00:25you start looking at what those other teams have to buy out
00:28in order to acquire him like LSU.
00:30It's like a 53 million dollar buyout of Brian Kelly.
00:33I don't see them doing that at this point.
00:36I think he's going to stay at Indiana.
00:37But if he were to go, I could see Auburn being the destination.
00:42Hugh Freeze's buyout currently is at 20 million dollars.
00:45That's still a big price tag on there.
00:47But you're not going to have to pay Cignetti.
00:50I don't think you'd have to pay him 10 million a year to coach at Auburn.
00:54But you got to probably get close to that at this point with some incentives.
00:58I think Auburn would be an interesting fit for Kurt Cignetti.
01:00I just probably better off in the Big Ten, but
01:03moving from the Big Ten seems more interesting.
01:06Well, I mean, the premise is that he leaves and I think he stays at Indiana.
01:10He's 63 years old.
01:11And I don't I was talking to somebody over the weekend
01:14that didn't think one power four job was going to come open
01:17because of the way schools can now come up with 20 million dollars to pay players.
01:21They'd rather pay for players than pay for buyouts.
01:25And the jobs that are available right now, is he taking the rice job?
01:29Is he taking the central Michigan job?
01:30Is he taking a Florida Atlantic job?
01:33The only job I really think that might come open is Purdue.
01:38What a coup that would be produced.
01:43But I think he's going to be at IU.
01:45Yeah, all three of us.
01:46You know, we don't think he's going anywhere.
01:48But I thought of Purdue as well, Doug.
01:50I thought that'd be kind of funny.
01:51But you want me to get spicy and you're forcing me to pick
01:54a couple of spicy pics.
01:56Well, if you're forcing me to pick a school, not Indiana and get crazy.
01:59If everyone thinks Dion's going to leave Colorado, what if Colorado goes and gets
02:03some get Cignetti, you know?
02:05So I don't know, man, but I don't think he's leaving.
02:07It's 13 million dollar buyout, 63 years old.
02:09He's staying.
02:10I thought you're going to get spicy with Ohio State or U.S.
02:12Oh, I usually get spicy with those schools.
02:14Yeah, I went I went.
02:15I go outside the Big Ten.
02:16I'm like, yeah, that's true.
02:22All right.
02:23Three SEC teams took a tumble.
02:25They got three losses, Alabama, Texas A&M and Ole Miss.
02:29Will any of them make the college football playoff?
02:32I think there's only a path for one of them, and it's Texas A&M.
02:35If they win over Texas, they'll force a tie atop the SEC
02:39and they actually will win the fourth tiebreaker to get into the SEC title
02:44title game because they have the strongest record of their SEC opponents.
02:48And so I think they're the only one that can play themselves in.
02:51You know, obviously the rankings aren't out yet.
02:53They come out tonight.
02:54I think Bama and Ole Miss are going to drop too far.
02:56They don't play anybody good this weekend.
02:58So I don't see themselves playing themselves back in.
03:01They need absolute chaos.
03:02A&M is the only team that I think has a path to get in.
03:05I would love for all three teams to just be locked out.
03:09And the SEC is stuck with what they're stuck with,
03:11which is still a pretty good contingent of teams.
03:14But for all those dreamers out there that thought that the SEC
03:16was going to get five or six teams in there, I don't think it's going to happen.
03:19However, if a team can get in there,
03:23it's done by voting and it's done by people voicing their opinions.
03:27I think Alabama is the one that gets in because they're Alabama.
03:29And if they go out and beat Auburn, who just beat Texas A&M,
03:33then it looks good for them.
03:34But Alabama's lost Oklahoma.
03:36That's when it's going to sting.
03:38It's going to sting a lot for the Crimson Tide.
03:41Yeah, I don't think anyone any of these three teams can get in,
03:44but the committee will try.
03:45They will definitely try.
03:47And you know how they try?
03:48They put a hit on someone's starting quarterback
03:50from one of the other teams that are already in because that's how they do it.
03:53They say, well, that team doesn't have a starting quarterback anymore.
03:56We could put one of our SEC teams in because that's just a, you know,
03:59it's an eyeball test, right?
04:01I mean, so, yeah, so 12, that's how they do it. Yeah.
04:05All right.
04:05The Heisman race is coming down to Travis Hunter versus A'shaun Agente.
04:10Neither affected if their team loses, guys.
04:12Are the QBs actually unfairly judged when it comes to the Heisman trophy?
04:16Yeah, I think they are.
04:17I think in a lot of cases, you're not allowed to have
04:22an off day period later in the season.
04:25You can lose a game early in the season and people won't remember it.
04:28But they'll remember if you lost in the middle of the season
04:30or towards the end of the season.
04:32I think it's killed Cam Ward's chances because they lost a game a few weeks ago,
04:36even though Cam Ward played great in the game.
04:39But they don't care about that.
04:40Now, if you're a running back or any position other than quarterback,
04:44typically they'll look the other way
04:45because they don't put as much weight on the win loss thing
04:48as they do the stats that can be compiled.
04:50Like Ashton Jensen's having an amazing season.
04:52It's going to be hard to overlook that Travis Hunter's doing something
04:54nobody's done.
04:55It's hard to overlook that.
04:57But it's unfair, I think, to the quarterbacks,
05:00because if they have the one bad game, they're gone.
05:04You know, maybe it is unfair to them, but I don't feel the least bit
05:07sorry for them because the best player in college football this year
05:10might be a tight end Tyler Warren at Penn State or the stud offensive tackle
05:14Kevin Banks at Texas.
05:15Quarterbacks have way more going for them than non-skilled position players
05:19that could be the best player in the game at the EdgeRusher.
05:23Mikel Williams at Georgia.
05:25Mike Green at Marshall's got 15 sacks and is going to shoot up draft boards.
05:29These are guys that don't even get looked at.
05:32So I guess I don't feel bad for them if it does work against them
05:35when their teams lose.
05:37Yeah, yes and no, because the thing with quarterbacks
05:40is the reason why they get so much accolades and so much praise
05:43is because they help their teams win.
05:45So if they're not helping their if their team isn't winning,
05:48even though they're doing well, that's part of that.
05:50Like the quarterback stat, I guess, in a way.
05:52The Heisman is actually more of a best player award than the NFL MVP,
05:56which is essentially a QB award at this point in the NFL.
05:58And this year might be different, but we'll wait till the end.
06:01But yeah, I mean, unfairly, maybe so.
06:04I'm kind of with Doug.
06:04I kind of don't feel sorry for them because it is also,
06:08like I said, part of their stat, if you ask me, it's just not passing yardage
06:11or passing touchdowns, it's also wins.
06:13But this is the year, you know, I think Heisman Trophy is generally
06:16best player award, which I kind of think it should be.
06:21All right, which team are you hoping sneaks into the college football playoff?
06:25I kind of like Arizona State Sun Devils.
06:28They're like Indiana without the super cocky, arrogant coach.
06:31And they were picked to finish dead last in the Big 12.
06:34And you got to love the transfer of the Sacramento State Hornet Cam Scadaboo.
06:39They're outstanding running backs.
06:41So I guess I'm kind of pulling for the Sun Devils.
06:43I'm pulling for BYU. I don't think that's a surprise.
06:46You know, I've always been a BYU fan.
06:47The Big 12 is total chaos.
06:49You need a doctorate to understand the tiebreakers.
06:51But however it computes, I would love to see BYU the Cougars in there.
06:57All right. I'm going to go.
06:59Hey, if this is Dion's last year in college football,
07:01I want to see him coaching the playoff at somehow Colorado could sneak in there.
07:05I think that'd be exciting for everybody, for college football,
07:08for fans, for media.
07:10And like I said, if he if he is going to coach the Cowboys or the Giants,
07:14I'd like to see him
07:15at least give one shot at the title run in college football.
07:17Make something crazy happen with his son.
07:23All right, Oklahoma thumped Alabama 24 to 3.
07:26They improved to 6 and 5 on the season.
07:28Well, Brent Venables, will his team actually be in the mix next year
07:31for the college football playoff? Oklahoma's coach?
07:34I think yes, but I have one big caveat, and that is they got to hang on
07:37to their players.
07:38They've got some good young players,
07:40some guys that may consider going to the pros that are juniors.
07:43Hopefully they stick around and hopefully they're not poached.
07:46They got a quarterback who's a sophomore.
07:49He looks pretty good out there.
07:50They're building something there.
07:51Brent Venables is a great defensive mind in Oklahoma.
07:54It always been this great offensive team.
07:56They're starting to kind of blend in a little bit here.
07:59That win over Alabama was so convincing that they have to be riding
08:04a real high right now in Soonerland.
08:07I really hope I actually like Brent Venables, too.
08:10So I hope that this team is going to be a playoff.
08:11Yeah, the quarterback you mentioned, the dual threat guy, Jackson Arnold,
08:14is really impressive.
08:15The problem working against Oklahoma is the schedule.
08:19Next year's schedule includes Michigan and then SEC games
08:24against Texas at Alabama, LSU at South Carolina, at Tennessee.
08:29That's five games in a 12 game schedule that are likely to be tough.
08:33The problem is you don't know how to project teams next year
08:35because there's so much movement in the offseason.
08:38But if they can keep the roster together, he could be in the mix.
08:40I would bet against them now if it's a yes or no question.
08:43But you're right.
08:44Keeping the roster together could could change my mind.
08:47Sure. Why not?
08:48Prestigious school with a ton of history.
08:50He's got a new office of coordinator coming in next year.
08:52Probably you hit the portal. Right.
08:54I think with new college football landscape, any team can kind of get in the mix,
08:57especially a school like Oklahoma.
09:04All right. Last one, guys.
09:05Do you think all NIL deals should be made public so we can see what they're playing,
09:09you know, what they're paying these players and then the playing field
09:12for college football?
09:12I mean, can we really see what the whole thing really looks like?
09:15So I think it should all be private, actually.
09:17Just like people don't talk about how much money they make.
09:20It does complicate things.
09:22And until there's some kind of limit, which, by the way, if they come up
09:25with a salary cap, if you will, and then I'll take us back to a previous
09:28rampant rule breaking of playing players under the table, it'll all come back.
09:33It'll just be it'll be above and beyond the salary cap.
09:37But why make any of it public?
09:38These are private contracts. Keep them private.
09:41I'll tell you why you make it public, because I'm 100 percent in favor
09:44of making it public because they're professional athletes now.
09:47This is there's no amateur status on this.
09:49These guys are getting paid to play football.
09:51And again, this is what we're looking at in terms of football,
09:54not just all the sports, but just looking at football.
09:56Yeah, I think everybody needs to know just how level or unlevel
10:00this playing field is so that they can get the guardrails on this thing
10:03so they can put a cap on things and and get the NAL the way it's supposed to be,
10:08not the way that it is right now is this bastardized, you know,
10:12version of the Wild West when it comes to money.
10:14And then you have this big bag, but nobody knows how big the bag really is.
10:18That's not fair.
10:18You guys are paying players.
10:20Everybody should know what they're being paid.
10:22I personally don't care. There is no cap.
10:24I think people overreact already as it is to like crazy to these kids.
10:28The last thing they need is more ammunition to go after Travis Hunter
10:30and all these guys on social media, death threats and personal attacks
10:34and physical attacks.
10:36I mean, yeah, they're getting paid.
10:39But and I always say how much money is ruined.
10:41College football, like everyone feels like.
10:43But it is still semi pro.
10:45They still are student athletes.
10:47They still have to go to class.
10:47So it is not technically professional football.
10:51And there it is.
10:51That concludes the live night Omaha College football.
10:54And I'll transfer Porto live animal mascot Blitz thingy.
10:58We may have just had a first power five job open up for Kurt Cignetti.
11:02Power five power for sorry.
11:05North Carolina just fired Mac Brown.
11:09Cignetti to Chapel Hill.
11:13I could see it.
11:14I mean, I don't know if I don't know if I could see North Carolina
11:18opening up the coffers to pay for them.
11:20I don't know either.
11:21But that's the first of the power for jobs that has opened up.
11:26And it just happened.
11:27So there you go.
11:29Again, that concludes the Blitz thingy.