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It is Sunday night, December 12th year of our Lord, 2021, jam-packed high atop downtown, Nashville,

Tennessee, if you hire a new coach, but you don't bring along your assistant athletic director

and your athletic director and some relatives and whatnot. Does the hire really even matter?

I would argue in this modern college football age of ours? No, it doesn't. Everything I just said is going to make sense before the end of the show. Oregon's got a new head coach. You may think to yourself, would you lead the show with that, though? Yeah, because it matters. It matters with the way it went down. Some of you still may not know what I'm talking about, a whole lot more than just in and around Eugene, Oregon. So we will discuss that. There is a huge bubble that has already been inflated in the SEC West,

and it continues to just grow and grow and grow even in the last few hours.

We've got an eye-catching headline, if you will, out of Arkansas about Sam Pittman

and maybe his compensation headed north of $4 million a year, maybe

five million, six million, perhaps north of $7 million per year. For the record, he makes 3.75

per right now. He also recently employed the services of Jimmy Sexton as his new agent. The transfer

portal, it's still on fire. Nothing's

changed. No amount of fire extinguishers and hose pipes can turn this thing off right now.

It's on fire. And so we're also going to discuss that tonight along with a team that has felt

the ire, the brunt, if you will, of the transfer portal lately, and that is Clemson. They told

it could never happen. They were wrong. We're going to talk about Clemson tonight and some churn happening with the program. It's very popular right now to pile on Clemson. Some of it is valid, and some of it's just haters. So we're going to try and dig through what's valid and what's not tonight, but there's a lot going on at Clemson, a lot more than the last several years

combined. just haters. So we're going to try and dig through what's valid and what's not tonight, but there's

a lot going on at Clemson, a lot more than the last several years combined. And so what, where's

that program going to be in 2025? Think about that. We'll talk about it later. Here's an update on our

schedule this week. There's a very crazy week coming up. So we've got obviously our live show

tonight. And then we will not have a normal show on Tuesday night because I will be headed down to Fort Lauderdale to do our National Signing Day show, which will air on Wednesday.

From, I think, 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. Eastern time will be over on CBS Sports HQ.

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