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I'm going to say some stuff on the show today.

Not controversial, nothing like that, no hot takes. But I'm going to say some stuff on the show today. Not controversial, nothing like that, no hot takes, but I'm going to say some stuff that's going to sound pretty optimistic.

And I'm going to say some things that are not going to happen overnight. And I'm not even totally sure that they will happen. Have I been specific enough yet? I hope I have. I just, I think sometimes people look at

college football and they view it through a negative lens. And we shouldn't because it's the greatest

sport on the face of the earth, even if there are things about it, even if there are layers of the

proverbial college football onion right now that we could do without. I still think there is a chance. There is a chance, people,

that if the right people are putting their hands on the wheel collectively right now,

you've got a chance to steer the ship pretty violently and pretty quickly towards more

favorable shores. That means a lot. So I'll get into it because there's a lot of meaning behind that.

We're proudly brought to you by Academy Sports and Outdoors on this Thursday night,

February 6th, the year of our Lord, 2025 jam-packed,

high atop of a stormy downtown Nashville, Tennessee.

You know how much it's killing me to be sitting in the studio

when we have a tornado

warned storm about 30 minutes to our east in Cookville? Cookville's like ground zero for tornado

activity in Tennessee. Yeah, so big change is on the way. There's an article. All of you should

have read it today, but I get the sense that you're busy and not a lot of people caught wind of

this. So I'm going to talk about that. There's some stuff out of Alabama. There's some stuff out of A&M. There's some stuff out of the Big Ten with Ohio State and Michigan. I've got some G5 flavor for my friends out there who wonder, where did G5 Josh go? He's right here. I'm speaking a third person.

He's right here. National signing day was yesterday. Did you know that?

You know, once upon a time, Monday and Tuesday, the first week of February, I started to fake a cough around the office so that I could build up towards being able to take Wednesday off because I was sick, which was my Christmas, it was a national signing day. It's not quite like that anymore, but I will talk about signing day as a whole, like the whole signing cycle, because there's a lot to be gleaned from what just happened. So we got a jam-packed show. They're watching us in Alexandria, Virginia, Melbourne, Australia,

Morrow, Tennessee, San Pedro, California.

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