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And just like that, we're back Thursday morning, March 4th, the Year of Our Lord, 2021.

I'm Josh Pate.

This is the late kick extra podcast. Another Apple has been consumed for reasons that were stated on the Tuesday morning pod. We are jam, jam, jam packed. I count, well, I count about seven dozen questions. I'm going to get to as many as possible this morning. But we got some really good ones. I could take today's questions, and I could just stack them up tonight tonight and I could recycle them into tonight's episode of Late Kick Live. And to be honest,

I may lead with one of the questions that I'm kind of going to answer briefly this morning. So

thank you so much for submitting. If you want to submit your questions, Josh Pate706 at gmail.com.

That's the email address on Twitter at Late Kick Josh, DMs are always open. I'm

interacting with you guys constantly, but nothing quite like what we've got coming up next week.

So remember, the late kick lottery is open right now. Send those submissions to the email address,

Josh Pay at 706 at gmail.com. We have decided we're taking somewhere between 10 and 20 of you, and we are sending you the Zoom invite, and you'll join me Monday night. We have nailed down the time. We're going to do six central time. So that gives everyone plenty of time to get home, hopefully Eastern Central Time Zone. If you're in Mountain Time Zone or on the West Coast, just skip work that day or get off early. That's my suggestion because we're going to divvy this up and we're going to kind of randomly select, but it also doesn't hurt for you to try and pitch yourself or sell yourself, reverse recruit yourself. So we are going to choose those and we're going to let you know by this weekend who is in. And this is not the last one of these we do. Every time we get over a thousand new followers on Twitter, I think we just passed 13,000. So the next time we'll do this is 14,000, 15, whatever. You really ultimately determine how often we do this. But that product, so if you're just listening or if you're just watching on the YouTube channel, that product will be available. I think we're going to aim for Wednesday on the YouTube channel. It will also be the Thursday morning edition of this that you're listening to right now. So next week's late kick extra, it'll still be Q&A. You'll just hear your own voices interacting with me. And I also want to lay out the format and you'll get a sense of how it's rolling for those of you who are going to participate once we get into it. This is not meant to be just a wall-to-wall

Q&A format. That's certainly how you can handle it. But I mean, if you want to go back and forth, if you feel like a topic needs to be debated, if you think I've been wrong on an issue for so long and you need to set me straight, that'll be the time to do it. So get those submissions

in, be on the lookout with that in mind. Let's dive in this morning because we have got some

really good questions to get to. First one up is Kyle. He said, do you feel Clemson starting to fade a bit? Kyle, I do not feel that. I think the expectation level now at Clemson is so high that if they don't win a championship every year, they've kind of briefly gotten into that realm that Alabama's been in for a long time,

where if they don't win it, then the articles the next morning, whenever they've been eliminated, tend to lean towards, what's wrong? Well, what's changed? Well, has Clemson lost their edge? No, they haven't. It's just really, really hard to win in this sport, extremely hard. Now, here's what I do things happening at Clemson, and I'm going to talk about this a lot more, probably after spring.

Then Clemson is entering the second chapter or the second phase of a dynasty mode in real life. In real life, a dynasty mode consists of multiple phases. The first phase is the getting there phase. The next phase is the staying there phase. Well, Clemson got there.

I've spoken about this before, sort of with a different theme, but I've spoken about the fact that I wondered about Debo Swinney's formula for getting there and if it translated to staying there.

The reason I never have doubted Alabama is because I know what Nick Saban's formula is.

I've listened to the guy talked forever now, and I listen to him constantly preach, process, process, process, result-oriented thinking,

attention to detail, and basically all that stuff's intrinsic. It doesn't rely on anything external.

Nick Saban is never getting his guys up. Nick Saban is never fueling or motivating his program

collectively without or disrespect.

It's never posters all over the walls about what someone said to you.

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