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It is Sunday night, January 23rd, the year of our Lord, 2022.

So happy to work alongside the NFL to time this up right at halftime.

Dare we call it a halftime eat edition of Late Kick Live. We are jam-packed. We are high atop downtown

Nashville, Tennessee. So much going on with the portal. If you're watching the game, you probably

missed a bombshell out of the portal. It's not Caleb Williams. It's not Jackson Dart, but it's on the tier right below that. We're going to talk about that. Also, just in general, how much college football is changing what the transfer portal has done. I know people talk about this in the abstract. I was at the gym earlier today. You know, were a couple of guys combined age about 377 years old. And they were talking about how the transfer portal just changed college football. How? I didn't press them against the wall on it. But we are going to talk about it because of the inspiration that I was given in the locker room of the YMCA here in Nashville today. So we're going to have that. We're going to have specific portal updates.

We've got the mood tracker series rolling on.

We're going to do South Carolina tonight, all that plus two very spicy questions from the late kick inbox. We're going to hit some Q&A. Make sure you're following on Twitter at Latekick Josh because there's so much popping right now. We're doing two live shows per week, but we're getting very close, probably this week actually, we're getting very close to slightly adjusting or tweaking our schedule. And that doesn't mean taking stuff away. That probably means adding a thing or two. So make sure you're following there. And also, we're having a lot of fun right now. I'm tweeting out my video of the year nominees. As you know, I'm on the sideline for big games every week and got the I-Josh there. So I get some really good footage. And you saw it during the year, but sometimes you forget from earlier in the year what all we had and what we had access to and as an audience, what we got to see. So I'm putting out one or two videos per day. And I think eventually

when I empty the entire arsenal, we're going to have to vote on what the best videos of the

year were. Boy, we're so blessed to have some incredible vantage points on Saturdays. So make sure

you're checking that out. At late kick, Josh. All right, let's go. Let's dive in. Let's waste no time.

College football, she's a change in right now.

And you can argue for the better or for the worst. You can be totally indifferent on this. But for a long time, here's one thing we did know. For a long time, if you fired your head coach and then you cleaned out your coaching staff, there were a couple of things that you could pretty well take for certain. And one of them was you've got a rebuild on your hands. With limited exceptions, you're going to have a rebuild on your hands. You've certainly got to get a head coach, and that's a crap shoot in and of itself. And then he's got to go, and he's got to get a great staff in. And there's no real good time to do it, because you've got a firing happening right in the middle of recruiting season.

And so you got all that mess.

And then once you get everything in and everything's settled and you know who the head

coach is and you got your coordinators and you got your strength and conditioning coach and

all your position coaches filled out, then you got to worry about the entire premise that

was the reason for firing the previous staff to begin

with. And it's probably that the program wasn't in a good spot. LSU football was not in a good

spot. They fired Ed, they brought in Brian Kelly. USC football was not in a good spot. They fired

Clay Helton, they brought in Lincoln Riley. What that used to mean is, even if you're excited about the hire, once a point of time, Alabama hired Nick Sabin. They still went seven and six the next year. It used to mean that no matter how big a grand slam you hit in the hiring process, it's going to be a little bit of a rebuild. So you're going to have to have some patience, and we're going to have to turn this thing over, and here's the important part.

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