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And now, Move the Sticks with Daniel Jeremiah and Bucky Brooks.

What's up, everybody?

Welcome to Move the Stick, DJ and Buck with you.

Buck, excited about this one, man.

We got a chance to have a friend and a really an awesome, awesome guest on the show today.

He has ESPN, college football analyst, Greg McElroy, really one of the best in the business.

And it's someone we've been looking forward to chat with about all that's going on in the world of college football.

So here's our conversation with Greg McElroy.

Well, Greg, appreciate you, man. Appreciate taking some time for us.

I want to hit you up on some landscape questions here, just of how college football has changed from when we were all going through it to where we are today. And I was telling Buck you the day, I said, man, people can argue. Some people say it's good. Some people can say it's bad. What we have to agree on, gosh, it is kind of entertaining. I mean, we have no idea what the heck's going to happen next.

You know, it's funny.

I don't know.

I'm sure. bad. What we have to agree on, gosh, it is kind of entertaining. I mean, we have no idea what

the heck's going to happen next. You know, it's funny. I don't know. I'm sure you guys get the question all the time. It's like, how much would you have made in an aisle? And I always tell him, I'm like, I really don't, I really don't care. As much as that sounds crazy, because it'd be great to go into the NFL and or go into your professional life at the head start.

It's amazing.

But there was some type of purity about when we played where everyone in the locker room was the same. There was no salary cap. There was no nothing. So you were naive when you got to the league, just how the world worked, frankly. Wait, hang on the second. I don't like that guy. He makes more than me. Why? You know what I mean? Like the league was just different in that way. So I think it's actually, it's consolidated rosters. There's fewer holes. You get young in a hurry when you get hurt in some spots because rosters are thin and the parody across the board. It's like the NFL. There was a point in this season. I don't know if it held up, but there was a point in this season in which the margin of victory in the southeastern conference was actually tighter than that in the NFL. And it was like week nine or 10. So it's crazy how it's changed, but it certainly has become a lot of fun. I got to ask you this because being a quarterback of a team that won a title, I just want to,

how do you feel like that impacts the team dynamic in terms of like people talk about the money,

but getting the team on the same page, not only coach the player, but player the player,

people not worrying about what everyone is in everyone's pocket.

I think that's why these coaches make as much as they do.

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