HOUR 3: CFP Updates, Notre Dame's Next Steps, Deal Breakers
The Valenti Show
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🗓️ 22 February 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Mike and Rico kick off an absolutely loaded third hour discussing how the expanded College Football Playoff will work and if it will continue to grow in coming years. They ponder which conference Notre Dame would join if they decide to end their neutral position and then end the hour joined by Roberto for some deal-breakers.
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| 0:00.0 | Bienes update look we'll get to deal breakers momentarily but RICO I need you in a half serious manner |
| 0:06.8 | now I'm not going to get into this whole you know it's known how I feel about college sports right now. Both basketball and football have largely been racked. |
| 0:15.0 | I won't even go there with it. I just want to focus on the absurdity. |
| 0:20.0 | I thought they agreed to a five plus seven 12 team playoff now before you even have the first |
| 0:26.2 | 12 team playoff they're already 24 to 48 hours later negotiating a 14 team. |
| 0:32.6 | Well, 12, just go to 16 if that's what you want to do. |
| 0:37.2 | Why the hell did you ever approve the 12? |
| 0:39.6 | Oh, why are you even talking 14? |
| 0:41.6 | Mike, this is where we agree. Um agree I think a lot of it comes from the fact that they're seeing the dollar signs and they're seeing the potential |
| 0:48.0 | people are going to want to watch these games the playoff games and you're thinking was too many of them and |
| 0:54.4 | I'll give you this. Whoever, let's just say the top two teams are going so 12 |
| 1:00.4 | versus I mean number 2c versus 16 or 14 probably won't be a good game |
| 1:05.9 | but you're looking at the middle teams as being good games and they're like |
| 1:09.0 | it's going to be revenue there they're looking at what happened in the last |
| 1:12.2 | couple of |
| 1:12.6 | semi-final games and people are going to be glued to their set. They're greedy. |
| 1:16.2 | I can't put it any other way. They're just being greedy. Plus, you got to be able to |
| 1:20.6 | pacify the Big Ten and the SEC, and if they're coming to the |
| 1:23.4 | table saying, we want to expand this more because we want a bigger cut of the pie. |
| 1:27.7 | We don't want you guys to leave, so we'll just concede and give you whatever you want because you're holding all the car. |
| 1:34.1 | Is anyone out there willing to just say the quiet part out loud? |
| 1:38.4 | The part that'll get you made fun of by hyenas like RICO and Kenny and Davis. |
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