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It's Tuesday.

It is September 7th, Yourbal Lord, 2021. But actually, where I'm sitting, it's Monday night. I'm all alone at the office, as I usually tell you, janitorial service actually has not come through because it's Labor Day night. I, full admission, was not even aware it was holiday until a little bit after lunchtime today because Director Colin and I had been busy working on something that will soon be unveiled to the world. If you're following on Instagram, you kind of have an idea what it is in that Instagram story. Hey, speaking of the Instagram story, I got tons of good feedback on that this past weekend. I tried to tell you, I guess some people thought I was lying. Maybe there's some holdouts out there. If you want access, if you want to see behind the scenes, if you want to know what it's like at one of these games, after players leave the field, after a game, before a game, before they let you in stadiums, before the TV broadcast comes on, just follow me. You saw some of it on Twitter. You saw a whole lot more of it on Instagram. I give you as much access as I can. And on the show, I give you as much

information as I can.

And on the show, I give you as much information as I can, try and mix in a little laugh here and there. Never know. When you're on your own, when you're off, you're off. But I appreciate the feedback because that lets me know you want it, so I will continue. We will be in Ames, Iowa, a Saturday, and I cannot put into words how excited I am about this one. You know, my

proclivity and my, Iowa Saturday, and I cannot put into words how excited I am about this one.

You know, my proclivity and my passion, just outright passion for Iowa State, never been to the state of Iowa before.

So this is a big deal for me.

It's a big deal for us because a lot of you have emailed me or you've DMed me and you've said,

listen, I'm a Nebraska fan or I'm a Texas A&M fan or I'm a Florida fan, but I've found myself strangely rooting for Iowa State because I feel like it's kind of our team. Now, we did create our own team, Pate State. Pate State Freights. Stickers are on the way, by the way, getting those made up as we speak. But outside of that, a real-life on-field team, Iowa State, listen, I encourage you to pull for them. Excuse me, I encourage you to pull for us. We're going to need all the help we can get this Saturday. So I'm headed up there Friday and looking very, very much forward to that. Okay, so we've got a full mailbag this morning. I told you it's Labor Day night as I'm recording. And about 15 minutes ago, so about three targeting fouls ago, I let you know on Twitter, hit me up with some questions. I'm going to hit as many as I can during half time of the Ole Miss Louisville game. That is where we are at right now. And I kid you not, I'm looking. We got over 200, somewhere between 2 and 300 questions, and like half of them are about targeting.

I am irate about targeting. If you guys are watching, if you're not, if you did not see the game last night as you're listening now, just an egregious amount of targeting calls. And the thing about it is, some of them were legitimate calls. I really disagreed with the first one.

But independent of whether they were by the letter of the law targeting or not, that's not the problem someone like me has with targeting.

I think Herbstreet mentioned it during the broadcast.

He said something along the lines of when this rule, when we started to implement the targeting

rules seven, eight years ago, it was a different game. There was a kind of hit. There was a

kind of play that you were trying to get out of the game that was the reason. It was the impetus

for instituting those rules. We've gotten it out of the game. You've totally changed the way the game is coached.

You've now got a whole generation of players who have grown up in, for lack of a better term,

the targeting era, if you want to call it that, and they've been taught the right ways to hit

now 99 times out of 100 when you see a targeting flag thrown. It is not for anything that was malicious, even though it may be

by the letter of the law targeting. So someone like me looks around and understanding the temperature in the

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