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Greg, I watched a lot of football over the last few days, and I saw a team called Indiana,

who's arguably one of, if not the worst college football programs in the history of the

sport, now in the NCAA college football playoff final four.

Why not Carolina?

Well, first of all, Tommy, let's say this.

It is one thing for Indiana to do kind of what it did last year,

where you win a lot of close games and you have a magical run.

TCU did that a few years ago and get into the title game.

What Indiana has done this year is mind-boggling to me.

I mean, they are just throttling people like you would expect some of the great

Alabama and Georgia teams of old.

That takes great coaching for sure, but just an immense amount of talent and experience.

And that's more than anything, that's what surprised me because they made Alabama look like a lower-level program on New Year's Day.

And, I mean, hats off to Kersenetti and what he's been able to do in a couple years.

But to your larger question, I think what we've seen, and this goes to, I mean, Tulane, James Madison, even though there's questions about whether they deserve to be in quality of playwise, they're in the conversation.

And it's a combination of having a creative mindset from your coaching staff in terms of scheme

and what you're trying to accomplish and then getting good enough players to fit those

aims. And that's really it. So you have to be very good with talent evaluation and you've got

to have players that can do exactly

what you're asking them to do, and you maximize their strengths while you minimize their

weaknesses. Sounds easy. Clearly, it's not. But there is a pathway, and I think the fact that Duke

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