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Spend so much time defending yourself. Spend so much time defending yourself, spend so much time fighting against haters out there, you

never stop to think they may be right. You know, tonight's show, a rarity, but it's going to happen,

and it's the kind of show where I may have to sit right here in front of you and God and everyone

and admit that they were right about

me. Who are they? What were they right about? Well, that's why we're going to dive into the show.

This jam-packed, high atop a lovely downtown Nashville, Tennessee on this Sunday night, March 2nd,

the year of our Lord 2025 proudly brought to you by Academy Sports and Outdoors. Listen, they're fighting me on a lot.

Brian Kelly, is he a top 10 head coach? Resumay-wise, you know, not predictive, not looking

into the future. I don't know that Brian Kelly will be around in 2030, but is he a top 10 head

coach in college football? Let's just call balls and strikes tonight, ladies and gentlemen. I will

discuss that. I've got, as I mentioned to start the show, someone who has taken issue with

how I discussed the Big 12. I don't think they're entirely wrong. The Big 12 is my conference.

And so I take this personally. I will address it. I'll be fair. I'll show the criticism. I'll respond to it tonight. We've got the possibility this year, since we have like 47 teams in the playoff, that we could have new playoff teams. One of you asked, hoomst could that be? I've got a couple of ideas. I don't want to narrow it down just yet, but I got a couple

of ideas. Like, Old Miss, people are telling me they miss their window. I don't think they miss

their window. I think they can make the playoff this year. I've got several things to get to tonight. We're really, really jam-packed. Like, that's how thick the packet of papers is. But But we're not so jam-packed that we can't start an entirely new feature on the show tonight.

We'll call it Pate State 101.

You know, because that's the name we came up with right before the show. Just some questions we get a lot. Normally I've been answering them off air. I'm going to answer some of them on air. I'm going to tell you why, because it's March, and we've got time to. They're watching us in Winona, Mississippi. I've done a fair amount of storm chasing in Winona. They're watching us in Edwardsville, Illinois. Have not chased in Edwardsville yet, but never say never. America's Georgia, Scottsdale, Arizona. Thank you guys so much. Okay, so we're going to be on the road this week. Normal show schedule. Our next show will be on Thursday. However, I will be somewhere on Tuesday. I'm going to

visit to Camp I, plural of campus this week. I'll be somewhere Tuesday that I've never been before.

I'll be somewhere Wednesday that I have been before, but the only clue that I can give you is both head coaches that will join me

for the Pate State Speaker Series this week will be joining for the first time. Neither guy,

they are both guys. There's hint number one. So both of these head coaches are male. And number

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