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I threw down the gauntlet the other night on Latekick Live. I'm going to reiterate it right now. We want that Twitter account at 20,000 by the time camp starts. And I want 10,000 minimum on that Instagram account. We've got some other things I'm working on too with a number of you, like some of you guys regularly step up and help on things, even though technically you are not employees here. It's been a community effort, has been since we started here, and we'll continue to be that way. In fact, I would argue it probably will be even more expansive in nature this fall. So a lot of folks help behind the scenes, and they are you, you are the ones who help behind the scenes. So thank so much remember share this stuff so that's all i ask share this stuff five-star reviews subscribe to the youtube channel 24-7 sports youtube follow me on the social accounts at late kick josh that's how you help i mean that's what i ask for maybe one day down the road we're having big events where you can buy tickets and you can come listen to us, tell stories to each other that we can't really tell on air. Hey, that'd be great. The way to get there, the way to grow it to that point is to do the free stuff first. And so the easy stuff to me, click, click, click. That's really all it takes. This morning, I don't want to waste any more time because, as I said, we got abag and there's a lot going on right now I think probably 100 of you had already DM'd me or emailed me before I opened my I Josh

this morning and it was about this article by Pete Thammel at Yahoo about the more likely route at the

moment according to his sources for playoff expansion being 12 teams yes I read it I'm not going to make a

huge deal about it you know I've sort of backed not my stance, but just this topic in general over the last month or two. And it's not that I've changed my stance. It's just there's nothing really new to say. And what I always try and caution against is having anything I'm producing sound like what everyone else is producing. And I noticed there was a lot of overlap, more overlap than I was comfortable with. When I looked around this space, and it's the dead time of year for a lot of folks, and it's like pulling teeth, asking people to create authentic content. And so a lot of folks were talking about playoff, playoff, playoff, and I just didn't want to be doing it. And I still don't want to be doing it. But since there is somewhat of a new tidbit of information out there with this article this morning. I'll just tell you quickly, it's horrible, it's not unexpected. I don't know where you guys thought this was going. I think some of you out there who are in the, let's expand it, but just to six or eight crowd, you may listen to people like me who are so steadfast against that and get so bent out of shape against that and you think I'm the one with an issue and you think I'm the one who needs to be less rigid and you need to be more open to progress. This is not progress, because it's not going to go the way you think it's going to go. You're sitting there, essentially what you're saying is we're going to tear down the dam, but we're going to put a stop sign up, so we're only going to let the water go 200 yards further downstream. We're going to stop it there. You're not going to

stop anything. You just can't see it. I'll tell you who I feel like. I feel like Alan Grant,

played by Sam Neal in Jurassic Park. This guy with this Santa Claus beard and a billion dollars

funding has this grand idea and he's found mosquitoes with dinosaur DNA fossilized in what they called amber. And so they've dug it up. This, by the way, all made sense to me as a kid. You find prehistoric mosquitoes with dinosaur blood still in them that got caught in tree sap. You extract the blood and thus dinosaur DNA. Then you take some other odds and ends from frog DNA, blah-bidi-blobody blah, yada, yada, yada. And next thing you know, you can create dinosaurs, which grow up to be big dinosaurs, and now we can control them. And we can put them on a random island off the coast of Costa Rica. And we can turn it into the biggest tourist attraction the world has ever seen. There's going to be nothing like it before or since. all we need to do is bring in some scientists and some paleontologists and some lawyers to sign off

on the park so we bring him in here and what do you know they have pushback do you

remember when you were watching Jurassic Park and do you remember because I do I was a kid

I was pulling for the white bearded guy I was pulling for him he sounded He sounded cool. He sounded like he was on my side and then as he put it the blood-sucking lawyer comes in the room and then you got Sam Neal over here throwing a wet blanket on everything. You got Ian Malcolm talking about life finding away and I didn't get that and to be honest with you. I don't get half of it still although it's entertaining. But I remember when I was a kid and I listened to Dr. Grant and Dr. Sadler and, you know, the white-bearded guys all excited and they're all monotone. You can't just suppress 65 million years of gut instinct. What do you think's going to happen? We need to pump the brakes here. Well, that didn't sound fun. or seven seven year old JP wasn't on board with that at all. But you see, logic never sounds cool in the face of a grandiose idea. Rationale and a measured approach and principle and all that stuff. It never sounds cool when you got a fireworks show going on. What would you rather listen to? Would you rather listen to someone talk about preservation and integrity of this and that? Or would you rather watch the fireworks show? Well, of course you'd

rather watch the fireworks. And so a lot of you are listening to these ideas about expanding

a playoff and you get so much more emphasis on this conference championship and you get so much more

inclusion and so much more of the country is invested and has an opportunity. It sounds great. I know it sounds great. It's why you have to dig beneath the surface a little bit and you need to understand. These people's motivation is not your motivation. A lot of you out there love college football just like me. We have differing opinions of what's best for the sport. That's fine. As long as you

genuinely love college football, we can have a conversation and disagree and still go to lunch

afterwards. A lot of the folks pulling the levers here do not love college football. They put

on that blanket over their face and they cut eye holes in it and they look at you and they're using

that as a clever disguise when in reality these folks couldn't tell you

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