Welcome to Andy and Ari on three. I am still here in the Redneck Riviera at the SEC spring meetings where all everybody's complaining. But I tell you what, Ari, I heard one idea that I kind of dismissed because, well, I'm realistic and I've listened to these people complain for a long time. But the more I thought about it, then we're like, this guy's a genius.

And you know who that genius is?

It's Lane Kiffin.

Yeah.

I mean, anybody who, you know, comes up with a merit-based system is good with me.

I actually had a phone call with somebody earlier today.

And it just was like a reminder of how old we're getting because this person went down the same rabbit hole. I always go

down, which is merit-based system, no petition to pay the trophies. And I sound like an old person

who's just constantly screaming at clouds. And I sound like an old person who's just constantly

screaming at clouds. But I feel like as we continue to give Mulligans and second chances and

expand the playoff and demean the importance of the regular season, all these things that

we're like basically like bastardizing the entire point of the concept of competition, which is why

they play the game to begin with. So like anything that can promote being a winner and a loser, I'm all for. And I think that this might do that. I don't know. Does this do that better? I know that you're, like, dying. But here's Lane Kiffin's idea. You ready? You ready? Have a 16 team tournament with the best 16 teams.

Just number one through number 16, put them in a bracket and play. And I realize, like, and Lane said

this too. Lane's like, well, we probably have to examine how you determine best. And I'm like,

oh, God, here we go again. Yeah uh yeah your idea of best my idea of best

probably gonna be different but you put 13 people in a room tell them pick the best teams and they get

to go all the way down to 16 i don't think you're gonna have a ton of arguments about one through

i don't know 14 yeah. Yeah. 12. 12.

I went through 12.

We had an argument about the top 12 and then, but then maybe you would have three more.

I'm just trying to think about last year's model.

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