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Josh Pate here.

This is the Late Kick Extra podcast on the 24-7 Sports Podcast Network.

The way it works quickly and then we dive right in in less than a minute is I take your questions from the late kick live

YouTube chat to the YouTube comment sections to my email, which is Josh Pate 706 at gmail.com,

or my Twitter account at Latekick Josh. You guys flood me with questions throughout the week,

and I can't always answer them on the live Latekick shows on YouTube. So we do an extra podcast. And who knows, we may even bump up production from this because I got all this equipment in my apartment and I'm sitting around half the time doing nothing. So I've got a bunch of questions in front of me. I'm ready to go. We're going to span all over the place. Some of you want to talk about rules. Some of you want to talk about behind the scene stuff. Some of you want to talk about movies.

And to be honest with you, I just ate and down four shots of espresso. So I'm here to talk about all of it. Let's get it started here. Zach on YouTube.

Going back to your comments about Texas and how their athletic director situation has developed, are there any other

programs nationally that you believe are being stunted in terms of growth by a lack of effort

in their program or just one key change from taking steps forward? Yeah, I think so, Zach. Now,

what he's talking about is the other night, I did a segment on Latekick kick live I think it was the Sunday show yeah it was

where I was talking about crystal Conte who is the new athletic director at Texas has been there a couple of years now

and I talked about all the glowing reviews people close to Texas have given me behind the scenes and on record about him

and how it sounds to me much like how lSU insiders were talking about

when scott woodward came aboard and replaced joe oliva now i'm not saying as some people suggested

in the comments section i'm not saying scott woodward after being in town 12 months one lSU a national

championship what i am saying is he got a lot of things right in their athletic department to where there's no friction where there shouldn't be friction. You can't afford to. If you're competing against Alabama every year, you can't afford to have friction. If you're competing against Oklahoma every year, you can't afford it. So I think Texas internally has gotten a lot of their mess solved. Now we find out, as I said on the show the other night, if Tom Herman is the right head coach for the job, and if he's not, they'll make a move. But we'll find out because there's no more excuse for people to use in lieu of just him getting the job done or not. But Zach asks, are there other programs that maybe don't have their affairs in order and they are handcuffing themselves from the inside out.

Yeah, Zach, I think so. I think you could describe USC this way. No, I'm not going to dive into the

specifics, partly, but mainly really, because I'm not inside these programs. I get enough to know that

USC has been twisted both ways towards Sunday internally for quite a while. And

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