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Welcome in. I'm Josh Pate. This is the late kick extra podcast. You know, last week I wasted about two minutes of your time just talking, but you know what we're doing here. We are doing an extra podcast only. This is not available on YouTube or anywhere else. I'm aggregating all the best questions you send me every week through the YouTube live section, YouTube comments, email, Twitter, however you've gotten in touch with me. We put together as many questions as we can, and I'm going to shoot through as many as I can in about 30 minutes here. So let's get right to it.

Zach, email starts us off. He says, I was wondering what makes a college a national brand.

Is it winning a national championship? Do you have to have a number one overall draft pick?

What exactly makes you a national brand? I'm an LSU fan in Louisiana.

Everything LSU is big. I don't know how big LSU is in the rest of the country. Zach, that's a

really good question. So we know Alabama's a national brand. You know, even in their down years right

now, USC, when they're good, they're a national brand. And to be honest, when they're

bad. Everybody still cares nationwide. Notre Dame, Ohio State. They're all in that classification.

LSU and Georgia are two examples of programs that I would say could be in the process of

transitioning from a regional brand to a national brand. Now, you asked what makes it. Nothing overnight. I think the

only exception there is, remember when Tim Tebow was at Florida? Florida was temporarily a national

brand. You had a superstar head coach in Urban Meyer. That helps. You had a superstar player in Tim Tebow.

That helps. Even Texas A&M when Johnny Mansell was there, if you just get

this superstar presence of a player or coach in some cases, that could temporarily do it. But long

term, you got to win. You got to have a sustained track record of winning. And that's how you

become sort of a blue blood program. But a national program,

you know, I would argue, for example, when Chip Kelly was at Oregon, I think Oregon became a

national program there. And I think Georgia and LSU could be in the process of transitioning

there. It'd be done the old-fashioned way at either place. I think it'd be done the old-fashioned way.

Consistently recruited a high level, consistently send guys to the NFL draft. I. I think it'd be done the old fashioned way. Consistently recruited a high

level, consistently send guys to the NFL draft. I don't think it's one number one overall draft

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