Podcast ain't played nobody. Bill, you're the historian, you're the expert, the statistician.

I've written the book. You are a tour guide through the annals of college football history.

When was South Carolina in the Atlantic Coast Conference, Bill?

A long time ago, back when Bob Ryan was our age.

They were in the ACC. They were part of the giant 1,000 team mass of a

Southern conference that existed through the 20s when a

certain select handful of football schools decided you know we're the only

ones who are serious about football we're going to form the southeastern

conference so they continued on their life in the Southern Conference till the 1950s.

They joined the ACC, which made them, of course, a basketball school.

And then they went independent in 1971, presumably because they weren't a basketball school.

So Bob Bryan or John Feinstein or Pete Prist, I don't know all those old

sports writers look alike to me. But one of them was frustrated as South Carolina beat Florida in the basketball business.

Was frustrated South Carolina left the ACC for the SEC ostensibly but they didn't.

There's like years and years and what 20 years in between that?

Yeah I'm not gonna I'm not gonna defend his comment because it was kind of hilariously.

Well, I mean, I commend him actually for being so amazingly random with it.

I appreciate random history.

That's kind of, honestly, that's why we're leading the show with it. I appreciate random history. That's kind of honestly that's why we're

leading the show with it was I I usually avoid the take as much as possible but

when it is that strange when it is like a grandpa non sequitur like that and it sort of involves that kind of

periphery of where we work on the show I feel I felt we were obligated to include it.

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