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Another edition of the Late Kick Extra podcast Tuesday morning, November 30th,

View of Our Lord, 2021. A little delay this morning recording. another edition of the late kick extra podcast Tuesday morning November 30th view of our lord

2021 a little delay this morning recording only because I don't know if you've realized this

there's a lot going on every time I started to click this little red circle something else happened

or someone else called or some other news broke and I can assure you given the nature of this month

so far this will probably be halfway dated by the time

you listen to it, but we got to get it in nonetheless. I don't know how to convey to you what

covering college football right now is like. I know what it's like as a fan. Imagine trying to cover it.

Imagine having to say things that hold up for over 24 or 48 hours. It's both hard and glorious. Oh, and I should mention I have a bad cold right now, so it sounds like I have a hedgehog lodged in my throat. It's okay. We will persevere. We will make it through together. So this is the Late Kick Extra podcast. I'm Josh Pate. We do this thing every Tuesday morning and Thursday morning. It is mailbag. Q&A wall to wall.

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This is the new battleground.

December, late November or through December, that is the new battleground in college football.

That is where everything happens.

I'm a big believer that the early signing day um has caused a lot of this i won't say it's to blame because the blame

is very pejorative that's a word i've been using a lot this month and it's negative in connotation

so if you love this nothing's to to blame. I guess you credit early

signing day, but that leads right into the first question that I was going to answer. And it was

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