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We got a little bit different crowd here at Pate State. The community is a little bit closer than your average

college football show. Case in point this morning, I put the following out. Quote, I'm recording

a Pate State Extra podcast this morning. Drop questions or topics here. Now, most people would ask about depth charts,

head coaching rankings. What does our crowd ask about? Well, here's the first reply.

Quote, she took the kids, Josh. What's my next move? You know, that's what community is all about,

and that's what God invented March for. Spring practice, life advice, some passing college

football conversation, a little bit of storm chasing. That's what the Pate State extra mailbag is

for. It's overflowing this morning. So we're going all over the place. Let's dive in. First up,

Scott, lead us off with this. He said, is there actually a world where conference title games don't exist? Or is the money too good to let go? Well, I think the money's too good to let go. I know a bunch of people flowed a bunch of different scenarios out there, Scott, about how conference title games are or aren't meaningful anymore. They're certainly less meaningful than they used to be. I'll grant you that.

But a lot of people say, oh, let's do away with them. And then the other side of the fence says, you can't. And then your side of the fence says, why? And then the other side says, well, they make too much money. And then your side of the fence would probably say, who cares? I don't get any of that money, I'm just speaking selfishly, which at the end of the day we're all doing.

I, until proven otherwise, tend to believe. cares. I don't get any of that money. I'm just speaking selfishly, which at the end of the day we're all

doing. I, until proven otherwise, tend to believe those conference title games will be around. But I will

tell you how they would disappear. And the only way they disappear is if something takes the place of

the conference title game on that Saturday or on that weekend that makes the conference more money.

Or, follow up, there is a system in place that overall makes the conference more money than it was

making with the current way of doing things, including a conference title game.

So maybe we will arrive at that one day. Scott, I think the only way we do the former version, I guess the A scenario that I mentioned

there is if you have that thing Tony Petiti has floated out there where instead of a conference

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