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And welcome in. Late Kick is live. It is Thursday night, February 24th, the year of our Lord,

2022 jam-packed high atop, dreary downtown Nashville, Tennessee. Welcome, essentially, to what will serve as a 45-minute escape from reality and what all of us call the real world right now. Hey, I can give you a little spoiler alert. You don't have to wait to the end of the show. We will not be wading into geopolitical waters tonight. We're going to stick to what we at least somewhat reasonably have a grasp on, and that is college football. So if you want to block it all out, just hang out with us. We appreciate you being here. We have got a bunch of new coaching staffs out there, coast to coast, and we're going to rank them. Now, we do that normally once everything's settled down. So fingers crossed, no one's making a late season staff move. We're going to rank some of these staffs.

I put a pole up. them. And we do that normally once everything's settled down. So fingers crossed, no one's making

a late season staff move. We're going to rank some of these staffs. I put a poll up. No more than

two hours ago, I put a Twitter poll up and I made the crucial mistake of just listing three

candidates. I wanted to know, hey, which of these do you think was the best hire this cycle?

Brian Kelly, Lincoln, Riley, Mario Cristobal.

Billy Napier is the most popular person in that thread right now, and I didn't even list him. That's on me. That's my bad. I could have put a fourth option, and I didn't. Anyway, we're going to circle back to that in just a second. We got the Auburn Mood Tracker tonight. Another spoiler alert. There will be a Shawshank Redemption quote read on the program

tonight and it will deal with Auburn Athletics. I've been looking forward to this show for quite a while.

Finally, it's time for us to put a cap on the Renaissance season and the Renaissance tour from 2021.

And we're going to do it by crowning our I-Josh video of the year. As you know, when I went to games, we were on the road 16 weeks in a row. I had the trusty I-Josh in tow for every single trip and we got some amazing footage. And if you've forgotten about it, Director Collins got them all in there ready to punch them up one by one tonight. We have 11 finalists and we're going to run through them all. Don't worry if you're listening on podcast. It will translate seamlessly. If I do a half decent job of describing it to you. And then I'm going to tell you the winner because you chose the winner over the past 24 hours. All that. Plus we're going to hit some Arizona State. We're going to hit some LSU, we've got a lot to get to. Be sure you're following on the social channels at Latekick Josh. I told you two shows ago, I want your feedback. Do you want us to do some Twitter space activity and when do you want it? I've gotten hundreds of responses to that, potentially thousands, easily hundreds. I'm getting ready to announce something on that. It's going to be informal, but I'm getting ready to announce something on that because, look, there are a lot of people on here talking about everything from fashion to World War III. Why don't we just talk about college football at various times during the week? So I'll have more on that for you directly. Just stay tuned. Let's dive right into the show tonight.

Appreciate you guys being tuned in, as always. Got a lot of new coaching staffs out there. So naturally, we got to rank them before they've ever coached to spring practice. Now, what I want to remind you of when we rank coaching staffs around here, not just ranking the head coach, although it is primarily about the head coach, But when we're ranking them, it's not all apples to apples.

If I were to compare Brent and Venable, not just ranking the head coach, although it is primarily about the head coach, but when we're ranking them, it's not all apples to apples.

If I were to compare Brent and Venables at Oklahoma to Mike Elko at Duke, for example, I'm not

going to expect one to match the other in an apples to apples resume comparison because one's

got more resources than the other.

But as you're watching, if you're watching on YouTube, there's a whole list on the side of your screen about new coaches in new places. So you quickly

look down that staff list there. How would you rank these using these two bullet points? I want

to know their capability and I want to know the impact. And we obviously factor in expectation

level here, but I want to know the impact. So here's factor in expectation level here, but I want to know the impact.

So here's where I went.

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