A close dear personal acquaintance and friend of the show said, last show was too confrontational.

Now this person is sort of new. I've known them for a long time. They're sort of new to watching the show. Many of you may be

new to watching the show. This is the, I would say maybe not the least confrontational show on the

planet. It's not a confrontational show, which you have to understand. If Colin did the 360 view

around the studio with the camera, which we don't have. If Colin did the 360 view around the studio

with the camera, which we don't have the capability of doing, you would see there's nobody in here.

But yet there are tons of people who are watching. Now, if you and I were out to lunch somewhere

and we disagreed over something, we could just talk back and forth. But that's not the dynamic

we have here, but it kind of is I just have to sometimes vocalize the other side. So it's not the dynamic we have here, but it kind of is. I just have to sometimes vocalize the other side.

So it's not confrontational. It's just college football. I promise you in this stack of papers here tonight on this jam-packed show on Sunday, May 18th, the Year of Our Lord, 2025. I promise you there's some disagreement in here.

I will virtually assure you that you're going to disagree with me some tonight.

I may even disagree with you.

But that's okay.

We're high atop of sunny, downtown Nashville, Tennessee.

It's the middle of May.

What better things do we have to do?

We've got approval ratings.

Why talk about your job performance?

Why talk about my job performance?

Let's talk about someone else's job performance. Therefore, we can criticize. And there's no blame for us to pass around amongst ourselves. I have soon to come on the show tonight. One of you who are choosing to dredge up a topic that we have not touched on, I don't think in a little while on the program, but we will again tonight. It's the thing where I don't know if I'm in the

minority or the majority, but I just think there's something very commonsensical about the sport

and about the way it's sort of top-down structure that is flawed. And I've said it and it made some people mad and got

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