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It is Wednesday morning slash afternoon. However you please, it please it is march second the year of our lord 2020 we are wall to wall with question and answer as we are every time we do the late kick extra mailbag numbers on this thing are insane but we got a comment in the comment section that says no one wants to hear about the numbers so i'm going to quickly tell you we're still going up going up. That's all I want to. I want you to know that. We're still going up.

So I want to say thank you, thank you, thank you. We have got so many different things to talk about this morning. And as you know, this is all Q&A. So you submit the questions. But as is usually the case, I can count on you guys to ask topical questions.

Therefore, we don't end up really going out in left field much,

although there was one question. the case I can count on you guys to ask topical questions. Therefore, we don't end up really going out

in left field much, although there was one question that was submitted in the Twitter mailbag

at Late Kick Josh. We put it out there on Monday. You submit the questions. One of you asked about me.

Now, you know me. Colin and Jesse can attest to this. The last thing yours truly wants to talk about is myself. But one of you asked about rumors, dirty rumors that have been floating around the college football Twitter sphere and I guess WebAsphere, message board OSphere, shall we say, about my contract situation here. So you know what? In the interest of full disclosure, I'll tell you about it.

I'm not going to do it on the front end of the pot. I'll do it on the back end. So if you want to

know where I stand, the thing you should do is ask me. One of you did. So I'll be straight up front with you and let you know what's going on there at the end. But in the meantime, if you want to submit questions, Josh Pate706 at gmail.com. The better way to do it at this point

is probably just hit me up on Twitter or Instagram and the DMs at Late Kick Josh. Numbers continue to grow there. All those things are important because it is what enables us to keep this show free. That along with our partners and we appreciate them too. So I'm going to start this thing now. Let's go. First question is one that's been on the minds of a lot of you lately.

And it sounds a little something like this. Jay Prince leads us off. And Jay asks thoughts on the college football attendance figures hitting a 40 year low. Why is this happening?

So these are realities in college football. And it's not just college football,

but that's our world here. So let's just keep it within the context of college football.

Crowds, attendance figures, they hit a 40-year low. Dennis Dodd had an expansive article on this

on CBS Sports.com earlier this week, depending on when you're listening. And the numbers are the numbers.

You can't argue with the numbers. What happened then, though, as you well know, is a lot of

people took those numbers and then they used them to load in whichever chamber on whichever,

you know, theoretical gun they're using to fire off narratives and they used it to their advantage.

If you're of the opinion that the playoff needs to expand, people said, well, see, crowds

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