00:00What a weekend it was in college football at Sonny Wright's side. It's Joe Ranieri. It's the early line right here on the Sports Grid Network setting the table for another weekend. By the way, correct me if I'm wrong. It's going to be week number 10 in college football. It was just week zero. This is why we can't have nice things because I wish I could just hit the stop button and enjoy this all the way through. But also understand this. We have a lot more college football to go because if you didn't take a look at the expanded playoff, we're in October right now. You're going to play into November, Joe. You're going to play into December, Joe.
00:29You're going to play well into January feeling like you're going to rival the NFL and the Super Bowl. So we've got a lot more football to get to, which includes the AP Top 25 poll. Each and every week, these are going to change. The top 10, Ohio State, Indiana, A&M, Alabama, Georgia, Oregon, Ole Miss, Georgia Tech, Vanderbilt, and Miami in that top 10. I was joking before here a little bit early with Joe behind the scenes. Like Georgia Tech at number eight hasn't played anybody yet. They don't have anybody on their schedule, which is interesting, but it's a 12-team playoff.
00:59Joe, you see who sits there at number 12 in that slot? It's Notre Dame. That's done strategically to make sure the Irish, as long as they don't falter, they'll keep them right in that 12 spot.
01:10Oh, yeah. And they'll be there when it's all said and done. Make no mistake about it. They will be part of the top 12. And, you know, Georgia Tech quietly flying under the radar, just winning games and, you know, remaining in the top 10.
01:26But Vandy has become everyone's, you know, college football playoff darling here in hopes of getting it done here, even though they almost lost it, that game against Missouri, on a Hail Mary that somehow completed but landed, Donnie, about a foot short of the goal line, which is crazy when you think about it.
01:47It is crazy. By the way, if we look at LSU and Brian Kelly has been fired, we talked about it a couple times today, but now we can get into it a little bit deeper.
01:56Understand this. Like, he left Notre Dame to go to the SEC and go to LSU because they figure bigger budget, you know, maybe a little bit easier to recruit down there, easier to get the kids in school.
02:05Remove that from the equation. I always like to have a conversation with, you know, because coaches always want to coach at the pinnacle of their sport.
02:11And it's clear, the SEC is the pinnacle of the sport. You are going to get a lot more money, but what is your longevity in the SEC?
02:18And I'm being honest, like, Kirby Smart has some longevity because he's a national champion at Georgia.
02:23But if Georgia loses three games, like, people are going, I got to get rid of this guy. I can't have him.
02:27Well, wait a second. I just want a couple. It doesn't matter. Like, Dabo Sweeney at Clemson is in the ACC.
02:32He's not having a good season, but has multiple national championships. It's easy to put together if you have a pulse 10-win seasons.
02:38I always wonder why, outside of let me challenge myself, why you would ever want to go to the SEC because your life is not going to be long there as a coach.
02:46Like, Ed Orgeron won a national championship. They threw that guy out the door.
02:50Coaching in the SEC, not good for your lifespan if you want to, hey, man, been at this institution 10 years.
02:56That doesn't happen that much.
02:57No, and there's a theme here, Donnie, especially when it comes to LSU because you brought up good old Ed Orgeron there who was run out of town by this athletic director, Scott Woodward, by the way,
03:11who also happens to be the guy that gave Jimbo Fisher a contract for the ages in which Texas A&M is still paying $76 million when they fired him thanks to this athletic.
03:26How does this athletic director keep getting a job is my question because he is literally the definition of believing that the grass is absolutely greener on the other side.
03:37And guess what, Donnie? It is yet to be greener on the other side with him.
03:41So congratulations. You couldn't wait to hire Brian Kelly, the big splashy hire, and you got rid of Ed Orgeron who was made for LSU football, and look what happens.
03:52Yeah, congratulations. Now you're paying this guy $50 million to go away.
03:57As I say, Joe, don't ever mess with family when you get down to LSU at this point.
04:02Boy, that was just a match made in hell between that fan base, that coach, and the results that they absolutely got.
04:08Now you want to say, okay, give him a couple years to get back in.
04:10College football, you are expected to get into the college football playoff now that it's 12 teams.
04:14If you don't, you're hired to be fired, and that's what happened with Brian Kelly, which then brings us up to the coaching carousel.
04:19It's not going to stop spinning, and I keep telling people, there's not rock stars that you could just fill all these spots.
04:25LSU, Florida, Penn State, UCLA, Arkansas, Virginia Tech, Oklahoma State, and Stanford.
04:30There's not enough big names to go around, but there is going to be big money to go around for some of these football teams.
04:37Huge, absolutely huge money to go around.
04:41And it's just not the, listen, every year we have this coaching carousel, but Donnie, usually we don't have this conversation until before bowl time, right?
04:50The end of the regular season, and then these jobs become available.
04:54The amount of blue blood football programs that have gone the way of, forget it, you're starting the season with one guy, and then you're not even allowing them to see it through and finish it.
05:06You're firing a midseason and writing these $50 million checks like it's no big deal is just head scratching.
05:13So what is the next guy going to do?
05:15What are you going to go year to year?
05:17What is the next buyout going to be, Donnie?
05:19Because if I'm Lane Kiffin, in my contract, it's going to be $100 million if you don't let me finish this contract.
05:26It's that simple.
05:26You're going to have to buy me out for $100 million.
05:29Look, Joe, the Los Angeles Angels got it right.
05:31There's a turning of the tide.
05:33One-year deals for coaches and managers here.
05:36That's the future of the sport to make sure you get the best out of it.
05:38And by the way, we might have had another body stacked up on that pile with Steve Sarkees.
05:43You pulled out a miracle victory.
05:45Here's Steve talking.
05:45I'd love to touch on this, so bear with me for a second because it really pisses me off that one person can make a report that in turn the entire media sports world runs with as factual to the point of my agency and my agents have to put a statement out that they never have done.
06:09Historically, CAA, Jimmy Sexton, and Ed Manowitz have never had to do that.
06:13But I had to do that to protect my locker room and my team.
06:18And I thought it was absolutely ridiculous.
06:20I thought it was completely unprofessional of that person to put that report out.
06:24And the fact that everybody ran with it is borderline embarrassing for the media.
06:28And I respect what you guys do.
06:30I really do.
06:30And everybody else.
06:31But the fact that everybody ran that as truth is really embarrassing.
06:35Okay, so I've got a small circle when I make decisions on what I do and what I don't do.
06:40And nobody would speak on my behalf without me knowing.
06:43And so where that report came from, I'd love to talk to that person because it's absolutely ridiculous.
06:48Why does the press run with that, Joe?
06:51Because coaches lie about every single thing in their life, which includes which job they're going to take next.
06:56That's why it's out there, Steve.
06:57How about that?
06:59Yeah, it's not that hard to figure out.
07:01Seen this how many times, Donnie?
07:03I mean, we've seen this movie over and over and over again.
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