Who stands to benefit in your eyes then if Jeremiah Smith's going to take a hit, Ohio State drops another game potentially?

Yeah, so to touch briefly on a game this week, I think Petrino is going to expose what's going on with the Miami defense.

And the Miami defense is very soft in the middle.

Their coverage numbers from their linebackers, their safeties, and their corners are horrific.

And that's why you see teams like Wake Forest.

You see teams throwing up massive amounts of passing yards on this Miami defense.

So what does that mean? Next week, we're going into Miami-Notre Dame, one of the biggest games of the entire season, probably going to determine who's getting the number one seed in the college football playoff.

I won't be offended.

What do you make of this number right now with the Irish laying 10 and a half for 11 at BYU?

The schedule people are interesting, 'cause I'm staring at, uh, ESPN's resume, uh, index that they have.

Notre Dame, 63rd strength of schedule, BYU 86, so that argument applies to the Cougars too.

I like Notre Dame here.

I project this game about 14, and the reason why it's lower is because it's factored in for this being a night game in elevation, uh, something, you know, different that Notre Dame has to put up with, uh, from back at home in South Bend.

But really the difference here on offense for Notre Dame is Jonas Walton is the breakout running back star that we've been waiting for all season.

He's had 300 yards in the last two weeks, two TDs against Stanford and North Carolina.

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Colin, how goes it? Uh-

I think for the record, this is gonna be wild.

I think this weekend is going to like-- So I, I do the 17 twos and threes money line round robin.

Why are you looking to lay the chalk here with Alex Golish and his Auburn debut?

Well, you're essentially looking at the South Florida offense.

It's going to be wearing Auburn tiger jerseys on offense.

I mean, Byron Brown, if you have not seen this kid play, he's going to be a light show today.

And Baylor's defense is severely going to struggle to stop him.

They've struggled to stop anything over the last two or three years.

And they went and got Kansas state's defensive coordinator, Joe Klanderman, which I'll save you the advanced stats.

Ole Miss right now laying six and a half at most shops against Louisville.

Did you get out there on the Friday and have a bit of a look around?

Yes, so yeah, so we did get out there Friday.

It wasn't straight out early in the morning, but we did get out in the water, and, you know, I had a good look around in the system.

I sort of found, we found fish pretty well anywhere where we went, you know, off, you know, um, Tweed.

It does have edges, and it, you know, it has rocky edges.

Does have sort of mangrove edges.

Has some flats in it as well, has some reefs in it.

What do you pair that up with?

to

tackle that? Funeral directors, marketing is probably not one of their foretakes, right? But I think what is, you've got to get your, this goes back to working on the business.

So, you know, we see funeral homes that sponsor events, but they're too busy, they don't go to them, yeah? And I think education, like if you want to change the perception and start changing what a funeral does, the funeral director really has got to be that person, that front man or somebody in their business to go out and start working with the community.

And I'll just say, showcase what you do, right? Now, you're not going to put anything gory or anything like that up, but you really want to showcase the capability of what you can do and that care factor and the experience.

They're not good at getting video testimonials, Google reviews.

I mean, I had a funeral director say, you know, we've been around for such a long, we don't need them.

Yeah, but you know, part of strategy is looking at what's our growth factor look like? You know, is our, you know, wherever we are in our local area, well, I call it the geo zone, your catchment area.

So with what you do, what you've done, what do you think about the profession, about the people

How did the Sooners do this?

They did it.

I tell you, there's two programs in the country this year that deep in the middle of their conference run said, stop.

Switch everything around.

Get a new lineup out there in the sticks.

Get me brand new starters, two and three slots, maybe one, two, and three.

There were two big programs that did that this year.

So when you just explained everything that had to come together for OU to go on this run, flipping it around, what has to go wrong for UNC to lose two out of three to the Sooners?

Yeah.

They want to do this in college baseball.

I don't want to do this, and the reason is because once they announce the regional field, you can look at your futures tickets if you have, like, four or five of them, and you can see where they're at in the brackets.

And if you are lucky, then they all have a path to get there, and it's just easier to hedge, to take other futures, to manage your portfolio and your investments if you know the direct path.

If I knew that West Virginia was gonna play Cal Poly and, you know, Auburn was gonna load up and play that, then I would be sitting pretty with, you know, one of those futures.

But the fact that they don't reseed gives you three weeks to prepare for your futures portfolio.

If they, if they do reseed, then you could be sitting on a Georgia Tech against your Georgia ticket, like, immediately inside of Omaha.

So what are your thoughts on both of those teams, and then just do you want to speak to the venue, uh, at large?

How do you handicap that side of the bracket with North Carolina, West Virginia, and Troy in it?

Well, I tell you what, the non-SEC side of the bracket, except for Ole Miss, right? I mean, West Virginia or Troy is going to be 1-0 in the College World Series, which is just going to blow everybody's mind.

But if you start there, West Virginia is absolutely deserving of some of this opening price where you see like about minus 210 in the market.

Chanson Cole's going to go here against Benjamin Stubbs for Troy, and that's about the number that I project.

The issue with Troy is, yes, they've been very hot with hitting lately.

I mean, if you can rack up nine earned runs against Liam Peterson of Florida, then your sticks are obviously hot.

The problem is they're coming in here with about a 6.2 XFIP.

Anything you jump out to you on the Saturday games in the SEC side of the bracket?

... day, is there, is there a thought that there is some value out there on some dogs against some, uh, notable names in these conference tournaments?

Yeah, absolutely.

Listen, I treat conference tournaments the way you treat college baseball Tuesday and Wednesday, and what does that mean? Managers are setting up their rotations for the weekend constantly.

Well, now at this time in the season, they're setting up their rotations for regionals.

They don't care if they win these quarterfinal and semifinal games.

Most of these teams playing have already locked in where they're going to be in regionals.

So they're going to throw their fourth, fifth string guys.

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So, why all of a sudden is everyone freaking out about these guys as if they're like the second coming of great quarterbacks when they don't seem to be that, given their past history?

Well, Garrett Nussmeier is an NFL quarterback arm.

He is gonna play, and he's going to do well, in my opinion.

The problem is, is he ca- he's not being protected.

Even a stellar offensive line last year couldn't protect him, and he's got a terrible head coach that can't connect with kids anymore.

If you go back and watch those SEC series on Netflix, like, Brian Kelly's just this pissed off dad that- that kids are not connecting with.

So, I think Nussmeier's gonna do better when he gets out of LSU.

I get it.