00:00I'm a Dion guy number one nobody cares if your players graduate I mean let's be honest
00:23does anybody in this room or anybody listening eight seven seven eight eight one one oh five
00:27three anybody know what stick with Oklahoma Oklahoma Texas Georgia Alabama do it did we
00:35know what their graduation rates are I mean I can't say that I know that off top have
00:40you ever cared be honest have you ever cared about the graduation rate of a college football
00:46that you told me today that you're a college football fan yes have you ever talked about
00:49graduation you've been doing radio sports radio for how long eight years at this point
00:53how many seconds have you done on graduation rates um not not a single one because that
00:58doesn't that's not even a talkable conversation and has anybody ever said to you a program
01:03director or otherwise reg we'd love to hear more talk about graduation rates and what
01:10what these coaches are doing with their players I cannot say that they have so what is Dion
01:13talking about I think that honestly Dion I think Dion does a lot of framing which I think
01:21is not he's framing all right he's not it's not unique to him to be fair right media days
01:26anytime you're in front of the media you are framing situations for yourself to put yourself
01:30in the best light whether it's contract negotiations whether it's uh expectations all these things
01:36and the idea that hey man I'm working with a different set of like it's harder to win
01:41here it's something that he's not inherently wrong about it's one of the things that I
01:45tried to caution people about once Dion got there because all the hype because Colorado
01:50is not a place where you're supposed to win and I know that that sounds insane because
01:53people are like well you can win anywhere this ain't EA college football 25 right there
01:58are things that are inherent in college football over time that have been the case geography
02:02matters investment in I mean and flat out spending matters and now you end up with NIL
02:08spending in a different level when you talk about investment into the program matters
02:12and Colorado is one of those places where you don't really have those things the place
02:16where they used to be able to get an advantage recruiting wise was you know academics take
02:21it or leave it right them Nebraska was another place like this back in the days back when
02:24you go back to maybe like the 80s 90s they were able to be like look man them straight
02:28C's we can make that work come on down absolutely we'll figure that out every program does there
02:34are certain programs that have certain standards
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