00:00and you were very passionate about this especially on social media and I don't blame you
00:03about the USC attendance mirage the USC attendance issue what do we even call it
00:10this is so interesting because again I normally don't get as engaged as I have on social media
00:17with this but this is really kind of entertaining for me it was 100 degrees or close to 100 degrees
00:24here in Los Angeles they're playing San Jose State USC by the way has not had a great season
00:30the previous few years with with Lincoln Riley that's why he's under he's on the hot seat right
00:36now so when you got a USC team that has not performed well the previous few years at least
00:41the ranked in the top 15 I think the rank 15 is going up against a terrible San Jose State
00:46team
00:47they're favored by 38 points it's 100 degrees like if you had given me 50 yard line tickets I
00:53would not have gone like I have other things to do with my life I got better things to do
00:57and I know that's crazy to sound if you live in what Norman Oklahoma Green Bay
01:05but these college football cities where they're like we get more for a spring game congratulations
01:10to you really truly we got the Lakers we got the Clippers we got the Dodgers we got the Angels
01:15we
01:15got the USC we got you know UCLA Rams Chargers I mean like I I get it I will fully
01:21admit we are not
01:22the greatest college football but I will tell you that when USC is humming when USC is contending
01:29when USC is contending for a national championship the Coliseum will be packed like it's just such
01:34a non-story and it's hilarious to me that the rest of the country is so intrigued by you know
01:40you can't fill up the Coliseum no on a week zero game in August when it's 100 degrees and they're
01:47playing San Jose State no we're not gonna sell out the Coliseum and I know that you know if you
01:53say
01:53that that that doesn't make Los Angeles a great sports town or whatever it's nonsense it's it's
01:59ridiculous but I had to get on here to uh talk about that because yeah I have really been engaged
02:05on social media really not so much defending USC but saying folks you don't have to show up to a
02:12college football game in August in the humidity in the 100 degree heat if the game is bad you can
02:18sit in the shade you can sit at home it's week zero you don't have to put yourself week zero
02:23it's week
02:23zero it's okay I I feel two different ways about this okay so this college football this isn't
02:33Alabama Alabama has more passion for college football than Los Angeles ever will this is not a
02:39debatable subject that just is what it is Auburn has more it could be 120 degrees in Auburn they're
02:47gonna pack that stadium because that's what they do now if you had a Laker game at 100 degrees and
02:55they were in the NBA finals that stadium is packed like if the Rams had a game if the Super
03:00Bowl just
03:01so happen to be 110 degrees the building is gonna be sold out this looks bad but this is partly
03:06on USC
03:08as a scheduling situation you mean to tell me Texas can figure out a deal to open up against Ohio
03:14State
03:15in back-to-back years and generate revenue and attendance and attention by doing so USC can't
03:22do the same if I'm Lincoln Riley and I'm on the hot seat what better way than to come out
03:26the gate
03:27swinging against Miami what better way is it to come out of the gate swinging against LSU like find one
03:33of
03:33these teams across the country that you can schedule that will bring people in here because again
03:38you're selling the product you're selling the product regardless of what the heat is it's your job as a
03:46university to get people in the building you know and you know it at the at the athletic department
03:52this is a competitive town period oh yeah there are two there are two of everything here and then if
03:58it's
03:58not that there's a big old ocean so if it's hot so here's the thing John really quick this was
04:05a TV
04:06decision at the end of the day the TV outlets get to pick we are going to pick this game
04:10we are going
04:10to put it on and the time slot we're going to pick is 12 noon it's not ideal it in
04:15fact really is not
04:16healthy or safe you should not be playing games in like 100 degree heat that game should have been played
04:22at sunset or at night or something like that the other thing and again everyone wants to bring up
04:28the Notre Dame game and again they'll finally get back to it but you know god we want to we
04:33we want
04:33to play Notre Dame during our non-conference portion of the schedule why because we're in an actual
04:38conference we're in the big 10 and for like anyone who thinks that USC has a bunch of cupcakes they
04:43play
04:43three of the top five teams in the country why because they're in the big town they got to play
04:48Ohio State and Indiana and Oregon and Penn State so like they're really not in a position to be to
04:55be
04:55scheduling non-conference games against what you know Tennessee Louisiana State they will play
05:02the best teams in the country why because they are in what is currently the best conference in the
05:08country and the goal of every coach now now that we have a 12 team playoff the only goal the
05:13only goal
05:14is to make that 12 team playoff like everything else really doesn't matter
