00:25All right.
00:28All right.
00:28For people who've been to South Bend for a Notre Dame football game,
00:31you know that South Bend isn't a sprawling metropolis.
00:35And yet it hosts some of the biggest football games year in and year out.
00:39And this weekend they got Miami coming in.
00:42Number one Miami against the number 11 Notre Dame team that is probably
00:45playing for their playoff lives.
00:48It's a Saturday night game, huge game.
00:51Of course, these two programs have a history.
00:55So it's a big one.
00:56It's one people want to be at $5,300.
01:01Gator was asked how much a night in the Laquita Inn in South Bend.
01:07Two nights.
01:08Yeah, sorry.
01:09Two nights in the Laquita Inn in South Bend would cost.
01:11Your first guess was $1,300?
01:14I think so.
01:15Your last guess was $5,100?
01:18Yeah.
01:19As you worked your way up?
01:20We could have done a cliffhanger with it, I guess.
01:22Although Kang had seen it.
01:25The correct answer for two nights.
01:30$5,200.
01:30$5,200.
01:32My God.
01:33Holy gouging Batman.
01:37$2,600 a night to stay at the beautifully equipped Laquita in South Bend.
01:47I think back to the time that I went when I was part of the Michigan State Broadcast and
01:51we stayed the night before in, I believe it was Benton Harbor, Michigan.
01:58And then we just drove to South Bend, which was like an hour drive the next morning.
02:01And I can understand why, if these prices are that ridiculous.
02:07Yep.
02:08So, let me make sure I got this right.
02:11Years ago, yep, this is it.
02:13Years ago, Michigan played there and the team stayed at the Blue Chip Casino Hotel in Michigan
02:22City, Indiana, which is when you drive past on your way to Chicago.
02:27Years ago, they have stayed other places like north of South Bend that is much closer.
02:34I know that.
02:35But, I mean, it's not unusual for teams to stay a short bus ride away.
02:41The metropolis of Hammond.
02:42Yes.
02:43Well, Hammond, you never know.
02:45Get ready, Hammond.
02:46Although it doesn't look promising.
02:48The rest of the NFL is disappointed.
02:51I'm amazed at something.
02:53By the rest of the NFL, I mean 31 other fan bases that would have found it amusing.
02:56This price is insane.
02:58That's crazy, Gator.
02:59It's nuts, right?
03:00How is that allowed?
03:02I mean.
03:03That's not like a suite or a penthouse.
03:05Like, that's insane.
03:07Who's paying this?
03:08You don't have to pay it.
03:10And the hotel is only going to set the price what they think they're going to get for it.
03:13If they don't get it, then the price will come down.
03:16I mean, it's supply and demand economics, right?
03:19There's a limited amount of supply of hotels in South Bend who are close to the stadium.
03:25And the demand is so high.
03:28I'm going to guess they sell out.
03:30I'm going to have to talk to the weird Trivago guy or Kaley Cuoco and get their thoughts.
03:35William Shatner, they're going to help me out with getting a good rate.
03:38So, yeah, I think you will.
03:39I think you have to be one of those people to get this room.
03:42Because at some point, the price is so high, Doug, the average person can't afford it, right?
03:47So, you're telling me, like, Uncle Luke's going to fly up from Miami and stay at La Quinta because he
03:52can't afford it.
03:53But it's the only spot.
03:54Yeah, he could.
03:55But that's the only thing that's available.
03:57So, I mean.
03:59Brother Marquis will share the room with him.
04:02But yes.
04:02Yes.
04:03The whole crew.
04:05They'll be live.
04:07But your actual Uncle Luke.
04:09Yeah, exactly.
04:10I ain't coming out of that kind of scratch.
04:12No, but that Uncle Luke.
04:13Somebody say, hey, we want a hotel room.
04:17Oh, man.
04:18Sorry.
04:18Sorry.
04:19He feels left out in the movies.
04:20So, he's got to, you know.
04:21Did it click it?
04:22I got it.
04:23Okay.
04:23Did it click it?
04:24Yes.
04:24I'm familiar with it.
04:25Just making sure.
04:26Yeah.
04:27They ain't all gems.
04:28No, they aren't.
04:29But that was fun.
04:30But like your family that's a fan of Notre Dame coming from out of town.
04:35They're like, hey, guys, it's $5,200 for two nights.
04:39But we get continental breakfast.
04:42One of the best tweets we got so far, actually, a post on Twitch.
04:45Will Gator go steal a breakfast?
04:47At that point, you have all.
04:49Go ahead.
04:50It's a continental breakfast.
04:51Gator, you have my permission.
04:52I'm just walking down there and grabbing a croissant and maybe some orange juice and I can move on.
04:59I don't know.
05:00Is the Rudiger B&B, is that open?
05:03Can I stay with Rudy?
05:04Rudy's place.
05:06I mean, if you're living in an apartment, if you're like a student, Airbnb it and pay for a semester.
05:15Mike at a cell, you're on 971.
05:17Hello, Mike.
05:18Hey, Doug, Scott, King.
05:20How are you guys doing?
05:21What's up?
05:22So I heard I was picking up some lunch and I heard you guys talking about this.
05:26So I went out to that La Quinta in South Bend website and a queen room, and this is great.
05:33They call it the Smart Saver non-refundable rate, and Gator, don't fall out of your chair.
05:39Okay.
05:40$3,456 a night.
05:45Wow.
05:47Unanchored.
05:48I'm not going to fall out of that chair.
05:49That's crazy.
05:51That's crazy.
05:52Yep.
05:54So, I mean, gouging is...
05:56I don't know when you saw your stuff, Doug, but yeah, that's what it is on their site if you
05:59were to book it today.
06:00That's insane, which also means, by the way, there's a room available.
06:05There's two of these left.
06:07Okay, yeah, so there's...
06:09Prices are out of control.
06:11Speaking of college football, we open the show with Michigan and Michigan State Talk,
06:15and we continue to take your predictions throughout the day.
06:18Get them in, 248-539-9797.
06:21Phone calls and texts, plus people sending their tweets.
06:25Who do you think wins this game and why?
06:29And we will read as many as we can on the air as the show progresses.
06:34We haven't really got into the Lions and Dolphins on the field yet, which is rare.
06:39We're late in the week, and it's probably because the Dolphins are 1-6.
06:44So the Lions have really been trending offensively, even though they haven't scored a ton of points in the last
06:51couple of games,
06:52but they won two big games.
06:53First of all, Jared Goff had a touchdown pass last week.
06:58He's had touchdown passes in 30 consecutive games.
07:02That is the longest active streak in the NFL.
07:05His 4,158...
07:074,041,000, excuse me, 586 passing yards is the third most by a player in their first 11 seasons
07:16in the NFL.
07:18Trending.
07:19Jameer Gibbs leads the NFL with 1,058 scrimmage yards.
07:25He is looking for his fourth consecutive game with more than 140 scrimmage yards.
07:31Amon Ross St. Brown has become the fastest player in NFL history to reach 6,000 career receptions.
07:39Jamison Williams is going for his fourth game in a row with a touchdown catch.
07:42There is a lot about this team and their offense that is trending.
07:50And Miami's defense has been susceptible to the big play.
07:54It's been one of their weaknesses so far this year.
07:57They've allowed opposing passers to have a 140 passer rating on attempts to travel at least 21 yards in the
08:05air.
08:07According to Tim Twentyman.
08:08That is the worst in the NFL.
08:10It's been a point of emphasis in practice.
08:12Last week, they allowed two 40-plus-yard touchdown passes, 48 yards, and 43 yards.
08:18The other thing against Miami that you can do is sustain drives.
08:22Their third-down defense is horrific.
08:25I thought I saw the number was close to 50% of third downs have been converted against Miami this
08:30year.
08:32Now, they've played better football lately.
08:34They've been way more competitive in the last few games.
08:38But it's still not a very good football team.
08:40I mean, this is, you look at what they have.
08:43Malik Willis is given nothing to work with there.
08:47They've got a young running back who has got promise in Ollie Gordon and outside of Malik Washington.
08:53And it's not like he's a household name as a wide receiver.
08:56They don't have much.
08:57You know, they've only thrown six touchdown passes all season.
09:00They have 13 offensive touchdowns all season.
09:04This is not a good football team.
09:06They have not helped out the new coach or the new quarterback at all.
09:12They're tanking this year.
09:13They want to get, you know, the best draft that they can have, the best draft pick they can get.
09:18And maybe they're going to be selling off pieces to get more draft capital.
09:21We'll see.
09:22And because this is, you know, out of the games that are taking place on Sunday, look, this isn't one
09:28of them that you're watching to see if the team loses.
09:31So they're going to, I mean, they're already a terrible team.
09:35So you figure you can pick guys off.
09:36They have 14 rookies.
09:39Active.
09:40That's a crazy high number.
09:41That's more than touchdowns.
09:43That's a crazy high number.
09:43More than touchdowns they've scored.
09:45There's seven rounds of drafting.
09:47They've got 14 rookies.
09:49I mean, undrafted free agents and obviously practice squad guys.
09:52That's crazy.
09:54And yet, should we be cautious about this one?
09:59We'll get to that today at 1216.
