WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:02.720 [MUSIC PLAYING] 00:02.720 --> 00:05.860 DAN WETZEL: It was a little bit of a interesting discussion 00:05.860 --> 00:10.645 by SEC commissioner Greg Sankey, who tells 1010 XL 00:10.645 --> 00:15.730 in Jacksonville-- this is per Matt Hayes's Twitter feed, 00:15.730 --> 00:19.660 Matt Hayes at CFB, a friend of all of ours. 00:19.660 --> 00:25.960 Greg Sankey says, "The hope is we all move together." 00:25.960 --> 00:28.900 This is on conference alignment and returning in the fall. 00:28.900 --> 00:33.010 So the hope is we all move together, but you know-- 00:33.010 --> 00:35.050 this is where it gets interesting. 00:35.050 --> 00:36.940 There is room for different conferences 00:36.940 --> 00:38.770 to make different decisions. 00:38.770 --> 00:42.730 If a couple of programs aren't able, does that stop everyone? 00:42.730 --> 00:45.940 I'm not sure it does. 00:45.940 --> 00:50.860 As I read that, it's the SEC saying, if we have 00:50.860 --> 00:53.660 to go it alone, we go it alone. 00:53.660 --> 00:56.860 We're not gonna worry about what they're doing in California. 00:56.860 --> 00:58.120 Or we're not gonna worry about what 00:58.120 --> 00:59.500 they're doing somewhere else. 00:59.500 --> 01:01.750 The possibility would be that the SEC could just 01:01.750 --> 01:05.650 go ahead and go, without California or without the Big 01:05.650 --> 01:07.210 10, or whatever. 01:07.210 --> 01:09.580 Maybe you're only just playing your eight conference games. 01:09.580 --> 01:12.220 Maybe you're adding games. 01:12.220 --> 01:13.480 I don't know if you can extend out, 01:13.480 --> 01:16.330 just say we're gonna play all SEC games all year. 01:16.330 --> 01:18.916 Could play 12 of those. 01:18.916 --> 01:20.800 It might not be a national title. 01:20.800 --> 01:21.910 I don't know how this would go. 01:21.910 --> 01:23.930 I would think the Big 12 and the SEC are the most likely to 01:23.930 --> 01:24.730 play. 01:27.180 --> 01:27.980 What do you think? 01:27.980 --> 01:30.190 Is this like the early shot across the bow? 01:30.190 --> 01:33.430 Can we overread this and declare a civil war? 01:33.430 --> 01:34.270 [LAUGHTER] 01:34.270 --> 01:36.020 In co-- fight, fight, fight! 01:36.020 --> 01:36.820 Right? 01:36.820 --> 01:39.230 Behind the school-- can we overreact to this, please? 01:39.230 --> 01:40.330 Let's do something irresponsible. 01:40.330 --> 01:43.140 PAT FORDE: Of course, I'm happy to, always. 01:43.140 --> 01:46.510 No, I mean, yeah, I think it's a shot across the bow. 01:46.510 --> 01:50.990 And I don't think it's 100% out of thin air. 01:50.990 --> 01:55.390 I wrote in my column that was up Thursday on SI.com 01:55.390 --> 01:59.920 that one of the possibilities-- 01:59.920 --> 02:03.430 it's a radical possibility-- is a bifurcated season in which 02:03.430 --> 02:06.010 some conferences just say, hey, we 02:06.010 --> 02:08.440 are ready to go in the fall like normal, 02:08.440 --> 02:11.050 and we want to play then, and our fans want us to play then, 02:11.050 --> 02:13.210 and the TV networks want us to play then. 02:13.210 --> 02:14.560 And we're going to, and we're not 02:14.560 --> 02:18.640 gonna worry about the Pac-12, which doesn't want to. 02:18.640 --> 02:20.670 And so yeah, we're just gonna do our thing. 02:20.670 --> 02:21.470 [SOUND EFFECTS] 02:21.470 --> 02:25.480 And maybe there's a fall season and a spring season. 02:25.480 --> 02:28.750 And you get two different seasons, basically. 02:28.750 --> 02:30.260 You could have conferences go their own way. 02:30.260 --> 02:33.050 You could even have individual schools go their own way. 02:33.050 --> 02:39.780 And this is where the dynamics of realignment and expansion 02:39.780 --> 02:44.720 have pulled in geographically dissimilar schools. 02:44.720 --> 02:46.810 And maybe they don't see eye to eye on this. 02:46.810 --> 02:49.120 You know, Clemson is gonna want to play? 02:49.120 --> 02:52.360 Is Boston College gonna want to play starting 02:52.360 --> 02:53.780 first thing in the fall? 02:53.780 --> 02:55.570 I don't know. 02:55.570 --> 02:57.370 Is West Virginia gonna want to play when 02:57.370 --> 02:59.110 the rest of the Big 12 does? 02:59.110 --> 03:00.910 I don't know 03:00.910 --> 03:02.610 This is gonna be really interesting. 03:02.610 --> 03:03.925 DAN WETZEL: Oh, they're playing. 03:03.925 --> 03:04.867 West Virginia's playing. 03:04.867 --> 03:05.781 [LAUGHTER] 03:05.781 --> 03:06.581 PETE THAMEL: Yeah. 03:08.980 --> 03:10.940 Moonshine is actually the cure for the coronavirus. 03:10.940 --> 03:11.740 Yeah, right? 03:11.740 --> 03:12.560 You know that? 03:12.560 --> 03:13.480 DAN WETZEL: They're practicing right now. 03:13.480 --> 03:14.180 PETE THAMEL: It's better than bleach, 03:14.180 --> 03:15.080 more effective than bleach. 03:15.080 --> 03:15.880 DAN WETZEL: Yeah. 03:15.880 --> 03:16.990 They're practicing right now. 03:16.990 --> 03:22.480 PAT FORDE: If you take this to the extreme, guys, you want-- 03:22.480 --> 03:24.460 people have talked all-- they blue-sky 03:24.460 --> 03:26.770 all the time about blowing up the entire map 03:26.770 --> 03:28.550 and starting over. 03:28.550 --> 03:29.950 You want to give them a chance to do that? 03:29.950 --> 03:31.810 You crack open some of these alliances 03:31.810 --> 03:35.170 within conferences and between conferences, 03:35.170 --> 03:36.640 and see what happens. 03:36.640 --> 03:39.010 The coronavirus could be-- could-- 03:39.010 --> 03:41.320 you want overreaction, here's overreaction-- 03:41.320 --> 03:44.140 the means by which we blow up the entire college landscape 03:44.140 --> 03:46.470 and redo it. 03:46.470 --> 03:49.470 That's the reckless speculation we tune into this podcast for. 03:49.470 --> 03:50.400 DAN WETZEL: There you go. 03:50.400 --> 03:54.490 We take one tweet, one tweet for some radio show, 03:54.490 --> 03:56.880 and we've now destroyed college athletics. 03:56.880 --> 03:57.680 I love it. 03:57.680 --> 03:59.790 PETE THAMEL: So I'm not quite as fatalist as Pat, 03:59.790 --> 04:03.060 but there is a billion dollar question that this leads to. 04:03.060 --> 04:05.220 So say the Pac-12 doesn't play because 04:05.220 --> 04:08.390 of Seattle, Bay Area, LA, Gavin Newsom, et cetera, and the SEC 04:08.390 --> 04:09.570 does. 04:09.570 --> 04:10.960 Who gets the playoff money? 04:10.960 --> 04:11.760 Right? 04:11.760 --> 04:12.695 You play the playoff-- 04:12.695 --> 04:13.560 DAN WETZEL: You gotta show up for work! 04:13.560 --> 04:13.867 PETE THAMEL: Who plays the playoff? 04:13.867 --> 04:15.000 PAT FORDE: Can have two different playoffs. 04:15.000 --> 04:16.450 PETE THAMEL: How do you do it-- [INTERPOSING VOICES] 04:16.450 --> 04:17.380 DAN WETZEL: You gotta show up for work. 04:17.380 --> 04:19.329 PETE THAMEL: There's a billion dollars on the line. 04:19.329 --> 04:21.089 DAN WETZEL: You gotta show up for work, 04:21.089 --> 04:22.560 although not these days. 04:22.560 --> 04:24.030 Everyone gets a stimulus payout. 04:24.030 --> 04:25.292 So it doesn't even matter. 04:25.292 --> 04:26.625 PAT FORDE: No, you have a fall playoff-- 04:26.625 --> 04:27.425 DAN WETZEL: Get a raise. 04:27.425 --> 04:29.710 PAT FORDE: --and you have a spring playoff. 04:29.710 --> 04:31.100 DAN WETZEL: I don't know. 04:31.100 --> 04:31.920 I like it. 04:31.920 --> 04:32.860 PETE THAMEL: What do you pay for-- 04:32.860 --> 04:34.090 but there's a financial component. 04:34.090 --> 04:35.390 PAT FORDE: There is, no doubt about it. 04:35.390 --> 04:36.223 No, I think you're right. 04:36.223 --> 04:38.920 I mean, there's a contractual-- how do we work this out thing? 04:38.920 --> 04:40.830 But look, we'd already been discussing, 04:40.830 --> 04:42.690 oh, we're gonna have a 12-team playoff this year 04:42.690 --> 04:43.560 because we can. 04:43.560 --> 04:44.610 Well, if you can do that, then you can 04:44.610 --> 04:45.543 have two different playoffs. 04:45.543 --> 04:49.140 You know, you can do whatever the heck you want. 04:49.140 --> 04:51.890 PETE THAMEL: Pat has just-- he's just added extra playoff 04:51.890 --> 04:54.183 and blew up all the college sports landscape, all off 04:54.183 --> 04:55.650 of one tweet from a Jacksonville radio show. 04:55.650 --> 04:57.060 PAT FORDE: It's not all off of one tweet. 04:57.060 --> 04:58.910 I did have this when I wrote the column. 04:58.910 --> 05:00.930 Somebody mentioned at least the possibility 05:00.930 --> 05:02.950 of a some people playing a fall sport, 05:02.950 --> 05:04.890 some playing a spring sport. 05:04.890 --> 05:05.880 Somebody in the sport. 05:05.880 --> 05:08.330 PETE THAMEL: I like it.