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Bill Bender Talks College Football and JJ McCarthy · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Let me shift gears with you. Talk a little college football real quick.
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  Your thoughts on Chip Kelly going from a head coach at UCLA to an offensive
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  coordinator at UCLA. That one thought process on that from you? And then
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  also, what does this mean and how how much better does this make Ohio
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  State? Well, I mean good for Ohio State. I'll start there.
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  I mean, they've get a really creative offensive mind that will spread them out
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  and I think they'll really maximize quin Show, Judkins, Treviaon Henderson have a
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  really good running game. College football in some ways though, I mean just
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  the look of a team coming into the Big Ten trying to create excitement and
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  your head coach goes and takes an offensive coordinator job. I know, the
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  sec down there where you guys are guys do like Derek Mason comes to mind.
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  I know he took a defensive coordinator job after getting fired, but he
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  didn't voluntarily do it, you know what I mean. And I think that's
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  the big difference for me, and I'm not sure that's a good look for
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  the sport. It just shows the gap between those superstore programs and everybody else.
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  Bill Bender talking to NFL and college football money edition of the program.
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  Make sure to find him on X and check him out at the Sporting News
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  as well. In same question for Ryan Grub, I mean, you're talking
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  about a guy who was the offensive coordinator at Washington. He goes down to
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  Tuscalos know there's some stories or some you know, stuff out there, rumblings
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  of hey, you know, they were trying to wait for that transfer portal
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  window to close and then now back or to the NFL. He goes back
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  to Seattle, this time with the Seahawks. Your thought on kind of that
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  maneuver there by him, I mean, there's definitely some shade on that and
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  the way that they did it, but it's also by necessity in some ways.
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  And that's why. If there's three reforms that he made the sport.
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  The first one to the calendar, how do we fix the college football calendar?
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  Because this was a wild coaching carousel, thirty changes, just unprecedented.
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  How do we fix nil? That's the next one. Do we get into
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  the revenue sharing and that kind of thing? And then how do we fix
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  the transfer port I think the transfer would fix itself a little bit if those
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  two things were fixed ahead of it. I think we would have less transfers,
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  and that's less of an issue for me than the other two. Bill
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  Bender talking college and the NFL. Bill to me asked one more question.
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  I'll get you on your way, JJ McCarthy. There's been back to the
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  kind of college slash back to the NFL. You know, Jim Harball came
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  out and said, Hey, you know, I'm paraphrase and I think JJ's
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  the best quarterbacks ever played at Michigan. I think he's the best quarterback in
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  this draft. Now he doesn't need a quarterback now with the Chargers. You've
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  seen kind of the movement of JJ McCarthy in some of these mock drafts.
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  We'll see what happens at the combine and more. Is JJ one of the
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  better quarterbacks in this draft in your mind? Got a lot of intangibles.
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  I remember back at Big ten Media Day, people were aside themselves that Harball
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  would compare Dorothy to Josh Allen and Patrick Mahomes. But he wasn't comparing the
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  skill set. He was comparing the leadership, the tangibles, those kind of
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  things, and kind of hard to argue against that in some ways, given
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  what Michigan went through this year and how McCarthy helped hold it together. I
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  do think he will have better numbers and be a little bit better in the
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  NFL than he wasn't Michigan. That might not make sense considering he was twenty
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  three and one as a starter, but I think the receiver talent in the
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  NFL in his arm. Will Mesh might take a minute, but you've got
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  a little bit of this. This year's Will Levis Spiel to him. Because
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  of those things, I think he'll be a very popular person at the NFL
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  combat. Make sure to find him on X that's Bill Bender ninety two.
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  Check him out at the Sporting News. Bill, I appreciate your time as
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  always. Look we'll catch up. It'll be March madness. We'll talk that
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  in spring football with you before you know what. I appreciate it. I
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  can't wait. Thank you so much for having me, Jake. I'll talk soon.