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Motor City Mad Mouth Show with Adam Lichtenstein · Motor City Mad Mouth

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Happy Wednesday, everybody, you know what day? That is the motor City
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Mad Mouse Show. Yes, I am the MotorCity mad Mouth and I am
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pleased to be joined by my colleague Adam Littenstein. And Adam and I work
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together at the Miami Hurricanes. Every time I have an opportunity to bring Adam
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on the broadcast, it is a treat because this guy is as classy as
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it gets. Adam, Welcome to the MotorCity Mad Mouse Show. Thanks for
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having me back on. Glad to be back, Oh, glad to have
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you. Man, you are great. Every time I need something, this
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guy here, no problem, I got covered. All right? Well,
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you know what you know. Since it is MotorCity Mad Mouse Show, we
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try to keep people what more personable. The other ones shows are what they
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are because they're all nuts and bolts. We have a lot of those two
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in this broadcast. But Adam, go ahead introduce yourself. Give me some
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background information, where you're from, the places that you've worked. Floor is
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yours? Sure? So? Yeah, my name is Adam Lichtenstein. I
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covered the Hurricanes for the South Florida Sun Sentinel. Been on that beat since
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twenty twenty two. Before that, I covered high school sports down here in
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South Florida for both The Sun Sentinel and before that the Palm Beach Post.
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Went to the University of Florida, So I am a Gator, even though
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I cover the Hurricanes. Sometimes that gets people a little trump tripped up.
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But yeah, went to University of Florida, worked at the student paper there,
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covered the Gators in their worst season, worst season in thirty years.
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And then yeah, it covered some MLB, and then I guess I've got
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to do in some preps. Like I said, I've been on this beat
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for a couple of years. Definitely seen some interesting football the last two seasons.
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Hopefully some better football this year. All right, So you're a Florida
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native, right, Uh. I was born in New York, Long Island.
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Moved down to Florida when I was five years old, like half the
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other people who live here in South Florida. So yeah, new York native.
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Mostly been a New York sports team to know him rocking the vintage Marwins
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cap. Today they're own seven, so I'm not doing so hot. But
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my Yankees are six and one, so I like that. Yeah, I
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really feel bad for you, my Detroit Tigers. My heart are four and
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oh with two rainow so four zero and two and they're playing the match.
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So I got to ask August thirty first, when we go up to Gainesville,
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what's it going to be like when the Canes take on the Gators?
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Are you going to be because I've had to deal with this before when the
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University of South Florida, which is my alma mater, and I have to
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kind of internalize everything about the mixed emotions. But guess what, you get
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to do it and of course the Canes who play USF later this year,
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so you get it first and I get it second. What's gonna be like
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on August thirty first? Yeah, yeah, no, no mixed emotions.
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I was talking about this with somebody else on another podcast earlier today. But
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it's like, I don't root for anyone. I root for an easy game
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story to write that I'm not writing to the last possible second like I was
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a few times last year. I'm gonna be I'm excited to go back to
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Gainesville, haven't been in about six years now. Excited to check out some
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old restaurants that I like, you know, some Gainesville staples like Satchel's and
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stuff a great pizza place. I recommend it. But yeah, I'm excited.
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Just I'm excited to be in the swamp again because it's really an electric
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stadium. Like I tell people, like the stadium seats ninety thousand and the
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town only has one hundred and ten thousand people in it. Like this,
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whole play shuts down for a game day. If you haven't been to a
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game in Gainesville or any other big college town, whether it's Tallahassee or any
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of the towns around the SEC, or even in like the ACC got like
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Virginia Tech and Blacksburg or Clemson, you know, the whole city shuts down.
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Everything is based around the university. Like it's it's the thing to do,
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which is really cool. I know a lot of Hurricanes fans that like
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to talk about how there's nothing to do in places like Gainesville or Tusco,
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Lisa. But in those towns, the college is the thing to do.
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It's the thing to uh. You know, you go to the go to
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the games, that's what you do. So it's it'll be a good time.
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Uh. And I'm really excited to, you know, for the season
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to get started and to watch those games. Watch that game. Yeah,
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I had my Florida state fixed last year, and I've been to Gainesville once
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when I'm looking forward to going back. You know, as a member of
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the Miami Hurricanes media, it'll be pretty neat to get out there, hopefully
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later on this year. So you know, again, the way I've always
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treated these things, though, is you can't lose either way. I mean,
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you know, if the team you're writing for okay, you're gonna have
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a positive story. And if the other team, which is your own model,
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wins, deep down inside you're gonna feel pretty good. Because, after
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all, if you've got a championship ring like me called a class ring,
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you feel pretty good about. All right, let's go to the chat room.
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I told you're a popular individual here, mister Lyftan state, all right,
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what's going on? Lichtenstein? Josh O Birsday and he wants to know
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what's going on? And we got Duncan low Zinski on the show. And
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do you know Kaine super Fan Matt and Andy Siegerman? No, I don't.
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I don't know them. What's going on? Well, I got a
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new puppy last week, so that's taken up a lot of my time.
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She's adorable, little Jack Russell Terrier mix that we we rescued from Saint Croix.
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So that's been dominating my time. A lot of a lot of walks,
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a lot of playtime and stuff. All right, another wrong, I
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got two cats. I'll have to take them very far. All they do
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is meow, had but ineed, not necessarily in that order, and I
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call my two okay, the two. I mean, all fucking boots are
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beggars if I ever saw one. But anyways, sorry, So let's turn
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it over the Hurricanes offseason. First of all, why don't you highlight some
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of the departures we know Tyler Van Dykes. I know he ends up going
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to Wisconsin, but were there are any other departures that stood out? And
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how and when you look at those particular departures, how badly are they gonna
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sting? Well, I don't think any Hurricanes fans are going to be finding
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for Tyler Van Dyke. And I say that as someone who likes Tyler as
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a person. You know, had a lot of good conversations with him over
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the last few years. But they got The reason why no one's gon to
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miss him is because cam Ward is in town. He transferred in from Washington
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State after considering the NFL Draft for a couple of weeks, and he's been
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just doing very well at camp. Rave reviews from everyone, from players,
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from other from coaches. He seems to really be a quality quarterback. He
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did very well at Washington State, and he seems to be a very good
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leader. He brought in I think a bunch of the skilled players on offense
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to watch the Super Bowl on his place. He took the offensive lineman out
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for a big dinner, which I can only imagine the bill on that because
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the offensive lineman, of course, like me, love to eat. So
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he seems like, I don't think it's gonna sting too much. Lost Tyler
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van Dyke. The one that I think will probably kind of hurt is Colby
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Young transferring to Georgia. Okay, very talented wide receiver, very good,
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you know, tall guy on the outside, and the Hurricanes need a guy
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like that, and then right now they don't really have one. Got Isaiah
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Wharton I think is like, off the top of my head, I think
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is six to two. I could be wrong on that, but I think
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he's six to two, which so he's got some hype, but he's not
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that six four six' five guy who can go up and get a ball,
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you know, on a fade route in the end zone or something.
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So I think that's the thing that's why Georgia wants to He's a talented guy.
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So I think that's probably the loss that'll that'll hurt the most. All
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Right, So the only loss of you feel is Colby Young. That's the
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biggest one. Okay. Also, they lost some depth at defensive back and
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that they're a little short that position right now. I think like Davonte Brown,
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who you know, didn't didn't excel last year in his one year at
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Miami. He's up at FSU now. But what woodsting is if he's able
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to sway his brother, Demari Brown, the younger brother, to also transfer
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to FSU, because, like I said, the Hurricanes are kind of short
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on cornerbacks right now, and Demorrow Brown's very talented and looking to take a
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big jump going into a sophomore year, So if the Hurricanes were to lose
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him too, that would be a big issue. Right. So, but
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the one that stands out in your eyes is cool to Young and the newcomer
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that stands out is pretty much cam mored is that correct for sure. All
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right, let's go to the chat room because Joshua first seeds on a roll,
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so he let's help you with the first. One question for Adam,
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when will the Kinges finally have a good season? So I guess it depends
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on what your definition of good is. Is ten and two good enough?
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Is an ACC title good enough? Is nine and three good enough? Or
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are we talking to the Hurricane? And I don't mean that sarcastically because the
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Hurricanes have a history of being an incredible program. You know where the history
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and the legacy is. You want to go undefeated or and compete for a
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national title, and I don't know if the Hurricanes are gonna do that this
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year. I do think they should be good enough to compete for an ACC
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title. I do think they should be good enough to win ten games,
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and if they're able to do that, they probably make a twelve team playoff.
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Because we have a twelve team playoff this year. They should be good
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enough to to make that, and I think that's a big step forward.
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You know, they went five and seven two years ago, seven and six
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with the Bowl game last year, So if they make that next step,
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that leap and go ten and two, you know, make the ACC title
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game for I think on the second time since they joined the conference. That's
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a significant step. And I think that I think that qualifies is a good
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year, and I think they could very well do that this year. Yeah
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all right, so yeah, let's go over that. So what would you
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say the record that you in they could probably I'm just curious. I mean,
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there's still so much time between now and the season. There's still a
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whole other transfer portal window coming up later this month, so like teams aren't
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complete yet. So not only are the Hurricanes probably not complete yet, but
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their opponents aren't complete yet. But their schedule is not that difficult. They
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have a lot of they play a lot of teams that should be decent,
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but not a lot of teams that should be great. So I think they
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could very very not easily, but they could definitely go ten and two,
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and I think that's a very good season for them. Ten in two.
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You really believe that they're that good, I think. So I was doing
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a position by position kind of look about a week ago, and I was
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looking at like each position and how they were doing in spring, and there
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were very few positions where I was like, yeah, they need more more
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talent there. It's like running back kind of because they're kind of hurt there
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right now. If everyone's healthy at that position, then they really just need
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a little bit more depth. And defensive back, like I mentioned the cornerbacks,
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they need some depth there behind guys like the Murray Brown and Daryl Porter.
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And in safety they had to replace Cam Kitchens and James Williams who are
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going in the NFL draft. So those are the question marks and if they
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can address that in the portal, then I think they're in a really good
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spot. Or if they can find players who are already on the roster,
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maybe a guy like Jadas Richard steps up at cornerback or Jaden Harris at safety.
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If one of those guys steps up, it goes a long way towards
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plugging those holes that are on the roster right now. All right. You
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know what, I had an opportunity to talk to Xavier rist S Trepo.
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I've never seen a guy more classier than Xavier rist S Trefo gives you his
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time. He's a heck of a player too, and when I went there,
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he was scouting that pro day pretty good. So he knows what he's
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in for. Were your thoughts about the Big Eggs? I love that X.
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I think he's a very good player, but I think he's very underrated.
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I've actually known him since he was in high school when I was covering
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preps. He played for Saint Thomas Aquinas and then Deerfield Beach, so I've
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watched him now for basically the majority of his career, high school and college
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career. I think he's a really good player. He doesn't have the that
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talent, like the standout talent, he doesn't have the size, he doesn't
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have blazing speed, but what he does have is he's very intelligent. He's
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an excellent route runner, he's got very good hands, and Miami did not
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have an incredible passing game last year, and he's still got a thousand yards
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and that's impressive. He's only the sixth um receiver to ever record one thousand
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yard receiving season, so that tells you how good he is. I think
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he's kind. I think he's underrated by a lot of people, hopefully less
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so this year. But I think he's a very good player and like he
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said, very smart, very well spoken, like thoughtful. Really I mean,
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like he's not really a kid anymore because he's in the probably early twenties,
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in his early twenties, but great, dude, Like, well,
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I really like covering him, and I think he's set for a really,
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really good year with cam Warden at quarterback. Let me tell you some Deerfield
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Beach High School produces a lot of great prospects. We don't have enough show
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to get into them all, but they'll tell you he's just the latest in
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a long line of them. So I guess that believes me to Josh Firsty's
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next question, do you think Xavier will make it to the NFL? I
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think he definitely can. I mean you look at I mean, he's got
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a protege right in front of him, a guy like Braxton Burius. He
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may not be a thousand yard receiver in the NFL, but I think there's
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definitely a chance he finds his way onto a roster after this year. Wouldn't
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surprise me in the least bit. Well, I think what I found impressive
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about him that the Pro Day was here's a guy that's watching everybody there.
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Right, Okay, but I know that what I'm like you, I've talked
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to him a lot of time. And he's a great kid, he really
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is. And he's looking at the pro day like, let me get a
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few for this thing that I'm gonna be doing this next year. So not
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only does he does he a good player, but he seems like to me,
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he's a very intelligent player. Oh absolutely, absolutely, And he's he's
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been a leader on the team now for a couple of years. Like,
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and there's the coaching staff loves him, you know. I'm sure he's like
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a coach in you know, in the meeting room and stuff because he's been
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there. I think he's going to his fifth year now, like he's just
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a really really maybe his fourth year. I don't know if stop my head,
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but which is a really really good all around player. And he's had
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some been one of the highlights of spring watching him go against the transfer defensive
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back Niche Powell. They've had some really good battles. He's made some excellent
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catches during the media viewing sessions, and I think I think him and Ward
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are going to be a really really strong team. Yeah, Cam Warren,
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I'll tell you, I'm looking forward to geting to watch this guy play.
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I really am all right, let's go to the coach. We have to
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how important of a year is it for coach Mario Crystopal. I know he's
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in year three, and what did he sign an eight or ten year deal?
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I'm trying to remember ten ten years. I think eighty million, so
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got some time on that contract. But yeah, I mean it's a big
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year because it's mostly his players. Now you know the first year, say,
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okay, it's mostly players Manny Diaz recruited, and maybe Diaz wasn't a
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great recruiter like Mario Crystabal is. Okay, they go five and seven,
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which is disappointing. I mean, I disappointed, no matter how you slice
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it up. But okay, move on. Last year they're seven and six.
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A lot of disappointing stuff. You have the Georgia Tech loss, which
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is just still one of the worst losses I've ever seen. Just there's no
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there's no surecoding it. And I think Mario christ will probably tell you the
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same thing. It was just a brain fart from him, from Shannon Dawson.
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They don't want to attribute blame to anyone person, but just a terrible
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way to lose a game. But you look at every game they lost.
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They were pretty much in every game. And I don't really talk think about
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the Pinstripe Bowl too much. It's the bowl game, a bunch of players
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opted out. It's a wash. To me. I don't really take much
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from it. But you look at their five regular season losses and they were
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all pretty close. They were in all those games until the end. I
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think they only lost one by more than one by more than ten points,
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and that wasn't at the NC State game, which was just a weird game
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where it was close until the very end. So they were close in every
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game this year. You want, like I said, you want to even
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take that next step and start to win, start to you know, to
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accomplish things. And I think, you know, Mario Christo Bols flipped the
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roster enough. You know, he's brought in a really he has a really
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strong offensive line, which is his his thing, offensive lineman. The offensive
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line is strong. They've got talent at the skill positions. They've got a
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very good quarterback. So I wouldn't say it's like a make or break here
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because if they go eight and four, he's not getting fired or anything like
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that. They kind of fall below expectations, you know, He's not gonna
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get fired or anything. But this is the year where you want to see
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that next step, that progress, that build into a team that can accomplish
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things, a team that can compete for the conference title. And if they're
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not there, then there the question marks, the questions start to get louder
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because if he's not there now with Cam Wored, you know, this guy,
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a borderline NFL quarter back who will probably go to the NFL next year,
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you can't get there now, then what are you still looking for?
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What's missing? And that's a question that not only fans and media members are
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would be asking, that's a question that recruits are going to start asking and
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saying, hey, he believed you when you said you needed to build to
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something, but it looked like you were there and you're not. So that's
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where maybe recruiting starts taking a hit. And if your recruiting starts taking a
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hit, then you can't build, you know, that that kind of program
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you want to build because he, you know, Mario wants to build a
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program he coached under Nick Saban, So that's his you know, that's who
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he wants to build a program into. Whether Miami can ever you know,
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rebuild into a program like Nick Saban's Alabama is you know, another question,
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But that's what he's aiming for. And if you don't get things rolling downhill,
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then it just gets that much harder, you know. So I think
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this is a big year. I wouldn't quite say make or break, but
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it's a very important season. Fair enough, Well, you brought Manny Diaz
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and guess what now he's a coach for the Duke Blue Devils. So therefore,
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and I've always thought Manny was a great defensive guy. But what are
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your thoughts about Manny Diaz being back an the ACC No one that we're gonna
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face them again that you know, there's gonna be a little bit of a
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rivalry for no reason because of the head coach situation. Yeah, And I
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mean, like you think back to to how you know Manny Diaz was ousted
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at um Or basically the very public flirting and courting of Mario christ Ball,
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Well many he has is still like the head coach at Miami and still recruiting
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for Miami's a very weird situation. I can't imagine a situation where Manny Diaz
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doesn't have hard feelings about that. But I will say if Miami it's at
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that game is at hard Rock. If Miami loses that game, the vibes
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are gonna be just horrible. It's it's gonna be bad. But I do
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think, I mean, I think the Hurricanes should win that game. I
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think Diaz many Gas might struggle a bit too. They they lost some players,
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they lost head coach's first years as a head coach at Duke, so
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I don't know how good Duke's gonna be. But like you said, any
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d has great defensive coach, so might not be like a pushover game,
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or it might be We'll see. All right, Well, you know what,
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now you let me do another question. Okay, what are your thoughts
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about the ACC expanding getting three new teams? Cal Stanford and SMU are joining
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our group. I love it. I love it because I've never been to
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California before, and I'll get to go to Berkeley this year, so I
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love it. That's fun for me. Do I think it's like the savior,
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the saving grace for the a c C as a major conference? Probably
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not, but it's fun. Never been to Dallas or or Berkeley or Palo
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Alto, so sure, why not? Hey? One of these days when
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you and I go on a road trip together, we'll hang out, we'll
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see what we can do. I've been to all fifty states, I've been
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to a lot of different places. But you know, I do I will
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make a prediction with you, Adam. I do believe some way, shape
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or form, Florida State and Clemson are going to get out. And I
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wouldn't be surprised if Florida State and Clemson wind up in the Big Ten.
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Yeah, you're probably right. It's only it's probably really only a question of
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when and not. I mean, you can't. It's really difficult to keep
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a conference together when those two, like the two biggest members are highest profile
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members are in like open revolt. But I think the Big Ten, You're
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probably right, is probably where they end up. The question is is a
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conference fall apart after that or do they kind of like handle things like or
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do they end up being the Pac twelve or the Big twelve. Do they
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fall apart or do they kind of reconstitute themselves into like a smaller conference but
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still you know relevant? All right, So could you ever see the Miami
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Hurricanes ever in the Big Ten? Oh? Absolutely, I definitely could see
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them there. They're an AAU school, you know, a prestigious academic school
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like a lot of the schools in the Big Ten. So that helps them
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in their favor. You know, you get FSU, maybe they you know,
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want to bring them in an arrival. I don't think it's happening anytime
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soon. Miami has been very open publicly at least about their support for the
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a SEC right, so I don't see it happening anytime soon. So I
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think the words that Dan Radakovid she used I asked him about this in December
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was they were an interested observer. So they're gonna see how these law seats
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go with FSU and Clemson, which I think might not be the might not
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be the worst strategy because they'll see how these go. They don't take the
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pr hit of you know, dramatically realigning college football. They don't spend the
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money and public relations stuff on on the law seats themselves, and they see
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how it goes. If the acc falls apart, very real chance they end
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up in the Big ten or and I'm talking about this with many Navarro from
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the Athletic earlier, they could stay in the ACEC because if you look at
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how if you look at when Miami was at its peak, they were in
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they were either independent or in the Big East, and the Big East before
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you know it, eventually fell apart of the football conference. Was not like
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an amazing football conference. They were the big fish in a very small pond.
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And maybe they want to do that again with the ACC and basically make
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the accir their conference because everyone thought, you know, when they when they
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joined the ACC, like it was expected that Miami would be a constant conference
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title contender, and they haven't been. They've been pretty mediocre for twenty years.
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But if they can continue building the way they're building and become a strong
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program again, right, they could dominate the ACC. And even if the
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ACC is a second tier conference to the Big ten and SEC, if they
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get two teams into a twelve or fourteen team playoff, right, Miami could
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be one of those teams every year and be in the playoffs every year.
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So as long as the money is not too insanely different, they could.
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That is, there is a possibility they could thrive in a weekend ACC.
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There's no guarantee of that, and the money difference might end up being far
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too much for them to overcome, but we just don't know because it hasn't
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happened yet. All right, there are some interesting questions in the chat room,
23:14
so I'm going to bring him up and maybe you can do you know,
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Ken Calhoun can't say I do. All right, Josh, Now here's
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an interesting one. We'll play the name game a little bit. The NHL.
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He got cam Ward as an NHL goaltender. Yeah, yeah, right,
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I believe. So who is the other poser that you guys are talking
23:34
about? When I thought it's funny because I usually try to go with what
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I like players who have like if they go by their name is Robert or
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let's say they go by Rob or Robbie or Robert, and I typically go
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with what they use on social media. But cam urin Ward he uses both.
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I think on his Twitter he's Cameron and on his Instagram he's Cam.
23:56
So whenever we get a chance to talk to him, I'll ask you what
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he prefers. So cam Ward Cameron Ward. Uh. The important thing is
24:04
Miami still has an abundance of cams. They lost Cam Kitchens, they bringing
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cam Ward. It's got Cam McCormick. So team team with a bunch of
24:11
cams a bunch of elijahs too. So all right, I hope he answered
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your question, Josh, that you don't know KM Calhoun right, No,
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I don't. All right, there you go, Josh. All right,
24:25
and let's see, Josh, let's see what we get up. All right,
24:27
Well, you know what, let's have a little bit of fun with
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this. I know I have a couple other kines questions. What about the
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Miami Marlins. Oh my god, owen seven brutal first team after a playoff
24:42
that has ever lost seven in a row. I couldn't believe that I heard.
24:45
I didn't know that. Yikes, Like I said, I guess,
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like I said, I got my like I said, I like the Marlins.
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I grew up in Sophoboarder, so I do root for them. But
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I'm a Yankees fan. So they're six and one and I'm very happy about
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that. And oh d low seventy seven. I'm not ignoring the chat room.
25:03
Our goal here is to stay with the flow of the show and incorporate
25:06
the chat comments as they become as we're able to do that. So there
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you go, Joshua Ador Okay, Scott, can you say that? I
25:14
think I'm always talking about there. All right, A couple more things I
25:17
want to get around to. We were both at the Hurricanes pro day.
25:19
What stood out for you? Well, I'm always interested to see how Camp
25:23
or how Cam Kitchens does. He improved his forty times. He didn't run
25:29
a very like a particularly great forty times the NFL Combine. I think he
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ran like a four six four. I think I got one off the top
25:34
of my head, so someone can double check that. But he ran like
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a four to six something at the combine, which was not great. I
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think it maybe docked him a little bit on draft boards. Cam Kitchens game
25:47
isn't really speed, so it's not lea single most important thing, but he
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did he did improve his forty times at the at pro day. I think
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he ran a four or five four or four or five six, which is
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good. But the thing that really stood out to me was Tyler Harrell.
26:00
Tyler Harrold did not do much for the Hurricanes last year. I think he
26:03
had one catch for like seven yards, but everyone knew y had blazing speed
26:07
and never had a chance to really use it. Whether it's because the coaches
26:11
didn't trust him for something, for some reason, they didn't want to get
26:15
him on the field that much. We just didn't see him. But he
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ran like a four to two eight I think, which is blazing fast,
26:22
like incredibly fast, like not far off the Combine record which was just set
26:26
this year by Xavier Worthy, which I think he ran a four to two
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one, so not that much slower than the record time for the forty times
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at the Combine. So maybe that helps him get on a roster. I
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don't know if he's gonna get drafted, but it might help him, you
26:37
know, earn a spot on a practice squad or you know, maybe get
26:41
on you know, a team that needs a kick returner, a punt returner
26:45
or something like that. Because he's just he's just so fast. That's probably
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the thing that the the number that stood out to me the most was his
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forty time. Okay, well, you know what, Let's go ahead and
26:55
put this comment up from Joshua Door one hundred greatest Place, Miami Hurry Hurricanes
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systory number one, Calhoun deflex rasca two point conversion for first championship, wins
27:04
its first ever nationals. Now, we know who he is? All right?
27:07
Good? Yeah, yeah, And let's go back and rewatch the U
27:11
documentary then there you go. All right, we'll Vogel actually popping in says
27:15
I'm a Yankee fan too. Let's go Yanks and we'll go back to Joshua
27:18
Door again. Thanks for doing some research. Joshua much appreciated Miami roverback Candy
27:25
Calhoun deflected turner go pass, but the ball fell incomplete, accompanied by the
27:29
roar of the QB, and that was it. The Hurricanes captured the first
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national championship and Joshua Door you know who called that game? If you don't,
27:37
it doesn't matter. Don Krickey, dead for NBC Sports, who covered
27:40
a lot. I was about ten years away from being born, so I
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was not. I did not watch that game. Oh were you really?
27:45
Yeah? And I was. And at that time I was going to Brower
27:51
Community College South wrapping up my associate's degree. So are we really going to
27:55
talk about age difference between the two of us, because with the maturity that
27:59
you had fooled me a couple of years. But Don Krigging, if you
28:03
ever want to find out this guy, he covered a lot of Orange bowls
28:06
for sure, and you can see him probably on ESPN Classic. He was
28:11
that good. Let me tell you an interesting story about an Orange Bowl that
28:14
I remember when Iowa was down against USC and Matt Castle didn't get a lot
28:21
of playing time. I talked to him on the field and lo and behold,
28:22
he wound up playing in the NFL. So you can find these hitting
28:26
gyms anywhere, even if they're not get playing time. For sure, for
28:30
sure, Yeah, I never I regret that I never got a chance to
28:33
see the game at the Orange Bowl because growing up like my parents, being
28:37
from New York and also not having gone to college, they couldn't care less
28:41
about college sports. They didn't follow it at all, didn't really know much
28:48
about it, and so we were a pro sports family, so we watched
28:51
a lot of pro football. But by then the Dolphins were playing at our
28:55
rock pro player Joe Robbie, take your pick on what you want to call
28:56
it. They're already playing there, so i'd already I went there plenty of
29:02
times, but I never went to the Orange Bowl to watch the Hurricanes.
29:04
Oh I did. I covered them back then. I was a good experience.
29:07
So the one guy I worked with many years ago is Ron Steiner,
29:11
one of the best PR guys I've ever met, and he's actually in my
29:15
book as well, Candy. You know, while we're through the halfway mark
29:18
or just about in there, why don't you give us a break care and
29:19
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30:08
All right, well, as we are just about either at the halfway
30:11
point or near the end of the show, just so to show you,
30:15
Adam, when you and I get on here, things just flow very nicely
30:18
because we because we both cover this team, and I'll show them my wife
30:23
says on the yapp or I love to talk. Oh yeah, well that's
30:26
okay. We'll give you plenty of opportunities during the season too, don't worry,
30:30
but we'll put it with Jim Fire of Florida. Today is your opportunity
30:33
to go to a much different type of audience, and I like to bring
30:37
some of the people that I know that belong to the Motor City man Mouth
30:41
Show. And I'm just glad you're the latest to make it on here.
30:42
All right, let's talk about what Miami Hurricanes players have the best chance of
30:48
getting drafted. In a few weeks in Detroit, I will be at the
30:52
NFL Draft, So yeah, I think Cam Kitchen is probably number one.
30:57
You know, all American at Miami had a decent year year last year.
31:02
Sorry about to sneeze. Fighting off the sneeze here, but I think he
31:06
has a good chance of being drafted, a very high chance. James Williams
31:08
is his partner at safety. Very toolsy, talented guy with a five star
31:15
prospect coming out of American heritage. Another guy who I watched in high school,
31:19
just a really really talented player. I don't know if he's in a
31:22
stick at safety. Might depending on the team that takes him. He could
31:25
also play linebacker, so I think he'll get picked a good chance to see
31:30
Leonard Taylor defensive tackle, hear his name called, you know, very talented
31:33
guy, also a former five star prospect. And then trying to think Matt
31:37
Lee the center who he played one year at Miami and was very had a
31:42
very very good season last year after transferring from UCF. And then his partner
31:47
on the offensive line, Javon co and the guard he'll also likely get picked
31:51
a really solid player, not like probably will be the first, you know,
31:53
a couple of guards off the board, but he'll probably hear his name
31:56
called as well, very good. So there you have it, folks.
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I'm here with Adam Linchen, scene of the South Florida Sun Sentinel. Glad
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to have them on here tonight and coming up after Motor City Man Mouse Show,
32:09
we have a very good show with the sports have Change, so we'll
32:13
be talking to basketball on that show. So any other closing thoughts that we
32:16
haven't talked about with the Miami Hurricanes that people can look forward to, I
32:22
mean, yeah, I mean spring football is coming coming to a close soon.
32:24
Got another you know week and a half or so five more practices.
32:29
Spring game coming up next Saturday. That'll be interesting. You know, they're
32:31
playing it at Cobbs Stadium, the soccer stadium on UB's campus. So who
32:36
says they don't have it on campus stadium. That'll be interesting. Well,
32:39
they're not moving up north this year at all. They're playing at you know,
32:44
limited crowd. I think the stadiums heats like five hundred people. They'll
32:47
probably bring in some bleachers to expand it a little bit, so small stadium
32:52
should be interesting to see. Looking forward, we haven't a chance to talk
32:55
to cam Ward yet this year, so hopefully we get a chance talk to
33:00
him before the spring game and then yeah, then it's you know, baseball
33:02
season. Hurricanes have had kind of an up and down year so far the
33:06
baseball team. Hopefully we'll be able to get out to Mark white Field for
33:09
a little bit and catch them a little bit more when spring football's over.
33:14
Yeah, I remember covering the team when Ron Fraser was there back then.
33:16
Again, I'm showing the age car now. So you know, have you
33:21
had a chance to get down the Coral Gables you go there every day of
33:23
the week or how often do you get down there. Not every day right
33:28
now, about to usually about two times a week they have practice like Tuesday,
33:32
Thursday, Saturday right now, so typically go down watch, you know
33:37
a little bit of practice, you know, do a few interviews, and
33:38
then head back. I live in Delray Beach, so you know, depending
33:42
on what time of day it is, my drive could be anywhere from an
33:45
hour to two and a half hours. So motor my way back north and
33:49
up nine to ninety five, take the express lane. There you go.
33:52
Yeah, hi, Gary, Well you're not that far up the road from
33:55
I am being at their field Peach. So meanwhile, well, once again,
34:00
Adam, it's great to have you on the show. Before I let
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you go, whyn't you everybody know how they can get a hold of you.
34:05
Yep. You can follow me on Twitter or x or whatever you want
34:07
to call it at a b Lichtenstein post all the time on there about not
34:14
just the hurricanes, just whatever I'm watching or reading or anything, you know,
34:17
just whatever's happening in the world. I can read all my stuff at
34:22
Sunsetinel dot com. Very good. Well, once again, Adam, I
34:24
want to thank you very much for coming on the MotorCity Man Mouse Show.
34:29
We'll bring on fire up Florida as we get through the season. But meanwhile,
34:32
this is just a great opportunity for everybody to look at you, get
34:37
to know you a little bit on a much different level than we normally do.
34:39
And I want to thank you very much for joining us. You're to
34:43
be one of the best colleagues I've ever worked with. And when I write
34:45
my second book, Lessens to the Microphone, Part two, you will be
34:49
in it. I appreciate that. Thank you so much, and thanks for
34:52
having me. Oh well, thank you very much Adam for being here and
34:57
I'll catch you. Look forward to seeing you real soon. Thank you very
34:59
much, Shantham. That's good. Yeah, So that concludes this addition of
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Wilder City mad Mouth coming up next the Sports Exchange at approximately nine o'clock m