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We finally made it. We finally made it to college
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football. Obviously we had Week 0 this
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past weekend. We had a few games, kind of like
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a little bit of the appetizer to what the actual season will be,
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at least for college football. I know the NFL starts next week,
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but in the meantime, we're actually going to have Week 1 of
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college football start this week.
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And of course admits that as the summer begins to wrap up, as we
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move in the fall. And with all of that, we of
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course have even more drama that is has to be thrown in there
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because again, why not? And it's it's something that a
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lot of people they they've taken a lot of different sides on as
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far as how they feel about it, whether or not they like it,
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whether or not they don't. And the biggest thing is being
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the whole pro players coming back into college sports as a
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whole, not just football, but football seems to be the
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leading, the leading topic of sorts.
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So we're going to talk about LSU and really all of the NCAA
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because there are other teams that are affected by this that
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are also taking part of this. LSU just unfortunately is the
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school that's being highlighted about it and potential talks of
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them maybe even getting booted from the SEC as a result of it.
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Of course, we'll go over the Week 0 scores as well as the
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Week 1 predictions for some of the big Power 4 versus Power 4
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matchups because we won't really move into the really big, big
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long segments as far as Power 4 matchups go until about Week 3
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when a lot more typical conference play starts to become
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a factor. So let's dive into the first
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part as far as on NFL players returning back to college
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football. And right now it feels like it's
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just LSU versus everyone else. And there there's a few things
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that I do want to highlight to really talk about on this to
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give you a little bit of a timeline of how quickly this is
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moving and everything that's taking place so far.
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So as of yesterday, August 31st at 8:18 AM, Pete Thamel reported
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that Lane Kiffin tells ESPN that he has been in daily
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communication with the SEC on the potential addition of
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players who are in state court lawsuits.
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He said the rule does not prohibit players from practicing
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at the school. It prohibits them from being
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added to the final 105 roster, which has to be turned in on
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Friday. LSU will wait to see the
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guidance that they get from court orders and the SEC this
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week. That will actually take place on
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Thursday, Kiffin said this morning.
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He will absolutely follow what he's told to do.
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And that has been the case. Here is where it really gets
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like completely weird and just off the wall.
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And, and this is where college football has really turned into
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a mess overall. And and this is really ignoring
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the true main, the main issue of this as far as professional
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players returning back, part of it is there is an issue with
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when the NCAA finally, you know, laid out its five for five rule
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and basically the class of 2022 felt that they were getting
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shorted that extra year. Now, again, I don't know about
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specifics. I'm like, I'm pretty sure you
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probably already got one because of COVID.
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I don't know. Overall though, if I remember
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hearing the last number correctly, it's only like 16
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football players are truly affected by this ruling.
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Now, there are a number of other athletes that are affected that
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have actually already came and join, which is particularly why
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LSU is more of in the forefront of it.
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There are two soccer players that I believe one of them did
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sign a pro contract, but I believe because they're being
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allowed to play that I believe it's on the women's team that
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she's that she's allowed to play while keeping her professional
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contract going. And they've actually already
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played a game. I believe they played against
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Arizona. And then as well as there is
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another player who she did not sign a professional contract,
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but she's still included a part of that as far as having turned
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pro technically and then returning to college sports and
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college athletics. So there's that part of it as
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far as the football part goes, which seems to be more of the
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hot button heavy hitter issue, which which is funny because
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this has been happening for the last couple of years.
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I know a lot of people mention Indiana's team last year as far
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as some of the age, some of the guys that they had on that
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roster that ended up coming back to Indiana transferring in,
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etcetera, etcetera. It as well as you had funny
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enough in the basketball world of things, you had Charles
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Padico signed an NBA contract and then came back to Alabama.
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Even though it was only for five games, he still played five
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games of college basketball after having already gone pro.
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And then he was told that he could not continue his college
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career and it was completely over.
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And one of the questions that a guy in a football group that I'm
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in actually asked, what is the difference in these situations
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where they should be allowed to play college football?
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And do you feel the same way in this situation as you did
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whether Betico or Betiako should have played or not?
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And it again, it's a it's a weird, it's a really weird
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tiptoe issue, right? Because to me, trying to play a
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little bit of devil's advocate because I'm, I'm a little bit
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more for it. And, and here's the reason why.
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And it's funny, before all this actually kicked off, I talked
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about this with a Co worker at work.
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As far as, you know, some guys declaring, some not them
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changing their minds, etcetera, etcetera, and whether or not
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they should be allowed to come back in or not.
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And, and here's my, here's my biggest argument, right?
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If if say you have a dude that does go undrafted into the NFL,
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OK, and let and let's just say for the sake of math, the season
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for everybody officially ended back in February.
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As far as the national championship goes, we want to
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get technical. Most of these teams, their
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seasons ended back in January. So let's just say for January's
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sake. So from January all the way
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through September now. So that's eight months.
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And when you when you sit and you look at that timeline, OK,
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if you end college football like say your last year in in
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January, from January until about April, all you're doing is
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just preparing for an NFL combine.
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Now, a lot of that can be maybe working out a little bit more to
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be able to do like the bench press, some of the other
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exercises and some of the other tasks they want you to do to
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measure your your jump, your abilities.
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I know for a lot of NFL players, they've mentioned the fact that
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they kind of have to become track athletes because you're
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one of your biggest things that you're going to be looked at for
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is your 4/4 time. You know, yeah, you can be
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strong. Your film is basically your big
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time resume. And then the combine is more
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kind of your impersonator. You like.
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OK, tell me more about you. Tell me what you're able to do.
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Tell me what you weren't able to do.
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You know, let us see this. Let us see that kind of thing.
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And so from January to April, everybody's on the everybody's
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on the same playing field. There's no difference from when
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they will finish their last game as a senior, junior, whatever
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they're leaving as to right there in April, no difference.
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Then you go from April to let's just say you know, beginning of
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August, you're going to have a little bit of the NFL mini
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training camps, actual camp itself, etcetera, etcetera.
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As far as you know, working out with the team, getting used to
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them. You're maybe getting introduced
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to your team dietitians, your team workouts, your personal
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trainers, your strength and conditioning coaches in the NFL,
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etcetera, etcetera. You know, moving, moving on to
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that next level of as far as taking care of your body,
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preparing it for the next level of, you know, competition and
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competitive football. And then again, you're, you're
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there, but you're, you're not kind of thing.
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You know, it, it, it's kind of like when you're, when you're
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newbie on the job, it's like, yeah, I hold this new position
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at this job and I, I'm there, I'm hired.
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But I'm not going to sit here and say like, Oh yeah, I'm a
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full-fledged member. Like I already know what I'm
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doing. You kind of do.
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But you're, you're not quite warmed up, you're not quite in
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there yet. And and so then it moves into,
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you know, the the end of August, beginning of September and, you
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know, rosters in the NFL are making their final cuts for the
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season. Some of these guys, yeah,
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they're probably not going to make it.
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They're probably not to potentially be either practice
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squad guys. They might be able to hit on a
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53 man roster or if somebody gets injured, they might get
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picked up in camp. You know, there's a there's a
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whole multitude of things that can happen that can get these
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guys potentially into, you know, another football uniform for a
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team, professional professional or not.
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And so when people talk about like, oh, they're pros and then
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they're come back, here's what I'll say.
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Look at a guy when he first comes in the league like that
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rookie year, you know, they can, if they get like a full portrait
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shot of what he looks like, you know, holding his helmet in his
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uniform, etcetera, etcetera. He's going to look like he did
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just a few months ago. Like he might be a little bit
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bulkier if he's able to put that kind of muscle and weight on,
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sure. But for the most part, he's
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probably not going to look that much different now after his
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first full year in the league. That next year you're going to
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see a significant difference as far as how they're built, how
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they've taken care of themselves, how they've moved
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on. And and they've done this for
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years in the NFL. If you go back and look at guys
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from their first year in to their second year and even
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beyond, they just become total monsters as far as their size.
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So to the this idea of, you know, because they are
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technically pros and they've worked out with pros, which most
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of these college athletes already do.
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Like if they're any type of good, if they have any type of
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branding to their name, like they're going to be around some
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of these key celebrities like look at Malachi, Tony and the
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Hurricanes with Michael Irving. Now, I don't know how much he's
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teaching him. I'm sure he's probably giving
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him some type of guidance, some type of tips.
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But none the less, though, they're already working with
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pros, they're already hearing out what pros have and what
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they're teaching them. To me, there is not that big of
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a difference between a guy who finishes his college career in
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the very beginning of his rookie season, even if that, if he
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makes it to the roster, there's hardly any difference.
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Maybe he's learned a couple of tricks, but you can, again, you
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can learn that from a coach coming in.
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You know, heck, look at Ohio State when they brought Matt
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Patricia in, You know, now they brought Arthur Smith in for the
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offensive coordinator position. You, you can learn tricks of the
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trade from everywhere. And they're professionals.
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They know the professional system.
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They know how professionals work and they brought it in.
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That's no slide against Ohio State that I don't want this to
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seem like, you know, oh, well they have, you know, NFL head
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coaches and whatnot that are now on their team.
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No, no, no. To me there's no difference
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between when you finish your senior year and when you start
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pre season. There's no difference in the
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type of person. Now, if they were already in the
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league for a year, if they were already on an NFL roster, and I
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don't care if they're third, if they're third string, if they're
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fourth string, I don't even care if they're on the practice
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squad, if they're in the NFL for at least a year and then they
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come back to college football, that's a no.
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That's a no to me. But but again, that that's just
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my personal thoughts on it. And again, LSU isn't the only
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team that's truly doing this either.
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There actually is a offensive lineman for the Texans,
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Offensive lineman Cole Hudson, who returned to the Texans for
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the 2020 sixth season after participating in NFL mini camps.
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Hudson spent time with the Cowboys and the Browns earlier
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in the offseason and regained a fifth year of eligibility
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following the court ruling regarding college athletic,
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college athlete eligibility. Some of the other names that,
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again, probably not as mentioned as much.
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Daquan Wright, obviously Xavian Harris, both former Ole Miss
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players who Daquan writes a tight end, the saving Harris's
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defensive lineman. For the most part, actually,
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they would be from what I, from what I told, from what I've been
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told and kind of looking at it, they would just be more of deaf
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players. So it's not like they would
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probably get a ton of playing time unless somebody's hurt or
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if they just need to sub somebody out.
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So it's not like they're going to be starters either.
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Now, again, whatever your stance is, whether you like it or hate
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it, again, I I'm not trying to try to convince you that it
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should happen, but I'm also trying to just give the facts.
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Wydette Williams, former Ole Miss safety who joined the
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Cardinals. Jack Pyburn, obviously, I think
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a lot of people might have heard about that, but he just got
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claimed by the Chiefs earlier, so he will not be returning to
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college football. Junior TOI Halamaka, the Notre
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Dame defensive lineman who is transferring to LSU, DQ Smith
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from South Carolina, Trent Hendrick, who's James Madison
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linebacker Anthony Hankerson, former Oregon State running back
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who joined the Seahawks. So there's so there's a ton of
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players that are are doing this that are coming back to college
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football. But since LSU is the most active
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in bringing former pro players back, LSU seems to be getting
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the the the forefront of this, even to the point where there's
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talks of expelling them from the SEC, which really kind of makes
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me laugh more than anything, mainly because LSU is one of
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their flagship universities. Like the the amount of money
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that LSU is worth, I, I don't think the SEC would do it now.
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They can threaten it. They can be, you know, pissed
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off, whatever the case may be. To me, this is very similar to
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the Texas Tech with Brandon Sorsby, which I never had an
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issue with Texas Tech going to bat for it.
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It was one of those when I looked at it, I'm like, well,
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Texas Tech isn't doing anything different than what any other
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major school would do for a star player that they invested a ton
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of money into. They're going to go to bat for
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him as much as they can. And if it ends up losing in
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court, well, it ends up losing in court.
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And I feel like LSU is in that same boat.
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And of course, everybody wants to make LSU the bad guy.
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Everybody wants to make Texas Tech the bad guy.
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But to give you an idea of where LSU stands as far as they're
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worth. So according to Yahoo Sports, as
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far as the most valuable college football programs slash
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universities just as a whole, Texas is number one at 2.38
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billion, Georgia at number two, 1.92 billion, Ohio State at 1.9
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billion, Notre Dame 1.85, Michigan 1.83, Alabama 1.74,
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Oklahoma 1.49, USC 1.4, Tennessee 1.37, LSU 1.23
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billion. So to give you an idea, that's
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the top 10 universities as far as their worth as far as their
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their athletic revenue or not athletic revenue, their athletic
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worth. They're #10 if you just want to
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do it by the SEC 12345, there's six, there's 6 out of 16.
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So the upper part of your echelon as far as your
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conference goes, I don't. Again, the SEC can be mad.
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They can try to punish them. There's already been a court
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ruling that and basically the SEC is not allowed to do that.
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But again, I think they'll probably end up pushing that to
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go as far as federal court and whatnot.
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And again, it's just interesting because this is again, it's such
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a small handful of players that are doing this.
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And then it's not like they're all coming to LSU.
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They're across hundreds of sports across college athletics.
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But because LSU is the most, you know, prolific with it, they're
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going to town on them. There was a little bit of news
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broke actually from Pete family. It says News Tennessee
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Chancellor Donde Plowman, president of the SE CS executive
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committee, tells ESPN the league will enforce its rules regarding
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NFL players trying to return to college.
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We are prepared to defend our rule and our authority to defend
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our rules. She added that the league's
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presidents have empowered Greg Sankey to use his authority on
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the rule. This is a rule we will not
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budget on. On LSU, they were in the room
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when the vote was taken on the penalties.
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So they know and then so it's it, it, it is crazy how much
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this is truly, truly continued on and truly, you know, become
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a, I'm not going to say a thing that isn't worth noting, but it,
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it, it's just crazy at how much really just how much people have
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dug into this and made it just seem like this isn't.
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Like the end of the world thing, like it to me, it's, it's, it's
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just crazy. But nonetheless, though, let's
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let's move on into the, the recap of week zero and a couple
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of the big power four games that we had going on there.
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The first one, of course, we had UNC versus TCU over in Dublin,
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Ireland, took place 12:00 PM Eastern that day.
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UNC ended up winning 15 and nothing.
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That was a really bad game overall.
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I'm just going to be completely transparent with you.
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That game was bad. That was not a like it.
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Like, yeah, it's a big win for Bill Belichick.
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It's probably going to be one of his best wins he gets all season
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because UNC schedule, it is not favorable whatsoever.
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Like they like, they don't have the hardest schedule in college
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for the ball, but it's not a good schedule.
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Like, they have to go to Clemson, they host Notre Dame,
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they have to go to Pitt, they have to go to Duke, they have to
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host Miami, and then they have to host Louisville and then they
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have to go to Virginia. So I mean, they they do not have
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an easy, easy schedule at all. I mean, they have, what is this,
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eastern Tennessee? Yeah, Eastern Tennessee State
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this coming week. That's probably going to be a
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win for them. I don't see them potentially
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getting another win until they travel to UConn in the beginning
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of November like that. Like that's how bad I kind of
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expect U&C to be. And I I just, I don't see a lot
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of a lot of props from them as far as that goes.
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But just looking at the stats, looking at the game overall,
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Billy Edwards junior looked actually really good for them.
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You know, he was 16 to 28232 yards, didn't throw any
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touchdowns, I don't believe, but also didn't didn't throw any
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picks, which was nice. And really their biggest bright
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spot to me was Jelani Thurman, junior tight in for North
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Carolina. He did absolutely fantastic for
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him. You know, he was he was with
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Ohio State for the last four years.
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Didn't really do a whole lot of big impact.
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Really had about what was that 13 receptions for just for easy
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math, No, maybe 140 yards, about two touchdowns.
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So nothing crazy. But I mean, he comes in this
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one, he's got 4 receptions, 94 yards already to start, you
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know, to start off and he's only a junior.
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So I mean, he he could potentially stay one more year
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if he really wants to and be a solid tied in for him.
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But I think, I think if he can continue to be the bright spot
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for him, that'll that'll help quite a bit.
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But I will say, I mean, TCU was still able to run all over them.
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They had 142 rushing yards just from their one back on 25
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carries. TCU just really hurt themselves
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as a whole, though. I mean, 11 penalties for 89
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yards. They held the ball more and they
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only had one turnover. It it was just, it was not a
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good game like the first. The first quarter was really
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good, but man, after that it just, it just completely went
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downhill and it went downhill fast.
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Again. I don't expect a lot from UNC
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this year. Good for them for being able to
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get the win again. I, I just, I don't expect a lot.
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I just don't. The other big game that again, a
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little bit of a disappointment 'cause I expected this one, I
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expected this one to be a little bit better.
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As far as you know, the competition overall was NC State
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at Virginia. This one was just bad.
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It was a 34 to 8 win by Virginia Beau, per Beulah, by the way,
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which I don't know why people were so down on him.
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I don't know if it was because he, you know, he started off
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pretty decent for Mizzou and then really fell apart.
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I think injuries had a pretty good part in that too.
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But he came in, he's 9 of 11155 yards, 2 touchdowns as well as
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110 rushing yards to boot. So I mean he had 265 yards just
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on his own, you know, for for their offense and their and
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their defense showed up well. I mean CJ Bailey, you know, only
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three for 84 yards, 12 out of 23 a pick.
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He was their best rusher with 33.
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It was 413 yards to 168 penalties did hurt them a little
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bit. They had five penalties for 51
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yards. They were perfect.
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They were 4 for four on 4th down and they held the ball for 17
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minutes longer. So I mean, there, there's a lot
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of potential for Virginia. And I think for Virginia, when
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you look at this ACC schedule, I mean, they're they're pretty
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solid. I mean, they might have kind of
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a cakewalk schedule as far as maybe maybe making the ACC
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championship appearance. Barring, I would say, barring I
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would say anything happening to Miami, Louisville or SMU, I
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think Virginia's in a pretty good driver's seat to be able to
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make a pretty decent run. You know, they face they face
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Norfolk State on not this Friday, but the following Friday
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on 11th. I'm sorry.
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Hold on. Let me let me make sure I can do
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my do my math. Yeah, that's on the 11th.
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OK. So they face Norfolk State, then
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they face West Virginia. Might be a little bit tough just
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because I mean it is a powerful opponent, but we'll see Delaware
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then they go to Florida State, they host Syracuse.
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Now they do have to go to SMU, but it's early at well it's
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middle of October. It's not the end of the world.
25:44
Then Duke, then Wake Forest. They host Cal, they host North
25:47
Carolina then they ended at Virginia Tech.
25:51
I mean there's a there's a high chance they can only come out of
25:54
this with like one loss, maybe undefeated now, and that might
25:57
be a little bit of a stretch. But looking at their schedule,
26:01
looking at what they did against NC State, I mean that it as long
26:05
as everybody stays healthy. I mean it it's very possible
26:07
they might be one of these dark horse teams that has just, you
26:11
know, they go on a run and then they just don't let it go.
26:14
I think they got a little bit of a break as far as their schedule
26:16
and whatnot goes. So I mean good for good for
26:19
them. They'll be kind of one of those
26:21
teams. Watch.
26:21
I mean, if I if I had to be a betting favorite right now just
26:25
because of their schedule, I mean I would put them in there
26:30
like you got to think about it. You you look at you know,
26:33
Louisville and SMU both like their worst, like their entire
26:38
worst schedule face off is basically against each other.
26:42
Miami has a really easy schedule coming up this coming up this
26:46
season. So I mean it with aside from
26:49
Notre Dame. So I mean there there's a lot in
26:52
play. I mean, I, and now that I sit
26:54
here and think about it, I know everybody has Miami all but
26:57
penciled in for the ACC Championship.
27:00
And man, if I feel like most of the pressure right now is on SMU
27:03
and Louisville. And we'll find out between the
27:05
two who will basically have the tiebreaker over the other one.
27:08
I mean, I think if SMU stumbles even once, just because they
27:12
have a little bit more of a difficult schedule, they may not
27:15
be in the ACC Championship. And it it might be Virginia, it
27:18
might be Louisville. We'll, we'll, we will find out.
27:20
We will see. But that was week zero.
27:23
I ended up going one-on-one of my picks, unfortunately, just
27:27
'cause I did not pick, I did not pick.
27:28
UNC doing pulling off the upset, that one, that one I did not
27:32
expect to happen by any stretch of the imagination.
27:36
It was funny when I was watching it, I was like, Are you sure?
27:38
Are you sure that's that's what we're going with that you guys
27:42
are going to pull it off. And yeah, sure enough, they did.
27:44
They they managed to pull out the win.
27:47
But let's move forward to Week 1 though.
27:50
So the soonest other Power 4 game that we're going to have
27:53
happen, we've got Colorado at Georgia Tech September 3rd at
27:57
8:00 PM Eastern on ESPN. I don't, I don't really know
28:02
what to expect from Colorado this year.
28:04
I truly think this will probably be Dion's last last season as
28:11
the head coach of the Colorado Buffaloes.
28:14
That'd be fully transparent. I don't know where you go from
28:16
there. I don't know who you get.
28:19
I don't know if there is really a a combination of I don't know
28:24
if there's a good enough coach slash coordinator that maybe
28:27
wants to move up. If they're say like in the Group
28:30
of 6 and they want to move up to a Power 4 program.
28:35
I don't know if there's really one that they see this Colorado
28:38
job and they're like, OK, there's there's a lot to work
28:41
with. Like there is.
28:44
I think you have to do you do have to give Dion the nod of the
28:46
respect of. I think if you can get some of
28:49
these guys to Colorado, see how pretty the state is, see how
28:52
pretty the mountains are and and and it really is personally,
28:56
having gone to Colorado, it's absolutely gorgeous.
28:59
I think if you can maybe sell that on top of a little bit of
29:02
the UNIO money might be a different story.
29:06
But I mean, even when Dion's done it, I mean, he's he's
29:09
utilized the transfer portal. I don't know how effectively you
29:13
can consider him having used it because I mean, the the winds
29:19
have really not been produced, not since Shadur and Travis
29:21
Hunter both left. So I mean, against Georgia Tech
29:25
now, I know Georgia Tech themselves are also going to be
29:27
a bit of a rebuild with Haynes King having gone to the NFL,
29:30
which he was a huge contributor to them and for them last year.
29:36
And as it stands right now, the spread the ESPN predictor as of
29:40
right now on September 1st at 6:30 Eastern PM Eastern Time,
29:46
they have Georgia Tech favored by 6 1/2 and matchup predictor
29:49
gives Georgia Tech about a 5858 1/2 percent chance of winning.
29:55
Now they did pick up Alberto Mendoza, Fernando Mendoza's
29:59
little brother who's actually on the Hoosiers last year for that
30:04
national championship team. So I mean, they they have a dude
30:08
that does technically have experience when it comes to
30:12
playing college football. Now, I I'm not going to sit here
30:15
and act like, you know, oh, he was on a championship team.
30:18
His brother's Fernando. Like he, he already knows what
30:21
he's doing. No, no, no, he still got a lot
30:23
of growing up to do. He basically came in for a lot
30:25
of clean up duty last year for Fernando.
30:28
They're at IU whenever they would be ahead in games.
30:32
But overall, I mean, compared to Colorado, again, no offense to
30:35
Dion, I like Dion, but there it is just been a very
30:40
underwhelming experiment post his sons and Travis Hunter being
30:46
there like it you, you didn't see a lot his first year.
30:49
I mean there was growth, there was progress.
30:51
Second year they really seem to take another step forward.
30:54
Last year they took a big step back with him losing them.
30:59
And I know some Colorado fans even mentioned it.
31:01
This year might be more kind of that OK you got a pass last year
31:06
because of your son's leaving now let's see how now let's see
31:10
how this isn't going. Tim B Hendricks bring combat
31:16
veteran here. I'm also part of the Bowden
31:17
clan. Love your content.
31:19
I appreciate that Tim. IA 100% appreciate that good
31:22
Sir. So yeah we'll we'll see.
31:26
I think if I remember right on my predictions.
31:27
I have Georgia Tech winning this one.
31:30
I haven't completely filled out all my predictions yet because I
31:32
was so wait and see if anything potentially came out a little
31:35
bit more before I can fill in predictions out.
31:38
But but at the moment I do have, I think I have Georgia Tech
31:45
winning, winning that one. So let's move on to the next big
31:49
one. We've got Baylor and Auburn now
31:53
this one I think will be overall pretty good.
31:57
It's kind of an interesting thing to see.
31:59
I know Dave Aranda is a bit on the a bit on the hot seat as far
32:05
as whether or not he's going to end up keeping his job, whether
32:08
he's not going to end up keeping his job or not.
32:11
And I think this is going to be a good, good determination
32:15
moment of whether or not he will.
32:16
The other big part is Alex Golish.
32:19
How does he do the first really big test for Auburn against
32:24
Baylor? Now this will be on the
32:27
September 5th at 3:30. Accidentally skipped the Miami
32:30
and Stanford. I'll go back to that here in a
32:32
second. So you've got Baylor versus
32:35
Auburn. Alex Goldwich brings a lot of
32:37
his guys from USF with him. They host a Baylor team who, you
32:42
know, what does DJ Lackway look like now?
32:44
Post Billy Napier, post Florida, now in a new environment, a new
32:47
system. It seemed like DJ last year,
32:50
especially after the LSU game, it, it was just hot and cold for
32:54
him the entire time. And it and it's a shame because
32:56
he's a really talented quarterback.
32:57
He was highly touted coming out of high school.
33:00
Obviously the the little bit of sample that we got from him his
33:04
freshman year, he was dynamically electric.
33:06
He calls Florida to get some upset wins, but now he's at
33:10
Baylor, you know, new system, new area going into his junior
33:14
year. So what what does he look like
33:17
with said new team and going up against the SEC again?
33:20
So I think this will be a good one.
33:23
This is what I do have. Auburn winning it just because I
33:27
do. I do believe in ghoulish or
33:29
ghoulish. How are you pronouncing his
33:31
name? You know, bringing a lot of his
33:34
guys over. So he keeps a lot of that
33:35
continuity. He keeps a lot of he keeps a lot
33:39
of experience too. So I mean, I, I'm going to give
33:42
the edge to them. According DraftKings, they have
33:46
Auburn a 7 1/2 point favorite on the spread and then the match of
33:50
predictor 73% Auburn winning. So pretty, pretty decent, you
33:55
know, favorability in Auburn in Auburn wise.
33:59
The other big game aside from Colorado and Georgia Tech,
34:02
that'll take place on the 3rd. So that'll be Thursday, Friday
34:07
night, we have some Friday night ball, little bit of a late night
34:10
game we've got #7 Miami going to Stanford, who if, if you didn't
34:17
watch it, believe it or not, Stanford versus Hawaii, great
34:21
game came all the way down to the very end.
34:24
Stanford actually had a 27 to 7 lead.
34:27
Hawaii ended up coming all the way back.
34:29
They took the lead and actually forced Stanford to have to go
34:33
down, get a last minute touchdown to ultimately save it.
34:37
And it ended up being a lot better than what I thought it
34:40
was going to this game. It it's pretty much hands down
34:44
Miami. Barring any type of weird,
34:46
terrible injury, I expect Miami to be able to run away with this
34:50
with Darian, Mensa, Malachi, Tony.
34:52
I know they lost a lot of guys on that offensive line
34:55
supposedly because of who Mario Cristobal is, because he likes
34:58
to build up the line because it because that's his that's his
35:02
bread and butter. That's his baby as well as some
35:04
of the defensive line guys that they have that are going to be
35:06
replacing the team, Mezador, Ruben Bay.
35:10
I think Miami's going to be fine.
35:11
I definitely think they're going to be better than Stanford,
35:15
especially with, and I'll give Davis Warren credit.
35:18
I mean the dude who I believe he played for Michigan, he played
35:21
for Indiana. You think even he went 22 with
35:25
34310 yards, one touchdown, other running back forward
35:29
carried it 25 times, got 99 rushing yards and three tutties.
35:34
So, I mean, I think Stanford will be better than what they
35:39
have been. They still have a long way to
35:41
go, but I'm not going to necessarily count Stanford out.
35:45
Timothy, about time Auburn had an easy take against Baylor.
35:48
I don't know about easy. I do think they'll get the win
35:52
though. Like truly, I think I think
35:54
Auburn will be able to pull out the win.
35:55
I don't know if it'll be easy though.
35:56
I do got to give, got to give Dave Aranda a little bit of
35:59
credit there at Baylor. I don't, I don't know if it'll
36:01
be a cakewalk, but we'll we'll definitely be able to see and
36:04
find out. Then of course we have on
36:08
September 5th, we have Boston College at Cincinnati at 3:30 PM
36:11
on Fox. This one, I'll be honest, I
36:15
don't know hardly anything about this game other than Brendan
36:20
Sorsby's not going to be there anymore.
36:22
So since he's going to have an entirely new starting
36:24
quarterback, Boston College was an absolute mess last year.
36:28
So I'm like, I don't know how much I dress this.
36:32
So that one, that one will be interesting just to see, you
36:37
know what, what versions of these teams are we getting?
36:40
I mean, really, you know, who are we getting?
36:44
But I do think they'll be, they'll be solid overall,
36:48
looking at the predictor and looking at the draftking spread.
36:51
They have Cincinnati a 7 1/2 point favorite and they've got
36:54
them favored by 77% to be able to get the win.
36:57
I I can see that it's at home for Cincinnati.
37:00
Not saying that the Cincinnati crowd is crazy, but again, I
37:04
just, I don't know how much faith I have in Boston College
37:08
to, you know, you know, pull out something crazy or, you know, do
37:11
it to have a dominating performance.
37:14
So if I remember right, I took Cincinnati in this as well.
37:17
And then of course, the big match up that everybody I think
37:20
is waiting for, whether you're an LSU fan like myself, whether
37:24
you're not an LSU fan either one it it's one that I think
37:30
everybody is waiting to see, you know, what happens, what is the
37:35
what is going to be the final results of this game?
37:39
And that is Clemson coming to the real Death Valley of Baton
37:44
Rouge in Louisiana September 5th, 7:30 PM at on ABC.
37:51
Now, this is what kind of surprises me overall, and I
37:54
think a little bit of it is because probably like myself,
37:59
there's a lot of questions on Clemson's roster.
38:03
Now, there's a lot of questions on LS US roster too.
38:07
Timothy, yes, the Tiger Bowl, exactly.
38:09
You kind of love the Tiger Bowl. I mean, whether it's LSU versus
38:11
Auburn, Auburn versus Mizzou, Mizzou versus LSU, whoever,
38:15
there's tigers, Tigers everywhere.
38:18
And of course we get Tigers versus Tigers Part 2.
38:21
You know, maybe revenge from last year.
38:24
LSU went in South Carolina and their Death Valley got the win.
38:28
You know, as clubs are going to try to pull off the upset here.
38:32
But this one is interesting because you the the the ESPN
38:38
predictor gives LSU a 75% chance of winning and DraftKings has
38:43
them favored by 10 to win, which to me crazy, by the way, crazy
38:50
that they're giving them this much of A much of a favoritism.
38:55
The other part of this too, is of course, the the stories that
38:58
go along with it of, you know, how, how is Lane Kiffin going to
39:02
look in his debut for LSU? You know, same for Charlie Wise
39:06
junior, the offensive coordinator that he brought with
39:08
him from Ole Miss. And I think truly, whether
39:13
Clemson is good this year or not, this is going to be truly a
39:16
test for him and for LSU as to how the season is going to look.
39:21
And that's what it was last year.
39:22
It was a a great, you know, predicator to how the season
39:26
ultimately finished for Clemson and for LSU both.
39:29
It was a 17 to 10 game. LSU ended up pulling out the
39:33
win. Clemson their their defense was
39:37
solid, but their offense was absolutely garbage.
39:39
And it and it and it was weird because of how much experience
39:42
Dabo had brought back. I'm a Louisiana kid, but bowed
39:46
in blood. That's fair.
39:48
That's definitely fair, but it was just it was interesting to
39:54
see how how this ultimately ended up because Clemson ended
40:00
up being a total let down and then LS us offense was just so
40:03
anemic. Like like as an LSU fan, I was
40:05
sitting there watching, I was like, can you all please score
40:08
like, OK, cool. The defense got us a touchdown.
40:10
Can our offense compliment that? Can we, can we, can they just
40:12
get a little bit of something to match what was truly a
40:15
championship level defense that eventually they just kept
40:19
getting burned because. You can only carry an offense
40:21
for so long before it ultimately ends up being really difficult
40:25
to do. The other thing that really
40:28
makes me question this too, is I believe Dabo did finally name
40:33
the quarterback. It's going to be Christopher
40:35
Vizzina. Vizzina, he's a senior.
40:39
He's 6 foot four. I think he's been there pretty
40:41
much the entire time behind Klay Klubnick.
40:45
I think filled in for him a little bit last year just due to
40:48
I think some injuries and just to give me some experience for
40:51
potentially coming into the season.
40:53
What really makes me wonder though, and I and this this is
40:56
probably a little bit of a reach because you could argue every
40:59
single coach does this, especially in football.
41:04
You know, reporters were asking, hey, you know, who's your, you
41:07
know, who's your starting quarterback?
41:09
Like who's it going to be between him and one other guy?
41:11
I think it was who was the guy? I think that I think it's
41:17
between him and Tate Reynolds was the other one and he's a
41:20
freshman out of Arizona, 6 foot 2215.
41:24
So a little bit heavier, but a couple inches shorter.
41:28
I believe he was the other contender for the starting spot
41:32
there in Clemson. And you know, dad was like, I
41:36
don't I don't know, I don't know who the starting quarterback is
41:38
going to be. And I mean that that's fair.
41:39
There's probably still a lot that he wanted to see, kind of
41:41
wanted to learn. And I mean, we, we, we
41:43
experienced that with Harbaugh, with JJ McCarthy and Shay
41:47
Patterson. I mean, we've experienced it
41:50
with a ton of different quarterbacks and a ton of
41:52
different guys throughout college football.
41:54
So it, it's not one, I'm surprised that he was like, I
41:57
don't know. But but it does also lead me to
41:59
question, is it one of those scenarios and situations where
42:02
he, he's doing it to make sure that, you know, he's, he's not
42:08
putting anything out there. He's not committing to a guy too
42:11
early. Or, you know, we'll find out
42:13
when you find out. Or is it one of those situations
42:17
where, you know, maybe maybe they're at the same level,
42:21
whether that level's good, whether that level's bad, we
42:24
don't know. But are they at that same level?
42:27
And is neither one of them taking or able to go that next
42:32
step to distance themselves from the other?
42:35
Again, it could be really good. You know, they could both be
42:37
playing really sharp and maybe they're rolling with it.
42:41
Maybe they're not, we don't know.
42:44
But but it it does lead to kind of an interesting question with
42:48
that with that, Dabo ended up, of course, also adding to this
42:53
whole NFL players, players returning back to college
42:58
football thing. So according to David Hale from
43:02
ESPN, Dabo did an interview and he said as he's preparing for
43:08
his Week 1 match up against LSU team that features more than 40
43:11
transfers, LSU should wear rally, should rally to wear
43:16
flags. Give them absolutely, he said.
43:21
One thing he isn't. Oh yeah, LSU features more than
43:26
40 transfers in the new offensive coaching staff.
43:28
That has been a challenge that is required in the watch tape
43:32
from dozens different schools, from all the players they
43:34
brought in, all the coaches that they brought in.
43:37
One thing he isn't watching, however, is NFL pre season games
43:40
instead. NFL Instead, Sweeney said no pun
43:43
intended, he insisted he and his Tigers are staying in our lane.
43:48
When it comes to LSU coach Lane Kiffin's decision to push for
43:51
two NFL for two players who are in NFL mini camps to play for
43:55
his team, perhaps against Clemson should a judge allow it.
43:58
Again, this this case is going to be done Thursday morning and
44:03
if I remember correctly, it's the NCAA is listed as a
44:07
defendant as well as the SEC. Now initially I heard the SEC
44:10
wasn't going to be there. I don't know if that has changed
44:12
or not. More than likely, I think they
44:14
should be there, but we should hopefully have have a decision
44:20
and a resolution for sure by Friday.
44:22
We'll find out whether or not they're going to play and then
44:25
what, you know, what actions or potential punishments or
44:28
penalties come post this. Now, again, there is supposedly
44:31
A ruling that the SEC is not allowed to do that.
44:34
But again, they can also challenge that and go even
44:36
further with that. Of course, already said is
44:41
Daquan Wright defensive end Junior Tui Halamaka.
44:45
I've been practicing with LSU with a run up to the opener,
44:48
despite both having spent time in NFL camps, right?
44:50
Actually played in preseason games with Cleveland, which
44:53
Sweetie noted with a joke Tuesday.
44:55
I got to watch Brown practice. Brown's practice in early June.
44:59
I'm probably going to get I'm probably going to get turned in
45:01
for tampering, which is a little bit shot at Lane as well as Pete
45:04
Golding there at Ole Miss because he snagged A linebacker
45:08
from Clemson. One of the few times Dabo goes
45:10
in the portal and he loses this guy.
45:14
Sweeney has long been critical, has been critical of the
45:18
professionalization of college football, is skewing the
45:21
transfer portal for several years and continuing to put a
45:23
focus on retaining his own players.
45:25
Developing high school recruits. The latest drama around the
45:28
potential of returning players from the 2022 recruiting class
45:32
who left for the NFL before the NCAA adjusted their eligibility
45:35
rules to allow for full 5 full years on the field action,
45:40
something Sweeney said he had never dreamed that would happen.
45:44
I said it's kind of embarrassing.
45:46
Sweeney said. It's honestly, it's embarrassing
45:48
that that's where we are. I don't blame the kids, but
45:52
people trying to take advantage of the system.
45:54
It's embarrassing. But we've been, we've been there
45:56
for a while. So I do, I do get where Dabo's
46:01
coming from. And Tim, you're, you're right.
46:04
It, it's a situation that we, we've, we've never heard of and
46:07
it's something that's completely new.
46:10
Like I said, there's only a small handful of even football
46:13
players that are coming back into this.
46:15
I think there's, again, I think the number that I heard, if I
46:18
heard correctly, is like 16. So I mean, it's a super small
46:22
number. Now, obviously there's more
46:24
across other college athletics, but obviously football being
46:27
the, the quote UN quote, king of sports because it earns the most
46:30
revenue, it gets to be the, the face of all of it.
46:34
It it's something that after the season, I don't think we'll ever
46:37
hear of it again, barring anything continuing to be crazy
46:41
as far as college football goes. The NCAA already signed into the
46:44
the effect as far as the five for five.
46:47
Basically you come in, I think the oldest you can come in now
46:51
is I think 19. And so that should make most
46:55
everybody by the time they leave 2324 is like the oldest that
47:01
you're going to have people playing college football.
47:02
It's not like some schools in some situations where between,
47:07
you know, the red shirt, which they got rid of between the
47:11
medical exemptions and whatnot, as far as you know, waivers.
47:16
I, I don't think we're going to see any more situations where we
47:18
have guys playing for, you know, 789 years now.
47:21
That could be something that gets challenged later on.
47:25
As far as you know, Hey, if, if I just had a stroke, bad luck
47:29
for two years and I got hurt really bad.
47:31
Like, I still want to be able to have a chance to play like
47:33
everybody else did. And who knows, maybe the courts
47:36
entertain it. Maybe this is something that we
47:37
end up having to deal with again in the future.
47:41
But at least at least now as it stands, I don't, I don't really
47:46
see it being much of being much of anything post this season.
47:50
Now, again, that will also be dependent as far as you know
47:54
what, what consequences, if if any, end up coming as as a
48:01
result of it. But nonetheless, though, looking
48:06
at Clemson's schedule too, this this is going to be kind of a a
48:08
predication of their their schedule, but they should have,
48:12
I would think a fairly decent year.
48:16
Again, it they're they're in, they have the luck of being in
48:19
the ACC. It's not like a crazy schedule.
48:21
The worst, the worst team they truly have to face.
48:26
If you want to look at it, just, you know, as far as rent teams
48:29
go after LSU, the only team they face and they host them is Miami
48:35
in the beginning of October. But then they host Georgia
48:38
Southern, they host UNC, they're probably going to win against
48:41
USC. They have to travel to Cal.
48:43
It's a super late game, then Miami, then Charleston Southern.
48:48
Then they host Virginia Tech. They go to Florida State to
48:51
Syracuse host Georgia Tech. Then they go to Duke and then
48:55
they host S South Carolina. So I mean, I could easily see
48:59
them finishing ten and two nine and three.
49:02
Now again, I don't know if that's going to be good enough
49:04
to get them into somewhere like the ACC championship.
49:07
I think that's going to be too loaded.
49:10
But I mean, it it it's possible. And if we know anything from the
49:14
patterns of when Clemson has a down year with Tabo, they end up
49:18
having a really good year following it.
49:21
So it it it it will be overall I I'm excited.
49:25
I don't know how to really feel about this game.
49:27
I don't really even have anybody picked.
49:30
I think if we're just going to go by home biases, I'm going to
49:33
pick LSU. But again, it'll it'll it'll be
49:37
interesting to see how this this ultimately ends up, ultimately
49:41
ends up transpiring. And then of course, the last
49:44
game for Saturday, for Week 1, we've got UCLA at Cal, even
49:50
though it's not technically, they're not both technically in
49:53
it anymore. Little PAC 12 after dark action
49:56
September 5th 10:30 PM Eastern Time UCLA goes to Cal to take on
50:01
the golden bears and I'm kind of surprised by this because
50:05
DraftKings has Cal actually has UCLA they pick them as a 2 1/2
50:11
point favorite in the spread but ESP.
50:14
NS matchup predictor gives Cal a 58 percent chance of winning
50:18
against UCLA and Nico Eli Malayalva Bob Chesney has the
50:25
new head coach who brought a ton of his players with him from
50:27
James Madison after having a very successful year.
50:29
So this one, this one's a little bit interesting, but I am
50:34
interesting to I am interested to see how does Cal's
50:37
quarterback and man, I'm going to butcher this.
50:39
I'm going to butcher this. So I apologize ahead of time If
50:42
anybody wants to, you know, sound this out for me in the
50:45
comments as far as like really spelling it out for me.
50:50
Jeron, he's like K way Saga Pulele Puletele.
50:59
That's saga Puletele probably saying they're wrong.
51:03
But coming into a sophomore season, I thought had a really
51:06
good freshman season, you know, 3400 yards, 18 touchdowns, 9
51:10
picks. You know, he did a little bit of
51:13
a rough time. But I mean, I'm I'm not going to
51:15
sit here and act like Cal's roster was anything to, you
51:17
know, really eye popping like, oh, wow, look at the wrong way.
51:20
It's just, it's just OK. So I mean, I'm excited to see
51:25
what he looks like. I'm excited to see what they do
51:28
as a whole. If I again, if I had to pick, I
51:32
think I don't know if I picked this one or not because I was
51:38
like, again, I don't really know.
51:40
I'm gonna have to look and see if I picked this one yet or not.
51:46
I try to pick these typically, you know, a week before or so I,
51:51
I try to also wait to see if anything's going to change.
51:55
Let's see who do I have or have I picked this one yet?
51:58
Oh, I have not picked this one yet.
51:59
OK, so this is what I have not picked.
52:06
And I guess if I, if I have to make a pick here on the show, I
52:11
think I'm going to go, they're gonna go with DraftKings and
52:16
they're gonna take UCLA. Nico.
52:20
Nico gets another year with his guys.
52:22
He gets another year now. It's going to be in a different
52:25
system. It's not going to be the same
52:26
coach and everything like that that he had.
52:30
Oh yeah. Oh, yeah.
52:32
At FA at was it Winky or yeah, not Busby.
52:38
Yeah, I, I know exactly what you're talking about.
52:40
I do remember that, but I think I'm gonna go to UCLA and again,
52:47
according to ESPN would be the quote UN quote upset, but
52:49
DraftKings has them as the favorite.
52:51
So I'm I'm gonna take UCLAI believe in Nico.
52:53
He's got the experience over saga there and Cal.
52:57
So that that that I think I'm gonna go I think I'm gonna go
53:00
with the Bruins. Bruins over that.
53:02
I do remember that. Yep, he played pro baseball,
53:04
then came back to play quarterback at FSU at 27.
53:07
And if I remember right too, Brandon Whedon did the same
53:10
thing for Oklahoma State, 'cause if I remember right, Brandon
53:14
Whedon went in, played Major League Baseball and it ended up
53:18
coming back. I think, No, wait, Wilson
53:25
Wilson, Russell Wilson and Kyler Murray both got drafted by
53:29
professional baseball team, but I don't think they came back to
53:31
college though. But I, I do remember Florida
53:35
State doing that and like I said, and, and Brandon Wheaton
53:37
did the same thing. He came back, he was like 28
53:40
when he got drafted by the Browns, I think 'cause he only
53:42
had like one year of eligibility left for college football.
53:46
So it, it, it does happen like it that that's kind of the crazy
53:50
part where if you were like, gosh, can't do that.
53:52
Now, I get it, professional baseball as compared to
53:55
professional football. But like I said, unless they
53:57
were in the league for like a year or two, I again, it was it
54:01
was seven months ago, like they were playing college football as
54:05
compared to their quote UN quote rookie season.
54:06
They're not going to have grown or learned that much more to
54:10
make what I would consider like a significant enough difference
54:14
that it's the end of the world kind of thing.
54:16
So that that's just my thought on it.
54:20
But anyway, the other big match up that we have actually on a
54:23
Monday or no, this is on Sunday. So we have Sunday college
54:27
football, Wisconsin versus #4 Notre Dame, 7:30 PM Eastern, NBC
54:33
at Lambeau Field. Both are going to be wearing
54:36
their quote UN quote Shamrock series.
54:39
Notre Dame has kind of their cool new uniform that's going to
54:42
have it's like gold numbers with like little holes in them as
54:46
well as the shamrocks on them. Wisconsin has these really
54:50
bright red with silver numbers. I will say for somebody who's
54:54
color blind, but it's cool because we'll see colored
54:58
jerseys versus colored jerseys kind of thing.
55:00
This one, yeah, I, I was pretty safe as far as my picks goes.
55:05
DraftKings has the has Notre Dame's 20 1/2 point favorite
55:08
against Wisconsin. The ESPN matchup predictor, 94%
55:13
chance of winning again. This is one of those.
55:15
And if and if you miss the show and it's completely fine.
55:19
I talked about some of the coaches earlier on in the
55:21
offseason that I believe were on the hot seat.
55:23
Luke Fickle is definitely one of my top five coaches that's on
55:27
the hot seat. It is one of those when I look
55:29
at Wisconsin, if they don't have an identity anymore, it's not
55:33
like the Paul Crist era of solid defense, pounding running game.
55:37
Like there's nothing like there to me.
55:39
There's nothing that Wisconsin truly does very well.
55:42
Then I'm like, OK, they at least have this to go off of.
55:45
They don't have much like special teams offense, defense,
55:48
nothing like it's been very lackluster for me when I look at
55:53
Wisconsin as compared to what they were like pretty recently.
55:57
Like they were running back university them in Georgia for
56:00
the longest time as far as you know, Melvin Gordon, Melvin
56:04
Gordon, Jonathan Taylor, there's another kid and I can't, I think
56:10
Braylon Allen. I think Braylon Allen came from
56:13
Wisconsin as well. So I mean, they've had a slew of
56:15
great running backs. Then you had Georgia with, as
56:17
far as you know, Nick Chubb. Dang, here I am.
56:24
It's like, Oh yeah, they have all these and I can't remember
56:27
Todd Gurley. So I mean it, it's just crazy to
56:31
see how much Wisconsin has fallen off of this.
56:34
So I mean, I I'm definitely going to go with Notre Dame in
56:37
this match up. Pretty, pretty hands down,
56:39
easily. Notre Dame should just let their
56:44
fans take the field and mean Sovs.
56:46
Really. I don't say it.
56:47
I even living here, being from Indiana, I've never really met a
56:51
whole lot of mean Notre Dame fans, but I don't really, I
56:54
don't I've never been up to South Bend either.
56:55
So I I can't say that for sure. The other kind of big time match
57:00
up that we're gonna have though that again, it'll be interesting
57:02
to see for both teams #24 Louisville takes on #9 old miss
57:07
in Nashville for the Liberty City Music Bowl to start the
57:12
season or sorry, Liberty Mutual's Music City kick off.
57:17
DraftKings has Ole Miss a 7 1/2 point favorite and ESP NS match
57:21
at predictor has it at 73.6% chance for Ole Miss to win over
57:27
Louisville. And, and this is what I find
57:29
interesting because if you look at Louisville's history and
57:32
especially with Jeff Braum, I mean they tripped up Miami.
57:34
Like, they pretty much stopped Miami from being able to make an
57:37
ACC Championship appearance last year.
57:41
And if we know anything about Jeff Brahm, I mean, he had
57:44
Purdue of all teams in the Big 10 championship game not that
57:48
long ago. And I mean, heck, as far as
57:49
20/20/22 or 2023 against Michigan on their way to, I
57:56
believe on their way to the national title game, I mean, he
57:58
had Purdue in the Big 10 championship.
58:00
So I mean, he he can coach and he can coach very well.
58:04
This is a Louisville team that I think has a lot of expectations.
58:07
Again, they have a really easy ACC schedule.
58:11
Their biggest opponent is Week 3 after this is against SMU.
58:15
And again, a lot of people kind of think that'll be the, that'll
58:19
probably be one of the biggest deciding factors of everybody
58:22
has Miami locked in as far as facing the ACC goes.
58:26
I think that'll probably be one of the big terming factors.
58:29
But again, after looking at Virginia's schedule, I might be
58:33
picking Virginia to. Face.
58:34
Miami, maybe Virginia goes back to the ACC Championship game
58:38
where they they ultimately end up losing the Duke, but maybe
58:41
they maybe they try to take it this time if I remember.
58:45
And I don't think, yeah, I hadn't picked this game either.
58:51
I think if I have to pick, I'll go with old miss just because of
58:54
Trinidad Chambliss. You know, the experience of
58:58
that, you know, Pete Golding still there.
59:00
They were able to keep a lot of continuity with their with their
59:03
team. Now I know obviously they lost.
59:06
They lost Charlie Wise. So the offense is going to look
59:08
a little bit weirder, you know, and, and maybe Trinidad
59:12
struggles as a result of that, but they still have Kiwan Lacey,
59:15
they still have Trinidad. So I think that the opportunity
59:18
for them to still be pretty good is there.
59:21
But it'll it'll be it'll be interesting to see nonetheless,
59:25
though. And then, of course, we have our
59:29
final game of Week 1, which is going to be on Monday night.
59:35
We have Monday night college football of all things, before
59:38
the NFL season starts. We have #19 SNU at Florida
59:43
State, 7:30 PM on ESPN this one. And, and I'm going to say this
59:49
because I, I do feel for Florida State fans.
59:54
That game against New Mexico was not not a good game.
1:00:01
Now they obviously ended up winning 34 to 17.
1:00:05
But it, it was rough. Like it was a rough watch.
1:00:08
It, it, it was one of those when you're watching it, it, it's
1:00:11
kind of hard to believe that the Florida State, you know, let New
1:00:15
Mexico stay around in that game for as long as they did.
1:00:19
Now I know it's it to give credit to New Mexico, it's, you
1:00:24
know, they, they are a Division One team.
1:00:26
It's it's it's not like, you know, they're, you know, like
1:00:29
division two or Division Three, but you know, to only be up 17
1:00:33
to 7 it going in halftime. It's like that's a little bit
1:00:38
I'm not going to say concerning, but that's kind of one of those
1:00:41
you you tilt your head like really that's that's what you're
1:00:44
going to go with Timothy to hiss and throw food behind the
1:00:49
visitors. The stands are wicked close to
1:00:51
the field. OK, trade that 19.
1:00:56
Tim thinks Florida State will be 19 next week.
1:00:59
OK, So Tim, you're you're riding with your knolls.
1:01:02
OK, I, I don't know, man, I mean SMU kind of same thing, you
1:01:09
know, their, their coach has been absolutely great as far as
1:01:13
bringing, you know, bring bringing SMU really to like good
1:01:17
prominence. Kevin Jennings is back for his
1:01:20
senior year. He was solid for him last year
1:01:22
as he's actually been solid for him the last few years.
1:01:26
And Brett Lashley, I mean, he, he has really done wonders with
1:01:30
that SMU team a lot better than what I thought SMU was ever
1:01:34
going to be, especially for the fact that they're not even
1:01:36
getting paid by, they're not even getting paid by the ACC
1:01:42
right now. I mean, they, they literally
1:01:44
said, Hey, we will not take any money if it means that we can
1:01:48
join the ACC to be in a Power 4 conference, to be taken more
1:01:52
seriously. Like we'll, we will handle and
1:01:54
take care of everything else. And I mean, they're and they're
1:01:57
competing perfectly well. I mean, I think he only has 6
1:02:00
losses since being in the ACC three years ago, since average
1:02:04
of like 2 losses a year. That's pretty damn good for a
1:02:09
team that, you know, just came up from the just came up from
1:02:12
the group of 6 and whatnot. Then going up against Florida
1:02:17
State. And Tim, you're probably not
1:02:19
going to be a fan of this, but I'm just just telling you the
1:02:22
facts for what they are. DraftKings they have SMU with
1:02:26
three-point favorite and ESP NS matchup predictor has them at
1:02:30
about a 56 percent chance of winning.
1:02:33
I do I picked SMU to win this and it's nothing against Florida
1:02:40
State and Ashton Daniels. He was fairly solid 17 to 27 a
1:02:44
touchdown in a pick 202 yards. It it is one of those and Tim,
1:02:50
you can you can tell me your thoughts real quick before we
1:02:52
before we close out here. It seems like Mike Norville.
1:02:58
I don't know if that's being being left out of that College
1:03:04
Football Playoff. You know, three years ago after
1:03:07
being undefeated, winning the ACC, the only power 14 to gone
1:03:11
undefeated and be left out of the playoffs.
1:03:14
I don't know if after that him losing Jordan Travis to injury
1:03:21
and then they got destroyed by Georgia.
1:03:24
I don't know if that broke Mike Norville and the program as a
1:03:29
whole or not because it seemed like after that they bring in DJ
1:03:36
Uyangale. That was an absolute nightmare.
1:03:40
They completely fell apart that season and then last year it it
1:03:45
seemed like there was a lot more hope.
1:03:46
Last year. It's like, OK, they moved past
1:03:48
it. They had a bad down year.
1:03:49
They bring in a lot of guys. They bring in Tommy Castellanos
1:03:53
at quarterback. They start out the year against
1:03:55
Alabama. They are in jokes Campbell.
1:03:58
It's like, OK, you know, let let's see how they do.
1:04:00
They end up getting the big upset win over Bama and then
1:04:04
it's like they just they fell apart again right after.
1:04:08
Now it was technically, excuse me, it was technically a better
1:04:13
season than the year prior. I will absolutely give them
1:04:18
credit where credit is due as far as that goes.
1:04:21
I mean, they started off they were three and O, they got ones
1:04:24
against Bama, East, Texas A&M, Kent State.
1:04:27
They did lose a close one at Virginia.
1:04:29
I remember watching that. That one actually was a really
1:04:31
good game. They lost a close one against
1:04:35
Miami. They lost a close one against
1:04:37
Pittsburgh. I think the one that really
1:04:39
shocked everybody was the the really close loss at Stanford,
1:04:44
you know, 20 to 13. That one, that one kind of
1:04:46
surprised me. Like like Virginia, OK, they
1:04:48
ended up going on to the ACC Championship.
1:04:51
That one. That's like, OK, it took two
1:04:53
overtimes for that one to come to fruition.
1:04:54
That's not being the world. You lose 2 at the time, 3 Miami,
1:04:59
and you only lose by 6. Again, it's a rival.
1:05:02
It's a big time game, but again, you only lose by 6.
1:05:05
Not the end of the world. Pittsburgh, you take that down
1:05:08
to the wire. Pitt has always been a pretty
1:05:09
good team, especially within the last few years.
1:05:12
Not the Stanford, though. It's like, that's like that.
1:05:16
I, I, I don't know about that one.
1:05:18
And then they, they have a rebound game against Wake
1:05:20
Forest. They win 42 to 7.
1:05:22
They lose to Clemson, which again, that's a little bit of a
1:05:25
surprise, especially considering kind of how down Clemson was
1:05:29
last year. They lose 24 to 10.
1:05:31
Big rebound game against W, not West Virginia, Virginia Tech 34
1:05:35
to 14. And then they kind of lose in
1:05:38
pretty bad fashion the last two games, you know, to NC State, 21
1:05:41
to 11. And then of course, the final
1:05:43
game against Florida, 40 to 21. Again, it's one of those when
1:05:49
you look at Florida State and you think of where the program
1:05:52
has been and the pride that's in this program, like they they
1:05:57
should be better. I'll be honest, Tim, y'all have
1:06:00
a, y'all have a really rough schedule because I mean, this is
1:06:04
124567. So out of the next seven games,
1:06:10
and I mean seven games, you've got SMU, you have to go to
1:06:16
Tuscaloosa to take on Alabama. It's going to be a big revenge
1:06:19
game. You do get to host Central
1:06:21
Arkansas there after that, but then you host Virginia, then you
1:06:26
have to travel to Louisville and then you have to travel to Miami
1:06:31
and then you host Clemson like that.
1:06:34
Oof. That is that is not a good or
1:06:37
fun stretch. If I'm a, if I'm a Florida State
1:06:39
fan, just being being completely honest with you, that one that,
1:06:43
that, that was a little bit rough.
1:06:44
You know, I, Tim, I know if that's your team, if you believe
1:06:48
in them, they have more power to you.
1:06:49
And I, I, I hope I'm wrong, man, that's going to be, that's going
1:06:53
to be a rough time. But man, I'm, I'm excited
1:06:55
though. I appreciate everybody watching.
1:06:57
Thank you Tim for, for comment and tuning in.
1:06:59
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1:07:11
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1:08:33
Appreciate everybody tuning in. We will be back next week for
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1:08:42
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1:08:45
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