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Chris Landry Discusses College Football Super-league Proposal and More · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Chris Landry on your Radio Segment two on a Monday, Chris, let's shift
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  to a little college football as teams are in spring practice. First off,
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  I want to get your take. I don't know if you had a chance
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  to really dive into the article that was out on the Athletic last week about
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  this super league proposal by some rich, rich people and some executives and such.
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  But it looks like more and more heat is coming down the pipe for
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  college football to have some sort of reform. It's just what does that look
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  like and who makes it happen? Yeah, I think that that is definitely
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  what it feels like. There's a separation and a kind of a status separation,
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  if you will. But it is very difficult, and everybody speculates,
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  well, it could be this or that, and I mean I think everybody
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  kind of nibbles around it because we don't really know. I mean, I
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  think every possibility or every setup comes with some challenges and and and hers.
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  I think we have to and this is again I said this advines. We
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  don't have anybody looking out for the overall leadership of college football. I mean
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  everybody, it's it's everybody for themselves. So campaign, you know, Greg
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  Sanki or Tony Pettitier, you know, for looking out for their conferences.
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  But what is best for the SEC or best for the Big Ten is not
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  necessarily what's best for the overall college football. I mean, do we want
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  a sport where it's basically just thirty teams? I mean, maybe we do.
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  I mean it's a rhetorical question, but it's how do you want it?
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  I mean that could be so that means that no one else is really
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  in a position. And there's some people I talked with an assistant a d
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  yesterday last week rather and the timo was made to me in the ESPN's and
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  the Foxes of the world, they don't want to have the TCUs of the
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  world on TV. They want to have you know, Texas in Alabama and
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  LSU and Oklahoma or Georgia and you know, and and I mean that's what
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  they want. Maybe that's where we're headed, and maybe we're going to separate
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  into some form of an AFC NFC in college football. I don't know what
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  happens to the rest of them. How does that play out? Are they
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  lawsuits? I mean, and that gets into areas that I just and I
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  don't know what to make of it, but yeah, the changes are coming.
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  I don't know how it's going to all settle in and coalesce together,
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  though, Chris, I know we've talked with you. You know a lot
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  about old Mississippi State obviously being right here in this in this state. But
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  when you look at now the expectations of this Ole Miss program, where we're
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  looking at some stuff from some other writers nationally, a lot of people say,
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  hey, look, this is the team that can go win a game
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  in the playoff. Not only can they get to the playoff, they can
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  go in a game in the playoff, they can make the final four in
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  the playoff. Are you when you look at Ole Miss and I know you've
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  got a lot to do before we get to the season and just really evaluating
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  these rosters and such. And we'll see what happens with this transfer portal wonder
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  that's coming up, and you know some of these chess pieces will move around
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  again. But and we've talked about this, this is the most anticipated on
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  Miss football season maybe ever in the program. Are you on board with everybody
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  else that they Lang Kiffin has that type of team this year? First of
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  all, I think it is the only one I could think about that's bigger.
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  And I know I'm dating myself here, but nineteen sixty nine or am
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  I missing it? By year? I can't remember back when you didn't have
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  many games on TV. I remember ABC thing we're going to move the ole
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  Miss Alabama game on and that was kind of a because those two teams are
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  national championship contenders back in long time ago. It's a new era. It's
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  playoffs expanding, and you know, I think some would look at ole Miss,
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  at least in the media, that hey, they might be contenders and
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  even if we're just fourty, and could they absolutely make the playoffs? And
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  oh absolutely people think that. I think this is a good team. I
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  think it's going to be interesting to see how they handle and manage the expectations.
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  So I think ole Miss has done a really good job of you I
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  thought last year was gonna think maximizing kind of who they are in winning games
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  that they should win. But getting over that hump is where you need to
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  continue that. But get over that hump? Can they do that? Can
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  Is it going to be a difference against Alabama because Nick Saban's not there.
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  I think that's gonna be the key. Yeah, I think this team is
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  good. I think that when you see things like, well they're top five,
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  Well what's top five? I mean, to me, there's a gap
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  between. You take a Georgia in Ohio state roster and there's a gap.
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  So to me, it's one in two and there's a gap. So three
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  to maybe eight or nine or ten might be interchangeable. I think Old Miss
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  could be in that conversation at three or eight, but there's to me,
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  there's no difference, And I'm curious to see how it all develops. And
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  I think if they end up, you know, having a season that's fall
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  short of those expectations, that's going to be frustrating because, quite frankly,
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  I still think the program is in great shape and in good shape. But
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  if they if they go ten and two, is at a disappointment. I
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  don't think so. I think that's a great year, but maybe they're expecting
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  more this year. Chris Landry talking football college in the NFL on a Monday.
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  Make sure to find him on Exit Landry Football Andandry football dot com.
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  Chris one more question, Let's talk Georgia. Are you you know when you
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  look at the quarterbacks in the SEC this year, Jalen Milroe, Jackson,
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  Dart Quinn, yours. You can go down the list here, but Carson
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  Beck is getting a lot of love as a odds on favorite right now to
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  win the Heisman. And that makes sense because we know that award is going
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  to go to the best player on the best team. Is what do you
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  see when you see Carson Beck? I see a guy that really played a
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  lot better as the season went along. He grew and developed his decision making
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  his poise very good. I think people kind of lost side of that after
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  losing the Alabama Conference championship game. I think the guys got lots of talent,
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  and he's got lots of intangibles, and he's on a team. We
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  doesn't have to play hero ball now. It used to be that if you
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  play well and your team wins, big advantage on winning a Heisman. If
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  it's going to be all about numbers now, it's probably not going to be
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  ideal for that Now. I think I would put him in that upper tier
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  as well, because I think he has not only the ability to do it,
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  but I don't think the numbers are always or are going to be gaudy
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  compared to some others, because you know, like Jadan Daniels wanted because he
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  carried LSU, he doesn't have to do that, and some of the other
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  Heisman have done that. He was their team Catli Williams was. I think
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  Carson Beck is going to be a really good quarterback on a really good team,
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  and he's got to steer the ship. And I think if he does
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  that and he makes pivotal plays in pivotal games that maybe might determine whether they
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  win or not down the stretch, that might be enough for him to certainly
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  be in that in that that race. I got a few seconds here.
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  Let me ask you one more of why I got Tom Brady Cook same question
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  Missouri. How high can he take Missouri this year? I think I think
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  he's good. I think he's talented. Now, I think he's going to
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  have to play like better back comparison of just talking about let's Beck. I
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  think he's going to have to do a little bit more. I mean,
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  I think certainly they were very good offensively. I'm curious to me, it's
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  about how well will that defense play without Blake Baker running it? What will
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  they look like? To me? That is the difference. I think Cook's
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  going to have to score a lot of points. That offense is going to
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  have to be flowing because I don't know how good that defense is going to
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  be, and that's going to really determine how high they how high they can
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  go this year. Make sure to find him on x Landry Football also Landry
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  football dot com. Chris, always appreciate your time. If you're watching a
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  little basketball tonight, enjoy the National Championship game and look, we'll talk to
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  you next week. Hey, thank you so much. Appreciate you