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AROTC 460: Homeland Security · Boundary Corner Podcast

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  Welcome back to the boundary Corner podcast.
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  My name is Curtis Wilson. I'm right Sigler.
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  How's it going, buddy, buddy? One of these click Keys clink.
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  He's okay. Son, Crush, southern peach here
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  on this day and what about you tonight?
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  Little Hardy with single. Oh, and look at us supporting
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  the r-va breweries. We go from, you got a vacation
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  this weekend, buddy. How was the lake?
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  Yeah, I had headed down to bugs, I'll incur Lake Area out of the
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  cabin with some, with some neighbors.
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  Little fishing. It a little little, this little
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  that caught a few caught a few very nice.
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  I caught the most, I didn't kill catch the biggest but I kept
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  going for quantity, not quality. Quality here.
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  Yes, when it comes to fish. Yes, quantity over quality.
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  You can catch the nice prize best, but that feeds one person
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  you catch 10. You're feeding the entire
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  family. There we go.
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  There we go. Thank you buddy.
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  Well, we were going to try to go down and see some family on
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  Friday but on Wednesday night, my wonderful wife gets this
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  email from her school. You must have your rooms cleaned
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  out by next Monday. Huh.
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  So it's kind of like, she's like, when can you get up?
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  I'm like, well, I'm off Friday. So let's just go on.
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  Tell the folks, hey, can't come down.
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  Sorry, we got to get this done. Clearly because she does not
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  want, all her stuff going into a storage trailer, so that was
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  pretty much all day. Friday, wife's family came over
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  shared a grilled, some burgers, some Wuhan hot dogs.
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  Bloody that like massive hot dogs.
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  Had some drinks, just chilled. And from our house watch
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  fireworks on two streets over from us and over in another
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  neighborhood over. So don't even have to leave the
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  crib as a good. Nice somewhat relaxing weekend.
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  Yeah, we were to catch some fireworks.
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  They were shooting them off a couple of boats.
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  All right. Your cabin watching fireworks.
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  That's that's good, man. I mean it's always nice to see
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  it. It's the cool part is where
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  Jack's bedroom is at the house. He literally has this purpose.
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  He's literally like, they are, he could see the ones in the
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  neighborhood here. He could see the ones in the
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  other neighborhoods, so he was like back and forth between the
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  Windows, like he was pumped on on a Saturday late, Saturday
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  night. So, yeah.
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  Well folks, I hope your fourth was great, too.
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  Hope you had Had plenty of food adult beverages and a good time,
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  whatever you did. But today, we're going to be
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  taking an in-depth look At protecting Lane Stadium, we're
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  going to be looking at the four themes that visit Lane this
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  season. So before we jump into all that
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  though, there has been a lot of news since the last time we were
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  on here and the biggest was this weekend while my partner in
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  crime, here had no cell service is down at the lake.
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  We got some Yes sir DJ Harvey, the 4 Star Quarterback out of
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  Sierra, Canyon, High School in California commits and came
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  sound of out of nowhere. Just all of a sudden people were
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  like, he pulled it up and it was like, I'm an ounce on the 4th
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  and it's like what we'll wait a second favorite and like, To
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  come to Tech, but he initially, if you remember, Brian, he's
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  going to announce in September, like we just did Penn State.
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  We all feel good about that but then this happens and now let me
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  ask you because you kind of came into it a little late when you
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  saw it. What was your first reaction?
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  So, I went down to the lake. I think I left.
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  It was like I was also went to my parents on Thursday and then
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  stay. There, Friday, night and early
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  Saturday morning. We headed to the lake.
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  So I was without cell phone service, being able to text call
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  anything for 36 hours. And the only reason I knew about
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  it is because I made a run to McDonald's to get some some
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  Sundays for everybody and all of a sudden, all the I get this
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  like, barrage of text messages saying, the Curtis was like, we,
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  Got a big one. Oh, who is it?
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  It's always hard building. Okay, okay, yeah that's good.
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  It would have been nice to be unexpected but it's nice getting
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  getting that commitment now versus waiting until September
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  because you never know what can happen between now and then
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  absolutely you really don't but to have him essentially in the
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  boat is a great thing. And I mean, you take a look at
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  an overall. I mean, I mean by 24/7 for Star
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  top 250 player, essentially he's 246.
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  So he's in the top 24/7. The number 18 cornerback top 25
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  in California, plethora of offers Brian Auburn LSU,
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  Nebraska Notre, Dame Oregon, Texas USC.
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  So, essentially he is a nationwide recruit.
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  I know you've looked at a little tape on.
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  What do you, what do you mean? Is he that boundary?
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  Three corners if you had that skill set.
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  Yeah he's definitely got that skill set in and what I like
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  about about me and I know we've been hammering this home but
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  Universe until I think this is a guy that might end up, you know,
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  D Hall style may be playing playing both ways and we're
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  sense because he's got a lot of offensive Talent as well, but
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  he's going to be a guy that can lock you up on defense at the
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  corner spot. So I like him.
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  Definitely playing. They're playing outside and I
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  think he's going to be a guy that probably slides into maybe
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  not. Right away into Farley's role
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  when he leaves, but probably slipping into Waller spot first
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  and then maybe maybe sliding over after the fact.
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  So I'm really really high on DJ Harvey.
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  I'm really pumped that he's in the boat, the same here, man.
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  You know, Not only was it, you know, big four-star to get but
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  it's one of those things with the midnight Menace that we did,
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  right before, all the covid stuff, broke it pays off.
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  Also, some people questioning should we recruit All over the
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  country again, this is one of those things, the other guys who
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  committed and decommitted that still proves that we can get
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  guys to commit from, not our normal recruiting footprint and
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  you have to take those chances. Now Braun great.
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  We've got Harvey but some other news popped up just a few days
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  ago. Not one but two additional
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  recruiting positions have been Posted which me and you probably
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  feel the same way. If they've been posted, probably
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  already got the higher it's just one of those.
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  Yeah, we got to put it on the website just so, you know, you
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  jump through the state of Virginia that are necessary.
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  I'm sure they already have this lined up.
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  I'm sure they probably had several guys that they were
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  looking at. Ya been whittled down from there
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  before you know. I don't think that's necessarily
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  something that they were going to throw an outside hire out
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  there. I think they probably already
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  had some guys that either had this position in other schools
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  or had been doing some other type of work for the Virginia
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  Tech and now they're moving into this more focused role on staff.
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  So I think that's going to be big big for recruiting going
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  forward. Obviously.
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  I think we still need to do more in the area but getting this
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  especially considering everything going on with covid
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  and Budgets and all that stuff. The fact that we're all still
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  move on, this is pretty big that does speak.
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  Some some to are working within our budget.
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  Yeah, you definitely definitely says that we're doing a lot with
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  a little from that perspective. So I like that and I like the
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  way we're positioning ourselves to get better in this area
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  because we definitely of all the areas we have recruiting is
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  definitely the one we need to get better in 100% And if you
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  take a look at the position title, Eels, let's kind of talk
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  through them for a second, the first because we already have
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  this position on staff or a essentially a higher tiers and
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  assistant director of player Personnel football.
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  What do you foresee that being? Because clearly, you've got
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  piercing, Proto is one of the directors.
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  Is this, just another helping hand for him or is this?
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  You can he's going to be a little bit more.
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  Probably is going to be more of a helping hand.
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  I think initially He just to manage the workload and to kind
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  of be more the bug in the ear of the recruits and talking things
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  through and looking at some of the film that is just there's
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  just a lot out there and I think you know when you're looking for
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  system fits and I think that that's where I recruiting is
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  started. Moving towards is you guys that
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  fit what we're trying to do, not just the biggest names of the
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  board things like this are going.
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  Biki. So I'm looking forward to seeing
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  what they can do with these. All right, now, the other one
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  more interesting, part of the assistant, director of on-campus
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  recruiting football to me here, that that sounds like when
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  they're those big weekends. We are now going to have someone
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  who's going to be in charge of that.
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  It is that what you hear? That as that's exactly what I
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  hear that as that this is no longer is yet.
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  See you go running the recruiting blueprint.
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  With running all of these weekend festivities or Junior
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  days or any of that stuff, this is going to be someone that is
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  dedicated to setting those up. Making sure that everyone is
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  where they need to be that each recruit gets time with the
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  specific coaches, that they're looking to get all that needs to
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  be set up and running. It doesn't need to be done by
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  our director of recruiting. It needs to be done by someone
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  in this role. And I think that's going to be
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  good to kind of offer. Load some of the workload and
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  have a more focused position for that type of activity.
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  Yeah, that's also the one you feel like it's so important
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  because when you're when you have these guys in you want to
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  be hitting what they want to do, they want to see their major,
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  they want to see their coach. But also I think that's the one
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  that could potentially could be a former player.
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  And I mean, who knows, who it could be.
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  And the reason I say that because it's the on-campus
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  recruiting visit And if you talk about someone who's been there,
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  whether they were there 10 years ago or just in the last few
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  years, it kind of makes it easy to.
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  Oh this kid is, you know, he is, he's looking to major in this.
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  So the buildings here, offices are here will probably live
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  here. Let me set how this up.
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  Yeah, coordination, perfect. Someone who knows the campus
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  now? Is it going to be a big name
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  player? Maybe, maybe not.
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  I think I'll says, Fans, hoping this 11 like name recognizable.
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  I'll throw his name out there because he is now living in
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  Blacksburg Sergio render. Yeah.
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  Sergio render a you can't miss him.
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  He's 66 he is a message. Being he loves the school, he
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  has not only so much knowledge of the on-campus stuff but
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  Sergio a big-time Outdoorsman they've come.
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  When the area in general would I be shocked?
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  Look if in a couple weeks, we would like to announce their
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  nope, not other position, maybe it's another hokey or maybe it's
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  someone trying to get their foot in the door of coaching and
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  begin. This is a great starting role.
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  It's great for the program. Yeah, I mean and with the other
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  role of the, if it's not someone like Sergio, I mean do you think
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  it can be someone more football adjacent but you know, I hope
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  you crab versus someone that was directly involved with the
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  football program. Very potentially.
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  I think that could be the case as well.
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  It definitely could be someone again who knows campus knows the
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  local culture and we'll try to get the students around on
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  campus while they're there visiting to make mom and dad
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  feel assured. Hard to say, Hey you live here,
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  your classes will be here. Here's the football facilities
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  and almost one of those things. Hey it's easy to set up a
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  meeting with the coach is if you're on the staff, hey coach
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  cabinets. We've got the tight end coming
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  out of South Carolina. What time do you want to punch
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  them in? I'll bring them, you know, so he
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  knows what time they come to your office is after we get them
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  at or something. So yeah, it could be just a
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  regular student but there's a part of me that wants to be a
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  player because then you have that further.
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  In while Kids on Campus, like I played here, I ran through that
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  tunnel. I gave my Blood Sweat, and Tears
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  on that, field displaced. When it's electric, you will get
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  goosebumps. You will shake.
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  So I'm hoping it's a player but, you know, either way we should
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  be happy. We're getting more recruiting,
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  Physicians that we are definitely lacking behind on
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  added for sure, for sure. It's definitely a good good
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  moving forward on that because, you know, we can definitely see
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  improve it even though I think We're gonna be alright, this
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  cycle after a rough last cycle in a rough.
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  April and May I think we're going to turn things around
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  here. We're starting to look better.
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  And we're starting to get more in-state guys, which I think is
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  increasing some of the perception D.
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  Crassus a decrease in some of the perception issues we've been
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  having from that perspective. So I think we're moving in the
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  right direction. So hopefully we'll keep it up in
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  the these new hires will make that even better 100% man.
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  All right. Well more fun for.
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  We had a couple more serious topics here.
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  Brian, do you see the video? All we got, we got we got
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  freshman up freshman on campus, although Warren.
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  Alright, awesome to see a nice little thing.
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  The football Twitter feed, put out with all the guys you know
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  you know basically saying they're here, saw some tweets if
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  you didn't see like the guys with the dots guys leaving.
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  I'm making it known they were heading to Blacksburg.
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  The only one not theirs will for Pinay who is to my mileage.
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  Still stuck in France. You know you know I hope that
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  something can be arranged for that young man to get back
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  stateside to begin not only his football career but to further
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  his academic career to especially you kind of read
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  about him making you know all the sacrifices to come over and
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  play and then to get Recruited into get offer numerous
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  scholarships, but they're back. And I'm sure the first thing
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  they did was get a nice little throat.
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  Wha make sure they don't have any Kofi but it's also, there we
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  go. Now don't go anywhere for 48
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  hours while we confirm your - please and thank you.
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  All right. Well Brian there's been some
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  other news looks kind of pivot away from the Hokie nation and
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  let's give it to some. Use it broke.
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  Last week Jimbo Fisher in Texas A&M penalized for NCAA
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  violations. He got a show-cause penalty,
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  basically, violated the rules related between January, 2018,
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  February 20, 19, Quite a few things they're going on.
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  They're getting the six months show calls for Jimbo Fisher.
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  There's been a few other things too.
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  Like they're not essentially not going to be able to recruit in
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  the fall which you know the way things are going is that even
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  going to matter? Hopefully hopefully the NCAA
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  nuts up and says yeah that's going to be extended to next
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  fall since we're in a dead period right now but it's hope
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  so, especially considering the fine was a joke.
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  The fine was an absolute joke. Let me see if I can do something
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  about. Like he makes that yeah, five
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  thousand dollars. That's not even like a quarter
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  of a percent of what they take in Revenue wise.
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  What bullshit I saw, I can't remember who posted with
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  someone's, like, yeah, that's like point two five percent of
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  his annual Salary or something like that.
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  Like you makes that like eight hours or something and it is, it
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  is nothing in the show causes basically.
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  Like basically, he can't like text or email or anything with
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  the recruits. But again, it's just kind of the
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  stats being punished like that during the covid stuff and it's
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  not even gonna matter. Hopefully again, they nut up and
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  say no, we're going to move this to next season.
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  Yeah, I don't foresee the NCAA nutting up on anything.
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  Especially related to somebody like Jimbo.
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  If what we're seeing with your things that have happened
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  recently is is going to be the parameters that we see going
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  forward. We're going to continue seeing
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  these slaps on the wrist, especially for programs that
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  have either high profile programs or high-profile
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  coaches. Yeah.
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  Now the funny piece is this actually affects another program
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  as well? At least perception in some
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  people's eyes, the primary guy that was it.
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  Placated in this was j. G j g.
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  Moved over to Tennessee, has their running backs coach now so
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  it's one of these things. People have opportunities
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  McGregor cruden. Well so and this year he would
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  America 24/7 coach writing, he's the number 15 recruiter in the
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  country. Well, you know, I'm being is
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  Tennessee, but have some potentially man very much
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  potentially. Um, it's just it's funny you see
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  this happen. And then once again Texas A&M
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  recruiting really well Tennessee.
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  Recruiting, you know, top five right now and it's one of those
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  things where it's just kind of like, yeah, what are you gonna
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  do jeromy Pruitt because, if this has happened on your watch,
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  you know, in people, again, I think it's the next program that
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  gets busted with something. Like this is going to get more
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  of the Lash right now. They laid it down for Texas,
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  A&M. It's whoever's, busted next.
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  The NCAA got, Scrutinized got whipped got thrown fire like
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  what are you doing? You didn't nothing.
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  Do the next program is like three years show cause penalty
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  postseason ban and you can't coach for four years.
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  Uh-huh. Wait, but Jimbo exactly and if
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  that's the thing, they're never going to drop the hammer on
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  someone like Jimbo like that. Which is, I mean, you know, it
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  is what it is at this point. I think we come to expect it.
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  Anytime one of these major programs starts getting into
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  some sort of trouble, it seems to kind of roll off their back a
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  little bit. You know, they'll get, they'll
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  get the, the cut but they don't lose the limb exact.
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  Actly and it's only a minor cut. It's like it's like our children
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  falling down on payment and skinning they're neat.
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  I heard. Okay, I'm good.
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  You rub some dirt on it. Move Along exactly.
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  All right, Brian, this just broke a couple hours ago and,
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  you know, it's pretty big. It's it's one of those things.
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  Basically, the ivy league, has ruled out clean off, all Sport
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  with ball. Do they got perona pandemic?
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  And right now, no decision has been made about winter or spring
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  sports or whether it falls Force, could be played and the
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  spring of 2021. Now, they've already taken some
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  measures. I don't think anybody sees this
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  as a shock. So much of their stuff is going
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  online. I'm sure you saw that over the
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  last few weeks. I think, who was it?
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  Harvard, Harvard, everything's going to be online.
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  I'll cool tuition to decrease from the 47,000 know.
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  Do you think this is impacting P5 G5 or the ivy league?
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  Sort of Different. The ivy league is definitely
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  different in the biggest thing is the ivy league, doesn't
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  really depend on any athletic revenue for the functioning of
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  their athletic department. Obviously it's cake and helps
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  it's the bonus to help with the budget, but they would have most
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  of these Sports even if they didn't have fans in the stands
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  and things like that. So they operate more in the same
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  room. Rome as like you know, division
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  to division three, maybe even D1, non-scholarship schools like
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  Davidson. So I don't think that they're
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  going to that this is necessarily indicative of what
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  we're going to see for G5 R power 5 in the fall.
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  That said the fact that anyone did it is definitely news and
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  definitely could could be a precursor, but I don't think it,
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  you know it's necessarily A you know, T leave.
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  And we're because this happened some other she was going to fall
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  there, but it's still, it's still not good.
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  In terms of what how we feel about it.
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  I think I think it's definitely probably brings us down a little
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  bit because the other ones gone you know, it makes it easier for
• 23:56
  others to say, hey well maybe let's take a look at what
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  they're doing. Yeah, and if you don't remember,
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  they were the first to cancel their basketball tournament back
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  in March. And then slowly the tea leaves
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  everything fell into place that was a is a little bit different
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  than it is. Now the amount of knowledge
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  about the coronavirus in March compared to the 8th of July you
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  know, almost four months later is completely different point in
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  time, people were thinking 78 percent death rate.
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  Well it's about a one two, a one and a half percent.
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  Is that what you've been? And seeing it's about about 11
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  percent for kind of the healthy population and four to five
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  percent, for immunocompromised or elderly.
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  Yeah. And it's even bigger on the
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  elderly State. I mean, you know, you, every
• 24:53
  keep an eye on the science like 60, you know, like it's four and
• 24:57
  a half, you get into the 70s, it's like six and a half.
• 25:01
  You get into the 80s and older, you know, you're back where it
• 25:04
  really is affecting. Plus the immuno compromised,
• 25:07
  folks. But in, but in reality, we're
• 25:10
  starting to know more valuable and yet there are spikes, that
• 25:15
  sucks. Luckily we're in a state, that's
• 25:17
  not seeing a spike. We're actually seeing more
• 25:19
  downward Trend. So again, who knows.
• 25:25
  I do think you know some people are like, oh this is it, this is
• 25:28
  it. Oh my God, they're going to like
• 25:31
  y'all don't realize the amount of money.
• 25:34
  Not only the these athletic Department's depend on but the
• 25:38
  It is ending these, the communities, I mean and I don't
• 25:45
  want to try to be doing Gloom. But if there was no college
• 25:49
  football season certain cities, and towns Blacksburg would be
• 25:54
  one of them Blacksburg, they would place like Tuscaloosa, you
• 25:59
  know, even a place like Greenville.
• 26:03
  They would get hit hard in me. It's that's a small, very small
• 26:08
  percentage, but you imagine literally saying, well, we're
• 26:12
  going to cancel and later prayer can own.
• 26:14
  You know what? 100 cities, 100 cities are small
• 26:18
  City pounds. Yeah.
• 26:20
  And that's kind of one of those couch.
• 26:23
  Like do it. Do we do that?
• 26:25
  No, you know, because essentially that's kind of,
• 26:29
  that's kind of what they're if they decide to cancel your Going
• 26:33
  to see a lot of businesses in these college towns and go under
• 26:37
  sure and it's going to be I hate to say it but it's going to
• 26:40
  disproportionately affect the area like Blacksburg you know,
• 26:45
  compared to somewhere like Columbus and percent.
• 26:49
  Even though they have, you know, almost double the fans at a
• 26:52
  given game than we do. They have other things going on
• 26:59
  in their city that can Bowie at least carry them through.
• 27:02
  Whereas most of the town of Blacksburg depends on students
• 27:07
  being there and people coming in on Saturdays.
• 27:10
  Yeah. And whether it be Saturday in
• 27:12
  the fall or Saturdays in the winter for basketball game, or a
• 27:16
  Friday night game. So, 100%.
• 27:19
  All right, well, we're going to move on, and actually get to our
• 27:21
  topic today. We need to defend Lane Stadium.
• 27:25
  Boom. All right.
• 27:27
  So Force for games, versus the ACC UVA.
• 27:32
  Say, Georgia Tech, Boston, College, and Miami Brian.
• 27:37
  Let's just start with them, just down the road.
• 27:40
  So you can see, for let's start with UVA, they are returning
• 27:45
  seven starters on offense Mountain starters on defense.
• 27:51
  I mean, Brian, who they losing it?
• 27:54
  They losing someone who literally carried them, to, at
• 27:56
  least three victories last year, maybe more.
• 28:00
  Yeah. So they are losing.
• 28:03
  Bryce Perkins, their quarterback.
• 28:05
  No big deal. You're just the heart and soul
• 28:07
  of the offense and accounting for almost 4,500 yards of
• 28:14
  offense himself. So yeah, 3530 yards passing with
• 28:19
  22 touchdowns. And another 769 rushing with 11
• 28:24
  touchdowns, you know, second-team all-acc got signed
• 28:28
  with the Rams as an undrafted free agent this year.
• 28:31
  So that's going to be the big, big departure, but there's other
• 28:35
  big things going on there as well, because a couple of guys
• 28:38
  that he was throwing that ball to are gone as well.
• 28:41
  I'll cease Dubois wide, receiver all-acc, honorable mention had
• 28:46
  1062 yards and six touchdowns last year and Joe read the wide
• 28:53
  receiver and return Specialist made first team, all-acc is an
• 28:59
  all-purpose kick returner. Six return yards and two
• 29:04
  touchdowns and added another 679 receiving and he got picked up
• 29:09
  by the Chargers as an undrafted free agent.
• 29:13
  So we're talking about two guys there that are now in the NFL on
• 29:18
  rosters. As of right now then that's just
• 29:22
  on the offensive side of the ball.
• 29:24
  They lost a couple guys that you mentioned, non returning
• 29:27
  starters, the two guys they lost or pretty key as well about
• 29:31
  Bryce hole here. Obviously, he was missing most
• 29:35
  of the least the back half of the season last year, but he was
• 29:39
  projected as a first rounder even before all this injury took
• 29:44
  place and he got injured against Miami, still ended up getting
• 29:49
  drafted by the Jets in the fifth round and he was second-team
• 29:52
  All-American in 2018. So this is a guy that
• 29:55
  potentially could have been a second or third round, pick a
• 29:57
  feudal went out last year and then ended up coming back and
• 30:01
  unfortunately getting injured and Prettiest dress that a
• 30:03
  little bit there and the last guy I want to talk about is
• 30:07
  Jordan back. He led the team in tackles,
• 30:11
  sorry, lesbian sex with seven and a half and added 69 tackles
• 30:15
  and he got picked up by the Panthers as an undrafted free
• 30:18
  agent. So, you know, I've got five guys
• 30:21
  here, four of them are on NFL rosters right now I'm sure
• 30:24
  Dubois is going to get picked up at some point.
• 30:26
  He's definitely got the hands and the size I think speed is a
• 30:31
  concern. He's doesn't quite have that.
• 30:32
  NFL speed that you're looking at, but I think he might find
• 30:36
  his way on the roster depending on what the NFL season looks
• 30:38
  like as well. So those are the big guys?
• 30:41
  They're going to be missing. Yeah, man, you know, Perkins,
• 30:46
  was that offense last year? People can say what they want.
• 30:50
  I watched clearly, I watch the tech game.
• 30:52
  If he's not on the field, they lose by 20 points.
• 30:56
  Don't at me? The are bu game.
• 30:59
  If he doesn't do what he does in the latter half of that game,
• 31:01
  they lose totally life. Last year?
• 31:03
  Yeah, Florida State. again later Rolex, in that game, They
• 31:10
  literally it was they could have lost three games, one being
• 31:13
  absolutely wretched loss total. You could only use heroin last
• 31:18
  year, but Brian is a kind of kind of scroll through here.
• 31:21
  And look at their schedule last year.
• 31:23
  After Bryce hall, went down in that.
• 31:25
  Miami game. They only the sea.
• 31:28
  They gave up 28 points Louisville. 31 of UNC 28, to
• 31:33
  Georgia, Tech, 27, to Liberty, and then 32 us, And then I'm not
• 31:39
  going to count the other two games.
• 31:40
  So we're on the first ones, they had given up 17 - 35 to Notre
• 31:46
  Dame but that's a little different 1724 1714 10.
• 31:54
  Kind of a difference in the Cadence, there of how many
• 31:57
  points they gave up after Bryce hall, went down.
• 32:02
  So they got to kind of live without him for a little while,
• 32:06
  but now. Well, Midseason, something like
• 32:09
  that happens. People don't know what you're
• 32:11
  doing until the tape. Slowly starts getting on there.
• 32:14
  But how is quite OK, we kind of know what you're going to do
• 32:17
  without a lock down the corner. I think at the big loss in think
• 32:22
  me. And you've already kind of
• 32:23
  talked about it with them. If they're going to make a Bowl
• 32:26
  this year, they're going to win some rock fights like 1417 1413
• 32:31
  because of losing that much on offense.
• 32:35
  Now, recruiting classes Braun, they had left.
• 32:38
  Years ago. Okay, 58 and twenty Seventeen,
• 32:43
  fifty nine and twenty 1839 and 2019, another got some transfer.
• 32:48
  So who is the key guys, coming back, and then some of the
• 32:52
  emerging players. So, in terms of returning, key
• 32:57
  starters, first one, I want to highlight is going to be the
• 33:02
  other receiver. That was getting some of those
• 33:04
  balls thrown to him other than the two that are now.
• 33:09
  No, now gone. So that's going to be a Tyrell
• 33:11
  Jana wide receiver. He's the only returning primary
• 33:14
  target from last season. He had a big second half of the
• 33:18
  Season especially when they had to start scoring some more
• 33:21
  points once price hauling down. So ended up with eight hundred
• 33:27
  eighty six yards, receiving and three touchdowns.
• 33:29
  So pretty big numbers in terms of yards there for, you know, a
• 33:33
  second or third option but obviously your need to see his
• 33:38
  touchdown. Go up if he's going to replace
• 33:40
  some of that production that was lost Wayne taller Papa returning
• 33:47
  starting running back. I probably butchered that name
• 33:50
  but sorry Wayne but it is what it is. 473 yards, rushing 12
• 33:57
  touchdowns in 2019. Obviously any running back last
• 34:03
  year was kind of a secondary option.
• 34:05
  In terms of the running game rice was the Number one option
• 34:09
  in the running game. Just you know looking at that
• 34:13
  the top rusher was out rushed almost double by the
• 34:16
  quarterback. Touchdowns are pretty good for
• 34:20
  him, that would 12. So if you can replicate that
• 34:23
  production and add some more rushing yards, he could be a
• 34:25
  threat in 2020. Let's move to the defense
• 34:30
  though, Zane's and gear. He was a linebacker for them.
• 34:35
  LED them led the team in tackles 108 last year.
• 34:39
  Really did some big things for them because he can move across
• 34:44
  the field. Well, and really make a lot of
• 34:47
  plays from that inside linebacker position and the
• 34:51
  other guys, Joey blunt. He was a safety was third team,
• 34:54
  all-acc in 2019, he had 95 combined tackles from the safety
• 34:59
  spot. So he was making some plays in
• 35:01
  the running game obviously to get those numbers up and he had
• 35:04
  four sacks and three interceptions as well.
• 35:06
  So kind of a do-it-all player. Or not, you know, the most elite
• 35:11
  safety but a guy that can really make plays in different ways and
• 35:15
  hurt you in different ways. So that's going to be the big
• 35:17
  guys. They have returning that we're
• 35:20
  standouts last year. Yeah they've got a lot of
• 35:23
  unknown and I'll talk about that a little bit here in the the
• 35:27
  biggest one is going to be all kind of have them 1A and 1B here
• 35:31
  is who's going to be their quarterback to replace the
• 35:35
  production of brace Perkins. The lead guy in that role is
• 35:40
  going to be Brennan Armstrong. Lefty not quite the dynamic
• 35:48
  Runner that Perkins was obviously but you're bigger guy
• 35:52
  kind of more of a you know, Tim Tebow taysom Hill kind of that
• 35:58
  hybrid player. So I mean he could potentially
• 36:02
  do some damage in that role. Definitely Compares a little bit
• 36:05
  more to taste them than to TiVo. And still still, you know, like
• 36:10
  most of those that both of those guys are still in raw thrower,
• 36:14
  but not quite as raw. As Perkins was when he came to
• 36:18
  UVA initially. But again, you're not talking
• 36:20
  about the same degree of athleticism and you got Katie on
• 36:24
  Thompson who the quarterback transfer from Mississippi State.
• 36:29
  He's a better thrower than Perkins and probably is close to
• 36:35
  him in terms of Athletics athleticism.
• 36:38
  I'm an explosion with his legs. The question being is, can he
• 36:41
  learn this offense fast enough and get up to speed before the
• 36:46
  start of the Season especially now that we're dealing with all
• 36:49
  this covid stuff and I know we're going to have an extended
• 36:52
  camp, but here's here's a guy that probably could have used a
• 36:56
  little bit more time with the coaches even if it was just
• 36:58
  getting mental reps, that he's been able to get.
• 37:00
  So I think that's going to be key to whether or not he can
• 37:04
  pass Brennan. There is, can you pick up that
• 37:06
  offense fast enough? So that's going to be the big
• 37:09
  thing. You need to replace another
• 37:12
  thing they need to look at is their offensive line.
• 37:16
  They look good. Along the front.
• 37:19
  They've got seven, guys, that have all started games at the
• 37:24
  power 5 level. Are they?
• 37:27
  They've got seven. Guys are starting to the power 5
• 37:29
  level, the problem is damn about all they have on scholarship.
• 37:33
  So one guy goes down their quarterbacks going to be,
• 37:38
  they're going to be putting long walk on land that they're gonna
• 37:42
  get killed. If they have a couple of just
• 37:44
  not even like big injuries just like, oh, you know, Sprained his
• 37:49
  wrist can't play for two weeks. Yeah.
• 37:52
  So I mean like we kind of had on the defensive line the last
• 37:55
  couple years, they kind of feel pretty good about their their
• 37:59
  first line but they're really kind of questionable and their
• 38:03
  depth and if they have got a grad transfer from Penn State,
• 38:08
  Alex Geller stood he's again one of only seven guys that are on
• 38:13
  scholarship right now and they're going to need him to
• 38:15
  really step up and be a player. If they're going to have any
• 38:19
  sort of success because right now, they're pretty much rolling
• 38:22
  with the bare minimum scholarship, players that you
• 38:24
  would like to have on an offensive line, take you on a
• 38:28
  road trip. You prefer at least have seven
• 38:32
  guys that you can depend on when you take a, take a road trip.
• 38:37
  So they're going to be struggling for depth but I think
• 38:41
  they really liked their front five and the the two guys, the
• 38:44
  two primary guys, they have to rotate in so deep.
• 38:48
  Offensive line is is another area where they're going to
• 38:51
  probably see some more production.
• 38:54
  They really gelled late in the year at that position.
• 38:58
  I think they got better especially I think they had to
• 39:01
  because of losing price. Whole had to catch produce more
• 39:05
  pressure and the guy that was doing it was Juwan.
• 39:09
  Biggs who was a defensive, lineman had a lot of time as a
• 39:12
  freshman there. He's going to need to take
• 39:15
  another step because he's going to be A little bit more.
• 39:20
  I think this year again kind of going back to the some of the
• 39:23
  secondary pieces, they need to replace.
• 39:27
  But he had 19 tackles and some limited time in the back half of
• 39:30
  the season three tackles for loss of sack.
• 39:33
  So if he can step in, they could be all right.
• 39:36
  Up front on the defensive side. But those are the guys that I
• 39:39
  see is either, you know, key guys or guys that are going to
• 39:42
  step into major roles this year. Yeah, I don't think you're wrong
• 39:46
  about any of them on isil Gana. Now the only question I have,
• 39:49
  yeah, he had a good season last year, with how many guys were on
• 39:53
  Jaguar, and on Joe read, every time they snap the ball in on
• 39:56
  Bryce. He was almost forgotten guy and
• 40:00
  his it was that the reason he had such good statistics and
• 40:03
  came on late in the year or is it because he's a good receiver.
• 40:07
  This year. We'll find out people too much
• 40:09
  to produce. Yeah, he's a good receiver if
• 40:10
  his numbers drop off. You know it's like yeah well it
• 40:14
  doesn't hurt to have two guys who are looked at with the NFL
• 40:18
  the Other to the quarterback battle.
• 40:20
  I mean to me it's wide open. Yeah Brennan's been there but he
• 40:24
  didn't get the spring. I think if they're going to
• 40:26
  spring for an Armstrong's their starter, without even a
• 40:30
  question, then they go out and get T.
• 40:33
  It counts and Thompson and it's almost like if they come in and
• 40:37
  they're equal or grunting one, we have hair Barb.
• 40:40
  Does Bronco just say listen, we're not good enough.
• 40:44
  Authentically to have a system quarterback running.
• 40:47
  We need the best athlete on the Field to essentially kind of do
• 40:50
  what Bryce did and content is a four-star when he came out.
• 40:54
  So, he definitely has some skill that he was a top-10, jul 2014,
• 40:58
  08 back. So that's going to be very
• 41:03
  interesting to see what happens over the next.
• 41:05
  When we start camping, a few weeks here, where's that depth
• 41:09
  chart? Go and is it also one of those
• 41:11
  things where what if it starts with, they got played Georgia to
• 41:15
  begin with? Yeah, I mean, You know, we all
• 41:20
  want to crush him as confidence, but you know, coaches test on to
• 41:24
  do that. But printing our phone goes out
• 41:27
  there and looks like dog shit. Okay, we're just put Chianti in
• 41:30
  and what if he looks bad? Now, luckily they don't have,
• 41:34
  you know, they do have some weaker opponents, but then
• 41:38
  they've got Clemson just weeks after You know, or is it one of
• 41:44
  those things where Bronco is just going to say whoever wins
• 41:48
  this Camp battle, unless they get hurt?
• 41:51
  They're my guy because if not, I'm having to play with Egos and
• 41:54
  having to play with guys thinking about things as we do
• 41:58
  this. Yeah.
• 42:00
  So yeah, I'm probably good on you.
• 42:03
  Be a good girl, you be a good. Did they have any coaching
• 42:08
  changes up? Oh yeah man, they did they
• 42:11
  actually Ali lost this couple significance.
• 42:13
  Thanks for saying that Vic Sotto who was their defensive line
• 42:17
  coach, you know. God the thing you said started,
• 42:20
  gelatine in a year he not only got higher, he got hired by Blue
• 42:25
  Blood, he got hired by USC at that says a lot.
• 42:29
  Right there, he's been replaced by Clint symptom.
• 42:34
  Now Soto also had a significant history with Mendenhall.
• 42:38
  This is the first player that ever committed to him when he
• 42:40
  took over BYU. So this Like some guy he found
• 42:44
  six years ago and he's a really good like a this is a connection
• 42:47
  going back for 15 years. That's a system.
• 42:49
  Devotee. They go.
• 42:52
  Now set them comes over from Delaware, he'd been there for
• 42:55
  three years with Danny Rocco, he was an All-American while he was
• 42:58
  at UVA. He did get drafted in the second
• 43:01
  round and he did play in the league for three years.
• 43:03
  So familiarity with the school, NFL type guy.
• 43:07
  So but any time you sort of see that fluctuation of movement,
• 43:11
  Brian like, And this guy didn't go to another a slight tear up.
• 43:17
  He literally went through one of the top 10 programs in the
• 43:19
  country. And I'm really interested to see
• 43:23
  how that deal on that played so well, at the end of our period,
• 43:26
  if they're able to continue that, because they're going to
• 43:29
  have to be that to get them into a Bowl this year.
• 43:33
  Yeah, no doubt. All right, let's move on with
• 43:36
  the Ramblin wreck from Georgia Tech.
• 43:39
  The team returning, the most production in the League.
• 43:42
  This year, they're returning nine starters on offense there.
• 43:46
  Turning every single starter on defense behind when I say that
• 43:52
  like, is there anybody that they've lost their?
• 44:00
  So I got a, I got a few guys here that they did lose.
• 44:05
  Most of the production is on offense.
• 44:08
  They had two guys that were heavy contributors on defense
• 44:11
  that they lost that we will take a look at, but the big guy on
• 44:14
  offense is going to be Tyler Davis.
• 44:16
  He's six round draft pick by the Jags.
• 44:20
  He had 148 yards and a touchdown in 11 games in 2019, which isn't
• 44:24
  very impressive. But his skill set was unique,
• 44:28
  he's kind of got, you know, that joker type build.
• 44:33
  So with that unique, skillset definitely, he was able to Pivot
• 44:38
  that into a role in the NFL but obviously that's an offense that
• 44:43
  was really in a Phase. So not very many of these
• 44:49
  offensive numbers are going to be impressive that I'm going to
• 44:51
  throw at you over the course of this time.
• 44:53
  So I wouldn't necessarily count the 148 and a touchdown against
• 44:59
  good old. Tyler Davis there.
• 45:02
  But another guy that was lost is going to be Jarrett's others.
• 45:06
  He was an offensive tackle, only played at Georgia Tech one year
• 45:10
  he was originally at Vanderbilt and transferred in, but he was
• 45:14
  the guy that was able to help them move.
• 45:16
  Away from some of those triple option techniques and into more
• 45:20
  of a spread type system. And he did have some draft Buzz
• 45:26
  heading into the NFL draft this year but he ultimately wasn't
• 45:28
  signed or picked up on the other side of the ball.
• 45:33
  These are guys that started at a point in the season but the big
• 45:39
  one here is Brent avia's Clanton.
• 45:40
  He was a three-year starter did lose his position in the course
• 45:45
  of the Season. Got Coming usurped registered
• 45:49
  one second 2019 kind of more of a plotter.
• 45:54
  He was there. He was clogging things up but he
• 45:56
  didn't necessarily feel a stat sheet and Christian Campbell is
• 46:01
  a safety. He had 44, tackles in 2019, kind
• 46:03
  of the, the first guy off the bench for them making some
• 46:07
  plays. So those are the guys that
• 46:09
  they're going to be missing on offense and defense this year.
• 46:14
  Yeah, with the transition like this, when you mention stats, it
• 46:18
  really it really doesn't matter from what they were doing.
• 46:22
  Kind of like, you know, when I give these recruiting class
• 46:24
  ranks, does it really like just jump out because again, going
• 46:28
  from a triple option to, you know, the offense that they're
• 46:32
  running under Jeff Collins is a little different than they were
• 46:35
  48th and 28th, 2017 4420 1815, 2019, you know.
• 46:44
  So not really super high, not even one really for high
• 46:49
  recruiting class and again basing it towards the triple
• 46:54
  option you know who are some of their key guys, Braun coming
• 46:58
  back that have to play better to improve community on record.
• 47:04
  So there's one guy would say doesn't have to necessarily play
• 47:07
  better. I think he just needs to fill in
• 47:10
  more of what he was already doing and in 2019 that's Jordan
• 47:13
  Mason. With the with the Smash Mouth
• 47:17
  spread, he's going to be the guy that's going to be carrying the
• 47:19
  load for them. And in 2019, he had eight
• 47:23
  hundred ninety nine yards. Rushing and seven touchdowns so
• 47:26
  pretty good numbers, especially for an offense.
• 47:29
  That was pretty anemic across the board.
• 47:32
  The fact that they were pretty much able to stack the Box
• 47:35
  against him. He was still able to get some
• 47:37
  production there so that that's that's promising numbers.
• 47:40
  And I think you're going to see a lot more of that this year.
• 47:44
  Partially because of some of the things I'm going to go into with
• 47:46
  the emerging talent. But the guy that has to get
• 47:49
  better in 2010, 2020 is going to be James Graham.
• 47:55
  So he was a starter for most of the season last year 1000 164
• 48:00
  yards passing and 12 touchdowns with seven interceptions.
• 48:04
  Again, those are not numbers that you really want to climb up
• 48:08
  on a mountain and say look at this but they're not great.
• 48:14
  Especially 24 for the amount that amount of starts and snaps
• 48:19
  to the ad on the field, he's going to have to take the next
• 48:22
  step because at some point, they're going to have to throw
• 48:26
  the ball to get that. That that box cleared out a
• 48:30
  little bit because they want to run but they can't run.
• 48:34
  If everybody's in the box and on the defensive side of the ball,
• 48:39
  big players going to be David Currie.
• 48:41
  He had ninety seven tackles in 2019, death.
• 48:44
  Finally the emotional leader on the defense.
• 48:47
  So look for him to be a guy that's going to continue in that
• 48:50
  role and have a hopefully more productive year for them.
• 48:54
  If they want to take another step and maybe at least get
• 48:57
  somewhere in the in the bowl eligible range this year.
• 49:01
  Absolutely. And Brian you mentioned it with
• 49:06
  to me? I'm he's the guy I've got it.
• 49:08
  James Grant asked improved if he doesn't improve, you know, they
• 49:13
  might have marginal. From 39 to maybe four to five
• 49:16
  wins but not to getting back into a bowl, not doubling their
• 49:19
  win total. And when I hear you say Smash
• 49:23
  Mouth spread, I kind of think like what does that mean?
• 49:28
  It's like well you know Brent key he's an offensive lineman at
• 49:33
  that is a offensive coordinator. So make sense that he's
• 49:37
  probably. Again, trying to leverage I'm
• 49:39
  guessing a lot of spacing to say.
• 49:41
  We're going to run at you but we're going to do it in unique.
• 49:44
  Quais. So here, I think a little bit,
• 49:47
  little bit of what Ohio state does.
• 49:49
  I mean, that's, that's kind of the philosophy, okay, you'll see
• 50:06
  the ball around a little bit as well, but they're definitely a
• 50:09
  run first Sprint team. Yeah, all right, well Brian.
• 50:14
  I've already said it, they're going to have to get better.
• 50:17
  James, G gonna have to get better who are some of the other
• 50:20
  guys that are emerging that for this team to go from a 3-1 team
• 50:24
  to potentially six making it back to a bowl who has to be
• 50:28
  some of their emerging Talent. So the big thing is going to be
• 50:32
  again in proving that offensive line and getting offensive line
• 50:34
  that is more built for this special.
• 50:37
  I'll spread over some of those under sized mostly run blocking
• 50:43
  only Players that they had under the triple option.
• 50:48
  So it's going to start with getting a guy, like, Kenny
• 50:50
  Cooper back on the field. He was, he was Center.
• 50:54
  He was missed most of 2019, with an injury for them.
• 50:58
  So he's going to step up especially with his password
• 51:00
  because he is still a legacy player.
• 51:03
  So that's not his strong suit but he's a very good run
• 51:08
  blocker, he was good for them in terms of communicating with the
• 51:11
  offensive line back in 2018. So I think they'll I really
• 51:15
  appreciate having him back in that role and apparently, he's
• 51:19
  based on what I've read is shown some promise with the past Pro.
• 51:21
  So hopefully that that translates for them, they also
• 51:27
  added Ryan Johnson as a grad transfer from Tennessee.
• 51:30
  So you coming from a blue blood or at least up from a recruiting
• 51:33
  perspective? A blue blood program here.
• 51:36
  You know definitely going to have that build that they're
• 51:39
  looking for to kind of step in more of the larger and taller
• 51:44
  often. Of lineman versus some of the
• 51:45
  guys that they what they had previously under Johnson.
• 51:49
  And when we moved to the defensive side, the big two
• 51:53
  names that I kept seeing was the with big name that I was seeing
• 51:58
  was in. Tony is Clayton, defensive end
• 52:01
  transfer from Florida, set up all of 2019.
• 52:05
  This guy was a pretty highly rated player coming out of high
• 52:09
  school and just couldn't quite find a spot in the Florida
• 52:13
  rotation. But now with Georgia Tech, he's
• 52:16
  looking to probably make some noise being the their primary
• 52:19
  pass rusher. Going into 2020.
• 52:22
  I'm in the last guy that I wanted to highlight here is a
• 52:27
  wide receiver and a freshman at that.
• 52:29
  So when we talk about wide receivers with their previous
• 52:35
  offensive play style, they were more block first guys they were
• 52:40
  they were pretty much brought into block and when they got I'd
• 52:44
  long down situations, run some go routes and catch balls that
• 52:48
  are just thrown up in the air. Not exactly a crazy wild tree or
• 52:55
  developmental, you know. Yeah.
• 52:57
  It's very much. Can you run go routes and can
• 53:00
  you out jump, guys? And then, can you block?
• 53:04
  So this is more of the wide receiver that they're going to
• 53:07
  look for, in their, their new philosophy.
• 53:10
  And here's a big step for you. He tied Calvin Johnson's.
• 53:14
  Freshman, receiving touchdown record with seven.
• 53:18
  So think about it g. Only had 12 touchdowns the whole
• 53:23
  season, seven of them went to this guy.
• 53:28
  No he's Dependable got a lot to build upon that in terms of
• 53:32
  getting the yardage numbers up because that's what they need to
• 53:34
  do across the board. But we know this guy can make
• 53:37
  plays and get in the end zone. So those are the guys that are
• 53:40
  looking to probably take the next step to season.
• 53:43
  Absolutely. You mentioned in Tony's Clayton,
• 53:46
  he was a pretty high. Guy coming out.
• 53:49
  I mean he was a four-star. Here's a top 50 player when he
• 53:52
  committed to Florida back under him back in 2016, that's when
• 53:55
  McElwain was the head coach. But clearly there was a
• 53:58
  connection there with Jeff Collins.
• 54:00
  You have caution was the defensive coordinator at that
• 54:02
  point in time. So one of those things and a
• 54:04
  program like Florida if you don't get yourself to the top of
• 54:08
  the depth chart pretty quick, even being a high for you can
• 54:11
  five-star guys usually you can get some planted pretty quick
• 54:15
  because there's more four and five-star guys coming.
• 54:18
  Those type programs the opportunity, to develop just
• 54:21
  isn't there. So he has the connection with
• 54:24
  Collins, he's a talented player especially coming out of high
• 54:28
  school and I really think in the second year of the transition
• 54:37
  from the triple option, they're going to have to lean on their
• 54:39
  defense more. I mean to win more games they
• 54:44
  have to because that offense isn't going to be there yet.
• 54:47
  I think it's as we've seen from the past, going from an option,
• 54:52
  based offense more, whether it be spread or whether it be a pro
• 54:56
  style, it takes minimum four years tables, Bering Strait now
• 55:03
  behind about this The Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets had no
• 55:09
  coding changes. Oh but is it a shock with the
• 55:14
  guy again with that transition in his second year after 3:00
• 55:20
  and 9:00? I mean is that Shopkin?
• 55:23
  No because you don't have anyone really taking the next step
• 55:26
  because they didn't do enough in year one for guys to be able to
• 55:30
  jump ship like that. And also I think in Year One We
• 55:35
  haven't gotten to a point where I think they've evaluated up to
• 55:38
  see who owned that staff, isn't quite cutting cutting mustard
• 55:42
  yet. So, both things are kind of
• 55:44
  playing against them. They are.
• 55:45
  So that's why you're not seeing any sort of turnover because
• 55:48
  they just didn't have enough Talent across the board to
• 55:51
  really have guys that were marketable to other teams.
• 55:54
  And they don't think they've seen enough, especially with the
• 55:58
  fact that they're still turning over the roster to tell whether
• 56:01
  it's a coaching problem or a player problem recruiting
• 56:04
  Problem or anything like that. So, time will tell, I think we
• 56:08
  might see more movement on that front after this year, as you
• 56:13
  get a class or two under your belt.
• 56:15
  And you start seeing As guys are making more better plays on the
• 56:21
  field. Are you seeing some shortcomings
• 56:22
  in terms of the others coaching aspects?
• 56:26
  Yeah. All right, let's go on up.
• 56:28
  Let's get Boston College done here returning, seven players on
• 56:33
  all fronts non-defense, but there is a really big hole on
• 56:39
  that offense now Braun giant, huge, huge, huge hole and we're
• 56:47
  talking about a.j., Dylan, Drafted by the Packers in the
• 56:50
  second round 1685 yards and 14 touchdowns in 2019, had another
• 56:58
  195 receiving yards and a touchdown in 2019.
• 57:01
  So you know, always considered more of a, you know, pounding
• 57:06
  between the tackles back. But he definitely showed a
• 57:09
  little versatility last year and I think that's what helped him
• 57:12
  get. Drafted, as high as he did
• 57:15
  three-time first-team, all-acc, Third team, All-American in 2019
• 57:21
  coming. This is about as you know stack
• 57:25
  as you can get at the running back position.
• 57:27
  In terms of accolades, especially for a team that
• 57:30
  wasn't very good last year. They beat us but they weren't
• 57:35
  very good. We'll get to that later.
• 57:40
  That is also, you know, they don't have Anthony Brown
• 57:43
  anymore. So he had 1,200 yards passing
• 57:45
  and non touchdowns through just over 5.
• 57:49
  Games last year before getting injured against Louisville and
• 57:53
  he decided to transfer away from Boston College after the the
• 57:57
  change in regime. So those are going to be the two
• 58:01
  big things that they're missing on offense and I think that's
• 58:06
  going to be whether they can replace those pieces.
• 58:08
  Long term is going to be the question as to whether whether
• 58:11
  they can take another step or a face are stuck at that 5 to 7
• 58:16
  win window that we've kind of seen the map.
• 58:19
  The last several years. Absolutely, and you mentioned
• 58:22
  Anthony Brown transferring. He didn't take a step down to.
• 58:25
  He actually went a step up into your heat transferred to Oregon
• 58:30
  and Oregon losing Herbert clearly.
• 58:32
  He has potential opportunity to play out there because, you
• 58:35
  know, the New Year's falling looking for you and brother
• 58:38
  solid Collegiate quarterback and again regime changes, you know,
• 58:44
  if you can get out get you sometimes you have to and for
• 58:47
  him he took a significant. Grade.
• 58:50
  Now what the new coaching staff there isn't really working with
• 58:54
  is great recruiting classes, 2017, 6720 1871 20, 1964.
• 59:04
  But you know with the prior regime that was there sometimes
• 59:08
  stores didn't matter, they were Finding Diamonds in the Rough.
• 59:11
  Really good offensive and defensive linemen.
• 59:15
  Anybody of these really Sub 60 recruiting classes that you feel
• 59:21
  are got to be key to Boston. College potentially getting back
• 59:27
  to six wins under new regime or even taking a step.
• 59:30
  Yeah, so like you were talking about, I mean they've really
• 59:32
  gone for more scheme fits and things like that on their
• 59:36
  recruiting classes. So I mean, obviously they wanted
• 59:39
  to get as High Caliber players as they could but they were
• 59:41
  definitely prioritizing those scheme fits and the guy that
• 59:45
  really fits right into what they were doing.
• 59:47
  Previously, is the guy that's Going to be stepping in, for AJ
• 59:50
  Dillon this year. And that's David Bailey.
• 59:52
  Another big bulldozing back. Six 1240 had 844 yards, rushing
• 1:00:01
  and seven touchdowns last year behind a guy that had almost
• 1:00:05
  1700 yards rushing Like to run the ball, they ran the ball a
• 1:00:11
  little bit. So I mean they're going to look
• 1:00:15
  to him to be be the the primary guy this year at the running
• 1:00:18
  back position. It sounds like what they're
• 1:00:21
  going with is still going to be a run first offense.
• 1:00:25
  I don't think they're going to be Reinventing that part of the
• 1:00:30
  philosophy, but it's definitely going to be a different system
• 1:00:32
  in terms of how they get that done, another guy that we're
• 1:00:36
  going to look at as far as Keeping that train rolling is
• 1:00:39
  going to be Tyler, Vrabel. He's, they're returning tackle,
• 1:00:43
  he's gonna have a potential to be a high round draft pick in
• 1:00:46
  21. They've got both their tackles
• 1:00:49
  coming back, but I think variables got the little bit
• 1:00:51
  more of the higher ceiling of the two.
• 1:00:54
  So that's the guy wanted to Spotlight here.
• 1:00:59
  Another gun that they're happy to give back who it was injured
• 1:01:02
  towards the end of the season. Has Max Richardson, Thank you.
• 1:01:06
  Got banged up in the last couple games of the season but he was
• 1:01:10
  still all-acc second-team. In 2019.
• 1:01:13
  Had 108 tackles 14 and a half tackles for loss and three and a
• 1:01:17
  half sacks. So again big contributor on
• 1:01:19
  defense and he's he can't he decided to come back for a
• 1:01:23
  senior year despite the regime change because he felt like
• 1:01:27
  there was still some unfinished business for them so that's
• 1:01:31
  going to be their theme is going to be unfinished business.
• 1:01:35
  We'll see if we'll see, if they will do something with that,
• 1:01:37
  but, yeah, they are returning some other guys, as well.
• 1:01:42
  So that another big one on offense is going to be Hunter
• 1:01:45
  long. He was a tight end for them.
• 1:01:47
  Third team, all-acc 464 yards, receiving a two touchdowns,
• 1:01:54
  which is pretty good numbers in a run.
• 1:01:56
  First offense, especially for a tight end.
• 1:02:00
  He actually led the team in receiving yards while wow, So
• 1:02:05
  definitely a very run first oriented team and the last one
• 1:02:11
  is going to be Brandon Sebastian.
• 1:02:14
  So he started all 12 games had to pick last year was kind of
• 1:02:18
  their lockdown guy. He wasn't necessarily an elite
• 1:02:21
  level but he was a guy that could match up against the
• 1:02:23
  number one on another team and you definitely push them and
• 1:02:26
  give them a run for their money. So he's going to look to maybe
• 1:02:29
  take another step for them this year.
• 1:02:31
  Yeah, first of all, Tyler variable.
• 1:02:34
  That is the son of former New England Patriots, current,
• 1:02:39
  Tennessee, Titans head coach. Mike Vrabel and we talk about
• 1:02:42
  Diamonds in the Rough. He was like three star coming
• 1:02:45
  out. And just what you just
• 1:02:48
  mentioned. He has a potential to be a
• 1:02:51
  lottery pretty high draft pick next year.
• 1:02:55
  David Bailey three-star, you know out of Maryland, he has the
• 1:03:00
  build six foot and a half 225 pounds on.
• 1:03:03
  Now, you know, you mentioned a stat line last year behind Dylan
• 1:03:06
  but now he's going to get the bulk of the carries, his friends
• 1:03:10
  built. Oh, you know, he kind of don't
• 1:03:13
  worry about it where when we talked about a couple of the
• 1:03:15
  guys like for Louisville. The last time there bill is
• 1:03:20
  like, can you take this pounding?
• 1:03:22
  You see this guy, you definitely feel like you could now Brian
• 1:03:26
  under a new regime. They you know, there's more
• 1:03:30
  transfers and stuff happened who are some of the guys that emerge
• 1:03:33
  in potentially a keep them as a bold team potentially, catapult
• 1:03:38
  them to a higher to a better record next year.
• 1:03:42
  So the big game is going to be filled your Kovac the transfer
• 1:03:45
  from Notre Dame quarterback. Set behind the e-book.
• 1:03:49
  Now he's going to be playing quarterback for Boston College.
• 1:03:55
  The question here is going to be is he going to get the waiver to
• 1:03:58
  play in 2020? Hmm.
• 1:04:01
  He will require a label to be to become eligible for 2020 so
• 1:04:04
  that's going to be big in terms of their success.
• 1:04:08
  But if he does get that waiver, he's going to be a plug-and-play
• 1:04:11
  starts with them, pivoting off of that.
• 1:04:16
  If that don't go their way, Dennis Purcell.
• 1:04:19
  Who was the quarterback for the rest of the season last year?
• 1:04:24
  After Anthony Brown, went down, is probably going to be the guy
• 1:04:28
  that's going to step into that quarterback role again.
• 1:04:30
  This year played in 12 games and started, six head 896 yards
• 1:04:36
  passing and 9 touchdowns the question is going to be is, you
• 1:04:40
  know, having a full Camp is that going to be enough for him to be
• 1:04:43
  able to step in that role and do a little bit more than he did
• 1:04:45
  last year and more. And unfortunate situation
• 1:04:50
  closing out the year. And then we got two other guys
• 1:04:54
  that are going to be pretty big in terms of whether or not BC
• 1:04:59
  has some success in the big ones going to be as Kobe, why he's
• 1:05:02
  the wide receiver. Yeah, actually.
• 1:05:04
  Initially entered the transfer portal when the coaching change
• 1:05:08
  was coming through there. But decided to return to Boston,
• 1:05:12
  College, and kind of see how things go.
• 1:05:16
  He had 434. Yards, receiving and five
• 1:05:18
  touchdowns in 2019. Seems kind of the the number to
• 1:05:22
  Target in the offense. Again, those low numbers might
• 1:05:25
  go up depending on what happens with with the quarterback
• 1:05:28
  position. So we'll see and then, Isaiah
• 1:05:34
  McDuffie is the other one. He was trending towards being a
• 1:05:37
  playmaker before missing most of the 2019 season with an injury,
• 1:05:43
  he's going to be very key in terms of whether or not, they
• 1:05:46
  can bounce back. And have some success this year.
• 1:05:50
  Yeah, well your coverage is Deke.
• 1:05:54
  It's not even a question if he can get his waiver or not.
• 1:05:57
  But again being in the first year of a new regime, it doesn't
• 1:06:01
  hurt if he doesn't get it, because he'll be there next year
• 1:06:03
  while he was a four-star, top 120 profit.
• 1:06:07
  When he came out in 2018, will definitely get for recruiting
• 1:06:11
  presentable. Then having some kind of a
• 1:06:14
  program like the Blue Bloods and disrupted a you go there.
• 1:06:19
  You don't get The job now. Bushkin, trench.
• 1:06:21
  Well, I need to go somewhere else to find so I think that's
• 1:06:26
  the key now. Run clearly there were a ton of
• 1:06:30
  changes. The beastly they fired Steve
• 1:06:33
  Adagio after the victims with cooler and we hired Warpath lie
• 1:06:39
  haffley comes from Ohio State. He was only there one season as
• 1:06:43
  a defensive coordinator prior to that, he had spent six seasons
• 1:06:47
  and secondary coach in the NFL for the for Honor the Browns and
• 1:06:51
  the buck. When he had collegiately coach
• 1:06:54
  since 2001 before that including at Pitt and Rutger, so kind of
• 1:06:58
  up in that multiple territory, couple of his three hires.
• 1:07:06
  The first is Frank. Cignetti Nettie had been leaked
• 1:07:10
  from 2012 to 2018 primarily as a quarterbacks coach units in one
• 1:07:14
  season. In 2015, is the Rams offensive
• 1:07:17
  coordinator last time. He Orion will, last time you
• 1:07:21
  coach was 2018 with the Packers. Now, he did have some Collegiate
• 1:07:25
  styles on that, the most notable for Virginia Tech would be when
• 1:07:30
  he was the offensive coordinator at UNC in 2006.
• 1:07:35
  Where we be 135 10 Again. NFL guy, you're looking at a
• 1:07:41
  pro-style offense, Rove. Not much of a transition.
• 1:07:45
  Probably for, you know, the offense in a lot of ways.
• 1:07:49
  Um, now his experiences, he is the new defensive coordinator.
• 1:07:55
  This is his fourth defense of coordinating job, at any level
• 1:08:01
  arm football. Wow, we do for what T mokuba.
• 1:08:08
  He had, he done so much basically on back and coaching
• 1:08:13
  most notably 2018 with Mississippi State, under Joe
• 1:08:17
  Moorhead. And then he was in the league
• 1:08:19
  with the jingles in 2019. He had also spent some time with
• 1:08:23
  halfway with you as with the 49ers so he has a connection
• 1:08:28
  there but overall like you know this is pretty big but again
• 1:08:33
  you've got a head coach has a higher defensive coordinator.
• 1:08:36
  How much is bringing some like cignetti who has done it
• 1:08:40
  numerous times where it's just like, listen you focus on there.
• 1:08:44
  I'm going to hop between get used to what he needs to do.
• 1:08:49
  Being and all this stuff, maybe it should be a third of a meter
• 1:08:54
  long. With a plea but we'll save the.
• 1:08:59
  One thing he will do is he did retain Rich, canal through the
• 1:09:03
  waters, even kicked under 1000. Yo while he did so with an
• 1:09:07
  interim head coach in the bowl game after we value is Karan and
• 1:09:11
  now he's going to be a running back.
• 1:09:13
  Coach had that on the staff in 2016?
• 1:09:16
  We gots a good move. You keep a whole nother from the
• 1:09:18
  prior regime. Again, it's surprising that
• 1:09:21
  really, it wasn't bad. So it's one of the things NG
• 1:09:25
  we're probably helps. We staff get to know the guys
• 1:09:29
  quicker and all that. I like it.
• 1:09:32
  But I mean you kind of see and you see, it's A Change.
• 1:09:36
  Would you be shocked? What they want?
• 1:09:37
  666 again, run? No, not at all 30.
• 1:09:42
  Yeah. All right.
• 1:09:44
  Well, Brian last but not least. All right, the Miami Hurricane
• 1:09:52
  heard that song today? Well If you from back in the day
• 1:09:58
  returning, seven offensive starters for defensive starters,
• 1:10:03
  they definitely were a really good defensive team last year
• 1:10:07
  and have a feeling Brian. When you go through this key
• 1:10:09
  departures, we might have a few sense of players.
• 1:10:14
  But who are some of the key guys that are gone from Miami's
• 1:10:17
  roster this year? All right, so we're going to
• 1:10:19
  kind of be the highlights going to be skill position, players
• 1:10:23
  and defensive players. That's what they lost.
• 1:10:27
  So the big one is one of the big ones is going to be KJ, Osborne
• 1:10:31
  wide receiver, had 50 catches and 547 yards.
• 1:10:35
  Last season, he actually got picked in the fifth round by
• 1:10:38
  Minnesota. So you got a draft pick right
• 1:10:40
  out the gate here. Definitely showed more potential
• 1:10:45
  than his stats, she was, but a lot of that had to do with the
• 1:10:48
  fact that there was inconsistent quarterback, play in horrid
• 1:10:52
  offensive line play from Miami last year.
• 1:10:57
  So that's the big thing there. Another one, we got a wide
• 1:11:01
  receiver, Jeff, Thomas Speedster.
• 1:11:04
  Kind of more of a down. The field threat he was picked
• 1:11:07
  up by the New England Patriots as an undrafted free agent so
• 1:11:13
  but you two key wide receivers are gone for them and I'll go
• 1:11:17
  ahead and highlight the other skill position player on offense
• 1:11:20
  and that's deejay Dallas. Running back for them last year.
• 1:11:24
  Got picked by the Seahawks The fourth round again, not
• 1:11:29
  impressive numbers, good numbers, not great numbers, 693
• 1:11:33
  yards, rushing and eight touchdowns and 2019.
• 1:11:36
  But again he was playing behind pretty bad offensive line last
• 1:11:39
  season. And so that that's that's the
• 1:11:42
  big thing that they're going to look to improve this year.
• 1:11:46
  I think is trying to shore up that Alden to live but those are
• 1:11:48
  the skill position guys they're little they're losing on the
• 1:11:51
  defensive side of the ball. Three big time play.
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  Yours are the guys I'm going to highlight here that the first
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  one being Jonathan Garvin defensive end and outside.
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  Linebacker drafting the seventh round by the Packers.
• 1:12:05
  He did see his playing time diminish at the end of 2019 but
• 1:12:10
  still tallied, some good numbers and had some big plays but
• 1:12:15
  There's a reason for that, that we're going to get to later.
• 1:12:18
  Oh yeah. But The next guy went to
• 1:12:22
  highlight is going to be trajan Brandy's.
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  All ACC honorable mention corner, he did play corner and
• 1:12:30
  safety while I was at Miami, but finished his career as a corner
• 1:12:33
  and was actually picked up by the Steelers as an undrafted
• 1:12:35
  free agent. So NFL caliber Talent there that
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  they're missing on that side of the ball this year and the last
• 1:12:42
  guy, big one here, Shaq quarterman.
• 1:12:44
  Oh yeah, fourth-round draft pick by the Jags.
• 1:12:48
  Four-year starter at linebacker for Them to time first team,
• 1:12:52
  all-acc hundred seven tackles and 15 tackles for loss in 2019.
• 1:12:59
  Oh yeah, man. I mean, you start mentioning
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  those defensive players and again that offense last year was
• 1:13:07
  not a good offense that defense was good.
• 1:13:09
  So we send that much talent. Where do they finished this
• 1:13:15
  year? Who knows?
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  Now clearly, it's Miami, they always recruit well, 2017 or 12
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  Class of 2018 a top-10 class 20 1927, green chlorophyll, a lot
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  of talents still there with them but by and they've got a lot to
• 1:13:32
  replace especially on defense. And again, some very productive
• 1:13:36
  Jeff Thomas. Even though he didn't produce
• 1:13:39
  that, dude has speed, if nothing else, it major.
• 1:13:43
  Safeties play further back off the line which could open things
• 1:13:46
  up. But who are some of the guys
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  coming back? So I'll start with the first one
• 1:13:52
  and there's again I said there was a reason why Jonathan Garvin
• 1:13:56
  saw some of his snap count go down in 2019.
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  Well the reason for that is that Gregory Rousseau became debt
• 1:14:05
  dude. So redshirt freshman did he
• 1:14:10
  would start the he wasn't a starter at the beginning the
• 1:14:12
  season but just blast on the scene in 2019 and finished with
• 1:14:16
  15 and a half sacks. As a as a redshirt freshman that
• 1:14:23
  was second in the country in terms of total sex only behind
• 1:14:26
  the chase young, woo, baby number three, picking the grass.
• 1:14:32
  Yeah no big deal at all there. And he was also being ACC
• 1:14:39
  Defensive Rookie of the Year for for those numbers.
• 1:14:43
  So if there's any Improvement by this guy, you better look at the
• 1:14:46
  hell out because that's going to be a monster too.
• 1:14:50
  To contain on defense there another key defensive guy that
• 1:14:54
  got coming back is going to be DJ IV.
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  He actually led the team in picks at quarterback last year
• 1:15:00
  with three and he's going to be looking to move into more of
• 1:15:03
  that Alpha Dog in the secondary role.
• 1:15:06
  Now the band he's departed in the draft there and staying on
• 1:15:12
  the defensive side of the ball Durbin Hall, Junior, safety.
• 1:15:17
  He had sixty six tackles last year.
• 1:15:20
  Force from one interception really known as kind of an in
• 1:15:23
  the Box guy, really good tackler in the open field.
• 1:15:27
  He's going to be key for their that defense to really continue
• 1:15:31
  their trajectory and stay at the top of their game because it's
• 1:15:35
  going to be interesting to see what happens on the offensive
• 1:15:37
  side of the ball. Especially with offensive line
• 1:15:41
  but in terms of what they've got coming back there, the big one
• 1:15:44
  is navon Donaldson senior. He's their guard coming back.
• 1:15:49
  Really Only rock solid starter all season last year and he's
• 1:15:55
  going to be key to get that offensive going.
• 1:15:58
  Especially the fact that they've got a new quarterback, that's
• 1:16:00
  going to be playing this year and they got to keep him healthy
• 1:16:03
  because he's going to be running the ball a lot more than what
• 1:16:06
  they were doing last year. Yeah, you mentioned.
• 1:16:11
  It's kind of hairy thing when you're talking about water back,
• 1:16:17
  some new system which I'll touch on later but you have one
• 1:16:21
  startling offense in one point you know, no.
• 1:16:27
  In Donaldson flooding the zone right hop on a plane Hometown
• 1:16:32
  guy so um, you know but you already know you already.
• 1:16:39
  Gotta lay the groundwork for weird who is got to be the
• 1:16:42
  emerging Talent, you know, the guy that has to step up and
• 1:16:46
  they're going to have any success on offense other than
• 1:16:49
  the offensive line is going to be their new quarterback, their
• 1:16:53
  King transfer from Houston. He was a complete Force there
• 1:16:58
  while he was in Houston, 4925 yards passing and 50 touchdowns
• 1:17:03
  against 10 picks ran for another 14, 21 and 28 touchdowns 34
• 1:17:09
  Game. So if you do the math, there
• 1:17:12
  you're looking at some pretty damn good numbers.
• 1:17:14
  We have quarterback position and that's going to be big for Miami
• 1:17:19
  because again, their offense was pretty atrocious last year.
• 1:17:23
  Again, inconsistent quarterback play.
• 1:17:26
  Some of that was on the offensive line and some of that
• 1:17:28
  was just inconsistent play across the board.
• 1:17:31
  So he's going to be the key for that offense and to help out
• 1:17:35
  there, they're going to need a guy like Zion Nelson there left.
• 1:17:39
  Tackle to take another step. Now this is a guy that's kind of
• 1:17:43
  thrown to the Wolves last year. True freshman.
• 1:17:47
  Hey, you're going to be starting left tackle, have fun, and there
• 1:17:53
  were some Growing Pains start the season, but he kind of close
• 1:17:56
  things out pretty well. So, you know, numbers wise, in
• 1:18:01
  terms of how we were great offensive line, not good in
• 1:18:04
  terms of average score but had some good numbers in terms of
• 1:18:08
  how you would grade. As the season closed out there.
• 1:18:12
  So those are the big guys. They're also on the offensive
• 1:18:16
  side, Cameron Harris. He's going to be looking to be
• 1:18:21
  kind of that one, a running back.
• 1:18:24
  They're probably going to have a shared backfield, but he's going
• 1:18:27
  to be the one, a guy, he's going to get some help because King is
• 1:18:31
  going to be carrying the ball a lot more than they have in the
• 1:18:35
  past. So you're going to get a little
• 1:18:37
  bit of help there because there's going to be some
• 1:18:39
  options. Elements there and threat for
• 1:18:41
  the quarterback to take off. So I think he's going to have a
• 1:18:43
  little bit of a of a better Ally just by default even if the
• 1:18:47
  offensive line isn't significantly improved.
• 1:18:49
  And let's go to the the defensive side of the ball.
• 1:18:53
  And this one's going to sting guys, Quincy Roche transfer from
• 1:18:59
  Temple. He was hours from being a hokie
• 1:19:05
  hours, Dan missions. I think I mean I think it
• 1:19:11
  missions kind of screwed the pooch again but I think there
• 1:19:15
  was also a big lack of communication there as well.
• 1:19:18
  So I'm not going to place blame on the kid.
• 1:19:23
  It is what it is but he was ours from becoming a hokey and then
• 1:19:27
  wasn't. So it is what it is.
• 1:19:28
  But he's going to be a big-time contributor on that defense of
• 1:19:31
  wind and is going to really be looked at to kind of step in and
• 1:19:36
  take over, you know, some of the role opposite Gregory.
• 1:19:40
  Or so, but that's going to be a really hard to handle two-headed
• 1:19:45
  monster at defensive in there. Yeah, absolutely.
• 1:19:49
  The Nelson kid getting thrown into the fire as a freshman.
• 1:19:53
  Well, that happens sometimes. Usually don't see it happen when
• 1:19:56
  team prepares as well as Miami and in the Eric King, well he
• 1:20:01
  made his choice and run with what they happen in the coaching
• 1:20:04
  staff. It kind of all mates, weren't
• 1:20:06
  you know, first of all, Manny Diaz has been there.
• 1:20:09
  One season brought On the hot seat, he was one of the coaches
• 1:20:12
  Dennis without about today as he's got to get his shit in
• 1:20:16
  order. If he can fired.
• 1:20:17
  After this year, he already jumped and went ahead and said,
• 1:20:20
  we're changing things completely.
• 1:20:23
  So we fight any nosed any higher rental, flash, red.
• 1:20:27
  And lastly coming out of SMU where he was under Sunny Dykes.
• 1:20:30
  That's Airaid 101. Oh yeah.
• 1:20:33
  Along with that clearly they made, you know, changes to the
• 1:20:37
  offensive line Garvin Justice can observe.
• 1:20:40
  Um, UNLV guy actually have been a pretty successful D2 head
• 1:20:44
  coach at Concord, but that wasn't the last change they
• 1:20:47
  made. They didn't made their wide
• 1:20:51
  receivers coach, Taylor start on the field who could job at Penn
• 1:20:54
  State. Now, Rob Likens, who is under
• 1:20:58
  her mother bird, ASU, he comes over, he was actually being
• 1:21:03
  offensive coordinators quarterback coach there.
• 1:21:05
  Now, again, Likens comes from that Sonny, Tree where he was
• 1:21:11
  with him at Cal and Louisiana Tech.
• 1:21:14
  So they're going air raid. Now, I'm going to ask you the
• 1:21:17
  crime. Danny knows was a pro-style
• 1:21:21
  coordinator. The old offensive line code
• 1:21:25
  clearly, polymorpha proust offensive line kit.
• 1:21:28
  Then they're going 18, dormant air raid.
• 1:21:32
  You kind of had to deal with this transitioning from high
• 1:21:35
  school to college. Tell me, is it going to be
• 1:21:40
  easier or is the are Kings going to run for his life for them to
• 1:21:43
  win games? I think there's going to be some
• 1:21:47
  of that. The biggest jump is going to be
• 1:21:50
  a complete change in terminology and verbiage for offensive line
• 1:21:56
  calls Playbook everything. So that's going to be the
• 1:22:00
  biggest thing for, you know, five to seven guys, to pick up
• 1:22:04
  and gel, especially with the covid situation.
• 1:22:07
  We're dealing with where they've had some limited offseason to
• 1:22:10
  work on those things and kind of get those, some of those mental
• 1:22:14
  reps and all the Spring reps in place so that's going to be key.
• 1:22:18
  And again changing the philosophy you know there's some
• 1:22:22
  guys that are more built to you put their hand in the dirt and
• 1:22:26
  just Mall guys over and this is going to be a little bit of a
• 1:22:30
  more finesse type offense. It's not something that's going
• 1:22:36
  to be a smooth transition for everybody.
• 1:22:38
  I think anybody that has pretty decent past set and has had some
• 1:22:44
  experience in these Is spread type offense is probably a high
• 1:22:48
  school level which is primarily running spread now probably
• 1:22:52
  won't have his heart of a transition as, as some other
• 1:22:55
  guys, but it's going to be a think a learning curve for them
• 1:22:59
  and it might take them a few games to really see that
• 1:23:03
  offensive line gel if it ever does.
• 1:23:06
  Got your man. Well, we shall see.
• 1:23:08
  It's just kind of funny Diaz is on the hot seat anymore.
• 1:23:14
  Looks saves his job because he have to win the coastal.
• 1:23:17
  Does he have to win 10 games? Even if he doesn't win the
• 1:23:19
  coastal, or is it, you know, marginal Improvement?
• 1:23:24
  Because now he can lie say, listen, we're trying to change
• 1:23:28
  the culture. Often people here, from what
• 1:23:30
  we've done for you supposed, I'll go are ready Fred, you know
• 1:23:35
  it's It's just his thing. Say, maybe I can get myself to
• 1:23:38
  more years. If I say, hey, working offensive
• 1:23:41
  philosophy. You gotta give me a few years
• 1:23:43
  before I can turn it up. Yeah, I think that, you know,
• 1:23:47
  this is a case of good recruiting working against him
• 1:23:51
  because when you have good recruits and you're still only
• 1:23:55
  winning, you know, six to eight games.
• 1:23:58
  Hmm. You know, people start asking a
• 1:24:01
  lot more questions. True, what are you doing
• 1:24:05
  tonight? Translate this.
• 1:24:06
  To the field. I think you probably know I'm
• 1:24:13
  not, I'm no, Miami apologist by any means, but I think he was
• 1:24:15
  probably raked over the coals, a little harder than he should be
• 1:24:19
  in year one. Especially following the caliber
• 1:24:22
  of Coach, he was following at the same time, You know, when
• 1:24:28
  you've got talent you got to, you got to put out some
• 1:24:30
  something better than six wins and they had the talent and it
• 1:24:35
  just it just never quite gentle the way they wanted to but I
• 1:24:38
  think going are rate is going to help them on several fronts.
• 1:24:43
  One air raid takes out some of the stress on the offensive
• 1:24:48
  line. The ball is getting snapped and
• 1:24:51
  it's getting out of the quarterbacks hands quicker and
• 1:24:54
  The Playmakers are responsible for getting the yards after the
• 1:24:57
  catch. Each and getting the ball
• 1:24:58
  downfield. So that's going to take some
• 1:25:00
  pressure off the offensive line, you're probably see more Zone
• 1:25:04
  type blocking schemes versus manhole man or or Gap style
• 1:25:11
  coverage got style protections. So it'll be interesting to see
• 1:25:16
  how they, how they go with that. But yeah.
• 1:25:19
  Usually with those are Aid systems, it's a zone or some
• 1:25:22
  sort of slide protection. They're only going head-on hat
• 1:25:26
  for five and seven. Drops anything.
• 1:25:28
  That's the three-step. They're just Taking a gap or
• 1:25:31
  taking an area and trying to stop the guy before the ball
• 1:25:34
  gets out. Yeah, man.
• 1:25:37
  All right. So that closes the capital teams
• 1:25:41
  but we'll be protecting the language here from the more you
• 1:25:46
  all these four opponent Based on the time of year, we play on the
• 1:25:51
  makes you mad - oh man, most nervous.
• 1:25:58
  I'm going to have to go with Miami.
• 1:26:00
  Just because of having king of quarterback and the fact that
• 1:26:05
  they are a good defense and I think they're going to be kind
• 1:26:08
  of still in that same same level just because of the guys they've
• 1:26:12
  got coming back and some of the freshmen that we saw making some
• 1:26:16
  big moves last year. So you know, they always are a
• 1:26:21
  team that with the Rivalry. It can go either way and some of
• 1:26:26
  the unknown factor gives me a little bit.
• 1:26:28
  Pause, but I think if if they're the same Miami, we've seen the
• 1:26:32
  last few years. I don't, I don't think they're
• 1:26:34
  going to be as much of a problem, but that unknown factor
• 1:26:37
  has just given me some pause. Yeah, I'm with you.
• 1:26:41
  I think Miami to is the one we're worried about mom.
• 1:26:43
  Will you be careful? You don't get them early.
• 1:26:46
  I mean, they are the other 11th game of 12 in the schedule.
• 1:26:49
  So if they do start yelling, you have the talent they do, have to
• 1:26:54
  come with rain. But you know that the half full
• 1:26:57
  of for full Lane, you know, the thing with of an important
• 1:27:04
  thing. But I'm with you on Miami, man
• 1:27:08
  prize, is there anything else we need to Hit anything break while
• 1:27:11
  we were sitting here recording on the one with Paloma she, no,
• 1:27:16
  I didn't see anything. Come through buddy.
• 1:27:18
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• 1:27:21
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• 1:27:24
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• 1:27:28
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