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Can Jeremiah Smith Make A Serious Run At The Heisman Trophy? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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Speaker 1: So this show, this is all about Jeremiah Smith and
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Speaker 1: Ryan Day is sort of unofficially kicking off his Heisman
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Speaker 1: campaign this week. So how realistic is it that that
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Speaker 1: can happen? Well, only two wide receivers have won the
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Speaker 1: Heisman Trophy since nineteen ninety one. That was Travis Hunter,
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Speaker 1: who was also playing a good bit on defense in
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, and Devonte Smith in twenty twenty from Alabama.
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Speaker 1: So can Jeremiah Smith do it this year? Juck has
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Speaker 1: a look at all that.
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Speaker 2: Hey, it's Chuck. We are not bemoaning the noon kickoff.
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Speaker 2: We're now owning it. It's a badge of honor. We're
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Speaker 2: the lunatic fringe that defines our coaches legacy when it
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Speaker 2: comes to this game. They don't get to define that
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Speaker 2: outside the family who were cut from a different cloth.
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Speaker 2: Bro Hiowan's he's got it all, man. He's even got
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Speaker 2: the jaw. You know the jaw. You see that jaw
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Speaker 2: and you're just like, yeah, man, that's a dude, do
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Speaker 2: I want Michigan to beat Oklahoma? No way in hell.
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Speaker 2: I don't know what world I'm living in. It's insane
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Speaker 2: to me.
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Speaker 3: And if you saw my outburst, I apologize. It's showtime now,
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Speaker 3: it is showtime. Welcome into Buckehuddle, Primetime. Appreciate you so
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Speaker 3: much for joining me.
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Speaker 2: We're here obviously every Monday and every Wednesday usually usually,
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Speaker 2: but this may be our last live for a week
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Speaker 2: because next week I'll be out of town. Now I
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Speaker 2: bring the show on the road, but that doesn't always
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Speaker 2: mean I have a good enough signal to go live.
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Speaker 2: We'll give it a shot early Monday during the day,
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Speaker 2: but we might not be live. It might be recorded.
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Speaker 2: I'll let you guys know I have notes obviously. You
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Speaker 2: guys know I have notes for the show. I'm pivoting
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Speaker 2: from the notes because I just got this sent to
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Speaker 2: me here from our buddy, from our buddy d G.
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Speaker 2: But this is a tweet from Tony, our own Tony Gertaman,
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Speaker 2: and I just had to had to start with this.
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Speaker 2: So Tony just tweeted this. Obviously, he was just at
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Speaker 2: the Woody tonight for media availability. I asked linebacker Peyton
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Speaker 2: Pierce about his relationship with Matt Tricia and how much
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Speaker 2: time they've spent together. He said he and Patricia spent
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Speaker 2: more time together by his second day on the job
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Speaker 2: than he had spent with Knowles. Are you kidding me? Man? Like,
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Speaker 2: can you imagine this guy was the defensive coordinator his
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Speaker 2: entire first year and two days more time with Patricia?
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Speaker 2: That's something. That's something, And you gotta wonder what your
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Speaker 2: relationship is like with everybody when that's the case. And
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Speaker 2: it sure seemed weird the way that all went down,
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Speaker 2: the separation and things like that. When they come out,
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Speaker 2: it's just like, Yeah, that just sounds off, man, that
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Speaker 2: sounds off. By the way. James Franklin made a comment
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Speaker 2: the other day. I talked about this the other day
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Speaker 2: that he had asked Jim Knowles to talk to the
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Speaker 2: Penn State team after they lost the first game to
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Speaker 2: Oregon about last year at Ohio State, losing the two
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Speaker 2: games and still being able to go on and win
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Speaker 2: the national championship. And then Franklin was asked, you know
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Speaker 2: how that conversation went, and he said, well, Jim ended
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Speaker 2: up only talking to the defense. I was kind of
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Speaker 2: hoping he would say it to the whole team. So
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Speaker 2: Franklin tells him to do this, he just goes, he's
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Speaker 2: gonna talk to his Guys's not gonna talk to the
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Speaker 2: whole team. Just a strange cat man, a strange cat.
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Speaker 2: Ryan Day's press conference yesterday, something really, something really caught
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Speaker 2: my ear that he said about Jeremiah Smith. I want
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Speaker 2: to talk about today the Buckeyes obviously heading into Illinois
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Speaker 2: in a game that we thought at the beginning of
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Speaker 2: the year was going to be a really tough game.
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Speaker 2: Just looking ahead, looking down the schedule, will it still be?
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Speaker 2: Ryan Day caught it a top ten matchup. It's not that,
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Speaker 2: but they are ranked seventeenth, and this is one of
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Speaker 2: those games that sometimes can have the makings to give
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Speaker 2: you a tough time. The Big Ten also has two
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Speaker 2: enormous games that are going to play a huge role
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Speaker 2: in how the conference race shapes up the potential playoff
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Speaker 2: teams from the Big Ten, and right now the SEC
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Speaker 2: looking like they're going to get a pile of teams
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Speaker 2: in compared to the Big Ten if it were to
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Speaker 2: end today. We'll talk a little bit about that, but
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Speaker 2: But tonight I want to start with, in case anybody
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Speaker 2: has not heard, the new transfer portal rules. They have
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Speaker 2: made it just one window. So the transfer portal is
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Speaker 2: just one window. And the way this is setting up
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Speaker 2: is an absolute debacle for programs that make it deep
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Speaker 2: into the playoffs, of the playoffs of the National Championship
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Speaker 2: in particular. And I talked about this for a second
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Speaker 2: on Juck on Bucks this morning, but I just want
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Speaker 2: to go over real quick. So the new transfer portal rules,
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Speaker 2: the Big Ten didn't want, Ryan Dy didn't want, the
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Speaker 2: SEC see and everybody else did. There's nothing wrong with
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Speaker 2: one transfer portal window. In my opinion, it's when they
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Speaker 2: decided to do this because it's going to unfairly really
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Speaker 2: damage two particular teams, but a whole lot are going
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Speaker 2: to be punished by it. But just one portal window,
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Speaker 2: no spring window, and it's going to be instead of
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Speaker 2: thirty days, fifteen days. I love the balloons. I don't
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Speaker 2: know how I do that, but it happens once in
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Speaker 2: a while. It's going to began on January second, which
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Speaker 2: means it starts during the playoffs and it ends before
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Speaker 2: the National Championship game. So the playoffs start December nineteenth.
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Speaker 2: I'm sorry. It starts during the playoffs and ends before
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Speaker 2: the National Championship game. So for the duration of the playoffs,
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Speaker 2: if you're a team competing, you're doing it while the
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Speaker 2: transfer portal is going on, and it's the only one.
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Speaker 2: So every team involved in the playoffs. If you're involved
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Speaker 2: in round one, you are, you know, getting ready for
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Speaker 2: your game and the transfer portal is coming up. If
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Speaker 2: you make it past round one, like you're really pushing it.
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Speaker 2: If you lose, you got two days. If you make
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Speaker 2: it to the semi finals, gosh, forbid to the National championship,
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Speaker 2: you are absolutely screwed, like you're totally in for it.
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Speaker 2: The entire portal is open and closed during your playoff
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Speaker 2: run if you make it to the national championship game. Now,
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Speaker 2: everybody has a recruiting staff, but you got coaches trying
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Speaker 2: to coach their players to win the biggest games of
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Speaker 2: their careers. And in the meantime, they also got to
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Speaker 2: be looking out for the future of their rooms. Bring
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Speaker 2: in new players, get to know them, make sure they're
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Speaker 2: the right fit, recruit them. And it's not quite as
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Speaker 2: much recruiting as it would be coming out of high
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Speaker 2: school because a lot of these guys are more contract oriented.
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Speaker 2: But you look at this man and it's just like,
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Speaker 2: I don't know how this is able to fly. I
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Speaker 2: think it's insane. Obviously, Ryandi didn't want it, and of
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Speaker 2: course we know last year, after the National championship Notre
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Speaker 2: Dame in Ohio State for them, the portal was closed.
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Speaker 2: But Ryan Day was furious because for five days after
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Speaker 2: they got done playing all the Ohio State players, the
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Speaker 2: portal was open to them. Well, in that scenario last year,
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Speaker 2: if other programs didn't get guys they wanted, they had
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Speaker 2: one last shot to go raid Notre Dame in Ohio
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Speaker 2: State's rosters before the spring portal. Well, now there is
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Speaker 2: no spring portal. Can you imagine how much harder in
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Speaker 2: this scenario teams would have gone after the Ohio State
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Speaker 2: and Notre Dame players because there's no spring portal. That's it,
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Speaker 2: that's all they got. Now, this already created a big
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Speaker 2: situation for them. Last year Notre Dame in Ohio State. Luckily,
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Speaker 2: Ohio State came out relatively unscathed. But with these current rules,
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Speaker 2: Ohio State and Notre Dame before the portal opens, right,
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Speaker 2: and every team has these discussions. They sit down, they
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Speaker 2: talk to all their players. So they talked to the
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Speaker 2: players and they tell them where they stand with the program.
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Speaker 2: They get from the player, how they're feeling about moving
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Speaker 2: forward for the following year with the team, and they
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Speaker 2: come to a consensus or an agreement that that player's
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Speaker 2: either going to enter the port or that player is
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Speaker 2: going to be staying with them. And these are, you know,
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Speaker 2: back and forth discussions. In some cases they're really easy,
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Speaker 2: some cases they're really difficult. Sometimes they're really difficult decisions
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Speaker 2: where the school is telling the guy he's not going
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Speaker 2: to play, it's time for him to move on. Well, now,
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Speaker 2: let's say, for instance, it's after the National Championship game,
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Speaker 2: the portal window opens and there is no spring portal
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Speaker 2: now in the new rules, So Notre Dame in Ohio State,
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Speaker 2: their guys are the only ones available. And you've got
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Speaker 2: all these other teams that are desperate and they're coming
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Speaker 2: to these Notre Dame in Ohio State guys making big offers.
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Speaker 2: And now these players who sat down with Notre Dame
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Speaker 2: in Ohio State and told them coach, I'm not leaving,
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Speaker 2: I'm staying. Well, now they've just got massive offers here
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Speaker 2: because these are desperate teams. There is no spring portal,
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Speaker 2: and these players come back to Notre Dame in Ohio
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Speaker 2: State and they say, Coach, I didn't want to leave,
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Speaker 2: and I still don't, but they're offering me life changing money.
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Speaker 2: Can you help me out to bridge the gap here
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Speaker 2: or I'm gonna have to take it? Well, how many
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Speaker 2: guys do you think Ohio State and Notre Dame in
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Speaker 2: this case are going to be able to take care of?
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Speaker 2: I mean, this puts them in a really bad situation
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Speaker 2: because let's remember we're dealing with a salary cap now,
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Speaker 2: which means everybody on their roster. That money's already allocated
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Speaker 2: of whatever sixteen to eighteen million they're allowed to spend
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Speaker 2: on football out of that twenty, they've already got it
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Speaker 2: all tied up. They've already done this. This is what
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Speaker 2: they did before the portal closed. So what do they
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Speaker 2: do in this scenario. They're totally stuck. They're gonna need
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Speaker 2: to break the rules. Obviously, you can't just pay these
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Speaker 2: guys can't just hand out and I out to a
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Speaker 2: player anymore. So they're gonna break the rules or these
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Speaker 2: guys are gonna walk. I don't know what you do
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Speaker 2: in that scenario. And I was thinking about this and
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Speaker 2: if you really want to get seriously sinister with this,
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Speaker 2: because unfortunately, this is how my brain works. Let's say,
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Speaker 2: for instance, a team like USC. They're always pretty. Let's
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Speaker 2: say USC Ohio State wins the national championship and USC
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Speaker 2: is jealous. Ohio State's the gold standard of Big Ten football,
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Speaker 2: of college football in general, and USC sitting here on
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Speaker 2: a pile of money, and they're looking at Ohio State's
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Speaker 2: roster and they look at the cornerback room right the
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Speaker 2: cornerback room in Ohio State right now is pretty light,
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Speaker 2: it's light on numbers. Well, what if they go after
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Speaker 2: two of Ohio State's vital backup cornerbacks and offer them
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Speaker 2: starter money to come to USC And now this room
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Speaker 2: that was already light, right, already under its numbers, now
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Speaker 2: loses two of its backups. And what you've done is
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Speaker 2: potentially crippled a team that is your competition because they're
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Speaker 2: in a situation where they're stuck. They can't do anything
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Speaker 2: about it. That's the roster they're going into the season with.
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Speaker 2: Or let's say, for instance, it's Texas Tech who's out
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Speaker 2: here buying all sorts of players. What if it's Texas
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Speaker 2: in the National Championship in Texas Tech to cripple Texas
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Speaker 2: offensive line, so they go get a couple of their
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Speaker 2: guys off the offensive line. Like, I think this is
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Speaker 2: going to be really fascinating what we see here. And
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Speaker 2: it's bad. It's bad for the folks who are in
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Speaker 2: the National Championship. Obviously, nobody's going to cry for them
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Speaker 2: because they're in the National Championship game. But it's really
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Speaker 2: really unfair. Another rule that they made, as you know,
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Speaker 2: when a coach leaves right now or as it was
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Speaker 2: before the portal immediately opens for thirty days for the
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Speaker 2: players if a coach leaves or if he was fired.
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Speaker 2: So coach gets fired at Michigan State, thirty days for
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Speaker 2: all the players to leave. Well, now they have to wait.
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Speaker 2: Those players can't just immediately enter the portal. They got
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Speaker 2: to wait until the school signs a new coach and
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Speaker 2: then give him five days. They got to give the
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Speaker 2: new coach five days to try to keep them aboard.
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Speaker 2: And I don't know how this one's gonna fly because
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Speaker 2: we're talking how long are these searches. Sometimes they're a
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Speaker 2: long time, right, coach is gonna leave might take a
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Speaker 2: month and a half. And you just got these players
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Speaker 2: in limbo. Am I supposed to stay here? What am
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Speaker 2: I going to do? This one sounds to me like
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Speaker 2: one that's gonna end up going to court. And we
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Speaker 2: know how often the NCAA wins those when they go
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Speaker 2: to court. But this is really weird here. At any rate,
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Speaker 2: none of this is good for a program like in
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Speaker 2: Ohio State, who is consistently in the playoffs and intends
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Speaker 2: on being in the playoffs for the rest of Ryan
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Speaker 2: David's career. And Ryan David does not want to hear
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Speaker 2: any of your rat poison. Don't you dare tell his
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Speaker 2: players how good they are. Don't you dare tell him
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Speaker 2: that they've accomplished anything or that they're the number one team,
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Speaker 2: because they've accomplished nothing. And he is sick and tired
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Speaker 2: of hearing it. Ryan Day now at the top of
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Speaker 2: the sport. He's tasted the ultimate prize and he desperately
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Speaker 2: does not want to lose it. And this is how
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Speaker 2: he's kind of been this entire year. After the Ohio game,
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Speaker 2: sideline reporter came up to talk to him, and she
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Speaker 2: was I was broadcasting it live, I was doing a stream.
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Speaker 2: She comes up to talk to Ryan Day. She's all happy,
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Speaker 2: come talking to the winning coach, sticks the microphone in
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Speaker 2: his face and he's all right, he's bad, and her
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Speaker 2: eyes are all buged, like whoa why is he so mad?
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Speaker 2: He just won? After the Minnesota game, he comes in
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Speaker 2: and he's, you know, pointing out Bo Jackson, what he
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Speaker 2: did wrong, Lincoln Keenholes, what he did wrong. These are
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Speaker 2: things he doesn't usually do. And I was thinking the
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Speaker 2: other day, like I would actually love to pull up
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Speaker 2: a press conference of Ryan Day from like twenty twenty
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Speaker 2: one after a game too right now, because there's a
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Speaker 2: really big difference. And on Tuesday he was asked about
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Speaker 2: basically like why he's been so let me just play
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Speaker 2: it for you. How big of battle is that in
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Speaker 2: your mind? Said?
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Speaker 4: Almost?
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Speaker 5: The number one priority now is don't let these guys
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Speaker 5: think they're that good because we got along mode ahead
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Speaker 5: of us.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's every time I hear somebody say, you know,
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Speaker 4: you guys are doing great or anything like that, like,
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Speaker 4: I just feel like we're getting set up. You know.
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Speaker 4: That's just the way that I look at it as
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Speaker 4: a coach, because I just feel like it's it's our
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Speaker 4: job as coaches and leaders to make sure like guys
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Speaker 4: understand that, you know, we say ignore the noise.
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Speaker 2: You've heard that before.
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Speaker 4: Usually they're talking about adversity. I'm using it right now
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Speaker 4: with our guys because all of a sudden, you know,
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Speaker 4: everyone thinks, you know, you're the number one team in
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Speaker 4: the country and you've done all these things. We haven't
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Speaker 4: done anyth yet. We haven't accomplished a thing, and so
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Speaker 4: the only thing that's going to matter is who gets
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Speaker 4: better week in and week out. And it's just easy
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Speaker 4: nowadays because of the media, because of their phones because
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Speaker 4: of everything that comes with it. You can start reading
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Speaker 4: your press clippings and you can start feeling pretty good
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Speaker 4: about yourself and then all of a sudden, you know,
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Speaker 4: you get you get knocked out.
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Speaker 2: You don't realize it. So we're seeing an evolution of
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Speaker 2: a head coach here, and we've seen that, you know,
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Speaker 2: all throughout his career, but this is pretty drastic from
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Speaker 2: I think just the beginning of last year. And this
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Speaker 2: guy feels like the final boss right now. He's got
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Speaker 2: the best team in the country. He's got the most
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Speaker 2: accurate quarterback in the country who plays the position exactly
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Speaker 2: how he wants it played, and that guy is throwing
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Speaker 2: to the best wide receivers in the country, with a
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Speaker 2: defense that has thus far been the best in the country,
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Speaker 2: with the defensive coordinator that he's somehow upgraded after losing
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Speaker 2: the best defensive coordinator in the country. Ryan Day is
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Speaker 2: close to pulling off something that we've never seen in
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Speaker 2: my life, and that is unequivocally being the number one
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Speaker 2: head coach in college football at Ohio State. He could
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Speaker 2: be number one, he could take it over. In addition
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Speaker 2: to that, Ohio State could be widely recognized as the
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Speaker 2: program that takes over the mantle from Georgia as the
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Speaker 2: IT program, which is what they've been for the last
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Speaker 2: three or four years. That's not happened in my life
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Speaker 2: that they've been just widely acknowledged as okay, that is
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Speaker 2: the standard, that's the gold standard program. They're sitting number
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Speaker 2: one unequivocally by anybody, any honest college football fan or
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Speaker 2: any analyst. It's been Georgia. It has I think it
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Speaker 2: has it as the opportunity to take that over under
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Speaker 2: Ryan Day's leadership this year. Now we all know who
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Speaker 2: the best player in college football is. He told us
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Speaker 2: that he knows who the best player is in college
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Speaker 2: football last Tuesday at his press conference. He said it
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Speaker 2: again after the Minnesota game. Then yesterday he was asked
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Speaker 2: a question and for the first time, he brought up
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Speaker 2: the Heisman, his.
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Speaker 5: Being the best opens player in the country. How do
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Speaker 5: you kind of go into a game and balance you know,
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Speaker 5: knowing you want to get the ball in his hands
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Speaker 5: as much as you can, but also knowing if guys
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Speaker 5: at Carnell next player and Brandon is get going that
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Speaker 5: it's been open opportunities for jaicular, Like, how do you
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Speaker 5: balance that go into a game.
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Speaker 4: Well a little bit of both in terms of, you know,
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Speaker 4: you design plays where you think the ball may go
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Speaker 4: one place, but if a defense you know, is designed
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Speaker 4: to stop that area or that player or that you know,
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Speaker 4: area of the formation or area of the field or
17:59
Speaker 4: whatever it might be be, then the ball needs to
18:01
Speaker 4: go somewhere else. And I think that's what's you know,
18:06
Speaker 4: challenging for a receiver to you know, like again I
18:10
Speaker 4: say that, and it's you know, whether Jeremiah gets the
18:14
Speaker 4: statistics that he would need to get into the Heisman
18:16
Speaker 4: race or not, it's sort of out of his hands
18:18
Speaker 4: because there's just certain things that can happen that are
18:20
Speaker 4: out of his control. So that doesn't change who he
18:23
Speaker 4: is in terms of a player, his impact on the game,
18:27
Speaker 4: or anything like that. So you know, we have to
18:31
Speaker 4: make sure that we're figuring out as many ways as
18:33
Speaker 4: we can to get him the ball, knowing that that's
18:36
Speaker 4: not the number one most important thing. The most important
18:38
Speaker 4: thing is to move the ball and score points and
18:40
Speaker 4: be efficient. So but that's why I mentioned that. After
18:43
Speaker 4: the game, you know, Carnell has done a lot of
18:46
Speaker 4: the dirty work that's allowed you know, some of the
18:48
Speaker 4: other guys on offense to have success and then vice versa.
18:50
Speaker 4: You know, Jeremiah, you know, dictates coverage or as a
18:53
Speaker 4: decoy and a play. It open up something for Carnell
18:55
Speaker 4: that that's winning football and that's going to be the
18:57
Speaker 4: key moving forward. And I think.
19:00
Speaker 2: So the question had nothing to do with the Heisman.
19:03
Speaker 2: He brought it up and that's why he brought up
19:06
Speaker 2: that he's the best player in the country two times previously.
19:10
Speaker 2: And there's been criticism from Ohio State fans in the
19:13
Speaker 2: past for not promoting players for individual national awards. It
19:18
Speaker 2: feels to me like we have just started to see
19:21
Speaker 2: Ryan Day start the campaign for Jeremiah to be at
19:25
Speaker 2: the top of the conversation for the sports most prestigious
19:27
Speaker 2: individual award, an award that we've not seen a Buckeye
19:31
Speaker 2: bring home since two thousand and six when Troy Smith
19:34
Speaker 2: won an a landside And a lot of people don't care
19:37
Speaker 2: about this, but I do. Man, this is one of
19:40
Speaker 2: those metrics by which people judge college football programs. USC
19:44
Speaker 2: has eight, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Notre Dame have seven. I
19:48
Speaker 2: want to tie for that number one. I don't like
19:49
Speaker 2: USC being ahead and anything, and it has been too
19:53
Speaker 2: long with too many close calls. But the big question
19:56
Speaker 2: is could a wide receiver without ridiculous statistics win this award.
20:02
Speaker 2: The last true wide receiver we saw win it Devonte Smith.
20:05
Speaker 2: There's only been four true wide receivers in the history
20:08
Speaker 2: of the award that have won it. That was in
20:10
Speaker 2: twenty twenty, and that was the COVID season. He played
20:12
Speaker 2: eleven games and he put up like sixteen hundred yards,
20:15
Speaker 2: one hundred and five receptions, twenty touchdowns. And Jeremiah is
20:19
Speaker 2: not going to get to those numbers. He's not going
20:21
Speaker 2: to lead the country in touchdowns, he won't lead the
20:23
Speaker 2: country in receiving yards, he won't lead the country in receptions.
20:28
Speaker 2: So how could you possibly make the case for a
20:30
Speaker 2: guy for the most Outstanding player when he doesn't lead
20:33
Speaker 2: the country in those categories. I think that there are
20:36
Speaker 2: several reasons that Jeremiah could make the case, And I've
20:41
Speaker 2: got a case for him, not just for making it
20:43
Speaker 2: to New York, but I think he's got a real
20:45
Speaker 2: shot for the Heisman. For one, I think we're seeing
20:48
Speaker 2: a difference in the way Heisman Trophy voters are voting.
20:50
Speaker 2: I think we're seeing an evolution. I don't think Travis
20:53
Speaker 2: Hunter wins that award ten years ago. I think that
20:57
Speaker 2: that was a case of a guy that they're saying, look,
21:00
Speaker 2: it's the best player. We all know it's the best player.
21:02
Speaker 2: It doesn't matter what his stats are. And this is
21:06
Speaker 2: something that favors Jeremiah in a huge way. And it's
21:09
Speaker 2: not often that we enter a season with a universally
21:12
Speaker 2: acknowledge that's the best player in college football. Like, how
21:15
Speaker 2: often do we come into a season where everybody says
21:18
Speaker 2: the same thing? You look at these silly lists from fans,
21:21
Speaker 2: from media and everybody, even fans of other teams, if
21:26
Speaker 2: they're being honest acknowledged that's the best player in college football.
21:31
Speaker 2: We don't see it often. And when we do see it,
21:33
Speaker 2: nine times out of ten it's a quarterback. What else
21:37
Speaker 2: do we know about the Heisman Trophy. It is a
21:39
Speaker 2: popularity contest, it's a quarterback award, and it's a stat contest. Well,
21:45
Speaker 2: Jeremiah already has some big breaks that have happened for
21:48
Speaker 2: him up to this point. People love confirmation bias, Right,
21:51
Speaker 2: You had some big names entering this year, Entering the
21:54
Speaker 2: season at the top of the Heisman board. You had
21:56
Speaker 2: Arch Manning, Leonora's Sellers and DJ Lagway three huge names
22:01
Speaker 2: who promptly fell off the board. So when it comes
22:04
Speaker 2: to the popularity part and the confirmation bias, it really
22:07
Speaker 2: helps him that those three behemoth names were gone quickly.
22:11
Speaker 2: What really helps Jeremiah's case is he has crossed over
22:15
Speaker 2: into American celebrity. He is no longer a college football celebrity.
22:19
Speaker 2: This dude is an American celebrity. He's reached a level
22:22
Speaker 2: of fame that has crossed over into the mainstream. Non
22:25
Speaker 2: football fans know jj He's a rock star. You can
22:28
Speaker 2: ask non football fans and many of them will know
22:32
Speaker 2: that's Jeremiah Smith. And as far as production on the field,
22:37
Speaker 2: he's going to be in the top of every wide
22:38
Speaker 2: receiver statistical category, the top ten. And everybody who knows
22:42
Speaker 2: football understands just how much he's affecting the defense, how
22:46
Speaker 2: they adjust to play Ohio State, and if that is
22:49
Speaker 2: causing Ohio State or really helping Ohio State to win,
22:52
Speaker 2: that is extremely valuable. A ton of Ohio State's offensive
22:56
Speaker 2: success this year is due to Jeremiah's presence. A lot
22:59
Speaker 2: of carnells being able to showcase how much better he's
23:02
Speaker 2: gotten and how good he is is Jeremiah's presence, Julian
23:07
Speaker 2: Sayan being the most accurate quarterback in the country, you
23:09
Speaker 2: can definitely credit Jeremiah to some of that. He gets
23:12
Speaker 2: guys one on ones. He absolutely has been. Jeremiah has
23:16
Speaker 2: been his security blanket to a certain extent as he's learned.
23:19
Speaker 2: The first couple of games, we saw him going to
23:21
Speaker 2: him every single time things got a little harry, He's
23:25
Speaker 2: going to JJ. He's just definitely the most dominant player
23:28
Speaker 2: right now in football. And then we got a factor
23:30
Speaker 2: in when we look at his numbers. Ohio State is
23:33
Speaker 2: running off of this intentionally slow offense with less plays,
23:38
Speaker 2: which is naturally going to limit his offensive statistics well
23:41
Speaker 2: for everybody on the team. Really, when we talk about
23:43
Speaker 2: pace of play right now, Ohio State under sixty plays
23:46
Speaker 2: a game. Five years ago it was like seventy two plays,
23:50
Speaker 2: which is the equivalent of two entire games worth of
23:53
Speaker 2: plays that they're not playing. I think people will take
23:56
Speaker 2: this into consideration as well. And then you got the
23:59
Speaker 2: it factor. Not only is Jeremiah one of the most
24:01
Speaker 2: fun players to watch that we've seen in a decade,
24:03
Speaker 2: he's just physically kind of a marble and just unique.
24:06
Speaker 2: To look at the way he moves, the way he runs,
24:09
Speaker 2: the catches he makes. He's just different. He even speaks different.
24:12
Speaker 2: He speaks Miami, which is its own language. So when
24:16
Speaker 2: we look at the updated odds right now for the Heisman,
24:19
Speaker 2: at plus six hundred, you've got Carson Beck plus six hundred,
24:22
Speaker 2: Dante More plus seven to fifty Ty Simpson, and plus
24:26
Speaker 2: eight fifty Jeremiah Smith. He is right there with the
24:29
Speaker 2: top three quarterbacks. That's the clear top four. Then we
24:33
Speaker 2: got a little gap until there's two more quarterbacks at
24:35
Speaker 2: plus fourteen hundred. That's his quarterback, Julian saying in Indiana
24:40
Speaker 2: quarterback for Nando Mendoza tied at plus fourteen hundred. This
24:44
Speaker 2: is about as good of a setup as you could
24:46
Speaker 2: get right now, at this point in the season for
24:49
Speaker 2: Jeremiah potentially win this award. Oftentimes we see a quarterback
24:52
Speaker 2: whose team is in the top ten and he's putting
24:55
Speaker 2: up standout statistics. From all the other quarterbacks, that's not
24:58
Speaker 2: the case this far. I don't anticipate that changing this
25:02
Speaker 2: group right here. They're all bunched together in stats. None
25:05
Speaker 2: of them are pulling LA. All five of those quarterbacks
25:09
Speaker 2: lumped together, none of them really stand out. In fact,
25:12
Speaker 2: the one that stands out the most in one individual
25:14
Speaker 2: category is Julian Sayan with his eighty percent completion percentage,
25:18
Speaker 2: which is like four point eight percentage points over second place,
25:22
Speaker 2: which is definitely the most impressive statistical outlier of any
25:25
Speaker 2: of those quarterbacks. So no doubt Jeremiah needed help early
25:29
Speaker 2: and he got it. With the big names falling off.
25:32
Speaker 2: He also needed help that none of these current quarterbacks
25:35
Speaker 2: were having this massive statistical season like cam Ward, and
25:39
Speaker 2: he's getting that help as well. The other consideration you
25:43
Speaker 2: have with the Heisman is the story. Everybody loves a
25:45
Speaker 2: good story that gets a lot of votes. The guys
25:48
Speaker 2: on the top of the board, we've got some real
25:49
Speaker 2: good redemption stories brewing. There's some amazing stories all the
25:53
Speaker 2: way down the top ten. Carson Beck after his terrible
25:56
Speaker 2: year with Georgia that ends in an injury, Dog fans
25:59
Speaker 2: are happy to see him go. He goes to Miami,
26:02
Speaker 2: very public relationship with the Cavender twin, his Lamborghini gets
26:05
Speaker 2: stolen in the offseason. I mean, who could not feel
26:08
Speaker 2: for him for that? And now he's on pace to
26:11
Speaker 2: lead the best Miami team since Ohio State broke Miami
26:14
Speaker 2: into the playoffs. That's a heck of a story. Dante Moore.
26:18
Speaker 2: Dante Moore was a five star who was supposed to
26:20
Speaker 2: go to Oregon but instead ended up flipping and going
26:22
Speaker 2: to UCLA under Chip Kelly. Chip played him as a
26:25
Speaker 2: freshman and he looked like a total bust. Transfers to Oregon,
26:30
Speaker 2: sits for a year behind Dylan Gabriel, and now here
26:33
Speaker 2: he comes and he's awesome. He's fantastic. So that's a
26:37
Speaker 2: really good story. Number three Oregon potentially back to the
26:40
Speaker 2: Big Ten championship. Fernando Mendoza was the two forty ninth
26:45
Speaker 2: rank player coming out of high school, a two star prospect.
26:49
Speaker 2: The only Power four offre he had was Cal, and
26:53
Speaker 2: he goes to Cal, gets himself a transfer to Indiana,
26:57
Speaker 2: and now already NFL scouts clearing away. He's the number
27:00
Speaker 2: one NFL prospect out of all these guys, one of
27:03
Speaker 2: the best quarterbacks in the country and his name is Fernando. Guys,
27:06
Speaker 2: people love that. John Mattier if he can come back
27:09
Speaker 2: soon enough, he'll pop right back into this old miss
27:13
Speaker 2: quarterback Trinidad Chambliss stepped in for the injured starter. He's
27:17
Speaker 2: a total star and Lane Lane Kiffin picked this kid
27:20
Speaker 2: up from an FCSQUE school out of the portal. He's
27:23
Speaker 2: now leading the number four team. That's a great story.
27:25
Speaker 2: Nobody could top to Joey aguilar story from community college
27:29
Speaker 2: to app State. Then he gets the big opportunity going
27:32
Speaker 2: out to UCLA. He would never start a game for them,
27:35
Speaker 2: as they would choose Nico over him. And then he
27:37
Speaker 2: gets to go to Tennessee and now he's leading a
27:39
Speaker 2: top fifteen team and putting up great stats. So that's
27:43
Speaker 2: a huge story as well. And when we look at JJ,
27:47
Speaker 2: there's no story pulling on your heart strings here other
27:49
Speaker 2: than JJ got cut from his six year old pee
27:53
Speaker 2: wee team. Right, I don't know what story you could
27:56
Speaker 2: pull on your heart strings here. So there's some interesting stories,
27:59
Speaker 2: but nobody's pulling away and it's great for Jeremiah's chances.
28:02
Speaker 2: Right now, Nobody argues that he is not the best
28:05
Speaker 2: player in college football. Everybody sees the difference he makes
28:09
Speaker 2: to Ohio State, and whether it's him putting up the
28:12
Speaker 2: numbers or altering how opposing defenses play Ohio State, he's
28:16
Speaker 2: the focal point of the best team in college football.
28:19
Speaker 2: He's the Boogeyman, and he's the biggest superstar we have
28:22
Speaker 2: in the sport. There is a little fear that Julian's
28:26
Speaker 2: saying ends up in New York with him and they
28:29
Speaker 2: end up splitting some votes. And we certainly see that
28:31
Speaker 2: hurt Ohio State players before Julian right now, with that
28:34
Speaker 2: ridiculous eighty percent completion percentage, it leads the country tied
28:37
Speaker 2: for eighth and touchdowns, second highest quarterback grating, third highest
28:42
Speaker 2: yards for completion, but he's thirty fifth in yards because
28:47
Speaker 2: of the slow play. I just think that voters are
28:49
Speaker 2: going to look at this, if they're looking between the
28:51
Speaker 2: two of them, and say, yeah, this is Jeremiah's year,
28:54
Speaker 2: if they're going to vote for a Buckeye. So that
28:57
Speaker 2: is my case, you guys, let me know what you
29:00
Speaker 2: think here. Emily says Beck's story does not resonate with
29:06
Speaker 2: the public. No, No, I was kind of teasing there, like, yeah,
29:09
Speaker 2: the cavetter twining, the Lambeau that doesn't fly. No, that
29:13
Speaker 2: one's not so good, but I thought it was funny
29:15
Speaker 2: to throw in there. So the Buckeyes heading into Illinois,
29:19
Speaker 2: guys heading into Champagne Illinois and Ryan Day taking this
29:22
Speaker 2: one really seriously as he should. They are the number
29:25
Speaker 2: seventeen team in the country, and this is a game
29:28
Speaker 2: that at the start before the season, in the offseason
29:31
Speaker 2: where we kind of just devoured the schedule, this one
29:34
Speaker 2: always stood out as that's a game right there that
29:37
Speaker 2: one could not just be sneaky tough, but really really tough. Remember,
29:41
Speaker 2: they were a top ten team coming in, and it's
29:44
Speaker 2: clear they did not deserve to be that. It was
29:46
Speaker 2: the team that smashed them, Indiana, who was ranked in
29:49
Speaker 2: the twenties, that deserve that ranking. They should have been
29:52
Speaker 2: flip flop. Before I go any further, I want to
29:56
Speaker 2: tell you something. Indiana has made such an investment in football.
30:02
Speaker 2: That's on the recruiting trail. I'm seeing a ton of
30:05
Speaker 2: highly rated prospects schedule official visits to Alabama, Ohio, State, Texas,
30:12
Speaker 2: and Indiana. You would not believe the amount of highly
30:16
Speaker 2: rated prospects. Now they're not landed any yet, but the
30:18
Speaker 2: fact that they're getting these guys to come to Indiana
30:20
Speaker 2: for official visits, like this caliber guy, They're going to
30:25
Speaker 2: start elevating their recruiting. And that doesn't happen without a
30:28
Speaker 2: lot of money, So they are supporting this. They're all
30:32
Speaker 2: in and they've clearly got it. I think they're going
30:35
Speaker 2: to start recruiting in the top twenty five, which is crazy.
30:38
Speaker 2: So Illinois starts off the season with a forty five
30:41
Speaker 2: to nineteen win against Duke, then they shut out Western Michigan.
30:44
Speaker 2: Then Indiana comes in and beats them sixty three to ten.
30:50
Speaker 2: Illinois rushed for two yards of carry against Indiana, just
30:53
Speaker 2: eleven attempts from their running backs for twenty nine yards.
30:55
Speaker 2: Luke Altmeyer passed for one fifty nine and on the
30:59
Speaker 2: other side, Indiana two sixty seven through the air, and
31:02
Speaker 2: they ran it down their throats three hundred and twelve
31:05
Speaker 2: yards three hundred and twelve yards rushing. Now, Ryan Day said,
31:09
Speaker 2: this is a top ten matchup, is how they're looking
31:11
Speaker 2: at it against Illinois. Throw the tape out from the
31:14
Speaker 2: Indiana game because that's not who they are. In the
31:18
Speaker 2: following week, they played really good against usc usc a
31:21
Speaker 2: really good running team. By the way, usc is averaging
31:24
Speaker 2: over six yards of carry and they're a very good
31:28
Speaker 2: offensive team all together. To be honest, they passed the
31:29
Speaker 2: ball greade as well, but Illinois beat them thirty four
31:32
Speaker 2: to two. USC was ranked. They held them a three
31:37
Speaker 2: point seven yards of carry. USC threw for three sixty
31:41
Speaker 2: four on them, though, which means their defense can be
31:44
Speaker 2: had in the air, it can be had on the ground.
31:46
Speaker 2: Just depends what you're focused on and what they're trying
31:48
Speaker 2: to shut down. Defensively, Illinois given up three to ninety
31:52
Speaker 2: seven a game. That is sixty fourth in the country.
31:55
Speaker 2: They've allowed nineteen touchdowns to Ohio States two. On the
31:59
Speaker 2: offense side of the ball, Illinois is good for two
32:03
Speaker 2: sixty seven in the air in three ninety seven total.
32:06
Speaker 2: That's thirty eighth in the country. We know Luke Altmeyer
32:09
Speaker 2: is a good quarterback. He's a solid veteran quarterback. Ryan
32:13
Speaker 2: Day knows this is a veteran team. He has a
32:15
Speaker 2: ton of respect for Bert, as all the Big Ten
32:17
Speaker 2: coaches do. And you could say, there's a couple of
32:21
Speaker 2: different ways you could see Illinois, you know, potentially keeping
32:24
Speaker 2: this thing close. But which team you're gonna get. You're
32:28
Speaker 2: gonna get the one that played Indiana, You're gonna get
32:30
Speaker 2: the one that played USC. I don't know. It could
32:34
Speaker 2: just be that Indiana really is that much better than them,
32:38
Speaker 2: which would mean Ohio State should be that much better
32:40
Speaker 2: than them as well. The way Indiana beat them, I mean,
32:44
Speaker 2: they could just have reached the top tier status of
32:46
Speaker 2: the Big Ten. Last year they were just kind of
32:49
Speaker 2: a step below that top tier status. They might have elevated.
32:52
Speaker 2: We're gonna find out this weekend when they go out
32:53
Speaker 2: to Oregon. They go out to Oregon as an eight
32:55
Speaker 2: and a half point underdog, and if they go out
32:58
Speaker 2: there and keep that thing close at Oughts and Stadium,
33:01
Speaker 2: I think it's probably safe to say that Indiana is
33:03
Speaker 2: now with Ohio State, Oregon, Penn State, and Michigan in
33:08
Speaker 2: the top tier of the Big Ten. They're no longer
33:10
Speaker 2: that tier below by themselves, which is where they were
33:13
Speaker 2: last year. But I think this does mean Ohio State
33:17
Speaker 2: is going to smash Illinois. I think they damn well
33:19
Speaker 2: should be able to smash Illinois. They're sixteen and a
33:21
Speaker 2: half point favorites. But Ryan Day compared it to the
33:24
Speaker 2: Nebraska game last year. Coincidentally, right before the Nebraska game
33:29
Speaker 2: last year, Nebraska went undefeated to Indiana in Indiana smashed
33:34
Speaker 2: them by fifty, and then Nebraska came into the shoe
33:39
Speaker 2: and gave Ohio State a good game, and he brought
33:41
Speaker 2: this up. Now, I disagree that this had anything to
33:45
Speaker 2: do with Nebraska. I mean, it's something to do with them,
33:47
Speaker 2: but it had more to do with Ohio State and
33:49
Speaker 2: the way they played. They were still in a hangover
33:52
Speaker 2: after a bye week from the loss at Oregon, and
33:54
Speaker 2: they looked like they were sleepwalking through the game. There
33:56
Speaker 2: was no juice at all, and you had this Mahowsky
34:00
Speaker 2: game on top of it. So I didn't love the comparison,
34:04
Speaker 2: but you get what he's saying. Teams are different week
34:06
Speaker 2: to week. However, getting beat by fifty three just tells me,
34:10
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, like something's off man. There is no respectable
34:14
Speaker 2: team that gets beat by fifty three. And if Ohio
34:17
Speaker 2: State doesn't cover that number, I'm gonna be a little salty.
34:19
Speaker 2: I think they will. They've been a cover machine so
34:22
Speaker 2: far this year. They have covered all the big games.
34:25
Speaker 2: They covered Texas, they covered Washington, they just covered last week,
34:30
Speaker 2: and I think they cover that sixteen and a half points.
34:33
Speaker 2: I think they win by three touchdowns. Anything less will
34:35
Speaker 2: be uncivilized. The buck guy's a cover machine, So give
34:40
Speaker 2: me the Buck Eyes to win by three touchdowns over
34:43
Speaker 2: Illinois this weekend. We would be live. Yeah, we'll be
34:46
Speaker 2: live here streaming. It will be live over juck On Bucks.
34:49
Speaker 2: I'm not leaving till Sunday. So I restructured. My wife's mad.
34:55
Speaker 2: So normally we leave on Saturday. We're going out of town.
34:57
Speaker 2: We leave on Saturday, come home on Saturday. I can't
35:00
Speaker 2: travel on two saturdays. Man, that's crazy. So instead we're
35:05
Speaker 2: leaving Sunday and coming home on Friday. So I guess
35:10
Speaker 2: we're losing out on two days. So she's very upset
35:12
Speaker 2: about this. I'm telling her how sorry I am. I'm
35:16
Speaker 2: not sorry. I don't want to be gone a whole week.
35:18
Speaker 2: I don't like that. Five days seems like plenty. Anyway.
35:23
Speaker 2: There are some other massive games in the Big Ten
35:25
Speaker 2: that are going to affect the affect the race this year. Obviously,
35:29
Speaker 2: you got the Indiana an Oregon game. I like the
35:32
Speaker 2: Ducks to win that game, but I'm gonna say that
35:36
Speaker 2: Indiana gets in that eight point five points, I'm gonna
35:38
Speaker 2: take Indiana with those points. I wasn't a believer in
35:42
Speaker 2: this Indiana team last year. I just didn't like the
35:44
Speaker 2: I really was irritated by the fact that people just
35:46
Speaker 2: expected them to walk back in and just be great
35:48
Speaker 2: again because they had one good year, but they are better,
35:52
Speaker 2: Fernando's better. Signetti is clearly just an elite coach, and
35:56
Speaker 2: if I was Penn State, I would do everything in
35:58
Speaker 2: my power to bring at Pennsylvanian home to coach Penn
36:01
Speaker 2: State way more than Matt Ruhle, who's kind of been
36:04
Speaker 2: the guy that their fan base has been targeting forever
36:07
Speaker 2: because Matt Rule is a Penn State guy. Matt Rule
36:09
Speaker 2: has been known to turn fledgling programs into solid, solid programs.
36:14
Speaker 2: Kurt Signetti, what he's done at Indiana totally different level.
36:18
Speaker 2: I think he'd be perfect at Penn State, and that's
36:19
Speaker 2: who I would want if I was them. But I
36:24
Speaker 2: think that they are going to go out and compete
36:26
Speaker 2: with Oregon, and if they do, I think that proves
36:29
Speaker 2: a lot about them because so far we've seen him
36:32
Speaker 2: against Ohio State and Notre Dame and they couldn't compete
36:35
Speaker 2: when they went up against one of the big dogs.
36:38
Speaker 2: So let's see what they can do against Oregon, and
36:42
Speaker 2: that'll be a really exciting game for the entire existence
36:45
Speaker 2: of this conference. They've been the doormat and now they
36:48
Speaker 2: look like they might just be an annual playoff contender.
36:50
Speaker 2: This is honestly one of the amazing stories of like
36:53
Speaker 2: my college football life is what's happened in Indiana here.
36:57
Speaker 2: That game against Penn State later on in the year,
37:00
Speaker 2: it's going to be a huge one for their profile
37:01
Speaker 2: as well. Like if they hang tough with Oregon and
37:05
Speaker 2: then they go beat Penn State, who even though they've
37:07
Speaker 2: lost a couple of games, that is still a good team.
37:10
Speaker 2: They're just they don't got it together right now. So
37:14
Speaker 2: interesting to know what you guys think about that game. Now,
37:18
Speaker 2: for the other enormous game in the Big Ten, Michigan
37:21
Speaker 2: going out to play usc. USC is a two and
37:24
Speaker 2: a half point favorite. Both teams are four and one
37:27
Speaker 2: Michigan two and zero in the Big Ten, USC two
37:30
Speaker 2: and one in the Big Ten after their loss at Illinois.
37:34
Speaker 2: Both teams are in the top ten in yards per
37:36
Speaker 2: carry over six yards of carry. But USC is throwing
37:39
Speaker 2: the ball great. Jordan Mayaba is at the top of
37:42
Speaker 2: every statistical category. They're averaging three hundred and thirty eight
37:45
Speaker 2: yards through the air, seventy two percent completion percentage, eleven
37:50
Speaker 2: yards of pass like this guy thrown just one pick.
37:53
Speaker 2: He's really good, basically in the top ten of every category.
37:57
Speaker 2: And they got this running back that they got out
37:59
Speaker 2: a Juco, this little wayman Jordan Kid. He's dynamic, man,
38:03
Speaker 2: he is absolutely dynamic. And this just feels like a
38:06
Speaker 2: game that I think we're gonna see Michigan run it
38:12
Speaker 2: down USC's throat. They've got Justice Hayin's averaging seven point
38:16
Speaker 2: seven of carry, Jordan Marshall's over five, Bryce Underwood six
38:20
Speaker 2: point seven. You know what they're gonna do. This is
38:24
Speaker 2: what you do with the dynamic offense. You run the clock,
38:27
Speaker 2: you limit their possessions, you beat them up on the ground.
38:31
Speaker 2: Basically everybody's strategy against us, but we just kind of
38:35
Speaker 2: give that to them now. But that's what Michigan's gonna do.
38:39
Speaker 2: And I think that Michigan is gonna go out there
38:43
Speaker 2: and beat USC in the coliseum straight up. And that
38:46
Speaker 2: game is enormous for the playoff race. If USC can
38:50
Speaker 2: beat Michigan, they got a huge game against Notre Dame,
38:54
Speaker 2: then they play Nebraska Northwestern in Iowa, then a huge
38:57
Speaker 2: game against Oregon. If they beat Michigan, all they got
39:02
Speaker 2: to do is handle their business and split the games
39:04
Speaker 2: between Oregon and Notre Dame, and they're a playoff team.
39:07
Speaker 2: On the flip side, if Michigan wins against USC, they're
39:10
Speaker 2: essentially a lock for the playoff in my opinion, which
39:13
Speaker 2: I did not expect coming into the year. They had
39:16
Speaker 2: a week schedule, but I did not expect them to
39:18
Speaker 2: be a playoff team, and here we are USC. If
39:22
Speaker 2: they win that, their next game is at home against Washington,
39:25
Speaker 2: then they've got Michigan State, Purdue Northwestern, and Maryland and
39:31
Speaker 2: then they got the game. So they're going to lose
39:35
Speaker 2: the game this year. I believe that that's their second loss.
39:38
Speaker 2: They're in the playoffs. But if they lose to USC,
39:41
Speaker 2: Ohio State has the opportunity to knock them out of
39:43
Speaker 2: the playoffs, and that would be fantastic. Now there is
39:47
Speaker 2: a nightmare scenario for the Big Ten here for the
39:50
Speaker 2: Big Ten fan. If USC beats Michigan and Ohio State
39:56
Speaker 2: knocks Michigan out of the playoffs, and USC loses to
40:00
Speaker 2: Oregon and Notre Dame, which is you know, it's not unlikely,
40:04
Speaker 2: and then Oregon beats Indiana and Penn State beats Indiana
40:10
Speaker 2: in Happy Valley, then you've got a situation where You've
40:14
Speaker 2: got three loss Michigan, three loss, USC Ohio State, and
40:18
Speaker 2: Oregon are the clear playoff teams. Then you've got two
40:21
Speaker 2: loss Indiana, who has no ranked wins. They lost at Oregon,
40:27
Speaker 2: they lost at Penn State, they're out of conference, Old Dominion,
40:31
Speaker 2: Tennesau State, and Indiana State, and that's it. Man. Their
40:37
Speaker 2: only good win would be Illinois, who was ranked at
40:39
Speaker 2: the time but probably won't be ranked soon, Iowa, Michigan State, Ucla, Maryland, Wisconsin,
40:47
Speaker 2: Purdue like yikes. And this is kind of what I
40:51
Speaker 2: was saying about them last year. Had they lost one
40:53
Speaker 2: more game, they weren't making it. I don't know if
40:56
Speaker 2: they will this year. I think a lot of it
40:58
Speaker 2: depends on how they play Oregon this week. If in
41:00
Speaker 2: this scenario, if they were to go lose at Penn
41:02
Speaker 2: State anyway, if that's the case, you're looking at three
41:08
Speaker 2: max from the Big ten could potentially be two. And
41:11
Speaker 2: if we look at the ESPN Playoff predictor right now,
41:14
Speaker 2: from the Big ten, you've got Ohio State, Oregon, Indiana.
41:19
Speaker 2: From the Big twelve, you got Texas Tech, the ACC,
41:22
Speaker 2: you got Miami G five, You've got Memphis, and then
41:25
Speaker 2: you got six sec SO three Big ten, six sec Alabama,
41:30
Speaker 2: Old Miss, Texas A and m Georgia, Oklahoma and Missouri.
41:35
Speaker 2: CBS has a predictor as well, and their predictor, according
41:39
Speaker 2: to them, they're trying to mimic the College Football Playoff Committee.
41:43
Speaker 2: And right now they've got Miami, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Texas
41:47
Speaker 2: Tech as our top four. Then they've got Oregon, Texas
41:51
Speaker 2: A and m old Miss, Alabama, Indiana, Georgia, Tennessee usf
41:56
Speaker 2: SO again six sec three Big ten, one ACC one
42:01
Speaker 2: Big twelve, one G five, and that would be something
42:06
Speaker 2: six sec three Big ten. But the two best teams
42:11
Speaker 2: currently Ohio State and Oregon coming from the Big ten.
42:16
Speaker 2: And that's kind of a nightmare scenario that I just
42:19
Speaker 2: described there, and that would be pretty interesting. We would
42:24
Speaker 2: see at a whole lot of robust debate. I know
42:27
Speaker 2: that I got a question, would you rather have three
42:32
Speaker 2: Big ten teams in the playoffs in six sec or
42:36
Speaker 2: four Big ten and five s SC but one of
42:39
Speaker 2: those four is Michigan. That's your question. I'll be waiting
42:44
Speaker 2: for your results here in the chat. Also, you got
42:48
Speaker 2: a couple questions here. Jeremy says, how does that apply
42:52
Speaker 2: to an interim coach if named for the remainder of
42:55
Speaker 2: the season or such. I think that I think that
43:01
Speaker 2: the portal is still going to be open to them
43:03
Speaker 2: when they hire the new coach after that five days.
43:06
Speaker 2: I believe that's I believe that's what would happen, because
43:09
Speaker 2: in every case they're yeah, yeah, I'm pretty sure that
43:13
Speaker 2: why January Emily, I wish I knew, like there's so
43:17
Speaker 2: many and really, you know, I said the same thing,
43:20
Speaker 2: was really critical of this, like when they were first
43:22
Speaker 2: talking about it. There aren't a ton of good times.
43:24
Speaker 2: Like every time slot you pick, there is an argument
43:28
Speaker 2: for why this makes no sense. We got to pick
43:30
Speaker 2: some other one and then you got the school part
43:33
Speaker 2: of it as well, and uh, and that makes it odd.
43:38
Speaker 2: Emily says Heisman should also include marks of good character.
43:42
Speaker 2: Could you imagine how that could affect players? It? Does
43:46
Speaker 2: they have? They have? Definitely? I mean, you know, I
43:49
Speaker 2: believe it's they're they're instructed to, uh, those voters to
43:53
Speaker 2: you know, they take that into account if they want to. Certainly,
44:08
Speaker 2: why is this not popping up on YouTube? I don't know.
44:10
Speaker 2: We're live and partying over here on YouTube. My man
44:15
Speaker 2: Ryan Day said he was happy with the running game
44:18
Speaker 2: on Tuesday, and I think as Buckeye fans, we've kind
44:24
Speaker 2: of all talked about the running game back and forth,
44:26
Speaker 2: and I think the general consensus is it's not bad.
44:29
Speaker 2: Looks like it could be a little better. Ohio State
44:32
Speaker 2: running game right now five point one yards of carry,
44:36
Speaker 2: and when I look this up, I was pretty surprised.
44:39
Speaker 2: So that is better than Notre Dame, who has the two,
44:43
Speaker 2: you know, the best running back tandem in the country.
44:46
Speaker 2: That is better than Penn State, two dynamic running backs.
44:50
Speaker 2: That is better than number five Texas A and M.
44:53
Speaker 2: That is better than top ten Georgia. That is better
44:56
Speaker 2: than number four Old miss That is better than number
44:59
Speaker 2: three Miami. It's way better than Alabama, Oklahoma, and LSU,
45:05
Speaker 2: who are all under four yards of carry. In fact,
45:08
Speaker 2: the only teams in the top ten that are averaging
45:11
Speaker 2: more yards per carry than Ohio State, Oregon in Indiana.
45:15
Speaker 2: But in the Big ten who is dominating rushing statistics
45:18
Speaker 2: this year, Ohio State is fifth, so they're ahead of
45:21
Speaker 2: all those teams in the top ten. But in the
45:24
Speaker 2: Big ten, Indiana, Oregon, Michigan, and USC are all averaging
45:29
Speaker 2: more than six point one yards of carry a full
45:31
Speaker 2: yard over the Buckeyes, which you know that's not cool,
45:36
Speaker 2: but it is funny to see how much better they
45:39
Speaker 2: are than all the other programs in the top ten. Anyway,
45:44
Speaker 2: I thought that was pretty interesting for those of you
45:48
Speaker 2: who are coming in late. This tweet Tony Tony popped
45:52
Speaker 2: out before we got on. We started with I asked
45:54
Speaker 2: linebacker Payton Pierce about his relationship with Matt Patricia and
45:57
Speaker 2: how much time they've spent together. He said he and
46:00
Speaker 2: Tricia spent more time together by his second day on
46:02
Speaker 2: the job than he did with Jim Knowles. And I
46:04
Speaker 2: think that is just bizarre, and it definitely uh explains
46:09
Speaker 2: a lot as to why there was, I don't know,
46:13
Speaker 2: just a very awkward way that he left. Richie says,
46:20
Speaker 2: Chuck and Bucke huddle. The only notifications I have on
46:22
Speaker 2: for YouTube and it barely notifies me. See I hear
46:25
Speaker 2: that a lot my notifications work too well, Like I
46:29
Speaker 2: get YouTube notifications all day and it kind of drives
46:32
Speaker 2: me nuts. And I get repeat ones, right, so I
46:37
Speaker 2: find it really obnoxious. Anyway, Yeah, thank you absolutely for
46:45
Speaker 2: blessing us with Matt Patricia. It's just been great. Man, honestly,
46:49
Speaker 2: what Ryan Day was able to do with that is
46:53
Speaker 2: I mean, he basically hired him off the NFL trash heap,
46:55
Speaker 2: Let's be honest, right, like the NFL didn't want him.
46:58
Speaker 2: He goes out and identifies, Now that's my guy, that's
47:02
Speaker 2: my guy. So all right, friends, I do appreciate you
47:06
Speaker 2: so much for joining me on Bucke Huddle Primetime here
47:09
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47:18
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47:21
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47:24
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47:25
Speaker 2: the postgame show as well, and then early Sunday morning
47:29
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47:32
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47:35
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47:37
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