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I GOT YOU · Boundary Corner Podcast

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So we got to know the enemy again.
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It's like red and white. I want to go see what he's got
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to say for us when we get in there.
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So now let's tell the truth, because we all lied our asses
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off last Wednesday night. What were we supposed to do,
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man? What were we supposed to do?
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Oh no. Talent.
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What were we supposed to do? I did it by design.
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I knew what was going to happen. I just wanted to throw them off
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all. Right, Well, well, let's, let's
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tell the truth and let's talk about what went well.
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And y'all, for the first time in damn near 3 years, Virginia Tech
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wins A1 score game. Hey, clap it up, man.
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Come on, clap it up. We need to get out of clap, man.
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I don't think people understand. Well, I do know chat.
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They understand. You guys understand how big that
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win was. Just giving us two wins for the
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year. Some people said we would only
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get one. We got a lot going on, man.
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We just fired a coach, you know, We just beat Wofford.
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Who is Wofford? And then you go into North
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Carolina State, you're going to Raleigh, you're going to their
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house. Nobody has confidence in you.
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I know I did and I'm going to speak for myself.
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Didn't have any confidence in getting going and getting a win.
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You got people that are kind of in the portal, kind of not.
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Some of them are already in the portal.
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We don't know what the coaches are thinking, but I have never
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seen, and I'm a knock on something since Pry has been
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here. I don't think with my eyes I've
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seen that much energy on the sidelines.
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I ain't going to talk about the gameplay going and watching the
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game. I watched it about three times.
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The sideline was electric. You know, I seen, I seen Pray
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Pearson hop off the sideline and start twerking.
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I mean, what's going on? We got all kinds of stuff going
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on on the sideline. I've seen money jumping.
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You know, it just, it feels good that you've seen somebody give a
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damn about the game. Curtis, what you think, man?
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Well, that, that it was just, I mean, we were texting all during
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the night. I was sitting here with my son
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watching a game and it was just I, I don't know, because in in
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those situations over the last three years and even some part
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of even before that last, the Leon against Liberty, it was
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always like, we're going to screw this up.
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Literally that is going through my head.
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We're going to screw this up, or we're going to.
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Probably I'm going to throw this in.
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I'm going to throw this in Curtis right quick and let and
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I'm going to come back to you. My daughter's birthday with my
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daughter. My daughter's birthday was
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Saturday, so I was out. So everybody's watching the
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Alabama, Georgia game. We're at some little bar here
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and I'm looking at it on my phone.
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And we punt that ball away and I turn my phone off and I text
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Curtis and I say I know how this ends.
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And I. You did and and and and.
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I just shook my hand when I saw that text.
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Brian, you saw it. I said, I know how this ends and
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couple of things are going on, but I think somebody came on and
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said we did it and I was like, did what?
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We we lost it. I knew we we gave it away in my
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mind, but now I'm going to throw it back to you, Curtis.
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I text that, hey, I know how this ends.
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So that means we punt the ball away at the end of the game and
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then what we do, Curtis, what happens?
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Well, we make the stops, we put them in a fourth down situation
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and and a lot of people say why didn't you run Hollywood
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Smothers day or why didn't you bring the Wilson kid in?
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Because we had stopped them a couple times on 3rd and shorts.
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We stopped them on 1/4 and short.
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Caleb's basically the D line wiped out Brian.
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You probably remember this play better and you probably can we
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wipe it out. Caleb Spencer comes in back door
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meets mothers in the hole stops and we get the ball back.
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We had them mentally beat on that.
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They were sitting there fourth and one where it's like you
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should run the ball and they're like, now they stopped us like 3
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or 4 times. We can't do that.
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And when Christian Ellis played that thing, perfect.
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I mean, shout out to Christian Ellis, first of all.
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Shout out to everyone wearing #8 on Virginia.
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Tech yeah, absolutely. But when he made that play, it
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was just like yes, like yes, I I had not felt that good in a long
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time, especially being A1 score game.
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Blowouts are fun. A1 and A1 score game.
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It ain't nothing like it. All right, I will.
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I will say something real quick. This is going to be a little bit
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of pat myself on the back and I said it this morning on on big
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dog sports talk. Rewind back to the spring game.
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I was there, I watched, I came back, I talked to it, I talked
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about it. When I was talking about safety
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play, who did I say that I liked the most that I was?
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I was like, this guy was out there, he was making some plays.
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You did #8. It was Christian Ellis it.
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Was Christian. Ellis.
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You did, Christian. Ellis So let me.
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So let me and. He has been he's played more the
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last two weeks. I'm excited to see that.
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And I don't know if it was we paid these other guys more so
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they they got in and now that somebody's gone, the rules.
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Are different. I like I like I like where you
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going right there, Brian, hold on, hold on till you talk
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because I want to I want to unpack a little bit because I
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know we got to we got to go, but we got to talk about it because
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the chat is here and I know they want to hear what my man Curtis
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has to say and you too, Brian, because you brought it up.
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I don't want to keep dumping on pry.
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I I really don't because I think pry is a good guy.
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He's a bad coach. He's a good guy over the last
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two weeks, just like Brian just said, My God, that's my brother.
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Over the last two weeks, we've seen #8 on the field more.
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And again, I know when you see somebody playing against
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somebody like Wofford, you're like, whatever, you know?
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But then we go to North Carolina State and you see #8 flying all
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over the field, flying all over the field.
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And then we got to throw in the freshman on the field.
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I mean wreaking havoc 14 and 16, Robinson and and and Chambers.
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So what Chambers And then last but not least, another name I'm
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going to throw out is Caleb Spencer.
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Caleb Spencer is, if he's not leading the team in tackles, I
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think he may be second. And I feel like he's only played
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in two games. So now I'm going to throw this
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out just so I can get y'all to unpack a.
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Little give it to Brian first give it to Brian.
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I'm going to I'm. Going to give it to Brian
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because Brian, you started it and you said it prize gone.
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Is it because we didn't trust these guys?
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Is it because because sometimes defensive coaches are so
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stubborn and they think this is what I want my defense to look
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like, put this person in. Is it that is it we paid this
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guy? Is it I don't want to piss these
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parents off? What do you think was the
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problem of us not seeing more talented people on the field?
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I think. The frustrating part and, and,
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and some of this, so you know, we, we've seen the number of
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guys that are out last week. We, we already got a couple
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other guys in the portal, so #1 there's going to be more snaps
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for guys down the roster. But I think what's frustrating
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is that you're seeing these guys get these opportunities and
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they're making plays and they're playing better than some of the
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guys that have been getting more snaps to this point.
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So it begs the question is, is there a reason these obviously
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talented players weren't getting more, more snaps in the game
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before this? And whether was, was it that was
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it a money deal? Was it just the opportunity now
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with, with the with the injuries?
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But I'm, I'm seeing guys that they're getting an opportunity
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and they are going out and making the most of it.
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And Christian Ellis is at the top of that list.
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But you said Noah Chambers. I mean that obviously he's a,
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he's a younger guy, but he was getting in there making some
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plays. I'm just excited to see these
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young guys go in there and ball out because it's, it's been
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something that I think we've been talking about from an
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accountability standpoint. I know that's been something
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that we've talked about. We've seen Dwight Victoria talk
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about it a lot. We've seen some of the other
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guys talk about is that if guys aren't getting the job done,
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there's other people on your roster, put them in and see what
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they can do. Yep.
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I think it's that Brown, what you said right there and then,
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somewhat of a blind loyalty in the money.
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The money should never matter. If you're paying the guy
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$600,000, but he's playing like dog shit, take him out, put
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somebody else in. And I think that was one thing
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we can all say. We'll probably think he had his
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loyalty to a fault to a fault for him because we've seen it.
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Remember how long it took Caleb Woodson to get and we saw
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linebacker play improved last year.
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You know, we know Caleb's going through stuff.
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We don't know where it quite is yet, but then we see the same
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thing. It's like OK give Caleb Spencer
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a chance played good take Jay and Keller off the field.
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See I know it does does good Some of the somebody else will
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will mention this in a second struggling to safety put the put
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the put the Robinson kid in and they play better.
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So yeah and I think and again. But you said that he want to be
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friends with the parents and that he want to be did Did he
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want this or did he want people mad at it?
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Maybe that was it. And again, to be a head coach,
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you are going to piss off a lot of people and you just cannot
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care who you piss off. And maybe that's what it was.
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This is my this is my tank. My take on on Coach Pry.
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I I keep saying every week, all right, I'm going to stop, I'm
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going to quit, talk about it, but I can't.
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We have to. No, no, we have to though.
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We have to. Yeah, because it's it's still
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being unpacked exactly from from Jess.
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People that I trust, things that I've seen.
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I feel like Cry got paid and was living like a rock star.
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He felt as if he was a celebrity.
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He liked to go out and mix and mingle and, you know, go to the
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bar or go out and eat and everybody's like, oh, that's
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coach proud over there. I think that he kind of fell in
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love with that aspect of being the coach at Virginia Tech
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because you can go coach at UNLV and they probably won't see you.
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You're in Las Vegas, You know what I'm saying?
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Like it's too many people there. But in Blacksburg, if you see
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the coach out, they're probably going to say, hey, I need to
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take some pictures. Coach.
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Coach was going to win Saturday. So I think he kind of fell in
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love with the celebrity part of it and handling that part more
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than winning fucking games, which is what you're getting
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paid millions of dollars for. And Brian, somebody put
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something up. I think it was Justin on there.
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He said he wanted us to speak about about Scott.
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He wanted us to speak about Scott.
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They kept calling him Scott, the defensive coordinator with his
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name is Sam, but they kept saying Scott Siefkis on the on
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the on the on the broadcast. They kept saying Scott Siefkis.
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But anyway, I can't remember. I don't see where the chat is
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there. Yeah, it's it's.
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So it's about half time he was, Oh yeah, man, he was into it.
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So I was going to say because you brought the video up, I had
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never heard him talk. I never, I mean, I heard him in
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a couple of podcasts, but I've never heard him like on the
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field talking or seeing anything.
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So what did you think about that video?
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Just seeing how he was interacting at halftime, hat
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backwards, standing up on the table or a bench and just
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emotion. What do you say?
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And. And, and I know we're talking
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about that. That band needs to keep the hat
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on, so I'm glad to see him. When he was going through his
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rant, he had the hat on because. He, I don't know, he was like.
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It was backwards, Backwards. It was backwards.
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It was on. It was on.
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On and backwards. You know what, I think just in
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general when we looked at pride, there was a lot of even keel
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demeanor on the sideline in the locker room.
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And I think we'll we'll say it it to probably to a fault in
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most cases to a fault. I was excited to see energy and
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like they were having a good time playing football.
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They were having a good time coaching football and they were
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showing their emotions outwardly.
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It wasn't just, you know, scribbles on a notepad.
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I know there's already some comments in the chat on that.
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I mean, you know, I, I'm a type of, I'm a very analytical
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person, but I'm a different person when I'm on the
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sidelines, when I need to get guys going with I need to show
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emotion when I need to be in the moment.
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So you got to have that switch. You got to be able to switch
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that on when the time is appropriate.
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And I don't I don't know if Pry had that gear at the right
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moments in his head coaching role because it's weird because
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you you you've seen a different, you know, prize a coordinator
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was different than prize a head coach.
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I don't know if that's Blacksburg, if that's the
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position, if that's just he changed his mindset about how he
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was approaching things or, you know, whatever.
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Maybe, but he was a different guy.
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How he approached the game and it filtered down to the players.
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It filtered down to his staff. And getting a different energy
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in the locker room has made a difference.
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Absolutely. I'm going to say something else
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too. And I love what Derek said here.
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Derek, this is the first time I've seen you in here, so
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welcome to the chat. Sam Seifkis called a hell of a
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game versus the run. Hollywood's mothers was fifth in
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the country running the ball. He got 60. 7.
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Yards 67 yards Saturday night. His longest was 11.
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His game plans are how to stop him.
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Basically took away what they wanted to do.
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Bailey made some good throws here and there.
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But something that's been mentioned over and over and you
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noticed this Saturday night and I think it's a reason we pumm
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the ball late and it's what went well.
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We kept making them drive the field long distances.
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They knew, and you heard Monty say it today in his presser, We
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knew they had. They had not exploded for any
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this year. You're going to beat us, you're
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going to put the ball 40 yards down the field because we're
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going to punt. We're going to pin you deep.
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And we did. If y'all remember where they
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were, I think they were like the 15 yard line.
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Let me make sure I got a little note here on it.
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Yep, they were starting at the 18 yard line.
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He knew you were going to have to go 53 yards in less.
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By the way, brilliantly managed game too.
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You're going to have to do that in less than a minute.
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It's taking you 5 and 6 minutes every time to get into scoring
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range. So Sam Cephas knew the game plan
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and that was the best thing. And you saw his emotion,
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especially in the locker room at halftime.
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So it's great to see. All right, Tally, I'm going to
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pitch this to you, right pitches you were you pitching to us.
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And I love it because I didn't, I didn't, I didn't, I didn't.
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Got some pieces together and Tally's feasting on them.
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But Tally, Brian already mentioned #8 on offense, carry
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on, Stewart. Just I know you were at the bar
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at the restaurant watching those games, but when you saw some of
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those first early runs where they weren't bringing him down,
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immediately, what, what started going through your head?
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Well, The thing is, is like, we do all of this research, you
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know what I'm saying? I'll call Curtis all offseason
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and he'll send me stuff and Shelton will send me these
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grades. And we talked about broken
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tackles and what he did at his other school and what pieces
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we're going to have. And we haven't seen it.
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You know, he's hurt. Whether we didn't trust him, I
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don't know. But I know he looked healthy.
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He looked healthy Saturday. And when I seen him on the
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field, which I've seen him a couple other games and I was
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like, Oh yeah, he's got more verse than anybody else.
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We're putting in the backfield, You know, just a couple of plays
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that I've seen. But again, you got to get you
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got to get, you got to get healthy, but you got to get your
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players on the field. Now, I did talk to a couple of
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people that I trust about the team before the season and you
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know, after this game, some parents, some players and couple
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of players. You'd never want to put a injury
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as the reason we lose games or anything like that.
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But I will say this, Johnny Garrett goes down.
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Win. Brian, do you remember Johnny
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Garrett goes down against Vandy? Vandy.
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Yeah. Right right before half right we
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were up 20 to 10 whole game changes.
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I'm pretty sure we were playing 4 red shirt freshmen and Vandy
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just feasted. You know Cunningham gets hurt.
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Totally different. Team 8 is not playing and ODU
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was. Everybody gave up.
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We've lost both of these close games.
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We should have won or games were kind of close and we should have
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won. And you know, you hear all this
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chatter, it happens. It is what it is.
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Now you've got a body and team and you coming back from some
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injuries and #8 says give me the ball.
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So when I seen it, I'm I'm at the bar and I look at #8 I said,
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shoot, they need to make him what, 33?
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He looked like 33 that we used to have right back there in the
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backfield, you know, just drop about 5 inches.
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Same guy. You know, about 5 inches.
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That's all you got to drop. Same guy.
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We bouncing off people, we running over people, we getting
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up, we doing a little dancy dance like that's Virginia Tech
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football. He was having a good time. 106
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was it? Was it 174176174I mean 15
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carries? Yeah, 174 on 1511 and.
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Listen and listen, man. When you got somebody that is
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doing that, it amps up everybody.
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I've seen Kyron Drones do some stuff I ain't never seen him do.
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I talked to his dad, he said. I've seen Kevin shout out to
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Kevin Drones, Kevin said. I seen my son on the sidelines
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standing up, waving a towel, hopping up and down.
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He just, he don't do that. He's not that kind of kid.
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He's a, he's a man, but he just, he, he usually don't, he's not
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like that. But when you see somebody giving
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it all they got going hard like #8 was how can you not get hyped
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if you not hyped on that offense with somebody doing what he's
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doing? He making something out of
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nothing on plays. You know, he's turning a three
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yard run into a 8 yard run. He's turning A8 yard run into a
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16 yard run, falling down, getting up.
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You know what I'm saying? Doing the first downside, bro,
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that's football. We've been missing that.
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We just been handing the ball off, get what you can get, get
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back in the huddle. Come on, man, we was on some
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bullshit. Now we've got some people that
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feel like we got something to prove.
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So I feel like, how far does that go where we just plan on
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emotions for one game or do we take this into the next game?
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Do we take this back home? Do we show our fans at our house
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that I know y'all gave up on us for good reason, but we still
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got a product to put on the plate for you.
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So Rob, what you think about 8? I know you mentioned it, what
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you think about 8. Man, so we were, we were out
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there, I was over at a friend's house, son had a birthday.
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We went over there, we're playing some games, got to have
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the game on TV and he breaks off that run where he broke like 3
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tackles and drag guys about another 8 or 9 yards and Buddy's
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wife said he's small and I said no, he's short.
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He's. 58220 He is not small. You can't get lower than him.
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No, you can't. You can't get lower than him.
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And it is crazy, man, because like watching him run it, it, it
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reminds me of Tooten to a little bit, but it's also a little bit
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angrier in terms, in terms of the style, probably not quite as
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that at breakaway speed that Tooten has.
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But at the same time, I love a guy that's like that, that low
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center of gravity runs angry, can still shake you a little
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bit. I I'm glad we're seeing more of
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him because I that, that was something we sorely missed in
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this offense the first few weeks of the season.
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You're 100% right. One last thing before we get
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into a couple getting one. All pretty.
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We we, we realist here y'all John love.
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The game. Good ain't no ain't no question
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about. That man it.
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Is good. Cool as a cucumber.
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I bet it ain't no kicker. I bet it's no kicker on any
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college campus that's getting more ass than John Love.
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And it can't be. It cannot be.
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Name a better kicker or more sought after kicker than John
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Love right now. He probably leading the team in
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points. Man, we get we get in a bad
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spot, we get in a bad spot. John Love is going to do his
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job. He going to do his job.
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If he miss it, it ain't his fault.
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He can miss a 30 yard kick off, say that ain't his fucking
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fault. Jon Love is untouchable until
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he's on such. Other man.
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Because he's been doing it. He's been doing it, man.
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You know what I'm saying? Protect that man at all costs.
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Don't let him get hit. No celebrations.
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Don't jump up and down. No Martine.
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Grammatical stuff. Stay on the ground.
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We need you. Please, Johnny Boy.
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There you go John Lowe all right, let's talk about what
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went bad real quick and first of all, the fumble that if we could
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have got our damn hands on would have sealed the game much
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earlier, not made us worry as bad.
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Have you ever seen a ball get that close to so many people on
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your team and just keeps moving away?
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I. Thought I was watching.
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Was it football follies back in the day?
23:57
Just. Kicking the.
23:57
Ball around. You know what I thought it was?
24:01
You remember the the Buffalo Wild Wings commercial for the
24:07
Buffalo Wild Wings? But somebody's got the the butt.
24:09
The little thing moving about. Yeah, got the butt.
24:11
Oh, no. We need overtime.
24:13
We need more play. Yeah, that's what it.
24:15
That's what it looked like to me.
24:16
It's just couldn't get our hands on it, man.
24:18
I was like. Crazy because that would have
24:21
ended the game right there if we could have got our hands.
24:23
On. It Brian, you threw this in
24:25
here, obviously, I think you probably feel run, run, run
24:29
blocking was off the chain Saturday because at no point was
24:35
the the other thing I noticed, and I'm sure you noticed
24:38
probably more than me. He was getting hit, but he was
24:41
getting hit a yard or two into the run.
24:45
There wasn't too many that he got hit 3 or 4 yards in the
24:47
backfield, but that was good. But you said just a few things
24:51
concerned you about the Pass Pro.
24:53
Yeah. I mean, you know, we're starting
24:56
to see a little bit of problems with that.
24:58
I think it's just we've had a little bit of a shuffle across
25:02
the board, right? We've seen a bunch of different
25:04
bodies. We've had a couple different
25:05
guys in there at left tackle. We've kind of had to sly guys
25:08
around and I think some of that is just starting to show across
25:11
the board. It's going to be interesting to
25:14
see if as this offensive line gets healthy, if some of those
25:18
things kind of go away a little bit or if they continues to, to,
25:22
to crop up there. But we're playing, some of the
25:24
younger guys are playing some guys.
25:26
I, I don't think you know, depth wise.
25:27
We wanted to get out there for as many snaps as we have and I
25:30
think some of that starting to show a little bit.
25:32
Thankfully, if you got a good running game, if you can lean on
25:34
that a little bit more, that's going to take some pressure off
25:37
the pass rush. So as long as we can keep keep
25:40
rolling with the with the offensive line on the the rush
25:43
game, I think that'll, you know, help on that front, But it
25:47
definitely was not the the best showing for the offensive line
25:51
in the past pro game this week. Yeah, and a couple.
25:53
Times Kyra had to scramble that that throw to Benji that should
25:57
have went on the that was unbelievable.
25:59
The throw to. Benji was was great.
26:01
The the the throw to Hawkins on the touchdown was great.
26:05
Oh, he stood in there for that. They won't.
26:07
They won't. That won't pass bro.
26:09
That wouldn't pass bro. But I'm I was.
26:10
Just bringing more people up, Kyron.
26:11
And and and. Hanging in there.
26:13
That was the one he hung in there for.
26:14
All right, boys, I'm. Going to, I'm going to tell you.
26:17
This before we go to the next thing.
26:18
Curtis, go ahead. I think it was Cunningham.
26:21
Somebody was holding like a motherfucker on the end of the
26:24
line when Kyron breaks out and throws the past the AG sliding
26:27
on the sideline. Go back and watch.
26:30
That. Play whoever was on the end.
26:31
I think it was Cunningham holding like a mug.
26:34
If I was North Carolina State, I'd have been pissed.
26:37
But guess what? I'll take a holding.
26:39
Shit. Don't let him hit my
26:40
quarterback. Shoot a CAG on them, you know
26:42
what I'm saying? Push him down, grab his helmet,
26:44
do something. Hell, I'll take it all.
26:49
Right. Real quick, this is another of
26:52
the bad because we had some guys who had played a lot of football
26:56
absolutely struggle with tackling that name.
26:59
Their names kept popping up in our chat all night.
27:03
Brian 1 was Jaden. Keller, Tally.
27:07
The other. Was flowers.
27:11
And it and and everybody's. Like y'all just hard on them Nah
27:14
that y'all see the PFF grades they were both under like they
27:18
were both under like 45 tackling grades.
27:20
Which means when you are that I always Sheldon, you can explain
27:24
it better, but it's always been you start getting to that nether
27:27
region you missed and you a lot of tackles not taken away
27:31
because Cat flowers almost good to pick.
27:34
But it's like this game maybe could have been even an easier
27:39
victory. Maybe we didn't need that, but
27:42
they struggled. It's just struggle tackling.
27:46
Like there's a couple times like Keller made some good heads up
27:49
tackle, but there was one play and I can't remember what it
27:51
was. I don't know if y'all remember.
27:53
So that he comes in and he's got the guy leveraged and then the
27:56
guy kind of makes a movement. He just kind of stands up.
27:58
Like he doesn't. He just kind of stands up and
27:59
looks around like what are you doing?
28:02
It's something he's right there. So.
28:06
That those they worry me when it becomes the open space tackle
28:11
early in the. Game the the one that I knew I
28:13
was like this going to be a this going to be a long night for
28:15
Keller was Smothers ran inside. And I mean, it was, it was clear
28:21
as day and inside zone holes opens up, Keller is slow to
28:26
fill, he's about two yards from the line of scrimmage, doesn't
28:30
beat him in the gap there and gets kind of shook out of his
28:34
pants a little bit. I think we ended up being the
28:36
longest run of the night for smothers or or or close to it.
28:40
I think it was like a 8 or 8 or 10 yarder and should have been
28:44
one or no yard game if you just get in your gap and make a play.
28:49
He hesitated. Then he got shook.
28:51
I mean, it was just bad all around and the night got worse
28:55
for him as it went on. Yeah.
28:59
All right, rule of thumb, if you are, if you're watching a game
29:02
and you see ADB look like a baby and you took his toy away and
29:06
he's doing this, he probably got beat.
29:10
There's no reason you should have thriller arms if you're
29:12
playing safe, you're trying to follow.
29:16
You should not have. Arms like thriller if you are
29:19
playing safety, chasing that receiver.
29:22
Flowers, I like you, my boy. I mean, I I like what I see from
29:27
you as a football veteran, but as a football player, come on
29:37
man, I vouch for you. I want you to do better, but you
29:40
got to start showing us something.
29:42
You got to start hitting some people because they put some
29:44
freshmen in and these they hit you.
29:47
They need you to hit somebody. Make some happy real.
29:51
Quick I I. Want us just to go kind of 1 by
29:54
1? What's in your head?
29:55
Anything you are not prepared for on Saturday?
30:01
I I would say we, you know, we, we got to win despite not
30:06
really, you know, turning the ball over.
30:09
You know, we, we didn't, we didn't have any really takeaways
30:12
in this in this game, but we still you'd have to.
30:15
Tell me we had three turnovers. The way I felt last Wednesday
30:18
night to win this game. Oh, we won the game, man.
30:21
They must have just kept giving us the ball over and over,
30:24
right? Was this?
30:26
Was this Tommy Castellanos? Like just slinging it at us.
30:31
Here you go, here you go, Tal. Anything you weren't prepared
30:34
for, Brian saying. When does fight lack of
30:36
turnovers? Talon?
30:38
I was not prepared. For us to have a running back to
30:41
run for 174 yards. No matter who was back.
30:46
There, I wouldn't prepare for Terry on Stuart for sure, but I
30:49
wouldn't prepare for us to have a running back in a running
30:53
game. They had a running back run for
30:55
174 yards. That was crazy.
31:00
I I thought we'd have some. Ability to move the football
31:03
against them. I didn't think he was going to
31:04
be that run heavy and I didn't think, like you said, one back
31:08
going out there and just dominating. 100% Curtis, what
31:12
you got? For me.
31:14
Because of just how the season had went so far up to that game
31:20
last weekend, we were given up somewhere in the neighborhood of
31:25
about A150160 rushing yards. People were running all over us.
31:33
Yeah. We.
31:34
Gave up less than 60 yards on the ground that I was not
31:39
prepared for that because I what I say last week I said smothers
31:43
just don't get his. They just can't be big ones.
31:46
He didn't have any big one that he didn't get his and I that
31:49
just completely I was not prepared for that.
31:52
All right, I'm I'm going to go to the what we got to do better
31:56
moving forward. If the Kyron drones in the way
31:59
he passed in the second-half shows up all game, especially
32:03
Aiden Green Aiden green you got to catch that that might have
32:06
been the best D ball kyron's throne in his career here
32:10
because he put that one right on the money, but in the
32:12
second-half. I don't know something like I
32:15
want to say I. Think I did it.
32:18
It's like he. Was like 8 of 11.
32:21
He only missed the one that he only missed a couple passes in
32:24
the second-half and along with the Stewart, if that Kyron shows
32:30
up and he's somewhere in the 6570% and we're passing it 2025
32:35
* a game and running the ball with Stewart and with Kyron,
32:39
with Marcellus Hawkins. We might do something stupid.
32:44
If if he can. Keep that level of efficiency
32:47
for a whole game and he's somewhere in that 200 to 250
32:51
range yardage. He's had another 30 or 40 on the
32:54
ground, and then you get another ground attack from the
32:58
combination of Stewart and Hawkins.
33:00
Like we saw this past week that that's something that's pretty
33:04
formidable. And that's something where, you
33:07
know, as, as Cam was talking about earlier, you know, with us
33:10
with, with Wake, I mean, they're they're going to make a lot of
33:13
these teams are going to stack the box and, and and make Kyron
33:15
beat you with his arm. We're going, we're going to get
33:18
the teams that can do that, that aren't where we can't just run
33:22
through them despite them having the box filled.
33:25
We're going to have to, you know, pivot to to that passing
33:27
game and have to be efficient with that because we know that
33:30
Monty likes to sling the ball around a little bit.
33:32
It's not going to always be deep down the field.
33:34
It's not going to be things like that, but he's going to throw
33:36
the ball a good amount of times. We got to continue to be
33:39
efficient with those completions.
33:42
And when we've been at least somewhat efficient on offense in
33:46
the passing game, it hasn't been pretty.
33:49
We haven't been great in the red zone, but we've moved the fault,
33:52
the ball up and down the field 1/3 and out.
33:55
We had 1/3 and out Saturday. Yeah.
33:58
So and and that and that's what's great.
33:59
You know, and we and we did pretty well, you know, the first
34:03
game and 1/2 with with, with those things and then the wheels
34:06
kind of fell off, you know, second-half of Vandy on and I
34:10
feel like we may have, you know, recaptured a little bit of that
34:13
with with this NC State game and I'm hoping that the.
34:17
Thing that I was. Most proud of and that we can
34:19
need to continue doing moving forward is that we didn't let a
34:24
negative play snowball on us. And I think we saw that you
34:29
know, we saw that Vanderbilt. We obviously saw that ODU.
34:32
You know Vanderbilt, we let a couple bad things turn into an
34:36
awful second-half ODU. They came out and they punched
34:39
us in the mouth early and we never had a counter push.
34:42
We quit. Yeah, we never had a counter
34:45
punch and we quit. So I saw a team that negative
34:49
plays happen and mentally we stayed even keel.
34:53
We were excited on the on the sideline, we were gas, we were
34:56
doing those things. But mentally up top we stayed
34:59
even keel. We didn't let that one play turn
35:01
into 5 all. Right tally.
35:06
Anything from? Saturday night.
35:10
That you want to close us out with here just.
35:15
I, I don't know how the rest of the season go.
35:17
I ain't going to look that far. I'm going to say next game, I
35:19
don't know how the next game goes.
35:21
I do have, I know we'll do a prediction a little bit, but
35:25
just energy, energy and effort, man, You know what I'm saying?
35:28
I haven't seen that kind of energy from players and coaches
35:35
in a while. You know, even in games that we
35:38
were in, like South Carolina, I didn't feel like we had the same
35:41
kind of energy. They wanted to give us the game
35:44
and we just was kind of playing the game.
35:46
We didn't want to take the game. You know, in this game, it was
35:49
like, you heard it, we got to go take the game.
35:53
This is our game, let's go take it.
35:56
And the kids bought in and that's what they went and done.
35:59
So I'll be interested to see if we come out with that same
36:03
energy and that effort where it takes US against White Forest.
36:08
I like what Justin said. There put up Derek's too,
36:13
because it is all on saying now and it's already been a positive
36:17
for the for the first game against AP5 opponent.
36:20
So yeah, all right, so that takes care of that.
36:23
Tell the truth Tuesday. We try not to tell any lies.
36:27
We just tell what we see. All right, so let's hit some
36:30
music notes because the day was the big day with the board of
36:34
visitors and I think we all knew what was going to happen.
36:38
And it did happen with one person saying no.
36:41
But the Bob did approve for the new funding as a vote of 13 to
36:46
one. Basically, within the next 4
36:49
years, Tech's going to be operating north of 200 million
36:52
in the athletic budget. What does that mean for
36:55
football? Well, football is the biggest
36:57
portion of the athletic budget. People can get paid more, a lot
37:02
more for NIL. I don't think there was ever any
37:05
doubt, Nancy Dye saying. I don't think it's fair to the
37:10
student fees. You know.
37:14
The first. Thing you want to say is.
37:15
Well, they're still the lowest in state.
37:19
You've got to figure out a. Way to make money.
37:22
You've got better ideas, you should be presenting them.
37:25
That's always another thing I don't like, Mike says.
37:27
Well, I think it's because this OK, my first thing I'd be a
37:30
smart ass. So what are we going to do then?
37:32
Or do you want us not to have a good athletics program?
37:36
Right. Yeah, Dave.
37:37
Put it up here. But I mean, no shock, right?
37:41
Yeah, no, no shock. Man, I mean, we knew it was
37:43
going to happen. It had to happen.
37:45
They tried to get their asses kicked and the Dick stumped.
37:48
So they wanted to go ahead and do something about it.
37:52
Let's do something about it, man.
37:53
Let's give it our best shot and see if we can if we can create
37:57
some stuff. Because when you look back at
37:59
what a football team does, that is good.
38:01
And I'm just just talking football.
38:03
We can talk about other sports another time.
38:08
When a football team is good. It is.
38:11
A big win for. The city, you know, everybody in
38:15
the chat, you've been to Blacksburg, when, when, when
38:17
things are jumping, when game day comes in town, you know,
38:21
like it's, it's electric. That isn't just for the football
38:25
field. Like you can go to Food Lion or
38:28
whatever the the the grocery store is and they're selling out
38:31
of stuff and you got to get more people to work that day because
38:34
you got to restock drinks. Bigger than just football.
38:38
Football's just a catalyst and when you start talking money,
38:42
you got to spend money to make money.
38:44
You can't run it like a mom and pop if you want to be a
38:47
corporation, so. Yeah, I mean, I think.
38:53
When you look at it at the end of the day, you know, for all of
38:57
which false when when this was first coming about, one of the
39:03
things he said was probably one of the best things he said as AD
39:07
And it's you're either going to pay for it now or we're going to
39:11
pay for it later. And, and, and basically meaning
39:14
you're either going to up the revenue now or you're going to
39:17
pay for it later in lost revenue, whether it be drops in
39:22
tuition, whether it be, you know, you don't, you're not in
39:26
the national spotlight. So you're not getting that free
39:28
billboard for the university, getting put on ESPN, get put on
39:34
all these networks, all these networks.
39:36
At the end of the day. You're going to lose money if
39:39
you are irrelevant, so a lot more money a.
39:43
Lot of they spend money. And and try to be relevant and
39:46
and and that's the one thing I think that this fan base.
39:50
Can't stomach is is. Being irrelevant, I think.
39:53
I think we can, we can weather, you know, a six win season here
39:58
or there. We can, we can weather all these
40:00
things. We can weather it, you know,
40:01
this, this decade of being in the in the doldrums, but I don't
40:05
think we can weather being any, any relevant football team.
40:10
So getting that right is going to help all the other aspects of
40:13
the university, whether that be from a perception standpoint,
40:18
whether that be for increasing enrollment, all those things
40:22
will trickle down to these other areas.
40:24
And unfortunately, when we look at student fees, that is just a,
40:28
a part of the process now. And whether you like or dislike
40:32
student fees, the fact of the matter is, is that the the cash
40:36
is on the table for that and everyone else is taking it.
40:39
So if you're not taking it, you're falling behind 100%.
40:45
My, my, my last feel on it. Like it's all been done right
40:49
now. There is the philanthropy,
40:50
there's the donations. Basically Hokie Club was right
40:54
at 20 million last year, last fiscal year.
40:56
So it's going to have to go up plus 10 million.
40:59
But the whole thing is with what they just done and saying we are
41:03
devoting this much, there are going to be people that maybe
41:08
this year you gave $200.00, but next year, you know what
41:11
they're, they're really trying. They want to put us back where
41:14
we were. I'm I'm going to cut a few
41:16
things here and there and I'm going to give $700.00 this year.
41:19
And a lot of people like what's $700.00?
41:21
That's not that much, but an extra 500 from an extra 23000
41:26
people, that's when you start bumping.
41:28
That's when things happen. Or the guy who gives 1000 says
41:31
you know what, I'm giving 5 GS this year.
41:34
That's when you get to that goal.
41:36
And it also doesn't hurt that this was announced after a win
41:40
like Saturday night like that. I mean, hell, there's no better
41:45
advertisement than that. Like look how excited people
41:48
were. You saw you.
41:49
You've heard like the kids were excited to say night on campus
41:52
and stuff. So it's really good.
41:56
There will be the athletic investment committee.
41:58
I know I heard that something that they're going to help God
42:01
again, that's big boy type shit. That's basically saying these
42:05
people are going to guide you to where put the money, how to get
42:07
the money in, not just hey, AD decide what to do with it.
42:12
I love hearing that There was also.
42:15
A hire last week. Which?
42:18
Came kind of out of. Nowhere apparently had been in
42:20
the works for a while, but Doctor Javonte Ashford is the
42:26
new associate ID for major gifts.
42:28
That's the big, big money. That's just 678 figures worth of
42:33
donations. And, you know, you see, oh,
42:36
who's this guy? Well, he's coming from
42:39
University of Tennessee, where he was in a similar role.
42:43
And Tally, you're a little closer to that than we are.
42:47
You know, being in SEC country, they've made a lot of
42:52
substantial upgrades in the last half decade down in Knoxville.
42:55
Yeah, Yeah, a lot of. Money, man, money got around and
43:01
you black dudes will Tennessee going and talking about giving
43:04
gifts. He probably pretty good at
43:07
selling. I'm going to tell you that right
43:08
now because they like some NASCAR and stuff like that, but
43:12
they love their football. So hey, I'll take it.
43:15
I, I will take it. You know, I don't know much
43:17
about him, I ain't going to lie. But I seen the high and I seen
43:20
where he came from and have watched Tennessee over the last
43:24
couple of years. And I was like, now we starting
43:27
to, you know, we didn't go get somebody from Spokane, WA to
43:33
come over here and talk to people.
43:35
You know what I'm saying? You.
43:37
Want to get somebody who kind of at least knows the area.
43:40
You know, Tennessee's close to Virginia.
43:43
Hey, I need you to go do your job and grew up in Roanoke, so
43:46
definitely knows the area. Thank you, Curtis.
43:48
So you know, things like that, man, you got to be able to, I
43:52
kept saying, and this is and this is hard for a coach, the
43:57
coach can't do all this stuff that needs to be done.
44:00
You got to have these positions filled by people who want to go
44:05
out and be successful because you need that coach to coach.
44:09
The coach has to be the figurehead of the program, but
44:13
you need that coach to coach. So the things like this that
44:16
we're actually going out and getting and they talking about
44:19
going and getting the GM and things like that, you got to
44:23
have that. If you want to have a big.
44:25
Boy program man, you got to have them positions field so when you
44:29
get the game day you ain't fucking losing by 1.16 out of 17
44:35
times. Let's talk about the other
44:37
thing. Win 8.
44:38
Out of win 8 out of 16. Time give me 1/2 of them Yeah.
44:42
And the other thing about the. Money and and this goes back to
44:45
kind of the wit Babcock situation.
44:47
So you got the one thing with the money is that Curtis talked
44:50
about OK, well you get a win, you get this money now people
44:53
are going to be more willing to part part with it.
44:56
The other part about people being a little more willing to
44:58
start giving money again is that football as a whole is.
45:03
No longer in. The hands of wit Babcock.
45:06
Nope. So.
45:08
There was a. Lot of apprehension, not only
45:10
just because of the coaching situation, not just because of
45:12
the performance on the field, but because Whit Babcock was the
45:17
ringleader of the all the shenanigans that got us here,
45:20
right? He is not going to be a part of
45:23
that puzzle anymore. So I don't think he's going to
45:27
be part of the whole program. In general, regardless,
45:29
regardless of whether he. Stays on in any capacity.
45:32
He's going to be hands off more or less on the football side of
45:34
things. So I think that's going to give
45:37
people a little less apprehension when it comes to to
45:41
giving. And then you start making see
45:43
these other moves to kind of build up the Hokie Club and move
45:49
away from that kind of mom and pop aspect of OK, well, you
45:52
know, we'll hit this goal. We'll hit that goal.
45:56
At some point. You got to get the people that
45:58
have the money to move off and write the big checks.
46:00
And it can't just be Mahul or a couple other guys every few
46:04
years. It's got to be across the board,
46:07
so I'm excited to see what they do with that 100%.
46:11
All right. Real quick, I just want to
46:13
mention this. I'm sure everybody's paying
46:14
attention to it. Along with us having the open
46:17
vacancy, there are now 5, four other schools that are out
46:21
there, Stanford, which that's going to be a special coach that
46:25
takes that job. Don't even question it.
46:27
UCLA, Oklahoma State and Arkansas and from the.
46:31
Sounds of. Arkansas in UCLA, they ain't got
46:39
no money to spend. And everybody's like, well,
46:41
they're getting paid so much. But I think what's happened over
46:44
the last decade is some of these schools got overzealous and
46:48
spent way too much money on dumb shit.
46:51
And now it is a crucial time to have money to be able to spend,
46:56
and they don't have money to spend.
46:57
So as much as that we can say we don't like Whip, we can say a
47:02
lot bad stuff about him. The one thing he did is he kept
47:05
us out of debt, which really probably for the next four to
47:07
five years we can take on debt as it comes to this crucial
47:12
time. Well, it's.
47:14
It's it's good to. Work be in a situation where you
47:17
can take on debt while you're also raising your overall budget
47:20
in the process. So you're, you're letting
47:25
letting good money go after the bad money in this case to, to
47:28
really double up what you're trying to do from a funding
47:31
standpoint. So that's working in tandem at
47:34
the same time. Yeah, I think the big thing is
47:37
that we got to get this GM Hireright, we got to get this
47:39
coaching Hireright at we're at a point where this has to be a
47:42
slam dunk. And and that's really where my
47:45
concern is going to be is can we get these, these aspects, these
47:49
pieces of the puzzle correct? Because if we don't, then what
47:54
goodwill that this is is generating, you know, two to
47:59
three years down the road, we might be back in the same place
48:01
of saying, well, we got the higher wrong.
48:03
We screwed this up. We screwed that up.
48:05
If you're not getting a return on the investment, at some point
48:07
people are going to start balking at you.
48:10
True. Quick question.
48:12
Quick question. We ain't going to.
48:14
Talk a whole bunch about HEAD. Coach, But I do want to say
48:18
this. What's the number of wins that
48:23
money has to have to be considered for the next Virginia
48:28
Tech head coach? He's got to go to Charlotte.
48:32
ACC got to go to we got. To go to if he goes to the ACC
48:36
Championship. Game and they reel off 9
48:38
straight wins. You have to give it to him and
48:41
as much as that'll piss some people off, say we want a bigger
48:43
name, like he just won nine straight games and got you to
48:47
Charlotte. What if he?
48:49
Wins. What if he is the number?
48:51
But I think Charlotte is. Definitely the caveat Tally.
48:53
I'll let you go ahead. Sorry about that.
48:55
No, you did. I was just going to say.
48:57
What if he just gets you to a ball game?
48:59
What if he wins six games? Nope, Nope, Nope, Nope.
49:02
We. Went there, nine wins showed
49:04
something. Nine win is a massive step up
49:06
because we were talking about this year probably 1-8 or nine.
49:09
He probably kept his job for a couple more years, yeah.
49:14
And The thing is the back half of that.
49:16
Schedule don't look pretty, so we'll see.
49:20
We'll see how we got to win. At least three in October to
49:24
have any, any sort of chance at a bowl it is.
49:31
Going to be. Tough.
49:33
All right. Real quick, let's let's go to
49:37
our keys and our predictions for the game this weekend.
49:40
I'll, I'll leave this off because Cameron said it earlier.
49:43
It it's all about our Reds on defense versus our Reds on
49:46
offense. I think whoever wins that wins
49:49
this game. They aren't good.
49:51
We aren't good. Something's got to break so.
49:56
That's me. Like look.
49:58
At the end, if if they they got down there three, they got down
50:02
there five times and they scored five times, we lose.
50:06
If they got down there five times and they've been keeping
50:08
their average, which is scoring 3, we probably take the win.
50:14
I think the big thing is just don't let them in.
50:15
That area all together. Don't.
50:19
Let them get down there, man. You can only score so many, so
50:23
many points by putting them in the end zone if you only get
50:26
down there two or three times. So keep them, keep them out of
50:29
our side, get the ball back. Hopefully we can control that
50:33
time of time of possession with the run game, with the short
50:36
passing game. And you know, hopefully we do a
50:39
little bit better of converting some of those red zone
50:41
opportunities ourselves. I think.
50:47
The key is. Just living in.
50:48
Turnovers, you know, definitely watching your turnovers A-Team,
50:52
like Wake is going to kind of feed on that, you know, coming
50:56
in, feed on that energy if you turn the ball over and you got
50:59
to get Kyrie's. Stat line probably needs to.
51:04
Be about, you know, 202, twenty passing yards and give me about
51:11
50 rushing yards. That's what his stat line got to
51:14
look like. Again, you got to use him for
51:16
how he's needs to be used. You got to have a rushing game
51:19
behind him too. But on those 50 yards he has to
51:24
set that tone similar to what he did.
51:27
It was times when he was taking on 2/3 defenders, getting the
51:31
tough yards and then you come with a running back doing the
51:33
same thing. You got to be able to just set
51:36
that tone. I think Derek just said it set
51:39
the tone to start the game. You know, we're not a finesse
51:42
team. I don't think Virginia Tech will
51:44
ever be a finesse team. No matter if they hire Cliff
51:49
Kingsbury in here, if they hire Lincoln Riley, I think Virginia
51:53
Tech always is going to be more of a lunch pail.
51:58
Team. You just got to go get some
52:00
tough yards. So if that's your identity, feed
52:04
into your identity. Let's go again this week.
52:08
Like I said, use Kyrenheit needs to be used.
52:12
Limit them turnovers. I think we're good.
52:14
All right. Brian Siegler.
52:18
They they broke what that you said until we went A1 score.
52:22
I said it until until we beat APAP 4.
52:25
Opponent in A1 score game I was going to pick against them.
52:29
Damn it, they got you not. I'm not picking against the
52:32
Hokies. This week and I hopefully I
52:33
don't jinx them but give me 2721 Hokies.
52:39
Oh wow, another one. Score win.
52:41
Tally, I'm going. To.
52:45
Pick against the Hokies, even though I have a little bit of
52:48
confidence, I'm going to give the edge to wait just because I
52:53
need to see the consistency. The last time I seen US against
52:58
a competent team in lane, I didn't like it.
53:03
You know, no disrespect to to to Walford, but I don't think
53:07
nobody thought we would lose the wafford, no matter how bad it
53:10
was. But I just need to see some.
53:14
Consistency. I need to see where we just
53:16
playing off of the emotions and now you have some expectations
53:21
you are favorite to win this game.
53:25
How every time we get some kind of expectations, we fold it as
53:30
over the last couple of weeks. I meant last couple of years.
53:33
I need to see what you do. So I'm going to pick against the
53:36
Hokies. I'm going to say it'll be a
53:37
close game, but wait takes it. Alex stole my Thunder.
53:43
I was going to say almost. Exactly what you were saying
53:46
because I need them to prove it to me again.
53:48
I'm going to take wait for it in this game 2723.
53:54
Heartbreaker man, I'm the only. One riding with the Hokies.
53:57
Man, you're the only one riding with them.
53:59
You know how they needed to prove it to you.
54:01
They got to prove it to us. If they can do it on our turf
54:05
two in a row against the competent team, that's fair.
54:07
That's fair, man. I got to say it, Curtis.
54:09
I got to say it, I know. We got to get going, but I got
54:11
to say it. You come out to that.
54:14
Damn innocent. Man, please don't let the fans
54:17
down. Don't let innocent man be the
54:20
highlight of the freaking game. So tired of hearing about the
54:25
entrance and then we go out and lose.
54:27
Go out and take this game. Go out and get the fans.
54:32
Prove us wrong, man. I know we can do it.
54:35
Prove us wrong. Don't let.
54:36
That don't let the. Entrance be the highlight of the
54:39
game. That's all I'm asking.
54:41
All right, there we go. Yep, and you're right, Derek.
54:43
Fans need to win. All right, so last weekend was a
54:49
hell of a weekend for sports, hell of a weekend for college
54:51
football. This weekend it took a little
54:54
bit of prime to figure out what game we were taking because it
54:57
the slate one was good. Also, if you had gotten smart
55:01
the last two weekends and faded everything me and Brian decided
55:05
to do, you'd have a lot of damn money in your pocket right now
55:08
because we are Owen 8. It's rough, but the worst.
55:14
The worst part of that is. We were at. 500 and then the
55:18
last two weeks have just snowballed into hell for us.
55:23
We can't pick them for worth a damn so yeah, if y'all are
55:26
watching this out there, feel free to go ahead and just just
55:29
make a card fade and everything we got here and you know I think
55:35
you'll be in be in good shape all right I'll.
55:39
Kick us off, Brian, the first fade and this is the game I
55:42
picked because I should be back from baseball by the time this
55:45
one kicks off. We got Michigan State, Nebraska,
55:49
Nebraska laying 11 1/2 points. I got to say something.
55:55
I feel for. Nebraska, because I watched a
55:57
good bit of that Michigan game. They should have beat Michigan.
56:00
I'm sorry. They should have beat Michigan.
56:03
And I believe I saw Michigan State, USC the other weekend and
56:09
just Michigan. State's kind of just floating.
56:13
They had what was his name for all those years?
56:17
Not John L Smith. Y'all know what I'm talking
56:21
about? Old crusty.
56:23
Guy, Yeah, the playoffs went to multiple.
56:26
I mean, he looked probably a hell of a football coach that's
56:29
probably looked old, old and crusty.
56:32
But in this case, fade me. I want to lay 11 1/2.
56:37
Nebraska wins by 17, All right? Yeah, click your button, Brian.
56:45
I did. It's delayed Shelton, who's not
56:48
here tonight because he had to do some play by play action.
56:52
He also rides with us Tally. I got to go to Nebraska, man.
56:59
I ain't heard about freaking Michigan State for 10 years.
57:05
Thank you. Yeah, D'antonio.
57:06
D'antonio, Mark. D'antonio, Mark.
57:09
D'antonio. Ron, I'm riding with Nebraska as
57:13
well, I think. They're probably, I mean
57:16
Michigan State, like you said, they're just kind of they're
57:18
kind of hovering at this point. I don't really know what they're
57:20
if they're ever going to kind of take that step back into that,
57:25
you know, mid to. Upper echelon.
57:27
Of the of the conference kind of reminds me a little bit of
57:31
another team. I know unfortunately.
57:36
But yeah, I think they're they're at a crossroads as well.
57:39
At least I I see some some juice and some movement on our end.
57:43
I think the brass is going to take this one All right next.
57:47
Game. This is Tally's pick.
57:51
Yeah, man. The Cavaliers showed me a very
57:56
interesting game on Friday last week, so I thought they deserve
58:00
to be on big screeners again this this week.
58:03
But I am taking, I'm taking. Excuse me, Louisville on this
58:08
guy Kylie Land, the seven and a. Half I'm.
58:14
I'm gonna go ahead and. Jump in here, I mean.
58:18
I am picking UVA in the capacity that I don't think it will be
58:22
more than a 77 point game. I think that Louisville ends up
58:25
closing this game out, but it is closer than that, 7 1/2.
58:29
So give me the Cavs. I'm similarly I don't know
58:34
who's. Going to win this game, but I
58:35
think 7 1/2 was just a little bit too much.
58:38
Although I think Cali, I think your head, I think Cali's head
58:41
is saying they just had literally their biggest win
58:44
since 2019. Probably program wise, it's
58:50
probably their second or third biggest win of all time.
58:52
Can they handle the emotion going on the road to a tough
58:55
environment and they quarterback was trying to they quarterback?
58:59
Was trying to give Florida State the game, and Florida State's
59:02
quarterback was trying to give it back to him.
59:05
Take it, I don't want. It take it I don't want.
59:07
It take it nobody landed that game.
59:11
That's what it felt, yeah. Sheldon is riding with you
59:13
Tally, which is probably smart, giving me and Curtis's track
59:17
record the last couple weeks I think.
59:20
There's a, there's a, there's a. Theme here y'all, y'all pay
59:22
attention to what Shelton's doing.
59:25
All right, next. 1. This is Shelton.
59:30
Shelton picked Miami FL State massive game was going to should
59:37
have been more massive but Florida State couldn't figure
59:40
out how to be Eva Shelton is on this one and he is taking the UG
59:46
later 4 1/2 tally. What about you man?
59:50
I got to go to you, man. That defensive line, offensive
59:54
line too. Trenches look ridiculous for
59:58
Miami. I don't know if they win at all.
1:00:00
I don't know what they do this year, but from what I've seen in
1:00:03
the they offensive defensive line, I think they are going to
1:00:07
probably beat Florida State by about 14 points.
1:00:13
I'm not quite on that. 14 but I think a 10 point curve could be
1:00:19
in play here. This is probably the best top to
1:00:22
bottom and and coached Miami that we've seen in maybe 25
1:00:30
years in terms of just talent in in a lot of different places,
1:00:37
talent where it needs to be. Coaching, that is.
1:00:42
Fairly consistent. They don't, they don't hurt
1:00:45
themselves as much. So we'll we'll see if we'll get
1:00:47
the classic Miami blunder at some point down the stretch in
1:00:51
this season. Hopefully it is, you know, at at
1:00:54
our expense there. So, but in the interim, I think
1:00:58
Miami takes care of business against Florida State.
1:01:02
I'm going. Opposite of all.
1:01:04
Three of y'all I think Florida State was looking forward to
1:01:08
this game last Friday night because if you looked.
1:01:13
At everything. That they they had the ball in
1:01:16
the red zone 3 three more times then UVA.
1:01:21
They came away with 0 points out of it.
1:01:24
That was the game. I think they locked in and
1:01:26
focus. I think I'll pick a home
1:01:28
favorite or a home with points. I don't know who's going to win
1:01:31
this game. I think it's going to be
1:01:33
entertaining as hell though. Give me Florida State, give me 4
1:01:36
1/2 points. There we go, man.
1:01:39
All right. Last one is you, Brian.
1:01:42
Oh, Jeezy. Hey, man.
1:01:44
Hey, man. Hey.
1:01:45
Man, Bama hosting the The Commodores, man, I feel like
1:01:51
with, with our match up against Vanderbilt the last two years,
1:01:54
we, we've put Vandy on here probably more than then maybe we
1:02:00
should have. But I think with with what
1:02:04
they've done there with with with bringing in Jerry Kill and
1:02:07
Diego Pavia, that's a team that is dangerous every week and they
1:02:12
play in the SEC so. With that being.
1:02:16
Said Bama is -10 1/2 at home. I'm taking Vanderbilt, yeah.
1:02:22
I think this is going to come down to the wire.
1:02:24
I don't think it's going to be like a three, three-point game
1:02:26
or anything, but I think it's going to be about A1 touchdown
1:02:29
game. I think Bama closes about late,
1:02:31
but you know Vandy will cover there.
1:02:34
Yeah, this is another one I don't.
1:02:35
Know who's going to win? But 10 1/2 is way too much to
1:02:38
lay Alabama, especially coming off that win down in Athens last
1:02:44
week. The the question is, can Kaylin
1:02:47
Devore straighten them out? To get off of that and know
1:02:51
Vandy is like Vandy's for real, they're going to throw funky
1:02:54
stuff at you both ways. 10 1/2 is just not enough.
1:02:58
Also fuck Diego Pavia, that little bastard's trying to get
1:03:02
like a ninth year of eligibility.
1:03:03
Be like, motherfucker, you were like 26 years old, get a job.
1:03:11
Go throw in something, by the way, football.
1:03:14
Van Wilder, baby Van Wilder, Shelton said.
1:03:18
Tally Shelton's riding with Bandy.
1:03:20
By the way, Tally. Was the only one who took
1:03:23
Alabama last week. He got that win because I know
1:03:28
you, you amongst them down there, man.
1:03:31
I just, I just felt it, man. I.
1:03:33
Think that Alabama wins this game, but I think it's going to
1:03:35
be closer than 10 1/2, maybe 10. The hook threw me off the hook,
1:03:42
Yeah, threw me off a. Little bit, but I'll.
1:03:44
Say Vandy's about to have a gauntlet of a schedule, man, you
1:03:48
know, they are about to get into some, you know, LSU, Missouri,
1:03:53
Texas, Auburn, Kentucky, Tennessee.
1:03:57
So from here on out, their schedule is going to look a lot
1:04:01
different than it has looked. I think that that's going to
1:04:04
keep them in the game because you got Alabama coming off of
1:04:07
playing Georgia coming into the game.
1:04:12
Maybe underestimate them a little bit.
1:04:15
But at the same time, I do think Alabama will lock in and win
1:04:18
this game. But I think it's going to be
1:04:20
closer than what the spread is. So I took that in.
1:04:23
All right, there we go. All right.
1:04:26
So we got that up there, all of our kits.
1:04:30
Is there any anything happening in the last?
1:04:35
Well, the one thing I know is today y'all follow John
1:04:37
Rothstein? Yeah, he was.
1:04:40
He was. At he was at tech today, Yeah.
1:04:43
Did you see the video? I did not go look at the video.
1:04:48
Demands this, he thinks we can get back in the tournament this
1:04:50
year. All right, all.
1:04:52
Right, not my words, I saw. The.
1:04:55
I. I saw the highlight you're
1:04:57
talking about Neo, you talk about him being a better shooter
1:05:02
than Igor Damon with with BYU. He's he's he's very high on Neo
1:05:08
at this point. So we'll see if if all those
1:05:11
pieces can come into place with with the talent that was left on
1:05:15
the roster with some of the moves we made this this
1:05:17
offseason. I'm really excited about this
1:05:19
basketball team, probably as excited as I've been in a few
1:05:21
years. So excited to see if they can
1:05:25
put it on the floor there. It's going to be a really good,
1:05:27
really good year, I think in Blacksburg for the for the
1:05:30
Hoagies basketball team. Absolutely.
1:05:32
I think we. Brian, I think we might need to.
1:05:34
Find us a game and go to this year, man, we haven't been to a
1:05:37
basketball game together. Binding to find one dog.
1:05:40
Yeah, they've got to be pretty cool.
1:05:43
Well, you know what still would come with you?
1:05:45
In a heartbeat. All right, get up.
1:05:47
Get up with Phil, man. See if he'll let.
1:05:49
Me stay at moments of the MAR, you know, then head to a
1:05:51
basketball game. I think that'd be pretty cool.
1:05:54
Phil loves basketball, man. He.
1:05:56
I. Mean about 98% sure he's going
1:05:59
down to the Bahamas for the that tournament this year.
1:06:04
Yeah, I'm about to reach out to him.
1:06:05
And if he does, he he. Said if I go, I'm going to do a
1:06:08
live remote from the Bahamas. OK.
1:06:11
OK. We'll see.
1:06:13
All right, nothing. Else breaking down.
1:06:15
Fun night. You guys were awesome in the
1:06:17
chat. I don't know how many messages
1:06:18
we have in there. We did not get to them all.
1:06:21
Apologies. We got to talk to.
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