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Chris Landry Interview · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Speaker 1: W.R.K.S.
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  Speaker 2: in Jackson. Go to CapitalGrillinJackson.com. Chris Landry on your radio.
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  Speaker 2: Go to LandryFootball.com. And, of course, you can find him
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  Speaker 2: on X, TikTok, and more. Chris, welcome in, sir. It
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  Speaker 2: is week zero. How are you?
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  Speaker 1: Hey. You think I'm doing good? How about yourself? We're
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  Speaker 1: doing good.
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  Speaker 2: We're sitting here, believe it or not, Chris, we're talking
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  Speaker 2: hot seats for college football because there's a big piece
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  Speaker 2: out by Ross Tellinger on, you know, hey, I know
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  Speaker 2: the season's starting, but there could be a lot of dominoes,
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  Speaker 2: so to speak, to fall. I will get your thoughts
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  Speaker 2: on a couple games in college, maybe some NFL. We
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  Speaker 2: were talking quarterbacks and, you know, our listeners are very educated.
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  Speaker 2: They do a great job of keeping us straight. And,
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  Speaker 2: you know, DJ Lagway, we'll start at Baylor, is going
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  Speaker 2: to be expected to basically save Dave Aranda's job, right?
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  Speaker 2: And Dave Aranda made the comment, and I'm paraphrasing several
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  Speaker 2: months ago, that felt like they would see the real
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  Speaker 2: DJ Lagway. He was kind of put in a box,
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  Speaker 2: put in a stray jacket. Billy Napier didn't do him
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  Speaker 2: any favors. And I made the comment, I said, you know,
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  Speaker 2: there's not a lot of quarterbacks typically that go, you know,
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  Speaker 2: if you're marginal at school X, you're going to be
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  Speaker 2: marginal at school Y. You know, very rarely do you
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  Speaker 2: see the kind of that uptick, that Mendoza effect. You know,
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  Speaker 2: if you're not good then you transfer, you're probably not
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  Speaker 2: going to be good there either, and you transfer down.
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  Speaker 2: Several people have mentioned Bo Nix when he transferred from
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  Speaker 2: Auburn to Oregon. Burrow, obviously, from Ohio State to LSU.
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  Speaker 2: Jaden Daniels, Arizona State to LSU. Can DJ Lagway have
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  Speaker 2: that type of swing season for Baylor and Dave Aranda?
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  Speaker 1: No, not that type. No, I think he can. Look,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the reason is, Most of those cases, the
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  Speaker 1: player loses his job for whatever reason, and he goes
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  Speaker 1: into a situation, and the team's not good enough around him.
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  Speaker 1: There are exceptions to that. You just mentioned a couple
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  Speaker 1: of them. And guys can get better. He's got some
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  Speaker 1: limitations in his physical skills that's going to hinder it,
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  Speaker 1: and they're not good enough around him. Now, I think
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  Speaker 1: it's manageable enough in the Big 12 where they can
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  Speaker 1: win some games. go to a bowl game. But do
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  Speaker 1: I expect, say, for example, them to go on like
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  Speaker 1: a Texas Tech type run and have a really good
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  Speaker 1: season and make the playoff? That would be the answer
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  Speaker 1: to yes, he can have that type of impact. I
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  Speaker 1: don't see that with him. So I don't see the
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  Speaker 1: team that's being good enough. And I think the issue
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  Speaker 1: overall in the big picture with Dave and Baylor is
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  Speaker 1: just that They put money into the program. They don't
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  Speaker 1: have the sugar daddy guy like Texas Tech does. So
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  Speaker 1: they're limited in NIL, but Dave's a really good coach,
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  Speaker 1: not that great of a recruiter, and they've got to
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  Speaker 1: improve that. And they've got to improve that as an organization,
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  Speaker 1: as an athletic department, as a football program, and so
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  Speaker 1: that they can get on board where they're going to
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  Speaker 1: put the type of money necessary and they're going to
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  Speaker 1: need to have guys that really put an emphasis on
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  Speaker 1: recruiting and can get those guys, both the college game
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  Speaker 1: and the high school evaluations. And, you know, more than
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  Speaker 1: just coaching, I think Dave to some degree is maybe
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  Speaker 1: a better, um, assistant coach, better coordinator than maybe a
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  Speaker 1: head coach. At least that's what's been proven thus far.
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  Speaker 2: Chris Landry talking college football on a Monday, get him
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  Speaker 2: at Landry football.com. Get his podcast on YouTube, subscribe and more.
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  Speaker 2: Luke fickle at Wisconsin is in a, in a pickle
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  Speaker 2: of a year. And they're another program that hasn't really
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  Speaker 2: embraced NIO like a lot of their Big Ten brethren.
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  Speaker 2: They play Notre Dame at Lambeau Field on September 6th.
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  Speaker 2: That thing can get sideways quickly, as could his tenure
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  Speaker 2: at Wisconsin, could it not?
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  Speaker 1: It could. Pickle in a pickle. I thought you did that.
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  Speaker 1: That's very good. That's why you're the pro, the radio pro.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just a little flabbergasted at how bad it's been.
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  Speaker 1: The fun from Cincinnati going into the Big Ten at
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  Speaker 1: Wisconsin is a challenge. but I thought they would be competitive,
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  Speaker 1: and I mean, they just haven't done anything. They haven't
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  Speaker 1: really recruited or developed well. Now, it coincides with the
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  Speaker 1: fact that Wisconsin is not going to be one of
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  Speaker 1: those big NIL guys, so it has something to do
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  Speaker 1: with it, but that his first year, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: thought that, first of all, I did not like philosophically
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  Speaker 1: how he built that staff, and we're going to spread
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  Speaker 1: things out. That's That's not what you do. It was constant.
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  Speaker 1: So I thought he set the program back with some
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  Speaker 1: of his first-year decisions, and now I just think they're
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  Speaker 1: kind of in a hole that's going to be deeper
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  Speaker 1: and tougher to get out of because I just don't
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  Speaker 1: think in this NIL game that, look, they're a developmental program.
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  Speaker 1: And so, you know, I think that they've been able
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  Speaker 1: to recruit maybe a tad better than the Iowas of
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  Speaker 1: the world in the Big Ten, but at certain spots,
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  Speaker 1: but they really develop players. And I just don't think
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  Speaker 1: they're going to get the top caliber player. So that
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  Speaker 1: doesn't surprise me that they're not challenging for the upper
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  Speaker 1: echelon of the Big Ten. I didn't think that. I
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  Speaker 1: think once they split up the east and west of
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  Speaker 1: the Big Ten, I thought it was going to be
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  Speaker 1: a problem for them. It has been. But what's really
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  Speaker 1: compounded is that I just don't think Luke's done a
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  Speaker 1: very good job with his staff. I don't think they've
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  Speaker 1: done a very good job of being able to coach
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  Speaker 1: those guys through some of the issues. And I think
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  Speaker 1: they went away from what they do best. They could
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  Speaker 1: be a good physical line of scrimmage team, good upfront defensively.
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  Speaker 1: They've lost a little bit of that. And then, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Wisconsin going to be this open, aggressive attack is just
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  Speaker 1: not what they do. They don't want the quarterback play.
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  Speaker 1: They don't want the athletes to do that. And they've just,
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  Speaker 1: they've really kind of fallen flat on their face and,
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  Speaker 1: The sad part is they're likely going to have to
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  Speaker 1: make a move if they do so, and they're going
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  Speaker 1: to have to, you know, maybe go in a completely
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  Speaker 1: different direction that maybe has to kind of correct some
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  Speaker 1: of those issues. I hate saying it because you never
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  Speaker 1: know what would have happened, but, you know, I really,
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  Speaker 1: really thought, and I think they did sniff around, but
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  Speaker 1: I thought Lance Lapo would have been a much better
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  Speaker 1: hire for them at that time. But I know Lance
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  Speaker 1: was kind of committed to where he was. But, you know,
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  Speaker 1: being a Wisconsin guy and everything, I thought that would
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  Speaker 1: have been a really good fit.
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  Speaker 2: Chris, you know, when you look at a couple more
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  Speaker 2: of these guys that are, you know, possibly, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: Bill Belichick, they play a week zero game. I guess
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  Speaker 2: we can go and get your thoughts on that one.
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  Speaker 2: I know you're not a gamer. Eight and a half
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  Speaker 2: point underdog in Vegas to TCU. I've said for two weeks,
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  Speaker 2: this feels like a slam dunk. I just, I feel
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  Speaker 2: like TCU may... knock them straight out and never look
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  Speaker 2: back this weekend?
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  Speaker 1: They might. I expect them to win it. They're the
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  Speaker 1: better team. I just think there's a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: an unknown, obviously, with just don't know how effective the
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  Speaker 1: quarterback play is going to be for North Carolina. I
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  Speaker 1: know they've made the decision. They're lucky he had a
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  Speaker 1: pretty good offseason in spring. I do think there's a
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  Speaker 1: chance just, you know, that they're going to be improved
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  Speaker 1: at North Carolina this year. Improved. Not necessarily good. A
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  Speaker 1: little better defensively. I think last year was a complete turmoil. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I just don't think the roster is very good. Jake,
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  Speaker 1: that's going to be the undoing, and it's going to
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  Speaker 1: catch them in games. But don't be surprised if they
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  Speaker 1: play better and maybe play over their roster. But they're
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  Speaker 1: just not nearly as good of a program. in terms
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  Speaker 1: of a roster, since they made those moves. That kind
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  Speaker 1: of really falls to Michael Lombardi, who's right now being
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  Speaker 1: investigated and away from the program. But that's Bill's biggest
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  Speaker 1: mistake he's made.
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