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How Transfer Quarterbacks Will Change College Football In 2024 · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Welcome to buck Eyes tomorrow morning for Thursday May thirtieth. I'm your host Tom
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  Moore. The Akron game in ninety three days, the game against Michigan in
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  one hundred and eighty four days. On yesterday's show, we talked all about
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  the quarterbacks that Ohio State was going to be facing during the regular season,
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  going through the some of the more talented ones that Ohio State is going to
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  face and what that might look like on the schedule. But a whole bunch
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  of those guys were transfers. So that got me thinking, Hey, you
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  know what. A whole bunch of quarterbacks transferred. And during week one in
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  the fall, you're going to turn on your TV and you're going to go,
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  wait, what is he doing there? He plays for team three thousand
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  miles away. So we're just going to give you a little cheat sheet on
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  where some of the top quarterbacks in the nation transferred this year. And we're
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  doing it with our buddy Tony Gurnaman off Buckehuddle dot Com. Tony, We're
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  just going to go straight down the list of the top transfer quarterbacks according to
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  two four to seven. This is not my list, this is theirs.
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  This is based a little bit, as we talked about on one of the
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  shows earlier this week, the Buckeye Weekly Show, this is based a little
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  bit on potential. So it's not necessarily the biggest impact players this year.
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  Some of these guys might not even be starting. Put some big names on
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  here, some familiar names in new places. We're gonna be testing, putting
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  Tony's knowledge to the test. The first two, though, are freebie or
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  freebies. He already knows that Julian Saying went from Alabama to Ohio State.
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  He already knows that Aiden Chiles went from Oregon State to Michigan Skates because he
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  talked about it and Yesterdays show. So Tony, we're going to start with
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  number three. Another name that's going to be familiar to Ohio State fans from
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  recruiting. A name that is familiar to Chip Kelly, Ohio State's offense coordinator,
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  because he was Chip Kelly's quarterback last year. Dante Moore, former UCLA
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  quarterback, Tony, where is Dante More going to be playing his college football
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  this ball? Before I answer that, I will say I am starting out
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  two for two because I do get credit for the first two. I don't
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  when we do the math on this and we figure out the average on all
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  of this. I started out two for two. Just because you give me
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  first base doesn't mean I'm not taking that total base. So two for two,
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  I will go free for free now, Tom and tell you that Dante
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  Moore is at Oregon where he has decided he will gladly sit for year behind
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  Dylan Gabriel and go ahead and then be the next guy coming up, which
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  I think was a pretty big boon for Oregon to be able to do that.
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  Yeah, that that is a huge, huge deal for Oregon because you
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  know, Dylan Gabriel, we talked about this on the show yesterday. Dylan
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  Gabriel is potentially a potentially a national championship caliber winning quarterback for them this year,
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  depending on how good the supporting cast is for you know, to be
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  able to bring in Dante more give him a year to learn, a year
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  to develop. That puts them potentially in that kind of place in twenty twenty
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  five as well. So yes, there we go, Tony, one for
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  one. As you said, all right, three three, we're going to
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  give you another one that this is kind of on a tee for you because
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  this is one that Ohio State was very involved with in the transfer portal.
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  A lot of conversations didn't end up happening. Cam Ward Tony went from wazoo
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  to which program? He went from Wazoo to the wazoo of the ACC Miami
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  rany in both places are to get to nobody likes being there. So yes,
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  he is at Miami, where the uh, the costs of attendance,
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  and the cost of signing him all very high. Yes, Coral Gables famously
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  the polouse of South Florida. Yes, there it is Tony still batting one
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  thousand. Well done, all right, now let's move on to the sec
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  Former Georgia quarterback Brock Vandergriff. Do you know where Brock Vandergriff is going to
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  be playing his football this fall? I thought you were going to say former
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  Georgia quarterback JT. Daniels, and I was going to be like, oh
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  gosh, I need I need the map of the strings and the thumbtacks.
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  Former Georgia quarterback JT. Daniels has retired from football due to concussions. But
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  he went from what USC to Georgia, to pit No, to West Virginia
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  to Rice and then retired. Yes, so Brock vandergriff Now enough stalling,
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  I believe, is it? I believe he's at Kentucky now, Is that
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  correct? He has gone to Kentucky and we'll play there and do well and
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  become the next Will Levis and really really bring Kentucky from the seven win program
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  that we've known them to the seven and a half win program that they're striving
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  to become. So Kentucky, Tom correct, that is correct. I will
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  remind you the Kentucky much like the Big ten West teams are no longer in
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  the Big Ten West, the Kentucky Wildcats are no longer in the SEC East.
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  So that's going to probably hurt their chances of going from seven wins to
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  seven and a half wins this year, but we will we will see how
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  that all goes for him. Next up, Tony. There's been a lot
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  of talk about Texas quarterbacks this offseason. Quin you weres cover athlete for EA
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  Sports, Arch Manning not playing in EA Sports. Where's Malik Murphy going to
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  be playing or not playing? This fall? Former Texas quarterback oh Man I
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  used to know this one time. I think this is gonna be the first
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  one I know he went, I did not like the premise of the show
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  when you brought it up to me. He went somewhere pretty significant, but
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  it's not counting to me, Mike Murphy, did he go out? Is
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  it is the USC? No. He is playing, however, in a
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  city where they have played the Rose Bowl before, so that's similar to USC.
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  But instead of Los Angeles, California, he's playing in Durham, North
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  Carolina, where they held the Rose Bowl one time during World War Two.
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  He is playing for the Duke Blue Devils. Tony, you have brought great
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  shame to the program. Next up, I'm going to let you bounce back
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  with a freebie. Will Howard went from Kansastate to Ohio State. However,
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  speaking of Duke Tony, former Duke quarterback Riley Leonard, where's Riley Leonard transferring
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  from Duke too? Well, Tom, Riley Leonard is transferring from Duke,
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  And in the process of this transfer, his Heisman Trophy is already being etched
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  as he is getting ready to win it, just as Sam Hartman did.
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  A Notre Dame repeat and we'll be able to hoist the trophy as not only
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  a Heisman Trophy winner, but a national title winner when he is throwing and
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  running and doing all kinds of exciting plays for the Notre Dame fighting irish unless,
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  of course, he gets hurt in like Game three, like normal and
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  then just has to struggle through the entire season. But what he is healthy.
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  When he was healthy at Duke, he was fun to watch because he
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  has to do all of these different things to help Duke win, and he
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  would he would do whatever he could to help them win. Doesn't necessarily need
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  to play that same way at North Carolina or at Notre Dame, but you
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  can't keep him from playing that way because that's just how he is. So
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  I like him better than Sam Hartman because he's just he's a crazy dude and
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  we'll do whatever it takes. And so I'm gonna say Notre Dame time,
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  Is that correct? That is correct? Yes, boy, It would have
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  been really embarrassing had you talked for like four minutes about Riley Leonard in Notre
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  Dame and it's like, nope, Actually he transferred to Akron. I don't
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  know how you missed that one, but I'm sure all the same things you
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  said about Notre Dame will apply to Akron. So it's fine, Yes he
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  is. Riley Leonard is in fact going from Duke to Notre Dame. Next
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  up, Tony former Ohio state receiver Austin Mack now also an unrelated, unrelated
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  quarterback named Austin Mack leaving the University of Washington to transfer to where transferring to
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  Alabama to be with his former head coach Calin de Boor and being the guy
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  there perhaps next year when Jalen Milroe finally goes So, yes, that was
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  somebody that Calen de Moore brought over with them, I know, highly thought
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  of in Washington now waiting in the wings, kind of like Dante More.
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  All of that is correct. That felt like an easy one for any time
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  you're following your coach. Probably you know, I'm going to give you half
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  credit for that one because that was a little easy. This next one,
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  I'm going to give you half credit, not even maybe not even half credit
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  for this one, because we just did a show about this guy about a
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  week ago. Jaden Rashada, he is leaving Arizona State University to go where
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  to court? No he is, he is. I give you full credit
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  for that one. He's going. He is at Georgia now where he will,
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  you know, compete for the future of that program down the road.
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  But yes, that was That was another one where it's like, oh,
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  yeah, he's at Georgia. Crazy. He is at Georgia. He is
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  suing Florida head coach Billy Napier for stuff really really did nil. So he
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  will be in civil court for that. He will probably be in traffic court
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  eventually, because that's how these things tend to go in Athens. But that's
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  okay, so so far, Jayden Rashada justin, just a Georgia bulldog and
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  just in the civil civil side of the courthouse down there. Next up Tone
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  d Kwon Finn. This is a name that you may know. Toledo quarterback,
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  very very successful Toledo quarterback, led the Rockets to MAC Championships. Now
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  where is he headed now? I'm looking forward to watching him step up from
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  Toledo to Baylor. I thought you might miss this one. This is this
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  is one that I had I had somehow missed and didn't did not remember hearing.
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  No, because this is what I'm looking forward to seeing just how how
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  he can do because he's fun to watch and will it translate to a larger
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  level of football? And you know, can can Baylor kick it back up
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  a notch offensively because if they can, like, he's the guy that can
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  really light some things up if they choose to do that rather than maybe being
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  more conservative. So I'm just interested in watching how he does this year.
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  So yeah, he's an easy guy that I've had my eye on all right.
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  Yes, that is that is correct. That was one I had somehow
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  missed during the transfer portal window when people people were flying around fast and furious.
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  Earlier in the year one we talked about and yesterday show Dylan Gabriel we
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  actually talked about him earlier on this show as well. Oklahoma and Oregon,
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  you know that one, Tony. How about dj ouhyung Lala. He started
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  his career at Clemson, then he went to Oregon State and then now the
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  second Oregon State quarterback on this list to be transferring out. Where is he
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  headed this year? You know, it's interesting because dj Ungala signed with the
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  best program in the ACC when he signed there. He has done that again
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  by transferring to the best program in the ACC now, which is Florida State,
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  where they're putting all of their hopes and dreams in him, which I
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  think you're talking about more of a game manager, So you have to have
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  the pieces around him. I don't Florida State is not going to have the
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  same pieces around him that they had for Jordan Travis last year. But as
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  we just talked recently on a Okay Weekly episode, there's a college football magazine
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  out there putting Florida State in the playoffs, So clearly they have faith in
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  DJ and so I believe Tom he is a seminole. He is a seminole.
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  And one of the nice things about being in the ACC is someone from
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  the ACC is going to college football playoff might as well be Florida State.
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  And Florida State taking transfers not something that everyone in the ACC can say,
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  So yes, that might might be helping them get there. Speaking from one
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  quarterback transferring out from an OSU to another, Kyle McCord transferred from Ohio State
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  to Syracuse, Tony knew that one already. How about this one, Tony
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  Malachi Nelson? Speaking of former five star quarterbacks he left USC. Where is
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  Malachi Nelson going? Now, I'm going to tell you I do not know
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  this one, Tom, So I'm going to have to take a stab.
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  I'm gonna say, I'm going to keep it out West as I read,
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  try to read your reaction, but I am not seeing anything. You're not
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  giving me anything there, unlv O ton Me, I'm delighted to tell you
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  that you blew it. Would you like to take another guess now? I'm
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  gonna stick with you in LV Tony. How about Boise States? The Blue
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  Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Malachi Nelson going to Boise State.
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  That's another program that's sort of an interesting spot where there is a non
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  power team that's going to get a berth to the College Football Playoff. Boise
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  State has definitely taken a step back the last couple of years after the departure
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  of Brian Harson. The Andy Avlos thing did not work at all. They've
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  had a new head coach this year. You've got a new quarterback this year
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  in Malachi Nelson. We'll see how that goes. It would kind of be
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  fun to have Boise State in the CFP at some point. You know,
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  I don't think that twelve seed is going to do all that well all that
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  often, but I feel like we saw what we saw what Liberty was going
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  to do against a pretty good team last year in the Fiesta Bowl against Oregon.
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  I don't know that I need to see that again. I would like
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  to see someone else, please and thank you, thank you. Next up,
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  Will Rogers. Will Rogers transferred from Mississippi State to where Tony I believe
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  he transferred up to Washington. And he was one of the top guys in
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  the in the free agent pool, one of the guys, one of the
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  many Wills that were out there, and kind of the second of the Wills.
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  But a ton of production in his time at Mississippi State. But take
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  a step back with the passing of Mike Leach. Statistically, now you tried
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  to go and pick that back up at Washington and see if he can bring
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  that production back up time and Mike correct, is that Washington? You are
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  correct? That is Washington. Yes, this is another one where we had
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  one guy going out earlier, one guy coming in. Now it's just everyone
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  sort of takes one step to the left. Next up, another one of
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  those we talked earlier about cam Ward going to Miami. Tony Tyler van Dyke,
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  former Miami quarterback. Where is he on the road on the move too.
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  He is currently at Wisconsin battling to be the starting quarterback for Luke Fickle
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  and the Badgers, which is pretty crazy considering he's a three year starter at
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  Miami. I had a really good year in twenty twenty one, but has
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  not been able to replicate that so much. I'm going into twenty twenty two.
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  Never never materialized, so we'll see. I just wonder how much longer
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  Luke Fickle can continue to try to build this program with quarterbacks from outside of
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  Wisconsin. But also, how can you keep your Wisconsin quarterbacks if you know
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  one, if they're actually good, somebody else is going to want them too.
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  If they're no good, then you do you want them? So really,
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  this is probably the only way they can just try to go from a
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  six or seven win team to like, we made it to nine and now
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  we can we can move from here. So Wisconsin, Tom finally answer he
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  is going to Wisconsin. Maybe the most interesting climactic climactic move of the season.
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  You get a quarterback going from Washington State to Miami and a quarterback going
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  from Miami to Wisconsin. You know, I know, not guys get traded
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  in the NFL when you could go from the Dolphins to the you know,
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  the Dolphins to the Packers or from the Seahawks to the Dolphins or something like
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  that. This is still very weird in weird to see in college football.
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  We've seen Miami teams react to cold weather before. We will see how a
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  Miami quarterback reacts to cold weather this year. Finally, Tony, I'm skipping
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  down a few down the list. No disrespect to the two guys between Tyler
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  Van Dyke and Grayson McCall, but no one knows who they are, So
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  it's okay. We're going to move on to Grayson McCall, longtime quarterback at
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  Coastal Carolina. Tony, where is he headed? He's not headed far.
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  I believe he's had to do North Carolina State. Tom So, I'm sorry
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  to disappoint you, but I have been studying up not for this, but
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  just because. So, yes, North Carolina State to replace Devin what's his
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  face from last year from he went to Kentucky. See, the constant movement
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  is ridiculous. But North Carolina State, and if Grayson McCall can get back
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  to pre tim Beck era and if he's not been too infected by the tim
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  beckness of last year at Coastal and really just free himself from that you talked
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  about the shackles of Brian Farrens. The shackles and the taint, if you
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  will, of Tim Beck is a lot for somebody to overcome. It is
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  a lot for somebody to overcome. No more, no more teal field,
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  but perhaps a perhaps a Biggert certainly a bigger stage, and perhaps a more
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  exciting offense. Well probably not even more exciting offense, just a bigger stage.
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  But that's okay. Hey, as we said earlier, someone from the
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  SEC's got to make the playoff, might as well be NC state. They've
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  had, They've had some postseason success in other sports, recently, postseason tournament
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  success in other sports. We'll see if they can extend that to the football
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  field. Yeah, Tony, I gotta say you did disappointingly well. I
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  thought for sure that this was going to be this was going to be a
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  real, real struggle, and I'm very disappointed to say that you probably didn't
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  even need the freebies. You probably could have passed. You would have had
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  a passing grade even without the freebies. So disappointingly well done. Well,
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  we'll try again later. We're gonna do We'll do a like a tight end
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  transfer show later. I can't wait. That's gonna be That's gonna be great,
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  Tony, You're still still some time left in the off season through ruin
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  your year. We will see what we can do to make that happen later
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  on this year on podcast tomorrow morning. You can also find us on the
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  Buckeye Weekly podcast. Tony and I co host that as well. Talked a
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  bunch about some of the early magazine college football magazine predictions and broke some of
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  those down earlier in the week. I have another show coming up for you
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  of content coming for you very soon. We've got camp season opening up next
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  That'll do it for today. Thank you guys all for joining us.
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  Have a great day. We'll talk to you tomorrow.