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Ohio State Football: Julian Sayin, Big Ten Tiers, And More · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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Speaker 1: On this episode, he's got to look at Julian sayin
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Speaker 1: what else he can do to improve this spring and
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Speaker 1: a whole bunch more as we count down the day
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Speaker 1: is to the start of spring football on Tuesday.
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Speaker 2: Hey, it's Chuck. We are not bemoaning the noon kickoff.
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Speaker 2: We're now owning it. It's a badge of honor. We're
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Speaker 2: the lunatic fringe that defines our coaches legacy when it
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Speaker 2: comes to this game. They don't get to define that
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Speaker 2: outside the family who we're cut from a different cloth.
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Speaker 2: Bro Hiowans, He's got it all, man, He's even got
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Speaker 2: the jaw. You know the jaw. You see that jaw
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Speaker 2: and you're just like, yeah, man, that's a dude. Do
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Speaker 2: I want Michigan to beat Oklahoma? No way in hell.
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Speaker 2: I don't know what world I'm living in. This is
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Speaker 2: insane to me. And if you saw my outburst, I apologize.
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Speaker 2: It's showtime. Now. It is showtime and welcome in to
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Speaker 2: Buckehutle Prime Time. Appreciate you so much for joining me
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Speaker 2: on a Thursday night, less than a week away from
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Speaker 2: the beginning of spring, and we've kind of gone over
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Speaker 2: every angle here. We've gone over every single transfer, every
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Speaker 2: single new freshman, every single potential position battle, and we
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Speaker 2: know exactly what we're working with. So now it is
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Speaker 2: time to see this team in action, and it's time
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Speaker 2: to hear from Ryan Day. We've not heard from the
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Speaker 2: coach since the end of the end of the season,
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Speaker 2: the press conference after the Miami game. We've not heard
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Speaker 2: from Arthur Smith, We've not heard from Cortes Hankton, and
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Speaker 2: we're gonna get to hear from these guys real soon. Also,
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Speaker 2: we got a new sid we'll get to hear from
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Speaker 2: that guy probably as well, but not a ton to
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Speaker 2: get into. So I thought maybe this week we would
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Speaker 2: get into some rankings, and tonight I have gone through
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Speaker 2: and done our Big Ten quarterback rankings. I also did
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Speaker 2: our Big Ten Power tiers earlier today, so I'm going
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Speaker 2: to go over those as well. But I want to
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Speaker 2: start today with the little talk about Julian sayan Julian
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Speaker 2: saying in his second year, Ryan Day's dream, right. He
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Speaker 2: hates the first year with a quarterback unless it is
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Speaker 2: a you know, a Will Howard type of veteran guy.
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Speaker 2: But that second year with the guy that he just
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Speaker 2: spent a year with and a guy who took all
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Speaker 2: his lumps, learned from him all year to be able
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Speaker 2: to have him come in that second year. I've talked
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Speaker 2: about this with coaching before, you know, like Urban's philosophy
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Speaker 2: when hiring an assistant coach, give me two years because
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Speaker 2: the first year that's on me, Like I got to
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Speaker 2: work to train you and teach you that first year.
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Speaker 2: That second year, now you know what you're doing, and
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Speaker 2: now it's my turn to get the advantage out of
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Speaker 2: the relationship similar to that second year quarterback. And now
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Speaker 2: we got second year Julian Sayan. And we've experienced this
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Speaker 2: a couple times recently, right, And the excitement for a
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Speaker 2: team when you have a situation of a guy who
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Speaker 2: is returning for year two who was pretty excellent year one,
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Speaker 2: usually a fever pitch amongst the Ohio State fan base
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Speaker 2: because your most important position is taken care of. You
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Speaker 2: got a guy who is returning who was a Heisman
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Speaker 2: candidate last year. And the fact that we have seen
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Speaker 2: this multiple times recently, it's just I think we forget
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Speaker 2: how rare it is. We forget how rare it is
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Speaker 2: because we can look back. Justin Fields coming back in
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty after finishing top five in the Heisman a
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Speaker 2: stellar twenty nineteen season that was just six years ago,
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Speaker 2: and then we got it again. Was Strout back to
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Speaker 2: back again, coming back for his second year. And now
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Speaker 2: we have it again just six years later, our third
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Speaker 2: quarterback coming back for year two at Ohio State after
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Speaker 2: finishing top five in the Heisman the year prior. That's
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Speaker 2: amazing And what did both of those years end up
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Speaker 2: with that second year back with Fields that second year
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Speaker 2: back with Stroud, both of them essentially ended with Ohio
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Speaker 2: State playing for a national championship. Both of them did
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Speaker 2: right like that second one technically not the national championship,
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Speaker 2: but it was. And it just kind of blows your mind, man.
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Speaker 2: I mean, that's all thanks to Ryan Day. And I've
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Speaker 2: criticized Brian Dave for things I disagree with. When you
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Speaker 2: look at something like that, the way he's the way
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Speaker 2: he's done that at Ohio State, like it's totally changed
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Speaker 2: the identity of the program, and he deserves so much
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Speaker 2: credit for that. It just kind of blows your mind
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Speaker 2: when you look back less than twenty years ago, less
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Speaker 2: than twenty years ago, the two thousand and seven quarterback
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Speaker 2: battle to take over for Troy Smith was Todd Beckman,
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Speaker 2: Rob Shencroft, and Antonio Henton. Those were the dudes vuying
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Speaker 2: for the starting role at Ohio State less than twenty
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Speaker 2: years ago. You know, you either had a stud in
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Speaker 2: Ohio or it was just like, all right, well we'll
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Speaker 2: take this guy and that guy. And the way Ryan
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Speaker 2: Day has changed that, it's just made quarterback something that
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Speaker 2: we don't ever have to worry about. We just kind
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Speaker 2: of take for granted, yeah, we're going to have a quarterback, right,
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Speaker 2: don't got to worry about it. That is a huge
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Speaker 2: question mark for most fan bases around the country. Well,
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Speaker 2: it was, it was, and now we're talking every year,
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Speaker 2: we're just good to go. But now it's taken away
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Speaker 2: that equation. It was an advantage for Ohio State, it
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Speaker 2: was an advantage for Ryan Day, it was an advantage
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Speaker 2: for us. But now everybody can do it. Everybody can
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Speaker 2: do it because they don't have to recruit it and
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Speaker 2: develop it. They can just portal it. When you watch
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Speaker 2: Miami go from cam Moore to Carson Beck to Darien Mensa,
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Speaker 2: when you watch Indiana go from Fernanda Mendoza to Josh Hoover,
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Speaker 2: it's taken that very difficult part of roster construction. The
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Speaker 2: quarterback the most important thing to get right, and it's
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Speaker 2: taken out like seventy percent of the variables that you
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Speaker 2: had to go through to recruit that guy, to develop
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Speaker 2: that guy, and now it's just about is the guy available,
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Speaker 2: can you afford him, can you make it happen, and
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Speaker 2: can he perform? And there's still variables there, right, there's
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Speaker 2: you know, thirty percent left, but you've taken the majority
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Speaker 2: of the variables of the failure out of the equation,
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Speaker 2: and it's a huge advantage for places that could not
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Speaker 2: recruit and develop that quarterback like Ohio State was able to. So,
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Speaker 2: you know, it's just one more of those areas where
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Speaker 2: the field has been able to gain on Ohio State
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Speaker 2: and that sucks. But what we do know is that
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Speaker 2: we're going to be in good hands in the quarterback room,
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Speaker 2: that's for sure. And of course we benefited from the
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Speaker 2: portal as well, got a national championship with a portal
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Speaker 2: guy too. I'm saying when I look at it, and
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Speaker 2: just from what I do talking to Ohio State fans
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Speaker 2: every day, I don't feel the same excitement as year
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Speaker 2: two Fields or year two Stroud, and I feel a
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Speaker 2: lot more trepetition for saying not as much trust in
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Speaker 2: him being able to be the guy that can get
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Speaker 2: that done at the highest level. I just feel like
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Speaker 2: there is a different level of doubt for saying that
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Speaker 2: there was not for those two guys, and I can't
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Speaker 2: quite put my finger on why that is. I mean,
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Speaker 2: I think for some people, they were tainted by the
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Speaker 2: last their opinions were tainted by the last couple of
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Speaker 2: games of the season, which is understandable, and I think
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Speaker 2: that'll leave quickly next year when we you know, probably
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Speaker 2: right off the rip at Texas game number two. If
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Speaker 2: Julian Sayan comes out and outduels Arch in that game
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Speaker 2: two years in a row and again Arch Manning, is
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Speaker 2: that the top of quarterback lists again, right, they can't
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Speaker 2: quit this guy. If Julian can do that two years
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Speaker 2: in a row, only this time he actually gets to
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Speaker 2: play play, you know, I think that'll go right by
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Speaker 2: the wayside. But there are I feel a lot of doubt,
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Speaker 2: a lot of doubt that I didn't expect that we
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Speaker 2: would be feeling heading into year two with Julian saying
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Speaker 2: and I think a lot of it's his size. A
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Speaker 2: lot of it's always been his size. People have always
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Speaker 2: had this, you know, he's just small. We heard it
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Speaker 2: all last year. And he goes through the year not
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Speaker 2: getting hurt, didn't miss a game, and there's still that,
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Speaker 2: you know, that stigma to be in a smaller, more
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Speaker 2: frail guy. Of course, not being able to work the
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Speaker 2: middle of the field didn't help a lot as well,
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Speaker 2: to you know, to the size maybe limitting him and
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Speaker 2: also not running in that Miami game when there was
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Speaker 2: a couple of opportunities really pissed people off. I've heard
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Speaker 2: people knock his leadership because he's quiet, which is really
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Speaker 2: interesting because Stroud was really quiet too. Fields wasn't the
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Speaker 2: most vocal guy either. Now, both of those guys had
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Speaker 2: really strong leadership qualities, and you could tell by the
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Speaker 2: way their teammates reacted to him that they were just
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Speaker 2: kind of alphas that had everybody's you know, admiration and respect.
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Speaker 2: You don't feel that same thing from Julian just yet.
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Speaker 2: Could it come. I don't know. I don't know. I
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Speaker 2: think the doubt about him as a leadership is his
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Speaker 2: leadership is probably the most fair of any other criticisms,
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Speaker 2: to be quite frank, that's my opinion on it. But
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Speaker 2: he could definitely improve there. But after that first year
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Speaker 2: getting a look at him, I mean, the guy was
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Speaker 2: ass man, the guy was aces. And that offense that
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Speaker 2: he played in when we look at Fields and Stroud,
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Speaker 2: I mean, it certainly wasn't as smooth of a running offense.
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Speaker 2: He certainly didn't get to you know, play play play
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Speaker 2: play like they did. I think if you put saying
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Speaker 2: in that offense, he throws for four thousand and forty
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Speaker 2: touchdowns too. Matter of fact, there's no doubt in my mind.
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Speaker 2: I think he is excellently suited for an offense like
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Speaker 2: they were running back then, and I think that we
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Speaker 2: would have seen him torch it up for sure. But
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Speaker 2: is he gonna be a great quarterback this year in
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Speaker 2: this new offense. I don't think the numbers are gonna
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Speaker 2: be astronomical, right The completion percentage might even go down
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Speaker 2: a little bit without Carnell. But I think he's gonna
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Speaker 2: be an even better quarterback. And what do we need
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Speaker 2: him to be a better quarterback at? I mean, we
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Speaker 2: need him to be better with the running. We need
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Speaker 2: him to run and go get a first down, and
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Speaker 2: we need him to work the seams a little more.
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Speaker 2: But other than that, the dude was damn near lawless
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Speaker 2: until he was under some extreme pressure at the end
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Speaker 2: of the year. Obviously did not finish the year great,
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Speaker 2: but I wanted to know kind of what was the
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Speaker 2: national perception on him right now? How are the nationals
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Speaker 2: feeling about saying compared to kind of the Ohio State
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Speaker 2: fan base. And I almost get the feeling as I'm
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Speaker 2: hearing people talk about him and seeing these quarterback lists
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Speaker 2: roll out that the national perception on him is maybe
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Speaker 2: even a little bit higher than a lot of the
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Speaker 2: local perception, which is really interesting. So watching these lists
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Speaker 2: come out, the top ten list, etc. Seeing a whole
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Speaker 2: lot of Julian saying in people's top threes, number two,
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Speaker 2: second best quarterback in the country coming in and that's fantastic. Obviously,
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Speaker 2: you love to see people feeling great about your guy.
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Speaker 2: I wonder do you feel that way? Do you feel
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Speaker 2: like he is that ilk of quarterback? Obviously the completion
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Speaker 2: percentage is great. Can he be a guy that leads
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Speaker 2: will have to State to a national championship? Do you
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Speaker 2: feel confident about that? I certainly do. I do. That's
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Speaker 2: my opinion on him. I've always felt he's got a
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Speaker 2: little something special about him, and I think that had
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Speaker 2: things gone just a little bit different in that Miami
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Speaker 2: game with the game plan, you might have seen him
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Speaker 2: take the Buck guys to a win in that game.
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Speaker 2: But when we look at Julian, when we look at
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Speaker 2: Dante Moore, two of the best quarterbacks in the Big Ten,
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Speaker 2: both of those guys kind of petered out when it
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Speaker 2: mattered most. Both of them did and that's the difference
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Speaker 2: between the guy that wins the national championship, frienda Mendoza,
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Speaker 2: and those two guys, the guys that don't. It's a
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Speaker 2: fine line. It's a fine line. Can we be on
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Speaker 2: the right side of that one this year? Not so sure?
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Speaker 2: Not so sure, But a lot of things need to
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Speaker 2: come together. Obviously. I feel really good about saying. And
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Speaker 2: today we're going to go over our quarterback rankings. Now,
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Speaker 2: I also want to talk about kind of an nil story,
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Speaker 2: just a thought that I had going over the Brendan
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Speaker 2: Soresby thing, the Brendan Soorsby thing, Cincinnati's quarterback. They are
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Speaker 2: suing him, and I just wanted to do a little
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Speaker 2: thought exercise on what if we were in this position
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Speaker 2: as an Ohio State fan base with a big time
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Speaker 2: player who left and then sued the school. It's such
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Speaker 2: a different environment now, and it's so different as a
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Speaker 2: fan anymore when we talk about things like that, the
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Speaker 2: explosion of the quality of football in the Big Ten
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Speaker 2: and the number of really good Big Ten teams, you know,
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Speaker 2: it's basically doubled in the last couple of years, and
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Speaker 2: with the transfer portal, there's now just a lot more
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Speaker 2: better quarterbacks in the league than there ever was before.
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Speaker 2: Like you look back, I don't know, five six years ago,
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Speaker 2: to think how many quarterbacks five or six years ago
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Speaker 2: would you say, yeah, I take that guy's Ohio State,
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Speaker 2: Ohio State's quarterback. You know, like maybe there'd be two
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Speaker 2: in a year if that. When you look down the
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Speaker 2: list of the top ten quarterbacks in the Big Ten
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Speaker 2: this year, I'm gonna go down this list, think to yourself,
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Speaker 2: how many of these guys if they were Ohio State's quarterback,
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Speaker 2: would I be like, okay, we can win with that, dude.
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Speaker 2: I think there's quite a few. There's quite a few.
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Speaker 2: When we go to my number one rank quarterback, this
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Speaker 2: is hotly contested. A lot of people got Dante Moore
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Speaker 2: number one. I got Julian saying number one ty goes
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Speaker 2: to the Homer, right, But honestly, we're splitting hairs here
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Speaker 2: with these guys. We're talking about statistically and analytically, like PFF.
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Speaker 2: For instance, these are quarterbacks one and two in the country.
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Speaker 2: Dante Moore and Julian say, and our guy number one,
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Speaker 2: and he is number one in my eyes. I think
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Speaker 2: he'll get a return t to New York finished the
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Speaker 2: season last year with a seventy seven percent completion percentage.
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Speaker 2: He was over eighty for a while. Man, it looked
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Speaker 2: like he was gonna get it. Thirty two touchdowns, eight picks,
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Speaker 2: one seventy seven was his final quarterback rating. He was
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Speaker 2: PFF's best at so many categories. People try to call
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Speaker 2: him a checkdown merchant balls of twenty yards plus thirteen touchdowns.
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Speaker 2: First place in that category was fourteen touchdowns. You cannot
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Speaker 2: possibly call Julian Saying a checkdown merchant when he is
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Speaker 2: second in the country in deep ball touchdown passes. You
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Speaker 2: just can't. And I don't know about you, Like there
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Speaker 2: are some quarterbacks I just they drive me nuts with
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Speaker 2: the number of checkdowns they take. I've never felt that
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Speaker 2: way watching Julian say. I mean, there's some times where
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Speaker 2: I wish he'd push it a little more, but uh,
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Speaker 2: I don't get that frustration watching him play. And when
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Speaker 2: he chooses to pull the trigger he's lethal sixty four
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Speaker 2: percent completion percentage twenty yards down. That also leads the nation.
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Speaker 2: Crazy arm talent, and we know what he needs to
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Speaker 2: get better at. But when he's in that rhythm, man,
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Speaker 2: I don't There's not a lot of guys we've seen
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Speaker 2: over the last five years that have looked quite as
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Speaker 2: impressive when he is really in rhythm. It's just that
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Speaker 2: accuracy is something special, and I'm hoping to see that
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Speaker 2: go to the next level. Now we all know we
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Speaker 2: would love him to go use his legs and pick
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Speaker 2: up a few more first downs here and there. That
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Speaker 2: conversation won't stop. We saw it in high school. We've
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Speaker 2: seen it a few times in his career. We saw
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Speaker 2: it at Michigan. Ryan Day said after Michigan that was
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Speaker 2: his best play of the game when he scrambled and
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Speaker 2: got that first down, which really threw me for a
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Speaker 2: loop because you just never know. You can't quite tell
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Speaker 2: when is Ryan Day giving these guys at quarterback the
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Speaker 2: greenlight to do that. We just don't know. There's certainly
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Speaker 2: has been times where he has said, yeah, we're not
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Speaker 2: going to do that today when they get the green light,
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Speaker 2: certainly in the Michigan game they do, which would lead
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Speaker 2: us to believe also in the Miami game, you do.
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Speaker 2: And then Julian didn't take the green light when he
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Speaker 2: had it. We need to see him do that. He's
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Speaker 2: got to do that, for sure. But he was a
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Speaker 2: Heisman Trophy finalist last year. I think he will be again,
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Speaker 2: and I think the way that it ended left a
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Speaker 2: sour taste in his mouth as well. And I'm really
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Speaker 2: looking forward to watching him play quarterback this year at
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Speaker 2: number two. For me, as Dante more beautiful, passer of
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Speaker 2: the football, accurate, his deep ball is gorgeous. He's a
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Speaker 2: great deep ball thrower. Gets back Evan Stewart and to
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Speaker 2: Coreyan Moore this year, so he's got great targets. And
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Speaker 2: a lot of people think of Dante as a scrambler.
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Speaker 2: Dante didn't even rush for one hundred and fifty yards
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Speaker 2: last year. He's a passer of the football and he'll
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Speaker 2: definitely hit the long ball. Had his moments against Penn State,
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Speaker 2: but also had some difficulty in a couple of the
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Speaker 2: bigger games against in and a seventy two percent completion
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Speaker 2: percentage on the year thirty five hundred yards, thirty touchdowns,
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Speaker 2: ten picks. His quarterback rating was the third highest in
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Speaker 2: the league last year. But you love the progression. You
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Speaker 2: love the fact that he was willing to sit a
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Speaker 2: year at Oregon and then you know, come up and
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Speaker 2: now that he's staying in college football. Another year, and
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Speaker 2: the fact that he's just a good it's just a
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Speaker 2: good Cleveland kid man. He's a good kid from Cleveland.
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Speaker 2: He's a Browns fan. I root for Dante more man.
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Speaker 2: I mess with Dante for sure, So he is my
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Speaker 2: number two. But ultimately, when we compare these two guys,
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Speaker 2: like Dante was in his third year, Remember Dante had
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Speaker 2: six starts as a freshman under his belt. He should
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Speaker 2: have been further along than Julian. And when we look
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Speaker 2: at the big games, Dante struggles against Indiana, he was
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Speaker 2: pretty good against Penn State, they almost lost at Iowa.
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Speaker 2: You could put a lot of that on his shoulders.
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Speaker 2: He was thirteen for twenty one for one hundred twelve yards,
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Speaker 2: no touchdowns, in a pick and then against Indiana at home,
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Speaker 2: sixty one percent completion percentage for one hundred and eighty
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Speaker 2: six yards, one touchdown, two picks. Played Indiana again in
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Speaker 2: the playoffs, threw for a lot of yards because they
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Speaker 2: were down because he put him in a hole right
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Speaker 2: off the rip with a pick six on the first play.
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Speaker 2: Sixty percent completion percentage on the game. So he certainly
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Speaker 2: has you know, as has Dan Lanning kind of laid
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Speaker 2: an egg in the big games. Here recently, when we
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Speaker 2: look at Julian singing in the big games against Indiana
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Speaker 2: in the Big Ten Championship, he was twenty one for
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Speaker 2: twenty nine seventy two percent completion percentage, one touchdown, two picks.
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Speaker 2: Same against Miami, one touchdown, two picks, and it killed
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Speaker 2: him and it killed him. But I don't think as
19:47
Speaker 2: bad as Dante's performances in big games, and for that,
19:50
Speaker 2: Julian gets the edge as the number one quarterback in
19:53
Speaker 2: the Big Ten air Go, the number one quarterback in
19:57
Speaker 2: college football, number three, USC six four two thirty. Ryan
20:03
Speaker 2: Day would love him, just a total unit of a
20:07
Speaker 2: Polynesian dude. And I don't think he got anywhere near
20:12
Speaker 2: the publicity that he deserved last year. Sometimes that happens
20:15
Speaker 2: when you come into a season without a lot of fanfare,
20:17
Speaker 2: and I don't think he did. But he threw for
20:20
Speaker 2: thirty seven hundred yards, sixty six percent completion percentage, twenty
20:24
Speaker 2: four touchdowns in a pick and one of the more.
20:28
Speaker 2: He's a top ten most accurate deep ball thrower in
20:31
Speaker 2: the country as well. Obviously he had some stud receivers
20:36
Speaker 2: in Creepy because Creepy because the Bolitnikoff thief Mackay Lemon
20:42
Speaker 2: and Jacoby Lane as well, two studs. But Mayava delivered
20:46
Speaker 2: and he'll get you out of trouble with his legs
20:48
Speaker 2: if he needs to as well. And when we talk
20:51
Speaker 2: about how many of these guys would you take as
20:53
Speaker 2: the Buckeyes quarterback, I would absolutely take him as the
20:55
Speaker 2: Buckeyes quarterback. I wouldn't trade Julian for him, but if
20:59
Speaker 2: he was Ohio State's quarterback, I'd feel good about it
21:02
Speaker 2: for sure. Number four Demond Williams for me, and I'll
21:07
Speaker 2: admit I'm a little soured on the way he handled
21:11
Speaker 2: the situation when LSU came calling for him with a
21:14
Speaker 2: big contract offer after he had just signed with Washington,
21:18
Speaker 2: and he put out a post saying he was leaving.
21:21
Speaker 2: He was going to go to LSU and leave his
21:23
Speaker 2: boys for a couple extra bucks. Didn't like that, but
21:27
Speaker 2: you know, that's just the way of the world in
21:29
Speaker 2: college football these days. Ultimately, Washington had the trump card
21:33
Speaker 2: with the contract that made him have to kind of
21:36
Speaker 2: tuck his tail between his legs and come crawling back.
21:38
Speaker 2: I'm sure that was a little awkward. Jetfish says, Hey,
21:41
Speaker 2: we didn't lose our quarterback, so you know, all's well,
21:44
Speaker 2: that ends well. This dude is such a baller man.
21:47
Speaker 2: He's small, but he is so electric. Seventy percent completion percentage,
21:52
Speaker 2: which is excellent, twenty one hundred yards passed in last
21:55
Speaker 2: year and almost eight hundred yards rushing. We will take
21:59
Speaker 2: that all day. And he is so exciting. Obviously we've
22:03
Speaker 2: seen him get shut down. We've saw Ohio State shut
22:06
Speaker 2: him down, so that's certainly a possibility. Now this year,
22:10
Speaker 2: I don't think that they don't have a Denzel Boston,
22:13
Speaker 2: that's for sure. So is it going to be as
22:15
Speaker 2: good this year? I'm not so sure. But as Ohio
22:20
Speaker 2: State's quarterback, it wouldn't work because his game is a
22:23
Speaker 2: lot of running, but in a different offense at Ohio State.
22:27
Speaker 2: I'd love to have this guy. I think he's awesome,
22:29
Speaker 2: all right. At number five newcomer to the Conference TCU,
22:34
Speaker 2: Josh Hoover started three years of college football, and we're
22:39
Speaker 2: talking about some serious experience. This guy's been around it
22:42
Speaker 2: feels like forever. And when you take a guy with
22:45
Speaker 2: that kind of experience and you stick him in with
22:49
Speaker 2: coaches that have been together for a long time, like
22:52
Speaker 2: Signetti and Shanahan, who know exactly what they want, who
22:55
Speaker 2: have done this before with the one year experience quarterback
22:59
Speaker 2: two years in a row. Now, guy just threw for
23:02
Speaker 2: thirty five hundred yards twenty eight touchdowns to thirteen picks.
23:06
Speaker 2: That's quite a bit of picks and not super accurate
23:09
Speaker 2: at sixty five percent, but he pushes the ball down
23:12
Speaker 2: the field. Good number of attempts over twenty yards and
23:15
Speaker 2: about a forty percent completion percentage. I think that this
23:19
Speaker 2: is a guy that they are going to just I mean,
23:22
Speaker 2: it's just going to be like this with them. I
23:25
Speaker 2: mean they're just going to turn the key in on
23:27
Speaker 2: you go, and it's going to look like they don't
23:28
Speaker 2: miss a beat when they're allowed to bring in a
23:30
Speaker 2: dude like this every year. I think it'll work out great.
23:34
Speaker 2: You also get him some excellent wide receiver help with
23:37
Speaker 2: Nick marsh from Michigan State to pair with Charlie Baker.
23:40
Speaker 2: That Indiana offense is going to keep on rolling with Hoover.
23:43
Speaker 2: I hate it, but it is. This is where I
23:46
Speaker 2: would stop though, I'm not interested in Josh Hoover as
23:50
Speaker 2: the Ohio State quarterback. Number six. Bryce Underwood. Bryce Underwood
23:56
Speaker 2: a lot of people might think this is a little high,
24:00
Speaker 2: acording to his stats last year. This is certainly a
24:02
Speaker 2: little high, But at six four two twenty eight, Bryce
24:06
Speaker 2: gets knocked for that completion percentage, which was just sixty
24:09
Speaker 2: one percent last year. However, if you go by his
24:13
Speaker 2: adjusted completion percentage, humor me here, his adjusted completion percentage
24:17
Speaker 2: was seventy three, which is the same or better than
24:21
Speaker 2: Jaden Mayava, than Rock Obeck, than Drake Lindsay, than Leak Washington,
24:26
Speaker 2: then a whole slew of other guys in the Big Ten.
24:30
Speaker 2: He had some really lousy wide receivers, There's no doubt
24:33
Speaker 2: about that. Twenty two hundred yards, eleven touchdowns, nine picks,
24:37
Speaker 2: not very good. Another four hundred yards rushing extra five touchdowns,
24:42
Speaker 2: forty percent accuracy on the long ball. That's as good
24:45
Speaker 2: as Hoover. That's as good as most guys in the league.
24:48
Speaker 2: He's big, obviously a dynamic athlete, and he doesn't make
24:53
Speaker 2: the best choices so far. That'll come with experience. It
24:56
Speaker 2: was clear last year, and it is even more clear
24:59
Speaker 2: than first we get away from the season, what an
25:02
Speaker 2: absolute disaster the coaching staff was. Now that he's under
25:06
Speaker 2: Kyle Whittingham and they're gonna get him some real coaching.
25:10
Speaker 2: I wouldn't be surprised at all if we saw a
25:14
Speaker 2: huge leap from Bryce Underwood this year, but I also
25:17
Speaker 2: wouldn't be surprised if he turns out to be a
25:18
Speaker 2: total bust. Either way, I'm rolling the dice and putting
25:22
Speaker 2: him at six, and then I'm moving on to Caiten Hauser.
25:26
Speaker 2: And this dude transfers from Illinois sixty three to two
25:30
Speaker 2: twenty five. I'm sorry, transfers from East Carolina to Illinois six',
25:34
Speaker 2: three two twenty. Five he's a big kid going to
25:37
Speaker 2: play For. Beelima played a significant amount of football twenty twenty,
25:41
Speaker 2: three twenty twenty, four and twenty twenty. Five started off
25:45
Speaker 2: At Michigan state one hundred and eighty three, snaps then
25:48
Speaker 2: transfers TO. Ecu now he comes back to The big
25:51
Speaker 2: ten to try to prove that he belonged here all.
25:54
Speaker 2: Along sixty five, percent completion percentage thirty two hundred, yards
25:59
Speaker 2: nineteen touch down six, picks average depth of target nine point,
26:03
Speaker 2: three so he pushes the ball down the field a.
26:05
Speaker 2: Bit his adjusted completion percentage seventy four, percent and his
26:10
Speaker 2: deep ball twenty yards plus forty three, percent seven, touchdowns
26:14
Speaker 2: so better Than, hoover better than a lot of these,
26:16
Speaker 2: guys and adds another two sixty two on the, Ground
26:19
Speaker 2: so this is a guy that can move as. WELL
26:21
Speaker 2: i think he's going to do a great job coming
26:23
Speaker 2: in and doing similar to What altmeyer did At. ILLINOIS
26:28
Speaker 2: i don't Think illinois is as talented as they, were but,
26:30
Speaker 2: uh this guy's going to be a pretty good. Quarterback
26:33
Speaker 2: number eight for me Is Malik washington At, Maryland and
26:36
Speaker 2: what an absolute waste That this dude six' six two.
26:40
Speaker 2: Thirty five he was the number five quarterback in the
26:43
Speaker 2: country and he's Playing For mike loxley and it's just, a,
26:47
Speaker 2: Waste man it's. A waste they're never gonna win. Any
26:50
Speaker 2: Games under locksley fifty seven percent completion percentage is not
26:54
Speaker 2: very good. At all but three thousand yards true freshman
26:59
Speaker 2: six point three, yards completion so a lot of it's.
27:01
Speaker 2: Short stuff seventeen touchdowns so seventeen nine picks Better. Than
27:06
Speaker 2: underwood he is as naturally talented at a lot of
27:10
Speaker 2: Things as, underwood is and he should. Be right he's
27:13
Speaker 2: the number. Five quarterback underwood was, number one not a
27:15
Speaker 2: whole lot differentiates, these TWO and i think this is a,
27:20
Speaker 2: guy that with really good coaching on a, good team
27:23
Speaker 2: could be a. Total dude definitely a. Great athlete four hundred,
27:26
Speaker 2: yards rushing four. Extra touchdowns again starting as a. True
27:31
Speaker 2: freshman we'll see a Lot More malik washington as as
27:35
Speaker 2: the years, go ON and i think that he's going
27:36
Speaker 2: to be. A dude at, Number nine i've Got rock
27:39
Speaker 2: obect Moving From iowa state Over To penn State With.
27:43
Speaker 2: Matt campbell rocco is, six one two TWENTY and I.
27:46
Speaker 2: LOVE roco i got a Son, named ROCO and i
27:51
Speaker 2: feel like Every time i've ever Watched Rock, o beck
27:54
Speaker 2: he's done a lot better than what these stats would
27:56
Speaker 2: leave me. To believe just a sixty percent complete percentage
28:01
Speaker 2: for twenty five hundred yards last year with, sixteen touchdowns.
28:04
Speaker 2: Nine picks that's, not great not great. At all AND
28:09
Speaker 2: when i, READ that i was a little BEFUDDLED because
28:11
Speaker 2: i Feel like i've seen this dude really. Ball out
28:14
Speaker 2: turns out he really did the year before when he
28:17
Speaker 2: HAD two nfl wide receivers In the. Big twelve that
28:19
Speaker 2: helps just thirty six percent on balls twenty yards or
28:24
Speaker 2: more through. THE air i don't think he's. THAT great
28:28
Speaker 2: i don't think he's, that GREAT and i don't think
28:30
Speaker 2: he's going to have a ton of Help At penn state.
28:32
Speaker 2: This year but. WE'LL see i got him up there
28:36
Speaker 2: and slightly above Our Boy, anthony calandria who COMES, from
28:42
Speaker 2: unlv and he is going to COMPETE. Against tj Latif.
28:46
Speaker 2: At nebraska this dude was really Good With dan mullin
28:50
Speaker 2: last YEAR. At unlv three, thousand yards twenty, two touchdowns,
28:55
Speaker 2: eight picks sixty eight percent, completion percentage forty percent on
28:59
Speaker 2: the long ball over six hundred, yards rushing so a true.
29:03
Speaker 2: Dual threat he can. Certainly scoot he's, an athlete and,
29:08
Speaker 2: to me he's number ten ahead of a couple of
29:10
Speaker 2: guys that have a lot, of Potential Like aiden Chiles.
29:15
Speaker 2: At northwestern now as he Moves From michigan State, to
29:18
Speaker 2: northwestern We Know aiden chiles can throw the ball a.
29:22
Speaker 2: Million miles he's got a. Great arm he hasn't been
29:26
Speaker 2: great at, processing things and things just didn't work Out At.
29:28
Speaker 2: MICHIGAN state i think he'll do pretty Good. At northwestern
29:31
Speaker 2: wisconsin Brings In old Dominion's Quarterback. Colton joseph he looks.
29:35
Speaker 2: Pretty good then of course You got nico OUT. At,
29:38
Speaker 2: Ucla now nico has a couple of games here and
29:41
Speaker 2: there where, it's, like man you could probably win with.
29:44
Speaker 2: That dude and you look at his numbers throughout the
29:47
Speaker 2: course of, the year and it's. Just. Abysmal man nineteen
29:50
Speaker 2: hundred yards is what he passed for on, the season,
29:54
Speaker 2: thirteen touchdowns, seven picks six hundred and sixty four, yards
29:59
Speaker 2: rushing which. Is great and then you look at his
30:01
Speaker 2: touchdowns rushing six. Of them, i'm sorry four. Of them how?
30:05
Speaker 2: About fumbles lost six. Of them how do you lose? Six?
30:08
Speaker 2: Fumbles bro how does that? Even happen he's also got
30:11
Speaker 2: the worst deep ball percentage in, the sport not, The
30:15
Speaker 2: sport i'm, being dramatic but? Nineteen percent are you? Kidding?
30:19
Speaker 2: ME man i think you could complete? Nineteen PERCENT and i,
30:23
Speaker 2: don't know you're probably my. Age ANYWAY what i do
30:28
Speaker 2: Love about nico Is, That Tennessee ohio, state Game The kneeland.
30:32
Speaker 2: North massacre that dude was a hero for. His team
30:37
Speaker 2: nobody else was playing the game. But him and then
30:39
Speaker 2: you look at THE game Ucla Against penn state, last
30:42
Speaker 2: year THE biggest ucla Win. In forever it was like he.
30:47
Speaker 2: Was unstoppable so you'll see, these flashes, but, yeah consistently
30:52
Speaker 2: he doesn't. Got it you Also Got drake Lindsay at
30:55
Speaker 2: minnesota who was a red shirt freshman. Last year he's
31:00
Speaker 2: six five two thirty sixty two percent, completion percentage twenty two,
31:04
Speaker 2: hundred yards, sixteen touchdown. Six picks you know For a,
31:09
Speaker 2: minnesota quarterback that dude's pretty dog. Gone good so that
31:15
Speaker 2: is what we have there for our top. TEN quarterbacks
31:18
Speaker 2: i probably should have put up this GRAPHIC that i
31:21
Speaker 2: spent a long time MAKING while i was talking, about
31:25
Speaker 2: this but, you know such a life when you don't got.
31:28
Speaker 2: A producer so there. You go there is, our list
31:32
Speaker 2: and once again We've got Julian say in, Number One
31:35
Speaker 2: dante more, Number Two jade mayava. NUMBER three I Got
31:39
Speaker 2: DeMont williams, number Four With josh hoover. Number five most
31:43
Speaker 2: people have. That Reversed bryce underwood is my, Number Six
31:48
Speaker 2: kate naser, Number Seven malik washington, Number Eight rock obeck,
31:53
Speaker 2: number Nine And anthony calandria. Number ten should he win,
31:59
Speaker 2: the job HIM. And tj latif will go. At it
32:02
Speaker 2: so let me KNOW where i. Got it RIGHT where
32:05
Speaker 2: i got. It Wrong sej ohio has a Grandson. Named, Rocco,
32:10
Speaker 2: rocco yeah That's my my youngest boy's Name. Is roco rest.
32:21
Speaker 2: In Peace lou holtz, for Sure, MAN uh I Love,
32:27
Speaker 2: Lou holtz. Humus hero the Fact that locksley is still
32:31
Speaker 2: the Coach at maryland shows how unserious the administration is
32:34
Speaker 2: about the. Football program that is. So true it's, so
32:38
Speaker 2: true and it drives me nuts Because The big ten
32:43
Speaker 2: expands to Go get rutgers And. Get maryland however long ago,
32:47
Speaker 2: that was and it just it's, so obnoxious, you know
32:51
Speaker 2: when you just do something for a money grab to
32:54
Speaker 2: position yourself FOR a, tv market when now, it's, like
32:57
Speaker 2: okay does that even that doesn't even really matter at
33:00
Speaker 2: this point in? Time, anymore RIGHT like tv subscriptions, back
33:03
Speaker 2: then the way it was all set up to get into,
33:07
Speaker 2: a region like it, Meant something it doesn't. Mean. Anything
33:10
Speaker 2: now can we can we kick? Them out neither of them,
33:13
Speaker 2: make money they're both in. The red neither of them seem.
33:18
Speaker 2: To try i'm really disappointed in our guy uh and Our.
33:21
Speaker 2: GUY shiano i thought he would do so much better
33:24
Speaker 2: in his second stint At, at rutgers but he can't
33:29
Speaker 2: keep any of that local talent home even with even,
33:33
Speaker 2: with money which. Is, Crazy yeah, mike says we've come
33:37
Speaker 2: a long Way since. Bowser. Bombs absolutely. Oh jeez So
33:48
Speaker 2: The brendan sorosby situation got, me thinking what if we
33:52
Speaker 2: were in this Situation At. Ohio State An ohio state
33:57
Speaker 2: player agrees before he ever plays it Down At ohio
34:01
Speaker 2: state to signed to a two year deal and he
34:04
Speaker 2: transfers after year one and he owes. A buyout he
34:08
Speaker 2: agrees that if he leaves after, year one he's going
34:10
Speaker 2: to pay. A buyout and then, he Says now i'm
34:14
Speaker 2: not paying and then it. Goes public how are you
34:17
Speaker 2: feeling about? That guy BECAUSE when i look at guys
34:21
Speaker 2: who aren't in, that situation guys even like, You know Mile,
34:25
Speaker 2: And Graham, quincy porter just because of the simple fact
34:29
Speaker 2: that they Went To, notre dame a, huge competitor like,
34:33
Speaker 2: YOU know i don't really care for those. Guys, Anymore
34:37
Speaker 2: right it's not like they said, Screw you i'm not,
34:39
Speaker 2: paying you but just the fact that they. Did that,
34:42
Speaker 2: you know people, could, say hey it's. Just business it's not,
34:46
Speaker 2: to me it's not. To you we're not in this because.
34:49
Speaker 2: It's business we're not in there in this because we
34:52
Speaker 2: get paid. For it we donate, to it we pay
34:56
Speaker 2: for it because we. Love it we have emotions attached,
34:59
Speaker 2: To this, so, like yeah that. Irritates me so, Of
35:03
Speaker 2: course i'm not going to be wishing success to guys
35:06
Speaker 2: who go transfer to teams that we're going to. Be
35:09
Speaker 2: playing but what if it was, A guy Let's Say
35:13
Speaker 2: julian saying Played For ohio state, last year had a
35:16
Speaker 2: really good year like, he did and this offseason he
35:22
Speaker 2: got a big bag to Go To, texas tech Just
35:25
Speaker 2: like Soresby And julian sayan Transfers To texas tech and
35:30
Speaker 2: we're in the same situation. With, him well now you've
35:34
Speaker 2: got this season where this guy led you to a,
35:37
Speaker 2: great season you got the memories about, the season and
35:41
Speaker 2: we have feelings attached to those memories about a. Certain
35:44
Speaker 2: season and then it ends, like this a, guy leaves
35:49
Speaker 2: goes somewhere else, and says, Screw you i'm Not paying
35:52
Speaker 2: we're going. To court, and now all of, a sudden
35:56
Speaker 2: whenever you think about that season and you think about,
35:58
Speaker 2: that quarterback you got that sour taste in, your Mouth
36:02
Speaker 2: like cincinnati must surely Have For brendan Soresby As. Brendan
36:07
Speaker 2: soresby if you if you're not familiar with what's, going on, he,
36:11
Speaker 2: said first there was a million dollar buyout played for.
36:15
Speaker 2: Two years if you transfer SOMEWHERE else us a. Million
36:18
Speaker 2: bucks if you go TO, the nfl you do not
36:21
Speaker 2: owe a. Million Bucks and cincinnati after, he transfers they
36:26
Speaker 2: say they're going to pay the million Dollars. To cincinnati
36:29
Speaker 2: then they said. They're not his, agent, said no. We're
36:32
Speaker 2: not we're gonna take him. To court it is Illegal
36:35
Speaker 2: in ohio against some Kind of ohio law they're trying to,
36:40
Speaker 2: get around and it's a. Scumbag move and the reason
36:42
Speaker 2: it's a scumbag move is because the kid got five
36:45
Speaker 2: to six million Dollars From. Texas tech and when he
36:49
Speaker 2: sat down for those Negotiations With, texas tech one hundred
36:53
Speaker 2: percent part of the equation in those negotiations Was from.
36:58
Speaker 2: Soorsby's End in sorsby's, agent, like listen we're gonna have
37:01
Speaker 2: to pay them a million, dollar buyout so we want his,
37:05
Speaker 2: market value and then we want a million dollars on
37:07
Speaker 2: top of it for you guys to pay off that
37:09
Speaker 2: buyout like that was part of. The equation and now
37:14
Speaker 2: he's gonna get that Money from tech and, say no
37:17
Speaker 2: we're not. Gonna pay it's, just, Shady man it's shady.
37:21
Speaker 2: As hell We. Saw george. I'm glad I'm glad cincinnati's
37:25
Speaker 2: suing him because that is the only way that we're
37:29
Speaker 2: gonna see this kind of. Stuff Stop And damon wilson
37:32
Speaker 2: got Sued by georgia for doing this a similar thing,
37:35
Speaker 2: last year only he signed his and only collected like
37:39
Speaker 2: thirty thousand and left like a month later to Go,
37:41
Speaker 2: to Missouri and georgia. Sued him wilson countersued that one
37:47
Speaker 2: actually affected us Directly because george has Spread That damon
37:52
Speaker 2: wilson owed them this million dollars and everybody else kind
37:57
Speaker 2: of backed. Off him that was gonna be, After him
37:58
Speaker 2: houstate was gonna be, after him backed off of. Him,
38:01
Speaker 2: totally well now we Look At, damian wilson who plays
38:04
Speaker 2: a Year at missouri and now he's ready. To go
38:06
Speaker 2: him and his agent, transfer again and, it's like, all,
38:09
Speaker 2: right man we see, your game AND now i hope.
38:11
Speaker 2: He loses then you had The demand. Williams thing demand
38:15
Speaker 2: signs a Deal with. Washington announces just a few, days
38:19
Speaker 2: later he's entering. The Portal after washington and his agent
38:23
Speaker 2: went over the punitive part of what he, had signed, He,
38:27
Speaker 2: says okay forget. About it i'm coming Back. To washington
38:31
Speaker 2: so they apparently had him by. The stones that was
38:33
Speaker 2: A boilerplate big. Ten deal So the big ten deals
38:36
Speaker 2: seemed to be dialed in. Pretty well and then You
38:38
Speaker 2: had Dari and Mensa at duke who also had. A
38:42
Speaker 2: contract he ends Up. At miami there was no specific
38:47
Speaker 2: dollar amount listed in, his buyout and whatever, they got
38:52
Speaker 2: they came to a settlement to buy. Him out but
38:55
Speaker 2: these buyouts need to be added into all these just like,
38:58
Speaker 2: a coach if you are going, to transfer you're gonna
39:02
Speaker 2: have to pay a buy out if you want to
39:03
Speaker 2: leave before your contract. Is up and is? It legal it's.
39:07
Speaker 2: Absolutely legal YOU and i can enter into a legal
39:09
Speaker 2: contract for anything. We want you don't have to be
39:12
Speaker 2: my employee to enter into a contract, with me so it's.
39:15
Speaker 2: ABSOLUTELY legal i can't wait to see how. It ends
39:19
Speaker 2: BUT when i think about, THIS situation i Think About,
39:22
Speaker 2: jeremiah SMITH and i think about the megastar that he's
39:26
Speaker 2: become truly a guy who has crossed over into, mainstream
39:31
Speaker 2: fame not just a college football, famous guy. Mainstream fame
39:37
Speaker 2: and to the, point where like, my mom someone who
39:40
Speaker 2: doesn't follow, college football she Knows Who jeremiah. Smith is
39:45
Speaker 2: and when we Talk About, jeremiah smith what is it
39:49
Speaker 2: that's held him Back At ohio state? This year what
39:55
Speaker 2: is it that kept him from Going to Miami? Or
39:58
Speaker 2: texas You can't he's a development heartline. Was gone he's
40:02
Speaker 2: gotten all he can from him and he can go
40:05
Speaker 2: hand pick whoever he wants to. Develop him at, this
40:07
Speaker 2: point you can't say he feels it's, you know the absolute.
40:12
Speaker 2: Best coaching he just watched his coaches get out coached
40:14
Speaker 2: by the school that wants him. The most. His hometown
40:18
Speaker 2: you saw him hugging the guys on the sideline at
40:20
Speaker 2: the end of. The game he could have been the
40:24
Speaker 2: national college football story of the offseason had he entered,
40:27
Speaker 2: the portal and that program would have gotten so. Much
40:31
Speaker 2: attention they could have parlayed it into so much money
40:36
Speaker 2: that they could have absolutely paid him way more than
40:40
Speaker 2: whatever the market value would. Have been and he could have.
40:43
Speaker 2: Done that why? Didn't he they also surely would have
40:48
Speaker 2: pitched him on the fact that we are going to.
40:50
Speaker 2: Maximize you we're gonna get you twelve targets, a game
40:53
Speaker 2: we are going to win You The. Heisman trophy that's,
40:56
Speaker 2: our goal and you're gonna go down as one of
40:58
Speaker 2: the greatest college football players to. Ever play i'm sure
41:03
Speaker 2: he got all this as a pitch in addition to the.
41:07
Speaker 2: HUGE money, i mean he's getting huge, money already but
41:10
Speaker 2: it could have reached levels that we've not yet. Heard of,
41:15
Speaker 2: you know guys like average quarterbacks sores me over five. Million.
41:19
Speaker 2: Bucks man the, dude's good and yeah he's, a quarterback
41:24
Speaker 2: but he's not a generational player who's going to go
41:26
Speaker 2: number one. Next Year. Jj is it's a. Powerful pitch
41:32
Speaker 2: it's a, powerful pitch and his current coach isn't trying
41:35
Speaker 2: to win Him the heisman and he's made. That Clear
41:38
Speaker 2: and i'm just sitting, here, thinking like this guy should
41:41
Speaker 2: be absolutely praised for his loyalty while we sit here
41:45
Speaker 2: and talk about these dudes that are not loyal, at
41:48
Speaker 2: all these guys that just leave for, no reason like
41:52
Speaker 2: all the energy that we focus, On them like the
41:56
Speaker 2: praise should be on a Guy. Like jeremiah the loyalty
42:00
Speaker 2: that he had to, his guys his guys in that,
42:04
Speaker 2: locker room and, you know that's what it. Was about
42:08
Speaker 2: that's all it. Was about it Was To ohio's state
42:11
Speaker 2: in the Sense That ohio state to him is who
42:15
Speaker 2: he knows and. His brothers that speaks so much to
42:18
Speaker 2: his character, to me, And boy i'll, TELL you, i
42:22
Speaker 2: mean it says a lot about that guy that he could.
42:26
Speaker 2: Have been this could have been the summer in the
42:29
Speaker 2: season or the off season and the Season. Of jeremiah
42:33
Speaker 2: he could have owned it all and. He didn't and,
42:36
Speaker 2: you know a lot of that to the Culture At,
42:38
Speaker 2: ohio state most of that to the guy that. He
42:41
Speaker 2: is and it's incredibly impressive for a dude. That young
42:45
Speaker 2: and it's incredibly impressive that a guy of his caliber
42:49
Speaker 2: we are going to watch play his whole college career at.
42:52
Speaker 2: One place we're not seeing it. Much anymore when a
42:56
Speaker 2: guy burst onto the season or onto the scene as a,
42:58
Speaker 2: superstar freshman we're not seeing him finish his college career
43:04
Speaker 2: at the same. Place anymore it's not something we're. Seeing
43:06
Speaker 2: often so it just makes me love him even more
43:12
Speaker 2: and feels so much luckier that we were the ones
43:16
Speaker 2: that got to have him for, three years and when
43:20
Speaker 2: it's all said, and done a guy who very well
43:22
Speaker 2: might be the best wide receiver in college football in
43:26
Speaker 2: the last twenty, five years if, not ALREADY his nfl
43:32
Speaker 2: career will be probably one of the more exciting ones
43:34
Speaker 2: we'll follow over the next. Ten YEARS and I just
43:38
Speaker 2: i can't say enough. About him, all right let's get
43:41
Speaker 2: To our big. Ten TIERS so i Got the big.
43:43
Speaker 2: TEN tiers i got them broken down into five, different
43:48
Speaker 2: tiers five different tiers starting with are championship contenders championship?
43:55
Speaker 2: Contending teams, To me We've. GOT indiana i think they're
44:00
Speaker 2: absolutely a championship contender right back, at it and amazing
44:04
Speaker 2: that they can just reload like that and be a.
44:06
Speaker 2: Championship contender but that's where we're at. With Them, ore
44:09
Speaker 2: again this team better than Last year's, oregon team probably
44:14
Speaker 2: as good as the year, before that maybe even a.
44:17
Speaker 2: Little Better this buckeye team definitely a. Championship contender but
44:22
Speaker 2: those three are the only ONES that i think are real.
44:24
Speaker 2: Championship contenders. Playoff contenders i've. GOT four i got four.
44:28
Speaker 2: Playoff contenders but of these four, PLAYOFF contenders i think
44:32
Speaker 2: one STANDS alone i THINK. IT'S usc I think usc.
44:36
Speaker 2: STANDS alone i think Bringing In gary patterson as the
44:39
Speaker 2: defensive coordinator Outside Of, ohio State Hiring, arthur Smith and
44:45
Speaker 2: indiana re signing both of their coordinators to long term,
44:49
Speaker 2: deals again which was amazing they were able to. DO
44:52
Speaker 2: that usc Bringing In gary patterson to run that defense
44:57
Speaker 2: was the biggest news that. There WAS and I Love
45:01
Speaker 2: jade mayava as. A quarterback we know that the offense
45:04
Speaker 2: is going to. Be humming we know that they get
45:07
Speaker 2: to number one class and a lot of these guys
45:09
Speaker 2: are stepping in, right now playing. Right away probably next
45:13
Speaker 2: year is the target year where they're definitely a, playoff
45:17
Speaker 2: team but they're a playoff contender. Right NOW and i
45:21
Speaker 2: would not be surprised one bit if we're looking at
45:24
Speaker 2: these guys in the next three years at this point and,
45:28
Speaker 2: being like, all right three years from now when we
45:30
Speaker 2: Think of OREGON in sc like they're on almost, equal
45:35
Speaker 2: footing if, not sooner because that's how much they're investing in.
45:39
Speaker 2: The program and if you have any Belief That lincoln
45:44
Speaker 2: riley is a decent coach to a, good COACH which,
45:46
Speaker 2: i DO which i HATE that i DO because i can't,
45:49
Speaker 2: stand HIM but. I do i think that these guys are. Right,
45:53
Speaker 2: there man they are.
45:54
Speaker 1: Right.
45:55
Speaker 2: There michigan when we look at this team, last year,
45:59
Speaker 2: nine three nine, and three think about the coaching they had,
46:03
Speaker 2: last year and that team won nine. Games amazing now
46:08
Speaker 2: they Bring In kyle witting him a GUY that i respect,
46:10
Speaker 2: a ton and he's going to have. Things right they
46:14
Speaker 2: obviously lose quite. A bit he brings in a couple
46:16
Speaker 2: of awesome defensive Linemen, from utah and their schedule. IS
46:21
Speaker 2: tough i think they're going to be underdogs just looking
46:23
Speaker 2: at their schedule, right now in three slash maybe four
46:27
Speaker 2: games right off. The rip SO while i do think
46:30
Speaker 2: they're a, playoff contender mean that they're good enough to
46:33
Speaker 2: be a. PLAYOFF contender i wouldn't be surprised if they
46:36
Speaker 2: went eight, and four not. At all i've got To
46:40
Speaker 2: include IOWA because i Never, include iowa and every year
46:43
Speaker 2: they're almost, right there it seems so this year. No
46:47
Speaker 2: different iowa was just getting up there. By default now
46:50
Speaker 2: they play a really rough schedule early With, At Michigan
46:56
Speaker 2: ohio state, at home Then. At washington that's how they
46:59
Speaker 2: Open Up big ten play if they get through that
47:02
Speaker 2: gauntlet and just win one. Of those they got a
47:06
Speaker 2: pretty smooth way all the way out to run the
47:09
Speaker 2: table and could potentially be a. Playoff team and then
47:12
Speaker 2: We Got penn state and that's just like the. Great
47:15
Speaker 2: unknown we. Don't know We've Got matt campbell bringing in
47:19
Speaker 2: twenty two Guys From iowa State Into. Penn state we
47:23
Speaker 2: saw it Working With james Madison. To indiana can it
47:26
Speaker 2: Work With. Iowa state it's certainly a program that's, gonna like,
47:31
Speaker 2: you know it's not gonna look like most first, year
47:34
Speaker 2: programs where we'll see how he gets. It started they
47:37
Speaker 2: should start off. Really well they all know, the system
47:40
Speaker 2: they know what. He's doing they got a, veteran quarterback
47:44
Speaker 2: a lot of veteran dudes that know exactly What coach.
47:47
Speaker 2: Campbell's EXPECTING and i, don't know, you know ultimately if
47:53
Speaker 2: they are a team that could do anything with a.
47:56
Speaker 2: Decent schedule but they've got maybe the easiest schedule The Entire,
48:00
Speaker 2: big ten and that to me makes Them A big
48:04
Speaker 2: ten playoff contender because the schedule is just. Ridiculously easy
48:09
Speaker 2: so that's my. Playoff contenders moving on To my Agents of,
48:13
Speaker 2: chaos category teams that are good enough to knock off
48:17
Speaker 2: any of those teams above them on Any, given saturday
48:21
Speaker 2: but not good enough to be. Playoff contenders washington year
48:25
Speaker 2: Three of Jedfish And, demon williams They Lose jonah Williams Or.
48:31
Speaker 2: Jonah coleman They Lose, adam muhamme their other. Big back
48:36
Speaker 2: they do replace him with a really good FRESHMAN and
48:39
Speaker 2: I Think brian. Browners's name he was a top. Ten
48:41
Speaker 2: kid and they brought in, That Transfer jay Lamar from oregon,
48:47
Speaker 2: As well so they got some. Decent backs but They
48:50
Speaker 2: lose They Lose, denzel BOSTON and i think they're gonna
48:54
Speaker 2: struggle with, the PLAYMAKERS but i do think they're gonna
48:57
Speaker 2: be a really solid team that. CAN definitely i think
49:00
Speaker 2: they invite four Teams into washington. This year that's obviously
49:05
Speaker 2: a really tough place. To play they'll have an opportunity
49:07
Speaker 2: to knock. Somebody off And then Illinois, with houser with
49:11
Speaker 2: the way they've, been playing they're going to knock somebody off.
49:14
Speaker 2: As Well. In minnesota quiet as it kept just keep winning,
49:17
Speaker 2: eight games eight and five, every year five straight bowl
49:21
Speaker 2: games that, they've won so really Big on minnesota knocking
49:26
Speaker 2: somebody off and being an agent of chaos, this year
49:30
Speaker 2: and then we got our maybe next. Year category really
49:34
Speaker 2: Excited About michigan State With. PAT fitzgerald i think, that he,
49:39
Speaker 2: you know there's a lot of people who look at
49:41
Speaker 2: his end of his Time at northwestern three straight losing
49:44
Speaker 2: seasons because he would not adapt to nil or his
49:49
Speaker 2: position on it was very, old fashioned very Much. LIKE
49:52
Speaker 2: dabo i listened to, An interview he's clearly. Accepted it
49:56
Speaker 2: he's clearly accepted where we're at now and what he needs.
49:58
Speaker 2: To do, and there's, you know no doubt that he's
50:02
Speaker 2: talking like a normal general manager. Would talk so, with
50:06
Speaker 2: that with, his experience, to me it just feels like
50:09
Speaker 2: a perfect Fit At. Michigan state and the most, important
50:12
Speaker 2: part they just got a three hundred million dollar football
50:15
Speaker 2: specific donation and there might be another one matching one
50:19
Speaker 2: coming in the near future with a big. Time booster so,
50:24
Speaker 2: That Said michigan state could potentially really pop into a
50:30
Speaker 2: serious contention here In The big ten and once again
50:33
Speaker 2: be a player in. The conference nebraska a huge disappointment
50:38
Speaker 2: if they can at least work themselves into playoff contention
50:43
Speaker 2: here by the end of, this year these guys are
50:45
Speaker 2: such a Disappointment Under matt rule with. The money this
50:48
Speaker 2: is now year. Number four they have pumped so much
50:50
Speaker 2: money into the program Thinking That matt rule is the
50:53
Speaker 2: guy that's going to get. This done and what did
50:56
Speaker 2: you win seven games? Last year goretty rough scheduled? This,
51:01
Speaker 2: year nah, never mind, NEVER mind. I, misspoke no their
51:03
Speaker 2: schedule is. Not rough he should be able to do
51:05
Speaker 2: some damage. THIS year i just don't believe. IN him
51:08
Speaker 2: i don't believe. In him, and uh. We'll see and
51:11
Speaker 2: then YOU Got u northwestern who look pretty solid by
51:16
Speaker 2: the end of, the YEAR and Ucla With. Bob chesney
51:19
Speaker 2: so that is the maybe next, year crew as in
51:22
Speaker 2: maybe next year we can be an agent of chaos.
51:24
Speaker 2: Or better, and then of course we got our bottom
51:27
Speaker 2: of the barrel cellar dwellers who aren't good enough for
51:30
Speaker 2: me to take the time to make a graphic, for
51:33
Speaker 2: them and That includes Perdue. AND. Maryland pj fleck would
51:40
Speaker 2: make a great Manager. At, carmen's, Absolutely man. ABSOLUTELY dude
51:47
Speaker 2: i was watching him the. Other day he was in
51:50
Speaker 2: a he had a press. Press conference he was in
51:52
Speaker 2: a black button down shirt and he had like four.
51:54
Speaker 2: Buttons unbuttoned so you could see that he's been. Working
51:57
Speaker 2: out he's got his chest is looking a. Little beefy
52:00
Speaker 2: look at a little beefy might have. Been shaved, the fleck,
52:08
Speaker 2: the fleck row the. Boat nerd, all, RIGHT friends i
52:13
Speaker 2: appreciate you guys. So much, as always we will be
52:16
Speaker 2: Here every Monday. And thursday MARK and i are getting
52:19
Speaker 2: ready to do kick up some skall sessions here, pretty
52:22
Speaker 2: soon so look out for. Those ones we will announce
52:25
Speaker 2: THEM On X and i appreciate you, so much and
52:28
Speaker 2: we'll talk to. You soon buck huddle out