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Kelley Ford Stays on to Talk about Conference Outlook in NCAA and Miami Hurricanes Football · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Kelly Ford Withthlones dot com. Kelly, I know you guys are doing you
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  do a lot with football, but I see some basketball. Do a little
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  bit of everything at the lines. Yeah. Over at the Liones dot com.
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  Get you everything covered from your sports wagering perspective, whatever sport you're interested
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  in, all sorts of content and information over there. You can check it
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  out in the Lines dot com. Kelly. When you look at the conference
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  averages, I like what you've done here. Conference average k Ford rating points
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  per game above or below Division one average, Big Ten are Big twelve e
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  scus me comes in at twelve point two, the Big Ten right behind them
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  at ten point four, moving up the SEC ten point three, Big easton
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  then the ACC and of course we know this when you get into college basketball,
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  you get into you know, as much as what you've got thirty three
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  different conferences here. It really is interesting that how many I think we forget
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  how many people play Division one basketball that could get into the tournament. But
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  let me ask you about the SEC. How deep is this league? You
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  know, we have those conversations down here. Is this a seventeen league to
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  the tournament? Is an eighteen league? Nine league team. How deep is
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  this is this league in your estimation? Yeah, the SEC is obviously the
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  Kings of the grid iron, but very good and men's basketball as well.
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  I think you can go seven, eight, nine deep into the tournam of
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  this year. Of course, the bubble starts getting murky, you get your
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  bid Steelers. But in terms of the best teams in the SDC, if
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  for me, it kind of starts with the top tier of grouping Tennessee,
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  Auburn, Alabama, all very similarly power rated up there in the top five,
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  the top ten in the country. So to me, that's kind of
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  the class of the SDC. If you will, Kentucky, it is probably
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  in that next kind of tier, that next grouping of teams Texas, A
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  and M Florida, Mississippi State right there in your backyard, Jake. Those
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  are also some teams that from a power rating standpoint, are performing at a
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  very very high level, at top forty level nationally. You talk about next
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  year what the SEC is going to look like. Both Texas and Oklahoma right
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  now in the top thirty five of my power ratings on the basketball side,
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  So I think you can get all the way down into the middle, maybe
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  even that third quarti of the conference where you've got resumes that put you in
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  a position to be under consideration on selection Sunday, because that's what the committee's
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  looking at. And if someone who works in a conference office and overseas basketball
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  in the Horizon League, I can speak pretty detailed on what the committee's valuing
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  and what they don't value. When you play in a conference like the SCC
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  or like the Big Twelve, where night in and night out, these games
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  that you're playing their Quad one, their Quad two opportunities. You get rewarded
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  by the committee for winning those games. You do not get punished for losing
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  those games. So even if a team has collected some losses and that lost
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  columns really piling up, if all of those losses are in Quad one and
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  Quad two in the eyes of the selection committee, you actually still have a
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  pretty good resume. And that's how you can see, you know, eight
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  nine teams from a single conference get into the tournament. Which conference, in
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  your estimation, are we sleeping on this year? That could be, you
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  know, somewhat of a surprise. I mean, obviously we know about the
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  Big Twelve, of the Ten, the SEC, the Big East, the
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  ACC, I mean we're looking at the you know, Mountain Valley Conference.
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  Are we looking at the West Coast Conference? Are we looking at maybe a
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  WAC. I mean, where are you looking that? Maybe a lot of
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  people aren't looking. Yeah, I think you know, outside the Power six
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  if you will in college basketball, that'd be your your traditional Power five plus
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  the Big East. For me, it's easy to go right to the Mountain
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  West. I think the Mountain West they might get four teams in the tournament
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  this year. And you know, for a for a for a high mid
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  they're a mid major, high major, whatever you want to call them.
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  They do play FBS football of course in the Mountain West, but typically not
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  a basketball powerhouse that comes to mind, the Mountain West Conference. I also
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  think the A ten is a conference to keep an eye on, with some
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  good teams the WCC, you know, the West Coast Conference. Usually they've
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  got Gonzaga and then you know Saint Mary's will will be a strong team too.
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  In recent year, San Francisco has made the tournament out of the WCC.
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  Gonzaga is down this year. This is not the Gonzaga type team that
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  you're used to seeing from the last twenty five years. So I'm not sure
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  how much the w C he's going to be a big player come March this
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  year, but definitely the Mountain West, the A ten, that's where you
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  need to be looking if you're looking outside the traditional power six. Let me
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  shift back to college football real quickly and get your thoughts on a couple of
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  Well, I've talked to Chris Landry about this yesterday, way too early,
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  but you look at the Miami Hurricanes and what they have been able to do
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  in the transfer portal. You start really chalking through their recruiting and you know
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  what they obviously bringing in cam Ward, and it looks like this could be
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  a you know, banger bust year for Mario Crystal Ball and talent wise,
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  it looks like they've got as good a talent as anybody in the ACC coming
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  back. Is this a banger bust year in your estimation for Mario Cristobal?
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  Yeah, I hate to put that kind of label on it when we're this
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  far out, as you said, but I think that's reasonable. And Jacobs,
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  we've talked about before in the New Look ACC. I mean Florida State,
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  you know a recent you know, the last half century or last half
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  century, has risen to power, has really really good teams in the eighties
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  nineties. Of course, you know, played in or won national championship at
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  twenty thirteen with James Winston, got maybe snubbed this year. Florida State's the
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  team that you look at in the ACC and say they could be a flag
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  bearer. Clemson with what they've accomplished Underdablos winning in the last ten fifteen years,
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  they could be a flag bear outside of those two programs in the ACC.
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  Now we're talking football, not basketball. I mean, where else are
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  you going if you're not going Miami as kind of that team that really should
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  be at the top of the conference standings every single year. Mario Christball is
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  a Miami guy, alum, right, he knows how to recruit. We
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  saw that at Oregon, We're seeing that at Miami. The biggest thing for
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  me is can Mario Christo Ball improve really his game management skills, his time
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  management, the way that he calls a game, the way that he affects
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  the game from the sideline. If he can piece that together, you said
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  it, They're putting pieces together. In the transfer portal. They've got a
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  really strong roster. There really is not excuse for Miami. And I'll say
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  this regardless of who the coach is, there's not an excuse now for Miami
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  to not be in the top two or three on a year in and year
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  out basis in the ACC and that should have been the expectation there since they
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  joined the conference in two thousand and five. I believe it was. Of
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  course, they have not been a perennial power in that conference. There's really
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  no excuse. And as the landscape continues to shift in college football with conference
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  realignment, Miami needs to make sure that they're playing at a peak level here
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  when the next wave that edwardly hits Kelly Forward, make sure to find him
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  on X You can go to k Ford Ratings also kfod ratings dot com.
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  Check them out at the lines. Kelly. Always appreciate your time, have
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  a great week. Look when we talk next week, it'll be a lot
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  about the Super Bowl and we'll tee that up as well as other things as
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  well. Looking forward to it, Jake, appreciate you as always,