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Get Grunk'd Up · Boundary Corner Podcast

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  Maori Welcome back, boys. Hey, this is the first time we
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  queued it up since state of the program.
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  How we feeling? How we feeling it's been?
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  Well, that ain't that long ago. 2 two weeks.
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  Little two weeks little. Over 2 weeks.
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  It's it's that time of year. Well, it's a new year.
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  It's 2025. Last time we all got together
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  here. I mean, not counting phone calls
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  and text messages, which are by the hundreds and hundreds
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  nowadays. But yeah, first time all year,
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  definitely going to be a good time tonight.
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  A ton to unload tally. How you feeling man?
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  Feeling good. We're feeling good.
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  Maybe everybody can quit asking if we got a quarterback, because
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  we do knew what was going to happen sooner or later.
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  Glad it finally happened. Stop asking.
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  We got quarterback. QB 1 is in the building.
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  Negotiations are done. Signed, sealed, delivered.
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  I'm yours. There we go.
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  It's always feeling good. You know what, when you when you
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  get a quarterback one in the building, you got to got to
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  celebrate a little bit. And I think this is one of those
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  things where it's like this has been a done deal for a while,
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  but it just took a little bit to kind of get it into that
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  official, put it on the timeline, throw it up, celebrate
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  it across the board. And people got a little antsy.
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  People got a little antsy as we were working through that
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  process. I don't know if we'll ever know
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  exactly what the reason for kind of that week, week and a half
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  gap between that first announcement from national media
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  that Grunk was expected to sign with the Hokies until we finally
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  get this announcement today. I'm glad it happened today
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  because we get to talk about it tonight.
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  That's all I care about. Brian, you said.
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  Brian, you said week, week and 1/2.
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  It seemed like it was a year and a half.
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  Every day, every day, 9 million to whoever Chewbacca Hokie is or
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  whatever his name is. He was tweeting at Kobe every
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  day. Matter of fact, he was so into
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  it that he tweeted today and said, Kobe, where is Gronk?
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  And he was already, he was already committed.
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  It was already Miller. Yeah.
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  Then he just went back and said, oh, I'm sorry, I missed.
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  My bad, I missed. I missed the announcement.
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  You should have. Had you should have had new new
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  new tweets from Grunk on alert. On alert as soon as that thing
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  hit and it it hit the Instagram first, But let's I mean, we got
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  a lot of other stuff to unload on the back end.
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  But let's hit the big news because it was something dare
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  say the program we talked about quite a few times.
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  Tally, you even said in like in January, we want to have another
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  state of the program because of all the people leaving and all
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  the people coming in and man, it has been fast and furious and
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  like both Tally and Siegel just said a second ago, the
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  quarterback is now on lock. Ethan Gruntmeyer, everything
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  committed. Tally, you were like it felt
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  like a year ago. It did feel like a year to
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  Virginia Tech And then finally he makes his announcement today
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  and you know, as you take a look, just go back.
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  First of all, he was a red shirt freshman last year where he did
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  play at Penn State, played in seven games, went four and three
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  in those games. 70% completion percentage, a little over 1300
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  yards, 8 touchdowns, 4 picks as a red shirt freshman.
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  That was really his first game axe and I think he played like
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  one game like 10 snaps his red shirt year.
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  So he got baptized by fire after Larr gets down and we take a
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  look at him. Y'all, it's been a long, long
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  time since we had a quarterback ranked this high.
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  And when I say that he was the number 8 quarterback on 247 in
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  2024 with 500 player national, I mean POSIT 5 star, POSIT 4 star
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  off the board. And we're not talking like 94
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  star, we're talking 95. We're talking like he was
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  creeping potentially be almost 5.
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  So I've kind of mentioned how you feel now, obviously we
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  watched Ted the Clemson game and some of the other game and to
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  the day, to this day, he is the quarterback that has come
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  closest to unseating Indiana this year, if not for the totes
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  guy. So I don't know who which one of
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  y'all want to start it, but what do y'all, what have y'all seen
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  on tape? What you like, what you're a
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  little worried about with Ethan? Tally, I'm going to let you ride
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  on this one first. I know, I know.
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  You got a lot. To you got some feelings on it,
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  Tally? You've been you've been sharing
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  them with us. No, man, he's just, he's just,
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  he's, I think he's of course a young quarterback.
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  I think he's going to be a good quarterback.
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  I just worry about what we put in front of him for next year as
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  far as offensive line goes. But again, I've got confidence
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  that we'll get something right, you know, we'll get it right
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  enough. Because from what I've watched,
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  he's not very mobile. I don't want to call him a
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  statue, but he's close to it. He looked like Medusa hit him
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  maybe on half of his body. So half of his body is stone,
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  but he still can move a little bit on that other half, which is
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  good. But again, every quarterback
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  doesn't have to be mobile. I'm not saying that you have to
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  have a mobile quarterback, but he does have to have a good line
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  that gives him time to throw the ball.
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  When he does have time to throw it, he's accurate with the ball.
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  I think he's more accurate than we've seen putting the ball on
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  spots and getting it down field in a in a while.
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  You know maybe what maybe since Hindon, yeah, I was thinking
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  maybe since Hindon and we still didn't get to see all of what
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  Hindon could do. You know, we had Hindon doing a
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  lot of running. So he's he he's I think he's
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  going to be good. He's already had kind of got
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  thrown in the fire this year, so he'll be kind of weather tested.
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  But again, I'm just praying that we put the right people around
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  him. As far as the offensive line, I
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  think that the skill spots are OK, which I'm sure we'll talk
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  about a little later, but I always worry about the trenches.
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  So yeah, that's kind of what I think.
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  But I am very happy that we picked him up.
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  I think that that is a a good pool for us.
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  I won't say anything like, oh, we should have got this person,
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  but I think that getting him as our quarterback is going to be
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  beneficial. And I think we'll be able to
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  grow with him and I think we would be able to win some games
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  next year as long as we put we got to get them tackle spots
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  locked down like the tackles got to be on point.
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  Yep, and I'll be I'll, I'll, I'll agree with most of that.
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  I think when you look at Ethan Gruckmeyer, he's a guy that, you
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  know, got got pressed into action and, you know, after a a
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  game where, yeah, he was kind of figuring things out the rest of
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  the way. I mean, there wasn't a whole lot
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  to complain about from an output standpoint.
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  Accuracy is there decision making is there ability to make
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  reads in the offense is there to to Tally's point, he's not a
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  mobile quarterback. You're not going to get him
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  confused as a dual threat quarterback.
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  At the same time, if the pocket breaks down, you know, he's got
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  enough wiggle and enough movement where he can, you know,
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  scramble to, to, to get away from a sack and, you know, get a
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  few positive yards. He's not going to go out there
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  and break off the, the the 20 yarders with any consistency,
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  but he can certainly do enough to get you out of a negative
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  play. So we're still going to have to
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  protect him, though. That's that's the big thing is
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  that, you know, when you get a quarterback that is more of a
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  pocket presence versus a mobile guy, you got to make sure that
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  you're taking care of him. That was one of the things that
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  was absolutely the weakness of the Virginia Tech offense last
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  year. We got some guys coming in where
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  they were going to talk about, but at the end of the day, we're
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  going to do a whole lot better protect the quarterback with a
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  quarterback like Ethan back there.
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  Yeah, we we absolutely are. And Tally, you mentioned
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  baptized by fire. Beth put it lightly.
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  His first three games he played was at Iowa, so at Kinnock
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  Stadium against Iowa's defense and everybody knows they're
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  never the fastest, but they ain't never in the wrong spot
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  and they always make tackles. The next game was against Ohio
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  State at the Horseshoe. We know how how much talent they
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  have on defense. And in the third game was
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  Indiana. And again, that was the one
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  where that was sort of the coming out party for him because
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  against Indiana he went for like 220 Seventy, 1% completion and a
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  touchdown and a pick. So and then the rest of the
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  season, obviously you know, y'all can look and see the gaps
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  of where he was. But after the Indiana game, he
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  threw new more picks in the next four games along to go with 6
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  touchdowns even against Clemson in the Pinstripe Bowl.
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  But again, it's a lot of wait and see.
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  I think the talents there. You see some of his video he he
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  ain't got no week on. He ain't got no week on.
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  He needs to put on a little weight.
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  He's like 62210. I'd like to see him 62220 to 25.
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  But some of that's just natural, right?
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  Like you're getting older, you're going to grow.
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  But to what both of y'all just said, we've got to keep him up
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  right? And we'll talk about the outline
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  in a little while here and we've got to make sure we're we are
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  putting him in good positions to win.
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  And I think some of the moves and some of the things we have
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  as far as it goes, wide receivers, tight ends, running
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  backs, it's not an empty cupboard and he wasn't playing
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  with an empty cupboard this year.
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  Don't get me wrong, a lot of turmoil going on, but not an
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  empty cupboard. So that's the way I feel now I'm
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  going to talk one more stay on the quarterback room for just a
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  second here. Bryce Baker also got picked up
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  and you know, Bryce Baker was quicker to announce than was
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  quicker to announce than Ethan. But you know, from everything
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  that we had heard, that was the plan all along.
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  That was the plan all along. They were going to get you got
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  to go ahead and get the backup in.
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  And yes, I know Bryce Baker has not played that much, but again,
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  class of 2025, it's high level again.
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  And I'm sure Talley, you've been looking up Brian, you've been
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  looking it up. He's down from E 4th side down
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  in Kernersville. Talley I mean, excuse me,
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  Sigler, you need to call Heiselman up because I got a
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  feeling they play. I don't think he is
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  Kernersville. So he's 4 sites like rival
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  school, that kid composite 86th top 10 nationally as a
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  quarterback. And you know, so I know we don't
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  have as much info and we know who's the starter and who's the
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  backup, but just in general, are y'all OK with the depth or do
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  y'all want like, do you feel like Brown and Collins Schlee?
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  Do we need to bring in one more older vet guy who knows he's not
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  going to play but, you know, insurance?
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  I don't think so. I mean, I think you've got, you
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  got 4 quarterbacks on the roster at this point, really five once
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  Hume comes in. Yeah, I don't think that we
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  really need to do anything much more than that.
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  If you get to the third quarterback in your own your
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  roster, you're kind of fucked anyway.
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  So. If if we're if we're if we're in
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  that situation, then we're probably in the season that we
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  don't want to be in to begin with.
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  I like what we're seeing. You know, you get you get grunk,
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  you get a guy that showed a lot of promise pretty early, a lot
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  of upside has a good chance of you improving upon that that
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  first experience there. Then you look at Bryce Baker,
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  you got to you got a guy that is is athletic.
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  He can do so you can do some things with his legs.
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  He's shown some, you know, raw talent, but you know, probably a
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  little bit less polished than what you've seen from Ethan at
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  this point. Honestly, just from a makeup
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  standpoint, I think Bryce is kind of the ideal backup to
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  someone like Grunk. Just because you can, you don't,
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  you don't have to to lean on everything that Grunk does.
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  You can kind of look at incorporating some of Baker's
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  rushing ability in the offense to kind of take some of the the
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  of the pressure off the passing game if it comes to that
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  situation. Can you feel Bryce Tally?
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  Yeah, so I got a good friend that his son went to school
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  with, Bryce. He was his wide receiver.
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  He ended up going to that. My friend's son ended up going
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  to Charleston, University of Charleston, so he's a wide
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  receiver there. So I just talked with him a
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  little bit just about what he thought about the signing.
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  He said Bryce is a, first of all, the good kid.
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  He's a really good kid. And again, this is just him
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  personally knowing him, said Bryce is a good kid.
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  You're not going to find a better kid to have in the
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  program. He's not as mobile as people
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  would think. He can move, but he's more he
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  wants to throw the ball. His thing is he he holds the
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  ball a little bit longer than probably he needs to.
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  But I think in high school he probably threw for a senior
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  year. He may have threw for 3000
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  yards, 3500 yards, something like that.
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  So he can throw the ball. He does have a little hitch in
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  his wind up. So I think some coaches may want
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  to change that because it's an in between kind of a side arm
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  and overhand throw, which sometimes can be a little
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  erratic, but very, very talented kid, which is why James Franklin
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  went after him, why UNC went after him.
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  You know, he's a he's very, he's very talented, but it's going to
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  be more of a project to have somebody like him on your
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  roster, which is nothing wrong with that, you know what I'm
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  saying? That's why you get people to
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  develop them, because you can take a kid like that and the
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  right coach can pour into him and next thing you know, you get
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  a, you know, you get a starting quarterback.
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  So I think it's good. I'm interested.
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  I I didn't do a lot of like, you know, watching him play before
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  the pickup. But of course after that I went
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  back and looked at a little bit and like I said, called my buddy
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  and looked at some of his kids high school tape.
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  So it was, it was, it was good to see and it just no disrespect
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  to any kids that we've got, but the floor of Virginia Tech's
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  talent level has been raised. You know what I'm saying?
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  It's like you damn near got to be a four-star to get recruited
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  moving forward, you know, and it's not all about the stars
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  because there's some great players that come from
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  everywhere. But I'm just looking at what
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  they're putting on high, high Level 3 stars and and four stars
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  that they're getting into the program from the high school
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  recruiting ranks now in the transport portal.
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  That's what they're going to go look for it.
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  But that's what that's what James Franklin was going to
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  bring anyway. You know, that's what he is.
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  So anybody who is surprised by what he's doing, you haven't
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  been watching college football or you haven't paid attention to
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  him, so. 100%. I'm I'm definitely excited.
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  Yeah, couple other things about Bryce Baker.
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  So everyone knows Penn State recruited him as well.
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  Danny O'Brien was his primary recruiter.
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  I'll let that. I'm going to put this up real
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  quick because I'm going to answer it real quick.
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  No tally and let you look at that question.
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  No. Brian.
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  No, I don't think so. No, so sorry, it's it's not
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  Tyrod was special dude. Tyrod was the number three
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  player in the country, I believe the year he came out.
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  It's it's completely different. These are and you've got one guy
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  who's been baptized already. So a little different.
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  I don't mind the question, but that's what you're going to get
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  from me. All right, let's flip it over
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  because Tally, you mentioned trenches.
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  I'm going to get away from the offense for a second because as
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  I started counting everything, the biggest influx of players in
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  the portal and up to date it is 7 and we got 23 commits.
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  That is the defensive line. So as you've been seeing them
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  come through and like seeing this guy committed this kind of
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  he was here, he was here. Who's the guy that has caught
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  your eye? Of the seven defensive lineman
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  that have walked through the doors?
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  Dally, can you hear me? Oh, is it me?
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  I thought you. Yeah, you, you, you.
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  Yeah, you mentioned trenches, so you get to go.
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  First, Yeah. So I don't know, man, it's a
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  it's it's hard to just pick probably one of the probably for
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  me, just physically what they look like, what I think they'll
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  be able to do. I would probably go with the was
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  it Hilson kid that came from from Missouri.
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  He just looks physically imposing.
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  He looks like he can, he just looks like he he can play looks
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  like he's getting ready like he can.
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  He's going to be able to come in and make an impact.
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  But trenches are where you win and lose the game, you know, so
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  some people's like, man, it looks like we taking too much of
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  this. So we're doing this.
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  I just feel like if you go look at the eligibility of the
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  players that we bringing in, most of them are, you know,
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  three years, some maybe 2. Most are three or four year of
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  eligibility. I think that he's really trying
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  to build a program. He's not trying to go out and
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  get one hit of quitters. He's trying to go out and get
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  some kids or young men that can come in and they can build
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  around that they can keep here and next year, you know, you go
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  out, you put a good product on the field, then you can go and
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  cherry pick what you need. So I said bring it all the time
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  that you can get bring it. But like I said, the kid from
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  Missouri, without going too deep into all the other stuff that
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  we'll go into, the kid from Missouri looks good to me.
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  But I'm, I'm excited to see like it was just every day he was
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  waking up, it was like Christmas.
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  It was my time. Maybe like 9:00 in the morning.
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  Oh, we got to commit or 11:00 we got to commit, 2:00 we got to
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  commit. It's like 6-7 commits in a day,
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  5 commits in a day. Like, man, it was hard to keep
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  up, I ain't going to lie. Like I had to go back at the end
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  of it. And like, who we, how many
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  people did we get today? Who did who, Who committed
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  today? So yeah, Ryan, what?
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  About you. Man, if I really had to circle
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  1, you know, it would probably be Kamari and Morgan kid from
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  Baylor, The edge, you know, just got the physicality that you
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  like to see already has some, you know, a decent amount of
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  snaps under his belt at this point.
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  Looks the part we got, we got somebody with with with with
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  grills on the team now. So that's something to talk
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  about. I, I think it's going to be,
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  he's going to be the, the biggest impact probably out the
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  gate. But it's, it's while seeing to
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  me like looking at the, the guys that, that we bringing in and,
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  and Tally, you made the point of it.
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  Like most of these guys are like red shirt sophomores.
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  Most, most of them have three years of eligibility remaining.
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  Yeah, coupled coupled with two years, some with that are just
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  red shirt freshmen coming in. But like most of these guys have
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  two to three years of eligibility remaining, which
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  means that James is is trying to raise the floor in 2026, but
• 23:48
  he's trying to make some noise in 2027.
• 23:52
  And when we look at what that looks like, is that a, is that
• 23:55
  A8 win team in 26? We'll see.
• 23:57
  Is that a nine win team in 26? We'll see.
• 24:00
  But you're you're raising the floor of the talent level of
• 24:03
  this roster significantly with the majority guys that were
• 24:09
  four-star or high three star, you know, coming in in high
• 24:13
  school, the talent level is going up significantly,
• 24:17
  especially relative to what is leaving the program.
• 24:20
  Yeah, let me say, let me say this right quick, Brian.
• 24:23
  I know Curtis got to jump in here too, but I, you know,
• 24:26
  sitting back just looking, we all do it talking on Twitter all
• 24:29
  day, messing with people. But just looking at some of the
• 24:32
  comments, when people say, you know, or even some of the
• 24:35
  messages or somebody say, well, why do you think we we don't,
• 24:39
  we're supposed to have all this money.
• 24:40
  Why don't we go out and get a bona fide guy, you know, to play
• 24:47
  whatever position. But see, that's the problem.
• 24:50
  We we need everything. You know, we had a couple of
• 24:53
  good people pieces here, good, good pieces there.
• 24:55
  These people were hurt in this area.
• 24:57
  When you need everything, you can't overspend on anything.
• 25:01
  Like we can't overspend on nothing because we end up, I
• 25:03
  think Billy Ray said it, I, I don't watch so many podcasts
• 25:06
  later, but I think Billy Ray said it on his show the other
• 25:09
  day. You end up in a situation like
• 25:12
  Oklahoma, even though they did make the playoffs, but they they
• 25:16
  brought in other guys. They went out and got that
• 25:18
  running back from Cal with Jaden OTT, who was a stud.
• 25:24
  And then he comes to Oklahoma and you know, he's hurt all
• 25:27
  year. He gets 21 carries with 69
• 25:30
  yards. How much play do you spend on
• 25:32
  that? You just mean we we're not in
• 25:35
  position to do that. We're not in the position to do
• 25:37
  that because we're a three win team and we are a losing
• 25:41
  program. You got to get that through your
• 25:43
  head. We're a losing program right
• 25:46
  now. So we got to build it up and we
• 25:49
  got to put the depth in the building.
• 25:52
  Then somebody's going to pan out.
• 25:54
  I mean, if you bring in seven running backs, I know we ain't
• 25:56
  bringing 7 running backs. But if you bring in seven
• 25:59
  running backs and one of them don't work out, you probably
• 26:02
  don't need to be coaching no more.
• 26:04
  So you bring those, you bring those defensive lineman in and,
• 26:09
  and, and get them in on the right amount of NIL and spread
• 26:14
  it across. Somebody's going to work their
• 26:17
  butts off to get on that. And you still got Kamar
• 26:19
  Copeland, still got Kamari Copeland, which we need.
• 26:23
  One of the must keeps was Copeland and we kept it.
• 26:27
  I'll throw mine in real quick. And of all these guys y'all
• 26:30
  mentioned, Hilson and Morgan, I feel like they're the crown
• 26:32
  jewels. But Tally, when I sent you the
• 26:38
  thing about Mensa, you got on it like he like he did US dirty.
• 26:41
  He drank some crown tonight. Tally feeling good but it's good
• 26:45
  to see like a guy like Mensa come back that quick that quick
• 26:50
  because his body's already ready like a kid 633 O 5 he's he's
• 26:55
  ready to play inside can he get there quick enough which one's
• 26:58
  that BlackBerry crown nice that's who I'm excited for now
• 27:02
  you just mentioned it Charlie and I think we we were talking
• 27:05
  tonight guys coming back on the defensive line like who you
• 27:09
  excited about and I mean Kamari yeah like him coming back is a
• 27:17
  big deal and and you know he he got the tutelage of JC for all
• 27:22
  those years now he's getting Sean Spencer chaos.
• 27:27
  You know, you y'all can look and see if there's anybody else.
• 27:30
  I think a few only. I've only seen a few guys have
• 27:32
  announced they're coming back. When I hear announced, that
• 27:35
  means people were coming after them.
• 27:36
  But I mean you, you tell me Copeland's ready to go and.
• 27:44
  You know, laws. Laws coming back you got, yeah.
• 27:47
  Taco Fall, who probably, you know, came out of nowhere, had
• 27:50
  some. His name is definitely not Taco.
• 27:54
  His name is Elijah Fall. Taco Fall is about A-76
• 27:59
  basketball player for like. My bad.
• 28:01
  I said the wrong name. You good?
• 28:03
  You good? You got the name the only.
• 28:06
  Reason. The only reason that I was that
• 28:08
  I said that is Elijah Fall is a sneaky good running back because
• 28:14
  he was serviceable this year. Defensive lineman, we ain't on
• 28:19
  running backs yet, he said. Run it back, run it, run it
• 28:21
  back, everybody. 'S fucking up now everybody man
• 28:24
  y'all screwing up like I screwed up names.
• 28:26
  No. So no, he, he was serviceable,
• 28:31
  you know, he created some chaos, no pun intended, in the
• 28:35
  backfield. So now when you put a lying
• 28:42
  around him that you know, all is going to require some extra
• 28:47
  attention, you know, you got to have that depth, you know what
• 28:51
  I'm saying? I don't know how many sacks he
• 28:53
  had last year, but I remember at least probably 2 1/2.
• 28:58
  And hell, we only had fucking 10 I believe so.
• 29:03
  Hey, I like the Elijah fall running back.
• 29:06
  I'm glad. I'm glad that he's back.
• 29:10
  Not a lot, not a lot. All right, let's flip it back to
• 29:13
  offense real quick because I feel like every name you've seen
• 29:17
  on this next one, I'm going to let Brian kick it off the skill
• 29:20
  position room over on on offense between the wide receivers and
• 29:25
  running backs in the tight ends. Like who?
• 29:30
  Like who is as soon as you said that kid committed like either
• 29:34
  shock or yes or fist pumps or whatever.
• 29:39
  What we say, tight end? Skill positions, well, I'm just
• 29:43
  seeing a tight end running. Hey, let Brian go first.
• 29:46
  Hey, you know what I mean? I love what we did at tight end.
• 29:50
  You get Luke Reynolds and Matt Henderson in the building.
• 29:52
  That's a good thing. But the the the needle mover for
• 29:55
  me is Quayshawn Brown. That was the needle mover for
• 30:00
  me. You see what he was able to do
• 30:03
  with Duke. You know, he's a guy that's
• 30:06
  going to come in and probably immediately take over the slot.
• 30:10
  So I mean that's that that's the one for me.
• 30:13
  That's the needle mover. I think everybody else,
• 30:17
  obviously Luke Reynolds, you know, we we we've got a good
• 30:20
  tight end on on the roster already.
• 30:23
  I think what we brought in is going to really round everything
• 30:26
  out. But as far as like impact player
• 30:28
  and what I think can really jump off the page pretty quick way
• 30:31
  Shawn Brown is that. Yeah, question on Brown was
• 30:35
  definitely a a underrated pick up.
• 30:39
  I would say. I don't know how you can be
• 30:40
  underrated. I think it was ranked like 93 in
• 30:43
  the portal or something like that that.
• 30:45
  Guy had like almost 1000 yards last year.
• 30:48
  Yeah, that was a good, that was definitely a good pick up.
• 30:50
  That was definitely a good pick up.
• 30:51
  But I got to, I got to say Luke Reynolds.
• 30:53
  I mean, that was the name that we heard.
• 30:55
  I'm a tight end guy, of course, but the name that we heard from
• 31:01
  the beginning was Gronk and Luke Reynolds, and they took the
• 31:07
  longest to come in, so had to make a sweat a little bit.
• 31:13
  For whatever reason. I'm OK with it.
• 31:15
  But Reynolds, I think we've really forget how because this
• 31:21
  year our tight end usage was crap.
• 31:24
  You know, we kind of knew. That's what Montgomery does with
• 31:29
  his tight ends. Doesn't really use them much,
• 31:32
  but to have a tight end that can be very versatile, like the ones
• 31:36
  we're bringing in, somebody said, you know, we need to keep
• 31:39
  Benji. I think Benji's staying, but
• 31:43
  Benji going to have to work because Benji don't like the
• 31:45
  block. You know, Benji going to have to
• 31:47
  work, but Benji's a he's a good piece.
• 31:50
  But when you bring in some other guys that are hungry to get on
• 31:54
  the field, I mean, you still got Jorika's Benji, the Henderson
• 32:01
  kid that just got there being Reynolds, it's going to be a
• 32:05
  fight in every room to get on the field.
• 32:08
  And I think that's what we've lacked in the past because us as
• 32:13
  fans, we Virginia Tech fans, nowhere else, I don't think.
• 32:16
  But the Virginia Tech fans will say stuff like, man, we don't
• 32:20
  need to be looking at this because we're going to make this
• 32:21
  kid mad and he's going to leave. Fuck him.
• 32:24
  I mean, if you got to go, you got to go.
• 32:26
  We get it, but we've won three games, so no position should be
• 32:31
  safe. You got to come here and compete
• 32:33
  the win. So I like what they've done with
• 32:36
  the tight end room all together, but I'm most excited about
• 32:40
  Reynolds. I mean, it's it's tough to like
• 32:44
  follow up with those two and saying with with Brown and
• 32:49
  Reynolds because of a Brown's numbers last year and then this
• 32:55
  year, Luke Reynolds, you know, just second year in the program,
• 32:59
  you know, 25 catches or so. He he's a beast.
• 33:03
  You can see it when he plays. There was a reason he was a five
• 33:06
  star. There was a reason he was the
• 33:07
  best Titan in the country. And it's paying off now and he
• 33:10
  comes back and the guy who's been coaching him up for the
• 33:12
  last couple years, it is already elevated his game.
• 33:16
  But when I looked at this and then kind of see who's coming
• 33:20
  back and, you know, Aiden's coming back with offense and all
• 33:24
  that. I, I, I looked at the running
• 33:27
  back and I looked at Bill, you know, Bill, Bill, you know, Bill
• 33:32
  Davis, Bill Davis, that's. A normal name, right?
• 33:37
  Normal name, but when? When when I started thinking
• 33:40
  about the way Hawkins and Overton ran with no semblance of
• 33:45
  a passing game at all, no symbols of a passing game.
• 33:51
  And I start thinking, well, man, those two are going to be
• 33:54
  complimentary backs. But you know, there's sometimes
• 33:56
  this third and a yard and a half and we we we had Terry and
• 34:00
  Stewart. He couldn't stay healthy.
• 34:02
  But I like Bill Davis is that situational short, short yardage
• 34:07
  golden go situation where his five foot nine 220 LB.
• 34:11
  I'm assuming Bill got fatal ass big.
• 34:16
  Just go through the line and get through yard.
• 34:19
  Bill. What's?
• 34:20
  Going on today, hold on, hold, hold on for a minute.
• 34:28
  You don't think a You don't think a 5 foot 9200 and 29220 LB
• 34:33
  named black man don't have a fat old ass to run through the line
• 34:37
  for a first? Down.
• 34:37
  Oh my God, what day is this? Is this Wednesday?
• 34:42
  This is Wednesday, man. This is Wednesday.
• 34:44
  It's Wednesday. He's going.
• 34:48
  To be he's going to be humping through the but but when I see
• 34:51
  that in seeing that fat O we going to see the back in his fat
• 34:57
  O ass all season sitting in the end zone.
• 34:59
  Running on the shirt, but. But y'all see what I'm saying
• 35:05
  right? Because you start thinking,
• 35:06
  well, Grunt Meyer is a more developed passer.
• 35:09
  You got Aiden coming back, you've got Reynolds, you've got
• 35:12
  Brown. It's seemingly like we've
• 35:16
  improved the offensive line a little bit.
• 35:18
  And now you're talking about not having to have Overton and
• 35:21
  Hawkins get those grime yards, right?
• 35:24
  Like get those, like this is like, this is going to hurt.
• 35:28
  Send Bill in there. What about you?
• 35:30
  I, I, I know we go have like a caked up running back discussion
• 35:33
  here. So I wasn't, I wasn't ready to
• 35:35
  comment. I'm not 220, I'm nine, 220
• 35:40
  short. Hey, hey, so offensively,
• 35:44
  offensively, skill wise, who are you glad to see back?
• 35:48
  I can't get back to Brian. Did not, I mean, I said quite
• 35:52
  Sean, so no. No, no coming back running.
• 35:55
  Coming back, Oh my bad, my bad, my bad.
• 35:57
  You did? Yeah.
• 35:58
  You think about this? I don't ask.
• 36:01
  He he, you threw me off, man. He threw me off.
• 36:04
  I mean, it's got to be Jeffrey Overton junior, man, it's got to
• 36:07
  be because when you look at the talent that he showed as a true
• 36:12
  freshman coming back from injury, he he popped off the
• 36:18
  screen man, like he looked like a different cat than everybody
• 36:23
  else. So when you when you get him
• 36:25
  another year of seasoning, you get him a little bit of extra
• 36:28
  help up front and you get him a quarterback that can get the
• 36:32
  ball down field so he's not running against loaded boxes.
• 36:36
  Lookout man, it's going to be serious.
• 36:38
  Jeffrey over to junior. Ron, I mean tally.
• 36:44
  Yeah, so I got to go and y'all hanging out with me.
• 36:47
  Chad, if y'all don't understand, I'm going to take you and get
• 36:49
  you right. I got to go with my nephew,
• 36:53
  Keelan Adams, because what we've lacked is a downfield threat.
• 37:00
  You know, we haven't thrown the ball downfield because a
• 37:03
  quarterback couldn't get it there.
• 37:04
  But also we haven't had a receiver that really stretches
• 37:08
  the field. You know, maybe two years ago we
• 37:11
  we threw a couple downfield. Quan maybe caught a couple, but
• 37:14
  consistently we haven't had that receiver that could stretch the
• 37:18
  field. And AG is not that kind of
• 37:20
  receiver. AG is going to be.
• 37:22
  He's to me, he's more of like a possession receiver.
• 37:26
  He can get open and he can go get a 5050 ball, but just to go
• 37:31
  say, hey, on the other side of him, I need you to run past him.
• 37:34
  We haven't had a receiver that can do that recently.
• 37:39
  I think Keelan Adams will be the one that can do that as long as
• 37:43
  he can stay healthy. We got to be able to have
• 37:45
  somebody who can stretch that field.
• 37:47
  Exactly what Brian said. Soto's running backs aren't
• 37:51
  running with a full box. There's no there is no reason at
• 37:57
  all. Jeffrey over Overton should have
• 37:58
  been able to score on Miami. I don't know how he did it
• 38:02
  because we couldn't do nothing else but run the ball.
• 38:05
  I don't know how he got through that and scored a touchdown.
• 38:08
  You know, however many yards he had that game because when I
• 38:12
  watched him play everybody else, it ain't looking like that.
• 38:15
  So kids got to be talented, we got to help them out.
• 38:19
  We got to and no disrespect to Hawkins too.
• 38:21
  Hawkins is a is a was a really good solid back for us.
• 38:25
  So I'm looking for us to have that to have that downfield
• 38:32
  threat so grunt can have somebody to say, hey, I need you
• 38:36
  to go get this one for me. And if y'all haven't got a
• 38:39
  chance to go watch Kobe, he interviewed the new wide
• 38:45
  receiver, Jeff. Yeah, that was excellent.
• 38:49
  Yeah. So you can hear him talk about
• 38:52
  some of the things that the coaches have said to him, saying
• 38:56
  this is what we're looking to do.
• 38:57
  We're going to throw the ball more than we did at Penn State,
• 39:00
  and we're going to have our spots where we can get it down
• 39:03
  field. So that's what they're going to
• 39:04
  be looking to do, too. Yeah.
• 39:06
  By the way, Bill Davis, 235, not 220.
• 39:11
  Yeah. Say it again, Curtis.
• 39:14
  You want to say it, Curtis? Say the line.
• 39:16
  Say the line. Curtis Bill Davidson's fat old
• 39:20
  ass going in on 3rd and one getting us a first down all.
• 39:25
  Right. Hey, look who just joined and
• 39:28
  that's what he joined to. Will the three of them.
• 39:31
  There he is, my boy. Is.
• 39:32
  Here y'all they following Will man.
• 39:34
  Y'all got to follow Will. That's my God, man.
• 39:38
  All right, let's flip it over because again, let's get back to
• 39:41
  trench talk. Let's talk about the offensive
• 39:43
  line, Brian. Right now three guys have been
• 39:46
  introduced to us, maybe more coming.
• 39:49
  That's Justin Bell, Logan Howlin, Michael Troutman.
• 39:53
  How much research have you done on them?
• 39:55
  And you know, what are you? What are you foreseeing?
• 40:02
  Yeah, I mean, I, I really like Howlin.
• 40:04
  I feel like Howlin is the guy that, you know, I'm circling
• 40:07
  right now to unless, unless we do something else to slide in at
• 40:12
  that left tackle position, I, I think we end up putting him
• 40:17
  there. I think that's, that's where he
• 40:19
  played. He made his hey there.
• 40:21
  The the games that he was healthy and played.
• 40:26
  He's a guy that looked like he got better as things went along.
• 40:31
  And when we look at what what we were working with last year, I
• 40:36
  think, you know, you, you probably had Johnny Garrett
• 40:38
  playing on the left because you had to, you know, you probably
• 40:42
  had a couple other guys out of position because you had to let
• 40:47
  Howland slot in there and left get get Garrett back over on the
• 40:50
  right side. And you know, we'll see if we
• 40:52
  get any other guys in the building here to help us out.
• 40:55
  But you got Altoona coming back, you got some good interior
• 40:58
  pieces and then you got Michael Troutman coming in from from
• 41:01
  Penn State. You got Justin Bell coming in
• 41:04
  for some depth. It's a tackle position.
• 41:06
  I think we've done some good things so far.
• 41:08
  I think we're still one or two spots on the offensive line away
• 41:12
  from being where I really would want to be.
• 41:14
  But Howlin is definitely the the the linchpin so far as far as
• 41:18
  the guys we've gotten in the portal.
• 41:22
  No facts. Facts.
• 41:23
  That's what. That was a good pick up too.
• 41:25
  And you know what I like about that pick up burn was that
• 41:29
  nobody mentioned his name. He's popped up, you know,
• 41:33
  everybody's an inside and everybody has some kind of
• 41:36
  knowledge or something. And you know, you see, oh, I got
• 41:40
  a crystal ball for this guy now. He just popped up.
• 41:43
  It was like this guy just committed to Virginia Tech.
• 41:45
  And I've seen the I've seen the Oklahoma jersey.
• 41:48
  And I was like, is that my boy? What's his name?
• 41:51
  Troy Everett. I thought it was Troy.
• 41:52
  Everett, I was. Like, did he come back?
• 41:55
  The re, the re, the re, the return man with Troy.
• 41:57
  Troy Everett's been here more than Brent Pry.
• 42:00
  Yeah. Yeah, no, it was not Troy
• 42:03
  Everett, it was this guy. So I'm like, OK.
• 42:07
  And if you go look too, I mean the the size of the team, of
• 42:14
  course, we've been preaching this for a while, right, Curtis?
• 42:16
  And we have been getting. Bigger.
• 42:17
  We've been. Yeah, we've been.
• 42:18
  That's what I'm going to say. We've been preaching this for a
• 42:20
  while, just saying, hey, you know, we need to be bigger.
• 42:23
  But going back to the Fuente era, then the beginning of the
• 42:25
  Pride era, then even to now, it's like, how tall are you as a
• 42:29
  lineman? Oh, you ain't 65.
• 42:31
  Yeah, we got to keep only person who can be shorter than 65 is
• 42:36
  the center and that's still about 6-3.
• 42:40
  Not a lie. Not a lie.
• 42:42
  Yeah, Halo was the big one because when you start, because
• 42:45
  they the first thing I think we probably all thought of was
• 42:48
  like, he was probably the backup.
• 42:50
  He's he's probably got a load of talent, just been backing up.
• 42:53
  But now it's the old Wally Pip situation that he started in
• 42:59
  2024, six games and it was at the end of the season.
• 43:03
  It was against like Alabama, Missouri, who have been a good
• 43:07
  team. He played against some good
• 43:08
  teams. He had played in total 13 games
• 43:13
  and he got hurt. 2025, he was looked to do some, probably
• 43:17
  projected starting, got hurt, got lolly pipped.
• 43:20
  That happened. But that's how I benefit.
• 43:22
  So you're looking at a guy who has had that starting.
• 43:26
  He's got a ton of snaps and I keep telling people for me, when
• 43:29
  it's offensive line, whether how good they are or not, it's
• 43:34
  snaps. That it going to matter more
• 43:36
  than anything because if a guy is getting playing time, Brian,
• 43:41
  you can attest to this tally playing on the tight end
• 43:43
  position. You can attest to it until you
• 43:45
  know how people come at you in understanding how to play the
• 43:49
  offensive line. You can look great.
• 43:51
  A lot of guys are 65310 and a lot of guys can do good kickback
• 43:55
  grills, but when it's someone coming off the edge, you're
• 43:58
  going to bull rush right in your face.
• 43:59
  How do you handle it? Clearly they trusted him enough
• 44:02
  within six games with some injuries that happened and then
• 44:04
  they were going to trust him enough this year and then things
• 44:07
  happen. So that's good for us.
• 44:09
  Now. Brian Talley, I got a feeling
• 44:12
  y'all are going to agree on the same person.
• 44:14
  But if the guys coming back, who are you excited about on the
• 44:17
  offensive line? I'll tell them the center, I
• 44:25
  mean Altoona once again thrown in the fire, probably shouldn't
• 44:33
  have had to play as much as he did this year, but did a good
• 44:37
  job, did a serviceable job. If you go back and look at our
• 44:42
  games, of course, everybody struggled in pass protection,
• 44:45
  but did a really solid job of run blocking and you didn't see
• 44:51
  a lot of snaps on the ground. So I'm, I don't know of any, you
• 44:57
  know, skipping snaps, getting skipped to the quarterback or
• 45:00
  anything like that. So that's a hard thing to do.
• 45:04
  That ain't easy. So I'm excited about our tune of
• 45:07
  another year of him to mature. And this year he'll really,
• 45:13
  really have to compete for that job because you're going to have
• 45:16
  some guys in that room that really want to play.
• 45:18
  So I think that the talent level has been raised and the
• 45:22
  competition is going to be raised as well.
• 45:27
  Sorry, Brian, I know I took your guy.
• 45:29
  Hey. And you?
• 45:30
  Should you should because he's he's the guy that everyone
• 45:33
  should be excited about. He's the guy that had the
• 45:36
  postseason accolades, the only one on the offensive line that
• 45:39
  earned them and deserved them. And he's the guy that was the
• 45:44
  most consistent in terms of run blocking and pass blocking on
• 45:49
  that offensive line throughout the season.
• 45:51
  And another thing to talk about looking at the 2025 is that
• 45:55
  availability wise, he was he stayed healthy, he was on the
• 45:58
  field and we didn't have a whole lot of that at a whole lot of
• 46:01
  positions last year. So durability is important,
• 46:05
  especially the guy that snapped in the football.
• 46:09
  So yeah, Al Tuner and it's not even close.
• 46:15
  So I got the game on behind me right there, pokies down one
• 46:19
  minute left in the first half. It it.
• 46:22
  The answer is Al Tuner. But you know, if you start
• 46:26
  looking guys, you got Lucas Austin.
• 46:30
  Like don't forget that name. Lucas Austin came with Matt
• 46:32
  Moore from West Virginia. Montavious Cunningham gets
• 46:35
  another year, Brodie Meadows coming back off an injury.
• 46:39
  So Alturner's the easy answer. But there are a couple guys that
• 46:42
  we've seen play and one guy we hadn't seen play.
• 46:45
  Where do they land? And again, is there one more
• 46:48
  piece? I would feel better if we got
• 46:50
  one more piece on the offensive line where I got to see like
• 46:54
  Curtis Terry. Yes, he shares the name Curtis
• 46:58
  Terry. The Ohio State guy would be
• 47:00
  like, the guy won't. And even though he didn't start,
• 47:04
  I think it's somewhere he had like 113 snaps.
• 47:08
  Like 113 snaps for a young guy is really good.
• 47:11
  So that would be one guy to look out for and some guys definitely
• 47:16
  coming. All right.
• 47:17
  Let's pretty sure his name is Justin Terry.
• 47:19
  Curtis, Curtis, Curtis. Curtis Curtis was a linebacker
• 47:24
  for the Buckeyes back in the early 2.
• 47:27
  Thousands. I shouldn't have worked 10 hours
• 47:29
  today. That's all.
• 47:30
  Almost there. It's a new year, man.
• 47:33
  Hey, we getting in gear? Y'all bell with us?
• 47:35
  Chad I. Swore his name was.
• 47:37
  Kurt, we get we getting in gear. Justin Terry, the Ohio State
• 47:41
  guy. Hey, we you, you had another
• 47:44
  Ohio State guy. You just had the wrong one.
• 47:47
  And he played years, years and years ago.
• 47:49
  I think he coaches for them. Now, though.
• 47:51
  He coaches, he coaches somewhere.
• 47:53
  Was it Kurt? 'S name last name 1 Terry was a
• 47:55
  kid from Hermitage. No his name.
• 47:57
  Was his name was Curtis Grant? Harris Grant, Yeah.
• 48:02
  Buckeye. I don't know where.
• 48:04
  Where did Herm come in? Curtis Green played Hermitage.
• 48:07
  Yeah, yeah. But where did that come from?
• 48:10
  Well, I thought you were saying his name was Curtis Terry, not
• 48:12
  Curtis Green. That's that's who, that's who
• 48:15
  you said you said Curtis Terry. I said that's a that's a
• 48:18
  linebacker from Ohio State from the early 2000s.
• 48:22
  Let's. Move on defensive back primarily
• 48:24
  the corners tally, there's three that are coming and there are
• 48:27
  three that are coming that's played eight.
• 48:30
  Well two didn't played a ton and one that played a ton his
• 48:34
  freshman year. Of these three, Cam Jacquez and
• 48:38
  Kenny, who you happy about? No, it's all water tonight man.
• 48:43
  That's the sad part. Cali the one drinking but he
• 48:47
  didn't made his errors too tonight.
• 48:50
  Yeah, it's been a little rough man, but that's OK.
• 48:52
  We had. We got to, we got to break in
• 48:55
  the new year, right? You got to got to break it in.
• 48:57
  This is this is episode 1 of Season 7.
• 49:00
  We're, we're, we're, we're talking portal.
• 49:03
  We know all these guys are new to us, so we're figuring it out
• 49:07
  as we go. The giant Franklin era is wow.
• 49:11
  Yeah. Look at new king on Popping
• 49:13
  Hill. New King?
• 49:15
  We gave you some props the other day.
• 49:17
  Show up. And you didn't show up what's
• 49:19
  wrong with you? You better call crystal ball and
• 49:22
  all them Cubans on that team and tell him you about to play
• 49:25
  another Cuban and y'all need to get on his ass.
• 49:29
  That's all I'm saying. Italy quarterback, yeah, Curtis
• 49:35
  quarterbacks, Hood and three. Black nose.
• 49:37
  My boy from Troy. My boy from Troy University.
• 49:40
  I'm Troy. Yeah, What's the jaqui?
• 49:43
  Is white something white? Yeah, he's.
• 49:46
  White. Go watch his tape.
• 49:48
  You know I like what I see from him.
• 49:51
  Got a couple of years of eligibility.
• 49:53
  Come on in here. And you got to be better than
• 49:56
  what we had last year. Just turn your head when the
• 49:58
  ball is in the air. When the ball is in the air,
• 50:01
  turn your head. Flip your head around.
• 50:03
  You already in good position, turn around, look at the ball.
• 50:06
  That's all we need. Yeah, I mean, Tally said it
• 50:14
  Jacquez White is is the guy to look at in this area.
• 50:17
  I I think a guy like Cam Chadwick is a little underrated
• 50:21
  here. I think he had some good
• 50:24
  instances of being a ball hawk. I think he does pretty well in
• 50:29
  coverage overall. But Jacques White is the guy
• 50:31
  that jumps off the the page in terms of his ability to really
• 50:35
  do a little bit of everything that you want from a cornerback
• 50:39
  and not afraid to get a little pop in there as well.
• 50:41
  So I love cornerbacks that that aren't afraid or shy away from
• 50:44
  contacts. So you're getting a little bit
• 50:47
  of that with them as well. Yeah, but in both of those guys,
• 50:51
  it's one of the production guys, right?
• 50:52
  They've got, I know like you said, White has two years left
• 51:00
  and believe it or not, Chadwick has two years left.
• 51:03
  He's going to be a red shirt junior this year.
• 51:06
  So you're sort of backfilling that room Kenny brought on
• 51:11
  today, Kenny Woosley Junior, who was up at Penn State and played
• 51:15
  some snaps like that. That was the one thing I feel
• 51:20
  like this one position that you do want production at because
• 51:24
  you can see, right, You have to cover people like you can be
• 51:28
  kidding. You're going to be put on an
• 51:30
  island. So love that.
• 51:33
  But that room? I think it's a little.
• 51:36
  Shocking to say, no safeties. I mean, yeah, we ain't got a
• 51:42
  safety coach, but I feel like there's gonna be storage coming
• 51:45
  out on that for a while. But are y'all OK with where we
• 51:50
  are as far as who we brought back with the safety room in the
• 51:53
  other corners? Good.
• 51:59
  I don't think we're good, like comfortable good.
• 52:02
  I think we're good in terms of like we got a guy that is really
• 52:06
  good. We need to make sure he stays
• 52:08
  healthy in queue. And and we and we got some other
• 52:11
  guys that had some pretty good experience last year that, you
• 52:14
  know, if you need to put them in the game, they're not going to
• 52:16
  be an embarrassment. They're not going to go out
• 52:18
  there and you know, look like their loss.
• 52:21
  But at the same time, it would have been potentially nice to
• 52:23
  level up that position a little bit more in this cycle, even
• 52:28
  though we at this point it's kind of stood pad at that
• 52:30
  position. Another sneaky good pick up was
• 52:35
  the Woesley Kid or Woesley, whatever his name is, that we
• 52:38
  just got today. That's the nickel.
• 52:42
  I think that was a good pick up. I was excited about that.
• 52:46
  He's got some some game reps that will help.
• 52:50
  But again, going back to the safety position and football,
• 52:56
  it's all about being healthy, you know what I'm saying?
• 52:58
  I think Q is a a Sunday guy. That's just me looking at his
• 53:04
  potential, but he's got to stay healthy, you know what I'm
• 53:07
  saying? But putting it all together,
• 53:12
  maybe the coaches move some people around or maybe they see
• 53:14
  some stuff we don't because we have not.
• 53:17
  We haven't went after any safeties.
• 53:20
  None. We haven't went after no
• 53:22
  safeties or maybe we have, we just don't know about it.
• 53:26
  But from what we've seen, we haven't targeted any safety, so
• 53:30
  they got to like what they see out of Robinson and what they
• 53:34
  see out of Reddish and all those guys back on the back end.
• 53:38
  I think flowers may be back flowers.
• 53:41
  Yeah. Bass.
• 53:42
  Yeah, bass. I forgot about bass.
• 53:44
  Bass cool cool cool red shirt. I don't even remember seeing him
• 53:48
  do nothing, so I can't even say nothing.
• 53:51
  I don't know what Global can do. I know one thing that Bass can
• 53:54
  do. Bass is going to hit somebody.
• 53:56
  We know he's going to hit somebody.
• 53:57
  We need you to cover a little bit too, buddy.
• 54:00
  But you're going. To go lay somebody out, try to
• 54:04
  hit them like in the stomach or something.
• 54:06
  Don't go helmet to helmet. We need you to stay in the game
• 54:09
  well. What we don't need this year
• 54:12
  like that, like we thought we were going to need last year is
• 54:14
  quite as many safeties in the room.
• 54:18
  So because I mean, this is this is going to go back to kind of
• 54:20
  that hybrid 43 again, you're going to, you don't very much be
• 54:24
  looking at just two safeties on the field at any given time.
• 54:28
  You know, you got some position fluidity with that star
• 54:32
  position. You know, does a guy like Bass
• 54:36
  end up, you know, moving back into a star position after after
• 54:40
  that? I don't know who knows at this
• 54:44
  point, but you know, is it, I think I think we've got enough
• 54:48
  guys in that safety room whether we feel really good about
• 54:53
  everybody top to bottom that like I said, that remains to be
• 54:57
  seen. I think everybody that's in that
• 54:59
  room, you know, there's, there's nobody in there that I don't
• 55:03
  like a little bit, but I I wish we'd have got somebody else to
• 55:07
  maybe level up to run with Q in that starting to.
• 55:14
  OK, take a picture of that, everybody.
• 55:18
  Hey, me and Chris have talked about this a little bit.
• 55:21
  And I, I said, I said what I said and he said what he said
• 55:24
  and I, I think we're going to figure out which way it goes.
• 55:27
  So I, I hope he's right. Honestly, I hope he's right.
• 55:30
  You don't think he's right? No Brown.
• 55:32
  I don't know that he's right. I don't know that I'm right.
• 55:36
  I don't know that I'm right. I don't know that I'm right,
• 55:39
  though. I, I just being honest, like I,
• 55:41
  I, I think that, you know, a lot of this is going to depend on
• 55:47
  how available Q is throughout the year.
• 55:49
  If Q is available, I feel a whole lot better about this unit
• 55:53
  in general, right? If he if he plays at least 10 or
• 55:56
  11 games this year, I feel a whole lot better about that
• 56:00
  unit. You know what makes any.
• 56:03
  You might know what makes any secondary looks good or look
• 56:06
  better than it is dominant defensive line, something we
• 56:11
  didn't. Have pass rush a good.
• 56:13
  Pass rush, we could not get the quarterback on the ground.
• 56:15
  Not saying that having those guys in the back is not going to
• 56:18
  help, but we need them to be able to go get Pete you.
• 56:22
  Know what else make safeties look good?
• 56:24
  What good run fits from everybody else so they can just
• 56:28
  clean up the fucking mess. Oh, man, get get Brian.
• 56:33
  Listen, listen, you don't want to go with Brian.
• 56:35
  Go a couple years ago, get Brian about four drinks in and talk
• 56:39
  about safety run fits and what we had for a couple years about
• 56:42
  made Brian lose his damned mind. Safety safeties look real good
• 56:49
  when they can attack the spill area and there's not this much
• 56:52
  fucking space for them to have to play with, or they're having
• 56:57
  to run up and the guy's already 5 yards north of the line of
• 57:02
  scrimmage and they're kind of on an island.
• 57:05
  Safeties look a lot better when they can do stuff like that.
• 57:08
  100% All right, one last room to look at and this one I just want
• 57:14
  to throw it out in general because as of right now, only
• 57:18
  one portal addition, it was Keon Wiley guy who was getting looks
• 57:25
  back in 23 got injured in 24 when Tony Rojas went down.
• 57:30
  He basically took the back hat or took the back half of the
• 57:33
  year and played pretty damn good.
• 57:36
  So Keon Wiley along with I'm gonna make sure I get this right
• 57:39
  if I miss somebody, Noah's back gave back and just the other
• 57:44
  day, Caleb Spencer's back who led the team in tackles.
• 57:48
  Just in general, if if y'all have done more reading or
• 57:52
  looking on Wiley, how do you feel about him?
• 57:55
  And then how do y'all think about this whole group?
• 58:00
  I think Wiley's solid. I think Wiley's definitely going
• 58:03
  to come in and, and, and be a a good player for us.
• 58:10
  But I'm probably the most excited about, I can't even say
• 58:16
  the most excited. Caleb Spencer is a doll, you
• 58:21
  know, 100%. I think he kind of got
• 58:23
  overlooked for whatever reason, even leading the team in
• 58:25
  tackles. Everybody talked about everybody
• 58:27
  else on the defense except him. I was even about to do it right
• 58:31
  now because I was about to say I'm most excited about Noah
• 58:33
  Chambers. It's just because of watching
• 58:36
  him go out raw and play football was fun.
• 58:42
  You can see him try to get to the ball and get to the ball.
• 58:46
  It was like poetry in motion, you know, just watching him play
• 58:50
  because you just seen he has the natural ability to go and be a
• 58:54
  guy. So very excited about him.
• 58:57
  But Caleb Spencer, man Caleb Spencer is a like he's a
• 59:02
  undersized linebacker that does not play like he's undersized.
• 59:07
  He will go and a heart of a line put his nose in any dogpile.
• 59:12
  So that room is going to be fun to see.
• 59:17
  You know what we can do there. But again, that is also a room
• 59:22
  that injuries can derail that room really quickly.
• 59:26
  So I would be interested to see if they don't try to grab
• 59:31
  another piece or two there or have somebody else ready to go.
• 59:38
  Yeah. I mean, look at looking at
• 59:41
  what's coming back, obviously. You know.
• 59:45
  You can't say enough about Noah. Yeah, I feel like he's going to
• 59:50
  be the emotional heart of that unit.
• 59:55
  He's going to be the guy that that that's kind of bringing the
• 59:57
  juice. Yeah, at the same time you got,
• 1:00:01
  you got Caleb Spencer, you got Gabe coming back from injury
• 1:00:04
  fully. Now we'll see what another
• 1:00:06
  offseason in the in the weight program.
• 1:00:08
  You know, that's as far as his build and frame filling out is
• 1:00:12
  concerned. I think you'd still like to pick
• 1:00:16
  up one more piece here, like if if we're circling.
• 1:00:21
  For circling the the positions that I feel like we still got
• 1:00:24
  some work to do, I'd like one more offensive lineman, I'd like
• 1:00:29
  one more linebacker. I think, I think if I'd I'd take
• 1:00:34
  one more at each of those positions before I take a
• 1:00:36
  safety. Kind of going back to the
• 1:00:38
  previous question, I'd rather have one more linebacker, one
• 1:00:41
  more offensive lineman before I'd get a safety in house.
• 1:00:46
  Let me say this for Curtis Go. Y'all know I've been trying to
• 1:00:50
  be dignified, but I got to ask a question.
• 1:00:54
  Who looked at Brett Platterbaum and said you're 6 to 240, we
• 1:01:02
  going to put you on the defensive line.
• 1:01:04
  Brett Pry. I'm going to tell you right now
• 1:01:06
  buddy, you better act right this year.
• 1:01:10
  I've been trying to be cool. I ain't going to say what I've
• 1:01:14
  been saying in the chat, but Brett, you better get it
• 1:01:18
  together. I don't know why Clatter Bomb
• 1:01:21
  was moved to the defensive line when he's a linebacker.
• 1:01:27
  He's a from from all intents and purposes, he was a All state
• 1:01:31
  linebacker and looks like a linebacker.
• 1:01:35
  He looks like the most Virginia Tech linebacker that he is.
• 1:01:39
  I mean, go pull a picture up of Brett Clatterbaum and tell me,
• 1:01:44
  does he look like he's supposed to be on Virginia Tech's
• 1:01:46
  defensive line or is he supposed to be on Virginia Tech's
• 1:01:48
  linebacker room? Linebacker room, Supposed to be
• 1:01:51
  in the linebacker room. Brett.
• 1:01:54
  Bret, you better get it right. I got a lot of names I want to
• 1:01:57
  call this year. Don't make me use them.
• 1:02:00
  It's loaded, this gun loaded over here with all kinds of
• 1:02:03
  names. Pickle Rick.
• 1:02:07
  All peanuts in they. They know you better act right.
• 1:02:13
  Let's go. But I'm better.
• 1:02:15
  Go ahead. No, no, no.
• 1:02:16
  I mean, I think y'all kind of laid it out to linebacker room.
• 1:02:19
  I think Noah, Noah's special. I think having a guy like Keon
• 1:02:23
  who's played in it, it's more of the calm presence.
• 1:02:27
  You know, he's probably going to know where to do what to go.
• 1:02:32
  And again, Caleb Spencer, you said he's a dog, does not get
• 1:02:34
  the credit he's deserved. Made so many plays the last
• 1:02:37
  couple years that are unheralded.
• 1:02:41
  So we shall see. All right, real quick.
• 1:02:44
  And actually, I know there's some folks out in the chat.
• 1:02:46
  I want to hear at least everybody's this so that
• 1:02:49
  everybody who left anybody you hated to see leave.
• 1:02:59
  This is to us or you waiting on the.
• 1:03:02
  Chap can put their stuff out there too.
• 1:03:03
  I'll talk about I. Would I would probably say just
• 1:03:07
  me looking at it, Isaiah Spencer and I thought he had a lot of
• 1:03:14
  upside, kind of got a raw deal of not being able to get the
• 1:03:17
  ball thrown to you. But I think that Isaiah Spencer
• 1:03:21
  was more of a ain't going to say hate to see him go because I
• 1:03:24
  think we're OK in that room. But I wasn't expecting him to
• 1:03:30
  leave. So that one threw me for a
• 1:03:33
  little bit of a loop. Came by Brian.
• 1:03:40
  I mean, probably Cam Selden, yeah.
• 1:03:44
  I like seeing what he was able to do with kind of a limited
• 1:03:50
  receiving package last year. It wasn't exactly what you
• 1:03:54
  wanted to see from that perspective, but he was able to
• 1:03:57
  do some some really good work in some some limited action not
• 1:04:01
  getting the targets I think he probably needed in the offense.
• 1:04:07
  Sounds like that's more of a of a square peg round hole as far
• 1:04:10
  as what we want him to do, what he wants to do from a position
• 1:04:14
  standpoint going forward. You know, if he, if he's looking
• 1:04:18
  to be more running back, I think we're all, we're all set at that
• 1:04:21
  position based on, you know what, what Hawk can do, what JOJ
• 1:04:28
  can do. Yeah.
• 1:04:32
  I think his skill set, there's, there's too much overlap with
• 1:04:34
  those two guys for him to really make any, any noise in that
• 1:04:37
  position. So I think it's just kind of a
• 1:04:40
  mismatch situation. But I just I, I like the way he
• 1:04:42
  plays. He's physical, he runs hard.
• 1:04:47
  Yeah, he he, he makes the plays. So losing a guy like that kind
• 1:04:51
  of hurts a little bit, but but since we're talking about guys
• 1:04:54
  leaving, Curtis, I'll let you I'll let you jump in with yours
• 1:04:56
  in the second. Who is that?
• 1:04:59
  Who is this? Who is it?
• 1:05:04
  Isaiah Spencer. Isaiah Spencer.
• 1:05:06
  Spencer went to Old Miss. Yep, Yep.
• 1:05:09
  Yeah, he got in and got out quick, huh?
• 1:05:11
  Yeah, he was in and out, yeah. Damn.
• 1:05:14
  He must, he must have had that, that that qualified offer ready
• 1:05:18
  to go. What's everybody's thoughts on
• 1:05:23
  Christian Ellis and and the UVA situation?
• 1:05:29
  That's my thoughts on yeah, one game, man.
• 1:05:34
  I mean no disrespect to the kid. Yeah, one game.
• 1:05:36
  Then you go to the OPS. You know what I'm saying?
• 1:05:39
  You could have went anywhere in the world, but you went to the
• 1:05:42
  OPS. You went there?
• 1:05:43
  You went there? Yeah.
• 1:05:45
  We got to spit on your grave. Hospital.
• 1:05:49
  Hey man, I'm. Gonna go with that.
• 1:05:51
  Funny because I thought for a second he announced he was going
• 1:05:54
  to UVA like what, a week ago, almost almost two weeks ago?
• 1:05:59
  Like right out the gate he go down like that that came out.
• 1:06:02
  And happy to go to UVA Boy. That that that official
• 1:06:06
  announcement took a long time. It took a long time for that to
• 1:06:11
  work out. So I don't know if that was a,
• 1:06:13
  you know, make sure we got the numbers before we say you get in
• 1:06:16
  the boat type of deal or what it was, but I got interested.
• 1:06:20
  Why y'all dance around this? Because it's it's Caleb Woodson
• 1:06:26
  is the interesting one. Because how many times this
• 1:06:29
  program, this program not anybody else that the day Caleb
• 1:06:35
  came out it was like that kids underrated that kids a baller
• 1:06:39
  and and everybody by the way, Tally, I really want your people
• 1:06:44
  in Alabama to go through like a four and eight season.
• 1:06:47
  They'd kill each other down there.
• 1:06:48
  They'd be people murdered. Why don't you want them to just
• 1:06:52
  to see them misery? I live here.
• 1:06:53
  Shit, I want my house to get looted.
• 1:06:57
  But but. Seriously.
• 1:06:59
  Our kids in here, man. Yeah, you do.
• 1:07:01
  You understand it is when we lose, when Virginia Tech loses.
• 1:07:05
  It's normal. Like people don't we go on
• 1:07:08
  Twitter and go on spaces and stuff like that.
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  These people go and run their cars into fucking Target and
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  stuff. They do some crazy stuff down
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  here when Alabama ain't good. Dude, I was on a cruise.
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  I was on the cruise when Georgia and Alabama played.
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  It was an old man. I know.
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  It ruined this trip. I thought he was going to drown
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  himself in the pool. That mug said, I'm going to bed.
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  Roll Tide took his drink, threw it in the trash, almost pushed
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  his wife down. I was like, Jesus, all right.
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  But they they on a different level down here.
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  Listen, Caleb Woodson, more power to you, man.
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  I hope he goes to Alabama. I think that it's going to help
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  Caleb Woodson if he goes down there and he gets focused like
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  Monsoor Duane did. He went to LSU and he got
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  focused. I think Caleb Woodson was
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  complacent at Virginia Tech. I think that Pry and the
• 1:08:04
  coaching staff allowed him to do some things that he probably
• 1:08:07
  shouldn't have did. Us as a fan base probably
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  allowed him to do some things that he shouldn't have did and
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  maybe not play up his to his potential.
• 1:08:14
  But oh buddy, you better bet your what you say your big ass,
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  big sweet ass, whatever you said.
• 1:08:20
  You better bet that fat, you bet your big fat, you better bet
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  your big fat ass when he go to Alabama and he mess up, you
• 1:08:28
  going to know it if he messes up, I hope he don't.
• 1:08:32
  But if you go to Alabama and you miss a tackle, it's going to be
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  bad, man. It's going to be.
• 1:08:40
  They. They they want Caleb, the board.
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  They don't even want him to coach in college football no
• 1:08:45
  more. He went to the playoffs.
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  And Went to the playoff, 110 games.
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  They want him out. Won a playoff game.
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  Fire him. Fire him.
• 1:08:55
  They want him fire. They hate him.
• 1:08:57
  They're calling Kaylin the whore.
• 1:09:01
  Jeez. Jeez.
• 1:09:04
  Craziness all right well that does wrap that.
• 1:09:08
  I mean I, I we thought about coming on last week, but it was
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  like it's just not enough give it a week.
• 1:09:15
  We're going to probably have a full picture of what's going on
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  and you know it's good to see it.
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  So next is going to be the brain trust here along with Shelton.
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  By the way, Shelton's not here tonight.
• 1:09:29
  They Shelton is so esteemed from this program his his alma mater,
• 1:09:34
  high school alma mater allows him to be the primary speaker at
• 1:09:38
  functions now, just just in case y'all wonder where Shelton's at
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  tonight, but let's flip to this couple news notes.
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  First of all, spring game announced today, April 18th.
• 1:09:50
  I don't think that's a shock to anybody.
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  Already got my hotel room. Did you pay $600?
• 1:09:56
  I did not. Did you pay a significant
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  amount? I did not.
• 1:10:00
  Oh, that's good. You call, you call our buddy.
• 1:10:03
  Is that why you? Guys, I got in.
• 1:10:05
  I got in before the rates went up apparently.
• 1:10:08
  Damn nice. April 18th Brian's clearly gone.
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  I am going to try this year to go hey.
• 1:10:19
  James said. We we need to fill lane man, you
• 1:10:21
  better be. There we need to fill lane I'm.
• 1:10:23
  Going to try to get up in now. I know it's going to be a lot of
• 1:10:26
  festivities going on, so I'm going to try to be that issue.
• 1:10:30
  I am going to try to be there. Well, second piece of news, we
• 1:10:35
  knew it was going to happen. We anticipated this and it
• 1:10:38
  actually makes sense of why it's this.
• 1:10:41
  JMU is pulled off the schedule for 2026 Tech Obviously,
• 1:10:47
  everybody knows Virginia Tech was one of the teams that's
• 1:10:50
  going to be playing nine games this year, not 8.
• 1:10:52
  Let's not get into that because that's a whole nother story.
• 1:10:56
  And it seemed like the only open week was legitimately that week.
• 1:11:03
  I'm not shocked by it, but hey, I mean, there's no shocking
• 1:11:18
  whatsoever that that's the game that that.
• 1:11:23
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 1:11:27
  Are you shot by Brown? Did I mean you?
• 1:11:29
  You're the one that I think pushed at least a few weeks ago
• 1:11:32
  that you wanted like, screw it, let's play them and stop from
• 1:11:35
  playing, OK? I mean, I get it's a no win
• 1:11:40
  situation for Virginia Tech, but it's no win situation regardless
• 1:11:43
  of you play. I, I would have liked to see
• 1:11:46
  the, the better match up considering how weak the overall
• 1:11:50
  schedule is for me. If you're replacing A-Team,
• 1:11:54
  replace VMI. But that being said, I mean,
• 1:11:57
  you, you were going to replace one of those or the other.
• 1:12:02
  I I saw somebody, I think it was Billy Ray tweet, you know,
• 1:12:07
  regardless of who you play week 1 BMI be you're going to have
• 1:12:09
  you're going to have juice in the stadium for that first game
• 1:12:11
  under James Franklin. So it that kind of doesn't
• 1:12:14
  really matter. You know, I think the only thing
• 1:12:19
  is that you give you give the the the the dumbasses that are
• 1:12:23
  JMU fans a little bit extra fodder now to to kind of throw
• 1:12:28
  in your face that you didn't have before.
• 1:12:30
  It's like, OK, well, you got rid of you got rid of this game.
• 1:12:34
  You know, everybody's still trying to talk about, you know,
• 1:12:38
  the, the, the time they got us. And I get that like it is what
• 1:12:41
  it is, but at the end of the day I would I would I still like to
• 1:12:45
  see the better match up, but I get why they went this
• 1:12:48
  direction. Right.
• 1:12:51
  Now understood. All right, last piece I want to
• 1:12:55
  discuss and use the notes is and I feel like it it came out our
• 1:13:04
  friend Robbie was down at the conference and he heard about
• 1:13:06
  it. But they're the the college
• 1:13:09
  football D1 coaches have all voted and approved and this will
• 1:13:13
  go back to the NCAA obviously that you can now red shirt and
• 1:13:19
  play 9 games. Why not?
• 1:13:26
  We got 37 y'alls playing. I mean it's all effed up anyway.
• 1:13:35
  Why not let them let them let them play and then red shirt if
• 1:13:38
  that's what they want to do? Brian, you got another thought
• 1:13:43
  on this. Don't.
• 1:13:43
  You, I got AI, got AI, got a different thought.
• 1:13:45
  If you're going to do 9 games, just just go ahead and give them
• 1:13:48
  the fifth year. I don't, I don't think that I
• 1:13:54
  don't like the idea that you've got to start.
• 1:13:57
  If you're giving them nine games, you might as well just
• 1:14:00
  let them play the rest of the year out.
• 1:14:03
  I, I don't want to have a, a really great freshman that
• 1:14:06
  starts the year and now all of a sudden I've got to sit them out
• 1:14:10
  three games that matter in a, in a conference, you know,
• 1:14:13
  championship situation where, where we can still win out.
• 1:14:16
  And, and they've been a, a key role player in the, in the team
• 1:14:18
  all year. I don't want to have to make
• 1:14:20
  that decision. At the same time, I get I get
• 1:14:28
  that red shirting is still you want red shirting to still be a
• 1:14:31
  thing. And and and if that's if that's
• 1:14:34
  what you're trying to do, this is the half measure for that to
• 1:14:37
  still be able to have a full red shirt and not go to a a true 5th
• 1:14:41
  year, then I guess this is fine. But it it feels like 1/2
• 1:14:46
  measure. I thought four games was good.
• 1:14:50
  If you want to still have the idea of a red shirt, 9 feels
• 1:14:54
  like going so far without going far enough if if you will.
• 1:15:00
  Yeah, I mean, I'm OK with it because we've seen things happen
• 1:15:04
  where you plan on red shirting the guy right in Game 6 and
• 1:15:09
  catastrophic stuff happens and it's like, well, they got to
• 1:15:11
  play and you're like, they don't have to play regardless.
• 1:15:16
  But now he loses his red shirt, he really shouldn't be playing.
• 1:15:20
  That's where I see the benefit of it.
• 1:15:23
  Also. I see the benefit of it because
• 1:15:25
  Brian, you're talking about the beginning season.
• 1:15:27
  We're now seeing what's the most important games of the season.
• 1:15:31
  It's your conference games. Because if you go run through
• 1:15:33
  your conference at 9 and O and you get to your championship
• 1:15:36
  game, that's all that matters now.
• 1:15:37
  And that's all that's going to matter in the future.
• 1:15:41
  Because in my opinion, I think within the next two years we're
• 1:15:44
  going to 16 teams and it's probably going to be regardless
• 1:15:47
  who the Champions are, the top 4 conferences they're going to get
• 1:15:50
  in. So, you know, but but you made a
• 1:15:56
  point, you and Robbie with Chad, me and you, Robbie with Chad and
• 1:15:58
  the other day. And it's just like, well, fuck
• 1:16:00
  it, just make it 5 years eligibility because I didn't
• 1:16:04
  graduate in three years or four years.
• 1:16:06
  Brian, did you graduate in four years?
• 1:16:08
  I. Did not.
• 1:16:09
  Did you graduate in four years? If you and the Chad graduated in
• 1:16:14
  four years, please let us know because it's something like like
• 1:16:17
  what? 58% of people don't graduate in
• 1:16:19
  four years, so the majority of the student body does not
• 1:16:23
  graduate in four years. Maybe we should just say screw
• 1:16:25
  it you get 5 years. Maybe this will end stupid
• 1:16:28
  Chandler Morris, Diego Pavi and all those dumbasses.
• 1:16:31
  Hey can I get another eligibility?
• 1:16:33
  You 26 go get a job, go to the league, go to the UFM, go to
• 1:16:39
  Europe, do something just stop. What else y'all want to talk
• 1:16:46
  about? X up 6, 15 minutes left to go in
• 1:16:51
  1/2. Let's keep that up because you
• 1:16:53
  know, we've seen them give up some leads this year.
• 1:16:56
  So what do we want to talk about last week that was shitty?
• 1:17:04
  That wouldn't hurt, that wouldn't, that wouldn't burn the
• 1:17:06
  asshole. That one didn't burn the
• 1:17:08
  asshole. All sorts of good things.
• 1:17:11
  Y'all can sound clips. Cal, you got anything else you
• 1:17:15
  want to talk about other than we ain't got a safeties coach?
• 1:17:19
  We too much since Jane Franklin got high, we ain't got safety.
• 1:17:22
  Coach we don't got a safeties coach.
• 1:17:24
  We need a safeties coach. But guess what?
• 1:17:28
  We got James, we're going to be high.
• 1:17:29
  He going to figure it out. Not saying we don't need no
• 1:17:32
  safety coach. James, you got to get a safety
• 1:17:34
  coach and keep your eye on Brenton Still.
• 1:17:38
  Watching, I think he had a guy he wanted but he got wrapped up
• 1:17:41
  in that more shenanigans. Well, listen, listen.
• 1:17:46
  Me and Tally talked on the phone today because, Brian, you shared
• 1:17:50
  that with us. And y'all, it's it's stuff out
• 1:17:53
  there. You can find it.
• 1:17:53
  But me and Tyler made the point, like, if this was three years
• 1:17:58
  from now and James Franklin was something like 32 and six, we
• 1:18:01
  wouldn't give a shit. Like, Nope, I don't care.
• 1:18:03
  Hire, hire and bring them in. Who cares?
• 1:18:06
  This is the beginning. You can't do it at the
• 1:18:08
  beginning. You can't.
• 1:18:10
  So what else? Stick it in back?
• 1:18:15
  We hope so, yeah. Today is Tuesday, Chris.
• 1:18:22
  So next Tuesday. Today is Wednesday.
• 1:18:26
  Oh y'all see This is why I messed up.
• 1:18:28
  I'm a day behind So what is it? Does he mean Thursday then?
• 1:18:33
  No, I think. He's the math.
• 1:18:35
  The math The math is going crazy right now.
• 1:18:38
  Yeah, it's all sorts of crazy shit.
• 1:18:40
  We all think it's going on Monday night.
• 1:18:44
  I think Indiana's going to smoke them, but if they.
• 1:18:47
  Martin Luther King, guy. If Miami can win the line of
• 1:18:50
  scrimmage, then if it could be a good game, but if they can't,
• 1:18:54
  it's going to be over quick. I didn't realize Indiana had the
• 1:19:00
  whole team full of 30 year olds. Pretty much 5th, 6th year guys.
• 1:19:04
  Man, it's going to be hard, man. Sigmet, he's got it going.
• 1:19:10
  He does and they are well coached.
• 1:19:14
  They're smart again. They're old so they listen.
• 1:19:17
  They probably ain't going out wasting all their money and
• 1:19:19
  doing dumb shit. Yes, Jim, that's what that's
• 1:19:23
  what the whispers are at this point that that we've.
• 1:19:27
  Heard so I don't believe nobody no more Jim.
• 1:19:30
  I don't never know. I'm just for the ride.
• 1:19:33
  I'm just alone for the ride. This, this is what I'll say and
• 1:19:37
  I talked with a a guy about it at work the other day.
• 1:19:41
  The one chance Miami has and you can still not on here.
• 1:19:45
  Miami's got to come out with that first job and absolutely
• 1:19:47
  establish and I'm talking like NFL type 789 minute drive just
• 1:19:52
  to say this is going to be a slow pace game.
• 1:19:56
  We're not going to do dumb shit because Indiana had like 2
• 1:20:02
  games, has had two games where they looked uncomfortable too.
• 1:20:10
  They looked uncomfortable at Ohio State.
• 1:20:12
  Luckily that some bitch can't kick a field goal in the Oregon
• 1:20:15
  original Oregon game. Miami's upside there.
• 1:20:18
  It's a home game. It's a home game.
• 1:20:21
  There's going to be somebody in Miami so on on half the state of
• 1:20:24
  Indiana after kickoff because they're going to sell them
• 1:20:27
  tickets for 100,000. They're going to buy.
• 1:20:29
  All right, let's see, what's the current?
• 1:20:34
  Still up six. Y'all got anything else before
• 1:20:37
  we And there you go, Penn State took him to the toe tap.
• 1:20:43
  It's true. Y'all got anything else boys?
• 1:20:48
  I'm good, I'm good. Bro.
• 1:20:50
  Well, appreciate everybody in the chat tonight.
• 1:20:52
  I see some familiar faces, some new names.
• 1:20:55
  Always throw your opinions in there.
• 1:20:57
  If it's good enough, they'll make it on the screen.
• 1:21:00
  If it's good enough, it may not make it on the screen.
• 1:21:02
  Because if you say it early, if you say good stuff too early,
• 1:21:05
  and when we ain't talking about that right away, a lot of times
• 1:21:09
  I don't feel like scrolling back up because that means we got to
• 1:21:12
  find it. So wait until we're talking.
• 1:21:15
  Sometimes I make a note, sometimes I make a note.
• 1:21:18
  So if you have what you think is a good question, we're going to
• 1:21:21
  talk about it. Hold it until we are talking
• 1:21:23
  about it, please, please, because we'll try to inform you
• 1:21:27
  that it's coming later. So keep it, keep it in the
• 1:21:31
  chamber. I do like to throw the.
• 1:21:32
  Teasers out there. But anyway, let's wrap up this
• 1:21:36
  episode 1, season 7 of the Boundary Corner podcast.
• 1:21:40
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• 1:21:43
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