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Episode 3: UT QBs and Michigan sign stealing · Champions of Life

welcome to the champions of life podcast where 3 orangeblooded Tennessee alums discuss how there's always next year hey y'all.
Welcome back to the Champions of Life podcast, where there's always next year.
I'm Bobby here with Lainey and the owner of RNS Joe.
And we're here to take a break from the logistics world and talk a little bit about some Tennessee sports.
We're all three lifelong UT fans.
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All right, Bobby, Joe, what's on the docket for today? We have starting quarterback, I think locked in, publicly announced, um, on Instagram.
Right? Is that weird? Yeah.
Normally it's a don't, the one of the coaches, offensive coordinator say, here's, or the coach himself comes out and says it right after one of the practices.
It's kids.
It's for the kids.
Yeah.
It's a new day.
It's a new day.
We also have our, uh, lady ball, soccer team beaten number one UNC last week.
It's a huge deal.
Thank you, Joe.
Okay.
That was all you, Joe, front runner Joe, guys.
I'm telling you, you can take the credit for that.
We're starting this train.
It's pulling out, jump on board.
You are wearing UNC blue today? Well, I, I don't like UNC, but I am wearing blue today.
Yes.
Okay.
It's a good shade of blue.
Well, it could be like the lady Vols basketball team blue, you know? Yeah, yeah.
Mixed in there.
The pat, the summit blue.
Yeah, the summit blue.
Exactly.
Okay.
We're gonna count it.
Clarence Masambe, is that how you pronounce it? Bobby in La Laney.
How would you pronounce this? Yeah, let's hear Laney's pronunciation.
He's on campus as of two days ago, and I'm excited about his handle skills for a team point.
He's a guard.
Point guard.
Okay, good.
We need more of those.
We do.
We need, we do.
No, nobody from the Bronx.
Just France.
Yes.
France.
I feel like we've had a good track record with the Bronx, France, and maryland's guard.
Mm-hmm.
And then we have a guy from where Maryland transfers.
He's a local Tennessee guy.
Ethan Berg is another guard we have coming, so we've got three transfers in.
But I can talk about any of those.
That's exciting.
What about you Lane? Yeah, I mean, I think we gotta go with quarterback.
Joey Aguilar.
Is he the next Peyton Manning? Is he the next Air g.
Uh, Jared Clawson.
Guana.
Oh, I don't know.
There's a lot of physical similarities.
Oh, Bobby, there's a lot of similarities.
Here's the real question.
Will he have his own shopping corner at the local vault store? You know, Nico had an entire section dedicated to his shirts and apparel and his logo.
Really? Will Joey get the same treatment? I don't, know.
I did not know that.
Yeah, they, they had those there for a while and as soon as you walked in, you're like, ah, I hope this kid's good because there's a lot of merchandise here and they're selling tshirt for $30 when he left.
I wonder if they burned them in the fort, those past jerseys.
I've, I've seen him going for two bucks at your local sporting goods store.
It's out there so you can get a good deal on a shirt.
Just a past quarterback that doesn't Yeah.
It's a, you know, someone who betrayed us and left us in the, you know, middle of the night when you want.
Advertising.
So, no, I don't think Joey's gonna get his own shopping corner, but Okay.
I hope he does well, if he gets hurt for some reason.
I don't, I hope he makes the full season and has a great, awesome performance.
But if he does, who are they putting in? Mm-hmm.
And who's the freshman from Nashville area? Mc.
McIntosh? Yeah.
Will he? Red shirt? Is that what they're gonna say? He's gonna do since he didn't win it.
Red shirt, but they keep him active.
Just 'cause Merk Klinger's a sophomore, basically.
He's a red shirt freshman.
Yeah.
I think Harrison Bailey's still got a couple years of eligibility.
Oh yeah.
You're difficult put him in.
Yikes.
So you're not hopeful or We'll see Syracuse after that.
Georgia.
Well, you can't turn the ball over in the SEC.
Right.
He's got a track record of liking to take riskier throws.
Now, Tennessee's offensive system is very quarterback friendly.
Unfortunately you've seen a little bit of that because Joe Milton, AKA Bazooka Joe and Hindo cinco are not doing super great in NFL preseason.
I don't know if you're watching that.
No, I've not seen it.
So the system is intended to give the quarterbacks quick and easy reads.
Low risk down the field passes.
I mean, it is, comical how open we could get Hyatt and Tillman open over the years, and so the system is still there.
I do think Joe's point on our first podcast is missing goldish.
I think there's a big component there.
I think the speed is there, but if Joey can command the offense and get us back to the line quickly and snap the ball, you don't have to make every read perfect, but there should be several.
Easy throws throughout the game.
So you think back to Nico last year, he over overthrew, I dunno, probably like 10 to 12 touchdowns for the season.
And some of those were in games where it's like, hey, we need it right here and you're, you're bombing it way too far.
So you know, Joey's got some experience, he's a little bit more seasoned, maybe he knows exactly the touch on where to put some of the passes.
But yeah, it's kind of wait and see for me.
And I know in the SEC, you really have maybe three seconds or less to get rid of it.
So does he have a quick, can he make a quick decision even if it's get rid of it because they're coming for him.
And I felt like we were rushed a lot last year.
They broke through our line and Nico didn't always have the greatest decisions.
So can this guy do it? I don't know.
That's what I'm gonna be looking for.
Yeah, I mean, I think offensive line definitely comes into question like we talked about first podcast, but then here's the other thing.
What we've not done well since Hendon, once we get into the red zone, if we get in the red zone, can we score? Mm-hmm.
Are we gonna be able to score in the fourth quarter? Can we score in the first half? Like just, I just wanna see consistency in those areas again because that's been lacking for the last two years.
No, you're right.
You can't beat Florida, Georgia, Alabama by kicking field goals.
That's one of our favorite things to do.
Make it inside the 20, kick a field goal.
Yep.
And we can't, we can't keep doing that.
And explosive plays, I mean, how many plays now Samson broke some runs last year for more than 20, 30 yards, but we hardly had any long passes.
Downfield.
Hopefully we use our tight ends too, in the red zone a little more.
I've heard a lot of people are high on our tight ends.
If kids, women can get back a hundred percent, but even second, third string, we got a couple freshmen tight ends that could be really good.
So potentially some help there that we've not had as much in recent years.
But what would be great is if Joey can take off and get a seven or eight yards on a scramble here and there.
I think you do that six, seven times a game and you know.
Maybe scrappy is the word.
I'm looking, at Diego from Vandy, like he's just high energy.
I'm gonna outwork you.
We're gonna move the ball down.
You're not gonna beat me one on one.
If Joey's just got a little bit of that with some talent, I feel much better about our offense if he can go out there and get you seven or eight yards when you need it.
Nico was hesitant.
I think he was so hesitant.
Yeah, I think they coached Joe not to do that on most games, but.
Would love to sit.
Now, Nico was not always hesitant.
He almost had that Arkansas run and that was heroic.
He ran out of bounds as the time expired.
For those of you not remembering correctly, so, no, I, I think Joey, if he's a gamer, we got a chance in this offense and I think our defense is gonna keep us in majority of games.
We'll see what 10 days, 11 days away.
When we're recording this podcast.
So what's the latest with Michigan? Bobby, keep us, up to date.
What's just happened? Uh, you know, I think all the details are still coming out, but there's no punishment.
There's no ramifications.
Financial, but not, but I mean's a drop in the bucket for Yeah.
Boosters to just stroke a check.
And, you know, if you had to ask the fan base, can we collectively come up with $30 million to.
Basically give us a 85% chance of winning a national championship.
You do that every, every time.
Um, so it is, it's a bummer, you know, Michigan and, uh, whatever that Sandy Bermuda, grass turf, whatever they got in South Carolina, they cost us a chance at the playoffs.
Hendons knee should have never been taken from him.
A sweet angel.
And yeah, we, they did.
There's no doubt in my mind you can, and it's not worth me getting worked up in and.
2025.
But they did, they stole signs from us.
They had it all figured out.
Um, there's no real possibility for South Carolina to put up those numbers on us and for us to do what we did when they were absolute trash that year anyway.
So had this been last year, two years ago, we would've been fine.
'cause you had the helmet communications, you didn't need all the, you know, the funny signs and, but it's a shame and.
Coaches are all gone.
They'll go and do their thing.
No ramifications.
They're still making millions.
Michigan gets to hang the banner, right? And there's no asterisk.
There's no nothing.
Mm.
That's the hard part.
I think for me, the hardest.
I mean, it's not 'cause we were headed there, right? We were one rank number one.
Mm-hmm.
Lost to Georgia.
Ridiculous.
But we were gonna redeem ourselves.
We gonna redeem ourselves.
He is in line for the Heisman.
Shoulda have won, right? Shoulda won.
And then you go to South Carolina and.
It's not just that they're able to stop us when we're scoring 40, 50, 60 against most opponents that season, but it's also how many points they scored.
Mm-hmm.
Because they were not putting up six 50 plus, I mean, maybe on a couple chuck teams, but just completely different game compared to what had been for them and for us.
And then, you know, we find out the stallion's character and what all he did and it's like, well, of course.
And who knows if Hendon.
I'm not blaming his ACL tear on them, but sort of, because fair, I mean, if what if he's being a little bit more risky in his runs or his scrambles.
Mm-hmm.
And he, he tears it based on that.
I don't know, because he's doing everything he can to bring us back.
But it was, it's still, it's heavy.
It's still hard.
It's a shame.
This is the plight of the Tennessee fan right here.
Mm.
Close, but should have been.
Back to 1998, though, that was, those was the glory years.
We still see license plates around town.
1998.
Mm-hmm.
Never.
You can't forget no.
Kids these days are gonna forget.
Yeah.
A lot of 'em weren't even born then Body.
They were, yeah, they were born.
It was their father or grandfather telling 'em stories.
Mm-hmm.
Speaking of which, let's do a favorite, favorite quarterback of the past, Tennessee.
I mean, if you're asking me.
Who's my favorite quarterback that had production? Uh, that's one answer.
Who's my favorite to play in NCAA is Brent Schafer.
I mean, he's so fast.
He had a big arm.
He was great.
Wow.
He played, he had some, you know, disciplinary issues, but he was a great athlete.
Him and Ange were a blast to.
You know, you got two quarterbacks, you don't have one.
But that was okay.
That was a fun year.
I was so frustrated as a kid with Casey Clawson, but he had, I mean, you look back on it, and he had some of the best production out of the last two decades for Tennessee quarterbacks.
But I would say there's a special place in my heart for, or Astro Dobbs, Joshua Dobbs.
He was there while I was there, and we had a lot of success.
No, he wasn't there when I was there.
That's not even remotely true.
But he was so good and I enjoyed him.
Um, I'd say him and Hendon were probably my two favorite quarterbacks over the last two decades.
But, you know, Justin Worley, Tyler Bray, they got us through some hard times.
They were gunslingers.
Don Bray is, you can make a case.
The man put up points.
He did got a live arm on him.
Did you remember he schuler.
Talking about an arm.
That's when I was younger.
That that was, he was the guy.
Mm-hmm.
Canon, absolute Canon couldn't catch him.
I had a crush on him.
I was little.
He would be my favorite quarterback.
Just because Oh, he would, okay.
I mean, you gotta say Peyton, right? Obviously.
Right.
But we kind of, that's the, yeah.
The easy, obvious one.
So setting him aside.
Yeah, he's jeweler was where I was gonna go.
Interesting though.
T Martin Love No, I I love t Martin.
Of course.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
He's, he's up there.
Just wanna make sure his name because he could run and throw, that's like, back to your point, if Joey can do some of that.
Mm-hmm.
Do a little t Martin.
Yeah.
Goes a long way.
Yeah.
I think Dobbs, you have to throw him in there for various reasons.
One, he's just an incredible guy off the field, obviously, but he's got one of the most memorable plays as a quarterback.
Maybe we should do favorite plays of all time.
Hmm.
Next episode.
Next one.
Yep.
All right.
Anything else on this one? No.
Vals Boo.
LSU.
That's for you, Ty.
All right.
I hope you'll listen next time.
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