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Class Orientation 2021: Day 2 · Boundary Corner Podcast

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  Welcome back to the boundary corn podcast.
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  My name is Curtis Wilson. I'm Brian Sigler.
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  How are you doing tonight, buddy?
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  Thursday night Thursday night which is here's a little drink
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  watching a little Hoops action. Plan.
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  Tomorrow's Friday. Have that, sir.
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  It's been. It's been a long week.
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  It's been one of those weeks, not so much that I was that
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  busy, but just everything seemed to be moving a little slower
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  this week than I like you too. So it's going to be nice.
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  Finally, getting to the weekend. Well, it's one of the Screwed Up
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  weeks with the snow, right? Like dip start starting really
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  Saturday, whatever you do on Sunday, your routine was shot.
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  And then it was Sunday, Monday, 28.
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  And finally, you get to Wednesday and Thursday and maybe
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  you're getting back to your normal routine.
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  So I get it. Same here.
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  Yeah, it's one of those weeks man.
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  And, you know, obviously Super Bowl this weekend.
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  Unfortunately, we can't do Super Bowl things, can't do Super Bowl
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  things, you know, in a perfect world.
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  I'd have folks over here, make some good food set up outside if
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  it's Not too cold with the the inflatable screen and the
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  projector and watch the game outside as a as nature intended.
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  But you know, we're not going to unfortunately, do that looks
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  like even weather's not to cooperate so I can't even do
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  that with my family. Let alone with a big-ass group
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  of people, so I'm hoping you have good as it could be.
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  But I think we'll still have a good time with it.
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  You'll still be super old sticker.
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  Watch Tom. Brady lose.
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  Everybody can watch Tom, Brady lens.
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  There is his prediction folk. It did not take but about 35
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  seconds to the and he's already making it super bold prediction.
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  Well I'm sure you're going to still be crushing and making a
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  nice spread even Jose me just you and the fam right?
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  Oh yeah, yeah. We're going to cook something on
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  the grill. Probably do some definitely
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  doing some wings and jalapeno poppers if not anything else.
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  Outside probably probably throw a few dips in there.
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  Maybe do some stuff. Okay, so who knows the Super
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  Bowl? If you really do it, right.
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  It's essentially it starts at about 3:00 and it goes to 10.
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  So you just mentioned, you've got two dips, you've got to have
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  snack food, you've got to have main course, but then you got to
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  have additional snack food after the main course.
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  Exactly. Exactly.
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  I mean, the, the wings can kind of carry, you can put those in
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  any point in that chain and it would be applicable.
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  But You know, I think we're probably gonna get the wings as
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  at least part of the main course, if not, you know, the
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  the key player there. So we'll see still probably
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  going to play in the spread tomorrow and then do the
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  shopping on Saturday and getting everything ready.
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  So, haven't got the full spread lined up yet, but you know, I've
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  got the preliminary ideas out there dude.
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  You make damn good wings and good Wing, so good.
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  Alright, well, so good, well Hokie Nation tonight.
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  What we're going to be doing is the final signing day was
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  yesterday so we are going to be putting a wrap on the founda
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  cruise, we didn't cover last time but since now and then a
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  hit ton of news that happened around with nation.
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  So we're going to dive into that first.
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  Hit the recruits on the back end and Brian.
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  Let's go ahead and start it, it was rumored last time, not long
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  after the try recording. Happened.
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  Darryl Tapp is gone goes to my San Francisco 49ers as the
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  assistant defensive line coach not a shock, the writing was on
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  the wall. So but you know officially gone
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  though. It hurts officially gone you
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  know, we talked about it a lot last time.
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  So I'm not going to rehash a ton of stuff but this is good for
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  him. Big for him.
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  I loved that he made the video put At out on Twitter on social
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  media talking about his dream of winning, a ring winning an NFL
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  title. He's chasing that dream, you got
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  to respect that and you know, he's a coach with a upward
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  trajectory That if he gets opportunities like this, you
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  know, got to take them, got to so good for him, glad to glad to
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  hear that. He's at some place where he's
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  with guys that he trusts and that he has a good relationship
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  with. So that's going to be good for
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  him. And how many guys who are
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  growing their resume literally will get to say on their resume
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  coached under Bill Terrell, Nick.
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  My first year as a coach coach under chriskiss, Eric, my second
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  year as a coach Not map. Not many guys.
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  So he is building his resume and he has got right now and
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  absolute stud line to work with. We'll see what happens in Grass.
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  If we had some more pieces to it, but at peace was gone.
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  We had add somebody right. Although, yeah, we did.
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  I had, I had some negativity in me and saying, we're not going
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  to add Bobby because, you know, It's freaking covid, is 20/20.
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  We've done enough screwed-up stuff.
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  But the man we mentioned is the man, they hired Okie Legend, JC
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  price. Now, for those out there,
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  listening, if you don't know the name JC price.
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  First of all, stop the right here.
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  Press pause on the podcast and go research him and go look at
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  the 1995 team essentially, the team that catapulted the Hokies
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  onto The national scene. It was an All-American.
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  It was an all Big East player. He was using stud.
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  Yeah, it's one of the four quarters of the lunch pail, the
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  picture him coming off the sugar, bowl with the pale above
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  his head. So he's going back to the roots
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  of who we are. Everybody's been saying, well,
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  we, how's he gonna help with recruiting yada yada, Brian.
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  I'm going to let you take this with me because it's a personal
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  relationship. You have with someone in a, well
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  respected person down the 757. Yeah, so for those The don't
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  know, I played college football with Chris Scott head coach
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  Oscar Smith down in, Chesapeake won a State title at Ocean,
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  Lakes and Virginia Beach. A lot of the guys that we
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  recruit that are in those top 10, Virginia players.
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  This guy's coach them And just reading through some of the
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  stuff. He's been put on social media,
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  caught this one, this was before the higher even came through for
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  j.c. So I know I put it on the
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  timeline, we had talked Chris, Scott talked about JC price
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  hands down, one of the best I've ever been around a great fit for
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  VTech right now. Second to none in recruiting and
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  taking care of our guys. That's a big-time High School
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  head coach. Being very very strongly about
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  the type of guy that JC prices and that's what we're getting
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  here. Somebody that understands the
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  Virginia Maryland. D.c. 75 780 for recruiting
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  footprint. Tara he knows the area.
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  He's recruited the area. He knows these High School
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  coaches. He's got personal relationships
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  with these High School coaches. He's coming in, he's a Virginia
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  Tech Legend. He's a guy that's done it.
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  At a lot of different levels. So he's relating to the players,
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  but he also has those Bona fides to back up.
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  You know what he's done and who he is.
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  So I think in terms of the situation with tap leaving be a
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  pretty rough situation for the Hokies, this is the best case
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  scenario fill that I could think of that isn't, you know, a big
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  time Splash higher of some well-known coach who would never
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  take an assistant defensive line coach role anyway so that That's
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  my piece there. JC y'all, I mean, JC played in
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  the NFL for three seasons injuries.
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  Heard him there he came back to take as a ga from there.
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  He went to J mu. He was there d-line coach when
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  they won the national title and 04 and he was there until 2011.
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  How many times I hate to say it. He got us in 2010.
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  Then he goes to Marshall on the Doc Holliday.
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  Obviously, they've had a great run of success there, But it's
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  like it's like they lost out on tap in the personality and the
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  connection and you put someone that it's almost right there.
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  Yeah except he's coaching a lot longer.
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  He's been in the recruiting game a lot longer along with that
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  code offensive line coach. He is the defensive recruiting
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  coordinator. New role but it's how you got
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  him in the door and probably got them with the be interested to
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  see his pay. But we told me that last time,
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  they'll remember, we said that, you know, we didn't only
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  question mark, we said about JC is, would he be willing to come
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  in just as a co-defensive line coach and that he would need
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  something else attached to that to sweeten the pot.
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  And here we go defensive, you know?
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  In guy here. So, that's a role that he can
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  kind of put on his resume now, as well.
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  You're here in Blacksburg and it's something that can justify
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  the level of compensation. I think he would, he would have
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  needed in terms of taking a back seat from an on-field
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  perspective. So, Like it.
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  Like I said, I think it was the best case option for what we
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  were dealing with there and it was something that was very
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  positive. I think in terms of what the fan
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  base was looking for, in replacing Darryl, Tapp when he
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  depart Absolutely, they not without it apart, there's no
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  other way to say it. They knocked it.
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  Clear out of the park and I think it's going to be good
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  things going on. All right, let's move on because
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  we got JC back alstom, but we mention the recruiting
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  coordinator of the defense. Well we've also added some other
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  titles two guys got added to their title this week.
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  The first Adam electing Berg is now title of the off.
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  Into recruiting coordinator and then Ryan Smith After The
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  Unbelievable coaching job, he did last year gets a passing
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  game coordinator title on his. I think Brian Smith got a raise,
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  like tandberg probably got a raise.
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  Now, I want to do this way Brian.
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  Let's just talk about quick with Ryan Smith.
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  Is this scare you that if we ball again on defense, actually
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  the DBS. In the corners, like so many
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  terms of him making a jump after he gets some good some partial
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  coordinating position under his belt.
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  Yes, and no. Okay, obviously right now Smith
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  is a fast Riser we're seeing that just going from you know
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  having success at JMU coming to us looking really good in year
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  one especially considering the cards he was.
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  With pretty much not having his two best corners for almost the
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  whole season and then getting the production that he got out
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  of Dorian strong as a true freshman.
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  You know, that's a pretty big deal and the fact that he was an
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  emergency play caller for one game when J Hamm was out with
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  covid, you know, these are things that showed that Ryan
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  Smith is going to be a guy to take seriously on this defensive
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  staff and they're making some moves to show him.
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  Hey, Hey, we respect what you did in year 1.
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  Here's here's a little bit to show our appreciation for that
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  and hopefully build that that relationship so that you know,
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  he's not jumping ship right away.
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  Well hopefully we can, you know, continue to cultivate that
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  relationship and keep him around for a little bit as long as
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  we're turning. Things around as a team as a
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  whole, How I agree with you tenfold, that's the reason I
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  think, I don't know how much like, and I'd be interested to
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  see his pay play scale. Now, to the Lichen Berg one.
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  I like it, because, like hamburgers one guys, it seems
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  like whoever he touches they come in and they perform.
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  Now, what I'm going to be very interested in, get your opinion
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  on Brian is, how do you think the structure this is going to
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  look? Do you think this is going to be
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  them? You know, is it going to be the
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  guys in the operation sector saying?
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  Hey here are the guys we feel good about.
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  They look at the do the player valuation with the other
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  coaches? Invented that JC and Adam kind
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  of sitting there saying, I know this is an offensive lineman
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  been Vance. You're not touching this guy
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  Jafar. This is your guy.
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  Or JC. Yeah.
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  I move within the lab Jack but Bill needs to talk to this guy
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  like identifying personality traits and trying to match up
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  that versus saying what the position coaches weenie conquer.
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  You know that's a good that's a good assessment there because I
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  feel like what he's done well in his time with the Hokies so far
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  is that he's done a good job of identifying talent and however
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  it is whether it's from him directly or filtering it through
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  the right position coach or the right personality type.
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  He's had a good, he's done a good job of not, only a getting
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  those giucose guys those transfer guys in the building
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  and On board but he's done a good job of once.
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  They are on board we're seeing the dividends of bringing them
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  in payoff on the field. Like there hasn't been very many
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  guys that we brought in that Adams had a direct relationship
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  with that having at least been a productive player, if not
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  someone that turned into a star like a Khalil Herbert.
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  So, that's, that's a positive here.
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  I feel like from a perspective of identifying talent and
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  getting those relationships, he's probably the best offensive
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  coach that we have for that type of role.
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  I feel like Chavez does a pretty good job.
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  Vice and Jafar very hit-or-miss corn is very hit-or-miss to say
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  the least but I feel like it before this the way Fuente was
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  talking in the press conference and almost made it seem like
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  this was a role that corn kind of had de facto up until this
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  point in terms of the High School portion.
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  Of the recruiting blueprint and having a guy like Adam take that
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  whole thing over and not just be focused on the transfer portal
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  and the Juco, guys, I feel like that's going to pay some
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  dividends. And also, you partner him with a
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  guy like JC that already has these relationships with some of
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  these coaches. I think that's going to be a
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  good groundwork, to get him in the door and pay dividends
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  there. Because honestly, we haven't had
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  an offensive coach that really has as deep relationships in the
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  state. And I think that's why you've
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  seen a lot of the our offensive talent coming from out of state.
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  By the way on this if that's truly the case of what corn was
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  doing now he has absolutely no excuses or a piss-poor offense
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  this year. He has one thing he has to focus
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  on one thing. All right, we're gonna move on.
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  There's a few other things that press conference.
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  I mean, you know, I don't disagree.
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  All right, let's take a look at the press conference.
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  We set watch the whole thing chitchat while I was going on.
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  Um, one thing that jumped out to me and you one was not a shock
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  one, shocked me, but then made me happy Daryl, Bailey moving
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  over to offensive line. Something everybody has said, a
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  lot of people have said from the beginning.
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  That's its bit. Why wasn't he there to begin
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  with? So sharp there, right?
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  No shock there. And I mean, In its kind of six,
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  one half dozen of the other, we're going to be somewhat thin
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  in a cycle or two at both offensive line and defensive
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  line at this point. It's better to get him where he
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  helps the most because we've shown the ability to bring in a
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  lot more transfer and Juco defensive lineman than we have
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  offensive lineman, get him on offense, get him where he needs
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  to be so hopefully in a year or two.
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  He's ready to contribute. The other one was the clean
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  Rudolph who was looking at a safety.
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  And now he's being moved to backer because he's just grown
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  too much. Can you talk with 64 200 coming
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  in? How big is he now to be moving
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  from safety to backer? Yeah, that's that's telling me,
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  he's like, at least in the upper two teens, if not already 220.
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  Plus it also tells me that as soon as he got on campus, he got
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  to work. Yeah.
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  Because I'm what he was what? Projected as the hurry.
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  What the case for the three at the Rover.
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  Right? I'm trying to remember where he
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  wasn't it, but he was, he was number three.
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  And one of the safety positions on the depth chart this year,
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  which, you know, originally gave us pause because a lot of us had
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  projected him as being a wide receiver, you know, before we
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  even got him committed. So in fact, the came in as a
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  third-string said, you were like, oh okay, well, maybe but
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  moving to back or I feel like is going to be really good for us
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  because what we are missing at the linebacker position is
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  athleticism. And Having a guy that's been
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  able to play wide receiver plays safety.
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  Now, bring that athleticism to the linebacker level, if he
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  picks up technique and he picks up all those things that he
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  needs to to play the position. Well, I mean the sky's the limit
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  for him for real because he's got length, and he's getting
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  sighs apparently. So, I say it mr.
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  Meehan 2.0 mr. Main, he has a potential to be
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  Tremaine 2.0. Jermaine came in at about 2:15
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  by the time he left. He was in the to 40s if he's 220
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  right now and that's all I can every time I think about, I hear
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  420 saying he's just gotten too big.
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  It tells me that he is in that to 20 range where I'm not gonna
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  not. If he's showing.
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  The, the big stuff man. Yeah, he might be he might be
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  competing to get some PT this year.
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  Yeah, I mean if you mix up the position then yeah I mean
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  because in terms of just athleticism and build I mean
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  he's already going to be kind of where the the competition is.
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  So I mean, if he picks up the nuances of the position, the
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  sky's the limit for the kid and that's just talking about, you
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  know, what would be technically is Redshirt freshman year, but
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  it's really not a red chairs. Just these true freshman part 2.
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  Awesome. Yeah.
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  All right, let's Braun. We can tune our own horns on
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  this point. They said in the press
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  conference, he didn't make any bones.
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  We need help on the offensive line, death lies, we're not
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  shot. We've been saying it.
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  We were going to. So in one or two cycles, we were
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  going to need a significant amount of offensive line help
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  before Nestor and Hudson left. One first, rain Hudson left, it
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  became an immediate. Need, we still probably need at
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  least one tackle to come in for either Juco or transfer portal
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  at this point. That's just to not feel worried
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  going into this season. If you look into what could
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  happen in 22 and 23, things get a little dicey.
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  If we don't make some big-time plays for lineman in this cycle.
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  So that's my piece. Now I'm going to play this.
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  Something else coach mentioned when you were talking about, you
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  know, talk about the of any kind of transition to do you know
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  after spring and things are going to start happening.
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  Guys are going to get in the portal.
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  Guys are going to graduate and want to leave.
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  Zion to Bo gets in the portal today, not a shot, especially
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  when you hear about Justin beetles and how much I think he
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  said Justin Beatles had gained 20 plus pounds.
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  That means Justin Beatles is when the 250 to 260 range at
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  tells me likely Keen. He's come in and he's done work
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  in his body is up to that point. He's potentially ready to start
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  helping on the defensive line. So if Vine leaves best of luck
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  them, wherever he lands, but we're going to keep, I think
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  we're going to see somewhere between 3 to 5.
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  As in the portal between now and May 1st.
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  And we're going to probably be able to drill after the giucose
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  and portal tackles this year and even more.
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  So at August first, It's a transfer for your charge is
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  true, man. And we've got a got some roster
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  spots here and we've got, you know, as you said probably one
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  or two immediate fills and then probably another two to three
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  that are going to happen after spring practice.
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  Maybe we're talking, maybe, maybe maybe four to five
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  positions between now, and when summer hits, that, that could
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  potentially be open to some further action in the transfer
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  portal. So keep the keep the eyes open.
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  Like I said, we particularly need some offensive line, help
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  as bad as it is to say, I wouldn't mind if we took a
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  chance on a certain running back, that's no longer has a
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  home at a power, five institutions.
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  Ocean. And that's not to say we don't
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  have enough running backs, but it would be nice to have a
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  Dependable running back with significant amount of carries
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  and experience at the power 5 level to carry that load.
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  That's no, not to keep Shaun, King, know, not to Jalen Holston
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  know not to. Hopefully it's they're not to
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  Blackshear because he shouldn't be right at the running back
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  position. Most of his snaps anyway but
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  that's okay. Gosh.
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  Yeah, there's definitely room for growth in the portal and
• 25:03
  honestly not just room for growth, but a need for growth in
• 25:05
  the portal. All right, let's move on.
• 25:09
  Obviously yesterday was Signing Day, although there were no
• 25:13
  additional signings between original signing day and
• 25:18
  yesterday, the Hokies picked up three, I would say, big guys who
• 25:24
  had opportunities he's to go elsewhere with scholarship
• 25:27
  offers but chose to be preferred, Walk-Ons.
• 25:31
  All over here are the r-va you got Cameron olds over at
• 25:35
  Midlothian on Southside. You got Jabari Parker out of
• 25:38
  Highland Springs over in the East End and you got miles Ellis
• 25:43
  at a deeper on out here in the West End.
• 25:46
  And you know, and as soon as I saw yesterday, as soon as MI
• 25:53
  Committed Jabari. Retweeted that thing and put
• 25:57
  what our VA to Tech. Yep.
• 25:59
  It's just like, you know, the the fact that we're hitting some
• 26:04
  of these schools that we probably have lost focus on even
• 26:08
  if we're just getting some, some preferred walk-on guys in the
• 26:12
  building, getting those guys in the building is going to help
• 26:15
  down the road. I'm sad that it's taken this
• 26:19
  long to start making some Headway on this front though.
• 26:23
  So I mean you get a you get a pat on the back for finally
• 26:26
  doing it. You know you get a kick in the
• 26:28
  nuts to because you waited this long, it's definitely picking
• 26:32
  the nuts. It's definitely a kick in the
• 26:35
  because it's taken six freaking years, it's taken six years and
• 26:41
  maybe that's the thing. All of these guys were
• 26:43
  borderline guides and you know what, we should have probably
• 26:50
  been doing a few years ago is saying I can give you a
• 26:53
  scholarship but we're going to put you on a pwo.
• 26:57
  Come on please you know in and then go back and show how over
• 27:02
  like Hopi tradition. If you're a great walk on you're
• 27:05
  going to get a scholarship. Yep.
• 27:08
  Bust your ass and play football. You're going to get a
• 27:10
  scholarship and let's hope this goes not only here but elsewhere
• 27:18
  in the state as well man. Brian I move on here and hey we
• 27:24
  got a five-star commitment. Went from punter, Nick lettuce,
• 27:29
  8, it's good. I know there are a lot of 5
• 27:32
  stars with the punters, but you always want to try to grab one
• 27:34
  of those and usually those often come in immediately and start
• 27:37
  kicking well, you think Golf club, man, we got a punter.
• 27:43
  Let's move on. We move on.
• 27:46
  Alright, schedule release. I don't want to get too deep
• 27:51
  into this because we need we need conditioning to go on.
• 27:57
  We need Spring ball to go on. We need summer transfer portal
• 28:00
  for we dive deep into this, but what I'm going to ask, Brian
• 28:04
  you, and I'm going to make my own input on this.
• 28:07
  When you take a look at this schedule where we're opening,
• 28:10
  North Carolina on Thursday or Friday night, probably the
• 28:15
  Middle, Tennessee, West, Virginia Richmond, we get our
• 28:17
  break after Richmond. Notre Dame, pit hair cuse,
• 28:21
  Georgia Tech, BC Duke. Miami UVA.
• 28:24
  How do you feel about the flow of this schedule this year?
• 28:30
  I mean, looking at it, there's not a whole lot that we could
• 28:33
  have asked for more except for maybe flipping one of those.
• 28:38
  November Road games to a to a home game at some point in
• 28:42
  giving a home game, a little bit earlier in the schedule, but in
• 28:46
  terms of how We're stacking the competition in the ACC relative
• 28:53
  to the non-conference and relative to the homes in a ways.
• 28:57
  I kind of like it, I think it was, you know, there's not a
• 29:00
  whole lot of changes I'd make to it.
• 29:02
  So what about you, man saying the flow of this schedule if If
• 29:11
  we can't have a good record with the flow of this schedule, the
• 29:16
  day after UVA people aren't fired, there should be some, I
• 29:22
  can go to merryman and not going with Babcock store and say
• 29:24
  what's wrong with you? Our schedule has been set up to
• 29:27
  where a minimum Of a twin should happen.
• 29:32
  Minimum sure you're going Lord, if you go, if you say what
• 29:38
  should happen versus what? I think will happen.
• 29:41
  Those are two different numbers right now.
• 29:43
  But there's still Improvement left to be made to the roster.
• 29:47
  There's still other changes that might be made to the staff
• 29:51
  potentially. So I mean, we saw some this
• 29:54
  week, so I'm going to leave that open for for, for possibility
• 29:58
  here. So, you know, right now.
• 30:00
  Now I say we should win 8. I think we win 6.
• 30:05
  Here's the thing, the toughest to game stretch on this schedule
• 30:09
  is Notre Dame, pit and Notre Dame's after freaking by week at
• 30:12
  home and pits at home. That's the toughest.
• 30:17
  Two games stretch. All year.
• 30:20
  Yep, we get Syracuse at home. We don't have to go to the
• 30:24
  fucking Carrier Dome. Yeah.
• 30:26
  It's Joy BC. Georgia Tech.
• 30:32
  The BC is going to be tough because it's a Saturday to a
• 30:35
  Friday night and they're both away.
• 30:38
  So, guys are gonna be on the plane boat clowns but they're
• 30:42
  both middle to bottom of the ACC.
• 30:46
  The one thing I will not this staff, when they need to be
• 30:50
  knock, what I will give them Kudos.
• 30:52
  The one thing they are really good at opening game plan in to
• 30:55
  get more Carolina in Lane where there should be fan.
• 31:00
  I'm September because every human body saying what I
• 31:05
  mid-june we're going to have everyone in the state of
• 31:08
  Virginia, they won't Maxine. You have a vaccine that Stadium
• 31:12
  should be pulled to get them on a Thursday night.
• 31:15
  Hoping I hope it's Thursday. Get that lower back to get them
• 31:20
  early. We know this coaching staff can
• 31:23
  plan how to ass or opening games.
• 31:29
  So we'll see. Schedules the way we need it.
• 31:34
  Coaching cab do your job? Yep.
• 31:36
  No worries! No excuses whatsoever.
• 31:39
  All right. Brian, we're going to flip over
• 31:41
  just for a couple minutes and hit some non-football related
• 31:44
  topics. You take basketballs been
• 31:47
  rolling, even with the loss at Pitt yesterday.
• 31:50
  The big win against UVA. The we're tournament team.
• 31:56
  I am just going to say that. I think the winds we have in the
• 31:58
  record we have right now. I think we're at tournament team
• 32:02
  but the one big piece that happened since we, you know,
• 32:07
  last signed on was Tyrese radford's DUI and gun charge
• 32:11
  where he is now, pleaded guilty to the DUI charge and the gun
• 32:15
  charges under advisement for the next year, it was suspended
• 32:19
  immediately by the team, but this happening this week but the
• 32:23
  guilty plea Do you think's going to happen?
• 32:26
  Brian. What do you think?
• 32:28
  Where we're going to move him and buy more?
• 32:32
  I think so I think at this point, you're going to see
• 32:35
  something come out in the next week in terms of He's back with
• 32:42
  the team but he still suspended for X number of games somewhere
• 32:46
  between February, I'd say, February 20th.
• 32:51
  In February 25th, he rejoins the team in terms of being able to
• 32:55
  play in a game that gives you about a week leading into the
• 32:59
  ACC tournament. So I think by ACC tournament
• 33:03
  tournament time Radford. We'll have one or two closing,
• 33:11
  the regular season contests under his belt and ready to
• 33:13
  start the tournament. So we shall see.
• 33:15
  But that that is my hope. I think that that would show
• 33:20
  that Mike young is Giving him a degree of punishment for the
• 33:26
  action. But saying we still need you, we
• 33:30
  still want you, we still got your back.
• 33:33
  And he said, so in his release and that was probably the most
• 33:37
  well, oh God, I did release on a player that's dealing with that
• 33:44
  situation that I've seen. So kudos to Mike young for how
• 33:47
  he's handled this whole thing, absolutely, the other things
• 33:51
  with With Tyrese. Is he quickly admitted to it?
• 33:57
  It wasn't. If you still have some of the
• 34:00
  stuff he basically quick, I'm in the wrong.
• 34:04
  I'm pleading guilty because it was my fault, but it made me
• 34:07
  Brian raised a question here tonight, but we jumped on It
• 34:11
  said it in the release. He was at tots before.
• 34:17
  Anybody at several spots, if you go there as a college student,
• 34:20
  you know what's going to happen? Here's my question.
• 34:25
  Me and Brian were in school 15 years ago.
• 34:28
  Ryan was in him to Sydney football.
• 34:29
  I was in a fraternity at Longwood weekend days, we had
• 34:34
  set designated drivers. People.
• 34:40
  This is yours. Here's your shift.
• 34:42
  You start. Here you go to here.
• 34:45
  Weekdays usually somebody was always sober.
• 34:48
  So if you went out and got shit-faced some where people
• 34:52
  would come get you how is this not happening?
• 34:57
  Yeah. I mean it seems like at this
• 35:00
  point there will be some degree of coordination.
• 35:03
  Also, in the times of uber and the times of being connected
• 35:11
  with everyone at the push of a button, it just seems like how
• 35:17
  is this? I was something not put in place
• 35:20
  within the team or within you know some sort of P whether it's
• 35:26
  the You know, athletic guys something put together to say,
• 35:30
  hey if you need, if you're out somewhere and you're too drunk
• 35:35
  to do anything with your vehicle, here's who you call
• 35:38
  your. So you contact.
• 35:39
  Here's a you text, you know, FaceTime.
• 35:43
  You know what, whatever you need to hit up.
• 35:45
  This is who you hit up. We were doing it in the
• 35:50
  mid-2000s. There's no excuse to not be
• 35:53
  doing it now. Nope, that's when cell phones
• 35:56
  were first prevalent, you'd call your DD.
• 35:58
  They come pick you up from Mulligan's on High Street by the
• 36:01
  way. Bra on Thursday night, if this
• 36:03
  was 15 years ago, we would be no coming. 79 cent, rail drinks,
• 36:14
  and then three dollar pictures after that.
• 36:16
  Come on, man. But you know what?
• 36:19
  We would be doing. We will be calling someone to
• 36:21
  come drive us home afterwards. We move on another sport.
• 36:26
  That is absolutely rolling right now and that is Virginia Tech.
• 36:30
  Men's wrestling men's wrestling right now is ranked eighth in
• 36:35
  the country are undefeated between their jewels and their
• 36:41
  other competitions and Friday night on the ACC Network.
• 36:45
  They got this, right? It is a massive top 10 showdown
• 36:50
  at 8. Number 3, NC State comes into
• 36:54
  Cassell Coliseum, NC State hasn't lost any meats or duels
• 36:57
  all year cute. I give whoever was in charge of
• 37:01
  putting this on Friday night. Genius, it sucks.
• 37:06
  It sucks that no, more than 250 kids can get into this?
• 37:12
  Yep. Because I have a feeling that
• 37:14
  would be a rocking atmosphere. It would be Believable.
• 37:18
  Yeah, it'd be. It'd be incredible.
• 37:21
  You know, while we're here. I mean wrestling has been
• 37:23
  knocked out of the park guys. Complete annihilation of who was
• 37:28
  it Duke the other day or t23? Yeah, it was completely complete
• 37:33
  Annihilation. And, you know, got some of the
• 37:37
  The better individual wrestlers in the entire nation.
• 37:41
  And now the team is a whole ranked 8th that that's a
• 37:44
  big-time program that we've got here.
• 37:47
  While we're on the subject of the AC to DC Network getting
• 37:50
  this right? And we just talked about
• 37:52
  basketball, how do they keep screwing up?
• 37:55
  Not putting their ranked match ups on the freaking Network that
• 38:01
  has their friggin name on it. I don't know before I jump into
• 38:06
  that though, after the blowout of Duke, they didn't beat the
• 38:09
  number 12, link our heels in the Dual couple days later.
• 38:14
  I don't understand it, DC Network, I don't see network so
• 38:25
  I hope you're playing pit just a couple months ago.
• 38:29
  And these are right. It's considered a good team.
• 38:32
  It's a bubble team. Yeah.
• 38:34
  And you're sitting here like oh cool, ESPN2, maybe even ESPN.
• 38:39
  Okay, definitely SEC network. Now that easy nothing extra.
• 38:45
  I swear, they're the people that are running that no clue what to
• 38:48
  do. If they want to give us three
• 38:49
  hundred thousand dollars a year, we would crush it and you
• 38:54
  wouldn't have to sleep back here in Durham on repeat for 17
• 38:56
  working hours. It's like, you know, I've got
• 39:00
  nothing against Packer and Durham I feel like Packard
• 39:02
  Durham or perfectly fine at what they're doing.
• 39:06
  I just don't need that much of them.
• 39:09
  Not at all. We'll move on off that because
• 39:13
  we could probably go H to believe it or not they do have
• 39:18
  some really good shows two three day weekend show if you watched
• 39:20
  that yet. Yeah yeah.
• 39:23
  One that's that's the content you want though?
• 39:27
  Kudos to them for that but a lot of the other stuff is just.
• 39:30
  All right, Deuteronomy gets nominated for The Dudley award,
• 39:33
  which will be awarded in the spring.
• 39:36
  You agree that you should have been our nominee.
• 39:40
  I agree that he should be our nominee and I 100% think he
• 39:43
  should fucking win it. Yes the guy led the nation in
• 39:47
  all-purpose yards. That is this inverse?
• 39:50
  All first-team All-American offensive tackle.
• 39:55
  That's why I want a Virginia Tech player to win it.
• 39:58
  You put your fucking running back in there and I'm an
• 40:01
  offensive lineman saying that they know what they're doing
• 40:05
  here. I mean, As much as I love.
• 40:07
  What? What Christian Dara saw did.
• 40:11
  Yeah, there's something more sexy about the running back with
• 40:14
  the big numbers and it is the tackle.
• 40:16
  That's just really damn good. Every fucking snap.
• 40:20
  Yep. That's what I hope happens.
• 40:24
  They're going to wait till after the FCS season for JMU and you
• 40:27
  know other things because obviously Dudley's with a live
• 40:30
  near you know your alma mater is going to be starting its
• 40:32
  football pretty soon here to maybe May rolls around.
• 40:37
  They usually do that out in at one of the hotels here in the
• 40:41
  West End. And we can go, maybe they're
• 40:44
  letting people if not. And you know, it is what it is.
• 40:48
  All right. We're going to completely turn
• 40:50
  off poke talk for the next few minutes here and we're going to
• 40:55
  discuss a couple things. Let's start first brine.
• 40:59
  Our teams were heavily vested in potentially trying to acquire
• 41:02
  Matthew Stafford, right? Yes.
• 41:05
  That was the big push. And unfortunately, for both of
• 41:10
  us It did not work out because where did Matthew Stafford end
• 41:14
  up? It went to the Rams.
• 41:16
  Unfortunately them trading form isn't you know, it's one of
• 41:20
  those things you heard rumors, what they gave up.
• 41:24
  No, no, there's an honesty. Not giving up that much.
• 41:31
  You get Matt Stafford, they gave up good ones.
• 41:36
  This year's third, which they don't have a first.
• 41:38
  I don't think they have a second.
• 41:40
  The they don't have picked up probably the fourth round now.
• 41:43
  Yep. They lucky that the lions are
• 41:48
  willing to take the golf contract, which was a terrible
• 41:51
  contract. That's the only good part.
• 41:55
  It's true man. It's also a lesson in why you
• 41:58
  don't give people contracts off one year of success?
• 42:03
  No well we're in that spot for the with Jimmy But the way his
• 42:09
  contracts negotiated, if we ran another quarterback, we can cut
• 42:13
  him with no cap casualties. It's like, yeah, I mean, you're
• 42:17
  you you can move on a lot easier now it costs money for you to
• 42:20
  keep him but it doesn't cost you as much if you find someone else
• 42:24
  to replace. It wasn't.
• 42:27
  We're in a position now where I mean we're out of we got rid of
• 42:32
  rivers contract when he retired, you know, we're out from.
• 42:38
  Some other contracts on our roster.
• 42:40
  So we've got we've got some cap room to spend.
• 42:43
  I don't like mortgaging a draft in order to or draft in a half.
• 42:48
  You know, we've got the cap room to make some other moves.
• 42:52
  I'd like us to maybe, look at Donald.
• 42:55
  I feel like that is the option. Don't don't say Wentz.
• 43:00
  No one wants wins. I love.
• 43:06
  I love that everyone's talking about the relationship with
• 43:13
  Wentz and Coach, right? But I just feel like If if you
• 43:18
  want to bring in a quarterback and you're actually spend money
• 43:20
  on your quarterback that quarterback needs to be
• 43:22
  available. It doesn't matter how good you
• 43:25
  are and when's hasn't been that great of late.
• 43:27
  But if you're not available, it doesn't matter how good you are.
• 43:31
  We saw that with paid Manning towards the end of his tenure
• 43:34
  with the Colts. And we saw that with Andrew luck
• 43:36
  with all went with him getting banged up.
• 43:39
  No, do not discrediting. Andrew Luck.
• 43:41
  I mean, he put his ass out there every time and I've got no
• 43:44
  problem with the decision he made ultimately but The big
• 43:48
  problem was is that injuries caused him to miss games, so you
• 43:51
  can't be great. If your quarterback is missing
• 43:53
  games, true, a above-average Dependable, quarterback is a lot
• 43:59
  better than the elite guy. That is only available for 10
• 44:02
  games a year. I have an above-average
• 44:05
  quarterback, that's an out of shit, ton of games and You know,
• 44:13
  I'm go back to this with Garoppolo.
• 44:17
  Garoppolo's ACL tear screwed everything up because the rock
• 44:23
  below had that of a pocket passer.
• 44:25
  He had the upper end athleticism, you could see it
• 44:29
  the way he moved in the pocket and things like that.
• 44:31
  When he screwed his knee up and some people argue and say no it
• 44:35
  didn't do Jimmy with know if you watch hands offense.
• 44:39
  Like you you know, Brian from watching years and years.
• 44:41
  He wants those bootlegs, he wants rollouts.
• 44:43
  He wants guys, they can move around the CL hook that from
• 44:47
  like, not my vicar. Anything like that level.
• 44:51
  But like a Steve Young right at the Steve.
• 44:53
  Youngest level and it lowered it.
• 44:56
  I'm not saying Peyton Manning but not he's wearing the middle
• 45:00
  somewhere and you can't be that. I don't know what's going to
• 45:03
  happen. The only thing I'll say is this
• 45:07
  As a Niners fan. If we don't draft one or trade
• 45:12
  for one, I think the regime that I like, because the guys know
• 45:16
  how to draft and know how to coach is gone in a couple years
• 45:20
  because they're gonna lose this year, they're gonna lose next
• 45:22
  year, they're gonna be out. White on the other hand, you're
• 45:26
  hoping they figure it out. I mean I think we've got a lot
• 45:29
  more room to work with just because number one we have made
• 45:34
  the playoffs. I honestly, we're right there.
• 45:39
  We see that. It's one or two moves away from
• 45:43
  being a really damn good team to just being a playoff team, you
• 45:48
  know, you get the right quarterback in there, you Shore
• 45:50
  up, you know, 11 probably one more skill.
• 45:53
  Addition and then you add somebody on the defensive line
• 45:56
  to pair with some of the studs you've already brought in and I
• 46:00
  think then you're cooking. So if we can do that we're
• 46:06
  looking pretty good. Absolutely.
• 46:09
  All right, we're going to roll on and we're gonna hit one more
• 46:12
  topic, non Hokies related but kind of Hokies related.
• 46:17
  Brian, that tweet came out from EA Sports this week, man.
• 46:22
  Dude? Collectively, anybody?
• 46:26
  That's a college football fan. Anybody that is a video game
• 46:30
  fan. Just smiled anybody that has
• 46:34
  been into college football at all in the last 10-plus years,
• 46:40
  just like lost their Collective shit.
• 46:45
  I'm saying at least the last ten, at least the last time
• 46:48
  because I mean you know, there's younger people that don't really
• 46:50
  know what the fuck you're talking about here or at least
• 46:52
  not to the degree that we're talking about.
• 46:53
  It. But if you've been a college
• 46:56
  football fan, at least for the last 10 years, you know that
• 47:00
  NCAA football, is a great treasure and we're finally
• 47:07
  getting it back in some way shape or form in the coming
• 47:10
  years. The fact that they're able to
• 47:13
  bring it back I don't I sounds like what they're going to do is
• 47:16
  I guess individually negotiate with.
• 47:19
  Institutions in order to get licensing and things of that
• 47:22
  nature. So it's nice to see that they
• 47:26
  are working those channels and not trying to get the blanket in
• 47:29
  CA a license. Yep.
• 47:33
  Well I got two questions for you.
• 47:35
  First is going to be as actually they're both kind of from a
• 47:38
  gamer aspect one. Do you want them?
• 47:43
  Would you rather them try to push it out in the next 18
• 47:46
  months? Or do you want them to Slow Burn
• 47:49
  and get this shit right? And maybe it's 2023 2024 before
• 47:54
  we see it. That's the game.
• 47:56
  Ran fact my first question. I'm going to take the ladder
• 48:00
  there, I want them to get it right the first time so that any
• 48:05
  iteration going forward is more putting icing on the cake
• 48:10
  instead of having to fill in some of those gaps.
• 48:15
  Just because if they end up going with the one-year cycle
• 48:18
  that they were doing before, it's a lot harder to make
• 48:21
  wholesale improvements in just a one-year cycle.
• 48:26
  So I would prefer them. Um, to, to be working on that
• 48:30
  front where they get all of the core mechanics.
• 48:34
  All of the main gameplay mechanics where they need to be
• 48:39
  a lot of the, the primary modes are polished and ready to go.
• 48:46
  Your road to glory, is what it means to be Dynasty is what it
• 48:51
  needs to be, if you can get those two fully polished and you
• 48:54
  can tweak some other things as you go along.
• 48:59
  Second question. It's been so it'll be probably
• 49:03
  somewhere between eight, ten years when it's released?
• 49:08
  What aspect do they need to have in that game that they haven't
• 49:13
  had before? Where it's like, God forsake can
• 49:15
  you just put this in the game? Because it matters to be funny
• 49:23
  Bag, Man. I'm gonna write that down, but
• 49:33
  something that everyone won't deny.
• 49:41
  I mean, I think kind of more deep.
• 49:46
  Recruiting integration things like where coaches would go to
• 49:49
  camps and do scouting that way, deeper level recruiting tools?
• 49:55
  Like that would be, will be something to put in there
• 49:58
  especially since camps and become a big big, big part of
• 50:03
  the recruiting Trail relative to even when the game was put out
• 50:07
  last time. So I think that that'd be good.
• 50:10
  I mean, if we're going to, you know, throw another funny out
• 50:13
  there. If when you go if you get
• 50:15
  Created by Florida. You got to have a cabana outside
• 50:18
  of the football facility. All right, well, let me show you
• 50:24
  mine, I'm seri it. Have to make 85 player rosters.
• 50:30
  They have to look at is the way it's done under that a shit ton
• 50:36
  of creating players and building those models and you know
• 50:40
  simulated players and all that stuff but you know and God I'm
• 50:46
  still playing 2004 Collegiate football and when I can only
• 50:48
  recruit nine guys a year, it's just like Jesus Christ.
• 50:52
  Like this is unrealistic. Make that realistic.
• 50:56
  I need a full Boat Boat. Now, the funny thing that I
• 51:03
  want, it's not fun because it's Gotta Have Siri, I want option
• 51:08
  to basically become saving or become Bear, Bryant type modak
• 51:13
  true coaching mode, okay, but inside that coaching mode, if
• 51:21
  you screw up I want some hilarious outtakes of how you
• 51:25
  can be fired. I know what.
• 51:29
  Yep. Your coach, you know.
• 51:33
  Brian, you're trying to work your way up there and I'm
• 51:36
  coaching Miami. Let's just put them out there
• 51:41
  just because And I go up wiper gonna get my ass.
• 51:46
  Absolutely Beatdown 4914, they show a picture of me, getting
• 51:51
  off the team bus, the ad walks off the airplane, stop.
• 51:59
  Can't get on the plane. You've been fired.
• 52:02
  Won't that type of riddle? Here's your commercial ticket.
• 52:09
  We'll see you later. You're going to your flight
• 52:14
  going to take a while to get there.
• 52:16
  The kids will be gone. Use coming clean after all the,
• 52:18
  make sure you out by 8:00 in the morning when the other guys get
• 52:20
  their stuff like that and then you talk about bagman, wouldn't
• 52:25
  it be funny to if the coach doesn't know about The Bag, Man,
• 52:29
  and then he goes to recruit a kid and bag man's there.
• 52:35
  And the auto coach didn't know, you were showing up to dead.
• 52:40
  Okay. That I'll see.
• 52:42
  Myself out we're we're gonna move on folks and we're going to
• 52:47
  get our big topic tonight which is taking a look at the
• 52:51
  additional and the remaining recruits for the 2021 class.
• 52:55
  Just like last time, we're going to discuss them and then we're
• 53:00
  going to look at the 2021 role on the team rolling 2023.
• 53:05
  And then with their best attribute to Brian.
• 53:09
  I'm going to go ahead and pull it up here.
• 53:11
  Let's start. Art, you know what?
• 53:13
  Let's start with Taj Bullock the Dual threat quarterback out of
• 53:16
  st. Peter's prep in Jersey City, New
• 53:18
  Jersey three-star, 85 rated offers from, Rutgers offers from
• 53:23
  Boston, College six-foot-four, 220 pounds of already built to
• 53:29
  play. What do you see as role in 2021
• 53:33
  brine with team? I mean, this is going to be
• 53:38
  strictly emergency like quarterback if the entire Wheels
• 53:45
  fall off the situation at the quarterback room, we'll put him
• 53:49
  in there, not. That's no not to his ability.
• 53:52
  I think he's a guy that has some good skills and he's a,
• 53:58
  definitely a proven winner, so but I think he's got a little
• 54:02
  bit of Polish that's needed to some of his Pocket skills that
• 54:07
  are going to take probably a year or two before we start
• 54:10
  seeing the potential that he may have.
• 54:13
  Yeah. Absolutely.
• 54:14
  Although you could see just in the last year tape that we
• 54:19
  looked at back last summer. And then this year, his
• 54:21
  polishing, his passing has already gotten a little bit more
• 54:24
  polished, which was very impressive.
• 54:26
  Especially in akko, the type year, we probably didn't get to
• 54:29
  go to many hands tied up that release.
• 54:33
  So the release looks a lot better.
• 54:35
  If they said, if he can work on his footwork a little bit more
• 54:39
  and just overall decision making and timing with the football.
• 54:43
  But you know when things need to happen he makes plays.
• 54:47
  So you like that ability in a player.
• 54:51
  He's got a helicopter for an arm that's case scenario for 2023.
• 54:57
  I'd like to see him as the number two, if he reaches his
• 55:02
  potential, he could, but he could be the backup in 2023,
• 55:05
  potentially being ready to take over the the keys to the
• 55:08
  kingdom, okay? See, I can see him with his
• 55:12
  build, I'd like to see him this orders 2023, our church
• 55:17
  sophomore, because a, if you're telling me now, That is the back
• 55:23
  up in 2023. Then we're going to get a Juco
• 55:25
  in 2022. It's time.
• 55:28
  Like I said, I don't know what his, what his progression is
• 55:31
  going to be like, but I think he would be a solid backup for us
• 55:37
  at that point. Hopefully, that all the pieces
• 55:40
  come together and he ends up putting it together for us.
• 55:42
  But I think more than likely the role in 2023 is going to be
• 55:46
  another two. Alright next, let's take a look
• 55:51
  at Jaden Keller, the six-foot-three 200 pounder out
• 55:54
  of Bristol, Tennessee. The guy that lives on the line
• 55:59
  restar, you know, offers from, you know, appstate, Tennessee
• 56:05
  report and offer South Carolina, reported offer and tell me where
• 56:11
  you see is 2021 the figuring out year.
• 56:14
  What he's going to be with that frame.
• 56:16
  They mean, is he white out as a corner or is it?
• 56:19
  Yeah, that's what I'm thinking. Right now, is that I definitely
• 56:22
  going to be a redshirt situation, but I think it's
• 56:25
  going to be a, you know, get him in and try them at both sides of
• 56:29
  the ball and see where he's really fitting in.
• 56:32
  What, what skills? He's picking up from practice
• 56:34
  and things like that. Definitely has the potential to
• 56:37
  play on both sides. Just going to depend on number
• 56:41
  one. How's our roster makeup looking
• 56:45
  and how? What is his comfort level?
• 56:48
  How does he look on the field at both sides?
• 56:51
  And and go from there, so, You know, I'm kind of torn on where
• 56:58
  I'd like to see him. I think I'd prefer to see him at
• 57:01
  cornerback just because if he works there I feel like he could
• 57:05
  make a better impact quicker but we still haven't had an emerging
• 57:11
  wide receiver Beyond kind of are our first two guys yet so
• 57:15
  there's potential for him on the wide, receiver position as well.
• 57:19
  Absolutely. Again the one thing about the
• 57:23
  first two guys that came in and they're reporting the bodies or
• 57:26
  just read which to me, is a good sense to think.
• 57:33
  They come in and learn versus coming in and bulking up 2023.
• 57:38
  Best case scenario. I think you kind of just
• 57:39
  mentioned it. I'm assuming you're hoping he's
• 57:42
  probably a backup piece at whatever position he lands in.
• 57:45
  Yeah. And like I said, I think I would
• 57:47
  prefer that to be corner just because while we don't have
• 57:52
  standouts a wide receiver. I feel like we've got enough
• 57:55
  that they keep coming in that we can bring in at that position.
• 57:59
  Whereas Corners a little bit harder to always, sometimes get
• 58:02
  a fit So if he does end up fitting there, be nice to have
• 58:06
  him ready to roll. I best attribute.
• 58:12
  I mean just raw athleticism and kid can run kid to get can move.
• 58:18
  So I really like what he does I watch some tape where he's at
• 58:24
  the wide receiver position. So he moves good in and out of
• 58:26
  brakes, got some good athleticism.
• 58:28
  So hopefully we'll see some of that if he ends up on the
• 58:32
  offensive side of the ball. All right, let's roll onto
• 58:35
  another Tennessee, guy lies, you Howard the three-star, top 10
• 58:40
  player in the state of Tennessee.
• 58:42
  You know, also show any old offers from Tennessee from
• 58:46
  Louisville, Georgia Tech, Purdue Virginia, even had interest from
• 58:51
  Alabama, five, eleven hundred eighty-five pounds.
• 58:55
  Do you think he sticks it running back 2021 brown, or do
• 58:58
  you think he is going to be moving?
• 59:02
  That is the big question for him.
• 59:04
  I I could I could easily see him moving but it's still really too
• 59:11
  early to tell. We have such a log Jam at the
• 59:16
  running back position of guys that aren't what I would
• 59:21
  consider Elite level players. We've got a bunch of good guys
• 59:27
  that have. We got it.
• 59:27
  We got a few good guys that have some experience.
• 59:29
  We got a bunch of good guys that don't have a lot of experience
• 59:33
  but we don't have anybody that stands out in the same way that
• 59:36
  Khalil Herbert did coming into 2020.
• 59:40
  So there's potential there but there's also the thing where if
• 59:45
  you stick it running back, you might get lost in the mud of 10
• 59:48
  to 12 running backs. Where are they?
• 59:52
  So I think, I think there might be some opportunity for him to
• 59:57
  See what other positions are offering for him.
• 59:59
  I'm not exactly sure what that fit would be.
• 1:00:03
  Whether it be on the offensive or defensive side of the ball,
• 1:00:05
  but running back is going to be interesting to look at.
• 1:00:09
  But, you know, looking at the guys, they recruited him, I see,
• 1:00:12
  you know, Ryan Smith in there as well so there might be some
• 1:00:14
  potential at corner for him too. All right.
• 1:00:19
  Do you think his best bet back? 20.3 is dip finding the
• 1:00:23
  position. I think so, yeah, if he can find
• 1:00:27
  a position and get in a role where he can just get on the
• 1:00:30
  field, consistently on special teams and then, you know, look
• 1:00:37
  to be a key Reserve player for us by 2023.
• 1:00:41
  I think that's probably the top end for us in terms of
• 1:00:45
  projection right now. This attribute for him.
• 1:00:52
  You know, I would say that his ability to do some different
• 1:00:55
  things, I mean, he caught the ball some out of the backfield
• 1:00:57
  so we know he's got some hand skills with the football so
• 1:01:01
  there's potential there. That's why I say maybe wide
• 1:01:04
  receiver for him even though, you know, height isn't quite
• 1:01:07
  what you'd like necessarily at the wide receiver position and
• 1:01:12
  then, you know, potentially on the, in the secondary playing
• 1:01:14
  either cornerback or something like that.
• 1:01:16
  So there's opportunities there, but he's got some good ball
• 1:01:19
  skills. You know, outside of just
• 1:01:22
  handing the ball off to him so that there's potential there.
• 1:01:26
  Yeah. And I think we're in an era to
• 1:01:28
  Braun where the height on a wide receiver.
• 1:01:31
  Doesn't matter as much as it did 15, 20 years ago because there
• 1:01:35
  are so many guys playing out of slot.
• 1:01:38
  There's so many different variations of things you can
• 1:01:40
  going three wide and four wide. So if you tell me in a year or
• 1:01:44
  two years hey he is a good flight.
• 1:01:46
  We run jet sweeps with them. We occasional quite come out of
• 1:01:49
  the backfield. I On with it.
• 1:01:51
  I mean he was a pretty highly rated guy and kind of a when we
• 1:01:53
  got them just kind of one of those.
• 1:01:55
  Oh wow it's a good player. Yeah.
• 1:01:59
  All right I'm gonna move on Brian another RV.
• 1:02:02
  A kid out of Christchurch School.
• 1:02:04
  DJ Sims 63 190 pound wide receiver.
• 1:02:08
  We essentially flipped him out of Wake Forest along with Wake
• 1:02:12
  Forest. You know also had some offers
• 1:02:16
  you know from J mu Naval Academy Army into one reporting in North
• 1:02:23
  Carolina offer three star guy I'm going to assume it's from
• 1:02:28
  the conversations we had about him.
• 1:02:30
  He's a wide receiver, right? Yeah.
• 1:02:32
  He's gonna be a wide receiver 63 190 good ball skills, good at
• 1:02:37
  High Point in the ball so I can see him taking over.
• 1:02:42
  In terms of 2021, probably going to be definitely a red shirt
• 1:02:45
  guy. You might see him do some
• 1:02:48
  special teams in that four-game allowance there, but more than
• 1:02:53
  likely going to be a redshirt player for us in 21.
• 1:02:56
  But 23, I could see him being kind of a red zone Target in a
• 1:03:00
  in a second line at wideout. So there's some potential there,
• 1:03:04
  if he can catch things up and get where he needs to be in the
• 1:03:10
  next couple of years. I think you've already probably
• 1:03:13
  mentioned, the best attribute is that ability to have point the
• 1:03:16
  ball out. Yeah, big guy, good wingspan,
• 1:03:20
  good good size coming out of high school at 190.
• 1:03:23
  So I think he's going to end up being a Red Zone threat for us,
• 1:03:29
  kind of Imagine him more. I said it about With us at
• 1:03:35
  about, I can't remember what's many Wayfarers.
• 1:03:37
  I said about failures, probably going to take over a role that
• 1:03:39
  fairs, had a lot of blocking between the between the 20s and
• 1:03:44
  potential Red Zone thread. Once we get down down in the
• 1:03:47
  scoring area, oh, big thing for him is sure he didn't come in
• 1:03:51
  early but it 119 63 and we're going to the next thing I'm
• 1:03:54
  going to mention to go eat, go to lift, get some, get some meat
• 1:03:59
  on your bones because You're in division one college football
• 1:04:04
  and the next guy, but I mentioned is Christian moth, 63
• 1:04:07
  180 out of North Cobb, High School in Kennesaw Georgia 3
• 1:04:12
  star similar things with him. It's you saw with DJ or is it a
• 1:04:19
  little bit different with Christian Moss?
• 1:04:22
  Probably a little bit? I mean, in terms of expected
• 1:04:25
  playing time is going to be kind of similar.
• 1:04:26
  I think, in terms of 21 is very much going to be a red shirt,
• 1:04:31
  maybe a little Special team rolled start the year and as we
• 1:04:35
  go move into 23, I'd like to see him kind of move into a similar
• 1:04:41
  role. That changa Hodge had Forest
• 1:04:43
  this year. That's probably the upper end of
• 1:04:45
  his visibility 423 would be to get in that type of role.
• 1:04:50
  All right, any specific attributes you liked with him or
• 1:04:53
  is it still that that 63 at High Point the ball and stuff?
• 1:04:58
  I like his size. I think he could probably use a
• 1:05:01
  little bit more weight but he moves good for he's not.
• 1:05:04
  He's 63 kind of kind of Slender but he doesn't move like a like
• 1:05:09
  one of those like really, really slender wide receivers.
• 1:05:12
  He moves pretty good in and out of breaks and things like that.
• 1:05:14
  So I like that about him. I had Brian say, looks good
• 1:05:20
  moving, I just, I think about not locking anybody but
• 1:05:24
  sometimes there are taller people that when you see Them
• 1:05:27
  run or move? It does look awkward.
• 1:05:30
  Um I think you got running up on Pump Road.
• 1:05:33
  He's got to be 64 65, but he looks so weird running.
• 1:05:37
  Like Ya'll Must Be, why are you running here?
• 1:05:39
  Like 65 and you don't have any weight on.
• 1:05:41
  Probably you need to run. All right, not ever.
• 1:05:44
  Not everybody 63 plus looks like Randy Moss.
• 1:05:46
  Running. Randy Moss.
• 1:05:47
  Running is effortless. Exactly.
• 1:05:51
  Alright. Next I wanna hit up Brian.
• 1:05:53
  We're going to give him some of the guys that we talked about
• 1:05:55
  over the summer. First is, Will Johnson.
• 1:06:01
  The three-star at a Leonardtown and Leonardtown Maryland rated
• 1:06:07
  in the safety but I can remember you distinctly saying.
• 1:06:11
  He could be nickel. He could be might he could be a
• 1:06:13
  backer because of the way his frame is built.
• 1:06:17
  But we going to 2021 is just going to be go to the dining
• 1:06:22
  Halls, get the prime rib, and just, I mean, he's coming in at
• 1:06:28
  62, 220. So It's all like right out the
• 1:06:32
  gate. He's already kind of Fringe
• 1:06:33
  between backyard Rover. Yeah.
• 1:06:37
  So depending on what his frame needs is probably going to
• 1:06:42
  depend on if he ends up staying at the safety position or if he
• 1:06:46
  ends up being a linebacker for us, you know, you can see in
• 1:06:50
  potentially probably a backer in terms of a 23 Outlook.
• 1:06:57
  I see him potentially sliding the back or just because He's
• 1:07:01
  already got the size. If he puts on any weight at all,
• 1:07:04
  he's going to be probably too big to play that Rover position.
• 1:07:09
  He's gonna he's gonna be in that looking Rudolph situation where
• 1:07:13
  he just didn't quite there. Like a well he put so much more
• 1:07:17
  weight and Backer. I mean if he goes up getting
• 1:07:21
  into 40 to 50 I mean he might have to essentially look at my
• 1:07:26
  core. You got any been to a may be
• 1:07:28
  looking at defensive end or maybe I don't know, I can see
• 1:07:33
  him getting the 235. No problem.
• 1:07:35
  Much more north of there is going to be how much they end up
• 1:07:39
  working in, whether they actually do have a need at the
• 1:07:42
  position where they want to put that much weight on him.
• 1:07:45
  But getting to, you know, to 30 to 35, is doable.
• 1:07:48
  That's definitely in that, that backer role, especially if he
• 1:07:51
  keeps some of that speed that he has already from playing the
• 1:07:54
  safety position. What's your when you look at the
• 1:08:00
  attribute, you know, I think safety.
• 1:08:03
  I mean, is it how he filled that, how he covers, which is
• 1:08:06
  that he is a thumper He likes to hit.
• 1:08:14
  Which is a bodes. Well, for, if he does end up
• 1:08:16
  switching positions, a linebacker.
• 1:08:18
  So, he's not afraid to take on guys in the whole, he's not
• 1:08:21
  afraid to come up and make some plays.
• 1:08:22
  So easy either be ready for that type of move.
• 1:08:26
  From a physicality perspective, even if he's not there from a
• 1:08:29
  terminology and understanding the concepts of the physician
• 1:08:32
  perspective, absolutely. Alright.
• 1:08:37
  Next gal of flip to is more running backs.
• 1:08:40
  I think we how I think the running backs might be able to
• 1:08:44
  field multiple rec league basketball teams in.
• 1:08:50
  Nobody leaves multiple multiple with benches Malachi Thomas, had
• 1:08:55
  a heart County down in Georgia restar guy held offers from
• 1:09:00
  Cincinnati. Also from Kansas State and
• 1:09:03
  Memphis and UCF. You know, I just, I mean he
• 1:09:10
  proved red shirt is that? Yeah, I mean he's definitely
• 1:09:14
  gonna get a red shirt for 21. There's no doubt about it, just
• 1:09:17
  between the size of the class, the size of get, the
• 1:09:22
  preparedness that some other guys in this class are coming in
• 1:09:25
  with, I really like Malachi Thomas, don't get me wrong.
• 1:09:30
  I think. He long term in terms of, let's
• 1:09:33
  look at 23, he's going to be the perfect type of compliment back
• 1:09:37
  to a guy. I can G Christian to be kind of
• 1:09:40
  a one-two punch. All right, so I like them from
• 1:09:42
  that perspective but in terms of immediate impact, you know,
• 1:09:47
  kenji's got em licked on that. And we've got so many other guys
• 1:09:50
  that from like, Marco Lee and other guys that came in last
• 1:09:53
  year. And, you know, Holston and King
• 1:09:56
  that have been on the roster for a couple years.
• 1:09:58
  I just don't see you making an immediate impact for us.
• 1:10:02
  The more and more, we talk about the running backs has the more
• 1:10:04
  and more, I feel like in down the road.
• 1:10:08
  By 2023 the guys on the team because there are so many guys
• 1:10:15
  so Adam like Timber, you're running backs coach.
• 1:10:18
  Let's not get so many running back, so many move probably the
• 1:10:24
  thought process of the person that's been doing the recruiting
• 1:10:27
  as well. Just get a bunch of them will
• 1:10:28
  figure out two or three that are really good.
• 1:10:32
  Well, the problem that with, with the way we set out on our
• 1:10:34
  were getting on a tangent here. But, but but the problem with
• 1:10:39
  what we've been doing is that we have We've been thin at a
• 1:10:43
  position. So we've stacked it in a
• 1:10:45
  recruiting cycle and because we stacked one position in this
• 1:10:49
  recruiting cycle. We got further behind it,
• 1:10:51
  another recruiting cycle between the transfer here and injury
• 1:10:54
  there. And now, you're having a stack
• 1:10:56
  of that position. And you're constantly playing
• 1:10:58
  catch-up instead of actually building your roster and
• 1:11:01
  balancing your roster. And then that's when you have to
• 1:11:05
  turn in the transfer portal to kind of plug here and there to
• 1:11:09
  make sure that you've got enough Frontline guys and up depth to
• 1:11:13
  not be in a situation that is very problematic.
• 1:11:16
  So we're in that situation running back now.
• 1:11:22
  We're in that situation running back.
• 1:11:24
  I mean we panicked after 2019 because we didn't think we had
• 1:11:27
  anybody. We brought in a bunch of guys.
• 1:11:30
  Last cycle, we had already got far so far in the process.
• 1:11:34
  We've got is this cycle that we wanted to get them in as well
• 1:11:36
  and now we've got you know a running back room that's 12 deep
• 1:11:40
  and you can really only play about four of them consistently
• 1:11:45
  True. But Pro the new recruiting guys.
• 1:11:51
  See that and don't go crazy. Now one guy I went on montaigne
• 1:11:56
  beforehand because I can remember you mentioning chance
• 1:11:58
  black is having a chance to be that slot guy.
• 1:12:02
  Even though he hasn't been back three star out of doorman down
• 1:12:07
  South Carolina, you will you see him catching the ball so much?
• 1:12:12
  And it's just like I know you probably don't have Asking 2021,
• 1:12:15
  but I feel like he's one of the could stick because he can do
• 1:12:18
  everything. Yeah.
• 1:12:20
  I mean, right now, as the Goethe kind of is like a even slightly
• 1:12:24
  more under the radar version of what Blackshear was coming out
• 1:12:27
  of high school. I'm just looking back at some of
• 1:12:30
  last year's tape. So similar type skills, set.
• 1:12:33
  Probably not quite as Elite at any of those given attributes as
• 1:12:39
  Blackshear is at his best, but at the same time, he possesses
• 1:12:43
  all of those. Rates.
• 1:12:44
  So if they, if he can grow into those a little bit more, I see
• 1:12:48
  him being a getting on the field in 2023 because of just that
• 1:12:53
  skill set, and being kind of that Gadget type player that can
• 1:12:56
  do a lot of different things for you.
• 1:12:58
  Especially for offense figures out, how to use that type of
• 1:13:01
  player between now and then. Very true.
• 1:13:04
  Don't hold your breath. Yeah.
• 1:13:08
  I mean I just I feel like he's the one that could stick if you
• 1:13:11
  told me of three guys we've got I feel like candies built and I
• 1:13:19
  don't know if he can jump and get with Jalen and get with
• 1:13:21
  Marco and get with Keyshawn this year.
• 1:13:24
  I feel like Kenji by next year. It's going to be your spell
• 1:13:28
  back. He can't needs to work on
• 1:13:33
  everything, non running back and he comes in in the fall.
• 1:13:37
  If the slot I want to catch the ball, I want to do jet sweeps
• 1:13:40
  on, do all this stuff. That's my opinion on him.
• 1:13:43
  Now, the next guy, this guy in my opinion as a fall season here
• 1:13:50
  in Virginia, and he might play in the spring.
• 1:13:53
  I don't know what they're doing up at Sharon on high school and
• 1:13:56
  Stephen City. Call I lost them sir. 64 200
• 1:14:00
  pounds. He's a freak seeing some of his
• 1:14:05
  videos and things that here doing in their gums.
• 1:14:08
  Unbelievable price. I think you're going to tell me
• 1:14:11
  20:21. He has no chance to play but if
• 1:14:15
  they figure out what they want to do with them, which now I
• 1:14:18
  think it's going to be defensive end, you're starting to load up
• 1:14:21
  at linebacker. Don't do what you did to
• 1:14:23
  yourself. It's running back room.
• 1:14:27
  Get them in there. Put the weight on it into the
• 1:14:29
  225 230. I'm not saying bar, no.
• 1:14:35
  But what do you think Ron? I mean if we're looking at a kid
• 1:14:41
  that is as close to a bar, no clone coming out of high school
• 1:14:46
  would probably be this kid so I've no no issue with that
• 1:14:51
  comparison. Kinda more under the radar
• 1:14:55
  recruit initially and then probably would have been closer
• 1:15:00
  to that, you know, 8687 rating on 24/7 versus the 84.
• 1:15:06
  He's got now. So if you'd had a good season
• 1:15:10
  for for 2020 but at this point he didn't get that and I think
• 1:15:19
  that's probably going to hurt him.
• 1:15:20
  Number one in terms of what his rating is obviously.
• 1:15:22
  But also number two, in terms of what he's able to do, out the
• 1:15:26
  gate for us. I'd like the idea of getting him
• 1:15:30
  in on the defensive line, trying to get some weight on him and
• 1:15:33
  getting him at the defensive end position because I feel like
• 1:15:37
  that's where he's gonna be able to make the most impact,
• 1:15:39
  especially with the other guys that were bringing on this year
• 1:15:42
  in the other guys that we got on the roster.
• 1:15:46
  So yeah, that's what I think here.
• 1:15:48
  LOL. Awesome.
• 1:15:49
  Defensive in 2023, 2023. And I think we've already hit
• 1:15:54
  it. Freak athleticism.
• 1:15:56
  Yeah. Is that bad?
• 1:15:57
  You didn't one of those guys that if nothing else about
• 1:16:03
  20-23, third down. Can your ears?
• 1:16:07
  Back and go kill the guy with the football.
• 1:16:10
  Nothing more, nothing left. Now, the next you feel at least
• 1:16:14
  have a role like bar. No.
• 1:16:15
  Had the first Three or four weeks of the Season where he was
• 1:16:18
  pretty much a he was out there to spell when you had to, but he
• 1:16:22
  was mostly there to make impacts on third down and long when he
• 1:16:26
  could just pin his ears back and kill the quarterback.
• 1:16:30
  I'm just a couple more guys to go here, open the scalf late but
• 1:16:35
  when I look at the size he's coming from the state of Florida
• 1:16:39
  Desmond, my Moody, how to Carrollwood Day, High School in
• 1:16:44
  Tampa, Florida 63 E to 90. I'm an N.
• 1:16:49
  If he's 10 pounds worth of doesn't shock me, but at 280
• 1:16:52
  coming in, you know, he's bigger and at least three guys on the
• 1:16:57
  roster right now is defensive tackle, I don't know what his
• 1:17:00
  tape looks like, but what do you think for 2021, Brian?
• 1:17:04
  Just 2021 he still going to be a guy that you're going to
• 1:17:08
  Redshirt. Try to get a little bit more
• 1:17:10
  weight. Probably maybe refine the weight
• 1:17:13
  that he does have not a bad body but also not the greatest body
• 1:17:18
  in terms of what you like to see from an athletic standpoint.
• 1:17:23
  But with that being said, he's tape does look pretty good.
• 1:17:28
  He can do some good things with his hands so I like the way his
• 1:17:31
  hands are. For it for a kid coming out of
• 1:17:35
  high school again, just like to see some of that motor and some
• 1:17:38
  of that body. Get it trimmed up a little bit,
• 1:17:40
  while putting on a little bit of weight as well.
• 1:17:42
  So if you can get up to like 295 but, you know, clean up a little
• 1:17:49
  bit here, a little bit there, little nip little tuck.
• 1:17:52
  Yeah, I think, I think he'd be good to go by 2023 to be kind of
• 1:17:55
  a, at least a rotational guy. If not a second line, guy, got
• 1:18:00
  it, I think you already mentioned probably best
• 1:18:02
  attributes hands. Which why when you say that I
• 1:18:07
  kind of get intrigued because you played offensive line.
• 1:18:11
  Did it ever skew? You not scare you.
• 1:18:13
  But when you were playing someone, maybe your size and
• 1:18:17
  high school. But when you look the other Pan
• 1:18:21
  fighting like crazy versus man, I don't care about the 300-pound
• 1:18:24
  guy. He just tries to push me.
• 1:18:25
  I take care of him. This guy doing things.
• 1:18:29
  Is that what you're saying? Like, he understands up here, I
• 1:18:32
  can't force my My way through this guy but I can.
• 1:18:36
  I think the big thing is that a lot of guys that are big like
• 1:18:39
  that just lean on you. Okay, with you at the high
• 1:18:43
  school level, you can get away with it that size but at college
• 1:18:47
  and cannot so if I see guys that are big that can already do a
• 1:18:53
  good job of bringing their hands and keeping the offensive lines
• 1:18:56
  lyman's hands away from them because the less you let a an
• 1:19:02
  offensive lineman get their hands on your pads the the more
• 1:19:05
  you can do. So if you're if you're good with
• 1:19:08
  the hands, then you're going to have more success.
• 1:19:11
  You'll be able to shed blockers faster.
• 1:19:13
  You'll be able to see in the back view, where the ball is
• 1:19:15
  going better. There's so many things you can
• 1:19:18
  do when you're not just firing off and leaning on a guy.
• 1:19:22
  Nice. All right, go ahead.
• 1:19:24
  Our last two guys. Up, very local guys, to the
• 1:19:27
  blackburg area start with Jordan McDonald.
• 1:19:30
  Six-foot-four out of Salem High School and Salem Virginia. 217
• 1:19:36
  pounds. 3 star was committed to you.
• 1:19:38
  LM flip is late when we offered in.
• 1:19:44
  I don't think he can stick it Corner canning and I'm guessing
• 1:19:47
  2021 2022 2023, although me development years for him.
• 1:19:52
  Yeah, I mean, I think both of these guys if we're talking
• 1:19:55
  about Jordan and his brother Jaden that we both got out of
• 1:19:59
  the Salem, High School in game 6, 3 to 18.
• 1:20:04
  So yeah. More or less the same, the same
• 1:20:07
  player here. In terms of build, I think both
• 1:20:12
  of them are going to be safeties.
• 1:20:16
  Okay I like that. Yeah I can see both of them
• 1:20:18
  playing safety. They'll probably end up adding
• 1:20:21
  about five or ten pounds. They'll be somewhere between 220
• 1:20:25
  225 playing at 63 and 64 21 out. The gate is really just going to
• 1:20:32
  be evaluating these guys and see if they can be where they need
• 1:20:38
  to be on the field in terms of picking up the defense has and
• 1:20:42
  learning the safety position. Like I said, I don't think
• 1:20:46
  they're going to be Corners. They don't have bad footwork as
• 1:20:51
  a cornerback. So I think they could do okay in
• 1:20:54
  the man coverage responsibilities that are
• 1:20:56
  safeties, have okay, but they're not guys that are going to be
• 1:21:00
  able to line up against the number one or number two.
• 1:21:03
  Receiver in the CC for a given ACC team and be competitive.
• 1:21:08
  So, safety is going to be the way to go but I like they're
• 1:21:12
  taped, like I said, they move pretty good for their size.
• 1:21:15
  You don't see a lot of 64 almost 220 cornerbacks running with
• 1:21:21
  pretty good high school talent so that's impressive to see.
• 1:21:25
  Like I said, it's going to just be An uphill battle to get them
• 1:21:30
  acclimated to a new position and seeing if that athleticism
• 1:21:34
  translates to that position. Yeah, I mean, you mentioned
• 1:21:42
  about what we're trying to run and if we were strictly running
• 1:21:44
  like a Zone covered three or cover for consistently all the
• 1:21:48
  time, they might have a chance to stick it safely.
• 1:21:52
  But as you can see, the way it's looking, we're going to run
• 1:21:54
  things on, but we're going to run some main.
• 1:21:56
  We're going to run, man, free. We're going to run single highs.
• 1:22:00
  They can't when you get into that man, situation.
• 1:22:03
  You're talking about again. So, you know, essentially number
• 1:22:05
  ones in the ACC that happened down.
• 1:22:10
  If we went to a cover three system and they got to be elite.
• 1:22:13
  Oh God, they are perfect specimens for that but that's
• 1:22:18
  rarely done at the high school level or excuse me, the
• 1:22:21
  Collegiate level because you can't find enough talent to do
• 1:22:25
  all the parts perfectly. And he'll it's tough to do in
• 1:22:30
  the NFL legion of boom. Did that shit for a few years
• 1:22:33
  and it's crazy. We had a significant amount of
• 1:22:36
  talents and friend and we couldn't do it.
• 1:22:39
  We started moving to cover fours and going down.
• 1:22:42
  When you can occasionally find us on the ground running, our
• 1:22:46
  can cover one single high safety that literally lost a fucking
• 1:22:49
  Super Bowl, should have been hold that.
• 1:22:55
  By the way, Braun, that's going to wrap all the guys.
• 1:22:57
  Are you made your pick? Tom.
• 1:23:00
  Brady can't win. I don't know, man.
• 1:23:07
  That guy's got like Jesus blood or something and um, you know, I
• 1:23:11
  Think Jesus blood, I'd I think Tom Brady should be considered
• 1:23:14
  a, it's going to be considered a three-strike guy.
• 1:23:18
  By the end of his career I'm gonna go 40 year old, should
• 1:23:22
  still have that much arm strength, note 43 years, people
• 1:23:27
  have been when he does all this great shape for his body.
• 1:23:30
  I'm sorry. No one followed time wounds.
• 1:23:34
  All right? Yep.
• 1:23:36
  No one level playing the way he does.
• 1:23:38
  I don't care if you do everything, perfect, naturally
• 1:23:43
  naturally. Say it slowly naturally.
• 1:23:49
  Things should start bleep crying.
• 1:23:51
  Yeah they exactly. Let's talk about the only other
• 1:23:54
  guys. It's really the same ballpark
• 1:23:56
  and that's Vinny Testaverde. Many Testaverde also played half
• 1:23:59
  the number of snaps at Tom Brady's played in his career.
• 1:24:01
  By the time he got to that age. Will a test already.
• 1:24:05
  Had a bigger rocket than pound out the gate?
• 1:24:09
  Yeah, I'll give you a bit of Rocket.
• 1:24:11
  Oh, look at the video the other day.
• 1:24:13
  Testaverde in, 2002 will still grow on the ball. 70 yard.
• 1:24:17
  He had been leaked, 16 years, Testaverde had a cannon.
• 1:24:22
  Oh you're wrong. Tom had a very very strong arm.
• 1:24:26
  But not to that level, not too far as level, not to Warren
• 1:24:30
  moons level. And people can say, well you
• 1:24:34
  just hate him because he wins? No, not just don't I do hate him
• 1:24:39
  because he wins with. That's not the only reason.
• 1:24:43
  Why do you hate Tom? Brady to me, it's always been
• 1:24:45
  too many things around everything he's done.
• 1:24:51
  Because when everything came out that first Super Bowl, man, it
• 1:24:56
  immediately made me say, if they don't do that shit, they get
• 1:24:59
  their doors blown off by the greatest show on Turf their
• 1:25:02
  doors. One off and nothing ever comes
• 1:25:05
  of anything of it. The flavor football, I get over
• 1:25:09
  carefully after Spygate well, the whole would have a couple
• 1:25:12
  years ago Ron. But then they get busted again
• 1:25:19
  taking things. Yeah.
• 1:25:20
  So but so you know what? I'm going to say I think Tampa
• 1:25:25
  Bay is going to win. I think we're going to have a
• 1:25:27
  few Hokies getting Rings along the time, right?
• 1:25:31
  Well that makes me both happy and sad at the same time.
• 1:25:36
  What can we do? What can we do?
• 1:25:38
  I mean this point he already has more Super Bowls than anybody
• 1:25:41
  that I care about. So I don't think adding one more
• 1:25:43
  is really going to change that conversation.
• 1:25:46
  Is that he's going to get his his head rep, because spagnolo
• 1:25:51
  knows exactly what to do to beat him.
• 1:25:55
  He is, you know, the neighbor said that this week's dragged
• 1:26:01
  over because Lex Luthor, you don't know how to beat him.
• 1:26:04
  Every time he everybody's making the joke that whoever said that,
• 1:26:09
  you know, Eli is going to go undercover to screw this whole
• 1:26:12
  thing up. As I was like, Nas, they already
• 1:26:14
  got the, he already got that. Tonight on the other sideline
• 1:26:19
  and Kryptonite has some good weapons with Frank Clark and
• 1:26:21
  Chris Jones. Yep.
• 1:26:25
  But I'll still say brady because I'm hoping Bruce and Cody get
• 1:26:28
  some rings and bruised four tires and comes and becomes an
• 1:26:32
  offensive consultant for the Hokies.
• 1:26:35
  That's a great idea, right out of your idea.
• 1:26:38
  Yeah. Thing broken, since we've jumped
• 1:26:41
  on here, not that I'm lawyer open.
• 1:26:45
  Your Lakers are down five with three minutes in the third
• 1:26:48
  quarter. So you've got a good 40 minutes
• 1:26:50
  to stay up, and if that's it, that's going to wrap up this
• 1:26:55
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