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Can anybody Beat Oregon? Every Big Ten Team's Fear, SEC is PANICKING, Sorsby Sued · Unafraid Show with George Wrighster

• 0:09
  Speaker 1: Every Big Ten team from the top all the way
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: down to the bottom on what they should be afraid
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: of this season and what can derail their season in
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: terms of what their expectations are and how their fans
• 0:23
  Speaker 1: feel about them. We got another player that is being
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: sued by his former team, and that is Brendan Sowres
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: be getting sued by Cincinnati for a million dollars.
• 0:34
  Speaker 2: And you know what, based.
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: Upon everything that that's come out so far, I'm not
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: mad at it. Cincinnati needs to be getting air bread
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  Speaker 1: if the contract says what they allege the contract says.
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  Speaker 2: So the SEC and the Big Ten.
• 0:48
  Speaker 1: Oh, they have gone out on a pr campaign. And
• 0:52
  Speaker 1: that's when you know that you are in the wrong.
• 0:54
  Speaker 1: That's when you know you are fighting a losing battle.
• 0:57
  Speaker 1: And they are trying to go against Cody Campbell and
• 1:01
  Speaker 1: them trying to consolidate media rights. This is all about power,
• 1:06
  Speaker 1: This is all about keeping control, and they will ultimately
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  Speaker 1: not win this. They are going the route of the
• 1:13
  Speaker 1: NC double A and they are being reactionary instead of
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  Speaker 1: being proactive.
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  Speaker 2: There are new.
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  Speaker 1: Rules in college football targeting and there's gonna be more
• 1:25
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  Speaker 3: Let's get to it.
• 2:21
  Speaker 1: So before we get into everything else, we got to
• 2:23
  Speaker 1: talk about the biggest headlines in college football right now,
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  Speaker 1: and one of them is is that another player is
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  Speaker 1: being sued by his old team, and that is Brendan Soresby.
• 2:35
  Speaker 1: So he's getting sued by Cincinnati. And you know coaches,
• 2:39
  Speaker 1: they usually are the only people that end up in
• 2:42
  Speaker 1: lawsuits with their former employer, and that's when they get
• 2:46
  Speaker 1: fired because the buyouts are usually the buyouts. That's what's
• 2:51
  Speaker 1: usually happening in college football. But now Cincinnati, because Brendan
• 2:55
  Speaker 1: Sowsby left there, went down with his girlfriend down to
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  Speaker 1: Texas Tech and now he's going to be the starting
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  Speaker 1: quarterback in Texas Tech. And Cincinnati who said that they
• 3:03
  Speaker 1: ain't have enough money to pay him what Texas Tech
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  Speaker 1: was gonna be able to pay him, that he actually
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  Speaker 1: broke a revenue sharing agreement with the school and actually
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  Speaker 1: owes the university Monday under the conditions of the deal.
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  Speaker 1: Now from the athletic they alleged that the lawsuit says
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  Speaker 1: that Sworsby signed an eighteen month, two season agreement with
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  Speaker 1: Cincinnati that ran from the well, that ran through December fifteenth,
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six, and it had a million dollar buyout
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  Speaker 1: do within thirty days if Soworsby transferred quote transferred to
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  Speaker 1: another university before the completion of the agreements full term.
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  Speaker 1: So now Cincinnati is then claiming that Swarsby had not
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  Speaker 1: paid that amount at the time the lawsuit was filed.
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  Speaker 1: And now this comes on the heels of a a
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  Speaker 1: Brendan Sowresby troll tweet. And now mind you, he's been
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  Speaker 1: tweeting about Texas Tech. He's gone to Russell Wilson Route.
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  Speaker 1: He's all in, you know, he's all in Denver Broncos
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  Speaker 1: let's ride Texas Tech, Let's ride Britain. Soresby's going that route.
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  Speaker 1: So Texas Tech beat Cincinnati and basketball, and he started
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  Speaker 1: out with a social media post hashtag recam you know
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  Speaker 1: that school he plays for now, But to be fair
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  Speaker 1: to sores Be, he posts about Texas Tech basketball after
• 4:23
  Speaker 1: every single game.
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  Speaker 2: So he's all the way in Now.
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  Speaker 1: If I were Soresby and I were in this situation,
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  Speaker 1: I would not try to pay Cincinnati one hundred percent
• 4:38
  Speaker 1: because of what has happened with what has gone on
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  Speaker 1: with Darien Mensa, even though that they were able to
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  Speaker 1: work that out with some sort of payment. The argument
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  Speaker 1: is probably over how much he owes them. He's like, yo,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't have any money left on here or here's
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  Speaker 1: how much was a left maybe when you pro rate
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  Speaker 1: that amount or something like that.
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  Speaker 2: I believe that there will alt be a settlement.
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  Speaker 1: But if I don't believe that I owe you money, no,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not paying you money, or if there's a way
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  Speaker 1: to uh or if the contract does not call for
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  Speaker 1: that explicitly, I don't owe you that that money. So
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  Speaker 1: Brendan Soresby, not Texas Tech, would be on the hook
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  Speaker 1: for that money. So That means that if he has
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  Speaker 1: to pay Texas Cincinnati money back, it's got to come
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  Speaker 1: out of It's got to come from somewhere. That means
• 5:29
  Speaker 1: it's got to come out of his Texas Tech money
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  Speaker 1: because he can't transfer back to Cincinnati Texas. And now
• 5:35
  Speaker 1: the NCAA is trying to come up with a rule
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  Speaker 1: where you can't even take guys who unenrolled and then
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  Speaker 1: re enroll some somewhere else without taking a huge penalty.
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  Speaker 1: So I am not looking at this Sowersby situation and
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  Speaker 1: thinking that this is gonna be some magic pill, because
• 5:52
  Speaker 1: a contract is going to be a contract, and if
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  Speaker 1: they allow this to escape by, you're gonna have everyplayer
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  Speaker 1: in the country who wants to get out of a deal.
• 6:03
  Speaker 1: We're like, oh, well, I'm not paying you. What are
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  Speaker 1: you gonna do about it? Because coughing up a million
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  Speaker 1: dollars is a lot of money.
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  Speaker 2: And if he's.
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  Speaker 1: Making the five million dollars that he's made, with five
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  Speaker 1: and a half million dollars the people think he's making
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  Speaker 1: to go down to Texas Tech five and a half six.
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  Speaker 2: Million dollars, how's that gonna work? How's that gonna work?
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  Speaker 1: That means that you you just took one twentieth of
• 6:27
  Speaker 1: your salary and paid it to your old school.
• 6:30
  Speaker 2: Like, yeah, you got a significant raise.
• 6:32
  Speaker 1: That raise ain't what you thought it was gonna be,
• 6:34
  Speaker 1: which obviously he ain't gonna like now the next thing up.
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  Speaker 1: There has been a lot of talk about the Big Ten,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of talk about the SEC when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to the consolidation of power in college football. I have
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  Speaker 1: been a proponent and stood own business, telling everybody collective
• 7:03
  Speaker 1: bargaining is the only way forward in terms of making
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  Speaker 1: sure that contracts are contracts, that players are protected, universities
• 7:13
  Speaker 1: are protected. You will get the transfer portal rules solved,
• 7:17
  Speaker 1: you will get nil solved. Players won't be able to
• 7:22
  Speaker 1: take money and run schools, won't be able to push
• 7:24
  Speaker 1: players into portal as easy. Its protections for everybody because
• 7:28
  Speaker 1: it is really an employee employer relationship. So and the
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  Speaker 1: people pushing back on collective bargaining NCAA, SEC and Big Ten,
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  Speaker 1: and of course the Big twelve and ACC on some
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  Speaker 1: level as well.
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  Speaker 2: Those are the.
• 7:45
  Speaker 1: Main players pushing back on collective bargaining. Another thing that
• 7:49
  Speaker 1: I've been saying for years. And Cody Campbell, Texas tech
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  Speaker 1: money man, who is also in the save college sports business,
• 8:01
  Speaker 1: he's also been echoing this next sentiment, which is pooling
• 8:08
  Speaker 1: college football media rights will generate more money for everybody. Okay,
• 8:16
  Speaker 1: guess who's against it, and guess who put out a
• 8:19
  Speaker 1: white paper against it. So the Big Ten and the
• 8:23
  Speaker 1: SEC they commissioned FTI, which is a consulting firm, to
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  Speaker 1: conduct research surrounding consolidated media rights and attempts to reopen
• 8:35
  Speaker 1: the Sports Broadcasting Act of nineteen sixty one, which is
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  Speaker 1: being pushed by Cody Campbell, the Texas tech money man,
• 8:43
  Speaker 1: and his Saving College Sports organization. So the research then
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  Speaker 1: led to the release of a white paper this on
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  Speaker 1: Thursday morning that strongly opposes both ideas and saying that
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  Speaker 1: it would not save college sports what would actually introduce
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  Speaker 1: bureaucracy and legal chaos and projection show is likely to
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  Speaker 1: reduce revenue over the long term.
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  Speaker 4: That is a lie.
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  Speaker 1: There's a reason why the NBA, MLB, Yeah, MLB, NBA, NHL,
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  Speaker 1: Why they all NFL while they all collectively bargain, while
• 9:26
  Speaker 1: they all pull their media rights, while the Dallas Cowboys
• 9:30
  Speaker 1: don't have a different media deal than the you know,
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  Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers. Yes, Dallas could command more than Green
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  Speaker 1: Bay or the Arizona Cardinals can all by themselves.
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  Speaker 2: But it is better for everybody.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what the SEC and the Big Ten why
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  Speaker 1: they are vehemently against this, because that means that there
• 9:54
  Speaker 1: will be parody. The ACC is going to be against
• 9:57
  Speaker 1: it too, as particular league, not all the teams, particularly
• 10:02
  Speaker 1: Clemson and Florida State, because they're now getting more money
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  Speaker 1: out of the ACC than the rest of the teams
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  Speaker 1: in the ACC, despite them not being the best in
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  Speaker 1: the ACC anymore right now. So the Big ten in
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  Speaker 1: the SEC pushed all the way back because this is
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  Speaker 1: about power. And you had a rep for the Big
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  Speaker 1: Ten in the SEC's interests who disclined to disclose who
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  Speaker 1: authored the paper, and then when asked by the Sports
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  Speaker 1: Business Journal.
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  Speaker 2: They said, oh, it was multiple authors.
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  Speaker 1: And then they got asked if the commissioners Greg Sanki
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  Speaker 1: and Tony Pettiti were part of it, and they said
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  Speaker 1: they responded, several authors involved on behalf of the two conferences.
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  Speaker 2: That's all it is.
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  Speaker 1: They want to maintain power because collective bargaining and pulling
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  Speaker 1: resources means that the Big Ten and the SEC and
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  Speaker 1: the commissioners at the top and the NCAA will no
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  Speaker 1: longer have the power. Somebody else will then have the power.
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  Speaker 1: This is all it's about. And here is an important
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  Speaker 1: statement from the SEC and the Big ten white paper quote.
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  Speaker 1: By keeping control at the conference level, they spelled it
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  Speaker 1: out there for you already. By keeping control at the
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  Speaker 1: conference level, the system retains optionality to the pilot well,
• 11:32
  Speaker 1: optionality to pilot new formats, adopt midweek showcases, experiment with
• 11:37
  Speaker 1: streaming exclusives, and iterate sponsorship models, all of which we
• 11:43
  Speaker 1: could help generate substantial additional revenue sources used to support
• 11:48
  Speaker 1: other sports.
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  Speaker 2: That's what the paper concluded.
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  Speaker 1: Hmm. Then they go on, but this result can only
• 11:57
  Speaker 1: be accomplished by market forces. A federal created, single stellar
• 12:02
  Speaker 1: sports media regime would reduce optionality, slow decision cycles, eliminate
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  Speaker 1: college and university autonomy over their own athletic programs without
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  Speaker 1: generating more revenue. That is false, because think about this.
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  Speaker 1: The Big ten media rights deal is the biggest one
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  Speaker 1: is so's the SEC. Imagine pulling in the ACC and
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: the Big twelve. They're all negotiating rights together. Fox, CBS, ESPN, CW,
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  Speaker 1: every network is going to pay more because and then
• 12:44
  Speaker 1: they're gonna fight it out for which piece of the
• 12:47
  Speaker 1: inventory that they get. And do you know what that
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: means that the SEC and Greg Sankie can't craft their schedules.
• 12:54
  Speaker 1: That means that Indiana can't put in Nebraska and whoever
• 12:58
  Speaker 1: else in the SEC team that used to do it
• 13:01
  Speaker 1: can't put three garbage games on because then the networks
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  Speaker 1: are going to have power and they're gonna say, you
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  Speaker 1: gotta play people.
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  Speaker 2: Y'all can figure out how you do these schedules.
• 13:12
  Speaker 1: But we need this many games against conference opponents.
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  Speaker 2: We don't.
• 13:17
  Speaker 1: We don't want you know, more than one game on
• 13:21
  Speaker 1: the schedule against Indiana State and Citadel and DeVry and
• 13:27
  Speaker 1: you know and Grand Canyon and everybody else. We don't
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: want that. So it is going to put these schools
• 13:34
  Speaker 1: on notice. There's gonna be no more hiding, no more
• 13:38
  Speaker 1: duck in the smoke. You gotta show up and fight.
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: And that's what the code, that's what the conferences don't want.
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: They don't want Ohio State, Michigan making the same amount
• 13:55
  Speaker 1: as you know, uh, North Carolina State and you know
• 14:01
  Speaker 1: somebody from the big in Utah.
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  Speaker 2: They don't want them because what that means is.
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: Is if everybody is making the most money, that's why
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: the SEC and the Big ten they want to stay
• 14:12
  Speaker 1: at the top. If all the other conferences are getting
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: an equal revenue share pool, that means that there's parody coming.
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  Speaker 1: That means that Ohio State's not gonna be great every year.
• 14:24
  Speaker 1: That means some years you're gonna have Indiana dues one
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: of the worst programs of all time. They're gonna have chances.
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: Rutgers is gonna have chances. They're all gonna have way
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: more nil and resources, Like the resources are not gonna
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: be way up here, way down there. Yes, the donor
• 14:43
  Speaker 1: money will be way up here, way down there compared
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: to you know, schools that have big money donors compared
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: to as don't. So yes, that will still be the same.
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: But you're gonna have parody, and that's what they don't want.
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: They want to stay above everybody else. This is a
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: different than what goes on between you know, in real life,
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: where you got billionaires, you got thousand airs, one hundred airs.
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  Speaker 1: They want to stay way up here. They want to
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: share it with nobody else in the middle, because then
• 15:14
  Speaker 1: that lowers their ability to be influential and to keep
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: control over things, and then you had Cody Campbell. He
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: responded back, college sports are broken, and those who first
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: made the mess and profit handsomely from the status quo
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: do not want to fix it. And this is what
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: I've been staying from the beginning, from the beginning. This
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: is a haves and have not situation, and the haves
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: want to keep on habit. They do not want to
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: share with anybody else. They don't And that's what this
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: is all about, all right. The next thing that we
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: got to talk about is the rules changes in college football.
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  Speaker 1: We are getting a significant change in targeting in college football.
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: So the Division one Rules Committee, the subcommittee, they proposed
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: a one year trial rule to modify the penalty structure
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: when it comes to the players getting called for targeting.
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: I have called for targeting one, in targeting two, targeting one,
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: you don't get kicked out of the game. Targeting two,
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  Speaker 1: you do. So their new recommendation is that a first
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: time offender during the season regardless of which half that
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: he's played in, because now if you get kicked out
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  Speaker 1: for targeted in the first half, you just missed the
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: second half, you're eligible to play the next game. If
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: you get kicked out in the second half, you got
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: to miss the first half of the next game.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I don't think that that's.
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  Speaker 1: Best for the health of players, because then you got
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: to get warmed up again all of this stuff. But
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: now they're doing a smart thing and saying any player
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: that's disqualified for targeting that he's eligible to play the
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: next game, but the second time that that happens during
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: the season, he's gonna be required to miss the first
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: half of the next game. And then if a players
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: disqualified for a third time for targeting during the season,
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: the player will be required to miss the entire next game.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not mad at that at all. I think that
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: that is a smart move. It is a way to
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: go in college college football, and it kind of cuts
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: the baby in half, which is absolutely reasonable, absolutely reasonable.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna go.
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  Speaker 1: Over every single team in the Big Ten. We're gonna
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  Speaker 1: talk about what they should be afraid of this year,
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  Speaker 1: talk about the talk about and today we have to
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  Speaker 1: one way too early rankings, and you should too because
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  Speaker 1: coach and Dan Lanning who has been phenomenal during the
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: regular season, and they have a nice schedule to boot
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  Speaker 1: and that is the Oregon Ducks. So the question for today,
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  Speaker 1: Ralph is what can stop the Oregon Ducks from becoming
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: a national championship caliber team? And for me, I'm looking
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: at it and I'm like health. Health is the thing,
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: because it is very difficult to look at the world
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: where Dan Lanning does not put together a you know,
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: an eleven and one regular the season or better.
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  Speaker 2: It is tough to imagine a world.
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  Speaker 1: Where, you know where the bottom falls out in terms
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  Speaker 1: of the culture, because the culture has been great. They
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  Speaker 1: team next year. This feels like twenty twenty four Ohio State.
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  Speaker 1: To me, it seems like a foregone conclusion that they
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• 20:28
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  Speaker 5: Maybe. I mean, they've played a lot of games, George.
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  Speaker 5: It might it might not just be a matter of health.
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: It might be the fact that they played what forty
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: three games in the last three years.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: How many games did you play in your whole college career?
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: It's three years, right, yeah, yeah, so yeah, redshirted and
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: then three years so twelve, like thirty six thirty yeah,
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  Speaker 1: like thirty six, thirty eight somewhere around there.
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  Speaker 5: And they've been in forty three since the beginning of
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: the twenty twenty three season. It's what a.
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  Speaker 2: Good news is. You know.
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: It's not like the old days though, where you have
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: you know, your entire roster is there.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: This is their third quarterback three years.
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, I'm not necessarily even talking about just the
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: players in general, but just the staff and the demands
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: and the fact that you know, I'm sure there was
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: some people in the building that you were wearing on
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: and that were wearing on you by the end of
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: your end of your time, there's just more time together,
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: more time trying to do something hard. It's dain Lanning's
• 21:50
  Speaker 5: got a pretty clear voice in that program. It's very
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: demanding voice, and some of those voices are designed to
• 21:56
  Speaker 5: work for three months, not for five, and maybe not
• 22:01
  Speaker 5: for five for three years in a row.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And one of the things that I look at
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: when I look at this roster. You have Matteo Uyangalile
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: decided to come back on the defensive line, so did Tatum,
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: Tuyoti Bear Alexander, and you had Amari Washington and at
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: least two of those guys were probably, you know, late
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: first round picks, early second round picks. And that got
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: me to thinking. I was like, does this feel a
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: lot like when Jack Sawyer Tatum, when j t Tuam
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: Lao and the rest of the Ohio State guy said
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: we're coming back. That's what it feels like to me.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: And then you look at what they got on the
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: outside at corner. Brandon Finny the best true freshman corner
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: that we've seen in a while. And then they had
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: another freshman corner Ifi playing very well as well. They
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: have you know, Coy Core Perish who transferred from Minnesota,
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: who is going to replace a first round pick in theenement.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: And then so you're looking at your second safety, which
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: needs you know, which is gonna be a younger player
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: or you're a transfer in that hasn't played very much
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: and you're gonna be replacing your nickel and Canaday and
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: your linebackers are all returners. Like this, this feels like
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: on defense. This feels like a home grown team. It
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: feels like the same way that you win in NBA
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: championship in basketball is the same way you win it
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: in football. Ohio State did it, Michigan did it, and
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: Indiana kind of did it because they did it at
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: James Madison and then transferred that over to Indiana. So
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: it feels like being home grown is the way to
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: win a national championship.
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: Now, yeah, And I mean so when you talk about
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: some of the returners, it's absurd. Right, You're talking about
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: the three returning leaders in tackle for a loss having
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: something like thirty something between the three of them and
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: two Yodi ul and Bear Alexander coming back. Your three
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: leaders in passes defense are all returning. Is Amari Washington
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: coming back?
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: Yes?
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: Do you know he batted down eight balls at Alena
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: scrimmage last year.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: That's a lot.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: Those are potential, Like that's eight first potential, eight first
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: downs that he that he stopped.
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: It led the team and he's a d lineman. It's
• 24:30
  Speaker 5: the same stat if you bat a ball atlen Of
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: scrimmage as it is if you're a corner. He led
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: Oregon like that, and that's crazy to me. So, yeah,
• 24:40
  Speaker 5: it really feels like this defense is about as solid
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: as you can get. Maybe there's some questions on you know,
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: you can't guarantee growth. I think you probably need to
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: see Dante more make a step forward, uh to really
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: to to really carry the offense, and so you can't
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: guarantee growth, and so I may bee Dante Moore. Stagnation,
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: especially with will Stein leaving the program, is a potential
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: achilles heel for this team. And then of course there's
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: just always the locker room. You get that many talented players,
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: you have the expectations, you have pay and we've seen
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: we've seen players leave Oregon because younger players just came
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: in and beat them out. We've also seen players leave
• 25:28
  Speaker 5: Oregon because they didn't know how to hang culturally. And
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: as long as you work those guys out and they
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: don't actually gain footing and become sort of a metastasized
• 25:42
  Speaker 5: in the program and they're not governing how things go,
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: then you should be fine. But big personalities, big expectations,
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: just the general pressures of probably going into this seasons
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: as a top five team because we saw that, you know,
• 26:00
  Speaker 5: Texas outside of the O line, really outside of the
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: O line Texas last year said we got it all
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: and they didn't, you know, And so yeah, as Oregon,
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: you gotta be you gotta look at what you got
• 26:13
  Speaker 5: an O line realize that you know, Isaiah World gone
• 26:16
  Speaker 5: like you got uh, you got all these guys that
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: are moving on, Replacing them is going to be super important.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: Oh, it definitely is.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: And that that's why when one one of the things
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: that people were concerned about is that you had Terrence
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: Green and a couple other uh, defensive linemen and defensive
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: players transfer out. But then they brought in a few
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: players into portal. And then you look at the young
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: players that are on the team, uh the uh the
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: pass rusher from modern modern day. You have rushing who
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: hasn't really played from you know, from Arizona transfer in
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: from North Carolina on the interior. So it feels like
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: that this eight and Breeland is there. So there's plenty
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: of opportunity for young guys who they recruited to step
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: up into those roles as well, even though they brought
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: some guys into portal. So the biggest question marks that
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: people Oregon fans have had about this team going forward,
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: they're like, oh, we're nervous about the linebackers situation where
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: you got Gavin Nick coming back well in the middle,
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: and then you have a young player in Dylan Williams,
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: which are super excited about as well. And then you
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: have some other young linebackers, well young y ish linebackers
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: that are still returning as well that are good players
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: as well. And there's a reason why they did not
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: go out and get players in the portal, particularly at
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: the linebacker spot, because they said they're good with what
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: they have and Marion and they are in love with that,
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: and otherwise they would have gone out and got something else. Now,
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: on the offensive side of the ball, you just mentioned
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: Dante Moore stagnation. That feels almost impossible to me. It
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: really really does, because you look at his growth from UCLA,
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: like personal growth and maturity. Right to then leave Ucla
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: go to Oregon sit for a year, how much better
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: he played last year? They look like two different humans
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: and two different humans from the start of the season
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: to the beginning of the season. So it feels like
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: Dante more that his stagnation doesn't seem possible because the
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: fact that he would forego the NFL Draft and being
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: the likely number two pick all of that money to
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: come back to school to be better. He didn't come
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: back to half ass. He came back to go to work.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: So you know that his leadership is going to be better,
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: his maturity is going to be better. And when you
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: hear people talk about Dante more, it's actually funny to
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: me because they hold on to that Indiana, Oh my gosh.
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: He's gotta get so much better. Look at him. He stinks.
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: He oh he you know, he shited the band versus Indiana,
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: and there's nothing there and you're like, well, how about
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: the rest of the season, fam, how about the rest
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: of the season that you could be extremely excited about
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: because the two Indiana games were the two that he
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: played his worst football against the best team in the country.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: So it's hard to just sit up here and act
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: like the kid's a bum and he doesn't have it
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: and all of that when at the end of the year,
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: he finished the season. He finished the season throwing for
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: thirty five hundred yards. Yeah, throwing for thirty five hundred yards,
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: And that is you can't shake a stick at that.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: That is something that you have to be excited about
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: because there's no way to look at what this kid
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: did thirty touchdowns, ten and interceptions and what five of
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: them five in the interceptions came against Indiana.
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: So half of his.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: Interceptions came against in Indiana, Twelfth in the nation in passing,
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: eighth and I'm sorry sixth and touchdowns fifth and quarter
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: fifteenth in quarterback ready and when, And that was without
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: his top wide receivers for half of the year. And
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: this year he's going to get Evan Stewart back. The
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: Kreyan Moore is going to be back that they Gatlin
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: Bear just came off of his mission. You have Jeremiah
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: McClelland Jamari Johnson at tight end who's likely going to
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: be a first round pick next year as well. So
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: and then in the running back room, the running back
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: room looks really good with Dare Hill Jordan Davidson a
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: year older. They've added players in the transfer portal, they've
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: recruited well at that position. So you're solid at tight end.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: Well now you're not even solid at tight end. You're
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: really good at tight end. And the team lived in
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: two tight ends last year and they might this year
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: to depending on how to transfer from Penn State or
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: Kendre Harrison. The true freshman how they're able to do.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: But this is a team that is loaded at every
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: single spot, and the biggest question is they're like the
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: the offensive line where your center returns, who's the quarterback
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: of your uh of your offense? Fox Crater at tackle
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: who came in and played played well. You have a
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: potential starter coming in as a true freshman in Ianacho.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: It depends on how he fits in. David Ouli, he's
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: coming back.
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: You have.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: H Janoris Wilson at the other tackle or the kid
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: that transferred in from a Yale and Oregon has been
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: a Joe A. Moore Award semi a finalist the last
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: couple of years.
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: So elite.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: Terry's putting together elite offensive line. So there's no way
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: to believe that that's not gonna happen again.
• 32:10
  Speaker 5: Sure, and my concern isn't the Indiana games. My concern
• 32:14
  Speaker 5: is the middle of the season loll that came against
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: Wisconsin and Iowa like that he got, those just have
• 32:20
  Speaker 5: to be gone. You can't have the offense protecting him
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: by only throwing fifteen passes, trying to trying to eke
• 32:29
  Speaker 5: out in both of those games.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: Of weather was atrocious, though too.
• 32:35
  Speaker 5: Sure, sure, but at the same time, like those are
• 32:38
  Speaker 5: the things that where it's not so much what he
• 32:40
  Speaker 5: did against Indiana, because I think you can I think
• 32:43
  Speaker 5: the best way to evaluate data is to always throw
• 32:45
  Speaker 5: out best and worst, Right, So you got to throw
• 32:50
  Speaker 5: out the Indiana games because that's the best competition and
• 32:54
  Speaker 5: it wasn't necessarily even his work. He had a couple
• 32:56
  Speaker 5: of flashing moments in that. It's that like that there
• 32:59
  Speaker 5: were times when.
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: He looked overwhelmed.
• 33:04
  Speaker 5: Maybe not every quarterback in the country would have been
• 33:06
  Speaker 5: eliminated by weather. Maybe they would have, But that's just
• 33:11
  Speaker 5: the thing that you you you can't go into a
• 33:13
  Speaker 5: game saying like, all right, well we got to just
• 33:16
  Speaker 5: ignore that we even have a quarterback here and only
• 33:19
  Speaker 5: throw the ball fifteen times and not even get him
• 33:22
  Speaker 5: out of the run, because I believe in that game
• 33:24
  Speaker 5: he was he was negative in the in the Russian
• 33:26
  Speaker 5: category two. So all I want to see is his baseline,
• 33:30
  Speaker 5: and he did come back from the You have to
• 33:32
  Speaker 5: acknowledge he came back from those games and at his
• 33:34
  Speaker 5: best run, that's when he would have was off those
• 33:37
  Speaker 5: two games. Yeah, yeah, so so, but I want to
• 33:41
  Speaker 5: make sure that that's not his big The other thing
• 33:43
  Speaker 5: I worry about a little bit, George, I gotta be honest.
• 33:46
  Speaker 5: Portland State, where it's situated in the schedule, I don't
• 33:51
  Speaker 5: love that it comes right before what is ultimately the
• 33:54
  Speaker 5: super Bowl of the first third of your season.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: Okay, I'll pull up the schedule right right now, so
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: everybody can.
• 34:02
  Speaker 5: September nineteenth, Portland State going into LA Memorial Coliseum if
• 34:09
  Speaker 5: they're even playing there? Are they gonna be at so
• 34:11
  Speaker 5: farre wherever?
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: Those that that that's a twenty twenty eight when the
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: Olympics are here.
• 34:19
  Speaker 5: Oh okay, okay, So yeah, that's my other that's my
• 34:23
  Speaker 5: other concern. That's my other worry. It's not so much.
• 34:26
  Speaker 5: I do think that they have the advantage against USC
• 34:29
  Speaker 5: had to head, but I worry about the structure of
• 34:34
  Speaker 5: the schedule, going from Portland State at home to LA
• 34:39
  Speaker 5: the next week. That's a worry. Work. That's one of
• 34:42
  Speaker 5: the things I'd worry about.
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: The only thing that bothers me about or is highly
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: concerning about Oregon schedule is that their by is after
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: the USC game, after four games being being played, and
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: then you got to run off eight more eight more
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: in a row. That's gonna be a touch that right there,
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: gonna be some tough sledging. Is you got UCLA, which
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: which should be improved. You have no Nebraska should be
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: another easy win at Illinois. Went to Illinois last year
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: to interview Brett Belma. That place is one of the
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: more when they're rolling is loud because they got metal bleachers.
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: People just bang on them all day. That was tough.
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: They should be able to get through Nebraska. Then you
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: got to go to Ohio Stadium, Ohio to play Ohio State,
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: and then it's Michigan at Michigan State. The weather's gonna
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: be it's at least worst case scenario, gonna be cold
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: out there in East Lansing. And then you got Washington
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: at home. I don't think that this is the easiest
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: schedule to navigate, But remember last year when we were
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: talking about Penn State schedule their beginning of the year.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: I don't see this Oregon schedule as that I see
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: it as. But the question is Ralph, now, let's now
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: let's ask the question which teams do you think are
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: a biggest bigger threat to Oregon, either getting to the
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: playoff or winning the national championship.
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: Well, winning the National championship, whether whether they're in the Big.
• 36:19
  Speaker 5: Ten or not, Well, uh, Indiana gets an auto bid
• 36:28
  Speaker 5: into the conversation clearly, Yeah, they just get that at
• 36:33
  Speaker 5: this point their threat, so we have to recognize them
• 36:37
  Speaker 5: as such. I think that everybody has to be on
• 36:45
  Speaker 5: notice for Texas Tech. And I know how that playoff
• 36:49
  Speaker 5: game went last year, and I know that Brendan Soresby
• 36:53
  Speaker 5: didn't always show up for Cincinnati when the lights were
• 36:55
  Speaker 5: the brightest. But this is an upgraded quarterback. I don't
• 36:59
  Speaker 5: care what anybody it is definitely is and now they've
• 37:02
  Speaker 5: been there. The defense sometimes that's the door.
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: I don't think the defense is going to be quite
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: as good. I think it'll be good. But the thing
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: that made their defense so spectacular were Lee Hunt. Lee
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: Hunter in the middle, the big dude is gonna be
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: a first round pick this year. And David Bailey, who
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: is a freak of nature. He is literally a freak
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: of nature. He might have had the best best single
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: half of football out of any defensive lineman that I
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: saw all year against against Oregon. In that first half
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: of that playoff game, it was the most dominant.
• 37:38
  Speaker 5: And Romelo Heights not that much worse. Than David exactly
• 37:43
  Speaker 5: first first step getting yeah. So like they're they're yes,
• 37:47
  Speaker 5: But I think the offense is gonna be able to
• 37:49
  Speaker 5: carry him a little bit more than it more than
• 37:52
  Speaker 5: it did last year. I I I have to throw
• 37:54
  Speaker 5: them in the conversation then and then you know, at
• 37:57
  Speaker 5: the at the sec level, I am one of those
• 38:00
  Speaker 5: people that is threatened by the class that Lane Kiffin
• 38:04
  Speaker 5: put together because I know what he did in one
• 38:07
  Speaker 5: year's notice with the defense at Ole miss in twenty
• 38:10
  Speaker 5: twenty four with Walter Nolan and and that whole crew.
• 38:14
  Speaker 5: So you know that if he gets the right people
• 38:17
  Speaker 5: in place, I think he's a talent maximizer. And so
• 38:20
  Speaker 5: to have Jordan Seaton on that offensive line to retain
• 38:23
  Speaker 5: some of the talent they did to bring in the
• 38:25
  Speaker 5: receivers they did. I think there's still holes in this
• 38:30
  Speaker 5: LSU team, but I think that if everything goes right,
• 38:33
  Speaker 5: you got to worry about them. But no, I look
• 38:37
  Speaker 5: at Oregons as they should be there in the semi final,
• 38:41
  Speaker 5: and I don't have anybody specifically that I would put
• 38:44
  Speaker 5: above them. I want to get to the point where
• 38:46
  Speaker 5: I believe in Julian saying at Ohio State, but there
• 38:54
  Speaker 5: hasn't been that flash. To be fair, we only saw
• 38:58
  Speaker 5: from Walker Howard at the end of the year, so
• 39:02
  Speaker 5: you don't know, maybe saying has it in him.
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm I'm actually so the teams that I'm putting
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: up there that can challenge for a national championship. I'm
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: gonna put Ohio State up there. I am going to
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: put Georgia up there because Kirby Smart always has his.
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: Team in the mix.
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: Indiana and I know that this is gonna sound crazy,
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: but I'm not a believer in Indiana yet, and not
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: as a like.
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: I'm not a.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: Believer that this is a perennial year in and year
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: out thing like that they are going to be able
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: to change the quarterback, change the corners, change all of
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: these things, and then be a national championship worthy team again.
• 39:49
  Speaker 1: Now do I believe that they can be a ten
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: win football team, one hundred percent, But there's a big
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: difference in a ten win football team and a national
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: championship caliber team. That's what and out of the and
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: part of me, I think there's been so much Texas
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: hype that is starting to infiltrate my brain and I
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: don't want to discount Texas, but I just don't it
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: is until I see arch Manning come out in the
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: beginning of the season and play good football. It's not
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: that I don't believe he can. It's one of those
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: I need to see it to believe it. And then
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: the last team, I don't think that you can discount Miami.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: They upgrade it significantly at quarterback with Darien Menza. My
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: only question for them is they leaned so heavy on
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: the defense last year and you got Mesador and Baine,
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: who are first round picks them a top ten pick,
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: maybe two of them in the top fifteen. That's hard
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: to replace on the defensive line, even if your defense
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: is good again. So that means the offense is gonna
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: have to be even better, which it could be under Mensa.
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: And I think that they are one of the five
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: best teams in the country with Darien Mensa. So it's
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: just going to be for them, how much offense can
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: they like, how dynamic this offense can be, because if
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: you put cam Ward's offense basically with last year's defense,
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: they probably win a Natty.
• 41:33
  Speaker 5: Yeah, And the thing about Darien Mensa, that's really nice
• 41:35
  Speaker 5: and this is no disrespect to the O line at
• 41:38
  Speaker 5: Duke they were one of the bottom O lines as
• 41:41
  Speaker 5: far as run production in twenty twenty three. In twenty
• 41:44
  Speaker 5: twenty four, huge step up. They win the ACC and
• 41:46
  Speaker 5: all that. And you know, I know, I know Bruno
• 41:49
  Speaker 5: Fina a little bit. I covered him in high school.
• 41:51
  Speaker 5: No disrespect to his right and left tackle. But Darien
• 41:56
  Speaker 5: Mensa made that offense go because he gets the ball
• 41:58
  Speaker 5: out so quick, because he knows the offense so well.
• 42:01
  Speaker 5: And so I think that even though Miami is losing
• 42:04
  Speaker 5: CC Malaga and others, or Maligoa and others to the draft,
• 42:10
  Speaker 5: I think that Darien Mensa, the way that he gets
• 42:13
  Speaker 5: the ball out is going to make up for any
• 42:16
  Speaker 5: downgrade that they would have in O line. So I
• 42:18
  Speaker 5: think you're smart to put them in that category as well.
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: All right, So now we'll move on to the rest
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: of the Big Ten, because we were talking about the
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: Big Ten Boogeyman and what each Big Ten team and
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: their fan base what you should be afraid of when
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: it comes to the twenty twenty sixth season.
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: So we'll start with the Illinois fighting a Lina.
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: So Illinois comes into this season and with you know,
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: they're gonna be changing quarterbacks. They're gonna be changing running back.
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: They lose a lot. They lost their defensive coordinator Aaron
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: Henry as well, And so the question is, Ralph, what
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: do Illinois fans need to be afraid of when it
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: comes to potentially making the College Football Playoff or just
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: for their season alone this year?
• 43:12
  Speaker 5: For me, losing your defensive coordinator in February is never
• 43:17
  Speaker 5: easy to replace. And this is somebody that has been
• 43:21
  Speaker 5: with Brett Bielima for whatever, Yeah, has always been with
• 43:25
  Speaker 5: him and so and the choice George that they made
• 43:29
  Speaker 5: to replace him is Bobby Howck out of Montana. Multiple
• 43:35
  Speaker 5: stints as Montana's head coach. He said football is not
• 43:38
  Speaker 5: fun for him anymore, the nil era, all that stuff,
• 43:41
  Speaker 5: and he stepped down from a great job where I
• 43:43
  Speaker 5: think he I mean, he led Montana to multiple appearances
• 43:47
  Speaker 5: in the in the FCS playoffs. Great coach, didn't have
• 43:50
  Speaker 5: a great run at NLB, but a great, great coach,
• 43:53
  Speaker 5: and he comes in to run the defense of what
• 43:55
  Speaker 5: I hear is they're leaning three three five. So if
• 43:58
  Speaker 5: I'm an Illinois fan, what I know need to be
• 44:00
  Speaker 5: afraid of is this is still the Big ten, right, Yeah?
• 44:06
  Speaker 5: Have you ever heard of anybody successfully running the three
• 44:08
  Speaker 5: three five against a bunch of power run teams.
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: No, no, no, that's the vulnerable.
• 44:14
  Speaker 5: That is my current biggest fear. Yeah, that is my
• 44:17
  Speaker 5: current biggest fear.
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: I think that that's fair. Let's let's look at their
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: schedules super super quick. Is there anything on this schedule
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: that that scares you? They got UAB, then Duke, then
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: Southern Illinois, so they should be three and zero. Then
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: they go at Ohio State, which is going to be
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: a loss. Then they play Perdue, which is a winnable game.
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: Michigan at Michigan State is a winnable game. Then they
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: have their bye week lose to Oregon. So you already
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: got two for sure losses. They're at Maryland. Maryland's in
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: a do or die situation this year as far as
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: as their their head coach, Nebraska at UCLA at the
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: Rose Bowl. Then you got Iowa and Northwestern. This feels
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: like a very friendly Big ten schedule to me like that,
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: this this has losable games that well, two losses Ohio
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: State and Oregon and then some and then three other
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: losable games. So anything worse than eight and four I
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: would be if I was an Illinois fan, I'd be
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: a little disappointed with anything worse that did with seven
• 45:34
  Speaker 1: and five would feel like a disappointment. Eight and four
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: would feel like, oh man, we could have got to nine.
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: But I think nine is the ceiling.
• 45:44
  Speaker 5: Uh Yeah. I think that you can compete for a
• 45:47
  Speaker 5: college football playoff spot with a ten and two year
• 45:50
  Speaker 5: if you beat Iowa and if if the games against
• 45:55
  Speaker 5: Oregon and Ohio State are not blood baths, and I
• 46:00
  Speaker 5: think that's that should be the ultimate goal this season.
• 46:03
  Speaker 5: Of course, you want to win those games, you want
• 46:05
  Speaker 5: to compete in those games against Ohio State and an Oregon,
• 46:08
  Speaker 5: of course, but I think ten wins is is what
• 46:11
  Speaker 5: they should be chasing.
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, Now, next team up. We have the
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: defending the reigning defending national champions. You have the Indiana
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: Hoosiers and Ralph The biggest thing that is scary to
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: me for them.
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: Is their roster, Like that's the that's the thing. It's
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: not that So.
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: Kurtz Signetti is not the guy that's gonna fall off
• 46:42
  Speaker 1: a cliff coach. He's not gonna all of a sudden
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: the game didn't pass him by, something new didn't happen.
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: But he also has to make some significant adjustments, and
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: he's already said it, we are going to recruit high
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: school better. This means that the man gets it, which
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: is also scary if you're an Oregon fan, because you're like, oh,
• 47:02
  Speaker 1: a coach actually gets it. He's not gonna keep trying
• 47:05
  Speaker 1: to transfer a portal everybody in. Now he's gonna try
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: to high school recruit him, transfer a portal man, keep
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: lowering the transfer portal class in until he can get
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: his Like like, he's not gonna be recruiting three star guys.
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: He's gonna be recruiting like, yes, he's gonna get some,
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: but he's gonna be up there with a lot of
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: four star kids from here on out. And Indiana is
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: gonna be no longer that that that lovable underdog story.
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: They're gonna they are now part of the halves, or
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: at least they will be in a year or two.
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: So I think that that's their biggest thing is that
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: Indiana has to get used to being the hunted and
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: not the hunter and get used to being a have
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: instead of a have not.
• 47:56
  Speaker 5: Yeah, the thing I'm the thing I worry about is
• 48:00
  Speaker 5: Indiana is, for lack of a better term, because they're
• 48:05
  Speaker 5: a dominant football team. They are sort of they're also
• 48:09
  Speaker 5: kind of a ball control efficiency offense. Yes, there's not
• 48:14
  Speaker 5: a lot of mistakes being made, right like just.
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: Yes, Curtis of efficiency.
• 48:22
  Speaker 5: Yeah, so you know, they they bring in Fernando Mendoza
• 48:28
  Speaker 5: out of Cal who threw almost four hundred passes his
• 48:33
  Speaker 5: sophomore season at Cal and only through six interceptions. And
• 48:37
  Speaker 5: he threw almost four hundred passes at Indiana last year
• 48:41
  Speaker 5: and only through six interceptions. He was Fernando Mendoza was
• 48:47
  Speaker 5: who he was at Cal. As far as protecting the
• 48:51
  Speaker 5: ball at Indiana, yeah, Josh Hoover has fourteen games with
• 48:59
  Speaker 5: an intercept in his last twenty one and eight of
• 49:01
  Speaker 5: those were multi interception games. Josh Hoover eight eight multi
• 49:09
  Speaker 5: interception games in the last two years. Eight multi interception
• 49:12
  Speaker 5: games really in the last We're not going to get
• 49:15
  Speaker 5: into the amount. But he when he starts turning the
• 49:17
  Speaker 5: ball over, he really does, and he'll have some high
• 49:19
  Speaker 5: volume games where he also turns the ball over. He's
• 49:22
  Speaker 5: got kind of a short memory. He's a gun slinger
• 49:24
  Speaker 5: like that, and that's why I like him. But this
• 49:26
  Speaker 5: is not the Indiana football that we saw with Curtis
• 49:29
  Speaker 5: Urk or alons of Barnett right at JMU. This is
• 49:34
  Speaker 5: not that. So Josh Hoover does not run, So what
• 49:39
  Speaker 5: are they going to do to make sure that he's
• 49:41
  Speaker 5: getting rid of the ball quick and he's making reads
• 49:44
  Speaker 5: that protect the football, because yeah, Indiana can go out
• 49:47
  Speaker 5: and blow you out, but in a close game, those
• 49:49
  Speaker 5: turnovers mean everything.
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: And that's the thing that Indiana fans are like they
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: they are they're hu on their own supply right now.
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: They are are gonna be look look at what we
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: did in two years. We'll be back in the Nattie
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: next next year. Lookout for us every year. It just
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: doesn't work like that. It's just not how it works.
• 50:09
  Speaker 1: So you're gonna have to There are gonna be some
• 50:12
  Speaker 1: adjustments and sometimes your roster is just not gonna be
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: good enough. And teams are going to catch up to
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: what Indiana is doing offensively in terms of their efficiency.
• 50:24
  Speaker 1: All right, now, let's look at their schedules super quick.
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: We got.
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: This non conference schedule is pitiful, North Texas, Howard and
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: Western Kentucky. Then they go Northwestern at Rutgers, at Nebraska.
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: Damn bro They their first what.
• 50:45
  Speaker 1: Six games, they don't have anything on there that that
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: should scare a college football playoff type team. Then you
• 50:54
  Speaker 1: get Ohio State at Michigan. That's a tough run right there,
• 50:58
  Speaker 1: back to back games. Then you get Minnesota, USC and Washington.
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: They have Ralph on their schedule. They really only have
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: three and a half losable games. Actually, yes, because I'm
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: gonna give actually, no, no, no, four losable games. So
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna give them Ohio State, Michigan USC only because
• 51:26
  Speaker 1: it's at USC, and then Washington only because.
• 51:29
  Speaker 3: It's at Washington.
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: They only got four losable games and those come in
• 51:33
  Speaker 1: the last five five weeks, so I definitely expect them
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: to be seven and oh going into the Ohio State
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: game with with blowouts in every single game.
• 51:48
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean that this is This is really gonna
• 51:52
  Speaker 5: be a truth telling year for Indiana of whether or
• 51:56
  Speaker 5: not they're here to stay, because they're this is I
• 51:59
  Speaker 5: think this is tougher than what they've faced the last
• 52:03
  Speaker 5: couple of years.
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 52:07
  Speaker 5: But those those early season games, god, yeah, exactly, pathetic exactly.
• 52:14
  Speaker 1: Now we're gonna go on to the next team on
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: the list. We have the Iowa Hawkeyes Ralph can Kirk Farriance,
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: get some offense. Please, for the love of God, that
• 52:26
  Speaker 1: to me is the only thing holding Iowa back. You
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: know they're gonna put together competent defense. There is no
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: question whether they're going to put together competent defense. Question
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: is can they put together competent offense because Kirk Farence. Honestly,
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: I wanted to. When I put the top ten coaches
• 52:47
  Speaker 1: in all of college football lists together, I wanted to
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: put Kirk Farns on there. He is one of the
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: best coaches. However, it's hard to put him on the
• 53:00
  Speaker 1: list where he should be, or even on the list
• 53:03
  Speaker 1: when he repeatedly for decades has given up on offense,
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: has has no desire to have any explosion.
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: If they get down, they can't come back.
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: Their whole goal is to try to drag you down
• 53:19
  Speaker 1: and beat you, when in reality, yes they should be
• 53:22
  Speaker 1: trying to do that, but they got to figure out
• 53:24
  Speaker 1: a way.
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: To be more efficient on offense. Now.
• 53:27
  Speaker 1: I don't think that they should be a Lincoln Riley
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: try to score as quick as you can. I don't
• 53:32
  Speaker 1: think that's good for USC either, But I also think
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: that they have to develop something that is better than
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: run and punt football.
• 53:45
  Speaker 5: My worry if I'm Iowa is that they've already backed
• 53:48
  Speaker 5: away from participating in the quarterback transfer market. Well, my
• 53:54
  Speaker 5: worry if I'm an Iowa fan is that points matter,
• 53:58
  Speaker 5: like points on the scoreboard. You gotta score. But last
• 54:03
  Speaker 5: year I think they went over a million for Mark
• 54:06
  Speaker 5: Gronowski and then they used him like a battering ram.
• 54:10
  Speaker 5: But he got better as the season went.
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: Well, well, they may have figured out he couldn't he
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: couldn't hit water, standing in a boat, throw throwing the football.
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: But part of it.
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: Probably is too because they used him as a battering
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: ram and his shoulders are hurt, army feeling the same.
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: It probably leads to extra inaccuracy.
• 54:31
  Speaker 5: Yes, yes, And so you know they don't repeat themselves.
• 54:36
  Speaker 5: They don't go out and buy a quarterback. They had
• 54:39
  Speaker 5: Jeremy Heklinsky on the roster last year. It would it
• 54:45
  Speaker 5: would be so funny if they went from Mark Gronowski,
• 54:47
  Speaker 5: who's like a mini hulk, to Hecklenski, who's at six
• 54:53
  Speaker 5: foot one eighty soaking wet, like maybe six foot You know,
• 54:58
  Speaker 5: you know they're not gonna use in that way. But
• 54:59
  Speaker 5: they also got Hang Brown from Auburn. He's a big dude.
• 55:01
  Speaker 5: He's six four two twenty and but but Hank Brown
• 55:05
  Speaker 5: didn't play really at Auburn, spent very sparingly. I think
• 55:09
  Speaker 5: he had a six touchdown season two years ago. So
• 55:14
  Speaker 5: they've already backed off that being their spend and in
• 55:17
  Speaker 5: a year where you actually have the budget to do it.
• 55:22
  Speaker 5: So I'm really interested to see what that means for Iowa.
• 55:27
  Speaker 5: It they like dipped their toe in the pool of
• 55:30
  Speaker 5: evolution and then immediately he got a towel.
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: Oh man, all right, they're their their schedule, Ralph. They
• 55:44
  Speaker 1: got Niu, who is absent a head coach right now
• 55:48
  Speaker 1: because Thomas Hammock left and went to the NFL. Iowa
• 55:52
  Speaker 1: stayed as a shell of themselves. They have forty forty
• 55:56
  Speaker 1: eight fifty transfers out they.
• 55:59
  Speaker 5: Got They got like computer generated players at Iowa State
• 56:02
  Speaker 5: right now.
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's it.
• 56:04
  Speaker 1: Why it's like, it's like it's like COVID where they
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: got cardboard cutouts just sitting in the seats, except for
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: they gotta they just put a helmet on them on
• 56:13
  Speaker 1: the side. They're at Michigan, Ohio State, at Washington, at Minnesota,
• 56:21
  Speaker 1: then they got Wisconsin at Northwestern Purdue, at Illinois and Nebraska.
• 56:27
  Speaker 1: Their schedule is front loaded. If they can get two
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: one or two out of Michigan, Ohio State and Washington.
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: If they can get two out of them, bro, they're
• 56:42
  Speaker 1: gonna be cook cooking with Crisco for ten wins.
• 56:46
  Speaker 5: If they go on a typical it feels like typical
• 56:52
  Speaker 5: Iowa season where you like write them off by mid October,
• 56:55
  Speaker 5: then all the sudden they're there right at nine and
• 56:57
  Speaker 5: three and they just whooped someone's ass and the bowl game.
• 57:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you're like, well, I guess they were better
• 57:04
  Speaker 2: than we thought.
• 57:05
  Speaker 1: So, Yeah, I would be competitive in terms of making
• 57:10
  Speaker 1: the college football player.
• 57:12
  Speaker 5: Yeah. You and I watched Mark Grenowski last year and
• 57:14
  Speaker 5: we're like, never mind. By the end of the season,
• 57:17
  Speaker 5: he had put together a pretty damn good campaign. I mean,
• 57:21
  Speaker 5: this is what they do though. They kind of bore
• 57:22
  Speaker 5: you to death.
• 57:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yep, they will. They will just drag you down
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: in the mud and then beat you the hell up.
• 57:29
  Speaker 1: All right, Next team up, Maryland, Ralph. I want Mike
• 57:36
  Speaker 1: Locksley to to to show us something. Last year Maryland.
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: Their their biggest boogieyman to me is the second half.
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: They were one of the worst second half teams in
• 57:48
  Speaker 1: all of college football. Last year, they had lead to
• 57:52
  Speaker 1: in the first half on so many teams U C. L. A.
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: Washington other teams and and find a way to snatch
• 57:58
  Speaker 1: defeat from the jaws of it. And that's what I
• 58:02
  Speaker 1: want to see out of them. I want to see
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: Maryland be a second half football team, because that's there
• 58:08
  Speaker 1: Achilles Hill right now.
• 58:12
  Speaker 5: I'm so excited for Maryland to have the marriage of
• 58:15
  Speaker 5: Malik Washington and Clint Trickett. Clint Trickett was running that
• 58:18
  Speaker 5: Jacksonville State offense. We talked about it a few times
• 58:21
  Speaker 5: on shows last year Cam Cook and the way that
• 58:24
  Speaker 5: they can run the ball and everything, and I would
• 58:28
  Speaker 5: love to see some balance brought to Maryland's offense. And
• 58:30
  Speaker 5: maybe balance in Maryland's offense means that the other team's
• 58:33
  Speaker 5: offense is on the field less. But I have the
• 58:35
  Speaker 5: same concerns as you. It really all is on the
• 58:38
  Speaker 5: defensive side of the football. I think offensively, Maryland's going
• 58:42
  Speaker 5: to scare some people this year, but you know how
• 58:46
  Speaker 5: much are they going to be playing in on the
• 58:48
  Speaker 5: wrong end of a forty five thirty eight game. That's
• 58:51
  Speaker 5: my worry.
• 58:52
  Speaker 2: Oh that's a fact. And their schedule.
• 58:56
  Speaker 1: They start out nice and easy Hampton, you with a
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: new head coach because their coach left went to Colorado State,
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: former UCLA coach. And then they get the fighting James
• 59:12
  Speaker 1: Franklin's which we don't know what they're gonna be, but
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: that that should be a competitive game. Then they get Ucla,
• 59:19
  Speaker 1: which could be a competit like all of Maryland's games
• 59:21
  Speaker 1: are going to be competitive. They're not going to outside
• 59:24
  Speaker 1: of Hampton and Yukon. They're not gonna knock people's doors off.
• 59:29
  Speaker 1: I'm struggling, Ralph. I'm struggling with a team that finished
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: four and eight last last year with losses to Washington, Nebraska, Ucla, Indiana.
• 59:44
  Speaker 1: That's a lot of ls in a row. You finished
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: the season, you started season four and oh and then
• 59:49
  Speaker 1: you lose eight in a row.
• 59:52
  Speaker 5: Eight Ralph, and I was thirty eight to Michigan State,
• 59:57
  Speaker 5: Oh my god.
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: And that was one of the worst offenses in the
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 1: Big Ten. So success for me feels like six and
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 1: six for them because they went all in on nil
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: because you got actually, so you got Penn State, which
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 1: is gonna be tough. USC probably a loss, but it's
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 1: gonna gonna be tough. You gotta get Wisconsin, Purdue, Rutgers
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 1: and Nebraska or U C l A.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think the seven and five is what they should.
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 3: Be shooting for.
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 1: I'm with you, yeah, all right, yeah, and a lot
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: of people, why do y'all spend so much time on Maryland? Well,
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 1: they deserve some love to oh, Ralph. I could not
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 1: be more excited about this team right now. The Michigan Wolverines.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: The boogeyman for them to me is paid. That's their
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 1: boogeyman because they are going to want to come in
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 1: and be competing for a national championship immediately. That's what
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 1: their fans are going to expect. They got Kyle Whittingham
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 1: as head coach. They have so they have replaced Sharon Moore,
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 1: who how do I put this nicely? Not forget nice,
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 1: I'll just say what it is. If Sharon Moore had
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 1: been a free agent in this coaching cycle, he would
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 1: not have been hired by any of the big names.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 1: Like nobody looked at Sharon Moore. It was like, I
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: want him to be my coach. Let's go steal Sharon Moore.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: It's just what wasn't how he was perceived. Now you
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 1: got Whittingham coming over, a man who's done more with less.
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 1: He is of the Kirk Farence mold, except for he
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: will actually play offense too. And we have always wondered
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: what would Kyle him do with elite talent. Well, now
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 1: you got it, buddy, now you got it. It's gonna
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: take a couple of years to get the culture the
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 1: way he wants it, but it's gonna get set up
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 1: pretty fast. And Michigan is my sleeper, my dark horse,
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 1: my underdog like that. This is a team that could
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: if he can get Bryce Underwood to to to to
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 1: not turn into what was the king in Gainesville La
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 1: Lagway if he can't go from you know, because he
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 1: had a lagway asque first year, and to get to
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 1: where you're excited but you're also like EU but you're
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 1: like there's something there. So if he could avoid a
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: sophomore slump out of out of out of his quarterback,
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 1: Oh this this, this Michigan team is goat. They have
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 1: more talent than Utah has. They're playing in a tougher conference,
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 1: but this is this, This is what dreams are made
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 1: out of for Michigan, and so patience is going to
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: be their Boogeyman.
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 5: I think I agree with you on this one, just
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 5: from having some experience with the fans this offseason. You know,
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 5: they chased a lot of hypothetical head coaching candidates, Kenny
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 5: Dillingham being one of them, right they it was a
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 5: genuine surprise that they ended up with Kyle Whittingham. What
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 5: the initial reaction to that was from a lot of
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 5: Michigan fans was weeping and gnashing of teeth. They were pissed.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 5: And there's this thing you know in video games, you're
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 5: playing like an open world video game where if you
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 5: go to a certain place, you unlock the map, right
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 5: so Grand Theft Auto Grand Theft Auto five, Like, if
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 5: you've been somewhere, then the map is unlocked on the
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 5: past screen, like you can see what all is there.
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 5: If not, it's cloudy. But once you've been there before,
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 5: you know it a little bit. That map is unlocked.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 5: Michigan fans, a lot of them anyway, if they're being honest,
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 5: we're upset about this hire right away, which means they've
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 5: already been down on Kyle Winningham. They've already been there,
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 5: and it's easiest to go back to a place that
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 5: you've already been, and so that I'm with you on
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 5: patience that if it doesn't look perfect right out the gate,
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 5: when this is a development when he made his his
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 5: money in this sport and his reputation in this sport.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 5: On getting a two star Luki Fotu to be a
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 5: fourth round pick in the NFL, on getting one of
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 5: the lower three stars in was Devin Lloyd to be
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 5: PAC twelve Defensive Player of the Year in a first
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 5: round pick like that, That's who this guy is, and
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 5: so let him get to work on this team and
• 1:04:40
  Speaker 5: mold it into what he wants to do. He's got
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 5: an experienced defensive coordinator, he's got an experienced offensive coordinator.
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 5: They both had success at this level. I think it's
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 5: going to work out. But when you're a house divided,
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 5: and Michigan the big house is often divided, it can
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 5: get that much harder. So I I just I agree
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 5: with you a million percent on what their weakness will
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 5: be this year. It will really be if the program
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 5: doesn't have buyer's remorse. If it doesn't look great immediately, for.
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 1: Sure, their their schedule, their non conference Western Michigan, Oklahoma, UTEP,
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 1: then they got Iowa at Minnesota. Then they have their
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 1: buy Penn State, Indiana at Rutgers, Michigan State at Oregon,
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 1: U c l A at Ohio State.
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 2: Bro, this is a gauntlet.
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 1: They got Indiana at Oregon at Ohio State and Penn State,
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: and people are just writing Penn State a off like
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 1: they're not a very talented team and they just got
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 1: Matt Campbell and they got a quarterback. This Penn State
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: team is gonna be a tough out. This this, my friends,
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 1: could be the most difficult Big ten schedule that we
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 1: that we see.
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 2: And they got Iowa on their to Ralph.
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 5: And that's why I think Michigan fans need to have
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 5: the mindset that this year, this schedule probably would have
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 5: gotten shrown more fired.
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 1: Oh, this would have absolutely he was he was gone
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 1: after this year.
• 1:06:13
  Speaker 2: No matter what.
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 5: So I would look at this as having a one
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 5: year head start eight nine wins. Eight or nine wins
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 5: would be so encouraging for a transition year. And you
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 5: got a one year head start on where you probably
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 5: already would have been maybe even halfway through, maybe even
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 5: by November of this season.
• 1:06:32
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• 1:08:05
  Speaker 1: to talk about. Next thing that we got to talk
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 1: about Michigan State. Ralph, Michigan State's biggest fear is that
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 1: you are stuck in Groundhog's day, that you just got
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 1: a that you just had a previous coach.
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 2: And oh my gosh, why's his name?
• 1:08:25
  Speaker 5: Of escaping me?
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 2: Ralph from Colorado? From Colorado by way of Alabama, they
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 2: got fired.
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 5: Wait who are you talking? You talking about Jonathan Smith
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 5: from Oregon State?
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 2: Or no, no, no, no, the coach before him?
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 4: Oh oh.
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and how did you make me forget? I was
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 5: reading about him today? You know that he's the reason
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 5: why you got Dan Lanning? Right?
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 1: No?
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 2: He so he left?
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 1: Lord, have mercy.
• 1:09:01
  Speaker 5: Mel Tucker. Mel Tucker left his defensive coordinator role at
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 5: Georgia for that Colorado job, which is what got Dan
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 5: Lanning promoted.
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 2: Oh butterfly effected it. Okay, okay, yeah, yeah.
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 5: That's a melt so on your on your gratitude list
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 5: you got if you're if you're loving what you're getting
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 5: out of Dan Lanning, you gotta have melt Tucker on
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 5: your gratitude list.
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 1: Oh if you sound like Alabama fans that that should
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 1: have Drew Brees on their on their gratitude list. They
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 1: should so, And if you guys don't know what what
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 1: that's about, go back to another episode of On a
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 1: Fraid Joe, or look on the shorts, because there's a
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: whole thing about why Drew Brees is so important to
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 1: Alabama and actually got them six national championships. All right, So,
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 1: Mel Tucker, Jonathan Smith, and now you're a head.
• 1:09:52
  Speaker 2: Coach who just got fired.
• 1:09:54
  Speaker 1: He got exonerated over there at at Northwestern and Pat Fitzgerald,
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: and so Michigan State's biggest fears should be that they
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 1: are stuck in Groundhog's Day and they don't have the
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 1: right coach or the right NIO, the right alignment. That
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: they are just stuck in purgatory for a while, which
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 1: will make my brother in law very sad.
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 5: I think Michigan State's Achilles heel is the spelling of
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 5: their potential quarterbacks name. Have you ever? Have you ever
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 5: taken a shot? I would love for you to take
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 5: a shot at this I would love he finished last
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 5: year as a starter. I would love for you blindly
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 5: to take a shot at this man's name. I'm gonna
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 5: put it in the chat and I just I want you,
• 1:10:45
  Speaker 5: I want you to take a shot at it. Don't
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 5: even think once you see it come in the chat,
• 1:10:51
  Speaker 5: just read it.
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 4: Here we go, okay, where okay, okay, interview chat.
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 2: Let me pull it up.
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 4: Where the hell is interview chat it?
• 1:11:11
  Speaker 5: I should just text it to you.
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't know where to find it.
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 5: I would love. I love the idea that you saw
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 5: his name when I put it in the chat and
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 5: you're just like in the prom You're like, I can't
• 1:11:20
  Speaker 5: find it, but you're googling how to phonetic.
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 1: No, bro, I can't find it. Text it, text it
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 1: to me because I have no idea how to how
• 1:11:28
  Speaker 1: to say this.
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 5: All right, so it's it's Alessio, which you can say.
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 5: You can say, Okay, right, Alessio. That's not too hard.
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 5: I'm gonning spell his last name for you.
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 3: M I l I v O j e v I
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 3: c m I l I v uh huh oh j
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 3: o j e v e v I seem.
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 1: Mill Millie Vojic milli Vojic. No, No, there's mill live
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: vote Oh Milliojevic's definitely not.
• 1:12:16
  Speaker 5: Oh okay mill of Vojevic.
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 2: Oh okay, yeah, okay, you're like and people.
• 1:12:26
  Speaker 5: Need to know like, I'm not just challenging, You're actually
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 5: like the king of Simoean last names. You're you're You're
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 5: actually really good at pronouncing this thing.
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 2: It's just the last name.
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 1: I get, I get, I can, I can, I can,
• 1:12:37
  Speaker 1: I can Iliavo. Yeah, with the best of.
• 1:12:44
  Speaker 5: Alessio mill of Vojevic. He looked so good at the
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 5: end of last year. And I almost wonder if Pat
• 1:12:51
  Speaker 5: Fitzgerald is you know, because his style at Northwestern I
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 5: think it was talent based, I really and people always
• 1:13:00
  Speaker 5: talked about that, who's the Navy coach? The coach can yeah, Dato, Yeah,
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 5: he speaking of some old last names. He went over
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 5: to San Jose State and he he's had like two
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 5: years in a row of one of the leading receivers
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 5: in all college football.
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 5: So it sometimes it's about how how your roster is built.
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 5: And I'm interested to see if Pat Fitzgerald comes in
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 5: and actually like opens up the offense. I think it's
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 5: gonna be a fun yer. I don't think there's a
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 5: ton of expectations for Michigan State. They got their chickens
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 5: in order, they got their money. They like you figured
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 5: they're gonna be fine. Pat Fitzgerald is a good coach.
• 1:13:39
  Speaker 5: We know this. Is he the right guy? I think
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 5: that's a great that's a great point. Is he the
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 5: right guy? We'll find out, But I don't think we're
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 5: gonna find out too much in year one. I would
• 1:13:48
  Speaker 5: love to see them just come out and let it
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 5: fly though, have some fun to because I think they
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 5: have a good quarterback and eventually we're all gonna have
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 5: to learn his name.
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, now let's move on to the Minnesota.
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 1: The Minnesota go didn't go for us because people tried
• 1:14:02
  Speaker 1: to poach their head coach and and mister yeah, they
• 1:14:07
  Speaker 1: tried to poach their head coach and PJ Fleck he
• 1:14:10
  Speaker 1: said no, he lost his best player, was second best player,
• 1:14:15
  Speaker 1: because they because they retain their quarterback, they lost their
• 1:14:21
  Speaker 1: best player to the portal uh in in Coy Parish.
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 1: And for this upcoming season, Rob, I look at them
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh, they I just don't see. I
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 1: don't see where Michigan, I'm sorry, where Minnesota gets over
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 1: the hump for this year.
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 5: What is what is the hump for them? More than
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 5: eight wins? Yes, hmm, that's a good point. I I
• 1:15:00
  Speaker 5: would think maybe with a bounce back year from Darius Taylor.
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 5: Not that he was bad last year, it's just that
• 1:15:04
  Speaker 5: he wasn't his sophomore year. In freshman year, he was
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 5: so good that you thought his junior year was going
• 1:15:11
  Speaker 5: to be his last year there, and now he's coming back.
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 5: He was their leading rusher last year. I think he
• 1:15:17
  Speaker 5: probably has the potential to be a thirteen fourteen hundred
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 5: yard back. And so you know, if they're able to
• 1:15:22
  Speaker 5: run the ball. Drake Lindsay is a fine quarterback. I
• 1:15:26
  Speaker 5: like him a lot. If there's any offensive consistency at all,
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 5: I think they can get back to eight to nine wins.
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 5: I do. But it's but Minnesota, Indiana has ruined things
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 5: for everybody. For everybody. You have this, you have this
• 1:15:39
  Speaker 5: charismatic leader in PJ. Fleck, who is an involved recruiter.
• 1:15:45
  Speaker 5: They play an exciting schedule. They play when they have
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 5: the athletes available. They can play an exciting brand of football,
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 5: weather permitting. But you know, if they can run the ball,
• 1:15:56
  Speaker 5: I think they might have a nice little year.
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, oh, definitely that And so we have their their
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 1: schedule handy all right, here here's their schedule. How do
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 1: you feel about this? Eastern Illinois, Mississippi State, Mississippi. You
• 1:16:17
  Speaker 1: cannot say Mississippi. You gotta say Mississippi, Mississippi State, Akron,
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 1: at Washington, Michigan, at Purdue Iowa, at Indiana, Ucla, at
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 1: Penn State, Northwestern, and at Wisconsin. So they avoid Oregon
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 1: and Ohio State, which which has to be a blessing
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 1: for any team in the Big Ten. Oh oh, and
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 1: they avoid USC two. That feels like you got off light.
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 5: Yeah. Five, I mean five conference wins would be real
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 5: nice for them in my opinion, because you have to
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 5: figure there probably gonna you know, Mississippi State's maybe maybe
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 5: a toss up maybe, but five conference wins is going
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 5: to get you in a position to maybe have a
• 1:17:08
  Speaker 5: nine win season. And you know, in the history of
• 1:17:12
  Speaker 5: that program, they they've had the back to back five
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 5: and four conference wins. That's good, it's good enough. It's
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 5: good enough, right he has he he did have the
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 5: eleven win year, what in his third season. Yeah, but
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 5: that that's not who this team is there. They are
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 5: a team that's going to compete for eight and nine
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 5: wins every single year. I don't see them being you know,
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 5: making a run for the College Football Playoff or anything
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 5: like that.
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 1: So I guess that their biggest fear has to be
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 1: not nine wins and losing their their head coach. That
• 1:17:48
  Speaker 1: probably should be their biggest.
• 1:17:49
  Speaker 5: Fear, which if people have been making a run at him,
• 1:17:54
  Speaker 5: that there's always going to be the thought that like, oh,
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 5: well it's Minnesota. If he can get eight to nine
• 1:17:58
  Speaker 5: wins every single year at Minnesota, what can he do.
• 1:18:02
  Speaker 1: For us?
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 5: And then you get the fatigue amongst the fan base
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 5: if you're if you're not punching past your feeling what
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 5: because that eleven win season in his third year kind
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 5: of maybe set an expectation that he's gonna.
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 2: Get You said you get the what with the fan base? Well?
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 5: What did I say?
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 2: You said you get something with with the fan I
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 2: don't know what you said. That's why I was like, what.
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 3: Did you say?
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 5: The benefit of the doubt or I don't know.
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 2: I thought you were gonna say fatigue, but you said
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 2: something else, Oh.
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 5: Fatigue, and maybe what I meant?
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 2: Oh okay, I was like, what I'm.
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 5: Gonna have to find I don't have to go back
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 5: and find out.
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 2: I was like, what did you say?
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 5: Yeah? I mean worry man? I was like, did I
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 5: say a slur or something.
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 2: No, you did not say it slur. All right. The
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 2: next thing that we got to talk about the Nebraska
• 1:18:57
  Speaker 2: coin Huskers. The thing that they have to worry about is.
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 1: Nebraska should be worried in the twenty twenty sixth season
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 1: that they are still Nebraska, that they are they they
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 1: are a has been used to be college football team.
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 1: They have to worry about the quarterback position. Even though
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 1: that Dylan Ryola wasn't the best quarterback in the whole world.
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 2: He was competent.
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 1: The house wouldn't burn down with him with a minute.
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 1: And now you're looking at them and you're saying, what
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 1: what what? What are we supposed to make out of this?
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 1: They their fans got upset with me because I talked
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 1: about their recruiting rankings and they were like, we're the
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 1: youngest team in college football. We have six hundred and
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 1: thirty eight freshmen. Okay, so now what are you going
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 1: to do with those freshmen? What are you going to
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 1: do because last year is not going to be good enough.
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 1: Just making it to a bowl game and what your
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 1: your four of your head coach is not going to
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 1: be the answer, especially after he just got an extension.
• 1:20:05
  Speaker 1: So so you brought in another quarterback in the transfer portal?
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 1: Or is it gonna be TJ Latif who's gonna be
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 1: your your starter who ended up starting a bunch of
• 1:20:15
  Speaker 1: games last year even though he wasn't necessarily ready to
• 1:20:17
  Speaker 1: be the starter? And uh yeah, So I I just
• 1:20:24
  Speaker 1: don't know.
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  Speaker 2: How this works.
• 1:20:27
  Speaker 1: They they lost their starting running back Emmitt Johnson because
• 1:20:31
  Speaker 1: he declared for the draft.
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  Speaker 2: I I just don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't see a world where this is a excellent
• 1:20:42
  Speaker 1: football team.
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 5: I think it could happen, But my worry, and I
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 5: think the Nebraska Beans worry should be that if it
• 1:20:50
  Speaker 5: does happen, it'll be on accident. I think I think
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 5: that the biggest problem for this team is that there's
• 1:20:56
  Speaker 5: a massive lack of identity. Being willing to go from
• 1:21:00
  Speaker 5: the three three five to the four two five is
• 1:21:04
  Speaker 5: probably a good idea. I think rob our Rich might
• 1:21:06
  Speaker 5: be one of the best hires of the entire offseason
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 5: by any school. There's a fantastic addition as your defensive coordinator.
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 5: But why didn't Tony White work out? Why why didn't
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 5: your original offensive coordinator who you stood by workout? And
• 1:21:18
  Speaker 5: then you had to bring in Daniel Holgerson. How come
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 5: your quarterback didn't want to be there anymore? Well, you know,
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 5: what is your identity at quarterback? Were you trying to
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 5: go for an identity or we're just trying to go
• 1:21:30
  Speaker 5: for the best available player. So you know, I I
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 5: know that they didn't bring in that many freshmen. I
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 5: love the running back they got Jamal Rule. I got
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 5: a chance to see him in play in person. He
• 1:21:44
  Speaker 5: ran for about two hundred and fifty yards against my kids.
• 1:21:46
  Speaker 5: He's a monster and I like I and I know
• 1:21:49
  Speaker 5: you're a KWASI Gilmour guy? That they got another transfer portal? My?
• 1:21:54
  Speaker 5: I think my biggest worry if I'm a Nebraska fan
• 1:21:56
  Speaker 5: is that's even if this year does look different than
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 5: the previous years, if you are a contender, then maybe
• 1:22:01
  Speaker 5: it's not sustainable because maybe it's not on purpose. And
• 1:22:05
  Speaker 5: that is are they a purpose driven, identity driven team
• 1:22:11
  Speaker 5: or are they just throwing stuff at the wall every
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 5: single year to see what is going to happen. But
• 1:22:17
  Speaker 5: I do love a couple of these freshmen. I do
• 1:22:18
  Speaker 5: love a couple of these transfers. I'm not to be mean,
• 1:22:23
  Speaker 5: but I think it might have some addition by subtraction
• 1:22:25
  Speaker 5: at the quarterback position, and their defensive coordinator is going
• 1:22:30
  Speaker 5: to be a star. So I'm higher on Nebraska than
• 1:22:33
  Speaker 5: I've been in a really long time. I just worry
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 5: if them being good is going to be a matter
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 5: of intent or it's going to be a matter of
• 1:22:40
  Speaker 5: just like it worked this time.
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 1: He's saying a broken clock is right twice twice a day.
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 1: But you're a non conference schedule. I mean, if they
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 1: can't if they can't start the season three and zero
• 1:22:54
  Speaker 1: against Ohio Bowling Green in North Dakota, this season is lost.
• 1:22:58
  Speaker 2: Anyway.
• 1:23:00
  Speaker 1: Then they got a head head to East Lansing. They
• 1:23:02
  Speaker 1: got Maryland, Indiana, at Oregon, Washington, at Illinois, Ohio State,
• 1:23:08
  Speaker 1: at Iowa Ralph I can't, I can't find. So they're
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 1: gonna start out three and oh, they're gonna lose to Indiana, Oregon,
• 1:23:19
  Speaker 1: Washington because Washington's at at home, so they'll for sure
• 1:23:22
  Speaker 1: when when that one at Illinois, Ohio State and at Iowa.
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 1: So that's a minimum of six losses and then they
• 1:23:32
  Speaker 1: still got to get through Rutgers, Maryland, and Michigan State.
• 1:23:37
  Speaker 1: This team could end up upside down.
• 1:23:42
  Speaker 5: It could, but I think I think an eight nine
• 1:23:44
  Speaker 5: win season I think would be with this particular schedule,
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 5: would be very, very respectable. You do gotta worry if
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 5: they don't have their offense figured out by week four
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 5: and five, then you run a risk against a team
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 5: like Maryland, who I think is going to score some points.
• 1:23:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, now let's talk about them buck Eyes,
• 1:24:03
  Speaker 1: the Ohio State buck guys, and.
• 1:24:08
  Speaker 2: What should they be afraid of Ralph because I.
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 1: They have Julian Saying coming back, And I have talked
• 1:24:16
  Speaker 1: about Julian Saying extensively. I've watched him play against my
• 1:24:19
  Speaker 1: kid in high school, Washington play in college. He's an
• 1:24:22
  Speaker 1: efficiency quarterback. He is not going to wile you with
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 1: his arm strength. He's not gonna wore you with his
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 1: running ability. He's not gonna wow you with anything except
• 1:24:30
  Speaker 1: for his consistency and decision making.
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 2: You're like, god, damn.
• 1:24:33
  Speaker 1: He just doesn't make bad choices very often, and he's
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 1: pretty accurate. Like he does the requisite things to be
• 1:24:43
  Speaker 1: a good quarterback. And then you add in Jeremiah Smith
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 1: and the rest of the weapons that they have around him.
• 1:24:50
  Speaker 1: They're a good offensive line. Bo Jackson at running back. Yes,
• 1:24:54
  Speaker 1: they're losing a lot with. I mean they lose a
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 1: lot on defense when you lose Arvel Caleb Downs McDonald,
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 1: the corner, Igmunosan ignosan or Bona ja I forgot how
• 1:25:13
  Speaker 1: you say his name. And then so they lose a lot,
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 1: like they lose a bunch of NFL players, and Caleb
• 1:25:19
  Speaker 1: Downs is the one. He's like the perfect player. So
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 1: and then you look at what r Vel Reese was
• 1:25:25
  Speaker 1: as a specimen. Oh and then Sonny Styles two there
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 1: is a zero percent chance. I don't care what Matt
• 1:25:32
  Speaker 1: Patricia does. He can't run the same defense last year
• 1:25:36
  Speaker 1: as he ran this year. I mean, sorry this year
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 1: as he ran last year, because he's not going to
• 1:25:41
  Speaker 1: have the level of experience and as good of players.
• 1:25:45
  Speaker 1: And it's not to say that Ohio State's just gonna
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 1: oh because they recruit well, but there's a big difference
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 1: in what you had in RVL Reee, Sonny Styles McDonald,
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 1: the other d n and and Caleb Downs and and
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 1: the rest of the second secondary as well. So yes,
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 1: they have good players, but it is going to take
• 1:26:05
  Speaker 1: a step back talent.
• 1:26:06
  Speaker 5: Wise, you think. So they they hit the portal hard.
• 1:26:15
  Speaker 2: Okay, who are you excited about out of their portal
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 2: hal Well.
• 1:26:20
  Speaker 5: Based on the way they run their offense, I think
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 5: the UTSA wide receiver Devin McQuinn could be could could
• 1:26:25
  Speaker 5: be good. They rated Alabama. They got James Smith off
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 5: that off that D line. John Walker was a good
• 1:26:34
  Speaker 5: D lineman for for UCF. I think both of those
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 5: guys will be impact players. Dominic Kelly Corner out of
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 5: Georgia I think could come in and play right away.
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 5: Earl Little out of Florida State, that's good. That one
• 1:26:50
  Speaker 5: kind of surprised me. He's older too. Right, if we're
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 5: if we're all saying these twenty three twenty four year
• 1:26:54
  Speaker 5: olds like they're the they're the ones that that that
• 1:26:57
  Speaker 5: help you win these games, it's I think it's that
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 5: they win senior heavy and I heard you and I
• 1:27:03
  Speaker 5: both heard Kenny Dillingham talk about this once at Arizona State.
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 5: When you bring it in transfers, whether they're going to
• 1:27:08
  Speaker 5: play or not, you do want to have roster balance.
• 1:27:11
  Speaker 5: So you look at a guy like Justin Martin, your
• 1:27:13
  Speaker 5: guy who they brought in to be the backup quarterback.
• 1:27:16
  Speaker 5: This is a red shirt senior. They also took a
• 1:27:17
  Speaker 5: red shirt senior tight end out of Northwestern they took
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 5: or Little as a red shirt senior. They took a
• 1:27:23
  Speaker 5: red shirt senior safety out of Duke that Mason Williams,
• 1:27:28
  Speaker 5: the tight end they got at Ohio, is going to
• 1:27:30
  Speaker 5: be going into his fourth year in college. So I
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 5: think that bringing in a lot of experience in the
• 1:27:35
  Speaker 5: portal it might make up for the talent dip, because
• 1:27:38
  Speaker 5: if you are one of those people who criticized Indiana,
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 5: sometimes experience does make up for raw talent, and they
• 1:27:44
  Speaker 5: went heavily on experience out of the port So.
• 1:27:48
  Speaker 1: I guess that that would be the thing that you
• 1:27:50
  Speaker 1: would be afraid of if you are Ohio State, is
• 1:27:53
  Speaker 1: that you're bringing in so many transfers and that's not
• 1:27:57
  Speaker 1: how you won a national championship, and you're trying to
• 1:28:02
  Speaker 1: fill spots And is that then going to impact your recruiting?
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 1: How's it going to impact your your team balance? And
• 1:28:08
  Speaker 1: you know, now onto their their s.
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 5: If I'm a Ohio State fan, I'm not afraid of anything.
• 1:28:15
  Speaker 5: I walk around like I'm I'm maybe maybe deep deep
• 1:28:19
  Speaker 5: deep in the recesses of my brain. I worry that
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 5: Julian Saying showed us his best. Maybe, But if I'm
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 5: an Ohio State fan so confident going into this year.
• 1:28:30
  Speaker 5: I don't know really yeah yeah, because you already beat
• 1:28:35
  Speaker 5: Texas and may maybe the truth will get told that
• 1:28:38
  Speaker 5: second game, but you already beat Texas the way that
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 5: you ran out of gas.
• 1:28:45
  Speaker 2: Dr though and there to be out for revenge.
• 1:28:54
  Speaker 1: But then you got their their non conference house side
• 1:28:57
  Speaker 1: of Texas, nothing nothing to speak about Illinois, Iowa, Maryland
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 1: at Indiana, and then you get a bye, and then
• 1:29:04
  Speaker 1: you follow that up with USC, Oregon, nor Northwestern Nebraska, Michigan.
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 1: Their back half of the schedule is tough. Their back
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 1: half of the schedule is tough, and you're gonna see
• 1:29:15
  Speaker 1: what they're made out of. They finished twelve to zero
• 1:29:18
  Speaker 1: in the regular season last year, one of the most
• 1:29:20
  Speaker 1: dominant defenses, and then it fell apart in the Big
• 1:29:23
  Speaker 1: Ten Championship and then against and then against Miami in
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 1: the College Football playoffs. So this is a roster that
• 1:29:34
  Speaker 1: should be national championship worthy, all the portal additions and everything,
• 1:29:39
  Speaker 1: but now it's building a team. And then they lose
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 1: their offensive coordinator, who I told I told everybody last
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 1: year that it was going to be his last season
• 1:29:53
  Speaker 1: at Ohio State.
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 5: Oh No.
• 1:29:55
  Speaker 1: Georgian's gonna wait for the head coaching job. Oh yeah, okay, yeah,
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 1: he waited for the one down at down down at
• 1:30:03
  Speaker 1: two lane. That's what he was waiting on. So so
• 1:30:08
  Speaker 1: uh yeah, this that that's what Ohio State needs to
• 1:30:12
  Speaker 1: be worried about. I think that they're staring ten and
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 1: two at the face.
• 1:30:19
  Speaker 5: Ten and two with a CFP appearing like they're still
• 1:30:23
  Speaker 5: getting in.
• 1:30:24
  Speaker 1: Yes, but that it could be a nine to three
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 1: year because it's.
• 1:30:29
  Speaker 5: It's a nasty schedule. But I I think that they
• 1:30:33
  Speaker 5: I don't know. I think they they're If they lose
• 1:30:36
  Speaker 5: to Texas, then it's we'll see how much they panic.
• 1:30:40
  Speaker 5: But I think that this is a this is going
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 5: to be a solid team. It'll sneak up on some people,
• 1:30:45
  Speaker 5: but the experience they brought in, with the with the
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 5: the high level experience they have coming back, I think
• 1:30:52
  Speaker 5: they'll be okay.
• 1:30:54
  Speaker 2: All right, all right, Penn State.
• 1:31:01
  Speaker 1: Penn State only needs to be afraid of one thing
• 1:31:05
  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty six Ralph. One thing and it's the
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 1: same thing that they need to be afraid of in
• 1:31:10
  Speaker 1: twenty seven, twenty eight, twenty nine thirty is that they
• 1:31:16
  Speaker 1: fired James Franklin to get James Franklin. That's the only
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 1: thing that they need to be afraid of is that
• 1:31:25
  Speaker 1: they have And mind you, James Franklin is one of
• 1:31:29
  Speaker 1: the active coaches that has the five most wins in
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 1: college football.
• 1:31:35
  Speaker 2: He will get you to ten wins every year.
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 1: Yes, he's had some trouble against the top ten teams,
• 1:31:42
  Speaker 1: because guess who the top ten teams have been Ohio State,
• 1:31:45
  Speaker 1: They've been against Oregon. They like, he's not just losing
• 1:31:49
  Speaker 1: to any old body. So I think that people need
• 1:31:54
  Speaker 1: to take a chill pill. I believe that Matt Campbell's
• 1:31:58
  Speaker 1: a really good coach. This feels exactly like Kyle Whittingham
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 1: getting Michigan to me Ralph that it is a very
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 1: good head coach that you have wondered what he could
• 1:32:09
  Speaker 1: do with premier talent. Now he's going to get a
• 1:32:12
  Speaker 1: chance to have the opportunity to show what he can do.
• 1:32:15
  Speaker 1: So Penn State fans have patience, but also don't get
• 1:32:20
  Speaker 1: frustrated because James Franklin may have eventually gotten you to
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 1: a national championship and Matt Campbell may eventually get you
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 1: to one as well. But don't don't fire the guy
• 1:32:32
  Speaker 1: who wins, You know, over the course of you know
• 1:32:36
  Speaker 1: who doesn't have losing seasons and gets your ten wins
• 1:32:39
  Speaker 1: a year, don't fire that guy.
• 1:32:42
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll say this about Matt Campbell. He got he
• 1:32:45
  Speaker 5: has four wins against top ten teams in eleven tries.
• 1:32:49
  Speaker 5: James Franklin and four wins against top ten teams in
• 1:32:53
  Speaker 5: twenty five tries. So, you know, maybe it is the same,
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 5: maybe it's not. But if I'm a penn State fan,
• 1:32:59
  Speaker 5: my biggest year is that this James Franklin vendetta where
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 5: he took the whole recruiting class doesn't end.
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 1: Now He's got a target pointed at them every every
• 1:33:14
  Speaker 1: time like I want oh, they want they want that guy.
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 1: I want him, I want him. I'll get them.
• 1:33:21
  Speaker 5: Yeah. My my my thing is like, yeah, move on
• 1:33:24
  Speaker 5: from James Franklin. But creating an enemy of James Franklin
• 1:33:29
  Speaker 5: maybe not the best. Maybe not the best idea. You
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 5: will see somebody recruit western Pennsylvania. You'll never see anybody
• 1:33:37
  Speaker 5: recruit western Pennsylvania harder than James Franklin does. Over the
• 1:33:41
  Speaker 5: next three years. I guarantee you that the Pennsylvania to
• 1:33:45
  Speaker 5: Ohio River Valley to to uh to Virginia pipeline is
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 5: about to be flowing. But I I don't know, I
• 1:33:55
  Speaker 5: don't really know what to expect in year one. It's
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 5: Iowa State in Penn State uniforms. It's a tougher schedule.
• 1:34:01
  Speaker 5: Everything that Matt Campbell's ever accomplished, he's done without a
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 5: top forty recruiting class. We brought those guys to Penn State,
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 5: and so, I mean, you are going to want to
• 1:34:12
  Speaker 5: see dudes.
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 1: James Madison took them to Indiana, so you know, so
• 1:34:16
  Speaker 1: we can't knock them. We when when you add them
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 1: in with some premier talent, you may have something premiere.
• 1:34:22
  Speaker 5: Uh.
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 1: But this schedule though their non conference we we we
• 1:34:26
  Speaker 1: shall not even speak about this. Wisconsin at Northwestern USC,
• 1:34:32
  Speaker 1: which is going to be a tough game, at Michigan
• 1:34:35
  Speaker 1: tough game.
• 1:34:36
  Speaker 2: But Ralph, they of this is this is the dream.
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 1: This is the easiest possible Big ten schedule. You do
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 1: not have Indiana, you do not have Oregon, you do
• 1:34:48
  Speaker 1: not have Ohio State.
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 2: What else could you possibly Yes?
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 1: And then USC comes to it's pretty great. Yes, Yes,
• 1:34:58
  Speaker 1: this is this is i deal. This is peak Big
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 1: ten schedule. This is this man from heaven?
• 1:35:09
  Speaker 5: What is the what is the flirting versus harassment meme
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 5: ten and two with Matt Campbell is going to be
• 1:35:15
  Speaker 5: flirting In ten and two with James Franklin was harassment.
• 1:35:18
  Speaker 2: Yes, exactly, all right.
• 1:35:21
  Speaker 1: We got the Perdue boiler Makers, Ralph. They were much
• 1:35:28
  Speaker 1: improved last year. Coach comes over from U n l
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 1: U n l V, does a very good job. They
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 1: were highly competitive and what they need to be afraid
• 1:35:43
  Speaker 1: of that this year, to me is nothing. I don't
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 1: think that they should be afraid of anything because the
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 1: expectations should be very low. That that Barry Odam and
• 1:35:58
  Speaker 1: this offense and this. All you want them to do
• 1:36:02
  Speaker 1: is go be competitive and win a couple of the
• 1:36:05
  Speaker 1: games that you should win. That is that is all
• 1:36:08
  Speaker 1: I want if I am Perdue. I want to beat
• 1:36:12
  Speaker 1: Indiana State in the in the non conference, I want
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 1: to beat Wake Forest, which is gonna be a tougher
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 1: game than most people really want to admit, and then
• 1:36:23
  Speaker 1: I know I'm gonna lose to Notre Dame. I want
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 1: to beat Ucla. Let me put it put up to
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 1: schedule so everybody can see it. I want to beat Ucla.
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 1: I want to uh, you know, be competitive at Illinois
• 1:36:38
  Speaker 1: competitive against Notre Dame, potentially beat Minnesota, competitive with Washington,
• 1:36:45
  Speaker 1: competitive with Penn's, Penn State, beat Maryland, beat Wisconsin, and
• 1:36:50
  Speaker 1: then competitive with Iowa. That feels like a good and
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 1: then whatever happened, and then don't lose by fifty to
• 1:36:59
  Speaker 1: to just make it like a two touchdown game. That'll
• 1:37:03
  Speaker 1: be exactly what Purdwe fans are looking for. Nice nice What.
• 1:37:08
  Speaker 2: Five and seven season six and six? After last year?
• 1:37:14
  Speaker 1: Going what two ten, zero to nine into big ten five,
• 1:37:17
  Speaker 1: five and seven would be a godsend. They lost ten
• 1:37:20
  Speaker 1: in a row.
• 1:37:24
  Speaker 5: They brought in fifty three players this offseason. I don't
• 1:37:30
  Speaker 5: even know what to expect. I will say this, they
• 1:37:32
  Speaker 5: doubled their wins under Barry Otam in the first year.
• 1:37:35
  Speaker 5: They went from one win to two a big difference too.
• 1:37:38
  Speaker 5: They went from giving up forty points to thirty points.
• 1:37:41
  Speaker 5: That's big, right, Like they they did look better. But
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 5: I you look at this transfer class and it's it's
• 1:37:50
  Speaker 5: a lot of guys who weren't stars elsewhere but were contributors,
• 1:37:57
  Speaker 5: like they could play some football. But I already two
• 1:38:00
  Speaker 5: guys they brought in in the portal class. I don't
• 1:38:02
  Speaker 5: see anybody that I'm like this is this is somebody
• 1:38:06
  Speaker 5: who's gonna make an impact right away. There's some guys
• 1:38:09
  Speaker 5: I'm interested in. They got a six four to two
• 1:38:11
  Speaker 5: thirty linebacker out of University of San Diego that if he,
• 1:38:17
  Speaker 5: if he translates it, he can he can go from
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 5: you know, FCS school where they don't even have athletic
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 5: scholarships the PFL league all the way to the Big
• 1:38:28
  Speaker 5: Ten and have the type of production that he had there,
• 1:38:33
  Speaker 5: you know, six sacks, three forced fumbles, then all of
• 1:38:36
  Speaker 5: a sudden, you've got a playmaker on the defense. So
• 1:38:40
  Speaker 5: if I'm a Purdue fan, Yeah, why would you be
• 1:38:42
  Speaker 5: afraid of anything? You've been to the depths of Hell.
• 1:38:45
  Speaker 5: You were born and bred in the depths of Hell.
• 1:38:48
  Speaker 5: You shouldn't be scared of anyone. You should be scared
• 1:38:50
  Speaker 5: of having to memorize fifty three new names. Yeah, that's
• 1:38:53
  Speaker 5: a lot NFL you need to.
• 1:38:55
  Speaker 2: Be afraid of. Just just go out and hope you
• 1:38:58
  Speaker 2: get four wins, five.
• 1:39:00
  Speaker 5: Exactly, double it two years in a row. Why not?
• 1:39:03
  Speaker 2: Yep? All right?
• 1:39:04
  Speaker 1: Next team up, the Rutgers Scarlet Knights. This is a
• 1:39:09
  Speaker 1: team that went two and seven in the Big Ten
• 1:39:11
  Speaker 1: last year. Their U their only wins were Perdue and
• 1:39:16
  Speaker 1: they beat yeah Purdue in Maryland. And this year, Ralph,
• 1:39:21
  Speaker 1: if I'm Rutgers, I the thing I have to be
• 1:39:26
  Speaker 1: afraid of is Indy. That we're not Indiana, that the
• 1:39:33
  Speaker 1: hope that Indiana got with Kurt Signetti, that Greg Ciano
• 1:39:38
  Speaker 1: is not possible, that that that he doesn't have that
• 1:39:41
  Speaker 1: in in him, that that that's not his ceiling is
• 1:39:45
  Speaker 1: a national championship. But sometimes you don't need a coach
• 1:39:49
  Speaker 1: to get you to the national championship. You need to
• 1:39:52
  Speaker 1: get the coach to get the stuff in the in
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 1: ready for you, like like you had for for Oregon.
• 1:39:59
  Speaker 1: You have Willie Haggard, get your Mario Christobal, who then gets.
• 1:40:03
  Speaker 2: You Dan Lanning.
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 1: So Willie Taggert was very necessary in Oregon's trajectory, and
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 1: maybe Greg Ciano is very necessary in Rutgers trajectory. So
• 1:40:16
  Speaker 1: that's what I believe for them, that this season is
• 1:40:20
  Speaker 1: gonna be tough. And I just don't see a world
• 1:40:24
  Speaker 1: after last year where they have one of the best
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 1: pass offenses in the country and one of the worst
• 1:40:30
  Speaker 1: defenses in the country, that all of a sudden that
• 1:40:33
  Speaker 1: this defense is gonna look better.
• 1:40:36
  Speaker 2: I mean Howard and U mass Hell.
• 1:40:39
  Speaker 1: They could end up with a game against them or
• 1:40:41
  Speaker 1: against Boston College who was god awful on offense last
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 1: year and atrocious on defense as well. But then they
• 1:40:50
  Speaker 1: got USC, Indiana, at Maryland, at Northwestern Michigan. But they
• 1:40:56
  Speaker 1: do avoid Ohio State and Oregon. But if when you're
• 1:41:00
  Speaker 1: at Rutgers level, that doesn't even matter because all the
• 1:41:04
  Speaker 1: rest of the games are going to be highly competitive,
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 1: so you you have more toss up games, which gives
• 1:41:10
  Speaker 1: fans a little bit more opportunity to be frustrated if
• 1:41:15
  Speaker 1: you lose a lot of those toss up games.
• 1:41:19
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think my biggest fears of Rutgers fan is
• 1:41:22
  Speaker 5: that we made an absolute home run higher at defensive
• 1:41:26
  Speaker 5: coordinator this offseason. They got Travis Johansson from University of
• 1:41:29
  Speaker 5: South Dakota. He was the head coach. By the way,
• 1:41:32
  Speaker 5: this is a trend that we're seeing his head coaches
• 1:41:35
  Speaker 5: leave smaller levels to go be position coaches elsewhere. Matt
• 1:41:39
  Speaker 5: enst did it after being a national championship winning coach
• 1:41:42
  Speaker 5: at North Dakota State. He went to USC. We just
• 1:41:45
  Speaker 5: talked about Bobby House stepping down from and then he
• 1:41:50
  Speaker 5: got his PRESDO State right away. Oh that's Jason Eck.
• 1:41:54
  Speaker 5: Oh yeah yeah, Matt Matt, yeah, yeah yeah. And so
• 1:42:01
  Speaker 5: we saw it with Bobby Hawk, and now we're seeing
• 1:42:04
  Speaker 5: it with Travis Johansen. He steps down from South Dakota
• 1:42:07
  Speaker 5: where he had six top ten defenses in fourteen years,
• 1:42:12
  Speaker 5: calling that defense six and Rutgers was tarrible with the
• 1:42:17
  Speaker 5: capital every letter last year. You make one of the
• 1:42:21
  Speaker 5: best possible hires you can make for a defensive coordinator.
• 1:42:25
  Speaker 5: And my biggest worry would be that it doesn't matter
• 1:42:28
  Speaker 5: that it's a talent issue and that we can't get
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 5: people out to New Jersey to play any defense. But
• 1:42:35
  Speaker 5: if they get both sides of the ball figured out,
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 5: We've seen what greg Ciano can do, so you know,
• 1:42:40
  Speaker 5: I'm sure they got a little bit of hope to
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 5: cling to. But that defense last year was so bad.
• 1:42:45
  Speaker 5: Good enough to win a couple of games against bad
• 1:42:47
  Speaker 5: teams in the Big Ten, but just putrid for the
• 1:42:50
  Speaker 5: final I don't know, nine weeks of the season. It
• 1:42:53
  Speaker 5: was objectively to me the worst defense in power for
• 1:42:59
  Speaker 5: for sure.
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 1: Next team up, the UCLA Bruins. You see, eh, you
• 1:43:12
  Speaker 1: see lay fight, fight fight. I've seen that way too
• 1:43:16
  Speaker 1: many times I've been away twenty games.
• 1:43:20
  Speaker 2: Okay, So.
• 1:43:22
  Speaker 1: UCLA falls in the same category to me as Rutgers fans.
• 1:43:29
  Speaker 1: There is nothing to be afraid of for this season.
• 1:43:32
  Speaker 1: There is no boogeyman. You got a new head coach,
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 1: Bob Chesney, who came from James Madison. The last James
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 1: Madison coach, Kurt Signetty, just got a national championship.
• 1:43:43
  Speaker 5: In two years.
• 1:43:44
  Speaker 1: So if you're a UCLA fan, you should be like,
• 1:43:47
  Speaker 1: that's eve what happens. Let me set my water. Let's
• 1:43:54
  Speaker 1: sit out in the hot Rose Bowl for where we
• 1:43:58
  Speaker 1: will be playing in twenty two despite people trying to
• 1:44:01
  Speaker 1: get us playing so far, there's nothing to be afraid of.
• 1:44:05
  Speaker 2: You're just sitting sitting back. There's nowhere to go but up.
• 1:44:10
  Speaker 1: All you want as a UCLA fan is to have
• 1:44:13
  Speaker 1: some energy, some juice, some hope around the program.
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 2: That is all you want. There is nothing, there is
• 1:44:20
  Speaker 2: no outcomes.
• 1:44:23
  Speaker 1: Outside of like that can make you more discouraged than
• 1:44:28
  Speaker 1: they were last year. In the first four weeks of
• 1:44:31
  Speaker 1: the season, there's nothing. There is nothing that can happen.
• 1:44:38
  Speaker 1: Everything's an opportunity. Everything's an opportunity. This schedule, they got
• 1:44:44
  Speaker 1: there at Cal familiar team, taslup Poys, the head coach.
• 1:44:48
  Speaker 2: They're in a rebuild too.
• 1:44:49
  Speaker 1: Hell, you could win that game San Diego State, You're
• 1:44:52
  Speaker 1: gonna be more talented.
• 1:44:53
  Speaker 2: You can win that game.
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 5: Uh.
• 1:44:56
  Speaker 1: Then then you played Perdue. Oh that's a winnable game
• 1:45:01
  Speaker 1: at Maryland. Damn winnable game two. Bro at Oregon, Wisconsin,
• 1:45:06
  Speaker 1: Michigan State. Then you got Nevada in the middle of
• 1:45:08
  Speaker 1: the season. Like Ralph, they had a murderer's row at
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 1: the end of last year. This this schedule has nothing
• 1:45:18
  Speaker 1: but hope and upside. There's nothing to be afraid of,
• 1:45:24
  Speaker 1: nothing to be afraid of. Oh, so what we gotta
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 1: go to autin Stadium. We're going to lose that that
• 1:45:30
  Speaker 1: that game, there's nothing to be afraid of. If you
• 1:45:34
  Speaker 1: lose at Michigan. Okay, you would be disappointed if you
• 1:45:40
  Speaker 1: lose to to USC but they've been nil and and
• 1:45:44
  Speaker 1: having the same head coach and everything else. So but
• 1:45:47
  Speaker 1: that's a winnable game too. So you're just like Bro,
• 1:45:49
  Speaker 1: whatever happens this season, there's nothing for you cla to
• 1:45:53
  Speaker 1: be afraid of. Bro.
• 1:45:55
  Speaker 5: Nothing I agree with you, I agree with you. So
• 1:46:01
  Speaker 5: this is one of the best transfer classes in the country.
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 5: It's I think it's top fifteen. I think it's top
• 1:46:07
  Speaker 5: three in the Big ten. He got a lot of
• 1:46:11
  Speaker 5: his guys from James Madison. They were smaller guys. We'll
• 1:46:17
  Speaker 5: see how they perform in the in the Big ten.
• 1:46:20
  Speaker 5: But DJ Barksdale just an awesome, awesome dB. But he's
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 5: only five to seven. He brought in one of his
• 1:46:28
  Speaker 5: running backs I believe, who is only five to six
• 1:46:31
  Speaker 5: way Night. But they were stars at, you know, at
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 5: their previous school. But you know he likes size because
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 5: he went really really big on the O line, really
• 1:46:40
  Speaker 5: big on the D line. Brydon Lofton at tight end
• 1:46:43
  Speaker 5: is six five two thirty. I think he got a
• 1:46:45
  Speaker 5: six to eight O lineman. And then he also got
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 5: tyson Ford who's been at Notre Dame man Call at
• 1:46:50
  Speaker 5: six five three hundred on the D line. I'm with you.
• 1:46:55
  Speaker 5: I think UCLA fans should just enjoy the ride. This
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 5: is a very good transfer class. I think they're going
• 1:47:00
  Speaker 5: to be competitive immediately winning. I don't know, but these
• 1:47:05
  Speaker 5: games are going to be exciting. The other thing he
• 1:47:06
  Speaker 5: did that I loved is I don't think Nico plays
• 1:47:09
  Speaker 5: a full season. I really don't what I think he's
• 1:47:12
  Speaker 5: shown in his college career. I think he's shown in
• 1:47:14
  Speaker 5: his college career gets banged up a little bit.
• 1:47:16
  Speaker 2: Oh, I see what you're saying.
• 1:47:19
  Speaker 5: So I think I'm not saying no quish and I'm
• 1:47:21
  Speaker 5: saying healthy.
• 1:47:22
  Speaker 2: I am hopeful.
• 1:47:24
  Speaker 1: I think that this could be the surprise team of
• 1:47:27
  Speaker 1: the Big Big Ten, not a Big Ten winning team,
• 1:47:30
  Speaker 1: slow the hell down. I think that they could that
• 1:47:32
  Speaker 1: this could be an eight win team and surprise a
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 1: lot of people real fast, which would then make the
• 1:47:39
  Speaker 1: James Madison head coaching job. If you win win there,
• 1:47:42
  Speaker 1: then people are gonna be like that, that's gonna be
• 1:47:44
  Speaker 1: the guy that they start to plow.
• 1:47:47
  Speaker 5: I just my whole thing is, I never understand why
• 1:47:50
  Speaker 5: gms don't do this, why coaches don't do this. If
• 1:47:52
  Speaker 5: you have a franchise quarterback, why is the backup not
• 1:47:55
  Speaker 5: a similar mold so that not similar skill set. Clearly,
• 1:47:59
  Speaker 5: the start is a starter for a reason. The backup
• 1:48:01
  Speaker 5: is the backup for a reason. But why do you
• 1:48:03
  Speaker 5: have such a stylistic shift from your starting quarterback to
• 1:48:06
  Speaker 5: your backup quarterback. I've never understood that.
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, like like having a pocket passer and a runner.
• 1:48:13
  Speaker 5: Yeah, oh yeah, the Cardinals fan we got Colt McCoy
• 1:48:15
  Speaker 5: was behind Kyler Murray for years. Like, this is not
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 5: what do you were calling? You were calling to Kobe
• 1:48:23
  Speaker 5: Kobe exactly. Kobe got sacked like forty times in ten games.
• 1:48:28
  Speaker 5: But but but but Uh there's a not well nine
• 1:48:31
  Speaker 5: known guy that they brought into backup Nico named Ty Diefenbach,
• 1:48:35
  Speaker 5: six foot six, two thirty guys, spent a year at
• 1:48:38
  Speaker 5: pitt balled out at cal Poly. Uh, this is the
• 1:48:42
  Speaker 5: perfect fit for if Nico goes down, You're bringing in
• 1:48:45
  Speaker 5: somebody who is very similar skill set, maybe not in talent,
• 1:48:49
  Speaker 5: hard to be more talented than Nico, but there's not
• 1:48:51
  Speaker 5: going to be this dramatic shift in how you call
• 1:48:54
  Speaker 5: the offense.
• 1:48:55
  Speaker 1: Can I tell you I am so happy that Nico
• 1:48:58
  Speaker 1: stayed at UCLA. Think that was the best decision for him,
• 1:49:02
  Speaker 1: the best decision for how draft people see him and
• 1:49:05
  Speaker 1: everything else.
• 1:49:05
  Speaker 2: I think this was a quality decision.
• 1:49:09
  Speaker 1: Now let's talk about the guys across the street, the
• 1:49:13
  Speaker 1: USC Trojans. This is put up or shut up time
• 1:49:19
  Speaker 1: for the Trojans, for Lincoln Riley and the thing that UCLA,
• 1:49:25
  Speaker 1: oh excuse me, the thing that USC needs to be
• 1:49:27
  Speaker 1: afraid of is that Lincoln Riley is not the guy
• 1:49:31
  Speaker 1: that they thought he was, that he's not the builder
• 1:49:35
  Speaker 1: that they thought he was.
• 1:49:36
  Speaker 2: And now, mind you, this schedule, it was extremely tough.
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 1: They got Notre Dame up off the schedule, which makes
• 1:49:46
  Speaker 1: it a little more manageable. And without getting into that
• 1:49:50
  Speaker 1: whole rigamarou, everybody knows how we feel about that about us.
• 1:49:54
  Speaker 2: He ducking the smoke.
• 1:49:57
  Speaker 1: But they replaced them, so Notre Dame place USC with
• 1:50:02
  Speaker 1: byu USC replaced Notre Dame with with San Jose State.
• 1:50:11
  Speaker 1: They replaced Notre Dame with San Jose State. So then
• 1:50:15
  Speaker 1: you got San Jose State Fresno State in Louisiana in
• 1:50:19
  Speaker 1: your non conference, and then you play Rutgers at Rutgers.
• 1:50:27
  Speaker 2: Oregon and that's what you got.
• 1:50:32
  Speaker 1: And then you get a nice oh actually you get
• 1:50:35
  Speaker 1: a buy early off in the season after the Penn
• 1:50:38
  Speaker 1: State game.
• 1:50:41
  Speaker 2: They had.
• 1:50:41
  Speaker 1: They're the only Big Ten team with two buys. The
• 1:50:46
  Speaker 1: only thing that you need to be afraid of is
• 1:50:48
  Speaker 1: that this is the season that you have been pointing
• 1:50:50
  Speaker 1: to for years.
• 1:50:52
  Speaker 2: This is our year.
• 1:50:53
  Speaker 1: We're gonna win a Natty or we're gonna make the playoff.
• 1:50:57
  Speaker 1: The schedule, you dropped rival to make it route. If
• 1:51:03
  Speaker 1: they missed the playoff, I don't care the fact that
• 1:51:05
  Speaker 1: they gotta play Oregon, Washington at Penn State at Camp Randall, Wisconsin,
• 1:51:12
  Speaker 1: Ohio State at Indiana. I don't care about none of that.
• 1:51:16
  Speaker 1: If they cannot win, because to get to the playoffs,
• 1:51:22
  Speaker 1: they gotta be out of Oregon, Washington, Penn State, Ohio State,
• 1:51:27
  Speaker 1: and Indiana.
• 1:51:27
  Speaker 2: Out of those five games, mind them up, they have.
• 1:51:32
  Speaker 1: To win three of them. They have to win three
• 1:51:34
  Speaker 1: of them, assuming they don't drop any other game.
• 1:51:38
  Speaker 2: If they lose three of those games, it's over. It's over,
• 1:51:44
  Speaker 2: and they'll.
• 1:51:45
  Speaker 1: Probably drop another one as well if they if they're
• 1:51:47
  Speaker 1: the type of team that does that.
• 1:51:50
  Speaker 2: They got their quarterback coming back.
• 1:51:54
  Speaker 1: Jamva, but then they lose Jakobe Lane and he likes
• 1:51:58
  Speaker 1: to just throw reckless jump to him. Makai Lemon was
• 1:52:03
  Speaker 1: a devastating wide receiver, get open against anybody. Still traps
• 1:52:08
  Speaker 1: for hands. They lost their best defender in their safety.
• 1:52:15
  Speaker 1: They lost their defensive coordinator. Yes, they got a new
• 1:52:18
  Speaker 1: one in former head coach at TCU, but what are
• 1:52:24
  Speaker 1: we doing, Ralph? Are we going to in Gary Patterson?
• 1:52:30
  Speaker 1: I just don't see a world Ralph where this team
• 1:52:33
  Speaker 1: makes the college Football Playoff next year, and that's going
• 1:52:37
  Speaker 1: to devastate USC fans. But I just think that's the
• 1:52:42
  Speaker 1: reality of the world that we live in. And like
• 1:52:45
  Speaker 1: they pointed to twenty twenty six, for the last couple
• 1:52:48
  Speaker 1: of years, this is the year. But then their schedule
• 1:52:50
  Speaker 1: was like ooh ooh, this is gonna be tough. So
• 1:52:53
  Speaker 1: this is gonna put Lincoln Riley to every bit of
• 1:52:56
  Speaker 1: the test, and if they lose four games this year,
• 1:53:01
  Speaker 1: it is going to absolutely devastate the the the donor base.
• 1:53:08
  Speaker 1: They're gonna want him out of there, but he's got
• 1:53:10
  Speaker 1: too much guaranteed money, so they better try to go
• 1:53:13
  Speaker 1: all in again for twenty twenty seven.
• 1:53:18
  Speaker 5: I'm high on USC this year. I don't know about
• 1:53:22
  Speaker 5: the Gary Patterson thing. I really don't. I thought they
• 1:53:24
  Speaker 5: had a great defensive coordinator in the building. I do
• 1:53:27
  Speaker 5: think that hurts. I wish if and maybe this is
• 1:53:34
  Speaker 5: what I would say, like my fear. If I'm a
• 1:53:36
  Speaker 5: USC fan, I have plenty of fears and anxieties, namely
• 1:53:40
  Speaker 5: that you're gonna keep bringing my school up because you
• 1:53:42
  Speaker 5: never are anything nice to say. You know, George is
• 1:53:46
  Speaker 5: talking about the Tropans. It's not gonna be glowing. Listen,
• 1:53:49
  Speaker 5: it's a Reggie Bush story or something like that. But
• 1:53:52
  Speaker 5: I will say that my fear is that Jacoby Lane
• 1:53:57
  Speaker 5: ruined my chances at a college foot Playoffs appearance, because
• 1:54:03
  Speaker 5: you're bringing back your quarterback and your entire offensive line,
• 1:54:08
  Speaker 5: and it's a good offensive line. I like this offensive line.
• 1:54:11
  Speaker 5: Elani Noah and Tobias Raymond at guard are great, Killian
• 1:54:16
  Speaker 5: O'Connor at center. Elijah Page is fantastic for how tall
• 1:54:19
  Speaker 5: he is. When he's healthy, you have an experienced offensive line.
• 1:54:26
  Speaker 5: Everybody's returning, you got your quarterback returning, You're gonna be
• 1:54:29
  Speaker 5: healthier at running back. And they already showed some dedication
• 1:54:32
  Speaker 5: to running the ball a little bit. They are trying
• 1:54:37
  Speaker 5: to replace Jacoby Lane with Terrell Anderson from NC State,
• 1:54:42
  Speaker 5: who is maybe he's a deep ball guy, maybe not
• 1:54:45
  Speaker 5: a jump ball guy, but they are trying to replace
• 1:54:47
  Speaker 5: Jacoby Lane with Terrell Anderson average sixteen yards to catch
• 1:54:51
  Speaker 5: at NC State last year. It's not it's just not
• 1:54:54
  Speaker 5: in the same world. And then the McKay lemon thing,
• 1:54:59
  Speaker 5: like you're always going to have your wide receiver one
• 1:55:01
  Speaker 5: move on. That's tough to replace, regardless, but they got
• 1:55:04
  Speaker 5: bailed out of a lot of uh long down situations
• 1:55:09
  Speaker 5: through the ability of these receivers. If Trell Anderson can't
• 1:55:14
  Speaker 5: come in and just replace that production replaced.
• 1:55:19
  Speaker 1: Who's a who's a good player as well. He was
• 1:55:22
  Speaker 1: a true he was a true freshman. But it was
• 1:55:25
  Speaker 1: the combination of Jacobe Lane and Makai Lemon, even though
• 1:55:31
  Speaker 1: Dacobe missed some time last last last year. But then
• 1:55:34
  Speaker 1: they're also excited about their true freshman tight end.
• 1:55:37
  Speaker 2: But I will tell you this.
• 1:55:40
  Speaker 1: True freshman tight end that that Mark Mark Bowman. Obviously
• 1:55:44
  Speaker 1: he can run it, run a catch, which he'll be
• 1:55:46
  Speaker 1: able to do early on in his career. But being
• 1:55:49
  Speaker 1: able to block, that's a whole different that's a whole
• 1:55:53
  Speaker 1: different animal. And and he's not his jam right now.
• 1:55:57
  Speaker 5: That is blocking. Could you been blocking in the Big
• 1:56:01
  Speaker 5: ten as a as a freshman, as a true freshman?
• 1:56:04
  Speaker 2: Hell no, listen, listen.
• 1:56:05
  Speaker 1: I faced Kevin. I don't mean car Kevin Carter. Uh
• 1:56:11
  Speaker 1: oh gosh, the Andre Carter when he was at Cal
• 1:56:14
  Speaker 1: he was a senior. I was a freshman, dude. He
• 1:56:17
  Speaker 1: man handled me, man handled me. It wasn't even a
• 1:56:22
  Speaker 1: fair fight. So no, when he gets against you know
• 1:56:28
  Speaker 1: them them Oregon d Ns, Oh, it's gonna be a problem.
• 1:56:32
  Speaker 2: It is gonna be.
• 1:56:32
  Speaker 1: He might not even be able to be on the
• 1:56:34
  Speaker 1: on the field attached. You better be sending them out
• 1:56:38
  Speaker 1: for a past a pass play because you tried to
• 1:56:40
  Speaker 1: block him in the run game. You better be using
• 1:56:42
  Speaker 1: some smoking mirrors because that ain't happening.
• 1:56:46
  Speaker 5: Was was Mark? Did Mark Andrews play under stoops or
• 1:56:50
  Speaker 5: did he have any Lincoln Riley time?
• 1:56:53
  Speaker 1: I think he did have Lincoln Riley time, But but
• 1:56:55
  Speaker 1: I think Riley was the OC.
• 1:57:00
  Speaker 5: Okay, because that Mark Andrews six foot two hundred coming
• 1:57:05
  Speaker 5: out of high school. I think he appeared in one
• 1:57:09
  Speaker 5: game as a freshman. Yeah, but but and he only
• 1:57:13
  Speaker 5: had nineteen catches his second year there. So it does
• 1:57:17
  Speaker 5: take time.
• 1:57:18
  Speaker 1: It does, especially a tight end, because you gotta you know,
• 1:57:21
  Speaker 1: you gotta put your put put your big boy pants on.
• 1:57:25
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 1:57:25
  Speaker 1: The next team that we got up the Washington Huskies.
• 1:57:29
  Speaker 1: Washington's biggest The thing that the Washington Huskies need to
• 1:57:32
  Speaker 1: be afraid of Ralph in twenty twenty six, Yes, is
• 1:57:38
  Speaker 1: the road. They have been arocious on the road. I
• 1:57:45
  Speaker 1: mean it's not even the same team that they need
• 1:57:50
  Speaker 1: to be afraid of. And then the other thing is
• 1:57:52
  Speaker 1: them just having like continuity. Their quarterback tried to leave,
• 1:57:59
  Speaker 1: was like I don't want to be here. He had
• 1:58:02
  Speaker 1: to be forced back. So even though he got forced
• 1:58:06
  Speaker 1: back to Washington, even if he was like, okay, cool,
• 1:58:09
  Speaker 1: this is a smart move, I'll go back, there's still
• 1:58:11
  Speaker 1: a little part of him that wanted to leave, and
• 1:58:14
  Speaker 1: that is upset that he got forced back. Yes, he
• 1:58:18
  Speaker 1: got and you got a raise after he got forced
• 1:58:20
  Speaker 1: forced back, but still his teammates got a little bit
• 1:58:24
  Speaker 1: of resentment. Even if there's forgiveness there, it still ain't there.
• 1:58:29
  Speaker 1: Because Washington fans Ralph, as much as they are like
• 1:58:32
  Speaker 1: this is our quarterback, they secretly hate their quarterback. Because
• 1:58:37
  Speaker 1: as soon as he got ready to leave and said
• 1:58:40
  Speaker 1: he wanted out, oh he was a little they called
• 1:58:43
  Speaker 1: him everything under the sun, Oh he sucks, he's bad
• 1:58:46
  Speaker 1: and big games they oh, they let all of it out,
• 1:58:49
  Speaker 1: and then it was like, oh, I'm sorry, did I
• 1:58:52
  Speaker 1: did I say that out loud?
• 1:58:53
  Speaker 2: Should I delete those tweets? So, yeah, that's what Washington
• 1:58:58
  Speaker 2: needs to be afraid of.
• 1:59:01
  Speaker 5: They were mean, dude, you know, I love Demond. They
• 1:59:05
  Speaker 5: were just they calling, you know, a bright light's avoidant midget. Yes,
• 1:59:09
  Speaker 5: they were harsh, dude, they were harsh, and it's like
• 1:59:15
  Speaker 5: and at the same time it's like, but that the
• 1:59:17
  Speaker 5: team wasn't built to be that just yet they're building
• 1:59:22
  Speaker 5: towards something. Year three of Jed we saw it in Arizona.
• 1:59:26
  Speaker 5: But you know, I forgot kind of all about that.
• 1:59:32
  Speaker 5: I did see the Jed Fish interview the other day
• 1:59:34
  Speaker 5: and he got clipped and it was kind of unfair
• 1:59:36
  Speaker 5: the way they framed the quote when he said, like
• 1:59:38
  Speaker 5: a lot of people's quarterbacks left this year, ours didn't.
• 1:59:42
  Speaker 5: But he did go in depth of like they tried. Yeah,
• 1:59:48
  Speaker 5: but he did go in depth about how like, you know,
• 1:59:51
  Speaker 5: when you're being recruited, you're turning down schools that you
• 1:59:54
  Speaker 5: do want to to go to. And I saw somebody
• 1:59:57
  Speaker 5: else give it who has said, like who was a
• 2:00:01
  Speaker 5: stay at one school all four years? And they're like,
• 2:00:03
  Speaker 5: if the portal had been there when I was there,
• 2:00:05
  Speaker 5: I probably would have tried to attend every school that
• 2:00:08
  Speaker 5: I official visited because I loved them so much. And
• 2:00:12
  Speaker 5: so when you're a guy like Demond who was loyal
• 2:00:14
  Speaker 5: to his high school who was loyal to his college
• 2:00:17
  Speaker 5: up to a certain point. People are in his ear
• 2:00:19
  Speaker 5: trying to get him to come out, enticing him to
• 2:00:21
  Speaker 5: come out. You know, that's a hard thing to ignore.
• 2:00:25
  Speaker 5: I'm not asking people to have empathy for these athletes.
• 2:00:27
  Speaker 5: I'm just saying that, if you believe Chris Rock's whole thing,
• 2:00:31
  Speaker 5: that a man's only as faithful as his options. There's
• 2:00:34
  Speaker 5: a lot of options out there right now for a
• 2:00:35
  Speaker 5: lot of these guys. And they're not just great places
• 2:00:38
  Speaker 5: to play college football, they're highly paid. But yeah, like
• 2:00:43
  Speaker 5: you said, Washington has lost eight games away from Seattle
• 2:00:46
  Speaker 5: the last two years. It was much worse two years
• 2:00:48
  Speaker 5: ago than it was last year. But they've had some ugly,
• 2:00:53
  Speaker 5: ugly losses away from Seattle, namely at Rutgers, at Iowa.
• 2:01:02
  Speaker 5: What was there? Really bad? One last year Wisconsin? The
• 2:01:07
  Speaker 5: oh gosh, you have the ten points at Wisconsin against
• 2:01:11
  Speaker 5: one of the worst Wisconsin teams we've ever seen.
• 2:01:14
  Speaker 4: Yep.
• 2:01:15
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so yeah that year.
• 2:01:18
  Speaker 1: This year on the road, they're at USC, oh accidentally
• 2:01:21
  Speaker 1: pulled USC schedule back up, at USC, at Purdue, at Nebraska,
• 2:01:28
  Speaker 1: at Michigan State, and at Oregon.
• 2:01:31
  Speaker 2: That's five away games.
• 2:01:32
  Speaker 1: Ralph they'll lose three of those because they're terrible away
• 2:01:37
  Speaker 1: from home, and like, yeah, so I just don't see
• 2:01:44
  Speaker 1: how they get past eight wins again, their their non
• 2:01:48
  Speaker 1: conference Washington State, Utah State, Eastern Washington.
• 2:01:51
  Speaker 2: They will breeze through that.
• 2:01:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is and mind you, they are recruiting better.
• 2:01:57
  Speaker 1: I believe the Jetfish is a good football coach. This
• 2:02:01
  Speaker 1: is probably this is an eight to nine win team again,
• 2:02:03
  Speaker 1: and they don't have Ohio State on the schedule. They
• 2:02:06
  Speaker 1: don't have Michigan on this on the schedule, so that
• 2:02:10
  Speaker 1: vodes well for them. But even even then with Indiana
• 2:02:13
  Speaker 1: and Oregon to finish the season though the two losses
• 2:02:17
  Speaker 1: and then you got a bunch of toss up games
• 2:02:19
  Speaker 1: you got at USC Ralph. This feels like a like
• 2:02:23
  Speaker 1: a N nine and three, eight and fourteen.
• 2:02:29
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I I'm gonna make a very early prediction, very early,
• 2:02:34
  Speaker 5: maybe too early, uh des Roebuck Blittnikoff conversation. At some
• 2:02:39
  Speaker 5: point this season, Oh okay, at some point in this season,
• 2:02:46
  Speaker 5: maybe by the bye week, we're gonna be talking about
• 2:02:48
  Speaker 5: a sophomore receiver at Washington being on the on the
• 2:02:51
  Speaker 5: Blittnant cough list.
• 2:02:52
  Speaker 4: He is a dog. I will say that.
• 2:02:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right.
• 2:02:56
  Speaker 1: Last team that we got to talk about the wis
• 2:02:58
  Speaker 1: Constant Badgers Ralph. This has been the unluckiest football team
• 2:03:04
  Speaker 1: in terms of quarterback health. Wisconsin needs to be afraid
• 2:03:10
  Speaker 1: of health. They need to wrap their quarterback up in
• 2:03:14
  Speaker 1: bubble wrap. This has been their undoing. They did not
• 2:03:18
  Speaker 1: fire Luke Fickle because they said they were gonna go
• 2:03:21
  Speaker 1: all in Ralph. This is their opportunity. This is their
• 2:03:26
  Speaker 1: opportunity to show that they got something there, that they
• 2:03:30
  Speaker 1: got the right head coach. And we saw from that
• 2:03:34
  Speaker 1: Pete Nakos article that they have won a lot of
• 2:03:37
  Speaker 1: recruiting battles. So they got something going over there, and
• 2:03:41
  Speaker 1: this is their opportunity to show it.
• 2:03:46
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I if Okay, So here's my question for you.
• 2:03:51
  Speaker 5: If the Manning curse was irrefutably real, right, okay, to
• 2:04:00
  Speaker 5: the point where you like, we didn't know what the
• 2:04:02
  Speaker 5: curse was, and we didn't know why there was a curse,
• 2:04:06
  Speaker 5: But six years in a row, whoever's on the cover
• 2:04:09
  Speaker 5: of Madden goes down, okay, dude, and it comes to
• 2:04:15
  Speaker 5: like you right like you're having a great year in
• 2:04:17
  Speaker 5: the NFL, and EA comes to you and they're like,
• 2:04:20
  Speaker 5: all right, like that everything that comes along with it.
• 2:04:23
  Speaker 5: We want you on the cover of Madden. Are you
• 2:04:26
  Speaker 5: taking it? Is every athlete?
• 2:04:30
  Speaker 2: So like much money?
• 2:04:33
  Speaker 1: Are we talking? And am I in a contract year?
• 2:04:40
  Speaker 1: If I just signed a bit contract a year before cool,
• 2:04:43
  Speaker 1: I will take the cover. If I'm going into my
• 2:04:46
  Speaker 1: senior season at Wisconsin.
• 2:04:48
  Speaker 2: Now I don't want it.
• 2:04:49
  Speaker 1: I'm not even gonna take that chance. Or if I'm
• 2:04:52
  Speaker 1: going into a contract year, nah, now I ain't gonna
• 2:04:54
  Speaker 1: take it.
• 2:04:55
  Speaker 5: Nah. Okay. This is kind of where I'm at with
• 2:04:58
  Speaker 5: Colton Joseph because he number one. A lot of people
• 2:05:03
  Speaker 5: are going to talk about Brandon Sorosby. We're a pro
• 2:05:04
  Speaker 5: Brndon Soresby podcast, YouTube show, We Love Brandon Sorosby. A
• 2:05:10
  Speaker 5: lot of people are going to talk about Sam Levit
• 2:05:11
  Speaker 5: in the marriage between him and Link Kiffin. A lot
• 2:05:14
  Speaker 5: of people are gonna talk about a lot of these quarterbacks.
• 2:05:15
  Speaker 5: The guy I wanted, the guy I think every school
• 2:05:18
  Speaker 5: should have won it is Colton Joseph. He's your prototypical
• 2:05:23
  Speaker 5: college football star. Yeah, he could run, he could throw,
• 2:05:29
  Speaker 5: he could do whatever. He's a gamer, he's a dog,
• 2:05:36
  Speaker 5: and Wisconsin got him. And my immediate thought was like, damn,
• 2:05:39
  Speaker 5: I was looking forward to watching him this year. Well,
• 2:05:45
  Speaker 5: but now I don't know if he's gonna make it
• 2:05:46
  Speaker 5: out of week two. I hope he does though, he's
• 2:05:49
  Speaker 5: so good.
• 2:05:51
  Speaker 4: Oh that's Washington schedule.
• 2:05:54
  Speaker 5: What a steal though, What a steal for Wisconsin. And
• 2:05:56
  Speaker 5: if it works out, I mean, I if I'm a
• 2:05:59
  Speaker 5: Wisconsin I know that we're probably in the last year
• 2:06:02
  Speaker 5: of our head coach if it doesn't go well, So
• 2:06:06
  Speaker 5: I'm I'm kind of protected against the idea of my
• 2:06:11
  Speaker 5: season being a disappointment, right because if it goes bad,
• 2:06:15
  Speaker 5: then you got the renewal of hope in going back
• 2:06:18
  Speaker 5: in new head coach. Yeah, maybe you bring Jim Leonard back.
• 2:06:22
  Speaker 5: I think what he's running things for the Bills defense
• 2:06:25
  Speaker 5: this year. Maybe he'll be ready by that point. Maybe
• 2:06:27
  Speaker 5: he doesn't want to come back. Maybe, but a lot
• 2:06:28
  Speaker 5: of people are going to want to coach Wisconsin. A
• 2:06:30
  Speaker 5: lot of people are going to pitch the idea of
• 2:06:32
  Speaker 5: bringing Wisconsin back to great of the old school greatness.
• 2:06:35
  Speaker 5: Maybe Brett Bielam will be the guy. You don't you
• 2:06:37
  Speaker 5: never know, but like you have the hope of a
• 2:06:41
  Speaker 5: new situation. If Luke Fickle didn't work out this year.
• 2:06:44
  Speaker 5: So I think you're indemnified really against the against things
• 2:06:50
  Speaker 5: being truly truly bad. But if my quarterback gets hurt,
• 2:06:53
  Speaker 5: if I'm a Wisconsin fan and my quarterback gets seriously injured.
• 2:06:56
  Speaker 2: Oh, it's just time to give up.
• 2:06:58
  Speaker 1: It is time to just yeah jecause the season's over,
• 2:07:03
  Speaker 1: because then then you're gonna So you play Notre Dame
• 2:07:06
  Speaker 1: to start the season in lambeau Field, Western Illinois, Eastern Michigan,
• 2:07:11
  Speaker 1: Penn State, Michigan State, all of those are home games.
• 2:07:15
  Speaker 1: Then you go on the road to UCLA. Then you're
• 2:07:19
  Speaker 1: playing USC. So you got a long stretching games like
• 2:07:24
  Speaker 1: you're in the state of Wisconsin every game except for
• 2:07:30
  Speaker 1: two weeks between September second and October twenty October thirty first,
• 2:07:41
  Speaker 1: So you got a shot man. You avoid Oreguido, Ohio State,
• 2:07:47
  Speaker 1: this is a this is the dream, and you avoid Michigan.
• 2:07:52
  Speaker 2: This is your opportunity here to get.
• 2:07:55
  Speaker 5: To those back to backs off the by the three
• 2:07:58
  Speaker 5: weeks off the buy that's so important for this team.
• 2:08:02
  Speaker 5: They gotta go at least two and one coming off
• 2:08:04
  Speaker 5: the by.
• 2:08:05
  Speaker 1: Oh against U c L, A USC and Iowa. Yeah, yeah,
• 2:08:09
  Speaker 1: I think that's fir yeah. Yeah, well everybody, we.
• 2:08:16
  Speaker 2: Went deep in. We went deep in today. We went
• 2:08:20
  Speaker 2: deep in.
• 2:08:21
  Speaker 5: Yeah, we did. I was prepared to give like one
• 2:08:23
  Speaker 5: word responses to all these and we did a whole show.
• 2:08:28
  Speaker 1: But uh, those are the big ten what everybody needs
• 2:08:32
  Speaker 1: to be afraid of. We went deep in on the schedule.
• 2:08:35
  Speaker 1: Make sure that you guys like share, subscribe, tell a
• 2:08:39
  Speaker 1: friend about the show, and uh, we gotta finish up
• 2:08:42
  Speaker 1: because I got something fun for you. But uh but
• 2:08:46
  Speaker 1: well we'll catch you next week.
• 2:08:47
  Speaker 5: Ralph, appreciate you.
• 2:08:52
  Speaker 1: Last thing that we got to talk about. I'm excited,
• 2:08:56
  Speaker 1: but this is also very sad. This is tremendously he said.
• 2:09:00
  Speaker 1: We got two past their prime fighters, Manny pac Man,
• 2:09:05
  Speaker 1: Mackiau Pakiout Floyd Money Mayweather. They are going to be
• 2:09:10
  Speaker 1: running it back and fighting again for a second time,
• 2:09:13
  Speaker 1: and they're gonna be fighting at the sphere. This is
• 2:09:18
  Speaker 1: a rematch of their twenty fifteen fight, eleven years after
• 2:09:24
  Speaker 1: they waited six years too long to fight. And now
• 2:09:28
  Speaker 1: this second fight is gonna be held September nineteenth in
• 2:09:31
  Speaker 1: Las Vegas, which will which better not be during the
• 2:09:35
  Speaker 1: old Miss LSU game or the Florida State Alabama rematch.
• 2:09:39
  Speaker 1: I promise you that because the ratings will be down.
• 2:09:43
  Speaker 1: But this rematch, which is gonna be on Netflix, is
• 2:09:47
  Speaker 1: gonna be the first boxing event to be held at
• 2:09:49
  Speaker 1: the Sphere, and it's going to have you know, Floyd Mayweather,
• 2:09:54
  Speaker 1: who's gonna be I think forty nine at the time
• 2:09:58
  Speaker 1: and nine years away from his left as real official fight.
• 2:10:03
  Speaker 1: And then you got Pakia, I was gonna be forty
• 2:10:05
  Speaker 1: seven or forty eight as well, who's gonna only have
• 2:10:08
  Speaker 1: fought twice in the last five years by the time
• 2:10:10
  Speaker 1: September rolls around. So then that got me to thinking
• 2:10:14
  Speaker 1: about college football. Got me to thinking about which teams
• 2:10:19
  Speaker 1: would I actually like to see them suit up their
• 2:10:22
  Speaker 1: gear in the modern day rematch? Like which games would
• 2:10:26
  Speaker 1: you actually sit down and watch. I'm not talking about
• 2:10:30
  Speaker 1: a rewatch of the old games. I'm talking about players
• 2:10:35
  Speaker 1: my age and some of them older and some of
• 2:10:38
  Speaker 1: them younger. Which ones do you want to see lineup?
• 2:10:41
  Speaker 5: Like?
• 2:10:41
  Speaker 1: Which ones would you pay money to see on the
• 2:10:44
  Speaker 1: tube right now? And I got a couple for you,
• 2:10:47
  Speaker 1: My first matchup that I would like to see again,
• 2:10:50
  Speaker 1: which the old guys play again? I want to see
• 2:10:53
  Speaker 1: twenty ten Auburn with Nick Fairley, Cam Newton, who's still
• 2:10:58
  Speaker 1: in very good shape. To see them play against Lemichael
• 2:11:02
  Speaker 1: James and that twenty ten Oregon game. I want to
• 2:11:06
  Speaker 1: see that that game that I watched in in Arizona.
• 2:11:11
  Speaker 1: Dwyer was down. Oregon lost that game by three points,
• 2:11:16
  Speaker 1: could have won their first national championship.
• 2:11:20
  Speaker 2: I want to see the old dudes playing in that game.
• 2:11:23
  Speaker 5: Who do you have?
• 2:11:24
  Speaker 2: Put it in the comments.
• 2:11:26
  Speaker 1: I also want to see two thousand and five USC
• 2:11:31
  Speaker 1: versus two thousand and five Texas. You got Matt Lioner,
• 2:11:37
  Speaker 1: Lyndale White, Vince Young, but most important, you got Reggie Bush.
• 2:11:43
  Speaker 1: And even though Texas won that game, I'm taking USC
• 2:11:48
  Speaker 1: because I've seen the type of shape that Reggie Bush
• 2:11:51
  Speaker 1: is in right right now, Reggie Bush would still be
• 2:11:54
  Speaker 1: the best player on that football field. He'd be better
• 2:11:57
  Speaker 1: than Bench Young, who's not in the greatest shape right now.
• 2:12:00
  Speaker 1: He would be better than He's in better shape than
• 2:12:02
  Speaker 1: anybody else. Probably that's on either one of them teams.
• 2:12:06
  Speaker 2: That's about it.
• 2:12:08
  Speaker 1: You might have like Taylor Taylor Mays and you know,
• 2:12:10
  Speaker 1: because he's still coaching, he's playing or coaching. Might be
• 2:12:13
  Speaker 1: about it. That's about it. Another game that I would
• 2:12:18
  Speaker 1: love to see the old dudes playing. Now this game
• 2:12:23
  Speaker 1: would give you a totally different outcome. Probably is the
• 2:12:27
  Speaker 1: twenty sixteen Alabama that had OJ Howard, Derrick Henry versus
• 2:12:34
  Speaker 1: Clemson with you had Deshaun Watson, Renfro and crew. So
• 2:12:39
  Speaker 1: remember Watson, they won the game at the end of
• 2:12:41
  Speaker 1: the game on on the little sprintout. They won that game.
• 2:12:46
  Speaker 1: But you got Dereck Henry, who's still a very good
• 2:12:50
  Speaker 1: NFL player in this game. Watson still the best quarterback
• 2:12:55
  Speaker 1: in the game. That might be a hell of a matchup.
• 2:12:58
  Speaker 1: And the last game that I want to see this
• 2:13:01
  Speaker 1: is a fictional game because this game never happened. I
• 2:13:04
  Speaker 1: want to see my two thousand and one, two thousand,
• 2:13:07
  Speaker 1: two thousand and one Oregon Ducks versus that O one
• 2:13:11
  Speaker 1: Miami two thousand, two thousand and one Miami team that
• 2:13:14
  Speaker 1: went to the Rose Bowl and played against Nebraska. We
• 2:13:17
  Speaker 1: were supposed to be playing them in the National Championship.
• 2:13:21
  Speaker 1: And this is exactly what this Floyd Mayweather Pacquiao feels
• 2:13:26
  Speaker 1: like to me, watching two old dudes fight two dudes
• 2:13:29
  Speaker 1: that got no business. The only reason why they are
• 2:13:32
  Speaker 1: fighting this for money, and it is sad. They're not
• 2:13:36
  Speaker 1: fighting for the love of the game anymore. Pakiow's made
• 2:13:40
  Speaker 1: over five hundred and seventy five million dollars in persis.
• 2:13:43
  Speaker 2: There have been reports.
• 2:13:44
  Speaker 1: About him having financial problems before Mayweather clearly is he's
• 2:13:50
  Speaker 1: around talking Vodkas and this dude don't even drink. So
• 2:13:57
  Speaker 1: you got Mayweather made over a billion dollars and granted,
• 2:14:01
  Speaker 1: what you making, what you take home because you gotta
• 2:14:03
  Speaker 1: pay other people and all this stuff is not is
• 2:14:05
  Speaker 1: not the same. But they should not be having financial problems.
• 2:14:09
  Speaker 1: And yes, there's a difference between being cash poor and
• 2:14:12
  Speaker 1: having investments and all that stuff. Been there, done that
• 2:14:15
  Speaker 1: got the T shirt path, but that still means that
• 2:14:18
  Speaker 1: you mismanaged.
• 2:14:20
  Speaker 4: What you had.
• 2:14:21
  Speaker 2: And it is sad.
• 2:14:22
  Speaker 1: When it was sad when we watched Muhammad al Lei
• 2:14:25
  Speaker 1: come out of retirement. Granted I was still very young,
• 2:14:27
  Speaker 1: but I've seen the old fights. That's probably how he
• 2:14:31
  Speaker 1: ended up with with with the parkinsonian symptoms that he
• 2:14:33
  Speaker 1: had getting hit in the head too many times.
• 2:14:36
  Speaker 2: So there's plenty of people who are.
• 2:14:37
  Speaker 1: In that situation and it stinks and it sucks, and
• 2:14:41
  Speaker 1: but I am going to watch I'm not gonna lie,
• 2:14:45
  Speaker 1: Not gonna lie, but which games would you like to
• 2:14:47
  Speaker 1: see the old fuddy duddies play again? And you guys,
• 2:14:50
  Speaker 1: that's Been Unafraid Show George Reichel's college football podcast today.
• 2:14:54
  Speaker 1: Thank you guys for sharing, Tell a friend, peace out,
• 2:14:57
  Speaker 1: Catch you guys later