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Chris Landry on expectations around the SEC as we head to kickoff · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Let's join Steve Live for the build up. What's your prediction. I've been
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  watching this team for a very long time, Guardian, and I can tell
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  I ee Chris Landry with us another segment talking college football, Chris, and
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  we'll stay with coyleage today. We'll get to more NFL as we get through
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  another week of preseason. The Miami Hurricanes, you know, and a lot
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  of the you know pundits have the Hurricanes finishing BAWL eligible seven wins, eight
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  wins, middle to the upper part of the ACC. For whatever reason,
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  this thing just hasn't gone like it should over several coaches. I guess one
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  what has kind of been at least in your estimation, the problem with Miami
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  and then two, can Mario crystal Ball get them turned right side up this
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  year? Yeah? I think the instability it's a chicken egg thing. Right.
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  When you're unstable, it leads to some you know, recruiting deficiencies,
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  which I think Mario's cleaned up. I think Miami, you know, when
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  they when they built that program under coach and ellen Berger and then Jimmy Johnson
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  and Erickson, they were they were dominant recruiting in Miami. But and this
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  is why I tell folks all the time, you know, you it's a
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  quick trip to drop out of the you know, the power position because they
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  did it back then when the facilities and the money was not what it is
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  now, and they just cleaned up everything Broward Dade County and got all those
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  players well. As the program had changes the other elite programs mainly in the
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  SEC, and a lot of it was like the Alabama's of the WARLD that
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  would go in and get the best players from there. Because when kids go
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  visit, they see a huge difference between going on campus facility wise in Miami
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  versus in Alabama, for example. So I think that's hurt them. Over
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  the years, Mario's known for being a great recruiter, I think in game
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  and consistency in terms of development and game management, game planning, it's been
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  quite frankly averaged that times may be slightly above average, times slightly below average.
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  And that's the way he was at Oregon. But he's got Miami in
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  a position in my mind to where maybe they're not quite where Florida State is,
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  but they're close in terms of town and they're behind Clemson, no doubt.
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  But when I look at their schedule, I think there's potential there.
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  I mean, I would look at A and M week two. Florida State
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  in Clemson is the only three teams that I can tell you right now that
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  have more talent than Miami. And so does that mean I think they're gonna
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  go nine to three? I don't. I mean I think eight and four
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  is maybe probable because it's somewhere along the line. I don't know where it's
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  gonna be. At North Carolina, at NC State and rally, they're going
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  to drop a game that we don't think they're gonna drop, and it's going
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  to be because they turned it over five times in one half or something crazy
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  like that. So I think the program is getting better because I'm gonna tell
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  you, we just talked last segment about somebody not embracing nil. They've embraced
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  it and they've got a big money booster that's doing it. So I think
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  that's gonna help them. But what they're gonna have to see is can Murio
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  figure out his staff or do they have to go in a different direction down
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  the road to create more stability because they don't have that edge. They don't
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  dominate people anymore. And then if you don't dominate, then you better be
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  efficient. And I think Florida State has become a little bit more consistent and
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  efficient, whereas Miami is still more sporadic up and down. And that's why
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  pretty talented, yes, but not real consistent enough to get excited about.
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  Chris Landry on your Radio Mondy edition of the program. On Twitter at Landry
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  Football. Chris another pivotal year, you know, new coach for Nebraska,
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  nine straight bowl games under Bowl Polini, and he, you know, was
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  kind of forced out of the building there. Then Mike Riley comes in and
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  he, you know, the last winning season of Nebraska was twenty sixteen.
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  They went nine to four. Scott Frost, I can't remember I vitaliated up
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  one time. It was double digit ball games they lost by a touchdown or
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  less. They just couldn't never get that thing turned around. What does Matt
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  Ruhle bring back to coming back to college Baylor to the NFL now back and
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  what is the ceiling in the future for for Nebraska? Can he get them
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  back to the bow Polini type years? I think Bow Polini and you know
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  Frank Solich in a Remember they fired Frank because he had dropped down to the
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  program went to like ninety three and that was consider heresy there, and now
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  they take that in a heartbeat. I think Matt can bring stability that both
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  couldn't. Bow was very volatile and very inconsistent in his own way of doing
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  things. I think Matt is a program builder. He did it at Baylor,
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  and he did it very well under some of the worst circumstances you can
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  imagine, where the negativity around the program off the field was so big.
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  But here's the big difference is he did it in the big twelve, where
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  you know you had some room to do it. Can you do it in
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  the big ten? Well? It's remind folks that when they start going away
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  from divisions, the West doesn't have a free ride anymore. So the only
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  thing that saved you in the Big ten West was the big boys are in
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  the East, you know, so they're way down in terms of where they
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  fit in the Big ten. I think just building to where they can get
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  to Bawl eligible become developmental developmentally better. My feeling is Nebraska, while they
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  in my view, will never be the Nebraska of the nineties under coach Osborn,
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  different time, different situation. Everybody's got great facilities. See, Nebraska
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  built their program back in the day, the old Big eight days. They
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  had the best facilities in the country when nobody had good facilities, the weight
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  room and everything. So can kids go visited there? That was really impressive.
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  The other thing is back before the proliferation of all the games on TV,
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  Nebraska was on TV at least twice a year, which you know,
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  you programs that you remember well, Jake, you may not remember, but
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  but I do. As a kid with a little older Nebraska was on Nebraska
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  Oklahoma game was always on TV and there was maybe one other game. Everybody's
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  on TV now, so they've lost their edge in that in that area.
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  Wherever you can go to you don't need to leave Texas to go to Nebraska.
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  You can go to TCU and have better facilities, for example. So
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  Nebraska's got what they need, but they the expectation is, let's get back
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  to when the eighties or nineties. And I don't think that's gonna happen.
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  But why can't Nebraska be consistently good on the level of say what Wisconsin has
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  been over the years, That to me is doable. So to me,
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  that's the mission and should be for Matt. Can he get them to where
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  they're really good? Now again, when we split divisions and it's all in
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  one, what does that mean? That mean that they're the eighth best program
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  in the Big Ten. Let's start there, eight, seven, sixtes.
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  My goodness, they're gonna have so many programs in that league. You're behind
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  certainly gonna behind USC maybe even behind UCLA. You're gonna be behind Oregon and
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  Washington. So you got four schools that are coming into the Big Ten that
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  you're not as good at. But besides, the seven are that are in
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  the Big Ten that you're not even as good at. So getting back to
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  mediocrity is what he needed to do and then go from there incrementally, which
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  I think is going to be tougher because the challenges are going to be greater
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  because the conference has gotten tougher and larger, and without the West see,
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  I think that the right coach there could have built that program to where they
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  could have won the West or maybe six out of every ten seven six or
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  seven out of it ten years. They never got there, and now that
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  window of opportunity I think is gone. Let's finish it up with Georgia.
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  Carson Beck name the starter at Georgia or the weekend. What does he bring?
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  For those that have not seen, we've seen very little of Carson Beck.
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  We know he has all the accolades, the star ratings and such.
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  What does he give Georgia at least in your estimation as a starting quarterback?
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  I think he's very talented. I think he can throw the football well.
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  I think the biggest thing that he's kind of separated himself for in that quarterback
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  room is his decision making and his understanding. Kirby has built this program on
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  a way that the quarterback doesn't have to carry the team. It's kind of
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  like the way we've talked about this in the past. Alabama used to be
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  George is gonna win with defense and running games, so the quarterback when they're
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  gonna need the quarterback to be successful and make plays. They've got weapons on
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  offense and Stetson Bennett made plays when they needed him to. But they don't
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  want the quarterback to have to be the hero. Just be the good decision
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  maker. Just get out of the bad play at the line of scrimmage into
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  a better play and then obviously be very efficient with spreading the ball where it
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  needs to go to and not forcing it. I think they'll be fine.
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  You t Martin Ball State, South Carolina, UAB, even at Auburn,
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  they're gonna win regardless who plays at quarterback. Then Kentucky, then Vanderbilt,
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  then Open Date, then Florida, Missouri, Oh Miss, you get Pitcher.
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  It's November eighteenth. At Tennessee. I mean, I think the quarterback
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  is going to be completely different. I think Carson going to be a different
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  quarterback and much more experience and proven. I don't really see anybody that can
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  beat Georgia, including on the road at Tennessee. But that's you know,
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  can they can they avoid the awful mistakes that could cast them a game.
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  So I mean, I think the only way they lose any one of those
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  games is you know, they have an awful day where they turn it over
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  four times and they're say negative four in the turnover margin. I think the
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  only team that could have a shot at being competitive would be Tennessee at home
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  and again by November eighteenth, I think they'll be rolling, and they might
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  they might be questioning, well, they haven't had the quarterback to do a
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  whole lot. I think the whole issue now for Georgia is not what they're
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  going to do in the regular season, is what are they going to do
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  in the SEC championship game and what are they going to do in the national
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  playoffs? Because I expect them to be in both, And are they good
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  enough to win the national title? And if they need Carson Beck to be
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  a playmaker in one of those games against XYZ opponent, can he do that?
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  I don't think we're going to have that answer for a while, but
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  I think the team will be good enough to where they're not going to have
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  to have him be a hero. Most likely make sure to find him on
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  Twitter at Landry Football. Check out the website Landry football dot com, college
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  and the NFL and more. Chris, always appreciate your trying your time this
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  week in every week, and look, stay cold this week. When we
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  talk next week, it'll be week one and we'll be looking forward to it.
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  Can't wait, man, Thanks a bunch, talk to you next week.