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Chris Landry on Texas and Oklahoma in the SEC · The Jake Wimberly Podcast

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  Chris Landry every Monday four to four thirty. We will be moving the time
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  after this week. We'll probably give it one more week and then we'll move
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  Chris to the five o'clock hour just because of schedule. Try to help him
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  out with that. He is on your radio Landry Football dot com Landry Football
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  on ex Chris having Fourth of July week, Sir, how are you?
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  I'm doing good, Jacob. How you doing? Oh, we're doing well,
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  doing well. It is officially day one Texas Oklahoma in the Southeastern Conference.
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  And Chris, I'll ask you like I asked David Murray with Jean's Page
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  who it's covered to Mississippi State for about three or four decades now, long
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  time he's been covering the Bulldogs. You know, nineteen ninety one, we
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  had the SEC expansion of ninety two, that was your South Carolina Arkansas expansion,
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  kind of the pop off there, and then you had the advent of
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  the East West and then the SEC Championship game by Roy Kramer. Then you
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  go to twenty twelve, you have Texas A and m Missouri and Texas Oklahoma
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  in the grand scheme of things. How big of a date is this for
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  the Southeastern Conference, and it is it trump the other two expansion days in
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  your mind? Absolutely it does. With all due respect to A M.
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  Missouri, Arkansas, South Carolina, Texas, and Oklahoma's brand is huge,
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  you know, a different level big. I think this is a huge day.
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  I mean it's just it is. Plus it brings back Texas and Texas,
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  A and M where they gonna have that rivalry again Texas and Arkansas,
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  which is big back in the day, and they continue to play, but
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  now it's the rivalry game. I think those reasons in and of itself make
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  it use in Oklahoma. Look, I mean Oklahoma. If you're talking about
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  the greatest football programs of all time, Oklahoma's on the short list. If
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  you look at going back to Bud Worklinson, the Championship, the All Americans,
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  Heidmans. I mean just no, I think it's huge. I think
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  it's two among us brands that that's coming into this league, which I really
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  couldn't said that about the other four. I think they were good. These
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  are just these are needle movers, big time. Chris Landry on your radio
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  Monday edition of the program. Of course, Landry Football is the site Landry
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  football dot Com. Of course Landry Football on X Chris, you know,
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  I want to ask you about a couple of coaches is you know SEC media
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  days and of course we'll talk with you as that gets here, but that
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  we haven't really talked maybe a whole lot about one. I want to go
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  to Josh Heipel first at Tennessee and what he has been able to do obviously
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  two years ago, really really big year, and then of course last year,
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  you know, took a little bit of a step back. Now with
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  Nico at quarterback, what is your expectations for Tennessee this year? And then
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  when you look at Nico, I mean, how how good of a quarterback
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  he could be. I think the expectations are going to be high, and
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  it's going to be tied to Nico. I think there's a lot of excitement
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  out of the bowl game that, oh, he's going to win this offense
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  at a different level. Here's the thing about Josh is teens They're always going
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  to be built towards the offense. The defense is gonna need to be fast.
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  They're gonna have to create turnovers, They're gonna have to create facts.
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  They're gonna have to get extra possessions for the offense because that's what they're gonna
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  do. Tennessee runs the football. They like to run it, but they
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  run it at a fast pace, so it's gonna always put the defense at
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  a disadvantage. So I think that limits him. I think that it can
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  be good at times, really good, but I'm gonna fall short of thing
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  their championship level good until their pace of play can slow down to augment that
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  defense. And I don't think that's what Joysh wants to do. You know,
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  there's a lot of teams. We can talk about that now, right,
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  I mean, we start talking about pace of play versus you know,
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  defensive coordinators in the way they call me. You know, I know we
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  talked about this with you before, but that's kind of gonna be an issue.
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  We'll see what happens with Jeff Levy at Missippi State and the way he
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  likes to run his offense versus his defensive coordinator. You know, you look
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  at Oregon, I mean all of these teams that like to run high tempo.
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  I mean I would I would dare say I haven't looked at it probably
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  like you have for sure, but you know, just from schematics in the
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  way they run plays. The really good ones know how to make that ballance,
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  so they're not gassing their defense, don't They Absolutely, And I think
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  that you've got to be able to do it. Look, when you have
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  a fourteen point league late in the third quarter, you should be able to
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  run the football, control the line of scrimmage, and the game is in
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  hand if you just don't screw it up. But if you're running a type
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  of off things like Tennessee, you're going to give the opposition four more possessions
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  and with a tied DS there, it's like, well, we got to
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  score fourteen more points. And I think that that becomes difficult to replicate weekend
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  and week out against a lot of teams. You can do that, but
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  you know, we've not had a team win the title doing it just that
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  way. And I think you can win it. I don't think you can
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  do it consistently. Now. I think Oregon with Dan Lanning is putting more
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  focus on the defense and running it and not being as fast. So yeah,
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  I'm monitoring it and seeing there are different ways to do it, But
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  I think you win by scoring points in using tempo. You score points by
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  doing that. But I think you win by putting the game away with a
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  strong running game, eating some clock and playing to the strength of your defense.
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  Let me ask you about Mike Coco. I know we've talked to you
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  know, with you about him before, but you know, just as this
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  year, you know, I mean Texas A and M. This is this
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  has been such a weird year for Texas A and M all the way around,
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  from Schlashnagel and baseball last week going to Texas to you know, losing
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  their athletics director to Ohio State. I saw somebody else is stepping down to
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  day change in the guard and be in football with Elcho. Mean, there's
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  a lot of change going on. What what are we getting with mikee we
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  is in like fans to sec what we see and then what are the expectations
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  for him in your one? Well, I think what you're gonna get is
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  I think what happened. And often this takes place when you have a coaching
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  cheams, you get the opposite of what you had because what you had wasn't
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  working. Well. What's the latter stages of jimbo on A and M was
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  about recruiting getting star name guys, nil guys, and we said it at
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  the time, that's great, but you get guys coming for money, they're
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  gonna leave for money and they're not gonna buy into the program. You got
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  to get guys to buy into the program and then the money is there as
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  well. With Mike Elco, they're going back to guys that are built towards
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  wanting to be an aggy, wanting to fight what be there for the right
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  reason. And then yeah, they've got nil money that can spend with anybody,
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  But trying to get the right mixture of guys that are tough that wants
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  to be an aggie. That's what he's going to try to bring. Now
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  what is that going to translate to wins this year? I don't know.
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  I think we're gonna have a different look because without East and West. We've
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  talked about this in the Big ten, he's certain who's talked about it in
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  the SEZ. The path becomes more difficult because you got to go through everybody
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  in the field, not just not just half the field, and then get
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  your shot. So I think the expectations are going to be, you know,
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  moderately high, But I think if this team shows some toughness, I
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  think they'll be happy with at least the first year direction before we're gonna break,
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  Let's get one more in here. I want to ask you, excuse
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  me about and I know we've talked to you about Mark Stoops and where that
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  program is Brian Kelly down at LSU. Have they done, at least on
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  paper, the necessary things as far as replacement of defensive staff coaches to I
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  mean, offensively, you would think that they're going to be pretty good.
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  There's a lot of playmakers there, a lot of people are really high on
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  the young quarterback there. But defensively, I mean, I've been joking but
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  not I've told everybody to take the over in this USC LSU game right out
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  the gate. Still don't know if the team can play defense. Yeah,
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  I think the defensive staff questions have been answered bow Davis, Corey Raymond,
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  like Baker, I think gives them. I think an improvement in the defensive
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  staff. Still think that they're short on numbers on the defensive line and then
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  the secondary, which is hardly ever. It's never the case in LSU,
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  but it is the case now. So depth is always a concern, and
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  I think that makes them fall a little short. And here's the concern that
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  I would have. I think the offense would be good, but Jadon Daniels
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  and that offense was ridiculously good last year, and I mean, they're probably
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  six and six without him. I think they'll be good on offense, but
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  will they be so dynamic that they can outscore you and win like they did
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  last year? Are they gonna get better defense to augment that They're gonna have
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  to play better defense because they can't win strictly on offense and win as many
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  games as they did last year