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Klein's Staff Is COMPLETE… But Is It ELITE? + Transfer Portal Madness Continues (S4//E43) · Cocaine Willie

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So I'm very much aware of that. Still love my child.
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Don't let it. Don't let don't let it get
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twisted. Everybody needs a break with
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that coach Klein's staff. We talked largely last week
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about the staff taking shape. We had most of the additions
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pretty much finalized. But then we get a news bomb, a
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news drop from Pete Thammel at ESPN on Saturday morning with
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the addition of Sean Gleason, current quarterbacks coach at
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Missouri, former offensive coordinator at Rutgers, Oklahoma
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State and Princeton getting added to the fold here.
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I don't know much about the guy, to be honest.
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I do know that Missouri's quarterback room was kind of
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garbage this year. How much of that was injuries?
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How much of that is prima donnas?
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How much of that is NIL in the transfer portal and how much of
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that is showing Gleason remains to be determined.
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But what's your reaction to the higher and and how do you think
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this fills out client staff just when you look at his staff
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holistically? Well, I, I think it was a little
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out of nowhere. I don't think that was on a lot
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of people's boards for, you know, somebody to coordinate the
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offense. It's it's a like, like we
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discussed last time, it's a title that doesn't go with a
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position group. So that's a, that's a very
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interesting way of doing it. I don't know how many offenses
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do that, I mean, or how many programs run it like that.
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But when your main, your head coach is probably going to be
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the main play caller, He's probably Shawn Gleeson will
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probably be in that more of administrative style, you know,
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overseeing every position, making sure practice runs
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smooth. Just to make sure Colin, as a
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first time head coach, you know, can you can grow into that
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position. It's going to take a little bit
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off Colin's shoulders in terms of how practice needs to be run.
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Can he spend time with the defense?
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All of those things, things that you learn as you go on how to
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balance being a head coach. So Sean Gleeson comes in there.
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He's had some really good offenses.
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I think schematically he's done some good things, even not so
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much at Rutgers. Rutgers was a bad deal.
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But you know, you come out of the that Rutgers fiasco, he goes
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back home after leaving Oklahoma State with was a really good
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offense for Oklahoma State. Spencer Sanders was there.
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I I mean, Chuba Hubbard, there was a lot of things going on
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with that Oklahoma State offense that I really liked.
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Rutgers, he goes back home, he's from New Jersey and COVID
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season. What can you take from that?
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I don't know, 2021, not great. 2022, I think he was still
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there. He gets fired six games in,
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averaging 12 points per game. But that Rutgers team was dog
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water. I mean, real bad, real bad.
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Just talent on the roster, just bad.
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They came a long way, you know, getting like a guy like Kyle
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Manungai to come out of that program.
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Well, yeah, Shawn Gleeson, his Princeton offense and he's he
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was such a young coach that coming up through the ranks.
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Maybe it it hit him a little too fast, but you never know.
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I mean, it takes some time. He's a becomes an analyst at a
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couple programs, bounces around, finds his way to being the
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quarterbacks coach at Missouri. I mean, I like broke both Pubula
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and who was the who's The Who was the quarterback before that?
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I think what was his name? Oh geez, the guy that we played
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a couple. Of times yeah yeah yeah I mean
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he wasn't terrible but they honestly what I got from his
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tenure at Missouri is that he was Brady Cook.
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He was a hell of a recruiter at Missouri in terms of bringing a
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quarterback talent all those things.
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So if as long as this Sean Gleeson role isn't expanded to
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the point where he's running the offense and Colin is taking a
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step back I think it'll be fine and then you can kind of play
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with it and and it helps a young quarterbacks coach that we have
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on the roster and in Ellsworth giving him somebody else to be
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in Avery's ear to help him guide him through being what a a
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quarterbacks coach needs you know to do.
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So it's going to be very interesting to see what his role
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is. I'm sure does he go out like
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similar to how Matt Wells and all every offensive coordinator
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at Kansas State has gone in front of the media and you know
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spoke what the game plan is going to be.
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It's going to be interesting to see if he's the one doing that.
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Obviously Collins going to have his own his own head coach press
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conference every week and Deshaun Gleeson kind of just
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like, like we were saying, you know, just organize everything.
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He coordinates the offense. That's what his job is.
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He coordinates it. He gets it where he's got to go
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and Colin calls the place. I mean, think about it similar
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to how the Chiefs operate with Andy Reid being the play caller,
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Matt Nagy or Eric the enemy prior to that being that, you
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know, more of that executive presence and and kind of
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agreeing with or disagreeing with the play caller.
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Hopefully being the eyes in the sky and being able to see some
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things up in the booth that maybe client isn't able to see
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from from his spot on the feet. And, and I'm hoping that he's a
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guy who can see the game. And in a in a way, like if he's
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up there with Lepak in the booth, We've all seen what what
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Lepak can do when he's teamed up with Klein kind of barking out
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what he's seen from from the defense schematically.
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I'm hoping that this can just be complimentary to that and and
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that he can, you know, approach the offense knowing that he's
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not being the the play caller. He can approach the offense from
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kind of more of that CEO mentality and and give Colin the
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ability to call the plays. Because I think if he's calling
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plays, I would feel probably a little bit differently about
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this higher just given that he had those responsibilities
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stripped of him when he was at Rutgers.
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It sounds like he and Gundy kind of mutually parted ways after
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that 2019 season. So, I mean, Gundy is his own
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guy. He's he's going to do his own
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thing. I'm not going to fault him for
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that. But yeah, it's just interesting.
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I it's definitely not the higher I expected.
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Not that I necessarily expected anybody, but I feel like all
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signs were pointing toward that. Wide receivers coach Mahaffey
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from from Green Bay, from the Packers organization.
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But yeah, it's just kind of a strange hire.
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But again, it's a guy who's been around football for a long time.
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You can spin it as positively or as negatively as you want to
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either way. But I think you can't need to
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see how things are going to play out.
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I think ultimately it means that Colin Klein is probably going to
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be the offensive play caller is what I'm looking into with this
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with this hire. Yeah.
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And I mean that's that's kind of what we all wanted.
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I mean, when Colin came on, we want his ability to coordinate
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offenses, run, bring his schemes, bring back what we had
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that magical run in 2022 and even 2023.
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The offense was really, really good.
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So, yeah, more of Colin Klein being in charge, you know, his
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hands on the wheel and then let everybody follow and help him
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guide the way. You know, he's the motor to this
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boat, motor boating. He's the motor to this boat, but
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you've got to have rudders and somebody on the steering wheel
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and you've got to be able to let him, you know, push you through
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the water. So I'm I'm I'm, I'm really
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excited for, you know, this staff finally coming together.
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They all seem like outside of the linebackers coach, they all
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seem like grinders on the recruiting trail as well.
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So that's something just we just have not had since, I don't
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know, Snyder 1.0. I I can't think of a staff that
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hasn't been an older staff. This is a younger staff, a a
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relatively younger staff that is willing to grind out on the
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recruiting trail. So it's it's just something
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refreshing that we haven't had at K state.
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Even under climbing. It was the same staff that we've
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had for a long time and they got some things done and some of the
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guys were carrying more of the load.
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I think this staff in particular on the recruiting trail is going
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to be, you know, everybody's in there, everybody's got their
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hand in the pot. They're trying to get the best
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talent available. And when you have better talent,
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it's somewhat easier to coach. So let's let's make it easier on
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the boys. What would you grade the the
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staff make up it overall like if if you had to put a letter grade
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on the entirety of the staff as it's assembled today, and let's
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not even consider analysts because I think some of them are
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official, some of them aren't. Not all of them are listed on
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the K state website. Even some of the guys have
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updated their BIOS or or maybe not, but but holistically, you
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look at the staff letter grade. What would you what would you
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slap on it for first year staff under Coach Klein?
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Well, I think Buddy Wyatt deserves a lot of credit for
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what he did for the defensive end room.
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Mind you, a lot of them left in the transfer portal and all
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that. And all that to be said, I think
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retaining him what was solid and he was AB coach for our staff at
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the time. I think he could still still
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remain that he's we're controlling the whole defensive
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line. So I think he feels like he just
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got a promotion basically. I think that's AB higher.
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So that is that remains the same.
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Look, Pat, going back to tight ends, I think that is an upgrade
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over what Luke Wells and and anything associated with the
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Wells name is going to be an upgrade.
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So Luke Wells, I mean, Brian Lepak, that goes back to, you
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know, a solid B plus he he had really solid tight ends.
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And so I'm going to, I'm keep that with what he had done
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previously. I can only imagine that he would
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keep that status quo. You know, Ward, absolute monster
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at wide receivers coach. I'm glad we got him.
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I mean, Patterson at running backs coach, I think Brian
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Anderson was a stud at running backs go to he was a monster at
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coaching up running backs, whether that was with less
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talent OR whatever, finding diamonds in a rough.
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Patterson seems like more of that guy that's going to be or
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is it Patterson or is it Peterson, Corey Patterson, Corey
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Patterson, He he seems more of the recruiting guy that like the
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head recruiting guy at Saint Louis, like he is in their boots
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on the ground. He's going to get the talent in
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there whether no matter what position, he's just infiltrated
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Saint Louis and that is his stomping grabs that he's going
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to get as much talent out of there as he possibly can.
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So we just we haven't had a lot of those guys in on the staff.
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So I'm going to give that you know, like AB so far I'm I'm
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looking at because you just don't know what's available as
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well. So a guy like for instance,
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Schmidt at, you know, offensive line.
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How can you judge that? I mean, I there's you know,
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they've never met each other. They don't know each other until
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he got hired onto the staff. They just didn't know each
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other. He was, he was recommended by
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Connor Riley. So that's if if Connor Riley's
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giving you an endorsement, I'm going to say my guy.
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There he is. I'm going to give, I'm going to
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give him the benefit of the doubt and I'm going to say
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that's AB minus C plus because you know, the offensive line is
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one of those things for our tenure under climbing where we
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had really good offensive lines or we've had offensive lines
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that have not done so well. And I think, you know, a lot of
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that is coaching. So if Schmidt can bring that up
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to where Connor Riley had it, I mean, that's a slam dunk hire.
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But as of right now, I have to see it to believe it that he can
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do that. So I'm going to give that like
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ACI mean just overall. And then the defensive backs,
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I'll just, I'll just cut it at that because I think both, is it
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both or who is it at linebacker? Toast, Toast.
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Toast not both, not Mason both shout out to my boy Mason both
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Toast. I can't give that a passing.
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I just I don't know what what he brings to the table.
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I mean, he's had a couple guys in his, you know, coaching
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resume that have made the league, you know, Yvonne Miller
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kind of those guys. But outside of that, he's not
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really he's been an Air Force. He hasn't really moved around.
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He hasn't really upgraded his resume in a long time.
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So I'm going to, I can't I got to give that like Adi mean
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that's just super underwhelming. It is a very underwhelming hire,
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but the defensive backs as a whole, I think we've upgraded in
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terms of age, in terms of recruiting prowess and just the
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attention to detail on the the DBS from this staff, I think
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we've gone above and beyond. I'm going to give that one an A.
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I'm going to give that one an A now that might be a little out
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there, but I'm going to give that one an AI think the
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defensive backs are getting the attention that they finally
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deserve. Because our mind you, Clanderman
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was really good at coaching up safeties.
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Our DBS have been kind of asked for a little bit like, you know,
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just in terms of schematically, we, we were giving up a lot of
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big plays and a lot of that was because of the DBS and how they
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were ran. So no offense to our boy Van
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Malone. As quirky as he was, he didn't
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hit the recruiting trail as hard as, you know, most people
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thought that he was going to when he first was hired and, and
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how he progressed through climbing staff.
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But man, oh man, I think the, the, the DB room is getting the
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attention that they deserve. So I'm going to give that an A,
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I'm going to give the the staff as a whole BB.
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Minus. All right.
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Matt, can you guess what the question?
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Was what am I creating the staff hires?
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You are so holistically staff as a whole, what, what would your
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letter grade be on the staff now that it's fully assembled?
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And then any thoughts that you have on Sean Gleason, because
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we've just been, we've been riffing on this for 20 minutes
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now. You said AB minus, man, I, I
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would go a little bit higher than that.
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I would say maybe AB plus, you know, I, I think one of the key
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things for me at least right now, because obviously we can't
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see what the products going to look like on the field until
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September. But just looking at how this
20:26
staff is, is recruiting thus far, I think that's a really key
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piece for, for why I might be a little bit higher.
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I like how active this staff is, or at least from the outside,
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like from an outsider's perspective that they look more
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active. I mean, and I, I think it's
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showing, I don't necessarily look at it as like it's because
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we have some younger staff. I mean, I do think that helps.
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I, I, I think in this kind of era where you have a little bit
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of a newness because you don't know what to expect with the
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program, but you have kind of a staff that's a little bit
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younger, maybe a little bit more of a drive to try and connect
21:08
with some of these transfers. And, you know, I'll be very
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interested to see, I think with a whole year of high school
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recruiting, how things, things will go with that.
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But I, I'll just kind of make a couple points, you know, with,
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with maybe a couple individuals. But I think the Jordan Peterson
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hire is going to really pay some dividends very early.
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And we could be in a situation a year from now where he's, he's a
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head coach somewhere. I really believe that.
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I think he has, I like his experience that he's had thus
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far. I think he brings this like
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youthful energy to the, the, the program.
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But I, I think from a defensive perspective, you have a really
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good opportunity to, to take some of these high profile
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transfers and, and make something happen quickly.
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And so I would not be surprised. I mean, if he has a, you know,
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if we have a good season and you have a defense that is, say,
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ranked in the top 30 that he's, he's not here next year, which
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would be, you know, very kind of funny and shocking in a way.
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But specifically with Sean Gleeson, I mean, I, I think
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there may be a little bit of an underwhelmingness to this
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because of he wasn't necessarily a name that's been floated
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about. I was definitely a little bit
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more excited if we had gotten a guy from the Packers who, you
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know, just to get somebody from the NFL who's been in a kind of
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in a successful group with an offense or the Vanderbilt guy.
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But Sean Gleason does have some good experience.
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You look at at his track record, you know, the his time at
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Oklahoma State, you know, and Rutgers, I, you know, there's a
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little bit of a struggle there. But I think from a Missouri
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perspective, I think if you look at recent history, you know, as
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a quarterback coach at Missouri this year, I think he took a guy
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and Beau Parabula, who, you know, just as a a watcher of
23:10
college football, seeing his limited time at Penn State did
23:14
not look great. And I think he really kind of
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developed Beau Parabula to be, you know, Missouri was very good
23:22
with him this year. And I think that's something,
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you know, very recent that you can look at as, you know,
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developing a quarterback and trying to find his strengths and
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what works with an offense and, and making that happen.
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So it's again, it's going to be also, you know, it's going to be
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hard to tell, you know, until we get to September.
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But I think the other thing with him too, is I have to bet Colin
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Klein is going to be the one that's going to be calling the
23:46
plays and you're not going to get a lot of offensive
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coordinators that are in that role right now that want to come
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to a new first year head coach that's going to call place.
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I mean, how are you going to leave your mark?
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It's going to be a lot tougher for for a guy, you know, to do
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that. So I can understand, you know,
24:08
potentially having a look at a kind of a quarterbacks coach or
24:10
something like that. But I think with a guy with
24:12
experience, being an offensive coordinator is going to be
24:14
really helpful. So I'm going to give the staff
24:17
overall B plus. I like, I like a good majority
24:21
of the hires and, and I think it kind of fits what Colin Klein's
24:25
trying to build in the program of finding guys in specific
24:30
recruiting areas that are big into recruiting that, you know,
24:34
have these connections that are going to really help us out in
24:38
the high school game as well as in the transfer portal.
24:40
So. Just a great breakdown, great
24:43
analysis by both of you. Thank you.
24:45
Thank you, guys. Thank you so much.
24:47
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Stroganoff. You would stroke beef
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stroganoff. Classic wow.
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Absolute classic. I might even make it.
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What's your What's your secret? Short rib, braise, short rib in
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the short stroganoff. We don't ground beef here.
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I mean, we do ground beef here. Love heartland, love beef
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You braise me a short rib, take that meat.
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Nice, tender, throwing in a stroganoff.
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A creamy stroganoff. Mushrooms included thyme, Basil.
28:21
Not not basil, thyme, Rosemary. Essential herbs I just, I just
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have to point out here though, they're quarter half her whole
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beef shares, not cow because it could be a steer that you're
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getting as well. Excuse me, Excuse me a beast.
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We can't, we can't, we can't upset the people who are
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I'm talking, I'm talking out of school.
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It is a beef. It is a beef.
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It is a beef. I made a Mississippi pot roast.
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That's good. I also made a pot roast last
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week, but not a Mississippi. Is that with peppercinis?
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Yeah, and AJU and Ranch seasoning, really good with
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mashed taters or mashed cauliflower.
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I did that too because, you know, it just sits in the
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fridge. It's it's soap and it's juices.
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I was really hoping that, you know, I could get me a Heartland
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beef and, you know, I was trying.
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I only had lamb was on sale, you know, whatever.
29:28
Yeah, I made lamb with some kidney beans and rice, jerk
29:32
style. It was really good in the
29:34
pressure cooker. I wish I had some beef though.
29:37
Wish I had some beef, it would have been better.
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Yeah, I. Made the.
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I made the All American Pot Roast from the Food Lab cookbook
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29:57
All right, portal season still in full swing.
30:01
Portal window I believe is still open until this Friday, the
30:04
16th, if I'm not mistaken. So still an opportunity for
30:08
additional players to enter. We did see not a case stater,
30:11
but one of the biggest names to enter the portal so far, Seton.
30:14
Jordan Seton from Colorado gets in kind of last second here last
30:19
night. But around the same time that
30:21
Jordan Seton announced his commit or his not commitment,
30:25
but intention to enter the portal, we received a commitment
30:28
from Wendell Gregory, Oklahoma State edge rusher.
30:32
When we had our our friend the CDA tour, Calvin Glenn Alexander
30:36
from the Oklahoma State podcast on the college huddle, he was
30:41
very excited about Wendell Gregory.
30:43
He was very much stating, I think he said verbatim, this is
30:46
a guy that we would be very thankful if he if he came back
30:49
to Oklahoma State next year. Not the case.
30:52
He's going to be a cat. He was one of the most highly
30:54
sought after edge rushers in the portal did visits to Texas Tech
30:59
Texas. I think Alabama was involved at
31:03
at the very beginning when he entered the portal, you had USC,
31:06
Miami, Texas A&M, all of these heavy hitters with a lot of cash
31:11
real really willing to throw their weight around and their
31:14
dollars around were were after Wendell Gregory.
31:17
So he comes in, he raises, I think as far as portals, portal
31:22
members in for K State is now ranked 21st overall in beyond 3
31:28
industry rankings for portal, portal, portal in, not portal
31:32
out. So we're not looking at the
31:33
aggregate right now. We're looking at portal in.
31:37
But that's because he's coming on the heels of some other
31:40
additions that I think I want to talk about.
31:43
Certainly a guy in Tanner Morley of Colorado State, just up the
31:46
road for me in Fort Collins. He was a great addition.
31:49
He's the guy that has billboards around the Fort Collins area.
31:53
If you were aware of that, he's so he was a big NIL guy for
31:56
Colorado State. Josh Manning is another guy
31:59
that's committed since we last talked last week and he's a
32:03
obviously we we know the pedigree.
32:05
He was a four-star wide receiver out of Lee's Summit, Missouri.
32:09
Good friends with Avery Johnson. He originally commits to
32:12
Missouri. He's got one year of eligibility
32:14
left and is going to be taking that show on the road to
32:16
Manhattan for his final year. Jason Prevard, the guy that got
32:21
the interception to seal the deal for Virginia against
32:23
Florida State in that I was on an airplane watching that game
32:28
and people were freaking out on the airplane watching that that
32:31
game. He seems like a stud.
32:34
I'm not going to go through all of these names, but those are
32:36
some of the names I'm most excited about out of the portal
32:40
based on some since the last time we chatted.
32:43
We obviously talked about positions of need and where you
32:46
would kind of stack rank, where you would prioritize certain
32:49
guys. What are your, you know,
32:51
reactions to the portal hall so far since we last spoke?
32:55
So just thinking about the guys that have been added since last
32:58
Tuesday, what, what do you think about some of these guys?
33:00
Any diamonds in the rough? Any guys you're more excited
33:03
about? Not as excited about?
33:04
Just let's get into it. I think for, for me, the first
33:12
entry that I can think of that is essential to what this staff
33:17
needs to do. And, and I think it's the
33:19
defensive front with that needed to be addressed.
33:21
We, me, Matt, and you, Bob, we all, we all thought the
33:25
defensive line needed to be touched to, to get this team
33:29
going in the right direction. And a guy like Kamani Burns, I
33:35
mean Ohio kid, Gahanna Lincoln, absolute stud in high school and
33:41
he he played a a really strong pivotal role for Cincinnati in
33:45
that back half of their season and they had a successful season
33:49
at Cincinnati. So I think a guy like him is a
33:54
guy that can be versatile on the defensive line, similar to what
33:58
Sheedy did where he's a defensive end, but he's got that
34:01
frame where he could be a pass rusher on the inside.
34:05
So I like I like Burns a lot. Another guy that is just jumping
34:13
off the screen for me is a Jacoby.
34:15
Is it Oliphant? Yeah, I I love all of that.
34:20
I mean, talk about a guy off the bus.
34:22
You know, I'm a big aesthetic physique guy.
34:26
There's nothing more appealing to me than a monster that used
34:32
to play DB in high school and grows into a frame where he just
34:37
can't keep weight off. And it's incredible weight.
34:40
He looks like a bodybuilder. He's going to play that hybrid
34:44
linebacker safety kind of role in a defense where he can get
34:50
down into the box. He can even pass rush, which is
34:53
incredible. He's humongous.
34:55
He's awesome. First off, the bus kind of guy.
34:57
Those are two guys that are screaming at me on defense.
35:00
And then on offense, well, he was already committed.
35:04
I think last time we talked, I think it was Ronnie Fields.
35:07
But that guy, I mean, it's just it's electric.
35:10
And and they did sign a new running back which came from
35:14
Oregon and he played it just this past this past weekend with
35:19
Jay Harris and that's Jay Harris.
35:22
Jay Harris, he average, he averaged the least amount of
35:27
yards per carry for Oregon. It wasn't great.
35:31
He was more there like, you know, I need a yard here kind of
35:34
guy. And he got in there very
35:36
sparingly. They were at a stable at Oregon
35:40
where he could not really even see the field.
35:42
But his all American season at D2 and then what he did in the
35:47
bowl game versus that, the, you know, the playoff game versus
35:51
Indiana, Indiana's just they're they're out of control.
35:55
They're so good on defense. But even as a pass catcher for a
35:58
guy his size, I thought he was excellent.
36:02
And I think a guy coming in to be that third running back or
36:06
just, you know, get more carries, even though it's not
36:09
the number one guy, I think if he could play that role, he's
36:13
excellent. He's excellent for an for an
36:15
offense. Well, and if he's your, if he's
36:19
your Antonio Martin replacement, I feel like that's a clear
36:22
upgrade because Antonio Martin, no shade to the guy.
36:25
He didn't look like he belonged on a Division One Power 4
36:29
football field. Don't say that to Utah, though.
36:33
Don't say that to Utah. OK, good for that.
36:36
He's cooking. He got.
36:39
He he cooked Utah, kind of. He had a nice long run.
36:44
It sounds like they got to pick them up because they're losing
36:46
everybody to Michigan I. Thought you were saying Utah.
36:48
Utah picked them up out of the portal.
36:51
Yeah, that's what I thought you said.
36:54
I'll mention just a couple other guys and but I think my overall
36:57
theme with with this Portal class is, is potential.
37:02
A lot of young guys, young talent.
37:07
You have guys who are coming up from the group of five that have
37:12
the ability to prove themselves in a power for conference.
37:16
You have some power for guys who you know are young with just a
37:22
lot of potential and growth into their particular positions.
37:28
And then you have guys who are young that really like showed
37:31
out and, and Gregory is one of those guys.
37:33
I mean, he was a game changer and in a lot of the times he was
37:38
out there, I think especially when you're retooling A
37:41
defensive line, it's extremely important to get a dude, a guy
37:47
that you can build a defensive line around.
37:51
And admittingly, I think if you look at, you know, who K State
37:55
kept from the 2025 team and then with some of these guys that
37:59
they brought in from, as you said, Cincinnati and Coastal
38:02
Carolina, these have the potential to be good players.
38:06
But you need somebody who's going to be really kind of the
38:09
king on that line. And to pick him up from Oklahoma
38:13
State is is absolutely huge because it does give you maybe
38:18
even a little bit more flexibility in how you navigate
38:22
maybe the rest of the portal and also how you're projecting this
38:25
defensive line to look for next year.
38:28
I'll also just mention, I think I talked about him last week,
38:30
but I love the pickup of Makai Mason, Louisiana Tech
38:34
linebacker. He was all Conference USA second
38:40
team or even maybe first team this past year.
38:44
I think he's a really good player.
38:45
You look at some of his film and he's going to get probably in
38:50
the weight room a little bit more, but he's a guy that I
38:53
think is going to be kind of an instant replacement at the
38:57
linebacker position. And depending on how this
39:00
defense is run, you know, we don't know necessarily how many
39:03
linebackers they're going to put out there at a time.
39:06
You know, we don't know much necessarily about how the
39:08
defense alignment's going to look.
39:09
But I've been really impressed with specifically his film.
39:12
I think he's going to be a really good player for us,
39:14
especially as this defense kind of develops in the spring into
39:17
the fall. I've I've wanted you know, I
39:22
don't want us to go harbor on it too long, but you know, how many
39:27
starters did we acquire in the portal?
39:32
I mean, you've got to think that we're replacing three offensive
39:36
lineman at that graduated or you know, whatever or left the
39:42
program. We're losing running backs.
39:46
Well, one running back, wide receivers were losing 1 tight
39:51
ends. We didn't lose too much, not we
39:53
left some depth piece, but starters they're intact.
39:57
Defensively, the whole D lines gone.
40:00
So we did, we replace all the starters there.
40:03
I would hope we did. I mean, I don't know what we're
40:05
bringing up from the the depths. Jordan Allen, maybe somebody
40:08
that can step in and become a starter.
40:11
Linebackers all gone, right, as far as I know.
40:17
And then defensively, we lost everybody except for the 2
40:22
starting corners that might potentially be the starters.
40:25
So how many of these guys are starters?
40:29
Well, you, I mean, we have a couple linebackers that are
40:32
still with us. Rex Fan.
40:35
Why? I would not, but I wouldn't
40:36
consider him starter level. I still think from what we saw
40:42
last year, unless there's an immediate jump or serious
40:46
development that you know, just comes out of nowhere, I don't
40:50
think he is a power for starting linebacker.
40:53
No offense to him. I think he is an incredible
40:55
depth piece, somebody that can come in and give you 20, 20
40:58
snaps a game and an excellent special team, excellent special
41:02
team. Or you got to have guys like
41:03
that, that is excellent on special teams.
41:05
But I think for me, I don't think if you're not for from the
41:11
portal for this defense, if we're not replacing 7 starters
41:18
from the portal, I think we've failed.
41:22
I think we have to find no just on on defense.
41:25
I think on defense we have to find seven.
41:28
I think offensive line wise now offensive line is a little
41:31
different because you you kind of build those guys up through
41:34
the system and whatever. And there might be some guys
41:37
that are hidden down in there that that can get it, get it and
41:40
go. But I think Bob's boy, I don't
41:44
he's coming off an injury. So maybe he he got earned, he
41:48
got injured earlier in the season.
41:51
So maybe he'll be a full go kind of guy that can plug and play.
41:55
He's a monster of a human. What is what was his name?
41:59
Yeah, yeah, he's a he was a monster at Colorado State, but
42:04
he's coming off an injury. You know, that that can be
42:09
questionable. We saw that with Gunner
42:11
Maldonado, who we knew had all the town in the world.
42:14
But it just takes time. And then you bring George
42:17
Fitzpatrick back. So the offensive line I think is
42:20
kind of taken care of. But I think defensively really
42:23
is where we have to hit on all a lot of these guys.
42:26
I think we have to find 7 starters on that out of this
42:29
portal class. We have to have seven of them
42:31
because defensive line Wendell Gregory obviously is going to be
42:35
a starter. We know he's got the talent.
42:38
We he's going to be doing his thing, but Jordan Allen is
42:41
really the only defensive line guy that we're bringing back.
42:45
So three of them or two of them or however we're doing the
42:49
rotation have to come from this portal class.
42:52
But Mason is kind of come in and replace Romaine.
42:56
I think Oliphant will come in and replace what's his name
43:02
that's meant Pernell. I mean it.
43:04
And then it's just the safety room.
43:06
Who do you trust Wesley Fair to be a starter?
43:08
Do you trust Logan Bartley to be a starter?
43:13
I don't know if these guys are ready.
43:15
That's why you got to hit on these guys in the portal, and I
43:17
think you have to have seven. And then offensively, you got to
43:20
have probably two or three, 3 or 4, two or three, 3 or 4
43:24
somewhere around. 77's a lot, 7's a lot, I mean.
43:29
Look at what we're, look at what we're losing and what we brought
43:33
back. I don't know if we have starter
43:36
level returning. I think Jordan Allen will be a
43:40
starter. I think your cornerbacks are
43:46
good. I think Logan Bartley will be a
43:49
starter. Really, I think he'll, I and I,
43:53
I primarily look at it from a, a recent historical K State
44:00
perspective. When you play guys as a true
44:02
freshman, they always fail. And that's not that they fail,
44:07
but in a more impressive way that a true freshman was out
44:10
there just making dumb mistakes. And you see, like you, you see
44:16
it from Jacob Parrish. I mean, you saw like we've had
44:21
this Austin Romain even as a true freshman, like he got shit
44:27
on, but as a sophomore I thought he was very good.
44:33
And I see that kind of step up for Logan Bartley as a sophomore
44:37
to be starting. So I the, the tough part where
44:42
you say like 7 people, I don't know if there's seven quality
44:48
defensive starters in this portal class yet.
44:53
And, and that's why I more trend towards, OK, who are the guys
44:58
that, you know, we do have here on the defense that we've been
45:02
in the program that have shown some life, like have shown the
45:08
potential for development. And so I would, I would say kind
45:11
of those two, but I mean, in, in general, like it's this is how
45:16
the portal was going to be this year for us.
45:18
When you go through a coaching change and I think people, you
45:24
know, as you saw these big names coming through, people were
45:27
disappointed. But I at the end of the day,
45:30
like I was not surprised when you see these big names, you
45:33
have schools that feel like they're seeing blood in the
45:37
water, right? They are seeing a big overhaul
45:40
at K State. This is our opportunity to kind
45:43
of knock them down. Let's get their talent into our
45:47
program etcetera. But the nice part I feel like is
45:51
we're seeing a really good rebound from that.
45:54
And you know, it's not necessarily the quantity like we
45:59
we saw a quantity of guys, seven guys in one day, etcetera.
46:03
That's not necessarily going to be the case anymore.
46:06
Now you're going to see OK, 1-2, you know, maybe at the most that
46:11
are going to sign a day. And at this point, it should be
46:14
an expectation of what kind of quality guys are potentially
46:18
going to be entering the portal that we we need to be keeping an
46:20
eye on. And what kind of guys that we've
46:22
been on for the past eight days, nine however long the portal has
46:26
been open that we can do one last hard sell and get get some
46:30
quality guys here that could start.
46:32
And the reason why I said that, and it's not like not to poo poo
46:36
on the guys that are on the roster that they can't make, you
46:40
know, jumps because, you know, you got ace Newsome, you got
46:43
guys like that that can, you know, with a healthy season that
46:46
he didn't finally have a a season ending loss where he's
46:50
not in the training room and he actually gets a spring and a
46:53
summer to actually grow as a linebacker.
46:56
But it's more they didn't crack it last year.
47:00
OK, that's fine. And the numbers because we have
47:04
to keep it at one O 5. I only see us adding maybe like
47:08
6 or 7 more guys like we have to hit on if if that's if your
47:14
logic and what you're saying is true.
47:17
The guys that we're bringing in these next few transfer portal
47:20
guys, they have to be absolute killers.
47:23
They have to because like you said, if those guys that are on
47:26
this list already aren't starters, they're they're going
47:29
to have to be if they don't hit the next few guys.
47:31
So I, I think it's interesting, I think this class is
47:36
underrated. I think it's very underrated.
47:39
I think there's some guys that fit molds that are really big,
47:42
really strong and you know, it just takes development.
47:46
So it'll be interesting to see. But I, I think if, if what
47:49
you're saying is true, we have to hit on these next few guys.
47:55
What do you think the likelihood is that any of the guys that
47:57
have entered return come back to K state because they didn't find
48:02
suitors elsewhere or whatever? If they haven't found suitors
48:06
yet, then they weren't any good. I agree, I'm just I'm just
48:10
asking what do you think that could be 0?
48:15
Yeah, it's there. I don't know.
48:16
I just, yeah, at this point I think it's definitely 0.
48:19
And I mean. I don't even know who he wants
48:23
back out of like, you know, the guys that have already signed,
48:27
like I would love Clay Moss to come back.
48:29
I would love for Chidi to come back.
48:31
I'd love Toby to come back. But they those guys are already
48:34
signed, I think. They they are it's, it's more
48:38
like the names like a JB Price hasn't been found.
48:42
He he hasn't, he hasn't landed anywhere.
48:44
So Braden Lofton has entered, but he hasn't.
48:47
Has he committed to UCLA? So he visited UCLAI, saw he.
48:51
I saw he committed. I thought he's.
48:53
I thought I saw he. Committed, I mean, I think I
48:55
think a good majority of the guys that have put their name in
48:58
the portal have found suitors. And I think as, as Chef said,
49:02
like, like it's if if you're in a situation where you entered
49:10
the portal and you aren't getting suitors, then I think if
49:16
you're trying to rebuild this program that shows you a little
49:20
bit of something like it just shows you that.
49:23
And but and unfortunately, I mean, if you think of how K
49:27
State's historical successes come, it comes from guys who
49:30
probably are in a situation where they don't have a lot of
49:34
offers, they don't have a lot of suitors and they come and build
49:37
themselves for four years and get to a point where they're
49:40
starting as a senior and making big plays and doing this and
49:42
that. That's just not how it is
49:44
anymore. Like the development aspect of
49:47
being a college football player just doesn't seem like it's it's
49:51
at that point anymore where you can really take risks on on walk
49:57
ONS or not even walk ONS. But you know, guys from 8A or
50:01
you know, eight man football in Kansas that it it just doesn't
50:04
seem like there are as many of those opportunities, which is
50:07
very sad. But that's to be competitive in
50:09
2026. Like that's how it's got to be.
50:13
And the, and the thing about it is it's, it goes both ways.
50:16
If if you know the players want to play, it's a highly
50:21
competitive market with it's over saturated with players.
50:25
So I mean technically K state could throw anybody they want a
50:30
bone that has zero offers that has gotten no interest and they
50:33
can bring them in if they wanted to.
50:35
But here's the thing, there's there was like 3000 players that
50:42
entered the portal, like 1100 of them have signed.
50:46
That's not good. I mean, there's there's players
50:49
just disappearing off the map that are going to be, you know,
50:52
pushing carts at Walmart. If it's the problem is it's both
50:56
ways. The coaches push players out
50:58
because they want better players and they need competitive depth
51:03
throughout their roster because of the one O 5 rule and players
51:09
with agents with all this stuff with representative that people
51:11
talk and say, hey, you could do better.
51:13
You could actually be playing and that's not the case.
51:16
You need your brother. I'm talking to the recruit
51:19
that's thinking that they can enter the portal and that is
51:21
going to get playing time. I take my gum out.
51:25
You need three years to grow up, brother.
51:28
You need it. You need three years in the
51:30
weight room. You're not ready.
51:32
And it and that's that's a that's a guy that has never
51:35
played collegiate football. I know this.
51:38
I was never ready. When you're not ready yet, when
51:41
as soon as you're ready, your time will come.
51:43
Look at what Indiana's doing. These are guys that were not the
51:47
highly touted guys out of high school.
51:50
They weren't the highly touted guys out of the transfer portal
51:53
either, But they're old guys. They're guys that have, you
51:57
know, built their bodies up. They're 24 year old, 23 year old
52:00
guys. They're men.
52:02
But if you're a 19 year old JB Price, yeah, you're not getting
52:08
the reps and he might have been pushed out.
52:09
We we don't know. But if if for instance, that he
52:12
was voluntarily left K State's program, you're not ready,
52:17
brother. You're you're ready to run be
52:21
running back at Elon. You're not ready at P4 level and
52:25
so if he would stick around at the program and, you know, lift
52:29
weights and learn from other guys, maybe his time would come.
52:33
But kids don't want to do that these days.
52:35
Or coaches are not giving them the opportunity either, which is
52:39
also really gross and kind of sucks, but that's the nature of
52:43
it. When you go to the one O 5,
52:45
these coaches ain't got time to be spending the guy for the 5th
52:49
running back on the depth chart. They got to get somebody that
52:52
can tote the rock when the time comes, so it sucks all the way
52:57
around. That development is gone.
52:59
But man, the transfer portal is fun.
53:05
It's fun, but it's also anxiety inducing all at the same time.
53:09
So quick shout out to to on three KSO, the guys over there.
53:13
This is not behind a pay wall, but I'm going to plug their
53:16
transfer tracker that they have just to show kind of a plus
53:19
minus that Mason both put together of which positions
53:23
we've gained or lost guys and we're still down one at QB,
53:28
running back, linebacker and safety.
53:31
We are in the positive on kicker and punter, long snapper,
53:37
corner, defensive tackle and we are even on offensive line and
53:42
wide receiver. I mean off.
53:49
We can. We can feel the team.
53:51
Let's do. It we could feel the team, I, I
53:53
would feel I, I would feel more positive if we hit on one more
54:00
offensive line or the offensive lineman that definitely is
54:04
starter level, which is going to be hard to find in the portal
54:09
because they they go quick and then one more defensive end
54:14
because I think we could do have a lot of depth pieces on there.
54:17
I think Gregory is a difference maker.
54:20
I think Burns is a difference maker.
54:22
Maybe Hicks. He's an older guy, right?
54:25
Or did he only do one year at Gardner Webb?
54:27
Not entirely sure. Maybe he's not an older guy.
54:29
Maybe he's not ready. Mason impact guy.
54:34
Who? How do you pronounce his name?
54:36
It's Jason, the guy from Jason Prevard.
54:40
I'm going to. Learn Jason Prevard.
54:43
Prevard, Prevard. He is Jason Prevard.
54:46
No, he will be our best. He will be he will be the best
54:49
defensive player we have and that is a he is a he is he is a
54:55
clone of Julius Brent's frame. I feel like maybe he's a inch,
55:00
inch shorter, but he plays safety like it.
55:04
It is going to be fun to watch him just like roam the field and
55:09
to make plays. It's going to be interesting.
55:11
He locks down and man he is fun on that deep, that deep back
55:15
half or the deep 3rd to make plays because I feel like that's
55:19
where he got all his interceptions except for the one
55:21
where he swatted it out of Florida State dudes hand, which
55:25
was insane play as well. So it's going to be it's going
55:28
to be fun to have him. There's some difference makers
55:30
on this team, but we do need to hit some more.
55:35
What do you think of the Georgia edition, the Adrian Maddox kid
55:38
that I think it was a South Alabama prior to that or Alabama
55:41
State. Alabama State I think is what it
55:43
was. Well, it was Alabama State, then
55:45
UAD. Then Georgia.
55:47
Yeah, OK, OK, OK. Yeah, depth.
55:50
I think that's a depth guy. I think he'll he'll play more.
55:54
I think from what you know, the stories gathered up, he did.
55:59
He was one of those guys that got, you know, kind of
56:02
bamboozled by the two portal windows where you come in early
56:06
and then they bring somebody in the second window and you're
56:09
like, but I was here, I thought I was getting the spot.
56:12
So he probably wasn't good enough to play at Georgia, but
56:16
you know, maybe he's good enough to crack the 2 deep at K State.
56:21
I like that. I think he I think he's fun.
56:23
He's a fun interview too. So maybe get him on the way.
56:27
I mean, I think he's a good, I think there's a good risk reward
56:31
on that one potentially. I mean, you know, at the end of
56:34
the day, Georgia saw something in this this guy and he didn't
56:40
get a lot of playing time there. But I think some of that
56:43
evaluation is really good, you know, to kind of gauge, you
56:47
know, who they believe has talent to play for them.
56:51
He had some good numbers at Alabama State and at UAB.
56:55
So I think he's he's a guy that you potentially cash in a
57:01
lottery ticket on. If you can get some significant
57:04
play from him, then hey, your evaluation was really good of
57:09
this kid. I hate saying kid of this guy,
57:15
but I, I, I mean, I, I don't know, I look at, I look at, you
57:19
know, for schools that are looking at some of these
57:21
transfers who have had, you know, these guys that have
57:23
transferred. Like, I have to trust a little
57:26
bit of the town evaluation there too.
57:28
So it'll be interesting to see how much time he gets.
57:32
Yeah, I, I equate it similar to like a Jay Sean Ross or Jaden
57:36
Rowe pick up last, last portal cycle of it's a guy you're
57:38
taking a flyer on. He was evaluated well by high
57:42
caliber programs. You just kind of have to hope
57:44
that that what they saw in him can come to fruition and that he
57:47
doesn't get caught for trafficking marijuana in
57:50
southeast Kansas. Somewhere so that's.
57:52
Yeah, he's a, he's a bit older. Maybe he's got his head on his
57:55
shoulders a little bit more than you know.
57:57
Shout out to our our boy Jay Sean pushing that weight.
58:01
Can't believe it's not legal. Is weed not legal in Kansas?
58:05
No, no it's not. No shit sports.
58:09
Betting. Sports betting is legal in
58:11
Kansas, Illegal in Missouri. Well, I guess it's legal now as
58:14
of December 1st or something. But marijuana legal, Legal in
58:18
Missouri, Illegal in Kansas. What an idiot.
58:22
Also, chef, you make you make the the reference of, yeah, if
58:25
you can't make the 105, you're going to be pushing, pushing
58:27
carts at Walmart. Well, hopefully a guy like
58:30
Wendell Gregory when he's pushing carts at Walmart will
58:32
actually pay for pay for his goods instead of getting caught
58:35
for for robbery of $200 worth of merchandise from Walmart.
58:40
Is that what happened last year? Wendell.
58:42
Gregory in August, that did happen in August in Stillwater.
58:46
So hey, Wendell, if you're listening to this, don't you
58:51
don't need to steal. You don't need to steal stuff
58:53
from Walmart, man. You got, you got, you got paid.
58:58
That's not great. I I would have hoped that he got
59:01
paid at Oklahoma State, but it's just kids.
59:05
He's dumb. I don't know.
59:07
Sometimes it's just fun to steal though.
59:10
It is funny because you've got I've got tech guys and Oklahoma
59:13
State guys in my mentions talking about, oh, good luck,
59:16
have fun with this guy. He's his agent of Prima Donna
59:18
and he got caught for robbery. And I'm like, dude, he stole
59:21
$200 worth of who knows what from Walmart.
59:24
Come on. Like, we can give it a pass.
59:26
It's not that it was out here. Hopefully it won't stealing
59:29
credit. Cards.
59:30
Hopefully it wasn't beef because he could just go to Heartland
59:33
Beef connection, get hooked up, get you 1/2 of beef and you will
59:37
never have to steal from Walmart and their unquality beef again.
59:44
I can't. I can't think of a better way to
59:46
end the pod. I mean, there's nothing to talk
59:48
about with basketball. They still suck.
59:50
We could just rehash the same shit we've talked about for the
59:54
last five weeks now at this point.
59:57
So yeah, we're we're not going to talk about hoops.
59:58
There's nothing positive to talk about there.
1:00:00
They're still terrible. But with that, I think that's
1:00:03
that's going to do it for our episode today.
1:00:08
I just wanted to quickly point out the bowl season standings.
1:00:13
Do you want to update that real quick?
1:00:15
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. So I am 6253 and 1.
1:00:23
You are 60, 3:52 and 1:00. OK, Yeah, I just wanted.
1:00:29
To just point that out. Who?
1:00:32
Who were you taking on Monday? What's the line?
1:00:36
What's the spread? What we got?
1:00:37
Let's see here. Let's see.
1:00:40
I believe the line is. I mean, I'm.
1:00:45
Going to go with Indiana. Indiana 8 1/2.
1:00:51
Indiana 8 1/2 So you're taking Indiana 8?
1:00:54
And 1/2. OK, I'm also, I'm also taking
1:00:57
Indiana 8 1/2 to preserve my victory, so I just wanted for
1:01:00
everybody to make sure I was coaxing Bob into picking first
1:01:04
so I could also pick the same thing and.
1:01:06
OK, well, I'm, I'm going to take no, no Miami then.
1:01:09
What a lowlife, what a lowlife, what a lowlife.
1:01:12
You know what I think I'm going to now.
1:01:14
I was just thinking about it for a second.
1:01:15
I think I'm going to take Miami. Darn.
1:01:20
It's funny because Bob never typed it in and you literally.
1:01:26
Just typed it in by the way. Matt, you're.
1:01:29
On the record as saying in -8 1/2, let's have some fun with
1:01:35
it. Let's have some fun with it.
1:01:37
No, I, I'd. Rather win.
1:01:41
Yeah, I'd rather actually so. You're taking Miami.
1:01:49
Well, I'm going to type it in myself on Monday afternoon,
1:01:53
actually Monday right before kick, I'm going to type it in
1:01:56
myself, so. I don't trust you.
1:01:59
OK, OK, I will. I'll see you there.
1:02:03
You guys are sick. You guys are sick.
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You see? Are you talking to me?
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Is the loser. I would I would have sweat bowl
1:02:21
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