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Speaker 2: talk some UC football, squeeze in some basketball as well.
Speaker 2: Next up the Liberty Bowl versus Navy in Memphis on Friday,
Speaker 2: January second. For more on that and all things U
Speaker 2: see athletics is welcome in from Bearcat Journal dot com.
Speaker 2: Chad Barndel, how are you.
Speaker 3: Well, I missed the mark. I'm letting my dogs out
Speaker 3: by I think thirty seconds.
Speaker 2: Oh oh mess ouch.
Speaker 3: It was not raining when I walked in, because I
Speaker 3: was coming home from filling in from O and I
Speaker 3: waited thirty seconds and I went to let them out,
Speaker 3: and it's now pouring down rain here and independence talking.
Speaker 3: So the dogs took one step outside, turned around, looked
Speaker 3: at me and said, no, thank you, sir.
Speaker 4: Sorry.
Speaker 2: Yes, let's start with as much as we've talked about
Speaker 2: departures in the portal, let's talk about the news of
Speaker 2: significance today, the retention of three offensive linemen who are
Speaker 2: going to run it back and good news for the Bearcats.
Speaker 2: Detail who's returning and how significant that is.
Speaker 3: Well, it's probably going to be the entire left side
Speaker 3: of your line. You're gonna have Joe Cotton, who was
Speaker 3: one of the highest ranked transfers in the portal, had
Speaker 3: a very good first year at Cincinnati. He's coming back.
Speaker 3: Evan Tengestahl, who has in many regards, been named in
Speaker 3: All American second third team All American for his first
Speaker 3: season as a starter at left guard, and then Taran TiO,
Speaker 3: who played right guard this year. My anticipation is that
Speaker 3: Tyo will move to center next year. So left guard,
Speaker 3: left tackle, and center coming back for next year. That
Speaker 3: certainly raises your floor. If you're looking at you, what
Speaker 3: is this team? What is the next iteration of Scott
Speaker 3: Saderfield football look like? At Cincinnati? Having those three guys back, boy,
Speaker 3: you can you can sell a portal quarterback on that
Speaker 3: big time. Hey, you're going to be protected. You can
Speaker 3: sell running backs in the portal on it. You can
Speaker 3: sell running back that you have on your roster that
Speaker 3: you'd like to keep. Hey, you know we've got the
Speaker 3: line coming back. So it's a big first step in
Speaker 3: stabilizing the roster for twenty twenty six.
Speaker 4: Speaking of quarterback, the Bearcats couldn't find a measly four
Speaker 4: million dollars apparently to keep bring swersby. So that means,
Speaker 4: I guess Lichtenberg and more are the options. Who do
Speaker 4: you think starts this bowl game? And then what do
Speaker 4: you think happens? Are either of those two guys or
Speaker 4: more in the mix for next season?
Speaker 3: Well, Brady Lichtenberg actually his freshman year at UC was
Speaker 3: nineteen eighty four.
Speaker 4: He's been there a little while.
Speaker 3: Yes, so this is this is it for Lickti. It's
Speaker 3: last his last who rah. I do anticipate that he
Speaker 3: will start in the bowl game.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: Sam Oz Jones is a red shirt freshman. He will
Speaker 3: play at some point in time in Memphis on on
Speaker 3: the third or on the second, excuse me, and then
Speaker 3: I think he will he'll be around to compete for
Speaker 3: the job. They're gonna They've got Brooks Goodman coming in
Speaker 3: as a freshman who they really like a lot, but
Speaker 3: true freshman, You're gonna have to hit the portal for
Speaker 3: one starting level quarterback, and you might have to hit
Speaker 3: the portal for potentially a backup guy just to get
Speaker 3: that room back up to size, because that's you know,
Speaker 3: you need four five quarterbacks in that room, and right
Speaker 3: now it's gonna be Sam Oz Jones and a freshman.
Speaker 3: So gonna have to uh to bulk up that room
Speaker 3: in the portal for sure. And by the way, Rock
Speaker 3: four million is a very low ball number on what
Speaker 3: Brandon story is going to get. I've heard five north
Speaker 3: of five at times.
Speaker 4: Wowa a quarterback.
Speaker 2: I realize Navy doesn't exactly sling it around the field.
Speaker 2: I think they average fourteen passes a game, but that
Speaker 2: the current status of the UC secondary appears rather sparse,
Speaker 2: does it not.
Speaker 3: I think Hegan is suiting up tomorrow as tasty. It's
Speaker 3: going to be ugly, but I'm gonna be there, you know,
Speaker 3: at eleven o'clock to watch. Yeah, they're they're gonna be relying,
Speaker 3: and honestly, I don't hate it because you're gonna need
Speaker 3: a lot of these freshmen and red shirt freshmen to
Speaker 3: show growth. And you're gonna at least through these bull practices.
Speaker 3: And even though Navy doesn't throw the ball a toime,
Speaker 3: they throw it more than a standard triple option team
Speaker 3: this year. Usually triple option teams will throw four times, yeah,
Speaker 3: in a game, and they throw fourteen. So I mean,
Speaker 3: break out the air raid. But you're gonna need to
Speaker 3: see what you've got in some of these guys and
Speaker 3: to see if you can throw them in there, put
Speaker 3: their feet to the fire and see if they can
Speaker 3: hold their own. Because you know, if we're at that
Speaker 3: point right, a lot of people are worried. We haven't
Speaker 3: seen anything from the high school guys. It's a developmental program.
Speaker 3: You don't see a lot of freshmen and red shirt
Speaker 3: freshmen on the field. But now these guys are getting
Speaker 3: into the second third year in the program, You're gonna
Speaker 3: need to find out what you got. If the guys
Speaker 3: that you know really the only one I think they
Speaker 3: really would have liked to keep with Christian Harrison. I'm
Speaker 3: sure they would have been okay if Teakwan Sanks would
Speaker 3: have stayed around. But I don't think they were going
Speaker 3: to overpay at that spot because you already have Antoine
Speaker 3: Pete there. So let's find out what we got. Let's
Speaker 3: see throw these guys' feet to the fire and see
Speaker 3: how they hold up against you know, a Navy team
Speaker 3: that's gonna be physical, get down in the box, make
Speaker 3: some tackles. Boys.
Speaker 2: Gotta ask you a basketball question. Gisel James has clearly
Speaker 2: been through a lot. He had a nice moment last night.
Speaker 2: I was happy for him last night. He was smiling
Speaker 2: last night. What give me a big picture observation of
Speaker 2: this situation and what do you make of it?
Speaker 3: Is it what I would have done bringing him back
Speaker 3: this early from the situation he went through. No, probably not.
Speaker 3: Is it what I would have done if I had
Speaker 3: a multi million dollar a year job on the line
Speaker 3: and had my leading scorer from a year ago at practice,
Speaker 3: but not on the floor for games. Yeah. Probably, And
Speaker 3: that's not to excuse Wes Miller. That's just reality of
Speaker 3: the situation. There's not a whole lot of multimillion dollars
Speaker 3: a year jobs out there. If you've got one of them,
Speaker 3: I imagine you're you're gonna do whatever you can to
Speaker 3: try to keep it. That's where kind of this falls
Speaker 3: for me. He thought gizl could help them, and there's
Speaker 3: other things. Obviously. You could see his teammates are really
Speaker 3: happy to have Jizzle back yesterday, laughing, smiling on the bench,
Speaker 3: having a good time, enjoying him coming back and playing well.
Speaker 3: The injuries are mounting up. Like, I get some of
Speaker 3: the stuff that WEX talked about in the post game,
Speaker 3: but for me, let's be honest here, they need wins.
Speaker 3: They were six and four yeah, times running out and
Speaker 3: there is no next year if they don't get this
Speaker 3: thing figured out. So putting Jil James back on the floor,
Speaker 3: I get it from a coaching standpoint. Just want to
Speaker 3: make sure it ends up being the right thing by
Speaker 3: the kid. Yes, and at least the early returns are good,
Speaker 3: good like.
Speaker 2: Going on a portal, the Bowl game, basketball. You are
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Speaker 2: taste of things they will find.
Speaker 3: Everything. A tracker who's going in the portal, a tracker
Speaker 3: of of who they are potentially looking at coming.
Speaker 1: Out of the portal.
Speaker 3: We're tracking coaching changes and staff changes on the football side.
Speaker 3: We're tracking who's available and who's not for each individual
Speaker 3: basketball game. At this point is there is a lot
Speaker 3: going on and the Bearcat Journal team has you covered
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Speaker 3: in November and December as I can ever remember. Sands
Speaker 3: a coaching change.
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Speaker 3: Thank you, sir, appreciate you guys. You all have a
Speaker 3: great Christmas. I don't know what the plan is for
Speaker 3: next week, but let me know.
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Speaker 2: Chad Brendle