Speaker 1: It is showtime. It's a very pleasant, good evening. Everybody.
Speaker 1: Greetings from the original montgomery In, home of the world's
Speaker 1: greatest ribs. Welcome to the Scott Saderfield Radio Show. I'm
Speaker 1: Dan Horde alongside the star of the show. Let's hear
Speaker 1: it for UC head coach Scott Sadderfield.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: We will get to the details of last week's game
Speaker 1: against BYU throughout the course of the show, but I
Speaker 1: want to start with this. The atmosphere was awesome and
Speaker 1: many of the people who are with us tonight here
Speaker 1: at the original montgomery In were undoubtedly there. Night games
Speaker 1: at Nipper are as good as it gets, and in
Speaker 1: this case, they had the drone show with the sea
Speaker 1: Pass invented in the air above the stadium. It was
Speaker 1: really cool and it's the type of thing that can
Speaker 1: help you going forward.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think it's been our first true night game since
Speaker 3: our Tins of Miami game the next year, I think,
Speaker 3: and that was early in the season, you know, And
Speaker 3: last year we.
Speaker 2: Played TCU this week right here.
Speaker 3: Which is Thanksgiving, students were going and it just wasn't
Speaker 3: the same, But that that was incredible.
Speaker 2: It was probably one of the.
Speaker 3: Best college atmospheres I've coached in uh, you know, I've
Speaker 3: been coaching twenty eight, twenty nine years. Whatever it is,
Speaker 3: that was incredible. It was I had never seen. I
Speaker 3: didn't know we were doing the drone thing and I yeah,
Speaker 3: and I looked up and I.
Speaker 2: Was like, what is that.
Speaker 3: That's awesome whatever that was, you know, right above their
Speaker 3: students on that side there, you know, took a glance
Speaker 3: up on this side behind us, and it was incredible.
Speaker 2: It was uh and it was loud.
Speaker 3: That was the loudest I've heard Nipper And you know,
Speaker 3: the other time it was I thought was around that time.
Speaker 3: Loud was uh Oklahoma when they came here a couple
Speaker 3: of years ago.
Speaker 2: But this was louder. I mean it was.
Speaker 3: It was an incredible atmosphere and it caused problems for them.
Speaker 3: You know, they had a couple of false starts on
Speaker 3: their offense, and you know, I just man that that
Speaker 3: is what college football is all about. And it was
Speaker 3: huge for our guys and the recruits that were there.
Speaker 1: On hand, I will give credit to b YU. They're
Speaker 1: twenty one and three over the last two years, so
Speaker 1: they've obviously been terrific. And the thing about them is
Speaker 1: they don't beat themselves, and you had some self inflicted
Speaker 1: would so to speak, during the course of that game.
Speaker 1: How do you get to the point of doing what
Speaker 1: they're doing?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I mean they're you know, you're right. I mean,
Speaker 3: they're a good football team. They don't beat themselves. They
Speaker 3: play really good defense, They take care of the ball
Speaker 3: on offense. They don't take many chances on offense. I
Speaker 3: don't think, you know, for them, they turn and handed
Speaker 3: the ball to the big running back thirty two times,
Speaker 3: throw it to him three times. We had thirty five touches.
Speaker 3: The big quarterback ran it thirteen times. I mean, you know,
Speaker 3: so you're not taking a ton of chances when you're
Speaker 3: doing that offensively. And then the fact, you know, we
Speaker 3: didn't make the field goals, so there's nine points right there.
Speaker 3: So you know, you get behind a little bit instead
Speaker 3: of keeping it even or ahead, and therefore you feel
Speaker 3: like you gotta take a few chances. You know, it's
Speaker 3: fourth and one, you got to go, and you know
Speaker 3: we went forward three other fourth downs we ended up
Speaker 3: getting those, you know, and you end up trying to
Speaker 3: do things that maybe you shouldn't have tried to do.
Speaker 3: And I think you end up, you know, turn We
Speaker 3: had a couple of turnovers. We had the turnover you know,
Speaker 3: on the seventeen yard line going in, and we had
Speaker 3: it on the fourth down on the four yard line,
Speaker 3: and you know, and I think for us, it's just
Speaker 3: been playing clean football. Obviously, we know the stretch that
Speaker 3: we had in conference play at the beginning, the five
Speaker 3: and zero we took, we played clean football. I think
Speaker 3: we had maybe one turnover in those five games. And
Speaker 3: then we also were getting some turnovers, you know, and
Speaker 3: we were kind of flipping that script. Really were doing
Speaker 3: what Byu was doing, you know, and you're playing a
Speaker 3: team like that. There's so many games they've won over
Speaker 3: the last two years just like that. It's it's crazy.
Speaker 3: You know, they're an older team, mature team, and you know,
Speaker 3: but you just can't make mistakes against teams like that,
Speaker 3: eleventh rank in the country and they're used to winning.
Speaker 1: Your team is among the best in the country this
Speaker 1: year at converting on fourth down. You're something like fifteen
Speaker 1: for eighteen or something really impressive along those lines. On
Speaker 1: the one where you got stopped. The other night, you
Speaker 1: did a wildcat play, you snapped you direct to Tywee Walker,
Speaker 1: what was it about b Yu or whatever that that
Speaker 1: led you in that direction?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it was we also put an extra
Speaker 3: lineman in the game in the backfield with the tight end,
Speaker 3: and we ran a split flow, so the lines going
Speaker 3: to the right, and are those two big guys are
Speaker 3: going to the left. The thought is, you know, hit
Speaker 3: it right off that side, and you know, Tyee kind
Speaker 3: of went right up the middle there where that you know,
Speaker 3: had a linebacker. But you know, you gotta feel like
Speaker 3: we got a lot of beef in there, Tyweise, two
Speaker 3: hundred and twenty pounds.
Speaker 2: We'll get a yard.
Speaker 3: You know, a little bit of penetration on that on
Speaker 3: that particular play got knocked back a little bit. We
Speaker 3: they meet us at the line of scrimmage. Obvious he's
Speaker 3: trying to fight, but he didn't get it. You know,
Speaker 3: Hans twenty twenty, we had there was another play we're
Speaker 3: gonna you know, we're gonna call quarterback follow which we've
Speaker 3: run many times with Soresby in those scenarios. You know,
Speaker 3: had that call switched to this, I mean, obviously stick
Speaker 3: with the first thought, I think, you know, and yeah,
Speaker 3: what what that does enabled to play eleven on eleven,
Speaker 3: which that's why we like it on short yard of
Speaker 3: situations and goal line situations where now they had to
Speaker 3: defend a quarterback in that situation. Man, you're you know,
Speaker 3: Soorsby on that one is just running out to the left.
Speaker 3: They didn't they didn't run out with them. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 3: the extra guys in the box there. So yeah, I mean,
Speaker 3: you know, Hindsight's twenty twenty is a play that you know,
Speaker 3: we felt good about but obviously did not work.
Speaker 1: Steven Rusnak missed three field goals. One was on a
Speaker 1: bad hold. He's human, I mean, he's had a tremendous year.
Speaker 1: He'd only missed one all year. So physical mistakes happened.
Speaker 1: That's you know, that's it's unfortunate it happened. In this game,
Speaker 1: you get more upset, I would think when there were
Speaker 1: mental errors, and one of the costly ones was being
Speaker 1: off side on the punt fourth and three. It looked
Speaker 1: like you were going for the block in that situation.
Speaker 2: Was that the case we were, you know, we'd worked
Speaker 2: on it all week.
Speaker 3: We were shifting our front, you know, so you line
Speaker 3: up on one side and make them make their calls.
Speaker 2: Shift over quickly right.
Speaker 3: Before they're going to snap it and then get the
Speaker 3: pressure and try to get one extra guy in the
Speaker 3: gap to try to create something right there. As we
Speaker 3: shifted over the you know, one of our guys shifted
Speaker 3: over and his head was leaning slightly into the neutral
Speaker 3: on and obviously you know it's an all sides. Well,
Speaker 3: it happened to be under fourth and five, you know,
Speaker 3: it's fourth and three or four, and so that's an
Speaker 3: automatic first down, which is a great job of our
Speaker 3: defense and that in that series to get off the
Speaker 3: field and now we're putting them right back on their offense.
Speaker 2: Obviously very unfortunate.
Speaker 3: I think they ended up getting a field goal right there,
Speaker 3: so that that's like a turnover, you know, when when
Speaker 3: you allow them to get that first down there. So,
Speaker 3: you know, been been very solid in the teams and
Speaker 3: haven't had plays like that, and obviously that hurt us tremendously.
Speaker 1: Didn't have a lot of lock on the replay reviews.
Speaker 2: No oh for five over five over five.
Speaker 3: You know, the biggest disappointment was the when you know
Speaker 3: they called Cyrus down it. You know, looked like his
Speaker 3: shin was on the ground before the ball came out,
Speaker 3: so they ruled it down. That's why it took so long.
Speaker 3: You know, that review was five or six minutes. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you know, we went to a four minute commercial break,
Speaker 3: came back and they're still under the hood looking at it.
Speaker 2: And that's not what reviews, folks. If you can't.
Speaker 3: Decide what it is, you stick with what the call is.
Speaker 3: And we've you know, as coaches, we know that usually
Speaker 3: they will not overturn that. Of course they did. They
Speaker 3: overturned it. Gave them the ball right there, and you know,
Speaker 3: we're on a seventeen yard line with an opportunity to
Speaker 3: get some points on the board. And now again that
Speaker 3: was a huge play that ultimately, you know, causes one
Speaker 3: of the reasons why we didn't win.
Speaker 1: And his knee does not have to beat down this
Speaker 1: shin counts.
Speaker 2: It doesn't need.
Speaker 3: Yeah, right where the ankle starts there, you know, So
Speaker 3: and that's really what happened, is his leg got caught
Speaker 3: underneath the defender and right there where his ankle is
Speaker 3: is starting to hit the ground is when the ball's
Speaker 3: coming out. So it you know, it's obviously hard to tell.
Speaker 3: If you can't tell, then they run it down. Unfortunate play.
Speaker 3: I mean, Cyrus is a good football player for us.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know what does he have? Eleven touchdown catches?
Speaker 3: Number one of the big twelve, you know, closing in
Speaker 3: on a record as you see, threw off the school
Speaker 3: right act two off the school record. He's had an
Speaker 3: outstanding year. You know, it's unfortunate there for that to
Speaker 3: happen for him.
Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna take a time out. We appreciate
Speaker 1: the Bearcat fans who are with us here tonight. We'll
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Speaker 1: Bearcat fans who are with us here tonight, Cincinnati, with
Speaker 1: one game left in the regular season. It's coming up
Speaker 1: on Saturday, a three point thirty kickoff against TCU in
Speaker 1: Fort Worth, Texas, very close to the hometown of your
Speaker 1: quarterback Brendan Soresby. He told me today expects to have
Speaker 1: more than one hundred people in attendance for the game
Speaker 1: at TCU.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, his hometown's right up the road there,
Speaker 3: so I'm sure he's gonna have a lot of family
Speaker 3: friends and you know, you've also mentioned LP people you
Speaker 3: don't even know that that is coming, and they'll they'll
Speaker 3: bother their own tickets, but I'm sure he's gonna have
Speaker 3: to get a lot of tickets for those people. So
Speaker 3: obviously exciting for him to go back and play right
Speaker 3: there at this hometown.
Speaker 1: All right, you've got seven wins, you can still finish
Speaker 1: the year with nine. These guys put a lot of
Speaker 1: focus on trying to get to Dallas for the Big
Speaker 1: Twelve championship game. Unfortunately that possibility ended with one game
Speaker 1: left in the regular season. So what's the focus now, Yeah.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's just finishing the season strong, you know,
Speaker 3: an opportunity to go down and get get our eighth win,
Speaker 3: you know, in our third year in the Big Twelve
Speaker 3: and a solid year.
Speaker 2: Obviously we didn't make our goal with what we wanted.
Speaker 2: We want to play for a Big Twelve championship, you know,
Speaker 2: and so obviously got work to do there.
Speaker 3: But but for these guys, in these twenty two seniors,
Speaker 3: you know, and in this day and age, you never
Speaker 3: know who's gonna be on the team next year either,
Speaker 3: And so we talked about that. Listen, this is the
Speaker 3: last time this team was going to be playing together
Speaker 3: in the regular season. We've got to have great energy
Speaker 3: this week in practice. We got to be excited for it.
Speaker 3: And it was in a spirited practice today because I
Speaker 3: think the mindset of guys, particularly when you get to
Speaker 3: the season at the end of the season like this,
Speaker 3: you know, it's it's a long season, you know, mentally strained,
Speaker 3: you know, drained, physically drained.
Speaker 2: A lot lot of you guys are beat up.
Speaker 3: You know, the team that really wants it, the team
Speaker 3: that really is excited about continuing to play, I think
Speaker 3: has a great opportunity to chance go win. Now this
Speaker 3: this is interesting because they're the same record as we have.
Speaker 3: You know, they're both we're both seven wins, We're both
Speaker 3: fighting to get eight wins. Also talked about, hey, you know,
Speaker 3: you go win this game, better Bowl opportunity.
Speaker 2: You know, there's obviously there's.
Speaker 3: Levels to the bowl games and the different places that
Speaker 3: you go and you're able to go.
Speaker 2: So so there's a lot to play for.
Speaker 3: And you know, our guys who had a great practice
Speaker 3: today and you know, hopefully we'll finish that out and
Speaker 3: go get a road win in the Big twelve.
Speaker 2: That's huge for us.
Speaker 1: TCU played by U two weeks ago and it did
Speaker 1: not go well, and they bounced back with a nice
Speaker 1: win last week on the road of Houston. Houston was
Speaker 1: still in contention for making it to the Big twelve
Speaker 1: Championship game at the time, so TCU showed me something
Speaker 1: with the way they played one.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're you're right.
Speaker 3: Houston last week was eight and two going into that
Speaker 3: game ranked twenty fourth to twenty fifth, still playing for
Speaker 3: an opportunity to go play in the Big twelve Championship
Speaker 3: as well. And then you know, tc goes in there
Speaker 3: and and still gets to win. Interesting enough, TCU had
Speaker 3: four turnovers and still won the game. I mean that
Speaker 3: tells you, I think how well they'll played, you know,
Speaker 3: even though they had the turnovers, they still won, you know,
Speaker 3: and yeah, they could have packed it in too, you know,
Speaker 3: and when they got their what fourth conference loss the
Speaker 3: week before, so it shows they're still fighting and now
Speaker 3: for them, it's going to be senior day for them,
Speaker 3: it's going to be the last record season at home.
Speaker 3: So yeah, it's gonna be a It'll be an exciting
Speaker 3: game and a great opportunity for, you know, for us
Speaker 3: to go down and get a win.
Speaker 1: You beat the number one passing team at least in
Speaker 1: terms of yardage in the Big Twelve earlier this year
Speaker 1: when Baylor came to town. Now you'll be facing the
Speaker 1: number two team in the conference in terms of passing yards.
Speaker 1: They've got a great quarterback, Josh Hoover, third year starting quarterback.
Speaker 1: How does TCUs passing attack compare to the one you
Speaker 1: handled earlier this year against Baylor.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I think it's very similar. They really
Speaker 2: lean on the pass.
Speaker 3: You know, last year Hoover broke the school record for
Speaker 3: passing yards and close to thirty nine hundred. This year
Speaker 3: has thirty one sixty six. So they still throwing the
Speaker 3: ball a lot. Got a transfer receiver, number one aut
Speaker 3: standing receiver. I think you may lead the Big Twelve
Speaker 3: in receiving yards over a thousand. Yeah, he's a really
Speaker 3: good player. He you know, they didn't play good against BYU,
Speaker 3: but he had over one hundred yards in that game receiving.
Speaker 3: You know, so they have some weapons that obviously that
Speaker 3: we have to be aware of. They but they're not
Speaker 3: gonna They're not gonna like b Yu just turn it,
Speaker 3: handle the ball off.
Speaker 2: They're gonna catch it drop back.
Speaker 3: I mean that's gonna be a big difference and do
Speaker 3: a lot of the different things that a team like
Speaker 3: Baylor tried to do. You know, so again what we
Speaker 3: did at Baylor, mixed up coverages. You know, still stop
Speaker 3: the run even though you're playing for the past. I
Speaker 3: think that's critical as well. So if we can stop
Speaker 3: the run while we're defending the pass, that'll be huge
Speaker 3: for our defense.
Speaker 1: The wide receiver you mentioned, Eric McAllister, had two hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty four yards in one game earlier this year
Speaker 1: against SMU and SMUs in contention in the ACC they're
Speaker 1: a good team. Do you think he is the most
Speaker 1: talented receiver you faced? Todate?
Speaker 3: He may be, you know, obviously we haven't seen him
Speaker 3: in person, but I think so. I mean, he's a
Speaker 3: you know, he's got nine touchdowns, he's averaging eighteen yards
Speaker 3: a catch.
Speaker 2: That that is a lot for a.
Speaker 3: Guy who's got fifty six catches almost at one hundred
Speaker 3: yards per game, So teams know that they're trying to
Speaker 3: get him the ball and he still is able to
Speaker 3: perform at that level. That says a lot about that kid.
Speaker 3: I think they do a lot of things to move
Speaker 3: him around. I mean, you know, he's primarily an outside receiver,
Speaker 3: but they can move him in the slot, motion him around,
Speaker 3: try to find ways to get him to the football.
Speaker 3: He's got great size and speed, which is a hardcover,
Speaker 3: you know, and we just got to do a great
Speaker 3: job of stand on top of him and not give
Speaker 3: up the big plays.
Speaker 1: Last couple of weeks, you faced the top two teams
Speaker 1: of the Big twelve in terms of interceptions on defense,
Speaker 1: and TCU is up there. Yeah, they don't have as
Speaker 1: many as BYU or Arizona, but they're up there. And
Speaker 1: they've got a guy in their secondary Bud Clark, who's
Speaker 1: got fifteen in his career, which is more than anybody's
Speaker 1: ever had UC history. Tell us a little bit about
Speaker 1: their defense.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, and Bud didn't play last week, so
Speaker 3: I hadn't seen the report this week, but he's an
Speaker 3: outstanding player.
Speaker 2: He played against us last year. They actually have a
Speaker 2: lot of guys.
Speaker 3: Back on their defense from last year when they came
Speaker 3: to Nipper last year in their last game, a really
Speaker 3: good front. The front four guys, linebackers are really good.
Speaker 3: I think this is a good defense. You know, ironically,
Speaker 3: we've played the last last four weeks really good defenses.
Speaker 3: The three previous weeks they have I think twelve interceptions,
Speaker 3: whereas BYU and Arizona had fourteen, so they're not far off.
Speaker 3: I mean they've done a good job with that. They
Speaker 3: just they got they played tight coverage. We gotta do
Speaker 3: a great job of mixing it up. Final ways to
Speaker 3: run the ball. We didn't run it great last week.
Speaker 3: We got to run the ball better this week. I
Speaker 3: do think we threw the ball better last week. So
Speaker 3: we got to continue that. Our receivers have to make
Speaker 3: plays and they're gonna have to make contested catches against
Speaker 3: these guys, so we're gonna have to make some plays.
Speaker 3: And then obviously the bottom line is getting in the zone.
Speaker 3: We gotta find ways to get in the end zone
Speaker 3: when we have opportunities, and getting down that red zone,
Speaker 3: which has been really good all year, and finding ways
Speaker 3: to getting in the en zone.
Speaker 2: Score touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Brendan Zursby's only got five interceptions all year, which is great,
Speaker 1: but four have come in the last three games.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 1: He threw in last week that was really like a punt.
Speaker 1: It was third and ten, it was forty one yards
Speaker 1: down the field, so you kind of more or less
Speaker 1: had what you would have had on a punt. But
Speaker 1: assess his player over the last three games.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, obviously, I think we struggled throwing the
Speaker 3: football at Utah. Not great against Arizona, but I think,
Speaker 3: you know, we had four or five drops in that game.
Speaker 3: I thought he played better against them, And then last
Speaker 3: week I thought he played a really good game.
Speaker 2: You know, you mentioned the one interception. I mean he
Speaker 2: was throwing it down the field.
Speaker 3: It ended up being like a punt, as a forty
Speaker 3: two yard basically punt. Other than that, I thought he
Speaker 3: played outstanding. I thought, you know, he was a guy
Speaker 3: who was beat up from the from the game before
Speaker 3: and and came out and played really really good.
Speaker 2: And you know, I thought the receivers played better as well.
Speaker 2: Last week.
Speaker 3: You know, for us it was just you know, knocking
Speaker 3: down some kicks and then obviously the fourth down and
Speaker 3: the turnover in the red zone. When you get in
Speaker 3: the red zone, I think that is critical to get
Speaker 3: points out of that. You cannot turn the ball over
Speaker 3: on downs and or fumbles or interceptions, and so we've
Speaker 3: done a good job with that. We got to do
Speaker 3: that this week. Find ways of getting the end zone,
Speaker 3: you know, and then you know, obviously defensively, getting off
Speaker 3: the field. I think that's that's been our nemesis all years.
Speaker 3: Letting teams drive. We got to find a way to
Speaker 3: get off the field, especially on those third and fourth downs.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's gonna be a huge for us.
Speaker 1: Joe Cotton, your left tackle, met with the Cincinnati media
Speaker 1: earlier today. There was a part of his conversation that
Speaker 1: I found really interesting. He said that in the offensive
Speaker 1: line meeting room, O line coach Nick Cardwell asked the guys,
Speaker 1: all right, what are you playing for this week? And
Speaker 1: his answer was Gavin Gerhart not trying to you know,
Speaker 1: get the eighth win, not trying to move up on
Speaker 1: the Bowl scale. He wants to help his senior that
Speaker 1: he respects so much go out with a victory.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And we talked about that on Sunday, and we
Speaker 3: talked about that again to day in the team meeting
Speaker 3: before you know, and it's about each other. It's about
Speaker 3: playing for your brothers besides you, that you care more
Speaker 3: about them, that you don't want to let them down.
Speaker 2: And I think you know that's what he's speaking of.
Speaker 3: Especially, you know, we talked about these seniors, especially these
Speaker 3: twenty two seniors, that you know, this is their last
Speaker 3: time playing college football, and so you want to send
Speaker 3: those guys out on a high note. You want to
Speaker 3: play for them, you don't want to let them down.
Speaker 3: So therefore, I feel like you're going to pay attention.
Speaker 3: We're in the meetings, You're gonna go harder in practice,
Speaker 3: You're gonna do all those little things with a sense
Speaker 3: of urgency this week.
Speaker 2: So you're not letting your brothers down. Besides you. This
Speaker 2: this is a connected team, a tight knit group.
Speaker 3: You know, we've had some disappointments the last three weeks,
Speaker 3: but they're still together, they're still playing for each other,
Speaker 3: and I think that that speaks a lot about the
Speaker 3: culture that we have in the locker room.
Speaker 1: So what is the recruiting calendar right now? Do you
Speaker 1: have a high school signing day coming up?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Next Wednesday. Next Wednesday is the signing date. You know,
Speaker 3: you have to stay on top of these things because
Speaker 3: these rules change all the time as portal and all
Speaker 3: those type things. But next Wednesdays are signing dates, so
Speaker 3: we'll sign you know, anywhere from twenty four to twenty
Speaker 3: eight high school players probably next Wednesday, which is a
Speaker 3: big class for us, which is awesome. And then the
Speaker 3: rest of December is a dead period, so we can't
Speaker 3: go out that they can't come visit. It is strictly
Speaker 3: a dead period, meaning we're gonna stay on campus. We'll
Speaker 3: be bowld practicing and prepping. So that's actually nice for
Speaker 3: the coaches, so we can be around our guys the
Speaker 3: whole month of December. And then you're gathering names for
Speaker 3: the portal, so we're you know, that's when guys will
Speaker 3: find out, Hey, these guys are, Hey, they're transferring, they're
Speaker 3: gonna get in the portal. We're we're already started to
Speaker 3: watch film on that the last two weeks, so we'll
Speaker 3: gather names and then January second will be the time
Speaker 3: that we can bring them on campus.
Speaker 2: And so from.
Speaker 3: January second to probably about the fourteenth, we'll have people
Speaker 3: on campus and just trying to sign them up.
Speaker 2: To come to come to join us in the January.
Speaker 1: And there's only one window this year as supposed.
Speaker 2: To to one window.
Speaker 3: So whatever we feel like our needs are, you have
Speaker 3: to get a met in the high school and in
Speaker 3: the portal in January. There's not a deal where like
Speaker 3: an NFL man like they're trying guys out every week
Speaker 3: in the NFL, bringing guys in and that type, we
Speaker 3: cannot do that. We go through spring practice and if
Speaker 3: you get some injuries, that's your team.
Speaker 2: Like you don't you don't have a.
Speaker 3: May portal like we did last the last couple of years.
Speaker 3: We could bring some more guys in. So this is
Speaker 3: new and this will be interesting how how all this
Speaker 3: works out. Because you got numbers, you've got limits on
Speaker 3: the numbers you can bring in and and all those
Speaker 3: type things. So yeah, it the way we haven't colls
Speaker 3: ful is not perfect yet and we're still working on it.
Speaker 3: So we still got some work to do. But this
Speaker 3: is what the hand we're dealt this year.
Speaker 1: Read a story about this either today or yesterday, basically
Speaker 1: saying that the players haven't entered the portal yet, so
Speaker 1: you can't talk to them, but guys have agents now
Speaker 1: and you can get the intel at least on you
Speaker 1: know who's likely to be out there.
Speaker 2: That's what's happening right now.
Speaker 3: Every let's say everybody, most every player has an agent
Speaker 3: now and agents are calling the recruiting office and our
Speaker 3: recruiting office is talking to the agent. So it's already happening.
Speaker 3: It's been happening for the last three to four weeks.
Speaker 3: You already have a good idea about who's gonna be
Speaker 3: getting into Portal. It's not official yet, officially, you know
Speaker 3: in January when they can. But it's all happening behind
Speaker 3: the scenes, and it's happening all over the country. And
Speaker 3: you know, so our job now too, after our season
Speaker 3: this week is to meet with all our guys, figure
Speaker 3: out the guys that we're gonna retain, and make sure
Speaker 3: we're getting that all worked out. Hey, you guys are
Speaker 3: gonna be here next year. We want you to hear
Speaker 3: and then move on to the guys that will bring
Speaker 3: it in January. So it is it's a busy time
Speaker 3: for us because we're recruiting our players, were recruiting house
Speaker 3: players and in Portal guys.
Speaker 1: All right, So we've been doing this show all year.
Speaker 1: We've had the same format all year, and now it
Speaker 1: just occurs to me that I was supposed to open
Speaker 1: it up to questions from the audience a quarter after
Speaker 1: John grabbed the mic, and I'm like, now, we don't
Speaker 1: need that yet. I'm a bora. I am truly a moron.
Speaker 1: This is my fault.
Speaker 2: You're the You're the one person in here that gets
Speaker 2: paid to talk.
Speaker 1: And I talked way pretty.
Speaker 2: Good at it. You ask a lot of good questions, though.
Speaker 1: Dan, my apologies, I can't believe I just did that.
Speaker 1: We've got a couple of minutes. Amy, Yeah. No.
Speaker 4: My question is at the end of the first quarter,
Speaker 4: they they said we had a first down and then
Speaker 4: it moved to the other side and we did not
Speaker 4: have the first down. Yeah, correct, And it was a
Speaker 4: fourth down. Why didn't you just kick the field goal
Speaker 4: then and at least put some points.
Speaker 3: On the Yeah, because it was it was fourth and one.
Speaker 3: We felt like we could get fourth and one. That's why,
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, it would happen. That was early in
Speaker 3: the game, so I don't think at that point we
Speaker 3: hadn't missed any yet. And coming in that game, I
Speaker 3: think he was twenty three for twenty four. The last
Speaker 3: two years, he hadn't missed any so we felt good
Speaker 3: about him making him. Here's the other thing we're going
Speaker 3: in that game. We're number one in the country on
Speaker 3: fourth down, like we're the best fourth down team in
Speaker 3: the country out of one hundred and thirty five teams.
Speaker 2: So we felt good about getting it, you know, And
Speaker 2: we didn't get.
Speaker 3: That one unfortunately, but yeah, I wish would have run
Speaker 3: a different play.
Speaker 1: Now, all right, we need to take a break for news.
Speaker 1: Coach if you're willing during this commercial break. Yeah, if
Speaker 1: we have some questions from the audience for coach, we'll
Speaker 1: do it off the radio, but we'll do it here
Speaker 1: at the Original Montgomery And this is the Scott Saderfield
Speaker 1: Radio Show on seven hundred WLW. We are back at
Speaker 1: the original Montgomery in home of the world's greatest Ribs
Speaker 1: and the Scott Satderfield Radio Show. Thank you to the
Speaker 1: Bearcat fans who are with us here tonight. We'll give
Speaker 1: away some stuff at the end of the show. We
Speaker 1: will also take questions from the audience very soon, because
Speaker 1: I'm not going to forget in the second half hour.
Speaker 1: Thanks to our engineer, Joe Strecker. Thanks to Joe Wydell
Speaker 1: back in the studio and now our favorite part of
Speaker 1: the show. Time to introduce you to two Bearcats having
Speaker 1: excellent years. I will start with the person immediately to
Speaker 1: my right. He is a senior from Arlington, not Texas, Tennessee. Arlington, Tennessee,
Speaker 1: about thirty minutes from Memphis. He is one of twelve
Speaker 1: semi finalists for the butt Kiss Award, which goes to
Speaker 1: the nation's top linebacker. Hopefully he will win. He's in
Speaker 1: his second year as a Bearcat. Number eleven. Jake Goldey.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. And next to Jake is a
Speaker 1: first year Bearcat. He is from Atlanta, Georgia. He spent
Speaker 1: the last three years at Tennessee. We're thrilled to have
Speaker 1: him at Cincinnati this year, coming off a terrific game
Speaker 1: last Saturday against BYU. He had eleven tackles in that game.
Speaker 1: That's a new career high, but not by much. He's
Speaker 1: had a couple of games this year with ten tackles.
Speaker 1: He wears the number four and the Bearcat secondary. Let's
Speaker 1: hear it four, Christian Harrison. Jake, let me start with you.
Speaker 1: It was senior night for you last Saturday. I know
Speaker 1: the outcome was disappointing, but what about the overall experience.
Speaker 5: No, it was a great experience other than obviously we'd
Speaker 5: like to come away with the win, but just it
Speaker 5: really didn't hit me, honestly until I was lining up
Speaker 5: to kind of go see my parents. So it was
Speaker 5: kind of a surreal feeling. Like I remember when I
Speaker 5: was young and I used to make fun of the
Speaker 5: older guys for being old and everything, and I'm like, nah,
Speaker 5: I'm that old guy.
Speaker 6: This is my last game. So it was a surreal feeling.
Speaker 5: But I mean, it was amazing NIP going out at
Speaker 5: an amazing atmosphere like that. The fans were amazing, stayed
Speaker 5: throughout the entire game, so I can't really ask for
Speaker 5: a better atmosphere than NIP at night playing a ranked opponent,
Speaker 5: and the fans were amazing. Like I said, it was
Speaker 5: mom crying, Yes, moms crying, and I think I caught
Speaker 5: Dad getting a.
Speaker 1: Little tier as well too, so I can't blame them.
Speaker 1: I'm a crier, so it doesn't take much to make
Speaker 1: me cry. I appreciate that very much. Christian, You've got
Speaker 1: a year of eligibility left, so it was not your
Speaker 1: senior night on Saturday. But as I mentioned, you played
Speaker 1: a terrific game. Pro Football Focus gave you a really
Speaker 1: high grade, the highest they've given you in a game
Speaker 1: this season. Did you feel like it was your best
Speaker 1: performance of the year.
Speaker 2: I would say not.
Speaker 7: I still felt like coming out after that game that
Speaker 7: there's a lot of things I could still work on
Speaker 7: and prove on.
Speaker 2: But it was a decent game for me.
Speaker 7: I feel like I could have still played a lot better.
Speaker 7: I feel like I aloway stay it was one of
Speaker 7: my better games, I would say, so, Yeah.
Speaker 1: You had a very good grade in that game as well.
Speaker 1: That was another game where you had a couple digit tackles.
Speaker 1: One thing that everybody here knows that I like to
Speaker 1: do when we have the players join us on this
Speaker 1: show is have you guys talk about each other? Because
Speaker 1: I've found over the years that sometimes guys are shy
Speaker 1: about saying things about but they're happy to praise their teammates. So, Jake,
Speaker 1: you go first, share your impressions of a guy you've
Speaker 1: played with this year, Christian Harrison.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I mean Christian's an extremely hard worker, very humble guy,
Speaker 5: and somebody that, like I knew coming in he had
Speaker 5: a lot of hype around his name.
Speaker 6: I was like, this guy better live up to it
Speaker 6: kind of coming in.
Speaker 2: But he has.
Speaker 5: I mean, he's been an excellent I mean, he's a
Speaker 5: tackle machine. He's he's not scared of contact, and that's
Speaker 5: what you want out of a safety that's gonna come
Speaker 5: down here, will make place. He's had multiple, multiple pass
Speaker 5: breakups this year. I mean, it's kind of crazy how
Speaker 5: many he's had. So he's making plays in the back
Speaker 5: end as well. And then I mean, you see how
Speaker 5: much extra work this guy puts in. He comes in
Speaker 5: late at night when nobody's in the facility to watch film.
Speaker 5: He's always one of the last guys to leave the
Speaker 5: indoor facility catching on our drug machine. So I mean,
Speaker 5: you can't really say enough about him. And he's extremely
Speaker 5: hard worker, and he makes plays on Saturday and a great, great.
Speaker 6: Human being as well.
Speaker 1: That Jux's machine work paid off. A few weeks ago,
Speaker 1: you had an interception at the goal line, so that's
Speaker 1: why you do that kind of stuff. Now, share your
Speaker 1: thoughts on the guy you've spent this year playing with
Speaker 1: for the first season. Jake Goldey.
Speaker 7: Yeah, first off, he works, he works his tail off.
Speaker 7: He's a better I would say a better human than
Speaker 7: football player. When I first seen him, I was like,
Speaker 7: it was kind of crazy because he was you see six',
Speaker 7: four he, big he. Fast i'm, like what position does he?
Speaker 7: Play he told me he plays. Linebacker i'm, like, Okay
Speaker 7: and THEN i kind of seen it on the. Field
Speaker 7: he's just a ball, player you, know, tackling he's good
Speaker 7: in obviously pass curves as, well dropping. BACK i want to.
Speaker 7: Plays last week he broke up a pass in the.
Speaker 7: Game it was a really good. Play so, yeah just
Speaker 7: seeing those type of things on the, field it's no no.
Speaker 7: Surprise you, know he's always in the, building, uh trying
Speaker 7: to coach up all the linebackers in the. Room he's
Speaker 7: a leader in that room and also on the team as.
Speaker 7: Well you, know having that guys meet up before we
Speaker 7: have a, meeting they're already meeting in the line back,
Speaker 7: room just the. Players so things like, that you, know
Speaker 7: all translates onto the.
Speaker 1: Field so share your motivation for This. Saturday why is
Speaker 1: winning AT tcu important to you this?
Speaker 2: Week?
Speaker 1: Jake you go.
Speaker 5: First IF i had to pick one player Like joe,
Speaker 5: DID i would say For Jack. Dingle he's a guy
Speaker 5: that WHEN i came. In he kind of like helped
Speaker 5: me like extremely a. Man HE'S i would consider him
Speaker 5: one of my best friends right. Now WHEN i came,
Speaker 5: in it wasn't easy learning the. Defense and BECAUSE i
Speaker 5: came in went and during the second opening for the
Speaker 5: transfer portal In. May that's no longer a thing, now
Speaker 5: but and then you have to it's a quick. Turnaround
Speaker 5: at that, point all you do is get fall camp
Speaker 5: and then you're playing in the. Season so he did
Speaker 5: a great job helping me, out kind of showed me the.
Speaker 5: Way IF i ever had a question about, anything he
Speaker 5: was right there kind of told like showed me how
Speaker 5: to handle different coaching from different, coaches, coaches not to
Speaker 5: take things so personal things like.
Speaker 2: That.
Speaker 5: Uh but more, IMPORTANTLY, uh this is my last. Game
Speaker 5: uh other than the bowl, game this is my my
Speaker 5: last regular season. Game and the last THING i want
Speaker 5: to do is lose or lose this game and end
Speaker 5: out on a four game losing, streak uh after a
Speaker 5: season that has has been.
Speaker 2: So well for.
Speaker 6: US. Uh so that's really my biggest motivating.
Speaker 5: Factor IS uh to just finish finish my college season
Speaker 5: regular season with with a. WIN i think that'd be
Speaker 5: super important for me and the. Team and it's bigger
Speaker 5: than just. Me it's it's for, everybody and it's the,
Speaker 5: staff it's the other, players it's the other seniors Like, Gavin, Dante,
Speaker 5: rob all these.
Speaker 6: Guys, UH i love this.
Speaker 5: Team it's the most connected team That i've ever been
Speaker 5: a part, of, uh even in high. School and you
Speaker 5: know high school teams are really close knit.
Speaker 6: Team so, uh that says a. Lot, YEAH i love these,
Speaker 6: guys So i'm doing it for. Them, christian how about,
Speaker 6: You i'll probably say for all the.
Speaker 7: Seniors it's been here for you, know four or five six,
Speaker 7: years guys like you, know you Got. Dante, Uh i'm
Speaker 7: kind of blanking out right, now but you, know the
Speaker 7: list of guys goes. On but just doing it for,
Speaker 7: them you, know they kind of helped turn this thing.
Speaker 7: AROUND i wasn't, here you, know for the first, season
Speaker 7: When sad was here the second, season but now this,
Speaker 7: season you, know things have kind of turned. Around so
Speaker 7: finishing on a on a win of the regular, season
Speaker 7: obviously going to the bowl, game finishing, that finishing nine
Speaker 7: to four sounds a lot better than you, know seven
Speaker 7: and six or whatever it could. Be so, yeah just
Speaker 7: finishing out for those.
Speaker 1: Guys nine wins and a ball victory would be one
Speaker 1: heck of a. Year you still got the opportunity to do.
Speaker 6: That Certain all, Right we're.
Speaker 1: Gonna take a time out questions from the audience when
Speaker 1: we come. Back this is The Scott Centerfield Radio. Show
Speaker 1: were live at the Original Montgomery in all about the
Speaker 1: World's greatest rips one seven hundred w. Welw we are
Speaker 1: back at the Original Montgomery in home of the World's
Speaker 1: greatest ribs and The Scott Saderfield Radio. Show appreciate The
Speaker 1: bearcat fans who are with us here. Tonight we've got
Speaker 1: some good stuff to get away at the end of the. Show,
Speaker 1: now we are going to take questions from the audience
Speaker 1: for our special, Guests Jake goldey And Christian. Harrison, gary
Speaker 1: you are up, First.
Speaker 8: Yeah, guys is for both of. You for the most,
Speaker 8: part you guys pretty much play a zone type defense
Speaker 8: with the three three, five but on special plays And,
Speaker 8: jake you hit a couple of big time running down
Speaker 8: the guy in the. Backfield do you guys like to
Speaker 8: be more of a freelance being able to go after
Speaker 8: it or sit back and cover your?
Speaker 5: ZONE i think that's what's good about our defense at
Speaker 5: times is that with our personnel and with our, defense
Speaker 5: that we get to mix it up a. Lot AND
Speaker 5: i think that's what we've done a lot better job
Speaker 5: of this year is mixing it.
Speaker 6: Up so in my, Opinion i'd like to go after the.
Speaker 5: Quarterback SO i, LOVE i love to be aggressive and
Speaker 5: downhill because that's that's when you make plays and. Everything
Speaker 5: but if you don't get, there then you're putting the
Speaker 5: back end and a little bit of a. Hurt and
Speaker 5: so in my, Opinion i'd like to go after as
Speaker 5: much as.
Speaker 7: Possible but, YEAH i feel like our defense you, know
Speaker 7: allows us to do, both you, know kind of sit
Speaker 7: back play zone and also come up play, man be.
Speaker 7: Aggressive it helps us be able to do. BOTH i
Speaker 7: prefer being more, aggressive you, know blitzing the, quarterback getting
Speaker 7: to the, quarterback trying to speed up his, clock make
Speaker 7: him get the ball out. Faster SO i would SAY
Speaker 7: i prefer being more, aggressive AND i feel like that's
Speaker 7: when we're better when we are aggressive instead of just you,
Speaker 7: know sitting.
Speaker 1: Back so, Rich, yeah this was for both of.
Speaker 9: You experiences In cincinnati are have probably been very good
Speaker 9: for both of.
Speaker 1: You but tell me about Your Higher ground.
Speaker 5: Experiences, yeah SO i got the privilege of Doing Higher
Speaker 5: ground twice and both were amazing. Experiences LIKE i, mentioned
Speaker 5: the first TIME i, CAME i really didn't know much
Speaker 5: About Higher. GROUND i just kind of knew we were
Speaker 5: going off, somewhere didn't really know. WHERE i just knew
Speaker 5: it was called a higher, ground that we were gonna
Speaker 5: be there for two. Weeks but for, me it's an amazing.
Speaker 5: EXPERIENCE i, meant the people there are so amazing and you're.
Speaker 5: Secluded all you're doing while you're there is, football AND
Speaker 5: i think that's so good for a team right before
Speaker 5: you're about to start your, season especially for me BECAUSE
Speaker 5: i just transferred in at that time AND i needed
Speaker 5: to be around nothing but football with no. Distractions so
Speaker 5: it was amazing for me to be around the, guys
Speaker 5: build that relationship and then also get in the.
Speaker 7: Playbook, christian this was my first. Year it was my first,
Speaker 7: year so it was my first High.
Speaker 2: Ground.
Speaker 7: IT i would, say it's a lot different experience from
Speaker 7: What i'm used, to BUT i kind of liked. IT
Speaker 7: i was able just to solely focus on foot ball
Speaker 7: and that's.
Speaker 1: It you.
Speaker 7: KNOW i got a lot closer with a lot of my,
Speaker 7: teammates people in my position, group guys on the other
Speaker 7: side of, ball the, offense you, know compete with them every.
Speaker 1: Day you, know it's.
Speaker 7: Hot we're, secluded secluded out. There no one else is
Speaker 7: out there but, Us.
Speaker 2: So, YEAH i liked.
Speaker 1: It, yeah anybody else in the audience right over, Here John.
Speaker 9: Jake it seems like in the last three or four,
Speaker 9: games when they line up a player in the, slot
Speaker 9: either you or dinga recovering the slot. Player do you
Speaker 9: guys have a problem with that or do you think
Speaker 9: you should be inside because a lot of times they
Speaker 9: run the ball away from. You, yeah the play is
Speaker 9: going away from, You so we're taking our best defensive
Speaker 9: player and eliminating the game by eliminated you in the.
Speaker 6: Slot, yeah that's just within the scheme of the.
Speaker 5: Defense there's certain plays Where i'm way outside in the
Speaker 5: box because it's a coverage Thing. South they bring three
Speaker 5: wide receivers out there and they throw a now. Screen,
Speaker 5: well you'll have nobody out there to tackle it other
Speaker 5: than one corner one safety and they'll be blocked.
Speaker 6: Up so you have to have my presence out.
Speaker 5: There, obviously they do that on purpose to bring me
Speaker 5: out of the box so that they can run to
Speaker 5: the boundary or they can run up the middle of the.
Speaker 5: Field so, obviously, like, Uh i'm not a big fan of. It,
Speaker 5: uh BUT i understand why that is my job AND
Speaker 5: i have to do my one eleventh and count on
Speaker 5: the other guys to do their.
Speaker 1: Job, Brian.
Speaker 10: So we haven't had A bowl appearance in a few,
Speaker 10: years And i'm just. CURIOUS i know you guys weren't
Speaker 10: here for the whole, comeback the, rebuild but you're a
Speaker 10: part of the roster that's taken us. Back what kind
Speaker 10: of experience do you take from that being a part
Speaker 10: of something where it's been down and you're bringing it
Speaker 10: back up and being part of the reason you want to.
Speaker 7: Start, YEAH i would say that's one of the REASONS
Speaker 7: i came. Here you, Know i've seen potential in the. Program,
Speaker 7: obviously this program with very successful recently twenty twenty, two you,
Speaker 7: KNOW i had a bunch of guys, drafted went to the,
Speaker 7: playoffs things like. That so, yeah just this is a
Speaker 7: very close knit group of, guys and there's no surprise
Speaker 7: that we was able to, win get a lot and
Speaker 7: get a good amount of. Wins this year and we're
Speaker 7: going to continue to, win so there's no there's no
Speaker 7: surprise that we're in this position right.
Speaker 6: Now, yeah for, me.
Speaker 5: It's a great feeling BECAUSE i was here last year
Speaker 5: when we struggled a little, bit and then the year
Speaker 5: before a lot of my closest friends that are on
Speaker 5: the team still uh were struggling big times as. Well
Speaker 5: so it's just good that when WHEN i came, IN
Speaker 5: i helped a little, bit and then we got these
Speaker 5: new new guys Like christian that are that are building
Speaker 5: us up even. More SO i think that just just
Speaker 5: that feeling THAT i don't, know like last, year that
Speaker 5: feeling that we had so many games where it was
Speaker 5: like so, close like if the ball just bounced our,
Speaker 5: way we would have been a, boat like we would
Speaker 5: have been able to go to a bowl. Game we're
Speaker 5: a really good bowl game at that because there's so
Speaker 5: many one score, games but for this year to solidify
Speaker 5: a bowl. Game i've never experienced a bowl game in
Speaker 5: my life BECAUSE i PLAYED fcs football for three years
Speaker 5: and then last year we didn't make a bowl. Game
Speaker 5: So i'm super excited for it and as an honor
Speaker 5: to be able to go to one and be able
Speaker 5: to do it for this.
Speaker 6: Team all.
Speaker 1: Right if anybody else has a, question just raise your
Speaker 1: hand And john will find. YOU i will ask some
Speaker 1: in the, Meantime, JAKE i want to relay a story
Speaker 1: BECAUSE i interviewed you for the pregame. SHOW i think
Speaker 1: it was last, week, right either last week or the week.
Speaker 1: Before in any, Case Nico, palazetti the strength and conditioning,
Speaker 1: coach told me in the offseason that you are like
Speaker 1: a Human labrador, retriever, happy go, lucky always in a good,
Speaker 1: mood just like the trusty dog by your. Side and
Speaker 1: then you shared with me that he has tweaked that
Speaker 1: a little bit for you share what the current statement
Speaker 1: is FOR.
Speaker 5: Nko so, yeah he calls me a lot a retriever
Speaker 5: Because i'd like to always try to be like in
Speaker 5: a good, mood confident and happy and with everything with
Speaker 5: all my.
Speaker 6: Situations so that's kind.
Speaker 5: Of where he gets The labrador retriever Because i'm always
Speaker 5: just trying to be, happy, friendly whatever it may. Be
Speaker 5: but then the SECOND i step on that, Field i'm
Speaker 5: trying To i'm a different human, being like a flip
Speaker 5: switches and AND i get him a little bit more
Speaker 5: aggressive and all those things that you want in a.
Speaker 5: Linebacker so he changed. It now now it's A Labrador,
Speaker 5: retriever and then WHEN i step on the, field it's A.
Speaker 1: Rothweiler so there we, Go Laboratory retriever day to, Day
Speaker 1: rottwiler on the. FIELD i love.
Speaker 6: It.
Speaker 1: Christian for those who don't, know your dad Is Rodney.
Speaker 1: Harrison fifteen years in THE. Nfl we see him On
Speaker 1: Sunday Night football doing a great job as a. Broadcaster
Speaker 1: two Time pro, bowler two Super Bowl. Championships he's in
Speaker 1: two different Teams halls Of, fame The chargers and The,
Speaker 1: patriots which is. Incredible what did you learn from your
Speaker 1: dad that you apply as a football?
Speaker 7: Player everything, matters you, know all the little things you
Speaker 7: do on and off the. Field what you do do
Speaker 7: in the dark is what's gonna come out in the.
Speaker 7: Light you, know what you, uh the work you put
Speaker 7: in behind closed doors is what's gonna come on the
Speaker 7: football field On Saturday sunday whenever you're. Playing so you,
Speaker 7: know just taking the cow all those things and putting
Speaker 7: your best foot for it every day and always coming
Speaker 7: in with a positive, attitude no matter if you know
Speaker 7: someone treats you a certain, way good or. Bad you,
Speaker 7: know you just always come in with a positive. Attitude
Speaker 7: so just things like.
Speaker 1: That so neither of you started At. Cincinnati you were
Speaker 1: At Central, arkansas you were At. Tennessee the transfer portal
Speaker 1: is going to go open up On january. Two what
Speaker 1: would you tell a young man thinking about possibly coming
Speaker 1: to The university Of, Cincinnati, jake you go, FIRST i would.
Speaker 5: Just talk about our culture and our connection within our
Speaker 5: team and the amazing coaches that we, have and then,
Speaker 5: honestly the entire there's not there's not many teams that
Speaker 5: are like us that it really feels like a. FAMILY
Speaker 5: i feel LIKE i can go to anybody and have
Speaker 5: a serious conversation with him about anything going on in my.
Speaker 6: LIFE i don't think you get that many.
Speaker 5: Places SO i would talk about our connection and then
Speaker 5: just our culture and how we're on the rise right.
Speaker 7: Now, CHRISTIAN i would, say, first it's the hardest place your,
Speaker 7: ever hardest you'll ever work in your life, Here, yeah
Speaker 7: in a good. Way you, Know nico has us doing
Speaker 7: all kinds of things in the off season in the way,
Speaker 7: room on the, field so you, Know i'll just tell
Speaker 7: him that first and, foremost and then obviously our, culture
Speaker 7: we're a very close group of. Guys you, know all position.
Speaker 7: Groups you got linemens talking to, DB's DB's talking to,
Speaker 7: kickers like everyone talks to each other and everyone likes each.
Speaker 7: Other so just that and then also it's a program
Speaker 7: on the, rise you, know first, year second, year third,
Speaker 7: year just keep getting, better and that's what's going to
Speaker 7: continue to, happen you, know with guys we bring in
Speaker 7: and with guys that are already. Here so, yeah.
Speaker 1: As jake, said he didn't have the opportun unity to
Speaker 1: play in a bowl game at his previous, stop but you.
Speaker 1: Did and in, fact last year you were in the
Speaker 1: twelve team college football playoff With. Tennessee you guys played
Speaker 1: At Ohio. State, unfortunately because it's the twelve team, playoff
Speaker 1: he had to play a road game in a college playoff.
Speaker 1: Game but what was that experience like for?
Speaker 7: You it was, fun you know obviously that the atmosphere
Speaker 7: when we first got to the, stadium it was it
Speaker 7: was really, cold, THOUGH i would say THAT i was
Speaker 7: the coldest GAME i ever played.
Speaker 6: In it was.
Speaker 7: FREEZING i don't know. How you, know the clip was
Speaker 7: going viral guys coming out wearing no shirts on the
Speaker 7: pre game on the.
Speaker 2: Field that wasn't.
Speaker 1: Me you weren't that, Guy.
Speaker 6: So, yeah it.
Speaker 7: Was it was a great experience, though you, know all
Speaker 7: the gear we, got just the, atmosphere the whole experience of. Everything,
Speaker 7: obviously we lost the, game we didn't come up with the,
Speaker 7: win but, overalls still a great, experience and, YEAH.
Speaker 1: I hope they gave a good swag college football. Playoffs they.
Speaker 1: Did all, right let's talk a little bit specifically about
Speaker 1: this week's game AGAINST. Tcu you heard my conversation with Coach.
Speaker 1: Saderfield this is a great passing, team one of the
Speaker 1: best you faced all. Year what are some of the
Speaker 1: keys to Limiting Hoover because you're not gonna shut a
Speaker 1: guy down like, that but you want to keep him in,
Speaker 1: check shake you go.
Speaker 5: FIRST i think we're gonna approach it like a similar
Speaker 5: game plans To. BAYLOR i think we did an amazing
Speaker 5: job our. Dvs Like christian had an amazing game Against,
Speaker 5: baylor AND i think that's a similar approach that we're
Speaker 5: gonna take into this. Game we know they've got a
Speaker 5: great wide receiver in number, one and one of the
Speaker 5: biggest keys for us is the. Linebacker group is if
Speaker 5: he's ever near us to a collision, Him so it
Speaker 5: makes their job a little bit. Easier BUT i also
Speaker 5: think mixing it up not just always dropping back into
Speaker 5: coverage because they're gonna find they're gonna find the spots
Speaker 5: to sit down and, whatnot but also switching up with
Speaker 5: some man pressure getting the quarterback off the spot because last,
Speaker 5: game LIKE i, mentioned he turned the ball over a,
Speaker 5: Bunch so we want to create those offportunities as.
Speaker 2: Well, Christian, Yeah i'll.
Speaker 7: Probably, say you, know you got to experienced quarterback Like
Speaker 7: hoover who's played a lot of games showing you, know
Speaker 7: different things pre, snap trying to mess up his clock
Speaker 7: and mess up his time thought process as to what
Speaker 7: he sees on the. Field so, yeah it's changing up
Speaker 7: things pre snap obviously getting to, him getting to, him
Speaker 7: blitzing him and things like. That he doesn't really like to.
Speaker 7: Scramble he's more of a sit in the, pocket you,
Speaker 7: know trying to throw the ball type of, guy so
Speaker 7: getting to, him trying to be able to sack.
Speaker 1: Him and, yeah he's thrown thirteen, picks tied for second
Speaker 1: most in the. Country So, christian go out and get
Speaker 1: yourself at least. One, YEAH i really want. To there's
Speaker 1: nothing wrong with being greedy when it comes to. Picks,
Speaker 1: Guys congratulations on a great season for the team and
Speaker 1: also for you two guys. Individually, jake best of luck
Speaker 1: and hopefully winning The Buckets. Award that would be. Incredible
Speaker 1: and you're certainly a very deserving care today And, christian
Speaker 1: you've been getting better and better week by week you
Speaker 1: become one of the leaders in the. Secondary congratulations on,
Speaker 1: that and thank both of you for representing our school so.
Speaker 6: Well thank.
Speaker 1: You it's here it For jake And. Christian that's going
Speaker 1: to do it for our show, tonight we will give
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