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Speaker 2: got UC football to get into. Man, we've got a
Speaker 2: lot of things to get into. UC wise Bowl Game
Speaker 2: of portal departures, Brendan Soresby, a twenty two member recruiting class,
Speaker 2: the shootout to get to as well. Who better to
Speaker 2: do all that than the man from Bearcatjournal dot com.
Speaker 2: That would be Chad Brendle.
Speaker 3: How are you? I'm doing well, gentlemen. How are you
Speaker 3: on this delightful, freezing cold Thursday evening?
Speaker 2: We are well, and a warm destination would be ideal,
Speaker 2: and that will be my segue into the bowl. Explain
Speaker 2: the bull paint the bowl picture for us right now
Speaker 2: be our travel guide of potential scenarios and destinations as
Speaker 2: you understand it.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's really hard to figure out because Cincinnati
Speaker 3: did themselves no favors. But when you look at like
Speaker 3: the pecking order of how these are decided, they were
Speaker 3: in a place to be pretty high up the pecking order.
Speaker 3: Plus you factor in Utah and Arizona and Arizona State
Speaker 3: are still connected to pack twelve bowls. It's like wow,
Speaker 3: like pop cards at like Alamo, Like there's some some
Speaker 3: really good options that were on the table. And then
Speaker 3: you finish the way that they finished and they tie
Speaker 3: instead of you know, tying for fifth or whatever, they
Speaker 3: tie for seventh, and you're with a group of four
Speaker 3: teams that Iowa State, Kansas State, Kansas State actually denied
Speaker 3: a bowl game, which is so weird with their situation,
Speaker 3: but I don't know, like that there's a chance they
Speaker 3: could be picked last in this process. So you went
Speaker 3: from hopefully like a really good destination to I don't know.
Speaker 3: I mean, it sounds like the most momentum right now.
Speaker 3: It is Phoenix for the Rate Bowl, which is really
Speaker 3: far away in the day after Christmas, so not a
Speaker 3: great travel situation if that's how this thing plays out.
Speaker 3: But that's what happens when you don't take care of
Speaker 3: your business at the end of the season, is you
Speaker 3: lose premium position and you're trying to figure out what
Speaker 3: the heck we're going to do.
Speaker 4: Next, all right, which then that leads into signing day
Speaker 4: and you know, towards the end of the season things
Speaker 4: not working out.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 4: How much did that affect this year's recruiting class and
Speaker 4: how's it look?
Speaker 3: Didn't really affect anything. They actually did something rocky they
Speaker 3: have not been able to do over these past two classes.
Speaker 3: They have a really good team in place identifying talent.
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, over the past couple of years,
Speaker 3: they've lost like nine guys to SEC's SEC and Big
Speaker 3: ten schools. Right around signing day this year they held
Speaker 3: off a couple of SEC schools for guys. They held
Speaker 3: onto their number one commit right down at the wire,
Speaker 3: Lance Dawson, who Anderson fans are gonna get to know
Speaker 3: tonight because he plays for Avon. That's become a nice
Speaker 3: little UC pipeline over the past couple of years. So
Speaker 3: actually they were able to do a lot better on
Speaker 3: that front than they've done in the past couple of years. Rocky,
Speaker 3: So at least the momentum there that you know, hopefully
Speaker 3: you're bringing in a lot more talent.
Speaker 2: Had any surprises early on among the portal departures.
Speaker 3: No guys that haven't worked their way up the roster,
Speaker 3: you know, the one Caimani Burns, I think is you
Speaker 3: look at that one and you say, how didn't that
Speaker 3: one work out? But when Dante Corleone got hurt, the
Speaker 3: door was opened for Camanie Burns to really kind of
Speaker 3: solidify himself as the next guy in line at defensive tackle.
Speaker 3: And he didn't fully take advantage of it, and by
Speaker 3: the end of the year he got passed by Isaiah Rodgers.
Speaker 3: I think over the last three games he had five snaps,
Speaker 3: And when a guy had five snaps over three games
Speaker 3: the end of the season, the writing is kind of
Speaker 3: on the wall. So nothing that we've seen yet, but
Speaker 3: you know, who knows what the next couple weeks are
Speaker 3: going to bring.
Speaker 2: Brendan Sorosby had a really good season this year. Quarterbacks
Speaker 2: in college football are like ace pitchers in baseball. They're
Speaker 2: going to get a lot of money. They're very coveted.
Speaker 2: You know the report from Rick Neuheisel yesterday that, according
Speaker 2: to him, multiple offers of four million. What's to be
Speaker 2: made of how precarious is the uh the status of
Speaker 2: Brendan Sorosby is a UC quarterback going forward?
Speaker 3: It's gregarious. I mean that is that is a whole
Speaker 3: lot of money. And I just don't know in Cincinnati's situation,
Speaker 3: if they're in a place to pay a quarterback that
Speaker 3: kind of money, you know, how much of the rest
Speaker 3: of your roster?
Speaker 2: Yeah, are you.
Speaker 3: Putting in jeopardy by paying a quarterback that much? So
Speaker 3: I don't know, Like I know, you know, they've they've
Speaker 3: had two years with Sowresby. Things have been good, but
Speaker 3: they have not maybe reached the level that that either
Speaker 3: side had desired. So it's going to be very interesting
Speaker 3: to see how this plays out, because you're right that
Speaker 3: the quarterback position and especially you know, let's not forget
Speaker 3: you've still got a decision on potentially playing in the
Speaker 3: NFL yep so, NFL Cincinnati or go somewhere that's going
Speaker 3: to give you some generational wealth.
Speaker 2: Meanwhile, your roster, Yeah, Meanwhile, you've got to replenish you know,
Speaker 2: Joe Roy or Dante Corleo, guys like that on your
Speaker 2: I mean we're into talking like baseball salaries or NFL
Speaker 2: salary caps of can you improve the rest of your
Speaker 2: team if you devote you know, thirty million to Kyle Schwarber.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's insane, but that's where we are.
Speaker 3: It's insane, and there's no there's no guidelines, there's no
Speaker 3: limitations on this thing. It is kind of still the
Speaker 3: wild wild left, if you will. And I saw something
Speaker 3: today that now they're talking about a twenty percent luxury
Speaker 3: tax that could be put into place that would allow
Speaker 3: teams essentially you know what that means. That means teams
Speaker 3: can go over the cap and then a lot of
Speaker 3: teams with a you know, a load of money de
Speaker 3: sent yep. So who knows where this is going? Man,
Speaker 3: It's it's kind of disheartening because, yeah, you can you
Speaker 3: can see in real time fans losing their love for
Speaker 3: college sports. Yep, and that stinks.
Speaker 4: I I agree, thanks, Yeah, I said this channel on
Speaker 4: my show this week. It's you know, take the college
Speaker 4: football playoff and it's like, here we are is the
Speaker 4: end of the season. Has been a great season in
Speaker 4: the time when it's supposed to be great, and everybody's
Speaker 4: dialed in. It's a mess. You got coaches leaving and
Speaker 4: no one can figure that out. The college football playoff,
Speaker 4: no one can figure that out. It's just a lot
Speaker 4: of frustration at a time when we should be really
Speaker 4: excited and enjoying this. It's you wonder how long it
Speaker 4: can last?
Speaker 3: You really do? I mean, there have to be something done, Yep,
Speaker 3: I don't know. What Like, I've seen some stuff. I like,
Speaker 3: I've seen some stuff that makes me go, you have
Speaker 3: don't care about the kids? Well, it's all what's convenient
Speaker 3: for the administrators. What's convenient for the coaches? You know,
Speaker 3: you're talking about like the perfect example the conferences, they
Speaker 3: move this signing day to January twod Okay, the sixteenth
Speaker 3: is when or the not signing day, but the portal.
Speaker 3: The sixteenth is when that closes. Almost everybody will have
Speaker 3: started classes by them, and you have essentially like two
Speaker 3: weeks to get enrolled and start school. There's going to
Speaker 3: be a bunch of kids that are going to go
Speaker 3: in the portal, that are going to take their time,
Speaker 3: make an educated decision, and then they're not going to
Speaker 3: be able to get into the school that they picked
Speaker 3: until June. How is that good for the kids? Yep,
Speaker 3: it's good for the coaches, great, But the sport is
Speaker 3: not supposed to be about the coaches. But here we are.
Speaker 2: Final question directed to tomorrow night the spotlight on the
Speaker 2: crossdown shootout. How do you feel about the Bearcats entering
Speaker 2: this matchup?
Speaker 3: I felt a lot better two weeks ago. This is
Speaker 3: a sense of like, here's the problem I have with
Speaker 3: Cincinnati right now. This is a new team. We knew that,
Speaker 3: we talked about that that was you know, the They're
Speaker 3: going to come in and don't expect a lot right
Speaker 3: away because it's going to take time to gel. It's
Speaker 3: gonna take time to get up the speed. We're twenty
Speaker 3: five percent of the way through the season. Does anybody
Speaker 3: feel like the curve is going up? No for Cincinnati
Speaker 3: right now? Nope, No, And that's the problem because like
Speaker 3: you look at.
Speaker 2: At Xavier, their curve is going up steadily improved.
Speaker 3: Yep. They had a terrible start. Patina figured some things out,
Speaker 3: he changed the lineup, he changed the way they play,
Speaker 3: and they're playing better. And I don't know that you
Speaker 3: can look at anything that Cincinnati's done outside of that
Speaker 3: first half against Louisville that you could realistically say, I
Speaker 3: think the arrow is pointing up for these guys, and
Speaker 3: that's not a good sign going into a place that
Speaker 3: they haven't won. When did you leave South Bend, Lance, Well,
Speaker 3: it wasn't that long ago.
Speaker 2: I left South Bend in ninety two. It's been since
Speaker 2: what two thousand and one since they won at Xavier, correct, two.
Speaker 3: Thousand and one, since they've wonted the Sentas Center. And
Speaker 3: I've said this multiple times over the past like month
Speaker 3: and a half. If they don't win this year at
Speaker 3: Centtas center, they're probably never.
Speaker 2: Gonna I'm happy. We thank you for your time tonight.
Speaker 2: Tell everybody you guys are cranking out tremendous. I mean
Speaker 2: all over the signing day layout, all that is offered
Speaker 2: through Bearcat journal dot com.
Speaker 3: We've been all over signing Day. We've got some stuff
Speaker 3: with Carter Wilson, who's the director of high school recruiting,
Speaker 3: the assistant general manager that's going up today. Keegan's been
Speaker 3: Keyhan and Austen have been killing it on you know,
Speaker 3: the the game previews and getting ready for the shootout.
Speaker 3: Uh Dave had a compassioned hour. I don't know if
Speaker 3: you've had a chance, Felicia last night yet, but an
Speaker 3: impassion hour about where the fan base is at. Uh So,
Speaker 3: we've got a lot of really good stuff right now
Speaker 3: in Bearcat Journal, and I implore you all to try
Speaker 3: it out.
Speaker 2: I would second that. Thank you, sir. We'll talk next week.
Speaker 3: Appreciate you, gentlemen. Have a great night.