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Speaker 2: last week hosting Arizona this week. There's one man to
Speaker 2: turn two to do such things. Bearcat Journal, bearcatjournal dot com. Chadbrendle,
Speaker 2: how are you tonight?
Speaker 3: Good? I am. You saved me from ten minutes of
Speaker 3: a volleyball postseason banquet, so I thank you.
Speaker 2: Oh I see?
Speaker 3: All right, Well.
Speaker 2: Let's get to it. Bounce back opportunity and really, as
Speaker 2: much as the Utah loss may have shaken some to
Speaker 2: you need to win. This is a big one this
Speaker 2: week to keep next week as a really big for
Speaker 2: the Bearcats.
Speaker 3: I don't think they can look at it like this.
Speaker 3: I think that look at it like that. I think
Speaker 3: you have to solely focus on Arizona here because this
Speaker 3: is an Arizona team that you can play well and lose.
Speaker 3: That they do a lot of things that give Cincinnati problems. Mainly,
Speaker 3: you can start with Noah Fafita. Their their excellent quarterback.
Speaker 3: He is the best quarterback in the Big Twelve with
Speaker 3: a clean pocket. Cincinnati is the worst defense in the
Speaker 3: Big Twelve getting pressure. He is also third in the
Speaker 3: Big Twelve against zone defense. Cincinnati runs more zone defense
Speaker 3: than any Power five program in the country, so that
Speaker 3: alone is reason to be scared of Arizona's offense. Defensively,
Speaker 3: they play a lot of man a man defense. Now,
Speaker 3: they don't get after the quarterback the way Utah did,
Speaker 3: but they look a lot more like Nebraska and Brendan's sours.
Speaker 3: We had a lot of problems with Nebraska. So Cincinnati's
Speaker 3: going to have to play really well to beat this
Speaker 3: Arizona team. And it's Scott Saderfield pointed out, they're sitting
Speaker 3: at six and three. They had YU down by ten
Speaker 3: with four minutes left in that game, and they lost
Speaker 3: to Houston on a walk off field goal could very
Speaker 3: well be eight and one.
Speaker 4: Wow, So chey, are there any more? I mean I
Speaker 4: had to buy week, but any more remnants still, you know,
Speaker 4: kind of present from from the Utah loss that makes
Speaker 4: people nervous of I guess in terms of how they
Speaker 4: played compared to the previous weeks where they're just rattling
Speaker 4: winds off.
Speaker 3: I mean, the biggest thing, Rocky is they were sloppy
Speaker 3: against Utah. They missed a field goal, they turned it over,
Speaker 3: they gave up a punt return touchdown. Like this is
Speaker 3: not you know, this is not the twenty twenty one
Speaker 3: Bearcats where they were so supremely talented that it didn't
Speaker 3: really matter if they weren't on their a game at
Speaker 3: all times. This is a team that's talented and has
Speaker 3: some very good pieces, but there's not a lot of
Speaker 3: separation between them and the other teams that they're playing
Speaker 3: in the league. So they have to play well. They
Speaker 3: have to play clean. They can't turn the ball over,
Speaker 3: they can't be you know, they've been great on special
Speaker 3: teams all the way up until that Utah game. They've
Speaker 3: got to get back to that. They've got to value
Speaker 3: the football. They've got to get moving on offense. They're
Speaker 3: way too many three and outs against Utah. You know,
Speaker 3: those are just the things that kind of you know,
Speaker 3: have bogged this team down in their two losses and
Speaker 3: things that they've been excellent at in their seven wins.
Speaker 3: Like there's no middle ground. It doesn't feel like with
Speaker 3: this team they're either really clean or boy, it's a mess.
Speaker 2: What are the chances we see any chance we see
Speaker 2: Evan Pryor.
Speaker 3: I think there's a chance. I mean, I think it's
Speaker 3: going to be one of those true like get them
Speaker 3: out there Saturday morning and see how the ankle feels
Speaker 3: and see if he can go. If I had to
Speaker 3: guess just from being around this forever, it feels like
Speaker 3: one of those. He was close, but we're gonna hold
Speaker 3: him out until next week situations right, Like it's an ankle.
Speaker 3: I think it's one of those. You know, you're probably
Speaker 3: rushing him back if you are little if you play
Speaker 3: him this week, so and you know it's gonna help that.
Speaker 3: I think Kylie Walker should be back to one hundred percent.
Speaker 3: That should help out. He wasn't against Utah. That's why
Speaker 3: he only had one carry in the second half. But
Speaker 3: I would say I would say probably thirty forty percent
Speaker 3: chance we see Evan, But you know that's going to
Speaker 3: depend on how it how it progresses the rest of
Speaker 3: the week, and how it feels Saturday morning.
Speaker 2: Chad, as you know, and I highly recommend those listening
Speaker 2: check it out. Kegan Nicholson wrote an outstanding piece for
Speaker 2: Bearcat Journal Dot com about the Bearcat general manager Zach Grant,
Speaker 2: the director of player personnel Jack Griffith, kind of you know,
Speaker 2: the impact they've had in the approach they've taken looking
Speaker 2: to find an edge in this day and age of
Speaker 2: the changing landscape of college football. What has impressed you
Speaker 2: about the impact and the fingerprints they have on this program.
Speaker 3: I think the most impressive thing to me is there's
Speaker 3: not the ego factor in that job that you get
Speaker 3: with a lot of people that are casked with doing
Speaker 3: that right, A lot of people just full bravado, come in,
Speaker 3: We're gonna compete, and we're gonna we're gonna go after
Speaker 3: the same players that Ohio State and Georgia and Alabama
Speaker 3: and LSU were going after. You're not gonna win. You're
Speaker 3: not gonna win those battles, and then you're gonna spend
Speaker 3: your time spending your tires on getting involved with kids
Speaker 3: that ultimately aren't gonna play at your school. So they said, Okay,
Speaker 3: let's go a little bit of a different direction. Let's
Speaker 3: figure out the kids that we think through. I think
Speaker 3: the number was they evaluated this is a crazy number guys.
Speaker 3: From the time the twenty twenty four portal cycle ended
Speaker 3: to the time the twenty twenty five portal cycle opened.
Speaker 3: As a staff, they watched twenty one thousand prospects with
Speaker 3: no guarantee that a single one of them was ever
Speaker 3: going to go into the portal. But they wanted to
Speaker 3: be ready because what happens in a lot of places
Speaker 3: is their reactionary. Okay, this kid's name comes up in
Speaker 3: the portal. All right, let's start doing our research and
Speaker 3: then you're making quick, rash decisions. These guys are saying, Okay,
Speaker 3: that kid's name popped up in the portal. Okay, here's
Speaker 3: the file that we have on that kid. Is he
Speaker 3: somebody we're interested in? Yes? No? Do we go? Do
Speaker 3: we not go? So they did all the backwork and
Speaker 3: they put in all the legwork, and Zach Grant talks
Speaker 3: about a great kid that in there was like a
Speaker 3: lot of people use like Jack Griffith. They use them
Speaker 3: as like an advanced scout, and he spends all his
Speaker 3: time every week preparing this file for the coaching staff
Speaker 3: and an advanced scout for the game that you're going
Speaker 3: to play. The coaching staff takes the file, sets it
Speaker 3: on the death sets thank you, never opens it you're
Speaker 3: just wasting time. So instead of wasting time, let's get
Speaker 3: into the weeds and watch these kids that we feel
Speaker 3: like can help us. And the number is crazy that
Speaker 3: twenty one portal guys in the twenty twenty five portal class,
Speaker 3: eighteen of them are contributing on this roster this year.
Speaker 3: That's an insane hit rate.
Speaker 2: Wow, you can absolutely all right. I got to ask
Speaker 2: you about the basketball side of this and the performance
Speaker 2: over dayton a win. We know the storyline, it's a win.
Speaker 2: It's twenty four turnovers as well. I know, and I
Speaker 2: don't have a time for another headache with the most
Speaker 2: free throws. Here's what jumped out to me. And I
Speaker 2: get I get some of the turn by some of
Speaker 2: the players, But when you have Cresa and dayda A Thomas,
Speaker 2: who have a combined five thousand minutes of Division one basketball,
Speaker 2: how did they combine to turn it over eight times
Speaker 2: in that game? That's what joed out to me. Like
Speaker 2: that can't happen, big man, Okay, turnovers, freshmen, maybe turnovers.
Speaker 2: Those experienced guys they should be turning it over eight times.
Speaker 3: They shouldn't be. But to be fair, they're also playing
Speaker 3: on a team that is new and these guys have
Speaker 3: never played together. That was you know, you would hope,
Speaker 3: here's the thing that disappointed me a little bit. You
Speaker 3: would hope that some of that got worked out in
Speaker 3: those two high level exhibition games that you scheduled against
Speaker 3: Arkansas and Michigan. It didn't seem like it did. But
Speaker 3: less his teams have not been turnover pro so that
Speaker 3: at least to me, is a sign that he is
Speaker 3: going to be able to coach some of that out
Speaker 3: of them. You know what it felt like to me,
Speaker 3: Lance It felt like they were trying to skip steps
Speaker 3: in the offense, didn't it. Like you've got the ball
Speaker 3: on the left wing, the goal is to get the
Speaker 3: ball to the right corner, and instead of going through
Speaker 3: the steps to get the ball to the right corner,
Speaker 3: they were just throwing one handed passes to the right
Speaker 3: corner and there's a Dayton defender standing there waiting on it.
Speaker 3: Like that is something I think that is going to
Speaker 3: come with a little bit of time. But also those
Speaker 3: guys are way too experienced to be throwing passes that stupid,
Speaker 3: Like they were just dumb on probably eight of the
Speaker 3: twenty four turnovers. Like I just scratched my head and said,
Speaker 3: what what did you think was gonna happen right when
Speaker 3: you tried to make that pass? So, yes, it needs
Speaker 3: to get better. Here's the thing I think that impressed
Speaker 3: me Lance the most about that game, The main thing
Speaker 3: I will take away from it. They had a pretty
Speaker 3: good lead the entire night, and then Dayton gets the
Speaker 3: two and ones and then the Alijub dunk they cut
Speaker 3: it to two. Last year's team would have crumbled, yes, agreed,
Speaker 3: they would have fallen apart almost instantly. And instead, in
Speaker 3: the next two minutes since and Natty went on a
Speaker 3: twelve to two run, they made smart plays, they were aggressive,
Speaker 3: they attacked, and all of a sudden, that two point
Speaker 3: game was back to a twelve point game, and it
Speaker 3: was never really in doubt the rest of the way.
Speaker 3: The big differentiator that they looked for in this offseason
Speaker 3: was getting some of that toughness, that bearcat toughness back,
Speaker 3: and that to me showed some of it. It showed
Speaker 3: that they weren't gonna wilt when things got tough, and
Speaker 3: they showed some of that in that Michigan exhibition too,
Speaker 3: where they had a big lead, Michigan storm back and
Speaker 3: Cincinnatty was able to hold him off. So that's at
Speaker 3: least a little bit of a good sign for me
Speaker 3: that there's a little bit more intestinal fortitude in this
Speaker 3: group than the one we saw a year ago.
Speaker 2: All Right, So listeners should check out Keegan's piece on
Speaker 2: Zach Grant and Jack Grippa. Tell everybody what else you
Speaker 2: got going on at Bearcat Journal dot com.
Speaker 3: I signed him a new one last night. It's going
Speaker 3: to be in the work, so I don't know when
Speaker 3: exactly it's going to come out, but I'm gonna have
Speaker 3: Keegan dig into the story of Tyler McKinley because I
Speaker 3: think he has been a really pleasant surprise for fans
Speaker 3: this year with how he has played in his first
Speaker 3: action as a red shirt freshman. He's always wanted to
Speaker 3: be a Bearcat. He got his chance. He was almost
Speaker 3: there last year, got hurt in the preseason, missed the
Speaker 3: entire year. I don't know what his minutes would have
Speaker 3: looked like if Jalen Haynes was still healthy. So the
Speaker 3: door opened for Tyler McKinley and he's kicking it in
Speaker 3: and I love that kid. It went to Walnut Hills.
Speaker 3: He's just an awesome, awesome young man, and I'm excited
Speaker 3: for Kegan to get to tell that story. So that
Speaker 3: one's coming up here, probably in the next couple weeks.
Speaker 2: Excellent, look forward to it. He is Chad Brendel, Bearcat Journal,
Speaker 2: bearcat Journal dot com. Thank you, sir, We'll talk next week.
Speaker 3: Thanks gentlemen, talk to you. So do it.