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Speaker 2: and final hour tonight with a lot to get to
Speaker 2: He's Rocky on Lance, Let's get to it. Let's talk
Speaker 2: you see Bearcats Saturday Night Nip at night hosting number
Speaker 2: eleven BYU at his senior night big noon kickoff in
Speaker 2: town for an or early morning celebration of UC football,
Speaker 2: the day that will be in college football. Let's get
Speaker 2: perspective on that. Demand from Bearcat Journal dot com Chad Brendle,
Speaker 2: how are you.
Speaker 3: Delightful? I feel like I just saw Rocky. I feel
Speaker 3: like I just got done talking for three hours.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, all right, let's start here. And I don't
Speaker 2: want to make this about Brendan Sorees because I feel
Speaker 2: like I pick on him sometimes. What has caused this
Speaker 2: offense to get bogged down here during this stretch?
Speaker 4: I think against Utah? Utah is just better, Yeah, Mike,
Speaker 4: I just flat out like one through eleven, Utah's got
Speaker 4: a better defense in Cincinnati has an offense. Against Arizona,
Speaker 4: there were plays to be had and Cincinnati didn't make them.
Speaker 4: I mean there were there were multiple drops on plays
Speaker 4: that would have extended drives Shorsby.
Speaker 3: I didn't think put the ball in a bad spot
Speaker 3: all that often.
Speaker 4: I thought he did pretty well considering when you look
Speaker 4: at the numbers, it says he had a bad game,
Speaker 4: But if you go back and look, I thought he
Speaker 4: was pretty effective.
Speaker 3: They just are in this.
Speaker 4: This spot where they need their best players to be
Speaker 4: their best players, and the last two weeks they haven't been.
Speaker 4: And it was insurmountable against Utah because of the you know,
Speaker 4: the talent disparity. I thought Arizona was the first time
Speaker 4: this season they were playing a team with a pretty
Speaker 4: equal level of talent and got out played. And some
Speaker 4: of that is on Sowersby, but some of it is
Speaker 4: just a function of the offense and general. Far too
Speaker 4: many three and outs, just way too many three and outs.
Speaker 4: And you saw it the entire second and third quarter.
Speaker 4: It was just like, let's see.
Speaker 3: How fast we can get rid of the foot.
Speaker 4: It was hot potato with the football lance.
Speaker 5: And chan I said this to you earlier on a
Speaker 5: brighter note. I have Alabama this weekend. So I was
Speaker 5: looking up, Okay, how's you know their offensive line? I
Speaker 5: was looking up the Joe Moore Award semi finalists. So
Speaker 5: Joe Moore Award goes to college football's best offensive line.
Speaker 5: Not only was Alabama not on there. Not only was
Speaker 5: Ohio State and others not on there, but you see
Speaker 5: was you see offensive line one of ten semi finalists
Speaker 5: for the Joe Moore Award. I thought that was pretty
Speaker 5: cool talk about that group.
Speaker 4: I mean, they've only allowed three tacks on the season,
Speaker 4: which is incredible considering how much they throw the football
Speaker 4: and how often Brendan Sorosby's in the pocket. And then
Speaker 4: you mix that with also being one of the better
Speaker 4: run game offensive lines in the sport, and you know,
Speaker 4: it's a huge testament to Nick Cardwell, it's a huge
Speaker 4: testament to Zach Grant and Jack Griffin for their ability
Speaker 4: to identify in the portal and find Joe Cotton and
Speaker 4: find Taran Tayo. I mean, remember last year we were
Speaker 4: talking they're losing three NFL quality linements left tackle, left guard,
Speaker 4: right guard, Like, oh my goodness, what's this offense? What's
Speaker 4: the how are they going to be able to piece
Speaker 4: this offensive line together? And they got better and those
Speaker 4: guys have been really good in pretty much every facet
Speaker 4: of the game. Now they're going to get a major
Speaker 4: test again against BYU.
Speaker 3: BYU like to heat you up.
Speaker 4: They bring a lot of pressure. They'll blitz five, they'll
Speaker 4: blit six.
Speaker 3: So the job's not done yet. But man, they've had
Speaker 3: an excellent season.
Speaker 2: It is a senior night Saturday night. I believe twenty
Speaker 2: two of them, a group headlined by Dante Corleone, Gavin
Speaker 2: gear Hurt. You're around, You've been around this program, around
Speaker 2: the these guys, you see classes come and go. Just
Speaker 2: give a little context or a perspective on what this group.
Speaker 2: Kind of your takeaway on this group and their impact
Speaker 2: on this program.
Speaker 4: Especially Gavin and Dante.
Speaker 3: Those guys have.
Speaker 4: Had literal millions of reasons to not be loyal to
Speaker 4: this program. You're right, they were brought in by a
Speaker 4: different coach, there was a downturn, they didn't win at
Speaker 4: the rate that they were used to winning in this
Speaker 4: era of college football. There are a whole bunch of
Speaker 4: Gavin Gerhart's and Dante Corleones that put themselves on the
Speaker 4: open market, went to the highest bidder, and went about
Speaker 4: their business. Those two guys, one from Xenia, one from Cincinnati,
Speaker 4: they love this football program as much as just about
Speaker 4: anybody I've ever encountered through U SEE football over nineteen
Speaker 4: years of doing this, and I really for those two
Speaker 4: guys specifically, I really want to see them finish this
Speaker 4: thing strong, because remember they came in you know, Peach
Speaker 4: Bowl and Cotton Bowl, and you know, college football playoffs
Speaker 4: and you're young and you feel like it's gonna last forever,
Speaker 4: and then there was a downturn. Man, I'd love nothing
Speaker 4: more than to see them and this thing at nine
Speaker 4: and three, whether they can make it into the Big
Speaker 4: twelve championship game or not. I just want to see
Speaker 4: them both go out on a high note, because they're
Speaker 4: such high quality kids, and in this day and age,
Speaker 4: it's really hard to find guys of that quality that
Speaker 4: are loyal and love the school and the program as
Speaker 4: much as those two have shown over the years. I mean, gosh, guys,
Speaker 4: how many millions could Dante Not that he hasn't been
Speaker 4: fairly compensated at Cincinnati, but on the open market, my goodness,
Speaker 4: how much money he could have made.
Speaker 2: You. You probably more than most, maybe more than any.
Speaker 2: You have a finger on the pulse of the fan
Speaker 2: base and how they view what goes on with this program.
Speaker 2: I don't want to say Saturday Night is a must,
Speaker 2: but you know, the thought of in some corners there's
Speaker 2: a deja vu fuel going on of we've seen this
Speaker 2: team start fast and then fade. How big is Saturday Night?
Speaker 4: I think it's huge, Just you know, I think part
Speaker 4: of the problem, especially this year, like your three hardest
Speaker 4: games of the season are these three games, Yeah, Utah,
Speaker 4: Arizona BYU. So you did a great job winning the
Speaker 4: games you were supposed to win and fighting to that
Speaker 4: point where you were seven and one. Now you've got
Speaker 4: to go out and show that the program has taken
Speaker 4: the next step. And BYU's probably a little bit more
Speaker 4: talented than Cincinnati top to bottom.
Speaker 3: Go beat a team.
Speaker 4: That's a little bit better than you, like. I think
Speaker 4: that's the thing that fans are waiting for before they really.
Speaker 3: Buy in, because that's that's what you know.
Speaker 4: That's what Arizona State did last year when Arizona State
Speaker 4: was in a very similar position to Cincinnati, sitting there
Speaker 4: at the end of the season with a couple conference losses.
Speaker 4: They needed things to break the right way. They won
Speaker 4: those games down the stretch, and then the tiebreaker fell
Speaker 4: their way. Well, you know how you make the tiebreaker
Speaker 4: fall your way. You beat BYU on Saturday, and then
Speaker 4: you've got a leg up because you beat one of
Speaker 4: the best teams in the conference. So I think the
Speaker 4: fan base wants to buy in, wants.
Speaker 3: To believe, but they need that moment.
Speaker 4: They need that, you know, that action from the program
Speaker 4: to signal, Okay, we're back and we're ready to win
Speaker 4: this type of game. That's what Saturday night is all about.
Speaker 4: And the line would tell you, and BYU on the
Speaker 4: road would tell you. They beat Colorado by one. Okay,
Speaker 4: they were tied with Iowa State in the fourth quarter.
Speaker 4: They were down by ten to Arizona with four minutes
Speaker 4: left in the game. They all they won all those
Speaker 4: three games, of course, because they're really good. And then
Speaker 4: they got blown out of Texas Tech. Those are their
Speaker 4: four conference road games. The opportunity if Cincinnati plays well
Speaker 4: is there to beat BYU. Go do it.
Speaker 2: Last thought, I gotta ask you a basketball question for
Speaker 2: tomorrow night. Speaking of lines, I don't know the ones
Speaker 2: posted yet. I would assume you see somewhere in the
Speaker 2: neighborhood of eight and a half to a ten point
Speaker 2: dog tomorrow night. What what does UC have to do
Speaker 2: to hang with and perhaps knock off Louisville tomorrow night?
Speaker 4: Surprisingly lanced and I think you're probably right on where
Speaker 4: the line is gonna fall.
Speaker 3: Ken Tom has this.
Speaker 4: As a five point game, oh eighty three to seventy eight.
Speaker 3: Louisville they're gonna have to defend. I mean, I.
Speaker 4: Want to see what Louisville looks like when they're out
Speaker 4: of their comfort zone offensively.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they've played four games, They've scored.
Speaker 4: Over one hundred and three times and ninety six in
Speaker 4: the other Yeah. Can Cincinnati's high end defense make Louisville
Speaker 4: a little uncomfortable? You know, you probably are going to
Speaker 4: have to hope for some help from the uh the
Speaker 4: depth perception at Heritage Bank Arena. I got, I got
Speaker 4: breaking news for you, Lance.
Speaker 3: This is this is exclusive.
Speaker 4: Okay, okay, there there will be new rims at Heritage
Speaker 4: Bank Arena.
Speaker 3: For this game.
Speaker 4: New floor and new rims being brought in for this
Speaker 4: to the old Like you know that the rims are
Speaker 4: terrible at Heritage Bank Arena. New rims will be there
Speaker 4: tomorrow night.
Speaker 3: Now.
Speaker 4: I would think if new rims that haven't been used yet,
Speaker 4: they'd probably be a little tight.
Speaker 3: But that's just me.
Speaker 4: Uh, But you need you need Louisville to be a
Speaker 4: little cold and and some of that is going to
Speaker 4: be Cincinnati's defense, and then you need to make some shots,
Speaker 4: Like if you go three and a half for five
Speaker 4: minute stretches without getting a bucket. Louislle's probably going to
Speaker 4: run you out of the gym. So you know, play
Speaker 4: good defense and don't have the long scoring droughts. Get
Speaker 4: things to that final seven eight minutes and see where
Speaker 4: the chips fall.
Speaker 2: So new rims tighter and defense, so it'll be sixty
Speaker 2: to fifty nine. You see wins at the buzzer and
Speaker 2: both teams shoot thirty.
Speaker 3: From the field. Can't take the under.
Speaker 2: Can't take that?
Speaker 4: Yeah, real quick? Yes, if you have not seen Louisville play,
Speaker 4: enjoy something.
Speaker 3: Mikeel Brown. Oh that MIKEL.
Speaker 4: Brown is my goodness, outstanding. I mean, I know Boozer
Speaker 4: and Debanta and Peterson get all the love in this class,
Speaker 4: but I have Mike de Corsi on today.
Speaker 3: And you know who, Mike said.
Speaker 4: This kid kind of reminded him of who Tyrese Haliburton,
Speaker 4: Shay Gilgus Alexander type player.
Speaker 3: Oh is that all? Wow? Yeah, that's all.
Speaker 4: That's just just two of the best guards, maybe the
Speaker 4: two best guards right now in the NBA.
Speaker 3: He is that good. He is.
Speaker 4: Cincinnati will absolutely have their hands full trying to stop
Speaker 4: him tomorrow night.
Speaker 3: And they have.
Speaker 2: And I was talking about this with Pat the other
Speaker 2: night on the show. They have ninety assist on one
Speaker 2: hundred and thirty three baskets. They've got sixty eight percent
Speaker 2: of their baskets are assisted on, and they're averaging twenty
Speaker 2: two assistant game.
Speaker 4: And the other thing is, I know people look at
Speaker 4: him as like a three point shooting team because they
Speaker 4: do shoot it really well. They are eighth in the
Speaker 4: country and two point field goal percentage at sixty one
Speaker 4: point eight percent, So they shoot the three at a
Speaker 4: really high level, and they shoot the two at an
Speaker 4: even higher level. Threes in dunks. That's what Pat Kelsey's
Speaker 4: team does. It It's gonna be a challenge for the
Speaker 4: Bear capt.
Speaker 3: Tomorrow night, no doubt about it.
Speaker 4: Thanks sir, appreciate you, gentlemen.
Speaker 3: Suck soon.