WEBVTT - March Q&A (3/8/2017) 0:00:02.040 --> 0:00:06.880 Welcome to the solid verbal. I'm that for me. I'm 0:00:06.920 --> 0:00:09.680 a man, I'm forty. I've heard so many players say, well, 0:00:09.720 --> 0:00:11.639 I want to be happy. You want to be happy 0:00:11.680 --> 0:00:16.120 for day Edith State? Is that? Whoo whoom? And then 0:00:16.360 --> 0:00:20.919 and tie, Welcome back to the solid verbal boys. A 0:00:20.960 --> 0:00:23.960 girl's my name is ty Hildebrand. I am over here 0:00:23.960 --> 0:00:28.240 in beautiful Allantown, Pennsylvania, joined as always by my colleague 0:00:28.240 --> 0:00:31.840 and co host and friend of many years. Way over there, 0:00:32.560 --> 0:00:34.960 over yonder in beautiful New York City. Sir, how are you? 0:00:35.600 --> 0:00:38.920 I'm not gonna lie, Tye. The microphone, what is it called? 0:00:38.960 --> 0:00:42.120 It's the foam piece in front of it, the pop 0:00:42.200 --> 0:00:44.680 not a pop filter. The wind screen, the wind screen, 0:00:44.880 --> 0:00:47.640 thank you. It smells a bit like you're in really 0:00:48.000 --> 0:00:50.320 and I try to speak close to it so that 0:00:50.360 --> 0:00:53.360 everybody can hear my nonsense in the clearest possible way. 0:00:54.040 --> 0:00:57.040 And it's getting a little bit weird. It's not great. 0:00:57.680 --> 0:01:00.960 Is this your foam piece or is this a foam 0:01:01.040 --> 0:01:04.400 This is the Box Media studio windscreen. They just got 0:01:04.440 --> 0:01:06.040 a new office for you. They should be able to 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:08.920 get new You would think so, Ty, You would think so. 0:01:09.160 --> 0:01:11.960 Also in preparation for this Q and A show. One, 0:01:12.319 --> 0:01:14.280 I looked up because we're doing a Q and A show. 0:01:14.319 --> 0:01:16.039 Hey everybody. One. 0:01:16.319 --> 0:01:18.880 I did some research into the a's for the cues 0:01:18.920 --> 0:01:22.360 that were submitted. Oh and two. In looking for any 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:25.760 sort of news to talk about ty, I looked at 0:01:25.880 --> 0:01:29.680 the daily email I get from Jason Kirk and Espianation. 0:01:29.880 --> 0:01:32.600 They do a very good jobs letter, the Espianation College 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:35.319 Football Newsletter that comes into my mailbox every day that 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:37.200 has all sorts of news that you should know. 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:39.840 There is. 0:01:39.920 --> 0:01:41.960 It's called the read option. By the way, yes, there 0:01:42.000 --> 0:01:46.600 is nothing happening there. It's just all like Leonard Fournette 0:01:46.640 --> 0:01:49.760 can jump twenty eight and a half inches and that's 0:01:49.840 --> 0:01:52.560 not a lot to go on for a college football podcast. 0:01:52.640 --> 0:01:55.920 What's funny about that is that you put together our 0:01:55.920 --> 0:01:58.200 little runsheet here of all the questions that came in 0:01:58.280 --> 0:02:01.360 via email and Twitter and Facebook, where wherever, And at 0:02:01.400 --> 0:02:04.720 the very top you've got in bold in all caps 0:02:04.920 --> 0:02:08.160 news and then two bullet points. I looked at those 0:02:08.160 --> 0:02:10.720 two bullet points and I was like, is there anything else? 0:02:10.919 --> 0:02:12.160 Is that news at all? 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:14.280 This was nine o'clock am. This is what came in 0:02:14.320 --> 0:02:17.600 for yesterday's college football news. It was combine stuff, which 0:02:17.639 --> 0:02:21.240 is you know, it's it's tangential, it's relevant to our interests. 0:02:22.680 --> 0:02:25.519 We've got a piece on whether Oregon's mascot is actually 0:02:25.639 --> 0:02:28.560 named Puddles or just the duck. It's a Nike attempt 0:02:28.600 --> 0:02:33.640 to brand. Bill c who is already previewing teams previews 0:02:33.880 --> 0:02:34.679 North Texas. 0:02:34.720 --> 0:02:36.160 He's encouraged. 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:40.119 It's time for junior days recruiting wise high school kids 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:43.440 visiting schools. Andy Staples wrote about a six foot nine, 0:02:43.520 --> 0:02:46.720 four hundred pound dude from Australia who's never played football 0:02:46.760 --> 0:02:50.160 and has offers from major colleges to play offensive line, 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:52.760 never played a single down of college of football of 0:02:52.840 --> 0:02:58.600 organized football, minor Ohio State players transferring, a bunch of 0:02:58.639 --> 0:03:03.880 Georgia Tech players transfer and celebration penalties in the NFL. 0:03:05.000 --> 0:03:07.040 It's not a ton to go on. So I guarantee 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:10.760 you this scant we will make our best attempt to 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:15.640 talk about bank robberies and trail mix and some hypothetical. 0:03:15.000 --> 0:03:18.160 College football sto. I'm so excited for this. Yeah, I 0:03:18.160 --> 0:03:20.919 am so excited for this. So thank you for listening 0:03:20.960 --> 0:03:23.640 to the show. We're at iTunes dot com. Slash soliverbal 0:03:23.680 --> 0:03:28.400 as well as soliverbal dot com. We are on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:31.280 all the usual social media stops that you might have. 0:03:31.960 --> 0:03:34.239 You can also email us at soliverble at gmail dot 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:37.000 com and let us know how we're doing. We continue 0:03:37.120 --> 0:03:41.040 to record and podcasts all throughout the off season. Once 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:43.600 we get a little close to the season, we'll go 0:03:43.800 --> 0:03:46.680 two times a week. If you're not familiar with our 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:50.200 rhymes and rhythms. But in the meantime, we tend to 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:52.560 do these Q and A shows and when we get 0:03:52.600 --> 0:03:56.560 into like the slow news downturns of college football offseason. 0:03:56.640 --> 0:03:59.800 Right it's currently one of those, but before long we'll 0:03:59.800 --> 0:04:03.440 get to spring football. We'll talk about the NFL Draft, 0:04:03.520 --> 0:04:05.640 because that's something that a lot of college football fans 0:04:05.680 --> 0:04:08.880 are into. We'll talk about it from a college football perspective, 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:11.800 and we've already started lining up a bunch of big 0:04:11.880 --> 0:04:15.160 name college football head coaches. Yes. One of the cool 0:04:15.200 --> 0:04:18.240 things that I like about that is when we can 0:04:18.279 --> 0:04:21.440 sort of look back after the year and say, oh, 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:23.760 we got this guy, Oh we got that guy, like 0:04:23.800 --> 0:04:26.159 we've had Tom Herman the last two years. Tom Herman 0:04:26.200 --> 0:04:29.120 has been very relevant in college football. Over the last 0:04:29.200 --> 0:04:33.080 three seasons, Yeah, without question, would say last year was 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:36.279 one of our strongest portfolios yet as it relates to 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:40.400 college football head coaching interviews. The way that it is 0:04:40.680 --> 0:04:44.039 presently shaping up looks like it will by far be 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:47.440 our biggest and best yet. So I'm really excited about that. 0:04:47.440 --> 0:04:50.000 That's probably coming up in the next couple months as well. Yeah. 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:52.120 Not too many people know this, but when Bobby Patrino 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:54.720 crashed his motorcycle, he was actually on the phone with 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:58.400 Tye answering what was job one for the twenty twelve season. 0:05:00.040 --> 0:05:03.800 Many people know that, and so we apologize. Obviously that's 0:05:03.800 --> 0:05:07.080 on us. That is on us. Also relevant question to 0:05:07.120 --> 0:05:10.160 things you were just mentioning, would it be possible for 0:05:10.560 --> 0:05:13.880 you to tell everybody that we are We're over nine 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:17.359 hundred reviews on iTunes? Yes, I believe Bud told me 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:19.720 that Bud Elliott is on top of these things. 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:22.800 I have not so checked recently, but that would sound 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:23.240 about right. 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:25.880 Yeah, I don't think we've eclipsed a thousand, So if 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:27.880 you could go to iTunes if you haven't yet. I 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:30.080 know this is like everybody says this on every single 0:05:30.080 --> 0:05:31.000 podcast you listen to. 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:31.520 I get it. 0:05:31.720 --> 0:05:33.600 We're nearing a thousand. It would mean a whole lot 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:36.040 to us if you went on iTunes and threw us 0:05:36.240 --> 0:05:38.760 a review. If you like the show, throw us some stars. 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:41.480 Maybe five, five stars would be wonderful. So let's close in. 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:44.960 Stars on iTunes, stars on Facebook, stars anywhere you can. 0:05:46.040 --> 0:05:48.599 I think should be the motto for this offseason. But yes, 0:05:48.640 --> 0:05:51.839 absolutely that helps. If you listen an overcast, recommend the 0:05:51.880 --> 0:05:55.560 show through your podcast app of choice. All that stuff 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:59.919 helps us out. But before we get into all the 0:06:00.000 --> 0:06:02.599 college football nitty gritty that awaits us in the coming 0:06:02.640 --> 0:06:04.919 weeks and months, we do need to do our Q 0:06:05.080 --> 0:06:07.000 and A. And then we've got an exciting announcement about 0:06:07.000 --> 0:06:08.359 a show we're going to be doing next week and 0:06:08.360 --> 0:06:10.600 then the week after. We'll get to that a little 0:06:10.600 --> 0:06:11.279 bit later on. 0:06:11.440 --> 0:06:15.039 But you mentioned that, you know, it's a longer off 0:06:15.080 --> 0:06:17.440 season and there's not as many topics. I look at 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:19.920 it like as a barbecue thing tip. Yeah, oh yeah, 0:06:19.960 --> 0:06:23.039 the low and slow burn that gets to the season brisket. 0:06:23.160 --> 0:06:25.680 It's the crock potting before the great feast. 0:06:25.800 --> 0:06:28.719 Right, so right now we're just we're slat were Actually 0:06:28.760 --> 0:06:30.560 I'm not a big slathering of a brisket guy, I 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:31.520 don't want a marinade. 0:06:31.839 --> 0:06:34.000 We're seasoning it. We're gently seasoning it with some salt 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:36.640 and pepper. Maybe a little bit of garlic and brown sugar, 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:39.160 but salt and pepper is plenty, So we're just we're 0:06:39.200 --> 0:06:41.599 salting and peppering that off season brisket. Where do we 0:06:41.640 --> 0:06:42.480 want to start? 0:06:43.839 --> 0:06:47.080 Do you have thoughts about the combine before we get started, 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:49.200 because that's the closest thing to news. 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:54.920 I love when I see that someone like Miles Garrett 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:57.919 had thirty three reps on the bench press at like 0:06:57.960 --> 0:07:01.280 two twenty five. Yeah. I like seeing that John Ross 0:07:01.400 --> 0:07:05.560 ran a four to two to two before hurting his leg. Yeah. 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:09.840 Like I like seeing the eye popping stats. I don't 0:07:09.880 --> 0:07:12.600 really put much stock in it beyond that. 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:18.920 I like seeing you completely overlook the Temple owl and 0:07:19.080 --> 0:07:23.440 Hassan Reddick Riddick Reddick jumping like eleven feet in the 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:27.840 broad jump, just stomping your disrespect of the owls. 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:30.640 I love that. I find that my interest level has 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:33.000 gone down with age in the combine. 0:07:33.040 --> 0:07:36.120 Oh yeah, it's tough, but I think the clear best 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:40.480 part is to see just how athletic and nimble and 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:43.360 you know, the burst and the change of direction of 0:07:43.400 --> 0:07:46.640 the huge dudes where you think to yourself, well, sure 0:07:46.680 --> 0:07:49.080 he's three hundred and twenty five pounds, but there's no 0:07:49.200 --> 0:07:52.520 way he's actually athla oh my god. Yeah yeah, Like 0:07:52.600 --> 0:07:54.640 he's just pushing a dude in front of him. It's 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:57.600 college football, and the guy's not an NFL player, and 0:07:57.640 --> 0:07:59.440 so he's easier to push around if you're this three 0:07:59.480 --> 0:08:03.120 hundred and twenty Nope, nope. These are just enormous athletes 0:08:03.160 --> 0:08:04.640 that are impressive at everything they do. 0:08:04.840 --> 0:08:08.880 I also look forward to Bruce Feldman's annual Draft combines 0:08:08.960 --> 0:08:12.120 Freaks Free columns, you know, where he talks about the 0:08:12.160 --> 0:08:16.320 most athletic guys. Otherwise, though, no, not a whole lot 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:19.840 of interest. It's a cool little mini game that goes 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:23.360 on within the game, and I'm excited to talk draft 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:26.640 at some point, probably next month with a draft knick 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:26.960 or two. 0:08:27.120 --> 0:08:29.440 A totally underrated part of the combine in the draft 0:08:29.480 --> 0:08:34.400 itself is seeing a school that wasn't necessarily successful at, 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:36.680 you know, winning college football games. 0:08:36.679 --> 0:08:39.920 I would have like seven draft picks the old like 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:43.480 ron Zook Illinois, like Corey Legit, Winnie Merciless. Where are 0:08:43.480 --> 0:08:44.200 all these guys coming? 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:46.480 From and we knew that they were good in college, 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:48.319 but then the NFL is like, no, these this is 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:50.680 a team legitimately stocked with NFL players and they go 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:51.360 three and nine. 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:55.400 It somehow does more to undermine the credibility of their 0:08:55.400 --> 0:08:56.920 college coach. Right. 0:08:56.960 --> 0:08:59.040 It's sort of an al grow special as well. I 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:02.079 would argue, what Virginia players, what else is going on? 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:04.480 Not too much else, But I saw somewhere when I 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:07.160 was scanning things that you know, a big story coming 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:09.400 for this season. I'm just going to ask this question myself, 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:11.560 because nobody we have a bunch of questions. I had 0:09:11.559 --> 0:09:13.160 to pair abound a bunch of questions. We got a 0:09:13.160 --> 0:09:16.480 bunch through email and Facebook and whatever. But one of 0:09:16.480 --> 0:09:18.600 the things that I always enjoy, and somebody asked this 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:20.560 just on a Twitter Q and A, is what I'm 0:09:20.600 --> 0:09:22.520 looking forward to other than Oregon and what they do 0:09:22.559 --> 0:09:25.000 in twenty seventeen, just in college football in general. And 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:26.840 my answer is generally the same thing, and that's just 0:09:26.960 --> 0:09:30.200 emerging quarterbacks. Quarterback is such a hard position to play, 0:09:30.320 --> 0:09:33.439 especially now with so much talent playing on defense, and 0:09:34.080 --> 0:09:36.520 it's just more and more difficult with guys transferring year 0:09:36.559 --> 0:09:37.960 in and year out, we don't get to see them 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:41.240 get a ton of experience within the same program. So 0:09:41.320 --> 0:09:44.160 which emerge of these four emerging quarterbacks if you had 0:09:44.200 --> 0:09:47.040 to rank these guys, and they're specifically emerging because they 0:09:47.080 --> 0:09:50.280 are merging from other teams and going to new teams, 0:09:50.880 --> 0:09:55.319 which of these four people will we say in December? Well, 0:09:55.400 --> 0:09:58.520 he's the clear standout of this group. Okay, are you ready? 0:09:58.559 --> 0:10:00.520 Because this is a good year for quarterback transfer. So 0:10:00.520 --> 0:10:04.720 we've got Will Greer starting at West Virginia Jinia. Yeah, 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:08.959 after a very promising start at Florida and then leaving 0:10:09.000 --> 0:10:13.280 under some unfortunate pharmaceutical circumstances. 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:15.440 Some would say yeah, yeah, some would say sure. 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:17.880 Kyle Allen moving on from Texas A and M he 0:10:17.920 --> 0:10:19.560 sat out last year. He's going to be playing at 0:10:19.600 --> 0:10:20.280 Houston this year. 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:20.520 Yeah. 0:10:20.559 --> 0:10:22.040 I thought he'd be playing for Tom Herman, but in 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:24.880 fact it'll be major Apple White, Blake Barnett moving on 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:28.200 from Alabama and becoming immediately eligible at Arizona State. And 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:33.000 Jared Stidham taking a year off after the fiasco just 0:10:33.200 --> 0:10:37.480 life fiasco at Baylor and emerging at Auburn. So of 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:39.120 those four quarterbacks, I don't know if you want to 0:10:39.160 --> 0:10:41.040 rank them one through four. But right now, as it 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:44.720 stands in early March, and nobody has really played any 0:10:44.720 --> 0:10:48.240 sort of significant time in the spring, let alone the fall, 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:50.200 who would you take from that group? 0:10:50.840 --> 0:10:53.920 From that group, I think I'd take Jared Stidham. Okay, 0:10:54.000 --> 0:10:56.680 I would take Jared Sidham. Now I'm not crazy about 0:10:57.240 --> 0:10:59.320 the offense he's going to find himself in. I'm not 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:03.440 quite sure how that's gonna work. But in his short 0:11:03.480 --> 0:11:06.080 time at Baylor, he showed a ton of promise. We 0:11:06.200 --> 0:11:08.480 simply haven't seen a whole lot out of Blake Barnett. 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:11.560 We saw flashes from Kyle Allen, but that was up 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:14.400 and down. And Will Greer showed a lot of promise 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:18.480 before going to the Pine at Florida. So I feel 0:11:18.520 --> 0:11:20.920 like of all the people that we saw, Stidham, to me, 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:22.680 felt like he had the most upside. So I would 0:11:22.679 --> 0:11:27.000 put him one. I'm gonna put Will Greer too, because 0:11:27.000 --> 0:11:28.520 when he came in and I. 0:11:28.440 --> 0:11:30.360 Think these are all five star high school guys, I 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:32.520 believe Yeah, I mean he's on some services. 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:34.920 You probably can't go wrong talent wise with any of 0:11:34.960 --> 0:11:36.400 these guys. But if we're gonna pick a second one, 0:11:36.440 --> 0:11:38.880 I'll go Will Greer. He's going into a system where 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:41.240 you know he's going to air it out, and in 0:11:41.280 --> 0:11:43.760 a short time at Florida he showed I thought a 0:11:43.760 --> 0:11:46.160 lot of promise. People at Florida were excited about Will 0:11:46.200 --> 0:11:49.600 grew before that went south. Then that leaves me between 0:11:50.520 --> 0:11:53.720 Kyle Allen and Blake Barnett. I will put Blake Barnett 0:11:54.000 --> 0:11:58.920 at three, knowing full well we hadn't seen anything from him, 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:02.640 we saw minimum from him. He'll have plenty of opportunities 0:12:02.679 --> 0:12:05.880 to show his show his stuff, and I'll put Kyle 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:10.160 Allen forth. I don't know what Houston's gonna look like 0:12:10.240 --> 0:12:14.239 post Tom Herman. I don't think it's like a situation 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:17.520 where it falls off the cliff, but it's certainly not 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:21.040 the same setup as it was. And Kyle Allen left 0:12:21.080 --> 0:12:23.000 a lot to be desired at Texas A and m 0:12:23.120 --> 0:12:26.360 granted probably wasn't all his fault, but I sort of 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:28.760 expected a lot more. I feel like we've seen a 0:12:28.760 --> 0:12:31.719 lot from him that left me feeling disappointed, so he 0:12:31.720 --> 0:12:32.680 would be my number four. 0:12:33.640 --> 0:12:36.240 So I have Will Greer atop the list, just because 0:12:36.320 --> 0:12:40.120 I think he looked good enough with the least around him. 0:12:40.440 --> 0:12:43.560 The running game wasn't spectacularly good at Florida, and the 0:12:43.640 --> 0:12:45.440 fact that he's moving on to a system will have 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:47.840 Justin Crawford in the backfield at West Virginia. If you remember 0:12:47.960 --> 0:12:50.960 Justin Crawford of the Wow, Look what Justin Crawford is 0:12:50.960 --> 0:12:52.000 doing against Oklahoma? 0:12:52.080 --> 0:12:53.600 Yeah? Yeah. 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:56.960 And the development of West Virginia receivers seems to be 0:12:56.960 --> 0:12:58.680 a year and in year out things. It's a you know, 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:00.880 Shelton Gibson has gone Kevin White the year before, A 0:13:00.920 --> 0:13:03.760 year after year, they just keep replacing the speed successfully. 0:13:05.800 --> 0:13:07.560 I think whenever it is that Will Grier gets on 0:13:07.559 --> 0:13:10.280 the field, he will be put in the best position. 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:14.280 Given West Virginia's defense taking steps forward year in and year out, 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:16.520 I think he's in the best position to make the 0:13:16.559 --> 0:13:19.400 biggest impact this fall. I have Jared's did him second, 0:13:19.440 --> 0:13:21.600 even with the question mark of you know, r At 0:13:21.679 --> 0:13:24.760 Lashley leaving for Yukon, Chip Lindsay coming in from ASU, 0:13:24.840 --> 0:13:27.720 which then welcomes Blake Barnett. So we don't really know 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:30.920 what the offense of Auburn is going to look like 0:13:30.920 --> 0:13:33.560 with Chip Lindsay. I imagine it will be heavy maus 0:13:33.559 --> 0:13:36.000 On influence but maybe it's time to sort of weave 0:13:36.000 --> 0:13:40.120 in new ideas. I have Kyle Allen third, just because 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:42.840 I think his ceiling as a thrower is higher than 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:44.480 Blake Barnett's, even though we haven't seen a lot of 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:46.960 Blake Barnett and Kyle Allen struggled somemit Tech's A and M. 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:50.480 I think he will have, you know, going going against 0:13:50.520 --> 0:13:54.160 easier defenses first of all, playing at Houston, and I 0:13:54.200 --> 0:13:57.120 have Blake Barnett, even though I really like the weapons 0:13:57.160 --> 0:14:01.000 that Blake Barnett has in Nikhil Harry and Kaylin Blage. 0:14:01.480 --> 0:14:03.480 I like those guys a lot, so three and four 0:14:03.520 --> 0:14:07.160 could go either way. I like the general talent level 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:11.200 of Kyle Allen against AAC defenses and his throng ability 0:14:11.200 --> 0:14:12.559 a little bit more than Barnett's. 0:14:13.000 --> 0:14:15.600 All right, shall we get to our questions. Let's do it. 0:14:17.000 --> 0:14:20.480 Congratulations Skippy, you've got mail. You've got mail. On the 0:14:20.600 --> 0:14:24.520 solid verbal As often as we can, and quite frequently 0:14:24.520 --> 0:14:26.000 in the off season, we do our best to pay 0:14:26.000 --> 0:14:29.360 homage to those of you who write in solverble at 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:32.760 gmail dot com, to our Twitter, to our Facebook. We 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:34.640 did a Q and A about three weeks ago we 0:14:34.680 --> 0:14:37.000 will do many more throughout the course of the long 0:14:37.000 --> 0:14:41.800 college football doldrums the off season. We've got some questions 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:45.080 in here that we're in here previously that we didn't 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:46.800 get a chance to get to the first time around. 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:49.440 We've also got a bunch of new ones, Dan, Yes, 0:14:50.480 --> 0:14:52.040 and so do we have old ones in here? I 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:54.120 don't even remember old any old one. I added an 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:54.840 old one here. 0:14:54.960 --> 0:14:57.720 Please surprise me. Let's start out here. Okay, mm hmm, 0:14:58.280 --> 0:15:01.360 He says, I got a dilemma. Might make for a 0:15:01.400 --> 0:15:05.480 good offseason conversation. Okay, you sir, are correct. I work 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:07.840 for a fabulous nonprofit that does a lot of good 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:10.040 work in our community. We're about to hold an annual 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:13.320 fundraiser gala where we expect to raise hundreds of thousands 0:15:13.320 --> 0:15:17.840 of dollars. Sounds great. My dilemma is this. I've just 0:15:17.880 --> 0:15:20.200 been told that Vince Young will be at the event. 0:15:21.760 --> 0:15:24.880 I may be expected to hobnob with him, take photos, 0:15:25.520 --> 0:15:29.800 video of people with him, etc. Etc. But I'm a 0:15:29.920 --> 0:15:33.520 usc grad. I have no desire to do any of this. 0:15:34.320 --> 0:15:36.600 But I also know that this event will help raise 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:39.760 a lot of money for our organization. I'm wondering to 0:15:39.840 --> 0:15:43.000 what level, can I appropriately snub or throw a shade 0:15:43.040 --> 0:15:46.920 at Vince Vy, as it were, without gumming up the 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:51.560 fundraising by alienating potential donors who like him, or by 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:54.520 pissing off my employer. So this is this is a 0:15:54.560 --> 0:15:57.680 deep question here, Dan, This is a deep question that 0:15:57.720 --> 0:15:59.760 I've got a shallow answer. But yeah, it could be. 0:16:00.160 --> 0:16:03.360 It sort of harkens back to your roots as a 0:16:03.400 --> 0:16:07.800 college football fan slash alum versus your new mature self 0:16:08.440 --> 0:16:12.720 as a career oriented gentleman working for a solid non problem. 0:16:12.880 --> 0:16:15.880 So if Vince Young is there as a positive force 0:16:15.960 --> 0:16:18.960 to do positive things. And I don't know Vince Young, 0:16:19.080 --> 0:16:21.760 I haven't been around Vince Young, but I would imagine 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:26.440 he is somebody who really enjoys reveling in that huge 0:16:26.520 --> 0:16:29.680 game that USC Texas National championship, one of our great 0:16:29.720 --> 0:16:30.960 modern games in our sports. 0:16:31.000 --> 0:16:32.720 Absolutely, yeah, absolutely. 0:16:32.280 --> 0:16:34.400 It would be fair to say he wouldn't be uncomfortable 0:16:34.400 --> 0:16:36.480 if you brought up that game. No, not at all 0:16:36.560 --> 0:16:38.760 as a USC fan, as a as a UMass fan, 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:42.640 whatever whatever team you root for. I say, lean into 0:16:42.640 --> 0:16:44.840 the fact that you were heartbroken. That will make him 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:47.720 feel great. I will say, you know, if I'm a 0:16:47.800 --> 0:16:50.480 USC fan. I'm saying something like it was brutal watching 0:16:50.480 --> 0:16:53.000 the Tings try to tackle you, the Ting brothers. It 0:16:53.080 --> 0:16:55.920 was like it was heartbreaking. And that way you sort 0:16:55.920 --> 0:16:58.200 of endear yourself as somebody that has a sense of 0:16:58.240 --> 0:17:00.760 humor about yourself and you don't take things too seriously. 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:03.280 But at the same time, you establish yourself as a 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:06.240 college football fan, and you know what, maybe he gives 0:17:06.280 --> 0:17:08.400 you a little nugget about that game that you never 0:17:08.480 --> 0:17:10.920 knew and you just sort of like him a little 0:17:10.920 --> 0:17:13.760 bit more as a human. And I say steer into 0:17:13.800 --> 0:17:16.399 it because like I've interviewed a bunch of college players 0:17:16.400 --> 0:17:18.080 that have gone on to be NFL players at the 0:17:18.280 --> 0:17:20.040 NFL rookie thing we used to do, and we'd come 0:17:20.080 --> 0:17:23.240 across Washington players and you know, that was the point 0:17:23.280 --> 0:17:26.040 when Oregon was still beating Washington. But it was still 0:17:26.080 --> 0:17:28.600 fun to talk about that games in a non sort 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:31.040 of trash talky way because you just you find out 0:17:31.119 --> 0:17:33.840 nuggets and that I'm in the nugget business. Tie call 0:17:33.920 --> 0:17:37.920 me Dave Thomas. I am a nugget guy. So sort 0:17:37.920 --> 0:17:41.080 of introducing yourself as a USC fan, but a good natured, 0:17:41.160 --> 0:17:44.120 good humored one should endear you and you collect those 0:17:44.200 --> 0:17:48.280 nuggets because you have no leg to stand on trash 0:17:48.320 --> 0:17:51.640 talking for a team that you literally ran over. See, 0:17:51.680 --> 0:17:53.240 I don't think you can throw a shade. You've got 0:17:53.240 --> 0:17:55.000 no leverage. Or you go up to him and you 0:17:55.080 --> 0:17:58.800 say I'm sorry. I'm a huge fan. I have to ask, 0:18:00.640 --> 0:18:07.280 are you Cole McCoy? Can I get a shot? All right, 0:18:07.320 --> 0:18:07.720 we'll do that. 0:18:07.760 --> 0:18:08.680 Where are we going next? 0:18:09.280 --> 0:18:12.600 Let's start with Rob rob Ass. If you could switch 0:18:12.600 --> 0:18:15.199 any two teams conference affiliates to improve alignment. 0:18:18.359 --> 0:18:21.919 I have a problem with conference alignment. And I'm not 0:18:22.000 --> 0:18:24.160 talking about it from the financial standpoint. You know, I'm 0:18:24.160 --> 0:18:26.199 not like, I'm not out there on the internet. I'm 0:18:26.240 --> 0:18:29.800 not examining the economics like Frank the Tank and some 0:18:29.840 --> 0:18:32.680 others that exists in the twitter sphere. I'm looking at 0:18:32.720 --> 0:18:36.280 this purely from a geographic standpoint. So of course, of 0:18:36.320 --> 0:18:39.159 course the answer could be like, switch Notre Dame in 0:18:39.240 --> 0:18:41.840 Rutgers because Notre Dame makes more sense than the Big Ten, 0:18:41.920 --> 0:18:44.960 perhaps than Rutgers does, and so on and so forth. 0:18:45.280 --> 0:18:47.480 But one thing that's bothered me for a long time. 0:18:48.640 --> 0:18:51.959 It's it's been after this whole SEC realignment, when they 0:18:52.000 --> 0:18:55.639 added Missouri and Texas A and M. M hmm. Do 0:18:55.720 --> 0:19:00.080 you know where Columbia Missouri is? Guve speaking, Dan, I 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:02.200 do know where it is. Can you tell me how 0:19:02.200 --> 0:19:09.640 many teams in the SEC West are actually farther east 0:19:09.760 --> 0:19:10.920 than Columbia Missouri. 0:19:12.320 --> 0:19:15.080 How many teams are farther east in the SEC West? 0:19:15.320 --> 0:19:18.920 I'm talking SEC West teams that are actually farther east 0:19:19.000 --> 0:19:22.360 than Columbia Missouri. Is it all of them other than 0:19:22.359 --> 0:19:24.639 Texas A and M. All of them other than Texas 0:19:24.640 --> 0:19:27.359 A and M is a correct answer, Dan, Okay, unless 0:19:27.400 --> 0:19:33.760 you're drawing a diagonal line of sixty degrees across the southeast, 0:19:34.240 --> 0:19:39.240 there is no way a reasonable minded cartographer could ever 0:19:39.280 --> 0:19:41.880 come to the conclusion that this is a logical way 0:19:42.000 --> 0:19:45.160 to break down your divisions. I prefer to go by 0:19:45.280 --> 0:19:49.240 longitude and not by any kind of sixty degree diagonal 0:19:49.640 --> 0:19:53.200 across the sun belt of the United States in order 0:19:53.240 --> 0:19:56.679 to form by conferences. So therefore, I feel like, if 0:19:56.720 --> 0:19:58.480 you're going to try and do it and do it right, 0:19:58.960 --> 0:20:01.520 you need to do something in the SEC You need 0:20:01.520 --> 0:20:03.960