WEBVTT - The 4-8 Game 0:00:02.160 --> 0:00:06.880 Welcome to the solid verbal home that for me. I'm 0:00:06.880 --> 0:00:08.119 a man. I'm forty. 0:00:08.240 --> 0:00:10.119 I've heard so many players say, well, I want to 0:00:10.119 --> 0:00:10.639 be happy. 0:00:10.800 --> 0:00:13.000 You want to be happy for a day? Edo steak? 0:00:13.360 --> 0:00:14.760 Is that woo woom? 0:00:14.920 --> 0:00:17.080 And then and tie. 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:21.239 Welcome back to the solid verbol, boys and girls. My 0:00:21.320 --> 0:00:23.600 name is ty hilden Brandt. That fine gentleman over there 0:00:23.720 --> 0:00:30.880 is always the monster of the midway, Dan Rubinstein, sir, 0:00:30.960 --> 0:00:34.000 how are you? I'm not bad, Tye, I'm not bad. 0:00:34.040 --> 0:00:37.000 I went into the city yesterday for a lunch. I 0:00:37.080 --> 0:00:39.000 got out of the house, which felt good. It's not 0:00:39.159 --> 0:00:41.320 raining today, so I'm gonna try to go for a run. 0:00:41.600 --> 0:00:43.879 I'm a very strange runner. I've talked about this on 0:00:43.920 --> 0:00:46.879 the show before, where you know the old adage it's 0:00:46.920 --> 0:00:49.479 not a marathon, or it's not a sprint, it's a marathon, right. 0:00:49.880 --> 0:00:52.800 I go out there and I do sprints. I go 0:00:52.840 --> 0:00:54.720 out there and I don't just go jogging for like 0:00:54.720 --> 0:00:56.760 a five k or a ten k or something like that. 0:00:56.800 --> 0:00:59.000 I'll do a warm up jog and then I just 0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:02.440 sprint like eighth of a mile, quarter of a mile, 0:01:02.800 --> 0:01:06.000 because one I find it to be a better workout 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:07.760 for me and I put a little bit less stress 0:01:07.800 --> 0:01:09.920 on my joints because I don't like running long distances, 0:01:10.520 --> 0:01:13.720 and two because I'm a demon on the tennis court. 0:01:13.760 --> 0:01:16.320 It's good for my short track speed, my burst. 0:01:16.480 --> 0:01:16.680 Sure. 0:01:16.880 --> 0:01:20.000 So I'm out there as people are just leisurely riding 0:01:20.080 --> 0:01:25.160 their bicycles, going for walks, going for jogs like and 0:01:25.720 --> 0:01:29.240 that's me out there, burning up the pavement and always 0:01:29.240 --> 0:01:32.039 excited to do it. And when it's warm enough, TI 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:33.119 come on. Life is good. 0:01:33.200 --> 0:01:36.080 Have you considered going to a local baseball field and 0:01:36.160 --> 0:01:38.480 running from home to first and first to second to 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:39.440 work on that interval. 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:43.319 I haven't done baseball field and I haven't thought about it, 0:01:43.360 --> 0:01:46.560 but I have thought about finding giant empty parking lots 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:49.520 like you would train a toddler to ride a bike 0:01:49.680 --> 0:01:52.160 or train a teenager to drive a car, and just 0:01:52.160 --> 0:01:55.720 do it at like six am. So my exposure is 0:01:55.760 --> 0:01:56.400 not there. 0:01:56.160 --> 0:01:59.320 Wearing a garbage bag like Bradley Cooper in Silver Linings Playbook. 0:01:59.760 --> 0:02:03.840 Again again, I'm the same page, setting up some cones 0:02:04.680 --> 0:02:07.160 and just doing sprints because if I'm really doing it 0:02:07.160 --> 0:02:09.040 for tennis, I need the right surface, So it's going 0:02:09.080 --> 0:02:12.000 to be a harder surface, not dirt and really doing 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:15.320 that short track like change of direction, burst speed stuff. 0:02:15.680 --> 0:02:18.040 But that that may be a bridge too far. We'll 0:02:18.040 --> 0:02:20.880 see though, Yeah, because I mean you're pushing up now 0:02:20.919 --> 0:02:23.200 into your fifth decade of life before you know it. 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:26.480 I'm in my mid to late thirties, sir. Yeah, you're 0:02:26.480 --> 0:02:31.799 pushing up against that glass ceiling of sorts, and the 0:02:31.840 --> 0:02:34.880 point at which you just stop caring what others think 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:35.760 is fast approaching. 0:02:35.919 --> 0:02:38.960 True, it's a reality, but ty, I'm just I'm getting better. 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:40.680 I'm improving, which is. 0:02:40.680 --> 0:02:45.600 What the following teams should be aiming for, should be 0:02:45.639 --> 0:02:49.800 angling for. We are celebrating four and eight week. This 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:53.840 episode will be released on for the public on April 0:02:53.880 --> 0:02:55.919 the seventh, which is a day before the. 0:02:55.919 --> 0:02:59.720 Eighth, but it's four and eight week, and so we 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:02.519 are celebrating a number of teams, both in Power Conferences, 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:06.440 G five Conferences and the like, who unfortunately went four 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:08.240 and eight and twenty twenty one. And it's not a 0:03:08.280 --> 0:03:11.680 season recap, it's not a season preview. It's just sort 0:03:11.680 --> 0:03:15.079 of a state of four and eight, How they got there, 0:03:15.400 --> 0:03:17.880 what's going on? Did coaches come in and out, did 0:03:17.919 --> 0:03:20.799 players come in and out? You know where is this 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:24.160 program in terms of how serious they are about pushing 0:03:24.280 --> 0:03:26.400 up much in the way that you have pushed up 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:29.040 into your fifth decade of life. Thank you into becoming 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:32.400 a bowl team, because that's obviously the next goal for 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:36.440 a number of these teams. Obviously some have higher aspirations, 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:38.720 but we celebrate all things four and eight because it 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:43.640 is April eighth soon at the time of recording this show. 0:03:43.720 --> 0:03:46.600 All of our shows driven by our good friends over 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:50.880 at Geico. Don't forget the subscribe or follow if you 0:03:50.960 --> 0:03:53.600 have yet to do so. Overballers dot Com is where 0:03:53.640 --> 0:03:55.280 you can get the video version of the show. 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That news came out. 0:04:56.440 --> 0:05:00.720 Bob Bolesby has presided over a rather interesting time in 0:05:00.760 --> 0:05:04.280 the Big Twelve, notably during which two of the founding members, 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:06.400 Texas and Oklahoma. 0:05:06.000 --> 0:05:08.520 Have decided a bolt for the SEC. 0:05:10.800 --> 0:05:13.679 I don't know if you've got any like stinging thoughts 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:16.800 on this, Dan, but it is notable because Bob Bolsby 0:05:16.839 --> 0:05:20.520 has been a pretty big player, a mid conference re 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:24.400 alignment talk, a mid playoff expansion talk, amid so much 0:05:24.400 --> 0:05:27.279 of what goes down, specifically as it relates to college 0:05:27.279 --> 0:05:28.360 football in the Big Twelve. 0:05:29.480 --> 0:05:33.159 Yeah, and I wouldn't call it a risky addition to 0:05:33.279 --> 0:05:35.360 the Big Twelve in terms of the four new teams 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:38.760 coming in, but it is a conference going through a 0:05:38.760 --> 0:05:43.280 good amount of change, and he was at the time, 0:05:43.720 --> 0:05:48.479 unable to sort of navigate the politics and bring the 0:05:48.520 --> 0:05:51.680 Big Twelve in line with where the Big Ten and 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:54.800 SEC were in terms of adding teams of note and 0:05:54.839 --> 0:05:58.040 of substance or just teams that exist in the case 0:05:58.080 --> 0:06:02.160 of a couple of those editions, and so fell behind 0:06:02.360 --> 0:06:05.080 as a commissioner as it relates to football expansion and 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:08.640 you know, TV deals, But all in all seems to 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:11.159 be somewhat well respected in the community. And now the 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:15.080 names that are being thrown around, largely in the athletic 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:18.680 director and an administrative community are some of the name 0:06:18.720 --> 0:06:21.080 you know, Greg Byrne and Alabama and Rob Mullins at 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:23.960 Oregon I saw are the names that you know have 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:26.599 come up for these types of positions in the past. 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:29.440 And we'll be fascinating to see because the Big Twelve, 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:33.800 of course, is finding itself in a time of great change. 0:06:34.160 --> 0:06:36.919 So you know, I'm sure it was a you know, 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:39.719 when you look at some of Bolsby's quotes and comments 0:06:39.720 --> 0:06:42.000 about the Texas and Oklahoma change, that he was caught 0:06:42.000 --> 0:06:45.560 totally off guard. YEA, that it has been an entirely 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:48.400 stressful time these past couple of years. 0:06:48.520 --> 0:06:51.279 In the in the Big Twelve, offices. I also saw 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:54.760 Oliver Luck. There can't be always administrative job in college 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:57.640 football or otherwise it does involve Oliver Luck's name. He's 0:06:57.640 --> 0:07:00.320 got the best agent correct on that side of the business. 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:03.800 So yeah, we'll see which direction they go. One interesting 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:07.719 nuggie that I found oh about this is did you 0:07:07.800 --> 0:07:13.800 know that now with Bob Bolsby departing retiring, Greg Sankee 0:07:13.880 --> 0:07:16.480 is going to be the lone commissioner who was with 0:07:16.880 --> 0:07:20.120 his league prior to twenty twenty. So there's been a 0:07:20.160 --> 0:07:24.360 lot of chess in the commissioner space here within major 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:27.960 college football. It will reshape the way we view things. 0:07:28.040 --> 0:07:30.960 We saw what happened during the pandemic and more recently 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:32.880 now with the Pac twelve and Kevin Warren in the 0:07:32.920 --> 0:07:36.040 ACC and the quote unquote alliance. Who knows what's to 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:37.960 come for the Big twelve, but it will be a 0:07:38.000 --> 0:07:42.200 new person at the Helm for that conference. And if you, 0:07:42.240 --> 0:07:44.200 by the way, if you remember, because we did the 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:47.040 show with Nicole Aauerback who spent a lot of time 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:50.520 discussing the dynamics within the Big ten and having a 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:54.480 new commissioner when a number of athletic directors and presidents 0:07:54.520 --> 0:07:57.800 and chancellors were pulling in different directions with the COVID 0:07:57.800 --> 0:08:02.200 season last year twenty twenty, and so whoever it is, 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:05.320 and this goes obviously for any any commissioner who has 0:08:05.400 --> 0:08:09.520 unique challenges within his or her conference. It's going to 0:08:09.560 --> 0:08:12.800 be somebody who can come into this changing conference with 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:18.240 a number of teams with different perspectives or programs in 0:08:18.240 --> 0:08:22.280 schools with different perspectives, different goals, and has to very 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:25.760 quickly get them on the same page, right, that there 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:29.160 has to be this unifying force that has to come in, 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:31.440 especially in a conference with so much change. And that 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:34.640 was where you know, the Big Ten really struggled with 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:38.400 with Kevin Warren. Communication, Yeah, communication and and and that 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:41.840 mutual trust right when we talked to and this is 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:45.120 part of we did a couple episodes about this. We 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:47.320 also talked to David Jones, our friend for Penn Live, 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:52.240 and his point was just in comparing someone like a 0:08:52.360 --> 0:08:56.760 Kevin Warren to Jim Delaney for whom he took over 0:08:56.920 --> 0:09:01.920 the conference, his point was, folks didn't always like Jim Delaney, 0:09:02.320 --> 0:09:04.520 but they knew they could trust him and he was 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:06.240 very good at getting people in line. He was good 0:09:06.240 --> 0:09:09.600 at communicating and for a new commissioner in the case 0:09:09.600 --> 0:09:11.440 of Kevin Warren to step in at the moment that 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:14.440 he did, it was a particular challenge, not only trying 0:09:14.480 --> 0:09:16.599 to circle the wagons here and get everybody on the 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:19.080 same page, but with COVID going on, it was it 0:09:19.120 --> 0:09:21.839 was sort of a nightmare. Bob bowlsby stepping away at 0:09:21.840 --> 0:09:24.880 this point in time, it's got its own set of 0:09:24.960 --> 0:09:28.160 unique challenges with the conference changing, with college football changing, 0:09:28.600 --> 0:09:32.840 what have you. So yeah, we'll see which direction they go. Also, 0:09:33.000 --> 0:09:37.480 at the administrative level, I saw that Mark Emmert is 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:40.880 issuing kind of an edict would be the wrong word, 0:09:40.920 --> 0:09:44.280 but he's making a request, let's say, prayer, a prayer 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:49.000 that Congress will take up legislation and create a uniform 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:53.000 set of guidelines and rules for nil R. The NCAA 0:09:53.480 --> 0:09:56.200 now trapped in this awkward grace base where they want 0:09:56.200 --> 0:10:01.079 to be involved but not too much correct asking, ever 0:10:01.160 --> 0:10:05.480 so politely, please take up some legislation some way to 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:08.560 apply these rules uniformly across. 0:10:08.240 --> 0:10:09.200 All fifty states. 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:12.280 I don't know how close we are or aren't to 0:10:12.320 --> 0:10:15.679 that actually happening. My guess is that there is political 0:10:15.679 --> 0:10:19.480 interest out there for some congressmen among us to get 0:10:19.480 --> 0:10:22.679 that job done. Whether or not it's something that will 0:10:22.720 --> 0:10:25.080 be fast track remains to be seen, but it will 0:10:25.080 --> 0:10:27.439 certainly be a talking point, at least at that NCAA 0:10:27.600 --> 0:10:29.840 level for quite some time until it actually gets done. 0:10:29.960 --> 0:10:34.320 It will get done eventually, we just don't know when. Yeah, 0:10:34.320 --> 0:10:35.080 I have no idea. 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:37.200 It just doesn't seem like it's going to become a 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:40.720 huge national priority unless there are political points to be gained, 0:10:40.880 --> 0:10:43.120 just because I don't know. It seems like a lot 0:10:43.160 --> 0:10:46.520 is happening right now, not going on right now, a 0:10:46.559 --> 0:10:49.320 lot of downtime to say, is there anything we can 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:51.120 figure out that doesn't seem to. 0:10:51.040 --> 0:10:53.040 Be the case. But I don't know, I'm the wrong person. 0:10:53.120 --> 0:10:54.680 Ask elsewhere. 0:10:54.720 --> 0:11:00.400 In college football, Yeah, Notre Dame announced via a hype video. Sure, 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:06.120 just weird that they're going to play Tennessee State to 0:11:06.200 --> 0:11:09.440 open the season in twenty twenty three. It is the 0:11:09.480 --> 0:11:11.640 first time ever that the Irish will be playing an 0:11:11.760 --> 0:11:15.440 FCS team. Not sure for the promotional stuff, I don't 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:21.760 really get that. But it's April. It's April. We're all 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:24.360 in search of content. What I took away from this 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:26.840 with them playing an FCS team is maybe they're closer 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:30.080 to joining the SEC than anybody really thought, Oh how 0:11:30.200 --> 0:11:32.720 dare you? Maybe they're just they're close to it. I 0:11:32.720 --> 0:11:34.360 don't just getting their feet wet. 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:39.040 I'm okay with playing an FCS team and FCS team 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:41.440 every year. My views have sort of come around and 0:11:41.480 --> 0:11:43.439 evolved on this, because. 0:11:43.559 --> 0:11:45.040 Man, you need cash. 0:11:45.200 --> 0:11:48.000 You need cash if you want multiple levels of football, 0:11:48.040 --> 0:11:50.280 if you want a lot of participation in the sport, 0:11:50.640 --> 0:11:53.480 you have to make it financially viable. And it's an 0:11:53.520 --> 0:11:56.040 opportunity to play a lot of young players and walk 0:11:56.080 --> 0:11:58.360 on if you're one of these power programs in the 0:11:58.400 --> 0:12:00.560 second half and you're blowing somebody up and you see 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:02.800 what you have in terms of depth and guys and 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:05.959 effort and all those things. So I don't know, I 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:10.280 don't like the idea that I still like the idea 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:15.480 of a more centralized way of scheduling. But yeah, it 0:12:15.520 --> 0:12:19.360 was Notre Dame USC and UCLA, and UCLA now has 0:12:19.400 --> 0:12:22.760 I believe Alabama State on the books and USC canceled 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:25.400 the game with the fight naggies of UC Davis I 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:28.680 think last year. So they still haven't played an FCS team. 0:12:28.679 --> 0:12:32.520 That's some sort of like merit badge, I guess, but no, 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:35.679 I'm okay with it. I want the still more uniform 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:39.280 scheduling of more you know, interesting power five on power 0:12:39.360 --> 0:12:43.360 five action that schools don't just get to decide amongst themselves. 0:12:43.760 --> 0:12:48.160 But I'm fine with it, especially because it gives us 0:12:48.240 --> 0:12:52.960 always the possibility of a major program paying big money 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:58.320 to lose, to lose that game, and before it has 0:12:58.400 --> 0:13:02.120 not just FCS Power five G five of course, but 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:05.280 it just it gives us that chance, and I'm always 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:05.640 for it. 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:10.319 That's a perfect segue, yes, into our segment. 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:11.840 That's why you're a pros pro. 0:13:12.000 --> 0:13:14.560 Any other news, by the way, anything that came across 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:16.760 the desk of Dan Rubinstein that we should address here. 0:13:17.040 --> 0:13:19.240 No, I mean, we have spring practice going on, and 0:13:19.280 --> 0:13:22.200 we have spring games going on, and you know, there's 0:13:22.200 --> 0:13:23.880 not a lot of teams that are gonna take chances 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:25.600 with guys who are beat up, and there's not a 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:27.400 lot to glean from a lot of these games. And 0:13:27.400 --> 0:13:30.319 we'll do a sort of spring game and spring practice 0:13:30.360 --> 0:13:33.760 recap and wrap once it's over. So I don't know 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:36.800 worth paying attention to if, especially if you're rooting for 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:38.360 a team with a new coach. I don't even I 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:40.120 think I'm gonna be on the road when Oregon plays 0:13:40.160 --> 0:13:42.480 it's spring game. I don't know if you are planning 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:45.360 your I don't know April or May around Notre Dames 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:46.520 spring game always. 0:13:46.600 --> 0:13:49.040 I know, I gotta look when it is always always 0:13:49.040 --> 0:13:49.720 playing around that. 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:50.520 Yeah. 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:53.960 Yeah, it just seems like a situation where we're better 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:57.520 off aggregating the bigger stuff than really diving into each 0:13:57.600 --> 0:14:00.640 individual story that comes out. As as he mentioned at 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:02.520 the top of the show, Dan Rubinstein, it is four 0:14:02.520 --> 0:14:05.480 and eight week, Yes, four and eight week. We've got 0:14:05.480 --> 0:14:07.880 a list of teams in front of us, those being USC, 0:14:08.200 --> 0:14:10.679 Washington and Colorado, sort of like packed twelve week here 0:14:10.720 --> 0:14:10.959 on the. 0:14:10.880 --> 0:14:12.080 Show, How dare you? 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:16.520 In addition to Bowling Green, Buffalo, Navy, Rice, Texas State, 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:20.080 and Louisiana Monroe the Warhawks, those are the teams in 0:14:20.120 --> 0:14:23.480 major college football that went four to eighth this past season. 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:26.560 What we've been doing, what we've done two previous episodes 0:14:26.600 --> 0:14:29.600 now during three and nine and two and ten week 0:14:30.120 --> 0:14:32.720 is Dan puts together a couple questions and he quizzes 0:14:32.760 --> 0:14:38.560 me which team is responsible for insert your nuggie here. 0:14:39.280 --> 0:14:41.920 I try to guess sometimes I get it right, in 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:43.640 the case of the last episode, most of the time 0:14:43.680 --> 0:14:45.800 I get it wrong. Now we talk a little bit 0:14:45.800 --> 0:14:48.720 about that team, as he said, not a recap, not 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:51.680 a preview, just sort of a what the hell? 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:56.240 Four and eight? What the what the hell? 0:14:56.360 --> 0:14:57.960 So, I don't know if you've got any sounds at 0:14:57.960 --> 0:15:00.120 the ready? My iPad, I'm gonna hold this up for 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:04.360 the camera. Mypad's dead again. I have to get this fixed. 0:15:04.400 --> 0:15:06.200 I don't know what I did. All good, I'll teach 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:08.440 you some technology stuff. Yep, dead, I can't get it 0:15:08.480 --> 0:15:12.240 to start back up. So maybe a genius bar appointment 0:15:12.280 --> 0:15:16.120 in my future. That being said, play some sounds for 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:18.960 us usher in this ridiculous game that we've got here 0:15:18.960 --> 0:15:23.080 on four All right, we are building programs back into 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:27.640 bowl shape here on the solid verbal So I'm here 0:15:27.640 --> 0:15:27.960 to help. 0:15:28.440 --> 0:15:32.240 Okay, okay, you ready for program number one? Yes, this 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:33.920 program's offense was so bad? 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:37.680 How bad were they? Damn? How bad? They were? So bad? 0:15:38.080 --> 0:15:42.360 They got shut out by a team who themselves were 0:15:42.520 --> 0:15:46.000 very displeased with Their offensive coordinator went in a new direction. 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:50.360 And so this team that got shut out hired said 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:55.840 offensive coordinator, who led a comfortable win over this team. 0:15:57.480 --> 0:16:00.920 I'm gonna be honest, Yeah, I had a hard time 0:16:00.960 --> 0:16:06.680 following that. Okay, So team A lost a game thirty 0:16:06.720 --> 0:16:10.560 to zero. The team that scored thirty at the end 0:16:10.560 --> 0:16:12.520 of the season was like, Nope, we don't like this 0:16:12.640 --> 0:16:17.240 offensive coordinator. Team B, who scored zero points said, I 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:19.360 don't know, we'll take them. Our offense is pretty bad 0:16:19.360 --> 0:16:25.240 and thirty seems like a pretty sweet deal. Okay, I 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:29.200 don't know who what team that is. So Colorado lost 0:16:29.200 --> 0:16:33.880 to Minnesota thirty to nothing. Mike Sanford was Minnesota's offensive 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:38.000 coordinator last year. They were not too pleased, especially because 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:42.000 Minnesota they themselves lost to another team on this four 0:16:42.000 --> 0:16:45.080 and eight list, not scoring many points in the process. 0:16:45.520 --> 0:16:48.040 And so Mike Sandford is now the new offensive coordinator 0:16:48.120 --> 0:16:53.320 at Colorado who has had themselves a very strange I 0:16:53.360 --> 0:16:55.960 would argue a year and a half after being surprisingly 0:16:56.040 --> 0:16:59.480 good in the COVID short and twenty twenty season, especially 0:16:59.520 --> 0:17:01.600 with what they were to do on the ground, they 0:17:01.600 --> 0:17:05.560 were feisty at moments in twenty twenty one, but they 0:17:05.720 --> 0:17:08.320 lost a good amount of talent to the portal and 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:12.840 weirdly and I guess impressive in its own way. Colorado 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:17.520 lost said talent on defense to big schools, which is 0:17:17.560 --> 0:17:20.240 typically not what we see. Typically, what we see is 0:17:20.240 --> 0:17:22.400 when players enter the portal, they like they'll go down 0:17:22.440 --> 0:17:24.880 to a you know, lesser programs for more playing time, 0:17:25.240 --> 0:17:26.399 be it smaller. 0:17:26.000 --> 0:17:29.480 P five, G five whatever. Colorado players have ended up 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:32.640 at you know, Brendan Rice and at least a player 0:17:32.680 --> 0:17:35.960 in the secondary ended up at USC another dB A 0:17:36.040 --> 0:17:38.639 corner Christian Gonzales at Oregon. They lost a player to 0:17:38.680 --> 0:17:43.840 TCU Iowa State. So Colorado in a weird position where 0:17:44.720 --> 0:17:47.159 the offense was kind of a nightmare last year. They 0:17:47.200 --> 0:17:50.480 hire a coordinator who is not super well regarded as 0:17:50.520 --> 0:17:55.680 of late, and Mike Sandford and haven't been recruiting well 0:17:55.760 --> 0:17:58.080 at all, and so I you know, they bring in 0:17:58.160 --> 0:18:00.640 Tommy Brown, an offensive lineman from Alabeia who was well 0:18:00.640 --> 0:18:03.120 regarded as a recruit but didn't really make a huge 0:18:03.160 --> 0:18:05.840 impact on the Alabama offensive line these past few years. 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:12.400 So it's hard to be crazy optimistic about Colorado short medium, 0:18:12.440 --> 0:18:19.000 long term, and I don't see it ending well for 0:18:19.720 --> 0:18:21.960 the Buffs. It's hard to see them as a consistent 0:18:22.520 --> 0:18:25.080 six seven eight when program moving forward. 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:28.720 Yeah, I mean you sort of tell the Colorado story 0:18:28.720 --> 0:18:33.639 in the last five years of pre slash during Meltucker, 0:18:33.920 --> 0:18:38.080 that one volunted season. Yeah, and now what's happened since? 0:18:38.480 --> 0:18:43.639 And they were, as you said, surprisingly decent in the 0:18:43.680 --> 0:18:45.320 first season under Carl Durrell. 0:18:45.800 --> 0:18:46.480 Yeah, I mean I. 0:18:46.480 --> 0:18:50.040 Think he won awards, right, he was doing a pretty 0:18:50.080 --> 0:18:51.680 good job. And then it kind of spun out a 0:18:51.680 --> 0:18:54.399 little bit and then we have what took place in 0:18:54.440 --> 0:18:56.760 twenty twenty one. You could argue the highlight of the 0:18:56.760 --> 0:18:59.080 season was losing in Week two by. 0:18:59.040 --> 0:18:59.840 Three to Texas A. 0:18:59.880 --> 0:19:01.760 And that was the game, by the way, where Haynes 0:19:01.840 --> 0:19:04.159 King went down in the second possession. Yeah, I think 0:19:04.160 --> 0:19:07.320 it was in Denver. Yeah, ushered in the Calzada Armada. 0:19:07.440 --> 0:19:09.560 Now he's off to Auburn, which is a whole other thing. 0:19:09.560 --> 0:19:12.879 We can talk about that later. But otherwise, this was 0:19:12.920 --> 0:19:17.440 a team that really struggled. You know, there's not one 0:19:17.480 --> 0:19:19.080 thing you can point to. This is a team that 0:19:19.160 --> 0:19:22.840 really just frankly struggled in nearly all facets of the game. 0:19:23.240 --> 0:19:26.399 I always go to coaches hotseat dot com. That's my 0:19:26.520 --> 0:19:30.360 fun little vice here in the offseason, just to see 0:19:30.920 --> 0:19:33.240 how they're ranking college coaches as we go into the 0:19:33.280 --> 0:19:37.520 new season, right as you might expect, Carl Durell cracking 0:19:37.520 --> 0:19:40.480 the top ten there, coming in at number ten. I'm 0:19:40.520 --> 0:19:42.560 curious to see what happens to him if, in fact 0:19:42.600 --> 0:19:44.440 they end up going a different direction. It was always 0:19:44.520 --> 0:19:47.840 kind of a strange hire to me to bring him back, 0:19:47.880 --> 0:19:51.800 but Colorado needs to get some juice here as we 0:19:51.880 --> 0:19:53.719 go forward at the twenty twenty two. Otherwise I think 0:19:53.760 --> 0:19:54.959 there's going to be a coaching change. 0:19:55.119 --> 0:19:58.080 Well, they brought back our guy, Derek Markle in terms 0:19:58.119 --> 0:20:01.639 of graphic design and and publicizing the program, who does 0:20:01.640 --> 0:20:05.720 a very good job, so that's helpful. I'm not across 0:20:05.760 --> 0:20:10.119 the board against retread hires as Carl Durell. You know, 0:20:10.160 --> 0:20:12.960 he has some success at UCLA, but is ultimately not 0:20:12.960 --> 0:20:15.680 a long term answer at UCLA what like fifteen twelve 0:20:15.760 --> 0:20:19.679 years ago, and goes to the NFL, comes back to Colorado. 0:20:20.119 --> 0:20:22.800 It just seemed a little bit uninspired the way in 0:20:22.840 --> 0:20:27.160 which he has hired assistance and whatever their budgetary constraints 0:20:27.160 --> 0:20:30.480 obviously play a role in this at Colorado. But if 0:20:30.480 --> 0:20:33.639 he comes back to a PAC twelve PAC ten job 0:20:33.720 --> 0:20:36.240 and says I'm hiring these young up and coming assistants, 0:20:36.320 --> 0:20:38.520 Like we're putting all this money into recruiting and going 0:20:38.520 --> 0:20:42.240 into Texas and California, but it just seems like, you know, 0:20:42.320 --> 0:20:44.399 you bring in Mike Sandford, like you just you make 0:20:44.480 --> 0:20:47.199 some of these assistant hires and they're not recruiting on 0:20:47.240 --> 0:20:50.240 any interesting levels. At least you look like Arizona in 0:20:50.280 --> 0:20:52.760 the way that, like Jed Fish has said, Okay, this 0:20:52.800 --> 0:20:54.760 is what we're doing. This is how we're focusing on 0:20:54.800 --> 0:20:57.280 the portal. This is how we're going to recruit southern California. 0:20:57.440 --> 0:20:59.760 This is how we're gonna build relationships and hire assistance. 0:21:00.320 --> 0:21:03.520