WEBVTT - Pump The Brakes 0:00:02.040 --> 0:00:04.720 Welcome to the solid verbal. 0:00:04.880 --> 0:00:05.600 I'll that for me. 0:00:06.680 --> 0:00:08.200 I'm a man, I'm forty. 0:00:08.280 --> 0:00:10.119 I've heard so many players say, well, I want to 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:13.000 be happy. You want to be happy for Dake Edith State. 0:00:13.360 --> 0:00:13.640 Is that? 0:00:13.720 --> 0:00:19.120 Whoo whoom? And Dan and Tie. 0:00:18.800 --> 0:00:21.520 Welcome back to the solid verbal, boys and girls. My 0:00:21.640 --> 0:00:24.360 name is Ty hilden Brandt joining me over there in 0:00:24.520 --> 0:00:29.040 b e a Utvil, New York City. My man Dan Rubinstein, sir, 0:00:29.040 --> 0:00:31.280 how are you. 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:33.200 Fresh off of putting the solid baby into the bath? 0:00:33.479 --> 0:00:36.400 Don't worry, he is now out of the bath and 0:00:36.440 --> 0:00:41.199 with Jody with and I. But I feel refreshed myself, 0:00:41.240 --> 0:00:44.360 even though it was just it was just external for me. 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:49.560 By the way, we should we should point this out here, Dan, Yeah, 0:00:49.600 --> 0:00:53.519 please tell the kind folks listening wherever they are, Oh 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:56.480 my gosh about your bath setup for the little man. 0:00:57.520 --> 0:01:01.440 The bath set up. Oh it is patriotly related. I guess, good, 0:01:01.600 --> 0:01:05.480 good transition. So I am just learning all of these 0:01:05.520 --> 0:01:08.800 things as a very stupid new father. But you just 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:10.959 pour water over them when they're in the bathtub, and 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:13.680 like the contraption that holds them in place. And I 0:01:13.720 --> 0:01:16.600 am using the Lee high cup that I purchased I 0:01:16.640 --> 0:01:19.360 think the morning of your wedding that I used for 0:01:19.400 --> 0:01:21.960 many years to drink my cold brew and iced coffee 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:24.520 out of. And now it has been retired and it 0:01:24.560 --> 0:01:28.120 is now I guess the solid baby taking very Patriot 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:28.640 League back. 0:01:28.720 --> 0:01:30.640 It is the Patriot League circle of life. 0:01:31.480 --> 0:01:35.280 It is and it does get wet. Yeah, there are 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:38.839 there's lots of skin and it's a it's a Patriot 0:01:38.880 --> 0:01:40.040 League drum and fifee bath. 0:01:40.319 --> 0:01:42.280 Welcome back to the show. We've been doing Q and 0:01:42.319 --> 0:01:45.360 A shows the last three weeks. So the first time 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:47.960 we did it in the month of May was you 0:01:48.040 --> 0:01:51.200 asked me, then me asking you with a weird sort 0:01:51.240 --> 0:01:55.400 of role playing Ben too wonderful. And then last week 0:01:55.440 --> 0:02:00.000 we had questions from the verboler hood out there today, Well, 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:02.640 we're doing is going back to an old concept and 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:04.440 by old I mean a year old. We did it 0:02:04.480 --> 0:02:05.400 once previously. 0:02:06.040 --> 0:02:07.160 Can we change the name? 0:02:07.720 --> 0:02:09.720 We can absolutely change the name, But let me give 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:13.040 some parent text for where we're headed with this. Last 0:02:13.120 --> 0:02:15.160 year the show that we did it may have been 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:18.120 the first week of June. If I recall we called it, 0:02:18.160 --> 0:02:21.760 Are we sure that dot dot dot? And the whole 0:02:21.760 --> 0:02:24.280 premise behind it is you and I are going to 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:28.320 take some college football topics, ones that really play into 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:31.560 conventional wisdom, and we're going to challenge those beliefs. We're 0:02:31.560 --> 0:02:34.160 going to stress test them a little bit and see 0:02:34.200 --> 0:02:36.760 if for sure it is something that we are sure 0:02:36.800 --> 0:02:39.600 of or not. Now, the show last year was titled 0:02:39.639 --> 0:02:43.040 are We Sure That? And you expressed an interest a 0:02:43.040 --> 0:02:45.240 couple days ago and now again just a few seconds 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:48.120 ago to change the name to something else. 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:52.360 Is it's apparently like a Bill Simmons phrase, And I 0:02:52.360 --> 0:02:55.720 mean he uses it. He didn't invent it, for sure. 0:02:55.720 --> 0:02:57.480 There are other people who have used that. 0:02:57.720 --> 0:02:59.800 Yeah, I don't know. I mean, we could pump the brakes, 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:03.880 pump the brakes. It could be college football ish with 0:03:04.720 --> 0:03:09.280 after further review or upon further consideration, or I kind 0:03:09.280 --> 0:03:10.239 of like pumping the brakes. 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:12.800 I love pump the brakes. I use that four times 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:13.360 a day. 0:03:13.720 --> 0:03:18.760 And we can. Yeah, you probably are PhD level with 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:20.000 your corporate lingo. 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:21.320 Oh yeah, buddy, you are. 0:03:21.680 --> 0:03:24.880 What was the one you told me yesterday? Blocking and tackling, 0:03:25.120 --> 0:03:26.239 Blocking and tackling? 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:29.720 What is that? It refers to the mundane elements of 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:32.800 corporate life, the busy work, the seat work, if you will. 0:03:33.280 --> 0:03:38.160 So paperwork, calls, conference calls, meetings blocking you have to 0:03:38.200 --> 0:03:40.640 be through. Never heard it. I had to ask somebody 0:03:40.640 --> 0:03:43.000 the first time I heard brass tacks. Let's get down 0:03:43.000 --> 0:03:44.840 to brass tacks, like, I don't where are we going. 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:47.400 We can go offline, we can go soup to nuts, 0:03:47.400 --> 0:03:49.600 we can go thirty thousand foot view whatever you want 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:49.840 to do? 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:53.800 Should we do an entire episode? Like right before we begin, 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:55.520 I don't know how we're going to preview this year. 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:57.400 I think we should mix it up. Should we just 0:03:57.560 --> 0:04:01.960 preview the big ten as if we are in a 0:04:02.000 --> 0:04:03.200 Monday morning meeting? 0:04:03.400 --> 0:04:04.600 I could absolutely do that. 0:04:05.920 --> 0:04:08.800 Okay, so let's pump some brakes and actually determine whether 0:04:08.840 --> 0:04:10.600 or not we should just hit the gas. You know, 0:04:10.640 --> 0:04:13.480 perhaps righting the brakes is not the move. It's the 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:16.200 off season, so there's a lot of stop and start. 0:04:16.520 --> 0:04:19.120 You have news, you have spring ball, you have recruiting 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:22.080 and signing day, and coaches moving around, so there is 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:24.280 there is action, but then there's no action, so there's 0:04:24.279 --> 0:04:26.800 a lot of break pumping. Anyway, orb myyer announces he's 0:04:26.839 --> 0:04:28.920 the coach and waiting at us. See, there's all of 0:04:28.920 --> 0:04:33.080 those stories coming and going, So I like pump the brakes. 0:04:33.400 --> 0:04:36.280 So here's the only issue with this. Yeah, and we 0:04:36.279 --> 0:04:38.919 should explain what this actually is. We will explain what 0:04:38.960 --> 0:04:39.240 this is. 0:04:39.520 --> 0:04:43.440 I had my hypothetical sound all cute up and ready 0:04:43.480 --> 0:04:45.960 to go. I don't know if you can get me 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:49.880 a break screeching sound while I'm doing some of our 0:04:49.920 --> 0:04:52.200 setup here on tonight's podcast. If you could put that 0:04:52.240 --> 0:04:53.240 in the little bit just box. 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:55.279 Hold in the in the back of your mind thing 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:57.280 to yourself. Should we be pumping the brakes? 0:04:57.600 --> 0:05:01.880 No, I'm saying I need Oh you want audio element? Okay, 0:05:02.000 --> 0:05:04.080 tonight's show. If you could find that, put it in 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:05.760 the folder. I'll see if I can spin it up. 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:07.000 Need it in a wave, though. 0:05:06.920 --> 0:05:08.839 Dan, you need it in a wave? 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Once 0:06:52.480 --> 0:06:54.120 we get a little closer to the start of the 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:57.080 college football season, we'll switch it up from once week 0:06:57.320 --> 0:06:59.080 to twice a week, just to make sure you get 0:06:59.160 --> 0:07:02.080 bare minimum a week, bare minimum twice a week to 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:04.200 be fair, just to make sure that you've got enough 0:07:04.200 --> 0:07:07.440 college football content flowing through those ears. 0:07:08.240 --> 0:07:11.880 Oh, thank god, check the check the dropbox, check the 0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:13.360 drop box. Okay, yeah, well. 0:07:14.840 --> 0:07:16.680 Why don't you Yes, let me explain this work up 0:07:16.680 --> 0:07:17.400 our first topic. 0:07:17.880 --> 0:07:21.000 So over the course of the offseason, there's just a 0:07:21.040 --> 0:07:26.000 ton of college football conventional wisdom, like, for instance, saturdays 0:07:26.080 --> 0:07:28.960 are amazing. I don't think I can question that that 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:32.000 is something that we have accepted as fact or near fact. 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:36.240 What we're doing today with today's exercise is saying, is 0:07:36.280 --> 0:07:39.040 this true though, this is what we've sort of accepted 0:07:39.080 --> 0:07:43.160 to be the universal college football truth narrative wise, player wise, 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:47.560 program wise, But should we take a moment and question it? 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:51.000 As the college football scientists we are. Isn't it true 0:07:51.000 --> 0:07:53.200 that if you're supposed to get a PhD you have 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:57.240 to defend your dissertation, right, mm hmm. You submit it 0:07:57.320 --> 0:07:59.440 and then it's questioned by your peers and you have 0:07:59.480 --> 0:08:03.080 to defend it. Or if you're doing some sort of experiment, 0:08:03.280 --> 0:08:06.720 it has to be blind, you know, double blind. Whatever 0:08:06.760 --> 0:08:09.600 it is, there has to be an element of challenging. 0:08:09.840 --> 0:08:12.120 I probably used the blind determine correctly, but there has 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:15.120 to be you know, you have to redo your experiment 0:08:15.120 --> 0:08:16.640 to see if you can get the same results over 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:19.000 and over again. So there's an element of questioning things. 0:08:19.320 --> 0:08:22.560 That's what we're doing here today as college football scientists. 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:24.920 Does the sound load and is it good to go? 0:08:24.960 --> 0:08:28.160 I've got it. So the very first topic we have here, Yeah, 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:33.240 do we want to pump the brakes? That's pretty good, right, 0:08:33.280 --> 0:08:34.040 that's good. I like it. 0:08:34.400 --> 0:08:35.040 Yeah. 0:08:35.080 --> 0:08:39.080 On the idea that Manny diaz Oh was the right 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:43.680 hire for the Miami Hurricanes, Now, okay, this was a 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:46.800 pretty big story. Give me the case for this is 0:08:46.800 --> 0:08:50.040 a pretty big story. So the case for many das 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:53.280 is that he's got a familiarity with the area, right, 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:56.480 He's he's from absolutely. Miami didn't go to Miami, went 0:08:56.520 --> 0:08:59.520 to Florida State, but he's a Miami guy. He was 0:08:59.559 --> 0:09:03.480 coaching the very recently. Is a defensive coordinator under Mark Richt. 0:09:04.400 --> 0:09:08.079 Was actually hired to be a head coach at Temple. 0:09:08.760 --> 0:09:11.320 Only had that chod for about three weeks before Mark 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:15.920 Richt retired from Miami and the Canes hired him back. 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:19.520 He's got a ton of experience as a defensive coordinator, 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:21.720 has been a DC for about thirteen years. Has had 0:09:21.720 --> 0:09:25.000 a bunch of stops along the ways Missippi State. Sure, 0:09:25.080 --> 0:09:28.480 so people know many Diaz. He's long been thought of 0:09:29.000 --> 0:09:31.320 as a very bright young mind in the sport of 0:09:31.360 --> 0:09:33.880 college football, has got a lot of passion, is seen 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:36.920 as a very good recruiter. There's a lot to like there. 0:09:37.520 --> 0:09:40.280 That is the case for. The case against is that 0:09:40.320 --> 0:09:43.280 he's never been a head coach before, and the case 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:46.480 against is certainly that Many Diaz is stepping into a 0:09:46.520 --> 0:09:50.160 situation where Miami. I know we've joked about losing the swagger, 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:53.720 but Miami is not what Miami used to be, and. 0:09:54.400 --> 0:09:59.600 That might go number one overall fantasy things wise, Miami 0:09:59.640 --> 0:10:04.320 losing swagger. If you are Ty Kuiper, Junior or Ty McShay. 0:10:05.400 --> 0:10:10.080 And you are projecting out Miami trying to find its 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:14.760 lost swagger or swag? Are you? Is it a top 0:10:14.800 --> 0:10:17.320 four pick so one of our first two picks each. 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:20.840 Do you think it's more of a reach because whatever 0:10:20.880 --> 0:10:24.520 happens during the season happens, and that adjusts the storyline 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:26.760 of trying to recapture the swag. It might be more 0:10:26.760 --> 0:10:30.120 of an off season fantasy thing. I love that so much, 0:10:30.240 --> 0:10:34.000 Oh my god, because and well, we'll put this online. 0:10:34.000 --> 0:10:35.920 We'll put it on Twitter. Our dear, dear friend Bruce 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:38.400 Felbn wrote a story about Manny Diaz trying to recapture 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:43.240 the lost Miami swag. And I did the research, and 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:46.720 you could argue that Miami has been swagless more often 0:10:46.760 --> 0:10:50.199 than it has been swag full. And you can look 0:10:50.240 --> 0:10:53.880 if you look up Al Golden or Randy Shannon or 0:10:53.920 --> 0:10:57.480 Mark Richt or Butch Dave. You just keep going back. 0:10:57.520 --> 0:10:59.040 They're all trying to capture the swag. 0:10:59.520 --> 0:11:02.920 And you look and interviews with recruits and it's just like, 0:11:03.040 --> 0:11:06.559 we're going to bring that swag back. There is more 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:11.640 attempting to bring swag back in Coral Gables than there 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:15.240 is than there are days filled with swag, right and 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:17.720 by limited research. By the way, that's what I have. 0:11:17.840 --> 0:11:20.280 When we say swag, we mean swagger for the people 0:11:20.280 --> 0:11:22.120 out there who will call us on it. But you 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:25.360 get the gist of what we're saying. That is the 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:29.160 case both for and against Manny Diaz. Dan, how do you? 0:11:29.200 --> 0:11:31.559 How do you feel about this hire? Just from a 0:11:31.679 --> 0:11:33.440 thirty thousand foot you if you will. 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:36.319 I haven't thought about it a lot. But it's an 0:11:36.360 --> 0:11:40.720 interesting time for Miami since Florida is still undergoing changes 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:43.160 Florida state, you know, not a super hot start to 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:46.080 Willie Taggart in terms of raising the profile of the 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:50.000 brand in the state of Florida. Uh, the ACC has 0:11:50.120 --> 0:11:53.760 one clear major power. So it is a good time 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:57.360 to not be, you know, in a c full of 0:11:57.720 --> 0:12:03.040 really destructive forces. And so I like the timing. I 0:12:03.120 --> 0:12:05.360 like Manny Diaz. I think he's bright, I think he'll 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:09.000 recruit pretty well. I'm curious to see what happens in 0:12:09.040 --> 0:12:11.200 the short term at quarterback. I don't think Tate Martell 0:12:11.320 --> 0:12:14.280 is going to be necessarily the answer, and that has 0:12:14.400 --> 0:12:18.120 really been what has dogged Miami recently is getting two 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:21.040 three good games from somebody whoever it is Malik Rogier 0:12:21.080 --> 0:12:26.320 most recently, and then it going sideways. And so quarterback 0:12:26.360 --> 0:12:27.719 to me is a huge deal. And I know it's 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:30.640 more difficult to find really good quarterbacks in Florida because 0:12:30.640 --> 0:12:33.400 of the level of defensive competition in high school. Hard 0:12:33.400 --> 0:12:36.439 to develop in Florida. So that's why Miami has gone. 0:12:36.600 --> 0:12:38.600 You know, Brad Kaye is from like right by where 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:40.679 my parents are in southern California. That's why they have 0:12:40.800 --> 0:12:42.600 to go out of state. So I think there are 0:12:42.760 --> 0:12:46.200 challenges with that job that are not obvious and people 0:12:46.280 --> 0:12:48.280 just think, oh, South Florida, they'll load up with talent, 0:12:48.320 --> 0:12:51.720 it'll be great. Maybe it's a for sure winnable division 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:55.560 given where those teams are at. But my only real 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:59.319 question is is he in the back of his mind 0:12:59.800 --> 0:13:04.000 orized on a daily, hourly, every minute basis, you know, 0:13:04.000 --> 0:13:06.160 knowing what's going on in the program, having a vision 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:10.360 Because to me, saying he's from Miami, he gets it. 0:13:10.640 --> 0:13:13.800 Ye see, That's that's where I was gonna go with this. 0:13:13.960 --> 0:13:15.800 That's why I'm pumping the brakes on this. 0:13:15.960 --> 0:13:19.160 You know, it feels too much sister USC schoolish to 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:22.600 me at that I'm worried about that angle, which doesn't 0:13:22.600 --> 0:13:26.520 necessarily mean he will fail, but it means he has 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:29.720 to outgrow that angle, getting. 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:33.160 The guy who knows the culture. The whole welcome home 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:35.680 thing that I know we've had fun with in the past. 0:13:35.840 --> 0:13:38.480 Mark Rick just was welcomed home, and it was just 0:13:38.559 --> 0:13:42.480 welcoming home, and Scott Frost was welcomed home, and they 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:43.920 tried to welcome Harbor. 0:13:44.080 --> 0:13:48.040 Yeah, Jeff Bram home to live like. I get the angle. 0:13:48.520 --> 0:13:51.760 I understand why bringing Jim Harbaugh home to Michigan's a 0:13:51.760 --> 0:13:55.079 big deal and that Super Bowl coach different to the alumni, right, 0:13:55.080 --> 0:13:58.720 I get that whole angle. There is definitely a place 0:13:58.840 --> 0:14:03.480 for it. But I think it's overrated. I realized why 0:14:04.200 --> 0:14:06.440 really overrated. I didn't used to feel that way, but 0:14:06.440 --> 0:14:08.199 then I did the show for twelve years, and now 0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:12.720 I really feel like it's an overrated quality that a 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:14.640 lot of fans latch onto when it comes to head 0:14:14.640 --> 0:14:18.280 football coach. I like Mandy Diaz. I think he's forward thinking. 0:14:18.920 --> 0:14:23.080 He's certainly not rooted to any like old school mentality 0:14:23.080 --> 0:14:24.800 when it comes to coaching the football team, but we 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:26.920 still don't really know what he is. He's very much 0:14:26.960 --> 0:14:29.640 an unknown quantity. Some of his stops as a defensive 0:14:29.640 --> 0:14:32.680 coordinator have gone better than others, so his stock has 0:14:32.720 --> 0:14:35.040 sort of risen and fallen over the course of time here, 0:14:35.040 --> 0:14:38.360 over like the last decade or so. I'm pumping the 0:14:38.360 --> 0:14:40.760 brakes on this just because we don't know a lot 0:14:40.760 --> 0:14:43.760 about what that team is going to look like. We 0:14:43.760 --> 0:14:45.080 don't know if he's going to be able to bring 0:14:45.080 --> 0:14:47.560 that swagger back. We know he's got a passion for 0:14:47.640 --> 0:14:50.680 that area of Florida and certainly for the school that 0:14:50.800 --> 0:14:52.880 is Miami. I think his father was the mayor of 0:14:52.920 --> 0:14:55.920 my or something like that. There's a lot of familiarity there. 0:14:55.920 --> 0:14:58.280 But that, by the way, I believe, and I'm confirming 0:14:58.280 --> 0:15:01.400 this as we speak. I believe both Butch Davis and 0:15:01.880 --> 0:15:06.000 Jimmy Johnson went to Arkansas. Yeah, so it's are like 0:15:06.280 --> 0:15:08.560 their coaching careers, a lot of it took place in 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:10.560 Texas and Oklahoma, and they're. 0:15:10.400 --> 0:15:13.440 On rushmore in quarrel rifles, So you don't need to 0:15:13.480 --> 0:15:18.800 be from there. Miami Building winner Dennis Erickson definitely isn't. Yeah, 0:15:18.920 --> 0:15:21.480 let's pump the brake on many das. I hope it works. 0:15:21.880 --> 0:15:25.080 College football is more interesting when Miami is interesting and 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:28.760 I would love, truly if somebody could bring the swagger back, 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:31.480 but he's just so much of an unknown quantity at 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:34.240 this point. I think. Given here's what I will say, 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:37.160 Given the fact that it broke down with Mark Richt 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:40.320 as late as it did in the coaching carousel, the 0:15:40.360 --> 0:15:42.000 fact that they were able to go out and get 0:15:42.040 --> 0:15:44.760 Manny Diaz away from Temple was a coup in that sense. 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:48.040 It was absolutely the correct, the right move. Who else 0:15:48.080 --> 0:15:49.560 are you going to get at that juncture. It's a 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:51.400 tough spot to put any program in. 0:15:51.960 --> 0:15:55.280 Here's the other thing that I think can be both 0:15:55.400 --> 0:15:59.960 over and understated. Miami just hired a new Temple coach. 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:04.880 Like if you get rid of the connections, right, they 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:09.040 don't pipeline. No, no, no, I'm not referring to al Gold. 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:12.280 That's not what I'm talking about. Oh okay, Think about 0:16:12.920 --> 0:16:15.960 a group of five school who has had some success 0:16:16.960 --> 0:16:21.440 and they hire a new coach whatever. Like I don't 0:16:21.480 --> 0:16:23.560 know what example I could give right now, Like, who 0:16:23.600 --> 0:16:26.640 is a decent group of five school that just hired 0:16:26.720 --> 0:16:29.800 an up and comer that has had decent success. I'll 0:16:29.840 --> 0:16:31.320 give it some thought, or you can give it some thought. 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:34.960 As I'm talking, it was plain a day that Manny 0:16:35.000 --> 0:16:37.400 Diaz has worked up to the point where, yes, he 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:39.840 should be given a shot as a head coach on 0:16:39.880 --> 0:16:44.160 a somewhat major college football level. And it made sense. Oh, Temple, Holde, 0:16:44.320 --> 0:16:48.360 Temple hired Manny Diaz. He is that made sense to everybody. 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:53.960 He was a new Temple level head coach who has 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:59.960 suddenly without coaching, jumped up a pretty significant deal. 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:00.480 Yeah. 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:06.520 Right, And so that to me is curious that this 0:17:06.600 --> 0:17:09.600 might be too big a leap too quickly, and that 0:17:09.720 --> 0:17:11.760 we might look back and maybe he'll have a great 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:13.720 if he doesn't work out in Miami, he'll have a 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:16.200 great you know, second stage of his career, and he'll 0:17:16.240 --> 0:17:18.199 look back and say, you know what, I don't know 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:20.600 if I was ready for it in that moment, Like 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:22.560 it would have been nice to get two three years 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:24.960 of reps at a group of five, So thin Eli 0:17:25.040 --> 0:17:30.240 Drinkwitz kind of thing, Yes, yes, and I don't know. 0:17:30.560 --> 0:17:32.560 I mean many Diaz has been a little bit more 0:17:32.680 --> 0:17:35.720 high profile at Texas and Mississippi State in Miami, so 0:17:35.760 --> 0:17:39.919 he has higher level experience. Yeah, but yes, if Eli 0:17:40.000 --> 0:17:43.040 Drinkwitz was hired at app State, and then all of 0:17:43.080 --> 0:17:46.399 the sudden Washington State, if Mike Leach had left with like, 0:17:46.440 --> 0:17:49.680 oh we really want Eli Drinkwitz like oh wow, that's 0:17:50.119 --> 0:17:53.720 but okay, hop hop and that that might be something 0:17:53.760 --> 0:17:54.639 that comes into play. 0:17:54.920 --> 0:17:58.399 All right, let's move on. Let's go over to another one. 0:17:58.880 --> 0:18:01.720 I'm not pumping brakes, but I am going through the 0:18:01.800 --> 0:18:02.679 yellow cautiously. 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:09.320 Are we pumping the brakes on Jalen Hurts fitting in 0:18:09.400 --> 0:18:14.399 at Oklahoma? Now, Okay, if we must rehash this for 0:18:14.480 --> 0:18:17.800 the kind folks, the smart folks that certainly listen to 0:18:17.880 --> 0:18:24.080 the show, Jalen Hurts is transferring over from Alabama. He 0:18:24.200 --> 0:18:28.280 went twenty six and two in an Alabama uniform as 0:18:28.359 --> 0:18:33.320 starting quarterback, albeit running a much much different offense. Certainly, 0:18:33.400 --> 0:18:36.000 as we saw with Kyler Murray last year, and as 0:18:36.040 --> 0:18:40.080 we saw that Oklahoma program ramp up on offense under 0:18:40.119 --> 0:18:42.919 Lincoln Riley, there's no shortage of playmakers. The question for 0:18:42.960 --> 0:18:45.360 them will be along the line this year they lose 0:18:45.359 --> 0:18:49.320 a bunch of guys, right, we did ask I believe 0:18:49.320 --> 0:18:53.000 in this very same show, virtually the same question about 0:18:53.080 --> 0:18:56.879 Kyler Murray in twenty eighteen, sort of that we're asking 0:18:56.880 --> 0:19:00.760 about Jalen Hurts now at Oklahoma, the fit is it 0:19:00.840 --> 0:19:04.080 worth the emotional energy? Where do you come down on 0:19:04.119 --> 0:19:04.680 Jalen Hurts? 0:19:06.480 --> 0:19:09.520 So I can very clearly see a world in which 0:19:09.520 --> 0:19:15.520 he succeeds pretty electrically. But the nagging thing to me 0:19:15.800 --> 0:19:18.640 is Kyler Murray, who we had in this position last year. 0:19:18.920 --> 0:19:23.000 Kyler Murray had time years plural in Lincoln Riley's system, 0:19:23.320 --> 0:19:27.879 mental reps, practices, film whatever, Baker Mayfield years and it 0:19:28.040 --> 0:19:30.800 was already at Texas Tech in a very not similar 0:19:30.920 --> 0:19:35.600 but you know, there are similarities system, whereas what Jalen 0:19:35.640 --> 0:19:38.959 Hurts is used to doing offensively can be pretty different 0:19:39.040 --> 0:19:41.879 than what Oklahoma has done. Not to say Oklahoma won't 0:19:42.080 --> 0:19:46.680 fit their offense to take advantage of his dual threat strengths, 0:19:47.119 --> 0:19:51.040 but that has me curious since the record is not 0:19:51.320 --> 0:19:55.119 great of quarterbacks immediately jumping into a system as a 0:19:55.160 --> 0:19:59.119 grad transfer and succeeding. Now, there aren't always quarterbacks who 0:19:59.160 --> 0:20:01.359 have been as successful as Jalen Hurts making that move. 0:20:01.800 --> 0:20:04.119 So I understand that and the fact that Oklahoma's a 0:20:04.119 --> 0:20:08.879 Heisman factory, but the lack of time, the lack of comforts, 0:20:09.560 --> 0:20:13.320 it is worrisome because there were certain advantages that Jalen 0:20:13.400 --> 0:20:17.440 Hurts enjoyed with Alabama's defense and didn't have to score 0:20:17.440 --> 0:20:19.760 a ton of points to put together a twenty six 0:20:19.800 --> 0:20:23.240 and two record, right. No, Oklahoma's defense got to score 0:20:23.240 --> 0:20:25.879 a little more than what the threshold is at Alabama, 0:20:26.320 --> 0:20:29.080 and he will have playmakers, as you have noted. But 0:20:30.680 --> 0:20:35.160 I am far less sure. And I was not terrifically 0:20:35.200 --> 0:20:37.480 sure of Kyler Murray last year. I'm far less sure 0:20:37.760 --> 0:20:40.199 about Jalen Hurts because of what we saw him do 0:20:40.880 --> 0:20:43.280 in the biggest games for Alabama. Even when he won, 0:20:44.119 --> 0:20:46.199 it was not always the prettiest thing. And I have 0:20:46.280 --> 0:20:49.760 it up right here. Jalen Hurts was the twenty ninth 0:20:49.800 --> 0:20:53.639 best quarterback in twenty seventeen against ranked teams with yards 0:20:53.640 --> 0:20:56.119