WEBVTT - New Year's Day Bowl Recaps 0:00:02.040 --> 0:00:06.880 Welcome to the solid Verbal. I'm that for me. I'm 0:00:06.920 --> 0:00:09.719 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 --> 0:00:13.000 for Dake Edith State. 0:00:13.360 --> 0:00:19.480 Is that woo whoom? And Dan and Tye welcome back 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:22.000 to the Solid Verbal, Boys and girls. My name is 0:00:22.040 --> 0:00:25.480 ty hilden Brandt, joining me as always over there in 0:00:25.600 --> 0:00:28.800 beautiful New York City, my good friend and co host, 0:00:28.960 --> 0:00:30.440 the one the only Dan Rubinstein. 0:00:30.520 --> 0:00:35.639 Sir, how are you unlike our friends Tye in Athens, Georgia. 0:00:36.520 --> 0:00:40.600 I have shown up ready, okay, and prepared for duty 0:00:41.000 --> 0:00:42.959 and success? How about that? 0:00:43.400 --> 0:00:46.240 Yeah, it was an impressive performance before the committee. I 0:00:46.280 --> 0:00:47.320 hope they like what they saw. 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:51.400 You know what it really was Tie to me, and 0:00:51.440 --> 0:00:53.520 I'm sure you felt this too, as as a Notre 0:00:53.600 --> 0:00:57.400 Dame fan, feeling people just beating down that that storyline 0:00:57.440 --> 0:01:01.160 of Notre Dame not belonging at the very end of 0:01:01.400 --> 0:01:03.160 what was it, the final Lord of the Rings where 0:01:03.200 --> 0:01:09.640 the eagle soars in carrying our clan to the rescue, 0:01:10.160 --> 0:01:15.960 in comes Georgia's complete sloppiness and inattention to any sort 0:01:16.000 --> 0:01:19.840 of detail. To take some of that pressure off of 0:01:20.160 --> 0:01:21.520 the faithful Irish. 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:24.760 Yeah, it was definitely a lifeline. I didn't get my 0:01:24.920 --> 0:01:28.240 full wish with Ohio State losing as well. Yeah, fair, 0:01:28.480 --> 0:01:31.160 But we'll talk about that game in addition to the 0:01:31.160 --> 0:01:33.520 Georgia game, in addition to a bunch of other games 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:36.319 that we haven't had a chance to recap. Hello on Tye, 0:01:36.440 --> 0:01:39.360 He's Dan. We are the solid verbal We're going to 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:42.560 be continuing all throughout the off season. We've got one 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:45.800 game left that we're going to preview tomorrow, so stay 0:01:45.840 --> 0:01:49.640 tuned your podcast feed Thursday evening at some point where 0:01:49.680 --> 0:01:52.440 we'll drop that official preview show, and then of course 0:01:52.440 --> 0:01:55.640 we'll recap at some point early on Tuesday after the 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:59.720 game between Clemson and Alabama actually takes place. Today. Though 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:03.120 we've got recaps, we've got some college football news, which 0:02:03.120 --> 0:02:07.000 of course dropped right after we hit the stop button 0:02:07.880 --> 0:02:10.440 on our last show when we went through some other 0:02:10.639 --> 0:02:14.600 Bowl action. We'll talk about that big news from Miami 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:18.920 as of Sunday here momentarily. But yeah, just a nice 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:21.160 casual dress Wednesday show here. 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:22.840 One more game, that's all we have. 0:02:23.400 --> 0:02:24.400 We are game after this. 0:02:24.560 --> 0:02:29.320 Yeah, officially passed multiple games on the same day that 0:02:29.639 --> 0:02:33.520 portion of the college football season with the final gun 0:02:33.720 --> 0:02:37.480 of Georgia Texas. Here we are. 0:02:37.520 --> 0:02:41.240 We feel pretty good. Here we are, Dan, let's do this. 0:02:41.680 --> 0:02:43.880 Okay. 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:51.240 On Sunday we had p So it came out of 0:02:51.440 --> 0:02:58.200 left field that Mark Richt was retiring, effective immediately as 0:02:58.280 --> 0:03:01.200 head football coach of the my Miami Hurricanes. This set 0:03:01.240 --> 0:03:04.400 off a bit of a firestorm because again it came 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:07.160 sort of out of nowhere. Granted, the season didn't go 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:10.280 as expected for the Miami Hurricanes, but I don't know 0:03:10.280 --> 0:03:12.480 if anyone quite expected that Rick was just going to 0:03:12.600 --> 0:03:16.760 up and leave the job as expected. In light of 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:20.760 this sudden announcement, there was a lot of speculation right 0:03:20.800 --> 0:03:23.880 away as to who the next coach might be. Bruce Feldman, 0:03:23.880 --> 0:03:27.120 our friend Bruce was tweeting out about all sorts of names. 0:03:27.919 --> 0:03:32.840 Well and behold. By evening, it ends up being Manny Diaz. Now, 0:03:32.880 --> 0:03:36.600 Manny Diaz was the defensive coordinator for the Miami Hurricanes, 0:03:36.600 --> 0:03:40.840 a native son of the greater Miami area, but he 0:03:40.960 --> 0:03:44.800 had just agreed to be head football coach at Temple. 0:03:45.280 --> 0:03:48.720 Miami acts quickly. They bring Manny Diaz back from the 0:03:48.720 --> 0:03:51.360 brink of the City of Brotherly Love. 0:03:51.520 --> 0:03:53.720 Back from the brink, like he was about to be 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:56.080 shoved into a pool of magma. 0:03:56.200 --> 0:03:59.240 It's a little colder up there up here, I should say. Yeah, 0:04:00.440 --> 0:04:02.080 as it stands, Many Diaz is going to be your 0:04:02.080 --> 0:04:04.000 new head footbook coach at Miami. How do you grade 0:04:04.000 --> 0:04:04.360 the hire? 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:09.880 I like it. It's interesting to me, and I do 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:13.360 appreciate the fact that they moved swiftly, and Many Diaz, 0:04:13.400 --> 0:04:16.320 I'm sure had a moment of here is this opportunity 0:04:16.400 --> 0:04:19.359 facing me, and not unlike what happened I suppose with 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:22.760 Willie Taggart in Florida State, except that he didn't even 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:26.200 spend a full year or month at a new gig, 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:28.960 just a matter of weeks. And so if he were 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:31.640 going to make that move, you got to make it immediately. 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:34.159 And he did he, you know, to his credit, I 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:37.160 guess he ripped that band aid off and didn't let 0:04:37.200 --> 0:04:39.719 it get too far down the road and didn't let 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:43.920 Miami start talking to other people if they indeed offered 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:46.919 him upon the actual conversation they had with him, the 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:49.720 timing was terrible. Obviously, it would have been nice for 0:04:49.800 --> 0:04:52.760 Markreek to retire, I don't know, a month ago, it 0:04:52.800 --> 0:04:56.960 would have been super good. I had my slight reflexive 0:04:57.000 --> 0:05:01.560 panic attack when Mario Christobaul's name started being thrown into 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:05.120 the mix, obviously as an alumnus and somebody who's recruited 0:05:05.160 --> 0:05:07.880 super well and has all sorts of connections to South Florida. 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:11.479 Not because I'm positive he is going to succeed and 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:15.760 am fully encouraged by what I've seen, but four coaches 0:05:15.760 --> 0:05:19.719 in four years ain't for me. Time No, not my 0:05:20.000 --> 0:05:24.600 favorite thing. So I in terms of many Diaz specifically, 0:05:25.760 --> 0:05:29.599 he's on the younger side, he has energized, He's familiar, 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:34.080 he is considered to be very intelligent and connected. He's 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:36.520 you know, coached all over the place now. I think 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:39.320 he was NC State, Florida State as a GA, and 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:42.520 then Mississippi State and Texas most notably before coming back. 0:05:42.880 --> 0:05:45.840 So he checks a lot of boxes, both culturally and 0:05:46.000 --> 0:05:50.480 experience wise. I do have a kind of a question here, 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:53.560 what has been the big criticism over the years about 0:05:53.880 --> 0:05:55.599 the USC hiring process. 0:05:56.839 --> 0:06:00.720 I think the USC hiring process has tended to go 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:05.640 for almost the easy name. In what way they've gone 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:06.640 for the flashy hire. 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:08.960 Well, they've gone for the flashy higher and they've gone. 0:06:08.880 --> 0:06:11.520 For a USC guy the USC guy. 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:15.599 Sure, somebody connected to the program that understands how things 0:06:15.680 --> 0:06:20.800 work at USC. And we've made this connection before private school, 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:23.880 you know, having this sort of storied history of that. 0:06:24.000 --> 0:06:28.560 Miami and USC are like weird college football cousins. Miami's 0:06:28.600 --> 0:06:33.200 doing this, Miami's doing the USC thing, and it's fine 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:36.880 if it works. But you know, with Mark Rick's connection 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:41.520 with previous coaches, connections with Brandy Shannon, with Coker, which 0:06:41.560 --> 0:06:44.920 is understandable, they're going with Miami guys. 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:47.359 Yeah, I mean he's so, he's a Miami guy because 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:50.520 he was. He was born there. He didn't go to Miami. 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:53.400 He's a floor he did think guy technically, yes, but 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:56.240 he's native to the area. He knows the area. As 0:06:56.240 --> 0:06:58.080 with a lot of guys from the area of a 0:06:58.120 --> 0:07:00.960 big school. They want the job, Manny Deez one of 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:02.960 the job. He's leaving the Temple job, which you just 0:07:03.000 --> 0:07:06.520 barely started to take over. I think he struck a 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:09.440 really good note right off the bat. It wasn't unexpected 0:07:09.440 --> 0:07:13.080 that he would dismiss basically the entire offensive staff as 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:17.120 well as the strength coach to kind of set down 0:07:17.160 --> 0:07:19.880 a precedent for where he's looking to go. He's on 0:07:19.960 --> 0:07:22.200 the record now saying you got to get better quarterback play, 0:07:22.200 --> 0:07:25.320 which duh. We know that he's a name that is 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:28.960 not unfamiliar to us because Manny Diaz has been playing 0:07:28.960 --> 0:07:31.920 in the Bill Connolly circles, I'll say for quite some time. 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:33.760 He's one of the few coaches who's gone on the 0:07:33.800 --> 0:07:37.680 record as embracing the analytics movement in college football. So 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:40.160 he's kind of a darling of at least that wing 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:43.360 of the sport. But you know, here's what I don't like. 0:07:43.640 --> 0:07:45.440 We don't know anything about whether he can run a 0:07:45.440 --> 0:07:49.680 program this big until sure, like a few days ago, 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:52.800 Temple was the big job for Manny Diaz. It's a 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:55.960 pretty big upgrade to go from Temple to Miami. The 0:07:56.000 --> 0:07:58.880 reverse al Golden I think, as you said, reverse reverse 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:02.280 al golden, these reverse al Golden. So yeah, I mean, 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:05.120 I like Manny Diaz. I think he's shown a ton 0:08:05.120 --> 0:08:07.800 of promise everywhere he's been. Didn't go great at Texas, 0:08:07.840 --> 0:08:10.360 but we'll forget about that for now. We just don't 0:08:10.360 --> 0:08:12.120 know a whole lot about how he's going to do 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:13.440 running a program on his own. 0:08:14.080 --> 0:08:17.119 Yeah, and I think the being impressed with the hire 0:08:17.200 --> 0:08:22.280 immediately that feeling is crazy overrated. Because Mark Rick goes 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:25.239 to Miami, everybody is crazy impressed. And yes, he takes 0:08:25.240 --> 0:08:27.920 them to a big Bowl game last year. But in 0:08:28.000 --> 0:08:31.360 terms of four or five years of Mark Richt and 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:33.480 maybe something will come out, maybe there's a health element, 0:08:33.520 --> 0:08:36.800 maybe there's just something that it was untenable about Mark 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:41.559 Rick's future. But winning that press conference, winning that tweet 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:46.240 is completely overrated. And if Manny Diaz and Miami are 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:49.040 going to succeed together, it's because he's a good fit 0:08:49.360 --> 0:08:53.240 and because he understands infrastructure and recruiting and assistant hires 0:08:53.880 --> 0:09:00.200 and makes good decisive moves at every turn. That's all 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:00.760 that matters. 0:09:00.880 --> 0:09:02.880 All right. So some other coaching news here that we 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:06.400 do need to get through quickly. Daniel Holgerson to Houston 0:09:06.600 --> 0:09:12.120 is official as of today. Holgerson's a guy with a 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:16.720 familiarity Houston, loves Houston, apparently, and it came as a 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:18.200 bit of a surprise to a lot of folks that 0:09:18.240 --> 0:09:22.120 he would, in their view, downgrade from West Virginia go 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:23.880 into a group of five school. Now you can make 0:09:23.920 --> 0:09:26.240 that argument one way or the other. Maybe we can 0:09:26.280 --> 0:09:30.040 do that here briefly. But he's taking over Houston, which 0:09:30.040 --> 0:09:32.720 I think is a huge coup for the Cougars. Some 0:09:32.760 --> 0:09:36.680 of the names that are reportedly connected to the now 0:09:36.760 --> 0:09:41.600 West Virginia opening your Boy, Neil Brown, Mike Norvell, Fickle, 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:44.880 Mike Leach as a bit of a dark horse. I 0:09:44.920 --> 0:09:47.160 saw Lane Kiffen mentioned as well. I don't know if 0:09:47.160 --> 0:09:51.000 I like that one. Any thoughts here, Dan, Butch Jones 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:53.280 another one, rich Rod coming out of the woodwork. 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:56.360 Yeah, well, rich Rod's just signed with Ole Miss But 0:09:56.400 --> 0:10:00.200 I guess nothing is Nothing's permanence with rich Rod. And 0:10:00.360 --> 0:10:02.320 you know, when you have a head coaching offer, you know, 0:10:02.440 --> 0:10:05.880 potentially maybe small chance on the table. West Virginia is 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:08.320 a good job. West Virginia is a challenging job. Dana 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:11.240 Holgerson clearly recruited very well, and I don't think ever 0:10:11.280 --> 0:10:14.360 had a top twenty five class at West Virginia. Being 0:10:14.760 --> 0:10:18.960 that Morgantown is far far away from Texas and the 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:21.920 sort of recruiting hotbed of the Big twelve. Still a 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:26.880 very good job in just a very strange geographic situation 0:10:27.440 --> 0:10:30.600 relative to the rest of the conference. As for Hulgo 0:10:30.800 --> 0:10:34.480 going to Houston, the P five to G five move 0:10:34.559 --> 0:10:39.439 is rare if never happening. Ever, Houston a crazy attractive 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:42.520 place with all the talent there, with a winnable conference 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:49.000 and a dicey situation with the trigger that what is it, 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:52.720 Tillman for Tita, they like the shadow ad, the shadow pressure, 0:10:52.880 --> 0:10:56.200 whatever it is that the Megabooster getting rid of major 0:10:56.200 --> 0:10:59.200 Apple White after a pretty poor Bowl performance against Army. 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:03.559 It's it's interesting because we figure that Houston's offense should 0:11:03.600 --> 0:11:06.320 be great, they should have a winnable schedule. I looked 0:11:06.360 --> 0:11:09.000 up and put this down here. Their future schedules these 0:11:09.000 --> 0:11:12.520 next three years are schedules that would say, okay, if 0:11:12.559 --> 0:11:16.320 they go undefeated, maybe they are sneaking into a playoff 0:11:16.320 --> 0:11:20.160 conversation more so than UCF. Given the non conference elements. 0:11:20.200 --> 0:11:23.520 They go to Oklahoma and they play Wazoo at NRG. 0:11:23.679 --> 0:11:24.280 What do you call that? 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:27.360 The nerve ner Yes, officially the nerk. Yes. 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:30.199 They do travel to UCF next year in conference, they 0:11:30.200 --> 0:11:33.280 travel to Wazoo in twenty twenty. They host Boise and 0:11:33.360 --> 0:11:35.800 Texas Tech in twenty twenty one and travel to Vandy, 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:39.360 so they will have Power five opponents. We are putting 0:11:39.400 --> 0:11:42.000 the cart way way ahead of the horse here. But 0:11:42.440 --> 0:11:45.680 given Dania Holgrison's success level and a Power five conference, 0:11:46.120 --> 0:11:48.800 it's not crazy to think he should be winning double 0:11:48.800 --> 0:11:52.480 digit plus games at Houston if that's if that's the 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:55.200 very very floor of expectations of him. 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:58.920 Okay, well we'll see what happens with that West Virginia opening. 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:01.920 I don't know, feels to me like it was time. 0:12:02.240 --> 0:12:06.319 Yeah, it apparently had had reached a point in Morgantown 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:10.320 between Dana Holgris and the administration where it was just time. 0:12:10.520 --> 0:12:14.360 As you said, that he wasn't necessarily getting the support 0:12:14.400 --> 0:12:16.600 he wanted. They weren't necessarily happy with the results all 0:12:16.640 --> 0:12:19.320 the time, and sometimes it's just best to part ways. 0:12:19.960 --> 0:12:22.439 Also, I think it's nice the way that it went 0:12:22.520 --> 0:12:24.800 down him leaving for another job as opposed to an 0:12:24.840 --> 0:12:26.880 ugly firing. I don't know. Correctice has sort of a 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:27.760 nicer sheene to. 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:29.120 It's probably the best for everybody. 0:12:29.200 --> 0:12:31.560 Yeah, we'll see where West Virginia goes. The only other 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:35.760 coaching news news that I want to discuss here, and 0:12:35.840 --> 0:12:37.719 trust me, we do have another coaching item that we'll 0:12:37.720 --> 0:12:41.679 get through after we get through the Bowlrycaps, Yeah, featuring 0:12:41.920 --> 0:12:45.400 what we want and only Brian Kelly, but Cliff Kingsbury. Now, 0:12:45.880 --> 0:12:47.560 you know, it was a big to do when he 0:12:47.679 --> 0:12:51.320 was let go by Texas Tech and there was this 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:53.480 whole parade of teams that may or may not be 0:12:53.600 --> 0:12:56.120 interested in his services. He of course signed on with 0:12:56.480 --> 0:12:59.840 USC to be offensive coordinator. The rumors are coming hot 0:12:59.880 --> 0:13:03.080 and heavy that he may be interviewing with the Arizona 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:06.839 Cardinals for their head coaching gig as well as the 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:11.120 New York Football Jets for their head football coach gig Dan. 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:15.320 You wrote down in our note sheet, quote, but why 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:20.959 are you saying? But why from the Cliff Kingsbury perspective? 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:23.199 Or but why from the NFL perspective? 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:29.080 From the NFL perspective. Yeah, there's there's a I think 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:31.199 it was. Was it Ryan Reynolds and Harold and Kumar 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:33.400 who was the surgeon, and like. 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:34.600 But why? 0:13:35.360 --> 0:13:38.800 That's what was going through my head. Cliff Kingsbury appears 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:42.000 to be a very bright offensive mind, but running an 0:13:42.280 --> 0:13:46.120 enormous football franchise when there were elements that he certainly 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:50.439 struggled with at Texas Tech is kind of confounding. It 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:53.760 feels like we're going after the USC offensive coordinator. He 0:13:53.760 --> 0:13:56.719 hasn't coached at USC yet and at Texas Tech. He 0:13:56.840 --> 0:13:59.600 really struggled to put together a defense for many years. 0:14:00.040 --> 0:14:01.800 You know, did the best he could with some quarterback 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:05.520 injuries this year, and certainly has the quarterbacks and the 0:14:05.800 --> 0:14:09.080 tutelage behind him of Patrick Mahomes and Baker Mayfield to 0:14:09.080 --> 0:14:12.319 a lesser extent. But we're missing some pieces here, Ty, 0:14:13.400 --> 0:14:14.840 there needs to be something between. 0:14:15.640 --> 0:14:19.280 I admire the willingness to go out there and make 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:22.440 a splash higher if you're a team like the Cardinals 0:14:22.440 --> 0:14:26.280 of the Jets, I admire that. And certainly Cliff Kingsbury 0:14:26.400 --> 0:14:29.600 is a name that has been trotted about for quite 0:14:29.600 --> 0:14:31.720 some time. He's a creative mind. He can bring an 0:14:31.720 --> 0:14:35.280 electric offense to really wherever he goes. I think all 0:14:35.320 --> 0:14:38.960 that stuff is very, very notable. Yeah, I don't know 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:41.240 if I'm a Jets fan if I want Cliff Kingsbury 0:14:41.280 --> 0:14:42.160 given his track record. 0:14:43.000 --> 0:14:46.480 No, you're weathering. It's not just calling place. It's not 0:14:46.600 --> 0:14:49.480 just diagramming an offense together and putting an offense together. 0:14:49.560 --> 0:14:53.760 It's the full infrastructure and culture. Not that he couldn't 0:14:53.880 --> 0:14:56.320 one day do it or can't can prove us wrong 0:14:56.400 --> 0:14:59.320 right now, But I mean what. 0:14:59.280 --> 0:15:03.720 I would much rather have an NFL retread at this point, like, 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:07.720 give me Josh McDaniels or somebody who's got a little 0:15:07.720 --> 0:15:09.640 bit more of a head coaching resume in the NFL, 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:12.160 given the fact that you've got a brand new quarterback 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:13.120 and Sam, I don't know. 0:15:13.520 --> 0:15:14.600 This is an NFL show. 0:15:14.760 --> 0:15:17.520 Yeah, this is an NFL appreciation show. Is the playoffs? Test? 0:15:18.200 --> 0:15:20.040 I do want to talk about the ball games because 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:22.960 we had to talk a bunch of them that transpired 0:15:23.000 --> 0:15:26.760 on New Year's Eve as well as New Year's Day? 0:15:27.520 --> 0:15:31.080 Which game to you should we start with? Should it 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:31.840 be the Sugar Bowl? 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:37.720 Let's just do cheese a bowl again? More to say, yeah, 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:39.520 you want to talk Sugar. Do you want to talk Rose? 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:40.200 What do you want to do? 0:15:40.280 --> 0:15:42.560 I want to talk about Bevo going after Uga in 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:44.520 the pregame of the Sugar Bowl. 0:15:44.640 --> 0:15:48.440 It was scary in that Bevo, who normally we just 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:53.160 see sort of sitting and pooping and puffing around that 0:15:53.480 --> 0:15:56.960 he was on his feet and energized and saw the 0:15:57.000 --> 0:16:00.760 dog and saw the dog, saw Uga and sort of 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:04.640 made a mad dash, tried to head Buttom. The horns 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:07.800 went down. It was it seemed out of character the guy. 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:11.880 Can you imagine being that photographer in the blue vest 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:16.360 who was getting what he thought was just a beach 0:16:16.400 --> 0:16:20.520 ball of a photo op with and then turn around 0:16:21.800 --> 0:16:25.520 a giant steer, Yeah, bearing down on you. 0:16:25.680 --> 0:16:26.600 That's what he sounded like. 0:16:26.920 --> 0:16:31.440 Yeah, they're going to replay that footage on the Longhorn 0:16:31.480 --> 0:16:33.280 Network for about a hundred years. 0:16:33.360 --> 0:16:36.000 Dan, what I enjoyed about the specific situation is, I 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:39.400 don't know if you've seen the housing for Ralfi the 0:16:39.440 --> 0:16:40.600 Colorado Buffalo. 0:16:40.800 --> 0:16:42.000 Yeah, I believe it's a she. 0:16:42.560 --> 0:16:46.560 Traditionally it's a truck with the cage and confinement, and 0:16:46.640 --> 0:16:49.280 they let her out and they stomp around the field 0:16:49.320 --> 0:16:51.880 and they bring back to the back to the holding 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:54.240 pen kind of situation where it's where it's locked up 0:16:54.240 --> 0:17:02.560 and secure. Bevo a large bowl was apparently confined with canvas. 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:03.800 It looked like cardboard. 0:17:03.880 --> 0:17:10.080 Yeah, a little bit of rope and some flimsy canvas. Okay, 0:17:10.480 --> 0:17:12.480 that's that's one way to do it with a lot 0:17:12.520 --> 0:17:17.160 of people and children and just very very susceptible bulldogs around. 0:17:17.680 --> 0:17:20.600 It was it was a decision, but it got it 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:23.600 was It was a bit of a metaphor ty can 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:24.120 we say that? 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:27.959 Yeah, no, for sure, an omen a bit of an omen, 0:17:28.720 --> 0:17:32.879 your final score here was Texas twenty eight Georgia twenty one. 0:17:33.480 --> 0:17:38.119 In reality, Texas had a much bigger lead. Georgia completed 0:17:38.160 --> 0:17:41.520 two short touchdown passes, one of which was with about 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:44.080 fourteen seconds left in the game to make this one 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:47.040 look a little bit closer than it was, but really 0:17:47.119 --> 0:17:51.480 Texas jumped out to a quick start. Sam Ellinger ran 0:17:51.560 --> 0:17:54.800 for three touchdowns. He helped build an early twenty eight 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:57.720 to seven lead in the early part of the fourth 0:17:57.800 --> 0:18:00.320 quarter before Georgia tried to mount a charge, but it 0:18:00.359 --> 0:18:03.200 really was too little, too late. After the game, sam 0:18:03.200 --> 0:18:06.080 Ellinger went there Dan, He said, Texas is back. 0:18:06.240 --> 0:18:06.960 Texas back. 0:18:07.480 --> 0:18:13.160 This question that never ever leaves the college football consciousness 0:18:13.240 --> 0:18:14.680 was again put forth there. 0:18:14.720 --> 0:18:15.879 So they're already shirts. 0:18:15.880 --> 0:18:18.080 By the way, Yeah, we know where sam Ellinger stands 0:18:18.080 --> 0:18:22.440 on Texas being back. In your mind, does this victory 0:18:22.480 --> 0:18:26.160 by Texas say more about where Texas is at, or 0:18:26.160 --> 0:18:28.760 more about where Georgia is at, or more about either 0:18:28.760 --> 0:18:32.360 of these teams as we move forward now into twenty nineteen, Well. 0:18:32.160 --> 0:18:34.440 This is the Georgia we've seen when they've lost. This 0:18:34.480 --> 0:18:36.840 is what Georgia looks like. Where they look flat. It's 0:18:36.880 --> 0:18:39.240 not like they've they've lost these games outside of the 0:18:39.280 --> 0:18:42.040 Alabama games these past couple of years, but whether it 0:18:42.119 --> 0:18:45.679 was LSU this year or Auburn last year, there's just 0:18:45.960 --> 0:18:50.600 a flatness about Georgia that was apparent, especially when you 0:18:50.680 --> 0:18:55.200 compare them against the energy Texas had. Texas basically plays 0:18:56.080 --> 0:18:58.399 on different levels, Like you know, you go to like 0:18:58.520 --> 0:19:00.639 a hot chicken place and you can get mild and 0:19:00.720 --> 0:19:03.280 you can get a toomic and like Texas in these 0:19:03.320 --> 0:19:05.800 big games, as we've seen from Tom Herman at both 0:19:05.840 --> 0:19:09.720 Houston and Texas, they just get up and it was 0:19:09.960 --> 0:19:12.680 apparent from the opening drive where Texas had a plan. 0:19:13.040 --> 0:19:15.720 When Texas was on defense early, they were just getting 0:19:15.760 --> 0:19:18.320 after Georgia in a way that I don't think the 0:19:18.320 --> 0:19:20.880 Bulldogs were expecting. I don't think Jake fromm was expecting. 0:19:20.880 --> 0:19:23.720 I don't think the coaching staff was expecting. And Texas 0:19:23.760 --> 0:19:26.000 came out and wanted this as as much of a 0:19:26.000 --> 0:19:29.359 cliche as that is, they took every play so much 0:19:29.440 --> 0:19:33.399 more seriously than Georgia did, so I think it confirms 0:19:33.760 --> 0:19:37.800 what we already believed about the best of Texas. We 0:19:37.840 --> 0:19:41.560 will learn more about Texas moving forward when they don't 0:19:41.600 --> 0:19:45.879 play this top tier opponent. I think we will learn 0:19:45.960 --> 0:19:48.680 it when we see them play Kansas State or Baylor 0:19:48.960 --> 0:19:52.520 for Oklahoma State, one of those types of teams, because 0:19:52.560 --> 0:19:55.000 that is the step that Texas is lacking right now. 0:19:55.080 --> 0:20:00.320 Nothing big here, Yeah, consistency across their entire schedule, not 0:20:00.400 --> 0:20:02.720 just against the top of the top. This was a thing, right, 0:20:02.760 --> 0:20:05.000 We talked about it all year. Texas gets up for 0:20:05.040 --> 0:20:07.440 these big games. I don't know if there was any 0:20:07.480 --> 0:20:09.520 doubt that they would be up for the Sugar Bowl here. 0:20:09.720 --> 0:20:12.240 Clearly Georgia had a little bit more to lose, but 0:20:12.280 --> 0:20:14.320 I don't know if they cared as much, right, And 0:20:14.880 --> 0:20:16.639 we can talk about this too. I could also just 0:20:16.680 --> 0:20:18.840 assume it. But yeah, that we're going to backload here 0:20:18.880 --> 0:20:21.040 on this show, I promise you. But I agree with you. 0:20:21.040 --> 0:20:23.800 I think it says a lot about Texas. I like 0:20:23.880 --> 0:20:25.639 what it means for them moving forward. I hope they 0:20:25.680 --> 0:20:27.680 can use it as a rallying cry as they build 0:20:27.760 --> 0:20:30.640 towards the twenty nineteen season. They got a lot coming back, 0:20:31.119 --> 0:20:33.840 so they should be loaded for bear here, provided they 0:20:33.920 --> 0:20:37.239 could continue to harness this energy from the Sugar Bowl win. 0:20:37.359 --> 0:20:37.800 Nice win for you. 0:20:37.920 --> 0:20:40.240 Yeah, as soon as I saw when was the when 0:20:40.240 --> 0:20:42.679 did From throw an interception? I think it was early on, 0:20:42.960 --> 0:20:47.119 early second half. Yeah, he scrambles out, he's pressured, and 0:20:47.160 --> 0:20:49.280 he just sort of throws on the run as he's 0:20:49.359 --> 0:20:51.880 being hit and sort of throws it up and as 0:20:51.880 --> 0:20:53.879 it leaves his hand, you're like, this is either going 0:20:53.920 --> 0:20:55.960 to be the greatest play of Bowl season or it's 0:20:56.000 --> 0:20:59.080 going to be a nightmare disaster. And it was picked 0:20:59.119 --> 0:21:01.800 off by I think Chris Boyd. And it was that 0:21:01.920 --> 0:21:04.640 kind of play that where he seemed to be pressing 0:21:04.720 --> 0:21:08.439 so much as a typically poised rhythm throw or he 0:21:08.480 --> 0:21:11.800 does check down some, but he is so strong at 0:21:11.840 --> 0:21:14.800 sort of exuding that calm. We saw that against Auburn 0:21:14.880 --> 0:21:17.000 last year where all of a sudden he's pressing. They're 0:21:17.040 --> 0:21:20.560 down whatever, ten, fourteen, twenty, and he's just going all 0:21:20.560 --> 0:21:22.800 out and like, that's not a winning jake from And 0:21:22.800 --> 0:21:23.680 when I saw that, I was like. 0:21:23.640 --> 0:21:27.000 This, this is over. That's it. No, all right, So 0:21:27.040 --> 0:21:29.840 there you go, big, great great game from Texas, Texas 0:21:29.840 --> 0:21:33.800 and the Sugar Bowl. I think this epitomizes why I 0:21:33.880 --> 0:21:37.320