WEBVTT - Mail Time: Part 1 0:00:02.040 --> 0:00:06.880 Welcome to the solid Verbo. I'll 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 --> 0:00:11.640 I want to be happy. You want to be happy 0:00:11.680 --> 0:00:14.920 for a day at the State. Is that woo woom? 0:00:14.960 --> 0:00:20.760 And and Tye, welcome back to the solid Purba boys 0:00:20.760 --> 0:00:23.079 and girls. My name is ty Hildebrandt. Joining me is 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:29.360 always over there and beautiful and sunny in almost springing, 0:00:29.440 --> 0:00:31.560 New York City. Dan Rubinstein, sir, how are you? 0:00:32.240 --> 0:00:35.360 I'm pretty good, ty, I'm pretty good. I considered stopping 0:00:35.400 --> 0:00:37.319 at any number of places on my walk home from 0:00:37.320 --> 0:00:40.120 the office for a little snack, but I was just 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:44.600 in LA for a very short time for a podcast conference, okay, 0:00:44.800 --> 0:00:49.320 and I ate a lot of food, So my discipline 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:56.600 to stay the course was actually pretty admirable. Unlike Melt Talk, Mel. 0:00:56.480 --> 0:01:00.880 Tucker, We're going to get into the El Tucker news 0:01:00.880 --> 0:01:04.120 here momentarily Today's Q and A Show, or at least 0:01:04.160 --> 0:01:06.959 part one of a Q and A show, so it 0:01:07.000 --> 0:01:10.240 works in typical fashion here on the Soliverbal. We like 0:01:10.319 --> 0:01:12.959 to do more of the Q and A Style show 0:01:13.000 --> 0:01:15.360 in the offseason because there isn't as much news to 0:01:15.400 --> 0:01:18.840 talk about. Mel Tucker ain't walking out that door every week, 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:23.160 after all, So we got to fill the time with 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:26.800 useful college football intel and knowledge and questions from the 0:01:26.880 --> 0:01:31.000 verballerhood at large. So what you did is went out 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:33.280 on Twitter. You went out on all of our social channels. 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:36.960 We got other email questions that came in to Soliverbal 0:01:37.000 --> 0:01:39.760 at gmail dot com, compiled those in a big old 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:41.160 Google doc, and we're going to read through a bunch 0:01:41.200 --> 0:01:45.319 of football questions here in just a little bit. The 0:01:45.360 --> 0:01:47.480 other tidbit that I'll throw out there, and I started 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:50.560 advertising this a little bit on Twitter earlier today at 0:01:50.600 --> 0:01:54.160 Soliverbal if you don't already follow us. But as we said, 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:56.360 Dan and I are in the very early stages now 0:01:57.160 --> 0:02:00.520 of planning out what our live show menu is going 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:02.760 to look like for the month of August, when we 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:05.440 typically do fantasy things and maybe we'll throw other things 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:10.840 in there, who knows. But we put together a survey 0:02:10.919 --> 0:02:13.560 which I linked up on our Twitter sphere. I'm gonna 0:02:13.560 --> 0:02:16.680 link it up on our website. If you go to 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:21.480 solid verbal dot com slash live, you can get to 0:02:21.520 --> 0:02:24.480 our survey and just let us know if you're gonna 0:02:24.480 --> 0:02:27.239 be around in August if any of these cities or 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:30.320 locations appeal to you, you might want to come out 0:02:30.360 --> 0:02:33.000 and see us. That'll help us put together what our 0:02:33.040 --> 0:02:35.760 game plan is going to become August. But it is 0:02:35.800 --> 0:02:38.200 something we're starting to think about, even though it's February. 0:02:38.880 --> 0:02:41.480 Obviously it's better to do that earlier and get people 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:43.640 in the know than later. Kind of at the last second. 0:02:44.080 --> 0:02:45.600 Yeah, if it were up to me, we would just 0:02:45.639 --> 0:02:48.600 be doing a tour of small towns just north of 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:51.920 San Francisco and have a nice little summer wine tour. 0:02:52.000 --> 0:02:53.639 Little wine. You don't even like wine. 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:56.280 I don't even like wine, but I like that area. Ty, Yeah, 0:02:56.360 --> 0:03:00.320 I like trees, I like grapes, I like sunshine. There's 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:02.040 a million places that I think we would have a 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:05.519 terrific time doing a live show and could not be 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:09.119 happier about doing that. All we really know is that somehow, 0:03:09.200 --> 0:03:12.960 someway we are going to include the Navarro cheer team. 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:27.680 Of course, Oh my gosh, my people, All right, absolute people, Okay, sorry, yeah, boom. 0:03:25.360 --> 0:03:28.919 Boom boom boom. You mentioned mel Tucker at the top. 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:36.600 Melt Tucker has reversed course, So Meltucker head football coach, 0:03:36.880 --> 0:03:41.720 formerly head football coach at Colorado. He initially turned down 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:46.920 Michigan State, he reversed course. He has now accepted the 0:03:47.080 --> 0:03:49.160 job at Sparta. Do you like this move? 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:54.160 I think it'd be hard to form an opinion about 0:03:54.440 --> 0:03:57.920 mel Tucker after one season going five and seven, inheriting 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:01.360 a not amazing roster, but still your guys Stevie Montes 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:06.120 and Leaves Chanalt are quality players that you know. Chanalt 0:04:06.240 --> 0:04:09.720 was hurt but didn't have the talent to really turn 0:04:09.760 --> 0:04:12.400 the defense around. Excuse me, y'ar one his specialty. So 0:04:12.440 --> 0:04:14.880 I don't know how any Michigan State fan, how anybody 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:19.160 can think like yes, home run when they're just Jerry's out, Like, 0:04:19.240 --> 0:04:21.600 we just have no idea because we have to have 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:24.880 a bigger sample size from him. The headline here, as 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:27.640 you know, we talk about it like six days after 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:30.880 it happened because that's our recording schedule, is that he 0:04:31.000 --> 0:04:33.880 was only at Colorado for a year and he got 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:38.080 basically his salary doubled, His assistant pool was significantly increased, 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:41.240 which is very very important by a Michigan State program 0:04:41.360 --> 0:04:43.920 which makes a lot more money from the Big ten 0:04:44.120 --> 0:04:48.040 and their TV deals plural than the PAC twelve does. 0:04:48.440 --> 0:04:51.880 And Colorado is not a program that has been in 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:55.040 the money these this past decade fifteen years, things have improved. 0:04:55.040 --> 0:04:58.280 I think they've built new facilities, but certainly from a 0:04:58.560 --> 0:05:01.440 monetary standpoint, Colorado is not as big a program and 0:05:01.480 --> 0:05:03.680 doesn't have as big a wallet as Michigan State does 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:08.520 by you know, their circumstance. So I think the higher 0:05:08.600 --> 0:05:13.040 is fine. I think his background, his experience, both you know, 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:15.720 in the SEC and the NFL. I think people respond 0:05:15.839 --> 0:05:17.920 well to him as a coach. It appears he's been 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:21.080 able to recruit and his short time in Boulder pretty well, 0:05:21.560 --> 0:05:23.720 so I imagine he will do a pretty good job 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:26.760 given his background both in the Midwest and South, attracting 0:05:26.839 --> 0:05:29.520 talent to Michigan State. It's a tough job to me, 0:05:30.960 --> 0:05:33.440 so I think it's fine slash tbd. 0:05:34.320 --> 0:05:38.360 Here is my overarching question about this though. How good 0:05:38.440 --> 0:05:42.680 of a job is that Michigan State job. I know 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:45.520 it's something we've discussed here on the show, right, and 0:05:47.000 --> 0:05:50.600 I think we like Boulder, Colorado as a college football 0:05:50.760 --> 0:05:53.760 or just college destination. I just get a human destination 0:05:53.880 --> 0:05:57.680 to make human destination. Sure, it's a good place. It's 0:05:57.880 --> 0:06:00.359 in a conference that is certainly at a little bit 0:06:00.400 --> 0:06:04.240 more wide open than the Big ten East. I think 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:08.680 that much is assumed, right, So how much of a 0:06:08.760 --> 0:06:11.599 better job? Obviously the money's better, But outside of the money, 0:06:11.680 --> 0:06:15.760 is it truly a better college football spot than in Boulder? 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:17.760 So what defines that to you? 0:06:18.320 --> 0:06:22.000 How if you are going to list items bullet points 0:06:22.040 --> 0:06:24.880 say this is what makes a good job to me, 0:06:25.120 --> 0:06:30.880 it's administrative support, money, proximity to recruits, maybe, path to 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:35.360 maximizing success based on division, based on conference, How strong 0:06:35.520 --> 0:06:41.640 is the school's quote brand regionally, nationally, internationally, whatever. And 0:06:42.360 --> 0:06:46.440 for Michigan State, it's tricky. I think if it starts 0:06:46.520 --> 0:06:50.280 with administrative support, there's a lot of the word interim 0:06:50.560 --> 0:06:53.599 right now at Michigan State. It's not a strong time 0:06:53.680 --> 0:06:57.279 for the Michigan State brand. Not the fault of regional 0:06:57.880 --> 0:07:02.120 recruits in the Midwest or coaches that Mel Tucker, not 0:07:02.560 --> 0:07:03.960 a fault of a lot of people who were in 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:06.719 that Michigan State program during some up and down years 0:07:06.800 --> 0:07:07.760 under Mark d Antonio. 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:08.880 But it's rough. 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:10.480 I don't think there's a lot of confidence on the 0:07:10.520 --> 0:07:12.800 board of trustees and the athletic director in the athletic 0:07:12.880 --> 0:07:16.240 department right now. So that to me is in flux, 0:07:16.280 --> 0:07:18.520 which is never great because if you look at schools 0:07:18.600 --> 0:07:22.600 that generally succeed consistently, there seems to be a good 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:27.320 backbone of continuity there. Right, No, you've had what Notre 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:30.720 Dame is at the same AD forever, Oregon has had, 0:07:30.840 --> 0:07:32.800 I mean the same AD forever. These are the schools 0:07:32.840 --> 0:07:35.600 we're most familiar with. Penn State had to deal with 0:07:35.720 --> 0:07:38.920 a lot of flux, but things have calmed down some, right, Yeah, 0:07:39.760 --> 0:07:42.960 So looking at schools, especially in the Big Ten, Wisconsin 0:07:43.040 --> 0:07:45.920 has a lot of continuity. Michigan has had some changes. 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:48.040 Ohio State has had some changes, but Jean Smith has 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:49.760 been at Ohio State for a long time and so 0:07:49.840 --> 0:07:54.400 there's experience there running things. Michigan State's different, and Michigan 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:57.760 State has had a lot of success in the last decade. 0:07:58.520 --> 0:08:02.400 One could point out that Michigan State's absolute height twenty 0:08:02.480 --> 0:08:06.160 thirteen to twenty fifteen, like we've talked about before, came 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:09.600 at a time that perhaps Michigan and Ohio State, they're 0:08:09.800 --> 0:08:13.360 chief rivals in the division, we're not operating at full capacity. 0:08:13.880 --> 0:08:16.240 But one could also point out that Penn State and 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:21.480 Michigan today are not unbeatable, So it can be a 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:23.960 very good job. This is a Rose Bowl job if 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:27.320 the circumstances are correct, But a lot of good jobs 0:08:27.360 --> 0:08:29.080 are the same way that you just need things to 0:08:29.200 --> 0:08:32.600 break correctly. So I think it's tough, but I think 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:37.120 Michigan State has a much higher ability, a higher ceiling 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:38.960 than a lot of teams in this country. 0:08:39.440 --> 0:08:43.280 The downside from Michigan State, whenever somebody steps aside in 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:47.880 February or just at a really weird juncture in the season, 0:08:48.559 --> 0:08:51.160 if you want to get a decent name, you sort 0:08:51.160 --> 0:08:54.199 of got to pay the piper, yeah, premium, And that 0:08:54.520 --> 0:08:58.439 meant good news from mel Tucker on that side of things. Otherwise, 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:01.400 I'm ambivalent on this. It's good news for them that 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:02.839 they're able to go out and get a guy in 0:09:02.920 --> 0:09:05.360 mel Tucker who's been highly thought of for a while 0:09:05.480 --> 0:09:08.839 and someone who you would think could continue building that 0:09:09.000 --> 0:09:11.480 winning tradition, certainly on the defensive side of the ball, 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:14.360 where he's always been very good. That's all very good news, 0:09:14.480 --> 0:09:18.120 but like five and seven first year, you're paying that 0:09:18.200 --> 0:09:20.559 guy five and a half million dollars, it seems like 0:09:20.640 --> 0:09:24.280 maybe they overbid on a guy that you know they 0:09:24.320 --> 0:09:26.680 didn't have to overbid for well, they had the cash. 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:29.280 They have the cash to pay that much money to 0:09:29.360 --> 0:09:31.240 a coach. I mean, Scott Frost is making a ton 0:09:31.280 --> 0:09:33.600 of money, and at least I guess he accomplished more 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:35.400 as a head coach than Mel Tucker did. Going in 0:09:35.960 --> 0:09:38.760 Jeff Brohm, I don't know how. I mean, he had 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:41.880 a huge win for Purdue over Ohio State, and I 0:09:42.000 --> 0:09:44.559 had to have the leverage with Louisville coming after him. 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:45.640 But there are what. 0:09:45.840 --> 0:09:48.560 Looked to be not crazy impressive coaches in the Big 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:52.040 Ten making at least right now to me, impressive money. 0:09:53.600 --> 0:09:56.320 The other interesting thing is this people treated this as 0:09:57.240 --> 0:10:03.240 more dirt on the PAC twelve casket, and I'm sort 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:04.079 of confused by that. 0:10:04.320 --> 0:10:04.680 Somewhat. 0:10:04.679 --> 0:10:06.840 I know the PAC twelve is lagged behind another TV 0:10:06.960 --> 0:10:10.880 deal isn't good, But I've just never understood why people 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:12.920 look like people look at the PAC twelve as like, yeah, 0:10:12.960 --> 0:10:15.160 they're a Power five conference. They should be right in 0:10:15.200 --> 0:10:17.520 the neighborhood is of how much money the Big Ten 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:21.000 and SEC are making when PAC twelve football as a whole, 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:24.319 as a full product has never been as popular as 0:10:24.400 --> 0:10:28.440 conferences that have these enormous enormous properties when the PAC 0:10:28.520 --> 0:10:30.760 twelve has like one point eight of them. 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:34.000 So does a move like this and I promise we'll 0:10:34.080 --> 0:10:36.760 move on after this? Yeah, maybe two point six. Does 0:10:36.840 --> 0:10:40.360 a move like this worry you then about, like, let's say, 0:10:40.400 --> 0:10:45.559 the overall health of Power five football or college football 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:48.480 as a whole, Given that there is this gulf between 0:10:49.360 --> 0:10:52.080 different revenue models from conference to conference. 0:10:52.440 --> 0:10:55.520 I guess I think you need smarter people at athletic 0:10:55.600 --> 0:10:59.120 departments making better decision as to who you hire. I mean, 0:10:59.720 --> 0:11:01.920 it can be weathered in the Big ten and SEC. 0:11:02.120 --> 0:11:05.000 If you know, Mississippi State hires Joe Morhead and it 0:11:05.040 --> 0:11:06.600 doesn't work out after a couple of years, they don't 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:09.199 hesitate to pay his buyout, to move on to pay 0:11:09.280 --> 0:11:11.559 Mike Leach whatever it is, five million dollars, And that's 0:11:11.559 --> 0:11:16.120 certainly a very nice luxury to have. But in the 0:11:16.200 --> 0:11:19.240 Big twelve, which has you know, come under some some 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:21.760 troubling times having to go back to ten teams, the 0:11:21.840 --> 0:11:23.760 TV deal isn't where the Big ten and the SEC 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:26.079 are and the PAC twelve, and to I guess a 0:11:26.160 --> 0:11:26.959 lesser extent. 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:27.320 The ACC. 0:11:28.320 --> 0:11:31.640 You got to make better decisions. It's not Larry Scott's 0:11:31.640 --> 0:11:34.320 fault that you know, Oregon State and Gary Anderson didn't 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:34.600 work out. 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:35.360 I tweeted that out. 0:11:35.400 --> 0:11:37.679 It's not, you know, Larry Scott's fault that you know, 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:40.880 Kevin Sublan has been pretty bad in terms of a 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:44.240 hire for Arizona thus far, and it hasn't been wasn't 0:11:44.280 --> 0:11:47.040 as you know, whatever is John Embry, Mike McIntyre and 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:49.640 ever the up and down of his career there. That's 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:52.800 not on the conference. It's just these schools needs to 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:55.959 do a better job of finding perhaps up and comers, 0:11:56.120 --> 0:11:58.840 perhaps better deals at head coach, and figure out how 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:01.520 to get creative in terms of raising money. And that's 0:12:01.679 --> 0:12:04.720 it's certainly tougher. But I'm not sure I ever understood 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:07.480 why they everybody needs to just automatically be on an 0:12:07.520 --> 0:12:08.439 equal playing field. 0:12:08.600 --> 0:12:08.880 I don't. 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:11.720 I don't understand that that I don't. I don't reckon 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:13.240 that that's what college football has happened. 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:17.319 I don't reckon. I don't reckon. All Right, the other 0:12:17.440 --> 0:12:20.600 tidbit here that I think we should probably mention. Yeah, 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:26.280 so the Big Ten pitched it, the ACC agreed a 0:12:26.679 --> 0:12:28.160 one time transfer. 0:12:28.559 --> 0:12:30.520 Yeah, the NCAA is now looking into it as well. 0:12:30.760 --> 0:12:35.080 Yeah, without penalty. It's under consideration for the twenty twenty 0:12:35.800 --> 0:12:40.000 slash twenty twenty one school year. To provide some important 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:44.600 context here, the only sports for which you must sit 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:47.760 out a year if you transfer or college football, both 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:52.679 men's and women's basketball, also baseball, also hockey. Right, if 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:57.199 you add this rule one time transfer without penalty. My 0:12:57.320 --> 0:12:58.959 guess is we're going to see a lot of interesting 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:01.160 takes out there as whether or not this is good, 0:13:01.320 --> 0:13:03.800 it's bad. They are winners, there are losers. 0:13:04.400 --> 0:13:06.280 They're already out there. The takes are out there. Oh, 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:09.640 the takes trips alongside his weird hot dog sandwich thing 0:13:09.800 --> 0:13:10.199 is out there. 0:13:10.920 --> 0:13:12.800 So what do you think? I'll tell you where I 0:13:12.880 --> 0:13:16.720 stand here. Please. I think this is a really good thing, okay, 0:13:17.280 --> 0:13:20.439 And I understand the counter argument here is that it 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:25.160 perhaps devalues a commitment, and why commit if you can 0:13:25.280 --> 0:13:28.400 just leave. I'm sure we're gonna see plenty of you know, 0:13:28.559 --> 0:13:32.760 the kids these days style arguments against this. But the 0:13:32.840 --> 0:13:34.920 truth of the matter is, and we've been beating this 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:40.480 drune for years on this show. Programs coaches have so 0:13:40.679 --> 0:13:43.440 much leverage over these kids. Yeah, you know, I don't 0:13:43.559 --> 0:13:46.839 mean to demean the value of a scholarship. Certainly, that's 0:13:46.840 --> 0:13:50.719 something that holds a lot of value. Sure, but programs 0:13:50.800 --> 0:13:52.760 have so much damn leverage over these kids. And we 0:13:52.800 --> 0:13:55.320 saw with mel Tucker. Look, I mean mel Tucker, I'm 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:57.360 sure didn't do it with any malice in his heart, 0:13:57.440 --> 0:14:00.280 but mel Tucker got a godfather offer to go to 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:02.280 a different school, He got five and a half million dollars. 0:14:02.640 --> 0:14:04.640 And now the kids that's signed to play under Meltucker 0:14:04.679 --> 0:14:05.719 that he's not going to be there. 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:08.320 Yeah, and this is not this is not the first 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:10.559 time we saw Todd Graham, we saw Willie Tagger. 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:14.880 Happens, all happens every single year. So I don't know 0:14:15.080 --> 0:14:20.360 if this balances truly balances out that situation, but I 0:14:20.480 --> 0:14:22.800 do think it gives kids a little bit more leeway here. 0:14:23.240 --> 0:14:25.160 I like the move, I really do. Yeah. 0:14:25.280 --> 0:14:27.440 I think offering freedom is a good thing. And I 0:14:27.520 --> 0:14:28.960 know people are going to say, well, like, this is 0:14:29.080 --> 0:14:34.440 free agency for college football. It's my opinion that kids 0:14:34.560 --> 0:14:38.400 don't want to transfer. Kids want to be happy with 0:14:38.560 --> 0:14:42.080 where they end up. Kids want to be somewhere where 0:14:42.120 --> 0:14:45.920 they're perhaps dating somebody, perhaps they like their classes. If that, 0:14:46.040 --> 0:14:47.880 if academics are a part of their life in a 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:49.960 major way. They like their coaches. They're committing to a 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:53.120 school because, you know, potentially their coaches there and stays there. 0:14:53.360 --> 0:14:55.560 They're committing to a school because maybe they like the 0:14:55.680 --> 0:14:57.960 college town, maybe they like the campus, maybe they like 0:14:58.040 --> 0:15:01.080 the food, maybe they like the facility. They want to 0:15:01.240 --> 0:15:05.080 succeed in the place they commit to, And I can't 0:15:05.120 --> 0:15:07.520 imagine like people are freaking out because they think it's 0:15:07.560 --> 0:15:09.560 free agency and like, wow, it doesn't work out here, 0:15:09.600 --> 0:15:12.360 They're just going to go over there, Okay. You want 0:15:12.440 --> 0:15:15.400 people to want to be where you are. I think 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:19.080 that's an understanding. Whether it's in an office setting, whether 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:22.080 it's in a family setting, you want people to want 0:15:22.200 --> 0:15:24.520 to be there. And if you have all sorts of 0:15:24.520 --> 0:15:26.400 people who are not happy with their role, who've been 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:28.600 sitting for two three years, or who get somewhere and 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:31.200 be like, yeah, this was definitely a wrong decision. I'm 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:33.960 trying to see this through, but I am unhappy. You 0:15:34.200 --> 0:15:36.960 want your locker room to be filled with happy people. 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:39.800 That's why a team like Clemson has succeeded to the 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:43.640 degree that they've succeeded because people, coaches, players, support staff 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:47.360 want to work for Dabo Sweeney at Clemson, and so 0:15:47.920 --> 0:15:50.840 it actually puts a lot more pressure on people running 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:54.360 programs and running athletic departments to build a culture that 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:57.280 people want to be a part of. And you cannot 0:15:57.480 --> 0:16:01.640 hire d holes. Tie you can't hire d holes as much, 0:16:01.840 --> 0:16:03.400 and that's a big win. 0:16:03.800 --> 0:16:05.480 You know. I mean, so much of the problem with 0:16:05.600 --> 0:16:09.000 college football is the fact that it's college football, that 0:16:09.080 --> 0:16:13.760 it's not club football. That we've tied in the academics 0:16:13.840 --> 0:16:16.280 with the sport. I think that's the root of much 0:16:16.320 --> 0:16:18.560 of the evil that we see in college football. And 0:16:19.080 --> 0:16:23.640 somebody once told me that, without exception, any player who 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:26.680 plays at the D one level, certainly the D one 0:16:26.800 --> 0:16:31.160 Power five level, without exception, all of those kids think 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:34.520 they're going to the NFL. Of course, perhaps that's the 0:16:34.600 --> 0:16:38.360 cynical way to look at college football, but that I 0:16:38.520 --> 0:16:42.280 believe is the reality that we are living in. Academics 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:44.760 can still be important to many kids, it still is 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:48.040 and will always be, but football, if you're playing at 0:16:48.080 --> 0:16:53.120 this level, definitely takes on a greater significance to I 0:16:53.280 --> 0:16:58.480 think deny an option for kids who are very clearly 0:16:58.840 --> 0:17:02.560 heavily invested in their football future, maybe to go elsewhere 0:17:02.600 --> 0:17:05.200 and play to pursue that dream I just think is wrong. 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:07.840 It also takes power away from the NC double A 0:17:07.920 --> 0:17:11.680 who's been having to decide on waiver appeals. Well, let's 0:17:11.680 --> 0:17:14.680 see there it is, and that's power away, which is nice. 0:17:14.800 --> 0:17:17.640 You're speaking to my stick it to the man's side. Yeah, 0:17:18.240 --> 0:17:20.520 you take power away from a governing body that if 0:17:20.560 --> 0:17:23.359 you listen to Kirk Farence, the sport has probably grown 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:25.399 too large for the NC double A to sort of 0:17:25.440 --> 0:17:29.000 figure out which rules too and to kind of enforce. 0:17:29.320 --> 0:17:33.040 And that that all rings true to me. You're also 0:17:33.240 --> 0:17:36.919 strengthening It probably strengthens G five teams because a lot 0:17:37.000 --> 0:17:40.959 of times the power five player will want to transfer 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:43.520 to a G five school but may want to play immediately, 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:45.960 or may only have a year of eligibility left and 0:17:46.080 --> 0:17:49.280 hasn't graduated and goes to the FCS level to avoid 0:17:49.359 --> 0:17:52.040 sitting out for a year. So you're strengthening G five 0:17:52.080 --> 0:17:56.080 And I understand you could have situations like Derek King. 0:17:56.240 --> 0:17:58.359 You know it's not working out for him at Houston, 0:17:58.400 --> 0:18:00.800 and he's obviously proven himself to be a level quarterback. 0:18:01.040 --> 0:18:03.960 Why not go up a slight level? All the Houston's 0:18:03.960 --> 0:18:06.840 had a ton of success playing the ACC play at Miami. 0:18:07.600 --> 0:18:11.920 Generally speaking, teams that are very, very successful are not 0:18:12.160 --> 0:18:15.159 doing so because G five quarterbacks have gone to a 0:18:15.280 --> 0:18:18.400 Power five team. Generally, it's because Power five teams build 0:18:18.480 --> 0:18:21.320 cultures that really strong quarterbacks want to be a part of, 0:18:21.760 --> 0:18:25.800 and they develop and become a really strong quarterback or 0:18:25.880 --> 0:18:26.480 player there. 0:18:26.840 --> 0:18:27.960 So maybe the. 0:18:28.200 --> 0:18:31.200 FCS level is hurt a little bit by not getting 0:18:31.200 --> 0:18:33.280 a G five or a Power five transfer, be it 0:18:33.280 --> 0:18:36.360 at quarterback or any other position. But I don't think 0:18:36.400 --> 0:18:40.880 it's going to be as pronounced as the the alarmists 0:18:41.000 --> 0:18:41.400 may think. 0:18:41.800 --> 0:18:45.560 All right, enough on the news front, Okay, we got 0:18:45.600 --> 0:18:48.640 a bunch of really smart, really fun questions here from 0:18:48.680 --> 0:18:53.320 our college football loving for ballers. Congratulations, Skippy, you've got mail, 0:18:53.520 --> 0:18:58.200 You've got mail. On the solid verbal let's start here 0:18:58.680 --> 0:19:01.639 at the very top. From Brian, he wants to know 0:19:02.600 --> 0:19:09.080 how does Baylor's improved defense adapt to the Dave Aranda system. 0:19:09.200 --> 0:19:14.680 So Dave Randa, highly paid defensive coordinator for the LSU Tigers, 0:19:14.720 --> 0:19:18.120 they win a national championship. Matt Rule Leeves Goes gets 0:19:18.160 --> 0:19:22.040 a godfather offer from the Carolina Panthers. Well, and behold, 0:19:22.080 --> 0:19:24.760 Dave Randa's your new head football coach in Waco, Dan Now, 0:19:24.880 --> 0:19:28.200 Dave Randa comes from really good defensive stock. He's run 0:19:28.280 --> 0:19:31.520 a great defense. Is defensive stock. He is defensive stock. 0:19:31.560 --> 0:19:33.879 He kind of sounds like Batman when he talks right, 0:19:33.960 --> 0:19:39.720 He's got that prodelly deep voice. But defensively, defensively, what 0:19:39.760 --> 0:19:43.760 are you feeling here? So Phil Snow ran like an 0:19:43.800 --> 0:19:46.920 adaptable three three five. He rotated in a number of players, 0:19:47.040 --> 0:19:49.720 which is good news for the Bears because I think 0:19:49.760 --> 0:19:53.399 they lose nine starters those most of if not all, 0:19:53.440 --> 0:19:56.119 of their linebackers. Their secondary is going to look pretty different. 0:19:56.160 --> 0:19:57.960 But a lot of the guys who are stepping in 0:19:58.840 --> 0:20:01.959 should be familiar or with playing high level college football 0:20:01.960 --> 0:20:05.359 on a high level defense. David Randa's defense succeeded. I 0:20:05.440 --> 0:20:09.680 saw this from our Daily Bears, a really cool community 0:20:10.680 --> 0:20:14.200 that David Randa's defenses have succeeded in year one. Every 0:20:14.359 --> 0:20:18.119 you know, Utah State, Wisconsin, LSU, They've made jumps. So 0:20:18.840 --> 0:20:20.640 I imagine Baylor is going to be in a pretty 0:20:20.680 --> 0:20:22.560 good position. I don't know if it's where they were 0:20:22.680 --> 0:20:24.520 last year. A lot of upperclassmen, a lot of guys 0:20:24.520 --> 0:20:27.040 with a ton of experience. The Baylor offense to me 0:20:27.200 --> 0:20:30.600 under Larry Fedora is probably the bigger question. The line 0:20:30.720 --> 0:20:34.520 is okay, but pretty new, and they should not be 0:20:34.680 --> 0:20:37.280 as explosive as they were at times. This was not 0:20:37.359 --> 0:20:40.440 a crazy explosive offense last year, but it's going to 0:20:40.480 --> 0:20:42.120 be new look on both sides, and I think there's 0:20:42.160 --> 0:20:44.080 gonna be an adjustment period. The good news for the 0:20:44.160 --> 0:20:46.879 defense is, I mean, are there a lot of scary 0:20:46.960 --> 0:20:50.320 experienced quarterbacks in the Big Twelve? My sources say no, no, 0:20:50.600 --> 0:20:51.640 not really. Yeah. 0:20:52.000 --> 0:20:55.359 I mean there's Sam Ellinger, and we assume Spencer Ratler, 0:20:55.400 --> 0:20:59.680 whoever starts at Oklahoma should succeed. But otherwise across the conference, 0:21:00.119 --> 0:21:03.520 you know, Spencer Sanders had moments, but he's not where 0:21:03.560 --> 0:21:07.600 Oklahoma State quarterbacks have been, Kansas State, TCU, West Virginias. 0:21:07.600 --> 0:21:09.200 A lot of questions on offense. So it's a good 0:21:09.320 --> 0:21:13.760 year I think to work in a new defensive scheme 0:21:13.920 --> 0:21:14.399 for Baylor. 0:21:14.920 --> 0:21:16.920 On the topic of Baylor, we have a question here 0:21:17.000 --> 0:21:19.600 from Adam and it might not even be David Randas 0:21:19.600 --> 0:21:21.600 three four, by the way, correct on Roberts is the 0:21:21.680 --> 0:21:24.359 new coordinator. It might be his defense. We'll say correct, 0:21:24.400 --> 0:21:26.480 and that's where I'm going next year? So Adam writes 0:21:26.560 --> 0:21:30.280 in and he says he graduated from Baylor More Baylor 0:21:30.680 --> 0:21:33.280