WEBVTT - An Interview with Joe Moorhead, Oregon's new Offensive Coordinator 0:00:02.160 --> 0:00:04.720 Welcome to the solid verbal. 0:00:04.840 --> 0:00:08.200 Hell for me, I'm a man, I'm forty. 0:00:08.240 --> 0:00:10.119 I've heard so many players say, well, I want to 0:00:10.119 --> 0:00:12.080 be happy. You want to be happy for a day? 0:00:12.520 --> 0:00:14.760 Edith State is that woo woom? 0:00:14.920 --> 0:00:19.560 And Dan and Tye. 0:00:18.800 --> 0:00:21.479 Welcome back to the solid Verbal Boys and girls. My 0:00:21.600 --> 0:00:24.239 name is ty Hill, the brand that guy over there. 0:00:24.440 --> 0:00:29.040 My good friend Dan Rubinstein, still in sunny southern California. 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:33.080 Happy Friday, June the nineteenth. Thank you for stopping on, 0:00:33.280 --> 0:00:36.640 Bye for coming on back to talk more college football. 0:00:36.720 --> 0:00:39.000 We announced it on the Wednesday show we'd be dropping 0:00:39.000 --> 0:00:41.239 a show this Friday. Friday has come. 0:00:41.360 --> 0:00:45.120 Dan and uh, I'm excited about today's show. Well, certainly, Tye, 0:00:45.400 --> 0:00:48.360 I am as well. And that's for a number of reasons. One, 0:00:49.159 --> 0:00:51.040 we get to nerd out. I get to nerd out 0:00:51.840 --> 0:00:55.480 over I guess Oregon football, but not really just offense 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:58.440 in general, x's and O stuff in general. Joe moorehead 0:00:58.520 --> 0:01:00.680 joining the show. Very excited to catch with him. We 0:01:00.720 --> 0:01:03.200 spoke to him a couple of years ago. But perhaps 0:01:03.200 --> 0:01:07.000 even more importantly for me, ty I just took a coffee. 0:01:07.040 --> 0:01:10.119 Napp oh, I feel great. I feel great. So if 0:01:10.120 --> 0:01:12.800 you want to solve a bunch of world problems right now, 0:01:12.880 --> 0:01:15.080 before we get into news and before we get into 0:01:15.200 --> 0:01:17.880 X's and O's scheme. 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Or sometimes we'll get an email that says, ty, 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:39.080 you gotta slow down. Dan, you're going a mile a 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:43.639 minute and we really need you to pause between sentences. 0:02:44.120 --> 0:02:46.519 And it turns out there listening at two or three times. 0:02:46.639 --> 0:02:49.079 Yeah, you don't know how that happens. It has happened 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:52.560 to me using various apps. But every now and again, 0:02:52.600 --> 0:02:54.560 you're right. We got one a couple weeks ago. Gentlemen 0:02:54.639 --> 0:02:57.679 listened and said, Dan, you talk too fast. You got 0:02:57.680 --> 0:03:01.560 to slow it down. You're broadcasters. You seem like you're 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:06.000 talking normal speed to me. And yeah, sometimes technology please 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:08.639 tricks on us. That's part of the beauty in it. 0:03:09.200 --> 0:03:12.640 On today's show, we're going to discuss some news tidbits, 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:15.239 and then we're going to get into a wonderful interview. 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:19.480 My question for you, though, is am I able to 0:03:19.520 --> 0:03:20.480 play my news hit? 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:22.440 Yeah? 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:22.919 I think so. 0:03:23.080 --> 0:03:23.320 Sure. 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:30.480 I'm not going to yell breaking news because I'm just 0:03:30.520 --> 0:03:33.320 I'm not feeling it today, not feeling that chippery yet, 0:03:33.320 --> 0:03:35.800 but we got to introduce the sound back in and 0:03:35.880 --> 0:03:39.920 get things started off on the right foot. Serious subject though, 0:03:39.960 --> 0:03:44.440 to start here. Thirteen Texas players have tested positive for 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:49.760 COVID nineteen. All thirteen of them are now self isolating. 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:53.960 Ten more players were identified through contact tracing. They're also 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:58.640 in self quarantine, but asymptomatic at this time. According to 0:03:58.720 --> 0:04:02.280 a statement from the university, my sense is that this 0:04:02.440 --> 0:04:04.280 is going to be the first and a long line 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:07.200 of stories that take on a similar tone. We're going 0:04:07.280 --> 0:04:09.640 to see this all over the country, love it or 0:04:09.680 --> 0:04:12.080 hate it. I guess the upshoot for Texas is that 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:15.480 maybe like a quarter of their teams already had it. 0:04:15.920 --> 0:04:17.800 You know, I don't really know how I feel about this. 0:04:17.880 --> 0:04:20.440 On one hand, I want there to be football. On 0:04:20.520 --> 0:04:23.000 the other I have real serious concerns about whether or 0:04:23.040 --> 0:04:26.080 not they can do it safely. So, you know, we'll 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:28.280 see where it goes from here. I did see that 0:04:28.839 --> 0:04:33.440 some schools are having guys sign waivers rights things that nature. 0:04:33.440 --> 0:04:36.440 Were kind of wading into this murky almost legal territory 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:41.320 now because of the ongoing coronavirus risk. So certainly more 0:04:41.320 --> 0:04:43.760 to come on this front. Dan, Yeah, and then the 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:46.120 waivers are a little tricky. I'm not sure how much 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:48.560 waivers hold up in court. This is me definite non 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:51.000 lawyer saying this. But it's also going to be very 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:53.160 hard to prove if somebody comes down with something that 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:55.520 you know, a coach or a trainer or a medical 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:58.880 staff within a football program was negligent on some level, 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:02.200 and how do you that somebody contracted it from football 0:05:02.240 --> 0:05:08.240 activities or normal everyday academic or social activities. So it's 0:05:08.279 --> 0:05:10.760 definitely a murky territory, I'm saying. You know, some schools 0:05:10.760 --> 0:05:12.520 have been doing better than others in terms of the 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:16.120 number of kids and the percentage of people testing positive. 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:20.080 I guess the one real silver lining positive thing is 0:05:20.160 --> 0:05:23.800 this is happening in what mid June, and there is 0:05:23.839 --> 0:05:27.440 at least a runway for schools and training staffs to 0:05:27.560 --> 0:05:31.880 really perfect best practices health wise, you know, whether it's 0:05:31.920 --> 0:05:35.080 the isolating, whether it's treatment, whether it's figuring out new 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:40.400 protocols to ensure the best possible safety option for athletes 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:43.360 that are testing positive, be that symptomatic or ace symptomatic. 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:46.960 So it's good that nobody's having to throw everything together, 0:05:47.080 --> 0:05:50.640 even though nobody's practicing. Right now, there are no football, 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:54.000 true football activities happening, so once that starts, that's. 0:05:53.880 --> 0:05:56.360 Going to be a whole new situation. But at least 0:05:56.400 --> 0:05:59.600 right now, when you have this voluntary workout period, that 0:06:00.240 --> 0:06:04.640 there are medical steps being taken that can be honed 0:06:04.760 --> 0:06:08.400 and crafted to best protect athletes. That's to me the 0:06:08.440 --> 0:06:10.600 silver lining that you know, there can be some sort 0:06:10.640 --> 0:06:13.760 of well oiled machine by the time things get pretty serious. 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:15.920 Yeah, and again I hate to keep saying it, but truly, 0:06:16.080 --> 0:06:19.000 we'll see, We'll see where this goes. We hope everyone 0:06:19.080 --> 0:06:22.520 that contracted this is on the road on the mend, 0:06:23.200 --> 0:06:27.080 on the road to recovery, because scary thing obviously been 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:29.719 very much in the news here, And hope everyone feels 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:33.120 better soon. Elsewhere in the world of college football, we 0:06:33.160 --> 0:06:36.520 have Florida making an announcement they are going to stop 0:06:36.560 --> 0:06:41.360 the gatorbait cheer and associated band performance. There's a racist 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:46.640 history of the term. They announced it on Thursday, so 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:50.520 you know, given current climate and obviously given the more 0:06:50.560 --> 0:06:55.800 significant nature of the chant and the history thereof, they 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:56.680 have decided. 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:58.000 To cease that, which I think is a good move. 0:06:59.080 --> 0:07:00.960 Yeah, it seems to me make sense. I know, there's 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:03.359 always going to be pushback and there's going to be 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:07.000 people out there questioning, like all this sports are canceled 0:07:07.080 --> 0:07:10.160 pretty much, you can't say these very basic, unoffending, non 0:07:10.200 --> 0:07:13.880 offending things. I actually thought our Powell Richard Johnson put 0:07:13.920 --> 0:07:17.120 it really succinctly that Florida out of nowhere created a 0:07:17.160 --> 0:07:19.920 new tradition with Tom Petty, the Tom Petty song they 0:07:19.920 --> 0:07:24.080 played between the third and fourth flowers. It's won't back down. 0:07:24.200 --> 0:07:26.760 There's no reason why they can't just sort of tweak 0:07:26.880 --> 0:07:30.960 and alter. And if Gator Bait has racial undertones that 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:33.000 people weren't aware of, I know it was associated with 0:07:33.200 --> 0:07:37.080 a prison release and work program that sort of dehumanized 0:07:37.120 --> 0:07:40.440 prisoners in a certain way, I'm fine with it. Like 0:07:40.680 --> 0:07:44.920 just life evolves, things, things change and we move forward. 0:07:45.000 --> 0:07:48.640 And if that includes adding Tom Petty to any sort 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:50.800 of traditional rotation, fine with that. 0:07:50.880 --> 0:07:52.480 Totally good, totally good, all right. 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:58.880 And AIA schools are prohibited from playing before September the twelfth, 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:03.000 which means there have been and some scheduling changes, some cancelations. 0:08:03.040 --> 0:08:06.800 We had Southern against Tennessee State, we had Jackson State 0:08:06.800 --> 0:08:10.400 against Tennessee State, and Southern against Florida A and M 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:13.280 on September the twelfth. Those games have I guess, been 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:14.640 what straight up canceled. 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:18.320 Now they've been straight up canceled. It's something worth monitoring, 0:08:18.320 --> 0:08:21.840 at least for the short term. Obviously, smaller schools are 0:08:21.840 --> 0:08:24.200 going to have less in the way of resources health wise, 0:08:24.240 --> 0:08:28.440 and so they're taking precautions. I just I hope everything 0:08:28.520 --> 0:08:31.400 works out time. That's all I'm hoping for, and I'm 0:08:31.440 --> 0:08:34.960 hoping everybody stays as safe as humanly possible. But yeah, 0:08:35.080 --> 0:08:38.440 those are our first real major cancelations that we've seen, 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:41.600 even though those are smaller schools. Anytime we have less 0:08:41.600 --> 0:08:44.240 college football because of a situation like this, it is 0:08:44.280 --> 0:08:44.880 worth noting. 0:08:45.080 --> 0:08:49.240 Elsewhere in scheduling news, we have news that Ohio State 0:08:49.240 --> 0:08:52.280 and Alabama have scheduled a home and home dan Yeah 0:08:52.320 --> 0:08:56.480 man in twenty twenty seven and twenty twenty eight. I 0:08:56.520 --> 0:08:58.880 did the math. Nick Saban would be seventy five years 0:08:58.920 --> 0:09:00.320 old for the first of these games. 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:01.360 Yeah. 0:09:01.559 --> 0:09:03.640 Will he still be at Alabama when he's seventy five 0:09:03.720 --> 0:09:04.120 years old? 0:09:04.600 --> 0:09:05.560 I don't think so. 0:09:06.200 --> 0:09:06.720 I think. 0:09:08.760 --> 0:09:13.720 What a Billy Napier, Luke Fickle matchup, Matt Campbell, Jeremy 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:19.520 Pruitt or Mario Christobal matchup. It I couldn't see either coach, 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:22.680 especially if Ryan Day continues his trajectory at this point 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:27.640 and having the brief NFL past he has. It feels 0:09:27.640 --> 0:09:30.439 like a two different coach matchup. By the way, though Ty, 0:09:30.559 --> 0:09:33.800 this is all burying the most important part of this, 0:09:34.440 --> 0:09:38.520 which is hell yeah, hell yeah in Alabama playing at home 0:09:38.559 --> 0:09:42.160 and home. That is going to be enormous. That is 0:09:42.240 --> 0:09:45.240 going to be so incredibly fun to watch, just for 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:47.840 the energy in the stadium when you have I can't 0:09:47.880 --> 0:09:50.839 remember the last time too. I mean, we've had some 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:53.640 Clemson Georgia matchups, but neither one of those teams were 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:56.840 really really national title contenders at the same time when 0:09:56.880 --> 0:09:59.959 they were matching up. I don't believe USC and Alabama 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:03.600 played and have will continue to play hopefully this year, 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:07.000 but they haven't really crossed over as national powers. I'm 0:10:07.000 --> 0:10:10.760 trying to remember the last time two national powers, true 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:14.520 national powers that ended up playing at the start of 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:18.400 a season in September. And we're also looking like they 0:10:18.400 --> 0:10:22.400 could be November names because I do like a literation 0:10:23.000 --> 0:10:25.360 at the same time, so hopefully that's still the case 0:10:25.360 --> 0:10:28.040 in twenty twenty seven, twenty twenty eight, Ty, you will 0:10:28.040 --> 0:10:29.600 be well into your forties. 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:32.480 Yep, yep, I'm looking at it right now here. I'm 0:10:32.520 --> 0:10:36.880 doing some backup the Napkin math, and if I am correct, yeah, 0:10:36.920 --> 0:10:40.640 we'll be in our forties. But this could potentially be 0:10:40.720 --> 0:10:43.880 a matchup between a fifty seven year old Dabo Sweeney 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:48.520 and a oh my god, thirty five year old Tommy Reese. 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:50.839 Never know whoaver know? 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:54.400 Good math, Ty, good math. And then I think I 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:58.679 saw Wazoo and Mississippi State have scheduled a home and 0:10:58.760 --> 0:11:00.440 home twenty thirty two thirty. 0:11:00.840 --> 0:11:04.200 I will not be there for that game. No say 0:11:04.280 --> 0:11:04.720 that much. 0:11:05.120 --> 0:11:06.600 Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna go ahead and agree with 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:07.480 you on that one tie. 0:11:07.559 --> 0:11:08.440 Yeah, he won't be there. 0:11:09.000 --> 0:11:14.760 And finally, for our new segment this evening, Duke's Mayonnaise. 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:20.040 Initially I read this as the school Duke They're mayonnaise, 0:11:20.080 --> 0:11:22.160 But apparently Duke's Mayonnaise is a brand. 0:11:22.240 --> 0:11:23.920 What do you mean? Apparently? Come on? 0:11:24.320 --> 0:11:25.000 I didn't know that. 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:28.200 Really, you didn't know Duke's Mayo. It's a famous mayo brand. 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:30.280 I never heard of Duke's. I've heard of Helman's. Wait 0:11:30.320 --> 0:11:32.679 until I introduced it a Japanese Mayo tie. 0:11:32.600 --> 0:11:36.640 New title sponsor of the regular season college football game 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:40.720 and postseason bowl game played in Charlotte. They are taking 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:45.080 over for Belk, which means Dan that on September the 0:11:45.120 --> 0:11:50.480 twenty sixth, at Bank of America Stadium, the Duke's Mayo 0:11:50.600 --> 0:11:55.080 Classic will feature Wake Forest and the Notre Dame fighting 0:11:55.120 --> 0:12:00.440 Irish So great. I've been part and part sold to 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:03.560 a Pinstripe Bowl, and now it looks like I'm going 0:12:03.600 --> 0:12:06.600 to get a Duke's Mayo Classic that I can talk 0:12:06.640 --> 0:12:07.240 about as well. 0:12:07.480 --> 0:12:11.320 Somebody send us a Duke's Mayo Classic hat, Please, please please. 0:12:11.320 --> 0:12:12.520 I don't know I they're gonna be selling them in 0:12:12.559 --> 0:12:16.000 bookstores for what is it, late September, a late September matchup, 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:17.959 but please do send it to us. And it's too 0:12:18.000 --> 0:12:20.320 bad Mike Elco is not a part of it, having 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:22.959 made that journey from Winston Salem to South Bend. 0:12:23.480 --> 0:12:26.080 The Duke's Mayo Bowl will be held at Bank of 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:29.840 America Stadium as well. Obviously we'll figure out who plays 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:34.800 in that game, typically between teams from the ACC and 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:35.360 the Big Ten. 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:36.640 Sometimes the SEC. 0:12:36.960 --> 0:12:37.960 You a Mayo guy. 0:12:39.880 --> 0:12:42.800 In SI I know it can be very divisive, divisive 0:12:43.200 --> 0:12:48.559 on social media. Yeah, in in spots. I've been places 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:51.760 around the country where they're very aggressive with their Mayo. 0:12:51.960 --> 0:12:52.400 I'm not an. 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:55.800 Aggressive Mayo type, but mixed in with a good like 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:58.880 burger sauce or sure, something like that. 0:12:59.080 --> 0:13:01.680 Yeah, potato salad. Are you good with that? 0:13:01.960 --> 0:13:02.280 Sure? 0:13:02.600 --> 0:13:03.400 Yeah? Okay. 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:06.720 Need the right proportion though, of Mayo. If you're over 0:13:06.760 --> 0:13:09.880 the top with it, I'm I'm not interested, But I 0:13:09.920 --> 0:13:12.520 think in my old age here, I've come around on it. 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:15.959 I do like Mayo a good deal. Ty, I do 0:13:16.280 --> 0:13:19.720 like Mayo a good deal. Burger sauce, non burger sauce, 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:22.680 potato salad, turkey sandwich. Hit me with some Mao for sure, 0:13:22.720 --> 0:13:23.079 I'm in. 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:24.720 So here is the deal. 0:13:24.720 --> 0:13:27.559 You can always email us at solid verbal at gmail 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:30.520 dot com let us know what you think about what 0:13:30.559 --> 0:13:32.680 we have to say and where we should go next. 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:35.480 We're always interested in your feedback. But one of the 0:13:35.520 --> 0:13:38.400 things that we've gotten time and again during the off 0:13:38.480 --> 0:13:41.920 season is folks want to talk more with coaches and 0:13:42.760 --> 0:13:45.320 hear more from the guys who are calling the plays 0:13:45.360 --> 0:13:46.559 and drawing up the schemes. 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:48.720 And we've got one of those today. 0:13:48.720 --> 0:13:52.640 Don't we not just we've got a pretty major one too. 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:56.400 And Joe Morehead, who not just from what he's accomplished. 0:13:56.440 --> 0:13:59.280 Be it at way back when at u Con, yes 0:14:00.080 --> 0:14:03.160 on the Jordan Toddman twenty ten offense, that's the Joe 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:05.959 Morehead offense. Tie at Fordham took over a team that 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:08.760 went one to ten and led them to Patriot League glory. 0:14:08.800 --> 0:14:10.679 And then we all remember what he did at Penn 0:14:10.720 --> 0:14:13.640 State with Trace McSorley and Saquon Barkley and your guy what, 0:14:13.840 --> 0:14:18.439 Mike Gaziki, Yeah, that's your secret guy, Kans Gasicki, Hans Gacicki. 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:22.520 It didn't work out at Mississippi State, but certainly a 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:26.840 star like Kylon Hill thrived during Joe Moorehead's time in 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:29.360 Mississippi State. And now he is the current offensive coordinator 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:33.080 recently hired for my Oregon Ducks, so it really he 0:14:33.400 --> 0:14:37.120 does bridge the gap. I live in New York, home 0:14:37.160 --> 0:14:39.240 of Fordham, New York's wuntter team, and then he's at 0:14:39.240 --> 0:14:41.840 Penn State in Oregon, so it's as close I would 0:14:41.920 --> 0:14:45.840 assume as a coach who can bridge the college football 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:46.920 gap between us, right? 0:14:47.280 --> 0:14:49.400 I think that's right. I think that's right. 0:14:49.440 --> 0:14:53.920 I'm excited about this interview again, going out to Instagram, 0:14:53.960 --> 0:14:56.200 going out to Twitter, going out to Facebook, or read 0:14:56.320 --> 0:14:59.120 it anywhere you can find the solid verbal and let 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:01.040 us know your thoughts at to the fact. But without 0:15:01.120 --> 0:15:02.520 further ado, Dan, shall we dive. 0:15:02.400 --> 0:15:06.560 In and with that I welcome in brand new Oregon 0:15:06.640 --> 0:15:10.480 offensive coordinator formerly of Mississippi State, Penn State, and obviously, 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:15.200 most importantly the fordum Rams, Joe moorehead. I guess first, 0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:18.760 how'd the cross country move go? During a pandemic? 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:23.520 We bought an RV and packed everyone in including the dog, 0:15:23.640 --> 0:15:26.640 and made the forty four hour drive just under a week. 0:15:27.360 --> 0:15:31.800 But it was There are some National Lampoon vacation moments, 0:15:31.840 --> 0:15:33.720 but overall it was a positive experience. 0:15:33.880 --> 0:15:36.280 This is with wife and with kids all in the 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:37.040 same car. 0:15:37.000 --> 0:15:38.720 Like two kids and a dog in an RV. 0:15:38.880 --> 0:15:39.240 Yesser. 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:44.360 So other than everything, how is your job right now? 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:47.640 How is your profession? I imagine night and day from what 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:50.200 you're used to at least this time of year. 0:15:51.120 --> 0:15:53.040 I mean, it's been surreal in a lot of ways. 0:15:53.120 --> 0:15:58.200 You know, things were going kind of as it was, 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:01.520 standards kind of operating procedure off until our four spring 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:04.600 ball practice, and that's when everything kind of hit. Things 0:16:04.640 --> 0:16:07.240 started getting shut down, and I had already a plan 0:16:07.560 --> 0:16:10.520 to go back to Mississippi for spring break because the 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:13.000 family was still there finishing out the school year. Right 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:17.520 since that time, everything's been virtual doing everything, you know, recruiting, 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:21.200 position meetings, all that stuff on zoom, and it's just 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:23.040 been you know, it's like you said, it's been a 0:16:23.080 --> 0:16:23.640 crazy time. 0:16:24.400 --> 0:16:27.920 So things don't work out in Starkville, which I'm sure 0:16:28.040 --> 0:16:31.880 leaves you disappointed, to say the least. What kind of 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:35.960 timeline do you have to sort of process things there, 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:40.240 reflect on everything, and then figure out what's next from 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:43.920 both I guess a coaching and family perspective. 0:16:44.760 --> 0:16:46.360 Yeah, I mean you can make the argument. I mean, 0:16:46.480 --> 0:16:48.280 ultimately it didn't work out because I was let go, 0:16:48.440 --> 0:16:50.880 but I'm certainly proud of the things we did there. You know, 0:16:50.920 --> 0:16:53.640 average seventh a year, which was just as many as 0:16:53.640 --> 0:16:57.000 my predecessor. My two year record was one game better 0:16:57.000 --> 0:16:59.400 in the regular season than the two years before I arrived. 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:03.080 Two bowls, three top twenty five recruiting classes, two wins 0:17:03.080 --> 0:17:05.119 over the top twenty five teams. So I keep my 0:17:05.119 --> 0:17:07.199 head held high and proud of what we did with 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:09.760 the kids. But you know, things happened this profession and 0:17:10.359 --> 0:17:12.520 you know that's those things you just have to deal with. 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:14.680 But you know, as a family, we kind of regrouped, 0:17:15.680 --> 0:17:17.720 you know, after I got let go. You know, it 0:17:17.760 --> 0:17:21.040 wasn't a very long amount of time before people at 0:17:21.080 --> 0:17:23.120 the college level, in the NFL level were reaching out 0:17:23.119 --> 0:17:25.440 with opportunities, and you know, as a family, we felt 0:17:25.520 --> 0:17:27.840 Organ was just the best choice to move forward. 0:17:28.680 --> 0:17:29.199 Why was that? 0:17:30.640 --> 0:17:34.040 I think it was a combination of things. Location a 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:36.360 coach for Crystal Ball, and the culture and the mindset 0:17:36.359 --> 0:17:40.400 and the mentality he's brought out here, you know, the town, 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:42.560 on the roster and you know, I've been a part 0:17:42.600 --> 0:17:47.080 of four conference championships at the last five schools I've 0:17:47.119 --> 0:17:50.920 been at, and I really think that Organ was once 0:17:50.960 --> 0:17:53.680 again with the talent, with the culture, the conference, you 0:17:53.760 --> 0:17:56.240 are kind of on the precipice there of you know, 0:17:56.280 --> 0:17:59.480 of you know, cracking into that that that final four, 0:17:59.560 --> 0:18:01.400 and that's one thing and twenty two years of coach 0:18:01.440 --> 0:18:02.879 and I haven't had an opportunity to is play for 0:18:02.960 --> 0:18:05.280 the for the big one, so you know that was 0:18:05.359 --> 0:18:07.320 kind of part of the lure as well. Well. 0:18:07.320 --> 0:18:09.760 I was going to say, now you're also in a situation, 0:18:10.080 --> 0:18:13.919 maybe for the first time, you're joining a program already 0:18:13.960 --> 0:18:18.719 on top of its conference. What's what's what's the interview process? Like, 0:18:18.760 --> 0:18:22.639 what's what's that conversation when you don't need to go 0:18:22.720 --> 0:18:26.080 in and say I'm going to overhaul things by doing X, 0:18:26.280 --> 0:18:29.480 Y and Z, I'm going to dramatically fix an offense, 0:18:29.760 --> 0:18:32.120 but rather, here's how I can give it a new 0:18:32.200 --> 0:18:33.879 sort of punch. What's that conversation? 0:18:34.040 --> 0:18:36.720 Like, Yeah, it's kind of funny. I haven't really not 0:18:36.840 --> 0:18:39.720 thought of that. You know, at Mississippi State, you know, 0:18:40.160 --> 0:18:44.280 hadn't had a had had one winning conference record in 0:18:44.520 --> 0:18:46.359 I think twenty one years, I believe, and hadn't won 0:18:46.400 --> 0:18:48.680 the conference since nineteen forty one. So that was certainly 0:18:49.080 --> 0:18:51.160 something we were looking to try to try to build, 0:18:51.240 --> 0:18:53.840 you know, into a championship program. And at Penn State, 0:18:54.560 --> 0:18:56.720 you know, we were you know, coach had done a 0:18:56.720 --> 0:19:00.280 great job during those turbulent times of I think six 0:19:00.320 --> 0:19:02.720 and six back to back years and then we kind 0:19:02.720 --> 0:19:04.560 of broke through there and then it fored them. So 0:19:05.800 --> 0:19:07.840 you know, that's not something I thought, but in the 0:19:07.840 --> 0:19:10.520 interview process, it really kind of wasn't about that, and 0:19:10.760 --> 0:19:13.439 Oregon had been successful last year offensively, But what can 0:19:13.480 --> 0:19:15.800 we do when coach uses a term to elevate the standard? 0:19:16.240 --> 0:19:18.080 You know, what can we do offensively not only to 0:19:18.160 --> 0:19:20.920 keep the ship rolling, but to improve upon it? 0:19:22.160 --> 0:19:25.720 Something I think is fascinating hearing some head coaches talk 0:19:25.800 --> 0:19:29.800 about bringing a coordinator in to run the team system, 0:19:29.880 --> 0:19:34.080 not necessarily the coordinator system. And so, now that you're 0:19:34.080 --> 0:19:37.080 on the job, do you get the sense that Oregon 0:19:37.119 --> 0:19:40.800 fans will see a familiar offense with your spin on it, 0:19:41.040 --> 0:19:45.920 or like a capital J Joe morehead offense, however that's defined. 0:19:46.760 --> 0:19:50.239 Yeah, and I think that the change won't be as 0:19:50.680 --> 0:19:53.359 visible to the casual fan as it was at Penn State, 0:19:53.480 --> 0:19:56.760 where it was more of a conversion between a pro 0:19:56.840 --> 0:19:59.439 style and a spread. I think a lot of the 0:19:59.440 --> 0:20:02.960 personnel groups, I think it'll it'll look most similar in 0:20:03.000 --> 0:20:07.479 the run game to Oregon from twenty nineteen. I think 0:20:07.520 --> 0:20:09.920 the biggest difference you'll see is in the past game 0:20:09.960 --> 0:20:12.439 of some of the r PO things. But you had 0:20:12.560 --> 0:20:15.600 incredibly experienced and talented staff, you know, coach Maria Ball, 0:20:15.640 --> 0:20:18.800 coach Williams, coach Mastro, you know, bringing in coach McClendon 0:20:18.800 --> 0:20:21.399 from South Carolina and coach Chris of Ball's expertise is 0:20:21.440 --> 0:20:23.760 the offensive line, and they ran the heck out of 0:20:23.800 --> 0:20:25.760 the ball last year. You know, we had the SEC's 0:20:25.840 --> 0:20:28.440 leading rusher and I think we're second, second or third 0:20:29.000 --> 0:20:30.720 in a league in rush in two years in a row. 0:20:30.760 --> 0:20:32.920 And then you know, going back to Penn State and 0:20:32.960 --> 0:20:35.520 Fordham even before that, you know, we want to be 0:20:35.520 --> 0:20:38.320 able to run the ball successfully, but I think you know, 0:20:38.440 --> 0:20:40.560 our willingness and ability to throw the ball down the 0:20:40.560 --> 0:20:43.360 field in the pass game, that'll probably be the biggest 0:20:43.359 --> 0:20:47.240