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Speaker 2: Some of you love this place I'm at right now.

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Speaker 2: Some of you hate this place I'm at right now,

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Speaker 2: which is beautiful because it gives me a job. But

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Speaker 2: the thing about it is, sometimes you can just get

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Speaker 2: actually going to do that on the show tonight, and

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Speaker 2: a little while Morio Cristo Paul is going to join us.

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Speaker 2: We're about as extended a conversation as I've had, I mean,

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Speaker 2: big game days just offset. I haven't talked to him

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Speaker 2: for an extended fifty minute period of time in my life,

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Speaker 2: and yet the head coach got him, and yet the

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Speaker 2: head coach of Miami did it for us tonight. So

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Speaker 2: we're going to do that. We're going to talk about

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Speaker 2: a whole lot more more jampacked, we're high atop the

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Speaker 2: University of Miami. But also we've got some other things

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Speaker 2: to talk about. Talent, you know that ty word everyone

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Speaker 2: throws around. We got out talented, they got more talent.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes I think some people are kind of full of

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Speaker 2: talk about the real fifteen most talented bosters in college

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Speaker 2: football tonight and the message that the blue chip ratio

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Speaker 2: is sending us. Recruiting is on fire. Those of you

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Speaker 2: of recruiting season, it's now it's June, it's July. This

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Speaker 2: building we're in is crawling, or will be in about

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Speaker 2: the next twenty four hours with elite prospects from all

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Speaker 2: I'm going to talk about that in a whole lot

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Speaker 2: more later on. Bold Predictions are back tonight, and as

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Speaker 2: I said, we'll have Moriochristbaul on the show for a

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Speaker 2: quite a while in a little while. Wainsboro, Pa Is

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Speaker 2: tuned in, Key West, Florida, Hampstead, North Carolina, Folesome, California. Hey,

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Speaker 2: I don't know, you live your life the way you

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Speaker 2: want to, but if you haven't been following us on

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Speaker 2: the socials the last few days at Late Kick, Josh,

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Speaker 2: there is so much what we would call ancillary content

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Speaker 2: we don't show you on air that you're missing. I mean,

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Speaker 2: it's really good, Like even my mom follows so why

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Speaker 2: in the world would you not be following at Lake

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Speaker 2: kick Josh Okay into this because we got a lot

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Speaker 2: to get to tonight. It's going to be a really

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Speaker 2: long show, but a really jam packed show because there

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Speaker 2: is no season around here. You know how a lot

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Speaker 2: of people talk about talent all the time. We definitely

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Speaker 2: need the pieces to win. A talent doesn't guarantee you wins.

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Speaker 2: Like Mema always said, a good foundation does not guarantee

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Mema, and she was right about that. And likewise,

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Speaker 2: with college football rosters, not every five star upon five

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Speaker 2: star equals eventual national championship. But yet every national championship

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Speaker 2: certain characteristics from them. And b Elliott does the whole

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Speaker 2: But look at Clemson. There're seventy two percent of their

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Speaker 2: Those kids that are on A and M's roster, they

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Speaker 2: Three of them are baked into Bama's roster right now.

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Speaker 2: In fact, I mean Bud put it in the article.

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Speaker 2: Florida State's not on this. This is to me the

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Speaker 2: Doesn't mean they couldn't. But at the same time, as

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Speaker 2: twenty two, may be void of massive question marks, we

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Speaker 2: also understand the quality depth you have to have who

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Speaker 2: so rarefied airs what we're talking about here. You get

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Speaker 2: For instance, you understand that they're twos. Whoever you're playing against,

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Speaker 2: there's not a big drop off. Especially we go to

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Speaker 2: national championship games all the time, we go to playoff games.

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Speaker 2: That's the difference, and sometimes they roll three deep on

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Speaker 2: USC was used to. So they just had a Pete

432
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Speaker 2: Carroll kind of week is my point there, And they

433
00:20:05,960 --> 00:20:08,720
Speaker 2: took five commits within a twenty four hour period, and

434
00:20:08,760 --> 00:20:10,360
Speaker 2: everyone looked around and said, wow, is this the way

435
00:20:10,359 --> 00:20:14,080
Speaker 2: it's going to be here again? Earlier return say yes,

436
00:20:14,240 --> 00:20:16,520
Speaker 2: at least as long as Lincoln Riley's there. They got

437
00:20:16,560 --> 00:20:20,359
Speaker 2: eight commits, number twenty one class in the country. Ignore

438
00:20:20,400 --> 00:20:22,879
Speaker 2: the national rankings right now, that's going to fluctuate by

439
00:20:22,920 --> 00:20:26,480
Speaker 2: the hour. But they were all offensive line or defense,

440
00:20:26,760 --> 00:20:28,840
Speaker 2: so it wasn't just a lot of running backs wide receivers.

441
00:20:28,840 --> 00:20:31,520
Speaker 2: They've got quarterback taken care for like the next half millennium.

442
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Speaker 2: But they took a kid out of Atlanta Fountain six

443
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Speaker 2: five two forty's an edge. I know because I had

444
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Speaker 2: some coaches text me when he went to USC that

445
00:20:42,520 --> 00:20:44,760
Speaker 2: was a guy that was very coveted around the Southeast

446
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Speaker 2: and elsewhere. That was a national recruitment. And like I

447
00:20:47,560 --> 00:20:51,199
Speaker 2: said at the beginning, not over, people won't stop recruiting

448
00:20:51,280 --> 00:20:53,640
Speaker 2: that kid, but to land him at least a verbal

449
00:20:53,640 --> 00:20:55,760
Speaker 2: from him, was a big deal. And they've got six

450
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Speaker 2: states represented so far out of those eight commits. So

451
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Speaker 2: you're used to talking about them as having just a

452
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Speaker 2: need to lock down southern California, which would be wonderful,

453
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Speaker 2: But as we've noted many times on this program, it's

454
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Speaker 2: not that easy. It's not paint by numbers like that.

455
00:21:10,800 --> 00:21:13,720
Speaker 2: They don't produce enough line of scrimmage talent in the

456
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Speaker 2: state of California right now, and so you could be

457
00:21:16,359 --> 00:21:18,960
Speaker 2: fifteen deep at each position in the wide receiver room.

458
00:21:19,359 --> 00:21:21,600
Speaker 2: If you don't have time to throw, it really doesn't matter, guys.

459
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Speaker 2: So they've kind of taken the national approach as needed.

460
00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:28,960
Speaker 2: I'm in Coral Gables right now. I'm at Miami, and

461
00:21:29,880 --> 00:21:32,440
Speaker 2: there is an energy about the official visit weekend they're

462
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Speaker 2: about to have here, the likes of which I don't

463
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Speaker 2: know that I've been around. And we're frequently in the

464
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Speaker 2: halls of Bama Georgia all the big programs, and for

465
00:21:41,440 --> 00:21:44,760
Speaker 2: good reason. Because I'm talking to Wilfong earlier today, I'm

466
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Speaker 2: talking to some of our national guys, and just the

467
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Speaker 2: names we know is like a Hoost's Hoots of elite

468
00:21:52,840 --> 00:21:55,760
Speaker 2: recruiting profiles. In the top two, four seven. Right now,

469
00:21:55,840 --> 00:21:57,919
Speaker 2: you got four of the top ten players in the

470
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Speaker 2: country that we know of be on campus this weekend.

471
00:22:01,280 --> 00:22:03,719
Speaker 2: You got six of the top thirty five. Those are

472
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Speaker 2: elite numbers. Those are elite official visit numbers for the

473
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Speaker 2: best of the best. So I know, and I'll address

474
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Speaker 2: it later when we talk to Mario Cristobaul in person.

475
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Speaker 2: I know there are some of you out there because

476
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Speaker 2: I read my dms that do not believe the talent

477
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Speaker 2: level that once existed on this campus could ever be

478
00:22:21,440 --> 00:22:25,120
Speaker 2: here again because the desire to stay home will never

479
00:22:25,240 --> 00:22:27,480
Speaker 2: exist to the degree that it used to. First thing

480
00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:29,480
Speaker 2: I will tell you, and I'll let him tell you later,

481
00:22:29,600 --> 00:22:32,959
Speaker 2: is it's not just locking down South Florida. Not all

482
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Speaker 2: these dudes who are visiting this weekend, not all the

483
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Speaker 2: elite dudes who will be on their commit list come December,

484
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Speaker 2: are from South Florida. Kind Of like we talked about

485
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Speaker 2: with USC. You want to lock down home state, but

486
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Speaker 2: you have to regionally and nationally go about things as

487
00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:49,040
Speaker 2: need be. And the second thing I would say is

488
00:22:49,440 --> 00:22:53,199
Speaker 2: this is an open ended question for anyone. Define what

489
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Speaker 2: it takes to win in college football, whatever that is

490
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Speaker 2: for you, and then tell me why they can't do

491
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Speaker 2: that here or tell me what they lack here. And

492
00:23:02,359 --> 00:23:05,720
Speaker 2: I'm talking about not in terms of currently existing, but

493
00:23:05,760 --> 00:23:09,000
Speaker 2: in terms of potential. What does it take to have

494
00:23:09,560 --> 00:23:11,720
Speaker 2: that they don't have the ability to have here? They

495
00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:14,880
Speaker 2: obviously once had it. So what's changed, What's evolved about

496
00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:16,760
Speaker 2: the sport? What erode it away from this place? My

497
00:23:16,800 --> 00:23:18,679
Speaker 2: answer is nothing. I've already told you that. So my

498
00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:21,560
Speaker 2: challenge to you is to prove me wrong. There watch

499
00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:24,720
Speaker 2: the ticker this weekend will be on Sunday Night. I

500
00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:27,240
Speaker 2: would probably expect that we will talk about this again

501
00:23:27,440 --> 00:23:30,399
Speaker 2: on the Sunday Night Show. How about Wisconsin. Who in

502
00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:32,120
Speaker 2: the world goes from Coral Gables to Madison?

503
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Speaker 1: What we do?

504
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Speaker 2: Because Luke fickles in town and all of a sudden,

505
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Speaker 2: I've had more people mentioned Wisconsin recruiting to me like

506
00:23:39,760 --> 00:23:43,000
Speaker 2: those two words back to back in the past month

507
00:23:43,040 --> 00:23:46,560
Speaker 2: than I have my entire life combine. And for good reason.

508
00:23:46,960 --> 00:23:49,320
Speaker 2: They've got a big weekend coming up themselves, but also

509
00:23:49,400 --> 00:23:53,000
Speaker 2: they just landed for over the past week and are

510
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Speaker 2: trending for several more. It's not going to be a

511
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Speaker 2: who's who of landing kiss from Florida, Georgia, Texas. They're

512
00:24:00,480 --> 00:24:02,680
Speaker 2: not going to go in there and beat Texas, Alabama, Georgia,

513
00:24:02,680 --> 00:24:04,600
Speaker 2: et cetera for those players. But what they are doing

514
00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:06,480
Speaker 2: is they're taking some of the best of the best

515
00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:09,480
Speaker 2: from the Midwest, and then they're also going to sprinkle

516
00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:12,240
Speaker 2: pieces from the state of Florida and elsewhere. So it's

517
00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:14,919
Speaker 2: really interesting because when that staff came in there, you know,

518
00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:17,959
Speaker 2: Luke Fickle developed pound for pound about as well as

519
00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:20,359
Speaker 2: anyone in America had. When they were at Cincinnati. You

520
00:24:20,359 --> 00:24:22,000
Speaker 2: watched that team go to the playoff. Then you watch

521
00:24:22,040 --> 00:24:23,639
Speaker 2: how many guys they sent to the NFL, and I

522
00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:26,159
Speaker 2: guarantee you those names that went in the first and

523
00:24:26,200 --> 00:24:28,720
Speaker 2: second round of the draft were not names by and

524
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Speaker 2: large that we were talking about three and four years

525
00:24:30,920 --> 00:24:33,320
Speaker 2: prior on signing day. So he did a heck of

526
00:24:33,359 --> 00:24:35,800
Speaker 2: a job developing and I don't doubt they will do

527
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Speaker 2: that there as well, because a lot of the same

528
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Speaker 2: guys that were with him in Cincinnati are with him

529
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Speaker 2: now in Madison. But also, let's just be real about it,

530
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Speaker 2: they probably have the ability to recruit a different caliber

531
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Speaker 2: athlete as well, and that's happening right now, and verbals

532
00:24:48,880 --> 00:24:51,720
Speaker 2: are happening right now. Number fifteen class got twelve commits.

533
00:24:52,080 --> 00:24:55,320
Speaker 2: Like I said, big weekend coming up. It's just assumed

534
00:24:55,359 --> 00:24:58,080
Speaker 2: Wisconsin will never do anything. It's just assume they have

535
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Speaker 2: to t see you their way to a big year.

536
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Speaker 2: And it's probably assumed TCU's better position in Wisconsin. I

537
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Speaker 2: assume that all things equal, I would assume a program

538
00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:10,280
Speaker 2: like TCU not a perennial powerhouse by any stretch, not

539
00:25:10,359 --> 00:25:14,159
Speaker 2: an assigning day main stay. They're probably better positioned geographically,

540
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Speaker 2: if nothing else. Then Wisconsin Luke Fickle apparently begs to

541
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Speaker 2: different and so watch them as well because they're a

542
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Speaker 2: team in the Big ten not named Ohio State, in

543
00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:24,720
Speaker 2: Michigan or Penn State that's starting to make a move.

544
00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:28,120
Speaker 2: Florida has had big visitors in I got an eye

545
00:25:28,160 --> 00:25:30,280
Speaker 2: on them, got an on Auburn and Georgia this weekend.

546
00:25:30,280 --> 00:25:32,679
Speaker 2: A lot of the SEC schools just have big visitors

547
00:25:32,760 --> 00:25:35,720
Speaker 2: lists rolling through every weekend. This is not an exhaustive list,

548
00:25:36,200 --> 00:25:38,480
Speaker 2: but this is certainly a list of teams that I'm watching.

549
00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:43,240
Speaker 2: I mean the goings on specifically at Clemson and now

550
00:25:43,320 --> 00:25:46,680
Speaker 2: Miami this weekend. It's stuff I watch because I have

551
00:25:47,160 --> 00:25:49,080
Speaker 2: told you that the PAC twelve is not the most

552
00:25:49,160 --> 00:25:52,960
Speaker 2: underachieving conference in America, nor is the Big twelve because

553
00:25:52,960 --> 00:25:55,240
Speaker 2: they got a little more baked in excuse. The ACC

554
00:25:55,680 --> 00:26:00,000
Speaker 2: has been the most disappointing underachieving conference in America because,

555
00:26:00,160 --> 00:26:03,840
Speaker 2: unlike the other two, you don't have the excuse of

556
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Speaker 2: being talent starved over here. A Clemson's taken care of

557
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Speaker 2: business over the past decade. Nobody in Virginia has kept

558
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Speaker 2: their into the bargain Miami, Florida State. They have not

559
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Speaker 2: kept their into the bargain, and the potential is there,

560
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Speaker 2: so I'm constantly glued to it. If we're being real

561
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Speaker 2: with ourselves, they're programs in the Big Twelve that have

562
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Speaker 2: no hope like that. They're programs in the Pactrol that

563
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Speaker 2: have no hope like that. You've got half a dozen

564
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Speaker 2: of them in this conference that haven't followed through on potential,

565
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566
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568
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569
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570
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571
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585
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587
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Speaker 2: want to miss this either, Colin. Here's your endpoint. The

596
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Speaker 2: bold predictions are getting not too bold for my taste,

597
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Speaker 2: but they're getting really close to the cliff because some

598
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Speaker 2: to bet money on this, but you claim you would

601
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Speaker 2: bet money on these predictions. Okay, So like I'm going

602
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Speaker 2: to pay per pop the first one, like this one's

603
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Speaker 2: that far out there. First bold prediction Bama wins eight

604
00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:28,440
Speaker 2: games or fewer this year. That's for my buddy, Big

605
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Speaker 2: Game Boomer. I would challenge Big Game Boomer to make

606
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Speaker 2: one of his top one hundred lists of boldest predictions.

607
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Speaker 2: It's going to be tough. I don't think that Excel

608
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Speaker 2: format he uses is going to fit all the verbige

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Speaker 2: in there. Brother, this is a nine point twenty five

610
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Speaker 2: on the boldness scale. Every year since two thousand and seven,

611
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Speaker 2: that dude right there, Nick Saban, even in his down years,

612
00:28:48,640 --> 00:28:52,320
Speaker 2: has won double digits at least, So this would be

613
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Speaker 2: this would be one of those have notts. It's not

614
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Speaker 2: quite cannot it could happen. They're over underwent total is ten.

615
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Speaker 2: It's not the craziest statistical suggestion in the world to

616
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Speaker 2: say maybe just maybe just eight wins this year, but

617
00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:07,360
Speaker 2: yet it is Alabama. So It is kind of crazy

618
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Speaker 2: to picture. I don't think folks understand I'm talking about

619
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Speaker 2: our college age kids and what they remember and don't remember.

620
00:29:14,560 --> 00:29:18,680
Speaker 2: It also should dawn on you that if you're in Tuscumbia, Alabama,

621
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Speaker 2: home for the summer, and you're in college, even if

622
00:29:20,960 --> 00:29:23,520
Speaker 2: you're at Auburn, I don't care. You don't know them

623
00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:26,479
Speaker 2: as struggling. You don't know who Mike Shula is. You

624
00:29:26,520 --> 00:29:29,920
Speaker 2: don't know what the thirteen seconds of the Mike Price

625
00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:32,400
Speaker 2: era was in Tuscaloosa. You have no concept of this.

626
00:29:32,720 --> 00:29:35,520
Speaker 2: You only know them as a winner, so too do

627
00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:37,800
Speaker 2: a lot of their fans. Do you want to see

628
00:29:37,960 --> 00:29:42,400
Speaker 2: like a stage five freak out? Just like tossing burning

629
00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:45,600
Speaker 2: couches over cliffs like Mount Cheehaw, I think is one

630
00:29:45,600 --> 00:29:48,040
Speaker 2: of the highest points in Alabama. You want to see

631
00:29:48,080 --> 00:29:51,200
Speaker 2: like a rumble on Mount Cheehaw. This team wins eight games,

632
00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:56,560
Speaker 2: shut it down at Kivy, shut it down. They're not

633
00:29:56,600 --> 00:29:59,800
Speaker 2: ready for it. They're ill prepared. It's like looking at

634
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Speaker 2: California in the seventies when it comes to earthquakes. They're

635
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Speaker 2: ill prepared to go nine and three, much less eight

636
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Speaker 2: and four. So you know, prayers up emoji that this

637
00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:11,200
Speaker 2: doesn't happen for my friends in Alabama. I guess if

638
00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:15,640
Speaker 2: it were to happen, quarterback play doesn't develop. I suppose

639
00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:18,800
Speaker 2: that the run game's not physical enough. Defensive back is

640
00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:21,160
Speaker 2: still as leaky as it was at times last year.

641
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Speaker 2: We're looking at footage of the LSU game. Still no help,

642
00:30:24,280 --> 00:30:26,080
Speaker 2: Still no help. Okay, finally help and he scores.

643
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Speaker 1: Anyway.

644
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that stuff happened a lot against them last year.

645
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Speaker 2: Jalen Hyatt had a was it a quarter mile or

646
00:30:31,480 --> 00:30:33,960
Speaker 2: half mile receiving He had a really big day in

647
00:30:34,000 --> 00:30:37,760
Speaker 2: Knoxville against Alabama. Maybe that stuff happens again. It's a

648
00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:39,840
Speaker 2: hard time for me to envision eight and four, That's

649
00:30:39,880 --> 00:30:43,640
Speaker 2: all I'm saying. So love big game Boomer like love

650
00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:47,200
Speaker 2: the center, hate the sin, love the predictor, don't like

651
00:30:47,200 --> 00:30:49,080
Speaker 2: the prediction as much. That's a nine and a quarter.

652
00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:52,440
Speaker 2: What about Baylor. Let's go out to the Big twelve

653
00:30:52,680 --> 00:30:55,880
Speaker 2: on the card sports Baylor plays in the Big twelve

654
00:30:55,960 --> 00:30:58,840
Speaker 2: championship game, don't have to win it. I respect these

655
00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:01,600
Speaker 2: kind of predictions because you ride the fence a little

656
00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:03,520
Speaker 2: bit more. And I respect that because I do it

657
00:31:03,560 --> 00:31:06,560
Speaker 2: all the time. Baylor playing in the Big Twelve Championship.

658
00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:09,800
Speaker 2: On one hand, you may look at it and say, well,

659
00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:13,320
Speaker 2: they've got the six best odds in the conference this year.

660
00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:16,640
Speaker 2: But then the folks who have watched this conference over

661
00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:20,280
Speaker 2: the past two years would probably come back and say, yeah,

662
00:31:20,760 --> 00:31:23,520
Speaker 2: Kansas State and TCU were sixth and seventh in the

663
00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:27,360
Speaker 2: odds last year. The year before Baylor Oklahoma State sixth

664
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Speaker 2: and seventh in the odds. So, I mean, if you

665
00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:32,960
Speaker 2: believe in that sort of like black magic, probably better

666
00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:35,000
Speaker 2: to be situated in the middle of the pack than

667
00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:37,000
Speaker 2: it is at the top. And if that's the case,

668
00:31:37,120 --> 00:31:39,840
Speaker 2: prayers up for Texas because there they are parked at

669
00:31:39,840 --> 00:31:42,640
Speaker 2: the top yet again. And there comes that money yet again.

670
00:31:42,680 --> 00:31:45,040
Speaker 2: And I got the model in my hand right here.

671
00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:48,440
Speaker 2: The model loves Texas yet again. I'm gonna get in

672
00:31:48,440 --> 00:31:51,600
Speaker 2: trouble yet again. I can't get in trouble, but I'm

673
00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:53,680
Speaker 2: going to because I'm kind of starting to feel him

674
00:31:53,720 --> 00:31:57,720
Speaker 2: as well. Baylor is replacing a multitude of offensive lineman.

675
00:31:57,760 --> 00:32:01,720
Speaker 2: I think four starting offensive linemen. Do have a returning quarterback,

676
00:32:01,720 --> 00:32:05,600
Speaker 2: but returning production not such a favorable stat for the Bears.

677
00:32:05,640 --> 00:32:08,240
Speaker 2: Their ninetieth in the country. They play Texas and Kansas

678
00:32:08,280 --> 00:32:10,240
Speaker 2: State back to back, and it's a tough part of

679
00:32:10,280 --> 00:32:13,880
Speaker 2: their schedule. They do dodge Oklahoma. Dave Randa wouldn't call

680
00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:16,480
Speaker 2: it dodging, but I don't have to speak like he does,

681
00:32:16,480 --> 00:32:18,320
Speaker 2: so it's dodging. They do dodge them.

682
00:32:18,840 --> 00:32:19,560
Speaker 1: I think they.

683
00:32:19,560 --> 00:32:23,600
Speaker 2: Play, relatively speaking, one of the softer Big Twelve schedules.

684
00:32:23,960 --> 00:32:25,640
Speaker 2: And I need to remind you of this as well.

685
00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:29,360
Speaker 2: Sometimes you condition your mind to think, oh, you lose

686
00:32:29,400 --> 00:32:32,040
Speaker 2: two conference games, that's it. Not in this conference to

687
00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:35,320
Speaker 2: play for the conference title game. Not necessarily. You've had

688
00:32:35,360 --> 00:32:38,080
Speaker 2: that in the conference title game several years out there,

689
00:32:38,080 --> 00:32:40,880
Speaker 2: So two losses it doesn't automatically mean slam the doors.

690
00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:44,120
Speaker 2: What about the college football playoff in general? This one,

691
00:32:44,120 --> 00:32:45,920
Speaker 2: to me is not quite as bold. Like I was

692
00:32:45,960 --> 00:32:49,040
Speaker 2: looking at producer Jesse's grades that he put on it.

693
00:32:49,040 --> 00:32:51,680
Speaker 2: He and I actually agreed on this one. From Columbus, Ohio,

694
00:32:51,840 --> 00:32:55,160
Speaker 2: Ace said, college footballlayoff teams are coming from four different

695
00:32:55,240 --> 00:32:59,960
Speaker 2: conferences this year. The last three seasons we've had OVERLA,

696
00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:02,320
Speaker 2: so this has not happened the last three seasons. In

697
00:33:02,320 --> 00:33:04,959
Speaker 2: twenty twenty, Y had Notre Dame and Clemson. That was

698
00:33:05,080 --> 00:33:07,040
Speaker 2: the once upon a time when Notre Dame decided to

699
00:33:07,080 --> 00:33:09,800
Speaker 2: join the ACC for a minute twenty twenty one Georgia

700
00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:12,960
Speaker 2: Bama twenty twenty two, Michigan, Ohio State. But five of

701
00:33:13,040 --> 00:33:15,800
Speaker 2: the last nine years it has happened, you have had

702
00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:19,120
Speaker 2: four conferences represented. And since this is the last year

703
00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:21,320
Speaker 2: of the four team field, I hear a lot of

704
00:33:21,360 --> 00:33:23,920
Speaker 2: applause out there. You see, I'm not clapping. You probably

705
00:33:23,920 --> 00:33:26,360
Speaker 2: need the Pac twelve to come through. Maybe a Notre

706
00:33:26,440 --> 00:33:28,600
Speaker 2: Dame comes through. You probably need the Big twelve to

707
00:33:28,640 --> 00:33:30,400
Speaker 2: come through. If they can do that, you're gonna get

708
00:33:30,400 --> 00:33:32,400
Speaker 2: at least one from the SEC. You're gonna get at

709
00:33:32,440 --> 00:33:36,200
Speaker 2: least one from the Big ten. How do you prevent

710
00:33:36,680 --> 00:33:40,320
Speaker 2: multiples coming in? Spoiler alert you never will again. So

711
00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:42,120
Speaker 2: if you guys wanted to keep them out, this was

712
00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:45,160
Speaker 2: the best bet of a format. But I digress. You

713
00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:48,240
Speaker 2: guys must just love that incestuous playoff model that much.

714
00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:50,480
Speaker 2: I'm all for it. Be my guest. This is a

715
00:33:50,520 --> 00:33:52,640
Speaker 2: seven and a half on the boldness scale for me,

716
00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:56,440
Speaker 2: though not so bold. It's happened several times, and I

717
00:33:56,440 --> 00:33:58,720
Speaker 2: think there's just enough good quarterback play out there in

718
00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:00,480
Speaker 2: the Pac twelve maybe to make that happen. I think

719
00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:02,760
Speaker 2: there could be just enough in that Longhorn logo this

720
00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:06,480
Speaker 2: year to make that happen. These are not official predictions. Lastly,

721
00:34:07,040 --> 00:34:11,880
Speaker 2: and I was unaware of this stat. But lastly, Chris

722
00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:14,160
Speaker 2: from Akworth, Georgia hit us up and said the University

723
00:34:14,160 --> 00:34:17,520
Speaker 2: of Florida's current streak a four hundred and twenty three

724
00:34:17,600 --> 00:34:22,200
Speaker 2: consecutive games with a score, will end this year. So

725
00:34:22,280 --> 00:34:24,600
Speaker 2: Chris is just flat out saying gooseg at some point

726
00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:27,399
Speaker 2: is going to be put up by Florida. Nineteen eighty

727
00:34:27,400 --> 00:34:29,600
Speaker 2: eight is the last time the Gators got shut out

728
00:34:29,640 --> 00:34:32,680
Speaker 2: sixteen to nothing against Auburn. Who could forget that game.

729
00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:36,399
Speaker 2: Graham Mertz is the quarterback there. Okay, So producer Jesse

730
00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:40,279
Speaker 2: does some digging today and he comes up with this stat.

731
00:34:40,640 --> 00:34:43,840
Speaker 2: Close years in Gainesville, Graham Mertz was held under twenty

732
00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:46,480
Speaker 2: points nine times in his two year stint as a

733
00:34:46,480 --> 00:34:50,440
Speaker 2: starter at Wisconsin. Not the best of news. He was

734
00:34:50,520 --> 00:34:53,520
Speaker 2: never shut out, though, so there's some good news. They

735
00:34:53,560 --> 00:34:57,040
Speaker 2: have the lowest odds in the SEC East. Bad news

736
00:34:57,520 --> 00:35:00,400
Speaker 2: they face five of the top twenty defenses in the

737
00:35:00,480 --> 00:35:05,600
Speaker 2: preseason S and P plus also bad news. However, there

738
00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:08,000
Speaker 2: is no skill in predicting shutouts. So I'm gonna call

739
00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:11,479
Speaker 2: this a nine just on principle. And it, even being

740
00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:14,080
Speaker 2: that low shows a little trepidation. You can kind of

741
00:35:14,120 --> 00:35:15,719
Speaker 2: hear it in my Voice'll get a little softer when

742
00:35:15,719 --> 00:35:18,400
Speaker 2: I talk about Florida. There are some things I want, Like,

743
00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:22,160
Speaker 2: there's some brands that I would love financially and selfishly.

744
00:35:22,160 --> 00:35:24,399
Speaker 2: It would be good for us if they were. We'll

745
00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:29,120
Speaker 2: see that Graham Mertz being held under twenty nine times.

746
00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:31,480
Speaker 2: It's not Sean Clifford. Guys, he hadn't started four or

747
00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:34,040
Speaker 2: five or six years. He's started two years up there.

748
00:35:34,320 --> 00:35:37,760
Speaker 2: So no, boy, no there. That is your bold prediction

749
00:35:37,880 --> 00:35:42,640
Speaker 2: segment for this evening. Here, I got to tell you something.

750
00:35:43,120 --> 00:35:45,560
Speaker 2: There's a lot of equipment around me right now. You

751
00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:47,240
Speaker 2: can't really see it. There are a lot of people

752
00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:49,279
Speaker 2: and there are a lot of equipment pieces around me.

753
00:35:49,719 --> 00:35:54,200
Speaker 2: Fancy lights takes a lot to light the forehead without

754
00:35:54,320 --> 00:35:56,880
Speaker 2: overly glossing the forehead. And we've got a lot of

755
00:35:56,920 --> 00:36:00,960
Speaker 2: equipment here. And to produce that equipment, you have to

756
00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:04,920
Speaker 2: have means of transportation. And our friends in South Florida

757
00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:09,160
Speaker 2: at Good Greek Moving came through for us. We had

758
00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:12,360
Speaker 2: one of our our really really close personal friends and

759
00:36:12,440 --> 00:36:14,440
Speaker 2: sales get in touch with them and they came through,

760
00:36:14,480 --> 00:36:16,640
Speaker 2: said what do you need, and we set a really

761
00:36:16,640 --> 00:36:20,200
Speaker 2: big truck and they delivered literally as you see on

762
00:36:20,239 --> 00:36:22,239
Speaker 2: the screen right now. And if you're listening on podcasts,

763
00:36:22,440 --> 00:36:25,600
Speaker 2: just imagine a kiss concert going on the road, and

764
00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:27,879
Speaker 2: that's basically what it looks like. And our friends came

765
00:36:27,880 --> 00:36:31,360
Speaker 2: through with shiny colors. I tell you that because I

766
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Speaker 2: would strongly encourage you guys give them a look. I mean,

767
00:36:34,760 --> 00:36:37,840
Speaker 2: they are they are a one stop shop for pretty

768
00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:40,319
Speaker 2: much all relocation needs. Now you may just need to

769
00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:43,080
Speaker 2: move a couch. We needed to move like a small

770
00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:47,280
Speaker 2: small army's worth of equipment. But they take out the middleman. Okay,

771
00:36:47,360 --> 00:36:51,560
Speaker 2: they provide relocation systems. They've got your insurance taken care of,

772
00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:54,560
Speaker 2: so you take away a lot of the worry. It's

773
00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:57,279
Speaker 2: always good to take away at middleman. And good Greek

774
00:36:57,360 --> 00:37:00,120
Speaker 2: Moving has been there for us. I can tell tell

775
00:37:00,160 --> 00:37:02,560
Speaker 2: you every step of the way throughout this entire trip,

776
00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:06,080
Speaker 2: and it's one of those definite checkbox will use again.

777
00:37:06,360 --> 00:37:09,680
Speaker 2: But also trust is the factor there. All of us

778
00:37:09,719 --> 00:37:12,560
Speaker 2: have moved, I know you guys have I know I have.

779
00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:16,480
Speaker 2: And the trust factor. And as you listen to people

780
00:37:16,520 --> 00:37:19,240
Speaker 2: in South Florida talk because they are the official moving

781
00:37:19,280 --> 00:37:21,920
Speaker 2: provider of the Miami Hurricanes, among several of the other

782
00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:24,400
Speaker 2: teams down here, it's the trust factor. You only get

783
00:37:24,440 --> 00:37:27,600
Speaker 2: to let someone down once as a moving company. Good Greek,

784
00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:30,440
Speaker 2: I will put my stamp on this. Look at that

785
00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:32,319
Speaker 2: truck on the bottom of the screen. They will not

786
00:37:32,440 --> 00:37:35,040
Speaker 2: let you down. With a graphical truck like that, How

787
00:37:35,040 --> 00:37:37,920
Speaker 2: could you possibly be let down? And so we appreciate

788
00:37:37,960 --> 00:37:40,439
Speaker 2: those guys because it would have been very, very tough,

789
00:37:40,520 --> 00:37:42,960
Speaker 2: or would have taken multiple trips should I say, to

790
00:37:42,960 --> 00:37:46,600
Speaker 2: get this equipment down here without them. So we came

791
00:37:46,640 --> 00:37:48,880
Speaker 2: down here for a reason. Always good to be on

792
00:37:48,920 --> 00:37:50,760
Speaker 2: the road. If you're not going to have an off season,

793
00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:52,840
Speaker 2: Why in the world would you stick around in Nashville

794
00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:55,640
Speaker 2: in the middle of bachelorette seasons. Just a losing proposition.

795
00:37:55,960 --> 00:37:58,239
Speaker 2: Even those soundproof windows cannot prevent all of that from

796
00:37:58,280 --> 00:38:00,200
Speaker 2: coming through. So we get on the road and we

797
00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:02,960
Speaker 2: head down to Miami, and our buddy Cam just behind

798
00:38:02,960 --> 00:38:05,960
Speaker 2: the camera right here, he welcomes us in Mario Cristobaul

799
00:38:06,000 --> 00:38:09,640
Speaker 2: and company welcome us in probably better than we would

800
00:38:09,640 --> 00:38:11,799
Speaker 2: have been treated in our home office anyway. And that's

801
00:38:11,840 --> 00:38:14,680
Speaker 2: not necessarily a knock on all the folks in Nashville,

802
00:38:14,719 --> 00:38:17,560
Speaker 2: just maybe a couple, and you know, they're in a

803
00:38:17,600 --> 00:38:20,400
Speaker 2: house that's so nice tonight that it doesn't matter that

804
00:38:20,440 --> 00:38:23,439
Speaker 2: it's a shot at them. But we came down here

805
00:38:23,480 --> 00:38:26,000
Speaker 2: to talk with Mario Cristobal because there was a lot

806
00:38:26,040 --> 00:38:29,400
Speaker 2: that went wrong last year that they don't shy away from.

807
00:38:29,800 --> 00:38:32,440
Speaker 2: There were a lot of people and lead that aren't

808
00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:35,239
Speaker 2: here anymore that we're here last year that they don't

809
00:38:35,239 --> 00:38:37,200
Speaker 2: shy away from talking about. And so instead of me

810
00:38:37,320 --> 00:38:39,280
Speaker 2: just running my mouth and talking about it, I wanted

811
00:38:39,280 --> 00:38:41,440
Speaker 2: to have him on the show, and I wanted to

812
00:38:41,440 --> 00:38:43,759
Speaker 2: do it face to face instead of the old FaceTime

813
00:38:43,920 --> 00:38:48,240
Speaker 2: skype zoom thing. And we did it. We recorded this yesterday.

814
00:38:48,239 --> 00:38:50,080
Speaker 2: We're about to play it for you now. And this

815
00:38:50,160 --> 00:38:53,400
Speaker 2: is a very very extended conversation that goes in depth

816
00:38:53,680 --> 00:38:56,760
Speaker 2: on a lot of different fronts, and it's so vented

817
00:38:56,880 --> 00:39:00,719
Speaker 2: South Florida. You'll hear a lightning delay and go off.

818
00:39:00,880 --> 00:39:03,600
Speaker 2: You'll hear thunder in the background, You'll hear rain on

819
00:39:03,640 --> 00:39:06,239
Speaker 2: top of the facility, and all the while you'll hear

820
00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:08,600
Speaker 2: a head coach under a lot of pressure this year,

821
00:39:08,719 --> 00:39:10,960
Speaker 2: embracing the pressure. This is our one on one when

822
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:26,520
Speaker 2: Mario Christaball take a look. Pate State Speaker Series is

823
00:39:26,520 --> 00:39:29,759
Speaker 2: in Coral Gables, Florida. Josh paid alongside Miami head man

824
00:39:29,920 --> 00:39:32,960
Speaker 2: Mario Cristball kind enough to open up the entire facility.

825
00:39:32,960 --> 00:39:35,720
Speaker 2: We felt more at home here than we feel in Nashville,

826
00:39:35,760 --> 00:39:40,120
Speaker 2: So first off, appreciate it. Secondly, it's June. Some of

827
00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:42,040
Speaker 2: the more casual minded out there would call this the

828
00:39:42,040 --> 00:39:44,319
Speaker 2: off season. We don't really use that word because there's

829
00:39:44,320 --> 00:39:46,759
Speaker 2: a ton of buzz in the building right now. I mean,

830
00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:49,200
Speaker 2: just describe for folks who really don't get to see

831
00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:51,680
Speaker 2: behind the scenes. First off, what the energy is like.

832
00:39:51,719 --> 00:39:54,640
Speaker 2: You're entering the heart of recruiting season. You got summer

833
00:39:54,680 --> 00:39:56,840
Speaker 2: workouts happening that are player led, you got a lot

834
00:39:56,880 --> 00:39:58,360
Speaker 2: of street and the conditioning stuff happening.

835
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Speaker 4: Like, what is the vibe when you walk into the

836
00:40:00,080 --> 00:40:00,799
Speaker 4: office right now?

837
00:40:01,239 --> 00:40:01,960
Speaker 1: Well, it's strong.

838
00:40:02,160 --> 00:40:06,160
Speaker 3: It's a lot of real momentum, genuine momentum because you know,

839
00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:08,880
Speaker 3: we just signed the best class in our history and

840
00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:12,920
Speaker 3: we returned the core of really strong minded, tough, high

841
00:40:13,040 --> 00:40:14,600
Speaker 3: character guys that get it.

842
00:40:15,160 --> 00:40:16,040
Speaker 1: You know, and I think.

843
00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:18,239
Speaker 3: We all know the month of June has become a

844
00:40:18,239 --> 00:40:20,200
Speaker 3: beast in college football.

845
00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:21,160
Speaker 1: Right there is no rest.

846
00:40:21,239 --> 00:40:23,640
Speaker 3: I mean, you're going seven days a week, and at

847
00:40:23,719 --> 00:40:25,560
Speaker 3: least that's what it amounts to you over here, I'm

848
00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:27,960
Speaker 3: sure for most places. So, like you mentioned, you have

849
00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:30,680
Speaker 3: player of workouts going on, you've got your prospect camps,

850
00:40:30,680 --> 00:40:33,560
Speaker 3: you've got your youth league camps. It just doesn't stop.

851
00:40:33,719 --> 00:40:36,160
Speaker 3: So there's there's a lot of different kinds of energy

852
00:40:36,160 --> 00:40:38,799
Speaker 3: going on. But it's all it's all about, like the

853
00:40:38,840 --> 00:40:41,479
Speaker 3: hard work part. It's all about community, give back, work,

854
00:40:41,560 --> 00:40:46,000
Speaker 3: academic obligations. It's a lot of work. But also there's

855
00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:49,640
Speaker 3: a feeling of man, let's let's go. Let's keep pushing

856
00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:52,160
Speaker 3: this thing because right now we feel like we have

857
00:40:52,360 --> 00:40:54,239
Speaker 3: a really good group of guys in the building that

858
00:40:54,239 --> 00:40:54,680
Speaker 3: that get it.

859
00:40:54,800 --> 00:40:57,239
Speaker 2: Now, what's funny is like public doesn't get to see this,

860
00:40:57,440 --> 00:40:59,440
Speaker 2: but I stood right up on a railing just off

861
00:40:59,480 --> 00:41:03,400
Speaker 2: camera here and I watched you shake like a thousand

862
00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:07,440
Speaker 2: kids hands yesterday, no bathroom break, so you soldier through it.

863
00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:09,719
Speaker 2: I mean it's nice though, when you get to open

864
00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:11,040
Speaker 2: these doors off when you get a lot of the

865
00:41:11,080 --> 00:41:14,080
Speaker 2: youth camps and youth our participation from down here.

866
00:41:14,120 --> 00:41:16,360
Speaker 4: But you just talked about that signing class.

867
00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:19,040
Speaker 2: I don't want to gloss over that, like we ranked

868
00:41:19,040 --> 00:41:21,280
Speaker 2: them number seven in the country at twenty four seven sports.

869
00:41:21,280 --> 00:41:24,240
Speaker 2: But sometimes from the outside, yeah, I see the stars,

870
00:41:24,280 --> 00:41:26,120
Speaker 2: I see the rankings, but those are numbers to me.

871
00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:28,879
Speaker 4: I didn't scout the players. I didn't recruit them. You did.

872
00:41:28,920 --> 00:41:30,680
Speaker 2: You had them in the building, and it was really

873
00:41:30,719 --> 00:41:33,800
Speaker 2: the first full cycle that you guys got. What struck

874
00:41:33,840 --> 00:41:36,000
Speaker 2: me first and foremost when we got here a couple

875
00:41:36,040 --> 00:41:39,200
Speaker 2: of days ago is how much energy there is in

876
00:41:39,239 --> 00:41:42,879
Speaker 2: the building, specifically about the true freshman class, which goes

877
00:41:42,880 --> 00:41:46,280
Speaker 2: a long way to me in validating that, at least

878
00:41:46,360 --> 00:41:49,040
Speaker 2: from the so far point of view, you guys feel

879
00:41:49,040 --> 00:41:50,320
Speaker 2: like you really hit on that class.

880
00:41:50,320 --> 00:41:52,000
Speaker 4: So I mean, walk me through it.

881
00:41:52,040 --> 00:41:53,799
Speaker 2: You got a couple of freshman tackles I see out

882
00:41:53,800 --> 00:41:56,080
Speaker 2: here who look like space aliens, and they I don't

883
00:41:56,080 --> 00:41:57,439
Speaker 2: even know if they're legal adults yet.

884
00:41:57,480 --> 00:41:58,920
Speaker 4: So what did you just.

885
00:41:58,920 --> 00:42:03,279
Speaker 3: Sign I mean it was it was at the forefront

886
00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:07,000
Speaker 3: of task at hand. Now, you know, when you when

887
00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:10,520
Speaker 3: you take on a job, and especially it's I guess

888
00:42:10,560 --> 00:42:12,120
Speaker 3: nothing is too late in the cycle, but when you

889
00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:14,279
Speaker 3: take it on at that point in time, you've got

890
00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:17,840
Speaker 3: to assess where the program is right. And in college football,

891
00:42:17,880 --> 00:42:20,799
Speaker 3: you're either arriving at a new place because a place

892
00:42:20,840 --> 00:42:23,359
Speaker 3: at flourished and moved on, or because it needs work,

893
00:42:23,440 --> 00:42:26,719
Speaker 3: it needs repair, and certainly Miami was a place that

894
00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:27,480
Speaker 3: needed repair.

895
00:42:27,760 --> 00:42:30,279
Speaker 1: You know, for for decades.

896
00:42:30,080 --> 00:42:33,719
Speaker 3: Miami had dominated the NFL Draft, and in essence, when

897
00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:37,560
Speaker 3: you dominate the NFL Draft, you have dominated national signing days.

898
00:42:37,600 --> 00:42:40,840
Speaker 3: So analyzing it right away as a staff, we felt

899
00:42:40,840 --> 00:42:42,280
Speaker 3: that we had to put in a lot of work

900
00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:45,399
Speaker 3: to make sure that the culture that was brought in

901
00:42:45,520 --> 00:42:47,320
Speaker 3: matched up the types of players that were recruiting and

902
00:42:47,360 --> 00:42:48,840
Speaker 3: the types of players that are in the building.

903
00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:51,920
Speaker 1: So it's almost a three pronged attack on this stuff.

904
00:42:51,960 --> 00:42:53,759
Speaker 3: And so we went right at it, and the line

905
00:42:53,760 --> 00:42:56,080
Speaker 3: of scrimmage was out of premium and you saw, you know,

906
00:42:56,120 --> 00:42:58,520
Speaker 3: the aliens you referred to, they.

907
00:42:58,800 --> 00:42:59,960
Speaker 1: Do have birth certificates.

908
00:43:00,040 --> 00:43:03,200
Speaker 3: It's such security numbers, you know, albeit you know it's

909
00:43:03,200 --> 00:43:07,960
Speaker 3: are They really are unique, not only because of their stature,

910
00:43:08,520 --> 00:43:12,480
Speaker 3: but because of their ability their capacity to handle like

911
00:43:12,600 --> 00:43:17,080
Speaker 3: large workloads and to push. And ironically, you know, you

912
00:43:17,239 --> 00:43:19,719
Speaker 3: expect the freshman class to sit back and wait for

913
00:43:19,760 --> 00:43:22,279
Speaker 3: a leader to arise among them or whatnot. And the

914
00:43:22,320 --> 00:43:25,200
Speaker 3: alphas are being alphas. They're doing a really good job pushing.

915
00:43:25,239 --> 00:43:27,839
Speaker 3: And we've recruited them for a long time and we

916
00:43:27,840 --> 00:43:30,680
Speaker 3: were very real, we were very very honest. We said, look,

917
00:43:30,719 --> 00:43:35,680
Speaker 3: we were super excited. We're building a championship football program,

918
00:43:35,920 --> 00:43:37,800
Speaker 3: rebuilding a championship football program.

919
00:43:38,400 --> 00:43:40,080
Speaker 1: And it's it.

920
00:43:40,080 --> 00:43:42,880
Speaker 3: Didn't happen overnight where you know, things had gotten to

921
00:43:42,920 --> 00:43:44,120
Speaker 3: where they were, So it's not going to be an

922
00:43:44,120 --> 00:43:47,879
Speaker 3: overnight fix. But we need tough minded individuals that will

923
00:43:47,920 --> 00:43:51,400
Speaker 3: not flinch, will not blink when things are going to

924
00:43:51,440 --> 00:43:54,040
Speaker 3: get tough, because at first, like anything else that has

925
00:43:54,080 --> 00:43:57,400
Speaker 3: to be rebuilt, there's some painful steps that you cannot skip.

926
00:43:58,120 --> 00:44:00,080
Speaker 1: So we went right at it. We stuck with that

927
00:44:00,080 --> 00:44:00,960
Speaker 1: that has never changed.

928
00:44:00,960 --> 00:44:03,799
Speaker 3: So they took on, you know, the I would say,

929
00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:05,880
Speaker 3: the honor of becoming a Miami Hurricane.

930
00:44:05,920 --> 00:44:07,279
Speaker 1: And they have not disappointed.

931
00:44:07,719 --> 00:44:09,560
Speaker 3: I mean, they eat more than any group of human

932
00:44:09,560 --> 00:44:11,720
Speaker 3: beings I've ever seen in my life. The food builds

933
00:44:11,719 --> 00:44:15,000
Speaker 3: through the roof right now, but their energy, the extra

934
00:44:15,080 --> 00:44:16,920
Speaker 3: time put in. You saw a couple guys shooting out

935
00:44:16,920 --> 00:44:23,040
Speaker 3: the Judgs machines earlier. Today they're football junkies, and myself,

936
00:44:23,080 --> 00:44:25,440
Speaker 3: our staff, I want to be around people where this

937
00:44:25,680 --> 00:44:29,200
Speaker 3: is the thing. It is the priority, you know, And

938
00:44:29,680 --> 00:44:30,919
Speaker 3: so so far, so good.

939
00:44:31,120 --> 00:44:34,120
Speaker 2: You're talking about installing the right mindset. You inherit what

940
00:44:34,160 --> 00:44:37,080
Speaker 2: you inherit when you take over program? What percentage of

941
00:44:37,080 --> 00:44:38,919
Speaker 2: the roster had the right mindset when you got here

942
00:44:39,160 --> 00:44:40,359
Speaker 2: a year and a half, two years ago.

943
00:44:40,920 --> 00:44:44,000
Speaker 3: Well, I mean it's hard to tell. I mean, it's

944
00:44:44,320 --> 00:44:45,480
Speaker 3: it is a clash of cultures.

945
00:44:45,520 --> 00:44:48,239
Speaker 1: I can say that, Like, you know, I love the

946
00:44:48,280 --> 00:44:51,319
Speaker 1: grind I do. I make no bones about it. I do.

947
00:44:51,360 --> 00:44:53,200
Speaker 3: I like putting in hours and I like being around

948
00:44:53,200 --> 00:44:55,680
Speaker 3: people like to put in time and effort and have

949
00:44:55,760 --> 00:44:56,880
Speaker 3: intensity behind it.

950
00:44:57,000 --> 00:44:59,680
Speaker 1: And our culture brings a lot of that.

951
00:45:00,040 --> 00:45:03,440
Speaker 3: And I think we walked into a culture that was

952
00:45:03,920 --> 00:45:07,880
Speaker 3: you know, it wasn't that, okay, We all being honest

953
00:45:08,040 --> 00:45:10,920
Speaker 3: and at the same time want to be respectful of

954
00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:13,120
Speaker 3: anyone and anything that comes before you, because I believe

955
00:45:13,120 --> 00:45:13,720
Speaker 3: that's important.

956
00:45:13,760 --> 00:45:14,440
Speaker 1: It's just different.

957
00:45:15,080 --> 00:45:18,719
Speaker 3: It's two different philosophies and it's two different cultures. So

958
00:45:18,800 --> 00:45:22,680
Speaker 3: that collision isn't a kind and cuddly one. You know

959
00:45:22,880 --> 00:45:27,440
Speaker 3: that one's going to come with some pushback, but plenty

960
00:45:27,440 --> 00:45:30,279
Speaker 3: of cooperation. It's going to come with attrition at some

961
00:45:30,400 --> 00:45:35,200
Speaker 3: point in time. But the percentage that and it's hard,

962
00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:38,600
Speaker 3: it's hard. It wasn't large, but it wasn't zero enough.

963
00:45:39,560 --> 00:45:41,520
Speaker 3: It was enough to establish a core. Right, Let's just

964
00:45:41,560 --> 00:45:44,040
Speaker 3: say that a core that you can build off of

965
00:45:44,160 --> 00:45:48,160
Speaker 3: and at the same time, you know, add some legitimate, legitimate,

966
00:45:48,280 --> 00:45:51,160
Speaker 3: high level talent and start building it and piecing it

967
00:45:51,200 --> 00:45:53,360
Speaker 3: together the right way, because you got to stack up

968
00:45:53,400 --> 00:45:55,600
Speaker 3: the pieces in a way where you're still developing and

969
00:45:55,600 --> 00:45:56,960
Speaker 3: you're not overstacking just talent.

970
00:45:57,160 --> 00:45:59,440
Speaker 2: I think a lot of folks would be just fascinated

971
00:45:59,440 --> 00:46:01,799
Speaker 2: as much as you can go into detail of what

972
00:46:01,840 --> 00:46:03,960
Speaker 2: it's like when you first take a job. In your case,

973
00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:06,239
Speaker 2: you get to Miami, Like I said, you've got what

974
00:46:06,280 --> 00:46:08,640
Speaker 2: you've got. You're talking about sort of the oil and

975
00:46:08,719 --> 00:46:10,640
Speaker 2: water clash of we're going to do it one way,

976
00:46:10,719 --> 00:46:13,120
Speaker 2: maybe you're used to doing it in another way. You're

977
00:46:13,120 --> 00:46:16,480
Speaker 2: not throwing any predecessor under the bus, But how in

978
00:46:16,640 --> 00:46:18,520
Speaker 2: your face do you have to get not just with

979
00:46:18,600 --> 00:46:20,360
Speaker 2: your roster, but with a lot of people, because you

980
00:46:20,400 --> 00:46:23,080
Speaker 2: talk a lot about not just fixing the downstairs where

981
00:46:23,120 --> 00:46:25,160
Speaker 2: we are on this field, but fixing the upstairs too.

982
00:46:25,880 --> 00:46:28,239
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't I know you well enough to

983
00:46:28,239 --> 00:46:30,520
Speaker 2: know you don't shy away from confrontation when it's needed.

984
00:46:30,719 --> 00:46:32,680
Speaker 4: When it even may sound mild mannered right now but

985
00:46:32,719 --> 00:46:33,400
Speaker 4: not all the time.

986
00:46:33,719 --> 00:46:36,359
Speaker 2: But at the same time, you know that you've got

987
00:46:36,360 --> 00:46:38,000
Speaker 2: to have enough to go to war within your one

988
00:46:38,080 --> 00:46:41,239
Speaker 2: So how uncomfortable but necessary is that?

989
00:46:41,280 --> 00:46:41,920
Speaker 4: I guess I.

990
00:46:41,920 --> 00:46:45,040
Speaker 3: Don't think it's ever uncomfortable because you're just You're genuine

991
00:46:45,080 --> 00:46:47,080
Speaker 3: and you're real. And I still think the greatest form

992
00:46:47,120 --> 00:46:49,320
Speaker 3: of respect you could give someone is to be honest

993
00:46:49,360 --> 00:46:51,680
Speaker 3: with them and give them the truth, whether they want

994
00:46:51,719 --> 00:46:53,120
Speaker 3: to hear it or not. That's the best thing you

995
00:46:53,160 --> 00:46:56,959
Speaker 3: could do buy someone for someone. And first, the first

996
00:46:56,960 --> 00:46:58,600
Speaker 3: thing I want to do is walk in the building,

997
00:46:58,760 --> 00:47:00,719
Speaker 3: and I want to walk into the locker room when

998
00:47:00,719 --> 00:47:02,279
Speaker 3: no one was there, because I wanted to see the

999
00:47:02,320 --> 00:47:05,360
Speaker 3: type of pride that was taken in one's own house.

1000
00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:08,279
Speaker 3: Becauseact that'll tell you a lot, you know, And right there,

1001
00:47:09,080 --> 00:47:12,040
Speaker 3: you know, right away there's a lot of work to

1002
00:47:12,160 --> 00:47:12,760
Speaker 3: be done.

1003
00:47:13,040 --> 00:47:15,040
Speaker 1: And with that, you know you.

1004
00:47:14,920 --> 00:47:17,719
Speaker 3: Want to see what type of physical condition your team

1005
00:47:17,800 --> 00:47:20,359
Speaker 3: is in, because if you're a college athlete, I mean,

1006
00:47:20,560 --> 00:47:22,520
Speaker 3: come on, man, as you know you're still a young guy.

1007
00:47:22,520 --> 00:47:24,200
Speaker 3: I'm getting a little bit older and not too old,

1008
00:47:24,239 --> 00:47:25,560
Speaker 3: you know, trying to hang with you in the weight

1009
00:47:25,640 --> 00:47:30,040
Speaker 3: room with something else. But you know, there's pride in

1010
00:47:30,120 --> 00:47:33,200
Speaker 3: what you are physically as well as mentally, how you

1011
00:47:33,239 --> 00:47:36,680
Speaker 3: do in the classroom. There's a level of pride in

1012
00:47:36,719 --> 00:47:39,440
Speaker 3: your culture where if it's really a culture, if it's

1013
00:47:39,480 --> 00:47:44,440
Speaker 3: really a strong and a very just a championship level culture,

1014
00:47:44,760 --> 00:47:47,439
Speaker 3: how you do anything is how you do everything. There

1015
00:47:47,520 --> 00:47:49,520
Speaker 3: is no light switch that Okay, I'm going to turn

1016
00:47:49,520 --> 00:47:51,880
Speaker 3: it out when I'm practicing. I'm going to shut it

1017
00:47:51,920 --> 00:47:53,960
Speaker 3: down when I got to go to class, or when

1018
00:47:54,000 --> 00:47:55,480
Speaker 3: I have to make an appointment, or when I have

1019
00:47:55,520 --> 00:47:58,480
Speaker 3: to be courteous and be respectful to someone. So the

1020
00:47:58,520 --> 00:48:01,359
Speaker 3: attack was when I was say the assessment, and then

1021
00:48:01,440 --> 00:48:05,319
Speaker 3: the directors were all geared towards culture. Knowing that talent

1022
00:48:05,360 --> 00:48:07,080
Speaker 3: acquisition was going to take a whole year. You're just

1023
00:48:07,120 --> 00:48:09,560
Speaker 3: you're not going to be able to change things by much.

1024
00:48:09,600 --> 00:48:12,920
Speaker 3: So that's where we poured ourselves into and I'm probably

1025
00:48:12,960 --> 00:48:14,680
Speaker 3: going off on a couple of different tangents.

1026
00:48:14,719 --> 00:48:15,600
Speaker 1: But that's what it's like.

1027
00:48:15,640 --> 00:48:19,319
Speaker 3: You have to you have to say goodbye. That's number one,

1028
00:48:19,440 --> 00:48:22,120
Speaker 3: and that's tough. You have to say goodbye to people

1029
00:48:22,160 --> 00:48:25,399
Speaker 3: that were really good to you a situation and I'll

1030
00:48:25,400 --> 00:48:28,759
Speaker 3: always be extremely grateful for I mean, and we take

1031
00:48:28,760 --> 00:48:30,319
Speaker 3: a lot of pride in it. When we walked in

1032
00:48:30,600 --> 00:48:34,239
Speaker 3: the University of Oregon with with coach Willie Taggart, you know,

1033
00:48:34,239 --> 00:48:36,640
Speaker 3: Oregon was coming off of four and eight season and

1034
00:48:38,120 --> 00:48:41,600
Speaker 3: talent acquisition was struggling. And a few years later, where

1035
00:48:42,080 --> 00:48:43,759
Speaker 3: you know, you're playing for a Rose Bull and you

1036
00:48:43,840 --> 00:48:46,680
Speaker 3: win a conference and you go to a successive conference game.

1037
00:48:46,760 --> 00:48:50,200
Speaker 1: So that's hard to leave. It's hard to leave.

1038
00:48:50,239 --> 00:48:53,919
Speaker 3: But there was always one and this was that one

1039
00:48:54,160 --> 00:48:56,799
Speaker 3: and and part of it. And I would say, I'll

1040
00:48:56,800 --> 00:48:59,120
Speaker 3: say a part that wasn't part of it, the part

1041
00:48:59,160 --> 00:49:02,200
Speaker 3: that wasn't part of it. It was that I'm from here,

1042
00:49:03,280 --> 00:49:06,320
Speaker 3: the part that is really strongly ingrained and why and

1043
00:49:06,440 --> 00:49:07,600
Speaker 3: the reasons why I came back.

1044
00:49:07,960 --> 00:49:10,480
Speaker 1: So I played here, I wore the U.

1045
00:49:10,840 --> 00:49:14,240
Speaker 3: I've got eleven plus you know, zippers on my body

1046
00:49:14,360 --> 00:49:17,920
Speaker 3: due to surgeries. Having played at the University of Miami.

1047
00:49:18,840 --> 00:49:23,760
Speaker 3: The community completely embraced us, and we turned the entire

1048
00:49:23,840 --> 00:49:27,000
Speaker 3: mindset of the city, the community of South Florida, then nationally,

1049
00:49:27,600 --> 00:49:29,479
Speaker 3: and so it was a game changer in my life.

1050
00:49:29,800 --> 00:49:32,520
Speaker 3: And so my full belief is that Miami done the

1051
00:49:32,560 --> 00:49:34,719
Speaker 3: right way is the best place in the planet. So

1052
00:49:34,840 --> 00:49:37,400
Speaker 3: that's why we're back and back after having the experience

1053
00:49:37,440 --> 00:49:40,280
Speaker 3: at Oregon, having the experience at Alabama, at Rutgers, at FIU,

1054
00:49:40,360 --> 00:49:41,359
Speaker 3: all those places.

1055
00:49:41,880 --> 00:49:45,360
Speaker 1: So when you come in, you want to bring in people.

1056
00:49:46,000 --> 00:49:47,880
Speaker 3: A lot of your staff members all of a sudden

1057
00:49:48,000 --> 00:49:52,240
Speaker 3: got a head job or got coordinator opportunities. Even ja's

1058
00:49:52,280 --> 00:49:55,320
Speaker 3: and analysts became position coaches. So you've taken four or

1059
00:49:55,320 --> 00:49:57,239
Speaker 3: five years to assemble a really strong team, and all

1060
00:49:57,239 --> 00:50:00,399
Speaker 3: of a sudden it's gone. But then you've got four

1061
00:50:00,440 --> 00:50:04,160
Speaker 3: days before the first signing day, but you have no

1062
00:50:04,239 --> 00:50:07,160
Speaker 3: staff members in the house, and you've got to say

1063
00:50:07,160 --> 00:50:10,440
Speaker 3: hello to your new team, and you've got to figure

1064
00:50:10,440 --> 00:50:12,279
Speaker 3: out what's got to stay, what's got to go, and

1065
00:50:12,320 --> 00:50:13,160
Speaker 3: you've got to figure.

1066
00:50:12,920 --> 00:50:14,840
Speaker 1: Out curtain staff curtain staff members.

1067
00:50:15,760 --> 00:50:19,160
Speaker 3: There's there's no handbook, and no one should feel bad

1068
00:50:19,200 --> 00:50:20,279
Speaker 3: for anybody having to do that.

1069
00:50:20,360 --> 00:50:22,120
Speaker 1: Right, you know, we're compensated.

1070
00:50:21,520 --> 00:50:22,920
Speaker 4: For doing Yeah, they don't feel better.

1071
00:50:23,200 --> 00:50:24,000
Speaker 1: And they shouldn't.

1072
00:50:24,239 --> 00:50:26,920
Speaker 3: It's just that your multitasking skills are going to be

1073
00:50:26,920 --> 00:50:30,239
Speaker 3: put to the test, and you better buckle up and

1074
00:50:30,280 --> 00:50:32,359
Speaker 3: you better be ready for you know, the right kind

1075
00:50:32,360 --> 00:50:34,040
Speaker 3: of Cuban coffee to keep you going twenty.

1076
00:50:33,800 --> 00:50:36,680
Speaker 4: Four seve And I've experienced that down here and will

1077
00:50:36,719 --> 00:50:37,520
Speaker 4: before we leave here.

1078
00:50:38,719 --> 00:50:42,760
Speaker 2: So you're talking about what Miami was, you're talking about

1079
00:50:42,800 --> 00:50:45,560
Speaker 2: what not might be, but just what you think Miami

1080
00:50:45,600 --> 00:50:47,960
Speaker 2: will be again? Yes, sir, and flat out, there are

1081
00:50:47,960 --> 00:50:49,480
Speaker 2: a lot of folks out there who don't believe that's

1082
00:50:49,520 --> 00:50:51,319
Speaker 2: possible anymore. There are a lot of folks who just

1083
00:50:51,360 --> 00:50:55,640
Speaker 2: believe by however they define it. College football has evolved,

1084
00:50:55,680 --> 00:50:58,160
Speaker 2: and so some of the programs that once were can't

1085
00:50:58,160 --> 00:51:02,120
Speaker 2: be again necessarily fall in that category. But I'm telling

1086
00:51:02,120 --> 00:51:04,799
Speaker 2: you it's a very popular talking point out there. I know,

1087
00:51:04,880 --> 00:51:06,799
Speaker 2: to a certain extent in your line of work, you

1088
00:51:06,880 --> 00:51:07,919
Speaker 2: just have to block that out.

1089
00:51:09,160 --> 00:51:10,839
Speaker 4: But do you just let a little bit of it

1090
00:51:10,880 --> 00:51:11,720
Speaker 4: be an IV drip?

1091
00:51:11,840 --> 00:51:13,160
Speaker 1: Do you just let maybe.

1092
00:51:13,040 --> 00:51:15,600
Speaker 2: Two percent of that in to understand that there are

1093
00:51:15,600 --> 00:51:17,600
Speaker 2: folks out here who totally think I'm full of it,

1094
00:51:17,640 --> 00:51:19,400
Speaker 2: Like they totally think this is byes. There's no way

1095
00:51:19,440 --> 00:51:20,920
Speaker 2: we're going to be able to do this, because when

1096
00:51:20,920 --> 00:51:23,000
Speaker 2: I walked in here yesterday, I mean.

1097
00:51:22,880 --> 00:51:24,600
Speaker 4: You said, hey, you said how you do and you said,

1098
00:51:24,640 --> 00:51:26,240
Speaker 4: you know, this is it. I'm not going anywhere.

1099
00:51:26,280 --> 00:51:26,680
Speaker 1: This is it.

1100
00:51:26,680 --> 00:51:28,000
Speaker 4: It either works here it doesn't work.

1101
00:51:28,280 --> 00:51:31,359
Speaker 2: Like what's it like to maybe turn on the radio

1102
00:51:31,480 --> 00:51:33,239
Speaker 2: or maybe maybe refresh Twitter every now and then just

1103
00:51:33,280 --> 00:51:36,400
Speaker 2: see folks in some cases totally doubt that this is possible.

1104
00:51:36,840 --> 00:51:38,400
Speaker 1: That's like foreign languages to me.

1105
00:51:38,680 --> 00:51:41,600
Speaker 3: I mean, you got to realize I was raised by

1106
00:51:41,640 --> 00:51:46,239
Speaker 3: two parents that met here, came over from Cuba, learned

1107
00:51:46,239 --> 00:51:49,480
Speaker 3: the language, worked two jobs at day into the night,

1108
00:51:49,560 --> 00:51:52,600
Speaker 3: went to night school to learn the language, and made

1109
00:51:52,600 --> 00:51:57,319
Speaker 3: sure we understand what the principles of working hard and

1110
00:51:57,360 --> 00:52:00,720
Speaker 3: taking care of your business really are. So we weren't

1111
00:52:00,960 --> 00:52:06,000
Speaker 3: silver spoon fed kids. We weren't coddled or given the

1112
00:52:06,080 --> 00:52:08,520
Speaker 3: soft and easy way. We were taught how to grind

1113
00:52:08,560 --> 00:52:10,360
Speaker 3: and how to work. And that carried over to a

1114
00:52:10,440 --> 00:52:13,520
Speaker 3: high school head coach was the best of the best

1115
00:52:13,560 --> 00:52:14,360
Speaker 3: in Dennis level.

1116
00:52:14,600 --> 00:52:15,359
Speaker 1: I mean that guy.

1117
00:52:16,040 --> 00:52:18,959
Speaker 3: I learned more from him and still apply more from

1118
00:52:18,960 --> 00:52:21,319
Speaker 3: what we learned from him. What we do on a

1119
00:52:21,360 --> 00:52:25,879
Speaker 3: daily basis. So for us here, I think certain programs

1120
00:52:26,600 --> 00:52:31,719
Speaker 3: will always have a national brand, and the key to

1121
00:52:31,920 --> 00:52:35,640
Speaker 3: any program right usually falls in a three kind of

1122
00:52:35,719 --> 00:52:41,279
Speaker 3: pronged approach right talent acquisition, player development, and personnel use.

1123
00:52:42,320 --> 00:52:45,320
Speaker 3: I believe what you said, no one goes back anymore

1124
00:52:45,320 --> 00:52:48,560
Speaker 3: in college football, and we don't think that way. I know, way,

1125
00:52:48,600 --> 00:52:50,640
Speaker 3: shape or form, want to go backwards and hey, like

1126
00:52:50,840 --> 00:52:54,000
Speaker 3: this was done or when I played here, That's never

1127
00:52:54,080 --> 00:52:57,400
Speaker 3: part of any conversation. The fact that I've had the

1128
00:52:57,400 --> 00:53:00,880
Speaker 3: opportunity to be away for twenty five years different stops,

1129
00:53:01,320 --> 00:53:02,120
Speaker 3: all them rebuilds.

1130
00:53:02,160 --> 00:53:04,160
Speaker 1: One already was established.

1131
00:53:03,640 --> 00:53:06,080
Speaker 3: Well enough for that's not a rebuild, but sustaining a

1132
00:53:06,080 --> 00:53:08,719
Speaker 3: program at that level still is a great lessons like

1133
00:53:08,719 --> 00:53:09,520
Speaker 3: getting a PhD.

1134
00:53:09,600 --> 00:53:10,440
Speaker 1: In some of this stuff.

1135
00:53:12,200 --> 00:53:15,240
Speaker 3: It's really important to know that this is all about

1136
00:53:15,239 --> 00:53:18,880
Speaker 3: taking Miami into the future. That's why the contract was

1137
00:53:19,440 --> 00:53:22,160
Speaker 3: laid out the way it was. That's why into that

1138
00:53:22,200 --> 00:53:24,960
Speaker 3: we tied a facility that's going to be second to none,

1139
00:53:25,000 --> 00:53:25,560
Speaker 3: which has been.

1140
00:53:25,440 --> 00:53:26,399
Speaker 1: Missing for a long time.

1141
00:53:27,160 --> 00:53:29,120
Speaker 3: I mean, this was as much as I wanted to

1142
00:53:29,120 --> 00:53:32,720
Speaker 3: come back, I could not from a business standpoint until

1143
00:53:32,760 --> 00:53:36,360
Speaker 3: it was obvious and factual that Miami was really serious

1144
00:53:37,000 --> 00:53:40,640
Speaker 3: about heading into this decade at the level that everybody

1145
00:53:40,640 --> 00:53:43,480
Speaker 3: else is in the country, the top level teams and

1146
00:53:43,560 --> 00:53:47,120
Speaker 3: every single budget line, every single everything is itemized to

1147
00:53:47,200 --> 00:53:47,400
Speaker 3: the t.

1148
00:53:48,880 --> 00:53:49,680
Speaker 1: For the long haul.

1149
00:53:49,719 --> 00:53:51,680
Speaker 3: That that's the way it's going to be, and that's

1150
00:53:51,719 --> 00:53:53,400
Speaker 3: the only way it can be and should be. So

1151
00:53:54,360 --> 00:53:57,320
Speaker 3: all those things combined plus the area, you feel the

1152
00:53:57,400 --> 00:53:59,640
Speaker 3: vibe in the city, you feel the vibe within the building.

1153
00:54:00,160 --> 00:54:01,719
Speaker 3: We don't be as each other in here. I don't

1154
00:54:01,760 --> 00:54:04,520
Speaker 3: be as this football team or our coaches. I just

1155
00:54:05,719 --> 00:54:08,120
Speaker 3: I'm an offensive lineman man. I mean, I was born

1156
00:54:08,160 --> 00:54:09,640
Speaker 3: and raised to be a worker and do things a

1157
00:54:09,680 --> 00:54:11,960
Speaker 3: certain way. And we don't believe in be his And

1158
00:54:12,000 --> 00:54:14,880
Speaker 3: in terms of any noise that there might be, I

1159
00:54:15,880 --> 00:54:18,320
Speaker 3: don't know. And I don't think our team are players.

1160
00:54:18,360 --> 00:54:20,080
Speaker 3: The people that we bring to the building, I don't

1161
00:54:20,080 --> 00:54:23,239
Speaker 3: think they'll ever care. Whoever does is got to go.

1162
00:54:23,760 --> 00:54:26,000
Speaker 3: I'm talk about here anywhere else. I don't live in

1163
00:54:26,000 --> 00:54:26,480
Speaker 3: that world.

1164
00:54:27,080 --> 00:54:27,600
Speaker 1: I'll live in that.

1165
00:54:27,600 --> 00:54:30,719
Speaker 3: World where you saw, well, we're up at the crack

1166
00:54:30,760 --> 00:54:32,960
Speaker 3: of dawn beyond that and stayed till late at night.

1167
00:54:33,000 --> 00:54:34,560
Speaker 3: That's the world that we live in. That's the only

1168
00:54:34,600 --> 00:54:36,799
Speaker 3: wre we're going to stay in. It's a great group

1169
00:54:36,840 --> 00:54:41,200
Speaker 3: of guys. It's a great i would say, foundation plus

1170
00:54:41,360 --> 00:54:44,120
Speaker 3: one of what this place is to be. And when

1171
00:54:44,160 --> 00:54:49,400
Speaker 3: you sign the top class in your program's history and

1172
00:54:49,440 --> 00:54:52,760
Speaker 3: you're trending to do it again and top that one, well, now,

1173
00:54:53,200 --> 00:54:56,359
Speaker 3: now it starts looking like the teams that have really

1174
00:54:56,360 --> 00:54:58,239
Speaker 3: dominated college football for the past several years.

1175
00:54:58,280 --> 00:55:01,239
Speaker 2: The mentality you're talking about is atypical. Most people don't

1176
00:55:01,239 --> 00:55:06,160
Speaker 2: think like that. And therefore, when last season gets here

1177
00:55:06,440 --> 00:55:09,000
Speaker 2: and then it starts to go downhill, the typical person

1178
00:55:09,040 --> 00:55:11,080
Speaker 2: looks at it and maybe a result or in it fashion,

1179
00:55:11,120 --> 00:55:12,360
Speaker 2: and they say, oh, they're not going to finish with

1180
00:55:12,400 --> 00:55:13,000
Speaker 2: a good record.

1181
00:55:13,640 --> 00:55:14,600
Speaker 4: This season's terrible.

1182
00:55:14,600 --> 00:55:15,160
Speaker 1: It's a wash.

1183
00:55:15,280 --> 00:55:17,760
Speaker 4: You don't get to think like that because because you've got.

1184
00:55:17,920 --> 00:55:21,400
Speaker 2: Hopefully decade plus down the road to where this is

1185
00:55:21,400 --> 00:55:22,000
Speaker 2: the here and now.

1186
00:55:22,040 --> 00:55:23,120
Speaker 4: But here's where we're headed.

1187
00:55:24,160 --> 00:55:26,279
Speaker 2: And it struck me now when you were doing some

1188
00:55:26,400 --> 00:55:28,839
Speaker 2: radio last year, even during the season, and you were

1189
00:55:28,880 --> 00:55:30,840
Speaker 2: just totally unfiltered. I don't think i'd heard you that

1190
00:55:30,880 --> 00:55:34,160
Speaker 2: way publicly, maybe privately, but not publicly, and you just

1191
00:55:34,320 --> 00:55:36,400
Speaker 2: rip the band aid off and you were like brutally

1192
00:55:36,440 --> 00:55:39,800
Speaker 2: honest about what is and what has to change, and

1193
00:55:40,080 --> 00:55:41,960
Speaker 2: make no bones about it. We're gonna get it there.

1194
00:55:43,760 --> 00:55:46,840
Speaker 2: When did you, I guess, when did you start to

1195
00:55:46,920 --> 00:55:49,640
Speaker 2: feel it? From a result standpoint, go a little bit

1196
00:55:49,680 --> 00:55:51,880
Speaker 2: south last year? And what was it like in the

1197
00:55:51,880 --> 00:55:54,160
Speaker 2: building around here? Because all we know is what it

1198
00:55:54,200 --> 00:55:55,240
Speaker 2: looked like from the outside.

1199
00:55:55,320 --> 00:55:56,920
Speaker 3: Sure, you know, I think whenever you have a season

1200
00:55:56,960 --> 00:55:59,759
Speaker 3: like that, it is tough. You know, you gotta I

1201
00:55:59,880 --> 00:56:02,080
Speaker 3: like to think about it this way. For the last

1202
00:56:02,120 --> 00:56:06,280
Speaker 3: ten years, I've been part of either a national championship staff,

1203
00:56:06,280 --> 00:56:09,840
Speaker 3: a National championship game, a Rose Bowl game, a conference title,

1204
00:56:11,080 --> 00:56:12,640
Speaker 3: and then for the first time in a long time,

1205
00:56:12,960 --> 00:56:15,640
Speaker 3: was back to rebuild mode and you had to.

1206
00:56:15,600 --> 00:56:17,560
Speaker 1: Go through the painful steps that you cannot skip.

1207
00:56:17,600 --> 00:56:21,399
Speaker 3: And they are hard, they are tough, and a job

1208
00:56:21,600 --> 00:56:23,839
Speaker 3: like this, at least at the beginning, is for tough

1209
00:56:23,880 --> 00:56:28,759
Speaker 3: minded people. It really is, because people are gonna, you know,

1210
00:56:28,840 --> 00:56:31,640
Speaker 3: how to busch it. People are going to show their ass, right,

1211
00:56:31,840 --> 00:56:33,840
Speaker 3: I don't think I could say that kind of whatever,

1212
00:56:34,760 --> 00:56:38,600
Speaker 3: you know, so people are going to show themselves when

1213
00:56:39,360 --> 00:56:44,480
Speaker 3: the blank khit's a fan and the truth always comes

1214
00:56:44,480 --> 00:56:48,279
Speaker 3: out in those situations. So I look back at every

1215
00:56:48,320 --> 00:56:50,719
Speaker 3: single one of these opportunities that we have, whether it

1216
00:56:50,719 --> 00:56:55,320
Speaker 3: be at Rutgers getting beat age of seven at Virginia Virginia,

1217
00:56:55,320 --> 00:56:56,080
Speaker 3: you can't forget that.

1218
00:56:56,120 --> 00:56:57,160
Speaker 1: Happened ages of seven.

1219
00:56:57,160 --> 00:57:00,560
Speaker 3: I'll never forget the fake punt right before halftime to

1220
00:57:00,640 --> 00:57:05,080
Speaker 3: further emphasize at West Virginia, I'll never forget being here

1221
00:57:05,640 --> 00:57:08,360
Speaker 3: in ninety seven as a GA, you know, and rebuilding

1222
00:57:08,360 --> 00:57:11,120
Speaker 3: the pro I'll never forget going to FIU a team

1223
00:57:11,160 --> 00:57:13,920
Speaker 3: that had lost almost twenty stray games and having to

1224
00:57:13,960 --> 00:57:16,280
Speaker 3: start from scrats there on the team that was inheriting

1225
00:57:16,320 --> 00:57:19,880
Speaker 3: a five year probation, Like it just takes certain types

1226
00:57:19,920 --> 00:57:22,800
Speaker 3: of people to do that, and surrounding yourself with certain

1227
00:57:22,840 --> 00:57:25,920
Speaker 3: types of people, and if there's any crack in them,

1228
00:57:26,400 --> 00:57:29,880
Speaker 3: people are gonna feel it. Right, So I we just

1229
00:57:30,600 --> 00:57:32,320
Speaker 3: I don't know. Maybe we're very fortunate. We had a

1230
00:57:32,320 --> 00:57:36,440
Speaker 3: great upbringings. I credit the parents, the mentors of all

1231
00:57:36,560 --> 00:57:39,080
Speaker 3: the young men and women in our program that are

1232
00:57:39,120 --> 00:57:42,120
Speaker 3: resilient and understand that this you got to do this,

1233
00:57:42,400 --> 00:57:45,480
Speaker 3: Like unfortunately, if you're not to a certain level, you

1234
00:57:45,600 --> 00:57:48,840
Speaker 3: need this. So that reality is very clear that we

1235
00:57:48,960 --> 00:57:51,160
Speaker 3: have got to build from here. Now we just got

1236
00:57:51,200 --> 00:57:52,919
Speaker 3: to go just shut our mouths and go to work.

1237
00:57:53,000 --> 00:57:56,080
Speaker 3: There's nothing else, you know, there's no other way around it.

1238
00:57:56,160 --> 00:57:57,080
Speaker 1: You just got to go do it.

1239
00:57:57,840 --> 00:58:00,240
Speaker 2: No one ever, at least in my observation, and no

1240
00:58:00,280 --> 00:58:02,600
Speaker 2: one ever takes over a program and then hires a

1241
00:58:02,640 --> 00:58:06,080
Speaker 2: staff and then everyone's just there for the first three years.

1242
00:58:06,240 --> 00:58:08,440
Speaker 2: You may have a nucleus, but it always feels like

1243
00:58:08,440 --> 00:58:11,600
Speaker 2: there's some turnover. You guys had turnover the coordinator position.

1244
00:58:11,800 --> 00:58:13,800
Speaker 2: You had a chunk of your staff, which is normal

1245
00:58:13,960 --> 00:58:15,960
Speaker 2: percentage wise, you look across the sport, That's how it

1246
00:58:15,960 --> 00:58:16,760
Speaker 2: always happens.

1247
00:58:17,040 --> 00:58:18,760
Speaker 4: But I know each situation is unique.

1248
00:58:18,800 --> 00:58:21,680
Speaker 2: So you're talking about filtration and sort of putting the

1249
00:58:21,680 --> 00:58:23,680
Speaker 2: water pressure against the dam and finding out where the

1250
00:58:23,680 --> 00:58:24,160
Speaker 2: cracks are.

1251
00:58:26,040 --> 00:58:27,000
Speaker 4: From the outside.

1252
00:58:27,160 --> 00:58:28,960
Speaker 2: All we see is at the end of the year,

1253
00:58:29,200 --> 00:58:31,520
Speaker 2: staff moves on in the inside.

1254
00:58:31,720 --> 00:58:32,680
Speaker 4: Sometimes you may.

1255
00:58:32,560 --> 00:58:34,760
Speaker 2: Know two weeks in sure, probably need to address that

1256
00:58:34,760 --> 00:58:36,720
Speaker 2: down the road, or maybe it's late November, probably need

1257
00:58:36,720 --> 00:58:39,800
Speaker 2: to address that. But you don't usually do it during

1258
00:58:39,800 --> 00:58:41,600
Speaker 2: the season. You just got to make do until the

1259
00:58:41,640 --> 00:58:43,880
Speaker 2: end of the year. What's that process like if no

1260
00:58:43,920 --> 00:58:46,040
Speaker 2: one in the back of your mind, all right, taking

1261
00:58:46,080 --> 00:58:48,680
Speaker 2: notes now, But I can't really probably address that until

1262
00:58:48,720 --> 00:58:51,840
Speaker 2: December because that is obviously not an ideal situation to

1263
00:58:51,880 --> 00:58:52,160
Speaker 2: be in.

1264
00:58:52,480 --> 00:58:54,720
Speaker 3: Sure, And I think you owe it to a staff

1265
00:58:55,040 --> 00:58:57,800
Speaker 3: to give them enough time to at least show something

1266
00:58:57,880 --> 00:59:00,320
Speaker 3: unless it's just to the point where you know it's

1267
00:59:00,360 --> 00:59:03,840
Speaker 3: no longer fixable or that there is no improvement to

1268
00:59:03,920 --> 00:59:06,520
Speaker 3: be made, or you're part of the season where you

1269
00:59:06,520 --> 00:59:08,920
Speaker 3: could only hurt yourself even more, even if you know

1270
00:59:08,960 --> 00:59:10,000
Speaker 3: that it's not going to work.

1271
00:59:10,560 --> 00:59:14,680
Speaker 1: And I do believe this, I believe in respect.

1272
00:59:14,840 --> 00:59:17,560
Speaker 3: And sometimes you know a staff member is not going

1273
00:59:17,600 --> 00:59:20,640
Speaker 3: to work out, and sometimes they have an opportunity that

1274
00:59:20,720 --> 00:59:23,960
Speaker 3: might be better for their family, and sometimes it's time

1275
00:59:24,000 --> 00:59:28,240
Speaker 3: for them to move on, and I, at least philosophically,

1276
00:59:28,320 --> 00:59:31,320
Speaker 3: I believe and if that's the case, you always give

1277
00:59:31,360 --> 00:59:35,720
Speaker 3: someone an opportunity to find another opportunity and go get it.

1278
00:59:36,080 --> 00:59:39,160
Speaker 3: You know, I don't think there's ante I don't think

1279
00:59:39,160 --> 00:59:45,400
Speaker 3: there's any any benefit of a public termination just so

1280
00:59:45,440 --> 00:59:48,720
Speaker 3: it's out there when someone can maybe find another job

1281
00:59:48,760 --> 00:59:50,720
Speaker 3: when a move was going to be made anyways. You know,

1282
00:59:50,840 --> 00:59:52,960
Speaker 3: you want to get people an opportunity to continue their career,

1283
00:59:53,680 --> 00:59:57,400
Speaker 3: not sometimes things don't fit, you know, we had. We

1284
00:59:57,440 --> 01:00:00,960
Speaker 3: had coaches that were had some pretty strong accol right

1285
01:00:01,480 --> 01:00:02,920
Speaker 3: and all of a sudden it didn't work out.

1286
01:00:02,960 --> 01:00:04,080
Speaker 1: They moved on somewhere else.

1287
01:00:04,120 --> 01:00:08,439
Speaker 3: So I don't think anyone or everyone becomes a bad

1288
01:00:08,480 --> 01:00:11,400
Speaker 3: coach overnight. Sometimes things just don't fit, or the timing

1289
01:00:11,440 --> 01:00:14,920
Speaker 3: isn't right, or the personnel doesn't fit the scheme, and

1290
01:00:14,960 --> 01:00:18,480
Speaker 3: there's not enough adaptability or enough pieces to plug in.

1291
01:00:19,240 --> 01:00:20,520
Speaker 1: Every single case is different.

1292
01:00:21,040 --> 01:00:23,200
Speaker 3: I do try to handle those respectfully while at the

1293
01:00:23,200 --> 01:00:25,840
Speaker 3: same time just finding whatever is best for the team

1294
01:00:26,240 --> 01:00:28,560
Speaker 3: and not compromising that part. If something has to be

1295
01:00:28,600 --> 01:00:31,000
Speaker 3: done on the spot and swiftly because it is the

1296
01:00:31,000 --> 01:00:32,280
Speaker 3: best for the team, then you gotta do what you

1297
01:00:32,280 --> 01:00:32,720
Speaker 3: gotta do.

1298
01:00:32,920 --> 01:00:35,080
Speaker 2: What you're describing is a different world, but it's not

1299
01:00:35,120 --> 01:00:37,240
Speaker 2: too dissimilar sometimes to what we may deal with in

1300
01:00:37,280 --> 01:00:39,560
Speaker 2: the production world. You may bring in a guy who

1301
01:00:39,600 --> 01:00:41,440
Speaker 2: you want to be a coordinating producer and he's got

1302
01:00:41,480 --> 01:00:44,080
Speaker 2: all the he's got all the boxes checked on his resume.

1303
01:00:44,680 --> 01:00:46,439
Speaker 2: It just for whatever reason, it's not a good fit.

1304
01:00:46,720 --> 01:00:49,720
Speaker 2: Now in my world, what you'll probably do is along

1305
01:00:49,760 --> 01:00:51,680
Speaker 2: the lines of what you said, Probably give them a

1306
01:00:51,720 --> 01:00:53,720
Speaker 2: heads up, not that they don't already feel it, but

1307
01:00:53,760 --> 01:00:56,520
Speaker 2: you give them a heads up. Hey, probably in your

1308
01:00:56,520 --> 01:00:58,280
Speaker 2: best interest to go ahead and put your feelers out.

1309
01:00:58,360 --> 01:00:59,800
Speaker 2: In your world, you would have an agent to do

1310
01:00:59,840 --> 01:01:01,640
Speaker 2: that through, whereas in our world you're just having to

1311
01:01:01,840 --> 01:01:05,160
Speaker 2: elbow your way in yourself. Is that how you handle it?

1312
01:01:05,200 --> 01:01:08,160
Speaker 2: I mean, if you were to start feeling things going downhill,

1313
01:01:10,080 --> 01:01:12,960
Speaker 2: do you sort of wink wink, nudge nudge, Hey, this

1314
01:01:13,000 --> 01:01:14,800
Speaker 2: is probably the direction we're going. Or do you not

1315
01:01:14,840 --> 01:01:17,120
Speaker 2: even need to do that? Do guys just naturally feel

1316
01:01:17,160 --> 01:01:19,880
Speaker 2: it and understand? Probably on borrow time here?

1317
01:01:20,160 --> 01:01:20,240
Speaker 1: Oh?

1318
01:01:20,320 --> 01:01:23,919
Speaker 3: You telling them respectfully? You know, there's you don't hold back.

1319
01:01:24,600 --> 01:01:26,720
Speaker 3: You know, I don't think you make it personal because

1320
01:01:26,720 --> 01:01:28,840
Speaker 3: it never is. It shouldn't be unless someone makes it

1321
01:01:28,880 --> 01:01:33,480
Speaker 3: personal or in the case someone egregiously you know, violates

1322
01:01:33,560 --> 01:01:36,280
Speaker 3: policy and culture and ethics, and you got to go

1323
01:01:36,320 --> 01:01:38,240
Speaker 3: out that really really hard. But if not, you really

1324
01:01:38,240 --> 01:01:41,000
Speaker 3: try to always say as professional as possible and leave.

1325
01:01:40,840 --> 01:01:41,920
Speaker 1: Out the personal part.

1326
01:01:42,520 --> 01:01:45,800
Speaker 2: So as we're talking right here, we got like alarms

1327
01:01:45,800 --> 01:01:48,480
Speaker 2: going off in the background, lightning in the area. And

1328
01:01:48,520 --> 01:01:50,880
Speaker 2: what's interesting is I've been to pretty recently down here

1329
01:01:50,960 --> 01:01:52,960
Speaker 2: that would have just meant all right, practice is over

1330
01:01:53,080 --> 01:01:55,720
Speaker 2: done now we're sitting in an indoor and yet we've

1331
01:01:55,760 --> 01:01:58,960
Speaker 2: also got ground about to break on new facilities that

1332
01:01:58,960 --> 01:02:01,200
Speaker 2: are even brighter and shine even what we're in right now. Now,

1333
01:02:01,200 --> 01:02:02,680
Speaker 2: I know, if you had your way, we just put

1334
01:02:02,680 --> 01:02:05,040
Speaker 2: on hard hats and go pick up a shovel and

1335
01:02:05,120 --> 01:02:06,919
Speaker 2: let's get it done. Because you don't get the red

1336
01:02:06,920 --> 01:02:09,160
Speaker 2: tape and I don't get the red tape either. When

1337
01:02:09,240 --> 01:02:11,880
Speaker 2: this project's finally done. What does that do to Miami football?

1338
01:02:12,400 --> 01:02:15,040
Speaker 3: Well, Number one, Jimmy Johnson had to deal with somebody

1339
01:02:15,080 --> 01:02:18,840
Speaker 3: because it would lightening everywhere except on that practice field

1340
01:02:19,080 --> 01:02:21,400
Speaker 3: because we never had a single practice canceled and all

1341
01:02:21,480 --> 01:02:23,240
Speaker 3: that time we haven't had the same deal with that

1342
01:02:23,280 --> 01:02:27,200
Speaker 3: same benefit. So yeah, this is this is well underway.

1343
01:02:28,040 --> 01:02:31,920
Speaker 3: Groundbreaking should be any day now. It is a fully

1344
01:02:31,960 --> 01:02:35,960
Speaker 3: funded and laid out project. It is it's the nicest

1345
01:02:35,960 --> 01:02:38,200
Speaker 3: facility I've ever been a part of helping to design,

1346
01:02:38,920 --> 01:02:41,160
Speaker 3: and it gives us everything and then some. It also

1347
01:02:41,160 --> 01:02:43,760
Speaker 3: gives you ability to keep expanding the operation as well,

1348
01:02:44,320 --> 01:02:45,400
Speaker 3: and it's a necessity.

1349
01:02:45,600 --> 01:02:45,800
Speaker 1: You know.

1350
01:02:45,840 --> 01:02:48,160
Speaker 3: I think for years prospects have just flown by and

1351
01:02:48,200 --> 01:02:51,960
Speaker 3: over Miami because it's not just having a nice building,

1352
01:02:52,000 --> 01:02:56,400
Speaker 3: it's a nice facility, a modern facility with things that

1353
01:02:56,480 --> 01:02:58,720
Speaker 3: help increase performance.

1354
01:02:58,200 --> 01:02:59,920
Speaker 4: Functionality, no doubt, and you know what it is.

1355
01:03:00,200 --> 01:03:03,640
Speaker 3: It screams investment. You're invested in my son. You know

1356
01:03:03,760 --> 01:03:06,600
Speaker 3: you are going to do everything possible to make them elite.

1357
01:03:06,640 --> 01:03:08,760
Speaker 3: So I think that part's gonna it's going to really

1358
01:03:09,400 --> 01:03:12,800
Speaker 3: not besides turning heads, it changes the mindset and the

1359
01:03:12,960 --> 01:03:16,880
Speaker 3: perspective of Okay, Miami really is completely invested in.

1360
01:03:17,000 --> 01:03:18,360
Speaker 1: And that's just part of it.

1361
01:03:18,400 --> 01:03:21,840
Speaker 3: Because it includes an expansion of the indoor and some

1362
01:03:21,920 --> 01:03:24,920
Speaker 3: other pieces. It is a monstrosity of a project, and

1363
01:03:24,920 --> 01:03:27,360
Speaker 3: it's so I'm looking forward to it. We could, you know,

1364
01:03:27,400 --> 01:03:29,000
Speaker 3: you got a crew here, Mail, we could start knocking

1365
01:03:29,040 --> 01:03:31,640
Speaker 3: down some things and moving a tractor over if we can.

1366
01:03:31,760 --> 01:03:33,280
Speaker 2: You know, well, I mean you open the building and

1367
01:03:33,520 --> 01:03:35,440
Speaker 2: this is what we bring in here, we appreciate it.

1368
01:03:35,880 --> 01:03:38,640
Speaker 2: So there's a word that you like to use a lot,

1369
01:03:38,760 --> 01:03:41,959
Speaker 2: and the word is creature. And maybe when you came

1370
01:03:42,040 --> 01:03:44,640
Speaker 2: here there were some creatures in the building, not nearly

1371
01:03:44,680 --> 01:03:47,400
Speaker 2: as many as you would have wanted. I've been down

1372
01:03:47,440 --> 01:03:50,640
Speaker 2: here about seventy two hours by the time this airs,

1373
01:03:51,080 --> 01:03:54,000
Speaker 2: and I've seen some high school creatures walk through the

1374
01:03:54,040 --> 01:03:58,280
Speaker 2: building and without mentioning specifics obviously, but sticking to generalities,

1375
01:03:58,720 --> 01:04:00,880
Speaker 2: I know that you got big weekends coming up and

1376
01:04:00,920 --> 01:04:02,680
Speaker 2: this time of year now it just used to be

1377
01:04:02,760 --> 01:04:05,600
Speaker 2: vacation time. And now it's like the heart of recruiting season.

1378
01:04:05,640 --> 01:04:08,840
Speaker 2: Costs the way the calendar's changed. Everybody says they take

1379
01:04:08,840 --> 01:04:09,640
Speaker 2: recruiting seriously.

1380
01:04:10,560 --> 01:04:11,080
Speaker 4: I don't think.

1381
01:04:11,160 --> 01:04:13,160
Speaker 2: I mean, I've I've been around the Georgia's, the Bamas,

1382
01:04:13,160 --> 01:04:15,920
Speaker 2: and you've been around the Bama program. You did it

1383
01:04:15,920 --> 01:04:19,120
Speaker 2: at Oregon. It looks like it's happening again here. I mean,

1384
01:04:19,200 --> 01:04:22,000
Speaker 2: how Razor Sharp is the focus day to day on

1385
01:04:22,080 --> 01:04:23,360
Speaker 2: recruiting and talent acquisition.

1386
01:04:24,120 --> 01:04:28,040
Speaker 3: It is, It's part of it's a way of life

1387
01:04:28,680 --> 01:04:31,240
Speaker 3: at this time of year, and it really is.

1388
01:04:31,920 --> 01:04:33,480
Speaker 1: It's an everyday thing, you know.

1389
01:04:33,600 --> 01:04:35,680
Speaker 3: I had one head coach to say, you know, it's

1390
01:04:35,720 --> 01:04:37,960
Speaker 3: like it's like brushing your teeth and combing your hair.

1391
01:04:38,000 --> 01:04:39,600
Speaker 3: If you don't do it every day, it ain't gonna

1392
01:04:39,600 --> 01:04:41,240
Speaker 3: look very good. You know, You've got to do it

1393
01:04:41,280 --> 01:04:43,600
Speaker 3: all the time. So but I've had good mentors as

1394
01:04:43,600 --> 01:04:46,040
Speaker 3: it relates to recruiting, and I just believe in it.

1395
01:04:46,080 --> 01:04:48,000
Speaker 3: I really want to know and get to know the

1396
01:04:48,040 --> 01:04:50,400
Speaker 3: people that are going to be on this team inside

1397
01:04:50,400 --> 01:04:53,080
Speaker 3: that locker room. But you also got to combine it

1398
01:04:53,120 --> 01:04:55,520
Speaker 3: with player development and your own locker room.

1399
01:04:55,640 --> 01:04:56,160
Speaker 1: And we do.

1400
01:04:56,280 --> 01:04:57,800
Speaker 3: You know, we split up the day where we're spending

1401
01:04:57,800 --> 01:05:00,280
Speaker 3: time with our guys, we're spending time on scheme, spending

1402
01:05:00,320 --> 01:05:03,680
Speaker 3: time on upcoming opponents, and we're spending time on recruiting.

1403
01:05:03,760 --> 01:05:05,360
Speaker 3: Just the days are a little bit longer in the

1404
01:05:05,400 --> 01:05:09,040
Speaker 3: summer than they used to be, and there's the weekends

1405
01:05:09,280 --> 01:05:12,480
Speaker 3: you're working. There is no Hey, Friday comes around and

1406
01:05:12,520 --> 01:05:15,080
Speaker 3: there's some time off. You've got official visits, you've got

1407
01:05:15,160 --> 01:05:19,560
Speaker 3: unofficial visits, and everyone's fighting for these visits. So whenever

1408
01:05:19,600 --> 01:05:21,320
Speaker 3: you can get the guys on campus, you want to

1409
01:05:21,320 --> 01:05:22,680
Speaker 3: get them there and make sure you're available.

1410
01:05:22,800 --> 01:05:25,240
Speaker 2: This whole thing you're talking about fighting to get visits

1411
01:05:25,480 --> 01:05:28,240
Speaker 2: is frankly not something that gets talked about a lot.

1412
01:05:28,400 --> 01:05:32,280
Speaker 2: I mean, everybody talks about your battling Clemson or Georgia

1413
01:05:32,320 --> 01:05:35,040
Speaker 2: or Tennessee for a high four star linebacker. They don't

1414
01:05:35,040 --> 01:05:37,080
Speaker 2: even talk about battling to get the visit. What goes

1415
01:05:37,120 --> 01:05:40,960
Speaker 2: into battling just to get guys on campus and how

1416
01:05:41,000 --> 01:05:43,840
Speaker 2: well does it play into your hands that you're in Miami, Florida.

1417
01:05:44,360 --> 01:05:47,320
Speaker 3: They have to meet certain criteria besides the stuff we

1418
01:05:47,360 --> 01:05:50,080
Speaker 3: see on film, the background check. He's got to be

1419
01:05:50,160 --> 01:05:52,400
Speaker 3: a real one off the field, and he's got to

1420
01:05:52,440 --> 01:05:55,360
Speaker 3: possess the characteristics that that we're looking for in terms

1421
01:05:55,400 --> 01:05:57,360
Speaker 3: of work ethic, toughness, character.

1422
01:05:57,400 --> 01:05:58,800
Speaker 1: Everyone has their stuff, you know.

1423
01:05:58,760 --> 01:06:03,200
Speaker 3: That's nothing you know extraordinary, you know, or anything that's

1424
01:06:03,800 --> 01:06:08,320
Speaker 3: that's new, but you have to you have to make

1425
01:06:08,360 --> 01:06:10,560
Speaker 3: sure it fits and you also have to make sure

1426
01:06:10,560 --> 01:06:13,280
Speaker 3: there's a legitimate interest. Especially now right there's there's an

1427
01:06:13,320 --> 01:06:18,280
Speaker 3: unlimited visit you know, new little addition to the NCAA rules,

1428
01:06:18,320 --> 01:06:20,920
Speaker 3: so guys can visit as many times they want, wherever

1429
01:06:20,920 --> 01:06:22,560
Speaker 3: they want. You want to make sure that you're never

1430
01:06:22,760 --> 01:06:25,840
Speaker 3: just a waste visit because you still have you're subjected

1431
01:06:25,880 --> 01:06:29,640
Speaker 3: to fifty six plus six left over, and you know,

1432
01:06:29,760 --> 01:06:31,760
Speaker 3: use the NCAA. At least last year they were able

1433
01:06:31,800 --> 01:06:33,640
Speaker 3: to add some more at the end. So you still

1434
01:06:33,680 --> 01:06:35,520
Speaker 3: have to be selective as so when you get them,

1435
01:06:35,520 --> 01:06:37,439
Speaker 3: but you gotta fight for them, and everybody everybody wants

1436
01:06:37,440 --> 01:06:39,800
Speaker 3: the same guys, right, and then there's a couple of

1437
01:06:39,800 --> 01:06:42,520
Speaker 3: guys that pop in and certainly those guys when they

1438
01:06:42,520 --> 01:06:45,919
Speaker 3: do pop. It's the day and age of social media.

1439
01:06:45,920 --> 01:06:48,320
Speaker 3: Everybody finds out. Do you remember the days? I mean

1440
01:06:48,360 --> 01:06:51,360
Speaker 3: back then you can. There was no what's that little device?

1441
01:06:51,440 --> 01:06:56,040
Speaker 3: The old navigation, the Magellans, the Magenity, the old Magellan.

1442
01:06:56,160 --> 01:06:57,680
Speaker 1: Right, so even.

1443
01:06:57,480 --> 01:07:00,600
Speaker 3: Before that, they were just maps, right. There was word

1444
01:07:00,600 --> 01:07:03,320
Speaker 3: of mouth, there was a newspaper, and so you had

1445
01:07:03,360 --> 01:07:06,120
Speaker 3: to go and put in time and watch a guy practice, right,

1446
01:07:06,360 --> 01:07:07,720
Speaker 3: and you had to make sure when you called that

1447
01:07:07,800 --> 01:07:09,520
Speaker 3: school the coach happened to be in the office because

1448
01:07:09,520 --> 01:07:11,640
Speaker 3: there were no cell phones, and you want to make

1449
01:07:11,640 --> 01:07:13,640
Speaker 3: sure you got there for a practice or for a workout.

1450
01:07:13,720 --> 01:07:16,479
Speaker 3: So those days are gone. You could stump, you could,

1451
01:07:17,200 --> 01:07:19,920
Speaker 3: you could secretly find an absolute stud and no one

1452
01:07:19,920 --> 01:07:23,000
Speaker 3: else knew about it. Now, the moment someone's offered, it's

1453
01:07:23,080 --> 01:07:26,080
Speaker 3: you know, blessed to be offered by, right.

1454
01:07:27,000 --> 01:07:30,120
Speaker 2: I mean you're talking you're talking about the computerization essentially

1455
01:07:30,120 --> 01:07:32,520
Speaker 2: of recruiting, yes, and you're talking to It's like people

1456
01:07:32,520 --> 01:07:35,280
Speaker 2: talk about the computerization of medical records and what it did.

1457
01:07:35,920 --> 01:07:39,000
Speaker 4: Well, that's wonderful, but in your world, I mean, that's.

1458
01:07:38,840 --> 01:07:40,960
Speaker 2: Why you used to have so many diamonds in the

1459
01:07:41,040 --> 01:07:43,000
Speaker 2: rough that's why there used to be these stories of

1460
01:07:43,080 --> 01:07:46,040
Speaker 2: kids that weren't on like the parade All American List. Well,

1461
01:07:46,040 --> 01:07:48,000
Speaker 2: it's caused they came from a high school with fifty

1462
01:07:48,040 --> 01:07:50,800
Speaker 2: six in their graduating class, and they're from like the

1463
01:07:50,840 --> 01:07:54,320
Speaker 2: backwoods of Louisiana, and the LSU coaches knew about him,

1464
01:07:54,360 --> 01:07:56,200
Speaker 2: but no one else did. That's right, we're talking about

1465
01:07:56,200 --> 01:07:58,520
Speaker 2: the Everglades down here. The Miami coaches may have known

1466
01:07:58,520 --> 01:08:00,560
Speaker 2: about him, Howard Snellenberger may have known about it, but

1467
01:08:00,600 --> 01:08:03,800
Speaker 2: no one else did. And it's it's almost like if

1468
01:08:03,800 --> 01:08:06,760
Speaker 2: you knew the back roads back then in your territory

1469
01:08:07,240 --> 01:08:09,120
Speaker 2: and you were in a really hot bed for recruiting,

1470
01:08:09,160 --> 01:08:10,120
Speaker 2: you gave yourself a leg up.

1471
01:08:10,160 --> 01:08:11,720
Speaker 4: And now like PJ.

1472
01:08:11,840 --> 01:08:14,520
Speaker 2: Fleck, the head coach at Minnesota, knows about the guys

1473
01:08:14,560 --> 01:08:16,639
Speaker 2: in South Florida that you know about. And so it's

1474
01:08:17,080 --> 01:08:20,040
Speaker 2: it's not that maybe someone's on a different playing field.

1475
01:08:20,040 --> 01:08:22,120
Speaker 2: It's like the playing field's more level, and now you

1476
01:08:22,200 --> 01:08:24,479
Speaker 2: just got to go win recruiting wars. And like I

1477
01:08:24,520 --> 01:08:26,519
Speaker 2: said earlier, a lot of folks look at recruiting and

1478
01:08:26,560 --> 01:08:28,519
Speaker 2: they say, oh, we want to go recruit South Florida.

1479
01:08:28,560 --> 01:08:32,120
Speaker 2: Everyone comes down here and I've said on this show

1480
01:08:32,120 --> 01:08:35,439
Speaker 2: for a long time, everyone else is focused on like

1481
01:08:35,479 --> 01:08:37,800
Speaker 2: an expanded playoff to try and try and even it

1482
01:08:37,800 --> 01:08:40,519
Speaker 2: out and inject parody. And I've looked at the teams

1483
01:08:40,560 --> 01:08:43,639
Speaker 2: that are dominating the playoff and they all come down

1484
01:08:43,680 --> 01:08:45,680
Speaker 2: here and get a ton of talent because the n

1485
01:08:45,680 --> 01:08:48,320
Speaker 2: state schools and Miami's been included, had not been keeping

1486
01:08:48,360 --> 01:08:51,120
Speaker 2: them at home. So from my math, and it could

1487
01:08:51,160 --> 01:08:53,760
Speaker 2: be a little shoddy, but from my math, you just

1488
01:08:53,840 --> 01:08:55,240
Speaker 2: keep your guys home, not all of them.

1489
01:08:55,280 --> 01:08:56,280
Speaker 4: You don't even have to get all of them.

1490
01:08:56,280 --> 01:08:57,880
Speaker 2: You keep more guys home, and all of a sudden,

1491
01:08:58,560 --> 01:09:00,920
Speaker 2: you landing one of them is also Ohio State not

1492
01:09:01,040 --> 01:09:01,840
Speaker 2: landing one of them.

1493
01:09:02,280 --> 01:09:03,559
Speaker 4: And it's it's really crazy.

1494
01:09:03,600 --> 01:09:05,439
Speaker 2: What over the course of two or three cycles that

1495
01:09:05,479 --> 01:09:08,799
Speaker 2: can do for parody and competitive balance in college football.

1496
01:09:08,800 --> 01:09:10,519
Speaker 4: That's not even a question. By the way, I'm just

1497
01:09:10,560 --> 01:09:11,639
Speaker 4: tossing the statement you're with.

1498
01:09:11,880 --> 01:09:14,840
Speaker 3: I think you're you're spot on. I mean, Ruben Bain

1499
01:09:14,960 --> 01:09:16,760
Speaker 3: coming to Miami is a big deal.

1500
01:09:17,200 --> 01:09:19,120
Speaker 2: You know, he wouldn't have he would not have been

1501
01:09:19,160 --> 01:09:22,280
Speaker 2: here two cycles ago. Is my unprofessional opinion.

1502
01:09:22,320 --> 01:09:25,679
Speaker 3: You know, Ray Ray, Joseph ray Ray was committed somewhere

1503
01:09:25,680 --> 01:09:29,120
Speaker 3: else within the conference, you know, before the staff arrived

1504
01:09:29,160 --> 01:09:31,280
Speaker 3: and just went at it hard because he's a dynamic

1505
01:09:31,600 --> 01:09:35,639
Speaker 3: football player. Nigelie Kelly is like that to Maury Brown,

1506
01:09:36,000 --> 01:09:37,840
Speaker 3: right right up the road he was headed. You know,

1507
01:09:37,960 --> 01:09:41,960
Speaker 3: tots of mother schools, maybe in another conference. Mark Fletcher,

1508
01:09:42,040 --> 01:09:44,000
Speaker 3: you know you saw him today. I mean, these are

1509
01:09:44,680 --> 01:09:46,880
Speaker 3: Wesley Bassaint, I mean, I could go on and on

1510
01:09:46,960 --> 01:09:49,639
Speaker 3: and these guys are they're game changers.

1511
01:09:49,840 --> 01:09:52,280
Speaker 1: And like you mentioned, it's if.

1512
01:09:52,120 --> 01:09:55,960
Speaker 3: You recruit the right guys right that helps you build

1513
01:09:55,960 --> 01:09:57,960
Speaker 3: a program, you have success. If you miss on that

1514
01:09:58,040 --> 01:10:01,240
Speaker 3: right guy, well you better recruit a guy that's able

1515
01:10:01,240 --> 01:10:03,800
Speaker 3: to diffuse him when you play that team. If you

1516
01:10:03,880 --> 01:10:07,160
Speaker 3: recruit the wrong guy, that guy beat you every single day,

1517
01:10:07,240 --> 01:10:09,679
Speaker 3: not just once a year. So it's about still getting

1518
01:10:09,680 --> 01:10:11,719
Speaker 3: the right guys. Like we had a study and looking

1519
01:10:11,720 --> 01:10:14,720
Speaker 3: at the national championship teams here and some were just

1520
01:10:14,840 --> 01:10:17,760
Speaker 3: South Florida Leyden, they really were. And then you looked

1521
01:10:17,760 --> 01:10:19,799
Speaker 3: at the two thousand and one team and you realize,

1522
01:10:19,840 --> 01:10:22,560
Speaker 3: you know, the left tackle was from New Jersey and

1523
01:10:22,600 --> 01:10:25,080
Speaker 3: the left guard was from Pennsylvania. In the center from

1524
01:10:25,680 --> 01:10:27,479
Speaker 3: he's going to claim he's from Canada, but he's right

1525
01:10:27,600 --> 01:10:29,000
Speaker 3: there is outside of Canada.

1526
01:10:29,040 --> 01:10:32,200
Speaker 1: He's over in Detroit, and the right guard was.

1527
01:10:32,120 --> 01:10:34,680
Speaker 3: From Iran and the quarterback was from California, and all

1528
01:10:34,680 --> 01:10:36,960
Speaker 3: of a sudden that team was built differently, But it

1529
01:10:37,000 --> 01:10:39,559
Speaker 3: was the right guys, you know, because it's like once

1530
01:10:39,560 --> 01:10:41,400
Speaker 3: they got here, they became part of the culture. So

1531
01:10:41,840 --> 01:10:43,960
Speaker 3: there's a little bit of give and take there, and

1532
01:10:44,000 --> 01:10:46,280
Speaker 3: as much as anything else as making sure you keep

1533
01:10:46,320 --> 01:10:48,400
Speaker 3: local talent home, it's got to be the right local talent,

1534
01:10:48,880 --> 01:10:50,559
Speaker 3: and when you go outside, you better get the right

1535
01:10:50,560 --> 01:10:52,559
Speaker 3: talent as well. They got to have the right people

1536
01:10:52,720 --> 01:10:55,519
Speaker 3: that had the right mindset because if not, that can

1537
01:10:55,720 --> 01:10:56,960
Speaker 3: hurt you more than anything.

1538
01:10:57,080 --> 01:10:58,759
Speaker 1: That can hurt you more than missing on a good player.

1539
01:11:01,120 --> 01:11:03,320
Speaker 2: We sat down with Shannon Dawson for like an hour

1540
01:11:03,560 --> 01:11:05,400
Speaker 2: the other day. It felt like about twenty minutes, but

1541
01:11:05,439 --> 01:11:07,760
Speaker 2: he walked us through some of the spring game and

1542
01:11:08,000 --> 01:11:11,240
Speaker 2: we specifically looked at Tyler van Dyk, and it's obviously

1543
01:11:11,320 --> 01:11:13,679
Speaker 2: pivotal to have him coming back for another year. It's

1544
01:11:13,960 --> 01:11:16,599
Speaker 2: obviously pivotal that when we were watching these offensive linemen

1545
01:11:16,640 --> 01:11:19,240
Speaker 2: out here work out earlier today, a number of them

1546
01:11:19,280 --> 01:11:22,720
Speaker 2: that will probably start were here last year and so

1547
01:11:22,880 --> 01:11:25,040
Speaker 2: keeping him up right's really important. But what's funny is

1548
01:11:25,080 --> 01:11:29,000
Speaker 2: Shannon Dawson comes in from Houston and everyone thinks air raid.

1549
01:11:29,080 --> 01:11:31,360
Speaker 2: And I asked him, hey, coming out of spring, what

1550
01:11:31,439 --> 01:11:32,680
Speaker 2: stands out to you the most? And he said, I

1551
01:11:32,720 --> 01:11:33,840
Speaker 2: think we're going to be able to run the ball

1552
01:11:33,880 --> 01:11:36,120
Speaker 2: a whole lot better. And that's not the sentence that

1553
01:11:36,160 --> 01:11:37,800
Speaker 2: you would expect to come out of an air raid

1554
01:11:37,800 --> 01:11:40,200
Speaker 2: guy's mouth. But then again, he also said, I mean,

1555
01:11:40,200 --> 01:11:41,200
Speaker 2: what does air raid mean?

1556
01:11:41,640 --> 01:11:42,479
Speaker 4: Really? What does it mean?

1557
01:11:42,560 --> 01:11:45,559
Speaker 2: You're talking about a spread offense? What does spread offense

1558
01:11:45,560 --> 01:11:47,599
Speaker 2: really mean? There's so many different concepts to go into it,

1559
01:11:47,640 --> 01:11:49,360
Speaker 2: but to win at the point of attack and to

1560
01:11:49,360 --> 01:11:53,280
Speaker 2: be able to run the ball. When you think about

1561
01:11:53,439 --> 01:11:58,240
Speaker 2: the Mario Cristoball football philosophy, what does the ideal offense

1562
01:11:58,240 --> 01:12:00,360
Speaker 2: look like? Aside from scoring more points in the other team,

1563
01:12:00,479 --> 01:12:01,680
Speaker 2: how do you go about doing it?

1564
01:12:02,000 --> 01:12:04,040
Speaker 3: You got to play with speed and power, and you've

1565
01:12:04,040 --> 01:12:05,600
Speaker 3: got to be efficient. You got to be able to

1566
01:12:05,680 --> 01:12:09,240
Speaker 3: control the line of scrimmage, go through people, around.

1567
01:12:08,880 --> 01:12:10,400
Speaker 1: People, over the top of people.

1568
01:12:10,640 --> 01:12:13,439
Speaker 3: You've got to be able to go fast when it's

1569
01:12:13,439 --> 01:12:14,680
Speaker 3: time to go fast. You got to be able to

1570
01:12:14,680 --> 01:12:16,240
Speaker 3: slow it down when it's trying to slow it down,

1571
01:12:16,960 --> 01:12:18,840
Speaker 3: but you've got to be able to take control of

1572
01:12:18,840 --> 01:12:22,920
Speaker 3: the game, and it starts upfront. Then you really have

1573
01:12:23,000 --> 01:12:25,680
Speaker 3: to assess your talent, which I think coach Dawson and

1574
01:12:25,720 --> 01:12:27,439
Speaker 3: the office stat did a great job of doing to

1575
01:12:27,479 --> 01:12:30,200
Speaker 3: see what can you really do well to be adaptable

1576
01:12:30,320 --> 01:12:31,840
Speaker 3: enough to know that every year's team is going to

1577
01:12:31,840 --> 01:12:35,200
Speaker 3: be different and find out what they can do so

1578
01:12:35,240 --> 01:12:37,040
Speaker 3: you could practice that, get good at it, and then

1579
01:12:37,160 --> 01:12:38,679
Speaker 3: compliment it with all your other stuff.

1580
01:12:39,240 --> 01:12:39,479
Speaker 1: You know.

1581
01:12:39,520 --> 01:12:42,559
Speaker 3: He might come from the air raid tree, but he

1582
01:12:42,720 --> 01:12:49,280
Speaker 3: is a very very diverse play caller. He his menu

1583
01:12:49,680 --> 01:12:53,479
Speaker 3: is very extensive. He has done with a lot of

1584
01:12:53,479 --> 01:12:55,920
Speaker 3: the air raid guys have done. They've gone around and

1585
01:12:55,960 --> 01:12:58,360
Speaker 3: they have taken in certain parts of the run game

1586
01:12:58,400 --> 01:13:00,760
Speaker 3: at different spots, and he does it and calls it

1587
01:13:01,280 --> 01:13:05,760
Speaker 3: and formations it extremely extremely well. He understands backfield sets,

1588
01:13:05,800 --> 01:13:08,639
Speaker 3: he understands formations, the boundary as opposed to the field,

1589
01:13:09,240 --> 01:13:11,800
Speaker 3: how to affect you know, support players the back end,

1590
01:13:11,840 --> 01:13:14,639
Speaker 3: and how to help the quarterback in the RPO world.

1591
01:13:14,640 --> 01:13:17,880
Speaker 3: I mean, he is he's an absolute stud and what

1592
01:13:17,920 --> 01:13:20,559
Speaker 3: he does fits us really well because he understands that

1593
01:13:20,560 --> 01:13:23,439
Speaker 3: we're always going to recruit some really big, powerful offensive lineman.

1594
01:13:23,439 --> 01:13:24,960
Speaker 1: We're always going to have a strong running game.

1595
01:13:25,439 --> 01:13:27,679
Speaker 3: We have a talented quarterback and some talented young guys,

1596
01:13:27,720 --> 01:13:28,599
Speaker 3: and we're starting to get.

1597
01:13:28,439 --> 01:13:31,479
Speaker 1: Some legitimate speed outside. He's going to combine them all.

1598
01:13:31,520 --> 01:13:31,960
Speaker 1: He did that.

1599
01:13:32,160 --> 01:13:35,200
Speaker 3: Our guys love him because he's a great person, and

1600
01:13:35,240 --> 01:13:37,040
Speaker 3: when they sit with him, they can tell he knows

1601
01:13:37,040 --> 01:13:37,800
Speaker 3: what he's talking about.

1602
01:13:37,840 --> 01:13:38,559
Speaker 1: He made them better.

1603
01:13:38,560 --> 01:13:41,160
Speaker 3: These guys had a lot of success in the spring,

1604
01:13:41,240 --> 01:13:42,760
Speaker 3: and they know that we're going to push him even

1605
01:13:42,800 --> 01:13:43,439
Speaker 3: harder in the fall.

1606
01:13:44,120 --> 01:13:46,479
Speaker 2: What were the things when you just did that brutal

1607
01:13:46,520 --> 01:13:49,360
Speaker 2: self assessment of the entire last year before you guys

1608
01:13:49,360 --> 01:13:50,080
Speaker 2: win in the spring.

1609
01:13:51,400 --> 01:13:52,839
Speaker 4: There are tons of areas of focus.

1610
01:13:52,840 --> 01:13:57,120
Speaker 2: Every position group has areas of focus, but team overall, defense, offense,

1611
01:13:57,360 --> 01:14:02,080
Speaker 2: special teams. What were the the core hammer home points?

1612
01:14:02,320 --> 01:14:04,640
Speaker 2: These are non negotiables. These are where we got to

1613
01:14:04,640 --> 01:14:06,320
Speaker 2: get a lot better or we're gonna suffer the same

1614
01:14:06,320 --> 01:14:07,120
Speaker 2: fate this next ball.

1615
01:14:07,640 --> 01:14:10,599
Speaker 3: Upfront, You know, we had a we struggled to run

1616
01:14:10,640 --> 01:14:14,080
Speaker 3: the football, and uh, we struggled to protect the quarterback

1617
01:14:14,120 --> 01:14:18,559
Speaker 3: at times. And again I don't I would never blame

1618
01:14:18,600 --> 01:14:20,439
Speaker 3: a certain player when I got to put on everybody

1619
01:14:20,479 --> 01:14:22,599
Speaker 3: on our entire organization. You know, we got a scheme

1620
01:14:22,640 --> 01:14:24,960
Speaker 3: it better. You got to get better personnel, you've got

1621
01:14:24,960 --> 01:14:26,600
Speaker 3: to develop better in the weight room. It just it

1622
01:14:26,640 --> 01:14:32,040
Speaker 3: didn't look like what it's It's not what we do,

1623
01:14:32,439 --> 01:14:35,080
Speaker 3: you know, but we have to own it because that's

1624
01:14:35,080 --> 01:14:37,280
Speaker 3: what we ended up playing like, that's how we ended

1625
01:14:37,360 --> 01:14:40,920
Speaker 3: up coaching it. So with us, we started up front

1626
01:14:41,120 --> 01:14:43,640
Speaker 3: that was a complete non negotiable on both sides of

1627
01:14:43,680 --> 01:14:46,200
Speaker 3: the ball. We had to make sure that from a

1628
01:14:46,240 --> 01:14:49,600
Speaker 3: physicality standpoint that our second level defenders had to be

1629
01:14:49,680 --> 01:14:52,519
Speaker 3: knock back tacklers. Felt like, you know, when it was

1630
01:14:52,640 --> 01:14:55,120
Speaker 3: a short yarded situation, we weren't. We weren't getting enough

1631
01:14:55,120 --> 01:14:57,920
Speaker 3: push on the offensive side, we were getting knocked back

1632
01:14:57,920 --> 01:14:59,800
Speaker 3: a little bit on the defensive side, and we were

1633
01:14:59,800 --> 01:15:03,400
Speaker 3: more of a of a drag down you know tackling

1634
01:15:03,479 --> 01:15:09,880
Speaker 3: operation and a knockback tackling operation. And then to continue

1635
01:15:09,880 --> 01:15:12,520
Speaker 3: to I would say, just be a little bit more complex,

1636
01:15:13,080 --> 01:15:15,720
Speaker 3: you know, on the back end, to make sure that

1637
01:15:15,760 --> 01:15:18,720
Speaker 3: when teams got in certain alignments, certain formations, that we

1638
01:15:18,720 --> 01:15:21,120
Speaker 3: weren't as predictable to be able to give our guys

1639
01:15:21,120 --> 01:15:23,880
Speaker 3: a chance and not always be you know, in similar looks.

1640
01:15:23,880 --> 01:15:25,519
Speaker 1: Now, I get it, that's part of your one.

1641
01:15:25,600 --> 01:15:27,240
Speaker 3: You've got to be a little bit vanillas, so you

1642
01:15:27,240 --> 01:15:30,800
Speaker 3: can get to stuff that's part of your base, you know,

1643
01:15:31,280 --> 01:15:35,720
Speaker 3: foundation to get that installed. But I think the diversity

1644
01:15:35,960 --> 01:15:39,400
Speaker 3: of the multiplicity, I should say, of coach Gidrie and

1645
01:15:39,439 --> 01:15:42,200
Speaker 3: what he does as well as Coach Dawson is going

1646
01:15:42,240 --> 01:15:44,840
Speaker 3: to be hard to prepare for. You know, they're humble dudes,

1647
01:15:44,840 --> 01:15:49,040
Speaker 3: but they grind and how they do things. Their explanations

1648
01:15:49,080 --> 01:15:52,360
Speaker 3: are easy to learn, but I think hard to defend.

1649
01:15:52,960 --> 01:15:54,280
Speaker 3: Our guys have enjoyed him so far.

1650
01:15:54,560 --> 01:15:58,360
Speaker 2: How often times do you use places you've been as

1651
01:15:58,439 --> 01:16:03,200
Speaker 2: reference points for staffers and for your players. I mean,

1652
01:16:03,240 --> 01:16:05,639
Speaker 2: you were on probably the deepest coaching staff I've ever

1653
01:16:05,680 --> 01:16:07,479
Speaker 2: seen in Alabama in the mid twenty teens.

1654
01:16:07,760 --> 01:16:08,679
Speaker 4: You went up to Oregon.

1655
01:16:08,760 --> 01:16:11,719
Speaker 2: You guys had PAC twelve championship teams up there, Rose

1656
01:16:11,720 --> 01:16:14,479
Speaker 2: Bowl teams, and so you could if you wanted to

1657
01:16:14,560 --> 01:16:16,880
Speaker 2: go in your bag and say, here's the way I've

1658
01:16:16,920 --> 01:16:18,960
Speaker 2: had it before, Here's what it's looked like when I've

1659
01:16:19,000 --> 01:16:19,599
Speaker 2: won before.

1660
01:16:19,760 --> 01:16:20,720
Speaker 4: And we're not there yet.

1661
01:16:20,760 --> 01:16:22,880
Speaker 2: I just want to illustrate to you how wide the

1662
01:16:22,920 --> 01:16:25,559
Speaker 2: gap is between where we are now and this right here,

1663
01:16:25,560 --> 01:16:26,880
Speaker 2: this is where we need to be. Do you ever

1664
01:16:26,880 --> 01:16:28,879
Speaker 2: pull that out or do you just define the standard

1665
01:16:29,000 --> 01:16:30,360
Speaker 2: and let them know when they're not there?

1666
01:16:30,800 --> 01:16:31,799
Speaker 1: Different starting points.

1667
01:16:31,800 --> 01:16:34,880
Speaker 3: Again, I think the Oregon piece has a lot of

1668
01:16:34,880 --> 01:16:37,400
Speaker 3: similarities because that was a four and eight team that

1669
01:16:37,439 --> 01:16:41,479
Speaker 3: we took over. FIU is probably a similar one, you know,

1670
01:16:41,600 --> 01:16:46,320
Speaker 3: as well. The Bama one was already that would be

1671
01:16:46,360 --> 01:16:49,559
Speaker 3: a model of more of sustaining or reclaiming a title

1672
01:16:49,600 --> 01:16:52,320
Speaker 3: and then sustaining it or whatnot. But there's there's a

1673
01:16:52,400 --> 01:16:54,760
Speaker 3: lot of similarities. I mean, I think there's probably a

1674
01:16:54,800 --> 01:16:56,720
Speaker 3: dozen teams that practiced the same way. If you went

1675
01:16:56,840 --> 01:16:59,200
Speaker 3: and got the practice script, you would see the exact

1676
01:16:59,240 --> 01:17:02,599
Speaker 3: same periods, right, You'd see your your blitz walk through

1677
01:17:02,680 --> 01:17:06,240
Speaker 3: to your flex period, to your fifteen minutes of indeed

1678
01:17:06,360 --> 01:17:08,760
Speaker 3: to your seven on seven run to your five on

1679
01:17:08,840 --> 01:17:11,520
Speaker 3: four pass for us, you'd see the same stuff.

1680
01:17:11,680 --> 01:17:14,120
Speaker 1: And that stuff works. You can't buy a pass.

1681
01:17:13,920 --> 01:17:16,920
Speaker 3: That at all, And I think I think even thinking

1682
01:17:16,960 --> 01:17:19,000
Speaker 3: that way is dangerous.

1683
01:17:18,520 --> 01:17:19,839
Speaker 1: And detrimental to a program.

1684
01:17:19,880 --> 01:17:22,240
Speaker 3: You have to practice in a physical manner to be

1685
01:17:22,240 --> 01:17:24,680
Speaker 3: a physical football team. You don't put your team at

1686
01:17:24,760 --> 01:17:27,599
Speaker 3: risk by doing stuff that's not intelligent. Stuff doesn't help

1687
01:17:27,640 --> 01:17:30,120
Speaker 3: your team get better. But to play a certain way,

1688
01:17:30,120 --> 01:17:31,920
Speaker 3: you got to practice a certain way and we believe

1689
01:17:31,960 --> 01:17:33,800
Speaker 3: in that, okay, and we're going to be a line

1690
01:17:33,840 --> 01:17:34,799
Speaker 3: of scrimmage operation.

1691
01:17:35,439 --> 01:17:37,360
Speaker 1: So there the carryover is real.

1692
01:17:38,080 --> 01:17:41,800
Speaker 3: Instances, examples are real, the stories are phenomenal. You know,

1693
01:17:42,200 --> 01:17:44,400
Speaker 3: you can't I can always I can't get into those here,

1694
01:17:44,439 --> 01:17:47,240
Speaker 3: that's for sure. But you live and learn. Man, there's

1695
01:17:47,240 --> 01:17:50,280
Speaker 3: some unbelievable moments and experiences. You're super thankful for them.

1696
01:17:50,720 --> 01:17:52,040
Speaker 3: You take them and you move on.

1697
01:17:53,479 --> 01:17:56,920
Speaker 2: What what motivates you professionally and personally? What motivates you?

1698
01:17:56,920 --> 01:18:00,240
Speaker 3: Oh, I've always been motivated for by competition, and I

1699
01:18:00,400 --> 01:18:01,479
Speaker 3: just I've.

1700
01:18:01,360 --> 01:18:04,679
Speaker 1: Always loved it. Man. I just I credit my parents.

1701
01:18:04,720 --> 01:18:05,760
Speaker 1: I don't know what they did.

1702
01:18:05,800 --> 01:18:07,920
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm you know, I'm the kid at you

1703
01:18:07,960 --> 01:18:10,000
Speaker 3: know when they had you at church and you know

1704
01:18:10,000 --> 01:18:11,439
Speaker 3: they tell you to pray and you're you got your

1705
01:18:11,479 --> 01:18:13,879
Speaker 3: your squeeze in your hands and you're got your eyes.

1706
01:18:13,680 --> 01:18:15,559
Speaker 4: Really be the most white knuckle prayer in the building.

1707
01:18:15,680 --> 01:18:17,240
Speaker 3: Well when you when you're in there, you're doing that

1708
01:18:17,280 --> 01:18:18,960
Speaker 3: and then your mom's like, wow, you're a good kid.

1709
01:18:18,960 --> 01:18:21,160
Speaker 3: What are you praying for I'm paying for the Pittsburgh Scheelers,

1710
01:18:21,160 --> 01:18:23,600
Speaker 3: the Hurricanes to win. It's like whack backhand, you know,

1711
01:18:24,240 --> 01:18:26,760
Speaker 3: Like I've always loved it. I've always lived and died

1712
01:18:26,800 --> 01:18:29,759
Speaker 3: for football. I I love football because I love football.

1713
01:18:30,080 --> 01:18:33,520
Speaker 3: Either's that's that's my football. Why people have their whits.

1714
01:18:33,760 --> 01:18:36,720
Speaker 3: I love everything about it. The discipline, the toughness, the

1715
01:18:36,800 --> 01:18:38,720
Speaker 3: way to knock you back, knock you down and make

1716
01:18:38,800 --> 01:18:41,880
Speaker 3: you like really get back up and really go forward

1717
01:18:41,880 --> 01:18:44,960
Speaker 3: and have the support of your team. Sometimes sometimes not.

1718
01:18:45,080 --> 01:18:46,639
Speaker 3: Sometimes you got to figure it out on your own.

1719
01:18:46,720 --> 01:18:49,519
Speaker 3: So I'm all about it. I'm all about the life

1720
01:18:49,600 --> 01:18:52,160
Speaker 3: changing opportunity that it is for these guys. And it

1721
01:18:52,200 --> 01:18:55,120
Speaker 3: really is. And if I wish you could come with

1722
01:18:55,200 --> 01:18:56,880
Speaker 3: me today as we go into the inner city with

1723
01:18:56,920 --> 01:18:59,920
Speaker 3: about fifty players and we and we coach and host

1724
01:19:00,120 --> 01:19:03,080
Speaker 3: these these camps, because you're going to see at least

1725
01:19:03,280 --> 01:19:07,439
Speaker 3: fifty superstars, fifty future NFL superstars out there that they

1726
01:19:07,439 --> 01:19:09,720
Speaker 3: don't look six and seven years old, you know they are.

1727
01:19:09,760 --> 01:19:12,960
Speaker 3: They're moving fast, and they're playing strong, and the pride

1728
01:19:13,000 --> 01:19:13,720
Speaker 3: in the community.

1729
01:19:14,160 --> 01:19:16,920
Speaker 1: Well man, this is this is where I was born

1730
01:19:17,240 --> 01:19:18,000
Speaker 1: and raised.

1731
01:19:18,760 --> 01:19:21,960
Speaker 3: Okay, this is this is not just a shirt that

1732
01:19:22,240 --> 01:19:24,880
Speaker 3: you know, Hey, this is the next job, and here's

1733
01:19:24,880 --> 01:19:25,920
Speaker 3: a shirt you've got to wear.

1734
01:19:25,800 --> 01:19:29,040
Speaker 1: When you're on a camera. This thing is in the blood.

1735
01:19:29,800 --> 01:19:33,200
Speaker 3: And is that part of the motivational Hell yeah, it's

1736
01:19:33,320 --> 01:19:38,599
Speaker 3: it always will be. But there's there's everything to work about,

1737
01:19:38,680 --> 01:19:40,599
Speaker 3: and there's not much to talk about as it relates

1738
01:19:40,600 --> 01:19:42,280
Speaker 3: to that. We got to go to work and every

1739
01:19:42,360 --> 01:19:45,639
Speaker 3: day we change things in a positive manner a little

1740
01:19:45,680 --> 01:19:46,599
Speaker 3: bit more and more.

1741
01:19:48,040 --> 01:19:48,120
Speaker 1: So.

1742
01:19:48,520 --> 01:19:51,240
Speaker 3: Anyways, that's another tangent for you right there. But today

1743
01:19:51,320 --> 01:19:54,720
Speaker 3: grassroots recruiting. I want those guys when they're this tall,

1744
01:19:54,720 --> 01:19:57,800
Speaker 3: weren't hurricane gear. So when they're this tall, I'll do

1745
01:19:57,800 --> 01:19:58,759
Speaker 3: all these official visits.

1746
01:19:58,760 --> 01:20:00,960
Speaker 2: Man, that just come out of What was funny is

1747
01:20:01,120 --> 01:20:03,840
Speaker 2: you guys had a building full of young kids in

1748
01:20:03,840 --> 01:20:06,400
Speaker 2: here yesterday, all the way from like first grade to

1749
01:20:06,439 --> 01:20:09,000
Speaker 2: sixth grade. And right as you were walking down that staircase,

1750
01:20:09,000 --> 01:20:11,400
Speaker 2: you said, Hey, the first graders, okay.

1751
01:20:11,439 --> 01:20:12,840
Speaker 1: But there's some fifth graders down there.

1752
01:20:12,840 --> 01:20:14,200
Speaker 4: Have you seen that fifth grader over there?

1753
01:20:14,320 --> 01:20:16,479
Speaker 2: And it's funny, how I mean, I'm looking at you

1754
01:20:16,520 --> 01:20:18,200
Speaker 2: and I'm kind of laughing, and you do have a

1755
01:20:18,200 --> 01:20:20,240
Speaker 2: smile on your face. But it's one of those serious

1756
01:20:20,280 --> 01:20:22,639
Speaker 2: smiles where note, you can tell that kid, right, there's.

1757
01:20:22,479 --> 01:20:22,960
Speaker 4: Gonna be good.

1758
01:20:23,000 --> 01:20:24,760
Speaker 2: It's gonna be like half a decade from now before

1759
01:20:24,800 --> 01:20:26,680
Speaker 2: we ease ever on our radar are able to visit here.

1760
01:20:26,680 --> 01:20:28,360
Speaker 2: But it's funny how you can see some of that

1761
01:20:28,400 --> 01:20:31,200
Speaker 2: stuff really early on because there were some legitimate like

1762
01:20:31,439 --> 01:20:34,040
Speaker 2: elementary school, middle school athletes in here yesterday.

1763
01:20:34,080 --> 01:20:37,880
Speaker 3: Oh down here, football is life, it is. You know

1764
01:20:38,200 --> 01:20:40,639
Speaker 3: you talked to Shannon Dawson, and I'm glad you did.

1765
01:20:40,760 --> 01:20:42,160
Speaker 1: And I'll tell you why.

1766
01:20:43,439 --> 01:20:49,679
Speaker 3: Like Miami with an exciting offense is a really powerful

1767
01:20:49,720 --> 01:20:53,040
Speaker 3: thing and a powerful brand. There are so many unbelievable

1768
01:20:53,040 --> 01:20:56,800
Speaker 3: athletes down here and they've been they've been screaming for.

1769
01:20:56,800 --> 01:20:58,040
Speaker 1: This for a long long time.

1770
01:20:58,760 --> 01:21:02,000
Speaker 3: And that's why Shannon and that hire is so important.

1771
01:21:02,000 --> 01:21:06,240
Speaker 3: He's he brings that explosive offense and the details that

1772
01:21:06,360 --> 01:21:08,760
Speaker 3: go with it, while at the same time having the

1773
01:21:08,880 --> 01:21:11,920
Speaker 3: NFL development aspect that goes with that, so that guys know, hey,

1774
01:21:11,960 --> 01:21:15,000
Speaker 3: I'm sto in a high octane college offense. I'm in

1775
01:21:15,040 --> 01:21:18,680
Speaker 3: a in an offense. It's gonna teach me professional concepts

1776
01:21:18,760 --> 01:21:22,040
Speaker 3: and help me develop and the amount of momentum and

1777
01:21:22,080 --> 01:21:26,040
Speaker 3: excitement that is stirring up and will stir up as

1778
01:21:26,040 --> 01:21:27,760
Speaker 3: we get better and better, and we've got to prove

1779
01:21:27,800 --> 01:21:28,439
Speaker 3: it on the field.

1780
01:21:28,960 --> 01:21:30,519
Speaker 1: And the confidence that.

1781
01:21:30,439 --> 01:21:32,280
Speaker 3: You build with at the trust you build with that,

1782
01:21:33,040 --> 01:21:34,679
Speaker 3: I mean, that's that's very powerful.

1783
01:21:34,800 --> 01:21:36,320
Speaker 1: I'm glad you got to sit in there with him.

1784
01:21:36,320 --> 01:21:42,559
Speaker 3: I mean that that parlays into right, a great defensive

1785
01:21:42,560 --> 01:21:44,919
Speaker 3: class because great players want to play with great players.

1786
01:21:45,960 --> 01:21:47,400
Speaker 4: You just went and rated Louisiana.

1787
01:21:47,479 --> 01:21:49,240
Speaker 2: Essentially, you just went and found the best two dudes

1788
01:21:49,280 --> 01:21:50,480
Speaker 2: you can fire from Louisiana.

1789
01:21:51,280 --> 01:21:53,519
Speaker 4: DC OC. Let's go to work.

1790
01:21:53,960 --> 01:21:54,439
Speaker 1: It's a it's a.

1791
01:21:54,479 --> 01:21:55,760
Speaker 4: Unique culture in Louisiana too.

1792
01:21:55,760 --> 01:21:58,120
Speaker 2: I know you're not from there, but when those guys

1793
01:21:58,200 --> 01:21:59,840
Speaker 2: sort of get in a room together, I witnessed it

1794
01:21:59,840 --> 01:22:02,080
Speaker 2: with when those Louisiana's get in.

1795
01:22:02,120 --> 01:22:03,960
Speaker 4: The room together, you they can go.

1796
01:22:04,080 --> 01:22:05,479
Speaker 2: You just kind of sit back, You just kind of

1797
01:22:05,479 --> 01:22:07,320
Speaker 2: put your feet up on the desk. You don't understand

1798
01:22:07,360 --> 01:22:10,160
Speaker 2: like thirty percent of the words, but it's okay. You

1799
01:22:10,200 --> 01:22:11,880
Speaker 2: just kind of pick up things as you go along.

1800
01:22:12,120 --> 01:22:14,439
Speaker 2: But those two dudes, I mean, I don't think most

1801
01:22:14,439 --> 01:22:16,840
Speaker 2: people realize they're both from the same state, and that

1802
01:22:16,960 --> 01:22:19,479
Speaker 2: we're not talking about like New Orleans either. We're talking

1803
01:22:19,479 --> 01:22:23,599
Speaker 2: about rural Louisiana. And it's always funny because in a sense,

1804
01:22:23,680 --> 01:22:26,639
Speaker 2: there's there's this blue collar kind of culture from there

1805
01:22:26,840 --> 01:22:28,840
Speaker 2: that you see from certain parts of this city as well.

1806
01:22:29,280 --> 01:22:29,599
Speaker 1: Well.

1807
01:22:29,720 --> 01:22:31,559
Speaker 3: It's it's kind of like we talked about, great players

1808
01:22:31,600 --> 01:22:34,360
Speaker 3: want to play with great players. They did know each

1809
01:22:34,400 --> 01:22:36,559
Speaker 3: other a little bit, and when we hired one, the

1810
01:22:36,600 --> 01:22:38,920
Speaker 3: other one wanted to come right away, and that was

1811
01:22:39,160 --> 01:22:41,040
Speaker 3: that was really neat, you know, I mean, he's at

1812
01:22:41,040 --> 01:22:42,639
Speaker 3: the end of the day, these guys are really they're

1813
01:22:42,680 --> 01:22:45,559
Speaker 3: they're high level professionals. They're great people. I mean, there

1814
01:22:45,560 --> 01:22:46,840
Speaker 3: are people you want to hang out with. They are

1815
01:22:46,840 --> 01:22:49,479
Speaker 3: people you're going to trust your own sung with, you know,

1816
01:22:49,560 --> 01:22:50,400
Speaker 3: and they get after it.

1817
01:22:50,439 --> 01:22:52,959
Speaker 1: Now. I mean, these guys are they're they're bald junkies

1818
01:22:53,439 --> 01:22:54,240
Speaker 1: and you got to have that.

1819
01:22:54,280 --> 01:22:57,240
Speaker 3: And if you walk the hallways of the University of

1820
01:22:57,240 --> 01:23:01,400
Speaker 3: Miami Football the building, what you're going to see is

1821
01:23:01,400 --> 01:23:03,760
Speaker 3: a reflection of the city. You know, if you've had

1822
01:23:03,800 --> 01:23:06,200
Speaker 3: a chance to walk around the city, this is the

1823
01:23:06,200 --> 01:23:09,120
Speaker 3: most diverse city maybe in the world. We come in

1824
01:23:09,160 --> 01:23:12,160
Speaker 3: all kinds of shape, sizes, and colors, ethnicities and language.

1825
01:23:12,720 --> 01:23:13,479
Speaker 1: And if you walk.

1826
01:23:13,320 --> 01:23:16,840
Speaker 3: Upstairs, you'll see American Samoa in one office, right, you'll

1827
01:23:16,840 --> 01:23:19,040
Speaker 3: see in Miami, Florida, and the other one, like you mention,

1828
01:23:19,080 --> 01:23:22,400
Speaker 3: you'll see Louisiana. You'll see North and South Carolina. You'll

1829
01:23:22,439 --> 01:23:26,360
Speaker 3: see people from all over the place, and like here

1830
01:23:26,560 --> 01:23:29,600
Speaker 3: in this city, I'm being raised here Like that is

1831
01:23:29,680 --> 01:23:34,120
Speaker 3: really cool, and even as a father, it was important

1832
01:23:34,120 --> 01:23:35,519
Speaker 3: for me to get my family or so they could

1833
01:23:35,560 --> 01:23:37,680
Speaker 3: experience that. That's really important. Man.

1834
01:23:37,680 --> 01:23:38,960
Speaker 1: The world should be like that, right.

1835
01:23:39,280 --> 01:23:40,760
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm not going to get in some type

1836
01:23:40,760 --> 01:23:43,880
Speaker 3: of philosophical speech here, but I think that's important. That's

1837
01:23:43,920 --> 01:23:46,519
Speaker 3: important for your team. These guys when they are going

1838
01:23:46,560 --> 01:23:48,599
Speaker 3: to be in the workforce or in an NFL locker

1839
01:23:48,680 --> 01:23:50,719
Speaker 3: room that is as diverse as it gets as well,

1840
01:23:51,080 --> 01:23:53,519
Speaker 3: and it needs to be something that they feel not

1841
01:23:53,560 --> 01:23:56,599
Speaker 3: only comfortable with, but that they can excel in, right,

1842
01:23:56,680 --> 01:23:58,719
Speaker 3: and they feel that they can feel that they can enhance.

1843
01:23:58,760 --> 01:24:01,479
Speaker 1: So that's all part of Miami, all.

1844
01:24:01,479 --> 01:24:02,800
Speaker 2: Right, So pretend like you and I are not going

1845
01:24:02,880 --> 01:24:04,760
Speaker 2: to talk again before you guys play in week one?

1846
01:24:05,600 --> 01:24:07,120
Speaker 4: What can this team be this year?

1847
01:24:07,160 --> 01:24:09,759
Speaker 2: You've seen springs so far, and we got some summer

1848
01:24:09,760 --> 01:24:12,400
Speaker 2: conditioning happened. We're a couple of months away from fall camp.

1849
01:24:13,240 --> 01:24:14,599
Speaker 2: What can this team be this year?

1850
01:24:14,600 --> 01:24:14,760
Speaker 1: You know?

1851
01:24:14,800 --> 01:24:16,519
Speaker 3: And I know that's not an ass for a prediction,

1852
01:24:16,960 --> 01:24:19,080
Speaker 3: but it almost kind of treads on those lines.

1853
01:24:19,160 --> 01:24:21,080
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you want to go over that cliff, I'll

1854
01:24:21,120 --> 01:24:22,920
Speaker 2: gladly let's go cliff.

1855
01:24:23,320 --> 01:24:24,760
Speaker 1: It's polished that we never do.

1856
01:24:25,280 --> 01:24:28,080
Speaker 3: I know that this team is getting on a course

1857
01:24:28,120 --> 01:24:29,320
Speaker 3: to what we want to build it to be.

1858
01:24:30,160 --> 01:24:30,559
Speaker 1: I don't.

1859
01:24:30,920 --> 01:24:33,000
Speaker 3: It's not a cop out of an answer. I just

1860
01:24:33,040 --> 01:24:36,479
Speaker 3: don't get into that. I know we all know what

1861
01:24:36,520 --> 01:24:39,880
Speaker 3: Miami can be, and we all know what Miami should be,

1862
01:24:40,160 --> 01:24:43,320
Speaker 3: and we know internally the steps that have to be

1863
01:24:43,360 --> 01:24:46,000
Speaker 3: taken for it to get there. We've taken a really

1864
01:24:46,040 --> 01:24:49,400
Speaker 3: significant step this offseason, and honestly, we just got to

1865
01:24:49,400 --> 01:24:52,280
Speaker 3: shut our mouths and go to work. I don't like

1866
01:24:52,400 --> 01:24:55,400
Speaker 3: everything else outside of that, you know, Like for us,

1867
01:24:55,400 --> 01:24:56,519
Speaker 3: it's an honor to have you here.

1868
01:24:56,800 --> 01:24:59,280
Speaker 1: It really is your whole crew here. We thank you

1869
01:24:59,360 --> 01:24:59,559
Speaker 1: for that.

1870
01:24:59,680 --> 01:25:03,040
Speaker 3: We just like I've told you before, I'm the most

1871
01:25:03,280 --> 01:25:04,439
Speaker 3: point human being on Earth.

1872
01:25:04,479 --> 01:25:05,360
Speaker 1: Man. I don't do much.

1873
01:25:05,400 --> 01:25:08,920
Speaker 3: I don't I'm not in attracting attention. This crew right

1874
01:25:08,960 --> 01:25:11,040
Speaker 3: here knowing where Miami has to go.

1875
01:25:11,200 --> 01:25:12,320
Speaker 1: All the things that we're.

1876
01:25:12,120 --> 01:25:17,760
Speaker 3: Doing, the enhance nutritional aspect, the sports science guys, the

1877
01:25:17,840 --> 01:25:21,240
Speaker 3: mental health specialists that are in the building, the staff,

1878
01:25:21,280 --> 01:25:24,040
Speaker 3: the analysts, the type of recruiting that we've done, the

1879
01:25:24,120 --> 01:25:26,840
Speaker 3: type of body types that are in the building right now.

1880
01:25:27,280 --> 01:25:31,760
Speaker 3: The progress is very strong, and it's tangible, it's significant,

1881
01:25:31,800 --> 01:25:35,680
Speaker 3: and we've got to keep working our reality into existence.

1882
01:25:35,960 --> 01:25:36,720
Speaker 1: We just got to work.

1883
01:25:36,760 --> 01:25:40,320
Speaker 3: Brother, You're going to see a hard working, resilient, tough

1884
01:25:40,360 --> 01:25:43,040
Speaker 3: team that needs to keep working and keep getting better

1885
01:25:43,560 --> 01:25:45,639
Speaker 3: and the results that has to be proven on the field.

1886
01:25:45,680 --> 01:25:47,280
Speaker 3: I'm not even going to talk about what that has

1887
01:25:47,320 --> 01:25:47,760
Speaker 3: to be like.

1888
01:25:47,920 --> 01:25:50,360
Speaker 1: We know the endgame. We got to work to get there.

1889
01:25:50,439 --> 01:25:53,400
Speaker 2: There's an incredible energy in the building. We go to

1890
01:25:53,439 --> 01:25:55,040
Speaker 2: a lot of them, and so there's a lot of

1891
01:25:55,080 --> 01:25:58,000
Speaker 2: basis for comparison. You're in a bubble. Actually you've been

1892
01:25:58,040 --> 01:26:00,519
Speaker 2: out in the world as a staffer, but you're here

1893
01:26:00,560 --> 01:26:02,519
Speaker 2: at Coral Gables every day. We're all across the country.

1894
01:26:02,560 --> 01:26:05,439
Speaker 2: And trust me when I say, there's unique energy in

1895
01:26:05,479 --> 01:26:08,880
Speaker 2: this building. And so I almost relish the fact that

1896
01:26:08,960 --> 01:26:11,080
Speaker 2: you know, anytime we do a segment on Miami, we

1897
01:26:11,120 --> 01:26:13,000
Speaker 2: got some folks who believe in them in the comment section.

1898
01:26:13,080 --> 01:26:14,679
Speaker 2: We got some folks who's out in the comment section,

1899
01:26:14,680 --> 01:26:16,560
Speaker 2: which is college football. It's all that's ever been. But

1900
01:26:16,640 --> 01:26:19,639
Speaker 2: we appreciate you opening your doors to us. Staff treated

1901
01:26:19,680 --> 01:26:21,680
Speaker 2: us like family. I think some of us may just

1902
01:26:21,720 --> 01:26:24,080
Speaker 2: not leave. You got enough open offices in the building.

1903
01:26:24,120 --> 01:26:25,040
Speaker 2: We were just hang out here.

1904
01:26:25,120 --> 01:26:27,479
Speaker 1: But you guys fit because you're tough. You know.

1905
01:26:27,920 --> 01:26:30,360
Speaker 3: I got a chance to watch this right look of

1906
01:26:30,439 --> 01:26:32,200
Speaker 3: the crew. They're all flexing right now because they all

1907
01:26:32,200 --> 01:26:33,880
Speaker 3: went in there. They grind it out of workout. They

1908
01:26:33,960 --> 01:26:37,519
Speaker 3: got some like to be in Miami in any way,

1909
01:26:37,560 --> 01:26:39,439
Speaker 3: shape or form. If you're in the sportswek you got

1910
01:26:39,520 --> 01:26:42,479
Speaker 3: to be tough. And if you're affected by the external stuff,

1911
01:26:42,479 --> 01:26:44,679
Speaker 3: you got no chance. You shouldn't even be around.

1912
01:26:44,760 --> 01:26:47,000
Speaker 2: What's amazing is when you go in that weight room,

1913
01:26:47,479 --> 01:26:49,720
Speaker 2: you've got the records on the wall. Some of them

1914
01:26:49,760 --> 01:26:52,400
Speaker 2: are recent, some of them are from the eighties. Some

1915
01:26:52,439 --> 01:26:55,000
Speaker 2: of those guys have not had their records touched since

1916
01:26:55,040 --> 01:26:57,080
Speaker 2: they were walking around here in the eighties and nineties.

1917
01:26:57,680 --> 01:27:01,479
Speaker 2: And it's really wild to think about the dudes who

1918
01:27:01,520 --> 01:27:05,519
Speaker 2: walked around here before you had advanced nutrition, before you

1919
01:27:05,600 --> 01:27:06,599
Speaker 2: had sports science.

1920
01:27:06,680 --> 01:27:08,160
Speaker 4: No one even put those two words together.

1921
01:27:08,680 --> 01:27:11,080
Speaker 2: And there were some dudes who just came from South

1922
01:27:11,120 --> 01:27:14,600
Speaker 2: Florida in many cases, who were born like that and

1923
01:27:14,640 --> 01:27:17,759
Speaker 2: then came here and grinded and ate like a dozen

1924
01:27:17,760 --> 01:27:19,599
Speaker 2: scrambled eggs in the morning and went to work.

1925
01:27:19,640 --> 01:27:21,799
Speaker 4: And there's some pressive numbers in there.

1926
01:27:22,000 --> 01:27:24,160
Speaker 3: Well, you see there's a lot of guys up in there.

1927
01:27:24,200 --> 01:27:27,840
Speaker 3: You see ed Reed and Edgar and James, Dan Morgan,

1928
01:27:27,880 --> 01:27:30,280
Speaker 3: Bryant McKinnie. You'll see some hanging in the rafters here.

1929
01:27:31,040 --> 01:27:35,240
Speaker 3: That class, those two classes, that was the class that

1930
01:27:35,360 --> 01:27:39,320
Speaker 3: was that came about after a five and seven season typically.

1931
01:27:39,640 --> 01:27:41,719
Speaker 1: You know, I like to think that you do your.

1932
01:27:41,640 --> 01:27:45,680
Speaker 3: Best work as a competitor when your back's against the

1933
01:27:45,720 --> 01:27:49,200
Speaker 3: wall and you want to come out of there and

1934
01:27:49,280 --> 01:27:53,040
Speaker 3: you want to be not only successful, but significant for

1935
01:27:53,120 --> 01:27:56,400
Speaker 3: your teammates, for the people around you, for your community. Okay,

1936
01:27:56,920 --> 01:28:01,160
Speaker 3: I'm telling you the Miami being a difference in my

1937
01:28:01,360 --> 01:28:03,880
Speaker 3: life and the things that go with it, and this

1938
01:28:04,000 --> 01:28:07,200
Speaker 3: community is the reason why we left all that behind

1939
01:28:07,640 --> 01:28:10,519
Speaker 3: to come here and work this back to what it

1940
01:28:10,560 --> 01:28:13,240
Speaker 3: needs to be by going forward. And I think those

1941
01:28:13,240 --> 01:28:16,040
Speaker 3: guys and these guys are here very often, you know,

1942
01:28:16,160 --> 01:28:18,120
Speaker 3: and they don't talk about a back in the day.

1943
01:28:18,320 --> 01:28:20,280
Speaker 3: I think that's when you do that. I think you're

1944
01:28:20,720 --> 01:28:23,360
Speaker 3: it doesn't help anybody. What they do is they help

1945
01:28:23,400 --> 01:28:26,080
Speaker 3: these guys think forward. How are you going to do it?

1946
01:28:26,160 --> 01:28:29,040
Speaker 3: You know, what's your blueprint? How are you getting extra work?

1947
01:28:29,360 --> 01:28:31,400
Speaker 3: What the type of extra time are you spending around

1948
01:28:31,439 --> 01:28:34,040
Speaker 3: the coaches, watching the film, rounding up your teammates, making

1949
01:28:34,040 --> 01:28:36,640
Speaker 3: sure they're taking care of their bodies. So that's like

1950
01:28:36,720 --> 01:28:38,840
Speaker 3: the infusion right now that's going on in the building.

1951
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Speaker 4: Mario Christball. We appreciate it, brother, I appreciate it.

1952
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Speaker 1: You man, what a week?

1953
01:28:47,040 --> 01:28:50,120
Speaker 2: How about fifty plus minutes with Mario Christobal there. They

1954
01:28:50,760 --> 01:28:54,559
Speaker 2: they basically open their doors to us, more so than

1955
01:28:54,640 --> 01:28:57,040
Speaker 2: eighty percent of my family would open their doors to me.

1956
01:28:57,160 --> 01:29:00,080
Speaker 2: Right now, everybody top to bottom in the organization. She

1957
01:29:00,240 --> 01:29:02,679
Speaker 2: kind of set the standard for what we would love

1958
01:29:02,720 --> 01:29:04,800
Speaker 2: to experience on the road. And we've been on the

1959
01:29:04,880 --> 01:29:06,720
Speaker 2: road for the better part of three years now, and

1960
01:29:06,800 --> 01:29:09,680
Speaker 2: so we understand when it is and isn't done right.

1961
01:29:09,680 --> 01:29:11,200
Speaker 2: And they've done it right for us here at Miami

1962
01:29:11,240 --> 01:29:13,840
Speaker 2: CAM and the guys, especially behind the scenes, have made

1963
01:29:13,840 --> 01:29:16,400
Speaker 2: the trip well worthwhile. Food kind of still full from

1964
01:29:16,439 --> 01:29:19,519
Speaker 2: two nights ago, and entertainment's been top notch. If you've

1965
01:29:19,560 --> 01:29:22,360
Speaker 2: been following on the socials at Lake Kick, Josh, you

1966
01:29:22,400 --> 01:29:25,240
Speaker 2: know what I'm talking about. I got a crew seemingly

1967
01:29:25,280 --> 01:29:27,320
Speaker 2: of thousands here that have made this trip possible. But

1968
01:29:27,560 --> 01:29:30,040
Speaker 2: I'm telling you now. We talked about it in that

1969
01:29:30,080 --> 01:29:32,800
Speaker 2: interview and I'll stress it one more time. There's a

1970
01:29:32,840 --> 01:29:35,000
Speaker 2: lot that we say on this show about the difference

1971
01:29:35,000 --> 01:29:36,720
Speaker 2: between cannot and have not, And there are a lot

1972
01:29:36,760 --> 01:29:40,040
Speaker 2: of people out there who say things cannot happen in

1973
01:29:40,080 --> 01:29:43,000
Speaker 2: certain places, things that have been before cannot happen again.

1974
01:29:44,000 --> 01:29:46,360
Speaker 2: I don't classify Miami as that. I would look at

1975
01:29:46,360 --> 01:29:48,920
Speaker 2: Miami and say, no, they have not been for a

1976
01:29:48,920 --> 01:29:50,840
Speaker 2: couple of decades. Now I get it. We got a

1977
01:29:50,920 --> 01:29:53,519
Speaker 2: huge college audience. If you're eighteen, nineteen, twenty years old,

1978
01:29:53,880 --> 01:29:56,000
Speaker 2: you don't know what they're talking about. You may have

1979
01:29:56,040 --> 01:29:58,759
Speaker 2: seen little little flashes every now and then. They played

1980
01:29:58,800 --> 01:30:00,880
Speaker 2: Notre Dame a couple of years ago. The place was packed.

1981
01:30:01,040 --> 01:30:04,519
Speaker 2: You saw like a little firework. You haven't seen the dynamite.

1982
01:30:04,560 --> 01:30:07,800
Speaker 2: You haven't seen like that logo, striped fear in people's hearts.

1983
01:30:07,840 --> 01:30:10,040
Speaker 2: They haven't done that in your lifetime, but once upon

1984
01:30:10,040 --> 01:30:12,360
Speaker 2: a time they did. And when we look around this building,

1985
01:30:12,360 --> 01:30:14,200
Speaker 2: we've been in for the better part of seventy two hours,

1986
01:30:14,200 --> 01:30:15,360
Speaker 2: and you look at some of the folks coming in

1987
01:30:15,360 --> 01:30:17,240
Speaker 2: the big recruiting class we talked about earlier, they got

1988
01:30:17,240 --> 01:30:19,760
Speaker 2: coming in this weekend. Could be fun times ahead. I

1989
01:30:19,760 --> 01:30:21,800
Speaker 2: don't know that I would necessarily use that term to

1990
01:30:21,840 --> 01:30:24,080
Speaker 2: describe how the rest of the ACC may feel about it,

1991
01:30:24,120 --> 01:30:26,280
Speaker 2: but fun times ahead for the people here at Miami.

1992
01:30:26,680 --> 01:30:30,519
Speaker 2: We appreciate you guys being tuned in as always. You

1993
01:30:30,600 --> 01:30:33,280
Speaker 2: make us able to do these sorts of things. Appreciate

1994
01:30:33,320 --> 01:30:36,639
Speaker 2: good Greek moving, Appreciate academy sports and outdoors, and most

1995
01:30:36,640 --> 01:30:38,960
Speaker 2: of all the crew here that makes this possible that

1996
01:30:39,040 --> 01:30:41,479
Speaker 2: you don't see behind the desk. Got Gelby here, Danes here,

1997
01:30:41,680 --> 01:30:45,320
Speaker 2: Nick's here, Sam's here, Stoney's been all around the building. Gig.

1998
01:30:45,600 --> 01:30:47,839
Speaker 2: We don't never get to meet Gig, but we appreciate

1999
01:30:47,840 --> 01:30:50,519
Speaker 2: all of Mario as well. We will be back in

2000
01:30:50,600 --> 01:30:53,240
Speaker 2: Nashville Sunday night. We're gonna head to LA next week,

2001
01:30:53,280 --> 01:30:55,400
Speaker 2: so we've got a full docket. Part of what I

2002
01:30:55,439 --> 01:30:57,960
Speaker 2: guess we could call the note six tour in lieu

2003
01:30:58,000 --> 01:30:59,280
Speaker 2: of coming up with whatever.

2004
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Speaker 4: Our two or my opinion.

2005
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Speaker 2: It's so until Sunday nights, We're director Colins, producer Jesse.

2006
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Speaker 2: Back in Nashville, I'm Josh Pate take here, have a

2007
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Speaker 2: great rest of your evening. If you got us