WEBVTT - April Q&A (4/5/2017) 0:00:02.040 --> 0:00:06.880 Welcome to the Solid Verbal. I'm that for me. I'm 0:00:06.920 --> 0:00:09.680 a man, I'm forty. I've heard so many players say, well, 0:00:09.720 --> 0:00:11.639 I want to be happy. You want to be happy 0:00:11.680 --> 0:00:13.000 for day Edith State? 0:00:13.360 --> 0:00:13.600 Is that? 0:00:13.720 --> 0:00:16.280 Woo whoo and no, Dan. 0:00:16.360 --> 0:00:22.000 And Tye, welcome back to the Solid Verbal, boys and girls. 0:00:22.040 --> 0:00:23.480 My name is ty Hildon Brandt. 0:00:23.520 --> 0:00:26.239 I am joined as always by my good friend and 0:00:26.280 --> 0:00:29.440 colleague and co host. Man here's way over there. He 0:00:29.520 --> 0:00:34.760 is in sunny New York City. His name is Dan Rubistinezer. 0:00:34.800 --> 0:00:36.040 How are you? Is it sunny? 0:00:36.080 --> 0:00:39.599 I'm all right, it's been on and off. Life has 0:00:39.600 --> 0:00:42.320 been all right. I had a lovely walk to brunch 0:00:42.520 --> 0:00:44.760 on Sunday with our pal Bill Barnwell and our pal 0:00:44.800 --> 0:00:46.640 who I don't think has been on the show, Seth Rosenthal. 0:00:46.800 --> 0:00:49.640 So that's nice to get outside some football people, sports people, 0:00:49.920 --> 0:00:52.479 but otherwise on and all. I am running again. Ty 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:54.760 are you running? Are you taking advantage when it's sunny? 0:00:54.880 --> 0:00:58.200 I haven't yet, No, No, but I will. I absolutely will. 0:00:58.800 --> 0:01:01.680 It's been it's been a while since I've been able 0:01:01.720 --> 0:01:03.800 to run because of my foot, my dumb foot injury. 0:01:03.880 --> 0:01:08.080 But I'm back out hitting the pavement and I'm gonna 0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:10.680 tell you something right now, completely unrelated, please, well, sort 0:01:10.680 --> 0:01:12.440 of related, because I always like to tinker with what 0:01:12.480 --> 0:01:14.480 I listened to. Sometimes I'll start with music and I'll 0:01:14.520 --> 0:01:16.479 just ease into a podcast to just sort of keep 0:01:16.520 --> 0:01:19.600 the pace. But lately I've just been doing sprints sort 0:01:19.640 --> 0:01:22.480 of more circuit stuff, so it doesn't really matter to 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:24.880 zone out or not to zone out to music or podcasts, 0:01:24.880 --> 0:01:28.520 so I haven't really cared as much. But underrated song 0:01:28.840 --> 0:01:30.679 not to get you hyped, because I don't like being 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:33.720 hyped while running, but to just sort of get energy 0:01:33.840 --> 0:01:37.120 up before you do something like a podcast. I just 0:01:37.240 --> 0:01:41.080 listened to insyncts It's Gonna be Me four times before 0:01:41.160 --> 0:01:45.080 hitting records tonight, and it is a wonderful jam. It 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:48.160 will be a wonderful jam. And the Backstreet Boys did 0:01:48.320 --> 0:01:50.920 nothing to even come close to It's gonna be Me. 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:53.559 It's gonna be Me, It's gonna come about that, gonna 0:01:53.600 --> 0:01:53.840 be my. 0:01:54.560 --> 0:01:58.640 It's gonna be May May He says that, yeah, it's 0:01:58.720 --> 0:01:59.600 gonna be my. 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:03.280 Well, it is getting nice out. The calendar has turned 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:06.040 to April, and with April comes a lot of spring 0:02:06.080 --> 0:02:08.800 football chatter, which I'm sure we'll get into in due time. 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:11.000 But one of the things we've been trying to do 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:14.040 now in the off season because we really truly do 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:18.720 get an unclimbable everest as you once refer to it, 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:23.799 of questions that we read and can't answer all the time. 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:26.480 So we've been trying to do more regular Q and 0:02:26.520 --> 0:02:29.480 A type shows, and we've got one in front of 0:02:29.600 --> 0:02:32.560 us this evening. We didn't put out a call earlier 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:35.720 today to get questions, and the everest got a little 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:37.760 bit taller. I don't know if I've ever seen so 0:02:37.800 --> 0:02:40.600 many questions come in in such a short period of time. 0:02:40.639 --> 0:02:43.639 So we've got football, we've got non football, a lot 0:02:43.680 --> 0:02:45.160 of life tonight, a lot of life. 0:02:45.240 --> 0:02:47.960 Yeah, we're just going to try and run the gamut here, yes, 0:02:48.040 --> 0:02:51.200 and see if we can't help her for ballers out, Dan, absolutely, is. 0:02:51.200 --> 0:02:53.440 There anything news wise that you want to get into 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:55.720 anything with the NFL Draft that has been standing out 0:02:55.760 --> 0:02:58.040 to you. We had Brian Kelly call out to Sean 0:02:58.160 --> 0:03:01.720 Kaiser as not being particular ready. I think he said 0:03:01.720 --> 0:03:06.040 it in a concern not criticism kind of way. I know, 0:03:06.560 --> 0:03:08.400 you know, we don't we shouldn't talk about Notre Dame 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:10.400 unless we absolutely have to at this point. But it's 0:03:10.440 --> 0:03:12.880 a fair in general because this is something we saw 0:03:12.960 --> 0:03:15.639 with Pete Carroll and Mark Sanchez, we saw it with Jimora, 0:03:16.120 --> 0:03:19.360 and I believe Brett Hunley to different degrees. Brett Hunley 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:21.200 and I want to say Miles Jack last year that 0:03:21.240 --> 0:03:24.000 they sort of should have come back for different reasons. 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:29.560 Do you think a college coach should be should be 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:34.440 backing his prospect one percent? Or do you think that 0:03:34.480 --> 0:03:38.280 there is a bit of integrity involved in being as 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:41.440 forthright as possible, so when you do say this guy 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:43.040 is amazing, it holds more weight. 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:46.080 I think they should be honest. I'm not sure if 0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:47.960 they should do it out. I'm not sure if they 0:03:48.000 --> 0:03:49.000 should do it publicly. 0:03:49.200 --> 0:03:54.400 It seems strange, especially when recruiting, evaluating quarterbacks is already 0:03:54.480 --> 0:03:58.080 so difficult, and to send a message and to have 0:03:58.200 --> 0:04:02.080 you know, Notre Dame competes against everybody because they recruit nationally, 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:04.760 and so you could have a coach at Stanford, you 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:06.320 could have coach at Texas, you could have a coach 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:07.800 at Alabama, you could have a coach at Florida, at 0:04:07.800 --> 0:04:11.960 Florida State wherever. They can all say Brian Kelly's not 0:04:12.000 --> 0:04:16.159 gonna have your back, and that's pretty rough. 0:04:16.240 --> 0:04:16.440 Now. 0:04:16.480 --> 0:04:18.920 I still think Brian Kelly should be able to recruit quarterbacks. 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:23.200 He's had some success with them, but yeah, not the 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:28.279 best of looks. But I understand sometimes why the honesty 0:04:28.839 --> 0:04:31.599 is necessary. Well do you think do you think Deshaun 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:33.400 Kai do you think that was a fair statement? 0:04:33.839 --> 0:04:37.400 Absolutely? Absolutely a fair statement. I'm also not going to 0:04:37.440 --> 0:04:40.599 say he made the wrong decision going because it looks 0:04:40.680 --> 0:04:44.400 like he'll probably be a borderline first round He's going 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:46.160 to go fairly high in the draft. He's not at 0:04:46.160 --> 0:04:49.480 all at risk of going undrafted. He'll find a team 0:04:49.520 --> 0:04:49.960 next year. 0:04:50.000 --> 0:04:50.320 Correct. 0:04:50.320 --> 0:04:53.520 The other thing that I should point out about Brian Kelly, 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:56.640 it's a more interesting high wire act for him because 0:04:56.680 --> 0:04:59.120 there have been plenty of rumors about Brian Kelly potentially 0:04:59.160 --> 0:05:00.679 jumping to the NFL at some point. 0:05:01.320 --> 0:05:03.360 Right now, this is true, and maybe he is looking 0:05:03.400 --> 0:05:04.920 at this as his last year at Notre Dame, and 0:05:04.960 --> 0:05:07.520 so he's trying to seem so honest and forthright about 0:05:07.560 --> 0:05:10.839 quarterback evaluations to seem like an NFL coach in waiting, 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:11.800 who knows. 0:05:11.680 --> 0:05:13.880 We are going way down the rabbit hole here? Is 0:05:13.920 --> 0:05:15.680 there anything else in the news. 0:05:16.760 --> 0:05:20.320 I don't believe that, if I'm reading this correctly, I 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:24.200 don't believe MAC teams will be playing on Saturdays in November. 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:28.480 Did you see this? I saw what's that about. 0:05:29.560 --> 0:05:32.080 Basically, they're going all out to get as much attention 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:34.200 as possible. And while it's true that a lot of people, 0:05:34.320 --> 0:05:37.599 especially on social media, turned to action as a sort 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:40.680 of fixed midweek, I know the ACC likes playing on 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:44.719 Thursday nights and that certainly gets that conference attention, but 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:49.920 I it hurts me a little bit. It hurts me 0:05:49.960 --> 0:05:52.719 a little that there is a conference that year after 0:05:52.800 --> 0:05:56.360 year generates interesting players, interesting games, sometimes without defense, which 0:05:56.400 --> 0:06:00.080 is fine, everybody needs an identity. But the fact that 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:05.640 TV is instructing college football to this degree and affecting it, 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:08.719 I think we've sort of accepted, but it still hurts 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:10.839 to sort of see it reflected on the schedule to 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:15.000 this degree. Saturdays are for football. Saturdays are for you. 0:06:15.160 --> 0:06:17.240 You're off work, you get to go to even though 0:06:17.279 --> 0:06:20.360 it's probably cold in the Midwest and November, there's something 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:24.839 about tailgating in the morning, and right you know, there's 0:06:24.880 --> 0:06:26.440 the communal thing that's sort of lost. 0:06:26.480 --> 0:06:27.760 I think on Thursday night games. 0:06:27.800 --> 0:06:32.240 So Jason Kirk, in the oft mentioned read option newslatyer 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:34.800 that goes out every day talks about college football. 0:06:34.800 --> 0:06:36.720 If you're not subscribing, you should. He does a great job. 0:06:37.240 --> 0:06:41.200 He has college Football Game Day power rankings, Saturday being 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:49.880 number one, obviously. He then goes Sunday, Monday, Thursday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday. Right, 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:58.680 do you agree with that? Does that feel right to you? Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Thursday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday. 0:06:58.720 --> 0:07:02.200 The early week games to me really throw me off schedule, 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:03.760 So I would probably put those way. 0:07:03.600 --> 0:07:04.240 At the bottom. 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:09.160 I think I agree with his rankings, maybe exactly. The 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:13.720 defensive Tuesday games is this. It's general if you're into 0:07:13.720 --> 0:07:16.480 the NFL, you have Sunday, Monday, and now Thursday, and 0:07:16.600 --> 0:07:18.240 it's nice to get some time off if you're an 0:07:18.280 --> 0:07:21.920 NFL fan and whatever. But there's no football on Sunday's 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:25.520 college wise. There's no football on Monday's college wise other 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:29.120 than Week one, and Tuesday sort of doesn't happen until 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:31.840 later in the season, right, doesn't happen until November, Okay, 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:35.080 So that sort of feels like you're at a restaurant 0:07:35.280 --> 0:07:38.040 and your server takes a particular liking to you and 0:07:38.080 --> 0:07:41.080 slips you some extra biscuits or it's like, oh wow, 0:07:41.160 --> 0:07:42.960 I didn't I didn't order it, but this is here 0:07:43.000 --> 0:07:46.280 they are. And there's just that the bonus quality of 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:50.280 Tuesday football that I mean, TV, at least network TV 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:52.960 is sort of worse, and that there's so much to 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:54.920 choose from now with Netflix and whatever and whatever, and 0:07:54.960 --> 0:07:57.800 sometimes you just want to instead of watching those shows 0:07:57.800 --> 0:07:59.760 that you have to focus on to a huge degree, 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:01.560 just kind of want to like sit on your couch 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:04.240 with your laptop maybe browse stuff with having football in 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:06.560 the background as sort of a screen saver. I think 0:08:06.680 --> 0:08:09.400 that's the beauty of Tuesday night football. You don't have 0:08:09.400 --> 0:08:11.880 to pay attention to it. I'm not a fin Okay, 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:13.920 I'm not a fan. I might put bonus biscuits is 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:16.200 number seven. You're not wrong, but I'm just saying I'm 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:16.640 not a fan. 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:22.360 Okay, anything else that caught your eye, Dan, No, not really. 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:23.760 I think we could just get into the action. 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:26.240 We'll talk about NFL draft stuff as that sneaks up 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:29.160 a little bit closer. When is the NFL Draft, I believe, 0:08:29.480 --> 0:08:31.720 as we're recording this on Wednesday, April fifth, it will 0:08:31.760 --> 0:08:34.800 be three weeks from tomorrow, will be the first round. 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:37.400 All right, we got to figure out figure out a 0:08:37.440 --> 0:08:39.679 show then, and yes we'll get we'll get an NFL 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:40.360 show together. 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:43.559 Well, don't phrase it like that. We will get a 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:46.720 recently departed college football player. 0:08:46.840 --> 0:08:48.120 Shake you going, thank you. 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:51.080 We'll get a college prospects moving to the NFL show, 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:53.240 thank you, relatively soon. 0:08:53.280 --> 0:08:53.840 So stay tuned. 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:58.640 All right, your questions, Yes, congratulations, Skippy, you've got mail, 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:02.319 You've got mail with solid rubal Dan. We've been doing 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:04.920 it once a month, but as often as we can. 0:09:04.960 --> 0:09:07.920 We do our best to pay homage for those of 0:09:07.960 --> 0:09:16.720 you who write into Twitter, Facebook, fan cred, Instagram, Snapchat, email, Messenger, pigeon, 0:09:16.800 --> 0:09:17.360 you name it. 0:09:17.880 --> 0:09:22.440 Have we ever received an Instagram DM question like somebody 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:23.800 sliding into our DMS? 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:25.440 I thought you were going to say something else. 0:09:25.520 --> 0:09:28.480 No, we've not gotten any questions nor anything else via 0:09:28.559 --> 0:09:29.520 Instagram DM. 0:09:30.400 --> 0:09:35.840 Did we get a picture of a Johnson a somebody's 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:38.320 junk texted to us at our old Google phone address? 0:09:38.400 --> 0:09:42.440 We absolutely did, Yeah, we absolutely, yes, we did. We did. 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:44.640 But yeah, send us, you know, send us as often 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:46.440 as you'd like. We do, get to as many as 0:09:46.480 --> 0:09:49.120 we possibly can, but and we do read all the email. 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:49.600 We do read. 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:51.600 We read every email. Even if we don't respond. That's 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:53.320 because we're bad people. We will try to be better. 0:09:53.640 --> 0:09:55.720 I love when people write in like, oh you probably 0:09:55.720 --> 0:09:57.320 won't read this actually. 0:09:57.160 --> 0:09:57.560 Bam No. 0:09:57.640 --> 0:10:00.319 I live for them. I honestly. If you I just 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:01.720 want to get someone off your chest. If you ever 0:10:01.760 --> 0:10:03.520 want to just say, like ty, I love what you do, 0:10:04.160 --> 0:10:04.719 send us an out. 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:06.760 Soliverbo at gmail dot Co's got a vent. You need 0:10:06.760 --> 0:10:07.120 a friend? 0:10:07.120 --> 0:10:11.720 All right, dum, We've got a long laundry list here 0:10:11.800 --> 0:10:15.240 of the items that people have sought to discuss with 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:17.760 us or sought to have us discuss amongst ourselves. 0:10:17.800 --> 0:10:18.720 Dan, where do you want to start? 0:10:19.440 --> 0:10:22.679 Uh, let's skip around, but we're going to go some football, 0:10:22.800 --> 0:10:25.840 some life, some other topics whatever. Let's start with josh 0:10:25.920 --> 0:10:27.920 at the top of this list. It was pretty recent, 0:10:27.960 --> 0:10:30.760 but he asked if the Gators are Joshua is how 0:10:30.760 --> 0:10:32.679 he's listed. If the Gators go ten and four every 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:35.800 year but get demolished by Florida State whoever the SEC 0:10:35.920 --> 0:10:38.720 West champ is and their bowl opponent, will they ever 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:40.959 fire mech I feel like they have a mark Rick 0:10:41.040 --> 0:10:44.240 situation brewing in Gainesville. By that, I assume he means 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:49.120 a perennial good team, but not great team, which a 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:50.440 number of programs would take. 0:10:50.520 --> 0:10:54.359 Not getting over the hump syndrome correct. 0:10:54.080 --> 0:10:57.160 Not getting past you know that that out back Bowl 0:10:57.240 --> 0:11:00.720 ceiling or that lower tier former BC New Year's Day 0:11:00.760 --> 0:11:03.200 that is not watched by many people. I will say, 0:11:03.240 --> 0:11:06.080 I think it's harder and harder, given how national the 0:11:06.080 --> 0:11:08.840 sport has become to just sort of have a beloved coach. 0:11:10.160 --> 0:11:13.520 Mark Richt was in Athens forever and became beloved, and 0:11:13.559 --> 0:11:16.560 even when he was let go, it seemed like people 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:19.360 really liked him even as he left, which is very 0:11:19.480 --> 0:11:22.160 rarely the case, and I think Mack is fairly likable. 0:11:22.200 --> 0:11:23.880 I don't know if people have been huge fans of 0:11:23.920 --> 0:11:28.080 his recruiting and quarterback play early on. It's not entirely 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:32.240 his faults, but I think with the expectations at Florida 0:11:32.280 --> 0:11:37.040 being a recent multiple time national champion, the hump will 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:39.679 need to be cleared within the next two or three 0:11:39.760 --> 0:11:40.439 years or he. 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:42.800 Will be gone. I just think that's the level. 0:11:43.360 --> 0:11:48.080 They've also got some recent tradition of performing in the 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:51.760 postseason with Urban Meyer true That's what I'm saying, right, 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:54.959 So I feel like that makes it a little bit 0:11:54.960 --> 0:11:59.320 more difficult for a guy like a Jim mckawain. It's 0:11:59.360 --> 0:12:02.600 a long painful death in most cases when you've got 0:12:02.640 --> 0:12:06.360 this inability to get over the hump. And not to 0:12:06.400 --> 0:12:09.480 say that things went totally off the rails, although Mark 0:12:09.559 --> 0:12:14.120 Rick did lose control wink, we touched nudgeways. It's sort 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:17.840 of a long painful process when you see this happening. 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:18.680 Right. 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:20.839 What I am most curious about is if he can 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:24.360 find a quarterback, because he came in on this assumption 0:12:24.520 --> 0:12:28.280 that he would instantly breathe new life into the Florida offense, 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:30.720 and he has not done that yet. He's now had 0:12:30.720 --> 0:12:32.840 some time to get his guys in there, and he's 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:35.880 going to have an opportunity now to start anew with 0:12:35.920 --> 0:12:38.360 a young quarterback. So we'll see if he's able to 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:41.200 move things a little bit more forward. It helps that 0:12:41.240 --> 0:12:43.880 he's got the defense. The defense is going to keep 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:45.160 me in a lot of games. I don't see that 0:12:45.240 --> 0:12:48.839 changing anytime soon because defensive talent at Florida has pretty 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:50.880 much been a mainstay of the last I don't know 0:12:50.880 --> 0:12:53.800 what five to eight years. It's just always been pretty 0:12:53.840 --> 0:12:58.000 rock solid. If they that's absolutely If they can get 0:12:58.040 --> 0:13:01.720 an offense in place, I think the risk of not 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:04.720 getting over the hump syndrome will be drastically reduced. But 0:13:05.400 --> 0:13:09.160 to your point, there is definitely not as much allegiance 0:13:09.200 --> 0:13:12.679 to a guy like a mcawaine as I think there 0:13:12.800 --> 0:13:14.000 was to a guy like a Mark Rick. 0:13:14.120 --> 0:13:16.360 I think that's fair and urban. Meyer, you know, gave 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:19.200 himself such a long road by winning like he did 0:13:19.240 --> 0:13:22.080 early on in his career. And granted, I don't think 0:13:22.120 --> 0:13:24.440 a number of those players recruited by Meyer and his staff. 0:13:24.440 --> 0:13:28.240 But at the same time, this is a it's it's 0:13:28.280 --> 0:13:30.480 weird to say it, but twenty seventeen is different from 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:32.600 like two thousand and eight. Oh yes, just it feels 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:35.640 like such a different world college football and outside. So 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:38.440 I think it'll be tough. Next question is from our 0:13:38.440 --> 0:13:41.360 friend Brian, a longtime UCLA fan, and he wants to 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:43.559 know about ty What school do you think he wants 0:13:43.600 --> 0:13:44.240 to know about? 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:45.520 UCLA? 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:49.120 Is Jim Mora's seat actually hot or just the warmest 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:52.200 in the Pac twelve? Seems rich Rod is getting there, 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:55.360 but expectations aren't as high in Arizona. I thought, I 0:13:55.400 --> 0:13:58.520 think it's hot, don't you. I think it's warming up. 0:13:58.679 --> 0:14:00.640 Like I don't think it's that he's on fire. I 0:14:00.679 --> 0:14:03.560 think it's on he's heating up. I think it's in 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:07.920 that place because you go three and nine in a 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:11.280 place with a good amount of talent and have a 0:14:11.320 --> 0:14:13.760 team that not only wins the Rose Bowl, but now 0:14:13.800 --> 0:14:17.160 everybody's saying, oh, the presumptive twenty eighteen number one overall 0:14:17.240 --> 0:14:20.400 pick is the USC quarterback, whereas it was a few 0:14:20.440 --> 0:14:22.760 months ago the UCLA quarterback. And you play in a 0:14:22.800 --> 0:14:25.800 big stadium, and you have a basketball team that is 0:14:25.840 --> 0:14:28.680 going deep into the tournament, and it is high profile 0:14:29.160 --> 0:14:31.480 as UCLA basketball is that there is this sort of 0:14:31.760 --> 0:14:35.320 tradition at UCLA or expectation of at UCLA to perform 0:14:35.840 --> 0:14:42.600 on a Rose Bowl challenging stage, and it's I guess 0:14:42.600 --> 0:14:46.640 it also depends on who can you get, Like if 0:14:46.640 --> 0:14:49.040 they can get Chip Kelly or something like that, if 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:51.640 Chip Kelly's doing TV and he's in La anyway and 0:14:51.760 --> 0:14:54.280 sort of likes it out west as we know, maybe, 0:14:54.920 --> 0:14:58.600 But at the same time, is the UCLA job as 0:14:58.640 --> 0:15:02.440 attractive as it may look from where we sit three 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:05.000 thousand miles away that like, oh, it's a beautiful school, 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:08.360 you know, a great athletic program, but you're also number 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:13.800 two in your city and it's a decidedly basketball school 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:15.960 in a stadium that you don't fill up because it's 0:15:15.960 --> 0:15:19.320 obviously enormous, that's far away from campus. There's some challenges. 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:22.760 So I think it's a matter of who does UCL I. 0:15:22.720 --> 0:15:24.880 Think they can get. I think that will determine the 0:15:24.920 --> 0:15:25.960 temperature of his seat. 0:15:26.520 --> 0:15:28.840 I think it's actually hot. I agree with you that 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:34.120 it's not scalding hot. You mentioned USC. There's obviously always 0:15:34.160 --> 0:15:36.960 going to be this need to keep up with the 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:40.040 Joneses across town in USC and US. He's about to 0:15:40.040 --> 0:15:41.960 load up. They've got Sam Darnold coming back, a ton 0:15:42.040 --> 0:15:44.440 of talent on both sides of the football. US He's 0:15:44.680 --> 0:15:47.400 coming off that Rose Bowl win. As you mentioned, They're 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:49.560 going to be pretty solid in twenty seventeen, no doubt 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:51.920 about it. Not only that, but you've also got a 0:15:52.000 --> 0:15:55.440 ton of coaching talent in the PAC twelve North. The 0:15:55.520 --> 0:15:58.840 playoff team from the PAC twelve came from the PAC 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:00.560 twelve North Washington. 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:03.080 There is yet to be a PAC twelve South Conference 0:16:03.120 --> 0:16:06.480 champion absolutely, so the PAC twelve North has loaded up 0:16:06.480 --> 0:16:09.400 on coaching talent. I feel like the PAC twelve is 0:16:09.480 --> 0:16:13.000 probably in the conversation for the best conference in college 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:17.960 football in twenty seventeen. The profiles has definitely been raised 0:16:18.000 --> 0:16:22.320 a bit given what Washington did, and with Josh Rosen 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:26.760 now coming back from injury, there is an expectation that 0:16:27.080 --> 0:16:30.360 he will take the next step in his development. Only 0:16:30.360 --> 0:16:32.840 played half the season last year. But if he comes 0:16:32.840 --> 0:16:36.360 back healthy and doesn't deliver the goods, if UCLA just 0:16:36.400 --> 0:16:39.080 sort of sputters around the five hundred marks, seven and five, 0:16:39.120 --> 0:16:41.400 even eight and four, I think there will be a 0:16:41.440 --> 0:16:44.440 real push to go a different direction at UCLA. 0:16:44.680 --> 0:16:46.520 So I think you're right fair. 0:16:47.360 --> 0:16:50.560 Next question comes to us from I believe his name 0:16:50.600 --> 0:16:53.240 is Quinn the Day, so he's an Ole Miss fan 0:16:53.720 --> 0:16:57.680 because they're also win the Day. He wants to know up, 0:16:57.720 --> 0:17:01.120 I lost my Google doc. We think will be the 0:17:01.480 --> 0:17:03.200 leading rusher in the Pac twelve, so we'll stay on 0:17:03.200 --> 0:17:03.680 that topic. 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:06.480 I think it's either Miles Gaskin or Royce Freeman, right, 0:17:07.280 --> 0:17:07.720 I think. 0:17:07.600 --> 0:17:09.560 It's probably coming out of the North. It could be 0:17:09.560 --> 0:17:13.400 Bryce Love. We know that Stanford offensive line has paved 0:17:13.440 --> 0:17:16.600 the way for some large chunks these past few years. 0:17:17.160 --> 0:17:22.119 I would feel better about USC considering how talented Ronald 0:17:22.200 --> 0:17:24.880 Jones is, but they're replacing a good chunk of their 0:17:24.920 --> 0:17:28.080 offensive line. Also, not to say that the new guys 0:17:28.080 --> 0:17:31.040 won't be as good, but it's a little bit worrisome. 0:17:31.080 --> 0:17:32.440 I think they're going to want to show off Sam 0:17:32.520 --> 0:17:34.560 Darnold and his ability, and we'll be throwing the ball 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:38.960 pretty often. So I'm going to take the Homer pick 0:17:38.960 --> 0:17:43.080 and go Royce Freeman because even though that is a 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:45.919 deep core of running back, still they return a number 0:17:45.920 --> 0:17:48.840 of big offensive linemen and I think five starting offensive 0:17:48.840 --> 0:17:50.879 lineman if you can include Tyrol Crosby who's out for 0:17:50.920 --> 0:17:53.800 most of last year. So I'm going to go with 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:58.520 that retooled offense and Royce Freeman succeeding as a senior. 0:17:59.200 --> 0:18:02.520 I will just for the hell of it, go Miles Gaskin. 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:05.800 That's a good tick to take an opposing side. But 0:18:05.960 --> 0:18:08.679 Royce Freeman is a very compelling pick. He's a bigger 0:18:08.760 --> 0:18:12.240 running back, He's got top end speed. I think I 0:18:12.280 --> 0:18:15.200 saw over the span of his career he's averaged something 0:18:15.240 --> 0:18:17.159 like six yards per carry. He is very much a 0:18:17.200 --> 0:18:21.200 big game kind of running back. But Miles Gaskin also 0:18:21.240 --> 0:18:24.280 plays in a very friendly system if you are a 0:18:24.359 --> 0:18:26.760 running back. He's got a good quarterback, and we know 0:18:26.800 --> 0:18:28.919 that Chris Peterson's building something. He had a great year 0:18:29.000 --> 0:18:30.040 last year, so Sa'll go with him. 0:18:30.400 --> 0:18:32.119 Here's the problem with the Miles Gaskin thing. 0:18:32.160 --> 0:18:35.080 Even though he's as talented as a lot of these guys, 0:18:35.119 --> 0:18:37.919 most of the time he's sharing carries with Lavon Coleman, 0:18:37.960 --> 0:18:41.160 who a lot of would argue is the better running 0:18:41.200 --> 0:18:42.200 back in that backfield. 0:18:42.440 --> 0:18:43.040 That's true. 0:18:43.400 --> 0:18:46.560 Yeah, I mean, I'm only going Gaskin because you pick Freeman. 0:18:47.000 --> 0:18:51.000 That's fair. I listen, I understand the hate. Stay petty, Yes, 0:18:51.800 --> 0:18:53.920 let's go. Oh, this is interesting because we're talking about 0:18:53.920 --> 0:18:56.400 the draft, next year's draft. Who are the big names 0:18:56.440 --> 0:18:59.639 that are standing out to you defensively for next year's 0:18:59.720 --> 0:19:02.560 draft that will be the first defensive player off the board. 0:19:02.600 --> 0:19:06.439 He submits arden Key, the very good defensive end for Lsu, 0:19:06.560 --> 0:19:11.480 Deron Payne Alabama, DeShawn hand Alabama, MIKEA. Fitzpatrick Alabama. I 0:19:11.480 --> 0:19:15.320 think there's a good, little, good little trend going on 0:19:15.359 --> 0:19:18.400 with his picks. But the defensive lineman for Ohio State 0:19:18.480 --> 0:19:21.080 are really good. Sam Hubbard and Taekwon Lewis I believe 0:19:21.080 --> 0:19:23.000 will be I mean Taekwon Lewis is a senior, so 0:19:23.040 --> 0:19:26.920 he will be very good. We'll see how Derwin James. 0:19:27.000 --> 0:19:29.560 I was gonna say, what about big Bet that's your bag, James. Yeah, 0:19:29.920 --> 0:19:33.399 somebody that versatile. I think is a real nice pick. 0:19:33.680 --> 0:19:36.120 Kind of a little off the radar because he was hurt. 0:19:36.200 --> 0:19:39.800 He had the knee injury, and perhaps that's why he's 0:19:39.800 --> 0:19:43.520