WEBVTT - Spring Cleaning and VORC 0:00:02.160 --> 0:00:06.880 Welcome to the solid verbal hell that for me, I'm 0:00:06.880 --> 0:00:09.680 a man, I'm forty. I've heard so many players say, well, 0:00:09.720 --> 0:00:10.639 I want to be happy. 0:00:10.800 --> 0:00:13.000 You want to be happy for a day? Edith Steak 0:00:13.360 --> 0:00:14.440 is that woo woom? 0:00:14.920 --> 0:00:20.360 And Dan and Tie welcome back to the solid verbal 0:00:20.440 --> 0:00:24.639 boys and girls. My name is Ty Hildenbrandt, joining me 0:00:24.760 --> 0:00:28.320 as always out there in the heart of the Midwest. 0:00:28.480 --> 0:00:33.680 Dan the Pizza Man Rubinstein, Sir, how are you good? 0:00:33.720 --> 0:00:35.720 I have some pizza inside my belly and it was 0:00:35.720 --> 0:00:37.879 a terrible pizza and I messed it up, and I 0:00:37.960 --> 0:00:41.080 still had two and a half slices. And it's especially 0:00:41.120 --> 0:00:44.600 appropriate to do a spring cleaning episode. 0:00:44.280 --> 0:00:47.680 Because I don't know what my inside's gonna look like later. 0:00:47.800 --> 0:00:48.920 I had a lot of dairy. 0:00:49.680 --> 0:00:52.360 Aren't going to go? Well? You did a vodka sauce pizza, 0:00:52.520 --> 0:00:52.920 did you not? 0:00:53.520 --> 0:00:56.800 I did? And that's tricky because we're talking about a 0:00:56.880 --> 0:01:01.560 cream element or majority of the sauce mixed with For me, 0:01:01.640 --> 0:01:05.880 it was tomato paste and shallots and garlic and all 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:08.240 sorts of season. It was I mean, it tasted good, 0:01:09.160 --> 0:01:11.840 but the ratios and I don't think I think it 0:01:11.880 --> 0:01:15.400 was too rich and so it's just sort of it's sitting. 0:01:15.920 --> 0:01:20.760 It's sitting there, occupying space without contributing much. Kind of 0:01:20.760 --> 0:01:21.760 like Jeff Long. 0:01:21.720 --> 0:01:23.920 Kind of like Jeff. We'll get to that. Who now 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:28.000 was the athletic director at Kansas. We'll get to that momentarily. 0:01:28.160 --> 0:01:31.640 But you know where I stand at vodka sauce. That's 0:01:31.680 --> 0:01:35.360 your one true identifier of quality. That's my identifier of 0:01:35.480 --> 0:01:38.520 quality when it comes to the Italian restaurant. And so 0:01:38.680 --> 0:01:40.600 I had an instance where we went to go visit 0:01:40.720 --> 0:01:43.480 friends and hang out at their house for the night, 0:01:44.000 --> 0:01:47.400 but first went to a nearby restaurant and I got 0:01:47.440 --> 0:01:50.800 the vodka sauce pizza. And let me tell you, buddy, 0:01:51.360 --> 0:01:54.760 go into that friend's house for most of the rest 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:58.640 of the evening was quite an uncomfortable experience. Needed to 0:01:58.680 --> 0:02:02.520 locate the facilities second we walked in that door. Because 0:02:02.600 --> 0:02:05.840 vodka pizza sauce has never been a good combo for me. 0:02:06.080 --> 0:02:09.960 FYI the Tavon Austin of Digestion. 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:15.440 Okay, sure, well, on that note, On that note, I 0:02:15.480 --> 0:02:17.720 have ty he is Dan. This is a solid verbal. 0:02:18.480 --> 0:02:20.720 We come your way twice a week here in this 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:24.160 college football off season. We will switch up to three 0:02:24.200 --> 0:02:26.040 times a week as we get a little bit closer 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:31.440 to the start. In the meantime, though, follow along on 0:02:31.480 --> 0:02:35.679 social media all the usual hotspots. Check out our patreon 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:39.760 at verballers dot com. We've got I believe if memory 0:02:39.800 --> 0:02:43.880 serves another off topic show coming up in the very 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:45.640 very near future that I still need to talk to 0:02:45.639 --> 0:02:50.680 you about. In coordinatings, I think every good idea love it. Also, 0:02:50.720 --> 0:02:52.480 solid verbal dot com is where you can find all 0:02:52.480 --> 0:02:55.880 the information for how to follow along with our podcast. 0:02:55.960 --> 0:02:59.480 Did you see that Apple was dropping the subscribe terminology? 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:02.480 So what are they doing? What exactly are people to 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:04.280 do now? They're just going to call it follow? 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:10.079 Oh okay, it's just apparently there is data to suggest 0:03:10.120 --> 0:03:13.720 that when people see the words subscribe, they associate that 0:03:13.760 --> 0:03:16.799 with having him pay money. Too much of a commitment, 0:03:17.200 --> 0:03:20.919 that's right, But follow Follow is something we do on 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:24.480 Facebook and Twitter, Instagram. Yeah, it's free to do that. 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:29.320 So anyway, follow follow us if you will on your 0:03:29.960 --> 0:03:33.640 selected podcasting app, Dan, what'd love for you to do that. 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:37.400 The show topic this evening is spring cleaning, and it's 0:03:37.400 --> 0:03:41.600 a little bit of a different Sorry, that's just my cleansings. 0:03:41.640 --> 0:03:44.120 Oh yeah, please it's a little bit of a different 0:03:44.120 --> 0:03:46.600 spin on it. We've done different versions of the show 0:03:46.640 --> 0:03:49.200 over the years. We did a Marie Condo show a 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:51.280 couple of years ago. I am not ruling out doing 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:55.400 another Marie Condo show as we get into this year 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:58.560 off season, but we're getting further and further away from 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:01.520 that reference being meaningful to a lot of people. This 0:04:01.680 --> 0:04:05.400 is also true, very true, Yeah, very true. I enjoyed 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:05.800 that show. 0:04:06.680 --> 0:04:07.240 It's good. 0:04:08.160 --> 0:04:11.600 Our spin on spring cleaning today is. 0:04:12.160 --> 0:04:15.040 We're talking about coordinators. We're talking about new coordinators in 0:04:15.080 --> 0:04:19.360 some instances, new coordinators on new staves, stabs, staff, staves, 0:04:20.640 --> 0:04:25.400 hold on, hold on, hold on. I understand that the 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:31.840 word is staff, like calves, But if a football game 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:40.440 has two halves and we have two calves staff, why 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:43.240 are we not hold on? This is I'm running for 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:48.280 office on this platform. Should it not be. 0:04:50.200 --> 0:04:51.080 Staves? 0:04:51.520 --> 0:04:52.839 Should we have staves? 0:04:54.440 --> 0:04:56.839 Oh no, this is your globe moment. 0:04:57.080 --> 0:05:00.479 You're no, please, You're trying to cover for glove like 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:05.760 it's not an all all all timer. Okay, the Free 0:05:05.760 --> 0:05:08.520 Dictionary says staves is not a known English word. 0:05:10.240 --> 0:05:15.760 Sure, I grant you that way with staves, continue as 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:17.440 you should have stuck with Globe. You should have just 0:05:17.480 --> 0:05:22.320 planted your flag. I forgot where I was going. 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:27.760 Okay, new college football staffs in place, but so like, 0:05:27.760 --> 0:05:31.480 for an example, Pete Kwakowski is a new defensive coordinator 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:34.400 for Texas, but he's part of a new staff for Texas, 0:05:34.400 --> 0:05:36.000 so that counts. So what we're going to do is 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:37.600 we're going to go back and forth and draft I 0:05:37.600 --> 0:05:40.279 don't know, eight, ten, twelve coaches, however many it takes 0:05:40.480 --> 0:05:43.360 to fill out a show, and we are going to say, 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:45.839 and this is just in terms of not the best 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:49.600 hire at offensive or defensive coordinator, and all due respect 0:05:49.600 --> 0:05:53.080 to special teams coordinators, but we're focusing on offense and defense, 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:56.240 not the best. So there are guys who are clearly 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:59.080 a Marcus Freeman. Going from Cincinnati to Notre Dame feels 0:05:59.120 --> 0:06:01.919 like a no brainer. I want to approach this in 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:05.359 terms of improvement, in terms of looking at a unit 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:07.560 that was so woeful or a team that was so 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:11.080 woeful or disappointing that they needed to bring in new staves. 0:06:11.240 --> 0:06:16.320 You heard me, staves, New staves, you say, Mario, And 0:06:16.360 --> 0:06:19.599 that's it's fine. No, just just take your own stabs. 0:06:19.680 --> 0:06:23.280 Steer INtime, steer into it, or need to overhaul a 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:27.440 specific unit, and I want the degree of improvement. So 0:06:27.480 --> 0:06:30.520 we're just predicting. We're just saying, Okay, this team hired 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:33.320 this new coordinator. My number one overall pick is this 0:06:33.360 --> 0:06:36.400 guy because I believe what he can do with this 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:39.720 unit will be more pronounced in terms of improvement than 0:06:39.839 --> 0:06:42.320 any of these other guys with these other units. So 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:46.960 that's the metric by which we're drafting offensive new offensive 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:50.679 and defensive coordinators. They don't have to be an addition 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:54.000 to an existing staff, can be part of an all 0:06:54.160 --> 0:06:55.240 new staff as well. 0:06:55.360 --> 0:06:59.400 So what you're talking about is essentially value over replacement 0:06:59.480 --> 0:07:05.799 coordinator the Vork if you will, I will absolutely say Vork, Okay, 0:07:06.080 --> 0:07:09.320 we're going to play that game momentarily. Before we do, though, 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:14.320 I guess we should just get this out of the way. 0:07:16.000 --> 0:07:18.640 We said it as we came on the air here, 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:20.880 But are you gonna get your big pipes back? By 0:07:20.880 --> 0:07:24.960 the way, I'm taking it easy this offseason, okay, breaking now, 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:29.320 taking it taking it easy, right now? Okay. Jeff Long. 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:34.520 Jeff Long is out as the Kansas Athletic director. This, 0:07:34.640 --> 0:07:36.360 of course, is only a couple of days after they 0:07:36.400 --> 0:07:42.760 parted ways with previous football coach Les Miles. Looks like here. 0:07:42.880 --> 0:07:47.440 An official announcement is scheduled for later today. As we 0:07:47.480 --> 0:07:51.040 record on Wednesday, Kansas has called a meeting of its 0:07:51.080 --> 0:07:56.440 own staff. There's that word again. Yeah, Long has declined 0:07:56.520 --> 0:08:00.320 further comment at this time. Look, there there was an 0:08:00.360 --> 0:08:02.640 article that you sent me from her friend Jason Kirk 0:08:03.400 --> 0:08:06.600 that pretty much called Jeff Long out for failing miserably 0:08:07.120 --> 0:08:12.760 and continuing to be gainfully employed. We're not going to 0:08:12.840 --> 0:08:16.760 necessarily dig into Jeff Loong's past, but I will say 0:08:16.800 --> 0:08:22.880 that essentially hitching your wag into Less Miles at this 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:26.120 latter stage in his career, maybe with some skeletons in 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:29.200 his own closet, maybe not the wisest move. 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:33.480 What I enjoy about the whole concept of Jeff Long 0:08:33.760 --> 0:08:35.719 and Jason Kirk illustrated this very well. 0:08:35.720 --> 0:08:36.640 It was for Slate right. 0:08:36.559 --> 0:08:41.160 Where he wrote Lapies was it was like Jeff Long 0:08:41.280 --> 0:08:45.600 hires known dirt bag Bobby Patrino. Bobby Patrino turns out 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:48.400 to be a dirt bag, brings in John L. Smith, 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:50.920 It goes horribly, goes to Kansas and brings in Brett 0:08:50.920 --> 0:08:54.320 Bieloma because Brett Bielima wrote him a nice letter once 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:57.000 the Bobby Patrino thing went down at Arkansas and goes 0:08:57.120 --> 0:09:01.160 to Kansas where he brings in. Eventually it has found 0:09:01.200 --> 0:09:05.600 out known dirtbag Les Miles alleged dirt bag, I suppose, 0:09:06.040 --> 0:09:10.720 but it's it's a very specific way of hiring coaches 0:09:11.360 --> 0:09:15.280 that basically never works out in the long term that 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:18.880 Jeff Long can be convinced to say, maybe this guy though, 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:20.680 maybe this guy. 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:24.760 Jeff Long was the friendly face behind the BCS Playoff 0:09:24.760 --> 0:09:26.080 committee for a couple of years too. 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:29.080 Well, it was there was the BCS and then the 0:09:29.080 --> 0:09:37.640 College Football Playoff making fun of stabs and yeah, he 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:40.320 was the original chairman of the committee. I talked about it, 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:44.600 what I'm looking for and the like. So he's out. 0:09:44.640 --> 0:09:48.080 I am hopeful, hopeful, And I don't know who Kansas 0:09:48.080 --> 0:09:50.320 should hire, because I think it's just kind of a 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:52.840 doomed place until proven otherwise. And I don't know if 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:55.000 that's an administrative buy in, you know, if it's a 0:09:55.040 --> 0:09:58.800 money thing, whatever it is, it's I hope they hire 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:02.880 somebody create of inventive, well liked by people in the 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:06.400 athletic administration. World to run the athletic department because it's 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:10.480 still a major, major forces in basketball and that matters, 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:16.520 and that person is able to hire with his and 0:10:16.720 --> 0:10:19.000 the good judgment of everybody involved in the hiring process, 0:10:19.040 --> 0:10:22.400 a good college football coach who makes sense for a 0:10:22.679 --> 0:10:26.920 dramatic rebuild. So I yeah, trusting Jeff Long to make 0:10:26.960 --> 0:10:31.040 this next hire seem like who would be the most 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:34.840 Jeff Long hire at this point? Like who is it? 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:34.920 Like? 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:40.160 He would he hire Kevin someone? Would he hire Houston Nutt? 0:10:40.600 --> 0:10:45.600 Would he hire a Bowden? Like It's something like that, 0:10:46.760 --> 0:10:50.280 It's something on that level. Yeah, So yeah, hope it 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:53.640 works out for Kansas. I mean, I it sounds like 0:10:53.640 --> 0:10:55.800 we're piling on. It sounds like I'm piling on. But 0:10:56.480 --> 0:11:00.000 it's never fun when a team is just woefully incompetent. 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:02.840 It's not a fun thing to say, oh, we don't 0:11:02.880 --> 0:11:05.720 have to worry about any of these teams playing Kansas 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:07.319 in the Big Twelve because it's not going to be 0:11:07.360 --> 0:11:10.680 an entertaining game. And occasionally there are surprisingly entertaining games 0:11:10.720 --> 0:11:13.560 against say TCU in Texas these past few years, but 0:11:14.320 --> 0:11:17.319 largely to just fully ignore a team at a major 0:11:17.360 --> 0:11:19.520 conference is I mean it's just I'll speak for myself. 0:11:19.520 --> 0:11:20.280 It's just a bummer. 0:11:20.960 --> 0:11:23.000 We got anything else in the news department that jumped 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:27.280 out at you for now? Not especially? Okay, well, we'll 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:30.520 cover more when we do the show next Tuesday. But 0:11:30.720 --> 0:11:33.120 in the interim, why don't we get to why don't 0:11:33.160 --> 0:11:36.160 we get to our game? Here? So we are drafts. 0:11:36.440 --> 0:11:41.400 We are drafting staves today. We're not doing staffs. It's 0:11:41.400 --> 0:11:43.760 just coordinators. But I like where you're going. We're drafting 0:11:43.920 --> 0:11:51.600 staves and we are looking for value over replacement coordinators. 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:55.280 So in front of us, we've got two links, both 0:11:55.320 --> 0:11:58.760 from our friends over at FootballScoop dot com where they 0:11:58.800 --> 0:12:04.720 track such things. Coordinator hires, big time, coordinator hires offense defense. 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:07.680 Let me start with one. 0:12:07.679 --> 0:12:09.560 Who gets the first pick? Who gets the first pick? 0:12:09.600 --> 0:12:13.079 Oh all right, well here let me. I'm gonna flip 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:15.840 a coin, flip something. Tell me what you call heads 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:19.360 your tails? Tell me one count to three, call it 0:12:19.440 --> 0:12:23.000 call it now heads? Heads? 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:26.280 It is heads? It is okay, uh, with the first 0:12:26.400 --> 0:12:32.280 overall pick. In terms of pure improvement, I'm gonna go with, 0:12:34.360 --> 0:12:37.800 Thank you very much that under the wire. Continue right 0:12:37.960 --> 0:12:42.640 under the wire. I'm gonna go with I'm gonna go 0:12:42.720 --> 0:12:48.640 Deronte Jones LSU LSU LSU defensive coordinator based on how 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:53.880 LSU has recruited and purely based on the depths to 0:12:53.960 --> 0:12:57.520 which this defense fell in twenty twenty under Bo Polini. 0:12:58.720 --> 0:13:03.560 I am under the impression and that merely the average 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:06.640 performance from everybody on this on this defense, the average 0:13:07.360 --> 0:13:12.040 effort and improvement with the benefit of more springtap practice, 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:16.000 more summer workouts, more fall camp. I am going to 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:20.560 roll with Deronte Jones making a large jump with this 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:22.800 LSU defense. They hire I think a new defensive line 0:13:22.840 --> 0:13:25.360 coach or Andre Carter from cal Way back when oh yeah, 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:29.360 of course their new defensive line coach, Jets, they have 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:33.200 a new linebackers coach, and certainly issues on you know, 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:35.840 especially in the back part of this defense. We saw 0:13:35.880 --> 0:13:37.680 them get lit up, especially in the first part of 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:40.480 that season of the twenty twenty season, So I think 0:13:40.520 --> 0:13:43.600 things get short up with Deronte Jones. He has he 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:46.160 was a recommendation from Dave Randa. He coached with a 0:13:46.240 --> 0:13:49.000 rand I believe at Wisconsin he was with the Vikings. 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:52.520 His background is in the secondary and so in terms 0:13:52.760 --> 0:13:56.160 of I for coaching talent, both spanning the NFL and 0:13:56.240 --> 0:14:00.400 college game and you know, being some part some branch 0:14:00.400 --> 0:14:03.040 and the Dave I Randa Tree. I think this ship 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:05.640 will get righted. I think there will be energy infused 0:14:05.679 --> 0:14:08.680 into this defense that was sorely needed and Bobolini was 0:14:08.720 --> 0:14:12.440 clearly not the answer. So I think we are we 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:16.360 are due for a bounce back, a progression to wear, 0:14:16.440 --> 0:14:19.200 not a regression to the mean, but a progression to 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:22.640 the average place where LSU should generally be given the 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:27.600 talent on hand. Given the major new quarterbacks in you know, 0:14:27.680 --> 0:14:33.520 quarterback movements in the SEC West, places like Alabama, we'll see. 0:14:33.520 --> 0:14:35.520 You know, Auburn has Mike Bobba. I don't know if 0:14:35.520 --> 0:14:37.600 you'll draft him or I'll draft him. But a new 0:14:37.600 --> 0:14:40.120 offensive coordinator at Auburn A and M's moving on to 0:14:40.200 --> 0:14:43.160 a new quarterback almost should be very dangerous. But I 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:46.680 think it's a pretty good year to get the ship righted. 0:14:47.320 --> 0:14:51.880 In Baton Rouge, Okay, I'm going as my first pick, 0:14:55.800 --> 0:15:01.440 gonna go Mike Yoursitch, interesting Homer, Homer, Homer, big time 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:04.160 homer pick here, Mike yoursich Is. 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:05.920 I think it's you. Is it You're Sitch or you're 0:15:05.960 --> 0:15:06.800 sick I. 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:08.600 Believe I looked this up a couple of years ago 0:15:08.680 --> 0:15:11.800 and it's your sitch, okay, And at this point if 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:13.320 it is, and I'm just going to go with it anyway, 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:15.640 that's what we do now on the show. This is 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:20.200 what we do. But Mike Eusitch from neighboring Ohio went 0:15:20.280 --> 0:15:23.880 to California University of Pennsylvania, which is in the western 0:15:23.920 --> 0:15:28.600 part of the state, has bounced around a couple places, right, 0:15:28.680 --> 0:15:32.920 he was obviously at Oklahoma State, Ohio, State Texas. More 0:15:32.960 --> 0:15:35.080 recently it is yoursitch. 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:37.560 By the way, your sitch did a quick fact check. 0:15:37.600 --> 0:15:41.960 You got it right, thank you. Has some ties to Shippensburg, 0:15:42.000 --> 0:15:45.920 which is also smaller school in state of Pennsylvania. So 0:15:46.040 --> 0:15:49.040 now coming back to the Great State of PA and 0:15:50.240 --> 0:15:52.840 I like this move for a couple of reasons. First 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:56.560 and foremost, we talked about James Franklin seemingly having a 0:15:56.640 --> 0:15:59.480 quick hook to get rid of Kirk Shiaka, friend of 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:02.480 the show. Kirk absolutely of course doesn't know it, but 0:16:02.480 --> 0:16:06.440 he is doesn't know it, but he is so didn't 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:10.440 feel like it was working out with Shiraka and now 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:14.920 goes to usage. What I like about this move is 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:18.640 that Usich has coached himself a pretty good quarterback in 0:16:18.680 --> 0:16:22.160 his day. I feel like he's someone who can bring 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:26.160 a lot to that position grouping at Penn State, And frankly, 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:29.600 it's a position grouping that has the most questions for 0:16:29.680 --> 0:16:32.800 this team moving forward in twenty twenty. So I like 0:16:32.880 --> 0:16:34.560 the fact that you're bringing in a guy who was 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:38.440 coach quarterbacks before, who knows how to run an up tempo, 0:16:38.560 --> 0:16:41.640 high flying offense. I don't necessarily blame it all on 0:16:41.720 --> 0:16:46.080 Kirk Shiraka last year. I don't think Sean Clifford is 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:49.200 the answer was the answer at quarterback. I hope they 0:16:49.280 --> 0:16:51.920 go in a different direction this year, and I like 0:16:52.040 --> 0:16:57.040 starting over with a guy of Usich's prowess at that 0:16:57.120 --> 0:17:00.880 offensive coordinator position. The thing is, and here's why I 0:17:00.920 --> 0:17:04.760 think you number two overall pick. Yes, here's why I 0:17:04.800 --> 0:17:07.959 think you wrinkled your brow. If I look at like 0:17:08.240 --> 0:17:12.040 SP plus rankings, Penn State's offense, by comparison last year 0:17:12.920 --> 0:17:15.439 was not necessarily the worst offense in the world. Like, 0:17:15.480 --> 0:17:18.320 we're not talking a half team. We're talking about a 0:17:18.320 --> 0:17:20.080 bit of a frustrating team. 0:17:20.280 --> 0:17:23.120 To say they weren't a half team because they were 0:17:23.160 --> 0:17:26.280 just a team that was at best average, they were 0:17:26.320 --> 0:17:30.040 sixtieth and points per drive on offense, forty seventh on defense. 0:17:30.119 --> 0:17:32.479 So there was not one side of the ball that 0:17:32.680 --> 0:17:34.680 was dramatically better than. 0:17:34.560 --> 0:17:39.280 The They were frustrating is what they were. I feel 0:17:39.280 --> 0:17:41.119 like he gives them a lot of lyft, especially at 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:42.919 that quarterback position. So I'm going to go with him 0:17:42.920 --> 0:17:45.120 as my number two overall pick. Homer pick. 0:17:46.960 --> 0:17:51.120 I think that's a terrible pick. Great, yes, and it's okay. 0:17:51.280 --> 0:17:54.600 It's okay because if nothing else, I have proven myself 0:17:54.640 --> 0:17:56.920 to be wrong a lot I did. I mean, it 0:17:57.000 --> 0:18:00.760 was my quarterback for a dramatically improved Penn State. It's 0:18:00.800 --> 0:18:02.840 either going to be Sean Clifford will Levis laugh now 0:18:02.840 --> 0:18:04.800 that would have been a better answer, or it's going 0:18:04.880 --> 0:18:07.720 to be somebody with essentially no playing time or a 0:18:07.760 --> 0:18:10.600 true freshman or something like that. And so it's hard 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:12.760 to imagine, even with the improvement that we saw at 0:18:12.800 --> 0:18:15.440 skill positions, when the younger guys started getting more touches 0:18:15.760 --> 0:18:17.600 near the end of that season, near the end of 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:20.399 last year, I just if I'm going to see a 0:18:20.480 --> 0:18:23.920 dramatically improved offense. I mean, I heard you say hope, 0:18:23.960 --> 0:18:29.960 like five and a half times, so it's a dice roll. 0:18:30.520 --> 0:18:31.000 You might be. 0:18:30.960 --> 0:18:32.359 Getting all dice rolls. Though. 0:18:33.760 --> 0:18:36.120 I think the town level is high enough at LSU. 0:18:36.560 --> 0:18:39.080 That and the fact that they looked like they did 0:18:39.080 --> 0:18:40.520 and I know the players are different, and it was 0:18:40.640 --> 0:18:43.000 a senior laid and upperclassmen laden team two years ago 0:18:43.000 --> 0:18:45.760 when LSU won the national championship. But the recruiting has 0:18:45.800 --> 0:18:48.040 been so high and defense is so much more about 0:18:48.119 --> 0:18:52.040 effort to me and just buy in that if early 0:18:52.080 --> 0:18:54.359 on in the season you have a group of guys 0:18:54.359 --> 0:18:56.960 on defense, starters on defense, rotation, guys that are just 0:18:57.080 --> 0:18:59.960 not bought in and don't feel prepared, the season can 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:02.320 away from you quickly. I think you can get buy 0:19:02.359 --> 0:19:04.600 in from an offense, but if you don't have a quarterback, 0:19:04.640 --> 0:19:07.400 I'm not sure how much it actually matters. And so, okay, 0:19:07.560 --> 0:19:09.879 that's real, pretty serious spot. I think Penn State is in. 0:19:09.960 --> 0:19:12.800 But it's okay, It's okay. 0:19:11.520 --> 0:19:12.320 To be wrong. 0:19:12.760 --> 0:19:14.600 Go ahead, you're up, all right, the pick is in. 0:19:15.680 --> 0:19:17.720 I think we should we should rotate, by the way, 0:19:18.119 --> 0:19:21.280 rotate like our first two. My first pick was a 0:19:21.280 --> 0:19:25.240 defensive coordinator in yours was an offensive today. I'll next, Okay, 0:19:25.320 --> 0:19:29.840 my next one is going to be offense. I'm gonna 0:19:29.880 --> 0:19:34.280 go grimey at Baylor. Jeff Grimes, all right, continue new 0:19:34.320 --> 0:19:38.840 offensive coordinator. Baylor has interesting guys on offense. And we 0:19:38.960 --> 0:19:41.679 know the problem with Baylor. I mean, it's been largely 0:19:41.760 --> 0:19:45.480 rooted in either not having playmakers or trying to run 0:19:45.520 --> 0:19:48.880 an offense behind a pretty terrible offensive line. Charlie Brewer 0:19:48.960 --> 0:19:51.600 was running for his life these past few years. Jeff 0:19:51.640 --> 0:19:55.160 Grimes comes in having called the number two points per 0:19:55.280 --> 0:19:59.160 drive offense last year at BYU. Has an offensive line background, 0:19:59.200 --> 0:20:01.560 which doesn't necessari mean anything if you don't have good 0:20:01.560 --> 0:20:04.919 offensive lineman. But I do like that background. I like 0:20:05.000 --> 0:20:08.680 how creative BYU was. It was a lot of RPO stuff, 0:20:08.760 --> 0:20:12.439 which is an offense that should be able to find 0:20:13.160 --> 0:20:16.280 any team free yards if you can teach a quarterback. 0:20:16.280 --> 0:20:18.840 And I do think there's talent there betweens what Zeno 0:20:18.920 --> 0:20:21.720 and Bohannan. I know they have some interesting guys there. 0:20:22.800 --> 0:20:25.119 It didn't work out with Larry Fedora. I think the 0:20:25.160 --> 0:20:27.520 Baylor defense will largely put the Baylor offense in a 0:20:27.520 --> 0:20:31.080 pretty good position after a promising first year under Dave Randa. 0:20:31.800 --> 0:20:35.399 I personally see a coordinator with a mustache, and I 0:20:35.400 --> 0:20:38.359 see a coordinator who not only am I going to 0:20:38.640 --> 0:20:41.400 have a very difficult time not calling Frank Grimes from 0:20:41.440 --> 0:20:44.719 The Simpsons If you remember that episode, look at You, 0:20:44.720 --> 0:20:49.679 you went to Space, You're eating lobster. He calls himself 0:20:49.760 --> 0:20:53.440 Grimey on Twitter, so I can always call him Grimey. 0:20:53.880 --> 0:20:58.520 And I think that the year two improvement will be 0:20:58.600 --> 0:21:02.200 somewhat pronounced. There's something about me that actually likes when 0:21:02.240 --> 0:21:05.080 you have the marriage between a new coordinator and a 0:21:05.119 --> 0:21:08.680 new starting quarterback, as if somebody doesn't need to relearn 0:21:08.840 --> 0:21:12.000 how to operate an offense in game that they are 0:21:12.040 --> 0:21:14.919 just everybody's starting on the same page. Now, it's still 0:21:15.560 --> 0:21:18.960 the infancy to call back to a previous show of 0:21:18.960 --> 0:21:22.159 the Dave Randa era, But I think there's going to 0:21:22.200 --> 0:21:25.720 be a floor jump for Baylor's offense that as I 0:21:25.720 --> 0:21:28.240 look right now, Baylor's offense and points per drive a 0:21:28.320 --> 0:21:31.199 d analytic metric that I enjoy one to twelve, So 0:21:31.960 --> 0:21:35.160 lot of room for a pronounced vork from the Baylor Bears. 0:21:35.160 --> 0:21:37.320 So I'm gonna go with griming. I mean, look, Zach 0:21:37.359 --> 0:21:39.440 Wilson's going to be a top what five pick in 0:21:39.480 --> 0:21:42.960 the NFL Draft right hard to say. Well, I hope 0:21:42.960 --> 0:21:45.520 he'll do for Baylor what he did for BYU, But 0:21:45.720 --> 0:21:49.680 he's been around major college football, Auburn, LSU. I feel 0:21:49.720 --> 0:21:54.200 good about Jeff Grimes and a creative enough, efficient enough 0:21:54.240 --> 0:21:59.439 offense at Baylor that they are going to ascend at 0:21:59.520 --> 0:22:00.959 least somewhat dramatically. 0:22:02.200 --> 0:22:05.520 I like it. I do like it. Okay, what do 0:22:05.520 --> 0:22:11.200 you know about Vandy this coming year? Dan room for improvement? Yeah, 0:22:11.240 --> 0:22:12.920 a lot of Vork potential there. 0:22:13.280 --> 0:22:14.439 Yep, I would say so. 0:22:17.840 --> 0:22:21.080 I'm going to go way off the radar with Jesse 0:22:21.280 --> 0:22:27.560 Minter defensive new defensive coordinator for Vanderbilt, the youngest looking 0:22:27.640 --> 0:22:33.080 coach I've ever seen. He was previously the Ravens defensive 0:22:33.119 --> 0:22:36.960 backs coach, and he is going to replace ted Roof 0:22:38.520 --> 0:22:42.680 much the way I have a negative relationship with John 0:22:42.720 --> 0:22:50.120 Donovan forma act offensive member of the stave for Penn 0:22:50.160 --> 0:22:57.240 Statebilt and Vanderbilt. Yeh, ted Roof. Ted Roof also has 0:22:57.280 --> 0:23:01.639 some deep roots into the Penn State community, and last 0:23:01.720 --> 0:23:05.080 year his defense or Vandy was terrible. Now I understand 0:23:05.080 --> 0:23:08.040 it's Vandy, I understands some the easiest place to do 0:23:08.119 --> 0:23:10.800 anything from a football standpoint, but they were really bad 0:23:11.119 --> 0:23:13.400 and Ted Ruff sort of has a track record, Oh, 0:23:13.400 --> 0:23:15.760 he definitely does, not really being that good of a 0:23:15.800 --> 0:23:18.840 defensive coordinator. So I think there's a lot of room 0:23:18.880 --> 0:23:23.560