WEBVTT - Unafraid Show CFB Mailbag, Plus George Wrighster's Week 2 Top 25 Rankings 0:00:01.760 --> 0:00:05.320 Welcome to Unafraid Show Daily Live, where we talk about 0:00:05.320 --> 0:00:09.959 the most important things in sports quickly, honestly, and of 0:00:10.039 --> 0:00:14.760 course tell them truth. And we got college football this week, 0:00:15.080 --> 0:00:19.480 and after one week of college football zero weekend, Week one, 0:00:20.040 --> 0:00:22.840 there are many questions to be answered, and you guys 0:00:22.880 --> 0:00:26.080 sent in a bunch of them via Twitter, via email, 0:00:26.320 --> 0:00:28.840 and you guys can always send them in I'm mad, 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:33.280 I amma d at Unafraid Show dot com or just 0:00:33.320 --> 0:00:35.600 shoot them on Twitter at George rece Serge you see 0:00:35.760 --> 0:00:38.960 down here below or at the Unafraid Show and we 0:00:39.040 --> 0:00:43.040 will answer them every single Tuesday. But the questions that 0:00:43.080 --> 0:00:46.519 you guys have, what happened to Florida State, what's to 0:00:46.520 --> 0:00:48.760 deal with my Oregon Ducks with the way that they 0:00:48.840 --> 0:00:52.239 looked after one week? Kent Texas A and M survive 0:00:52.360 --> 0:00:57.200 with Connor Weekman at quarterback? And do you take Travis 0:00:57.280 --> 0:01:02.240 Hunter or Tedoroa McMahon if you are the first pick 0:01:02.240 --> 0:01:04.800 of the NFL Draft. And we're also gonna look at 0:01:04.800 --> 0:01:07.839 the Week two of the AP Pole versus the Unafraid 0:01:07.880 --> 0:01:11.600 Show Top twenty five, and we will discuss the updated 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:16.160 college football playoff and the new playoff polls with the 0:01:16.160 --> 0:01:18.959 way that they're shaking out, all right, And of course 0:01:19.040 --> 0:01:24.960 we have to discuss at three two one no and 0:01:25.480 --> 0:01:29.080 his tweet and how the whole barstool community. You got 0:01:29.200 --> 0:01:31.920 Josh paid people out there looking for that man. They 0:01:31.959 --> 0:01:34.880 found out who he is. But I'm wondering, do we 0:01:35.040 --> 0:01:38.600 really do we really expect this man to eat it? 0:01:39.160 --> 0:01:42.680 That's the biggest question, all right, and the but we're 0:01:42.680 --> 0:01:46.240 gonna start with what I think is the best, absolutely 0:01:46.319 --> 0:01:49.760 the best part of college football and absolutely the worst 0:01:49.760 --> 0:01:51.280 part about college football, And. 0:01:51.240 --> 0:01:51.960 It's the passion. 0:01:52.480 --> 0:01:56.720 It's the passion, the overreaction and everything in between, because 0:01:58.200 --> 0:02:03.640 aside from European side, there is nothing, There is no 0:02:03.800 --> 0:02:07.240 American sport that carries the same amount of passion and 0:02:07.440 --> 0:02:09.320 crazies as college football does. 0:02:09.560 --> 0:02:09.880 Nothing. 0:02:10.360 --> 0:02:14.840 Try to think about, has anybody ever risked their life 0:02:14.960 --> 0:02:17.480 and freedom to get into the Super Bowl, like mass 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:20.760 amounts of people that we're trying to get into Florida 0:02:20.800 --> 0:02:22.440 Stadium to go watch. 0:02:23.200 --> 0:02:29.720 The Kanafka Cup, Right, it ain't happening. 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:33.680 But in college football you got fans willing to kill trees, 0:02:33.760 --> 0:02:39.280 people to kill people, people willing to kidnap mascots and 0:02:39.360 --> 0:02:42.720 everything in between. There are states that will not even 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:47.560 allow the letter over the letter M in a certain 0:02:47.639 --> 0:02:51.079 color for an entire week. And that's actually the best 0:02:51.080 --> 0:02:53.919 part about college football. But the worst part about college 0:02:53.960 --> 0:02:58.160 football is the overreaction. Right So, Florida State's having major 0:02:58.200 --> 0:03:01.200 issues right now. They're owing to the lost to Georgia Tech, 0:03:01.360 --> 0:03:03.800 and then they came back and lost to Boston College 0:03:04.080 --> 0:03:08.000 this week, and the overreaction is wild. 0:03:08.400 --> 0:03:10.519 People talking about fire Mike nor Veil. 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:13.600 The dude was just thirteen and oh last year and 0:03:13.720 --> 0:03:17.880 everybody was happy with him. The talking about you should 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:20.440 have gone to the college football playoffs, you got snubbed 0:03:20.480 --> 0:03:23.440 everything else, regardless of whether that's true or not. Now, 0:03:23.480 --> 0:03:25.440 all of a sudden, after an zero to two start 0:03:25.480 --> 0:03:29.320 you on a fire, like we gotta have some sort 0:03:29.360 --> 0:03:33.920 of like realistic expectations, because the question is do you 0:03:33.960 --> 0:03:36.960 want somebody who's gonna fix it quick or you want 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:40.640 to fix it right. It's like it's like building a 0:03:40.680 --> 0:03:44.320 set of legos. You're building a whole set of legos, 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:47.240 and then you get about halfway through and you realize, damn, 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:50.960 I missed the piece. Oh man, this ain't quite right, 0:03:51.400 --> 0:03:54.680 and instead of tearing it down back to where you 0:03:54.800 --> 0:03:58.480 know it's right, and then rebuilding from there. Nope, Nope, 0:03:58.480 --> 0:04:00.920 we just gonna keep on building with We'll just figure 0:04:00.960 --> 0:04:03.960 it out. We'll shoehorn something in there. No, you gotta 0:04:04.080 --> 0:04:08.160 have the foundation has to be built correctly, and when 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:11.640 those overreactions happen, you fire people that you shouldn't fire. 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:14.920 Look at what's going on at the University of Florida 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:19.440 and Dan Mullen retweeting this was a Matthew Berry tweet 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:24.679 was absolutely insane because the tweet read the Florida coach 0:04:24.720 --> 0:04:28.520 that got fired went to three consecutive New Year six 0:04:28.600 --> 0:04:31.560 games in his first three years and was let go 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:32.960 in his fourth season. 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:34.000 And that's Dan Mullen. 0:04:35.520 --> 0:04:40.560 Now, wouldn't the Florida Gator fans welcome back the Dan 0:04:40.640 --> 0:04:44.919 Mullen years. Absolutely, But the problem is is that we've 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:47.360 gotten into this world in the world of college football, 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:50.960 of thinking that every single program is supposed to look 0:04:51.040 --> 0:04:55.240 like what went on for sixteen of Nick sabans seventeen 0:04:55.320 --> 0:05:00.560 years at Alabama and what went on with Kirby Smart. Well, 0:05:00.560 --> 0:05:03.000 what's going on with Kirby Smart over there at Georgia 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:07.160 right now? It's not gonna look like people overreact to this. 0:05:07.200 --> 0:05:09.560 In the NFL all the time, they look at their 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:13.680 quarterback like Dak Prescott. Dude, getting your twelve wins every 0:05:13.680 --> 0:05:17.360 single year, getting you into the tournament. Oh, he sucks. 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:20.800 We need to find anybody but Dak. Anybody but Dak. 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:23.880 Anybody can't do what Dak is doing. That doesn't mean 0:05:23.920 --> 0:05:26.800 that you don't want to win a championship. It just 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:29.880 means that you just realizing that it's a lot harder 0:05:29.920 --> 0:05:34.960 than you thought, because everybody wants their young rookie quarterback, 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:39.560 whether it's Trevor Lawrence or Kyler Murray or Joe Burrow 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:45.000 or whoever else. Cayleb Williams this year. Oh, Tom Brady 0:05:45.040 --> 0:05:48.120 and Patrick Mahomes are the standard. No, they can't be 0:05:48.200 --> 0:05:51.080 the standard, Like that's never been the standard in the 0:05:51.160 --> 0:05:55.680 history of football. We're looking at outliers. What Nick Saban 0:05:55.920 --> 0:05:59.359 has done at Alabama and what Kirby Smart is doing 0:05:59.760 --> 0:06:04.119 at Georgia right now are outlier results. Those aren't the norm. 0:06:04.400 --> 0:06:07.720 So can your team do it? No, that's not normal. 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:11.839 If it so happens to happen, sure, but that's not 0:06:12.560 --> 0:06:16.440 Those aren't typical results. And we get and we have 0:06:16.520 --> 0:06:20.520 to figure out some sort of way to express our displeasure. 0:06:21.080 --> 0:06:22.960 If you're a Florida State would have known to start 0:06:25.160 --> 0:06:29.000 and having some sort of common sense, because if you 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:31.840 want to switch stuff up and be an unstable person 0:06:31.960 --> 0:06:35.320 every time something goes wrong, you're gonna be switching stuff 0:06:35.400 --> 0:06:37.320 up all the time and it doesn't give you time 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:41.559 to build. And yes, it's just like a marriage being 0:06:41.600 --> 0:06:44.800 with a college football head coach. Yes, you're gonna have 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:47.719 the majority of it should be good. But are you 0:06:47.760 --> 0:06:51.479 gonna have some downs? Yes, kids are gonna get sick, 0:06:51.640 --> 0:06:56.679 mom is gonna die, but the house is gonna flood, 0:06:56.880 --> 0:07:01.440 You're gonna have somebody's gonna lose a job, amongst all 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:04.679 the other great things that happened. You have a family, 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:09.240 your kids go to college. It doesn't necessarily amount to tragedy. 0:07:09.480 --> 0:07:11.920 But you're gonna have some ebbs and flows along this 0:07:12.640 --> 0:07:15.440 marvelous climb, and you got to be able to take 0:07:15.480 --> 0:07:18.520 it and live with it. And it's gotta be okay. 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:22.200 But now on to the mail bag. Though, the first 0:07:22.280 --> 0:07:30.160 question that you guys sent in was that I thought 0:07:30.200 --> 0:07:34.520 Florida State was gonna win the ACC and who gets 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:37.720 more blamed for Florida State's oh, and to start Mike 0:07:37.800 --> 0:07:42.360 Norvel or dj Uya galle Now, this is funny and 0:07:42.400 --> 0:07:45.360 I gotta address this because people were cooking me after 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:49.240 Florida State lost to Georgia Tech, and I said, Yo, 0:07:49.320 --> 0:07:52.120 I don't know why y'all are over exaggerating about this loss, 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:54.600 even though I was concerned because of the lack of 0:07:54.640 --> 0:08:01.760 physicality with Florida State. I do not believe that Florida State. Like, 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:05.040 the most embarrassing thing about the Florida State situation right now. 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:07.360 Is there lack of. 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:11.240 Physicality on the offensive line and on defense. This is 0:08:11.280 --> 0:08:14.600 a team that has gotten bullied in back to back weeks. 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:18.800 So the question is is this more Mike Mike Norvel's 0:08:18.840 --> 0:08:22.680 fault or is this dj Uiaga le Les fault. This 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:28.680 is Mike Norvell's fault because DJ you last night against 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:32.480 uh Yeah, when they were playing against Boston College last night, 0:08:32.679 --> 0:08:35.880 was he good? No? But when he was hitting people 0:08:35.880 --> 0:08:38.360 in the numbers, his teammates didn't help him out a 0:08:38.400 --> 0:08:44.120 little bit. And for context here, Mike Norvel he's actually 0:08:44.240 --> 0:08:48.800 never had success with a transfer quarterback, like he recruited 0:08:48.840 --> 0:08:52.480 Brady White to Arizona State before White went to Memphis 0:08:52.760 --> 0:08:55.040 and then he threw for seventy three hundred yards in 0:08:55.080 --> 0:08:56.920 two years under Mike norvel. 0:08:58.240 --> 0:08:59.319 And that Jordan. 0:08:59.120 --> 0:09:01.920 Travis here was a lot like Taylor Kelly over at 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:08.680 Arizona State, an accurate passing, lowly regarded recruit that could 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:11.920 take off and run and maybe dipping into the portal 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:14.559 for a big name isn't what Mike norvel needs to 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:19.880 be doing, especially when is somebody like dj uy A 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:22.280 Gal who's a pocket passer. 0:09:23.880 --> 0:09:25.400 And he was able to. 0:09:25.320 --> 0:09:30.240 Have some strength, well some success with Jonathan Smith last 0:09:30.320 --> 0:09:33.920 year at Oregon State, because that's the type of quarterback 0:09:34.000 --> 0:09:37.199 that Jonathan Smith at Oregon State who's now Michigan State 0:09:37.679 --> 0:09:43.840 had had success with Jake Lowton, Like that's what he's 0:09:43.880 --> 0:09:48.760 had and that's probably why DJ you looked good last year. 0:09:48.840 --> 0:09:51.520 So yes, this is Mike Norvelle's fault. It is Mike 0:09:51.600 --> 0:09:56.359 Norvell's fault that the offense and the defense are lacking physicality. 0:09:56.640 --> 0:10:02.160 Because even if you lost you know, players to the 0:10:02.280 --> 0:10:07.280 NFL Draft, there is still a standard for physicality amongst 0:10:07.280 --> 0:10:11.560 your team, and if you can't maintain that physicality with 0:10:11.679 --> 0:10:14.400 your team, that's a significant issue. 0:10:15.559 --> 0:10:15.679 Right. 0:10:15.760 --> 0:10:18.679 The second question that you guys sent in is, uh, 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:23.760 my organ Ducts are playing Boise State this week. So 0:10:23.880 --> 0:10:27.800 here's the question. Oregon has never beaten Boise State. Are 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:31.520 you worried about this week? After Ashton Gentry, that's their 0:10:31.559 --> 0:10:34.360 running back, ran for two hundred and sixty seven yards 0:10:34.400 --> 0:10:39.600 and six touchdowns last week? Also, should Gentry be allowed 0:10:39.640 --> 0:10:42.200 to punch an Oregon defensive. 0:10:41.679 --> 0:10:43.920 Player as payback for Legarrett Blunt? 0:10:45.640 --> 0:10:47.640 So the first part of it is, well, actually, I'll 0:10:47.640 --> 0:10:51.520 address the second part of this question. First, should Ashton 0:10:51.559 --> 0:10:54.520 Gentry be allowed to punch an Oregon defensive player as 0:10:54.559 --> 0:10:57.720 payback for Lagarrett Blunt? And if you don't remember Lagarrett 0:10:57.760 --> 0:11:02.640 Bump Blunt punched Byron out in the face after Oregon 0:11:02.720 --> 0:11:05.960 lost to Boise State up at Boise State a number 0:11:06.000 --> 0:11:08.960 of years ago, Well, you let Legarrett Blunt say it 0:11:09.800 --> 0:11:13.240 that Byron Houte harassing him after the game, tapped him 0:11:13.280 --> 0:11:15.080 on the shoulder, called him the N word. I just 0:11:15.080 --> 0:11:17.719 saw a video about this earlier today where Legarrett was 0:11:17.760 --> 0:11:20.400 talking about it. Legarrett said he punched him because it 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:23.120 was no longer about football when he called him the nword. 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:25.880 So if you believed that version of the start, then no, 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:29.040 Ashton Gentry shouldn't be allowed to punch anybody. 0:11:30.440 --> 0:11:31.480 But here's the thing. 0:11:31.880 --> 0:11:36.560 Are you worried about this week with Oregon, with Boise 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:40.680 State and Gentry? My answer to that is no, because 0:11:41.760 --> 0:11:44.320 even though Oregon did not put up the amount of 0:11:44.320 --> 0:11:49.080 points that you thought that they should have against against Idaho, 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:52.599 they were pretty stout against the run and this defensive 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:56.199 line looks very physical. The Oregon linebackers do need to 0:11:56.240 --> 0:11:58.280 step it up, but Bossa didn't play the majority of 0:11:58.320 --> 0:12:02.320 the game. This team should be fine. And I expect 0:12:02.440 --> 0:12:09.800 Dan Lanning's team, who has recovered well in history after 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:14.000 they you know, didn't play well, so I expect them 0:12:14.040 --> 0:12:17.559 to do it. And just so you guys know, the 0:12:18.480 --> 0:12:21.240 Boise State wins over Oregon where two thousand and eight 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:25.120 over Mike Bellatti thirty seven, thirty two O nine over 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:27.800 Chip Kelly nineteen to eight. That was the Byron Howt 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:31.439 Lagarritt blunt punch game. And then the twenty and seventeen 0:12:31.520 --> 0:12:33.839 lost Vegas Bowl over christ Ball thirty. 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:35.680 Eight twenty eight. All right. 0:12:35.760 --> 0:12:40.079 The third question is fsu is oz in two Clemson loss, 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:44.640 Virginia Tech lost, North Carolina needed a missed field go 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:48.520 to beat Minnesota. Is Miami gonna have to carry the 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:54.280 ACC this year. Yes, the answer to that is yes, yes, 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:57.199 they're gonna have to carry the ACC. But but here's 0:12:57.200 --> 0:12:59.480 the other part of it. How much are they really 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:03.160 kick carrying the ACC because number one, they won the 0:13:03.200 --> 0:13:10.200 scheduling roulette where Miami's schedule is softest grandma's love right now. 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:14.120 I mean just literally softest grandma's love. When you look 0:13:14.160 --> 0:13:17.680 at the rest of this season, there is no way 0:13:17.720 --> 0:13:20.640 that you can look at this and be any type 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:25.719 of intimidated if you are a Miami fan, you can't. 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:29.240 They are off this week, oh no, no, no, sorry, They 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:32.319 play Florida and A and M this week, so might 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:35.800 as well be off. Then they play Ball State at home, 0:13:35.960 --> 0:13:39.160 they play at South Florida Virginia Tech, who doesn't look 0:13:39.280 --> 0:13:44.480 very good, cal Louisville, Florida State obviously, how bad they 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:48.160 look Duke Georgia Tech, Wake Forest, and then they end 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:52.800 the season with Syracuse. So no, there is nobody in 0:13:53.320 --> 0:13:56.199 Miami's camp that should be scared. And if they drop 0:13:56.320 --> 0:13:58.800 more than one game this year because they were sleepwalking 0:13:58.920 --> 0:14:01.040 or something like that, that's going to be a major 0:14:01.080 --> 0:14:04.520 red flag. But my question about Miami is not this year. 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:08.959 My question about Miami is next year because they are 0:14:09.080 --> 0:14:13.079 being they were saved by the PAC twelve because they 0:14:13.080 --> 0:14:17.080 got cam Ward over from Washington State. He looked obviously 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:20.520 really good. And it's funny because he was the fifth 0:14:20.640 --> 0:14:24.240 or sixth best quarterback in the PAC twelve last year. 0:14:24.680 --> 0:14:28.720 Think about that fifth or sixth best because you already 0:14:28.760 --> 0:14:32.480 had Caleb Williams, you had Bo Knicks, Michael Pennick junior, 0:14:32.960 --> 0:14:38.320 you had Noah Fafida down at Arizona. I mean that 0:14:38.520 --> 0:14:44.280 at a minimum puts him at fifth at a minimum. 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:51.040 So so the ACC, who you know, called themselves a 0:14:51.120 --> 0:14:54.920 quarterback conference, they needed help from the PAC twelve to really, 0:14:55.120 --> 0:14:59.560 you know, ensure that they were gonna be okay. Now, 0:14:59.600 --> 0:15:02.200 how about Clemson in the ACEC. It's Clemson going to 0:15:02.240 --> 0:15:05.480 be able to do much in the ACC. A lot 0:15:05.520 --> 0:15:08.360 of this has to do with Dabo Sweeney, because Dabo 0:15:08.480 --> 0:15:10.680 Sweeney must adapt or die at this. 0:15:10.720 --> 0:15:11.400 Point in time. 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:16.160 And I've talked about it that my mom always says, 0:15:16.200 --> 0:15:18.200 you always do what you're always done, you always get 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:22.520 what you always got. Now, Dabo's gotten a lot of success, 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:26.040 but here is the problem is that change is happening 0:15:26.120 --> 0:15:29.480 around you, and Dabo Sweeney is not adapting to the 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:33.440 changes in college football. Nick Saban adapted to the change. 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:38.680 He did it wonderfully. Hiring Lane Kiffin changed his whole offense. 0:15:40.240 --> 0:15:43.200 Look at what happened down in LSU with Les Miles. 0:15:43.200 --> 0:15:48.000 He refused to change. Dinosaur died out. And this is 0:15:48.040 --> 0:15:51.080 where Dabo is. He's going to have to adapt. This 0:15:51.160 --> 0:15:54.680 is adapt or die time in college football. Now that 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:58.400 doesn't mean Now adapting does not mean that you mortgage 0:15:58.560 --> 0:16:01.680 or sacrifice your principles because you are supposed to be 0:16:01.800 --> 0:16:05.080 who you are at the core you. But when it 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:07.960 comes down to winning football games, you have to do 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:10.520 what you have to do to win football games within 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:14.160 your culture. So you got to keep your culture intact, 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:17.200 but also put the best team out on the field 0:16:17.200 --> 0:16:20.360 as possible. And Dabbo adapt or die, baby, adapt or die. 0:16:21.360 --> 0:16:25.520 Number four? Did you see Arizona State's head coach Kenny 0:16:25.560 --> 0:16:29.480 Dillingham put a walk on lineman in at running back 0:16:29.520 --> 0:16:32.880 to impress his five star basketball playing brother. And what 0:16:32.960 --> 0:16:35.520 did you think of that? Okay, So for you guys that. 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:36.080 Don't know. 0:16:37.720 --> 0:16:41.520 CoA Pete who and that Peak family is one of 0:16:41.560 --> 0:16:43.120 the most athletic families around. 0:16:43.240 --> 0:16:45.520 Just google them. Pa Pea t. 0:16:47.440 --> 0:16:52.520 CoA Pete is a five star forward who has all seven, 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:56.600 yes seven of his siblings playing college sports. And he 0:16:56.760 --> 0:17:00.640 was on an official visit to ASU and they're trying 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:04.080 to compete with Duke and Arizona for this kid. So 0:17:04.440 --> 0:17:08.879 having the football coach in Kenny Dillingham put his brother 0:17:09.119 --> 0:17:14.639 in the game at running back, is that going to sweed? Listen, 0:17:15.800 --> 0:17:19.399 this is something that coaches need to be aware of. 0:17:19.440 --> 0:17:21.480 And this is actually something that Dan Lanning actually does 0:17:21.520 --> 0:17:25.840 really well. When kids are playing hometown kids like Sadiq 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:31.080 bay Over at Oregon or Kenyan Sadik, Yes last name 0:17:31.119 --> 0:17:34.760 is Sadik. They were playing Idaho, He's from Idaho. All 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:36.640 of a sudden he touched the ball a little bit 0:17:36.680 --> 0:17:41.120 more because that's something that means a lot to the kids. 0:17:41.520 --> 0:17:46.240 So I'm actually I'm not mad at Kenny Dillaham for that. 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:48.320 They were blowing them out in the game. They were 0:17:48.320 --> 0:17:52.840 blowing out Wyoming, So yeah, is what it is, all right? 0:17:52.960 --> 0:17:58.160 The fifth question up Connor Weakman, who's Texas and M's quarterback. 0:17:58.440 --> 0:18:02.280 He only threw four hundred yards against Notre Dame. He 0:18:02.440 --> 0:18:05.000 was a five star coming out of high school? Are 0:18:05.040 --> 0:18:08.960 we ready to call him a bust? So here's the truth. 0:18:10.200 --> 0:18:14.520 In limited playing time, Connor Wigman has sixteen touchdowns two 0:18:14.640 --> 0:18:19.000 interceptions in his career. Obviously it's still early, and Notre 0:18:19.080 --> 0:18:20.800 Dame actually might be the best. 0:18:20.560 --> 0:18:22.040 Defense in the country right now. 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:25.359 They look fantastic, Like look what they did to Caleb 0:18:25.400 --> 0:18:28.399 Williams in twenty twenty three, had him throw three picks. 0:18:28.520 --> 0:18:32.440 If Caleb Williams looked horrendous versus Notre Dame last year. 0:18:32.520 --> 0:18:36.840 So it is something about this about this defense as well. 0:18:37.680 --> 0:18:40.880 But the thing that we have to understand is that 0:18:40.960 --> 0:18:43.199 a five star rating coming out of high school, as 0:18:43.320 --> 0:18:45.840 much as we'd like five stars and people will tell 0:18:45.880 --> 0:18:48.960 you that stars matter and everything else, they are not 0:18:49.160 --> 0:18:53.480 a guarantee of success because there are guys that underperformed 0:18:53.480 --> 0:18:57.920 that rating for whatever reason every single year. Look at JT. 0:18:58.080 --> 0:19:00.880 Daniels who was over at USC and then it's been 0:19:01.160 --> 0:19:05.840 you know, multiple spots after that. Harrison Bailey, ty Thompson, 0:19:05.880 --> 0:19:09.080 who transferred from Oregon down to Tulane didn't win the job. 0:19:09.480 --> 0:19:13.119 Malachai Nelson left USC went to Boise, didn't win the job. 0:19:14.400 --> 0:19:20.240 Walker Howard Sam Hewart. All of these dudes, think about it. 0:19:20.359 --> 0:19:24.639 Them dudes have like Harrison Bailey, Tyd Thompson, Walker Howard, 0:19:24.680 --> 0:19:30.840 and Sam Hewart have one combined touchdown pass. Stars matter 0:19:31.000 --> 0:19:33.440 on a macro level, like if you have a team 0:19:33.520 --> 0:19:37.720 and you have the blue Chip rating, you know eighty 0:19:37.760 --> 0:19:40.080 percent where eighty percent of your roster is four and 0:19:40.119 --> 0:19:42.879 five star players. Yes, your team is going to be 0:19:42.960 --> 0:19:45.320 one of the best teams in the country, particularly if 0:19:45.359 --> 0:19:50.199 you're well coached. But on a micro level, like on 0:19:50.240 --> 0:19:53.320 an individual player level, stars don't matter. You can be 0:19:53.359 --> 0:19:56.840 a two star get a first round draft pick. You 0:19:56.880 --> 0:19:59.240 can be a five star and end up to never 0:19:59.320 --> 0:20:02.119 play no matter what school you go to. Just the 0:20:02.160 --> 0:20:05.280 reality of things, all right? Question six from you guys 0:20:05.280 --> 0:20:07.920 here on the mail bag on Unafraid Show. Make sure 0:20:07.960 --> 0:20:10.399 that you like, subscribe, tell a friend about it, and 0:20:10.640 --> 0:20:14.160 most importantly share and you can hit us up. I'm 0:20:14.200 --> 0:20:19.680 Matt i Ammad at Unafraid show dot com for us 0:20:19.720 --> 0:20:20.800 to get to your questions. 0:20:21.200 --> 0:20:26.359 All right? Number six, Ah, this was good. George. 0:20:26.400 --> 0:20:29.879 You come across as a USC hater after we held 0:20:30.080 --> 0:20:33.119 LSU to twenty points. Are you ready to admit the 0:20:33.160 --> 0:20:37.120 Trojans are back? Number one. I am not a USC hater. 0:20:37.600 --> 0:20:40.920 I just try to call things out how they are. 0:20:41.520 --> 0:20:47.000 And USC had not put together a good defense even 0:20:47.040 --> 0:20:50.480 at all. And here's what we saw in the LSU game, 0:20:50.480 --> 0:20:54.400 and I want people to keep it in perspective. LSU 0:20:54.680 --> 0:20:57.520 and USC had two of the worst defenses in the 0:20:57.560 --> 0:21:02.199 country last year, the worst five far unadulter rated worst 0:21:02.200 --> 0:21:08.560 defenses in the country. And so you don't go from 0:21:08.600 --> 0:21:13.440 worse in the country to a top ten, top fifteen defense. 0:21:13.760 --> 0:21:15.840 So are both of those defenses better? 0:21:16.080 --> 0:21:19.920 Yes? Is USC's defense better? Yes? 0:21:21.280 --> 0:21:26.080 Was Miller Moss really good? Yes, it's LSU's defense great. No, 0:21:27.680 --> 0:21:31.000 So do not be fooled by what you saw. Take 0:21:31.040 --> 0:21:33.760 it as a really good win for USC, a good 0:21:33.840 --> 0:21:36.520 stepping stone and a building block for what they got 0:21:36.560 --> 0:21:40.399 coming up this year, and be okay with that, like 0:21:40.680 --> 0:21:43.680 that's where we got a land with this, and not 0:21:43.840 --> 0:21:46.879 try to make it more than what this game really was. 0:21:47.520 --> 0:21:52.080 And USC's upcoming schedule they got Utah State this week, 0:21:52.520 --> 0:21:56.440 then then they played Wisconsin at home, which is gonna 0:21:56.440 --> 0:22:01.040 be a formidable game at Wisconsin Penn State, so we're 0:22:01.040 --> 0:22:03.359 gonna find more and more out about this team. So 0:22:03.400 --> 0:22:07.119 there's no need to overreact there or be and be 0:22:07.240 --> 0:22:10.080 reactive to Oh my god, you're not giving them enough credit, 0:22:10.119 --> 0:22:13.800 you're hating Nah. Just really just making sure that we 0:22:13.920 --> 0:22:19.600 temper the expectations, because with great expectations comes great disappointment. 0:22:19.880 --> 0:22:23.879 And USC fans will be trying to fire Lincoln Riley. 0:22:24.240 --> 0:22:27.879 They will be if they lose like three games this 0:22:27.960 --> 0:22:31.480 year after the excitement of this LSU game, and how 0:22:31.480 --> 0:22:34.080 many times have we looked at it a week one 0:22:34.160 --> 0:22:38.280 week zero game and put way too much stock into it. 0:22:39.160 --> 0:22:42.960 Look at Colorado last year when they beat Nebraska, everybody's like, 0:22:42.960 --> 0:22:45.920 oh yeah, they back baby. It beat Colorado State, they 0:22:46.080 --> 0:22:49.600 back baby, let us go. Then they lose seven out 0:22:49.600 --> 0:22:54.320 of eight in conference. Just saying, all right, number seven. 0:22:55.600 --> 0:22:58.719 You're an NFL general manager, George, and you have a 0:22:58.720 --> 0:23:01.920 top three pick, and you already have your quarterback of 0:23:02.000 --> 0:23:06.399 the future. Do you take Travis Hunter or Tetoroa McMillan 0:23:06.800 --> 0:23:08.480 out of Arizona in case you don't know who the 0:23:08.560 --> 0:23:15.359 kid is. Wow, I'm going to go with Travis Hunter 0:23:15.840 --> 0:23:21.200 only for one single solitary reason, and that's flexibility. That's 0:23:21.240 --> 0:23:23.720 flexibility because now I have a player that I can 0:23:23.760 --> 0:23:26.880 play at dB if I need to, Oh, Georgia can't 0:23:26.880 --> 0:23:31.520 play both ways. I mean the Patriots had a wide 0:23:31.520 --> 0:23:35.120 receiver playing nickel dB sometimes on a Super Bowl team. 0:23:35.240 --> 0:23:41.000 So yeah, and Travis Hunter is significantly better. So that's 0:23:41.040 --> 0:23:45.480 the only reason. But McMillan, t mac the kid is electric. 0:23:45.520 --> 0:23:49.920 If you have not watched Arizona play, watch him play. 0:23:50.040 --> 0:23:52.760 He cannot be covered. He was supposed to be. He 0:23:52.760 --> 0:23:55.200 was originally committed to Oregon. Because you're like, how do 0:23:55.240 --> 0:23:59.960 you ended up at at Arizona? He was originally commit 0:24:00.240 --> 0:24:03.760 to Oregon and then he ended up backing off his 0:24:03.880 --> 0:24:08.840 commitment once Mario Christobaul left and went to Miami, and 0:24:08.880 --> 0:24:11.600 so he went down to Arizona with his best friend 0:24:12.359 --> 0:24:17.840 and quarterback Noah Fafiita. All right, number eight, question number eight, 0:24:17.840 --> 0:24:20.119 and we're gonna take ten from you guys every single week, 0:24:21.280 --> 0:24:24.720 guys like Cam Rising and Tyler Shuck went off in 0:24:24.800 --> 0:24:28.560 a went off in week one. Do you believe that 0:24:28.680 --> 0:24:31.800 twenty five year olds should even be eligible. 0:24:31.320 --> 0:24:39.200 For the Heisman? Yes? Yes, what are we talking about here? Absolutely? 0:24:40.040 --> 0:24:43.359 Are you kidding me? Yes? Twenty five year if you are. 0:24:43.280 --> 0:24:46.920 Eligible in college football, you should be eligible for any 0:24:46.960 --> 0:24:52.879 postseason award. Should Cam McCormick over at Miami in his 0:24:53.080 --> 0:24:56.199 ninth college football year, not be eligible for the Mackie 0:24:56.240 --> 0:24:59.040 Award as the best tight end in the country. Yes, 0:24:59.119 --> 0:25:04.120 the dude suffers four straight season ending injuries. Yes, he's 0:25:04.320 --> 0:25:09.800 earned that opportunity, Cam Rising, multiple injuries transferred are to 0:25:09.920 --> 0:25:14.199 sit out everything. So yes, you should not just be 0:25:14.320 --> 0:25:17.440