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Speaker 1: Whoo whoom and Dan and Tye, welcome back to the
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Speaker 1: I am joined as always, but I'm a good friend
Speaker 1: in New York City, a fine gentleman. Sir Daniel Rubinstein
Speaker 1: the fifteenth, how are you.
Speaker 4: Oh, man, I really hope there aren't multiple days. I
Speaker 4: really do hope. So I'm good. I feel stretched out.
Speaker 4: I went for a run this morning. Yeah, I'm ready
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Speaker 4: I am I'm feeling. I took a coffee nap, tie, Oh,
Speaker 4: have you ever taken a coffee nap?
Speaker 1: I've heard good things. I've never Actually, I'm not good
Speaker 1: at napping. I'm not good at sleeping in general, so
Speaker 1: the whole coffee anpp thing's a bit lost to me,
Speaker 1: but I've heard terrific things about it.
Speaker 4: Work from home today, you slurp coffee real quick, like
Speaker 4: an espresso shot or iced coffee real quick, because it
Speaker 4: takes like twenty minutes to get through your system. Take
Speaker 4: like a twenty minute nap.
Speaker 1: If you have like a.
Speaker 4: Quiet cool room at your office that you probably shouldn't
Speaker 4: be napping at work, but if you can take like
Speaker 4: a twenty minute nap so you don't go into deep
Speaker 4: sleep and takes twenty minutes for caffeine to hit your
Speaker 4: bloodstream and then boom, you're shot out of a cannon
Speaker 4: tie who are just completely ready to burst.
Speaker 1: It feels good, so I'm good. You do seem a
Speaker 1: bit shot out of a canon here. I had a
Speaker 1: good little bit. I mean, the Big ten West tie.
Speaker 1: The Big ten West will do that to you naturally,
Speaker 1: but it does things to a man's soul.
Speaker 2: By the way.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you remember when we did this,
Speaker 1: because I don't, but I found it in our little
Speaker 1: sound clips folder. When we talked about the Big Ten
Speaker 1: West a couple months ago, this was like Armantra. It's
Speaker 1: really like it's just hard metal.
Speaker 4: I don't know if you remember that, Yeah, I Jeff
Speaker 4: George Junior, Yeah, that's right, feeling it ow.
Speaker 1: So here we are. We we did Big twelve a
Speaker 1: week ago. We're going to do the Big ten East,
Speaker 1: Big Ten West, Big Ten as a whole this evening,
Speaker 1: going to go through all fourteen teams and just a
Speaker 1: little bit. We're also going to have a celebrity guest
Speaker 1: stop by, Dave Revsden, our friend from the Big ten Network,
Speaker 1: big fan of the verbal He's going to stop by
Speaker 1: and talk about some of his thoughts in the conference
Speaker 1: this coming year, as well as what's going on over
Speaker 1: the Big ten network. Going to be ten years now.
Speaker 4: It is going to be ten years. So the first
Speaker 4: game was the app State Michigan. That was the first
Speaker 4: broadcast game on the Big ten Network. I like, how
Speaker 4: through Radio Magic, You're like, we're going to talk to
Speaker 4: Dave Revson when I've already spoken.
Speaker 1: To him, And because it'll be very strange if you're like,
Speaker 1: and now we welcome and Dave Revson and I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna let Tie ask a single question. Dave Revson has
Speaker 1: been pre recorded, Yes, and he's great, very controversial figure.
Speaker 1: We need to pre record to make sure he doesn't
Speaker 1: drop any profanity. That's true.
Speaker 4: We need to have that final cut with Dave Revsen,
Speaker 4: who is in state college, or at least was when
Speaker 4: I spoke to him, had not yet been to the creamery.
Speaker 1: Oh, this is bignesstacation, bignesst trip, this work trip. Yeah,
Speaker 1: before we actually start talking about the big tent, we
Speaker 1: got a lot of content, dreams of content to get
Speaker 1: through here. I need you to give folks your hardest
Speaker 1: of hard cells to try and get them to come
Speaker 1: to our live show.
Speaker 4: Oh great, call TI. First of all, we are paying
Speaker 4: for snacks. Yes, you can show up, and you can.
Speaker 4: I encourage you to order barbecue at Hill Country Barbecue
Speaker 4: this coming Saturday, August twelfth, between five and seven pm,
Speaker 4: and the big downstairs it's about twice the size of
Speaker 4: our first live show in New York. There will be
Speaker 4: barbecue available for perch, but wings, Freedo, pie chips, and qso.
Speaker 4: I got like six tubs of cans of beer. So,
Speaker 4: first of all, that's the cell right off the top.
Speaker 4: Second of all, we're doing our fantasy things draft. Third
Speaker 4: of all, all sorts of good fun people there. Fourth
Speaker 4: of all, Tie has agreed to hug anybody who wants
Speaker 4: a hug, record the outgoing voicemail for anybody who wants that,
Speaker 4: and in general, just hang out with good folks and me.
Speaker 4: So what's a better way to and you can still
Speaker 4: go out after this is like we are celebrating the
Speaker 4: West Coast college football experience where you get college football
Speaker 4: content and then you can still have a fun nights
Speaker 4: right Saturday.
Speaker 1: That's right, it's an experience. It's not just a live show.
Speaker 4: This is absolutely truthful. I want to see everybody. Yeah,
Speaker 4: in the New York area come out Hill Country Barbecue.
Speaker 4: It's on twenty sixth Street between Broadway and Fifth Avenue.
Speaker 4: It's going to be a great time.
Speaker 1: This is our final push to get folks to buy
Speaker 1: the remaining tickets, the handful of remaining tickets that are
Speaker 1: out there. We've got a big crowd. It's gonna be fun. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's already a big crowd coming. We're excited about that.
Speaker 1: But we want to make sure that every seat is
Speaker 1: filled and that everyone could partake in the excitement I
Speaker 1: can tell you peering behind the curtain here the list
Speaker 1: that Dan and I have only begun to compile, we
Speaker 1: should probably work faster. The list of fantasy things that
Speaker 1: we are going to be selecting from is shaping up
Speaker 1: like no other. I am very excited about some of these.
Speaker 1: I already know what my first pick is going to be,
Speaker 1: but I think to make things fair, we're gonna have
Speaker 1: to flip a coin in person to really give it
Speaker 1: that on edge feel that I think we're trying to
Speaker 1: drive for the live audience. But if you aren't able
Speaker 1: to make it, if you are in some other location,
Speaker 1: stay tuned to the Instagram feed because Taylor the intern tailor,
Speaker 1: he's not really an intern, more's our production assistant producer.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's right. He's going to be doing some stuff
Speaker 1: on the social feeds and you can pay attention through
Speaker 1: any of those if you're interested. We also will release
Speaker 1: that show at some point in time for those of
Speaker 1: you who are actually interested in hearing who we select.
Speaker 1: So final push going out to saliverbo dot com. Check
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Speaker 1: the information there. Tickets are fifteen bucks, as we've said
Speaker 1: time and time again. We ain't getting rich off this.
Speaker 1: We're just looking to have a good time to talk
Speaker 1: some college football. So if you are in New York
Speaker 1: this weekend, preferably on Saturday, when we're doing the show,
Speaker 1: stop on BUYE buy a ticket, we'd love to meet you.
Speaker 1: And we're going to do a panel with the cast
Speaker 1: of Step by Step. That's right, a panel with a yeah,
Speaker 1: and some college football friends from New York are threatening
Speaker 1: to come by, so any of those people they might
Speaker 1: be fun to meet too. So have you ever seen
Speaker 1: Ralph Russo in person?
Speaker 2: Nope?
Speaker 1: What he looks like on Twitter? Nope?
Speaker 4: He is six' five and. Samoan that's. Right not a
Speaker 4: lot of people know. That so we're gonna have a great.
Speaker 4: Time we want to see.
Speaker 1: You on that, note shall we get into the big?
Speaker 1: TEN i think we. Shall, yeah all, right that is?
Speaker 1: Loud holy? Crap yeah, no that really hurt a little.
Speaker 1: Bit where shall we start in The big?
Speaker 2: Ten?
Speaker 1: Dan, OKAY i want to start with.
Speaker 4: THIS i want to ask a big picture question of
Speaker 4: you before we dive, in BECAUSE i think this is
Speaker 4: sort of a bit overarching the identity of the. Conference
Speaker 4: is it fair to attribute one singular identity to a.
Speaker 4: Conference is there a specific notion about the twenty seventeen conference.
Speaker 1: That you feel like is? Applicable is? There you, know?
Speaker 4: What what do you immediately think of WHEN i, mean
Speaker 4: it's hard when there are what fourteen? Teams but is
Speaker 4: what is the general feeling you get for this?
Speaker 1: Conference? Uh? AM i allowed. Too. Sure, absolutely the top
Speaker 1: is decidedly better than the, bottom all. Right there is
Speaker 1: a very clear distinction Between tier one and two And
Speaker 1: tier three and. Four it's a pretty, big pretty big
Speaker 1: chasm between one and two and three and. Four and
Speaker 1: we'll get into who's in what, Group but that to
Speaker 1: me jumps. Out the second though is that there are
Speaker 1: a lot of teams in here THAT i could really
Speaker 1: go either way. ON i don't have a definitive opinion
Speaker 1: about which way their season is going to, head specifically
Speaker 1: in The Big Ten. West WHEN i look at The
Speaker 1: Big Ten west AND i look at the schedules of those,
Speaker 1: teams maybe for everyone Outside, WISCONSIN i could really truly, say,
Speaker 1: yeah that team could go four and, eight or yeah
Speaker 1: that team could go eight and. Four there's really a
Speaker 1: lot of variability there AS i see. It SO i
Speaker 1: am particularly interested in which direction that side of the conference.
Speaker 4: Heads the thing THAT i kept coming back to WHEN
Speaker 4: i was looking at the various teams, strengths, weaknesses personnel.
Speaker 4: SCHEDULES i would look at a schedule and, Say, okay
Speaker 4: this team has this very definitive. Weakness let's look at their.
Speaker 4: Schedule let's see who can take. Advantage let's see who
Speaker 4: Has let's see the roster of quarterbacks or something that
Speaker 4: this team. Faces AND i look at it AND i, say, yeah, hmm, yeah,
Speaker 4: okay uh. Nah maybe that across every single, team whether
Speaker 4: it's the good teams or bad teams. Whatever it was
Speaker 4: sort of disheartened to be, like all, right is it
Speaker 4: gonna Be? Minnesota is it gonna Be? Nebraska like which
Speaker 4: of these quarterbacks jumps out to? Me and other Than
Speaker 4: trace McSorley and PROBABLY. Jt, barrett there aren't really. JUMPERS
Speaker 4: i don't fear too many big ten quarterbacks at this,
Speaker 4: moment so that to me makes it probably more interesting
Speaker 4: and more toss up, y but at the same time
Speaker 4: a little.
Speaker 1: Disheartening, YEAH i think we'd both agree That Ohio state
Speaker 1: is probably the top. Dog mm, hmm fair to, say oh,
Speaker 1: YEAH i mean the fact that they return what they
Speaker 1: return at quarterback and along the front, seven which is basically.
Speaker 1: Everybody and we can start With Ohio state if you'd.
Speaker 4: Like, yeah and they have the coaching staff that they,
Speaker 4: do and they have the new coaches that they do
Speaker 4: to sort of address. CONCERNS i, mean the fact That
Speaker 4: Greg ciano is still there and still having the capability
Speaker 4: to unleash just a ridiculous level of talent upon the
Speaker 4: world is not at all, fair but sort of the
Speaker 4: best in college football. Terms it's hard to pick against
Speaker 4: them when they've replaced secondary guys recently really really well.
Speaker 4: OFFENSIVELY i know everybody wants. J. T bhart to take
Speaker 4: a step With Kevin, wilson AND i sincerely hope he,
Speaker 4: does especially down the. Field there's not much to say
Speaker 4: About Ohio state other than, yes there are new, pieces
Speaker 4: but their new pieces are better than pretty much everybody's
Speaker 4: old pieces on.
Speaker 1: Paper there are only three losable games For Ohio. State.
Speaker 1: Yeah those Are oklahoma in Early, September Penn state In
Speaker 1: columbus by the, way In, Columbus, Yeah Penn State halloween
Speaker 1: weekend after a bye. Week that game is also In,
Speaker 1: columbus and, then of course the game Against, michigan which
Speaker 1: is like They thanksgiving Weekend november twenty, fifth that game
Speaker 1: is in the Big. House those are the only. Three
Speaker 1: those might be the only three games all season Where
Speaker 1: Ohio state isn't a double digit. Favorite and guess, what
Speaker 1: they ain't losing all. Three no chance of that. Happening
Speaker 1: so could they lose to someone? Else, okay, sure but
Speaker 1: they'd really have to come out and sleep walk Against
Speaker 1: iowa Or. BRAT i don't, Know i'm stretching. Here my
Speaker 1: point is THAT i don't see any way possible this
Speaker 1: isn't at least a ten or eleven win team this.
Speaker 1: YEAR i think that's totally.
Speaker 4: Reasonable the other game THAT i have, circled and this
Speaker 4: is a huge toss, up is the fact that they
Speaker 4: go To. Kinnick they go To iowa the week After Penn,
Speaker 4: state so potential, letdown body, blow whatever the case may.
Speaker 4: Be that's a tough, spot especially If iowa figures things
Speaker 4: out offensively by. Then so that's really the only of
Speaker 4: the non elite elite THAT i could see being a
Speaker 4: trip up.
Speaker 1: Moment the two questions THAT i have About Ohio, state
Speaker 1: and again we're really splitting. Hairshare you mentioned about the
Speaker 1: passing game And Kevin wilson can he remedy that passing
Speaker 1: game because it was very underwhelming a year. Ago he
Speaker 1: is a new offensive. Coordinator he comes over From. Indiana
Speaker 1: he resigned From indiana due to some Controversy Ohio state
Speaker 1: NOW i think gets the benefit of the doubt to
Speaker 1: some degree because It's Kevin, wilson because It's Urban meyer
Speaker 1: and they've had such remarkable consistency over the last five
Speaker 1: years or. So part of, me, though wonders how fixable it.
Speaker 1: Is is it A J. T barrett? Thing is it
Speaker 1: a scheme thing That Kevin wilson can tweak and make?
Speaker 1: Better J. T barrett's always been noted more for his
Speaker 1: running than his. Passing what is the ceiling for him
Speaker 1: as a? Passer and, oh by the, way he Loses Dontre,
Speaker 1: Wilson Noah, Brown Curtis Samuel, right someone else is going
Speaker 1: to step up in. Time but it's clearly something to.
Speaker 1: Watch the other Thing i'd say is a pass. Defense,
Speaker 1: thankfully if you're in the big, ten it's not like
Speaker 1: the pass defense is something that you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: WORRY i think too much about to your earlier, point how,
Speaker 1: many how many quarterbacks really frighten. You, yeah but it's
Speaker 1: worth noting that you Lose Mollie, cooker you Lose Marshaun,
Speaker 1: latimore you Lose gary And. Conley they took a mini
Speaker 1: step backwards a year. Ago can they take a little
Speaker 1: bit of a step. Forward they're going to be tested
Speaker 1: Against oklahoma second week of the. Year it's a mini
Speaker 1: matchup to. Watch we k Knowe oklahoma's going to air it.
Speaker 1: Out so long story, short what happens with their with
Speaker 1: their passing. DEFENSE i won't harp too much On Ohio,
Speaker 1: state but just a ton back With barrett And Mike
Speaker 1: weber and the offensive line and the front seven being virtually,
Speaker 1: Intact i'm pretty excited About Ohio. STATE i don't see
Speaker 1: how they don't get to ten wins at a.
Speaker 4: Minimum you know what helps a greenish pass defense secondary
Speaker 4: about thirty five blue chip world destroyers up.
Speaker 1: Front that makes it. Easier who is your next best
Speaker 1: team in The Big?
Speaker 4: Ten at this, point it's still Probably michigan by a. Hair,
Speaker 4: Really Penn state wins the conference last. Year you, know
Speaker 4: they lose a couple key pieces on, defense but virtually
Speaker 4: the whole offense is.
Speaker 1: Back But michigan.
Speaker 4: Destroyed Penn state last, year a Wounded Penn state by
Speaker 4: what thirty or forty? Points AND i still feel as
Speaker 4: If michigan's, defense with secondary losses but so much talent up,
Speaker 4: front maybe in a better place Than Penn state's offense
Speaker 4: at the, moment which is to, Say, Wow michigan's defense
Speaker 4: is excellent And Penn state's offense is, excellent and it
Speaker 4: just sort of feels like a toss up to Make
Speaker 4: joe moorehead Versus Don, brown and you know the sort
Speaker 4: of huge pieces that they both. Assembled So trace McSorley
Speaker 4: struggled against This michigan defense last. Year, yes, yeah, okay
Speaker 4: so to me that's that was also slight edge that
Speaker 4: was Before Penn state got. Rolling are you Putting michigan
Speaker 4: this high in The Big ten because you're now married
Speaker 4: To jody with An eye From, Michigan jody with AND
Speaker 4: i will not be listening to this, show AND i
Speaker 4: don't imagine too many people who know her will, Be so,
Speaker 4: NO i am just wondering if there's an influence there
Speaker 4: that the games In State, college which MEANS i might
Speaker 4: still Pick Penn state to win that, game but as
Speaker 4: it stands right. Now IF i were to Evaluate Jim
Speaker 4: harbaugh Versus James franklin as a guy getting heading into the,
Speaker 4: season who DO i trust more to win ten? Games
Speaker 4: it probably is Still harbaugh and his. STAFF i Trust
Speaker 4: harbaugh more THAN i Trust. Franklin but there's a lot of.
Speaker 4: Turnover it's not a reboot At. Michigan it's absolutely a rebuilding.
Speaker 4: Year here's What bill connolly said. Quote The wolverines must
Speaker 4: replace their leading, rusher four of their top five, receivers
Speaker 4: Three all conference offensive, linemen their top three defensive, linemen
Speaker 4: their best, linebacker and their top five defensive, backs including
Speaker 4: nickelback And heisman Finalist Bill.
Speaker 1: Peppers that is, Significant, Dan so to put them the
Speaker 1: second in The Big ten is kind of a leap of.
Speaker 1: Faith as far As i'm, Concerned harbaugh is one of
Speaker 1: the best in the. Game he's been really, good especially
Speaker 1: good when he doesn't have a ton of experience to work.
Speaker 1: With he's kind of a savant with the x's and,
Speaker 1: o's but he's proven pretty much at every stop he's
Speaker 1: been that he's. Goodly he doesn't have a ton of.
Speaker 1: Experience to, me, though too much, turnover too much, turnover
Speaker 1: to have confidence that they're going to contend for a.
Speaker 1: Title could they win ten? Games, YEAH i think. SO
Speaker 1: i think. SO i think the indicators are the passing
Speaker 1: game and the defense to tell us which way this
Speaker 1: whole thing is. Headed, sure SO i Like, michigan BUT
Speaker 1: i don't THINK i like them quite as much as you.
Speaker 4: Do so they've recruited very, well and to, me the
Speaker 4: coaching advantage makes a difference BECAUSE i think there are
Speaker 4: guys that can step in. IMMEDIATELY i know they bring
Speaker 4: in the number one receiver in the country recru, Wise
Speaker 4: Donovan Peebles. Jones so the coverard is not. Bear they
Speaker 4: still Have Rashan, gary who IS i believe a true.
Speaker 4: Sophomore he was a number of recruit in the country last.
Speaker 4: Year he'll be anchoring The michigan defense up front and
Speaker 4: gives them a ton of. Versatility and again you, Say,
Speaker 4: okay well they have a lot to replace in the.
Speaker 4: Secondary who's taking advantage of green corners and? Safeties which
Speaker 4: quarterback exactly other Than trace McSorley for sure at this.
Speaker 1: Moment, YEAH i don't. Know, okay did they Beat florida
Speaker 1: first week of the. YEAR i think.
Speaker 4: So, Yeah, YEAH i think SO i think that there's
Speaker 4: more continuity With michigan at this, point AND i THINK
Speaker 4: i Trust harbaugh and that staff with time to prepare
Speaker 4: an entire summer rather Than jim mckawain at this point
Speaker 4: when so much is up in the air with What
Speaker 4: florida's going to look like.
Speaker 1: Offensively, YEAH i think. SO i Think michigan is in
Speaker 1: that second. Tier definitely in the second. TIER i don't
Speaker 1: know IF i put them next up in the second.
Speaker 1: TIER i am inclined to Say wisconsin as my next
Speaker 1: best team Behind Ohio. State. Wow, okay now you might
Speaker 1: not be horny For hornybrook like we all were last.
Speaker 1: Year is this A wisconsin thing based on you Think
Speaker 1: wisconsin is the second most complete team or because they
Speaker 1: have the clear best schedule in the. Conference they have
Speaker 1: the clear best schedule in the. Conference we should play
Speaker 1: this to talk about you, know let's give credit where
Speaker 1: it's due here we're talking About wisconsin. Schedule we can
Speaker 1: play that again when we get To. Minnesota but For,
Speaker 1: wisconsin for, sure it definitely comes into. PLAY i am
Speaker 1: skittish about Losing Corey clement in the, backfield Finn it
Speaker 1: hurts to Lose Ryan ramsig as your left. TACKLE i get,
Speaker 1: it but the line is, enormous, Enormous AND i asked
Speaker 1: you this before a couple of days. Ago how many
Speaker 1: games Could wisconsin win if their line literally stood there,
Speaker 1: passively passively after the ball is. Snapped how many games
Speaker 1: could they win with their line not actively trying to
Speaker 1: block anybody just because they're so, enormous but still their
Speaker 1: defense is playing all out and still.
Speaker 4: Everything oh, yeahah just the, line the line stands, there
Speaker 4: they stand up and maybe hold their arms. Out they
Speaker 4: can go four and. EIGHT i think so, too four and,
Speaker 4: eight five and. Seven, WOW i think that's a lot
Speaker 4: three and, nine four and eight for. ME i think
Speaker 4: they'll they probably lose every, game but it's it is a.
Speaker 1: Question we know what they want to. Do what they
Speaker 1: want to do is run the football. Wherever they have
Speaker 1: to set up a few play action. Passes but we
Speaker 1: know what they want to, do and we know they
Speaker 1: have a track record of doing it very. Successfully and
Speaker 1: so whether It's Braderick shaw Or Chris james the pit,
Speaker 1: TRANSFER i feel confident that they're going to figure out
Speaker 1: a way to get that backfield in. Order they've got
Speaker 1: that part down to a. Science the passing game was
Speaker 1: bad a year, ago it's been bad for a while.
Speaker 1: Now but they do bring Back JAZZ pv And Troy
Speaker 1: fumagali Love, jazz Love. Troy So hornybrook's going to have
Speaker 1: some weapons to throw to that he's comfortable with. Already
Speaker 1: you got to hope he doesn't get. Hurt but provided he,
Speaker 1: doesn't provided that line can keep him up, right he
Speaker 1: will have some passing. Options, DEFENSIVELY i have no worries at.
Speaker 1: All the entire line is. Back the only guys that
Speaker 1: leave ARE. Tj watt And Vince. Biegel those are big deal.
Speaker 1: Departures they're big deal. Departures BUT i feel pretty confident
Speaker 1: that this defense is going to have itself in pretty
Speaker 1: good working order and play at a high level right
Speaker 1: out of the. Shoot they do have a first year
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator Because Justin wilcox left to go too super,
Speaker 1: Young Jim leonard super, young and you could definitely concoct
Speaker 1: the scenario in which the defense takes a step back
Speaker 1: because maybe he's not, ready he's not up for the.
Speaker 1: Billing BUT i just feel between their, schedule between their returning,
Speaker 1: Talent wisconsin should be in a good place where they
Speaker 1: have to be the eight hundred pound gorilla in The
Speaker 1: Big Ten. West and whenever you've got a defense in
Speaker 1: a running game that should be pretty, consistent that that
Speaker 1: takes you to a pretty good spot in The Big.
Speaker 4: Ten all, Right i'm gonna list off the games where
Speaker 4: they have at least an average opponent or a pretty
Speaker 4: good opponent on the. Road here we, Go okay At
Speaker 4: Nebraska october. Seventh that's the. List tie, there it. Is,
Speaker 4: yeah that's the whole dang. Thing they Have michigan And
Speaker 4: iowa both At Camp. Randall they don't Have Ohio, state
Speaker 4: they don't Have Penn state going TO byu in the
Speaker 4: preseason in the non conference part of the. Schedules, tricky but.
Speaker 4: Manageable it's a, beautiful beautiful, Thing. TYE i could. SEE
Speaker 4: i could see twelve.
Speaker 1: To zero on the. Schedule, WOW i could see ten and.
Speaker 1: TWO i can't see nine and three Unless Horny brooks
Speaker 1: snaps like a. Femur, yeah maybe the defense bottom's. Out
Speaker 1: do you see that as a likely. SCENARIO i don't.
Speaker 4: KNOW i think they go ten and. TWO i think
Speaker 4: they lose something stupid again To, michigan like a thirteen
Speaker 4: to ten. Game MAYBE byu game is a little bit
Speaker 4: strange on the road at, altitude but you, know At,
Speaker 4: Indiana indiana's going to have a pretty good defense this
Speaker 4: year if they are able to take advantage Of hornybrook
Speaker 4: a little bit and experienced, secondary maybe gets a little bit.
Speaker 4: Strange BUT i see them as squarely ten and. Two
Speaker 4: that's what feels most reasonable to.
Speaker 1: ME i Like wisconsin a lot this. Year, Okay i'm
Speaker 1: assuming that means next team up Is Penn. State, sure
Speaker 1: how do you feel About Penn state this?
Speaker 4: YEAR i really like Watching Penn state And i'm curious
Speaker 4: to see how they are when they're not the scrappy
Speaker 4: underdog who not scrappy, underdog it's Still Penn, state but
Speaker 4: the team that nobody saw coming in the way that they,
Speaker 4: came especially in the latter part of twenty, sixteen when
Speaker 4: they're able to throw it all Over, wisconsin throw it
Speaker 4: all OVER usc and one of the best games we've
Speaker 4: seen in recent. Years they took it To iowa in
Speaker 4: a ridiculous, way a really Good iowa, defense they just
Speaker 4: shred at. Them so the second half Of Penn state's
Speaker 4: twenty sixteen is now a thing that people have to
Speaker 4: consider And Penn state now, has you, know a bulls
Speaker 4: eye on their. Back what are they going to look
Speaker 4: like as the hunted and not the? Hunters the mentality
Speaker 4: is going to be interesting for. ME i don't know
Speaker 4: if it's related at all to What Michigan state went
Speaker 4: through mentally last, year where everybody sort of discounted you
Speaker 4: and you kept proving them. Wrong you kept proving them.
Speaker 4: Wrong what do you do now that you have everything
Speaker 4: in the world? Offensively you, KNOW i think everybody returns
Speaker 4: but one offensive lineman and one.
Speaker 1: Receiver is that?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 4: YEAH i mean Because Dashawn hamilton's, back A sickie's. Back,
Speaker 4: yeah there's a ton of talent. There Saquon barkley is
Speaker 4: might be the most complete back in the. Country so
Speaker 4: there's no reason That Penn state shouldn't be excellent. Offensively
Speaker 4: and that's a different mentality to. Have what do you
Speaker 4: think last?
Speaker 1: YEAR i gotta go back to last year for a.
Speaker 1: Second talk about a revelation For Penn. State you'd have
Speaker 1: to go back to nineteen ninety four to find A
Speaker 1: Penn state team that was that exciting to. Watch AND
Speaker 1: i would argue that last year was more fun because,
Speaker 1: again they got throttled By, michigan as you, referenced but
Speaker 1: then they came on like a freight. Train got healthier, Too,
Speaker 1: yeah got healthier in, spots but came on like a freight,
Speaker 1: train starting using started using their pieces a little bit
Speaker 1: differently on. Offense won The big, ten damn, near won
Speaker 1: enough to get themselves into the, playoff and then just
Speaker 1: fell short OF usc and The Rose, bowl which didn't
Speaker 1: do anything to diminish their their. Standing they definitely earned
Speaker 1: some more credibility for that fifty two to forty nine
Speaker 1: whatever it was game in The Rose bowl to. Shootout
Speaker 1: my main issue was with, McSorley and it wasn't a real.
Speaker 1: ISSUE i just didn't believe in. Him my part of
Speaker 1: me still feels LIKE i can't, Deprogram like he was
Speaker 1: a flash in the, pan pop gun arm. RIGHT i
Speaker 1: used all the old, heads but there isn't much evidence
Speaker 1: to back that. Up And i'm might not be comfortable
Speaker 1: with his, style But James franklin And joe moorehead are
Speaker 1: and the proofs in the. Pudding as far as that,
Speaker 1: goes he was unbelievable down the stretch through a great deep.
Speaker 1: Ball by the, way we need to add this and
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Speaker 1: could go ON t. SHIRTS i feel like they are
Speaker 1: afraid to use it because there is some political connotation
Speaker 1: there that we won't get into on the solid art
Speaker 1: that's not really our cupo. TEA i would hope that
Speaker 1: people are mature enough to realize this is a pretty
Speaker 1: funny thing and absolutely Deep state applies To Penn state this,
Speaker 1: year and it did last. Year it will even more
Speaker 1: so this. Year with trace. McSorley that is, very very
Speaker 1: very much their. MANTRA i hope they decided to run.
Speaker 1: IT i don't know how they feel about it editorially.
Speaker 1: Speaking but beyond, that defense did get better as the
Speaker 1: season we're on last. YEAR a big part of, that,
Speaker 1: though Was Brandon bell getting healthy and stabilizing the lineback and.
Speaker 1: Corps he has gone this. Year he has gone this.
Speaker 1: Year my questions are on the offensive. Line we've had
Speaker 1: questions about the line for the last five. Years skill
Speaker 1: positions are, Fine they got enough skill talent now to
Speaker 1: sustain them for a. While but the offense needs a
Speaker 1: consistent line that can stay on the field and make a.
Speaker 1: Difference that is the biggest missing piece of this. Offense
Speaker 1: and hopefully Matt Lin, grover who came over From minnesota year,
Speaker 1: ago can continue Working magic did a good job last.
Speaker 1: Year the line needs to continue to. PROGRESS i got
Speaker 1: questions about depth all throughout the, team specifically on. Defense
Speaker 1: just a lot of unproven, commodities, secondaries beat up and
Speaker 1: replacing a.
Speaker 4: Lot, YEAH i feel ten and two Losses Ohio state
Speaker 4: on the, Road, yeah and they're gonna start a winning
Speaker 4: streak Against pitt and.
Speaker 1: Then a dumb. One oh, okay a dumb one maybe At,
Speaker 1: iowa maybe At. NORTHWESTERN i don't. Know i'm saying ten and,
Speaker 1: two a weird loss and a totally predictable loss To Ohio.
Speaker 4: State i'm gonna go with ten and two as. Well,
Speaker 4: again it's MOSTLY i, mean are we gonna count On
Speaker 4: Brian lawerke At Michigan state to take advantage, of you,
Speaker 4: know a couple holes in the, secondary Which Penn state also.
Speaker 1: Has Marcus.
Speaker 4: Allen, right he's like an all big ten sure caliber.
Speaker 4: Safety there are not enough quarterbacks in this conference to
Speaker 4: have me believe In Penn state is anything less than
Speaker 4: a ten and two, team which is. Crazy And trace
Speaker 4: McSorley amazing ten and.
Speaker 1: Two he's a good fit for the. Offense Caleb Henderson,
Speaker 1: TANNERLY i know a lot of people are high on Tanner.
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Speaker 1: State we've gone Through, Michigan, wisconsin And Penn. State four
Speaker 1: teams that were very excited about fourteen teams in The big.
Speaker 1: Ten who is your fifth most excitable?
Speaker 4: Team Probably northwestern Or iowa.
Speaker 1: Too i'm At northwestern followed By. Iowa, yeah you need
Speaker 1: to talk me off the ledge For? Northwestern? Really oh,
Speaker 1: YEAH i mean we both Are, medill, proud Proud modill. Graduates, yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah you need to talk me off the ledge for True.
Speaker 1: Northwestern here the entire team is back Outside Austin, Carr
Speaker 1: Anthony Walker. Junior those are big.
Speaker 4: Losses mind oh, YEAH a few other say the name
Speaker 4: THAT i know you're going to struggle pronouncing.
Speaker 1: No, no don't make. Me, oh it was so, GOOD i.
Speaker 1: AM i am very excited About Justin, Jackson Clayton thorson
Speaker 1: and what this team could. Do the good news is
Speaker 1: that they missed Both Ohio state And. Michigan they Get
Speaker 1: Penn state at, home WHICH i mentioned a few minutes.
Speaker 1: Ago could totally see them taking Out Penn state at.
Speaker 1: Home they're At wisconsin At nebraska later in the. Year
Speaker 1: otherwise not What i'd consider a difficult. Schedule it's tricky in,
Speaker 1: spots BUT i would rather play In minnesota early than, late,
Speaker 1: right you, know that could factor. In i'd rather Play
Speaker 1: nebraska early than. Late that could factor in as, Well
Speaker 1: pluster on the road. Late i'd rather Play maryland early
Speaker 1: Than week. Eight but by and, LARGE i think it's
Speaker 1: a very workable schedule for ai team that has a
Speaker 1: lot of veteran. Leadership the name you were looking for
Speaker 1: is IF i ate A odenigbo thank, you who had
Speaker 1: ten sacks last year and was really good and is
Speaker 1: not back.
Speaker 4: Anymore, Yeah northwestern's in a really nice. Spot the question
Speaker 4: is can they avoid that slow start that keeps happening To.
Speaker 4: Northwestern you, know they are able to pick Off stanford
Speaker 4: a few years ago with body clock madness in a
Speaker 4: super ugly, game but it's a win Against, stanford but
Speaker 4: then they lose dumb games early. On Is northwestern gonna
Speaker 4: be able to start out and make? Noise you mentioned
Speaker 4: the offensive, skill certainly. There Pat fitzgerald, keeps he recruits well,
Speaker 4: Enough he's done a good enough. Job it's Avoiding september
Speaker 4: malaise to me For. Northwestern who do they have once
Speaker 4: again in the early part of the.
Speaker 1: Season northwestern opens With, nevada then they're At Duke Bowling,
Speaker 1: green then they go To. Wisconsin that's a big one To,
Speaker 1: wisconsin no. Reason last week Is september after a bye,
Speaker 1: week but still very difficult. Game After, wisconsin they come back.
Speaker 1: Home they Play Penn, state so fairly, EARLY i think
Speaker 1: we'll know How northwestern stacks up against The tier, one
Speaker 1: tier two caliber teams in The Big. Ten soft landing With, Perdue, Minnesota.
Speaker 4: Illinois, YEAH i Think northwestern's an eight and Fourteen i'm
Speaker 4: a little bit concerned about the, defense but, again this
Speaker 4: is going to be. Repetitive who's really going to take
Speaker 4: advantage on this schedule quarterback? Wise at the, moment it
Speaker 4: doesn't seem like a.
Speaker 1: Lot but we'll.
Speaker 4: See MAYBE i was going to develop a Guy Michigan
Speaker 4: State brian THE workI gets, better. Whatever but, yeah At,
Speaker 4: Wisconsin Penn, State iowa is going to be tricky just
Speaker 4: because they returned so much on defense going To nebraska
Speaker 4: and by that point we might all be fawning Over
Speaker 4: tannerly and we'll all Be nebraska fans at that. Point but,
Speaker 4: yeah eight and, four nine and three seems about right
Speaker 4: to me BECAUSE i don't think they're going to lose
Speaker 4: something dumb This northwestern team this year like they've done
Speaker 4: in the. PAST i think this team is in good
Speaker 4: shape with how much they return on both.
Speaker 1: Sides we Mentioned. Iowa as everyone knows by, now this
Speaker 1: is going to Be Kirk farrence's nineteenth year At. Iowa
Speaker 1: he is working his way through what one hundred and
Speaker 1: forty year contract. Extensions, sure here's What Bill connelly had
Speaker 1: to say About. Iowa, quote The hawkeyes must replace their
Speaker 1: starting quarterback a two hundred carry running, back three of
Speaker 1: their top four receiving, targets and all conference left, tackle
Speaker 1: both starting defensive tackles and both starting. Quarterbacks not. Ideal
Speaker 1: what is good is, This he has a line this
Speaker 1: year which should be pretty. Good he Has Akram wadly
Speaker 1: backed behind the. Line my hunch is That Kirk ferrence
Speaker 1: is cool with, that just those two. Parts, yeah got
Speaker 1: a new, quarterback got to figure out the whole receiver.
Speaker 1: Thing all they really want to do is run. Anyway,
Speaker 1: yes that's sort of their Vanilla iowa offensive. Formula Akram
Speaker 1: wadley and a. Line what can you do? Offensively he's
Speaker 1: got talent along the defensive line and at the back
Speaker 1: end of his. Defense there's a fair amount of experience
Speaker 1: just as a whole on the defense THAT i Think
Speaker 1: Kirk farens will rely.
Speaker 4: On Josie jewel back by the way for like his
Speaker 4: thirty fifth. YEAR i love that.
Speaker 1: Absolutely the real question, though is in the. Secondary, again
Speaker 1: they Lose Desmond king a few other. Guys how will
Speaker 1: the interior line hold? Up another QUESTION i, have BUT
Speaker 1: i think for the most part should be.
Speaker 4: Okay, yeah this defense was incredible last, year and, like
Speaker 4: even if you look at The november, numbers which included
Speaker 4: The Penn state. Thrashing they shut everybody else. Down it's
Speaker 4: still finished like a top Fifteen november, defense including the
Speaker 4: numbers from That Penn state. Game so when they're, rolling
Speaker 4: when they are operating at their, ceiling at their, peak
Speaker 4: and they keep recruiting and, developing and the secondary locks everybody,
Speaker 4: down and they're built specifically to beat just about everybody
Speaker 4: or hold down just about every big ten. Offense they're.
Speaker 4: Dangerous it's underrated criminally every. Year and the problem is
Speaker 4: they can't GENERATE i don't know who's catching passes for
Speaker 4: them offensive, like.
Speaker 1: Well that, see that's. It you, know you've got a new,
Speaker 1: Quarterback Nate, Stantlee Tyler, wiegers who? Knows, YEAH i think
Speaker 1: It's stanley but, yeah, Yeah stanley looked good in, spring
Speaker 1: but only through five passes in his freshman. Year whoever
Speaker 1: is going to be their starter leading receiver is Achrom
Speaker 1: wadley coming back from a year? Ago yeah, right and after,
Speaker 1: Him Matt vanderberg and his cursed field. Up, YEAH i
Speaker 1: have to deal with. That but a big question, mark
Speaker 1: and they've proven they can win by running the ball
Speaker 1: and playing. Defense they're gonna have to do a lot
Speaker 1: of that this year until they can get their passing
Speaker 1: games sorted, out because that's always been a bit of
Speaker 1: a sawt spot for. Them my big question With iowa
Speaker 1: is where is the. FLOOR i feel like the ceiling
Speaker 1: on this schedule is eight and four the. Floor the
Speaker 1: floor could be five and, seven could be four and.
Speaker 4: Eight they've lost five games six of the past seven,
Speaker 4: YEARS i believe because they've had some Bad bowl performances
Speaker 4: to get to five. Losses so outside of The Big
Speaker 4: ten championship year in which they also lost pretty badly To,
Speaker 4: stanford they they're a team that will play up and
Speaker 4: play down and that's got to be. Disappointing so if
Speaker 4: they're able to maintain a more even keel on Offense
Speaker 4: Brian farren steps in as the offensive, coordinator like we,
Speaker 4: mentioned if they're able to find some guys to stretch
Speaker 4: the fields and keep safeties back a little bit and
Speaker 4: give Achrom wildly some. ROOM i was in good shape,
Speaker 4: schedules not great early. On wyoming is a tricky, team ye,
Speaker 4: See allen.
Speaker 1: Hold on hold That, thokay if it's one month from
Speaker 1: now AND i tell you That iowa lost To wyoming
Speaker 1: And Josh allen because he threw all over. Them would
Speaker 1: that surprise?
Speaker 4: You it would surprise me a little, bit just because
Speaker 4: a passing game is more than just a. Quarterback he's
Speaker 4: got to be, protected there's got to be pass, catchers
Speaker 4: AND i always should have a good defense and should
Speaker 4: be able to Pressure Josh allen a little. Bit but
Speaker 4: it would surprise me a little. Bit very few teams
Speaker 4: are able to just Shred iowa through The what about
Speaker 4: what About Iowa.
Speaker 1: State In week?
Speaker 4: Two i've got a great, Receiver they've got a very promising, Quarterback.
Speaker 1: Duke Of Hazzard Awn. Lazard, right, Yeah duke Of, Hazard Awln, Lazard.
Speaker 4: LIZARD i Think iowa is too good to lose either
Speaker 4: of those, games but it is early.
Speaker 1: On it is a new. Offense we'll. See projected wins
Speaker 1: according To Bill connolly is five point, Nine so steering
Speaker 1: six and six right in the face. HERE i think
Speaker 1: ceilings eight and. FOUR i think floors probably realistically about
Speaker 1: five and.
Speaker 4: Seven, WOW i have seven and five for this. Team,
Speaker 4: okay too much play up play down for The. Hawkeyes next?
Speaker 4: Topic what do we?
Speaker 1: Got next? Topic let's talk About.
Speaker 4: Indiana Dan indiana Before, nebraska, insulting. Insufferable how there no particular? Order,
Speaker 4: YEAH i do. HAVE i do Have indiana in front Of.
Speaker 4: Nebraska by the, WAY, Whoa, Okay i'm fine with.
Speaker 1: That you love Your Tom. ALLEN i like This Tom
Speaker 1: allen takes. Over he did an admirable job with their.
Speaker 1: Defense the teeth of this team in twenty seventeen will
Speaker 1: be its, defense.
Speaker 4: So weird to, say in like twenty, fourteen Oh indiana's
Speaker 4: defense so.
Speaker 1: Bizarre, yeah the teeth of this team is going to
Speaker 1: be its, defense particularly its, secondary which has a ton of.
Speaker 1: Experience i'm not saying they're going to Beat Ohio. State
Speaker 1: i'm not saying they're gonna Be penn say, it, Ty
Speaker 1: i'm Not Sata. Bowls i'm not going. There they Play
Speaker 1: Ohio State week, One they're probably gonna get. Killed but
Speaker 1: if the defense, holds you shouldn't be surprised if one
Speaker 1: of those games is closer than meets the. Eye THAT
Speaker 1: i could see they did that last. Year, yeah you're
Speaker 1: right THAT i could. SEE i don't like the fact
Speaker 1: That Tom allen Hired mike to. Board i'm okay with.
Speaker 1: IT i don't like, That, okay, statistically The board has
Speaker 1: been an okay, coordinator but nobody likes. Him people don't like.
Speaker 1: Him they feel he's too. Conservative if you're An indiana,
Speaker 1: FAN i don't know what it's going to feel like
Speaker 1: going From Kevin wilson in his offense to Now mike
Speaker 1: De board and whatever he's cooking. Up, Yeah tennessee moved
Speaker 1: the ball pretty well late in the year last. YEAR
Speaker 1: i Like indiana an awful lot this. Year Maybe i'm
Speaker 1: a little too high on, them BUT i think defense
Speaker 1: can can really propel you in The big, ten especially
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Speaker 4: But Nick westbrook is, OH i believe the Returning Big
Speaker 4: ten receiving. LEADER i believe that's the. Case austin Car goon,
Speaker 4: yeah he. Is he's not, huge but he's got breakaway.
Speaker 4: Speed he turns a little bit into a lot of
Speaker 4: bit AND i really like his ability in mid air
Speaker 4: to win one on one, battles toss. Ups Nick westbrook's
Speaker 4: really really good and if he's able to stretch the,
Speaker 4: FIELD i Think indiana has a good shot to be
Speaker 4: able to once. Again and it's strange to say. It
Speaker 4: After Tevin coleman And Jordan, howard they didn't run the
Speaker 4: ball FOR i was going to, SAY i was going
Speaker 4: to say a bad. Word we're a family. Program they
Speaker 4: couldn't run it at all last, year which is very
Speaker 4: strange to. Say so if they're able to Get nick
Speaker 4: west we're going once again this. YEAR i think there's
Speaker 4: a good chance that will impact pretty much everything Across
Speaker 4: indiana and what they're trying to. Do and you're, Right
Speaker 4: Tom allen is an impactful. Guy we sawt it all
Speaker 4: miss we saw IT usf when he. Left there was a.
Speaker 4: Difference when he got to he turned a just train
Speaker 4: wreck of a defense into something at first respectable and
Speaker 4: by the end of last year pretty. Good and that's
Speaker 4: that's saying a lot At indiana with where they were
Speaker 4: SO i like the. Impact if he can do for
Speaker 4: The hoosiers for what he did for defense both In
Speaker 4: bloomington and other, places then they will be frisky.
Speaker 1: Ty how About? YES i like. THAT i like that a.
Speaker 1: Lot this has the makings of a team THAT i
Speaker 1: think loses To Ohio state week, one no big, surprise
Speaker 1: and then everyone just writes them off and forgets about.
Speaker 1: Him then they maybe they pull an. Upset it's probably
Speaker 1: a little over zelus to say they're.
Speaker 4: Give me the team that they beat that is much
Speaker 4: more talented that they shouldn't. Beat that is An Ohio
Speaker 4: state that's on their, schedule that an experienced secondary.
Speaker 1: Like for, me it might Be, Wisconsin. WISCONSIN i was
Speaker 1: gonna Say. Michigan They're wisconsin's In, bloomington, Right, yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: SURE i don't. Know but maybe they knock somebody off
Speaker 1: everyone thinks it's a flu before you know. What they're
Speaker 1: like a seven and five bowl. Team, yeah it'd be
Speaker 1: great projected. Wins we've got six point six. HERE i
Speaker 1: Like indiana a lot this. YEAR i did rank them
Speaker 1: Above nebraska my hunches that you didn't, WOW i THINK
Speaker 1: i Have nebraska. Ahead, okay WHY i think we're getting closer.
Speaker 4: As Mike riley enters another season to running the type
Speaker 4: of system that he'd like to be running offensively With Danny.
Speaker 4: LANGSDORFF i know they they bring In Bob, DIACO i
Speaker 4: don't know that the personnel is exactly, right and they
Speaker 4: lose their, best you, know arguably the best player on,
Speaker 4: Defense Nick.
Speaker 1: Gary BUT.
Speaker 4: I just there's there's enough talent In nebraska that If
Speaker 4: Tanner lee is, fine that already feels more impactful Than
Speaker 4: Tommy armstrong at least through the, Air, Okay AND i
Speaker 4: thought that held them back a little bit last, year
Speaker 4: to say the.
Speaker 1: Least SO i Like.
Speaker 4: Nebraska i'm pulling up their schedule right now because, yeah unlike, You,
Speaker 4: TAI i do not memorize.
Speaker 1: SCHEDULE i have it here in front of. Me. Yeah not.
Speaker 1: Terrible Arkansas state At, oregon which they weren't able to
Speaker 1: run the ball last. Year that was the. Problem they
Speaker 1: Weren't Northern, Illinois rutgers At, illinois Then wisconsin Then Ohio
Speaker 1: state back to back. Weeks that'll be. Tough At Purdue
Speaker 1: northwestern At, minnesota At Penn State. Iowa so not the
Speaker 1: easiest Of. No ten.
Speaker 4: Schedules it's a tough, schedule though they only really in
Speaker 4: terms of tough games on the. Road it really is
Speaker 4: only That Penn state game near the end of the.
Speaker 2: Year. Right.
Speaker 1: YEAH i am not A nebraska fan this, year BUT
Speaker 1: i am. EXCITED i Hope i'm. Wrong they are to
Speaker 1: me the ultimate glass half, full glass half empty. Team
Speaker 1: it sounds to me like you're trusting in the law
Speaker 1: firm Of, Riley diaco And. LEE i don't know That
Speaker 1: i'm fully. TRUSTING i don't have them on, retainer, no,
Speaker 1: okay BUT i have very few options in terms of
Speaker 1: quarterbacks and teams to believe. IN i think that they
Speaker 1: probably lose to they should have lost last year With
Speaker 1: oregon's second best. QUARTERBACK i don't think they're super. Susceptible
Speaker 1: and what they, lose like sixty two to three To Ohio,
Speaker 1: state they'll probably be somewhat better this Year against The.
Speaker 1: BUCKEYES i have them eight and four. Wow, yeah maybe
Speaker 1: seven and five. Wow it so much depends On tannerly
Speaker 1: and IF i have to hear about the De manning passing.
Speaker 1: Academy it's great that he played well at.
Speaker 4: Camp that's. Aw so Did MIKE. Barcovici, right it was really,
Speaker 4: well WHY i am excited to See Tanner. Lee he's
Speaker 4: a transfer From. Tulane if you're playing the home, game
Speaker 4: don't know who we're talking about.
Speaker 1: Here, yeah he's a. Transfer he Left tulane because they
Speaker 1: switched over to a different. Offense he is definitively more
Speaker 1: of A Mike riley style pro style quarterback Than Tommy.
Speaker 1: Armstrong and when he had time to throw operative phrase At,
Speaker 1: tulane he was really, good very. Impressive he absolutely has
Speaker 1: potential to be very good At, nebraska And i'm excited
Speaker 1: to see what he can. Do nebraska fans are mega,
Speaker 1: excited which is. Cool the word of, caution, though who's
Speaker 1: he throwing? To by the, way well, Exactly. Yeah the
Speaker 1: word of caution is, this don't get so excited About
Speaker 1: Tanner lee that you forget about the other twenty one
Speaker 1: guys on the starting roster because there's an awful lot
Speaker 1: of turnover. Here who's he throwing? TO a good? Question
Speaker 1: who's he handing off? To another big? Question will his
Speaker 1: line give him more time than that At? TULANE i hope, so,
Speaker 1: yeah not a. Given Will Bob diaco and his beautiful
Speaker 1: head of hair have a great impact switching over to
Speaker 1: a three four to help that. Defense how long is
Speaker 1: it going to take for that to? Click and to
Speaker 1: what end can his secondary carry the load for the
Speaker 1: rest of the, defense because, again a lot of, inexperience
Speaker 1: a lot of. TURNOVER i want to Approach nebraska with
Speaker 1: an open mind this, year BUT i just SAID i
Speaker 1: have more questions THAN i do answers the first year
Speaker 1: where it feels to me like it's All riley guys in.
Speaker 1: There But i'm looking at the schedule, now with the
Speaker 1: exception Of, purdue pretty much every game In october And
Speaker 1: november feels like a toss.
Speaker 4: Up, YEAH i think the secondary is mostly back other Than.
Speaker 4: Gary gary the secondary, right but, AGAIN i don't know
Speaker 4: if that's the greatest thing in the.
Speaker 1: World to what degree can the secondary carry the water
Speaker 1: for the rest of the defense until it comes. Along
Speaker 1: if you're feeling a nine to three season For, nebraska
Speaker 1: you're taking a huge leap of faith based solely on.
Speaker 1: POTENTIAL i could totally see like five and. Seven, Wow
Speaker 1: i'm just not Inow, okay And nebraska, fans by the,
Speaker 1: way are very friendly until they're very much. NOT i
Speaker 1: don't want to Cross nebraska fans that listen to this
Speaker 1: show BECAUSE i am, excited genuinely excited For. NEBRASKA i
Speaker 1: am rooting For Tanner lee and For Mike. Riley there's
Speaker 1: nothing about this team THAT i don't. Like you come
Speaker 1: across a lot Of nebraska fans And east all the
Speaker 1: time they're just, Warning, Yeah. Okay All i'm saying IS
Speaker 1: i am not willing to take that leap of faith quite. Yet,
Speaker 1: Okay so if it's harsh to say five and, seven
Speaker 1: so be.
Speaker 4: It but that's What i'm aren't seven to. Five but,
Speaker 4: Yeah i'm with, you all. Right seven and five just
Speaker 4: feels like a Very Mike riley year every.
Speaker 1: Year, true very. True let's go To, Minnesota, Dan, okay
Speaker 1: are you rowing the? Boat are you? Feeling are you
Speaker 1: Feeling minnesota this? Year a little? Bit but not? Really,
Speaker 1: okay explain.
Speaker 4: It's a transition. Year there are pieces on both sides
Speaker 4: that are. Decent BUT i the big thing with WHAT.
Speaker 4: Pj fleck and his guys that he brought over assistant
Speaker 4: coach wise that they were able to. Do they didn't
Speaker 4: turn the ball over a, Lot they played, smart fundamental.
Speaker 4: Football they let other teams make, mistakes they didn't they
Speaker 4: weren't taking a ton of. Chances they were just not
Speaker 4: taking a ton of chances in a fun, way if
Speaker 4: that makes any. Sense so it feels like a good
Speaker 4: addition To, minnesota and it was time for a change
Speaker 4: after everything that happened last year With Tracy clays And Jerry.
Speaker 1: Kill it was sort of not a great. Breakup but.
Speaker 4: Looking At minnesota's schedule right, now it's NOT i have
Speaker 4: a Sound, dan who AM? I?
Speaker 1: There we go talk about the, Schedule, dan with that
Speaker 1: as your. Backdrop so If minnesota were built impressively or slightly,
Speaker 1: Impressively i'd say they should be starting seven to zero
Speaker 1: because they don't play a single team who finished twenty
Speaker 1: sixteen the regular season with a winning, record A power
Speaker 1: five team. Anyway because they do Have Middle, TENNESSEE i think.
Speaker 4: When eight and, four but don't hold me to, That
Speaker 4: buffalo At Oregon, State Middle, Tennessee maryland At Purdue Michigan
Speaker 4: State illinois before they Get iowa on the Road halloween.
Speaker 4: Weekend so schedules, beautiful But i'm not excited too excited
Speaker 4: about any one specific. Part they have A i think
Speaker 4: they have a decent offensive, Line they've got a little
Speaker 4: bit of experience on, defense but there's nothing that jumps
Speaker 4: out to, me and they feel.
Speaker 1: Thin, Right they're very thin throughout their, defense especially they're
Speaker 1: stout up the middle. Defensively but quarterbacks a giant question,
Speaker 1: mark should have decent running back. Options Rodney, Smith Shannon.
Speaker 1: BROOKS i think they'll be okay in that, department but
Speaker 1: there are a lot of questions. Here six and six
Speaker 1: is about the projection For minnesota this. Season it feels
Speaker 1: to me like we should really CONSIDER. Pj fleck and
Speaker 1: his antics as something that we draft at our live
Speaker 1: show on the. Weekend, OKAY. Pj fleck and the whole
Speaker 1: row The boat, thing, which by the, way he brought
Speaker 1: over they got the rights to. IT. Pj fleck and
Speaker 1: that energetic row the boat mentally rolling the boat in
Speaker 1: The land of ten Thousand. Lakes. AH i like. That
Speaker 1: something like. That you're gonna hear all throughout this college football.
Speaker 1: Season he will have them amped. Up they will knock somebody.
Speaker 1: Off AND i don't know who he will bring that?
Speaker 1: Program who tie to Aven. BOIL i am excited to
Speaker 1: see what he. Does who are they knocking off Be?
Speaker 1: Bold they knocking Off michigan on the?
Speaker 3: Road?
Speaker 4: Nah and they Beating nebraska at home the week After.
Speaker 4: Michigan iowa on the.
Speaker 1: Road that's not. Bold you At iowa going five and.
Speaker 1: Seven iowa on the, Road, OKAY i don't. Know northwestern
Speaker 1: on the. Road maybe all, Right i'm not talking with
Speaker 1: a big, gun BUT i could see them knocking somebody.
Speaker 1: Off defense should be pretty. Good it could be a
Speaker 1: talk to your kids About minnesota kind of year if
Speaker 1: they do start, second just, saying, okay all, right where
Speaker 1: are we going? Next, now we've only got a handful
Speaker 1: of teams. Left we are running grossly over time so
Speaker 1: far because the way too many teams in this. Conference,
Speaker 1: NOW i was promised ten, teams but apparently there are.
Speaker 4: More you know, what screw. It everybody's gonna expect us
Speaker 4: to finish With. Rutgers let's go To. Piscataway let's talk About.
Speaker 4: Rutgers let's talk About Kyle. Bollen let's talk about a
Speaker 4: team completely comprised of grad transfers and the fact That
Speaker 4: rutgers might Be, okay how about, that, Ty.
Speaker 1: This team is constructed like a homeless Man's Iowa state
Speaker 1: the way they've gone, Out i'm serious, Now Chris ashboud
Speaker 1: and grad transfers are fill in the. Gaps it's like
Speaker 1: a college basketball team exactly to learn the players every.
Speaker 1: YEAR a really bad offense a year, Ago, dan no
Speaker 1: doubt about. It we got no, food we got no,
Speaker 1: jobs our pets head a fawn. Up just not a
Speaker 1: good year for The Scarlet. Knights really bad, offense no big.
Speaker 1: Playability they lose quite a bit along the defensive. Line
Speaker 1: secondary should actually be half. DECENT i don't think this
Speaker 1: will be a good team this. Year, HOWEVER i feel
Speaker 1: like we will maybe start to see the blueprint take.
Speaker 1: Shape we might see some baby steps here because there
Speaker 1: are a lot of younger. Guys it's not a stretch
Speaker 1: to think that this team could be much improved next.
Speaker 1: Season it just might take a little bit of time
Speaker 1: in twenty seventeen to congeal around a common blueprint to
Speaker 1: see some forward. Progression the thing is they were so
Speaker 1: bad a year ago that even if they get a
Speaker 1: lot better this, year it still might look like three to.
Speaker 4: Nine uh, yeah the defense should be all. Right if
Speaker 4: the offense can just like get first, downs then that's
Speaker 4: an enormous improvement that is world shatteringly, great and we'll
Speaker 4: help the defense stay off the field and get some
Speaker 4: rest and perhaps force some turnovers and put the offense
Speaker 4: in a good. Position so, YEAH i think they're going
Speaker 4: from embarrassment completely beat, up you, know just get off
Speaker 4: the field and get To sunday whatever to all, right flash,
Speaker 4: here flash.
Speaker 1: There they've got big ten ish, Players they've got a,
Speaker 1: good decent coaching.
Speaker 4: Staff they've got a bunch of seniors grad. Transfers you
Speaker 4: know when sometimes twenty two year old's playing against eighteen year,
Speaker 4: olds that's an. Advantage depends what can bey And rutgers
Speaker 4: is going up with their voice LIKE i just. Did,
Speaker 4: yeah and that's. FINE i Think rutgers can go four
Speaker 4: and eight and show.
Speaker 1: Flashes so here's my next question for you, now as we.
Speaker 4: Got perdue In, october they needs to be able to Beat.
Speaker 4: Perdue which team games, arearly.
Speaker 1: It's a good. Segue which team do you feel better
Speaker 1: about in twenty Seventeen perdue Or Illinois? Perdue mammy, TOO
Speaker 1: i do.
Speaker 4: Love Mike dudek And god bless hope he stays, healthy,
Speaker 4: man but one smallish does not a huge difference Make
Speaker 4: So illinois got you, know they showed a COUPLE i,
Speaker 4: mean we talked about. Flashes they showed a couple nuggets last,
Speaker 4: year but there's too much work to be done In
Speaker 4: champagne at the, moment offensively in, particular and they lose
Speaker 4: so much on defense that they're starting over there now too.
Speaker 4: PERDUE i think at least they might get some decent quarterback,
Speaker 4: play and there's the element of, Well Jeff bram is.
Speaker 4: New by the, way did you come down on The
Speaker 4: Brian bram Or Stefan lafor's?
Speaker 2: Side?
Speaker 1: Guy?
Speaker 4: Bram oh, SEE i Was. Lafor's but there's intrigue With.
Speaker 4: PURDUE i don't think they're gonna be very, good but
Speaker 4: they could catch some somebody average and a shootout kind of.
Speaker 3: Thing.
Speaker 1: YEAH i mean the thing About, purdue you, know it's
Speaker 1: a total. Reboot they've been down for a. While nobody
Speaker 1: is stub hubbing tickets to The Rose bowl this, year
Speaker 1: So brom's got a bit of a lead seat geeking
Speaker 1: whatever it's going to require. PATIENTS i Think purdue fans
Speaker 1: know that going. IN i think he can rebuild. It
Speaker 1: he's a very good football. COACH i remember when he was, hired, thinking,
Speaker 1: wow that's that's kind of a coup For. Purdue, yeah
Speaker 1: and it's a pretty good defensive. Front so they've also
Speaker 1: Got Nick holt as their defensive, coordinator who's a game never.
Speaker 4: MIND i take everything back. Now he did a good
Speaker 4: job AT. Wku he really didn't help that defense. Improve
Speaker 4: it's obviously a step up now.
Speaker 1: Though, illinois on the other, hand from our Friend Bill,
Speaker 1: connolly forty two percent of their offensive possessions ended within
Speaker 1: three plays for a non scoring, reason so a punt
Speaker 1: or a. Turnover the offense couldn't stay on the, field
Speaker 1: the defense couldn't get off the. Field just a story of.
Speaker 1: Inefficiency The Lovey smith thing to me always felt a little.
Speaker 1: Odd just doesn't feel like a great. Fit it's not
Speaker 1: a proper cloth, fit absolutely. Not SO i. AM i
Speaker 1: am down On illinois again and optimistic About, purdue which
Speaker 1: brings us to our final two teams here in The Big. Ten.
Speaker 4: Ty when you were talking about produced twenty sixteen offense
Speaker 4: couldn't help but think of you, know the like the
Speaker 4: teen movies from the nineties ear least two, thousands when
Speaker 4: you know a character inevitably had to like think unsexy
Speaker 4: thoughts like, Baseball grandma. Baseball you know that kind of.
Speaker 4: Thing sure produced twenty sixteen offense produced twenty sixteen. Offense,
Speaker 4: okay everything's. Cool the cold shower of The big ten
Speaker 4: here it. Is, yeah let's go to The Maryland. Terrapins
Speaker 4: dan okay six and.
Speaker 1: SEVEN a year. AGO Dj dirkin did pretty well boll
Speaker 1: participant in his bull. Participant that's. RIGHT Dj dirkin did
Speaker 1: pretty well in his first, year especially in the recruiting,
Speaker 1: trail and he's really just trying to get better talent in.
Speaker 1: THERE i think that's the theme that you, discover especially
Speaker 1: along the defensive. Line who knows if any of those
Speaker 1: guys can come in and make an. Impact it wouldn't
Speaker 1: hurt if they, could because their run defense was terrible
Speaker 1: a year. Ago defense as a whole still still trying
Speaker 1: to figure some some stuff. Out quarterback a giant unknown
Speaker 1: could have a four way battle right. Now looks Like
Speaker 1: Caleb henderson transfer FROM, unc but, again who. Knows they
Speaker 1: Lose Perry hills And Alvin hill on defense and will
Speaker 1: likely on. Defense i'm gonna go dark horse here due to.
Speaker 1: Alert really give me Some Ty, Johnson dan my, Name,
Speaker 1: ah you love yourself Some Ti Ty johnson running Back.
Speaker 1: Maryland pair him With Lorenzo harrison and you, know it
Speaker 1: might not be a great year For maryland, football But
Speaker 1: Ty Johnson Lorenzo harrison should be a fun duo to
Speaker 1: watch in the. Backfield. YEAH i was gonna Go Saquon,
Speaker 1: barkley but everyone's everyone's going due to alert On saquon
Speaker 1: Bark yeah to Gimme Ty, johnson he's my.
Speaker 4: Boy, yeah he's gonna hold up What i'm not crazy
Speaker 4: about this. Offense, defensively they could be all, right but
Speaker 4: as you, mentioned they're pretty. Thin they could start, out
Speaker 4: they could lose a bunch of games to start the,
Speaker 4: season and they're gonna need to scoop up Like Indiana.
Speaker 4: Rutgers they might need to scoop up That northwestern. Game
Speaker 4: it's a drive to six kind of. YEAR i, think totaland.
Speaker 1: Totally But Ty Johnson Lorenzo harrison in a line that's
Speaker 1: actually half. Decent, okay all, right fair enough and in
Speaker 1: true form here the ultimate showing of. Disrespect let's go
Speaker 1: To Michigan state as our last. Year how are you
Speaker 1: feeling About Michigan? State dan was last year a fluke
Speaker 1: was last year a harbinger of things to come and
Speaker 1: where this program is now. Headed it can be a
Speaker 1: little bit of.
Speaker 4: Everything last, year it seemed like talent, wise they're in
Speaker 4: a pretty good. Space they get worse upfront, defensively secondary
Speaker 4: was sort of uncharacteristically atrocious last. Year there's certain things
Speaker 4: that even When Michigan state has a down, year like,
Speaker 4: well they're going to play the past pretty. Well the
Speaker 4: defense is going to know what they're going to, do
Speaker 4: know what they're doing at all, times even if they're out.
Speaker 1: Talented whatever you Know Brian laworki has experienced as a,
Speaker 1: QUARTERBACK i think.
Speaker 4: We both really LIKE. Lj scott as a running back
Speaker 4: in the. BACKFIELD i don't know who the work he's
Speaker 4: really going to be throwing. To it's a matter of
Speaker 4: Can Michigan state generate any sort of explosion on, offense
Speaker 4: and that's not really what their offense is built. Around
Speaker 4: but now, so No Josiah, price NO. Rj, shelton it's
Speaker 4: starting over after going whatever they, went was it three to?
Speaker 1: Nine three and. Nine it's probably for the.
Speaker 4: Best AND i Think mark D antonio was still too
Speaker 4: good a coach to just suddenly keep fielding lesser Than bowl.
Speaker 4: Teams SO i think they bounce. Back it's hard to
Speaker 4: see where that comes. From with how they're currently. Built
Speaker 4: SO i think they can get to a. BOWL i
Speaker 4: think they can go sick and, six seven and. Five
Speaker 4: it's just after last year bottoming out at the degree
Speaker 4: that they, did it's, tough and we, listen we both
Speaker 4: root for teams that bottomed. Out but it still seems,
Speaker 4: like you, know quarterback is pretty good For Oregon Notre
Speaker 4: dame right. Now there are pieces on. Offense this team
Speaker 4: is not built right, now and the coaching staff is not.
Speaker 4: Built it doesn't seem at the moment to suddenly string
Speaker 4: together more explosive, plays more efficient, plays especially when they
Speaker 4: played down so. Much they played up To Ohio, State
Speaker 4: michigan whatever for at least a good chunk of those.
Speaker 1: Games but to, me it seems.
Speaker 4: Mental if they can sort of get, focused play to
Speaker 4: play week to, week they'll be.
Speaker 1: FINE i don't. KNOW i, mean they'll go to a.
Speaker 4: BOWL i Just i'm not seeing any sort Of Rose
Speaker 4: return type.
Speaker 1: Situation here's the, thing when you take a look at the,
Speaker 1: schedule there aren't a whole lot of breaks, here especially
Speaker 1: for a team that is kind of going through another rebuilding.
Speaker 1: Year Both michigan And Ohio state are on the, Road
Speaker 1: you've Got Notre, Dame iowa And Penn state three tough
Speaker 1: games at. Home minnesota could be. Tricky northwestern we know
Speaker 1: he is going to be. Tricky indiana could be tricky
Speaker 1: with their. Defense Even maryland late in the year could be.
Speaker 1: Tricky to, me the real problem, here given the rebuild a,
Speaker 1: foot is that the ceiling might be seven and, five
Speaker 1: six and. Six that might be the ultimate ceiling for
Speaker 1: this team this. YEAR i just don't know which way it's.
Speaker 1: HEADED i LIKE. Lj, SCOTT i Like Gerald, HOLMES i
Speaker 1: even Like Brian. WILWORK i think he could be pretty.
Speaker 1: Good BUT i don't know if we have enough data
Speaker 1: to really feel confident About Michigan. State so did you Say, Gerald?
Speaker 1: YEAH i did Say.
Speaker 4: Gerald, yeah that's the greatest tongue got out in front
Speaker 4: of my. Brain, no that's ty your speed.
Speaker 1: Guy six and, six seven and, five that's the, Ceiling,
Speaker 1: okay you.
Speaker 4: TALK i think they could, surprise all. RIGHT i think
Speaker 4: they are back into the disrespected place that they. LIKE
Speaker 4: i think too many people are respecting. THEM i think
Speaker 4: they can go to A bowl. Game if, not even,
Speaker 4: listen who do they have at? Home which good teams
Speaker 4: do they?
Speaker 2: Have at.
Speaker 1: Home they Have Penn state at. Home they've Got Penn,
Speaker 1: State Iowa Notre, dame if you want to count them
Speaker 1: as a good. Thing, Yeah indiana at, Home maryland at.
Speaker 4: Home Michigan state's my sneak. Pick i'm rolling with it all,
Speaker 4: right sneak, decent secretly Decent Michigan.
Speaker 1: State how about. That that's a good jumping off. Point
Speaker 1: we had a. Chance you had a chance to interview
Speaker 1: our good Friend Dave revsen From big Ten network earlier.
Speaker 1: Today big Ten, network by the, way ten year. Anniversary it's,
Speaker 1: true they're about as old as we, Are.
Speaker 4: Dan they are a little bit older because it's their
Speaker 4: ten year, anniversary eleventh season where we've done this for nine,
Speaker 4: years but ten.
Speaker 1: Seasons big Ten networks done a really good. Job dave's
Speaker 1: been there from the very. Beginning loves of verbal want
Speaker 1: to come, on talk about what's going on over at
Speaker 1: The big Ten. Network he gives some preliminary thoughts about
Speaker 1: where things might head this. Year let's throw it over
Speaker 1: to our friend Mister revsen to kind of wrap all this, up.
Speaker 4: And we are now Joined Dave, revson our pal over
Speaker 4: at The big Ten. Network we like so many people
Speaker 4: at The Big Ten. Network of, Course Mike hall has
Speaker 4: come on for many. Years dave has been on. Before,
Speaker 4: Dave how's? Life you're on the?
Speaker 2: ROAD i am on the? Road, yes you, know it's
Speaker 2: a great time of. Year.
Speaker 3: Dan we get on a, Bus, Jerry DeNardo And Howard
Speaker 3: griffith AND i and then.
Speaker 2: Few producers AND.
Speaker 3: Pr types and all kinds of new media, people and
Speaker 3: we travel around The Big ten and we watch every
Speaker 3: team practice and do a preview show at every.
Speaker 2: Stop we're going.
Speaker 3: To See Penn State hi's crew later today and it'll
Speaker 3: be the fifth stop.
Speaker 2: For us on the. Tour so it is a great
Speaker 2: time of. Year is really.
Speaker 3: Fun you, know this is the tenth anniversary of the,
Speaker 3: network our eleventh, season and So jerry And howard AND
Speaker 3: i have done this now eleven times going around the,
Speaker 3: league and it just never never fails to be a
Speaker 3: good time and educational and all those things that you
Speaker 3: want it to.
Speaker 1: Be how's bus? Life does it get gross after a few?
Speaker 4: Days is there somebody who's particularly bad, about you, know
Speaker 4: neatness about the way they carry?
Speaker 1: Themselves? Hygiene what's that?
Speaker 3: Like, well we've had to Encourage DeNardo to shower modern
Speaker 3: once a week and that's been you, know it's been
Speaker 3: a slow process for. Him but, no everyone it's. GREAT i,
Speaker 3: mean the bus is. Fabulous it is a really nice.
Speaker 3: Bus so you've Got Wi fi on, there and you
Speaker 3: got a refrigerator that's fully, stocked and you got all
Speaker 3: kinds of snacks and their SATELLITE. Tv SO i, mean
Speaker 3: it's not like we're on the yellow school bus or.
Speaker 3: Anything it's it is a great. Deal we definitely have
Speaker 3: a routine with the boss kind of where everyone sits
Speaker 3: after all these, years and you, know everyone's got their own,
Speaker 3: peculiarity but by and, large, NO i hate to disappoint,
Speaker 3: you but we really don't have any overt hygiene.
Speaker 2: Problems we're our hygienic.
Speaker 1: Crew, Frankly, hey that's great to. HEAR i love hearing.
Speaker 4: That and so you're going across the, conference which it's
Speaker 4: an interesting year. Obviously you, know the national, PERCEPTION i
Speaker 4: think is that it's a conference that's still relatively top
Speaker 4: heavy With, Michigan Ohio state and Now Penn state with
Speaker 4: their performance the way they finished the year in such
Speaker 4: a strong, way is. There do you get a sense
Speaker 4: with now a few new coaches in both divisions that
Speaker 4: there is a shifting identity or have things sort of
Speaker 4: remained in your mind relatively static when you look at
Speaker 4: it big.
Speaker 3: Picture, Well i'll be really interested to see when we
Speaker 3: get to The, west and because that's the side of
Speaker 3: the conference that hasn't totally pulled its, way although Obviously
Speaker 3: wisconsin has been very good. Here you, Know iowa had
Speaker 3: one really good team two years, ago but by and,
Speaker 3: LARGE i mean you're, right there's this perception of. Imbalance
Speaker 3: the strongest programs right now appear to be the ones
Speaker 3: in The, east so it'll be interesting to see what's
Speaker 3: going on The. West nebraska's made some pretty dramatic overhauls
Speaker 3: with a new quarterback THAT'LL i think go more along
Speaker 3: the lines of What Mike riley's offensive philosophy has kind
Speaker 3: of always, been and then bringing In Bob biaco to
Speaker 3: run the. Defense so that should be really. INTERESTING i
Speaker 3: always got a new offensive, Coordinator Kirk parents's. Son you
Speaker 3: have a lot of talent At northwestern this, year particularly
Speaker 3: at the skill. Position so where do those teams fit?
Speaker 3: IN i do think that's, interesting but kind of until further,
Speaker 3: NOTICE i think The east is where the greatest strength
Speaker 3: in The Big ten Lies we've already Seen Ohio state
Speaker 3: that are really. Impressive we will See Penn, state AS
Speaker 3: i said later, Today we've Got michigan coming up on
Speaker 3: the back end of Our eastern swing a little bit
Speaker 3: later in the, week SO I Michigan state as. Well
Speaker 3: so we'll have a little bit better sense of where
Speaker 3: everyone fits in maybe ten days or so from.
Speaker 2: Now but If.
Speaker 3: Ohio state's any, indication the divisions could be pretty. Good
Speaker 3: they were really inspiring to.
Speaker 4: Watch on that same sort of, NOTES i think what
Speaker 4: seems to pop for, people certainly both Within big ten
Speaker 4: country and outside of, it is a certain excitement quot
Speaker 4: and we saw it at the end of the, year,
Speaker 4: PARTICULARLY i think With Penn state With Saqwon barkley and
Speaker 4: the rose, Ball Mike gseki making circus. Catches you, know
Speaker 4: The joe moorehead offense really reinvigorated things in state college
Speaker 4: where you are right. Now but you know there are
Speaker 4: losses At Ohio state with speed, guys and you KNOW. J.
Speaker 4: T barrett sort struggled down the. Stretch Michigan state was,
Speaker 4: disappointing to say the.
Speaker 1: Least last.
Speaker 4: Year michigan loses a couple of its excitement quotient pieces you,
Speaker 4: know highlighted By Jabrill. Peppers where do you think that
Speaker 4: excitement quotient can? Growth what are those new excitement?
Speaker 3: Names, WELL i Mean Prince state obviously has they're not new.
Speaker 3: Names but, right you have to legitimate highs from trophy
Speaker 3: and Well BARKLEY'S i think of legitimate highs from Trophy
Speaker 3: calay and maybe make sure he's kind of a Fringe
Speaker 3: Heisman Trophy.
Speaker 2: Calad i'll tell you who's really. Impressive dan IS.
Speaker 3: Jk dobbins In Ohio state freshman running. Back he's a pop.
Speaker 2: GUY i mean you look at him and you.
Speaker 3: Just, say, wow great, speed really. Athletic there is no
Speaker 3: doubt in my mind that he's going to play a
Speaker 3: really major role in their offense and maybe by the
Speaker 3: end of the, year could end up being their future.
Speaker 3: BACK i, Mean Mike weber if it was a big
Speaker 3: time pressure of the, year so it's a stretch to,
Speaker 3: say you, KNOW i, Mean weber will certainly be very
Speaker 3: involved in the. Offense but Man dobbins is something. Special
Speaker 3: so that's a GUY i could. See Hanner, lee by
Speaker 3: all indications Of nebraska, quarterback had a fabulous manning Passing.
Speaker 3: Academy some people say he was the best guy. There
Speaker 3: SO i think on that side of the, ledger on
Speaker 3: that side of the, conference you've got a guy who
Speaker 3: could turn into a marquee. Name so those are a
Speaker 3: few of the, guys you, know kind of based on
Speaker 3: what we've seen so.
Speaker 2: Far but, YEAH i mean that's you know on with.
Speaker 3: YOU i mean kind of the part of the appeal
Speaker 3: of The Big ten last year was you always want
Speaker 3: to see what Your Bill peppers was going to. Do
Speaker 3: then every time he touched the, ball there was that
Speaker 3: possibility for a big. Play certainly the case with Say
Speaker 3: Kwon barkley is one of the most explosive players in the.
Speaker 3: Country where do those guys come? From and that's something
Speaker 3: that that we're always kind of looking for on the.
Speaker 4: Tour is there a team, that as you look, forward
Speaker 4: maybe that's, somewhere BECAUSE i would say the middle class
Speaker 4: of the conference is fairly. Robust we don't know really
Speaker 4: who's going to, pop who's going to be unexpectedly, good
Speaker 4: who might struggle a little. Bit is there a team
Speaker 4: that you look at and, say they may not be
Speaker 4: near the top of the, conference but they can put
Speaker 4: up a, promising fun whether it's one side of the
Speaker 4: ball or the, other whether it's a specific. Player is
Speaker 4: there a team where you say the record might not reflect,
Speaker 4: it but they're going to be entertaining and sort of
Speaker 4: give people.
Speaker 2: Hell, WELL i do Think.
Speaker 3: NEBRASKA i, mean they were nine games last, year SO
Speaker 3: i don't know how big a stretch that, is But
Speaker 3: i'm surprised at how much people seem to be underestimating.
Speaker 3: Them you, know they have the, bulk the offensive line.
Speaker 3: BACK i think they'll be good. THERE i understand defense wasn't.
Speaker 3: Great you, know they did make this change Firing Mark,
Speaker 3: banker which you, know For Mike, RILEY i mean the
Speaker 3: classic nice guy to fire someone who's been his defensive
Speaker 3: coordinator for fourteen years and he's been with him for.
Speaker 3: Twenty that was somewhat, dramatic and it wasn't you know,
Speaker 3: FRANKLY i mean as the decause wasn't, great it was
Speaker 3: probably better than the.
Speaker 2: Offense so you, know that did it.
Speaker 3: Was it was a little bit, curious BUT i think
Speaker 3: that it does show that they believe there's there's kind
Speaker 3: of a higher upside to this. Program so that's probably
Speaker 3: What i'm. WATCHING i know there's a lot of Hyperbout.
Speaker 3: Northwestern i'll be interested to see. Them you, Know Justin
Speaker 3: jackson's a fabulous. Back Clayton forston is someone WHO i
Speaker 3: think is going to be a name that's talked about
Speaker 3: potentially in THE nfl, draft if not this, year then
Speaker 3: certainly the year. After SO i think that's a team
Speaker 3: that they could make some. Noice but they need to
Speaker 3: get better on the offensive. Line that's kind of an
Speaker 3: unbilling story for. Them i'm in The Sea. MINNESOTA i
Speaker 3: don't know if they're necessarily going to take a step
Speaker 3: forward this.
Speaker 2: Year but IF.
Speaker 3: Pj fleck doesn't interest, you then you don't like college,
Speaker 3: football so that could be a fascinating. One i'd say
Speaker 3: those are kind of the ones that would jump out of.
Speaker 3: Me most of them are in The. WEST i think
Speaker 3: people feel like The east are kind of the known
Speaker 3: commodities and The west is a little more where the
Speaker 3: question marks.
Speaker 4: Are so this will Be we're going into the tenth
Speaker 4: season of The Big ten network, existing AND i think
Speaker 4: a lot of people now remember that the first, broadcast
Speaker 4: the first game broadcast was that App State michigan. Game
Speaker 4: so broadly, speaking first of, all have you been there
Speaker 4: all ten?
Speaker 1: Years.
Speaker 2: Yeah, now so it. Is this is the eleventh.
Speaker 3: Season technically eleven of you guys are celebrating your.
Speaker 2: Tenth, yeah your tenth tenth, season the nine year.
Speaker 3: University it's our ten year anniversary of the Launch august,
Speaker 3: thirty two thousand and. SEVEN i was the first on air.
Speaker 3: Hire So i've been there the entire time.
Speaker 2: And it's been.
Speaker 3: AMAZING i mean that people do remember that App State michigan,
Speaker 3: game and we've had a lot of talk about this
Speaker 3: in the ensuing. Years and it's really, Weird, dan because that,
Speaker 3: DAY i, mean it was maybe the most historic upset
Speaker 3: in college football in the last twenty five. Years it
Speaker 3: was one of the historic upsets of all TIME i
Speaker 3: think in the. Game and yet it's. Weird there was
Speaker 3: so much that.
Speaker 2: DAY i kind of can we get on the.
Speaker 3: Air we've never done a pregame show together with this, group,
Speaker 3: right and we had launched two days, Before so you've
Speaker 3: never done a pregame. Show you never done a. Halftime
Speaker 3: the terminology that people are using is. DIFFERENT i, mean
Speaker 3: just to use an, example the guy who was the,
Speaker 3: producer he called when you're going to? Break he called
Speaker 3: that the Tees. Right, WELL i came FROM espn and
Speaker 3: the tees was at the beginning Of Sports. Center you,
Speaker 3: know Da dad coming up On Sports. Center that's the
Speaker 3: tees in my. World and so he'd, said you, know
Speaker 3: like teas to, break And i'm, thinking what in the
Speaker 3: world isn't talking? About you, know we're just all of
Speaker 3: these kind of logistical things that you think, about you,
Speaker 3: know where's the where's the wide shot? Camera how AM
Speaker 3: i what does the rundown look? Like all of these
Speaker 3: things that were so logistically challenging for a group of
Speaker 3: people that had never worked. Together And i've worked With
Speaker 3: DeNardo AT, espn hadn't worked With Howard, griffith so that was.
Speaker 3: New so everything that's going on there is, new AND
Speaker 3: i didn't think it really occurred to me until probably
Speaker 3: like the beginning of the fourth, quarter where you're, like you,
Speaker 3: Know michigan could really lose this beame and so that
Speaker 3: part of it is really strange THAT i don't, think
Speaker 3: more so than any Day i've ever been a part
Speaker 3: of in my, Career like the just kind of logistics
Speaker 3: of getting on the air and being on the air
Speaker 3: were so overriding on that day that until the, end
Speaker 3: it almost felt like the game that we were wrapping.
Speaker 3: Around almost in our mind fell, secondary but, CLEARLY i,
Speaker 3: mean it was a historic result and it was probably in,
Speaker 3: hindsight and there's been a lot of talk about this
Speaker 3: back and forth through the.
Speaker 2: Years but while it felt catastrophic at.
Speaker 3: The time because this was a team that was many
Speaker 3: people thought going to compete for a national championship In
Speaker 3: michigan and they lose To Appalachian, state it may have
Speaker 3: been a good thing for the network because we were
Speaker 3: fighting distribution battles at that. Point we weren't on the
Speaker 3: air on the major cable carriers throughout The. Midwest we
Speaker 3: were ON, DirecTV we were On Dish, network but we
Speaker 3: weren't On comcast and the big carriers that people.
Speaker 2: Get their cable.
Speaker 3: Through and part of the rhetoric against us in this battle, was,
Speaker 3: well they're not going to have any significant, games and
Speaker 3: then to have one of the most significant games in
Speaker 3: college football right out of the, GATE i think that
Speaker 3: kind of put that notion to rest a little bit
Speaker 3: and gave us a little bit of.
Speaker 4: Leverage so The Big Ten network is one of the
Speaker 4: most specific networks in terms of a sports network's, launch
Speaker 4: in what the network covers and it's just it's, regional it's.
Speaker 4: College whereas you have regional networks of course existing. Beforehand
Speaker 4: there's A yankees network that has existed for a, while
Speaker 4: but this is specific to just, college specific to just
Speaker 4: this one region that has since expanded, Obviously but what
Speaker 4: was the vision at the onset and now that there
Speaker 4: are more, networks both college conference networks and other sports
Speaker 4: networks across sort OF tv, galaxy what was the vision
Speaker 4: initially and how has that sort of evolved and become
Speaker 4: what it is today in twenty.
Speaker 2: Seventeen, WELL i think the vision was to really be
Speaker 2: a home.
Speaker 3: For Big ten, fans AND i didn't really understand the
Speaker 3: vision UNTIL i came out and interviewed with, them AND
Speaker 3: i kind of thought it was going to be an
Speaker 3: extension OF espn regional, television which you, know kind of
Speaker 3: syndicated The Big ten. GAMES i didn't really understand it
Speaker 3: was going to be the twenty four to seven. Networks
Speaker 3: so a lot of that was very eye opening to
Speaker 3: me WHEN i was with Ma chilverman as the president
Speaker 3: and Commissioner delaney and kind of understood that they saw
Speaker 3: this as a twenty four to, seven three and sixty
Speaker 3: five day year destination for the. LEAGUE i think that
Speaker 3: we all it felt like from the very beginning that
Speaker 3: if people were going elsewhere for their big ten news
Speaker 3: that we would be.
Speaker 2: Failing and so that we had to be.
Speaker 3: Honest that when a team wasn't playing, well you had
Speaker 3: to say they weren't playing. Well you, know this couldn't
Speaker 3: be like kind of state controlled media. Here you, know
Speaker 3: we had to give very we had to give honest.
Speaker 3: Opinions so AND i think that that has evolved through the.
Speaker 3: Years you, know there were obviously some really challenging. SITUATIONS
Speaker 3: i think the biggest, one no, doubt would be The
Speaker 3: Jerry sandusky scandal here In State college Where i'm sitting right,
Speaker 3: now and kind of how you handle that as a conference,
Speaker 3: Network AND i don't you, know if there's Anything i'd
Speaker 3: like to have, back it would probably be those first
Speaker 3: couple of days after that story, broke WHICH i didn't
Speaker 3: think we handled as well as we could.
Speaker 2: Have but by and, LARGE i think we've done a
Speaker 2: really good job of.
Speaker 3: IT i, Mean i'm really proud of kind of what we've.
Speaker 3: Become you, know the programming is really, good you, know the,
Speaker 3: JOURNEY i think is something to really be proud of
Speaker 3: and that's been a fabulous. Show we've had incredible. Continuity you,
Speaker 3: know you mentioned my. Call he's been there from the get.
Speaker 3: Go Rick pizo as, Well, Jerry, Donardo Howard, griffith our studio.
Speaker 3: ANALYSTS i, mean we've been a, team the three of
Speaker 3: us now going on our eleventh. Season so it's been
Speaker 3: a really good place to work with really good. PEOPLE
Speaker 3: i think a kind of an understanding that we were breaking,
Speaker 3: ground that we were the first to do, this and
Speaker 3: that there was no blueprint for, it and that was really.
Speaker 3: Exciting it could kind of be whatever you wanted it to.
Speaker 2: Be and has it been? Perfect you, KNOW i don't
Speaker 2: think it has.
Speaker 3: Been i've to be honest with yourself and say that
Speaker 3: that there have been the steps along the. Way but,
Speaker 3: Man i'm proud of what it's. BEEN i, MEAN i
Speaker 3: think it's a really really good, network and it's cool
Speaker 3: to go out and you, KNOW i do.
Speaker 2: PLAY i play for.
Speaker 3: Basketball, games and So i'm out on campus that time
Speaker 3: of year and certainly walking around town this time of
Speaker 3: year Where jerry And howard and now are during the preview,
Speaker 3: shows and to see the impact that we've had On
Speaker 3: big ten fans stand and how many people can't come
Speaker 3: up and say thank, you and how much they enjoy
Speaker 3: the shows and how it's changed their viewing.
Speaker 2: Habits it's. FUNNY i was speaking to someone the other.
Speaker 3: Day it's a Big big ten network, viewer AND i,
Speaker 3: said you, know we're working on these ten year anniversary,
Speaker 3: shows which we're going to be rolling out Starting august.
Speaker 3: Thirtieth we're going to look back on one year per
Speaker 3: week of The big Ten network, era kind of what
Speaker 3: was the two thousand and nine, Season, like we're gonna
Speaker 3: have a prelude show On august, thirtieth and then it'll
Speaker 3: be one show a. Week AND i was telling about.
Speaker 3: THAT i, said can you believe it's been ten? Years
Speaker 3: and he, SAID i can't believe it's only been ten
Speaker 3: years because it's such a huge part of my. Life
Speaker 3: where were those games? BEFORE i don't even remember what
Speaker 3: it was like before. That you guys are so integral
Speaker 3: to kind of my viewing. Habits and so that felt
Speaker 3: really good BECAUSE i think at the, beginning particularly that
Speaker 3: first year where people couldn't get the, network there was
Speaker 3: this feeling why are we doing this? Again and the
Speaker 3: fact that it's turned out to be such a big
Speaker 3: part of the lives Of big ten fans is really.
Speaker 2: Gratifying so if.
Speaker 4: You're put in charge or at least you have a
Speaker 4: sort of shifted role of like a development executive at
Speaker 4: The big ten network SAYING i really like how we
Speaker 4: DO x AND. Y i wish we would try MORE.
Speaker 4: Z i wish we would lean into doing more of.
Speaker 4: THIS i wish you, know there was a new version of.
Speaker 4: Blank when you look forward at the future of The
Speaker 4: big ten, network what do you hope is sort of
Speaker 4: more of a thing within The big Ten.
Speaker 3: Network, well i'd say the big Thing dan is and
Speaker 3: we started this last year and it was, successful BUT
Speaker 3: i want to see more of. It IS i think
Speaker 3: that we need to be out among the fans more.
Speaker 2: So in other.
Speaker 3: WORDS i wanted this network from the very outset to
Speaker 3: be the network of the. Fans we wanted them to
Speaker 3: feel real ownership in, this and then we understand their
Speaker 3: schools and represent their. Schools we have such a limited
Speaker 3: universe and as fourteen, teams AND i do believe that
Speaker 3: we know those teams better than anyone. Else AND i
Speaker 3: don't say that to you, know be negative about anyone.
Speaker 3: ELSE i say it just because we better know them.
Speaker 2: Better than anyone.
Speaker 3: Else otherwise we're failing miserably in our, jobs right, so
Speaker 3: AND i think that we want to bring that to
Speaker 3: the fans a little bit.
Speaker 2: More.
Speaker 3: So we started last YEAR bt and tailgate show with
Speaker 3: myself And Spice adams and Coach. Tonardo we're Adding Stanley
Speaker 3: jackson this year an on campus pregame. Show you, know,
Speaker 3: clearly we're not the first to think of this.
Speaker 2: Idea we had done a.
Speaker 3: Few through the years where we might go on a
Speaker 3: one off type deal to do our pregame show on
Speaker 3: campus if it was a really big, day you, know
Speaker 3: a big, game maybe a game THAT btn, had but
Speaker 3: now doing it weekly during conference. Seasons so we started
Speaker 3: that last. YEAR i think we might do it a
Speaker 3: little more with basketball this. Year that's the big thing to.
Speaker 3: Me how do we interact with the. Fans how do
Speaker 3: we kind of touch the fan. BASE i mean maybe
Speaker 3: not literally touch, them but kind of, metaphorically you, know be,
Speaker 3: there you, know really close and let them EXPERIENCE btn
Speaker 3: and again make it feel like it is more of
Speaker 3: air network because that's that's what we want on it to.
Speaker 3: Be SO i think that's a big thing And the
Speaker 3: great thing about it is THAT i do get voice
Speaker 3: in that THAT i am a part of kind of
Speaker 3: helping to make those decisions or at least adding input
Speaker 3: into those. Decisions and that's been incredibly gratifying that you know. That,
Speaker 3: AGAIN i was eleven years OF. ESPN i LOVED, espn
Speaker 3: and by its very, nature by the vastness of, it
Speaker 3: it's hard to kind of impact. It and SO i
Speaker 3: don't mean that in any kind of a negative way that,
Speaker 3: WELL i didn't have this voice there AND i should
Speaker 3: have had this. Voice, no you, know and the little
Speaker 3: THINGS i worked on college game day radio or whatever
Speaker 3: it was that were my, domainsay but you didn't have
Speaker 3: to say into the broader. Network just by the very
Speaker 3: virtue of how large it, was no one had that
Speaker 3: kind of say no on air guy did HERE i
Speaker 3: Do and that has been really really. Cool and, AGAIN
Speaker 3: i think it's been such a collective effort of everybody
Speaker 3: of you, know what do we want this network to?
Speaker 3: Be and that you, know to, me this is a
Speaker 3: big initiative for us of reaching out to the. Fans
Speaker 3: but maybe there'll be something else in a couple of.
Speaker 3: Years and the beauty of it is people are approachable
Speaker 3: there and you can say what if we DID x
Speaker 3: and people are willing to give extra.
Speaker 4: Trap everybody, listening do check Out big Ten network and
Speaker 4: their retrospective. Starting it looks like three weeks from, Today
Speaker 4: august thirtieth.
Speaker 2: And august thirtieth And dave. Revs that is the ten year. Anniversary,
Speaker 2: yes the launch of The big Ten.
Speaker 4: Network ten year anniversary. Retrospective Dave, revson thank you very
Speaker 4: much for your. Time good luck to your, stomach good
Speaker 4: luck to the, bus and enjoy the rest of Your.
Speaker 2: August dan is my.
Speaker 3: PLEASURE i told you this, offline But i'll say it here.
Speaker 3: TOO i really enjoy your guys. Work it is a
Speaker 3: ton of. FUN i listened to it on my runs
Speaker 3: AND i, say you guys do a really good. Job
Speaker 3: so you keep up your good work and hopefully we'll
Speaker 3: cross paths again sometimes.
Speaker 1: Soon all, right Cool Dave revson, Again big Ten. Network,
Speaker 1: yeah great of him to stop on. By we should
Speaker 1: just throw this out there to really give it our own.
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Speaker 4: wisconsin have something to say about the? TITLE i know
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Speaker 4: Question Tanner lee dark Horse heisman. Candidate you tell, me
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Speaker 1: Ground big thank you to our Friend Dave. Revsen we
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Speaker 1: Wow we've decided this year for the longer, shows that
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Speaker 1: There you have. It long show. Here my voice is
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