WEBVTT - Psychic Network (5/3/2017) 0:00:02.040 --> 0:00:06.000 Welcome to the Solid verbal. 0:00:04.880 --> 0:00:08.160 I'm that for me. I'm a man, I'm forty. 0:00:08.280 --> 0:00:10.119 I've heard so many players say, well, I want to 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:10.680 be happy. 0:00:10.800 --> 0:00:13.440 You want to be happy for dake Ado State? Is 0:00:13.520 --> 0:00:19.720 that woo woom? And Dan and Tye welcome back to 0:00:19.880 --> 0:00:24.079 the Solid Verble boys and girls. My name is Ty Hildenbrandt. 0:00:24.280 --> 0:00:28.000 I am joined as always by my good friend. He's 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:31.000 a colleague, he's a co host for many years. His 0:00:31.080 --> 0:00:33.279 name is Dan Rubinstein. Over there in New York City, Sir, 0:00:33.320 --> 0:00:34.640 how are you? Ty? 0:00:34.880 --> 0:00:37.960 I am excited. I am ready to go. I could 0:00:38.000 --> 0:00:41.279 not be looking forward to this show more. We've got 0:00:41.320 --> 0:00:47.199 a longtime friend coming. We have baseless, baseless predictions, and 0:00:47.680 --> 0:00:50.360 we get to talk about intellectual things with college football, 0:00:50.479 --> 0:00:51.919 so it's something for everybody. 0:00:51.960 --> 0:00:54.640 I was not prepared for this intellectual portion. 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:59.640 Dan, We never are, Ty, That's what makes us so charming. 0:00:59.760 --> 0:01:03.280 It is May. It is the college football off season. 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:06.000 A couple of weeks ago, we put out our How 0:01:06.080 --> 0:01:09.920 Coaches Get Made show, which people seem to enjoy. People 0:01:09.959 --> 0:01:13.160 seem to enjoy that. We had a lot of fun 0:01:13.160 --> 0:01:16.520 with the show we did last week as well, so 0:01:17.360 --> 0:01:19.480 you know we're doing our best here to make the 0:01:19.520 --> 0:01:22.920 time pass in the doldrums that are the college football 0:01:22.920 --> 0:01:25.000 off season. Now, we've been doing this for a number 0:01:25.040 --> 0:01:28.120 of years now, and one of the shows that I 0:01:28.160 --> 0:01:30.920 know you mentioned to me earlier in the week that 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:32.560 we need to plan out that we need to make 0:01:32.600 --> 0:01:36.520 sure happens this history of the soliverbal. 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:38.560 Yes, the Ultimate Naval Gaze. 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:41.760 So I believe that's going to happen tentatively at some 0:01:41.840 --> 0:01:44.120 point in July. We've had a couple people ask us 0:01:44.400 --> 0:01:47.600 when might that show be in the build up to 0:01:47.680 --> 0:01:50.960 what will be our tenth college football regular season, which 0:01:51.000 --> 0:01:54.680 is crazy. We will be doing a history of style 0:01:54.760 --> 0:01:56.520 show at some point later this summer. 0:01:56.640 --> 0:01:58.600 You will not be revealing the secret day job. 0:01:58.840 --> 0:02:00.800 I will not be revealing this secret day job, but 0:02:00.840 --> 0:02:03.240 we will be giving you a unique behind the scenes 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:05.360 look at how the sausage gets made here, how it's 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:07.000 gotten made over the years. Yeah. 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:12.160 So this will be our tenth season like football season together. 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:13.160 Yeah. Crazy. 0:02:13.160 --> 0:02:15.560 So that's sort of a preamble to that. If you 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:18.200 haven't and even if you don't listen to the podcast 0:02:19.240 --> 0:02:22.520 as you should, that's insane. Listen to the Starters formerly 0:02:22.520 --> 0:02:25.200 known as the Basketball Jones. They did it, I want 0:02:25.240 --> 0:02:27.760 to say last year or the year before h and 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:30.600 it's an incredible listen just like how far those guys 0:02:30.639 --> 0:02:34.440 have come there now on NBA TV. So really proud 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:36.680 of them and hopefully you guys will enjoy it, because 0:02:36.680 --> 0:02:38.919 every once in a while we have people say, hey, 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:41.280 I don't know know how you guys sort of started 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:43.360 this up and met, and then we'll be able to 0:02:43.360 --> 0:02:46.839 send them an hour and a half link here you go. Yes, 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:49.400 everything you could possibly want to know about us and 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:51.440 what was going on in our lives is everything was 0:02:51.480 --> 0:02:53.960 transpiring with the show, and we were growing and how 0:02:54.000 --> 0:02:55.880 we did things and how we think we did things. 0:02:55.960 --> 0:02:58.120 So we're going to do that over the summer. At 0:02:58.160 --> 0:03:00.440 some point. We've got another show planned with our friend 0:03:00.440 --> 0:03:04.400 Bill Barnwell, Yes, a look back at a new topic 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:07.520 before it was EMO. We're going to wax nostalgic about 0:03:07.520 --> 0:03:08.960 something else that we have planned. 0:03:09.120 --> 0:03:11.280 I am so excited about this show, Dan. 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:12.600 I know, I know it. 0:03:13.120 --> 0:03:13.600 I love it. 0:03:15.600 --> 0:03:20.120 So we've got some plans And because the feedback on 0:03:20.160 --> 0:03:23.760 the How College Football Worked episode with the coaching hires 0:03:23.800 --> 0:03:27.800 seem to be exceedingly positive, which we're never quite used to. 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:31.480 We have a plan. I think to do a couple 0:03:31.520 --> 0:03:34.079 more of those. Hopefully we can get it all done 0:03:34.120 --> 0:03:36.240 in the spring. But time getting married in three and 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:39.240 a half weeks. Yes, I got some plans. You got 0:03:39.320 --> 0:03:41.800 some plans. No, But we have time, so I think 0:03:41.800 --> 0:03:43.400 we can knock out a couple more of those during 0:03:43.440 --> 0:03:44.080 the off season. 0:03:44.440 --> 0:03:47.080 That is the plan. We thank you for listening. Don't forget. 0:03:47.080 --> 0:03:51.200 You can subscribe at iTunes, dot com, slash, Soliverbal, or 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:56.080 anywhere fine podcasts are sold. We're given away for free. 0:03:56.240 --> 0:03:59.640 Look us up. We're the Sliverbal. We're also on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:08.119 the works. Okay, so Dan, Yeah, what are we doing today? Oh? 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:08.520 Ty? 0:04:09.240 --> 0:04:12.400 I love that that song behind you. Today, we're gonna 0:04:12.400 --> 0:04:14.680 look into some crystal balls. We're gonna look into the future. 0:04:14.680 --> 0:04:16.920 We're looking at the horizon. We're gonna look into the 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:20.039 layers of this universe college football in which we live. 0:04:21.760 --> 0:04:25.200 We're going to try to just find truth, Ty. We're 0:04:25.240 --> 0:04:28.479 going to look at the spring and we're going to say, 0:04:29.560 --> 0:04:32.080 this is a thing that exists. What does it mean 0:04:33.040 --> 0:04:33.760 for the future? 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:35.920 What is it? That song just sort of comes at 0:04:35.920 --> 0:04:37.359 you in waves, doesn't it right? 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:39.279 It starts up, it comes down. 0:04:39.440 --> 0:04:42.560 I laughed, I make some emotion angry. Yeah, really the 0:04:42.560 --> 0:04:43.560 full damdle tie. 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:47.520 Absolutely, So we're gonna bring on our friend Bill Connolly 0:04:47.520 --> 0:04:51.080 of Vespianation Podcasting played nobody and of course his new 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:55.279 book about the fifty best and most interesting and greatest 0:04:55.320 --> 0:04:58.560 teams of all time and talk about that as well. 0:04:58.680 --> 0:05:01.800 So again, packed full of emotions. Ty, we're gonna look 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:03.320 into the future, We're going to look into the past. 0:05:03.320 --> 0:05:05.640 We're going to stay in the present. The show is 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:10.120 literally just it's a thrown together good time. 0:05:10.320 --> 0:05:13.200 Without further ado. Let's welcome in our friend Bill Connelly. Sir, 0:05:13.200 --> 0:05:15.400 how are you? I'm good? 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:16.240 How are you? 0:05:16.240 --> 0:05:19.279 You're already previewing teams? You've been previewing teams for a 0:05:19.320 --> 0:05:20.160 couple months now. 0:05:20.760 --> 0:05:24.039 Yeah, I'm almost done with the mid majors as a 0:05:24.040 --> 0:05:27.880 matter of fact, finished finished AAC, got the AAC Power 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:30.320 Rankings coming up, got inb's on deck, and then it's 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:33.719 onto the Big twelve, which is a power conference and 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:35.120 is still better than the AAC. 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:37.720 How do you how do you do that? Like, what 0:05:37.839 --> 0:05:41.880 is your process for acquiring that information so far in advance? 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:44.640 Well, I mean the biggest thing. I mean a lot 0:05:44.680 --> 0:05:47.440 of it is obviously pulling off of last year's stats, 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:49.160 and so I'll set that up in January kind of 0:05:49.160 --> 0:05:52.320 a template for each one, and then as I get 0:05:52.480 --> 0:05:55.680 close to each preview, then you know, I'll have everything 0:05:55.720 --> 0:05:57.400 set up for in this template, and then I'll just 0:05:57.440 --> 0:05:59.760 go in and add guys or you know, subtract the 0:05:59.800 --> 0:06:02.720 guy who left. It is kind of tricky early on 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:06.040 because it takes him till probably the end of February, aka, 0:06:06.200 --> 0:06:08.400 after I'm done with the sun Belt for teams to 0:06:08.440 --> 0:06:11.400 really start updating those twenty seventeen rosters. So AL do 0:06:11.560 --> 0:06:14.000 my best, but there's no way to avoid kind of 0:06:14.000 --> 0:06:17.320 getting some roster bits wrong here and there for the 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:20.560 early team. And occasionally, if I actually get my act 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:22.520 together and I worked ahead a couple of days, I'll 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:26.360 end up with something like the NIU preview where it 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:29.520 was like late March and their quarterback from last year 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:32.240 that I'm blanking on his name Maddie or something like that. 0:06:33.320 --> 0:06:35.040 It looked like he was going to get a sixth year. 0:06:35.080 --> 0:06:37.680 He was listed on the roster, they had started spring practice. 0:06:37.800 --> 0:06:39.919 I took that to mean that he had gotten his 0:06:40.040 --> 0:06:43.280 sixth year as planned and then like two days before 0:06:43.320 --> 0:06:45.000 I actually wrote the preview, it came out that he 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:49.400 had been denied. So occasionally you'll get that, but I 0:06:49.440 --> 0:06:51.039 get most of it, right, I think. 0:06:51.360 --> 0:06:54.200 Ty, you know what I'm hearing. I'm hearing that Bill 0:06:54.720 --> 0:06:59.240 uses current information to try and look into the future. 0:06:59.440 --> 0:07:06.000 Oh That's what I'm hearing, Tie, All right, Dan, Yeah, 0:07:06.160 --> 0:07:09.880 do tell what is the name of this game? Oh, 0:07:09.920 --> 0:07:13.160 that's a great question. We are going to call it 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:23.000 the solid verbal Cloudy Glimpse into the Nether Fall, the 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:25.640 psychic network, the solid verbal psychic Network. 0:07:25.800 --> 0:07:28.760 Yeah. I like that as well. I like nether Fall, though, 0:07:29.360 --> 0:07:31.400 how does this work? What is the nether Fall? Okay? 0:07:31.480 --> 0:07:31.920 So what we do. 0:07:32.040 --> 0:07:34.520 We have a number of items, and we are using 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:38.240 spring storylines, which a lot of people think don't mean 0:07:38.280 --> 0:07:41.600 anything because spring games are generally not that competitive, and 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:44.040 we don't have teams playing as one. We have teams 0:07:44.040 --> 0:07:46.040 that are split up, and we have scoring that's a 0:07:46.080 --> 0:07:49.360 little bit wonky, and we have injuries and walk On's 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:52.160 playing a significant role and it's really not representative of 0:07:52.160 --> 0:07:54.560 what we're going to see in the fall. But there 0:07:54.560 --> 0:07:57.800 are always nuggets, Tie, There are always nuggets. So many 0:07:57.880 --> 0:08:02.480 nuts that they might turn into a full rotisserie chicken. Okay, 0:08:02.800 --> 0:08:05.760 So we are going to try and look at some nuggets, 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:09.440 either from spring games or storylines or just situations around 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:12.640 the world of college football and glimpse into that cloudy 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:15.000 crystal ball to see if we can get any clarity 0:08:15.320 --> 0:08:22.720 to see what might, in fact, IIE be Big. Now 0:08:22.760 --> 0:08:27.239 I understand it's a bit of a mixed metaphor because 0:08:27.240 --> 0:08:31.240 the movie Big involves changing your your current status. 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:33.200 We haven't heard from Bill at a while. You're still 0:08:33.200 --> 0:08:34.640 over there, right, we haven't bored you to death. 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:36.480 I'm just trying to figure out if you guys have 0:08:36.520 --> 0:08:37.280 a copyright for that. 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:41.840 No, well, it's who's to say Bill, who is to 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:43.760 say please? 0:08:43.800 --> 0:08:44.320 Don't? Please? 0:08:44.320 --> 0:08:47.960 Don't turn us in? So, yeah, we are going to 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:50.000 we have a number of situations. We're going to go 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:53.880 through some preseason, post spring top twenty fives, and we're 0:08:53.920 --> 0:08:56.600 just going to figure out by looking into our mythical 0:08:56.840 --> 0:09:00.560 nether fall ball, what actually may or may not matter time. 0:09:00.600 --> 0:09:03.319 I'm still trying to figure out how chicken nuggets are 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:06.600 backwards compatible with the rotisserie chicken. But that, oh you'll see, 0:09:06.720 --> 0:09:09.200 that can be a podcast for deeper into the offseason, Dan, 0:09:09.440 --> 0:09:11.520 shall we present our first topic? Can you look? I 0:09:11.520 --> 0:09:13.920 think wessed a ball? What is it that we are 0:09:13.960 --> 0:09:16.240 trying to trying to foresee? 0:09:16.760 --> 0:09:19.080 Okay, so, as we know, as Bill and you and 0:09:19.120 --> 0:09:22.000 the college football universe at large, nos, Ohio State is 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:25.240 a new offensive coordinator and Kevin Wilson, and based on 0:09:25.280 --> 0:09:28.199 his time at both in Bloomington and for Oklahoma where 0:09:28.240 --> 0:09:31.160 he really opened things up and a historic offense with 0:09:31.200 --> 0:09:36.000 Sam Bradford and the Sooners, people are expecting Ohio State 0:09:36.080 --> 0:09:39.560 to be a much more open offense, to spread it 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:41.480 out a little bit more, to throw downfield a little 0:09:41.520 --> 0:09:43.680 bit more. And that's what happened this fall. Excuse me, 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:47.800 this spring, Joe Burrow, Dwayne Haskins, and of course the 0:09:47.800 --> 0:09:50.160 starter j T. Barrett all through the ball downfield a 0:09:50.200 --> 0:09:53.640 ton more with the two backups as sort of more 0:09:53.720 --> 0:09:56.679 successful in a spring game that didn't mean all that much. 0:09:57.160 --> 0:09:59.880 We know Ohio State and Urban Meyer have a hiss 0:10:00.280 --> 0:10:04.160 of perhaps starting the wrong quarterback recently. So what I'm saying, 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:08.960 will Ohio State be a squad that really opens things 0:10:09.040 --> 0:10:12.640 up on offense? What do we see and will it be? 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:13.040 J T? 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:14.160 Barrett is the trigger man. 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:23.599 All right, mister Connolly, let's throw it over to you. 0:10:23.600 --> 0:10:27.080 You heard the setup? What see you? Whyse suthes Sayer 0:10:27.120 --> 0:10:28.040 in your crystal ball? 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:31.160 You know, I always land with the incumbent, you know, 0:10:31.200 --> 0:10:33.160 we always fall in love with the other options. But 0:10:33.200 --> 0:10:34.720 in the end, I mean, the guy who's been around 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:36.480 for a few years and has won a lot of 0:10:36.520 --> 0:10:39.360 games tends to win that job. And so without knowing 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:42.679 the ins and outs of Joe Burrow's strengths and weaknesses, 0:10:42.760 --> 0:10:46.400 or Dwayne Hoskins or whoever, I will assume that Barrow 0:10:46.520 --> 0:10:50.360 keeps his job. Barrow Barrett, excuse me, keeps his job. 0:10:51.160 --> 0:10:53.720 And you know with you know what I always liked 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:56.760 about Kevin Wilson offenses is they're just, for lack of 0:10:56.840 --> 0:10:59.199 a better term, they're logical. They basically, you know, to 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:01.280 set this up. That means we have to do this. 0:11:01.400 --> 0:11:03.760 And once this is set up and defenses will do this, 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:05.720 then we can do this. And part of that is 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:08.200 going deep. If you want to be able to run 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:09.480 the ball, well, you got to be able to stretch 0:11:09.480 --> 0:11:12.480 the field a little bit. And you know, the lack 0:11:12.520 --> 0:11:15.120 of a go to receiver could be an issue. We 0:11:15.200 --> 0:11:17.520 all I mean, Noah Brown is great at that one game, 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:21.160 and the Lord knows they have got like thirteen other 0:11:21.160 --> 0:11:24.400 four star kids who could come up big. But you know, 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:27.480 assuming they've got decent options for stretching the field, they'll 0:11:27.480 --> 0:11:28.920 do it, because that's just what you do in a 0:11:28.920 --> 0:11:31.680 logical offense, I guess. And if they can, then I 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:32.600 mean everything else works. 0:11:32.679 --> 0:11:32.880 J T. 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:36.400 Barrett doesn't throw a terrible deep ball. Obviously he doesn't 0:11:36.440 --> 0:11:37.920 have the best arm in the world. But the whole 0:11:37.920 --> 0:11:40.040 point is a lot of times those balls are gonna 0:11:40.040 --> 0:11:42.200 be really open and you just have to take them. 0:11:42.840 --> 0:11:44.920 And if they do that, then the run game should 0:11:44.920 --> 0:11:45.280 be killer. 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:48.439 This is the question that I have about their new 0:11:48.440 --> 0:11:50.360 offense under Kevin Wilson. And I said this to you 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:54.559 weeks ago, Dan, the Kevin Wilson offense that we've seen 0:11:55.120 --> 0:11:59.800 in the past at Indiana, certainly at Oklahoma when he 0:11:59.920 --> 0:12:02.800 is still working down there, it does not seem to 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:07.079 be necessarily compatible with the skill set of J. T. Barrett, 0:12:07.720 --> 0:12:10.840 And so I've questioned, how is that all gonna go? Now? 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:14.080 Your counterpoint was, well, you know, they ran a little 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:17.440 bit and they were a little bit different stylistically at Indiana, 0:12:17.480 --> 0:12:19.960 and that's true, but I'm just kind of curious to 0:12:20.000 --> 0:12:23.959 see how he melds in his previous system with now 0:12:24.000 --> 0:12:26.560 the personnel grouping at Ohio State. If you look at 0:12:26.559 --> 0:12:30.840 the schedule, they actually do play Oklahoma fairly early on 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:33.040 in the year. That's not going to be an easy game. 0:12:33.240 --> 0:12:35.400 Then they've got a little bit more runway where they 0:12:35.480 --> 0:12:38.400 can can work things out before they get to Penn State, 0:12:38.440 --> 0:12:40.440 before they get to Michigan State, and obviously close out 0:12:40.440 --> 0:12:42.960 the year at Michigan. So I think all will be 0:12:43.120 --> 0:12:47.600 fine for Ohio State. I've kind of seen cloudy things 0:12:47.600 --> 0:12:49.640 when I look into my crystal ball about how that 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:51.080 offense starts its season. 0:12:52.160 --> 0:12:55.880 Ty play the sound again for me plays oh It's lovely, 0:12:56.240 --> 0:12:59.079 very mysterious, but kind of sooner serious. So this is 0:12:59.080 --> 0:13:01.400 what I do. I look into this ball tie and 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:04.760 I see clarity. For the first six or seven weeks, 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:07.360 not a lot of big defenses on Ohio State schedule, 0:13:07.400 --> 0:13:11.760 but then Halloween music very appropriate. I see a lion tie. 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:14.640 I see energy, I see vibrations. I see a nitney lion. 0:13:15.160 --> 0:13:17.679 I see trouble for Ohio State on offense in that 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:20.480 game against a team Penn State that returns a lot 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:24.160 of defensive players, not the defensive vents, but defensive players nonetheless. 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:28.319 And I think by that by Iowa State Michigan State 0:13:28.360 --> 0:13:31.679 in there sometime before the Michigan game. I see rotating quarterbacks. 0:13:31.760 --> 0:13:34.600 I see a quarterback controversy, and I see Joe Burrow 0:13:35.120 --> 0:13:37.080 perhaps even supplanting JT. Barrett. 0:13:37.080 --> 0:13:39.800 How about that? Would you say he's digging in at quarterback? 0:13:40.320 --> 0:13:40.719 I would not. 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:41.360 I would never. 0:13:41.440 --> 0:13:43.000 I would That is not okay. 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:45.760 Just checking, just checking? Fair enough? Where are we going 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:47.199 nowt ok all? Right? 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:49.719 Next, ty, do we have and on the subject of 0:13:49.760 --> 0:13:54.000 quarterback battles, do we have a quarterback battle in Tuscaloosa 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:58.240 following Tua? And I'm going to get this right. Tongue 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:01.080 of Valoa, tag of a looa tongue of the true 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:05.200 freshman from Hawaii coming in and completely shredding the defense 0:14:05.240 --> 0:14:07.160 that he saw. In Alabama's spring game, both he and 0:14:07.240 --> 0:14:09.360 Jalen Hurts had very good games. With the new offensive 0:14:09.360 --> 0:14:12.559 coordinator throwing the ball down field. We know Alabama now 0:14:12.640 --> 0:14:16.040 unafraid to play it and start a true freshman at quarterback. 0:14:16.480 --> 0:14:22.840 Is it possible that Tua Tongua Valoga to Tua let's 0:14:22.880 --> 0:14:26.320 just go with Tua has a higher ceiling as a 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:30.120 thrower than Jalen Hurts, who struggled in the back end 0:14:30.360 --> 0:14:33.240 the back three four games of Alabama's season. 0:14:33.320 --> 0:14:35.200 I got to use the sounding because I love the sound. 0:14:35.280 --> 0:14:42.080 Do it all right? I am selling this one. My 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:45.480 crystal ball nearly broke and I saw this question on 0:14:45.520 --> 0:14:47.360 your list. Why are you asking this? How could you 0:14:47.400 --> 0:14:50.200 possibly ask this given what Jalen Hurts did last year? 0:14:50.640 --> 0:14:52.760 Ty as the sheriff's thing in college football? 0:14:52.960 --> 0:14:55.000 Is this what I feel? This is like a Oiji 0:14:55.000 --> 0:14:58.360 board scenario where you kind of involuntarily want to believe 0:14:59.000 --> 0:15:01.680 that Jalen Hurts my might be supplanted by someone else, 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:05.640 and therefore your involuntary muscles pushed you towards Oh. 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:09.120 Alabama fans have been very much pushing for that too, 0:15:09.640 --> 0:15:11.560 So it's out there. It's out there. 0:15:12.120 --> 0:15:15.480 Wow. Okay, So you're not wrong to say that Jalen 0:15:15.560 --> 0:15:18.240 Hurts struggled against some of the better defenses. He played 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:21.400 certainly down the stretch, but he still was a true freshman. 0:15:21.480 --> 0:15:23.200 He still had a ton of talent around him. He 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:26.440 was in his first year. Give him a little bit 0:15:26.440 --> 0:15:30.040 of slack, even though he's at Alabama. I think there 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:32.680 is plenty of reason to be excited about your quarterback 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:36.080 depth at Alabama. But he got you to the National 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:39.400 Championship game, and he looked a hell of a lot 0:15:39.440 --> 0:15:41.760 better throwing the football down the field. That seemed to 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:44.360 be the focus of their spring football game, to try 0:15:44.360 --> 0:15:46.280 and get a little bit more of a deep threat 0:15:46.360 --> 0:15:50.680 established offensively. Look at those numbers you mentioned, well, how Dan, 0:15:50.720 --> 0:15:52.320 I'd like to hear you say that name again to 0:15:52.680 --> 0:15:55.960 what was it, Tagavaloa, Tagavloa, thank tounguea Valoa. 0:15:56.080 --> 0:15:57.160 I believe Tungueavaloa. 0:15:57.280 --> 0:16:00.000 Yeah, seventeen of twenty nine for three thirteen passing day. 0:16:00.080 --> 0:16:02.800 That's not bad. Jalen Hurts, by the way, sixteen to 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:05.200 twenty five for three oh one, so not that big 0:16:05.240 --> 0:16:08.440 a disparity. I think he is the guy. It's good 0:16:08.480 --> 0:16:11.000 to know that if and when he goes pro, or 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:12.880 if and when he should go down with injury, you've 0:16:12.880 --> 0:16:15.000 got another fallback option. But no, I don't see that. 0:16:15.040 --> 0:16:17.800 I don't see him being supplanted anytime soon. Bill. Look 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:18.360 into the orb. 0:16:18.720 --> 0:16:22.280 I have seen, you know, huddle film of Taga Blowa. 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:24.120 So I consider myself an expert on all of his 0:16:24.200 --> 0:16:28.040 strengths and weaknesses he's got. I mean, he's got a 0:16:28.120 --> 0:16:31.720 nice arm obviously, but and you know, it's easy to 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:34.160 put it's easy to piece this logic together because he 0:16:34.200 --> 0:16:35.920 has a nice arm. He can throw a deep and 0:16:35.960 --> 0:16:39.120 there's no question I Meanson Clemson won the national title 0:16:39.120 --> 0:16:41.800 game by daring Jalen Hurts to connect deep. He did 0:16:41.800 --> 0:16:44.200 it once on that wheel route to Howard. He missed 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:45.920 like two or three others that if he connects it, 0:16:45.960 --> 0:16:48.560 they won the national title and he just missed them, 0:16:49.040 --> 0:16:52.000 just overthrew them. And so you pieced that together. You've 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:55.320 got kind of a custom made quarterback battle here. But 0:16:55.840 --> 0:16:59.400 I just I'm just allergic to quarterback controversies. I hate 0:16:59.440 --> 0:17:01.880 them so much, so many of them start like this 0:17:02.040 --> 0:17:04.080 that I immediately start pushing back and just say stop, 0:17:04.640 --> 0:17:07.840 just start Hurts, You're fine, and and let's stop right now. 0:17:08.800 --> 0:17:11.000 To be clear, I don't I don't want this, you guys. 0:17:11.119 --> 0:17:12.280 I just see things. 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:16.199 I just look forward into the space time time space, 0:17:18.240 --> 0:17:21.119 and I'm seeing I'm seeing an issue here. And I 0:17:21.160 --> 0:17:23.480 think coupled with the fact that tag of a tongue 0:17:23.520 --> 0:17:27.280 of Alahutua has looked very good early. Is the fact 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:29.560 that there's a new offensive coordinator, so it's not like 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:34.240 Jalen Hurts is the guy of the complete offensive coaching staff. 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:39.080 Maybe Tua fits. What the it's Brian something comes in 0:17:39.119 --> 0:17:44.440 from the Patriots. Maybe he fits. Maybe he makes the throws. Maybe, 0:17:44.720 --> 0:17:47.800 just maybe, Ty, this is what the doctor ordered. The 0:17:47.840 --> 0:17:50.080 good doctor wanted some Hawaiian. 0:17:50.440 --> 0:17:54.800 Hawaiian refreshments, Hawaiian punch. Yeah. Look here, here's the thing. 0:17:55.400 --> 0:17:59.399 You could start an old boot at quarterback for Alabama 0:17:59.440 --> 0:18:01.320 and they'd still find a way to win ten games. 0:18:01.400 --> 0:18:04.120 This is a team that's loaded to the gills, and 0:18:04.200 --> 0:18:06.240 you can make a real strong case. Bill could probably 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:09.240 find a statistical case for it doesn't matter who plays 0:18:09.320 --> 0:18:11.720 quarterback as long as he doesn't shoot himself in the foot. 0:18:12.320 --> 0:18:16.080 To simply have two quarterbacks that are mobile, agile, hostile 0:18:16.119 --> 0:18:19.000 the way these guys are, that is a luxury that 0:18:19.080 --> 0:18:24.040 exists at Alabama and maybe only a small handful of 0:18:24.040 --> 0:18:25.760 schools elsewhere around the country. 0:18:25.880 --> 0:18:27.880 I could be meet and point out that your point 0:18:27.960 --> 0:18:29.760 is made. I think they won a national title with 0:18:29.760 --> 0:18:31.679 Greg McElroy, but I'm not gonna say that. 0:18:31.720 --> 0:18:34.160 I'm not going to be mean, Nope, absolutely not. That's 0:18:34.200 --> 0:18:35.080 looking into the past. 0:18:35.280 --> 0:18:38.520 Regardless of who plays quarterback, Alabama will be just fine, 0:18:38.520 --> 0:18:40.720 even though again a ton of talent goes to the NFL. 0:18:40.960 --> 0:18:42.560 But I do think it's hurts. I think your crystal 0:18:42.560 --> 0:18:44.640 balls little bit off, Dan got to reconfigure that thing. 0:18:45.280 --> 0:18:48.320 Easy to say in May, easy to say in May. 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:49.280 Okay, very good. 0:18:51.000 --> 0:18:57.280 Next item, This one's interesting to me. So the Pac 0:18:57.320 --> 0:19:00.000 twelve South is yet to win the conference as a whole. 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:02.959 Sam Darnold has rightfully received a ton of attention as 0:19:02.960 --> 0:19:05.360 a Heisman candidate, perhaps the number one overall draft pick 0:19:05.480 --> 0:19:08.959 next spring. USC has a bit of a tricky schedule 0:19:09.000 --> 0:19:11.359 to start out the season, a number of offensive line, 0:19:11.359 --> 0:19:15.440 wide receiver secondary losses. You know that the ship isn't 0:19:15.480 --> 0:19:18.080 fully running smoothly yet. With Clay Helton only entering his 0:19:18.200 --> 0:19:23.040 second year with the Trojans, USC as what appears to 0:19:23.080 --> 0:19:27.040 be the overwhelming favorite, with still Washington right there, USC 0:19:27.200 --> 0:19:29.560 coming off a Rose Bowl win, will not win the 0:19:29.600 --> 0:19:32.520 Pac twelve. Us C is going to trip up a 0:19:32.520 --> 0:19:36.440 little bit, Bill. Look into that crystal ball. Is their 0:19:36.560 --> 0:19:39.120 cloudiness surrounding USC's fall. 0:19:39.960 --> 0:19:42.399 I think really the answer to that comes partially with 0:19:42.440 --> 0:19:44.520 what you think about Stanford, because Stanford, I mean, they 0:19:44.560 --> 0:19:48.879 get Stanford in Week two, and these issues. You know, 0:19:49.280 --> 0:19:51.199