Speaker 1: Three two one zero, all engine running. Looks up.
Speaker 2: We have a welcome back to the UFO Show here
Speaker 2: on the solid verbal. My name is ty Hildebrand, joining
Speaker 2: me way over there on the other.
Speaker 1: Side of this here college football Galaxy. My man Dan Ruberstein, Sir,
Speaker 1: how are you? I'm so good because I can hear
Speaker 1: in your voice how happy it makes you that we
Speaker 1: have a vaguely space themed weekly college football show. And
Speaker 1: you're a very busy man. There are things that pull
Speaker 1: you in a number of directions, but I will randomly
Speaker 1: receive space messages as it relates to UFO ideas from
Speaker 1: you at all hours of the day. It's true, It's
Speaker 1: so true. I'll get like a medical not a medical,
Speaker 1: but a science journal article about some sort of space
Speaker 1: dust or some sort of alternate form of matter that's
Speaker 1: only in the galaxy M eighty two. And I know that,
Speaker 1: even if you're not putting your all into anything else
Speaker 1: in life, you put your all into the UFO Show.
Speaker 1: And so I'm thrilled to be here.
Speaker 2: I'm thrilled to be here as well on this momentous week. Yeah,
Speaker 2: as it relates to all things outer space, there was that.
Speaker 1: You're a say college footbo through that man.
Speaker 2: Okay, we're talking about space on the space themed show,
Speaker 2: and NASA and the Space Program made some news as
Speaker 2: they touched down and performed what they defined as a
Speaker 2: pogo sticking maneuver. Okay, on the asteroid one on one
Speaker 2: five menu, it's a near what it's a near Earth asteroid.
Speaker 2: I think I saw at some point. There is a
Speaker 2: possibility it could crash into Earth, which some would argue
Speaker 2: hasn't happened soon enough. But that being said, yeah, it
Speaker 2: did a maneuver o Cyrus r ex. I don't know
Speaker 2: if it's Ocyrus rex. I'm calling it that because it
Speaker 2: sounds like it's way cooler.
Speaker 1: Now. It performed a maneuver.
Speaker 2: Where it did a pass by the asteroid and then
Speaker 2: it plopped down, it grabbed, presumably grabbed some of the
Speaker 2: soil from the asteroid, and then popped right back up
Speaker 2: like it was on a pogo stick. And by the
Speaker 2: time we do our next show, I believe by the
Speaker 2: time we do our next preview, at least we'll have
Speaker 2: confirmation that it grabbed the sample, and then I think
Speaker 2: it could you know, performance analysis.
Speaker 1: So what does this mean? What does this prove that
Speaker 1: we can do moving forward now that we can pogo
Speaker 1: stick a near Earth asteroid.
Speaker 2: To be honest with you, I don't know, okay, I
Speaker 2: just from a space standpoint, but at least within the
Speaker 2: context of our undiscovered Friday orbit Dan, Yeah, I think
Speaker 2: it's got a natural tie into charting the unknown, figuring
Speaker 2: out things that were previously undiscovered. In this case, how
Speaker 2: about the twenty twenty Big Ten college football season.
Speaker 1: I like that connection tie. I like that connection. Is
Speaker 1: the near Earth asteroid, you know, something that could collide
Speaker 1: with Earth? Is there a Joe Milton comparison in there
Speaker 1: for you? Is there a plotting Iowa offense Holiday Bowl?
Speaker 1: Notwithstanding comparison there for you? What makes sense in terms
Speaker 1: of collisions and quick turnarounds and bounce offs? What's the
Speaker 1: connection there specifically?
Speaker 2: I think? I think specifically, first and foremost, the Big
Speaker 2: Ten is an asteroid headed towards college.
Speaker 1: Football, Okay, and so this show is that dip is
Speaker 1: that pogo stick hop onto the Big Ten asteroids than
Speaker 1: exactly back into the greater galaxy of college football at large?
Speaker 2: I think that's right. I could not have said that
Speaker 2: any better myself. So we are, in a sense the
Speaker 2: probe we're going down doing the pogo stick maneuver. We're
Speaker 2: just gonna grab a little bit of that Big Ten
Speaker 2: alien soil.
Speaker 1: We're gonna preation dust.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we're going to bring it back up into the mothership,
Speaker 2: and we're going to give you just quick analysis for
Speaker 2: what you should expect from the Big Ten season.
Speaker 1: Dan, I like this. I have a lot of thoughts.
Speaker 1: What I think we're going to do is we are
Speaker 1: just going to figure out the most intriguing thing about
Speaker 1: the fourteen teams to speak about in the Big Ten
Speaker 1: and largely focus on what is unknown and undiscovered about
Speaker 1: each of them. Right. I think that's right. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think that's right. Just making sure, should we rifle off
Speaker 1: a little bit of news here before we do it?
Speaker 1: I would love to we are breaking news, Dan, Yeah,
Speaker 1: So what up with LSU? Huh? Yeah?
Speaker 2: You may recall at the National Championship, obj Odell Beckham, junior,
Speaker 2: former LSU star, was there after the game Seene handing
Speaker 2: out what appeared to be money. Remember that the ultimate
Speaker 2: trick or treat Ultimate trick or treat literally making it rain,
Speaker 2: I read to you from CBS Sports. LSU was banning
Speaker 2: former star receiver Odell Beckham Junior from its facilities for
Speaker 2: two years after he appeared to hand wadds of cash
Speaker 2: to LSU players following the team's National Championsip victory over
Speaker 2: Clemson in January. Dan, this is a complex story. It's
Speaker 2: a weird story. It is a self imposed ban that
Speaker 2: LSU is taking to avoid further NCAA penalty in response
Speaker 2: to any rules violations here obj for two years. There
Speaker 2: are also some voluntary scholarship reductions that are going to
Speaker 2: be taking place over that same period of time. I
Speaker 2: think account of eight total is what they're looking at
Speaker 2: in terms of reducing scholarships. They're also going to scale
Speaker 2: back some of their own recruiting time. I have not
Speaker 2: seen further commentary on this matter, Dan, I'm a bit
Speaker 2: unprepared as it relates to whether or not this is
Speaker 2: going to be enough to stave off any future moves
Speaker 2: by the NCAA future in fractions.
Speaker 1: But gosh, what a weird story. Yeah, very strange, and
Speaker 1: it's unknown at this time. I mean, the assumption, it
Speaker 1: appears I saw some reporting in a different couple different
Speaker 1: places that LSU is under the assumption that it's going
Speaker 1: to be looked at as a level one violation, but
Speaker 1: there are three different tiers, three different levels to level
Speaker 1: one violations, and so LSU and trying to get out
Speaker 1: ahead of things. Also there is the accusation and the story,
Speaker 1: the allegation that a booster paid the father of now
Speaker 1: a former offensive lineman, Vidal Alexander one hundred and eighty
Speaker 1: thousand dollars out of the five hundred thousand dollars he
Speaker 1: is accused of or convicted of embezzling from a hospital,
Speaker 1: a local Baton Rouge hospital. I believe it's in Baton Rouge,
Speaker 1: which is the much more ugly part of the story.
Speaker 1: The OBJ thing is whatever, you distance yourself from OBJ
Speaker 1: for two years. Fine, sure, I saw. There's also an
Speaker 1: impermissible contact allegation against ed Orgeron. He will suffer some
Speaker 1: consequences from that. But yeah, LSU is hoping that they
Speaker 1: can slap their own risk, but that doesn't seem to
Speaker 1: always work in these scenarios.
Speaker 2: A story that we will continue to follow here, to
Speaker 2: say the least, for sure. I've also got that Florida
Speaker 2: Football is going to remain closed until Monday.
Speaker 1: Again.
Speaker 2: We're recording this on Thursday evening Monday because of the
Speaker 2: on going COVID outbreak taking place down there, So you know, again,
Speaker 2: talk about weird circumstances, right, we had Florida going on
Speaker 2: the road, losing to a and m Dan Mullen in
Speaker 2: the immediate aftermath saying how he wanted to have a
Speaker 2: full house in the swamp. Immediately a bunch of players
Speaker 2: seem to contract COVID, including Dan Mullen and now midsum
Speaker 2: talk over when they can resume activities. They're going to
Speaker 2: remain closed for a few more days. So you know, again,
Speaker 2: we say all of this with the hopeful understanding that
Speaker 2: we're just rooting for everyone to get healthy and better
Speaker 2: and you know that they can get past this bump
Speaker 2: in the road. It has affected a number of other
Speaker 2: schools around college football. There is a touch of irony
Speaker 2: here that is not lost on anybody. But we hope
Speaker 2: they can get back up and running soon.
Speaker 1: Yeah, oh for sure. And along those similar lines, I
Speaker 1: don't know if we mentioned New Mexico, Colorado State has
Speaker 1: been canceled. I think it was Colorado State. Who is
Speaker 1: you know, hopefully correcting a bit of a posetive situation
Speaker 1: positive in the testing way and should also mention just
Speaker 1: on better News because we didn't really touch on it
Speaker 1: too much because there aren't too many interesting games. But
Speaker 1: the Mountain West is back. Yeah, the Mountain West is back.
Speaker 1: We've got Wyoming, Nevada, Utah State, Boise State, which I
Speaker 1: guess i'd like to see. Boise State new offensive coordinator
Speaker 1: was Zach Hill to Asu, Hawaii, Fresno State. So it's
Speaker 1: the premiere of the Kail Kaylan de Bor Bulldogs, excuse me,
Speaker 1: and the Todd Graham Warriors. Why Warriors, They're always the
Speaker 1: Rainbow Warriors to me air Force, San Jose State UNLV
Speaker 1: Marcus Royal now former Oregon offensive coordinator taking over there
Speaker 1: in San Diego State, and Brady Hoke, so there's interesting action.
Speaker 1: And we also have it looks like two ten thirty
Speaker 1: eastern kickoffs, So if you've been missing late late night
Speaker 1: East Coast time football, a nice little pogo stick down
Speaker 1: there for you to enjoy. That is all I got.
Speaker 2: I see that Garrett Schrader, formerly a Mississippi State quarterback.
Speaker 2: He's going to be transferring out. Started four games from
Speaker 2: Mississippi State last year. Obviously they're going with kJ Costello
Speaker 2: in a different system now. So Garrett Trader doesn't feel
Speaker 2: he's got a spot there any other news that you
Speaker 2: want to get through before we jump in and just
Speaker 2: pogo stick down onto this big ten asteroid.
Speaker 1: Not especially, I'm excited because we're going to touch on
Speaker 1: a number of teams, and specifically with Iowa. I know
Speaker 1: you've been wanting to get off your chest the boundary
Speaker 1: corners I guess have tweaked their technique in this new
Speaker 1: Iowa defense, and you just wanted to touch on pogo
Speaker 1: stick down on some new tweaks and how that might
Speaker 1: affect their play calling. So I'm super pumped.
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Speaker 1: Dan, okay, correct without shall we do this? Let's do it.
Speaker 2: You've got the West, I've got the East. Where shall
Speaker 2: we start? Let's start west. Let's start with one of
Speaker 2: the teams that's in the state I'm literally in right now,
Speaker 2: the fight in a Lion I of Illinois, the Drive
Speaker 2: to five or four. I don't know, whatever makes you happy.
Speaker 1: Tie. The thing is doesn't.
Speaker 2: Really matter this year because of Bowl eligibility requirements being relaxed.
Speaker 2: You just need to find a way to win the crowd,
Speaker 2: need to find a way to be interesting, and then
Speaker 2: that's how you get into a Bowl game.
Speaker 1: Right. Yeah, let's just go over what intrigues us about
Speaker 1: each of these teams. And with Illinois, I'm gonna say
Speaker 1: it's the furries tie. The furry asking you, sir as
Speaker 1: I'll put s furries? Does Dan speak up? The transferries tie,
Speaker 1: the transferries transfer into this program from a bunch of schools.
Speaker 1: Somebody I'm particularly interested in. Let's hope he's not injured
Speaker 1: by the time people watch this. But Luke Ford, the
Speaker 1: Georgia transfer, blue chip transfer from Illinois transferred back home.
Speaker 1: I'm interested to see because they've succeeded so well with
Speaker 1: pass catchers coming in, especially from USC last year. We
Speaker 1: saw some big plays. So there's the imatorbe Bay family
Speaker 1: has a big presence at Illinois. And what does that
Speaker 1: mean for Brandon Peters Because I do believe the defense
Speaker 1: even though they've lost a couple of guys up front,
Speaker 1: and I think they're just going to be solid once again.
Speaker 1: It's the offense that worries me, And is that talent
Speaker 1: those transfers in. Is that talent enough those guys who
Speaker 1: have transferred in enough to make Brandon Peters interesting? I
Speaker 1: think it's intriguing because at times he made plays last year,
Speaker 1: but that was just it at times. That to me
Speaker 1: is interesting and intriguing about Illinois. Has the talent level
Speaker 1: increased enough to the point where playing in the Big
Speaker 1: Ten West, they can make more noise than just be
Speaker 1: shock of the world Illinois like, they're just consistently interesting. Okay, No,
Speaker 1: I think that's a good point.
Speaker 2: And of course, the Lion I square off against another
Speaker 2: West opponent, one of the Big Ten slate that is
Speaker 2: the Wisconsin Badgers. Dan, how do you feel about that?
Speaker 2: How do you feel about the Badgers this year?
Speaker 1: I think good Wisconsin's one of those teams that it's
Speaker 1: very difficult to see a complete dramatic change in either direction,
Speaker 1: and because their ceiling seems to be so high, just
Speaker 1: not quite as high as I'm sure they would like
Speaker 1: it to be. Jack Cone is injured and out for
Speaker 1: a considerable amount of time, and so my big intriguing
Speaker 1: thought question is I guess it's more hope where those
Speaker 1: Winter Wonders Ty, We've seen it almost year and year
Speaker 1: out that they they'll win the West, They'll get to
Speaker 1: the championship game and inevitably play against Ohio State most
Speaker 1: likely maybe go to the Rose Bowl and take on
Speaker 1: Oregon like they did last year. Who are those guys
Speaker 1: that those top tier teams across the country or within
Speaker 1: the conference itself. Who are they scared of? Who are
Speaker 1: those receivers that teams have to game plan for. We
Speaker 1: know Jonathan Taylor's gone, and we know that he was
Speaker 1: somebody you had to know. You know, usually he's in
Speaker 1: the backfield, but you had to be extremely concerned about
Speaker 1: him touching the ball every time. Who are those guys?
Speaker 1: This year looks like it's a running back by committee
Speaker 1: with Kendrick pryor you know they lose Quintes Cephis to
Speaker 1: the NFL. Who is that guy or group of guys
Speaker 1: for Wisconsin who you're like, Oh crap, he's lined up
Speaker 1: in the slot. Oh no, he's lined up outside. Oh
Speaker 1: my goodness, he's in motion. I'm worried about where those
Speaker 1: Winter Wonders are those guys who can perform in December
Speaker 1: and January against anybody.
Speaker 2: The other thing with Wisconsin, you didn't mention the name
Speaker 2: Graham Mertz.
Speaker 1: That's true, Jack Cone out.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Graham Mertz is a highly touted quarterback recruit.
Speaker 1: Does he fall under that for you? Is he a
Speaker 1: winter wonder? He could be.
Speaker 2: We don't know enough about him, and I'm very curious
Speaker 2: to see what he can give them. I think Jack Cone,
Speaker 2: for his part last year was better than I expected,
Speaker 2: but still there was much room to grow in that offense.
Speaker 1: And if you can add in a guy.
Speaker 2: With a little bit more arm town, a little bit
Speaker 2: more consistency, obviously, that improves the quality of of that
Speaker 2: rushing attack for Wisconsin. Hard to do more of that,
Speaker 2: but it makes them all the more threatening as an
Speaker 2: opponent if you've got some sort of capable passing game
Speaker 2: to go along with it.
Speaker 1: So I'm very.
Speaker 2: Curious, very intrigued in which direction things go at the
Speaker 2: quarterback position for Wisconsin.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I like Jack Cone, I like Graham Ertz. Hopefully
Speaker 1: he gives them a bit of a higher ceiling. Who
Speaker 1: is there a team to you? Let's tie it to Wisconsin. Tie.
Speaker 1: Is there a team to you in the East where
Speaker 1: you like, but your intrigue is about their ceiling. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean, I think I'll say Indiana, Oh, okay, go on.
Speaker 1: I'm intrigued by Indiana's ceiling insofar as I think they
Speaker 1: have really been trying to push up against that upper
Speaker 1: crust of the East for a few years now. You know,
Speaker 1: they've been knocking at the door to knock off in
Speaker 1: Ohio state or a Penn state, or a Michigan or
Speaker 1: a Michigan state with any kind of consistency, And I
Speaker 1: think this might be the year where they finally get
Speaker 1: to that height. I'm not saying they're gonna win the East, but.
Speaker 2: I think they've got enough consistency across the board, enough
Speaker 2: depth finally across the board where that actually becomes real possibility.
Speaker 2: Michael Penix was hurt last year. He's back this year.
Speaker 2: Peyton ram Is.
Speaker 1: That your intrigue point, Big Lefty?
Speaker 2: He is my intrigue point, because I think the ceiling
Speaker 2: with Penix is probably higher than it was with Ramsey,
Speaker 2: and we just didn't see enough of him. So you
Speaker 2: combine that with Stevie Scott, who we obviously like on
Speaker 2: the show and have talked a lot about. I think
Speaker 2: they're good at receiver, questions about the line, but the
Speaker 2: defense was young a year ago. It should show some
Speaker 2: improvement again this season.
Speaker 1: Had we were we were all so young.
Speaker 2: The year ago we were we were had there, we
Speaker 2: were young, but Hey had their offensive coordinator depart but
Speaker 2: promoted from within. So I just think that continuity, especially
Speaker 2: in a weird year like this, where teams are learning
Speaker 2: a new system, they have new coaches and new players,
Speaker 2: it really helps to have a core of guys who
Speaker 2: just kind of get what your program's all about. And
Speaker 2: so that's part of the reason why, especially in a
Speaker 2: week one game against a Penn State, I find Indiana
Speaker 2: particularly intriguing and especially moving forward, right moving forward into
Speaker 2: the twenty twenty one slate, I do think Tom Allen
Speaker 2: is building something at Indiana, and for that reason, they're
Speaker 2: more intriguing to me than probably most.
Speaker 1: Others, probably not Nine Windiana when you only have eight
Speaker 1: regular season games. Correct, the nine Windyana spirit it's there,
Speaker 1: it lives on, It does live on absolutely all, right,
Speaker 1: any other team where like So let's take it back
Speaker 1: to how I felt about Illinois, where I'm interested to
Speaker 1: see how they go from being scrappy to competent weekly competence.
Speaker 1: Is there a team that weekly competence is an intrigue
Speaker 1: point for you within the Big ten East, I'll nus
Speaker 1: say Rutgers.
Speaker 2: Dan, Okay, I'm gonna say, good answer, good answer, Yeah, Rutgers.
Speaker 1: Rutgers is intriguing.
Speaker 2: So Greg Ciano's back, Yeah, he's been there before. I'm
Speaker 2: not saying there's going to be some sort of overnight transition.
Speaker 2: But at Furries too, they do. They did a lot
Speaker 2: of work. Because I'm still not comfortable saying that, but
Speaker 2: i know you're not. Shiano wasn't the sexy higher, but
Speaker 2: he knows the turf, he knows how to recruit to Rutgers.
Speaker 2: He obviously did some work on the transfer portal. The
Speaker 2: offense is going to be a work in progress. They've
Speaker 2: got a million quarterbacks on.
Speaker 1: The roster that they're still trying to sift through.
Speaker 2: As of recording, it looks like it's going to be
Speaker 2: King Arthur Saikowski the week one starter, but that could
Speaker 2: change depending on how Shiano feels. I am most curious
Speaker 2: about their defense. I think their defense can be cobbled
Speaker 2: together in a way that they they got enough parts
Speaker 2: to be competitive out there. To offer enough resistance and hey,
Speaker 2: at a minimum, be better than Maryland. They've got everybody's
Speaker 2: got to be better than Maryland this year, and that
Speaker 2: would represent, I think, a pretty big step for for Rutgers.
Speaker 2: So if you're talking week to week, who's gonna who's
Speaker 2: gonna be intriguing? Just from a competence standpoint, I'm curious
Speaker 2: to see what Chiano can do in your.
Speaker 1: One Yeah, I mean that the transfers are huge, and yeah,
Speaker 1: the week to week competence thing, I think that the
Speaker 1: Greg Ciano higher is not a year one higher. That
Speaker 1: is a we are investing these next five years into
Speaker 1: hoping that what he did before can become not necessarily reality,
Speaker 1: but in the realm of reality. New Jersey is a
Speaker 1: talented state, you see, I mean Pa, New Jersey, parts
Speaker 1: of New York, Connecticut. There's talent in the northeast. Rutgers
Speaker 1: is just a very unsexy place. Yeah, and we'll see
Speaker 1: if if the Scarlet Knights can sex it up.
Speaker 2: So let me build on that, okay, please, As you
Speaker 2: talk about unsexy places, you got a couple of those
Speaker 2: in the Big ten West, don't.
Speaker 1: You, Yeah, I guess, But be more specific, what type
Speaker 1: of unsex do you want?
Speaker 2: I'm talking about the Iowahawkeyes, Dan of the Iowha guys,
Speaker 2: as we've talked about on our showtime and again kind
Speaker 2: of feels vanilla, kind of feels the same every year.
Speaker 1: They've got some of their own challenges.
Speaker 2: In twenty twenty, They've obviously had a lot going on
Speaker 2: off the field. Here where do we stand on where
Speaker 2: Kirk ference takes things?
Speaker 1: Explosivo? That's my word, ti, I's you familiar civo? Explosciva?
Speaker 1: Are you familiar with the band Tenacious D? I am, yes,
Speaker 1: Tenacious D. It's a song by Tenacious D. They say
Speaker 1: explosivo a bunch and it weirdly, I kept saying that
Speaker 1: looking at Iowa and the potential for twenty twenty, Iowa
Speaker 1: finished something like ninety fifth and ninety sixth and explosive
Speaker 1: plays on the ground and through the air, with an
Speaker 1: experienced quarterback, with relatively developed skill players, a good offensive line.
Speaker 1: Tristan Wurf's obviously was the headliner, got drafted pretty early,
Speaker 1: and their ability to generate, or their desire to generate
Speaker 1: explosive plays something that's key in generating and stopping Iowa's
Speaker 1: fantastic on defense at doing But that to me is
Speaker 1: the intrigue point. Is I mean Spencer Petros this year
Speaker 1: is the new quarterback, a big kid from California and
Speaker 1: big arm whatever. But is that offense opening up at all?
Speaker 1: Wisconsin for all of their identity, You know how solidly
Speaker 1: in to Madison, Wisconsin's offensive identity is They've gotten creative.
Speaker 1: They've run RPOs, they've run misdirection, they've spread the ball around.
Speaker 1: Iowa has not. Iowa has decidedly not. And it's is
Speaker 1: there any sort of evolution of this offense. I know
Speaker 1: they lose key guys on defense on all levels, but
Speaker 1: to me, I'm not worried about their defense. It's offensively,
Speaker 1: what can they do to put a scare into teams
Speaker 1: that basically all kept Iowa under thirty points last year?
Speaker 1: They didn't score a touchdown in their first seven quarters
Speaker 1: in October last year against Michigan and Penn State. If
Speaker 1: you're an Iowa fan watching this, go back to how
Speaker 1: you felt during those seven quarters in which your very
Speaker 1: experienced quarterback Nate Stanley was unable and we knew his
Speaker 1: ability was there to lead Iowa to the end zone.
Speaker 1: That those types of streaks can't happen anymore, ty if
Speaker 1: Iowa was going to win this division. No, it's true.
Speaker 1: That's the intrigue point. How are they getting the ball downfield? Quicker?
Speaker 2: Iowa for a long time has challenged for the Big
Speaker 2: Ten West. This year, I think you could make a
Speaker 2: very real.
Speaker 1: Case for Minnesota.
Speaker 2: Minnesota is a veteran team, maybe not so much on defense,
Speaker 2: but they've obviously got a huge Week one matchup at
Speaker 2: home against Michigan. Are you buying in on the Gophers?
Speaker 2: Where's your intrigue point there?
Speaker 1: Linebackers and defense in general, just because they were so
Speaker 1: disruptive in that back seven, and the corners are in
Speaker 1: pretty good shape. I know they're replacing safeties including Antoine Winfield,
Speaker 1: but their linebackers were so disruptive and so havocy. Because
Speaker 1: they return what they return on offense with a new
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator, I'm not terribly worried about the Gopher offense.
Speaker 1: What it is to me is the defense. What it
Speaker 1: is to me is what they look like in that
Speaker 1: first half against Penn State. Do they have that same
Speaker 1: ceiling this year? As this has to be their year
Speaker 1: with Tanner Morgan as a senior this has to be
Speaker 1: their year with what they return on offense, and it
Speaker 1: can be, but I think it largely is going to
Speaker 1: come down to how well and how deep they are
Speaker 1: at linebacker and safety, and that, to me is the
Speaker 1: big intrigue point. Is what does Minnesota do to build
Speaker 1: upon and not just start out seven to zero and
Speaker 1: lose a couple late to you know, Iowa or whoever, Wisconsin.
Speaker 1: What do they look like in terms of getting over
Speaker 1: that November hump that to me or December hump as
Speaker 1: it were this year, That to me is fascinating about Minnesota.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And as I said, Minnesota's Week one opponent is Michigan,
Speaker 2: who is intriguing on a number of different fronts for me.
Speaker 2: You know, we've been in this very weird kind of
Speaker 2: whip saw state with Jim Harbaugh, where from year to
Speaker 2: year we expect different things. Now, expectations are always high
Speaker 2: at Michigan. Last year was supposed to be the year
Speaker 2: that if they were going to pull off that win
Speaker 2: over Ohio State, it was going to happen. Well it didn't,
Speaker 2: and so now we're in this COVID era where there's
Speaker 2: a lot of turnover. We've got Dylan McCaffrey sitting out.
Speaker 2: We've got an entire offensive line that needs to be rebooted.
Speaker 2: We've got more turnover.
Speaker 1: Than usual on the defensive side of the ball. I
Speaker 1: love Big Joe Milton.
Speaker 2: I love Big Joe Milton, six five and a half,
Speaker 2: two thirty, A mountain of a man. He's huge, what
Speaker 2: has all the throws? He can really spin it down right.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I just my intrigue point with Michigan is
Speaker 2: how much they can rebuild, retool, re whatever, very quickly
Speaker 2: in a weird pandemic state, get themselves together in time
Speaker 2: for what should still be a pretty significantly difficult Big
Speaker 2: Tenie slate of games here. I have my doubts against Minnesota.
Speaker 2: I have my doubts against some of the others on
Speaker 2: their side of the conference as well. And it's probably
Speaker 2: not fair to burden Jim Harbaugh with unrealistic expectations in
Speaker 2: this year twenty twenty season, just because I do feel
Speaker 2: like Michigan's in a much different spot than we've seen
Speaker 2: them over the last five years or so.
Speaker 1: I would imagine Jim Harbaugh's expectations are higher than yours.
Speaker 1: I'm sure they are. I'm sure they are, absolutely so yeah,
Speaker 1: that to me feels right enough. The intrigu point is
Speaker 1: Joe Milton. The intrigue point is Joe Milton. Even though
Speaker 1: the Michigan defense has struggled in those games, you know,
Speaker 1: last year against Wisconsin, the past couple years against Ohio State,
Speaker 1: excellence at quarterback has escaped the Jim Harbaugh era at Michigan.
Speaker 1: I know the last two thirds of the Jake Rudock
Speaker 1: season were interesting. Interesting doesn't beat Ohio State. It just doesn't.
Speaker 1: Excellence at quarterback beats Ohio State and covers for other issues.
Speaker 1: That to me is the entrigue point from Michigan.
Speaker 2: And look, I like Zach Sharboney. I think he was
Speaker 2: great last year. I like Sean Haskins, I think he
Speaker 2: sawid as well.
Speaker 1: It helps real nice.
Speaker 2: It helps to have that running game that you could
Speaker 2: lean on. But without the line, with a new quarterback,
Speaker 2: there's just too many variables on that offense to really
Speaker 2: feel great about it. And again, as I said, I
Speaker 2: trust the defense generally over the course of the season,
Speaker 2: but there is a little bit more turnover there than
Speaker 2: I think we're used to.
Speaker 1: So entry moved to another Okay, can we move to
Speaker 1: another beleaguered head coach.
Speaker 2: Please Scott Frost, Scottie Scotti too hoty.
Speaker 1: My hope for Nebraska is entertainment on one side of
Speaker 1: the ball, like we saw glimpses of now a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago, so I don't like looking too far
Speaker 1: into the past. My intrigue point is if Adrian Martinez
Speaker 1: is healthy, who is he throwing to? We know about
Speaker 1: Wandelle Robinson. They lose JD Spielman. He transfers out kind
Speaker 1: of late in the process. He goes to I think TCU,
Speaker 1: who's catching Adrian Martinez passes? They have a JC guy.
Speaker 1: I know they like a lot. They've got a couple
Speaker 1: of recruits, I mean not recruits, but freshman younger players
Speaker 1: that they like a lot. But Nebraska's first step towards
Speaker 1: competitiveness ish in the Big Ten West. I have to
Speaker 1: add a lot of issues to discussion of Nebraska football.
Speaker 1: They have to be entertaining on offense. They have to
Speaker 1: be a threat on offense. And I watched good Scott
Speaker 1: Frost offenses at Oregon. We all watched good Scott Frost
Speaker 1: offenses at UCF. The defense is going to be pushed
Speaker 1: around once again. I like their secondary a little bit, actually,
Speaker 1: but up front they're going to be pushed around a
Speaker 1: little bit, and that happens, they're going to allow points.
Speaker 1: They can't lose like they did to Minnesota. They can't
Speaker 1: lose like they did to Ohio State. And even if
Speaker 1: it's losing by twenty instead of thirty, that's something that's
Speaker 1: something for it. Give me a half of competitive football,
Speaker 1: give me ount at halftime, twenty four to twenty. Yes,
Speaker 1: you've given up twenty four points, but you're kind of
Speaker 1: right there. That's my entry point for Nebraska is make
Speaker 1: the scoreboard ops work a little bit, please, just please.
Speaker 2: I am intrigued by Nebraska as well, and not even
Speaker 2: so much within the context of this season. They got
Speaker 2: a brutal, brutal Big Ten slate in front of them
Speaker 2: this year.
Speaker 1: I'm not even thirteen points against Northwestern last year. I know,
Speaker 1: I know.
Speaker 2: And then they spoke up after some of the some
Speaker 2: of the COVID decisions by the conference. Time will probably
Speaker 2: tell us whether or not this scheduling situation was intentional,
Speaker 2: but they did draw a very tough slate. It will
Speaker 2: not make Scott Frost's life any easier. I do think
Speaker 2: that he is the right guy for the job. I
Speaker 2: really do. I think if you're Nebraska, you're not going
Speaker 2: to do much better than Scott Frost. So I think
Speaker 2: you give them time. I hope they're patient with you.
Speaker 1: You don't think Nebraska did better with Bo Polini, Well, no,
Speaker 1: here do I do.
Speaker 2: I think that to build this program back up from
Speaker 2: where it's been okay. I think Scott Frost can get
Speaker 2: them there and will get them there with the benefit
Speaker 2: of time. I just hope that the patience is there
Speaker 2: among the powers that be to give him that time
Speaker 2: to go and build this thing the right way, because
Speaker 2: I do have a lot of faith in him as
Speaker 2: a coach.
Speaker 1: It's just going to take some time to get there.
Speaker 1: It seems to me they need to win at least two,
Speaker 1: probably three. I'm looking at their schedule. That's why I'm
Speaker 1: looking down right now at Ohio State, Wisconsin, at Northwestern
Speaker 1: Penn State Illinois. Okay, if they can go three and
Speaker 1: two at home, if they can sneak by Northwestern Illinois
Speaker 1: and Wisconsin, if Wisconsin's still sort of unsettled early on
Speaker 1: at quarterback Grammartz isn't comfortable, Yeah, Yeah, that's encouraging. That's really,
Speaker 1: even if they lose big to Ohio State and Penn
Speaker 1: State whatever.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 1: Three and two is really really nice. I don't think
Speaker 1: it's unreasonable given No, I don't think three, four or
Speaker 1: five whatever it is now whatever it feels like? Yeah, right,
Speaker 1: who do you want to go to? Is there another
Speaker 1: beleaguered coach? Is there another offense? Is another offense that
Speaker 1: needs a spark? Who is well for you? We didn't
Speaker 1: talk about Ohio State yet?
Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, I don't know how we can go this
Speaker 2: deep without talking to Ohio State. And the intrigue point
Speaker 2: for me, I don't have a matchup, you know, I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't have a thing with Ohio State. That's like, oh,
Speaker 2: that's the that's the gotcha, that's the Achilles heel. I
Speaker 2: am intrigued by style points because keep in mind the
Speaker 2: setting in.
Speaker 1: Which the Big Ten is going to be playing these
Speaker 1: football games.
Speaker 2: All the other conferences outside of the Pac twelve obviously
Speaker 2: have started up already have started planting their respective flags.
Speaker 2: Clemson won a game by you know, sixty six odd points,
Speaker 2: however many it was, and certainly Alabama has a few
Speaker 2: big wins on its schedule at resume ready, Yeah, Ohio
Speaker 2: State needs to come in late to the party and
Speaker 2: prove itself. So you know, sure they've got turnover at
Speaker 2: some spots and the secondary maybe we have questions about it,
Speaker 2: but I think ultimately there's gonna be a pretty strong
Speaker 2: impetus to score as many points as possible whenever possible,
Speaker 2: and so I think that means big stats for justin
Speaker 2: fields as we saw a year ago. I think that
Speaker 2: means wherever they can possibly rip the arms and legs
Speaker 2: off you, they're gonna do just that. The gap between
Speaker 2: Ohio State and I think the next closest team and
Speaker 2: or teams in the Big Ten is whoever, it is
Speaker 2: substantially wider than it was a year ago, and so
Speaker 2: I just think they're going to run rough shot through
Speaker 2: the conference. I think they're gonna score a ton of points,
Speaker 2: and I expect to see them not just holding up
Speaker 2: that Big Ten trophy, but eventually making it into the
Speaker 2: playoffs and really making a name for themselves.
Speaker 1: So your intrigue point is murder potential. Murder potential.
Speaker 2: They are college football's murder hornets this year.
Speaker 1: Who is the team that they are least likely to murder?
Speaker 1: Is that Penn State Week two in an empty Beaver Stadium.
Speaker 1: I think so, I think so. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I have a lot of confidence in Penn State. I
Speaker 2: think the ceiling is pretty high. I think the floor
Speaker 2: is pretty high because of their defense and what they've
Speaker 2: got coming back on offense. Now, sure that being said,
Speaker 2: my three points of concern for Penn State are a
Speaker 2: a giving up big plays on defense, which is sort
Speaker 2: of a byproduct of the defense that Brent Prye runs.
Speaker 2: There's a risk reward element to it where big plays
Speaker 2: are sometimes a thing that you get, so they need
Speaker 2: to cut down on that obviously if they want to
Speaker 2: beat a team like in Ohio State. They also lose
Speaker 2: Micah Parsons. Micah Parsons opting out for twenty twenty. I
Speaker 2: don't blame the kid. I think they've got enough depth
Speaker 2: without him to still play a really good branded defense,
Speaker 2: but it hurts not to have him out there, So
Speaker 2: how they replace that gap is of concern of interest
Speaker 2: to me. I think they'll be okay, but again I'm
Speaker 2: watching that intently and look on the offensive side, we
Speaker 2: know about Journey Brown being out medical condition won't be
Speaker 2: there for twenty twenty. I think they're fine from a
Speaker 2: depth perspective. What I really care about is the passing game,
Speaker 2: and especially about Sean Clifford finding targets out wide to
Speaker 2: throw two new offensive coordinator friend, he doesn't know it,
Speaker 2: but favorite of the solid verbal Kirk Shiraka.
Speaker 1: I think his offense.
Speaker 2: Is more streamlined, it's more simplified. He will find ways
Speaker 2: to better utilize a guy like a Pat Fryarmuth. But
Speaker 2: ultimately a lot rides on.
Speaker 1: A lot of our stuff in Minnesota, for sure.
Speaker 2: Absolutely a lot rides on whether or not Sean Clifford
Speaker 2: can be better with the football and show up in
Speaker 2: bigger spots than they did last year. So intrigued to
Speaker 2: see his progression. But I don't think they're going to
Speaker 2: get murdered by Ohio State.
Speaker 1: Yeah, not terribly concerned. But we saw what happened with
Speaker 1: the Penn State offense last year, especially when they lost
Speaker 1: Sean Clifford, who was himself not all that good against
Speaker 1: Ohio State. This is this is an offense that can
Speaker 1: go into a shell pretty quickly. So hopefully we don't
Speaker 1: see that anymore in those big games for Penn State.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about Purdue. Let's talk about Purdue one, because
Speaker 1: they have given Ohio State some trouble in recent years
Speaker 1: to have that's right, they have. We're talking about the
Speaker 1: Purdue boiler Makers and two we mentioned, you know, winter
Speaker 1: wonders for Wisconsin. Purdue has those dudes out wide. I
Speaker 1: think in Rondel Moore and you know you If Rondelle
Speaker 1: Moore can do that against Ohio State during the regular season,
Speaker 1: I imagine he can do it against somebody later on
Speaker 1: in the year, perhaps in December or January, if Purdue
Speaker 1: ever makes it there. Purdue is fascinating to me because
Speaker 1: what do those two receivers, David Bell and Rondel Moore,
Speaker 1: what do they do for that offense? This was an offense.
Speaker 1: This was a Purdue team that was so beset by
Speaker 1: injuries last year that just crushed their season. I don't
Speaker 1: love where they are on defense. They've still given up
Speaker 1: too much and I don't think health fully solves everything.
Speaker 1: But what can those two guys on offense do gravitationally
Speaker 1: for Purdue? What can they do for I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's going to be Plumber or Aidan O'Connell Jack Plumber,
Speaker 1: Aid and O'Connell at quarterback, what can they do for
Speaker 1: the running game? What can they do for each other,
Speaker 1: What can they do for the middle of the field.
Speaker 1: Because Purdue is another one of those teams that I
Speaker 1: think they're ahead of Nebraska when healthy, just because of
Speaker 1: they've proven it on the field. They've proven that they
Speaker 1: can be competitive, They've proven that they can beat big teams.
Speaker 1: It's just a week to week thing. What does that
Speaker 1: gravitational consistency look like for that offense? To me, it's
Speaker 1: fascinating Perdue. When they are healthy and fully operational and weaponized,
Speaker 1: they're a great watch that's weaponized. Purdue is not something. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we've heard a whole lot drum. I don't know if
Speaker 1: the big drum is going to be on the field
Speaker 1: this year, but they do love the big drums somewhere
Speaker 1: on that campus. They do.
Speaker 2: And I love that Rondell Moore is playing. You know,
Speaker 2: opted out initially, he's coming back down. Yeah, he's one
Speaker 2: of one of the more exciting players in college football.
Speaker 1: And it's cool that cool that.
Speaker 2: We get to see him after all after a lot
Speaker 2: of doubt.
Speaker 1: Here. I want to talk about Northwestern.
Speaker 2: Because I know you're very close to Northwestern University. Now,
Speaker 2: just geographically speaking, how do we feel about Northwestern. We
Speaker 2: didn't feel great about them last year. Is there any
Speaker 2: pulse in that Wildcat program?
Speaker 1: That was a really nice thing. You just said we
Speaker 1: didn't feel great because we did. They were terrible. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's probably more accurate new offensive coordinators. The intrigued point
Speaker 1: to me is Peyton Ramsey as a quarterback who I
Speaker 1: think finished? Was he one of the best? Was he
Speaker 1: top five Big Ten quarterback last year? Which automatically makes
Speaker 1: him an even higher ranked quarterback in the Big Ten? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Inner Morgan, justin fields, Jay Patterson. Maybe, I don't know,
Speaker 1: Like the it fell up pretty quickly in the Big Ten.
Speaker 1: Unbelieving Ramsey is. He's an accurate quarterback. I think he
Speaker 1: completed sixty five percent of his passes against Big Ten teams.
Speaker 1: He's efficient, he doesn't make a ton of mistakes. His
Speaker 1: ceiling is not particularly high. But what does Northwestern need
Speaker 1: at quarterback? If their defense is okay, Northwestern's down there
Speaker 1: in the NFL prospect Rashaun Slater left tackle, so that
Speaker 1: hurts them. What do they have in terms of game
Speaker 1: changers on offense? It's not going to be a lot,
Speaker 1: but that's not how they're going to win the offense
Speaker 1: is there to be relatively efficient and serve the defense,
Speaker 1: which is fine. They won the division a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago. If they get pretty good quarterback play, it
Speaker 1: feels like they're forty times better than where they were
Speaker 1: last year. Yeah, that to me is intriguing. If Peyton
Speaker 1: Ramsey of twenty twenty looks like Peyton Ramsey of twenty nineteen.
Speaker 1: I know it's a lot to ask with the issues
Speaker 1: that have surrounded this Northwestern offense for years, but that
Speaker 1: is raising the floor considerably from where it's been. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I'm with you.
Speaker 2: And while we talk about floors, why don't we talk
Speaker 2: about Maryland? Okay, let's you know, how like you see
Speaker 2: in movies when somebody yells fire and everybody runs out
Speaker 2: of the movie theater like a stampede. That was sort
Speaker 2: of what happened at Maryland this offseason. They had just
Speaker 2: an incredible number of guys run for the exits. It's
Speaker 2: not uncommon whenever you've got a new coaching regime taking over,
Speaker 2: but it was pretty drastic. And so the intrigue point
Speaker 2: for me on the Maryland side is not anything to
Speaker 2: do with wins and losses. But we know Mike Loxley
Speaker 2: knows the area. We've joked about that our fantasy things.
Speaker 1: Mike Axley knows the DMV.
Speaker 2: He knows the DMV, and I do think that if
Speaker 2: given some time, he can build up an interesting roster
Speaker 2: and move the program forward. It's not going to happen
Speaker 2: this year. My point of intrigue is at the quarterback position.
Speaker 2: It's at the quarterback position because we've got on one hand,
Speaker 2: Lance Lejon, my favorite Frenchman in all of college football.
Speaker 2: Don't know if he's French, certainly sounds that way. He
Speaker 2: was a four star recruit.
Speaker 1: For a long New Orleans, so right he was.
Speaker 2: He was a four star recruit in Locksley's first recruiting class,
Speaker 2: and there is obviously a lot of excitement around him,
Speaker 2: as well as Taliah Tongue of Ioloa Tonga.
Speaker 1: They have a Tonga I looa, they have a Tonga,
Speaker 1: but they do have a.
Speaker 2: Yeah Tua of course playing for the Miami Dolphins. The
Speaker 2: younger brother, Talia is now playing with Mike Loxley, who
Speaker 2: did coach older brother Tua for some period of time
Speaker 2: before he left Alabama.
Speaker 1: So right now, at.
Speaker 2: Time of recording, it's an either or situation on the
Speaker 2: depth chart, it's either le Jean or tongue of Ia Looa.
Speaker 2: We'll see who ends up getting more time. But that
Speaker 2: interplay between those two and how Locksley chooses to.
Speaker 1: Deploy each is of particular interest to me. Okay, they god,
Speaker 1: they give a fifty four points, seventy three points, thirty
Speaker 1: eight fifty two. So yeah, I think the defense probably
Speaker 1: has for the to go to be very obvious. But yeah, offensively,
Speaker 1: there's talent there, there's speed there, there's recent talent in
Speaker 1: speed there. Yeah, and so they brought in what a
Speaker 1: blue chip receiver, a five star receiver this year. It's
Speaker 1: slowly but surely becoming intriguing. I don't know if it's
Speaker 1: intriguing this week, next week, in the week after, but
Speaker 1: there is some intrigue to College Park.
Speaker 2: I would say I would agree. I would agree the
Speaker 2: last team that I who do you have?
Speaker 1: The last team that I have disrespected somebody Michigan State,
Speaker 1: maybe Michigan State. So Michigan State's in an incredibly weird situation.
Speaker 1: Michigan State had their longtime head football coach Marked Antonio
Speaker 1: resign abruptly on February the second of this very calendar year.
Speaker 1: They move quickly. They probably overpaid.
Speaker 2: A little bit to bring Meltucker up from Colorado, but
Speaker 2: they got their guy, so mel Tucker. Mel Tucker takes
Speaker 2: over in February, tries to get things go as quickly
Speaker 2: as possible. We talked to their social media director on
Speaker 2: one of our shows this offseason. But obviously there's this
Speaker 2: whole pandemic thing on top of it. So, on top
Speaker 2: of the fact that there was a late coaching change,
Speaker 2: which is always brutal for a program, we now have
Speaker 2: this very awkward quarantine period where teams just have not
Speaker 2: been able to get out there and do their thing
Speaker 2: and learn the new system and mesh together and be
Speaker 2: one as a team. So that does not bode well
Speaker 2: for Michigan State, at least in the early going here
Speaker 2: with regard to what are they going to do on
Speaker 2: the field, what's the output going to be? That being said,
Speaker 2: I am very intrigued in this being stylistically a different
Speaker 2: offense because for a long time it's been a lot
Speaker 2: more points is that the new style, well, I just
Speaker 2: think I just think the tempo that I expect to
Speaker 2: see Jay Johnson comes along with mel Tucker from Colorado.
Speaker 2: The results in year one were if he okay, but mixed.
Speaker 2: There is a tempo component to the offense that I
Speaker 2: think they want to run that we frankly have not
Speaker 2: seen at Michigan State. So that contrast from what we've
Speaker 2: seen in years past out of a D'Antonio offense, to
Speaker 2: me is of particular intrigue here. I'm curious to see
Speaker 2: some of the new faces in new spaces. Certainly Elijah
Speaker 2: College had a great freshman year, almost rushing for one
Speaker 2: thousand yards. To now see what they put around him,
Speaker 2: and just the general tenor of that offense to me
Speaker 2: is pretty interesting.
Speaker 1: For a team last year against Ohio State, Wisconsin, Penn State,
Speaker 1: and Michigan they scored ten, zero, seven and ten points. No,
Speaker 1: you're right, the entry point has to be offense. Just
Speaker 1: because we can't watch another year this. No, it's impossible.
Speaker 1: We cannot watch another year of Michigan State falling from
Speaker 1: playoff team from conference contender, not even just a vision
Speaker 1: const a conference contender. They've won the Big Ten. They
Speaker 1: forced Urban Meyer to eat crappy Papa John's pizza and
Speaker 1: a golf cart. Yeah, to where they've fallen. Offensively, they're
Speaker 1: extremely efficient, not always flashy but extremely efficient at their
Speaker 1: you know, the early twenty teams or whatever. I offense
Speaker 1: is an intrigue. But if they can just rise to
Speaker 1: below average and then maintain some semblance of what their
Speaker 1: defense has been, which has been all pretty impressive considering
Speaker 1: what the offense hasn't been giving them, that's intriguing. That's intriguing.
Speaker 1: Mel Tucker has a really good defensive reputation. There is talent,
Speaker 1: but if the talent has fallen off at Michigan State,
Speaker 1: I'm curious to see how well that offense can serve
Speaker 1: the defense just by staying on the field. Just stay
Speaker 1: on the field. Get get a field goal here, you know,
Speaker 1: give them rest, get three first downs on a drive
Speaker 1: and then punt. That to me is the very base
Speaker 1: level intrigue for Michigan State's offense. It's a low bar tie.
Speaker 1: Did we cover all the teams? I believe so? Did
Speaker 1: you cover all of your teams? You want to come
Speaker 1: it out and check it off. I've got Ohio.
Speaker 2: State, Penn State, Michigan, Indiana, Michigan State, Rutgers, and Marya.
Speaker 1: I think we covered it. Yeah, I have Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Perdue,
Speaker 1: Northwestern Illinois, we're a set. Do you have a big
Speaker 1: ten West runner up to Ohio State or perhaps somebody
Speaker 1: who is going to win the conference that is not
Speaker 1: Ohio State.
Speaker 2: Ohio State is going to win the conference. Ohio State
Speaker 2: is far and away the best team in the conference.
Speaker 2: I still think you got to go Wisconsin, but I'm
Speaker 2: very intrigued by Minnesota. Minnesota, to me, is that team
Speaker 2: that if they can get their defense together, there is
Speaker 2: certainly more than enough firepower on that offense, especially with
Speaker 2: Rashad Bateman now opting back in. You've got a highly
Speaker 2: efficient quarterback in ten Or Morgan, a good running game.
Speaker 2: There are enough pieces there that I think we can
Speaker 2: rely on and count on that they are a formidable opponent,
Speaker 2: formidable challenger to Wisconsin.
Speaker 1: My big grower is Purdue. My big grower is Perdue.
Speaker 1: My big faller might be Penn State. I could see it.
Speaker 1: I could see it. I could see it. I think
Speaker 1: the lack of obvious weapons, perhaps outside of your boy
Speaker 1: baby Gronk on offense, and with Journey Brown now unable
Speaker 1: to play this year, and defense losing their clear best player,
Speaker 1: losing a couple pieces up front, Penn State has me
Speaker 1: worried Penn State has me worried, just because I'm going
Speaker 1: to need a substantial jump from Sean Clifford to feel
Speaker 1: really good about them all season long. And I don't
Speaker 1: know if I say it, that could be my foller.
Speaker 2: What I like about Clifford, especially in the new system,
Speaker 2: is that he brings a little bit more mobility than
Speaker 2: Tanner Morgan. And you know what Shiraka can do with
Speaker 2: that mobility and especially having a big tight end that
Speaker 2: that could be interesting with that offense. Did really have
Speaker 2: that at Minnesota, So definitely a new dimension that he
Speaker 2: can explore. But I think you're right, You're right to
Speaker 2: question Penn State eight. It does hurt to lose Micah Parsons.
Speaker 2: But I will add that the defense does bring a
Speaker 2: lot back.
Speaker 1: So they've recruited and developed so well on defense. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's yeah. The road schedule's nice at Nebraska and Michigan
Speaker 1: at Ruckers, okay, and they obviously open at Indiana. But
Speaker 1: I'm worried a little bit worried about the offense.
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