1 00:00:10,520 --> 00:00:12,799 Speaker 1: Like he He's live it this Thursday night, April fifteenth, 2 00:00:12,920 --> 00:00:16,040 Speaker 1: the Year of Our Lord, twenty twenty one, jal A 3 00:00:16,239 --> 00:00:19,880 Speaker 1: Rod No more so we did indeed outlive them that 4 00:00:19,920 --> 00:00:23,200 Speaker 1: prop bet hits. We are jam packed tonight and we 5 00:00:23,239 --> 00:00:24,639 Speaker 1: have got a lot to talk about because it's a 6 00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:27,640 Speaker 1: big spring weekend. There are tons of spring games all 7 00:00:27,640 --> 00:00:30,080 Speaker 1: over the place. So if you haven't already blocked off 8 00:00:30,120 --> 00:00:32,519 Speaker 1: your Saturday, maybe the weather's gonna be. 9 00:00:32,520 --> 00:00:33,720 Speaker 2: Good where you live, maybe it's not. 10 00:00:33,840 --> 00:00:36,120 Speaker 1: I would strongly suggest either being parked in front of 11 00:00:36,120 --> 00:00:39,000 Speaker 1: the TV or get that DVR fired up, because there 12 00:00:39,040 --> 00:00:41,720 Speaker 1: are a number of really really big spring games this week. 13 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:44,479 Speaker 1: And keep in mind, a lot of these places you're 14 00:00:44,479 --> 00:00:46,240 Speaker 1: going to see people in the stands for the first 15 00:00:46,280 --> 00:00:48,400 Speaker 1: time in well over a year. 16 00:00:48,400 --> 00:00:49,479 Speaker 2: So that's something to look forward to. 17 00:00:49,560 --> 00:00:51,760 Speaker 1: We're going to talk about those all over the SEC 18 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:54,480 Speaker 1: and beyond tonight. I'm hitting Ohio State pretty hard tonight 19 00:00:54,520 --> 00:00:57,600 Speaker 1: because had some extended conversations over the last week and 20 00:00:57,600 --> 00:00:59,600 Speaker 1: I wanted to wait till tonight so I could have 21 00:00:59,600 --> 00:01:00,640 Speaker 1: those stations. 22 00:01:01,240 --> 00:01:01,640 Speaker 2: So you'll know this. 23 00:01:01,640 --> 00:01:03,240 Speaker 1: We haven't talked about the Buckeyees in about a week 24 00:01:03,240 --> 00:01:05,520 Speaker 1: and a half. The drought ends tonight, got some whispers 25 00:01:05,520 --> 00:01:09,600 Speaker 1: and intel from Columbus, the entire NLI picture, the name 26 00:01:09,720 --> 00:01:12,160 Speaker 1: and image and likeness picture in Il. 27 00:01:12,280 --> 00:01:12,720 Speaker 2: There we go. 28 00:01:13,160 --> 00:01:15,679 Speaker 1: It's evolving, and we've talked about it, and I've told 29 00:01:15,680 --> 00:01:18,040 Speaker 1: you that it will evolve. And I think the way 30 00:01:18,040 --> 00:01:20,959 Speaker 1: that we phrased it in January was some of the 31 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:24,319 Speaker 1: mole hills will become mountains. Some of the mountains will 32 00:01:24,319 --> 00:01:26,920 Speaker 1: become mole hills. Well, now we're in sort of the 33 00:01:26,959 --> 00:01:29,640 Speaker 1: evolutionary process of that. We're starting to see it. Some 34 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:33,039 Speaker 1: programs are making moves that I think illustrate our point. 35 00:01:33,080 --> 00:01:35,119 Speaker 1: We're going to talk about that tonight. And also, there 36 00:01:35,200 --> 00:01:37,680 Speaker 1: is a recruiting tsunami coming, so you can go ahead 37 00:01:37,680 --> 00:01:38,920 Speaker 1: and turn on those sirens. 38 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:39,880 Speaker 2: I grew up in Georgia. 39 00:01:39,880 --> 00:01:41,640 Speaker 1: I have no clue what it's like when a tsunami 40 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:45,560 Speaker 1: is imminent, but figuratively there is one coming in recruiting. 41 00:01:45,760 --> 00:01:48,400 Speaker 1: In fact, in the last hour or so, I mean, Jesse, 42 00:01:48,480 --> 00:01:50,080 Speaker 1: we didn't even have time to make a graphic for it, 43 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:52,280 Speaker 1: not that we need it necessarily, but there's been news 44 00:01:52,320 --> 00:01:55,320 Speaker 1: on this even within the last hour about the recruiting calendar. 45 00:01:55,520 --> 00:01:58,400 Speaker 1: And let me tell you if you think summer's normally boring, 46 00:01:58,600 --> 00:02:00,800 Speaker 1: you know, we don't believe in the season around here. 47 00:02:00,800 --> 00:02:02,920 Speaker 1: But if you think summer's boring, way, do you see 48 00:02:02,960 --> 00:02:05,520 Speaker 1: what's about to happen. So I also wanted to let 49 00:02:05,600 --> 00:02:08,440 Speaker 1: you know it's been a loaded week around here. If 50 00:02:08,440 --> 00:02:11,040 Speaker 1: you're a subscriber to the Late Kick podcast feed, you 51 00:02:11,160 --> 00:02:15,120 Speaker 1: already saw today the Late Kick Show Owners Association meeting 52 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:17,920 Speaker 1: has dropped. I was right here in the studio last night. 53 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:20,960 Speaker 1: I had to call up director Emeritith Colin and FaceTime 54 00:02:21,040 --> 00:02:22,679 Speaker 1: my way around the studio so he could show me 55 00:02:22,720 --> 00:02:25,520 Speaker 1: how to turn the lights on pathetic and he did, 56 00:02:25,960 --> 00:02:27,920 Speaker 1: and I thank him, and so we got that recorded 57 00:02:27,960 --> 00:02:30,480 Speaker 1: last night. We went a solid two hours. It's really great. 58 00:02:30,520 --> 00:02:32,359 Speaker 1: I think we're gonna get the YouTube product up sometime 59 00:02:32,400 --> 00:02:35,400 Speaker 1: tomorrow Saturday at the latest, I think tomorrow. It was 60 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:38,840 Speaker 1: really fun, generated a lot of buzz, got a lot 61 00:02:38,840 --> 00:02:41,520 Speaker 1: of comments about it from people both inside the company 62 00:02:41,560 --> 00:02:44,560 Speaker 1: and then outside this company, but inside our industry or 63 00:02:44,600 --> 00:02:48,520 Speaker 1: as you may know, them are enemies, wink wink, and 64 00:02:48,560 --> 00:02:50,600 Speaker 1: so a lot of people like that. And we're gonna 65 00:02:50,720 --> 00:02:53,440 Speaker 1: do it every time we hit another thousand on Instagram, 66 00:02:53,480 --> 00:02:56,040 Speaker 1: So follow me over there at kick Josh, thank you 67 00:02:56,080 --> 00:02:59,239 Speaker 1: so much for that. Let's dive in big spring weekend 68 00:02:59,320 --> 00:03:02,280 Speaker 1: on tap Tomorrowmorrow. Well, if you're watching this on Friday, 69 00:03:02,320 --> 00:03:04,040 Speaker 1: tomorrow being Saturday, is going to be a really big 70 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:08,880 Speaker 1: day across just the SEC. Georgia's got a spring game, 71 00:03:09,160 --> 00:03:14,920 Speaker 1: Bama's got one, Auburn's got one, Arkansas, Mississippi State, Vanderbilt, LSU, 72 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:19,200 Speaker 1: all of them on this same April seventeenth Saturday. And 73 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:21,000 Speaker 1: so I was just going to go around the SEC 74 00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:23,639 Speaker 1: right quick. Some things we're hearing, some things to look 75 00:03:23,680 --> 00:03:26,600 Speaker 1: forward to this Saturday. Let's start with Georgia. First thing 76 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:29,440 Speaker 1: to look at as the forecast. Then the second thing 77 00:03:29,440 --> 00:03:32,320 Speaker 1: to look at is left tackle. But I'm not going 78 00:03:32,320 --> 00:03:34,080 Speaker 1: to talk about left tackle a whole lot, because if 79 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:36,960 Speaker 1: this were the fall, if they opened with Clemson this week, 80 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:38,920 Speaker 1: you know, if they were playing an actual football game Saturday, 81 00:03:38,960 --> 00:03:41,720 Speaker 1: that'd be well. But sometimes the pass rush in a 82 00:03:41,760 --> 00:03:44,480 Speaker 1: spring game is not quite what you would expect it 83 00:03:44,520 --> 00:03:45,840 Speaker 1: to be in a normal game, and a lot of 84 00:03:45,880 --> 00:03:46,720 Speaker 1: that is because of the. 85 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:47,960 Speaker 2: Design of the spring game. 86 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:49,920 Speaker 1: No one wants to see their quarterback get splattered all 87 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:52,720 Speaker 1: over the place. So you know, guys, like Adam Anderson. 88 00:03:52,840 --> 00:03:55,400 Speaker 1: They may not be pulled back in that slingshot and 89 00:03:55,720 --> 00:03:57,360 Speaker 1: swung out like they normally would if. 90 00:03:57,240 --> 00:03:58,720 Speaker 2: It were week one or week two. 91 00:03:59,000 --> 00:04:01,040 Speaker 1: So maybe we don't learn a whole lot about left tackle, 92 00:04:01,360 --> 00:04:04,960 Speaker 1: but wide receiver quarterback gonna learn a whole lot about it. 93 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:05,360 Speaker 2: JT. 94 00:04:05,480 --> 00:04:09,040 Speaker 1: Daniels, I gotta sneeze, and it's kind of should I 95 00:04:09,080 --> 00:04:09,360 Speaker 1: do it? 96 00:04:09,600 --> 00:04:11,280 Speaker 2: Nope and went away? Okay, So JT. 97 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:14,960 Speaker 1: Daniels, I think the command of the offense in general, 98 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:17,320 Speaker 1: like that's something to watch. I don't know how much 99 00:04:17,320 --> 00:04:20,320 Speaker 1: we can take away in that facet, but that entire 100 00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:22,680 Speaker 1: wide receiver room. The way I would phrase it is, 101 00:04:22,880 --> 00:04:25,599 Speaker 1: I'm excited to watch JT. Daniels and and then I 102 00:04:25,720 --> 00:04:27,800 Speaker 1: just put a big blank and so I've got a 103 00:04:27,839 --> 00:04:30,159 Speaker 1: lot of players, but the one I'm really excited to 104 00:04:30,200 --> 00:04:32,960 Speaker 1: watch in the absence of George Pickens is a guy 105 00:04:33,040 --> 00:04:36,920 Speaker 1: like Arian Smith. Arian Smith, as you may look at 106 00:04:36,920 --> 00:04:38,960 Speaker 1: the rest of the offense and say, oh, Kirby Smarter, 107 00:04:39,040 --> 00:04:41,120 Speaker 1: Todd Munkin, they won't want to show a whole lot 108 00:04:41,160 --> 00:04:44,080 Speaker 1: this Saturday. You can show Arian Smith all you want to. 109 00:04:44,440 --> 00:04:46,760 Speaker 1: Guys who have that kind of speed, it doesn't really matter. 110 00:04:47,279 --> 00:04:50,200 Speaker 1: It was like Bamma with Jaylen Waddle. Just show him. 111 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:52,479 Speaker 1: It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if you know they 112 00:04:52,520 --> 00:04:54,840 Speaker 1: have him, because you probably can't do a whole lot 113 00:04:54,839 --> 00:04:55,159 Speaker 1: about it. 114 00:04:55,200 --> 00:04:57,599 Speaker 2: Now. I'm not comparing the two per se. 115 00:04:57,680 --> 00:05:00,400 Speaker 1: I'm saying they hope Arian Smith turns into for them 116 00:05:00,400 --> 00:05:02,599 Speaker 1: what a guy like Wada was for Alabama. Those guys 117 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:04,720 Speaker 1: are few and far between, of course, but you can 118 00:05:04,760 --> 00:05:07,440 Speaker 1: show him off all you want to. And he has 119 00:05:07,480 --> 00:05:10,680 Speaker 1: got burner speed, one of a very very few guys 120 00:05:10,720 --> 00:05:13,800 Speaker 1: who possessed the kind of skill set that at any 121 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:16,400 Speaker 1: given point could score at any spot on the field. 122 00:05:16,520 --> 00:05:19,400 Speaker 1: So I'll be very excited to watch him. And I 123 00:05:19,440 --> 00:05:21,760 Speaker 1: also just look at that wide receiver group in general. 124 00:05:21,760 --> 00:05:23,680 Speaker 1: Sometimes we come out of these spring games and all 125 00:05:23,720 --> 00:05:26,159 Speaker 1: of a sudden, like what if Kiris Jackson's not a 126 00:05:26,160 --> 00:05:27,880 Speaker 1: guy who needs to prove himself, but what if Kiris 127 00:05:27,960 --> 00:05:30,359 Speaker 1: Jackson has a really big day. What if Demetris Robertson 128 00:05:30,360 --> 00:05:32,120 Speaker 1: has a really big day. Those are names that you're 129 00:05:32,160 --> 00:05:34,240 Speaker 1: used to. You've said those names for a while. So 130 00:05:34,320 --> 00:05:36,160 Speaker 1: that wide receiver room is what I'd be focused on 131 00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:39,200 Speaker 1: at Georgia at Alabama. I want to just move beyond 132 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:41,560 Speaker 1: Bryce Young, because Bryce Young's the obvious answer here. You 133 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:44,640 Speaker 1: got a new starter at quarterback there, Bill O'Brien kind 134 00:05:44,640 --> 00:05:48,560 Speaker 1: of a subplot new offensive coordinator at Alabama. We were 135 00:05:48,560 --> 00:05:51,800 Speaker 1: on the aforementioned Late Kick Show Owners Association meeting last 136 00:05:51,839 --> 00:05:56,120 Speaker 1: night talking about top coordinators in college football? 137 00:05:56,240 --> 00:05:57,440 Speaker 2: Is Bill O'Brien one? 138 00:05:57,760 --> 00:06:00,159 Speaker 1: He has not called a play yet for Alabama, but 139 00:06:00,240 --> 00:06:03,440 Speaker 1: yet Nick Saban doesn't hire Tomato Cans, so he is 140 00:06:03,640 --> 00:06:05,839 Speaker 1: certainly sure that Bill O'Brien. 141 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:05,880 Speaker 2: Is the man. 142 00:06:05,920 --> 00:06:09,239 Speaker 1: And if that guy's good enough to have Nick Saban's 143 00:06:09,279 --> 00:06:12,039 Speaker 1: offense handed over to him, maybe he's one of the 144 00:06:12,040 --> 00:06:13,800 Speaker 1: best in the country before he ever calls a play. 145 00:06:14,360 --> 00:06:16,279 Speaker 1: Having said that, we get a little sneak peak, like 146 00:06:16,320 --> 00:06:18,760 Speaker 1: just a little bit of taste of that tomorrow or Saturday. 147 00:06:18,760 --> 00:06:23,120 Speaker 1: I keep thinking this Friday already. Corner depth and interior 148 00:06:23,200 --> 00:06:25,919 Speaker 1: defensive line depth. It's what I want to focus on 149 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:29,600 Speaker 1: with Alabama. They've got right now, they're starting two corners 150 00:06:29,680 --> 00:06:32,520 Speaker 1: or probably Jalen armor Davis, who's a guy who's been 151 00:06:32,560 --> 00:06:33,440 Speaker 1: there a little while. 152 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:34,800 Speaker 2: There's not a whole lot of. 153 00:06:35,080 --> 00:06:38,719 Speaker 1: True freshman being shoved into starting spots on Alabama's defense, 154 00:06:38,720 --> 00:06:39,920 Speaker 1: which sometimes is the case. 155 00:06:39,960 --> 00:06:41,880 Speaker 2: But you got Jalen armor Davis there. 156 00:06:42,080 --> 00:06:44,760 Speaker 1: Josh Job's a familiar name, but I'm interested to see 157 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:45,359 Speaker 1: these two. 158 00:06:45,200 --> 00:06:46,560 Speaker 2: Cats behind them. 159 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:50,719 Speaker 1: Marcus Banks is a name that if you follow Alabama, 160 00:06:50,760 --> 00:06:53,080 Speaker 1: you've heard a little bit more about Jaquincy McKinstry. Now 161 00:06:53,080 --> 00:06:55,080 Speaker 1: that's a true freshman, and that's a guy if you 162 00:06:55,120 --> 00:06:56,720 Speaker 1: listen to the practice reports. I go over at to 163 00:06:56,720 --> 00:06:59,719 Speaker 1: Obama online dot com and I read Charlie Potter's practice 164 00:06:59,760 --> 00:07:02,560 Speaker 1: report and I listened to Nick Saban talk and get 165 00:07:02,600 --> 00:07:04,960 Speaker 1: some feedback from the program. And all you ever hear 166 00:07:05,040 --> 00:07:07,880 Speaker 1: is after every single rep in practice, there's kool Age, 167 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:10,160 Speaker 1: Quincy McKinstry, there's him going through a rep, and then 168 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:12,800 Speaker 1: there's Nick Saban in his ear. Well, they do that 169 00:07:12,840 --> 00:07:15,360 Speaker 1: when they expect a guy to contribute that year, and 170 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:17,400 Speaker 1: in this case as a true freshman. So let's see 171 00:07:17,400 --> 00:07:20,080 Speaker 1: how many reps those guys get Saturday. And then as 172 00:07:20,120 --> 00:07:23,360 Speaker 1: for the defensive line, I said interior, but let's just 173 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:26,200 Speaker 1: look across the entire D line. DJ Dale is a 174 00:07:26,240 --> 00:07:28,240 Speaker 1: guy who's been there a couple of years now. Tim 175 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:30,640 Speaker 1: Smith second year, I think in the program now, but 176 00:07:30,720 --> 00:07:33,800 Speaker 1: we've talked about justin to Boygbee. We've talked about them 177 00:07:33,840 --> 00:07:36,560 Speaker 1: having Lebrian ray back, but they've also got a guy 178 00:07:36,600 --> 00:07:39,880 Speaker 1: like Byron Young for Darien Mathis Jamil Burrows. 179 00:07:39,920 --> 00:07:41,480 Speaker 2: They've got some really good depth. 180 00:07:41,560 --> 00:07:44,320 Speaker 1: They are a program that can go a few guys deep, 181 00:07:44,360 --> 00:07:47,440 Speaker 1: a few lines deep on the defensive front now, which 182 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:49,960 Speaker 1: hasn't always been the case the last couple of years 183 00:07:49,960 --> 00:07:51,680 Speaker 1: for them, And so pay attention to that. 184 00:07:51,760 --> 00:07:55,000 Speaker 2: With Alabama, how about LSU. This one's easy. Don't overthink 185 00:07:55,040 --> 00:07:55,360 Speaker 2: the room. 186 00:07:55,400 --> 00:07:59,440 Speaker 1: It's quarterback by ten miles and I'm looking at too specifically, 187 00:07:59,760 --> 00:08:02,880 Speaker 1: all due respect to TJ. Finley, Garrett nuss Meyer is 188 00:08:02,880 --> 00:08:05,080 Speaker 1: a guy who has a promising future, but you know 189 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:07,679 Speaker 1: it's Miles Brenham, and then you know it's Max Johnson. 190 00:08:07,840 --> 00:08:09,400 Speaker 2: And I don't have a lean one way or the 191 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:09,880 Speaker 2: other here. 192 00:08:09,960 --> 00:08:13,080 Speaker 1: I'm just saying, you can talk all you want to, 193 00:08:13,320 --> 00:08:15,720 Speaker 1: you can go through preview magazine season all you want to. 194 00:08:15,760 --> 00:08:17,520 Speaker 2: I don't care if this is a spring game or not. 195 00:08:18,520 --> 00:08:22,400 Speaker 1: Anytime you get to put your eyeballs on like game action. 196 00:08:22,840 --> 00:08:25,200 Speaker 1: When you have a quarterback situation like this, it's really 197 00:08:25,240 --> 00:08:28,560 Speaker 1: important because it is competition and so what I get 198 00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:31,160 Speaker 1: to see and what you get to see Saturday with LSU. 199 00:08:31,760 --> 00:08:34,240 Speaker 1: Is you get to look and you get to see, 200 00:08:34,440 --> 00:08:36,800 Speaker 1: is there one guy who looks like he just has 201 00:08:36,840 --> 00:08:39,560 Speaker 1: a lot firmer grasp of the offense? Is there one 202 00:08:39,559 --> 00:08:42,120 Speaker 1: guy who looks like he has a lot better command 203 00:08:42,360 --> 00:08:44,920 Speaker 1: of everything, a lot more of a field general, if 204 00:08:44,920 --> 00:08:47,040 Speaker 1: you will. And here's the real telltale sign that I 205 00:08:47,080 --> 00:08:49,560 Speaker 1: don't know if we'll see, but just pay attention for it. 206 00:08:49,600 --> 00:08:52,040 Speaker 1: Is there one guy that the rest of that offense 207 00:08:52,080 --> 00:08:55,120 Speaker 1: tends to gravitate towards. You've seen this before time and 208 00:08:55,160 --> 00:08:57,720 Speaker 1: time again, when you've got a couple of quarterbacks and 209 00:08:57,840 --> 00:09:00,120 Speaker 1: all you've read are practice reports that let you know, oh, 210 00:09:00,120 --> 00:09:02,360 Speaker 1: it's neck and neck. This guy was good this week, 211 00:09:02,440 --> 00:09:04,720 Speaker 1: that guy was good last week. It's one A and 212 00:09:04,760 --> 00:09:06,840 Speaker 1: one B. But then when you see him take the field, 213 00:09:07,400 --> 00:09:09,640 Speaker 1: all of a sudden, you say, why does the offensive 214 00:09:09,640 --> 00:09:11,839 Speaker 1: line just seem like it's so much more in sync 215 00:09:12,240 --> 00:09:14,480 Speaker 1: when Guy A is in there? Why does the wide 216 00:09:14,480 --> 00:09:16,760 Speaker 1: receiver cords just seem to go to battle so much 217 00:09:16,760 --> 00:09:20,160 Speaker 1: harder for Guy A. They're letting you know who leads 218 00:09:20,320 --> 00:09:23,040 Speaker 1: in that quarterback battle. So that's interesting and has something 219 00:09:23,040 --> 00:09:24,920 Speaker 1: to watch for LSU. It's not going to be decided 220 00:09:25,000 --> 00:09:27,360 Speaker 1: by any stretch Saturday, but let's keep an eye on 221 00:09:27,360 --> 00:09:32,559 Speaker 1: that Arkansas. Arkansas last year defensively was really really fascinating 222 00:09:32,600 --> 00:09:36,520 Speaker 1: story because they brought in Bury otom and they played 223 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:38,520 Speaker 1: kind of an umbrella, for lack of a better term, 224 00:09:38,559 --> 00:09:41,360 Speaker 1: approach defensively out of a necessity, and it worked for him. 225 00:09:41,559 --> 00:09:44,000 Speaker 1: They were patient, They knew that weren't gonna hard. They 226 00:09:44,040 --> 00:09:46,120 Speaker 1: weren't going to hold you under three hundred yards, but 227 00:09:46,160 --> 00:09:48,520 Speaker 1: they could hold you under thirty points if they just, 228 00:09:48,880 --> 00:09:51,680 Speaker 1: you know, maintained what the entire game plan was the 229 00:09:51,679 --> 00:09:54,760 Speaker 1: whole time. But all the while, you want to eventually 230 00:09:55,200 --> 00:09:58,000 Speaker 1: up the talent level so that you can be more 231 00:09:58,080 --> 00:10:00,560 Speaker 1: multiple and so that you can do more things. And 232 00:10:00,640 --> 00:10:03,480 Speaker 1: so there are some names to watch for Arkansas like 233 00:10:03,679 --> 00:10:07,840 Speaker 1: Terryan Carter is I think a sophomore defensive tackle. Zach 234 00:10:07,880 --> 00:10:11,240 Speaker 1: Williams likewise, sophomore defensive end. They got some injuries coming 235 00:10:11,280 --> 00:10:13,240 Speaker 1: into this Saturday, too, so these are guys who are 236 00:10:13,240 --> 00:10:15,960 Speaker 1: probably going to get a lot of game action. Jaden 237 00:10:16,040 --> 00:10:19,040 Speaker 1: Johnson's an early enrollly at safety, is another name to watch. 238 00:10:19,120 --> 00:10:21,200 Speaker 1: These are just some guys to pay attention to for Arkansas. 239 00:10:21,280 --> 00:10:24,400 Speaker 1: But overall, independent of which names on the back of 240 00:10:24,440 --> 00:10:27,280 Speaker 1: what Jersey, just look at the talent level and just see, 241 00:10:27,280 --> 00:10:30,079 Speaker 1: if you're saying to yourself, Arkansas just looks they look 242 00:10:30,080 --> 00:10:32,440 Speaker 1: a little bit bigger, faster, stronger than they did last year. 243 00:10:32,559 --> 00:10:36,240 Speaker 1: That should be your observation. And last, but not least, 244 00:10:36,679 --> 00:10:39,600 Speaker 1: the Auburn Tigers. This one's kind of like LSU. It's 245 00:10:39,640 --> 00:10:41,960 Speaker 1: now hard. Don't overthink the room. You can go lines 246 00:10:41,960 --> 00:10:44,319 Speaker 1: of scrimmage, but really I just go bo Nicks and 247 00:10:44,360 --> 00:10:48,120 Speaker 1: I ask how far have they come as the dprogramming 248 00:10:48,520 --> 00:10:50,480 Speaker 1: reached the point where you can start to move forward 249 00:10:50,480 --> 00:10:52,839 Speaker 1: and you can start the program and look at him 250 00:10:52,880 --> 00:10:55,520 Speaker 1: specifically in the pocket because last year and really throughout 251 00:10:55,520 --> 00:10:57,959 Speaker 1: his entire career, bo Nix has not been a guy 252 00:10:58,000 --> 00:11:01,320 Speaker 1: who's exactly been a surgeon from inside the pocket and 253 00:11:01,440 --> 00:11:04,800 Speaker 1: a surgeon in terms of having really good pocket awareness. It's, 254 00:11:04,880 --> 00:11:07,760 Speaker 1: in fairness to him, it's not anything he has been 255 00:11:07,800 --> 00:11:10,360 Speaker 1: developed to do at Auburn to this point. But now 256 00:11:10,360 --> 00:11:12,199 Speaker 1: you've got a new staff in there and they claim 257 00:11:12,240 --> 00:11:15,720 Speaker 1: to want to do that, and you know, if my 258 00:11:15,920 --> 00:11:19,400 Speaker 1: eyeballs have served me correctly, I think the raw skill 259 00:11:19,480 --> 00:11:21,760 Speaker 1: set is there for that. But yet you don't know 260 00:11:21,800 --> 00:11:24,079 Speaker 1: from the neck up how much do you have to change? 261 00:11:24,600 --> 00:11:27,000 Speaker 1: Is it able to be changed? I think in this case, 262 00:11:27,160 --> 00:11:29,319 Speaker 1: you'd rather just get Nixon there as a true freshman 263 00:11:29,559 --> 00:11:32,800 Speaker 1: than have to deprogram all the junk that's up there 264 00:11:32,800 --> 00:11:34,480 Speaker 1: from the past couple of years. So that's something to 265 00:11:34,520 --> 00:11:38,400 Speaker 1: watch for. Auburn Big spring Saturday. Mississippi State's on the field, 266 00:11:38,480 --> 00:11:40,760 Speaker 1: Vanderbilt's on the field, so really looking forward to that 267 00:11:40,800 --> 00:11:41,880 Speaker 1: all across the SEC. 268 00:11:43,640 --> 00:11:44,760 Speaker 2: How about Ohio State. 269 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:46,840 Speaker 1: A lot of intel out of Columbus this week, had 270 00:11:46,880 --> 00:11:50,560 Speaker 1: some really good conversations. I think that quarterback battle in 271 00:11:50,600 --> 00:11:54,880 Speaker 1: Columbus right now is one of, if not the most 272 00:11:54,880 --> 00:11:58,200 Speaker 1: interesting and intriguing position battles in all of college football. 273 00:11:58,880 --> 00:11:59,200 Speaker 2: CJ. 274 00:11:59,360 --> 00:12:03,720 Speaker 1: Stroud is largely thought to be the leader in the clubhouse. Remember, 275 00:12:03,880 --> 00:12:06,560 Speaker 1: Justin Fields is off to the draft. Depending on which 276 00:12:06,640 --> 00:12:08,920 Speaker 1: Mott draft you look at, that depends on where he's 277 00:12:08,920 --> 00:12:11,320 Speaker 1: going to be taken. But rest assured, and I'm going 278 00:12:11,360 --> 00:12:12,880 Speaker 1: to go ahead and break this news now, He's going 279 00:12:12,960 --> 00:12:14,760 Speaker 1: to be drafted somewhere and so he's not going to 280 00:12:14,800 --> 00:12:15,600 Speaker 1: be in Columbus this year. 281 00:12:15,640 --> 00:12:16,040 Speaker 2: So CJ. 282 00:12:16,160 --> 00:12:19,280 Speaker 1: Stroud many assume that he's the leader in the clubhouse. 283 00:12:19,720 --> 00:12:22,280 Speaker 1: I am among them. But I just want to tell 284 00:12:22,320 --> 00:12:25,079 Speaker 1: you I don't view this job as being locked up. 285 00:12:25,240 --> 00:12:27,920 Speaker 1: I don't think that coaching staff views this job as 286 00:12:27,920 --> 00:12:32,680 Speaker 1: being locked up externally or amongst themselves internally. Because Jack 287 00:12:32,720 --> 00:12:35,080 Speaker 1: Miller's a guy that they ultimately think they could win with, 288 00:12:35,400 --> 00:12:38,120 Speaker 1: and Kyle McCord is also a guy they think they 289 00:12:38,160 --> 00:12:41,520 Speaker 1: could win with. Now, it certainly behooves the Ohio State 290 00:12:41,559 --> 00:12:45,920 Speaker 1: program to maintain competition for as long as you can, 291 00:12:46,240 --> 00:12:48,800 Speaker 1: even if that thing's realistically decided. And I think we 292 00:12:48,880 --> 00:12:51,199 Speaker 1: all know why that is. You don't want to wake 293 00:12:51,280 --> 00:12:53,040 Speaker 1: up in the middle of July and have a couple 294 00:12:53,040 --> 00:12:56,480 Speaker 1: of guys transferring on you. But pressure is a good thing. 295 00:12:56,840 --> 00:13:00,280 Speaker 1: Competition is a good thing. We don't ever use the 296 00:13:00,400 --> 00:13:04,559 Speaker 1: term or the phrase quarterback controversy around here. The only 297 00:13:04,640 --> 00:13:07,240 Speaker 1: controversy you could have in your quarterback room is when 298 00:13:07,240 --> 00:13:10,400 Speaker 1: you don't have one. When you got one or more 299 00:13:10,920 --> 00:13:13,360 Speaker 1: that you can win with that you trust to go 300 00:13:13,400 --> 00:13:17,199 Speaker 1: into battle with, that's not a controversy. That's a good thing. 301 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:19,720 Speaker 1: That's competition. So I want to go beyond the quarterback 302 00:13:19,760 --> 00:13:22,439 Speaker 1: position because I, as I told you, had some really 303 00:13:22,480 --> 00:13:25,679 Speaker 1: good conversations with some folks out of Columbus. I want 304 00:13:25,720 --> 00:13:28,000 Speaker 1: you to focus on a name for me. Buckeye fans 305 00:13:28,000 --> 00:13:30,240 Speaker 1: probably know the name, but outside of Columbus, I don't 306 00:13:30,240 --> 00:13:32,679 Speaker 1: think a lot of people know the name Mayan Williams. 307 00:13:32,920 --> 00:13:35,720 Speaker 1: You know, well, you know my affinity by now for 308 00:13:35,800 --> 00:13:38,760 Speaker 1: Iowa State, and so you're gonna know my affinity for 309 00:13:38,880 --> 00:13:42,360 Speaker 1: Mayan Williams. They almost had him at Iowa State. Mayan 310 00:13:42,400 --> 00:13:45,320 Speaker 1: Williams had been committed to Iowa State and he's an 311 00:13:45,320 --> 00:13:49,520 Speaker 1: Ohio kid, and Ryan Day and company they had targeted 312 00:13:49,800 --> 00:13:53,719 Speaker 1: some higher on the board targets in their recruiting war 313 00:13:53,840 --> 00:13:56,120 Speaker 1: room and they weren't gonna get guy like Kendall Milton, 314 00:13:56,120 --> 00:13:58,360 Speaker 1: for example. They weren't gonna get him. And so then 315 00:13:58,840 --> 00:14:01,880 Speaker 1: they because their Oyo State, they pick up the phone 316 00:14:02,679 --> 00:14:04,719 Speaker 1: and they call him and they say, Maya, we got 317 00:14:04,720 --> 00:14:05,359 Speaker 1: a spot. 318 00:14:05,120 --> 00:14:07,040 Speaker 2: For you, and so they get him. 319 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:09,000 Speaker 1: This this was gonna be a kid who was going 320 00:14:09,080 --> 00:14:10,760 Speaker 1: to be like another Breeze Hall if he went to 321 00:14:10,800 --> 00:14:14,520 Speaker 1: Iowa State. Instead he's at Ohio State. He's not going 322 00:14:14,600 --> 00:14:16,920 Speaker 1: to get lost in the shuffle there. Mayan Williams has 323 00:14:16,960 --> 00:14:19,720 Speaker 1: been about as good a performer pound for pound as 324 00:14:19,800 --> 00:14:22,920 Speaker 1: anybody on that team during spring, they could not be 325 00:14:23,000 --> 00:14:26,240 Speaker 1: more ecstatic. And I know there's been some positive reviews. 326 00:14:26,680 --> 00:14:29,080 Speaker 1: He's been better than the positive reviews that you've read. 327 00:14:29,160 --> 00:14:31,280 Speaker 1: Let me just put it that way. But having said that, 328 00:14:31,320 --> 00:14:33,200 Speaker 1: see it sounds like I'm saying, oh, that's a slam 329 00:14:33,280 --> 00:14:34,200 Speaker 1: dunk number one starter. 330 00:14:34,480 --> 00:14:36,120 Speaker 2: I don't even know if he's going to start for him. 331 00:14:36,120 --> 00:14:38,800 Speaker 1: Master Tigue's had a little bit of injury concerned this spring, 332 00:14:38,880 --> 00:14:40,680 Speaker 1: so he's gotten a lot of their first team reps. 333 00:14:40,960 --> 00:14:43,600 Speaker 1: But I mean, lest we forget, we got a guy 334 00:14:43,680 --> 00:14:46,600 Speaker 1: named Travon Henderson in this room. We got Evan Pryor 335 00:14:46,840 --> 00:14:48,800 Speaker 1: in this room. We're just talking about the whole offense. 336 00:14:48,800 --> 00:14:52,280 Speaker 2: Here. They are loaded. Ohio State's loaded. 337 00:14:52,320 --> 00:14:54,520 Speaker 1: I know this is no breaking news, but there's a 338 00:14:54,560 --> 00:14:56,600 Speaker 1: second part to that little equation that I want to 339 00:14:56,600 --> 00:14:57,920 Speaker 1: talk about more in just a second. 340 00:14:58,720 --> 00:15:00,840 Speaker 2: But and you shift over. 341 00:15:00,960 --> 00:15:03,440 Speaker 1: So we were in the running back room and wow, 342 00:15:03,520 --> 00:15:04,520 Speaker 1: look at all these good players. 343 00:15:04,560 --> 00:15:06,000 Speaker 2: So then we all right, come on, let's go. 344 00:15:06,160 --> 00:15:08,080 Speaker 1: And then we go down the hallway and then we 345 00:15:08,200 --> 00:15:11,160 Speaker 1: go to the wide receiver room and then you. 346 00:15:11,120 --> 00:15:14,040 Speaker 2: Say, Garrett Wilson, you're still here. Chris Olive you're still here. 347 00:15:14,280 --> 00:15:17,240 Speaker 1: And then you say, wait a minute, don't they have 348 00:15:17,320 --> 00:15:19,360 Speaker 1: that Jackson Smith and Jigbi Kid? 349 00:15:19,480 --> 00:15:22,640 Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, remember him from a couple of classiffacs. Yeah. 350 00:15:22,680 --> 00:15:25,840 Speaker 2: Who's the other guy, Julian Fleming. Don't they still have him? 351 00:15:25,880 --> 00:15:28,200 Speaker 1: Yeah? He was another guy with about five stars next 352 00:15:28,240 --> 00:15:31,720 Speaker 1: to his name. Okay, well that's it right now, because 353 00:15:31,760 --> 00:15:33,880 Speaker 1: then you hear three more names. You hear about Marvin 354 00:15:33,880 --> 00:15:37,120 Speaker 1: Harrison Junior, and you hear about Jaden Ballard. Who that's 355 00:15:37,160 --> 00:15:40,080 Speaker 1: a name I'm circling Maya and Wilson or Miyaan Williams 356 00:15:40,160 --> 00:15:41,360 Speaker 1: Rather and Jayden Bollard. 357 00:15:41,760 --> 00:15:43,640 Speaker 2: I guess someone texted me that's very distracting. 358 00:15:43,960 --> 00:15:46,600 Speaker 1: Jaden Ballard and william those are two names I've circled 359 00:15:46,640 --> 00:15:48,640 Speaker 1: because those are two names that they go out of 360 00:15:48,640 --> 00:15:50,320 Speaker 1: their way to talk about at Ohio State. 361 00:15:51,040 --> 00:15:52,000 Speaker 2: And then there's one more. 362 00:15:52,240 --> 00:15:54,840 Speaker 1: You remember when we were sitting at this desk and 363 00:15:54,880 --> 00:15:58,000 Speaker 1: it was National Signing Day and we welcomed in several players. 364 00:15:58,200 --> 00:16:01,160 Speaker 1: Among them was a meccag book. He was only the 365 00:16:01,240 --> 00:16:04,040 Speaker 1: number one wide receiver in the country. All these guys. 366 00:16:04,200 --> 00:16:05,880 Speaker 1: This is not a lineage. This is not like the 367 00:16:05,880 --> 00:16:08,360 Speaker 1: past decade of Ohio State football. All these guys are 368 00:16:08,400 --> 00:16:09,920 Speaker 1: on the roster right now. They're all going to be 369 00:16:09,960 --> 00:16:13,280 Speaker 1: there this fall. So you got a loaded quarterback room, 370 00:16:13,400 --> 00:16:15,160 Speaker 1: you got a loaded running back room, you got a 371 00:16:15,160 --> 00:16:19,640 Speaker 1: loaded wide receiver room. The natural question that you and 372 00:16:19,760 --> 00:16:22,440 Speaker 1: myself and Director Emeritus Colin when I walked in the 373 00:16:22,440 --> 00:16:24,400 Speaker 1: door today and started talking to him about this half, 374 00:16:24,520 --> 00:16:27,040 Speaker 1: is they're going to be able to stop anybody. The 375 00:16:27,080 --> 00:16:28,840 Speaker 1: last time I saw him in the National Championship game, 376 00:16:28,840 --> 00:16:31,760 Speaker 1: that we're stopping anybody remains to be seen. I can 377 00:16:31,800 --> 00:16:33,200 Speaker 1: just sure you they're going to be able to score, 378 00:16:33,400 --> 00:16:35,680 Speaker 1: and they certainly don't feel like they've gotten worse defensively. 379 00:16:36,040 --> 00:16:38,760 Speaker 1: And to his credit, Ryan Day shook up that coaching 380 00:16:38,840 --> 00:16:41,640 Speaker 1: staff defensively and really shook up his coaching staff in general. 381 00:16:42,080 --> 00:16:44,320 Speaker 1: Still got that experience mixed in. 382 00:16:44,240 --> 00:16:46,000 Speaker 2: And blended in a lot of youth and energy. To 383 00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:47,160 Speaker 2: talked about all that already. 384 00:16:47,200 --> 00:16:48,840 Speaker 1: I really love what they did, but I want you 385 00:16:48,880 --> 00:16:50,400 Speaker 1: to to kind of think about what we have here 386 00:16:50,440 --> 00:16:52,680 Speaker 1: as we exit spring. Ohio State's got a spring game 387 00:16:52,720 --> 00:16:57,280 Speaker 1: Saturday too. If the SEC slate wasn't already loaded enough, 388 00:16:57,480 --> 00:16:59,080 Speaker 1: you got that team in Columbus, They're going to have 389 00:16:59,080 --> 00:17:02,200 Speaker 1: a Spring game too. They're loaded. That's as loaded a 390 00:17:02,240 --> 00:17:03,960 Speaker 1: team as any team in America you're going to see 391 00:17:04,000 --> 00:17:07,879 Speaker 1: this year. But unlike the Alabamas or even the Clemsons 392 00:17:07,920 --> 00:17:11,399 Speaker 1: of the world, this program right here has as loaded 393 00:17:11,400 --> 00:17:13,480 Speaker 1: a roster as you're going to see. And they also 394 00:17:13,560 --> 00:17:15,720 Speaker 1: have that voice in the back of their head that says, 395 00:17:16,200 --> 00:17:19,200 Speaker 1: you haven't won anything, because yeah, they've won the Big Ten, 396 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:22,439 Speaker 1: but they have higher aspirations than that. And as for 397 00:17:22,440 --> 00:17:26,200 Speaker 1: those higher aspirations, they haven't done anything. They've gotten there, 398 00:17:26,520 --> 00:17:29,679 Speaker 1: they hadn't done anything. So that's a dangerous combination. History 399 00:17:29,720 --> 00:17:32,880 Speaker 1: tells us that's a dangerous combination. That's a dangerous team. 400 00:17:32,920 --> 00:17:36,240 Speaker 1: Ohio State. They feel really really good exiting spring. This 401 00:17:36,280 --> 00:17:38,200 Speaker 1: is the kind of situation. I know they haven't decided 402 00:17:38,240 --> 00:17:40,800 Speaker 1: quarterback yet, but this is the kind of situation where 403 00:17:41,640 --> 00:17:44,200 Speaker 1: they've got a lot of that team that they wish 404 00:17:44,240 --> 00:17:46,240 Speaker 1: they could just hit the pause button on or put 405 00:17:46,280 --> 00:17:49,199 Speaker 1: it in the cryogenics freezer and just thought out with 406 00:17:49,240 --> 00:17:51,359 Speaker 1: about two weeks to go until they open, because they 407 00:17:51,359 --> 00:17:55,359 Speaker 1: feel really good about where they're at a lot of 408 00:17:55,400 --> 00:17:58,080 Speaker 1: players should feel really good about where they're at with name, 409 00:17:58,160 --> 00:18:01,399 Speaker 1: image and likeness, So nil those are three letters that 410 00:18:01,440 --> 00:18:04,640 Speaker 1: you see put together a whole lot. And I've asked 411 00:18:04,640 --> 00:18:06,359 Speaker 1: the question, You've asked the question. A lot of people 412 00:18:06,359 --> 00:18:08,280 Speaker 1: have asked the question, what is it? What is nil 413 00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:12,320 Speaker 1: all encompassing? What's this going to mean? Well, it's starting 414 00:18:12,400 --> 00:18:15,280 Speaker 1: to become clearer. As we said, it was going to 415 00:18:15,320 --> 00:18:17,040 Speaker 1: take a little while for this fog to clear, and 416 00:18:17,080 --> 00:18:19,520 Speaker 1: it still hasn't totally cleared. We don't know what this 417 00:18:20,240 --> 00:18:22,240 Speaker 1: entire landscape's going to look like three or four years 418 00:18:22,280 --> 00:18:25,879 Speaker 1: down the road. But as this story has evolved, and 419 00:18:25,920 --> 00:18:29,480 Speaker 1: as you've known it's coming, and as state legislators have 420 00:18:29,560 --> 00:18:32,280 Speaker 1: started to move on this, as the Supreme Court started 421 00:18:32,320 --> 00:18:35,920 Speaker 1: to toss it around and whatnot, all of a sudden 422 00:18:36,359 --> 00:18:38,479 Speaker 1: you start to find out what's going to matter and 423 00:18:38,520 --> 00:18:41,639 Speaker 1: what's not going to matter. Moods have started to change, 424 00:18:42,040 --> 00:18:44,840 Speaker 1: Ideas have started to come to the forefront, some other 425 00:18:44,920 --> 00:18:47,960 Speaker 1: ideas have been pushed to the back burner. I've told 426 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:50,240 Speaker 1: you and I will continue to tell you, think of 427 00:18:50,280 --> 00:18:52,200 Speaker 1: this as an ideological marathon. 428 00:18:52,280 --> 00:18:53,119 Speaker 2: It's not a sprint. 429 00:18:53,400 --> 00:18:55,840 Speaker 1: No one had this thing figured out five minutes after 430 00:18:55,880 --> 00:18:58,520 Speaker 1: it was floated, nor does anyone have it fully figured 431 00:18:58,520 --> 00:19:02,000 Speaker 1: out now, Having said that this past week has been 432 00:19:02,080 --> 00:19:05,359 Speaker 1: perfect evidence that some programs are much further along than others. 433 00:19:05,920 --> 00:19:08,680 Speaker 1: And I want to want a caveat that. I guess 434 00:19:08,720 --> 00:19:10,880 Speaker 1: that's the best I can do for a caveat, because 435 00:19:10,880 --> 00:19:13,080 Speaker 1: I'm gonna touch on that on the back end. I 436 00:19:13,119 --> 00:19:15,320 Speaker 1: said in December, though, and I said to open the 437 00:19:15,320 --> 00:19:16,520 Speaker 1: show tonight, I'll say it again. 438 00:19:16,800 --> 00:19:17,400 Speaker 2: There're gonna be. 439 00:19:17,359 --> 00:19:21,639 Speaker 1: Some mole hills in the immediacy that become mountains. Then 440 00:19:21,680 --> 00:19:24,640 Speaker 1: there're gonna be some mountains that end up being mole hills. 441 00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:27,560 Speaker 1: Once we get everything into its proper focus. Well, it's 442 00:19:27,600 --> 00:19:30,199 Speaker 1: starting to happen. So in just a couple of seconds, 443 00:19:30,280 --> 00:19:33,720 Speaker 1: Jesse's gonna cue up some sound. Because Florida State and 444 00:19:33,800 --> 00:19:37,280 Speaker 1: Georgia Tech made some pretty public moves on this this week. 445 00:19:37,320 --> 00:19:40,000 Speaker 1: They are not going to be the last I want 446 00:19:40,040 --> 00:19:42,600 Speaker 1: to emphasize. This is just the beginning of a really, 447 00:19:42,600 --> 00:19:45,840 Speaker 1: really big snowball rolling downhill. Florida State. I'm going to 448 00:19:45,880 --> 00:19:47,320 Speaker 1: talk about them on the back end of this suit. 449 00:19:47,359 --> 00:19:49,919 Speaker 1: We're about to roll. Florida State did some things this week, 450 00:19:50,119 --> 00:19:53,320 Speaker 1: but Jeff Collins had a really good part of his 451 00:19:53,400 --> 00:19:55,919 Speaker 1: press conference in the last couple of days where he 452 00:19:56,080 --> 00:20:00,439 Speaker 1: perfectly encapsulated one of those initial mole hills. That is, 453 00:20:00,480 --> 00:20:03,840 Speaker 1: in fact, to me, the biggest mountain in this whole thing. 454 00:20:03,880 --> 00:20:06,480 Speaker 1: So this is Georgia Tech head coach Jeff Collins. I'll 455 00:20:06,480 --> 00:20:07,240 Speaker 1: talk about it more on. 456 00:20:07,240 --> 00:20:07,720 Speaker 2: The back end. 457 00:20:09,560 --> 00:20:12,640 Speaker 3: We were one of the first schools to partner with Influencer, 458 00:20:13,280 --> 00:20:17,560 Speaker 3: and what Influencer does is it's an app that lets 459 00:20:17,560 --> 00:20:21,000 Speaker 3: our guys have access to every single photo that we 460 00:20:21,080 --> 00:20:23,040 Speaker 3: take it practice, we take it games, and we take 461 00:20:23,080 --> 00:20:26,160 Speaker 3: it workouts. You know, within thirty minutes Kelley or Ken 462 00:20:26,240 --> 00:20:30,040 Speaker 3: of the workouts of practice being over, they'res seven hundred 463 00:20:30,080 --> 00:20:33,119 Speaker 3: to eight hundred pictures of the practice or of the 464 00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:35,880 Speaker 3: weight training session that our guys can rip and put 465 00:20:35,920 --> 00:20:37,320 Speaker 3: on their social media accounts. 466 00:20:37,800 --> 00:20:38,919 Speaker 2: That is a big deal to us. 467 00:20:38,960 --> 00:20:41,320 Speaker 3: The number of cameras that we have out at practice 468 00:20:41,359 --> 00:20:46,120 Speaker 3: every single day, the content creators from local that come 469 00:20:46,119 --> 00:20:49,600 Speaker 3: out to practice to shoot and give our guys access 470 00:20:49,680 --> 00:20:53,119 Speaker 3: to their images so they can then promote it. The 471 00:20:53,200 --> 00:20:56,600 Speaker 3: other piece that I think is in our DNA is 472 00:20:56,680 --> 00:20:59,600 Speaker 3: we're one of the first programs to tag our players 473 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:02,280 Speaker 3: and also social media posts. That is a big deal 474 00:21:02,320 --> 00:21:05,880 Speaker 3: to me to us to make sure when we promote something. 475 00:21:06,240 --> 00:21:10,159 Speaker 3: We actually promote the player with their tags, and not 476 00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:12,720 Speaker 3: all the programs do that, but that's something that we 477 00:21:13,359 --> 00:21:14,359 Speaker 3: make a big deal of. 478 00:21:17,840 --> 00:21:20,720 Speaker 1: So that was Jeff Collins there. Did you listen to 479 00:21:20,760 --> 00:21:22,360 Speaker 1: what he said? And if so, what does it mean 480 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:24,760 Speaker 1: to you? That kind of stuff has the tendency once 481 00:21:24,760 --> 00:21:26,600 Speaker 1: you get about twenty seconds and it has a tendency 482 00:21:26,600 --> 00:21:28,679 Speaker 1: to kind of fly over your head. What he just 483 00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:32,760 Speaker 1: said is monumental, it's huge, it's a game changer. It's 484 00:21:32,800 --> 00:21:34,560 Speaker 1: going to be at the very forefront. This is not 485 00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:37,080 Speaker 1: a molehill. This is a mountain. So let me explain 486 00:21:37,080 --> 00:21:39,320 Speaker 1: to you how our industry works and how it ties 487 00:21:39,359 --> 00:21:41,919 Speaker 1: into this. You see this logo right over here. If 488 00:21:41,960 --> 00:21:44,240 Speaker 1: you're watching on YouTube, you see the logo. If you're 489 00:21:44,240 --> 00:21:46,160 Speaker 1: listening on the podcast, you had to have looked at 490 00:21:46,160 --> 00:21:48,560 Speaker 1: it before you started to play this very episode. 491 00:21:48,680 --> 00:21:50,080 Speaker 2: And there's that late Kick logo. 492 00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:53,000 Speaker 1: And you see all those podcasts we've recorded, or if 493 00:21:53,000 --> 00:21:54,960 Speaker 1: you're on the YouTube channel, you see all these shows 494 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:55,639 Speaker 1: that we've done. 495 00:21:55,760 --> 00:21:57,359 Speaker 2: You know how many of those I own? You know 496 00:21:57,400 --> 00:21:59,679 Speaker 2: how many seconds of that footage and that audio that 497 00:21:59,720 --> 00:22:01,080 Speaker 2: I own? Zero? 498 00:22:01,440 --> 00:22:03,400 Speaker 1: And I'm gonna tell you why I get a paycheck 499 00:22:03,440 --> 00:22:07,640 Speaker 1: every two weeks, and it says CBS on it. That's 500 00:22:07,680 --> 00:22:11,439 Speaker 1: my employer, and therefore that is whose platform I am 501 00:22:11,520 --> 00:22:14,679 Speaker 1: working on, and the content that I create while on 502 00:22:14,840 --> 00:22:19,399 Speaker 1: their platform, on their dime, belongs to them. What he 503 00:22:19,600 --> 00:22:22,399 Speaker 1: just said, he being Jeff Collins, And what Florida State, 504 00:22:22,440 --> 00:22:26,080 Speaker 1: for example, came out and told you this week is no, no, no. 505 00:22:26,480 --> 00:22:28,399 Speaker 1: The way this nil thing is going to work is 506 00:22:28,520 --> 00:22:30,600 Speaker 1: we have an entire media apparatus. 507 00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:32,720 Speaker 2: We're like a borderline production company here. 508 00:22:32,760 --> 00:22:35,720 Speaker 1: We got millions of dollars worth of equipment and staffing. 509 00:22:35,760 --> 00:22:38,240 Speaker 1: We're at every practice, We're at every game. We record 510 00:22:38,280 --> 00:22:41,240 Speaker 1: every second of these guys' lives. Here's what we're gonna do. 511 00:22:41,760 --> 00:22:44,840 Speaker 1: We're gonna make it not only available to them, We're 512 00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:47,439 Speaker 1: gonna give them ownership. Do you have any idea how 513 00:22:47,520 --> 00:22:50,160 Speaker 1: huge that is in the content creation business? 514 00:22:50,400 --> 00:22:52,399 Speaker 2: That sent up massive alarms and red flags. 515 00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:54,680 Speaker 1: When I heard that, I rewound it and listened to 516 00:22:54,720 --> 00:22:56,840 Speaker 1: it like three or four times, just like I re 517 00:22:56,880 --> 00:22:59,280 Speaker 1: read and read again and read again Florida State's release 518 00:22:59,320 --> 00:23:01,600 Speaker 1: earlier this week, to make sure I was grasping that 519 00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:04,960 Speaker 1: I if I am a five star defensive back or 520 00:23:04,960 --> 00:23:07,680 Speaker 1: wide receiver or quarterback at Georgia Tech or Florida State, 521 00:23:07,960 --> 00:23:11,560 Speaker 1: many more programs to come. Here's the mountain that initially 522 00:23:11,600 --> 00:23:14,480 Speaker 1: seemed like a molehill. I am not only going to 523 00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:17,600 Speaker 1: be going to their school on their dime. I'm not 524 00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:20,679 Speaker 1: only going to have that GT or that spear on 525 00:23:20,720 --> 00:23:23,240 Speaker 1: the side of my helmet. I'm not only going to 526 00:23:23,240 --> 00:23:27,760 Speaker 1: be practicing on their practice field, playing for their university, 527 00:23:27,800 --> 00:23:30,720 Speaker 1: on their platform they built long before I was born. 528 00:23:31,080 --> 00:23:33,840 Speaker 1: They're going to give me all of the content that 529 00:23:33,960 --> 00:23:37,040 Speaker 1: exists of me, photographically. 530 00:23:36,280 --> 00:23:37,760 Speaker 2: Video, and I'm going to own it. 531 00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:39,840 Speaker 1: And you know what I can do then, with my 532 00:23:40,280 --> 00:23:43,800 Speaker 1: quarter million followers on Instagram, my half million followers on TikTok, 533 00:23:44,160 --> 00:23:46,240 Speaker 1: I can take it, and I can use it on 534 00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:49,520 Speaker 1: those platforms, and I can monetize it, and I can 535 00:23:49,640 --> 00:23:51,800 Speaker 1: use it and distribute it as I see fit. 536 00:23:52,600 --> 00:23:53,920 Speaker 2: Do you have any idea what that's worth? 537 00:23:54,320 --> 00:23:56,720 Speaker 1: You have any idea how huge that is in the 538 00:23:56,800 --> 00:23:58,040 Speaker 1: content creation game. 539 00:23:58,280 --> 00:24:01,760 Speaker 2: It's a game changer in the brand. It's a game changer. 540 00:24:02,200 --> 00:24:03,960 Speaker 1: The programs that are going to be at the very 541 00:24:04,000 --> 00:24:06,080 Speaker 1: top of this thing and at the very top of 542 00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:08,480 Speaker 1: the sport five years from now are the ones who 543 00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:11,720 Speaker 1: are going to understand how to perfect and own what 544 00:24:11,800 --> 00:24:13,600 Speaker 1: I'm calling the NIL pyramid. 545 00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:15,080 Speaker 2: And that's three parts. 546 00:24:15,440 --> 00:24:17,920 Speaker 1: One, you got to understand how to have the right 547 00:24:17,960 --> 00:24:21,120 Speaker 1: things as a university. Number two, you got to understand 548 00:24:21,160 --> 00:24:23,359 Speaker 1: how to have the right things as a football program. 549 00:24:23,600 --> 00:24:28,160 Speaker 1: Number Three, you got to be a marketing firm university program, 550 00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:29,160 Speaker 1: marketing firm. 551 00:24:29,520 --> 00:24:31,240 Speaker 2: And this is the very forefront. 552 00:24:31,480 --> 00:24:34,560 Speaker 1: It's just light coming through the crack of the door 553 00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:36,920 Speaker 1: from Florida State at Georgia Tech. Many more to come 554 00:24:37,240 --> 00:24:39,439 Speaker 1: about what the actual name of the game here is. 555 00:24:39,640 --> 00:24:43,159 Speaker 1: You remember when we first heard about NIL and everyone said, Oh, 556 00:24:43,240 --> 00:24:46,560 Speaker 1: my goodness, this means that Johnny four star wide receiver 557 00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:48,960 Speaker 1: there from Pahokee, Florida. He's going to be able to 558 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:51,440 Speaker 1: go and do advertisements for car dealerships. 559 00:24:51,520 --> 00:24:53,040 Speaker 2: Oh, that's going to be a big deal. It's not 560 00:24:53,119 --> 00:24:54,320 Speaker 2: even what the name of the game is. 561 00:24:54,520 --> 00:24:56,320 Speaker 1: The name of the game is going to be ownership 562 00:24:56,359 --> 00:24:59,280 Speaker 1: of your content, of your trademarketing, of your IP as 563 00:24:59,320 --> 00:25:02,159 Speaker 1: we call it. In this industry, you own it. You 564 00:25:02,280 --> 00:25:04,040 Speaker 1: own it, therefore you can do whatever you want to 565 00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:07,720 Speaker 1: with it. That's the game changer. You're talking about peanuts 566 00:25:07,760 --> 00:25:10,960 Speaker 1: in terms of potential compensation in some of these advertising 567 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:13,919 Speaker 1: deals and endorsements compared to what you can do with 568 00:25:14,040 --> 00:25:15,680 Speaker 1: your brand ability digitally. 569 00:25:16,359 --> 00:25:17,479 Speaker 2: That's the game changer. 570 00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:20,480 Speaker 1: And so now what's going to happen is as sure 571 00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:22,600 Speaker 1: as I tell you, Georgia Tech and Florida State mats 572 00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:25,600 Speaker 1: the moves publicly on this this week. No sooner did 573 00:25:25,640 --> 00:25:28,520 Speaker 1: I tweet about that than I had athletic directors and 574 00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:31,720 Speaker 1: associate athletic directors in my inbox saying no, no, no, no, wait, 575 00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:34,280 Speaker 1: wait just a second. Now we got some stuff coming 576 00:25:34,359 --> 00:25:36,480 Speaker 1: on this too, Which is why I'm very confident in 577 00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:40,880 Speaker 1: telling you I'm not casting these programs necessarily as visionaries. 578 00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:44,200 Speaker 1: They're not doing anything that a dozen or two dozen 579 00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:46,159 Speaker 1: more of them aren't getting ready to announce. I think 580 00:25:46,200 --> 00:25:48,520 Speaker 1: a lot of programs out there want to wait, maybe 581 00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:50,840 Speaker 1: until this recruiting dead period's lifted, and they want to 582 00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:54,800 Speaker 1: get maximum bang for their buck. But it's coming. This 583 00:25:55,200 --> 00:25:56,960 Speaker 1: is where the real name of the game is going 584 00:25:57,040 --> 00:25:59,640 Speaker 1: to be in NIL. It is the ability to use 585 00:25:59,680 --> 00:26:03,000 Speaker 1: all the immense resources at your disposal as a program 586 00:26:03,400 --> 00:26:07,760 Speaker 1: to flex your medium muscle on behalf and in benefit 587 00:26:07,840 --> 00:26:11,520 Speaker 1: of your student athletes. All of a sudden. It doesn't 588 00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:13,679 Speaker 1: seem nearly as dirty as you thought it was going 589 00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:16,879 Speaker 1: to seem, does it. So that is where things I 590 00:26:16,880 --> 00:26:19,880 Speaker 1: think are headed. That is the mountain, A lot of molehills, 591 00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:23,400 Speaker 1: that's the mountain. Speaking of recruiting, speaking of the dead period, 592 00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:26,240 Speaker 1: let's wrap up the show with this. There's a recruiting 593 00:26:26,280 --> 00:26:28,639 Speaker 1: tsunami coming. I want to give you fair warning. You 594 00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:30,840 Speaker 1: can raise any color flag you want to, but there 595 00:26:30,920 --> 00:26:34,199 Speaker 1: is a recruiting tsunami coming right now. We're looking at 596 00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:36,320 Speaker 1: a race for number one, which we don't spend a 597 00:26:36,359 --> 00:26:36,800 Speaker 1: whole lot. 598 00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:37,240 Speaker 2: Of time on. 599 00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:41,320 Speaker 1: Grant you it is April, but right now, silently, kind 600 00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:43,600 Speaker 1: of quietly. Steve Wolfong I was on the phone with 601 00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:45,280 Speaker 1: him this morning. He said, do you realize George's the 602 00:26:45,359 --> 00:26:47,679 Speaker 1: number one recruited class in the country, And I said, no, Stephen, 603 00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:50,200 Speaker 1: I did not thank you for informing me of that. 604 00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:52,280 Speaker 1: So if you're not aware, let me break the news. 605 00:26:52,280 --> 00:26:54,160 Speaker 1: George's got the number one class in the country right now. 606 00:26:54,280 --> 00:26:56,720 Speaker 1: Ohio State close behind. We're looking at it right now, 607 00:26:56,880 --> 00:26:58,600 Speaker 1: Lsu Notre dame it. 608 00:26:58,720 --> 00:27:01,639 Speaker 2: How about Rutgers number six. By the way, it's not 609 00:27:01,720 --> 00:27:02,240 Speaker 2: a typo. 610 00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:05,240 Speaker 1: This wasn't an old chart and we just forgot to 611 00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:08,200 Speaker 1: erase Rutgers. No, they got the number six recruiting class 612 00:27:08,200 --> 00:27:11,040 Speaker 1: in the country, so hats off. My prediction is they're 613 00:27:11,080 --> 00:27:13,119 Speaker 1: not there by the end of the cycle. But this 614 00:27:13,160 --> 00:27:15,240 Speaker 1: is a really, really good thing for Rutgers. So having 615 00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:18,119 Speaker 1: said that, let's come back south of Piscataway for just 616 00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:18,600 Speaker 1: a second. 617 00:27:19,240 --> 00:27:22,320 Speaker 2: George's number one right now and they are sitting there. 618 00:27:22,359 --> 00:27:23,040 Speaker 2: I wrote it down. 619 00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:25,640 Speaker 1: They've got an average player rating of over ninety four, 620 00:27:25,680 --> 00:27:27,440 Speaker 1: about ninety four point two, so that's good. 621 00:27:27,520 --> 00:27:28,720 Speaker 2: That puts them on pace. 622 00:27:28,840 --> 00:27:31,480 Speaker 1: Currently for that twenty eighteen class that was ranked I 623 00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:33,119 Speaker 1: think number one overall, they had like a three to 624 00:27:33,119 --> 00:27:36,639 Speaker 1: twenty three team score. Steve Wilfong, Speaking of the Devil 625 00:27:37,320 --> 00:27:39,280 Speaker 1: or Speaking of the Angel, has a really good piece 626 00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:40,960 Speaker 1: about this on twenty four to seven sports dot Com. 627 00:27:41,040 --> 00:27:43,560 Speaker 1: Right now, you see the Buckeyes at number two, sitting 628 00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:45,720 Speaker 1: there just behind Georgia, and they've got an average player 629 00:27:45,800 --> 00:27:48,720 Speaker 1: rating of ninety five point seventy four. They got quinn Ewers, 630 00:27:48,760 --> 00:27:50,560 Speaker 1: number one quarterback in the class in that class, so 631 00:27:50,920 --> 00:27:53,080 Speaker 1: there's a lot about to happen. I'm just showing you 632 00:27:53,119 --> 00:27:55,280 Speaker 1: this to give you a general gauge of where things 633 00:27:55,280 --> 00:27:58,160 Speaker 1: sit right now, A lot is about to happen. Dare 634 00:27:58,200 --> 00:28:01,199 Speaker 1: I say the floodgates are about to open. There have 635 00:28:01,280 --> 00:28:03,280 Speaker 1: been some flags everywhere. Now there's been news in the 636 00:28:03,359 --> 00:28:05,520 Speaker 1: last hour that I'm about to get to, but there 637 00:28:05,560 --> 00:28:07,920 Speaker 1: have been some flags everywhere and bells going off, because 638 00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:11,399 Speaker 1: before the NCAA ever made a move, it was a 639 00:28:11,400 --> 00:28:14,959 Speaker 1: telltale sign when all these programs started scheduling official visits 640 00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:17,199 Speaker 1: even though the ending of the dead period had not 641 00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:20,320 Speaker 1: been announced. Well, it turns out somebody knew something somewhere 642 00:28:21,119 --> 00:28:23,119 Speaker 1: and it wasn't all that hard to see coming. So 643 00:28:23,359 --> 00:28:26,040 Speaker 1: as of the last hour or two, the NCUBA has 644 00:28:26,119 --> 00:28:28,240 Speaker 1: made it official, and God blessed them, by the way, from. 645 00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:30,320 Speaker 2: Not waiting until Friday at for forty five to do it. 646 00:28:30,920 --> 00:28:34,480 Speaker 1: That the regular recruiting calendar will once again go into 647 00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:38,120 Speaker 1: effect June first, so everything is back to normal. 648 00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:40,840 Speaker 2: There are some actual additions. 649 00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:44,360 Speaker 1: They're going to increase the number of evaluation days from 650 00:28:44,440 --> 00:28:45,640 Speaker 1: forty two to fifty one. 651 00:28:45,720 --> 00:28:46,400 Speaker 2: That's this fall. 652 00:28:47,080 --> 00:28:50,320 Speaker 1: I think they expanded the allowances on some phone calls 653 00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:53,440 Speaker 1: and communication type things. They also expanded who's allowed to 654 00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:55,680 Speaker 1: call who, so you can get some of the staffers 655 00:28:55,720 --> 00:28:57,640 Speaker 1: that normally aren't allowed to do that involved in the 656 00:28:57,640 --> 00:29:00,360 Speaker 1: process right now. But here's what you can expect. You 657 00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:03,120 Speaker 1: can expect a lot of change, you can expect a 658 00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:07,360 Speaker 1: flood of summer visits camps. But here's what the real 659 00:29:07,840 --> 00:29:13,160 Speaker 1: expedition is. Expedition unexpedite in nature has to be placed. 660 00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:17,200 Speaker 1: Let me say that on the evaluation process, because as 661 00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:19,080 Speaker 1: Nick Saban told you when we had him on a 662 00:29:19,080 --> 00:29:21,959 Speaker 1: few months ago, it wasn't the twenty twenty one class 663 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:24,360 Speaker 1: that they were going to get stuck with. They already 664 00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:26,400 Speaker 1: had those guys evaluated, They had seen them one or 665 00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:29,000 Speaker 1: two years before you ever even knew what COVID was. 666 00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:31,400 Speaker 1: But the twenty twenty two class, so the one we're 667 00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:33,960 Speaker 1: focused on right now, that was going to be the 668 00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:36,400 Speaker 1: class that if they couldn't get out there and get 669 00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:38,400 Speaker 1: their coaches on the road, if they couldn't get those 670 00:29:38,520 --> 00:29:41,560 Speaker 1: kids on campus and get them in camp settings so 671 00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:43,440 Speaker 1: they could get eyeballs on them and get some proper 672 00:29:43,480 --> 00:29:46,480 Speaker 1: evails on them, that was where they were still going 673 00:29:46,480 --> 00:29:48,560 Speaker 1: to land a lot of highly rated kids. It's just 674 00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:50,920 Speaker 1: they weren't going to have as firm or grasp on 675 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:53,360 Speaker 1: whether they got the right ones. So now that's why 676 00:29:53,400 --> 00:29:56,120 Speaker 1: the evaluation process is going to kick into overdrive here. 677 00:29:56,400 --> 00:30:00,680 Speaker 1: But just remember, you know, this is all sort of 678 00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:03,440 Speaker 1: kind of it's gonna be an intersection. 679 00:30:03,560 --> 00:30:03,760 Speaker 2: To me. 680 00:30:04,120 --> 00:30:06,680 Speaker 1: Later this summer, there's gonna be an intersection. This is 681 00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:09,840 Speaker 1: reason number one thousand why the off season does not 682 00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:12,800 Speaker 1: exist this year or any year but Tripoli this year. 683 00:30:13,880 --> 00:30:17,080 Speaker 1: We're also expecting the whole one time transfer thing to 684 00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:21,000 Speaker 1: crescendo late June. And what I mean by that is, 685 00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:22,720 Speaker 1: I don't know if this has been made official or not, 686 00:30:22,800 --> 00:30:24,960 Speaker 1: but if it's not, it probably will be soon. Per 687 00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:29,880 Speaker 1: multiple reports, that whole one time penalty free transfer, even 688 00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:32,200 Speaker 1: within a conference sort of deal, that's probably gonna end 689 00:30:32,280 --> 00:30:33,000 Speaker 1: up being nationwide. 690 00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:35,280 Speaker 2: Let's be honest. July first is going to be the 691 00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:35,920 Speaker 2: deadline for that. 692 00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:38,520 Speaker 1: So I want you to picture this June, which normally 693 00:30:38,560 --> 00:30:41,200 Speaker 1: one of the deadest months of the college football calendar, 694 00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:45,520 Speaker 1: all of a sudden, in June, You've got a furious 695 00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:50,040 Speaker 1: round of visits, whether they be official or unofficial, from 696 00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:54,000 Speaker 1: transfer prospects. You've got the transfer portal lit up, You're 697 00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:56,480 Speaker 1: coming out of spring, by the way right now, and 698 00:30:56,480 --> 00:30:58,280 Speaker 1: in the next couple of weeks. So this is where 699 00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:00,960 Speaker 1: guys are trying to figure out do I have a 700 00:31:00,960 --> 00:31:02,920 Speaker 1: spot on this depth chart or not. So we had 701 00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:06,200 Speaker 1: that one wave of transfers already, and then there is 702 00:31:06,400 --> 00:31:08,040 Speaker 1: a quiet right now. It's kind of like being in 703 00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:10,800 Speaker 1: the eye of a hurricane because there's a second wave coming. 704 00:31:11,280 --> 00:31:13,880 Speaker 1: Bet your bottom dollar there's a second wave of transfers coming. 705 00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:16,800 Speaker 1: And that transfer wave is after guys figure out where 706 00:31:16,800 --> 00:31:17,160 Speaker 1: they are. 707 00:31:17,040 --> 00:31:17,760 Speaker 2: In the pecking order. 708 00:31:17,920 --> 00:31:20,600 Speaker 1: You know, they probably were bordering on transferring and dad 709 00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:22,520 Speaker 1: or mom got on the phone with them. Coach got 710 00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:24,880 Speaker 1: in the ear and said, go through spring. You don't 711 00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:27,680 Speaker 1: lose anything by going through spring. Compete, go through spring. 712 00:31:27,680 --> 00:31:29,360 Speaker 1: And you know what, if you still don't like where 713 00:31:29,360 --> 00:31:32,440 Speaker 1: you stand here, I'll give you I'll give you my 714 00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:35,600 Speaker 1: best wishes, and I'll give you all the recommendations in 715 00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:35,880 Speaker 1: the world. 716 00:31:35,880 --> 00:31:37,280 Speaker 2: If you want to leave, well, that's happening. 717 00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:39,760 Speaker 1: Dozens and dozens and dozens of guys right now are 718 00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:42,200 Speaker 1: in that position at the FBS level alone. So you're 719 00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:45,360 Speaker 1: gonna have a wave of transfers. You're gonna have recruiting 720 00:31:45,520 --> 00:31:48,239 Speaker 1: at the high school level going on in sort of 721 00:31:48,320 --> 00:31:51,560 Speaker 1: a hyperadvanced mode in the summer. Oh and by the way, 722 00:31:51,560 --> 00:31:53,480 Speaker 1: you're still trying to get ready for college football season. 723 00:31:53,600 --> 00:31:56,200 Speaker 1: So there is all that that's lining up. And then 724 00:31:56,200 --> 00:31:58,240 Speaker 1: in the middle of all of it, you got Georgia 725 00:31:58,280 --> 00:32:00,600 Speaker 1: sitting there number one. You got Rutgers at number six 726 00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:02,880 Speaker 1: of all places. You got Bama outside the top ten. 727 00:32:02,960 --> 00:32:05,160 Speaker 1: They were I think in the thirties or forties. 728 00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:05,600 Speaker 2: This time last year. 729 00:32:05,720 --> 00:32:07,480 Speaker 1: So there's going to be a ton of movement because 730 00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:10,400 Speaker 1: now that things shift back to normal. Remember what had 731 00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:13,840 Speaker 1: been happening. What had been happening. What normal had become 732 00:32:15,080 --> 00:32:18,040 Speaker 1: is with the advent of the early signing date, a 733 00:32:18,080 --> 00:32:20,680 Speaker 1: lot of programs had started to lock up a vast 734 00:32:20,760 --> 00:32:23,960 Speaker 1: majority of their classes in summer. So let's see if 735 00:32:24,000 --> 00:32:27,040 Speaker 1: that maintains itself as status quo. You know, you got 736 00:32:27,080 --> 00:32:29,520 Speaker 1: the evals that may be behind for a few programs. 737 00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:31,720 Speaker 1: So let's see if a program like Georgia, they're sitting 738 00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:33,320 Speaker 1: at twelve I think right now verbals. 739 00:32:33,560 --> 00:32:34,280 Speaker 2: Let's say if they. 740 00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:36,400 Speaker 1: Load up and let's see if they're at eighteen or 741 00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:38,640 Speaker 1: nineteen before the season starts, it's not out of the 742 00:32:38,680 --> 00:32:41,160 Speaker 1: realm of possibility. Or let's see if they want to 743 00:32:41,160 --> 00:32:43,240 Speaker 1: take a more tact full approach, and they want to 744 00:32:43,280 --> 00:32:45,800 Speaker 1: watch some guys get a couple of games into their 745 00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:48,360 Speaker 1: senior year, or maybe at least get some eyeballs on 746 00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:50,360 Speaker 1: them in their fall practices before they take them. 747 00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:52,120 Speaker 2: All those questions are still on the table. 748 00:32:52,240 --> 00:32:54,080 Speaker 1: I don't think any two staffs are going to handle 749 00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:58,120 Speaker 1: it exactly evenly. So if you, I don't know how 750 00:32:58,120 --> 00:32:59,960 Speaker 1: this would happen. If you don't like college football but 751 00:33:00,120 --> 00:33:02,360 Speaker 1: you only like recruiting, it's going to be the best 752 00:33:02,360 --> 00:33:04,680 Speaker 1: summer of your life. If you're like the rest of 753 00:33:04,760 --> 00:33:08,080 Speaker 1: us and you like recruiting and college football, maybe it'll 754 00:33:08,080 --> 00:33:10,120 Speaker 1: also be the best summer of your life. But remember 755 00:33:10,480 --> 00:33:13,520 Speaker 1: all this is leading up to hopefully what we believe 756 00:33:13,520 --> 00:33:13,840 Speaker 1: will be a. 757 00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:15,320 Speaker 2: Renaissance year of college football. 758 00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:18,200 Speaker 1: Stadium's opened again, a lot of traditional powers breaking in 759 00:33:18,280 --> 00:33:20,840 Speaker 1: new quarterbacks, a lot of Tier B programs looking to 760 00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:24,040 Speaker 1: jump to Tier A. Should be a great, great fall 761 00:33:24,120 --> 00:33:26,760 Speaker 1: of twenty twenty one. Thank you so much for watching 762 00:33:26,840 --> 00:33:29,840 Speaker 1: us tonight. 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So 772 00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:53,800 Speaker 1: if you want to send us into the weekend feeling 773 00:33:53,840 --> 00:33:56,600 Speaker 1: great about ourselves, which believe me, we always need around here, 774 00:33:57,000 --> 00:33:58,840 Speaker 1: just give us a little thumbs up, Just give us 775 00:33:58,840 --> 00:34:00,560 Speaker 1: a little five star review, and if it's not too 776 00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:03,040 Speaker 1: much trouble, find me on Instagram and the socialstudo at 777 00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:06,200 Speaker 1: Lady Kick Josh for director Emerituth Colin for Jesse and 778 00:34:06,240 --> 00:34:08,640 Speaker 1: the entire crew driving things from Connecticut. I'm Josh, Paide, 779 00:34:08,840 --> 00:34:11,319 Speaker 1: have yourself a great weekend, enjoy these spring games. 780 00:34:11,360 --> 00:34:13,680 Speaker 2: We'll be back here Sunday night. Until then, God bless